Pekar featured in Climate Change Webcast 3 . . . Kiely Hall to Get a Makeover 4 . . . ACSM Receives Vintage Steinways 5 . . . QC named a Best College Pick Again 5 Athletics Hall of Fame 6 Nobel Peace Prize winner visits QC CLICK HERE QUEENS COLLEGE FACULTY | STAFFf NEWSyDECEMBERi 2012 Campus Serves as Shelter to Hundreds After Hurricane Celebrating Queens College at 75 On October 11, 2012, the college (1985–94) then took turns at the On campus and off, QC has been that is often called “the jewel microphone, expressing pride in the helping the community to recover from of the CUNY system” observed college and their contributions to it. the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. its diamond anniversary with a Noting that “a college can never be Although classes were canceled from multifaceted convocation in LeFrak better than its faculty”—an observation October 29 through November 1, the Concert Hall, serving up music, she attributed to Muyskens—Acting college snapped into action right after speeches, and birthday cake. Chief Operating Officer Elizabeth the storm: Members of Buildings & QC Foundation Board Hendrey presented half a dozen Grounds and Security—some of whom member Gail Marquis ’80 acted professors who spoke or, in one case, spent more on travel than they’d earn in as emcee. At the conclusion of an played to the crowd: Assistant Provost that day’s pay—worked round the clock organ prelude played by master’s June Bobb (English) and emeriti Andrew to restore power, clear away debris, and student John Wolf, she introduced Hacker (Political Science), Leo Kraft repair damage. the faculty and President James (Music), Corinne Michels (Biology), In addition, these employees Muyskens—who entered to fanfares Mark Miksic (Physics), and Jimmy Heath provided services to the shelter that by Professor Emeritus Leo Kraft (Music), who let his the Office of Emergency Working in collaboration with a group and Aaron Copland, performed by saxophone do most Management (OEM) established at QC, from the Rubin Museum of Art, students in the QC Brass Ensemble. Muyskens’ of his talking. one of 10 CUNY schools that took in Rikki Asher’s (SEYS) Methods in Secondary opening remarks were followed by a Switching Education for Art course (above) brought musical interlude featuring soprano genres from displaced people. OEM set up shop in puppet-making materials and taught children FitzGerald Gymnasium, the Dining Hall, at QC’s evacuation shelter how to make finger Grace Kahl ’13, accompanied by Youn jazz to classical, and the One Stop Service Center. At peak puppets with which they performed plays in Ju Namkoong (a musical preparation Professors Marcy occupancy, nearly 600 adults and children, a hand-made puppet theatre. With them is a pianist for the Copland School’s Opera Rosen and as well as their pets—birds, cats, dogs, a Mother Nature puppet previously created by Studio), and violinist Heesun Shin DMA Asher for another course and used to perform ’13 accompanied by pianist Misaki CONTINUED ferret, a lizard, a turtle, and a goldfish— ON PAGE 3 found refuge in these facilities, managed, with children in hospitals. Sekimoto, Advanced Certificate ’13. coincidentally, by two QC alums, Harry Then QC Foundation chair Carol Sigmone III and Diane Gilroy. (All QC students raised funds, donated food Hochman ’71 congratulated her alma residents were relocated to longer-term and clothing, and pulled night shifts at the mater, praising it as a true melting pot accommodations before Thanksgiving.) shelter before other volunteers could arrive. that provides a first-class education. Former QC presidents Saul Cohen CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 (1978–85) and Shirley Strum Kenny CAMPUS SERVES AS SHELTER - from page 1 Klein enlisted the help of family, friends, and members of his synagogue, Temple Gates of Nobel Laureate Suu Kyi Students from the Aaron Copland School Prayer in Flushing, resulting in significant of Music presented a concert for shelter contributions from local vendors: Oneness residents and staff; the Committee for Fountain-Heart Restaurant brought and Visits the College Disabled Students engaged a magician and served hot food to over 400 individuals in the a balloon twister—the latter also rendered shelter, while the Queens Health Emporium Voted into the Myanmar Parliament homeless by the hurricane—to entertain contributed several cases of water and snacks. last spring, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is kids. Other students participated in projects Of course, students are also among no ordinary lawmaker. A Nobel Peace to aid hard-hit neighborhoods throughout the people who suffered from the storm. Prize winner who spent 15 years under the city. “The investment, allocation, and executive house arrest in Rangoon, unable to see Meanwhile, QC employees drew committees of the Queens College Foundation her children or even visit her husband on their expertise and contacts. Human unanimously decided to allot up to $100,000 on his deathbed, she personified the Resources collected donations and to help students affected by the hurricane,” struggle for democracy in an isolated supplies, and fielded phone calls from the says Laurie Dorf (AVP, Institutional nation ruled by a military dictatorship. community. “Some calls were from people Advancement). “It was a very easy decision. So her appearance at a pair of back- looking for their relatives,” explains We want to help students with housing, food, to-back events at QC on September Susan Mavrelis (HR). “Others were from and transportation issues to ensure that they 22—part of her first trip to the United individuals and local companies who just remain enrolled in school and take the same States in about four decades—drew wanted to help in any way they could.” number of courses.” Grants will be available capacity crowds. The Division of Education worked through June 30, 2013. Suu Kyi started the morning at with the PTA at PS/IS 499 to buy LeFrak Concert Hall, where she was supplies for children temporarily placed welcomed by QC President James at that school. Career Counselor Mark Muyskens, Congressman Joseph Crowley ’85, and New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Alumna Carole King serenaded her, Storm Help for leading the invitation-only audience in an impromptu version of “You’ve Faculty and Staff Got a Friend”; Anjelica Huston read a portion of Suu Kyi’s essay “Freedom from Fear” in her honor. Suu Kyi's Faculty and staff need assistance, too. CUNY set up an annual leave bank eloquence was also in evidence in The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) is for the benefit of personnel who have her response to a student’s question Top: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with canvassing members who live in evacua- not accrued enough leave to remain on about her rationale for becoming a Congressman Joseph Crowley. Below: tion zones to learn about their situations. payroll while they take days off to handle legislator in the government that had Suu Kyi holds a Unisphere replica she “Through our affiliate federation, New storm-related emergencies. Full- and received from Crowley. To her left are York State United Teachers, we offer part-time/hourly employees, including persecuted her and so many others. “I President James Muyskens, Carole King, don’t believe in professional dissidents,” small emergency grants to our members,” adjuncts and those who do not normally City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, reports Ben Chitty, QC’s HEO delegate. she explained. “I think it’s just a phase, and Anjelica Huston. accumulate leave, are eligible to apply like adolescence.” “We are distributing some respirators for up to five days of paid leave, which Next, Suu Kyi went over to Colden She also had the chance to hear them. for members to use in their own cleanup can be used from November 1, 2012, Auditorium to address members of Before she walked on stage, a reporter efforts, along with guidelines that the to February 28, 2013. Full-time, salaried the Burmese community in their native for a Burmese-language newspaper led New York Committee on Occupational noninstructional employees who accrue language. Some had driven hundreds the attendees, some 2,000 strong, in a Safety & Health, a labor coalition, devel- leave may donate up to five days. For of miles and waited outside overnight rapturous call-and-response of “Long oped for cleanup work.” Information information about donating or requesting for the opportunity to hear her speak. live Mother Suu Kyi!” about the grants is available at http:// days, go to https://myqc.qc.cuny.edu/ www.psc-cuny.org/relief-fund. AdminServices/HR/default.aspx.

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 2 QUEENS COLLEGE AT 75 - from page 1 Pekar Part of Al Gore’s Webcast on Climate Change

With Governor Andrew Cuomo’s post-Sandy admonition—“Anyone who thinks there is not a dramatic change in weather patterns is denying reality”—still reverberating in the news, Steve Pekar (SEES) joined more than 100 scientists, policy experts, environmentalists, explorers, heads of NGOs, filmmakers, and business and political leaders participating in Al Gore’s marathon webcast Al Gore listens intently to polar expedition leader Doug Stoup (center) as QC’s Steve devoted to climate change, 24 Hours of Pekar looks on. They were discussing climate Reality: The Dirty Weather Report. change lessons being learned in Antarctica. “Al Gore’s event was amazing,” says Pekar, “with terrific in-depth content, high- melt. We only need 5 percent of the ice to tech production, renowned experts in many melt to cause catastrophe.” fields, and over 16 million viewers.” In hour- Originating from studios in New York long segments spotlighting climate-related City, which was still reeling from the issues in every part of the globe, this program unprecedented flooding likely made worse began 8 pm, Wednesday, November 14 and by rising sea levels, the webcast returned Current faculty in the orchestra seats stand to acknowledge the speakers and concluded at 8 pm the following day. time and again to what meteorologists have honorees assembled on stage in LeFrak Hall for the college's 75th Anniversary Pekar, whose research takes him to dubbed Superstorm Sandy. Convocation. These included members of the current administration and faculty Antarctica—where core samples from deep “It’s one thing, Hurricane Katrina hitting and guests—among them former presidents and honorary degree recipient Dennis below the polar ice suggest carbon dioxide New Orleans and affecting a couple of Liotta ’70. Olympian Gail Marquis '80 (at the podium) served as emcee. levels and a tropical climate millions of years million people,” says Pekar. “But Sandy earlier that may be akin to where the planet affected tens of millions of people.” Morey Ritt collaborated on a second college is to create the future,” he is headed—was on two panels: the Arctic and Pekar sees the storm as a wakeup call to musical interlude. Next, Robert Engel said. “The first 75 years are just a Antarctica. Gore, the former VP, Nobel laure- the nation’s political class who, when not (Chemistry) introduced honorary prelude.” On cue, Student Association ate, and chairman and founder of the Climate denying the existence of climate change, degree recipient Dennis Liotta ’70, President Karamvir Singh wheeled Reality Project, participated in those panels, are dragging their feet on cooperating with whom he taught as an undergraduate out a cart bearing a white three- frequently eliciting Pekar’s expertise. other nations to reverse the trend. And it’s at the college. The director of tiered cake festooned with red roses Also on the panels with Pekar were the certainly a wakeup call to builders, he notes, Emory University’s Institute for Drug and the number 75. After the QC president of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson; recounting how prior to Sandy making Discovery and co-inventor of two Women’s Choir sang the college song, adventurer Doug Stoup; Larry Schweiger, landfall, he had visited the Rockaways with drugs that fight HIV, Liotta noted that as arranged by Professor Emeritus M. president and CEO of the National Wildlife his wife to watch the enormous waves it was he had an undistinguished start at QC, Joel Mandelbaum and ACSM Director Federation; and director Jeff Orlowski, whose generating while still at sea. earning mediocre grades. “I learned Edward Smaldone, and closing remarks documentary film Chasing Ice highlights “We were looking at mile after mile of not to let language on a transcript from Marquis, the audience filed out to the extraordinary pace at which the world’s new development all along the boardwalk and determine who I would be,” he said, another brass fanfare, by Bruce Saylor glaciers are melting. we were screaming with frustration because thanking his mentors. (ACSM). Concluding the convocation in In emphasizing this latter calamity, Pekar in all of these new buildings, the first floors Returning to the podium, Muyskens the best of taste, drinks and snacks— observed, “Antarctica is ground zero when it were literally just two steps up from the delivered his annual State of the including slices of the aforementioned comes to past climate change. It has changed street. We’re talking about maybe 18 inches. College Address. “The work of a cake—were served in the Atrium. more than any other place on Earth. If all the Those places all flooded and their owners are ice in Antarctica melted, sea level would rise going to have a really difficult time trying to by over 200 feet. But we don’t need it to all sell them.”

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 3 Offices Move to FACULTY PROFILE Queens Hall to Jacob L. Mackey “My random, dilettantish explorations through poetry finally Prepare for a Kiely A CLASSICIST’S led to really discovering in a big way UNCONVENTIONAL ODYSSEY an infatuation with the ancient world,” Makeover relates Mackey. “When I got to college, I was discouraged about my ability to learn, convinced I was terrible at It’s the rare 40-something who can’t use languages. It was a real eye-opener to a little cosmetic help. In the case of Kiely take Latin and realize I had a knack for Hall, erected in 1968, the problems run more than skin-deep. Now the tower is it.” He also dove into ancient Greek, about to get a makeover in a $30 million French, and German, and in grad school project funded by New York State and picked up a reading knowledge of co-managed by the Dormitory Authority Italian. Mackey earned a master’s degree of the State of New York (DASNY) and at Christ Church, Oxford, and a PhD at CUNY. The rehab, to begin in spring 2013 Princeton University (2009). As a grad and expected to take a year, includes student he taught at Princeton, and as double-paned, insulated windows on a post-doc he taught at a great books the outside and high-efficiency heat program at Stanford University. pump systems and air-conditioning Having been a non-traditional units on the inside. student who “faced the fears,” Mackey To accommodate all this work, says, “has really made me empathize the tower has to be emptied. In a with people who are coming to school mammoth project involving some later in life, or who might have some 400 people from about 25 offices “I am interested in just about anxieties. I have a real feel for their and departments, most Kiely everything about the ancient world,” desire to go for something else, to personnel have been relocated to observes Jacob L. Mackey (CMAL). break out of a comfortable but not fully Queens Hall, vacated this summer The assistant professor from Texas, satisfying life, to take a risk.” after its previous namesake—the who joined the college this fall, is On leave next semester, during CUNY School of Law—exited intrigued by ancient religions, with a which time he will be based at the Main Street for its new campus in Long Top: The Kiely Hall tower; below: entrance soft spot for Epicureanism and an eye University of Notre Dame, Mackey Island City. Although they weren’t in Kiely, to Queens Hall will complete his book on Roman Athletics, the Global Learning to Benefit on cognitive science. the Environment program (GLOBE), and tower, albeit not to their prior quarters. As a lad, Mackey spent months religion. The classicist takes issue with the Linguistics and Communications Among the exceptions are LCD, which each year in south India, where his the “common cliché” that the Romans Disorders Department (LCD) have also will begin holding classes in Queens Hall mother pursued her interest in Eastern merely performed religious rituals and gone to Queens Hall. Meanwhile, the Math this spring, and the Division of Innovative, religions. For most of his high school that “Christians invented belief.” Department will set up shop in Kissena International, and Professional Studies years he was home-schooled. He then If he could time-travel back to one Hall. Any faculty members remaining in (DIIPS), which already offers registration spent 10 years as a wine and beer classical period, it would be to become the tower will leave in January 2013, when and some instruction there. “We were buyer for Whole Foods Market and “an objective witness” to the fall of the they won’t be giving exams. (To learn involved in the planning process; we during that time, at age 27, enrolled Roman republic, to observe how its 500 who went where, visit www.qc.cuny.edu/ welcomed it,” observes DIIPS Executive at the University of Texas at Austin, years of grandeur unraveled. “There renovation.) Director Douglas Boettner. where his father was a beloved are always a million historical puzzles to Once construction is complete, most philosophy professor. solve,” says Mackey. Kiely emigrés are likely to return to the CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 4 Queens College ACSM Gets Key Contributions Hailed by U.S. News

Donations play an instrumental provision in her will to donate their and World Report role in improving college facilities. Steinway—a 5-foot, 7-inch Model M That is literally true for the Aaron dating to 1923—to QC. Her death Best Colleges Copland School of Music, which this year prompted the Brooks’ recently received two vintage daughter to call ACSM and request a Queens College has been recognized in Steinway pianos from people pickup in . the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World closely associated with QC. “Now, one piano is in a studio, Report Best Colleges by its appearance The first Steinway, a six- where students practice on it round on the top 10 list of Top Public Regional foot Model L made in 1935, the clock,” reports Smaldone. “The Universities–North. Other CUNY schools came from Professor Emeritus other went to a classroom to replace on this list include Baruch and Hunter. The Henry Weinberg, who had an instrument that was ready for college also enjoyed an overall 18-point rise in its category. retired to Philadelphia. “When retirement. We’ll be installing plaques U.S. News & World Report ranks nearly I’d go to visit him, I’d play his on each piano so that students and 1,400 schools nationwide in a variety of piano, and he’d casually say, faculty will know that they were gifts.” categories. “Regional universities,” like the ‘You know, we’re planning Together, the two instruments national universities, provide a full range of to donate this piano to the are worth about $35,000; equivalent undergraduate majors and master’s programs; school,’” recalls ACSM Director new models would cost a combined the difference is that the regionals offer few, Edward Smaldone. Weinberg’s $120,000. But they have a different if any, doctoral programs. The 625 regional relocation back to New York sort of value to ACSM. “The gift of universities are ranked against their peers in City this fall changed this these instruments puts us a little one of four geographic regions: north, south, casual comment into a reality, closer to achieving all-Steinway midwest, and west. and Smaldone cheerfully status,” Smaldone explains. dispatched a mover to collect “All-Steinway” status, a designation the gift. created about seven years ago, Soon after he heard from indicates that at least 90% of Weinberg, Smaldone learned the pianos used by faculty and that he was about to get a students are Steinway-made, and second Steinway, courtesy of meet standards of age and quality. Barry and Claire Brook. The “Steinway is recognized worldwide couple had been prominent as the manufacturer of the world’s in academic music: He was finest pianos,” Smaldone notes. “It the first executive officer at CUNY’s makes a strong statement about our NOTEWORTHY CONTRIBUTORS Recent donations of Steinway pianos by doctoral music program and was commitment to deliver the finest Music Professor Emeritus Henry Weinberg professor of music at QC for over education that we have set our sights (l.) and alumna Claire Brook have moved 30 years; she was a QC alumna who on providing our students with these the Copland School of Music closer to was senior music editor for W. W. excellent instruments. Over 150 being declared an all-Steinway music Norton & Company for over 25 years. program. schools worldwide are now designated Barry died in 1999 and his widow all-Steinway. We would be the first (at Smaldone’s suggestion) made CUNY school to be so designated.”

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 5 Athletics Hall of Fame Inducts Its First Members

With the college observing its 75th Anniversary on October 11, Home- coming Weekend saw the Athletics pro- gram celebrating its many achievements LOU DELUCA ’72 over those years with a dinner inaugurat- was captain and MVP ing the Queens College Athletics Hall of of the QC hockey team Fame on Saturday, October 13. and later became head MARGARET swam for the 1952 U.S. Olympic Water The college inducted nine past sports coach (1972–74). He (PEG) FRANCO Polo Team in Helsinki. In addition giants, headed by a pair of Olympians in tied for the league ’60 earned varsity to coaching his 1953–56 teams, he Gail Marquis and Robert Koehler. The scoring championship awards in field participated in the AAU Senior National other inductees were Lucille Kyvallos, as a sophomore, was in hockey, softball, Championship Outdoor and Indoor Donna Orender, Doug Ress, Lou the top five scorers as a and swimming, and Teams and the Mid-Ocean Championship DeLuca, and Margaret Franco. Robert junior and senior, and went on to play semi- served on the Inter- Team in Bermuda. He was elected to the Salmons and Guido Foglia were inducted pro hockey. Upon graduation he received collegiate Athletic U.S. Water Polo Hall of Fame in 1982. posthumously, with Salmons’ wife and the Gray Knight Award as top senior Board. At the 1959 Eastern Intercol- Foglia’s son accepting the inductions on athlete, having also played varsity baseball legiate Swimming Championships, she LUCILLE their behalf. (1968–71) and lacrosse (1972). Lou, a was first in the 100 free and helped QC KYVALLOS The event began with a cocktail hour director and head coach for the Dix Hills place second. She coached QC women’s brought the national sponsored by Doug and Amy Ress, which Mites youth hockey program he founded in basketball in 1963–64 and the women’s spotlight to women’s gave the inductees a chance to talk with 2000, still plays baseball and ice hockey. swim team in 1964–73, and was selected basketball at Queens each other as well as with past and present Coach of the Year in 1968. Peg was QC’s College. She became Knights and old friends. A buffet dinner GUIDO F. FOGLIA first female associate athletic director head coach of QC’s and induction ceremony led by master of ’43 (1922–2011) (1976–77) and served as chair of the women’s team in ceremonies Pat Hogarty ’96 followed. majored in biology Health & Physical Education Department 1968, and coached the first women’s “The induction dinner tied in nicely and chemistry at from 1989 to 1995. basketball team to be inducted into the with our Homecoming Weekend,” says Queens while playing New York City Basketball Hall of Fame: Leslie Busch, whose position as Assistant varsity and semi- ROBERT QC’s 1972–73 team . Its success opened Athletics Director for External Relations, pro basketball. After KOEHLER ’56 was the door to a Madison Square Garden includes a strong focus on alumni rela- serving in WWII, a founder of the QC appearance in 1975. A woman of vision, tions. “Friday night we had MidKnight he received a master’s in biochemistry water polo team. He Lucille was the first coach to incorporate Madness, our kickoff to the basketball from NYU and joined the QC Physical was chosen multiple aerobic conditioning and weight training season, which introduced the men’s and Education Department, teaching health and times for the Eastern into her team’s regimen. women’s teams to a large, boisterous coaching basketball, tennis, and soccer. In Collegiate Conference crowd. Our dinner was Saturday night, 1953, the first year he coached soccer, his All-Star Team and and on Sunday we had our Homecoming team made the state finals. Guido became AAU All-American Indoor Team, and soccer game.” (The Knights shut out St. department chair in the mid-1960s. was NYAC team captain in 1956. Robert CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Thomas Aquinas, 2–0.)

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 6 KIELY MAKEOVER - from page 4

Allan Ludman (SEES, GLOBE), who volunteered for permanent resettlement VISIT WWW.QC.CUNY.EDU/YOI from the Science Building, seized the YEAR OF FOR MORE DETAILS AND THE LATEST EVENTS. opportunity to purge papers. “I filled two portable plastic dumpsters with files that went back to my days as associate provost, and with ditto masters for course CALENDAR OF EVENTS materials,” says Ludman. “My secretary doesn’t know what a ditto master is.” Also on his discard pile: complimentary copies from publishers of books he never used, INDIA and, regrettably, rock samples that record 47 years of field research. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Aparajito Moving so many individuals—even The Religions of India FEBRUARY 13, 2013 those who traveled light—was complicated, admits Dave Gosine (Facilities Design, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013 Aparajito is the second film Construction, and Management), who is 12:15 PM, CAMPBELL DOME in the Apu Trilogy directed by overseeing the relocation. “We learned Will focus on Hinduism, Buddhism, acclaimed filmmaker Satyajit in spring 2012 about the availability of Islam, and Sikhism and such Ray. It follows Apu as he leaves Queens Hall, but we weren’t sure about topics as the naming of religions, home for school, experiencing the condition of the space or what would similarities and differences between the tensions between his family be left behind,” he explains. Although religions, and religious boundaries. ties and the freedoms of a world financing didn’t permit renovations, the Participants include Serinity Young in social change. Original score offices were cleaned, painted, given new and Gopal Sukhu (both of QC’s by Ravi Shankar. locks, furnished with Law School hand-me- Department of Classical, Middle downs, and connected to QC’s phone and Eastern & Asian Languages Ekdin Pratidin data hubs. “Many departments are involved & Cultures), Balbinder Bhogal A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER in the move,” adds Gosine, citing B&G’s (Hofstra University), Carla Bellamy FEBRUARY 20, 2013 (Baruch College), and Hanna Kim laborers and painters, OCT’s voice, media, This 1979 film, directed by (Adelphi University). and data teams, and the locksmith. Mrinal Sen, illuminates one day Hurricane Sandy created a new set of in the life of a lower-middle-class challenges. A power outage at the Music FILM SERIES: REPRESENTING family in Calcutta. When the Building prompted B&G to truck pianos SOUTH ASIA ON FILM daughter, whose income supports and music stands to Main Street and back (All films shown on Wednesdays at the family, fails to return home again a few days later after power was 4:30 pm in the Godwin-Ternbach from work, both anxiety and restored. Because FitzGerald Gymnasium Museum) imagination run wild. was serving as an emergency shelter [see story on page 1], Family, Nutrition, and The Cup Junoon OBSESSION Exercise Sciences was assigned temporary classrooms in Queens Hall, demonstrating FEBRUARY 6, 2013 FEBRUARY 27, 2013 its value as flex space: The property boasts Directed by Khyentse Norbu, The Shyam Benegal’s 1977 film is 25 classrooms that are being equipped Cup (1999) is based on a true story regarded as one of the best to emerge with smart technology, as well as a large concerning the efforts of young from the Parallel Cinema movement of the lecture hall and a seminar room. “That’s Tibetan monks to find a television 1970s and 1980s. It examines provocative the sweetest part of getting this building,” so they can watch World Cup soccer. issues of race, war, and colonialism concludes Gosine. “It’s a huge real estate through the lens of the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny. asset for the college.”

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 7 PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME - from page 6

A Queens Tribune story to the NYPD’s controversial stop-and- GAIL MARQUIS DOUG RESS ’76 about City Council redis- frisk practices quoted MICHAEL ’80 was a two-time was captain of the tricting quoted ANDREW KRASNER (Pol. Sci.) . . . STEVE All-American who 1975–76 QC varsity BEVERIDGE (Sociology) MALIN (Economics) was quoted in a led the QC basket- ice hockey team, . . . NICK COCH (SEES) Queens Examiner story about the appear- was much in demand for ance of “CBS Money Watch” financial ball team to post- one of the finest his hurricane expertise fol- expert Jill Schlesinger at a QC business season competition in the area at the lowing Hurricane Sandy. In forum. Her appearance was also noted and national ranking time. He finished Coch addition to appearances on by the Queens Ledger . . . The Queens for four straight his four-year the Weather Channel, WABC-TV, CNN Chronicle carried a story about 20 stu- years. She was a varsity career as News, CNN Radio, and “The Piers Mor- dents from the Aaron Copland School of member of the silver-medal 1976 USA the team’s MVP with many scoring gan Show,” he was quoted or cited in the Music working on a recording at Kaufman Women’s Olympic Basketball Team; won records, was co-recipient of QC’s 1976 New York Times (two stories), Newsday, Astoria Studios under the direction of championships in France on the regional, Scholar–Athlete Award, and became the and National Geographic News . . . DIANE MICHAEL MOSSMAN. They were Elite Division, and Cup of Europe levels; school’s first state finalist for a Rhodes COOGAN-PUSHNER (Economics) providing background and participated in the first women’s Scholarship. Since 1979 he has practiced was quoted in a TimesLedger for recordings by a num- basketball game ever played at Madison law in the Philadelphia area, and in 2007 story about the declining ber of music stars from Square Garden. After her pro-basketball was recognized as one of the Top 100 number of home fore- Germany . . . A New York days, Gail began a career on Wall Street, Attorneys in Pennsylvania—while still closures in Queens . . . Times article on the chal- but enjoyed a second career as a broadcast playing competitive ice hockey two to SUJATHA FERNANDES lenges translators face in color commentator. She is the first woman three times a week. (Sociology) was interviewed attempting to translate for two stories by Al-Jazeera humor from one lan- of color to be inducted into the New York English about the elections Mossman guage to another quoted City Basketball Hall of Fame. ROBERT Fernandes in Venezuela. In addition, ROGER SEDARAT (English) . . . ED H. (BOB) her book Close to the Edge, describing her SMALDONE (ACSM) was quoted in a DONNA SALMONS global hip-hop odyssey, was the subject of New York Times account about the Hurri- ORENDER ’78 (1918–2006) a feature-length radio documentary pro- cane Sandy-related difficulties experienced was an All-Amer- attended Murray duced by her sister Deepa, which aired in by a students from the Royal Danish ican at Queens, State University September on ABC Australia . . . FRED Academy of Music who were due to play competing on the on a football GARDAPHÉ (English) and ANTHONY at ACSM. Temporarily separated from 1975 team that scholarship. Named JULIAN TAMBURRI (Calandra Insti- their instruments and baggage, they recon- played the first-ever All-American tute) were interviewed for a program on nected with them in time to at least have women’s collegiate (basketball), All-State, and All- New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia that an outdoor rehearsal at QC, where elec- basketball game at Conference, he soon began to develop aired September 24 on Italy’s state-run tric power had yet to be restored . . . An Madison Square Garden. After gradua- his golf skills. After two years in the TV RAI program, “La Storia siamo Noi” article by JOHN TYTELL (English) about ting, Donna played for three years in the Army in WWII, Bob attended Teachers (“History Is Us”) . . . ANDREA KHALIL Jack Kerouac’s capacity for capturing the Women’s Professional Basketball League, College, earning his master’s and doctoral (Comp. Lit.) is co-author of an op-ed music of natural speech article that appeared in September in the appeared in October in the an experience that led to work in network degrees. He joined QC as a teacher and Wall Street Journal. It described the mood Chronicle of Higher Educa- TV sports at ABC and SportsChannel. coach of the basketball team and then of in Libya following the attack on the U.S. tion. His article “Hemlock Donna, who has been recognized by Fox the golf team. Later he served as liaison diplomatic mission in Benghazi. She also or Ambrosia: Writing and Sports as one of the Top Ten Most Power- for the architects that designed and built authored two articles for Jadaliyya, an Editorial Process” appeared ful Women in Sports, served for 17 years FitzGerald Gym. independent ezine produced by ASI (Arab in the fall 2012 issue of with the PGA Tour and then five years Studies Institute) . . . An Associated Press South Carolina Review. as president of the Women’s National story about growing political opposition Tytell Basketball Association.

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 8 QC Books

“Few juxtaposi- when he spent a year closely observing Rendell: Ancient Tragedy and the tions conjure as the daily activities of the city’s rats. Modern Family (Poisoned Pen Press) many mixed reac- They can be contrarian, as in Philip shows how the themes of classic Greek tions from city Lopate’s argument on behalf of cities dramas—particularly the Oresteia and dwellers . . . as the being allowed to be cities, places where Oedipus trilogies, with their tortured blatant appearance people can efficiently thrive away from personal relationships—resurface in the of ‘nature’ against nature—thus, preserving nature in its work of a mystery master with more than their urban back- natural setting. Or, post-Hurricane Sandy, 60 titles to her credit. “An illuminating drop.” This dual- they can be alarmingly prescient, as in journey that should make Rendell ism is the premise Anne Matthew’s descriptions of various devotees appreciate her even more.”— upon which JOHN “visions” for the future of New York. Her Publishers Weekly. WALDMAN “urban vision #4” depicts New York as a (Biology) edited Still coastal mega-city “profoundly altered by What could the Same Hawk: global warming . . . where officials rightly be wrong with Reflections on Nature and New York worry about the effects of giant storms.” trying to wipe ( Press), a collection of Coinciding with the publication of out a disease essays by 11 writers offering their perspec- Still the Same Hawk, Fordham University that can cause tives on the experience of nature in a total- Press has re-issued Waldman’s award- full or partial ly urban landscape—a concept Waldman winning Heartbeats in the Muck: The paralysis? explored in a conference, Why Nature History, Sea Life, and Environment of Plenty, Matters to New Yorkers, that he convened New York Harbor. It includes a new WILLIAM at QC in December 2005. epilogue which, from the perspective MURASKIN In his introduction, Waldman explains of 2012—13 years since the book’s (Urban Studies) how his own career has been shaped by the original publication and 40 years since explains dualism of his Bronx childhood: growing the enactment of the Clean Water Act— in Polio up within earshot of a busy expressway, details the continuing stages in the revival Eradication but also just a bike ride away from the of New York’s major body of water. and Its Discontents: A Historian’s Long Island Sound. The concept was most Journey Through an International famously expressed, he notes, in the recent As a professor at Public Health (Un)Civil War (Orient much-publicized account of Pale Male, the QC, BARBARA BlackSwan). In 1988, when the World Red-tail Hawk, who along with his mate FASS LEAVY Health Assembly—the governing body built a nest on the ledge of a (English) of the World Health Organization— residence near . When the concentrated on initiated the anti-polio effort, numerous Peace Signs building’s wealthy residents—distressed 19th-century diseases posed a greater threat to the Over 30 posters from the peace at the appearance of growing numbers of British literature; world’s children. Advocates’ real goal, movement to end the Vietnam rodent and pigeon carcasses—dismantled the opportunity says Muraskin, was to demonstrate War are part of the Godwin- the nest, they created a furor among city to teach courses the viability of a top-down, global Ternbach Museum exhibition, residents who had become captivated by in crime fiction eradication project. He documents how Posters as History, Politics, and Art: this wild pair. prompted her the campaign prompted tremendous Teaching with Primary Sources. The The essays that follow offer to re-examine a backlash in India and other developing exhibit, which also includes items perspectives that are scientific, historical, genre she read countries, which did not want funds from the college’s archives, is on and personal. They can be somewhat for fun. In her and attention siphoned away from more view through December 21. startling, as in Robert Sullivan’s account retirement, she has given her attention to pressing public health issues. of his “so-called journey to the dark side” a favorite writer. The Fiction of Ruth

FYI DECEMBER 2012 | 9 QC People When It Rains, The first book by al Institutes of Health for her research AMMIEL ALCALAY on “The Role of Autophagy and Ret- It Absorbs (CMAL), After Jews romer Genes in GLP-1/Notch Signaling” and Arabs: Remaking . . . MICHAEL MIRKIN (Chemistry & Queens College continues to Levantine Culture Biochemistry) was awarded a $100,000 demonstrate its commitment to (University of Min- EAGER grant by the National Science environmental preservation with nesota Press), was the Foundation to fund work on his project the recent completion of three subject of a retro- “Nanopipette-Based Immunosensor” rain gardens as pilot projects spective symposium . . . WILLIAM MURASKIN (Urban under the 2011 NYC Green in November titled Studies) was the Infrastructure Grant Program. Alcalay After Jews and Arabs: keynote speaker at Employing permeable pavers Twenty Years Later. Hosted by the the conference Un- and select trees and plantings, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies raveling and Under- these gardens annually will at Georgetown University, the confer- standing the Roles prevent some 730,000 gallons ence addressed the book’s continued of Different Bodies of stormwater runoff from entering the city’s combined relevance to regional questions of place, (Public Nationals, sewer and drainage systems. memory, and identity Internationals, NGO, (Left: Rain garden between . . . The fifth edition Private Foundations Kiely and Klapper Halls.) of A New Approach to Muraskin and the Private Sec- Sight Singing (Norton) tor) in Vaccines Deci- features chapters sion Making, which was held November written by past 26–28 at Les Pensières Annecy in the and present mem- French Alps. He spoke about “The Posi- bers of the Aaron tive and Negative Effects of Individuals IN MEMORIAM Copland School of on Making Vaccine Policy for the Devel- Music, including SOL oping World” . . . JOHN WALDMAN Smaldone NORMAN GOLDMAN Sciences in 1977, a position he held BERKOWITZ, (Biology) received the 2012 New York GABRIEL FONTRIER, LEO KRAFT, Conservation Leader Award from the Norman Goldman, a longtime member until his retirement in January 1998. He and ED SMALDONE. Also, Smal- Wildlife Conser- of the Department of Chemistry and was the guiding person and facilitator done’s recording, Rituals: Sacred and Pro- vation Society. Biochemistry, died on September 25. of the new Science Building, involved fane, is now available for downloading He also was the He was a highly respected member of with practically every detail of the from Naxos.com . . . ALICIA MELÉ- keynote speaker Queens College and the City University construction from the beginning to well NDEZ (Biology) received a three-year at a two-day for his scholarship, teaching, research, beyond the time of completion and grant worth $310,000 from the Nation- conference on Col- and administrative acumen. Goldman occupation of the building. A member laboration through received his PhD in chemistry from of Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, the New Fisheries Networks: in 1959, after York Academy of Sciences, AAAS, and Restoration of Stur- earning a BS from CCNY and an AM the American Chemical Society, he was geon and Paddlefish Waldman in chemistry from Harvard University. also a dedicated NY Giants fan for well Populations, held in He joined QC in 1961 and rose through over 50 years. Colleagues and friends August at the 2012 American Fisheries the ranks to professor in 1979. Twice remember Norman Goldman as a good Society Meeting in St. Paul, MN. elected unanimously as chair of his and honest person, generous to many department, Goldman became dean of charities, with a wry sense of humor the Division of Mathematics and Natural and an easygoing manner. Meléndez Mirkin

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the Louis Armstrong anniversary was the subject of a story in by the New York City Department of House Museum staff the Queens Ledger and Queens Gazette, Environmental Protection . . . QC’s to recapture the spirit which also reported on the QC Art selection, yet again, by U. S. News & of Christmas at home Center’s exhibition of alumni art as part World Report as one of the Top 10 Public with Louis and his of the celebration . . . QC’s screening Regional Universities–North (QC was wife Lucille—which of classic Indian films as part of its Year ninth on the list) was reported in the includes playing of mix- of India celebration was reported in Queens Chronicle . . . Plans by the Queens tapes Louis compiled the Hindustan Times, Queens Chronicle, Economic Development Corporation to of his favorite holiday and Business Standard . . . The Queens award a $5,000 entrepreneurship grant songs—was the subject Chronicle and TimesLedger featured to a QC student as part of its seventh of the “City Room” stories about the Godwin-Ternbach annual Queens StartUP! Business Plan column Dec. 5 in Museum’s exhibition of paintings by Swiss Competition were reported in the the New York Times. abstract artist H.A. SIGG, its first since Queens Courier . . . A wine-making tour of Included was a photo of renovations to the gallery space. The Israel offered by QC’s Office of Global RICKY RICCARDI, Queens Tribune and TimesLedger reported Initiatives was the subject of a story Jerry Seinfeld returned to his alma mater in October for a sold-out performance at Kupferberg Center. DAVID REESE, and GTM’s exhibition of anti-Vietnam War in Jewish Week . . . The Queens Gazette JENNIFER WALDEN posters, Posters as History, Politics and Art: and BroadwayWorld.com reported on WEPRIN decorating Teaching with Primary Sources . . . QC’s the Armstrong House Museum’s plans The return to campus of JERRY the living room with ornaments from receipt of a $1.3 million National Oceanic to hold its second annual gala . . . The SEINFELD ’76 to perform before the Armstrongs’ personal collection. and Atmospheric Administration grant to “Spare Times” column at NewYorkTimes. a sold-out audience at Colden Reese's selection as LAHM’s first curator train science teachers was reported by com noted the college’s presentation of A Auditorium—part of his series of was reported in the Queens Tribune . . . the Daily News and TimesLedger . . . The Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, playwright performances in New York’s five The Queens Gazette reported on QC’s Daily News, Queens Chronicle, TimesLedger, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of a classic boroughs—was the subject of stories in hosting of ACE Fellow HAO HUANG and NY1 featured stories about QC’s Yiddish play by S. Ansky. the Queens Tribune and Queens Courier. of Scripps College in Claremont, CA, who sustainable rain gardens project funded The Tribune subsequently reported that cited his commitment to learning how he was donating all proceeds from his institutions of higher learning promote Queens performance and two others to diversity among their students and faculty local nonprofits providing relief for victims . . . The September speaking appearance of Hurricane Sandy . . . Stories appeared at Colden Auditorium by the leader Homecooking in several media outlets concerning of Myanmar’s democracy movement, FitzGerald Gymnasium’s use as a DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI, was Homecoming Hurricane Sandy evacuation center and widely reported, including stories in Dubbed “the queen of Italian- the efforts of QC student volunteers in the New York Times (picked up abroad American cooking” by the New assisting those taking shelter there. These by The Australian and Canada’s Chronicle York Times, QC alumna chef Lidia included the Queens Gazette, Queens Herald), Agence France Press (picked up by Bastianich has built an industry Ledger, Daily News, Queens Tribune, and New the Brisbane Times), Daily News, Queens around the lessons she learned York Times. The Daily News also featured Chronicle, Queens Gazette, TimesLedger, cooking for her family while growing a story about members of the college’s and on NY1 . . . The Amsterdam News and up in Astoria. The popular TV host, Caribbean Counselor Corps, a group of Queens Tribune reported QC’s plans to author, and restaurant owner visited consulate generals representing Grenada, hold an inaugural dinner on Homecoming QC during Homecoming Weekend Haiti, Jamaica, and St. Lucia, visiting the Weekend to induct the first members and signed copies of her latest shelter and assisting in distributing into the college’s new Athletics Hall of cookbook, Lidia’s Favorites. hot meals . . . The extensive efforts of Fame . . . QC’s celebration of its 75th

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