BROTHERLY Temple’S Longtime Connection to Its Neighbors Fosters LOVE Cultural Collaboration

SPRING 2016 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

BROTHERLY Temple’s longtime connection to its neighbors fosters LOVE cultural collaboration. From the libraries to the laboratories, Owls demonstrate dogged determination. In this issue, students turn an idea for a co-op café into a campus reality, musicians find meaning playing together and a Temple collection showcases Philly’s role in the civil rights movement.

TEMPLE2 Letters 3 From the President 4 Campus Voice 5 News 10 Alumni News 37 Class Notes 52 The Last Word

12 16 32 CITY STUDENTS RESEARCH CURATING PHILADELPHIA RAD IDEA THE 6,000-CALORIE QUESTION

Diane Turner leads a destination for From concept to co-op: A new student- A groundbreaking study links a few days African American history scholars and run café offers greener food options on of overeating to signs of Type 2 diabetes. 22 community members. Main Campus. COMMUNITY STRIKE UP THE BAND 26 KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: Five Temple grads bring their fresh eats to the streets.

Musicians connect with their craft and each other. ON THE COVER: An illustration by Robert Frawley features local landmarks (clockwise, from top left): One Liberty Place and the Comcast Center in Center City; the Divine Lorraine Hotel, at the corner of North Broad Street and Fairmount Avenue; the Uptown Theater, located on North Broad Street; Philadelphia’s iconic “LOVE” sculpture in JFK Plaza; and the John Coltrane House on North 33rd Street.

SPRING 2016 1 LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT

FOUND ON FACEBOOK VOL. 70 NO. 1 / Spring 2016 IN THIS ISSUE Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Communications Temple Founder Russell Conwell once said, Karen Clarke

“To be great at all, one must be great here, LabolitoJoseph V. Senior Director for Strategic Communications now, in Philadelphia.” That’s a message that Eryn Jelesiewicz, SMC ’89, ’05

WHAT DO YOU THINK? LabolitoJoseph V. still resonates with Temple alumni, faculty, Readers share experiences, tweets and praise inspired by the winter issue Associate Director of Content staff and students. Kim Fischer, CLA ’92 Working to build the communities in and their Temple pride. which we live is at the heart of being an Owl. Art Director Trish Brown In fact, that’s just what a recent survey conducted by Gallup and Purdue University Designers found: Owls are more likely to enjoy, take REUNITED Rose Caporaletti, Carissa DuPuy, Robert Frawley pride in and engage with our communities Correspondence than are graduates of other universities Bell Building, 3rd Floor, 1101 W. Montgomery Ave., across the nation. I think that says a lot Philadelphia, PA 19122 Joseph V. LabolitoJoseph V. about the values that drive us. Email This issue of Temple touches on that com- [email protected] mitment to community. Website Take the Rad Dish Co-op café. It’s the temple.edu/templemag result of the drive and determination of Temple students to build a community Temple is published by Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. around a shared commitment to sustainable © Copyright 2016 by Temple University food choices. Their café is up and running perform music simply for the fun of it. In Temple University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all because of their ability to communicate and addition, Boyer’s Community Music Scholars in every aspect of its operations. The university has pledged not to dis- In response to “Birthplace of Independence,” Temple, criminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, collaborate with each other. Program provides children from under- winter 2016, pages 14–17: sexual orientation, marital status or disability. This policy extends to Another example of what can be accom- resourced neighborhoods across the city all educational, service and employment programs of the university. plished when we work together is the with high-quality jazz and classical music As a father of a Temple ’19 freshman still Bouvier Street Pocket Park. Last fall, it was a instruction. surprised by his daughter’s choice to move vacant lot. Thanks to a partnership between At Temple, we know where our home is, all the way from Tennessee to Philadelphia, Temple students and local residents, it’s now and it’s here, now, on North Broad Street My husband and I attended the 50th class reunion of the Class of ’65 in Mitten Hall. I must say this explains a lot. Thanks! a popular space where neighbors can spend in Philadelphia. It was an awe-inspiring experience. The dignity, respect and pride accorded to our class James Dittes time together, located only two blocks west was so appreciated by the participants. The ceremony and brunch brought back many Portland, Tennessee of Main Campus. happy memories of my time at Temple’s College of Education. Thank you so much for As a lifelong music fan, I am also proud the honor and recognition for a job well-done. Grandmother of a granddaughter in the that our Boyer College of Music and Dance Paula Cohen, EDU ’65 freshman Class of 2019 and another grand- KEY TO SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CODES Neil D. Theobald serves as a resource for our community in Philadelphia daughter who will be in the Class of 2020 President, Temple University BYR Boyer College of Music and Dance North Philadelphia. Our Night Owls band come fall. We are a happy Temple family. CLA College of Liberal Arts brings together alumni, faculty, neighbors, > To learn more about President Theobald, Carol Shissler CPH College of Public Health staff and students of all ages to practice and visit president.temple.edu. TEMPLE IN THE TWITTERVERSE ...AND THE INSTAVERSE Philadelphia CST College of Science and Technology DEN Kornberg School of Dentistry Proud parent of a 2019 graduate! Our son EDU College of Education loves Temple and is taking advantage of all ENG College of Engineering Follow Temple! Philadelphia has to offer! FOX Fox School of Business Honorary Degree Marilyn Singer Geltman HON LAW Beasley School of Law facebook.com/TempleU twitter.com/TempleUniv Queens, New York MED Katz School of Medicine PHR School of Pharmacy Extremely proud parent of a Temple fresh- POD School of Podiatric Medicine man, sophomore and 2015 grad. They (and I) SED School of Environmental Design instagram.com/TempleUniv Temple University Alumni Group @TempleUniv // just a couple owls @ love Temple and Philadelphia. SMC School of Media and Communication the happiest place on earth Jean Ann McLane Pegula SSW School of Social Work @ir0nn_man Jessup, Pennsylvania TFM School of Theater, Film and Media Arts School of Tourism and Hospitality Management Philadelphia templeunivOwls at the Grand Canyon THM youtube.com/TempleUniversity @katie.demark TYL Tyler School of Art Philadelphia

2 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 3 CAMPUS VOICE

Crook County examines not only those who are processed through the courts, but also CHANGE AGENT those in positions of power.

What is the book really about? I committed to exposing, with data and evidence, how the system was failing both defendants and victims who happen to dis- proportionately be people of

Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14 color and the poor. I collected 104 interviews with judges, prosecutors, private attorneys and public defenders. With the assistance of 130 researchers, I clocked more than 1,000 hours of court observations in all 25 court- rooms in Cook County. I wanted this to be an unprecedented account of the criminal court system from the vantage point of all the key players— including the defendants and victims.

What was your most surprising observation? Day after day, I saw defendants’ rights being violated. Mug shots hung on the walls like con- quests, and crime scene photos were traded with a one-upman- NICOLE GONZALEZ VAN CLEVE ship that disrespected victims’ OCCUPATION: Assistant professor of criminal justice with courtesy appointments in the Department of Sociology lives. I saw a justice system that and the Beasley School of Law had lost its way. LOCATION: College of Liberal Arts You’ve become a voice in a larger dialogue about the nation’s criminal justice Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve has devoted her career to exposing racial disparities in the system. What’s next for U.S. criminal justice system. Her new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in your research? America’s Largest Criminal Court, has been compared to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for I’ve been contacted by policy- makers interested in using the doing with Chicago’s criminal courts what Sinclair’s work did for the American meatpack- book as evidence to create ing industry: laying bare a system ripe for reform. reform. To me, as a researcher, as someone who cares about Crook County is based on 10 years of research in Cook County, Chicago, inside the nation’s policy, if my book is a part of the largest criminal courthouse. In the wake of the recent trial of a Chicago Police Department dialogue about social change, that is the most I can hope for— officer whose shooting of Laquan McDonald was captured on video, Van Cleve’s commen- not to be in the ivory tower; to tary has been sought by CNN, MSNBC and NBC News, among other major media outlets. have research make a real impact on people’s lives. Van Cleve also served in the Office of the Chief of Staff in the White House during >To learn more about Crook County: the Clinton administration. Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court, visit sup.org/crookcounty.

4 TEMPLE From elevated research ratings to unprecedented faculty honors, Temple’s momentum is evident. An Owl receives an Oscar; a national survey shows alumni are thriving in all areas of their lives; and low-income Temple students graduate at rates higher than other NEWS Philadelphia universities. LOTS OF LOVE FOR NEW LIBRARY Snøhetta

Recently released renderings of Temple’s innovative new $170 million library reveal an interior designed with the user in mind.

Renderings of Temple’s innovative $170 mil- published by newsworks.org, Philadelphia Though the library isn’t scheduled to be lion library, recently released by architec- Business Journal, philly.com, phillyvoice.com, completed until late 2018, the bold design ture firm Snøhetta, have been attracting a and a wide range of architecture and design has already earned praise. A member of lot of attention. outlets across the nation. Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review The images sparking the most buzz are The library’s interior was designed with Committee called it “sophisticated poetry” those of the library’s interior, offering first the user in mind. It will include BookBot, and The Philadelphia Inquirer architecture glimpses of a three-story domed atrium with a revolutionary robotic book retrieval and critic Inga Saffron said it “promises to an oculus—a circular opening—that creates delivery system, making it possible to use transform Temple as we know it.” views to each corner of the building. less space for book storage. The area freed Snøhetta, a leader in library design, is The six images, including four never up by BookBot will be designated for class- bringing to life President Theobald’s vision shared with the public before, were rooms, meeting rooms and digital immer- of a library as the heart of campus. sive visualization studios. MEAGHAN BIXBY

SPRING 2016 5 NEWS NEWS

PRESTIGIOUS PEERS 15 institutions rose from R2 to R1 in the 2015 TOP TIER Carnegie reclassification. Fueled by dynamic research focused on • Boston College transforming lives in Philadelphia and beyond, Temple University has been • Clemson University

Joseph Labolito V. elevated to the top tier of the • Florida International University Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. • George Mason University Now placed among the top four percent of all four-year institutions in the nation, • Kansas State University Temple rose from the “high research activ- • Northeastern University ity,” or R2, category to “highest research activity,” or R1. • Syracuse University Carnegie reviews national research uni- • versities on a five-year cycle, classifying Temple University them by the productivity and scale of the • Texas Tech University research enterprise. It is a performance- based ranking using national benchmark • The University of Texas at Arlington data. Classifications are not influenced by • The University of Texas at Dallas peer input or other rankings. The university’s research expenditures • University of Mississippi have reached a record $242 million, putting it in the top 100 for research spending, • University of North Texas according to the National Science • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation. “Temple’s top-tier Carnegie classification • West Virginia University amplifies our ability to attract top faculty and more research dollars, so we can aid Temple is one of only 115 the community through our discoveries,” institutions nationwide Temple President Neil D. Theobald says. Energized by President Theobald’s classified as Doctoral commitment to research and buttressed Universities–Highest by the Board of Trustees investing $50 Research Activity. million in a technology commercializa- RISING STARS tion fund, Temple is strategically investing Temple also is one of From 2005 to 2014, nine Temple biology, also have won a National Research in its research enterprise, explains only five Pennsylvania Michele Masucci, vice president for faculty earned National Science Foundation trainee (NRT) grant. research administration. universities in Carnegie’s Foundation’s Faculty Early Hayes-Conroy and Hsieh partnered “Research is now woven into the fabric top tier and one of Career Development awards. with Sudhir Kumar, director of the Institute of Temple in a way that’s unprecedented in seven American Athletic And in the past year alone, six for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple faculty were presented to propose a study of new science edu- our history,” Masucci says. Conference schools in ASHWIN VERGHESE, SMC ’08 with the prestigious honor. The grants pro- cation methods. the top tier. vide young researchers with funding at a Michele Masucci, vice president for “Temple’s top-tier Carnegie classification time in their careers when it’s tough to com- research administration at Temple, says that pete with more seasoned investigators. the NRT grant is a new milestone for Temple. amplifies our ability to aid the community > Learn more about Temple’s research enterprise at news.temple.edu/research-rises. But this year, for the first time, two of the “We’re leading, not following, thanks to a through our discoveries.” — PRESIDENT NEIL D. THEOBALD awardees, Allison Hayes-Conroy, assistant new generation of Temple scholars who are professor of geography and urban studies, elevating Temple to new heights,” she says. and Tonia Hsieh, assistant professor of ERYN JELESIEWICZ, SMC ’89, ’05

6 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 7 NEWS NEWS

Joseph Labolito V. SHARPER IMAGE HIGH FIVE Three Temple graduates and one faculty AND THE NOMINEES ARE Temple alumni are more likely than college graduates nationally to be thriving in all five member were among an all-star lineup elements of well-being: purpose, social, financial, community and physical. That’s according of talent honored at the 47th NAACP Image ROSS GAY, CLA ’06 to a new poll from Gallup and Purdue University created to understand how college graduates Awards on Friday, Feb. 5. OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK— POETRY think about and experience their lives. North Philadelphia native and three- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Of note, the survey found that Temple grads are significantly more likely to be thriving in time Grammy Award–winning songstress (University of Pittsburgh Press) James Yuan and Javi Yuan won a contest to become the first- areas of social and community well-being. This means we enjoy engaging with our communi- ever Mandarin broadcasters of Temple men’s basketball. Jill Scott, EDU ’96, walked away with ties and working to improve them. KIM FISCHER, CLA ’92 three awards: Outstanding Female Artist, JILL SCOTT, EDU ’96 Outstanding Album, for Woman, and OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION MOVIE, MINISERIES OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL FIVE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING Outstanding Song, for “Back Together.” BATTLE OF THE With This Ring (Lifetime) Temple’s own Terell Stafford, director BROADCASTERS of Jazz Studies and chair of Instrumental OUTSTANDING FEMALE ARTIST (winner) PURPOSE Studies in the Boyer College of Music and (Atlantic Records) Liking what you do and being motivated to achieve your goals On Sunday, Jan. 31, five Temple University Dance, was nominated in the Outstanding OUTSTANDING SONG— TRADITIONAL (winner) GEARING UP international students faced off in Morgan Jazz Album category for his 2015 release “Back Together” (Atlantic Records) titled BrotherLEE Love: Celebrating Hall with one goal: to become the first SOCIAL OUTSTANDING ALBUM (winner) Lee Morgan. FOR THE DNC Mandarin-speaking broadcasters for the Having strong, supportive relationships and love in your life Woman (Atlantic Records) men’s basketball team. Each year, the NAACP Image Awards James Yuan and Javi Yuan, both Class of celebrates the accomplishments of people EGYPT SHERROD, SMC ’99 AND BEYOND 2018, emerged victorious, and began broad- FINANCIAL of color in the fields of film, literature, OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK— INSTRUCTIONAL music and TV and also honors individuals casting games in Mandarin when Temple Effectively managing your economic life to reduce stress and increase security Keep Calm...It’s Just Real Estate: When the nation turns its attention to or groups who promote social justice Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home played Tulsa on Feb. 4. The pair made their Philadelphia for the Democratic National through creative endeavors. (Running Press) debut in spectacular fashion, appearing on Convention this summer, Temple promises NAACP members voted on the winners, ESPN during Temple’s win in overtime. COMMUNITY to be at the center of the action. which were announced when the envelopes TERELL STAFFORD QUINTET (winner) Chinese students at Temple account for Enjoying, taking pride in and engaging with where you live Students from across the country will stay were opened during the two-hour OUTSTANDING JAZZ ALBUM roughly 44 percent of the international and study at Temple, the host university for TV One telecast. JAZMYN BURTON BrotherLEE Love: Celebrating Lee Morgan student population, but they don’t engage (Capri Records) The Washington Center’s Academic as often in college athletics activities as PHYSICAL Seminars program, as they work for the American students. Javi, James and the Having good health and enough energy to get things done DNC, state delegations, media outlets and university hope the Mandarin broadcasts more. That includes 10 Temple students who will bridge the gap, since basketball is enor- have received full scholarships from the uni- mously popular in China. MEAGHAN BIXBY versity to attend the program. Temple will also provide scholarships for five students to attend The Washington Center’s program at HPH BEATING THE ODDS the Republican National Convention. When it comes to the rate at which universities in Philadelphia educate and graduate students “Those lucky enough to attend a national who receive Pell Grants compared with the rest of the student body, Temple is at the top. political convention have an exciting and Nationally, recipients of the grants—which are awarded to low-income students—graduate memorable experience, and come away with HOLLYWOOD at an average rate of 5.7 percent below students in higher income brackets. At Temple, the a deeper understanding of how our democ- difference is a scant 0.5 percent. racy works,” says Joseph McLaughlin, direc- Part of the success of Temple students can be attributed to an innovative, data-based tor of Temple’s Institute for Public Affairs. HONORS program designed to address the risk factors that contribute to first-semester students’ likeli- That’s not the only way Temple is prepar- hood of dropping out. ing future political leaders. A new Master of Kudos to former student Adam McKay who won an Oscar this year with co-author Charles “Many of these students have struggled against the odds in middle school and high school,” Public Policy program, available at both the Randolph in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for The Big Short, a movie he also directed. says Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies Peter Jones. “I’ll be damned if they come Center City and Harrisburg campuses, will The film chronicles the collapse of the U.S. housing market from the perspectives of Wall Street to Temple and drop the baton on the last leg.” MEAGHAN BIXBY debut this fall. ZACH EPSTEIN players who predicted the crash. In addition to McKay’s win, The Big Short received nominations in the following four categories: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director and Best Editing. HPH KIM FISCHER, CLA ’92

8 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 9 ALUMNI NEWS

SEE YOU THERE! ALUMNI WEEKEND 2016, MAY 6–8 New this year: Commencement and Alumni Weekend will be celebrated during the same weekend. What’s in store? • Friday Welcome Party—Join alumni of all ages for a night on the town. ALUMNI NEWS • Dîner en Cherry—Dress in your cherry finest and conspire with classmates to uncover Meet the founder of Peopledelphia, make plans to celebrate Alumni Weekend and welcome the secret location of the biggest pop-up party of the year. our newest graduates. • Templedelphia—Get an Owl’s-eye view of Philadelphia at exclusive events held all THE RESULTS over the city. • Mother’s Day Brunch—Celebrate mother Owls at a special Sunday morning meal. ARE IN! To learn more about Alumni Weekend, visit alumni.temple.edu/alumniweekend. Generosity was the word of the day on MAKING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING OTHERS Feb. 15 for Temple Toast. That’s when 1,347 Owls came together and gave $142,162 to Temple’s young alumni are becoming more engaged than ever power Temple’s future. before. Here, Temple shines a spotlight on Brendan Lowry, SMC ’11, The university’s second annual 24-hour and why he loves his alma mater. giving challenge attracted more donors and raised more funds than it did in the MAJOR: BA, strategic communication, School of Media and Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14 previous year. Communication Conrad Brenner, @StreetsDeptConrad Brenner, Thanks to all who rose to the challenge and made a gift. CURRENT POSITION: marketing director at Curalate, one of Philadelphia’s fastest growing tech startups FUN FACTS: • Changed majors six times SAVE THE DATE • Attended Temple Rome MAY 6–8: ALUMNI WEEKEND 2016 ______• Founded the Instagram photo-blog Peopledelphia, which boasts 60,000 followers MAY 14: LA CHAPTER: “TASTE OF PHILLY” • Often spotted in the stands at Temple basketball games ______SEPT. 23–25: HOMECOMING 2016 ______

“The people who graduate from Temple NOV. 12: GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE ______

are the types who will change the Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14 Betsy CLA ’08 Manning, SMC ’87, For a complete listing of events for Temple alumni, visit alumni.temple.edu/events. world. I want to surround myself with ______those people.”

ON WHY HE IS AN ENGAGED ALUMNUS: “I’m in it for the ‘give and facebook.com/TempleAlumni take.’ I hope my off-the-beaten-path career inspires students to take a more nontraditional route when joining the ‘real world.’ I also twitter.com/TempleAlumni believe that the people who graduate from Temple are the types who will change the world. I want to surround myself with those people, soak up their energy and collaborate to make cool stuff.” Temple University Alumni Group Clockwise from top: During Alumni Weekend, young alumni enjoy a night on the town, don cherry-red attire to celebrate > To learn more about getting involved with other young Temple alumni, Dîner en Cherry and attend a family event at the Bell Tower. visit alumni.temple.edu/youngalumni. instagram.com/TempleAlumni

10 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 11 Curating Philadelphia Meet the steward of one of the nation’s premier archives for African American history.

STORY BY JAZMYN BURTON

iane Turner, CLA ’83, ’91, ’93, oversees the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple, which includes the Dhistory of civil rights in North Philadelphia. Walking through the glass doors on the first floor of Sullivan Hall into the Blockson is like stepping back into history. It’s a treasure trove of more than 150,000 books and artifacts documenting more than 400 years of the African and the African American experiences. In 1984, Philadelphia-based historian Charles L. Blockson became curator after he donated his private collection of journals, manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, posters, sheet music and rare ephemera to the university. He spent 22 years building on the collection and creating a space that would serve both historians and those simply interested in understanding more about African and African American heritages. To learn more, we sat down with Turner, who took over as curator when Blockson retired in 2006.

Pearl Theatre, 2047 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, c. 1950s, by John W. Mosley

12 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 13 “The community should feel like the Blockson Collection is their front door to Temple.”

—DIANE TURNER, CURATOR OF THE CHARLES L. BLOCKSON AFRO-AMERICAN COLLECTION

You get to spend every day in the one of the Armed Forces. Although they fought along- Who are the primary users of the collection? You are also the author of a children’s side a diverse set of soldiers, they faced nation’s premier centers for research on the DT: We see a wide range of folks come book called My Name Is Oney Judge, about racism and discrimination when they came African diaspora. What exactly do you do? through our doors. It’s not uncommon for a young woman who escaped a life of slav- home. The stories they shared really gave Diane Turner (DT): As curator, I am in a political science major working on an ery on George Washington’s plantation. me a new appreciation for their sacrifice. charge of preserving and building this undergraduate research paper to be seated What motivates you in your work? Instead of letting their experiences get Clockwise, from top: George Auld and Lena Horne, c. 1940s; amazing collection. People contact me at one of our tables next to a well-known DT: During my sophomore year at Temple, lost or erased, the surviving members Nat King Cole, c. 1944; Birmingham Barons, c. 1940s; and Four frequently with items they want to donate— historian. Recently, Gerald Early—professor I spent a semester in Nigeria studying the Women, Atlantic City, New Jersey, c. 1960s, by John W. Mosley decided it would be best to have their perhaps something they found tucked in the Humanities and Social Sciences revolutionary work of Afrobeat legend and stories preserved at the Blockson. They away in an attic. Department at Washington University in human rights activist Fela Kuti. I was donated hundreds of photographs, corre- A few years ago, we hosted a reunion of St. Louis, Missouri, and author of a forth- inspired by his ability to use music as a spondence and other documents to the the Philadelphia-based survivors of the coming book on Odunde, Philadelphia’s weapon against the dictatorial Nigerian gov- collection. Tuskegee Airmen, a distinguished World largest African American festival—stopped ernment of his day. I’m driven to shed light I tell people all the time that I have the War II fleet of airmen who became the first by to conduct research on his aunt Lois on stories like his. Although they were cen- best job on campus. I am exposed to some- military aviators of color to join the U.S. Fernandez, the founder of Odunde. turies apart, Kuti and Judge share the dis- GOING ON NOW thing new every day. tinction of being unafraid. Like Kuti, Judge What are some of your favorite items stood up against injustice and worked for a TEMPLE SPONSORS NUMEROUS Are any of your programs open to the public? housed here and why? better life for herself and her people. EFFORTS AIMED AT STRENGTHENING DT: It’s hard to pick just one item. Visitors DT: The community should feel like the Blockson OUR COMMUNITY. HERE ARE A FEW: will often come in and focus on paintings What other projects are you currently Collection is their front door to Temple. on the wall or artifacts in the display case involved with on campus? Overall, our programs and events are Bouvier Street Pocket Park designed with the general public in mind. not realizing that we have original source DT: I’m currently working with Molefi Last fall, students and community members material for important events in history. This summer, we will be honoring poet worked together to transform a vacant lot in Clockwise, from top: Asante, chair of the Department of and activist Professor Emerita Sonia Sanchez Self-portrait, c. 1941, Each item is as important as the other African American Studies, to develop North Philadelphia. The result is a popular during our annual Juneteenth and Josephine Baker, c. because when you look back, there’s really two courses that will focus on African new pocket park and mural on Bouvier Street, 1951, by John W. Mosley; celebration on June 17. located two blocks west of Main Campus. no separation between history and culture. American history in Philadelphia. Diane Turner, by I am especially excited about our annual Betsy Manning, Temple I try to convey that when I teach. For exam- Philadelphia played a huge role in the civil jazz appreciation concert this spring. North University Photography ple, when teaching the civil rights move- rights movement. The courses will draw Community Music Scholars Program Philadelphia was once the center of the jazz ment, I use poetry, film and even art to help from our Civil Rights in a Northern City Students from the Boyer College of Music and world. Consequently, our spring concert students understand the political and social digital archive. [Also see “Moore Power,” Dance provide high-quality jazz and classical always draws a big crowd. climate. Our collection of photos by Temple, winter 2013, pages 16–21, and visit music instruction to Philadelphia school children When Mr. Blockson brought the collection Philadelphia-born, self-taught photographer northerncity.library.temple.edu.] We part- from under-resourced neighborhoods. To learn to Temple in 1984, he chose the university more, visit . John W. Mosley shows examples of how art nered with the Special Collection Research temple.edu/boyer/community because of its focus on diversity and and history collide. Mosley had an eye for Center to preserve the materials its location in the heart of an African- capturing subtle, yet emblematic, moments in the archive, and I conducted the oral University Community Collaborative (UCC) American community. So, although the of black life in and around Philadelphia. One histories housed in it of the Cecil B. Moore Housed in the College of Liberal Arts, UCC center itself was placed at the center of of his most popular images depicts civil Freedom Fighters, who were teenagers offers leadership development, community campus, this 3,000-square-foot collection rights leader Julian Bond, as a young man, during the fight to desegregate nearby outreach and project-based learning opportu- isn’t just for academics. ■ with Paul Robeson. Girard College in the ’50s. nities to Philadelphia high school, community college and university students. To learn more, To get a closer look at images in this story, visit uccollab.org. visit news.temple.edu/turner.

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A new student-run co-op brings sustainable food options to campus.

STORY BY KIM FISCHER, CLA ’92 PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN S. BRANDENBERG, CLA ’14 ILLUSTRATIONS BY ROBERT FRAWLEY

16 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 17 —CHRISTINA ROSAN, Left to right: ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES, The menu includes direct and fair trade items to ensure COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS that the workers producing them earn a living wage. The café’s fresh, nutritious offerings are made daily from mostly locally sourced ingredients.

top by Ritter Annex at noon on any assignment that spring semester was to awesome students, terrific faculty and UP AND RUNNING Coffee and Neuron Nectars, respectively. weekday and you’ll find students eagerly develop a project that would improve sus- administrators who guided the students Or that the slice of vegan apple cake you’re scooping up house-made sweet potato tainability on campus. The students’ along the way—and Grady, who served as an What emerged that spring was a structure about to devour was made at alumni-owned hummus with freshly cut carrots or dig- “client” was Kathleen Grady, director of advocate and kept things moving forward.” and a set of guiding principles for a unique Wildflour Bakery. ging into a salad of locally grown butter- Temple’s Office of Sustainability. Grady loved the idea the class came campus café. It boasts a democratic, mem- You also might be pleasantly surprised head lettuce and shredded beets. “We all hated chain restaurants and loved up with, so she kept it alive and let it ger- ber-controlled governing body. It sells food to learn that the young man with black hair The scene is the culmination of the vision, gardening,” Beasley remembers. “And we minate in the minds of students who made from fruits and vegetables that are peeking from beneath his wool cap who is determination and years of hard work by just started spitballing ideas.” passed through her office. In 2013 it began either locally and seasonally available or preparing your meal to background notes Temple students. Rad Dish Co-op café—a One of those spitballs stuck. Five to take root. organically grown. Equally important is that of “Simple Song” by The Shins, first up on completely student-run, cooperative café years later, it has evolved into a full- “It’s a great opportunity for students to the produce used in the café’s recipes comes Spotify’s Rad Songs Punk playlist, also has and the only one of its kind in the region on fledged business. learn leadership and entrepreneurship,” from farms where workers are treated fairly voted on the policies that make your access a university campus—offers budget-friendly, says Grady, who serves as the café’s advisor. and given a living wage. The café also sup- to Smiles possible. local, organic vegan and vegetarian food. THE INCUBATION PERIOD “And it’s a great way to promote engagement ports composting of pre-consumer waste: From the beginning, Rad Dish has been “We were just a bunch of crunchy kids, with sustainability issues on campus.” Five gallons per week is diverted to the com- run with a cooperative governance structure sitting around complaining that there were “Not every crazy idea becomes reality, but The impact is evident on students like posting bin and Temple Community Garden. to ensure all members have equal say in how no places to go on campus for good coffee or this one worked,” says Christina Rosan, Lauren Troop, Class of 2016, who switched And it employs a zero-waste policy, which the café is operated. vegetarian and vegan options,” says Tabitha assistant professor of geography and urban her major to entrepreneurship after working means that a business goal each day is to sell Clearly, the co-op concept itself is not Student workers participate in all facets of the café’s Beasley, CLA ’11, recalling her 2011 senior studies in the College of Liberal Arts and to launch Rad Dish. A founding member, out of perishable products by closing time. new; it’s been around since the ’70s. But the operation during their weekly shifts. seminar in environmental studies. The class instructor of that 2011 seminar. “It took Troop got involved after hearing about the Jim Creedon, senior vice president for movement has been attracting renewed idea for it as she was walking out of a class in construction, facilities and operations, was interest, particularly since the launch in environmental studies one day. intrigued and eager to see if the students 2010 of the Cooperative Food Empowerment “A group of us started meeting in each could pull it off from a business perspective. Directive, a nonprofit that helps students others’ houses to cook dinner together and He helped them secure a space in Ritter across the country get food cooperatives talk about what was important to us and Annex that the university’s food service ven- going. Troop, along with accounting major what might be possible for the café,” she dor was vacating. Trevor Southworth and communication says. ”As close as we are to Pennsylvania, “The café is still in its infancy, but it’s studies major Rhiannon Wright, both Class Delaware and New Jersey farms, it didn’t exciting to see the students on their way,” of 2017, attended the directive’s 10-day make sense to us that we had to eat food that says Creedon, who serves on Rad Dish’s learning institute last summer. has been shipped across the country.” Board of Advisors. “Being a co-op has been helpful and posi- Eight of those students participated in a With the space secured and $30,000 in tive because the responsibility for the café is three-credit, independent study with seed funding from the Office of Sustainability, shared, and everyone is so passionate and Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban the co-op launched in spring 2015. gets to provide input,” Troop says. “But it Studies Allison Hayes-Conroy during the also means things move slowly. It takes a spring 2014 semester to nail down the WE THE PEOPLE long time to make a decision when a lot of details for getting started. people are involved.” “I was encouraged by the way classroom When you order a cup of freshly roasted, Members are those who have paid a one- conversations about food inequities could freshly brewed coffee or a bottle of Smiles, a time $25 fee (equity members), volunteer spill out into the hallways and later emerge fruit drink promising to stabilize mood and 10 hours a week at the café (sweat equity in a business model,” says Hayes-Conroy. blood sugar levels in the brain, you might members) or work there (employee mem- “The students really were exploring how to not realize that it comes from a local, bers). Currently the café is run by roughly [execute] food acquisition and distribution alumni-owned business: Green Street 100 members, the majority of whom are differently,” she says.

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—LAUREN TROOP, CLASS OF 2016

equity members who represent a wide After graduating with a degree in sculp- the head of the Rad Dish finance committee. range of majors. ture, Cornuet hopes to open her own café “But it has also become a space for a lot of Employee member Sidney Buckingham, one day: She is currently completing a mas- different students to come together and Class of 2018, got involved after spending ter’s in innovation management and entre- work on something that excites them.” her first year at Temple living in a residence preneurship in the Fox School of Business. And as a part of the goal of developing hall. “Trying to eat vegan in the dining halls “I am learning a lot about inventory mainte- sustainable practices and promoting conver- just wasn’t working for me,” the landscape nance, and my communication and people sations around issues of social justice, Rad architecture major explains. skills have improved a lot since being a part Dish also extends into the community to of Rad Dish,” she says. develop collaborative events, such as a DOLLARS AND SENSE health and wellness fair for low-income A SOCIAL NETWORK families held at nearby Beckett Life Center. At $500 in sales daily, the café isn’t putting Southworth explains: “We are continuing, the dining halls or campus food trucks out Building a sense of community on campus as we always have, to establish connections of business. Though it is currently operating is another one of the café’s goals. Monthly with North Philadelphia neighborhoods, at a slight loss, it is on track with a six-year open mic nights featuring musicians, poets reaching out when we can to community financial plan to be operating in the black in and other artists typically draw around kitchens, homeless shelters and churches, a year or two. But there’s no doubt that 100 students. and trying to see where Rad Dish can fit sticking to its sourcing policy can be an “Rad Dish has obviously piqued the inter- in there.” ■ obstacle to profitability. est of vegetarians and vegans through the “We consciously choose to use sources food we serve, giving options to them and Learn more about Rad Dish at that respect the supply chain, so we are anybody else who is conscious about where news.temple.edu/rad-dish. paying full price for our ingredients, and their food comes from,” says Southworth, making our products affordable is challenging,” Troop says. It’s those challenges that When Peter Usilton, Class of 2016, first heard about Rad Dish Co-op café from friends, he says his ears make this a valuable academic exercise, perked up: “I immediately started going to meetings and giving my input.” Grady says. The environmental studies major applied the skills he learned at Rad Dish to opening his own business. “For example, in the beginning the In 2015, he co-founded 2 Dirty Dudes, an urban farm in the Olney section of Philadelphia, to provide educa- students based their pricing on what they tional opportunities for nearby residents and year-round microgreens to area restaurants. Clients are thought their customers would be willing to Talula’s Garden in Washington Square and Bridgid’s in Fairmount. pay,” Grady says. “They’ve since figured out “Rad Dish opened up doors for me,” Usilton says. “Despite not being a Fox [School of Business] student, that ingredients and staffing costs must I learned how to calculate a breakeven [analysis] and ROI [return on investment], write a mission statement factor into their pricing.” and develop a business plan.” As café manager, Emily Cornuet, TYL ’15, handles Rad Dish’s daily operations and Working on the sourcing committee exposed Usilton to the challenges of getting local produce when it may catastrophes. “If we run out of chickpeas— not be in season and inspired him to address that problem. the main ingredient in many of our menu His latest venture is the development of a new type of hydroponics tower and an app that will make options—coming up with a replacement growing plants easier for both novices and experts. quickly to maintain sales is key,” she explains. “Our startup is getting a lot of attention and interest from investors,” he says. “Without something like Rad “When that happened last semester, we Dish, it never would have happened.” used black beans and sold a black bean hummus instead.” All dishes are vegetarian, with vegan, gluten-free and dairy-substitute options as well.

20 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 21 They’re mothers with full-time jobs Orchestra or the Diamond Marching Band, looking for a musical outlet, retirees but you’d be wrong. reconnecting with their instruments Though a majority of this band is made up of students who are usually non-music and high school students seizing majors, a significant number of participants an opportunity to play with more are not college-aged at all. experienced musicians. “Sound is the string that tethers this com- They call themselves the Night Owls munity together,” says Deborah Confredo, a professor of music education in the Boyer and they are here to play. College of Music and Dance, and Night Owls’ founder and conductor. “If you want to play, STRIKE UP he first thing you hear are the flutes, you’re welcome to join. It doesn’t matter if followed by a cacophony of clarinets, you haven’t touched an instrument since T trombones, piccolos and then the grade school or you’re just learning the crash of a timpani drum. It’s Monday night basics. Night Owls is open to everyone.” in Presser Hall and more than 90 musicians are crowded into a rehearsal space, warm- ing up before practice begins. You might assume you’re hearing stu- THE BAND dents from the Temple University Symphony A community bonds through love of music.

STORY BY JAZMYN BURTON PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN S. BRANDENBERG, CLA ’14

22 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 23 from her home in Media, Pennsylvania, before heading north to Temple. At the end of the evening, they would get “Sound is the string that tethers this their brother from Center City and travel community together.” back west to Sharon Hill for dinner with their parents. —DEBORAH CONFREDO, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC EDUCATION When their brother died suddenly in 2014, maintaining their ritual was difficult but necessary. “We have a lot of history with these instruments,” Pamela says. “My parents had a six-alarm fire a few years back. My brother found the flutes. They were some of the few Diamond Marching Band, and that’s where Flutist Walter Johnson (front row, left), FOX ’57, one of the oldest Night Owls, has been a member since the group started in 2012. things to survive the fire.” she found a sense of belonging. Priscilla still gets a little nostalgic about Joining the Night Owls gave Ayler an her brother when the band plays holiday opportunity to reconnect to a community Confredo assured them it wasn’t perfec- JUST PLAY music, but she finds respite in the chance to of musicians. tion she was looking for, but rather an hon- sit with Pamela for a few hours each week. The two hours she spends with her band- est interest in participating in a community It’s time to officially start rehearsal. “It’s nice to have a little creative time with mates every Monday helps her decompress of musicians and the ability to read a little Confredo takes the conductor’s spot in my sister,” says Priscilla, who works full from the demands of her day job. “It’s nice sheet music. the center of the hall and cues the music. time as a physical therapy assistant. to come here, use my brain in a different Their time together quickly became part Petite in stature with a booming voice, “Spending Mondays rehearsing is the best way, play my horn and practice some self- of their Monday night ritual. Pamela, senior Confredo leads the band into Led Zeppelin way for me to begin my week.” care,” says Ayler, a child advocate and administrator at JPMorgan Chase and a on Tour, and the entire room fills with the Laurie Ayler, CLA ’00, SSW ’02, was drawn social worker. Delaware resident, would pick up her sister raucous sound of heavy metal arranged for to the trumpet in seventh grade. When she a full band. started college at Temple, she joined the COMMUNITY BUILDING Pamela Fortune, SMC ’96, and her sister Night Owl Segev Yarden, Class of 2017, comes from a family of trombonists. His brother, Dotan, and father, Josh, also are Priscilla Fortune-Bell sit together in the flute The ability for music to have a therapeutic band members. section. Pamela leans over to whisper some- effect on both musicians and concertgoers thing in her sibling’s ear. They giggle for a has been well-documented. But music also instrument. In Italy, many folks learn as community band; you should try it and moment, and then it’s back to work. has the power to really cement a commu- young children while seated next to an adult learn another flavor of music,’” says The sisters grew up learning to play their nity, says Confredo. in the town bands,” says Confredo. Sheppard. “I’m glad I did. I’ve met a lot of flutes side by side, practicing after school Confredo stumbled upon the idea for John El, a 15-year-old music major at the interesting people. It’s definitely made me and on weekends and competing with each Night Owls while studying company and Kensington High School for the Performing a better player.” other to see who could master their latest community bands in Japan and town bands Arts, was recruited into the Night Owls band Walter Johnson, FOX ’57, is one of the old- sheet music first. When they entered high in Italy, where they are common and popu- by flutist John Young. est Night Owls. school, they both put their flutes down to lar—some have been around since the 19th “I’ve been exposed to a lot of different “I played with the alumni band during pursue other musical interests. For Pamela century. She learned that community bands types of music—jazz, rock, classical,” says football games,” says the 80-year-old flutist it was the trombone, and Priscilla, two give all who participate the feeling of being El, who joined the band when he was 13. who hails from West Philadelphia. “When I years younger, took to the strings and played part of something bigger than themselves. “I get a lot of support from the older heard they were starting this band and there the cello. “In the U.S., the schools are usually the musicians here.” were no auditions for it, I figured I could It was Pamela’s idea to join the Night place where students first learn to play an Young also recruited trumpet player Jim play. This is the first time I’ve played with a Owls. She eventually coaxed her sister into Sheppard who travels from Burlington large band in 50 years.” joining her. Township, New Jersey, to Temple after full He credits Confredo with giving him the “It had been a long time since we played workdays as an aviation safety inspector at chance to return to doing something he our instruments,” Priscilla says. “I told Philadelphia International Airport. loves. “I don’t worry about trying to keep her, if there’s an audition, we could forget Occasionally, the two practice together. up with the younger folks,” says Johnson. about it.” “I was playing at the Philadelphia Clef “I’m here to have fun. And I do.” ■ Club with a local jazz band, and a guy came backstage and said, ‘Hey, I play with this For sisters Priscilla Fortune-Bell (left) and Pamela Fortune, SMC ’96, rehearsing with the band brings back memories of their childhood.

24 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 25 KEEP ON

FIVE ALUMNI DRIVET THE PHILLYrucki FOOD TRUCK SCENE. n STORY BY EMILY KOVACH ‘ EQUIVENE DOLORER EPUDANIS QUIA VELIT ET UTASP

Formerly just a Midwestern delicacy, cheese curds—in all their battered and fried goodness—are now available to snack on in Philadelphia.

A s you approach Flavor Blaster One—a unexpected trip down New Memory Lane,” As many Temple students and alumni THE COW AND THE CURD In 1990, Mitchell came to Temple on a custom-built, multimedia tricycle—warped explains Angevine. know from their ubiquity on campus, food football scholarship. After a 16-year teaching ice cream truck music floats from small The element of surprise and delight, trucks don’t only refer to carts hawking egg When Rob Mitchell, EDU ’95, ’96, talks about career, he longed for change when inspira- mounted speakers and colorful lights sparkle. combined with a growing foodie culture, sandwiches and hot dogs on street corners. his mobile gourmet cheese curd operation, tion struck as he helped out at a friend’s con- A smiling attendant points to today’s flavors. has catapulted food trucks from cult status These days, repurposed box trucks, vintage his eyes light up. “The truck is a dream,” he cession stand at an air show. “It was the Balsamic banana? Earl Grey sriracha? This is to national mainstream craze. There are campers and even cargo tricycles dish up says. “You pull up, open the window, turn absence of a ceiling, no boss, my destiny in not your average ice cream experience. currently 113 food trucks registered with interesting, epicurean fare you might expect on your propane and go.” His passion for his my own hands,” he says. “I was instantly bit- That’s exactly what Pete Angevine, the Philadelphia Mobile Food Association, at a cute brunch joint, a hip gastropub or truck is matched only by his expertise in ten by the entrepreneurial spirit.” CLA ’10, envisioned when he conceived vending everything from authentic arepas even a high-end restaurant. food truck–related regulations, safety proce- Mitchell and his wife, Laura Windham, of an ice cream trike to launch Little to dressed-up Tater Tots. Over the past five And running a food truck is a popular, dures and business practices. As a board started Stella Jeanne’s, a small concession Baby’s Ice Cream, a business he and two years, food truck street fairs and competi- modern-day entrepreneurial endeavor member of the New Jersey and National company. They saw some success but soon friends founded in 2011. “I wanted it to be tions have popped up across Greater with plenty of perks, like low overhead, Food Truck associations and as president of realized their menu needed something an immersive zone, where you step into Philadelphia, attracting thousands freedom of mobility and direct engagement Philadelphia’s chapter, Mitchell is a leader in unique. Windham, a native Midwesterner, Little Baby land and it’s like an of attendees. with customers. the local food truck community. suggested cheese curds: cheese in its young- Here’s how five Owls are cooking their est form, battered, fried and served with

Photo credits: Joseph Labolito V. (kettle), Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14 way through Philadelphia.

26 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 27 “We like the flexibility and seasonality of the food truck.” — FLORENCE “FLO” GARDNER, BYR ’99

sauces. Despite friends’ doubts that leap. A waffle concept was something Philadelphians would take kindly to cheese Philadelphia was missing, they thought. curds, the couple had faith. “We knew our In 2012, they formed Frolic Waffles, but demographic: They’re risk takers with soon after they received a cease-and-desist adventurous palates,” Mitchell says. notice from a company of the same name in The Cow and the Curd debuted in early Ithaca, New York, and renamed themselves 2013 in a used Chevrolet P30 truck dubbed Foolish Waffles. “It actually embodies who “Cow 1,” and business began to grow: In we are better than ‘Frolic’ does,” Gardner 2015, the company sold over 40,000 pounds says. “It nods to us being naïve.” of cheese curds (up from 8,000 in 2013). It While conducting an arduous search for also received multiple awards, were high- the perfect truck (they went through three lighted on NBC’s 1st Look and the Food before finding the right one), they developed Network’s The Best Thing I Ever Ate. recipes, ordered equipment from Belgium, Mitchell launched a second truck in 2014 and recruited friends to try their sweet and and began selling to local bars and restau- savory yeasted waffles. rants. He’s also designing a larger wholesale In April 2014, Gardner and Admana distribution operation. Another sign of suc- opened Foolish Waffles for business outside cess: It’s rarer now that locals ask him what 30th Street Station. That summer they won a cheese curds are, or mistake them for moz- Best of Philly nod from Philadelphia maga- zarella sticks. “Our mission was to permeate zine for their pork belly banh mi waffle. And the culinary lexicon of people here,” in 2015, they received two Vendy awards Mitchell says. “I don’t think it’s a stretch to and were named one of the 101 best food say we created the cheese curd market on trucks in the country by the popular food the East Coast.” website The Daily Meal. Currently, the pair parks at the weekly FOOLISH WAFFLES Chestnut Hill farmers market and at Love Park twice a month. They cater private par- Flo Gardner, of Foolish Waffles, prepares her sweet and savory treats While studying music education at Temple, ties and work events like food truck festivals at the Chestnut Hill farmers market. Florence “Flo” Gardner, BYR ’99, worked in and concerts at the Mann Music Center in restaurants to support herself. “I’ve always Fairmount Park. Gardner prefers this model had a deep passion for food,” she says. She to the commitment of a permanent spot. shared this passion with her friend Robin “We like the flexibility and seasonality of the Admana, a culinary school graduate who food truck,” she says. “We choose when and worked in law. where it goes.” Together they dreamed of doing some- The duo behind Cloud Coffee aims to caffeinate thing food-related, and in 2011, they took the Photo credits: Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14; plates: Joseph V. Labolito the city while supporting artistic growth.

28 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 29 “Everyone’s got a crush on food trucks.” — ROB MITCHELL, EDU ’95, ’96

CLOUD COFFEE LITTLE BABY’S ICE CREAM

Matt Craig, TYL ’12, and Kristen Mills, Before Pete Angevine co-founded Little TYL ’12, met while pursuing MFAs in paint- Baby’s Ice Cream, he spent lots of time tour- ing. During long studio hours, they commis- ing the country, playing drums in art rock erated about the lack of good coffee on bands. Informed by a do-it-yourself ethic, campus and joked about opening a coffee his bands booked their own shows, drove truck together. “We thought it would be a their own vans, and lugged their own gear way for us to work for ourselves, make art in and out of venues. This spirit influenced and teach,” Mills says. the infancy of Little Baby’s, which took to After graduation, things got serious: That the streets in May of 2011 in a custom-built summer the duo started Cloud Coffee as an cargo tricycle. A trike, they reasoned, would LLC and organized a Kickstarter campaign be cheaper than a storefront or even a truck to raise funds. They purchased a retrofitted and would provide maximum mobility. trailer in Washington state, flew to pick it up “Almost the entirety of the business plan and drove back across the country. “There was to show up at the First Unitarian Church were some breakdowns, emotionally and after shows and sell funny flavors of ice mechanically,” says Mills. cream to people with tattoos and weird hair- In January 2013, they set up shop right cuts,” Angevine says. “But we immediately outside of the Tyler School of Art. Cloud realized that there was a much bigger audi- Daniel Tang presents his assortment of decadent, high-end desserts streetside, from the window of Sugar Philly. Coffee attracted fans who appreciated their ence than that.” offerings: local coffee and pastries, and spe- That theory proved true, and Little Baby’s cialty drinks made on a La Marzocco spent its first few years hauling the trikes Little Baby’s Ice Cream blends a bit of How new wave ice cream and his educa- move to Manhattan, find a job and begin his concept: French macarons, the sweet and whimsy with its frozen delights. espresso machine. Since then, they’ve (they had three more built: Flavor Blasters tion are related might not be immediately life. But that’s not how it worked out. colorful sandwich cookies. They put a few added two vans to their fleet for catering Red, Gold and Black) all over town. clear, but Angevine makes a connection: He In early 2010, Tang’s friend John Suh flavors on their menu and, Tang says, “We and storage. “Concerts, block parties, roller derbies, began at Temple in 2002, studying jazz per- approached him with a proposal: a dessert- just took off.” The pair juggles the demands of their showers and weddings, book readings—we formance, and graduated in 2010 with a themed food truck with Tang as the execu- Over the past six years, Sugar Philly has business while still teaching at Tyler and were everywhere,” Angevine says. degree in geography and urban studies. The tive chef. become renowned for its authentic, cre- creating their own artwork: Craig paints, In 2012, Little Baby’s went bricks and mor- variety of those experiences affected him on Cooking and baking were hobbies Tang atively flavored macarons in a rainbow of and Miller makes performance and video- tar, with a headquarters on Frankford Avenue an intrinsic level. “They informed my per- had always enjoyed. And the idea of working hues. Some are classic (chocolate hazelnut), based pieces. They also engage with the art in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood. A ; Little Baby’s: Zia Hiltey spective and gave me an insight into a way at a straight-up, no-frills food truck while others veer into unexpected territory community through their annual art compe- second shop in West Philadelphia followed in that cities and places work, and how I want appealed to him. (fruit loop). And Tang has found his niche. tition, the Cloud Prize. 2014. Its outlandish flavors have gained such to be in the world,” he explains. After a shaky trial run, Tang was dishing The walk-up nature of food trucks allows “Grad school gets you to think innova- popularity that the company began wholesal- up classic desserts like panna cotta and Tang to liberate high-end confections from tively about how to do things in the world,” ing regionally this year. The trikes are still SUGAR PHILLY crème brûlée to customers in West traditional, white tableclothed fine dining Miller says, “and it gave us this ‘we can fig- available for catering and marketing Philadelphia at 38th and Walnut streets. establishments. And this squares up with his ure this out no matter what’ mentality.” opportunities. After graduating with a degree in political While brainstorming more portable dessert culinary values: “One thing I believe in as a science, Daniel Tang, CLA ’08, had a plan to offerings, Suh and Tang arrived on a novel chef is that food should be democratic.” ■ Photo credits: Ryan S. Brandenberg, CLA ’14

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STORY: ANGELO FICHERA, SMC ’13 ILLUSTRATIONS: MARIO ZUCCA PHOTOGRAPHY: JOSEPH V. LABOLITO

TWO TEMPLE RESEARCHERS LEAD ogic, if not experience, might suggest that excessive eating doesn’t bode well for your A STUDY UNEARTHING JUST HOW body. But what are the implications of just a few days of overconsumption; a brief period of decreased inhibition and increased food intake; a holiday-weekend binge? QUICKLY OVEREATING CAN RESULT L IN SIGNS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES. Two Temple researchers endeavored to find out, enlisting the help of six willing, healthy (and presumably hungry) adult men. And in a world of scientific technicalities and complexi- ties, the participants’ simple task—to eat 6,000 calories per day for one week and refrain from physical activity—yielded groundbreaking results. “We decided to pursue the burning question: What leads to diabetes?” Salim Merali, a School of Pharmacy professor and director of the Proteomics Research Facility, tells me. “By Day 3, these subjects were insulin-resistant—which was shocking to us. We didn’t expect to see that level of response.” The findings by Merali and the late Guenther Boden, professor of medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, were published in September in the journal Science Translational Medicine. They indicated that insulin resistance—a precursor to Type 2 diabetes—could be observed in healthy individuals after only a few days of intense overeating, a previously unestablished connection that drew international attention. Though Merali and Boden’s findings promise to inform further research, they may also hold more immediate social implications. One recent study estimated half of adults in the U.S. have prediabetes or diabetes, and as Merali pointed out, “people are fascinated with diets and eating.” The ramifications unearthed by their work underscore just how rapidly a poor diet can wreak havoc.

32 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 33 “When I tell people I gave them 6,000 calories, they say, ‘Wow, that is so not natural.’ [In reality,] it’s very achievable to a lot of people.” –SALIM MERALI, PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, MOULDER CENTER FOR DRUG DISCOVERY RESEARCH

CALORIE COUNTING After I spoke with Merali, I decided to stop “Obesity is becoming an epidemic world- into a popular Mexican-inspired chain res- wide,” Merali says. “How can we stop it The news headlines that followed the study’s taurant in pursuit of what I believed would from occurring? Can we use specific drugs release in the fall, from New York to have to be an outrageous meal that would that will allow for insulin resistance to Australia, noted the mesmerizing, if not set me on the path to the researchers’ stop? Can we find biomarkers—signature macabre, detail: 6,000 calories. outrageous diet. Make no mistake: Though molecules—that will allow us to diagnose The participants ranged in age from 46 to I set out to overeat in the name of unscien- this insulin resistance, so we can tell 55 years old and were lean, with no family tific science, I did not go allSupersize Me. people, ‘You have a good chance of becom- history of diabetes. Generally, an average, I didn’t have to. ing diabetic’?” moderately active 50-year-old man needs All I needed was a fairly basic lunch In terms of treatment, antioxidants could some 2,400 calories daily, according to the order: a steak burrito with the works— be one answer. federal Center for Nutrition Policy and rice, black beans, corn, salsa, cheese, sour “If oxidants are the ones that are causing Promotion, and a moderately active 50- cream, lettuce, guacamole—and a side of the damage to the proteins, especially year-old woman, about 2,000 calories. the delicious, and apparently dangerous, involved in insulin resistance, then remov- “When I tell people I gave them 6,000 cal- chips and guacamole. ing these oxidants by using antioxidants ories, they say, ‘Wow, that is so not natural,’” For $14.43, I got 2,150 calories. Read: For would be an approach for therapeutic Merali says. In reality, “it’s very achievable $14.43, I got nearly the suggested daily intake purposes,” says Merali, who is also part to a lot of people.” for an adult male. of Temple’s Moulder Center for Drug In fact, the researchers served readily Two more similar meals and I’d no doubt Discovery Research. available cafeteria food to the patients: be on my way to caloric calamity; with habit- Merali plans to build upon the research Pizza, bacon and muffins were a few of their ual eating in that fashion, a possible diabetes using the 6,000-calorie diet by introducing picks, Merali says. The participants’ meals diagnosis. And I didn’t even need a soda. new elements: What happens when the consisted of what’s been deemed a common patients return to normal eating? When American diet: 50 percent carbs, 35 percent APPETITE FOR ANSWERS exercise is thrown into the mix? fat, 15 percent protein. Patients generally ate But for now, Merali recommends an old a 1,500-calorie meal plus a snack of about To Merali, who has also worked with HIV two had collaborated on such work follow- Merali explains that overconsumption of adage: Watch what you eat. 500 calories three times a day. and cancer research, the study represents ing Merali’s arrival at Temple in 2005. food “damages the body through production “We overeat because of food abundance,” Common sense told me—a self-identifying the beginning of continued exploration. “What people had done previously is of oxygen byproducts, attacking protein that he says, noting that consumers need to bet- foodie with little grasp of my daily caloric Originally from Tanzania, Merali grew up look at patients who were obese or who had allows glucose to be taken up.” In essence, ter track their food intake. “To me, it’s a intake—that these numbers were rather in a village dreaming to one day “make a diabetes and said, what are the molecular that impaired glucose transport function matter of education.” large. Still, I had trouble picturing the difference,” he says. events that occur in those conditions?” leads to high blood sugar, which results in With a dinner out—some appetizers, soda amount, despite my best attempts to imag- “Research was the way I could see myself Merali says. “For us, it was way too late in insulin resistance and sets the stage for and dessert to bookend the entree—people ine the calories in neat stacks of pizza pies helping a lot of people at one time,” Merali the process. We wanted to understand, Type 2 diabetes. can “easily” approach the caloric intakes or mounds of rocky road ice cream. says. And obesity was a condition that what is actually the initial mechanism that The identification of the presence of associated with his study’s enormous diet, What does such a disastrous diet look like, “needed immediate attention.” triggers insulin resistance?” oxidative stress could be key in helping he says. I wondered. How does it taste? Merali credits Boden, a longtime clinical To that end, the experts identified a to ascertain conditions that may point to And sometimes it fits into a single Salim Merali It turns out that it’s pretty familiar. And endocrinologist, with helping to introduce marker known as oxidative stress that they eventual diabetes. brown bag. ■ might be wrapped in a tortilla. him to obesity and diabetes research. The believe preceded the insulin resistance.

34 TEMPLE SPRING 2016 35 CLASSOwls are making countless contributions. In this issue,NOTES a scientist activates the biofuel potential of plants; a songwriter excels in an array of genres; and a comic book lover opens a coffeehouse.

1950s and chairman of the Music 1960s Suspense Publishing; it is the Department from 1995 to 2010. fifth in his Danforth Saga. His RONALD H. SHERR, FOX ’51, LAW ’56 HONORA LEVIN, EDU ’61 TEMPLE: ON From 1985 to 2010, he served books have been ranked in the has been a trial lawyer for as conductor of the NJCU published The Friction Within: Amazon Top 100 in the crime 60 years and is a fellow of the Orchestra and the NJCU Opera. How the Political Divide in and espionage categories and American College of Trial He also is retired from the America Affects Personal have won best mystery/thriller THE UP AND UP Lawyers. He is proud to Paper Mill Playhouse as its Relationships with CreateSpace. awards from a variety of organi- announce that his grand- concertmaster from 1985 to The book explores how 28 zations, including the Military daughter Stefanie Sherr has 2014. Raditz is on the executive Americans from across the Writers Society of America. been admitted to the Beasley board of the North New Jersey political spectrum respond Our faculty produce life-changing research. School of Law at Temple. Musicians Guild, Local 16-248. when interacting with those SAMUEL STRAUSS, CST ’67 who are their polar opposites. retired from the NASA Johnson BERT ARNOLD, CPH ’52 CHRISTOPHER FAHY, CLA ’59 Our students innovate inside and outside the classroom. Space Center. He was a flight JILL BANKS BARAD, CLA ’62 published Somewhere Out There: married Davene Fahy, CLA ’59, surgeon who supported astro- A Memoir with virtualbook in 1960 and later moved to was appointed to the Los naut spacewalk training and Our campuses are electric 24/7. worm.com Publishing. The Maine, after they both worked Angeles Department of Water operational zero-gravity book chronicles the 15 years she for several years in Philadelphia- and Power by Los Angeles research and training flights. In And around the world, Owls are soaring. spent in an orphanage during area clinics and schools. He Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2013. addition, he was appointed asso- the Great Depression and WWII. became a full-time writer, pub- That department is the nation’s ciate professor of medicine at lishing novels, short stories, largest municipal utility. Barad Texas A&M College of Medicine TED HALLMAN, TYL ’56 nonfiction and poetry. One of also owns Jill Barad & Associates, and is teaching a senior elective his books, Home Remedies, tells a political consulting, public in aerospace medicine. was honored as one of 14 the story of the homes he and relations and government American Craft Council fellows his wife renovated in affairs firm. DEBORAH GROSS-ZUCHMAN, CLA ’68 during CraftNOW Philadelphia Philadelphia and Maine. in November. Fourteen of his is exhibiting posters created FRANCIS M. MULLIGAN, CLA ’65, seminal pieces are being shown by her and her husband, Philip, DAVENE SERNOFF FAHY, CLA ’59 LAW ’68 in the two-person installation in the traveling show All of Us At the Center: Master of married Christopher Fahy, published Spanish Market, a or None: Responses & Resistance American Craft, with potter CLA ’59, in 1960 and later novel about the Mafia and the to Militarism. It is sponsored by Robert Winokur, TYL ’56, at moved to Maine, after they Cuban conflict that played out the American Friends Service the Philadelphia Museum of both worked for several years over three weeks in 1980, with Committee and was staged in Art through July 31, 2016. in Philadelphia-area clinics Amazon Digital Services. the fall at Swarthmore College and schools. She became a in Pennsylvania and New EDWARD RADITZ, BOY ’57 director of special education JOSEPH BADAL, FOX ’66 Hampshire Institute of Art in for several public school dis- Manchester. Several of the Be a part of our progress. retired from New Jersey City published his ninth suspense tricts. Fahy is retired and now couple’s pieces also have been University in 2010 after 46 novel, Death Ship, with writes children’s books. Give today at giving.temple.edu. years as professor of music EMAIL YOUR NEWS TO [email protected].

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CLASS OF 1986 Additionally, Blumberg teaches MARY E. WILLIAMS, SMC ’88 was appointed by the PBA’s LAURIE GRIFFIN FRAYNE, FOX ’91 clarinet in his studio in chancellor to serve as the associ- wrote A Series of Catastrophes will lead a new team dedicated Broomall, Pennsylvania. ation’s 2016 membership chair. and Miracles about her experi- to data strategy and governance ence as one of the first patients at Everest National Insurance Joseph Labolito V. RACHEL PRATT, TFM ’86 CHRISTIAN SONDERGAARD, CLA ’90, in a groundbreaking cancer Co., which strives to produce LAW ’94 was named senior vice president, clinical trial and her friendship industry-leading underwriting. youth and community services, with her roommate at Temple. joined Health Partners Plans of the New York Road Runners. It will be published by National and was named director of BERLINDA GARNETT, SMC ’91 Geographic in 2016. Williams is investigations and subrogation. was named the Philadelphia MARC AROT, SED ’87, FOX ’90 a senior staff writer for award- Formerly a senior deputy attor- Association of Black Journalist’s winning Salon.com. ney general at the Pennsylvania is project manager at 2015 Broadcast Journalist of Office of Attorney General, he MetalWërks USA in Kennett the Year. An Emmy Award- KEVIN J. MCNAMARA, SMC ’89, was the lead prosecutor in one Square, Pennsylvania, and winning producer for FOX 29 CLA ’95 of Pennsylvania’s largest serves on the East Nottingham News, Garnett was honored Medicaid fraud cases. The grand Township Planning recently published Dreams of for her distinguished body of jury investigation into fraudu- Commission. He traveled to a Great Small Nation with news, investigative and special lent billing by a home health- watch the Owls play in the Public Affairs. Many of the project stories. care provider resulted in Boca Raton Bowl in Florida in events in this tale involving indictments of both the com- December. His experience at World War I and the Russian CAROL MARTSOLF, ENG ’92 pany and several high-ranking WRFT, Temple Ambler’s cam- Revolution take place in officials and culminated in the has been promoted to director pus radio station, resulted in Philadelphia. McNamara, an recovery of $6.1 million for of training at Urban Engineers. him forming Don McAvoy and associate scholar at the Foreign Pennsylvania’s Department of Marsolf is a vice president who the Great Whatever after his Policy Research Institute in Human Services, the highest in previously served as the man- graduation in 1990. The band Philadelphia, conducted a fair its history. ager of training. recently released its third CD, amount of research for the book It hasn’t been easy, but Kaplan has dedicated herself to her There’s Time Between the Bridge in Paley Library. He was editor- HEATHER A. WILSON, EDU ’90, VINCENT O’KEEFE, CLA ’93 goal of making Jackson a viable option for students in the and the Water. in-chief of The Medium, the for- LISA CIARANCA KAPLAN MSW ’99 neighborhood. Upon becoming principal, she knew she had to mer weekly newspaper of the is a writer and a stay-at-home make the dilapidated school—which one parent described as JOHN C. HOOK, LAW ’87 Ambler Campus. was named a trustee of Linden father with a PhD in American DEGREE: MEd, special education, College of Education, 1986 dark, yucky and prison-looking—feel safe and welcoming. Hall School for Girls in Lititz, literature. He has contributed was named Best Lawyers’ 2016 “My first focus was to make a visible change,” says Kaplan. Pennsylvania. She is both dep- to parenting blogs for The OCCUPATION: Persevering principal Philadelphia Lawyer of the Year 1990s With the help of parents and high-profile civic leaders, the uty executive vice president Huffington Post,The New York in the nonprofit/charities law LOCATION: Philadelphia school’s leaking roof was repaired and flaking plaster was MARGARET PAUL JOSEPH, CLA ’90 of the Pennsylvania Medical Times, The Washington Post category. The 2016 Best Lawyers replaced. Other upgrades included a rooftop community garden Society and executive director and Time, among other proper- in America is based on an published her fifth book,Jasmine Leading a school comes with challenges. Leading a historically and a new (donated) playground. The front doors were finally of the Foundation of the ties. He also has been featured exhaustive peer review of legal on a String: A Survey of Women underperforming public K-8 school in the Philadelphia School repainted—cherry red. Pennsylvania Medical Society. on CNN Parents and is work- abilities of lawyers in their spe- Writing English Fiction in India, District takes those challenges to a new level. ing on a memoir about gender cialties. He is a partner in the with Oxford University Press in “It’s not for the weak of heart,” says Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan, “It was nice to have positive news about MICAH U. BUCHDAHL, LAW ’91 and parenting. EDU ’79, ’86. A lifelong educator, Kaplan’s first foray as a principal law firm of Stradley Ronon. 2014. She’s also written Kamala Markandaya (1980), Caliban in was appointed chair of the brought her to the diverse Andrew Jackson School in South a Philadelphia school.” ERIC C. FREED, TYL ’94 ANNA BOOTHE, Philadelphia, where students represent 29 cultures and speak 14 TYL ’88 Exile: The Outsider in Caribbean American Bar Association’s Fiction (1992), Bequest of Wings: (ABA) Standing Committee on was awarded the prestigious languages. She has faced her fair share of obstacles since she The school now has a thriving arts program, which includes received the Cohn Family Indian Short Stories (1994) and Continuing Legal Education. LEED Fellow designation from became the school’s leader five years ago, but her take charge atti- HOME, the school’s rock band. They’ve jammed with The Hooters Award for Glass at the Continuing Education in Senior From Moorestown, New Jersey, the U.S. Green Building Council tude has helped her turn the school around. and Of Monsters and Men and inspired a ballet. It also offers Philadelphia Museum of Art Centers: A Handbook (2011). he also is president of the law in November. The award honors Her work isn’t going unnoticed. In 2015, the Philadelphia native advanced civics education, and when the first student council Craft Show in November. This Joseph also teaches continuing marketing consultancy individuals for their contribu- was recognized with the Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in was elected, Sandra Day O’Connor stopped by to swear them in. year, her work has been exhib- education classes about English HTMLawyers and has held tions to the green building com- Education. Winners of the national award, which is named for the Since Kaplan took on the role of principal, the school’s popula- ited at Downing Yudain in and American literature. numerous ABA leadership posi- munity at large. Currently there educators depicted in the filmStand and Deliver, exemplify com- tion has grown by 67 percent. The growth and improved reputation Stamford, Connecticut, the tions, including past chair of the are only 200 LEED fellows in mitment to learning, discipline, character-building and high are a direct result of Kaplan’s leadership, but she credits those who American Craft Council’s JACQUELINE SEGAL, LAW ’90 Law Practice Division and board the world. expectations for their students. have volunteered their time and efforts to the school. Baltimore craft show and the member and presenter for the Kaplan described winning the award as thrilling, inspiring and “People are reinvesting back into the school,” she says. “It’s not solo exhibit of cast glass works was elected secretary of the ABA Institute for New Partners. validating, and adds, “It was nice to have positive news about a about me. It’s about everyone who has a piece of Jackson.” at the Marshall Gallery in Philadelphia Bar Association for Philadelphia school.” —Meaghan Bixby Scottsdale, Arizona. the third consecutive year and

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Brandenberg, CLA ’14 The Legal Legal The by recognized was She also committee. that of net - cabi the for secretary financial as and Division Young Lawyers Association Bar Philadelphia the of committee executive the on serves Carter Additionally, LLP. Rome Blank of firm law the in associate an She is tion. educa public aquality to access have children Pennsylvania’s of all that ensure to is which of mission Center, the Law Education the of directors of board the to elected was S. CARTER, MELANIE neighborhood. Brewerytown city’s the in Friday First establish to effort the leading is also Captan Collective. Poetry Philadelphia the of founder and accessibility for arts cate advo an apoet, artist, an She is city. the recraft helping are who class creative Philadelphia’s in people 18 of young one PhillyVoice by named was MARYAN CAPTAN, sorority. 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Louis H. Vernon, TYL ’53 Angelo J. Chiari, PHR ’66 John J. Friel, CST ’73 Kathleen A. Maloney, SMC ’88 Miriam Light Dengler, POD ’54 John F. Farne, DEN ’66 Marjorie F. Merwin, EDU ’73 Jacquelyn F. Douglass, EDU ’89 This list includes those in the Temple Phyllis Inman Holochowist, CPH ’54 Paul M. Murphy, CPH ’66 James F. Mole, EDU ’73 Celine J. Wishner, SMC ’89 community who have passed away recently. William L. Neudecker, FOX ’54 Ruby S. Bowen, EDU ’67 Donna Kaspruk Wontorsky, CLA ’73, EDU ’88 IN MEMORIAM William R. Cromwell, MED ’55 Rayna Block Goldfarb, CLA ’67 1990s Gerald J. Gregorowicz, FOX ’74 Eleanor W. Hafer, CPH ’55 Carl L. Jolley, CST ’67 Giovanna M. Tonelli, SSW ’74, ’81 Joseph E. Backer, SMC ’90 Charles D. Moyer Jr., EDU ’56 William F. McDevitt, FOX ’67, ’71 Wendy Barba Upton, EDU ’74 Unis U. Francis, SSW ’90 1930s Harry Burton Walker Jr., MED ’48 Ronald E. Register, FOX ’56 Edward G. Groody, FOX ’68 Michael H. Zell, SSW ’74 Nuwoo M. Gbarbea-Dunlap, ENG ’90 Jean S. Abboud, EDU ’49 Robert K. Wolfe, EDU ’56 Phyllis A. Lewy, CLA ’68, ’71 Meurita McGinty Moran, CPH ’33 Michael J. Daly, FOX ’75 William S. Krash, EDU ’90 William C. Denver, FOX ’49, ’55 Joseph H. Wood Jr., MED ’56 Doris D. Paine, EDU ’68, ’72 Paul E. Hostetler, EDU ’75 Dana Lear, CLA ’90 Hime S. Poliner, CLA ’34, MED ’36 Joseph Labolito V. Thomas H. Eaton, MED ’49 Melvin H. Weisberg, POD ’57 David J. Snowden, ENG ’68 Louis R. Palitz, FOX ’38 Gayvorlor S. Ghanwoloku, ENG ’76, ’79 Gayle S. Applegate, SMC ’92 John Ginda Jr., FOX ’49 Richard G. Wildermuth, ENG ’57 Martin F. Telanoff, EDU ’68, ’75 Ruth V. Balish, EDU ’39 John J. Mullin, FOX ’76 Michael C. Stephenson, FOX ’95 Dorris S. Iszard, CST ’49 Theodore N. Koukos, FOX ’58 Reid W. Betten, MED ’69 Paul F. Tatela, EDU ’76 Christopher C. Stanich, POD ’96 Ella Mae H. Levan, CST ’49 Christine Newton, EDU ’58 Paul L. Blanc, SED ’69 Stephen J. Uram, DEN ’76 Ruby W. Townes, CLA ’96 1940s Kay F. Lynch, SED ’49 Joan E. Robbins, CPH ’58 Gerald R. Bowers, LAW ’69 Thomas J. Usher Sr., EDU ’76, ’79 Sean M. Hart, LAW ’98 Arnold M. Rosenfeld, FOX ’49 Oscar S. Wheeler Jr., ENG ’58 Joseph A. Coffey Jr., LAW ’69 Mary Berry Bays, CLA ’40 James E. Welch, CLA ’76 Alan R. Lisk, EDU ’98 Richard Sasin, CST ’49, ’54 Solomon Gethers, CLA ’59 Louise P. Dowling, EDU ’69, ’72 D. Virginia B. Duke, SED ’41 Jack A. Apsche, EDU ’77, ’86 David M. Sensenig, LAW ’98 Bernard T. Simmons, POD ’49 William C. Peeney, DEN ’59 William J. Hammer, MED ’69 Evangeline Palermo, CPH ’41 William H. Wilkinson, CLA ’77 Gisela C. Gil-Egui, SMC ’99, ’05 Joel B. Portnoff, PHR ’59, ’61 Joseph V. Lambert, CLA ’69, ’72 Ruth Y. Schmitz, SED ’41 PETER CHODOFF Marc D. Jenkins, Betty A. Meade, Andrew Sabric, Norman K. Spencer, BYR ’78, ’81 SSW ’99 1950s ENG ’59 EDU ’69 Alicia S. Powell, CPH ’42 John H. Kavalos, TYL ’78 Peter Chodoff,CST ’47, one of Temple University’s most ardent Barbara Raker Yoder, CPH ’59 Devora G. Wigrizer, EDU ’69 Rodger T. Dombrow, ’43, ’49, ’60 Carmen P. Brutto, TFM ’50 supporters, died March 21, 2016. He was 91. Charles Kalata, CLA ’79 2000s Madeline Kraeler Corbin, TYL ’43 Philip L. Chabot, FOX ’50 “This is a sad day for all of Temple University, not just Athletics,” 1960s 1970s Louis Etter, FOX ’43 Dion J. Rider, SMC ’03 Louis F. DelDuca, CLA ’50 says Temple University Director of Athletics Patrick Kraft. “‘Doc’ 1980s Hilda W. Greenberg, CLA ’43 Chodoff was a beloved man who gave his heart and soul in sup- Desiree V. Cooper, TYL ’04 Stanley G. Familant, John L. McWilliams, EDU ’60 Marvin L. Asroff, FOX ’70 ENG ’50 port of all Temple student-athletes.” Herbert S. Wasserman, POD ’43 Michael W. Sozansky Jr., LAW ’80 Michael Fleegler, CLA ’04 Leo T. Gladnick, EDU ’50 Constance Greenberg Yaros, TYL ’60 Joan F. Gandy, EDU ’70 The university’s football practice field bears his name, and Beverly Coleman-Miller, MED ’81 Donald Parsons, CLA ’44 Carol N. Abrams, EDU ’61 Lawrence G. Ricketts, ENG ’70 Mary D. Round, CPH ’50 Chodoff was at every Owls football game, at home and away, John D. Grigioni, ENG ’45 Luveina L. Deans, CLA ’81 2010s Dorothy S. Underhill, BYR ’50 for the past 15 years. He also often sat courtside at men’s Myron S. Dietz, EDU ’61 Burton I. Segal, FOX ’70, ’72 Christine E. Gritt, CPH ’81 Jeannette Geesey Neupauer, CPH ’46 basketball games. Howard T. Weaver Jr., DEN ’61 Constance D. Anderson, SED ’71 George A. Vish, FOX ’50 Lacie D. Reichardt, CST ’11 Robert E. Shockey, CLA ’81 Doris B. Zetterberg, FOX ’46 Ian M. Ballard, MED ’62 Kenneth R. Beaver, ENG ’71 Joseph Goldman, FOX ’51 Among the most active fundraisers for the Owl Club, Chodoff Yvette T. Soklove, LAW ’14 Myron D. Ball, POD ’47 served as a member of the organization’s executive board and Francis P. Beck, FOX ’83 Donald C. Bakely, EDU ’52, CLA ’55 Charles M. Sandwick Jr., EDU ’62 Jay S. Cohen, MED ’71 also was on the board of the Owl Club’s Legends Society, for Ann Wengert Mann, CLA ’84 Petrina C. Callisto, CPH ’47 Peter T. Taylor, MED ’62 Catherine Mary Harmer, CLA ’71, ’74 Andrew M. Caldwell, DEN ’52 donors whose lifetime gifts exceed $100,000. Irvin Hockstein, DEN ’47, ’61 Francis X. Beck Jr., FOX ’85 Katherine W. Frazer, CLA ’52 Robert S. Alperowitz, FOX ’63 Susan Shimer Hearn, TYL ’71 Chodoff has contributed financially to every athletic fundraising Terry F. Crockett, Robert L. Lasher, MED ’47 Ronald S. Bratspis, Laroy Robinson, TYL ’85 James A. Kennedy, MED ’52 project over the past two decades. For his support, the football CLA ’63 ENG ’71 Beatrice Snyder Mattleman, Ronny E. Reid, CLA ’85 Irving M. Levy, practice field at the Edberg-Olson complex was named Chodoff John Richard J. Hagan, LAW ’63 Robert B. Sause, PHR ’71, CLA ’76 EDU ’47, ’51 FOX ’52 Field, and during the Edberg-Olson expansion, he made another Cary J. Fox, FOX ’86 Henry S. Lively, MED ’52 Joan F. Homer, CST ’63 Edward C. Bulza Jr., ENG ’72 Alvin H. Plumer, FOX ’47 such gift to fund the training/hydrotherapy facilities. Kenneth J. Ciano, EDU ’87 To submit a name for this list, Robert F. Newby, FOX ’63 Francis L. Davey Jr., LAW ’72 Mervyn Tuckman, EDU ’52 email [email protected] Marie A. Scrivani, SED ’47 Chodoff is survived by his longtime partner, Joan Saltzer; his Anna M. Donofry, EDU ’87 Jacob A. Angel, FOX ’53 Frank P. Wilmer Jr., SED ’63, CLA ’70 Nancy Drigan, EDU ’72 or call 215-926-2562. Gaetan A. Campisi, DEN ’48 son, Louis, and daughter, Carole; and his grandchildren, Alaina Stephen M. Jadick, Edward J. Fitzgerald Jr., Beatrice Heine, CLA ’87 You also may mail your notes to: John C. Chogich, MED ’53 and Tony. DEN ’64 EDU ’72 Ben J. Meadows Jr., MED ’48 Beryl L. Thomas, EDU ’87 James W. Gale, CLA ’53 Thomas J. Maloney, LAW ’64 Frederick F. Missel, CLA ’72 Editor, Temple Robert B. Milligan, MED ’48 Laurence H. Burke, PHR ’88 Bell Building, 3rd Floor John F. Lamberson, FOX ’53 Barbara F. Shane, CLA ’64 Steven M. 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