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VOL. XXIX, NO. 4 NO. XXIX, VOL. MonmouthMAGAZINE UNIVERSITY HAWKS GO NATIONAL Calendar of MonmouthMAGAZINE UNIVERSITY EVENTS Volume XXIX, No. 4 JANUARY 16 JANUARY 30 Fall 2009 DECEMBER Best of the Met: Live in HD National Theatre: Live in HD DECEMBER 2 Carmen – Georges Bizet Nation - Based on a novel by PAUL G. GAFFNEY II Alumni: NYC Young Alumni Happy Pollak Theatre Terry Pratchett President Hour and Business Card Exchange 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: Pollak Theatre Red Sky Bar 4:00/2 Intermissions) 2:00-5:00 PM (one intermission) JEFFERY N. MILLS 47 East 29th Street, NYC $22 $22 Vice President for University Advancement 6:00-8:00 PM JANUARY 19-MARCH 12 JANUARY 31 Publisher DECEMBER 4-11 Tom Parr Comes Home: 1985- Best of the Met: Live in HD Arts: Senior Show 2010 (a multi-media exhibition Der Rosenkavalier – MICHAEL SAYRE MAIDEN, JR. Rotary Ice House Gallery by Monmouth graduate) Richard Strauss Editor (opening reception Dec. 4, Lecture: Jan. 28, 4:30-5:30 PM, Encore Rebroadcast 7:00-9:00 PM) Wilson Hall Auditorium Pollak Theatre HEATHER MCCULLOCH MISTRETTA Opening Reception: Jan. 28, 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: Assistant to Editor DECEMBER 5 5:30-7:00 PM 3:00/2 Intermissions) 35th Annual Holiday Ball Rotary Ice House Gallery $22 HEATHER MCCULLOCH MISTRETTA Wilson Hall HELEN CHANTAL PIKE 6:30 PM JANUARY 20 Annu Palakunnathu Matthew FEBRUARY Contributing Writers DECEMBER 6-7 The Virtual Immigrant Series FEBRUARY 6 Performing Arts: (exhibition opens) Best of the Met: Live in HD JIM REME A Winnie-the-Pooh 800 Gallery Simon Boccanegra – University Photographer Christmas Carol (opening reception on Jan. 29 at Giuseppe Verdi BLAZE NOWARA Running Rabbit Family Theater 6:00-8:00 PM) Pollak Theatre Assistant to University Photographer Dec. 6 (2:00 PM), Dec. 7 (10:30 AM) 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: $10/$12 JANUARY 22 DESIGN OF 4 Wilson Hall Candlelight 3:40/2 Intermissions) Design DECEMBER 9 Dinner Tour $22 Visiting Writers Series Wilson Hall FEBRUARY 6 Matthew and Michael Dickman Monmouth University Magazine is 6:00 PM Satellite Exhibition Opens: Wilson Auditorium published by University Advancement. $50 per person South Asia 4:30 PM JANUARY 22 SICA Gallery, 20 Third Ave., Monmouth University Magazine DECEMBER 9 Best of the Met: Live in HD Long Branch 400 Cedar Avenue Holiday Concert Les Contes d’Hoffmann – FEBRUARY 7 West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 Running Rabbit Family Theater Jacques Offenbach 61st Sri Lankan Independence Grand Staircase of Wilson Hall Encore Rebroadcast Day Cultural Show HOW TO CONTACT US: 7:30 PM Pollak Theatre Pollak Theatre CLASS NOTES: DECEMBER 11 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: 4:00 PM (opening reception, [email protected] Exporter Workshop: “Getting 3:00/2 Intermissions) “Exploring Sri Lanka Photo Paid for Export Sales” $22 Exhibit,” at 8:15 PM in Pollak LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Charles J. Dugan, VP, Global JANUARY 23 Theatre Gallery) [email protected] Trade Finance, TD Bank, New York Young Alumni Beer Tasting FEBRUARY 19 Turrell Board Room, Bey Hall, Magill Commons Performing Arts: Brooklyn Rider 2nd Floor OFFICE OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS 7:00-9:00 PM (string quartet) 10:00 AM-1:00 PM Marilynn Perry, Director of Alumni Affairs Call Alumni Office for details. Pollak Theatre $45 includes buffet lunch [email protected] 8:00 PM Registration begins at 9:30 AM JANUARY 25-MARCH 12 800-531-ALUM Thomas Schneider: Recent $28 DECEMBER 19 Paintings and Drawings FEBRUARY 21 Best of the Met: Live in HD Lecture: Feb. 4, 4:30-5:30 PM, Best of the Met: Live in HD Les Contes d’Hoffmann – Wilson Hall Auditorium Carmen – Georges Bizet Jacques Offenbach Opening Reception: Feb. 4, Encore Rebroadcast Pollak Theatre 5:30-7:00 PM Pollak Theatre 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: Rotary Ice House Gallery 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: 3:00/2 Intermissions) 4:00/2 Intermissions) $22 JANUARY 29 Artist Illustrated Lecture $22 JANUARY The Virtual Immigrant Series FEBRUARY 25-28 Wilson Hall Auditorium Big River: The Adventures of JANUARY 9 4:30 PM Huckleberry Finn Best of the Met: Live in HD Lauren K. Woods Theatre GENERAL INFORMATION: Der Rosenkavalier – JANUARY 29 www.monmouth.edu Performing Arts: Richie Havens 8:00 PM (also 3:00 PM show on Richard Strauss Feb. 28) 732-571-3400 Pollak Theatre Pollak Theatre 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: 8:00 PM Monmouth University supports equal opportunity in recruitment, 3:00/2 Intermissions) $30 Continued on page 2 admission, educational programs, and employment practices, and $22 complies with all major federal and state laws and executive orders requiring equal employment opportunity and/or affirmative action. Calendar of EVENTS MonmouthCONTENTS UNIVERSITY FEATURES 03 3 Fighting Spirit 7 Multipurpose Activity Center Open For Business 8 MACE Award for Jim Nantz 7 11 Founders’ Day 2009 14 Laird’s Laws of Success 18 First Lady Inspires 28 Men’s Soccer Steamrolls to NCAA 11 DEPARTMENTS 2 MailQuad 20 On Campus 30 Athletics 14 34 Alumni News 38 Hawks in Print 41 Class Notes ON THE COVER: Daniel Bostock, Bryan Meredith, Coach Robert McCourt, Cody Calafiore, and the men’s soccer team celebrate NEC Championship victory over the Quinnipiac Bobcats. The team earned the highest national ranking of any program in school history. CORRECTIONS: The deceased notice for Charles Mazza should have read Charles J. Mazza, who was born October 17, 1922 and attended Monmouth Junior College, not Charles B. Mazza, who graduated in 1966 with a degree in business administration. Charles B. Mazza is alive and well. We regret the confusion. Monmouth University Magazine (ISSN 15549143) is published four times annually by Monmouth University, periodicals postage paid at West Long Branch, NJ and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Changes of address should be mailed to: Attention: Mailing Address Changes Room 321A, Wilson Hall Monmouth University 400 Cedar Avenue West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764-1898 Copyright © 2009, Monmouth University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, duplicated, displayed, broadcast, or posted electronically via web, e-mail, or other means, or used in multi- Cert no. SW-COC-002556 media in any form, without express written permission from the Editor, Monmouth University Magazine. Calendar of MAILQUAD EVENTS post + e-MAIL + fAx + phone FEBRUARY 26 Career in Education Performing Arts: Cherish the Ladies After graduating from Monmouth Pollak Theatre College, I went on to serve as president 8:00 PM of the University of Alaska State System $32/$40 in the late 70s and then served as the FEBRUARY 27 president of Edinboro University of Best of the Met: Live in HD Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1996. Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi I wonder how many Monmouth grads Encore Rebroadcast Pollak Theatre served as a president of a state system as 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: 3:40/2 well as president of another university? Intermissions) I suspect very few. I am now retired. $22 However, I have never forgotten that it was at Monmouth that Professor Anna R.R. MARCH Jennings, Ph.D. ( I hope I remembered Letter to the MU Bookstore Staff: MARCH 2-5 her name correctly) advised me that she Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I would like to thank all of you for thought I should pursue a career in the Lauren K. Woods Theatre sending me the MU flag, pennant, and field of education. I was always so happy 8:00 PM alumni sticker while I was in Iraq. Having that I took her advice. She was one of the most talented teachers with whom I have MARCH 19 these items not only allowed me to show off Performing Arts: Saw Doctors some school spirit while I was in country, had contact in the past 50 years or so. Pollak Theatre but also gave me a feeling of home. Foster Diebold '62 8:00 PM Overseas, a feeling of home is sometimes $25 the only thing that makes life bearable. I MARCH 20 took a few pictures around Camp Bucca to Alumni Wine Tasting show some Monmouth pride and to show Wilson Hall my sincere appreciation for the support 6:00-8:00 PM you gave me. Thank you. how to submit Call Alumni Office for details. SSG Paul D. Stengele '06 A LETTER TO THE EDITOR: MARCH 25 Visiting Writers Series: Colm Toibin Remembering Lisa Wilson Hall Auditorium Your comments and suggestions regard- I met Letizia Zindell in September 4:30 PM ing Monmouth University Magazine are 2001 while we were enrolled in the welcomed and encouraged. Please send MARCH 27 University’s graduate program of Criminal Best of the Met: Live in HD your communications in one of the four Justice. I quickly recognized Lisa as an Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas ways below: Pollak Theatre intelligent, ambitious and caring person 1:00 PM (Approx Running who was always optimistic and fun loving. E-MAIL: Time: 3:45/1 Intermission) I am sure that these attributes are what [email protected] $22 allowed Lisa to excel as a student, and Please include the word “MailQuad” in the subject line. also in her career with DYFS. POST: On August 13, 2009, Lisa was “MailQuad” murdered in a tragic and unthinkable act Monmouth University Magazine of domestic violence. While her untimely Room 321A, Wilson Hall To verify scheduling death is shocking and painful to many of 400 Cedar Avenue information, and see other us, I have kept in mind how Lisa positively West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 affected everyone who came in contact campus activities, visit: FAX: with her.