Adelphi University MAGAZINE

Fall 2009

Undefeated Women’s Lacrosse Team Captures National Title

Analyzing HBO’s In Treatment

A Look Back: First Jobs

We asked five of Adelphi University’s most prominent change-makers in the fields of politics, finance, medicine, education, and publishing to explain how we arrived at this moment in time and what needs to happen next. Adelphi University MAGAZINE

Magazine Staff Patrick R. Coonan ’78 Inside School of Nursing M i aNAg ng Editor Lori Duggan Gold G.C. ’08 Richard Garner Vice President for Communications Honors College Rakesh Gupta Eio d t r-in-Chief School of Business (Interim) Bonnie Eissner Jeffrey A. Kessler Se ntnior Co ent Editor Student Affairs Linda Romano M.A. ’03 Steven J. Rubin Se nior PhOTOgraphy Editor College of Arts and Sciences (Acting) Kali Chan Andrew W. Safyer S taff Writers School of Social Work Ana Barbu ’10 Charles W. Simpson Rebecca Benison ’11 University Libraries Lauren Kalish Abby Ptachik Board of Trustees Eiod t rs Thomas F. Motamed ’71 Diane Moser ’86 Chairman Maggie Yoon ’98, M.A. ’08 Leon M. Pollack ’63 As s istANT Editors Vice-Chair James Forkan Carol A. Ammon M.B.A. ’79 Thomas Luberto Vice-Chair (Leave of Absence) Cindy Vaupel ’96, M.A. ’00 Katherine Littlefield Cnt o ribUTOrs Secretary Flavio Bollag Steven N. Fischer Suzette McQueen Chairman Emeritus Eugene T. Neely Samantha Stainburn Steven L. Isenberg ’00 (Hon.) Andrea Ward Chairman Emeritus Robert A. Scott P rhOTOg aphy President of the University AP Images Brookhaven National Laboratory Frank Angello ‘77 5 Message From the President Are You Chappell Graduation Images Michael J. Campbell ’65 Office of Governor David A. Paterson Robert G. Darling ’81 Christine Altuna ’03, M.A. ’06 Michael J. Driscoll M.B.A. ’89 6 University News William Baker Joan S. Girgus Brian Ballweg Jeffrey R. Greene 9 Undefeated Women’s Lacrosse David Flores Palmina R. Grella M.B.A. ’73 Team Captures National Title Luis Gomez Photos John J. Gutleber ’68, M.B.A. ’70 Erin Hallahan M.A. ’08 Noreen Harrington ‘81 11 Strictly Ballroom John Ellis Kordes ‘86 N. Gerry House 12 Did You Know? Connected? Willson Lee Angela M. Jaggar ’62, M.A. ’65 18 Commencement 2009 Matt Lyons Laurence Kessler ’65 Kathleen MacArthur Lindsey Kupferman M.A. ’02, Ph.D. ’06 You may have graduated from Adelphi one year ago, 20 years ago, or even 50 Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos Michael Lazarus ’67 0 2 Cover Story Dani Stracuzza Gerald F. Mahoney ’65 Joanne Toscano Brave New World years ago, but no matter where you are, you can stay connected with your alma Heather Walsh Gary Rosenberg M.S.W. ’63 Michael Weschler/Corbis Outline Lois C. Schlissel Helene Sullivan ’79 8 2 Faculty Focus mater by the simple click of a button. Dgnesi n a d Production Marjorie Weinberg-Berman M.S. ’61 Anthony Bagliani 2 3 Scholarly Pursuits Solid Design, Inc. Joseph W. Westphal ’70 Robert B. Willumstad ’05 (Hon.) 34 Faculty Highlights AU Connect is Adelphi’s multifaceted alumni social/networking site that provides: Officers Barry T. Zeman Robert A. Scott Trustees Emeriti 0 4 Student Life President n Access to thousands of fellow alums—staying in touch has never been easier! Gayle D. Insler John C. Bierwirth 42 Athletics Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Thomas Dixon Lovely ’54 Timothy P. Burton Richard C. Cahn n Senior Vice President and Treasurer 46 Alumni Events Exclusive discounts to premier products and services Special Thanks to: Lori Duggan Gold G.C. ’08 8 4 Class of ’59 Reunion Vice President for Communications Tara Amari ’05 n Networking and job search opportunities Angelo B. Proto M.B.A. ’70 Erica Klein ’04 Vice President for Administration and Student Services Louise Krudis 0 5 Alumni and Friends Giving Christian P. Vaupel ’96, M.S. ’03 Courtney Schiavone 2 5 Strength in Numbers n Information on upcoming events and programs (past events include: Tour of Yankee Stadium, Career Vice President for University Advancement 54 Who Gives Deans The Offices of Alumni Relations; Promotion Seminars, Reunion Celebrations, Sante Fe Opera: The Letter, and much more!) and Outreach; and University Advancement, Jane Ashdown and the faculty and staff of University Archives 6 5 Class Notes Ruth S. Ammon School of Education and Special Collections 6 5 Gary Dell’Abate ’83 Jean Lau Chin Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies 0 6 Peter Principato M.S.W. ’87 Registering takes just a few minutes. 4 6 Barbie at 50 Adelphi University Magazine is published two times a year by the Adelphi University Office of Public Affairs. We welcome your thoughts and comments. Please address letters to: Bonnie Eissner, editor-in-chief, Visit auconnect.adelphi.edu to sign Adelphi University Magazine, Adelphi University, Levermore Hall, Room 205, One South Avenue, P.O. Box 701, 6 6 A Look Back up and start connecting today! Garden City, NY 11530, or email [email protected]. Letters may be edited for publication. 4 President’s Photo Page Fall 2009 A message from the president 5

1 2 3 Change in Higher Education from being viewed as a public good to be- the transformational force of teaching and ing considered a private gain, from public learning, and reach well beyond the simple enhancement to personal enrichment. transactions of “master” and apprentice. Some features of higher education which These principles will be the foundation we take for granted are still relatively new. of the future just as they have been in the Academic departments didn’t appear until the past. The four overarching goals to our 1870s. At around the same time, following the strategic plan, entitled Adelphi 2015, are:

4 5 6 Civil War, athletics and fraternities began. (1) Adelphi will be a recognized center of intellectual and creative work; (2) An Change has been a constant at Adelphi as Adelphi education will offer relevance in well. Started as Adelphi Academy in 1863, a changing and diverse world; (3) Adelphi with a collegiate division added in 1896, students will achieve a broad range of edu- Adelphi was a leader in physical and health cational goals; and (4) Adelphi will sustain “Nothing endures but change,” said the education and coeducation at a time when affordability and enhance opportunities ancients. This is still true, in our daily lives, other institutions ignored both. Adelphi for students and faculty through prudent in every endeavor and in every enterprise. started the first collegiate program in fiscal management, increased productiv- In higher education, change comes in dance and the first university-based school ity, and improved use of assets, as well as terms of demographics, sponsorship, of professional psychology. In the 1970s, developing diverse and increased revenue employer needs, accreditation standards, Adelphi initiated the M.B.A. on the Long streams. Adelphi 2015 incorporates the rec- and political climate, among other forces. Island Rail Road, one of the first examples ommendations of faculty, students, staff, 7 of “distance” education. More recently, the D r. Scott with Audrey Ronning Topping ’09 (Hon.) The university as an institution is more than alumni, other community leaders, trustees, University went “green” in construction, 1 and Trustee Helene Sullivan ’79 at the Commence- 1,200 years old, and was started to prepare and administrators whose ideas were solic- ment dinner housekeeping, and grounds maintenance, a select few for elite professions such as the ited during the 2008–2009 academic year. Board of Trustees Chairman Thomas F. Motamed ’71 installed the largest geothermal heating and 2 clergy, medicine, and law. Throughout his- delivers remarks at the doctoral hooding ceremony cooling system on the East Coast, and is A strategic plan must embody principles for tory, the university has fulfilled three roles, seeking certification through the Leadership decision-making and priorities for action. It Dr. Scott and Carole Artigiani Scott with president including curator of the past, creator of the of the Alumni Association Board Shelly Kleinman in Energy and Environmental Design is the tool for fulfilling Adelphi’s mission and 3 new, and critic of the status quo. These func- M.B.A. ’83 and members of the Alumni Association (LEED) green building rating system. vision; navigating federal, state, and local Board Teresa Savory M.B.A. ’94 and Joseph Sessum ’75 tions have varied by degree over time, but “pushes and pulls;” and achieving distinction have been an important part of the universi- Information technology is an important Remembering Greg Gutman; His brother Brad with as an institution of higher education. 4 former Adelphi University Swirbul Library faculty ty’s role from the beginning. part of change. The Garden City campus member Valerie Feinman M.B.A. ’89 and Dr. Scott and our three centers are wireless. Moodle We must be ready to adapt to new circum- In the United States, the government’s role Trustee and Board Secretary Katherine Littlefield is the Web-based platform for classes and stances, respond to societal needs, and in higher education has evolved over time. 5 with Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic assignments, and athletic teams and faculty continue to be engaged with the larger Affairs Gayle D. Insler at the doctoral hooding 8 9 At first, the priority was for population dis- at events off-campus can communicate on community, always with our mission in ceremony in the AU PAC persal under the Northwest Ordinance. assignments via the Internet. Select degree mind, high quality and integrity as our Dr. Scott with Garden City Mayor Robert Rothschild Then, higher education received support 6 programs are also available by these means. watchwords, and our pledge to honor the and his wife Valerie, at the Commencement dinner for improvements in agriculture and the past as our beacon. Governor David A. Paterson, State Senators Kemp mechanic arts under the Land Grant Acts. With so much change in our past, what 7 Hannon and Craig Johnson, and Assemblyman Rob Later, colleges and universities were to about the future? For Adelphi, the future Sincerely, Walker welcome the Adelphi women’s lacrosse team absorb the veterans of World War II back will be built upon the foundation set by to the state capitol. into the domestic economy, and, then, our predecessors. Our competitive advan- Dr. Scott at the Florida regional alumni reception in 8 higher education was called upon to as- tages include relatively small size, so that Tampa, Florida, held at George M. Steinbrenner Field sist in national defense. More recently, the students are known by name and nur- Dr. Scott with alumni Robert McMillan ’57 and his wife federal role focused more on access and tured in their studies. We are known as a Phoebe; Ellen Meade ’63, M.A. ’73 and her husband 10 Robert A. Scott 9 financial aid programs in order to prepare caring and comfortable place for student Tony; Carol Finnerty M.A. ’76 and her husband John President Finnerty M.S. ’77 people for higher paying jobs. Through growth, yet one that is challenging intel- Dr. Scott with the C.O.A.C.H. Careers in Media panelists this evolution, higher education changed lectually and academically. We believe in 10 Bill Stephney, Gary Dell’Abate ’83, Bennett Zier ’78, Christopher Saridakis ’90, and Peter Principato ’87 6 University News Fall 2009 University News

Editor’s Note

Many Hands (and Eyes) Simply Make Better Work The Incredibles, the blockbuster animated film about a family of superheroes, has captured the lively imagi- nation of my four-year-old son. His favorite scenes are the last ones where the intrepid “Incredibles” family (a.k.a. the Parrs) foil Syndrome, the villain bent on re- venge and world domination, and his terrorizing robot. Thanks to the wonders of DVD players and a brave new world where preschoolers know more about tech- Per fect nology than their parents, Benjamin can cue up the scenes and watch them over, and over, and over again.

To my surprise, he remains transfixed as the seemingly interminable credits roll. Hip animation and the James Bond-like score no doubt mesmerize him. Yet, he seems genu- inely intrigued by the credits themselves, asking me time and again what the names are for and why the list is so long. The editor in me delights in his curiosity and the oppor- tunity to explain the labor and teamwork involved in creating the movie, some would say work of art, he has just enjoyed.

The credits in a magazine are in the front, in our masthead, and you may have noticed that the masthead for this issue is larger than ever. We benefited from an expanded team of writers, photographers, and editors who contributed their distinct voices and viewpoints to the publication. With a new team, we’ve taken some risks, such as ask- ing Derner Institute professors to comment on the popular television show, In Treatment, and used the “A Look Back” section to expose the eclectic first jobs of Adelphi alumni and administrators. In our cover story, alumni offer their insights on the pleasures and perils of today’s brave new world. You’ll find additional content and have the opportu- nity to add your own thoughts and images via our new Web and Facebook pages.

A larger team requires creative and thoughtful guidance. Credit our managing editor Lori Duggan Gold G.C. ’08 for keeping the ideas and energy flowing and deadlines met.

Our magazine, like an Adelphi education, thrives with diverse contributors. We hope that you have as much fun reading this issue as we had creating it.

Happy reading and continue to share with us your thoughts and news.

Bonnie Eissner Editor-in-Chief 8 University News Fall 2009

“You only compete with yourself, but don’t accept second best from yourself.” Chris Ball ’10 MY Adelphi Autumn leaves paint an iconic scene on Adelphi’s Garden City campus, where historic Georgian style buildings brack- et meticulously landscaped lawns, and young undergradu- ates cross paths with friends and faculty en route to class.

But Adelphi is much more. Look closer and you’ll also see two new centers for athletics and performing arts and al- most as many transfer and adult students as traditional undergraduates.

A college senior at 54, Chris Ball ’10, stroke survivor, Chris Ball ’10 is the epitome of the nontraditional student. entrepreneur, and father of three grown daughters, is Undefeated Adelphi Women’s one of Adelphi’s more nontraditional undergraduates. “It provided me with an education and a career,” she says. Lacrosse Team Captures National Title As a teenager, he pursued his passion to be a “young Setting his sights on the Derner Institute of Advanced Paul McCartney” rather than attend college. That never Psychological Studies, Mr. Ball applied and was accepted, panned out, but he played in bands, founded a successful but was unable to afford the tuition. He enrolled instead at With a 16–4 victory over Lock Haven and Kaitlyn Carter ’11 won second technical services company, had a family, and, until a mas- Nassau Community College, where he earned an associ- University in May, the women’s la- team honors. IWLCA also named sive stroke left him unconscious and in intensive care at ate’s degree and graduated as the 2008 class valedictorian. crosse team made Adelphi the first Ms. Fitzpatrick the C. Markland Kelly age 47, was living large. school in NCAA Division II history to Goalkeeper of the Year. “Nassau turned out to be a great thing,” he says, “I enjoyed win three national titles. The win not The Panthers were even lauded by “The stroke changed everything,” he says. “I went from every class. It’s a great school.” only brought the championship trophy New York Governor David A. Paterson, hard-charging executive to sitting in the house…My busi- back to Adelphi for the third time in In September 2008, with scholarships and financial aid who invited them to a ceremony at ness folded; I lost my money, my marriage, and my home.” six years but it also capped off a perfect that covered about half his tuition, Mr. Ball transferred the State Capitol. He fought to stay out of a nursing home, fought to walk to Adelphi’s Derner Institute, where he says, jokingly, 18–0 season for the Panthers. With their move to the Northeast-10 again, and refusing to be defined by his limitations, told “I’m probably older than most of my professors.” “It’s a tremendous honor to win a nation- this year (see story on page 43), the anyone who tried, “If you can’t help me, get out of the way.” al title, and I appreciate the opportunity About Adelphi, he says, “From the minute I’m on campus Panthers will have a new batch of rivals, that Adelphi University and President In 2006, after four years of intense rehabilitation, and 33 the feeling is collegial—there’s so much to be involved in.” and their coach expects the team to Scott have given me,” says head coach years after graduating from Floral Park Memorial High stay dominant. School, Mr. Ball decided to go to college. “Chris’s questions and insights reflect his wealth of expe- and alumnus Joe Spallina ’96, who rience, an empathy born of confronting life’s challenges, was named a coach of the year by the “Our goal as a program is to be a His sister, Lauren (Ball) Pizzo ’97, encouraged him to look and a genuine desire to soak up everything he can during Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse powerhouse team every season,” at Adelphi, where she’d earned a bachelor’s degree in busi- his time here at Adelphi,” says Derner Institute Professor Coaches Association (IWLCA). says Mr. Spallina. ness while working in Student Financial Services. Ms. Robert F. Bornstein. Pizzo, who is director of student aid at Eastern University Six Adelphi players were selected for Now, fans have more ways than ever to in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, where she has worked for nine Graduating with honors this spring, Mr. Ball plans to pur- All-American teams by IWLCA and cheer on and keep up with the Panthers’ years, has fond memories of Adelphi. sue a doctorate in psychology and work with underserved US Lacrosse. Caitlin Fitzpatrick ’10, bid to be repeat champions. For more populations, specifically children in foster care. Michelle Ceraso ’11, and Erica Devito ’12 details, turn to page 43. garnered first-team honors, while By Abby Ptachik Rachel Ray ’09, Emily Simpson ’09, By Linda Romano M.A. ’03 10 University News Fall 2009

Adelphi Welcomes Back Gary Rosenberg M.S.W. ’63

Gary Rosenberg M.S.W. ’63, Edith J. Baerwald professor of community and preventive medicine and chief of the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been elected to Adelphi’s Board of Trustees. He will serve on the Academic Affairs and Finance and Administration committees.

Dr. Rosenberg brings a wealth of health policy experience to the University— he was vice president of the Mount Sinai Medical Center and a member of the senior management staff for more than three decades. With sizzling tangos, fiery cha-chas, The recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, Dr. Rosenberg earned the Outstanding Alumni Award from both Hunter College and Adelphi and passionate rumbas, the Adelphi Ballroom University, as well as the Founder’s Day Award from New York University. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the Dancing Club has made quite a name for itself. National Academy of Practice, and editor-in-chief of two peer-reviewed journals on health policy and mental health practice.

D r. Jane Ashdown Appointed Dean of the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education strictly Following a nation-wide search, the University is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Jane Ashdown as the new dean of the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education. Dr. Ashdown brings a diversity of leadership expertise and teaching experience in the United States and United BallroomComprised of students, faculty, and alumni refining Kingdom to her new position. their dance skills, this eclectic yet tight-knit group “In my leadership role, I look forward to working with faculty and students continues to build momentum each year. to further their accomplishments and build on the School’s well-established regional partnerships and its reputation for producing highly effective “We formed a few years ago with just a couple of professionals who positively impact the communities they serve,” she says. individuals and currently have 15 regulars attending weekly classes,” says club president Leora Koyen ’10. Dr. Ashdown previously served as university dean of academic affairs for teacher education at The City University of New York (CUNY), where “Friends recruit friends who recruit friends, and so she championed cross-campus collaborative efforts between educators on,” adds club member Dana Stahl ’10. at public schools, and oversaw initiatives such as the CUNY Teaching Aside from weekly classes to polish their style and Opportunity Program and the New York City Teaching Fellows Program. technique, club members also participate in a ball at Prior to her role at CUNY, Dr. Ashdown served nearly two decades at the end of each semester, showcasing their talents New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and for a good cause; their most recent event’s proceeds Human Development, was director of the Ruth Horowitz Center for benefited returning wounded war veterans. Teacher Development, and principal investigator and director of a program Camaraderie, goodwill, and a passion for the art called Reading Recovery, which promoted early literacy in New York City of dancing have kept this talented group on their public schools. toes—on the dance floor and off.

Dr. Ashdown received her doctorate in interdisciplinary studies in human By Lauren Kalish development from the University of Pennsylvania, a diploma in early childhood education and post-graduate certificate in primary education from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and a Bachelor of Arts with honors in modern history, economics, and politics from the University of Manchester. 12 University News Fall 2009 Did You ? Know

C hinyere Enyinna ’09 NCC and KCC valedictorians Qaldu ifie post-9/11 veterans may attend (College of Arts and Sciences, Honors transferred to Adelphi Adelphi for low- or no-cost tuition College, psychology major) is enrolled Nassau Community College (NCC), Class in a master’s degree program in social- of 2008 valedictorian Chris Ball and? Described by Shawn O’Riley, executive director of University College, as the organizational psychology at Columbia Kingsborough Community College (KCC), single largest expansion of education benefits for veterans since the original University. Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Class of 2009 valedictorian Raluca Toscano G.I. Bill, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, or she dreamt of seeing New York City. are completing their bachelor’s degrees at Yellow Ribbon Program, is now active on Adelphi’s campus. Find out more at Coming to Adelphi fulfilled that dream and Adelphi. Although they hail from differ- acad emics.adelphi.edu/universitycollege/military/index.php opened up many more. In ten years, she ent countries and cultures—Mr. Ball grew says, “I’ll be a successful psychologist and up in New Hyde Park, New York and Ms. Toscano in Romania—they share a deter- a published writer with a beautiful family.” mination to set and achieve seemingly im- Ade as lPHi h an possible goals. Ms. Toscano arrived from Romania two years ago speaking almost no extraordinary R aluca Toscano ’10 (center) with Dr. Jill Panama Canal English and expects to graduate with hon- Biden, lifelong educator and wife of Vice Collection ors and plans to pursue a doctorate in math- President Joseph Biden (left) and Dr. Regina Opened in 1914, the ematics. Mr. Ball (see page 8) is on track S. Peruggi, president of KCC (right) at the college’s 44th commencement last June Panama Canal is an en- to graduate with honors in May 2010 and gineering marvel cel- Cml a il e Pajor ’09 plans to pursue a doctorate in psychology. ebrated in art, music, (College of Arts and Sciences, Honors and literature; a tour- College, philosophy major) is teaching Youan c now connect virtually ist destination; a geopolitical force; and a English in the Peace Corps this year. In and received decennial re-accreditation anywhere on campus source of debate, intrigue, and imagina- ten years, she says, “I’ll be working as an from the Middle States Commission. In the past year, the Office of Information tion. Adelphi’s Panama Canal Collection Nikla l o y I iev ’09 attorney. I’m thinking about going into This means, among other things, that fed- Technology increased wireless coverage cuts a swath through more than a century (School of Business, Honors College, intellectual property law.” eral grants and loans continue to be avail- throughout Adelphi’s buildings, sports of history thanks to the generosity of dis- economics major) is at Harvard Law able to Adelphi students. In addition to fields, and outdoor gathering places, mak- tinguished alumnus, Robert R. McMillan School after spending the summer in his Read more about these and other Adelphi citing Adelphi’s “rebirth since the last de- ing the Garden City campus largely wire- ’57, who was appointed by President hometown of Sofia, Bulgaria. At Adelphi, grads at ad elphi.edu/commencement/ cennial visit,” the reviewers pointed to the he not only excelled academically, but less for Adelphi students, faculty, and ad- George H. W. Bush to the Panama Canal profiles.php Ade as lPHi h been accredited by the University’s success in increasing enroll- ministrators. Wireless coverage was also Commission. See fascinating items from also worked in the Office of University Middle States Commission of Higher ment and student success, maintaining a extended to the Hauppauge, Manhattan, the collection in the University Center Advancement and as a peer tutor in the Education (MSCHE) since 1921 stable financial position, hiring new faculty, and Hudson Valley Centers. Get the buzz Gallery from December 3–January 10, Learning Center. Last June, after a two-and-a-half year insti- and increasing opportunities for research at infot ech.adelphi.edu/services/ 2010. Take a tour at li braries.adelphi. tutional self-study and a three-day site visit funding. wireless.php edu/bar/panama by a team of eight peer reviewers, Adelphi ?garnered praise for its accomplishments By Abby Ptachik 14 University News Fall 2009

I sraeli Ambassador Jerome Wakefield March 11, 2009 Daniel Carmon February 10, 2009 The Loss of Sadness: Are We Misdiagnosing Hooman Majd March 25, 2009 I srael and the Normal Human Emotion as Clinical Depression? The Ayatollah Begs to Differ United Nations Sponsored by The Lindemann Lecture in Human Development Part of the Ambassador Series Hooman Majd wrote The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of The author of more than 130 publications, the number of people we’re diagnosing; sponsored by the International Modern Iran, which was a New York Times best-seller. Mr. Majd’s Initiatives Committee Jerome Wakefield coauthored The Loss of advertising for antidepressants emphasize talk at Adelphi foreshadowed Iran’s summer elections, which Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal that if you’re not relating well to your fam- once again cast an international spotlight on the country’s politics. Ambassador Daniel Carmon has held his Sorrow into Depression Disorder, which was ily, you may have a depression disorder. current position of deputy permanent “Iran is not a dictatorship; it’s autocratic. People vote, believe named the best psychology book in Mood and sleep problems could represent representative to the United Nations their vote counts, get excited about their candidates. There is a 2007 by the American Association of unhappiness with a situation, rather than from Israel since 2004. supreme leader in Iran who has a role when it comes to matters Professional and Scholarly Publishers. a mental disorder…A cough is not a sign of disease if there is dust. Meaning shapes of Islam…Today, [Iranians] want to get to a point where they can “Peace will one day land in our region “We’re living in an age of depression, as far sadness and culture: you have to place the adapt ideals of democracy to a culture that is deeply religious, and everything will look rosy. It will as psychiatric diagnosis goes. It’s not just individual in context.” deeply Islamic. Are we willing to accept that? Maybe, or maybe take time, despite technology—the not…Religion and politics have always been intermingled, and Internet, emails, and press—it will take Iran is not a place that can separate religion and state—Iranians Hooman Majd time until this reflects at the United are fundamentally religious people.” Nations. It might take years.” Johanna E. Barry April 6, 2009 Galapagos at the Crossroads Sponsored by the Joseph J. Napolitano Memorial Lecture and the Department of Biology

Johanna E. Barry, president of the Islands today, although he would have less In Their Galapagos Conservancy, has played an to say about the human-inhabited islands. integral role in fundraising for environmen- These represent the biggest challenges, OWN tal conservation and outreach organizations. and also the biggest success stories in con- servation…The effect of humans on the “Charles Darwin would probably be very Galapagos cannot be overstated.” happy with the state of the Galapagos

ORDS James Horton February 19, 2009 Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour March 4, 2009 Abraham Lincoln in African American History and Memory The Road to Peace: A Palestinian Perspective Sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Distinguished Lecture Series and Part of the Ambassador Series sponsored by the International Initiatives Committee the Center for African American and Ethnic Studies James Horton is the Benjamin Banneker “Lincoln and his memory, for most Peace in the Middle East continues to be a Professor of American Studies and History at Americans, although it may touch on the pivotal issue in international politics, and The George Washington University as well abolition of slavery, revolved around the Wwas the topic of discussion at Adelphi dur- as historian emeritus of the Smithsonian preservation of the union. And, if you ing a visit from Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Institution’s National Museum of American haven’t seen this, next time you go to the the permanent observer of the Palestinian History. He is the author of several books, Lincoln Memorial take a look, because... Authority to the United Nations since 2005. including Hard Road to Freedom: The Story it says, ‘For whom he saved, the union.’ James Horton “We truly believe in that dream [the two- Israel, the Arab population, and all of of African America and Slavery and The Abraham Lincoln, for most Americans, state solution]; and we will work very hard the Arab countries to accept Palestine and Making of America. was the person who saved the union, but for it. There is a historic opportunity for normalize the relationship with Palestine.” he was always associated with African American possibilities and progress.” 16 University News Fall 2009

Respectful of the past, Hopeful of the future, Mindful of the present. AU COMMENCEMENT

“Today, let us think about this Adelphi graduation active citizens, and good mentors, respectful of the in three parts: as ‘last day,’ ‘first day,’ and ‘this past, hopeful of the future, mindful of the present.” day’—your last day as a student for this degree, your first day as an alum, and a suggestion on Noted members of the Long Island and New York how to think about ‘each day’ yet to come,” said City communities were honored for their lifelong Adelphi University President Robert A. Scott, professional efforts and their commitment to being addressing nearly 2,800 graduates and thousands active citizens. Suzy Dalton Sonenberg M.S.W. ’76, of their family members and friends in the Nassau executive director of the Long Island Community th Foundation, a division of the New York Community 2009Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum for Adelphi’s 113 The doctoral hooding ceremony held on May Trust, was awarded an honorary degree, along with Commencement on May 21, 2009. 20, 2009 honored 33 doctoral candidates from Audrey Ronning Topping, author, photojournal- the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Dr. Scott, who delivered this year’s Commencement ist, and documentary filmmaker and her husband, Psychological Studies and the School of address, expressed his hopes that an Adelphi educa- Seymour Topping, longtime foreign editor, assistant Social Work. tion will allow the new alumni to set their priorities, and deputy managing editor, and managing editor become versatile problem-solvers, and build a foun- of the New York Times and former director of edito- A video of the Commencement ceremony, as dation for their success. rial development of The New York Times Company’s well as transcripts of the addresses, are online 32 regional newspapers. Joan Kuster ’51, member of at ad elphi.edu/commencement “A focus on ‘this day’ reminds us of the philosophy of the Adelphi University Alumni Association Board, ‘mindfulness,’ being alert to one’s present experience, received the Ruth Stratton Harley Distinguished By Ana Barbu ’10 feelings, and consciousness in creating a sense of total Alumni Achievement Award. awareness,” said Dr. Scott. “We hope that graduates of Adelphi will be lifelong learners, effective workers, 18 Brave New World Fall 2009

st century, and already the An economic meltdown that wipes out millions of jobs and trillions in retirement savings. A flu pandemic sweeping the globe. A revolution in publishing. We’re barely ten years into the 21 future is proving to be a surprising and tumultuous place. As the old world order crumbles, Adelphi University alumni are right in the middle of the action, helping to shape a future that hopefully will be better than the past. By Samantha Stainburn We asked five of Adelphi University’s most prominent change-makers in the fields of politics, finance, medicine, education, and publishing to explain how we arrived at this moment in time and what needs to happen next. 20 Brave New World Fall 2009

GREGORY MEEKS on… the politics of now ongressman Gregory W. Meeks ’75 has gotten a close-up view Cof how the economy has stumbled over the past year. Hundreds of families in his district, New York’s Sixth Congressional District, are battling mortgage foreclosures, and stores near his office on Jamaica When the U.S. economy is struggling, and Americans need government assistance, Avenue in southeastern Queens have closed because business has how much foreign aid should we be giving to other countries? declined. As a member of the House Financial Services Committee We’re still the wealthiest nation in the world, and the House International Relations Committee, Congressman and on a per capita basis, we give far less than our allies do. People think we spend 20 per- Meeks is playing a key role in getting the nation back on track. cent or 10 percent of our budget on foreign aid. We actually spend less than 1 percent Who’s to blame for the recession we’re in? of our money on foreign aid. It only helps us. It makes us a safer nation. And in the long run, it will make There’s enough blame for everybody to share. Government’s us better off financially because we can help create a middle regulating agencies could have done a better job at looking at class in other countries that can buy American goods. the market. Financial institutions didn’t do credit checks be- cause they knew they were not going to hold the mortgages. There’s a lot of turmoil in Latin America and South You had brokers who convinced individuals who could afford a America—drug wars, coups, underdevelopment. $200,000 home that they could do a $500,000 home. Individuals Can America prosper if the region is undemocratic should have known better that they could not sustain that mort- or impoverished? gage if they didn’t make a sufficient amount of money. No. In this age of globalization, if our neighbors are weak, How can we pull ourselves out of the economic downturn? poor, and unstable, that can spill over and affect us negative- ly. We have to change our attitude towards Central and South We need the regulatory agencies of government to do a better America. The Cold War is over. We have to deal with them job. We need to have more accountability from our mortgage with respect. brokers who offered these predatory loans and from our finan- cial services companies. And we need the consumer to be more How has life on Capitol Hill changed since President responsible and financially literate. Barak Obama took office? It seems to many small business owners that the federal The president is trying to get folks to work together. It hasn’t government has forgotten them while they bail out the been that anybody wants to work together, but he’s given the big banks and auto manufacturers. Is this true? room for that to take place. In June, he invited Democrat and Congressman Gregory Republican congressmen and women to a luau at the White W. Meeks ’75 weighs That’s a misconception. If we had let those large institutions House. He walked along and talked to everybody. He didn’t in from Washington. fail, the overall economy would have been even worse than it rush anyone out. And it felt just a little more friendly. was. There wouldn’t have been any credit at all for small busi- nesses. Many institutions are paying it back at 15 to 18 per- You have videos on your Web site, a Facebook page with cent interest, so we’re getting that money back, plus some. family snapshots, and you’re on Twitter. How is technology The problem for small business is that people are not spend- changing the way you do your job? Brave New Blog ing, and expenses like rent continue to increase. So what do you do? In my district, I’m making sure nonprofit organiza- It’s making a positive difference because this place is based Adelphi’s recent alumni are coping with and crafting our tions like the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, upon ideas, and you get ideas from people. You never can tell brave new world. See how they are faring and share your which has a revolving loan fund for small businesses, and the where the best ideas will come from. own comments and tips on our Brave New World blog, Jamaica Business Resource Center, where individuals can get blogs.adelphi.edu/bravenewworld/ technical help, are reaching out to the businesses. We’re also working with the U.S. Commerce Department to make it > easier to do business internationally. 22 Brave New World Fall 2009

Noreen Harrington ’81 keeps tabs on Wall Street from the corner office.

NOREEN HARRINGTON on… a new day for Wall Street

or Noreen Harrington ’81, a 20-year veter- What troubles you about our current I s the government dealing with issues that economic crisis? caused this recession more effectively? Fan of Wall Street, the economic meltdown One of the things that frustrates me is I be- I’m hopeful that they are. A year from now lieve almost every element of what went wrong I’ll be able to tell you if we’re going to see this of 2008 seems like a bad movie that she’s being in the last year was present in 2002 and 2003 movie again or not. In one way, we are blessed by a new administration. It didn’t happen on forced to watch for a second time. In 2003, Ms. when we went through Enron, WorldCom, and the mutual fund scandals. What was bro- their watch as much so they can look with Harrington blew the whistle on improper trading ken then? A board of directors system that harder eyeballs at what went wrong. failed to serve shareholders. A compensation at a hedge fund managed by her then-employer, system that had spun out of control. A CEO How do we make sure that an economic used to be paid 40 times as much as a com- meltdown doesn’t happen again? and watched the public lose trust in the finan- pany’s workers, and it got to be 400 times the Some people say we need new regulations. I’m workers’ pay. We had huge accounting prob- not sure we do. We need to enforce the ones cial industry as investigations revealed that mis- lems in 2002 and 2003. There were real ques- we have. I don’t think the penalties for fraud tions back then about Fannie Mae and Freddie conduct was widespread among many firms. The are tough enough to discourage bad behavior. Mac, and we didn’t do anything. We rushed The ramifications need to be criminal if you’re former co-chief investment officer of hedge fund to pass Sarbanes-Oxley in the crisis, and that involved in these kinds of scandals. The level legislation was flawed. If we had properly ad- of fine has to scorch every dime you ever made Alternative Institutional Partners and a found- dressed those issues in 2003, we wouldn’t have and cost more on top of that. lost half the world’s wealth in this recession. ing member of 85 Broads, an international net- Are business schools to blame for the bad Why didn’t we do a better job of fixing the behavior on Wall Street? work of more than 20,000 women which start- financial industry’s problems six years ago? Business schools could spend more time look- ed as the Goldman Sachs Women’s Network, Ms. The crisis passed too quickly, and we didn’t ing closely at conflicts, decisions, and conse- pay a high-enough price. The mutual fund quences. In business, there are a lot of things Harrington is now an alternative investment spe- scandal affected 95 million people but what we do that are gray. But I don’t want to blame happened? A lot of companies admitted no young people. It’s a leadership issue. If the peo- There were doubtless hundreds of people on Wall Street who were aware of risky cialist for New York City-based investment man- wrongdoing and paid a fine, and the fine wasn’t ple in charge send the appropriate messages— decisions and cutting corners and didn’t speak up to their bosses or the authorities. equal to what they made. Some of those peo- ‘we care about the brand of our firm,’ ‘we care Why don’t more people blow the whistle like you did? agement firm M.D. Sass. ple are out of business, but Bank of America, about long-term profitability’—employees will for example, was involved, and they kept going. hear that. We have to get back to the good old- Blowing the whistle sometimes has a negative connotation. There is a pervasive attitude— fashioned question, ‘What is in the best inter- we’re all making money, don’t upset the apple cart. That needs to go away. Doing the right ests of this company?’ Over the last couple of thing should make you more employable, not less. In Wall Street, you often don’t see the years, not every firm had that culture. Part of it victim, you just see numbers. But if you know victims of the scandal, and see the rami- was if you inflated your P&L, you were going to fications of the events, it’s easier to step forward. In my case, I just couldn’t live with what be paid an enormous bonus. I knew, so I thought, ‘I’ll pass it along to somebody else.’ 24 Brave New World Fall 2009

D r. Robert G. Darling ’81 (right) r. Robert G. Darling ’81 is an emergency medicine physician and retired U.S. harnesses technology to bring house calls and other aspects DNavy captain who’s spent much of his career helping the United States mili- of medicine into the digital age. tary improve its ability to respond to public health emergencies. As director of the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Services (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland, he oversaw pan- demic influenza preparation, among other programs. He spent three years during the Clinton administration as White House physician, the first board-certified emergen- cy medicine physician to hold that position. Currently, he’s an assistant professor of military and emergency medicine at the USUHS and consults on medical technology and emergency preparedness. ROBERT DARLING on… modern medicine

Do we have a better or worse healthcare system than when you became a doctor in 1980s? We can treat diseases better, and we’re better technologically. With the ad- What’s so good about healthcare in the United States? What public health threat has fallen off the radar vent of the CAT scan and the MRI, you can almost do exploratory surgery and needs to be a big deal again? without having to do surgery because you see great images. However, we Everybody loves to throw daggers at the drug companies. have a problem with the delivery of healthcare. Healthcare is expensive The bottom line is, lifesaving drugs are created because Biological weapons remain a threat. Our enemies haven’t because we probably do too many procedures. We order too many tests pharmaceutical companies can make a profit. It drives in- gone away. If they can make a smallpox weapon work, because doctors are afraid of malpractice suits where lawyers say, ‘If you novation because people say, ‘I’m going to take a risk.’ The they will do so. There’s a finite amount of money in the $ had ordered these other 14 tests, maybe you would have gotten a diagnosis.’ average drug that gets FDA approval costs about 1.5 mil- federal budget, but I’d like to see that we don’t forget lion to develop. That’s because the 50 drugs drug compa- about that. What other problems with the healthcare system do we need to solve? nies invested in before that failed. It’s ugly, but it works. There are fewer people going into nursing and medicine, and we have What advances in medicine can we expect to see Will America experience a major pandemic in the 300 million Americans to help. With so many patients, how are we going in the next five years? next five years? to see them all? One potential solution is telemedicine. A patient doesn’t We sequenced the human genome in recent years, and have to come to the clinic to see a doctor. If they’re just going there to We’re overdue for one. Every 30 or 40 years, the influenza the fact that we know all of our genes means we are going get their vital signs taken and their medicines adjusted, they can do that virus has done a genetic shift and caused a pandemic. We to be able to develop very specific therapies for diseases at home at night and transmit the information to their healthcare provid- had relatively minor ones in 1967 and 1968. The real with a genetic component. Companies will develop can- er over the Internet. big one was in 1918. It killed 500,000 Americans, which cer drugs that don’t make you lose your hair or be sick. would be 2 million people today. We’ll also get to the point where we can predict what What are your thoughts on healthcare reform? diseases a baby will be prone to. If the government doesn’t allow competition within the healthcare mar- ket, our healthcare system will not be improved. I do not believe we should have pure socialized medicine like Europe and Canada. Everyone thinks Canada’s so wonderful. But the average Canadian will wait three or four months to get a new knee, and if they have the resources, they’ll come to the United States to get their knee. We certainly have access problems here, but we have a pretty darn good healthcare system in the United States. 26 Brave New World Fall 2009

NANCY ROUSSEAU on... SCOTT JAMES on… lessons for the future the new publishing paradigm

N ancy (Berliner) Rousseau ’69 remembers watching the 1957 protests S an Francisco-based Scott James ’84 is a journalist-turned-novelist who writes work has always been written in an acces- sible way. In the end, it is still storytelling. against integrating Little Rock Central High School on television when fiction under the pen name Kemble Scott. One of the biggest publishing hous- It’s about characters and a story arc. she was a girl. Now she is principal of the 2,400-student Arkansas high es in the United States distributed his first novel, SoMa, as a trade paperback You’re obviously a natural for this. But school, a National Historic Site where the past and the future intermin- in 2007, but he decided to publish the first edition of his new book, The Sower, how will authors who live in Vermont gle in the polished hallways, as members of the Little Rock Nine and civil electronically instead. In May 2009, the book was released exclusively on Scribd, with their dogs and never leave the house get published in the digital world? rights scholars visit regularly. Meanwhile, Ms. Rousseau’s job is to pre- a two-year-old Web site that sells digital books that can be read on any com- If you’re going to do a book on Scribd, you pare students to succeed in a world that continues to change. puter or mobile device. In August, Mr. James announced that California-based do have to know some things—you have to N umina Press would publish a hardcover version. create a cover, for example. You’ve got to describe the book in a paragraph. But there are far fewer obstacles to doing it this way Why is there an achievement gap How is the recession impacting your than in traditional publishing. If the writer between white students and students students and their families? A Teachable Moment. Little Rock last paid and the least paid. So this could Central High School Principal Nancy in Vermont can study how to format their of color in the United States? K nown as Kemble Scott to his be a total game-changer. Also, I own all Parents have lost jobs. Students are choos- (Berliner) Rousseau ’69 honored the readers, novelist Scott James ’84 the rights to the book, so I can still sell it book and put it up on Scribd, they have ac- Why is there an income gap? Why is ing colleges that are closer to home be- 50th anniversary of the Little Rock pens paper and digital novels as a hardcover, paperback, foreign edition, cess to the 2 billion people on the Internet there a housing gap? Student achieve- Nine with Secretary of State Hillary cause they can get scholarships. We’ve about life in San Francisco. audiobook, or podcast. all on their own, and they didn’t have to Rodham Clinton. ment doesn’t take place in a vacuum. asked parents to talk to us about any fam- figure out how to work the cocktail party Schools reflect society’s choices. We ily challenges because that will affect a Do you expect to make more money circuit in New York City to find an agent. work every single day to make a differ- child’s ability to achieve. If the teachers this way? ence in the lives of children, but schools know what’s going on, they can be sup- applied, and you move on. There are par- Won’t digital publishing drive bookstores I already am. On a standard book contract, alone cannot change society. portive and offer help. The economic cri- ents who don’t think their kids deserve that. out of business? the author gets 7.5 percent of the cover sis creates more problems for the students price. The paperback version of my first Bookstores know this is coming. They’ll What kinds of programs would help to deal with, but we already deal with What changes in education policy book is $15, and I get $1.12. With this ven- have a leading role in being the demand- close that gap? those problems. We have a wellness center are you hoping to see from the new ture, I get 80 percent of the cover price of generators. You’ll walk into a bookstore, I’m a believer in taking a child who’s read- with a full-time nurse, a social worker, and White House? the digital book. I’ve priced it at $2—about and say, ‘I’m interested in this type of ing at a low level and doing reading im- 28 student support groups. I’m hoping the Obama administration is the same as an iPhone application—think- book,’ and they can point you in the right mersion. Because frankly, if you can’t read, going to cut back on the amount of test- ing that the readers are probably going to direction. Booksellers are hosting authors what can you do? We need to focus at a What do high school graduates need ing the No Child Left Behind law requires. be college age so let’s price it in an amount whose books are only available digi- younger age on catching up kids who do to know now that they did not 20 In this school, we spent from the end of of money they understand. But because I tally, and they’re buying Espresso Book not progress appropriately in the elemen- years ago? March to the middle of May testing, in- get 80 percent, I’m already making more Machines, which print out a paperback tary level. At Central, we get students en- They need to know technology. And kids cluding NCLB testing, ACT testing, and $ version of any book they don’t have on th th money per book— 1.60. tering the 9 grade with 4 grade read- have to have more global awareness. We AP tests. No Child Left Behind is really the shelf in three minutes. ing levels. We identify incoming students an issue. It’s a bureaucracy that gets in the encourage all our students to take a foreign Why did you release your second Will you make more money in total? who are lacking in reading and math, and language. We offer six levels of five lan- way of kids learning and being successful. How is the digital publishing revolution novel in digital form rather than as Big picture, I do expect to make more we bring them in for a week or two in the guages, except for Chinese, which we just I have to believe that the people who cre- going to change American culture? a paperback? money, simply because I’m starting online summer and work with them on their skills. added three years ago. ated it had good intentions, but it’s terri- and getting a following there, then going This could have a great impact on the Then we double up on instruction for them. ble. It doesn’t take into account individual My first book was a best-seller, so I was into print, which is a different readership. intellectual level of the United States. Our kids who are having trouble in read- kids’ differences; you’re comparing apples certainly well-positioned to have a much What makes your job difficult? Also, because I’m getting 80 percent of the Americans are reading more than ever, but ing and math get 90 minutes of instruction and oranges every year with different kids, easier time publishing the second book. Sometimes, it’s the adults. It’s the teach- cover price with Scribd, the publisher of they’re reading text messages and Twitters in reading or math every day. We also have and you’re putting kids with special needs But I got a phone call about this startup, ers who don’t step up to the plate and have the hardcover offered better than the usual and their Facebook page. To be truly in- tutoring before and after school, and we up to the same standards as kids who have and I checked them out. Scribd has more the expectations needed to make a differ- percentage. I’m getting closer to 25 per- tellectually engaged and thinking on a bus kids home from tutoring, which is an 140 IQs. than 60 million unique users—that’s three additional item in the budget but makes it ence to their kids. And it’s parents who times the audience of American Idol. The cent of the cover price. higher level, you have to get to something possible to keep them after school. don’t support the educational process so CEO is 24, and comes from a generation longer-form. So I’m hoping this will meet their kids can be successful. I strongly be- that thinks, ‘Of course, the person who Will writing for digital publication those people on their turf. That’s the chal- lieve that children need to be held respon- created the entertainment or the music or require that you develop a new style? lenge of the digital age, to make that leap sible for their actions, and when they make the book should be paid first.’ In the tradi- I can see how it might be different. But from LOL to a novel. a mistake, the consequences need to be tional publishing process, the author is the because of my journalist background, my 28 Ftacul y focus Fall 2009 Faculty Focus

Since the 1908 film, Dr. Dippy’s Sanitarium, We asked Associate Professor Mark psychotherapists have served fiction Hilsenroth and Associate Professor well as they’ve drilled into protagonists’ Francine Conway Ph.D. ’99, both fac- psyches, exposing motivations and fur- ulty members in the Gordon F. Derner thering the narrative. At the same time, Institute of Advanced Psychological popular media has often done a disservice Studies—the nation’s first university- to the profession and the public by por- based professional school of psychol- traying therapists as one-sided—come- ogy—who also have private therapy dic or corrupt, good or evil, wise or fool- practices, for their take on the show. ish, caring or indifferent—and those in therapy as severely mentally ill or patent- The fact that In Treatment’s therapist makes ly ridiculous. In 1998, concern over the errors, ranging from mild to very serious, portrayal of therapists onscreen led the is one of the reasons Dr. Hilsenroth, who American Psychological Association (APA), is also the incoming editor of the APA’s Media Division, to form its Media Watch journal, Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, and Committee to monitor and cultivate more Training, likes the show so much. accurate portrayals of psychotherapy. “It may make some “I’m a big fan of the show. It portrays a A n a ly z i n g When In Treatment debuted on HBO in complex perspective of therapeutic work— January 2008, it broke with the past, offer- people curious about the good, the bad, and the ‘I’m not ex- ing a complex and compelling view of ther- the possibility of actly sure what to say or do’ aspect of do- apy. People started talking, even arguing psychotherapy to help ing psychotherapy. There are no perfect heatedly, about the show’s patients and its therapists, but many are ‘good enough’ to protagonist, psychodynamic therapist Dr. improve their lives.” make a meaningful impact on the lives of Paul Weston (“Paul” to his patients). Was those with whom they work,” he says. In Treatment – Dr. Mark Hilsenroth he a good therapist? Did he intervene too According to Dr. Hilsenroth, every major much? Cross too many boundaries? In Treatment was on to some- study shows that psychodynamic psychotherapy works. People in thing—capturing the charged atmosphere and compelling issues short-term therapy are able to make changes that last a lifetime. Imagine you’re in a room, across from a therapist—a fictional of psychotherapy while also attracting a dedicated audience. In contrast to his students, who love In Treatment, reaction among Each week, In Treatment presents five half-hour dramas, one with Dr. Hilsenroth’s colleagues is more mixed. psychotherapist. Who do you see? Gabriel Byrne? each of Paul’s patients and his own therapy session. Each episode Lorraine Bracco? Kelsey Grammer? Bob Newhart? offers a more nuanced picture of therapy and therapists as well “I know some colleagues who hate the show…they think it’s over- as patients in therapy. These are functional, even high-achieving dramatized…but I think that’s the good thing…it brings up issues people, who are also in psychic pain. that are sort of extreme so we can talk about them,” he says. Each of these actors has portrayed a psychotherapist in an award-winning television series: Gabriel Byrne, the flawed but caring Dr. Paul Weston in HBO’s Even with its attractive patients and captivating therapist, who “I believe the show will have a positive impact on psychotherapy in not only cares deeply but also looks good and has a terrific Irish In Treatment; Lorraine Bracco, the long-legged, stone-faced Dr. Jennifer Melfi in general, and psychodynamic psychotherapy in particular, because it accent, the show conveys the essential quality of psychodynamic The Sopranos; Kelsey Grammer, the antic Dr. Frasier Crane in Cheers and Frasier; affords the general public an insight into what therapy might be like therapy—the intentional interpersonal relationship between client for themselves...It may make some people curious about the possibil- and Bob Newhart as the Newhart show’s Dr. Robert Hartley. and therapist. ity of psychotherapy to help improve their lives,” says Dr. Hilsenroth. 30 Ftacul y focus Fall 2009

A n a ly z i n g In Tr e at m en t Dr. Conway, who was trained at Admitting to making cupcakes (with Derner, praised In Treatment for frosting) to celebrate a 10-year- portraying the compassion of a old client’s achievement in school, therapist for his patients and for Dr. Conway says, “Part of what in- Assistant Professor of demystifying psychotherapy, but forms my thinking about this [cross- Dance Trebien Pollard criticized it for ignoring issues of ing boundaries] is that I have a and Assistant Professor class. What therapy people have social work background, and I was of Music Sidney Boquiren access to depends on where they also trained at Derner, which is very collaborated to create a new work. come from: the working or middle psychodynamic...I’ve had to find a way adel phi UniversityPAC Performing Arts Center class with insurance, the upper of reconciling these two points of view.” class with insurance or the ability to pay out-of-pocket, or lower eco- Dr. Conway says her decisions in pri- nomic classes relying on Medicaid. vate practice, like Paul Weston’s in In Any therapist would want Paul’s Treatment, would depend on what she patients, says Dr. Conway; they’re could live with as a person and, of educated, highly verbal, high course, the professional boundaries. achievers with insurance or the inspired by “We’re human,” says Dr. Conway. ability to pay out-of-pocket. AU PAC brings new energy to creative work “I think we have to think about those You feel it when you walk into Adelphi’s Performing Arts Paul Weston, she says, “probably “What am I here to do? things and then make the best deci- Center—the energy of movement, sound, and sight—the would not take a Medicaid client… sion we can at the time...I think the I’m here to teach you to danger is in not acknowledging how pulse of the arts, thriving in their new home. For Assistant D esign and that’s unfortunate to me.” Mr. Boquiren spoke about coming together live your life in a way it can influence the relationship.” Professor of Music Sidney Boquiren, Assistant Professor of in rehearsals to blend their ideas into a co- As for the show’s effect on the pro- Dance Trebien Pollard, Assistant Professor of Performing fession, Dr. Conway says, laugh- that’s satisfying.” Even something as seemingly benign hesive work. They realized how separate Arts Sarah Martin, and Assistant Professor of Performing ing, “I think there’s more of an effect as feeding a patient can influence they had become in their work, and what from the recession.” She explains – Dr. Francine Conway Ph.D. ’99 the therapeutic relationship, says Dr. Arts Sean Sullivan, AU PAC gave them a “meaningful, and being united in one building might mean that most Americans are pretty well Conway. As a graduate student she serendipitous” opportunity to collaborate and bring their for their work. For them, the collaboration informed about psychotherapy because psychological servic- asked Derner professor, Karen Lombardi, why not inter- work together in a way not seen before at Adelphi. was as much about the final presentation es are intrinsic to our health, education, and judicial system, vene in certain concrete ways with a patient? What would as it was about the process of pushing the and that the APA has done a good job establishing psychol- you rather do, Dr. Lombardi asked in return, teach a child On November 24, 2008, they present- boundaries of their disciplines and navi- ogy as a valid, credible authority. how to avoid getting hit by an abusive Mom and to put food ed “The Civilized Captivity of a Primitive gating their different work styles. They away so he or she can eat when not being fed, or be there to Existence” in the AU PAC Dance Theatre. brought Ms. Martin and Mr. Sullivan in so As a therapist, Paul Weston crosses boundaries. He gets emo- feed the child? The piece explores themes of solitude, loss, that all three performing arts areas were tionally involved; he takes a young woman for chemotherapy; and creation, and blends the music of Mr. given a voice in the project. he makes sandwiches for a pre-adolescent boy neglected by “That really stayed with me,” says Dr. Conway, “because Boquiren with the choreography of Mr. divorcing parents. Like his counterparts in reality, Paul makes I said to myself, ‘What am I here to do?’ I’m here to teach Pollard, the costumes of Mr. Sullivan, and What’s next? Both Mr. Pollard and Mr. difficult choices. you to live your life in a way that’s satisfying.” the lighting design of Ms. Martin. Boquerin feel they are moving towards cre- ating more work that cannot be confined “That’s what’s great about the show,” says Dr. Hilsenroth. By Abby Ptachik The collaboration began when Mr. Pollard to one discipline, and they want to extend “It makes you think, as a therapist, ‘What would I do there?’ heard Mr. Boquiren’s music and became their collaborative energy to the sciences And a lot of the time, you don’t know until you get there.” “inspired by how he created the music.” In and other disciplines. their post-show discussion, Mr. Pollard and 32 Faculty focus Fall 2009 Scholarly Pursuits

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Justyna Widera conducts research with Reflected Light Brookhaven National Laboratory. Convex Mirror

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Renewable Energy Research Gets a Boost For our new Why column, we asked Associate Professor of Physics Sean Bentley to explain the To Assistant Professor Justyna Widera familiar disclaimer on car side mirrors. From Petroleum Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation Dr. Widera hopes that through this re- For Development of novel-type nanostructures for solar cell applications search she will be able to procure further funding through outside grants, and even- tually be able to develop a prototype of Why are objects in the mirror Assistant Professor of Chemistry Justyna new generation solar cells. Maintaining Widera has been awarded $50,000 over closer than they appear? collaborative efforts with the Brookhaven Q two years from the Petroleum Research National Laboratory is essential to this Foundation and approximately $20,000 initiative, as the facility provides state-of- from the National Science Foundation The warning stems from the fact that side mirrors on the-art equipment, which is vital to mov- to pursue research of fourth-generation cars are often slightly convex. Much like the large, ing forward and gaining further advances Graetzel cells, tiny particles that are ca- in the field. hemispherical security mirrors on the ceilings of many pable of harvesting solar energy more ef- A stores, this shape allows the mirror to display more of what is ficiently than other available methods. The “These are very basic studies that will behind you, but with the trade-off that those things look small- funds will be used towards purchasing new have to continue for a few years,” says equipment and supplies, attending confer- Dr. Widera. “After commercialization, By Sean Bentley er, thus being perceived as farther away. You may have noticed ences, and supporting two interns each we will probably get on board with a com- Dr. Bentley founded Adelphi’s Laboratory for Quantum that some vehicles, especially large trucks, have an additional year. Dr. Widera conducted her research pany or business that can produce the ma- and Nonlinear Optics. His research centers on nonlinear small side mirror that is very curved to give an even large field- in collaboration with the Brookhaven terials and put them on the market…This optics, fundamentals and applications of quantum of-view. The enhanced field-of-view is to increase vision of ob- National Laboratory’s Center for Functional is a form of renewable energy using cheap entanglement, quantum dots, and solar energy. He has Nanomaterials over a 10-week period be- jects behind you and thus heighten safety in performing op- materials, and it will be highly efficient a patent pending for his Interferometric Method for ginning in June 2009. Adelphi chemistry erations such as backing up or changing lanes. In contrast, the and inexpensive.” Improving the Resolution of a Lithographic System, majors Jason Lane ’10 and Scott Gordon a technique for creating high-density computer chips. rearview mirror will generally be flat rather than curved, giving ’11 worked as research assistants. By Rebecca Benison ’11 a more realistic perception of the distance to the objects. 34 Ftacul y focus Fall 2009

Crawfordsville, IN, March 2009; and presented Clickers in the Classroom at the L awrence Josephs presented The Adap- Irreducible Histories: The Problem of “Secular- Adelphi University Teaching with Tech- tive Function of Sexual Greed at the Greed, Belief” and Some Possibilities for a New Sociality nology Fair, April 2009. Sex, Money, Power, and Politics Sympo- in India at the Society for Anthropology sium, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, Priya Wadhera (Languages and Interna- of Religion, Asilomar, CA, March 2009. NY, February 2009. Faculty Highlights tional Studies) presented A Tale of Two Incip- its: Proust and Perec Opening Out Onto a New Jacqueline Jones LaMon (English) pre- Morton Kissen, with D. Kissen-Kohn, sented her Rutgers Reading Series during a po- Horizon at Séisme/Seismic Shifts, the 20th published Reducing Addictions via the Self- etry reading, Newark, NJ, February 2009. and 21st-Century French and Francophone Soothing Effects of Yoga in the Bulletin of the College of Arts and Sciences Dominick Cavallo (History) published 16S and cyt.b Genes at the Society for Inte- Studies International Colloquium, Uni- Private Lives/Public Moments: Readings in Ameri- grative and Comparative Biology (SICB), Jennifer Maloney (Art and Art History) versity of Minnesota at Minneapolis, MN, Menninger Clinic, 73(1), 34–43, April 2009. R aysa Amador (Languages and Interna- can History, two volumes (Prentice Hall, Boston, MA, January 2009; and Cladistic exhibited in Ordinary Objects at Clinton March 2009. Professor Kissen, with S. Danish, presented tional Studies), with M. Dominicis, pub- August 2009). Analyses of the Tilefishes (Percoidea: Malacanthi- Hill Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2009. Enhancing Psychoanalytic Treatment through Yoga lished Spanish textbook Asi es la vida (2009). dae and Branchiostegidae) Using the Mitochon- Andrea Ward (Biology), with M. D. at Adelphi’s Alumni House, February 2009. Tandra Chakraborty (Biology), with S. drial 16S and cyt.b Genes at the American Adam McKeown (English) published a Kinkel, E. M. Sefton, Y. Kikuchi, T. Sean Bentley (Physics), with S. E. Watkins Chakraborty and J. Roy, published Estrogen- Society Ichthyology and Herpetology book, English Mercuries: Soldier Poets in the Mizoguchi, and V. E. Prince, published Janice Steil, with W. Paszkiewicz, present- and M. A. Huggans, published Pre-College Like Endocrine Disrupting Chemical Affecting annual meeting, Portland, OR, July 2009. Age of Shakespeare (Vanderbilt University Cyp26 Enzymes Function in Endoderm to Reg- ed I Don’t Have Time: Leadership in the Context of Outreach at a Technical Conference in the Puberty in Humans—a Review in the Medical Press, 2009). ulate Pancreatic Field Size in the Proceedings of Dual-Earner Family at the National Council International Journal of Engineering Education, Science Monitor, 15(6), 137-145, June 2009. Anton Dudley (English) published his play, the National Academy of Science, 106, 7864– Georgia Newlin (Music) published the of Schools and Programs of Professional 25, May 2009. Honor and the River in 2009, and showcased 7869, April 2009. She also presented three in the , 35, Psychology, 2009 Mid-Winter Conference, Martha Cooley (English) published Sin’s it at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadel- President’s Message Kodály Envoy papers: with R. J. Aluck, Use of Contact Points Leadership: Preparation and Transforma- Robert Bradley (Mathematics and Com- Entertainments: On Dante’s Inferno in Writer’s phia, PA, February 2009 and attended The no. 3, 3, March 2009. During Aquatic and Terrestrial Locomotion in tion, Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, January 2009. Chronicle, Vol. 41, no. 5, 16–23, March 2009. Believers (3rd Annual POP! Festival) at Hand Polypteriform Fishes; with M. L. Flauto, Impact puter Science) published Cauchy’s Analysis: Salvatore Petrilli (Mathematics and Com- Professor Cooley and Judith Baumel, with Theatre Company, New York, NY, May of Temperature During Early Development on A Break with the Past? in the Proceedings of the puter Science) presented Monsieur François- G. Becker, M. Crone, K. Daniels, and D. 2009. Professor Dudley, with N. Boisvert, Startle Responses in Adult Zebrafish (Danio Rerio); R uth S. Ammon School Canadian Society for the History and Philoso- Joseph Servois: His Life and Work on Differential Haynes, presented On Assessment at the As- presented Substitution at the Centre des Au- and with C. M. Rade and E. M. Ciummo, of Education phy of Mathematics, 21, 36–52, March 2009. Calculus at the Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium on sociated Writing Programs Annual Confer- teurs Dramatiques (CEAD), Espace Libre, The Evolution of Fin Reduction and Loss in Fishes, He also gave two presentations: Saving the the History of Mathematics, Adelphi Univer- Damep rt ent of Curriculum ence, Chicago, IL, February 2009. Profes- Montreal, QC, March 2009. at the Society of Integrative and Compara- Phenomena: Limits from Maclaurin to Cauchy sity, Garden City, NY, February 2009. and Instruction sor Cooley, with L. Sims, B. Evenson, M. J. tive Biology, Boston, MA, January 2009. at the AMS-MAA Special Session on Fitzgerald, J. Tabbi, and F. Pelleau, present- Matthias Foellmer (Biology), with J. D iane Caracciolo published By Their the History of Mathematics at the Joint Trebien Pollard (Performing Arts) per- ed In Celebration of David Markson at the same Moya-Laraño, D. Vinkovic, and C. Allard, Very Presence: Rethinking Research and Partner- Mathematics Meeting, Washington, D.C., formed in Gnomen at the Pilobolus Dance D erner Institute conference. published Optimal Climbing Speed Explains the Theatre, Parma, Italy, May 2009; 2009 Draft- ing for Change with Educators and Artists from January 2009; and From Enlightenment Lunar Evolution of Extreme Sexual Size Dimorphism in R ebecca Curtis, with B. Willock and L. C. work series at St. Marks Church, New York, Long Island’s Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center Theories to the Discovery of Extra Solar Planets, Jonna Coombs (Biology) presented three Spiders in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Bohm, published Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbid- NY, May 2009; and Chopped and Screwed at and Museum in the International Journal for American Association for the Advance- papers: with B. Ziogaite, B. Smith, A. 22, 954–963, April 2009. den Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis Joyce SoHo, New York, NY, June 2009. Qualitative Studies in Education, 22, 177–202, ment of Science, Annual Meeting, Chi- Chatziefthimiou, and T. Barkay, Isolation and Psychotherapy, in paperback in 2009. March 2009. Professor Caracciolo, Diana cago, IL, February 2009. and Microarray Analysis of Cryptic Plasmids Kermit Frazier (English) published a book, Lahney Preston-Matto (English) present- Katherine Fiori, with N. S. Consedine Feige, and Anne Mungai, presented In the from Metal Resistant Bacteria of the Deep Terres- Save the Tree (Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon, ed What Is This Meat Product?: What’s at Stake and C. Magai, published two articles: Late Melanie Bush (Anthropology and Soci- trial Subsurface at the American Society for 2009) and Uncorked, a short story in the Green in Translating “Aislinge meic Conglinne” at the Spirit of Ubuntu at the Celebration of Teach- Life Attachment in Context: Patterns of Relat- ology) published three articles: American Microbiology General Meeting, Philadel- Mountains Review, Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2008. He 44th International Congress on Medieval ing and Learning, a Channel 13/Channel 21 ing Among Men and Women from Seven Ethnic Dream or Global Nightmare? in the Journal phia, PA, May 2009; with A. Vecchi, K. also showcased his play Kernel of Sanity, at Studies, Western Michigan University, conference, New York, NY, March 2009. Groups in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Geron- of Global Initiatives, 32, Ch. 20, April 2009; Shah, and L. Alexis, Random Mutagenesis of the New Federal Theatre and at the Henry Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009. Professor Caracciolo also presented In the tology, 24, 121–141, June 2009; and with The Hollywood Ten in the International Ency- the zntA Gene in the XL1-Red Mutator Strain Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center/Re- Spirit of Ubuntu: Stories of Teaching and Research, C. Magai, N. S. Consedine, and A. King, clopedia of Revolution and Protest, 1602–03, and its Effect on Metal Resistance in Escherichia cital Hall, New York, NY, April 2009. Robert Siegfried (Mathematics and Part II at the 5th International Congress of Computer Science), with J. J. DiLallo, Sharing the Good, Sharing the Bad: The Benefits March 2009; and Aaron McGruder and “The Coli; and, with E. Harrison and G. Eduardo, Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois Detection and Isolation of ds-DNA Viruses in Es- Hanna Kim (Anthropology and Sociol- published The Accessibility of College and of Emotional Self-Disclosure Among Middle-Aged Boondocks” in the African-American History at Urbana-Champaign, IL,May 2009. tuarine and Aquifer Waters from Long Island, NY, ogy) presented three papers: Post-Colonial, University Home Pages in the State of New York and Older Adults in the Journal of Aging and Reference Series: The Contemporary World, 236, Post-Liberal Gujarat: the Discourse on Secularism Health, 21, 286–313, February 2009. Pro- at the American Society for Microbiology in the Journal of Information Systems Applied Mary Elizabeth de Freitas published January 2009. She also presented U.S. Em- and Its Alternatives at the Rethinking Religion fessor Fiori, with N. S. Consedine and C. General Meeting. Research, 2(4), June 2009. Mathematics and Its Other: Dislocating the Feminine pire, National Belonging and Resistance in the 21st in India II: Rethinking Secularism Conference, Magai, presented The Adaptive and Maladap- in , January 2009. Century at the University of Paris XIII, Cen- James Dooley (Biology) presented two New Delhi, India, January 2009; The BAPS Christopher Storm (Mathematics and tive Faces of Relating to Others in Later Life: Links Gender and Education tre de Recherches Interculturelles sur les papers with K. Kelleperuma and L. Swaminarayan Temple Organization and Its Pub- Computer Science), with B. Balof, pub- to Physical and Psychological Outcomes at the Professor de Freitas, with J. Paton, Domaines Anglophones et Francophones, Jimenez: Preliminary Cladistic Analysis of the lics at the International Conference on the Public lished Constructing Non-Isomorphic Isospec- Biennial Meeting of the International Soci- published (De)facing the Self: Poststructural Does Discrimination Shape Identity? Paris, Tilefishes (Percoidea: Malacanthidae and Representation of a Religion called Hinduism: Um- tral Digraphs from Hypergraphs in the Journal ety for the Study of Behavioural Develop- Disruptions of the Auto-Ethnographic Text in France, March 2009. Branchiostegidae) Using the Mitochondrial brella Organizations and Ecumenical Hinduism, of Graph Theory, January 2009. He also ment, Würzburg, Germany, July 2009. the Qualitative Inquiry, January 2009. 36 Ftacul y focus Fall 2009

D aryl Gordon published Cultural Compe- M iriam Pepper-Sanello, Susan Eichenholtz, Courtney Lee Weida showcased her work Susan Lederer, with E. Erwin, published Education, Recreation and Dance, Tampa, Supplier in the International Journal of Rev- tency Through Service Learning in Academic Ex- and Lucia Buttaro, with A. Sosin, pub- in five exhibitions: National Art Education Let’s Practice Yoga: The Promise and Practice of FL, April 2009. Professor Rukavina, with R. enue Management, Vol. 3, no. 1, 37–55, Febru- change Quarterly, 13, 1, April 2009. Professor lished Reaching Diverse Learners through Social Association Artisan Gallery Gala at the Art Yoga for Kids with Disabilities on the PBS Par- K. Wingert, B. Shen, Y. S. Choi, W. Li, and ary 2009; with L. Bai and J. Szmerekovsky, Gordon, with G. Weinstein and J. King, Justice Themes in the Journal of the New York Education Association Convention, April ent Web site, April 2009. She also present- H. Sun, presented The Influence of Teachers’ Modeling Inventory Inaccuracy and Demand Devia- presented the ESL Partnerships for Immigrant Social Support on Amotivation in Physical Educa- State United Teachers in Educator’s Voice, II, 2009; Arthouse Sketchbook Project: Volume III at ed StoryBook Yoga: An Integrated Literacy and tion to Assess the Value of RFID in the International Wellness: Advancing the Field at the TESOL 76–81, February 2009. Professor Pepper- tion at the American Education Research a multi-city exhibition group tour in Wash- Movement Program for Children with Disabilities, Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, Convention, Denver, CO, February 2009. Sanello presented six papers: with A. Sosin, Association, San Diego, CA, April 2009. March 2009; and, with M. J. Sobel, Financial ington, D.C.; Philadelphia, PA; Boston, Austin, TX, March 2009. Empowering School-Wide Reform: Implementation Optimal Inventory Policies with Nonlinear Replenish- Tracy Hogan, with M. Rabinowitz, pub- MA; Chicago, IL; St. Louis, MO; Brooklyn, of Professional Development Initiatives that Bridge, School of Business ment Costs in the Asia-Pacific Journal of lished Teacher Expertise and the Development of a NY; and Atlanta, GA, February 2009; In- Develop and Support Learning Environments for Damep rt ent of Health Studies, Operational Research, April 2009. Problem Representation in Educational Psychol- , and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities ternational Fiber Collective Interdependence Project Physical Education and Human James Hazy, Jeffrey Goldstein Joyce ogy, 2, 153–169, March 2009; and, with Silberstang published Complexity Science in the US and Guatemala at the 7th Hawaii In- in Huntsville, AL, April 2009; and National Performance Sciences N. Gabrilean and F. Blumberg, The Effects of and Social Entrepreneurship: Adding Social Value School of Nursing ternational Conference on Education, Ho- Art Education Association Convention Women’s Ellen Marie Kowalski, with R. McCall, R. Appeal On Children’s Comprehension and Recall through Systems Thinking (ISCE Publish- nolulu, HI, January 2009; with M. Zucaro Caucus Slideshow, Minneapolis, MN, April M argot De Sevo presented three works: of Content In Educational Television Programs in Aiello, and L. Lieberman, published Utiliz- ing, 2009). Professor Hazy and Joyce and C. Rainbow, Literacy Initiatives: Building 2009. Professor Weida also presented four Preparedness of Nursing Students for Maternal- Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 30, ing IEP Goal Banks Effectively in the Journal of Silberstang also published Leadership within Bridges in Developing Worlds at the 7th Inter- Newborn Practice at the Sigma Theta Tau 5th 161–168, March 2009. papers: Aesthetics of Action Heroes and Cultures Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, 80 Emergent Events in Complex Systems: Micro- national Literacy Conference, Guatemala Annual Leadership Conference, April 2009; of Comics: Gender Politics in Graphica at the (1), 44–48, January 2009. Professor Kow- Enactments and the Mechanisms of Organiza- Cindy Maguire showed her work in three City, Guatemala, February 2009; and Lu- Liquid Love: A Breastfeeding Odyssey, a DVD she Fordham University Graphica in Educa- alski, with C. Masterson, presented Making tional Learning and Change in the International exhibits: The Multiplicities on Cultural Crossing at cia Buttaro and Susan Eichenholtz, with developed with a colleague for Our Baby tion Conference, New York, NY, January Physical Best/FITNESSGRAM Inclusive! at Journal of Learning and Change, 3(3), 230–247, the Juried Group Exhibition, San Bernardi- A. Sosin, presented A Critical Literacy Cur- Moments, L.L.C., May 2009. Professor De 2009; Aesthetics of Action Figures and Superhe- the National Convention of the American May 2009. no, CA, June 2009; ASTO International Art riculum: Action Research in Social Justice for Im- Sevo, with V. Moore, designed OurBaby- roes: Identity Politics in Popular Media at the Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Festival at the Juried Group Exhibition, Seoul, migrant Students at the American Educational David Prottas, with R. E. Kopelman, Moments.com, a Web site with information Recreation, and Dance, Fort Worth, TX, Korea, April 2009; and National Art Education Research Association, San Diego, CA, National Art Education Association, Min- published Comparative Work-Family Prac- for breastfeeding mothers, May 2009. April 2009. Association Women’s Caucus Slide Show at the April 2009; and with A. Sosin, presented neapolis, MN, April 2009; Ambivalences of tice Availability and Employee Attitudes in The National Art Education Association Con- Promoting Safe and Democratic School Environ- Art: Nuance, Contradiction, and Duality in the Psychologist-Manager Journal, 12(2), 79–96, Patricia Donohue-Porter published Gregory Letter presented Who is Going to vention, Minneapolis, MN, April 2009. She ments through Literacy Education at the Orga- Words and Works of Women in Contemporary Ce- April 2009. Professor Prottas, with R. E. Diabetes Education Nurses Handle Complexity with Lead Our Professions If We Don’t and How Do We published a book review of Higher Education: nization of Teacher Educators in Reading, ramics at the National Art Education Asso- Kopelman and D. W. Falk, presented Devel- Care in Nursing 2009, Vol. 39, January 2009. Shaping a Life of the Mind for Practice in the Na- Get Started? at the National Association of Ki- International Reading Association, Minne- ciation, Minneapolis, MN, April 2009; and opment of a Construct-Valid Scale of Theory X/Y Professor Donohue-Porter, with L. Thomas, tional Art Education Association News, 51(2), April nesiology and Physical Education in Higher presented Implementing Evidence-Based Strate- apolis, MN, May 2009. Professor Pepper- Material Cultures and Artists’ Codices: Museum Behaviors at the Society for Industrial and 2009. Professor Maguire, with T. Lenihan, Sanello, Rob Linne´, Leigh Benin, Elsa Education, Sarasota, FL, January 2009. Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, gies for Shift-to-Shift Handoff in a Multi-Hospital Education through Artists’ Books at the Massa- presented Teaching Art as Social Practice: Fostering Bekkala, and Susan Eichenholtz, with A. LA, April 2009. Health System at the Feinstein Research chusetts Institute of Technology: Media In Paul Rukavina, with W. Li, published A Capabilities at the College Art Association, Los Sosin and J. Sosinksky, presented A School- Institute, Manhasset, NY, May 2009. Transition 6, Cambridge, MA, April 2009. Review of Coping Mechanisms Against Obesity Angeles, CA, February 2009; and Support- and Labor Collaborative Research SIG in Words Alvin Rosenstein, with D. Rosenstein, pub- ing Personal and Social Transformation through and Visuals at the American Educational Re- Bias in Physical Activity/Education Settings in lished a book, How to Develop Successful Market- Andrea McCrink, with R. Manley, R. Service-Learning Practices in Art Education at the ing Strategies (Linus Publications, 2009). search Association, San Diego, CA, April Damep rt ent of Communication Obesity Reviews, 10, 87–95, January 2009; Walter, and E. S. Morote, presented Nurs- National Art Education Association, Land- 2009. Professor Pepper-Sanello also pre- Sciences and Disorders and with K. R. Foxworth, Different Sides of ing Student Cultural Identity and Their Behavior st Century Learning, Minneapolis, Monica Yang published Isomorphic or Not? scape for 21 sented Teacher Preparation: Literacy Initiatives the Same Coin: Using Motor Learning Theory to and Attitude toward Academic Misconduct in Two MN, April 2009. R obert Goldfarb and Yula Serpanos pub- Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions by Chi- that Build Bridges in Developing Worlds at the Design More Effective Instruction in the Journal Large Nursing Programs in the United States at lished a book, nese MNEs 1981-2006 in Chinese Management th Professional Writing in Speech- the 8th International Business and Econ- Patricia Marcellino presented Prepar- 16 International Conference on Learning, of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 80, Studies, 3 (1), 43–57, January 2009. She also Language Pathology and Audiology (Plural omy Conference, Udaipur, India, January ing Educational Leaders for Action-Learning and Barcelona, Spain, July 2009. 17–37, January 2009. Professor Rukavina, presented Similarity in Cross-border Mergers Publishing Inc., 2009). Professor Goldfarb 2009. Professor McCrink also presented Democratic Activism at the American Educa- with I. Kim, W. Li, B. Shen, and H. Sun, and Acquisitions: Imitation, Uncertainty and Ex- Dante Tawfeeq published Team Mentoring: also published two articles: with N. Bekker, Academic Misconduct in Nursing: What’s the Big tional Research Association National Con- presented Physical Education in the Eyes of perience among Chinese Firms, 1985-2006 at the Cooperation and Success without Consternation th ference, San Diego, CA, April 2009. Noun-Verb Ambiguity in Chronic Undifferentiated Overweight Adolescents’ Parents at the Ameri- Eastern Academy of Management, Hart- Deal? at the 5 Annual Leadership Confer- in the NCTM Books on Empowering Mentors of ence, Sigma Theta Tau, Adelphi University, Schizophrenia in the Journal of Communication can Alliance of Health, Physical Education, ford, CT, May 2009. Michael O’Loughlin published a book, Teachers of Mathematics, April 2009. He also April 2009. Disorders, 42, 74–88, January 2009. Profes- Recreation and Dance; with R. K. Wingert, The Subject of Childhood (Peter Lang Pub- presented two papers: Pragmatic Methods Jiang Zhang published four articles: with J. sor Goldfarb, with H. E. Baylow, C. Taveira, B. Shen, Y. S. Choi, W. Li, and H. Sun, An lishing, 2009), and two articles: Review of Courses at the Association of Mathematics Szmerekovsky, Pricing and Two-Tier Advertis- Maureen Roller presented The Relation- and R. Steinberg, presented Accuracy of Amotivation Model in Physical Education at the Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL, February ing with One Manufacturer and One Retailer in ship between Motivators and Barriers to Exercise Clinical Judgment of the Chin-Down Posture for the United States in the Journal of Educational 2009, and Providing Opportunities for African American Alliance of Health, Physical Edu- the European Journal of Operational Research, Adherence in the Older Adult at an Assisted Living Administration and History, June 2009, and An American Students to Conceptualize Calculus Con- Dysphagia During the Clinical/Bedside Assessment cation, Recreation and Dance; and with W. Vol. 192, no. 3, 904–917, February 2009; Facility at Academic Misconduct in Nurs- Analysis of Collective Trauma among Indigenous cepts via Discourse: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as Corroborated by Videofluoroscopy in Adults with Li, Qualitative Exploration of Overweight/Obese with J. Szmerekovsky and V. Tilson, Pricing ing: What’s the Big Deal? at the 5th Annual Australians and a Suggestion for Intervention in at The College Board: National AP Equity Acute Stroke at the Dysphagia Research Soci- Adolescents’ and Parents’ Coping Mechanisms at and Allocation of Retail Space with One RFID Leadership Conference, Sigma Theta Tau, Australasian Psychiatry, 17, June 2009. Colloquium, Los Angeles, CA, March 2009. ety, New Orleans, LA, March 2009. the American Alliance of Health, Physical Enabled Supplier and One Non-RFID Enabled Adelphi University, April 2009. 38 Ftacul y focus Fall 2009

Joan Valas presented A Critical Medical 2009. Professor Berger, with H. Crohn, pub- Anthropology Approach to Research in Disas- lished What Works for Whom: Evaluating Two ter Management of Vulnerable Populations with Agency-Based Training Programs in the Journal of Fall 2009 Chronic Illness at the United States Depart- New Faculty Appointments Education in Social Work, 12, 27–37, May 2009. ment of Health and Human Services 2009 She also presented Trauma and its Aftermath in Integrated Public Health Preparedness and Cross-Cultural Contexts: Research and Professional Response Training Summit, Dallas, TX, Education at the Conference for Academic D olapo Adeniji-Neill A aren Freeman Barbara Mackoff N ancy Regal Gómez April 2009 and Vulnerable Populations: A Social Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Visiting Professor Assistant Professor Disciplines, Malta, February 2009. Ecological Approach to Research of Chronic Ill- Department of Curriculum Department of Biology School of Nursing Department of History and Instruction College of Arts and Sciences College of Arts and Sciences ness in Disaster Management at the 16th World Shannon Lane presented Crafting a Ruth S. Ammon School of Education A mrita Madray Congress on Disaster and Emergency Med- Campaign Message at the University of L ouise Geddes Assistant Professor N icole Rudolph icine, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2009. Connecticut School of Social Work 13TH Bhupin Butaney Visiting Assistant Professor University Libraries Assistant Professor Visiting Assistant Professor Department of English Department of Languages and Annual Campaign School, April 2009. Shiow-Ying Yang presented Illicit Drug Use Gordon F. Derner Institute of College of Arts and Sciences Jennifer McClendon International Studies Assistant Professor is Strongly Associated with Dilated Cardiomyopa- Advanced Psychological Studies College of Arts and Sciences Philip Rozario, with S. Choi, N. Morrow- M ark Grabowski School of Social Work thy and Ventricular at The Feinstein Institute Howell, and E. Proctor, published Elders N ancy Cole Assistant Professor S oon Ryoo for Medical Research, Manhasset, D itsapelo McFarland with First Psychiatric Hospitalization for Depres- Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Communications Assistant Professor NY, May 2009. School of Nursing College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor School of Business sion in the International Journal of Geriatric Psy- School of Nursing chiatry, 24, 33–40, January 2009. Professor T ara Concannon-Gibney Beth Heydemann Bayla Samter School of Social Work C hristopher Muran Rozario, with D. DeReinzis, published So Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Curriculum School of Nursing Associate Dean/Professor School of Nursing W ahiba Abu-Rass presented Chaplaincy Forget How Old I Am! Examining Age Identities Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced and Instruction Services and Spiritual Care in Health Care Settings Psychological Studies in the Face of Chronic Conditions in Sociology of Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Jacqueline Njeri Kagotho Brian Stockman and Hospitals: Have Muslim Patients’ Needs Been Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Health and Illness, 31, 540–553, April 2009. M aya Muratov Addressed? at the Muslim Mental Health C atherine Denisot-Lawrence School of Social Work Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor Assistant Professor College of Arts and Sciences Conference, Islam and Medicine. Treating Bradley Zodikoff, with N. Choi, Z. Department of Art and Art History Department of Dance Emily Kang Muslims: A Mental Health Perspective, Michi- Gellis, and M. Luptak, presented Sympo- College of Arts and Sciences College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor M elissa Van Alstine gan State University Club, Lansing, MI, sium Session: Late-Life Depression in Community- Department of Curriculum and Instruction Assistant Professor D eborah Murphy April 2009; and Study of Preliminary Results: Barbrina Ertle Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Department of Chemistry Based Settings; and also presented Providers’ Clinical Assistant Professor A Brief Report Regarding the Muslim Physicians’ Visiting Assistant Professor College of Arts and Sciences Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators to Geriatric V alerie Karr School of Nursing Civic and Community Involvement at the Asso- Department of Curriculum Mental Health Care at the Society for Social and Instruction Assistant Professor R akhel Villamil-Acera ciation of Physicians of Pakistani-descent Department of Curriculum and Instruction M agdalena Nawrocka Work and Research, New Orleans, LA, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Assistant Professor of North America winter meeting, Edison, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Assistant Professor Department of Languages and January 2009. Department of Physics NJ, February 2009. P atricia Facquet International Studies College of Arts and Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor T ae Kuen Kim College of Arts and Sciences Julie Altman published a review of the School of Nursing Assistant Professor School of Social Work James Nelson H ugh Wilson book, Child Welfare Research, in Research on Assistant Professor I n Memoriam X ianqiong Feng Visiting Professor , 19, 3, 372–374, May Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Social Work Practice Assistant Professor S tavroula Kyriakakis Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Psychological Studies 2009. She also presented Children under De- Edwin D. Campbell, former dean of the School of Nursing College of Arts and Sciences velopment: the Politics of Need at the Society for School of Social Work School of Business, passed away on August Katherine Fiori S alvatore Petrilli Jean Winter Social Work and Research Annual Confer- Assistant Professor 14, 2009. Assistant Professor S tephanie Lake Visiting Assistant Professor ence, New Orleans, LA, January 2009. Department of Mathematics and Gordon F. Derner Institute of Lecturer School of Nursing Department of Anthropology Computer Science Professor Ivory Holmes, a School of Advanced Psychological Studies Beverly Araujo Dawson published Social Work faculty member from 1974 and Sociology College of Arts and Sciences S okthan Yeng Discrimination, Stress, and Acculturation among Eric Freedman College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor until her retirement in 2002, passed away L aura Quiros Dominican Women in the Hispanic Journal of Assistant Professor University College Department of Philosophy in April 2009. Assistant Professor Behavioral Sciences, February 2009. Department of Curriculum College of Arts and Sciences School of Social Work and Instruction Y un Jung Lee Assistant Professor Roni Berger published Forum: Qualitative Ruth S. Ammon School of Education School of Business Social Research Review Ann Lewins and Christina Silver (2007) in the Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide, 10, January 40 Student Life Fall 2009 Student Life

Foen r ig Exchange The Business of Bridging Cultures

“I came to this country from India to advantage of studying and living within immerse myself in the culture and get a it, despite adjustment difficulties. firsthand global education,” says Neha “I like the American culture, and Patel, an Adelphi M.B.A. candidate spe- studying here allows me to hone cializing in marketing. “The adjustment my English, which is the language to Western culture has been an interest- of business,” says M.B.A. candidate ing one; the different customs, the lan- Sheng-Hung Fan Chiang, who came guage, even the way people look at you 1 2 to Adelphi from Taiwan. takes some getting used to,” she adds. “There wasn’t much of a culture shock Familiarity with a foreign culture is an for me since American culture is every- imperative, especially for ambitious where in Taiwan,” says M.B.A. candi- business students. Every year, thou- date Yi-Hsuan Hu. sands of students, like Ms. Patel, come 3 to the United States from abroad for a Some things, however, did require different educational experience, be- adjustments. yond any you can glean from a text- “In Taiwan, students never raise their book. They also bring new perspec- or Present,” is an abstract collage that combines his hands to speak; it’s always the teacher tives to share with their classmates. Wns in eartistic skill withr his passion for the unconventional, 4 who talks. So, when American students Take it All drawing inspiration from surrealists such as “The number of international students are just as involved in discussion as the Adelphi’s longstanding commitment to academic Salvador Dali and Jerry Uelsmann. entering Adelphi’s M.B.A. program con- teachers are, it’s very unexpected, but I tinues to grow each year—bringing di- like that dynamic better,” says Ms. Hu. success is evident in every facet of University life. Business administration major Eric Hasselbring ’10 verse cultures and backgrounds, as well Students are encouraged to reach beyond their finished first in the 2008 Dr. Pepper Collegiate Adapting to a new culture can be over- as interesting topics for discussion, into Challenge, earning him $10,000 and a unique whelming at times, but Ms. Patel says, course work and embark on their own developmental the classroom,” says School of Business addition to his resumé. The competition involved “I’m really enjoying the unique experi- pursuits. This past year, the following students were Assistant Dean Brian Rothschild. countless hours spent playing videogames, and ence this has brought me.” recognized for their exemplary achievements. the thrill of winning far outweighs any fatigue International students are often familiar By Lauren Kalish experienced in the marathon gaming, according with American culture and see the Fine arts and Spanish major Carolina Cambronero to Mr. Hasselbring, who looks forward to future ’09 won the American Association of University competitive gaming opportunities. Women Award for 2009. Ms. Cambronero was nominated by faculty and went through an inter- Finance major Anton Volobuev ’11 received the (Left to right) Sheng-Hung Fan Chiang, Yi-Hsuan Hu, view process before being selected to receive the 2009 GEICO Achievement Award, totaling $1,000 and Neha Patel walking through Adelphi’s campus The grass is greener for Carolina $500 award. In addition to serving as president and in tuition assistance. Mr. Volobuev is an active 1 Cambronero ’09, as she reviews a founder of the Spanish Club, Ms. Cambronero was member of the Adelphi community as president book of her photography. a member of the Student Art League, the Sigma of the Finance Society and a member of other Anton Volobuev ’11 is dressed for success Delta Pi National Spanish Honor Society, and on-campus organizations such as the Accounting 2 as he makes his way across campus to one Kappa Pi National Art Honor Society during her Society and the Future Alumni Leadership of his many cocurricular activities. time at Adelphi. Association (FALA). Nerses Chorekchyan ’09 proudly displays 3 Fine arts major Nerses Chorekchyan ’09 won By Rebecca Benison ’11 his prize-winning collage, “Past or Present.” the grand prize, an Apple MacBook, in the Long Eric Hasselbring ’10 shows off the diverse Island College Art Competition. His piece, “Past 4 collection of videogames that prepared him for the Dr. Pepper Collegiate Challenge. 42 Athletics Fall 2009 Athletics G ianna Smith ’08 in action

Do you have a favorite memory from Woodruff Hall? Maybe you still call it the “R Building” or maybe you remember watching the 2001 men’s basketball team TePnthersh a ’ New Territory: finish their undefeated regular season. Maybe you hold the answer to the unexplained disappearance of Woodruff’s pipe organ. Whatever your story, visit our Athletics moves to Northeast-10 Facebook page to share memories, hear from other Having captured the East Coast Conference’s highest honor—the alumni about what made the building so special to Woodruff Hall them, and to learn more about Woodruff Hall’s history. Commissioner’s Cup—seven times since its establishment in 1994, You can also read excerpts from Dr. Scott’s State of the Adelphi’s athletic success is a given. Starting this season, the Panthers 80 years of Adelphi History University address where he pays tribute to Timothy will look to make their mark in new territory: The Northeast-10 (NE-10). Woodruff’s contributions to the University. The conference’s 16 member institutions are spread geographically from While recent alumni may remember Woodruff Hall as Woodruff Hall was also the site of George Faherty’s The story continues... Syracuse to Boston to Burlington, Vermont. Many of the schools are the home of athletics and the physical education pro- Summer Basketball School, which ran for 15 years become a fan of Adelphi University Magazine. located in or around the urban metropolitan areas of Albany, Boston, gram, the building has been home to many Adelphi and featured lectures and clinics by basketball greats New Haven, Worcester, and New York. milestones in its 80-year history. Woodruff was one such as the Boston Celtics’ Red Auerbach and UCLA’s of the University’s original three buildings and was John Wooden. In 1957, Woodruff was home to another The NE-10 was a natural fit for Adelphi. The Panthers’ new conference known for almost 25 years as the “R Building.” In 1953, notable athletic milestone, when Adelphi’s campus is focused on complementing the academic integrity and missions of the Adelphi dedicated the building to Timothy Woodruff, hosted the first-ever National Wheelchair Games in member institutions with a commitment to a broad-based championship Adelphi’s Board of Trustees President from 1895–1908. the United States. program. The Conference offers 23 sports in championship play—the In his recent State of the University address, President most of any NCAA Division II Conference. Adelphi’s 22 intercollegiate Robert A. Scott praised Timothy Woodruff for his role For many years, Woodruff was the center of campus teams, with the exception of women’s bowling and Division I men’s soccer in establishing Adelphi as an independent college. activity—hosting commencements, convocations, and and, will all have championship opportunities with the NE-10. even the University infirmary. The building has also Construction came down to the wire and in December, welcomed such academic and cultural luminaries as “Our program is dedicated to developing student-athletes at the highest 1929 the “R Building” opened its doors for the Univer- anthropologist Margaret Mead; dance pioneer and level,“ says Adelphi Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Robert E. Hartwell. sity’s Christmas party. In 1930, the building was fully founder of Adelphi’s dance program Ruth St. Denis; “We’re thrilled to join this Conference, whose goals mirror our own.” operational, just in time to record its first athletics vic- and poet Ogden Nash. tory when women’s basketball defeated Hunter College $ W o aNT t be a super fan? 28–17. At the time, basketball was one of Adelphi’s six Today, due to its 14 million renovations as part of the Campaign for Adelphi University, Woodruff Hall is sports, along with softball, swimming, field hockey, Adelphi’s move to the NE-10 means that you may see a poised to once again be a hub of campus activity, with and fencing. Panther in your neighborhood soon. Check out the schedules upgrades that have enhanced fitness and recreation at aupanthers.com. If you can’t make it to a game, you can space, as well as instructional and clinical space in health visit the site for Web casts. and physical education. What Adelphi milestones are in Woodruff’s future? Only time will tell. For up-to-the-minute Panther happenings, visit twt omit er.c /AUPanthers. By Linda Romano M.A. ’03 Special thanks to University Archivist Eugene Neely, Or, become a fan of the Panthers on Fc . a ebOOk com. Garrett Chapman M.B.A. ’08, and Suzette McQueen. Keeping up with the Panthers has never been easier! 44 Athletics Fall 2009

For Panthers, Scholarship Support is a Win-Win

Jeffrey Perez ’10 Running Toward Commitment

The prospect of waking up at 4:00 a.m. to Rol e e Mod ls My coaches and fellow More than 350 student-athletes com- commute to campus for 6:00 a.m. work- teammates. Their dedication has motivated pete on Adelphi’s 22 intercollegiate outs with the cross country/track team me as a runner, student, and fellow citizen, Adelphi’s Hall of Fame would deter many. Then, consider that and their contagious attitude has inspired teams, and nearly 90 percent benefit you are unable to compete, and the idea is my work ethic—to always improve and welcomes new honorees even less appealing. A student in Adelphi’s never to settle for anything less than my from partial athletic scholarships drawn General Studies program in his freshman hardest effort. from a budget of $3 million. The awards The Panthers honored their 39th Hall of Fame class on April 19, 2009. This year, Jeffrey Perez ’10 was barred from year’s inductees included Allen Boyce ’54 (crosscountry/track), Nadine (Reid) Bei P ng a anther Means being disci- $ varsity competition in order to ensure an begin at 1,000 and frequently are com- Chase ’80 (basketball), Lisa Jusino ’01 (softball), James O’Connor (coach, bas- plined and moral both on and off the field. adequate focus on his studies. He tried out ketball), Scott Reh ’89 (lacrosse), and David Takach ’86 (baseball). Judith Ann It means taking pride in advocating for bined with academic aid. and qualified for the cross country/track Salerno ’66 was the recipient of the Frank Cassell Memorial Award, and the our school, sport, and, most importantly, team anyway. Despite not being able to Woodruff Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Drew Bogner, yourself. It means having dedication and The strategic plan for NCAA Division II compete or travel with the team, he braved president of Molloy College. the commute and crack of dawn practices a competitive spirit to achieve success. focuses on a “Life in the Balance” ap- and has since earned a 3.7 grade point The 1963 men’s soccer team, who earned the program’s first-ever NCAA W unhy I R To “harden my shell” and to average and an athletic scholarship, which proach, which blends academics, athlet- tournament berth, became the first recipient of the newly created Panther give myself something that can be earned he says has “greatly contributed towards Legendary Team award, which will recognize teams whose regional and and never taken away, a feeling of inspira- funding my academic studies.” ics, and community service. Adelphi stu- national success have brought honor and positive recognition to the University. tion and triumph. I run because, as a disci- dent-athletes exemplify this model. pline, it has made me a more balanced and In 2008, the Hall of Fame display moved from the Ruth S. Harley responsible human being. University Center to its permanent home in the new Center All who support Adelphi Athletics— for Recreation and Sports. Amy Williams ’10 D igging In from Panther Club members to sup- porters of Adelphi’s Annual Golf Classic To most, digging involves dirt or sand. For volunteer. She supplements her athlet- Amy Williams ’10 and her teammates, a dig ic and academic scholarships and sharp- and Janet L. Ficke Golf Outing—impact is how you return a ball that has been vol- ens her professional skills by working for the academic, athletic, personal, and leyed to you. In 2008, Ms. Williams earned Campus Recreation and the Office of her place as Adelphi’s all-time digs leader Public Affairs. professional development of Adelphi with 1,462 digs. She has helped the volley- student-athletes. ball team earn back-to-back NCAA tour- Rol e e Mod ls My parents nament appearances in 2007 and 2008 and Bei P ng a anther Means the opportunity garnered all-conference and all-region rec- Here, two Panthers describe what it to represent myself and my school through ognition for her playing. Fortunately, she my educational and athletic pursuits. means to play for and receive support also digs her time off the court. A business management major and Levermore Global W Pa hy I l y I live for the chance to from Adelphi. Scholar, she has maintained a 3.45 GPA compete. It is the greatest feeling to win and is on the Dean’s List. She is an advi- a game and walk off the court with all of sory team member of Adelphi’s CHAMPS/ your fellow teammates knowing that you Life Skills program, active in the Student really gave it your all and that everyone’s Athlete Advisory Committee, and a hard work was well rewarded. Salvation Army Read Across America 46 Alumni Events Fall 2009 Alumni Events

2 3 1 yankee Stadium Tour

2 Alumni Basketball Day in the Center for Recreation and Sports

3 ruth S. Harley Luncheon and Tea

4 C.O.A.C.H. Inside the Teacher’s Classroom

5 School of Nursing 65th Anniversary Reception and Pinning Ceremony

6 C.O.A.C.H.ed to dress for success at Lord & Taylor

7 A Backpack to Briefcase program demonstrates quick and easy meals for busy people. 1 8 Florida Regional Alumni Reception in Tampa at the George M. Steinbrenner Field, Brighthouse Networks Dugout Club 4 5 9 Florida Regional Alumni Reception in St. Augustine

10 C.O.A.C.H. Careers in Performing Arts, featuring Paul Donahue ’88, at the Metropolitan Opera

11 Spirit of New York Cruise

12 AU students get C.O.A.C.H.ed on careers at Goldman Sachs.

To see more photos from recent alumni events, visit alumni.adelphi.edu/photogallery.

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Fifty years later, a little older and wiser, nearly Adelphi students 40 ’59ers and their families reconvened at Adelphi to swap stories of their undergraduate years and their subsequent journeys. Adelphi honored the Class of 1959 as distin- guished guests at its May 2009 Commencement COACHed ceremony and welcomed them with a luncheon at Alumni House. to success For some, it seemed that barely any time had ome of media’s most creative minds passed since their own graduation. came together at Adelphi University’s “It feels like just yesterday I saw some of these Performing Arts Center on April 23, people, and we were the ones about to receive our S2009 with one goal—so that current Adelphi degrees,” says Janet L. Ficke ’59, the celebrated students could benefit from their experiences Hall of Fame athlete and former Adelphi softball and achievements in the field. and women’s basketball coach. A panel of distinguished Adelphi alumni Morton Hahn ’59 and Irwin Kwatek ’59, who ran including Christopher Saridakis ’90, senior track together during their Adelphi days, recalled 1 making late-night bets at the local racetrack. vice president at Gannett Co., Inc.; Gary Although they now live thousands of miles apart, Dell’Abate ’83 (Baba Booey), producer of and in New Jersey and California, respectively, they contributor to The Howard Stern Show; Peter still remain close friends. Principato ’87, founding partner of Principato- Young Entertainment and agent to the comic talent behind The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, Superbad, and Knocked Up; Bill Stephney, president and founder of Joseph Media; and Some Like it Gold… Bennett Zier ’78, chief executive officer of th Dr. Ken Jones ’59, another Adelphi athlete in Air America Media, discussed the current 2 A 50 Reunion to Remember from California, where he spent the last 40 years state of journalism and shared their personal in academic medicine, recalled the inspiration and A new home cost a little more than $12,000; insights on how to adapt and succeed in an guidance provided by professors Harry Brenowitz, ever-changing environment. the eerie CBS sci-fi series,The Twilight Zone, Jim Murray, and Jerry March. The Careers in Media event was part of While some reflected on their past, others, such premiered; crooning heartthrobs Frankie Adelphi’s C.O.A.C.H. (Count on Alumni for as Carole Hajek ’59, Ralph Crafa ’59, and Beverley Career Help) program, which connects suc- Avalon and Bobby Darin ruled the airwaves, Sunshine ’59, shared fond stories of their present— what they’ve been up to, how many grandchildren cessful alumni with current students to provide and members of the Class of ’59 departed they have, and what the future holds. them with networking opportunities and indus- try and career information. Communications 3 With the gorgeous spring weather, the nostalgia, Adelphi, diplomas in hand, ready to pursue majors Phillip Hart ’09, David Rodriguez ’09, and contagious high spirits, the day was one to and Joanna Woodland ’09 used the event to Professor of Anthropology their passions and new opportunities. Life led savor for the young-at-heart Class of ’59. meet and network with media experts, and and Sociology Sal Primeggia speaks with Gary Dell’Abate ’83 them in myriad and often divergent directions. By Lauren Kalish took the panel’s advice to heart. 1 (Baba Booey), producer of and The distinguished panelists all agreed on one contributor to The Howard Stern Show. 50R eunion ceremony to take place May 2010. thing—having attended Adelphi was a tre- Save the Date Class of 1960! Visit alumni.adelphi.edu for updates on upcoming alumni events. mendous asset in building their career successes. Bill Stephney, president and founder of Joseph Media, “The smallness of the University was the best 2 speaking on the C.O.A.C.H. part of it for me,” said Mr. Dell’Abate. Careers in Media panel Mr. Saridakis pointed to the benefit of events Christopher Saridakis ’90, senior vice president at Gannett Co., Inc. such as this one as propelling his career in 3 tangible ways. “I learned a great deal outside talks about the future of media with Adelphi students. of the classroom. I was able to meet a lot of people through networking.” Although the panelists acknowledged that journalism is in a state of crisis, Mr. Zier ended the evening with a mandate for Adelphi students: “You’re the generation that can fix it.” By Cindy Vaupel ’96, M.A. ’00 50 Alumni and Friends Giving Fall 2009 Alumni and Friends Giving

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Adelphi alumni and friends gathered at the Garden City Hotel

on March 28, 2009 for the University’s ninth annual President’s

Gala. The black-tie affair raised more than $400,000 for student

scholarships, and honored three individuals for their commitment

and service to the community and to Adelphi.

President’s Gala 2 3 JoAnn C. O’Hagen M.S. ’82, retired market President Robert A. Scott served as event co- manager and president for JP Morgan Chase chair, along with Trustee Noreen Harrington ’81, Bank, NA Long Island/Queens Middle Market, alternative investment specialist, M.D. Sass was recognized as the 2009 Outstanding Investors Services, Inc.; S. Al Creft, senior Long Island Executive; Doreen Downs Miller vice president, Human Resources—Global M.B.A. ’86, director of Parenting Matters, and Operations, Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.; a parent educator, was honored as the 2009 Adele Klapper ’92, M.A. ’99, co-founder, Outstanding Alumna; and Horace G. McDonell, Superior Sewing Machine & Supply, LLC; and Jr. ’52, ’02 (Hon.), retired chairman and CEO of John J. Phelan, Jr. ’70, ’87 (Hon.), retired chair- Perkin Elmer Corporation and former member man and CEO, New York Stock Exchange. 2009of Adelphi’s Board of Trustees, was honored for his Lifetime Service to Adelphi. Save the date for next year’s Gala on Saturday, March 20, 2010. For reservations or more information, please contact Jaime Farrell, associate director of annual giving, at (516) 877-4689 or farr [email protected]. G ala honorees Horace G. McDonell, Jr. ’52, ’02 (Hon.), 1 JoAnn C. O’Hagen M.S. ’82, and Doreen Downs Miller M.B.A. ’86 with President Robert A. Scott

2 Trustee Frank Angello ’77, P’10 and his wife Phyllis P’10 President Robert A. Scott with Board of Trustees 3 Chairman Thomas F. Motamed ’71 52 Alumni and Friends Giving Fall 2009

1 2 3 For Scholarships, there is Strength in Whether because of their shared

memories, camaraderie, or deep

connections to Adelphi, members

of affinity groups—from athletes NumbersAccording to Doug Buchan He also adds a more personal story: “In 1961, as a ’65, some Adelphi memories freshman, I had enough money saved for one semes- troll across campus, and you’ll encounter some new named places. The to sorority sisters and fraternity 4 are indelible. ter of college. My swim coach managed to get me fi- extraordinary generosity of alumni and friends who have contributed to the nancial help, and Adelphi’s generosity never stopped. brothers—have been adept at “The Snack Bar is gone,” That changed my life.” S Campaign for Adelphi University has transformed Adelphi and given he says. “But in a blink, all Other alumni also cite the impact that individuals rise to new facilities and programs. Adelphi is honored to recognize the benefactors working together to endow the [members of] fraterni- had on their Adelphi experience. Hall of Fame of the $56 million campaign to fund campus developments, student scholarships, ties and sororities that had a swimmer, Dr. Susan Tendy ’70, joined John Quinn ’72 5 student scholarships. table there can recall many and faculty support. By adding their names to our campus, we celebrate their and fellow swim team member Barry Gross ‘68 fun times. We didn’t have achievements, and inscribe their Adelphi stories into history. to rally former teammates to establish a scholarship houses; we just had a table. I wouldn’t swap that in honor of coach Bill Irwin. table for anything.” “Over time, I have come to really appreciate all the When he and Chi Sigma brother Jack Dowd ’60 be- people involved and the work that goes into allowing Wati h ’s n a Nmea ? gan planning a fraternity reunion for Homecoming the students and athletes to push into that margin of 2008, they had a clear vision for the gathering. excellence,” says Dr. Tendy. “It’s time to give back.” 1 The Adele and Herbert J. Klapper 5 Former basketball and soccer team Center for Fine Arts features airy member Michael J. Campbell ’65 “We came together last October for the purposes of The Bill Irwin Scholarship will benefit members of the Adelphi swimming team. studios and modern gallery spaces. served as chairman of the Board of visiting the past as well as seeing the present,” says Trustees during the opening years of Mr. Dowd of the high-spirited reunion. A scholarship fund started by Long Island Panhell- 2 The new Athletics Hall of Fame in the Campaign for Adelphi University. enic in 1935 was given to Adelphi to administer in the Center for Recreation and Sports The Campbell Lounge in the Center Energized by their reconnection, the brothers es- 2004. The fund now provides $1,000 a year for four 6 features an interactive touch-screen for Recreation and Sports has one of tablished the Chi Sigma Endowed Scholarship Fund. years to two Long Island female students. display dedicated to George Faherty, the best views on campus: onto the In less than a year, more than 23 alumni have joined former coach and Panther icon. The In 2009, two more alumni groups have initiat- new basketball courts and across to create a new endowment that exceeds $20,000. display was donated by alumni and ed fundraising for new scholarship funds. The Competition Field. friends of Adelphi athletics. Mr. Dowd sees the endowment as a meaningful Multicultural Alumni Chapter and the Zeta Beta 6 A former Adelphi Trustee, Thomas legacy for all of the brothers. Epsilon fraternity hope to rally their members 3 Leon Pollack ’63 is a Trustee, charter Dixon Lovely ’54, ’04 (Hon.), has been to support tomorrow’s students. member of the Million Dollar Round- an important Adelphi leader. The “As an artist, I want to make a living doing art, no sec- According to Multicultural Chapter President Tara table, and a staunch supporter of student ballroom that bears his name in the Ruth ond job,” he says. “What I really want is to do art opportunity through scholarships. Howard-Saunders ’84, alumni members are eager to S. Harley University Center is the site of that is important, that speaks, touches people, and The plaza outside the Performing Arts support students in the difficult transition from their many of the University’s major events. is taken seriously. I think Chi Sigma brothers, as a Center now bears his name and that first to second years, when many struggle to stay enrolled. group, want to be taken seriously, so that our time in of his wife Catherine, also an alumna. 7 Sometimes a single classroom experi- college was more than just selfish fun, but important.” Endowed scholarships are a priority of the 7 ence can have lifelong meaning. Campaign for Adelphi University. Since 2003, alum- 4 In 2006, Trustee Carol A. Ammon For Trustee Larry Kessler ’65 (left), M.B.A. ’79 made Adelphi history Mr. Buchan agrees, saying, “I believe we all hope ni and friends have given or pledged more than $8 a music appreciation course with when she contributed $8.5 million to that in creating the scholarship fund the fraternity million—of the $10 million goal—for undergraduate Professor Clayton Westerman (right) the University, and named the School name will live on.” and graduate student scholarships. more than 40 years ago opened the of Education after her mother Ruth, an door to a new world. In June 2009, Mr. For more about the campaign and ways to support educator and fellow Adelphi alumna. Kessler generously dedicated a teaching student scholarships and other priorities, please visit studio to his former instructor. ad elphi.edu/campaign. 54 Alumni and Friends Giving Fall 2009 WVESho? GI Christine DeNoia B.S. ’85, M.A. ’92 Michael Berthel ’08 Paving the Future PFS RO ES ION Today, I teach at Joseph CU RreNT JOB Assistant Director of MOST INFLUENTIAL ADELPHI FACULTY Pulitzer Middle School, in New York Adelphi’s Center for Student Involvement; Professor Celeste Kaufman, who taught City. After graduating with a nursing previously Residence Hall Director criminal justice. One Story at a Time degree from Adelphi in 1985, I worked in of Chapman Hall. Walk toward the Performing Arts Center for class, a meeting, or a show, and you will cross the field of nursing for about 15 years— FONE D ST ADELPHI MEMORIES a new outdoor plaza featuring the names and memories of Adelphi alumni, friends, faculty, Served as executive vice at Schneider’s Children’s Hospital and as ATE AD LPHI Community service trip to Costa Rica for administrators, and families. More than 500 pavers celebrate the University’s past, present, president and president of the Student a visiting nurse. I then returned to the an alternative spring break; two trips as and future. Proceeds from the brick contributions have generated more than $100,000 toward Government Association, orientation lead- University to pursue my master’s degree Adelphi’s Up ’til Dawn representative to the facilities projects of the Campaign for Adelphi University. A selection of inspirations and er, peer assistant leader, and senior resi- in secondary education. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in memories is captured here. dent hall assistant. Was a founding father Memphis, Tennessee. FONE D ST ADELPHI MEMORIES I remem- of Adelphi’s Phi Sigma Kappa chapter and ber eating lunch and watching soap operas brought national Up ’til Dawn pediatric A DVICE TO YOUNG ALUMNI Your in- in the basement of the University Center, cancer fundraising program to Adelphi. volvement doesn’t stop after graduation. next to the Rathskeller. Watching All My Remember the opportunities you had here FAVOI R TE CLASS I’m a history buff, so Children became a ritual for us while we and continue to have a role in the things “The Modern Presidency.” waited for our afternoon nursing classes that you enjoyed most at Adelphi. Keep and clinicals. your pride in this institution, whether that means getting back to campus for ONEPH AD L I FACULTY My professors’ Homecoming, giving your time, or making records of accomplishment were so impres- HOBBE I S Swimming and visiting nation- a gift to the University. sive, and they truly cared about their stu- al parks. I have already been to eight, and ONE AD LPHI’S FUTURE When I arrived dents. They were invested in us. So many I look forward to continuing these trips; here six years ago, New Hall was brand- of the professors remain at Adelphi long- they’re interesting and fun. term, and that truly shows the strength of new, and our Performing Arts Center and the University’s faculty. Adelphi is where FR ITI ST G F $100 in 1986 Center for Recreation and Sports had not they want to teach. yet been built. Adelphi’s campus and repu- WHI Y I G VE I received a Presidential tation continue to grow. I know we will see VALU E OF AN ADELPHI EDUCATION Scholarship from Adelphi. As a student, even more alumni support in the future, Growing up in Garden City, I always knew I decided that if I was ever in a financial and that’s priceless. that Adelphi had an excellent reputation position to help the University, I would $ and strong science and nursing programs. give back so that others could have the FR ITI ST G F 50 in 2009 I didn’t realize how much Adelphi actually same educational opportunities I received. WHI Y I G VE At Adelphi, you feel like you had to offer until I enrolled. I was more im- As Adelphi continues to grow, be innova- belong. You feel at home. I will never take pressed than I ever thought I could be with tive, and help its students reach their goals, for granted those whose support made the education I received at Adelphi. I continue to give. I have such great mem- my experience at the University possi- ories of this place. Adelphi has done so ble. What if people before me hadn’t given much for me; I want to help others realize back? I was given a lot of opportunities at their dreams. Adelphi, and I seized them. I’m so grateful for all that Adelphi has done for me. 56 Class notes Fall 2009 Class Notes Looe s Ends

G erard Harrigan ’57 B.B.A. is enjoying 1940s retirement after a career with Johnson & Gary Dell’Abate ’83 Johnson. N orman Hall ’48 B.A. is a producer and director of The New Playwrights Project, which While attending Adelphi to earn his bachelor’s degree in P enny (Sands) Fersko ’58 B.A. was a can be found on Public Access Television of paralegal for an attorney on Staten Island communications, Gary Dell’Abate ’83 interned for various radio Great Neck / North Shore on Cablevision for 25 years. She retired in February 2007, stations, including WNBC, where he worked with reporter Roz Frank. Channel 20. and is the proud grandma of Abigail, eight, She introduced him to famed radio host Howard Stern, who offered S tanley Schwartz ’48 B.A. is currently and Joshua, five. him a job as a coffee boy in 1984. Since then, through diligence and enjoying his much deserved retirement. Barbara (Musso) Lebkuecher ’58 B.S. efficiency, Mr. Dell’Abate quickly gained more responsibilities and S hirley (Steuber) Baillargeon ’49 B.A. is a retired teacher who has been a board earned his position as executive producer and contributor for The is a retired United States Air Force Major. member at the Custer Institute Observatory Howard Stern Show. Nicknamed “Baba Booey,” he has interviewed She and her husband, both in their late 80s, in Southold, New York, for 28 years. the likes of David Letterman, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, have been happily married since December I f you could go back in time and alter an What movie best mirrors your life? P atricia (DeSena) Olson ’58 B.A. Sting, Sylvester Stallone, and John F. Kennedy, Jr., among others. 21, 1957. event to change the course of history, My Life with Michael Keaton. It’s about recently published a children’s book, which would it be? a terminally ill man’s last year. I lost a M artha (Fuqua) Derose ’49 B.S. volunteers Frumpy the Pumpkin Who Missed Halloween. Mr. Dell’Abate came to campus on April 23, 2009, to attend I wouldn’t have worn that powder blue brother to AIDS. Some of the scenes as a parish nurse during her retirement. Adelphi’s C.O.A.C.H. (Count on Alumni for Career Help) program tuxedo with the giant velour tie to my prom. in that movie eerily paralleled what we 1960s event, which focused on career opportunities in media. We caught went through. What’s your favorite quote or mantra? 1950s R obert Schur ’60 B.A. has been retired up with him afterward and asked him to share his thoughts on “Don’t go around saying the world owes What’s the best advice you’ve ever W illiam Kalaidjian ’50 B.A. is the executive from school psychology for 16 years. everything from the invention he wished he had conceived to you a living. The world owes you nothing. received? director of New York State Shields. Married for 46 years, he has six grandchil- what legacy he’d like to leave behind. It was here first.”—Mark Twain In my senior year, my college professor dren and one great grandson. He currently said to the class, “When you graduate, Joan (Howell) Bennett ’52 B.A. is retired works as a musician/arranger. I f you were stuck on an elevator with one take the summer and travel. You’ll be and has almost completed her training to What was your usual answer when person, who would it be? Edward Goldstein ’61 B.A. completed his adults asked you what you’d like to working for the rest of your life. It will be become a counselor with the sorority Kappa Richard Nixon. I am a lifelong Democrat, but I th be when you grew up? your only chance in life to have that kind Kappa Gamma to combat alcohol and sub- 25 year as a New York State associate real am fascinated by him. He was a complex man. estate broker with Prudential Serls Prime I probably wanted to be a doctor. of time to do it.” I took his advice and stance abuse. Widowed in October 2008, she has six wonderful children. Properties, specializing in residential proper- I guess I wasn’t a very imaginative child. went to Italy for five weeks. Twenty-six What super power would you like to have? ties and land acquisition. X-ray vision. You do the math. years later, I still think about the trip. Betty Mae (Foster) Parnell ’52 B.A. was What famous invention do you wish Great advice! Glad I took it. L inda (Breuer) Lissman ’62 B.B.A. has you had conceived? named Member of the Year by the Hooksett What do you consider your greatest Garden Club. This award is presented annu- been an interior designer for nearly 40 years. If I was being greedy, I would say the What would you most like to be achievement so far? ally to the member who has shown the most She started her own design firm in 1984 and remembered for? P.C.—it’s changed the world and think Producing a show that has consistently outstanding dedication to the club. has no plans of retiring. of the money I would have. If I was being made people laugh for over 25 years. Being a good producer, being a good dad, more of a humanitarian, I would say the I love it when people tell me how they and being a pretty good guy. W illiam Salver ’55 B.S. has been a history S usan Moon ’62 B.S. volunteers with Circle artificial heart. were having a bad day, then tuned into instructor at the College of Southern Nevada of Hope Therapeutic Riding in Barnesville, By Ana Barbu ’10 the show, and their day turned better. since 2004. Maryland. 58 Class notes Fall 2009

A lice (Dhein Ksiez) Byrne ’63 M.S.W. Jean (Fortunato) Dyer ’69 B.S. has center where he enjoys stone sculpting, gar- Janice (Egre) Levy ’75 B.S.Ed., ’77 M.A. L ucille (Murray) Wheatley ’78 M.S.W. A ndrienne (Maith) Tazari ’80 B.A. had one became a fellow in the American Group recently been appointed dean of the dening, and experiencing spirituality among published her 11th and 12th children’s books, was a member of the City of Deltona, Florida of her songs picked up by the New York radio Psychotherapy Association in February College of Health Science at Misericordia an older “new-age” community in Sarasota, The Runaway Radish and Gonzalo Grabs The Commission for 10 years and was vice mayor station, Z100, while her music video aired 2009. She also has a private practice. University in Pennsylvania. Florida. Good Life, which can be found in book stores twice. In 2006, she founded the Lucille on the FUSE TV network. She has been a Grammy contender three times to date. across the country. She previously taught a Wheatley Scholarship Award Association U na Joyce (Ellis) Williams ’63 M.S. retired Janice (Applebaum) Rubin ’69 B.A. volun- Barbara (Becnel) Cottman ’73 B.A. has teers at the Lowry Park Zoo. She also teach- writing course at Hofstra University. that raised funds and awarded four students in October 2008 after more than 50 years of been nominated for the Right Livelihood C hristopher Trotter ’80 B.F.A. played es a six-week course for the Lifelong Learning $1,000 each in 2008. She is currently focused the role of Ben, the gardener in the musical social work practice. She now looks forward Award. The honor is in keeping with her 26 D avid Tabatsky ’76 B.A., ’89 M.A. co-au- to being able to return to another interest, Institute (for seniors) at the University of on raising funds for the 2010 awards. The Secret Garden at the Dunwoody United years as an anti-violence youth advocate. thored and edited The Cancer Book, published the arts. South Florida. Methodist Church in Dunwoody, Georgia. The body of work she created with Stanley by Chicken Soup For The Soul. He was also I ndra Battle ’79 B.S. is chief nursing officer He also read Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale R uth (Schlesenger) Lande ’64 B.S. Williams also includes academic leader- the consulting editor for The Right Words at at Jackson North Medical Center, where she Heart for a Halloween gathering at church. recently exhibited her nature photography 1970s ship, which will be put towards an upcom- The Right Time, by Marlo Thomas, published manages employees in multiple departments. All donations supported the Atlanta ing dissertation on psuedotransformational by Atria Books in 2006. Mr. Tabatsky teach- at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation M ary Jane (Viaggio) Hayes ’70 M.A. She has been in the nursing industry for more Literacy Project. in Garden City, New York. is the author of such children’s books as leadership. es in Adelphi’s Performing Arts Department, than 25 years and has assisted in neonatal M arian (Siegel) Kissinger ’81 B.S. has been Emma’s House of Sound and The Voice in Her Eyes, and invites all to visit ta batsky.com to research studies, worked as a clinical educa- S usan (Needleman) Watins ’64 B.A. is a S haron Florin ’73 B.A. is a distinguished an elementary physical education teacher which are used to educate children about learn more about his work. tor for new nurses in the Newborn Intensive retired assistant principal for the New York painter who held her second exhibition at for the Oceanside Unified School District in hearing impairment. Care Unit, and provided nursing care for City Department of Education. the Art-O-Mat Gallery in Long Island City, M ichael Martin ’77 M.B.A. is currently California for 14 years, specializing in physi- adult and adolescent surgical patients. Edward Kilgus ’70 B.A. is listed number 15 New York. enjoying retirement. cal education for English language learn- S . Michael Plaut ’65 B.A. retired from the in Who’s Who and was nominated for Marquis ers. She and her husband, Scott, have three N ancy (Rothstein) Perlow ’79 B.S., ’80 University of Maryland School of Medicine Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in S usan (Kavaler) Adler ’74 Ph.D. is the Kim (Avery) Skreiveris ’77 B.B.A. is grown sons and are avid commuter cyclists. after 35 years as a faculty member. He America for 2010. He was the chief judge for founder and executive director of the Object the managing member and founder of M.S.W. is retired and recently joined the R osemary Martino ’81 B.S. is the dean of moved to Topsail Island, North Carolina, five vocal competitions from 2003 to 2008 Relations Institute for Psychotherapy. She a financial services Web site that pro- choir at her local synagogue. and has established a part-time practice Human Medicine at Grand Rapids Michigan and is a vocal talent evaluator and indepen- has been a psychoanalyst for 34 years. vides statistical analysis of alternative specializing in the evaluation and treat- State College. dent talent scout. investments. 1980s ment of sexual problems. M arva (Kalish) Bhalla ’74 B.A. plans events Jill Bastable ’71 B.A. is currently working L eon Diamond ’82 M.S. has been teaching to support business organizations in Queens, M anuella (Craveiro) Gaylord ’78 B.S. D onald Blody ’80 B.B.A. joined Madison D onald Ryan ’66 B.B.A. volunteers as as a self-employed physician. for the Department of Education for 29 years. New York, through her media relations is happily retired as of 2007. a Biddy Basketball coach at the Salvation Capital, an equipment and vehicle lease He is a widower with two children. Army’s Hempstead headquarters. In 2011, C heryl Lynn (Hollander) Blum ’71 B.S. and legislative advocacy role at the Queens financing company based in Baltimore, Eileen Lieberman-Cicione ’78 M.B.A. Kathleen Arena ’83 M.A. began volunteer- he’ll be celebrating his golden anniversary is the communications coordinator at Chamber of Commerce. Maryland, last January. is a retired marketing executive from Verizon ing at Winthrop University Hospital after re- as a coach. the Huntington Freedom Center’s Early Childhood Program. P hilip Centonze ’74 B.A. is celebrating 30 Communications. She received the Verizon C harles Hyman ’80 M.S.W. was appointed tirement. She also volunteers as a registered nurse at a clinic for people without health S usan (Reeseman) Stevens ’66 B.A., ’68 M.S. years as a dentist in private practice. Telecom Leaders Circle Award and the physician in chief at Bassett Healthcare. recently retired from her position as presi- P atricia (Mansfield)P helan ’71 B.A. is Verizon Excellence Award on several occasions. insurance and has begun training to be a dent of a nonprofit agency. proud to announce her husband’s recent ac- Joel Levy ’74 M.S.W., ’93 D.S.W. received Keith Lippert ’80 M.B.A. is a founding literacy volunteer. complishment of having his novel, The Canal a Lifetime Achievement Award from the C armen Ortiz ’78 B.B.A. worked in the partner of Lippert/Heilshorn (LHA), and was founded NAI Bridge, published. Burton Blatt Institute in May 2009. A pioneer Middlesex District Attorney’s office before Barry Boriss ’83 M.S.W. is currently R obert Friedland ’67 M.B.A. named the 2009 Distinguished Entrepreneur Friedland Realty in 1970, and is involved in in the field of developmental and learning becoming a federal prosecutor in 1997. She enjoying the comforts of retirement. Brian Silversmith ’71 M.A. is the owner of of the Year by the Falcone Center of such ventures as Westrock Development, disabilities, Dr. Levy was the longtime CEO was recently recommended as a finalist for Diet/Fitness Connection, and has exempli- Entrepreneurship in the Whitman School of C heryl (Holtzman) Gitlitz ’83 B.S., ’84 Shleppers Moving and Storage, and Kia of of the YAI/National Institute for People with the U.S. Attorney position in Massachusetts. fied 40 years of natural living and exercising M.S.W. is the district-wide transition coordi- Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The owner and Management at Syracuse University. He re- through his passion for life and wellness. Disabilities Network. He is now retired after nator for the Bellmore-Merrick Central High chairman of Sensible Car Loans, a bank that L orraine (Bergmann) Turner ’78 B.A. ceived the honor at the Entrepreneurship and 40 years with the YAI organization. School District. She is also a homeless liason lends money to customers to purchase used Emerging Enterprise (EEE) awards ceremony M adeline (Mandel) Tiktin ’71 B.A. retired has been painting jazz themed art while and a field instructor at Adelphi. in April 2009. cars, he is also involved in building a desan- in 2004 after 33 years of teaching music to N aphtali Bruce ’75 B.A. was the runner- listening to music for the past four years, linization plant in Israel. elementary school children. She and her hus- up for Best Overnight (radio) Show at the favoring Ella Fitzgerald tunes. She enjoys R ichard Outcault ’83 M.B.A. greets visitors L isa Sherman-Dow ’80 B.A. has been in- band Tom now enjoy going to concerts and March of Dimes A.I.R. Awards and is a com- singing jazz and has sung at the Steinway and is a guide at the Vanderbilt Museum. He M arvin Robbins ’68 B.A. is currently ducted into Rumson-Fair Haven Regional operas together as well as traveling. munity volunteer for WRVU 91.1 FM, a non- Gallery while exhibiting there, as well also volunteers at the Northport, Virginia, enjoying a restful retirement. High School’s Hall of Fame. Her profes- profit affiliate of Vanderbuilt University’s as at Altamonte Chapel jazz concerts. Medical Center. M artin Burden ’72 M.S., ’76 M.B.A. is sional career began as a rockette for Radio G ertrude Box ’69 M.A. is a retired driver’s student radio station. She writes a bi-monthly column for the proud to have landed a new job as a program City Music Hall, and she later danced with R ichard Pollas ’83 B.A., ’87 M.B.A. was education teacher who saw her third great Central Florida Jazz Society’s Blue Notes. a volunteer at a number of public hospitals manager at age 64, thanks in part to the R ichard Haffey ’75 M.A. published his various companies and spent time perform- granddaughter married on September 23, support he received from Adelphi. before pursuing work in the health admin- debut novel, Love Song, this past spring. The C ourtney Voses ’78 B.B.A. was present- ing on and off Broadway. A singer for Nobel 2007. The mother of eight children of her istrative field. own, Ms. Box has 23 grandchildren, 19 great I rwin Zucker ’72 M.S.W. stopped working book, published by Xlibris, tells the story of ed with the Feuerlicht-Manning Award of Records, she also played Kathy Farber on grandchildren, and five great great grand- in psychiatric hospitals to work with retired Jay Alfred’s tireless devotion to his ailing wife, Excellence by the Family Court Law and the soap opera Ryan’s Hope. She’s modeled in Brian Ridgway ’83 B.B.A. earned the dis- children. She enjoys skydiving, and takes seniors and loved it. He, too, is now retired Abby. More information about the title and Procedure Committee at it’s annual spring print and television advertisements and was tinction of certified municipal clerk from the pride in having flown her own airplane. and works as a gardner in a Scottish retreat author can be found at xli bris.com. luncheon in May 2009. a personal fitness trainer. 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corporate ownership of the movie studios C hristopher White ’83 B.A. is a staff T ami Wankoff ’87 B.A. is busy medi- and television networks, and they are tight- emergency medicine physician at the ating refunds of Level 3 mischarges for Producer and talent manager Peter Principato ’87 ening their belts. NBC and Universal are Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio. CentricVoice for Qwest, a broadband and just small divisions of General Electric, and fiber-optic network. has long thrived on multitasking. During his days GE wants to cut, cut, cut. So the studios are M arshall Gisser ’84 B.A., ’87 M.A. works making fewer movies, and the networks are for Desktop Widgets, a New York design S teven White ’87 B.B.A. became a come- at Adelphi, the communications major served as making less narrative-driven programming company that has provided award-winning dian after obtaining his degree in accounting. because they’re making money on reality marketing innovation and design for 20 years. He has also pursued acting. president of the student body twice and senior television. Barbara Hoffman ’84 B.A. is a poet working M arguerite Burdon ’88 B.S. is a registered class vice president, sat on the student activities How do you compete when the studios diligently at her craft. nurse for Halifax Health and has been rec- are investing in fewer projects? ognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for show- We’re trying to be more creative in how D ouglas Miles ’84 B.B.A. is a broad- board, tended bar at the Rathskeller, and ran the ing dedication, leadership, and excellence we sell our projects. Studios typically pay caster, producer, and writer for in all aspects of nursing. She has 21 years of $125,000 to $250,000 for a script or $1 mil- mil estoneproductions.5omegs.com, game room next to the University bookstore. professional experience in caring for patients lion to $1.5 million to shoot a 22-minute pi- and has a radio show, The Big Band Files. He lot. Last year, CBS decided not to shoot a also hosts and produces Political Roundtable, and working in the operating room. pilot for a TV show we’re developing for co- a weekly political talk program aired in There’s No Business Like Show Business: median Rob Riggle. I got them to give me Tampa Bay, Florida. He got his start on D ebra Cohen ’88 B.S., ’93 M.S. was hon- $50,000, and we shot an 11-minute glimpse WBAU (90.3FM), Adelphi’s radio station ored at the American Airlines seventh annual into it instead. We just met with the presi- with his show, The Big Band Sound. Top Women in Business Networking Awards dent of the network again, and she was Dinner. Serving on the Queens Chapter for blown away by how good it looked. We’re Joseph Ferrari ’85 M.A., ’89 Ph.D. was the Arthritis Foundation is just one of many Peter Principato ’87 talking about redeveloping it now, so that invited by the minister of Saudi Arabia to roles that she has excelled in. project isn’t dead, where normally it would give an address at King Saud University just be dead. in Riyadh on community psychology and A melia Gepes ’88 M.A. is a retired educator on Hollywood’s Brave New World substance abuse recovery, a topic which has from the Baldwin School District. Are new technologies changing the I s cutting-edge comedy a good niche to be in earned him international recognition. He A talent agent with William Morris Agency (now business? William Morris Endeavor Entertainment) for many during a recession? was also selected for the 2009 Excellence S hamir Ally ’89 B.B.A., ’92 M.B.A. was an Yes. Technology is becoming a launching years, Mr. Principato decided he wanted to pro- Yes. As the studios make fewer movies, you don’t see in Public Service Award, and was among external examiner for Johnson & Johnson’s pad for many things. Rob Corddry, who’s duce shows as well as manage clients who write, the big movie-star dramas. Horror or big-tent-pole the faculty nominated this year for the Director, D. Milynn Swofford’s dissertation, been on The Daily Show, wrote, directed direct, and act in film and television, so he started movies like Spiderman or Transformers or comedies Excellence in Teaching Award at DePaul Impact of a Pharmaceutical Company’s Leadership and starred in Childrens’ Hospital, an online his own management and production company in are the three genres that continue to work. Also, University. He was elected the 2009 to 2010 Development Program on Participant Leadership series making fun of hospital dramas on 2000. Today, Los Angeles-based Principato-Young everybody wants the next comedic star so they can Leader of the Elite of the St. Vincent de Paul Behavior at George Washington University, TheWB.com. People love it so much that Entertainment is a 35-person firm that specializes pay them $200,000 instead of $20 million. That hap- Washington, D.C. He is also president/CEO now cable network Adult Swim wants Professor Society at the University. in guiding the careers of comedians who write and pens to be the business we’re in, so we’re doing well. of International Consulting Services, and a to do a television series based on it. We produce as well as act, including Ed Helms from T homas Flanagan ’85 B.B.A. has been a faculty member in the M.B.A. program at represent a guy, Jason Woliner, who made and Jonah Hill, who starred in . What makes a hit show? financial adviser since 1986. He speaks at The Office Superbad two short comic videos on his Macbook Pro, DeSales University. Likeable, relatable characters and really good churches and nonprofit organizations on and wound up getting a TV show on MTV. We recently talked to Mr. Principato about how the writing. financial literacy, budgeting, debt reduction, Anybody who has a camera and can make a M ichele (Weinberg) Feuerstein ’89 M.S. entertainment industry is changing. and financial contentment. is the assistant principal of P.S. 234 for the Have audiences’ tastes changed since you video look good can actually start working New York City Department of Education. Y our company is known for managing up-and- started in this business? in comedy. L ouis Marinaccio ’85 M.B.A. joined coming comedic actors. Why did you decide to The audience is more sophisticated than ever. Sentrix, a drug safety firm in the pharmaceu- What will entertainment look like in S haron (Van Kesteren) Garcia ’89 B.S. make this your focus? They’ve been exposed to good material, and tical industry, in December 2007 as the chief the future? graduated with an M.S.N. from Seton Hall I was a comedy nerd who grew up on Bob Newhart, if something feels inauthentic and staged, they operating officer. Lily Tomlin, the Smothers Brothers, and Happy don’t want to see that anymore. People want stuff Television will be more merged with your University in 1997 and has worked as a Days. Then I was a fan of Saturday Night Live and that’s smart, funny, and satisfies their level of intel- computer. People might have 60-inch, high- S uzanne Graziano ’86 B.S., ’94 M.S. woman’s health nurse practitioner. Monty Python. I’d go see comedies with my grand- ligence rather than plays to the lowest common definition computer screens on their walls is the nursing director of Orthopedics, streaming programming. People will go to father at the movies, and I loved watching television. denominator. Neurosciences, and the Comprehensive S andra Kalman ’89 M.S.W. has retired the movie theaters to experience something As my company’s grown, we’ve added managers who Rehabilitation Center at the NCH from Zuker Hillside Hospital after being em- they can’t experience at home, so you’ll be pursue their own eclectic tastes, and we represent How is the recession impacting the entertainment Healthcare System in Naples, Florida. ployed there for 30 years. In May 2009, she more than that now, including the directors of films industry? seeing more of the 3D technology that came gave a mandated presentation for the profes- like Final Destination and Stomp the Yard. But comedy is This summer’s box office was the highest-grossing out in Monsters vs. Aliens. You’re going to wear P atricia Ann Boyle-Egland ’87 B.S. sional and non-professional staff on child my personal passion. box office ever from Memorial Day to Labor Day. your own sunglasses to watch movies in 3D is an assistant professor of pediatric nurs- abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse. Part of that is because ticket prices are higher, but it so you don’t have to put on the funny blue ing at Borough of Manhattan Community is also because people want to escape reality during and red glasses. College. She is also an adjunct instructor at M ary Lane ’89 M.S. is a teacher and hard economic times, and the movies are a relatively Adelphi University and a certified pediatric afternoon supervisor at the Rosemarie cheap form of entertainment. However, there’s more By Samantha Stainburn nurse practitioner. Meyer School. 62 Class notes Fall 2009

1990s Larry Mays ’91 B.S. joined ADT Security Hospital’s Family Medical Center, and was Steven Leon ’02 B.F.A. is starring in the austin Barry ’04 B.s. wrote a song for Barack Kenneth Cronin ’06 M.B.A. is the assistant Services as a group director for transporta- cited by Town of Hempstead Supervisor soon-to-be-released independent film,Harlem Obama’s presidential campaign and has audi- vice president and collateral examination tion and logistics. He is responsible for devel- Robert Batule ’90 M.A. teaches at the Kate Murray for her work in helping families Hostel. He also began a startup company, tioned for a part on a Howard Stern televi- manager at Wells Fargo Business Credit. oping strategies to secure businesses among Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in in the Town of Hempstead access healthcare Actorscomfort, which is a helpful resource sion show. He starred on a television program the nation’s leading airlines. He was previous- programs and services. Karen Kennedy ’06 B.S. keeps the streets Lloyd Harbor, New York. Three of his essays for relocated actors. called Next Superstars last April in Tennessee. ly the senior vice president of the cargo line of Manhattan safe as a New York City police and a set of homilies are due to be published of business at IBS software services. Patricia Gulitti ’96 M.A. has been an marilyn mohsin ’05 m.s.w. is the project officer. in 2009. Chris’Ana Paul ’02 M.A. is a reading in- English teacher for 16 years and has worked director of J.A.S.A’s Young at Heart Club, Timothy Parker ’91 M.A. had his artwork, at Jericho High School for the past 10 years, structor who self-published a multicultural Nancy Williams ’06 B.A. is teaching her Gurmay (Fraser) Darlington ’90 B.S. is a Senior Center, located in the Suffolk Y-JCC Blue Heron Sunset, selected to be the com- where she has taught all grade levels includ- children’s novel, Crescent Street Crew. For more second year of seventh and eighth grade art published author, one of 50 represented in a in Commack, New York. memorative poster for the 2009 Art Fest ing Advanced Placement English Language information, she advises all to visit www.out- at J.W. Dodd Middle School in Freeport, new book, The Queens Legacy. at Fort Myers. and Composition. skirtspress.com/TheCrescentStreetCrew. Elizabeth (plummer) repoli ’05 m.s.w. New York. Margot Ann (Diekmann) Edlin ’90 M.A., is the senior manager of corporate relations at Elyse Weiner ’91 M.B.A. ranked number Richard Kendrick ’97 B.S. was recently Claudinette (Fetus) Chan ’03 B.A. is an Louis Massato ’08 B.S. is a vice president ’95 M.A. is involved in a family literacy proj- YAI/National Institute for People with four in U.S. Banker’s 25 Women to Watch named managing director of marketing at and business development officer for JP ect for immigrant families. She also teaches a elementary Catholic school teacher. Disabilities Network. list. She is the managing director and global RiverSource Investments, where he will over- special education program sponsored by the Morgan Chase. head of Liquidity and Investments, Treasury see all marketing operations for ProShares’ was New York State Vocational and Educational Caleb Siefert ’03 M.A., ’05 Ph.D. and Trade Solutions, at Citigroup. Exchange Traded Funds, and ProFund’s Services for Individuals with Disabilities and named senior scientist of Innerscope mutual funds. is working on a research project on student Marc Schnall ’92 M.S.W. supervises a case Research, a biometric media research firm, self-efficacy. management program that serves mentally and will lead the company’s statistical analy- ill adults in Nassau County. He has held the 2000s ses and study designs. Margaret (Murphy) Leonard ’90 B.S., ’91 position for the past seven years. In Memoriam M.S., ’96 C.A.G.S. is senior vice president Stewart Coddington ’00 B.S. was present- for clinical services at Hudson Health Plan. Robin (Liebman) Maltenfort ’93 M.A. ed a bronze medal from the Joslin Diabetes Ruth (Leonard) Peck ’32 B.A. The National Quality Forum has invited her owns Mind-Body in Unison, LLC, a com- Center in Boston, Massachusetts, for living Sarah (Gordon) Weiss ’32 B.A. to serve on the steering committee for the pany dedicated to teaching Hanna Somatic with diabetes for more than 50 years. Betty (Alger) Finucane ’40 B.A. Education, a brain-based movement program. project, Endorsing Preferred Practices and Office of Alumni Relations Emily (Rosenblatt) Spiegel ’50 B.A. Performance Measures for Measuring and She has worked in the education and fitness Conrad Richards ’00 M.B.A. is an indepen- Janice (Noble) Champlin ’52 B.A. Reporting Care Coordination. She is also fields for more than 15 years. dent consultant specializing in professional Joseph J. Geraci Jennifer Boglioli the president-elect of the Case Management advisement, training, and development. A Director Assistant Director Frank Licursi ’52 B.A. Richard Pino ’93 M.B.A. was appointed faculty member of New York University’s Society of America. Mary Ann Mearini ’05 Cathryn Chenkus Joseph Gelety ’53 B.A. chief financial officer for Scarguard Labs, School of Continuing and Professional Senior Associate Director Alumni Relations Officer Tess (Forrest) Barnett ’54 Ph.D. Stephen Leonard ’90 G.C., ’91 M.B.A. LLC, in January 2009. Studies Department of Leadership and Michele McNichols ’56 B.A. was appointed chief executive officer of PIC Human Capital Management, he specializes Thomas Ward ’93 B.A. currently serves as To find out more about our programs and alumni benefits, Edward DeReeder ’58 B.S. Solutions International, which facilitates the in organizational theory, research process and director of the Center for Career Develop- please call (516) 877-3470. expansion of businesses internationally. methodology, as well as other related topics. Frank Atzert ’59 B.S. ment at Adelphi University. He was recog- Oksana (Sagaty) Linick ’63 B.S. nized in the Long Island Business News “Ones Mary-Margaret Pezzella ’90 B.S., ’91 M.S.W. Myrna Desvarieux ’01 B.S. completed her to Watch” list. Alumni Association Board Thea Spyer ’63 Ph.D. has been named Catholic Charities of master’s as a nurse practitioner in 2007. This Joan (Ginsberg) Ossakow ’64 B.A. past summer, she welcomed a new addition Shelly Kleinman ’83 Teresa Savory M.B.A. ’94 Oswego County’s new executive director. Christine Li ’94 M.A., ’99 Ph.D. is an es- to her family with the birth of a new baby. Charles Fuchs ’65 M.S.W. She formerly served as a director of Metro tablished psychologist in a private practice. President Vice President Elect Therapy Inc. in New York City, an agency Jane (Krumholz) Reimer ’70 B.S. Denise Wind ’01 B.S., ’02 M.S.W. has a pri- Eric Hieger ’92 Jo-Ann Hertzman ’80 that provided early intervention services Shirish Mohile ’95 M.B.A. is currently in a Andre Davoren ’73 Ph.D. vate psychotherapy practice, and has become Executive Vice President Recording Secretary throughout the city’s five boroughs. partnership with AVM DeMars, CPA, P.C., Samuel Prioleau ’75 M.A. a Certified Holistic Nutrition Counselor and at the firm’s headquarters in Williston Park, CEO of the Wind Wellness Center. Donna Banek M.A. ’91 Rita Little ’72 Daniel Silver ’76 M.S.W. Susan Richards ’90 M.S.W. presented her New York. recently released memoir, Chosen Forever, in Michael Berthel ’08 Thomas Mazzara ’82 Helen Angelides ’78 B.S. Warren Bodine ’02 B.S. was accepted into May 2009 at the Northshire Bookstore. Christopher Farrell ’96 M.S. is a CPA part- Drew Crescenzo ’78 Thomas Morin ’95 Helen (Hutchison) Probst ’79 B.A. a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship Larry Fried ’60 George A. Olney ’71 ner with Goldstein & Co. LLP. He is also a Carol (Weiss) Horvath ’84 B.S. Barbara (Bhalla) Fifield ’91 M.S.W. is financial volunteer at United Way of Long training program at Christiana Care Health William Fuessler ’79 Irina Ostrozhnyuk ’08 Mary Williams ’85 A.A. retired but has recently published her first Island and was an adjunct professor at SUNY Systems in Delaware. He received first Brett Heimov ’92 David Roethgen ’58 Paul Leparik ’85 B.B.A. novel, Photographs and Memories, which can Old Westbury in fall 2008. place in the Richard J. Kresja DO Poster Tara Howard-Saunders ’84 Gregg Scheiner M.B.A. ’90 be purchased at Amazon.com. Presentation at the 2009 American College Marguerite D. Izzo M.A. ’84 Joseph Sessum ’75 Juliet Latchman ’92 M.S. Maria Fonte ’96 M.S.W. was honored with of Osteopathic Family Physicians national Alyson M. Kelly M.B.A. ’87 Marc Sieben ’75 Susan (Nefsky) Cwass ’94 M.S. Ruth Landstrom ’91 M.A., ’98 Ph.D. the Town of Hempstead’s 2009 Pathfinder convention in Washington, D.C. for his re- Mark J. Kulewicz M.B.A. ’85 Thomas Sinopoli ’65 Julia Barchitta ’96 C.A.G.S. is a clinical psychologist specializing in Award in Healthcare Services. She is a social search entitled Elevated Epstein Barr Virus Titer Joan Kuster ’51 Beth H. Tenser ’91 life coaching. worker at South Nassau Community Levels and Clinically Isolated Syndrome. Melissa Scherr ’06 B.A. 64 Class notes Fall 2009

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have three sisters, so there were Barbies all over my house, but I didn’t have much use Ifor them until I needed them for an eighth grade social studies project. I ended up rec- reating and filming a short history of World War II in Germany with about 25 Barbie and Ken dolls, as well as several of their houses and Corvettes. It ended up being a big hit in am not at all the Barbie generation! my class, though I don’t know if my teacher I grew up in 1950s post-war England was that amused. Iwhere toys and books were not that plen- tiful. They were not exactly an economic Linda Romano M.A. ’03 priority. I had a doll, Betty. She was bald Senior Associate Director, Promotion and Outreach was definitely into Barbies from the age Adelphi University of five to 10. One Christmas, I got the and designed to resemble a baby, and my mother knitted various garments for her IBarbie penthouse with an elevator! That hen I turned nine years old my then as birthday and Christmas presents. I en- was probably my favorite Christmas gift! “boyfriend” gave me a Barbie doll for arbiecountered Barbie when I became a teacher, Even when my dog chewed Barbie’s foot, Wmy birthday. I was mortified. or my brother marked her with ink, she along with My Little Pony and a bunch of Today, Barbie is in abundance with little ove her, loathe her, Barbie is still was still my Barbie with the best wardrobe! other small toys that the girls enjoyed and more than a murmur of protest. Parents around. Earlier this year, the ageless Since I was a tom-boy, sometimes I’d trade made up games and stories about. of my children’s friends shrug about their doll turned 50. Despite flagging sales, my Barbie for my brother’s Tonka truck, Jane Ashdown daughter’s obsession with Barbie (and and several brushes with controver- but I wouldn’t give it back unless I had Dean, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Princesses). “I don’t know where she gets Lsy, she still generates billions for toy manufacturer Barbie back first! Adelphi University it. It’s not me. But my daughter loves Mattel. Introduced in 1959 as a blond bombshell in Kelly Cass ’90 Barbie (and Princesses),” I often hear. a swimsuit, Barbie was one of the first popular dolls On-Camera Meteorologist, The Weather Channel to represent a grown woman, and was intended to My own daughter is not even two, so she is be a fashion plate, with a wardrobe that far exceeded he was perfect and, unfortunately, I not yet the prime target of Barbie related ad- the cost of the doll itself. Barbie, whose full name is was far from perfect. She had the per- vertising. I have not, myself, had to face cor- Barbie Millicent Roberts, has survived near-death encounters with rivals, such as Jem, and Sfect boyfriend, Ken. He didn’t smoke pot porate efforts to colonize my children’s life- words, as Jurgen Habermas might put it. But adopted new personas, pursuing new careers and better reflecting the diversity of her fans. and have zits all over his face. There are a my peers’ reactions are still mystifying to me. Both a cultural and academic icon, she has been the topic of children’s books and movies, couple of reasons not to play with Barbie. Barbie was not allowed in my house when I as well as academic books, papers, and conferences. After all, perfection is great in plastic, but we live in a real world with real people was a child. She represented everything my Through sheer longevity, Barbie links generations of women together. Memories of who, while not perfect, are a lot more family was fighting against. As part of my re- her show the diverse fantasies and self-concepts of girls and young women. fun than a doll. sistance, I didn’t wear a skirt or don make-up throughout high school. Now girls are pol- In honor of Barbie’s 50th birthday bash, we invited Adelphi faculty and alumni to share Jeanette Schwarz Young ’65, M.S. ’69 ishing their nails in first grade. Parents shrug. their Barbie memories. The recollections, excerpted here, reveal the depth of reverence and J.A. Schwarz Market Analytics Jessica Klein repulsion she has generated and the spectacular diversity of the Adelphi community. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology College of Arts and Sciences, Adelphi University By Bonnie Eissner The story continues... become a fan of Adelphi University Magazine. 66 A look Back Fall 2009 A Look Back

L aurence Kessler ’65 Founder and CEO of Kessler Restaurants L ori Duggan Gold G.C. ’08 R obert A. Scott Taking the Road Less Traveled Vice President for Communications President Life Lessons Start Small Poolside Reading As one of his first jobs, Adelphi Trustee Laurence Kessler ’65 was a New York City cab driver, picking up his first fare at 3:00 a.m. Along with meeting At 14, shopping with her mother at Fleaport, Robert A. Scott’s mother died when he was colorful characters and experiencing the true flavor of the city, he discovered a popular flea market in Lawrence, New nine and the subsequent medical bills bank- a talent for dealing with tricky, sometimes dangerous, situations. York, Lori Duggan saw a help wanted sign at rupted his father. By junior high school, he was Today, a successful entrepreneur, Mr. Kessler owns and operates 21 Burger a bathing suit booth, asked for the job, and working summers as an assistant counselor Kings and 46 Friendly’s throughout upstate New York. As Mr. Kessler puts it, much to her surprise, was hired on the spot. at local day camps. Then, in high school, he “People who persevere succeed. People who won’t jump the hurdles, don’t.” It may be the itch associated with Pulex got what he describes as “the best job pos- irritans that makes a job at Fleaport sound sible” at Willson Woods Pool in Mt. Vernon, inauspicious, but for young Ms. Duggan, New York. As a relief worker at the pool, he it led to four years of summer employment enjoyed working in different jobs throughout and mad skills! the facility during the day and two days each As the sole employee, she was responsible for it all—sales, customer relations, inventory management, bookkeeping, reporting back and being held accountable at week’s end by the owner. She also had to figure out how to get someone to cover for her when nature M arjorie J. Hill ’77, Ph.D. ’81 called, discovering a valuable talent for team- CEO of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis building. And, as she says, “In the 1980s, for a girl growing up in the Rockaways, what could One of the First in the Fight be better than all those free bathing suits?” In 1990, as one of her first jobs, Marjorie J. Hill ’77, Ph.D. ’81, began working for Mayor David Dinkins as an advocate for the gay and lesbian community—a group all too First Jobs familiar with discrimination and prejudice. As a gay African American woman, Ms. Hill First jobs, offbeat jobs, transient jobs that lead saw her chance to make a difference and be an agent of change. She had realized to other jobs, sometimes mark turning points R ichard Garner, Dean of the Honors College her career path. Never Lost in Translation Her role with the Dinkins administration in our lives and herald the skills and interests allowed her to take part in a number of pio- Richard Garner has a talent for languages and neering initiatives, and ultimately prepared finding himself in interesting situations. As an un- her for her current role as CEO of the Gay that unfold over long and rich careers dergraduate at Princeton, majoring in Russian at week he had the late shift at the pump house. Men’s Health Crisis—the oldest AIDS ser- the height of the Cold War, he got a job speaking There, with hours to himself, he read dozens vice organization in the world that provides Russian with Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Aleluyeva, of books over the summer, including Attorney a range of vital services to more than 15,000 who had defected to the West in 1967 and feared for the Damned, a biography of Clarence people annually. Ms. Hill’s commitment to losing her language. He also found himself trans- Darrow, and found his life’s calling. her work remains steadfast. lating for “faithful Communists” on visits to the “The most happy people are the ones who U.S. “I took them through schools and explained I decided not to pursue medicine as my are most comfortable with themselves. It’s our system to them—and couldn’t make them course of study, but to find a career in which just a matter of getting them to that point,” believe the students writing with their left hands I could more directly affect issues of social says Ms. Hill. weren’t being trained for some secret job,” he says. justice and equal opportunity,” says Dr. Scott. The story continues... become a fan of Adelphi University Magazine. By Abby Ptachik and Lauren Kalish See it all! adel phi University PAC Performing Arts Center AU PAC’s second season has begun! Our prestigious guest artists, world-class faculty, and wildly talented students will leave you breathless.

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