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alumni.syr.edu Six decades after winning the NCAA title, members of the 1951 Orange cross country team reflect on their championship season By Scott Pitoniak

Toom C ulter ’56 chuckles as he recounts the four-mile course at Michigan State as five Orange runners crowd’s reaction to those P.A. announcements heard at combined to win the NCAA championship. Sophomore Syracuse University home football games 60 autumns sensation Ray Osterhout ’54 paced SU with a third-place ago. “When there was a break in the action, they would finish. He was followed across the finish line by senior give the results of that morning’s cross country meet,’’ the captain Bill Irland ’52 (sixth), sophomores Coulter (12th) former All-America runner recalls. “The announcer would and Don Fryer ’54 (27th), and freshman Steve Armstrong say, ‘Earlier today, it was Syracuse 15, so-and-so 45.’ And ’55 (32nd). The combined 80 points by SU’s “Fab Five” you’d hear this collective groan fill Archbold Stadium. enabled Coach Bob Grieve’s Orange to easily defeat runner- (782-5867) 1-800-SUALUMS People would be saying things like, ‘Oh, no, we got killed,’ up Kansas (118) and 16 other schools in the meet. Gene not realizing that in cross country, like in golf, low score Parker ’54 and Bob Fine ’53 rounded out the seven-member wins. It went on like that throughout the 1951 season, and Orange squad that competed. Based on their finishes, my teammates and I would just laugh about it. It took Osterhout, Irland, and Coulter were named All-Americans. some time before people learned that we were doing the “It was,” Irland says, “a very special achievement.” clobbering, rather than the other way around.” A somewhat improbable one, too, because Irland, The lesson of Syracuse’s dominance in the sport was the team captain and an Army veteran, was the only driven home on November 26 that year on a snow-covered, experienced varsity runner on the squad. “That kind of

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Facing page: Michigan State was the snow-covered site of the 1951 NCAA cross country meet. Facing page (inset): National champ Herb Semper and the Syracuse team exchange congratulations after the race.

The 1951 NCAA champion SU cross country team (top row, left to right): Gene Parker, Steve Armstrong, Don Fryer, Bob Fine; (front row) manager (unidenti- fied), Ray Osterhout, Bill Irland, Tom Coulter, and Coach Bob Grieve.

inexperience isn’t exactly a recipe for Grieve decided to play a hunch and use a nonprofit organization he formed in success,” Fryer says. “But we had some the freshman in place of a veteran runner 1965, and recently traveled to Kazakhstan pretty talented guys and Bill was a fine who had underperformed in New York. “I to help write an international training leader.” thought I was just going along for the ride, manual for the sport. Youth clearly was not wasted on the and that I wouldn’t finish high enough to Irland had a long and rewarding career young that season as Osterhout and figure into the scoring,” Armstrong says. as a guidance counselor at Marcus Coulter quickly established themselves “I’m glad I thought wrong.” Whitman High School in Rushville, New as two of the swiftest runners in the Upon their return from East Lansing, York, and currently lives in Geneva. country, teaming with Irland to form a Michigan, the victorious harriers received Fryer is retired and living in Fairview, potent triumvirate. After a two-point loss a big spread in The Daily Orange and Pennsylvania, after several fruitful to powerful Army in the first meet of the were invited to dinner by Chancellor decades as a chief engineer for various season, SU won its next four dual meets William P. Tolley. “It wasn’t a huge deal on firms in western Pennsylvania. and appeared to be peaking at the right campus, like football or basketball, and we Armstrong spent 20 years in the time. At the IC4A championships in New understood because it wasn’t particularly Marines before embarking on a law career York City a week before the nationals, the exciting watching a bunch of guys run and still practices law in Falls Church, Orange finished a respectable third behind four miles,” Irland says. “But I do believe Virginia. Penn State and Army, with Osterhout we boosted the spirits on campus a bit Parker is retired and living in finishing second, Irland, fifth, and Coulter, because football was down at the time, Ridgewood, New Jersey, after several seventh. “Unfortunately, the rest of our and a national championship is a big deal, successful decades as a partner in an runners suffered off days,” Irland says. regardless of the sport.” accounting firm. “Otherwise, I think we would have won Each of the championship runners Following a long career as an attorney, that title. But it did give us confidence went on to enjoy successful careers after Fine passed away on December 3, 2008. heading to Michigan State for the NCAAs. graduation. Coulter, who earned a total of Osterhout passed away on December We figured if Ray, Tom, and I could 12 letters competing in boxing, track, and 15, 2009, after several lucrative decades continue our strong running, and Don and cross country, made a name for himself in as an insurance executive. Steve just had solid days we’d have a good pugilism, instructing amateur fighters for “I definitely believe the discipline shot at winning the whole thing.” years before becoming coach of the U.S. required to succeed in cross country And that’s what happened. Ironically, Olympic boxing team at the 1988 Summer translates to other endeavors,” Irland Armstrong originally wasn’t supposed Games in Seoul. He continues to run the says. “I know it did for me. And I’m sure it to compete at the nationals, but Coach Syracuse Friends of Amateur Boxing Club, did for the other fellows, too.”

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Our Role as Alumni classnotes New s from SU alumni » As I became more involved in alumni activities, I began to Send us news of understand that being an alum your accomplishments. is not all fun and games, but To submit information for Class Notes via the Internet, go carries with it a certain amount to alumni.syr.edu and register with the SU Alumni Online of responsibility. Moving up Community. Items will appear in the magazine and in the alumni volunteer ranks, the Class Notes section of the online community. Items can also be sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse University one of my objectives was to Magazine; 820 Comstock Avenue, Room 308; Syracuse, try to convey to the various NY 13244-5040. constituencies that comprise SU exactly what that responsibility means and how each of us can fulfill it in his or her own way. the Kaleidoscope: Exploring the I felt a deep sense of pride and accomplishment when I was on Experience of Disability through 40s Literature and the Fine Arts campus for Commencement last spring and read an editorial in Patrick McCarthy ’48 (A&S) of magazine. The Daily Orange 2011 Graduation Guide written by Beckie Strum Oneida, N.Y., was inducted into ’12. It nailed on the head what I have been trying to articulate. the Nottingham High School Janice Law Trecker ’62 (A&S) of Hampton, Conn., delivered Titled “Role of alumni, lifelong duty,” the editorial speaks to the (Syracuse) Alumni Wall of Fame. A football and baseball the annual Emmett Memorial essence of what it means to be an SU alumnus or alumna and standout in high school, he won Lecture at Pittsburg State so appropriately states that the role of alumni “demands you gold medals in singles tennis, University, Kansas, after her are forever involved in the changes and future of this campus. badminton, and horseshoes in article on Walt Whitman was honored by the Midwest Being active alumni, connecting with future students, providing the 2011 Empire State Senior Games. At age 85, McCarthy Quarterly. She also had a solo guidance for them, visiting, and speaking up about changes to does not plan to stop competing show of her paintings at the campus policy and politics become your responsibility when you anytime soon. Eastern Expansion Gallery in Chicago. walk across that stage.” The editorial emphasizes alumni power and prerogative. Roland Van Deusen ’67 (A&S), Beckie writes, “Alumni comprise the greatest force for change G’75 (SWK) was one of eight and direction at this school.” In addition to their time, talent, 50s members awarded special George Babikian ’55 (WSM) recognition at the 2011 national and treasure, the most important thing alumni do is “hold an received Sigma Chi fraternity’s convention of Veterans for institutional memory that becomes greater and more relevant Significant Sig Award—its Peace in Portland, Ore. The than any chancellor’s, administrator’s, or director’s,” Beckie writes. highest recognition of one’s 8,000-member organization professional career and civic advocates for veterans and their “Alumni status demands more than attendance at Homecoming endeavors. An SU trustee families. or a few e-mails with an eager student—more than a smile at the emeritus, Babikian resides in sight of an SU sweatshirt in a crowded airport, a drunken cheer Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., Robert R. Ashton ’68 (SDA), in a bar as SU wins another bowl game, or an app for navigating with his wife, Mary Ann Buell G’75 (NEW) of Hull, Mass., Babikian ’52 (SDA). is director of development through many feet of snow. Alumni status means dedication to at the Boston Athenaeum, a your degree and its value.” research library with special Beckie issues a challenge to alumni to “have the single greatest collections in Boston history, New England state and local effect on SU’s future” by remembering that “your role here is 60s history, biography, English, and far from over.” If the bright young mind who wrote this editorial Lyn Lifshin ’60 (A&S) of Vienna, American history. already “gets it,” then shouldn’t we? So, I encourage you to join Va., wrote All the Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me (Living your local alumni club, mentor a student, offer an internship, Charles J. Feldman ’69 (WSM) and Dead. All True: Especially the of Annapolis, Md., was invited represent SU at a high school college fair, come back for Orange Lies). The book offers a lively and by former SU professor William Central, visit with students, and stay informed (you can read my compelling collection that romps H. Rabel, Endowed Chair of through the generations of monthly blog at alumni.syr.edu). And, if you can, make a donation Finance and Insurance at the writers (www.worldparadebooks. University of Alabama, to be a to the school, program, or activity of your choice. Thank you! com). guest lecturer at the University of Alabama School of Business. Lila L. Anastas ’62 (NUR) of Albuquerque, N.M., is a Patricia Latimer ’69 (NEW) freelance writer, registered is founder of Patricia Latimer nurse, and gerontology Associates, a public relations counselor. Her personal essay, and strategic planning company Brian Spector ’78 “Making Peace with the Birds,” in Cleveland with a presence President, Syracuse University Alumni Association appeared in issue number 63 of in San Francisco. The latest

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edition of her book, Ohio Wine Greg Ahlgren ’74 (A&S) wrote Applied Physics Laboratory in Janet St. Laurent G’78 (MAX) is Country Excursions, Updated Edition Prologue (Booklocker), a science Laurel, Md. director of Defense Capabilities (Ringtaw Books, Akron University fiction/alternative history novel and Management at the U.S. Press) is available at www.uakron. that is now available in paperback. Kathleen J. Corbalis ’77 (NEW), Government Accounting Office. edu/uapress. His international thriller, The executive director of college She won a Service to America Medici Legacy, was scheduled for relations at Atlantic Cape Medal (Sammies) from the Robert C. Plumb ’69 (NEW) paperback release in November. Community College in Atlantic City Partnership for Public Service published Your Brother in Arms: A Both novels feature the SU campus and Cape May, N.J., completed the for the impact of her work on Union Soldier’s Odyssey (University and/or SU grads as characters examination for accreditation in addressing the needs of the nation. of Missouri Press), a collection of (booklocker.com). public relations. previously unavailable documents JoAnn Wypijewski ’78 (NEW), written by George P. McClelland, a Steve Adamek ’75 (NEW) retired David P. Frankel ’77 (A&S) of a freelance editor and writer, member of the 155th Pennsylvania after more than 35 years in the Washington, D.C., received the received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Infantry in the Civil War, that newspaper business—the last 21- Sustained Civic Activism Award Foundation Writer’s Award, given offers fresh insight into camp life, plus years as a senior sportswriter from the Federation of Citizens annually to six women writers battlefield conditions, and the with The Record in New Jersey. Association of the District of who demonstrate excellence and mind-set of a young man facing the Columbia for “serving the public promise in the early stages of their prospect of death every day. Plumb André W. Renna ’75 (LCS) wrote interest by pursuing and informing careers. Wypijewski is working on expounds on McClelland’s words You’ll Land on Your Feet—How citizens about issues critical to the Valiant, a nonfiction book about the by placing the events described in Anyone Can Survive and Thrive long-term welfare of the district.” general decline of America traced context, adding a historical outlook after Job Loss (Authorhouse), through the history of her 1963 to the raw voice of a young soldier. which offers the reader an honest Mary Pat Hyland ’77 (VPA) of Plymouth Valiant. portrayal of the emotional roller Endicott, N.Y., wrote her second coaster that follows job loss (www. novel, A Sudden Gift of Fate, which authorhouse.com). follows an Irish couple who are Class Notes Ledger 70s given a Finger Lakes (New York) Lynn Aaronson ’76 (EDU) is winery to manage as a wedding gift Peter Scales ’71 (A&S), G’73, executive director of the Massa– (giftoffate.wordpress.com). G’76 (FALK) released Passing chusetts chapter of the ALS ARC— School of Architecture Circumstances…, a two-compact Association. ALS (Amyotropic Scott Pitoniak ’77 (NEW) of A&S— College of Arts and Sciences disc collection of his original songs, Lateral Sclerosis), more commonly Rochester, N.Y., wrote Color Him 1972-2002 (www.peterscales.org). known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is Orange: The Jim Boeheim Story EDU— School of Education a progressive neurodegenerative (Triumph Books), a biography of Gary S. Greenberg ’72 (A&S) is disease with no known cause, cure, SU basketball coach. Pitoniak, ESF— State University of New York president of Birken Manufacturing or effective treatment. a nationally recognized sports College of Environmental Company in Bloomfield, Conn. columnist, is author of 14 books. Science and Forestry At an event celebrating the 40th Virginia Wall Gruenert ’76 (VPA) anniversary of the Solomon of Washington, Pa., is founder and Mohammed Ahmad Almurr ’78 FALK— David B. Falk College of Schechter Day School of Greater artistic director of Off The Wall (A&S), head of the Dubai Arts Sport and Human Dynamics Hartford that featured composer Theater (www.insideoffthewall. Council, won a gold medal for his (formerly the College of Marvin Hamlisch, Greenberg com). The theater was chosen by exhibit Postal History of Muscat Human Ecology) was honored for his work as the Pittsburgh Magazine as number (1868-1948) at the Philanippon president of The Rogow Greenberg 5 on its list of “50 Things You 2011 World Stamp Exhibition held NUR—College of Nursing Foundation, which has been Must Do.” Her original play, Shaken in Yokohama, Japan. SWK—School of Social Work involved with SU for 25 years— & Stirred, had its New York City endowing the Todd Greenberg premiere at Theatre 54 in October. Robert E. Johnson ’78 (A&S), an IST— School of Information Studies Memorial Scholarship, funding a attorney with the GrayRobinson classroom in the Whitman School James Schatz G’76 (A&S), G’79 law firm, was recognized as one of LAW— College of Law of Management building, and (A&S/IST) is head of the Milton S. Florida Trend’s 2011 Legal Elite. He donating the fitness center at the Eisenhower Research Center and specializes in commercial litigation LCS— L.C. Smith College of Engineering Winnick Hillel Center. Science and Technology Business in Tampa. and Computer Science Area at Johns Hopkins University MAX— Maxwell School of Citizenship Jay Kramer ’78 (WSM) of Laguna Beach, Calif., is vice president of and Public Affairs worldwide marketing for Astute NEW— S.I. Newhouse School of ORANGESPOTLIGHT Networks, where he leads the Public Communications Ruth Patten Vincent ’33 company’s efforts to build a (WSM) of Baldwinsville, N.Y., leadership position in the global UC— University College » market for virtualization solutions. celebrated her 100th birthday in UTICA—Utica College September. At SU she met J. Newell Brent Marchant ’78 (A&S/NEW) “Newt” Vincent ’33 (LCS), whom is a contributor for Library Journal VPA— College of Visual she married in 1934 in Hendricks magazine (www.BrentMarchant. and Performing Arts Chapel with the Rev. Norman Vincent com). SDA—School of Speech and Peale officiating. The couple had four Dramatic Arts children—Nancy, Bill, Joan, and John—all of whom attended Jay Rogoff G’78, G’81 (A&S), SU. Vincent, whose father, Haden “Hoss” Patten, was an English professor at Skidmore WSM— Martin J. Whitman School of College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Management captain of the 1900 Orange football team, is an avid sports wrote a new book of poems, The fan and actively follows all SU and collegiate sports. Art of Gravity (LSU Press).

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Fran DeSimone Becque ’79 The longest-running program in Gini Mandelbaum Warner ’85 Paul Reali G’89 (WSM) of (NEW/FALK), executive director the PBS station’s 46-year history, (VPA) of Laguna Beach, Calif., Charlotte, N.C., was a featured of Women for Health and Wellness Pluff’s weekly, hour-long program wrote The Gluten-Free Edge (www. presenter at the Expert-2-Expert in Carterville, Ill., received Pi Beta features national experts who help healthbygini.com). Creativity Conference at Buffalo Phi’s Dorothy Weaver Morgan viewers make smart decisions State College (ifcreativity.org). Award for Fraternity Service. about their personal finances. Sandra L. Caron G’86 (FALK), Becque, the fraternity’s archivist professor of family relations and since 1995 and historian since Stewart D. Aaron L’83 (LAW) is human sexuality at the University 2003, wrote Hearts That Are Bound the 58th president of the New York of Maine, co-wrote Tackling by the Wine and Silver Blue (Alibris), County Lawyer’s Association. Football: A Woman’s Guide to 90s a coffee table book about the Understanding the College Game CJ Silas ’90 (NEW) wrote No Girls fraternity’s history (www.alibris. Elenore “Lennie” Alickman ’83 (Maine College Press). This Allowed: The Jock & Jill Mentality com). (VPA) of Los Angeles was elected casual guide features accessible, of Sports Broadcasting (Max Q to the board of trustees of the easy-to-digest terms, definitions, Enterprises). Provincetown Art Association and and common team strategies, Museum in Massachusetts (www. plus rules and regulations (www. Jeff Donaldson ’91 (NEW) is vice paam.org). tackling-football.com). president of communications at 80s Elias/Savion Advertising Inc. in Kevin Young ’80 (A&S), an Caroline Bock ’84 (A&S/NEW) Joseph D’Agnese ’86 (A&S/ Pittsburgh. He serves as chief attorney specializing in commercial published her first novel, Lie (St. NEW) of Asheville, N.C., co-wrote communications counselor to litigation at the Tucker Ellis & West Martin’s Press)—a story of teens Signing Their Rights Away: The Fame CEOs and senior executives at all law firm in Cleveland, Ohio, was and a vicious hate crime inspired & Misfortune of the Men Who Signed of the agency’s client companies. selected for inclusion in the 2011 by real events on Long Island. the U.S. Constitution, a book that edition of Best Lawyers in America. She lives on Long Island with her shines a spotlight on the quirky Joseph Feese ’91 (NEW) is husband, Richard Bock ’85 (A&S). men who made the constitution a vice president of Washington, Rex Olson G’81 (MAX), reality in 1787. D.C.-based Griffin & Company, G’85, G’94 (A&S) is director Peter Hilgartner ’84 (A&S) and a national public relations and of counseling at Alfred Sate rowing partner Lindsay Lentini ’08 Fred Letourneau ’86 (WSM) of marketing communications firm College (New York). He served (FALK) placed third in the Quaker Chittenango, N.Y., is vice president specializing in the building and as discussant at the symposium City Regatta mixed doubles for physician enterprise at St. construction industries. “Psychology as a STEM Discipline competition in Philadelphia. They Joseph’s Hospital Health Center and as Logos of the Soul: were rowing together for the first in Syracuse. In this newly created Jeffrey O’Brien ’91 (NEW) of Mill The Critical Necessity of the time for the Queensbury (N.Y.) position, Letourneau works with Valley, Calif., co-wrote Making Humanities for Psychological Rowing Center. employed and private practice the World Work Better, a book Science” at the American physicians affiliated with St. commissioned by IBM on the Psychological Association Mark Shay ’84 (LCS) is senior Joseph’s to form an integrated occasion of its 100th anniversary, Conference in Washington, D.C. vice president for marketing and system to improve quality and that explores the company’s business development at Drexel coordination of patient care. impact on technology, the evolving Mark Cerulli ’82 (NEW) of University Online in Philadelphia. role of the modern corporation, Hartsdale, N.Y., won Best Horror/ Allan G. Savage G’87 (IST) and the way our world works Sci-Fi Script for his screenplay Deborah Geigis Berry ’85 (NEW) retired from his position as senior (ibmpressbooks.com). Mutations at the 20th Annual is founder of familyadventuremom. technical information specialist at Woods Hole Film Festival in July. com and a contributing editor of the National Library of Medicine. Gregory J. Samurovich ’91 (WSM) His previous script, Sunburn, Disney FamilyFun magazine. She He has returned to his previous is special counsel in the Princeton, won an award in the Bahamas is the author of the FamilyFun vocation as a professional chess N.J., office of the Goldberg Segall International Film Festival in 2010. Vacation Guide: New England teacher and chess journalist in the law firm. He focuses his practice (Disney Editions) and appears on Washington, D.C., area. on complex, high-exposure civil J. Daniel Pluff ’82 (NEW), a such popular television shows as litigation in the medical device, financial advisor and investment Today, The View, and The Early Show Kim Sachse ’88 (WSM) is vice manufacturing, and transportation consultant with Morgan Stanley to chat about family topics (www. president of creative services industries. Smith Barney in Syracuse, marked snacktivitymom.com). at Massey Communications in the beginning of his 20th year as Orlando, Fla. Christine Walsh Thorpe ’91 (A&S) host of Financial Fitness on WCNY- is chair of the Department of TV in Syracuse. H.J. Hubert L’89 (LAW), Human Services at New York City attorney and counselor-at-law, College of Technology/CUNY. has moved his private practice ORANGESPOTLIGHT from Fayetteville to Nedrow (New AJ Mass ’92 (NEW), a writer York). Hubert and his firm received for ESPN.com, wrote How Fantasy Elizabeth St. Hilaire Nelson ’90 (VPA) of Longwood, the highest level of professional Sports Explains the World: What »Fla., is an artist who specializes in a unique collage excellence, earning him a first- Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us technique that sets her apart from traditional painting and tier ranking in U.S. News & World about Wookiees and Wall Street drawing. She is working on a 50-piece solo exhibition with Report’s Best Law Firms 2011-12 (Skyhorse Publishing). a Noah’s Ark theme featuring 25 sets of animals. A poster for success in personal injury she designed for the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando litigation from both the plaintiff Scott D. Shuster ’92 (A&S/NEW) and defendant perspectives. was honored as the Jimmy Fund is being sold to raise funds for the festival and for Nelson’s Council of Greater Boston Man of childhood friend who was paralyzed in an auto accident (www. Cheryl Krajna ’89 (NEW) is senior the Year for his work in support of peacefilmfest.org). Nelson’s art is licensed by Pier One Imports, publicist at Prometheus Books, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Home Goods, and Bed, Bath & Beyond. an independent book publisher located in Amherst, N.Y.

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» Orange Connection Motivated for Change

College is a time when people meet and person and, in turn, forge lifelong friendships. Such was the case for a company to succeed. Andrew Gumpert ’89 and Daniel Heumann ’91, Heumann also spoke who became friends during their college days to the Sony audi- on the Hill and, like many Orange alumni, estab- ence about creating a lished a long-lasting connection that continues better dialogue be- to this day. “We became instant friends when tween employees with we first met in 1986,” says Gumpert, president and without disabili- of worldwide business affairs and operations for ties, to help the com- Columbia Pictures (a division of Sony Pictures) in pany become stron- Los Angeles. ger as a whole. “The Last spring, the pair reunited when Gumpert goal of my presenta- invited Heumann, a motivational speaker, to give tion was for people to realize that it’s OK to have Danny Heumann a presentation to staff members at Sony Pictures a disability, and it’s OK to talk about disabilities,” (left) and Andrew Gumpert began a about overcoming adversity. “Using my experi- Heumann says. lifelong friendship ences and what I’ve been dealing with for the last Heumann’s speech and the lessons he has when they met as 26 years as a paraplegic, I take those issues and learned through his own challenges in life provid- undergraduates at SU. challenges and I parallel them to the issues and ed inspiration to the Sony employees, Gumpert challenges that my audience is facing in their ca- says. “Everyone literally asked why his presenta- reers and lives,” says Heumann, founder of Heu- tion had to end in an hour. It was incredibly suc- mannly Capable, a motivational speaking com- cessful and was extremely engaging and thought pany based in Michigan (www.heumannlycapable. provoking.” —Natalie Maneval com). Heumann also serves as a board member of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, where he created the Daniel Heumann Young Scientist Fund, which pro- vides funding for young scientists who want to begin their profession- al careers focusing on spinal cord research. Before joining the Reeve Foundation, Heumann was vice president of the Daniel Heumann Fund for Spinal Cord Research, which was established in 1986 and has raised more than $5 million for research centers around the world. “At Sony Pictures, they wanted me to talk about how to overcome ad- versity and prepare for change in the industry,” he says. When it comes to navigating change, Heumann told the audi- ence to use four attributes to be successful in their careers and lives: courage, persistence, atti- tude, and the importance of asking for help. He believes embodying all four of these characteristics helps a

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» ORANGE LEGACY A Special Place for the Daniels Family By Bruce Cort Daniels

when he left his parents’ farm in Morris, my senior year, I informed my parents New York, to begin his college career of my decision to marry Suzanne, my at Syracuse that he was embarking on high school sweetheart. Now my wife an educational journey that would span of 48 years, Suzanne worked for the SU three generations. The first in his family philosophy department at that time. I to attend college, John graduated with a vividly remember hearing candidate degree in engineering in 1911 and went Lyndon Johnson speak from a tailgate at on to captain the schooner Equator for Syracuse’s Hancock Airport. I later met the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, President Johnson in the White House mapping the country’s Inland Water- along with 50 Latin American mayors way. Celebrated author Robert Louis when he announced the establishment Stevenson had traveled the South Seas of a center for Latin American studies at on the Equator and wrote a book about the University of Texas. And when Pres- the voyage. ident Johnson spoke at the dedication of My grandfather married his high the Newhouse School, my mother and school sweetheart, Fanny Draper, from father were among the invited guests. the adjacent farm. Their son, Draper, After college, I became a char- married his college sweetheart, Louise ter member of the U.S. Department Parker Lux Cort, who graduated from of Housing and Urban Development SU with a joint degree in journalism (HUD) in Washington, D.C. My career My father, Draper Daniels, and management in 1933. As a little girl weaved in and out of public and private followed his father’s footsteps to the she was acquainted with the famous service, ending in California, where I Hill, graduating from Syracuse Univer- bird artist, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and served as HUD Indian program manag- sity with a degree in journalism in 1934. frontier showman William “Buffalo Bill” er, director of housing and community He went on to become one of the most Cody. In 1965, Cort, as my mother was development for Riverside County, and successful executives in the advertis- known, joined Martin Luther King’s fa- city manager of Coachella. I was also ing industry. Celebrated as the “Father mous civil rights march in Montgomery, general manager of an economic de- of the Marlboro Man,” he was instru- Alabama, and was proudly incarcerated velopment corporation and local soccer mental in producing iconic ads featur- for her efforts. complexes. My longtime interest in soc- ing Starkist’s “Charlie Tuna,” “Elsie the Draper and Cort raised four children, cer led me to serve as a referee at the Borden Cow,” “The Jolly Green Giant,” and I was the one who continued the youth, high school, and NCAA levels. and Kellogg’s “Tony the Tiger.” Author Daniels’ family tradition of studying at Although my grandmother, Fanny of Giants, Pigmies and Other Advertising Syracuse University. I graduated from Draper Daniels, earned a degree from People, Draper “Dan” Daniels may well SU with a degree in Latin American Oneonta Normal (now Oneonta State), have served as the template for the studies in 1964. I decided to attend SU she understood the important role “Don Draper” character in the highly because of my family’s close ties with Syracuse University played in our fam- successful Mad Men television series the University and because it offered ily’s remarkable achievements, and for about a Madison Avenue advertising an opportunity to attend the Univer- many years she lovingly displayed three agency during the 1960s. Also involved sidad de San Carlos in Guatemala for a generations of SU diplomas on her man- in politics, Draper Daniels was national semester at the start of the infamous tle as a fitting tribute to theD aniels fam- export expansion coordinator, appoint- 30 years war. I was there in 1963 dur- ily’s proud Orange legacy. ed by President John F. Kennedy. ing the presidential elections that re- At SU, my dad found outlets for his sulted in a coup d’etat. My college years Bruce Cort Daniels ’64 is retired and lives creativity and writing skills, serving were part of the turbulent ’60s, which in Running Springs, California. He fol- as editor-in-chief of The Daily Orange saw the assassinations of President lows the SU crew and soccer teams and and its counterpart humor magazine, Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the among his Orange memorabilia he counts the Orange Peel. My grandfather, John civil rights movement, and the Vietnam a century-old pennant that belonged to his Albert Daniels, could not have known War. One night at the Hotel Syracuse in grandfather.

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Jacqueline Urtecho ’92 (A&S), a Chaise LaDousa G’96, G’00 (MAX), physician specializing in stroke and a professor of anthropology at neurocritical care, joined the neurology Hamilton College, wrote House Signs department at Thomas Jefferson and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith University Hospital in Philadelphia. in a College Town (Indiana University She is also an assistant professor of Press). La Dousa explores house signs neurology at the university’s Jefferson at off-campus student residences in Medical College. a Midwestern college town where they are a longstanding tradition. He Gina Schiraldi Chapman ’93 (NEW), analyzes them through the lens of president of Mr. Handyman in anthropology and folklore to discover Richmond, Va., is a regular guest on clues to the social and cultural worlds the Virginia This Morning show on in which they are produced. CBS. She discusses tips and solutions for home maintenance, repairs, and Craig T. Williams ’96 (WSM) of enhancements. Philadelphia wrote The Olympian: An American Triumph (Vintage World), Rich Meneghello ’93 (A&S), an which tells the previously untold story attorney at Fisher & Philips law firm of Dr. John Baxter Taylor Jr., the first in Portland, Ore., specializing in labor African American to win Olympic gold and employment law, was selected for at the 1908 London Games. Williams inclusion in the 2012 edition of The Best held a book-signing event at the Schine Lawyers in America. Student Center in September (www. theolympian.net). Amiee White Beazley ’95 (A&S), a writer from Basalt, Colo., and Paul Deanna Durante ’97 (NEW) and her Antonson ’95 (VPA), an illustrator husband, Timothy Swan ’97, G’99 from Sacramento, Calif., created (IST), announce the birth of their Snowmastodon! Snow Day Adventure daughter, Maya Elizabeth. Durante is (People’s Press), a children’s a reporter for NBC 10, WCAU-TV in winter adventure story inspired by Philadelphia, and Swan is IT manager animals recently discovered by The for the University of Pennsylvania. Snowmastodon Project, a paleontology dig some scientists deem the most Monica Chun ’99 (A&S) is an significant high-altitude fossil site in obstetrics/gynecology physician at the North America (snowmastodonbook. Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H., com). where she lives with her husband, Sean, and daughter Cassidy. Ronald D. Cantor G’95 (EDU) is president of Southern Maine Eric Kaufman ’99 (A&S) and his Community College in South Portland. wife, Michelle, of Philadelphia, announce the birth of their son, Jared Kwame DeRoche ’95 (WSM), a Isaac. Kaufman, who holds master’s freelance creative director and degrees in computers and technology copywriter in Washington, D.C., wrote in education and in educational The Three Dollar Girlfriend, a humorous leadership, is employed by the look at his undergraduate experience Neshaminy School District. at SU in the early ‘90s. Emily Smolar ’99 (NEW) married Kathleen Sullivan Esposito ’95 Matthew Anziano. They reside in New (NEW), L’98 (LAW) is vice president York City, where she is a producer for of legal and general counsel at Infigen Investigation Discovery’s On the Case Energy in Dallas. with Paula Zahn.

Jeffrey S. Stewart ’95 (A&S/NEW), Eileen Daly Vitelli ’99 (VPA) holds an attorney at Tallman, Hudders & an M.A. degree in interior design from Sorrentini, the Pennsylvania office Marymount University in Arlington, of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, is Va. She won the 2011 Polsky Academic included in the employment and labor Achievement Award from the section of the 2011 issue of Pennsylvania American Society of Interior Designers Super Lawyers—Rising Stars Edition. for her master’s thesis, which examined guest behavior and spending Move-in Day 1960: Draper and Christine Woodcock Dettor L’96 at communal tables in Washington, Cort Daniels (at right, top photo) (LAW), an attorney with the Green D.C.-area restaurants. on the steps of Watson Hall. Cort Daniels (above) helps her son, & Seifter law firm in Syracuse, was Bruce, move into Watson to begin designated as an accredited estate his first year at SU. planner by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.

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» Garland Jeffreys ’65 » Garland Jeffreys performs at the Ottawa Folk Festival this summer (left). The singer-songwriter has been on tour in support of his latest album, The King of In Between, and has appeared on such shows as WNYC’s Soundcheck (left photo, facing page, with his band) and the Late Show with David Letterman. As a Syracuse student, he became friends with Lou Reed ’64 (right photo, facing page, performing together in Belgium) and studied in Italy (inset, at Milan Duomo).

Fearless Music

From his ’70s hit “Wild in the Streets” to his latest album, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has taken on life’s big issues with his own eclectic brand of music By David Marc

From the pages of The New Yorker to deep inside every Sunday. At school, I had my close friends, but I was the blogosphere, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jef- also often the only ‘colored’ kid in the class, and every time freys has been winning high praise for his new album, The I met a girl I liked, I had to contend with a race issue. My King of In Between, released last summer on his own Luna music has always had a great deal to do with these experi- Park label (garlandjeffreys.com). Loved by fans and admired ences.” Jeffreys felt more at ease in nearby Coney Island, by colleagues for his fearless movements through rock, where beach, boardwalk, and carnival karma drew people R&B, reggae, and whatever other styles he may need to ar- of every background imaginable. He also enjoyed the privi- ticulate his borderless vision, Jeffreys puts his mastery of lege of seeing the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field. “I was just 4 popular musical forms in the service of personal expression, years old, but I was there at the game, April 15, 1947, when a talent he shares with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball,” he says. Feeling “too black to be white, too white to be black,” he “Sports have always been an important part of my life, and occupies his own space and fills it with a gritty sweetness even helped bring me to Syracuse. My father wanted me to that is hard for likeminded souls to resist. go to Boston College. But Jim Brown [’57] went to Syracuse, Growing up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, during the and obviously I had to go to school where he went.” 1950s, Jeffreys learned a thing or two about “diversity” long Shortly after arriving on campus, Jeffreys met Lou Reed before the term took on its full contemporary meaning. “I’m ’64, who became a lifelong friend. Although both were mov- from a totally mixed-race family—black, white, Puerto Ri- ing toward their careers as musicians, Reed was studying can, Native American,” he says. “At the time, we were the poetry and Jeffreys had his sights set on art history. “We only people of color in the Catholic church we attended hung out at the Orange Bar with Lou’s teacher, the poet

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Delmore Schwartz, and a bunch of people—I guess you’d call Jeffreys was accepted into graduate school at NYU’s pres- them ‘Beats,’” Jeffreys says. “It was a great place for me to tigious Institute of Fine Arts, but during the summer follow- be because race didn’t matter; it was all about hanging out ing Commencement, he began playing with Lou Reed at an and knowing each other.” Felix Cavaliere ’64, who was about East Village club and the rest, as they say, is (not art) history. to depart for the top of the pops as lead singer and keyboard “I realized at this point that I was going to get serious about man with The Young Rascals, was another friend Jeffreys first music, and I never looked back,” he says. Jeffreys formed a bumped into on Marshall Street. band, Grinder’s Switch, and made an album with the group, Another highlight of Jeffreys’s education—he calls it a “life- but like many troubadour poets, he soon went solo. Garland changing experience”—was his semester abroad in Florence. Jeffreys, the first of 13 solo albums, was released byA tlantic in “I spent days alone in the Uffizi Gallery, in the Duomo, and 1973. In the liner notes of its 2006 re-release, Jeffreys wrote, in all the incredible places,” he says. It almost didn’t hap- “[It] marked a new stage in my music career. I’d prepared for pen. Jeffreys’s application to the this album by performing in small clubs, church basements, Florence program was originally synagogues, homeless shelters, hootenannies, and village rejected, without explanation. scenes, as well as at the various apartments I lived in or Feeling sure of his qualifications, crashed in during those early days.” A 45-rpm single, “Wild he confronted the program direc- in the Streets,” not included on the album, was also released tor. “I told him I felt it might be a that year. It occupies a unique place in Jeffreys’s repertoire as race issue,” Jeffreys says. “He said a cult classic. The song has been covered by numerous artists, he’d look into it and get back to ranging from British rock guitarist Chris Spedding to the Circle me.” A few days later, the director Jerks, a seminal L.A. punk band. told Jeffreys there had never been While a series of insistent themes pervades Jeffreys’s work, a nonwhite in the program, and most of his albums emphasize a particular obsession. In Ghost the “real” issue behind the rejec- Writer (1977), it’s New York, the living city of his dreams and tion was housing; the administra- memories; in Don’t Call Me Buckwheat, it’s the emotional price tors didn’t know if they could find of racism; in Wildlife Dictionary, love and sex. The King of In a family to host him. By speaking Between has plenty to say about the mysteries of mortality, up, Jeffreys challenged them to at but asked about the title, Jeffreys points in another direction. least try. “I was accepted into the program and lived with two “I called it The King of In Between because that says so much fantastic families while I was in Italy,” he says. “That expe- about the way I felt throughout so much of my life,” he says. rience really began my journey into Europe, which is where “I was there but not there, wanting so much to be a part of a substantial part of my career as a musician is today.” And things and feeling so much outside of things.” As tough a that’s how Garland Jeffreys became the Jackie Robinson of place as “in between” might be, it has its own joyful music. the Florence program. And Garland Jeffreys plays it.

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» Joe Ehrmann ’73 » Transformational Coach Joe Ehrmann grew up in Buffalo thinking success on the football field would be enough in life.H e certainly had his share: All-America defensive tackle at Syracuse; first-round draft pick of the Baltimore Colts; a decade-long career in the NFL, including Pro Bowl honors. But all that success did not satisfy him. A minister, author, speaker, and coach, he has devoted himself to helping oth- ers become successful. Ehrmann is co-founder with his wife, Paula, of Coach for America, an organization dedicated to tranforming the lives of at-risk youth through sports and coaching. On a visit to Syracuse in September, Ehrmann had a full dance card: promoting his new book, InSideOut Coaching: How Sports Can Transform Lives (Simon and Schuster); sharing a speaking engagement at Syracuse Stage with his SU lacrosse coach Roy Simmons Jr. ’59; and see- ing his son Joey play outside linebacker for the Demon Deacons in the SU-Wake Forest game in the Dome. SU Magazine associate editor David Marc caught up with Ehrmann at To read the full interview go to daybreak for a cup of coffee and some Q&A. sumagazine.syr.edu. Here’s an excerpt.

In your new book, you describe two affirms that player’s inherent value Who is the coach that had the most types of coaches: transactional and and potential. The goal is to launch the positive effect on you? transformational. Can you explain the kid forward into life. Transformational I played on the SU lacrosse team for distinction? coaches don’t lose sight of sports as a just one season, but the most trans- Transactional coaches use the coach- means to a greater end. formational coach I ever had was my ing platform to meet their own needs. lacrosse coach, Roy Simmons Jr. He They focus on external motivation of Can a football coach really play such a saw something in me I couldn’t see in players. A transactional coach figures crucial role in a young man’s life? myself. He showed us the beauty of out a player’s self- The years I spent living and working lacrosse, teaching us its roots in Native identified needs— in one of Baltimore’s poorest, most American spirituality and the quest it could be more distressed neighborhoods taught me for self-transcendence. He taught us playing time or that the greatest crisis in America is a lacrosse is more than a game. It’s a more praise—and crisis of masculinity. What does it mean means of honoring the Great Creator if the kid meets to be a man? That question is at the and moving beyond self-fixation to con- the coach’s needs foundation of just about every social nect to others and to larger traditions by performing problem. It affects the young men in the and opportunities. He took his teams well, the coach alley who are locked into a system that beyond the playing field to art muse- will then meet the doesn’t provide the& resources to allow ums and even to Lockerbie. Roy Junior player’s perceived them to reach their greatest human po- sat at the table and watched Roy Senior needs. It’s a quid tential, and it also affects the men in the [’25, a longtime SU lacrosse, boxing, pro quo. Coach- boardroom who are so defined by their and football coach] become a trusted ing is a powerful power they build their lives around de- advisor to people like Jim Brown [’57], platform, which fending it, instead of sharing it in order Ernie Davis [’62], and John Mackey transactional coaches can turn into a to effect change in the lives of others. [’63] at crucial moments in their lives. dangerous platform. Transformational In short, I believe we can bring about He learned from his dad. Now it’s coaches understand the power of the social change through the development wonderful to see generations of players platform, but their main intent is to of boys and girls into healthy men and bringing their kids to meet him. I’ve had change the arc of a young person’s life women, and I’m convinced that sports many coaches and teachers, yet I think in a positive way. A transformational is one of the best venues in American I learned more from him in that one QAcoach looks a young kid in the eye and life in which to do this. year than from any of the others. 58 Syracuse University Magazine Photo by Leo H. Lubow Published by SURFACE, 2011 13 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 28, Iss. 3 [2011], Art. 12

» Kimberly Blackwell ’92 » Building Brand Confidence

When Kimberly Blackwell attended Milan Fashion Week last year, she got the red carpet treatment— paparazzi included. Blackwell, a marketing professional who has worked in the apparel industry, was invited by the Gucci fashion house to attend its runway event and found herself bombarded with media and photographers snapping away. “It was so funny. There weren’t very many African American women there to view the show, so I think they thought I was a celebrity,” she says. “My host told me, ‘They think you really are somebody.’ Well, you know what? My mother tells me I am somebody, so I just enjoyed it for the moment.” That confidence and a belief in hard work instilled in her by her parents have paid off in many ways. Blackwell, who was named one of the “Top African Americans in Market- ing and Advertising” by Black Enterprise magazine in Feb- ruary, is CEO and managing partner of PMM Agency, an advertising, communications, and marketing firm in Co- lumbus, Ohio. With encouragement from a mentor who recognized Blackwell’s potential as an entrepreneur, she built the business from a freelance operation she started in 1999 into a 25-member team of consultants today. “I always tell young people and budding entrepreneurs that sometimes people see things in you before you see them recognized this year when she was appointed to a three- in yourself,” she says. year term on the National Women’s Business Council Blackwell had another strong role model in a close family by her mentor, Donna James, who was selected as the friend, the late L. Ross Love ’68, an SU trustee and the first council’s chair by President Obama. The council advises African American vice president of advertising for Procter the president, Congress, and the U.S. Small Business Ad- & Gamble. Her knowledge of Syracuse University through ministration. “The mission is geared toward providing re- “Uncle Ross” and a college fair recruiter convinced her to search, insights, and programs designed to help women attend SU, where she earned a degree in psychology. She business owners,” says Blackwell, who was honored in received a master’s degree in sports business administra- 2010 as a “Forty Under 40” recipient by The Network tion with a concentration in marketing from Xavier Uni- Journal business magazine and Business First newspaper versity and worked as director of basketball operations for in Columbus. the American Basketball League before moving into the In her local community, Blackwell is a trustee for the advertising industry and developing PMM. Martin Luther King Jr. Performing and Cultural Arts Com- PMM works with such clients as Nationwide Insurance, plex and a board member for the Center for Healthy Fami- Macy’s, Toyota, and Food Lion grocery stores. Among its lies. She also supports the United Way of Central Ohio, projects, PMM partnered with Nationwide Insurance to the Columbus Museum of Art, and SU’s Our Time Has build its national On Your Side tour sessions that focus on Come Scholarship Campaign. financial literacy and economic empowerment, and man- Blackwell’s advocacy and service are also traits inher- aged communications along with social media for Macy’s ited from her parents—her father, Kenneth, once served Music Festival. “I’m honored these Fortune 500 compa- as the mayor of Cincinnati and her mother, Rosa, was a nies trust my company with brands they’ve built for 80- teacher who became superintendent of schools for Cin- plus years,” says Blackwell, who also represents WNBA cinnati. “Service is a big part of what I do because I know star Sheryl Swoopes of the Tulsa Shock, managing her I am very blessed,” Blackwell says. “There’s a Bible scrip- playing agreements with the league and endorsements. ture that says, ‘to whom much is given, much is required.’ Blackwell’s accomplishments as an entrepreneur were I take that very seriously. —Kathleen Haley

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Koury, James R. Lucker, Clyde D. viah J. Turkat, Elena Lafetra Nemeth Rofe, Joan Borzelle Stone 1968 Sim Conrad, Caroline L. Cosline, Bertha Marcellus, Edith Morgan McDer- 1956 Robert F. Bitteker Jr., Raymond Bernstein, Donald M. Irwin, Gerald Steele Hinish, Solomon H. Krasney, mott, Lawrence C. Miller, Francis L. Clellen, Eugene L. Dean, Elea- J. Kirwin, Roger J. Price, Beatrice Gordon R. Kruger, Patricia Kempf D. Price, Elton W. Ridge, Lawrence nor M. Elwyn, Robert B. Knudsen, Bradley Springer 1969 Donald J. Lamb, Mary Carroll Perkins, Grace E. Root, Richard J. Shepard, Jerome Laurie MacArthur Murray, Philip J. Barlow, Jennifer G. Brudny, Patricia Parslow Sehnert, Herbert L. Stoll Siegel, Mary Metzger Slike, Henry Poukish, John H. Reilly, Carrie Can- M. Conway, Michael J. Edwards, 1943 Anne Ryfun Almond, Ann A. Sokol, Leonard C. Taylor, Caro- estraro Rood, An-Jean Hills Wright Paul B. Ferrara, Suzanne Calarco Coffin Guthrie, Jesse T. Littleton lyn Cruikshank Trespasz, Janice M. 1957 Wayne P. Ariola Sr., Florence Garner, Eric M. Hampshire, Clar- III, Barbara Thatcher Nittolo, Bar- Tunningley, Martin E. Weiler Weinstein Carmen, Ronald H. Coon, ence E. Hardy, Bruce A. Jennings, bara Greenbaum Rosen, B. Rob- Constantinos E. Courtis, Stewart Stella Sapharas Johannessen, Paul ert Rosenberg, Harry G. Sutton Jr. 1950 Catherine Denton Ainsworth, Docter, Jean Gros Goings, Gerald E. F. Stavis, Ruth Hannah Wise 1944 Calvin L. Arnold, Margaret Lester Balaban, June Petzke Balduf, Monroe, Karl W. Scharl 1958 Sheila Kelly Geiger, Betty Hallam Gere, Harold S. Boggs, Anna Mae Rienstra Sosnow Barbesh, William P. Binks 1970 Bruce F. Elving, Fereidoun Far- Philip E. Gooley III, Gladys Gibbs Cmaylo, Eleanor Ogg Cooper, June Jr., Martha Rapaport Bookman, Rich- assat 1971 Paul R. Cote, Richard D. Greeley, Mary Phelps Isachsen, Kyle Corrigan, John DelCioppo, ard L. Chapman, Melvin G. Edwards, Jarvinen, Robert T. Neidrick 1972 Grace Collins McCullough, Anne Hans J. Fabian, Anthony E. Forgione, Joan Piscitelli Hall, James Gilmour David C. Daland Jr., Horatio A. Eg- E. Mooney, Ruth Frances Rubright, Joyce Webb Gardner, Joseph J. Hill, Catherine D. Maggio, Marjorie noto, James C. Gangloff, Arcenia Jean Johnson Walker, Edith Haz- Gerillo, James R. Jordan, Sally Kos Hall Shafer, Herbert E. Sim, Nathan- P. London, Judith Ortlieb Noyes, zard Wedeking 1945 Eloise B. Rapoport, Edgar R. Lellbach, James iel R. Thompson Jr. 1959 David E. Donald C. Williamson, Frank E. Yan- Carrigan, Hester Price Kornmeyer, D. Levine, Eileen Maynard, Thomas Clark, Joan Iselin DeLevie, Lynn L. drasits 1973 Charles N. Amidon, Mary Lorraine Kramer, Claire Has- G. McElroy, James J. McHale Jr., Ferrin, Charles A. Heins, Michael Timothy J. Blish, Robert J. Geary, well Randolph, Tina V. Weintraub, Donald E. Peterson, Robert R. Risch, F. Iosue, Sylvia A. Kudan, Stephen Erling Hansen, Jay P. Johnson, Betty Wadleigh White 1946 Ed- Millicent Kroll Tanenbaum, David Lavranchuk, Frances Lewis Leiter, Marylou Dinsmore McAllister, Vic- ward J. Burns Jr., Jean McMahan Ja- E. Thorsland, Cleon B. Wright 1951 Frederick J. Meier, Jean E. Phillips, toria L. Ross, Freide Faigon Sanchis cobson, Ruth DeVoe Orner, Shirley Vasilka Christoff Anderson, Joseph Philip C. Pinsky, Richard M. Salsburg, 1974 Elizabeth McCarthy Daly, Soder Sandwick, Klaus B.J. Schoen- G. Asquith, George C. Byington, Frederick R. Serley, Eleanor Michael C. Egan, George W. Fred- lank, Katherine Young Williamson, Janet Marshall Carter, Sumner M. Kozak Slusarczyk, Barbara Krizan ericks, Dennis Hlavac, Howard L. Anne M. Wright 1947 Ruth Brooks Feldman, Iris Tuck Finkelman, J. Whisnant Levy, Donald C. Liebson, Donna L. Chapin, George W. Crittenden, Scott Fleming, Mary L. Geppinger, Simmons, Irene Pratt Turner 1975 Marie Schneider Dill, Margaret Philip Hayman, Tommie J. Hillmon, 1960 Richard E. Alper, Diane M. 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ORANGESPOTLIGHT Michael Swartz ’08 (FALK), Jared Novack ’06 »(VPA), and Tito Bottitta ’03 (NEW), founders of Upstatement, a design and development firm located in South Boston, designed The Boston Globe’s new web site (www. Dowd, Steven J. Feld, Jeanette Paul Slocum Found, Joseph F. Maloni bostonglobe.com), which was praised by the Guardian and the Greene, Leo F. Nolan, Michele S. Jr., Michael J. Sacco, Patricia A. New York Observer as a major technological step forward for its Pessin, Thomas W. Sherrick, Jean Tranelli-Ashe 1989 Graham C. “responsive design” approach. Malcolm Van Ingen 1976 Patricia Leggat, Raymond M. Ranellucci Richey Marple, William F. Peters, Jade Nicole Kington ’02 (A&S) Diane Everett Zizzi 1977 Walter J. 1992 Eric C. Kyanka, Claude M. and Joshua Givner ’03 (NEW) of Mullaney, Susan K. Panisch, Allan Rayfield 1994 Gregory T. Moore 00s Smithville, N.J., announce the birth G. Strick 1978 Joseph M. Ryan Jr. 1995 T. Brian Ebbert, William Colin Hanlon ’00 (VPA) plays the of their son, Carter Kai. J. Pfeiffenberger 1997 Anna K. role of Fiyero in the first North 1980 Hans T. Andersen, Gregory Oliveira, Dale Dampf Wolf 1998 American tour of the Broadway Jessica Gardner Vedder ’02 J. Baker, Buenaventura Corona Ronald E. McLane 1999 Sebrena show Wicked. (NEW), and her husband, Steven 1981 Lorraine Forrest Geiger L. McBean, Gina Y. Tramble Vedder, of Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., 1983 Gwieneverea DeLyce Dun- Myriam Bouchard G’01 (WSM) announce the birth of their son, can, Christopher H. Sotak 1984 2000 Richard J. Keim 2001 Todd is a business advisor at the Myles Edward. Andrew M. Levi 1985 Katherine P. Griffin 2005 Barbara Ann Carr New York State Small Business J. Brown-Hightower 1986 Cyn- 2006 Sara B. Pooler 2007 Bartosz Development Center. She received Brent Vimtrup ’02 (VPA) was thia Steinberg Elliott-Park, Ellyn Szczyrba her sixth performance award, nominated for a 2011 New York which recognizes advisors who Innovative Theatre Award for go above and beyond normal Outstanding Actor in a Featured responsibilities. Role for his work in Sight Unseen, produced by InProximity Theatre Passings Sapna Kollali ’01 (A&S/NEW), Company (www.nyitawards.com). » G’09 (EDU) and Kevin Tampone ’01 (NEW) of Syracuse announce Casey Boss ’03 (ARC) and David Al Davis ’50 the birth of their daughter, Leela Whipple ’99 (ARC) of Philadelphia Ann. Sapna works for Madison- announce the birth of their son, Al Davis, the legendary Oneida BOCES and Kevin works Sullivan. owner of the NFL’s Oakland for the Central New York Business Raiders and a member of the Journal. Christopher Ellis ’03 (NEW), Pro Football Hall of Fame, died director of advancement at St. in his Northern California home Jennifer Markham ’01 (A&S) Raymond High School for Boys in on October 8, 2011, at age 82. married Jeremy Bitz at the the Bronx, is race director of the Woodlawn Run for a Cause. During Long considered a maverick Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, N.Y. They the first four years of the event, for his controversial style and reside in New York City. more than 575 people finished the feuds with the league, Davis 5K run, raising more than $12,000 was one of the most successful Tariq Awwad ‘02 (LCS) and for charity. owners in professional sports. four partners launched Focal Under his ever watchful eye Point Consulting in Jordan. The Daniel Haggerty ’03 (A&S), for nearly five decades, the Raiders won three Super Bowl firm specializes in organizational associate professor of philosophy at the University of Scranton, titles (1977, 1981, 1984) in five appearances and posted the development, human capital received the 2011 Teacher of the best winning percentage in all of pro sports from 1963-85. services, financial and franchising advisory services, strategy and Year Award from Alpha Sigma An English major at SU, Davis played junior varsity foot- business planning, and market Nu, a national honor society for ball and voraciously studied Coach Ben Schwartzwalder’s research. students in Jesuit colleges and strategies, taking notes at practices and games. Building universities. on that foundation, he moved through the gridiron ranks, Susan DeMar ’02 (A&S) of Las holding positions with several college and pro teams before Cruces, N.M., received the Above Lauren Movshin Mandel ’03 being named head coach and general manager of the Raid- and Beyond Award from New (WSM) and her husband, Jay Mandel ’00 (WSM), announce the ers in 1963. That same year he collected AFL Coach of the Mexico State University, where she is an administrative assistant in the birth of their son, Gavin Henry. Year honors. Three years later, as AFL commissioner, he geography department. was instrumental in the league’s merger with the NFL. He Christopher Powers G’03 (NEW) then returned to the Raiders as an owner. Davis was noted Kirsten Kaschock G’02 (A&S) is a public relations account for hiring the NFL’s first African American head coach of wrote Sleight (Coffee House Press), manager for Pinckney Hugo Group the modern era, the first Latino head coach, and the first a novel that explores ideas of in Syracuse. woman as a top executive. At his 1992 enshrinement into gender, family, and the role of art the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he said, “The enshrinement in the face of unthinkable tragedy Michael Zyborowicz ’03 (WSM), (kaschock.wordpress.com). a certified public accountant, is a is a reflection of a life’s work, a reflection of a love affair manager with Citrin Cooperman, with the greatest game the world has ever known.” an accounting, tax, and business consulting firm in Philadelphia.

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Amy Faben-Wade G’04 (SWK) works with Sarah Robinson ’05 (VPA) married Devin Ithaca-based Cayuga Addiction Recovery Horne ’06 (VPA) at Ashford Castle in Services as a trainer and curriculum Ireland. They reside in New York City. developer. She was selected to serve in the North American network of subject matter Keith Ward ’05 (VPA) released his third experts who write test questions for the studio recording, Take It From Me, in the UK social work licensing examinations used in and New York City (keithwardmusic.com). the United States and Canada. Ward’s music, which was featured in the film Viola, captured a Golden Palm Award Yolanda Norton ’04 (A&S) earned a mas- at the 2011 Mexican International Film ter’s degree in theological studies in Hebrew Festival. Bible from Wesley Theological Seminary and was honored with the Interpretation Melinda Reger ’06 (WSM) is the new Award for Excellence in Biblical Studies. She academic advisor and student-athlete received a theology and practice fellowship affairs coordinator at the College of from Vanderbilt University and a doctoral Charleston (South Carolina). fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education to pursue a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible K. Carrie Sarhangi L’06 (LAW) is an and Ancient Israel at Vanderbilt. associate at the Rawle & Henderson law firm in Philadelphia. She concentrates her Amy J. Peterson-Berry ’04 (A&S) practice on the defense of product liability. and her husband, Brandon N. Berry Now is ’00 (VPA), announce the birth of their Anneliese Heckert ’07 (EDU) of daughter, Hannah Jean. Peterson-Berry is Wilmington, Del., earned a doctor of the conference services manager at the osteopathic medicine degree from the Gansevoort Miami Beach Hotel, and Berry Philadelphia College of Osteopathic the time! is the general manager of the Fillmore Medicine. She is continuing her training Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater. in family medicine at Southern Colorado Gifts to The Campaign for Syracuse University Family Medicine at St. Mary Regional have supported every part of SU and created Travis Rowley ’04 (A&S) is program Medical Center in Pueblo. coordinator for the corporate work study countless opportunities for students and program at DePaul Cristo Rey High School Aaron J. Libbey ’07 (VPA) was nominated faculty. But there are a number of initiatives in Cincinnati. for a 2011 New York Innovative Theatre that are still in need of funding, including: Award in the Outstanding Ensemble Craig Welsh G’04 (VPA), principal and category for his work in The Drowsy > Faculty Today gift challenge program creative director of Go Welsh, a Lancaster, Chaperone, produced by The Gallery > Dineen Hall construction Pa.-based design studio, won Best of Players. Show at the prestigious One Show Design > Institute for Veterans and Awards honoring the advertising industry’s Edward L. Cox G’08 (MAX) has been Military Families best work. nominated for the Military Writers > Inclusive Campus Initiative Society of America’s 2011 Book Award for Lillian Baharestani ’05 (WSM) married Grey Eminence: Fox Conner and the Art of > Newhouse studios renovation Adam Archer in San Francisco. Mentorship (New Forums Press). His book > Carnegie Library renovation is a finalist in the non-fiction/biography Steven Daly ’05 (NEW) had his piece category. > Hendricks Chapel “Rauschenberg in the Backyard” included in > Huntington Hall renovation the August New Yorker photo blog. Jen Ferguson ’08 (IST) of Watertown, Mass., is data services librarian at Nicholas Fondulis ’05 (VPA) appeared Northeastern University in Boston. Learn more at campaign.syr.edu. Then in a Super Bowl XLV Chevrolet Cruze make your gift at givetosyr.com/syr44 or call commercial and has the lead role in an Lindsay Lentini ’08 (FALK) and rowing 877.2GROWSU (247.6978). Whether you independent horror film, The Shells. partner Peter Hilgartner ’84 (A&S) placed choose to support one of these initiatives or third in the Quaker City Regatta mixed whatever part of SU means the most to you, William Low G’05 (VPA), an award- doubles competition in Philadelphia. They your gift will help change the lives of Syracuse winning artist, designed two murals for were rowing together for the first time for the interior of the Parkchester subway the Queensbury (N.Y.) Rowing Center. University students—now and for generations station for the New York Metropolitan to come. Transit Authority. He is principal in Cobalt Heather Mayer ’09 (NEW) married Illustration Studios, which produces Jeffrey Irvine ’06 (NEW). They reside in illustrations for corporations, children’s Brooklyn, N.Y. books, advertisements, gallery paintings, and fine art quality prints (www.williamlow. Alejandro Amezcua G’10 (MAX) com). received the 2011 National Federation of Independent Business Dissertation Award Desira Pesta ’05 (VPA) was cast to in Entrepreneurship and Independent portray a court room sketch artist on an Business for Boon or Boondoggle? Business episode of Law & Order SVU. Incubation as Entrepreneurship Policy. It was the first time the award was given to a scholar in the field of public administration.

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» James Little G’76 » Ca ll James Little “old says. “After I finished all the little pictures that came with it, school,” but he is mostly I had some paint left over, so I started copying old masters Vividly Abstract unimpressed by gimmicky from an encyclopedia.” While studying for a B.F.A. degree installations, shocking per- at the Memphis Academy of Art, Little was summoned to formance pieces, and cu- see SU professor George Vander Sluis, who was attend- rated exhibitions of found objects. For most of a lifetime, ing a conference at the school. Vander Sluis, a painter who he has earned distinction as an artist the old-fashioned taught on the Hill for many years, was impressed by Little’s way—by painting. “A lot of problems in the art world today work and urged him to come to Syracuse to study for an result from the fact that too many kids allow themselves to M.F.A. degree. “I told him I had applied to programs at be influenced by an urgency to be seen as ‘successful’ right Syracuse, the Art Institute of Chicago, R.I.T., Yale, and the from the get-go,” says Little, whose large canvases reflect University of Michigan,” Little recalls. “About a week later, a unique formalist style of abstract expressionist color field he sent me a letter offering me a fellowship. He supported painting. “The whole idea of developing something just me top to bottom, 100 percent, and became my mentor.” doesn’t seem to be part of the agenda these days. You may According to Little, campus visits by SU alumni, including have talent, but until you’ve mastered skills, you don’t have such distinguished critics as Clement Greenberg ’30 and a voice.” Hilton Kramer ’50, H’76, provided some of his most mem- Long appreciated by a circle of admirers, Little has gained orable educational experiences. “Greenberg wasn’t gentle a widening public in recent years, mounting solo shows at with students, but there was no better critic,” Little says. such blue-chip venues as the June Kelly Gallery in Lower “One of the things he said was that abstraction was the Manhattan and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art American art form, that it illustrates who we are. That was in Houston. “I think the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award very important to me.” made an enormous difference for me,” he says. Since win- Valuing his Syracuse education, Little has seen his daugh- ning the award in 2009, Little has received increasing at- ters, Celeste ’09, G’11 and Sophia ’14, follow in his foot- tention from ARTnews, ArtInfo, and other publications that steps. He also takes satisfaction in coming back to campus matter in the art world. In a New York Times review, Holland to work with students, as he did most recently during an Carter described one of Little’s 6-by-8-foot pieces this way: October visit. “I know how important it is for young artists “Pink soaks into lavender; electric orange slices into electric to get recognition,” says Little, who lives and works in the blue; cinnabar floats over gray; dark blue stains into light Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, a magnet for young art- blue, light blue into peacock-blue-green. Each stripe be- ists from around the world. “But getting recognition is not comes a self-defined spectrum, each painting a rainbow.” enough. You have to be able to do something that captures Born and raised in a working-class family in Memphis, the imagination of that minority who know what painting is Little credits his parents for encouraging his interests in capable of. The ones who embark on that journey are the experimenting, inventing, and making things. “When I was ones who usually pull ahead. It’s a long haul, and none of it 8 or 9, my mother bought me a paint-by-numbers set,” he is linear.” —David Marc

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