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You are a part of One And All. To date, we have raised 97% of One And All’s ambitious $80 million goal.
What does that mean for Drew and our students? More scholarships, fellowships and internship funds, new research and supervised ministry opportunities, the renovated Ehinger Center and Hall of Sciences and so much more! At a time when giving to Drew is at an all-time high, we have one important goal to reach: increasing alumni participation. So here’s a new challenge—our BIGGEST one yet: If we hit 28% alumni participation by June 30, an alumni couple will kick in $200,000 to help meet the campaign’s $80 million goal. That’s the One And All Challenge. Meet the Challenge. Make your gift by June 30. All it takes is One And All. drew.edu/challenge CHALLENGE LESS SITTING. MORE DOING. THINK OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM This issue explores the many ways Drew students benefit from experiential learning opportunities that often take them far from the comforts of The Forest. One feature highlights new and enhanced intern- ships made possible by donors who support the One And All campaign. Another focuses on the cross-cultural experience that is a cornerstone of the Theological School curriculum. And another demonstrates how Drew’s research-based science programs launch graduates toward professional success. Collectively, our stories and photographs under- score Drew’s signature culture: Less sitting. More doing.
Drew students enrolled in the New York Semester on Communications and Media visit the Made in NY Media Center in Brooklyn.
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Spring 2016 I Contents
DREW MAGAZINE Volume 43, No. 1, Spring 2016
PRESIDENT MaryAnn Baenninger, PhD VICE PRESIDENT FOR 64 COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Michelle Kim C’16— Kira Poplowski, PhD actress, dancer, intern, scholar—talks back. VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT Kenneth Alexo, Jr., PhD
GUEST EDITOR Christopher Hann
ART DIRECTOR Margaret M. Kiernan
MANAGING EDITOR Kristen Daily Williams C’98
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Peter Heineck, Rizco Design, Melanie Shandroff
PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Lynne DeLade C’12 6 EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Donor-supported Risa Barisch, Matt Choquette, Kevin Coyne, internships allow Andrew McMains, Kimberly Mollo, Amy Motzenbecker, legions of Drew Shannon Mullen, Renée Olson, Leslie Garisto Pfaff students to learn on the job. 40 WEBMASTER Meet Linus, the Justin Jackson C’05 doggone cutest creature on ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS campus. Robert Benacchio C’98, president, College Alumni Association Don Wahlig T’09, president, Theological School Alumni Association
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2 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Mead 207 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
As I near the end of my second full year in The Forest, I have begun to feel like I really know this great University. Drew’s learning-by-doing culture is While I still have the pleasure and excitement of discovering built on intrinsic opportunities, from a first-year class trip to NYC, to the Wall Street Semester, to study abroad something new about Drew’s history, or meeting accomplished programs—and everything in between. alums for the first time, I feel at home here already, and I am very clear on what makes Drew special.
ne of those things is the quality and pervasive- tower” education, disconnected from the so-called “real outside of Drew. Aspiring public servants and attorneys ness of learning opportunities that take place world,” and unsuited for preparing students for the life of have managed actual ongoing or special projects in the outside the confines of the traditional classroom. work and career. Borough of Madison. Dozens of students over the years O These criticisms of higher education have merit, but have interned on Wall Street. And the list goes on… We’ve become so accustomed to hearing about this kind of learning, with overused phrases like “experiential learning” they are also short-sighted. A student who spends four or The experiences happen through authentic—not and “engaged learning” or definitions that describe the form more years getting her undergraduate degree in a vacuum artificial—routes just as they happen in the world of work, of outside-the-classroom work—internships, undergraduate is very likely to struggle with the transition to work and through productive networking, apprenticeships, fellow- research, civic engagement, practicum, study abroad—that career. Conversely, a student who is trained only for a ships, assistantships and in many cases, stiffly competitive we take little time to reflect on why these forms of learning specific career will be severely limited to that profession processes. They are why 100 percent of recent Drew are exemplary, especially combined with classroom learning, throughout his career. alumni and alumnae are There is another answer, firmly “situated” within six reflection and other forms of faculty mentoring. I expected Drew to be I speak with authority on this subject. I feel mildly embar- another path, and it is reflected months after graduation, rassed to toot my own horn, but I do it to make clear that in how our students learn at good at this kind of learning. What in the first jobs of their
I’ve spent much of my career promoting this kind of learning Drew. The terms I like to use “ careers, in highly competi- I found instead is greatness, and what
and dissecting its attributes. In 2013 I received the national for this kind of learning are tive graduate programs and President’s Award for Excellence in Experiential Education authentic, grounded, con- I believe to be a national model for a few in carefully selected President Baenninger, here with Adam nected and seamless. By the “ and prestigious post- Oppegaard C’19, working with Morris from the National Society for Experiential Education. I came preparing students in all three schools Habitat for Humanity. to Drew on the heels of winning that award, and my stan- time a Drewid graduates, she baccalaureate volunteer dards were very high. I expected Drew to be good at this kind or he must feel comfortable for a seamless transition between their settings, like Peace Corps of learning. What I found instead is greatness, and what I in the world of work, and should degrees and meaningful careers. and Teach For America. believe to be a national model for preparing students in all feel overprepared relative to Every step of the way our three schools for a seamless transition between their degrees peers in a graduate school setting. students are accompanied and meaningful careers. A phrase I use often is that this kind For our graduates, the first job interview comes after dozens on their journey by faculty mentors who serve as guides, of learning is found in the DNA of Drew University. of authentic preparatory experiences: interviewing for several as sages, as “Yodas” along the route. But the words “experiential” and “engaged” are so over- internships, “speed-mentoring” with local executives or sitting Our faculty support students in grounded, authentic used that we don’t stop and reflect on what they mean, or on the other side of the interview table in the context of a and seamless experiences that aren’t just in preparation how or why these practices transform learning. To under- civic engagement placement. A newly minted science grad for the real world, they are in the real world. That is what stand this, it’s easiest to describe what most college and walks into the lab after having worked side by side with a this issue of Drew Magazine is about. It is also about university educations don’t do, and why some perceive that mentor-colleague among our faculty, and likely has presented the very generous donors who support our students there is a crisis in education. or published her or his work in peer-reviewed publications or in these pursuits. Drew has inspired them to “pay it Connected to this is the perception that the kind of education conferences. Aspiring actors have auditioned for many—and forward,” and we are deeply, deeply grateful. appeared in some—productions in professional theatres —MaryAnn Baenninger
one receives at Drew—a liberal arts education—is an “ivory Lynne DeLade C’12. Facing page, Bill Cardoni
4 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 5 HELP WANTED. WISH GRANTED. Each year hundreds of Drew students gain practical, tangible experience in the field with the support of an invaluable collection of funded internships, many made possible by the One And All campaign.
6 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 7 Bill Cardoni Investing in Futures Drew’s internship funds extend across the campus, supporting students in the College of Liberal Arts as well as in the Theological School and the Caspersen School. The One And All campaign, which to date has raised more than $78 million, has bolstered those funds significantly. Donations from alumni and friends have enhanced existing funds, such as the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Internship, and created new ones, such as the Margaret E.L. “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service and the College Class of 1960 Internship. Many of the funds are tailored to help students in particular fields—science or theatre, health care policy or environmental studies, government or journalism, to name a few. Others support students involved in civic engagement, academic research or social justice. The Margaret and Marshall Bartlett Research Fellowship Fund provides funding to Caspersen students for research into historical topics “designed to promote world peace and to prevent terrorism and genocide.” The Thomas D. Sayles, Jr. Internship Award is reserved for students who might otherwise be unable to accept an unpaid internship. The internship funds can be crucial, says John Warner, an emeritus professor of English in whose honor the John M. Warner Writing Internship was created, “since many internships aren’t paid jobs, which makes it difficult for students to support themselves while interning.” The internships enable students to explore potential jobs and JOHN DABROWSKI C’12 attain skills far beyond those learned in the classroom. George discovered his passion for music at Hayward, who recently helped establish the College Class of 1960 Drew, where he joined WMNJ, the Internship, notes that interning “can broaden your horizons and may University’s student-run radio station. even lead to a whole new career.” His own Drew internship at the Then a series of three internships opened a vista for him onto the music Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute led to two summer jobs there business and the role he might play that he prizes to this day. Though Hayward later became a university in it. Those internships, he says, allowed admissions director and fundraiser, the natural sciences remained him “to take music as a passion point a lifelong passion. and transition to a career.” Genevieve Monty C’15 Through internships, says Margaret “Peggi” Howard, Drew’s As a recipient of two Thomas D. former vice president of administration and university relations and Sayles, Jr. Internship Awards and a Monty always wanted to work in advertising, so when she learned about an internship in Fox TV’s the namesake of a new internship fund for leadership and service, John M. Warner Writing Internship, marketing department from Drew’s career center, she applied immediately. “The best way to build your “students learn about the world of work—and about the world itself.” Dabrowski interned with three music résumé is to have names on it that people can recognize,” Monty says. On the following pages we profile seven Drew students and powerhouses: Sony Music, Universal A recipient of the McEvoy Internship for students interested in media, publishing and communications, graduates whose internships gave them invaluable on-the-job training. Music Group and Warner Music Group. Monty understood that experience in marketing would be an asset when interviewing for jobs in advertising. The experience helped him discover Because the internship was unpaid, the McEvoy funds helped defray the cost of commuting, which involved a fascination for developing and pro- a train into Manhattan and the subway to Rockefeller Center. “I was able to use my own money for food and moting new musical talent. These days school supplies,” she says, “instead of putting it toward the commute.” Dabrowski works as a marketing man- ager at Sony’s ’stache media, where he interned as a sophomore. Bill Cardoni, courtesy Genevieve Monty C’15
8 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 9 INTERN Patrick Keough C’15
The Ripple Effect The internship GLAAD (formerly known as the How far can an internship fund go? In just the past few years the Mary Hepburn Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Internship in Civic Engagement has enabled Drew students to teach art classes to disabled Defamation) students, aid homeless children, apprentice with a municipal engineering office, work The job with the Red Cross and assist diplomats at the United Nations. Helping to advance the group’s faith-based initiatives.
INTERN Sofia Madrigal C’14 The Hepburn Internship program“ enabled me to discern THE DONOR Mary Hepburn C’54 The internship future plans and take risks Permanent Mission of Costa in the real world while still Rica to the United Nations being supported by the As a political science major at Drew, Hepburn was urged by a nurturing Drew community.” professor to get in touch with a local agency or elected body The job “to make political science live for us.” The experience stayed with Assisting diplomats from the ( photo to come ) her, eventually prompting her to sponsor the internship fund Costa Rican Foreign Service. established in her name. The fund, made in part to honor Drew political science professor Robert Smith and his wife, Lois, is The internship was designed to support internships involving substantive engagement a“ great opportunity for me with the community beyond the campus. “I believe that being to learn about the United immersed in a community activity for a long enough period Nations, how it works and of time adds immeasurably to your understanding of how a what it’s like to be there community or a government works,” Hepburn says. as a representative. It’s definitely a place I’d like to work someday.”
INTERN Devyn Lopez C’16 INTERN Taylor Tracy C’17 The internship American Red Cross The internship INTERN Jeffrey Van Grouw C’17 The Adult School of the The job Chathams The internship Secretary for the youth Village of Ridgewood services director; helped The job Engineering Division monitor and coordinate the Processing class proposals activities of Red Cross high from instructors in the The job school clubs throughout registration system and editing File maintenance and police the greater New York area. proofs of the catalog. accident reports, accident mapping, building code inspections, field inspections, public relations, com- I not only gained My internship munity utility mark-outs, surveying valuable“ life and business helped“ me view myself as skills like networking and and a budget research project. someone who could go into working in an office, but an organization and work I was also able to become independently, helping both I got to experience acquainted with the city the organization and the engineering“ for a local town, I once fell in love with as community it served. I still which gave me hands-on a young teenager.” volunteer there.” experience in a field that I may want to go into in the future.” Bill Cardoni, Jordan Cheeseman C’17, courtesy Patrick Keough C’15, Lynne DeLade C’12. Facing page, Alumni House,
10 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 11 Kean Enables The former president of Drew and governor of New Jersey helped establish three internship funds.
Once a year, Thomas Kean sits down with the recipients of the Thomas H. Kean Government Internship Program to talk about what the interns have done and what their internships meant to them. “And then,” he says, laughing, “we usually end up with a long MORISSA SCHWARTZ C’15 political discussion.” was an English major with a minor Drew’s 10th president and former two-term New Jersey governor in writing when she was awarded a is a politician by avocation and a passionate booster of interning. John M. Warner Writing Internship. “On-the-job learning, although it’s often totally different from the The fund, which provides English classroom, is just as valuable,” he says. students with stipends that support Over the past decade, Kean has been instrumental in establishing internships in industries related to three internship funds at Drew, to which he is also among the principal writing, allowed Schwartz to work donors. The Kean Government Internship is open to political science for a semester at Entertainment majors or minors interested in a career in government or public service. Weekly in Manhattan. “It sharpened It pays a stipend to students participating in an unpaid internship my writing skills and helped me with a government office, political party or candidate, NGO or related learn a different way of writing, in organization. Kean also founded the Joseph Patenaude Theatre Jenna Deslaurier C’16 a different format,” she says. She Internship and was the driving force behind the Margaret E.L. credits the confidence she gained “Peggi” Howard Internship Fund for Leadership and Service. In With a double major in studio art and anthropology, Deslaurier honed her creative skills and gained at the magazine with helping her 2013, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation honored Kean’s political an important understanding of human interactions. But it was a Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic complete her first book-length work and academic legacy, along with his dedication to experiential learning, Engagement with Artists’ Exchange, a Rhode Island nonprofit that offers art classes for people with of creative nonfiction, Notes Never by establishing the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy. disabilities, that showed her how she might fuse her two passions professionally. By working with all age Sent, published last year by VIP Ink. In addition to hands-on experience, Kean says, internships help groups and people with different levels of ability, she says, “I was able to learn new methods of students choose—or reject—potential career paths and offer teaching and realize where my strengths and weaknesses were.” invaluable contacts. But they also benefit employers. “These interns Deslaurier qualified for the Hepburn stipend because her internship was unpaid and allowed her to bring a great deal to whomever they work for,” he says, “including have a positive effect on, and engage with, a community outside of Drew. Getting to her internship was a Drew’s culture and its values.” challenge for Deslaurier, since Artists’ Exchange wasn’t accessible by public transportation from her home in Rhode Island. The Hepburn fund covered the cost of a rental car, which helped make the internship possible. Deslaurier says she could have accepted an internship with another organization. “But I had my heart set on Artists’ Exchange for its unique and inclusive approach to the community,” she says. Bob Handelman. Facing page, Karen Mancinelli, Jordan Cheeseman C’17
12 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 13 Alex Slotkin C’17
A philosophy and English double major, Slotkin spent a semester working at the Street Smart Outreach Program, a nonprofit assisting runaway and vulnerable children and young adults in Morristown, New Jersey. A Mary Hepburn Internship in Civic Engagement covered his transportation costs. Street Smart provides referrals for housing, food, counseling and educational programs to a population at risk of being victimized by human traffickers. MARVIANNA GRAY C’17 could One winter afternoon, Slotkin visited a not shake the sight of the 15-year-old woman in her 20s and her young daughter, girl holding her 2-year-old daughter. who couldn’t have been older than 10, living Throughout the summer of 2014, Gray illegally in an unheated garage. The experience shadowed her former pediatrician, was disturbing but also illuminating. “It made Dr. Edwina Verner, as part of her me realize that it’s important how stories like internship in the East Orange, New theirs are told,” he says, “because if an organi- Jersey, clinic she had visited as a zation doesn’t get its story out accurately, it child. But it wasn’t until Gray saw the might not get the funding it needs.” Inspired teenage girl with her baby that she by the internship and another at a public decided she would one day work in relations firm specializing in the health care public health. “I realized that people industry, Slotkin now hopes to pursue a job need advocates to help them get in health care communications. “If it weren’t health care and health education,” Gray for my internships,” he notes, “I wouldn’t have says. “I thought if I were to go to known there was a place for me in the PR world.” these urban areas and be a sort of mentor, it could probably lessen certain things, like teen pregnancies and the transmission of sexual diseases.” Gray’s job that summer was made Ornella Corsant-Colat C’16 possible by support from the Thomas H. Kean Internship in Public Policy, a fund the Robert Wood Johnson The Robert G. Smith Internship for Foundation created in 2013 to honor Experiential Learning funded Corsant- the former New Jersey governor and Colat’s internship with Peace Boat, an NGO Drew’s 10th president. that promotes a culture of peace. While writing Working with Verner convinced reports on the group’s campaigns, she says, Gray she could be an advocate for “I became interested in nuclear disarmament, patients—and eventually a pediatrician on which I have focused and done extensive herself. Now a junior, she plans to research.” Corsant-Colat published an e-book, apply to medical school after spending Nuclear Weapons: Misconceptions, Challenges several years in public health, and and Involvement of NGO Peace Boat, in 2015. she discusses her plans in a tone that is as decisive as it is practical. “I’d like to manage public health policy for the whole world,” she says. “But I’ll start small, in East Orange.” Bill Cardoni. Facing page, Jordan Cheeseman C’17
14 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 15 REUNION JUNE 3–4 2016 DREW.EDU/REUNION
16 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 17 BEYOND THE MISSION FIELD Every student in Drew’s Theological School embarks on a cross-cultural trip and a year of supervised ministry. As these four profiles attest, the assignments expose them to new cultures, new practices and new ways of thinking.
18 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 19 Peter Murphy “If you haven’t spent the time to be with people who aren’t who you are, who are different, who tell different stories, you may be missing a major point of your ministry.”
FRED SULLIVAN T’15
As an African American, the Rev. Fred Sullivan thought he had a solid grasp of black history. But he confronted an overlooked chapter of that history—the role the Buffalo Soldiers played in the subjugation of Native American tribes during the Indian Wars— during his experience in Oklahoma.
Sullivan and about two dozen of his Theological School ethnic cleansing campaign against native people. classmates spent two weeks in the Sooner State in 2013 A snapshot taken of Sullivan and his classmates at the for a real-world learning experience, something all seminary Fort is telling. “If you look at the picture, none of us were students complete before graduating. smiling,” he says. Their grave expressions speak to the The program they chose, “Native American People conflicting emotions the visit stirred, and their questions and Place,” one of many experiential opportunities the became the basis for their class project. Theological School offers, explores how native people have Sullivan wondered about the role the first black chaplains been affected by Christianity, racial prejudice and cultural played in their work with the Buffalo Soldiers. “What was it imperialism. Traveling in a 3,300-mile loop, the group met that they talked to each other about?” he says. “How did they with members of several western tribes, including the communicate the faith when folks came back and they were Chickasaw and Yuchi, who shared their histories, cultures talking about the things that they had to do?” and present-day struggles. The students’ goal was to Sullivan, 44, is still wrestling with those questions. Now incorporate what they learned into their ministry. an associate minister at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Sullivan and his project partners were shaken by their Hackensack, New Jersey, he’s grateful the Theological visit to Fort Sill, a U.S. Army installation about 85 miles from School places such an emphasis on experiential learning Oklahoma City. Fort Sill, during the era of Custer and Crazy opportunities like the one he had. Horse, was home to the famed black cavalry unit dubbed “We don’t know it all,” he says, “and if you haven’t spent the Buffalo Soldiers. While many of these black fighting men the time to be with people who aren’t who you are, who were undeniably brave and heroic, Sullivan says, there was are different, who tell different stories, you may be missing no denying they helped enforce a government-sanctioned a major point of your ministry.”
Sullivan is an associate minister at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, New Jersey. Peter Murphy
20 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 21 “It takes on a whole different meaning when you’re KAI GREER T’16 engaging with people who don’t speak the same
In Ghana, the greeting akwaaba means far more than hello. It conveys a bond, language.” a kinship, a sense of community. Kai Greer experienced akwaaba in a profound way on a learning experience run by Theological School faculty members.
Titled “Ghana: Bible and Urbanization,” the program incorporate the lessons she learned in Ghana into daily examines the interplay of biblical worldviews and life, particularly in her supervised ministry with Mosaic transnational migrations in sub-Saharan Africa. Greer Ministries, a Methodist church initiative that helps support and her classmates lived in a small village and learned four small congregations in Monmouth County. Greer helps about Ghana’s culture, economy and religious traditions with youth programs, liturgies and a weekly breakfast for in the nearby capital, Accra. the homeless. She describes the concept of akwaaba as “an She says she often thinks of her time in Ghana— overwhelming sense of hospitality” that permeates especially the brilliant blue sky, the rich, red earth, the spicy everyday life in Ghana. “We encountered that from the street food. But a year removed from her trip, some of those moment we landed to when we departed,” she says. memories began to fade. So, in March of this year, she Jameson is More than any souvenir, it was that attitude that she returned. She brought her father, the Rev. Dr. H. Ward Greer, the pastor of most wanted to bring home and share. Greer tries to who, she says, was eager to experience akwaaba himself. two Baptist churches in Baltimore.
Greer describes the concept of akwaaba as GERARD JAMESON T’14 “an overwhelming sense of hospitality” that permeates The Rev. Gerard Jameson suspected that as a black man he might be something everyday life in Ghana. of a curiosity to people in Turkey. He was right.
Early in the trip, he recalls, someone pointed him out on the of Churches. He lived with several dozen students from around street and said, “It’s Obama!” He wasn’t a minority; he was an the world, and their conversations amounted to another sort anomaly—an experience he says helped him better appreciate of graduate program. what it means to be a true outsider. “It takes on a whole different meaning when you’re engaging “I’ve never been an ‘other’ so much,” he says. with people who don’t speak the same language,” Jameson Jameson visited Turkey with other Theological School says. “You begin to acknowledge that God’s presence is students, part of Drew’s “Turkey at a Crossroads” program, and manifested throughout the world.” met with academics, social activists and Muslim, Christian and Now the pastor of two Baptist churches in Baltimore, Jewish groups. Their focus was on how Turkish people view Jameson, 33, says he often draws on the experiences he had and experience diversity and multiculturalism. abroad as a Drew student. “I’ve always had this deep-seated interest in Islam,” Jameson “It gives you an opportunity to reflect back, and tap into says, explaining why he chose the Turkey program, “especially all of your experiences, because ministry is very experience- Greer works with as it relates to Christianity.” based,” he says. “Both of these experiences showed me a lot young people and the homeless at four The following year, while still at Drew, he spent a semester about who I am.” small congregations in Switzerland, studying and working with the World Council in Monmouth County,
New Jersey. Peter Murphy 22 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 23 CHELSEA JACKSON-LOESCH T’16
When it came time for Chelsea “I’ve found ways to meet Real-World Jackson-Loesch to embark on her year people where they’re at, Ministry of supervised ministry, she was already but also, as a leader of working at the United Methodist Church Theological School students take the church, how to gently 400 hours of training as hospital adjacent to campus. chaplains—a job that one alumna calls challenge and make sure “a spiritual fireman.”
What more could she learn? Quite a lot, it turned out. Working we’re always improving.” Sebrina Trent T’15 can trace her path with a faculty supervisor and meeting regularly with a group of to her position as a chaplain at Morristown congregation members who sat on her teaching committee gave Medical Center back to a conversation she had her a fresh perspective on the work she does at the church. with a Theological School classmate. “I’ve found ways to meet people where they’re at,” says She remembers being struck not so much Jackson-Loesch, who is 26, “but also, as a leader of the church, by the words he was saying—as he told her about his experiences in the school’s clinical how to gently challenge and make sure we’re always improving.” pastoral program—as by the passion in his Jackson-Loesch got real-world practice with the “gently voice, the light in his eyes. challenge” part when she returned last year from an eye- “He was totally engulfed,” Trent recalls. opening trip to El Salvador with a group of students and faculty “He looked like he was satisfied. Like he was from the Theological School. She was eager to share what she living out his calling.” had learned about the role the United States played in the civil Trent enrolled in the program, which war that devastated El Salvador for 12 years beginning in 1980. proved to be as rewarding as it was rigorous. The 400 hours of training she received as a She gave a presentation at the church, hoping to get people Theological School student at Overlook thinking about a still-struggling country that America seems to Medical Center in Summit convinced her have largely forgotten. this was the kind of ministry she wanted “Drew Theo is big on experiential learning,” she says, “so to pursue after leaving Drew. that you come out a better leader and really just a better thinker. Today, Trent, 53, is a full-time resident on It’s a school that focuses a lot on critical thinking.” the pastoral care staff at Morristown Medical Center. She likens the job to being “a spiritual Jackson-Loesch, who is married to fellow Theo student fireman,” rushing from one crisis to the next. Parker Loesch T’16, hopes to focus on social justice issues after “We’re there to listen, to recognize spiritual she graduates this spring, perhaps as a community organizer or strengths, spiritual connections that the in some other advocacy role. patient has,” she says. “You’re there to be “Both my time at Drew and my job at the church have helped me a non-anxious presence.” do that, and see how to connect what goes on in the church with As Trent and Boram Lim T’14, her colleague at Morristown Medical Center, can both attest, what goes on outside of it,” she says, “and, hopefully, be a bridge.” it’s taxing work—physically, spiritually and mentally. Both women say the training they received at Drew helped prepare them for these challenges. “It is very intense,” says Lim, 34. “Some calls last for hours, when there’s a big crisis and the family is going through intense emotions. That’s where the chaplain needs to be.”
Jackson-Loesch hopes to focus on social justice issues after she graduates this spring. Peter Murphy
24 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 25 ON THE RISE Nadia Ahmad C’99 used her laboratory training at Drew to launch a career in science that has taken her from Harvard to Dubai, where today she runs an obesity clinic.
26 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 27 Guy Daniel After completing medical school at New York University and a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Nadia Ahmad C’99 was about to start a Harvard fellowship in a specialty so new it didn’t have a proper name yet.
What she learned at Drew came right back to her. participate in Knowles’ research into the mechanisms in Dr. Petrack’s lab seemed a good fit for a medical obesity, after seeing many of her patients in a “When I got to the lab again after all those years, I was and treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease, and students career. Petrack was as eager to enlist a young West Philadelphia outpatient clinic struggle with like, ‘Yeah, I know how to pipette, because I was in Dr. of biology professor Tammy Windfelder make assistant to help her continue her research as Ahmad their weight. Petrack’s lab,’” she says. biannual marine ecology field research trips to Belize. was to learn. “She was just so full of energy,” Ahmad She contacted Lee Kaplan, the director of the Dr. Petrack is Barbara Petrack, who was Ahmad’s Moreover, each summer students in the Drew Summer says. “That’s what psyched me most about her.” Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition Institute at mentor in the Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti Science Institute (DSSI) perform research with faculty Ahmad, a double major in English literature and Massachusetts General Hospital, which is affiliated (RISE), a program that, since its founding more than three members full time, supported by a stipend. In fact, biology, was drawn to the areas that took her deepest with Harvard Medical School. The institute didn’t decades ago, has trained more than 350 Drew students. student participation in DSSI has more than quadrupled into the stories of her patients’ lives: internal medicine have a training program yet, but another young Ahmad had her sights on medical school. Petrack had since 2001, with more than 50 students involved in each and critical care. “I loved the idea of knowing the doctor was interested as well, so one was created for just retired from a 35-year career as a biochemist for of the past four years. According to Knowles, “My lab and whole picture and following the whole patient,” she them. “That fellowship was life-changing,” Ahmad a pharmaceutical company. Together they spent two work with my students allows them to fine-tune some of says. “To me, practicing medicine is like a window says. “It’s pioneering work, and it’s a specialty, but years in Petrack’s third-floor lab in the Hall of Sciences their life goals and career decisions. It is very common for into people’s lives and souls, and it’s a privilege to it doesn’t make me give up any of my passion for testing the interaction of various chemicals with nitric Drew graduates who have done work in my lab to go on have that window. I loved literature in high school knowing the whole patient and having a holistic oxide, an enzyme beneficial to the body’s immune and to medical school or to get research PhDs.” and college for the same reason, that connection approach and having a long-term relationship, cardiovascular systems. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants—her mother is to humanity, and this was the same thing. It felt like because that’s what obesity treatment is all about.” “I would huff and puff walking up the flights of stairs, a nurse, her father a pharmacist—Ahmad always wanted everything was tying together.” For the next seven years, Ahmad worked in the and she was way ahead of me every time,” says Ahmad, to be a doctor, and the enzymology research she found During her residency, Ahmad grew interested in lab and with patients at the institute and taught whose Harvard fellowship was in the emerging field of obesity medicine. “If I had not had the RISE experience with her, I would have walked into that lab and it would have been so foreign to me. But I understood research, I understood equipment, I understood all of it.” As an undergrad at Undergraduate science majors who want to do lab Drew, Ahmad (left) spent two years in research—a skill and a résumé feature increasingly the laboratory of expected by graduate and medical schools—tend to hit Barbara Petrack, two roadblocks. At most small colleges, they encounter then a RISE fellow. a scarcity of opportunities. At large universities, they “I LOVED THE IDEA OF confront a layer of graduate students insulating them from the professors. Drew’s groundbreaking RISE KNOWING THE WHOLE program, believed to be one of a kind, allows under- graduates to gain invaluable research experience PICTURE AND FOLLOWING working directly with scientists like Dr. William Campbell, a longtime RISE fellow who won the 2015 Nobel Prize THE WHOLE PATIENT. in Medicine for research he performed before retiring from Merck. TO ME, PRACTICING MEDICINE “We don’t understand why other places haven’t IS LIKE A WINDOW INTO followed this path and taken advantage of retired scientists,” says Petrack, who started as a RISE fellow PEOPLE’S LIVES AND SOULS, in 1997 at the age of 71, one week after retiring from Ciba-Geigy. She retired from RISE in 2014, but often AND IT’S A PRIVILEGE TO returns to speak to the students. “Retired scientists have so much to offer.” HAVE THAT WINDOW.” Of course, each year dozens of Drew students also collaborate in research with tenured members of the science faculty. For example, students of Roger Knowles, a professor of biology and neuroscience, routinely Bob Handelman
28 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 29 DERRICK WOOD C’04
You learn best when you put your hands After working and teaching at Harvard Medical School, on things. Wood absorbed that lesson Ahmad and her family at Drew, and brought it with him when moved to the United Arab MASTER he started teaching at Conestoga High Emirates three years ago. School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, after he graduated. Working with his RISE mentor, James Miller, he showed how a new sampling CLASS technique for gas chromatography could at Harvard Medical School, advancing the identify impurities in pharmaceuticals, and science on obesity, which the American Meet four more Drew grads who made careers published his research. These days he Medical Association recognized as a disease from their work alongside science faculty and designs similarly practical labs and case in 2013. “A very big misconception among STARS OF SCIENCE their experiences in the RISE program. studies for his own students—analyzing laypeople is that someone who has weight SINCE THE START OF THE ONE AND ALL CAMPAIGN, MORE THAN 20 NEW water samples, for example, to see if a issues should just exercise and eat better DSSI AND RISE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS HAVE BEEN CREATED. AMONG THE former factory site could become a park. and it should go away,” she says. “That is a MORE THAN 250 ALUMNI, FRIENDS, CORPORATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS “One thing I learned at Drew was getting huge myth. The majority of people will lose a THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED ARE THE FOLLOWING: very authentic with what you’re trying to little bit of weight and then plateau and then teach—real-world examples, case studies, get frustrated and stop, because their body that’s something I’m very passionate about,” Gifts of $100,000 and more biologically is storing excess fat. The brain The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Novo Nordisk Wood says. “To really discover things on regulates how much fat you’re supposed to Mr. Joseph B. Baker C’69 Dr. Ronald J. Saldarini C’61 and your own, to learn about the world around have, and their brains are inappropriately Estate of James C’49 and Beatrice Weddell Mrs. Suzanne Thomas Saldarini C’62 you, authenticity is key.” regulating to a very high fat level.” Estate of Robin Powers C’70 Sentience Foundation This approach earned Wood the She and other obesity researchers have Howard Hughes Medical Institute Dr. Jay Tittman C’44 2015 Presidential Award for Excellence been trying to better understand the complex in Mathematics and Science Teaching. biology behind that process—energy Gifts of $25,000–$99,999 (Another Drew graduate, Kathleen Carter regulation, fat metabolism, hormones. “This Mrs. Ruby deStevens Mr. Eugene I. Meyers P’88,’90 and C’95, a math teacher at North Hunterdon field is just so intellectually stimulating because Edward H. Butler Foundation Mrs. Marci Meyers P’88,’90 High School in New Jersey, also received the Dr. Robert L. Fenstermacher C’63 and Dr. Heinz G. Pfeiffer C’41 all this knowledge has been developing at the Ms. Anne Clark Jacobson C’75 Pfizer Presidential Award for Excellence last year.) bench in the last decade, and clinicians just Mr. Philip H. Haselton, Sr. PSE&G When doing experiments in his high don’t know about it,” she says. Dr. Albert A. Luderer C’70 and Ms. Leslie D. Smith school chemistry class, Wood’s students When her family moved to Dubai, Ahmad Mrs. Margaret A. Luderer Dr. Robert D. Wickham C’47 and often use a piece of equipment he brought started her own research and clinical group, Dr. Carrie Hendrickson McMahon C’94 Mrs. Kate B. Wickham with him from the RISE program at Drew: a the Obesity Medicine Institute, which recently Merck high-performance liquid chromatograph. received its first research grant—from “It was ready for the junk pile,” Wood says. Harvard. Ahmad says the grant will fund Gifts of $10,000–$24,999 Miller saw that he had skills beyond the research designed to improve metabolic Mr. William E. Clark C’91 and Ms. Julie Johnson & Johnson textbooks, and encouraged him to tinker Aigner-Clark Quest Diagnostics disease outcomes for pregnant women and with the chromatograph. “We scavenged Dr. Jonathan B. Crowther C’79 and Dr. Donald J. Vigliotti C’81 and infants. “There’s a lot of data showing that Dr. Molly Waldron Crowther C’82 Dr. Kathy J. Selvaggi parts from one machine, took them to metabolic disease and obesity is programmed The Fletcher Jones Foundation Wyeth another and pieced things together.” in utero,” she says. “We’re just at the tip of the Independent College Fund of New Jersey Mrs. Yvonne Yaar-Sharkey P’16 and He added something new to his classroom iceberg in understanding all of it.” The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation Mr. Dennis Sharkey P’16 recently: a photo of himself with President The skills she learned in Barbara Petrack’s Barack Obama, taken on his visit to the lab more than 15 years ago help her Italicized name indicates donor is deceased. White House—more proof of the value of understand more today. “That’s how it all his kind of teaching. comes full circle.” Guy Daniel. Facing page, courtesy Derrick Wood C’04
30 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 31 “TAKING LAB AS PART OF A COURSE IS NOT THE SAME THING AS DOING RESEARCH.”
—STEPHEN VON STETINA C’96
One of Drew’s first biochemistry majors, Cordovano founded her own patient GRACE CORDOVANO C’03 STEPHEN VON STETINA C’96 advocacy company. Von Stetina worked at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before Cordovano came to Drew to study biology, “There are a lot of people who landing at Harvard. but she fell in love with chemistry after taking go straight from undergraduate to organic chemistry with Professor Alan Rosan. graduate school without having had “He scrawled across all of the boards all these a real, true lab experience,” says Von equations and then the end product,” she Stetina, a postdoctoral fellow in cell and recalls, “and then he said, ‘This, ladies and developmental biology at Harvard. “Taking gentlemen, is what a pear smells like.’” lab as part of a course is not the same thing RANDA BARSOOM C’14 She didn’t want to choose between the as doing research, because those labs are two subjects, so Cordovano became one of usually designed for success, and if you Barsoom was a neuroscience major at Drew’s first biochemistry majors. Her favorite haven’t tasted the bitter sting of defeat as Drew, aiming at medical school. “I was the spot to study was in a small library in the Hall a scientist, then you don’t know if this is for little 7-year-old with the toy stethoscope of Sciences, near the RISE program, where you. There are going to be more and taking people’s blood pressure,” she she often talked science with the RISE fellows downs than ups.” says. “I just couldn’t imagine doing anything and students. When she later enrolled in RISE, Von Stetina was hooked on molecular else with my life.” she worked in the lab of microbial biochemist biology and microbiology as a high school With RISE and DSSI, Barsoom worked in Arnold Demain. student and came to Drew because of its the lab of Ronald Doll, a former medicinal Cordovano earned a PhD at Albert Einstein research opportunities for undergraduates. chemist at Merck, with cells from glioblastoma, College of Medicine, where her research was He worked directly with former professor an aggressive brain cancer. But first she on a potential new drug for prostate cancer. Louise Temple, and soon found himself with had to synthesize a blood-brain barrier, She later worked with companies to get their his own key to her lab, where he studied a which protects the brain from infection, so products through clinical trials. bacterium that caused a whooping cough– she and Doll could test which compounds She then founded her own company, like disease. could penetrate it and potentially get to Enlightening Results, which works in the “I got the bug, the desire that I can’t wait work on the cancer cells. “It was a good emerging field of patient advocacy. As the child another day to know the results of this day when it worked,” she says, and it was of Polish immigrants who grew up in heavily experiment, that I have to go in and do this the subject of her honors thesis, “Drug Polish Wallington, New Jersey, Cordovano now,” he says. The skills he acquired in the Discovery Efforts Targeting Mutant p53 was inspired by her experience translating lab led to a job as a research technician at for the Treatment of Glioblastoma.” This for a cousin with cancer. “The need is there,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, work paid off—at her interview for Thomas Cordovano says. “It’s actually very frustrating and then to Vanderbilt University for a Jefferson University Medical School, where to see how people struggle with navigating PhD. “You need that drive in order to stay she is now a second-year student, she Barsoom, now at the health care system.” in science,” Von Stetina says, “and I learned Thomas Jefferson spent 40 minutes of the allotted hour University Medical I had that by doing good science with responding to professors’ questions about School, worked in Dr. Temple.” the labs of both RISE her research. and DSSI at Drew. Scott Metzger. Facing page, Karen Mancinelli, Lynne DeLade C’12
32 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 33 AROUND THE Drewniverse An insider’s guide to what’s happening on campus. Ehinger Center Upcoming Events Seventh- and eighth-grade girls tackle workshops designed to nurture their interest in science and technology. 1867 Lounge The Concert Hall Theatre On his March 3 visit to April 11 April 20–23 campus, Nobel Laureate and Physician, artist, writer Student Dance Show Crawford Hall RISE Fellow William Campbell Simon Forum Alicia Ostriker, Drew professor connects with students and Holocaust survivor Pulitzer-winning historian and and chancellor of the American Academy during a day of celebration. Dr. Robert O. Fisch Thomas H. Kean Lecturer Doris Kearns Spiritual Leadership of Poets, gives the fifth annual Merrill Goodwin brings perspective to the delivers the 2016 Maguire Skaggs Lecture. Today Workshops United Methodist presidential campaign. Karpati Lecture drew.edu/slt Archives and History Center The Commons April 16 An expert panel discusses Shakespeare’s April 22 Renovations are under way! First Folio before the rare book arrives on Chamber Music Society The community can expect The Spirituality of Joy: campus in October, the only New Jersey Athletic Center of Lincoln Center: a vibrant dining service and new Professor Angella Son stop on a national tour. In a rare sweep, senior hoops stars Beethoven, Dohnányi efforts to meed diverse dining Courtney Stephens and Mike Klinger take and Dvorák needs on campus. home Landmark Conference Athlete of the Korn Gallery Week honors—in the same week. April 29 March 17–April 26 Library Drew Chamber Robert Yarber’s The library has commissioned 812 pieces of Orchestra Sleep Has Eyes Thomas Kean–related media to be digitized. April 30 May 6–12 The collection documents four decades in the Chorale, Chorale Union academic and political life of the former Drew Mead Hall Senior Art Show president and New Jersey governor. Drew signs a fourth agreement and New Jersey Youth drew.edu/kean-papers to recruit honors students from Symphony: Francis Words community colleges—this time with Poulenc’s Gloria Bergen Community College. May 6 May 1 Shakespeare’s First Folio Davies House Flute Ensemble panel discussion Front Lawn Jazz Ensemble Favorite spot for Linus, our June 18–25 Seeing Eye puppy-in-training. MFA in Poetry reading Alumni House series Register now for Reunion 2016 on June 3–4, and celebrate the close of the One And All campaign. drew.edu/reunion For a full list of events, visit drew.edu/events. Lawn Between Hall of Sciences and Madison Avenue Wildflowers in the meadow get ready to The Concert Hall bloom in a new, sunny location. President Baenninger interviews political strategists Donna Brazile and Margaret Hoover, who dissect the 2016 presidential race at the March 3 Drew Forum.
Mayo Performing Arts Center In Morristown Drew Forum speaker Bill O’Reilly calls the 2016 campaign the most interesting since Kennedy-Nixon. Anne Smith
34 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 35 Into The Forest | Spring 2016 Inspire andAspire
Join us for a new Reunion highlight. 2016 Alumni Achievement Awards and State of the University Address
We honor Drew’s best and brightest, and get the insiders’ update from President MaryAnn Baenninger.
10 a.m.–noon | Dorothy Young Center for the Arts Concert Hall Preceded by a Community Continental Breakfast, 8:30–10 a.m.
A Discovery of Biblical Proportion It went unnoticed for decades, but last fall a graduate student discovered a rare edition of the King James Bible, published more than four centuries ago. Make plans to attend Reunion 2016. ICTURE ROW UPON ROW UPON ROW OF TAN METAL SHELVES, EACH ONE June 3–4 | 973.408.3229 | drew.edu/reunion eight feet high and filled with rare books, most of them boxed, and maybe then you’ll understand how a rare first edition of the 1611 King P James Bible went unnoticed in Drew’s library archives for decades. Ah, but what was hidden is now found—a story of luck, sleuthing and joy, REUNION2016 beginning with Caspersen School of Graduate Studies student Brian Shetler JUNE 3–4 | ONE AND ALL. Lynne DeLade C’12 picking through the stacks at the request of Professor Jonathan Rose. 444
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THE BIBLE IS THE SOURCE OF MEMORABLE PHRASES THAT REMAIN IN THE VERNACULAR TODAY, INCLUDING “SALT OF THE EARTH,” “GOD FORBID” AND “EAT, DRINK AND BE MERRY.”
A Bevy For a course on the history of England, points, or peculiarities, in its first printing. Rose needed books that had been printed For example, this edition had a series of of Bibles there in the 17th century. So Shetler, who typos. The most notable is in the Book of works part time in the Archives, pulled Ruth, where Ruth is mistakenly referred Here’s a short list of other noteworthy anything from that time frame, filling to as “he.” Drew’s copy has this oddity, Bibles in the Drew a wheeled cart making it a “He Library’s Special with little trouble. Bible.” That fact Collections: Among the last alone makes the Overheard Polyglot Bible (1569) books he plucked book more rare: Eight-volume set con- was the Bible, which Of the estimated I will see what I can tains the Bible in several was wrapped in a 200 first editions “do when I go home languages printed side gray box labeled of the Bible still by side. to try and promote “Bible,” “1611” and existing, most
Bishops’ Bible (1575) “R. Barker”—a ref- are “She Bibles,” more Malaysian Early English translation of the Bible used as the erence to Robert according to students to come, base text for the King Barker, a London the Times. because I think this James version. printer. Still, Shetler More broadly, Arabic Bible (1591) had little inkling the Bible is the is the best place Early Arabic font allows of what he had source of mem- Justice Served for us to come for the Latin and Arabic just unearthed. orable phrases Clint Bolick C’79 took an unorthodox route to the Arizona Supreme Court. and study. text to be read in tan- As the doctoral that remain in dem. candidate in book the vernacular —Awang Adek Hussin” C’77, Syriac Bible (1664) history told The New today, including LINT BOLICK C’79 IS THE 40TH JUSTICE TO BE NAMED TO THE ARIZONA STATE Malaysian ambassador to the Syriac is closely related United States, speaking to to the Aramaic dialect York Times, which “salt of the earth,” Supreme Court, but he’s the first to be unaligned with either the Democratic Drew political science students used by Jesus and his first reported the “God forbid” and or Republican party. It’s a fitting distinction for a lawyer whose career in February 6. apostles. discovery, “I knew “eat, drink and be Clegal advocacy has routinely defied major-party orthodoxy. Authorized English Barker had pub- merry.” To bibli- “Clint is nationally renowned and respected as a constitutional law scholar Bible (1819) Owned by lished the King cal scholar Donald and as a champion of liberty,” Arizona Governor Doug Ducey said in a statement William Wilberforce, an James Bible, but I Brake, author of announcing Bolick’s appointment. The Bible was wrapped in a box labeled “Bible,” “1611” and early abolitionist and a thought there was A Visual History of Bolick achieved his national renown as the vice president for litigation at a liber- contemporary of John “R. Barker”—a reference to London printer Robert Barker. Wesley. no way we would the King James Bible, tarian think tank named for the late Barry Goldwater, the arch-conservative U.S. have one and not know about it.” the Bible “is, along with Shakespeare, the senator and 1964 Republican presidential candidate who remains one of Bolick’s Mohawk Bible manu- script (1885) Includes a Indeed, anyone who knew of the book most influential book ever published in political heroes. Yet Bolick cites his opposition to the Iraq War, a venture championed portion of the New Tes- is long gone, and its existence is recorded the English language.” by President George Bush and his Republican colleagues in Congress, as the turn- tament in the language solely in an old card catalog system. For Drew, the late-October surprise ing point in his defection from the GOP in 2003. With Jeb Bush, Bolick co-wrote of the Mohawk people. Accordingly, a group of Shetler’s colleagues, became an early Christmas present— Immigration Wars: Forging an American Revolution, which advocates reforms that con- Chinese Bible (1894) among them Theological Librarian Jesse Mann and a gift that kept giving. For tradict mainstream Republican thought. Beautifully bound work and Methodist Library Associate Cassie Shetler, the face behind the find, “It’s pretty unusual for someone to be engaged in the type of work I was engaged featuring a Chinese Brand, had to rediscover and authenticate it was simply a joy to discover a in to be appointed to the judiciary,” he says, though he points to Thurgood Marshall font.
the book by confirming a series of 35 buried treasure. Lynne DeLade C’12. Facing page, Joe Ciardiello, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as two notable exceptions.
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A Philadelphia district that had voted Republican since 1858 sent Edgar, a Democrat, Ready to Write to Congress. After a sabbatical, the Caspersen dean will return to teaching. I’ll read what I “want to, not FTER 46 YEARS AT DREW, THE 2. Writing last five of them as the dean “There’s fiction I will get back to doing what I have to. of the Caspersen School of on a more regular basis. Outside of my —Robert Ready ” A Graduate Studies, Baldwin family, it’s the sentences—the craft—that Professor of the Humanities and Profes- make me happiest. Most of the writing sor of English Robert Ready is taking a goes on in my study in my house in New sabbatical, in his words, “to see where York with the shade down in the middle I am.” of the day. We also have a place in Truro, Ready proudly describes the graduate Massachusetts, a 19th-century Cape Cod. school—with its six “sophisticated disci- It’s across the street from the Highland plines”—as having developed during Light, one of those lighthouses [Edward] Linus the Lovable his tenure “an integrated sense of what Hopper painted. There are times, usually Drew’s Seeing Eye puppy-in-training makes The Forest his temporary home. it’s doing.” Ready plans to use some late in the afternoon, when you watch of his sabbatical to travel, including a the Hopper light come in. You’re sitting trip to the Ethiopian capital of Addis there and you’re in a painting. That is Ababa, where his daughter is a surgery conducive to the otherworldliness that HE FOREST IS HOME TO INNUMERABLE FOUR-LEGGED CREATURES, BUT SURELY NONE resident. We asked him what else is have captivated the campus this academic year like a certain Labrador and Golden you need to write.” on his itinerary during his year away Retriever cross-breed puppy named Linus. Amy Sugerman, the assistant director 3. Uncertainty from campus. T of the Center for Civic Engagement, is raising Linus on behalf of The Seeing Eye, “You know that old Keats phrase: ‘Negative the Morristown, New Jersey–based nonprofit that trains dogs to assist blind people. She’s 1. Reading capability, that is when man is capable of had some support. The center’s staff and a dedicated group of Civic Scholars have helped “I have lots of reading in 19th-century being in uncertainties. Mysteries, doubts, to socialize Linus, who came with a 120-page training manual. Sugerman and her family Romantic scholarship and Romantic without any irritable reaching after fact will keep Linus until he’s 15 months old, when he’ll return to The Seeing Eye for additional writers I want to do. It’s also time or reason’? The play of the mind—to get training before being paired with a blind person. Sugerman knows the parting will not be to do indiscriminate reading. I’ll that back and find out where the material easy. She’s asked all the time how she could ever give Linus back. Her response? “He never read what I want to, not what I is again—is a gift, as is being able to
was mine in the first place,” she says. “We’ve been given the privilege and joy of raising him.” Lynne DeLade C’12. Facing page, Andrew DaLoba, have to.” show up when it comes.”
40 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 41 Into The Forest | Sports
INTERVIEW Melanie Santos C’16 The four-year soccer starter on life as a student-athlete, interning for a law firm, completing a semester on Wall Street and studying in Italy. (And—oh, yeah—winning a conference championship.)
What led you to Drew and the women’s soccer team? I was playing soccer at a showcase and a Drew assistant coach asked if I was interested in visiting campus. Four years later, the best parts of that decision are the family I’ve made here and the experiences I’ve had. Fore! Your penalty kick won the shootout in the 2013 Land- mark Conference Championship game. I have a ring Drew’s athletic department to make sure I never forget. There are times where I is getting set to field men’s feel like a retired athlete and I tear up, but I always and women’s golf teams, come back to the fact that we won that championship. the first in university history I remember every moment of the game. There are also and the Rangers’ 19th and times where I’m watching penalty kicks in a profes- 20th varsity programs. sional game, and no matter what, I have to sit there The golfers could hit the and watch. It always brings me back. links as early as this fall, and starting in 2017 they’ll compete against fellow You’re a Presidential Scholar and three-time Landmark Landmark Conference Conference Academic Honor Roll selection. Were I can blame my teams. Meanwhile, the academics always important to you? search is on for a coach parents for that one. Throughout club, travel and high and a home course. school soccer, I was only allowed to play if I had good Wherever the golfers tee grades. I tried hard in school, and I found out that I it up, they’ll already have loved learning new things and it came naturally to me. a number-one fan. “As a I love sports, but sometimes my friends forget that I’m novice golfer myself,” says a nerd. Drew President MaryAnn Baenninger, “I’m excited Yet your academic path at Drew has been more than about visiting the course, just lectures, homework and tests. I was always told meeting team members— that the off-campus and hands-on experiences would and maybe picking up a shape your college career. I’ve done a semester on Wall few tips.” Street and met executives from JPMorgan; completed an internship with a law firm; invested real money in the stock market through The Fund, Drew’s student- run investing club; and I am headed to Italy to study finance. There are so many opportunities at Drew. I feel comfortable heading out into the workforce. Kevin Whipple. Facing page, Bill Cardoni
Santos says she still remembers every moment of the 2013 conference championship game. 42 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 43 BLUE& GREEN CHALLENGE October 2015 – June 2016
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44 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com Spring 2016 45 CLASSNOTES The College of Liberal Arts
We have reached a events and enjoyed fond memories of years in Endwell, New York, and keep busy with milestone—our 70th past. Nish still teaches one class a year in many activities there. anniversary! Frank Auld the graduate clinical mental program at the Dottie Simpfendorfer Noyce and her 46 C’46, P’70, Jeanne Larned C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, travel partner, Rich, went to Belize for 32 70th Reunion and Reid Isaac have where he is dean emeritus of the School of days, 10 of them spent birding. Two of her graciously volunteered to Continuing Studies. grandchildren married. Points of interest on lead the class. It will be great to welcome Dottie’s 2015 travelogue include New York, classmates back to campus. We hope you Ronald Vander Schaaf Washington, D.C., Vermont, Nova Scotia and will support the annual fund in recognition [email protected] Drew. She was there for the retrospective on of this class anniversary milestone. WHAT A CLASS! Once more Mrs. Korn at Reunion 2015. 56 we are the proud recipient Ruth Schubert Haynes and Roy Haynes Shep Shapero C’51, P’84 has of the “Forest Award” given stayed in several locations in Florida and volunteered to help with the 60th Reunion to the class with 50+ alumni biked trails in most of them. They also biked class outreach for our 65th with the highest rate of participation. We a trail in northeast Ohio, where Roy hit the 51 Reunion. Join one and all hit the almost-unbelievable level of 74 1,000-mile mark again. Could Roy start an back on campus for this percent. Thirty-nine names grace the list Uber bike business with a tandem and take 65th Reunion very special gathering June on page 42 of the fall 2015 issue of Drew you wherever you wanted to go? Likely. 3–4. An anonymous classmate has offered Magazine. It is truly an Honor Roll of Donors. Flora Robinson Hullstrung and Bob a challenge gift of $1,000 if the class can Thank you, each and every one. Hullstrung C’56, T’60 tried to make medical increase giving this year and reach the goal The two recipients of our scholarship this history. Bob is recovering nicely from a of endowing our fund. Please support the year are Ashley Alicea C’18 of Elizabeth, medical threat. Flora tripped over an open Class of 1951 Scholarship fund in recognition New Jersey, and Walline Alphonse C’17 dishwasher door, which led to a partial hip A Gift of Remembrance of this class milestone anniversary year. of Orange, New Jersey. Ashley is majoring replacement. Apparently desiring more in biochemistry and molecular biology. attention, she fell again and broke two SEVEN DECADES AGO, LESTER BOWER, JR. C’49 SPENT FOUR “VERY HAPPY” YEARS AS AN UNDERGRAD After years of faithful service as the Walline is digging into anthropology. bones in her right ankle. All of that did not IN THE FOREST. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PLAN HIS ESTATE, HE REMEMBERED DREW. 54 Class of ’54 secretary, Mary (Zoghby) On June 30, 2015, the book value of the in the least dim the celebration of their 56th Hepburn is taking a well deserved scholarship totaled $254,657. The income anniversary in August. For Christmas they When Bower enrolled in Drew in summer 1945, he unpacked When he planned his estate, Bower honored his alma break. Mary, we thank you for your years available for scholarships was $12,605. were with their son, Greg, who decided to his belongings inside the only dormitory on the campus mater by creating the Bauer and Hahn Family Scholarship. of service and hope one of your classmates We celebrate our 60th Reunion on broil steaks for dinner. He opened the oven at the time. For the next four years, Asbury Hall would be The fund will provide at least $1 million to support will step up to keep the news coming. Read campus June 3–4. Jim Bloom, Mimi door to check on them and smoke came about Mary’s ongoing support of Drew Hollister, Roy Haynes, Suzanne Hampton billowing out. He turned off the smoke Bower’s home. “It was a wonderful period of my life,” Bower undergraduates who have shown exceptional service to students on page 10. and I are hoping many classmates can detectors and house alarm but forgot that it recalls. the LGBTQ community at Drew and made a commitment Interested in serving as the class secretary return to campus for the celebration. was tied to the firehouse. So for pre-dinner After graduation he worked for many years in merchandise to serving the community beyond The Forest. for your class? Please email [email protected]. Nate, the grandson of Carole Horncastle excitement what could be better than Thanks! James C’59 and Dick James C’56, T’59, having three fire trucks with flashing lights display, primarily at the Lord & Taylor store on Fifth Avenue. “I have fond recollections of my time at Drew,” Bower graduated from RPI and is working on his in front of your house? Later he became a librarian at Borough of Manhattan says. “And I want to help make it possible for other people At the 60th reunion of the Class PhD. Dick and Carole had a great cruise to In her Christmas card Pat Brown McQueen Community College. in the future.” 55 of ’55 last spring, Dick Semeraro, the Caribbean in February 2015, followed by asked the question that’s probably been Peter Riesz and Nish Najarian C’55, a month in Sarasota. They have completed asked by most of our class: “How did we get T’59, G’82 and their wives caught up on new their sixth year at Good Shepherd Village so old?” Maybe we should change our street Bill Cardoni
Your legacy. Drew’s future. For more information on planned gifts, contact David Terdiman C’89 at 973.408.3899 or [email protected].
46 Drew Magazine I drewmagazine.com [email protected] I Spring 2016 47 addresses to Wrinkle Way, Lumbago Lane or family has a tradition of creating a crown died. A Mary Lee story: The night before read the giants in his field, Plato, Plotinus, he visited Peter Rushbrook and his family in and Ben is in eighth grade. Cataract Court. She and Bob McQueen C’54 of candles for one family member to wear the amputation surgery her two doctors Philip of Alexandria, Nicolas of Kues, Giordano a cabin in a state park east of Cooperstown, Our classmate Jim Riordan died on are planning to attend our 60th. We may be as Santa Lucia at the family Christmas came to her room. She asked them to raise Bruno, Spinoza, Jacobi and Hegel. Rolf New York. November 24, 2014. Pete Headley reported old, but we still know how to have fun! gathering. She included a picture in her their right hands. They asked if she wanted studies Greek intensively for 20 minutes that he and Jodi had dinner with him Prunella Read Williams’ personal Christmas letter, and there are four tall them to take an oath. “No,” she said, “I just every morning. His wife, Luise, retired Ellen M. deLalla in August 2014. Our deep sympathy is odometer has undoubtedly passed the candles balanced carefully on the wearer’s wanted to make sure that you knew right from a teaching and practicing career in 59 [email protected] extended to his family. multimillion-mile mark. First to upstate head. Jean is also planning to come to from left. Good evening, doctors.” pediatrics in Germany and New York state, It’s been a long time between Class Enid (Smith) Tate’s husband Sidney T’60 New York, where family helped her Reunion in June. has been writing the family biography, of ’59 Classnotes due to the sparsity of news died in October following several health celebrate her 80th. (She put the question Bill Onderdonk left Drew before Eleanor (Sheldon) Stearns which now spans four volumes. His older from all of you. John Norton Moore wrote challenges. She graciously sent me printed another way: “Where did all of those years graduation to join the Naval Air Force. 57 [email protected] son, Christopher, is a leading-edge cancer in September 2015 that he still teaches full copies of the remarks made by their two go?”) In August she headed west to the He trained in Pensacola and wrote an Warner Johnson plays in the researcher in Philadelphia, and his younger time at the University of Virginia School sons, Paul and Philip, and Sidney’s brother, national parks. September found her interesting account of his “check” flight, alumni baseball game every year. Last year son, Marcus, is finishing his second degree of Law and at Georgetown Law Center in telling wonderful and funny stories about birding in France and taking a short walk which is like a final exam. He succeeded it was rained out, but this just inspired him in engineering at the Technical University Washington. He was awarded the Morris Sidney’s love of his family, his incredible to Spain! November was a good month to eventually. He also had the experience to up his training during the off season. On of Berlin. Marcus is also a working artist and Liebman Award, the highest award by memory for people, his love of basketball go to Tanzania, with its “spectacular while in training of having an engine quit October 17, 2015, Warner played again at displays his art in Berlin and Riga. the American Bar Association, in the field and of baseball, especially the Atlanta animals and birds.” on him, so he had to crash land the plane. age 79. He was up to bat three times and Llew Pritchard was awarded a citation of national security law, for his work in Braves, and of his “great tenor voice.” I was It just came to my attention that He had 2,000+ flying hours, including was walked the first time, grounded out the from the ABA in Chicago, accompanied by founding this new field of law. He also is privileged to be a bridesmaid at the Tates’ Edwin B. Allaire died on September 27, carrier qualified. Bill married Mary Lee second and hit a ball hard up the middle his youngest son, Bill. Llew continues to a three-time member of the U.S. Masters wedding in November 1959 in Elizabeth, 2013. He was a professor of philosophy at Forrest in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, on the third time—but the shortstop got it travel: next on the timetable are Chicago Bench Press team that competes in the New Jersey, where Sidney was then serving the University of Texas from 1969 until June 18, 1960. They had two children, and threw him out. He played at first base again and then D.C. Llew continues to be World Championships and the Pan-American as pastor. his retirement in 2006. Prior to that he Jeffrey and Susan. They lived in Houston for three innings. Channel 12 was at the actively involved in the practice of law. As Championships; he won bronze in the Jack Dempster and his wife, Ellen, hosted taught at the University of Iowa (where he and moved to California in 1978. In the game taking videos and interviewed Warner the former president and chair of trustees World and gold in the Pan-Am and set a dinner in their Florida home with Jodi received his PhD in 1960) and was a visiting mid-80s Mary Lee required the amputation and varsity coach Brian Hirschberg for the of the Seattle Symphony, he is helping the three new American records. He was (Della-Cerra) and Pete Headley in mid- professor at the University of Michigan and of her left leg below the knee. But in the evening sports news. band play on. Llew helped his lifelong pal married last year and welcomes former January. They hadn’t seen each other in Swarthmore. He is survived by his son, indomitable spirit that Mary Lee was known Sam Olsher congratulated him and said Bill Gates, Sr. celebrate his 90th by assisting classmates who happen through Charlottesville. probably 56 years! “We had a fantastic walk Christopher, and his daughter, Valerie. for, they traveled to England, Hawaii, that he played tennis for 60 years until he in the publishing of a book of life lessons His daughter, Elizabeth, recently graduated down memory lane. Reminiscences filled Jean Barbour Peterson’s nephew is a New Jersey and several times to Northern stopped for health reasons. learned from Gates. Llew received the 2016 from the Berkeley honors business the air as classmates, professors, sports and first-year student at Drew. Her Swedish California. Then in March 1987, Mary Lee My beloved husband, Brent, died on Fellows Outstanding Service Award in San administration program and works as a assorted hijinks were discussed. As they say, October 16, 2015. At the same time our Diego. Llew’s wife, Jonie (Ashby) C’59, financial analyst in San Francisco. a good time was had by all.” seventh great-granddaughter was born, and continues to be actively involved in the life Pete Headley was saddened by the death Walt Lidman recounted a tale concerning my son saw a double rainbow. The circle of of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle. of Clyde Lindsley on November 11, 2014, in Dean Raymond A. Withey, Jr., after he left life goes on. During one of his last days he Barbara Herber Jordan, winner of Drew’s Olney, Maryland. Clyde was one of the six Drew in 1958 to become president of Green struggled to give me a message: “Keep on Alumni Achievement Award for volunteerism of us poli sci majors who sat in Prof. Smith’s Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont. … doing … helping others.” So I continue at our 50th Reunion in 2008, continues her living room for our weekly senior seminars Walt and his late first wife, Nancy Tabor, to sing in the church choir, work on the volunteer activities. Last year she received a (Barbara Jahreis, Walt Lidman, Dick Madigan, were vacationing in Vermont when they Seventh Annual Blue & Green Golf Outing Geneva Theatre Guild board of directors citation from the New York State Assembly, Carol Tulenko Irving, Clyde and me). Clyde came upon a sign for Green Mountain June 6, 2016 Plainfield Country Club, Edison, New Jersey and present my Women of Vision. proclamations from the Suffolk County always had cogent answers—and questions— College toward 5:30 or so. Walt and Nancy I If you want to join our class email list, legislature and the Town of East Hampton during our discussions. He served as agreed they simply had to visit, but since please send me a message at the email and an award of merit from the Peconic executive director of the Strand-Capitol it was close to suppertime, they were above. We’re scattered far and wide, but we Community Council for her work on behalf Theater in York, Pennsylvania, from 1984 to concerned they would be invited to stay SPEND A DAY ON THE GREEN, AND SUPPORT DREW’S can still keep in touch. of the homeless and for affordable workforce 1999 and was highly praised by his peers. for a meal. Not wanting to impose, the two DEDICATED STUDENT-ATHLETES AND COACHES. housing via the East Hampton Housing He is survived by his wife, Sara, his children planned to refuse any polite invitation. John Bordon Authority, of which she is vice chair. Christopher and Kelly, and grandchildren Absolutely refuse. They would make up any n Lunch n Silent auction 58 [email protected] Barbara’s first love is coordinating Maureen’s Graham, Olivia, Gail and Schroeder. old excuse. n Best ball play and driving range n Putting contest Thanks to Ellie Long Hazarian, we Haven homeless program at her church. Pete and Jodi (Della-Cerra) C’60 spent When they rang, Mrs. Withey opened n Dinner n Cocktails have more details about our Class of 1958 Mac Hubbard, who recently celebrated Christmas with their son, Todd, and his the door and greeted them with immense Scholarship recipient, Christiana Tenuto his 80th birthday, and his wife, Holly, had family in Vienna, Virginia, with warm élan and widespread arms, followed by Sponsorship opportunities available. C’17. Christiana is majoring in neuroscience a wonderful trip to Venice and London. At weather and no snow; shortly thereafter now-President Withey. Nancy had been in and minoring in classics. She likes Drew for Mac’s 80th birthday party, he was presented they visited Charleston, South Carolina, his religion class, and professors are always For more information and to register, visit its mentorship and how she’s treated as a with a certificate stating that a scholarship for four days where they enjoyed its “great delighted to meet and greet former students. drewrangers.com/golfouting or call 973.408.3087. student with potential. She is an inductee had been established in his name at Lander walk-about” cityscape and its outstanding Mrs. Withey informed them—and informed of Drew’s Tri-Beta Honor Society and is a University, where he worked for 20 years. restaurants. them—that they were staying for dinner. Register at drew.edu/golfouting. member of MIND, a Drew club specializing Joyce and Peter Rushbrook spent Christmas Joan (Patchen) Naab and her husband, Over their protests (she would hear none of in the neurosciences. Christiana hopes in Nevada! Snow? (But Peter hates to put on Geoff, traveled last spring to the Drew to become a board member of the clubs chains.) Forum for the first time to hear Leon she is a member of, and looks forward Casey (Smith) Mollach’s C’58, P’81 new Panetta. Her annual Christmas letter University Advancement to publishing her honor’s thesis and to shed is the centerpiece of her farming. In told of trips to Montreal—“It was fun to qualifying for the dean’s list every semester. November she traveled to Peru, then spent use our passports and get used to other Christiana thanks the entire Class of 1958 Christmas on the farm. She started the money and signs in French”—to their SUBMIT YOUR CLASSNOTES for making her education possible and for new year with a trip to Tulsa, followed by family cottage in Maine and to Charleston, [email protected] advocating for her right to an education. Florida and the river. Casey reports a fully South Carolina, for the 50th anniversary Helen Williams was recently entertained engaged life, happy with a positive attitude, of the commissioning of the USS Lewis and ALUMNI & PARENT RELATIONS by a newborn goat when she visited her son lived with great enthusiasm—cushioned by Clark because Geoff was a member of the 973.408.3229 Mark in Boston. The goat can already butt transcendental meditation often twice a day. commissioning crew. It was “a reunion 800.979.DREW heads with other goats as well as climb a ramp! Casey says she tries “to give it all I got!” to remember,” in part due to torrential [email protected] Larry Story celebrated Thanksgiving at his Dave Ossenkop continues working on rains and floods. Christmas was spent in daughter’s house in Readington, New Jersey. his book and writing program notes for Maryland with their son, Richard, and his ALUMNI HOUSE Nancy (Baier) and Walt Adams wintered the Anna Maria Island concert series. Dave family. Granddaughter Sofia is a sophomore 36 Madison Ave. Sponsored by The Leegis Group, Inc. in Florida. and Jan have been visiting family as well as at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Madison, NJ 07940 Rolf Ahlers is boning up on his Greek attending the 45th anniversary of the church Elizabeth is a freshman in engineering at and Latin skills and 16th-century Italian to at which they used to worship. In October Catholic University, Maria is in high school
48 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I College of Liberal Arts [email protected] I Spring 2016 49 them) she proclaimed, “I’ve already set out two Jackie (Buckman) Shahzadi Allen Hood, [email protected] the same surgeon. Perhaps they’d give a extra plates, so you can’t leave without eating.” 64 [email protected] 65 Joel Merchant recently completed a “twofer” discount! I had a very fast and Over sumptuous roast beef and gravy Don Scott reports becoming a “mere goal he’s held since college: circum- painless recovery and am now hiking the the Witheys said, “You are our first visitors shadow” of his former self as a result of navigation of the globe on its surface. In his wooded hills of Vermont, pain free. and we have been here three months. This losing 65 pounds. Don spent three weeks in words: “The beginning of my travel was the is New England—and New Englanders do Cancun at his timesharing unit. He is doing year I spent at college in Japan, following Bruce Bristol C’66, P’99, not welcome newcomers and especially well and looking forward to getting back which I took a small freighter between Anne (Batastini) and not a college president.” Animated dinner to work as minister of visitation at Trinity Japan and San Francisco, then crossed the Joe Clayton, Esther Cid conversation followed about Drew and about Presbyterian Church in Palm Coast, Florida. country. That gave me a respectable start 66 Feigenbaum, Len Fisher, the new president’s forthcoming challenges. Gale (Spates) Stevenson and her husband, on circling the globe on its surface. The Linda Wolfe Keister C’66, Said Mrs. Withey, “Now you see why we Drew, headed to Palm Springs, California, completion didn’t happen until 45 years 50th Reunion P’92, A’17, David Lindroth would not allow you to leave without eating for a winter vacation. Once home they look later, when I took the train from Beijing C’66, P’08 and Stuart Nordheimer are with us.” They certainly did, and they forward to baseball, fully expecting the across Mongolia and Siberia. Reaching leading the charge to contact classmates thoroughly enjoyed their visit. Pittsburgh Pirates to have another winning the seven continents was haphazard: I for this once-in-a-lifetime 50th Reunion Please send your news. season. Come late September they will head would travel here and there, picking up celebration. Excitement is building! Other to Scotland and England for a month. Gale 92 countries along the way, when I finally class volunteers are needed to join this team Barbara Fern loves living in downtown Pittsburgh, where came across a really good expedition cruise to help plan a successful class gathering. [email protected] she can walk to restaurants, theater, opera to Antarctica.” He was accompanied by a You won’t want to miss this chance to gather Anthony Shipley happily and symphony. It’s a great “no car” lifestyle. longtime friend who had been a classmate with former classmates after 50 years! Let’s 61 announced that he was Shirley (Kot) Brand enjoyed recent trips at the college he attended in Japan when his try and reach each member of the class married to Miss Gwendolyn to Costa Rica and Holland and was headed to exploration began. and encourage them to attend, and also 55th Reunion Franklyn on Christmas Eve Cuba in March. Naomi Shapiro and partner, Stan, visited support our class goal of 50 percent giving 2015. They are now living in Southfield, Peggy (Kunzle) Everett describes a mini- five cities in Spain in September—Toledo, participation, with the goal of endowing our Michigan. Congratulations, Tony! reunion last summer at the Jersey Shore with Madrid, Seville, Granada and Barcelona— C’66 Internship Fund, which we initiated Marvel Kay (Richards) Mansfield moved Jane (Emery) Awalt, Donna (Mundwiler) and had a wonderful time seeing wonderful back in 2011 with the goal of reaching to Kittery, Maine, early this summer to be Bradley, Shirley (Kot) Brand, Winnie sights, talking to interesting people and endowment for our 50th. close to her grandchildren, who are now (Garran) Gleason, Judy (Morgan) Hults, enjoying the lovely midday dinners for half only a 20-minute drive away. She bought the Maryarden (Faline) Ludaway and Peggy: the price of the late-night ones. Next year Dale T. Read condo she’d been renting for six months. “Although we all keep in touch and see each they hope to walk the Scottish Highlands. 68 [email protected] Selling and buying are not for the faint of other individually, it was wonderful to all Roger Martin recently published Off Hello from Dale T. Read to my heart, she reports. She also claims she will be together and reminisce about Drew and to College: A Guide for Parents. Roger is the fellow Class of ’68 alumni. It is my honor never move again. She had lived in or near our lives in general. It is hard to believe how former president of Moravian College in to inform you that I’ve agreed to serve as New Haven, Connecticut, for more than 40 many years we have known each other!” Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Randolph- your new class secretary for our Class of ’68 years and is now a “Maine-iac.” In late October 2015, Linda Connors began Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Today Classnotes column in Drew Magazine for Marian (Dickinson) Fielder spends a her second retirement by hopping on a plane he serves on the Board of Education in the next three years. Serving in this role, I lot of time in New York City with her son for a river cruise on the Rhine and Moselle Mamaroneck, New York, and is president shall be reaching out to every class member and grandson, who moved there in August Jackie (Buckman) Shahzadi C’64 and her guide, Vivian, on her recent trip to Vietnam with the Global Engagement from Basel to Amsterdam. She reports, “A of Academic Collaborations, Inc., a higher I can locate. I hope to receive from you a 2014. Her son, Daniel, has opened his own Institute, where she also visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the streets of Hanoi and Halong Bay. great trip! Being interim dean of the libraries education consulting firm. In 2008, Roger brief history, current news and contact acupuncture practice, Magnus Wellness. She at Drew was very rewarding, but it was still spent a year experiencing life as a first-year information. I also hope to network among loves being able to get to NYC by bus in four Cowell P’90 were in England in 2015; Ed O’Brien and family enjoy their work. I’m glad to be retired again.” student at St. John’s College in Annapolis, various groups and leverage off of long- hours and taking her 5-year-old grandson to June met up with David in London after cruises—three in 2015 and two more Vivian (Bruce) Kessler still lives in South Maryland, which serves as the basis of his established friendships and contacts to shows like Wicked and The Grinch. She still he traveled to Northern Ireland with their planned for 2016. Living in Florida must Carolina. She drove down to Fort Lauderdale book Racing Odysseus: A College President reach as many of our classmates as possible loves being back east. daughter, Kimberly, who teaches poli sci at make it easy for them to get on board! to visit Judith (Kessler) C’65 and Rodney Becomes a Freshman Again. before our 50th Reunion in 2018. It is Ed Daniels reported that Mac Hulslander American University. He helped her “wrangle” Your secretary, Barbara Fern, visited the Grunes C’63 in October 2015. I, Allen Hood C’65, P’92, had a knee my goal to create a Facebook page and an made his being housebound more enjoyable freshmen honor students. They then had 10 Corning Museum of Glass in late June with Karen (Merola) Krueger and husband replacement at the beginning of November. interactive database, and to pull us together in that he is able to listen to the CD Mac made more days to explore the country. two of my three sisters. I recently found a have been B&B owners for 11 years and My wife, Kit, and I traveled to the Hospital for a most enjoyable and rewarding class of a recording of the Drew Choir during his Virginia M. Hagler has become very postcard I sent to a freshman roommate, really enjoy the guests from everywhere who for Special Surgery in New York City with reunion in 2018. You may reach me at time with the group. He loves singing along active in supporting a nonprofit horse Sarah (Prettyman) Valenti, in January come to stay, including some who are Drew a dear friend from Massachusetts who also 1148 Saint Catherine Drive, Annapolis, and still remembers the lyrics. Other choir rescue organization about 60 miles from 1958 from that museum, which was a related. Check it out at orchardinnbb.com. needed a knee replacement. We scheduled MD 21409, at 443.221.7534 or at members will remember “Ride the Chariot.” her in the Mojave Desert. She helps with stop on the choir tour schedule during Karen is still an active choral singer with our surgery dates on the same day by [email protected]. Florida alum Verta (Rudolph) Sorensen is the website and other communication intersession. the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and still also recovering from downsizing to a condo. functions. You can access four live camera Lastly, Ron Saldarini, C. Wesley Carson, teaches beginning piano at the community The process wasn’t fun, she noted, but the feeds at their website, meola.org. Jerry Rankin and I are enthusiastic about college. She is in touch with Margolyn result was good. She still has room for grand- Mac Hulslander and his wife, Peg, outreach to the class for our 55th class Young C’63, Martha (Creager) Gilfix C’65 children and friends. She has a new knee and spent a month in Japan in fall 2015 for a reunion gathering June 3–4. Please consider and Jerry Borshard C’66. A treasured took it to Peru in January 2016. wonderful reunion with former students and designating your annual donation this year lifelong friend in frequent touch is Marion Carol (Magee) Davis had her first vacation colleagues. Special among the experiences to our Class of 1961 Leslie Banks Memorial (Ulmer) McCarthy C’64, who was Karen’s in some time the first week of May 2015 was a week spent with Osamu Takagi and Scholarship Fund, with the class goal to sophomore-year roommate. when she visited her longtime friend Joann his wife, Chieko, in the heart of Wasabi endow at $50,000 this year. Your secretary continued the travel theme REUNION2016 in her hometown of Bath, New York. Joann country in northern Japan, and a visit to that our classmates have enjoyed this past and her family treated Carol royally, and she the gravesite of Les Banks in the Foreign Ellen Earp Baker, [email protected] year. In December, I led a delegation of JUNE 3–4 | ONE AND ALL. also had a mini-reunion with some of her Cemetery in Kobe. Mac and Les traveled 63 We were saddened to learn that university women to Vietnam to study women Class of ’57 high school friends. It flew by together in 1961 as short-term missionaries one of our classmates, Cindy Nylen and leadership sponsored by the Global way too fast. She still keeps in touch with after graduation. Kershaw, who was with us for our first two Engagement Institute. In addition to Ho Chi MaryAnn (Kennerly) Clinton. Mary (Peck) Davidson C’62 and Bob years at Drew, died on January 8. You all Minh City, we were able to visit the ancient Sandy (Wilbur) Fleischer noted that much Davidson are traveling these days primarily may remember Cindy as a talented writer site of Huế in central Vietnam and cruise Register now! of her traveling with her husband is visiting to Pennsylvania and Florida to visit children and seamstress who brought much joy overnight on the beautiful Halong Bay in grandchildren in Ohio, Colorado and and grands. Mary survived a car accident and enthusiasm to us in our early years northern Vietnam. We also visited Hanoi, California. They must be accumulating lots in October 2015. She fainted about an hour at Drew. a lively and vibrant city. While in Southeast drew.edu/reunion of frequent flyer points! after giving blood. She’ll give in the future if Other than that, there is no news to report. Asia, I saw the incredible temple city of Angkor June (Kamen) Cowell P’90 and David she has a designated driver. Please send some news for our column. Wat in Cambodia. See photos, page 50.
50 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I College of Liberal Arts [email protected] I Spring 2016 51 Charleen Caulk completed the New York City Marathon Debra (Moody) Bass’s G’90,’02 third exploring the temples at Angkor Wat. ment of his parents, was invaluable in making were letting him go. It was a terrible blow 70 [email protected] in 2011 (at age 60) with a time of 4:43:26. book, Journeying Through the Year with God: Dawn Thomas attended one C’78 his degree possible. made worse by the fact that he and his Greetings everyone! I am just She travels to Berlin several times a year A Believer’s Daily Conversations with God, is set reunion ages ago and had a blast, but has John is still happily married to his high wife, Mary, knew they also had to move getting familiarized with being class to visit her daughter, who is a professional to be published this spring. She was also not been in the country for subsequent school sweetheart, Caroline. Christopher, out of New York City. Fortunately they secretary again. Please send your news ballet dancer based in that city. Her older appointed the new pastor of Mt. Herman ones. After Drew, she worked for the Peace 27, Daniel, 25, and Matthew, 23, have filled found their dream house in Port Jefferson, to my email address (above), call me at daughter is the founder and creative force A.M.E. Zion church in Birmingham, Corps in Africa, earned a master of science his and Caroline’s lives—and his father’s as Long Island, and moved in a year ago. Mary 845.623.8298 or mail to 54 Newport Drive, behind the New York–based Hazel Village. Alabama, last September. in agricultural economics and worked well—with overwhelming joy and pride. got a new job right away. After some soul Nanuet, NY 10954. Gary Stanton just spent two weeks in Martha Herrmann still does hiking, as an international commodities analyst All three graduated from college near the (and real estate) searching, Mike, who has I have been fortunate enough to stay Japan with Jon Opper. Gary, married and biking and kayaking as weather allows in (“Yep, a fruit and nut analyst!”). She joined top of their classes. Christopher is a shift collected rare books for 30 years, rented a in touch with Karen (Nelson) Lawrence living in Cambridge, is still practicing neurology the D.C. area. Her three sons are in different the foreign service at USAID and spent supervisor for NJ Transit, keeping more vacant store in St. James, and on October 8, and her husband David C’69. My husband, in Concord, Massachusetts. stages of their college careers: Her eldest the past 30 years working in international than 250 buses on the road at one of the 2015, he opened Michael Scarola Rare and Douglas (art semester, spring 1969), and I It was great to get a shout-out from finished grad school, her second finished agricultural development. largest facilities in the state. Daniel works Used Books. Mike writes, “I always wanted attended their daughter Kristin’s wedding Andy Keeney and his wife, Marcia (Bullard) college and the youngest is starting college. Dawn retired after her last overseas for the Department of Justice in D.C. and to open a bookstore but somehow life got and enjoyed seeing Marjorie Nishan, who Keeney. They married a week after our Martha visited Carol Marshall Allen in assignment in Afghanistan, having attained is pursuing his master’s in international in the way.” He now loves going to work was Karen’s roommate freshman year. We graduation and are still going strong! Arizona this past spring break (Carol has counselor rank in the Senior Foreign Service. relations at Georgetown. Matthew just each day and, even when he’s not there, is have met on campus several times for lunch I also heard from Dale Miller and his wife a place outside Phoenix). She also passed She has lived and worked in roughly 30 earned his master’s degree in homeland working at home to promote the business and just enjoying walking around under the Sharon (Pulver) Miller. And I got a nice hello on the news that Marla (Friedman) and countries from Ecuador to Egypt, Botswana security at Monmouth University and is and keep it relevant. beautiful forest. from Cindy Howe and also from Fritz Schmidt. Paul Boren have both retired and are in and Cote D’Ivoire. She also spent about working at an original equipment manu- Bob Duffy is on the board of Drew’s Susan Staples has also been in touch, I often see Kaetra (Horton) Pletenyik the process of moving to Williamsburg, three years back and forth in London as facturer specializing in computer networking. Alumni Club of Boston and would like to and I am looking forward to getting together C’73, T’85. The two of us recently enjoyed Virginia. The Borens’ son, Michael, got part of the USG delegation negotiating a John and Caroline have a beautiful home hear from classmates in the area who would with her this year. a day with Phoebe Pollinger C’71 in married at the Jersey Shore this past October. new international coffee agreement. She’s and satisfying careers. John finished an MEd like to come to any of the events. Doug and I have two children, both Princeton, where there is another New Martha attended the wedding and got to now comfortably settled in Falls Church, in learning and technology from Western Susan Curtin and her husband, Bruce married, and one grandson, who is the light Jersey university. see Nikki Shomer and her husband, John, Virginia, learning to play piano, assisting Governors University in 2010 and continued Weaver, a chemical engineer, have lived of our life, as I am sure other grandparents and had a fantastic time. teens aging out of the foster care system and to work in information technology. in Highland Park, New Jersey, for 16 years. can attest. A note from Bruce J. Michael Hoad launched a new academic going to lots of concerts. She sends a shout- He’s now with the New Jersey Turnpike This year Sue finally landed her perfect job Please get in touch with me for the next Mac Donald: After 40 years, journal/magazine, Healthcare Transformation, out to Marla (Friedman) and Paul Boren Authority. Caroline, a registered nurse, teaching kindergarten in the school that issue—or you will have to hear more about me! I thought it might be good as executive editor, which he says, “sounds and would love to get together with them continues to work as a liaison for CareOne. her own children attended. She has a one- 76 to check in, especially with like the title for the person who does all and any other Drew folk in the D.C. area! John concluded: “Drew opened many mile commute and is treated like a movie You may be hearing from the work.” My last update is from a first-time doors for me, and though I haven’t star when students spot her at the grocery 40th Reunion a big reunion coming up. Chris Kersey, David But where to start? After Ann (Patrick) and Richard Degener correspondent. John Doyle touched base managed to stay in touch, I look back with store. Sue and Bruce have three girls: Little, Harry Litwack, Drew, I pursued a career in journalism checked in from their Cape May, New Jersey, about what Drew meant to him, and I hope fondness on many good times!” Hannah is a junior at Lafayette College, 71 Janet Schotta Murphy and, subsequently, in corporate com- farm (well, actually Ann wrote on behalf to do it justice here. John was going through And if that isn’t a wonderful testimonial studying theater, psychology and Spanish; and Kathy Vandiver, who munications. By far, the highlights of the of both). Richard is retiring soon from the his late father’s personal effects and found a to what Drew means to John—and to a lot of Emma is a high school senior who plans 45th Reunion have all volunteered to journey were the years in London and Press of Atlantic City, and Ann is still with June 1990 issue of Drew Magazine with a C’78 us in the Class of ’78—I don’t know what is! to study engineering next year; and Olivia reconnect classmates for our 45th reunion Paris. Somewhere in there I did a master’s Jersey Cape Realty doing summer and year- Classnotes column written by Kathryn Nason- is a freshman in high school. Sue, who is gathering the weekend of June 3–4. Others degree in international relations at Johns round rentals. Their youngest, Elizabeth, Burchenal, which included a paragraph Have you marked the weekend looking forward to Reunion, writes, “I can’t are welcome to join the committee to help Hopkins, which ultimately led me, 10 years 29, is known as the “Cape May Bread Lady” submitted by his dad, announcing that John of June 3–4 to celebrate our believe it’s been 30 years. Seems like just in planning. We also hope to increase our ago, to Accion, a Boston-based international (Google it!). Son Geoff is 34 with three and his wife, Caroline, had two sons, Christopher 35th Reunion? Andy Baron, yesterday we were moving into Welch 1st!” class giving participation and increase the nonprofit dedicated to financial inclusion. children, so as Ann says, “Richard and and Daniel. John said it “brought back a flood of 81 Nanci Carney C’81, P’08, Congratulations to Amy (Rosta) Boris, principal of our Class of 1971 Scholarship. That’s where you’ll find me today, living I are grandparents times three!” Their eldest, memories of the pride shining on my parents’ Tom Collamore, Mindy her husband, David, and their children, Isaac When you return to campus, be sure to outside Boston with my wife, Brigid. Only Rick, is flipping houses and head of the Ocean faces when I received my Drew diploma.” 35th Reunion Gikas, Rich Onorato, David and Mia, who welcomed a new member visit the new ACORN office to see our class our youngest son, Alex, is still at home; Club Bar in the summers in Cape May. Ann John is the oldest of nine children and the Rice and Don Vigliotti have volunteered to the family. Four-year-old Alyssa came naming plaque. brothers Charlie and Bennett attend the says she and the family love it at the shore first on his father’s side to graduate from to help build momentum and encourage to live with them in September 2014 as University of Rochester and University of and couldn’t imagine living away from the college at a time when a four-year degree attendance for a celebration you won’t want an emergency foster care placement. After Anne Woodbury Delaware, respectively. I’m in occasional ocean. On the farm they have lots of room from a private college seemed beyond reach. to miss! Don’t forget to support our C’81 14 months of working through the child [email protected] touch with classmates Claire Appelmans, for guests. Classmates are welcome to visit! He applied to Drew at the urging of a friend Scholarship Fund. Let’s do this! The more of welfare and legal systems, Alyssa officially 73 Hello Class of ’73! We are back! Jeremy Brenner C’76, P’14 and Nancy Rob Evans retired from the Port of his mother, the sister of sociology professor us who come back, the merrier it will be. became a Boris on November 10, 2015. They Frank Carnabuci is in his 25th year as Greer; haven’t heard from Geoff Livingston Authority of NY/NJ last November after 34 James O’Kane. John was accepted; the are thrilled to have her in their lives. headmaster of the Birch Walthen Lenox since France; and sorely miss John Green, years of service, most recently as manager scholarship he received, plus the encourage- Tony Serra started the Serra Marc Scarduffa, Andy Wahl, Sonnie (Hirsch) School, an independent college preparatory too long gone. What of Shelley Zipper, of the leasing and property development 83 Law Group, a general law firm Carpenter, Brenda Rhodes, David McIntyre school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Lynne (Ehrlich) McAuley, Dawn (Mc Inerney) division in the port commerce department. helping people in a variety of areas and I (Sandi Miller) are on the planning He also served on the Drew Board of Trustees Pietropaoli, John Hagerty, Henry Twombley There he was responsible for negotiating all including family law, elder law, estate committee for our 30th Reunion. We can’t and as a trustee of the Prep Lacrosse Assoc- and Kathy Stoner-Lasala C’77, T’07, to the lease agreements for the Port Authority’s planning and administration and disability/ wait to see all of you on June 3–4. Please iation. Frank feels that Drew prepared him name just a few? I hope to see everyone at marine terminal and related properties. personal injury. The group also supports also consider making a memorial gift in honor well for all of these roles! our 40th, which I definitely plan to attend. Now Rob is participating in a Mountain entrepreneurs and those starting and of Ken Rich, whom we lost October 9, 2015. After working 30+ years for the Common- In the meantime, please feel free to drop me View, California (aka Silicon Valley), startup operating small businesses as well as those wealth of Massachusetts as a music therapist/ a line at [email protected]. venture, Synapse MX, which develops modern involved in nonprofit work. Gina (Ross) Murdoch joined the teacher, Don Hodgkins P’06 recently retired. Annie (Keiper) Bisset, Richard “Quates” aircraft maintenance software. He looks 89 Multiple Sclerosis Association of He is keeping active, however, by holding Quateman and Martha Mitchell C’76, forward to returning to New Jersey this spring. Sue Clark and Monique (Weggeland) America as president and CEO. Gina down three part-time jobs. Don’s son Thomas P’08 have volunteered to help encourage In our last update, we noted Freddi 84 Flynn met up in Rome last July. Sue will lead in all areas, including strategic Hodgkins C’06 married Kaity Ryan C’06 in attendance and build enthusiasm for our (Sylvester) C’79 and Jack Dempsey had had been touring Italy, and Monique, growth, programmatic expansion and 2014. The wedding would not have happened, 40th Reunion. Join with Annie, Richard, just celebrated their 34th anniversary. This who lives in the United Kingdom, was able corporate development efforts. claims Don, if he had not gone to Drew. His Martha—and Bruce—to renew friendships time around he’s remembering the 39 years to meet her in “the eternal city.” See photo, son applied to Drew only because of Don. and make new memories. And please they’ve been together since “I first flirted this page. Emilio Cordova Don keeps in touch with good friend consider making a gift to the Class of 1976 with Freddi in the Pub.” Jack ended with, 90 [email protected] Lawrence Wilson. Don has also recently Scholarship Fund, and join in raising our “Life is pretty boring, which at this time of Sandi Miller Greetings, Class of ’90! Last May, seen Al Gilbert and Jim Brazell C’75. class giving participation this year. life is a good thing.” [email protected] we celebrated our 25th Reunion at Drew. It Martha (Orlando) Millard recently joined Craig Stanford spent the holidays in In April of 2013, Mike was great to see many of you to recall old Sterling Lord Literistic. After 35 years as Tom Tani, [email protected] Thailand and Cambodia with his wife, 86 Scarola was informed that times, spend time at The Pub and walk in an independent agent, she enjoys having A nice group of updates for the end Erin, and children, Gaelen, 25, Marika, 22, Sue Clark C’84 and Monique (Weggeland) Flynn C’84 met after 26 years at the same The Forest. Here are a couple of updates 78 30th Reunion both colleagues and office support. Martha of 2015! and Adam, 19. Christmas Day was spent up in Rome last July. investment bank, they from our classmates. I hope I will receive
52 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I College of Liberal Arts [email protected] I Spring 2016 53 more information from each of you for the been married for 20 years to my beautiful And please join us in support of our Class of creatives and entrepreneurs find the funding next issue. wife, Ileana. We have two children, Antonio, 1991 Scholarship Fund this year to increase they need to make their ideas a reality using David Sizemore has been a secondary a senior, and Adriana, a sophomore, both our class giving participation, with the goal crowdfunding. Over the last three years, she educator for the past 24 years, now serving in high school. I am currently the CEO of of endowing our legacy fund. has helped numerous clients to run successful as the academic dean for grades 9 through a drug discovery CRO in Chicago called campaigns, including fellow Drew alums 11 at his high school alma mater, Xavier SAMDI Tech, Inc. I commute to work from Vanessa Allen Sutherland was Jen (Crank) Potts C’92, Damon DiMarco High School in Middletown, Connecticut. Austin, Texas. I am looking forward to 92 nominated by President Barack C’93 and Lizzie Rose Reiss C’08. Kathleen David and his wife, Nada, live in Cromwell, catching up with each of you. Please feel Obama to the U.S. Chemical Safety has become a leading educator and expert in Connecticut, with their three feline children, free to reach out to me and let me know and Hazard Investigation in March 2015 and the industry, speaking on crowdfunding for Ellie, Sydney and Lincoln. what is happening in your life and of any confirmed by the Senate in August 2015. community economic development centers, In 2013, Khürt Williams C’91 ended event you have participated in with other university entrepreneurship programs and a 10-year stint in the pharmaceutical Drew alumni. You can reach me at the Katherine Parisky’s essay about small business groups, including the Small industry to start his own consulting firm, email above or at 765.404.1392. transitioning from university Business Administration. In partnership with Monkey Hill. Khürt’s consultancy provides 94 research to the elementary school a leading U.K. crowdfunding data company, comprehensive information-security guidance Is it really time to celebrate classroom was published in Independent the Crowdfunding Centre, Kathleen is to organizations to protect their high-profile our 25th Reunion? Excite- School Magazine last winter. Birches, her K developing online crowdfunding assessment systems in high-risk environments. Bhavna ment is building for our through 5, nature-based STEAM elementary and education tools to help more aspiring (Raval) Williams is an office administrator at 91 silver anniversary celebration. school, was featured on the cover. entrepreneurs, especially women and Volition Wellness in Montgomery Township, Paul Coen, Emilia (Nunes) minorities, access capital through crowd- New Jersey, battling the demons of health 25th Reunion Gale, Andy Hershey, Phil Peter Bruckmann funding. insurance. Her entire family recently relocated Morin, Mike Richichi and Suzanne (Mertz) Jr. [email protected] Gina (Santorelli) Johns celebrated her 95 Larry Barisciano C’96 tied the knot with longtime partner Ron Dix on September 19, 2015. Many Drewids attended, to the town. Khürt and Bhavna’s son, Shaan, Spero are helping to reconnect classmates Ed. Note: Drew Magazine regrets that 20th anniversary at Merck this past year. including (back row) Greg Mattson C’96, Jamie Runkle C’96, Christopher Shorr C’94, Erin Elwell Rich C’96, Eric Rich is a junior at Montgomery High School, and for our class gathering on June 3–4. Can the C’95 column was erroneously missing Her career at Merck has morphed over C’96, and (front row) Lauren Orsini Mattson C’95, Kristin Twidle Booth C’96, Stephanie Palazola O’Neill C’96, Chris- their daughter, Kiran, is a freshman. you help? Let’s see if we can top the Class of from our last issue. Please enjoy a year’s time, and now she is working in the project tine Madajewski Shorr C’96, Michelle Moyer Fontaine C’96, Larry and Ron. Finally, let me reintroduce myself. I have 1990, who had over 40 attendees last year. worth of news from your diligent C’95 management organization and supporting secretary, Peter Bruckmann. early and late-stage clinical drug development. Thank you to all of you who contributed Gina was married in summer 2013 and Shannon Tilton Travis homeowner in Maplewood, New Jersey. to our long-overdue Classnotes submission! welcomed a baby in December 2014. She [email protected] She had Marti Winer over for dinner to It was awesome to hear about our 20th Reunion also has a 10-year-old stepdaughter. She Greetings my C’96 class- celebrate her new place. in May 2015 as well as all of your exciting says it’s a really nice change in her life but 96 mates! It was great to hear Kat O’Connor’s C’93 company, Burning exploits both personally and professionally. certainly has been an adjustment. Gina does 20th Reunion from you after my first Brigid Media, is launching an audio drama Wishing all of the ’95 Drewids a momentous fitness training on the side—a fun job that column in Drew Magazine. podcast in early 2016, Synesthesia Theatre. 2016! Please keep them coming! If you feel also offers her a lot of stress relief. I am glad to know that many of you are It’s an anthology serial, and the first story that I have mistakenly left something or Heather (Tyndall) and James Orefice doing well—I expected nothing less. Our is a steampunk Western mystery-adventure, someone out, I apologize, and please drop live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, with their 20th Reunion is coming up, and I hope you Iron Horses Can’t Be Broken. me an email. three children, ages 14, 12 and 9. James will save the date and plan to attend. Emily (Danforth) Trudeau adopted a Liz (Knee) Vizard is happy to say that recently celebrated his 20th anniversary A hearty congratulations to Larry second son, Will, from the Marshall Islands after years of thought and planning, in at his company, Wolters Kluwer Law & Barisciano and his longtime partner, last summer. He is nearly a year old and is March 2013, she and her husband bought Business, a legal publisher in New York City, Ron Dix. After 14 years together they a good playmate to Alex, their older son, a café/catering company called AllSpice where he leads an editorial group. Heather tied the knot on September 19, 2015, in who is 5. Cafe & Catering in Arlington, Virginia. The works for Adoptions from the Heart, an Stevenson, Maryland. The ceremony was Alison Kinney’s nonfiction book, Hood, first two years have been a bit of a blur, but adoption placement agency in Cherry Hill. officiated by Michelle Moyer Fontaine and was published by Bloomsbury in January. things are going great. Her husband runs James attended our C’95 20th Reunion and attended by several of our Drew classmates, Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man the day-to-day operations and her two kids had fun catching up with Taylor Huttner, including Eric Rich, best man, and Christine Walking, has written about it—“Provocative can often be found hanging around learning Vanessa (Lattanzio) and Stephen Petrucelli, Madajewski Shorr, who performed a special and highly informative, Alison Kinney’s the ropes. Liz celebrated her 15th year at Amy (Cardone) Bellamente, Kiersten reading. Many other Drew classmates Hood considers this seemingly neutral the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Crowley) Cole, Andrew Gerber and many attended. See the photo, above. garment accessory and reveals it to be She has held several positions in a few others. He remarked that it felt strange to I look forward to catching up with each vexed by a long history of violence, from different departments, but presently she’s have more than a few beers on campus and every one of you and hearing from the Grim Reaper to the KKK and beyond— a manager in the Office of Enforcement again. James was also on campus in April many more of you. Please share your joys a history we would do well to address, and and Compliance. Her team provides policy, for the dedication of the new baseball and updates with me and the rest of your redress. Readers will never see hoods the guidance, and training to federal, state backstop and plaque in memory of his classmates. You can reach me at the email same way again.”—which was pretty rad. and tribal inspectors involving pesticide, close friend, Ron Moss, whom he misses above or at 804.397.5195. Happy spring! She’s doing a couple events around NYC, LA chemical and hazardous waste facilities. terribly. and London and will be happy to see folks In December, Liz gathered in downtown David Rosciszewski is an attorney Dan Ilaria, [email protected] from Drew. Washington, D.C., with many Drew alumni, practicing in Jersey City for the past 10 years. 97 In September, Sarah Ehasz Finally, I got to visit with Josh McKee including Steph Komsa C’96. He and his wife live close to Drew in New started a new position as a federal and Brian Nell over the holiday season. Victor Afanador is an equity partner at Providence with their two sons, ages 6 and 3. administrative law judge with the Social Josh is now the full-time photographer for Leadership. Enrichment. Commitment. the law firm of Lite DePalma Greenberg, My wife, Shannon (Laudermilch) C’96 Security Administration. She recently came the Hamilton College athletic department. LLC with offices in Newark, Chicago and and I have been enjoying watching our two back from a month of training in Virginia. Brian is working and living in Norwalk, Drew Society members contributed 59 percent Philadelphia. Victor handles federal and children, Lucas, 15, and Olivia, 12, grow During training at the end of October, she Connecticut. he Drew Society of all philanthropic commitments to One And All: state civil and criminal litigation and argued up way too fast. We still live in Freehold, was able to visit with Heather Wright The Campaign for Drew last fiscal year—that’s before the Supreme Court of New Jersey New Jersey. It has been great coaching and her family. They did some sightseeing Kristen Daily Williams last year. He keeps in contact with Jason softball with Eric Bossdorf for our daughters in D.C. together. Sarah continues to live [email protected] $7.4 million raised for the annual fund, campus 98 Wilson, who is living in Bloomfield, New (Liv, Abby and Tess), as Shannon and Kate in Pittsburgh with her partner and two Hello, classmates, from the campus improvements, support for faculty and programs, Jersey, and Jeffrey Mayerczak, who lives (Feeley) Bossdorf C’93 cheer them on. children. of dear ol’ Drew, where I continue to work and other funds that benefit our talented students. in Maryland. I also visited Drew Lochli and his wife Brandi D. (Gestri) Russano is now living in the Department of Communications. I so Kathleen Minogue ran her own successful and two boys down in South Jersey at his in Brewster, New York, with her daughter. enjoy hearing from you—please keep the Learn more at drew.edu/drewsociety. Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and then parents’ house. He and his wife continue She continues to practice internal medicine news coming. And if anyone finds himself founded Crowdfund Better, a company to work for the NCIS in the Washington, in the area. or herself in The Forest, please drop me a dedicated to helping small-business owners, D.C. area. Jessica (Hrabosky) Adler is now a line so I can get an in-person update.
54 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I College of Liberal Arts [email protected] I Spring 2016 55 season. Congratulations, Chiara! Stevens Institute of Technology. Cheers, In April, my old pal from Brown 1st in Melissa and Ken! 1994 (you, too, right Casey O’Donnell?) Lastly, I married Reggie Saldivar at our Chris Grygo became the Ford Foundation’s lovely alma mater on October 17, 2015. first director of talent development. He The Rev. Vicky Hanjian T’90 officiated leads all professional and organizational the wedding service in Great Hall. Many development efforts at Ford, from new Drewids celebrated fabulously with a dinner employee onboarding and individual reception and dancing in beautiful Mead coaching to team effectiveness and culture Hall. See photo, facing page. change initiatives. He was also accepted into the Facilitator Preparation Program at the Kristen DeMarco C’03 and Michael Center for Courage and Renewal. Chris is 03 Fedorak C’04 welcomed a second looking forward to leading personal growth daughter, Annabelle, in February retreats in the coming year. 2015. She joins older sister, Amelia Maria, who just turned 4. Michael works as a Kate (Harvey) Gratto, kate.gratto@ consumer relations supervisor and Kristen 00 gmail.com; Jen (Hicks) Tocco, teaches English at an area middle school. Drew classmates, alumni and friends in attendance at the wedding of David Lee C’02 and Reggie Saldivar on October [email protected]; Janet Wong, 17, 2015: Zarinah Smith from Drew’s Office of Financial Assistance, Arlene Ovalle-Child C’04, Christopher Child C’03, [email protected] Did you know our 10th Steph Mazzarella C’02, Sarah Marchitto C’02, Cathy Lomauro C’02, David Lee C’02, Reggie Saldivar, Brooke (Johnson) Austin Perilli is in his 12th year working Reunion is coming up soon? Campbell C’02, Norm Johnson C’03, Elizabeth Lee C’03, Justin Hotchkiss C’02, Antonia (Altomare) Mecchella C’03, Kerri as a math specialist for the New York City Please contact Adam Alonso Small Beekman C’99, G’05 and Phil Beekman C’00. Not pictured: Michael Smullen C’03, Associate Professor of Church Department of Education, and also serves as and Jenn Wozniakewicz Music Mark Miller, Armen Hanjian T’61 and Vicky Hanjian T’90. 06 a field editor for The Fisherman Magazine. Still Alonso, Jamie Baker, Jon living in Brooklyn, he is married to Kathy 10th Reunion Connelly, Julie Agia Hafeez, Casey O’Donnell has been living in the big 4-0 in February. “Couldn’t face the and has two children, James, 6, and Gia, 4. Matt McGovern, Sigourney (Giblin) Tampa for the past four years with his wife, winter weather and a new decade at the David Faris is now chair of the political Rodriquez, Amanda Troha and Ben Weisman Julie, and their two daughters, Marin and same time!” science department at Roosevelt University via [email protected] to volunteer for the Aurora or “Rory.” Casey is working at an Janine Calabro and Peter Herman in Chicago. In late 2015, David published class committee and be involved in the orthopedic practice and specializes in spine, welcomed Oscar Rocco Herman on June 27. Social Media and Iran: Politics and Society After plans. We are encouraging gifts to support sports and musculoskeletal medicine and “He’s pretty cute,” says Janine (and I believe 2009 with Babak Rahimi (SUNY Press). David the Emmeline Brancato Scholarship Fund in is also taking classes toward a certificate her!). Janine is a veterinarian, and a board also reports he frequently attends Cubs games memory of Emmy. Please join us! Many Drewids gathered for the wedding of Elizabeth Karnash C’09 and Brad Greenman C’05 on September 25, 2015: with Derick Loafmann C’01, and recently of training in medical informatics. He’s specialist in emergency and critical care Dorothy Haremza C’03, Matt Novak C’03, Dave Cimino C’08, Bettina Mangiola C’08, Remy Onstad C’07, baseball coach a certified advanced rescue SCUBA diver medicine. She runs the emergency and saw Methtacular!, a musical written and Brian Hirschberg, Elizabeth, Brad, Nick Elmo C’04, Grace Trull C’07 and Dan Udell C’08 Cayley (Barlowe) C’10 and Gil and has been volunteering as a medical hospitalization service at Friendship performed by Steven Strafford C’99. Living 07 Arbitsman joyfully welcomed baby adviser and chaperone for Stay-Focused, a Hospital for Animals in Washington, D.C. in Chicago, he also spends time praying for Ayla on May 29, 2015! nonprofit that certifies disabled teenagers to Peter is finishing a PhD in comparative winter to end. and daughter Nora, who turned 3 in Sep- our class as we share our memories and SCUBA dive. Living in Florida has been nice, theology at Georgetown. Several of our other classmates are tember. She is the director of education and accomplishments. Please help with the Lara Portnoy was featured in The but there are times when the O’Donnells Shawn Steinhart is still at the Educa- educators. Jameel Haque is an assistant impact for XPRIZE Learning at the XPRIZE planning of the class gathering. With a 08 Kansas City Jewish Chronicle for her definitely miss living up north! tional Testing Service, where he’s an English professor of history at Minnesota State Foundation. Last summer Emily took a goal to increase our giving participation in work promoting a better society Kathy Forrestal says it was great to see language assessment specialist working on University, Mankato. Jameel also plays in group of students from the University of recognition of our fabulous class, please with the external relations and development Rob Benacchio at the Drew Club of New two major English language assessments. He the town’s official “roller derby band.” Southern California to Rwanda, where make your gift in celebration of our Reunion department of the Peres Center for Peace York holiday party in December. After 13 lives in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighbor- Emily Musil Church lives in Los Angeles they interviewed genocide survivors and to support the Jake Stultz Memorial Fund. in Israel. She received her AB in religion years, Kathy just left her position as director hood and is loving the city. with husband Josh, who is a comedy producer, researched reconstruction and reconciliation and political science, then earned two of education for a semester of student Danielle Paganuzzi had a healthy and initiatives. Emily and her students also David Lee, [email protected] master’s degrees. Her proud mother, Ellen teaching and to finish her MSEd. Once the very happy baby boy named Logan on hiked up the Virunga Mountains to go 02 Congratulations to Maggie (Diggory) (Rosenberg) Portnoy, is a C’77 alumna! semester ends and she graduates, a new September 6, 2015. He is bringing much joy gorilla trekking. Fram and her husband, Dan, who chapter of her professional life will begin. and laughter into Danielle’s and fiancé Matt Chris Chillseyzn has worked for the welcomed their daughter, Lucy Marian Fram, Elizabeth Karnash C’09 and Brad Cheers, Kathy! Anyone who’s Facebook Garavaglia’s lives. Nassau County Medical Examiner’s Office in on June 24, 2015. Maggie and her family live 09 Greenman C’05 were married on friends with Kathy knows she spends an Kevin Hagan, a seasoned Democratic the forensic genetics lab since 2007. He got in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Maggie has September 25, 2015, surrounded awful lot of time hiking in the mountains. strategist and a key adviser to many state- married in 2008 and moved to Malverne, been a communications consultant for a by many Drewids. See photo, above. Two In the fall she completed a list of the 115 wide elected officials, joined the Princeton New York, on Long Island, in 2011. Chris’s faith-based nonprofit organization. She and months later Brad was celebrated at the highest peaks in the northeast United States, Public Affairs Group in Trenton in January wife, Juri, is a registered nurse in the emergency Dan celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary 1,000 Point Club at the Rose City Classic and now the hard work of climbing begins. 2012. Prior to this he was the chief of staff to room of Mercy Medical Center. They welcomed this past August. game. He scored 1,103 points in Drew She’s focusing first on New York and New Senate President Steve Sweeney and deputy their first son, Tobias Joseph, on July 1, Sienna Moran and her husband, Joe basketball from 2001 to 2004. Hampshire. chief of staff to Governor James E. McGreevy. 2015. Congrats, Chris! Nadolny, welcomed their second child, Like many of us C’98ers, Mary Pasqualino Kevin played basketball at Drew, and he Courtney (Riordan) Conway and her Joseph Stephen Nadolny, on December 17, Matt Altman, David Robinson Colwell celebrated her big 4-0. Mary’s was continues to play and coach with the South husband, Chris, welcomed daughter Elise 2015. Big sister, Ava, is totally in love with and Nicole Spiotta are look- in November, surrounded by family and Jersey Basketball Academy. Kevin and his Riordan Conway on October 19, 2015. her new baby brother! ing for more class volunteers friends, followed by a family trip to Disney wife, Darcy, have three young children ages Congrats, Courtney! Sarah Marchitto celebrated 11 years 11 to join in helping coordinate World. She says it was a great way to spend 10, 8 and 2, as well as two pit bulls. As for us, Kate recently bumped into working at New York University Stern School our 5th Reunion. We have set Thanksgiving! She’s expecting her third son Wonderful news from Chiara (Mastro- Professor Bill Messmer in downtown Jersey of Business. She has been accepted to Stern’s 5th Reunion a goal to designate gifts this in May of this year and is still practicing domenico) Engström: She was deemed City, only to discover they live six blocks away Executive MBA program. year to the annual fund. So, please spread divorce and family law in Albany, New York, healthy enough to get her chemo port out from each other! Keep those updates coming! Also, Peter Cole has been invited to join the word. See you back in The Forest! with her husband, Kevin, at the Colwell Law (yeah!). When the scar heals a bit more, she’s the faculty at New York University School Group, LLC. going to cover it with a tattoo—her second Are you planning to of Medicine. He will be an adjunct assistant VIP Ink Publishing recently published In her job at the International Rescue (she got the first tattoo on a spring break in attend our 15th Reunion curator and faculty librarian. 15 Morissa Schwartz’s book Notes Never Committee, Suzanne Longley is managing Fort Lauderdale with Jen (Huff) Mendez!). celebration the weekend of Happy news from Melissa Fuest: She and Sent. Morissa thanks Drew for the a portfolio of celebrity donors who want to Chiara is back running with the NJ Team in 01 June 3–4? Maren Watkins Ken Alexo, Drew’s fearless VP for University incredible education, experience and oppor- make a difference in the lives of refugees— Training for a half-marathon on May 1 in Calzia, Colin Lynch, Advancement, are engaged to be married. tunities she had: “I couldn’t have penned this Future Rangers Juliana and Paulo Armando celebrated 15th Reunion she can’t name names, but it’s people we’d Long Branch, New Jersey. She’s also the New their first birthday on December 22, 2015! Proud parents Kristen Santaromita, Melissa is the assistant vice president of book without it.” Read more about Morissa know. She headed to sunnier climes for Jersey Honored Hero for the spring 2016 race are Jessica (Bowler) C’04 and Ricardo Ovani. Justin Serpone and D.J. Wright are leading alumni engagement and annual giving at at morissaschwartz.com and on page 13.
56 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I College of Liberal Arts [email protected] I Spring 2016 57 The Caspersen School “ We are uniquely positioned John Mood G’69 provided an Victor Svorinich G’09 PhD update on his publications. His DLitt published the book Listen to to articulate an intelligent, book Joyce’s Ulysses for Everyone, Or How to Skip This: Miles Davis and Bitches Brew (University passionate, reverent progressive Reading It the First Time (AuthorHouse, 2004) Press of Mississippi, 2015). The book began was revised and released as Joyce’s Ulysses as his doctoral dissertation at Drew. Christianity grounded in the for Everyone: Plotting the Narratives (Maunsel Wesleyan tradition of personal & Co., 2013). His book Rilke on Death and Award-winning poet Rebecca piety and social holiness.” Other Oddities (Xlibris, 2007) was revised and MFA Gayle Howell G’10 is the 2015 released as A New Reading of Rilke’s “Elegies” Marguerite and Lamar Smith Writing Fellow. —DEAN JAVIER VIERA (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009). Lastly, his book Each year, the fellow resides and writes from Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties, originally September to December in the Columbus published by W.W. Norton in 1975 and State University Carson McCullers Center for reissued twice since, has been in print for Writers and Musicians. Rebecca’s first book 40 consecutive years now and has sold more of poems, Render / An Apocalypse (Cleveland than 100,000 copies. State University Poetry Center, 2013), won Jeff Richards G’83,’85 was the subject of the Cleveland State University First Book ALL IT TAKES a Q&A op-ed in The Salisbury Post regarding Prize and was a 2014 finalist for ForeWord how his book, The Great Journey, dealt with Review’s Book of the Year. She translated IS ONE GIFT. The Theological School racism. Search for the article at salisburypost.com. Amal al-Jubouri’s Hagar Before the Occupation/ Last summer Charles Selengut G’83 Hagar After the Occupation (Alice James Books, published his latest book, Our Promised Land: 2011) and she is the poetry editor for Oxford John G. McEllhenney T’59 was Education” was published in the Handbook of pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Danville, Faith and Militant Zionism in Israeli Settlements American. Her other honors include two YOURS. 50s one of the principal speakers at Research Methods in Early Childhood Education. Virginia, for 20 years. This was preceded by a (Rowman & Littlefield), which analyzes the fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center the Second R.S. Thomas Literary A co-authored article on stonework play pastorate of five years at the West End Baptist emergence of the radical Israeli Messianic and a Pushcart Prize. Festival held in Aberdaron, Wales, in July appeared earlier this year in the journal Church in Reidsville, North Carolina. Zionist movement. The book is available at Lisa Wujnovich G’10 took part in a 2015. Also, he preached in Saint Hywyn’s Exchange. Ranck serves as an adviser to the amazon.com and other booksellers. poetry reading last July at Poets House in Church, Aberdaron, Thomas’ last parish, and District of Columbia Early Learning Collab- Last August, Mark Karris T’10 Mark R. Fairchild G’85,’89 is professor New York City. Drew Theological School went to Wrexham, Wales, to study the mural orative, and as a member of the World 10s published his first peer-reviewed and chair of the Bible and religion depart- Yesenia Montilla G’12 is among the long- The Dance of Life, which Thomas’ wife, Elsi, Forum Foundation’s Children’s Rights theoretical research article, ment at Huntington University in Indiana. listed authors for the 2015 PEN Open Book serves the Christian church painted in the 1950s. Now he is part of the working group. “Integrating Emotionally Focused Therapy, Last summer he published his latest book, Award for her work The Pink Box: Poems in its many expressions, planning team and one of the speakers for Suzanne Geissler Bowles T’79 was Self-Compassion and Compassion-Focused Christian Origins in Ephesus and Asia Minor, (Aquarius Press/Willow Books). unapologetically and with the 2016 Thomas Festival. promoted to professor of history at William Therapy to Assist Shame-Prone Couples Who which is available at amazon.com and Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. Have Experienced Trauma.” elsewhere. Though it has been some time Congratulations to Rebecca Rego confidence, and remains Edna Runnels Ranck T’71 spent She also directs the American studies minor. Liz Testa T’11 was ordained a minister of since Mark visited campus, he says he keeps MA Barry G’01, whose book Rare firmly committed to the 70s the past two years co-chairing Her new book, God and Sea Power, a biography word and sacrament in the Reformed Church Drew in his prayers and is happy to see Books Uncovered: True Tales of Fantastic Finds in essential conversations the 67th World Organization of naval historian and Episcopal layman in America in September 2013, and served as developments on campus. Unlikely Places, was published by Voyageur for Early Childhood Education World Alfred Thayer Mahan, was published last an associate minister at the Marble Collegiate Brian Regal G’96,’98,’01 appeared in the Press last December. Rebecca says the book and community-building Assembly and International Conference October by the Naval Institute Press. Church in NYC (where she had been on staff History Channel documentary series True is a bit like Antiques Roadshow but focused that our pluralistic world held in Washington, D.C., July 27–August since 2002) until she was called to serve Monsters last October. entirely on rare books and manuscripts. She demands. 1. Attended by over 550 people from Timothy M. Smith T’92 was the denomination as the national executive On June 15, Patricia Palermo G’96,’07 interviewed more than 50 book collectors, 42 countries under the theme of “Early 90s installed as bishop of the North coordinator for women’s transformation and will celebrate the release of her new book, booksellers and librarians about treasures You can help us reach our Childhood Pathways to Sustainability,” Carolina Synod–Evangelical leadership in June 2014. From her office at The Message of the City: Dawn Powell’s New York found in attics, barns, flea markets and the conference offered 346 workshops, Lutheran Church in America on September New Brunswick Theological Seminary, she Novels, 1925–1962. Patricia’s book is based on more. For example, a copy of the Nuremberg goal of 21% alumni partici- posters, papers and plenary sessions. This 12, 2015, at Christ Lutheran Church, ensures that women’s gifts and influence her dissertation (Dean Ready and Professor Chronicle, a beautiful illustrated book published pation by June 30 by making summer the conference will convene at Charlotte, for a six-year term. are fully included in all areas of church life Merrill Skaggs were her readers). The subject in 1493, surfaced in Utah, where the owner Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, South Thomas D. Johnson, Sr. T’99, the senior across the denomination. Having entered Drew of her book, Dawn Powell, posthumously won had been storing it under his bed for decades! your gift today. Korea. Ranck published a book chapter in pastor of Harlem’s historic Canaan Baptist at a time when the Theo School had women an award from the Empire State Association Rebecca, who worked in the library and drew.edu/makeagift. The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education Church of Christ, has been elected to a four- in all three dean positions, Liz says she is not of the Book, and Patricia attended the June University Archives at Drew for a few years, (2013) that highlighted the status of early year term as president of the New York surprised God called her to serve the greater 2, 2015, banquet in New York City. Patricia reminds us that Drew owns a Nuremberg care and education in the United States Progressive Baptist State Convention, a church in this way: “I learned well from my notes that Powell died a pauper and was Chronicle too. during the 1950s, a decade often ignored denominational body with a 53-year years at Drew, from many wise faculty and interred at Potter’s Field on Hart Island, New Paul Kahan G’04 just published his in the historical record for early childhood. commitment to promoting the Gospel peers whose insights and teachings are with York. Patricia is due to speak at an event fourth book, The Bank War (Westholme In 2014, a chapter titled “Past as Prologue: of Jesus Christ. Before coming to Canaan me daily.” in Brooklyn, attended by some of Powell’s Publishing, 2015), which is available at Doing Historical Research in Early Childhood Baptist Church in 2006, he served as senior family, about opening the island. She’s also amazon.com and everywhere. The book been invited to speak at Lake Erie College, chronicles the bitter battle over the charter Powell’s alma mater. of the second bank of the United States and Jude M. Pfister G’07 represented Drew its lasting impact on the American economy. University at the inauguration of Sheila Paul teaches history at Ohlone College in Drew Theological Bair as president of Washington College on Fremont, California. September 26, 2015. School Annual Fund Scholarships | Faculty Support Enriched Student Experience Lynne DeLade C’12
58 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I The Theological School [email protected] I Spring 2016 59 was published in her field, and also taught Jeff majored in math and went on to earn a 2015. After growing up in New Jersey and at Drew and other universities, including master’s degree in computer science at the majoring in economics at Drew, he earned Brown and Fordham. She traveled the world. University of South Alabama. He pursued a master’s and doctoral degrees at Fordham, She is survived by her cousin and godson. career with companies including Kimberly- and became chief economist and global macro Elsa Milby Singh C’55 of San Marcos, Clark. A sports fan, he enjoyed a season as strategist for Standish Asset Management/ California, passed away on October 2, 2015, manager of Drew’s JV basketball team. He Bank of New York Mellon in Boston. He was surrounded by her children and grandchildren. was an active member of Congregation Beth also known for his love of ocean sports, and She was 82. After graduating from Drew, the Israel in San Diego. for sharing the outdoors with his family. Baltimore native earned a master’s degree Edward M. Small C’76, a resident of Tom is survived by wife Lori, their four in social work at the University of Southern Boomer, North Carolina, passed away at age children, his mother, his seven siblings and California, where she also met her husband, 60, on September 2, 2015. their families. He was preceded in death by Inder. She was an active member of the Kathleen M. Agnelli C’78 died on January 31, his father. Methodist church, and taught adult education 2016, at the age of 59 after a courageous Janna Noreen Sears C’00 passed away at Palomar College. Elsa was preceded in death battle with cancer, surrounded by her family peacefully at the age of 36 on August 2, by her husband. She is survived by their three and friends. She lived in Vernon Township, 2015, following a heroic battle with cancer. children and their families, which include New Jersey, for the last 30 years. After Drew, Celebrations of Janna’s life were held at five grandchildren. Kathleen received her JD from Gonzaga School Monadnock Covenant Church in Keene, Leon George Harbeson C’57 served in the of Law in Spokane, Washington. She had her New Hampshire, and at the Humane Society U.S. Coast Guard upon high school graduation, own law practice for many years. She was International in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before matriculating at Drew. After graduating an animal lover and enjoyed the outdoors, where Janna worked for 12 years. Many from Drew, Lee pursued a career as a personnel hiking and kayaking. Kathleen is survived members of the Drew community attended manager for the federal government. A by her mother, aunts and uncles. both services. In addition to her devoted resident of Annapolis, Maryland, he also Betty Ruth Moore McKernan C’79, a work for animals, Janna created her own worked as a substitute teacher in the Annapolis resident of Hamden, Connecticut, passed business, Awesomecakes, selling vegan and public schools after retiring from the U.S. away peacefully on December 5, 2015, just gluten-free cupcakes, cakes and pies. She Department of Energy. Lee died at age 83 on three weeks short of her 90th birthday. is survived by her parents, her brother and In Memoriam October 22, 2015. He is survived by Pat, his Betty initially attended Bucknell University, his family, two grandmothers and a large The Drew community and its alumni associations extend our heartfelt sympathy to the families and friends of wife of 60 years, their three sons and their but interrupted her studies to marry and extended family. sons’ families, including five grandchildren raise three sons. Years later, she finished Jaime Lazcano C’09 passed away unexpectedly those alumni and members of the Drew community listed below. Our ranks are diminished by their loss. and three great-grandchildren. her degree at Drew. She worked in radio on December 16, 2015, at age 28, a resident Anne Baker Siegel C’58 died on Septem- copywriting and delivered the weather on of Little Falls, New Jersey. Born in Colombia, ber 19, 2015, at age 79, as a 40-year resident television in the New Haven market. She Jaime attended high school in the United College of Liberal Arts insurance. Joel served as president of the resident of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. of Unadilla, New York. A political science leaves three sons and their families, including States, and then studied biology and chemistry Mary R. Alvey C’45, P’77 graduated with Livingston Kiwanis Club and president of While still an undergraduate, Betty married major, Anne became a lifelong advocate for three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. at Drew. He was also passionate about world a degree in psychology, but her passion Drew’s College Alumni Association, the fellow Drew student David Follansbee C’50, environmental, social justice and animal Nancy Ann Nixon Mooney C’79 pursued history. He is survived by his parents, three was music. As a Drew student, the lifelong Livingston Adult School and the Livingston T’53. They went on to have three children, welfare causes. She suspended her professional her own higher education at Drew, after siblings, a grandmother and many other Madisonian began directing the children’s Welfare Board. He was elected to three terms six grandchildren and a great-grandson— life to raise her children, but then resumed raising her three children and seeing them relatives. choir at the Madison UMC, and continued as a fire commissioner of Monroe Township. all of whom survive her today, along with employment, serving as a database manager receive undergraduate degrees. Shortly with it for decades. She taught piano for 31 He was predeceased by his first wife of 57 husband David. Betty and David served and consultant to nonprofit organizations. thereafter, she retired to her native New Theological School years as an adjunct faculty member at the years, Helene Hemmendinger. He is survived churches in New York and New Jersey, and Anne leaves Michael, her husband of 57 years, England with husband Dick, with whom Paul E. Brown, Sr. T’50 reached age 99, a College of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station, by his wife, Adrienne Ament, three sons, Betty taught professionally. She retired who is professor emeritus of psychology at she enjoyed 70 years of marriage. She died resident of Johnson City, Tennessee. Paul New Jersey, and continued teaching in her three daughters-in-law, two stepchildren in 1992 to sail on Narragansett Bay, and SUNY Oneonta, along with their three children on December 5, 2015, at the age of 91, a served seven Methodist churches as pastor, own studio until recently. She died at age and seven grandchildren. enjoyed active membership in St. Luke’s and Anne’s two brothers. resident of North Andover, Massachusetts. and was a chaplain and professor at three 92, on November 8, 2015. She is survived Ralph Robert Pfeiffer C’48, a chemist, Church of East Greenwich. Janet A. Flood Scott C’60 passed away at She leaves three children and their families, universities, including his own undergraduate by George, her husband of 65 years, two died on June 21, 2015, at age 89. He leaves Laurence A. Loftus C’53, T’56 spent his age 77 on December 24, 2015, at her home including five grandchildren and three great- alma mater. Paul is survived by four children children, including son David Alvey C’77, his wife, Fay, six children, two stepchildren childhood in Mexico City, where his father in California. Janet worked at Mattel, Inc. grandchildren. and their families, including nine grandchildren and their families, including four grand- and three grandchildren. Born in Germany, served with the American Embassy. After before becoming a counselor, eventually Arthur David “Soc” Deacon III C’82, and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded children and a great-granddaughter. he relocated to the United States as a baby. undergraduate and theological studies at opening her own counseling practice. Janet an avid outdoorsman and athlete, died on in death by Pauline, his wife of 60 years Robert Drew Simpson C’45, T’48,’54, He served in Europe with the U.S. Army in Drew, he lost his heart to the Northwest, taught personal growth, parenting and January 24, 2016. He was 56. He had met (with whom he traveled the world) and two a resident of Chatham, New Jersey, passed 1944–46. He earned a doctoral degree in spending 55 years serving Methodist and psychology classes at several California his wife, Karen Locke-Deacon C’85, at Drew, grandchildren. away peacefully on August 6, 2015, at age 90. chemistry at Syracuse University, and became Presbyterian churches there. He avidly enjoyed learning communities. Janet loved reading, where he majored in English and played Willett R. Porter, Jr. T’52 was born in A great-great-nephew of founder Daniel Drew, a scientist with Eli Lilly & Co. He contributed the outdoors, once performing a wedding on relaxing with her cats and socializing with lacrosse and rugby. Karen and Soc enjoyed Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, completed Bob pursued a long career in Methodist to scientific patents and publications. He the summit of Mt. Hood. He died with wife her large group of friends. She is survived by 27 years of marriage. A resident of Simsbury, undergraduate studies in agriculture at Cornell ministry, including 25 years at the Chatham was a long-standing member of All Souls Kate by his side on December 30, 2015, at her brother, Lawrence Flood C’62; sister-in- Connecticut, Soc was assistant vice president and then prepared for the ministry at Drew. (New Jersey) UMC. He also taught at Drew. Unitarian Church in Indianapolis. He enjoyed age 84, a resident of Enterprise, Oregon. He law Carolyn Morell C’64; sister, Joyce Flood of Investment Communications at MassMutual. His 64-year career included many Methodist He served as a Drew trustee from 1977 to using his carpentry and design ideas to support leaves many loved ones, including Kate, six C’67; and son, Kevin. She was preceded in He is survived by Karen, their daughter Ana, churches in his home state. He also gave 1997, and on many other Drew boards and his wife Fay’s endeavors as a choir conductor. children and their families. passing by her daughter, Karen. his mother, his siblings and many friends generously of his time to the community, committees. Bob volunteered at the Methodist Reeve Stone C’49 had a long career in Alice Ann Burgess C’54, a resident Amy Margaret Anderson Beveridge C’65, and relatives. He was preceded in death by serving as a volunteer fire department chaplain. Archives on campus for 14 years after his communications with IBM in the Poughkeepsie, of Saranac, Michigan, passed away on of Bloomfield, Connecticut, died unexpectedly his father. He died on November 4, 2015, at age 88, a retirement. At Reunion 2010, he was given New York, region. He returned to his native November 12, 2015. She was 82. A native at home on September 9, 2015. She was 72. Kenneth Rich C’86, a 51-year-old physician, resident of Mahopac, New York. He leaves a Drew Lifetime Achievement Award. Bob New Jersey for retirement, and was active in of New Jersey, Alice is survived by her six After graduating from Drew, Amy earned perished at the scene of a tragic accident on Shirley, his wife of 62 years, four sons and was predeceased by wife Megan Demarest a theater group in his original hometown Michigan-based children and their families, a master’s degree at Norwich University, October 9, 2015. After graduating from Drew, their families, including six grandchildren Simpson C’46, G’80, with whom he enjoyed of Maplewood. In 2014, he relocated to including 16 grandchildren and 25 great- and worked for 23 years at the Connecticut Kenneth completed a medical degree at the and three great-grandchildren. over 65 years of marriage, after meeting her Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his grandchildren. Conference of the UCC. Amy and her husband, Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. Richard Pittenger T’53 served in the U.S. at Drew. Bob and Megan are survived by son resides. In 2013, Reeve was preceded Marion K. Pinsdorf C’54 died on Tom, were dedicated members of Christ For three years immediately preceding his Navy in World War II, and then became their three children. in death by Anne, his wife of over 50 years. November 12, 2015, as a resident of her Church Cathedral (Episcopal) in Hartford, death, he had practiced medicine in Smithtown, a pastor. He served Methodist and UCC Joel Hemmendinger C’46, longtime New He died at age 91, on November 2, 2015, beloved Bergen County, New Jersey. She was Connecticut. Predeceased by Tom and by New York (Long Island), where he was known congregations in his native South Dakota and Jersey resident, died on August 2, 2015, at and leaves his son, along with a niece and 83. Marion began her career as a reporter three of her siblings, Amy is survived by her for his compassion and generosity, and for in Massachusetts, eventually retiring to Sioux the age of 90. After serving as an officer nephew and their families. for the Bergen Evening Record. After Drew, she son, her remaining sister and other relatives. devoting extra time to his patients. Falls. Dick ended every golf season by saying, in the Navy during World War II and the Elizabeth Dinsmore Follansbee C’53 earned a doctoral degree and enjoyed a long Jeffrey Ludwig Loeb C’74 passed away on Thomas D. Higgins C’92, a resident of “I finally figured out what is wrong with my
Korean War, he spent his career in life passed away on September 17, 2015, as a career in corporate communications. She Lynne DeLade C’12 April 14, 2015. A proud alumnus of Drew, Cohasset, Massachusetts, died on September 12, swing!” He died at age 89 on November 2,
60 Drew Magazine I Classnotes I In Memoriam [email protected] I Spring 2016 61 2015. He is survived by wife Dolores, three His youthful interest in music led to playing his family, his work, music and the North October 22, 2015. An ordained Methodist and their families, which include five New Orleans. She returned to New Jersey children and three stepchildren, their violin as an adult with the Corning, New York, Carolina mountains. He is survived by minister, he served congregations for over 20 grandchildren; his mother and brothers. and lived in Chatham for over 35 years. Joy children and grandchildren, and many Philharmonic. Steve passed away at age his wife, Lurline, and many friends and years, and was also involved in senior living Edward K. Furman T’87, of Pittston, leaves her two children and their families, extended family members and friends. 80, on November 25, 2015, a resident of relatives, including two children and four ministry. He leaves his wife of 30 years, Donnetta, Pennsylvania, spent several decades as including three grandchildren. James W. Barrett T’54, a U.S. Army Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He enjoyed 56 grandchildren. one son and many family members, including a dairy farmer before pursuing higher Jerome C. Eppler, a former Drew trustee, veteran, served in the Pacific during World years of marriage with wife Nancy, also a Ralph E. Luker T’66 passed away peace- his siblings, their spouses and many nieces education. He completed a master’s at passed away on December 16, 2015. A resident War II. He then became a Methodist pastor, minister. She survives him along with the fully at his Atlanta home on August 8, 2015. and nephews. Drew at age 60, and entered ordained of Denver, Jerry was 91. A Navy veteran, Jerry serving churches in rural New York and rest of their family, including two daughters He was 75. A Kentucky native, he was ordained Robert D. Joiner, Jr. T’87 was an Methodist ministry. Ed enjoyed nearly went on to the Wharton School of the Uni- Pennsylvania, along with hospital chaplaincy. and four granddaughters. a Methodist minister. He taught history and ordained Methodist minister for 62 years. A 68 years of marriage with wife Betty Lou, versity of Pennsylvania, and then enjoyed an He enjoyed the outdoors. Jim died a resident Sidney S. Tate T’60, a resident of LaGrange, religion at several universities, having earned native Texan, he served nine churches in his his partner in farming, on backpacking illustrious 60-year career on Wall Street and of Troy, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 2015, Georgia, passed away on October 16, 2015, at a doctorate in American history at the University career, and also volunteered as a firefighter. treks and in agricultural mission work in in corporate America. He spent 50 years at age 89. He was predeceased by wife Betty, age 80. A Methodist pastor, he served many of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His support He passed away on August 7, 2015, at age Zimbabwe. He died on January 5, 2016, of his life as a Morris County resident. Jerry with whom he enjoyed 55 years of marriage. congregations throughout Georgia, and also for the civil rights movement in the early 1960s 86. Bob is survived by his wife, Kathryn, four at age 89. Predeceased by Betty Lou in leaves his wife, five children, eight grand- Jim and Betty are survived by two children worked for 17 years in university admissions shaped his work. He leaves Jean, his wife of children and their families, including four 2015, he leaves their three children, nine children and two great-grandchildren. and their families, including a grandson, and financial aid. He completed additional 49 years, and several relatives, including two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, Marie L. Garibaldi, the first woman to two great-grandchildren and a niece. work in gerontology at Georgia State University daughters and one granddaughter. and other friends and relatives. two great-great-grandchildren, his brother serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court, William A. Speers T’54 passed away in his in 1991, and was involved in older adult Alan R. Tulp T’74,’76 served in the U.S. James Arthur Johnson T’91, an Air Force and many extended family members. One passed away on January 15, 2016, at age 81. native Pennsylvania at age 89, on November ministries until retiring in 2000. He is survived Army during the Korean War. He received veteran, spent 40 years in parish ministry as granddaughter, also a pastor, officiated at A tax lawyer in Morristown at the time of 25, 2015. After proudly serving in the U.S. by wife Enid, two sons and their families, the President’s Volunteer Service Award in an Episcopal priest, and as a licensed marriage Ed’s memorial service. her appointment, Marie was selected for the Navy, he entered the ministry, serving which include four grandchildren, and 2014. He passed away as a resident of Easton, and family therapist. Born in Washington, court in 1982 by Governor Thomas H. Kean, Methodist and UCC churches in central many other friends and relatives. Pennsylvania, on November 26, 2015, at age 83. D.C., he served in New Jersey, West Virginia, Caspersen School who himself later served as Drew’s president. Pennsylvania for over 58 years. He was also David C. Steinmetz T’61, a leading scholar He is survived by two children, four brothers, Georgia and North Carolina, and retired to Francine Quaglio G’76 passed away at Marie was a member of Drew’s Board of involved in senior living chaplaincy. A resident of Reformation theology, was also known for five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. his wife’s hometown of Tennille, Georgia, in her Bridgewater, Massachusetts, home on Visitors, and as Drew’s 1983 Commencement of Hanover at the time of his death, William his dry wit. After graduating from Drew, the James E. Maddox T’76 passed away at age 2012. Jim died on August 8, 2015, at 67. He December 11, 2015. A New Jersey native, speaker, she received an honorary degree. is survived by Patricia, his wife of 62 years, Methodist elder completed a doctoral degree 70, on October 14, 2015, as a resident of is survived by wife Betty Jean, two children, she earned a doctorate at Drew. She then She became known as a prolific jurist, and their family, which includes two daughters, at Harvard and embarked on an academic Sherrills Ford, North Carolina. A native of two grandchildren and his mother. taught, first at Christian Brothers College writing more than 225 opinions, including four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren career. He taught principally at Duke University, Missouri, he became a Methodist minister James F. Mitchell T’93 was a native Texan in Memphis, Tennessee, and then for 22 some notable dissents. and William’s one surviving sister. with visiting appointments at Harvard, Notre and served 15 churches in his career, including and lifelong Episcopalian. An Army veteran, years at Bridgewater State University. She Ruby Riemer, a poet and philosopher, Arthur Jeffery Hopper T’55 went on from Dame and Emory. A resident of Durham, several in New Jersey and North Carolina. he married Margaret in 1957, and served is survived by her partner, Lois, and by passed away on January 27, 2016. She Drew to earn a doctoral degree at Yale University, North Carolina, at the time of his death, David He is survived by his wife, Brenda, two sons churches in Texas. He passed away on extended family members in Florida. Her was 91. A retired Drew professor, Ruby and became a professor of theology. On Easter passed away at age 89 on November 26, 2015. and three grandchildren. He was preceded in October 6, 2015, at age 83, a resident of San parents and brother preceded her in death. was also the wife of Neal Riemer, a fellow Sunday 1964, he was arrested on church steps He is survived by wife Virginia, two children, death by a third son. Antonio. Jim is survived by Margaret, two of faculty member. Their partnership was both in Jackson, Mississippi, with an interracial two grandchildren and his sister. Jay E. Sale T’79, was born in 1931 in their daughters, seven grandchildren and five Faculty, Staff & Friends personal and professional, as they raised group of Methodist colleagues who were Craige A. LeBreton T’63, a native of Oakland, California, and passed away on great-grandchildren. He was preceded in Joy Ann Rollka Chavent, formerly Drew’s their three sons and co-taught courses in trying to integrate the southern Methodist Connecticut, passed away at his home in December 8, 2015, as a resident of Phila- death by a third daughter. assistant director of admissions, passed ethics and politics. After Neal’s death in churches. A resident of Columbus, Ohio, he Camarillo, California, on August 6, 2015. He delphia. An alumnus of the University of Mack L. Hannah T’98, a native of Georgia, away peacefully on December 12, 2015, 2002, the Neal Riemer Prize was established died at age 85 on July 12, 2015. He is survived was 82. After serving in the U.S. Navy and California at Berkeley, he pursued graduate spent over 40 years in ministry, including as a resident of New Haven, Connecticut. at Drew in his memory. When contributions by his three children, four grandchildren then graduating from UCLA, he earned master’s studies in Chicago, where he met Virginia, time at Belmont University, and as senior She was 87. The New Jersey native and were made to the prize, Ruby expressed her and two brothers. degrees at Drew and at the University of his wife of nearly 60 years. Jay served pastor of Baptist churches in Tennessee and her husband raised their two children in gratitude by personally corresponding with John Calvin Wagner T’56 was not stopped Southern California. He served Methodist churches in Michigan, New York state and Georgia. Mack passed away peacefully at eight different states. Joy volunteered and the donors. Ruby and Neal are survived by by polio, which he contracted in 1945, at age churches in California. He is survived by Pennsylvania as a Presbyterian minister, and home in Georgia on August 20, 2015, at age performed in community theater, and their three sons, daughters-in-law and five 14. Despite significant, permanent paralysis, Sue, his wife of 57 years, two children and attained a doctoral degree at Drew. Jay leaves 67, surrounded by family. He is survived by rode on Mardi Gras floats while living in grandchildren. he studied at Haverford College, the Sorbonne, their families, including eight grandchildren. his wife, Virginia, their two children, two Patricia, his wife of 44 years; two children Drew, the Yale Divinity School and Ohio State Dale Patrick T’63 was born to a pioneer grandsons and nieces. University. With Miriam, his wife of 62 years, Oregon family. He and his wife, Mary, lived Gayle M. Woodman T’79 passed away on he had three children, served congregations and worked principally in Missouri and Iowa, January 19, 2015. in Ohio and taught. He advocated full inclusion but also in Europe, Africa and the Middle Thomas A. Dunbar T’82 served as pastor in the Methodist church, and protested East. An Old Testament scholar, Dale taught of many Methodist churches across Texas and segregation and wars. He died in his home at the university level and wrote prolifically. his native Louisiana. Tommy played high state of Pennsylvania, at 84, on July 28, 2015. He died on July 27, 2015, in Iowa, and is school football, both offense and defense, He leaves Miriam, their children and many survived by Mary, his wife of 54 years, and and also joined the band at halftime on the other relatives and friends, including eight many relatives, including a son, a daughter- trombone. He met his wife, Susan, as an grandchildren and great-grandchildren. in-law and grandchildren. undergraduate and together they raised two Lawrence Andrew Adolph Larson T’59 George C. Schlesinger T’64, a Marine in daughters while pursuing the ministry, from of New Fairfield, Connecticut, passed away the South Pacific during World War II, which Tommy retired in 2006. He passed at age 81, on January 16, 2016. An under- passed away on August 4, 2015, a resident of away on October 18, 2015, at age 68, a resident graduate at Indiana University, he was drum Toms River, New Jersey. He was 86. George of Alexandria, Louisiana. He is survived by major in the “Marching Hundred” and then died exactly nine hours after losing Maxine, Susan; their daughters and families, which proceeded to seminary at Drew. Initially his wife of 68 years. George considered Maxine include four grandchildren; his three brothers; serving as a Methodist pastor, Larry became an integral part of his long ministry, as they and nieces and nephews who learned to ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1968 and served many Methodist congregations in water ski from the back of his boat. served Episcopal parishes in Connecticut Pennsylvania and New Jersey. George and Ronald Colquhoun Smeaton T’82 passed and New York state. Predeceased by his first Maxine were predeceased by one grandson. away peacefully at home on August 3, 2015, wife, Dorothy, he married again in 1983 and They are survived by two children and their at age 80. A minister with the United Church is survived by wife Patricia. He also leaves families, including five grandchildren and of Canada, he spent his career serving in many two children, four stepchildren and their eight great-grandchildren. Ontario locations. He is survived by Delores, families, including eight grandchildren, two James W. Fowler III T’65, a professor his wife of 57 years, two children and their great-grandchildren and a sister. of theology at Emory University and an families, including three grandchildren. He Stephen R. Parr T’60, a native New Jerseyan, ordained Methodist elder, died peacefully was predeceased by a third child. became a Methodist pastor and served churches on October 16, 2015. He was 75 and Jon C. Stenberg T’82 passed away at age 59, throughout New York state and Pennsylvania. resided in Decatur, Georgia. Jim loved in his Doylestown, Pennsylvania, home, on
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Michelle Kim C’16 Actress, dancer, intern, scholar
I was introduced to performing as a child, but it didn’t become an integral part of my life until third grade. My teacher was very fond of creating skits and short plays, and we performed them for other classes.
I was drawn to Drew because of its location. I really wanted to get out of the Los Angeles bubble: I had lived in L.A. all my life. I fell in love with Drew’s campus and its close proximity to New York City.
I came in as an intended theatre major. I joined Drew University Dramatic Society. I’ve performed as a dancer and an actor, and I’ve done sound designing for another show.
Drew’s theatre department gives their students a very well-rounded education: I’ve studied theatre tech, design, playwriting, arts administration and acting.
Growing up, I loved performing. I danced for three years with a studio daily and I was an avid participant in school musicals. Since coming to Drew, I found I needed to focus my energy on one area, which is theatre, but I have been taking voice lessons. I’ve also been very involved with the dance show.
I participated in the London/Edinburgh short-term program and the London Semester. I saw some of the most incredible theatre I’ve seen in my life in London, and I wouldn’t have traded that experience for anything in the world.
In my junior capstone class, Dr. Lisa Brenner asked all of us to write our own theatre manifestos. Mine focused on the misrepresentation and the under- representation of Asian-Americans on the stage as well as in film and TV.
When I went to her for possible internships for the summer, Dr. Brenner put me in touch with the National Asian American Theatre Company. I was also supported by the Patenaude Internship, which allowed me to afford to live in the city.
I learned about the industry firsthand and was a part of a professional show at one of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States, The Public Theater. I feel I’m better prepared to face my future after graduation.
Through an internship with a New York–based theatre company and her participation in two study abroad programs, Kim took full advantage of her experiential
learning opportunities at Drew. Bill Cardoni
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