Forward SPRING SUMMER 2007 CECILIAN HALL OVERFLOWS WITH MUSIC DURING BIAVA QUARTET CONCERT reensburg native Mary Persin, violist for the Biava Quartet – who had her very first music lesson at Seton Hill at the tender age of two - returned home to perform with the acclaimed quartet on November 4, 2006 as part of Seton Hill’s A Musical Perspective O: SEAN STIPP GConcert Series. Members of the Biava Quartet are, from l – r, Hyunsu Ko, Austin Hartman, Jacob Braun and Mary Persin. See page 30. PHOT SETON HILL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2006–2007 DAVID G. ASSARD LYN MARIE DWYER, S.C. BARBARA H. NAKLES Trustees Emeriti BARBARA C. HINKLE, MS ICE RESIDENT FOR NROLLMENT ERVICES FORMER PRESIDENT AND CEO PROVINCIAL COUNCILOR/VICE PRESIDENT US COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER JEAN AUGUSTINE, S.C. V P E S AND EGISTRAR ELLIOTT TURBOMACHINERY PROVINCE ALUMNA BISHOP ANTHONY G. BOSCO R OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MARY ANN AUG, PHD MAUREEN S. O’BRIEN B. PATRICK COSTELLO CHRISTINE M. MUESELER, MA SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SETON HILL RETIRED, ASSISTANT VICE CHANCELLOR COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER MARY LOU COSTELLO VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ALUMNA UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH LOUIS A. CRACO ADVANCEMENT KYM STOUT PHILLIPS ALUMNA HRISTINE ELEGRAM ARRELL ROBERT H. DAVIS C D F COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER PAUL T. ROMAN, MPM COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER MELANIE DIPIETRO, S.C. BARBARA ANN BOSS, S.C. VICE PRESIDENT FOR FINANCE ALUMNA MICHELE MOORE RIDGE ROSEMARY DONLEY, S.C. PRESIDENT/CEO DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT JEROME A. EARLEY LOIS SCULCO, S.C., PHD ELIZABETH SETON CENTER FREDERICK R. FAVO CHANNING BETE CO. JOHN R. ECHEMENT VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATION AND PITTSBURGH, PA PRESIDENT, OAKMONT REALTY COMPANY ALUMNA BRIGID MARIE GRANDEY, S.C. STUDENT LIFE ALUMNA SYLVIA HILL FIELDS CHAIRMAN MARCIA M. GUMBERG O NNE OYLE H EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TANLEY UMBERG J A W. B , P D JOYCE SERRATORE, S.C. S R. G 2006-2007 Seton Hill Alumni PRESIDENT, SETON HILL UNIVERSITY EDEN HALL FOUNDATION AUREEN ALLORAN PROVINCIAL COUNCILOR/ M H , S.C. Corporation Board of Directors ALUMNA PITTSBURGH, PA COLETTE HANLON, S.C. VICE PRESIDENT US PROVINCE KATHLEEN MOLONEY ‘69 ALUMNA DONALD M. HENDERSON, PHD MOST REV. LAWRENCE E. BRANDT, JCD, OFFICE OF MATERIAL RESOURCES PRESIDENT OHN OLLOWAY PHD GERTRUDE FOLEY, S.C. SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SETON HILL J L. H ATRICE UGHES JEAN HUFNAGEL ‘79 BISHOP, DIOCESE OF GREENSBURG COORDINATOR ALUMNA P H , S.C. ARY RANCIS RVIN PRESIDENT-ELECT HONORARY CHAIRMAN SETON FAMILY M F I , S.C. KELLEY MURRAY SKOLODA UCY OPEZ OIG H ALUMNA L L -R , P D LINDA DELIA ‘69 JAMES R. BREISINGER PARTNER AND DIRECTOR, CHARLES MCKENNA LYNCH, III PAST PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT, KENNAMETAL INC. RUTH O’BLOCK GRANT GLOBAL BRAND MARKETING PRACTICE JEREMY MAHLA, S.C. PRESIDENT, ADVANCED CEO, LOUIS A. GRANT, INC. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR MARY JUDE MCCOLLIGAN, S.C. LISA M. 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MUESELER Vice President for Institutional Advancement Phone: 724-838-4232 [email protected] MOLLY ROBB SHIMKO Forward Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement FEATURES Phone: 724-830-4620 [email protected] 2 To Connect and Serve Seton Hill Student Ambassadors Learn Leadership and Poise While Linking BECCA BAKER Current Students to Prospective Students and Alumni Associate Director of Media Relations 5 Seton Hill Announces Two New Scholarship Programs Phone: 724-830-1069 [email protected] 6 A Good Story TIMOTHY R. BANKS Senior Michael B. Diezmos Spends the Summer in the Philippines Researching Publications Coordinator a Folk Tale for His Honors Capstone Project and Graphic Designer 2 Phone: 724-838-4298 10 Keep An Open Mind … But Ask for Evidence [email protected] Dr. Steven Bassett Shares His Ideas About Science, Social Justice, and the Value CAROL J. BILLMAN of Teaching in His 2006 Professor of the Year Acceptance Speech Grants Writer Phone: 724-838-4204 12 Seton Hill and the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education [email protected] Host 7th Holocaust Education Conference LISA A. CARINO Director of the Annual Fund 14 The Richard King Mellon Foundation Issues $500,000 Annual Phone: 724-838-2409 Fund Challenge [email protected] 6 16 Founders’ Society Profile: Pamela Guay Cochenour ’80 ELLEN MARKER GREINER Director of Alumni Relations Phone: 724-838-4226 17 Almost A Millionaire [email protected] Heidi Rudy Miller ’07 Wins Big on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire 18 Everyone an Entrepreneur PHOTOGRAPHY: Dave Miller, Jonathan Nakles, CareerWorks Helps Students Develop the Skills and Get the Experience They Bruce Siskawicz, Sean Stipp, Need to Find the Careers They’ll Love Jack Wolf, SHU staff & students. 26 A Hurricane on the Hill 10 WRITERS: The University of Miami’s Loss is the Griffins’ Gain as Women’s Basketball Heidi Ruby Miller ’07, Coach Ferne Labati Brings Her Winning Tradition to Seton Hill Laura Dell Urbani ’91, Marjorie Wertz ’85 and SHU staff 28 Seton Hill Honors Alumni and Coaches with Athletic Hall ALUMNI NEWS SUPPLEMENT DESIGN of Fame Recognition Dragon’s Teeth Design Inaugural Class Inducted During 2006 Homecoming PRINTER: Laurel Valley Graphics 30 A Musical Perspective Concert Series Features Chanticleer and the Biava Quartet Kent Camerata Performance A Homecoming for Mezzo-Soprano Mary The Forward is published by Seton Hill University, 26 Greensburg, PA 15601-1599, (724-830-1005), Sue Hyatt, ’70 http://www.setonhill.edu, for the alumni, parents, and friends of the University. Postage paid at IN EVERY ISSUE Greensburg, PA. SETON HILL 8 Faculty in Focus Seton Hill University, as a matter of tradition and UNIVERSITY principle, does not discriminate on the basis of race, 22 Campus News MISSION creed, gender, age, disability, or national and ethnic 25 SHU by the Numbers Seton Hill is a Catholic origin in the administration of its educational 31 Griffin Notes university rooted in Judeo- policies, admissions policies, employment policies, Christian values. In the scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and INSIDE BA CK COVER tradition of Elizabeth Ann other university-administered programs. Seton Hill Seton, we educate students University adheres to the non-discrimination Your Gift is “Key” to Bringing a Steinway Grand Piano to the Seton Hill to think and act critically, legislation of both the federal government and the University Center for the Performing Arts creatively, and ethically as Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, including, but not productive members of necessarily limited to, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, society committed to ON THE COVER Title VI, Title IX, 1972 Handicap Provision, and the transforming the world. Americans with Disabilities Act. Seton Hill Student Ambassador Mary Clark with Sky Blue Texes. See story, page 2. COVER PHOTO: Sean Stipp www.setonhill.edu Forward 1 •FEATURE ARTICLE• O: SEAN STIPP PHOT Seton Hill Student Ambassadors Learn Leadership and Poise While Linking Current Students to Prospective Students and Alumni TO CONNECT AND SERVE BY BECCA BAKER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS eton Hill Student Ambassadors are nothing if not Begun in 2001 with the help of a grant from the Teagle flexible. In any given semester, an Ambassador Foundation, the Student Ambassador program merged in may be called upon to give a campus tour to a the 2006 – 2007 academic year with the Student prospective student, serve as an aide to a visiting Representative Program. Prior to this time, the Student dignitary, host a high school student overnight, repre- Representatives, an all-volunteer student club, provided sent Seton Hill at a formal event, make Annual Fund services – including campus tours – chiefly for the phonathon calls, visit a local high school with an admis- Admissions office, while the Student Ambassadors report- sions counselor, participate in a Seton Hill television ed to Institutional Advancement and had a broader scope commercial or advertising photo shoot, staff a fundrais- of responsibility.