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MAGAZINE April 2006 Women at Alfred: At the table from the beginning REA LFURED NU NIIVEORSITN Y ou know you’ve thought about it a June 9-11, 2006 thousand times. Wouldn’t it be nice to Ywalk around campus with a group of It’s not too late for you to become involved in some of the special “reunions” forever friends? Wonder what it would be like within Reunion. Here’s what we have planned: living in a residence hall again? Wouldn’t it be a special treat to enjoy uninterrupted time laughing and catching up on life after Alfred? Alpha Kappa Omicron – See page 27. Wouldn’t it be great to chat with that special Carillon – See page 4. professor or classmate who really made a difference in your college career? Delta Sigma Phi – See page 40. Well, you can do all that, and “Recapture the Delta Zeta – For details, please e-mail Alumni and Community Relations Office at Memories” at this year’s Reunion 2006, June 9- [email protected], 607.871.2144. 11. We invite you to journey back to a place Nurses – For more information, contact: where times change but memories remain the Christine (Pinto) Kulp ’71, [email protected] same. Susan (Nagell) Moretti ’73, 607.587.9413 Reunion Weekend is open to all alumni but Rita (Bonning) Murphy ’73, [email protected], 585.473.3714 particularly celebrates honored classes starting Janice (Brewer) Smith ’75, [email protected] with the Class of 1996 and reaching back in Performing Arts – Contact Becky Prophet ’70 at 607.871.2255 or [email protected], five-year increments until reaching the Golden or Michelle DeRitter ’74 at 716.372.4299 or [email protected]. Saxons - those from the 50-year class and beyond. Sigma Chi Nu – For further details contact the Alumni and Community Relations Office And this year there are a number of “special” at [email protected], or contact Inge Hess ’54 at [email protected]. reunion activities planned for those of you who devoted much of your time to efforts such as Theta Theta Chi – Join us for our first Theta reunion during AU Reunion Weekend. track and field, performing arts, nursing, playing Members are encouraged to attend the dedication of the Women’s Leadership Center at 4 the carillon, or a Greek society. It’s not too late p.m. Friday, June 9. Events for Saturday, June 10, include a tour of the Fasano Welcome to join fellow alums and classmates in registering Center, conducted by Mark Shardlow ’83, and dedication of the plaque marking the to participate. Check the Web site - Theta Memorial Garden, at 10 a.m., to be followed by the first meeting of the Theta www.alfred.edu/alumni/reunion/index.html - for Theta Chi Alumni Association; a private party for members and guests at Alex’s, noon to details about what’s planned, and who’s coming. 5 p.m.; dedication of the Fasano Welcome Center, 4-6 p.m.; and dinner at 6 p.m. This Chances are, you’ll find some of your friends will be an AU- sponsored event so tickets will be required. Please visit AU’s Reunion Web have already registered. site for registration information, or contact the Alumni and Community Relations Office With two months to go before Reunion, at [email protected]. RSVP by contacting Megan Hughes Orsini ’94 at 518.357.2843. registrations are already 50 percent higher than Track and Field – Join the 5K Run on Saturday, June 10, 8:15 a.m. Grand Marshal is they have been at this time in previous years, so Coach Dubreuil. Special dinner to honor the coach at 6 p.m., Davis Gym. Please contact: we’re hoping for a tremendous turnout! Keith Gregory ’68, [email protected], 607.587.9321 Fred George ’75, [email protected], 508.393.2541 Mark Shardlow ’83 James Smith ’85, [email protected], 706.627.0813 Director, Alumni and Community Relations Andrew Corman ’02, [email protected], 607.324.4954 You may register for Reunion in one of three ways: • Online at http://www.alfred.edu/alumni/reunion/register • Call the Alumni and Community Relations Office at 607.871.2144 ALFRED Alfred Magazine • Mail in registration form found in December 2005 MAGAZINE Editor Debbie Clark Alfred Magazine, copyright 2006, [email protected] is published four times a year and is mailed free of charge to alumni, dEsignEr current parents, faculty, staff and Rick McLay ’89 friends of Alfred University. [email protected] CirCulation : 25,581 Contributing WritErs Address all correspondence to the Sue Goetschius editor. 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MAGAZINE April 2006 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS At the table from the beginning Academic Alley Alfred’s legacy of co-education has continued since its A look at what’s been happening on the humble beginnings in 1836 ............................ page 20 academic side of the University....................... page 6 Bringing an AU landmark back to life Class Notes The former Delta Sigma Phi house renovation is Read all about what your classmates and friends have well under way and will be dedicated as the Fasano been up to lately ............................................ page 22 Welcome Center at Reunion........................... page 2 Building on Excellence Ringing in at Reunion The latest report on the University’s capital Alumni carilloneurs will be playing the Davis campaign; there are many ways to give back to Memorial Carillon at Reunion...................... page 14 Alfred University........................................... page 58 editor’s note: even in the highly unlikely event that there had been photos from Au’s beginning in 1836, none would have survived. So, we had to rely upon slightly more recent archival photos to illustrate this issue’s theme. Cover photo: Class of 1912, from the 1910 Kanakadea yearbook. Above photos: What better way to show how things have changed even though they remain the same? The photo at left shows three members of the Alfred Monthly staff, 1898 . At right are three current members of the Fiat Lux. The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Alfred University 1 “We literally tore the house apart , uided by archival photos, chips of paint and what remained of the original woodwork, craftsmen and artisans are painstakingly Grestoring the former Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house into a showplace: the Fasano Welcome Center, which will be dedicated during Reunion Weekend, at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 10. That evening the Delta Sigma Phi alumni will gather for a special dinner and their own Reunion at the house they owned for more than 80 years. They led the efforts to raise funds and contributed more than half the total needed to restore and renovate the house for its new life. For Joe Fasano ’54, it is quite simply a labor of love. The welcome center is being named to honor Joe, who was a member of Delta Sig; his wife Ann Saunders Fasano ’53, and their son, the late Patrick Fasano ’81, who was also a member of the fraternity. Using the skills he honed from more than 40 years of restoring antiques and making intricately carved duck decoys, Joe is creating replacement balustrades for the main staircase and ornamental woodwork for fireplaces, including the one in the “front room.” The room will be named for the late Annie Pallone McGahan ’82; alumni from 1979-81 made donations in her memory. She was married to Leo McGahan ’80, a Delta Sigma Phi alumnus. Downstairs, in what was called the TV room, Mary Cournoyer Harris ’91 has spent hours on a scaffold, carefully applying paint. Inspired by both archival photos and tiles from the fireplace, Harris has designed the elaborate stencils that will decorate that room, one of two to be named in honor of the late Pat Fasano. The other is the adjoining “chapter room.” Combined, the two will create a suite of meeting rooms for use by alumni and campus groups. Across the hall, in the former dining room, Alfred artisan Joe Dosch (whose son, Nick, is a sophomore ceramic engineering major and whose wife, Dr. Nancy Evangelista, is an associate professor of school psychology) was surrounded by strips of molding, pieces of windows, Joe Fasano ’54 examines an ornamental piece of a wood to determine and an elaborate frame he’s built for the welcome desk in the front if a replacement needs to be made. hallway. Standing in a shaft of sunlight coming into the “front room” at the former Delta Sigma Phi house, Joseph Fasano ’54 mused, “You know, I think this is one room in the house I never lived in.” But his craftsmanship will. Bringing an AU landmtarok back life By Sue Goetschius 2 layer by layer,” to find out what the original paint colors were. – Fasano House interior design director Vivian Hyde Dosch is replicating the carved woodwork that surrounds doors and windows on the first floor. He’s also created windows, bordered with stained glass, for the chapter room; they will match those found in the TV room. “We literally tore the house apart, layer by layer,” to find out what the original woodwork, plaster, wallpaper, and paint colors for the Victorian house were, said Vivian Hyde, interior designer for the project. She worked with Elizabeth Corbin, a noted restoration architect whose father is Robert Corbin ’56. Each find was carefully documented so the first floor of the house could be restored as closely as possible to match what it was like when it was built more than 150 years ago.