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SUMMER 2010 MAGAZINE University VOL. XXX, NO. 3 NO. XXX, VOL. Monmouth SUMMER 2010 MAGAZINE university CommenCement shines Finding sPRingsteen bioniC men c1-48moma_sum10.indd 1 9/1/10 11:13 AM Calendar of MonmouthMAGAZINE university EVENTS SEPTEMBER 21 OCTOBER 8 Volume XXX, No. 3 AUGUST Visiting Writer Series: MIHAELA Performing Arts: FRANK Summer 2010 AUGUST 9 MOSCALIUC WARREN – SEPTEMBER 16 4:30 PM “PostSecret with The Most Paul G. Gaffney II Wilson Hall Auditorium Trusted Stranger in America” Gallery Exhibition: QUILTING President Free and open to the public Pollak Theatre - LOOKING FORWARD $20 Jeffery n. MIlls M - F 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM SEPTEMBER 23 Vice President for University Advancement Pollak Art Gallery MACE Award—NBC Nightly OCTOBER 9 Publisher Free and open to the public News’ Brian Williams The Met: Live in HD Multipurpose Activity Center DAS RHEINGOLD - Wagner MIchael sayre MaIden, Jr. SEPTEMBER (MAC) Pollak Theatre Editor 6:15 PM VIP Reception/Program 1:00 PM SEPTEMBER 7 /$75 $23 adults/$20 seniors heather Mcculloch MIstretta – OCTOBER 22 7:30 PM “An Evening with Brian OCTOBER 14 Assistant Editor Gallery Exhibition: Williams & Friends”/$25 TED HENDRICKSON For more information call 732- Kislak Real Estate Institute Golf Invitational Contributing Writers “Time in the Irish Landscape” 571-3509 M - F 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Hollywood Golf Club, Deal russell carstens '07 800 Gallery SEPTEMBER 23 10:00 AM – Registration ellIott denMan Gallery Exhibition Opening Performing Arts: LA BRUJA 12:15 – Shotgun Tee Off frank GoGol '10 September 16 4:00 PM 5:30 PM – Cocktails & Dinner susan MerrIll o’connor '88 4:30 – 5:30 PM Lecture at Wilson Woods Theatre Call 732-571-4412 for details. Hall Auditorium Free and open to the public JIM reMe OCTOBER 14 5:30 – 7:00 PM Opening University Photographer SEPTEMBER 24 Visiting Writer Series: Reception at 800 Gallery DAVID ST. JOHN Blaze nowara Free and open to the public – NOVEMBER 21 Assistant to University Photographer Gallery Exhibition: POSTSECRET 4:30 PM SEPTEMBER 7 Pollak Art Gallery Wilson Hall Auditorium desIGn of 4 – OCTOBER 15 Free and open to the public Free and open to the public Design (See Oct 8: PostSecret with Frank Gallery Exhibition: ANDREW OCTOBER 15 DEMIRJIAN: UP/DOWN/LEFT/ Warren/ $20) Sports Hall of Fame Monmouth University Magazine is RIGHT SEPTEMBER 25 Induction Dinner published by University Advancement. M - F 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Performing Arts: THE 6:30-10:30 PM Ice House Gallery TAMBURITZANS (folk dance) Wilson Hall Monmouth University Magazine Gallery Exhibition Opening 8:00 PM For more information call 400 Cedar Avenue September 23 2:00 PM (Folk Dance Workshop: 732-571-3489 West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 Lecture at Wilson Hall $10 or free with ticket) Auditorium (4:30 – 5:30 PM) Pollak Theatre OCTOBER 16 Opening Reception at Ice House how to contact us: $28 Performing Arts: SOL Y CANTO Gallery (5:30 – 7:00 PM) class notes: 8:00 PM Free and open to the public [email protected] SEPTEMBER 28 Pollak Theatre SEPTEMBER 16 Estate Planning: Cover Your Assets – 2010 OCTOBER 17-18 letters to the edItor: Alumni: Speed Networking Presenters: Children’s Theater: [email protected] 6:30 - 9:30 PM Professor Douglas Stives RUMPELSTILTSKIN Anacon A Robert Gaughran, 2:00 PM (October 17) Call 732-571-3489 for details offIce of aluMnI affaIrs The Gaughran Law Firm 10:30 AM (October 18) Marilynn Perry, Director of Alumni Affairs SEPTEMBER 16 Stuart Cox, Pollak Theatre $12 adults/$10 children [email protected] National Hispanic Heritage Neff Aguilar Law Firm 800-531-ALUM Month: DAVID GONZALEZ 6:00 – 8:00 PM OCTOBER 21 Wilson Hall 4:30 PM NT Live in HD Reservations required for free Lauren K. Woods Theatre Complicite’s “A DISAPPEARING event: call 732-263-5400 Free and open to the public NUMBER” or e-mail [email protected] SEPTEMBER 20 7:00 PM Pollak Theatre School of Social Work Golf $22 Outing Glenwood Country Club, OCTOBER Old Bridge OCTOBER 7 OCTOBER 22 11:00 AM – Registration Performing Arts: SEAN TYRRELL Performing Arts: CHAMPIONS OF 12 Noon – Shotgun Tee Off Lauren K. Woods Theatre THE DANCE General InforMatIon: 3:30 PM – Cocktails & Hors 8:00 PM 8:00 PM www.monmouth.edu d’Oeuvres $15 6:00 PM (Dance Workshop: $10 732-571-3400 Call 732-571-3543 for details. or free with ticket) Pollak Theatre Monmouth University supports equal opportunity in recruitment, $40/$35 admission, educational programs, and employment practices, and complies with all major federal and state laws and executive orders requiring equal employment opportunity and/or affirmative action. c1-48moma_sum10.indd 2 9/1/10 11:23 AM MonmouthCONTENTS UNIVERSITY FEATURES 03 3 Commencement Shines 8 The Man Behind the Jersey Shore 11 Finding Springsteen 08 17 Kislak Honors Giunco & Reinhart 25 Monmouth’s Bionic Men DEPARTMENTS 2 MailQuad 11 15 On Campus 28 Athletics 34 Alumni News 38 Hawks in Print 25 40 Class Notes ON THE COVER: Noelle McNeil, who suffered traumatic brain injury in a competitive equine show-jumping injury, and went on to write about her experiences in Heaven Exists, celebrates after earning her degree. Monmouth University Magazine (ISSN 15549143) is published four times annually by Monmouth University, periodicals postage paid at West Long Branch, NJ and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Changes of address should be mailed to: Attention: Mailing Address Changes Room 321A, Wilson Hall Monmouth University 400 Cedar Avenue West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764-1898 Copyright © 2010, Monmouth University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, duplicated, displayed, broadcast, or posted electronically via web, e-mail, or other means, or used in multi- Cert no. SW-COC-002556 media in any form, without express written permission from the Editor, Monmouth University Magazine. Calendar of MAILQUAD EVENTS post + e-MAIL + fAx + phone I read your story “Hawks on Healthcare” and I have to say: That’s all you got? OCTOBER 22-24 NOVEMBER 5 I’m a graduate of Monmouth - earned both Family Weekend Performing Arts: KT SULLIVAN & MARK NADLER BS and an MBA. I work for an international “Gershwin…Here to Stay” conglomerate that bought the small company I had OCTOBER 23 8:00 PM worked for 17 years. The Met: Live in HD 3:00 PM (Songwriting Workshop: $10 or free with In the land of the free, choices in the workplace BORIS GODUNOV - Mussorgsky ticket) and in employment opportunities are more rhetoric Pollak Theatre Pollak Theatre than reality: People are afraid to move from one job 12:00 PM $35/$30 to another (assuming they can find one) because $23 adults/$20 seniors it means interrupting their health care and with NOVEMBER 10-14, 17-20 the darn “pre-existing conditions” it can mean life OCTOBER 25 - NOVEMBER 26 Performing Arts: THE SHAPE OF THINGS and death for a loved one - literally. Gallery Exhibition: BOGDAN ACHIMESCU: ARK 8:00 PM (November 10-13, 17-20) The so-called healthcare legislation signed M - F 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM 3:00 PM (November 14) by Obama in March is nothing more than a shell Ice House Gallery Lauren K. Woods Theatre game. Most benefits don’t kick in until 2014 - many Gallery Exhibition Opening November 18 others not until 2019. If you like your current health 4:30 – 5:30 PM Lecture at Wilson Hall Auditorium NOVEMBER 11 – 13 care plan, you can keep it. If you don’t, you have to 5:30 – 7:00 PM Opening Reception at Ice House Interdisciplinary Conference on Race keep it. Gallery “Examining Race in the 21st Century” The only real answer is Universal Single Payer Free and open to the public Sponsored by Kenneth W. Hitchner III Health Care which you neglected to mention. Contact [email protected] for more Here’s a little tidbit: Late last year my husband OCTOBER 29 information went to the hospital and spent 39 hours there. The Future of the Ocean Symposium bill came to $16,808. I called to say “Hey, I have 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon NOVEMBER 13 insurance.” So the hospital said, “Yes OK we’ll wait Wilson Hall Auditorium The Met: Live in HD for your insurance company to pay.” The insurance Free and open to the public DON PASQUALE - Donizetti company paid $2,800. Pollak Theatre So here’s my question: Which was the cost of OCTOBER 30 1:00 PM my husband’s care? $16,808 or $2,800? Homecoming: Monmouth Masquerade $23 adults/$20 seniors Here’s the answer: If you can afford to buy an insurance policy (cost about $25,000 annual for NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER family), you get to pay the lower cost. If you cannot Athletics: Men’s Basketball afford health insurance, you must pay more. NOVEMBER 1 - DECEMBER 17 Monmouth vs. Stony Brook Here’s another tidbit (I did, after all, major in Gallery Exhibition: VAUNE PECK '87: NATURAL ESPN’s 24 Hours of Hoops Accounting): According to the Form 990 filed by TENDENCIES Televised live the hospital in 2008, it lost $9 million dollars that M - F 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM 6:00 AM year. But it wrote off $10 million in “un collectibles”. 800 Gallery Call (732) 263-5884 for ticket information. Then again, it paid its executive director over $3 Gallery Exhibition Opening November 4 NOVEMBER 19 million. Lecture at Wilson Hall Auditorium (4:30 – 5:30 PM) Under Universal Single Payer, the hospital Performing Arts: NEIL BERG Opening Reception at Ice House Gallery (5:30 – 7:00 would be allotted an amount to cover all operations.
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