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VOLUME 32 • NUMBER 2 • SPRING 2007 C o n t e n t s Joseph Moore President Kirk Starczewski Director of College Relations FEATURES Publisher [email protected] Upfront ...... 1 Maureen Winney Managing Editor From a Chef’s Perspective...... 2 [email protected] Hope Ferguson Healthy Dining with Finesse ...... 3 Community Relations Associate Editor [email protected] Food is Hot in Arizona ...... 5 Gael Fischer Director of Publications/Designer Blending Haute Cuisine with Higher Education ...... 7 Debra Park Secretary, Office of College Relations Business Couldn’t Be Sweeter ...... 10 Alumni News and Copy Editor

Evolution of a Pastry Chef...... 11 CONTRIBUTORS Raymond Brownell Building an Industry with Heart and Determination...... 13 Executive Director, Empire State College Foundation Working with a Snack and Beverage Giant ...... 14 Hugh Hammett Vice President for External Affairs Kim Neher Assistant Director of Alumni and Student Relations AROUND EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Vicki Schaake Director of Advancement Services College News ...... 15 Alta Schallen Director of Gift Planning Faculty News ...... 16 Renelle Shampeny Director of Marketing Alumni News ...... 19 WRITERS Back to You ...... 21 Hope Ferguson Patricia Ingram ’04 Marie Morrison ’06 Deborah Smith m PHOTOGRAPHY Sum er is ! Cover: Chef Daniel Smith th by Liz Lajeunesse C ga Stock Studios o to Rik Walton m ara Join us for All other photos courtesy of our alumni, e to S students and staff Empire State College’s annual PRODUCTION Day at the Races Jerry Cronin Director of Management Service Ron Kosiba August 17, 2007. Print Shop Supervisor Janet Jones Keyboard Specialist See inside of the back cover College Print Shop Central Services for details. Empire State College Alumni and Student News is published by the Office of College Relations at Empire State College One Union Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4391 518 587-2100 ext. 2250 • www.esc.edu UPFRONT UPFRONT Pass the Colander By Deborah Smith

ne morning on my way to work, the local radio station played their version of “Battle of the Sexes.” A man and a woman tried to answer various questions: The man didn’t Oknow that OPI makes nail polish, or that Jimmy Choos are women’s shoes. The woman didn’t know what NASCAR stood for, or the hero of the latest action-adventure movie.

The host next asked the man if he knew where a colander is kept. This guy won by knowing a colander is in the kitchen, used to drain spaghetti after cooking. It’s a food question, really. Last time I checked the Food Network on cable, men and women were knee deep in edibles.

Whether you grow your own garden, go out for a meal or just watch folks like Alton Brown (Good Eats) delve into the chemistry of cookery on the tube, food is a huge part of our society. While obesity prompts us to consider the wise use of food, it’s far more than just calories in, energy out. The Italians would say that food is buon cibo; if it’s not excellent, it’s not worth eating. Even my Irish mother-in-law, who dubs her cooking “burnt offerings,” knows we eat her food because it tastes good.

Food is flavor, experience, novelty, color and culture, all on a plate. After all, part of the great banquet of life is what we eat. I’ve discovered amazing things in my travels: rose-flavored ice cream in the Middle East, Spanish drinking chocolate, Canadian smoked meat sandwiches, Armenian quail eggs on toast. In the Capitol region where I live, the treats are endless due to the influx of cultures and cuisines that populate upstate New York and nearby New England. Each group has its taste of home, its way of saying welcome with food, its unique contribution to the cornucopia we call America.

When I travel, I bring food back home. Off I go: my bags lined with bottles of maple syrup for my friends abroad, or packets of Lake Champlain Chocolates from Vermont, where my sister Kathleen lives. Back I come: with boxes of Irish tea and packets of potato farls, containers full of delicious Lebanese sweets, buttery croissants from Montreal, handmade pasta from all over Italy, bottles of clear green Umbrian olive oil or jars of Greek honey with walnuts. Needless to say, my family, as the recipient of the meals I make with all this bounty, never complained about anything I’ve brought from abroad and cooked for their dinner.

That only captures part of the experience though. Sometimes food tastes better when you eat it there. Drink a Guinness in America, then enjoy one in Ireland and you’ll see exactly what I mean. Sometimes you have to be there, because food completes the whole picture. It’s wonderful to try the gorgeous fruit tarts the Germans make, or begin your day in Santorini with pastries still warm from the oven, on a UPFRONT bench overlooking the deep blue Adriatic Sea.

Arabic jelab juice, served during Ramadan with a spoonful of pine nuts floating on top, is a favorite of mine. Sfogliatelle, those shell-shaped Italian pastries, I enjoy in Naples – they are soft, filled with cheese and fruit slices, or cheese and meat, and delicious enough to eat endlessly. But in the late summer? A sandwich of ripe tomatoes from your own garden, with mayonnaise and bread, is the best lunch on the planet. (continued on page 6)

E M P I R E 1 From a Chef’s Perspective

Keith Schroeder ’06, C.E.C., Executive Chef Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles

very hard-working, entrepreneurial stepfather, who has been an immense inspiration and influence on my life. My father is a successful (retired) school administrator who I admire Empire recently interviewed Keith Schroeder, executive chef of greatly as well. He has an immense amount of charisma and Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles, to discover his style and an uncanny ability to inspire. My mother is an absolute perfec- what it’s like to command the kitchen in a large hotel. tionist and a wonderful friend. I have tried to borrow elements from all of them in my life. Q. What educational background does one need to become a chef? I was always reasonably rebellious and independent, and very much into rock and roll. The kitchen environment allows me A. It helps to have a formal culinary school education, but to hold onto that rebellion and rock and roll adrenaline. isn’t necessary. What most people don’t realize, however, is how many ways the word “chef” can be applied. Some are Q. How did you start out in your career? primarily cooks, running small restaurants and creating food most of their days. For many, the job is primarily administra- A. My first job was at the Cull House, a small bayside restau- tive, where chefs develop menus, train cooks, and are highly rant in Sayville. I was 14, and a dishwasher there. responsible for financial performance. Restaurant chefs need substantially different skill sets from hotel chefs, culinary Q. What types of food seem to be in demand with diners school chefs and hospital chefs. today? Is it regional?

It is such a demanding job from all angles (financial, physical, A. It’s hard to say. Seafood and Italian are statistically popular, tactile, etc.) that one needs to be either very well rounded or but here in California, so are Latino and various Asian flavors. very well educated – or both. What is exciting for me to see is the level of identity many American regions are developing, largely due to very talented Q. When did you discover that you wanted to be a chef, or chefs “coming home.” Chef Frank Stitt in Alabama, for that you enjoyed cooking? instance, is one of the most definitive American regional chefs in the country. A. When I was an elementary school student, my friends and I would come to my house after school and invent world- I think the South is largely misunderstood, and has by far the class snacks. My mother also was a huge influence on me. most bold and independent identity of any American region. I She would include me in cooking activities for all of the will return there sometime in my career. family gatherings. Q. What do you love about what you do? I never really knew that I wanted to be a chef, though. I have always said that cooking (as a craft) goes out and finds its A. I love teaching and developing others. There is nothing ambassadors. It was my college sweetheart (now my wife) who more satisfying than helping someone who needs guidance helped guide me into the kitchen when I wasn’t quite sure of achieve their dreams. The intimacy of the kitchen environment what direction I wanted to go in life. allows a level of teamwork and closeness that cubicles and office spaces could never allow. Q. Where was your upbringing like? Q. What was your most challenging recipe/meal? A. I grew up on the South Shore of Long Island – Sayville. My parents were divorced when I was four years old. I have a (continued on page 12)

2 EMPIRE COVER STORY Healthy Dining with Finesse

Daniel Smith ’05, C.E.C., Executive Chef, Nicole’s Bistro

t 6´5˝, it’s no surprise that the first time Daniel Smith ’05 A attended college, it was on a basketball scholarship. However, he found the academics less than inspiring feeling that it was his athletic prowess, rather than his intellect, that was prized. So he dropped out of college and was drafted into the Army at the twilight of the Vietnam War. While he didn’t have to see action in the war, he found that the military life suited him, and stayed on to travel to Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria. As someone who came from a family that valued fine cuisine (his mother is a Russian immi- grant) he was “flabbergasted by the food climate,” in Europe, and determined that when he fulfilled his duty to the military, he would return as a civilian. He did return six months after he got out of the service, and enrolled in a branch of an American university, taking classes with an eye to becoming a chef, and earning a degree in restaurant management. He spent a total of five years in Europe, graduating as a certi- fied executive chef from the prestigious La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, in Paris. (French cooking is the foundation for most formal cuisine, notes Smith). The next five years were spent working his way across Europe in restaurants

One of the chef’s sumptuous offerings from Nicole’s Bistro. (continued on page 4)

E M P I R E 3 It was at this point that his career Healthy Dining took a pivotal turn. While considering a number of intriguing offers from (continued from page 3) restaurants in the city, someone referred in France and Germany, and becoming him to Chef Eugene Bernard, a Basque closely affiliated with the European Chef Daniel Smith’s master chef who had cooked for royalty, chapter of the American Culinary including the Shah of Iran and emperor Federation, whom he represented in the Pumpkin Flan of Singapore. As Smith was quoted in an 1980 Culinary Olympics, garnering a article in a Hudson Valley newspaper, 16 Servings bronze medal for his team. “He’d heard about (two – 9˝ cake pans) this cocky young American chef INGREDIENTS who’d just trained 2 cups pumpkin puree in Europe.” While 10 eggs the older man was 1 cup brown sugar looking for someone 1⁄2 cup sugar who he could mentor 3 cups milk and pass the baton 2 cups heavy cream to, the younger 1 tsp. cinnamon chef was equally 1⁄2 tsp. ground ginger eager to learn. “He 1 tbsp. vanilla extract grabbed me – I was 3 cups sugar – caramelized to best described as an line the pans unpolished gem, and he took everything I METHOD had done up to that 1. Caramelize the sugar to amber point and molded me color and pour into molds. Swirl like a piece of clay. around to coat the bottom and He was the one who as much of the sides as possible. made me a chef.” Pour off excess. (Be careful.) At the time, 2. Beat the eggs with both sugars Bernard was till well blended and somewhat executive chef at a dissolved. prominent Catskills 3. Add remaining ingredients, restaurant, Rudi’s mix well and divide into the Big Indian. The two pans. restaurant had an 4. Bake in a water bath for eclectic menu, a approximately 45 minutes at mélange of European 375 degrees. (Until the custard and American-style is set, test by jiggling the pan Nicole’s Bistro in Albany cuisine, and it was lightly.) a pioneer in serving 5. Allow to chill for 6 - 8 hours healthy, fresh food, using raw sugar, or overnight. Although he enjoyed Europe, and alfalfa sprouts and raw vegetables. valued the “almost punitively expen- After Bernard died, Smith became the sive” culinary education he received, executive chef at Rudi’s, and building there were cultural issues (exacerbated upon his mentor’s work, developed a by the politics of the time) and language loyal clientele consisting of people from barriers that made him yearn for home. the city who enjoyed fine cuisine, and Then there was the fact that although local professionals. Still, he was ready to the French loved many things American, building previously called the City move on after six years. “they were not that friendly.” Hotel. In his bio, he explains: “We chose Next stop: The historic Beekman Eventually, with a wife and two small uptown Kingston because it’s the business Arms, America’s oldest continually children to support, Smith returned to and government center of the county, operated inn, where Smith served as New York, to be close to his relatives and we sought a clientele there who executive chef for two years. Smith in his hometown of Phoenicia, in the would appreciate that we had something considers it his training ground for his Catskills – and almost as important, to a bit out of the ordinary to offer.” He next leap – a restaurant of his own. be close to the “culinary Mecca of this continued on the path he had helped He opened The Thymes in Kingston country” – Manhattan. forge at Rudi’s concentrating on upscale, in 1989, settling in a turn-of-the-century (continued on page 9)

4 EMPIRE Guest Essay By Patricia Ingram ’84 Food is Hot in Arizona

This is a vibrant culinary market – and I am right in the middle of it.

he Food Service Industry is hot in the Phoenix, a food service broker (FSB), actual title: broker sales rep Arizona metro area. Tourism is our big business. (BSR). Don’t feel bad if you don’t know what that is, most TResorts, spas, golf courses, private residential chefs and food service people don’t know either. Here goes enclaves for the wealthy, fill the landscape. The trendy, the explanation, try to keep up because it is a circuitous fancy and locally owned restaurants that go along with all route. that are plentiful. An FSB contracts with a food company (manufacturer) We also host some of the premier events in the country, to represent them for the sales and marketing of their The Phoenix Open, Barret-Jackson Auto Auction and products in a given market. Most of their products are yes – there are major culinary festivals as well. The local further processed food in 10- to 30-pound frozen cases. culinary schools (there are at least five) cannot graduate One of our largest manufacturers is an international chefs fast enough. Our local celebrity chefs number some- potato and appetizer company. French fries rule. And, yes, where in the 30 to 40 range. I can carry 30-pound cases. Well, I really am going on and on but this is a vibrant We currently represent about 35 manufacturers, and are culinary market – and I am right in the middle of it as a paid a commission on percentage of sales. Either party can food service broker. revoke a contract at any time with a 30-day notice. Oh, by the way, we have about eight or nine broker sales reps to The 411 on Food Brokers cover all those manufacturers in this huge Phoenix metro I’m not a culinarian or restaurateur. Heck, I don’t even market. This is a crazy business of smoke and mirrors. No have a food handler’s card. But I know my way around one says it out loud, but with so few people it’s not really “the back of the house” and I fear no flattop or fryer. I’m possible to execute. (continued on page 6)

E M P I R E 5 for a retail food chain that had a 36 Food is Hot percent market share and a huge ad budget. I was well paid and enjoyed (continued from page 5) all the perks that come from being the First, you creatively “sell” to your Pass the Colander largest local advertiser in town. Ah, it (continued from page 1) manufacturer that you are up to doing was fun while it lasted, but the chain got the job. Sales reports won’t help you sold and absorbed by one of the big guys. I’m pretty adventurous about tell the story. You have to be a spy and In 1999, I thought since I had a back- food and I think you should be too. constantly be aware of what all the ground in the food business and regularly The world is made of good things. competitive manufacturers and their worked with retail food brokers why not You don’t have to leave home to brokers are doing and report that, along give being a food service broker a shot? have a food adventure – try some- with sales info, back to your manufac- I was used to marketing and posi- thing new at the ethnic grocery or turer. tioning products to reach an intended the farmer’s market. Grow a fruit or Second, you’re selling to the all- target. With a little help from some chefs vegetable this year you haven’t tried powerful food service distributor. An in the family, and my daughter who before. Look for the new eatery FSB slots, takes orders and delivers the had a career as a front-end manager for and see what they have to inspire food to the food service operator. They several restaurants, I marketed myself you to make or eat something that’s are the group we all love to hate because into the food service biz. different. Go local, and find out that they have the power. We all jump up and I should have known it would be a even in America it’s more than food: down acting like we can force them to wild ride when the sales manager said at the annual Apple Pie Festival do what we want, but the reality is they she would let me get settled and work in Dummerston, Vermont, it’s a control what goes into their warehouse with a few of the sales people for a few cultural experience. and what gets promoted. Market money, weeks. On my training day with her she In the meantime, I’m cooking promotional dollars, programs … I could took me to a few of her old accounts pasta I brought back from my last go on but you get the picture of what is and declared: there – you’re trained. She visit to Rome, and it’s nearly done. needed to get products into the slots of a said she opened the door for me and she Pass me the colander, please. distributor. thought I had the right stuff. All I needed Mangi bene. m Distributors also do an endless amount to do was to learn about the food and of sales meetings, VIP tours, trainings how to get in to see the operators. Done. Deborah Smith is a faculty and the trade shows that take two days mentor with the college’s Center for to put together and two days for the A Day in the Life of a BSR Distance Learning. She also does show. Yes, those same eight or nine freelance writing for a number of people, with maybe a few more, do all Here’s what would be a typical day for me: To work by 7:30 at the latest to pack food publications, including Bon the work. Appetite and Taste of Italia. Third, selling is “on the street.” In my samples in coolers and load the car other words, packing samples and calling for the days calls. Hopefully, the sample on restaurants and food service opera- guy has my stuff that I requested on my tors. A call could be a white tablecloth, shelf in the freezer. He is a 19-year-old a sandwich deli, a gourmet burger place, who thinks we are nuts to do what we a wine bar or the newest trend in the do. He is studying to be a firefighter. tizers. As we do the “cutting” (prep and business, the make and bake places. You can’t make calls from 11:00 a.m. showing of food) one is taking notes. These are storefront facilities set up as to 1:30 p.m. or from 4:30 on. So you How cute is that? But he better learn fast commercial kitchens with chefs to help have to hustle. or he’ll sink. The BSR’s father owned you prep and package restaurant food I meet up with a BSR. His morning bars so he can really help these guys to take home. At last count we have 14 calls are with a very high-end steak house – he’ll stay longer. different chains opened in this market! in North Scottsdale. Not the food served Picture these calls in our 100-degree So there’s the 411 on what the food to guests but employee meals 1,000 per Phoenix heat. You usually can’t make a service broker business is all about. I’ll week … I’ll take it. full day before loosing product. talk about a day in the life of a broker Next a $10 gourmet hamburger place. People ask me, do you know a partic- next. But first a bit about how I got in They are opening a second place soon. ular celebrity chef? I usually do. Have this business. Late morning, call a restaurant expan- I been in the new high-end resort or sion. spa? … yes. The multimillion-dollar About Me Meet up with different BSRs in college residential enclaves? … yes I’ve seen all town 15 miles away. Huge NY deli chain their clubhouse restaurants. It’s a back- I graduated from Empire State College near the college. They need to do happy breaking and long-hour business, but it’s at Buffalo in 1984 with a degree in hour with lots of apps and fries. Got to also crazy fun. m advertising art. I was 40. That same year love that! I moved my family to Arizona (single Next, two guys just out of college mom, four kids). A few years later, I was opening a bar. They need fries and appe- the director of advertising and marketing

6 EMPIRE Blending Haute Cuisine with Higher Learning

by Marie Morrison ’06

In a felicitous blending of haute cuisine and higher learning, Empire State College, in the early ’90s, brought its degree programs to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, opening the door for numerous chefs and other food service staff to acquire bachelor’s degrees (and later M.B.A.s) in their chosen field. Now professors in the culinary arts, in wine studies and in hospitality management, several graduates recently tipped their hats – or toques, in this case – to Empire State College for the academic creden- tials that allowed them to go on to important teaching positions at the institute. They remember with gratitude such guides and mentors as Drs. Fred Mayo, Carole Ford, Alan Belasen and Steven Lewis, whose encouragement and support meant so much to them.

ichael Weiss ’92, one of the very first graduates, is now professor Min wine studies, who came to the CIA after an early career as a sommelier in numerous hotels and restaurants across the country. “How to taste wine and serve it with food may be the most important information I share with our students. A poor wine and food pairing can really ruin the flavors of the wine and the food. A great wine and food combination can increase the appreciation of both products and create new flavors. It is similar to two musicians jamming and being ‘in the zone.’” The son of refugees who survived the Holocaust, Weiss was raised in Canada, where relatives ran a hotel and restaurant in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. Professor Weiss learned about food while

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E M P I R E 7 Haute Cuisine and Higher Education

(continued from page 7) working in restaurants and hotels or catering, but he especially challenging and accommodating at the same time, pushing loved working with wine and pairing it with food. him out of his element as a chef into one as a student required When the opportunity came to enroll in an Empire State to meet homework deadlines and required readings while still College program brought to the CIA by its director of educa- fulfilling his teaching role. tion, Dr. Fred Mayo, he took advantage of it for its flexibility Active and ambitious, in his spare time Kowalski runs a and the quality of the educators teaching the classes. private catering business. He also plays hard, particularly Now, he teaches all aspects of wine from the growing of squash and soccer, and to top it off, he is now working on his the grapes to making and aging the wine. He suggests that M.B.A. at SUNY New Paltz. a Riesling white grape is the best wine to serve with spicy, smoked or salty foods, and recommends Kostantin Frank from New York, Cave Spring from Ontario or German wines from James Maraldo ’93 the Mosel regions. “If you are trying to match different foods James Maraldo ’93 is associate with one wine, I suggest Brut sparkling wines or a red Pinot professor in culinary arts, Noir,” he says. teaching the cuisines of Europe His two “best value” recommendations are California and the Mediterranean. A wineries Fume Blanc or Benziger’s Cabernet Sauvignon or native Staten Islander, he grew Syrah. He also likes Portuguese wines from the Douro, Spanish up in the Italian-American wines from Bierzo, Italian wines, such as Rosso di Montalcino neighborhood of Rosebank. or Col di Sasso by Banfi and Rhone reds from France. His father had been a U.S. Right before this issue went to print, Weiss was informed Navy Seabee in the Pacific during World War II and his mother that he was chosen (along with his colleague Steven Kolpan) as a nurse. Maraldo carried on the military tradition by serving in the recipient of the European Wine Council’s award for educa- the U. S. Marine Corps. His youngest brother was a paramedic tion for 2007. on site at 9/11 within the first few minutes. “He has a lot to Salut! Professor Weiss. say, but cannot,” says Maraldo. He also was in the first CIA graduating class from the Empire State College program. Earlier, he had been a vice John Kowalski ’94 president and trader at a New York brokerage house. When From washing dishes in a the firm was bought out overnight, “They gave me a big check. restaurant in Southbridge, I walked. I had been taking culinary classes as a hobby at NYC Massachusetts, when he was Technical College. I started at the bottom, just worked and growing up, to professor in learned. Paid dues. No other way,” is his succinct summing up culinary arts at the CIA, John of his culinary career. Kowalski ’94, has come a Beyond cooking and sipping and testing in its professional long way from his emigration kitchens, the CIA offers studies dealing with the food and from Poland as a boy in 1964, hospitality industries and the education of cooks and food neither speaking nor writing service people beyond its headquarters in Hyde Park. any English. His loneliness led him to spend many hours watching his mother cook their native dishes. Now he is involved in curriculum development and currently Craig Goldstein ’94 teaching the Garde Manger class at the CIA, where students Craig Goldstein ’94 is assistant learn the “cold side of the kitchen,” which includes sausage professor in hospital manage- making, curing and brining, reception foods and plated ment, teaching such classes as appetizers. They also make smoked fish, pates, relishes management principles, cost and compotes. control and finances of the Before coming to the Culinary Institute, Prof. Kowalski food service industry. worked as a corporate executive chef for Motor Hotel Goldstein came to the CIA Management out of Dallas, where he did a lot of traveling looking for a position closer to for the company. After several years, he joined the CIA in a home rather than the traveling job he had with the ARA food teaching position. service company, and found the Empire State College program. Kowalski was attracted to the Empire State College He says his experiences at Empire State College gave him an program because it allowed him to take classes on campus opportunity to observe the difference in teaching adults. He while working as a chef. “The other instructors and I did not brought that experience into his own classes, he says. really have a lot of teaching experience at the time, but each Like the other culinary professions, he also likes to cook, but and every one of us were great chefs with a lot of practical particularly likes baking. However, he is looking forward to a experience in the field.” He found Empire State College to be new career after retirement – helping Habitat for Humanity.

8 EMPIRE Dean Ronald DeSantis Gov. Pataki sharply curtailed economic development money ’94, ’02 in the Hudson Valley, at the same time a number of big employers like IBM, shut their offices in Kingston. Then, Dean Ronald DeSantis ’94, Smith concedes, during an interview in Albany last winter, he is starting a program that had stretched himself way too thin. After eight years running partners with national food Thymes and three-and-a-half Jake’s Moon, it was time to services and the U. S. Dept. move on. of Agriculture to help school “As much as I created a real strong team, there’s some- cafeteria food workers prepare thing about my nature and the climate I create that required healthier food for children that my presence,” he says. not only is good for them, but also looks good. The program Around the same time, an old acquaintance, Nicole Plisson, will be carried out on a national level, with campuses in who owns and operates the tony Nicole’s Bistro was looking various locations across the country. for an executive chef. After some prodding, Smith decided to DeSantis, one of only 63 certified master chefs in the close his restaurants and move to Albany. country, says he has enjoyed his career in the food industry. At Nicole’s, Smith still tries to focus on healthy dining with “The Marines picked my vocation for me,” sending him to eclectic influences. Joking that maybe it’s his age – he’s 53, school to learn to cook. After getting an associate degree from and at the time of the interview about to become a grandfa- the CIA, he worked in hotels across the country and in Europe, ther – he is pleased with what he sees as a trend toward fresh but returned to the CIA in 1986. Shortly after returning to healthy food among both the baby-boom generation and the CIA, DeSantis took advantage of the Empire State College generations behind them. program. DeSantis credits the program with giving him needed So what’s the next act for this executive chef? flexibility as well as an appropriate course of study. He also “I’m not sure – I’m excited about a bunch of things,” he has taken advantage of the college’s M.B.A. program and says. “I hope it will be something that ties into marketing and was in the charter group of students. Asked about his greatest nutrition. challenge, he says “The challenge for me is being on my “I’m excited about the awareness of health and the envi- game so that food is as good as it can be – at the CIA or ronment as it pertains to local, organically grown food. It’s anywhere else.” interesting to see as a consumer three aisles (in a local grocery chain) dedicated to fat-free, low fat, and natural and organic food,” he says. Healthy Dining He’s recently been teaching as an adjunct at SUNY Cobleskill, and considering going on for a master’s degree. (continued from page 4) What his Bachelor of Science degree did, he explained, was healthy American food, with a foundation in French cooking, enable him to pull together the strands of his wide and but throwing in a few unexpected influences from Tex-mex to diverse education, and “formalize it, put a title on it.” Taking Indonesian fare. marketing, business administration and even a statistics class Focusing on locally grown, fresh produce, the restaurant to supplement his culinary background, proved both a chal- drew weekenders as well as locals. In 1994, he opened his lenge and a pleasure. “The experience I had with Empire second restaurant; which was a homecoming of sorts. The made me realize, I can do all of this.” m owner of Rudi’s Big Indian had fallen ill and needed to sell; Smith saw the opportunity, and bought the restaurant, re-christening it Jake’s Moon. Smith prided himself on being willing to pass on his knowledge and his gifts to young people coming up just as Bernard did for him. “[My wife and I] tried to SAVE THE DATE create an atmosphere for the people who worked for us, to give them perhaps what we hadn’t experienced A Summer Evening in Saratoga on the other side: appreciation, honesty, providing them with mentorship. I had one man with me for five The Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC years, two guys in the kitchen for seven years, a dish- Thursday, August 2, 2007 washer who was with us for six years,” and given the high-turnover world of restaurant work, “I am very *Alumni in the Capital District will receive an invitation. proud of that.” If you live outside the area and would like information, He then took on some major consulting work; Please call the Alumni House at 518 587-2100 ext. 2344. yet after a number of successful years, a combina- tion of factors began to work against him. First,

E M P I R E 9 Business Couldn’t Be Sweeter

Dean Paton ’06 in the Family Honey Business

olden Blossom Honey has been must think about disease and contamina- ensuring correct pricing. Paton describes in Dean Paton’s family for tion, as well as the impact of antibiotics them “as the ligament between the buyer G generations (it was founded by and pesticides. There’s also concern and the company. his great-grandfather 85 years ago), but about the large tracts of land across the “A lot of what modern business is it wasn’t an automatic assumption that nation that are being taken out of agri- about is outsourcing,” Paton says. The he’d work there. Although the business cultural production. For example, Paton fewer employees, the less overhead the was always part of the fabric of his life, says, in 10 years, Florida may no longer company has to deal with. It relies on he was never expected to show up after be a major producer of oranges. ad agencies to build brand recognition, school and on weekends. But some things will never change. “because we really don’t have time or “It’s not like a mom and pop store “This will never be a centralized money to hire a marketing department.” where everyone pitches in to do this or industry,” Paton says. It also is very The New York City-based ad agency that,” he says. However, when his aunt, labor intensive. According to the Golden places ads in such outlets as CBS 1010 the company president and CEO, fell Blossom Honey web site, bees must Wins, Rachel Ray’s magazine, Food & ill, it became apparent that Paton ’06, visit two million flowers to make one Wine and Cooking Light. who had built a career as a newspaper pound of honey. Although there are One constant has been the company’s reporter, would need to join his father, upwards of 50,000 bees in one hive, a attention to detail: the shape of the the new president and CEO, in running single honeybee makes only about 1⁄2 bottle, the label quality, the sturdiness of the company. Now director of retail a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. All the plastic are all factors in marketing the distribution, Paton, 31, works closely of this small activity adds up, however. honey. Paton likens the business to that a with large honey co-ops, food brokers A Cornell University paper released in spice dealer of the Middle Ages: “all your and distributors to get his company’s 2000 concluded that the direct value of customers want the really good stuff.” product into 30 grocery store chains honeybee pollination to U.S. agriculture Paton graduated from the Center for across the Eastern seaboard. is $14.6 billion annually. Distance Learning in 2006, because he Golden Blossom Honey is a premium The process of getting honey from the believes that in today’s economy, you honey that is made from nectar from hive to the store shelves is a complicated can’t afford to stop learning. “I think clover, sage, buckwheat and orange one. Once the bees in the hive produce programs like Empire State College’s blossoms. It primarily purchases product the honey, it is then taken to a warehouse are the wave of the future, and I’ll tell from a large Iowa-based co-operative and put into a machine, which extracts it you why: People need to regularly and of beekeepers, as well as a number of from the hives using centrifugal force. It’s constantly evaluate their education and smaller independent beekeepers. then placed in metal drums and shipped their skills and add to them. Job descrip- Although Paton enjoyed the rough and by the truckload to a honey co-op where tions change so radically; types of jobs tumble of the police beat for a weekly it’s tested and graded. What Golden come and go. You can’t just go to college in Queens and other newspapers, he Blossom looks for is top-grade honey four years and work the next 30 years said he feels satisfaction in the steadier with “perfect color, perfect taste and in the same way anymore. I mean, how industry of selling honey, marketing a less water.” It is the water in honey that many of us were using the Internet in food that is high in nutrients, environ- causes it to crystallize after a time, Paton 1990, and that wasn’t that long ago. It’s mentally friendly to produce, and good explains. not enough to be college educated; you for the beekeepers who are able to keep To remain profitable, this business has have to be so much more, you have to be their land unspoiled, and lush with wild- had to grow lean, Paton said. Where continually learning.” m flowers or groves. once it employed upwards of 40 people, Yet, like every business, it is subject it has decreased to only four – and a to changes and trends, and some of network of food brokers and distribu- those can be ominous. For example, tors, and, in the later stages of marketing, Paton explains, globalization means that an advertising agency. honey is produced in places like India The food brokers are paid a percentage and China as well as the U.S., and trans- of the sales and they are responsible for ported around the world, so distributors getting the product on store shelves, and

10 EMPIRE Questions for Mimi Fix, Pastry Chef, Former Bakery Owner and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Student at Empire State College.

Q. How did you become a pastry A. I began as a sole proprietor, oper- chef? ating the shop for 10 years. Near the Evolution end, I took on a partner and sold my A. I sort of fell into it. I graduated share to him when I moved south. with dual B.S. degrees in journalism After moving, I opened another shop of a and home economics from Syracuse in Tennessee, and kept that for five University, but I loved to bake and years. began selling wholesale from my kitchen. (I had a license from the Q. How did you get interested in food Pastry N.Y.S. Department of Agriculture preparation? and Markets.) I learned from books and by asking questions. And baking, A. I was always doing things with baking, baking. my hands – sewing, crochet, paper Chef mache – baking was an extension of Q. When did you become a bakery creativity. owner, and what types of baked goods did you sell? Q. What kind of education does one need to be a pastry chef? A. My home-based wholesale business (1979) grew and I moved to a small A. Someone can go to a culinary neighborhood shop the following year. school and pay big bucks to learn Everything was scratch made, with proper technique, or someone can a healthy, all-natural philosophy. I become an assistant in a bakery and believed that baked goods should be learn on the job. healthy, but taste great. Q. Why did you enroll in Empire State Q. What is the challenge of making College? pastries, as opposed to other types A. After 25 years, my hands were no of cooking? longer able to continue heavy physical A. Baking is science-based. Chemical work. But I loved the baking/food reactions amongst the ingredients world and the interdisciplinary degree create products, so proper formula allowed me to continue in my favorite balance is necessary. And people eat field. with their eyes first, so everything must look appetizing. Q. What do you intend to do with your degree in food studies? Q. Where was your bakery located? A. I am currently a nutrition educator Who was your clientele? with the Ulster County Cooperative A. Syracuse; my customers were local Extension and an adjunct instructor Mimi Fix with her mentor, Eric Zencey folks in the area; plus several large through the Ulster Community wholesale accounts at the university. College’s Professional and Continuing Education Department. m Q. How long did you operate the bakery and with whom? (business partners, family, solo?)

E M P I R E 11 A. It allowed me to study independently, Chef’s Perspective Q. What are the career challenges you as I have always had challenges with the have faced? pace of classroom study. The Empire (continued from page 2) State College experience was far more A. My most challenging meal to prepare A. Because cooking is a lifestyle, sepa- intense and intimate. I have always said was a three-course practical examina- rating family time from work time that I learned more in the three years I tion menu for my American Culinary has been immensely difficult. I have a spent at Empire State College than I did Federation certified executive chef prac- wonderful wife and two children who in all of my school years prior … tical. There were six other chefs trying have been immensely patient with me as to achieve this credential, most of whom my career has grown. Q. What’s it like working for a large failed at least once, and a flurry of judges hotel and how does it compare to the inn and high-pressure activity. It was more Q. Why has interest in food/cooking/ you were with formerly? the environment than the food that made gourmet coffee and other products, the situation so intense. skyrocketed in recent years (Food A. In a large hotel, I create more systems, Network, Rachel Ray, etc.) train more, and spend a lot more time Q. How would you describe your style developing chefs than cooking. A great A. I think that food has always been of cooking? chef is not necessarily a great cook, but integral in American culture. With the coaxes great cooking out of his people. A. I am influenced by all of my eating diversification of media, the boom in experiences – from the vendors selling culinary schools, and the inventiveness of fresh sliced fruits and cucumber with young chefs and food professionals, the chili and lime in Tijuana, Mexico, to grasp that the big corporations had on the farmer’s markets in California – all what we eat as Americans has, I think, help to shape my style. I cook as a way been diluted in the last decade. It is joyful to reflect and respect my personal eating for me to see supermarkets like Trader Chef Keith Schroeder’s experiences. I haven’t quite defined my Joe’s and Whole Foods, for instance, style yet. Sometimes, I think that styles take over market share of the old, super- Basic are confining. Perhaps I am fluid and market moguls. There are examples like Vinaigrette free-form in style. that everywhere in the food business. Small niche providers are hacking down INGREDIENTS the old, stodgy brands – and I love it! Q. Who mentored/trained you initially? 1 garlic clove, smashed 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard A. My first real cooking mentor was Q. Why did you come to Empire State 1/4 cup sherry vinegar Chef Mark Benoit. He was the first chef College? 3/4 cup to 1 cup extra virgin that helped me to see the finer details olive oil of cooking. salt pepper fresh chives, minced

Tuscan Kitchen METHOD 1. Combine the garlic, Dijon Crostini Neri METHOD and sherry vinegar in a bowl. 1. Cut in small pieces onion, parsley 2. Slowly whisk in the oil. Serves five as an appetizer and garlic. 3. Add salt and pepper to taste. (canapes with chicken liver pate) 2. Fry in the olive oil over a low 4. Throw a handful of minced flame. chives in at the end. INGREDIENTS 3. Once soft, add the chicken liver 1 lb. chicken livers, cut up and cook gently adding broth and/or You can change the oil, the 1 red onion wine if necessary. vinegar – add honey or brown handful of parsley 4. Once blended, add capers, anchovy sugar – add chiles or onions – 4 tbsp. olive oil and butter. pecorino or blue cheese – just 1 clove garlic 5. Cook an hour or so until the play with the ratio. pinch of salt mixture has a paste like texture. 1 tbsp. capers 6. When pate is ready, toast thin I like vinaigrettes with beef 2 anchovy fillets, cut small slices of bread and spread pate. and fish – and of course with 3 tbsp. butter vegetables and salads. chicken broth and white wine as This recipe comes to you from a cooking class we enjoyed on the needed to taste alumni trip to Italy.

12 EMPIRE 2006 DONORS REPORT

Dear Friends,

As chairman of the Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors, I am honored to once again have the opportunity to present to you our annual Donors Report. Thanks to you, the thousands of alumni, employees and friends listed here, the Empire State College Foundation received an unprecedented level of support in 2006 – more than $1.9 million in this, the first year since the public announcement of the Learners First campaign.

Whether you are a student, graduate, employee or friend, this is truly a remarkable time to be associated with Empire State College. The success of our fundraising activities is paralleled in the expansion of services for our current and prospective students. For example, in just the past year we have seen the implementation of a centralized Student Information Center that is ready to personally answer questions and provide assistance, the launch of an extremely successful online registration and student accounting process, and the implementation of a term calendar system focused on helping our students design, plan and prepare for their studies and make steady progress towards their degree.

Increasingly, securing the resources necessary to continue to make these types of positive enhancements is one of the greatest challenges facing the David L. Smith college. Fortunately, our alumni and friends continue to help us meet this challenge. In fact, more and more of our alumni and friends are choosing to include Empire State College in their annual philanthropic plans – look for these members of our Loyalty Leaders Society highlighted in the following pages. Ongoing support from these and all of our supporters enables us to continue to expand our ability to offer adults access to a degree by expanding and enhancing an institution that is explicitly designed and dedicated to serving them.

On behalf of the Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors, and the students whom we are here to serve, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to all of our supporters listed here. Your personal investment in this institution contributes greatly to our continued success.

Sincerely,

David L. Smith Chairman, Empire State College Foundation Board of Directors

1 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE 2006 2006 Recognition Societies Donors The Empire Society $5,000 + The Empire Society recognizes the college’s most THE EMPIRE Alan and Marlene ’91 generous alumni, employees and friends who SOCIETY Kaufman contribute a minimum of $5,000 in one fund year. Conrad and Virginia Klee Our sincerest gratitude Foundation, Inc. is extended to the Roger L. Kresge The Hour Society $2,535 - $4,999 members of The Empire Foundation This society provides a unique opportunity for Society. With their gifts Carol Kresge Polakovich Robert ’98 and individuals to make a contribution equivalent of $5,000 or more, Kathryn Lento to the cost of operating the entire college – its these donors contrib- Richard and Beth Liebich centers, units and programs – for one hour. uted 81 percent of the Long Island Community $1,907,785 received Foundation Lucent Technologies by the Empire State The Scholar Society $1,191 - $2,534 Foundation College Foundation. Donors in this category provide the funds which Joseph ’80 and We are honored to have Laurel Anne Mancino represent the tuition and fees for a half-time the support of these Stephen Keep Mills ’89 student at Empire State College. donors listed below. New York Community Trust Anonymous Barbara A. O’Connell ’76 The Kindred Society $592 - $1,190 A. Lindsay and Olive B. Donors at this level are recognized for providing Adirondack Trust Company O’Connor Foundation funds representative of the average cost of Alfred Z. Solomon Richard Lounsbery childcare during a term for those students Charitable Trust Foundation Arthur H. Rodgers juggling their career and family responsibilities American Income David M. Rodgers while pursuing their degree. Life Insurance AT&T Foundation Dorothy Rodgers Morton Bahr ’83, ’95 Joanne Rodgers The Academic Society $410 - $591 Kathryn G. Boyer ’78 Roslyn Savings Donors in this society provide the funds which Bernard Rapoport Foundation David and Lynn Smith represent the average cost of books and supplies Foundation Booth Ferris Foundation Stewart’s Shops for a full-time student for one 16-week session. Phillip B. Catchings Susan and John Turben Charitable Leadership Family Foundation Susan ’72 and The Distinguished Alumni Society $175 - $409 Foundation John ’94 and Jane Corrou John Turben Recognizes those donors who contribute $5 for Phyllis E. Dake Foundation T. Rowe Price Program each year since the college was founded in 1971. Phyllis E. Dake for Charitable Giving Annette and James Del Rossi ’96 THE HOUR The Mentor Society $120 - $174 Michael T. and SOCIETY Established to recognize the unique and significant JeanAnn Dennis Gifts of $2,535 - 4,999 relationship between student and mentor, Fidelity Charitable donors at this level provide the funds which Gift Fund Anonymous Sheldon L. Gleason ’77 represent the average cost for a student to meet The Aber D. Unger Doris Goldberg Foundation, Inc. with his/her mentor three times. Price Chopper’s Robert B. Carey Golub Foundation Reed M. Coughlan Colleen and Lewis Golub The Anniversary Society $35 - $119 Joyce E. Elliott Clifford M. Gross ’79 Bailey M. Geeslin Established in 2001 to honor Empire State James ’06 and GE Foundation College’s 30th anniversary. Members contribute Mary Elizabeth Hall Infra-Comm Corporation $1 for each year since the college was founded Stewart W. and Willma C. Hugh B. Hammett Hoyt Foundation, Inc. in 1971. Robert ’96 and John ’99 and Carolyn Johnson Geri ’02 Huber Joseph B. Moore and John R. Oishei Foundation Elizabeth Chiquoine James ’79 and Verizon Foundation Christine ’93 Karcher

2 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. THE SCHOLAR Katherine P. Dixon Michael D. Pijanowski ’00 EdVenture Partners, Inc. THE SOCIETY Shelley B. Dixon-Williams Deborah S. Raymond L. DISTINGUISHED William J. Ehmann Putnam ’92, ’95, ’02 Kaminski ’97, ’03 ALUMNI SOCIETY Gifts of $1,191 - 2,534 Barbara Q. Ferrari ’91 F. David Sheppard James and Darlene Keane J. David Ferris ’84 Paula L. Slocum ’78 Rita M. Kelly Gifts of $175 - 409 Anonymous David Gechlik William D. Socha ’86 Mary G. Klinger Fernand Brunschwig and Gerald W. Gentner ’74 Elizabeth H. Steltenpohl The LA Group, PC Anonymous Jennifer Herring Arthur W. Haberl ’79 Alice Sullivan Catherine J. Leaker George D. Nancy A. Bunch Brian Heidtke Lorraine and Russell Tharp Timothy Lehmann, III Abercrombie ’74 Silvia Chelala Heidtke Foundation Melba J. Tolliver ’98 Nicola Martinez Kenneth T. Abrams Community Foundation Lee Herman Robert Trullinger and Janet Wood Paul J. Adamo ’99 of Herkimer and Oneida Michael C. Hubbard ’75 Julia Daniels McGregor ’79, ’81 Joseph Angiello Counties, Inc. IBM Corporation United Way of Michael Merrill Paul William James W. Cornell ’02, ’03 David ’96 and Greater Rochester National Business Annetts ’01, ’03 Brian F. Curran ’80 Sandra ’98 Kelver Wal-Mart Promotions, Inc. Paul J. Archibald ’94 The Desmond Cynthia J. Krendl Evelyn H. Wells Darcy L. O’Loughlin Denise G. Armstrong ’05 William C. Ferrero Elizabeth Hurley Lawrence Patricia A. Winters ’87 Wayne E. Ouderkirk Rose Marie Armstrong ’74 Reva B. Golden Lilla Lyon Diana Worby Christine Persico Michele R. Ball ’94, ’96 Susan T. Hollis Alan D. Mandell Xerox Corporation Deborah C. Keith M. Batman ’76 HSBC Bank USA Brian A. Marshall ’01 Frank Zuraf Peterson ’96, ’00 Barbara A. Batten Jeremy Jones Elliott and Cathy Masie Larry Reynolds Dorothy M. Beal ’76 Key Bank, N.A. Dina Beaumont Patricia J. Lefor Meg Benke James W. Lytle Ruth M. Bentsen ’92 James and Lynn Malanson Carol S. Berry ’80 William and Cleve A. Berry ’96, ’00 Shirley McClary Cynthia E. Bloom ’97 Robert P. Milton Martin N. Bloom ’74 Judith H. Morgan ’90, ’91 Joan Kendig Bozer ’77 Praxiis Business Linda V. Bradley ’74 Advisors, LLC Anne M. Breznau The Procter & Kenneth Lee Broz ’03 Gamble Fund Samuel A. Margaret M. Reuss Camilleri, Jr. ’95 Christine S. Rodgers Robert P. Cammarata ’94 Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Erin K. Catone Rodgers Jianhao Chen Claudia Shacter- Barbara Clarke deChabert ’90 Margaret D. Clark-Plaskie Sun Microsystems, Inc. David Cohen ’81 Edward S. Todd H. Kenneth Cohen Virginia Weiss ’88 * Mark A. Collazo ’01 Karen West ’84, ’95 Consolidated Edison David C. Yamada ’99 Company of NY Inc. Marian Conway ’01, ’04 Edrie Amy Cote ’86 THE KINDRED Nancy J. Coyle ’96, ’97 SOCIETY Doreen M. DeCrescenzo Gifts of $592 - 1,190 Fleury Dessources ’85 Brigid M. Donelan ’81 Anonymous Elaine M. Donohue ’79 Deborah P. Amory and Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Lorraine Herbst Empire State College students prepare for their big moment. Eckelhoff The Andrew U. Ferrari Maurice Edwards Marjorie L. Elder ’97 Foundation THE ACADEMIC Mary A. Araneo ’85 The Masie Center Chad ’99 and Phyllis M. Erwin ’90 David M. Asch ’83 Richard Mattox SOCIETY Catherine Roberts Anthony S. Esposito Marie P. Balet David and Ingrid Gifts of $410 - 591 Elizabeth Rosenberg ’97 Larae Essman Frederick and Helen Baum McCauley Alta S. Schallehn Doris C. Etelson ’75 Pasquale J. Beldotti, Jr. ’75 S. Frances Mercer Anonymous Anthony J. Sgro, Jr. ’02 Christopher J. Feeley ’86 Meredith L. Brown Merrill Lynch & Jane A. Altes Diane Thiele Thomas Ferguson ’74 Evelyn T. Buchanan ’99 Company, Inc. Keith Amparado ’88 Evelyn K. Ting Terry Fokas ’93 Carol M. Carnevale George W. Milner ’80, ’96 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Craig A. Tunwall Allan D. Foote Anne P. Cobb MLB Construction Bowen Ann S. Turner ’86 James A. Fumia ’94 Carol A. Conry ’91 Services, LLC Lynda J. Cassell ’00 Charles I. Underhill ’80 General Motors Merry Conway-Cosandey Phillip G. Myers ’88 Ruth ’74 and Cynthia Ward Corporation Brenda L. Mitchell Nesler Edwin Decker ’74 Elizabeth A. Webster ’81 Donald T. Gilbert, Jr. ’76 Copeland ’92, ’94 Suzanne G. Parker ’83 Nan M. DiBello Barry A. White ’96 Joyce Gilbert- Joan B. Davis ’97 Jeffrey B. Pascal ’90, ’92 Mollie A. Maureen Winney Layman ’90, ’92 Marjorie Dickinson Gregor Paslawsky Duerr ’01, ’02, ’04 Carol Zajac Justin A. Giordano

*Deceased 3 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

Learners First The Campaign for Empire State College

Learners First n late 2005, Empire State College kicked off The Campaign for a series of events around New York state Empire State College I to announce its most ambitious fundraising campaign ever. Learners First, The Campaign for $51.5 Empire State College will allow us to make the Million critical investments necessary to assure our standing 50 as the nation’s premier college for adults. 45 40 With more than $41 million in gifts and pledges already committed, the Learners First campaign was announced 35 to the public in late 2005 in order to secure the addi- 30 tional support necessary to meet our $51.5 million goal. 25 I am very happy to report that Empire State College’s alumni and friends have been incredibly responsive. 20 In fact, the college exceeded its previous single-year 15 fundraising record of $1,223,182 by 56 percent in 2006, receiving a total of $1,907,800. Overall, more 10 than 9,200 of our alumni, employees and friends have 5 lent their support to the Learners First campaign with a major gift commitment or through their support of the Annual Fund. As you can see from the table below, these contributions bring the Learners First campaign total to $43.5 million, representing 85 percent of our $51.5 million goal.

Private Federal State Philanthropy Funding Support Totals

Goal $9,000,000 $6,000,000 $36,500,000 $51,500,000

Commitments Received $7,447,980 $2,609,923 $33,440,000 $43,497,903

Percent Completed 83% 43% 92% 85%

(As of December 31, 2006)

4 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Learners First (continued) our alumni had their first-time or increased contribu- The continued success of the Learners First campaign tion to the 2006 Annual Fund matched. In total, the will allow us to: Annual Fund received a record $493,561 in 2006, a • extend access to more adult learners 10 percent increase over our 2005 total. This support • recognize and celebrate outstanding academic combined with a $100,000 match, thanks to the suc- performance cessful completion of the Turben Challenge, accounted • enhance the capabilities of our faculty and staff for $593,561 of the $1.9 million in philanthropic dol- • add new programs and support services lars received by the college in 2006. A special thank • develop a physical and technological infrastructure you to the Turben family for offering this unique chal- that will sustain future growth lenge and to all of our alumni who helped make it a success. Your generosity is truly inspiring to us all. Thanks to the generosity of our thousands of sup- porters listed in these pages, Empire State College will As we move into the final two years of the campaign, increase its capacity and, thus, widen the door to with our goal clearly in sight, I would like to thank intellectual fulfillment and economic betterment for everyone who has and will contribute to our success; thousands of adult learners around the state, the from our Learners First campaign chairs, Susan Turben nation and beyond. ’72 and Richard Liebich, to our Annual Fund chair, Melba Tolliver ’98, to all of our generous donors. The Empire State College Annual Fund and Please know that this college, including our alumni, the $100,000 Turben Challenge employees, students and the communities that we serve, is stronger because of you. In order to underscore the importance of the Annual Fund as the way that the majority of the college’s Sincerely, alumni will participate in the Learners First campaign, alumna and Empire State College Foundation board member Susan Turben ’72 and her husband Jack issued the $100,000 Turben Challenge to our alumni in 2006. Jeremy Jones, Executive Director Thanks to this special opportunity, more than 2,100 of Empire State College Foundation

GROWTH OF PRIVATE SUPPORT FOR THE EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION

$2,000,000 $1,900,000 $1,800,000 $1,700,000 $1,600,000 $1,500,000 $1,400,000 $1,300,000 $1,200,000 $1,100,000 $1,000,000 $900,000 $800,000 *2000 was the $700,000 final year of $600,000 our Promise $500,000 Continues $400,000 campaign, which success- $300,000 fully raised in $347,119 $566,342 $558,327 $1,223,182 $716,892 $668,181 $944,108 $1,157,440 $1,054,101 $1,907,785 $0 excess of $8 million ’97 ’98 ’99 ’00* ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 in support of Empire State College.

5 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

THE National Grid Theodore J. VanDeVen ’96 Roselynn S. Dow Beverly K. Nichols ’77 DISTINGUISHED Jean-Claude Nedelec Michael T. Walczyk ’99 Sandra B. DuBois ’78 James Nichols Evelyn F. Nelson ’79 Edward Warzala Regina Durazzo ’01 Thomas P. O’Dea ’93 ALUMNI SOCIETY Shirley Neth Washington Group Kathleen F. Egan Patrick K. Okonta ’03 (continued) Susan J. Nieckarz ’92, ’95 International, Inc. Anne Marie Rebecca Ronda Palmieri Veronica C. Glennon ’03 Janice Mary Novello ’83 David A. White ’96 Emmerson ’85 Joyce L. Palumbo ’89 Robert P. Goodman ’83 Deborah L. Oberhofer ’05 Susan ’92 and Monica Estabrooke ’93 Eduardo D. Pascal ’87 Richard E. Gotti Eileen O’Connor William ’93 Wiand Ann M. Everts ’93, ’03 Anne Patterson ’88 Neil D. Gross Kate B. Oppedisano Bernice Wiggins ’95 Exxon Mobil Foundation Paul E. Pazderski ’93 A. Tomasz Grunfeld Margaret A. Marie J. Williams ’84 John P. Francavillo ’89 Sharon V. Perry ’04 Marilyn E. Gwaltney Oppenheimer ’86 Lucy Winner Esserlene M. Kathleen M. Pfeiffer ’00 Jeannine Haas David W. Ostergren John L. Wright ’98 Gatewood ’80 Playboy Enterprises Inc. Elaine M. Handley Judy C. Parkhurst ’98 James L. Wunsch Elizabeth F. Gaudet ’92 Vincent P. Poliseno ’99 Ronald J. Heath ’02 Milton Parrish ’90 Gary J. Youney ’81 Shirley L. Gawley ’86 Mark D. Popp ’84 Joseph E. Hofmann ’00 Alan G. Pawlowski ’03 Priscilla H. Young ’87, ’90 Elizabeth May George ’75 Jay Lewis Putt ’85, ’88 Susan M. Alison McGrath Peirce ’78 Walter Zacharius ’77 Robert W. Gerulat ’97 Richard M. Hohenhaus ’03, ’05 Patricia A. Pinto ’98 Sharon R. Glenn ’93 Renjilian ’03, ’05 Stanley Horner ’73 Michael V. Polito ’97 THE MENTOR Sharon Grigsby ’78 William F. Reynolds Taryn L. Hunter ’03 Jane S. Pratt Regina Grol Toni R. Richardson ’04 Mary Ann Ingelfinger ’00 Kathleen R. Pugh ’89, ’91 SOCIETY Vita Hale ’00 Stephen J. International Paper Alan L. Rachins ’74 Gifts of $120 - 174 Hilda J. Hare ’77 Rockafellow ’93, ’99 Beverly Jablons ’77 George J. Raneri Neil D. Harris ’90 Deborah R. Rose ’00 Helen L. Jaffray ’76 Beverley F. Reeves ’81 Anonymous Beatrice E. Havranek ’88 Harriet Rosenberg ’84 Lisa Johnson Thomas E. Reilly ’95 Judith A. Aldi ’91 Marc W. Herbst ’86 Patricia A. Ross ’02 William B. Johnston ’76 George P. Reiss ’76 Ralph A. Aloe ’04 Eleanor M. Herman ’87 Adair Julie Russell ’89 Celedonia Jones ’75 Rae W. Rohfeld Adele Anderson Willis S. Hilker ’90 Linda A. Ryan Otolorin Jones Melvyn Rosenthal Ruth M. Andrew Kathy D. Horvath ’83 Amy Salvati Diane M. Julian ’01 Robert R. Rosetta ’95 Robert E. Annett ’76 Mary C. Houston ’95 Constance M. Samuel ’91 Jacques C. Kaufman ’04 Christopher Rounds Agnes C. Annis ’78 Joyce E. Howland Matthew R. Sanders Maureen T. Kravec Mary C. Russell ’74 Lorraine Anthony Fred J. Hutchison, Jr. ’81 Edward G. Saueracker Kathleen N. Lagrow ’87 Vicki Lynaugh Schaake Roberta J. Barili ’78 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Ronald L. Savarese ’77 Albert Lawrence ’76 Linda A. Schlapfer ’86 Richard J. Bartholomew Kenneth E. Jackson ’98 Brian M. Sawyer ’88 Darrell G. Leavitt Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Bernice M. Bates ’81 Kathleen J. Jewett ’94, ’95 Sherry D. Schlager ’96 Phyllis M. Legare ’78 Serbent Matthew W. Bechtoldt ’90 Kathleen Madden Mary M. Schultz Efrat Frayda Levy Thomas F. Sergent ’96 Ramona Belden ’78 Jimino ’04 Carol F. Selinske ’86 Katherine J. Lewis ’93 Paul L. Siegel ’95 Theresa K. Bezold David R. Johnson ’97 Neysa T. Sensenig ’88 Rhonnie S. Lingel ’88 Jeffrey J. Simon ’76, ’99 Johna J. Bittner ’01 Erious Johnson ’96 Robert W. Seurkamp ’89 John B. Look ’87 H. JoAnn Simpson ’93 Deborah A. Botch ’86 John Kavanaugh Anthony S. Sgarlata ’88 Dorothy Lysyczyn ’94, ’05 Richard P. Slater ’96 Joseph W. Boudreau Frances A. Keeley ’93 Julie P. Shaw Virginia J. Maar ’85 Dorothy N. Smith ’73 Richard L. Brhel ’01 Paul H. Keller Nicole H. Shrimpton Kristine MacDonald ’95 Ellen C. Sperber ’80 Timothy B. Brown ’79 Elaine Kessel ’76 Deborah L. Shufelt Margaret Madigan ’93 Kathleen Stallmer Vanril A. Brown ’00 Mary Jane Fina Kinosian Joshua S. Silver ’82 Laurie Malkoff Kirk J. Starczewski Sharon Brenner Edward M. Kneafsey ’81 Clarence F. Simpson ’00 Jennifer R. State Farm Company Cadalzo ’76 Edward G. Koorse ’93 Antoinette T. Simson ’79 Manocherian ’74 Foundation Carrier Corporation Danuta Krawczyk ’94 Prudence H. Slentz ’84 Patricia L. Marchetti ’79 Barbara R. Staton Robert Chaphe ’89, ’94 Anthony Stephen Beverly A. Smirni Katherine D. Marra ’93 Erin C. Steinbach ’05 Kenneth V. Charles ’96 Kurec ’76 Gus Smith ’84 Ruth M. Mathews Mary E. Sullivan ’76 Daren S. Chentow ’98, ’02 Lorraine Lander Sharon L. Smith-Viles ’74 John P. McCann Susie Specialties Carol A. Clark ’00 Frances L. Langstaff ’80 John W. Sniezyk ’95 David H. Miller ’93 Margaret J. Tally Margaret M. Clark ’83 Daniel J. Leffingwell ’82 Michael J. Sollecito ’98 Michael J. Minogue Addis C. Taylor ’75 Edward ’95 and Rafa L. Maciejak ’04 Anne L. Sonne ’89 MaryNell Morgan Roberta M. Teliska ’78 Laurie ’95 Cline Peter F. Maloney ’03, ’06 Gwen Sperling ’86 Marion C. Morse ’81 Toby Tobrocke Janet R. Cordano ’83, ’87 Theodore W. Marotta ’72 Barbara A. Stone ’01 Carol Mulcahy Paul Tucci Eileen ’79 and Mattel, Inc. Carol S. Tan ’90 Moses Musoke Helen G. Ullrich ’93 Peter ’80 Corrigan Brian L. McDowell ’97 Miriam B. Tannen ’02 Helen H. Myers ’80 Mary Caroline Powers Carol A. Coteus ’96 Margaret Mary Terry A. Tarr ’92 Sylvain Nagler Van der Veer Louise R. Cummings ’93 McNamara ’78 Claudette Bevoline John D. Curtis ’85 Peggy C. Meerse Taylor ’00 Robert A. Cutting ’90 Ethel A. Meyer Beverly L. Teeter ’98 Anita R. Dahlberg ’84 Eric N. Miller ’92 Terry Telesca If you would like to support the work Joseph F. Daly ’86 Gail H. Miller ’91 Edward J. Tighe ’91 of Empire State College by making Helen Davis ’93 Richard A. Miskovsky ’98 Charles P. Trudel ’79, ’95 Jeanie H. Davis Carmen Morales ’94 Amy Tweedy a contribution to the foundation, Irene D. Degraff ’90 Charles E. Morehouse ’03 Melva D. Visher ’96 please visit us online at Donald M. Devine ’91, ’93 Michael J. Morrissey ’98 Pamela Vogel ’90 www.esc.edu/AnnualFund Judith A. Dewitt ’81 Douglas W. Mouncey ’05 Nikos K. Vouteniotis ’05 or call the Annual Giving Office George DiStefano ’89 Audrey J. Muscarella ’03 Susan Voutsinas at 800 847-3000 ext. 2234. Tyrone M. Dixon ’01 Patricia A. Myers ’89 Wachovia Bank, N.A. Robert J. Donnelly ’76 Cloverlyn J. Nembhard ’05 T. Urling and Richard A. Doran ’01 Mae M. Ngai ’92 Mabel B. ’79 Walker

6 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Edward Walsh ’98 Air Products & Barbara C. Vera Bailly ’80 Amelia Beard ’77 Carol J. Ward ’01 Chemicals, Inc. Andrzejewski ’06 Claudia Hurst Baker ’03 Carole A. Beauchamp ’95 Rudolph Warren ’76 Randolph Alamo ’04 Vivian Anella ’84 Eugene R. Baker James D. Beck ’05 Rebecca L. Widger ’04 Johanna Albrecht ’95 Janet D. Aneshansley ’98 Kenneth F. Baker ’75 Jeanne R. Beck ’86 J. Heather Wiley ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Ted Alderson George H. Apgar, II ’98 Norma B. Baker ’94 Sandra C. Becker ’79 Kenneth R. Willette ’91 Lois F. Alexander ’85 Louise J. Applewhaite ’75 Pamela S. Baker ’01 Martin L. Beckman ’82 Versie Williams ’85 Jane Algozzini ’84 Azade Ardali and Caroline Baker Clancy Theresa L. Bedworth ’90 Richard G. Wishnie ’03 Constance E. Allen ’95 Bob Covington Patricia A. Baldwin ’03 Alan T. Belasen Fiona Witkowski ’04 Thomas J. Allen ’93 Shirley Ariker Gayle R. Baley ’77 Kenneth R. Belfer ’76 Mary A. Worth ’00 Clarence C. Alleyne ’99 Bernard Armiento Helen L. Balicki ’06 John Belgiorno ’93 Kathleen C. Yaeger ’99 James Allocco ’96 Rose Marie Armstrong ’96 Lisa Ballard ’05 Jean P. Bell ’82 John J. Zmuda, Sr. ’83 Joan Altman ’81 Harold W. Arndt ’78 Harriet K. Balter ’99 Kathleen F. Bell ’91 Thila A. Bell ’78 Gail A. Belles ’99 Judith A. Bello ’87, ’90 Lisa L. Benfield ’04 Tertian Benjamin ’98 James M. Bennett ’88 Philip R. Berke ’75 Bertha A. Berman ’80 Mary A. Bertsch ’00 Kathleen E. Bevelacqua ’96 Charles Biasiny-Rivera ’90 and Elizabeth R. Wilde-Biasiny Christopher P. Bilski ’93 Carol Birkholz ’03 Corinna Bishop Jacqueline A. Bishop Norman A. Bitterman ’95 Louise M. Blackburn ’98 Dean M. Blair ’97, ’98 Joan G. Blando ’81 Thomas J. Blank ’05 Peggy A. Blesy ’01 Karen A. Blizinski ’94 Paul A. Block ’73 Gloria S. Bloom ’81 Louise M. Blydenburgh ’92 Nancy J. Bob ’84 A group of alumni at the Coliseum during a recent alumni travel tour of Italy. Joyce G. Bobo ’98 Nancy T. Bocassi ’82 Pamela Bock THE ANNIVERSARY Marie Alvaro ’92 Robert J. Arnell Wilfred C. Bancroft ’79 Joseph L. Boehlke, Jr. ’97 SOCIETY William N. Ronald Arnero ’95 Craig J. Barber ’92 Jacklyn E. Bogardus ’94 Alverson, Jr. ’03 John H. Arnholt ’06 James W. Bardot ’90 Colleen M. Bolton ’98, ’00 Gifts of $35 - 119 Bertha Amanat ’79 Taimi M. Arnold Constance M. Barker ’84 Brent J. Bombard ’00 James Z. Amanatides ’94 George K. Arthur ’77 Michael A. Barnard ’04 John P. Bombaski ’80 Anonymous Evelyn V. Ambrose ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. David C. Barnattan ’92 Peter O. Bonadonna ’99 Patricia A. Abbott ’94 American International Ashby Constance C. Barnes ’75 Debra A. Bonamassa Anne M. Abdelazim ’98 Group Constance C. Atwater ’04 Lynn M. Baron ’93 Olga Ptach Bondi ’04 Hassan Abdul- Eileen A. Amoroso ’92 Scott P. Aubrey ’97 Joseph J. Barrett ’98, ’05 Donald ’94 and Malik ’00, ’05 Christine M. Amos ’90 Margaret A. Auci ’90 Patricia L. Barrett ’80 Linda ’02 Bonham Rochelle L. Abelson ’99 April J. Anastasia ’95 Claudia Auer Leo Barrington Ralph D. Bott ’96 Darrell L. Abendschein ’89 Donald Andersen ’92 Steven A. Avedisian ’87 Christopher J. Barry ’03 Dorothy Bouknight ’90 Christine Abrams ’76 David B. Anderson ’89 AXA Foundation Judith A. Barry ’89 Terry L. Bour ’06 David H. Abremski ’93 Glenn Anderson ’85 Melissa A. Babiarz ’03 Patricia M. Barry ’87 Maurice I. Bouyea ’80 Warren W. Abriel Lu Ann Anderson ’89, ’91 James J. James E. Bartell ’94 Kristine T. Bouyoucos ’84 Ace Window Cleaning Suzan L. Anderson ’81 Baccoli ’93, ’95, ’98 Louise R. Barth ’85, ’88 Elise Bowditch ’86 Jean R. Acocella ’92 Valerie D. Anderson ’06 Jessamyn D. Backe- Frederick W. Barthelmas Lisa R. Bowen ’98 Brenda M. Adams ’04 Viola Anderson ’91 Gerstman ’00 Vivienne Iona Bartley ’05 Judith C. Bowers ’91 Diane L. Adamson ’84 Colleen G. Anderson- Victoria N. Badi ’82 Anne M. Barton ’92, ’94 Paul F. Boyarin ’92 Henry J. Ahearn ’91 Higgs ’88 Monserrate Judith Hall Bas ’84 Robert J. Boyce ’88 Loraine Ahearn ’90 Michael Andolina Badillo ’01, ’02 Judith M. Bassini ’85 Ruby L. Boykins ’03 Francesca Ahlers ’00 Teresa A. Andre ’87 Dennis J. Baer ’82 Kathleen Basso ’00 Accursia M. Boyle ’02 Dorothy Aiello ’05 Kathryn M. Andress ’02 Eileen C. Bagge ’88 Norine Ann Batting ’00 Barbara J. Boyle ’83, ’86 Janet Aiello-Cerio and Walter Andrews ’84 Linda ’95 and Valerie S. Bauhofer James M. Boyle ’78 Gregory Cerio Shereen M. Androsko ’02 Richard ’74 Baia Anne Baum ’91 Theresa A. Bradham ’04 Karen J. Andross ’87 Earl F. Bailie, Jr. ’79 Joyce Baumann ’83 Evelyn D. Bradley ’81

7 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

THE ANNIVERSARY Brian J. Cahill ’95 James H. Case Anna Mae Patricia C. Crandall ’01 SOCIETY Daureen Caiazzo Philomena Casey ’83 Coleman ’85, ’88 Douglas A. Craner ’98 Brian Alan Caldwell ’79 David C. Caso Joseph L. Marlene R. Craner ’99 (continued) Christa R. Caldwell ’74 Edward J. Casper ’83 Coleman ’94, ’97 Linda J. Creary ’93 Karen O. Bradley ’95 Kelly A. Calisi ’01 Randall G. Casseday ’91 Colgate-Palmolive Sara A. Crique ’04 Susan J. Bradt ’92 Georgann Callaghan ’94 Susan C. Catalano ’92 Company Margaret B. Cronk ’04 George W. Bragle Mary F. Camelio ’02 Henry J. Caulfield ’84 Vincent A. Colling ’80 Bertha M. Crosby ’80 Carol Ann Brancato ’93 Hilda R. Cameron Colleen Cavallo ’89 Lawrence Collins ’75 Pamela J. Cross ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brandt Beverley J. Campbell ’97 Thomas J. Cavanagh ’91 Samuel V. Colombo ’05 Sue M. Cross ’88 Joann Braun ’76 Douglas G. Campbell ’01 Ann-Marie Cervone ’01 Stephen P. Colombo ’86 Thomas A. Cruzado ’83 Suzanne Marie James W. Campbell ’98 Frances Chambers ’97 Daniel Colon ’97 James G. Breckenridge ’05 Cullinane ’96, ’97 Claire M. Brett Mary E. Culotta ’80 John J. Brett ’03 Beverly Lee Cunniffe ’84 Deborah A. Brewer ’99 Michael Cunningham ’83 Kathleen M. Brewster ’00 Robert R. Cunningham ’92 Frank J. Briggs ’79 Joseph M. Cuoco ’85 Edward J. Briglia, Jr. ’80 Leslie J. Curran ’02 Carol A. Brill ’91 Curran Investment Christine A. Brings ’98, ’01 Management Bertha R. Brinkley ’79 Nancy G. Curry ’85 William J. Brites ’87 Donna P. Curtin ’05 Thomas E. Britton ’90 James Patrick Curtin ’03 Carolyn Broadaway Barbara J. Cutajar ’93 Michael G. Bronner ’96 Erna Dacres ’85, ’88 Carol J. Brooks ’98 Carol S. James A. Brooks ’85 D’Agostino ’94, ’96 Eric P. Brothers ’86 Nancy P. Dahl ’92 Asbjorg S. Brown ’00 Elizabeth A. D’Aiello ’04 Carole Brown ’89 Galen Dalton ’95 Dean Anne Brown ’89 Linda Y. Dalton ’88 Herbert H. Brown ’05 A proud graduate receives her degree during an Empire State College Thomas J. Daly ’86 Jacqueline L. Brown ’01 Joan A. Damick ’74 graduation ceremony. James Brown ’87 Maria Damico ’04 Sandra L. Brown ’90 Donna L. Damm ’00 Jo-Ann P. Browne ’84 Patricia A. Campbell ’99 Jane E. Chambers ’79 Edward J. Colon ’90 Mary W. Damm ’93, ’98 Maurice F.S. Browne ’96 Robert C. Campbell ’85 Juliane Chang ’05 Grace M. Colson ’93 Gerald V. Damora ’06 Maggie C. Browning ’98 Gerald D. Kathryn L. Chatmon ’00 Edward L. Coluccio, Jr. ’04 Dom A. D’Angelis ’91 Glenn Richard Campese ’94, ’97 Alvin ’74 and Amy B. Colvin ’96 Lloyd Lawson Daniel ’95 Brubaker ’04 Eileen P. Campion Ina ’74 Chester Thomas P. Conaty ’00 John R. Daniels ’01 William A. Bruno ’03 Lisa S. Campo John M. Chimento ’78 Donna C. Condron ’04 Stephen J. Dansiger ’89 Agnes A. Brush ’91 Jeanne M. Candee ’97 Kathleen S. Marilyn B. Conley ’86 Betty J. D’Arcy ’76 Salvatore Bruzzese ’81, ’82 Arthur A. Candreva ’95 Chittenden ’99, ’02 Michael L. Conley ’96 Grace Darroch ’75 Mario S. Bryan ’03 Elizabeth W. Canovan ’97 Olivia M. Chiusano ’93 Theodore D. Conliffe ’79 Gordon Darrow ’87 Camille M. Buccina ’02 Robert L. Cantillo ’01 Dorothy E. Christiansen Jane A. Conners ’87 Alfred A. Dashnaw ’85 Ellen Buchanan ’89, ’91 John F. Cape ’78 Margaret L. Peter Connolly ’95 Nancy B. Davi ’03 Daniel D. Buckingham ’98 Meredeth Y. Christman ’00 Constellation Energy Sharon R. Davies ’04 Loretta A. Budd ’00 Capobianco ’87, ’88 Linda A. Chrystal ’90 Margaret T. Contino ’95 Laure-Jeanne P. Davignon Helen T. Buiskool ’05 Steven P. Capone ’88 Michael T. Chura ’00 David A. Cook ’03 Diane D. Davis ’05 Donald H. Burdick ’74 Dianne W. Lynn Cianfarani Anne C. Cooke ’89, ’91 Duane P. Davis ’74 Sherry L. Burke ’04 Cappiello ’00, ’01 Rosalie Cicogna ’02 Phyllis M. Coombs ’85 Leslie William Davis ’80 Thelma E. Burke ’84, ’86 John A. Cardello, Sr. ’88 Jane T. Clark ’88 Anita J. Cooper ’83 Edwin W. Davol ’83 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burkly Anne Carignani ’95 Michael J. Clark ’85 Margaret J. Corbin ’72 George G. Dawson Pauline E. Burnes ’87 Rita D. Carozza Patricia J. Clark ’93 Corning Inc. Zeta Dawson- Barbara L. Burnett ’88 Jean Carpenter Victoria Clark ’96 Cheryl A. Cornwell ’91 Godboalt ’03 Nancy A. Burnett ’94 James J. Carr, Jr. ’76 Ellen J. Clarke ’81 Kelly J. Corryn ’02 Rosemarie Day ’84 Donna R. Burolla ’90, ’95 Karen A. Carr ’03 Fedricka A. Clarke ’91 Joseph N. Corsello ’05 Michael A. De Arment ’02 Carl E. Burrows ’76 Cindri L. Carrick ’97, ’99 Mark S. Claverie Bonnie Corso ’91 Ellen de Buono ’86 Helen Houston Nana S. Carrillo ’03 Tamara E. Clements Beatriz Cortabarria ’00 Philip J. de Carolis ’92, ’97 Burrows ’74 Joseph R. Carroll ’04 Jill B. Clifford ’02 Valerie J. Corteville ’01 Denise C. De Fabio ’91 Oslin M. Busby ’84 Larry Carsman Alfreda C. Cobbs ’79 Peter J. Costantino ’04 Benjamin F. De Fazio ’94 Lucille A. Bush ’88 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome James A. Cochie ’03 Charles E. Costello, Jr. ’87 Patricia Debrovner ’87 Rosemary A. Busta ’80 Cartwright Jean Henning Cockcroft Karl J. Couglar ’96 Hans A. DeBruyn ’01 Richard J. Butler Eileen Carugan ’95 Hanna Coe ’79 Kenneth W. Covington ’01 Merri Ellen Decanio ’89 Marlon T. Byrd ’01 Donna J. Caruso ’03 Leslie G. Cohen Carol M. Cownie ’95 Michelle C. DeChant ’01 C. R. Bard, Inc. Christine M. Carusone ’96 Lisa Cohen ’90 William J. Cox ’80 Melissa M. Decker ’99 Kammy Lou Cabral ’04 James L. Cary ’83 Laurie S. Cohn ’01 Susan E. Cozzolino ’91 Paul R. Degnan ’78 Philip C. Caccese ’99 Anna M. Casciano ’91 Stephanie Renee Theresa Craigg Louis E. Dehaan ’83 Peter A. Cacoperdo ’00 Richard L. Cascio ’96 Cole ’03, ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Dan T. Susan P. DeLaglio ’04 Charles Caffarelli, Jr. ’98 Rona S. Casciola ’93, ’03 Craine Michael R. Delair ’89

8 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Marcelina Delgado ’90 Joan E. Douglass ’80 Marilyn R. Delmage ’82 Margaret Lee Loyalty Leaders Society Jack F. Delorenzo ’05 Draper ’87, ’95 Josephine Deltoro ’83 Dresser-Rand Company Joseph C. Dematteo ’93 Leslie W. Driggs ’76 Paula G. DeMauro ’83, ’84 Janice A. Driscoll ’96 he Loyalty Leaders Society, Empire State College’s newest Helen Demay ’01 Nancy Driscoll ’84 giving society, acknowledges a special group of alumni, Sarah J. Demo ’91 Maurice Ellwyn Drown ’02 employees and friends who have demonstrated their Karyl Denison- Lynda D. Du Bois ’96 T Eaglefeathers Kathryn Eike Dudding commitment to Empire State College though their consistent Elizabeth A. Eleanor L. Dudek financial support. The Loyalty Leaders Society was created Denniston ’94, ’98 Christine Dudley ’82 to give special recognition to those donors providing regular Julie R. Dent ’90 Paul A. Duffee ’98 annual support, at any level, for at least three consecutive years. Peter D’Erasmo ’82 Daniel J. Duffy ’00 Marco C. D’Eredita, Jr. ’95 Ellen K. Dugan ’97 Joanne Dermody ’94 Elsie C. Dugan ’79 Beginning with this Donors Report you will see the names of Richard Derrickson ’95 George Dunbar, Jr. ’00 these individuals highlighted in italics, bold or purple. Those Chris A. Derven ’82 Karen F. Duncan ’74 who have given for three or more consecutive years are denoted Theresa DeRycke ’02 Noel G. Dunkley ’85, ’02 in italics, five or more years are denoted in bold and 10 or more Jean M. DeSantis ’80 Florence K. Dunn ’78 Marcia B. Desieno John L. Dunne ’83 years are denoted in purple. In 2006, more than 1,900 sup- Robert P. Desieno Kathi Durdon ’05 porters qualified as Loyalty Leaders including an amazing 300 Marie M. Desulme ’99 Marjorie J. Dziak ’98 donors with 10 or more consecutive years of support. Their Jane A. DeVito ’95, ’98 Kathleen H. Eagan ’04 unwavering support helps Empire State College maintain a Theresa Di Pasquale ’00 Kathleen Eagan ’95 John C. Di Perno, Jr. ’92 Cynthia J. Eaton ’02 margin of excellence in its service to this unique community Lawrence P. Di Risio ’80 Kathleen L. Eaton ’00, ’03 of adult learners. Grace ’96 and Tyrone Eaton ’79 Peter ’97 Diaferia Maura E. Eden ’96 Edna R. Diamond ’86, ’87 Betty Carole Edwardes ’79 Loyalty Leader Profile Michael K. Diamond ’80 Arthur D. Edwards ’83 Petra L. Diaz ’04 Robert H. Ehrmann ’78 Connie Mrowzinski ’86 Salvatore Diblasio ’94 Janet F. Eisenhauer ’77 Michael P. Dibley ’92 Terry W. Eisenman ’86 “Education is a way of not only earning a Richard R. Dickens ’90 Susan Eisman ’78 living, but a way to open the door to the Alison M. Diehl ’91 Ethan C. Eldon ’76 Mary Dier ’89 Michael J. Elefante ’99 world around you. The more I read, the Kathryn C. Dileo ’90 Barbara A. Elias ’90 more I learned how much I didn’t know. Michael DiLeo ’05 Barbara V. Elias ’74 Empire State College allowed me to enrich Connie Mrowzinski ’86 Elida R. Dillon ’99 Allen J. Elkin my life.” Charles F. Dinolfo ’81 Maryanne Ellinger ’87 Mark R. Dinse ’85 Joe O. Elliot Ellen A. DiSano ’01, ’04 David L. Elliott These words reflect Connie’s belief in education, especially her Margaret M. Ditch Marilyn M. Ellsworth ’89 educational experience with Empire State College. To express Jacquilyn A. Catherine M. Endy ’05 her appreciation, she made her first donation to the Annual Dmytrenko ’00 Raymond Engel ’99 Evelyn A. Dodd ’96 Anthony D. English ’04 Fund after graduation. The next year she made another Bert R. Dodge ’77 Wendy Erlandson ’89 donation, and her giving continued each and every year. Janie K. Dodoo ’86 Eugenio O. Erskine ’05 After 22 years of successive giving, Connie is committed Christine S. Doebele ’80 Joyce D. Erving ’05 to extending her uninterrupted record. Martha L. Doerfel ’03 Frieda Etkin ’90 Carol M. Doerfer ’88 Nancy Eustance Ursula Doerner Julie E. Evans ’03, ’05 After her three children earned their degrees, Connie decided, Broghammer ’03 Norma R. Evans ’79 “It’s my turn.” The question of where to apply was answered Edward R. Dolan ’01 Joanne M. Everts ’96 when she read an article about Empire State College’s commit- Dominion Foundation William G. Exley ’96 ment to adult students. Her full-time, demanding position as Patrick J. Donaghy ’96 Carol H. Faber ’77 Loretta M. Donaldson ’91 Jacqueline Fabitore- chief clerk of the criminal and civil courts of Columbia County Charles L. Donath ’82 Matheny ’76 meant she had to be self-disciplined. Connie was pleasantly George Dondero ’90 Catherine Fager ’83 surprised to find she actually enjoyed stress relief from her job Christine V. Donlon ’98 Mary E. Failla ’96 through meetings with her mentor, Dr. Carole Ford, and through Andrew S. Donnelly ’02 Keith R. Fairchild ’88 Jean T. Donnelly ’80 Lesley A. her in-depth studies. Robert T. Donohue ’97 Fairhurst ’98, ’01 James Andrew Betty J. Faison-King ’95 Connie has now earned her master’s degree. Although retired, Doolittle ’76 Janet M. Falk ’88, ’90, ’94 she serves on the Board of Lifetime Learning as well as the Edward T. Dorsey ’93 Sharon E. Fanelli ’02 Southern Tier Seniors and she’s the proud mother of three and Peter ’94 and Patricia A. Farinola ’89 Regina ’95, ’98 Dosso Bernadette Farrell ’79 grandmother of four.

9 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND

$500,000 $450,000 $425,000 $400,000 $375,000 $350,000 $325,000 $300,000 $275,000 $250,000 $225,000 $200,000 $175,000 $150,000 $125,000 $100,000 $317,511 $356,060 $377,532 $448,933 $493,561 $0 $147,609 $180,527 $226,913 $245,712 $287,051 ’97 ’98 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06

THE ANNIVERSARY Alice P. Flanagan ’95 Marguerite Terese Mark A. Gennari ’96 Hope T. Goodwin ’82 SOCIETY James A. Fleming ’00 Fuller ’05 Liza Gennaro-Evans ’02 Lauren E. Googin ’03 Malcom A. Fletcher Alice C. Fulton ’78 G. Nicholas George ’81 Anne D. Gorenstein ’78 (continued) Richard N. Fletcher ’98 Mary A. Fulton ’81 Janet K. George ’90 Joseph A. Gorman, Jr. ’75 Christopher J. Farrell ’05 Brian C. Flick ’77 Elizabeth L. Furnia ’04 Tina M. George ’04 Judith Gorman Katherine L. Farrell ’01 Marianne T. Fohn ’93 Patsy Gagliardi ’04 Diana Twaleh Geply ’94 Timothy W. Gorman ’99 Charles J. Farruggia ’86 David F. Foley ’99 Rebecca J. Gagne ’86 Kathleen J. Gerard ’98 Margaret H. Gorrill ’98 Michael J. Favole ’93 Theresa Ann Patrick W. Gagnon ’95 Kevin G. Gerken ’05 Margaret A. Goss ’95, ’00 Eugene J. Fechter ’77 Foley ’02, ’04 Marilyn Galdieri- Regina Gerrato ’91, ’93 Oleg A. Gostomelsky ’97 James W. Feeney Mary Beth Follis ’90 Ambrosini ’90 Ralph F. Gessner Sheri S. Gottlieb ’96 Kathryn A. Feeney ’02 Ralph R. Fondario ’01 Christine D. Galin ’05 Edward T. Joan Gould Leonard S. Suzanne C. Ford ’94 Donna Gallagher Giacchino ’90, ’96 James L. Gowdy ’98 Ferguson ’01, ’05 Debra S. Fork ’05 Martin H. Gallanter ’78 Muriel K. Gibbons ’86 Barbara F. Graffeo ’97 Thomas R. Ferguson ’01 Edward A. Fortuna ’96 Beth A. Gallmeyer ’96 Dane C. Gifford ’96, ’99 Judith L. Graham ’01 Henry T. Ferlauto ’03 Phyllis M. Foster ’98 Janet K. Galvin ’74 Ruth Anne Gigliotti ’87 Mark Granfors-Hunt ’01 Thomas J. Ferraiuolo ’81 Sharon Fox John Galvin ’81 Alison D. Gilbert ’92 Marilyn K. Grapin Peggy M. Ferran ’99 Larry G. Frank ’05 Edward J. Gannon ’87, ’99 Jonathan C. Margaret E. Grass ’05 Mary L. Ferreira ’00, ’04 Richard J. Franke ’95 Tena M. Garas ’90 Gilbert ’85, ’89 Cheryl Gray ’93 Lois E. Ferrell ’96 Eric W. Fratanduono ’86 Suzanne M. Garcia ’96 Kathleen A. Gilday Heather L. Gray ’03 Patrick B. Ferron ’97 Carolyn M. Frawley ’95 Diane N. Gardner ’03 Ruth M. Gill ’76 Rhonda T. Gray ’95 Donald G. Feser ’97 Leona Keene Frederick ’79 Jean Patz Gardner ’82 James K. Gillespie ’89 Val E. Gray ’77 Donald J. Fialka ’88 Douglas Howard Mark Gardner ’90 Marshelle D. Gillette ’95 Douglas P. Green ’97 Edwin M. Field ’85 Freeman ’05 Arlene Garfield ’81 Mary E. Gill-Scott ’94 Mark C. Green ’84, ’85 Jules V. Fijux ’95 R. Michaela French Thomas E. Garlock ’89 Thomas E. Gillson ’01 Richard A. Green ’77 John V. Fildes ’89 Anissa E. Frey ’05 Ernest Garofala ’94 Thomas J. Glaser ’75 Thomas R. Green ’80 Lori L. Finch ’03 Eleonore F. Frey ’85 Della P. Garrity ’90 Sheila C. Glass ’06 Larry Greenberg Marcia J. Fink ’88 Leonard Friedland ’02 Eugene P. Garvin ’84 Geoffrey J. Gleason ’98 Taeko Greenlees ’82 Marianne Finnegan Ira Friedman ’86 Kenneth P. Geoffrey T. Gloak ’94 Margaret E. Green- Christine B. Fisher ’01 Anita Frohmann- Garwood, Jr. ’93 Jenny S. Gluck ’03 Witt ’84 Sally A. Fisher ’98 Spector ’92 Susan Gaska ’01, ’04 Stephanie A. Godino ’99 Mary Buckbee James J. Fitch ’99 Colleen L. Fronk ’94, ’97 Ann C. Gawler Adam C. Goff ’95 Gregorius ’01 Arlene G. Fitzgerald ’99 Keith W. Frum ’91 Rose P. Gedeon ’00 Rachel Goldberg ’93 Tania R. Greninger ’93 Denise E. Fitzpatrick ’99 Walter L. Frykholm Geraldine Gelber ’74 Jeffrey Goldstein ’85 Josephine D. Grimes ’98 John F. Fitzwilliam, Jr. ’92 Mark Fuhrmann Leonard R. Gendelberg ’04 Elyse Golob ’83, ’93 Helen Grobe ’88 Mary H. Flaherty ’85 Kathleen M. Genier ’03 Helen S. Gonzales ’89 Betty Gross ’75

10 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Thanks From the Annual Fund Chair

In whatever matters most to us, be it in work, parenting, relationships or learning - we all value consistency. When you support the Annual Fund, you send a vote of confidence to Empire State College. Your support says that you value the college’s consistent commitment to providing the best possible education to adult learners, year after year, after year.

I thank you for your contribution and hope the Annual Fund can count on you each and every year.

– Melba Tolliver ’98, Annual Fund Chair

Herbert Gross ’92 Selwyn E. Harlow, Sr. ’78 Ruth C. A. Hogan ’78 Nina V. Jirka ’04 Theresa A. Kemp ’01, ’02 Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Gross Malvern J. Harpell ’81 Penelope Hogan-Rizzi ’89 Felicia M. Jock ’77 Emma K. Kempf ’05 Sidney S. Gross ’76 Joan M. Harrington ’99 Linda M. Andrew F. Johnson, Jr. ’97 John E. Kenavan ’04 Lisa M. Grossman ’00 Lynn Harrington ’79 Holbrook ’86, ’94 Ann M. Johnson ’00 Timothy Kennedy, Jr. ’83 Donald J. Grosso ’05 Arthur B. Harris ’92 Richard D. Holcomb ’75 Eloise Johnson ’77 Gay Keogh ’96 Robert E. Grot ’80 David F. Hatch ’99 Deborah R. Holler ’97 Katherine M. Johnson ’98 Celeste E. Kerns ’91 Denise M. Grove ’76 Joyce Frankel Hauser ’76 Dolores A. Holmes ’98 Leslie J. Johnson ’05 Thomas J. Barbara T. Groves ’95 Susana D. Havas ’96 A. Jean Holohan ’01 Patricia I. Johnson ’95 Kerrigan ’91, ’99 Daniel L. Grygas ’85 Robert A. Hayes ’91 Joseph A. Homola ’88 Roxanne Johnston ’93 Grace J. Ketterer ’01 Carolyn L. Guariglia ’05 William S. Hayes ’99 Joann F. Hoose ’01 Christine J. Jones ’98, ’00 KeyCorp Kathryn M. Guerrera ’98 Bonita L. Hazelton ’92 Carol J. Hoppe ’86 Gary R. Jones ’98 Nancy E. Kiely ’97 Natalene Guertin- Barbara J. Heald ’04, ’05 Frank Horbert ’81 Jeanne S. Jones ’89, ’01 Emily K. Kimelstein ’79 Quick ’92 Robert J. Healy ’05 Lynn K. Horn ’05 Nan S. Jones ’87 Marcia Kimmelman ’86 Teresa Guest ’01 Elizabeth Heard ’98 Richard A. Horner ’75 Pamela Crounse Carol S. King ’89 Penny L. Gugino ’03 Katherine M. Hedlund ’94 Lisa M. Hornsby ’02 Jones ’80, ’05 Cynthia King ’94 Paige L. Guido ’00, ’03 Peter F. Heinlein ’81 Joan M. Houck ’87 Pauline Jones ’86, ’88 Marie M. King ’78 Lawrence Guilford, Jr. John J. Henderson, Sr. ’86 Leila M. Hover ’77 Amy L. Joslyn ’02 William R. King, II ’74 Peter R. Gulliver ’82 Mary K. Sharon M. Hover ’93 Thelma Jurgrau Kathy A. King- Aron B. Gutman ’02 Henderson ’95, ’99 Mary Howell ’01 Susan F. Kachmar ’01 Griswold ’82, ’98 Eric H. Gutstein ’87 Linda T. Hendrix ’90 Susan L. Hoyt ’99 Eugene M. Kaczor ’76 Pamela L. King-Hall ’92 Leonard Guzman ’89 Audrey T. Henry ’86 Joan Hubbard John S. Kadash ’78 Rose Ann S. Kinnie ’89 Michael J. Hacker ’88 Eileen T. Henschel ’97 Norman E. Hudson ’76 Antoinette P. Kaiser ’84 Mariane Kiraly ’03 Joan K. Haefner ’83 Lucille M. Deborah A. Melanie Kaiser Cheryl E. Kirisits ’91 Harold L. Haldorsen ’73 Hensley ’88, ’91 Hughes ’01, ’03 Maj G. Kalfus ’03 Donald A. Jean D. Haldorsen ’92 Allison Hernandez ’00, ’02 Glenn R. Hughes ’88 Ian S. Kalinosky ’99 Kirk ’01, ’02, ’05 Nancy Halfon ’94 Edward Herndon ’85 Dianne E. Hull ’99 Philomena M. Kanasky ’05 William L. Kivlen ’94 Andrea M. Hall ’05 Robert F. Herrmann ’92 Karen H. Hulse ’00 James H. Kane ’87 Dianne R. Klafehn ’96 Anthony L. Hall ’84 Martin R. Hertz ’83 Michele G. Loretta R. Kane ’01 Deborah L. Klaus ’88 Basil W. Hall ’85 Donald R. Hespelt ’80 Humeston ’93, ’00 Thomas J. Kane ’06 Chava T. Klein ’97, ’98 Beatrice Ercelle Hall ’82 Nancy L. Hess ’92 Margaret E. Hutchins ’99 Gloria M. Kanmaz ’92 Julia S. Klock ’85 Kathleen A. Hall ’05 Audrey A. Hickerson ’98 Marian Hutchison ’89 Barbara L. Kantz Lois B. Kluger ’79 Viviana C. Hall ’99 Andrew Hickey ’04 Howard K. Hutson ’97 John A. Karcher ’80 Patricia A. Knapp ’02, ’04 Edward V. Barbara A. Higens- Joseph P. Iarocci ’94 James R. Karge ’77 Edith E. Hallisey ’91, ’94 Shafer ’04 Raymond L. Iarocci ’03 Julia Kashner ’77 Knappenberger ’01 Kathleen E. Hallock ’95 Rebecca A. Hilbert ’96 Ann Marie Imbriale ’02 Susanne Katz ’83 Lorraine M. Knoll ’76 Barbara L. Hall- Barbara M. Hile ’79 James J. Incorvaia ’02 Roger D. Kaufman ’02 Allen G. Koblenzer, Jr. ’75 Viggiano ’89 Teresa E. Hilton Olga M. Infante ’02, ’04 Caroline Kava ’91 Susan A. Koch ’01 Lynda E. Hally ’75 Janice L. Hinkle ’88 Patricia A. Ingram ’84 Thomas J. Keane ’99 Allen F. Koehler ’87 Carina Halpin ’98 Stephen P. Hinman ’86 Sharon A. Iranpour ’77 Thomas F. Keelty ’83 John H. Koerber ’82 Anna J. Hama ’03 Cathy J. Jeanne M. Irwin ’05 Roger R. Keeran Angela A. Koester ’99 Jill M. Hamberg Hitchcock ’87, ’90 Shirley N. Jackman ’88 Mary Ann Kehm ’86 Lynn M. Koester ’03 John E. Hamel ’96 Nancy J. Hodder ’91 Victoria F. Jacobs ’98, ’00 Herbert L. Keiles ’83 Steven M. Kogut ’91 Margaret C. Hamilton ’94 Hans Hoefgen Richard J. Jaycobs ’93 Norma Wallace Priscilla Kolb- Allen J. Handelman ’89 Nancy G. Hoenig ’76 Kenneth J. Jeffords ’89 Kelleman ’86 Pierce ’93, ’97 Heidi D. Handman ’98 Karen M. Hoffman ’85 Richard F. Jeitler ’92 Evelyn R. Kellman Jaquelyn O’Hara Quentin J. Hanrahan ’78 Frances M. Hoffman- Carla M. Jennetti ’03 James W. Kelly ’86 Komanecky ’75 H. Gerald Hare Fenush ’80 Francine Jennings ’02 Patricia E. Kelly ’02 Dale Konas ’83 John P. Harkins ’94 Bonnie L. Hoffmann ’01 Bonnie L. Jenson ’03 William F. Kelly ’93 Jessica M. Koock ’96

11 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

THE ANNIVERSARY SOCIETY (continued) Clifford Korman ’87 The Academy for Sondra J. Kortland ’88 Susan D. Kost ’79 Learning in Retirement Lynda L. Kowalski ’92 Aloysius J. Kozlowski ’75 he Academy for Learning in Retirement (ALR) is a nonprofit membership Barbara Krauthamer ’85 Marlene M. Kreiley ’93 organization sponsored by Empire State College and formed to meet the Walter Kresa, Jr. ’05 Teducational and cultural needs of its members. As one of over 300 Lifelong John P.J. Krest ’77 Learning Institutes in Retirement in North America affiliated with the Elderhostel Thomas L. Kreutter ’77 Institute Network, ALR accomplishes its mission through peer-led study groups and Patricia Kriss ’98 Lee D. Kroening ’01 social programs. Noncredit academic course work is provided with an emphasis on Joan E. Krohn ’01 participatory learning – small study groups of men and women who learn from each Elizabeth J. Kromberg ’79 other about topics of common interest. Susan Kross ’94 Jackie L. Krouse- Presently, ALR is in the midst of its first-ever annual fund drive with encouraging Rudolph ’05 results – one third of ALR members as well as friends and the community have contrib- John B. Krupcale ’90 Bruce W. Krupke ’91 uted. Currently, ALR has surpassed the $10,000 goal, with just three months left in its David A. Krupski ’04 campaign. With this new fundraising program, ALR has significantly increased member- Joellen F. Kunkel ’94 ship numbers and study group and special program offerings. This spring, ALR is offering Elizabeth F. Kurtik ’87 22 study groups, nearly four times the number in its first term in 1993. Chander S. Kutwal ’03 Joseph A. Kwiatkowski ’98, ’99 The academy will be celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2007 - 2008 with the theme Jennifer Kyte ’89, ’90 Celebrate Diversity! Committees are currently planning special open-to-the-public Catherine M. programs as well as new study groups on this theme. The Academy for Learning in La Bruna ’03 Retirement is looking to a bright future as it continues to provide its quality program Richie La Mothe ’05 Amalia La Porta ’96 offering academic, leadership and social opportunities to an increasing number of older Robert A. La Sala ’94, ’97 learners. A special thank you to all of our supporters listed here for helping us to achieve Peter La Sure ’94 our educational and cultural mission. Carole L. La Valley ’91 Beverly W. Labelle ’80 Dorothy Lager ’93 DONORS TO THE ACADEMY FOR Margaret T. LEARNING IN RETIREMENT 2006 CAMPAIGN Lagonegro ’76 Robert L. Lake ’99 Adirondack Trust Company Robert and Marcia Desieno Kate B. Oppedisano Wende L. Phyllis Akins Marjorie Dickinson K. Kelly Palmer Lampert ’87, ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Ted Alderson Katherine P. Dixon Mary Ellen Papke Antoinette VanIer Bernard Armiento Kathryn Eike Dudding Catherine L. Paulson Landin ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Ashby Eleanor L. Dudek Rosalie Powers Margaret C. Landis ’94 Eugene R. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Eckelhoff Rita Reynolds Rosemary A. Lane ’99 Marie P. Balet Joe O. Elliot Dorothy E. Rosenberg Annette Lang Noreen Barrett Nancy Eustance Robin Q. Rozines Debra R. Lang ’03 Richard J. Bartholomew Marianne Finnegan Gretchen D. Ruhl John J. Larish ’80 Barbara A. Batten Ann C. Gawler Sheila Ryan Betty Laroe Frederick W. Baum Elizabeth Gee Dorothy F. Scott David B. Larson Helen M. Baum GE Foundation Susanne G. Semo Frederic J. Larson ’87 Theresa K. Bezold Judith Gorman Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Serbent David A. Lasky ’90, ’98 Corinna Bishop Joan Gould Mr. and Mrs. John Sosler Dean P. Lategan ’04 Regine Brate Sylvia F. Graham Barbara W. Sutherland Annette R. Latona ’98 Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Brooks H. Gerald Hare Emily R. Thompson Marjorie L. Latzko ’75 Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burkly Paul H. Keller Louis Tirelli Joseph C. LaValley, III ’99 Daureen Caiazzo Mary Jane Fina Kinosian Patsy A. Tompkins Scott A. LaValley ’98, ’01 Hilda R. Cameron Shirley Lavine Francis A. Trerise Ellen F. Lavin ’05 Rita D. Carozza Timothy Lehmann, III Jo-Ellen Unger Hope M. Lavin ’05 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Cartwright Ethel A. Meyer Mickey Vassallo Steven J. Lawrence ’93 Dorothy E. Christiansen Mary Jane Miles Jane A. Wait Susan E. Lawrence ’99 Jean Henning Cockcroft Victoria T. Morey Wal-Mart Margaret M. Lawson ’03 Mr. and Mrs. Dan T. Craine Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Mossman Joan B. Weaver David ’89 and Curran Investment Management Shirley Neth Diane ’91 Layne Marion DeMarco Darcy L. O’Loughlin Jeanne M. Lazarus ’90 Thomas P. Le Bel ’94

12 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Claudia Lorraine Linda Roberts Lund ’76 Alice P. Manzi ’01 Jean Friedrichs Anthony L. Medaglia ’02 LeBarron ’03 Mary E. Luziani ’05 William W. Mapes ’97 McCann ’86 Carol L. Meeker ’90 Carole A. Leder ’01 Philip J. Lyman ’92 Maria L. Marcano ’93 Margaret M. Yolanda Meleco ’99 Christopher M. Legaz ’98 John M. Lynch ’94 Michael J. Marcely ’05 McCarron ’97 Maureen Meloy ’92 Joanne Lehman ’03, ’05 Marlene W. Lynch ’85 Margaret M. Mardany ’76 Beth Ann McCarthy ’97 Raymond J. Menuey ’81 Craig A. Lehmann ’74 Michael J. Lyons, IV ’96 Ronald A. Markowitz ’04 Carole A. McCarthy ’78 Valentino Merante ’93 Mechele Leon ’93 Deborah J. Lytle ’90 Norman E. Erin M. McCarthy ’01 Lesley S. Mercier ’85 Anthony J. Leone, Jr. Roanne C. MacEwan ’89 Markowski ’97, ’03 Thomas E. McCarthy ’73 Merck Company Norma Leonardi Sylvia A. Macey ’86, ’88 James D. Marks ’05 Karen McCaskey ’92 Foundation Leone ’82 Adele Machia ’97 Jerold Marmer ’88, ’99 Susan H. McCaskie ’88 Doris J. Mertz ’05 Patrick A. Leone, Jr. ’80 Vernon Mack ’91 Elizabeth Marrapodi ’96 Ann McClester ’05 Metropolitan Life James M. Lepore ’87 John C. MacKellar ’79 Alexandra R. Marshall ’04 Patricia A. McCloy ’04 Insurance Company Sue V. LeSage ’97 Thomas H. Mackey, III ’93 Gloria H. Martin ’88, ’91 David B. McClurg ’93 Angela D. Meyer ’95 William A. Leslie ’03 Cheryl MacNeil ’90 Patricia A. Martin ’02 Kenneth G. McConnell ’90 Helen B. Michalosky ’74 Deborah Less ’97 Paula C. Richard F. Martin ’91 Renee V. Kathleen T. Michalski ’06 Fred B. Levenson ’91 Madawick ’91, ’92 Randal S. McCormick ’02, ’04 Elana Michelson Janette L. Levenson ’86 Charles E. Madden ’95 Martinez ’03, ’05 Robert McCormick ’78 Diane K. Michener ’95 Carol Levy ’92 Gary D. Levy ’06 Richard N. Levy ’92 Karen H. Lewis ’99 Laverne Lewis ’01 Marjorie A. Lewis Joyce Yaa Lewis- Swensson ’01 Stella Li ’04 Dominick Licausi ’78 Martin Lichterman Howard Lieberman ’81 Anthony J. Liguori ’94 Judi A. Lillis ’92 Karl E. Limner ’81 Lana M. Limpert ’89 Allan J. Lindberg ’92 Madeline Lindenheim ’79 Fannie R. Linder ’86 Jeanne H. Lindsay ’87 John E. Lindstrom ’76 Kurt G. Lindstrom ’98 An evening at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center is one of the many regional events hosted by the college’s Mary E. Linge ’92, ’95 Alumni and Student Relations office. Constance H. Lipkin ’75 Kenneth G. Livermore ’77 Rebecca Lloyd ’95 David F. Madden ’78, ’80 Flor Z. Martinez- Kathleen McCullough ’98 Laurel J. Midgley ’04 Robert P. Lloyd ’82 Susan S. Madison ’00 Allocco ’01 Gerard M. McEneaney ’93 Andy A. Migner ’77 John T. Locastro ’04 Cynthia J. Magee ’95 Jean L. Maslyn ’86 Joseph W. McGirk ’96 Friedhilde H. Milburn ’74 Ronnalda Locke ’00 Elizabeth Magretti ’84 Virginia S. Mason ’77 Maureen ’02 and Dimitri Y. Milch ’03 Lockheed Martin Janet L. Mahle ’91 Margaret Jane Massa ’02 William ’77 McGoldrick Mary Jane Miles Corporation Margaret E. Mainusch ’86 Tina Massa John P. McGovern ’00 Patricia E. Millen ’98 Patricia C. Loesch ’92 Peter Maio ’92, ’96 Kathleen M. John M. McGraw ’05 Alice Miller ’94, ’97 Frank C. Lojacono, Sr. ’82 Geraldine Maione Masterson ’99 Nancy L. McGraw ’92 Carol L. Miller ’82 Richard J. Lombard ’87 Didamo ’87 Sara Mastrangelo ’86 McGraw-Hill Craig H. Miller ’98 Margaret J. Lombart ’94 Richard A. Maisano ’03 Richard A. Mathews ’04 Companies, Inc. Daniel B. Miller ’05 Phillip N. Loncar ’86, ’98 Gloria J. Maki ’81 Anthony Mattera ’77 Mary E. McHugh ’79 Jeanne C. Miller ’76 Ronald C. Loncke ’96 Debra H. Lear Matthews Stephen McKeough ’05 Melissa A. Miller ’96 Pamela J. Lonergan ’05 Makowski ’78, ’87 Michele A. Matthews ’06 Elaine McKibbin ’83 Rebecca M. Miller ’98 George F. Long ’91 George H. Malesic, Jr. ’82 Patricia ’99 and Robert G. McKnight ’95 Robert D. Miller ’76 Robin K. Long Julie D. Mallett ’76 Paul ’92 Mauro Christopher Sharon L. Miller ’98 Karen Longiaru-Foster ’01 James A. Malloy ’93 Jeanie M. Mautz ’96 McLaughlin ’98 Yvonne M. Miller ’96 Lynne K. Longo ’91 Farrokh Mamaghani Vincent M. Maxwell ’80 Margaret B. Angie Mills ’05 Charles L. Looney ’74 Candis L. Cheryl D. Mayer ’95 McMahon ’97 Laura L. Minicozzi ’99 Margaret H. Lorenzen ’80 Mancuso ’91, ’00 Mary A. Mayer ’89 Rosann McManus ’97 Ernest R. Minott ’83 Katherine Loris ’86 Martha T. Mandel ’84 Thomas E. Mayes ’92 Michael O. McPadden ’95 Barbara F. Mitchell ’81 Christopher Lornell ’75 Eileen Mandigo ’04 Ruth G. Maynard ’95, ’02 Jean McPheeters ’95 Paul F. Mittermeyer ’93 Ann Loughman Lorraine Manfredi ’03 Cathy Mayrides ’99 Orlando I. Joan Mock ’80 Randy C. Lovell ’00, ’03 George D. Mang ’77 Rose C. Mazza ’78 McReynolds ’93 Dennis R. Moers ’76 Ralph Low ’04 Marie T. Mankiewicz ’82 Catherine A. McAllister John R. McTiernan ’78 Sheila B. Mondo ’00, ’03 Linda E. Lowenstein ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Laverne McAndrews ’96 Rosemarie K. McVey ’93 Mary A. Monefeldt ’87 Mary E. Lowther ’01, ’03 Mann Mark C. McArdle ’03 Mary E. Mead ’78 Mary J. Monkman ’05 Iris Lozada ’84 Elaine M. Mansfield ’83 Joan D. McAuliffe ’00 Sarah Greer Mecklem ’92 Joyce M. Montgomery Barbara A. Lund ’80 Sandra M. Mantione ’90 MOOG Incorporated

13 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

THE ANNIVERSARY Eddie Newball ’03 John ’98 and Maud Nordwald Sharon E. Ricci ’91 SOCIETY William V. Newsome ’99 Rosanna ’97 Palumbo Pollock ’82 Annegret Wolf Rice ’92 Henrietta A. Newton ’04 Ann Palzer ’91 Priscilla Poole ’94 Kenneth C. Rich ’87 (continued) Katlin Newton ’85 Nicholas R. Panepinto ’77 Vivian S. Porter ’72 Jack D. Lynette S. Moone ’05 Harold J. Nichols ’76 Karen L. Paperno ’01 Rosemary P. Post ’89 Richardson ’92, ’94 Mary S. Mooney ’74 Percival L. Nicholson ’78 Mary Ellen Papke Lorraine C. Poston ’99 Yvonne D. Richardson ’98 Wendy R. Mooney ’05 Betsy A. Niemczyk ’00 Marilyn J. Parchus ’93 Nancy Pottish ’81 Gary W. Lorena B. Moore ’76 Carolyn A. Niemczyk ’74 David J. Parker ’85 Joan P. Powell ’84 Richmond ’88, ’89 Nancy E. Moore ’01 Ben Nightingale ’90 Cary S. Parnes ’82 Paul E. Powell ’90 John D. Rico ’98 Neftali Mora ’03 Kathryn M. Nikisch- Yvonne M. Parnes ’74 Victoria K. Powell ’94 Nancy Ridgwell ’02 Michael J. Morabito ’85 Hoffman ’98, ’00 Veronica Leigh Parrales ’03 Robert S. Preble ’97 Sandra B. Rifkin ’81 Donald T. Moran ’92 Barbara E. Niles ’84 Karen K. Pass Mitchell E. Premis ’86 Kevin E. Riker ’04 Donna E. Moriarty ’96 Edith Nisberg ’78 Denise M. Passarello ’04 Jean T. Preston ’96 Jennifer Riley Raymond R. Morin ’79 Pamela A. Nobis ’01, ’03 Karen A. Pastore ’96 Dennis M. Prince ’79 Karen Rippstein ’02 David M. Morrell ’97, ’03 Deborah A. Noble ’94 Carol A. Paul ’91 Joseph A. Prince ’05 Jack M. Risewick ’93, ’02 Lindsay J. Morrell ’96 Ralph Noble Catherine L. Paulson Marianne Prince ’94, ’95 Kathleen T. Risley ’02 Cynthia A. Morrison ’00 John W. Noel, Jr. ’75 Gary L. Pavlic ’82 Sydel Prince ’75 Angela Rita ’96 Dan Morrow ’94 Pamela Nolan ’84 Elizabeth F. Pawlewski ’84 Nyron O. Pringle ’98 Kathryn A. Ritter- Sheryl D. Morse ’85 Carolyn Nones ’98 Ann M. Pearlman ’79, ’04 Gloria P. Pritts ’04 Vicich ’87 Kathleen Morton ’03 John D. Northcut ’91, ’93 Anthony D. Pecci ’00 Marina Privman Patricia M. Ritzert ’98, ’02 Norma A. Morton- Northrop Grumman Richard C. Peck ’87 Robert F. Profige ’85 Ignazio Rizzo ’84 Cherry ’92 Cynthia E. Norton ’85 Lorraine E. Peeler ’88 John Provenza ’92 Marion J. Rizzolo ’89 Leroy and Jane Moser Karen A. Nowak ’00 Dawn R. Pellechi ’96 Elaine M. Provenzano ’04 Karen F. Robilotta ’01 Lois A. Moser ’01 Diann Famalie Michael Pellettiere ’05 Mabel B. Pruden ’83 James Robinson Christopher S. Moses ’95 Nowatka ’77 Patricia L. Penna ’85 Prudential Financial John M. Robortella ’01 Ronald P. Moses ’79 Linda A. Nuccio ’83 Wendy R. Penzel ’91 Carol A. Przybycien ’93 Rochester Area Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Teri A. Oberleitner ’05 Delmy A. Perez ’01 Daniel F. Puckett ’95 Community Foundation Mossman Henry F. O’Brien ’93 Marjorie M. Perfield ’78 Kathryn M. Puehn ’04 Susan Salzer Rocholl ’81 Sherry A. Mossotti ’98 Nancy A. O’Brien ’02 Ann M. Perisano ’88 Douglas J. Purcell ’93 Carolina A. Rock ’02 Sheryl M. Mouso ’93 Christine M. William H. Perlee ’88 Patricia A. Putnam ’74 Rockwell Collins Kenneth F. Moyes ’91 O’Connell ’98 Ernest G. Perry ’77 Joseph P. Quartararo ’76 Constance Rodgers ’93 Maureen Moynihan ’00 Timothy J. O’Connell ’95 Kelly J. Perry-Phelps ’96 Nancy C. Quartier ’93 Joan M. Rodie ’94 Constance Mrowzinski ’86 Michael F. O’Connor ’94 Radharani S. Michael Quercia ’95 Edith T. Rodrigo ’78 Margaret M. William P. O’Connor ’01 Perumal ’92, ’94 Francine B. Quesada ’91 Daisy M. Rodriguez ’04 Mrugalski ’96 Robert R. O’Dell ’75 Ronald M. Raymond C. Quick Roberto Rodriguez ’75 Maurice H. Mullen ’04 Ann O’Keefe ’90 Pesnichak ’84, ’02 Susan Quigley ’98 Teresa T. Marian M. Mulligan ’85 Shirley J. O’Key ’76 Myrtle A. Peter ’87 Daniel Quinn ’98 Rodriguez ’88, ’92 Regina A. Mulligan ’99 Everett F. Oliver ’83 Mary E. Peterson ’86 Michael Quinn ’76 Janet N. Rodriquez ’04 Mary A. Mulroy ’98 Eric J. Olsen ’92 Chrisanthos Petsilas ’02 Thomas E. Radigan ’98 Brian L. Roeder ’96 Peter J. Mulvihill ’93, ’95 Daniel C. Olson ’96, ’97 Pfizer, Inc. Hendrick P. Rahusen ’78 Henry M. Roenke, III ’78 Virginia R. Munroe ’77 John P. O’Neill ’94 Richard G. Pfluger ’76 Jessica Raimi ’75 Jeffrey M. Rogner ’01 Marylin R. Michael J. O’Neill ’88 Margot A. Pfohl ’89 Giovanni E. Ramirez ’05 Beverly Rohlehr ’82 Munschauer ’87 Steven G. Onne ’88 Carol H. Phelps ’78 Laurie A. Ranieri ’99, ’05 Karen Rolnick ’05 Barbara J. Murak ’00 Marion E. Onufrak ’98 James A. Phelps ’94 William E. Rankins ’91 Denise Roman ’95 John M. Murphy, Sr. ’86 Debra L. Opferbeck ’00 Michael H. Phelps ’83 Sarah G. Rapp ’01 Barbara S. Romeo ’90 Nell S. Murphy ’95 Dennis J. Oppenheim Theodore K. Phelps Lokesh C. Rastogi Annemarie ’89, ’92 and Patrick P. Murphy ’01 Sue Ordover ’88, ’89 Brian E. Phillips ’04 Solomon D. Rattner ’82 Ronald ’92, ’94 Caroline M. Murray ’99 Marijke B. Ormel- Mary G. Phillips ’74 Teresa L. Raughley ’99 Ronacher Michael J. Muscatello ’98 Cook ’02 James Piccolo ’83 Rose A. Rawlins ’78 Rosemarie Ronde ’97 Richard W. Muscatello ’76 Rose Marie Ortenberg ’88 Thomas Piccolo ’79 Martha A. Ray ’00, ’03 Jeanne M. Roper ’89 Aydin Mustafa ’90 Phillip Ortiz Gerald L. Pickering ’03 MarySue Ray Marguerite C. Ropke ’00 Sheila A. Muters ’92, ’95 Nance B. Ortolano ’86 Barbara M. Pieniazek ’03 Charles W. Raymond, III Wendy R. Rosano ’90 Lois Muzio Helen F. Orzel ’98 George ’81 and Mary Raymond ’99, ’04 Alfredo Rosario ’98 Christine A. Myers ’91, ’92 Patricia G. Osborn ’87 Virginia ’76 Pierce RealNetworks Foundation Bernard Rosenberg ’73 Elizabeth A. Myers ’91 Lori Gerondel Osborne ’04 Patricia A. Pierce ’93 William D. Ream ’06 Tina Rossi ’03, ’04 Shirley E. Myers ’95 Jaquelyn L. Patricia M. Pierce Marna S. Redding Nancy S. Rothenberg ’85 Mary E. Nagle ’89 O’Shaughnessy ’91 Nilsa Pietri ’95 Katherine M. Joan Ann Rottas ’79 Deanna Kay Nance ’05 Stanley J. Stephen E. Pimpare ’98 Redmond ’90 Marianne C. Rough ’77 Annette L. Nanes ’74 Ossowski ’89, ’99 Brian F. Pine ’05 John D. Redner ’79 Janice Mc Clary Linda L. Neefe ’90 Robert E. Ostrom ’81 Margaret G. Pino ’94 Dawn M. Reed ’06 Rowell ’76 Cassimer Tim A. Otis ’99 Patricia Y. Pisaneschi Henry J. Reed ’88 Judy A. Rozanski ’98 Nellenback, Jr. ’94 Guillermo E. Ovalle ’93 Joseph A. Pizzo ’05 Carmen Reichelt ’98 Patrice Rudolph ’93 Horace G. Nelson ’05 Benny Mae Owens- Linda M. Pleat ’04 Austin Reid ’88 Gerard ’74 and Sandra L. Nelson ’02 Lynch ’04 Janice R. Plecha ’96 Joseph P. Reid ’83 Patricia ’94 Ruffino Phyllis S. Nesbitt ’80 Robert D. Oyer ’86 Lynda L. Pleszewski ’95 Michael D. Reilly ’93 Richard M. Ruggiero ’76 Brenda S. Nesset ’02, ’04 Sandra F. Ozgar ’01 Fiorentino Poccia ’85 Noreen Reilly ’78 Gretchen D. Ruhl Ingmar Netland ’90 Mercedes Pablos ’03 Antoine J. Polgar ’95, ’98 Ellen H. Reiner ’83 Rosemarie Ruk ’93 John J. Neumaier Richard M. Paige ’94 Thomas F. Policano ’76 Michele A. Resue ’05 Rosemary M. Ruper ’90 George F. Neumann ’78 Robert J. Janice Pollack ’76 Angel Reyes ’02 Joanne E. Russell ’00 Phillip A. Neville ’96 Paliwodzinski ’93, ’96 Robert W. Pollard ’79 Victor D. Reyes ’94 Renee A. Russell ’96

14 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Frances Russo Clinton A. Schwab ’92 Margaret L. Sinclair ’73 Lisa K. Soeller ’86 Vincent B. Sweeney ’76 Patricia Ryan Martha R. Schwartz ’74 Ruth Singer ’76 Robin L. Sohmer ’86 Denise A. Swezey ’02 Sheila Ryan Muriel Schwartz ’82 Ramlochand Singh ’04 Catherine W. Somich ’94 Mary Lou M. Swicklik ’86 Duncan P. RyanMann Tillie M. Schwartz ’85 Patricia A. Gloria Sotsky ’76 Paul J. Szemkow ’76 Nancy J. Saari Stephen Schwebler ’82 Singletary ’89, ’91 Carole R. Southwood Margaret Ann Elissa C. Sable ’75 Iris Sciacca-Fanelli ’89 Judy A. Singleton ’90 Roy A. Speckhard Taboada ’87 Helene M. Safford ’94 Lawrence D. Scotney ’87 Ann Marie Sinisi ’91, ’93 Debra A. Spencer ’94, ’96 Roberta L. Taggart ’90 Susan M. Sailer ’98 Kristen S. Seduski ’05 Marjorie W. Skakel ’77 Robert A. Sperling ’89 Michael R. Taitt Carole F. Salluzzo Robin W. Segur ’96 James J. Skindell ’81 Michael J. Spicola ’96 Joseph C. Tambascio ’75 Janet E. Salmons ’92 Joan D. Seidell ’99 Kathleen F. Skipper ’01 Carol J. Spierto ’95 Margaret Tamerlani ’95 Charles E. Samora ’93 Carline Seide-Murphy ’95 Martha S. Skolnik ’90, ’99 Donna M. Spink ’00 Freddie Tanon ’89 Percy M. Samuel ’86 Andrew P. Seltzer ’75 Mary Slane-Roache ’92 Camilla A. Spratley ’05 Stephen Tappis ’77 Joseph I. Sanchez ’94 Kelly L. Seltzer ’04 Beatrice B. Slizewski ’86 Deborah A. Sprenger ’93 Adele M. Targonski ’78 Howard G. Sandie ’90 Dorothy Semans ’82 Thomas E. Sloan ’94 Brenda J. Spring ’04 Miriam B. Tatzel Benedict P. Santeramo ’76 Neva D. Setlow ’75 Sharon M. Sloma ’88 Catherine A. Antoinette L. St. Hill ’78, ’81 Taylor ’93, ’04 Jardean W. St. James ’00 Clifford Taylor ’93 Francois St. Louis ’87 Deborah L. Taylor ’96 Arlon Stackler ’93 Denise R. Taylor ’03 Robert F. Stampf ’81 Ethel A. Taylor ’95 Diane E. Standish ’89, ’90 James R. Taylor ’92 Eleanor ’01 and Marian N. Taylor ’02 Kent ’94, ’00 Stanton Nellie Taylor- Jeffrey M. Stanton ’04 Walthrust ’92, ’93 William H. Stanziano ’74 Thomas H. Teaster ’94 Steven L. Starkes ’04 David J. Temkin ’83 Kathleen W. Starrett ’83 Angela M. Territo ’05 David Starr-Glass Carol Teta ’90 Marie T. Stasiak ’87 Gerald J. Teters ’94 Martha C. Staubach ’81 Alvin Thaler ’82 Ilana O. Staudigl ’85 Helen E. Thauer ’89, ’91 Maureen F. Steele ’86 Rachel S. Thibodeaux ’96 Helene Steinberg ’02 Brian H. Thompson ’95 Sally A. Steinwachs ’82 Gary R. Thompson ’92 Valerie J.W. Stephens ’04 Linda A. Thompson ’99 Richard E. Sterling ’78 Thomson Tax Andrew W. Stern ’95 and Accounting Bruce H. Stern ’99 John E. Thyroff ’76 Lorraine Stevens ’85, ’87 James M. Tibbitts ’80 Empire State College offers a variety of independent study programs, guided by James R. Stewart ’99 Dennis F. outstanding faculty mentors, allowing our students to study at their convenience. James S. Stewart ’87 Timmermann ’87 Leslie J. Stewart ’81 Patricia Tinkler ’01 Scott D. Stewart ’99 Robert J. Tinney ’86 Sheryl Santi-Luks ’94 Mohammad A. Shah ’05 James F. Slurff ’96 Nancy Stillman ’99 Beryl Tolfsen ’96 Joseph S. Santoro ’01 David Shakes ’85 Wayne M. Slye ’01 Steven E. Stipelman ’99 Katherine A. Tomasulo ’04 Paul D. Sanzone ’04 Renelle Shampeny Dorothy M. Bonnie J. Stockwell ’99 Patsy A. Tompkins Robert W. Sarno ’01 Deborah A. Small ’85, ’91, ’00 Marianne Lana Tonkoschkur ’93 William Sarokin ’85 Shannon ’85, ’95 Sheila C. Small ’98 Stoddard ’90, ’95 Shaune M. Toomey ’96 Janet F. Sarro ’87 Barbara G. Shapiro ’74 Mary Lynn Smart ’96 Heleen G. Stoddart ’97 Joanne Toran ’86 Judith Sauer ’84 Gertrude S. Shapiro ’76 Anne M. Smith ’89, ’93 Roberta M. Storey- Jacqueline A. Torrance ’00 Ann M. Savage ’77 James L. Shapiro ’95 Elizabeth W. Smith ’78 Reeves ’01 John L. Torres, Jr. ’95 Lynne W. Scanlon ’95 Linda L. Shea ’84, ’88 Ellen M. Smith ’03 Janette E. Strader ’93 Evelynn Toth ’93 Charlotte M. Schaefer ’80 Merry C. Sheils ’91 Frederick H. Yvonne C. Straker ’78 Joanne Towner ’88, ’90 William W. Schaefer ’83 James Shek ’98 Smith, Jr. ’96, ’98 Sandra Stratton- Wendy E. Townsend ’00 Kathleen L. Scheibel ’98 James Shelland Kevin Smith ’03 Gonzalez ’83 Barbara Tramonte Hermine K. Scheu ’03 Harold P. Sherman ’77 Margaret D. Smith ’93 Judith A. Strauss ’77 Carol B. Traynor ’88 H. Leonard Schick ’96 Linda E. Sherman ’83 Nancy A. Smith ’01 Brenda C. Streed ’90 Donald E. Treinen ’95 Andrew C. Donald J. Shetler Nina M. Smith ’77 John Strozier Paul Trela Schickedanz ’04 Brian T. Shields ’00 Robert W. Smith ’90 Philip P. Struzzeri ’80 Stephen J. Trenton ’87 Laura E. Schmidt ’99 Linda Lu Shields ’98 Suzette A. Smith ’04 Cynthia N. Stuart ’97, ’02 Francis Trice William H. Schmitt, Jr. ’04 Sue P. Shurtleff ’77 William H. Smith, Jr. ’79 Donna Sturdevant ’01 William C. Trier ’78 Sharon K. Schnabel ’79 Nick Siano ’91 Jona N. Smith- Richard David Sturges ’78 Joseph A. Trimarchi ’04 Janice R. Schneider ’85 Mary Elizabeth Sickels ’95 Bargerstock ’05 Eileen ’95 and Nancy Ann Tripp- Dolores H. Schott ’73 Kathleen ’99 and Mary K. Smyth ’99, ’04 Eugene ’92 Sullivan Leport ’86 George J. Richard ’95 Siddi Stephen L. Smythe ’85 Timothy Sullivan ’76 Patricia A. Tronolone ’77 Schreiber, III ’00 Lindo A. Signorelli ’81 Neil G. Snedeker ’00 Susan I. Summers ’98 Philip J. Trotta, Jr. ’03 Valerie Schroeder ’76 Silvia Silk ’91 Mary Ellen Snide ’92 Charles C. Summersell Brett J. Truitt Paul R. Schule, Jr. ’89 Brenda Simmons ’05 Kathleen A. Sniffen ’06 Deborah M. Sutch ’04 Paul Turano ’97 Connie R. Schultz ’05 George M. Simonton ’04 Deborah F. Snyder Frances A. Sutherland ’86 Jack Turek ’75 Linda L. Schutt ’97 Barbara M. Sinclair ’76 Mary K. Soboleski ’89 Daniel H. Swarts ’84 Norma N. Turini ’78

15 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

GROWTH IN EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT

$11,000,000 $10,000,000 $9,000,000 $8,000,000 $7,000,000 $6,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 $10,367,878 $10,131,391 $0 $1,543,848 $1,819,650 $2,204,743 $2,575,475 $3,169,801 $3,512,418 $4,107,944 $5,037,088 $6,108,733 $7,611,841 $8,388,617 $9,316,821 $9,315,148 $8,510,069 $8,755,641 $9,574,646 ’89 ’90 ’91 ’92 ’93 ’94 ’95 ’96 ’97 ’98 ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 ’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 Fiscal Year Ending June 30

THE ANNIVERSARY Marcia P. Volow ’79 Kathleen H. Weinman ’76 Mildred G. Williams ’03 Vivian M. Wronski ’84 SOCIETY Estelle R. Von Alt ’75 Reuben Weinstein ’74 Patricia D. Williams ’01 Mary Beth Wunsch ’99 Sharon L. Voorheis ’92 Mary Ellen Weliczka ’96 Sally L. Williams ’97 Kaoru F. Yamamoto ’00 (continued) William H. Martha G. Welte Vinnett A. Williams ’95 Guy A. Yaple, Jr. ’79 Douglass T. Turner ’84 Vrooman, III ’04 Sharon R. Westbrook- Judith J. Willis ’02, ’04 Susan Stockwell Yates ’91 Dianne C. Margaret L. Waage ’83 White ’98, ’05 Wayne Willis Rochelle Yedlin ’80 Tuzzolino ’96, ’97, ’02 Sharon F. Waagner ’90 Lee D. Westerlind ’02 Dinah M. Wilson ’00 Janine M. Yoerk- Amy L. Twiss ’98 Bonnie L. Wager ’05 Rodney N. Whalen ’88 Michael C. Terragnoli ’92, ’97 John Lawrence Tyrrell ’77 Amanda Tina Wagle Vickie Wheeler ’98 Wilson ’02, ’05 Denise K. Young ’99 Pecolia V. Tyson ’88 Jennifer S. Wagstaff ’05 Rebecca A. Whipple ’99 Ronnie Wilson ’05 Nancy Young ’77 Christina R. Ulanski ’92 Audrey V. Wahl ’93 Catherine M. White Victor A. Wilson ’06 Stacy R. Youst Sillen ’01 Donna M. Uncher David A. Wait Mary H. White ’78 Marion M. Wimbush ’97 Lawrence S. Jo-Ellen Unger Jane A. Wait Wendy L. Raymond J. Zaglaniczny ’74 Janice Urban ’92 Laura Wait Whittmore ’96, ’99 Winchcombe ’88 Michael D. Zales ’00 Perry Valastro Daniel F. Wakelee ’86 Eve Widdows ’86, ’89 Joan M. Winkelman ’92 Elizabeth A. Zawadzki ’94 Jose A. Valentin ’92 Lori Walaska Laurie Widman ’93, ’95 Edward J. Winski ’06 Theresa Craig H. Valentine, Jr. ’01 Jean L. Walker ’00 Doris E. Wigington ’81 Francis J. Winters ’91, ’92 Zbick ’85, ’92, ’01 Tamara R. Valentine ’02 Nancy W. Walker ’79 Norman F. Wiktor ’97 Roger L. Wise Orfina Zdarsky ’87 Terry D. Valentine ’94 Yvonne Walker ’96, ’03 Mary E. Wilber ’02 Mary Ann C. Witt ’95, ’98 Joan ’90 and Earla M. Van Kleeck ’05 Daniel E. Wall Sandra A. Janet L. Wojtalewski ’97 Walter ’83 Zelasko Melissa S. Van Winkle ’99 Timothy J. Walsh ’91 Wilczynski ’91, ’93 Michael L. Wold ’97 David A. Zolendjeski ’86 Clara E. Vanderbilt ’81 Catherine M. Patricia L. Wild ’80 Barrie Wolf ’86 Martin H. Zuckerman ’92 Ferdinand C. Walter ’90, ’93 Kevin James Wilder ’04 William J. Wolfe ’98 Eve Zukergood ’86 VanKersbergen ’83 Rudolph E. Linda Wilk ’93, ’96 Howard Woliner ’02 Catherine L. Walters ’93, ’95 Marie Wilke ’05 Michael Woloszyn, III ’03 CONTRIBUTORS VanRemmen ’06 Michael A. Walz ’76 Bert A. Wilkinson ’04 Alex C. Wong ’98 Richard J. VanZandt ’73 Cynthia P. Wandursky- Elizabeth E. Kathleen M. Wood ’90 Gifts of $1 - 34 Rick A. Vartorella ’94 Sciacca ’87 Wilkinson ’74 Leslye J. Wood ’98 Anonymous Elizabeth Vega-Lebron ’02 Cheryl J. Ward ’93 Gary T. Wilkinson ’91 Adena F. Woodard ’78 Margaret Aarsvold John L. Ventola ’91 Karol K. Ward ’98 Jean M. Wilkinson ’97 Lloyd C. Woodcock Laurie L. Abrams ’02 Jean A. Ver Hoeven ’83 Kathleen A. Ward ’00 Ray A. Willette ’99 Mary F. Woodhull ’79 Elizabeth A. Accordino ’91 Annette P. Versaggi ’89 Marian F. Ward ’78, ’81 Anne T. Williams ’76 Michael J. Woods ’93 Robert Adamenko ’78 Christine N. Loren W. Warner ’95 Dennis C. Williams ’03 Mary M. Woodsen ’91 Cynthia G. Adams ’00, ’04 Veschusio ’97, ’02 John J. Warren ’90, ’93 Earl Williams ’88 Sharon K. Karen J. Adams ’83 Jean Vescio ’90 Kenneth C. Wasley, III ’00 Ingrid Williams ’01 Wormwood ’90, ’92 Joseph L. Adiutori ’78 Gail E. Videtto ’94 Donald B. Wawrzaszek ’75 Joanne B. Williams ’94 Michael J. Worobey ’84 Vivian Afuwah ’89 Michele H. Viglucci ’87 Joan B. Weaver John R. Williams ’81 Patrick J. Wrafter ’91 John F. Aglialoro ’89 Edward J. Voelk, Jr. ’86 Elizabeth C. Webber Lillie Mae Gloria Wright ’79 Marion M. Ajjan ’90 Barbara A. Voerg ’01 Michael R. Weber ’03 Williams ’97, ’98 Sharon D. Wright- Grace B. Weiner ’80 Maria D. Williams ’04 Dejesus ’95 Phyllis Akins

16 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Eileen Alber ’92 Jo-Ann Barris ’00 Elizabeth Birardi ’88 Leonard E. Gary C. Burkhardt ’95 Colleen B. Aldrich ’90 Danielle R. Bartels ’03 Louise Biron ’05 Brendlinger, II ’75 Ernestine F. Burleson- Edward V. Allen, Jr. ’78 Andrew K. Bartlett ’99 Patricia M. Biski ’01 John H. Brewer, Sr. ’88 Allen ’79 Edward W. Allen ’84, ’85 Denise M. Bartlett ’03, ’05 Jacqueline A. Maureen Ann Brewer ’02 Fred M. Burstein ’91 Gail E. Allen ’89 Janet L. Bartnik ’95 Blachowski ’92 Joan A. Brigante ’96 Henry P. Burt ’93 Jo A. Allen ’04 Thea Basis-Vanderwerf ’86 Helen Black ’90 Lari L. Briglia ’81 Melanie E. Burton ’00 Lindy O. Allen ’77 Donata E. Bastian ’98 Thelma R. Blake ’90 Harold C. Brilliant ’76 Marsha Butler ’91 Patricia A. Allen ’95 Rose Marie Battisti ’92 Marilyn J. Bleser ’01 Diane M. Brisson ’96 Margaret C. Bye ’85 Rita M. Allen ’05 Josephine M. Bauer ’79 Marylin Blevins ’86 Pamela Bristol ’85, ’89 Anna R. Byrnes ’92 Donna M. Alpers ’05 Mary K. Bauer ’03 Deborah I. Blond ’00 Andre M. Broady ’00 John M. Byrnes ’99 Mariann Althoff ’03 Thomas E. Baulsir ’96 William F. Bobear ’88 Lloyd J. Brockney ’93 Aurea Byron ’91, ’96 Mary R. Altman ’00 Noreen E. Beard ’80 Phyllis Bocchicchio ’81 Diana Broderick ’98 Louis Caballer ’82 Marie E. Ambrose ’98 Ann Becker Sally F. Bock ’84 Barbara Brodsky ’88 Paula M. Caglianone ’93 Josephine A. Ameduri ’03 Paula S. Becker ’83 Brian and Robert J. Bromm ’99 Mildred R. Cahn ’80 Susan Lee Ames ’82 Niki C. Bedell ’73 Colleen ’91 Bogan D’Andrea L. Brooks ’06 Edward W. Cala ’87 Rafael Andalia ’01 Paula D. Behm ’95 James B. Bonar ’90 Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Mark Calicchia ’85 Eleanor Anderson ’92 Stephen J. Behr ’93 L. R. Bonham ’97 Brooks Rosemarie A. Calista ’75 James H. Anderson, Jr. Mary Lou Beldy ’79 Bette L. Bonitz ’90 David W. Brosious ’98 Sharon L. Calkins ’80 Lori E. Anderson ’92 Bessie A. Bell ’90 Diane L. Bonizzi ’93 Cheryl A. Brown ’80 Doris A. Callahan ’98 Ronald J. Anderson ’87 Doris S. Bell ’85 Chuck Robie Booth ’78 Jacqueline K. Brown ’04 David W. Callison ’01 Celeste C. Andrews ’99 William S. Benedict ’75 Paul F. Borriello ’03 Jean E. Brown ’74 Joseph A. Calta ’76 Patricia M. Andronica ’04 Jane V. Benjamin ’80 Susan Borzilleri ’85 Nancy D. Brown ’97 Diana R. Cambareri ’93 Julia M. Annotto ’77 Lorraine S. Bennett ’74 Heather M. Boss ’05 Steven A. Brown ’93 Angela Cammarata ’85 Antoinette Anziano ’95 Muriel Valentine Patricia A. Velma L. Brown ’78 Thomas Cammarata ’84 Kathryn R. Appel ’86 Benson ’90 Boulerice ’95, ’04 Virginia M. Brown ’98 Ralph Camoia ’00 David R. Appleton ’06 Theodore Lloyd Margaret A. Bowers ’92 Jacqueline M. Brownell ’06 Jean P. Campbell ’75 Suzanne J. Apthorpe ’92 Benson ’79 Ruth A. Bowles ’04 Dawn A. Bruce ’00 Martha A. Campbell ’00 Chad J. Aragona ’01 Susan J. Campbell ’92 Alice M. Armao ’92, ’00 Norma Canal ’93 Debra L. Armbruster ’88 Cynthia Ward Phillip M. Arnold ’88 Capalbo ’03 Liaquat Asghar ’05 Dennis B. Capraro ’03 Deborah Ashley ’86 Dia Carabajal Rudo J. Ashton ’75 Anne Marie Caratelli ’80 Loretta Assip ’77, ’80 Kelly S. Carilli ’02 Sharon C. Aswad ’00 Alice L. Carlino ’03 Joan M. Atwood ’95 Daniel P. Carlson, Sr. ’78 Paula K. Austic ’90 Lois M. Carlson ’96 Joan H. Autilio ’85 Mary R. Carnicelli ’75 Gilda Avram ’76 Kathleen M. Carpenter ’91 Barbara R. Ayer ’79 Patricia Carter ’83, ’86 Joy B. Bacon ’83 Mark U. Caruso ’99 Kristin E. Badger-Bach ’97 Ralph Caruso ’92 Elisa M. Baerga ’90 Mardou R. Case ’98 Leonard Bagley ’77 Sharon M. Case ’80 Alison C. Bailey ’01 Richard W. Casey ’75 Paul C. Bailey ’93 Beth J. Cash ’99 Mark W. Baird ’03 Virginia Cassetta- Mildred F. Baker ’94 Wilson ’90 Penelope A. Balance ’82 Anne G. Cassidy ’89 Angela M. Baldera ’87 Graduate and family celebrate together at Empire State College graduation ceremonies. Richard J. Castagnier ’95 Rosemary Balestieri- Ann T. Catala ’81 Carpitella ’91, ’93 Doris Cecere ’96 Barbara ’96, ’99 and Jennifer Bent Heather-Ann N. Julia Brumbaugh ’76 Janice Cederbaum ’79 John ’96, ’99 Balestrieri Merle A. Bercow ’84 Bowman ’04 Adeline R. Bruno ’80 Alfred Cella ’91 Kathleen C. Ball ’78 Judith Ann Berezin ’77 Patricia N. Bowman ’88 Gloria J. Bruno ’99 John A. Centrone ’00 Marilyn A. Ballard ’97 Irene Berger ’88 Debra A. Box ’00, ’01 James D. Bryant ’99 Carol J. Cenzano ’03 Kathleen M. Ballester ’93 Michael E. Bergin ’97, ’01 David J. Boyce, Jr. ’02 James P. Buckley ’96 Fabian P. Cereijido ’01 Natalie Carol Barbadoro- Chanie N. Berkovits ’03 Sherrill Boyce ’98 Maureen P. Buckley ’97 Pessy Chaikin ’05 Pearson ’86 William H. Victoria D. Boyd ’94 Joseph L. Buda ’00 Dorreth A. Chambers ’02 Barbara J. Barbaro ’94 Bernard, Sr. ’87 Diane D. Bradshaw ’89 Lisa A. Buddenhagen ’01 Dennis F. Chapman ’02 Nicholas C. Barber ’98 Gene H. Bernieri ’97 Joyce R. Brady ’75 Deborah ’04 and Theresa R. Chapman ’02 Suzanne J. Barber ’98 Hannah Lee Berry ’86 Barbara J. Bragg ’78 Thomas ’00 Buechner, III Andrea J. Chappetta ’00 Ute E. Barber ’93 Patricia C. Berry ’05 Pauline S. Braggins ’81 Jewel Z. Buff ’76 Janice L. Chard ’04 Michael J. Barna ’76 Cherry S. Berson ’81, ’85 Judy B. Braiman ’90 Victor Bujanow ’80 Sylvia J. Charlesworth ’85 Juliana Felicia Barnes ’04 Emil M. Bertolino ’87 Regine Brate John F. Bulson ’95 Joan E. Chase ’78, ’97 Marilyn B. Barnes ’02 Eleanor Bianchi ’91 Carmen V. Bravo ’91 Bonnie R. Bundrock ’98 Sharon E. Chase ’76 Victoria F. Baroody ’01 Ellen L. Biesdorf ’80 Arlene P. Brazee ’74 Mary S. Burch ’76 Ivory T. Chavis ’03 Dorothy J. Barr ’02 Paul H. Biesinger ’87 Elizabeth Breen ’91 Marie D. Burke ’76 Leona M. Noreen Barrett Susan Bigelow ’05 Wayne R. Burke ’86 Chereshnoski ’93, ’94

17 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

CONTRIBUTORS Kevin M. Cooney ’01 Glen A. Cummings ’92 Trena B. De Franco ’00 Glenn C. Doty ’79 (continued) Candace L. Cooper ’05 Larry D. Cummings ’79 Maria E. De Jesus ’76 Anne E. Douglas ’89 Lorraine K. Cooper ’97 Mary Cunneen ’05 Vivian A. De Luca ’95, ’96 Richard M. Dow ’76 Lesley R. Chilcott ’91 Margery L. Cooper ’79 Genevieve Cunningham ’74 Joseph P. Pamela Dowling ’95 Heather D. Childs ’04 Earline Corbitt ’99 Stephanie Cunningham De Stefano ’90, ’91 Thomas E. Drago ’00 Lynn M. Chouinard ’85 Anne E. Cordato ’03 Bernice A. Cuomo ’93 Helga K. de Szalay ’82 Jane E. Draimin ’05 Joan D. Christiana ’98 Kim D. Cordella ’02 Patricia S. Curran ’80 Brenda E. Dean ’05 Dawn Drake ’87 Stella K. Chronis ’86 James D. Cornelius ’79 Kathleen M. Curry ’99 Ross J. Decker ’92 Kathleen Y. Drake ’90 Ting Chu ’04 Larry A. Cornwall ’96 Valentine E. Carol Deery ’83 Ross C. Drake ’95 Donna L. Chubon ’87 Charles A. Cornwell ’99 Cutajar ’88, ’89 Neil R. DeFelice ’03 Judith C. Dreher ’99 Valeri Chukhlomin Joseph Corona ’96 Michael J. Cybulski ’05 Patricia M. Degan ’98 Stanley C. Drescher ’95 Mary E. Church ’00 Teresa Corradino ’94 Richard F. Czechowicz ’78 Christine C. Degnan ’02 Joyce E. Jacqueline C. Linda Cortright ’91 Mary A. Czerniak ’99 Jack A. DeGrace ’79 Drzewiecki ’92, ’97 Churchill ’76 Thomas R. Dehner Shirley J. Dubanowich ’76 Ralph E. Ciaravalli ’01 Noreen Dehond ’98 Addy C. Ducey ’03 Linda A. Cindrich ’98 Karen M. Deiana ’00 Sandra B. Duckworth ’92 Samantha M. Cirillo ’05 Gloria Deixel ’80 Rosemary Dukes ’87, ’91 Lee Mitchell Cisek ’77 John Del Balso ’00 Delores J. Dumar ’82 Audrey N. Clancy ’76 Annmary DeLago ’83 Cynthia L. Dumas ’04 Sheila M. Clancy ’89 Susan B. Delano ’01 Barbara A. Dunagan ’96 Janet C. Clapsaddle ’90 Kathleen A. Delisa ’91, ’94 Vivian B. Dunbar ’77 Belinda M. Clark ’05 Suzanne M. Delyons ’97 Catherine V. Helen C. Clark ’87 Marion DeMarco Duncan ’88, ’90 Kimberley D. Clark ’05 Carla C. Demeco ’86 Robin A. Duncan ’87 Linda M. Clark ’05 Barbara J. DeMong ’04 Maureen M. Dunleavy ’05 Sue A. Clark ’82, ’87 Dolores M. Denegar ’87 Roberta M. Dunn ’05 Sylvia E. Clarke ’98 Kathleen A. Denniston ’87 Amy S. Dunne ’05 Cynthia M. Clauss ’04 Sally DePoala ’92 Jocelyne P. Duntley ’86, ’88 William W. Clavijo ’06 Paul C. Desell ’03 Bruce A. Dunton ’89 Joyce J. Clegg ’90 Silence W. Dessaure ’89 Barbara A. Dupre ’79 John D. Clements ’89 Catherine L. Steven W. Durham ’04 Dawn M. Clifford ’81 Deszcz ’89, ’93 Karin K. Dusza ’01 Andrew B. Cline ’05 Louis G. Deutsch ’80 Carmen Denise DuVal ’05 Phyllis Ann Clute ’82 Reisel Deutscher ’82 Ann M. Dwyer ’84 Dortha F. Coakley ’76 Peter J. Deveau ’83 Carol A. Dwyer ’96 James B. Coates ’90 Jeanette L. Douglas J. Dwyer ’88 Virginia M. Cobb ’75 Devenitch ’89, ’94 Charles M. Dyer ’00 Roberta M. Cochrane ’81 Louis Devita ’77 Joseph Eastburn ’91 Mary Lu Coffey ’89 Portia Elizabeth Dewar ’05 Patricia E. Ebert ’86, ’93 Barbara I. Cohen ’03 Marco DeZago ’87 Jared V. Eckler ’02 Ivan Cohen ’86 Tammy L. Jacqueline E. Eck- Mimi Cohen ’82 Di Domenico ’03 Newell ’85 Barbara M. Victor T. Di Fusco ’99 Kay Eddy ’95 Colavecchio ’91 Ethel A. Di Gregorio ’85 Wendy L. Eddy ’98 Barbara A. Cole ’95 D. L. Diamond ’78 Howard I. Edelson ’79 Harold J. Cole ’91 Edward D. Diaz ’90 Natalie A. Edmunds ’80 Nadine J. Coleman ’87 Patrice R. Dickerson ’91 Heather A. Edwards ’87 Patricia A. Coleman ’92 Mary D. Dickinson ’77 Richard P. Eilers ’82 Ronald Coleman ’00 Empire State College provides the flexibility adults Ann M. Dickman ’96 Margaret A. Elbow ’74 Arthur D. Coles ’01 need to balance work, family and earning a degree. J. Stephen Didas Imad A. El-Khoury ’04 Lucille A. Collette ’05 Mary E. Dinardo ’92 Elaine P. Ellis ’87 Emanuel T. Collins ’05 Lynn M. Dinehart ’98 Margaret A. Ellsworth ’75 Kevin G. Collins ’06 JoAnn M. Corvino ’03 Elaine S. Czerw ’75 Astrid Dininno ’94 John J. Elshaw ’96 Timothy A. Collins ’00 Donna L. Costa ’02 Mary C. Dahl ’96 Jack Disraeli ’74 Margaretta J. Susan M. Collver ’89, ’92 Marise S. Costa- Margaret A. Dale ’86 Lionel Dixon ’01 Empey ’01, ’02 Mabel L. Colton ’82 Aguilar ’05 Anetta Daley ’95, ’96 Michael David Charles V. Engel ’97 Jeffrey Alan Colvin ’03 Sandra M. Costin ’97 Daniel G. Daoust ’06 Dobbertin ’03 Joan M. England ’86 Paul J. Comella ’92, ’95 James G. Courtney ’90 Jennifer O. Darlak ’90 Josephine Doherty ’00 Shirley M. Ernest ’84 Brian M. Condon ’93, ’94 Vicki T. Covey ’88 Betsy A. Darrow ’95 Brian Dollard ’05 Joan M. Esposito ’93 Raymond T. Conjeski Francis M. Cox, III Joan Daugirda ’77 Edward O. Dols ’91 Bernard A. Esser ’84 Edna B. Conklin ’81 Cynthia I. Coyle ’88 Ron Davids ’84 Annette L. Domagala ’90 Gabrielle E. Ettlinger ’02 Katherine Conkling ’92 Jovilita C. Craig ’06 Janice R. Davidson ’96 Judith A. Domanski ’91 Ann M. Evangelist ’87 Timothy J. Conner ’97 Christine Cramton ’87 Janet A. Davignon ’94 Susan Dombroske ’85 Lance M. Evans ’95 Tina M. Conover ’89 Lucille S. Francis C. Davis ’85 Gerald W. Donahue ’94 Marlene Evans Gennaro A. Conte ’80 Crawford ’00, ’03 Ronald R. Davis ’97 Susan C. Donahue ’79 Mary C. Evans ’84 Barbara J. Converso ’83 Patricia A. Cregar ’00 Lorna Diehl Dawson ’85 Cardinald N. Donald ’94 Jane A. Fabbri ’86 A. Joan Conway ’73 Thomas F. Cudney ’88 Joyce M. Dayton ’89 Paul B. Donnellan ’82 Lori L. Fabritius ’98 Bruce B. Cook ’94 Mary A. Cullen ’90 Frank V. De Angelo ’99 Catherine S. Donohue ’80 Nancy A. Fairley ’06 Debra Cook ’05 Alexander C. Cullison ’88 Augusto J. De Barros ’99 Eileen T. Dorritie ’96 William J. Falk ’80 Michael S. Cooley ’94 Tracie J. Culver ’95 Joan de Boer ’94 Rose A. Dorsman ’03 Ella C. Fandrey ’85

18 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION SUMMARY OF GIVING FOR 2006 GIVING FOR ALL PURPOSES – SUMMARY BY SOURCE

SOURCE NUMBER OF DONORS TOTAL CONTRIBUTED PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL Alumni 3,959 $487,624 26% Employees (current and former) 252 $118,205 6% Corporations 63 $157,394 8% Foundations 21 $1,019,355 53% Friends/Organizations 171 $125,221 7%

Total 4,466 $1,907,799 100%

Included in the above totals is $286,036 from 19 Empire State College Foundation board members. Their generous support accounted for more than 15 percent of all contributions in 2006.

Catherine M. Fanucchi ’94 Richard T. Larry S. Frye ’98 Maureen E. Margaret Gotthelf ’76 Jacqueline S. Fare ’93 Fitzsimmons ’87 Norman H. Fulton ’87 Gifford ’99, ’03 Richard A. Grafmyre ’90 Mariel M. Farlow ’94 Noreen R. Flynn ’85 William J. Furnas ’92 Denise A. Giles ’96 Sylvia F. Graham Cheryl A. Farr ’03 Robert F. Flynn ’98 Joseph C. Gallagher ’99 Diane Gilhooly ’81 Kathryn E. Grandjean ’92 Marjorie A. Farrell ’97 Stephen S. Flynn ’95, ’97 Paula M. Gallagher ’03 Gertrude Gilligan ’94 Jeanne M. Granger ’79 Margot Farrington ’85 Lorraine D. Foltz ’85 Maryann Gallinaro- David B. Giminiani ’01 Mary A. Grant ’00 Kevin Faulkner ’85 Mary Foran-O’Herron ’85 Krause ’99 C. Fred Ginther, Jr. ’82 Ellen M. Grasek ’02 Julie A. Faust-White ’00 Dorothy H. Forbes ’80 Josephine M. Gallo ’76 Helen M. Giordano ’97 Monroe S. Grassi ’81 Michael Feather ’92 Malaika Forde ’02 John D. Gallup ’96 Lynne M. Gipp ’01 Debra Grasso ’04 Glenda E. Feinsmith ’94 Sherl M. Forest ’73 Maria Gambino ’04 Imogene Gittens ’05 Terry M. Gray ’05 Leonard Feld ’75 Bridget Forkin ’01 Mario J. Gambuzza ’76 Matthew Giuliano ’83 Christine B. Green ’93 George Feldman ’81 Janet M. Forrest ’95 Edna M. Gansz ’72 Kimberly S. Gleason ’01 Joan C. Green ’79 Harry M. Feldman ’76 Francine U. Forte ’91 Carole F. Garabedian ’77 Robert D. Rosanne J. Greenwood ’89 Eugene Felt ’86, ’90 Simon G. Fortin ’03 Grace Gardner ’83, ’86 Gleason, Sr. ’94, ’95 Bonnie E. Gregg ’95 John G. Femia ’99 James H. Fortune ’72 Barry J. Garigen ’77 Gloria M. Glick ’95 Deborah A. Gregory ’86 Norman H. Fenichel ’96 Marilyn M. Foster ’84 Ann Jane Garrell ’98 Anne Glover ’86 Timothy A. Gregory ’00 Damon Ferguson ’04 Pansy A. Foster ’01 Douglas D. Garrison ’87 Justina Gluck ’89 Antoinette T. Griffin ’76 Marilyn Ferguson ’87 Marie C. Fouche ’89 Marie C. Gaspard ’02 Colleen M. Goddard ’98 John P. Griffin ’78, ’01 Margaret Z. Fernandes ’83 Heather L. Fowler ’98 Sylvia Gassell ’75 Frank C. Godfrey, Jr. ’82 James H. Griffith ’98 Ana Fernandez ’81 Carole B. Fox ’95 Ellen I. Gates ’86 Charles P. Goetz ’81 Ann M. Grimaldi ’01, ’04 Frances Fernandez ’91 Henrietta B. Fradkin ’75 Isabelle A. Gaulin ’85 Norma Goldfarb ’81 Peter H. Groff ’76 Rosa M. Fernandez- Susan A. Franca ’04, ’05 Patricia A. Gautsche- Irving S. Goldfinger ’79 Marcella ’76 and Fraser ’97 David R. Francisco ’01 Jones ’94, ’96 Allan Goldschmidt ’85 Reginald ’76 Grosse David E. Ferro ’01 Todd A. Frangione ’01 Elizabeth Gee George A. Judith Gruber ’95 Paul V. Fiacco Anna J. Franklin ’97 Eileen Geis ’98 Goldsmith ’83, ’86 Kathleen A. Guarino ’02 Kimberly R. Fiaschetti ’92 Maxine Freed ’79 Anne Gennings ’81 Lea E. Goldstein ’95 Marie A. Guastella ’99 Anthony L. Fico ’88 Philip W. French ’05 Josephine Gerke ’90 Jay Gonyea ’95, ’96 and Richard S. Gubala ’85 Virginia M. Fikes ’04 Amparo O. Frias ’99 Annette M. Paula Theroux- Gregory E. Anne C. Finn ’80 Erna B. Friedel ’79 Gernatt ’91, ’94 Gonyea ’91, ’03 Gulbrandsen ’02 James J. Finn ’91 Arnold R. Friedland ’79 Donald G. Gerould ’76 Jorge Gonzalez ’02 Helen M. Gundersen ’79 Mildred V. Finneran ’88 Jonah D. Friedman ’94 Gary W. Gewant ’80 Maureen W. Goodman ’82 Anna Gyorgy Adele C. Fiorentine ’96 Miriam A. Friedman ’89 James P. Giacopasi ’83 Thomas J. Goodwill ’91 Cynthia A. Haase ’86 Eugene M. Fischer ’84 Wayne C. Friedman ’03 Jeannette R. Giagios ’97 Bruce A. Gordon ’78 Martha Haber ’98 Jeannette Fitton Luther D. Frisch ’95 Anita M. Giangreco ’95 Sarah Gordon ’76 Jeffrey B. Hadden ’87 Candida T. Fitts ’99 Mae Frison ’89, ’91 Richard J. Giannicchi ’96 Joyce Gore-Humston ’79 Steven A. Hadranyi ’79 David P. Fitzpatrick ’90 Judith A. Frizlen ’89 James J. Gibbons ’04 Richard J. Gorman ’98 Susan J. Hagelmann ’87 Mabel E. Fitzpatrick ’83 Robert Fruchter Anna J. Goss ’85 John P. Haggerty ’76

19 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

CONTRIBUTORS Imee Hernandez ’01 Daoud Ibraheem ’96 Charles J. Keller ’98 Gary Krolikowski (continued) Michelle M. Annemarie Illium ’76 Gerald M. Keller ’02 Amy S. Kromer ’00 Hernandez ’99, ’01 Grace D. Imray ’88, ’00 Paula M. Keller ’78 Janet L. Krouse ’00 Stephen M. Hale ’91 Paulo Hernandez ’03 Margaret E. Indelicato ’84 Catherine L. Kelley ’84 Lorraine P. Krup ’76 Annette R. Hall ’99 Diana J. Hernandez- Rochelle Inger ’89 Christopher Stephen Stella T. Krzelj ’99, ’00 Barbara Hall ’91, ’94 Correa ’02 Evor L. Ingram ’74 Kelley ’02 Pauline E. Kubizne ’82 Channelle T. Hall ’04 Harold Hershenson ’77 George C. Iosifides ’96 Sharon J. Kellogg ’97 Alan L. Kunkes ’92 Edward G. Hall ’79 Gertrude A. Hershkop ’87 Margaret J. Ireland ’77 Barbara J. Kelly ’98 Suja Kuriakose ’90 Pierre Hall ’97 Helene T. Patricia Jean Irzyk ’76 Donna D. Kelly ’75 Rolande L. Kusek ’88 Karla M. Haller ’02 Hertzlinger ’85, ’87 Mark C. Ivy ’97 Lonna Kelly ’04 Jon R. Kuwik ’93 Michael J. Halpin ’95 Erica Heymann ’82 Douglas P. Jackino ’98 Naomi C. Kelly ’88 Theresa M. Susan G. Hamelin ’76 Anne I. Heywood ’79 Owen P. Jackson ’83 William J. Kelly ’88 Kwiatkowski ’94 Thomas A. Hamilton ’96 Ben Hickman ’75 Jessica S. Jacobs ’04 Wendy Kelly- Victoria J. La Marque ’05 Robin J. Hammer ’02 Dorothy L. Hicks ’93 Marc R. Jacobs ’98 Carter ’94, ’02 Leonard J. La Rocca ’91 Maureen K. Hamula ’97 Eleanor R. Higgins ’78 Susan M. Jacobs ’01 Ruth Ellen Keneston ’03 Margaret LaBozzetti ’02 Jeffrey Handler Kenneth A. Higgins ’82 Sheren S. Jadallah ’06 Donna S. Kenestrick ’87 Barbara B. Lachow ’81 Patricia M. Jeanne M. Hilburger ’82 John E. Jakubowski ’83 Gwenn Kennedy ’87, ’92 Eleanor S. Handzlik ’91, ’95 Diann H. Hildreth ’89 Laura E. James ’93 Loretta A. Kennedy ’00 Lafferty ’90, ’93 Gregory H. Christine L. Hill ’04 Nancy L. Jamie ’01 Ronald Kern ’03 Salvatore Laguzza ’05 Hanna ’75, ’76 Eline U. Hill ’94 Mary Jamison ’90 Anne E. Kerrigan ’86 Mary A. Lallier ’98 Cheryle R. Hansen ’93 Conwell Hines ’92 Robert L. Janzen ’88 Joan A. Kerrs ’03 Frank J. Lamando, Jr. ’90 Glenn A. Hansen ’91, ’94 Samuel Hirsch ’73 Kimberly A. Jarnot ’04 Linda J. Kevins ’93 Linda A. Lambert ’00 Katherine A. Hansen ’98 Donald D. Hittner ’97 Mary Jaskowski ’85, ’86 Hugh J. Kiernan ’78 Jimmy R. Lane ’82 Nancy A. Hansen ’03 Kathleen M. Hoeffner ’92 Vicki L. Jayes ’01 Jennifer Kiernan ’03 Alvin J. Laney ’93 Joan Hanson ’87, ’89 Caroline A. Hoffman ’87 Marvin R. Jeffcoat ’02 Kathleen S. Kiernan ’02 James A. Langone ’90 Marie E. Hare ’90 Michele E. Hoffman ’94 Phyllis Cohen Martha T. Kifle ’86 Susan Diane LaPier ’03 James W. Richard A. Hoffmann ’99 Jendrusch ’78 Albert James Killius ’77 Patricia A. LaPoint ’05 Harrington, Jr. ’03 Andrew D. Hogan ’03 Carl T. Jenkins ’01 Dong-Eun Kim ’01 Terri L. LaPoint ’02 Marion Harrington ’87 Mary H. Holcomb ’88, ’90 Aquilina Jimenez ’97 Bambi L. King ’04 Lonnie W. Lau ’88 Richard L. Maurice Hollis ’00 Cansalee Johnson ’87, ’90 Eleanor J. King ’83 Susan A. Laughlin ’88, ’92 Harrington ’98, ’00 Melicent L. Homan ’93 Eric A. Johnson ’99 Patricia T. King ’96 Marcella S. Lavarnway ’85 Deborah J. Harris ’83, ’84 William C. Hoock ’04 Gail M. Johnson ’88 Lorraine M. Kinney- Patrick Lavin ’05 Hazel L. Harris ’83 Linda D. Hopkins ’98 James R. Johnson ’94 Kitchen ’99 Shirley Lavine Arlynne B. Harrison ’77 Mil M. Horosko ’89 Leola D. Johnson ’05 Kathy Beth Kinzel ’99 Estelle B. Lazell ’80 Lorine Harris-Wallace ’83 Jeffrey A. Horowitz ’01 Robin M. Johnson ’90 Michael Kirby ’93 Linda A. Leahey ’01 Enola K. Hart ’91 Derek D. Hosein ’04 Arleen L. Johnston ’95 Joan M. Kirdahy ’86 Jean Sharon Leavy ’82 Vivian C. Hasbrouck ’97 Samuel J. Hosier ’95 Elijah J. Jones ’84 Sheryl A. Klee ’99 David B. Lebiednik ’99 Jacquelyn L. Haskins ’76 John F. Howard ’76 Gleora M. Jones ’83 Helen Klein ’74 Lindsay E. LeBrecht ’89 Ellen Hauben ’87 Cynthia E. Howson ’03 Marilyn I. Jones ’86 Janis M. Klein ’81 June H. LeClaire ’83 Carol Webel Hausen ’75 Susan Hoyt ’01 Pamela Jones ’04 Gary A. Kleitz ’98 Devorah M. Marla B. Hawkins ’03, ’05 Donna I. Hubbard ’96, ’00 Marjorie T. Jordahl ’76 Chris Klimecko ’04 Lederman ’79 * Donald K. Hawley ’80 Harriet E. Hubbs ’87 Julia R. Jorge ’87 Janet D. Knebel ’77 Harold T. Lee ’05 David L. Hazelton ’96 Rachel M. Huckfeldt ’06 Edith Joseph ’04 Eileen Knepple ’96 Carol Ann Leffler ’90 Maureen Healy- Mark D. Huebsch ’82 Pauline Juckes ’85 Claire E.F. Knowles ’93 Joyce W. Lehmann ’78 Murray ’91 Dianne G. Huenlich ’03 Elizabeth M. Jurgens ’98 Loren A. Koelle ’96 Karin Chaia Lehrer ’06 Herman D. Heilman ’74 Patricia Hughes ’86 Carol M. Jurs ’99 Robert F. Koenig ’06 Marilyn Leiman ’97 Susan L. Helling ’05 Laurie L. Hulbert ’94 Rita A. Justino ’76 Micki S. Koffler ’79 Arlene C. Leitner ’86 Aixa Hemm ’06 Sharon M. Humphrey ’94 Marguerite Kaczor ’99 Anita F. Kohn ’75 Margaret A. Lemen ’91 Carol V. Hendrickson ’76 Barbara L. Hunt ’03 Kevin F. Kaderli ’82 Christina Marilyn Z. Lent ’98 Elinor Ann Henrich ’77 Daphne Hunt-Clement ’80 Gloria R. Kahl ’98 Kokiasmenos ’89 Beth A. Leonard ’04 Nancy E. Henrikson ’88 Glenda M. Hunte ’05 Fannette Kaiser ’74 Adele B. Kolinsky ’80 Alan J. Leone ’00 Murray G. Henry ’91 Barbara J. Huntley ’04 Kathleen E. Kaiser ’06 Lynne A. Koller ’94 Samuel Leopold ’06 Barbara M. Henza ’96 Earl G. Hurlbut ’90 Theresa M. Kalb ’92, ’02 Carol A. Kollmer ’92 Gary J. Lessard ’89 Frederick L. Marlene Hurley Doris Kalisman ’75 Julia L. Koopman ’92 Carole A. Lesson ’74 Hepburn, Sr. ’05 Marvin S. Hurwitz ’80 Christine Kaminski ’97 Gladys G. Kopilak ’92 Elizabeth LeValley ’96 Bruce T. Herendeen ’80 Phillip R. Hurwitz ’83 Bertha W. Kane ’83 Jan M. Koret ’93 Linda A. Levin ’02, ’04 Dale C. Herman ’05 Julia M. Hynes ’74 Eileen MacAvery Kane ’86 Marilyn Kossoff ’78 Irving Levine ’77 Theodore Kanellakis ’81 Shirley A. Kota ’89 Irwin H. Levine ’75 Marlaine E. Joyce A. Kotch ’88 Marilyn W. Levy ’93 Kaniecki ’00, ’04 David ’03 and Richard F. If you would like to support the work Robert A. Kantrowitz ’76 Deborah ’99 Kovach Lewandowski ’04 of Empire State College by making Cheryl L. Kanuck ’00 Frances L. Kovacs ’02 Joan Lewis ’78 Ronald J. Kapfer ’00 Virginia M. Kovel ’74 Renee J. Lewis ’06 a contribution to the foundation, Myrtle Kaplan ’77 Carolyn Kozubal ’91 Philip Liberatore ’83 please visit us online at Benjamin A. Katz ’97 Deborah A. Kraft ’95 Barbara Licata ’86 www.esc.edu/AnnualFund Frances Kaufmann ’85 Shirley L. Kramer ’76 Paulette A. Licitra ’93 or call the Annual Giving Office Lois Jeanne Kay ’85 Lucinda A. Krause ’92 William J. Liebmann ’78 Emily Kaznica ’95 Daniel F. Krawczyk ’02 Karen Lind ’89 at 800 847-3000 ext. 2234. Brendan Keane ’06 Gary Kreil Kathy Lind ’97 Ellen M. Keefe ’90 Tracy A. Kriegbaum ’04 Shelly M. Lindsey ’01

20 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Jessica Lipsky ’04 Daniel J. MacLaughlin ’88 John E. Martz, Jr. ’88, ’90 Susan F. McDuffie ’74 Laura Michatek ’97 Katt Lissard ’91 Valerie A. Magee ’97 Setsuko Maruhashi ’00 Timothy E. McEntee ’93 Brian P. Mickley ’90 Carolyn D. Lobkowicz ’78 Patricia A. Maguire ’99 Jean Ann Marwick ’03 Gretchen J. McFee ’04 Joanna I. Migliore ’92 Joan Logan ’87 Marianne J. Maher ’90 Annette Marzan ’03 Joanne L. McGilton ’76 Kathleen R. Mikulka ’90 Elizabeth A. Lombard ’91 Theresa J. Maher ’97, ’00 Francine Massara ’05 John F. McGoldrick ’88 Richard W. Milburn ’84 Joseph A. Lombardoni ’91 Barbara Jo Mahony ’93 Dale C. Masters ’95 John D. McGonigle ’99 Jennie M. Militello ’91, ’97 Charles N. Long, Jr. ’01 Paul J. Maier ’75 Robin A. Masterson ’98 Audrey S. McGowan ’95 Catherine A. Miller ’97 Hope E. Lont ’03 Mary A. Maiorano ’97 Roberto Mateo ’05 Elaine P. McGrady ’80 Derek Miller ’84 Geraldine Lopes ’79 Michael T. Maiuri ’80 George Mathew ’87, ’88 Judith A. McGrath ’81 Dorothy M. Miller ’81 Eileen A. Lore ’01 Dale D. Major ’83 Delores A. Matienzo- Ellen W. McGuire ’80, ’81 Frances V. Miller ’92 Paul J. Lorelli ’93 Angel L. Maldonado ’83 Hughes ’90 Judy A. McHale ’96 Madeleine Miller ’04 Joseph A. Loreto ’78 Shirley A. Maldonado ’02 Anne M. Matolka ’98 Allison E. McKane ’02 Robert J. Miller ’80 Jerry W. Lottie ’99 Martin ’85 and Deborah A. Mattei ’00 Anne E. Loiseau Sheena A. Miller ’98, ’02 Anne M. Louros ’04, ’05 Susanne ’85 Malles Bonnie L. Matteson ’87 McKenna ’86 Victoria Miller ’77 Warner J. Mills ’77 Angela M. Milora ’93, ’95 Brenda A. Minichello ’98 Constance T. Minneci ’05 Gretchen K. Minney ’86 Pamela M. Mitchell ’04 Juanita Mitchell-Scott ’91 Andrew J. Mitrano ’73 Karen Modell ’97 Rosemary B. Mogavero ’97 Emma S. Mogilensky ’72 Gerald Molis ’96 Nicholas W. Monafo ’95 Sarah I. Mondale ’04 Thomas R. Monroe ’74 Timothy T. Montagliano ’02 Pedro E. Montalvo ’83 Maryanne Monteferrante ’90 Dorothy A. Montulli ’79 James R. Moore ’98 Linda D. Moore ’90, ’93 Paul A. Moore ’79 Phyllis S. Moore ’76 Victoria T. Morey Empire State College’s online degree programs are industry leaders with more than 300 courses available. Barbara E. Morgan ’81 Verdell M. Morgan ’91 Gretchen E. Morith ’00 John B. Loveland ’91 Aleia T. Mallette ’04 Carole A. Mattia ’98 Robert M. McKeown ’05 Carol Morley ’98 Elizabeth E. Lowther ’05 Dale E. Mallory ’96 Michelle A. Mattice ’05 Corinna K. Janet E. Moro ’85, ’90 Diane M. Lubick ’96 Katherine Mallory ’03 Betty E. Maxim ’79 McKnight ’02, ’03 Connie F. Moroni ’06 Paul F. Lucas ’01 Joan E. Maloney ’77 Deborah L. May ’01 Bonnie G. McNally ’78 Anne Morris ’02 Donna M. Luca- Merceditas M. Manago- Suzanne May ’89 Brenda L. McNeiece ’03 Margie Ann Morris ’05 Watkins ’95 Alexander ’05 Lucinda E. Maya- Carolyn H. McNeill ’74 John Morse Richard Lucey, Jr. ’01 Michael A. Mancini ’79 Djernes ’98 Gary R. McNett ’96 Stephen L. Morse ’00 Cynthia B. Lucia ’96 Ernest A. Mandile ’94 Gordon W. Thomas M. McPartlan ’79 Gail M. Muckey ’00 Carol M. Lucisano ’93, ’96 Victoria Mangiapia ’05 Maycumber ’82 Celeste T. McQuarrie ’98 Jeanne K. Muhl ’95 Pamela J. Luckie ’93 Robert P. Mannino ’01 Lucy Maynard- Joan M. McTague ’95 John D. Mullin ’74 Beth A. Lucy-Speidel ’04 Mary P. Mansi ’78 Carbonello ’90 Debra J. Mead ’92 Ronald R. Mulson, Jr. ’91 Kristopher Ludwig ’05 Margaret ’90 and Edward G. Donna L. Mead ’76 Susan A. Mulvey ’95 Claudette Lugano ’92 Richard ’85 Mantey Mazurkiewicz ’92 Dawn D. Meconi ’96 Warren J. Munch ’95 Elizabeth B. Lund ’98 Anna Mantovani ’99 Jean D. McAllister ’74 James Meeker Theresa L. Murnane ’97 Debra S. Lunn ’98 Lisa S. Marino ’02 Edward J. McArdle ’75 Betty Meiselman ’95 Caprice R. Murphy ’05 Joseph A. Luongo ’82 Susanne Marino ’98, ’01 Charles Edwin Michael P. Melanson ’78 Edward G. Murphy ’06 David L. Lutz ’03 Helen D. Markessinis ’83 McCabe ’77 Andrew P. Meloni ’76 Elaine A. Murphy ’97 Lesley B. Lyon ’81 Helen Markowitch ’98 Susan R. McCarthy ’97 Paul D. Meloon ’01 Elena J. Murphy ’91 James Kwong Choi Ma ’87 Dolores P. Marks ’87 Charles J. McCole ’77 Bernard Meltzer ’03 Lori A. Murphy ’95 Robert J. MacDonald ’90 Carolyn Maroney Ruby W. McConnell ’95 Angela L. Mercado ’99 Mary Beth Murphy ’94 John W. Machlica ’80 Alphonse J. Marrazzo ’94 Diane M. McCormick ’02 A. Gail Merian ’92 Mary K. Murphy ’00 Jamie A. Macica ’99 Patrick M. Marshall ’90 Maria P. McCue ’04 Richard Matthew Timothy R. Murphy ’00 Karen MacIntosh- Ronald C. Martin ’77 Brenda A. McCullen ’02 Merlino ’03 Dawn J. Murray ’91 Frering ’06 Thomas M. Martin ’76 Joyce S. McDaniels ’79 Tova Meron ’94 Roxanne K. Mutchler ’03 Kristina L. Mack ’91 Wayne D. Martin ’86 Peter W. McDonald ’06 Fred Meyer ’92 Marguerite C. Myers ’76 Barbara K. MacKay ’92 Belle Martino-Gibson ’85 Ann M. McDonnell ’98 Regina F. Mian ’77 Ann Marie Nadge ’81, ’94

*Deceased 21 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

CONTRIBUTORS Frank A. Robert Perilli Ann Povodator ’79 Suzanne M. Richardson (continued) Palombaro, Jr. ’95 Lorraine R. Perrin ’90 Mary E. Powers ’92 Jacqueline A. Ricketts ’91 Patricia R. Paluszek ’04 Arthur M. Perry ’93 Rosalie Powers Brian Riley ’01 Pearl Tabak Natter ’80 Colleen T. Pandich ’06 Donald J. Peshkur ’96 Constance M. Prasad ’82 Mary L. Riley ’01 Sandra Naval ’93 Lisa T. Paoloni ’98 Brenda Pestillo ’94, ’95 Ann L. Pratt ’97 Mark M. Rist ’05 Marjorie H. Neal ’82 Melvin A. Parker ’88 Robert H. Peting ’99 Thomas G. Preble ’80 Alba N. Rivera ’05 Alina A. Negrin ’00 Susan Parker ’04 Lynda J. Petkovsek ’98 Kathleen M. Premo Barbara O. Rivera ’05 Kimberly Neher Theresa Elaine Parker ’04 James A. Petty ’04 Thomas P. William A. Rivera ’00, ’02 Robert L. Nelson ’92 George A. Parnizari ’98 Eric J. Pfisterer ’91, ’94 Prendergast ’90, ’92 Thomas J. Robarge ’04 Raymond R. Nero ’05 John E. Parow ’99 Richard Phelps Linda K. Presutti ’98 Catherine E. Roberts- Anita L. Ness ’77 Michael A. Parry ’94 Janet I. Phillips ’88 Douglas Prey ’74 Abel ’01, ’03 Marlene R. Newman ’73 Virginia M. Parseghian ’82 Harriett L. Pierce ’92 Doris C. Price ’74 Patricia L. Robinson ’87 Rhoda Newman ’90 Donna M. Pataffi ’94, ’97 Jean R. Pierce ’79 Lisa K. Prisco ’93 Terre F. Roche ’95 Pamela M. Newton ’05 Marcia Pszeniczny ’81 Irwin Rockoff ’76 Heather Nightengale- Marie Puckett ’91 Charles K. Rockwood ’88 Doyle ’99 Dale Purdy Mary C. Rodriguez ’95 Mary Lou Noah ’79 Ronald J. Purpura, Jr. ’03 Nestor Rodriguez ’05 Carl J. Nobile ’99 Vello Puust ’77 Denise A. Roe ’02 Robert E. Nolan ’92, ’98 Vitaline M. Quenneville- Francis G. Roell ’93 Lisa A. Nolte ’03 Lapage ’02 Christopher J. Rogers ’76 Dorothy A. Noonan ’91 Kyle David Quick ’04 Glen A. Rogers ’95 Ednamae K. Nordby ’95 Elizabeth F. Quinn ’77 Rosalinda Roman ’88 Norbert A. Norris, Jr. ’87 Josephine Quinones ’91 Lillian M. Roode ’89 Donna J. Northrup ’98 Sharon E. Race ’98 Michael K. Kathryn A. Norton ’04 Frank J. Rader Rooney ’88, ’02 Mary L. Novak ’89 Christine K. Radesca ’97 Terry C. Rooney ’82 Fausto Nunez ’95 Annette C. Raetz ’83 Janice E. Rosbrook ’03 Maria Patrick Oakley ’82 Richard Rafferty ’89 Dorothy E. Rosenberg Thomas W. Oaks ’02 Beverly D. Rager ’81 Magda Rosenberg ’80 Bonnie L. O’Brien ’01 Laura Raiola ’05 Marilyn R. Rosenberg ’78 Karen M. O’Brien ’90 David J. Rambo ’04 Stuart Rosenhaus ’98 Kathleen M. O’Brien ’95 Leon M. Ramire ’04 Irma Rosenson ’74 Vivien Ocampo ’04 Renee M. Ramsey ’05 Eve F. Roshevsky ’02 Anne O’Connell ’88, ’91 Amy Jo Randolph ’93 Deborah Rossano- Marilyn E. Odol ’81 Morris C. Raphael ’74 Cloke ’98 Betty A. Dominick J. Rappa ’75 Faye O. Rosselle ’92 O’Donnell ’95, ’99 Joel H. Rappaport ’91 Sandra O. Rossetti ’06 Linda A. O’Donnell ’91 Mildred M. Raps ’84 Guy A. Rossi ’00 Veronica O’Geen Michael A. Ratner ’83 Joseph T. Rossi ’97, ’04 Mary Ellen M. Doreen A. Raucci ’97 Thomas J. Rossi ’76 O’Keefe ’92, ’93 Donald J. Rauscher ’81 Gertrude B. Roth ’99 Shirley Okrent ’77 Vincent Shawn Reavis ’04 Hugh Roth ’03 James C. O’Looney ’77 Patricia A. Rebholz ’93 Muriel E. Rothstein ’77 Betty J. Olson ’84 Christine S. Reekie ’00 James J. Roti Roti ’77 Wayne C. Olson ’99 A truly proud moment. Lucille Z. Reeser ’89, ’91 Michael J. Rowley ’03 Ruth J. Omlin ’94 Robert L. Reidy ’79 Sarita Patterson Roy ’76 Mark A. Opshinsky ’88 Ian Reifowitz Robin Q. Rozines Jo-Ann Ort ’05 Jacqueline M. Paterniti ’86 Rose Pino ’79 Gerhard A. Reile ’78 Dawn M. Rozzo ’92 Robin M. Osborne ’03 Judith A. Patience ’92 Jesus R. Pintos ’05 John E. Reilly ’93 John G. Rubel ’78 John ’94, ’97 and Monica A. Patrick ’03 Lou Ann Pioli ’96 John Frank Reilly ’84 David P. Rubenstein ’94 Nancy ’97 Ostapow Mark S. Patterson ’91 Diane E. Margaret C. Reilly ’80 Lynn M. Rudin ’98 Carolyn L. Ostrander ’83 Nancy J. Patterson ’82 Piorkowski ’84, ’87 Richard G. Reimer ’95 Christine H. Ruggieri ’86 Sylvia Ostrow ’82 James Pavoldi ’99 Blanche L. Piper ’76 John J. Reina ’74 David P. Ruggles ’97 Robin E. Ott ’92 Joan W. Pearson ’87 Janet LesLea Pitcher ’90 Thomas H. Reinagel ’86 Linda Lou Rundlett ’05 Douglas Ouderkirk ’01 Juliette Pearson ’05 Hugh F. Pittman ’04 Taimi Reip ’79 Gayle M. Rusch ’98 Greta G. Ouimette ’82 William Pearson ’87 Valerie A. Plunkett ’02 Mary E. Relihan ’01 Shirley R. Rushing ’94 Brigetta E. Overcash ’78 Denise A. Pearston ’94 Frances Pirone Louis John Renna ’78 Noreen T. Rusinsky ’86 Genevieve Mary Ann Peavler ’95, ’00 Pochtrager ’85 Gail A. Rettig ’97, ’99 Leona M. Russell ’04 Overholt ’84, ’88 Steven J. Peitler ’00 Joyce M. Pochunow ’80 Arthur D. Reynolds ’87 Miriam Russell Geraldine C. Owens ’83 Grace Pell Patricia Polak ’87 Cindy L. Reynolds ’05 Paul C. Russell ’89, ’90 Judith B. Owens ’83 Patricia M. Peluso ’77 John F. Polimeni ’76 Donald L. Reynolds, II ’03 Rose M. Russell ’78 Catherine M. Ellen B. Pence ’84 Joel L. Polinsky ’83 Rita Reynolds Carl N. Russo ’99 Ozug ’87, ’89 Bonita Penfold ’84 Lynn M. Pollinger ’96 William A. Reynolds ’76 Judith E. Ryan ’96 Alan C. Pace ’94 Ethel Penner ’75 Susan Poplinski ’94 Imogene S. Reznick ’80 Esther P. Rzepkowski ’80 Joan L. Packard ’01 Mary J. Penn-Reese ’78 Janet O. Porcher ’91 Marcia J. Ribble ’03 James Sabastian ’06 Dorothy A. Paige ’01 Joann I. Pensabene ’88 Johanna W. Portas ’00 Richard A. Riccardi ’79 Joann G. Sadlon ’99 Michelle Paine Augustino Peretti ’77 Geraldine J. Porter ’75 Barbara J. Rice ’89, ’90 Idris M. Said ’05 Betty A. Palmer ’87 Irene D. Perevich ’95 Mary Joan Porter ’05 Leonora C. Rice ’87 Sharon A. Saker ’91 K. Kelly Palmer Kimberlea A. Perez ’03, ’04 Philip Bradley Porter ’05 Michael W. Richards ’93 Thomas J. Salada ’95 Linda C. Palmer ’03 Anthony J. Pergola ’92, ’00 Vivian E. Portes ’95 Doris A. Richardson ’93 Susan M. Salvo ’97

22 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. THE BOYER SOCIETY The Boyer Society recognizes those individuals who served on the board of directors of the Empire State have named Empire State College in their will or as College Foundation. the beneficiary of a trust or other planned gift. Membership in the Boyer Society is open to all who The Boyer Society, established by the Empire State notify us of their decision to include the college in College Foundation in 1994, honors Ernest L. Boyer, their estate plans. The details of gift arrangements are Sr., who was the chancellor of the State University confidential and members may remain anonymous. of New York from 1970 to 1977. Ahead of his time, Membership represents an outstanding commitment to Dr. Boyer envisioned university study available at times the college and helps ensure that Empire State College and places convenient to students of different ages and maintains its leadership in higher education for adult backgrounds. He saw the possibilities of awarding a students who seek better jobs and careers, richer intel- degree for what a student knew, rather than for time lectual lives, and sophisticated skills that are essential to served in a classroom. Empire State College exemplifies be knowledgeable citizens of the nation and the world. Dr. Boyer’s vision. If you believe you qualify for membership in the The society also honors Kathryn G. Boyer, an adult Boyer Society or would like further information, student whose needs mirrored her husband’s vision please contact Alta Schallehn, director of gift and who successfully completed her degree at Empire planning, at 518 587-2100 ext. 2413 or via State College. Following her graduation, Kathryn e-mail at [email protected].

THE BOYER SOCIETY MEMBERS

Anonymous Joan Englehart ’84 Terrence McCafferty ’80, ’03 Bernard H. Stern * Pasquale J. Beldotti, Jr. ’75 Julie Gedro Nancy A. McLachlin ’81 Robert J. Thrasher Anne R. Bertholf Bailey and Elaine Geeslin Marjorie N. Meinhardt ’77 Monte and Hilda Trammer Richard Bonnabeau Sidney J. Gluck ’79 Stephen Keep Mills ’89 Susan H. Turben ’72 Deborah A. Botch ’86 Doris Goldberg Marion C. Morse ’81 Sharon R. Villines Kathryn G. Boyer ’78 James W. Hall ’06 William H. Parker ’86 Karin C. Von Kay ’79 and Hortence S. and Hugh B. Hammett Jay Lewis ’85, ’88 and David C. Duggan Warren R. Cochrane * Jayne Regan Harris * Gale I. Putt T. Urling and Mabel B. ’79 Walker Maxwell T. Cohen ’76 * Michael C. Hubbard ’75 Anthony Riccardi Virginia Weiss ’88 * Philip J. de Carolis ’92, ’97 Joanne J. Hvisdas ’92, ’93 Sondra Silverhart Karen West ’84, ’95 Dennis R. De Long Suzy Kline ’86 Pearl Somner ’88 Judith ’02, ’04 and Jack Willis Geraldine M. Demar-Salad ’79 Keith Martin * Marian N. Steinberg ’75 John L. Wright ’98 Joyce E. Elliott Ralph Mattson ’79 Bernadette T. Stengel ’88

* Deceased

Kristi M. Salzano ’05 Goldie Satt-Arrow Noreen M. Schnell ’79 Harold S. Scott ’77 Susanne G. Semo Wendy Samberg ’95 William J. Saunders ’74 Evelyn S. Schoenholtz ’80 Jeannette E. Scott ’93 Mark Semon ’06 Rosalie J. Samelski ’03 Diane L. Savage ’98 John P. Schreiber ’01 Karen A. Scott ’06 Carol M. Sencen ’99 Josephine Sammis ’88 Lindalee Sawyer ’94 Susan P. Schreiner ’79 Madeline O. Scott ’95 John H. Sentiff ’03 Thomas C. Sammons ’92 Barbara A. Sblendido ’93 Janice M. Schuck ’90 Susan J. Scott ’03 Edward R. Sergeant ’91 Israel Sanchez ’83 Ruth Schack ’86 Sarah M. Schulman ’85 Rochelle V. Screeney ’83 Lorraine Chiaro Serra ’83 Kathleen Sancimino ’01 Edward A. Schad ’74 Laura P. Schultz ’99 Christine M. Scrime ’04 Agnieszka Serrano ’05 Deborah S. Sandore- Kenneth P. Schaeffer, Jr. ’89 Anne M. Schumacher ’93 Denise W. Secreti- Sonia Serraty ’05 Dunbar ’95, ’03 Jodie W. Schafran ’05 Steven Schuman ’93 Morini ’04 Mauro M. Sessarego ’04 Lorinda L. Sanford ’03 Barry S. Schecter ’99 Joseph W. Schussler, Jr. ’87 Security Mutual Life Richard E. Seta ’89 Catherine M. Sankey ’93 Steven A. Scherm ’01 Carol L. Schutt ’04 Ann M. Segan ’02, ’04 Joan E. Sewert ’95 Joan C. Sant ’95 Nola G. Schiff ’97 Peggy Schwarha ’95 Rosemary Seibert ’90 Robert E. Shanning ’82 Paula Santacroce ’98 John P. Schiro ’96 Nancy B. Schwartz ’76 Nessema A. Seibold ’96 Linda L. Sharp ’91 Catherine Santora ’02 Gary P. Schlegel ’81 Richard F. Schwartz ’91 Richard P. Seifert ’89 Elizabeth Shaw ’86 Deborah N. Neal J. Schleimer ’90 Evelyn S. Schwind ’85 Anna Seits ’85 Diane E. Shedden- Santulli ’98, ’02 Paul A. Schmidt ’99 Ralph D. Schwonke ’85 Douglass B. Selover ’01 Hoke ’99 Joanne D. Sardis ’00 Tamar M. Schmidt ’90 Sandra L. Scofield ’95, ’00 Florence R. Sembler ’95 James E. Sheehan ’88 Mary J. Sarkis ’75 Nancy E. Schneider ’84 Dorothy F. Scott Pamela A. Semeiks ’02 Timothy J. Sheehan ’92

23 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

CONTRIBUTORS Wayne A. Spinks ’75 Bernice L. Strauber ’79 Marsha Y. Taube ’81 Helen Trinci ’77 (continued) Nancy P. Vickie J. Judy A. Tavernier ’06 Kathleen Troxel ’88 Splonskowski ’03 Strohmeyer ’90, ’91 Anita L. Taylor ’92 Florence I. Trzaskos ’80 Michelle Sheerer ’04 Carol A. Sprague ’86 Robert V. Strong ’03 Marie Tedesco ’83 Wende G. Tucker ’03 Constance Joan Jayne L. Spring ’86 Calvin N. Struck ’91 Rhea Temblador ’04 Loretta Tularzko ’98 Shelmidine ’04 Karen V. Springer ’02 William B. Strugatz ’89 Sabrina A. Teolis ’85 Lauren A. Tully ’89, ’91 Ruth G. Sherman ’86 Dorothy H. Stacy ’93 Celestine J. Stukes ’83 William E. Tessier ’91 Jenap J. Turk ’01 Edwin L. Sherrill, Jr. ’74 Yvonne A. Lydia Sugarman ’80 John B. Thacher, III ’95 Jeffrey E. Turner ’96 Rita A. Sherry ’77 Stafford ’95, ’99 James F. Sullivan ’97 Harriet G. Theuer ’04 Tyco Healthcare Susanna K. Sherwood ’80 Deborah A. Staggers ’97 Lisa Dawn Sullivan ’93 Marie F. Thimble ’01 Jill G. Uebelhoer ’96, ’98 Fatima Sherzad ’05 Marilyn G. Stanwick ’80 Susan Sullivan ’95 Hilda J. Thomas ’86 Teresa E. Uganski ’98 Maryellen Shpak ’02 Diane M. Starbling ’93 Michael Raymond Carolyn A. Thompson ’84 Charlotte S. Lucille Shrage ’91 Alvina R. Starks ’00 Summers ’77 Emily R. Thompson Undercoffer ’98 Thomas J. Siano ’83 Gail Kelch Steck ’94 Barbara W. Sutherland Robert Thompson ’04 Diane K. Upright ’04 Daphne Nelson Siegel ’81 George F. Steele ’04 Barbara A. Susann M. Thornton ’92 Cynthia Urban Anne Siegrist ’89 Edwin J. Steenrod ’82 Svoboda ’03, ’04 Dorothea E. Threatt ’76 Paula M. Ursoy ’98 Gary R. Silco ’95, ’00 Elizabeth D. Stein Suzanne R. Swanson ’81 Adrian J. Tierson ’06 Utica National Barbara J. Silver ’97, ’05 Insurance Group Michael J. Sim ’00 Michael T. Vaccaro ’04 Kathleen Simmeth ’05 Mildred H. Van Bergen ’01 Carolyn A. Simolo ’91 Anne M. Van Tassell ’91 Ellen C. Simon ’79 Gina M. Vance ’93 Peter J. Simone ’89, ’98 Michael E. VanDe Thomas J. Simonetti ’99 Woude ’88 Evelyn Singer ’94 Barbara A. Vardabash ’98 Helen M. Siuda ’79 Mary K. Vartigian ’05 Claire Skellington ’83 Mickey Vassallo James F. Skordy ’97, ’98 Kathleen A. Vedder ’01 Robert Skuse ’83 Lynn M. Velasco ’03 Carl L. Slater ’01 John M. Ventura ’88 Maryanne Slauson ’95 Deborah A. Veny ’96 Carole B. Sligh-Jackson ’96 Anne L. Verlizzo ’82 Michael R. Sloboda ’04 Anneliese S. Vickery ’74 Wallace E. Sloves ’80 Barbara F. Viehmann ’92 Henry Slutsky ’04 Jeanette N. Vilar ’98, ’00 Steven J. Smigielski ’93 Phyllis A. Vincelli ’04 Carole Edie Smith ’75, ’77 Jean G. Vincent ’99 Debra S. Smith ’02 Joan C. Vincent ’85 Donald G. Smith ’00 Darlene E. Virkler ’89 Glenda L. Smith ’90 Mickey Visco ’98 Hope L. Smith ’99 James Vitale ’98 Judith E. Smith ’89 Steven B. Vitoff ’92 Kathleen M. Smith ’03 Ann E. Vivacqua ’74 Mary B. Smith ’87 Renee M. Voce ’96, ’98 Nancy W. Smith ’91 Deborah Vogel ’81 From study groups to online courses, students have the flexibility needed to Pamela Smith ’97 Judith A. Vogt ’77 personalize their Empire State College experience to fit their own educational, Jane L. Smithers ’74 Sheila J. Volpe ’76 Arthur F. Snay ’74 career and personal goals. Cynthia Lee Wade ’93 Beverly P. Soares ’91 Margaret S. Wade ’88 Robert Sofer ’73 Marcia E. Waffner ’05 Glenda D. Sohigian ’02 Viola Stendardi ’87 Ellen M. Sweet ’02 Suzanne H. Tilden ’77 Eleanor F. Wagner G. David Soifer ’85 Susan L. Stephens ’87 Carol M. Swenson ’92 Eleanor Russell Tilvikas- Kenneth A. Wagner ’90 Linda J. Sojacy ’76 Lorraine H. Patricia Ann Swigert ’86 Borek ’79 Denise M. Walczak ’00 Viola D. Soles ’93 Stephenson ’79 Beatrice S. Syms ’79 Diane A. Tine ’04 William A. Walrod ’77 Tillie C. Solomonson ’79 Dorothy K. Sterlace ’02 Diane G. Szabo ’03 Janet Tinelli ’93 David J. Walsh ’98 Jerome S. Sommer ’79 Elaine B. Stern ’80 Lydia S. Szyjka ’93 Louis Tirelli Emily Walsh ’91 Gloria S. Sondheim ’84 Joan B. Stern ’82 Tammy E. Szymonek ’03 Anne L. Titus ’98 Joseph S. Walsh ’90 Jennifer L. Sorensen ’05 James A. Stevenson ’95 Florence Tabor ’77 Dorothy C. Tobin ’79 Sandra J. Walsh ’00 Marla R. Sorrells ’01 John A. Stevenson ’96 Barbara G. Talerico ’92 Maria F. Todd ’81 Nancy M. Wanamaker ’81 Mr. and Mrs. John Sosler Linda C. Stevenson ’95 Marivic Tambini ’98 Lisa T. Toler ’94 Salvatore R. William R. South ’81, ’83 Stephenie S. Stewart ’74 Yung-Jie Tan ’04 Neil A. Tomasetti ’02 Wanderlingh ’78, ’80 Vincent L. Herbert E. Stickney ’92 J. M. Tanski ’83 Frank Tommasini ’01 Carol C. Ward ’84 Spadafora, Jr. ’77 Shelley S. Stiles ’98, ’03 Caesar Taormina ’03 Leslie A. Tompkins ’99 Nancy H. Ward ’86, ’88 Cecelia M. Spandorf ’04 Duane A. Stilwell ’96 Annmarie ’02, ’04 and Terpsie E. Toon ’05 Wilma K. Warner ’82, ’83 Jennifer T. Spas ’92 Lynn Stockwell-Chase ’98 Richard ’01 Taramasco Lenny Torell Bruce M. Warren ’03 Gerald F. Spaziani ’77 Jerald Stoddard ’85 Dinah M. Tarantello ’04 Thomas V. Torres ’93 Theresa M. Warren ’93 John W. Spence ’90 Elizabeth A. Storm ’85 Jeanne S. Taranto ’99 Ruth M. Tourjee ’75 Janet G. Warren- EllenSue Spicer- Sara J. Story ’77 Harvey Tasch ’95 Ann M. Townsend ’82, ’96 Aarons ’98 Jacobson ’94 Mary Jo Stoyer ’93 Richard D. Tasker ’78 Ruth E. Treadwell ’04 Margaret A. Warzala ’80 Jane Spielman ’87 Ann Marie Strack ’95, ’98 Susan M. Tatar ’04 Francis A. Trerise Kathryn J. Washburn ’96

24 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Morton Bahr ’83, ’95 James G. Karcher ’79 Barbara A. O’Connell ’76 Monte I. Trammer Washington, DC Old Field, NY New York, NY Elmira, NY Phillip B. Catchings James R. Keane Vincent A. Roberti Lewis P. Trippett Boston, MA Lexington, VA New York, NY White Plains, NY James Del Rossi ’96 James W. Lytle F. David Sheppard Susan H. Turben ’72 Jamesport, NY Secretary Albany, NY Beachwood, OH Albany, NY William C. Ferrero David L. Smith T. Urling Walker Treasurer James R. Malanson Albany, NY Watertown, NY Saratoga Springs, NY Marlborough, MA Lorraine Power Tharp Evelyn H. Wells Robert Johnson ’96 Stephen Keep Mills ’89 Vice-Chair Bracey, VA Sarasota, FL Topanga, CA Albany, NY Stephen P. Wink ’83 Jeremy Jones, Joseph Moore Melba Tolliver ’98 Saratoga Springs, NY Executive Director Saratoga Springs, NY Bangor, PA Saratoga Springs, NY

Shirley A. Washburn ’90 Jane W. Williams ’84 Dawn L. Zaffuto ’99 Janet Aiello-Cerio Richard J. Butler Joseph Washington Joanne Williams ’99 Colleen M. Zanicchi ’02 Jane A. Altes Doris A. Callahan ’98 Jason A. Wasser ’03 Kevin E. Williams ’94 Judy Zemlock ’83 Joan Altman ’81 Dia Carabajal Margaret M. Watson ’91 Kristine R. Williamson ’01 Joan V. Ziccardy ’76 Deborah P. Amory Robert B. Carey Marianne C. Margaret Anne Debra ’97 and Adele Anderson Carol M. Carnevale Weatherup ’05 Williams-Tine Kenneth ’94 Zima James H. Anderson, Jr. Jean Carpenter Franklin J. Weaver ’93 Teresa M. Willman- Joyce Litwin Michael Andolina James H. Case Marie D. Webb ’97 Shultz ’05 Zimmerman ’75 Ruth M. Andrew David C. Caso Michael J. Weglarz ’04 Dean Wiltshire ’05 Stephen R. Joseph Angiello Erin K. Catone Tatiana Massine Constance E. Wing ’86 Zimmerman ’92 Lorraine Anthony Frances Chambers ’97 Weinbaum ’79 Richard L. Wink ’93 Monica J. Zingaro ’03 Paul J. Archibald ’94 Silvia Chelala Alisa Weingarten ’05 Robin A. Winslow ’06 Maryann T. Zumpano ’90 Shirley Ariker Jianhao Chen Betty J. Weinstock ’76 Jane V. Winter ’82 Riccardo M. Zuppelli ’95 Taimi M. Arnold Elizabeth Chiquoine Janet M. Weiss ’77 Phillip R. Witherspoon ’00 Jean R. Zurek ’88 Caroline Baker Clancy Valeri Chukhlomin Linda K. Weiss ’01 Nancy Lawder Wolcott ’78 Michele R. Ball ’94, ’96 Lynn Cianfarani Metropolitan Center student awaits his mentor. Rubin G. Weser ’91, ’92 Tracey M. Wolfert ’05 CURRENT Frederick W. Barthelmas Barbara Clarke Nancy A. Westervelt ’88 Leslie A. Wolpinsky ’99 AND FORMER Judith M. Bassini ’85 Margaret D. Clark-Plaskie Irene Jaquay Weyer ’03 Charles Wong ’83 Norine Ann Batting ’00 Mark S. Claverie EMPLOYEES Karen A. Wheeler ’96 Susan M. Wood ’04 Valerie S. Bauhofer Anne P. Cobb William H. Whipp, Jr. ’04 Robert A. Woodill ’88 We would like to Ann Becker H. Kenneth Cohen Elizabeth L. Whipple ’03 Barbara Woods ’03 extend a special thank Alan T. Belasen Leslie G. Cohen George E. White ’93 Barbara E. Wright ’92 you to all of our current Meg Benke Raymond T. Conjeski Kathryn White ’83 Carl Wright Jennifer Bent James W. Cornell ’02, ’03 Marie C. White ’95 Timothy H. Wright ’90 and former employees Jacqueline A. Bishop Eileen K. Corrigan ’79 Roxanne White ’90 Patrick J. Yager, Jr. ’99 who contributed to the Pamela Bock Reed M. Coughlan Carol S. Whitehead ’93 Xiao-Li Yang ’01 foundation in 2006. Debra A. Bonamassa Theresa Craigg Robert M. Whiteman ’91 Rita C. Yedlin ’81, ’85 Overall, 254 college Joseph W. Boudreau Stephanie Cunningham Barbara Y. Whiteside ’96 Marlene P. Yeni- Accursia M. Boyle ’02 Laure-Jeanne P. Davignon employees contrib- Shirley J. Whittaker ’79 Maitland ’82 George W. Bragle George G. Dawson Sandra M. Wicker ’79 Susan M. Yokom ’95, ’98 uted $75,521 to the Anne M. Breznau Doreen M. DeCrescenzo Lisa A. Wiggins ’01 Jessie C. York ’92 Empire State College Carolyn Broadaway Thomas R. Dehner Susan J. Wilber ’86 Denise E. Young ’90 Foundation in 2006. Meredith L. Brown Marcelina Delgado ’90 Gerard L. Wild ’77 Ellen M. Young ’00 Fernand Brunschwig Karyl Denison- Joanne Lanette John W. Young ’96 Kenneth T. Abrams Evelyn T. Buchanan ’99 Eaglefeathers Wilkeyson ’80 Rosemary E. Young ’96 Warren W. Abriel Nancy A. Bunch Nan M. DiBello

25 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

CURRENT Marilyn K. Grapin Barbara L. Kantz Richard Mattox Edward G. Saueracker AND FORMER Larry Greenberg Roger R. Keeran Ruth G. Maynard ’95, ’02 Vicki Lynaugh Schaake EMPLOYEES Sharon Grigsby ’78 Rita M. Kelly Catherine A. McAllister Alta S. Schallehn Regina Grol Mary G. Klinger John P. McCann Mary M. Schultz (continued) A. Tomasz Grunfeld Maureen T. Kravec William P. McClary Renelle Shampeny Marilyn E. Gwaltney Cynthia J. Krendl James Meeker Julie P. Shaw J. Stephen Didas James W. Hall ’06 Gary Krolikowski Peggy C. Meerse James Shelland Margaret M. Ditch Jill M. Hamberg Lorraine Lander S. Frances Mercer Nicole H. Shrimpton Shelley B. Dixon-Williams Hugh B. Hammett Albert Lawrence ’76 Michael Merrill Deborah L. Shufelt Roselynn S. Dow Jeffrey Handler Elizabeth Hurley Lawrence Elana Michelson Beverly A. Smirni Kathleen F. Egan Elaine M. Handley Catherine J. Leaker Laurel J. Midgley ’04 Deborah F. Snyder William J. Ehmann Joan M. Harrington ’99 Darrell G. Leavitt Robert P. Milton Carole R. Southwood David L. Elliott Lorraine Herbst Patricia J. Lefor Joyce M. Montgomery Roy A. Speckhard Joyce E. Elliott Lee Herman Timothy Lehmann, III Joseph B. Moore Kathleen Stallmer Marlene Evans Teresa E. Hilton Efrat Frayda Levy Nancy E. Moore ’01 Eleanor C. Stanton ’01 James W. Feeney Hans Hoefgen Martin Lichterman MaryNell Morgan Kent A. Stanton ’94, ’00 William C. Ferrero Deborah R. Holler ’97 Katt Lissard ’91 David M. Morrell ’97, ’03 Kirk J. Starczewski Paul V. Fiacco Susan T. Hollis Ann Loughman Carol Mulcahy David Starr-Glass Robert Fruchter Joyce E. Howland Theresa J. Maher ’97, ’00 Moses Musoke Erin C. Steinbach ’05 Walter L. Frykholm Joan Hubbard Farrokh Mamaghani Lois Muzio Elizabeth H. Steltenpohl Donna Gallagher Taryn L. Hunter ’03 Alan D. Mandell Patricia A. Myers ’89 John Strozier David Gechlik Marlene Hurley Jerold Marmer ’88, ’99 Sylvain Nagler Charles C. Summersell Robert W. Gerulat ’97 Lisa Johnson Carolyn Maroney Kimberly Neher Margaret J. Tally Ralph F. Gessner Jeremy Jones Nicola Martinez Mitchell Nesler Miriam B. Tatzel Kathleen A. Gilday Otolorin Jones Tina Massa John J. Neumaier Terry Telesca Justin A. Giordano Thelma Jurgrau Ruth M. Mathews James Nichols Diane Thiele Richard E. Gotti Melanie Kaiser Lear Matthews Ralph Noble Evelyn K. Ting Eileen O’Connor Dorothy C. Tobin ’79 Veronica O’Geen Toby Tobrocke Dennis J. Oppenheim Edward S. Todd Phillip Ortiz Wendy E. Townsend ’00 Wayne E. Ouderkirk Barbara Tramonte Michelle Paine Paul Trela Rebecca Ronda Palmieri Francis Trice Karen K. Pass Brett J. Truitt Lorraine E. Peeler ’88 Robert Trullinger Grace Pell Paul Tucci Robert Perilli Craig A. Tunwall Christine Persico Amy Tweedy Patricia M. Pierce Donna M. Uncher Patricia Y. Pisaneschi Jo-Ellen Unger Kathleen M. Premo Cynthia Urban Marina Privman Perry Valastro Jay Lewis Putt ’85, ’88 Mary Caroline Powers Raymond C. Quick Van der Veer Frank J. Rader Susan Voutsinas Lokesh C. Rastogi Amanda Tina Wagle MarySue Ray Eleanor F. Wagner Charles W. Raymond, III David A. Wait Marna S. Redding Laura Wait Ian Reifowitz Lori Walaska Larry Reynolds Yvonne Walker ’96, ’03 William F. Reynolds Cynthia Ward Suzanne M. Richardson Edward Warzala Jennifer Riley Joseph Washington James Robinson Elizabeth C. Webber Rae W. Rohfeld Evelyn H. Wells Melvyn Rosenthal Martha G. Welte Christopher Rounds Catherine M. White Rosemary M. Ruper ’90 Elizabeth R. Wilde-Biasiny Miriam Russell Margaret Anne Frances Russo Williams-Tine Linda A. Ryan Wayne Willis Patricia Ryan Maureen Winney Duncan P. RyanMann Roger L. Wise Nancy J. Saari Lloyd C. Woodcock Carole F. Salluzzo Diana Worby Amy Salvati Carl Wright In recent SUNY student surveys, Empire State College consistently ranks #1 in Matthew R. Sanders James L. Wunsch student satisfaction. Goldie Satt-Arrow Carol Zajac

26 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. FRIENDS Jean-Claude Nedelec David W. Ostergren Margaret Aarsvold Gregor Paslawsky Azade Ardali Richard Phelps Claudia Auer Theodore K. Phelps Leo Barrington Dale Purdy Dina Beaumont George J. Raneri Brian Bogan Margaret M. Reuss Mr. and Mrs. James A. Arthur H. Rodgers Bowen Christine S. Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brandt David M. Rodgers Claire M. Brett Dorothy Rodgers Eileen P. Campion Joanne Rodgers Lisa S. Campo Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Larry Carsman Rodgers Phillip B. Catchings F. David Sheppard Tamara E. Clements Donald J. Shetler Merry Conway-Cosandey David and Lynn Smith Jane H. Corrou Barbara R. Staton Bob Covington Elizabeth D. Stein Francis M. Cox, III Alice Sullivan Phyllis E. Dake Michael R. Taitt Julia Daniels Lorraine and Russell Tharp Edwin Decker Lenny Torell Michael T. and Jane A. Wait JeanAnn Dennis T. Urling Walker The one-to-one mentor and student relationship significantly enhances learning. Maurice Edwards Daniel E. Wall Allen J. Elkin Frank Zuraf Anthony S. Esposito United Way of Roslyn Savings Constellation Energy Larae Essman Greater Rochester Foundation Corning Inc. Jeannette Fitton BUSINESSES AND Wal-Mart Alfred Z. Solomon Dominion Foundation Sharon Fox ORGANIZATIONS Charitable Trust Dresser-Rand Company R. Michaela French The college is extremely Susan and John Turben Exxon Mobil Foundation Bailey and Elaine Geeslin FOUNDATIONS thankful to the many Family Foundation GE Foundation Doris Goldberg AT&T Foundation The Aber D. Unger General Motors Reva B. Golden local, regional, state Booth Ferris Foundation Foundation, Inc. Corporation Colleen and Lewis Golub and national businesses Charitable Leadership HSBC Bank USA Dr. and Mrs. Jerome Gross and organizations Foundation IBM Corporation Neil D. Gross MATCHING GIFT who contribute to Community Foundation Illinois Tool Works, Inc. Lawrence Guilford, Jr. of Herkimer and COMPANIES International Paper Anna Gyorgy the foundation. Their Oneida Counties, Inc. Many companies offer KeyCorp Jeannine Haas generous support Phyllis E. Dake Foundation Lockheed Martin Mary Elizabeth Hall matching gift programs recognized here. The Andrew U. Corporation Brian Heidtke to their employees, Ferrari Foundation Mattel, Inc. Jennifer Herring Ace Window Cleaning retirees and even Heidtke Foundation McGraw-Hill Carolyn P. Johnson Adirondack Trust Stewart W. and Willma C. spouses of employees Companies, Inc. James and Darlene Keane Company Hoyt Foundation, Inc. to encourage them Merck Company Gary Kreil American Income Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation Carol Kresge Polakovich Life Insurance to support the higher Foundation, Inc. Merrill Lynch & Annette Lang Curran Investment education commu- Roger L. Kresge Company, Inc. Betty Laroe Management Foundation nity. Companies whose Metropolitan Life David B. Larson The Desmond Long Island Community matching gift pro- Insurance Company Kathryn Lento EdVenture Partners, Inc. Foundation MOOG Incorporated Anthony J. Leone, Jr. Fidelity Charitable grams supported the Richard Lounsbery National Grid Marjorie A. Lewis Gift Fund Empire State College Foundation Northrop Grumman Richard and Beth Liebich Key Bank, N.A. Foundation in 2006 Lucent Technologies Pfizer, Inc. Lilla Lyon The LA Group, PC Foundation include: Playboy Enterprises Inc. James W. Lytle The Masie Center Merck Company The Procter & James R. Malanson MLB Construction Foundation Air Products & Gamble Fund Laurie Malkoff Services, LLC A. Lindsay and Olive B. Chemicals, Inc. Prudential Financial Laurel Anne Mancino National Business O’Connor Foundation American International RealNetworks Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Richard Promotions, Inc. John R. Oishei Foundation Group Rockwell Collins Mann New York Community Price Chopper’s AT&T Foundation Security Mutual Life Elliott and Cathy Masie Trust Golub Foundation AXA Foundation State Farm Company David and Praxiis Business Bernard Rapoport C. R. Bard, Inc. Foundation Ingrid McCauley Advisors, LLC Foundation Carrier Corporation Sun Microsystems, Inc. Shirley M. McClary Stewart’s Shops Rochester Area Colgate-Palmolive Thomson Tax and Michael J. Minogue Susie Specialties Community Foundation Company Accounting John Morse T. Rowe Price Program Consolidated Edison Tyco Healthcare Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Moser for Charitable Giving Company of NY Inc.

27 DONORS REPORT: JANUARY 1 - DECEMBER 31, 2006

Mr. and Mrs. Frances Harris K. Lampert Jacke Rose Truzzolino Elizabeth Vega- Kenneth J. Jeffords ’89 Frances Kaufmann ’85 Lebron ’02 Grace Rothstein Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Elizabeth H. Lawrence Ann M. Segan ’02, ’04 Bernard Rosenberg ’73 Kenneth C. Rich ’87 Neil E. and Patricia Ryder Angela Li Scholz George W. William W. Schaefer ’83 Milner ’80, ’96 Honorary Gifts Lucy Maldonado Beverly A. Smirni Joseph Angiello Angel L. Maldonado ’83 Iris Sciacca-Fanelli ’89 Helen H. Myers ’80 Barbara Marantz Ruth S. Tighe Mr. and Mrs. William K. Monserrate Edward J. Tighe ’91 Annetts Badillo ’01, ’02 Kathleen W. Torrance Paul William Michael Mayrides Jacqueline A. Annetts ’01, ’03 Cathy Mayrides ’99 Torrance ’00 Marianne Arieux Catherine A. McAllister Jo-Ellen Unger Raymond L. Iarocci ’03 Betty A. Darcy L. O’Loughlin Shirley Ariker O’Donnell ’95, ’99 Joseph Washington Judith Hall Bas ’84 Frieda M. Mendelsohn Francine B. Quesada ’91 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Joyce D. Erving ’05 Stanley S. Weinstein Baum S. Frances Mercer Susan P. DeLaglio ’04 Curran Investment Nancy L. McGraw ’92 Betty J. Weinstock Management Michael Merrill Anonymous Mayra Bloom Gerald V. Damora ’06 Evelyn H. Wells Alice M. Armao ’92, ’00 Yvonne Murphy Beverly Lee Cunniffe ’84 Michael Boyle Mollie A. Eric Wilke Barbara J. Boyle ’83, ’86 Duerr ’01, ’02, ’04 Marie Wilke ’05 Dorothy Burnham Sylvain Nagler Evelyn Woods Celestine J. Stukes ’83 Robert L. Lake ’99 John E. Reilly ’93 Sarajane E. Campbell Martin Naparsteck Carol Yeager Our 50,000 graduates are proud their degrees Douglas G. Campbell ’01 Joyce L. Palumbo ’89 Nikos K. Vouteniotis ’05 are current, relevant and marketable, often Raymond T. Conjeski leading to promotions, new employment or George C. Iosifides ’96 master’s degree studies. Reed M. Coughlan Christopher J. Feeley ’86 Empire State College Helen Denosky Anonymous 2006 Donors Report MATCHING GIFT Memorial Gifts Fred Diamond Editor: Toby Tobrocke COMPANIES Edna R. Harris J. Chadwell Diamond ’86, ’87 Director of Annual Giving (continued) Margaret Aarsvold Marlene Evans Editorial Assistant: Lori Walaska Utica National Mr. and Mrs. Gary Kreil Catherine W. Somich ’94 Assistant Director of Annual Giving Insurance Group Mr. and Mrs. David B. Bernard C. Flynn Larson Beverly Jablons ’77 Donor Records Management: Vicki Schaake Verizon Foundation Director of Advancement Services Wachovia Bank, N.A. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Charles W. Fox Washington Group Phelps Gloria Wright ’79 Designer: Gael Fischer International, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Purdy Milton d’Juan Franklin Director of Publications Mr. and Mrs. Lenny Anonymous Xerox Corporation Production: Janet Jones Torell Anita Frohmann- Keyboard Specialist Wayne Dickinson Spector ’92 Empire State College Print Shop RECOGNITION Marjorie Dickinson Ira Friedman ’86 GIFTS Joseph Goldberg Lee Caroline Geddes The Office of External Affairs spent many Contributions made in Richard J. Jaycobs ’93 Bertha Amanat ’79 Barbara E. Niles ’84 Benjamin H. Glenn hours preparing this Donors Report with honor of someone are a Ruth C. Lakeway Sharon R. Glenn ’93 every effort made to ensure the report was unique way for donors Richard J. Bartholomew Elaine M. Handley complete and accurate. If you do find that to honor a person who Mr. and Mrs. Dan T. Richard A. Doran ’01 your name has been omitted, misspelled or has made a significant Craine Ellen Hawkes-Little recognized incorrectly, we apologize and ask A. Ann Lehmann Eleanor Bianchi ’91 that you bring the mistake to our attention. difference in their lives. Timothy Lehmann, III Lee Herman Please contact Lori Walaska, assistant The following list Robert O. Obermayer ’86 Janet E. Salmons ’92 director of annual giving, Empire State recognizes those for William E. Tessier ’91 Vivian Jaycobs College, 28 Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, whom a gift was given Rene Romain, Jr. Richard J. Jaycobs ’93 NY 12866-4390. Carline Seide- in recognition of, Pauline Kanellakis Murphy ’95 Theodore Kanellakis ’81 For an immediate response, followed by the name Kathryn Salwitz Ginny Katz please send an e-mail to: of the donor who made Patricia L. Wild ’80 Judith Gruber ’95 [email protected] the contribution. M. Crystal Scriber Cynthia J. Krendl Anonymous Jacques C. Kaufman ’04 or call: Vincent A. Sofia, Jr. 800 847-3000 ext. 2773 Josephine Sammis ’88

28 LOYALTY LEADERS SOCIETY: Donors who have contributed for three consecutive years are listed in italics, five years in bold and 10 or more years in purple. Building an Industry with Heart and Determination

Louise Bijesse ’06, Director of Recruitment, Compass Group

her work. “We also give individuals At the Compass Group, she figured she’d opportunity. Compass Group really has be doing the same thing she did on her a great track record as a leader in the own, but that she’d be able to “stop industry. And I love the culture, how chasing a dollar,” and have the assurance friendly everyone is. Because we are in that at the end of the day, she’d actually the hospitality industry, we know how to get paid. be hospitable.” Company headquarters, Although it turned out a bachelor’s in Charlotte, NC, she adds, “is warm, degree was required for her new position, welcoming, embracing; it’s very exciting it was serendipity that she happened to to be part of something growing.” be finishing up her studies around the One of her goals? Helping her division time she landed her job. She had earlier go from “good to great. started working on an associate degree, “We’ve got a great team. My manage- but left because she had just had her ment style, I believe, is bringing people second child. After a friend, a nurse, together. There is strength in numbers.” had returned to school, she encouraged How did Bijesse land this plum Bijesse to do likewise, so three years ago, position? She grew up in a family of five she enrolled to earn a bachelor’s degree siblings, whose parents ran a catering in business, management and economics Louise Bijesse ’06 business on Long Island. All five children (BME). She joked that she could never were involved – washing dishes, manning sell any of her textbooks, because she “I love my job,” says Louise Bijesse, a the coat-check desk, working in the used to rip out the chapters she was director of recruitment, for the Compass kitchen, washing silverware, and serving. reading in order to better transport them Group, The Americas. With revenues After high school, she entered the New on the train on her way to work. of $19.5 billion and 400,000 associates York Institute of Technology with the Bijesse is proud that her oldest, a worldwide, the company is the largest aim of becoming a chef at a time when 19-year-old son now in college, wants food service industry in the world. It few women pursued the career. (Bijesse to follow in her footsteps by earning serves as an umbrella for a variety of says it’s the crazy weekend and evening a BME degree, and her next eldest, operating companies that provide food hours and the grueling up to 90-hour at 13, is interested in starting his own services to the corporate, healthcare, work week that turns many away). business. m education and entertainment sectors, and She began working at a struggling boasts clients like Microsoft, Caterpillar, restaurant, which snatched her up right IBM, state universities, and Chicago out of college. She was a chef for six public schools. Through its Wolfgang years before moving into the corporate Tell us your story! Puck division it provides catering to the world working for another food manage- ment company and then moving on to U.S. Open, Ryder Cup and Academy We are seeking contributions for Awards. her own staffing and catering companies future issues of the magazine. Bijesse has just been promoted from between 1999 and 2005. Her staffing Are you in: national recruiter, to director in the business was recognized with a National company’s Resource Network, and Affiliate Office Award for over one education, oversees a network of 11 recruiters million in staffing sales. law enforcement or fire services? for such food-service positions as food But operating her own business and health care? service director, executive chef, sous chef, having responsibility for everything from and positions in accounting, procurement soup to nuts, proved stressful, especially with five children, including now 8-and If you are, please contact and IT. Hope Ferguson, editor, at a-half-year old triplets, and despite “a “We help our company grow by [email protected]. bringing in great people,” Bijesse very supportive” husband. And insurance responds, when asked why she enjoys issues were eating up a lot of her revenue.

E M P I R E 13 Working with a Snack and Beverage Giant

Lina Figueroa Lina Figueroa ’05 Takes on the Pepsi Challenge

n a hot summer day when you Figueroa’s department oversees the Omni Communications before moving to take a sip of Pepsi or Sierra regulation compliance of such beverages PepsiCo. When she started at her current OMist, Lina Figueroa’s job is likely as Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Sierra Mist and Mug job, she told her boss that she wasn’t the last thing on your mind. Figueroa Root Beer. proficient at math or science, but he assured is a senior coordinator for the Scientific There are hundreds of formulations, her it was all basic business skills, and if Regulatory Affairs Department at PepsiCo, which are adjusted from time to time; often she had a good attitude she would do and works with company food scientists, by season. She also is currently working on fine. “I never thought I’d be talking about project engineers and regulatory compli- ensuring that the software where propri- sodium levels in beverages for a living,” ance staff to register formulations of the etary formulas are stored is up-to-date and Figueroa jokes. m company’s various beverages. Governmental able to hold all the information needed to agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug support the huge volume of beverages and Administration (FDA) and international their attendant legal documentation. regulators in nations where the soda is Figueroa grew up in Puerto Rico in her manufactured demand assurance that earlier years and later in Brooklyn. She the product conforms to the local law. earned her associate degree in audio-visual Additionally, she is responsible for the communications from the Inter-American distribution of label information, which University. Figueroa selected Empire accurately represents the content of the State College because she was looking Tuscan Kitchen beverage and is applied to all graphic labels for a four-year college that would accept in the United States, Canada and Puerto her hard-earned credits from her asso- Bolognese Rico. ciate degree. Working with Mentor Mel PepsiCo is one of the largest snack and Rosenthal of the college’s Metropolitan Sauce beverage manufacturers in the world. The Center, she earned her Bachelor of Science INGREDIENTS company’s primary divisions are Frito-Lay degree in communications in 2005. 1 garlic clove, smashed snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade “What I did at Empire State College 2 lbs. of meat – a combination sports drinks, Tropicana juices and Quaker enabled me to get this job,” she explains. of veal and pork was suggested foods. She previously worked for the PR giant onions parsley carrots rosemary to taste olive oil white wine salt 2 cans crushed tomatoes 2 cups of water

METHOD 1. Chop the vegetables fine and sauté with olive oil, white wine and salt until soft. 2. Add meat and cook about 30 minutes, keep stirring. 3. Add the tomatoes and water. 4. Cook about another 1 hour.

Alumna Sue Hohenhaus ’03, ’05 (center) along with her husband Jay and daughter, Haley, take the cooking class offered on the alumni trip to Italy last fall. One of the recipes from Tuscany is to the right.

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A Grateful Farewell to President Moore

President Joseph B. Alumni Moore: Highlights of • Presided over 64 graduations, both in the United States and abroad. His Accomplishments • Saw the ranks of our alumni increase by 16,000 – from 34,000 to more than 50,000 graduates. oseph B. Moore was appointed president of Empire State College Promotion of the College’s Jin 2000, becoming only the Reputation and Image second permanent president in the • Increased the marketing and college’s 36-year history. Recently, advertising budget by 600 percent. Dr. Moore accepted the presidency of • Oversaw a major college “branding” Lesley University in Massachusetts and effort in 2002. will be leaving Empire State College • Initiated a statewide image campaign that saw full-page ads for the college in June 2007. With appreciation, we in every major daily newspaper recognize the impact Dr. Moore has across the state, as well as increased had on the college in countless areas, advertising via billboards and radio including: and television. Joseph B. Moore, Empire State College’s • Worked tirelessly with legislators Academic Programs second permanent president, 2000-2007 and influencers, on both the state • Oversaw implementation of the and national level, to advocate Urban Teachers Initiative, our • Increased student support through for educational opportunity and Master of Arts in Teaching program. the addition of center-based student increased financial aid for adult • Laid the groundwork for new service professionals. learners. nursing degree program. • Oversaw the creation of an online • Oversaw the expansion of interna- and telephone Student Information Strategic Plan tional programs. Center. • Leaves the college with a well- • Implemented a five-term calendar conceived, broadly-supported and learning opportunities inventory Fund-raising strategic plan designed to: to increase study options and enable • Spearheaded raising monies for the Í increase enrollment and students to study with mentors Learners First campaign, which has reach wider audiences of anywhere in the college. raised 82 percent of its $51.5 million adult learners; goal. Í promote greater retention and Personnel • Oversaw the refurbishing of 111 student academic success; • Oversaw the addition of 673 new West Avenue in Saratoga Springs Í embrace diversity with the goal employees from 2000 to 2005. as home of the Center for Distance of becoming one of the most • Moved many adjunct faculty to Learning and other administrative open and diverse institutions regular payroll status. offices. within the State University of • Appointed the first provost and • Obtained $26 million in capital New York; vice president for enrollment funds to complete college facilities Í and secure the external resources management. in Saratoga Springs and to begin that will ensure the college’s • Created associate dean positions at building permanent regional centers aspirations and future. each center. throughout the state.

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Faculty and Students Work with International Theater Team in Africa

mpire State College faculty and students took part last summer E in a collaborative theater for development project in Lesotho, in southern Africa, exploring the themes of gender inequity, tradition, taboo, HIV/ AIDS and stigma. The newly founded Winter/Summer Institute (WSI) in Theatre for Development is a collaboration of institutions in four nations – University of Sunderland in Great Britain, Empire State College, The University of Witswatersrand in South Africa and the The “gossips” comment on the action. National University of Lesotho. Lucy Winner, a professor in performing arts at the Metropolitan Center, and Katt members alike. A great deal of stigma Programmes Fail by Catherine Campbell, Lissard, an adjunct faculty member and and denial surrounds the HIV virus in as well as other texts that explore Empire State College alumna who spent southern Africa, as it does in many other cultural issues surrounding community eight months of 2005 on a Fulbright cultures. Both Lesotho and South Africa health. The four groups of students and Fellowship at the National University of have been severely impacted by HIV/AIDS faculty then met in Lesotho for lectures, Lesotho, traveled to Lesotho with five with roughly one-third of the population discussions and a film about traditional students from the college. There they in both countries infected. cultures, modernity, language, taboos and worked with students and faculty from The project began with all of the traditional practices versus contemporary the three other institutions to develop participants doing readings in preparation medicine by faculty from the National a piece of theater designed to challenge for their work, including Letting University of Lesotho and community and educate participants and audience Them Die: Why HIV/AIDs Prevention workers. Then, using a structure provided by the faculty members, the students improvised and responded to what they were learning, linking it to their own experiences. Eventually the work they created became a play, Dance Me to the End of Love (Ntjeke Ho isa Pheletsong ea Lerato in Sesotho). The piece was performed a number of times in Lesotho, including on the campus of the National University of Lesotho and in the mountainous villages of the Malealea Valley where the students were joined by village groups in workshops and in a final performance. The culmination was a performance, (continued next page) Musicians from three continents rehearse together.

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The project grew out of a combination of deliberate Team in Africa planning and a series of fortuitous connections and meetings (continued) between faculty from the different countries, explained Winner, featuring WSI students and 30 villagers, before an audience of and they plan to continue the work that they began in Africa. over 500 people. The villagers then went on to found their own Already, on December 2 and 3, the Empire State College theater group, which they call Eradicate Negligence, to take students who had traveled to Lesotho helped Winner and the exploration even further. The performances were very well Lissard run a residency at the Metropolitan Center – called received, Winner said, with comments heard from the audience Gossip, Silence and HIV/AIDS, Theatre for Development, Africa such as, “That’s just the way it is!” and “That’s just like us!” to New York. At the residency, the WSI students spoke about “There was a tremendous amount of laughter and what they had learned and experienced, performed some of conversation,” Winner recalls. “The purpose,” she went on, Dance Me to the End of Love and then led the nearly 40 resi- “was to create a dialogue among students, faculty, villagers and dency participants through a condensed version of the Lesotho with the audience; to have a conversation about the things raised project – giving them the opportunity to consider the themes in the plays.” One of the prevalent themes was gossip (how in relationship to their own experience in this country, and to news travels in a small village making people hesitant to own up create an entirely new performance. to their illness due to the stigma attached) and the related and resulting silence.

FACULTY PROFILE: of Central and South America. As part a list that she has prepared; it could be of her introductory language and culture something like House of Spirits by Latin- Joyce Howland, Unit study groups, which she holds in Alfred American novelist Isabel Allende or The and Rochester, Howland integrates a Three-Cornered Hat, by Spaniard Pedro Coordinator, Alfred tasting of the various foods from the Antonio de Alarcon. This Economist Varies Mentoring countries that her students study. Howland grew up in a college town in with Studies on Language, Food “I think that food is a very important Oregon where she was introduced to her and Culture part of culture, and it is one of the things love of food by helping her grandmother that is most accessible,” she said. “It bake cookies. She earned her Ph.D. in helps to develop the ‘flavor’ of what they economics from Vanderbilt University are learning; it makes it more immediate and her A.B. in economics from … My students learn not only about Wellesley College. She taught economics language, but they gain an appreciation at Vanderbilt University, SUNY Oswego, for culture,” she explains. and Onondaga Community College. Some of the foods she has had them Immediately prior to coming to the sample are turron, a confection of college, she served as director of student almonds, orange juice and chocolate services at California State Polytechnic from Barcelona; frutas-secas, a candied University, College of Environmental dried fruit dipped in chocolate; jicama, Desgin/Fine Arts in Los Angeles. a sweet-flavored tuber root with almost She takes pleasure in working with Joyce Howland the texture of a raw potato from adult students, because, “I am able to Mexico, which is used in salad; toma- learn from them, as well as work with lthough Alfred Unit Coordinator tillos, small round tomato-type fruit in them.” As unit coordinator, her job Joyce Howland’s primary area a papery shell shaped like a Japanese has varied aspects, from administration Aof mentoring is economics, she lantern; and quinoa, a BB-sized small to working with the alumni director, has begun facilitating more language high-protein grain grown in Peru. She Maureen Winney, on alumni events, to and culture studies at the college, she has also had her students taste yerba recruiting students. She had previously said, because that is where the need is. mate, a tea that the gauchos drink tutored at Empire State College, and She has always had a love of travel, when they come off the pampas – or also had lived in Syracuse from 1972 and according to her college web site, grasslands – of Argentina, Uruguay and to 1989, so coming back to the college has traveled and lived with families in Brazil. “was a bit of a homecoming for me.” Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, As part of the study groups, Howland Nicaragua and Spain as well as visiting assigns her students a paper based on a Korea, Japan and most of the countries book originally written in Spanish from

E M P I R E 17 I Did It … My Way

My will reflects my wishes and my values. I have decided to leave my estate to those I care most about instead of letting the state disburse my property.

My will lets me leave money to my children and also to my grandchildren, when I think they will be prepared for the responsibility.

My will identifies several charities to receive special bequests: our local hospital, an animal shelter and Empire State College.

My will can be amended at any time if my family’s financial circumstances change.

My will is safely stored. I have a copy at home and the original is filed in my attorney’s office. My will is legally valid. I benefited from the expert advice of an attorney who specializes in estate planning. My will … my way.

My will is my best plan for my beneficiaries and me. For years, I lived with a nagging apprehension about what might happen if I died without a will. Now, I have control over the future of my estate.

The Empire State College Foundation, Inc. would be honored to be included in your estate plans. Please call the Office of External Affairs at 518 587-2100 ext. 2413 for free information about wills and charitable bequests, or to discuss how you might direct the use of your gift.

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Center for Distance Learning United States Air Force. French-Hill is Onondaga-Cortland-Madison Board of a contract negotiator for Aetna whose Cooperative Educational Services. Upon being presented the first United States memberships include Aspiring Minds of Coast Guard (USCG) New Auxiliarist of Toledo; Engaging People, Inspiring Change; the Year award at USCG headquarters in and being co-chair American Cancer Center for International Washington, D.C., Kevin Cady ’04 was Society’s Relay for Life and an active Programs cited as having “ … shown exceptional member of the Leadership Council at Christ leadership and commitment to Team Coast Presbyterian Church. Susan Brannon ’04, who lives in Italy, is Guard through his extensive volunteer nearing completion on her master’s degree support.” Cady was honorably discharged Sharon Henesy ’06 has been accepted at Antioch University, Ohio. Also nearing from the Coast Guard in 1981 and joined into the Ph.D. program at Binghamton completion, is The Stories Untold, a book the Auxiliary in 2003. His background University. she is writing which draws on her expe- includes five years as a trainer with the rience as a photojournalist and United National Hockey League’s Philadelphia In 1988, her attention caught by a national Nations worker during the second intifada. Flyers, 20 years with the Portland, Maine news story about Hale House, which cares Police Department and, presently, he is a for infants born with aids, Sister Beth fire fighter/investigator with the Portland LeValley ’96 sought out a way that she and Central New York Center Fire Department. Cady’s most recent Coast the Sisters of St. Joseph might help. Social Deborah Augst ’00 has been promoted Guard assignment, whereby he assists Services let her know that foster care homes to assistant vice president with Tompkins with contingency planning and intel- were needed for medically fragile infants Trust Company. She brings 16 years of ligence support activities, has garnered and that is how the Daystar Foster Care experience in mortgage banking and five him the Auxiliary Commendation Medal Program began. The program has evolved years of experience as a realtor to the for “demonstrating exemplary commit- and, in 2002, Daystar opened the first position. ment and teamwork by consistently nursing supervised licensed medical child- providing superior service to Coast Guard care program in western New York. This Having begun her career with SUNY Sector Northern New England (Planning is but one the many worthwhile endeavors Upstate Medical University in 2001 as oper- Department) … ” He also is praised for his of Sister Beth LeValley and the Sisters of ations manager and then assistant director, “ … dedication, judgment and devotion to St. Joseph, based in Rochester, New York. Susan Campanaro-Murphy ’03 has been duty … ” Among Sister’s LeValley’s many interests are promoted to director of environmental universal healthcare and the Underground services with the university. Gail Muckey ’00 earned a Master of Railroad project. Divinity from Pacific School of Religion Photographs by Christine Galin ’05 were and, in 2006, was ordained. She is senior Mary Raymond, a 1999 graduate of the part of an exhibit titled Better Than Words pastor of the Peace United Church of Center for Distance Learning and 2004 held by the Delavan Art Gallery. Christ, Walnut, Iowa, and also does youth graduate of the Center for Graduate work and is a hospice chaplain. Programs, has earned the designation of Norman Goldschmidt ’96 has held Certified Protection Professional (CPP) many positions of increasing responsi- Raymond Rodriquez ’03 writes that, awarded by the Professional Certification bility within Bristol-Myers Squibb since “ … obtaining my degree has given me Board of the American Society for joining the company in 1990 – most an opportunity to achieve my childhood Industrial Security. She is one of only 4,500 recently he has been named senior director goal of being in law enforcement.” In active CPP’s worldwide. In November process engineering design. He will lead August 2006, he was sworn in as deputy 2006, following 24 years of service a team of engineering design professional sheriff with the Suffolk County Sheriff with the United States Secret Service, supporting the business with technical Department, Boston, Massachusetts. Raymond retired from her position as analysis, feasibility studies and design to assistant division chief of the Technical ensure the development of efficient and Security Division Field Office Support and effective projects for active pharmaceu- Center for Graduate Programs Operation. She is now a protective security tical ingredients (API), drug product and The family of Janice French-Hill ’07, who advisor with the Department of Homeland Pharmaceutical Research Institute functions. earned her M.B.A., has double the reason Security in New York City. to be proud. Her brother, Steve French ’07, Having earned an associate degree in also was awarded a degree (bachelor’s) Jim Southard, a 2007 graduate of the nursing from St. Joseph’s School of from the college. According to French-Hill, Master of Business Administration degree Nursing, Catherine Hanover ’06 concen- “This is especially important to our family program and assistant director of fiscal trated in healthcare administration while because Steve’s schooling was interrupted services for the Syracuse City School at Empire State College and has recently several times due to war.” French, then part District, was appointed to the Liverpool been named vice president at St. Elizabeth of the 180th National Guard in Toledo, school board and also elected to the Medical Center. She will be responsible for recently completed his contract with the

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marketing, public relations and government She will work with the AMCC, a commu- Community Emergency Response Team, is affairs for the medical center. nity-based organization of fishermen, a search and rescue volunteer with the New traditional subsistence harvesters, scientists, York State Department of Environmental small business owners and families whose Conservation, and is an EMT. His personal Genesee Valley Center livelihoods depend on healthy ecosystems. interests include being an historical re- Brothers Joe and Mike Silivestro ‘02 were enactor of the American Revolution and Carol Davis ’80 has joined First Federal panelists at the Rochester Security Summit French and Indian War; being a primary Savings and Loan as an account executive held by the Rochester Chapter of the and intermediate school living-history in their residential lending division. Information Systems Security Association, interpreter; being a historical costume University of Rochester and Rochester consultant with the Minstrel Player Theater Henry Themal ’82, age 88 and residing in Group; and an independent film actor. Institute of Technology. The summit Port St. Lucie, Florida, devotes his creative focused on combatting phish attacks, energy to writing poetry. Vincent Sweeney ’76 began his career identity theft, fraud and other hindrances in the Merchant Marine in 1943 serving to e-commerce. Joe Silivestro is following The Rev. Saundra Sue White ’98, who in WWII and ended his career following in his brother’s footsteps and also is a earned a master’s degree in theology, is an Desert Storm, Iraq. Having just turned 81, student with the college. ordained elder and senior associate pastor he writes us that, “ … my diploma was the with University United Methodist Church, Craig Snyder ’06 is an adjunct professor of key to my being appointed as a damage San Antonio, Texas. She was named among control officer (DCO) with the Military applied music at Finger Lakes Community the top 25 pastors of the year, 1995, by College. Sealift Command, United States Navy. the Southwest Texas Conference, United Being a DCO provided me with a grand Methodist Church. Marianne Stoddard ’95 is director of finish to my years on deep sea vessels and training and development with Lending as a pilot on New York fire boats … ” Tree, Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a member of the American Society of Long Island Center Ronald Villano ’04 is the author of The Quality as well as the American Society June Christian ’05 writes that she “believes Zing, a self-discovery guide to help you for Training and Development and is Six I have found my calling and a second go from living life to loving the life you Sigma Black Belt and Management Black career.” She is working toward a Master of live. Ron’s background includes being a Belt certified. Arts degree at Adelphi University’s Derner licensed mental health counselor, certified Institute for Advanced Psychological alcohol and substance abuse counselor, Studies. Christian also has been inducted psychotherapist, inspirational speaker, and The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. in the international women’s organization, professional and personal counselor. Center for Labor Studies Zonta, and is vice president of the board of directors for the Friends of the Adelphi With 33 years of service to his credit, Scott Library. Metropolitan Center Morgan ’86 has been named manager Corinne Cody ’84, a C.P.A., has joined of the National Center for Employee Timothy Johnson ’83 has been promoted the staff of Judelson, Giordano and Siegel, Development, a high-technology learning to associate professor with Wentworth a full-service accounting and business center of the U.S. Postal Service. He will Institute of Technology, Boston, consulting firm. She is a member of the direct delivery of national training for the Massachusetts. American Institute of Certified Public U.S. Postal Service and manage the 72-acre, Accountants and the New York State Fred Meyer ’92, a substitute teacher with postal service-owned campus in Norman, Society of Certified Public Accounts as the East Meadow School District – teaching Oklahoma. Following graduation from well as being treasurer of the Viking at the middle school and high school level, the college, Morgan continued his studies Aquatic Club and finance chairperson for writes that, “I am grateful to Empire State earning a B.S. from Albertus Magnus Metropolitan Swimming, Inc. University and completing both Cornell College as my degree was a ticket to pursue University’s Industrial and Labor Relations a teaching profession.” Prior to finding Robert L. Cohen ’93 has been editing Program and Columbia University’s his niche in teaching, Meyer, who earned books and other publications – for Executive Development Program. a diploma in eletro/mechnical technology publishers, individuals and think tanks – from the City University of New York, was for many years (recently, reference books, a technician with a distributor of major memoirs and public policy papers on inter- Hudson Valley Center appliances. national relations and urban affairs; he Dorothy (Smith) Childers, ’79, has been also contributed an extensive monograph The accomplishments of Jeffrey Palen ’06, awarded a 2007 Pew Fellowship in Marine to Inventing Community Renewal: The who has been a police officer with the Conservation to study climate change Trials and Errors That Shaped the Modern Suffolk County Police Department since strategies. Childers, program director and Community Development Corporation 1992, are many. He is a staff sergeant former executive director of the Alaska [New School University]). Cohen also and noncommissioned officer in charge Marine Conservation Council, will receive continues the lecturing and teaching on of training with the 14th Brigade of the $150,000 to conduct a three-year conser- Jewish music – and on New York City New York State Guard, is certified by the vation project designed to address critical songs and doo-wop – profiled in the National Incident Management System challenges to healthy oceans, and the – issue. For the last seven years, he’s been of the Federal Emergency Management impact of climate change in the Bering Sea. Agency, is an instructor and member of the (continued on page 23)

20 EMPIRE BACK TO YOU Alumni and Student Events Around the College

Have you recently published an article, paper or book? We would love to hear about it for our next issue. Penny Jennings ’06 and her husband Dudley Hunte, celebrate her Please contact [email protected]. graduation at the Center for Distance Learning mixer last fall.

We kicked off our alumni travel program with our first trip to Italy. Here’s the group of alumni and friends in Florence.

Alumni reconnect at the all SUNY Alumni Reception in San Francisco (l-r) Carla Reiner ’94, Toby Tobroke, Tom McCabe ’00, Silke Taylor ’84.

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Josie Curtice ’06 stands in front of one of her art works in the Genesee Valley Center Art Show.

Empire State College instructor Raul Manzano ’05 (center) escorts his “Museums in New York City” class through the Museum of Modern Art.

President Moore meets the Alumni Student Federation Board of Governors at their fall meeting in Saratoga Springs. Back row (l-r) Jay Marshall ’06, Mike Elefante ’99, John Corrou ’94, Peter Maloney ’03, ’06, President Joe Moore, Jim Cornell ’02, ’03, David Morrell ’96, ’03, Ron Heath ’02, front row (l-r) Deanna Riddick ’03, ’05, Marian Conway ’01, ’04, Judy Parkhurst ’98, Deborah Oberhofer ’05, Linda Moore ’90, ’93, Deborah Putnam ’92, ’95, ’02, Denise Bartlett ’03, ’05, and Paul Annetts ’01, ’03

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(continued from page 20) working towards her Ph.D. in media and Lehman College. He is second vice chair art. of Bronx Community Board 2, a member one of the most sought-after speakers in of the New York Police Department the Speakers in the humanities program of Charles Small ’00, a court officer, last year 41st Precinct Community Council and a the New York Council for the Humanities graduated from Brooklyn Law School and consults with the New York City Council’s Cohen recently reissued his compilation awaits the results of the bar exam. Office of Oversight and Investigations. CD of contemporary American-Jewish music for prayer: Open The Gates! New Felix Urrutia Jr. ’94 has been appointed American-Jewish Music for Prayer, Vol. 1 executive director of the Police Athletic Niagara Frontier Center (available at cdbaby.com/openthegates). League (PAL), New York City’s largest, Rocco Diina ’01 has been named to the Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary said nonprofit, independent youth organiza- board of advisors of Universal Global of this CD: “There are intensely beautiful tion. Robert Morganthau, chairman of Holdings, an emerging global leader in gems in this collection of Jewish songs … . the board of directors of PAL and New nonlethal protection products, integrated You will feel the sorrow, the hope, and the York county district attorney, said that, transportation and global supply chain joy of generations past – Such is the gift of “Felix has shown great dedication and security systems, and strategic security this music.” diligence in assuring that New York City youths benefit from PAL and its wide services to protect against terrorist, Peter Esposito ’04 has been promoted to range of programs. His strong leadership criminal and security threats to govern- the rank of lieutenant by Raymond Kelly, and management acumen and his ability ments and businesses worldwide. Diina, police commissioner, City of New York. to implement successful and innovative a 37-year veteran of the Buffalo Police programs for children are essential in Department, has served as police commis- Sandy Kortland ’88 has self published, The supporting PAL’s mission.” Urrutia has sioner for the past seven years and is Classroom Diaries, based on her experi- made significant contributions to PAL, the founder and former chairman of ences in the New York City school system. first as director of their New South Bronx a successful security business. He has Center, which opened in 1996, as Bronx been a member of the Major Cities Joint Kathryn Simon ’04, who during her borough director and as director of special Terrorism Task Force, the Major Cities studies concentrated in art and design, is operations. Having earned an M.S. from Chiefs, the Police Executive Research cultural producer with Vermillion Media, Hunter College, CUNY, he now teaches Forum and the American Society of an adjunct professor at Parsons School of non-for-profit management at Hunter and Industrial Security Conference. Design and also works in the Metropolitan recreation and facility management at Museum’s Costume Institute. She is (continued on page 24)

Center graduation on October 13. The Community Bankers Association of Retired Bank President college graduated 219 associate, bache- New York and was a member of the Receives Honorary lor’s and master’s degree candidates that Thrift Institutions Advisory Panel of the Degree evening. Federal Reserve Board of New York. Mancino was recognized for his He served as a director of the M.S.B. contributions to business, banking and Mutual Fund, Inc., the Retirement economic development, his extraordinary Systems Group, Inc., and the SBLI-USA community service and his advocacy of Mutual Life Insurance Company, as well higher education as an integral element as serving on numerous boards. in the well being of communities and the Mancino never forgot from whence state. he came. He has been active in his Mancino took an entry-level banking community as a volunteer, humanitarian position in 1958 and rose through the and philanthropist. In 1997, Mancino ranks, mainly at Roslyn, as a teller, head founded The Roslyn Savings Foundation, teller, assistant auditor, auditor, assis- which is committed to providing grants tant branch manager, branch manager, designed to further community develop- Joseph L. Mancino ’80 mortgage officer, vice president and ment, expand home ownership, and finally president and chairman of the provide access to affordable housing in Joseph L. Mancino ’80, recently Roslyn Savings Bank, which under his the community served by Roslyn Savings retired co-chairman of the New York leadership grew into a 39-branch, $12.5 Bank. Community Bank, and former president billion enterprise. The bank made its The foundation supports commu- and chairman of the Roslyn Savings name by moving into areas that were nity initiatives in the areas of health, Bank, received the degree of Doctor of underserved by most other banks. education and cultural activities. He Humane Letters, honoris causa, from Active in the banking industry, he also established a scholarship fund for Empire State College at its Long Island chaired the President’s Forum of the students at Empire State College.

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Chris Klimecko ’04 is director of human Dorothy Kuell ’99 is marketing/senior Angela Territo ’05, who has held a NYS resources and information systems with living transition counselor with Fredonia real estate associate license since 1980 and the Red Bird Mission. The mission is part Place, a full-service senior living commu- her broker’s license since 1984, is director of the General Board of Global Ministries nity. She became a community nutrition of career development with Coldwell of the United Methodist Church and educator through work with Cornell Banker Prime Properties. A graduate of provides educational, health and commu- University and is an adult day care coor- the New York State Instructors Training nity outreach ministries to low-income dinator. Her memberships include the Institute, she is a full-time trainer offering residents of the Appalachian Mountains in Girl Scouts of America, American Heart a 120-day guaranteed success sales system Southeastern Kentucky. Association, Cancer Society, United Way for agents. Territo is vice president and co- and the Lake Shore Hospital Foundation. chair of the Women’s Council of Realtors.

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Coffee Mug $10 Travel Mug $8 Baseball Cap (navy or wheat) $12 Sweatshirt M, L, XL (black or grey) XXL (black only) $35 Shoulder Tote $8 Golf Shirt M, L, XL (black or white) $22 T-Shirt M, L, XL (black or grey) XXL (black only) $18 Long Sleeve T-Shirt M, L, XL or XXL (navy) $22 Executive Brief Bag $22 Crystal Paperweight $32 Boston Rocker $295 Captain’s Chair $295 College Ring (visit www.esc.edu for styles and prices)

For easy online ordering, go to www.esc.edu and click on Alumni. Prices do not include shipping and handling. For a complete catalog of gifts or informa- tion on laminated diplomas and Empire State College rings contact the Alumni and Student Relations: 518 587-2100 ext. 2344 or visit www.esc.edu.

24 EMPIRE Come join us for our annual Empire State College Day at the Races Saratoga Springs • Friday, August 17, 2007

Empire State College Track Pack Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., at which time you will for $30 includes: pick up your pass, program and lunch. We will be serving

coffee and pastries during that time. The handicapping • Grandstand admission seminar will begin at 11:00 a.m. and will be held at the • Grandstand seat Canfield Casino in Congress Park. Post time for the first • Program race is 1:00 p.m. Seating is limited and on a first-come, • Box lunch first-served basis. We will reserve your seat when we • Coffee and pastries receive your check made out to Empire State College • Handicapping seminar by Foundation. Simply use the order form below. You may faculty member Andrew make a copy of the order form for your guest(s). Once you DiNitto and our vice president for are registered, we will send you directions, parking and administration, William Ferrero other information. Hope to see you there! ------

Please complete and return to: Maureen Winney Name ______Graduation year Empire State College Address ______Alumni House, 28 Union Avenue Day phone ______Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4390 E-mail ______

Make your check payable to: Empire State College Foundation. The box lunch will include a sandwich, condiments, side salad, dessert, fruit and chips. Drinks are on your own.

Please circle your sandwich choice, all sandwiches will be made on fresh focaccia bread. 1. Turkey 2. Roast beef 3. Chicken salad 4. Baked ham 5. Vegetarian YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO US! Send news of your accomplishments and activities so that we can feature them in future issues of Empire State College Alumni and Student News. If possible include a recent photograph (with your name on the back). Please spell out all organization abbreviations. Name ______Address ______Job title ______Business name/address ______Center/Unit attended ______Year graduated/degrees ______Current student? ______Area of study ______Phone number: Work ______Home ______E-mail address ______Honors and other accomplishments ______Volunteer/professional organizations ______Send to: Empire State College Alumni and Student News, Office of College Relations, Empire State College, One Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4391.

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