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SPRING 1992 'cJ.. --- Closing the Gap In Health Care Springfield College April, 1992 TRIANGLE Vol. 64, No.3 Dear Alumni: I said in my Convocation speech delivered on February 7, 1992, I accept the invitation to serve as your interim president with EDITOR A humility, a strong determination and a sincere commitment to Barbara A. Campanella G'78 work closely with the Springfield College Family during this critically MANAGING EDITOR important transition period. I believe that this is a time for the College to Lee Enderlin briefly look at our past and our present, ART DIRECTOR and to evolve a vision for the future of Kelly A. Cade Springfield College. For that effort, SPORTS EDITOR we sincerely solicit your thoughts, Ken Cerino and yes, even your memories. The EDITORIAL ASSISTANT alumni can prOVide a very important Janice Zielinski we perspective and dimension as unite ALUMNI DIRECTOR to shape this future vision for the Tamie Kidess Lucey '81 is College. This a critically important ALUMNI COUNCIL PRESIDENT first step in the search process for the Sharon (Catley) Kelly '62 next president who will then provide the requisite leadership to reach our "vision of the future" for the College. Springfield College has enjoyed a long and distinguished 107 year Springfield College history educating the "total person, spirit, mind, and body in service to all Triangle people." This past wisdom of the College has established a solid base on Spring, 1992 is a publication of the which to build our future. Public Relations Office Finally, throughout this letter, I have used the term "our" with produced for the graduates of Springfield College. considerable forethought, since I am now caught up in your destiny. I do feel Please address contented, however, in knOwing that you will be with us in "spirit, mind, and correspondence to Barbara A. Campanella body" as we face the next several months. Director of Public Relations Springfield College Springfield, MA Sincerely, 01109-3797 Randolph W. Bromery Interim President © 1992 Springfield College You'll have to excuse us if it therapy from the University of sounds like one of those late night tv Pennsylvania in 1974. He now owns ads: 'Join one of the fastest growing "Physical Therapy Associates of industries in America today!" In this Delaware County," a company with case, however, the cliche happens to four outpatient offices based in be true. In fact, even the government Media, Pennsylvania. He was the agrees. A recent U.S. Department of inj~red or, in some cases, ill with seventh employee when he joined Labor survey states that the need for diseases like cerebral palsy. Our right out of UPenn; today, there are physical therapists will grow by 57% training is the same to a degree, but thirty. He bought the business in by the year 2000. we reach different populations." January, 1991, but still tries to keep "The expected need will be for Jeffrey Cadorette '72 graduated his workload split evenly between 39,000 new physical therapists," says a little too early to benefit from the clinical and administrative work. Jeanne Previty, director of SCs SC physical therapy program, but Before the SC program, Shaw physical therapy program. "We are that didn't prevent his interest in the ran a P.T. clinic for students. currently graduating about 4,000 field from beginning here. Cadorette was fascinated as a junior a year throughout the country, so we and even more as a patient a year are falling somewhat below projec­ later. "I had knee surgery as a senior, tions." Jeanne joined SC ih 1984, so I got to see it from both sides," he a year after the program started. She "Currently notes. "I volunteered to work at the became the director in 1986. clinic after my operation. I even "Currently," she notes, "SC graduates SC graduates stayed on as Professor Shaw's grad between 30 and 40 P.T. students assistant for a year. I spent a lot of a year. We have 175 currently between 30 and 40 time in his clinic and the lab." enrolled. Although we get anywhere Cadorette says that "a program from 400 to 600 applications a year, PI students we could have taken there would we're comfortable with 38-40 have been wonderful," but he notes admissions to each class." ayear.~ that even then, SC was a good place The P.T. program at Springfield for a foundation. ''The strength of the is a five-year course of studies that -JEANNE PREVITI physical education program was an results in a master's degree. "It was SCs Director of excellent background for phYSical Physical Therapy a natural fit to programs already in therapy. After I got my B.5. in place at SC," Previty explains from physical education here, I stayed on her office in the Allied Health to get my M.5. here. The only Sciences Center. "We still draw on "It was my interaction with downside to not having a P.T. classes in phys ed and movement Professor Sherrod Shaw that got me program at SC was that you had to sciences for our background, but we interested in physical therapy as a go elsewhere to get the P.T. training." have a little different emphasis. Phys career," he says. Cadorette found Two of Cadorette's offices ed deals mostly with healthy people, Shaw's work interesting enough to specialize in sports therapy and but we see them after they've been obtain a certificate in physical general orthopediC therapy. Another 3 is a hand rehab center and the fourth for St. John's Hospital in lowell, respect to geriatric clients," she says. specializes in neck and back rehab as Massachusetts. While her specialty "The great part of my time is spent well as "work reconditioning." is physical therapy, her new (she was dealing with adult and older patients. He explained that the latter is a promoted just this pastjanuary) Our service is important because we relatively new development and that position requires her to coordinate are the 'first step back' for these it entails mostly prevention. "We go occupational, speech, and physical patients. We work with them only into a worksite and do an analysis therapy via referrals from throughout for a month or less before they are of the area. Then we return to show St. Johns. Still, she provides P.T. to referred to a rehab center, go to a workers how to deal with their clients for about three-quarters of nursing home, return home to work problems and more importantly, her time. Prior to her promotion, she with their family, or they are done. how to avoid them in the future." was the hospital's director of physical At the School of Human Services, Besides its four outpatient therapy for twenty years. I came to understand the govern­ clinics, Cadorette's service also "I jOined St. John's right out of ment, financial, political, social, provides inpatient care at a local Boston University where I earned my psychological, and even the spiritual 225-bed hospital and in a skilled B.s. in Physical Therapy in 1970," issues that affect our patients in the nursing facility. These facilities she says. "I was promoted to director first steps of their rehab. The key for provide therapy to people who are of P.T. within a very short period of me was that classes were taught by too well to stay in a hospital, but still time." educators who were specialists in need a little more time for rehab Despite this lengthy back­ their fields. They provided a real before facing the challenges of living ground, Maureen returned to depth of subject matter." at home. As an example, Cadorette Springfield College's School of The demand for physical noted patients who have undergone Human Services where she earned therapists is so great that ev~n high­ a total hip or knee replacement. an M.S. in Human Services/Geron­ level adminstrators like Jeff and "Sometimes, these patients just need tology. She first learned of the School Maureen spend much of their time some specialized therapy to adjust from a police officer in Dracut where with patients. This is not a bad thing, to home conditions," Cadorette says, she lives with her husband Robert of course, but it does point out the "but there is no reason to keep them and year-old daughter Kathryn. great need for trained practitioners hospitalized because they're not She is quite enthusiastic about what in this field. In the years to come, really ill anymore." the School has to offer physical SCs young program will continue to Jeff, who lives with his wife of therapists. meet this growing exigency. one year Lisa and their four-month­ "The School's program really -by Lee Enderlin old daughter Jessica in Media, is very broadened my perspective with active in charitable organizations, particularly the local Rotary Club of which he is preSident -elect. He proudly notes that the Rotarians have programs at three levels: local, national, and international. These programs run from scholarships to park renewal and clean-up to a worldwide effort to eradicate polio by the end of the decade. He is also his class's Annual Giving Coordina­ tor at Sc. "The Humanics Philoso­ phy opened my eyes to community service," he says. "The foundations and lessons I learned at Springfield helped shape that concept of commitment. " Another SC graduate, Maureen Schaefer G'89, pursues her career in a totally different setting. She is the The director of SC's Physical Therapy program, Jeanne Previty (right), settles a patient into an director of Rehabilitation Services adjustable splint used Jor ambulation training and evaluation as students look on.

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