Hunting for Success Nate Hosie ’08 Is a World-Class Hunter and Aspiring Musician

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Hunting for Success Nate Hosie ’08 is a World-Class Hunter and Aspiring Musician

INSIDE: THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS AT WILKES UNIVERSITY

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WILKES MAGAZINE University President Strategic Plan Provides Dr. Patrick F. Leahy Vice President for Advancement Michael Wood Gateway to the Future Executive Editor Jack Chielli M.A.’08 ince becoming president of Wilkes, many alumni have heard me say Managing Editor that we can become one of the finest universities, not just in this Kim Bower-Spence region, but in this nation. That can only happen if we have a clear Editor sense of direction and an understanding of how we will get there. Vicki Mayk MFA’13 Creative Services With the completion of Gateway to the Future: The Wilkes University Lisa Reynolds SStrategic Plan 2014-2020, we are ready to continue this journey. Web Services Our new strategic plan focuses on six key themes: Craig Thomas MBA’11 Electronic Communications 1. Foster Excellence in Academic Programs: As a University dedicated Joshua Bonner to student success and lifelong learning, Wilkes must continue to develop Graduate Assistant programs that transform students’ lives. Francisco Tutella Bill Thomas ’13 2. Invest in Our People: Since faculty, staff and alumni are our most important Interns assets in transforming the lives of our students, Wilkes must continue to Shawn Carey invest in these relationships. Alyssa Stencavage 3. Recruit, Retain, Place and Graduate Undergraduate and Graduate Layout/Design Kara Reid Students: As an enrollment-dependent institution, Wilkes must make the Printing most of its opportunities to increase enrollment of undergraduate and Pemcor Inc. graduate students, recruiting these students from an increasingly wide area. EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP 4. Improve Our Financial Strength: With the cost of attendance reaching Anne Batory ’68 a tipping point, Wilkes must strengthen and diversify its ability to generate Brandie Meng M’08 Bill Miller ’81 and manage resources. George Pawlush ’69 M.S.’76 5. Strengthen Our Campus Infrastructure: With intensifying competition Donna Sedor ’85 for students, Wilkes must ensure that we have the facilities and resources ALUMNI RELATIONS STAFF that our faculty, staff, and students need to excel. Director 6. Support Efforts at Redeveloping Downtown Wilkes-Barre: As an Bridget Giunta Husted ’05 Associate Director anchor in the center of Wilkes-Barre, Wilkes must continue to be a force Mary Balavage Simmons ’10 for positive economic, cultural and social development in its community. Alumni Events Manager This message allows me to provide only the briefest Jacki Lukas ’11 of overviews of this dynamic plan. I invite you to visit ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS www.wilkes.edu and click on “About Wilkes.” Under President Cindy Charnetski ’97 a link for Leadership, you will be able to read the plan Vice President in its entirety. Ellen Hall ’71 It is an ambitious plan. But, as the poet, Goethe, said: Secretary “Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move Kathy Heltzel ’82 MSA ’85 the hearts of men.” At Wilkes, Historian Laura Cardinale ’72 we have big dreams, and we’ll need everyone in order to Wilkes magazine is published three times a year by the Wilkes University Office realize them. Please join me in of Marketing Communications and Government Relations, 84 W. South St., Wilkes President Patrick F. Leahy Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766, [email protected], (570) 408-4779. Please send shares his vision for the University supporting these efforts. change of address to the above address. at the first Founders Gala. Wilkes University is an independent institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. The university provides its students with the experience and education necessary for career and intellectual development as well as for personal growth, engenders a sense of values and civic responsibility, and encourages its students to welcome the opportunities and challenges of a diverse and continually changing world. The university enhances the tradition of strong student-faculty interactions Dr. Patrick F. Leahy in all its programs, attracts and retains outstanding people in every segment of the university, and fosters a spirit of cooperation, community involvement, and individual Wilkes University President respect within the entire university.

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FEATURES DEPARTMENTS

6 Professional 2 On Campus Prognostications The Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership 5 Athletics marks its 10th anniversary as faculty and alumni contemplate the future of business. 20 Alumni News

Nate Hosie ’08 is a professional 12 22 Class Notes hunter on the Outdoor Passport to Experience Channel’s “Headhunters TV.” Three Wilkes alumni launch their teaching PHOTO COURTESY “HEADHUNTERS TV” careers at an international school in Malaysia. Have a story idea to share? 14 Contact us at [email protected] Paradise Found or Wilkes magazine, 84 W. South St., Jason Evans ’00 runs his successful video Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 18766. production company, SilverShark Media, on Maui.

Wilkes magazine is available online at 18 Hunting for Success www.wilkes.edu/wilkesmagazineonline Nate Hosie ’08 is a professional hunter and an up-and-coming musician. Winter 2014 | WILKES

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Students in Tune With New Marching Band The Marching Colonels—Wilkes’ new marching band—stepped out for the first time at the Sept. 6 home football game. The 32 band members participated in a ten-day band camp prior to the start of classes to get them ready for their unique role as members of the region’s first collegiate marching band. In addition to learning their repertoire of classic rock and roll and practicing their marching moves, one of the highlights of the camp was trying on their uniforms for the first time. The band is directed by associate professor of music Philip Simon.

Left, Marching Colonels Sarah Hankey, Lauren McClintock, and Autumn Peck show off their new uniforms during band camp. Right, freshman Lauren McClintock tries on her hat for marching band for the first time. PHOTOS BY STEVE HUSTED

Wilkes Receives $3 Million in State Funding for Engineering Labs The future of engineering education at Wilkes received a boost The money will fund renovations to the Stark Learning Center— with a transformative gift from the state of Pennsylvania. Gov. including creation or upgrading of three new high-tech laboratories Tom Corbett announced that the University is receiving a $3 for research and development. The labs are: million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) The Nanotechnology Laboratory will be a multi-disciplinary, grant for engineering labs in the College of Science and state-of-the art-facility to support teaching and research in Engineering. The grant, which requires Wilkes to match the microelectronics and nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, one of the funding, will be used to make $6 million in improvements most cutting-edge areas of research, involves understanding and “The laboratories that we create from this funding will controlling matter at an extremely small scale. The state funding allow us to continue our goal of providing students with the will allow Wilkes to make optimum use of $500,000 in nanotech- facilities and opportunities of a much larger institution in nology equipment already donated to the University by Fairchild the intimate setting of a liberal arts college,” Wilkes President Semiconductor of Mountaintop, Pa. Patrick Leahy said. “It also will allow us to continue our commitment to support the city of Wilkes-Barre and the The Additive Manufacturing Laboratory will be an integral region. We will do that by sharing these facilities with our part of the Applied Manufacturing Center. Additive manufacturing industrial partners.” includes emerging fields like 3-D printing and developing automated Because of the interdisciplinary nature of research, science processes that allow precise manufacturing at high volumes. Fall 2014

| students outside of the engineering major will have opportu- The Bioengineering Laboratory will provide for advanced work nities to use the labs, Leahy said. and research in the fields of microscopy, robotics and computational sciences. Wilkes offers a master’s degree in bioengineering. WILKES

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New Director and New Direction In announcing the appointment, President Patrick F. Leahy said that at Allan P. Kirby Center Ridley’s vision for encouraging Wilkes’ Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and entrepreneurial education spanning Entrepreneurship has a new director and a new direction. academic disciplines and his ability Rodney Ridley Sr. is the new director and is also its Allan to build strategic partnerships with P Kirby Jr. Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise and business and industry makes him Entrepreneurship. uniquely suited to his new role. In announcing Ridley’s appointment, the University also “In the five years that Dr. unveiled plans for major new programs that build on the Ridley has been at Wilkes, he has Kirby Center’s mission and expand its offerings. These include become known for his ability to establishing a business incubator in downtown Wilkes-Barre and be an innovative and entrepreneurial thinker,” Leahy said. “Never a technology transfer office at the University. satisfied with the status quo, Dr. Ridley in five years has made a Ridley previously served as director of the Division of significant contribution to engineering education at Wilkes. His Engineering and Physics. vision for a new direction for the Allan P. Kirby Center promises to transform entrepreneurial education at the University and impact the development of new enterprises in the region.” “Never satisfied with the status The Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship was established in 1993 with a focus on teaching quo, Dr. Ridley in five years has the principles of free enterprise and entrepreneurship. The center’s made a significant contribution to core mission is to educate and encourage young people with the vision, ambition and agility to launch and run the businesses of engineering education at Wilkes.” the future. An annual lecture series, The Allan P. Kirby Lecture in – President Patrick F. Leahy Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, has brought leading experts in business and politics to the campus and community.

New coaches, new sports – you need a scorecard to keep ATHLETICS up with all of the developments in Wilkes athletics program. SCORECARD

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Distinct School of Nursing Wilkes Debuts Established Beginning With New Web Site 2014-2015 Academic Year Get ready for a new experience when visiting Wilkes has established a distinct School of Nursing, becoming Wilkes’ web site. A newly the only higher education institution with a separate nursing designed site with improved school in northeast Pennsylvania. The move, which began with navigability will debut at the start of the 2014-2015 academic year, allows Wilkes to better www.wilkes.edu some respond to a growing demand for nursing programs regionally time in October. A poster and nationally. campaign on campus, pictured Anne A. Skleder, senior vice president and provost, said that here, piqued interest in the the move allows for a stronger focus on nursing education and soon-to-be unveiled site. reflects Wilkes’ larger academic mission. “Creating a separate Wilkes University School of Nursing will add to the University’s unique academic footprint. Wilkes will have Pharmacy Professor Eric Wright seven separate schools and colleges Studies Role of Community similar to a much larger university but Pharmacists in Health Care our programs will be offered in the mentoring culture of a small liberal Eric Wright, associate professor of arts university,” Skleder said. pharmacy practice, has received Skleder also announced that a $600,000 research grant from Deborah Zbegner Deborah A. Zbegner is interim dean the National Association of Chain of the School of Nursing. Zbegner, who had served as director Drugstores Foundation to expand of Wilkes graduate nursing programs, will provide leadership and the role of community pharmacists guidance over undergraduate and graduate programs. A national within the health care team. Wright search for a permanent dean will be conducted in the coming year. is partnering with Geisinger Health Wilkes’ undergraduate and graduate nursing programs System and participating pharmacies Eric Wright grew significantly over the last few years. Additional growth is in central and northeastern expected due to an expanding job market for nurses. The Bureau Pennsylvania in conducting the study. of Labor Statistics expects nursing jobs to increase by 19.4 “This research is focused on how we can expand the role of percent by 2022. the pharmacist to reduce the rate of 30-day readmissions among high-risk patients,” says Wright, principal investigator, who holds a joint appointment as a faculty member in the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes and research investigator at Geisinger’s A nursing student practices administering oxygen on a manikin Center for Health Research. “Our goal is to significantly reduce in the nursing simulation center. the percentage of patients readmitted with high-risk conditions, PHOTO BY LISA REYNOLDS such as heart attack, pneumonia, heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by June 2016.” Wright explained that some readmissions are due to medication errors, adverse reactions to medication or lack of adherence. Wright will analyze what he calls a “warm handoff,” which occurs when a hospital pharmacist forwards a discharged patient’s medical information to the patient’s preferred pharmacist. Provided with this information, the community pharmacist can better evaluate a patient’s medication needs. The pharmacist can then perform an extra consultation with the patient to ensure he Fall 2014

| or she understands prescription information, when and how to take the drug and its possible side effects. WILKES

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Omar Richardson is thinking about the future. Specifically, he’s thinking PRESCRIPTION FOR about his post-graduate plans to pursue a two-year residency specializing in oncology after completing his doctor of pharmacy degree in 2016. It’s a specialization that holds personal resonance for Richardson. SUCCESS “I got into pharmacy because I always liked chemistry, and my dad is in the medical field too, so that influenced me a lot. But my main reason for Colonels Defensive Back getting into the healthcare field is to give back to people who have cancer,” Omar Richardson says Richardson, whose father commutes to a job as a CT scan technician in Brooklyn. Balances Responsibilities “I’ve lost multiple family members to cancer and I still have family By Bill Thomas ’13 members winning the fight against cancer. I’ve lost my grandfather, aunt and cousins, and I have two aunts right now who are winning the battle against cancer. I don’t mind telling people about my family’s battle with cancer because it’s what motivates me to do well in school and reach my goals.” Staying motivated is key for Richardson. Not only is the East Stroudsburg native enrolled in a challenging major at Wilkes, he’s also a defensive back for the school’s football team. Many students would find maintaining the balance between such demanding priorities to be an obstacle. For Richardson, though, the level of time management required to maintain a rigid schedule of classes, labs and athletic practice is just what he needs to keep him grounded. “My first semester of college was rough. That was the only semester I didn’t play football,” Richardson says. “My lowest GPA was my first semester, but once I started playing football, I started doing way better. It actually got easier for me.

“...my main reason for getting into the healthcare field is to give back to people who have cancer.” – Omar Richardson

It gives me less time to play around and procrastinate. It helps me focus, knowing I have to do this, this and this, in this amount of time.” That focus has earned Richardson a regular spot on the dean’s list. It also earned him a place on the 2014 USA College Football Division III Pre-Season All-American Second Team – Defense. Despite all this, Richardson is quick to admit that he wasn’t always a model student, nor a star athlete. “I actually got into sports as a consequence for my behavior. I used to get into trouble here and there at school, so the principal advised my parents to put me in a sport, which changed my life as I know it,” he says. “Football has been my number-one sport since 7th grade. I chose football over all other sports because football opened many doors for

me, from an athletic acknowledgement standpoint to a tool to use to Fall 2014 | Omar Richardson is better my academic standing.” playing his final season for the Colonels. He says he’ll miss the sport that’s given him so many opportunities.

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By Helen Kaiser

Ask 10 business experts to predict the future of their industries— and get 10 different answers.

Ask Justin Matus, assistant professor and director of the MBA program in the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, and he boils it down to one point.

“We always have winners and losers in business,” Matus says. “The winners are the ones who find the way to match their strengths to the demands of the market place. This fundamental will not change.”

Even as the fundamentals of business success remain constant, the means to achieve it continue to evolve. As the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership marks its 10th anniversary, Wilkes magazine takes this opportunity to reach out to business faculty and successful business alumni. We asked them what changes we can expect to see in their fields over the next decade.

Their insights echo certain themes—including the continued globalization of business, rapid increases in technology and the development of products and services individually tailored to the consumer-driven market.

Fall 2014 The experts also anticipate there will be a critical need for workers to become lifelong learners and to develop | skills to become sensitive leaders.

WILKES Here are their insights:

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DAN CARDELL ’79 Chicago Quantitative Alliance Chairman worldwide economic trends. business relationships, and currencies ofinternational and anunderstanding around theclocktrading strategies become increasingly global, requiring in micro-seconds. are nowand tradingstrategies measured probability-based, multi-factored models, decisions are likely tobedriven by and datamanagementskills. Portfolio by Ph.D.s withadvanced programming written by hard dataandalgorithms long gone. Today’s markets are driven making basedona “gut feeling” are statistics andcomputerscience. skills inthefieldsofmathematics, investment will require exceptional firms years. As aresult ofthesechanges, but alsowillaccelerateintheupcoming tative techniqueswillnotonlycontinue, trend toward theuseofmore quanti- available toprofessional investors. This rapid changesinthecomputingpower cation” by hasbeendriven primarily process.“quantifi- management This quantitative methodsintheinvestment a movement toward theuseofmore In thepast20years, there hasbeen Expertise: Investment Management The investment business hasalso The days ofsubjective decision

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8 WILKES | Fall 2014 comparison shopping aimed at assisting and health plans.” for both providers see investments We canexpecttoseecontinued consolidationaswell as as aresult oftherecently implemented Affordable Care Act. significant increase intheamountof regulation and oversight provider networks toappealtheiremployees. exchanges, tohave control greater over and benefitofferings insurance exchanges, ornational inregional orparticipate quality.without sacrificing patient toreceive care inlower costsettings, includingathome, information; aswell asadvances intelemedicine, allowing the tools toassistinchoiceofprovider, showing costandoutcome delivery. canexpectimprovements Consumers in transparency and decreasing thehassleinvolved withbothfinancingand shoppingforbothprovidersin comparison andhealthplans, see investments intechnology aimedatassistingtheconsumer oftheir healthcare costs,for largerportions we’ll definitely experience. areAs consumers becomingincreasingly responsible to improve boththevalue andconvenience ofthepatient resulting inanincreased demandforhealthcare. the population(inparticular, thebaby-boomer generation), of focuswillbethecontinued aging to aconsumer-centric andgovernment. manufacturers drug Coupledwiththemove patients/consumers, employers, providers, healthinsurers, to have ofthehealthcare animpactonallsectors industry: This shifttoamore consumerdriven market willcontinue within thehealthcare sector. andaretail marketto consumerism have seenadefinitive movement Within thelastseveral years, we the consumer in Expertise: Health Care of Northeastern Pennsylvania President & CEO, Blue Cross DENISE ’77 CESARE “We’ll definitely Payers (i.e. insurers)andproviders are already dealingwitha More employers oftheirown willincrease private offerings Over thenextdecade, we canexpecttoseechangesdesigned in technology

improved experiences. for patientmanagementand toward leveraging clinicaldata patient. There willbe apush the efficiency inmanaging health care sectors, but also efficiency withinallofthe means notonlyadministrative for consumerchoice. This efficiency andscaletocompete providers needtoachieve consumers, bothpayers and increased attentiontocost to among thesesectors. With the integration, bothwithinand cost oftheircare are majorquestionstoresolve. system accommodatethemand whoisgoingtosubsidizethe costs are goingtoskyrocket. How healthcare doesourcurrent are living longer; they are working longer, andtheirhealthcare 65every day whowillturn boomers forthenextdecade. They consumer iscomingtohealthcare inamajorway. it costs, andhow away far from you itis. The power ofthe themedicine, carry and findoutwhichpharmacies how much button. drug? Needaprescription Type itintoyour smartphone comparison, attheclickofa price but alsoqualitycomparison cost (seeabove), andtechnology willbeavailable fornotjust the next10years, everyone willknow. Employees willcare about from greatly MRI inthesamemachinevaries placetoplace. In going toownthetable. pay theclaimsare notjustgoingtositatthattable, they are bility, andthey donotitwell. The employers whoultimately consortiums. handlethisresponsi- Insurancecompaniescurrently directly; smallercompanieswilldoitcollectively through various negotiating directly withhospitals. Largeemployers willdoit employers takingtheleadincontrolling healthcare costsby spending withprotection viastop-lossinsurance. We willsee Self-funding allows anemployer totake control ofmedical an MRIifit’s hismoney? Absolutely. minimal? Absolutely not. Will anemployee care aboutthecostof care whatanMRIcostsifthecostoutoftheirpocket iszero or ofthemarket.majority The conceptissimple: doesanemployee Accounts willcontinue toexplodeandmostlikely take over the will continue torise; ofHealthSavings andthepopularity health care over thenextdecade. bottom lineshouldfollow inregards toemployee benefitsand every company lookingtoremain competitive andcontrol the decisions. court and various There fundamentalsthat are certain quite abitbasedonchanging Washington, D.C., administrations Ten yearsand10,000perday: Transparency: Notmany peopleknow thatthecostofan For employers, inpopularity. self-fundingwill continue torise “Skin inthegame:” For employees, deductibles andco-pays around in10years, but itwillchange ultimately lookslike. Itwillstillbe will decidewhathealthcare reform Over thenextdecade, thecourts Expertise: Employee benefits/health care BSI Corporate Benefits LLC. Agency Principal ANTHONY J. DaRe That isthenumber ofbaby ’00 10/6/14 9:15 PM KATHLEEN HOULIHAN ’95, MBA ’01 Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems and Marketing Jay S. Sidhu School of Business Expertise: Social Media and Business

The word-of-mouth/social networking approach was very effective in the past (think Tupperware™ parties in the 1960s), and it will continue to generate sales for organizations in DAVID DUDICK ’79 the future. New technologies in the area of social media, Senior Vice President, General Mills however, are now more focused on listening to customers and uncovering new ways of President, General Mills Canada understanding consumer behavior than with creating social networks. Companies that have access to Big Data are more interested in mining existing social media channels and in Expertise: Global Food Manufacturing comparing social media data with other types of data that exists in the company databases. Social media, meaning the use of digital social networking sites to create opportunities for educating the customer and for commerce, is only one of many tools that are At General Mills, our product offerings emerging. Companies will also use new strategies to reach customers more effectively in and business model are constantly the future. Two of these innovations are proximity marketing and tracking devices. evolving to meet consumer demand Proximity marketing will allow businesses to identify the customer’s approximate age, around the globe. No longer is packaged gender and other traits. When a customer walks by a device in the store it will advertise food “one size fits all.” Consumers today products based on the customer’s characteristics. The computer will recognize who the want differentiated products that are best customers are for each product, and develop a database of what the purchase triggers tailored to meet their individual needs, are for each customer persona. ranging from taste to convenience to Social media and other technologies will continue to evolve, and companies will nutritional value to sustainability to continue to learn about their customers from listening. Organizations that are agile social responsibility and more. As a enough to meet customer needs will have the greatest chance of survival. company, our key strategy to counter these changes is focusing tightly on our consumers—what they like to eat, where they like to shop and how they approach cooking today. THE NEW SIDHU As consumer preferences and shopper habits evolve, I believe the most The opening of the 2014-2015 academic year saw the opening of a new home for successful companies will possess deep the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership. The University Center on Main was consumer empathy and be charac- transformed via a $3 million renovation into the school’s new headquarters. The terized by their high level of integrity, building boasts a room that simulates a stock exchange trading floor complete with transparency, agility and nimbleness and stock ticker, high-tech classrooms, faculty offices and meeting rooms for students. best-in-class speed to market. In order to Pictured below is the new videoconferencing classroom. For more photos of the new achieve these measures of success, food Sidhu home, visit www.wilkes.edu/newSidhu. manufacturers and retailers will need to place increased pressure on attracting and retaining talented employees across the business who are capable of dealing with a higher level of complexity. In the end, the ability to accurately assess unmet consumer needs proves you have a right to win and executing with brilliance will separate the winners from the also-rans. Fall 2014 | WILKES

Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 9 10/6/14 9:15 PM Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 10 10 WILKES | Fall 2014 Jay S. Sidhu School JUSTIN MATUS Assistant ProfessorAssistant and Chair, Florida International University College of Business Professor and Knight Ridder Research Fellow DAVID RALSTON ’69 United States, but across allcountries consolidation—not justwithinthe is atrend formore across allindustries more globalmarket. Specifically, there new ways tosurvive andthrive ina of business strategywillbefinding I thinkthebiggestchangeinfield of Business and Leadership Business Division Expertise: Strategy

THE willingly or unwillingly—from an ethnocentric to a global economy.business academics have witnessed the evolution of overbusiness these decades as we have progressed— to one of the group of preeminent world leaders. Concurrently, both practitionersbusiness and Over the past several decades, the United States has evolved from the preeminent world leader FUTURE OFBUSINESSEDUCATION light ofthesetrends. competition. unknownThe great iswhatgovernments andpolicymakers willdoin on allofthecontinents. We are seeingbiggerandcompaniesless ground gameofthe1930sand Wal-Mart’s everyday of2014. low prices that samesenseofindividualism, strategyforthemassesmay gotheway offootball’s specific patientsuchthateachhasa much nuanced diagnosisandtreatment. In very specificindividual level, fora drugs andsoon we willbecustom-manufacturing offfromare notthatfar diagnosingpatientsthrough DNAtestingandgeneticsata data miningandsemi-customizedproducts andservices. Inthefieldofmedicine we by building astrong emotionalconnectiontoeachcustomerthrough socialmedia, In thefuture abusiness may needtobuild itsstrategyaround somethingelse, perhaps the how ofwinningistypicallysimplyhaving orhigh-qualityproducts. low prices ranthefootball.was dominatedby teamsthatprimarily Inthebusiness world today, an NFLgametoday withoutalotofpassing? Yet 75years agothegameoffootball game offootballandtheevolution oftheforward pass. Cananyone winning imagine always andlosers. bewinners I thinkinmany ways itwillbejustlike any otherforce onanindustry. There will toslowtrying down thepaceofthesemergers, acquisitionsandconsolidations. and even duopolies. Yet environment theregulatory beenrathertepidin hasthusfar big tofail), ofwhat are essentiallyoligopolies thelackofcompetitionandformation Ther

What may changeisthehow ofwinning. To metaphor, useasports thinkaboutthe As Ilookoutover of10years andtheeffect this willhave thehorizon on “strategy,” e is already some pushback against corporations growinge isalready somepushbackagainstcorporations biggerand(too ization of curricula.business universities of Europe and Asia in regard to the international- institutions of higher education have lagged far behind the better changing face of in business the 21st century. Consequently, our of higher education have been even slower to acknowledge the challenges of a global economy. Unfortunately, U.S. institutions its businesses have also been the slowest to adjust to the been the slowest to adopt a global perspective; and, as such, dominant role in world affairs, has been the country that has During this time, our nation, perhaps because of its ongoing

10/6/14 9:15 PM Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 11 be easier and more comfortable, especially for the myopic. and casting a blind eye on the reality of change certainly may this point, we need to acknowledge that change is daunting; the discipline in the U.S. for the previous several decades. To disciplines from the provincial approach that has permeated rules of the game is differentsubstantially from teaching these marketing, finance and accounting based on the international different course content, because teaching management, Internationalization requires a modified curriculum and please visitwww.wilkes.edu/futureofbusiness. and othersonthefutureofbusinesseducation, business facultyAnthonyLiuzzo,MarianneRexer business educationandthereflectionsofWilkes To readmoreofRalston’sassessmentinternational and how team. technology canbeofbetteruse tothecorporate where we work, but inhow we provide thehighestlevel toourcustomers ofservice white collarjobs. Technology willhave amajorimpactnotonlyinwhatwe do and and meetinggoalswillneedtoreward themforperformance. their team. willneedtobemuch more Leaders sensitive tokeep employees motivated because they willnothave eyeball-to-eyeball contacttointeractwithanddevelop at homeorelsewhere, willneedtouseahigherlevel leaders ofhumanskillsets, maytechnologies impactemployees inthesameway. Whether employees are working of how many widgetswere beingproduced causedanxietyforemployees, thesenew of thetime. Revolution theIndustrial whencompany Just measurements asduring being usedmore andmore, employers canknow whattheiremployees are doingall will needtodevelop andresponsibility mutual formeetingcleargoals. trust anddifferent thanitistoday.of aleaderwillbeimportant andtheiremployees Leaders key needaswe move toward more andlesshumaninteraction. technological The style overindustry thenextdecade. will becomemore prominent inbusiness orany kindof In my view, there are three maindevelopments that Secondly, we have intheeffective onlyscratchedthesurface useoftechnology in employeeWith andprocesses sophisticatedmethodsofmeasuring performance First, thedevelopment willbea ofauthenticleadership Chairman and CEO, Customers Bank JAY S. SIDHU MBA ’73 Expertise: Banking world of today, not just a small percentage of them. that all students are prepared to be successful in the business toward internationalizing the entire curriculumbusiness so What we see in the more progressive schools is a movement students business major, and they consider their work done. programbusiness in which perhaps 10 to 20 percent of the Furthermore, some schoolsbusiness develop an international finding students to fill their classes a decade from now. are going to find themselves behind and having left trouble tionalizing are behind the curve; those that haven’t yet started Those universities that are now just thinking about interna - tostart internationalize their curricula over the past decade. a growing number of other universities follow their lead and which internationalized their curricula decades ago, have seen Carolina and Thunderbird School of Global Management, Far-sighted U.S. universities, such as the University of South the northeast UnitedStates. the northeast business school, oneofitskindatleastin environment.changing It’s aunique to alltypesofchallengesinthisrapidly thatcanadapt skills ofauthenticleaders today,managers but todevelop thehuman competences expectedfrom business develop thetechnicalskillsetorcore Its missionisnotjusttoeducateand environment.needs ofthischanging is completelyalignedwitheducational level ofsuccess. can adapttothischangewillhave ahigher after ajobwas eliminated. The oneswho credentials ortotrainfornew employment yourself—whether toimprove your current it hascometomeanwhatyou pursue on-the-job. Within thepastfive to10 years ago, was mainly post-collegelearning and continuous learning. Twenty-five years passionate aboutcontinuous improvement 10 years. We willneedtobeextremely thanwhatwefaster have seeninthelast pace ofchangewillbethree tofive times I believe thevisionofSidhuSchool Thirdly, intheupcomingdecade

10/6/14 9:15 PM 11 WILKES | Fall 2014 Nick Barno ’13 calls on a student in his classroom at Sri Utama School in Johor Bahrun, Malaysia. PHOTO COURTESY NICK BARNO Passport to Experience WILKES ALUMNI TEACH AT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL IN MALAYSIA By Geoff Gehman

The Chinese boy was overwhelmed at student, one of the best fourth-grade scientists. Gallaher predicts his new school in his new country of her “super adorable” pupil will prosper in fifth grade, where he’ll Malaysia. His screaming disturbed his be taught by Kaitlyn McGurk ’12, her partner in a program that teacher, Rebecca Gallaher ’12, who was has sent Wilkes undergraduates to student teach at Sri Utama already dealing with four Korean students International School in Kuala Lumpur. McGurk, Gallaher and with no English skills and others with Nick Barno ’13 are the first Wilkes alumni to return to teach full suspected learning disabilities. time in Malaysia after student teaching there. Gallaher’s gut instinct told her that The Wilkes exchange with Sri Utama began after Gina he would improve with more personal Morrison, an associate professor in Wilkes’ Division of Global attention. She enlisted an unlikely History and Languages, was on sabbatical studying the policies classroom ally: the boy’s nanny. The of Malaysian female educators in Kuala Lumpur in 2010. She nanny made sure he followed lessons needed a school for her adopted daughter, Victoria. She found properly and promptly. She admonished Sri Utama, which opened in 1994, the year Morrison first him to improve his awful handwriting. visited Malaysia with her husband, William, a Malaysian of She even took notes so he wouldn’t Indian heritage. Fall 2014 | have to decipher his own notes at home. Impressed with each others’ commitment to education, The nanny experiment exceeded Morrison and Dato Fawziah, the school’s founding CEO, began

WILKES expectations. Daniel became a fine working together. She asked Morrison to teach American

Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 12 10/6/14 9:15 PM Passport to Experience to Passport Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 13 Ways toImprove Your English.” textbook, thelavishly cartooned “Cool studentsandafriendlier struggling near Singapore. He’s addedclassesfor Utama branchinJohor Bahru, acity seventh- attheSri toninth-graders anew languageeasierfor learning majorat A history Wilkes, he’s made to studentswhodon’t know English. time is teachingEnglishforthefirst polite decisionsmadeby committee. teaching; slow, frustratingly frustratingly norms: poortechnology; lecture-based withMalaysianstruggled educational been withoutchallenges. McGurkhas about badminton. at varsity sport Wilkes, mad toacountry She’s alsointroduced volleyball, her programs ReadingRallyandGirlPower. involving parents, theafter-school initiatives: exhibit, anart contest apoetry in turn, hasbenefitedfrom McGurk’s school. Utama, Sri atthe sixth-graders teaches fifth-and education andnow majored inelementary is McGurk, who Fawziah’s beneficiaries Dato Fawziah. trips—were paidby food, recreational costs—airfare, lodging, seven weeks. All their veteran for teachers Utama, monitored by began teachingatSri Wilkes undergraduates group ofsix the first to returned Morrison Wilkes. In2011, women expandedthenovel planafter workedarrangement sowell, the tuition forMorrison’s daughter. The teachers. Inexchange, shedecreased management, Utama inclusion—toSri methods—creative games, classroom For Barno, thebiggest challenge Teaching hasnot inanothercountry One ofDato “On the whole, know how to qualities that look past the of Malaysia divide us...” divide the people Johor Bahru. Utama branchin students from theSri Last year Wilkes hostedtwo scholarship oppressing blacks. students couldn’t whites fathom movement becauseherMalaysian couldn’t teachthe civil rights American ustogether.”bring Indeed, Gallaher Barno, “and focusonthethingsthat past thequalitiesthatdivide us,” says people ofMalaysia know how tolook Chinese New Year. “On thewhole, the Ramadan’s fast, andeveryone celebrates Eid al-Fitr, thethree-day feastafter eatinMuslimhomesduring Christians parties.Muslims attendChristmas calls Morrison “a nationaltreasure.” that a celebrationofracesandreligions toleranceofMalaysians,extraordinary which delightshermother. practice ofwalking shoelessinhomes, eves. Gallaherfollows theMalaysian more fireworks thaneightNew Year’s to discuss hisfearofnotreturning She encouragedanative Korean to toteachthanEnglish.much trickier forgiveness andfears—subjects to teachlessonsaboutpeerpressure, education,in elementary was asked The Malaysian alliancekeeps growing. The Wilkes admire the graduates Gallaher, whoalsohasadegree New Year, whichhas digsChinese Barno sambal, achilisauce. anchovies and fried with toastedpeanuts, Lemak, coconut rice now loves Nasi Malaysian. McGurk more Americans helped make the have and Morrison wasfather murdered. where his country to the returning discuss hisfearof a Sudannative to his homeland, and Both DatoFawziah AND REBECCA GALLAHER PHOTOS COURTESY NICK BARNO, KAITLYN MCGURK students show off medals they won. classroom. Bottom, Rebecca Gallaher ’12’s and sixth-gradersher fifth- pose in her colorful moment. Center, Kaitlyn and some of McGurk ’12 Top, Barno and his students enjoy a relaxed doesn’t speakyour language.” is stubborn; itmight bethathesimply The problem mightnotbethat astudent your impression, first judgment.your first thatyoulearned can’t always gowith instincts; gowithyour gut... I’ve also look itup,” shesays. “Follow your basic ever indoubt, don’t toa bookand run anywhere. “I’ve thatifyou’re learned that shecanuseinany classroom Gallaher has learned lessonsinMalaysia Gallaher haslearned

10/6/14 9:15 PM 13 WILKES | Fall 2014 Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 14 14 WILKES | Fall 2014 PHOTOS BY ANTHONY MARTINEZ Opposite, Evans takes a break from a busy schedule. nature of doing on business the island of Maui, Hawaii. Jason Evans ’00 dons attire that reflects the laid-back 10/6/14 9:15 PM JASON EVANS ’00 BUILDS VIDEO BUSINESS ON MAUI By Bill Thomas ’13

Moving to Maui might At the time, the communication studies graduate was working as a producer for Philadelphia-based Banyan Productions, on the just be the best top-rated TLC show “Trading Spaces.” “When we got back to the hotel, The Maui Visitor Channel decision Jason Evans was on. I joked that I could work for those guys. On a whim, ’00 ever made. I cold-called them to see how often their turnover was and it turned out they were looking for a producer right then and there.” It might also be his For two years, Evans produced television commercials, programming segments and long-format productions for the Maui most spontaneous. Visitors Bureau and the Four Seasons resort at Manele Bay on the island of Lana’i. Then he decided to take another chance. Hoping “My dad did a lot of traveling for work, to provide Hawaii, a small market with few options for media so I was able to go to Hawaii a few production, with a fresh, forward-thinking alternative, Evans times when I was younger, at about 13 started his own company based in Maui, SilverShark Media. or 14. Then I went there again when I “The way media is going now, if you’re not creating was about 24, around 2005. I remember for more than one platform, you’re really limiting your I was telling the people I was with how scope,” Evans said. “Television is an industry, like a I always wanted to live there. I love lot of creative arts industries, whether it be music the water, I love the weather and the or art or whatever, where changes in technology food, I love scuba diving, wakeboarding have made things more accessible. You don’t and surfing – but there was no TV in have to have a million-dollar bankroll to run a Hawaii that I could be involved in,” company; you need creativity and talent.” Evans recalls.

Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 15 10/6/14 9:15 PM Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 16 16 WILKES | Fall 2014 PHOTO BY JOHN HARA. at Yellowstone National Park. camera operator Mark Gambol, right, Philippe Cousteau Jr., center, and poses with “Awesome Planet” host long-running web series. Above, Evans and his crew film an episode of the Humanity, while Evans, in foreground, Shrimp Co. working for for Habitat laughs with employees of Bubba Gump “Making Over Maui” host Lia Krieg technical sideoftelevision production from Wilkes University. “Making Over Maui” hegotonthe idea—andtheheadstart nature—it was hewhoapproached MauiNaKaOiwiththe Small Business Award. hissuccesstoproactive Evans attributes fortheGolfChannelprogram. period and Maroon 5singer onethree-month Adam Levine during Batali,Mario SportsIllustratedswimsuit model Everhart Angie with professional boxer SugarRay Leonard, Food Network star and theGolfChannel’s “The Haney Project.” Evans worked the Travel Channel’s Foods with “Bizarre Andrew Zimmern” Olivia Wilde. actress notable episode featured “House M.D.” and “Tron: Legacy” positiveperforming makeovers withintheircommunities. One magazine. “Making Over Maui” features localbusinesses a weekly forMauiNaKoOi, web-based series aregional marketing videos, SilverShark produces “Making Over Maui,” noteworthy projects. Inaddition tocommercials andcompany In 2010, SilverShark was nominated fortheMauiMayor’s The company hasalsoworked onsuchnationalprograms as That philosophy hasalready landedSilverShark several could actually get hands-on to beintelevision... I wanted “I always knew I was going to gosomewhere that I experience early.” 10/6/14 9:15 PM Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 17 northern California, wherenorthern SanFranciscoisanhouraway andfull island inthemiddleofocean, but qualityto we can stillbring inSonoma,the Fairmont Calif.,” hesays. onMaui, resort for theFairmont whichledtousdoingwork for brand around theworld. We were able todomarketing videos brand, resort the Fairmont avery respected, very well-known is anever-ending process. felt like “a smallfishinapond,”growth the ofSilverShark up theHawaiian any timesoon. scenery For Evans, whoonce downtime, don’t expect him to slow down and settle for soaking into thewater like awaterfall. You couldhearitsizzle.” of themore incredible thingsI’ve seen: lava dropping offthecliff was blasting over a 45-minute boat ride high seas, but it was one the ocean. When we gotthere, aheavy swell hadrolled inandit recalls. “We setatsunsettoseelava hadaboattrip flowing into ‘Awesome Adventures,’ was onthebigislandofHawaii,” Evans 2014 Daytime Emmy forOutstanding Travel Program. freelance project, “Awesome Adventures,” was nominated for a explorer undersea Jacques offamed Cousteau.grandson Another including “Awesome Planet” hostedby PhilipeCousteauJr., on three nationally syndicated educational children’s shows, Mawr,for Bryn Pa.,-based Steve RotfeldProductions, working technology putmeafew stepsaheadofeverybody else.” department,their sports Ifeltadvanced. Just having accesstothe year, whenI was at doing my internship ABC in Philadelphia for work infront ofthecameraandbehindit. my junior During more years. Igottoedit. Igottohost. Igottoshoot. Igotto showa sports inmy sophomore year thatcontinued forthree something,” Evans says. to wait untilmy senior year for my chance toproduce first early.that Icouldactuallygethands-onexperience Ididn’t want that Iwanted tobeinthatindustry, Iwanted togosomewhere “That’s nicetobeable toshow that, yes, we’re locatedona small “Right now, one project I’m mostproud of are the videos for Though Evans’ work keeps himonthemove withlittle shoot day“My very first withNicole (Debeau), the host for Not onetobeidle, Evans alsokeeps busy asafreelance producer “I went intothat Wilkes television studioand Ihelpedcreate “I always knew Iwas goingtobeintelevision, andknowing of production companies thatwould chompatthebitfor the sameproject. To have peopleinacompany who don’t even know you decideto pick you over a local company, that’s feeling. agreat Itshows the potential SilverShark hasforgrowth beyond its geographic center.”geographic host Nicole Dabeau and two local teens. “Awesome Adventures” in Maya Bay, Thailand, with Emmy-nominated syndicated educational travel show Left, Evans oversees shooting of an episode of his

found in Hawaii. the success he’s Evans celebrates and basketball games for radio and television. ’01 and Dave DiMartino ’01. Calling Wilkes football close friends January Johnson ’00, Matt Reitnour show “The Colonel’s Edge” for three years with Favorite WilkesMemories:Workingonthe was nominated as producer. Emmy for Outstanding Travel Program and also Adventures” was nominated for a 2014 Daytime Notable: Small Business Award, 2010. SilverShark Media, nominated for the Maui Mayor’s Career: B.A., CommunicationStudies,Wilkes Jason Evans’00,Maui,Hawaii Owns and operates production company As freelance produce for “Awesome 10/6/14 9:16 PM 17 WILKES | Fall 2014

NATE HuntingHOSIE ’08 for Success IS A WORLD-CLASS HUNTER AND A WOULD-BE MUSICIAN By Gary Robert Blockus ’79 Fall 2014

| Nate Hosie is at home hunting in his native Pennsylvania woods, above, and on stage playing guitar in Nashville, right. WILKES PHOTOS COURTESY “HEADHUNTERS TV.”

Wilkes_Fall2014_FINAL.indb 18 10/6/14 9:16 PM Nate Hosie ’08, Montdale, Pa.

Bachelor of Arts, Elementary Education

Career: Host and producer for “Headhunters TV” on ountry music superstars like Luke Bryan and Travis the Outdoor Channel. Tritt call him “The Turkey Slayer.” Notable: Guitarist who has been the opening act for It’s a nickname friends—famous and not-so- country music superstars Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert famous—have given Nate Hosie, 2008 Wilkes and Travis Tritt. graduate, budding Nashville recording artist, and cone of the hosts of the “Headhunters TV” hunting show on the Favorite Wilkes Place: The Student Center and the Outdoor Channel. Rifkin Café. It always had such a great atmosphere. Hosie is a Montdale, Lackawanna County, native and resident, born and bred in the outdoors world of hunting and fishing in northeastern Pennsylvania. An All-State cornerback for Lakeland High School in 2003, he enrolled at Wilkes to major in elementary education and play football for the Colonels. Hosie had a decent freshman year under Coach Frank Sheptock, but three days into his first winter break, his life changed dramatically. “My buddy got into an accident and wrecked his truck when we were going deer hunting, and I broke my neck,” he says. “The doctors told me I’d never be able to play football again.” launched the idea for “Headhunters TV.” Hosie is one of the Despite nearly being paralyzed from the injury, Hosie Outdoor Channel show’s hosts. It’s allowed him to hunt with some moved forward with hope rather than dwelling on the loss of of the legends of Nashville music, paving the way for another kind his promising athletic career. He had already become a prize- of career, one actually spawned during his time at Wilkes. winning turkey caller by the time he entered Wilkes, and During his recovery from the broken neck, Hosie had a lot of that gave him something to hold onto as he worked his way free time. “I got bored with video games after a month and started through a three-month period of rehabilitation while missing a to teach myself to play guitar,” he says. “My sister Marla knew how semester of college. to play a few things and the things she showed me amazed me.” Hunting eastern turkeys and white-tail deer in Pennsylvania The keen ear he developed from calling turkeys for almost was a passion since grandfather Josh and father Marty started 15 years—imitating their clucks, purrs, putts, cackles and getting him used to Penn’s Woods as a 5-year-old. Hosie yelps—paved the way for perfecting the sound he made from followed his dad and granddad into the woods with a cap gun finger picks, bending, hammering, plucking and strumming on as a youngster, just spending some quality family time while a six-string guitar. When he got back to Wilkes, he and some learning the ins and outs of hunting. He liked deer hunting, friends formed the band Maybe Someday, which played quite a but turkey hunting absolutely intoxicated him. few gigs at Murray’s Inn on Penn Avenue. “When I started turkey hunting, the interaction with them Just 10 months after Marla helped him learn to play the guitar, by calling, and them gobbling back, that conversation back and she was killed by a drunken driver. Hosie dedicated himself to forth is something I took to,” Hosie says. becoming a better guitar player in her honor. Neighbors Bob Casella and Butch Maiolatsi taught their Some of the country music celebrities Hosie hunted with for young Jedi about the cadence and volume of calling, the “Headhunters TV” were impressed with his music. Earlier this year, intricate details that separate good callers from great callers. he opened for Luke Bryan at the Archery Trade Association Show Those skills launched him into turkey calling contests. Friends and for Brantley Gilbert at the Great American Outdoors Show in started called him “The Turkey Slayer” because of his turkey Harrisburg. Hosie worked on preproduction and composition of hunting prowess, an activity he honed by imitating the calls songs in Scranton with Jimmy Reynolds. In August, he opened for turkeys make, calling them in ever closer before lowering the Travis Tritt at the Buckmaster Show in Montgomery, Ala. boom, so to speak. “I’ve written some songs and am working on others, doing After graduating from Wilkes, Hosie began working with them in the studio to find a unique kind of sound that is fitting Top Calls, a turkey call company based in Potter County, Pa. for me musically,” Hosie says. Once he gets the sound to where Hunter’s Specialties, another calling company, began using him he wants it, he’ll be heading to Nashville for the actual recording as a videographer and producer with Harrisburg, Pa., native sessions of music that is a blend of country and rock.

Matt Morrett’s hunting show. While Hosie’s no longer in Maybe Someday, maybe is Fall 2014 | During some hunting industry trade shows, Hosie became becoming more definite for him, and someday is on his horizon friends with outdoors personality Randy Birdsong, who like the red-yellow sunrise over the canopied forest. WILKES

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The Colonel’s Summer Vacation If you thought you saw the Colonel frolicking in the sand this summer or taking in the sites in Italy, you might be right. This summer, the Colonel has been traveling with alumni, faculty and staff all over the nation and even internationally. The Office of Alumni Relations distributed cardstock colonels for people to take on their many summer adventures. We encouraged everyone to participate by snapping a photo with the Colonel showing the location, and send it to the Alumni Office. We added all of the photos to our Facebook photo album, which you can find by searching Wilkes University Alumni Association. A map of his

travels was displayed during Homecoming 2014. Everyone kept Alumni Association board members helping at summer orientation the Colonel very busy this summer, and he’ll continue his travels were, from left, Matt Berger ’02, Cindy Charnetski ’97, Cheryl Jaworski MBA ’09, Ellen Hall ’71, Ian Foley ’14 and John Sweeney ’13. throughout the year. For your own cardstock Colonel, contact ALUMNI RELATIONS PHOTO [email protected].

Members of the Alumni Association Board Participate in Campus Events Members of the Alumni Association board of directors welcomed more than 500 first-year students and their families to Wilkes during both sessions of First Year Orientation this summer. Several board members participated including Matt Berger ’02, president Cindy Charnetski ’97, Ian Foley ’14, vice-president Ellen Stamer Hall ’71, secretary Kathy Heltzel ’82 MBA ’85, Cheryl Jaworski MBA ’09, Kristin Klemish ’04 and John Sweeney ’13. Alumni board members took this The many locations visited by the Colonel during his summer travels opportunity to welcome everyone to campus included the coast of Maine, a salt water taffy store at the New Jersey shore and the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park, N.Y. and make first-year students feel like Wilkes will be a home away from home. The board members were able to mingle and engage Alumni Discount Available with incoming students during a continental for Legacy Students breakfast hosted by student affairs. “I had a wonderful time welcoming our Do you have a college-age child or grandchild interested in first-time students at orientation. The topic of Wilkes University? Wilkes is now offering an alumni discount for conversation among board members was how undergraduate students of $500 per year of attendance (up to four we wished we could relive our school days all years), which amounts to $2,000. We value our alumni and hope over again!” says Cheryl Jaworski MBA ’09. you will take advantage of this opportunity to pass on the Wilkes Look for members of the Alumni legacy to one of your family members! To begin the process, contact Association board of directors at other Fall 2014 the Office of Admissions to schedule a personal visit by calling | campus events such as Welcome Weekend, (570)408-4400 or emailing [email protected]. admissions open houses and Family Day. WILKES

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Celebrating Colonel Connections After graduation, the memories you During their trip to Wilkes-Barre, made in college stay with you on Weinkle also took Kennedy to meet a rabbi your journey throughout life. Joseph in the area. Kennedy’s interaction with the Weinkle ’63 passed those memories rabbi’s three children provided her with the to a prospective student, who became opportunity of a job teaching Sunday school a current student once she received at the congregation. Weinkle’s guidance. Weinkle introduced “Getting a job in the area definitely Sarah Kennedy, class of 2017, to Wilkes affected my decision to attend Wilkes,” University and she hasn’t looked back recounts Kennedy. “It gave me some since her tour at Wilkes. security and more of a sense of belonging Weinkle, who has lived in Pittsburgh in Wilkes-Barre. This job also pushed me for 41 years, has known Kennedy in the direction of making my decision to since she was an infant because they be an education major.” are members of the same synagogue. Kennedy is involved in many different Children from the congregation clubs and activities. She is involved in Sophomore student Sarah Kennedy and Joseph Weinkle affectionately refer to him as “Uncle Joe.” Programming Board, Inter-Residence ’63 celebrate their shared Wilkes experience outside the Henry Student Center. Weinkle encouraged Kennedy to In this role, he has helped Kennedy and Hall Council, the Homecoming Student apply to his alma mater. other young people to navigate through Team and the Dance Team. She also serves their day-to-day challenges in life as well as the president of her class in Student dation. But he says that any alumni can as the college selection process. Government. help young students make decisions “I had no idea where I wanted to go “I’m thrilled with how well she’s done,” on where they choose to go to to college, but I had an idea of what size Weinkle says. “There’s no question that she college, simply by having a meaningful and type of school I wanted to attend,” is really in her own element at Wilkes, doing conversation. says Kennedy. “I was considering eight everything that she wants to do.” He recommends just starting with a schools and had been accepted into most.” Kennedy entered her second year at few questions regarding the student’s Through multiple conversations with Wilkes this fall. wants and needs from a school. Kennedy, Weinkle realized that she could “My first year at Wilkes University went “Remember what it was like to think fit in at Wilkes, a place he regards as a really well. I could not have asked for a about choosing a college for yourself; second home. better experience and I cannot wait to come you talked to people who cared enough “I suggested that Sarah try looking back for more. I made a ton of great friends to ask you those questions or someone at my alma mater,” says Weinkle, who and I learned a lot, not just through school, who had knowledge and insight about majored in business administration at but about myself as well,” Kennedy says. different college opportunities.” Wilkes. “I told her, ‘I think you’ll find Although Weinkle has recommended Weinkle says that his time at Wilkes is what you’re looking for.’” Wilkes many times, Kennedy is the first truly what influences him to recommend And Weinkle was correct; she found it. student to take him up on his recommen- it to others. “Honestly, I do not think I would have found Wilkes if it wasn’t for Joe,” says Kennedy. “It might have come across on College Board in my school searches, REFER A FRIEND! but I do not think I would have clicked Introduce a young person to Wilkes University the link if he did not suggest it.” One of the things that really sealed the Have a relative, neighbor or friend starting the college search process? deal was when Weinkle gave Kennedy a Introduce him or her to Wilkes University! personal tour. He brought her to campus

Open houses are scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Jan. 31. Fall 2014 after she was accepted; her parents were | Or schedule a personal tour with a prospective student by calling the unable to take her that day. Office of Admissions at(800) WILKES-U Ext. 4400 or registering online at www.wilkes.edu/visitwilkes. Make sure to mention that you’re an alum! WILKES 21

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Tara Kojsza ’99 MBA ’03 Sees Small Business as Bigger Enterprise

Tara Kojsza ’99 MBA ’03 lowers a batch of fresh-cut boardwalk real products: real cream, real Oreos, real Chips Ahoy cookies. fries into the deep fryer. “Consistency, quality and customer That makes a difference.” service, those are our top three priorities,” she says. She’s just But Jessee’s Place is more than hoagies and soft serve treats. opened her concession stand at Scranton’s Nay Aug Park and For Kojsza, the business is about the relationship between the already she’s filling orders, rushing from fryer to fridge to front proprietors, clerks and customers. “We watch our kids grow counter to serve a young customer. This is the second year in a up,” Kojsza explains, referring to her young customers. “We five-year contract Kojsza has with the city to operate the stand teach the kids how to tie their shoes and count money.” She beside the city pool and her sixth year as the proprietor of asserts that small businesses like Jessee’s Place are about the Jessee’s Place, a mom-and-pop ice cream stand located across relationships that develop. These relationships include those from the Scranton Farmers Market. between Kojsza and the high school and college students who Kojsza graduated from Wilkes in 1999 with a bachelor’s she employs, calling them “my girls.” degree in business administration. She worked for Tri-State Health, gaining experience in sales before returning to Wilkes as Tara Kojsza ’99 MBA ’03 shows off a soft serve creation. Opposite, the store’s signature t-shirt. a full-time graduate student. She earned her MBA in 2003 and PHOTO BY FRANCISCO TUTELLA. took a sales manager position at PepsiCo, where she oversaw operations in nine Pennsylvania counties, putting 5,000 miles on her truck per month. Aiming for what she calls the “gold standard in sales,” she left Pepsi and pursued a position at Sanofi-Aventis, a multinational company that develops, manufactures and markets prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals. Fourteen interviews later, Kojsza beat 1,700 candidates for the job. She excelled and worked for the company for two and a half years. Then she realized, “It was everything I thought it wasn’t.” After re-evaluating her priorities, she returned to her roots and bought an ice cream stand. “Small business is in my blood,” she states, referring to the Sterling General Store, a bar, restaurant and general store operated by her grandparents. “I learned to make change at the age of five. Thirty years later, we’re selling the same Italian hoagie for $3.” In addition to the Italian hoagie, she sells soft pretzels, burgers and ice cream at her two locations. “We’re the flurry headquarters,” she says. “You name it, we create it.” Among the shop’s signature flurry creations—a blend of soft-serve ice cream and premium mix-ins—are Rice Crispy Treat, Fruity Pebble and Chocolate Crunch flurries. “I learned to make change Kojsza stresses the quality of the product she offers. “My ice at the age of five. Thirty Fall 2014 | cream is top-notch. We use all years later, we’re selling the

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Center, Carlisle, Pa.; and Undergraduate Iowa’s Historical Society. Degrees 1974 1960 Barry H. Williams Gordon Roberts was MBA ’81 received the appointed artistic director and Volunteer Service Award conductor of the Gay Men’s from the Northeastern Chorus of South Florida. Chapter of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public 1961 Accountants at the chapter’s Richard “Dick” Cobb self- annual meeting on May published Ambrose: Civil War 22. He was recognized for Journey, which recounts his his participation in the great-grandfather’s call from organization’s volunteer 1969 his Iowa farm to service in leadership and financial the Union Army during the literacy programs. Williams Raymond Downey was married to Donna Wisnieski on April 19, 2013. American Civil War. The idea is dean of the McGowan Andy Matviak ’70, the groom’s for the book came to Cobb School of Business at college roommate, performed the Kojsza’s father, brother Ryan while on location to film the King’s College. ceremony in Sidney, N.Y., where MBA ’14, and mother Lori ’92 movie Gettysburg, in which Matviak serves as mayor. Pictured at the wedding, left to right, are MBA ’97, help her run both he appeared as one of the 1978 Wisnieski, Downey and Matviak. establishments and sell food six “Hot Heads of the 2nd Cynthia Mailloux received at festivals and events in which Maine.” The book has been the 2014 Pauly and Sidney the business participates. “My added to the Jefferson Library Friedman Excellence family is huge into what I do,” at West Point; the archival in Service Award from nursing. The award is given to a Kojsza states. “My mom is collection of the United States Misericordia University, faculty member in recognition awesome. She’s my best free Army Military history; U.S. where she is professor and of service for the university and asset.” That family atmosphere Army Heritage and Education chair of the department of greater community. followed Kojsza at Wilkes. “The cool thing about Wilkes is that my mom, brother and Larry Cohen, left, pictured with his wife, Sally, Wilkes President Patrick Leahy and Mike Wood, Wilkes I all had the same teachers. vice president for external affairs, at the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry annual They know my family. Besides awards luncheon. Wilkes was presented with the chamber’s Pride of Place Award in the community being mentors, the faculty are enhancement category for the Lawrence and Sally Cohen Science Center. The $35 million building, which opened in fall 2013, is named for the Cohens, who gave the largest single gift from an alumnus in friends.” Kojsza still remains University history in support of the project. in touch with business school 1957 faculty members, including professors Anne Batory and Wagiha Taylor. When asked what she considers the best aspect of her job, Kojsza says without hesitation: “It’s a lot of fun. There’s nothing more gratifying than handing an ice cream cone to someone and

putting a smile on her face.” Fall 2014 | – By Francisco Tutella WILKES

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1982 1990 Matthew McCaffrey is the a national board-certified Christine Lain-Sarno was John Serafin began a new new director of admission and teacher, teaches third grade chosen as the Frankford position as vice president/ institutional advancement at at Gilbert Magnet School for Township School Teacher Luzerne county commercial Canton Country Day School Creative Arts in Las Vegas, of the Year 2013-2014. She marketing manager of in Canton, Ohio. He resides Nev., and instructs professional is a third-grade teacher at Fidelity Bank in Kingston, Pa. in north Canton with his wife, development classes the school in Branchville, Andrea, and three children, throughout the Clark County N.J. Lain-Sarno resides in Keith Silligman earned Matthew, 11, Katy, 9, and School District in science, Wantage, N.J. with her an additional bachelor of Abby, 3. McCaffrey purchased literacy and teacher leadership. husband Chuck and two science degree in accounting his home from fellow Wilkes children, Skyler and Nikki. from Bellevue University alumnus William Downey 1998 after retiring from a 20-year ’69, who built it in 1977. Michael T. Beachem IV was 1986 career in the health care chosen to attend the selective Michael Yencha was management field. He lives 1995 NASPA, Student Affairs appointed president of the in Omaha, Neb., with his Sharon L. Brittingham earned Administrators in Higher Northeastern Chapter of wife, Nancy, and children, a doctor of divinity from the Education’s Mid Manager the Pennsylvania Institute of Ashley and Christopher. American Institute for Holistic Institute in Albany, N.Y. The Certified Public Accountants Theology in May 2013 and intensive, five-day program for the 2014-15 year. 1994 was ordained an interfaith provides an opportunity James Bruck MBA was clergyperson in May 2014. for advanced student affairs 1989 promoted to the rank of professionals to interact with Bill Evanina was appointed major in the Civil Air Timothy Williams was and learn from experienced director of the office of the Patrol. He currently serves among 28 teachers nationwide senior administrators. Beachem National Counterintelligence as the public affairs officer selected to participate in is associate director of resident Executive after 25 years of with Scranton Composite the American Geological life at International House working for the United Squadron 201. Institute’s K-5 Earth Science Philadelphia. States government and 18 Teacher Leadership Academy years for the FBI. in Houston, Texas. He is 1999 Ronald S. Honick Jr. was promoted to senior vice president, audit manager at First National Community Bank, Dunmore, Pa.

2000 Donna Talarico-Beerman MFA ’10 earned the master of business administration degree from Elizabethtown College, Pa. She also completed the 1979 regional leadership and professional development Gary Blockus received the 2014 Professional program Leadership Lancaster, Keystone Press Award for top Sports Beat where she was selected as 1976 Reporting in Division I from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association for his coverage class speaker at the program’s Philip Besler, right, was joined by Anthony of the outdoors. The competition included graduation festivities. She Shipula ’78, left, during spring 2014 in bringing sports writers covering professional and major is director of integrated Besler’s 58-foot 2008 Sea Ray Sedan Bridge college teams at large-circulation newspapers.

Fall 2014 Blockus, a reporter at The Morning Call in marketing at Elizabethtown

| from his home in Charleston, S.C., where he lives with wife Carol Gusgekofski Besler ’76, Allentown, Pa., also received an honorable College and lives in Lancaster to Long Beach Island, N.J. mention in the sports story category. with her husband, Kevin

WILKES Beerman ’01.

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Jonathan Perloff ’94 Designs Award-Winning Medical Devices

Jonathan Perloff ’94 never thought he’d be working with cadavers when he earned his mechanical engineering degree from Wilkes. But that’s exactly what he does to test the devices he designs for Globus Medical, a company specializing in innovative technologies for patients with spinal disorders. Working with design team doctors who serve as consultants to Globus, Perloff designs devices that improve the quality of life for patients while streamlining surgery techniques. Becker’s Spine Review, an industry trade publication, recently recognized Perloff and his team for LATIS, a lumbar interbody spacer that is inserted in patients with degenerative disc disease. It provides stability for individuals who have had discs removed. The publication recognized it as the outstanding spine device for 2014. The device is designed to allow surgeons to use minimally invasive surgical techniques to insert it—a significant step forward. Perloff, who was the lead engineer on the project, has applied for two patents for the LATIS device and already holds

another for an earlier medical device he designed. It’s work he Jonathan Perloff ’94 stands in a showroom displaying the many never dreamed of doing when he came to Wilkes. medical devices designed by engineers at Globus Medical. PHOTO BY SAMUEL SUNDERSINGH, GLOBUS MEDICAL “I’m a motorhead guy,” Perloff jokes. “I was always tinkering with cars. Most people who go into mechanical engineering devices to market. Because medical devices must meet Food want to design cars and airplanes.” and Drug Administration requirements, some new products His first job after graduation was with CFM technologies also must go through clinical trials before they can be used. in West Chester, Pa., a firm that makes wet processing Sometimes Perloff finds himself in the operating room with equipment for etching and a surgeon trying his device. cleaning silicon wafers for the “They don’t want someone semi-conductor industry. He also from sales,” he says. “They worked at Lutron Electronics “I was always tinkering with want the guy who designed in Coopersburg, Pa., and Knoll cars. Most people who go into it who can answer his Furniture in East Greenville, questions and who he can Pa., before joining Globus in mechanical engineering want give feedback.” January 2008. to design cars and airplanes.” Perloff says his current Perloff says it takes three work gives him the greatest years to bring a new device to satisfaction of anything he’s market, with two years from the done in his career. initial sketch or concept to full production. “We have a lab with “It’s nice to be able to do something to make someone’s life doctors on the design team,” Perloff says. Cadavers are used better,” he says. “It’s very rewarding to know that something to help design devices that will be used in the human body. you do will help them to sit up in a wheelchair, get rid of An in-house machine shop allows prototypes to be produced chronic back pain, correct scoliosis, or even walk again.” Fall 2014 quickly, cutting down the time that it takes to bring new | – By Vicki Mayk MFA ’13 WILKES

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2001 Pa., on July 6, 2013. The Graduate Adam VanWert Pharm. D. couple honeymooned in Degrees (See Graduate Degrees 2003). Fiji and currently reside in Uniontown, Ohio. 1981 2002 Barry H. Williams MBA Joseph Casey and Brooke 2010 (See Undergraduate Anne Polachek were married Jarrod M. Buzalewski Degrees 1974) on Aug. 10, 2013, at St. received a doctor of Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in osteopathic medicine degree 1989 Swoyersville, Pa. The groom from Philadelphia College of Gerard Champi MBA teaches at Wyoming Valley Osteopathic Medicine. was appointed an at-large West Middle School. The representative on the board bride is a physician assistant 2012 of directors at First National 2001 at Geisinger Wyoming Valley. John “Randy” Keiser and Community Bank, The couple honeymooned at Stacy Kaiser were married on Dunmore, Pa. Edward Kollar has been the Riu Palace in Aruba. They appointed principal at June 6 at the Luzerne County ParenteBeard. Kollar reside in Kingston, Pa. Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre. 2003 has over 30 years of The groom is entering his Adam VanWert Pharm.D professional accounting experience, including 14 2006 final year at the Pennsylvania was awarded tenure and years in public accounting. Benjamin Damick and State University Dickinson promoted to associate He is a certified public Jeannine Koneski were School of Law. The bride is a professor of pharmaceutical accountant in Pennsylvania, married on Oct. 12, 2013, registered nurse. The couple sciences at Wilkes University. an IRS enrolled agent and certified specialist in estate in Ithaca, N.Y. The groom is plan to hold a larger ceremony planning. He is treasurer employed as a web developer to mark their first anniversary of the Estate Planning and the bride is a hair on June 6, 2015. Council of Northeastern stylist. The couple resides in Pennsylvania. Rochester, N.Y.

2007 Shannon Curtin MBA ’09’s first poetry chapbook, File Cabinet Heart, published in June, won the 2014 Mini Collection Competition.

2008 Rex Harris participated in Pennsylvania Cage Fight 18 2010 at the Kingston Armory on

Katie Nealon passed the May 23. The event marked his Pennsylvania Bar exam. She return after a two-year hiatus to is an associate at Munley competitive mixed martial arts. Law, a personal injury law firm in Pennsylvania. 2009 2006 Peter Dombroski and Melinda Gentilesco were John A. Bednarz Jr. MA has been named a Pennsylvania Super married at St. Martin of Tours Lawyer in the field of workers’ compensation for the seventh straight year. Only 5 percent of Pennsylvania lawyers obtain

Fall 2014 Church in Susquehanna,

| the status, and Bednarz is the only attorney practicing in the workers’ compensation field in Wilkes-Barre to have earned the designation. WILKES

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In Memoriam

2008 1942 Howard J. Dinstel Sr., Lewis graduated Columbia Joshua Swantek PharmD was Katherine P. Freund, Palm Harbor, Fla. died May University Law School promoted to major. He is an Wilkes-Barre, Pa., died 20, 2014. He started his and was later appointed Air Force reservist at Joint Base May 21, 2014. She was a career at Pfizer, then worked to the Pennsylvania State McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. teacher for 30 years with at Greenstein’s Pharmacy Attorney General’s office, the Wilkes-Barre Area and Dinstel’s Pharmacy, where he oversaw the 2009 School District at GAR until the mid 1970s. Later awarding of pensions of Shannon Curtin (see Memorial High School. he worked at Cook’s coal miners stricken with Undergraduate Degrees 2007) Pharmacy, Shavertown, and black lung disease. Joseph C. Kelly, Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Janell Marie Stapert MS and Jenkintown, Pa., died on Kingston. 1955 James Barna MS were married March 2, 2011. He was George Saunders, Aug. 5, 2013, on a beach in a veteran of World War 1951 Walnutport, Pa., died June Maryland. The bride teaches first II. After graduating from Michael D. Kotch, M.D., 28, 2014. He was a general grade and the groom teaches Bucknell University and Nanticoke, Pa., died June adjuster for Saunders physical education in the Greater Brooklyn Law School, he 12, 2014. He graduated Associates and a general Nanticoke Area School District. was an attorney for the Hahnemann Medical adjuster for General National Labor Relations College in Philadelphia in Adjustment Bureau. He 2010 Board in Philadelphia. 1955. He served in the U.S. was a U.S. Navy veteran of Donna Talarico-Beerman Army from 1957 to 1959, World War II. MFA ’10 (See Undergraduate 1948 stationed in Fulda, Germany, Degrees 2000) Claire F. Beissinger, as the commanding officer 1956 Baltimore, Md., died May for the 501st Armored Sylvia I. Bator, Tilbury 2011 23, 2013. She was an Medical Company, attached Terrace and Edwardsville, Alison Carr MS and Ryan elementary school music to the 14th Armored Pa., died on May 16, Arcangeli ’14 MS were married teacher for 32 years in Cavalry. He worked as 2014. She was a guidance on June 15, 2013, in St. Jude White Plains, N.Y., Verona, private practice general counselor for the Lake- Parish in Mountain Top, Pa. N.J., and Greenlawn, N.Y. practitioner in Nanticoke Leham School District and The bride teaches health and for almost 40 years. a receptionist for the Russin physical education and the groom 1949 Funeral Homes. teaches history in the Crestwood Retired Col. Edward F. 1954 School District. Corcoran, Ph.D., U.S. Michael J. Lewis Jr., Patricia Stout Williams, Army, Columbia, S.C., died Kingston, Pa., died June 12, Clemmons, N.C., died 2012 April 8, 2014. He was a 2013. During his first year March 6, 2014. Jessica Hritzko was featured decorated war veteran. at Wilkes, he led a student in the Reading Eagle “In Our revolt against the custom 1957 Schools” feature. She teaches of hazing freshmen, which William DeMayo, Corona fifth grade at Bethel Elementary received national press del Mar, Calif., died July School, Bethel, Pa. recognition. He negotiated 11, 2012. He served the a truce between freshmen U.S. Army in Korea and Courtney L. Kuklentz MS joined and upperclassmen. He later started his own export the Parkland School District’s was a U.S. Navy veteran. business in California. administration team as coordinator of special education.

2014 Suzanne Murray-Galella EdD

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1959 1965 1975 Friends of Michael Goobic died April James R. Ward, Jacksonville, Rita M. Mercuri, Yatesville, 15, 2014. He served in the Fla., died March 10, 2012. Pa., died June 20, 2014. She Wilkes military in Korea. He later He was a certified public worked as an elementary Dorothea W. “Dottie” worked in marketing, most accountant and served in the and intermediate music Henry, Dallas, Pa., died July notably with Johnson & Marine Corps during the teacher for the Pittston Area 29, 2014. The University’s Johnson for 15 years. He also Korean War. School District for 35 years student center and gymnasium coached baseball and served and was the organist for the are named for Mrs. Henry as a volunteer at the Westfield 1967 First Presbyterian Church in and her husband, Frank M. Memorial Library. Jane Pesavento Grogan, Pittston for 40 years. Henry. Mr. Henry served Kingston, Pa., died on the University’s Board of Scott Threthaway, Palm June 3, 2014. 1988 Trustees from 1977 through City, Fla., died Jan. 23, 2014. Albert Timko, Harveys 2006. The Henrys have been He was a veteran of the U.S. 1969 Lake, Pa., died May 25, 2014. generous benefactors of Wilkes Army. Following retirement Paul W. “Pepper” Merrill He was a biology teacher at University, with significant from Carter Wallace, where II, Kingston, Pa., died July Luzerne County Community gifts made in support of the he worked as a national sales 7, 2014. While at Wilkes he College and was known as student center, the Henry manager, Threthaway taught played football as a defensive “the crab man” in Luzerne Gymnasium and the Cohen mathematics in the Martin end, earning all MAC honors County, selling crabs roadside Science Center. Before moving County School System. as a member of “The Fearsome on weekends. to the Wyoming Valley in 1960, Foursome” Golden Horde. Mrs. Henry worked as a social 1960 Merrill started his career as an 1991 worker in the Lutheran Welfare Joseph F. Andrejko, insurance adjuster for General Keith Kohut of Scott Service, Milwaukee. She was a Woodbridge, Va., died Adjustment Bureau before he Township, Pa., died Feb. 27, former Sunday school teacher June 11, 2014. established Merrill Associates, 2014. He was controller at at St. John’s Lutheran Church which he operated for more Olympia Chimney, Scranton, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and a 1961 than 20 years. and earlier worked for board member of the Diakon Judith Lamar, Harbeson, Lockheed Martin. Lutheran Social Ministries. Del., died on Nov. 7, 2013. 1972 She was a member and past She worked as an elementary Richard Otto Sarmonis, Michael W. Kuchera, president of Wilkes-Barre school teacher in Maryland Trucksville, Pa., died June Chambersburg, Pa., died General Hospital Auxiliary as and northern Virginia area, 27, 2014. He was employed January 12, 2012. He was well as a member of Geisinger and was a Loudoun County by General Foods, the employed by JLG Industries. Wyoming Valley Medical master gardener instrumental Northeastern Pennsylvania Center Auxiliary and chaired in establishing a teaching Council of the Boy Scouts of 2000 the Geisinger Gala. demonstration garden in America and retired in 2008 Cheryl Ann (Spudis) Leesburg, Va. from Leeward Construction. Manchester, New Milford, Pa., died March 23, 2012. Faculty Raymond N. Sordoni, She taught mathematics and Stanley B. Kay, Wilkes-Barre, Kingsville, Md., died on May technology for 32 years in the Pa., died July 4, 2014. He 21, 2014. He served in the Blue Ridge School District. was a professor of philosophy U.S. Army. at Wilkes College. As a philanthropist, he gave many donations to Wilkes College and others. Fall 2014 | WILKES

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2015 PRESIDENT’S MEDAL RECIPIENT JOHN REESE former Wilkes University athletic director and wrestling coach

WE SOLD OUT! The Inaugural Founders Gala, held on June 7, 2014, raised over $250,000 for the newly established First Generation Fund. Don’t miss the opportunity to support first-generation college students at Wilkes University. Mark your calendar now to join us!

For more information, contact Lisa Everitt-Ensley at [email protected] or 570-408-4137.

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calendar of events

October 1-31 Faculty Exhibition 2014, Sordoni Art Gallery 9-13 Fall Recess 21 Gardner Lecture Series: Strategies for Teaching Special Needs Students at Graham Academy, 4:30 – 6 p.m. Marts 214 25 “Passport to Science,” Community Open House, 10 a.m – 1 p.m., Cohen Science Center November 1-30 Faculty Exhibition 2014, Sordoni Art Gallery 1 Family Day 2014 4 Gardner Lecture Series: Northeast Innovation Alliance, 4:30 – 6 p.m., Marts 214 7-9 Wilkes University Theatre Presents: Carrie – The Musical, 8 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m., Darte Center 11 Gardner Lecture Series: Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Luzerne County, 4:30 – 6 p.m., Marts 214 12 “Navigating the Landmines of Conflict in the Landscape of a Family Business,” Family Business Alliance, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Henry Student Center Ballroom 14-16 Wilkes University Theatre Presents: Carrie – The Musical, 8 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m., Darte Center 15 Instant Decision Open House 16 Empty Bowls benefiting local food banks, Ballroom, Henry Student Center 21 Chorus/Chamber Singers Concert, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre 22 Civic Band Concert, 7 p.m., Darte Center 23 University Orchestra Concert, 3 p.m., Darte Center December 1-14 Faculty Exhibition 2014, Sordoni Art Gallery 4 Jazz Orchestra Concert, 8 p.m., Darte Center 6 Chambers Singers Performance with the Arcadia Chorale, 8 p.m., Covenant Presbyterian Church, Scranton 7 Chambers Singers Performance with the Arcadia Chorale, 3 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Wilkes-Barre 7 Flute Ensemble Concert, 7:30 p.m., Darte Center 8 Fall 2014 Classes End 10 “Texas Patriarch, The Rise and Fall of Family Dallas Dynasty,” Family Business Allance, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Henry Student Center Ballroom

For details on times and locations, check www.wilkes.edu and www.wilkes.edu/alumni or phone (800) WILKES-U.

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