The Need to Know 10 | to Do: Be Nontraditional 16

SUMMER 2010

FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF ROWAN UNIVERSITY

The need to know 10 | To do: Be nontraditional 16

Summer 2010 Vol. XV, No. 2

10 features departments

COVER STORY 10 The need to know 2 From the President Dan Greenspan ’97 connects people and the cosmos 4 Campus news with curiosity and computer science by Michael Piechocki ’00 and Jack Gillespie ’63, m’69 22 Development news

16 To do: Be nontraditional 24 Welcoming the world to Rowan For these women students, age is only a number by Patricia Quigley ’78, m’03 31 Class Notes and alumni events

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Summer 2010 | 1 president’s letter Towering over is overrated nother busy Rowan boasts nationally victims. Benefit concerts Lecture Series guests summer is nearly ranked programs and for 9-11 recovery. Relief included Sea Shepherd over and it’s time internationally recognized and rebuilding projects Captain Paul Watson, Ato check our Rowan faculty and students. after Hurricane Katrina Darwinian scholar Sean construction punch list: But there’s no appeal and the Haiti earthquake. Carroll, best selling author • New student housing? or nobility if academia When people need Dava Sobel and New York Final phase of four- is isolated within its help — Rowan neighbors Times writer Gail Collins. story units is set to disciplines, or if the near or far — our campus Our colleges, departments welcome 316 more communities in an has been faithful with and student organizations students in September. ivory tower’s shadow compassionate, creative, also present experts in are overlooked or even generous service. • New university book- business, politics, literature worse, spurned. store? Barnes & Noble’s Learning that takes on a and science. With public Rowan University is biggest store in the state life outside the classroom. lectures and master classes, thriving at least in part will open this fall, right Our faculty teach subject these thoughtful people because we are devoted to here in Glassboro. matter, but they also teach stimulate discussion and being relevant to our com- social responsibility and encourage us to act. • New living-learning munities and encouraging give students opportunity residences for practical responses to Dirty hands to use their knowledge Bantivoglio Honors the needs around us, I have many more and skills to serve others. students and whether through academic examples of the relevance internationals? On the The volunteer service that programs, cocurricular Rowan teams provide is of a Rowan education than drawing board, with a and extracurricular activi- would fit on this page. As fall 2011 completion date. often truly life-changing ties or volunteerism. This and the start of a lifetime alumni, you could tell me • New private-public happens in myriad ways of service. Year-round, a thing or two about how facilities to serve the with literally thousands of scores of Rowan-based your education still helps campus and borough? our University com- projects make a difference you meet needs and serve Progress on hotel, munity. Here are just in people’s lives, including your community. (In fact, commercial and a few examples: engineering faculty and I’d be pleased if you’d residential construction students helping drill wells write to me about it.) move ahead daily. Relief efforts and community service. and build water purifica- A Rowan educa- There’s a lot going on Alumni know these tion systems, education tion should — and here as Rowan grows as a commitments well, as they students teaching adults will — inspire a life premier public university take on a different aspect to read and business of action, even if our with impressive facilities with each generation of majors assisting the elderly response is quiet, simple to accommodate our first- concerned students and prepare their tax returns. and close to home. rate scholars, programs each need presented: Programs to raise It often helps if our and research — but one Great Depression-era fund awareness and inspire hands get dirty and our thing that won’t rise in raising to keep students responses. Since the ’30s beliefs get challenged. the Rowan landscape? in school. Support for we have been privileged Of course, none of An ivory tower. American troops and their to host national and this is possible if we Relevant & responsive families through various international experts, dwell in an ivory tower. I’ve devoted my conflicts. Project Santa visionaries, leaders and professional life to higher marathons to provide great thinkers on our education. For 12 years, food, clothes and toys for campus. They engage us I’ve been honored to needy children and their with perspectives that help lead this outstanding families. Blood drives, the Rowan community to Donald J. Farish university and be part of organ donation and consider new ideas, and its evolution. Building on bone marrow registries inspire us to respond. Just a distinguished history, for disease and accident last year, our President’s

Summer 2010 | 3 campus news

Rowan welcomes Dean Katz

Before a packed house at Cooper University of Florida College of University Hospital in June, Dr. Medicine; the National Institute Paul Katz joked that he was of Allergy and Infectious Diseases enjoying one of the happiest days at the National Institutes of Health; of his life, second only to the day he the Veterans Administration married his wife, Anne-Marie. Medical Center, Gainesville, Fla.; Katz had reason to relish the day: Georgetown Medical Center; Mount he had just been introduced to a room Sinai Medical Center & Miami of Rowan and Cooper employees and Heart Institute; and the University friends as founding dean of Cooper of Miami School of Medicine. Medical School of Rowan University. As founding dean, Katz is leader “I feel enormously privileged of a first: a four-year allopathic to have this opportunity,” Katz medical school in South Jersey said. “I’m excited and enthusiastic that also is the first new medical about the journey ahead.” school in New Jersey in 30 years. He A Rowan-Cooper team selected Katz will shepherd the medical school for the post from a pool of 60 national through a rigorous accreditation and international candidates via a process, oversee completion of the search conducted by Witt/Kieffer, an Camden building that will house Illinois-based executive search firm. the program, and build the faculty Rowan President Donald Farish and staff. Cooper Medical School said, “Dr. Katz is an exceptional choice will open its doors to its first class of to develop our medical school. He 40 to 50 medical students in 2012. has an extraordinary combination of “This is going to be a medical experience in medical education and school that will educate and train in the development of a medical school. the next generation of physicians. In He offers the vision we need to put addition to training physicians who Cooper Medical School on a path to are knowledgeable and technically Dr. Paul Katz leads a team of Rowan and Cooper excellence and national prominence.” competent, we want them to embrace professionals collaborating on every aspect of the Katz brings more than 30 years all of the characteristics that each medical school. He serves as chief architect, executive of medical experience to the table, of us would want in our own family and intellectual leader of the endeavor. including his most recent post as vice physicians,” Katz said. “We want dean of Faculty and Clinical Affairs at them to be good stewards of the The Commonwealth Medical College public health. We want them to in Scranton, Pa., which opened its be committed to service. We want doors to medical students just last fall. them to respect the community in After earning his medical degree which they are going to learn.” from Georgetown University in 1973, Katz was affiliated with the

4 | Rowan Today Chaskes leads Wheelchairs for Haiti From the moment ago, is spearheading “Wheelchairs for Haiti.” he heard about the “Wheelchairs for Haiti,” The project, which has devastating, life- a movement to raise garnered support from threatening injuries funds to send durable, students and faculty suffered by the people all-terrain wheelchairs to members alike, is one of a of Haiti in the January Haitians injured in the number that were initiated earthquake, Jay Chaskes earthquake. on campus after the earth- had one thing on his The specially made quake. Rowan’s Student mind: wheelchairs. wheelchairs (www.whirl- Government Association “I heard a doctor windwheelchair.org) are established Rowan Relief, Jay Chaskes relies on a talking about blunt $220 apiece and are built which is dedicated to rais- wheelchair for mobility trauma crush injuries in developing coun- ing funds for disaster relief dances, eating contests, after nearly dying six and amputations in tries. Thus far, Chaskes, initiatives. sports tournaments and years ago. Alumni can Haiti. I thought to myself, himself a wheelchair Last semester, students even a five-hour telethon help Chaskes provide a ‘amputees.’ And then I user, has raised $5,750 raised money for on the Rowan Television chair (above) to Haiti’s thought, ‘wheelchairs,’” for the project. “Wheelchairs for Haiti” Network, which raised earthquake victims said Chaskes, a Rowan “After I got sick and after and the American Red $1,475 in a day. through his project at professor for 41 years. my long recovery, I often Cross through a host of For information on www.rowan.edu/clubs/ Chaskes, who lives in wondered why I was still initiatives, including all Rowan Relief efforts rowanrelief. a world full of possibility here. What work did I sales of “Rowan Relief” or to donate, visit after nearly dying from a have left to do? This might wristbands, benefit www.rowan.edu/clubs/ staph infection six years be it,” said Chaskes of concerts, clothing drives, rowanrelief.

New York Times writer Gail Collins regales Rowan audiences The first woman ever ap- little-known American who, in 1960, evoked “I got the reward,” women, particularly inter- pointed editor of the edito- women who worked to a scandal when she at- said Collins, author of nationally. rial page of The New York change the world. tempted to pay her boss’s five books, including “If more than 50 percent Times, Gail Collins knows They included: church parking ticket dressed in 2009’s When Everything of the work force is female, a little something about organist Elizabeth Jen- a pair of slacks; and Linda Changed: The Amaz- we still haven’t figured out groundbreaking women. nings, who, 100 years LeClair, who, after being ing Journey of American what to do with children,” But in her chat before a before Rosa Parks, inte- profiled in a 1968 New Women from 1960 to the said Collins, now a Times captive audience at Rowan grated New York City’s York Times article that fo- Present. “Women who, columnist. “That’s a huge in the spring, Collins was public transportation cused on male and female like me, came after them problem. Violence is a more eager to discuss the system; Lois Rabinowitz, students living together, got the rewards. huge problem. Women faced being banned from “From the beginning have to reach out to wom- the Barnard College snack of time, theories about en in the rest of the world. bar for rules violations. what women can’t do We will never have peace In each case, Collins told abounded. That changed until all women are raised her audience, “Nobody ever in my lifetime.” up and empowered.” said, ‘You go, girl.’” Collins did mention Collins’ Rowan visit In fact, Collins noted, some of the nation’s most was part of the President’s women who were not influential, modern-day Lecture Series, which afraid to be laughed at women, including Eleanor brings prominent speak- “led a movement that Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton ers to campus. Her talk changed the world.” And and Sandra Day O’Connor. was sponsored by the today’s women, herself in- But, she noted, there’s still Women’s and Gender After her public lecture to hundreds, Gail Collins taught cluded, reap the benefits. work to be done for today’s Studies Program. communication students in a master class filled with her insights about writing as a profession.

Summer 2010 | 5 campus news

Engineers on Wheels puts science and math education in high gear The vibrant van that engineering clinics — is Supported by Law- associate professor of me- behind other countries Rowan Engineering pro- part of Engineers on renceville-based Edison chanical engineering, and in producing engineers fessors and students drove Wheels, the College’s Venture Fund and John Issam Hafez Abi-El-Mona, and other professionals to Glassboro Intermediate latest outreach effort Martinson, managing of the teacher education in technology fields, it’s School in February trans- designed to educate K-12 partner, Engineers on department. critical we reach our youth ported the future. students about science, Wheels brings a selection These activities stimu- and introduce them to The van — decorated technology, engineering of hands-on activities to late teenagers to observe the world of engineering, with scenes from and math. students at their schools, how technology can be ap- science, technology and helping introduce some plied to improve quality of math,” she said. “It’s of them to a field of which life, said John Martinson important they learn early they’ve never heard and Jr., an investment associ- what people in these fields opening the doors to pos- ate with Edison Venture do, what they contribute sible careers in high-tech Fund. “Students begin to to their world and what areas. appreciate potential for opportunities there are in The first stop was the rewarding engineering these fields.” nearby intermediate careers,” he said. Jahan’s plan worked for school, where 55 eighth Indeed they did. Quentin Ortega. “They grade science students “It’s fun,” said eighth explained the center of learned about the physics grader Seandel Smith, 14. gravity and used physics of juggling, made lip gloss “It gives us a hands-on and math to show how and “built” bridges on lesson about engineering.” fast a pitch would go if computers. That — and more — was we played baseball on the Kauser Jahan, professor what Jahan had in mind moon,” he said. “Science Eighth grader Quentin Ortega took his classmates for a of civil & environmental when she conceived of was kind of boring before virtual ride when the Engineers on Wheels van visited engineering, spearheaded Engineers on Wheels. that, but after Engineers Glassboro Intermediate School to encourage study in Engineers on Wheels, as- “In a time when the on Wheels came, it was science, technology and math. sisted by Krishan Bhatia, United States in falling more fun.”

Ironman competition for prof, Iron Scholarship funds for students

On a refreshingly cool doing an Ironman is about Simone knows a race with her husband, students achieve their summer Sunday in Lake the journey. Race day is little something about John Jenkins. “Each dreams.” Placid, NY, Maria Simone simply a celebration of endurance—academic mile we swam, biked To contribute to the spent 13 hours, 33 minutes months of hard work— and otherwise. As an or ran was dedicated Iron Scholarship Fund, and six seconds doing both mental and physical.” undergraduate, she to raising funds for the visit Simone’s blog, something that changed While training for worked a full-time job as Iron Scholarship, to help www.runningalife.com. her life, and, she hopes, the race, Simone raised a community newspaper will help to change the money for the Iron editor to pay for her lives of some Rowan Scholarship Fund, a tuition. In graduate students as well. scholarship she founded school, she was aided by On July 25, Simone, a to assist Educational scholarship monies that communication studies Opportunity Fund/ allowed her to concentrate professor in the College Maximizing Academic fully on her studies. of Communication, Potential (EOF/MAP) She hopes the Iron competed—and students who exhibit Scholarship Fund—she triumphantly finished— what she calls “academic has raised $3,565.60 so her first-ever Ironman endurance.” far—will help make the triathlon, a 140.6-mile “The scholarship is a path a bit easier for hard- competition that included competitive award for working Rowan students. a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile college students based on “Completing the bike ride, and a full, 26- extreme financial need and Ironman was my mile marathon. solid academic standing,” dream, just as a college “I had one of the most the ebullient Simone says. education is a dream incredible days of my life,” “The scholarships will be for many,” says Simone, Communication professor Maria Simone competed in her says Simone. “But, really, applied to tuition or books.” who competed in the first Ironman race to fulfill a dream and raise funds to help students who dream of a college education.

6 | Rowan Today Facing west on Rowan Blvd., the new Barnes & Noble is just steps away from new student housing (left) at the corner of Main St. and Mullica Hill Rd. (Rt. 322). Barnes & Noble booking on November opening Students, faculty, staff and University bookstore, it project, a public-private the Borough of Glassboro than 50 percent of the neighbors will be able to will be New Jersey’s largest, partnership. A retail-and- and Rowan. cost of a new book. The browse the stacks and sip including a 6,000-square- housing hub that links the The new B&N will fea- bookstore will expand its some java in November foot Starbucks. University with historic ture some university-spe- selection of clothing and when the Barnes & Noble An easy walk from downtown Glassboro, the cific offerings, including a gift items, including the Superstore opens on anywhere on campus, Boulevard is being con- textbook rental program B&N Nook ebook reader, Rowan Boulevard. B&N is one of the anchors structed by SORA Hold- that will allow students according to general man- The official Rowan for the Rowan Boulevard ings in conjunction with to rent their texts for less ager Cosmo Olivieri.

Ed.D. program teaches more in Camden

Even after an “This is part of a Dissertations for undergraduate degree, personal challenge,” said students in the cohort will two master’s degrees Mays, a librarian/media center on action research and 20 years of school specialist at Camden’s projects—real issues hap- librarianship, Corlette Brimm Medical Arts pening in their schools. Mays m’97 thinks she has High School. “We’re all The mission for academic more to learn. really excited about this programming at the Cam- That’s why she’s one of cohort. We have a lot den campus is to impact 27 students who are part of commonalities. And the City of Camden, ac- of the first-ever cohort of there aren’t too many cording to administrators, Rowan educational leader- opportunities in academia and the doctoral students’ ship doctoral students to focus on urban research will grow out of studying on the Univer- education.” what is happening in their sity’s Camden campus. Emma Waring, who schools that needs atten- Made up mostly has served as a vice tion. Their hope is that as of teachers and principal and acting the students earn their administrators in principal at Hatch Middle doctorates, they’ll also Camden, the cohort, School, said earning help the school district. which began this fall, is her doctorate means Rowan was the first Emma Waring brings the first at Rowan to focus achieving a life-long of New Jersey’s state col- perspective from Hatch exclusively on urban goal. “This is awesome leges to offer a doctoral Middle School to her study education. Students who for our cohort to study in degree in educational in the doctoral program. complete the program Camden because of our leadership. The program will earn their Ed.D. in obligations at work, home was founded in 1997 and Educational Leadership. and in the community.” boasts 394 students.

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MBA candidates Patrick Coyle, Kevin Fallucca and Michele Sarin were among the 448 Distinguished Alumnus Marque Allen ’97 encouraged graduate students participating in Thursday’s ceremony at Wackar Stadium. new grads to say proudly as he does, “I went to Rowan!” Allen’s success as a physician helped motivate him to fund the first scholarship for the new medical school.

Degree candidates were jubilant as President Farish announced their academic programs.

A snapshot captured Commencement Day as grads lined Public relations grad Director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency up before the main ceremony on the University Green. Rebecca Timms marked Lisa Jackson spoke of urgent concerns such as the oil spill the moment with Professor in the Gulf of Mexico and encouraged new grads to ask, Larry Litwin. “How can I help?,” when they encounter challenges.

8 | Rowan Today Kristie Leonard celebrated with daughters Courtney and Sydney and Michael Phyllis Schwed rose to represent the class of 1930 and Bonkowski at Thursday evening’s Graduate Commencement for master’s and thousands responded with roaring applause . The doctoral candidates. Classes of ‘30, ‘40, ‘50 and ‘60 gathered to be honored and enjoy each other’s company throughout the day. See more photos of reunion classes on p. 30, 31 and 33.

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Celebrating 2010 Commencement comes address by David Burgin ing the Gulf of Mexico oil ried in the procession and the end and each year in mid-May and ’82, m’02 of PSEG, and clean-up, she enjoyed an preceding the students it never fails to charm undergraduates at Friday exuberant reception from expected to enroll in 2012. the beginning and thrill the graduates morning’s festivities Rowan’s environmental Local and state media and guests who converge welcomed Director of the studies graduates. paid special attention to Phyllis Schwed ’30 on the on campus to celebrate. U.S. Environmental Pro- This year the pageantry 80th anniversary of her Rowan’s newly minted tection Agency Lisa Jackson of the graduate and un- graduation and the Classes alumni totalled 2,918 and (former commissioner of dergraduate ceremonies of ’40, ’50 and ’60 enjoyed more than 12,000 family the New Jersey Depart- included Cooper Medical reunion activities (more and friends attended. ment of Environmental School of Rowan Univer- photos in Class Notes). Thursday’s Graduate Protection). Taking time sity for the first time, with ceremony featured an from her duties oversee- the CMSRU gonfalon car-

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by mike piechocki ’00 and Jack Gillespie ’63, m’69

Veryone asks fit the stereotypical image of a cloistered computer scientist. In fact, when Rowan Magazine featured questions. we all Greenspan’s work on comet research in a 1999 Do it instinctiVely, article, he described himself as an artist first, then a e scientist. “Most good science has an artistic part,” he seekinG to said. “The process of science relies on inspiration.” unDerstanD thinGs that That boundary-defying approach permeates everything he does, whether it requires sophisticated comprise our worlD. anD for computing technology or just good hiking boots. most of us, the answers we “As teachers, my parents understood that it is important to supply a kid with what he needs to develop receiVe are enouGh to satisfy his interests. We didn’t have expensive things, just our curiosity. things that developed us as people. I also learned to be intellectually resourceful, because I was constantly given the opportunity to investigate whatever I wanted, But not Dan Greenspan ’97. Starting when he was a as long as I was willing to put the work into it. Along child, his curiosity could never be satisfied. And every the way, I became a miscellaneous problem-solver. answer he received simply fueled his imagination, Whatever needed to be done, I would do it. Even inspiring him to ask even more questions. As if I didn’t know how, I would figure out how. It the child of two professors, one of them Bertram never really occurred to me to say no to anything.” Greenspan of the Rowan music department, he had access to as much knowledge as he wanted. The disCovery Channel TelesCope “The presence of books on all subjects was really It was this nurturing home environment along with what I needed,” he said. “It was like putting fertilizer his constant information-seeking and thirst to solve down for a plant. I was exposed to a wide range of problems that led him to a series of impressive— subjects, not just technical ones. When I showed an and interesting—positions. Since graduating interest or aptitude in science and technology, I was from Rowan with a degree in computer science, given books on those subjects. I still have my first Greenspan has worked for NASA and at Johns few books—on volcanoes and a college astronomy Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. textbook. I read them until they fell apart.” Today, he is a computer software engineer for Greenspan’s broad interests and skills started the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., where early and have helped him build a life that doesn’t he is helping to develop a new state-of-the-art telescope funded by Discovery Communications, owner of the Discovery Channel. the Discovery channel telescope brought Greenspan back to The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is a an interest in astronomy that he’s nurtured since childhood. he is responsible for the computing that controls hundreds $42 million project that has been in planning and of devices that run the observatory and for the software that development for roughly a decade. It is scheduled controls movement of the dome around the telescope.

summer 2010 | 11 photo courtesy of Dan Greenspan

more Than work A variety of orchestra instruments in concert is also an apt metaphor for Greenspan’s many leisure interests making for a full life. He reads constantly and omnivo- rously, loves the outdoors and takes every opportunity to hike. “I’m getting familiar with the Grand Canyon as well as more obscure but no less amazing areas around Flagstaff,” he said. “I also enjoy bicycling, and I’ve recently begun studying music again. I love to cook, and have been experimenting with different kinds of bread lately.” perched on a mesa to start operation in early 2011. Once completed, Greenspan is also an avid photographer. Despite near flagstaff, ariz., the DCT will become the fifth largest telescope having no formal training, much of his work is the Discovery channel telescope will start in the continental United States. However, its spectacular. Readers may see examples of his photos (www.dangreenspan.com/blog) exploring the heavens size is not as important as its adaptability. by visiting his blog . early next year. intriguing “This telescope is new, so it benefits from the “I owe my interest in the subject to my sister, for its technical challenges latest and greatest innovations in optics and optical Debbie,” he said. “When I was 12, we built a darkroom and potential to expand engineering,” Greenspan said. “But it is also meant to together. I’ve had a few professional gigs. That was a science, the project lured be very configurable.” nice break from my usual work.” Greenspan to northern In layman’s terms this means the DCT will be His Arizona location rules out for now another of arizona’s high forest from capable of becoming different kinds of telescopes his interests: scuba diving. Before he left the Hopkins the east coast. based on the needs of particular research projects, lab, he was accepted as a diver at the National Greenspan explained. Aquarium in Baltimore, but didn’t get the chance to “Most telescopes are not like that. Most participate. “I’ve scuba dived all over the world in 64 6f 20 45 6d 65 72 73 6e 69 6e 61 74 6f 2e 20 2d 52 6c 70 68 57 6f 77 20 69 74 73 64 65 62 6d 61 67 53 63 69 65 6e 20 64 6f 73 74 6b are built for just one purpose,” he said. “Our environments from tropical to glacial,” he said. telescope is more like a four-wheel drive. We can put the optical power where we need it to Two viTal menTors look at stars, galaxies, clouds, planets, comets Having accomplished so much in his career, or asteroids. Additionally, this telescope can be Greenspan credits much of his success to two reconfigured to use only one mirror—something professors in particular: A. Michael Berman and few telescopes can do. This reduces magnification Karen Magee-Sauer. Berman chaired Rowan’s but increases sensitivity to light, which is often computer science department and helped more important than magnification to scientists.” cultivate Greenspan’s interest in computer Greenspan’s primary responsibility is writing programming. Magee-Sauer, professor of physics the software that controls movement of the and astronomy, presented Greenspan with challenges observatory’s dome around the telescope. He also to apply his knowledge and solve problems. is writing and developing the communications “I commuted to campus and didn’t get connected to software that allows devices in the observatory to residence life or organizations the way many students communicate with each other. do. I was unfocused, not able to articulate a particular “They all need to talk to each other and they have to goal,” he said. “But I was always driven by a childlike talk to each other really fast and in synchrony, like an wonder and curiosity about the world, a fascination orchestra following a conductor,” he said. with figuring things out.”

12 | rowan today 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01100101 01111000 01100011 01101100 01110101 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110000 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01100101 01100001 01100011 01101000 His relationship with Berman started when the know whether you have enough data and can 01101001 01101110 professor overheard a conversation between Greenspan move on to the next setting or whether you need 01100111 00101110 and the department secretary about his wanting to learn to stay on and observe the target a longer.” 00100000 00101101 about computers even though he wasn’t a computer To solve their problem, Greenspan created a 01000001 01110010 science student and wasn’t taking computer science program called QuickLook, allowing Magee-Sauer 01101001 01110011 courses. Berman asked Greenspan to meet with him. and the other researchers to stop and get a quick 01110100 01101111 “And [Berman] said, ‘How would you like to idea of their data’s quality. The program proved 01110100 01101100 become our Unix system administrator?’ So he offered invaluable in 1997, when the researchers observed 01100101 me a job. I set up the student Unix network, and I was the Hale-Bopp comet from the NASA infrared kind of a pseudo staff member for several years.” telescope facility atop Hawaii’s Mount Mauna Kea. Berman, now chief information officer at Califor- His interest in this research while attending nia State University Channel Islands in Camarillo, Rowan would prove beneficial, because after Calif., saw potential in the young Greenspan that graduation, Greenspan was hired by the same would benefit from focus. research group Sauer collaborated with at NASA. “Dan has an intense curiosity about everything “Karen and Mike helped accentuate my positive around him and he is constantly learning,” said strengths…and if it were not for them, I don’t Berman. “Unfortunately, a person like that doesn’t know what I would have done,” he said. always adapt well to majors, credits, and grades, and Visiting Rowan in May, when I first started to learn about what he was doing Greenspan toured Science at Rowan, he had taken most of the hardest classes Hall with Karen Magee-Sauer. They began working together on on campus but was still years away from graduation.” comet research in the mid-90s. Guided by Berman and other faculty, Greenspan turned his attention to coursework and projects that had immediate and lasting effects. “He made the best of everything Rowan had to offer,” Berman said. “And I’m sure I’ve learned more from him than he ever learned from me.” It was also through Berman that Greenspan met Magee-Sauer, who had been collaborating with colleagues from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, studying the comet Hyakutake using a new infrared telescope. However, such infrared technology had only just been introduced, and its use in telescopes and astronomy was still in its infancy. Despite having plenty of observing time to capture data, there was no way of quickly analyzing it. “So we would collect data for comet Hyakutake… but we really would not know what we had until we got it home and analyzed it,” Magee-Sauer said. “And that is not very efficient, because when you are at the telescope you really want to

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Summer 2010 | 13 01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01110010 01110101 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101000 01101111 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101100 01100101 01100100 01100111 BiTs and ByTes Toward 01100101 00100000 BeTTer healTh 01101001 01110011 In fact, what he ended up doing was remarkable, the caloric intake necessary to rebuild tissue. 00100000 01100101 starting with health-related computing challenges “It was an experimental machine that was 01111000 01110000 for the Johns Hopkins lab in Laurel, Md. used in human trials.” Greenspan explained, 01100101 01110010 Greenspan’s work shows the vital role computer “and the last I heard, it was in use at the 01101001 01101101 scientists can have in the medical field. John Hopkins University Bayview Medical 01100101 01101110 One project was a mobile mammography clinic Center, specifically to image bedsores.” 01110100 00101110 to serve American Indians living in the area known Just before he left Johns Hopkins, Greenspan 00100000 00101101 as the Four Corners where the Arizona, New helped develop a robotic prosthetic arm as part of 01010111 01101001 Mexico, Utah and Colorado borders meet. The clinic, a project called Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009, 01101100 01101100 located in a trailer, was able to send FDA-approved which was funded by the Department of Defense 01101001 01100001 mammography images to radiologists for evaluation. Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). 01101101 00100000 “This was needed,” Greenspan explained, “because This project involved attaching a robotic 01000010 01101100 in places out there, it is common for native people arm to an amputee who had surgery to relocate 01100001 01101011 to be many hours away from a standard brick-and- into his chest muscles the nerves previously 01100101 mortar clinic. And even if they get a periodic exam, supplying his arm. The researchers then trained they are unlikely to make it back for follow-ups. him to think about moving his phantom limb. This increases the mortality rate for these women. “I got involved writing the firmware for this Bringing the clinic to them helps reduce that rate.” robot,” he said. “I was responsible for the arm’s Another of his Hopkins projects involved building wrist, tactile (touch) and some communication an infrared imager, a machine that acquired systems. That was a real career highlight. We put 3-D images of patient wounds and calculated a robotic arm on a man with no arms, attached it to his nervous system and just by thinking about it he could move the arm finely enough to build a house out of plastic cups. as part of his work at “You could actually see the muscles Johns hopkins applied twitching, and also his sensory nerves; you physics laboratory, could press on the patient’s chest and he could Greenspan conducted oceanographic surveys feel it as if you were touching his hand.” all over the world aboard The robotic arm was innovative u.s. navy p-3 aircraft and enough to interest National Geographic, sometimes took a turn in which featured the project as the the pilot’s seat. January 2010 issue’s cover story.

photo courtesy of Dan Greenspan

CoMPUtING the oPtIoNS since his start at rowan, computer science has taken Dan Greenspan around the globe and challenged him with solving complex problems that affect people’s lives and our understanding of the world. rowan’s computer science program continues to grow and develop, earning national accreditation for its undergraduate curriculum and placing alumni in research, development, education, industry and government positions. small classes with personal attention and the opportunity to innovate—two program features that ben- efited Greenspan’s education—remain hallmarks of computer science at rowan. a new, accelerated bachelor’s/master’s degree program offers more options for graduate study. for more information about rowan computer science education, research and service, visit rowan.edu/computerscience. craiG terry

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With the device, Jesse Sulivan, the first patient Dan’s talent and drive even though treated, could once again pick a key up off a tile it didn’t fit a prescribed formula. We floor, take a credit card out of his pocket and use an were determined to help him find a ATM and even play games such as Connect Four. path through Rowan and out into the “That was very inspiring work,” Greenspan world. He was the kind of student that said. “I had always wanted to do prosthetics, and you really enjoy and never forget.” I wound up doing it by accident, just because And Greenspan remains a student— I was in the right place at the right time.” though not in a classroom—ever curious, ever studying, ever exploring living on a need-To-know Basis and asking. “People, especially students, Since his first foray into computing at Rowan, are often embarrassed to ask questions because they may feel it makes them Greenspan has created technological solutions Greenspan recalls his work look ignorant.” he explained, for challenges at cosmic and microscopic on the prosthetic hand as “but I knew I was ignorant and I wanted to know levels. He was also involved in a military- some of the most rewarding the answers. So I asked the questions—and I still diplomatic initiative in Kenya to coordinate he’s ever done. national do. And I have often felt humbled. But I need to East African governments for disaster relief. Geographic featured the know the answers so badly and my curiosity is “I like the fact that I have done so many different project in January 2010. things,” he said “Life is too short and too amazing to so intense that I keep asking questions. And it’s remain restricted.” always worth the price.” Greenspan’s friend and former professor, Berman, isn’t surprised. “I and a number of others recognized

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summer 2010 | 15 For these women students, age is only a number

As the number of candles on someone’s birthday cake marks more life, it also

indicates more experience acquired, more

challenges overcome and more motiva-

tion to succeed. But the more candles on the cake, the less likely a person is to enroll

and earn a college degree. For decades, the traditional definition of a nontraditional

student was simply age: 24 years or older as a new enrollee, according to the U.S.

Department of Education. Nowadays, nontraditional students also get defined by

variables that may pose a risk to completing a degree, including their race and

gender, employment, financial status and family responsibilities.

For the four nontraditional women students on the following pages, earning a degree

from Rowan happened to be on a lifetime To Do list that includes families, careers

and dreams. Along the way, they also faced detours, setbacks, and in one case, a

fight for life.

All found opportunity, encouragement and a will to persist in their Rowan experience.

With many goals achieved and new opportunities ahead, the candles on their birthday

cakes will shine brighter than ever — and not just because there are more of them.

16 | Rowan Today Hundreds of students each week enjoy time in the library with Lisa Graham. She came to her new career after earning two degrees and a certificate as a nontraditional student.

her to up the number of classes she she wanted to have enough time at was taking, and during spring 2009 home to work with them on their she carried three of them. school assignments and whatever Graham rates her Rowan educa- else they needed to succeed. “In that tion as outstanding beginning to end. respect I continued with the jobs I Newly minted Rowan master’s grad “There were other schools, but believed were easy, with work you Lisa Graham, 45, might have done Rowan is known as the college of can put down at the end of the day. things a little differently if she had education, so why would I really Teaching requires so many hours had a chance. look around?” she said. outside the classroom,” she said. “My only regret is I waited so While here, she attended school When she became certified to long to become a teacher. Many evenings and Saturdays. teach six years ago, her girls were people are starting to think about “The good thing about Rowan is just entering college. “I just wasn’t retirement at my age,” said the first- they make it possible for people ready to do something different year teacher/librarian at Mary S. who work full time to also go to yet,” she said. Shoemaker School in Woodstown. college. My experience at Rowan Now that her daughters have She mulled that over and added, was the professors and staff were both graduated, she is ready to “Actually, most of the people I work extremely professional and friendly, begin a new career that includes with who are my age love teaching and classes were always available at teaching 25 classes a week and so much they aren’t even thinking a time when you could actually get working with 500 students. She of retiring.” to the class,” said Graham, who in teaches every student in pre- The Haddon Heights wife, particular applauded Dr. Holly Wil- kindergarten through fourth grade. mother of two and grandmother of lett and Dr. Marilyn Shontz for their “It’s hard to know everyone’s two earned an M.A. in school and continual guidance and support. names let alone their individual public librarianship in May after She never felt uncomfortable and specific needs, but I’m working receiving a B.A. in history from being a nontraditional student. on it. This year has been quite a Rutgers University in 1993 at age “The few people who were in the challenge,” she said. “I do love it. 28 and a teaching certificate from class who were my daughters’ ages It’s great. I always thought when Rutgers in 2004 at age 39. I really didn’t notice until they said I’m done raising my own children She started the master’s program ‘Well I’m only 25.’ At the master’s I could help raise other children, at Rowan in 2008, and the timing level you just seem to have a and the difference is I don’t have couldn’t have been much better. A maturity,” Graham said. to put them to bed at night and I 13-year driver for DHL Express Intl., Those daughters, now in their don’t have to pay for their college Graham was laid off in November 20s, were the main reason Graham education. I just help get them ready 2008, due to an 85-percent reduction waited to enter the education field. for college.” in workforce, she said. That enabled When her daughters were young,

Summer 2010 | 17 Determined? Without a doubt. other week, sometimes once a Divorced and with limited month,” said Falkowski. “Professor prospects at age 29, Falkowski went Zuponcic was very flexible.” to work for a Philadelphia advertis- Realizing she wasn’t getting any ing agency, starting as an assistant younger, and with the support Talk about a long ride. traffic manager and climbing her of her husband, Ronald Holman, Five days a week, winter, spring way up to senior account executive. Falkowski decided to pursue a and fall, Sharon Falkowski turns While there, she earned her GED degree. the ignition of her Chevy Impala, at age 30. She left the agency in 1991 “When I finally decided to get a hits the gas and aims for the and moved to Cape May, where she degree there really wasn’t any other Garden State Parkway… and Route went to work for the Angel of the choice. I really wanted to continue 47… and Route 55… and Route 322 Sea in the heart of the historic town. studying with her,” she said of as she travels 67 miles to attend Today, she’s the bed and breakfast Zuponcic. class five days a week. establishment’s part-time market- Commute aside, she loves Temporary destination? Wilson ing director. her time at Rowan. “Just being Hall. Five years ago, her employers surrounded by music all the time is Ultimate destination? A B.A. in gifted her with a new Yamaha amazing,” she said. “Just the sheer music with a concentration in piano. upright piano at Christmas as a number of people who are perform- The trip? A very long one in thank you for all her work. “They ing is amazing.” more ways than one. had known I had played the piano in The highlight for her so far was Sure, she has quite a hike from the past and that I always regretted performing in two Schumann/ her Cape May home to the practice not continuing it,” Falkowski said. Chopin recitals in April. “It was the rooms and classrooms in the music She decided to take lessons first time I had performed in front building. But geography doesn’t again. She scoured the Internet for of people in 42 years. It was scary, compare to chronology in this case. information about competition- but it was very exciting, too.” Falkowski just finished her winning piano students in South Falkowski plans to earn her freshman year at age 58. Jersey with the goal of scoping out degree at 60 or 61 and then possibly “I’ve always thought of myself their teachers. teach piano. as a late bloomer,” she said. “I One name kept popping up: “It’s hard work, but it feels didn’t start playing the piano until Rowan’s Professor Veda Zuponcic. doable,” she said. “I’m thrilled. I I was 13, which is very late. I was Falkowski emailed Zuponcic for love it. I love every single minute self-taught, didn’t take my first a recommendation for a teacher. I’m there. The staff, the teachers piano lessons until I was 14. When I Zuponcic in turn asked Falkowski if are just wonderful. The younger Sharon Falkowski didn’t was in high school, I really did want she would be interested in studying students and I get along well. Their come to piano as early as to explore music, but in my senior with her. They started working energy is always great. They are most serious pianists do, year I dropped out and I stopped together in 2005 on an irregular always so enthusiastic that I find it but she is making up for playing the piano.” basis that fit Falkowski’s schedule. very exciting to be around them.” lost time at Rowan. Late bloomer? Maybe. “We would have lessons every

18 | Rowan Today Having survived cancer and coping with rheumatoid arthritis, Christine Buck devotes herself to teaching health and fitness for people of all ages and abilities.

(formerly Christine Serowik-Bell). Cancer Center in Washington Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Township for male and female lymphoma just one month before patients of all ages, including some she was to begin classes, Bell, of fighting the disease and some in Voorhees, had a fight ahead of her. remission. Christine Buck juggled more than She started her studies on time Rowan was a great opportunity the average nontraditional student and had surgery in December 2003. for her at a difficult time. “I think when she came to Rowan in fall 2003. That December and January, she the experience there was very She knew it would be a lot to underwent radiation treatment. She rewarding. It was confidence build- balance the class work and the two had put off the radiation until the ing. It gave me the foundation that I kids and the house. end of the semester so as not to inter- needed to be successful. The profes- What she didn’t figure on was fere with her studies, but she became sors were extremely supportive and the cancer. very ill during treatment and lost the continue to be supportive at this A group exercise instructor at last two weeks of the semester. date,” Buck said. Virtua Health’s William G. Rohrer Faculty members were sup- She graduated in 2005, and for Center for Health Fitness in portive. Health and exercise science the last three years, she has worked Voorhees since 2002, Buck earned profs averaged the grades she had as a health and physical education a certificate in personal training earned until the time she got ill; she teacher at Camden County Techni- from Camden County College and made the dean’s list then and every cal School in Sicklerville. completed a yoga teacher-training other semester at Rowan. Now 55, she maintains strong certificate program at Our Lady of Shortly after radiation, life took contacts with a few of her health Lourdes Wellness Center in 2003. another twist. Bell developed such and exercise science professors, At the age of 48, she thought she severe rheumatoid arthritis that two of whom have helped enhance needed to further her education, so her kids had to dress her and fellow the program at Camden County she enrolled in Rowan’s health and Rowan students carried her books. Technical School. exercise science/health promotion At the end of her Rowan career, She’s also a newlywed. and fitness management program. Bell completed an internship at The And best of all: her doctors tell “I felt like I still needed to know Kennedy Health System, for which her she is cancer-free. more information, so I decided to she instituted “Well-Being Yoga for further my knowledge by getting Cancer Patients,” and she taught a degree at Rowan,” said Buck free yoga classes at the Kennedy

Summer 2010 | 19 DARIN EISENBARTH

“When I went to school the first At Rowan, Harris enjoyed group Back in her native Idaho time my intention was I was going projects and tackling a variety of as a civil engineer, to be a high school math teacher, subjects. LaDonne Harris observes but I didn’t get certified for a vari- “I really enjoyed my classes, but the Boise River, a vital ety of reasons,” she recalled. When I also enjoyed working with the part of the state’s environ- she hit the East Coast, she explored students at Rowan,” Harris said. ment, community and alternate routes to reach that goal. “I had a really good time getting to industry. After working in 2003-2004 for know the students and working Despite graduating number one the Mental Health Association collaboratively with them. I thought in the College of Engineering in Philadelphia helping clients the professors were excellent and in 2010, LaDonne Harris missed manage their money, she joined the classes were rigorous.” Commencement. Teach for America. She spent 2004 Today, she’s putting the courses It was for a good reason. to 2008 teaching at Brimm Medical and internship and work experience The Idaho engineering firm Arts High School in Camden, she gained at American Water Works that offered Harris, 29, a position where she and her husband lived, in Mt. Laurel to work as she focuses wanted the newly minted civil engi- as part of that national program on water and wastewater planning. neer on the job ASAP. With a start that places recent noncertified col- “I feel like Rowan helped prepare date of May 17 at Murray Smith and lege graduates in schools that have me. I know what I needed to know Associates outside Boise, she spent low-income, high-need students to work in the engineering field,” three and a half days — including and helps the graduates obtain their she said. Commencement day — trekking teaching certification. across the country to get to her new “I realized over the course of position. those four years that I wasn’t cer- She has no regrets. tain teaching was a long-term thing Harris, who entered the College for me, something I wanted to do of Engineering in 2008 already for 30 years. I decided it wasn’t the armed with a math degree from the best fit,” Harris said. College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, Still, she liked math and wanted spent two years at Rowan, ending to pursue a career that enabled her stay with a 3.99 gpa, member- her to serve society. Engineering ship in the Tau Beta Pi National seemed like a good fit, and she Engineering Honor Society and the entered the civil and environmental James H. Tracey scholarship award. engineering program at Rowan. She got to Rowan in a bit of a “I actually went to engineering roundabout way. An Idaho native, school to focus on water and waste- Harris got married after earning water engineering — not necessarily A bit of a nontraditionalist herself, Patricia Quigley ’78, M’03 earned her her first bachelor’s degree and glamorous but it’s something that’s master’s degree in writing at Rowan University 25 years after she earned her bachelor’s in communication. She has been an assistant director of moved in 2003 with her husband to essential,” she said. “It definitely media and public relations at the University for close to 12 years, following Philadelphia, where he had landed has an impact on people’s lives and other stints in public relations and journalism. She’s a big fan of anything a job as a public defender. quality of life.” brown and gold, especially stories about successful students of any age.

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to have the leadership and support of volunteer Rowan University board members with varied professional expertise is fortunate and prestigious affiliations. These leaders represent successful national and regional businesses and agencies and as they serve Rowan, their proficiency and perspectives benefit the University. Here, four Rowan board officers tell why they volunteer for Rowan. Their stories affirm the great value of the University—and these visionary leaders.

s a boy growing up Gruccio finds volunteering on weighty responsibility that the in Vineland, Rowan Rowan’s board of trustees to be a board takes very seriously. With University Board of very important commitment. regard to a Rowan grad or more Trustees secretary Jim “Serving on the board at Rowan importantly a current student, the

t r u s t e e s AGruccio was always impressed is an opportunity but also an board has a significant interest in

o f by the way his parents spoke of obligation. I’ve been serving on making their financial burden as people who attended Glassboro boards and involved in charitable light as possible, especially given Normal School. endeavors throughout my career, the present circumstances.”

u n i v e r s i t y b o a r d “My parents did not have the but the Rowan opportunity pre- Gruccio, who was installed on opportunity to get a college sented an intriguing one where the board in 2000, says he’s proud James J. Gruccio education and I recall from early you can make not just a difference, of the way the board has helped on that my parents would admire but a substantial difference and Rowan form a focused, business- and talk favorably about people that’s why I became involved.’’ like approach for every endeavor. they knew of who attended Gruccio lends his expertise in “If you don’t create business Glassboro Normal.” law to assist the board in many plans and business models for Encouraged to take advantage ways, in particular, serving as every new undertaking, you’ll of higher education, Gruccio the chairman of the Board’s find yourself in the throes of earned his B.S. degree from St. legal committee and budget and unexpected and unfunded Joseph’s and his law degree from finance committees. expense, which prevents you Villanova. “My siblings and I were “The board has an over-arching from operating on a good, the first ones in our family history responsibility with regard to set- businesslike basis. to complete high school and ting policy and engaging in over- “It has been a progression and college and even graduate school,’’ sight,” he said, “and it impacts I think the present members said Gruccio, the president and the daily lives of not only those of the board are all in accord managing partner of the law firm people who are employed by the with regard to the fact that the of Gruccio, Pepper, DeSanto and University but also the students University must operate in a Ruth in Vineland. He is a board who attend Rowan. solid businesslike manner having certified trial attorney, practicing “For example, when the board business plans and models for since 1963, presently concen- has to approve an increase in every undertaking. The march to trating on business litigation, tuition, however reluctantly, it excellence will be very directed business transaction and personal affects the lives of all the students and thought out.” n injury litigation. who attend the university. It’s a

22 | Rowan Today n April 29, Alyce community when presented with into schools that were affordable. Parker ’79 was recog- those opportunities.” It made me a better person as a nized at the Catholic As a member of the Rowan young college student, learning Charities’ Justice For Foundation Board and former that you can juggle your educa-

d i r e c t o r s tion and have a job to help pay for ALLO Awards ceremony where she member of the Rowan Alumni

o f received the Sister Grace Nolan Board, Parker sees the impor- tuition and books. It gives you an

Award for Social Ministry, serv- tance of the role of volunteers added driving force.” ing the cause of justice and the —not just those that give their She is impressed and delighted

f o u n db a o t a i r o d n common good in the southern time, but those who are able to with the direction the University New Jersey region. It’s the latest contribute money—as well. has taken since she last was on Alyce Parker ’79 in a number of awards that she’s “Our charge at the foundation campus as a student. received for her tremendous is to raise and manage financial “I’m extremely pleased with volunteer spirit and the good work assets for the University, thus the evolution of Rowan and what she does in the community. enabling more and more students it has meant to bring more and Parker, who was a double to afford a four-year college edu- more students onto the campus. major as an undergrad at Rowan cation, which in today’s financial I believe that we’ve evolved with (political science and communi- times is very challenging for Henry Rowan’s gift and the devel- cation), serves as the secretary of many students and their parents.” opment of the engineering school the Rowan Foundation Board. It’s Parker understands the and the donation by the Rohrer one of many organizations she struggles of students and the deli- family to establish the Rohrer serves and has served. cate balance of paying for higher College of Business. “I truly believe that volunteer- education. “We’ve been stepping up many ing is a commitment that all of “My father passed away during notches on the educational ladder us have to make,’’ said Parker, the my senior year of high school,” and it makes me proud to know vice president of public affairs for said Parker, the 2007 Distin- that our small state college is now n Harrah’s Entertainment, Atlantic guished Alumnus. “There were a major university.” City. “As we grow into our careers, financial limits and my mother we need to give back to the asked my sister and me to look

avid Burgin ’82, m’02 tive to that. People become more gives you something, you have has volunteerism sensitive in tough times.” an obligation to give back and I running through his Burgin, who joined the Alum- really wanted to get involved with blood. ni Board in 1999, is the emer- the alumni board. The nice thing

d i r e c t o r s The secretary of the Rowan gency preparedness manager for has been watching this thing over

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a l u mb n o i a r d ering the ceremony’s featured is a Rowan chemical engineer- positive things have occurred.” address. ing major on track to graduate He’s been a part of things David Burgin ’82, m’02 Giving back to the community in 2012. that are changing on the alumni is important to Burgin, a Mantua He has been affiliated with board too. Township resident who earned nearly 40 organizations as a “The alumni association has undergraduate degrees in com- volunteer, including the board of changed because we’re trying munication and education and the American Red Cross. “If you to look at the population of our an M.A. in public relations. As ever got to know my family, you’d alumni and capture that on our he grew up, his family was very find that you learn to serve and board — all the different schools, involved with volunteer fire and you try to make things better for all the different organizations. ambulance departments among the next generation.” We’re trying to make it a cross other things. “Glassboro State, then Rowan, section of the student population.” “It’s extremely important to be gave a lot to me and I thought it Burgin encourages alumni to somebody who tries to make a dif- was important that, as I estab- get involved at the University in ference in the community,” he said. lished myself, I gave back to the whatever way they can and he “I challenge our alumni and we university,” Burgin said. “I was will continue to challenge future need to challenge ourselves to give impressed when Dr. Farish came alumni just as he did at the 2010 back the day we leave Glassboro. aboard as the University’s presi- commencement. n I think you’re seeing it from this dent. He had a vision.” generation. They’re more sensi- “The feeling is, when somebody

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language skills and benefit from staff lamb stew and Mexicanlamb stew flan prepared by welcoming the world to Rowan. by by establishingby an international house presence demonstrates the growing has country stepped foot in another says Smith,people who has together, international students.by Rowan’s the following pages,the following these 11 of in which they will build in which they theirEnglish travel experiences of her own. In 2008, she traveled the intense two-week traveling course, offered a taste of different European cultures, histories and university hostedover 130 international commitment students to from abroad or befriended an international student often such authentic flavorsthat bring Chineseenjoyed dumplings, Turkish dedicated helping to them to acclimate different ‘flavor’than one’s own. And it’s students France, to Switzerland, Germany, Belgium political structures. global interest in the university. On Life more is fascinating for anyone who also soon will Rowan embark on a new writing at Rowan. She is fortunate have to had a few with Professor Denise Lemaire and a group of Rowan students much how benefit all tell we In the past academic year alone the students from 38 countries, and their whose and culture experience are a and Luxembourg. “Geography of Western Europe,” Aileen Bachant is pursuing a graduate degree in American and life higher education. to Rowan to art series • interviews by aileen bachant ’08, M’11 ’08, bachant aileen by interviews • series art P and for decades, director of Rowan’s director Rowan’s of Beginning in 1923 partnerships the with Ugandan people). most important resources for creating a both the international student and study perspective the then-rural to campus. most notably Operation with Uganda in hailed from Pennsylvania, Virginia, New teachingand research in new directions.” times also saw a greater willingness to times also saw a greater willingness to to studyto in the Garden State, but their with in more than 38 countries, including culturally diverse campus,” said Edward other countries, learning, for drive they direct contact talented with people from Forty the world was a much years later, International Center, which coordinates International Center, study. Theresimply is no for substitute scores passenger daily of trains brought Glassborostudents campus. Rowan’s to smallerplace. Opportunities for Glassboro students study to abroad opened up. The and start a school there, among other and German and abroad programs. “Rowan University has a long history international encouraging of and to supportand to education efforts abroad, welcome students from other nations Smith, associate professor French of 1963 (students raised funds send to books While most came from South a few Jersey, York andDelaware. Theydidn’tneedvisa a York Austria, Israel, Japanand South Africa. Today, this magazineToday, this reaches alumni Part one of a two- a of one Part “International students are one the of “foreign” origins brought they a different hoan nghênh benvenuto welkom vítáme tĕ bienvenido willkommen ho geldin bem-vindo لهس و ًالهأ Welcoming the world world world the the Welcoming Welcoming bienvenue Добро пожаловать dobrodošli xush kelibsiz Today 24 | Rowan Destination south Jersey: international student countries of origin 2009-2010

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ROWAN’S PASSPORT TO THE WORLD: STUDY ABROAD FivE-YEAR SNAPSHOT

YEAR NUMBER OF STUDENTS cONTiNENT 04–05 52 euRope 58.1% asia 20.7% 05–06 89 oCeania 11.3% noRtH aMeRiCa 4.1% afRiCa 2.9% 06–07 94 cOLLEgE soutH aMeRiCa 2.9% students li BeRal aRts & sCienCes 40.4% studyinG 07-08 96 eduCation 18.6% in CoMMuniCation 17.9% 08-09 104 Business 11.5% fine & peRfoRMinG aRts 7.1% 09-10 110 en GineeRinG 2.3% CountRies undeClaRed 2.3% WORTH THE TRIP: 11 STUDENT PERSPECTIVES

1 aziz atweh • lebanon 6 denzel maradza • zimbabwe M.A. in School PSychology ’08, Ed.S. ’10 B.A. in chEMicAl EnginEEring ’12 Aziz Atweh earned his Ed.S. this Spring—just Even with the rigorous academic load of a chemi- in time for his June wedding. With family in cal engineering student, Denzel Maradza finds Sicklerville and a graduate assistantship in time to help his peers as a resident assistant. the special educational services/instruction When he’s not in class or on residence hall rounds, department, he was able to live and work in New Denzel squeezes in time for his dance minor. He Jersey while studying. An honors student, Aziz fondly remembers last year’s spring concert. “I was awarded a scholarship in memory of his late had fun working with many amazing dancers,” he professor and mentor, Frank Epifanio, upon the says. “I would love to someday develop a program recommendation of faculty. “The experience was or organization enabling students from Zimba- very special for me,” Aziz says, remembering his bwe to have the same opportunities I’ve had in professor’s interest in him. engineering and dance.” 2 maria castro • ecuador 7 agustin muriago • argentina M.A. in School PSychology ’11 B.M. in PiAno PErforMAncE ’13 Maria Castro considers Rowan the best school A pianist for 10 years, Agustin Muriago describes Rowan’s performance program as “intense.” for psychology and education in the area. “My “Student recitals allow me to perform frequently. interests are in research [and] there’s a lot of Chamber music, solos...I’m constantly learning available, updated technology here. I love feeling and changing,” he says. From busy Buenos Aires, encouraged and guided by professors to learn Agustin had to adapt to the quiet of Rowan’s new theories and structures.” Learning English campus. “Now, I find it nice here,” he says. “But I as a second language, Maria appreciates the love the cities. New York and Philadelphia make Rowan community’s sensitivity to cultural differ- me feel at home.” He plans to attend graduate ences. “There’s such a variety of culture here. I’ve school, perform and someday teach. enjoyed meeting other international students.” 8 aurora musilli • italy 3 elaine espiritu • philippines B.S. in chEMiStry ’12 B.S. in nurSing ’11 A transfer from a midwestern college, Aurora On the road to her goal of becoming a certified Musilli says Rowan has a friendlier atmosphere. registered nurse anesthetist, Elaine Espiritu “It’s easy to make friends here. I like how the chose Rowan for its off-campus program, which people respect differences and diversity. It’s very allows her to earn academic credits toward her different from Rome,” she says. “Connections B.S. in nursing while working in her field at Shore with professors are much better. They remem- Memorial Hospital. “It amazes me how far I’ve ber my name and are interested in my progress.” come. Even here near the very tip of South Jersey Aurora hopes to go into nanotechnology research we are able to get our degree from Rowan Uni- and says she greatly values the labs and chemistry versity,” she said. curriculum offered at Rowan. 4 bin hu • china 9 wonhee park • south korea MBA ’11 B.S. in EconoMicS ’13 While completing course work and deciding on Hoping to launch her own company someday, a specific career path, Bin Hu is busy working for Wonhee Park chose Rowan for its academics and the College of Engineering and spending time with location. “Colleges in Korea are located in big cit- new friends. He attributes many of his new friend- ies” she says. “Rowan is close to Philadelphia and ships to the network fostered by Rowan’s Asian New York, but here on campus, it’s very beauti- Cultural Association [ACA], keeping him involved ful.” New friends and the small-town atmosphere both on and off-campus. “I enjoy study groups have Wonhee eager to return to New Jersey this with friends in ACA and the Accounting Society,” fall, but Rowan’s cultural diversity and her Dutch he says. “I had a lot of fun traveling off campus roommate have inspired her to travel more, espe- with friends to places such as New York City.” cially to Europe. 5 louisina louis • haiti julie prioux • france B.A. in MArkEting ’11 BuSinESS, ExchAngE StudEnt Louisina Louis appreciates Rowan for its small At Rowan for just one semester, Julie Prioux class sizes and personal feel. Friendly people found her experience to be very rewarding. “Here, and caring professors, she says, make Rowan I had time to study for each class, plus travel and feel much smaller. While studying marketing, experience the culture.” Living on campus, Julie found plenty of time to have fun and meet new she’s also exploring an interest in writing. “I hope people.“I made a lot of friends,” she says. “I don’t to someday write about my experiences in Haiti,” want to leave.” she says. “After graduation, I would like to bring relatives here to have opportunities like me and prashant shirodkar • india so they do not have to spend another day without M.S. in civil EnginEEring ’12 food and drinking water.” Prashant Shirodkar chose Rowan for its esteemed engineering program. As a graduate research assistant, he conducted studies on blending hot asphalt, which later won him the NJDOT Research Award. Prashant looks forward to an internship in Fort Myers, Fla. as he works toward his Ph.D. “I will be a researcher for transportation projects,” he said. Scholarship Breakfast

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Belafonte celebrates legacy and opportunities Renowned entertainer and part of civil rights history, Harry Belafonte remains a vigorous cham- pion of human rights and an international inspiration. Rowan welcomed this friend of Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at the annual January scholarship breakfast (its 24th year) that honors the slain civil rights leader and helps raise scholarship funds for aspiring students.

1. Robert Braun, Harry Belafonte, David Burgin ’82, M’02 and Christine Neely 2. Fred Madden ’80, Harry Belafonte and Sherri Garrnett 3. Chanelle Rose, Harry Belafonte and Denise Williams ’93 4. Omarey Williams ’07 and Harry Belafonte 5. Harry Belafonte and President Farish 6. Harry Belafonte and Rowan University Gospel Choir students

26 | Rowan Today As spring semester closed, friends of the University gathered at the President’s Forum reception to celebrate another academic year made more successful by their generous support of scholar- 1 2 ships and programs.

1. Dorothy Stubblebine ’80, Tony Galvin ’89, Anne Marie and Joe Bottazzi, both ’80 2. Gus and Janice Bader, both ’68 3. Natalie Neczypor ’02, Donna ’79 and Bob Hoey 4. President Farish and Robert Ahrens 5 6 5. Patricia and Thomas N. Bantivoglio 6. Lillian Putzgruber Eulo ’49 and Eleanor Haines ’49 7. Tyrone McCombs, Maia Farish, Hazel ’68 and Thomas May

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“It is remarkable that a college, just 10 years since of things in place. But having that financial backing made it a lot easier to say, ‘You know what, these companies in the area believe in its first graduating class, would be ranked in the what they’re doing so I could take that leap of faith and take a shot at this.’ ” George Lecakes ’07, m’09 and Aaron Smith top 15 in the country,’’ marveled President m’06 stayed at Rowan after earning their engineering degrees. Donald Farish during the April celebration of the Lecakes, who runs the virtual reality lab at the South Jersey Tech Park, said, “I love what I do. This is one of the few places on the East College’s decade of achievements. Coast that would allow me to develop virtual reality projects and work on new problems.” Indeed, Rowan’s College of Engineering is the course when he addressed the College in Smith, a faculty member in the civil and ranked 15th in the nation among under- April: “There’s nothing more important for environmental engineering department, said graduate engineering programs master’s the continued excellence of our country than he went to a big university as an undergrad. by U.S. News & World Report. Also, in its education and nothing’s more valuable for us “I rarely talked to a single faculty member. I “America’s Best Colleges” annual compilation, to maintain our tradition of excellence in the even had an advisor I met only once in four the magazine ranked the College’s chemical world than technical education.” years,” he said. “When I came here, I noticed engineering program second; electrical and right away the interaction with the students computer engineering, ninth and mechanical Opportunity to innovate was pretty phenomenal and I think that’s engineering, 10th. “Although we celebrate 10 years of our grad- probably the reason I’m still here now.” All 102 members of the College’s first class uates today, it’s the class of 2000 that took the received a tuition-free education courtesy major risk of coming to a new and untested Past reflections, bright future of the Partners with Rowan in Developing program,” said Shreekanth Mandayam, David Burgin ’82, m’02, is the emergency pre- Engineers (pride) 2000 Program. It united department of electrical and computer paredness manager at PSEG Nuclear’s Salem local and international companies to provide engineering chair. Civil and environmental and Hope Creek generating stations. scholarships and summer internships. The engineering program professor Kauser Jahan “We’ve created a pipeline to tap the Rowan Foundation, private donors and agreed. Jahan, who recently received the 2010 engineering graduates,” said Burgin, whose Alumni Association also provided funding. American Society for Engineering Excellence daughter Brighid ’12 is enrolled in the College. Of course none of it would’ve been possi- Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engi- “The reason we’re involved with Rowan is that ble without Henry Rowan’s historic donation. neering Education, said, “You have to be a the engineers coming out of the school are The benefactor, whose $100 million gift to the risk-taker, especially when you’re an engineer some of the best in the area.” school in the summer of 1992 changed the or innovator.” Dianne Dorland, who became dean face of the Glassboro campus, attended the Founding dean Jim Tracey came from 10 years ago, said the College has many reception and received two standing ovations. Denver for the celebration. “There’s nothing strengths and that the celebration of its first His personal philosophy guided the more important than having good faculty, decade is only the beginning. “This program creation of the school and is inscribed on a good staff and good students,” he said, “The is the most outstanding in the United States plaque in the Rowan Hall atrium: “I did not best buildings and programs in the country, as far as I’m concerned,” she said, “and it’s go into business to do things the way every- don’t work unless you have good people and only a matter of time before we climb all the one else did them. I wanted to do them better. I’m absolutely thankful for what we had here.” way to No. 1.” Every job, every concept and detail represent- Ken Gemmell ’00 made the trip from the ed a challenge to do something that had never Washington, D.C., area where he’s a radio been done before. I offer a similar challenge frequency engineer in the Land and Joint Mike Shute ’93 is a part-time sports reporter to all who enter this building. Never let the Division of Thales Communications. and copyeditor at the Courier-Post in Cherry fire within be quenched.” “It was a great opportunity,” Gemmell said. Hill. He also is a freelance statistician and crew Gratified by the result of his investment “As some of the people have said tonight, there member for sports telecasts in the Philadelphia and challenge to the nascent College of was some hesitation because there wasn’t region. A contributing editor for Rowan Today, Engineering, Rowan encouraged them to stay an accredited college and it didn’t have a lot he can be reached at [email protected].

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Helen Hearing Dyer ’40 puzzles and singing. She great grandson. She Ursula Jenau Cutter ’50 celebrated her 90th lives in Haddonfield. lives in Mullica Hill. enjoys her two grandchil- birthday last year with all dren. After a long teach- ’30s Helen F. Ryan Thomas ’40 Leroy Bright ’50, M’68 is seven of her children and ing career, her hobbies are has one daughter, three the owner and president Phyllis April Schwed ’30 their families. She is still gardening and traveling. grandchildren and two of The Land of Canaan has three sons, seven interested in crosswords, She lives in Glassboro. great-grandchildren. Cemetery in Elk Town- grandchildren and eight quilting and gardening. She lives in Salem. ship and chairperson Shirley Rita Crystal Goren ’50 great grandchildren. She Elizabeth Parvin Kooi ’40 Kathryn Frazier Zablocki ’40 of deacons at Mt. Olive taught fourth and fifth- has lived in a long-term grade and remedial read- enjoys living indepen- celebrated her 90th birth- Christian Community care facility since a ing in Pittsgrove Township dently on a resident day in January and is still Church of Glassboro. He stroke in 2007 but still from 1950 to 2008. A campus in Dunedin, active in her community. is a former Glassboro gets around in a battery- widow, she was married Fla. She celebrated She has two children and School Board member operated chair. She to her husband, Eli, for her 90th birthday in three grandchildren. She and received an award for enjoys reading and trying 31 years. She has a son 2009 with 15 family lives in Pinellas Park, being the first African- to keep up with new and a daughter and three members — four children, Fla., and would like to American elected to that discoveries, especially grandchildren. Two of her four grandchildren, hear from her classmates, board. He has served as a in science and health. grandchildren visit often and one great-grand- who can contact her teacher and counselor in at her Broomall, Pa., home. child — who came from at [email protected]. Philadelphia. A gradu- California, Colorado, ate of the Philadelphia Betty Hart Harris ’50 taught Pennsylvania, North Evening School College in New Jersey schools for ’40s Carolina and Florida. of Bible, he taught for 29 years, mostly in first four years at Manna Bible grade. A widow, she and Lola Schenck Cheney ’40 Jean Pearl Schroeder ’40 ’50s Institute in Philadelphia. her husband, Bob, were has sung in the same taught for 40 years. She Bright lives in Glassboro. married for 55 years. She church choir for 70 plus Elizabeth Beetle ’50 taught has one daughter and two has four children and years. Her small claim in Haddon Township Lois Jenkins Brown ’50 has grandchildren and has seven grandchildren. and was a teacher and one son and one daughter, been active in both her to fame is singing Bach’s Betty is very involved principal in Runnemede five grandchildren and community and church. “St. Matthew Passion” with church activities and also worked for the two great-grandchildren. She has visited most of with a chorus from and enjoys walking, water New Jersey State Depart- She is very active with the the 50 states and has vis- Philadelphia in Carnegie aerobics and square ment of Education. She ited Europe several times. Hall. Her hobbies include Rockville, Md., Senior dancing. She is also a Red volunteered at Kennedy She lives in Vineland. reading, bridge, jigsaw Center and ran the library Hat Society member. She Hospital in Stratford and for 13 years. She goes on has traveled to most of in the Gloucester Town- many center-sponsored the United States, seven ship Preschool Program trips throughout the European countries, and also worked with United States and to Australia, New Zealand, the Gloucester Township other countries. She China and many Carib- Historic Committee. She reads often, plays bridge bean locations. She lives lives in Blackwood. and collects coins. in the Stanhope home Evelyn Harris Bowen ’50 Alice MacPherson that she and her husband and her husband have two Crockford ’50 and her built when they married. sons, four grandchildren husband, Bill, have been Winifred Carryl Harris ’50 and two great-grandsons. married for 60 years. They taught first grade and She and her husband vol- have two children, four then became a stay-at- unteer their time to Meals grandchildren and two home mom. She returned on Wheels, the American Class of 1940 friends great-grandchildren. She to work as a supplemental Red Cross and Salem taught for 31 years. Alice teacher, then a preschool Helen Hearing Dyer, Helen Ryan Thomas, County Hospital. The and her husband have teacher, and until retire- Lola Schenck Cheney and Jean Schroeder came Bowens live in Pennsville. back to their alma mater for a beautiful spring day bicycled extensively ment, director of two filled with Commencement festivities, including Laura Ferral Boyd ’50 has throughout the United childcare centers. She plenty of time for reminiscing. three children, three States and Europe. They has three children, seven grandchildren and one live in Ocean City. grandchildren and three

30 | Rowan Today Edward J. Wolfe ’50 has been a widower since 2006. He has a number of clients that he provides with leadership concepts. He is active in the Lions Club and in his church. He shops, cooks and bakes. Charles “Chick” Cowell ’53 was inducted into the Buena Regional High School Hall of Fame. Cow- ell taught, coached and served as athletic director during his 35 years in the Time well spent then and now for Class of 1950 district. An outstanding Sixty years since their own graduati0n, ’50 classmates enjoyed a day on campus for Commencement festivities. football, basketball Seated: Lois Jenkins Brown, Jesse Leroy Bright, Ed Wolfe, Beth Smith Littleton. Standing: Evelyn Harris Bowen, Laura Ferral Boyd, and baseball player, he Winifred Carryl Harris, Betty Hart Harris, Marilyn Campbell Plasket, Carl Wilson, Rachel Deacon Stanger, Arlene Drake Measley, was inducted into the Elaine Albertson Lewis, Marion Johnson White, Ursula Jenau Cutter, Alice MacPherson Crockford and Elizabeth Beetle. Glassboro State College Hall of Fame in 1992. He Irene ’67, M’69, great-granddaughters. the Magic Mountain ski three grandchildren. He wife, Doris, will celebrate and his wife, She enjoys gardening, area. She retired to Grand volunteers for Gift of Life, their 63rd wedding live in Haines City. Fla. attending Tai Chi classes Junction, Colo., in 1993 Philabundance and IHOC, anniversary in December. Nancy Hyland Foltz, and reading. She lives and continues Elderhostel which works with home- They have two children, Dorothy Leslie Gernon, in Pompton Plains. trips both domestic and less men. He is also church four grandchildren and Mary Carstens Locken- Jere LeChette foreign. She became an treasurer and gardens one great-grandchild. meyer and Marie Greco Humphreville ’50 was aide at a local elementary when time permits. The The Venellas reside in Bartow, all ’55 met in married for 57 years to school, arranges flowers Millers live in Deptford. Newport News, Va. February at the Bartow for a hospice and helps her late husband, Charles. Marilyn Campbell Plasket ’50, Marion Johnson White ’50 is home in Boca Raton, Fla. with the Grand Junction She has four children and who lives in Salem, has a Harrison Township Symphony Guild. five grandchildren. Two of three daughters, six Historical Society her daughters are Rowan Arlene Drake Measley ’50 grandchildren and one Executive Board member. graduates. She taught and her husband, John, great-grandchild. She She lives in Sewell. 60s in Franklinville and have three children and is still interested in the Carl Wilson ’50 and his Clayton. After earning a six grandchildren who Heritage Glass Museum. wife, Dorothy, have been Dorothy Richardson special education degree, live near their Little Lois Polhemus Sandford ’50 married for 62 years. They Abbitt ’60 lives in Dover, she taught in Harrison Silver home so they get married her husband, Joe, have three daughters, two Del., with her husband, Township Elementary to see them often. They right after graduation. grandchildren and two Simpson “Skip” Abbitt. School. She retired in have been traveling to They have four children. great-grandchildren. He They have three children 1986 and enjoys spending their favorite places. Both She taught for 20 years taught and was a principal and five grandchildren. time with family and have joined exercise and has been retired in in New Castle, Del. He She operates a travel busi- friends and traveling. She groups. Arlene belongs Sarasota, Fla., for 24 years. was an elementary school ness, teaches music to two lives in Mullica Hill. to a card club and She plays golf, tennis and principal in Mount Pleas- choirs and teaches begin- volunteers at the town Beth Smith Littleton ’50 bridge and enjoys water- ant, Del., and supervised ner piano lessons. She and library. She meets three taught in New Jersey color paintings and travel. special education for her husband are involved for seven years. During high school friends yearly. all elementary students in church activities. She Rachel Deacon Stanger ’50 summers she visited Harold Miller ’50 was the in that district and two has visited England, has five children and five youth hostels, traveling Cinnaminson Middle neighboring districts. He Germany, France and grandchildren. She enjoys by bicycle. One year she School principal for was a Delaware Associa- Mexico and has trav- line dancing and knitting taught in Germany, with 20 years and the Cin- tion of Elementary School eled extensively in the scarves for women at a American Dependent naminson High School Principals member for 27 United States. During her shelter. She also volun- Schools. She relocated vice principal for five years and held every posi- career, she was a teacher, teers at the Red Cross. to Londonderry, Vt., in years. He owns Miller tion in that group. He has educational consultant, a She lives in Millville. 1962 with her husband Transportation/School Bus been a travel agent and middle and high school and two daughters, where Co. Dr. Miller and his wife, Rocco Venella ’50 spent tour director for the past principal and worked they built and operated Jean, have been married 31 years as a teacher and 27 years. He and his wife for the New Jersey State Blue Gentian Lodge in for 58 years and have principal. He and his reside in Hockessin, Del. Department of Education.

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with her husband. She Ivory Melvin Buck Jr. ’60 Conn. and retired in 1999 writes poetry, fiction and and his wife, Ernestine, from the Wilton, Conn., plays and her work has have one daughter, one schools. Her community been published. She and son and one grandson. Dr. activities include library her family enjoy travel Buck, who was a longtime volunteer, garden club, and spend summers at GSC administrator, church lector and leader their Sea Isle City home. received a doctorate of the library book group. from Virginia University Her hobbies include Barbara Carson Brick ’60, in Lynchburg, Va., that travel, three book groups, who lives in Danville, recognized his accom- hiking and baking. She Calif., works for the plishments, commitment lives in Madison, Conn. Contra Costa County ’55 foursome gets warm welcome in Florida and concern for the Library System. She Patricia Estrada Cook ’60 Marie Greco Bartow (second from left) hosted welfare of others. In 1997, volunteers two days a worked for 41 years in classmates Nancy Hyland Foltz, Dorothy Leslie Ebony Magazine selected week at the local middle Camden as a teacher, Gernon and Mary Carstens Lockenmeyer at her him as one of the most school library, serves on assistant librarian, admin- home in February. influential black men in the Board of Education istrative assistant, vice America for the years 1997 Facilities Committee principal and principal. and 1998. In addition to Elaine Doherty Ansink ’60 Mary Ella Fisher of San Ramon Valley She earned a master’s receiving a GSC Distin- has four children. She is Bergmann ’60 retired and teaches Sunday degree and administra- guished Alumni award, a realtor at The Roarke after 33 years teaching in school at the Methodist tion certification from he has received numerous Agency in Bridgeton New Jersey and Mas- Church. She enjoys Rutgers University and awards of distinction and also substitutes at sachusetts. Her husband, reading and gardening. also took postgraduate from corporate, civic and Bridgeton High School. an ex-Navy man, is also courses at Glassboro. John Brill ’60, M’66 and his fraternal organizations. She taught for four a retired educator. They She has a son, five wife have been married A 33rd degree Mason, years at the Seabrook have two children and grandchildren and three for over 55 years. They he was grand master of School in Upper two grandchildren. They godchildren. In February, have three children, eight Prince Hall Freemasons Deerfield Township. like to travel and are very she received the Camden grandchildren and two in New Jersey and served interested in history and County 2010 African Harriett Reardon Bailey ’60 great-grandchildren. as imperial potentate of reading. She is a church American Living Legend taught for 27 years in He taught for 10 years the international Prince choir member. The Berg- Torchbearer Award. She is Ocean City. In 1985, she in Toms River. He was Hall Shriners. The Bucks manns live in Bridgeton. president of Eta Chapter married George E. Bailey a principal in Dover, live in Easton, Md. of the National Sorority of Jr., who was superinten- Julia Bodnar ’60 has three Del., Pine Grove, Pa., Rita Morey Cavagnaro ’60 Phi Delta Kappa, treasurer dent of the Cape May daughters and nine and Dover, Pa., in York and her husband, Larry, of Planned Parenthood County Special Services grandchildren. She enjoys County. After retiring, have been married for of Southern New Jersey School District. They built traveling, gardening, he worked for one and 48 years and have one and a Camden County a home in Ocean View reading, walking and half years filling in son. She retired in 1998 Cultural and Heritage in 1986 and both retired spending time with her as a temporary high after teaching for 38 years Commission Board of in 1987. They took many grandchildren and friends. school and middle at Buena Regional. She Trustees member. Her cruises and had some She lives in Vineland. school principal and a and her husband have hobbies are reading wonderful trips together superintendent. When Antoinette “Toni” Libro enjoyed traveling to mystery books and until his death in 2000. he finally retired, he Braca ’60, who earned Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, completing word puzzles. She often vacations at her moved back to Pine a Ph.D. at New York Alaska and the Caribbean. She lives in Pennsauken. Bermuda time-share each Grove. He and his University, enjoyed a They live in Vineland spring and fall. She enjoys wife enjoy traveling. Carmen Dolores Alvarez 35-year career at GSC/ but spend winters in gardening and working Crooks ’60, who has lived Rowan as a professor Maria Spinnato Bruge ’60 Pompano Beach, Fla. and worked in Heidelberg, in her greenhouse. and dean until retiring was married 44 years to Cindy Seidner Chase ’60 Germany, for 33 years, is Margaret Green Becker ’60 in 2002. After retirement, Larry Bruge Sr. ’61. She retired after teaching for principal of Mark Twain taught for 25 years at she was an adjunct profes- has two children and 32 years and is now enjoy- Elementary School, a Vineland High School, sor in the Rowan English four granddaughters. ing her six grandchildren. Department of Defense 13 years as the English department for five years. She retired from Cherry She lives in Rockaway. school for children department chairperson. In 2007, she and her Hill Schools as a reading of military personnel She was married for husband, Louis, moved to specialist and for nine Patricia Vaccarelli stationed overseas. She almost 50 years before St. Augustine, Fla., where years after retirement, Chmielewski ’60 has been has two children. becoming a grandmother. they spend the winter she operated a consulting married for 49 years and In retirement, she is and where she occasion- business conducting she and her husband have Shirley A. Borrell Deal ’60 active in the Cumberland ally teaches at Flagler teacher workshops. She two sons and five grand- has two children and five County Retired Educators College there. She and her volunteers as an ESL children. She earned a grandchildren. She taught Association and also trav- husband have a daughter tutor and enjoys going to master’s degree at Fairfield in seven New Jersey els. She lives in Vineland. who lives in North Jersey the theatre and reading. University in Fairfield, elementary schools for

32 | Rowan Today approximately 15 years. Claude DiGenova ’60 four grandchildren. She instruction in Vineland. children and seven She also was an assistant taught for three years taught for 31 years. Following retirement, grandchildren. She editor, training coordina- in Keyport and Atlantic he served as executive taught several grades in Marian Crosset DuBois ’60 tor and public relations City. After pursuing director of the New Jersey Beaumont, Texas, and taught for 25 years in assistant for Bechtel Con- graduate studies at the Association of Supervi- served as director of a Woodlynne. She has been struction Co. and a public University of New Mexico, sion and Curriculum church preschool. She married for 45 years and utilities buyer for PECO. he taught at Gloucester Development. He has also worked interviewing has two daughters, two Her hobbies are traveling, City High School before coauthored numerous abused children so they granddaughters and one church ministries, activi- moving to the Camden books, curriculum guides would not have to testify grandson. She is active in ties at the Senior Citizen County Vocational- and was a New Jersey in court. She has served church activities and is a Club and serving on the Technical Schools. He Commission on Holo- on church, school and member of the Camden Haddonfield High School became the coordinator caust Education member museum boards and the County Retired Educa- Women’s Luncheons and of curriculum and for 28 years. He is chair- United Way and works tors Association and the Reunion committees. instruction and retired man and cofounder of with an after-school Audubon Historic Society. She lives in Thorofare. as assistant principal of the Cumberland County program for children the schools’ Pennsauken She lives in Audubon. Sonia Moscicki DeCencio ’60 Coalition in Holocaust 6-15. Her husband’s job Campus in 1999. He and Genocide Education. taught in Camden for Richard Flaim ’60 retired in took the family to France, enjoys reading, music, He lives in Vineland four years. In 1972, she 1999 after a 39-year career Ohio and Texas, where travel and spending time with his wife, Arleen. returned to teaching as a teacher, department they live in Wimberly, a with his grandchildren. at the Camden County chairman, supervisor Jo Ann Woods Gartside ’60 small town on the Blanco He lives in Atco. Youth Center and spent of social studies and and her husband, Steve, River. They enjoy golf the next 26 years there as Patricia Mercer DiLauro ’60 assistant superintendent have been married for and travel frequently to a teacher and principal. has three children and of curriculum and 50 years and have three visit family members. She earned a master’s degree in criminal justice 1 2 from Nova University and an administrative certification from Rowan. From 1985 until 1999, she traveled throughout the country training teachers and corrections staff in law-related education. She retired in 1999. Since 2000 she has served on the executive board of the Gloucester 3 4 County Youth Services Commission. She has one son, one daughter and six grandchildren. She likes to read, cook and spend time with friends. She lives in Turnersville. Anna F. Diamente ’60, who taught fourth grade at Conerly Road School in Franklin Township, Somerset County, 5 Class of 1960 Reunion Weekend retired in July after Classmates enjoyed a weekend of activities. teaching for 50 years. 1. Elsie Tatarko McKenzie, Patricia Vaccarelli Chmielewski, Roseann Manganello Walls and Elsie Durst Taylor Frances A. Diamente ’60, 2. Harriet Reardon Bailey, Maria Spinnato Bruge, Elaine a second-grade teacher Conte Pittaro, Claude DiGenova, Tom Wriggins, Toni at MacAfee Road School Libro, Helen Pederson Norton and Bob Norton in Franklin Township, 3. Richard Trent, Peter Dowling, David Sagers, Claude retired this year after DiGenova, Eugene Keyek and Tom Walls teaching for 50 years in 4. William Williams the Franklin Township/ 5. Dorothy Richardson Abbitt and Skip Abbitt Somerset County area.

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Mariella Holton Gosnell ’60 worked for Penn Literacy He retired in 1996 after 1 taught kindergarten for Network in staff develop- 36 years of teaching at one year in Upper Deer- ment and teacher training. various grade levels in field Township. At the end She is children authors’ Salem, East Orange and of that year, she married chairperson at the Col- Fort Lee. The family an Army officer and they lingswood Book Festival. lives in Vienna, Maine. lived in Germany, for She and her husband, Mary Ellen Lewis ’60 lives three years. They have Neil Hobbs-Fernie, have in Paris and spends lived all over the country been married for 49 years summers in Tucson, Ariz. and retired to Hawthorne, and have four children Fla. She had a massive and nine grandchildren. Barbara Canzanese stroke in 1998 that left her She enjoys traveling Long ’60, who has been widowed for eight years, paralyzed on the right and spending time with 2 side, so she can write only her family. The family has six children and on a computer. With her lives in Collingswood. 14 grandchildren. She taught for 21 years in husband’s help, she has Carol A. Nygaard been able to continue two kindergarten through Jorgensen ’60 and her of her hobbies — cooking fourth grade and has been husband, Keith, have and creative writing. an educational consultant been married for almost for Harcourt School Eugene Hawn ’60 retired 50 years. They have Publishers for 15 years. from teaching after two children and four She is active in her parish, 30 years at Southern grandchildren. She travels extensively and Regional in Manahawkin. earned a master’s degree has taken part in several He owned and was in teaching but retrained community theatre shows. captain of the “Barbara and became an executive She lives in Marlton. Brown & Gold Gridiron Club golfs for football Ann” charter fishing boat coordinator at the largest Football fans golfed at the annual June fundraiser. for 18 years. He has child welfare agency in Elsie Helen Tatarko 1. Brett Schmidlin, Tim Hershey, Ernie D’Ambrosio and McKenzie ’60 three children and five New England. She enjoys and her Dave Wirth, all ’84 Joel McKenzie grandchildren. His needlework and reading. husband, 2. Pete Westhead ’83, Bruce Lewandowski ’85, Terry hobbies include fishing, She and her husband ’60 have been married McGovern ’85 and Jack Schneider ’83 hunting and golf. He live in Westwood, Mass. for 50 years and have lives in Port Republic. four daughters and nine Eugene Keyek ’60 earned cottage on the Maine apparatus manufacturer. grandchildren. Both Etta Jane Wigglesworth a master’s degree and a coast. She lives in Atco. He remained with the are retired and enjoy Heiser ’60 retired in 1997 doctorate in education at firm until 1979, when he spending time with their Marilyn J. Centimole after working 25 years in Rutgers University. He left to found Scientific grandchildren and travel- Nardoza ’60 earned a mas- the office of the Glouces- taught, was a principal Marketing Services, a ing. They live in Wayne. ter’s degree with honors ter County clerk, the last and superintendent and high tech advertising/ from Kean University. She nine as deputy clerk. She an administrator at the Betty Williams McNair ’60 marketing agency that and her husband have has three children and New Jersey School Boards and her husband, Jack, has an extensive national three children and three nine grandchildren. She Association. He was also have been married and international client grandsons. Her husband is active in the Harrison an associate professor for 48 years. They have base. He remains active carves decorative decoys Township Historical at Rutgers, Camden, one daughter and one with the firm. In 2002, and she paints them. Her Society and the Friends and associate executive grandchild. She retired she and her husband hobbies are gardening of the Gloucester County director of the New Jersey after teaching in Trenton established the Helen and and genealogy. The Library System and is School Business Admin- for 30 plus years. She Robert Norton Founda- family lives in Holmdel. as organist for the early istrators Association. He is a Trenton Alumni tion for Excellence in the church service. She and his wife, Sue, have Chapter Delta Sigma Helen Pederson Norton ’60 Study of Literature at enjoys vacationing in been married for 51 years Theta Sorority member. married Robert Norton ’60. Rowan University. The Ocean City, visiting and have three children She and her husband They have three children. foundation helps bring relatives in Alabama and and six grandchildren. live in Bordentown. She taught in Hammon- leading authors to the traveling and socializing He enjoys reading, Carol Tomassone Melevin ton for three years but University to provide with college friends. She cruising, wine tasting ’60, M’65 began her career left to raise her children. enrichment experiences lives in Mullica Hill. and traveling. He and his as a teacher in Glassboro. In 1976, she returned primarily to those pursu- wife live in Haddonfield. Sidra Fulk Hobbs-Fernie ’60 She taught in Winslow to teaching at Buena ing an English major. She taught in Somerdale in Donald Lehman ’60 and Township and retired Regional and retired in and her husband enjoy the early 1960s and retired his wife, Jean, have been in 1993. She enjoys 1999. Robert also began traveling and divide their from the Collingswood married for 43 years. reading and traveling, teaching in Hammonton time between residences School District in 1977. They have three sons especially cruises and but left in 1962 to join in Landisville, Sea Isle From 2001 to 2005, she and six grandchildren. summer visits to her a Vineland laboratory- City and Cape Coral, Fla.

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Edward Oehlers ’60, M’64 University baseball taught in Gloucester coach for 35 years, have Sadak honored for making the call Township for four years, two children and six was an elementary school grandchildren. She taught principal in Pennsauken high school English for Township for 23 years 30 years in Trenton and and was a central office Hamilton. She coached administrator there for girls’ basketball and six years. He retired in softball. The Pittaros 1993. He was president enjoy traveling and golf. of the Camden County They live in Hamilton. Elementary School Elsie MacBride Polsenski ’60 Principals Association. married in 1965 and He served in the Coast has three children and Guard Reserve from three grandchildren. 1961 to 1969. He was an She taught in Berlin Elk Township School from 1960 to 1968 Board member for 10 and in Laurel Springs years, two as president, from 1984 to 2002. Her and served on the Elk hobbies are extensive Township Committee traveling and reading. and Planning Board for She lives in Stratford. six years. He is an elder and deacon at his church. George Robbins ’60 is hen it comes to getting Presentation” category for his He and his wife, Sara, retired and lives in the recognized for a job well work with the Blue Rocks from the live in the Monroeville small town of Newton in W done, there’s nothing Delaware Press Association. And he house where he was born the Piney Woods region like getting accolades from your earned a second-place award in “Best and continue to operate of East Texas. He has an peers. After all, they’re the ones who Television Presentation” for his call the family farm. His acre of land filled with understand your work best. of the first regular season football hobbies include model old trees and plants of all John Sadak ’00, m’03, director of game between the University of railroading, antique cars, sizes and descriptions. broadcasting and media relations Delaware and Delaware State last fall gardening and traveling. He has seven dogs. for the Wilmington Blue Rocks Class on the SportsFever TV Network. Elizabeth Hannen Olier David Sagers ’60 is A baseball team, was named the “Getting awards like these ’60 and her husband, married to Peggy Delaware Sportscaster of the Year reinforces that the work you’re doing Frank, have been married Clayton whom he met by Delaware’s arm of the National is being respected by others and for 47 years. They have at Glassboro State. They Sportscasters and Sportswriters that you’re improving with each one daughter and two have three children, six Association earlier this year. successive level,” Sadak said. “This granddaughters. She grandchildren, and four The award puts Sadak in a select is definitely a next step for me. I taught in Carlstadt and great-grandchildren. group, because the organization would like, eventually — to reach the Garfield for 34 years He taught in Deptford before retiring in 1995. Township until retiring picks recipients from among highest goal — to call major league She is president of in 1990 and operated a hundreds of sportswriters and baseball or pro basketball or major Covered Bridge Squares landscaping business recognizes only one winner from college sports.” of Nutley and was vice for the next 10 years. each state and one national winner. Sadak credits the start he got at president of the New The family moved to “It’s one thing to receive an award Rowan for his success. Jersey State Square Dance Cape May in 1982. He is from an entity of outsiders who “I looked at Rowan, with a radio/TV/ Council for several involved in gardening, examined your work, but it’s another film program that had a little more years. She is a member traveling, church, city thing for your peers to honor you,’’ than 200 total students, I thought of the Irish-American activities and the Coast said Sadak, who handles the team’s that my odds of being successful Association, Women’s Guard Auxiliary. play-by-play on 1290 WWTX-AM. there were better and I’d get more Auxiliary Post 493, Young Virginia Mullin Salvatore ’60 “For the other announcers who are on-mic time and get it quicker than at Heart, West End Divas has been married to her members in the state of Delaware to at some of the bigger schools and and Senior Volunteers. husband, Vincent, for She and her husband vote and say that for that year, they universities that are known for their 32 years and has four moved to Brodheadsville, thought I did the best work, it really broadcasting departments.’’ children, four stepchil- Pa., in 2000 and spend dren and 10 grandchildren. means a lot.’’ Sadak was right, with experience winters in Greenville, S.C. Sadak also recently picked up a in college that made a difference. It She taught for one year Elaine Conte Pittaro ’60 in Washington Township first-place honor in the “Best Radio was — and is — a good call for Sadak. and her husband, Sonny, before becoming a stay-at- who was the Rider home mom for 14 years. In

36 | Rowan Today 1978, she began working as Elsie Durst Taylor ’60 and church work, reading, Ann Elizabeth Maillet English and eventually, an executive secretary for her husband have two handwork and commu- Thomas ’60, who is a elementary grades. While Anthony J. Jannetti Inc, a daughters and three nity activities, espe- widow, has one daughter in Maryland, she earned publishing firm in Pitman. grandsons. After teaching cially working with the and two grandchildren. a master’s degree in The family lives in Pitman. for 31 years, she took early intellectually challenged. She taught at the Vineland perceptual learning at the Mary Margaret Backenson retirement and moved to The family likes to travel, Home for Girls for five University of Maryland. Sheppard ’60, M’70 spent Spring Hill, Fla., where especially to Europe. As years and then moved to She also worked with gift- her entire 39-year career she became a tax profes- a leukemia patient and a Montgomery County, Md., ed students and trained in Bridgeton. She taught sional with H&R Block. uterine cancer survivor, where she taught students in visual literacy at the for 10 years before earn- Eventually, she became an she is grateful for her with learning disabilities, Hirshhorn Museum. She ing a master’s degree and office manager. She enjoys faith, family and friends. junior and high school retired in 1995. She and becoming the district’s first learning disability 1 2 teacher/consultant, a post she held until retiring in 1999. She and her husband, Ken, have been married for 40 years. They have two sons. Mary Beth Muller Smith ’60 and her husband, Richard, married in 1961. They have three children and five grandchildren. She began her teaching 3 4 career in Haddonfield and after raising her children, returned to teaching in Haddonfield and retired in 1995. She became a volunteer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and gives tours of seven historic homes in Fairmount Park. She also works with a group that makes quilts for 5 6 foster children and leads a group at her church that makes prayer shawls. A book club, bridge group, and season tickets to the ballet and orchestra keep her mentally and culturally involved. She and her husband travel and spend time with their children and grandchildren at their North Beach Always a good day for golf 7 home, where they have Grads and friends met at the Atlantic City Country spent summers since 1976. Club to benefit the Harris and Collard scholarships. They live in Cherry Hill. 1. Rob Lewandowski ’94 and Lou Butler ’92 2. Scott Newman, Frank Wilson, Bob Ahrens, Mike McIlvaine Sandra Ortlieb 3. Don Farish, Bob Hoey, Jerry Lombard and David Schultz Stammerjohann ’60 is 4. Jeff Perkins, Dolly Harris ’62, James Pharazyn, Daniel Perkins 5. Gus Bader ’68, Mike Kell, Carmen Mitcho and retired from teaching John Mazzei ’69, m’80 and has two children and 6. Tim Little ’79, Chip Smith, Steve Laughlin and Gary Moore ’79 four grandchildren. Her 7. Joseph Mendoker, Chris Shearn ’96, Frank Razzano Jr. hobby is square dancing. and John Razzano She lives in Mullica Hill.

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1 2 her husband, Sam, had two homes in Maryland. They moved to Matlacha, Fla., where she lives, and her husband died three years later. She dabbles in oils and watercolors, plays duplicate bridge and tends a large garden filled with fruits and flowers. Her favorite exercise is water aerobics and she is also active in the local Elk 3 4 and Moose organizations. She welcomes company and can be contacted at [email protected]. Dick Trent ’60 taught at a Bergen County junior high school and at a regional high school and was the faculty advisor to the student newspapers in both schools. After 5 6 earning a master’s degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, he moved to Baltimore County, Md., where he was an administrator at a local community college. He retired after 30 years. He and his wife live in Frankviille, Md. They have two daughters and four grandchildren. He enjoys the freedom 7 8 to read without inter- ruption and to travel as frequently as possible. Clare Vignola ’60, M’65 and her husband, Joe, have two daughters and two grandsons. She earned her master’s degree while working at the J. Harvey Rogers Elementary School in Glassboro. After her husband was transferred Annual Comedy Night sells out in Student 5. Joe and Tiffany Fortunato ’04, Amanda DeValerio ’00 to Illinois, she became Center’s Chamberlain Ballroom and Carl Cox a guidance counselor at Laugh meisters Dena Blizzard ’94 and John 6. Mike Cunningham, Rosalie Perrone Hamilton ’74, m’79 Geneva High School and and Renee Wickersty ’00, m’06 McMenamin ’85 turned Rowan into comedy central. retired from there in 1987. 7. Zora Dees-Brown ’95, d’05, Elise Sadler-Williams ’98, She enjoys volunteering 1. Steve Petroza, Chuck Unger ’96, Linda Kleinschmidt Betsy Martin Surplus m’77, d’05, Jerry Escher, at senior groups, teach- and Meg Knorr Unger ’73 Chrissy Closson and Liz Haws ’98, e’01 ing ballroom and line 2. Linda ’00 and Charles Deal ’99, Amanda Coombs ’99 8. John McMenamin ’85, Chris Tomaino ’83, Pete Reilly ’84, dancing and oil and and Kevin Shimp ’96, Christine ’93 and Steve Shimp Brian Koelbel ’83, Jim Lovegrove ’82, Tracy Ryan, watercolor painting. She 3. Howard and Kathy Pedrick ’69, Jean ’72 and Ron Moore ’66 John Genitempo ’84, Andrea Koelbel Brennan ’87 has won eight medals 4. Dena Blizzard ’94 and John McMenamin ’85 and LuAnn Lovegrove in the Florida Senior

38 | Rowan Today William Williams Jr. ’60 Olympics. She and her a regional vice president. 1 husband divide their time opened Clearview He has received several between their homes Regional High School and awards and special in St. Charles, Ill., and taught at Williamstown recognition from the Port Charlotte, Fla. High School. He earned Exchange Club and from several Bridgeton Olga Gural Walker ’60 an elementary certifica- organizations. His taught elementary school tion and retired from service to the community for a few years and then the New Jersey State includes terms as raised three children. Department of Education. chairman of the local Following her husband’s He lives in Franklinville. chapter of the National death in 1982, she contin- Mary Clarizo Windisch ’60 Conference of Christians ued running their mailing taught in Mays Landing and Jews and of the list business and sporting for a year and then 2 Cumberland County goods distribution service moved to New York Heart Association. He for 23 years. She retired City’s West Village to and his wife, Agnes, in 2005 and moved to pursue acting lessons. live in Millville and Mooresville, N.C. She is She married, had a keep busy helping to enjoying her retirement daughter and returned raise a granddaughter. by participating in activi- to teaching English ties at the senior center. at Atlantic City High Pauline Schneider ’65, a Roseann Manganelli School. Eventually, she partner in the Washing- Walls ’60 and her husband, moved back to New York, ton, D.C., office of law Thomas J. Walls, ’60, have relocated to Key West, firm Orrick, Herrington been married for 49 years. Fla., and worked at a & Sutcliffe, and a Rowan They have two children library in the Commu- University Foundation 3 and three grandchildren. nity College of Key West. Board member, was one She earned a master’s She met her husband, of only two recipients of degree in elementary Bob, while living in Key the 14th annual Justice education from The Col- West. She has been living Potter Stewart Award lege of New Jersey and has in Ocala, Fla., for 10 years from the Council for certifications in principal and is close to her grand- Court Excellence. The and supervisor, reading daughter. She has been award recognized and associate media. She a Pentecostal Church her for her decades of taught basic skills at the member for 25 years. service to improve the elementary, middle, junior She likes to read, watch administration of justice and high school levels old movies and keep through her leadership for 32 years and retired in touch with lifelong roles in the DC Office 4 in 2000. Thomas taught friends from Glassboro. of Intergovernmental in Trenton while taking Relations, the White Thomas Wriggins ’60 has House Office of Inter- classes at then-Trenton two grandchildren. He State College to become governmental Affairs, was an administrator at the DC Bar and the a teacher-counselor and Rowan and retired in then a counselor in the Federal Law Enforcement 1992. He lives in Pitman. Vocational Division of Nominating Commission. Trenton High School. Robert L. Sharp ’61, who The Council for Court He joined the Mercer earned a master’s degree Excellence is a non- County Vocational-Tech- at the University of profit, nonpartisan civic nical Schools staff in 1972, Delaware, spent 34 years organization that works earned a master’s degree as a teacher, assistant to improve the adminis- Ask someone who knows at Rutgers University and principal and principal tration of justice in local Alumni came back to campus for the annual Ask became a principal at at Bridgeton Senior High and federal courts and An Alum career event. Grads respresented dozens the school. He retired as School. The high school’s related federal agencies. of professions and answered students’ queries about director of instruction and auditorium is named Milton Fredericks ’68 life on the job. special projects in 1999 in his honor. After he retired in 1994 after after 39 years in education. retired in 1995, he served teaching for 34 years 1. Rory Thomas ’80 fields marketing questions He and Roseann enjoy as interim administrator at Kingsway Regional 2. Timothy J. Mello ’03 manned the law table dancing and have traveled at several South Jersey High School. For 25 of 3. Gina Lemanowicz ’03, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, Charles to most of the states and to school districts. He is an those years, he coached Pusloski ’07, Joe Maimone ’01 and Tyree Morton several foreign countries. Exchange Club member various sports teams. He 4. Albert Mortka ’78 advised about business prospects They live in Hamilton. who served the group as works as a lay minister

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of congregational care and at Music Educators at the Presbyterian National Conference Church in Woodbury, ’70s conventions. He also He and his wife, Rose, serves on an advisory live in Clarksboro. Joe Akinskas ’70, M’73 is board of the Haddonfield assistant principal for Symphony and the review Steven Bell M’69, M’73, a fine, performing and panel for Imag’nation psychology professor at applied arts and music awards presented by the Berry College in Mount program coordinator in Lincoln Center Institute Berry, Ga., received a Cherry Hill. He is also for the Arts in Education. Rotary International the founding director of Joseph R. Kornicke ’70, University teaching the Cumberland County who earned a music grant that allowed him College jazz band and composition master’s to spend the 2010 spring wind symphony. He is Seems like yesterday for Servinos degree at the University semester on a sabbatical an adjunct professor On their first date on March 8, 1974,Carol Salva ’75 in Palestine working of music education at of Pennsylvania, studying and her future husband, Jim Servino’78, went to for the Holy Child Rutgers University and with George Rochberg hear singer, guitarist and songwriter Michael Program. The program past president of the New and Pulitzer Prize winner Johnson at a GSC coffeehouse. The Servinos held aids children who suffer Jersey Music Educa- George Crumb, enjoys a 36-year reunion when they met Johnson after from mental health issues tors Association and retirement and continues his March 6 performance in Boulder City, Nev. and trauma caused by the New Jersey Music to compose music and play the clarinet and the many conflicts in Administrators Associa- Cape Community past eight years. Glen and piano. Joseph and his that area. Bell earned a tion. Over the past four College’s first President’s his wife, Betty, have been wife, Wanda, have Ph.D. at the University years, he has presented Distinguished Alumni married for 36 years and two children, Karla of Georgia and has done at the European Music Award at the college’s have three children and and Graham, and two postdoctoral studies at Educators conventions Commencement in May. triplet grandchildren. grandchildren. They live Johns Hopkins University. in Italy and Germany; The award recognizes in Waynesboro, Va. Alyce Parker ’74 received an ACCC graduate The Sister Grace Nolan Robert Marshall ’72 is who has demonstrated Award for Social Ministry a senior vice president professional, personal, Pitch a winner in April from Catholic at Salmon Ventures, a public or community- Charities, Diocese of Millville-based firm based accomplishments. Camden. The award that provides national Janice earned a recognized her support consulting services to doctorate in educational of many people and utilities, government leadership from Nova agencies in South Jersey, agencies, school districts, Southeastern University. such as hospitals, youth trade organizations, She taught in Linwood organizations and and businesses. Before and Northfield, was a government agencies, joining Salmon, Marshall Northfield Community and her devotion to held several management School principal and Catholic Charities’ positions — including taught at Atlantic Cape, mission of service to regional vice president University of Phoenix, over 40,000 individuals arry Josephs ’76 and Jay Gould ’01 for government and The Richard Stockton and families. Parker is judged the finals of Rowan’s department external affairs — during College of New Jersey vice president of public of management’s 2010 Elevator Pitch a 33-year career with and Rutgers University. L affairs for Harrah’s Contest, which gives contestants two minutes Atlantic City Electric. Glen Osborn ’74 is Entertainment. Marshall also chaired to persuade people to invest in their idea president of China the New Jersey Utilities Nancy Kitchenman for a product, service or project. This year’s Outreach Ministries, Association government Karsner ’75, M’90 retired contest saw 10 finalists chosen from among a Christian nonprofit affairs committee. He after teaching gifted 83 contestants. The winner, Robert Boka, a organization in earned an MBA at and talented students junior MIS major, will attend the November Mechanicsburg, Pa. The Monmouth University for 27 years in Voorhees 2010 National Conference of the Collegiate organization seeks to and is a 2005 Leadership Township schools. She is reach the people of China Entrepreneurs Organization in Chicago, where New Jersey graduate. enjoying her new home by contacting Chinese he will compete in the national Elevator Pitch Marshall and his wife, in Ocean City and likes scholars at various U.S. Contest, which offers prizes of up to $2,500 for Pat, live in Linwood. to travel and recently universities. The ministry the best pitch. Gould is the owner of Gamers visited Spain. She has Janice DeCicco Fipp, ’73, also sponsors daily radio Media and Josephs is the National Accounts two grandchildren. M’76, superintendent of broadcasts to China. The Manager of SOLO luggage company. the Northfield School Rev. Osborn has headed Carol Salva Servino ’75 District, received Atlantic the organization for the and her husband, Jim

40 | Rowan Today Servino’78, went on their based in Hillside, is one son, and the family they have two daughters. Association of Black first date in 1974 to hear enjoys skiing and hiking. the largest food bank Arleen G. Richards ’83 is Journalists and Alpha Michael Johnson at a in New Jersey and the Carol Solowey representing the New Kappa Alpha Sorority. GSC coffeehouse and second largest in the Wasserman ’80 is director Jersey Sand Hill Band She lives in Deptford. attended a Johnson con- nation. Before joining the of software development of Lenape and Cherokee Thomas Traub ’84 has cert 36 later (see photo FoodBank staff, Barham, at COA Network Inc. Indians in a historically been the choir director at on page 40). Jim is the who has a master’s degree in Piscataway. She is significant suit against Lenape High School in general manager at 970 in business administra- also a flutist with the the State of New Jersey, Medford for 14 years. He is KNUU-AM in Las Vegas. tion from the University Greater Shore Concert several New Jersey also an adjunct instructor Carol is a Ph.D. student of Phoenix, was director Band and the Festive counties, former Gov. in Rowan’s music depart- in the public affairs of marketing and Flutes, both of which Jon Corzine and former ment where he teaches program at the Univer- public relations at Shore perform throughout government officials. The audio recording. During sity of Nevada, Las Vegas, Memorial Hospital in Monmouth County. She suit claims violation of the 2010 spring semester, and teaches online for Somers Point. She and and her husband, Paul, a 1758 treaty and seeks he was part of a team that the university’s School her husband, Russell, have been married for return of reservation taught signals, systems of Environmental and have three sons and live 26 years and have two land and remuneration. and music, a new course in Public Affairs. The couple, in Upper Township. daughters. She invites The case has been the School of Engineering. who reside in Nevada, friends to contact her at reviewed by the United He and his wife, Debbie, celebrated their 35th [email protected]. Nations and submitted live in Williamstown wedding anniversary in to the U.S. departments and have two daughters. May. They have two sons Grace Roth Beebe ’83 is of State and Justice. and five grandchildren. ’80s the gift planning admin- William J. Labbree Jr. ’86, istrator in the Office of Melanie L. Burney ’84 Barbara Leobold von ABR, CRS, GRI, was Susan Moore Antolini ’80 Institutional Advance- was inducted into the dem Hagen ’76 named Businessperson of has two is an Air Force Band ment at Drexel University Bordentown Regional daughters. Barbara is the Year by the Gloucester of Liberty member in Philadelphia. She has High School Alumni City Business Association. a speech and language stationed near Boston. worked in nonprofit Academic Hall of Fame, pathologist in the Bill is a broker at Labbree Antolini, who has been fund-raising manage- the first inductee from the Realty in Gloucester City. Hawthorne schools. playing in Air Force ment for more than 25 school’s 1980 class. Burney, Deirdre K. Nelson ’86 Margie Bowen Barham ’79 bands for 25 years, years and was previously a Philadelphia Inquirer is a is executive director of plays the French horn employed at the Delaware editorial writer, joined the certified image consultant/ the Community Food- and is the band’s first Community Founda- editorial board in January confidence coach who Bank of New Jersey’s sergeant. She also plays tion and Winterthur 2008. after covering specializes in building southern branch in Egg on the Air Force Divas Museum. She resides in education at the Inquirer confidence through Harbor Township. The soccer team. She and her Wilmington, Del., with for eight years. She is a presentation skills Community FoodBank, husband, Brent, have her husband, Fred, and member of the National training and self-discovery techniques. Nelson, who 1 2 earned a master’s degree at Strayer University, taught speech communication courses for five years as an adjunct professor at Camden County College in Blackwood. Her business website is confidencebydesign.com. Antoinette Wilson ’87, M’98 (Alpha Kappa Alpha) earned a doctorate 3 Flyers fun for all in industrial and orga- Grads and guests from North and South Jersey nizational psychology enjoyed the January hockey match when the Flyers from Capella University. topped the Devils 3-2. Kevin Kitchenman M’88 is 1. Pat Mischler ’06 and Thomas Cassidy ’07 the new West Deptford 2. Stella Comarmond, Robert Frost, Ozlem Ozkok M’09 Township superintendent. and Murat Ozkok He earned a bachelor’s 3. Nicole Galvin ’08, M’09, Cindy Lewandowski ’08 and degree in secondary Rosemary Braude ’08, M’09 education from West Chester State College. He taught social studies, class notes

1 2 of Emily Linnie. Sheila is director of the Seymour Public Library District in Auburn, N.Y. Michael K. Doheny ’94 is the choral music director at Winslow Township High School in Atco and is pursuing a choral conducting master’s degree at Rowan. He was the South Jersey Choral 3 Rowan roots for Sixers Directors Association Philadelphia hosted the Dallas Mavericks and president from 2005 Rowan alumni in January when grads and friends to 2009 and is the gathered for the game. membership chair of the New Jersey division 1. Catherine Sampson ’99, Roscoe Sampson, of the American Choral Dayton Cooper, ’75 and Bernie Cooper Directors Association. 2. Ryan Matejka ’07 and Jessica Gross ’08 3. Donna Jeffreys, Briana Lockman, He has performed in Jasmine Johnson ’09 and Raymond Johnson over 50 community and semiprofessional plays and musicals in South Jersey. His voice-over work includes was a middle school and ranks the world’s Brian Daniel ’92 and University and was being the announcer assistant principal, vice best lawyers based on his wife, Denise, live admitted to the New on Gail Kasper’s 2009 principal and principal. criteria most valued in Bellevue, Ohio. Jersey bar in 2009. She CD, “Live Your Powerful He became the Clearview by clients, such as has worked in politics, Claudia Abate ’93, founder Life.” He and his wife, Regional High School technical knowledge, operated a writing and of the Foundation for Post Jessica, have one son principal in 2005 and business acumen, prompt public relations company Conflict Development, and live in Wenonah. delivery and value for has been the West received the Global and taught at the high cost. Jones practices in Wendy Lathrope ’94, M’00 Deptford High School Citizenship Award for school and community the Atlantic City office earned a special education principal since 2008. Leadership in Helping college level. She also of Fox Rothschild LLP. master’s degree from Humanity from Orphans is the founder and Phoenix’s Grand Canyon Mary Duffy ’91 was named International Worldwide. editor in chief of MP University in 2009 and the 2010 NJ School The award was based on Journal, an international, teaches special education Psychologist of the Year her personal and global peer-reviewed, feminist ’90s in Phoenix. She lives in by the NJ Association of commitment to humanity. academic journal. Scottsdale, Ariz. Oliver C. Hubbard Jr. ’90 School Psychologists. The Foundation for Post Richard Keegan ’93 Larry Ryback ’94 is a research analyst Jennifer Webb McRae ’91 Conflict Development, received three is senior vice president for Plainfield-based (Alpha Kappa Alpha) is which is associated with prestigious educational of operations at e-Quality Productions, the Cumberland County the United Nations administration awards Kona Grill Inc. which produces television prosecutor, the first Department of Public in 2008: Assistant programs highlighting black female ever to Information, assists Principal of the Year Kathy Yurkonis Bell ’95 and persons with disabilities hold the position. Before countries with essential from the National husband, Jim, announce and their activities in New being appointed to this reconstruction projects Association of Secondary the Sept. 21, 2009, birth Jersey. He also works position by former Gov. following internal School Principals; of Julianne. She joined with the Union County Jon Corzine, she was conflicts. Orphans Visionary Leader of Charlie, 5. Kathy is Board of Elections. a public defender and International Worldwide the Year from the New director of internal Marie J. Jones ’90 received private defense attorney. operates in Asia, Africa Jersey Principals and communications at and the Americas with Supervisors Association the distinguished Lisa Rochman Mechanick ’91 NJ American Water in the motto “Raising and Outstanding School Voorhees. The family Chambers USA and and her husband, Glenn, Global Citizens.” Administrator of the Year lives in Laurel Springs. Chambers Global announce the Dec. 9, from Burlington County. “Leaders in Law” ranking 2009, birth of Alana Lynda L. Hinkle ’93, M’03 Stacy Quinn ’95, public for her work in the Anna Aaryn. They reside has opened a family and Sheila Anderson affairs director for Swiss “Gaming and Gambling” in Livingston and invite education law practice Mikkelson ’93 and her pharmaceutical firm category. The Chambers friends to contact them in Marlton. She earned husband, Rolf, announce Roche at its Belleville organization identifies at [email protected]. her law degree at Rutgers the Nov. 11, 2009, birth location, was honored

42 | Rowan Today Leaving a legacy

Thank you, Mr. Mullen, for your kindness. I will do my best to fulfill my dreams of becoming a teacher, and I plan to give to others as you have, by creating my own scholarship for students.

Caroline Fricke ’11 Elementary Education/American Studies 2010-2011 recipient of the Isaac T. and Anna B. Mullen Scholarship established by Whitney P. Mullen ’51

Learn how you can fulfill dreams and inspire a new generation through a planned gift to Rowan.

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Collen LaRose ’96, M’97 has launched Femme- Zabelski sings the blues to counsel kids Speak! an online and print magazine in Lindsey Sowers Zabelski ’00, M’03 Lehigh Valley and found that her renditions of the Bucks County, Pa. Beatles and Bob Dylan were no Mark Violi ’96 has owned longer working in her counseling and operated Web Hound sessions with students. So to Studios, a print/web regain her audience, she took design firm in Hamilton, up the guitar and sang the “Bad since 1999. He also has a Manners Blues,” one of several second career, appearing songs she has composed. as an actor and model in “Every school counseling television and film and on program has a character education the stage. He also writes component. I just wanted to catch screenplays, and his stage children’s imaginations in a differ- drama, “Roebling, The ent way,” she said. Story of the Brooklyn For Zabelski, the counselor at Bridge,” was performed Smithville Elementary school in to sold-out crowds. He Galloway Township, singing songs lives in Hamilton with about etiquette, cleanliness and his wife, Jacquelyn, truth-telling instills valuable lessons and two children. that students rarely absorb as well Zabelski’s approach aims to give songs based on the principles in lecture form. Inspiration for her teachers the opportunity to relax their mother started learning John Cherubini II ’97 has songs comes from a list of students’ and have fun with students. while a Rowan student. published his first novel, problems and issues that teachers “As soon as they see that “They had you do fieldwork Deirdre, the Wanderer (A Modern Picaresque). spot in the classroom. guitar and hear the song, they immediately, which put you in Cherubini began writing “A child will actually come and come sit by me and sing out a direct contact with students the book long before ask for a song — they know that I loud,” she said. “There’s just and other teachers,” she said. graduation from Rowan. will try my best to help them out in something magical about music “Seeing that relationship early everyday life,” she said. that captures attention.” The book is available in your education — the ups Confident that her songs could Songs like “Help, I’m a Little on Amazon.com and and downs, the face to face work outside of her school, Zabelski, Smelly” and “Rise Above the through Kindle e-text. challenges and the impact along with her husband, Brad, and Test” may sound silly, she said, teachers can have on students’ Kellyn Wagner Muller ’97 their band, Chasing Bluebirds, put but those words manage to is an attorney in Cozen lives — greatly affects the kind of together the CD “Songs with Char- resonate a powerful message. O’Connor’s Cherry Hill educator you are going to be.” acter.” The CD comes with a manual “After I would go in (the class- office working in the She has signed a contract of activities and worksheets teachers room) with a song, I would hear global insurance group. with Guidance Group, a national can use to reinforce the concepts. kids singing songs in the hallway Muller, who earned her publishing organization that “It’s something educational, and cafeteria,” she said. “All of a law degree with honors specializes in catalogs with not just entertaining. I wanted sudden they got it and applied (the in 2002 at Rutgers to be able to teach this to other lessons) to real life.” resources for educators; her first University School of Law educators,” she said. “When you Zabelski’s children — Ava, 5, CD and manual will appear in in Camden, has written have a ready-made lesson plan, it and 3-year-old twins, Ben and several fall issues. She is working several articles for the is so much easier.” Charlie — help her compose on “Songs with Character 2.” Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal. She has spoken at various as a 2010 Rising Star named public affairs the use of classical guitars Assembly Majority trade organization by the Healthcare director in 2008. and ukuleles and a guitar Office. He earned a meetings on property lab in the school district Businesswomen’s Tom Amoriello ’96 teaches public affairs and politics insurance coverage issues. Association. The award music program. He and master’s degree from general music and guitar Thomas E. Rome ’97 is a his wife, Christina, live recognizes women at Reading-Flemington the Bloustein School director of photography in Mantua Township. whose outstanding Intermediate School in at Rutgers University for one of three Major accomplishments Flemington. His classes Christopher Jones ’96 is in 2001, where he was League Baseball make a difference in were featured on the a legislative agent in the named both a Martin Productions crews the industry. Quinn NJN Public Television’s GluckWalrath law firm in and a Raimondo fellow that shoot films used joined Roche in 2005 “Classroom CloseUp” Trenton. Before joining at the Eagleton Institute to create an annual as a communications program in a segment that the firm, he worked for of Politics. He resides World Series film. The specialist and was showed how he initiated the New Jersey General in Delran Township. 2009 Phillies-Yankees

44 | Rowan Today Pavlou ‘03, M’05 matchup was the firm’s is a personnel technical and her 1 12th World Series film. data specialist in the husband, Bill Pavlou ‘03, M’05, announce the Ryan Salonia ’97 is a State Lawrence Township Aug. 1, 2009, birth of Farm agent in Howell and Public Schools and a Xavier Shea. The family was recognized with the freelance writer. Adam lives in Marlton. company’s top awards: is a television engineer Chairman’s Circle, Top for New Jersey Network Mary Wagner Pilaar ’03 is 100 (New Agents), and in Trenton. The couple an event planner for the Master Agent Guild. also pursue independent New Jersey Association filmmaking with Justice Dawn Harvey ’98 is the of Realtors in Edison. Productions, which Eric Pilaar ’03 founder and executive She and creates documentaries married in May 2008. director of Lansdale on social justice issues. Theatre Works in Lansdale, Jennifer Ascolese ’04 2 Kelli Ossner Scharnagl ’02 Pa. She has produced and Robert Sanchez ’96 Joseph Scharnagl ’02 several successful plays and are engaged and plan a in New York City and were married in June summer 2011 wedding. Philadelphia and is also a 2009. The wedding party Jennifer is a school Michael Shanline, stage and screen actress. included counselor in Clark and Wayne Doran and Cindy Dawn, who trained at Robert is a Linden police Scharnagl, all ’02. Shakespeare & Company officer. The wedding in Lenox, Mass., is also Kelli teaches first grade party will include on the Philadelphia in Glassboro and Joe Meghan Curti ’05, Dramatists Center board. is a manager with the Anthony Iacobone ’95 federal government in Frank Ward ’98 and Mitch Plenn ’96, has Philadelphia. The couple 3 launched a Philadelphia live in Glassboro. Christopher Lukach ’04 sports website: received a Pepperpot Michele Gordemer www.DailyPhiladelphian.com. Award from the Stratton ’02 and Craig Joleen Jaworski ’99 Philadelphia Chapter Stratton ’01 announce co-owns Business Clubs of the Public Relations the Aug. 15, 2009, birth America (BCA) Philadel- Society of America for of Emily, who joined phia with her father, Ron, “Facing the Facebook Connor. The family a former Philadelphia Revolution,” an editorial resides in Maple Shade. Eagles quarterback and an he wrote that appeared analyst on ESPN’s “Mon- Michael Gross ’03 in The Firm Voice, a day Night Football.” BCA is president of the national trade journal. is a national business Philadelphia Chapter Lukach, a vice president 4 development organization of the Public Relations and co-owner of Anne that focuses on building Society of America, one Klein Communications relationships, increasing of the largest chapters Group in Mount Laurel, sales and promoting in the nation. Before speaks often on the member businesses. becoming president, he topic of social media. headed the membership Bryan Nese ’04 earned a committee and was degree from the George treasurer. Gross is Washington University a vice president and Law School in May 2009 ’00s co-owner of Anne Klein and is an associate in the Communications Group Jessica Wright Byrne ’00 Washington, D.C., office in Mount Laurel. and her husband, Patrick, of Kenyon & Kenyon LLP. Profs trade brown and gold for red and white announce the April Gina Lemanowicz ’03 has While in law school, he Rowan grads took family and friends out to the 2009 birth of Andrew. been inducted into the earned an award for out- ballpark in June to cheer on the Phillies. He joined Abigail, 3. WGLS Hall of Fame. She standing performance in 1. Danielle Genovese, Helene Genovese ’06, continues to volunteer pretrial and trial advocacy. Susan LeAnn Minnick ’02 and Sue McKenna ’93 and Helene Reed Adam Israel Goldberg ’04 at the station, hosting Renee Richway Pliskin ’04 2. Jerry Cohen, Steve Barbell, Ed Ziegler M’72 and “The Sunday Sounds of are engaged and plan (Tri-Sigma) and Matt Larry Litwin M’72 Music” from 7 to 10 a.m. an August wedding. Pliskin ’04 married in May. 3. Ginni Zoltec, Christine Robbins-Frankie ’84 and “The Women’s Room” Susan, who earned a Wedding party members and Dave Aermand on Thursdays at 5 p.m. master’s degree at the were Jamie Scarpine 4. Lynn and Rob Eldon, John ’82 and Sally Sakewicz University of North Texas, Stephanie Zultanky Pallies ’05, Maureen

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Devereaux ’05, Liz LaBar ’05 Ruby” and was also in Vincent S. Du Beau ’06 at Delran High School. degree in human (all Tri Sigma), an American Family teaches middle school Both live in Magnolia. resource management Kevin Yeager ’04 and band and high school from the Rutgers Theater national tour of Kelly Boylan ’07 and Michael Pliskin ’10. choir at Delsea Regional. University School of “Pippi Longstocking.” Andrew Leimbach ’07 He earned a music Management and Labor Kate Elizabeth Breyer ’05 Douglas R. Schmeelk ’05 are engaged and plan performance master’s Relations in December earned a DVM degree at a September wedding married Janet Golen degree at Indiana 2009, graduating the University of Illinois in Point Pleasant. The in January 2009 in the University of with a 4.0 GPA. College of Veterinary wedding party will Bahamas. Douglas is an Pennsylvania, where he Medicine, one of only include Shannon David Santino ’08 is annual fund officer at studied with renowned 28 veterinary schools in McGorley MacInnes, taking part in the 2010 the Stevens Institute of conductor and composer the United States. She Dan Giacobbe, Sam Sense Corp Texas 4000 Technology in Hoboken. Jack Stamp. He serves on Hahn, Brittany Brinkman, for Cancer, a near-4,600- will complete a residency The couple live in Wee- the South Jersey Band Malay Patel, all ’07 and mile bike trip from June in laboratory animal hawken and have one son. and Orchestra Directors medicine at Cornell Kenney Noto ’08. 5 to Aug. 13 that will take Peter Comperatore ’06, Association’s board of the riders from Texas University, Ithaca, N.Y. Laury Fratto Rosado ’07 who married Aubrey directors and on the New to Alaska. The ride Jamie Rosado ’07 Michael Campolongo ’05, Peck Comperatore ’04 Jersey All-State Band and raises funds for cancer a Cornell University in April 2009, teaches procedures committee. married in June 2009. research. Santino was graduate student, English at Knightdale Vincent and his fiancée, Kaitlyn Hipshman ’08 inspired to ride by his returned to Rowan in High School in Stacey, plan an October is an assistant account mother’s courage in November to give a Knightdale, N.C., where wedding in Milford, executive at Beckerman dealing with a rare form Delaware. talk on “Controlling he is involved in the Public Relations in of leukemia. Following a Nanoparticle school’s theatre program. Sue Marchetti Taney ’06 Hackensack, one of the bone marrow transplant, Crystallization with In 2009, he earned a and her husband, Nick, largest independent public she is now recovering. DNA,” part of his superior rating and four married in June 2009 in relations agencies in the Santino, completed biomedical engineering awards — including Las Vegas. industry. Previously, she a master’s degree in research at Cornell. was a recruiting specialist structural engineering at for best direction — at Jamie Assini ’07 and Shawn for the American Cancer the University of Texas Colleen Lis ’05 is the North Carolina Counard ’08 are engaged Society and before that, at Austin this spring. performing as Jenny Theatre Conference Play and plan an October she worked as a lifestyle in Theatreworks USA’s Festival. He also works wedding in Mount Bobbi Lee Hitchon ’09 account assistant for Paul national tour of “Click, for a local community Laurel. Jamie teaches was chosen by THE Wilmot Communications Clack, Moo.” Previously, theatre where he teaches health and physical WORD Australia, a youth in New York City. she performed in a an advanced acting class education at Camden’s traveling company, for Theatreworks national and runs the summer Promise Charter School. Jennifer Kliwinski ’08 the “Best Backpacker tour of “Max and camp, both for teenagers. Shawn teaches history earned a master’s Job in Australia.” She and a partner are on a 1 2 backpacking trip along Australia’s east coast from Sydney to Cairns. Read about her trip by visiting thewordaustralia.com.au and clicking on blog. Kasey King ’10 placed third in the finals of the University Competition at Classical Singer magazine’s national convention in New Math prof fans hold Oslerfest 3 York City in May. The A two-day tribute to Professor Tom Osler brought competition started with together alumni, students, faculty and visiting 1,000 singers, and she lecturers in April. They honored math and Osler, advanced through three who has taught for 49 years (38 at Rowan). preliminary rounds and 1. Jim Zeng, Shaun Giberson ’03, and Ron Czochor was one of only 10 to make the finals. Her win 2. Brian Ruberti ’08, Hieu Nguyen and Andrew Fabian ’09 earned her a $500 prize. 3. Jeff Tsay, Lee Collins ’11, Christopher Tippie, Sky Pelletier, Ira Fine ’74, m’01, Thomas Osler, John Atsu Swanzy m’97, m’00 and Walter Jacob ’08

46 | Rowan Today alumni events Double Take at Rowan University Rowan Alumni Comedy Night Starting September 7 Friday, January 28 Plan to visit campus this fall to see one of just 10 Save the date for eighth annual Comedy Club Night. outdoor exhibits in the nation featuring the Dena Blizzard will return with a new lineup of sculptures of Seward Johnson. Installed throughout comedians. campus, the life-size sculptures depict people doing Location to be determined ordinary things and will be part of arts and education programs for all ages. For more information, e-mail Class of 1961 Reunion Dinner [email protected] or contact Gloria Sanders Thursday, May 12 at 856-256-5417. Save the date for a special 50th reunion dinner at Rowan University campus Filomena’s Lakeside, just 10 minutes from campus. Brown and Gold Gridiron Invitations and hotel information will be mailed to class members. Classic Picnic Fiolmena’s Lakeside, Deptford Saturday, September 25 Join fellow football alumni and friends for the Commencement Reunions annual picnic before the football game. Enjoy a Friday, May 13 barbecue buffet and updates on the season. Classes 1931, 1941, 1951, and 1961 are invited back to 11 a.m., Football field near the Team House campus for a Commencement reunion. Enjoy VIP Homecoming/ Family Weekend seating for the 2011 Commencement ceremony and special activities that day. Invitations will be mailed Events to class members. Wednesday-Sunday, October 27-31 8:30 a.m., Bunce Hall, Rowan University Mark your calendar for exciting new programs during Homecoming/Family Weekend! More information to come via postcard and e-mail. Update your e-mail and contact information to make sure you don’t miss out on this exciting weekend. Rowan University campus Online alumni services Want to find a classmate, register for an alumni trip or NJEA Convention submit an update for Class Notes? Visit alumni.rowan. To register for an event, Thursday and Friday, November 4-5 edu and find features to help you stay in touch with old purchase tickets or for friends and make new ones, start your free permanent more information, visit Visit us at the Rowan University booth at the annual e-mail forwarding address, make a gift to your alma www.alumni.rowan.edu or NJEA Teachers Convention in Atlantic City. call Alumni Relations 8–4 p.m., Atlantic City mater and more. at 856-256-5400. Networking Happy Hour at To register as a new user, use your Rowan ID number Registration is required on the magazine mailing label of this issue. Encourage for all events. Payment is Jack’s Bar and Grille friends to e-mail or call with address updates. See you due at time of registration. Thursday, November 18 All prices are per person. Mingle with fellow alums at a networking happy hour online! Guests are welcome un- hosted by Keith Trimble ’03. Enjoy great hors Connected? less otherwise noted. d’oeuvres and drink specials. Located minutes from What’s your Facebook status? Are you Due to the popularity of campus and Route 55. Just $10 per person. tweeting? No matter how you stay con- our events, refunds cannot 6–8:30 p.m., Washington Township nected, Rowan friends and fun are at your fingertips. be made unless specified. Click through www.rowan.edu/alumni. Transportation is provided Martin Luther King Jr. only for bus trips. Scholarship Breakfast Want to plan a reunion? Be sure we have your Monday, January 17, 2011 We can help make your event a success. Contact us e-mail address to receive Rowan welcomes Ambassador Andrew Young as the at 856-256-5400 for help with scheduling, invitations last-minute event offers keynote speaker for the 25th annual breakfast. Tickets and much more. and info. are $50 each, with proceeds supporting the William Have a suggestion for an H. Myers Scholarship program alumni event? Call 856- 9:30 a.m., Eynon Ballroom, Rowan University 256-5405 or e-mail alumni rowan.edu.

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Pulling for A friendly college match- in their heels on either nies the photo describes away from familiar moor- up in tug-of-war makes side of a rope at a Rowan underclassmen on the ings into open waters. the team for good, sweaty, grubby revival of Field Day. “long trek from adoles- That tug-of-war is a fun. Muscles strain and When the photo cence to adulthood. “ team activity also sug- twitch, spectators watch above ran in the 1965 But sometimes, it seems, gests how we progress and cheer, and bragging yearbook, it captured a the progress we make in through college with rights are one firm pull moment of diversion and college comes in great peers. In the end, we’ve away in either direction. competition—and maybe jolts as we pull with all our learned how to pull our Just this past spring, something more. might away from youth own weight and pull for dozens of students dug The text that accompa- into independence and the team.