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Archives online exhibition highlights women’s changing fashions on campus

WHEN ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST CARA HOWE G’10 DELVED INTO THE Syracuse University Archives to select photos and printed material for an JOURNAL ALUMNI online exhibition featuring coeds’ fashion trends, she discovered there was too much historic material to research and present in one exhibition. “Our collection is massive, so I decided to narrow my fo- cus to the years between 1870 and the 1950s because women’s fashions saw a big transition during this time period,” Howe says. “At the beginning of the 20th cen- tury, college women played sports wearing knee-length skirts with leggings underneath, but by the 1950s, coeds were walking around campus wearing pants and Ber- muda shorts.” Loops of hair were often left to Howe, who holds a master’s degree in library and information sci-

alumni.syr.edu hang down the back of the head. ence from the School of Information Studies and is pursuing a mas- These loops were sometimes ter’s degree in museum studies from the College of Visual and Per- made of false hair or combings from the owner’s head. Clara forming Arts, curated the exhibition Changing Women’s Fashion: A Look Bradley, 1876 (above). at Coeds’ Clothing on SU’s Campus from Pre-1900-1950s as a class proj- ect. She began by pulling items from the archives’ more than 6,200 The “shingle” hairstyle (right) became popular in the early digitized images, searching through photo collections, and looking 1930s. It was a short, tapered cut through copies of the Onondagan yearbook for team photos showing that exposed the ends like roof women’s athletic apparel and head shots depicting the latest hair- shingles. Florence Golder, 1932. styles, necklines, jewelry, and accessories. “Our yearbook collection, “You can tell a frosh every time.” which dates back to 1878, was also a good source for local depart- cartoon (below) from The Syra- ment store ads featuring fashions for women,” says Howe, who works cusan, November 1946. with the Pan Am 103/Lockerbie Air Disaster Archives in the Department of Archives and Records Management. “And I was able to use student publications and campus newspapers for additional material as well as a few alumni scrapbooks that have been donated to SU.” The selected items featuring women’s formal, casual, and athletic at-

(782-5867) 1-800-SUALUMS tire were scanned into the archival database and then tweaked to produce crisp, high-quality images. To write captions for the images, Howe pored over historical fashion books for accurate descriptions of various styles and the correct terms for assorted necklines and silhouettes. The fashion exhi- bition, which went live in March, will be featured through December, after which it will become part of archive’s permanent online collection (archives. syr.edu/exhibits/fashion). “The exhibitions never end, they are just no longer featured,” Howe says. “We’re planning to present one large online exhibi- tion a year. Fortunately, we have a long list of topic ideas that will keep us busy for quite some time.” —Christine Yackel

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BUSTLES TO BERMUDAS

TREASURED MEMORIES THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES and Records Management has been mounting online exhibitions since 1997. Over the years, the technology and format have changed, and more recent exhibitions are larger in scale, but all highlight memorable moments in SU’s remarkable history. Below is a sampling of recent online exhibitions of interest to alumni and academic researchers.

From the Waltz to the Jitterbug: Dances at Syracuse University, 1900-1960

SUNY ESF and SU: 100 Years of Col- laboration

Tip It, Frosh! The First-Year Student through SU’s History

Handle with Care: Glass Plate Negative and Lantern Slide Collections at the SU Archives

50 For 50 Years!

The Art of the Onondagan II

Cheerleaders with the 1947 Football Queen (top) exhibit pleats in their skirts that provided more movement HOODOO! The Syracuse/Colgate than their straight-cut predecessors of the ’30s. The second decade of the 20th century (above left, circa 1911-15) saw a significant simplification of female dress. Bermuda shorts (above center) became popular in Football Rivalry the ’30s, but were frequently banned from women’s wear and remained a heated issue into the ’50s. During World War I, women participated in the war effort on a large scale, necessitating functional garments. The To view the complete collection, go to female student on the left even appears to be wearing soldier’s breeches. archives.syr.edu/exhibits/.

Summer 2012 45 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol29/iss2/10 2 Yackel et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL A WORLDVIEW CLASSNOTES IN THE PAST, PEOPLE MAY HAVE NEWS from SU ALUMNI » thought of Syracuse University as an iconic campus nestled amongst the around the globe (www.isc.ro- rolling hills of Central New York. That WordBiz1.8). He also has twice has changed dramatically with a focus 40s won Scrabble tournament gold on “Geographies of Opportunity,” those Morton Kaish ’49 (VPA) in the annual CVS-R.I. Senior key regions throughout the country and and Luise Meyers Kaish Games. the world where many of our appli- ’46, G’51 (VPA) of New York City are exhibiting Patricia Wray Lovelace ’57 cants, students, and alumni live. paintings and sculptures in (FALK) and her husband, Guy In one of her first vision statements The Century Masters two- Lovelace ’59 (A&S), of Jupiter, on Scholarship in Action, Chancellor person presentation Kx2/II Fla., have published seven books in six years, including Cantor issued the following challenge: “We need to be engaged with at the Century Association in New York. Luise is professor The Carnival Never Got Started the world and the pressing concerns of the day To do this we are emerita of Columbia University, (Vantage Press, 2005), Evil in the reaching out—in a disciplined and programmatic manner—beyond where she served as chair for Islands (BookSurge Publishing, our ‘Hill’ raising our profile in the great cities of the world, from Lon- the Division of Painting and 2006), and The Carnival Never Got Started Redux (BookSurge don to Beijing.” Sculpture. In 2011, Morton received the National Academy Publish, 2008). SU has always been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as having Museum’s Award for Lifetime one of the highest quality study abroad programs in the nation, with Achievement in the Arts. Jerome Harris Parmet ’57 study centers in more than 30 countries, in such cities as Beijing, Flor- (VPA) of Scarsdale, N.Y., ence, Hong Kong, Istanbul, London, Madrid, Santiago, and Strasbourg. president of an interior architecture firm for 35 years, What Chancellor Cantor had in mind, though, was much more—to makes metal sculptures that demonstrate an increased commitment to welcoming international 50s have been exhibited throughout students, to better prepare graduates for an increasingly connected Joseph F. Zimmerman G’51, the country (sculpture.org/ —and complex—global society, and to create and strengthen lifelong G’54 (MAX), professor parmet). of political science at the bonds and more closely engage with alumni throughout the world. Rockefeller College of the Seven years later, one can only marvel at how the Chancellor’s chal- University at Albany, added two lenge has been met. International enrollment is at a record high of more books to the more than 60s more than 2,000 students representing nearly 130 countries. There 50 he has already authored and edited: State-Local Governmental Don Fulsom ’60 (A&S), an are almost 10,000 SU alumni living outside the United States, with Interactions, and Interstate adjunct professor at American the largest concentrations in Canada, India, Taiwan, and South Korea, Cooperation: Compacts and University, wrote Nixon’s Darkest and also in places like Sierra Leone, the West Indies, and Bolivia. We Administrative Agreements, 2nd Secrets (St. Martins), which have international clubs in 13 areas around the world. We opened an edition (State University of New uses recently declassified York Press). documents and tapes to shed office in Dubai in June 2011 and have an expanded presence in Istan- new light on one of America’s bul as well. Last year, a contingent of SU trustees and senior admin- Clarence L. Cable ’57 (A&S) most fascinating and troubled istrators traveled to Dubai and Istanbul to meet with local alumni to of Westerly, R.I., is a retired presidents. strengthen ties with them and their countries. corporate publicist who has surpassed the 5,000 game mark Gary Milek ’60 (VPA) of Although there are many examples of SU alumni “in the world, for in International Scrabble Club Windsor, Vt., had his painting the world,” I will share one. Last year, Greg Bilazarian ’06 decided he competition. His 83 percent November Study #2, in egg had done his last television news stand-up in a snowstorm in Toledo, wins vs. losses over two years tempera and gold leaf, featured Ohio. So, he traveled to Armenia to do volunteer work and then got a earned him a high 750 rating at the GOLD exhibition at Belvedere Museum in Vienna, paid position as a producer for a fledgling national news operation. He for time limited games matched randomly against competing Austria, last spring. now works for Civilitas Foundation, the parent organization for Civil- Internet players of all ages from net TV, where, after starting from zero, he co-manages the Internet- based news operation. While it may be a “small world after all,” Syracuse University is ORANGE poised to continue to extend its borders to meet the challenges of an SPOTLIGHT increasingly interdependent global dynamic and to become a leader in Marcia Moskowitz Cohen ’53 (EDU) hosts a weekly international educational engagement. » radio show, Silver Moments, every Thursday that honors the seniors of our nation on CRN Talk.com. Known as Dr. Marcia Baltimore (her grandmother’s maiden name), she discusses a wide range of topics, including nutrition, living choice, and exercise for seniors, and offers insights on how to manage money, how to create your trust and will, as well as how to deal with grief (www.marciabaltimore. Brian Spector ’78 com). President, Syracuse University Alumni Association

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» Josh Young ’03 tell. The New York Times described Josh’s voice as “rangy, powerful and pure.” The Hollywood Reporter called Josh, “the An Electrifying Broadway Debut production’s key onstage asset” and described his vocals as “electrifying.” BY CONTESSA BREWER Josh gives much of the credit for his success so far to his alma mater. It was not only the high expectations of his pro- JOSH YOUNG SLID OUT ON STAGE, IN A SHINY, ELECTRIC fessors at the College of Visual and Performing Arts, but also blue suit, looking for all the world like a polished televangelist what Syracuse University gave him as an alumnus. Between seeking to win souls and capture the congregation’s atten- gigs after graduation, Josh asked to audit SU drama classes tion. And did he ever capture our attention. His charisma on in New York City, offered as part of the Tepper Semester for stage as Judas Iscariot in Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway undergraduate drama students. “I tried out songs in front reaches out and virtually grabs theater-goers by the shoulders of those classes and without that experience, I wouldn’t be and shakes them. It’s not that I’m a theater aficionado, no con- here,” he says. noisseur of stage, but I know what I like. And I like Josh Young. Josh firmly believes the University gives student actors an It’s Josh’s first role on Broadway, and yet this newcomer to edge over the competition. “They get the acting toolbelts at the Great White Way has made a giant splash, garnering a SU,” he says. “Then they get the senior semester in New York, Tony nomination for his portrayal of the betrayer of Jesus. “I the master classes, it’s a big leg up.” just had a different take on the role,” he says. “I wasn’t willing Josh Young is already in good company, joining other illustri- to take another performer’s interpretation. Judas is often por- ous alumni performers nominated for 2012 Tony Awards: Frank trayed in a far less sympathetic light, a bad boy, a high tenor Langella ’59 for Man and Boy, and Jessie Mueller ’05 for On a screeching, a rock ’n’ roll screamer. It’s not me.” Clear Day You Can See Forever. And he’s enjoying the attention Still, Josh definitely hits the high notes, and his high notes he gets from alumni fans. “It’s pretty cool,” he says. “People make me want to rush down the aisle and bow at the altar. It come up to me; they went to Syracuse or saw me in shows at makes for a momentous “Come to Jesus” moment. He plays Syracuse.... I hope it’s bringing more attention to the school.” Judas as “a good person in a bad situation—a guy who makes a Our shared SU connection is the reason why I introduced tough choice, leading to the demise of his close friend,” he says. myself to Josh backstage after the show, why I asked to in- Josh Young had his own tough choices to make in real life, terview him for Syracuse University Magazine. It was also the just as JCS was opening. For a month this spring, he was sick reason I was so disappointed when he didn’t win the Tony for with an upper respiratory infection, bronchitis, sinusitis, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical bacterial laryngitis. “If you can’t breathe, you can’t sing,” he (for more on the Tonys, see page 62). But Josh himself is rather tells me. “I thought, ‘My career’s over.’” But he knew the influ- pragmatic about the loss. “I was happy with the nomination,” ential reviewers, the true tastemakers of theater, would show he says. “I’ll have many more opportunities.” up, and Josh thought he should too. So he battled through the breathing problems and per- formed on opening night. And he managed to do so for at Veteran television journalist Contessa Brewer ’96 is an anchor for least a quarter of the shows throughout the month while suf- NBCUniversal and host of MSNBC’s Caught on Camera. She is fering through his illness. The reviewers, it appeared, couldn’t also a member of the SU Alumni Association Board of Directors.

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Robert Phillips ’60 (A&S/ correlation. He also published overlooks Dr. Martin Luther NEW), G’63 (A&S) of an article about his survey in King’s tomb at the historic site SEND US Houston published his 31st Pen World Magazine. (www.MorelliART.com). book, The Ice House Sketches NEWS OF YOUR (Texas Review Press), a Richard deRosa ’65 (A&S), Robert Coleman ’67 ACCOMPLISHMENTS. collection of short fiction. who lives with his wife, Sandy, (SDA) of Atlanta received on a 10-acre hillside outside an Industry Statesman Arthur J. Roth ’61 (A&S) of the village of Cooperstown, Award during the American To submit information for Class Loudonville, N.Y., is a director- N.Y., wrote Hawthorn Hill Coatings Association’s 125th Notes via the Internet, go to at-large of the New York State Journal: Selected Essays anniversary reception and Society of Certified Public (Sunnyside Press). His dinner held in Indianapolis in alumni.syr.edu and register Accountants. A tax consultant collection of essays covers a May. The award is given in with the SU Alumni Online with Mayer Brown, he was the wide range of topics, including recognition and appreciation Community. Items will appear in commissioner of the New York politics, art and culture, to a person near retirement the magazine and in the Class State Department of Taxation hiking, family teaching, raising for his or her long and devoted and Finance from 1999 to chickens, and the joys of service to the paint and Notes section of the online 2003. gardening (rjderosa.com). coating industry. community. Items can also be sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse Frances Pokras Yariv ’61 Allan Hyman ’65 (A&S) of Richard Spiegel ’67 (A&S) University Magazine; 820 (A&S), G ’64 (EDU) of Sands Point, N.Y., was honored of Staten Island runs Ten Pasadena, Calif., enjoyed a by the Nassau County Bar Penny Players Inc. with his Comstock Avenue, Room 308; 50th reunion get-together Association WE CARE FUND wife, Barbara Fisher. The Syracuse, NY 13244-5040. with her Sigma Delta Tau for working to improve the company, which Fisher started pledge class of 1957 in quality of life for children, the as a children’s theater in Norwich, Conn., in May. elderly, and others in need 1967, focuses on publishing throughout the county. poetry and providing creative CLASS NOTES LEDGER Joyce Dallaportas ’62, G’70, writing programs through its G’75, G’88 (A&S) received a Herb Silverman G’65, G’68 Waterways Project. ARC — School of Architecture citation from the archivist of (A&S) of Charleston, S.C., the Henry Moore Foundation wrote Candidate Without a Dennis E. Bradford ’68 (A&S) A&S — College of Arts and Sciences in England, acknowledging Prayer: An Autobiography of wrote A Dark Time (Ironox that the foundation’s copy of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Works Inc.), a novel about a EDU — School of Education her dissertation on sculptor Belt (Pitchstone Publishing). student who vanishes from ESF — State University of New York Henry Moore and author A champion of church-state SUNY Geneseo in New York. D.H. Lawrence is the only separation, Silverman tells the College of Environmental piece of work in its collection story of his run for governor Lawrence Brill ’68 (WSM) Science and Forestry dealing with the two. The of South Carolina to challenge practices law and is a principal FALK— David B. Falk College of acknowledgment validates the state’s constitutional at Export Trade Consultants in her vision of bringing the provision that barred atheists Columbia, Md. Sport and Human Dynamics pair together to show their from holding public office. (formerly the College of intertwined themes and Charles W. Dayton G’68 Human Ecology) modes of expression. Patrick Morelli ’66 (A&S) (A&S) of Nevada City, Calif., is NUR— College of Nursing is an internationally working on a series of mystery Robert V. Rose ’63 (A&S) is recognized sculptor and novels. SWK— School of Social Work a retired physician who did architectural designer. He an online survey of “Teachers gave a presentation at the William “Biff” Olson ’68 IST — School of Information Studies Applying Whole Language” King National Historic site in (WSM) of Hendersonville, LAW — College of Law to test his belief that teaching Atlanta about the personal N.C., published two e-books, children to write the alphabet and professional challenges Listening for Blue Fog (Hukilau, LCS — L.C. Smith College of Engineering to a definable level of fluency he faced during his 10-year 2011) and The Ahhh (Hukilau, and Computer Science would facilitate the acquisition odyssey to create Behold, a 2012). Both novels have of literacy, and he found an 10-foot bronze statue of a received five-star ratings MAX— Maxwell School of Citizenship overwhelmingly positive father holding his infant, which from Amazon.com and and Public Affairs BarnesandNoble.com. NEW— S.I. Newhouse School of ORANGE Alan Gordon L’69 (LAW) Public Communications SPOTLIGHT is the national executive director of the American Guild UC — University College Margaret Dunkle ’69 (A&S) of Port Republic, of Musical Artists, which » Md., is an author and activist who was inducted represents opera singers, and UTICA— Utica College ballet and modern dancers. into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame for her work VPA — College of Visual and on behalf of Title IX, the 1972 landmark legislation on Performing Arts Robert L. Kravitz ’69 (NEW/ women’s educational equity. The hall of fame honors SDA) of Scottsdale, Ariz., SDA — School of Speech and Maryland women who have made unique and lasting earned Master Chaplain Dramatic Arts contributions to the economic, political, cultural, and credentials from the social life of the state, and who provide visible models International Conference WSM— Martin J. Whitman School of of achievement for tomorrow’s female leaders. of Police Chaplains. Rabbi Management Kravitz, who serves as

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He also is producer and host of the radio 2012) and Assistive Technology program La Voz del Centro, and author of Decolonization Models Assessment Handbook (CRC Press, for America’s Last Colony: Puerto Rico (Syracuse University 70s 2012). Press, 2012). Victoria Brown ’70 (NEW) of Augustine F. Ubaldi ’70 (LCS) Boca Raton, Fla., wrote and self- of North Olmstead, Ohio, gave a Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s University School of Architecture published Zemsta (Woodchuck live interview on the CBC Canada Lost he helped produce in Kabul, in Scranton, Pa. Publishers), an historical fiction television program Connect with Afghanistan, in 2005 and 2006 and suspense novel about the Mark Kelley regarding the February (www.shakespeareinkabul.com). Dennis McDonald ’74 (NEW) Prohibition era. 26, 2012, VIA Rail derailment. wrote Medford (Arcadia Joey Nigro-Nilsen ’72 (NEW), Publishing), a pictorial history that (A&S/NEW) of Peter Dreier ’70 Joseph Agonito G’72 (MAX) co-host of Ciao! on WCNY radio in boasts more than 200 vintage Pasadena wrote The 100 Greatest of Syracuse published his third Syracuse, interviewed SU football images and memories of the Americans of the 20th Century: A book, Lakota Portraits: Lives of the coach Doug Marrone ’91 about affluent New Jersey suburb settled Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Legendary Plains People (Morris growing up Italian American in the by Quakers in the late 1600s Books), a compelling narrative of Book Publishing, 2011). He received Bronx (blogs.wcny.org/12212-doug- (www.arcadiapublishing.com). the major social justice movements the Western Heritage Award for marrone-interview/). of the United States and the ways Best Western Novel in 2006 for Ira Schor ’74 (SWK) is senior high ideals are transformed into Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Story Toni Sullivan ’72 (A&S) is a social vice president of operations at the action (www.nationbooks.org). of a Warrior of the Little Bighorn worker and community activist Jewish Family & Children’s Service (Morris Book Publishing), a book in West Sacramento, Calif. In the of Greater Boston. Sharon Kissel ’70 (A&S) of he co-authored with his wife, 1970s, she lived in a small fishing Washington, D.C., is a longtime Rosemary Agonito. village on the Greek island of Crete, Howard Manas ’75 (NEW), an civil and human rights advocate where, for fun, she taught geology Alzheimer’s Association advocate and legislative librarian at Karen DeCrow L’72 (LAW) spoke to the children of illiterate peasants for Northern New Jersey, met with the American Civil Liberties at the plenary session of the by using fossils found in pebbles Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Union (ACLU). In May, she was Women’s Bar Association of the on the beach and strata revealed in Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), and Rep. recognized for her outstanding State of New York in June. She seaside cliffs. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) to seek contribution to the ACLU in a was also invited to be one of 15 additional funding for Alzheimer’s speech before the 112th Congress special guest readers at an event Rosemary Giambattista Agonito research. entered into the record by Eleanor sponsored by the Syracuse James G’73 (A&S) of Syracuse is an Holmes Norton—a distinction few, Joyce Club. award-winning author who Marilou Ryder G’75 (EDU) of if any, librarians have received. has published two new books: Huntington Beach, Calif., is a Stephen Landrigan ’72 (NEW) Hypocrisy, Inc.: How the Religious retired school superintendent Marcia Joslyn Scherer ’70 (FALK/ of West Roxbury, Mass., is a Right Fabricates Christian Values who established an executive NEW), professor of physical journalist and playwright who and Undermines Democracy and mentoring business for educational medicine and rehabilitation at the co-authored Shakespeare in Miss Lizzie’s War, a Civil War novel administrators. She wrote Rules University of Rochester Medical Kabul (Haus Publishing), a book based on the true story of Elizabeth of the Game: How to Win a Job in Center, is project director for that chronicles a production of Van Lew, a wealthy socialite who Educational Leadership (Delmar led an underground Union network Publishing), a guide for aspiring and became General Grant’s and current educational leaders ORANGE spy in Richmond, Va. (www. that covers all aspects of the SPOTLIGHT RosemaryAgonito.com). planning and interview process Rose Ciotta ’75 (A&S/NEW), senior projects editor (Ryder-Associates.com). »at The Philadelphia Inquirer, was a member of the Jan Dejnožka ’73 (A&S) of Ann newspaper’s team that was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize Arbor, Mich., wrote The Growth Jeanette Angeloro G’76 (SWK), for Public Service. The Inquirer published a seven-part series, of a Thinker: A Chapbook of Poems a psychotherapist in private available on Amazon.com. practice, is director of outpatient “Assault on Learning,” which documented widespread Behavioral Health Services at St. violence in the Philadelphia School District that was largely Marianne Streff Gustafson G’74 Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in underreported by the district. The Pulitzer committee cited (EDU) of Rochester, N.Y., was Syracuse. the newspaper for “its exploration of pervasive violence in the named an associate dean at the city’s schools, using powerful print narratives and videos to National Technical Institute for John G. Clemons ’76 (NEW) of illuminate crimes committed by children against children and the Deaf, one of the colleges of the Leesburg, Va., was named a Fellow to stir reforms to improve safety for teachers and students.” Rochester Institute of Technology, by the International Association where she is a professor in the of Business Communicators Ciotta, a veteran editor and investigative reporter, is also the Department of Communication (IABC). The honor acknowledges author of Cruel Games: A Brilliant Professor, A Loving Mother, A Studies and Services. his outstanding leadership, Brutal Murder (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009), a true crime story professional accomplishment, and about a University of Pennsylvania professor who killed his Carl J. Handman ’74 (ARC) is an service to IABC and the profession. wife in 2006. adjunct instructor in the third-year He is the first African American to design studio at the Marywood receive this high honor.

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Carol Martineau Baldwin ‘52 » COURAGEOUS CRUSADER

IN HER VERY FIRST CLASS AT SU, CAROL MARTINEAU BALDWIN sat next to the young man she would one day marry. But at 5-foot-11, she would not accept his invitation to a dance unless he met her height requirement. “If he had been shorter than me, I wouldn’t have gone out with him,” says Baldwin, a native Syracusan who together with her grandparents, parents, and four of her grandchildren comprise a long line of SU graduates. Fortunately, Alexander Baldwin ’53, G’54 passed the test, and the couple went on to marry, move to Long Island, and raise six children, including the four Baldwin brothers—Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen—of stage, screen, and television fame. Baldwin says her sons must have inherited their acting ability from her because she gave an award-worthy performance at Stephen’s wedding just a few weeks after being diagnosed with breast can- cer in 1990. Her doctor advised against having surgery before the big event, so Baldwin pulled herself together, put on her best game face, and mingled with 400 wedding guests without letting on about what awaited her in the coming days. “I put on a great show at the wedding, although my heart was broken because I knew what I was going home to,” says Baldwin, who moved back to Syracuse in 1987 a few years after her husband died. “Two days later, I had both of my breasts removed.” Out of six sisters, Baldwin was the first of three to be diagnosed with breast cancer. But she turned heartbreak into healing by taking a leadership role in the founding of the first Susan G. Komen Foun- dation chapter in Central New York to help advance the search for a cure and to provide a support group for women dealing with the trauma of undergoing breast cancer surgery and treatment. “After surgery you look at your body and it’s so devastating,” Baldwin says. “That’s why I’ll talk to anyone in need of support any time of day or night because your family really doesn’t understand what you’re go- ing through, and you don’t want to frighten your children by telling them every time you get a pain in your toe you’re worried it might be a reoccurrence of cancer.” While visiting a friend on Long Island, Baldwin happened to see a television program about a breast cancer mapping project in West Islip. Before long she was going door to door collecting data for the Long Island project and then launched a similar mapping project in Syracuse and Onondaga County to gather critical information about the incidence and prevalence of breast cancer in the region. In 1996, in recognition of her dedication to finding a cure, Stony Brook Univer- sity named its new breast cancer diagnostic and treatment facility the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Care Center—one of only seven cen- Carol Baldwin is a force ters in the world now equipped with a tomosynthesis machine that to be reckoned with in her features 3-D diagnostic technology. Members of her family were so moved by this honor they established the Carol M. Baldwin Breast quest for a breast cancer cure Cancer Research Fund to help support research about the disease at Stony Brook, raising $4.2 million to date. BY CHRISTINE YACKEL When Baldwin was approached about establishing a similar fund to support breast cancer research in her own community, she and her family created the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund of Central New York, which supports the work of surgeons, oncologists,

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Carol Baldwin ’52 enjoys the support of her granddaughter Jacqueline Baldwin-Calveric ’01, who serves as an ambassador for the breast cancer research fund the family established in Central New York. Participants (below) take off at the start of the 2011 A Run for Their Life event.

and radiologists at SUNY Upstate Medical University. All of the pro- ceeds raised in Central New York through a variety of fund-raising events stay in the local community (for a list of fund-raising events, go to www.findacurecny.org). “For every $50,000 grant we give, we make it in memory of a woman who lost her fight against breast cancer,” says Baldwin’s daughter Beth, executive director of the fund. “We also present a photo of the person who died, the title of the grant, and the name of her doctor. So far we have 40 framed pictures.” For the Baldwin family, it’s all hands on deck when it comes to raising funds for breast cancer research. Carol is chairwoman of the fund’s board, sons Alec and William serve on the board of the Stony Brook center, while Stephen and Daniel are actively involved in the Upstate chapter, and daughter Jane sits on the board. And in +KUDOS FOR CAROL addition to her duties as the fund’s executive director, Beth spends hours at the hospital sitting with patients and their families before, CAROL BALDWIN HAS BEEN FEATURED IN PEOPLE during, and after surgery, and throughout chemotherapy treatments. magazine, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey, David “My brother Alec makes an annual donation that allows us to send Letterman, and Montel Williams television shows, out pink blankets with a handwritten note of encouragement from among others, and has received numerous awards our mother to women undergoing breast cancer treatment,” Beth for her dedication to the cause. Most recently, the Baldwin says. “We’ve also established an endowed lecture series to National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations awarded bring in breast cancer experts to share their knowledge with medical her the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which professionals from around the region, and we’ve created a second pays homage to remarkable Americans who create a endowment with a $3.5 million goal to ensure research funds will be available for however long it takes to find a cure.” better world in the future by the work they do today. With an eye toward preparing the next generation of Baldwins to Other honors include: carry on Carol’s quest for a cure, the newest team members are her granddaughters, Jill Keuchler ’11, who serves as Beth’s administrative Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award-Community assistant, and Jacqueline Baldwin-Calveric ’01, who acts as the fund’s Service, L.I. Association ambassador. “I do the public relations work, go to events with my Gilda’s Club, New York City grandmother, emcee fund-raising events with whichever one of my 2002 Grey Goose Vodka Award famous uncles has time to fly in at the last minute, and I’m in charge of our annual run/walk on the SU campus,” she says. “It took me a year Pink Ribbon Pioneer Award, Self Magazine to plan the first A Run for Their Life event, but it was worth it because Woman of the Year, Junior League of Long Island we raised $153,000. My grandmother and I are going to be featured Special Achievement Award, Three Village on billboards around town promoting our second run/walk in Octo- Community & Youth Services Inc. ber, so I’m hoping to surpass the amount we raised last year.” At age 82, Baldwin is keenly aware a cure for breast cancer may not Key to the Town of Brookhaven be found in her lifetime. But she is comforted by her family’s promise Patron Award, Stony Brook School of Medicine to never stop working until her search for a cure is fulfilled. “You have Lisa Cowan Memorial Award, The Sass Foundation to understand that I’m not an activist, I’m a crusader,” Baldwin says. Cancer Survivors Hall of Fame “And it is all of the people crusading with me now and in the future who will help us win the battle against breast cancer. Together we 2008 Women of the Year, Regina Coeli Society will find a cure.”

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» JASON JEDLINSKI ’99 21ST-CENTURY STORYTELLING

JASON JEDLINSKI VIV- ment desk to producer of the station’s investigative idly remembers the unit. Four years later, Jedlinski accepted a position at sunny afternoon in Fox Chicago News as a special projects producer. In the 1995 when he met new meantime, he volunteered for the Chicago Headline classmates who had Club, the largest chapter of the Society of Professional been editors of high Journalists, and became its president in 2006. Ready school newspapers and for the next challenge, he joined Tribune Interac- campus TV stations. tive that year, managing content for the TV station’s He knew right away web sites. “That was a kind of turning point for me,” they shared his enthu- he says. “It allowed me to learn a lot of things, espe- siasm for journalism cially about the business of journalism I hadn’t been and he could learn from exposed to before.” When describing his current work, them. “I was excited to Jedlinski becomes excited, explaining exhaustively see a lot of passionate how the emergence of technologies is reshaping the students all gathered in way TV stations distribute content and how they will Newhouse,” he recalls. use that opportunity to share information with unlim- “I really felt I made the ited audiences. “It’s no longer about one channel, one right choice for the up- time,” he says. “It’s about getting content anywhere coming four years.” people want to see it. We have a lot of opportunities, a Along with the mem- lot of potential in that space.” ory of his first day as a Along with his professional endeavors, Jedlinski first-year student, the dedicates himself to giving back to the SU community. Chicago native had what he calls “wonderful times” at As a member of the SU Alumni Association Board of the University. He majored in broadcast journalism at Directors, the Newhouse Network Board of Directors, Newhouse and obtained hands-on experience of sto- and the University’s Chicago Regional Council, he de- rytelling on various platforms. “Newhouse taught me scribes himself as a “catalyst” who helps alumni recon- technology will change,” says Jedlinski, now the vice nect with SU. He enjoys returning to campus, speaking president of digital products and platforms at Tribune with students and offering them advice. “I love hear- Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Tribune Company in ing their concerns,” Jedlinski says. “It’s always a great Chicago. “But the way you tell a story and the value opportunity to reassure them. The outlook is not as of original reporting endures.” He complemented his gloomy as they may read sometimes. There are a lot of journalism skills by taking courses in policy studies at exciting innovations and opportunities to do creative, the Maxwell School. With lessons learned in class and groundbreaking work.” an internship at Syracuse’s WSTM-TV, Jedlinski land- When asked what he expects for the media in the ed a job at WGN-TV in Chicago as a part-time over- future, Jedlinski chuckles. “More change,” he says. night newswriter immediately after graduation. “What keeps me interested and excited every morning Glad to be back in the city he is proud to call home, is knowing there will be new technologies, new things Jedlinski started his workdays at 2 a.m., observed oth- continuing to arrive. I expect information is going to be ers in the newsroom, and kept volunteering for assign- more and more accessible and there will continue to ments. “Hey, give me a shot, let me try it,” he’d say. be important roles for journalists to play.” Within two years, he was promoted from the assign- —Yuhan Xu

52 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2012 9 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 29, Iss. 2 [2012], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL Janet Roseman ’76 (EDU) of Boca Instructional Development and Mary Alice Smolarek ’84 (A&S), Erica Branch-Ridley ’87 (VPA/ Raton, Fla., is a clinical assistant Educational Research. a partner in the Wright, Constable NEW) of West Orange, N.J., is vice professor in family medicine at & Skeen law firm in Baltimore, was president, executive in charge of Nova Southeastern University Roy W. Gillig ’80 (WSM), L’82 selected for inclusion in the 2012 production, for Sesame Learning, School of Medicine, specializing in (LAW) of Hingham, Mass., is a Super Lawyers in Maryland for where she is responsible for the areas of compassion, presence, partner in the tax practice of the estate planning and probate. She working across multiple platforms spirituality, and medicine. Burns & Levinson law firm. His also was named to the 2012 “Top and connecting various Sesame areas of focus include federal, Women Lawyers in the Northeast” Workshop departments to ensure Steven A. Paquette ’77 (NEW), state, and international tax in Maryland for trust and estates, the greatest benefit of their L’79 (LAW), a member of the planning and structuring, tax wills and probate by Martindale- mission-driven content. Bousquet Holstein law firm in controversy and litigation, and Hubbell. Syracuse, is a certified Fellow other tax-related services. Arlene Gibbs ’87 (A&S), a former of the American Academy Charles Finn ’86 (NEW) of Hollywood film producer and of Matrimonial Lawyers and Audrey McKibbin Moran ’80 Elizabeth, N.J., is editor of High screenwriter residing in Rome, a member of the board of (NEW) of Jacksonville, Fla., is Desert Journal, a literary and fine Italy, was nominated by the directors of the Central New senior vice president for social arts magazine out of Bend, Oregon. 43rd NAACP Image Awards York Collaborative Family Law responsibility and community He wrote Wild Delicate Seconds: 29 for Outstanding Writing in a Professionals. advocacy at Baptist Health. Wildlife Encounters (OSU Press), Motion Picture for co-writing the a collection of micro-essays that screenplay for the blockbuster film William Crossett IV ’78 (A&S) of Edwin J. Kelley L’81 (LAW), an border on prose poems. Jumping the Broom. Her e-book, Fayetteville, N.Y., was inducted as attorney in the Bond, Schoeneck The Rebirth of Mrs. Tracey Higgins a Fellow of the College of Workers’ & King law firm, was honored David Kelly ’86 (LCS) of West (Cheng Caplan Company, 2011), is Compensation Lawyers for his by Syracuse Newspapers with Newton, Mass., wrote The Ballpark available on Amazon.com. sustained contribution to the field its annual Central New York Mysteries (Random House Books at large. He is a partner in the Community Achievement Award. for Young Readers, 2011), a series Joshua Koskoff ’88 (A&S) of law firm of Meggesto, Crossett & of chapter books for elementary Westport, Conn., is a Fellow of the Valerino in Syracuse. Valerie Ann Leeds ’81 (A&S) school children that follows two International Society of Barristers, gave a talk, “From New York to cousins who encounter mysteries an international honor society of Lauren Overs Hunnicutt ’78 Corrymore: Robert Henri and when they visit different Major outstanding trial lawyers. (A&S), a managing real estate Ireland,” at the Everson Museum of League Baseball parks (www. broker in the greater Seattle Art in Syracuse in conjunction with ballparkmysteries.com). Eric Weitz ’89 (NEW), an attorney area, earned membership in the the traveling exhibition she co- at Messa & Associates law firm, International Diamond Society, curated on the same subject. Tracy Kinne ’86 (NEW) took is a new member of the Board of a level achieved by only the honorable mention in the general Governors for the Philadelphia Bar top 8 percent of all Realtors in Dilafruz Williams G’81 (MAX), non-fiction category at the 2012 Association. He will serve a three- the Coldwell Banker system G’87 (EDU), professor of Paris Book Festival for On Sale: year term, working to establish worldwide. educational leadership and policy Employers Get Good Workers Dirt official policy for the association at Portland State University in Cheap, her memoir about working and provide guidance to the overall Fran Becque ’79 (FALK/NEW) Oregon, co-authored Learning as a low-wage cashier and sales legal system. of Carbondale, Ill., started Focus Gardens and Sustainability Education: associate after taking a buyout on Fraternity History, a blog about Bringing Life to Schools and Schools from her 21-year career as a Tom Wilber G’89 (NEW) wrote women in higher education and to Life (Routledge). The book goes journalist (www.tracykinnebooks. Under the Surface: Fracking, the history of women’s fraternities beyond touting the benefits of com). Fortunes, and the Fate of the (www.franbecque.com). learning gardens to survey them as Marcellus Shale (Cornell University a whole-systems design solution Robert Odawi Porter ’86 (A&S) Press), a journalist’s view of the Crystal Godfrey LaPoint ’79, with potential to address myriad is president of the Seneca Nation, polarizing debate over the use of G’84, G’88 (VPA) of Fitchburg, interrelated social, ecological, and one of the six nations of the hydraulic fracturing for natural Mass., is an accomplished educational issues (www.routledge. Haudenosaunee Confederacy. gas production (www.cornellpress. composer and artist. She wrote com/9780415899826/). When elected president, Porter cornell.edu). When My Mommy Cries (Balboa took a leave from his position of Press, 2012), a book that translates Lizz Lund ’83 (VPA) of Lancaster, professor of law, Dean’s Research personal struggles into a tender Pa., wrote Kitchen Addiction Scholar of Indigenous Nations tale of mutual understanding to (CreateSpace, 2011), her first Law, and director of the Center for help families cope with sadness. novel of the Mina Kitchen series. A Indigenous Law, Governance and 90s sequel, Confection Connection, will Citizenship at SU’s College of Law. Sheryl Kahn Berk ’90 (NEW), be published soon. A resident of Salamanca, N.Y., he a New York Times bestselling was honored with a distinguished author, collaborated with TV star Dave Giambattista ’84 (WSM) is alumnus award by Syracuse Tia Mowry on her memoir, Oh, 80s vice president, human resources, University’s Western New York Baby! and with Jersey Shore’s Katherine R. Allen G’80, G’84 enterprise BPO at ACS Inc., a Alumni Association. JWoww on her Rules According to (FALK), professor of human Xerox company. JWoww. She also co-wrote Soul development in the College of Kevin Twitchell ’86 (NEW), Surfer, which was a major motion Liberal Arts and Human Sciences David Rufo ’84 (VPA) had vice president of global sales picture last summer. Berk and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., his article “Building Forts and and partnerships for New Video her 9-year-old daughter, Carrie, received the 2011-12 Scholarship Drawing on Walls: Fostering headquartered in New York City, is authored The Cupcake Club: Peace, of Teaching and Learning Award, Student-Initiated Creativity Inside a member of the board of directors Love and Cupcakes, a new children’s which is presented annually and Outside the Elementary of the Institute for Music and book series (www.facebook.com/ by Virginia Tech’s Center for Classroom” published in the May Neurologic Function, a nonprofit PLCCupcakeClub). issue of Art Education. organization internationally recognized for its groundbreaking programs involving music therapy. Summer 2012 53 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol29/iss2/10 10 Yackel et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL

Susan Cornelius Edson ’90 (A&S/ her band, the Bari Koral Family NEW), assistant athletics director Rock Band, has become one of ORANGE for communications at SU, was today’s top children’s musical SPOTLIGHT inducted into the College Sports performers (www.barikoral.com). Nicole Dosso ’96 (ARC), associate director at Information Directors of America The band released its second CD, »architecture/engineering firm Skidmore Owings & (CoSIDA) Hall of Fame in June. Anna and the Cupcakes, as a follow- Merrill, was selected as one of Crain’s New York Business “Forty up to its first full-length CD, Rock Under 40.” She was cited for her role in almost singlehandedly John Robinson ’90 (NEW) and Roll Garden. ensuring that 1 WTC is built to specifications, managing a team of Glenmont, N.Y., launched of 50 architects and designers while resolving issues with OurAbility.com, an online resource John Lemmex G ’91 (WSM) is for people with disabilities to chief financial officer of Bayer engineers and contractors, so the 1,100 workers constructing be able to mentor and connect MaterialScience in Pittsburgh. He the 1,776-foot tower stay on schedule. with one another through social resides in Cranberry Township, Pa., networking, uploading personal with his wife and two children. Ken DeLeon ’95 (VPA) is Elyssa Kreitzer ’96 (VPA) of video stories, and offering career president and creative director New York City runs Divalysscious and educational guidance. Melissa Bekelja Wanzer of DeLeon Group, an advertising Moms, a luxury lifestyle company G’92 (VPA), professor of agency in New York City that she founded that plans events for Curtis E. Smolar ’90 (A&S/NEW) communication studies at Canisius celebrated six years in business in moms in the tri-state area, and of San Francisco is a partner in the College in Buffalo, received February. also markets new brands and Fox Rothschild law firm, working in the 2012 Kenneth L. Koessler companies to moms on her www. the litigation department. Distinguished Faculty Award Christopher Jones G’95 (MAX) divamoms.com web site. from the Canisius College Alumni is a professor of political science Stacy Cohen Struminger ’90 Association for her teaching and associate vice provost for Erin Henderson Oxenham ’96 (FALK/WSM) of Richmond, Va., excellence and outstanding university honors at Northern (FALK) and her husband, Shawn launched RAINRAP, a company contributions to the academic Illinois University (NIU). In 2011, Oxenham ’96 (NEW), of San that features an alternative world. he was a member of the U.S. Francisco announce the birth of to traditional raingear for the scholarly delegation invited by their daughter, Olivia Scarlett. practical and fashion-conscious Kevin M. Morley ’93 (A&S) of Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign consumer (www.rainraps.com). Centreville, Va., earned a Ph.D. Affairs to discuss international Mont Allen G’97 (A&S), a doctoral degree from George Mason security issues, and was named candidate in art history at the Mark C. Wilkins ’90 (LCS) is University. He is the security and NIU’s Outstanding International University of California, Berkeley, director of global production preparedness program manager Educator. His latest book, The was selected as a Charlotte W. planning for Edmund Optics for the American Water Works Handbook of American Foreign Policy Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation in Barrington, N.J. Wilkins Association in Washington, D.C. (Routledge, 2011), was co-edited Fellow for his dissertation and his wife, Storm, live in the with Steven W. Hook. “The Death of Myth on Roman metropolitan Philadelphia area. Andrew Hickey ’94 (A&S), a Sarcophagi,” which examines the partner in the Choate, Hall & Dane Lopes ’95 (LCS) is senior extinction of mythological imagery Mark Chandler ’91 (ARC) is vice Stewart law firm in Boston, was vice president, sales leaders-east in ancient Roman funerary. president at Clark Construction named a “40 Under 40 Deal region, at Swiss Re Corporate Group, where he is responsible for Makers” finalist for 2012 by The Solutions in New York City. Kristin Bojanowski ’97 (NEW) the field operations of the $425 M&A Advisor, an organization married William Bruton Jr. They million CityCenterDC project in that recognizes and connects J. Adam Blair Boone ’96 (VPA), live in Tonawanda, N.Y. Washington, D.C. the world’s leading merger (A&S) of New York City is and acquisition, financing, and G’98 the founder and vice president of Rachel Ganslaw Robbins ’97 Kerrie Restieri Heslin ’91 (WSM) turnaround professionals (www. the Art Song Preservation Society (SWK) and her husband, Seth of Oak Ridge, N.J., is a partner in maadvisor.com/). (ASPS). The society, which held Robbins ’96 (IST), of Newton, the management-side law firm its first vocal arts competition Mass., announce the birth of their Nukk-Freeman & Cerra. She was Andrew Kaffes ’94 (NEW), in March, awarded the winner son Eli Samuel, who joins sister selected by the New Jersey Super president of A.G. Kaffes & coaching, rehearsals, and career Sarah and brother Ethan. Lawyers magazine as one of the Associates, a public relations firm advisement that will result in a “Top 50 Women” attorneys in New located in Washington, D.C., was future solo recital with ASPS. Lisa Bauer L’99 (LAW) is special Jersey. named one of Greek America’s “Forty Under 40” by the Greek counsel in the Kenney, Shelton, Christine Ferrara Della Monaca Liptak and Nowak law firm, where Bari Koral ’91 (NEW) is an America Foundation (www. ’96 (NEW) and husband, Michael, she concentrates on insurance accomplished acoustic guitarist greekamericafoundation.org). of Leominster, Mass., announce coverage counsel and litigation and singer/songwriter who with the birth of their daughter, Melissa practice. Katherine, who joins brother Gregory James. Brian Smorol ’99 (LCS) and his ORANGE wife, Emily, of Syracuse announce SPOTLIGHT Ryan Harrington ’96 (VPA) the birth of their daughter, Sophie Bradley Wirz ’91 (WSM) of Severna Park, Md., founded of New York City is director of Emilia. »GoneReading, a philanthropic start-up that markets a documentary programming at the line of unique products for book lovers and then donates 100 Tribeca Film Institute. He produced Mark Starosielec ’99 (A&S/ Finding North, which premiered at NEW) and his wife, Jaclyn, percent of the profits to help fund libraries and reading-related the 2012 Sundance Film Festival announce the birth of their son charities (www.GoneReading.com). So far GoneReading has and will be in theaters nationwide Reed Andrew who joins sister supported Ethiopia Reads and READ Global, two nonprofit in early 2013. Sophia, and brother Tate. Mark groups that have been developing rural libraries in the poorest is a supervising attorney with the parts of the world for many years. Social Security Administration in Buffalo.

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» Shane Evans ’93 » DRAWING ON OBSERVATION

SHANE EVANS B ELIEVES “EVERY ARTIST HAS TO BE A great observer.” It is a lesson he has learned both close to home and a continent away in Africa. “Africa was a differ- ent adjustment for me as an artist and a human,” says Evans, who made his first trip there in 1996, to Burkina Faso in West Africa, as part of an educational journey. “I saw poverty and hunger, but I also saw much joy and happiness.It informed me about what the world is—a beautiful place, even in the ugli- ness. It taught me about myself and how delicate life is.” Evans has carried those lessons with him while continually honing his skills as an illustrator and artist. He has illustrated many books geared toward children, including Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom (Roaring Book Press, 2011), which earned him a 2012 Coretta Scott King Book Award for illustration from the American Library Association. Illustrating various chil- couraged by many people around us, teachers and family, and dren’s books, such as My Brother Charlie our hearts were led by faith. We always found a way to step (Scholastic Press, 2010), has also pro- forward and find a place to put our talents to good work.” vided Evans with the opportunity to hear In May, Evans delivered the Convocation address to his from the most honest of critics. “When home school, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, I started doing children’s books, I went where he earned a B.F.A. degree in illustration nearly two de- out to a school,” Evans says. “Children cades ago. After graduation, Evans interned at Rolling Stone will tell you the truth. There is nothing magazine before taking a job with Hallmark in Kansas City, more humbling than a child or a wise Missouri. “I packed up a truck after the summer of ’93,” he older adult. That is encouraging. They says. “I did not know this place at all.” Since then, the city has will tell you if they don’t like something.” grown on him. It’s home for Evans, his wife, and daughter, and Evans considers his SU education and where he opened a studio four years ago to pursue his cre- the friends he made to be key parts of ative endeavors, which also include photography and design- his journey. Six years ago, he received a ing handcrafted furniture, clothing, and CD cover art ( www. Chancellor’s Award at Coming Back To- shaneevans.com). gether, a triennial gathering on campus Evans says he is not the owner of stories. He is the inter- for African American and Latino alumni. preter of stories. For him, it’s about listening and observing, Evans and fellow alumnus, actor Taye whether he is at SU, in Missouri, or seeing the happiness and Diggs ’93, collaborated on the children’s sadness of people in Africa. “Tragedy affects us all, even if we book Chocolate Me (Feiwel and Friends, think it is far off,” he says. “There is one world and we live in 2011) and returned to campus last fall for it together. The reality is they are all our neighbors and seeing a book signing during Orange Central. this for myself allowed me to see that truth. Not only did I see “Taye and I went to the Rochester School atrocities, but I also saw joy, and this affects who I am. The of the Arts and Syracuse together,” says African experience for me is a deeply spiritual one that lives Evans, a Buffalo native who moved to with me.” —Brian Hudgins Rochester as a teenager. “We were en-

Summer 2012 55 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol29/iss2/10 12 Yackel et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL » Q & A: Meredith Goldstein ’99 PLIGHT OF THE SINGLE WEDDING GUEST GUESTS IN A BOSTON RITZ-CARLTON Stage, and Ostrom Avenue. column, which also appears in the paper ballroom delighted in cake pops, raised Goldstein’s journalism career began at weekly, draws about a million pageviews champagne flutes, and shimmied on the SU, where she majored in newspaper and a month. Goldstein spoke recently with dance floor on April 26 to celebrate a spe- served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Or- contributing writer Aileen Gallagher ’99, cial couple: Meredith Goldstein and her ange. After working at the Providence Jour- a Newhouse magazine professor and for- new novel, The Singles (Plume). The Boston nal for two years after college, Goldstein mer classmate and Daily Orange colleague Globe reporter and advice columnist’s reported on Massachusetts coastal towns of Goldstein’s. story of five solo guests at a wedding has from the North Shore bureau of the Globe. deep Syracuse roots. Several characters She moved to feature reporting in 2005 were based on college friends, and the and in 2008 began covering the Boston book is peppered with references to such society beat and writing a daily online familiar locations as Alto Cinco, Syracuse advice column called “Love Letters.” The

You’re a newspaper reporter. How did it happened. Syracuse had a specific that inform your experience writing reputation and character and weather a novel? patterns that made the whole plot under- When you’re a newspaper writer, you’re standable. When you talk about char- trained to notice details and to describe acters meeting at a place where it’s too them. When I started writing these char- cold to go outside, that means something acters, my instinct was to really know when you know the place is Syracuse. them and provide a lot of I was excited to set these characters detail. The trouble was, at Syracuse for something that wasn’t when you’re a newspaper sports related. I pictured them hanging reporter you don’t make out with VPA [College of Visual and Per- things up. It took me about forming Arts] kids. They go to Syracuse six months to allow myself Stage. They represent a part of Syracuse to make up dialogue, to culture that isn’t often seen. I was excited change people’s jobs, and to use my Syracuse experience, not the Syracuse letting me see so many differ- make up a character who one I always see on TV. ent things at once. Even though I spent didn’t exist in real life. I got most of my time in Newhouse and at The used to wearing two hats in The main character in the book works as Daily Orange, Syracuse wouldn’t let me the same day. I would go to a casting director, and The Singles has stop there. I had to learn about the rest work and write facts, and been optioned for a movie. Who do you of the world. And that made me a better then come home and go to see appearing in the film? journalist, and a better novelist. an imaginary place. I change my mind every day. Let’s hope there’s a young Syracuse up-and-comer You return to campus regularly to speak SU plays a big role in from the drama department who just to Newhouse classes. What’s changed the book. Did you plan moved to Hollywood and her first big role since the late nineties? that initially or did that part of the is playing one of the Singles. That’s the I just remember rolling out of bed and characters’ lives evolve? dream. & getting to class in pajamas and eating a The wedding in this book is based on the donut while I was there. Students are not real-life wedding of a Syracuse friend. In How did your Syracuse experience only dressed better, but they eat better. In the first draft, I set these characters at a influence your career? 1999, there would not have been a sushi school in Vermont because I thought it Within Newhouse you’re required to restaurant on campus. The students would be cheesy if I set it in Syracuse— have a minor outside of communications. today are much more sophisticated. everyone would know that the author It exposed me to a fantastic women’s was basing it on her own experience. studies department. I took film classes To read more of the ButQA after I got the book deal, it seemed where I got to meet people in VPA. So interview, go to that everybody wanted me to set it where many of these characters are inspired by sumagazine.syr.edu.

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Todd Rubin ’04 » TEA TIME

AT THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, WHERE Todd Rubin spent long nights toiling over the draft- ing table, most of his fellow students pumped them- selves with coffee to stay awake. But Rubin is a tea man. His senior architectural thesis explored how tea informs rituals and rituals inform tea history through the design of a tea importer’s headquarters and museum in Boston. It’s only natural, considering Rubin’s family has a long history in the beverage business. His father and grandfather had a liquor and wine distributorship in Southern Illinois. As that field began to consolidate, Rubin’s father became the Southeastern distributor for Clearly Canadian, one of the first sparkling fla- vored waters, and in 1994, he purchased the fledg- ling Republic of Tea, a Novato, California-based supplier of teas and herbs from around the world. The Repub- a member of its advisory board and recently funded the Rubin lic of Tea is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary and is Global Design Studio, a unique study abroad program for archi- the leading purveyor of premium specialty teas in the United tecture graduate students. The program brings a visiting archi- States, one of the first to retail rooibos and white tea varieties tect to Syracuse to teach a design studio in collaboration with to American consumers. a faculty member, and then takes first-year graduate students Although Rubin had worked doing product demonstrations to an international city for a week to study urban and architec- during high school, he had long been passionate about art, de- tural design. The trip provides students with the opportunity to sign, and photography. A college counselor steered him toward experience the public space that results from a variety of cul- architecture. After completing the five-year Syracuse program, tural and political conditions and sustainability policies. It’s an Rubin worked for a New York architecture firm for three years experience Rubin finds easily relatable. As a student, he spent before finding himself at a crossroads. While considering a year in Florence, traveling to eight different countries. “It was changing firms, he learned there was an opening at The Repub- by far the educational experience that had the greatest impact lic of Tea. Drawn to the family business, he joined the company on me, and I know some people just don’t have that opportu- as a national sales manager for the East Coast. nity,” he says. Now vice president of the company—or Minister of Evolu- In February, Rubin met up with 19 first-year graduate pro- tion (it’s a whimsical company)—Rubin manages the com- gram students in Copenhagen. “For three days, I was back in pany’s key Embassies (customers), such as Panera Bread and school with students,” he says. “I got to learn, without being re- Crate & Barrel, as well as the firm’s marketing operation and sponsible for any completed work.” In April, he traveled to Syr- internal product development team. Since December, when his acuse to attend the final review of the students’ design work. father purchased a winery in Sonoma, California, Rubin has es- “The assumption was they would take what they learned and sentially been running the day-to-day business as well. So far, apply it to their coursework,” he says. “So I got to see firsthand satisfying his creative nature hasn’t been a problem. “As part what kind of impact the trip had on them.” of the specialty foods industry, we’re the innovators in the tea Rubin plans for the Global Design Studio to be an annual category,” he says. “Being a small, family-owned company al- event. “It’s a way to combine giving back to Syracuse and stay- lows us to anticipate trends and go to market faster.” ing connected with architecture with discovering and exploring Rubin remains associated with the School of Architecture as new cities around the world,” he says. —Renée Gearhart Levy

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that provides a forum for users to ORANGE rediscover their favorite childhood SPOTLIGHT 00s memories through videos, images, Brian McClintock ’05 (NEW), editorial director of audio, and games (www.scrapsity. Kerry R. Gotham G’00 (EDU) is GoSPORTn, adapted GoFISHn.com, a social networking director of alumni relations at The com). » and blogging site, into an iPad magazine. McClintock, and College at Brockport (SUNY). Ashley Hanry Kang ’04 (NEW), company founder and president, Ned Desmond, selected Elizabeth Gebler Griswold ’00 G’11 (EDU) and husband the best of more than 10,000 diverse posts from their blog (NEW), graphic design director HeeRak Kang ’04 (LCS) of and their members to create The Year in Fishing, one of the at MSA Architects, won a Merit Syracuse announce the birth of most comprehensive and innovative iPad apps in the outdoor Award from HOW magazine’s their son, Yoon-Mo Desmond. genre. The publication is broken into 36 sections and is nearly In-HOWse Design Competition Ashley is director of The Stand, 100 pages, featuring everything from a photo of the late Amy and an American Graphic Design Syracuse’s South Side Community Winehouse posing with a fishing shirt to catfish noodling. Award from GD USA. She resides Newspaper Project, and serves in the greater Cincinnati/northern as the community newspaper Rick Bach ’08 (A&S/NEW) wrote many of the stories, and Kentucky region with her husband, coordinator for SU. HeeRak is a Geoff Marsh ’07 (NEW) designed most of the publication. Douglas Griswold ’00 (A&S), and quality engineer for Welch Allyn in their son, Chase. Skaneateles Falls, N.Y. that raises money to send to Louis Jim L’10 (LAW) is an Gregory Sheppard ’00 (VPA) Andrew Thomson ’04, G’09 Tanzanian college students and attorney in the Rochester, N.Y., returned to Syracuse from his (IST) of Kennebunk, Maine, is CIO sends donated goods to its partner office of Bond, Schoeneck & King, home in New York City to sing a and in-house counsel at Shipyard organization in Dar Es Salaam, where he concentrates his practice program of American composers Brewing Company in Portland. including 50 pounds of clothing in litigation matters. at the May Memorial Unitarian collected on the Syracuse and Universalist Society this spring. Brittany Bunce Buffington ’05 Columbia university campuses. Ryan O. Pyne ’10 (A&S) of (WSM) is a certified financial Bloomfield, N.J., completed his Thomas Kelty L’01 (LAW) and his planner who works as a financial Alexandra Alazio G’06 (NEW) of U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit wife, Rhiannon, of Fairfield, Conn., services representative and an Port Monmouth, N.J., is a member Training Command, Great Lakes. announce the birth of their son, investment advisor representative of the client solutions department Thomas Matthew Kelty III. at the Financial Freedom Group in at USA TODAY, creating cross- Lindsay van Harssel ’11 (VPA) of Rochester, N.Y. platform marketing campaigns Lewiston, N.Y., is art director at J. Jennifer Ford Phoenix ’02 (A&S/ for national advertisers. She also Fitzgerald Group, an international EDU) and husband Timothy Emilio Nicolas G’05 (NEW), L’05 serves on the board of trustees marketing technology company Phoenix ’02 (A&S) of Memphis, (LAW) of Austin, Texas, was at the Adult School of Montclair based in Lockport, N.Y. Tenn., announce the birth of their selected as one the 2012 “Rising and chairs its public relations son, Nicholas Jude, who joins sister Stars” by Thomson Reuters, a committee, focusing on increasing Jonathon Hughes ’11 (A&S) Josephine Daphne. business data provider located the school’s social media presence. of Stamford, Conn., is a global in Manhattan. Rising Stars are partnerships associate for Latin Mara Silver-Smith ’02 (WSM) attorneys who are 40 years old Megan Caiazzo ’06 (A&S) married America and the Caribbean is an account manager, creative or younger, or who have been Robert Formisano ’05 (LCS) in with AmeriCares, a nonprofit services, at COACH in New York practicing law for 10 or fewer June 2011. They reside in central global health and disaster relief City. She works on international years. New Jersey. organization. catalog and domestic direct mail. Alexander Roberts ’05 (WSM) Kristen Vaccariello ’06 (A&S) of Shelley Thomas ’02 (VPA) earned an M.B.A. degree from Yale New Rochelle, N.Y., is managing married Frank Harts at Belvedere University in May. editor of Dial Books for Young Mansion in Staatsburg, N.Y. They Readers. reside in New York City. Colette Smith ’05, G’07 (VPA) of White Plains, N.Y., is founder Mirel Ketchiff ’09 (NEW) of Allen Yesilevich ’03 (WSM) and president of the DAR Project Englewood, N.J., is associate launched Scrapsity, a web site Inc., a nonprofit organization editor at First for Women, a service magazine owned by Bauer Publishing. She writes and edits ORANGE home, health, relationship, and SPOTLIGHT gardening columns. Christopher Ellis ’03 (NEW) of Astoria, N.Y., is one »of eight men in New York State nominated to be the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man of the Year. He embarked on a 10-week fund-raising campaign to raise $25,000 to help the organization find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma. He is participating in the campaign in honor of his Uncle Bill, who passed away from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2003 (nyc.mwoy.llsevent.org/Cregan).

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» TRIBUTE DISCOVERING INSPIRATION

BY GREGORY M. MILONOVICH

INSPIRATION COMES IN MANY FORMS AND FACES. YOU MAY FIND yourself inspired by a story you read. You may glean inspiration from some- thing you witnessed. You, simply, may find it in the work you do every day. But, when is inspiration enough to motivate someone? How long does that last? Is it merely short-lived? What are the effects of inspiration from our former bosses and leaders? Recently, I began to examine—actually, list—every direct supervisor I have had in my work life and whether each individual inspired me or not. I discov- ered 31 bosses over the years, starting with my first paid job at age 14 and taking me to the present day in the FBI. While in the midst of this research, I had the honor of attending one of my former boss’s full-military-honors burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Retired Brigadier General Corey Jefferson Wright G’66 passed away on Au- gust 10, 2011, at age 82. He was a husband, father of two, grandfather to three, and inspiration to many, including me. General Wright retired from a 30-year, active-duty career with the U.S. Army in 1980 and later headed the Army Programs Office (APO) at his alma mater, Syracuse University. While completing my M.B.A. at Syracuse, I was General Wright’s last graduate assistant. He ran the APO until his retirement in 1996. “The General,” as many of us referred to him, inspired me and had a significant effect on my personal life and career—especially my decision to embark on a journey in public service. As I stood on that hillside above his final resting place at Arlington Cemetery, I could not help but feel what a fitting tribute that ceremony was for his life, career, and the indelible impressions he left with others. General Wright not only received the time-honored tradition of the 21-gun salute but 11 can- non shots, each echoing off of the Pentagon nearby. No less than If your actions inspire others 80 young and impressive soldiers of the U.S. Army Honor Guard accompanied his procession, complete with a caisson and the to dream more, learn more, U.S. Army Band. From a distance, I watched his oldest grandson, about 10 years old, receive the American flag that had draped his do more, and become more, grandfather’s casket. I listened as family members recalled sto- you are a leader.” ries from summers at General Wright’s camp in the Adirondacks, how he was the first one up each morning, ventured out in his —John Quincy Adams canoe on the lake, and brought back fresh lily pads for his family’s “ table setting. These reflections and stories reminded me of my own interactions with The General, those evening chats we had at Syracuse about school, life, family, service, and sports. He remains an inspiration for me. I know I am not alone in these thoughts. I have heard from many former participants in his programs and been reminded of what an exceptional public servant, family figure, and, most important, inspirational human being General Wright really was. So, ask yourself, from whom do you draw inspiration? How much does that person’s leadership motivate you? Who is your General Wright, and, probably most important, are you someone’s General Wright?

Special agent Gregory M. Milonovich ’94, G’96 is an instructor in faculty affairs and development at the FBI Academy. This article first appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin and is reprinted here with the pub- lication’s permission.

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ALUMNIJOURNAL » PASSINGS

DICK CLARK ’51 Dick Clark, an icon of American entertainment and culture, died on April 18 in Santa Monica, California, at age 82. As the legendary host of Harry L. Million Jr., Richard 1980 Frank A. Bersani Jr., American Bandstand in the ’50s and Dick Clark’s S. Napoli, Nancy E. Northup, Carleton M. Cummings Jr. New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for decades, Clark was Frances Fuller O’Rourke, Harold 1981 Peter E. Burke, Genevieve an ever-familiar presence on television and P. Rose, Sally Banks Strauss Parsons Cerwonka 1982 Steven became affectionately known as “America’s 1968 John R. Bohling Jr., John G. Langlais, Michael A. Mullins, oldest teenager.” He began his broadcasting D. Covino, Virginia Barnum Joseph J. Polniaszek Jr., William Fransecky, Barbara Farrar C. Waggoner 1983 Maureen career with radio station gigs in Central New York, working at WAER-FM as Karkabi, O. Dean Montgomery, McCarthy Anderson 1984 Ray a Syracuse University student and at Utica’s WRUN radio, where his father Judith A. Nelson 1969 Sheryl K. Barnes, Louise Goodrum, was the station manager. During his senior year at SU, he joined WOLF- Fallik Aiello, Rosalind Friedman Fritz Szabo, Frank D. Wodarczyk AM in Syracuse. After returning to WRUN and then moving to a Utica Bacon, Mary B. Greene, 1985 Nancy A. Baker, Laurel television station, Clark’s star took off when he headed to Philadelphia to Vahram W. Gulgulian, Douglas Lehmann Finley, Edward F. A. McCaughey Jr., Thomas R. Lawlor Jr., Linda M. Perla, Linda join WFIL-AM. The young DJ soon became host of American Bandstand, Owen, Roy D. Pinsky, Jerome S. Shotzbarger 1986 John W. a WFIL-TV program that was eventually broadcast nationwide on ABC. A. Savlov, Willard A. Scofield, Lynch 1987 Lynn Stahlin Kelly Through the show, Clark helped introduce rock ’n’ roll to mainstream Sarah McCampbell Smith, 1988 Joan Pikutis Martin, 1989 America, welcoming the likes of such soon-to-be music legends as Buddy Helen Colavita Turley Marian Gallanis Bullock, Vivian Holly, Chubby Checker, and Chuck Berry. Along with his on-air talents, Branton Jones, Catherine Katz, 1970 William S. Abbott, Joseph Michelle Koelsch Kerr, Joan Clark built a business empire as a TV producer, creating game shows, Costanza Jr., Jean Dubois O’Connor O’Toole, Edward G. awards shows, and made-for-TV movies. Clark, who earned a bachelor’s Dinger, William K. Edmund, Zollo degree in business administration, maintained his fondness for and ties to Leo C. Farrenkopf, Wesley H. Hayes, Frank L. Lepkowski 1971 1990 Denise Edgar Micek Central New York and SU throughout his life. He was a supporter of SU and Dennis W. Ashby, Raymond C. 1991 Jennifer E. Namm, Leslie welcomed visiting students to his California offices. Recordings of some of Gilman III, David J. Ginzl, Shari Caraccioli Schettino 1992 his radio broadcasts are part of the Dick Clark Collection in the SU Library’s J. Greenfield, Hurclee Maye, Jeffrey C. Baun, Mary Ryan Bove, Special Collections Research Center. “I’ve always been very fortunate, no Andrew D. Ruhlin, Robert A. Denise Morehouse Hughes, matter what my chronological age, to be somewhere near knowing what’s Salisbury, Juan A. Santiago, Mary V. Miller, Barbara A. Rice going on,” Clark said in a 1998 audio interview, held by the library. “That is Anne Farrel Schoeck, Roger 1993 Warren S. Pauley 1994 E. Sipher, Jacqueline Grennan Michelle Sherman Groothuis very helpful, especially in the communications business.” Wexler, Francis L. Trice, 1997 Shirley J. Powless 1998 Timothy R. Wright 1972 Gary Mildred B. Kenney, Jeremiah B. Brey, Ned B. Fleischer, John Moss R. Kranik, Anthony K. Oliver 2002 John V. Balian 2003 HILTON KRAMER ’50, H’76 1973 Henry A. Bersani Jr., Cheryl L. Spear 2005 Donny I. Susan Rimmey Branton, Eunice Hilton Kramer, a leading art critic of the past Levy 2009 Peter Cheng 2011 A. Carlsen, William T. Chapin, century, died on March 27 at age 84 near his Roger E. Conturie William M. Curtis, Pamela home in Damariscotta, Maine. A native of Whitmore Davidowski, Carol M. Gloucester, Massachusetts, Kramer majored Frankenfield, William J. Gaudet, in English at SU, but shifted critical focus from Charles R. Knerr, William H. Students Courtenay Nash ’15 literature to art after publishing a refutation Shirtz, Allan B. Sinclair 1974 Anita L. Corey, Richard T. of an essay on action painting by Harold Dennison, Vijay L. Kapil, Hector Faculty Kathryn Edwards Lee Rosenberg. The graduate student’s critique of B. Esteva Marques, James L. G’97 (Newhouse), William D. the art-world Brahmin caught the attention of Clement Greenberg ’30, Shields Jr., Madeleine Duvic St. West (English department) editor of Commentary, and Kramer’s takes on the artists and issues of G’78, G’81, G’85, G’94 Romain 1975 Raymond Nelson the day were seen there and in other influential arts and politics journals, Davis, Joanne J. Keiser, Susan B. Large-LaTronica, H. Peet including The New Republic, The Nation, and Arts Digest, where he became Rapp, John J. Simone 1976 editor in 1961. Kramer reached his pinnacle of public influence as an art Beverly Lisker Bissell, Helen critic for The New York Times (1965-82). During that period, as the center Abney Krathwohl, George E. of aesthetic attention was shifting from modernism to pop art, minimalism, Loder III, Harry J. McEntee, and postmodernism, Kramer became an unabashed defender of modernist Joann N. McLaughlin, William L. Palmason 1977 Joseph D. “high art,” known for his broadsides against trendy isms, wherever he Dosa, Ann M. Gothler, Judith found them—and he found them everywhere. He left the Times to become Cobb Potter, Katherine Russell co-founder and editor of The New Criterion, a journal that gave full voice Rich, Joseph E. Riley, Willard to Kramer and like-minded conservative souls in the art world. Asked by A. Stanback 1978 Charles Woody Allen if he was embarrassed by chance encounters with artists he F. Corcoran Jr. 1979 Cynthia Farnum Bakemeier, Edward A. had skewered, Kramer replied, “No, I expect them to be embarrassed for Blakeslee, Norman F. Meyer doing bad work.” He showed no sign of backing down in his last book, The Triumph of Modernism (2006).

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WE’RE COUNTING » ON YOU! TONY AWARDS

As we count down to the end of The Campaign ALUMNI HONORED AS for Syracuse University, your gift is more BROADWAY’S BEST important than ever. Not because it will help us reach a goal, but because there are still so FOUR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI WERE AMONG THE WINNERS AT many vital initiatives that need your support: the 66th annual Tony Awards held on June 10 in New York City. The awards, > Faculty Today gift challenge program which honor Broadway plays and musicals for theatrical excellence, are pre- > Dineen Hall construction sented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. > Institute for Veterans and Military Families > Inclusive Campus Initiative ■ Van Dean ’96 is a producer of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which won Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Performance by an > Newhouse studios renovation Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical. > Carnegie Library renovation > Hendricks Chapel ■ Jane Dubin ’57 is a producer of Peter and the Starcatcher, which won five > Huntington Hall renovation Tony Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play; Best Scenic Design of a Play; Best Sound Design of a Play; Best Costume Learn more at campaign.syr.edu. Then Design of a Play; and Best Lighting Design of a Play. support one of these initiatives or another part of SU you love. Visit givetosyr.com/susuccess ■ Jack Feldman ’72, who wrote the lyrics for the Broadway musical Newsies, or call 877.2GROWSU (247.6978) to give won a Tony Award for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre. today. In the final countdown, every gift counts! ■ Daryl Roth ’66 is a producer of Clybourne Park, which won the Tony Award for Best Play, and One Man, Two Guvnors, which won Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play. —Erica Blust

Jack Feldman ’72 (above right) and Alan Menken celebrate their Tony Award for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre. Feldman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music for Newsies.

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Paula Martin ’68 Education Advocate »

NOTHING WARMS PAULA MARTIN schools. Instead, Martin attended more than hearing about the accom- the Riverside School and Hunter plishments of a former student. “There’s College High School before head- nothing better than getting a call from ing off to Syracuse University, a former student who now has more where she earned an undergradu- degrees than I do,” says Martin of the ate degree in psychology. It was countless physicians, lawyers, teachers, a time of social upheaval, and and other professionals who made it to Martin says she grew tremen- college with her assistance. dously—academically, socially, For 40 years, Martin has worked to and politically. She was active in provide educational opportunities to the Student Afro-American Soci- underserved students, including the last ety, which was instrumental in waging funded TRIO programs targeted to as- 25 as executive director of the Harlem the campus protest movement, demon- sist low-income individuals, first-gen- Center for Education, which targets its strating against a visit by Alabama Gov- eration potential college students, and efforts at four high schools and a middle ernor George Wallace and arranging for individuals with disabilities in progress- school in Washington Heights and East civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael to ing through the academic pipeline from Harlem. “These are the young people speak on campus. middle school to post-baccalaureate that need to be educated if we’re going Martin went on to Teachers College, programs. Martin, who became the to reach the Obama administration’s Columbia University, where she earned first female president of the Associa- education goal of having the highest a master’s degree in developmental tion for Equality and Excellence in Edu- proportion of college graduates in the psychology. During her studies, she ap- cation, trains staff members of TRIO world by 2020,” she says. plied for a summer job teaching child programs across the United States, and The Harlem Center provides a broad psychology in Upward Bound, one of the is passionate about the programs’ effi- range of free services—SAT preparation original federal TRIO programs. At the cacy. She recently received the Council courses, after-school programs, tutor- end of the summer, Martin was hired full for Opportunity in Education’s Walter ing, career, and college and financial time as a counselor, and a year later, she O. Mason award, the highest honor for aid counseling that augments what the was appointed assistant director. She educational opportunity professionals, schools provide themselves. Most of the remained at Columbia for 12 years, leav- named for the man who helped write the students are from minority, low-income ing in 1985 to become executive director legislation for the first Upward Bound families (more than 80 percent qualify of the Harlem Center. “This was not an program. for the free lunch program), with parents intentional career, but one I discovered I Martin is disheartened that despite who did not attend college. “These stu- had a natural passion for,” says Martin, the Obama administration’s ambitious dents have a lot of obstacles—starting who realized the opportunities educa- education goals, funding for these pro- with the quality of the public schools— tion had created in her own life. “Some- grams remains stagnant. “The admin- that impacts their college readiness,” times, the thing that makes the biggest istration is putting forth new programs, Martin says. “We try to fill that gap.” impact is just having an adult the kids such as Race to the Top, which are un- Martin understands those challenges can relate to take an interest in them.” proven, when they could be investing in well. A product of the neighborhood The nonprofit Harlem Center receives programs that have been demonstrated herself, she was fortunate to have a funding from corporations and foun- to work,” she says. “I don’t see us meet- mother who was determined that her dations, as well as U.S. Department of ing those goals without gearing up the daughter would not attend local public Education grants through two federally TRIO programs.” —Renée Gearhart Levy

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