• • 1n erce FEBRUARY /MARCH 1982 MAGAZINE

Can a 20-year-old single male college student even think of adopting a 12-year-old, profoundly·troubled and totally deaf boy? NEW CARPETING IMPROVES LIBRARY APPEARANCE A major donation made it possible to replace the badly worn carpeting in the Library, but putting the carpet in was no easy job. Over vacation, professional movers were called in to move the thousands of books from their shelves and to catalog their location as they were moved about during the installation process. The new carpet­ ing, which is rust brown in color, is partly made up of re­ movable squares in high traffic areas which should ex­ tend the overall life and neat appearance of the carpet. The Board of Trustees

Carleen Albonizio Asst. Dir . Residential Life Keene State College Keene, New Hampshire Lloyd Astmann President, Jilson Co. Paramus, New Jersey Perkins Bass Attorney Peterborough, New Hampshire franklin Pierce Margaret Bean FEBRUARY/MARCH 1982 Community Leader MAGAZINE·- Jaffrey, New Hampshire Donald Comstock Business Executive vol. 6 no. 1 Nashua, New Hampshire

John Eason Teacher West Hempstead, New York Emily Flint President, Creative Editing, Inc. CONTENTS: Medford, Massachusetts Elizabeth S. Gowing Writer and Community Leader Boston, Massachusetts A HOME FOR JOHN 4 Elting Morison Historian Peterborough, New Hampshire EDUCATION FOR SELF: EDUCATION FOR OTHERS 7 Saul Ostroff Attorney Boston, Massachusetts INSURANCE COMPANY GRANT FINANCES Franklin Patterson Boynton Professor ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM 10 University of Massachusetts, Boston Walter Peterson President, Franklin Pierce College WITH KNUTSON AT PROGRAMMING HELM I Rindge, New Hampshire WKBK HITS #1 11 Ja mes A. Shanahan, Jr . Certified Public Accountant Manchester, New Hampshire WHAT SORT OF HAT DO YOU WEAR? 12 Douglas Shankman Vice President, Carl Marks, Inc. New York, New York SEE YOU AT HOMECOMING '82 12 Samuel Sudler President, Sudler Construction Newark, New Jersey CLASS NOTES 13 Samuel Tamposi President, Tamposi Construction Nashua, New Hampshire C. Robertson Trowbridge Publisher, Yankee Magazine Dublin, New Hampshire Eleanor E. Wood Prince Philanthropist Chicago, Illinois ON OUR COVER: Kevin Flynn (left) and his adopted son, John, enjoy an outing near their home in East Northport, Long Island. Kevin met John while still a student at Frank­ lin Pierce doing an internship with a FRANKLIN PIERCE MAGAZINE STAFF: nearby rehabilitation facility where John, who is totally deaf and hyperac­ Editor ...... Thomas C . Murphy tive, was being cared for. See cover Alumni Coordinator ...... Clarisse Wallace story page 3. Photographer ...... Thomas C . Murphy ON OUR BACK COVER: The FRANKLIN PIERCE MAGAZINE is published in the months of February, The Ravens represented New England at the National Tournament for a rec­ March, April, May, June, September, October, and December at Rindge, NH, for ord third straight year but lost to the the alumni, parents, and friends of the College. All correspondence concerning the University of South Carolina-Spartan­ magazine should be addressed to the Office of College Relations, Franklin Pierce burg in opener, 75-62. USCS went on College, Rindge, NH, 03461. Publication Number 352- 110. Postage paid at Rindge, ' to be crowned national champion. NH , 03461. A HOME FOR JOHN by Ed Lowe

Can a 20-year-old single male college student even think of adopt­ ing a 12-year-old, profoundly troubled and totally deaf boy? For Kevin Flynn the answer was obvious.

The following story was written for FAMILY CIRCLE of them undermotivated and overworked. And - as magazine and appeared in the December 22, 1981 edi­ Kevin would eventually understand - John had given tion. Since that time plans for a major motion picture his trust and affection to a successsion of them only to concerning the lives of Kevin and John are in the works. have them move on without looking back. When Kevin landed a counselor and child-aid position at the state-run rehabilitation center, he fretted that he John was 12 years old, Kevin, 20, when they met. might be assigned to a deaf child. "I didn't know any John's mother and father, humiliated when they had a sign language, you see, and when they assigned me to child out of wedlock, gave the baby up for adoption at John, I panicked." birth, relinquishing all rights to the newborn after nam­ The panic subsided, however, and in time Kevin ing him. They did not know John was deaf; could not learned to "sign." But John didn't sign bnck, not for four know that for nearly all his early years he would be in­ months. "When I first met him," Kevin said, "back in stitutionalized. May of 1979, he would not sign at all. He knew how, but By the time John was introduced to Kevin Flynn, then a wouldn't. I think he was so tired of trusting people and psychology major at Franklin Pierce College, John had being abandoned that he had just withdrawn totally. The endured at least 10 years of "rehabilitation" in various only thing he had left was himself. The center had label­ state institutions. He had seen scores of teachers and ed him a probable autistic, but the fact was his emotional therapists come and go, most of them poorly paid, many problems were incredible."

4 Kevin was extraordinarily patient with his charge: the more he learned about John, the more strongly he felt. "First, there was sympathy, then con­ First, there was sympathy, then concern, care, affection and ultimately love: a love that straddled the line be­ cern, care, affection and ultimately tween fraternal and paternal, a love that often found love: a love that straddled the line be­ Kevin staring at the ceiling just before and just after a night's sleep, his imagination fidgeting with the pros and tween fraternal and paternal, q love that cons of adoption. often found Kevin staring at the ceiling One day a Boston Globe photographer came to take just before and just after a nights sleep, pictures of John. That meant one thing, Kevin thought. John would be one of the paper'.s "Sunday Child" his imagination fidgeting with the pros features, a likely and needy candidate for adoption. and cons of adoption. 11 Kevin had figured that there would be plenty of time to think about adopting John - maybe even after getting his master's degree. everything about him. Everything. Other people might The idea of adoption rattled even Kevin: Could a have'asked me, "Have you thought about this?" But my 20-year-old single male with no career even think of parents knew that I would have already given it a great adopting a 12-year-old, profoundly troubled and totally deal of thought. deaf boy, especially when the other applicants for the "The next weekend John's picture was in the paper boy might be well-established families? Kevin did know, and I was very depressed. I figured lots of families would though, that he and his family had always been geared call, and I wouldn't have a chance to get him. My toward helping people and solving social problems. parents applied too, figuring that if the agency turned Over the years they had opened their home to children me down, they might accept us as a family. In all, eight and youths in New York City's Fresh Air Fund programs. families wanted to adopt John. I figured I would be last Adopting John was a logical step in Kevin's life, adop­ on the list. But by November, 1979 the agency had nar­ ting him immediately was simply a little less convenient. rowed the applicants down to me and another family. "If I was going to do it, I knew I had to do it right Then one day I got a call saying they had decided on II away," Kevin says. "I went home and talked to my me. parents. What surprised me was that they were not sur­ For a while, Kevin and John lived upstairs over Kevin's prised. They had never met John, but they knew parents' house in Amityville, N. Y., while Kevin strug­ gled to find a job for himself and a school for John. Because John was hyperactive, as well as deaf, he was constantly testing Kevin's love and patience - 24 hours a day. He couldn't afford somebody to ·help watch John because he didn't have a job; he couldn't get a job because he had to watch John. Kevin looks back on that time as the most difficult and depressing period in his life. He says he will put it all in a book someday. After months of struggling, Kevin managed to find a large apartment in a house in East Northport, N.Y. John was surrounded by neighbors who actually studied sign language so they could communicate with him, and he played regularly with the local children. Kevin next got their respective educations squared away: the Lexington School for the Deaf in Jackson Heights, N. Y., for John, and special arrangements with Franklin Pierce College which allowed Kevin to earn credits in a Long Island col­ lege toward his degree. Part-time work as a substitute teacher helped with expenses. "It's all turned around," Kevin said recently, "and John is doing great. He loves going to school - just loves it. When he comes home, he 'signs' children because he wants to go out and play just like any other kid. When he was in the center in New England, he would never 'sign' children or ask to play with others. What a difference, to see him come out of h:is shell and have a good time! I couldn't be more pleased," says Kevin with a proud, fatherly smile. "Really, I couldn't." Kevin Flynn with son, John, outside their home. Reprinted with kind permission of Family Circle Magazine.

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In his first convocation, Vice President Reaske addresses students and faculty on the educational process.

EDUCATION FOR SELF: EDU CA Tl.ON FOR OTHERS

Ceremony is valuable, and a convocation, which Amherst, MA where she lived in her father's house, only means a calling together (from the Latin convocare) is about six times in her entire life; she read Emerson, but particulary valuable , because it helps us to focus on our not Whitman, because she had heard he was "scan­ shared interests and goals; it is also important for all of dalous". For her, "the soul selects her own society, then us at FPC to come together, in order to develop shuts the door." ourselves and the college . My talk is about education - education for self and EDUCATION FOR SELF education for others, but all one process - I'm going to Now let us consider together what we mean by educa­ use two American poets, Walt Whitman and Emily tion for self: Each of us in the college community must Dickinson to help me assert this double nature of educa­ develop, or acquire, or expand a deep, abiding, in­ tion - for self; for others. tensely subjective involvement in our education. We are One of the most valuable educational experiences I here to give ourselves the luxury of being able to find have had was studying American Literature at Yale meaning in our lives - this requires under Prof. Charles Feidelson, for he helped me see that - a degree of unabashed selfishness most American Literature can be divided into several - a degree of anthropomorphic viewing-man at the sorts of opposites - dream and nightmare, good and center - each of us a center unto ourself - a learning evil, and self-alienation and all-inclusiveness. center Walt Whitman's words could summarize much of my Consider the hyphens: We talk about education for talk today: self-improvement, self-development, self-satisfaction, self-understanding, and self-knowledge. When we use these phrases, we're leaning on the overworked hyphen One's self I sing, a single out of guilt - somehow we feel embarrassed to talk separate person, straightforwardly about self, yet this is where the educa­ Yet utter the word Democrati c tional process, the academic experience, is located for the word En Masse. each of us. Publishers know this, as witness the parade of paperbacks on self-improvement - better health, better bodies, better minds, and so forth. We exist alone, as individuals, but we live in a society Some people ask, "why bother to learn anything? The of others, we form relationships, and education exists in world is changing so fast". this framework. American literature flows from a Puritan Answer is : this has always been the case - as evidenc­ inheritance of aloneness, but then splits into a ed by the Copernician age or modern-day biochemistry transcendence, an inclusiveness. Whitman's poetry is research, new leaps forward in knowledge often come steeped in an individualism that paradoxically depends from darkest times - and with new knowledge have on attachment to everything else; he's a "single, come new waves of skepticism. Of course the world is separate person" uttering words that are all-inclusive, changing but many must grow and continue to adapt to democratic. Whitman consistently dramatizes this cen­ change. tral "I" paradox. Education for self-protection: against skepticism, While Whitman dramatized incorporating others into against self-doubt, against cynicism, against those forces himself, Emily Dickinson, wrote a poetry of exclusion - like mass media, high technology, robotics, gene­ the Puritan mentality, the lonely, isolated mind full of in­ splicing, cloning, all of those forces which threaten to trospection, self-reflection, all fortified by emotions of violate self-hood, individuality, the "single separate per­ awe and fear - she spent much time in her poetry, son". Let us be ignorant of much, but let us know who we which is often romantic, seeing herself as isolated under are, and know that who we are today is different, that we pressure, pressure from feeling the self negatively defin­ are changing, that self has fluidity and that education is ed - not this, not that - and as a result she left necessary for the self - come back to point: deep, per- 7 sonal, active, not passive, embracing of the self in the not as much as I think, but my perception is real, and educational process, reminding us of Whitman's line, when I am struggling with things inside, I am not "One's self I sing". necessarily helped by knowing, like Emily Dickinson, Let us now move to consider that others are struggling too. In the history of aesthetics criticism you can find all of EDUCATION FOR OTHERS the other extreme points of view which are useful in Education for others - We exist in a democracy as thinking about the self in relationship to the world - well. consider Sir Joshua Reynolds - 18th century painter - We exist in and through relationships with others and you cannot, in art, have exact imitation of nature for these relationships have, intentionally or not; an educa­ nature is full of disproportions; so, from the general tional dimension - we need to think not about what we figure of things the artist makes out an abstract idea of can "get out of" a relationship, but of what we can put in­ their forms more perfect than any one original. to it - at FPC many relationships exist: Professor­ 18th century Eng. poet, Wm. Wordsworth wrote mov­ student; administrator-professor; student to staff ingly expressing real life, no matter how ordinary in art, member; friend-friend; colleague-colleague. What we but Coleridge objected to Wordsworth's theory of derive may well be a by-product of our attempt to rusticity and realism, thinking there should be truth to educate others - each of us should be able to say: I'm nature, that is, truth to nature freed from accident. learning something in this relationship but more impor­ Nature in the ideal - the theories are boundless; Shelley tantly I'm involved in a teaching-learning process. stressing belief in the purity of what is primitive, Prof. Feidelson, in his Yale lectures, talked frequently dethroning of reason and exhaltation of sensation; Edgar about the terror in nature, in the world, that Emily Allan Poe, the end of art is pleasure, not truth; Matthew Dickinson was so acutely aware of. Remember that she Arnold, concerned with making sure that culture always was a recluse who almost never left her house, always clarify and advance the worthiest ends of existence, to dressed in white, and acted like a secretive child against make reason and the will of God prevail; or, finally her father's role as God; she was frightened but inwardly Tolstoy, arguing that art should be judged by its courageous and anxious to confront. Being alone, a per­ usefulness to society ... again and again, the choice son asserts a sense of self-determination; the soul selects self or society, where is the end, and who among us does her own society, then shuts the door." not struggle between certain basic, primitive, feelings of Emily Dickinson thought that she should be socially self, of desire for self gratification in whatever form, and anonymous; yet she knew society to be powerful - she desire to be helpful to others, selfless - don't we all, like wanted to be part of it, but couldn't so she felt deprived Emily Dickinson, feel a "cleavage in the mind?" - "though I get home, how late, how late," home - We all need to intensify the teaching-learning process society; she wrestled with dualities - as we all do - "I here at FPC. Students need to challenge each other; felt a cleavage in my mind," "one need not be a changer faculty need to challenge students, and each other; to be haunted." She finally could make a bond with the faculty and students need to challenge people like me, greater humanity by seeing she was not alone in her suf­ President Peterson, and others on this platform, we're up fering, in her pain, "I measure every grief I meet." Her for that - we want FPC to have a rich set of tones and grief might resemble yours, a common humanity, and shades in its processes that collectively communicate to this has implications for education of others - recogni­ ourselves and to others that we are, above all, an tion of common ground despite feelings of deprivation academic institution - we're not a party school, we are and loneliness. We must realize that we are able to an academic institution! educate others - students, faculty, administrators, trustees, staff - we are all responsible for educating one EDUCATION'S FUTURE AT FRANKLIN PIERCE another. FPC is a unique institution which can effectively allow Let me digress to think about aesthetics theory for a both education for self and education for others but: minute - Define in our thinking about educating - in FPC - must become academically tougher, more his aesthetic criticism of the 19th century Benedetto demanding, in order to be best at what it can do, which Croce developed the basic idea that all criticism of art is to provide for our growth. becomes an aid to re-creation; the artist produces, the What else do I see in FPC's future? critic reproduces; the aesthetic fact is form, and nothing Its strengths are apparent - FPC is a caring, personal but form; since each form is unique, there can be no college with a rich diversified curriculum and a strong useful cross-comparisons of works of art. Each must be arts and sciences base which strengths will become in­ examined purely on its own intrinsic merits - this point tensified and even stronger. of view, which helped the New Critics, is not one I share, Its reputation which is now primarily on the Eastern as I believe comparisons can be useful; but it serves as a seaboard, will become more national. Student comple­ reminder of uniqueness, and we are asked to decide how tion of full 4 years here will increase. much we can really gain by comparing ourselves to FPC will continue to be a "young" college for a long anyone else . . . . time - as the Chairman of the board has pointed out I am evolving as an individual, I am unique, perhaps we're in adolescence - its youth will allow flexibility, 8 student-centered decision making, relatively less awareness, your values, your abilities: the study of bureaucratic structure and a healthy sense of humor. liberal arts helps you to develop that kind of awareness As our alumni body 'increases each year, it will and the ability to communicate. Very little happens in deepen and expand in its involvement in the college. this world where there is not communication - that in­ FPC can do great things: Our college has many cludes both verbal and non-verbal language, that in­ resources and resources are what we make of them! We cludes having an eye for one's immediate surroundings, should increase our willingness to take advantage of the but also an awareness of what is possible of seeing heat resources at hand but also "import" those resources in asphalt or arresting patterns in ice, of knowing that a which are farther away. problem is usually an opportunity, that virtually all peo­ Ralph Waldo Emerson described England as making ple are capable of developing into higher and stronger good use of the world's pooled resources. He said of people. I've always thought there's considerable value in reading biography because we are reminded that even the greatest people are our cousins. I urge all of you to strive for a balanced life; there is little to improve on the idea of both good physical condi­ tion and a combination of hard work and play, of relaxa­ There is no degree in the world worth tion counter pointing work. We feel good when we more than the value of walking into the achieve and we feel sluggish when we don't. Nothing reduces anxiety more quickly than some hard work, office of the person who is thinking of some conscientious performing, and that is even better hiring you knowing that you know who when the physical and the mental self can be grasped. I talked earlier too, before I move to conclusion, of the you are as a person ✓ your personal American poets Whitman and Dickinson - let me say a strengths✓ your awareness, your values, word about the English romantic poet, John Keats; he too spent considerable time thinking about the sense of self your abilities: the study of liberal arts and the sense of defining self through attachment to helps you to develop that kind of humanity. In his book, The Mind of John Keats, Clarence Thorpe awareness and the ability to com­ makes the point that Keats became early convinced that municate. poetic power and insight could not come at a single leap, but must evolve through successive gradations in confor­ mity with the poet's growing maturity; this growth pro­ cess, nature, means nature as a means.to an end, the end of understanding Man. Keats wrote to his brothers in 1818: "nothing is finer for the purposes of great produc­ tion than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual England, "This foggy and rainy country furnishes the · powers." Keats worked hard to reconcile his theory of world with astronomical observations. Its short rivers do poetry as detachment, of poetry as aesthetic escape, with not afford water-power, but the land shakes under the his conviction that the great poet must concern himself thunder of the mills. There is no gold mine of any impor­ with humanity and the realities of life. FPC should de­ tance, but there is more gold in England than in all other mand much of each of us by each of us - let us chal­ countries. It is too far north for the culture of the vine, lenge each other - interpersonally and academically. but the wines of all countries are in its docks . . . " He So it is for all of us at Franklin Pierce - we need reminding, and this is my hope today, that we are involv­ finally said of the English . . . "They have solidarity, or ed with education for self, education for others. responsibleness and trust in each other." We at Franklin Remembering the Dickinson lines: "Cleavage in the Pierce need to look to each other for education. We must mind" self and others. Let us have a deep, self-centered also look to the "outside world" to see what it has to offer interest in our education as well as a collective, shared, that we can "import". community education at FPC. I continue to believe now, as I have for many years, Each of us should be able to say, with Walt Whitman, that the best preparation for a career is the diligent and serious study of the arts and sciences; they alone can enrich the mind and force the mind to stretch and develop in the direction of personal growth. Develop the individual sufficiently, and that individual is able to take on the world. There is no degree in the world worth more One's self I sing, a single ·· than the value of walking into the otfice ot the person separate person, who is thinking of hiring you knowing that you know who Yet utter the word Democratic you are as a person, your personal strengths, your the word En Masse. 9 Metropolitan Life Foundation cites college/s record of student voluntarism and community involvement. INSURANCE COMP ANY GRANT FINANCES ALCOHOL AND DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM

by Kimberly Dillon

Franklin Pierce College has been chosen as one of the United States accredited by the Middle States Associa­ . 1981 recipients of the Metropolitan Life Foundation Stu­ tion of Colleges and Schools and the New England dent Health Grants; President of the College, Walter Association of Schools and Colleges. Peterson, received the award of $8,500 for an alcohol Located in southwestern New Hampshire, Franklin and drug education program from Arthur Sternhell, Pierce College is a private four-year, coeducational col­ president of the Foundation. lege of liberal arts and business. Under the Student Health Grant Program, the Foun­ College program administrator Paula Phillips says, dation contributes $225,000 over three years from 1980 "The school already has an established record of student through 1982 to colleges and/or universities that create voluntarism and community involvement which makes us innovative programs for helping students develop optimistic that the college community will respond well positive lifetime health habits. to alcohol and drug education programs." The program·, administered on a regional basis, of­ Franklin Pierce's program is designed to curtail fered the 1981 grants to four-year institutions in the alcohol and drug use through education, intervention, early identification and rehabilitation. "The use of alcohol and drugs often results in irresponsible and destructive behavior," says Franklin Pierce president Walter Peterson. "Until recently," he said, "there was no formal system that confronted this health problem." According to Mr . Sternhell, the university community is an important environment for learning about and cop­ ing with a variety of health matters. "We believe that ex­ isting student health services should be expanded," he said, "and that studies should be undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of these services. "We hope that our grants produce programs that will encourage students to make informed decisions about their life-styles and develop permanent habits to protect and improve their health." The Metropolitan Life Foundation was established by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1976. In 1980 Walter Peterson, Franklin Pierce College president, re­ the foundation awarded $492,000 in grants in the health ceives a check for $8,500 from Arthur I. Sternhell, Metropoli­ area. Grants of nearly $3 million were also provided in tan Life Foundation president. Th e money will support a pro­ other general areas: United Way, Civic Affairs, Educa­ gram for c urtailing alcohol and drug use. tion, and Culture. 10 Media and commL!nications grad leads local radio station to top spot. WITH KNUTSON AT PROGRAMMING HELM, WKBK HITS #1 by Mary Michaelides

For Larry Knutson, there are no rewards without risks. As a student at Franklin Pierce College, Knutson developed his own independent major in media and communications, a curriculum breakthrough. A year after his graduation in 1979, Knutson guided WKBK, Keene, to the top of the list of any AM or FM station in Cheshire County. He never doubted he could do it. The 25-year-old pro­ gram director describes himself as "a personality without any hype." Low-keyed and reflective, Knutson speaks in persuasive tones that flow with self-confidence. "Communications is a two-way street," Knutson ex­ plained. "I want people to be themselves. I want them to tell me what it is they want. That's the only reason I'm in this business - to touch people and have them touch me. And in communications that always means taking a risk, sticking your neck out." His father, a paper company executive, taught him never to lose faith in himself. What Knutson describes as a "deep religious commitment" has comrinced him, he said, that "I'll never stand alone. If I fall, someone will pick me up as long as I feel what I'm doing is right." He's obviously doing something right at WKBK. Ar­ bitron, the nation's foremost audience measuring ser­ vice, showed that WKBK earned 29.5 percent of the listening audience in Cheshire County based on a Larry Knutson 1980-81 study. The station's rating success, Knutson ex­ plained, is based on a "special blend" of music, news in­ formation, special programs, and personality with em­ among its adjunct faculty Knutson himself. This new phasis on the Monadnock Region. "I'm pleased with challenge excites him as much as broadcasting. public response and with being number one," he added, "One of the biggest industries is communications and "because we regard what we do as being on the same the media," he said. "It's still growing and it will con­ professional level as any large station in a metropolitan tinue to grow with satellites, cable, and computers. area." Students have got to be ready to take chances, to be When Knutson arrived at Franklin Pierce College in creative, imaginative. They can't be afraid." Knutson 1975, he set about convincing faculty and administration teaches media and communications, in addition to to let him draft his own independent study in com­ broadcast systems and audio production. munications so that he might "work with people." His Knutson also shares his beliefs with the senior high genuine interest coupled with studies and broadcast ex­ youth group of the Rindge Congregational Church perience proved that Knutson was tuned into an increas­ where he and his wife, the former Pam Esty (FPC '79), ingly popular profession. "The college allowed me t_o serve as advisors. . take the initial risks to prove mine was a viable program. As he climbs the career ladder, Knutson said that It was a gamble that both of us won," he said. more than success he strives for "inner peace and hap­ So high did the alumnus score that the college now of­ piness." He added, "Peace and tranquility, not fers communications as a concentration and numbers necessarily safety, are at work in me." 11 WHAT SORT OF HAT DO YOU WEAR? SEE YOU AT HOMECOMING '82 Career Day at Franklin Pierce brought 45 Franklin Pierce graduates and par­ It is never too early to start talking ents together with students to discuss their professions and job-hunting skills . about Homecoming. The dates this year are October 8, 9, 10. This is the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the college. A large birthday party is planned with many faculty and friends from the past specially invited to attend. As you know, this is a holiday weekend and accommodations are scarce. Make your plans and your reservations right now . Your presence is our guarantee of success! The general chairman this year is Mike Doherty '77. He would ap­ preciate your ideas and your help and can be reached at: 68 Vernon St., Wakefi e ld, Mass., 01880, 617-246-2406. Kerry Stein '80, discusses his career with David Anderson '82. Here are a few of the alumni who at­ tended last year. Did you miss seeing some of your friends?

1966

Nick Byrne John Burke Carmine Giangreco

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John Popp Robin Franklin Suffers

1969 Mrs. Rita Lonzo, parent, chats with (r) Margaret Johnson '82. Ellen Ahern Popp Edward Monroe Rick Falconi Bill Swenson Saul Ostroff Helen Dubich Mary Jane Sheldon David Osgood Dan Sansevieri Art Pepe Whip Kerr

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Eileen Ahern Monroe Dennis Maliangos Patricia Kirsh Jim Hendsey Mr. Mel Zilinsk y, parent, (c) Rolph Vespa, Rodney Anderson, and friend hove a career Dan Becker discussion. Chuck Maxwell 12 1971 Jane Wittenberg Bob Lehman CLASS NOTES Dr. & Mrs. Robert Klein Class of 1968 Charles Braunstein 1978 Susan Swenson Robert J. Ackerman, Jr. spent two Steve Liskin Richard Rettig years in the Naval AOC program in Bob Fleming Betty Creteur Markiewicz Europe after graduation. Since Charles Elefante • William McMillen then, he has been operating his own Jean Callahan Gwardyak Norma McNeill Maxwell business, Ackerman Motor Lines, Paula Driscoll Carleen Albonizio Inc. , in Hacketstown, N .J. Bob writes that he sees former classmates 1979 1972 Bob Baldanza, Corky Bates, and Jerry MacDonald often. Wendy Biener Braunstein Diane Hallman John Mack Forlist John R. Kelly 1973 Class of 1969 Chris McDonald Bernie Mucci Dr. Michael Goldman is a podiatrist 1980 Lenny Rubenstein in Boulder, Colorado. He and his Paul Maggiore Scott Rosenberg wife, Phyllis, are the parents of a Dennis Callahan girl, Jodi Elyse, born August 14, 1974 Brent Creelman 1981. Mike missed Homecoming but Leah Kimball was on campus later on last Fall. He Jeff Balza Barry Nathanson reports that he was impressed with Jed H. Miller Stephen Spencer the science building and enjoyed Vicki Spinks Hall Amy Gardner seeing professors Robbins and Mary Reed Stephen J. Robbins Preston again. Jean Fowler Amy Lewison Lynne Tuross Maryellen Cochrane Class of 1970 Char!es M. Callahan III 1975 Samuel S. Mirlis Peter C. Cotton is president of Sales Andrew Walker Consultants of Rhode Island, a com­ James Leighty Lisa Blanchette pany he founded i!l 1977. The com­ Susan G. Barest Jerry Culver pany specializes in search, recruit­ David Morris ment and placement of sales, sales Marietta Albonizio Stone 1981 management and marketing talent with client companies. In April of 1976 Mark Langdon 1981, Peter was presented the Roberta Coolidge Peter Morris Sarah Garretson Richard & Coni Betzendahl Gail Brum Gary R. Hunt Terry Sheehan David W. Gardner Stephen Maccrea Lynda M. Dembek Mary Davis Janet M. Bischoff Susan Fiala Michele Gunness-Hey Kim McGrath Dennis & Jessica Hey Lee Feldstein Mark Holody Jim Weiger Steven Roberts Michele Whitehorne Kathy Voorhees O'Neil Jane Carabello Steve O'Neil Debbie Johnson Jeann\9 Hauerstock Becky Jorn Ed & Barbara Hopkins Kevin Yager Elaine Begley Peter C. Cotton 1977 Sharon Konspore Kevin Shanks · Director's Club Award ·by the presi­ dent of Sales Consultants Interna­ Frank E. Candid Elizabeth Brown tional, the parent company. The Bill Kiser Kim Lebel Director's Club Award is presented David Porro Susie Rieck 13 to those who have achieved a eluded student senate , jud iciary would like his fraternity brothers to quarter of a million dollars in sales. board, elections committee, presi ­ drop him a line and tell him where In addition, Peter has been ranked dent's hostess, orientation commit­ they are living. as one of the top three producing tee, president's council for women's managers in the country for the last affairs, Pierce Arrow co-editor and Ira Wechsler is the studio manager three years. Also in April of 1981 , advertising editor, and social com­ and photographer for Kenn Duncan Peter and his wife, Leslie, became mittee. She was selected for inclu­ photographs in New York City. parents of a girl, Julia Michelle. sion in Wh o's Wh o Among Students in American Universities and Col­ Temple Grandin writes to tell us that leges and graduated cum laude. Class of 1975 she is attending the University of Il­ She has served on numerous alumni Steven Muller sent us an announce­ linois to study for her doctorate and association committees including to conduct research on animal scholarship and homecoming. Car­ ment that his paintings were ex­ hibited at an art show in Portland behavior and physiology. She will leen is originally from Old Green­ (Maine) Art Building, in November also be available for consulting on wich , Ct. livestock handling and the design of of 1981. Steve lives in Allston, Mass. livestock handling facilities for ran­ John W. Boyle wants his friends to George P. Nicholas, II received his ches, feedlots, and meat packing know that he is "still a prisoner at Master of Arts degree in 1979 from plants. work in Bayonne, N.J." the University of Missouri at Colum­ bia, and is presently working on his Randolph H. Hendler, Assistant Vice Class of 1972 Ph.D. at the Institute for Quarter­ President at Chemical Bank, has Scott D. Lauermann has been busy nary Studies, Center for the Study of relocated his offices to its World since graduation. He received his Early Man, University of Maine at Headquarters Building as Senior MA in botany and his MAT in Orono. The focus of his research is Loan Officer. His business address biology from Smith College, and the archaeology of extinct glacial is now: 277 Park Avenue, New York, graduated from the University of lakes in northern New England. He New York 10172. Guadalajara, Mexico, medical writes that most of his energy has school in December, 1981. Scott will Class of 1971 go into family practice.

Raymond S. Levesque received a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology from Anna Maria Col­ lege in 1977, and a Master of Social Work degree from the Rhode Island · College School of Social Work. His studies were primarily in psychiatric social work and human services ad­ ministration. He is now working at People to People Associates in Waltham, Mass. , where he is involv­ ed in providing industrial social George P. Nicholas II work consultations. been spent in archaeology, both in the field and at local, national, and international conferences. He has Carleen Albonizio Class of 1973 presented several papers at ar­ Carleen AlboI).izio, a perennially ac­ Andrew Cohen is married to Jane chaeological conferences and has tive member of the alumni associa­ Rubin, and they have their first had numerous articles published in tion, has been named a member of child, Alexander. He is working for archaeological magazines. the board of trustees at Franklin Century Investment Co., managing George is the author of a short Pierce College. Currently assistant real estate. story, "The Queer Duck", published director of resident life at Keene in October, 1980, issue of Yankee State College, Carleen becomes the magazine, and is working on a first alumna on the board. As a stu­ Class of 1974 novel. dent at Franklin Pierce, Carleen re­ In addition to his doctoral studies ceived the National Women's Com­ Peter H. Jason and his wife Joyce, are and his writing, George is currently mittee Award for "the student who the proud parents of two sons, two­ a Research Associate at Phillips Ex­ most contributed to student life on year-old, Ryan Matthew, and two­ eter Academy , and also finds time campus." Her other activities in- month-old, Adam Michael. Peter for his many hobbies which include 14 scuba diving, rock climbing, and Jodi Levine has been employed by the winter mountaineering. firm of Epstein, Raboy Advertising as a traffic coordinator. A native of Class of 1976 Brooklyn, she resides in Manhattan.

Michele Gunness-Hey received her Stephen Marshall is the Development Ph.D in Biobehavioral Sciences Coordinator for Green River Com­ from the University of Ct. , in 1980. munity College, Auburn, Wash­ She is currently a post-doctoral ington. His friends may reach him fellow in endocrinology and by contacting the college. metabolism at the University of Ct. Health Center. Michele and Dennis have a one-year-old daughter, Class of 1980 Jessica, and are expecting a second baby in August, 1982. They have Lisa A. Blanchette is a private just bought a 150-year old home and Clifford L. Jones, Secretary,' Department secretary to a production manager plan to restore it. of Environmental Resources with Michael Chapman. at Cape Cod Matchmates, manufac­ turers of women's sportswear. She is Amanda Tasch Sobel has been living prescribed course, which covers all presently living in Bridgewater, in Sao Paulo, Brazil since her phases of police work. Mass. graduation and marriage in 1976. She has recently had a one-man Sarah Anne Gettenberg is a resident Thomas Vanderbilt is an assistant show of 25 paintings at a gallery in counselor at St. Agatha's Foundling production manager for Conard­ Sao Paulo. Amanda writes that she Home in Nyack, N.Y. She will be Pyle Co. of West Grove, PA. He was and her husband had a great mo­ getting married on February 14th to recently married to Jane Zatz '81, ment in January, 1981, when they Robert B. Schles who is a studio who is employed as a financial con­ were granted a private audience engineer employed by American sultant for The Topkis Financial with Pope John Paul II, in Rome. Broadcast Company. Group of Delaware. ------Class of 1978 DO YOU LIKE READING ABOUT YOUR CLASSMATES? Hank Feuereisen is enjoying life in California. He is ski host at the You do? Well, they would like to read about you , too. Plea~e use the space Heavenly Valley Ski Area, Lake below to send news about yourself fo r CLASS NOTES. Tell your friends Tahoe, in the winter, and is a waiter about address changes, promotions, further education, marriage, child ren, on a cruise boat in the summer. travels, hobbies, and what you've been doing. Use the handy form below and mail it in the enclosed envelope, or send to: Alumni Coordinator, Debra Greene has recently been pro­ Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH 03461 moted to Microbiologist and Super­ Name______Class of ___ visor of the Micro Department for Kolmar Labs in Port Jervis, New Current Employment: York. She plans to start work on her Title: ______Employer: ______masters degree soon. Address: ______

Class of 1979 (City) (State) (Zip Code) Tel# Michael Chapman, one of twenty­ eight (28) Cadets to graduate from Tell my classmates that: the Pennsylvania State Police Acad­ emy in Hershey this past September, was the speaker on behalf of the graduating class. The graduation ceremony marked the completion of the twenty week course. Graduation from the Academy and promotion to the rank of Trooper is contingent upon successful completion of the □ Check if you have changed address. Please correct mailing label on other side.

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