ALUMNIOSWEGOOSWEGO ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO ■ VOL. 29, NO. 3 ■ FALL/WINTER 2003 Renewing Oswego PLUS 2002–2003 Honor Roll of Appreciation You were involved then . We need Being involved in campus life was part you of what made your Oswego experience so memorable. Why not capture those feelings of connection and camaraderie now! again . by actively participating in your Oswego Alumni Association? Kendis Gibson ’94, right, entertainment anchor with CNN Headline News, speaks to students in a communication ● Share your career advice with current students through the studies class as part of the Alumni-in-Residence program. Alumni Sharing Knowledge Program. ● Have fun and meet new friends through our club network. ● Reminisce with classmates by helping to plan a reunion. ● Support Oswego with a donation. ● Return to the classroom as Alumni in Residence. ● Or contact us with your own ideas for involvement. After all, you are the heart of your Alumni Association and we need you! Web site: http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu KING ALUMNI HALL, OSWEGO, NY 13126 ● PHONE: (315) 312-2258 ● FAX: (315) 312-5570 ● E-MAIL: [email protected] F ALL/WINTER 2003 Alumni Association of the State University of New York at Oswego OSWEGOOSWEGO Vol. 29, No. 3 7 Picturing Women’s Lives 12 Dr. Geraldine Forbes studies what photos of India’s women reveal about their lives. Renewing Oswego 14 Some buildings are finished, others just begun as Oswego continues campus renewal. Faces of Philanthropy SPECIAL SECTION Giving to Oswego wears many faces. Meet our generous donors 18 in the 2002-2003 Honor Roll of Appreciation PLUS Campus Currents 3 Club News 10 Class Notes 23 Weddings 44 From the Archives 48 Special Section ON THE COVER: Faculty Master Jay Button, right, spends some time with Johnson Hall residents, from left, freshmen Julius Wood, Matt Rashford, Zeida Muñoz, Sheldon Wong and Lauralee Tucker. Cover photography by Dan Distler, Distler Communications Dr. Jack Narayan and Lester Gosier '37 chat at the dedication of the library café, which 22 they funded. FROM THE Oswego Alumni Magazine President’s Desks Elizabeth Locke Oberst Janel Armstrong ’03 utumn is the most beau- learner-centered institution. The advanced Publisher Emily King ’05 Michele Reed Editorial Assistants Atiful time of year on the technology classrooms in the School of Busi- Editor Janel Armstrong ’03 Oswego campus, and we’ve all ness, the meeting spaces in Johnson, the con- Jim Russell ’83 Julie Harrison Blissert had plenty of chances to enjoy vocation areas in the Campus Center and Staff Photographer Lyle Fulton Emily King ’05 it while gathering for some im- yes, even the comfy chairs in the library café Kiefer Creative Linda Morley Graphic Design portant occasions. First we had are more than just beautiful spaces, exciting Loomis ’90, M ’97 Lisa Potter Tim Nekritz the rededication ceremony for technology and amenities. They are a means Memorials Contributing Writers our new home for the School to an end, and that end is an excellent educa- Emily King ’05 Daniel J. Distler of Business, then the grand re- tional experience for Oswego students. We Weddings, Class Notes, Lyle Fulton Bookshelf Contributing opening of Johnson Hall after want to create for our students the best at- Photographers extensive renovation. In Octo- mosphere possible in which to learn and President ber we broke ground for the grow,both academically and socially. The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. Deborah F. Campus Center, the first new That’s where our generous donors come Board of Directors Stanley construction on our lakeside in — benefactors recognized in our Honor Lori Golden Kiewe ’84 John Daken ’66 President Sylvia Muncey Gaines ’76 campus in over 30 years, and Roll of Appreciation. Your philanthropy has Mark Tryniski ’85 *Lester Gosier ’37 officially opened the new Penfield Library helped make these renovations and construc- First Vice President Elizabeth Gura ’84 café, a cozy spot for students, faculty, staff tion possible.Your gifts allow Oswego to grow *Tracy Chamberlain Jennifer Shropshire ’86 Higginbotham ’86 and visitors to relax with good friends or a and excel.Your generosity has made us one of Second Vice President Lyndsay Jenks great book. the best public colleges in the Northeast. For *Dr. David Hanchett ’92 Cristantello ’74 David Kidd ’49 And while new buildings and modern all you do for Oswego and our students, allow Past President *Edith Maloney renovations are exciting, what’s really going me to offer a very sincere “Thank you!” Elizabeth Oberst Knight ’50 Executive Director Patrick Magin ’91 through my mind as I officiate at these festive Alice Massimi ’02 Debbie Adams-Kaden ’78 beginnings is this: How great all of this is for *Carol McLaughlin ’45 William Bacon ’59 Davis Parker ’47 our students! For the real purpose of our Elizabeth Nichols *Joseph Savage ’77 Bates ’68 campus renewal is to better serve our stu- Deborah F. Stanley *Herbert Siegel ’40 Mary Beth Beaton ’05 Olive Brannan Spargo ’31 dents, now and in the future. We are moving President Connie Holmes Bond ’51 Molly Casey St. John ’99 Tomasina Boyd Boone ’93 ever closer to our vision of Oswego as a *Barry Thompson ’77 Norman Brust ’49 Jon Vermilye ’66 *Maurice Bullard ’80 Cheryl Webster Saleem Cheeks ’01 Crounse ’98 Sherman Cowan ’91, * At large M ’94 FROM State University of New York at Oswego Office of Alumni and Parent Relations the Editor’s Pen Deborah F. Stanley Dr. Joseph Grant President Vice President for Dr. David King Student Affairs Interim Provost and Enrollment Management n every issue of Oswego,you can read about aspirations are still in your alma mater’s heart. Nicholas Lyons fellow alumni who are doing great things — So this issue of Oswego is dedicated to all of Vice President for Kevin Mahaney I Vice President for winning awards, working against diseases like you — the 54-year-old teacher and mother, Administration and Finance Development and Public AIDS, creating art, music and books, teaching the 23-year-old junior account executive, the Affairs the next generation and leading businesses. In 40-year-old between jobs, the 79-year-old re- King Alumni Hall Class Notes you can read the news sent in by tiree and everyone in between. This is your SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126 Phone: 315-312-2258 Fax: 315-312-5570 alumni in all walks of life. Sometimes it may publication and Oswego is your abiding E-mail: [email protected] be a new baby, a new house or a new career. home. Write home often and let us know how Web site: http://oswegoalumni.oswego.edu Other times it’s a retirement after a fulfilling you’re doing! life in the classroom or the world of com- merce. Still others write in with a shout out to old friends or a remembrance of the wind and snow on campus. I think it’s vital to remember that all alumni are important to Oswego. And Michele A. Reed Oswego is published three times a year by the if your face isn’t on the cover of an issue, your Oswego editor Oswego Alumni Association, Inc., King Alumni Hall, accomplishments as well as your dreams and State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126. It is distributed free of charge to alumni, friends, faculty, staff and families of current students. Printed November 2003. OSWEGO ● Fall/Winter 2003 2 C AMPUS CURRENTS O’Connor’s ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ premieres Best Northeastern obert O’Connor ’82, associate professor at The Housing Project, a bookstore that Colleges includes Rof English writing arts, got the Holly- donates its proceeds to help homeless people SUNY Oswego wood treatment at the premiere of “Buffalo with HIV/AIDS. PRINCETON REVIEW Soldiers,” the movie based on his award- The dark comedy dealing with corrup- HAS selected SUNY winning first novel of the same name. In July, tion in the peacetime Army in 1980s Ger- Oswego for its new he attended the premiere at Loew’s in New many is meeting with mixed reactions, says college guide, The Best York City and later joined stars Joaquin the author. Its cynical portrayal of the mili- Northeastern Colleges: Phoenix, Anna Paquin and Shiek Mahmud- tary is getting it some negative reviews at 135 Great Schools to Bey at an after-party at Elaine’s. The next day, home — the New York Daily News called the Consider, published in he and director Gregor Jordan did a reading film “far too dark and violent to be funny” — August. The book is while it did well overseas. Philip French in one of five regional England’s Observer said, “It touches painfully guides new this year in the Princeton on the canker that infects peacetime military Review series. life, and any institution that continues too “On behalf of long unchallenged.” The Guardian called it the entire Princeton Review and our “a very nasty, tasty film, tightly and energeti- selection committee, please know cally put together, over which hangs a fume that it was a great pleasure review- of cynicism like petrol.” The movie was ing your school’s credentials; you nominated in five categories for the British have much to brag about!” the Independent Film Awards. author, Robert Franek, wrote to The film was the darling of the Toronto President Deborah F. Stanley in Film Festival in 2001 but its release was post- August. poned in the post-Sept. 11 atmosphere. The Princeton series features student opinion. “Each college had O’Connor feels the subject matter is “now to meet two criteria,” Franek said. even more timely. We are now an occupation “First, it had to meet our criteria army and [the movie] details another time for academic excellence within its Robert O’Connor ’82 poses with the poster when we were an occupation army.” region.