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Teaching and Serving: How The College Works at Community Service Going Global: Preparing Students for Today’s World Continuing to Lead in the New Millennium TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001

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IV E N TH E nyone in my line of work is delighted when our national leaders G consider education a priority. One of the major commitments of the new Congress and CH A L L E N G E S administration is to assure that public schools across the country are held accountable for giving our youngest students a better start, particularly in reading and mathematics. FAC I N G US AL L I am encouraged that the new administration recognizes a clear need for federal action Ato deal with challenges not being met in many parts of our country. IN TH I S NE W I also am proud to say that over the years The College of New Jersey has played a key role in improving K–12 education. We have prep a r ed generations of skilled CE N T U R Y, OU R teachers, and provided programs through which our K–12 schools are made ever more ef fective and relevant. Our recent initiatives in the area of math, science, and NAT I O N AN D OU R technology education are being expanded to make sure new teaching tools and techniques are getting to the reg i o n ’ s public schools. The College’s network of CO M M U N I T I E S WI L L pr ofessionals in 12 local school districts is designed to make sure the most effective and imaginative programs are widely available. Neither we nor New Jersey lawmakers are BE HA R D -PR E S S E D un a w a r e or inactive as America faces the need for both better teaching and better facilities in our poorest communities. TO SU C C E E D Ho w e v e r , as the federal and state governments wrestle with the issues of standards , res o u r ces, and accountability in the K–12 system, they must not forget a central fact WI T H O U T about the role of higher education. The nation’s colleges and universities exist not only to educate men and women to be excellent teachers or even more generally in the A GR E A T MA N Y skills needed for employment. They exist not only to advance the cause of useful knowledge, creative endeavor, and scholarly work. They also exist to produce leaders. SK I L L E D LE A D E R S . Given the challenges facing us all in this new century, our nation and our communities will be hard- p r essed to succeed without a great many skilled leaders. For the most part, such individuals are produced in the crucible of a challenging college education. FOR TH E MO S T The College of New Jersey takes its responsibility for leadership education very PAR T SU C H se r i o u s l y . We seek out and enroll students with demonstrated potential for leadership. , We design our curriculum to ensure a broad learning experience. Since 1995, we have IN D I V I D U A L S AR E req u i r ed all students to participate in a servi c e - l e a r ning experience. We provide an en v i r onment rich with opportunity to practice teamwork, cooperation, and PR O D U C E D IN TH E res p o n s i b i l i t y . All these features of our learning community were strengthened last year by the establishment of the TCNJ Leadership Development Institute. The overall goal, CR U C I B L E OF A as we say in our new Mission Statement, is to be “a national exemplar in prep a r i n g students to sustain and enhance the communities in which they live.” CH A L L E N G I N G We are well on our way toward that goal. Reaching it will req u i r e that both public and private sources rea ff i r m their commitments to higher education and enhance their CO L L E G E su p p o r t for the education of tomorrow ’ s leaders. It is an exciting time to be associated with TCNJ, and I have full confidence that our current direction will both rea ff i r m our ED U C AT I O N . distinguished past and assure an exceptional future.

R. Barbara Gitenstein Pre s i d e n t TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 TH E CO L L E G E O F NE W J E R S E Y MA G A Z I N E

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R. Barbara Gitenstein 6 Teaching and serving: How The College works P re s i d e n t at community service New initiatives strengthen the historic connection between Jesse H. Rosenblum Associate Vice President educating students and serving our local communities. for College Relations by Bruce B. VanDusen

Susan M. Long Executive Editor 12 Going Global: Preparing students for today’s world Good or bad, globalization is a fact. Here’s a look at how Br uce B. V an D u s e n TCNJ students are being prepared to deal with it. E d i t o r by Thomas A. Parmalee ’02 Rebecca P. Goetz Design Dire c t o r 17 Continuing to lead in the new millennium Cindy Friedman ’89 The College adopts a new Mission Statement and Graphic Communications Dire c t o r adapts its system of governance and academic structure to a changing world. Tony Marchetti ’96 P roduction Coord i n a t o r by Susan M. Long

C O N T R I B U T O R S 24 Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholars Ann King, Ryan Groeger ’01, The College is pleased to announce a new partnership Na i re m Moran, Suzi Nam, Ma r got Palmer, and with the Harcourt Foundation and TCNJ’s first recipients Thomas A. Parmalee ’02 of Harcourt Scholarships.

Mike Curry ’63 Alumni Affairs Dire c t o r D E P A R T M E N T S

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22 The Lion’s Roar A roundup of fall sports, new Hall of Fame inductees, and milestones for three coaches

31 Alumni News More news than ever of old friends and classmates

44 The College of New Jersey Bookstor e

49 Lion’s Tale on the cover: You’re invited to Miss Decker’s Tea What does it mean to be a member of a community? Find us on the Web See page 6. TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 The College of New Jersey: www.tcnj.edu TCNJ Magazine: www.tcnj.edu/magazine In Focus Students TCNJ student in the last five years to be elected LPE

■ Three computer science majors had proposals president, the most prestigious national office for accepted in the highly competitive Student Research students in the communication discipline. Contest sponsored by the Association for Computing Castillo was accompanied to the conference by Machinery Special Interest Group for Computer fellow seniors Jennifer Puma , TCNJ’s LPE chapter Science Education held in Charlotte, NC, in president, and Melissa Mink , chapter treasurer, February. Gregory Por reca ’02 , who also majors in both of whom presented competitively selected biology, has been working on real-time animation of papers. Puma’s paper was entitled “Nationwide water molecules. His project is called “Object- Coverage of Gun Control Legislation since Oriented Design Meets Cellular Automata Theory: Columbine: A Community Structure Approach.” An Animated Hydrogen Bonding Simulation in Mink’s paper was entitled “Nationwide Newspaper Java.” Michael Hume ’02 and Matthew Madia ’02 Coverage of Social Security Reform: A Community have a joint project stemming from their work on Structure Approach.” The community structure practical Web-based navigation of virtual space. approach measures the relation between city Their project is entitled “Portable Representational demographics and newspaper coverage. Navigation System.” Ursula Wolz , assistant professor ■ Michael DelBene ’01 , a communication and chair of the Department of Computer Science, studies major from Hammonton, has said fewer than 30 projects are accepted for this announced his candidacy for the Republican annual competition, which is “as prestigious as it nomination for the New Jersey General gets for an undergraduate computer scientist.” Assembly’s 8th Legislative District. If he

■ Adrian Castillo ’01 , a communication studies should be successful in what seems likely to major, was elected national president of the student be a three-way contest for two positions in communication studies national honor society, the June 5 primary election, Mike would be Lambda Pi Eta, at the National Communication favored to win a seat from the solidly Michael DelBene ’01 Association conference in Seattle. He is the fourth Republican district, which includes parts

■ The American Scholastic Press Association has Manager Tracey Dodge ’00 . The copy staff members awarded The Siren, a campus literary magazine, were Gina Damiano ’03, Marcy Guner ’02, first place in its annual magazine competition. Sarah Kiyak ’02, and Gina Matturri ’02. In addition, it won the competition for the best The award-winning cover magazine cover with a design by Kate Stambler ’03 . of The Siren, a student The spring 2000 editorial board consisted of Editor- literary magazine. in-Chief Heather Sullivan ’01 , Art Director Stambler, Morgan Baden ’02 , Jennifer Borkowski ’01 , Copy Editor Holly Kent ’03 , and Business

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 of Atlantic, Camden, and Burlington counties. written for un b o u n d , an online magazine published by Barring other entries in the GOP primary he would students at The College, the essay describes how she face two incumbent assemblymen: Rep. Francis L. felt while growing up as a Filipino in an American Bodine of Mt. Laurel, an insurance agent first elected society that often harbors prejudice against foreigners.

in 1994, and Larry Chatziadakis, also of Mt. Laurel, ■ At the Fourth Bi-Annual TCNJ Chess Championship a businessman appointed to his seat in 1997. Long in the fall, Len Sprishen ’04 won all five of his active in campus Republican affairs, Mike worked games, becoming the first person ever to go actively in the unsuccessful campaigns of Malcolm undefeated in a bi-annual championship. He is a Forbes for the GOP presidential nomination, Rep. first-year economics major from Collegeville, PA. Rick Lazio for U.S. Senate from New York, and Rep. The Chess Club also initiated a Bi-Annual Blitz Bob Franks for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Chess Championship in the fall, crowning Karl

■ Curt Monday ’01 , a finance major from Strohmaier ’03 , a computer science major from Leonardo and a defensive back on the varsity Lebanon who won five of six five-minute “blitz” football team, was named to the Verizon games, as TCNJ’s first-ever blitz chess champion.

Academic All-America All-District team ■ Melissa Young ’01 and Kavita Vora ’01 , for his efforts in class and on the gridiron. community advisers in Decker and Cromwell halls,

■ Angelique Douyon ’02 participated in the together organized a holiday party for some 155 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute run by the children living in Rowan Towers, a public housing American Political Science Association at development in Trenton, just before the fall exam the University of Virginia last summer. period. Students donated toys and money, which Curt Monday ’01 She took two graduate-level courses and met went to buy hats and gloves for the youngsters.

with admissions representatives from many of the ■ Twenty undergraduates in the School of Education best graduate programs in the country. She presented spent eight weeks abroad during the first half of the a paper she wrote for one of her courses at the APSA spring semester as participants in the Global annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in September. Teaching program. The students, all seniors, had a

■ Kate Mulligan ’02 , a special education major, week to explore the country on their own and then represented The College in Indiana in January at spent seven weeks in the classroom doing student Futures Quest, a new program sponsored by the teaching. Following the eight-week tour, they North American Interfraternity Conference. She returned to begin student teaching in a New Jersey was selected from a pool of 45 candidates to be one school in mid-March. of 16 mentors who will lead the program, which The students and countries to which they were will provide leadership training to individuals from assigned are: Lauren Arellano, Ganna Maymind , schools across the continent that have recently and Jillian Reyes —Spain; Michael Breece, Janeen joined the Greek community. Kate is a member of Wojnar, and Kathryn Tulloch —The Gambia; Anna Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority and will be president Davis, Kimberly McEvoy , and Nikki Renella — of the Panhellenic Association for the 2001–2002 Germany; Jennifer Egnoski and Jennifer Lamkie — academic year. United Arab Emirates; Daniel Fonder, Stacey

■ An essay written by Thea Palad ’01 , a prof e s s i o n a l Hargraves, Lauren Migliaccio and Susan Pastir — wr i t i n g / j o u r nalism major, will appear in the fourth Ireland; Mariel Rodriguez and Patrick Walden — edition of American Now, a collection of readings England; Laura Schneck and Malinda Wolfgang— for college freshmen taking composition classes. South Africa; and Elaine Alario —Puerto Rico. Entitled “I’m Filipino, Not New York” and originally

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 The Feast is 25 Continuing a tradition begun in 1975, Lee Harrod, usually a professor of English but once each December a good imitation of a medieval royal, adjusted his crown and called the twenty-fifth annual Feast of the Golden Lion to order. In a Lee Harrod, in his voice used to reaching the back rows of a summer role as Host of the Shakespeare theater at Washington Crossing State Feast of the Golden Park, he announced: Lion, raises a toast to the assembled “ Give me your attention, noble gentr y. “nobility” at the Follow me to make your entr y. tw e n t y - f i f t h Form two lines, I ask you please; an n i v e r s a r y of the aw a r ds cerem o n y . Your wassail then receive with ease. Proceed to table, choose your place. Stand for Welcome, Toast, and Grace. Once assembled in the lavishly decorated Then to victuals, bread, and wine. dining room on the second floor of the Brower In our hall tonight you’ll dine, Student Center, the guests—leaders of student For this is THE FEAST OF organizations, their advisers, Blue Key inductees, THE GOLDEN LION!” Who’s Who recipients and a variety of honored The words are essentially those of a former dean faculty and staff—give their attention to Host of students, Jere D. Paddack, originator of The Feast Harrod’s invocation and formal toast: and, until 1985, King, a.k.a. “The Host,” of the “Please stand. Happy we are to gather in this annual event. Since succeeding Paddack, Harrod said hall. Give thanks to God for friends, for food, for all. he has “messed with and revised” the text, but has “Here’s a toast to all who gather here, / No sought to honor tradition with his flowing robe, matter where you’re from. / May the best of days that crown, and pseudo-golden necklace. you have seen / Be worse than the worst to come. / Legend has it that the original student feast Let the feast begin!” occurred in 1395 at Queen’s College, Oxford, after a Toasting at The Feast is limited to raising glasses student wandering in Shotover Forest was set upon filled with mulled cider, but each glass snifter is by a wild boar. He managed to strangle the attacking retained by the guests as a memento of the evening. beast by stuffing a volume of Aristotle down the It is traditionally a special night, if for no other animal’s throat. The boar, book still in place, was reason than students come in semi-formal dress, returned to the college and became the central a rarity on today’s campus. (Harrod confided he element in the original boar’s-head dinner. sometimes does not recognize his own students Ha r rod said The College usually has used a in their suits and long dresses.) plastic boar’s head in place of the real thing, but one The by-invitation-only dinner is organized and year the genuine article was paraded around the roo m . presented annually by the Office of Student Life as Even the students, he recalls, were pretty well “gros s e d a way to honor students and one faculty member out,” so the faux head is back in style. for a variety of achievements.

7 TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 The Feast Awards The twenty-fifth annual Feast of the Golden Lion leadership in co-curricular activities, citizenship, servi c e attracted an estimated 170 celebrants to the second and potential for future achievement. The 52 Who’s floor banquet room of the Brower Student Center on Who recipients for 2000 are: Dec. 6, continuing a tradition of honoring students Seniors Kelly Baden, Morgan Baden, Gina and faculty alike for their special contributions to Bro c k e n b r ough, Angelique Douyon, Kenneth Elpus, The College community. Following greetings and Christine Foglio, Dan Fonder, Patricia Fonseca, toasting by Lee “You may call me ‘Your Highness’” An d r ew Girman, Colleen Harker, Cathleen Hayden, Ha r rod, Dean of Student Life Mary-Elaine Perry Melissa Keyes, Joseph Loef fl e r , Lauren MacKenzie, announced the awards to the guests. Ma r y Elizabeth Matta, Ryan Melendez, V al e n c i a The Multicultural Program Awa r d, given by the Nichols, Anglea Pelaez, Christine Peluso, Jennifer student life office to the student organization that Pizza, Jesse Ransom, Vanessa Recalde, Raf fa e l l a pr omoted multicultural values through an outstanding Riotto, Monique Scott, Heather Sullivan, Jen pr ogram during the 1999-2000 school year, was won Thorspecken, Jill T ra c y , Tonita Under du e , an d by Kappa Delta sorority for its Shamrock Event. Malinda Wol f g a n g . To educate the community about the cros s - c u l t u r a l The juniors selected are: Kevin Fay, V al e r i e evil of child abuse, the sorority organized a speaking Flesch, Jason Gubi, Josephine Lontok, Louis event and raised $2,400 from local businesses for Melencio, Lauren O’Neill, Minal Patel, Albert Pr event Child Abuse America. As she did for all Ri b e i r o, Maria Victoria Ricart, Keith Ritson, Jessica those honored that night, college President Rowland, John Rutledge, Jerome Sanders, Chris R. Barbara Gitenstein pr esented the award to Sobotka, Lanae Thomas, Stacey Tobiasson, Dina Ra f faella Riotto ’01 of Kappa Delta. Tsivikis, Gary Tulp, Derek Wan, Karen W il s o n , The Student Life Awa r d went to the campus Kara Y an g , and Melissa You n g . chapter of New Jersey Community Water Watch for The College’s Student Life Faculty Award, its Community Action Day cleanup of George Paige presented annually to a faculty member who, by Park in Trenton that brought 158 students, faculty, continual involvement in student life programs, and staff to collect more than a ton of debris. The contributes substantially to the life of the campus aw a r d goes each year to the student organization that, community, went to Kim Pearson , assistant professor in the view of the student life office, plans and of English and adviser to The Signal, the student implements the most outstanding program or newspaper. (See page 27.) community service project. Leanne Marada ’01 , Many teachers who previously had been honored pr esident of Water Watch, accepted the award. with the Faculty Awa r d were on hand for the twenty- Nineteen students were inducted into the Blue fifth anniversary. They are: Joyce Cochrane , health Key Honor Society in recognition of their and physical education; William DeMer ri t t , English; involvement and leadership in campus activities, Gloria Dickinson , African-American studies; scholarship, and potential as leaders. Members must Patricia R. Duf fy , information systems management; be either a junior or senior with a grade point average Lee Harr od , English; Joseph N. Her zs t e i n , health of at least 3.5. The 2000 inductees are: seniors Ke l l y and physical education; Lewis A. Hof fm a n , Baden, Morgan Baden, Melanie Falco, Tina Fleming, management; Donald L. Lovett , biology; Ma r cia L. La u r en MacKenzie, Ganna Maymind, Kellie C. O’ C o n n e l l , biology; Elizabeth L. Paul , psychology; Mi l l e r , Jennifer Pizza, Kim Reeves, Heather Anntarie Sims, communication studies; Kenneth G. Sullivan, Lynn Tr zu s k o w s k i , and Lesley Ann Til l m a n , education; and Ro b e r t D. Web e r , Wil s o n . Also, juniors Susan Alsamari, Melissa technological studies. Camacho, Kevin Dziuba, Amanda Lipko, Stefanie Among other special guests was Je r e D. Paddack , Loh, Jerome Sanders, and De r ek Wan . who borrowed the feast idea from the University of Each year Who’s Who Among Students in Rochester when he was dean of students. Paddack left American Universities and Colleges recognizes students that post in 1985 to be a professor of counselling and for their academic accomplishments, participation, and ret i r ed from TCNJ in 1994.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 In FocusIn Focus continued on page 24 T E ACHING AND SERVING: H ow The College Works at Community Service

At The by Bruce B. VanDusen

• In Matthew Lawson’s Methods in Sociological • In partnership with the City of Trenton and Re s e a r ch course, students examined the case rec o r ds of Bristol-Myers Squibb, 16 seniors in Assistant Prof e s s o r Anchor House, a local shelter for runaway teenagers, of Nursing Susan Mitchell’s Community Health class to evaluate how well its programs were working. spent much of the spring semester doing hundreds of • Building on his own experience in business, bl o o d pres s u r e screenings and counselling those with John Pollock, associate professor of communication elevated readings about their remedial options. studies, and four student researchers plan regular state-wide surveys of New Jersey leadership opinion on major issues of the day.

“What does it mean to be a member of a community?”

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An important part of higher education’s mission Although 10 hours is hardly a major commitment, always has been serving the community. For years Scarpati notes that many students voluntarily go well TCNJ has shared its athletic facilities, classroo m s , beyond the req u i r ement. Even more importa n t , auditoriums, and cultural res o u r ces with the people res e a r ch shows that students involved in servi c e and organizations from near and far—and all that le a r ning overwhelmingly say it helps them understand continues toda y . However, as The College of New their own role in a community and produces genuine Jersey enters the new century and pledges in its new in t e r est in greater community involvement. By mission statement “to be a national exemplar in the getting out into the nearby world, by observing and education of those who seek to sustain and advance experiencing the diversity and extent of social prob l e m s , the communities in which they live,” several fres h and then by reflecting on it all in personal journa l s , community service initiatives are taking root. Four of class discussions and readings, TCNJ first-year students them have been organized under an umbrella known have a learning experience with a lasting impact. as the Leadership Development Institute. In addition, After six years of experience with the Servi c e th r ee new “centers” with a strong community Le a r ning Program, which has generated more than involvement mission are taking shape this year. 65,000 hours of student service, it is no wonder that Long-established professional outreach effo r ts in dozens of community organizations have come education and nursing have new elements underwa y to value and rely on the work TCNJ students do. and The College’s six-year-old Service Learni n g The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, under constant Pr ogram is moving to encourage community service as pre s s u r e to provide greater assistance to the poor and a common classroom experience beyond the first year. homeless of the nearby capital city, recently was able Th e r e is probably no better way to begin a rev i e w to add more meals to its schedule in part because of of these new initiatives than to search out the closet- the involvement of more TCNJ students. sized office on the second floor of the Brower Student At the same time, a great many faculty members Center occupied by Antonino Scarpati. He is a (it takes 30 each semester to teach the first-year course voluble, fervent, and convincing advocate for the that involves service learning) have found such Se r vice Learning Program, which he directs and which community service projects to be effective teaching has touched the lives of every first-year student since tools in upper-level courses as well. Students in Marci a its origin in 1995. During those years, the program has St e i n b e rg ’ s Science, Ethics, and Technology course for br ought national recognition to Scarpati and so p h o m o r es must work in teams to design a technical The College for its success in combining classroo m solution to a practical problem. To inject more rea l i t y study of four basic questions—one of which is “What into what normally is just a lab experience, Steinberg does it mean to be a member of a community?”—with responded to a plaintive request in 1999 from the hands-on experience that provides eye-opening nearby Mercer Child Care Center to design a op p o r tunities to better understand such questions. way to keep children ’ s shoelaces tied. A three - In their first year, TCNJ students each must woman team devised a solution: a little plastic contribute 10 hours to one of perhaps 30 community cap from a milk container slipped over the tied agencies in the Trenton metropolitan area. They then lace to keep it intact. The result was fewer write about the experience, share impressions with scrapes and bruises for the children, high- classmates, and link their collective experience to the impact learning for the students, and good major themes of a one-semester req u i r ed course on feelings toward TCNJ on the part of several Wes t e r n and non-Wes t e r n civilizations. ch i l d - c a r e prof e s s i o n a l s .

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Matthew Lawson, assistant professor of sociology Chiang then divided her classes into groups to and anthrop o l o g y , is another faculty member impres s e d examine the costs, revenue, operations, and prof i t by the potential of service learning. Along with aspects of the enterprise and prep a r e a rep o r t for the Elizabeth Paul, associate professor of psychology, he has Isles management. On balance, she said, it proved to or ganized the Community-Based Research Council, a be a great deal of work for everyone, and an excellent network of faculty willing to involve students in le a r ning experience. Most of the students liked it, res e a r ch projects with nonprofit agencies. Community especially the problem-solving, teamwork aspects of agencies get practical help gathering useful the task. Others found it more stressful and demanding in f o r mation; student res e a r chers get supervi s e d than they had expected. Woo ds had not seen the final experience in real-life data gathering and analysis; rep o r t when interviewed for this article, but she said faculty members have the opportunity to gather raw she would be pleased to have a chance to work with material for scholarly projects that may eventually the students again. wa r rant publication. Scarpati has high hopes for extending these For his Methods in Sociological Research course, se r vice learning opportunities as more and more faculty Lawson has applied the service learning approach to ex p l o r e the advantages of having students get out of give his students a real-life res e a r ch project. Anchor the classroom and make contact with orga n i z a t i o n s House, a home for runaway youth in nearby Tren t o n , that are dealing with such basic issues of homelessness, needed information about its changing clientele. To hu n g e r , and ill health. get it, Lawson’s students studied the agency’s 1980 case “As an institution of higher learning,” he said, rec o r ds, compared them with rec o r ds from 1997–98 “I believe we have a special obligation to foster and and rep o r ted on what changes could be documented. in s p i r e commitment to the values of social justice, The agency will use the student-generated data in civic engagement, and responsible citizenship among public rep o r ts, funding requests, and future planning, our students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders.” while Lawson may use it in a scholarly publication. In fact, 2000 may become known as the year of The students, of course, learned how to do everyd a y new initiatives to insure the success of The College’s res e a r ch work. mission to sustain and advance the local community. Among the other res e a r ch council members is In the general area of leadership, no fewer than four Bea Chiang, whose Cost Accounting classes of juniors significant new projects are under way. Organized under in the School of Business needed practical experience an umbrella body called the Leadership Development with an operating enterprise. She was ref e r red to Isles, Institute, which is directed by Patrice Coleman- a Trenton community development corporation that Boatwright from within the Office of Academic Aff a i r s , operates a community farm serving the urban poor. they are being paid for at the outset with money Becky Woo ds, director of the farm, said she needed a obtained by TCNJ President R. Barbara Gitenstein better marketing strategy and asked Chiang’s classes to fr om the state Office of Management and Budget. help out. She briefed the students in class, took them Pe r haps calling the Women in Learning and on a tour of the farm, and provided Chiang with the Leadership (WILL) Program “new” is a stretch, since it relevant financial data. originated at the University of Richmond in 1980. Due

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primarily to the recent arrival on campus of Cynthia of community J. Paces, an assistant professor of history who did her development work un d e r graduate work at Richmond, its successful to help manage pr ogram is being replicated at TCNJ this year. and guide such Jill Fink ’97 has been hired to direct WILL, and pr ograms. These rep o r ts that 29 first-year students and one sophomore students would be selected according to standards set have enrolled for the first year, 10 more than had been by the national AmeriCorps program, and during a planned. The program req u i r es 13 credit hours of given academic year would commit 450 hours (the classes related to women’s studies and leadership, plus equivalent of 56 eight-hour days) of work in the 15 hours of co-curricular activities per semester. An co m m u n i t y . Each participant will receive a $2,380 im p o r tant intern element will take the women off stipend, plus an award of $2,400 after his or her servi c e campus to work in government or other enterprises is completed. alongside women mentors. Another aspect will bring Al re a d y , Scarpati has four students engaged in community women now in, or ready for, leadership the pilot program working at the Trenton Area Soup positions to The College for special workshops or Kitchen, where they rec r uit and train volunteers, tutor classes to help them improve leadership skills. Students needy adults and children, and do whatever else needs engaged in the program at other institutions, Fink said, to be done. In the coming year they will be expected testify to its positive influence in their lives, especially to reflect on and evaluate their experiences, share them on their self-esteem. with peers, and work to expand TCNJ’s involvement in December 1 was the deadline for students to apply other community development proj e c t s . for a second project of the Leadership Development If John Pollock’s plans work out as he expects, the Institute, to be known as the Leadership in Public Leadership and Communication Survey Program may Af fairs Program. William J. Ball, associate professor become the most visible of the Leadership Development of political science, will supervise the program for In s t i t u t e ’ s four initiatives. The idea is to reg u l a r l y five seniors who agree to work as a team to, in brief, conduct and publish a highly professional survey of help build leadership education programs for both opinion on timely public issues of no fewer than 200 students and off-campus individuals. These selected of New Jersey’s important leaders. Pollock, an associate “leadership fellows” will receive a $3,000 stipend for pr ofessor of communication studies who came to an academic year. TCNJ after a career in sociological and marketing The program will have a public affairs emphasis, res e a r ch for commercial clients, sees the project as a giving students substantial contact with public issues superior way to teach promising students the intricacies and local government leaders, while those who are of opinion res e a r ch, and an opportunity to educate the or want to be community leaders will be offe re d general public on a range of significant public issues. training programs, workshops, and seminars on In addition, it stands to become a splendid public leadership techniques. relations vehicle for The College, since TCNJ will be A third project rep r esents an expansion of the the source of New Jersey leadership’s current views on basic Service Learning Program for first-year students. ne w s w o r thy subjects. This new Community Leaders Program, to be managed As 2001 began, Pollock was completing by Scarpati, will rec r uit a cadre rec r uitment of three to six students who would become of up to 12 highly motivated res e a r ch fellows, each receiving $1,500 stipends per students who want to go se m e s t e r . In addition, he was firming up the beyond having the experience membership of a national advisory committee of

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ex p e r ts in communication and market res e a r ch to give social justice themes as human rights and globalization, guidance on topics to be surveyed, leaders to be gay rights in South Africa, and child soldiers in questioned, and analysis of the results. Invitations from Central America. It is expected future programs will The College president were to go to more than 200 include examination of local social justice issues. leaders in government, business, the media, and the Thanks to a substantial federal grant, another new no n - p r ofit sector, asking them to agree to be center has taken shape within the School of Education questioned twice a year in what probably would be and the School of Engineering. Its mission will be to a 20- to 25-minute telephone intervi e w . substantially expand effo r ts to improve the quality of While the survey would be designed by TCNJ public school instruction in science, math, and faculty and students, the actual interviews would be te c h n o l o g y . The Center for Inquiry- and Design-Based conducted by a professional market res e a r ch firm in Le a r ning in Mathematics, Science, and Tec h n o l o g y New York City. Pollock expected the first surve y , on Education will coordinate a number of projects alrea d y the topic of “civic engagement,” to be completed, being undertaken by individual faculty members. Most analyzed, and published during the spring. of the three - y e a r , $750,000 grant will pay for the Another element in The College’s continuing personnel needed to create and disseminate produ c t s eff o r t to connect its teaching mission with the and prototype teaching programs to schools and community is the recent establishment of three new demonstration classrooms around the state and region. “centers”—that is, special areas of academic interes t Since 1997, the Criminal Justice Center, direc t e d recognized by the administration as designed to serve by Robert J. McCormack, associate professor and chair both scholarly and service purposes. of the Department of Law and Justice, has been The Center for the Study of Social Justice made pr oviding a variety of services to the law enforce m e n t its debut in November, under the direction of Alan co m m u n i t y . With federal, state, and county financial Da w l e y , professor of history, with a one-day conferen c e aid, for example, it has been doing a needs assessment on the subject of Inequality in the World Economy. for the Camden Police Department, and is Dawley organized three afternoon workshops, each pa r ticipating in a wider analysis of the complex attended by about 25 students, on “Global Activism,” pr oblem of managing convicted sex offenders. Such “African Development,” and “Latin American studies, of course, provide practical res e a rc h Development.” They were followed by a dinner at op p o r tunities for TCNJ students and their teachers. which students, faculty, and speakers continued In November the center sponsored panel discussions pursuing the issues, and an after-dinner panel on juvenile justice and a new statewide program to discussion. In Februa r y, the center organized a two-day help rape victims. State Senator Diane Allen, sponsor film festival for both of legislation in both fields, moderated the prog r a m , The College and the surrounding community on such which was attended by dozens of community pro f e s s i o n a l s . “...but if The College is successful, Pe r haps because it has been going on for so it will be in the vanguard of those many years, it would be easy to overlook the institutions producing a new community service effo r ts of The College’s School generation of professionals who of Education. Campus workshops and special will step forward wherever they ce r tification programs have been available to the may be to help ‘sustain and st a t e ’ s school districts for generations. advance the communities A relatively new initiative, however, places The in which they live .’ ”

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College in a central role as facilitator • Responding to inquiries from Project Astro, an and encourager for a regional association as t r onomy and science education project forme d of 12 school districts that have in 1993 by the National Science Foundation and committed themselves to a vigorou s As t r onomical Society of the Pacific, PDSN pr ofessional development prog r a m . rec r uited four network schools to have an Ter med the Professional Development as t r onomer partner in at least one classroo m . School Network, it consists of Extensive teacher training was necessary to make designated rep r esentatives it work, but the result has been more res o u rc e f u l of the New Jersey districts within about teaching, and more student enthusiasm for science. 15 miles of TCNJ, including Tren t o n , Burlington, South Brun s w i c k , While these School of Education projects, and Hi l l s b o r ough, and South Hunterdo n . many others in the Service Learning Program have Under a formal agreement, they meet regularly to plan been going on for years, a deliberate move is underwa y and carry out to encourage more of them. Provost and Vice Pres i d e n t a full range of programs, often using their own for Academic Affairs Stephen R. Briggs, whose offi c e pr ofessional personnel, but also joining with outside oversees several of these newer effo r ts, said TCNJ’s public and private agencies, to generally improv e rec o r d of community service and President Gitenstein’s teaching skills and methods in the 99 schools that dedication to such a mission is part of what attracted ar e partners in the program. him here last year. Operating from the dean’s office in the School of “Barbara has generated a lot of excitement about Education, Suzanne Berkowitz coordinates the PDSN. it,” he said, “and lots of faculty want to know what else Her monthly newsletters rec o r d a constant series of th e r e is they can connect with.” pr ojects being planned, workshops being offe r ed, and Just where that excitement will take TCNJ in teaching methods being explored. Some examples: the coming years is unpredictable, but if The College • Each year a PDSN “master teacher,” that is, one is successful, it will be in the vanguard of those who has demonstrated special ability not only as a institutions producing a new generation of K–12 teacher, but as a mentor for student teachers pr ofessionals who will step forwa r d wherever they fr om TCNJ, is invited to spend a half-year may be to help “sustain and advance the communities sabbatical as a member of the School of in which they live.” Ed u c a t i o n ’ s teaching faculty. The teacher’s own school district and TCNJ share the cost. Br uce VanDusen is editor of TCNJ Magazine. • In an effo r t to encourage more cros s - c u l t u r a l contacts, second- and third-graders from a suburban East Windsor and an urban Tren t o n school will have an exchange program orga n i z e d by music teachers in each school. If it succeeds, this “Welcome to my Neighborho o d” proj e c t could be adapted by many other PDSN schools.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 GOING GLOBA L : Preparing Students for To d ay ’s Wo r l d

by Thomas A. Parmalee ’02

The scene is familiar. Thousands of people bustle by in products and lifestyle in less developed countries, blue jeans and Ray-Bans. Some swig from cans of Coke some forces win while others lose. The mass while others make a beeline for the corner McDonald’s. marketing techniques that have tended to It seems like a typical day in New York, but all the homogenize Americans now are spreading around people are Chinese; it’s lunch hour in Beijing. the globe. Although more people than ever are Globalization is an issue with important consequences accepting Western products, the ideas and cultures subject to worldwide debate. With the increasing of less developed countries are losing ground importance of information technology, the world is because they don’t generate sufficient profit. more closely connected than ever. Without much While defenders of corporate globalization say it exaggeration, a Venezuelan traveling in India can has improved the standard of living in poorer nations, watch reruns of “Beverly Hills 90210” as easily critics counter that it has encouraged governments to as can a teenager in the United States. violate human rights and pay homage to the money But as globalization has brought the peoples ju g g e r naut. In the midst of the controv e r s y , only one of the world closer together, it has not made them conclusion finds general agreement: When it comes to more equal. As Western producers promote their globalization, there are more questions than answers.

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“My take on globalization is that it’s a no-brainer,” According to Kevin Danaher, co-founder said Robert Anderson, director of general education in of Global Exchange, an organization fighting The College’s Office of Academic Affairs. “We do transnational corporations and “building people-to- have a global village and that’s not new. With the people ties,” the corporate pursuit of money is In t e r net, our whole world is wired. Sure, there are detrimental to the majority and morally wrong. mo r e questions than answers, but that hasn’t stopped Because corporations pay their workers so little, The College from becoming part of the global society.” “You have people like Jay Leno saying you can’t Alan Dawley, professor of history, is one of phase out the one-cent piece because what’s Nike several faculty members encouraging students to going to use to pay its workers in Indonesia?” pre p a r e themselves for a shrinking planet. In “Imagine a religion that says salvation is November he organized a conference on “Inequality material acquisition,” he added. “That religion is in the World Economy” under the auspices of the taking over; it’s the corporate religion. The prayer newly established Center for the Study of Social everyone goes on saying is ‘I wish I win the lottery.’” Justice, an academic initiative designed to examine Although most speakers at the November the sources of inequality and the methods of dealing conference supported democratizing organizations with them. The College’s diversity committee made such as the World Trade Organization, International the center its brainchild in December of 1999, he said. Monetary Fund, and World Bank, Danaher urged Emphasizing growing student interest in getting rid of them altogether. He said such globalization, Dawley said, “I think they are eager to organizations have “created a constitution for the end mysteries about the global economy by delving global economy above the nation state. The WTO into the way globalization has actually developed . . . says that you, the citizens, have no right to interfere who wins, who loses, and what their responsibility is.” with production. Excuse me? We can’t say we don’t R. Barbara Gitenstein, president of The College, want tuna caught with nets that kill dolphins?” su p p o r ts learning more about the globalized world and Danaher suggested much of the money loaned said, “We need to explore ways to master our by the IMF and World Bank to foreign countries has collective energies and make a diffe r ence locally and financed illegal governments. “The debt should be gl o b a l l y . An open collaboration and exchange can canceled,” he said. “Money is like horse manure . . . solve many of the problems caused by globalization.” pile it up and it makes everything stink; spread it Defining some of those problems at the economic out and it makes everything grow.” inequality conference was Patricia Ferna n d e z - K e l l y , a But Rolin Basna, a rising senior international le c t u r er at Princeton University. She said the major business major, was shocked by Danaher’s proposal issue is not so much the concentration of wealth and let him know it. “I think that his plan will ruin among a few at the top, but the total absence of any the U.S. economy,” she said, adding that countries for the large majority at the bottom. “Since the that borrow money should repay their loans. 1960s,” she said, “there has been a change because Just as complicated is the issue of free trade. In companies have transformed the terms of produ c t i o n Fe b ru a r y 2000, Robert Kuttner, an economist who has and employment. Companies can now seek optimal taught at Harva r d and Brandeis universities, came to conditions for production and relocate assembly to speak about the issue at the request of Dawley. wh e r e labor is extremely cheap.” Ac c o r ding to Kuttner, the situation is a bit Fernandez-Kelly said that while the modern ir onic. “That’s because the United States and Wes t e r n globalization movement initially involved only big Eu r ope are richer than two generations ago. But the businesses such as automakers, it has now attracted pr evious regulations put in place for social equity are even the textile industry. “One of the most vivid seen as too expensive.” Like Danaher, he is concerne d examples is T-shirts,” she said. “Before you go to bed the new free trade movement may be disenfranchising tonight, examine the labels. It would be interesting workers even as it is liberating corporations. to write the biography of the T-shirt. How did it come to this point?”

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Tracey Dodge ’00, who majored in international Rajib Sanyal, professor of management and business and now works for Berlitz International, coordinator of international business programs in where she schools people from other countries in TCNJ’s School of Business, recognized the concerns U.S. culture, said free trade should be approached of activists but said, “most economists would agree cautiously, from a middle-of-the-road perspective. that more trade and investment creates new jobs, “It is difficult to adapt to the changes that are higher incomes, and rapid economic development. occurring, particularly in the business sense,” she Consequently, barriers to trade and investment said. “But the opportunities that open up are pretty should be reduced.” much unavoidable and very, very tempting. Most Qin Shao, an expert on China and associate people encourage the prospect of open trade, but professor of history, said free trade in China has been want to approach the idea very, very slowly.” beneficial because human rights there have actually But some people oppose it altogether. improved as a result. The material culture fostered Opponents of the new order are combining their by globalization can be debated but it does have efforts and mobilizing against globalizing. Some tangible benefits, she said. It has resulted in an equate their opposition to the Civil Rights “entrepreneurial spirit, and, perhaps more to the Movement of the 1960s and claim the same sorts of point, the capacity to question authority and to human rights issues are at stake. In November 1999, express such questions. That is the very essence of their crusade peaked in Seattle. That’s when the a democratic society.” WTO came to Washington state for a major But at the November conference, Danaher conclave and opponents launched one of the largest contended even the United States is not really a street demonstrations in recent history, forcing the democracy. “What if I said lesbian carpenters should conference to disband. run the country?” he asked. “People would say they “You have to see things in terms of are only a small percentage of the population . . . as contradiction,” Danaher said. “Our job is to throw if we are all white, male millionaires,” he concluded, weight on the justice and fairness side of the scale. referring to Congress. If you were an abolitionist 150 or 200 years ago, they Others point out the same inequality that exists would have said you’d never get rid of slavery and between nations is just as blatant within the United they would have been believable.” States. “I don’t see enough people in my profession Although the Seattle WTO protest generated that feel the pain of the American ghetto and yet harsh criticism of the government, the U.S. they all of a sudden feel the pain of the foreign policymakers continue their free trade policy. To the sweatshop,” Fernandez-Kelly said. “All the more absolute horror of some, the U.S. granted China its power to you then.” “most favored nation” trading status shortly after the Fernandez-Kelly said it’s sad that “Mexican Seattle debacle. elites now have more in common with American elites than their own people.” As a longtime member of the media, Kim Pearson, professor of journalism, said ordi n a r y citizens “ We need to explore ways to master our collective often overlook the critical issues of globalization. She contends that framing issues pertaining to e n e rgies and make a difference locally and globally. globalization are of the utmost importance, saying, “Education is critical. Make the invisible visible. An open collaboration and exchange can solve many We don’t see the connections between the cheap blouse and skirt you are able to buy at Value City and of the problems caused by globalization.” that Malaysian child forced to work in a sweatshop. And you also need to get out of this feeling of di s e m p o w e rm e n t . ”

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Indeed, a plethora of solutions to economic experience (JPE) class, a course that prep a r es students inequality were offe r ed at the November conferen c e , for classroom teaching, participated in the project. but nearly every speaker asked for increased awaren e s s Carroll went to The Gambia with student and participation. “Grass-roots movements are the teacher Janice Newton of Dover Township. After ke y ,” said the Rev. Robert Moore, executive direc t o r seeing the distribution of books firsthand, he said, for Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action. “It was an incredible success. You ask them how “I don’t think major social change happens from the many books they have and the answer is zero. I was thinking the books would be a way to learn English, but what they wanted was information. There are no radios and no televisions. The only information source they have is adults. When they talked about the books, they kept talking about the knowledge and not so much the language. The phrase that they always used was that ‘the knowledge in these books is better than gold and rubies.’” The difference between the rich and poor was a major factor in why Carroll decided to pursue the drive that eventually sent nearly 2,000 volumes to The Gambia and continues this year. “The discrep a n c y is just too wide,” he said. A grass-roots movement that Danaher was involved in sought to pressure Starbucks to sell “Fair Trade coffee beans,” which are more expensive Visiting after dinner at a one-day conference on “Inequality in than regular beans because coffee growers are paid the World Economy” are, from left, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, a price high enough to ensure some profit. “That lecturer in sociology at Princeton University; Ariane Osit ’04; Kevin Danaher, a sociologist and co-director of Global means that instead of carrying hundreds of pounds Exchange; Alice Dear, former U.S. executive director of the of coffee on his back down a mountain, a farmer can African Development Bank; Katey Solavi ’04; Catherine load the coffee onto a donkey,” Danaher said, adding DiGioia-Laird ’04; and Alan Dawley, professor of history he was involved in a 30-city campaign against at TCNJ and director of The College’s new Center for Starbucks that ended when its top three stores the Study of Social Justice, which organized the event. “surrendered.” Today, 2,300 Starbucks stores offer Fair Trade coffee beans. Some of those stores even sell brewed Fair Trade coffee. top down. As the pie has gotten bigger and bigger, In trying to get his business school students some of it has trickled down . . . but we are getting the more involved in the globalized world, Sanyal said, cr umbs. We need to put pres s u r e on politicians so it’s “spending a year or semester abroad is the best way in their political interest to do what’s right. That’s to observe and adapt firsthand to a foreign what we need.” environment and learn about one’s own culture. The Rev. Moore would be happy to know that Being flexible in thinking, behavior, and attitude one of those grass-roots movements is happening makes one better prepared to take advantage of the right here at The College. During the fall of 1999, life and career-enhancing situations that St u a r t Carroll, assistant professor of elementary and globalization offers.” early childhood education, and Daphne Hobson, And despite what students may think, traveling fo r mer administrative director of the Office of abroad is not terribly expensive, said Nik Mische, In t e r national Studies, began the Books for Gambia undergraduate programs coordinator with the pr ogram. Students in Carrol l ’ s junior prof e s s i o n a l Office of International Studies. “Students pay

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approximately the same going abroad as they would globalizing your mind is the best way to learn how going here,” he said. “Because scholarship and grants to apply all the rules of life and business you have transfer over, sometimes students actually have been taught.” money left over.” Professor Sanyal expects his students to be According to Mische, about 30 students a realistic about the global business world. Unless semester were traveling abroad when he first began something is drastically changed, he said, “It is working with the program, but that number now impossible to avoid the effects of globalization today. exceeds 50. Shell Oil is owned by an Anglo-Dutch company, “We have a great program here,” he said, Chrysler is owned by a German company, Saab is “better than most Ivy League schools. Students have owned by General Motors, and Magnavox is a brand the possibility of going to 48 countries and 170 name of a Dutch company. Many large firms have a different schools.” very international workforce. As businesses operate Do r een Simon ’98, who majored in Spanish on a worldwide basis, they often require that and communication studies, is one alumna to have employees spend time in foreign locations.” embraced the ease of global living. Having contracted But Alice M. Dear, a former executive director the wanderlust in high school, she said she had been with the African Development Bank, said, “Global em p o w e r ed by travel when she studied a month at inequality is not inevitable. But real progress will the University of Madrid. During her final semester at only occur when the poor countries are able to tap The College, she studied at the University of Chile the resources of the private sector.” and later took a course for Spanish teachers in Back in his academic affairs office, Anderson Granada. She now teaches the language in concluded that he is unsure whether globalization el e m e n t a r y school. is making the world a better place. “But focusing While Simon encouraged students to take on questions rather than answers, as we try to have advantage of the interconnected world, she said, students do in our general education program, would “I don’t see a pressing need to live abroad to conduct seem the better approach. We must continue to business. I think the Internet and teleconferencing gather additional knowledge and insights on is the manner of doing that at the present time.” the matter.” Simon urged people to learn other languages and The point is a good one. One doesn’t need to be said Spanish has enabled her to make friends and chained to a store that sells Kathie Lee handbags to better understand her own identity. “I would not be be aware of the impact of globalization. Nor does one the person I am today if not for my experiences living need to work abroad for a corporation and make ab r oad and studying another language,” she said. obscene amounts of money to be a success. As the For Dodge, her work with Berlitz keeps her world becomes even more connected, The College aware of her place in the global scene. “In the travel will continue addressing questions that pertain to sense, you are globalizing yourself the minute you globalization, encouraging students to use the skills step onto a plane,” she said. “Going abroad and and values they learn here to help shape the changing world.

Thomas A. Parmalee ’02 is a journa l i s m / p ro f e s s i o n a l “But focusing on questions rather than answers, a s writing major, a rep o r ter for The Times of Trenton, we try to have students do in our general education and a regular contributor p ro g ra m , would seem the better appro a ch .” to this magazine.

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by Susan M. Long

Personal computers adorn the desks of almost The Vietnam War is as ancient history to them everyone in business today, from CEOs to secretaries. as World War I or even the Civil War. Black Surfing the ’net and chatting online, unthinkable in Monday 1987 is about as significant to them as the 1980, are becoming great American pastimes. We Great Depression. They have more reason to fear keep in touch by e-mail, fax, cell phone, and beeper. being shot at school than nuclear war. As technology has revolutionized our personal Given all of this, it seems almost foolish that and business relationships, so too has the our assumptions and expectations in the 1980s relationship among nations been re v o l u t i o n i z e d . should guide our thinking in 2001 and beyond. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989; the Soviet Union Although one may argue that TCNJ enjoys b roke into independent states in 1991. After nearly tremendous success as a leader in higher education 100 years under British rule, Hong Kong was in the state and region, one need only recall the re t u rned to China. Remington-Rand Corporation, once-dominant If the dramatic pace of technological and world business machine manufacturer and early pioneer change does not impress, consider the changes in in computers, to understand the wisdom of TCNJ’s students themselves over the past 20 years. Bo a r d of Trustees in planning for The College’s future. Bo r n around 1980, toda y ’ s college students never During her welcome back remarks to the knew a world without AIDS. The compact disc was campus community in September 1999, President R. in t r oduced when they were one. Most always have had Barbara Gitenstein said, “The board concluded that cable, a remote control, and an answering machine. for TCNJ to move forward, we must strategically and

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thoughtfully focus our attention on improving Co-chair Prensky recalled, “It was clear that we our position and planning for the future.” needed to articulate the shared ideas, thoughts, This refocusing prompted three simultaneous, feelings, and attitudes of all of our constituents to yet related, undertakings: review of TCNJ’s mission cr eate an effective mission. These eight themes forme d statement, review and revision of a governance the foundation for gathering that information.” structure, and review of the academic structure. For each theme, the Council then set up a task While independent committees simultaneously fo r ce to solicit input from an even broa d e r began reviewing each piece, the processes were constituency and to describe how its theme could be similar and the outcomes are interrelated. reflected in The College’s mission statement. The task While The College always has done planning, fo r ces circulated questionnaires, held small grou p the type the board proposed lay at the heart of the meetings, and asked for input via e-mail and letters. institution: a process of defining what The College Pr ensky continued, “Literally hundreds and is, and more importantly, what we want to become. hu n d r eds of people had direct and indirect input to Acknowledging that The College had a mission the drafting of the mission statement. The proc e s s statement that had served it well, President was inclusive of the entire campus and designed to Gitenstein set forth a clear process and reason for uncover our perception of who we are and what we reviewing it. want to become.” She said, “We need to judge whether or not the The Planning and Priorities Council spent the im p o r tant discussion points on service, excellence, second half of the spring 2000 semester synthesizing high expectations, community, and diversity still reports from the eight task forces and producing a pe r tain. And if they do, what precisely do we mean first draft of the mission statement, which was by these terms? The College is where it is today in circulated to the campus community in early la r ge part because of these guiding ideals. But how summer. Everyone was encouraged to comment on it pr ecisely do they serve The College today and for via e-mail, letter, and three open forums scheduled at to m o r row? The features of our mission then— the beginning of the fall semester. de t e r mined, clarified, and crystallized—must become After reviewing campus feedback, the Council the foundations for our planning effo r ts as we commit revised the mission statement and presented its final to a highly consultative transformation proc e s s . ” draft to the president with a copy to the campus Since the mission would guide the institution community. for years to come, the president wanted broad Prensky said the president received some direct campus participation in drafting a new statement. input on that draft to which she added her own ideas Therefore, she formed a Planning and Priorities and produced the mission statement that was Council to carry out the task. Co-chaired by her presented to the board for approval. and David Prensky, dean of the School of Business, “It was important that she be comfortable with its 22 members represented the Board of Trustees, the language because she is primarily responsible and students, faculty, staff, and administrators. accountable for the direction of The College. But, The Council identified eight themes critical she did not change anything substantive about the to a good mission: Aspiration and Excellence, content. The final mission statement accurately Broadening Our Perspectives, Communication and reflects these things we all hold dearly, but it also Governance, Community and Campus Climate, reflects some of the tensions inherent in our Cultural Competence and Inclusion, Leadership, institution, such as teaching and scholarship and Learning-Centered Environment, and Stakeholders. service to state and nation,” he said. The Council was formally disbanded, but all of the documents created by the task forces and the Planning and Priorities Council, including the first draft of the mission, continue to reside on The College’s Web site at www.tcnj.edu/~planning.

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A simultaneous process constituents, the ad hoc committee collected Ordinarily, the review of the mission statement information to draft a new structure and process. would have been undertaken through The College’s As did the Planning and Priorities Council, the governance structure, the internal procedure for committee studying governance held open meetings providing a formal voice for stakeholders of the to discuss the proposed new structure and institution. It was not possible, however, to use that encouraged e-mail and other feedback. system to review the mission because both governa n c e The committee’s proposed new structure and and the mission were being reviewed simultaneously. process was supported by the president and approved As Prensky noted, ultimately, the president, by the Board of Trustees in June 2000. Implemented along with the Board of Trustees, are charged with, that fall, it reduced the number of standing and responsible for, making all policy, program, and committees from nine to four. It also reduced the procedure decisions about the institution. A number of steps to recommend policy, programs, hallmark of higher education, however, is to receive or procedures from 10 to three. input and recommendations from the broader A new committee was formed as well, to pick up campus community before making these decisions. where the Planning and Priorities Council left off, to This notion of “shared governance” underlies the undertake the charge set forth in the new mission governance structure at The College. statement (see next page). Appropriately, this is the John Karsnitz, chair of the technological studies Committee on Planning and Priorities. de p a r tment and the Governance Steering Committee, Karsnitz also commented, “The process of said, “There was a recognition that the current developing the mission, while not undertaken throu g h governance structure was very cumbersome with a the formal governance struc t u r e, was consistent with 10-step process to recommend policy. Therefore, the principles of collegiate governance.” the president charged an ad hoc committee with The complete governa n c e structure and recommending a new structure.” process can be reviewed on TCNJ’s Web site at Through the existing governance committees, www.tcnj.edu/~steering. as well as e-mail communication with the entire community and meetings with different campus

Ch a r ge to the Committee on Planning and Priorities The Committee on Planning and Priorities is charged to develop specific goals, objectives, and initiatives in orde r to accomplish The College’s special emphasis for the next three years: to become “a national exemplar in the education of those who seek to sustain and advance the communities in which they live.” Specifically, the Committee is charged to focus its attention on the following area s : • An accountable and open planning process inclusive of voices from all stakeholder populations. • A continued commitment to excellence in scholarship and academic ideals that will be manifest in academic planning, with particular attention to interdi s c i p l i n a r i t y . • A commitment to diversity that will be manifest in proactive faculty, staff, and student rec r uitment and ret e n t i o n plans, and in academic and co-curricular planning. • An encouragement of international perspectives that will be manifest in academic and co-curricular planning. • Valuing the sense of shared community that will be manifest in facilities planning, academic and co-curri c u l a r planning, and administrative struc t u r e rev i e w . • An acknowledgement of the necessity to reach out to the larger world, particularly to the corporate communities and public service agencies, that will be manifest in facilities master planning and academic and co-curri c u l a r pl a n n i n g . • A recognition of the importance of communication and of the exponential growth in information in the twenty-first century that will be manifest in facilities and academic planning that integrates and enhances the use of technology and information management.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 The College of New Jersey Mission Statement

The College of New Jersey, founded in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, is primarily an undergraduate and residential college with targeted graduate programs. TCNJ’s exceptional students, teacher-scholars, staff, alumni, and board members constitute a diverse community of learners, dedicated to free inquiry and open exchange, to excellence in teaching, creativity, scholarship, and citizenship, and to the transformative power of education in a highly competitive institution. The College prepares students to excel in their chosen fields and to create, preserve, and transmit knowledge, arts, and wisdom. Proud of its public service mandate to educate leaders of New Jersey and the nation, The College will be a national exemplar in the education of those who seek to sustain and advance the communities in which they live.

The final piece critical questions. After about six months of study, The third major undertaking was a review of the voting, and consensus building, the committee organization of academic departments. In summer proposed three possible models intended to stimulate 1999, President Gitenstein asked Suzanne Pasch, faculty reaction and campus-wide dialogue. then chair of the council of deans, to chair a “One of the best things to come out of this,” committee to review the structure of the academic Clydesdale said, “was the discussions that took place enterprise, with particular emphasis on the School at the department and school levels with regard to of Arts and Sciences. The president encouraged the who they are and where they wanted to go. The committee to consider structural schemes that would process increased interest and creativity in thinking include other academic units to meet the current about new programs and new alliances.” and evolving mission of The College. Communication about the structure was very “The committee was very well drawn,” noted Tim public and led to the committee’s final report in Clydesdale, chair of sociology and anthrop o l o g y , who spring 2000 that proposed a 10-school structure. se r ved on it. “It had such a good cross section that This model merged professional and liberal arts th e r e was nothing new that we heard at open sessions disciplines. that we had not already debated during our meetings.” When he announced the final struc t u r e in The committee adopted a process that developed De c e m b e r , Provost Stephen Briggs said, “During the working principles, identified structural issues, course of the fall semester, discussion of the academic obtained comment from the broader community, and st ru c t u r e focused on a model that pres e r ves the identity looked at examples from other institutions. of the professional schools.” Some issues the committee raised included the The new structure, then, keeps intact the implications of merging liberal arts with prof e s s i o n a l Schools of Business, Education, Engineering, and disciplines such as nursing and business; the impact of Nursing. The former School of Arts and Sciences, st ru c t u r e on governance; and the impact of struc t u r e however, is to be divided into three: the School of on general education and interdi s c i p l i n a r y studies. Art, Media, and Music; the School of Culture and The committee created about 25 hypothetical Society; and the School of Science. models, then evaluated them based on the principles, Suzanne Pasch commented, “Clearly the struc t u r e issues, and input it received, all the while raising could have been resolved more quickly if it had been

23 TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 • The College provides facilities, programs, services, Co r e Beliefs and amenities that enhance opportunities for formal and informal interaction in a living- The College of New Jersey affirms the following learning environment. Core Beliefs as fundamental to its Mission: • The College promotes wellness and fosters the development of the whole person. • The College comprises a caring, friendly, and • The College embraces its heritage and is respectful community where the contributions committed to reevaluating its mission in response of students, faculty, staff, and alumni are valued to the changing needs of society. and recognized. • The College prep a r es its students to be successful, • The College provides a seamless, engaging ethical, and visionary leaders in a multicultural, educational environment characterized by highly technological, and increasingly global world. academic freedom, creative expressions, critical • The College believes that an educated individual thinking, intellectual inquiry, and service learning. possesses an understanding of his or her own • The College’s faculty and staff take pride in culture, an appreciation of other cultures, and offering a personal educational experience to every the capacity to facilitate genuine cross-cultural undergraduate and graduate student. interaction. • The College’s cultural, social, and intellectual life • The College regards education in the service are enriched and enlivened by diversity. of human welfare as its chief end.

imposed top down. However, this process caused Pasch noted, “These institutes will push new ideas people to think about their working relationships in that may become programs, explore interdi s c i p l i n a r y new ways and their disciplines in new ways.” ideas, promote student leadership and res e a rc h pr ojects, and seek innovations in diffe r ent area s An end and a new beginning within current disciplines and departments.” The new mission, academic struc t u r e, and governa n c e The Office of Academic Affairs has reo rg a n i z e d systems each rep r esent an end as well as a beginning. to better support the new academic struc t u r e. Pasch, The discussions around each issue have caused many in her new role as vice provost for academic prog r a m s de p a r tments, both academic and administrative, to re- and initiatives, has begun a review and analysis of examine themselves and the ways in which they The College’s current academic departments. Wor k i n g deliver programs to students. The outcome is a more th r ough the governance struc t u r e, she will develop focused institution energized by a newfound sense of policies that will promote interdi s c i p l i n a r y connections, community and desire to think crea t i v e l y . including team-teaching and joint appointments, and The evidence of this is clear in the new assist faculty who wish to realign themselves within in t e rd i s c i p l i n a r y institutes, centers, and programs that the new struc t u re . have begun to form on campus. The Leadership These are but a few of the changes fostered by Development Institute encompasses Women In the new mission, academic struc t u r e, and governa n c e Le a r ning and Leadership (WILL); the Leadership in system that continue to position The College as a Public Affairs Program; the Community Leaders leader in the new millennium. Pr ogram; and the Leadership and Communication Su r vey Program. In addition, three new centers with a Susan M. Long is TCNJ’s director for st r ong community involvement also have taken shape. public information and marketing. All will be enhanced by The College’s new academic st ru c t u r e and will be measured against The College’s new mission statement.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Li o n’s Roar Fall 2000: Another Season of Excellence By Ann King, sports information direc t o r , and Nairem Moran, assistant sports information direc t o r .

Fall 2000 was another banner season for the athletics was one of 10 finalists for the prestigious Gagliardi teams. Highlights include the women’s soccer team Trophy, given annually to the top Division III NCAA Division III National Championship and football player. NCAA Tournament bids for three other teams. In Having completed 24 seasons as the head addition, TCNJ’s coaches combined to help produce football coach for his alma mater, Eric Hamilton is a 58-17 win-loss record. now 147-88-6 at the helm.

Women’s Soccer: 23-1 Field Hockey: 13-4 The team captured the NCAA Division III The Lions’ defense of their 1999 NCAA Field Hockey Women’s Soccer Championship, beating Tufts Championship title came to a halt with a 2-0 loss to University 2-1 on a goal by sophomore midfielder Springfield College. TCNJ finished the season ranked Cara Gabage with just three seconds left. The Lions seventh in the Division III National Coaches Poll. set two school records: for their 23-1 record and for Three players were named to the Astro-Turf allowing only three goals all season. National Field Hockey Coaches Association Junior goalkeeper Victoria Nusse of Westfield Division III All-America Team. Senior forward was tapped for the 2000 NSCAA All-America First Kris Arnold of Toms River, with 14 goals and 10 Team and senior midfielder Cortney Glaubach of assists during the season, was named to the first team Wyckoff earned a spot on the third team. Nusse also for the second year and honored as NJAC Offensive Player of the Year. Junior midfielder Megan McCall With their newly won NCAA Division III National Championship of Oaklyn and senior midfielder Gwen Runkle of Trophy, team members are, from left: Christine Grande ’02, Lambertville both were named to the second team. Linda Talarico ’02, Victoria Nusse ’02, Rebecca Pearson ’01, and Head Coach Joe Russo. Men’s Soccer: 14-7

was named the 2000 NSCAA Division III National Player of the Year, the first goalkeeper to receive this TCNJ Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame honor. The Lions had five members on the Mid- Atlantic Regional All-America team. Junior forward Denise Buckley of Freehold finished the season with 11 goals and 11 assists, and was named the Offensive MVP of the 2000 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Championship. Football: 4-5 The Lion gridiron team wrapped up its seventy-sixth season with veterans on the defense and younger players leading the offense. Four alumni and a former athletic director were named to the Among the highlights, senior defensive back TCNJ Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame and inducted during Curt Monday of Leonardo was named to the 2000 Homecoming 2000. The new members are, left to right: Verizon Academic All-America National College Stephen P. Graber ’77 (gymnastics); George T. Strattman ’67 Division III First Team. He became The College’s (football, gymnastics, swimming, and track); Dr. Lilyan B. thirty-second student-athlete, but the first Lion Wright (founder of several women’s sports programs, coach, football player, awarded the prestigious honor. Senior and TCNJ women’s athletic director); Neil Bencivengo ’69 defensive lineman Anthony Casciano of Caldwell (soccer and baseball); and Peter A. Graber ’76 (gymnastics).

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 After taking nationally ranked Rowan to four Men’s and Women’s Cross Countr y ov e r times, TCNJ fell to the Profs 2-1 in the NJAC After winning the NJAC Championship in both Pl a y o f f semifinals. men’s and women’s cross country, TCNJ’s runners Under Head Coach George Nazario, three players competed at the NCAA Division III Atlantic ea r ned a bid on the National Soccer Coaches Regional Cross Country Championships at the Association of America Mid-Atlantic Regional University of Rochester. The women finished fourth All-America Team. Junior forwa r d and leading scorer out of 26 teams while the men’s team finished third, Albie Lobbato of Monroe and senior co-captain improving on last year’s fourth place. Shawn Fleming of Stockholm both were named to At the NCAA regional championships, junior the first team, while senior goalkeeper, Rya n Eamon O’Brien of Paramus took first among 207 Ha y w a r d of Danbury, was tapped for the second team. runners. O’Brien finished the 8,000-meter run in Also earning selection to the NJAC All-Star First 25:19, averaging a 5:05 mile. Team was senior co-captain Brian Lindsey of Atco. At the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, the women finished 11th, while the Women’s Tennis: 4-0 men finished 19th. Juniors Kelly Ortiz and Karen While most of the women’s tennis season is Petouvis , both of Paramus, took 11th and 13th contested in the spring, fall 2000 saw the debut of places, respectively. O’Brien garnered All-American the Lions’ new tennis coach, Scott Dicheck. He honors at the NCAA Championship, placing 26th guided the Lions to the NJAC Championship and among 215 runners. was tapped as the NJAC Women’s Tennis Coach of the Year. Dicheck helped the Lions extend their NJAC win streak to 86 matches, never having lost a conference match since the 1982–83 season. Senior Jennifer Crombie of Manalapan was named the NJAC’s Women’s Tennis Player of the Year after teaming with sophomore Monika Jakober of Sparta to win the ITA Northeast Regional Doubles Championship. Crombie was also the runner-up in the singles tournament.

Three Coaches in the Century Club Last fall, three coaches passed major career milestones within three weeks of one another. TC N J ’ s field hockey coach Sh a r on Pfluger st a r ted the streak as she posted her three - h u n d r edth career win in a 1-0 shutout of SUNY–Co r tland on Oct. 22. She had just completed her sixteenth season as the Lions’ head coach. Pfluger’s field hockey teams earned 302 wins, 27 losses, five ties, and 16 consecutive NCAA Tournament births. Under her guidance, TCNJ has won seven NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championships, in 1985, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, and 1999. The following week, the Lions’ women’s soccer head coach, Joe Russo , collected his tw o-h u n d re d t h career victory in a thrilling 1-0 triple-overtime defeat of Messiah College in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional. Russo has established a career record of 203 wins, 19 losses, and 15 ties in his 11 years at TCNJ. Under his coaching, the Lions have made seven trips to the NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Tournament, won the title three times (1993, 1994, and 2000), and produced eight All-Americans. On the heels of that achievement, Brian Bishop , head coach of men’s swimming, tallied his one-h u n d re d t h career win at TCNJ when the men’s team defeated Franklin & Marshall, 109-80, on Nov. 8. By the end of 2000, he guided the Lions to 104 wins and 18 losses (including three undefeated seasons) in dual meet competition, seven METRO Conference Championships, and six Top 20 finishes in NCAA Division III. Along the way, 43 of his swimmers earned All-American honors. Sharon Pfluger, Joe Russo, Brian Bishop InIn Focus Focuscontinued from page 5 Ellen Knowles Harcourt Scholars Eight students are completing their first year at the concert choir, and a peer mentor. Yudelkis was The College on four-year scholarships provided by the vice president of the Spanish Club, Al f r ed Harco u r t Foundation. Each student will rec e i v e a religious education teacher, and member of the $6,000 from the foundation and a matching amount from National Honor Society. She is majoring in law The College each year to cover the full cost of roo m , and justice. bo a r d, and tuition. Ariane Osit of Irvington graduated from Yudelkis ’04 and Eridania While the Harco u r t Foundation has supporte d Saint Vincent Academy, where she was co- He r nandez ’04 scholarship programs at colleges and universities from pr esident of the National Honor Society chapter, Ver mont to California since 1962, this is the first year pr esident of Spiritual Life, and a peer leader for Foren s i c s . of its involvement at The College of New Jersey. It is Biology is her major. expected to be a continuing program, and is designed to Nicole Riggins also graduated from help low-income students interested in public servi c e Pe r th Amboy High School, where she ca r eers such as teaching, nursing, and other fields that was a mentor with Heroes and Cool Kids, enable them to contribute to society. captain of the volleyball team, and a The Ellen Knowles Harco u r t scholarships are named member of the track team. She majors in honor of the woman who established the Alfred in mathematics. Ha rc o u r t Foundation in 1962 and was its president until Nakia Tow n s e n d of Jersey City 1984. The foundation was named for her husband, graduated from McNair Academic High Al f r ed, one of the founders in 1919 of the publishing School, where she was a soloist in the Ariane Osit ’04 and fi r m of Harco u r t Brace. school choir, captain of the volleyball Nicole Riggins ’04 The recipients for 2000–2001 are: team, and a published poet in her high Ronald Jones of Trenton graduated from Tren t o n sc h o o l ’ s writing club. She is Central High School, where he was an artist and writer a communication studies major. for the school newspaper. He is a graphic design major. Ma r co Zelaya of Wharton graduated from Morri s Carl Clark of Camden graduated from Bishop Hills High School, where he played the tuba in the Eustace Prep School, where he was president of his senior co n c e r t and symphonic bands, was named to the class, sang with both the concert choir and Urban National and Spanish National honor Pr omise Youth Gospel Choir, and co-captained the societies, and won the school’s Excelsior basketball team. He is majoring in marketing. Awa r d. Political science is his major. Eridania and Yudelkis Her na n d e z ar e twin sisters and graduates of Perth Amboy High School. Both were named Edward J. Bloustein Urban Scholars. Eridania, a psychology major at TCNJ, was president of the Spanish Club, a member of Marco Zelaya ’04 and Nakia Townsend ’04

Ronald Jones ’04; Michael R. Winston, president of TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 the Alfred Harcourt Foundation; and Carl Clark ’04 Faculty and Staf f ■ Robert M. Worthington , professor and chair of the The campus community mourns the loss of six of its Department of Industrial Education and Technology fo r mer members. during the period 1958–65, died Oct. 28 at the age

■ Ro b e r t Casally, an electrician at The College for of 78. The author of eight books and many articles, mo r e than 13 years until his ret i r ement in 1997, died he was active in international economic and Oct. 18, 2000, at the age of 68. educational circles over many years. During his

■ Max G. Frankel , professor of special education career he was an associate commissioner of higher during the 1968-71 academic years, died Nov. 26 at education in Utah and an assistant secretary in the his home in Princeton at the age of 79. U.S. Department of Education.

■ La r ry Fur ma n , laboratory manager in the School of ■ ■ ■ ■ Engineering since 1986, died Dec. 1 at the age of 59, following a long bout with arthritis. Hired immediately after he ret i r ed from the Air Force, Furman was an exceptionally able electronics technician, as well as a manager of materials used in the engineering labs. A resident of Bordentown, his sunny, humorous manner made him very popular with both faculty and students.

■ Alice Matheisen, who served as a librarian at From left, the deans and their schools: David Prensky, business; The College from 1966 until her ret i r ement in 1993, Susan Bakewell-Sachs, nursing; and George Facas, engineering. died Dec. 18 in Florida after a long fight against ■ Three faculty serving as acting deans have been ca n c e r . She had just turned 60. A resident of made deans by Stephen R. Briggs , provost and vice La w r enceville who also shared an apartment with her president for academic affairs. George Facas , a mother in Fort Myers, FL, Alice was known to her faculty member since 1988, becomes dean of the colleagues for her down-to-earth sensibility, common School of Engineering. David Prensky , hired in sense, plain-spoken nature, wry wit and prob i n g 1990, has been named dean of the School of intelligence. Business. Susan Bakewell-Sachs , who joined TCNJ’s

■ Ca r mella “Millie” Kingston W ort h i n g t o n , prof e s s o r faculty in 1996, now is dean of the School of emeritus and former chair of the Department of Nursing. The three will hold their positions for two Business Education and Admnistrative Management, or three years, during which time, Briggs said, formal died Dec. 24 at her Edgewater Park home of searches will be undertaken “as a matter of principle complications from breast cancer. Her death came at … for positions of such significance.” age 65, just two months after that of her second ■ When some commercial clam fishermen dredged up husband, Robert M. Wor thington, whose death notice a peculiar fossilized bone 25 miles off Manasquan follows. A 1956 graduate of Trenton State, Kingston Inlet on the Jersey Shore, they naturally brought it taught business courses at Burlington City High to Martin Becker , assistant professor of physics and School before receiving her master’s here in 1962 and geology. Becker has been identifying such fishermen’s beginning a 30-year career in higher education. She finds for many years, but said this one, part of a ea r ned a doctorate from Temple University. As backbone of an elk moose that carbon tested at de p a r tment chair she helped expand The College’s about 25,000 years old, was one of his most exciting. business program for teacher education. Colleagues He presented his findings at the annual meeting of remember her as a much-beloved, friendly teacher and the Geological Society of America in November. plain-spoken administrator.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 From left, Suzanne Pasch, vice provost for academic programs and initiatives; Emmanuel Osagie, vice provost for research and faculty development; Nadine Stern, associate vice president for information technology.

■ Pr ompted by a Educational Advancement Foundation. AKA is the realignment of oldest organization of college-educated women of The College’s academic African descent, with over 150,000 members. She or ganizational struc t u r e recently received one of 12 five-year grants given to (see article on page 17), independent res e a r chers by the George t o w n Briggs has named two University Visible Knowledge Project, which she will vice provosts. Su z a n n e use to res e a r ch the impact of technology in the Pa s c h , former dean of humanities classroom. Dickinson also won a grant the School of Education, fr om the American Social History Project to conduct has become vice prov o s t a faculty development seminar to introduce faculty to for academic programs and initiatives. Pasch continues digital res o u r ces in African women’s studies. The to serve as dean of the graduate studies program. seminar was held at Florida International University The timing of a national search for her replacement in Miami in January. is not yet determined. Named to the combined post ■ Lois Fichner -R a t h u s , associate professor and chair of executive assistant to the provost and director of the art department, has had a major revision of her of the newly established Leadership Institute is college text, Understanding Art, published by a new Patrice Coleman-Boatwright , formerly assistant to house: Harco u r t College Publishers. The book was a the dean of student life. Emmanuel Osagie , director gro u n d - b r eaking text in its field for the integration of of academic grants and sponsored res e a r ch, has had works of art by women and artists of color. The five his duties expanded to include development of new pr evious editions have sold over 300,000 copies, making in t e rd i s c i p l i n a r y institutes, centers, and programs. it one of the three most popular texts of its type.

His new title is vice provost for res e a r ch and faculty ■ Allan Gotthelf, professor of philosophy, has been development. In addition, the various units that selected as a visiting member of the Institute for su p p o r t academic and administrative computing are Advanced Study in Princeton. As a member of the being combined into the single entity of Informa t i o n In s t i t u t e ’ s School of Historical Studies, he joined seven Tec h n o l o g y . To manage this office, Nadine Stern ha s pe r manent faculty members and some 35 other visiting been reassigned from associate vice president for scholars for a seven-month period beginning in student services and administrative systems to Ja n u a r y. He plans to complete a book on Aristotle’s associate vice president for information technology, biological writings and their philosophical significance. rep o r ting to the provost. ■ He r vé Damas , a former linebacker with the

■ Timothy Clydesdale , associate professor and chair Bu f falo Bills football team, conditioning coach of the Department of Sociology and Anthrop o l o g y , of the Hofstra University football team, and has secured a grant from the Law School Admission faculty instructor for the New York Sports Council for a two-year project entitled: “U.S. Clubs, has been named director of Minorities and the Process of Becoming a Lawyer: The College’s Wellness Center.

Investigating Factors Underlying Degree Completion, ■ Jay Hof fm a n , associate professor of health Bar Passage, and Overall Success, Using the National and physical education, has been honored Longitudinal Bar Passage Study.” as the country’ s “most outstanding junior Hervé Damas ■ Gloria Dickinson , associate professor of African- investigator” in recognition for the national American studies, has been elected to a second term impact of his res e a r ch into the impact of diffe re n t as International Recording Secret a r y for Alpha Kappa variables on athletes. Alpha Sorority and the Alpha Kappa Alpha

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Kim Pearson Honored as NJ Professor of the Year By Kimberly Krupa, Staff Writer

Ed i t o r ’s Note: In a special presentation ceremony on It wasn’t until she was working at campus Dec. 7, Kim Pearson received the award an urban journalism workshop during that is the subject of the following news story in graduate school at New York University The Times of Trenton. The writer is a TCNJ senior that Pearson realized what she could do who is both the former Editor of The Signal and a part- with teaching. time rep o r ter for The Tim e s . It is reprinted by permi s s i o n . “The kids I worked with that summer urged me to become a teacher,’ ’ EWING — Growing up blocks away from the she said. “From my experience in public Columbia Avenue race riots that shook Philadelphia schools, I thought teachers had no power, in the 1960s, Kim Pearson thought she could change that they were controlled by burea u c r a c y . Kim Pearson the world. That idea has slowly changed.’’ “I grew up with violence. The police were scary Pearson started substituting at TCNJ after tryi n g and the gangs were crazy,’ ’ said The College of New her hand at science writing for Bell Labs. In 1990, she Jersey assistant English prof e s s o r . “But our teachers was hired as a full-time professional writing prof e s s o r . talked about how to make the world better. They told “I’m an affi r mative-action baby,’ ’ said Pearson. us we had to improve our race.’’ “I owe everything to my family and the Quakers,’’ Pe a r s o n ’ s stepmother, a maid, taped cardb o a r d to who loaned her books from a secondhand shop acros s wo r n shoe soles and dug through neighborho o d the street from her Philadelphia apartment complex. clothing bins to make it through tough winters. Pearson is the third TCNJ professor to get the Her father, a full-time postal worker who held as Ca r negie award. Robert Cole, another journalism and many as four jobs at once, started high school when English prof e s s o r , was awarded Professor of the Year in he was 30 years old. 1992. Susan Boughn, nursing prof e s s o r , received the Despite being surrounded by poverty , Pearson and aw a r d in 1993. her family triumphed. During her five-year stint at Bell Labs, Pearson “My dad never stopped hustling,’’ she said. “He’d developed “a nasty condition’’ called ankylosing tape poems around the apartment, spent time with me spondylitis, a rare spinal disease that has perma n e n t l y doing homework. I learned algebra when I was 8 years st i f fened her backbone. old, read Plato when I was 9 or 10.’’ News of the disease shocked her. Pearson, of Ewing, recently was awarded the 2000 “It was a huge wake-up call,’’ she said. “I rea l i z e d New Jersey Professor of the Year award from the I had to do everything I wanted to do quickly. I didn’t Ca r negie Foundation for the Advancement of know if I could hold a job in 20 years.’’ Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Though chronic back pain has affected what she Su p p o r t of Education for “excellence in teaching’’ and can do, Pearson said she recently stopped it from “influencing the lives of students,’’ the foundation said. co n t r olling her life. Though she has been teaching prof e s s i o n a l “I went through a really hard time for a while writing and journalism ethics to TCNJ students since and considered dropping out of teaching,’’ she said. 1988, Pearson never fancied herself a teacher. “But the students saved me.’’ “My fantasy was to be a columnist,’’ she said. Pearson advises un b o u n d , a 4-year-old online Be f o r e she packed her bags for Princeton news magazine she started that is run by students and University in 1974, she told her father, who then was the community, and The Signal, the weekly student a vocational teacher in a Philadelphia high school, ne w s p a p e r . “teaching is something you do.’’ “This isn’t a rags-to-riches story because I still Her impression of teachers didn’t improve have no money,’ ’ said the 43-year-old mother of 8- much at Princeton, where she graduated as “a very ye a r -old Steven and 16-year-old JA-Tun. “My dad was average student, a rabble-rouser who aggravated on the GI Bill. If I had been born a generation ago, a lot of people.’’ I probably wouldn’t be where I am.’’

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 ■ Blythe S. Farb Hinitz , professor of elementary and was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa early childhood education, Phi. She and her student, Malinda Wolfgang ’01 , has been named chair of the Peace Education Special won the spring 2000 Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship for In t e r est Group of the American Educational Research a res e a r ch project. Last fall she presented papers in Association. She is co-author of a chapter entitled her field to the History of Education Society in “Cyberspace: San Antonio, TX; the National Association for the A New Frontier for Peace Education” in Pe a c e Education of Young Children in Atlanta, GA; and the Education: Contexts and Val u e s , published by the New York Public Library Early Childhood Resource University of Lecce, Italy. In May 2000 she and Information Center in New York City. Blythe Hinitz

Nursing T ur ns 30 The School of Nursing celebrated 30 years of educating nursing professionals with a luncheon in October attended by nearly 90 alumni, clinicians, and educators in the Brower Student Center. Attending were two members of the original class of 1970, Theresa M. “Ter ry” Valiga and Barbara Medoff- Co o p e r , both of whom have had distinguished careers in nursing since their years at The College. Valiga, who has been a member of the nursing faculty at both The College and at Seton Hall University, holds a doctorate in nursing education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is director of res e a r ch and pr ofessional development for the National League for Nursing in New York City. She lives in Summit, NJ, is widely published on topics related to nursing education, and has received numerous awards in that field. Me d o f f-Cooper is director of the Center for Nursing Research at the University of Pennsylvania and is in t e r nationally known for her work in neurobehavioral development. Susan Bakewell-Sachs, dean of the School of Nursing, organized the luncheon “to celebrate the history of pr ofessional nursing education on this campus.” In her remarks to the guests attending, she said the work done by members of the Class of 1970 and others who followed make it clear the School of Nursing “is continuing the tradition of educating future nursing leaders.” “During this time of ongoing health care revolution,” she said, “nurses, as the dominant and most trusted health pr ofessionals, must be prep a r ed to lead, respond, seek, and transform in order to identify and solve the many complex issues before us.” Bakewell-Sachs said those completing the undergraduate and graduate programs at The College are highly reg a r ded as clinicians, educators, res e a r chers, scholars, administrators, entrep r eneurs, and corporate consultants. The College expects to graduate 46 seniors from the School of Nursing this year. Another 27 students are en r olled in a graduate program leading to a Master of Science in Nursing as a family nurse practitioner, and 54 are in the graduate pr ogram leading to a school nurse certificate.

Attending the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the School of Nursing’s first graduating class were Theresa M. Valiga ’70 (left), and Barbara Medoff-Cooper ’70, (second from right). Between them is TCNJ president R. Barbara Gitenstein, with Susan Bakewell-Sachs, dean of the School of Nursing, at right.

31 TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 ■ Ver non P. Kelley III of The College’s maintenance ■ Qin Shao, assistant professor of history, has been de p a r tment has been named a certified prof e s s i o n a l aw a r ded a National Endowment for the Humanities locksmith by the Associated Locksmiths of America, Fellowship and is using it in connection with her the only association dedicated to education and ethics sabbatical year to write a cultural history of the city among locksmiths. of Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China, in the early

■ Ro s e m a r y “Mimi” Cappelli ’73 , assistant prof e s s o r twentieth century. of nursing, has been named president-elect of the New ■ Mo r ton Win s t o n , professor of philosophy and Jersey State Nurses Association. She will assume the religion, spoke at the second annual Social of fice Aug. 1, 2002. During the past 20 years, Cappelli Accountability International conference at the has served in a variety of positions with the NJSNA. Columbia University Business School in December. During her two-year service as president-elect, she will A board member of SAI, he also has chaired the USA be president of The Institute for Nursing, the Committee on Business and Economic Relations of NJ S N A ’s foundation, and will focus on fund-raising. Amnesty International since 1996. The conferen c e

■ Mark Kiselica , associate professor and chair of focused on the risks and opportunities to manufacturer s the Department of Counselor Education, has been and retailers presented by working conditions in their elected a fellow of the American Psychological facilities and those of their suppliers.

Association in recognition of his national impact ■ Ga r y Woo d w a r d, professor of communication on the psychology of boys. In addition, his many studies, recently joined the editorial board of writings on counseling boys and teenage fathers Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, pr ompted both the American Mental Health a quarterly journal. In November, he Counselors Association and the Society for the pr esented a paper, “The Campaign as Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity to Failed Audition: The Diminished name him their Researcher of the Yea r . Capacity of the Presidency for

■ Ma r vin Kurland , associate professor of engineering, Identification,” at the National ret u r ned to teaching in September after a three - y e a r Communication Association. medical leave prompted by kidney disease. First diagnosed in 1990, he began dialysis treatments in the summer of 1996 and was placed on a transplant Gary Woodward waiting list, where he stayed for nearly four years be f o r e receiving a new kidney in April 2000. Kurland began teaching at TCNJ in September 1988, was appointed the coordinator of the Electrical TCNJ Magazine Engineering program in 1992 and took a medical received a bron z e leave in 1997. aw a r d from the

■ John C. Pollock , associate professor of Council for the communication studies, presented two papers at the Advancement and Su p p o r t of Education National Communication Association conference (CASE) for the in Seattle in November. The titles are: “Nationwide illustration by Newspaper Coverage of a Patients’ Bill of Rights: Joe Kovach that Co n v e r ging Approaches,” and “Nationwide ap p e a r ed on the Newspaper Coverage of the 1997 UPS Strike: cover of the spring 2000 issue. A Community Struc t u r e Approa c h . ”

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Science and Technology Education Spreads Its Wings TCNJ faculty, other educators, and rep r esentatives from Science, and Technology Education would be business and industry will be building a science, math, established at The College with a three - y e a r , $750,000 engineering, and technology (SMET) program for Co n g r essional grant sponsored by 12th District se c o n d a r y school teachers with a $2.5 million grant Democratic Representative Rush Holt. fr om the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. TCNJ faculty who will be the lead educators of The money will be spent over three years to the center are: Sh a r on Sherma n , associate professor of develop secondary school program materials, res o u rc e s , el e m e n t a r y education and chair of the Department of and activities so educators will feel more comforta b l e El e m e n t a r y and Early Childhood Education; Ro n a l d using design- and inquiry-based approaches and Tod d , director of the Center for Applied Crea t i v i t y ; res o u r ces. Ronald Tod d will direct the proj e c t . Patricia Hutchinson , project director; Ro b e r t Web e r , Design-based learning involves the use of visual pr ofessor of technological studies; and John Karsnitz , pr ojects to help students learn. When teachers engage chair and professor of technological studies. students in real-life situations that req u i r e the use of The money will be used primarily for personnel to math, science, or technology to, for example, solve a cr eate products and prototypes, and work with pr oblem or build something, they find students not educators in schools and demonstration classroo m s . only gain a better understanding of the core principles About $150,000 will go to renovate classrooms to involved, but also enjoy it more. house the program and buy equipment and materials In July it was announced a new Center for for use in model prog r a m s . In q u i r y- and Design-Based Learning in Mathematics,

An Update on Campus Construction Pr oj e c t s As planning for a major library renovation gets The Science Complex has been under underway, other major projects are in various stages co n s t r uction since late 1999, and will occupy a site of planning, construction, and completion. between Kendall Hall, Arms t r ong Hall, and the new The Biology Building was occupied at the Biology Building. When complete, it will house offi c e s beginning of the fall 2000 term. A three - s t o r y building and laboratories for the mathematics, chemistry, and with about 76,000 square feet of laboratories, classroo m s , physics departments, two observatories, and a and offices, it lies between Quimby’s Prairie and Lake planetarium. A promenade extending from Arms t ro n g Ceva. A large greenhouse on the building’s third story Hall, through an arch in the center of the Science failed to comply with specifications and had to be Complex, to the Biology Building is expected to be replaced, but that did not delay occupancy of the an impressive design element. rest of the struc t u re . This 125,000-square-foot project has been quite The Social Sciences Building , located between di f ficult. It has been complicated not only by the need the Brower Student Center and Kendall Hall, on the to demolish and build around existing struc t u r es and site of former Bray Hall, is a three - s t o r y struc t u r e with by the demanding aspects of building for scientific use, floor space equal to that of the Biology Building. It will but also by contractor problems. Although the initial contain offices, classrooms, and, on the basement level, occupancy of the complex was planned for June, it is spaces suitable for observing groups at work throu g h un c e r tain when construction on the parti a l l y one-way windows. Construction on this project is completed struc t u r e will res u m e . pr oceeding smoothly and is expected to be complete Co n s t r uction of additional on-campus res i d e n t i a l in June. Occupancy has been set for mid-August. housing for students also is under discussion.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Al u m n i Senior Olympics and was a medalist for five straight years, from 1995-1999. Lyle G. Hawthorn (AS) ret i r ed after 43 years of teaching and now run s the senior program for the NJ Win g Civil Air Patrol. He also is a high school soccer ref e re e . Helen Kosson Jones (AS) ret i re d fr om teaching first grade in June 1996. Lois Hiller Lummer (E), ret i r ed after 32 years as a driver’s education/ ’32 Thomas F. McGarry (AS) ret i r ed physical education teacher in Newsas vice president of corporate Springfield, now spends her time Alice Fishwick (AS) and Ca r l Mu l l e r (AS) recently celebrated their communications at Pitney Bowes. traveling with her husband, Bob. 65th wedding anniversary. He has three children and four ’6 0 ’3 3 gr a n d c h i l d r en, and keeps busy with Ronald Bennett (E) ret i r ed in 1985 painting, metal sculpture, and Wil f r ed E. Betz (AS) is a ret i re d after 25 years as chair of the Music th e a t e r . ai r craft technician instructor from the De p a r tment for North e r n Burlington Ed w a r d Mann (E) and his wife, G. T . Baker School of Aviation in County Regional High School in Ma t i l d a (E), have ret i r ed after more Miami, FL. Columbus. Ronald married Carol e e than 30 years teaching and operating Ma r y Descipio Cotr on e o (E) ret i r ed in Vetter in 1999. a children ’ s camp. 1972 from her job as a high school William Flynn (AS) spent 12 years Charlotte Bull Shrader (E) has three librarian and lives in Ormond Beach, FL. in the New Jersey State Assembly ch i l d r en: Scott, Chris, and Susan. and is the former Mayor of Old ’4 0 Charlotte is active with her Bridge Township. He is the curren t Marie Hollenback Hof fm a n (A S ) Pr esbyterian church and enjoys Democratic party municipal has a MA from Columbia University. traveling. Her fondest college ch a i r man for Old Bridge Tow n s h i p ’4 3 me m o r y was meeting her husband, and practices law with the firm of Ray Kirsch Gag (E) ret i r ed in 1989 Wil l i a m (E). They celebrate their Antonio and Flynn. after 36 years of teaching in 50th anniversary this summer. Barbara Dill Hickey (E) completed St a m f o r d, CT. ’5 2 her latest teaching position at Mi l d r ed A. Midkiff (AS) has ret i re d Leonora Riddering Bur ne t (E) of Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, as vocal director for Union County Richmond, VA, was a teacher for 27 NY , where she and her husband were Regional High School. Last year she years before retiring in 1992. She also dorm parents. Her husband received a Distinguished Servi c e now spends her time in her moss coached football and she advised the Awa r d from New Jersey Music ga r dens, which have been featured in yearbook staff. Her son and daughter Educators Association. Co u n t r y Living Garde n e r , Wom e n ’ s live in Sun Val l e y , ID, with their ’5 0 Day Garde n i n g , and Outdoor Living spouses, but no grandchildren yet. Anne Haney Angus (E) has three magazines. She was also awarded the Susanne Bullard Osterberg (E ) daughters: Martha, who designs Ho rt i c u l t u r e Achievement Awa r d for ret i r ed in 1998 from her position of homes in the Silicon Valley; Nancy, the Piedmont District of Vir ginia. Di r ector of Social Services for who is working to be a patent ’5 4 Planned Paren t h o o d of North e r n at t o r ney; and Ka r en, who has a Lee Steelman (E), ret i r ed after 40 New York. Now she volunteers at the ma s t e r ’s in counseling. years teaching English, speech, and Pisgah Wildlife Center in Cortl a n d , Cl a i r e Hofman Knowles (A S ) drama at North Valley Regional High NY , and travels. ret i r ed in 1991 but works part time as School in Demarest, now enjoys J. Joyce Coleman Payne (A S ) a dental administrative assistant. visiting his grandson and attending recently published a book of poetry Anna Scherer Ganly (B) ret i r ed from Br oadway plays. in s p i r ed by a trip to Kenya. She is teaching in 1985 after 35 years. also active in the Wil l i n g b o r o Ge r ri Kieffer Kolich (E) has six ’5 5 Ma y o r ’s Communication Committee Eileen Patterson Colaccello (E) is a ch i l d re n . Her husband, Bob Bannon, and the Rancocas Hospital 39-year member of Contemporary Club died suddenly in 1976. In 1979, she Community Committee. of Trenton and was just awarded its ma r ried Tony Kolich of Hoboken, a Er nest E. R yd e l l (AS) ret i r ed in July 1999-2000 Service Awa r d. ret i r ed administrator. One of her sons, 2000 from his position as vice Dr . Robert E. Gerke (AS) is a Kevin Bannon, coached basketball at pr esident of university advancement graduate professor at Georgian Court Trenton State College for six years. at East Strou d s b u r g University. He is College. He participated in the NJ ma r ried to Sandra Wittlif Rydell ’89.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Elizabeth Shuman (E) is director of Christian education for the First In post-r et i r ement years, still teaching Pr esbyterian Church in Rockaway. Once a teacher, always a teacher. ’6 1 At least that’s the way Joyce Collins Brooks ’51 looks at it. Barbara Siebel Fedak (AS) is the After teaching 30 years in elementary schools in the Lawren c e division chair for health occupations Township and Hopewell Valley districts in New Jersey, Brooks ret i r ed Joyce Collins at Pickens Technical Center in in 1994. But don’t be fooled . . . she can still be found in the classroo m . Brooks ’51 Au r ora, CO. Listed in the latest Since 1996, Brooks has participated in an interge n e r a t i o n a l edition of the Marquis Wh o ’ s Who pr ogram sponsored by the New Jersey Intergenerational Network at Upper Tow n s h i p in America, she also was appointed El e m e n t a r y School in Cape May County. About four times a year, she engages in recently to the Executive Board of cooperative activities with fourth-graders at the school. Lambda Beta National Honor “I loved teaching,” Brooks said. “But I couldn’t physically keep up with first-graders So c i e t y . ev e r y day after awhile. So this is just a way of keeping in touch with what’s going on. My ’6 2 gr a n d c h i l d r en are in school and my daughter and two sons-in-law teach, so I enjoy this.” Marita Goodwin Digney (AS) is a The programs at Upper Township Elementary School are meant to eliminate licensed psychologist and Jungian st e r eotypes one generation may have about the other. They were developed because the analyst in private practice in interaction between younger and older people is declining, she said. Philadelphia, PA. She also rec e n t l y Br ooks also goes to Chelsea Heights Elementary School in Atlantic City, where she became the director of studies at the helps her daughter, Susan Brooks Gaspich, teach first-graders. C.G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia. The children especially enjoy it when Brooks talks about Laura Ingalls Wil d e r , who Ro b e r t Fischo (B) is a dean of the wr ote the books on which The Little House on the Prairie television series was based. business division at Middlesex “They really seem to enjoy what I do,” Brooks said. “It’s always special to have someone else County College and recently was come into the classroom and work with them. I’m very impressed with the kids of toda y. ” named vice president of academic Br ooks shrugged off her hectic life and said, “I never realize how much I do unless aff a i r s . I really think about it.” Elaine Czech Flynn (E) was re- As an afterthought, she told of being vice president of the Ocean City Historical elected to a second term as Middlesex Museum, where she takes groups of children on tours. She also conducts activities at the County Clerk in November 2000. Ocean City Public Library. She won by 64,000 votes and was top “But I only do activities at the library about every other year,” she said. “I don’t want vote-getter in Middlesex County. She it to get tires o m e . ” is the mother of four and grandmother Despite having graduated decades ago, Brooks still uses teaching methods she of nine. She received her MEd from le a r ned in courses she took at The College. “We learned about questioning, discipline Kean University and ret i r ed in 1995 and dealing with special education students,” she said. “It was a great experience.” after teaching in the Old Bridge Thomas A. Parmalee ’02 school system for 26 years. She is ma r ried to William E. Flynn ’60 . ’6 4 Julianne Shotwell (E) rec e n t l y An award-winning newspaper Ro b e r t Ritter (EN), after 35 years in ret i r ed from the Green Hills School columnist, independent radio the Lenape District, has ret i r ed from in Greendell, after 25 years as a pr odu c e r , and playwright, in Shawnee High School, where he school counselor. With her daughter, November 2000, Constance had two taught television production. she recently opened a business called plays prem i e r e at the Kentucky ’6 5 The Tea Hive. Center for the Arts in Louisville. Miriam Wil s o n (E) ret i r ed in June ’6 7 Patricia Biacindo Br oc k (E) is a 1998 after 26 years teaching fourth John Hyde (E) and his wife, El s a (E ), faculty member and coordinator for grade at Laning Avenue School. She both ret i r ed from teaching in Illinois The Teacher Opportunity Corps at has since been traveling with her and have moved to Holland, MI. Jack Pace University. husband, George . is doing consulting and writing Edmond Wur p e l (AS) owns Grea t materials for disabled rea d e r s . Pond Associates, a company that ’6 6 recently purchased the Wor s t e r Patricia Zuczek Busk (AS) is a ’6 8 House, a historic hotel in Hallowell, pr ofessor at the University of San Constance Alexander (E) is the ME. He is renovating the building for Francisco. She has a master’s from recipient of major grants from the ap a r tments but has kept the original Catholic University of America, and Ro b e r t Woo d Johnson and Benton lobby furnished as before. a doctorate from the University of Foundations and the Kentucky Arts Wisconsin at Madison. Council for a project called “Prom i s e s ’6 9 Ri c h a r d S. Landis (AS) is now self- to Keep.” She is writing and James K. Jeffries Sr. (EN) ret i re d employed as sports broadcaster and pr oducing a 10-part documentary after five years working for Therma l wr i t e r , having been the New Jersey radio series on end-of-life issues as Dy n a m i c s / T h e r madyne as a district Ne t w o r k ’ s first sports direc t o r . pa r t of this grant, and is also crea t i n g manager and has ret u r ned to Do r othy C. Miele (AS) is a curator a perfo r mance piece on this topic. te a c h i n g . of the African collection at Yal e Ms. Alexander recently was selected Doris Salagi (E) ret i r ed in 1998 after Un i v e r s i t y . as a New Media Fellow by the 29 years teaching the handicapped in Newspaper Association of America. the Wil l i n g b o r o School District. She is the Delta Kappa Gamma Society

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 In t e rn a t i o n a l ’ s rep r esentative to the James Was k o v i c h (E) is principal of and president of NADIA United Nations Department of Public Thomas E. Harrington Middle Communications in Lawren c e v i l l e , In f o rm a t i o n . School in Mt. Laurel. He has a she has appeared on national Rose Mary Sheldon (AS) holds the doctorate in education from Nova television, the front page of The Wal l rank of colonel and is professor of So u t h e a s t e r n University. St r eet Journa l and in numerou s hi s t o r y at Vir ginia Military Institute. ’7 3 magazines as a leading expert in She will be on sabbatical this year Louise Chut (E) has been selected executive communication. and plans to write a book on for the 2000 Senior Leadership Ronald Sebastiani (AS) is a espionage in ancient Gree c e . Enhancement Awa r d for work with nationally certified school counselor Darby Byrne T ar r (E) is still Leadership in an Aging Society at and golf coach for the Hamilton teaching and recently completed a Duke University Medical Center. Township Board of Education. reading program designed to improv e Dr . Susan C. Reinhard (N) is Rosalie Vis c o m i (E) is a library literacy among young children . executive director of the Center for media specialist in the Fairfa x Ri c h a r d C. Tar r (E) is now in his Me d i c a r e Education, Was h i n g t o n , Co u n t y , VA, public schools. She th i r tieth year of teaching in upstate D.C. She also serves as professor of ea r ned a master’s in education from New Yor k . health policy, Georgetown University Ma r ymount University and ’7 0 Public Policy Institute. completed course work for library Sandra Olsavsky Alexandra (A S ) media endorsement from George ’7 4 Mason University. completed a doctorate in science Alicia Quinto Boyko (E) earned a education at the University of Iowa ma s t e r ’s in education leadership from ’7 6 in 1997. TCNJ and now is director of Ma u r o Gadaleta (AS) has been a Constance Abraham Harley (A S ) community education for the Wes t pianist and conductor for Diahann was honored as the 2000 Teacher of Win d s o r- P l a i n s b o r o Regional School Ca r roll, Connie Francis, Fran the Year for Center City School in District. Je f feries, and several other singers Ma n t u a . Pamela Joan Castellanos (E) is co- in the operatic field, and also has Jay Lang (E) teaches tennis in the pr esident of Pennwood Middle worked in ballet schools and on Bucks County, PA, area, and teaches School in the Pennsbury, PA, school television broa d c a s t s . test-taking strategies for PSAT/ S A T district. She married Diego Lance Kounitz (EN) earned a tests. He has a daughter, Ashley, 14, Castellanos and has three children : ma s t e r ’s in technology education and a son, Adam Jay, 5. Olivia Mercedes, Felicia Antonia, fr om City College of New York and Christine Pooley Limongelli (A S ) and Carlos Diego. works in the printing industry as an was featured in the 1999 edition of Lynne Malinowski Hendrick (A S ) estimator for a Manhattan sales Wh o ’ s Who in America’s Tea c h e r s . received a master’s in community org a n i z a t i o n . Elaine Liebowitz Mar ga re t t a (A S ) health from the University of Ar thur C. T ot e (E) is trea s u r er of the ret i r ed in 1999 after 29 years as a Colorado and now is vice president Me r cer County Vocational Education teacher at the Carl Goetz Middle of patient care services of a children ’ s Association, a member of the NJ School in Jackson. hospital in Denver. Education Association Congres s i o n a l Keith Tom l i n s o n (AS) is the Judith Jane Stark (N) works for the Contact Committee, and the Merce r newsletter editor for the Central Jersey So u t h e r n New Jersey Pren a t a l County Education Association LAT Genealogy Club, a member of Camp Cooperative, the state’s materna l Committee. He has two grow n Olden Civil War Roundtable, and the child health consortium for the ch i l d r en and a daughter in high Central Jersey Computer Club. region. She has begun work on a sc h o o l . Ro b e r t Wit c h e l (A S ) is a professor ma s t e r ’s in nursing. Raymond J. V et h (AS) owns Beacon of counseling at Indiana University William Sonderva n (E) received a Awa r ds and Signs of Middletown. of PA. He also has psychotherapy doctorate in education from Virg i n i a Ka r en L. Zar em b a (E) teaches practices in Pittsburgh and Tech University and the Stanley hi s t o r y in West Palm Beach, FL. She Indiana, PA. Drazek Teaching Excellence Awa r d was a Fulbright Exchange Teacher in ’7 1 fr om the University of Maryl a n d . the Czech Republic during the 1998- Ca r ol Bailey Mendenko (N) is a Re t i r ed from the U.S. Army Military 99 school year. ce r tified nurse administrator. She is Police Corps in 1994, he now is ’7 7 also a member of Sigma Theta Tau , commissioner of corrections for the Lynn Fenelli Barberi (E) rec e n t l y the NJ Home Health Assembly, state of Maryl a n d . received a master’s in educational Me r cer Street Friends Board of ’7 5 administration from Rider University. Trustees, and volunteers with Big Peter Cr os t a (AS) is the president She is assistant principal at Indian Br others/Big Sisters of Mercer County. of the Executive Board of the New Fields School in South Brun s w i c k . ’7 2 Jersey Music Administrators She and her husband, John Barberi Alice Mohor (E) received a master’s Association. ’76, have one daughter. fr om the University of Arizona. She Nadine Udall Fischer (AS) will Sally J. Winters Koelsch (AS) is is a certified teacher support appear in the 2001 edition of the assistant choir director at Gilmore S. specialist, and she is the author and National Registry of Who’s Who. Fisher Middle School in Ewing. She publisher of Ms. Mo’s P.E. Poems. She has been previously named as and her husband, Michael, have a “One of New Jersey’s 15 Most da u g h t e r , Erika-Marilyn, 13. Accomplished Women.” The founder

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Kathy Opanowicz W at s o n (E) is the Kim Nouhan Puzzo (E) teaches deaf Ma r y Chemoski (E) was one of 60 bookkeeper and co-owner of Stewart’ s students at School 14 in Clifton. She teachers selected to attend the U.S. Publishing. She tutors learni n g - ea r ned a master’s from Wil l i a m Su p r eme Court Summer Institute in disabled students at Broo k d a l e Paterson University and also has Washington, D.C., last year. Community College. received the Governo r ’s Tea c h e r Th e o d o r e Johnson (E) received a ’7 8 Recognition Awa rd . doctor of audiology degree from the Cynthia Dikun Novak (N) rec e n t l y Felice Fleisher Thomas (E) has been University of Florida in May 2000. celebrated her twentieth anniversary teaching special education at Sterling Judith Siegel (E) taught elementary of employment at Children ’ s Hospital High School in Somerdale for 21 school for seven years before shifting of Philadelphia. years and recently was named her to teach the mysteries of computer Linda Swanson (N) recently moved sc h o o l ’ s Teacher of the Yea r . so f t w a r e to adults at Fortune 500 to the Orlando, FL, area where she Kim Tur ner Wen t w o rt h (AS) is a companies for five years. Judith is works as a first aid nurse at Wal t bo a r d member of the Park Ave n u e now a self-employed technical Disney World Resort. Her son, Craig, Club in Florham Park, and of Natrel co m m u n i c a t o r . is a computer network manager in Communications in Parsippany. She ’8 4 Boston, and her daughter, Corinne, is has been married for 16 years to Finn Sioban McDonald Healy (AS) is a paralegal in New Jersey. Wen t w o r th. They have two sons, associate director of admissions at John F. W es c o t t (AS) is director of Mark and Grant. Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. allied health programs at Essex ’8 1 Cl a r ence Jones Jr. (AS) rec e n t l y County College. He received a Paul Motchnik (AS) earned a PhD obtained a master’s in telecom- ma s t e r ’s in health servi c e s in biochemistry from the University munications management from the administration from New School of California at Davis and is now University of Maryl a n d . Un i v e r s i t y , and is a doctoral candidate associate director of Protein Design William Mitchell (EN) is pursuing a in health sciences at Seton Hall. Labs, Fremont, CA. de g r ee in civil engineering at Drex e l ’7 9 Mark Romano is vice president of Un i v e r s i t y . Ka r yn Benton (E) received a master’s af filiate relations at iN DEMAND in Constance Ford Spencer (B) is the de g r ee in orientation and mobility NYC. Owned by Time Warn e r , Comcast, executive assistant to the deans of the fr om the Pennsylvania College of AT& T , and Cox Communications, iN School of Osteopathic Medicine at Op t o m e t r y, where she also rec e i v e d DEMAND is the pay-per-view and The University of Medicine and the Graduate Studies Excellence video-on-demand provider to the De n t i s t r y in Stratford. She, her Awa r d for academic distinction. cable television industry. husband, Jim, and daughter, Abigail, Mark Dolezar (AS) is the head of ’8 2 reside in Cherry Hill. the social studies department at the Leslie Doughty Hensley (N ) Lydia Jacus V ea l e (E) rec e n t l y Burlington County Institute of received a master of science degree celebrated her fifth anniversary as a Tec h n o l o g y . in 1996 and now is a certi f i e d computer technical rec ru i t e r . For the anesthetist at Kent General Hospital, last three years, she has run in the ’8 0 Santa Cruz Wharf to Wharf 10K race. Mark Coniglio (E) is a contracts Do v e r , DE. administrator for the U.S. Departm e n t Thomas John Kosco (AS) has been ’8 5 of Defense. Recently he received a pr omoted to director of systems William Baxter (EN) graduated with ma s t e r ’s in public administration from development at American Re- the highest honors, earning a the University of Oklahoma. Insurance. His daughter, Jaclyn, was ce r tificate in architectural historic Michelle Marie Edinger (A S ) accepted as a transfer student to the pre s e r vation from Bucks County recently was promoted to sales Class of 2002 at TCNJ. Community College. His manager of technical training for a Brian Tra i n o r (AS) received his ar chitectural drawing of the prop o s e d la r ge North Carolina computer doctor of osteopathy degree in 1995. “L i b e r ty Yar ds” (the Philadelphia di s t r i b u t o r . Recently he was appointed associate Phillies Stadium) rec e i v e d Kenneth Figgs (AS) is pursuing a pr ofessor of otolaryngology and head considerable media attention. PhD in education in the urban and neck surge r y for St. Barna b a s Constance Bennett (B) is an su p e r i n t e n d e n t ’ s program at Harva r d Health Care System in north e r n independent meeting planner and is a Un i v e r s i t y ’ s Graduate School of New Jersey. member of the Greater Orlando Ed u c a t i o n . David Whitaker (AS) is senior chapter of Meeting Prof e s s i o n a l s Judith Ferrazzoli Finnegan (E) has design manager for Walt Disney Parks In t e r national. She served two terms been teaching handicapped students and Resorts in Orlando, FL, where he as president of the New Jersey at Middlesex County Vocational & manages the art development for 3-D chapter and was awarded the Technical High School for 20 years. character merchandise. He went to ch a p t e r ’s Planner of the Year award. David Gr ee n s p a n (AS) and his wife, Tokyo last year to help open Disney’s Elizabeth McKay Bonner (E) is Barbara, have been married since newest theme park. di r ector of Bright Beginnings Nursery 1984 and have two children, Jennifer ’8 3 School. She and her husband, Paul, and Stephanie. He still loves playing Wendy Sadow Arbit (AS) is an have four sons: Patrick, Sean, Jamie, his guitar. insurance coordinator for Henderson and Ian. Ruth Boyce Har ri s (AS) founded Mental Health Center, Margate, FL. Susan Maloney Boylan (A S ) the Medical Management Center in She has been married for four years received an MBA from Seton Hall in 1997 and is its pres i d e n t . and has two children. 1992 and is working as a cost analysis

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 manager for the National Exchange Ca r rier Association. She and her 25 years where ‘technology is business’ husband, Matt, have three sons: Ma t t h e w , Collin, and Stephen. Daniel R. Summers, a 1976 graduate, has discovered the chemistry Beth Deene (EN) owns Full Circl e needed to become a successful businessman. Graphics in West Trenton and serve s Twenty-five years ago, Summers began his career as an industrial Daniel Summers ’76 as president of the board of the chemicals sales rep r esentative at the FMC Corporation, a $4.5 billion Pennington Montessori School. Beth chemical, energy , and food processing conglomerate headquarte r ed in Chicago. has two sons, Adam and Sam. On August 1, 2000, he was named general manager of Chemical Products at FMC, Line Bouchard Duf fi e l d (N) is an located in Philadelphia. RN at the Forsythe Medical Center. His new responsibilities include overseeing one-third of the company’s $2 billion Line and her husband, Ed Duf fi e l d chemical division and managing about 3,000 employees. Prior to his promotion, Summers ’8 3 (B), have two children, Elise was general manager of the company’s Peroxygen Chemicals business. While he will and Joseph. retain that job, Summers also is now responsible for the Alkali Chemicals and Active Ellen Barr Genovesi (AS) is an Oxidants businesses. adjunct professor of biology, Summers’ ascent through the corporate hierarchy is quite unusual. After rec e i v i n g mi c ro b i o l o g y , and medical his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from The College, he never te r minology at Mercer County Community College. Ellen and her pursued a higher degree. husband, Ton y , have two children , “The education I earned from The College allowed me the opportunity to join a Paul and Lori. Fo r tune 100 company in 1976,” Summers said. “I never had the need to get an advanced Lisa Cox Gibilisco (AS) briefly de g r ee. The College has served the company and me well.” taught music education before His business pursuits have also led him overseas. In 1990, Summers traveled to becoming a full-time mother to her Merseyside, England, where he lived for two years. He later served as sales director and th r ee sons, Christopher, Michael, and business director for FMC’s European region in Brussels, Belgium, before ret u r ning to Steven. Lisa and her husband, David, Philadelphia in 1995. ar e part-time professional singers in In addition to acquiring a keen financial acumen, Summers urged toda y ’ s business the tri-state area . students to pursue international opportunities and become technologically prof i c i e n t . John “Mack” McCar th y is a “T echnology is business,” Summers said. major in the U.S. Army serving “Y ou always have to take ownership of growing each day,” he said. “Do not depend as operations officer for the 501st on your employer. You need to develop your own skills.” Mi l i t a r y Intelligence Battalion, which Summers and his wife, Deborah Ann, have two children, Daniel and David. deployed from Germany to Kosovo as Ryan Groeger ’01 pa r t of NATO ’ s Kosovo Force. At last rep o r t, his wife, Karen, and daughter, Donna Snyder Shelton (N) rec e i v e d Charles Augustus Potter ha s Shannon, were in Germany awaiting a master’s in nursing and is a nurse received his doctorate in physics, the his ret u rn . practitioner at Physician Services radiological sciences option, from the Tina Goldhirsh Pr ev i l l e (AS) is of Florida. University of Massachusetts at Lowell. cultural arts coordinator of the Ge o r ge Ufen (AS) recently ret i re d Ca r olynne Arch Steele (E) and her Pl a i n s b o r o Township Recrea t i o n fr om a civil service position in which husband, Robert, have a daughter, De p a r tment. Tina and her husband, he sold fighter aircraft to forei g n Erica, 6. Carolynne teaches and Steven Preville ’85 , have two go v e r nments authorized by Congres s coaches high school students at the ch i l d r en, Hope and Corri n e . to buy them. Marie H. Katzenbach School for John M. Rea (B) ret i r ed in 1998 Francina White-Virz i (AS) has three the Deaf. fr om service as an airline captain at ch i l d r en, teaches part time at Wes l e y Pamela Elaine Ter ry (E) is assistant American Airlines. He now is an Hall Nursery School, leads two Girl principal of George G. Kelson investment advisor and reg i s t e re d Scout troops, and serves on the Girl El e m e n t a r y School in Baltimore, MD. rep r esentative for Royal Alliance Scout Service Team in Wes t f i e l d . ’8 7 Associates. Ka r en Brown W en s o n (N) is a Judy Kamela (N), after 13 years as a Sh a r on Hoffman Roche (AS) is an neonatal intensive care nurse at St. clinical nurse, is a sales rep re s e n t a t i v e interior designer for Arcus Design Ba r nabas Medical Center. She has for Tap Pharmaceuticals. Gr oup, an independent consultant two children, Stephen and Kimberly. Bob Kenny (AS) received a master’s and teacher of adult evening classes Laurie Sheetz W ol e n s k y (N) is an in music from Illinois State and now in interior design. Sharon has been RN in the cardiothoracic surgi c a l is a music and band director in ma r ried 10 years and has two unit at St. Francis Medical Center, Fl e m i n g t o n . ch i l d r en. Trenton. William McLagan (AS) received a Valerie Tibolla Sheehan (B) rec e i v e d ’8 6 ma s t e r ’s degree in systems engineering her MBA from Mercer University in Ka r en Gischlar (E) has taught fr om George Mason University, Atlanta, GA. She and her husband, ki n d e rg a r ten at Sunnybrae School in Fa i r fax, VA in 1998 and now works James, have their own business, Hamilton for 13 years, and was for the U.S. governm e n t . Custom Home Building ho n o r ed in the 1999-2000 Governo r ’s Ter esa Rosenberg (N) is a school Co n s t ru c t i o n . Teacher Recognition Program. Karen nurse in Jackson and works part- t i m e is pursuing an EdS degree from Rider doing massage for clients as a stres s Un i v e r s i t y . relief/pain management technique.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 ’8 8 of Concentra Managed Care’ s Michele Gomes Jassin (E) earned a Robyn Hannigan (AS) rec e i v e d Atlanta, GA, office. She supervises a ma s t e r ’s in learning technologies from te n u r e at Arkansas State University. st a f f of eight nurses in Georgia. William Paterson University and Neil Cohen (AS) recently rec e i v e d Tobin Butler (B) is an attorne y teaches technology in the elementary his MBA from Marym o u n t practicing insurance defense with grades in Pompton Lakes. Un i v e r s i t y . Sw a r z, Cambell, and Detweiler in Mt. Michael J. Schultz (AS) recently was John Jeavons (B) has been named an La u r el. pr omoted to director of security for assistant vice president and will serve Mark Dolin (AS) graduated in 1998 Station Casinos in Las Vegas, NV. as the branch manager of Commerce fr om the Wisconsin State Patrol John Stephenson (AS) completed Bank in Hamilton Tow n s h i p . Academy and married Amy his master’s in Asian studies at Seton Sandra I. War d (AS) is pursuing a Dubinski. He is now a Wis c o n s i n Hall University and now works for ma s t e r ’s in public communication at state trooper in Rock County, GSX Ltd. in Dublin, Ireland, as vice American University, Was h i n g t o n , southeast of Madison. pr esident of operations. D. C . Debbie Witkowski Kr up a (N) (MN Tammy Simons Sullivan (E) teaches Marsha You n g (N) (MN ’95) lives in ’00) is a family nurse practitioner/ sixth grade in Milltown. Her Levittown and works in private clinical res e a r ch coordinator at husband, Stephen ’94 (AS), is an practice with a gastroe n t e ro l o g y Rheumatology Associates in associate in the law firm of Lyn c h , specialist in Langhorne, PA. Me rc e rv i l l e . Ma r tin & Knoll in North Brun s w i c k . ’8 9 Mike Sabbatini opened his business, Mara Schwarz T ie rn a n (B) is a sales Digital Advantage, in 1998. He now co o r dinator for Musco Sports Michael Devins (AS), owner of Mike owns cellular phone retail stores called Lighting in Brick. “the man” Enterprises, Inc., in Avo n , The Wir eless Zone in Hamilton Square, Thomas Tie rn a n (AS) is a claim CO, has been featured in the Newtown, PA, and Feasterville, PA. rep r esentative for Allstate Insurance flyfishing section of Bass ProS h o p s ’ John-Paul V en a z i (B) works in in Brick. 2000 Master Catalog. residential marketing for Florida Michael Warg o (E) recently was ’9 5 Power & Light in Juno Beach, FL, pr omoted to director of major gifts in Daniel Britt (AS) is a trus t and is president of Alpha Phi Delta’s the Rider University Development rep r esentative for Guardian Trus t South Florida alumni club. Off i c e . Company in New York. He rec e n t l y ’9 0 ’9 3 completed the administration modu l e Ri c h a r d D’Alessandro (BS) is a at the Bucknell University Central Sandra Lynn Ar en d t (B) is first vice teacher and coach at Carusi Middle Atlantic School of Trust and pr esident of Morgan Stanley Dean School in Cherry Hill. Rich is Investment Management. Witter in Manhattan. She manages pursing a master’s in educational Sheila Callaghan (AS) earned a the interactive marketing grou p administration at Temple University. ma s t e r ’s in playwriting and several which develops Web sites. She and Je ff r ey E. Kracht (AS) owns an aw a r ds for her work at UCLA, and her husband, Keith Motusesky, have interior design firm, JK Interiors, in moved to Manhattan, where her two children, Paige, 4, and Sara, 1. Clifton, and belongs to the American writing continues to gain attention. In Catherine Johnston Laney (A S ) Society of Interior Designers. Oc t o b e r , she won the Princess Grace ea r ned a master’s in corporate and Lorie Sanders Sailer (AS) teaches Fellowship, which honors an emergi n g public communications from Seton fo u r th grade in Little Egg Harbor and ar tist under 30 and carries a $7,500 Hall University, and now is an is pursuing a master’s degree in grant, for Kate Crackernu t s , a play investment executive for Gibraltar administration, curriculum, and based loosely on an English folktale. Securities in Florham Park. in s t r uction at the New Jersey City Her new one-act, The Katherine ’9 1 Un i v e r s i t y . Ca l a m i t y , ran for three weeks as part of An d r ew Ar om a n d o (B) recently was Michael Van c e (AS) graduated from an off- o ff - B r oadway Christmas holiday appointed director of business Webster University in St. Louis, MO, of fering at The Manhattan Theatre development at Innovex Inc., with a combined master’s in So u r ce in Greenwich Village. To make Pa r s i p p a n y , and is working toward a management and human res o u rc e s . the rent, Sheila works as a free l a n c e ma s t e r ’s in orga n i z a t i o n a l Ch e r yl Aach Wit h k a (AS) is Web designer under the name of communication from Rutgers working on a doctorate in school and Savage Candy Design. Un i v e r s i t y . clinical psychology. Jason Gior da n o (EN) moved to Daniel Magee (AS) recently was Seattle to work for Microsoft as an named coordinator of rec re a t i o n a l ’9 4 Anthony Albur qu e rq u e (AS) is an application development consultant. se r vices at Emory University, investment officer with the Glenmede Barbara M. Har ne d (MN) is Atlanta, GA. Trust Company in Princeton. assistant administrator and director of Tracy Rehman (B) is a unit manager Ro b e r t Barletta (AS) earned a patient care at Camden Medical of claims for AIG in Mt. Laurel . ma s t e r ’s in public policy from the Center in St. Mary’ s, GA. Ba r ry J. Roy (AS), after a year as a Eagleton Institute of Politics and Tara Nelson (E) is completing a clerk for two federal bankruptcy judges, works for the Marino Organization, a ma s t e r ’s in teaching and curri c u l u m is an associate with the law firm of Manhattan public relations firm. and has her reading specialist Nicolette & Perkins in Hackensack. Ch e r ylyn Dobr es (E) was prom o t e d ce r tificate from Penn State ’9 2 to supervisor of curriculum and Un i v e r s i t y . Cynthia Fontanez Baszkiewicz (E ) in s t r uction in the Rockaway Michelle Carlson-Neveling (E ) recently was promoted to supervi s o r Township public school system. recently became director of softball

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 operations for the Softball Factory in Laquidana ’97 plan to marry in July. Ri c h a r d Katz (AS) is an artist for the Columbia, MD. She married John L. Kimberly Knarr De Maria (E) is 3DO Company in Redwood City, CA. Ne v e l i n g ’8 6 (E) in 1997. working on a master’s in reading at Jennifer Lampmann (E) received a Jennifer Schino (AS) now has a Rutgers while teaching kinderga rt e n ma s t e r ’s in education from Wil l i a m ma s t e r ’s in counseling from TCNJ at Valley View School in Montville. Paterson University and teaches sixth and is a nationally certified counselor, Tara Dziedzic (AS) is pursuing an grade at West Brook Middle School working for Catholic Charities. MBA from Georgian Court College in Paramus. Noel Schlar ma n (AS) last year and is a special investigator for Cara Lento (AS) is a clinical res e a rc h ea r ned a master’s in health servi c e Pr udential Insurance in Holmdel. associate in speech and language administration from the University of Jeanice Horvath Edge (E) teaches pathology at the Indiana University Michigan School of Public Health. English in the Wayne school system. School of Medicine. She has a master’s Stephanie Ross W ei n s t e i n (E) and She is pursuing a master’s in English in the field from the University of her husband, Seth, live in fr om Montclair State University. No r th Carolina-Chapel Hill. Mo o r estown, where she teaches Lisa Albert Elker (N) received an Amy Levey (E) teaches second grade Spanish at Moorestown High School. MSN in psychology and mental in the Evesham Township schools in ’9 6 health nursing from Tem p l e Marlton, while studying for a master’s Lynn Regan Adams (E) teaches Un i v e r s i t y . at Rowan University. physical education and coaches in Colleen Farr el l (AS) expects to Heather Mann (AS) graduated from the East Brunswick public schools. graduate in May from UMDNJ New the Philadelphia College of Lynn is married to Michael Adams Jersey Medical School in Newark. Osteopathic Medicine. ’9 6 (E). She plans a residency in pediatrics. Jean Slayback Mantuano Ca r olyn Wal l a c e - A p p l e t o n (A S ) Tammy Franklin (E) is vice principal (AS) recently was named en r olled in the clinical and health of the KG Department at the assistant director of public and psychology PhD program at MCP American Creativity Academy in investor relations at Medarex. Hahnemann University, Philadelphia. Hawalli, Kuwait, where she lives with Laura Mar ch e s e (AS) is a Niki Arbittier (AS) received a JD her husband and three children . physical therapist at Robert and MBA from Temple University Joseph Galante (AS) received his Woo d Johnson Hospital in and is a tax attorney with Arth u r MD from Temple University in May Ha m i l t o n . Anderson in Philadelphia. 2000 and is a general surge r y res i d e n t Vincent Marini (AS) is Leah Ann Bagby (AS) works in at the University of Californi a - D a v i s pr esident of a film and video marketing and is a rec o r ding arti s t , Medical Center in Sacramento. pr oduction company having released a solo debut CD Dean Gar dn e r (AS) is an instruc t o r specializing in feature films, Heather Mann ’96 entitled 2 Humanity. for D.G. Driving School in Mt. co m m e r cials, and high-end Sh e r ri Lynn Bauerle (N) is head Arlington. Dean is successfully corporate videos. nurse at the state’s Ann Klein competing in the Garden State Eric Mar ti n s (AS) graduated from Fo r ensic Center in West Trenton. Masters Swimming Program. the University of Pennsylvania Law William Blackburn (A S ) Nicole Gar of o l a (AS) has graduated School and is an attorney at Drinker, received a master’s in fr om the Philadelphia College of Biddle & Shanley in Princeton. in t e r national transactions Osteopathic Medicine. Danielle Michele Mastrosimone (E ) fr om George Mason Kristen Ingling Hass (E) is a is a chiropractic intern trea t i n g University and is a telecom ki n d e rg a r ten teacher in Millville. outpatients in Buffalo, NY. She analyst for Science Julie Hampel Heinsohn (AS) is a expects to graduate from New Yor k Applications International in human res o u r ce generalist for TFH Ch i r opractic College this spring. Vienna, VA. Publications in Neptune, while Katie McGackin (N) is an RN at Melissa Vac c a r o Bonafede pursuing a master’s in human res o u rc e Ri v e r view Medical Center in Red (AS) graduated from Seton management at Rutgers. Bank, and working on a master’s Hall School of Law and is an John Hellyer (AS) received a de g r ee in nursing-midwifery at New at t o r ney for Zenith Goldlire ma s t e r ’s in vocal perfo r mance music York University. Ph a r maceuticals in North v a l e . fr om the New England Conserva t o r y, Christine Meng (E) teaches reading Gina Bothner (AS) moved and was a principal perfo r mer in in middle school in Rivervale and is Nicole Garofola ’96 to Redlands, CA, in 1999 and Gre a s e at the Carousel Dinner pursing a master’s at St. Peter’s College. is a rep o r ter for the San Berna rd i n o Th e a t r e in Akron, OH. Michael P. Myhre (B), married County Sun ne w s p a p e r . Tracy Howard (AS) is an audience to Donna Or os z ’9 6 (AS), is vice Lisa Bowers (E) is a special education co o r dinator for ABC television in pr esident of Myhre Builders in teacher for the Fairfax County school New York City. Ocean City. system in Alexandria, VA. Kristina Joyce (AS) completed a Bo n n i e - L ynn Nadzeika (A S ) Mike Dell (AS) is a therapist with doctorate in pharmacy at the received a master’s in museum the Mental Health Corporation of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & pr ofessions from Seton Hall and is De n v e r , CO. Mike received a master’s Science and is a pharmacist with the di r ector of the Morris County in social work from New Yor k U.S. Public Health Servi c e . Historical Society in Morri s t o w n . Un i v e r s i t y . Dione Kampa (AS) expects to Susan Maiolo Peck (N) graduated Daniel Delmonaco (B), a CPA, is a graduate this month with a PhD in with a master’s from Seton Hall in consolidations manager for AT&T in ch e m i s t r y from the University of the Wom e n ’ s Health Nurse Mo r ristown. He and Al y s s a De l a w a re . Practitioner Prog r a m .

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Dawn Pelletier (E) teaches seventh- of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Fo r est University Baptist Medical grade math in Secaucus public schools. while working for an MSN from Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Vincent Petr el l i (AS) graduated from TCNJ. She has a two-year-o l d ’9 7 Life University in Marietta, GA, and da u g h t e r , Megan Lorra i n e . Heather Ahelew (E) teaches fifth is a chiropractor with Horizon Health David Schwier (AS) practices law in grade for the Greenwich Tow n s h i p Ca r e Group in Sandy Springs. the office of Gary T. Jodha in Bo a r d of Education in Stewarts v i l l e . Kelly Pir et (E) is taking part in the Princeton Junction. Ma rg a r et Amos (E) and her husband, “P r oject Thistle” program in critical Ethan Shaw (B) is a business analyst Anthony Martin, both work at Hanoi thinking at Montclair State for CCH Legal Information Servi c e s In t e r national School in Hanoi, University while teaching in New York City, and is studying for Vietnam. He is deputy principal, ki n d e rg a r ten in the Newark public a master’s in information systems at while she teaches in the elementary school system. Stevens Institute of Tec h n o l o g y . grades. Both are studying for Lynn Neuweiler Powers (AS) is Kelly Geusamer States (AS) is a Pr i n c i p a l ’ s Certification at TCNJ’s pursuing a master’s in education at health and safety specialist for Ma l l o r ca site, and previously have TCNJ while teaching in Princeton University’s Department of taught at schools in the Bahamas, Hi l l s b o ro u g h . En v i r onmental Health and Safety. Syria, and Costa Rica. Michele Querub i n (N) is a Christine Tart a r o (AS) rec e i v e d La u r en Eileen Barbire (E) teaches pr eoperative nurse at the Hospital both a master’s and doctorate in seventh-grade science and social of the University of Pennsylvania criminal justice from Rutgers studies in Carlstadt. She is engaged to and is pursing a master’s at Un i v e r s i t y . ma r ry Je ff e r y Magnusson ’96 (B ) . MCP/Hahnemann Graduate School Ka r en Candy Terz i c h (E) and her An August wedding is planned. of Nursing. husband, Andrew , moved to Las Denise Birr er (E) teaches second Jane Regina (AS) is a senior designer Vegas, NV, where she teaches third grade at Village Elementary School in at St. Marti n ’ s Press in New Yor k grade and is pursuing a master’s in Princeton Junction. City and is studying acting at literacy at Lesley College. Danielle Kesselman Buckley (A S ) New York University. Umpapan Tra k o o n t r i p o p (AS) is an expects to earn her law degree this Kenneth S. Romm (B) changed Ar my medic based at Fort Bragg, NC. spring from Rutgers University ca r eer paths and works for Amy Connor Tyl e r (N) marri e d School of Law and plans to clerk in Kf o r ce.com, a professional staffi n g Randall Tyler in 1998 and is now a the appellate division of state company in Woo dbridge, as a pr eoperative coordinator at The Superior Court. Danielle marri e d di r ector in the accounting and Su rg e r y Center of Salem County. Timothy Buckley ’97 (AS) in 1999. finance departm e n t . Michael Wal l a c e (AS) received his Tim also is a Rutgers law school Chris Saraceni (AS) is a law degree from Rutgers University- graduate; he spent the past year mi c r obiologist at Pure Earth Camden and is a judicial law clerk in clerking in state Superior Court in En v i r onmental Laboratory in the state courts. Wood b u r y. Pennsauken, pursuing a master’s at Sandra Wee k s (MN) and her co- Je ff r ey Calli (AS) is a therapist at Thomas Jefferson University. authors published “Keys to Bowel the Family and Child Services of Denise Scarpinato (E) works at Success,” in Rehabilitation Nursing, Central New Jersey in Princeton. Hooper Avenue Elementary School Ma r ch/April 2000. She is the clinical Last year he opened a private practice in Toms River. nurse manager for the compreh e n s i v e in individual family and grou p Kami Altenburg Schaal (N) is an rehabilitation, acquired brain injury, co u n s e l i n g . RN at the Hospital of the University and transitional care units at Wak e

Tara Hendricksen ’95 (E) wed Tim Nelson in Oct. 1999. Kristen Ingling ’95 (E) wed Keith Hass June 24, 1999. weddings Jeannine Rooney ’95 (B) Thomas J. Della Piazza ’85 (B) Jennifer Peal ’93 (B) wed Peter Woolley Sept. 11, 1999. wed Anna Holbrook May 23, 1999. wed Kevin Renninger Dec. 9, 2000. Stephanie Ross ’95 (E) Bob Kenny ’87 (AS) Lisa DellaVecchia ’93 (E) wed Seth Weinstein October 24, 1999. wed Christine Tarbox June 24, 2000. wed Christian Young July 8, 2000. Cenona A. Taveras ’95 (AS) Kimberly Curry ’90 (AS) Michele Gomes ’94 (AS) wed Eric Beatty July 29, 2000. wed Scott Melski June 18, 1999. wed Edward Jassin July 22, 2000. Kathleen Thelen ’95 (E) Ca r ene Russell ’90 (AS) Danielle Marsiello ’94 (AS) wed Ian Diamond Oct. 22, 2000. wed Joe Kratzel, Jr. Sept. 11, 1999. wed Domenick Carofine ’93 (AS) Christine Bellotti ’96 (AS) Kimberly Tischner ’91 (AS) July 24, 1999. wed Joe Palumbo June 24, 2000. wed Mark J. Miller Oct. 28, 2000. Kimberly Stewart ’94 (AS) Jeanice Horvath ’96 Kimberly Belles ’93 (E) wed Karsten Bondy Oct. 15, 2000. wed Ryan Thomas Edge July 29,2000. wed Craig Robbins May 6, 2000. Kyle Swartz ’94 (AS) Kimberly Knarr ’96 (E) Ri c h a r d D’Alessandro ’93 (B) wed Tanja Shank March 4, 2000. wed Adam De Maria July 22, 2000. wed Sandra Magill Aug. 7, 1999. Kim Burdash ’95 (AS) Melissa Vac c a r o ’96 (AS) Pamela Nicolaysen ’93 (AS) wed Kyle Jason Molee Nov. 6, 1999. wed By r on Bonafede ’94 in October, 1999. wed Dr. Frans Zetterberg Dec. 4, 1999. Lara Cullingford ’95 (AS) John “Chip” Frescki ’96 (B) Cynthia Gizzi ’93 (E) wed Christopher Pate May 13, 2000. and Christina Cieplinski ’96 (B) wed Jeff Nudelman in Aug. 1999. wed Oct. 7, 2000.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Ca r yn Christiano (AS) is a administrator of the Borough of Megan Meyer (AS) last year rec e i v e d counselor at the Somerset Medical Waldwick in Bergen County. her master’s in psychology from Center in Somerville, while pursuing Antonella Bonfanti Franzen (AS) Temple University. a master’s in social work at Rutgers is a senior associate at Price Cara Migliaccio (AS) expects to Un i v e r s i t y . Wat e r house Coopers in Florha m graduate from the Rutgers University Ro b e r t Cimino (AS) is a student at Park. She married Ri c h a r d Franzen School of Law in Camden this spring. UMDNJ Robert Woo d Johnson ’9 5 (B) in 1999. Shannon Miller (AS) is a graduate Medical School and plans to graduate Dana Fraytak (AS) graduated from student in physical therapy at the in May 2002. Villanova University School of Law University of the Sciences in An d r ea Todd Coghill (E) enjoys her last year and is clerking in the Family Philadelphia. job teaching four-y e a r -olds in a Law Division of Mercer County Trisha Moller (E) is working toward Washington Township preschool. Superior Court. a doctorate in mathematics at Lehigh Jeanne Marie Coon (AS) completed David Gaynor (B) works as a Un i v e r s i t y . the 19th Annual Manhattan Island valuation analyst for Management Sunny May Montas (AS) graduated Marathon Swim in June 2000. She Planning in Princeton. fr om the University of North finished the 28.5-mile swim arou n d Jennifer Ger tz e n (AS) is pursuing Ca r olina School of Law. After the bar Manhattan in 9 hours, 45 minutes, a master’s at the University of exam she plans to ret u r n to the and 11 seconds. Ma ry l a n d - B a l t i m o r e School of Marine Corps where she holds the Ter esa Cristofaro (AS) is a child Social Wor k . rank of second lientenant. assistance counselor at High Justin Gingeleskie (B) is pursuing a Paul Natalizio IV (B) is a CPA and Mountain Elementary School in ma s t e r ’s in real estate at New Yor k is a consultant for Solution Strategists Franklin Lakes. University and is an assistant vice in Cranford. Kristine Dagastine (B) received her pr esident of sales and leasing for Michelle O’Neill (AS) is at CP A certificate and is a field auditor David Cronheim Commercial Columbia University Tea c h e r ’s for C/AHI in Mt. Laurel . Real Estate. College pursuing a master’s in clinical Amy Davis (AS) is an investigator Keira Hauck (AS) has her master’s and counseling psychology. for the New Jersey Election Law in social work from New Yor k Angela Pellin (AS) is a technology En f o r cement Commission, and University and is a licensed social su p p o r t coordinator at TCNJ and is attends Rutgers University-Camden wo r k e r . en r olled in Rutgers University- School of Law. Holly B. Heller (MN) (Post Master’s Camden School of Law. Ka t h r yn Joslin Dr eg e r (N) works at Ce r t. ’00) is employed by TCNJ Melissa Falkowski Pr ez i o s i (E) is the Cooper Health System in oral Health Services and gave birth to a pursuing a master’s degree in rea d i n g maxillofacial surge r y. son, Chase, June 7, 2000. and is a res o u r ce center teacher for Megan Finn (AS) is studying for an Alyssa M. Lieb (AS), a counselor in the Clifton Board of Education. MBA at Ramapo College, while the Bethlehem, PA, area school Elizabeth Raghunanan (A S ) working as a retail planner for district, recently completed a five- graduated from North Carol i n a Footstar/Meldisco in Mahwah. month exchange program with the Central School of Law in May 2000. Tara Fochesato (AS) received a Pu e r to Rico Department of Education. Michelle Rone (AS) is a doctoral ma s t e r ’s in public administration from Sarah Grace Lutton (AS) is pursuing candidate in clinical psychology at Ge o r ge Washington University and a master’s in music from Rider Wright State University and expects now is the assistant to the Un i v e r s i t y ’ s Westminster Choir to graduate next year. Co l l e g e . Jennifer Semanchik (EN) is a pr ogram manager for the Sarno f f Liliana Raymondi ’96 (B) David Gater ’98 (AS) Corporation in West Win d s o r . wed Jason D. Bradow Jan. 9, 2000. wed Rebecca Speltz (E) ’99 Nov. 20, 1999. Daniel D. Simon (E) is the K-12 Denise Scarpinato ’96 (E) Heather Hess Henderson ’98 (E) mathematics supervisor for the wed Joseph Luty July 29, 2000. wed Stephen John Henderson Scotch Plains Board of Education. Christopher Michael Sedelmaier ’96 Aug. 7, 1999. Lara Soltis (AS), a microbiologist for (AS) wed Maya Bogatch ’98 (AS) Oct. Catherine Sheffel ’98 (AS) Or tho-Clinical Diagnostics in 29, 2000. wed David Kenny Aug. 5, 2000. Raritan, is pursuing an MBA at Kristen Skoll ’96 (B) Marianne Donnelly ’99 (AS) Fairleigh Dickenson University. wed Scott Stefanowicz June 24, 2000. wed David Pustai ’99 (AS) July 22, 2000 . Stephanie Ton e t t a - S t a n k e r (N) is an Je ff e r y West ’96 (AS) Tanya Katherine Villagomez ’98 (AS) oncology nurse at the Hospital of the wed Suzanne Barnabie July 1, 2000. wed Joseph Barbella July 8, 2000. University of Pennsylvania, where Joanna R. Wilcox ’96 (E) Valerie Nisi ’99 (AS) she is also pursuing an NP degree . wed Christopher Faber Aug. 12, 2000. wed John O’Neill Aug. 26, 2000. Dawn Lowry Thompson (E) has Cindy Cicchino ’97 (E ) La r ry Ott ’99 (B) wed Joseph Esposito June 24, 2000. wed Donna Olshefski June 12, 1999. received a Fulbright Memorial Fund Melissa Falkowski ’97 (E) Charles W. Parks III ’99 (AS) aw a r d and will travel to Japan to study wed Dylan Preziosi August 14, 1999. wed Michelle A. Agnese ’99 (AS) its education system and culture. Christine McDevitt ’97 (N) Sept. 17, 2000. Cathleen Ven e s (B) is a financial wed Jonathan Burke Sept. 11, 1999 John Ramos ’99 (E) co n t r ol consultant for MetLife in Angela Pellin ’97 (AS) wed Vilma Acevedo Sept. 21, 2000. New York City and is pursuing an wed David Domen July 7, 2000. Anne M. Richardson ’00 (AS) MBA in information systems from Fa r rah Fiore ’98 (E) wed Chris Vitale Aug. 5, 2000 . Seton Hall University. wed Michael Walters ’98 July 22, 2000.

Bob Kenny ’87 and Christine Tarbox; Michele Gomes ’94 and Edward Jassin; Danielle Marsiello ’94 TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 and Domenick Carofine ’93; Lara Cullingford ’95 and Christopher Pate; Stephanie Ross ’95 and Seth Weinstein; Denise Scarpinato ’96 and Joseph Luty; Joanna R. Wilcox ’96 and Christopher Faber; Angela Pellin ’97 and David Domen; Melissa Falkowski ’97 and Dylan Preziosi. Mark Wal l a c e (B) received an MBA Michael Busa (B) is a semi-senior tax Amy Doher ty (E) is a graduate fr om Wagner College in Staten accountant at M.R. Weiser & Co. in student in Kean University’s school Island, NY. He is a management Ed i s o n . counselor education program and consultant for Price Wat e rh o u s e Stephanie Cadou (N) is employed as teaches kinderga r ten in Elizabeth. Coopers in Wayne, PA. a pediatric gastroe n t e r ology nurse Ra f faela Scotto Donnelly (B) is a tax Christine Yak a s k i (E) is an instruc t o r practitioner at Morristown Memorial compliance specialist at Ernst & at the Somerset County Tec h n i c a l Hospital. She recently published two Young in Iselin, while pursuing a Institute in Bridgewater. ar ticles: “Case Study of a School-Aged ma s t e r ’s in taxation at Seton Hall. ’9 8 Child with a Limp and Hip Pain,” in Kelly Dougher ty (AS) direc t s Jaclyn Altman (AS) last year earne d The Journal of Pediatric Health Care physical programs at the YMCA of a master’s in industrial and and “Infant Botulism: Do You Know Vineland, and is assistant coach of or ganizational psychology at Wes t the Facts?” in The Nurse Practitioner. wo m e n ’ s basketball at Richard Chester University. Gustavo Dantas (AS) received a Stockton College. Al f r ed F. Auletta (AS) now holds ma s t e r ’s degree in communication Ma rg a r et Dr oz d , who earned a post- the rank of lieutenant on the Tren t o n fr om the Annenberg School at the Ma s t e r ’s nursing certificate in 1998, Police Department, where he has University of Pennsylvania, where he published “Cultural Sensitivity in se r ved for 26 years. is a teaching assistant. Diabetes Care,” in the August 2000 Trisha Badishian (AS) is pursuing a Cr ystal Denlinger (AS) expects to issue of Home Health Care Management ma s t e r ’s in social work at Kean graduate from UMDNJ Medical & Pratice. She is a family nurse Un i v e r s i t y . School this spring. practitioner at Saint Peter’s University Mi l d r ed Baggottis (AS) is a Jyoti Desai (N) received her MSN Hospital in New Brun s w i c k . Dro z d caseworker for Medallion Care in and Family Nurse Practitioner works at The Health Center for Pennington. Ce r tification from TCNJ and is a staff Women and in Community Mobile Ro b e r t Baker (EN) is as a senior nurse at the Franklin Convalescent Health Services where she delivers engineer for General Atron i c s Center in Franklin Park. health care to the medically Corporation in Wyn d m o o r , PA. Gina DeSanti (N) works for Pediatric un d e r s e r ved in the community from a Kimberly Bent (B) is a senior Ur ology Associates in East 34-foot customized Winnebago van. investment operations rep re s e n t a t i v e Br unswick. She manages and Victoria Elliot (AS) is a network for Prud e n t i a l . implements the biofeedback prog r a m ar chitect for the I-Stat Corp. in East Christine Vitale Buckley (AS) is a for children with urinary Win d s o r , while pursuing a master’s in designer for Seton Hall University. incontinence. She is engaged to telecommunications and information Emily Budd (N) received her master’s Ro b e r t Oranchak and plans a June management at Polytechnic in the Wom e n ’ s Health Nurse we d d i n g . University in New York City. Practitioner Program at Seton Hall Michael Dillon (AS) received his Kristin Fahey (E) teaches first Un i v e r s i t y . She was the recipient of ma s t e r ’s in medieval history from the grade in Marlboro, while working the Liesel M. Hiemenz Fund and the University of Tor onto, and will to w a r d a master’s in reading at National Student Nurses’ Association pursue a doctorate at the University Rutgers University. Fund Scholarship. of Minnesota.

Rene Franchino Lintz ’90 (E) and husband, Charles: a son, Chad Robert, May 29, 2000. Ma r yBeth Enourato MacArthur ’90 (E ) and husband, Larry: a son, Nicholas Evan, new arrivals April 4, 2000. Kristi Owens Boyle ’80 (B) and husband, Ro b e r to Suarez, Jr. ’87 (EN) and wife, Denis: a daughter, Kayla Kathleen, April 6, Diane: a daughter, Caridad Noelle, Dec. Jennifer Vreeland Maney ’90 (E) and 2000. 27, 1999. husband, Michael ’91 (AS): a daughter, Ca r ol Baxter Markowitz ’83 (AS) and Cara Markowitz Altman ’88 (EN): and Allison Grace, Aug. 3, 2000. husband, Eric ’83 (AS): a son, Reed husband, Art: a daughter, Shannon Julia, Eric Cruz ’91 (AS) and wife, Moraima: Joseph, March 10, 2000. June 15, 2000. a son, Eric, Jan. 30, 2000. Cindy Cericola Aurilio ’84 (E): a Lynette D’Angiolillo Colligan ’88 (E ) Kathleen Hanlon Falletta ’91 (AS) and daughter: Alyssa Lynne, June 14, 2000. and husband, Patrick: a daughter, Bren n a husband, Thomas Joseph ’91 (AS): a son, Randi Borenstein Lombardozzi ’84 (E ) Elizabeth, Feb. 14, 2000. Thomas Joseph, Jr., May 8, 2000. and husband, Joseph: a daughter, Danielle Deitra Roessner Quinn ’88 (B) and Ro b e r t P. Goodall, Jr. ’91 (AS) and wife, Hannah, Aug. 26, 1999. husband, Michael: twin sons, Connor Wende: a son, Robert Paul III, April 29, Lydia Rojek ’84 (EN) and husband, Ken, Michael and Spencer Riley, June 19, 2000. 20 0 0 . a son, Philip Carl Michael, Aug. 9, 2000. Lisa Webster ’88 (E) and husband, Tim: Kathleen Covert Mininno ’91 (AS) and Thomas J. Della Piazza ’85 (B) and wife, a son, William Leonard, Jan. 30, 1999. husband, John: a daughter, Megan Patricia, Anna: twin daughters, Eva Victoria and Ha r ry Mansure ’89 and wife, Victoria: Jan. 25, 2000. Camille Elizabeth, Sept. 8, 2000. a son, Jake Joseph, April 6, 1999. Ba r ry J. Roy ’91 (AS) and wife, Angela: JoAnn Doerr Hussey ’86 (N) and Melissa Foster Cislak ’90 (AS), ’99 a son, Graham Thomas, Oct. 20, 2000. husband, Rick: a son, Andrew John, Dec. (MEd) and Ro b e r t Cislak ’90 (AS): Tobin Butler ’92 (B) and wife, Cristin: 29, 1999. a son, Kyle Steven, Feb. 4, 2000. a daughter, Victoria Elizabeth, May 30, Patricia Shay ’87 (N) and husband, Meg Cummings Crawley ’90 (AS), 20 0 0 . Brian Eggleston ’89 (EN) : a son, Clark MA ’92 and husband, Shawn ’90 (A S ) : Adrianne Canon ’92 (E) and husband, William, Nov. 8, 1999. adopted a son, John Peter Crawley, born Sean Pringle: a son, Matthew Robert, June 24, 2000. Ma r ch 27, 2000.

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Edie Goldbacher (AS) is pursuing a Melissa McBride (E) is a special Donna Morrell Peskin (B), a CPA, is PhD in clinical and health education teacher at Buena Regional an intermediate staff accountant for psychology at the University of High School in Buena, where she also Wilkens & Guttenplan, CPAs . Pi t t s b u rg h . coaches girls’ basketball and tennis. Kiran Poylangada (AS) is in his Christine M. Grabovich (AS) is Ryan Modri (E), who marri e d th i r d year at Temple University’s pursuing a master’s in English Stefanie Hawk ’98 (N), is a res e a rc h School of Podiatric Medicine. He li t e r a t u r e at Rutgers University. assistant at the Harva r d University and classmate Maria Ver onica Per ez Melissa Jachetti (E) teaches in the Graduate School of Education plan to marry in July. el e m e n t a r y grades at the Queen of the working on child development. Rya n Pamela Slicner (E) teaches first grade Universe School in Levittown, PA. was recently inducted into Kappa for the Woo dbridge Township Board Sh a r on Elizabeth Juliano (N ) Delta Pi, an International Education of Education and is a rea d i n g recently was promoted to lieutenant Honor Society. Stefanie is an RN at specialist graduate student at TCNJ. colonel in the Army Reserve and Massachusetts General Hospital. Amy Sparano (A S ) is a speech plans to enter graduate school to Lisa Muehleisen (AS) is a personal la n g u a g e therapist for the Morri s - become a Family Nurse Practitioner. trainer at Momentum Fitness in Union Joint Commission Kathleen Szewczyk Kenney (E) is a Princeton. In September, she took part Developmental Learning Center in ce r tified athletic trainer and teaches in AIDS Ride 2000, a 275-mile New Prov i d e n c e . at Abington Junior High School in bicycle race from Boston to New York. Stacey Peterson T ra i n a (AS) is Abington, PA. Leslie J. Nazarian (N) is an RN at as s i s t a n t data management Al b e r t Kor mo n d y (AS) spent last Valley Hospital in Ridgewood and is co o r dinator for Merck in Rahway. summer in Ireland doing res e a r ch for engaged to marry classmate Da n Tanya Vil l a g o m e z (AS) received a a master’s in history at the University Trol a r o. graduate certificate in proj e c t of Colorado-Boulder. Scott Newland (E) moved with wife, management from Stevens Institute Suzanne Kuzniacki (N) is health Sh e l i a (MEd), to Lesotho in southern of Technology and is a graphics se r vices coordinator at U. S. Steel in Africa to be director of the American co o r dinator for Ingersoll-Rand in Fairless Hills, PA. School of Lesotho. Wood c l i f f Lake. Michele Landa (B), is a staff Erin O’Brien (AS) is pursuing a Fa r rah Fiore W al t e r s (E) is a special accountant for Foley, Inc. in ma s t e r ’s in social work at Rutgers. education teacher at Bridgewater- Pi s c a t a w a y , and is pursuing the CPA Ri c h a r d Pepe (E) teaches seventh Raritan Regional High School. ce rt i f i c a t i o n . grade at Wil l i n g b o r o Memorial Junior Stacey War d (E) is working on a Faith Maa (E) taught English at High School in Wil l i n g b o ro . ma s t e r ’s at Maryg r ove College while Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, Anthony Per no (AS) is proj e c t teaching math at Greater Egg Harbor China in 1998-1999 and now is on manager for the Cooper’s Ferry Regional High School District in the faculty at the Chinese Christian Development Association in Camden Mays Landing. Schools in San Leandro, CA. and is engaged to Shannon Miller Jill Wat s o n (E) received a master’s in ’9 7 (AS). occupational therapy from Thomas Je f ferson University in December.

John Goll ’92 (B) and wife, Danielle: a William Frenick ’93 (EN) and wife, Diane: Ro b e r t Petry ’94 (EN) and wife, St a c y son, Brian Christopher, Sept. 12, 2000. two daughters, Jenna and Jillian, Jan. 18, Jurkiewicz Petry ’95 (AS): a son, Gordo n Kimberly Gandy Jinks ’92 (AS) and 20 0 0 . Charles, Jan. 31, 1999. husband, Matthew: a son, Chadd Stephanie Brooks Kohnke ’93 (B) and Tammy Simons Sullivan ’94 (E) and Ma t t h e w , May 3, 2000. husband, Matt: a son, Jonathan Michael, husband, Stephen ’94 (AS): a daughter, Chip Meyer ’92 (E) and wife, July 16, 2000. Emily Bridget, June 2, 2000. Ma ry t h e r ese: a daughter, Erin Eileen, Suzanne Mount Lucas ’93 (B) and Susan Snyder Thompson ’94 (N) and Sept.18, 1999. husband, Brian: a son, Zachary Paul, June husband, Jasen: a daughter, Abigale Rose, Christina Supko ’93 (AS) and husband, 13, 2000. Oct. 22, 1999. Thomas ’92 (EN): a son, Thomas Christy Schwager ’93 (B) and husband, Rejina Habrack Hendrickson ’95 (A S ) An d re w , Aug. 3, 2000. David ’93 (AS): a son, Ryan David, May 4, and husband, Daryle ’94 (EN): a son, Ma r y Aromando ’93 and husband, 20 0 0 . Daniel Christopher, March 31, 2000. An d r ew ’91 (B): a daughter, Fiona Eileen, Joseph Williams ’93 (AS) and wife, Patricia Naylor Dougan ’96 (B) and No v . 25, 1999. Jennifer: a daughter, Madelynn Marie, husband, Peter: a son, Thomas Patrick, in Tar yn Simons Bostjancic ’93 (AS) and April 22, 2000. May 1999. husband, John ’93 (AS): a son, Matthew Alison Moyer Gray ’94 (AS) and Heather Alyson Hardy Hine ’96 (A S ) John, July 3, 2000. husband, Gary: a son, Alexander David, and husband, Bill: a daughter, Alyson Ri c h a r d D’Alessandro ’93 (BS) and wife, Aug. 19, 2000. Grandson of Ma rg a re t Paige, Aug. 9, 2000. Sandy: a son, Luke Harrison, Aug. 1, 2000. Heisler Moyer ’63 (B) MEd ’77, and Michelle Shannon Morgan ’96 (AS) and Dennis Moyer MEd ’7 8 , EdS ’86. Debra H. Patterson Carmody ’93 (B ) husband, Ryan: a son, Brendan Alexander, and husband, Dennis ’92 (AS): a son, Cherie Myers ’94 (N) and husband, Bill: a July 8, 2000. William Donald, Sept. 26, 2000. da u g h t e r , Stephanie Lauren, June 28, 2000. Je ff r ey Calli ’97 (AS) and wife, Staci: a Ka r en Zimmer-Fazi ’93 (E) and husband, Patti Paladino ’94 (B) and husband, son, Benjamin Stephen, April 3,2000. Je f f Fazi ’93 (B): a son, Jake Richard, Michael ’94 (B): a son, Edward Joseph, Kathleen Mikalsen ’99 (E) and husband, Sept. 20, 2000. May 28, 2000. Ed w a r d: a daughter, Melissa Elizabeth, Danielle Worbel Fish ’93 (AS) and Beth Amato Pekar ’94 (EN) and husband, Ma r ch 13, 2000. husband, William: a son, Mason Wil l i a m , Joseph: a daughter, Josie Kathryn, John Ramos ’99 (E) and wife, Vilma: April 10, 2000. Feb. 17, 2000. a son, Justin, Feb. 9, 2000.

Kayla Kathleen, daughter of Kristi Owens Boyle ’80 and Denis Boyle; Lucas and Danielle, daughter of Randi BorensteinTCNJ Lombardozzi Magazine ’84 / Spring 2001 and Joseph Lombardozzi; Nicholas Evan, son of MaryBeth Enourato MacArthur ’90 and Larry MacArthur; Erin Eileen, daughter of Chip Meyer ’92 and Marytherese Ryan Meyer; Chadd Matthew, son of Kimberly Gandy Jinks ’92 and Matthew Jinks; Alexander David, son of Alison Moyer Gray ’94 and Gary Gray; Abigale Rose, daughter of Susan Snyder Thompson ’94 and Jasen Thompson. Christie Zdanowicz (AS) is Kevin Dailey (E) moved to San Kevin LoGrande (AS) is a systems corporate staff assistant to the Diego, CA to attend Californi a specialist for Merck in Rahway. pr esident and general manager of the Wes t e r n School of Law. Debra Maruca McMire (N) is a New Jersey Devils prof e s s i o n a l Linda Hasrato Depew (E) teaches family nurse practitioner for Delaware hockey team. English at Hamilton High School Valley Pediatrics Associates in ’9 9 West in Hamilton. La w r enceville. Helen Austin (MEd) is Patricia Ditillio (E) earned a master’s Se r ge Mezhburd (AS) expects to superintendent of the Mazapan in Wom e n ’ s Studies from Rutgers graduate next year from NYU’s School in La Cieba, Honduras. She Un i v e r s i t y , and tutors at the School of Law. is pursuing a doctorate in education Princeton Learning Center. Kate Munning (AS) is pursuing a fr om the University of Bath in Jacqueline Drach (AS) is a quality ma s t e r ’s in English at the University En g l a n d . assurance specialist for Arth u r of Maryl a n d . Sammy Battista (AS) is assigned to An d e r s o n in Philadelphia, while Valerie Nisi O’Neill (AS) produ c e s the Governo r ’s Security Unit of the pursuing a master’s in English from television programs and corporate New Jersey State Police. Rutgers University-Camden. videos for Morgan Stanley Dean Renee Bianchi (E) teaches health Gina Elkoury (AS) completed her Witter in New York City. and physical education in first year at American University’s Joy Onz (AS) is a family coordi n a t o r Robbinsville. Washington College of Law and is for the Millhill Child & Family Ca r rie Bise (B) is a quality assurance pursuing a master’s in Interna t i o n a l Development Corporation in analyst for Hewitt Associates in Af fairs at the A.U. School of Trenton. Joy also is pursuing a Br i d g e w a t e r . She and Jason Torc h i o In t e r national Service. ma s t e r ’s in social work at Rutgers. ’9 6 ar e planning an October wedding. Nicole Flor en t i n o (B) is working Anthony Owens (AS) is a Eric Bor gh (AS) is pursuing a to w a r d both a law dreg r ee and MBA multimedia designer for Peterson’s ma s t e r ’s in percussion perfo r mance fr om Stetson University College Guides in Lawrenceville, and is at Mannes College of Music in of Law. studying interactive telecom- New York City. Robin F. Gwiazdowski (AS) of munications at New York University. Marlene Br oo k e r (AS) is a junior Bogota is attending the Vir ginia Tec h Nirav Patel (B) is pursuing a master’s account executive for SpotCo. College of Vet e r i n a r y Medicine, in information systems at Stevens Ad v e r tising and has done adverti s i n g Bl a c k s b u r g. Institute of Technology and is a for such recent New York produ c t i o n s Melissa Hayward (AS) is enrolled at network administrator for PSE&G as The Vagina Monologues, Fu l l y UM D N J - R o b e r t Woo d Johnson in Newark. Committed, an d Di r ty Blonde. Medical School in Piscataway. Thomas Picinich (AS) is working on Ma r yann Br ow n (E) is a learni n g Debra Heim (N) lives in Marlton, a master’s at John Jay College of disabilities teaching consultant in NJ and works in the High Risk Criminal Justice. Wil l i n g b o ro . Ma t e r nity Unit at Thomas Jeffe r s o n Melissa Rodriguez (B) is an Jessica Bystrak (N) lives in San University Hospital in Philadelphia. administrative analyst for the Francisco, where she works at Kaiser Beth Herbeck (E) is a sixth-grade Woo dbine Developmental Center in Pe rm a n e n t e . special education teacher for the Woo dbine and is an elected member Patrick Carr ol l (EN) is pursuing a Woo dbridge Township Board of of the Woo dbine Board of Education. ma s t e r ’s in engineering management Education. Michael Rumola (AS) graduated fr om Drexel University while Victoria Hogan (B) is an assistant fr om the FBI national academy in working in the operations leadership pr oject manager at Informa t i o n June 2000 and is operations officer of development program for Lockheed Re s o u r ces in Fairfield. the Manalapan Police Departm e n t . Ma r tin in Moorestown. Frances Housten (AS) is studying for Cl a i r e Salerno (E) teaches health Thomas Casazza (AS) is a sales a master’s in library science at Rutgers and physical education and coaches manager for De Sisti Lighting and Un i v e r s i t y . swimming in Montgomery Tow n s h i p is engaged to Jen Graham ’01 . Liza Kosciuch (AS) is an interactive public schools. They plan a June wedding. indexer for Factiva in South Michael A. Saperstein (A S ) is a Vanessa Chianese (B) is a financial Bru n s w i c k . marketing specialist with Miele Inc. analyst for Goldman Sachs in Diane LaFontaine , who earned a in Princeton, responsible for crea t i n g New York City. school nurse certificate in 1999, marketing materials for the entire Jennifer Sommovigo Clugsten (N) is works with the Neptune Tow n s h i p US market. a neonatal intensive care unit nurse Bo a r d of Education. Lyndsay Schaef fe r (AS) is a graduate at Children ’ s Healthcare of Atlanta Jennifer M. Letki (AS) is pursuing a assistant at the University of at Scottish Rite. ma s t e r ’s in English and American Cincinnati Medical Center where she Yetta Concina (N) now holds the st u d i e s at Johann Wolfgang Goethe is pursuing a PhD in microb i o l o g y . rank of second lieutenant in the U. S. Universitat, Frankfurt, Germa n y . Kim Scharof f (AS) is a speech Arm y , stationed in the Republic of Michael Levitt (AS) is a third- y e a r pathologist for the Hopewell Val l e y South Korea. After her tour in Korea , student at UMDNJ Medical School. Regional School District in she will be stationed in Tri p l e r He published a paper with Ad h a r Pe n n i n g t o n . Medical Center, Hawaii. Seth ’98 and Dr. Nicholas Ingologlia Christine Marie Scior ti n o (E ) Gina Cros s (E) teaches at the in Ne u ro re p o r t entitled, “Oxidative teaches music to students in grades K- De p a r tment of Defense Dependents St r ess Increases Ubiquitin Conjugates 2 at Village School in Holmdel. School in Seoul, South Korea . in Synaptosomes.”

TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Sarah Scott (E) recently received a Latoya Jackson (AS) works at Ma u r een Zampella (MN) is a family ma s t e r ’s in language and literacy from New Horizons in Autism located nurse practitioner with Central Jersey Ha rv a r d University. in Neptune. Pediatric Associates, a group private Christina Sheridan (E) is pursuing a Erika Lor en z (B) is an advisory practice in Somerset. ma s t e r ’s in math and science desk specialist for Merrill Lynch in education while teaching eighth- Pl a i n s b o r o. Key to TCNJ academic schools graders at Gateway Regional High Debra McMire (MN) is employed used in the Alumni notes: School in Wood b u r y Heights. by Delaware Valley Pediatric AS Ar ts and Sciences Sarah Sundell (AS) is in her second Association, a group private practice B Bu s i n e s s year at Yale School of Law. Last in Lawrence Tow n s h i p . E Ed u c a t i o n summer she worked for Pine Tree Dayna Mennen (E) teaches biology EN Engineering (formerly Tec h n o l o g y ) Legal Assistance in Bangor, ME, at Hopewell Valley Regional High N Nu r s i n g handling domestic violence cases in School in Hopewell Tow n s h i p . the Native American unit. Jessy Palamattan (AS) is a medical denotes anniversary classes Francine Ungar te n (AS) is an student at SUNY Health Science account coordinator for Avenues in Center in Brooklyn. Wh a t ’ s new with you? New addres s ? Leather in Tinton Falls. In any spare Nikhil Patel (AS) is pursuing a New job? New addition to the family? time, she is a competitive biathlete. doctorate in pharmacy at the Sh a r e your news with classmates and Melissa Verh e e c k (E) is engaged to University of Michigan. friends by sending a note (along with Brian Wei s ’97 (AS), and plans to Jenine Obidzienski (E) teaches a daytime phone number or e-mail wed in July. fo u r th grade in Manalapan. ad d r ess just in case we need to clarify Ma r c Vog t m a n (B) is a marketing Ca r rie Rozanski (E) teaches seventh- anything) to: analyst for BMG Direct in New Yor k grade language arts at Thomas Alumni Office, The College of Ci t y . Hopkins Middle School in New Jersey, P.O. Box 7718, Ewing, David Wal s h (AS) teaches Bu r l i n g t o n . NJ 08628-0718. in s t r umental music at Leonia Middle Kristen Rusak (EN) is a team leader 609/771-2393 or 1/800/347-9621. Sc h o o l . for sales and marketing support for e-mail: [email protected] Anita Wendel Wal t o n (AS) marri e d Johnson & Johnson. David Walton ’92 (AS) in 1999, and Kristi Seeger (E) teaches fourth Photos submitted will be ret u r ned if teaches music in Ewing Tow n s h i p grade at the Conover Road School clearly identified and accompanied by sc h o o l s . in Colts Neck. a stamped, self-addressed envelope. ’0 0 Tammy Thomas (AS) is an All submissions for the fall issue must Laura Bligh (AS) is enrolled in the admissions and financial aid counselor be received by June 15, 2001. ma s t e r ’s program for speech and at St. Thomas Aquinas College in language pathology at North w e s t e r n Sparkill, NY. Un i v e r s i t y . Sean Thompson (AS) is an associate Danielle Helen Bonanno (E) is a analytical chemist for Schering- res o u r ce room teacher for fourth- and Plough in Union. fifth-grade students, teaching Christine Vol k a y (AS) is a defined replacement math, reading, language benefits associate at PriceWat e rh o u s e ar ts and study skills at Pine Broo k Coopers in Fort Lee. School. Katie Briant (N) works at Hunterdo n Family Practice in Flemington. In Memoriam Kimberly Callaert (AS) teaches Katharine Silvers W en t z e l ’2 0 Leota Stringham Dyer ’5 1 seventh-grade math at Olsen Middle Gladys Scinski ’2 5 Ha r ry Martin Johnson ’5 1 School in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Ma rg a r et G. Burr ou g h s ’32 Au d r ey M. Harker ’5 5 Lisa Campise (E) teaches high school Marjorie Simonson Gir th ’3 4 Ed w a r d Carter Sutterly ’5 6 math in Englishtown for the Free h o l d Helen D. Shaw ’36 Ca r mella Coppolla Kingston Regional School District. John Dilson ’3 7 Wort h i n g t o n ’56 Shana Cannela (AS) is a graphic Marian Arthur Dilson ’3 7 Be rn a r d J. Olivieri ’5 8 designer with DesignWrite in Al b e r ta L. Jewell ’37 Ca r ol C. Wis e m a n ’5 8 Pr i n c e t o n . Stephen Poliacik ’3 7 Thomas Meirs ’5 9 Lynne Capik (N) works at Hunterdo n William E. Miller ’3 8 Catherine A. Muehlbauer ’6 0 Ca r diovascular Associates. H. Jennifer Har tm a n ’6 2 Lisa Dor nb a c h (AS) is pursuing a Lewis A. Bilancio ’3 9 PhD in biology at UCLA. Ed w a r d K. Warn e r ’3 9 James M. T uo z z o l o ’6 5 Kathleen E. Grif fi s (MN) works Melvin Chew ’4 0 Be r tha Pullen Jennings ’6 7 in the homecare department at Grace Halsey Cooper ’4 0 Mu r rell T. Wat k i n s ’6 9 The Medical Center at Princeton. Helen Many ’4 5 Ge o r ge Garaventa ’7 2 Jodie Har ri n g t o n (AS) teaches Ma rg a r et Solinsky ’4 5 Steven J. Wilfingm Sr. ’7 3 Spanish at Parsippany Hills High Gloria E. Fried ’46 Russell Litar ow i c h ’7 6 Sc h o o l . Ge o r ge Chilakos ’5 0 Samuel Moultrie Sr. ’80 John D. McW il l i a m s ’5 0

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TCNJ Magazine / Spring 2001 Miss Decker ’s Tea

LiThe ghosto of Miss Vernetta Deckern’sTamight well Miss Decker would hold teas for selectedl groupse have raised a disapproving eyebrow when Mary Lu on special occasions, such as a welcoming for first- Gardner ’40 walked into the drawing room of Allen year girls, or a pre-Christmas holiday tea, or a House during last fall’s Homecoming to attend the gathering for music students at which she would twenty-fifth annual celebration of Miss Decker’s Tea. arrange for a string quartet to perform. Mrs. Gardner had forgotten to wear her hat. “We Graduates now in their 70s and 80s recall Miss laughed about it,” she explained later, admitting she De c k e r ’s teas with mixed feelings. Agnes Stillwell ’39 , never would have made light of such a faux pas when who lives in Pennington, was a physical education she participated in the teas over which the legendary major at the time and did not count herself or many dean of students presided from 1937 to 1957. of her friends among Miss Decker’s “favorites.” “She was conditioning all of us as to the need to She did not attend a tea. wear a hat, white gloves, and our Sunday clothes,” Neither, apparently, did the few men on campus; Mrs. Gardner recalled. “About four times a year she at least Mrs. Gardner does not recall seeing one at would announce there would be a tea at four o’clock tea during her years in Allen House. “Lots of us on a certain day and we were expected to be there cared for her and respected her immensely,” she said. and, mostly, we didn’t resent it.” But the men? “They didn’t like her,” she said. Mrs. Gardner served as a house counselor in Still, most students understood Miss Decker was Allen House, which then was under Miss Decker’s educating the young women, most of whom were the su p e r vision. She knew her first in their families ever to better than most students attend college, in the social and came to understand that graces of successful, beneath the formal and educated members of demanding exterior was a society. Mrs. Gardner and compassionate and dedicated her housemates were te a c h e r . But, she said, Miss expected to—and did— Decker did not stand for listen carefully as Miss “any nonsense,” a term that Decker directed the making included, for example, of sandwiches the day spending time alone with before, arranging the tea a young man on the porch service on a table, serving of the dormi t o r y. the guests, and making Elinor Pressel ’59 , them feel at home with another who attended the pleasant conversation. Homecoming tea, recalled As usual, all alumni are that one of Miss Decker’s invited to continue the oft-repeated guiding tradition at the twenty- principles was “When sixth annual Miss Decker’s skin touches skin, there’s Tea at the Oct. 27 bound to be sin.” Homecoming.

Elizabeth Drew Falconer ’59 certainly would have made Miss Decker proud.

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