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Reflections

  • A PUBLICATION OF THE SUNY ONEONTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
  • WINTER 2021

What's Inside:

Ric Burns'
Film Drawn
From Oneonta
Professor's
Book

Campaign

Surpasses $17M
Sustainable Fashion
Week 2020 Brings
Oneonta Voices to a
Global Stage

Alumni

Weekend 2021

Reflections

Volume LXXIV Number 2 Winter 2021

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CONTENTS

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FROM NETZER 301
FEATURE: TRENDS IN

HIGHER ED FUNDING IMPACT SUNY ONEONTA'S BUDGET
CAMPAIGN SURPASSES $17M

GROW.
THRIVE.
LIVE.

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THE FUTURE
OF SUNY ONEONTA

FEATURE: CAMP: 20 YEARS OF SUCCESS HELPING MIGRANT STUDENTS

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FEATURE: OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THEM

3

FROM THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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BEYOND THE PILLARS

- Class Notes

4

- Celebrations - In Memoriam

ACROSS THE QUAD

- 2020 Sustainable Fashion Show - Driving While Black - Cornell-Gladstone-HanlonKaufmann Lecture

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ALUMNI PROFILE

- Community of Scholars - Annual Alumni Association Awards Celebration
Latisha Nero ’09

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2021 ALUMNI WEEKEND

- Alumni Weekend 2021 Schedule
- Alumni of Distinction Honorees
- Annual Alumni Association Award Recipients

On the Cover:

Alumni of Distinction honoree Gretchen Sorin ’75, director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program and Distinguished Service Professor

Reconnect

Follow the Alumni Association for news, events, contests, photos, and more. For links to all of our social media sites, visit www.oneontaalumni.com.

From Netzer 301

Dennis Craig

Acting President

Serving the College in what is truly a pivotal moment is as much an honor as it is a challenge.

Today, we are on the brink of the spring semester. Thanks to the diligence and dedication of the COVID Response Team—more than 50 faculty and staff members, administrators, students, and other stakeholders who are tackling the myriad challenges COVID-19 presents—I feel confident that the College is prepared for what lies ahead. You can learn more about the Response Team’s efforts—as well as our plans to welcome students for the new semester—

on our coronavirus resource page, suny.oneonta.edu/covid-19.

I encourage you to take a look.
On Oct. 18, I became acting president of SUNY Oneonta, succeeding President Barbara Jean Morris, under whose leadership the College adopted a new mission statement and launched the fundraising campaign Grow. Thrive. Live.

The Future of SUNY Oneonta. I am grateful to her for setting

this direction for the institution. It is clear and positive, an aspiration worthy of our support.

Serving the College in what is truly a pivotal moment is as much an honor as it is a challenge. I spent my first days here on campus and in the community visiting with as many constituencies as possible. Listening. Learning. What I came to understand—and everyone with whom I spoke made a point of this—is that SUNY Oneonta’s students, their parents, the employees, our neighbors and partners in government and business, and our alumni all feel a deep connection to the College. I’ve found here a loyalty that is uncommon and the determination, talent, and resiliency needed to overcome the greatest test of our time, COVID-19.
SUNY Oneonta, despite last year’s setback, has maintained an admirable financial position. This is the direct result of thoughtful management practices throughout the College. Well before my arrival, there was in place a budget process based on accountability, restraint, and the foresight to adjust spending in response to the pandemic. I count myself lucky to be leading an institution where fiduciary responsibility is the rule.

I am also thankful for the faculty who volunteered to offer a significant number of courses in-person this spring. This was no small ask, but it was the right thing to do. Students and their parents were consistent in their feedback on this point: They wanted a residential experience where students would engage with their teachers and one another. We are providing that to the greatest extent possible, prioritizing safety and within the parameters of a spring plan that has broad support across the College, within the City of Oneonta, and from SUNY.
In this work, I am far from alone. When my dog, Beckett, and I arrived last fall, we were greeted warmly. Many of you offered your heartfelt encouragement. This has meant a lot to me over the past few months. Tough times reveal character, and I know that while everyone surrounding SUNY Oneonta feels a sense of loss over the fall semester, we also share an optimism and a drive to move forward.

Back in November, I recorded a video to the campus community in which I said that SUNY Oneonta doesn’t need saving. I hope these last several weeks have affirmed my assertion. My role here is to shape an effort that creates lasting change and sees the College emerge from the pandemic stronger, smarter, and more aware of its place in the hearts and minds of those it serves.
Finally, thank you to our leadership volunteers serving on the College at Oneonta Foundation and Alumni Association boards of directors. I arrived at the College last fall, and you were among the first to make me feel welcome. Now I am asking you to join me in continuing the longstanding

tradition of excellence through Grow. Thrive. Live. The Future

of SUNY Oneonta. This is ours for the making.
Along the way, it will be my job to tell students, parents, alumni, donors, and everyone else about our successes and where we’ve come up short. This is an extraordinary period for all colleges, facing tests that were unimaginable a year ago. While I do not expect our performance to be flawless, know that you can expect transparency and the truth.
Dennis Craig
Acting President SUNY Oneonta

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From The Alumni Association

Christine Warnquist ’71

Alumni Association President

Now, more than ever, it is so important that we maintain the fabric of a strong alumni community.

  • On behalf of the Alumni Association, welcome, Acting President
  • distancing, we came together online to celebrate our newest

Dennis Craig! With your experience as interim president at SUNY award recipients, recognize all they have achieved, and share in Purchase—and your success there guiding Purchase’s response to the coronavirus pandemic—we are confident in your ability to lead Oneonta through the challenges of COVID-19 and reopen the campus to our students for a safe and successful spring semester. You have our support. their happiness. Further, we embraced the power of technology and networking to adapt our five campus-to-career programs to continue to provide opportunities for students. In the past, these programs enabled current students to meet with successful alumni in their place of business. With in-person meetings no longer possible, we were able to bridge geographic (and COVID-19) boundaries and synergize these programs virtually.
As alumni, we have so much to be proud of in our alma mater. First, there are the phenomenal and selfless efforts of the faculty and staff in helping our students through the incredible challenges of this past fall semester. We truly have so many good people at the College.
Moving forward, and for years to come, students will be able to meet with alumni in various career fields both in-person and digitally. This type of interaction is invaluable for our students in gaining new perspectives, building confidence, launching their careers, and in many instances developing long-lasting personal relationships.
Further, we should recognize the many award-winning academic programs. SUNY Oneonta is nationally recognized for delivering superior education and value. The College is No. 21 on the 2021 U.S. News & World Report list of best public institutions in the region and has also been named one of the 10 best colleges in New York state for job placement. We applaud the College.
In the not-so-distant-future, there will come a day when we are all able to be together again. Until then, let us embrace the resources
Now, more than ever, it is so important that we maintain the fabric of social media, email, digital platforms, and other means to of a strong alumni community, as evidenced by our first virtual Alumni Association annual meeting. More than 70 alumni joined us for an update on the progress of the Alumni Association over the last year. remain in touch as alumni, students, faculty, and staff—our wonderful and strong SUNY Oneonta community.

We also honored the many accomplishments of our 2020 award winners during our first-ever Virtual Alumni Association Annual Awards Celebration. Unbowed by the necessity of social
Christine Warnquist ’71
President
SUNY Oneonta Alumni Association

SUNY ONEONTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2020-21

  • PRESIDENT
  • PAST PRESIDENT

  • Carolyn Cacciato ’79
  • Bob Raymond ’74

STUDENT
EX OFFICIO

  • Christine Warnquist ’71
  • Daren Rylewicz ’93
  • Katie Dupuree ’07

BOARD MEMBERS

Paul J. Adamo ’81 Dennis Craig
Thomas Glennon ’09 AnneMarie Haumesser ’12 Taylor Hogan ’14

VICE PRESIDENT

Ed Aluck ’95

SECRETARY

Stephanie Peguillan ’15

TREASURER

Drew McKay ’05

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Laura Madelone Lincoln

BOARD MEMBERS

Francesca Lawless ’21 Jessica Sinopoli ’20

HONORARY BOARD MEMBER

Jim Zians

SUPPORT STAFF

Stacy Robinson

BOARD MEMBERS

Erica Skov Beams ’07 Kyle Beckley ’08
Alice Maggiore ’10 Erikka Misrahi ’08 Coleen Moore ’96
C.L. “Three” Bollinger ’01
Judith Stern Palais ’81

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Across the Quad

Samantha Alberts ’22
Carly Wolfe ’21
Samantha Epstein ’22

Jessica Baron ’22
Madisyn Teti ’22

  • Erin Dunfield ’22
  • Abigail Julian ’24

  • Mikiya Murphy ’23
  • Olivia Riley ’21

  • Sarah Martello ’23
  • Carla Dadulla ’22
  • Ivanah Alexandre ’22

SUNY Oneonta Fashion and Textile students featured in Sustainable Fashion Week 2020

about sustainable living and his Spartan Made Quality Carry line of handmade, high-end carry solutions.

Sustainable Fashion Week 2020 Brings Oneonta

Bharath Ramkumar, assistant professor of fashion and textiles, was a member of the organizing committee and a co-editor of the event.

Voices to a Global Stage

“Sustainable Fashion Week is a first-of-its-kind showcase of ethically and sustainably made clothing and accessories and the people behind the scenes,” Ramkumar says.
SUNY Oneonta was well represented at Sustainable Fashion Week 2020. The six-day event streamed on YouTube Premiere Sept. 11-16. Each night showcased collections from emerging and established sustainable clothing designers and vintage collectors, in addition to expert talks, musical and dance performances, brand presentations, and other offerings.
“The event was created to show the world how people from diverse backgrounds can come together to lead a sustainable fashion revolution,” he says. “We in the Fashion and Textiles program are so thrilled for our students and others in the SUNY Oneonta community to have had this opportunity for their voice to be heard on a global stage. Our participation in this event is

Janaya Nyala Josephs ’20 and her

sustainable design collection were featured on Day 2.

Janaya Nyala Josephs ’20

a testimony to how our community is committed to sustainable development through collaboration.”

SUNY Oneonta is a Sustainable Fashion Week partner institution, along with the International Fashion Academy, Rutgers University, the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and several other organizations.
On Day 6, students from the Fashion and Textiles program in the Department of Human Ecology were featured, and an awareness video created by students in the Revival of Apparel Club, with music by students in the music department, was shown. That same day, Doug Reilly, director of SUNY Oneonta’s A.J. Read Science Discovery Center, was featured in a short film
The recorded sessions from Sustainable Fashion Week can be

viewed at www.sustainablefashionweek.us.

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people have the experience of going on an annual family vacation,” Sorin says. “But while these vacations may be fairly universal American experiences, Black and white travelers went down parallel roads, and the experience for Black drivers on the road is something unknown to most white Americans. For African Americans, travel by automobile during the 20th century posed a paradox: Although cars freed them from the tyranny of the Jim Crow bus or train, they faced intimidation and even violence when they ventured out on the road.”

Sorin started her research more than 20 years ago as an exhibition curator assembling visual records and oral histories of how the automobile provided greater mobility for Black Americans while further exposing them to systemic racism across the country. As she began her book, she approached Burns to work with her on a film. Sorin met Burns while serving as commentator for his 1999 film New York: A

Documentary Film.

Ric Burns' Film Drawn From SUNY Oneonta Professor’s Book

“Working with Gretchen on this film has been one of the great joys of my life,” Burns says. “Nothing is more American than the dream of mobility, which has throughout our history been accompanied by the reality of racism. Sorin’s research has allowed us to assemble a moving, visual story that shows the joy and liberation that accompanied the freedom promised by the automobile and the daily struggle for Black Americans to seek their independence in a country that, to this day, does not fully acknowledge how systemic racism defines much of our history.”

Film examines turbulent black experience on the road from 1930s-60s

The documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and

Mobility in America—co-directed by SUNY Oneonta’s

Gretchen Sullivan Sorin ’75 and Emmy Award-winning

filmmaker Ric Burns—debuted nationwide on PBS Oct. 13.

The film, based on Sorin’s book Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (W.W. Norton &

Co., 2020), explores the history of African Americans and the automobile and addresses the current relationship between African Americans and law enforcement. Sorin is director of SUNY Oneonta's Cooperstown Graduate Program and Distinguished Service Professor at the College.
Driving While Black uses archival material from the period— including film footage, photographs, advertisements, road signs, maps, letters, and legal records—along with interviews of African Americans sharing their personal stories and some of the country’s leading historians, authors, and journalists.

The film also delves deeply into the history of The Green Book, the travel guide authored by New York City mailman Victor Hugo Green. From a first edition focused on the Northeast, Green expanded his guide to include much of the country, providing travel tips for African Americans driving, including safe and welcoming places to stop, dine, and rest, as well as places to avoid—given the potential for racially motivated violence. “Vacation without aggravation,” the book advised African American families planning a road trip.
The film examines the history of African Americans on the road from the depths of the Depression to the height of the civil rights movement and beyond, exploring along the way the deeply embedded dynamics of race, space, and mobility in America during one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in American history.

The right to move freely and safely across the American landscape has always been unequally distributed by race and powerfully contested in the American experience. “Driving while Black,” the writer and scholar Herb Boyd says in the film, “entails so much more than simply driving while Black. It’s living while Black. It’s sleeping while Black. It’s eating while Black. It’s moving while Black. So, when we start talking about the restrictions placed on the Black movement in this country, that’s a long history. That goes all the way back to Day One. And so, you have to get to the root of it.”

Driving While Black is available on DVD.

“I think this story resonates tremendously with Americans, both Black and white, because everyone understands and remembers driving or riding in an automobile, and many

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Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy.

Panel Discusses

Established in 2000 with the generous support of the late Dr. William Kaufmann and his late

wife, Virginia ’44, the

Cornell-GladstoneHanlon-Kaufmann Lectureship in Environmental Education and Communication is supported by an endowed fund within the College at Oneonta Foundation. The purpose of the lectureship is to

Environmental Racism With Assist From Documentary Mossville

The annual Cornell-Gladstone-Hanlon-Kaufmann Lecture took place in late October, featuring an online panel discussion on environmental racism combined with the documentary film

Mossville: When Great Trees Fall.

Mossville focuses on a centuries-old Black community in Louisiana that is contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants. As the community comes to terms with the loss of their ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a plant’s expansion refuses to give up.

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    Press Contact: Natasha Padilla, WNET, 212.560.8824, [email protected] Press Materials: http://pbs.org/pressroom or http://thirteen.org/pressroom Websites: http://pbs.org/americanmasters , http://facebook.com/americanmasters , @PBSAmerMasters , http://pbsamericanmasters.tumblr.com , http://youtube.com/AmericanMastersPBS , http://instagram.com/pbsamericanmasters , #ABTonPBS #AmericanMasters American Masters American Ballet Theatre: A History Premieres nationwide Friday, May 15 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) in honor of the company’s 75 th anniversary Production Biographies Ric Burns Director Director Ric Burns has been creating historical documentaries for public television for over 20 years. He began his career co-writing and producing the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990) with his brother Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward, and has since directed over 30 hours of award- winning films. Among his body of work are some of some of the most distinguished programs in the award-winning public television series American Experience , including Coney Island (1991); The Donner Party (1992); The Way West (1995); Ansel Adams (2002), a co-production of Steeplechase Films and Sierra Club Productions; We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision (2009), part two of a five-part history on Native Americans; and Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World (2010). In 2006, Burns released both Eugene O’Neill and American Masters — Andy Warhol: A Documentary . The two films garnered 2006-2007 Primetime and News and Documentary Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for Non-Fiction Programming; Andy Warhol also received a 2006 Peabody Broadcasting Award. He is perhaps best known for his eight-episode, 17-and-a-half-hour series New York: A Documentary Film , which premiered nationally on PBS to wide public and critical acclaim when broadcast in November 1999, September 2001 and September 2003.
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