SPRING 1988, VOL. 6, NO. 2 Spring 1988, Vol. 6, No. 2 Mercyhurst magazine Chairman of the Board of Trustees Features James A. Zurn Academic Celebration: A generous diversity of ideas was packed into President the two-and-a-half day "celebration of the mind" during January ... 2 Dr. William P. Garvey Faculty Focus: Erisman: Not many Americans visit Cuba these days, Director of External Affairs but one of our own is a friend and visitor to that Caribbean nation. 6 Mary Daly '66 Lincourt Address: By Matthew J. Clark. The keynote speaker for the Editor Mary Kathleen Kappelt Academic Celebration, Dr. John M. Lincourt, shared his perspectives on the role of the medical ethicist in the hospital and in society. .... 7 Alumni Editor Tom Dore '81 New Lab, A Cook's Delight: By Joanne DeMeo. A fascinating point of Sports Editor interest in the new HRIM wing completed last fall is the least likely to Bob Shreve be seen by those of us outside the Department. So Joanne DeMeo gives us a taste of it 8 Editorial Board Dr. Allan D. Belovarac 73 Artmaking with Tape: By Joseph Pizzat. 'Hurst art professor suggests Dr. Ludlow L. Brown an unusual medium for visual expression 10 Dr. Marilynn Miller Jewell '48 Campus Outreach: Corry/Warren Center: An hour away from Main P. Barry McAndrew Dr. Vivetta G. Petronio '58 Campus, Mercyhurst's branch campus has taken several developmental Sr. M. Eustace Taylor '29 steps this year 12 Contributing Writers Campus History: Mercyhurst Grotto: Now that Sullivan Hall is Dr. Joseph Pizzat completed, we have a wonderful new view of the structure built by Matthew Clark Father Sullivan, the Grotto. Today's construction makes us reflect on Joanne DeMeo yesterday's 12 Joanne Druzak Photography Ed Bernik Departments Lou Caravaglia Greg Chimenti ON THE HILL: Sister Maura Smith named Superior of the Sisters of Sandra Wise Mercy; Eight new President's Associates named in 1987; Businesses Robert Lowry donate scholarship money 13 Production & Printing SPORTS: DeMeo resigns; Soccer team received kudos 15 Seneca Printing ALUMNI NEWS: Get-togethers; anniversaries 16 Oil City, Pennsylvania CLASS NOTES 17 ALUMNI BOARD Officers Michael E. Heller, C.P.A. 79, President Cover photo: Ed Bernik Lance J. Lavrinc '83, Vice President Joan Kostolansky Evans, '60, Secretary Inside back cover photo: Greg Chimenti Directors Helen Clancy Bavisotto, '58, Corning, NY The Mercyhurst Magazine is published by the Publications Office of Mercyhurst Allan D. Belovarac, Ph.D., 73, Erie, PA College, Glenwood Hills, Erie, PA 16546. Copyright©1988. News items and letters Patricia Murphy Bluemle, '58, North to the editor should be sent to the Editor c/o Publications Office. Tonowanda, NY Send change of address to Mercyhurst Magazine, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA 16546. John A. Donofrio, JD, 76, Pittsburgh, PA Publications Office-814/825-0286 Deborah S. Duda, 77, Palo Alto, CA Alumni Relations Office-814/825-0246 Margaret Anne Mooney Emling, '37, Erie, PA Sr. Mary Lawrence Franklin, RSM, '41, Erie, PA w H. Daniel Hill, JD, 76, North East, PA Mercyhurst College believes firmly that all persons are entitled to equal opportunities in all Jeff W. Jones, C.P.A., '84, Willoughby, OH aspects of involvement with the College. It is incumbent on the college community that no Sally C. Carlow Kohler, '51, Erie, PA individuals or groups of individuals be discriminated against on the basis of individual Thomas P. Richter, 73, Erie, PA differences such as race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, marital status, Kevin J. Rozich, JD, 79, Johnstown, PA physical and mental handicaps or, except where justifiably applicable, education. SPRING, 1988 IDEAS HEARD AT THE minute? For starters, it is effective for ACADEMIC CELEBRATION improving cardiovascular conditioning, ACADEMIC it increases metabolic rate, it doesn't jar There's a huge cost in fixing things that the organs, or further damage injured did not go right the first time. When knees. CELEBRATION anyone says, "I can't afford quality/' (Peter Grimaldi, Director ofHamot's they're overlooking the cost of fixing it Sportsmedicine Center) later. For two and a half days at the In a way, the Church at Vatican II was An "allowable level of defects" is a con­ like a person reconciling with his family end of January, the entire ventional attitude. Instead, we're after a period of estrangement . it had College took a break from striving for error-free output. In the end withdrawn from the world and taken a classes for this year's Academic it is the most cost-effective. superior, defensive posture. [Now] it Celebration. Dr. Garvey sum­ Every person needs to feel that he or she was a more humble church, a Church marized, ''The Celebration can make a difference in the work they do willing to acknowledge that its absence and its effect. 100,000 people work for from the world was partly its own fault. really shows the diversity of Xerox, and every single one of them this institution's interest and The Council fathers did, for the first time, beginning with the top on down takes a move from seeing Protestants as heretics six-day leadership course. shows many dimensions of the to seeing them as "brothers," though College's skills. It shows our Telephone complaints are handled separated. commitment for education. It's entirely by upper level management, in­ Is the spirit of Vatican II still the spirit of a classic example of learning for cluding the Chief Executive Officer, who the Church today? Is there still that learning's sake. take turns to cover the calls. This duty attitude of humility which is willing to keeps them tapped into the customers in acknowledge that even leaders of the "It shows an academic vitality the most fundamental way. Church can be affected by human faulti- and interest. It's an exciting and Every link in the chain is a customer. ness and sin? Is there still that hope for renewal of the Church in response to the pulsating event and enhances Recognition is a more powerful modern world? the College's reputation as a motivator than reward. center for academic learning." (John E. Kelsch, Director of Quality, (Frederick Keck, Religious Studies Depart­ Xerox International) ment, Mercyhurst College) "Steamed Chicken with Black Some people ask, "Do you write for the Mushrooms" takes only a half hour to audience or for yourself?" I am the prepare, and it's delicious and good for audience and feel the need to react to my you. Unfortunately black mushrooms music as I do to others'. cost $26 a pound and are nearly impos­ The structure of a piece of music is largely sible to find in Erie. a conscious decision, but the sub­ (Harry Wu, Owner, Inn of Double conscious mind is at work as a constant Happiness) ally. Results are often amazing. Medical ethics issues are generally not A musical gesture is like real love. If it's the dramatized news events we hear what you want you know it . you about. Rather they are the day-to-day need little convincing. decisions made in hospitals everywhere. Building a style means integrating other The biggest ethics problem of the com­ music for years, feeding the sub­ puter age is confidentiality. I asked a conscious mind, building a savings colleague how many people in a hospital account in the mind of musical are likely to see a patient's record. He vocabularies, gestures to call upon, began tabulating, then stopped at 74, filtered through your own personality. Patients' rights and providers' responsi­ (Albert Glinsky, Composer-in-Residence, bilities give the unfortunate impression Mercyhurst College) that there are no patient responsibilities The continuing activity of human covert or providers' rights. spies can be illustrated in the 1980's, (Dr. John M. Lincourt, Preceptor in heralded in the media as "the decade of Biomedical Ethics, Charlotte Memorial the spy" by the fact that more such cases Hospital) had been tried in U. S. Federal Court than at any other time since the early Why use walking as a form of exercise post-World War II period. when it consumes only 3.8 calories per MERCYHURST MAGAZINE Industrial spies who believe that they are working for a rival company may very well unknowingly be working for Soviet intelligence. Despite inattention to espionage in criminology, "sub rosa crime" is more expensive than traditional property crime. A recent Pentagon report of a special interagency task force estimates that the Soviet Union alone spends ap­ proximately $1.4 billion annually on the theft of Western technology, much avail­ able as unclassified documents. (Frank E. Hagan, Criminal Justice Depart­ ment, Mercyhurst College) In Lake Erie, all catfish are unfit to eat as well as all large lake trout because they are laced with PCB's and chloridane. That's not to say that other fish are safe; they are unstudied and may be just as dangerous. Residents of the Great Lakes area carry a greater body burden of chemicals than people anywhere else in the country; that's why in a New York State study of seventy great horned owls found dead along the lakeshore, all seventy were found to be contaminated. Clearer is not cleaner; just because we've cleaned up the green scummy algae in the Lake doesn't mean there are any fewer toxins. We create a thousand new toxins a year; when this year's thousand get together with last year's thousand, with some of them a new synergy happens and they automatically manufacture brand new chemicals in the environment. I believe we've poisoned ourselves beyond retrievability.