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CabriniVolume 1 Number 3 Summer 2004 The Magazine

Graduation Running Triassic 2004 A B&B Research CabriniA LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT There is simply no better time than Spring on a college campus. Students can be seen studying for finals under the warm sun, attending an athletic event or playing a game of Wiffle ball under the tall trees. It’s a time when graduates prepare for the next phase of their lives and faculty say a bittersweet goodbye to another class of seniors. This is when a college campus is most alive!

I am still savoring the memories of what was undoubtedly the best commencement we have had during my 12-year tenure at Cabrini College.

We began a new tradition by holding graduation under an enormous tent on the Edith Robb Dixon Athletic Field adjacent to The Dixon Center. It was an absolutely perfect day and family, friends, faculty and staff all stood proud as the class of 2004 received their honors. Our honorary degree recipient, Dr. Lorraine Monroe, president of the Lorraine Monroe Leadership Institute, was undoubtedly the highlight of the day. Monroe began her teaching career in the New York City public schools and moved into administration on the New York City Board of Education. When a Central Harlem school, well known for violence, poor attendance and low academic achievement, needed to be overhauled, Monroe was called in. Her passionate and enthusiastic speech had students up on their feet, affirming her message of personal responsibility and service. This surely will be one class that will always remember its commencement speaker!

Programs like our elementary and special education majors and our master of education program—which consistently produce empowered and impassioned individuals, committed to quality learning environments—require exceptional people and innovative programming. Dr. Monroe’s philosophy is much like our Cabrinian education of the heart.

The campus quieted down when we said goodbye to our students in May, but only momentarily. Summer classes and children’s summer camps began. In addition, we began an expansion of the parking lot behind Founder’s Hall that will give us 76 new spaces, and during the summer we will complete the design for a new 120-bed residence hall. By the time students return in the fall, the exterior work to the Center for Science, Education and Technology (SET) will be largely complete with most of the fall’s work centered on finishing the interior. No matter the time of year, Cabrini is always a vibrant, exciting place.

This summer, I will be attending the Oxford Round Table for college and university leaders. As one of only 35 presidents worldwide included in this year’s forum to be held at Oxford University, the home of the Rhodes Scholars, I am humbled and excited to have been chosen. In August, I’ll participate in a presidential summit in Redmond, Wash., co-sponsored by Microsoft and the Council of Independent Colleges. The summit will address several powerful trends including technology- influenced approaches to learning and communicating to the “millennial” generation. I will be making presentations on academic information technology collaborations at both of these forums, offering information on our IT project with Drexel University, which has become a model in higher education for successful collaborations.

I wish all of our new graduates the best as they move to the next phase of their lives, and I wish everyone a safe and relaxing summer.

Sincerely,

Dr. Antoinette Iadarola President Cabrini, The Magazine is pub- Cabrini lished three times a year by the The Magazine Marketing and Communications NUMBER 3 • SUMMER 2004 Office of Cabrini College.

Cabrini College Contents 610 King of Prussia Road SUMMER 2004 Radnor, Pennsylvania 19087-3698 Tel: 610-902-8100 Letters to the Editor ...... 2 www.cabrini.edu News ...... 3 Executive Editor Lina Barbieri Bestowing Honors on Campus ...... 10 Editor and Feature Writer Merry Sue Baum A Day to Remember ...... 12 Associate Editor Trish Lockett Graduation, Relatively Speaking ...... 14 News Writer Amy Gardner ClassNotes A Turn in the Road ...... 16 Martha Dale Sports Writer The Chemistry of Innkeeping ...... 18 Bob Macartney ’95 Photography ClassNotes ...... 20 Frederick Baum Peter Byron John Emerson Sports ...... 27 Peter Finger Joe Houser Kelly & Massa Institutional Advancement Update ...... 33 Marketing and Communications Office Hunter Martin Etc...... 36 Jim Roese Phil Stein Imaging Graphic Design Rothacker Advertising & Design

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On the Cover: Saleem Brown, of Chester, Pa., earned a degree in business administration. He is proud to be the first in his immediate family to graduate from college. Dolores Tornambe, from Norristown, Pa., earned a degree in biology/pre-medicine. She has been accepted into a Ph.D. program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, where she will study molecular and cell biology. Michael Paolucci, from Washington 18 Township, N.J., earned a degree in English/communication. He recently had an opinion piece published in the Gloucester County Times.

1 Cabrini LETTERSto the Editor

Dear Editor, Eddie and I will be buddying up this year Extremely uncoordinated, shy girl needs I want to compliment you on the Eddie many times to race, train or just hang to take a phys ed course. The sport that O’Brien story. As many members of the out. I’m proud to have known him since semester was volleyball. Well, she can’t Cabrini alumni family are aware, I share 1975 and his wonderful family. serve the ball to save her life. She’s just his passion for triathlon and Ironman When Eddie crossed the finish line, it awful and has tears in her eyes during competitions. The Ironman is not just a stood for much more than becoming an most of the class because she’s so race, it is a lifestyle and a mindset of Ironman. embarrassed. Her other classmates moan when it’s her turn to serve and perseverance and survival. Ed has Steve Brown ’85 proven that on multiple levels. Eddie and whisper about her. I were not only classmates at Cabrini, To the Editor, Early in the semester a very attractive, but also great friends at Haverford High I just wanted to let you know that I had nice guy befriends her. She has never School. the opportunity to read the Cabrini The seen him before. He helps her with her During IRONMAN USA at Lake Placid in Magazine, earlier this week, and want to serve and cheers her on the entire 2003, I ran into Ed several times during commend the staff on a tremendous semester. She doesn’t dread coming to race week. I also saw him three times effort. I was very impressed with the class as much, because her classmates during the actual race. Two of those publication, particularly the story on Ed are not commenting anymore. She’s no times he was suffering horribly. I was O’Brien. This story was truly inspiring longer on the verge of tears. He cheers about an hour ahead of him in the race and has had an immediate impact on her on even when he’s on the team and saw the look in his eyes. I knew the me personally. I wake up each morning playing against her. look, I have been there. It wasn’t good. I and look at my family with a much Of course I was the klutz, and the nice stopped and talked to him for a minute different view than I had a few days guy was Eddie O’Brien. He didn’t even and tried to keep him moving. I told him ago.He is an inspiration to all of us, not know me yet was so kind to me for the that with everything he has gone though, only for his amazing ability to bounce entire semester. After the semester was he was already a superman. A mere back from such a tremendous setback, over I’d see him in the hallways, and Ironman is a walk in the park. That was but more importantly, how his faith we’d say “Hi.” pulled him through. This was a very enough to keep him going a little more. I That was the only class we shared. Was saw him again about two miles from the moving story for me, and one that has altered the way I approach each day. it a coincidence? To quote Eddie in your finish line, and he wanted to know how article, “I don’t think so. That’s God’s much further. When I told him, his faced Thank you and please keep up the great way of remaining anonymous.” Thank lit up, and he regained some life in his work. you, Eddie. I know God will bless you stride. Shane Ferguson ’93 with a long and healthy life. We hung out after the race with our Susan Rerecich-Ciaffi ’85 families. Ed’s brother, Joe, also Editor, competed. At that point Ed said, “That’s I was very inspired by your article about To the Editor: it, I’m done. I only needed to do this race Eddie O’Brien. He handled a life Great job on new magazine. It has the once. And I did it. I don’t know how you threatening illness with determination right blend of human interest and keep doing it again and again.” That and a great deal of faith. Eddie is indeed professionalism. thinking didn’t last long, however. Within a kind man, and I want to share a story a few months, he had hired a new coach about him. Best Wishes, and committed to a few more Ironman Elena (Prota) Saboe ’65 Picture it: Cabrini College, 1984 or 1985, races for 2004. I don’t remember the exact year.

Cabrini, The Magazine welcomes letters to the editor. Please send e-mail to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit 2 for style and space. Cabrini NEWS Triassic Research Being Conducted at Cabrini

hen you hear about Dr. David the authenticity of the ribosome here were very hostile at one time. Dunbar’s research, you can’t help but genes, they will use two methods And, we may find basic biological think of the film “Jurassic Park.” The common in forensics: polymerase applications that could help in for- assistant professor, biology, isn’t chain reaction, or PCR, and reverse mulating treatments and even cures Wexactly hatching dinosaurs in the lab, transcription, or RT. “Basically, what for diseases.” but he is studying prehistoric life we do is make DNA from RNA, then Along with doing research, forms. make copies of the DNA, or amplify Dunbar is mentoring biology/pre Dunbar and a colleague at West it,” he explains. “Next we’ll deter- med major Lara D’Alessandro ’05. Chester University, Dr. Russ mine the DNA gene sequences and She has been conducting complex Vreeland, are investigating microbes compare them to known genes. That laboratory experiments under extracted from an ancient salt crystal. is done on the computer, and is Dunbar’s tutelage, and she accompa- The crystal is thought to be about known as bioinfomatics.” If the ribo- nied him to the annual meeting of the 250 million years old, which means it some genes turn out to be the real Pennsylvania Academy of Science has been around since the Triassic thing, Dunbar will then look at the this spring, where the two presented Period. That epoch preceded the functions of each, see if each is their findings. Dunbar is also teach- Jurassic Period by a few hundred mil- unique and determine what the func- ing D’Alessandro how to write grants, lion years. Vreeland’s lab has been tions might be. “Studying organisms and has helped her apply for funding able to isolate and grow salt-loving that lived long ago and in extreme from the Pennsylvania Academy of microbes, or halophiles, that had lain conditions, like these, advances sci- Science, so she can aggressively pur- dormant within the crystal, probably ence in several ways,” Dunbar says. sue her research goals during her since it was formed. “Many microor- “It helps us learn how life on Earth senior year at Cabrini. ganisms can’t be grown in the lab,” evolved, since we think conditions Dunbar says, “so we were very excit- ed when Vreeland’s lab accomplished that.” The pair went on to find out that the halophiles have two unique char- acteristics. First, they do not need many nutrients to grow. “That sug- gests that they may contain novel metabolic pathways,” says Dunbar. “We’re hoping that’s the case.” And second, the microbes contain three different types of ribosome genes, whereas all other known organisms have only one. A ribosome is the structure in a cell that manufactures all of its protein. The scientists are now trying to establish that the ribo- some genes are real. Every living organism, including humans, have what are known as pseudo genes, or, as Dunbar puts it, “genes that do Lara D’Alessandro ’05 and Dr. David Dunbar investigate the ribosomes of an ancient absolutely nothing.” To determine organism. 3 Cabrini NEWS Weathering the Course

very February 2nd, we wait for the famous groundhog, Punx- sutawney Phil, to emerge from his hole and enlighten us. Do we have six more weeks of winter, or is spring on Eits way? Even though this legend dates back to the 18th century, we still watch to see if Phil sees his shadow. Phyllis Rumpp, assistant professor, science education, brings a much more modern approach to under- standing and predicting weather with the Online Weather Studies course. Offered through the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the course was first offered in fall 2003 as a graduate-level education course. It is geared towards teachers working on their M.Ed. degrees, who learn Meteorologist Kathy Orr, of CBS’s affiliate station KYW in Philadelphia, explains the ins basic weather concepts they can and outs of broadcasting the weather. A trip to the Channel 3 studios was the culmination teach in their classrooms. of the course. the course home page through the sive technology-based courses. “In a AMS, a textbook, and a study guide. traditional course, students would Each week, students log on the only learn the concepts of weather— AMS course homepage to access daily period,” Rumpp says. “In this course, weather summaries and supplemen- however, technology is automatically tal information. The summaries are in applied every day, and that makes the the form of a map of current weather course unique.” conditions, radar and historical One of Rumpp’s colleagues in the weather events. Students supplement AMS Educational Symposium is the online facts by reading the text- Kathy Orr, meteorologist at CBS’s book on topics such as air pressure, Philadelphia affiliate station, KYW. tropical weather systems and weather The weather students visited the tele- Colleges and universities through- analysis and forecasting. From the vision station to watch a newscast out the country are using this online study guide, students complete and to learn how Orr processes all the model for instruction because of its online investigation assignments, meteorological data she uses to give up-to-the minute technology. The based on the week’s readings and her audience the forecast. course uses real-time meteorological daily weather summary. Beginning this fall, Online data to engage students. They learn Rumpp joined the Cabrini faculty Weather Studies will be offered as an about weather as it happens and in summer 2003. After arriving at the undergraduate elective. Apparently, while completing learning assign- College, she felt the Online Weather the trend of online weather watching ments, which are written to the cur- Studies would be a great addition to is catching on. Rumpp reports that rent weather situations. The course College’s offerings, particularly since the course is already full. has three instructional components: it would complement Cabrini’s exten- 4 Meeting the Demands of the “Techno-torial” Age

ot since the printing press—the and photography. The DVD included mother of all communication technolo- an interactive menu from which view- gy— has there been an innovation like ers could choose to read the original the Internet. It has completely changed story in print, hear audio commentary Neveryday life. Everything from keeping by the crew, get a behind-the-scenes in touch to shopping, and even dating, look at the process, watch out takes and can now be done online. deleted scenes, and of course, watch Education, too, has felt its profound the movie. impact. Colleges and universities across “They did a really great job,” says the country continually adapt curricula Halbert. “The story, which was very to match the demands of today’s “tech- engaging and well written, and the no-world.” And Cabrini is no excep- video stood on its own. But the stu- tion. use technical skills inherent in a con- dents were eager to blend fields, so they “The lines between newspapers, vergence approach to media. They con- learned whatever they needed in order video production, radio, magazine pub- ceptualize a story then decide the most to make their projects richer. Now they lication, theater and marketing are effective way to tell it, using various all have a very impressive, professional- becoming more and more blurred,” platforms. “We don’t want students looking DVD to use at job interviews.” says Dr. Harold Halbert, assistant pro- using different technologies simply The second group produced a DVD fessor, English/communication. “It’s no because they are available,” Halbert titled “Love Bomb,” which was longer enough for a journalism major, says. “We want them to develop a sense designed to serve as a marketing pack- for example, to be able to write well. He of how convergence can help produce age for a rock band of the same name. or she also has to know how to adapt work that is greater than the sum of its The students first did a story on the that writing for the Web and how to put parts.” band in the College newspaper, the it up on a site. Students must now learn This past semester, a dozen English/ Loquitur, then produced the music to work and think across the entire communication majors—who had devel- DVD, which the band can use for audi- media spectrum.” oped strong skills in at least two areas tioning and leave behind after gigs. One Associated Press editor, for of communication—were invited to Like “Emoticon,” it has an interactive example, says she skims a candidate’s pilot the course. They were required to menu that allows viewers to see and résumé then immediately goes on the produce three small individual conver- hear the band in different settings. Web to check out the person’s home gence projects and one major group Halbert believes Cabrini English/ page. At the Chicago Tribune, one job- project. Halbert says he was a bit con- communication students will be ready seeker suggested during his interview cerned that senioritis might set in, but for the challenges of today’s job market. that the newspaper might consider was pleasantly surprised. “These kids “I couldn’t have been more proud of making and selling a CD-ROM of its pulled out all the stops,” he says. these kids,” Halbert says. “They set prize-winning photographs. He got the One major project was a 32-minute goals, met their goals and weren’t afraid job. movie on DVD, titled “Emoticon.” to learn new tricks. Cabrini has some To give Cabrini students that same Between them, the students wrote the astonishingly talented students.” competitive edge, Halbert designed a original short story and the script, The course is being offered again course that could be considered a recruited the cast, videoed on location, this fall, with some minor changes rec- hybrid: Senior Seminar on Media edited, made the DVD, and labeled and ommended by the inaugural class. Convergence. The course teaches stu- packaged it using original computer art dents how to plan, market, write and

5 Cabrini NEWS Taking Stock of American Business Cabrini finance and business admin- istration majors pose in front of the iconic New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street before going inside. After watching morning trading, the 20 stu- dents ate lunch, and then toured the Muse-um of American Financial History. The museum houses historical 18th cen- tury financial documents, a stock ticker from 1867 and the ticker tape from the infamous morning of October 29, 1929. The group ended the day at Ground Zero. Dr. Mary Harris, assistant profes- sor of finance (front row, second from left) arranged the tour.

WAY TO GO! Caswell Halloway III (left) and his Tournament flag signed by Arnold Palmer, Phillies Superbox teammate, Bob Plucienki cheer each other on during the 15th seats, an Eagles jersey signed by Donovan McNabb, and golf annual Cabrini College Golf Classic, held at Sunnybrook Golf vacations to Florida, North Carolina and Tortola, located in Club in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. One lucky golfer, Chris the British Virgin Islands. The May event, which was co- Walrath, hit a hole-in-one, winning a free two-year lease on a chaired by Cabrini Board of Trustees members Holloway and 2004 Toyota Scion from Sloane Automotive Group of the Robert Whalen, raised more than $150,000 for the Cabrini Delaware Valley. During live and silent auctions, the 93 partic- Annual Fund. The Haverford Trust Company was the official 6 ipants bid on a variety of donated items, such as a Master’s sponsor. Cultivating New Bookworms

A trip to the Borders Books and Seminar 300 students Music store in Wynnewood, Pa., tutored the eighth graders kicked off a two-day event celebrat- in English for two hours ing the culmination of a tutoring pro- each week. At the end of gram at the Julia de Burgos Elemen- the spring semester, the tary School, Philadelphia’s Spanish- teens met their tutors at language magnet school. Cabrini Borders and used money they raised together by selling carnations at the middle school. The crite- ria for selecting Bill Leahy and Kenney Costello, both members of the Class books were they of 2005, skim books on wrestling with Emmariel Filpo. had to be written in English The teens all received diplomas, rib- and have educational value. bons and awards for their participa- The de Burgos students tion in the program. also spent a day at Cabrini, Dr. Seth Frechie, assistant profes- where they took a campus sor, English/communication and Dr. tour, participated in a live Jerome Zurek, chair, English/commu- radio broadcast, went swim- nication, who taught the Seminar 300 ming at The Dixon Center course, initiated the program with and enjoyed a barbeque din- Julia de Burgos three years ago. Trisha Meyer ’05 helps Keisha O’Tero find a book in the ner with their tutor-hosts. Young Adult section of the store.

A Twist of Fate

hey didn’t plan it this way. tal, its 27 physician practices In fact, they say it probably and all of its satellites in the would not have worked out if tri-state area. From operating they had. Nevertheless, three room instruments and x-ray Cabrini alumnae, who never equipment to pens and pen- knew each other on campus, now cils, the three keep things Twork in the same office at The well stocked. And, they do Children’s Hospital of Philadel- comparative analyses—or shop phia (CHOP). Patricia (Pat) Brown around, so to speak—to make ’96, Elizabeth (Liz) Kanaras-Cade sure the hospital is getting the ’83 and Karen Feudo ’94 are all best possible value. part of the Acquisitions and Brown, who started at the Contracting Services Department— hospital in 2001 was the first more commonly known as Pur- of the three to work there. chasing. Each manages contracts She and Feudo had worked for supplies and equipment and A trio of alumnae, (from left) Elizabeth (Liz) Kanaras-Cade together at Mercy Health service agreements for specific ’83, Karen Feudo ’94 and Patricia (Pat) Brown ’96, work System. It was while working together at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The three departments of the 400-bed hospi- never knew each other on campus. at Mercy that Feudo earned continued on next page 7 Cabrini NEWS

A Twist of Fate continued from previous page her degree in organizational manage- full-time, permanent employee in love what they do. “We enable others ment, through Cabrini’s Accelerated 2003, the same year Feudo came on to help sick children get better, and Degree Program (ADP). Brown fol- board. All three say they have no that means a lot,” says Brown. “Even lowed her example. “I had gone to a plans to leave anytime soon. “In when things get really crazy, you number of different colleges trying to 2003, CHOP was ranked the best know you’re doing something very get my degree,” Brown says. “After hospital for children in the country, worthwhile,” adds Kanaras-Cade. Karen got her diploma, I decided if in both Child magazine and U.S. “And let’s face it,” says Feudo. she could do it, I could do it, too.” News & World Report,” says Kanaras- “Basically, our jobs are to shop and Brown earned a degree in organiza- Cade. “We’re very proud of that. And buy things. What woman wouldn’t tional management, as well. as employees we are treated like that?” Kanaras-Cade, an English/com- extremely well.” munication major at Cabrini, started The alums do admit that their jobs as a consultant in 2002, and became a are quite demanding, however, they

Learning About that Cup of Joe

hile sipping their latté, most tion, sociology, business people give little, if any thought to and communication exactly where coffee comes from. learned about globaliza- And many us have no idea of the tion, international eco- Wplight of foreign coffee-industry nomics, social justice, workers. Many of them make, on the media and sustainable average, $2 for an eight-hour plus agriculture.” Along with Zurek, Ruby worked with the faculty at workday; they get only a few cents Remley and Dr. Mary Harris, both its development workshop in May, per pound for the coffee that ends up assistant professors, business admin- and presented their ideas at the on the American grocer’s shelf. istration, and Dawn Francis, assistant SouthEastern Pennsylvania Consor- Cabrini students took a close look professor, English/communication, tium for Higher Education (SEPCHE) at the industry, this past semester, participated. conference. then passed on what they learned. The project culminated in Fair The project, Zurek explains, was a “Five disciplines joined together to Trade Coffee Day held in April. pilot for an expanded educational ini- study, from bean to Students provided information about tiative planned for next year. It brew, how coffee the unfair conditions suffered by the stemmed from a partnership with the comes to our coffee industry workers, and ex- national Catholic Relief Services table: who plained how Americans can (CRS) workshop, in which does how make a difference by buy- Cabrini faculty participated much work ing coffee brands bear- last summer. Cabrini is one and who gets paid ing the fair trade sym- of several Catholic colleges how much,” says Dr. Jerry Zurek, bol. The students did a and universities exploring chair, English/communication. “By presentation for faculty, ways to partner social jus- looking at this little bean—the sec- staff and students at tice education with Catholic ond most traded product in the world lunchtime in Jazzman’s Café. Relief Services. after petroleum—students in educa- To further awareness, the group

8 Write On!

riting a book has always for their work. They would meet after been a dream of Cabrini College writing four or five chapters and out- Board of Trustees member Deb line the next few. Takes usually wrote Takes. She recently made that dream one chapter ahead and developed the Wa reality with her newly published plot, while Bush filled in and did the novel “Time Will Tell.” research. The novel, which Takes co-wrote As President and CEO of Harleys- with her friend, Suzanne Bush, ville National Bank and Trust Com- explores the life of 12-year-old Katie pany, Takes says writing the book was Farrell and her friends, as they deal girl’s self confidence an “absolute joy and release,” and “a with young adult issues. It explores can be destroyed, the two decided to wonderful mental vacation and self confidence, peer pressure, take on this issue in a novel. With escape from the realities of the cliques, justice and, of course, boys. their nieces serving as resources, the business world.” Takes and Bush, a former news- authors were able to relate to a 12- The books are available through paper publisher, had often joked year-old’s world: clothes, school and Barnes & Noble and Amazon and about writing a book together. fitting in with others. on Takes and Bush’s web site Concerned about the cruelty of They began writing the book in www.timeandtimeagainandagain.com. young girls and how easily a young May 2002 and developed a routine

Working for World Peace Most people Catholic Reporter and in The hope—and many Philadelphia Inquirer. Panetta’s Web pray—for a peaceful site, OpticalRealities.org features her world. Linda Panetta ’88 does that and work and a narrative in which she much, much more. A states, “It is my Mpeace activist and photo- hope that these pho- journalist, Panetta’s pho- tos will portray the tos focus on life in impov- compassion, warmth erished and war torn areas and hope of a peo- of the world, particularly ple who long for Latin America and the peace and an end to Middle East. Photos she the sanctions of took during a recent trip war.” The photos to Iraq have been featured pictured here were in shows throughout the taken in Iraq in Philadel-phia area and 2003. appeared on the front page of the National

9 here’s Spring Fling, final exams, Honors Convocation and Commencement. The T rites of spring on Cabrini’s campus are many. There is one that gets very little fanfare, but is nevertheless, equally impor- tant: the induction of students into honor societies. Upwards of about 50 stu- bestowingdents are invited to join honor societies on campushonors each year.

This year, the Delta Delta toring, counseling and academic Chi Alpha Epsilon, presented the chapter of Chi Alpha Epsilon was advising are provided, as well as charter for the Cabrini chapter added to the list of 17 national opportunities to attend a variety and inducted the first six and international honor soci- of workshops and lectures. Cabrini students in a private eties already at Cabrini. Students must maintain at ceremony, held in the Mansion Founded in 1990, Chi Alpha least a 3.0 GPA for two consecu- Dining Room. Epsilon was created to acknowl- tive semesters to qualify. More Gwendolyn Atkinson-Miller, edge the continuing success of than 105 colleges and universi- director of ACT 101 and students enrolled in develop- ties have chapters, including General Studies, says one of her mental programs. These pro- Michigan State, Misericordia, top priorities when she came to grams provide support service Rowan, Temple and Villanova Cabrini was to start a Chi Alpha for undergraduates with cultur- universities and Baruch, Buffalo, Epsilon chapter on campus. al, economic and/or educational Ramapo and York colleges “This honor society reminds us disadvantages. Tutoring, men- Dr. Elbert Saddler, founder of of the hard work our ACT 101 continued on page 32

At the Delta Delta induction ceremony are (rear, from left) Kerri Hauser ’05, Gwendolyn Atkinson-Miller, director of ACT 101 and general studies, and Dr. Elbert Saddler, founder of Chi Alpha Epsilon. In the front are Monica Green’04 and Toccara Buckley ’04.

10 Alpha Kappa Delta, Alpha Delta Epsilon Sigma, Delta Xi Phi Alpha is a national honor Sigma Zeta, Beta Zeta Theta of Pennsylvania Chapter is a national scholas- society, established to provide a Chapter is a national honor ΑΚ∆Chapter is an international ∆ΕΣtic honor society for students at ΦΑcloser bond among students of ΣΖsociety which recognizes out- honor society recognizing out- colleges or universities with a social work and promote human- standing scholastic achievement standing students in the field of Catholic tradition. This society itarian goals and ideals. in science and mathematics, sociology with the purpose of recognizes student academic and fosters the attainment of in- promoting excellence in scholar- accomplishments, fosters schol- Phi Alpha Theta is the interna- depth knowledge and a spirit of ship in the study of society. arly activities and encourages a tional history honor society that interdisciplinary cooperation in sense of intellectual community ΘΑΤwas established to promote the these fields. Alpha Sigma Lambda, among its members. study of history through the Epsilon Gamma Chapter is encouragement of research, Society for Collegiate ΑΣΛthe national honor society for good teaching, publication and Journalists, Pi Delta Epsilon students in continuing higher the exchange of learning and Chapter is the national honor education. ideas among historians. society of collegiate mass com- munications, which exists to recognize excellence and out- standing achievements in jour- on campus nalism and to encourage good journalistic practices in under- Beta Beta Beta, Lambda Rho Financial Management Phi Sigma Iota, Gamma Xi graduate institutions. Chapter is the national biology Association National Honor Chapter is the international honor society for students dedi- FMASociety is an international foreign language honor society, Theta Alpha Kappa, Alpha Pi cated to improving the under- ΦΣΙthat recognizes outstanding Chapter is the national religion honor society for students in the standing and appreciation of field of finance. achievement in the field of for- ΘΑΚhonor society serving the needs biological study and extending eign languages with the purpose of those involved in the study of boundaries of human knowledge Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Rho of promoting international com- religion and/or theology at both through scientific research. Chapter is an international munication and understanding the baccalaureate and post-bac- ΒΒΒ Κ∆Πhonor society in education dedi- and a sentiment of amity among calaureate levels of higher edu- cated to scholarship and excel- nations, to help maximize the cation. Chi Alpha Epsilon, Delta lence in education by promoting understanding of ourselves and the development and dissemina- our cultural heritage by under- Who’s Who Among Students Delta Chapter was founded to tion of worthy educational ideas standing others, to foster the in American Universities and recognize the academic achieve- and practices; enhancing the con- spirit of liberal culture, and to Colleges recognizes students ΧΑΕments of students admitted to tinuous growth and leadership of stand for freedom of mind and who demonstrate scholastic colleges and universities its diverse membership; fostering democracy of learning. excellence and outstanding lead- through non-traditional criteria inquiry and reflection on signifi- ership with promise of future with the purpose of promoting cant educational issues; and Psi Chi is a national honor service to society. continued high academic stan- maintaining a high degree of pro- society that was established to dards, fostering increased com- fessional fellowship. ΨΧadvance the science of psycholo- WHO munication among its members, gy and to stimulate and encour- and to honor academic excel- Kappa Gamma Pi is the age scholarship in all fields, lence achieved by those students national Catholic college gradu- especially psychology. admitted to college via develop- ate honor society that recog- mental programs. ΚΓΠ Sigma Beta Delta is an nizes graduate students exempli- fying excellence in leadership, international honor society in scholarship, faith and service. ΣΒ∆business, management and administration that recognizes Lambda Iota Tau, Beta Sigma scholarship and promotes Chapter is an international personal and professional ΛΙΤhonor society for students of lit- improvement and “a life erature that recognizes and pro- distinguished by honorable motes excellence in the study of service to mankind.” literature in all languages.

11 A Day to Remember

was a day complete with smiles, hugs, laughter and sunshine, and one that will long be remembered. Nearly 450 graduates received degrees at the College's 44th Commencement on May 16. Held under a huge tent on Itthe Edith Robb Dixon Athletic Field for the first time, students were able to invite more than only two loved ones. Sisters and brothers, grandparents, aunts and uncles and even some cousins were there, cheering and crying, as diplomas were conferred. AThe ceremony began promptly at 10 a.m. The procession was led by Grand Marshal, Marilyn Johnson, Ph.D., professor, English/communication. Tony Verde, Ph.D., associate professor, exercise science and health promotion, and recipient of this year's Lindback Award served as Marshal of the Faculty. Music was provided by Academy Brass and the Ulster Scottish Pipe Band.

Dr. Lorraine Monroe delivers her address with such enthusiasm and passion that members of the Class of 2004 stand up and reaffirm her personal message for responsibility and service, “With these hands, with this mind and with this heart, I can do anything.” Monroe, who is heralded as one of the most important voices for quality education in the country, gave this year’s address and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Monroe began her career as a teacher, then later became an administrator. In 1991, she was asked to become principal of a central Harlem middle school, notorious for violence, poor attendance and low academic achievement. In only a few years, she turned it completely around, placing it among the top schools in the city. Now the owner of her own firm, Monroe consults throughout the world. She has been featured on “60 Minutes” and in The New York Times, Ebony, Reader’s Digest, and Parade, among others. Her book, Nothing’s Impossible: Leadership Lessons from Inside and Outside the Classroom, was published by Random House in 1997. The Monroe Doctrine: An ABC Guide to What Great Bosses Do, was released in August 2003. With these hands… With these minds… With these hearts…

12 President Antoinette Iadarola welcomes everyone to the 44th Cabrini College Commencement.

Dr. Tony Verde, associate professor and chair of the Exercise Science and Health Promotion, offers a prayer of thanks and humility, after receiving the 2004 Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award. Verde spearheaded a new academic program in sports science, now known as Exercise Science and Health Promotion, and has earned national recognition in the field of sports medicine and exercise physiology. The Christian R. and Mary L. Lindback Foundation in Philadelphia gives the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award annually to individuals at area colleges and universities in recognition of outstanding teaching.

Balloons, flowers, stuffed animals and diplomas were the order of the day.

The Ulster Scottish Pipe Band and Academy Brass provided music for the processional.

Faculty and staff applaud the soon-to-be- alumni as they march toward the Edith Robb Dixon Athletic Field, the site of this year’s graduation ceremony.

13 GRADUATION,

Paul Wechsler’s wife, Patricia, adjusts her husband’s mortarboard, as their daughter, Susan, looks on. husband

Trish Lockett and her husband, Stephen, were both members of the Class of 2004. Stephen It’s thumbs up for Jeff Jeffers (center), who received a earned a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Jeff poses Management, and Trish earned a Master of with his father, Charles Jeffers ’74, and his mother, Christine.

wife Science in Organization Leadership. Trish is a Charles served as vice president of the Cabrini College publication specialist in Cabrini’s Marketing and Alumni Association for the past four years. Communications Office.

Paul Williamsson (center), his mother, Patti Williams’92, and his father, Paul Williams, share a moment before the ceremony begins. Paul ’04 earned a Bachelor of Arts in motherEnglish/Communication. 14 RelativelySpeaking

Members of the De Frucsio family give four cheers on graduation day. From left: Mary Lou, who earned a Master of Education; her son, Vince, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in English/Communica- tion; his sister, Maria, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in History; and Kelly, earned a Bachelor of Arts in Independent Major Education Studies. family

Shannon Carroll, an early childhood/elementary edu- cation major attends graduation with her parents, Barbara (McHugh) Carroll ’78 and Thomas. Shannon daughterwill graduate in December, after she completes stu- dent teaching in the fall.

Paul Wechsler poses for a photo with his daughter, Susan ’99, his wife, Patricia, and their grandson, Ryan Foran. Ryan is the son of the couple’s other daughter, Amy (Wechsler) Foran ’94. Amy’s husband, Tom, is a 1993 graduate of Cabrini. Paul earned a Master of Science in Organization Leadership, and Susan earned a Master of Education.

father 15 A Turn in the Road

aval Pinckney has four tattoos on Because of her schedule, Joan his forearms that actually illus- was unable to keep a close eye on Ltrate his life story. Three are Pinckney. He was less than a great names, and one is an elaborate student; in fact, he flunked fifth depiction of the Grim Reaper. That grade. He spent many a school day was his first one. He got it when he with his head on his desk, was 16. He didn’t expect to live very sleeping, and rarely did any long back then, he says, so he sport- homework. When he got to ed the tattoo as a kind of motto. sixth grade, however, he It is not surprising that as a teen began playing basketball in in Charleston, S.C., Pinckney had school. That became the little hope for the future. Like other highlight of his day. He young, inner-city black males, began playing with his Pinckney’s situation was desperate. pals after school, as Nearly every day of his life, he says, well. Their hoop was a Pinckney says his mother did not was filled with fear, pain and sorrow. bottomless milk crate nailed to a abuse his two younger brothers, Pinckney never knew his father, tree, and they used a ball they had Daniel, now 21, and, Adontis, now and his mother was only 16 when he gotten for free, after eating three piz- 17. He took the brunt of it. She some- was born. He lived with his grand- zas at Pizza Hut. times would hit him with a hard, mother, Joan, who was his primary Pinckney played every day, but plastic, red hairbrush.“To this day, I caretaker. His mother lived with even if he was in the middle of a still hate the color red,” he says. them, but was hooked on drugs. game, he always made a point of get- When he reached middle school, To make ends meet, Joan worked ting home before the streetlights Pinckney’s mother got married to a days as a cook, and at night she came on. His mother, usually high man named Charles, and the couple cleaned offices. Pinckney deeply by early evening, would beat on him moved next door. His hopes of life loved his “Nana,” and would occa- if he were late. “I was taller and settling down, however, were short sionally accompany her to her clean- stronger than she was, so it didn’t lived. The newlyweds fought vio- ing job, so they could spend time hurt physically. Still, it was awful.” lently. He remembers lying in bed together. He would try to stay awake She would abuse him, other times, and hearing them scream at each to keep her company, and maybe for almost no reason. “I could do other through the walls. Often the even help a little, but often failed. something as simple as suck my police got involved, and one or the teeth, and she would go off on me,” other was arrested. he says.

16 Finally, Joan had enough. She took her daughter to a relative’s home, so things would cool down. Charles began asking Joan and Pinckney, who was 12 at the time, where his wife was. When they con- tinually refused to reveal her where- abouts, Charles became angry. The situation continued to escalate. Laval Pinckney gets a hug from President Iadarola after receiving his diploma. Then suddenly, Joan went miss- overheard his teachers talking about and drinking heavily. He stole from ing. Pinckney recalls that the last day a murder victim who had just been major department stores, was arrest- he saw her, he felt very unsettled. found. “I remember I was in comput- ed numerous times—once for throw- Charles had become extremely agi- er class,” he says. “When I realized ing rocks at a moving truck—and tated, and Pinckney was frightened. what they were saying, I got this feel- was permanently expelled from two He begged his grandmother to let ing in my stomach, and my knees middle schools. He carried guns, and him stay home from school so the started to shake. I was so afraid it says he was often shot at, while on two of them could be together. She was my Nana.” The unthinkable had, the streets late at night with his reassured him that everything would indeed, happened. Charles had friends. be fine and sent him on his way. stabbed Pinckney’s beloved grandma, “I was going through so much When Pinckney got home from in the chest, 13 times. pain,” he says. “I missed Nana so school that day, Joan was gone. Pinckney was sent to live with his much, and I had no one to talk to. When she was still missing that great grandmother. During his year My mother was in jail for a robbery night, everyone began fearing the and half there, he began smoking pot she committed while she was high.” worst. Then the next day, Pinckney Pinckney was shuffled be- tween relatives, and eventually, became a ward of the state. It was then that his grandmother’s cousin, Earl, stepped in. Retired from the Air Force, Earl made Pinckney tow the line. Besides doing daily chores, Pinckney had to account for his where- abouts and be home on time, all the time. Earl made his grand nephew read the newspaper every day, and made sure he did his homework. Before long, Pinckney was getting As and Bs on his report card. He was still Laval Pinckney (left) and Cabrini basketball coach John Dzik chat on campus. “If we could playing basketball, and in ninth give a little of Laval’s forgiving, optimistic attitude to everyone, the world would definitely be a much nicer place,” says Dzik. continued on page 26

17 The Chemistry of Innkeeping

Ever hear of an they could recreate it. They do remem- When Jay got a new job in alchemist? He was ber the ingredients, however: a good Philadelphia, and the couple bought a the scientist of the education, tons of love, money (earned Victorian home in West Chester, Pa., Middle Ages who by using the education), a good deal of however, their exquisite Chippendale tried desperately perseverance and patience, a willing- and Queen Anne furniture was too to turn base met- ness to try anything als, like iron, into once, and most impor- gold. He is usually tant, a good sense of pictured sitting in a tiny room, swirling humor. That’s what it a bubbling beaker over a coursing took, they say, to buy, flame. Of course, he never succeeded, restore and operate The but his dream lived on. Abbey, their Cape May, You might say Marianne (Hillegas) N.J. bed and breakfast. Schatz ’62 and her husband, Jay, took up The pair says they where the alchemists of old left off. Both never planned to run a chemists by trade, the pair did concoct a B & B, things just formula for turning something ordinary worked out that way. It into something lovely and valuable. began after they earned As formulas go, it is not an easy one degrees in chemistry— to duplicate. In fact, the Schatzes doubt Marianne from Cabrini, Jay from Loras College in Dubuque, The dining room in The Abbey Iowa. They both went to work for a chemical company in Wilmington, small. “In rooms with 12-foot ceilings, it Del., where they met. They discovered looked like it was crouching,” Marianne they shared a love of antiques and says. Once again, the hunt for the per- restored homes—and, of course, each fect furniture was on. Not a chore, as far other—so after marrying in 1970, they as the Schatzes were concerned. bought an 18th century house in Olde It was actually good old Uncle Sam, New Castle, Del., an area akin to Marianne says, who was responsible Historic Williamsburg. They spent week- for the couple settling at the shore. ends scouring antique stores and going With only one mortgage, no children to auctions and flea markets to find the and two good incomes, they were perfect, handmade pieces of period fur- paying hefty taxes. Their accountant niture for their home. suggested they buy a vacation home, so

Marianne Schatz ’62 and her husband, Jay, sit in the parlor of their Cape May bed and breakfast. The Fez Jay is wearing is from his collection of hats.

18 the couple headed straight for Cape May, N.J., a National Historic Landmark city with a his- tory and Victoriana that intrigued them. The Schatzes bought a 1950s bungalow in Cape May Point. They happened to know the owners of the first B & B to ever be opened in Cape May. “They seemed to be having so much fun,” Marianne says. “That lifestyle appealed to both of us.” Meantime, Marianne’s compa- ny started requiring her to go to London twice a year, in March and November, “when the weather there is dreadful,” she says. “I hated it.” So in 1977, Marianne quit her job, and the pair bought a small Victorian house in Cape May. They used some of the antique furniture they had collected to furnish it, and with a little “spit and pol- ish,” it became the town’s second inn. Jay commuted, by train, to his job in Philadelphia and checked on the West Chester house a few time a week, while Marianne ran the inn. From the very moment they bought the first Victorian house, however, the couple never took The Abbey, with its 60-foot tower and arched windows, dominates the corner of Gurney Street and their eye off of the John B. Columbia Avenue in Cape May, N.J. McCreary House. They longed while restoring the seven-bedroom “They’ll never get over how she could to restore it and turn it into a McCreary House. She did everything sling a hammer.” Marianne, herself, much bigger B & B. They wait- from supervising carpenters to sanding made the drapes for all the windows— ed patiently, and as soon as it floors and painting walls. “The plumbers some of which are 12-feet-high—but the was for sale, they snapped it up. and electricians who were working here hardest job, she says, was papering the Marianne ran the first inn, then still talk about her,” says Jay. walls with the tissue-paper-thin, special-

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Lucy Dinda Tucker and her hus- 1961 band, Steve, have both retired. 1977 Steve taught at Trinity University in Linda Forgione Pinto Marge Corbo Lemongello has a sec- San Antonio, Tx., and Lucy had a worked part ond grandaughter, born to her private practice in marriage and time for the past 11 years at daughter, Michelle, in July 2003. family therapy. Their younger son, Camden County College as an David, married Becky Whitehead in adjunct math teacher and received November 2003, and their older an Academic Excellence Award for 1962 son, Gregory, will marry Sara her teaching. She is now teaching Rosenfeld in May. They have had a eighth grade math in Stratford N. J. Ginny Gallagher Byrne reports that busy year! Linda and her husband, Richard, her grandson, Michael Connor have two teenage daughters. Byrne is 4 years old and a delight- ful little person! Our class sends its deepest con- 1969 1979 dolences to Cathy Goldner McGuckin Maria Gaston is thrilled to report Bill Bead on the death of her son, David, on that she is a grandmother. Her is an independent owner April 28, 2004. grandaughter, Liliana Maria, was of a comic book store in born in December 2003 to her son, Woodbury, N.J. The Web site is Mel, and his wife, Stephanie. Maria www.Frankensteincomics.com. He 1966 is program director for Catholic and the shop’s 10th anniversary Charities/Latina Resource Center in were the subject of an article in the Nancy Battaglia Gustafson retired Omaha, Neb. Courier Post in October 2003. from teaching this month. She The article can be read at raised $13,000 for charity through www.courierpostonline.com/ her two albums and continues to news/southjersey/m102503j.htm. perform concerts for fund raising 1970 purposes. She is also playing golf, Kathleen Smith Morrow reports that working as a consultant for an her older son, James Jr., is a 2002 1981 internship and is a virtual assistant graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Diana McSweeney for a musician. Academy. He is a mechanical engi- has become vice neer stationed in Portsmouth, Va. president for global communica- Her younger son, Richard, is graduat- tions at MasterCard International. 1967 ed from Fairfield University in May. Her office is in Purchase, N.Y. John and Ruth Mastronardi Baldovin announce the engagement of their 1985 son, John, to Sarah Arlotta. They 1976 Denise Travis Coughlin are planning to marry in May Laura Heim Horn writes that she is a tenured 2005. fondly remembers many good faculty member and associate pro- times and friendships made at fessor in sociology at Clinton Cabrini. She has three children, Community College in Upstate 1968 two in college, at Siena College and New York. She is in her third quar- Alfred University, and her third will ter at Capella University, working Michele Rusinyak Doman and her be a sophomore in high school. She on a doctoral degree. Her son, husband, John, welcomed their is in her eighth year of teaching Ross, is 6, and her daughter, 15th grandchild, Thomas John, in autistic and multiple handicapped Rachel, is 2. August 2003. Michele continues to children in the Orange County, N.Y. Our class extends its deepest teach math at Cabrini and also Debbie Kidon Discuillo, district schools. sympathy to taught at Ursinus College this year. whose husband, Nicholas, was killed in a car accident in October 20 2003. What’s New? Return this form to Alumni Affairs by fax 610-902-8574, or with photos by mail to 610 King of Prussia Road, Radnor, PA 19086. Personal Information Miss Ms. Mrs. Sr. Rev. Other______

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City State Zip 1989 Cabrini Degree(s) Please indicate if you were an ACE or ADP grad. Tricia Cronin Beythoun is a stay-at- B.A. in ______ B.S. in ______home mom with her two sons, B.S.Ed. in ______ B.S.W. M.Ed. MSOL MSIST Jack, who is almost 2 years old, Advanced Degrees (degree, year, institution) ______and Ben, who is 4. She and her Family Information husband, Mark, live in Mission Viejo, Ca. Spouse’s Last Name First Name Middle Initial Class Year John Dunleavy and his wife, Theresa, have two young children, Maiden or Birth Name Nickname, if applicable Jacquelyn and Michael. Job Title Employer Karen Dow exhibited her photog- Street Address of Employer raphy at Chester County Hospital’s annual May Festival. Her online City State Zip store is www.cafeshops.com/ksdow- Children (include dates of birth) photoart. I would be interested in volunteering as/for: Class Agent Phonathon Volunteer Alumni Board of Directors Career Networking with students/alums Admissions Recruiting 1990 Host for Alumni Groups Continuing Education Advisory Board Donna Kulesa is teaching a physi- Alumni Weekend Gala Committee Camp Kismet Diversity Council cally challenged class at New Information for ClassNotes (attach additional sheets as necessary) Boston Pilot Middle School, where she is also an elected member of the Board of Directors. She is also a consultant at the Boston Children’s Museum. She earned her master’s Engagement/Marriage Announcement degree in curriculum and instruc- tion from Lesley University, this Spouse’s Name (First Name, Maiden or Birth Name, Married Last Name) Class Year (if applicable) past winter. Date of Marriage 1991 Birth/Adoption Announcement Daughter’s Son’s Name (First Name, Middle Name, Last Name) Date of Birth Jennifer Moisey Vojacsek is teach- Death Notice ing second grade at the Southern

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Children’s Center, implementing a 1992 development program. On the two 1996 days she works, her son, Colin, is Bill DiRita Abbe Keiser Kiwak’s is operations manager part of the children’s program. daughter, for UNISYS in Philadelphia, and is Samantha, was born with aortic also the assistant soccer coach at stenosis and a leak in her mitral Cabrini College. valve. She was rushed to The Jim Dunleavy and his wife, Ruth, 1994 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, have three young children, Heidi, Paula DiPaolo Cascarina is teaching where she had a balloon catheteriza- Julie and Jimmy. pre-kindergarten at Rosemont tion when she was a day old. At 7 Patti Rogers Williams is special School of the Holy Child. She and days old, she became one of the education coordinator at the her husband, Bill Cascarina ‘01, youngest patients to undergo the Center for Technical Studies vo-tech live in Havertown, Pa. Ross Kono procedure. The proce- school in Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Tara Palmisano has been induct- dure involved replacing her aortic Her son, Paul, graduated from ed into the membership of The valve with her pulmonary valve, Cabrini College. Saturday Club in Wayne, Pa., a which was simultaneously replaced social service organization for with a cadaver valve. At one year old, women. She is also working with Samantha is a happy and active little 1993 Christopher Gervais Management girl, despite, at this writing, having for the fine arts, entertainment and had to go back on a feeding tube. Christine Costigan Carney and her sports industries. Its primary goal husband, Rob, were married in is fund raising for various charita- June 1999. Cabrini classmates ble organizations. 1998 Lynda Venuto Iuvara, Christine Alicia Casole Costanza earned a Scaramuzza Malone, Carroll Jim Iacavino has been the equip- master’s degree in educational Latrechiano Meluskey ment manager for the sports teams and administration from Rutgers Stephanie Collins Mastal at Drexel University for the past were in University in May. two and a half years. attendance. Chris is currently on Brian (a.k.a “The Wookie”) Jamie Paul Mariano is a senior maternity leave from her teaching Wolk is on tour with the band sales specialist at Janssen Pharma- job. Ryan Edward was born Metallica as a sound engineer for October 11, 2003. Rob is the ceuticals, a division of Johnson & six weeks in Europe. The tour Johnson. director of contract administration begins in Helsinski, at the for the New Jersey School Con- Olympic Stadium used for the struction Corporation. opening ceremonies. Karen Bell Fitzgerald has a part- 1999 time job with the Corning Jamie Fagan is a first grade teacher at Concord Elementary School in the Garnet Valley, Pa., School District. She is studying at West Chester University for a master’s degree in literacy and her certifica- tion as a reading specialist. Gladys Burgess Steptoe earned a master of science degree in acquisi- tion and contract management from the Florida Institute of Technology in December 2003. 2000 Dominic Beuthner was a member of the Norbertine Community during his time at Cabrini, but left to pur- Christine Costigan Carney ’93, husband Rob and son Ryan. sue an experience in the “real 22 Chybinski Becomes New world.” He went to Dublin, Ireland Alumni Association and works for Accenture’s Euro- pean Service Center. He is the lead President technologist for the ASG region, The first time Hillary (Hoch) Chybinski ’90 saw Cabrini comprised of Austria, Switzerland and Germany. During the even- College she was a high school freshman. She had ings, he has been finishing up his accompanied her mother, Nina Campagna ’62, to an theology studies and will return to alumni function at the College. There, her mother Germany in June to re-join the introduced her to a classmate’s daughter who was a Norbertine Order. Cabrini student at the time. Chybinski hung out with the Kate MacMenamin lives in White coed, while their moms caught up with other alumni. Bear, Minn., where she is a senior buyer for a manufacturing compa- That was the day she fell in love with Cabrini College. ny that makes IBM products. She Although she briefly considered other colleges, she only applied to one. highly recommends a career in purchasing, especially to fellow “After that first time, I always went along with my mother to Cabrini,” says Chybinski. “In history and political science my mind, Cabrini was everything a college should be—a beautiful, enclosed community, majors. where you could make friends and learn about everything.” Missy Sellitto is the assistant director of the Cabrini Mission Chybinski earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting, citing associate professor, Corps and works out of its head- accounting, Ann Servey’s dedication to the students as a key to her interest. As an quarters on the Cabrini campus. undergraduate, Chybinski had a co-op position with a nearby public accounting firm and was offered her first job with the Internal Revenue Service, during an on-campus interview. She served as an internal auditor with the IRS in Philadelphia for seven years, 2001 then joined Copelco Financial Services Group and, later, SunGard Data Systems, Inc., as senior internal auditor. Jenna Mancini earned a master’s degree from Harvard and is work- Although she has long been a highly successful professional, Chybinski recently decided to ing for a school district in Massa- become a stay-at-home mom, enjoying time with her 3 1/2-year-old son, Ryan. chusetts as a case manager for stu- dents with disabilities. She is also When she gets a moment to reflect, Chybinski wonders if she would do it over again. teaching a three-day module at Cabrini yes, accounting, maybe not. “It’s tough to make that kind of life decision at 20 Harvard this summer on special and 21,” she says. “But the education I got at Cabrini gave me a well-rounded education and looks forward to background. It wasn’t only the debits and credits, but the project management, creative returning for her doctorate in a problem solving and the writing and speaking skills that enable me to pursue different year or two. options.” Mary Beth Farnan received a master’s of education degree in Chybinski encourages anyone who will listen to attend Cabrini, and she tells her story school leadership from Wilming- straight, warts and all. “I wasn’t a model student,” she says. “I got into a little trouble, ton College in May. my grades weren’t always great, and there were frustrations. But my overall Cabrini experience was fabulous. Cabrini allows students to find out who they are and who they 2003 are going to become.” That’s the reason she has stayed so involved. A member of the Alumni Association since Sara Rothfuss is attending Widener 2000, she began her tenure as president this month. Having already put pen to paper, University, studying for a master’s degree in social work. She hopes to Chybinski says she plans to encourage her fellow alumni to get involved, by giving either graduate in June 2005. time or talent. She believes Cabrini’s biggest strength, its close-knit community, could become its greatest challenge. “I hope Cabrini students in today’s larger classes still experience the small-college feeling that I did,” she says. “I want folks to remember Engagements what they got from Cabrini and either become, or remain, part of the College in a meaningful way.” Meredith Hinkle ’95 is engaged to marry Frank Scheraldi on February 19, 2005. 23 ClassNOTES

Jamie Fagan ’99 is engaged to 2003. She joins her big brother, marry William Barber in June 2005. New Arrivals John. Danielle DiPietro ’01 is engaged To Walter and Barbara Wilson Maureen Dunigan to marry Dan McKillip on To Gerard and Meisinger ’91, Nicklaus Walter, on Kelly September 18. ’87, her second child, December 16, 2003. He joins big Jenna Mancini ’01 is engaged to Elizabeth Ann, on November 5, brother, Benjamin, who is 4. marry Patrick Rufo in July 2005. 2003, joining big sister, Maggie, Carolyn Katkowski ’02 is who is 2. Denise Hee Ziegler engaged to married to T.J. Davis on To John and October 9. ’87, her first child, Mia Louise, on September 28, 2003. Marriages Jamie Paul ’98 married Joseph Mariano on November 15, 2003. Emily Mercer ’99 married Michael P. Conmy on April 17. Nicklaus Walter Meisinger

To Jerry Salerno and Leanne SanGiacomo-Salerno ’92, Arianna Victoria, on March 18, 2004. To Peter and Kristin Pastino Cisick Mia Louise Ziegler ’94, Josephine Rose, on April 9, 2004. She was welcomed home Colin Coakley To ’90, his first by her big brothers, Jack and child, Kevin Joseph, on April 25, Luken. 2004. To John and Tricia Roland Puritz Bill DiRita To Christine and ’92, ’94, Ethan Stanley, on March 5, a son, Bill, in August 2002. He 2003. joins big sister, Anna, who is 4. To Todd and Donna Cipolla Tricia Lee Chris To ’92 and Zabaglo ’94, their second son, Joey, Pesotski ’92, their second child, Jamie and Joseph Mariano on December 1, 2003. He joins big Emma Katherine, on November 2, brother, Danny, who is 3. To Bryan ’95 and Tricia Reilly Bell ’95, Emma Elizabeth, on December 15, 2003. She joins big brother, Timmy, who is 3.

Emma Elizabeth Bell These “future Cabrini students” are all offspring of the Class of 1993. From left to right, they are: Tricia Loughran Eakins, holding Sydney Cox, Tara Kegel Cox hold- To Frank and Abbe Keiser Kiwak ing Ethan Cox, Karen Bell Fitzgerald holding Colin Fitzgerald, Tracy Barron ’96, Samantha Jordan, on April 22, McIntosh, holding Nicole McIntosh, Megan McIntosh, Catherine DeHart, and Alex 2003. Savarino Noone holding Emily Noone. 24 Class Agents

Class Name Maiden Name Home Phone E-mail 61 Lepis Cabrini Boggiano 201-869-8756 62 Mooney Joan Hogarty 914-763-6483 To Timothy Horan and Brenda 63 Washo Nancy Schweisgut 609-397-9771 Ortiz-Horan ’96, their first child, 64 Zager Angela Abbonizio 610-649-7685 [email protected] Helene Noelle, on December 3, 65 Tomasello Lydia Audino 610-527-4049 [email protected] 2003. 66 Hummel Jo-Ann 610-789-7318 [email protected] To Brian and Lisa Mininno 67 Bungeroth Lola Palmaccio 610-725-9998 [email protected] Carnesi ’98, their first child, 68 Mullin Margaret Lang 215-884-7505 [email protected] Jonathan James, on January 12, 69 Murray Jacque Tague 610-983-0655 [email protected] 2004. 70 Cennamo Lynda Fernandez 718-948-5735 [email protected] 71 Collins Elizabeth McNerlin 610-296-9988 [email protected] Deceased 72 Ryan-Zanotti Mary 973-208-1959 [email protected] 73 Breeser Maria Valente 215-579-1949 [email protected] We extend our deepest sympathy 74 McCarthy Christine Dillon 699-751-2491 [email protected] to the family and friends of: 75 Bruner Eloisa Fernandez 410-668-0138 [email protected] Penny Tormos DiPaolo ’63 76 Zubricky Sharon Shipley 609-275-9157 [email protected] Lisa Belano Vigliotta ’97 died on 77 Gordon Frances MacDonald 610-328-6473 [email protected] May 12, 2004 in a car accident. 78 Abbott Jane Ellen Lutz 610-789-9983 [email protected] The Alumni Affairs Office found out 79 Bohem Meg 610-688-4432 [email protected] only recently of Penny’s death two years 80 Sebastian Victoria Ryan 336-586-0563 [email protected] ago. 81 Moyer Donna Montanari 215-362-0401 [email protected] Their names, along with the names 82 Brooks Frances Carusi 610-328-4195 [email protected] of all deceased Cabrini alumni, will be 83 Lynch Carol Hasson 215-997-9076 [email protected] inscribed on the memorial plaque in the 84 Prince Jamie Miller 212-721-8862 [email protected] foyer of Bruckmann Memorial Chapel 85 Findlay Jean 610-896-0294 [email protected] of Saint Joseph. The plaque was a gift 86 Baker Margaret Paris 610-328-2260 [email protected] of the Class of 1962. 87 Celluci Loretta O’Fria 610-558-1045 [email protected] 88 Cramer Peggy Emmerich 610-239-9392 [email protected] 89 Pascali Steve & Donna Dougherty 301-253-3065 [email protected] 90 Corbo Angela 215-886-7972 [email protected] 91 Thompson Stephanie Hornyak [email protected] 92 Iacono Carlo 609-261-6909 [email protected] Mark Your 93 Talotta Joyce 215-463-5947 94 Foran Amy Wechsler 610-789-9602 [email protected] 95 Hubley Amy Gallagher 215-884-1582 [email protected] Calendar! 96 Fohner Christina Feehan 410-349-8217 [email protected] July 17, 2004 97 Kopacznski Christa Gervasi 610-543-4947 [email protected] World Team Tennis 98 Carnesi Lisa Mininno 215-362-4688 [email protected] Alumni Family Night 98 Havens Hollie [email protected] 99 Fagan Jamie [email protected] July 17, 2004 00 May Chad 215-355-0701 [email protected] Alumni Association 00 Shrader Jennifer 717-637-5631 [email protected] New Jersey Reception in 01 Arnold Tricia 610-449-9976 [email protected] Longport, NJ 01 Nielsen Christopher [email protected] 02 Bartosik Katherine 302-379-0846 [email protected] September 2004 02 Matozzo Jamie 609-228-5483 [email protected] We will celebrate 25 years of 02 Oschell Emily 609-267-8736 [email protected] Alumni Affairs 03 Hazel Bern 610-353-6735 [email protected] 03 Roswell Gina 856-848-2876 [email protected] October 15 and 16, 2004 03 Strizziere Alexis 610-279-3991 [email protected] Homecoming Weekend 04 DeFruscio Vince [email protected] Watch the mail for more 04 Kelly Tracey [email protected] information on these ADP March Gregory 610-359-9680 [email protected] upcoming events.

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grade made the varsity team. By the was soon to become a Cabrini College tunity to help him, I did. I’ve watched end of his junior year, he was ranked freshman. him mature and become more respon- in the state. Just before the start of his first fall sible, over the years. He’ll do well. Pinckney’s cousin, Kevin, who semester, Pinckney’s girlfriend, at the Laval is a survivor.” lived in Philadelphia at the time, time, told him she was pregnant. She In his junior year, Pinckney began invited the young basketball star to had planned to go into the navy, so going to church and has not stopped come and live with him. He believed she was considering terminating the since. He prays about everything, he Pinckney would get further using his pregnancy. About six moths later, says, including his future. He hoped basketball talent in a metropol- however, Pinckney heard she was still to play on a professional, internation- itan area. Pinckney made the move in the area, so he gave her a call. She al basketball team after graduation, up north, and enrolled as a senior at had given birth to twin baby girls, and later, earn a master’s degree in Academy Park High School in Sharon whom she named Latrese and Asiah psychology and counsel children. He Hill, Pa. Latrese had died at birth, but Asiah did try out for a pro team and made For a while, things went well, but was thriving. Pinckney immediately the first cut. But after praying about it, eventually Kevin got involved in went to meet his baby daughter, who he decided to immediately begin his drugs and began to steal. He even has become a major part of his life. search for a job helping kids. stole about $80 worth of loose change Soon after their births, Pinckney got “I think God had me travel the that Pinckney had accumulated in an the names of both of his daughters road I did for a reason,” he says. “ I empty bottle. Deeply disappointed in tattooed on his arm. thought about becoming a teacher, his cousin’s behavior, Pinckney told The basketball player’s years at but I realized I can help kids in a dif- one of his teammates what was hap- Cabrini were not without their ups ferent way if I’m a counselor. I’ll truly pening at home. His pal invited and downs. He had some trouble with understand what they’re going through, Pinckney to come live with him and one or two courses, but got the help when they come to me with their family, for the remainder of the school he needed and graduated with a very problems.” year. respectable GPA. Basically, the cam- Pinckney is off to a great start. He The high school senior knew he pus was his only home, so during graduated in May with a bachelor’s wanted to go to college, but had no breaks and vacations, he stayed with degree in psychology, which, he says, idea where, until he met John Dzik, friends. He did go back to South he did for his four-year-old daughter Cabrini’s head men’s basketball coach. Carolina once a year, but stayed only and to honor his grandmother. His Dzik had watched Pinckney play, and briefly. entire family was there, including his thought he would fit in well as a At one point, former Cabrini mother and Kevin—with whom he has Cavalier. “He was our style of play- basketball star, Thomas Nerney ’77, reconciled—Earl, his brothers and his er,” Dzik says. “He had a lot of ener- heard Pinckney’s story, and when aunt. “I know my grandma was smil- gy and was aggressive.” But most Pinckney needed a place to live for ing down on me that day, too,” he says. importantly, he had a great atti- the summer, Nerney offered his pool Earlier this year, Pinckney got his tude. Dzik says Pinckney handled house. The chairman and CEO of U.S. last tattoo: a small cross, above the criticism well; interacted well with his Liability Insurance, Nerney also gave name, Joan. teammates and the opponents; and Pinckney a part-time job. He is still respected the officials on the court. working there. The details were hammered out, and “Laval is a very nice young man,” it was a done deal. Laval Pinckney says Nerney, “so when I had an oppor- 26 Sports Cabrini Wins Men’s PAC President’s Cup Lady Cavs Finish as Runner-Up; Cabrini is Overall Runner-Up

President’s Cup, Championship teams (soccer, and the Lady Cavs lacrosse and softball). The women’s also finished as tennis team finished as the runner- the runner-up in up, and the field hockey team women’s sports. advanced to the PAC Semifinals. Cabrini’s men’s Cabrini’s women’s basketball team programs captured advanced to the PAC Quarter- one PAC Champ- finals. The Lady Cavaliers earned ionship (men’s la- 71.4 of a possible 96 points for a crosse) and had percentage of 74.37. Eastern two teams finish earned 81.48 percent of its possi- Maureen McQuade ’04 poses with Leslie Danehy, director as the runner-up ble points. of athletics, after the PAC Championship Game. (tennis and cross- The overall total saw Cabrini For the fifth straight year, country). The men’s basketball finish a close second. Cabrini Cabrini’s men’s athletic teams have team advanced to the PAC picked up 122.85 out of 168 possi- captured the Pennsylvania Athletic Quarterfinals, while the golf and ble points (73.12 percent). Eastern Conference (PAC) President’s Cup. men’s soccer teams both finished won with 76 percent of its possible It is awarded to the institution that fifth in the PAC. Cumulatively, the points. earns the highest percentage of Cavaliers earned 51.45 of a possi- Cabrini has won one of the points in all of the Conference’s ble 72 points, earning 71.45 per- President’s Cups in each of the past sponsored sports. This was also cent of their possible points. seven years. The Cavaliers have Cabrini’s seventh President’s Cup Eastern finished second to won a total of 47 PAC Champion- in the 10 seasons it has been Cabrini, earning 68.33 percent. ships, more than twice as many as awarded on the men’s side. Cabrini On the women’s side, the Lady its closest pursuer. finished as the runner-up to Cavaliers boasted three PAC Eastern University for the overall

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lives. In the team, led by head coach Karen Cabrini Dominates spring, it resides Pelkey, is right on their heels. The at 610 King of Lady Cavs, who won three games on Prussia Road. the final day of the PAC Tournament, Spring Yet Again This past spring, including two straight against host Cabrini’s teams College Misericordia, notched their We live in a sporting age where captured three PAC Championships, fifth consecutive PAC title on May 2. the dynasty is quickly becoming a three PAC Player of the Year Award Junior pitcher Angela Templin thing of the past. In most sports at and one PAC Rookie of the Year picked up three wins in two days at the professional level, free agency Award. The four teams that compet- the Tournament, earning Tourn- and the salary cap have made parity ed head-to-head had a combined ament Most Valuable Player honors. the newest rage. Even in the high- record of 49-4 against PAC opposi- First-team All-American Brooke profile Division I sports, athletes tion, and Cabrini placed 24 of its stu- Peterdozzi powered the Lady Cavs leaving early to turn pro has made it dent-athletes on their respective All- most of the season and received PAC tougher for institutions to dominate PAC teams. Player of the Year honors. for a lengthy stretch of time. Three teams, women’s lacrosse, While both of the women’s teams On the Division III level, especial- softball and men’s lacrosse, contin- have longer streaks than the men’s ly in the Pennsylvania Athletic ued their unbelievable run of suc- lacrosse team, head coach Steve Conference (PAC), the dynasty still cess, extending their years of consec- Colfer’s squad boasts a record they utive Championships. For cannot match. With Cabrini’s 20-5 Jackie Neary’s women’s win over Villa Julie College in the lacrosse team, the string of PAC Championship Game on May 8, titles was run to seven in a Cabrini captured its fourth straight row, breaking the College PAC title, and completed a four-year record of six consecutive PAC unbeaten run against Conference titles, held by the men’s bas- opponents. During the past four sea- ketball team (’93-’98). The sons, Cabrini is 29-0 in the league. In Lady Cavaliers defeated this year’s game, sophomore Matt Eastern University, 9-8, in the Campbell scored five goals on his PAC Championship Game, way to Game MVP honors, and PAC held on May 1. Senior Player of the Year Antonio Masone, a Maureen McQuade, one of senior, made six saves to earn the the team’s two first-team All- win. PAC performers, scored twice Success has always been the staple for Cabrini and was named for Cabrini athletics, but this recent the game’s Most Valuable run of wins in the spring is Player. Kelli Romano, the unmatched in the history of the Conference’s Player of the College. So next time you hear a Year in women’s lacrosse, talking head say there are no more scored one goal and added dynasties in sports, remember the three assists in the contest. Cavaliers. While they have now raised the record to seven, the Brooke Peterdozzi ’04, pictured here, made women’s lacrosse team cannot First-Team All-American after her senior rest, because the softball season. 28 Cabrini The Magazine

Romano and Masone Named Outstanding Senior Athletes

The Mansion was the setting of the player in Cabrini history to record Senior Athlete Banquet, this April, when 200 points (230). 29 scholar-athletes were honored. The As if that’s not enough, Romano College also announced its Outstanding also holds Lady Cavaliers’ marks for Senior Athletes, Kelli Romano, a mem- most points in a season (104), as well ber of both the women’s soccer and as most assists (37) in a season. She lacrosse teams, and men’s lacrosse goal- has three of the top five single-season keeper Antonio Masone. goal records, three of the top-five sea- Romano, a liberal arts major, is son assists records and two of the top Cabrini’s women’s lacrosse record hold- three single-season points records. er in career goals (209), assists (124) Romano’s point total ranks 15th and points (333). Her totals are so far all-time in NCAA Division III. Even ahead of the nearest competition, that more amazing, Romano accom- she broke the points record in her junior plished all of these feats while sitting season. Romano is the only Lady Cav to out a number of times. She did so record 200 goals, the only Lady Cav to during the second-halves of games in Antonio Masone ’04 top 100 assists, and her point total is which Cabrini took a decisive advan- more than 100 points higher than that tage in the first 30 minutes. (56), games started (54), wins (45) and of Lesley Kerrigan ’99, the only other Despite all these extraordinary num- goals against average (6.48). He ranks bers, perhaps the most impressive of all second all-time in saves with 524 and is are the four PAC Championships the fourth in save percentage (.623). Lady Cavaliers earned in Romano’s four Masone was named the PAC Player seasons with the team. The Lady Cavs of the Year this season, when he also went 56-19 in her four seasons and earned his third consecutive berth on made it to four NCAA Tournaments in the All-PAC team. that span. Against PAC competition in Like Romano, Masone has known that time frame, Romano helped Cabrini nothing but success in Conference play. to a 45-2 mark. He was undefeated against PAC opposi- Romano also had her share of suc- tion in his career, as the Cavaliers went cess with the women’s soccer team, a perfect 29-0 in Conference play, dur- helping them to the PAC Championship ing that same span. In his three appear- in her senior season, while finishing ances in the PAC Championship Game, ninth on the Cabrini women’s soccer all- including his MVP performance in time scoring list. 2002, Masone allowed just seven goals While Masone’s numbers do not out- while making 33 saves. distance his fellow Cabrini men’s Romano and Masone are well deserving lacrosse goalkeepers by such a large mar- of their titles as the College’s Outstanding gin, he does hold his share of records. Athletes of the Class of 2004. He holds Cabrini’s men’s lacrosse Kelli Romano ’04 records for goalkeepers in games played 29 Sports Cabrini Names Outstanding Scholar Athletes Two of Cabrini’s finest student- gy major, carried a 3.82 grade- point- athletes, seniors Teresa Holland and average into the spring semester and Michael Piccoli, were selected as the was named to the Dean’s List seven College’s nominees for the Pennsyl- times during her four years at vania Athletic Conference (PAC) Cabrini. She served as secretary for Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. the Cabrini Honor Society and was To be nominated for the award, the winner of the Psychology De- the student-athlete must be a promi- partment Award for Scholarship and nent member of a varsity team, Service. Holland also won a regional maintain a cumulative grade-point- award for her research, which she average of 3.2, and spend significant presented at the Eastern Psycholog- time performing community service. ical Conference. Holland finished second in the On the court, Holland was a four- voting on the women’s side, the year starter on the volleyball team. highest of any Cabrini female nomi- She was named the team’s Rookie of nee since Erin Barney ‘00 won the the Year in 2000 and finished a fine award in 2000. Holland, a psycholo- career as a setter this past season. She totaled 639 assists, 566 digs, 175 kills, 55 aces and 44 blocks in her Teresa Holland ’04 four seasons with the Lady Cavs. Piccoli ranks eighth on the men’s lacrosse all-time scoring list, register- ing 115 points in his career. His 66 Would you like goals place him seventh all-time, and his 49 assists ranks ninth on to get a regular Cabrini’s all-time list. A business administration/human update on resources management major, Piccoli carried a 3.27 grade-point average Cabrini into the spring semester, was named Athletics? to the Dean’s List each of the past three semesters and is a member of If so, e-mail Bob the Cabrini Honor Society. Macartney at [email protected] Michael Piccoli ’04

30 The Chemistry of Innkeeping continued from page 19 order Victorian wallpaper. “I think I usual broken pipes, which Marianne a Panama hat. Then I bought a fedora said some things that even embar- says always burst in the middle of and a top hat, and pretty soon, I ran rassed the workmen when I was winter, the occasional disgruntled out of civilian hats to buy. So, I started papering.” guest and all the other headaches that buying other kinds of hats. As a result, In 1980, they sold the first inn and come with running a business. Once a I now have 300 some hats, and that’s the home in West Chester and deco- month, or so, they did hire an “innsit- not including baseball caps, but rated the McCreary House with their ter” so they could go out to dinner. nobody counts those.” collection of floor-to-ceiling mirrors, “Every time we sat down to eat at When Jay goes on to claim a 1936 ornate gas lighting fixtures, tall wal- home, inevitably, the phone or the football helmet, which is part of the nut beds, marble topped dressers and door bell would ring,” say Jay. “You collection, was the one worn by for- tables, and in the living room, the have to take a break.” In 1986 the mer President Gerald Ford during harp Marianne once played. They house next to The Abbey went on the college, Marianne produces a busi- named their new inn The Abbey, market, which the Schatzes bought ness card that reads: Pay no attention Marianne says, because of the build- and converted from apartments to to my husband. “I got tired of ing’s gothic revival architecture, seven bedrooms. having to tell people that, so I which resembles a church. “It had to got cards made,” she says and be a ‘churchy’ name,” she says. “At laughs. first we thought of The Vicarage, but Marianne, admittedly not The Abbey is listed higher up in the a morning person, visits phone book.” with the guests during In 1981, Jay, too, quit his job to afternoon tea. “I love become a full-time innkeeper. He meeting them and talking loves to tell the story of his last day of with them,” she says. work. “Marianne had planned a big “We’ve had people here from all dinner for me at a local restaurant,” over the country and all over the he says. “So a group of our friends The two now live in a house they world. The furthest anyone has come came to the train station to get me in bought across the street from The is Indonesia.” Generally when a cou- a pickup truck. They had it decorated Abbey and have a full staff. Marianne ple is from a foreign country one or with crape paper and johnny mops sells real estate, and Jay runs the inn. the other speaks English, and Jay has and a big sign that read, ‘Welcome He visits with the guests at breakfast, a working knowledge of Italian and Home Jay, From Fast Track to Laid and happily spins a yarn or two—or Spanish. “I can count up to one mil- Back.’ They handed me a can of beer maybe even three—about his many lion Lira,” he jokes, “but I don’t know and told me to sit in the folding chair years as an innkeeper. Sometimes he how much that many Lira are worth.” in the bed of the truck, while we rode dons one of the hats from his vast col- The Abbey has hosted people in to the restaurant. They beeped the lection, and tells the story of how the almost all professions, even a celebri- horn during the entire ride. It’s among collection came to be. ty. Georgia Engle—better known as my most memorable moments.” “It started with a hat rack Marianne Georgette, from the “Mary Tyler Of course, his new life was far from picked up,” he says. “We hung it in Moore Show,” spent a week there. laid back. The couple ran the inn the hall, and she said, ‘We need some Marianne recalls that like her televi- alone, in the early years. They had the hats on those empty pegs.’ So I bought continued on next page 31 The Chemistry of Innkeeping continued from previous page

sion character, Engle is very sweet, and greens from New Jersey’s Pine The two say they never thought, as but a little unfocused. Barrens and old family ornaments. chemists, they would end up running The Schatzes favorite time of year When not involved with the inn, a bed and breakfast, but they have is December, when The Abbey is part Marianne serves on the Cape May absolutely no regrets. “Over all, it’s of Cape May’s Grand Christmas Tour. Planning Board and the Historic been great,” Marianne says. “We get Marianne helps guide people through Preservation Commission, and Jay is to collect antiques, be our own boss, the house, and Jay, dressed in a kilt, the director of the Chamber of and 98 percent of the people who like the Scotch-Irish Mc Creary him- Commerce of Greater Capy May and come here are wonderful. The other self would wear, tells the story of the is on the Shade Tree Commission. two percent you can handle.” rich coal baron who hired famed “We want to participate and be a part As for the future, the Shatzes aren’t Philadelphia architect, Stephen of this community,” Marianne says. sure. “It’s been 27 years,” Marianne Decatur Button, to build an elaborate “We want to give something back to says. “Maybe we’ll sell, who knows?” home on the shores of the Atlantic. the town that enabled us to turn our What everyone does know is, they’ll Marianne decorates the inn with trees passion into a living.” do it if the chemistry is right.

Bestowing Honors on Campus continued from page 10

program students do,” she says, which was both troubling and a the discipline and recognizes honor “and it focuses on their academic privilege. How many students can and honesty, as well.” achievements.” say they had to run between induc- Dr. Cynthia Halpern, associate One of the new Delta Delta tion and award ceremonies because professor of romance languages says inductees is Toccara Buckley ’04, they were being honored?” the same is true with Phi Sigma who earned degree in English/com- Buckley says she hopes Cabrini Iota, which fosters a sentiment of munication and a minor in criminal underclassmen will make the most amity and tolerance for others, justice. Buckley served as the trea- of everything Cabrini has to offer something that is highly valued in surer for the Ethnic Student and will work hard to get good today’s troubled world. Alliance and chaired the AIRE grades. “It all pays off in the end,” Dr. Jolyon Girard, chair and pro- Student Ambassador Mentors pro- she says, “especially when you fessor of history and political sci- gram. She was also inducted into have a number of honor cards at ence says he looks forward to seeing the Society for Collegiate Journalists graduation.” the many alumni who return for the and into Alpha Kappa Delta. (See Cabrini faculty who advise the Phi Alpha Theta initiation each year. page 11.) honor societies say there are numer- “The alums share the College’s his- “I made sure I attended all the ous benefits. “In today’s business tory with the new inductees,” he induction and award ceremonies, world, integrity is something we says. “In many ways it’s the History even though that meant I couldn’t need to recognize as much as skill,” Department’s special alumni event.” always stay for the entire program,” says John Heiberger, associate pro- Buckley says. “Many of the cere- fessor of business. “Sigma Beta Delta monies were held on the same day, goes beyond academic excellence in

32 Institutional Advancement Cabrini Names Director of Development

Tara G. Basile was strong fundraiser. Her dence strengthens the organization, named director of devel- experience and expertise and in turn, the community.” opment at Cabrini Col- perfectly complements Basile says she chose Cabrini lege this spring. our existing staff.” because she has always had great She is responsible for Basile’s development respect for the institution and high the College’s annual giv- career began as senior regard for President Antoinette ing programs, prospect development associate at Iadarola’s many accomplishments research, corporate and Lankenau Hospital in during her tenure at the College. foundation programs, Wynnewood, Pa., where Basile is a member of the Council as well as stewardship. her main responsibility for Advancement and Support of Prior to joining the staff was annual giving. She Education and the Association of Tara G. Basile at Cabrini, the Haver- later served as manager Fundraising Professionals and has town, Pa. resident was assistant vice of development systems and director lectured on annual giving at the president of development at Rose- of development systems for Main Association of Healthcare Philan- mont College, Rosemont, Pa. Line Health System in Bryn Mawr, Pa. thropy’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Con- “Tara fills an important role for the “I have always enjoyed working in ference She earned a bachelor’s Institutional Advancement Depart- the nonprofit sector. It is encouraging degree in business administration ment,” said Robin Moll, vice presi- to see the confidence that the donors from Rosemont College. dent of institutional advancement. have in the organization or cause they “She effectively manages the day-to- support,” says Basile. “That confi- day operations, in addition to being a

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33 Endowed Scholarships

“The Felicia Falcone Scholarship leaves an everlasting Endowed scholarships are a vital memory of my sister’s time at Cabrini. It enables her source of permanent funds that make a to continue to help a place she truly cherished, by Cabrini College education possible for assisting a fellow member of Cabrini’s community.” worthy students. Last year, funds dis- tributed to students from endowed NICK FALCONE, BROTHER OF FELICIA FALCONE ’91 scholarships made a significant differ- “I am grateful for this honor, and I was glad I could ence in the lives of numerous students share in the memorial of Patience. Knowing that and their families. Patience was such a great person, I feel honored that this award was extended to me in her name. The In order to enhance the fiscal well- scholarship was a great asset to my education and being of the College and provide addi- was a wonderful aid in my endeavors at Cabrini.” tional scholarship assistance to stu- dents, Cabrini needs to increase the PATIENCE CAVANAGH MCFADDEN MEMORIAL size and number of its endowed schol- SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT,LISA ESPOSITO ‘04 arships. With the annual financial aid “I truly appreciated receiving the scholarship, and I am budget about to top $9 million, the very grateful for the help that it has given me in need for “funded aid” through attaining my goals. It has helped me to pay for school endowed scholarships has never been and to obtain a great education at Cabrini College. greater. MARILYN MEOLA MAZZARULLI SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, For more information about endowed DANIELLE ROZNIATOSKI,’04 scholarships, contact Robin B. Moll, “This scholarship is a small way of giving back to the Vice President of Institutional students for all they have given me, during my 36 Advancement at [email protected] or years at Cabrini.” 610.902.8226. ANDY LITAVEC, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, EDUCATION, ON The College is deeply grateful to those ENDOWING THE ANDREW AND PATRICIA LITAVEC benefactors who have established EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP endowed scholarships. On the follow- ing page is a list of endowed scholar- “Denise embodied everything we, as individuals and as ships at Cabrini College along with the an institution, strived to achieve. Energetic, purpose of the scholarship. Anyone passionate, inclusive and sincere, Denise provided may contribute to an existing endowed each of us with a unique and indelible memory of scholarship fund. To do so, just indi- her. This scholarship ensures that those memories cate on the envelope provided that you continue.” wish to designate your gift to a specific CARLO IACONO ’92 scholarship fund. THE DENISE EDWARDS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

34 Adult Learner Scholarship scholarship is awarded to a junior or senior sponsored by the Center for Service and Leadership at This scholarship was created in 1998 through the efforts English/communication major, who demonstrates the Wolfington Center. of Judith M. Bradley, former director of Adult Academic Felicia’s same enthusiasm and commitment. Agnes Bosco Orsatti Memorial Scholarship Services at Cabrini College; Stephen M. Highsmith ’98, Thelma Gardinier Arts Scholarship The late Mr. Arnold Orsatti, father of Cabrini alumna member of the Board of Trustees; and members of the This scholarship was established in 2000, through the Agnes Armao ’98, established the scholarship in 1998 in Alumni Association Continuing Education Advisory Board. generosity of Mrs. Thelma Gardinier, who had a love of memory of his wife, Agnes Orsatti. This scholarship is This scholarship assists adult learners enrolled in under- the arts. Preference in awarding the scholarship is given awarded to a full-time, female student in good academic graduate programs who receive no financial aid from to a studio arts major. Consideration is also given to per- standing, whose financial need might not allow her to their employers. forming or theater arts majors and graphic design complete her education. Alumni Assistance Scholarship majors who are in good academic standing and show a Sister Regina Peterson Memorial The Alumni Association of Cabrini College established high degree of initiative and creativity. Social Work Scholarship this scholarship to assist students who are the children The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship This scholarship was established through the efforts of of alumni. Funds were raised to endow the scholarship The William Randolph Hearst Endowment was estab- Carol A. Geary ’98 and the Cabrini College Sociology through personal gifts and events. lished by a grant received in 2001 to endow a scholar- Department to honor Sr. Regina Peterson, MSC, who John J. Barclay Memorial Scholarship ship to broaden educational access for students of color. founded the social work program at Cabrini. The first The family of John Barclay established this scholarship This scholarship provides financial assistance to minority scholarship will be awarded in the academic year 2004- in 1997. John served as the Vice President for Finance students who are education majors and are actively 2005 to an upper-class student in the social work pro- and Administration at Cabrini. He was killed in a car involved in community service. gram, who is in good academic standing and demon- accident in 1996, after returning from performing mis- Joseph J. and Grace M. Lampazzi Memorial strates financial need. sionary work, with the Glenmary priests, at a prison in Scholarship (intent to endow) John E. Remley Memorial Scholarship Georgia. This scholarship assists financially needy stu- Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Lampazzi established the scholar- This scholarship was established in 1986 by Ruby dents. ship to honor the memory of Mr. Lampazzi’s parents, the Remley, a faculty member of the Cabrini College Jane Schwartz Benjamin Memorial Scholarship late Joseph and Grace Lampazzi, for the sacrifices they Business Administration Department, to honor her late This scholarship was established in 1972 by the late Dr. made in order to educate their son, Anthony, a member husband, John. A certified public accountant with his Edwin R. Benjamin to honor his wife, Dr. Jane Schwartz of the Board of Trustees, and their granddaughter, own practice, John was also a member of the Cabrini’s Benjamin. Dr. Benjamin made many significant contribu- Christine Lampazzi Ross ’91. Business Administration Department. The scholarship is tions to perpetuate high academic goals as Cabrini’s Andrew and Patricia Litavec Education Scholarship awarded to a full-time student majoring in one of the chairman of the History Department. The scholarship is This scholarship was established by the Litavecs on the business programs. awarded to a full-time history/political science student. occasion of Andy’s retirement, in 2002, after serving as Ruth Richardson Memorial Endowed Scholarship Daniel J. and Mary D. Bergen Communication one of Cabrini College’s faculty members for 36 years. This scholarship was established in 2002 by the Scholarship This scholarship will be awarded for the first time in the Richardson family to honor the memory of Ruth This scholarship was established in 1995 from the 2004-2005 academic year to an elementary education, Richardson ’86, a 31-year employee of Cabrini College. It estate of Mary D. Bergen. Mrs. Bergen and her husband, early childhood education or special education major. will be awarded for the first time during the academic year the late Daniel J. Bergen, shared an interest in accurate The Charles A. Mastronardi Service 2004-2005 to a student who is majoring in elementary writing and reporting, which led her to establish this and Leadership Award education, early childhood education or special education. scholarship to benefit communication majors, especially Margaret Mastronardi ‘61 and Ruth Mastronardi Charles and Delphine Sbarboro Memorial those planning careers in journalism. Baldovin’67, and funding from the Charles A. Scholarship Cabrinian Educational Endowment Scholarship Mastronardi Foundation were instrumental in creating This scholarship was established in 1985 by Mrs. Created in 1992 for the 35th anniversary of the founding this scholarship. The prestigious Charles A. Mastronardi Delphine Sbarboro as the Charles J. Sbarboro Memorial of Cabrini College, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Service and Leadership Award, which is presented on Scholarship and was awarded to a business major. After Heart of Jesus funded a scholarship for immigrant stu- Cabrini Spirit Day, creates new opportunities for current Mrs. Sbarboro passed away in 1998, with the generosity dents or students with limited economic resources. students to acquire the intellectual skills to succeed in of her son, Charles, and daughter, Delphine Sbarboro Dr. John E. DeTurck Scholarship chosen professions, as well as the experience to learn Pape ’61, the scholarship was renamed the Charles and This scholarship was established in 1996 to honor the the importance of caring for one another and promoting Delphine Sbarboro Memorial Scholarship. Two awards retirement of Dr. DeTurck, after 26 years of devoted ser- the common good. are now made annually: one each to a business major vice as biology professor at Cabrini College. It is award- Marilyn Meola Mazzarulli Scholarship and an education major. ed to a sophomore biology major pursuing studies that Marilyn Meola Mazzaruilli ’59 established this scholar- M. Antoinette Schiesler Memorial Scholarship will lead to a career in the biological sciences. ship in 1999. It was the first one named for an alumna. Reverend Bob Schiesler, along with his family and Edith Robb Dixon Scholarship It provides funds for students who lack financial means friends, created this scholarship in 1996 to honor M. This scholarship was established by Cabrini College in to receive a Cabrini College education. Antoinette Schiesler, former Cabrini College Academic 1999 to honor Edith Robb Dixon upon her retirement Patience Cavanaugh McFadden Memorial Scholarship Dean. Dr. Schiesler will always be remembered for her from the Board of Trustees and for her many years of This scholarship was created in 1978 by William, Bart belief that the Cabrini was a place that nurtured her on devoted service to the College. It is awarded to an and Martha Cavanagh ’76 in honor of their sister, her own spiritual journey. The scholarship is awarded to upper-class student enrolled in a sports or fitness major Patience Melville Cavanagh McFadden ’63, who died in a female upper-class education major of African- or in good academic standing. 1978. It is awarded to a student who shows a sincere Hispanic-American descent, who shows proficiency in concern for the well being of others and who demon- her studies, a determination to succeed, a maturing Denise Edwards Memorial Scholarship sense of self and a well-rounded personality. This scholarship was established by the parents, friends, strates academic excellence. relatives and classmates of Denise Edwards ’92, who Peter S. and Catherine G. Mozino Scholarship Lawrence R. Sedler Memorial Scholarship passed away in 1992. The scholarship honors Denise, This scholarship was established in 1992 by Mrs. This scholarship was established in 1971 by Mrs. Toni who is remembered for her active, vibrant Cabrinian Catherine Mozino, the widow of the late Peter S. Mozino, Linder in memory of her late husband, Lawrence Sedler, spirit and for her many outstanding contributions to the and with the generosity of the Peter S. Mozino to honor his work as a philosophy professor at Cabrini College. It assists students who do not have the financial Foundation. It helps defray the cost of tuition for stu- College. It is awarded to a student majoring in philosophy. means to complete their Cabrini education. dents of Italian descent. Mother Ursula Infante Scholarship Felicia Falcone Memorial Scholarship Thomas P. and Jill Nerney Leadership in Community This scholarship was established in 1987 to honor This scholarship was established by Mr. and Mrs. Service Scholarship Cabrini College founder and first president Mother Ursula Joseph Falcone, family and friends to honor the memory This scholarship was established by Thomas P. Nerney Infante on her 90th birthday. Gifts made in memory of of Felicia Falcone ’91. Felicia is remembered for her ’77 and Jill Chambers Nerney ’77 to promote an Mother Ursula are applied to this scholarship, which is dedication to Cabrini student government, campus min- “Education of the Heart.” It recognizes a student who, by awarded to an upper-class science major. Preference is istry, yearbook, newspaper, and radio station, and for the the end of his or her first year, has exhibited active and given to a student studying chemistry. many hours she volunteered in the community. This sustained leadership in service and outreach programs, 35 ETetc. CETERA Taking Up a Torch by Michael Paolucci

English/communication major Michael the Columbine kids. While countless Paolucci ’04 shares some of his thoughts on experts pondered the alleged violent his four years at Cabrini College. nature of our age group, we keep mov- ing forward, even if it was through metal y first college class was my freshman detectors. As the experts continue to seminar, Perspectives in Human Nature, look at us, the first high school graduat- with professor of philosophy Dr. Joseph ing class of the new millennium, we will MRomano. I remember looking around continue to prove that we are a genera- the classroom, waiting for class to begin, tion of independent-minded, self-actual- and recognizing some of the students I ized citizens. had met at Orientation. We all had the To my fellow classmates I would like same anxious look on our faces. to say, think of your diplomas as torches Naturally, none of us knew what to lit from the continually burning flame of expect, but I couldn’t tell if anyone else learning at Cabrini College. We now was as intimidated as I was. It was the must use our torches to spread light in unknown that I found unsettling. I had the darkest areas of the world and spread spent the previous summer wondering warmth in the coldest of hearts. If you long and hard what college would be changed during our time here. One day are an education major, use your torch like, and I was about to find out. The in particular, however, we changed dra- to enlighten the young minds you are anticipation was almost unbearable. matically. influencing. Business majors, you can I laugh now when I think about how I’ll never forget the tears in the use your torches to brighten the shady frightened I was. College turned out to Bruckmann Chapel [of Saint Joseph] or climate of the corporate world. Be a be a place where I could feel comfortable the deafening, painful silence as people businessperson with integrity and gen- expressing myself without inhibition, called out the names of loved ones they erosity who helps influence the status because my opinions were as important couldn’t reach, in or near the World quo. If you are a science major, use your as those of any other student. The teach- Trade Center. I’ll never forget how we all torch to help fill the void of so many ers treated us as peers during class dis- prayed. My relatives were all accounted unanswered scientific questions. Maybe cussions, placing no more value on their for, yet I clung to my sanity that day by you will find a cure for AIDS or diabetes. own opinions than they put on ours. mere threads. We stood frozen, waiting If you are an English/communication College, in the end, turned out to be a for the next person to call out a name, major, as I am, be sure to always use four-year experience that taught me to privately hoping the previous person your skills to bridge communication appreciate ideas and to think indepen- had been the last. But after several gaps and help people see things from a dently about philosophy, culture, cur- moments, someone would amass the fresh, new perspective. Most important- rent events, history, human nature, courage to call out, “my father,” or “my ly, all of us must be constantly dedicated ethics, love, and anything else that cousin,” and we would respond in uni- to the truth. makes the world turn. It’s hard for me to son with a petition. Though I try not to Remember to always think indepen- relive how I felt during that first class, think of that day, when I call it to mem- dently about the issues important to because the warm environment at ory, it’s almost as clear as if it is happen- you. Vote. There’s a lot of spin out there Cabrini ensured that those feelings were ing right now. and trying to decipher it can be like try- short lived. I also remember going down the ing to hit a nasty curve ball. But keep Cabrini is a place where a part of me walkway of the New Residence Hall and digging. Little snippets of the truth will will always remain. I met many out- seeing the sun peek through the majes- emerge like gold dust. standing individuals who have helped tic trees of the campus. The weather was Let’s encourage each other to be me learn a great deal about myself. Like gorgeous. I thought about the natural intellectuals who are never complacent the initials carved on the trunk of a tree, beauty of the day juxtaposed to the trag- and who always seek new answers and those lessons will stay engrained in me ic manifestation of the terrorists’ ill will. better ways. I’ll remember Cabrini as the as I continue to grow. Our school may be The air was so clear that the smoke place where I was taught to be a lifelong small, and some might argue there are could be seen for miles around New learner. The small classroom atmosphere disadvantages to that. But I believe the York City. What irony. is what drew me to this school, and the family environment and collective The events of that day are especially sense of community and dedication to encouragement from the campus com- important to the Class of 2004, because social justice is what will endear me to it munity is impossible to duplicate at a our generation will likely be judged by forever. As graduates, commenting on larger school. Most of all, Cabrini is a the success with which we shape the the world around us is no longer place where I changed as an individual; post-9/11 world. But we can handle it. enough. We now have the tools, and we 36 where I became an adult. All of our lives After all, most of us are the same age as must act. It’s Not Too Late!

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