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FEATURES WDEPARTMENTS A Celebration of Our Alumni: A Special Issue UNIVERSITY REPORT SHOWSTOPPERS IN ARTS, The latest news from 35 ENTERTAINMENT,AND SPORTS William Paterson From television and movies to music, Page 4 art, and sports, these seven graduates are in the spotlight. Page 6 SPOTLIGHT Alumni News ON TOP OF THE BOTTOM LINE Page 35 These six alumni are making their 7 mark as high-ranking executives in the business world. PARTING SHOT Page 11 Alumni on-the-job, on campus Page 40 CORE CONNECTIONS: TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE COMMUNITY Meet nine alumni whose COMING UP AT WP commitment to helping others Calendar of is making a difference. upcoming events Page 16 Back Cover

PAGE HEADLINERS IN MEDIA AND PUBLISHING W1 As top communication professionals, ONE these eight graduates are making headlines. Page 24 4 SCIONS OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE Eight alumni scientists, researchers, and medical professionals are forging new frontiers. Page 30

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 2003•2003•Faculty2003•2003 Service•2003•2003 Award•2003•2003 2003•2003Distinguished•2003•2003 •Alumni2003•2003 Awards•2003•2003 2003•2003•2003•2003Athletic Hall•2003•2003 of Fame•2003•2003

THE 2002-2003 FACULTY SERVICE THE 2003 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI THE 2003 ATHLETIC HALL OF AWARD is presented to a faculty AWARDS are presented to alumni FAME AWARD is presented to athletes, member who has demonstrated representing the five Colleges—Arts coaches, or support personnel who distinctive contributions in his/her and Communication, Christos M. have demonstrated distinctive career at William Paterson University. Cotsakos College of Business, achievements in athletics. Each year, the William Paterson Education, Humanities and Social University Alumni Association Faculty Sciences, and Science and Health— CRITERIA: Service Award Scholarship will be given who have demonstrated distinctive I The nominee must be a graduate of in honor of the current award recipient. achievements in a career, civic William Paterson University of New involvement, or both. Jersey or its predecessor CRITERIA: institutions (i.e. William Paterson I The nominee must be a full-time, CRITERIA: College, Paterson State College, retired, or current faculty member at I The nominee must be a graduate of Paterson State Teachers College). William Paterson University or its William Paterson University of New I He or she must have played, predecessor institutions. Jersey or its predecessor coached, or been support personnel I Preference shall be given to faculty institutions (i.e. William Paterson on a varsity sports team. College, Paterson State College, members who have had meaningful I Nominator should explain why the impact and involvement at the Paterson State Teachers College). I nominee should be placed in the University or in the community. Preference shall be given to alumni Hall of Fame. I No more than two awards may be who have demonstrated community service and leadership in their Deadline for submission of ALUMNI ASSOCIATION presented annually. professional field. nominations: April 1, 2003. I The award will be given to a person(s) I nominated during the current year or One award per College will be previous year. presented annually. I I Current members of the Executive The award will be given to a Council of the William Paterson person(s) nominated during the University Alumni Association and current year. previous recipients are not eligible I Current members of the Executive for this award. Council of the William Paterson I In addition to the completed University Alumni Association and nomination form, a nomination previous recipients are not eligible statement must be submitted for this award. indicating how the faculty member I In addition to the completed

NIVERSITY has demonstrated distinctive nomination form, a letter of achievements and contributions recommendation must be submitted during his or her University career. indicating how the nominee has U Please include a copy of the faculty demonstrated distinctive member’s current curriculum vitae. achievements and contributions and Deadline for submission of brought credit to his or her alma nominations: January 15, 2003. mater. Additional supporting documentation may be attached. Deadline for submission of nominations: January 15, 2003.

Application forms for the above awards I NOMINATE may be obtained from for the following award (please indicate) The Alumni Relations Office

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E XECUTIVE E DITOR Stuart Goldstein, Associate Vice President Dear Friends, for Institutional Advancement

M ANAGING E DITORS Lorraine Terraneo, Executive Director, Whenever I meet alumni of William Paterson University, I enjoy learning about their Marketing and Public Relations; Mary Beth Zeman, Director of Public Relations career accomplishments and hearing them reminisce about their college experiences. Many talk about the lifelong impact of faculty members who took an interest in A LUMNI A SSOCIATION individual students. Many speak about the University as an institution that gave them a Allison Worman ’75, President of the Alumni Executive Council; Judith Linder, Executive Director of Alumni chance and created a foundation for success. Many express pride in being the first in Relations; Audrey Bonaparte-Watts ’95, Assistant Director their families to have an opportunity to attend college. Many talk about the lifelong friendships and memories built during their college years. M ARKETING AND P UBLIC R ELATIONS Editorial: Christine Diehl, Brian Falzarano, Minne Hong Ho, A number of our graduates live visible lives where they gain public accolades for their Robert A. Manuel, Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94, accomplishments. Most live outside the view of the public in quiet lives filled with great Terry E. Ross ’80, Phillip Sprayberry Design: Nadia Tedesco, Bob Verbeek ’95 achievements. Intern: Paula Zecca ’02 In this issue of WP Magazine, we pay tribute to our 51,934 alumni who continue to grow not just in numbers, but in the scope of their success. We honor our graduates by P UBLICATION D ESIGN AGCD, Montclair, NJ – Allan Gorman, Art Director featuring a select few who epitomize their fellow alumni and demonstrate diversity in every sense of the word – diversity of careers, interests, backgrounds, goals, ideas, P HOTOGRAPHY lifestyles, and places of residence. Manny Akis (cover photos); Bill Blanchard; Pete Byron; Rich Green; Brigitta Hanggi; Craig Phillips; Steve Smith; We now have alumni living in all fifty states and in thirty-three countries, from Lisa Wright, Center for Continuing Education and Distance Australia to Guyana to Turkey. They work in fields ranging from the arts to financial Learning services to nursing to teaching to writing. Some studied at our institution in crowded Section Opening Illustrations by Cathie Bleck School 24 in Paterson, some on a young, sparse campus in Wayne, some on that campus WP is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement, after it evolved into our current bustling twenty-four-hour center of activity. Richard Reiss, Vice President. Views expressed within these pages do not necessarily reflect the opinions of We have vibrant alumni as mature as 101 years young (see page 22) and as youthful as the editors or the official policies of the University. 16 years old (see page 5). ©2002 by The William Paterson University of New Jersey www.wpunj.edu Our alumni are ambassadors who demonstrate the value of their William Paterson Editorial Offices: 973.720.2966 • [email protected] education to their colleagues, friends, and relatives. During the past year, we have Send Changes of Address to the: developed programs that create opportunities for our alumni to share their experiences, Office of Alumni Relations PAGE William Paterson University insights, and expertise with current students. W3 300 Pompton Road THREE Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 We encourage all alumni to stay connected with our University in any way that is 973.720.2175 comfortable for you. Soon, you will be able to visit us in your own alumni house. The Allan and Michelle Gorab Alumni House on Oldham Pond, a short distance from W ILLIAM PATERSON U NIVERSITY campus, should be completed by spring. Arnold Speert, President Chernoh M. Sesay, Provost and Executive Vice President I hope that you enjoy this special issue of WP Magazine – and of course, I hope that you enjoy your memories of William Paterson University. B OARD OF T RUSTEES Gwendolyn Taylor, Chairperson Frederick Gruel, Vice Chairperson Sonia Rosado, Secretary James Butler • Peter Fan • Clarice B. Jackson • Arnold Speert Vincent J. Mazzola ’73 • Henry J. Pruitt, Jr. • President Angela Rodriguez • Robert H. Taylor • Carla Temple

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 WHO WE ARE UNIVERSITYREPORT WHAT WE’RE DOING

WHO WE ARE

University Dedicates Major New Facility The University’s new academic facility at 1600 Valley Road in Wayne was dedicated on September 3 during William Paterson’s annual University Day celebration. The 150,000-square-foot academic building, which houses the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business, the College of Education, and the Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning, features advanced technological capabilities and the 1600 VALLEY ROAD E TRADE Financial Learning Center, a state-of-the-art simulated trading and financial center where students will learn Foundation Raises $144,000 for the most successful in the history of the event. about the principles of money management Scholarships at Annual Legacy “Funds raised by the Legacy Award Dinner and investing. Award Dinner The William Paterson directly impact the lives of the University's “We are a University with an unwavering University Foundation raised more than students,” says Rick Reiss, vice president for commitment to our students, our faculty and $144,000 for its scholarship fund during the institutional advancement and president of the staff, and to excellence,” said President Foundation’s 12th annual Legacy Award Dinner William Paterson University Foundation. Arnold Speert at the ceremony. “The and Silent Auction held in May. This year’s “Through the Foundation, the University is able dedication and opening of 1600 Valley dinner, which featured the presentation of the to provide scholarship support for its most Road…is another step along the planned and Legacy Awards, the Distinguished Alumni talented students, who will be the business and timely growth of the University.” Awards, and the Faculty Service Awards, was community leaders of the future.” The building increases the institution’s academic and academic support facilities by twenty-five percent, marking the University’s largest physical growth since moving to its PAGE W4 present campus in November 1951. In FOUR addition to the E TRADE Financial Learning Center, the facility features a variety of fully multimedia equipped instructional spaces, including a 174-seat auditorium, eleven seminar rooms, nine traditional classrooms, six tiered classrooms, an interactive television (ITV) classroom, and three computer labs. The building is completely outfitted with wireless connectivity, allowing students and faculty to PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT (CENTER) AND ALLISON KENDALL WORMAN ’75 (FAR RIGHT) WITH FACULTY SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENTS (LEFT use laptop computers anywhere in the facility. TO RIGHT) BEVERLY ROSENGREN, WHO ACCEPTED THE AWARD ON BEHALF OF HER LATE HUSBAND, JOHN ROSENGREN, PROFESSOR EMERITUS The property accommodates six hundred OF BIOLOGY; STEPHEN HAHN, ASSOCIATE PROVOST AND PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH; AND JUDITH COOMES, AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF parking spaces. A shuttle bus service COMPUTER SCIENCE AND FORMER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS. THE FACULTY SERVICE AWARD IS GIVEN BY THE ALUMNI connects the property to the University’s ASSOCIATION TO FACULTY MEMBERS NOMINATED BY WILLIAM PATERSON ALUMNI IN RECOGNITION OF DEMONSTRATED CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AND COMMITMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY. main campus. UNIVERSITY Musical Celebration Marks Creation of Thad Jones Archive The establishment of the Thad Jones Archive at William Paterson University, which will house works by the late, great jazz artist, was celebrated with a musical ceremony held on

campus in April. The archive will include original REPORT manuscripts and arrangements of Thad Jones, one of the founders of the University’s internationally known Jazz Studies Program.

THE LEGACY AWARD HONORS INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO, THROUGH THEIR ACTS AND DEEDS, EPITOMIZE THE SPIRIT OF “This is a prestigious honor for the music NEW JERSEY PATRIOT AND STATESMAN WILLIAM PATERSON, THE UNIVERSITY’S NAMESAKE. PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT (FOURTH department and the entire University FROM LEFT) CONGRATULATES LEGACY AWARD RECIPIENTS (LEFT TO RIGHT) BRUCE WALDMAN, ALBERT DAHAB, AND JOSEPH community,” said James Williams, the acclaimed MAKOUJY, TRUSTEES OF THE JOHN VICTOR MACHUGA FOUNDATION; RICHARD MILLER, ESQ., A SENIOR PARTNER IN THE WAYNE jazz pianist and current director of the program. LAW FIRM WILLIAMS, CALIRI, MILLER, OTLEY & STERN; AND BILL D’ELIA, M.A. ’72, FORMER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND The ceremony featured a performance by DIRECTOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING COMEDY SERIES, ALLY MCBEAL. the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (formerly the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra), which is now in residence at William Paterson and plays an active role in the Jazz Studies Program. To mark the occasion, the orchestra was joined on stage by the William Paterson Jazz Ensemble to perform Jones’ beautiful ballad, “For You,” which was written for the only recorded meeting of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras. “Many of Thad Jones’ works are of DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENTS POSE WITH PRESIDENT ARNOLD SPEERT (FOURTH FROM LEFT), AND ALLISON KENDALL WORMAN ’75, PRESIDENT OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (FAR RIGHT). RECIPIENTS, HONORED IN RECOGNITION OF SIGNIFICANT considerable historic significance,” said David ACHIEVEMENT, WERE (LEFT TO RIGHT) RICHARD ADUBATO ’60, M.A. ’70, HEAD COACH OF THE NEW YORK LIBERTY WOMEN’S Demsey, coordinator of the Jazz Studies Program. BASKETBALL TEAM; DR. JOHN DELUCA ‘79, DIRECTOR OF NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, KESSLER MEDICAL REHABILITATION RESEARCH AND “The original pen and ink manuscripts, which the EDUCATION CORP., AND PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION, UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW Vanguard’s musicians have been playing from for JERSEY; DR. MARGARET LANDI ’74, VICE PRESIDENT, GLOBAL LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE, GLAXO SMITH-KLINE PHARMACEUTICALS; more than thirty years, are deteriorating. They DR. MARIA NUCCETELLI ’63, M.A. ’77, PASSAIC COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS; AND RAYMOND ARTHUR ‘82, PRESIDENT, TOYSRUS.COM. expressed a desire for the documents to be housed at William Paterson because of the University’s long history with Thad Jones and its Commencement Open to All a role model for her daughter, Heather reputation as a true jazz environment.” The Ages The Class of 2002 was a study in Murphy, a 1997 alumna of William manuscripts will be stored in a secure, contrasts as both the winter and spring Paterson. “Her determination and monitored, and controlled archive in the David ceremonies included women at different perseverance should be an inspiration to us and Lorraine Cheng Library on campus. crossroads of their lives. At the winter all,” said University President Arnold Facsimiles will be available, with permission, for commencement, Norma Murphy, just one Speert. scholarly study and for performances by William day short of her 65th birthday, earned a Just as the winter ceremony featured the Paterson’s jazz students. bachelor’s degree in accounting after oldest graduate, the spring commencement twenty-three years as a student. The oldest included William Paterson’s youngest PAGE graduate in the Class of 2002, Murphy was graduate, Hoda Bastani, who, just a few W5 days past her sixteenth birthday, earned a FIVE degree in biology. An honors student who graduated with a 4.0 grade point average, Bastani skipped high school and earned an associate’s degree from the County College of Morris before transferring to William Paterson. While on campus, the Iranian- born Bastani founded CELEBRATING THE CREATION OF THE THAD JONES ARCHIVE ARE the Muslim Student (FROM LEFT) ANNE CILIBERTI, DIRECTOR OF THE CHENG LIBRARY; (TOP) NEWS 12 REPORTER DEB GALLO Association and JOHN MOSCA, MUSICAL DIRECTOR, VANGUARD JAZZ INTERVIEWS NORMA MURPHY ABOUT HER served as its ORCHESTRA; DAVID DEMSEY, COORDINATOR OF THE UNIVERSITY’S ACHIEVEMENT; (RIGHT) BIOLOGY PROFESSOR president for the two JAZZ STUDIES PROGRAM; AND JAMES WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR OF MARTIN HAHN WITH HODA BASTANI. THE JAZZ STUDIES PROGRAM. years she took to complete her degree.

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 Showstoppers in Arts, Sports, and Entertainment From television and movies to sports and entertainment to concert halls and galleries around the world, William Paterson alumni are in the public eye and are having an impact on culture in America and beyond. Here are seven graduates who are in the spotlight.

His coaching journey is still unfolding Dallas, New York, and Orlando; during his and still enjoyable for the sixty-four-year- stay in Dallas, he was an assistant when the Richie Adubato old Adubato. He remembers coaching high Mavericks reached the Western Conference COACHING IN THE WORLD’S school basketball by day, then meeting finals in 1988. fellow William Paterson alum and ESPN Now, he finds himself working in the OST AMOUS RENA M F A announcer Dick Vitale so they could world’s most famous basketball arena – ichie Adubato’s baseball ambitions led carpool together, scarf down a quick slice of Madison Square Garden. He has a WNBA R him down the New Jersey Turnpike to pizza at a Haledon pizza parlor, then title contender with the Liberty, not to a tryout camp with the Philadelphia hightail it to campus for their night mention numerous memories from the time Phillies. After leading William Paterson to graduate school courses. Their connection he left William Paterson after a standout the 1959 NAIA World Series championship helped Adubato ascend from the North two-sport career. as a sweet-swinging first baseman, however, Jersey high school scene to the NBA’s “My greatest thrill was coaching the there was no contract offer. From there, he Detroit Pistons in 1978 as Vitale’s assistant. 1997 NBA All-Star Game. Here I am, a turned his attention to his other sporting Adubato eventually succeeded his friend guard from William Paterson who could passion—basketball. as head coach in Detroit, and forged a never go right, always went left, and to get “What I wanted to do was teach and successful NBA career of his own. He has respect from them was just a thrill,” says coach in high school,” says Adubato ’60, also enjoyed head coaching stops in Dallas Adubato, who earned his undergraduate M.A. ’70, a 1991 inductee into the William and Orlando, leading both teams into the and graduate degrees in administration. Paterson Athletic Hall of Fame for baseball playoffs. In addition, he served stints as an “I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” PAGE and basketball. “This is much beyond assistant coach in Cleveland, Detroit, — Brian Falzarano W6 SIX anything I could have envisioned.” This spans more than twenty-five years of fond recollections gathered as he worked his way from a junior varsity high school basketball coach in the early 1960s to coach of the 1997 NBA All-Star Game with an Eastern Conference roster featuring Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, and Shaquille O’Neal. He is now in his fourth season as head coach of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, turning a solid team into one of the best and brightest in women’s professional basketball.

Richie Adubato Eric Alexander Bill D’Elia FROM ASPIRING MUSICIAN WRITING,DIRECTING, AND TO RECORDING DYNAMO PRODUCING TAKE CENTER STAGE hen Eric Alexander ’90 got s a successful producer and director, Wserious about becoming a jazz A Bill D’Elia, M.A.’72, is used to the musician, he began studying the tenor vagaries of life in the entertainment saxophone and transferred to William industry. Most recently, D'Elia, a graduate Paterson to be close to New York of the University with a master's degree in City's jazz scene. “Once I arrived, I communication arts, served as executive was so eager that I soaked up producer of Ally McBeal since April 2000 everything that was going on,” he and also directed several episodes each remembers. “I worked particularly season to fulfill his passion for directing. hard on doing what young musicians But the recent cancellation of Ally McBeal do—studying recordings, mimicking has opened up other opportunities for him. great players, and expanding my Currently, he has several projects in vocabulary.” various stages of development. One is a Alexander, who grew up in movie for ABC called The Understudy, Olympia, Washington, knew he which is also the pilot for a TV series. “It’s needed to be in an area where he a behind-the-scenes look at the life of an could hear the great jazz players understudy in a Broadway theatre,” D’Elia performing on a regular basis. He also explains. “The series will be a musical using needed advice from people who were songs which are familiar to viewers.” He Eric Alexander part of the scene, and the faculty at co-created it, and will serve as executive William Paterson included several producer and director. It’s a formula that’s been working. As professional jazz musicians. Among his He is also working on two feature films. Alexander fine-tunes his musical style, he most influential teachers were tenor D’Elia is currently casting the film Fall, and continues to climb in popularity and saxophonist Joe Lovano and the great the script for Union is being rewritten. distinction. In the July 2000 issue of Jazziz Memphis pianist Harold Mabern, who These projects are in addition to his day magazine, critic Neil Tresser called began as Alexander’s mentor and ended up job, which is directing episodes of several Alexander “one of the most dynamic tenor a dedicated collaborator. TV series. This season, he has directed men now playing in any genre, from bop to “The most important thing Harold episodes of the critically acclaimed series avant-garde.” In 2001, Down Beat magazine taught me was a love and respect for the The West Wing, and the new show American critics rated him as one of the top three music,” says Alexander. “He made me want Dreams. He also directed several mid-season tenor men deserving wider recognition. to play. I just stood there in awe and replacement shows ordered by the And during the 2000-2001 Jazz Room listened to him lecture or play on a weekly Series at William Paterson, Alexander basis and that really motivated me.” returned to his alma mater to perform the Now, hardly more than a decade since opening concert of the series. His quintet, he graduated from William Paterson, naturally, included Mabern on piano. Alexander is an established musician and Alexander, who resides in New York PAGE recording dynamo. He has fifteen albums as with his wife, Esther, and their infant son, W7 a leader, and his sound can be heard on SEVEN Andre, now lives the life of a busy jazz scores of others. musician. During the summer months, he On his latest release, Summit Meeting, tours Europe and teaches at various jazz Alexander teams up with his rhythm camps. Looking ahead, he knows he’ll be section of many years, including Mabern playing in the New York area one month, on piano, John Webber on bass, and fellow followed by a gig in Chicago. Then it’s on alumnus Joe Farnsworth ’94 on drums with to Louisville, and off to Spain. Then on to guest Nicholas Payton on trumpet. The the West Coast and back again to the new CD includes originals by Alexander Village Vanguard in the city. “As a horn and a few lesser-known standards with a player you have to be flexible, and just do slight twist. “A little familiar, but slightly whatever you’re offered to do,” he says. different,” says Alexander. “I’ve found that’s the best formula for me.” — Terry E. Ross Bill D’Elia

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 networks: Queens Supreme for CBS, and Award” in Germany Dragnet and Miracles for ABC. for selling more than D’Elia knew from a very early age that he 10,000 copies. wanted to be involved in the theatre or film. Born in Illinois, “I’ve always had a desire to be involved in Evans began playing the creative field in some way,” he recalls. the piano at the age of “I’ve been in love with television and movies five. He took up the all my life. TV shows were an escape for saxophone when he me.” was eleven, and since He established his own production high school he has company in New York City specializing in been driven toward a commercials, which earned him many career in jazz. “It was industry awards including the Addy, Clio, never a conscious and Telly. Later, after producing an decision. I just kept independent film which earned good pursuing it from Point reviews, other opportunities opened up. He A to Point B,” he says. directed award-winning seasons of Picket After spending a Fences, Law and Order, Chicago Hope, Lois year at North Texas and Clark, Beverly Hills 90210, and Doogie State University, Evans Howser, M.D., as well as the television films transferred to William Dottie West Story and In the Name of Love: Paterson to be closer to A Texas Tragedy. In 1996, he joined Chicago the center of jazz in Hope as co-executive producer and was New York. “As a jazz made executive producer of the show later musician, you have to Bill Evans that year. see as well as listen. To touring Europe, Japan, and South America. D’Elia has garnered numerous honors. really understand and play the music, you He has also found time over the years to As executive producer, he received two have to be around where it’s happening, return to campus, most recently in 2001, to Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations and that’s New York City,” he says. “Being perform as part of the University’s Jazz for Chicago Hope. He also earned Emmy so close to New York, William Paterson was Room Series. nominations for directing for Chicago Hope a perfect jumping off spot for me. I could This fall, Evans is busy promoting his and Ally McBeal, and was nominated for a get my degree, spend time with my thirteenth CD, Big Fun, which was released prestigious Director's Guild Award for instrument, and still go to the city to hear in September and features special guests directing for Ally McBeal. all the jazz musicians play.” Bruce Hornsby and country artist Willie He also recalls the value of learning — Barbara E. Martin Nelson. From time to time, he can even be from top-notch musicians. “Even though found sitting in on various gigs around the William Paterson’s jazz studies program country with Nelson, whom he has known was in its infancy at the time, they had a for twenty years. great staff of music teachers who were Beginning in January, Evans will begin a Bill Evans some of the best musicians in the world,” tour of the West Coast, with concerts in FOR THIS JAZZ MUSICIAN, Evans says. “Rufus Reid started in my last Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los year, and Thad Jones popped in from time PERFORMING IS “BIG FUN” Angeles, before continuing on to Japan and to time. And with the Jazz Room Series, I Australia. PAGE nce described by jazz legend Miles got to see some great musicians right at W8 While maintaining a schedule of more Davis as “one of the greatest school, and even sit in with them.” EIGHT O than 80 concerts a year and logging nearly musicians I’ve come upon,” Bill Evans ’80 After college, this exposure to the real 300,000 frequent flyer miles can be has emerged as a leader on the world of jazz led to the incredible grueling, Evans is still energized by international music scene. A master opportunity for Evans, at the age of performing. “Even though it can be saxophonist and prolific keyboardist, twenty-two, to tour and record with Miles difficult and tiring to be on tour, it’s so producer, and writer, Evans spends most of Davis and his historic comeback band. much fun to play—to do concerts in all his time each year touring the globe and Evans recorded his first solo album in 1984, these different cities with your own band playing his unique combination of and later went on to record and perform and your own music, and have people jazz/funk/groove music with his band, with big name musicians including John respond in such a positive way,” he says. “I The Soul Insiders. His twelfth CD, Soul McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Lee feel very blessed to be able to do what I Insider, received a 2002 Grammy Ritenour, Andy Summers, Gil Evans, and love. It’s hard to call it my job.” nomination as “Contemporary Jazz Record Mick Jagger. of the Year,” and won the prestigious “Jazz By 1992, Evans had formed his own —Christine Diehl band, and for the past decade he has been in Hunziker Wing, was marked by tolerance and inclusion. “As a black person growing Ben Jones up in the ’50s wanting to make it in the A PASSION FOR ART world, I found white students and faculty who made me appreciate who I was as a n award-winning New Jersey artist black person and focused on what I wanted Awith a firmly established national and to accomplish with my art,” he says. international reputation, Benjamin After four years as an art teacher at Jones ’63 has spent more than thirty years Passaic High School, Jones took a position exploring spirituality, politics, religion, and in 1967 at Jersey City State College, now African culture through painting, New Jersey City University, where he is a sculpture, and mixed media artworks. professor of art and coordinator of fine Jones, whose works have appeared in arts. The recipient of fellowships from the dozens of individual and group exhibits in National Endowment for the Arts and the the United States, Cuba, Great Britain, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he Catherine St. John and Japan, describes his art as “trying to has traveled throughout Africa, Europe, understand the relationship of African Brazil, and the Caribbean to gather belief systems and lifestyles to today’s and inspiration for his work. tomorrow’s living.” Most recently, he served as co-curator A native of Paterson, Jones received his Catherine St. John of a unique exhibit of art at the Gallery of earliest introduction to art at Eastside High the National Library in Havana, Cuba. THE ART OF LIVING School. There, Roslyn Feinstein, the art Titled “Toxic Landscapes,” the exhibit A CREATIVE LIFE teacher, served as a mentor, encouraging features seventy-five artists whose works him to explore his talents. “She stayed on reflect the importance of the environment “ always wanted to be an artist,” says me and made me follow through with my and environmental issues. The exhibit now I Catherine St. John ’64, M.A. ’67. “I work,” he recalls. “She would come to my travels to Poland, South Africa, and the was acquainted with art as a child, but it house and pick me up to take me to United States. Though Jones has primarily was at William Paterson that my eyes were museums and galleries in Manhattan.” created figurative works in recent years, a truly opened. It was there that I met One of fifteen children, Jones thought new exhibit in spring 2003 at the Jadite practicing artists and other serious people college was not an option. “We were dirt Gallery in New York titled “Praise and with opinions and ideas. They awakened poor, so I didn’t think that I could go to Light” will feature his new abstract my imagination.” college,” he says. But Feinstein forced him watercolors. His works are featured in two Born and raised in New York, St. John to apply. He enrolled at William Paterson upcoming books, A World of Art and Living was drawn to William Paterson’s arts and worked his way through by “scrubbing with Art. Also, his artwork for the new education program because she wanted to floors, washing windows, taking out Martin Luther King Station in Jersey City experience the creative process, rather than garbage, and working in a supermarket.” is featured in a catalogue published by New just learn how to make a salable object. The art department, relegated to one floor Jersey Transit. Today, she is a long-time liberal arts — Phillip Sprayberry professor at Berkeley College’s Garret Ben Jones Mountain campus and a practicing painter whose works have been exhibited at a variety of New York and metropolitan area galleries, including the National Academy

of Design, William Paterson’s Ben Shahn PAGE Gallery, and the Bergen Museum of Art. W9 Two of St. John’s works appear this fall at NINE Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Museum as part of the National Association of Women Artists collection. St. John, who also holds a doctor of arts degree from New York University, believes her William Paterson education played a profound role in shaping her career and her life. “William Paterson helped me focus my artistic interests—to understand the ways I experienced art and life as an artist. It taught me to stretch myself and draw upon the adventure of living a creative life.” For St. John, a creative life involves studying great art—an interest initially stirs him up and he yells out his signature stimulated by the art history courses she Dick Vitale phrases “Awesome, Baby!”, “Get a T.O., Baby!” or “That guy’s a PTPer!” took at William Paterson. “I soon realized THE VOICE OF COLLEGE BASKETBALL that seeing a reproduction in a book is not ESPN’s popularity has steadily the same as seeing an actual painting,” she ick Vitale’s rapid rise through the increased through the years, in large part recalls. Dcoaching ranks, from diagramming because of Vitale’s broadcasts. Simply put, This awareness inspired a love of travel, plays at East Rutherford High School in he is the voice of college basketball – a and led St. John to journey to Europe to 1970 to leading the NBA’s Detroit Pistons reminder he gets every time he is out and trace Van Gogh’s footsteps through in 1978, stalled upon his unceremonious about when fans scream to him: “Dickie V, Holland, Paris, and the south of France. dismissal from Detroit in 1979. He fired off you're awesome, baby!” Over the years, she has made repeated phone calls and résumés in hopes of Says Vitale: “You don’t last twenty-three pilgrimages to Paris—most recently this quickly getting back into the game. years with ‘Awesome, baby!’ The public, past summer—to paint, conduct research, Another opportunity knocked instead. they know if you’re prepared…I’m and connect with those artists who have “The television producer of one of the spontaneous. When the red light goes on, gone before her. games I coached in the NCAA Tournament I’m always sitting there thinking I’m back As a professor at Berkeley College, St. at the University of Detroit against in the diners in Paterson, Clifton, and John encourages her students—most of Michigan said he wrote my name down and Elmwood Park talking to my buddies.” whom are primarily focused on business— thought I’d be great at broadcasting. He A winner of eight Cable ACE awards, to experience the performing and visual called me and told me he was starting up Vitale is not only known to the ESPN arts firsthand. “I want my students to this new all-sports network,” recalls Vitale, audience. He is an acclaimed motivational realize that they can widen their world who received his master’s degree in speaker, has six books on the market and a through the arts, and that experiencing art administration in 1971 and has an number of videos to his credit, has will make them more effective in business additional thirty-two graduate credits. “He appeared in several movie and television while also enriching their lives.” told me it was called ESPN. I thought roles, and recently signed a marketing deal Throughout her more than thirty-five ESPN sounded like a disease.” with Pepsi. He also is a regular contributor years of teaching, St. John has helped art So, Vitale began his foray into television, to ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, speak to thousands of students. At Berkeley calling the first college basketball game ever and publishes his own annual college College since 1981, St. John was broadcast by ESPN, Wisconsin at DePaul, basketball yearbook, Dick Vitale’s College recognized as “Outstanding Teacher of the on December 5, 1979. Almost twenty-three Basketball Magazine. Year” in 1986, 1992, and 2001. She is also years later, he is a legend. His enthusiastic Vitale also serves on the board of an adjunct professor at William Paterson, style has set the tone for legions of other directors for the Jimmy V Foundation, a and was a 2000 recipient of the sports announcers, although none sounds charity named for his good friend Jim University’s Distinguished Alumni Award. nearly as distinct as Vitale when the action Valvano, the basketball coach at North When she is not teaching, St. John is Carolina State University, who usually painting. For the past twelve years, died of cancer. The foundation she has been creating paintings that are has raised more than $23 million evocations of her home studio, using mixed to battle cancer with Vitale’s media on archival paper to create a assistance. kaleidoscope of objects and colors that “My mom and dad worked in synthesize abstraction and representation. a coat factory in Paterson. From “My paintings—somewhat whimsical, them I learned about love, PAGE ironic, humorous—are essentially about family, and work ethic,” Vitale W10 says. “Everything I’ve ever done, TEN dislocating perception, estranging the familiar to make it new,” she says. “Most I’ve done with passion. I’m importantly, they are explorations of the lucky people have taken to it.” idea of painting itself.” — Brian Falzarano As a painter, St. John enjoys creating things that have the potential to enrich the lives of those who encounter them. “Most rewarding, perhaps, is knowing that I am involved in an activity that is forty thousand years old, maybe more, an activity so distinctive and universal that it conveys Dick Vitale our very nature as humans. What I seek to express through my painting is the fleeting vitality of the moment.” — Christine Diehl On Top of the Bottom Line These six alumni are making their mark in the business world as high-ranking executives in a multitude of fields, including retail, banking, insurance, technology, financial services, and human resources.

What’s the secret to his company’s desire to work hard. I passed the C.P.A. success? Arthur espouses a simple exam on my first try, and I attribute that to Raymond Arthur management plan: treat others as you the professors who helped me through the would like to be treated. “I respect my LEADING AN ONLINE RETAILER program.” employees for their ability to contribute Away from work, Arthur continues to hen Raymond Arthur ’82 transferred and to meet our collective goals,” he says. indulge his long-time interest in Wto William Paterson after a year as a “As at most Internet companies, the staff is mechanics. He has attended the Skip philosophy major at a college in Colorado, he fairly young, and we have a very collegial Barber Racing School in California, and wasn’t sure what he wanted to do. Recently atmosphere where people can challenge recently reached 170 miles per hour at the married—and determined to get a degree— ideas and offer opinions. he attended college full-time during the day As a result, we make while working the 4:00 p.m. to midnight shift better collective decisions as a mechanic for the Wayne Municipal on where the company is Department. “I took a course in accounting going.” and found I was good at it,” he says. “I know Arthur credits William I chose the right path.” Paterson with providing That path has been a twenty-year career him with the skills he has in business, culminating in his current needed to achieve success position as president of Toysrus.com, which throughout his career, has emerged as the number one online which has included retailer for children’s products. Arthur, who financial positions with PAGE W11 joined the company in 2000 as vice General Signal ELEVEN president and controller, was instrumental Corporation, Lederle in helping to coordinate a groundbreaking Laboratories, American deal with Amazon.com that has led to Cyanamid, American dynamic growth for the three-year-old Home Products, and dot.com. KPMG Peat Marwick. “I “Our alliance with Amazon.com allows was not a good student in us to use our toy merchandising and high school,” he says. marketing expertise to manage product “William Paterson gave content for the Web site, while Amazon me the ability to hosts the site and manages distribution and understand that I could customer service,” he explains. The site, succeed. I found that which has grown to include Babiesrus.com attitude is so important in and Imaginarium.com, last year reached what you do— especially $277 million in sales. honesty, integrity, and the

Raymond Arthur Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 AGS Formula One School in Paris, for the multi-billion dollar company, which He and his wife Karin live on a farm in France. He also enjoys spending time with offers insurance and financial services to Virginia with nearly two dozen horses, his wife, Tracy, and their two sons, unions, trust funds, and organized labor. ponies, a herd of cattle, three dogs, and Thomas and Michael. During his fifteen years with the company, quite a few cats. Their greatest passion is Arthur’s new challenge is a ULLICO has experienced phenomenal the rehabilitation of horses that have been diversification and expansion plan for growth in its market niche. He started out rescued. Recently, Karin was at an auction Toysrus.com, including a recently with two staff attorneys and two for horse supplies and noticed a truck launched e-commerce venture in Japan. secretaries, and now oversees a department loaded with horses bound for slaughter. He is also preparing for the company’s of ten attorneys, five paralegals, and One, a Belgian workhorse, kept looking out relocation to a new corporate headquarters commensurate support staff. “He is one of of the truck. He had been purchased for in Wayne in the former American the hardest-working people I know,” says $65 from an Amish farm and was about six Cyanamid building – where he worked for Sherrye Jones, Carabillo's assistant. hundred pounds underweight. The driver more than a decade. Carabillo believes that developing “a agreed to part with him for $100 – the “Moving to Wayne is like coming full good work ethic” early in life helped to set exact amount Karin had in her pocket. circle for me,” says Arthur, who grew up the pace for his success. While attending Now called “Highroads for Love or in Oakland and Wayne. William Paterson, he worked as many as Money,” or “Cash” for short, the horse is thirty to thirty-five hours per week to gaining weight and strength and has a — Mary Beth Zeman finance his education. “There were times future. “We feel a great deal of satisfaction when I wished I had more time for my when we go out to a field and our rescued studies, but I learned to balance the two horses come right up to us and show their and make it work,” he explains. He later renewed trust in people.” Joseph Carabillo balanced teaching with law school, and, — Terry E. Ross BALANCING NUMEROUS PASSIONS while working at Prudential, he continued his nightly studies to earn a master’s degree oseph A. Carabillo’s interests range in law from New York University. from corporate law and teaching to J Even as a busy executive, Carabillo finds theatre and caring for animals on his time to make teaching and theatre part of Maureen Conway Virginia farm. his life. Since 1989, he has taught COUNTING ON CONSTANT CHANGE When he graduated from William insurance law as an adjunct faculty member Paterson in 1968, he began his career ttending William Paterson during the at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaching speech and theatre arts at a high turbulent 1960s led Maureen also indulges his love of the theatre through A school in West Orange. Within five years, Conway ’66 to adopt her own personal service on the board of directors of the he helped build a successful theatre arts motto: “Change is the one constant we can Washington Stage Guild, and the board of program financed through ticket sales. “As count on.” Indeed Conway, who is vice governors for the Ford Theatre in much as I enjoyed teaching, and still do,” president for e-inclusion and emerging Washington, D.C. he says, “I wanted to do something more market solutions for Hewlett-Packard challenging, and in some ways different.” (HP), has lived a life epitomized by change, Carabillo began attending law and the ability to adapt and grow. school at night at Seton Hall Conway, who grew up in North Bergen, University and graduated within found her way to William Paterson to fulfill three and a half years. After passing her dream of becoming a teacher. It also the bar exam, he accepted a position helped that it was close and accessible via

PAGE as corporate attorney with public transportation. Her love of problem W12 Prudential Property Casualty solving led her to math education. “It TWELVE Company. For the next ten years he disturbed me that many children formed an had a very diversified career early negative opinion about math because involving legal work, representation, they had teachers in their formative years and government affairs. “It was who didn't like it,” she says. “I wanted to quite a change from teaching,” says change that, get in there with a positive Carabillo, “but a lot of the speech, attitude about math and have the students communication, and writing skills I enjoy it as much as I did.” learned at William Paterson carried Following graduation, Conway put in a over very well.” two-year stint as a math teacher at Palisades Today, Carabillo is the vice Park Junior and Senior High. But, change president and chief legal officer for was inevitable. “I had really made a ULLICO Inc. in Washington, D.C. difference with the students. I saw the turn He has overall legal responsibilities Joseph Carabillo Maureen Conway Through her work at HP, Conway also company’s global diversification effort. No finds herself connected to current political longer simply an online brokerage, issues, both domestic and global. Recently, E TRADE has broadened its products she was the featured speaker at a and services portfolio, which now includes Washington event sponsored by HP that the largest online bank, the nation’s second focused on the use of technology to assist largest ATM network, and a mortgage government agencies with the issues they division. The company has also opened face by being isolated from one another. stand-alone investment centers in New “My new job is right in the cross hairs of York, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Boston, defense issues. Companies have a and Denver, and has built dozens of responsibility to help close the gap between “financial zones” in Target SuperStores the haves and have-nots. At HP we are across the country. taking a leadership position in the use of “My role is to keep on reinventing the technology and leveraging our brand to company and the industries we compete bring partners together to make a in,” he explains. “We are going to be one difference,” she says. of a handful of blue-chip Internet companies for the twenty-first century.” — Phillip Sprayberry Cotsakos attributes much of his success to the generosity of the faculty, students, and administration at William Paterson in the 1970s. “I was a returning Vietnam in their appreciation and interest in math, Christos M. Cotsakos veteran without many prospects, when but I realized that I needed more for me to LEADING THE TECHNOLOGY some very caring and insightful be satisfied in my career,” she recalls. “I administrators gave me a chance that wanted to continue to learn and improve my REVOLUTION became a character-defining opportunity skills, and to grow and be around people hristos Cotsakos ’73 is a man with a for me. who had the same goals. I needed that mission: to empower the individual “I am indebted to William Paterson for challenge in my work life.” C through technology. “The Internet is both giving me the opportunity to learn more Conway made a career change, leaving a tool and a channel,” he says. “It is the about myself and the educational process, teaching for a position in a then relatively single most enlightening technology on the and helping to put into focus who I wanted new field – software engineering – at Bell planet. Through access and connectivity to be and where I wanted to go,” he says. Labs. The job became a springboard for a and information and education, no matter “I also met my wife here, which is the career that has provided change and who you are, where you are, what device most significant gift the school could ever challenge, even as recently as this year. you have, or what time of day it is, you can give me.” Already a vice president at HP, since the get information and be successful.” post-HP/COMPAQ merger Conway has — Mary Beth Zeman As the chairman of the board and CEO led all of HP’s programs to bring of E TRADE Financial Group, Inc., the technology to underserved and transitional global leader in online personal financial economies. Conway, located in Palo Alto, services, Cotsakos is considered by many as California, is very excited about the new one of the visionaries, architects, and position. “These HP programs will enable leading founders of e-commerce, e-finance, technology to create economic development and personalized digital financial media. and close the gap between technology- Since 1996, when he joined PAGE empowered and technology-excluded W13 E TRADE, Cotsakos has led the communities. As a leader in this area, HP is THIRTEEN taking its global citizenship objective as a corporation very seriously,” she says. Conway recently participated in the UN- sponsored World Summit on Sustainability to help world leaders and delegates understand the role corporations could have in addressing several global challenges such as poverty alleviation, sustainable Christos M. Cotsakos environmental and economic solution creation, and access to critical health and education services.

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 And then came the sea of change that Meagher says. led to a career and lifestyle transition. In “My job is to operate the company and Linda Jenners Meagher 1994, she and her husband acted on a make the important decisions,” she says. “I THE “LINDA FACTOR” decision they had made several years before make the legal and financial decisions. So to quit the corporate life after they had put I’ve come a long way.” round the Steamboat Springs, in twenty-five years. Her husband is the key person inside AColorado ranch which is the “Ed had equated the whole thing to a the company as far as making the contacts ® headquarters of the Woodstone golf game,” she explains. “The front nine and doing the work, which involves Consulting Company, a force that exudes were on corporate, and the back nine would coaching senior executives and running warmth, relishes entertaining, possesses be on our own. That’s when we decided to team effectiveness workshops for senior strong interpersonal skills, and the come out to Colorado, a place where we corporate teams. business acumen to succeed is known as had always wanted to be, although we “We were on the leading edge of this the “Linda Factor,” named after Linda pushed it up two years. We began building type of work when we started,” Meagher Jenners Meagher ’70, co-founder of the our business and we’re now in our eighth recalls. “Everything is relationship driven company with her husband Edward. year. We’ve had wonderful success and it in this world. Ed has created a model for These qualities are not usually just continues to grow and grow and grow. the company wherein people learn how associated with successful business models. We now have ten consultants and the staff important it is to rely on each other in a In fact, they could be the antithesis of the totals eighteen.” work relationship. It’s a huge factor. Most typical corporate culture. Yet, Linda They operate their business out of executives derail, no matter how bright Jenners Meagher has made the personal their home, with one wing reserved as the they are or where they went to school, if touch work for her. family quarters and the other to house the they do not establish a good rapport with Typically, it was personal interviews clients who come to them. They work their chain of command.” conducted by two William Paterson collaboratively, but each has different — Barbara E. Martin professors, Mary Jane Cheesman and responsibilities and their desks are at Florence Flaster, and two young students, opposite ends of the house. Their work Carol Alm and Louise Springer, that has brought them together as a couple, convinced Meagher to attend the then teacher’s college and pursue a career as a physical education teacher, becoming the first person in her family to graduate from college. And it was at William Paterson, she says, that the “Linda Factor” began. “I chose William Paterson based on my personal relationships with these people,” Meagher says. Following graduation she worked as a teacher for five years, before the first of her two daughters, Allison, was born, and stayed home as a corporate wife until the youngest, Patti, entered kindergarten. She then pursued her own business career, beginning with Hallmark, the card

PAGE company, and continuing as the executive W14 director of the International Association of FOURTEEN Executive and Professional Recruiters. “I did that for ten years,” she says. “There was a lot of visibility, and I worked with very senior human resource executives and executive search consultants. My job was to coordinate their network. I had a great time doing that job.”

Linda Jenners Meagher Joe Velli BANKING ON SUCCESS sk Joe Velli about prospects for young Apeople entering the business world and he’ll tell you the honest truth. “It’s very competitive, and it gets tougher and tougher every year for young people to enter the field,” he says. Velli, who is a senior executive vice president of The Bank of New York, knows about competition in business from firsthand experience. A 1980 graduate of William Paterson, he went into finance straight out of college and quickly rose through the ranks to become an executive vice president in May 1992—the youngest person to attain this position in The Bank of New York’s two hundred-year history. In September l998, Velli was promoted to senior executive vice president, assuming the responsibility for Joe Velli consumer banking; he also was named a member of the bank’s Senior Planning assignments, but it was up to me to have in working with a team is to get them to do Committee. In August 2001, Velli was the self-discipline to get the work done.” what you want, but convince them that it’s named head of the brokerage and clearing Upon entering the banking field, Velli their idea. And that’s not easy.” sector, a newly formed division combining used his financial savvy to transform the Even in his non-working hours, Velli the bank’s various trade execution and area of American Depositary Receipts practices his competitive skills—you can clearing businesses. (ADRs)—securities representing shares of find him playing football with friends every “You really have to develop a solid foreign companies on U.S. exchanges. In Sunday during the season. He also enjoys understanding of the basics,” he says. “To the early 1980s, ADRs were considered a time with his wife and children, and has be successful in business, you have to learn back office service with little opportunity even found time to reacquaint himself with all the fundamentals of a particular for substantial returns. Under Velli’s William Paterson. “In the last year, I’ve business— how things work, what drives direction, ADRs quickly turned around really gotten to know the school again,” he business ahead—which is what a William into a profitable front office service. Since says. “I can see that things are on the right Paterson University education brings to then, Velli’s portfolio has grown to include track. The focus of the business school is the table.” worldwide securities servicing including fantastic. And the atmosphere is very A former accounting major, Velli The Bank of New York’s depository engaging to students, which I think is very changed his direction towards banking and receipts (ADRs and GDRs), stock transfer, important in today’s environment.” finance when he decided his skills and corporate trust, global liquidity, employee — Minne Hong Ho personality made him better suited to investment services divisions, and BNY PAGE running a business than keeping its W15 Securities (the bank’s institutional agency FIFTEEN accounts. His willingness to take new brokerage correspondent clearing initiatives helped put him on the business). His responsibilities have also professional fast track, and he credits this included heading the bank’s consumer trait to his undergraduate education. banking activities, custody administration, “William Paterson helped me put a and global marketing and sales group. discipline around the whole educational “College can translate into real life by process,” says Velli. “Up until college, I teaching you how to be a good always followed a regimented academic competitor—how to play by the rules, have program. At William Paterson, it became integrity, and work in a team,” he explains. completely different. Trust was bestowed “Of course,” he adds, “it’s not all going to on students. We were given projects and be out of a textbook. For example, the trick

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 Core Connections: Teaching, Learning, and the Community William Paterson alumni have a long history of filling important roles in the community. As educators, volunteers, service professionals, and leaders of nonprofit organizations, these nine alumni demonstrate an exceptional commitment to helping others.

“I’m devoted to my job,” she reports. “I Jersey Council for History Education, and love the interaction with the children. They works with the American Legion on the Jean Aires and are apprehensive when they come to me Jersey Boys State and Jersey Girls State and it’s my job to make them comfortable Program, a political simulation where and safe. I like going to work. I’m at the age students learn about running for political Beverlee Schweighardt when I could retire, but I just love what I office, held each year at Rider University. do.” Schweighardt is also involved in politics, OLUNTEERS XTRAORDINAIRE V E As much as they both love their jobs, albeit indirectly through her husband, shared love of teaching, and a belief in each has a busy life doing work in the Joseph, who is a Wayne councilman, and Athe value of giving something back, community. The vice president of the New keeps busy away from school with her three drew Jean Aires ’64, M.A. ’88, and Jersey State Board of the League of Women children and seven grandchildren. Beverlee Schweighardt ’59 to their Voters, Aires recently completed a six-year It’s their common interest in education volunteering efforts with the University’s term on the board of directors of the New that brings them to the University’s Alumni Alumni Association, which both say is an important part of their lives. Both are teachers in love with their profession. Aires has been a history teacher at Passaic High School for thirty-four years, PAGE where she currently teaches U.S. W16 SIXTEEN History I and II, a survey class in behavioral science, and advanced placement classes. Schweighardt teaches first graders at Packanack Lake School in Wayne. Aires calls teaching an adventure. “It’s exciting and never boring,” she says. “Young people are fun to be with—they are full of idealism and promise.” It’s a sentiment echoed by Schweighardt about her first graders.

Beverlee Schweighardt and Jean Aires Association as volunteers. Schweighardt began volunteering with the Alumni Executive Council on campus in 1981 and brought Aires to the council in 1986. “I feel I owe so much to William Paterson,” Schweighardt says. “It is a great school. I received so much from the institution, that I feel I have to give back some of what I received as a student here. I love my profession so much, I try to encourage people to go into teaching and volunteering is one way to accomplish that.” She currently serves as the executive council’s recording secretary, sits on the council’s budget and finance committee, and is a member of the executive and scholarship committees. Aires freely admits that Schweighardt recruited her. “I wouldn’t be here without Bev,” she says of her longtime friend. Once here, she joined with alacrity. She is a member of the Alumni Executive Council, Peter Chabora and his students the awards committee, the scholarship committee, the national annual fund committee, and is the chairperson of the Peter Chabora program connections and initiatives TRANSFORMING LIVES found himself gravitating to college committee. She takes on the additional administration at both Queens and the HROUGH EACHING responsibilities of the University’s annual T T City University of New York (CUNY) in Jefferson Lecture, which has brought eter Chabora, a professor of biology, Manhattan, of which Queens College is thousands of high school students to Pthinks small. For example, he has part. During this time, he also helped campus during the past twenty years. devoted twenty years of his life to studying oversee CUNY’s doctoral and honors “It’s important to be involved,” Aires such tiny insects as fruit and vinegar flies programs, plus programs at the American says. “The American way of life is possible and the even smaller wasps that parasitize Museum of Natural History and the New only because Americans volunteer. It’s part them. And, his theory of science — of York Botanical Gardens. of the national character of Americans to learning, in fact — stresses that knowledge Now, for more than a decade, his volunteer. Community life is defined by the comes in small increments rather than interest has taken a different tack. He has level of volunteering, but there has been a those eureka bursts of understanding for since immersed himself in entry-level drop in volunteering in the United States which geniuses like Archimedes and biology courses for majors and because people are so busy these days.” Einstein are famous. undergraduate teaching, feeling this is Volunteers like Aires and Schweighardt “I tend to think of science as an accretion where he can do the most good. are the heart and soul of many organizations of very small steps,” Chabora explains. “And “Today, we’re hearing about global including the Alumni Association. it’s these small steps that make science fun warming, changes in the climate, ecology, “They’re both very active,” reports and rewarding. The big insights happen only and genetics,” Chabora says. “These kinds PAGE W17 Judith Linder, executive director of rarely and to a rarified few.” of issues have to be drilled into the public SEVENTEEN alumni relations. “It’s not unusual to see As a biologist, no one knows better and the only way to do that is to engage Bev and Jean together at alumni events. than Chabora the cyclical nature of life students, particularly those who are going When we ask, they’re there. Both are from both an intellectual as well as a to be teachers. However, to make good valuable to the association and they have practical standpoint. Chabora, who has teachers, students must have rigorous both been very good role models as taught biology and ecology for the past standards imposed on them. Kids come to volunteers. It’s not just about their thirty-two years at Queens College in college thinking it’s going to be high friendship, it’s about their commitment to Flushing, New York, studied at William school, that because they have so much the University and our students.” Paterson to be a teacher —he graduated in more freedom they think, ‘I can cut class.’ — Barbara E. Martin 1962—but fell in love with research in However, you’re also going to fail. I like to graduate school at Cornell University. remind them that the entrance door swings After nearly twenty years researching both ways.” insect parasite-host interactions from Chabora knows of what he speaks. He James Bay in Canada’s far north to freely concedes that at New Jersey’s tropical Caribbean islands, Chabora next Clifton High School, he was a lackadaisical

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 student; he nearly frittered away his has grown from 430 credit students life on a park bench. His mother, to 600 credit students and 2,500 Anna Chabora ’33, a William noncredit students. A once relatively Paterson alumna [his brother, unknown community college, Richard ’68, also is an alumnus], Garrett College now features an picked him up from that very bench award-winning information service and took him directly to the college that serves as a national model and to begin the admission process. offers three signature programs William Paterson was to change his rarely found in major institutions. life. Through Herman’s initiative the “Once in,” he admits, “I fell in college launched the Garrett love with the place. It was an Information Enterprise Center, a absolute joy. I think it had much to program dedicated to developing the do with the people I met. They community by bringing the universe were mature—several were of information to a rural setting. veterans. One thing I never did Residents in this sparsely populated before was study. At William western Maryland area had no local Paterson I learned to study, and, by access to the Internet, so the college learning to study, I could really put formed a cooperative organization to things together. It was a wonderful create an infrastructure for access feeling. Some of us who studied and to educate the local population together had the thought, ‘We’re in usage. going to learn the subject better Herman also inaugurated three than the professor.’ It was terrific. It signature programs: Adventure- was the first time academics had me sports, Natural Resources and thinking. That feeling still hasn’t Wildlife Technologies, and gone away.” Agricultural Management. For Chabora, William Paterson— Born in New York City, Herman and biology—transformed his life. lived for a time on Long Island He has since transformed countless before his family moved to Wayne. lives through his teaching. After initially enrolling at New York Obviously, thinking small is not a University, he returned to Wayne to problem for a man who, in 1990, take classes at then Paterson State garnered the Queens College College. Although the college President’s Award for Excellence in offered no philosophy classes at that Teaching. time, an art professor, Stevan Kissell, imbued Herman with a love —Robert A. Manuel of the subject and was an enormous influence. Following his graduation PAGE in 1961, Herman pursued graduate W18 Steve Herman EIGHTEEN studies in philosophy at the New Steve Herman School for Social Research and later indicative of his in-the-trenches approach at the University of Massachusetts. He also ON THE RIGHT TRACK… to his job, as is his annual (and sometimes taught high school English, served with his hen you reach the after-hours semi-annual) foray into the classroom to wife as head of residence for collegiate W recorded phone message at Garrett teach a philosophy class. Herman says, “My housing, and was dean of students at two College in McHenry, Maryland, the voice is favorite part of my job is the interaction colleges. not a perky soprano or even the dulcet with people—students, faculty, and staff— Herman met his wife of thirty-nine years tones of a professional actor. Instead, but I also like program building.” at William Paterson, but not while he was a in a warm, personal greeting, Steve When Herman arrived at the small rural student. “A couple of years after I graduated, Herman ’61, Ph.D., president of the college college in 1986, the institution was unstable I came back to visit a friend and went with for sixteen years, thanks you for calling and and lacked vision and focus, he says. Now him to an art class. Gail was making a offers the voice mail menu. The recording is through Herman’s guidance, the institution presentation and I was smitten,” he reminisces. Gail Neary Herman ’63, others to cope with the emotional Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, and the Ph.D., has received national recognition as aftermath. Detective’s Endowment Association, whose an educational consultant. The couple has “My work is after the fact, and it’s very total membership numbers almost 1,500. one daughter, Leta Herman Parks, an sad to have to deal with it,” Killeen says. “They refer clients to me, but the engineer with Avaya Corporation who lives “There is a profound sadness that has cornerstone is confidentiality, and I’m on in Belchertown, Massachusetts. permeated our society. Everyone has a call 24/7. Prior to September 11, it wasn’t Herman looks back fondly on his days story to share.” too bad, but since then it’s become a on campus. “I needed a smaller institution Working with and helping people is the challenge being the one person for all the with people who could give me some common denominator in his life. He unions. individual attention. Paterson State did comes from a family background in law “My family background and my enormous things for me – it put me back enforcement. His father is retired from the journey have prepared me for doing what I on track.” Port Authority (PA) and one of his do now,” he says. “Theology has helped — Phillip Sprayberry brothers is a PA officer at the George me gain a better understanding of the Washington Bridge. issues. The PA officers have had a life- He grew up in Wayne, and received a changing experience, and need to be less degree in criminal justice in 1974 from hard on themselves. When my own life William Paterson. From there he went into goes up and down, spirituality is the way I Peter Killeen the Police Academy. He was on the PA often resolve issues.” AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY force for two years, asked for a leave of As much as he likes counseling, he absence, and joined the Franciscans. He realizes it’s unpredictable, striving always inistering to people in distress is a was posted to numerous cities, while also to make the right assessment. “I’m always calling that challenges even the most M earning degrees from Loyola College and going beyond the call of duty,” he reveals. dedicated providers of psychiatric care. the Washington Theological Union. “I’ll often follow-up with a phone call to Peter Killeen ’74, a psychotherapist who “As a friar, I enjoyed pastoral solidify a relationship. It makes for good was formerly a police officer with the Port counseling,” he says. “But I felt limited. I therapy.” Authority Police Department (PAPD), felt the need to help the officers, and Killeen is also the author of a series of limits his practice to police officers within returned to the PA to work as a counselor mystery books about a former NYPD that department. Since the terrorist attacks in the Employee Assistance Program from homicide detective, Dylan McFeely. The on September 11, 2001, he has helped 1985 to 1989.” Since then, he has been the first is called The Infidel Factor, which he is sole counsel who works with the currently shopping to publishers. He is also Policeman’s Benevolent Association, the the former host of a radio talk show PETER KILLEEN (RIGHT) WITH TWO PORT AUTHORITY OFFICERS

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Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 devoted to bringing an understanding of is helping to make a difference for students. law enforcement issues called “The Police “We all have a responsibility as adults to make Connection.” And if that’s not enough to Maria Nuccetelli sure that every child, regardless of keep one ordinary person busy, he is co- MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN background, has all of the opportunities he or founder of a production company, Jersey she needs in order to become a responsible, Guys Productions, a group which seeks to EDUCATION caring, and productive adult,” she says. present positive programming about law aria Nuccetelli epitomizes the young With more than thirty years in education, enforcement. Mman in Loren Eisely’s parable, The Nuccetelli began her career as a science The stresses of the past year have taken Star Thrower, said Leslie Agard-Jones, dean teacher at Elmwood Park High School. After a toll, and he is reevaluating his life once of the College of Education, when he taking some time to have her two children, again, striving for balance, and hoping to introduced her for the University’s Nuccetelli held teaching positions in Wayne, take some time for himself. Promoting the Distinguished Alumni Award this year. The Clifton, and Oakland. Her successes as a book is a temporary diversion as is working story is about a young man who picks up teacher, she says, are in the students she didn’t on a documentary about the PA. starfish on the beach and throws them back know she had influenced. “You meet up with “But I’ll keep my hand in counseling,” in the ocean so they won’t die. “But young them later on and realize that some of the he says. “I need grounding—a reality man,” remarks an observer, “don’t you things you were trying to instill in them made check. I believe there’s a reason I’ve been realize there are miles and miles of beach a significant difference in their lives.” put here to help.” and starfish all along it? You can’t possibly Encouraged by town members, Nuccetelli Killeen’s work as a counselor this past make a difference.” The young man picks ran and was elected to the Wayne Board of year has garnered recognition. He recently up another starfish, pauses thoughtfully, and Education, where she served from 1982 until received Citizen of the Year awards from remarks, “It makes a difference to this one.” 1988. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience, the New Jersey Psychiatric Association and Nuccetelli, who has served as Passaic and says she “grew in a whole different the New York Crime Clinic for his County Superintendent of Schools since 1993, direction.” Interested in working as an contributions and work following education administrator, she applied to a September 11. number of school districts but found it was a challenge to enter this once male-dominated — Barbara E. Martin field. Once she did, as business administrator/board secretary in Denville, she flourished in her new career and went on to hold a variety of key state and county positions. As county superintendent, Nuccetelli is responsible for supervising the county office and administering school and district educational systems within Passaic County. “I enjoy working with the twenty-one school Maria Nuccetelli districts in the county,” she says. “We have so many outstanding programs in our schools that provide excellent educational opportunities for our children.” Previously, while holding this position, she also held statewide responsibilities as the acting assistant PAGE commissioner of the New Jersey Department W20 TWENTY of Education, and coordinating county superintendent of schools, northern region. Nuccetelli received her bachelor’s degree in science education in 1963 and her master’s degree in student personnel services in 1977 from William Paterson. She went on to receive her doctorate in educational administration from Seton Hall University. She resides in Wayne with her husband, Phillip ’63, M.A. ’66. They have two children, Phil Jr. and Lisa, and two grandchildren, Dominic and Isabella. — Terry E. Ross Ralph da Costa Nunez PROVIDING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES AND CHILDREN Ralph da Costa Nunez IS HIS LIFE’S WORK ne day in 1987, after ten years of Oworking in various capacities in New York City Mayor Ed Koch’s administration, Ralph da Costa Nunez ’72 was summoned into the mayor’s office. With typical candor and directness, Mayor Koch explained how a public-private venture by businessman Leonard N. Stern was about to become a comparative government in 1973, city entity and appointed Nunez to head followed by a doctorate in political the agency. science from Columbia University Suddenly, he found himself the in 1978. guardian of approximately one thousand His early career was spent in homeless families with twenty-five city and state government; many hundred children as president and CEO of times he was brought in as a Homes for the Homeless, a transitional troubleshooter for agencies that welfare program. The families are cared for needed help, leading to the call in the American Family Inns, under his from Mayor Koch. direction. “Homelessness will not go The Inns operate as residential training away,” he says. “There are thirty facilities for the families. “We put it all thousand homeless people in New under one roof,” he says. “It’s one-stop York City every night, and the city shopping. We offer education, health care, is adding thousands of beds. We nutrition counseling, a crisis nursery, day- have to find ways to chip away at care, an after-school program, an the problem. What’s most alternative high school program, shocking is that the average age of a But children and education remain a employment training, literary programs, homeless person is ten.” priority. and entrepreneurial training.” He is committed to public service. “The Inns present a real opportunity,” Nunez is also the president of the Nunez has been an adjunct professor in he states. “I’d rather see kids in an Institute for Children and Poverty, an the School of International and Public educational shelter than living in squalor independent research and policy think tank, Affairs at Columbia University since 1980, where they have no opportunities. We have which conducts research on poverty, and is the author of several books on a chance to give people the skills they need homelessness, and the resultant impact on poverty and homelessness. With his wife, to become independent and participate in families. Dr. Hedy Monteforte, a 1973 graduate of society on a real basis. It’s making a He says he grew up “poor” in Little William Paterson (whom he first saw one positive from a negative that will make a Ferry. His parents worked for Bergen day in the snack bar on campus and later PAGE real difference in their lives.” W21 County, and he finished high school at married), he owns and operates an assisted TWENTY-ONE sixteen. Not sure of which direction to take living facility in Staten Island called Island — Barbara E. Martin at such a young age, he visited William Shores Senior Residences, which Paterson, then a teacher’s college, enrolled specializes in developing and utilizing in a speech class, and was hooked. “That educational programs for elderly people. class sparked my education,” he says. Monteforte is chairman of the Nunez went on to take many classes in Department of Art at Muhlenberg College political science and history, earning a in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Theirs is a degree in political science in 1972. From commuter marriage. “I go to Pennsylvania there he enrolled at New York University or she comes to New York,” he explains. where he received a master’s degree in “And we talk every night.”

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 teacher preparation program and Radcliffe sent her cards and letters after a story had skipped enough grades in grammar about her 100th birthday appeared in the Melva Cadmus Radcliffe school to enter college at age fifteen. local newspaper. Marie Kominiak ’71, who ONE HUNDRED-ONE-YEAR-OLD “I only earned about $600 a year when I had Mrs. Radcliffe as a first grade teacher first started teaching,” recalls Radcliffe, and donated an alumni scholarship in her ALUM OFFERS A GLIMPSE BACK AT who used to walk from her home on East name, describes her as “an inspiration, a NEW JERSEY HISTORY 37th Street to her job at School No. 13. “I role model, and a very loving person.” couldn’t even buy a car. My father told me, While teaching, Radcliffe continued her “ ’ve had a wonderful, wonderful life,” ‘You can buy a car when you can pay for it.’ education by taking courses at Columbia, Isays Melva Cadmus Radcliffe, who So it took me ten years to save, and I finally New York University, Rutgers, Montclair graduated from Paterson Normal School bought a car for $395 — a Ford Model A State, and Seton Hall. “The city of in 1919. with a rumble seat.” Paterson would only allow you to take two At 101 years old, Radcliffe is in She taught at School No. 13 in Paterson courses a semester— they said you couldn’t remarkable health. With a sharp mind and from 1919 until 1963, and still remembers do justice to your teaching,” she agile demeanor, she has an amazing gift for all her colleagues and what rooms they remembers. “And so I didn’t actually get remembering details about growing up in taught in. “Over the years, I’ve had ninety- my degree until 1951.” Paterson, her world travels, and her forty- two associates, teachers, and principals, and When she was sixty-two, Radcliffe was five years of teaching. I still know all their names,” she says. ready to retire and spend time traveling. “I Born and raised in Paterson, she was Radcliffe is fondly remembered by had my master’s degree equivalency and I the daughter of Ida Van Riper and Colonel many of her students, nineteen of whom was only getting $7,500 a year,” she Wilmer A. Cadmus, a prominent bank remembers. All of her teacher friends president in Paterson who, as head of the urged her not to leave. city’s Board of Finance, also “They kept saying, ‘The filled out a term as mayor. salaries are going up Growing up, Radcliffe now, why don’t you stay knew Paterson when it was on.’ And we didn’t have the Silk City. “We had medical benefits either, Watson’s Machine Shop and they said we would and Cook Locomotives…all get that soon too. these industries…and it was “But I said, ‘No. I’m really lovely,” she recalls. going to retire now while She knew many of the I’m well enough to enjoy wealthy and elite, including it.’” She traveled with the Hobarts, the widow and the Fuel Merchants of children of former Vice New Jersey, a business President Garret A. Hobart. association that included “We knew them when they friends her own age. lived on Carroll Street in “I’ve been to forty Paterson, before the family countries and to forty- moved to Ailsa Farms,” she four states, and forty- says, referring to Hobart some islands,” says Manor and the surrounding Radcliffe. “And I’ve PAGE property now owned by the loved every part of it.” W22 University. TWENTY-TWO Her travels included When she was only Europe, the Orient, seventeen, Radcliffe South America, and graduated from Paterson Africa. “That was my Normal School at the top of education,” she says. “I her class. In those days, the learned more from travel school offered a two-year than school.”

Melva Cadmus Radcliffe Radcliffe was married for the psychology, I have found my first time when she was in her background to be invaluable.” late 60s, to James Radcliffe. “He Salton has had quite an was an old beau of mine when I extensive academic career in was about twenty,” she says. education. After receiving her “And after his wife died, he undergraduate degree in looked me up again.” When education at William Paterson in asked why it didn’t work out 1963, she earned a master of earlier, she says, “I was having science degree in education from too much of a good time to get Virginia Commonwealth married. I had a lot of beaus and University (where she was a loved doing a lot of things.” She teaching fellow), and went on to enjoyed going to shows in New pursue a post-master’s degree— York, football games, and playing an education specialist degree in golf and tennis. When James supervision and administration— died about seven years later, she from Florida Atlantic University. married his brother, Hartley At Simon & Schuster, Salton Radcliffe, at age eighty-two. managed the development of new Hartley died a few years ago. sales strategies and was The father of both men was responsible for business Amos H. Radcliffe, who had development, marketing, public been mayor of Paterson (1916- relations, and customer service 1919) as well as a congressional for six global product lines. After representative. ten years with the company, a With ancestors dating back to friend came to her with a new pre-Revolutionary times, idea, and approached her about Radcliffe holds many secrets to moving into the nonprofit sector. New Jersey’s past. In an Eunice I. Salton “Someone I knew called me interesting historical twist up and said, ‘Eunice, there’s a linking her to the Wayne campus, Radcliffe nonprofit that has your name written on it; recalls that relatives of her husband, with they really need someone with a good the surname Stansfield, owned the Hobart Eunice I. Salton business acumen who can help turn it into Manor property well before the Hobart FROM WALL STREET TO THE STAGE what it needs to be.’ So I went and family. “I imagine that they bought it interviewed and I just loved the when they came over from England, hen Eunice Salton decided to get her organization. In learning about the mission, around the late 1880s,” she says. Her step- Wbachelor’s degree in education, she I realized it brought me full circle to the daughter, Suzanne Radcliffe Maddux ’71, never dreamed it would land her on Wall whole area of education.” confirms the fact, noting that Radcliffe has Street. But that’s exactly where her drive As the chief executive officer of Plays a good memory for such details. and her William Paterson education took for Living, she is now in charge of her: to the top of the corporate ladder. And operations and management of a national — Terry E. Ross at the height of her career in business, as organization that educates youth and the vice president of sales and marketing corporate communities on issues including for the New York Institute of Finance (a diversity, harassment, leadership, ethics, PAGE unit of Simon & Schuster), Salton made W23 and managing change. She credits much of TWENTY-THREE another dramatic career turn. She stepped her ability to successfully manage a large away from the corporate world to become organization to the skills she learned during the national executive director of Plays for her college years. Living, an award-winning nonprofit “Across the board, it was those skills I organization that uses the technique of live got at William Paterson as an theater as a tool to produce training undergraduate that really began to come programs on sensitive issues. into play as I started my career.” She adds Salton has a simple explanation for the with a chuckle, “You could say that I’ve apparent ease with which she has been able come full circle, back to educating people.” to shape her career path. “Education,” she says, “really gives you — Minne Hong Ho a great background in understanding people. In terms of understanding organizational development and corporate

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As top professionals in advertising, marketing, broadcasting, and book and magazine publishing, eight University alums are making headlines of their own in the field of communication.

Sharon Cinque, as well as his longtime the essence of what drives peoples’ actions, John A. Byrne friend, Colin Ungaro ’75. “In addition to and the dramatic impact of their decisions.” giving me a wife and a best friend, the Through his writing, Byrne has also put MAKING AN IMPACT THROUGH Beacon helped me figure out what I wanted the spotlight on corporate misdeeds, and to do professionally,” he says. even been a catalyst for reform. For USINESS OURNALISM B J For the past twenty-five years, Byrne’s example, in his 1999 book, Chainsaw “ was not a very directed person at the passion has been to document human (Harper Collins), he chronicles the rise and Itime,” says John Byrne ’75 of his drama in the business arena. “Everyone fall of “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap, former CEO decision to pursue a college education. “It wants to become a political reporter, but I of Scott Paper and Sunbeam, who was was either Vietnam or college. But it was at thought the real action was in the business known for leading draconian-style William Paterson that I really found myself world, where people have the power and downsizings. “The book was used by the and what I wanted to do with my life.” authority to make a true difference in Securities and Exchange Commission in an A first generation college student raised people’s lives,” he says. “A central, investigation, and even led to a successful in Paterson, Byrne, who received his motivating theme in my work is to capture lawsuit on behalf of Sunbeam shareholders bachelor’s degree in English and political and bondholders who were left with science, is now a senior writer for Business nothing after Dunlap drove the company Week magazine. He is also the author of into bankruptcy,” he says. eight books on business and management, Byrne has also spurred change through including Jack: Straight from the Gut, his his reporting at Business Week, where he has helped to shape the magazine’s annual PAGE recent collaboration with former General W24 Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jack coverage of issues such as executive TWENTY-FOUR Welch. Published in September 2001, the compensation, business school rankings, book spent six months on the New York and the nation’s best and worst corporate Times best seller list, including several boards of directors. This body of work has weeks at number one. led to changes in how some of America’s Byrne, who also holds a master’s degree most elite business schools teach their in journalism from the University of students, and also resulted in reform in Missouri, credits William Paterson and his corporate governance at companies like involvement in the Beacon, the campus Walt Disney, which for a time made the newspaper, with sparking his interest in “worst” list of boards of directors. journalism and influencing the course of “The bottom line is that no matter how his life. frivolous a list may seem, no one wants to It was at the Beacon, where Byrne served be on your ‘worst’ list. And as a journalist, first as a music critic and later as editor, that that gives you real power to make an he met his wife of twenty-seven years, John Byrne impact,” says Byrne. Despite his busy schedule, Byrne also His involvement in basketball, and a sports and music, he still makes time for seeks to make a difference by acting as a string of fortuitous chance encounters, the University. During Reunion Weekend mentor and resource to current William played a large role in shaping his career. “I in June, Daniels returned to campus to see Paterson students through his role as was on a really great team,” he recalls. “I old friends, tour the new facilities, and president of the newly created Beacon was a pretty good player, but not a star. even spin some records for his classmates. Alumni Chapter of the Alumni Association. Somehow, during the warm-ups of the “I have lifelong friends from William He also spent time on campus last spring playoffs against Hackensack, every single Paterson,” says Daniels, “and I was proud speaking at the Alumni Lecture Series shot I took ended up making the basket.” to represent the school, especially as I about his experience in writing the Jack In the audience at that game was a William traveled and carried the banner as an Welch book, and to attend the May 2002 Paterson coach, who sought him out and athlete.” graduation of his son, Jonathan Byrne, recruited him to join the college’s team. — Minne Hong Ho from the University. At William Paterson, Daniels studied Through his continued role on campus, psychology and continued to play Byrne hopes to share his love of journalism basketball, until another chance meeting at with those who aspire to a career in a basketball game changed his plans. reporting. “I have one of the greatest jobs,” During a post-game interview, a professor he says. “I’m essentially a lifelong student in the communication department caught Theresa Foy DiGeronimo who gets to ask embarrassing questions of him speaking on camera, and, impressed by FORGING A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS the most powerful people in the world. And Daniels’ camera presence, steered him to a AN AUTHOR there is a tangible result to the work I do. course in broadcasting. He took the class, It’s remarkably fulfilling.” and decided on a new career. s a high school English teacher, Daniels augmented his studies by Theresa Foy DiGeronimo ’75 —Christine Diehl A gaining as much on-camera experience as encouraged the students in her creative he could get, offering himself as free talent writing courses to pen works and send for campus television shows. He also them to magazines or journals that might worked as a deejay on the campus radio publish them. One day, she decided to take Rod Daniels station, and spun records for parties in the her own advice, and she began testing the dorms. waters, sending out stories to newspapers ON-COURT TO ON-AIR STAR After graduation in 1975, Daniels was and magazines. And she started getting rowing up as a kid in Harlem and the accepted as a production trainee at published. GSouth Bronx, Rod Daniels simply Community Film Workshop, an Theresa wanted to be the best at what he put his organization started by Melvin Van Peebles Foy DiGeronimo mind to—whether it was academics, sports, and Harry Belafonte to enable minorities to or music. Today, his drive to excel has gain skills necessary for the media business. earned him a place at the top in broadcast A news producer visiting the class from journalism. A fixture on the Baltimore South Carolina saw one of Daniels’ demo television scene, Daniels anchors three tapes, and invited him for an interview at top-rated news broadcasts for station the station. WBAL-TV—each number one in its time Upon arrival, he was handed a magazine slot. of film and told to head out into the field to “It’s a very competitive field,” says produce a five-minute news segment. Daniels, a veteran of reporting posts in Fortunately, the shoot went without a PAGE W25 South Carolina, Milwaukee, and glitch, and Daniels had his first professional TWENTY-FIVE Pittsburgh. “But if you’re well prepared, news segment broadcast that evening. you really know how to do your best under “I was so comfortable doing this any given circumstance.” because this was what I had been trained Daniels first attended school in New for,” he explains. “The professors I had Jersey during high school, shortly after his really cared about students, and that made family moved to Teaneck. New to the area, a big difference.” he was eager to participate in school Since then, Daniels has worked in activities, including sports—but there was major markets including Milwaukee, one problem. “I wasn’t involved in athletics Pittsburgh, and Baltimore; several of before then,” he recalls. Undeterred, he his stories have aired nationally on would arrive at the basketball court at NBC. Despite a busy schedule outside the 7:00 a.m. to practice before anyone was at newsroom that includes speaking school. “But if anyone else showed up,” he to school groups, hosting says, “I would take my ball and go home.” community events, and playing

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 By taking that risk, DiGeronimo has Paterson’s English department, where she of the World Trade Center collapse on built a diverse and successful career as a has taught courses including freelance September 11, reported from the New York freelance writer. She is the author of more writing and book and magazine editing since Stock Exchange during the days of trading than thirty-five nonfiction books on a wide 1989. “My students are intelligent, after the tragedy. “The market was nose- variety of topics, as well as nearly one interested, and creative,” she says. “And I diving and everybody on the floor knew hundred magazine articles, scripts for video enjoy passing on to them my enthusiasm for someone who was missing or had been and audio productions, sales training the English language.” killed. It was very moving,” she says. manuals, patient and physician education Her varied role at CNN includes — Paula Zecca materials, and advertising brochures. She preparing The Biz, a live show on the also serves as a freelance editor for various creative industries which airs daily at noon publishing houses. on CNNfn, preparing segments for CNN’s “Working as a freelance writer requires signature show, The Moneyline News Hour personal motivation and your success is with Lou Dobbs, and providing live stock based on the efforts you alone make,” she Susan Lisovicz market updates for CNN International. explains. “There are no guaranteed REPORTING NEWS IS HER BUSINESS “I really love my job,” she says. “It paychecks or vacations, or any of the perks enriches me on a daily basis. And it’s as usan Lisovicz ’78 knew by the time she that come with an office job. But, I’ve been unpredictable as life itself. One of the best was in high school that her passion in life able to pursue my career while staying S things in life is to know what you want to would be found in journalism. Today, as an home and raising three children, and that do and be paid to do it.” anchor and correspondent for CNN was very important to me.” As a student at William Paterson, Business News, she is at the epicenter of DiGeronimo’s move into the field of Lisovicz immersed herself in the offerings much of the most important news of the day. nonfiction book writing came as the result of the communication department, taking Lisovicz, who watched the South Tower of a magazine article she was writing. She courses in journalism, television, and radio. was attempting to schedule an interview Interested in gaining hands-on experience, with Charles Schaefer, a professor of she became a reporter for the Beacon and psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson WPSC-FM, where she found her niche. “It University. Schaefer said he was too busy was here at William Paterson that I first to talk with her because he was writing a started taking risks,” she explains. A job as book. Instead, he asked if she would be a freelance reporter covering town meetings interested in authoring the book with him. for WOBM-FM, a radio station in Toms The pair have since collaborated on nearly River, led to a professional position a dozen projects dealing with develop- anchoring the weekend news. mental issues, including that first book, Her career has included stints as a staff Toilet Training Without Tears, which has reporter for the Associated Press, freelance sold more than one hundred thousand assignments for WABC-TV in New York, copies. and as a general assignment reporter and Her research has taken her across the Headline News anchor for CNN based in country, interviewing a wide range of Atlanta. She entered into business news in experts. She has also gained national 1991 at CNBC, where she worked as publicity. A three-hour interview about her both a correspondent and anchor. book, AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts, which There, her assignments included PAGE took place at a convention of the American the World Trade Center bombing W26 TWENTY-SIX Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1993, and several of the biggest in Las Vegas, was beamed by satellite to corporate mergers in history, fifty different locations, leading to including Disney's acquisition of additional interviews across the country. ABC and Time Warner’s purchase of DiGeronimo enjoys the challenge Turner Broadcasting. Her overseas of each project. Most recently, she reporting includes a series on the traveled to Philadelphia for the ESPN economic implications of the Panama X-Games to watch world-champion Canal Treaty and the end of apartheid skateboarder Andy MacDonald, the in South Africa. The NBC Nightly subject of her latest book. “Every News, MSNBC, and many NBC book is a brand new world,” she affiliates carried Lisovicz's reports. explains. Lisovicz takes time out of her busy She continues to indulge her love for teaching as an adjunct in William Susan Lisovicz schedule to serve as a mentor to two students each year. She recently participated in the University’s Job Shadowing Program, which allowed a student in the Christos M. Cotsakos College of Business to spend the day with her at CNN and get a behind-the-scenes look at working in a newsroom. “It gives me great joy,” she says, “to see the students become successful individuals.” — Paula Zecca John Lonsdorf AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT hen John Lonsdorf interviews Wpotential employees for his integrated marketing communications firm, The R&J Group, he definitely has a particular profile in mind. “I’m looking for someone who is entrepreneurial, who is smart, quick on his or her feet, and who might shake things up with a new idea,” he explains. As president and co-founder of one of the top fifteen advertising and public relations companies in New Jersey, Lonsdorf has employed his own John Lonsdorf entrepreneurial spirit to grow the Parsippany-based firm into a market leader In 1986, the company went out of advertising for Minolta’s new line of digital that attracts international and national business—and he saw the chance to open cameras. clients in consumer electronics, his own agency. “It was the worst possible Active in New Jersey’s advertising and photography, health care, and time. My wife, Lyn, was nearly nine public relations communities (he was a manufacturing, among others. months pregnant with our first child. But founding director of the New Jersey A 1979 graduate of William Paterson she totally supported the idea.” Lonsdorf Association of Advertising Agencies), with a bachelor’s degree in communication and Bob Gagauf, the general manager at Lonsdorf serves on the board of trustees of and teaching certification in English, Landmark, put together $50,000 and their Integrity, Inc., a residential substance abuse elementary education, and speech arts and company was born. treatment community in Newark that also PAGE dramatics, Lonsdorf accepted a $10,500 W27 Today, the firm bills $31 million; clients provides job readiness, job training, and position teaching middle school English in TWENTY-SEVEN include Minolta, Aiwa, Sharp, Sony, education. Hope, New Jersey, following graduation. “I Alpharma, Konica, Samsung, and Saint The father of three—Kristen, sixteen, loved teaching, but in the early 1980s the Clare's Health System, among others. Patrick, eleven, and Katie, seven— salaries weren’t what they are today,” he Services include marketing, e-business Lonsdorf enjoys coaching youth soccer, says. Through connections with fellow solutions, advertising: creative and baseball, and basketball, and although he William Paterson alumni, he was offered production, promotional and collateral no longer belongs to a band, still finds regular freelance advertising and public materials, media planning and buying, time to play the guitar for fun. He looks relations assignments, and when the publicity, and public relations. As JVC’s back fondly on his experiences at William opportunity arose to work in the field full- national agency of record, R&J launched a Paterson. “The flexibility of the program time, he jumped at it, joining Landmark major branding campaign, “Excite Your allowed me to learn so much that has Advertising as director of account services Senses,” for the innovative electronics helped me build my career,” he says. and business development. giant, and more recently unveiled national —Mary Beth Zeman

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 “When you run a division, the obliga- tion is incredible,” she says. “Honestly, Nancy Pendas-Smith since September 11, it’s become that much Will Pesce TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS A more apparent how important it was to find INSPIRING OTHERS TO SUCCEED the balance. I’m trying to do that.” LIFE CHANGE While it may seem easier to work from ill Pesce ’73, the president and CEO of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has a fter years as president of a highly home than to commute into the city every W favorite quote attributed to Andrew successful advertising agency serving day, the reality is that working from home A Carnegie, the Scottish industrialist and the Hispanic market, Nancy Pendas- brings its own set of challenges. philanthropist: Smith ’82 decided to branch out on her “I’m finding it takes more discipline to “The best means of benefiting the own earlier this year and is now working as do this than to be in an office with a community is to place within its reach the a management consultant from her home complete staff and everything you would ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.” while being a full-time mom to her six- ever need or want,” Pendas-Smith remarks. Through a scholarship Pesce and his year-old daughter. “But, I do okay with my phone, my fax, wife, Henrietta ’72, established at William The change was welcome. She spent and computer.” Paterson several years ago, he is doing just twenty years at various agencies in New Her daughter, now in first grade, that: giving a hand to aspiring students to York City working on accounts with such provided another motivation to be around help them up the ladder of success. They firms as Clairol, Procter & Gamble, and home more. named the scholarship after his father, Toyota Motor Sales. Now, she continues to “With my job, I was constantly Aniello Pesce, the man who inspired Will work with advertising directed to the same traveling,” she says. “And if I had to be in Pesce to succeed. market. “It’s what I know, “My father was a plumber with only a it’s what I love, and what third-grade education,” Pesce recalls. “But, I’m highly credentialed to he was a very wise person with a strong do,” she says. “And frankly work ethic. My dad believed that education it is where I can add the could lead to a better life for the next most value for a client. I’m generation of Pesces.” Aniello Pesce, who doing what I was doing died one year after Will graduated from before, but now I’m doing William Paterson, is described by his son as it on my own.” “a passionate and inspirational leader in After working for our family who was a strong advocate for several years in general my education.” advertising, Pendas-Smith, It is an example Will Pesce is following the daughter of Cuban both personally and professionally. parents, switched to the “It all starts with a fundamental Hispanic market, one of leadership philosophy,” Pesce says. “I the fastest-growing believe strongly in the value of long-term populations in the country Nancy Pendas-Smith relationships that are built on dignity and today according to the respect. To be an effective leader, you must latest census. be an outstanding human being, a role “When I came over to the Hispanic the office, I was working until eight or model for others. Leaders must not be market, it was because I was tired of what nine o’clock at night in order to make up soloists, but conductors in an orchestra, was happening in the general market,” she for the days I wasn’t there or if I had to PAGE inspiring individuals to do their best, while says. “It wasn’t a very positive time then. I make a big presentation. It was an W28 collaborating as a team. I coached children TWENTY-EIGHT never truly imagined how explosive the excruciating obligation. It wasn’t so bad in baseball and softball for about ten years Hispanic market would be. I consider when my daughter was very young, but or so. Coaching is all about role modeling myself very fortunate to have been a part of once she started pre-school and this whole and mentoring. I was never the best athlete that for as long as I have.” social life sprung up for her, and then on any team that I played on, but I think Working on her own has provided a sense kindergarten came with an academic that made me a better coach, mentor, and, of balance in her life, something that component, it really became difficult not ultimately, leader.” running Conill Advertising, which is a being there every day. I definitely want to Additionally, Pesce meets with students, division of Saatchi and Saatchi, one of the do this for the near term, and see what provides career advice, and occasionally world’s largest advertising agencies, could happens. It’s not going to be easy, but I’m teaches a class at New York University’s not provide. certainly willing to give it a try.” Stern School of Business, where he earned —Barbara E. Martin an M.B.A. after graduating from William “We try to give our reader what she wants,” Ungaro says. “Anyone who works Susan Kelliher Ungaro for me has to bring their own passions and TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN enthusiasms to the job and pass them on to the readers to give them what they need to WOMEN’S JOURNALISM know. Through the magazine, we can usan Kelliher Ungaro ’75, editor-in- educate women about health care and Schief of Family Circle magazine for social issues. When women come to the twenty-five years, has made a career out of magazine, they know that they can trust us. knowing what American women want to “Since September 11, things have read about, unlocking the key to the changed, but Family Circle has done well,” magazine’s success. Family Circle she continues. “Today, more than ever, celebrated its seventieth anniversary with we’re in sync with our readers’ values.” the October 2002 issue. The mother of three, Ungaro is on the The issue looked back at how family life job from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. each day, and women’s lives have changed since and like many women today, juggles 1932, but it also looked to the future with a professional and personal responsibilities. national survey, “Racy, Raunchy, and “This job at Family Circle has worked with Violent: Has TV Gone Too Far?” which my life,” she says. “The magazine has been Ungaro is particularly excited about. family friendly and I have a dream job.” “The envelope keeps getting pushed Ungaro believes that exposure to Will Pesce further and further,” Ungaro says. campus media organizations was an integral “Women with children are concerned part of her experience at William Paterson. “I worked on the college newspaper, was Paterson. He recently met with a group of about the effects of violence on their program director of WPSC, and was summer interns at John Wiley & Sons, and families.” president of the filmmakers club where I talked about leadership and professional She sees the magazine as a publication learned about team work and picked up growth and development. about advocacy. For example, each issue leadership skills in an atmosphere that was “I love being around young people who includes features on subjects of inclusive,” she recalls. really want to learn,” he says. “Spending importance, such as eliminating corporal She met her husband, Colin Ungaro, time with people, listening, learning, and punishment in schools, the danger of also a 1975 graduate, while both were providing advice is a wonderful way to amusement park rides, and reports about working at WPSC. He was a deejay and an provide a ladder for aspiring individuals. kidnapped and missing children. Since the editor of the Beacon. They married in 1977 Role modeling leadership behavior is magazine started publishing photos of and are the parents of Ryan, Matthew, and important in the personal and professional missing children five years ago, eleven of Christina. growth of young people. those children have been found. Ungaro received the Alumni “We’re not all blessed with the same Association’s 1995 Distinguished Alumni financial advantages,” Pesce continues. “I Award, which is presented each year to want to give something back, and a alumni who have demonstrated distinctive scholarship is one way to accomplish that. achievements in a career, civic involvement, The Aniello Pesce scholarship is a gift of or both. She also received the University’s pride. It is enormously gratifying to help 1999 Legacy Award along with her deserving William Paterson students to husband, Colin, who is the president of the PAGE fulfill their dreams.” W29 New Product Division of Reed Business TWENTY-NINE —Barbara E. Martin Information. The award is given to people who epitomize the spirit of William Paterson, the University’s namesake, an early New Jersey statesman whose visionary leadership was critical in the development of the state and the nation. —Barbara E. Martin

Susan Kelliher Ungaro

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 Scions of Science and Medicine Scientists, researchers, and medical professionals—these eight William Paterson graduates are forging new frontiers and making discoveries that will change the future.

Regina Bonanno BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST LASER ne of the earliest gifts Regina O Bonanno ’80 recalls receiving from her father, who was a chemist, was an Erector set. She loved to tinker with the various gears and components to create buildings and gadgets. “I think I learned to use a screwdriver before I was five,” she says. Bonanno continues to enjoy building things that have never been built before. Now, as a laser physicist and senior technical manager of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, PAGE Bonanno is responsible for designing and W30 THIRTY building the components for what will be the world’s largest laser. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Stockpile Stewardship Program, NIF is a critical component of Regina Bonanno the country’s national security agenda. “Since we no longer test our nuclear The facility is the size of a sports Bonanno is referring to the amount of weapons by exploding them underground, stadium and when complete in 2008 will power the laser system will generate in a we need to develop alternative ways to contain almost two hundred laser beams, all few nanoseconds—equal to one thousand ensure that our stockpile is reliable, stable, of which are focused on a target the size of times the electric generating power of the and effective,” Bonanno explains. “By a BB-gun pellet. “The size of the facility entire United States. A product of the using large lasers, we can generate, on a poses many unique technical challenges,” laser’s fusion reaction is energy. “If we can very small and safe scale, some of the she says. “But, it is so exciting to be find a way to harness this fusion energy, it reactions and effects that are relevant to the involved in creating what could be could result in a new, clean, and virtually operations of nuclear weapons.” groundbreaking technology.” inexhaustible energy source for the country,” she says. tooth meant She points to William Paterson destroying it—and chemistry professors Louis Rivela and the possibility for Gary Gerardi for fostering her interest in future generations chemistry. “It was a small department and of scientists to the faculty were interested in teaching us study that and preparing us for our careers,” she specimen. recalls. “The level of one-on-one Then Janice interaction with the faculty I received was Cori Cobb ’89 had so different from the experience of people I an idea. While know who went to larger universities.” working on remains Bonanno earned a doctorate in physical she helped recover chemistry from the University of at the Shang Maryland, where she first focused on work Dynasty Heiheru with lasers. After receiving her degree in site in Anyang, 1984, she spent two years as a National China, in the late Research Council Postdoctoral Research 1990s, she devised Associate at the National Institute of a new technique— Standards and Technology where she essentially a reverse worked on the development of ultra- root canal—that sensitive analysis techniques using lasers. preserves the tooth In 1986, she joined Lawrence Livermore while still Janice Cori Cobb National Laboratory, and has been there extracting DNA for University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and was ever since, except for two years at the CVI study. The procedure, which was awarded a accepted as a graduate student in anthro- Laser Corporation from 1992 to 1994. U.S. Patent in late 2001, will change the way pology on a full scholarship. Despite her busy schedule, which scientists in a number of disciplines study During her stay in Alaska, Cobb was includes balancing the needs of her five- ancient remains. offered the opportunity to work for a year year-old son Alexander, Bonanno enjoys “Ancient remains are so fragile and those in the ancient DNA lab at Lakehead talking at school and to community groups that are found are very difficult to recover,” University in Thunder Bay, Canada, where about her work. She has participated in a says Cobb, who had to climb twenty feet she was trained in the analysis of ancient number of forums on the issue of women down into a grave in China to retrieve the DNA and became involved in the Shang in the sciences. “Women are starting to teeth she studied. “To then destroy those Dynasty research, a joint project of the move into higher levels of management at remains was heartbreaking. I am so proud to Chinese Institute of Archaeology, the Livermore and in other similar facilities,” have discovered this technique—I feel I am Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and she says. “The opportunities are there—if on a wonderful journey.” the Archaeometry Laboratory at the one comes your way, you need to take it.” Cobb, who grew up in Wayne, took a University of Minnesota in Duluth. circuitous path to the study of — Mary Beth Zeman After earning her master’s degree in anthropology. At seventeen she auditioned anthropology in 1999, Cobb embarked on for and was accepted to The Juilliard the arduous process of patenting her School to study voice. Anxious to pursue a technique, which required that she analyze career as an opera singer, she strained her more than one hundred research studies in vocal chords and lost her voice. A job as Janice Cori Cobb her discipline and describe how her idea curator with the Marinus DeNooyer Water PAGE STUDYING OUR ANCESTORS could not have been drawn from another’s W31 Museum led to an interest in history, and work. During that time, she held a number THIRTY-ONE or an anthropologist, human teeth are a she decided to enroll at William Paterson as of positions to make ends meet, including rich source of information about our a history major. F an anthropology instructor in the ancestors. As the hardest and most durable “Every professor I had wanted to see University of Alaska, Anchorage’s program substance in the human body, teeth are me do well and be enriched by my educa- at Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, a often all that remain to give evidence of the tion,” she recalls. “I just loved studying.” substitute teacher in the local school existence of people in a given archaeo- She earned a degree in history summa cum district, and a forklift operator. logical site. laude, with a certification in teaching, and All her hard work has now paid off. In In recent years, dental remains have began to look for a permanent teaching August, she began work at the State gained importance as advances in the study position while continuing to take courses at University of New York at Albany for a of DNA research have added a new the University. “I guess I was always doctorate in molecular anthropology. “My dimension for scientists interested in interested in anthropology but just didn’t goal is to continue learning and to take every ancient populations. Unfortunately, until know it,” she says. “I finally decided to opportunity that comes along,” she says. recently, extracting DNA from an ancient follow my heart.” She applied to the —Mary Beth Zeman

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 Honors Program at William Paterson,” patient care and chief nursing officer, the notes DeLuca. Under the guidance of most senior nursing position, in charge of Martin Hahn, a professor of biology, the more than 1,800 nurses on staff at the DeLuca discovered that he enjoyed doing 629-bed facility. Goldberg was recently the work of a scientist. As an promoted to vice president of nursing, undergraduate, he conducted his first responsible for strategic planning and research on learning, memory, and brain management for the medical continuum, development in animals. He applied for and organizational education, nursing received a grant from the National Science education, psychiatric services, nursing Foundation, published his research, and research, and oncology services. started giving presentations at national As nursing leaders and administrators, conferences around the country. The they have reached the top of their experience, he says, led him directly to what profession through hard work, education, he does today. and the desire to help others in a DeLuca is also a professor of physical meaningful way. medicine and rehabilitation at the “I started out in the business world,” University of Medicine and Dentistry of says Fiore. “But I gradually realized that I New Jersey—New Jersey Medical School wanted a career in one of the helping John DeLuca and directs the post-doctoral fellowship professions. Nursing required competence program in neuropsychology at Kessler. and education in an environment where “Perhaps the most rewarding part of my people work together to accomplish goals. job today is in the training of post-doctoral I’ve never had any regrets about choosing John DeLuca fellows and seeing them develop into nursing as a career. I’m fortunate to be able ADVANCING RESEARCH IN world-class researchers,” he says. to make a difference at a place where I am DeLuca stays connected to William working.” OGNITIVE EUROSCIENCE C N Paterson. He recently lectured to students Goldberg doesn’t remember ever wanting “ couldn’t have a better job,” says John in the Biopsychology Honors Program and to be anything other than a nurse. “From the I DeLuca, director of Neuroscience serves on the advisory board to the time I was five years old, I wanted to be a Research at Kessler Medical Rehabilitation University’s College of Science and Health. nurse,” she recalls. “I remember receiving a Research and Education Corporation in “I feel grateful that I can in some way ‘give toy hospital as a present when I was very West Orange. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s back’ to the future and development of the young and playing with it constantly.” After the best job in the country.” University,” he says. high school, she earned her RN from Holy DeLuca, a 1979 graduate with a degree DeLuca earned his master’s and Name Nursing School, and joined the Navy, in psychology, is enthusiastic about his field doctoral degrees in psychology from the earning the rank of lieutenant as she served of brain research. He directs a team of State University of New York (SUNY) in in military hospitals in California. After scientists and researchers who study Binghamton. He is a licensed psychologist moving back to New Jersey, she joined the disorders of memory and information in New Jersey and New York. staff of the medical center in 1977. She later earned a master’s degree in nursing from processing. “We’re looking at applying —Terry E. Ross principles from cognitive neuroscience and Rutgers University. cognitive psychology to help rehabilitate Fiore received her RN from Jersey City brain-injured individuals,” he explains. Hospital School of Nursing, joined the His lab utilizes state-of-the-art medical center staff in 1966, left to join a PAGE techniques to examine clinically oriented pediatric practice, and returned in 1970. W32 Toni Fiore and THIRTY-TWO rehabilitation research, such as functional She decided to earn a bachelor’s degree to neuroimaging and virtual reality achieve career goals. technology. “For example, we have a virtual Stephanie Goldberg “I was determined to get a degree,” she reality program that enables us to assess the says. “A degree is a prerequisite to driving difficulty for persons who have LEADING THE WAY TO professional accomplishments. The nursing brain injury,” he explains. In virtual reality, professors were very supportive of us at QUALITY PATIENT CARE a person could be put behind the wheel of school. The education I received helped me a car and safely tested to see if he could oni Fiore ’76 and Stephanie move up.” She went on to earn a master’s make a left or right turn or stop in T Goldberg ’81 began a working degree in nursing administration from New situations that might result in a car partnership more than twenty-three years York University in 1982. accident. “This is all new technology,” ago when both were staff nurses at Goldberg says that Fiore acted as a adds DeLuca. “We’re probably the only Hackensack University Medical Center. mentor for her. “I pursued my education people who are doing it.” That partnership continues now that they because of her,” she remembers. “I admire “I might not have gone into this field are among the Center’s top executive team. her professionalism. She’s a role model as a had it not been for the Biopsychology Fiore is executive vice president of nurse and a nursing leader. She has the ability to manage difficult issues with a lot As a chemistry major, husband Bill of sensitivity. She has always been a people confirms the camaraderie among faculty person.” Suzanne Kabis and students. Following graduation and a Each recommends a four-year nursing ACHIEVING AGAINST ALL ODDS stint in the Navy that took him to Vietnam, degree program, such as the University’s, Bill entered post-graduate studies, as the optimum way into nursing practice, uzanne Kabis ’75 says that when she eventually earning a doctorate in chemistry. but both realize that family or financial Sarrived at William Paterson in 1973, the He worked in the New Jersey drug responsibilities might prevent that. odds of a state school graduate being industry for a number of years, but after “A four-year degree should be entry- accepted into medical school were small, developing multiple sclerosis, Bill changed level into practice,” Fiore remarks. and she was told that she was too old to go career paths and joined his wife’s practice “Education is very important; it broadens to medical school. But Kabis persevered as business manager. people, exposes them to new people, and is and broke the “glass ceiling” in the male- The doctors Kabis have two children, important to a career path. Opportunities dominated fraternity of medical doctors at Jessica, who is a recent college graduate, open up for those with degrees.” a time when the vast majority of women in and Justin, who entered his senior year in Their efforts have helped Hackensack the medical profession chose nursing. high school this fall. University Medical Center earn the most Continuing to boldly go where no — Phillip Sprayberry distinguished nursing award, the Magnet woman had gone before, Kabis was the first Nursing Services Recognition Award for female nephrology fellow at the University of North Carolina. Now, Kabis heads the Renal Group of Central New Jersey in Somerset, a practice she instituted to assist patients whom she calls, “the neediest, sickest people with the least amount of Margaret Landi resources.” Kabis made the conscious choice to use her talents in the clinic for A LOVE FOR LIVING CREATURES hands-on patient care rather than in the ong before Dr. Margaret Landi ’74 research laboratory and looks at her work as Lbecame a scientist, she knew that “a calling—you know you need to do it.” exploring living things would be in her One of the first people she met after future. arriving on campus was Charles William Never one to shrink from handling (Bill) Kabis ’75, the man who captured her worms for fishing or chopping up bait for heart and, following graduation, whom she crabbing, Landi was fascinated from an married. There was another man she met early age by the endless array of living and who, in a much different way, creatures on the nearby beaches at Seaside influenced her life—John Rosengren. Park and Island Beach State Park. She had Professor Rosengren, a beloved biology a passion to understand, pick up, touch, professor who died in 1999 after a thirty- and return to the sea the curious creatures seven-year career at the University, she found on the beach. “If not,” she jokes, influenced many lives because he was, “they might have found a home in the Kabis says, “an innovative, visionary bedroom I shared with my two sisters. One scholar whose focus was teaching.” sister is now an accomplished musician, the Kabis came to William Paterson from other a metallurgic engineer, which I think Stephanie Goldberg and Toni Fiore Manhattan. Born and reared a city kid, she explains their lack of enthusiasm for my PAGE had never experienced outdoor activities. often, well, smelly finds.” W33 THIRTY-THREE Nursing Excellence in Nursing Services, At first she was reluctant to participate in Landi, who is now vice president of the highest award a hospital can receive for Rosengren’s field trips that involved Global Laboratory Animal Science (LAS) outstanding achievement in patient care, camping, canoeing, hiking, and rock for Glaxo Smith-Kline Pharmaceuticals, first in 1995, and again in 1999 (the awards climbing to see, do, experience, and learn. found her penchant for living creatures an cover a four-year period). This kind of commitment and passion asset in her studies in grammar and high “The award is criteria-based,” Fiore marked the science department faculty and school, where her best subject was, says. “We have raised the bar for ourselves fueled students to succeed—“not because naturally, biology. During her senior year in patient care. As nursing leaders we they wanted to be number one, but because in high school, she took an advanced continue to be concerned about the they had a passion for teaching and wanted biology course, and found an academic patients, doctors, and staff.” their students to excel,” Kabis says. Among interest that would later launch her into a these faculty was current University successful career. So with a New Jersey —Barbara E. Martin President Arnold Speert, who taught State Scholarship under her belt, she chemistry. headed for William Paterson.

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 back from that comparative anatomy course (DARPA). Through the program, DARPA’s at William Paterson so long ago.” first to focus on mathematics research, Wisniewski identified, funded, and — Minne Hong Ho managed the development of the first face recognition method. Always interested in mathematics— spurred by a grandfather who bought her a new puzzle to solve each week— Dr. Helena Wisniewski Wisniewski found a nurturing environment INTEREST IN MATHEMATICS EQUALS at William Paterson. “I was interested in going beyond the coursework in some SUCCESS IN BUSINESS classes, so the professors provided me with uring a trip to Jackson Hole, reading courses in biology, mathematics, Margaret Landi DWyoming, a number of years ago, and physics. I worked closely with them Helena Wisniewski ’71 learned how to dog- one on one,” she recalls. “That’s the type “I had no preconceived idea of what sled. Once, during a run at ten thousand of interest and caring attitude the faculty college would be like,” she recalls, “so I feet up in the mountains, the sled slid on a showed me.” entered the grounds of William Paterson curve. She found herself hanging over the Wisniewski went on to earn a master’s with enthusiasm and a bit of trepidation.” edge, but never let go of the sled. “Dog- degree in math from Stevens Institute of Landi jump-started her academic life with sledding has taught me a lot about life,” Technology and a Ph.D. in math from City a summer course in general biology that she says. “You never know what’s around University of New York. She was the introduced her to the marvels of college- the next curve, so you must never let go of director, Division of Research, at Seton level science. Throughout her college the sled, or your goals.” Hall University, and subsequently held career, she had the guidance of several Wisniewski has kept her goals clearly in executive positions at the Central professors who kept “pushing me in the mind throughout her varied career as a Intelligence Agency, the Lockheed direction of science,” including Dr. leader in business, government, and Corporation Headquarters, the Titan Rosengren, Dr. Sakal, Dr. Hu, and Dr. academia. She has been responsible for Corporation, ANSER, and CMS Levine. When she took her first class in major advances in information technology, Information Services. Her international comparative anatomy, she not only satellite communications, software systems, reputation as a researcher in the field of discovered the development of hip and aerospace engineering design, among nonlinear dynamics has resulted in structure from dinosaurs to human beings, other accomplishments—while forging a numerous invitations to speak at she discovered for herself “the sheer path for women in mathematics. conferences around the world, as well as a wonder” of developmental biology. She currently serves as chair and CEO May 1999 appearance before a U.S. Senate After completing her undergraduate of Aurora Biometrics Inc., which provides subcommittee on technology. Her honors degree in biology, Landi pursued graduate security systems for access control and include the 2002 Women in Technology studies to learn more about the bridge products to prevent identity fraud using Leadership Award and the 2000 Distin- between animals and people, earning her state-of-the-art face recognition guished Alumni Award. master’s degree in laboratory animal technology. Wisniewski, who founded the A resident of Laytonsville, Maryland, science from Penn State and her doctorate company in 2001, developed the patent- Wisniewski is the mother of a ten-year-old in veterinary medicine from the University pending mathematical algorithms behind daughter, Alexis—and several Samoyed of Pennsylvania. the system, which converts the unique show dogs, including Huggy Bear, who has Landi is now recognized internationally features of a person’s face into a very small won several championships. PAGE as an expert in laboratory animal medicine. amount of data—a bio-print—that can be W34 —Mary Beth Zeman THIRTY-FOUR In her role at Glaxo Smith-Kline, she is stored on a computer or in a smart card. responsible for promoting animal welfare “Since September 11, there has been a Helena Wisniewski and providing a high standard of technical greater sense of urgency and awareness for and professional assistance to the this type of technology,” she says. “It company's research and development makes it possible to enhance security community. She is also on the adjunct without passwords or PIN numbers. And faculty for Thomas Jefferson University the process of matching a live person’s and Hahnemann University. Widely unique facial features to the bio-print published in her field, Dr. Landi is the stored in the data base or on a smart card editor-in-chief of the Institute for takes less than a second.” Laboratory Animal Research Journal, and Wisniewski began developing the has been invited to speak at numerous technology in 1987 as the founding director conferences across the United States, as of the Applied and Computational well as in England, China, Canada, and the Mathematics Program of the Defense Netherlands. All of which, she says, “stems Advanced Research Projects Agency SPA L U M TN LIGHTI N E W S he Spotlight section of WP regularly provides Tnews and profiles geared specifically to William Paterson alumni. Since this special issue of WP is entirely devoted to celebrating the accomplishments of our alumni, we have chosen to present an abbreviated edition of Spotlight that includes class notes. 19 plus...

reunion 19 forty 3 19 sixty 1 RUTH (FLORANCE) Jun’03 ALICE-JANE (WEDLAKE) ESTLER and her husband LOEWRIGKEIT was named Orville celebrated their 59th president of the Milford Garden wedding anniversary this past Club. Loewrigkeit has been a full- November. They met while Ruth time resident of Twin Lakes in Join Us for an Italian Adventure was in her senior year at Paterson Shohola, PA, since 1998. State. Ruth finished her studies “La Bella Italia” – 14 days early so that she and Orville could July 12-25, 2003 be together before he left for 19 sixty 2 Europe to fight in World War II. Your 14-day inclusive sightseeing tour includes “It doesn’t seem that long; the JOHN PADALINO, M.A. ’65, Rome (3 nights), Sorrento (2), Assisi (1), Venice (2), retired as the president emeritus of time has flown by,” says Ruth… Lake Lugano (2), and Florence (2) DR. VICTOR J.W. CHRISTIE the Pocono Environmental made the front page of Antiques Education Center in Dingmans • Round-trip airfare from Newark to Rome & Auction News, a widely read Ferry, PA. Padalino was a member • First-class hotel accommodations throughout collector’s newspaper in the of an American delegation invited • Buffet breakfast daily, one lunch, six full-course regional dinners to Eastern Europe to assess eastern United States. With the • Luxurious air-conditioned motor coach progress on environmental release of the fourth edition of his • Cruise to the Isle of Capri education initiatives. PAGE book on the works of artist/ • English-speaking escort and guides throughout illustrator Bessie Pease Gutmann W35 • Extensive sightseeing to include: The Ruins of Pompeii * St. Peter’s Basilica and other Gutmann & Gutmann reunion THIRTY-FIVE * Isle of Capri * Monte Cassino World War II Cemetery * St. Francis Basilica artists, Christie presents 19 sixty 3 Jun’03 * Tuscany * St. Mark’s Square * The Roman Forum and the Colosseum collectors, dealers, and researchers ANNA DAUBE FREUND * Milan and much more… with the latest information on this discussed “Communication and group of highly collectible artists Communicator: The Perfect $2,750* per person and their artworks. Match” at the Zonta Club of the *prices are approximate and based on double occupancy (single rates available upon request) Greater Paterson Area. Freund has an extensive background in For information or application call: 19 sixty education, the performing arts, Judy Linder, Alumni Office, 973.720.2932, or and speech… RONALD C. JOE L. CLARK spoke at York Barbara Caldwell, Clas Travel, 1-800-733-7313 College (PA) as part of the HAEBERLE, M.A. ’66, was college’s 2001-2002 Cultural inducted into the Master Rome At Leisure (optional post-tour) Series “American Impressions and Teacher’s Guild of the University Explore historic sites, boutiques, and cafes on your own for two nights of Medicine & Dentistry of New Expressions.” Included: First-class hotel, dinner at a stylish Roman trattoria, entrance Jersey (UMDNJ). The guild is an organization with a mandate to to Museum Galleria Borghese, and transportation from hotel to airport develop curriculum at all eight $499 per person (double occupancy) schools of the university. Call by December 15, 2002, for more information and application. Space is limited.

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 19 sixty 4 distinction in the association’s 19 seventy 5 nearly 90-year history. EDYTHE (WYLIE) STEPHEN ADZIMA played on DARDIA, M.A. ’69, and her reunion the first football team here at University Community LIGHT husband Arthur celebrated William Paterson and was named their 61st wedding 19 sixty 8 Jun’03 to the All-American team and the Mourns Alumni anniversary last September. JOHN HAROLD STRAUB II College’s All 25 team. Adzima is a (09.11) Edythe is a retired Wayne was elected to serve as an alternate proud father of son Stephen who teacher and Arthur is the delegate for the Teacher’s Pension is a freshman linebacker at the SP T owner of the Neil Hardware and Annuity Fund. Straub was University of Miami, majoring in In the spring 2002 issue of store in Paterson… CARMINE electrical engineering. Adzima’s also elected by the Westminster WP Magazine, we DESOPO, M.A. ’67, was Presbyterian Church of Paterson son and the Miami Hurricanes honored at his retirement dinner to be the delegate to the went to the Rose Bowl this year… mourned six alumni who held at Kove II Caterers in RICHARD C. FLEISCHER Presbytery of the Palisades. died in the attack on the World Trade Center. Edgewater Park. DeSopo was the Currently he is serving as a was appointed to Lakeland Bank’s superintendent of the Burlington trustee on the church board. Pompton Plains Advisory Board. After the magazine went to press, we learned County Special Services School The advisory board of directors District. serves as a liaison between the of two more alumni who lost their lives in the bank and the community… terrorist attacks. Our prayers and condolences 19 seventy WILLIAM LEONARD is one go out to the families of our alumni lost in 19 sixty 5 JOSEPH ANTONACCI SR., of 13 faculty members at Bergen M.A., received a certificate, Community College who were these attacks, as well as members of the JOHN F. AUTORE, M.A. ’68, medal, and ribbon from Kim recently promoted to the rank of was appointed assistant professor Dae-jung, president of the professor. extended William Paterson University of education at Centenary College Republic of Korea, for operations in Hackettstown. against South Korea’s enemies community who lost loved ones. during the Korean War (1951- 19 seventy 6 1952). Antonacci was a sergeant in 19 sixty 7 the 1st Marine Division, ARTHUR BIRMINGHAM III Harry Blanding, Jr. U.S.M.C. was named executive vice JACQUELINE BAKAL joined president and chief financial Felician College in Rutherford as officer of Peapack-Gladstone Harry Blanding, Jr., 38, of Blakeslee, a full-time instructor in Bank and Peapack-Gladstone Pennsylvania, was a claims analyst with Aon developmental mathematics. 19 seventy 2 Financial Corporation… Previously, Bakal was an adjunct JOAN MCENTEE joined the STEPHEN T. BOSWELL, Corporation in the World Trade Center. He instructor and evening office board of trustees of the Women’s M.A., is listed in Business News was a 1987 graduate of William Paterson with administrator for the division of Health & Counseling Center in New Jersey as a 2002 Who’s Who. arts and sciences at the college... Somerville. McEntee currently Boswell is the president and CEO a bachelor’s degree in history. LOUIS N. CIRIGNANO, M.A., manages the professional of Boswell Engineering… was awarded the New Jersey advertising and promotion for a ROBERT R. BURROUGHS Blanding is survived by his wife, Debbie, and Distinguished Service Medal. pharmaceutical account in was honored as an outstanding Cirignano was honored for women’s health care… leader by Bergen Community their three children, Hayley, Jeremy, and meritorious service in sea combat RUSSELL TRIOLO received College as part of the college’s Benjamin. during World War II in the North the National Service to Youth celebration of Black History Award for his 30 years of service Month. Burroughs, who received to the Boys & Girls Club of an African American Leadership Union County. Triolo is the in Bergen County Award, has Thomas F. Swift organization’s chief executive served as the chief of police in officer. Westwood for more than a Thomas F. Swift, 30, of Jersey City, was an decade… MARGARET M. assistant vice president with Morgan Stanley in reunion (WALDRON) PEGO was 19 seventy 3 Jun’03 named vice president of human the World Trade Center. He was a 1993 resources at PSEG, Newark. CHARLES F. COLLVER JR. Pego was previously director of graduate of William Paterson with a celebrated his 20-year anniversary employee relations and human as a sales representative of bachelor’s degree in economics. resources and joined the company Prudential Insurance Company. in 1974. PAGE During his career, Collver Swift is survived by his wife, Jill, his parents, W36 received eight President Citation Peter and Frances Swift, a sister, and three THIRTY-SIX Awards, which are presented to the company’s top 500 19 seventy 7 brothers. LOUIS CIRIGNANO representatives. He also received DANIEL CROWE was named a Atlantic Theater of Operation— three Property and Casualty Gold partner of Lindabury, Normandy Invasion. Cirignano Awards. McCormick & Estabrook in 19 seventy 8 reunion served in the Merchant Marine Westfield… EDGAR EDWARD GERITY for four years, and for 13 months BRENNEN, Oradell police chief, CARL CASALBORE Jun’03 has been named captain of the 37- member New Milford Police in the North Sea, North Atlantic, 19 seventy 4 has retired from the force after 38 has been promoted to vice English Channel, D-Day years of service to the community. president of retail sales and high JOAN T. DEARANI was Normandy Invasion. He later Brennen had been with the performance tire development for appointed to the sales team for served in the U.S. Army during Oradell police force his entire Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Winding Creek at Old Tappan, a the Korean War… FRANK S. career… JUNE (PASSARETTI) Findlay, OH… GERARD new brownstone community in KARPATI, M.A. ’71, recipient of STRUNK is a financial ERAMO has been named New Jersey. Dearani will be the 1991 Distinguished Alumni consultant with Salomon Smith assistant general manager of responsible for the onsite sales Award, was named National Barney, Mystic, CT. Strunk interactive media services in the program. Career Development Association focuses on financial planning with newly formed brand strategy Fellow. This is the first time in the an emphasis on retirement and group of Panasonic Consumer United States that a school estate planning. Electronics Co., Secaucus… counselor has been awarded this CARL CASALBORE PT SP 19 eighty 1 spoke about the importance and MAUREEN (GREGORY) one of the top insurance firms the history of the NAACP… SLAMER was commissioned to in the United States… VINCE GIANTOMASI, a jazz ANTONIO TORCHIA has illustrate a children’s prayer book RICHARD L. DODSON expert, is writing a jazz column been appointed to the Ringwood written by Rabbi Walter and and KATHLEEN M. for the Italian Tribune… Borough Council. Rabbi Barton. Slamer is a (HAWLEY) DODSON DONNA M. RACZ, a former LIGHT personal care assistant and music welcomed a daughter, Nicole director of volunteers for Kessler therapy aide at the Matheny Faith, in June. She joins her Rehabilitation Corporation, opted School and Hospital in Peapack… sister, Emma Rose… JOHN to take early retirement at 40 years 19 eighty 6 GEORGE SOUTTER was A. FORTUNATO, M.A. ’94, old to travel the world and visit DEBORAH A. (SNEYERS) named the New Jersey Herald recently published a book, The Spain, Morocco, Andorra, eastern DEVERY and her husband Robert Boys Swimming Coach of the Ultimate Assist: The Relationship Europe, Nepal, and India. Devery announce the birth of Year for the 2001-02 season. and Broadcast Strategies of the their son, Patrick Joseph Soutter guided the Kittatinny NBA and its Television Networks. Devery… MATT KING has ROBERT SIMOLDONI Cougars to an overall record of Fortunato appeared at the 19 eighty 2 been scheduled by the Roxbury 8-4, a 5-3 record in the Sussex Oakeside Bloomfield Cultural Arts Alliance to perform at their CHRISTOPHER DEXTER County Interscholastic League, Center in Belleville for a book Department. Gerity has 26 years Classic Concerts series. King is a was named general manager of and a bid to the state team signing… BARBRA of experience as a police officer. winner of the Great American Condit’s Toyota World, Hampton. tournament… After eight years of (LIEBERSTEIN) FERGANG Jazz Piano Competition of 2000 Dexter has received the Sales night classes, JOSEPH and her husband Scott announce and was a semifinalist in the Excellence Award from Toyota ZARKOWSKI realized his the birth of twins Sara Maya and Thelonious Monk International 19 seventy 9 Motor Sales USA for six dream of becoming a Joshua Evan on February 24, Jazz Piano Competition… GUY LT. JUDITH A. FIDELLOW consecutive years… BRIAN W. businessman. He is now a partner 2002… DAVID C. SHERIDAN LOPRESTI was named the has been promoted to the rank of MURPHY was appointed vice with Wiss & Company and was has launched a successful career musical director of the Actor’s captain while serving at the naval president of branch recently appointed chair of the as a movie actor. He has appeared Loft in Vernon. LoPresti will be hospital in Camp Pendleton, CA. administration at Columbia firm’s accounting and auditing in the films Scary Movie, Ghost offering voice and piano lessons to Savings Bank in Fair Lawn. committee. World, and Corky Romano, and students in the area. Murphy joined the bank in 1981 portrays the title character in the 19 eighty as a management trainee… upcoming film Frank McCluskey SANDRA J. (EARL) CI… CHRISTINE M. SALVATORE AZZARELLO, WHITEFORD, nominated by 19 eighty 7 (PORTA) SUPER developed an M.Ed. ’87, is the new principal at her students, was named Teacher exercise program for the tenants the Whiton Elementary School, JAMIE CASTIBLANCO-BRIZZI of the Month for November 2001 of Summer Hill Senior Branchburg… RICHARD and JOEL E. BRIZZI ’88 have at Arthur L. Johnson High Apartments in Wayne. CRANE made an appearance established The Water Store, School in Clark. which supplies clients ranging with the Dr. Karen Zumbrunn reunion Jazz Trio for a free concert at the from the New York Giants and Manville Public Library. Crane Fortune 500 companies to people 19 ninety 3 Jun’03 performs widely at clubs and 19 eighty 4 who own pet goldfish. The JILL C. (DUFFY) DONDZILA company has become a major festivals and is featured on many KENNETH J. ARBADJI was THE RAMSEYS WITH SON JACK and her husband Jim announce competitor in the drinking water CDs… ROD MILAZZO, promoted to vice president of the birth of their daughter industry, serving four states. M.Ed., was named principal of North American sales for Melanie Grace Dondzila… Becton Regional High School, 19 ninety 1 KURT GEISINGER was StayinFront, Fairfield. Arbadji has reunion East Rutherford… MARK 12 years of experience in LINDA BEHRENS, M.Ed., presented with a Public Safety MONTAGNA has been pharmaceutical sales and 19 eighty 8 Jun’03 received The Arc of Warren Award by the Montville Township promoted to captain of the South marketing… MARK V. ALAN D. MAYSER decided to County 2001 Educator of the Year Chamber of Commerce… Brunswick Police Department. BRAZDZIONIS and BRENDA display his American pride after Award. Behrens is a special MELISSA A. (BEDFORD) Montagna is a 19-year veteran of (HIMES) BRAZDZIONIS ’98 the September 11th terrorist education teacher with the Special GUTEKUNST and Wayne the department… CHERYL announce the birth of their son attack in a unique way with a Children’s School’s Hackettstown Gutekunst announce the birth of ANN MONTURO was awarded Andrew Stuart on January 31, 6-foot sculpture of a symbol that Moderately Cognitive Program… their son, Zachary Wayne a John A. Hartford Scholarship 2002… LISA MANTONE portrays freedom—the bald eagle. ANTHONY F. FERRARA JR. Gutekunst. for 2002-04. Monturo is one of 20 VILARDI, M.A. ’85, and her The sculpture, which has a joined the faculty of Belleville nurse scholars awarded $100,000 husband Thomas Vilardi wingspan of ten feet, is displayed Middle School as an eighth-grade each to support studies and announce the birth of their on the front lawn of Mayser’s social studies teacher… JOHN 19 ninety 4 research in the field of geriatric daughter, Katherine Anne, on RAMSEY and his wife Lisa home in Westwood. REGINA (MULEE) FRANCIS nursing… ROBERT F. August 8, 2000. announce the birth of their son, SIMOLDONI was named senior Jack… LEIGH VERHOEST and Kevin Francis Sr. announce the birth of their son Kevin account manager at Nova Corp., a recently joined American Dream PAGE New Jersey-based full-service 19 eighty 9 Realty. Verhoest has been a Michael Francis Jr. on October 19 eighty 5 26, 2001… RAYMOND T. W37 design, construction, and WILLIAM B. BORENSTEIN licensed New Jersey real estate THIRTY-SEVEN information technology solutions CALVIN O. EDGHILL SR., is the new entertainment manager agent for six years. GREIG broke the series record at provider. Simoldoni previously president of the Flagler County for Showboat Casino Hotel, Butler Bowl when he posted was senior account manager at NAACP, spoke at the Flagler Atlantic City. Recently, Borenstein games of 266, 279, and 300 for an County Rotary Club. Edghill 847 series, his first 800. Greig has ePresence, Inc., where he was the subject of a Trenton Times 19 ninety 2 developed key accounts in the feature story focusing on his been bowling for 22 years and was pharmaceutical industry… success as the co-coordinator of ELIZABETH F. CLARITY, a member of the William Paterson Watermark Press has published a Trenton’s Sovereign Bank M.A. ’94, was part of the special bowling team… MARC V. collection of poetry by ARLINE Arena… LEO MACALI was effects/animation team that GRODZIELANEK and his wife (FAVINO) PEARCE titled A promoted to assistant vice created the nation’s number one Rachael announce the birth of Peach Colored Rose. Pearce has president of consumer loans at movie hit, Harry Potter and the their daughter Madelyn Robin been writing for more than 50 Lakeland Bank, Oak Ridge. Sorcerer’s Stone… DUSTIN T. Grodzielanek… BRIAN years; her favorite subjects are Macali previously served as CONRAD was named vice TABACCHI, who died in 1998, love and fantasies. assistant treasurer… A poem by president for Horton Benefits was recently honored by long- CHRIS-MARY REPISCAK, Solutions Division of the Horton time friend Mary Nacarlo. titled “I Used To Be A Fan Of A Group in Milwaukee, WI. The Nacarlo ran in the New York City Prominent Man,” was selected for Horton Group is a diversified Marathon as a personal tribute to publication in the International provider of insurance, benefit, and Brian. KATHERINE ANNE VILARDI Library of Poetry in Maryland… risk management services for businesses and individuals; and is

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 19 ninety 5 Group handling matters related POST was sworn in as a to the Employee Retirement probationary police officer for the CHRISTOPHER CHRISTOPHER Income Security Act of 1974 Little Falls Police Department… BUDINICH, an actor who is BUDINICH

LIGHT (ERISA). Plumpton and his wife MARK P. SERAO and also president of the Alumni Laura also recently celebrated the CHRISTOPHER S. Association’s Spotlight birth of their first child, VAGLIO ’98, founders of Grey Theater Company, recently Charlotte… MARK D. Sky Productions, have produced performed at the restaurants I SNYDER received the Victor a 28-minute documentary, Fratelli in Bloomfield and

SP T Harwood Memorial Spirit of Parking Lots of a Subway Series, Friar Tuck Inn in Cedar North Jersey Masters Award at showing the rituals, rivalry, and Grove. Budinich, as well as the club’s annual awards banquet food as well as everything else other established singers, at Villa Roberto’s Restaurant in experienced by fans as they presented a show titled “It’s A Rochelle Park. The North Jersey prepare for the start of a game. Grand Night For Singing.” Masters Track and Field Club is Budinich also performed at the an organization of men and reunion Ole Bull Music Festival and the women of various ages and 49th Bull Award Concert at 19 ninety 8 Jun’03 abilities. Lincoln Center in New York… JUDY A. BADY performed at KRISTA N. CALABRO is a the Adagio Jazz Club in new fifth grade teacher at Gould Savannah, GA, with the School, Caldwell… MARK S. 19 ninety 7 legendary Doug Carn. Bady says, GRIFFITH, a drummer and a KAREN M. DEANGELIS, “I’ve learned so much from writer for Stick It magazine, and M.Ed., was presented with an Doug and what an honor it is to friends performed in a special award for her distinguished be working with him. He told me jazz vespers at First Presbyterian service by the Hudson County to learn all of his “Black Jazz” birth of their daughter, Alexa birth of their twin daughters Church in Pitman. The service Child Abuse Center. DeAngelis repertoire because he plans on Jordan Tomlinson. Karly Jordan and Kaitlin offerings will support the has been a professional family working with me again!”… Taylor… RICHARD ecumenical housing work of therapist for 15 years and is also ALBERT S. FERGUSON, PLUMPTON joined the law Gloucester County Habitat for director of the Speicher-Rubin newly appointed staff writer for firm of Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Humanity… LAURA B. 19 ninety 6 Women’s Center of New Jersey the Asbury Park Press, was Szuch, LLP, Florham Park. (HILGERT) TOMLINSON CHRISTINE N. KLOSTER- City University (NJCU) and awarded third place in the New Plumpton is part of the and husband Sean announce the CIRILLO and MICHAEL chair of NJCU Women of Jersey Press Association 2001 Employee Benefits Practice CIRILLO ’97 announce the Advancement… WILLIAM M. Better Newspaper Contest in the

’75 TERRY (LOWENTHAL) ’83 LEONA E. BROWNE GREENFIELD, M.A. ’77 Wayne, NJ Rockaway, NJ November 2001 IN MEMORIAM January 2002 VELMA J. ECHOLS, M.Ed. ’92 ’77 RICHARD STOHLER Paterson, NJ Columbia, MD December 2001 ’23 PHILOMENA (BELLARMINO) ’39 FLORENCE (HARDING) ADAMS ’63 BEVERLY (BARBIERI) ROSE April 10, 2002 DONNELLY Monroe, NY Oxford, NJ DOROTHY C. SCHMIDT, M.Ed. Ringwood, NJ October 2000 February 2002 ’78 SYLVIA S. (HOLMGREN) VOYCE Ledgewood, NJ March 2002 Branson, MO January 2002 ’40 DOROTHEA (VANBEYERAN) ’67 BRUCE BUDELMAN, M.Ed. ’90 November 2001 ’24 DOROTHY ANDERSON LANGSTAFF Fair Lawn, NJ ’85 DOLORES N. KAMINSKY Ridgewood, NJ Wyckoff, NJ September 2001 ’79 MICHAEL E. KICKI Elmwood Park, NJ December 2001 February 2002 Toms River, NJ December 2001 ’69 FRANCIS M. BARTON February 2002 ’27 ANNE (KANE) FORSHAY ’42 SHIRLEY (GOLDSTEIN) Parsippany, NJ ’86 ROBERT C. HINKLE Upper Montclair, NJ POZNER January 2002 DONALD LEE Oakhurst, NJ February 2002 Washington Township, NJ Garfield, NJ December 2001 June 2000 MARIE MURPHY January 2002 ’29 ELIZABETH (MOUTTET) Rochelle Park, NJ ’91 JOHN F. FOGARTY WAGNER ’43 JANE (CHRISTOPHER) July 2001 ANDREW CHERRY West Orange, NJ Totowa, NJ MORRIS Teaneck, NJ February 2002 December 2001 Wayne, NJ ’70 CAROLE ARONOWITZ March 2002 ’92 RUSSELL A. RUPINSKI PAGE September 2001 North Bergen, NJ ’30 ELIZABETH M. CLEGG November 2001 '80 DOROTHY L. (SOLLER) MUTO, Kinnelon, NJ W38 Hawthorne, NJ ’49 RUTH (WORTH) DREW M.A. '82 March 2000 THIRTY-EIGHT December 2001 Sussex, NJ GEORGE MCGILL Totowa, NJ January 2002 Bridgeton, NJ October 2001 ’97 MICHELE L. DEFEO ’32 LEONIE A. HEIMANN April 1999 Somers Point, NJ Pompton Plains, NJ '52 JOHN BONNEY PATSY BLAKE, M.A. November 2001 December 2001 Paterson, NJ ’72 ALICE GRAINGER Thornton, CO February 2001 River Edge, NJ September 2001 ’99 ANNE M. O’CONNOR ELEANOR LAVERY October 2001 Paramus, NJ Iselin, NJ ’56 ADAM RICHBERG JR., M.A. ’60 MARY KAINE, M.Ed. February 2002 November 2001 Montclair, NJ MICHAEL T. SMITH Newfoundland, NJ January 15, 2002 Hackensack, NJ December 2001 ’00 ANDRES RAMIREZ ’35 JOHN SIMMONS January 2002 Laurence Harbor, NJ Exeter, NH ’61 BEATRICE (OLMSTEAD) MARY E. (COX) NOVAK April 2002 October 2001 NICHOLS ’74 REBECCA (IRESUME) Wayne, NJ Saylorsburg, PA LEWIS, M.A.’77 December 2001 JOHN SINKANKAS December 2001 Paterson, NJ San Diego, CA September 2001 ’81 DOROTHY AGISIM, M.Ed. May 2002 ’62 VINCENT DEBENEDETT Long Branch, NJ Fort Myers Beach, FL MARY (MATOS) HAYNES September 2001 ’36 ELIZ BICKNELL April 2002 Sykesville, MD Alexandria, VA January 2002 ’82 DARLENE REISER Unknown MARILYN (LEFKOWITZ) DRUIN Sparta, NJ Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ December 4, 2001 November 2001 PT SP category of business and 2 thousand economic writing for a paper with MARILYN P. KOBER is the a daily circulation under 60,000… new fourth grade teacher at PAMELA A. HOFMANN has Gould School in Caldwell… joined the First Occupational GREGORY J. RESTIVO has LIGHT Center of New Jersey in Neptune joined the Clifton Police as office manager. Hofmann will Department… LISA P. initiate vocational and educational WEINBERGER was named the programs for disabled and junior and senior youth group disadvantaged Monmouth advisor by Temple Avoda in Fair County residents… ANDREW Lawn. L. PRISCO has resurrected the American Tomahawk Co., which closed operations 30 years ago and 1971 Brian R. Morrow Linda A. Kukan was originally owned by Peter 2 thousand 1 Tanya D. Caesar to Julie Lynn McCallum to Matthew Jonathan Gemma LaGana, a knife thrower and GRACE-ANN DOERR, to Ralph R. Waller September 29, 2001 May 12, 2001 World War II veteran. Prisco is M.Ed., has been appointed October 14, 2001 Mary M. Miskovich Lauren A. McElhinney the president of American education specialist for to Michael E. Pilcher Jr. to James R. LoBue ’00 Tomahawk Co., which grosses Somerville and Willard Schools 1980 Alan Frankel to Caren Resnick May 19, 2001 September 8, 2001 nearly $500,000 in sales … MATTHEW B. August 26, 2001 Kathryn A. O'Rourke to Corey H. Neubauer annually… BRIAN TIMMONS MACAULAYand Matthew J. Steven Riccardelli Michael John Buonacquista Jr. to Priscilla Blanco and his wife Megan announce the Kearns presented a jazz guitar to Margaret O’Sullivan June 9, 2001 November 11, 2001 birth of their daughter, Kaleigh concert focusing on the works of September 1, 2001 Mark D. Stevens Carlos M. Noriega Eireann, on February 11, 2002. American and Brazilian to Marie Burton to Carla Marie Finnelli composers as part of the Music 1984 October 13, 2001 October 5, 2001 Christopher J. Leuffen at the Meeting House program Heather L. Crouse M.S. in Putnam Pike, RI. Also, to Kara Smith 1995 19 ninety 9 October 20, 2001 Denise A. Little to John A. Polk Jr. '99 Matthew and his brother Ian August 11, 2001 FREDDIE I. HENDRIX took to Louis Paul Colucci made their Berkshires debut at 1988 part in a Dr. Martin Luther King Unknown David F. Scheidel two separate engagements in Thomas F. Mulroy to Denise Micelle Gencarelli birthday celebration at the Filipe L. Santiago Great Barrington, MA. The to Connie Elaine Bird April 8, 2000 Performing Arts Center at the September 14, 2001 to Jennifer Marie Lane brothers have appeared at May 26, 2000 State University of New York, 1999 regional jazz festivals and have Richard A. Santopietro Purchase. Hendrix, a trumpeter, James M. Simmons Stephanie S. Ames accompanied renowned jazz to Roseanne Spagnuolo featured the best of Louis August 25, 2001 to Diane E. DeMiro to Edward Salemi artists throughout the July 14, 2001 November 25, 2001 Armstrong at the all-jazz concert Northeast… KARA C. MYERS titled “Satchmo, Bird, and the 1990 Laura B. Hilgert Kimberly A. Beneduce recently completed basic training Karen Smith to Lincoln Rowley Duke”… COLIN to Sean Tomlinson to Jason Edward De Rosa at the Marine Corps Recruit September 30, 2001 September 15, 2001 Unknown MCNAMARA Depot in Parris Island, SC. joined the Westwood Police 1991 Anne-Christine Wilkinson Claudia Califano Myers successfully completed 12 to David F. Brubaker to Jonathan Arochas Department after two years of Timothy P. Downs weeks of training designed to March 31, 2001 Unknown service in the Emerson Police to Sandra L. Kurz ’98 challenge new Marine recruits Unknown Department… ARTHUR R. 1996 Tara L. Horton both physically and mentally… to William E. Christian PHILLIPS has been appointed Nicole Bavaro JASON C. TIGER recently re- 1992 July 13, 2001 by the Morris Plains Board of Daniel R. Gorab to Arthur Victor McNamara enlisted in the New Jersey Air July 21, 2001 Nicholas A. Franklin Education as the new basic skills to Cheryl Marie Hoolko National Guard. Tiger has nine to Jodi L. Sands teacher for children in grades October 14, 2001 Martin J. Brenner years of military service and is a October 27, 2002 K-4… DERRICK A. to Melinda Ciechanowski '98 video specialist assigned to the 1993 June 23, 2001 Jennifer J. Pomante SCUDIERI recently joined the 108th Communications Michelle Antonucci to Christian Darragh Vernon Township Police to David Smith Rosa M. Cirianni Squadron at McGuire Air Force August 4, 2001 Department. Scudieri is currently September 29, 2001 to Timothy Fischer Base, Wrightstown. June 10, 2001 Gina M. Sabato immersed in a 12-week Deirdre Bogues to John Occhiogrosso department training program… to William Charles Shubert 1997 July 6, 2001 JAMES M. TROUWBORST October 20, 2001 Kimberley M. Collins Michelle S. Sutton was appointed first vice president, 2 thousand 2 Joanna L. Pasquin, M.Ed. ’01, to Thomas Guarascio June 23, 2001 to Edward McGowan senior commercial loan officer at DIANE M. HILDEBRAND has to John Earl Bruggeman Jr. October 13, 2001 Saddle Brook-based Interchange been named coach of the November 18, 2001 Michael J. Colucci PAGE Jennifer K. Brown ‘99 Jennifer Tolomeo Bank. Columbia High School freshman to 1994 May 5, 2001 to Michael Stinziano W39 field hockey team. Hildebrand Angeliki Andreatos August 19, 2001 THIRTY-NINE was a member of the high to Brian E. Hughes Robert A. Geosits to Arlene Theresa Franke 2000 school’s field hockey team for July 15, 2001 October 20, 2001 Michelle F. Kubichek four years. Kimberly R. Breznak Michelle R. Ross to Michael Caffrey to Edward Tuccio August 25, 2001 June 16, 2001 to Keith Joseph Bartron November 10, 2001 Jennifer N. Lampmann, M.Ed. Christopher L. Carcich to Sharon M. Thompson to Mark Tomaskovic Jennifer Rose Kruk July 8, 2001 Unknown to David A. Gurecki February 2, 2002 Brian G. Thompson John P. Casaleggio to Veronika E. Raymova to Lyn M. Martorano ‘00 1998 August 10, 2001 July 8, 2001 Frank A. Carriere to Shannon Lee Renaut Cathy E. Weifert to Tim Concannon William Cavanaugh Unknown to Kerri Lynn Taylor November 3, 2001 October 20, 2001 Jennifer L. Felix 2001 Georgette G. Lowe to David Smith Jennifer A. Bird to David L. Toles Jr. May 27, 2001 to Dominic Raphael Napoli July 30, 2000 Taralyn Guiamano August 18, 2001 to Scott C. DeLucia March 24, 2001

Volume 5, Number 1 Fall 2002 WPARTINGSHOT

ALUMNI ON-THE-JOB, ON CAMPUS Pictured at Left 30. Nancy Einreinhofer ’77, M.A. ’78, 58. Bill O’Brien ’97, heavy equipment Anthony A. Krucinski ’02, instruction and 1. Reynaldo Martinez ’91, assistant director, director, Ben Shahn Galleries operator, facilities research technology advisement center 31. Mildred Dougherty, M.A.’62, professor, 59. Joe Tanis, M.A. ’72, director of Margaret L. Kulak ’87, print shop 2. Judy Baker, M.A. ’91, administrative elementary and early childhood education advancement operations, institutional Charles Landy ’71, library assistant, The New Jersey Project 32. Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A.’94, senior advancement Lourens Latona ’99, campus police 3. Arlene Holpp Scala, M.A. ’71, chair, writer/editor, marketing and public 60. Michael Kowal ’02, network security Vanessa D. Lenoir ’94, admissions women’s studies relations analyst, networking and hardware services Charlene J. Lovegrove ’99, instruction and 4. Audrey Bonaparte-Watts ’95, assistant 33. Richard Blonna ’73, professor, community 61. Mark Sacharoff ’98, network specialist, research technology director, alumni relations health networking and hardware services Helen Lytra-Kyriakides ’72, information 5. Geraldine Suppa ’99, administrative staff, 34. Bob Verbeek ’95, graphic artist, marketing 62. Andrew McKay ’90, ’94, assistant director, systems registrar and public relations special events, institutional advancement Monette J. Matthew, M.A. ’98, library 6. Nina Jemmott, M.Ed. ’74, associate vice 35. Cathy Bertani, M.A.’65, assistant director, 63. Uldis Silgailis ’83, assistant director, Chris McCollum ’92, recreation center president and dean, graduate studies; admissions auxiliary services services associate professor, educational leadership 36. Linda Farrell ’00, administrative staff, 64. Richard Varron ’79, ’81, M.A. ’90, David L. McMillan ’97, library and 7. Mary Ann Padula ’99, confidential secretary, admissions computer programmer, information systems information technology Office of the Provost 37. Christine Natale ’81, clinical supervisor Robert M. Meyer ’01, instruction and research and instructor, communication disorders Not Pictured technology 8. Barbara Kushner ’81, assistant controller, Diane Ackerman ’78, enrollment management 38. Pam Brilliante ’88, M.Ed. ’92, assistant James J. Miles III ’01, languages and cultures business services Lissette Acosta ’99, residence life professor, special education and counseling Brian J. Mills ’84, information systems 9. Evelyn Lipscomb ’00, administrative staff, Julia M. Anderson ’90, athletics 39. Joseph Van Putten, M.A. ’87, assistant Cheryl Moller ’78, nursing capital planning, design and construction Rachel Anzaldo ’80, testing professor, art Erin M. Monahan ’91, athletics 10. Hazel Whitty ’95, M.S. ’97, instructor, Kevin S. Ashworth ’01, library and information 40. Lisa Ciolino-Ambrose ’97, administrative Michele D. Morabito ’94, M.B.A. ’00, nursing technology staff, office of field experiences financial aid 11. Robin Schwartz ’79, assistant professor, art Jill A. Bachonski ’95, athletics 41. Amy Wollock ’92, M.A. ’93, director of Claudette Moran ’88, academic support center 12. Beth Ann Bates, M.A. ’02, administrative Colleen Barbarito ’81 RN, nursing teacher certification Russell G. Muter ’73, business services staff, grants and sponsored programs Michael Boroznoff ’75, registrar 42. Sheri Newberger, M.A. ’86, administrative Catherine Nadzan ’89, arts and 13. Barbara Krajkowski, M.A. ’81, adjunct Allison M. Boucher, M.A. ’89, employee staff, women’s center communication professor, communication relations 43. Ken Medaska ’69, assistant registrar Mwangi Nderebe ’87, ’91, information 14. Barbara Pidgeon-Heider ’85, administrative Dondi E. Boyd ’99, athletics 44. Toni Napolitano ’88, administrative staff, systems staff, dean of students office Steven E. Brown ’74, athletics library Adam Nemeth ’99, communication 15. Susan Winter ’98, administrative staff, George J. Buchanan ’94, information systems 45. Sam Pirozzi ’80, assistant professor, James J. Nyulassy ’97, telecommunications administration and finance Michael D. Butler ’99, African, African community health Carmen Ortiz ’88, M.Ed. ’90, educational 16. Barbara Kurek ’91, assistant director, American and Caribbean studies 46. Francisco Diaz ’86, M.A.’88, director, opportunity fund financial analysis, business services Denise M. Callanan ’80 RN, nursing campus activities Helen Pan ’93, library and information 17. Mary Hafele ’95, administrative staff, Lori Ann Calogero ’85, M.A. ’88, advisement 47. Tonya Blue ’94, assistant director, career technology business services center development center Betty Ann Parrella ’77, payroll and benefits 18. Carroll Sparkes ’96, adjunct professor, Nigel Campbell ’01, hospitality services 48. Anthony Leckey, M.A. ’97, associate Paul A. Pasichnyk ’02, custodial services sociology Jason E. Carey ’97, information systems director, admissions Susan Paskas ’99, athletics 19. Marcy Capers ’02, administrative staff, Anthony Cavotto ’76, M.B.A. ’88, hospitality 49. Kathy Malanga, M.B.A. ’89, assistant Horace V. Perkins Jr. ’95, athletics registrar’s office services director, access and information services, Deborah N. Pluss, M.A. ’99, library 20. Sherry Capers-Dock ’00, administrative Emily Chomak ’77, psychology library Charles A. Polk ’02, storeroom staff, institutional advancement Mohammed Chowdhury ’82, library and 50. Artie Grimes ’79, senior repairer, facilities John A. Polk Jr. ’99, mail processing center 21. Terry E. Ross ’80, senior writer/web information technology 51. Cathy Marston ’93, catering manager, food John R. Randazzo ’00, athletics coordinator, marketing and public relations Dr. Anthony Coletta ’64, elementary and early services Mona M. Resco ’87, business services 22. Ralph Malachowski, M.A. ’02, technical childhood education 52. Ronald Verdicchio ’65, assistant professor, Susan Rienstra ’77, financial aid assistant, library Andrew B. Crawford ’01, custodial services elementary and early childhood education Michael Rinaldi ’89, building maintenance 23. Diana Van Boerum ’95, administrative staff, Melissa Cvetkovski ’88, continuing education 53. Gerald Van De Polder ’80, printing Clyde Roberts ’84, custodial services library and distance learning supervisor Jaime Rodriguez ’01, campus police 24. Kathy Hu ’82, lab technician, biology Donita D’Amico ’72, nursing 54. Pamela Fueshko ’77, M.A. ’79, director, Robin A. Rodriguez ’99, information systems 25. Susan Sgro, M.S. ’02, biotechnology Angela M. DeLaura ’85, art telecommunications Vermon D. Rudd ’00, grounds crew technician, biology Jonnine Deloatch ’95, minority education 55. Barbara Stomber ’78, development Christina Sacharoff ’98, telecommunications 26. Yvonne Roux, M.Ed. ’97, librarian Tracy Demarest ’00, recreation center services associate, institutional advancement Michael Santasieri ’01, library and information 27. Margaret H. Culmone ’85, M.A. ’87, Thomas DePietro ’92, information systems 56. Louise Albers ’91, job location and technology assistant, Ben Shahn Galleries Ozzie A. Diaz ’95, athletics development coordinator, career Joanne Schifano ’79, mathematics 28. Paulette Brower-Garrett, M.A.’94, assistant Iris V. DiMaio ’96, continuing education and development center Robin Schwartz ’79, art director, advisement center distance learning 57. Zoya Barry ’96, administrative staff, Arraceli Serrano ’02, library 29. Cinzia Richardson, M.A. ’96, director, Dorian S. Douglas, M.A. ’98, campus activities international students and scholars financial aid Jonathan Shanoian ’90, instruction and Caroline Doyle ’81, admissions research technology Mark Evangelista ’65, M.A. ’73, registrar James T. Sharples ’98, athletics Fabio M. Federico, M.B.A. ’95, information Brian M. Sherman ’97, athletics systems Kathleen P. Sinram ’99, athletics Sandra Ferrarella ’75, athletics Darryl R. Smith, M.Ed. ’00, educational Dennis Gallashaw Jr. ’02, hospitality services opportunity fund John Galvany ’85, athletics Patrice Stewart, M.Ed. ’97, business services Kathleen Gasalberti ’95, athletics Dr. Denise H. Stone, M.A. ’78, special Claudia M. Geers ’93, information systems education and counseling Amy Giovanetti ’81, exercise and movement Larry Szabo ’95, athletics sciences Francesco Tedesco ’90, network and hardware Justine P. Girellini, M.Ed. ’01, admissions services Joyce Heavey ’74, M.A. ’76, financial aid Danielle Tracy ’95, athletics Joseph C. Hammerle ’99, maintenance Brad G. Trotte ’96, information systems administration Richard A. Turner ’00, custodial services Ann Hill, M.A. ’90, library Nunzio M. Vacca ’98, library Michael A. Horvath ’82, M.A. ’84, campus Kurt W. Wagner, M.A. ’98, library police Valentino L. Weiss ’76, physical plant Anthony Izzo, M.B.A. ’89, business services operations Susan E. Jackson ’84, nursing Patricia Williams ’97, employment equity and Man-Hing Joe, M.A. ’97, bursar diversity