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TOXIC SHOCK A Temple researcher solves Naples’ cancer riddle. Joseph Labolito V.

22 STUDENTS BROTHERLY LOVE

Temple students mentor college-age adults with intellectual disabilities through the Academy for Adult Learning. On campus, in Philadelphia and around the world, Owls spark change that matters. In this issue, students mentor adults with intellectual disabilities; the university offers a new admissions option; a dental program provides care to children in North Philadelphia; and a researcher exposes cancer rates in Italy.

TEMPLETEMPLE 2 Letters 3 From the President 4 Campus Voice 5 News 14 Alumni News 37 Class Notes 52 The Last Word

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A Temple cancer researcher from Naples, Temple now offers an admissions option A program of the Kornberg School of Italy, fights the disease in his lab and in that doesn’t require standardized-test results. Dentistry links low-income children in North his hometown. Philadelphia with preventive dental care.

10 Innovation Dedication: In the new Science Education and Research Center, scientists and students pioneer groundbreaking research.

ON THE COVER: Illustration by Eleanor Grosch

WINTER 2015 LETTERS

During WWII, I was assigned to the 142nd General Hospital in Kolkata, India, from 1945 to 1946. I had a book published in India [A Modern Pilgrim in India: The Diary of an WHAT DO YOU THINK? American Soldier, Somaiya Publications, 1995] that described my days in that nation Owls celebrate history—the world’s, Temple’s and their own. just prior to its independence from the British Empire. I would like to express my deep gratitude Really enjoyed your “Free to Be” feature. for the chance meeting of my wife and for OWL PRIDE Makes me even prouder to be a Temple the beginnings of a wonderful life, along graduate! with productive careers for our two Maj. Margaret Witt, CPH ’12 children. Portland, Oregon Thank you, Temple University! Editor’s note: Witt informed Temple of her John W. Wohlfarth landmark 2011 lawsuit, Witt v. Department of Cloverdale, California the Air Force, which helped defeat the mili tary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. OLDEST OWL? CHECKPOINT CARL

Thank you for the superb article “The Truth Tellers” in your fall 2014 issue. John Raines My father, Gerald Booken, MED ’36 was a professor of mine in 1968, and I could (pictured above with his wife, Sandra), not be more proud of the work he, his wife, recently celebrated his 103rd birthday. He Bonnie [EDU ’72, ’79], and others did in attended undergraduate school [at Temple] Media, Pennsylvania. [Writer Renee] Cree I was recently in Berlin, Germany, where I and after three years entered the Medical carefully related these events to the present was invited to participate in a fellowship for School. He went on to serve in the military day with her excellent questions. senior news managers on the 25th anniver and then practice general medicine and Coupled with the essay on community sary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I took general surgery. He retired from practice in health literacy (“Community Explorers”), the opportunity to send stories back to my the early 1980s. that piece represents a great direction for a newsroom and, as much as I hate selfies, I Dad spent happy years in Philadelphia and university magazine that takes the times we thought you’d appreciate what I was wearing now lives with his son near Wilkes-Barre, live in seriously. I valued my education at as I filed from Checkpoint Charlie. Pennsylvania. If he is your oldest alumnus, Temple, and I regret that some divisions still Christopher Carl, SMC ’92 I thought you might want to know. perform so much animal research. Maybe Director of News and Programming, WDEL Wendy (née Booken) Peskin you can touch on one of those issues. Wilmington, Delaware Pahoa, Hawaii Wayne Johnson, CLA ’73 Brooklyn, New York THANKS, TEMPLE! I met my wife when we were undergradu ates at Temple from 1947 to 1951. I worked at Jefferson Hospital midnight to To share your opinions with the Temple staff, 8 a.m. and then took the subway to classes email [email protected] or send a letter on Main Campus. to Temple magazine, Bell Building, 3rd Floor, 1101 W. Montgomery Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19122.

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VOL. 68 NO. 2 / Winter 2015 This fall I delivered my first State of Vice President for Strategic Marketing and Communications the University address to Temple faculty. Karen Clarke The event was an opportunity to discuss the tremendous progress Temple has made

Senior Director, Strategic Communications Ryan S. Brandenberg Eryn Jelesiewicz in the last year. I believe you will agree that Temple is clearly charging forward. Director of Content Strategy Maria Raha Let me start with our growing national reputation. This year’s edition of U.S.News Copy Editor & World Report’s Best Colleges ranks Temple Kate O’Neill No. 121 overall among national universities. Designers That is our highest-ever ranking and an Trish Brown, Lynda Cloud-Weber, Robert Frawley increase of 11 spots in four years. Temple’s research enterprise also has Correspondence Bell Building, 3rd Floor, 1101 W. Montgomery Ave., never been better. We recently opened Philadelphia, PA 19122 the Science Education and Research Center, which both reflects and improves on the Email [email protected] strength of our research. Last year we had a record $230 million in research expendi Website tures. Even as overall national research temple.edu/templemag funding has declined, Temple has experi Temple is published by Temple University of the Commonwealth System enced a 32 percent rise in federal research of Higher Education. awards over the past five years. © Copyright 2015 by Temple University Most importantly, our commitment to As I’ve said in the past, it is a tremendous Temple University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all in every aspect of its operations. The university has pledged not to dis students remains steadfast. This fall we honor to be the president of such a remark criminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. This policy extends to welcomed a record 4,483 freshmen to able university. I hope every Owl feels all educational, service and employment programs of the university. Temple. That class is our largest, most aca a similar sense of pride. demically accomplished and most diverse If you have thoughts on these or other ever, with a record number of Honors and efforts at Temple, please feel free to contact international students. me at [email protected]. We’ve taken a major step to support incoming students with Fly in 4, our innova tive plan to help students graduate on time and limit their debt. We’ve also created the Temple Option, an alternative admissions Neil D. Theobald path that will ensure talented students of all President, Temple University KEY TO SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CODES backgrounds have access to Temple’s high- BYR Boyer College of Music and Dance quality education. CLA College of Liberal Arts CPH College of Public Health CST College of Science and Technology Follow Temple! DEN Kornberg School of Dentistry EDU College of Education facebook.com/TempleU twitter.com/TempleUniv ENG College of Engineering FOX Fox School of Business HON Honorary Degree LAW Beasley School of Law MED School of Medicine instagram.com/TempleUniv Temple University Alumni Group PHR School of Pharmacy POD School of Podiatric Medicine SED School of Environmental Design SMC School of Media and Communication SSW School of Social Work youtube.com/TempleUniversity plus.google.com/+TempleUniversity TFM Division of Theater, Film and Media Arts THM School of Tourism and Hospitality Management TYL Tyler School of Art

WINTER 2015 3 CAMPUS VOICE MODEL CITIZEN Ryan S. Brandenberg

Each year, millions of peo ple who have been released from prison end up back behind bars. Jondhi Harrell, Class of 2015, knows this story all too well. While incarcerated for 18 years, he watched as fellow prisoners served their time and left, only to return to jail.

After his own release from prison in 2009, Harrell mistakes. I keep a pair of loafers from the prison commissary on founded the Center for J. JONDHI HARRELL a shelf in my closet as a reminder Returning Citizens to of where I came from and what address the problem of OCCUPATION: founder and executive director, Center for Returning Citizens I’ve experienced. LOCATION: College of Public Health, Class of 2015 recidivism. From offering How does the Center for parenting classes to finding Returning Citizens help? What inspired the Center for What are some of the chal We currently serve 600 housing and jobs, the cen Returning Citizens? lenges for people released returning citizens, and more ter helps former inmates I started putting this program from prison? are coming to us every day. start new lives and avoid together while I was still incar People returning home after Counselors meet daily with cerated. Over the years, I’d watch being incarcerated have to 15 to 20 people. We start by returning to jail. guys go home and come back to accept that time moved on with finding housing, employment In 2013, Harrell was prison because they were unable out them—families changed, and education opportunities, to adjust to society. Seeing this children got older. This is espe and then we address issues named Goodwill Industries play out over and over again, cially true for men who were related to relationships, International Graduate of I realized the prison system just incarcerated for activities that managing money and learning wasn’t addressing the needs of helped support their families. to be social again. We also refer the Year for his achieve people inside. So we started an When they return home they people to services such as ments through Goodwill’s educational program to help have to develop a new set of veterans benefits. career program. He is young men continue to develop habits. There are several factors that while incarcerated. When And I think a lot of men and lead to recidivism; my hope is currently working toward I returned home after serving women try to forget everything that we can address a few of a master of social work 18 years of a 20-year sentence, about prison once they return them before it’s too late. I used the same model to home. While jail is a traumatic degree with a concentra develop the center. experience, acting as though tion in public policy. you were never there makes it easier to make the same

4 TEMPLE Temple’s momentum continues: The Class of 2018 is the most accomplished yet; support of faculty is at an all-time high; the Beasley School of Law and the Fox School of Business shine in the rankings; and the Diamond Marching Band arrives at a theater NEWS near you! TENACITY, DEFINED HIV-1 has proved to be tenacious, inserting its genome permanently into DNA and forc ing patients to take a lifelong drug regimen to control the virus and prevent a fresh attack. Now a team of School of Medicine researchers has designed a way to snip out

the integrated HIV-1 genes for good. Betsy CLA ’08 Manning, SMC ’87, “This is one important step on the path toward a permanent cure for AIDS,” says Kamel Khalili, professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Temple. In the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health and published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Khalili and colleagues detail how they created molecular tools to delete the HIV-1 proviral DNA. When deployed, a com bination of a DNA-snipping enzyme called a nuclease and a targeting strand of RNA called a guide RNA hunt down the viral genome and excise the HIV-1 DNA. From there, the cell’s gene-repair machinery takes over, soldering the loose ends of the genome back together—resulting in virus-free cells. “Since HIV-1 is never cleared by the immune system, removal of the virus is required in order to cure the disease,” says Khalili, who is also director of the Center for Neurovirology and director of the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center at Temple. The same technique could theoreti cally be used against a variety of viruses, he says. “We want to eradicate every single copy Professor Kamel Khalili (left) and research scientist Rafal Kaminski, colleagues in Temple’s Center for Neurovirology, of HIV-1 from the patient,” says Khalili. designed a method to permanently remove HIV-1 genes from cells. “That will cure AIDS. I think this technology is the way we can do it.” JENNI LAIDMAN

WINTER 2015 5 NEWS FACULTY’S Joseph Labolito V. MAJOR JUMP Ryan S. Brandenberg Temple has reached a new milestone for support of faculty, which topped $7 million in 2013–2014. The university raised $1.2 million for faculty in 2012, and saw a leap to $6.7 million in 2013 and a rise to $7.3 million in 2014. Seventy-four new faculty positions have been approved for 2015–2016, and more than 60 new tenured and tenure-track faculty were hired for the 2014–2015 academic year. BRANDON LAUSCH, SMC ’06 ALL-STARS

Temple’s Class of 2018—the university’s Joseph Labolito V. largest and one of its most academically accomplished—is smashing records for quality and quantity.

The number of freshmen is at an all-time high: 4,483—up from 4,390 in fall 2013.

Non-Pennsylvania residents (including international students) make up 30 percent of the freshman class.

The Temple Teacher Residency program prepares teachers like Jessica Scherff, EDU ’10 (pictured above), to work The freshman GPA average is 3.47, another record. with students in Philadelphia public and charter schools.

The freshman average SAT score is 1124. RESIDENT TEACHERS The College of Education received $2.2 million (STEM). Students in the program will earn The Class of 2018 includes a record number of in grant funding from the U.S. Department a bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related disci of Education to create a new partnership pline and a master’s degree in middle-grades new Honors students: . 548 between Temple and the School District of education in five years. In their final year, Philadelphia. The award is one of 24 given students will spend 75 percent of their time in 2014 by the Teacher Quality Partnership teaching in a School District of Philadelphia Two new records have been set for Honors academic Grant Program that President Barack Obama middle-grades classroom while receiving credentials: 3.88 is the new GPA average and announced in May of last year. direction from a school-based cooperating Funding from the grant will support teacher and a university-based coach. 1389 is the new average SAT score. the creation of the Temple Teacher Residency— Beginning with the 2015–2016 school year, a new dual-degree program focused on the program will enroll between 50 and 55 BRANDON LAUSCH, SMC ’06 science, technology, engineering and math students each year. JAZMYN BURTON

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Ryan S. Brandenberg DOUBLE DOWN The 2014 Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards will pay off in a record number of scholarships for students in Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. This year’s record-breaking event will enable the school to more than double the number of scholarships to 50 from the 20 awarded in the past year. The Lew Klein Excellence in the Media scholarship is designed to help students undertake intern ships, work on independent projects or study abroad. JEFF CRONIN

NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams visited Main Campus in September 2014. In addition to accepting the School of Media and Communication’s Lew Klein Excellence in the Media Award, he met with Temple students. ENERGY TEMPLE SHINES FRONTIER Temple’s Beasley School of Law and Fox No. 11 nationwide for undergraduate entre School of Business have excelled recently preneurship and No. 16 among graduate Temple’s Center for the Computational in a variety of national and international programs. And The Economist ranked Fox’s Design of Functional Layered Materials is rankings. Global MBA program No. 33 nationally, one of 10 new Energy Frontier Research The American Lawyer magazine ranked a nine-spot improvement over last year’s Centers announced recently by the Temple Law No. 17 nationally for how well rankings, and the program jumped 20 posi U.S. Department of Energy. Temple’s prepared graduates felt they were for prac tions to be ranked No. 57 globally. center—funded through a four-year, tice five years after graduation. Temple was BRANDON LAUSCH, SMC ’06 $12 million award—will be led by Laura H. the only law school in the region included Carnell Professor of Physics and Chemistry in the top 20. John Perdew and includes 19 principal Temple Law was once again named investigators, 10 of whom are from Temple. a Best Value Law School by The National Jurist Perdew says the center will attempt to design magazine and was the only Philadelphia law new layered materials that have applications school to appear in the rankings. Additionally, in energy production and storage. Temple Law had the largest representation “There were more than 200 Energy among first-year associates at Pennsylvania Frontier proposals,” says College of Science law firms, as reported byThe Legal and Technology Dean Michael Klein. “This Intelligencer. demonstrates the remarkable research In September 2014, Entrepreneur maga expertise in CST and puts Temple on the zine and the Princeton Review ranked Fox’s map as a top player in science and tech graduate programs No. 1 in the nation for nology.” PRESTON M. MORETZ, SMC ’82 entrepreneurial mentorship. Fox also ranks

WINTER 2015 7 NEWS

Joseph Labolito V. FAVORITE BAND Temple’s Diamond Marching Band continues to garner national media attention. It was ranked No. 1 on USA Today’s list of 5 College Marching Band Covers You Absolutely Have to Hear for its perfor mance of 5 Seconds of Summer’s “She Looks So Perfect.” And the band continues to get shout-outs from pop and rock bands such as Bastille and Paramore (including a tribute from the latter act’s front woman, Hayley Williams, on Twitter). The Diamond Marching Band is in demand on the big and small screens, as well. It will appear in a string of upcoming movies and TV shows in 2014–2015, including TV series Red Band Society and the remake of the movie Annie. AUGUST TARRIER, CLA ’89

STEPS FROM CAMPUS The John Coltrane House

of California, Santa Cruz, and the Kofsky Frank Archives at 1511 N. 33rd St. Oil pipeline technology developed by Professor of Physics Rongjia Tao and his team that creates better oil flow is entering later stages of development and has generated in Philadelphia’s significant licensing revenue. Photographs courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, University Strawberry Mansion neighborhood, a little more than a mile from INNOVATIVE INCREASE Main Campus, was designated a National The expansion of Temple’s research enterprise, highlighted by Historic Landmark the recent dedication of the Science Education and Research Center, in 1999. also has led to a dramatic increase in commercialization revenues With the benefit of from university-developed technologies. a GI loan, Coltrane Over the past five fiscal years—2010 through 2014, which ended LATE TRANE bought the house for in June—Temple received nearly $16 million from the licensing of Sept. 23, 2014, would have been jazz saxo his mother, aunt and university-created technologies. phonist John Coltrane’s 88th birthday. cousin; he lived there That is more than $5 million more than Temple received in the pre Temple University Libraries honored the from 1952 to 1958, vious 19 fiscal years (1991–2009): $10,420,050. day with a panel about him, held in Paley when he moved to “You can’t bring in licensing revenues unless you’ve had great dis Library on Main Campus. New York City. coveries, and we’ve benefited from the results of the great research But there was more than a birthday to While Coltrane lived on celebrate. Resonance Records recently going on at the university,” says Stephen Nappi, Temple’s associate North 33rd Street, he released Offering: Live at Temple University, vice provost for technology commercialization and business signed his first record development. a legendary Coltrane concert that took place ing contract and wrote During the recent five-year span, Nappi’s office has experienced in 1966, eight months before his death, in the compositions for a 71 percent increase in inventions created or discovered by Temple Mitten Hall. The concert, broadcast on Giant Steps, a break researchers, with 83 patent applications being filed. During that same WRTI, was announced by Dave McLaughlin through album for him period, Temple has also entered into 31 licensing agreements with and Bob Rothstein, CLA ’69, ’71, who can be and one that has been companies for the development of university-created innovations. heard on the recording. added to the National PRESTON M. MORETZ, SMC ’82 Recording Registry.

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“Temple is stepping up to take its rightful place among prominent public research universities in

Ryan S. Brandenberg the United States and the world.” —Temple President Neil D. Theobald, State of the University address, Main Campus, Oct. 14, 2014 MAPPING BEHAVIOR Researchers in the College of Public Health Salzer and Eugene Brusilovskiy, director are taking an innovative approach to of the Laboratory on GIS Analytics in understanding how individuals with mental Rehabilitation Research at Temple, have illness participate in their communities. been awarded a $600,000 grant from Using GPS technology and other tools, the National Institute on Disability and the team will track the movements, moods Rehabilitation Research to conduct this and activities of study participants to learn three-year study. more about factors that affect their involve Over a two-week period, study partici ment with work, school, and recreational pants will carry smartphones that track COLLEGE OF and religious activities. their movements outside their homes. “We know very little about the commu During that time, they also will report on PUBLIC HEALTH nity participation of individuals with serious their moods and activities. mental illnesses, conditions that affect In addition to reviewing their community With a new name and a new vision, Temple’s approximately 5 to 7 percent of U.S. adults, participation, the researchers will examine College of Health Professions and Social making them the single-largest disability the extent to which the physical and social Work is now the College of Public Health. group in the country,” says the study’s lead environments in which the participants live The move makes the college the largest such investigator, Mark Salzer, chair of the stimulate and support full and meaningful institution in Greater Philadelphia. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences in mobility and participation. Once accredited, Temple’s College of the College of Public Health and director “This study will help shed light not only Public Health will be one of only three of the Temple University Collaborative on on what people are doing in the community accredited schools of public health in Community Inclusion of Individuals with but also on the types of community, social Pennsylvania, with Drexel University and Psychiatric Disabilities. and environmental factors that might enable the University of Pittsburgh. The Class of “Limited community participation is asso greater participation,” says Salzer. 2016 will be the first to graduate from ciated with billions of dollars in public spend It also offers the potential for further the new College of Public Health. ing and, more tragically, millions of years of studies of the mobility and community par Some of the college’s departments also lost productivity and quality of life for these ticipation of individuals affected by physical, will be realigned. The Department of Public individuals and their family members.” intellectual and developmental impairments, Health will be divided into two departments: he says. KIM FISCHER, CLA ’94 the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, with a division of Environmental Health, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. INFOGRAPHIC TO COME The Department of Health Information Management will be renamed Health Services, Administration and Policy, with a Health Information Management division. The new departments will join the depart ments of Communications Sciences and Disorders, Kinesiology, Nursing, Physical Therapy, and Rehabilitation Sciences and the School of Social Work to make up the College of Public Health. ERYN JELESIEWICZ, SMC ’89, ’05

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Innovation Dedication A new science facility on Main Campus generates new opportunities for both faculty and students.

Temple University’s newly opened Science said during the dedication celebration. Education and Research Center (SERC) “Here Temple researchers and students signals a new era of research and discovery working together will create new materials, for students and faculty, and opens doors to help improve medicines, develop sustainable advancements in Philadelphia and around technologies and understand, at the most the world. fundamental level, the world we live in.” The facility’s official ribbon cutting SERC houses seven research centers and building dedication was held Oct. 10 and institutes: the Center for Biodiversity; as a part of Homecoming Weekend. the Center for Biophysics and Computational The event featured demonstrations, tours Biology; the Institute for Computational of the building and speeches by Temple Molecular Science; the Center for Data President Neil D. Theobald; Provost Analytics and Biomedical Informatics; Hai-Lung Dai; College of Science and the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Technology Dean Michael L. Klein; Katey Medicine; the Center for Materials Theory; Steinberg, a biology major in the Class of and the Center for Networked Computing. 2016; and then Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Over the past year, those centers have James Cawley, CLA ’91, LAW ’94. doubled the number of College of Science At 247,000 square feet, SERC is one of and Technology research centers, creating the largest buildings devoted exclusively a collaborative, critical mass of nationally to scientific research in the Philadelphia and internationally renowned researchers. region. It features 52 research labs and “SERC’s opening demonstrates how much 16 teaching labs; open spaces to foster Temple cares about innovative education,” collaboration; high-tech facilities such as Steinberg said at the event. “The interdisci clean rooms, where particle levels in the air plinary research that will be achieved here are controlled; and a low-vibration scanning will offer students many opportunities to work tunneling microscope, used to image surfaces with great faculty, to use advanced equipment down to the atomic level. SERC also will be and to make scientific discoveries.” home to the departments of Computer and > To learn more about SERC and the faculty who work Information Sciences and Physics. there and find stories about their research, visit “SERC represents Temple’s commitment temple.edu/SERC. to innovation in science and technology, which underpins the U.S. economy,” Klein

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WINTER 2015 15 IN THE LAND OF POISON AND FIRE A TEMPLE RESEARCHER FIGHTS CANCER—AND FOR THE FUTURE OF NAPLES, ITALY.

STORY BY JONATHAN BALOG ILLUSTRATION BY ELEANOR GROSCH My train pulls into Naples, Italy, at 9 a.m. “When I’m there I want to be here,” After dodging pickpockets in the station, he says, “and when I’m here I want to be I hop in a cab and am whisked at a ridiculous there. I love Italy for the culture, the atmos speed through the city’s congested, labyrin phere. I love America for its drive.” thine streets. Naples is a monument to Giordano is the first in his family to emi tragically squandered potential: At first grate to the U.S., but the drive he feels there glance, it appears to is hereditary. His father, comprise the worst Giovan Giacomo aspects of urban blight Giordano, was a noted in the U.S. But beneath cancer pathologist at the gross neglect, both the Second vandalism and overde- University of Naples and

velopment is the ghost Laporta/AFP/GettyMario Images the “Pascale” National of a beautiful city. Cancer Institute of Naples. Naples is older than In the 1970s he published Rome. It is home to At a demonstration on Nov. 16, 2013, in “Salute e Ambiente exceptional works of art, downtown Naples, a woman holds pictures in Campania” (“Health from Sanmartino’s of relatives and friends who died of cancer. and Environment in “Veiled Christ” to Campania”), a white Caravaggio’s “Seven Works of Mercy.” paper that first detailed the link between The pizza more than lives up to the legend. unregulated industry and that area’s rising But Naples is like that guy who is a really cancer rates. great person at heart, he just spends too “My father was an introverted man from much time running with the wrong crowd. a solid family who loved science in his own I’m dropped off in front of a palazzo in pure way,” Antonio Giordano says, handing a complex far above the city center. That is me a copy of the report. “But 80 percent where Antonio Giordano, a pathologist, pro of my success is due to my mother.” Maria fessor of biology, and director of the Sbarro Teresa Sgambati-Giordano is from a fairly Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular affluent family and accustomed to playing Medicine at Temple, spends a third of his host and massaging personalities. The mar year. His house has a hillside view of Capri, riage of his parents’ temperaments meant Mount Vesuvius, the Gulf of Naples and, off Giordano grew up in a house where Nobel to the left, the city itself. It’s positively stun Prize winners were often guests. ning, and no doubt helps shape Giordano’s The passion and dedication he inherited unique perspective on the city that raised from his father drive Giordano scientifically, him, the city he has dedicated a portion of but when he arrived in the U.S. and found his life to saving. himself in competition with Ivy League– “Naples is a city that you love or hate,” connected alumni for funding, it was his in he says as we drink Campari on his terrace. herited social graces that landed him a grant. “There’s no in between.” Early in his career Giordano did research on the cell-division cycle at Long Island’s AN UNLIKELY INHERITANCE Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, whose director was Nobel laureate James Watson Giordano graduated summa cum laude from (known as the “father of genetics” for his the University of Naples with an MD and role in discovering the structure of DNA). a PhD in pathology, then relocated to the U.S. During a conversation in which Giordano IN THE LAND OF in 1986. In this, we have some common complained about the cronyism that often ground—I left Philadelphia for Rome seven directs grant money in the U.S., Watson years ago. One of the universal qualities of asked which part of Italy he was from. the expat is the sense that your body houses “Too bad you don’t come from Milan,” two identities, one for your home and one Watson replied when Giordano said he for your adopted country. was from Naples, meaning that Milan was POISON AND FIRE a much richer city and would have been an invaluable resource, could Giordano claim some connection.

WINTER 2015 17 In the 21 years since, the institute has yielded impressive results. It’s No. 2 in cell- cycle research publications (the cell cycle is the process by which a cell grows and divides to create a copy of itself) and has more than 30,000 scientific citations to its credit. Giordano also has discovered a tumor-suppressor gene and other proteins that regulate cell growth and the cell cycle. “Our research was a very important piece of a puzzle that is behind the major success stories in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer,” he says. “It’s nice to see that we’re making a contribution to the field of curing or battling the disease in general.” Which brings us around to the reason for my visit.

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Naples is sick. Campania, a southern region of Italy of which Naples is the capital, is in the midst of an epidemic. In the last two decades, the number of reported tumors From his father, Giovan Giacomo Giordano (right), a has risen by 40 percent in women and But his Naples birthright did pan out. noted cancer pathologist, Antonio Giordano (center) 47 percent in men. The “Pascale” National inherited his passion for science; from his mother, A few years after his conversation with Cancer Institute of Naples in 2012 reported Maria Teresa Sgambati-Giordano, the social graces Watson, Giordano met fellow Neapolitan and networking skills that helped him raise funds for that 47 percent more people are stricken expat Mario Sbarro, then CEO of the epony his research. with cancer in Naples than anywhere else mously named pizza franchise found in on the Italian peninsula. In Acerra, a small every airport, truck stop and college cam Campania town with only 56,000 residents, pus on the East Coast. The introduction three children have brain tumors at any came about through Giordano’s wife, given time (as opposed to the national aver Mina Massaro-Giordano, a Long Island age of 0.5 per 100,000 children). native and Sbarro’s neighbor. Once referred to as Campania Felix When Giordano later relocated to (Prosperous Campania) by the ancient Philadelphia to do cancer research at Temple Romans, the Italian government has taken and then Thomas Jefferson University, to calling the region la terra di tumori— he made regular trips to New York to visit “the land of tumors.” Journalists toss Sbarro. Every Sunday, he and the older around the phrase “triangle of death” man would go for a walk, during which (coined by The Lancet Oncology in 2004) Giordano would narrate his predicament: in reference to the land between Acerra, He was beginning to do important work, Nola and Marigliano, three Campanian but it was hard for young researchers to towns. Prior to our interview, Giordano get funding, and academia often delayed told me in text messages that he was looking programs due to financial limitations forward to my visit to “the Land of Poison and internal politics. He wanted to launch and Fire.” Italians might have a flair for the an organization that would grant scientists dramatic, but in this case, it is warranted. in his field independence in terms of funding What is at the root of the Neapolitan and freedom from academic structure. All health crisis? In articles written on the topic he needed was the startup cash. in the last 10 years, if the word “Camorra” After a year, in 1993, Sbarro agreed to isn’t in the headline, it will be in the opening donate $1 million out of pocket. The Sbarro paragraph. The Camorra are the Campanian Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular version of the Mafia and one of Italy’s three Medicine was born. major crime syndicates; the group dates back to the 18th century.

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WINTER 2015 19 “It’s an organization that is both entrepre neurial and criminal,” says Roberto Saviano, “The research should benefit humankind, author of Gomorrah, in the 2008 Vice maga it should benefit citizens. This is not zine documentary Toxic: Napoli. During northern Italy’s industrial boom in the 1980s happening because the research is and ’90s, the Camorra discovered the lucra controlled and influenced.” tive business of illegal waste disposal. Safely and legally disposing of waste —ANTONIO GIORDANO, PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, AND is costly. The Camorra offered manufacturers DIRECTOR, SBARRO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH and refineries an alternative: They would dispose of the waste at a fraction of the rate charged by specialist companies. The Camorra then dumped harmful chemicals in fields, caves, quarries and even the Bay of Naples. Depending on the sub stance, the Camorra might burn it, mix it with soil and spread it over the land, or bury entire containers. Current estimates indicate that more than 10 million tons of illegal garbage have been dumped in the area over the past 20 years. But the truth did not stay buried with

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WINTER 2015 21 Brotherly Love A TEMPLE PROGRAM BENEFITS ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES— AND THE TEMPLE STUDENTS WHO MENTOR THEM. STORY BY KATE O’NEILL

uan Laserre and Mack Caruso are in student mentors get to know each other and Jmany ways a study in contrasts. Juan, 24, are matched in pairs. is tall, African-American and a little awkward “We both had our apprehensions,” Mack in conversation. Mack, a Temple sophomore, says. “But when he shot me that look in is short—“5′8″ on a good day,” he says—pale the beginning, I thought, ‘That’s the guy and gently confident. Mack grew up in a I want to be matched with. I want to see close-knit family in Cranberry Township, that look turn into a smile.’” Pennsylvania, an upper-middle-class suburb He glances at Juan, who this time gives of Pittsburgh. Juan is from South Philadelphia him a grin. but no longer in contact with his biological family “because of stuff [he] went through THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF as a kid.” Juan has an intellectual disability; Mack does not. And in the way that opposites The Academy for Adult Learning got its often do, Mack and Juan complement each start in 2004 when Temple’s Institute on other beautifully. Disabilities, which is located in the College The pair met in fall 2013 through of Education, decided to launch a program Temple’s Academy for Adult Learning (AAL), for young adults with intellectual disabilities. a two-year program that provides college “We gathered a group of people with experience and vocational skills to adults disabilities and family members and asked with intellectual disabilities who would them what they would want,” says Kathy otherwise not be able to participate in higher Miller, director of the academy. What education. Each academy student is men they wanted was a program that offered tored by a matriculated Temple student. an authentic college experience. “When we first met, it was not an instan “Temple was the perfect place for this to taneous connection,” Mack says. happen because of our attention to diversity “I gave him a look,” Juan adds, squinting and attitude of inclusion,” Miller says. his eyes in imitation of the way he glared at Two years later, in 2006, the first Mack when they were introduced at the event cohort of 10 academy students began where academy students and Temple attending Temple. In the nine years since, Photography by Joseph Labolito V. with the exception of the far-right image in the second row of the facing page, which is by Ryan S. Brandenberg.

22 TEMPLE WINTER 2015 23 Mack Caruso (left), Class of 2017, is both a mentor and a “brother” to Juan Laserre.

57 intellectually disabled adults have com BACK FROM THE BRINK and Culture to Medical Terminology. The pro pleted the program. Academy students, who fessor and academy student work together to are between 18 and 26 years old, take two Lianne Mapp had fallen off the cliff. She come up with an accommodation plan so the classes per semester and attend a weekly attended Cheltenham High School in student can participate as fully as possible. seminar. During their final semester, they Wyncote, Pennsylvania, until she was 21, “This could mean using assistive technology also intern somewhere on campus, such as and then “for two years didn’t really do any such as an iPad that reads aloud,” says the Wellness Resource Center, Conwell Inn thing,” says Linda Mapp, Lianne’s mother. Titania Boddie, AAL’s program coordinator, or Computer Recycling Center. Linda, who works at an art store, brought “or taking an oral instead of a written exam. There are more than 225 programs at her daughter to work with her when she It varies according to the student’s abilities colleges and universities across the U.S. that could, and Lianne spent a couple of hours and the syllabus.” In addition, a Temple help young adults with disabilities transition a week at a social group for adults with dis student attends class with and tutors the into life after high school, and Temple’s abilities. “But she basically stayed at home,” academy student. academy is one of five similar programs Mapp says. Lianne, now 23, began attending According to Kathy Miller, AAL is benefi in Pennsylvania. And yet far more students AAL this fall. cial not just to academy students but also apply than AAL can accommodate. The pro Like all academy students, Lianne takes to the Temple students who work as mentors gram does no advertising and still has two classes each semester. As an AAL and tutors. between 40 and 50 applicants every year “freshman,” both of her classes are through “It’s a win-win,” she says. “What better for 12 spots. Based on U.S. Census data, Temple’s Pan-African Studies Community way for emerging professionals to under Miller estimates there are over 5,000 eligible Education Program (PASCEP), which offers stand what it means to have a disability? adults with intellectual disabilities in the five noncredit courses to the community. When they’re physicians, educators and counties the academy serves. “I’m getting out of my comfort zone,” says businesspeople, they’ll draw on this experi “Imagine if we advertised,” she says. Lianne, who is soft-spoken and pretty, two ence to see there are more similarities than “There’s a big need and a huge waiting list pink highlights in her hair framing her face. differences between people.” for adult services.” Claire Spurrier, Class of 2015, is Lianne’s Mack agrees. “It’s made me a far more The Individuals with Disabilities mentor and an occupational therapy major receptive person,” he says. “It’s helped me Education Act mandates that people with from Baltimore. “She’s not afraid to meet be more mature. And Juan teaches me some disabilities have access to public education people,” Spurrier says. “And she gets her thing every time we play basketball.” from age 3 through 21. After that, Miller homework done the day it’s assigned.” says, their options are few: “participating “I don’t mind homework,” Lianne adds. BREAKING THE FALL in sheltered workshops, sitting at home Second-year students enroll in one class watching TV not doing anything. Maybe through PASCEP and a second traditional In conversation, Mack quietly asks questions they have a job if their family can make that Temple class. Academy students have taken to draw Juan out, helping him clarify what happen; maybe they volunteer. But a lot of classes in 11 of Temple’s 17 schools and col he means. But on the basketball court, Juan students build skills in high school, and then leges, courses that range from World Music is the one at ease. it all stops. Then they just fall off the cliff.”

24 TEMPLE Lianne Mapp (left) and her mentor, Claire Spurrier, Class of 2015, met through Temple’s Academy for Adult Learning, which pairs adults with intellectual disabilities with Temple student mentors.

“I wouldn’t just say he’s my mentor. He’s my brother. ” —JUAN LASERRE, ACADEMY FOR ADULT LEARNING STUDENT

He dribbles effortlessly across the court; “I’m afraid of heights,” he confesses. Preparing students for employment is flops dramatically to the ground when an Mack encourages him to continue. another important component of AAL. opposing team member bumps into him; “The worst thing that’s going to happen The second-year seminar focuses on career walks backward, smiling at the guy he’s is that you’ll fall.” He pushes his foot into goals and writing resumes; the internship guarding. Mack works harder, his face bright the cushions that line the floor, reminding provides hands-on experience. And graduates red. He’s scrappy and small; Juan is all tall Juan there’s something there to break his fall. leave the program with a portfolio that confidence and grace. “My role is facilitating, whether it’s engag includes a resume, cover letter and template “I don’t think I’ve won a single game ing in conversation or introducing ourselves for writing thank-you notes after interviews. against him,” Mack says later. to people or taking trips off campus,” Mack More than 70 percent of academy “This is our place,” Juan adds. “Where later explains. “The progress he’s made in graduates find jobs after completing we come to clear our heads, talk about the past year, the independence he’s the program, a much higher number than issues . . . it’s our sanctuary.” gained—it’s amazing.” average. According to the U.S. Census According to Boddie, these relationships “He keeps me out of trouble,” Juan says, Bureau’s American Community Survey, are the foundation of the academy. “and points me in the right direction. We’re only 23 percent of adults with intellectual “Mentors act as role models,” she explains. like brothers. I wouldn’t just say he’s my disabilities are employed. “They encourage their mentees to make mentor. He’s my brother.” “I’m hoping this will lead to some kind choices on their own. With the support of of employment, something she can do that their mentors, academy students develop STRONG FOUNDATIONS will make her feel fulfilled in her life,” says confidence, so that by the time they graduate, Linda Mapp of her daughter, Lianne. “Before they can go off on their own.” In a windowless classroom on the fourth Temple, she stagnated. Now she’s already They do this, essentially, by hanging out. floor of Ritter Hall, a dozen students gather looking ahead to what she can do next. Now Claire and Lianne like to go to Center City around a conference table, chatting noisily I have hope that Lianne will find her place.” and people watch on Main Campus. “We before class starts. This is one of two day- When asked what he would like to do both love sushi and shopping and music,” long AAL seminars held each week, one after graduation, Juan says he has not yet Claire says. Together they also joined each for first- and second-year students. figured out a plan. “I’ll do my internship the Main Campus Program Board, which Before they get started, Jack Badger, AAL’s next semester,” he says, looking at Mack, plans events for students. coordinator of student supports, asks if “and then talk it over with this guy.”■ Juan and Mack play basketball and go to anyone would like to meet with a state legis football games. One afternoon, they try rock lator to discuss people with disabilities who climbing at Pearson Hall. Juan scrambles want to work. easily up the fiberglass wall, then rappels “Like me,” says a student wearing combat back down to the bottom. But his face is boots, her curly hair long on one side, cut bathed in sweat, and he strips off the harness short on the other. “I want to work.” and says he does not want to do it again. “And you will,” Badger says. “You will.”

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STORY BY BRUCE E. BEANS PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOSEPH V. LABOLITO

ne morning last fall, months earlier, Temple had become the Niki Mendrinos, EDU ’03, ’14, first large public research university in senior associate director of the Northeast—and one of the nation’s only undergraduate admissions urban public research universities—to offer at Temple University, was such an option. Odelivering her characteristically high-energy “It’s just been rolled out for the first presentation to a crowd of approximately time for our fall 2015 applicants,” 100 prospective students and parents in the Mendrinos explains. “So you don’t have Welcome Center on Main Campus. to submit your test scores if you think Midway through, she pointed to a slide they don’t best represent you.” As an that outlines the university’s newest, and alternative, she added, applicants must in her mind most exciting, admissions respond to four short, self-reflective essay development—the Temple Option, which questions designed to assess noncognitive offers applicants the choice to not submit factors such as grit, determination and standardized test scores. Less than two self-confidence.

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Niki Mendrinos, EDU ’03, ’14, delivers an undergraduate admissions presentation in the Welcome Center that includes information about the Temple Option.

The Temple Option is part of a growing universities by giving us the opportunity to national trend—so far, more than 850 of look at the whole story of some amazing stu the country’s approximately 2,500 four- dents and giving them opportunities they year, degree-granting colleges and universities wouldn’t have otherwise,” says Temple have made standardized tests such as the Chancellor Richard Englert. SAT and ACT optional in some way. This past summer, just weeks after the The rationale: to level the playing field for university adopted the Temple Option, the significant percentage of college appli Mendrinos earned her EdD in higher educa cants who either don’t test well or don’t tion administration from the College of score as well as others, in some cases Education by successfully defending her dis because they cannot afford to take test-prep sertation on that very topic: how some stu classes. It’s a movement based on a growing dents who score poorly on SAT and ACT body of research that questions the ability of tests nonetheless excel at college. standardized tests to predict collegiate suc Looking at the fall 2009 incoming fresh cess. Evidence of hard work and strong high man class of 4,100 students at an unidentified school GPAs are much more predictive of public research university, she identified success in college and beyond. a group of students who—despite SAT scores In fact, after looking at nearly 123,000 below 1,000 or ACT scores below 21—proved students at 33 public and private institutions their high school GPAs of 3.3 or above were with test-optional policies, Bates College no fluke. They graduated in four years, and researchers found that those who didn’t sub they didn’t simply eke out their degrees. mit test scores finished with GPAs just 0.05 Their average college GPA was 3.56, a whop lower than those who did submit scores. ping half-point higher than the rest of They also graduated only 0.6 percent less the graduating class’ average GPA of 3.03. often than those who submitted scores. Surprising? Not to Mendrinos. Those stu “The Temple Option literally puts us in dents’ stories are her story, too. a leadership role for major research

28 TEMPLE “The best part of the job is being able to tell some applicants during a visit, ‘Congratulations, you’ve been admitted to Temple!’”

—NIKI MENDRINOS, EDU ’03, ’14, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS

GRIT AND DETERMINATION Finally, after making the dean’s list every with potential students and their families semester, in spring 2000 she delivered her and existing students.” At Kingston High School in upstate New York, graduating class’ commencement address. As a senior associate director of under Mendrinos was the kind of high-achieving, In 2001, after working briefly as a Pace graduate admissions, Mendrinos manages well-rounded student most colleges would admissions counselor, she assumed a similar programs that draw more than 80,000 pro fall all over trying to admit. She was active job at Temple University—the first of many spective and admitted students and their in Students Against Drunk Driving, captained admissions positions she has held here. family members to Temple each year. Under the cheerleading squad for three years and Mendrinos figured that her academic her watch, prospective student visits have portrayed Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! During achievements as an undergraduate had put been increasing 10 percent to 15 percent her senior year, she was president of her to rest questions about her abilities based annually. school’s student government and served as simply on standardized tests. She was In addition, she reviews and makes admis her class’s social chair. All while working wrong. When Mendrinos applied to earn a sion decisions on nearly 5,000 applications part time and summers at the local mall and master of higher education degree at Temple, per year. in her mother’s real estate office. she again bombed the standardized tests— And she would finish high school with a this time, the Graduate Record Exams and 3.3 GPA. Miller Analogies Test—and had to take three Yet when she informed her high school graduate courses to prove herself before WHAT’S THE SCORE? guidance counselor of her dream to attend being formally admitted to the program. Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, Then, despite finishing her master’s she was told she would never get in. degree with a 3.87 GPA, it was déjà vu five years ago when she wanted to earn a doctor 22 Why? In her words, Mendrinos was—and Percentage of 2015 freshman applicants to Temple still is—“horrible” at taking standardized ate. Refusing to again embarrass herself by who have opted not to submit standardized test tests. Despite spending 15 to 20 hours study retaking the GREs and MATs, she took three scores (as of Nov. 1, 2014) ing, the first time she took the SAT, her com doctoral-level courses to illustrate her wor bined math and verbal scores didn’t break thiness—and aced them all. Nonetheless, 1,000 points. Her results were just as poor she was told by one administrator that no the second time she took the test. one with such low previous test scores 1150 SAT | 25 ACT Temple’s recommended minimum scores for “All these other things didn’t matter,” would ever be admitted into the Educational submitting standardized test results Mendrinos recalls in her Welcome Center Leadership doctoral program. office after her admissions presentation. Mendrinos was undeterred. She elicited “My guidance counselor based her assess strong support and recommendations from ment just on my test scores.” Her unspoken two of her master’s program professors: $225,000 response: “Yeah, well, we’ll see about that.” James Earl Davis, then the interim dean of Value of a 2014–2015 grant that is, in part, Admitted to Pace after a successful inter the College of Education, and Richard tied to the Temple Option: Temple was one of seven view with an admissions officer, she more Englert, the university’s current chancellor universities selected to receive a Transformational than rewarded his faith in her, finishing with and former acting president who, at the Planning Grant by the Association of Public and a 3.3 GPA. She tutored students in New York time, was deputy provost. Land-grant Universities and the coalition of City who were learning English as a second “On the basis of her very strong perfor Urban Serving Universities, part of an innovative language and, fittingly enough, served as a mance in my class and my knowledge of her one-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda peer advisor for Pace students who had been excellent work in the Office of Undergraduate Gates Foundation. The goal: both to recruit admitted with high GPAs and low SAT scores. Admissions as a leader and administrator, students whose potential to succeed is not In addition, she was the social chair for her I was very impressed with her,” Englert says. accurately captured by standardized testing sorority, vice president of Pace’s Future “She had energy, she had dedication, she and to retain them through graduation. Educators of America chapter and senior was intelligent, and she was very engaging class president.

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92 163 some applicants during a visit, ‘Congratulations, standardized test scores: 93 164 you’ve been admitted to Temple!’” • motivation 94 165 95 166 • persistence TEST SUBJECT • self-efficacy, and 96 167 97 168 • emotional intelligence—the ability to be in 98 169 Once Mendrinos was ultimately admitted to tune with, and act upon, one’s own and 99 170 the doctoral program, there was no doubt in others’ feelings and emotions. 100 171 her mind what her research topic would be. The majority of the 82 students were 101 172 “I’d been waiting all my life to do this type white females from small public high 102 173 of study,” she says of her research on college schools—a somewhat surprising finding that 103 174 students with low test scores and excellent nonetheless conforms with previous 104 175 high school GPAs. “It’s also one of the rea research that shows standardized tests dis 105 176 sons I went into admissions—the recognition advantage both females and minorities. 106 177 that students who do well academically and Mendrinos and her dissertation suggest 107 178 have a lot to offer may not do so well on that colleges and universities need to find 108 179 standardized tests.” better ways to 109 180 110 181 In order to obtain unbiased, objective • e valuate gender- and minority-related 111 182 results, researchers must avoid subjectively test results; 112 183 inserting themselves into their work. But • e valuate applicants’ noncognitive 113 184 though Mendrinos never related her own traits; and 114 185 experience to the college students who • better measure the progress of, and 115 186 became her study subjects, she says, “I saw better support, high-achieving students 116 187 myself in all of them.” with low test scores once they matricu- 117 188 Among the students’ most common com late onto college campuses—which a 118 189 ments, she says, were “How does one test recently awarded $225,000 grant from 119 190 predict how I’m going to do in school or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is

120 191 life?” and “Why isn’t more than four years designed to help Temple do. 121 192 of schooling looked at more heavily than Mendrinos was compiling her research at 122 193 123 194 a four-hour Saturday test?” the same time Temple University was consider- 124 195 As one subject told her: “College is much ing the test-optional admissions procedure. 125 196 more than scores/grades; it’s the ability to Although the Temple Option program was not 126 197 adapt to a new environment while main- based on her work, she did sit in on several 127 198 taining that focus to get an education. No of the Temple Option committee’s meetings 128 199 standardized test can gauge that.” and discussed her findings. 129 200 Obviously, not everyone who has low “Niki’s research supports that decision 130 201 standardized test scores and a strong high and provides even more evidence about a 131 202 school GPA will do well in college. Of the 384 policy decision that, in some corners, was 132 203 incoming freshmen Mendrinos considered controversial,” says Davis. 133 204 because they fit that profile, only 82 gradu- Simultaneously, the committee that was 134 205 ated in four years with a 3.5 GPA or better. considering the Temple Option was finding 135 206 136 207 After surveying all 82 with a question- that a certain percentage of high-performing 137 208 naire and conducting in-depth interviews Temple students had also failed Advanced 138 209 139 210 140 211 141 212 142 213 “Going test optional has opened the door for so much growth, opportunity and access to college for so many more deserving students.”

—NIKI MENDRINOS, EDU ’03, ’14, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS

Placement tests at a higher rate than other door for just so much growth, opportunity incoming freshmen and had performed and access to college for so many more poorly on Temple’s math placement screen deserving students,” says Mendrinos. “It’s ing tests. “Her dissertation enforced what about time, and I’m really happy I’m here we were finding,” says Temple Option com while it’s happening.” ■ mittee member Joseph DuCette, the College Bruce E. Beans is freelancer located in Bucks of Education’s senior associate dean of County, Pennsylvania, who writes frequently assessment and evaluation. for Temple University. Adoption of the Temple Option has elated Mendrinos. “By really taking a holistic look at what students can offer beyond their test scores, going test optional has opened the

1 72 143 2 73 144 3 74 145 4 75 146 5 76 147 6 77 148 7 78 149 8 79 150 9 80 151 10 81 152 11 82 153 After a presentation, students and families exit the Welcome Center for a campus tour led by Owl Ambassadors, 12 83 154 Temple student tour guides. 13 84 155 14 85 156 15 86 157 16 87 158 17 88 159 18 89 160 Betsy CLA ’08 Manning, SMC ’87, FILLING A NEED PROJECT ENGAGE OVERCOMES OBSTACLES TO PROVIDE DENTAL CARE TO CHILDREN IN PHILADELPHIA’S POOREST NEIGHBORHOODS.

STORY BY KYLE BAGENSTOSE, SMC ’11

Shandea Wellmon is working to make “’I wasn t sure what was going on,” a better life for herself and her two boys, Wellmon says. “I was like, ‘I don’- t remem Jahir, age 5, and Zakir, age 3. Wellmon, ber signing up for anything.’” who lives in a small row home on a North But Wellmon listened and Bell explained. Philadelphia street lined mostly with She was calling from Project ENGAGE, boarded -up houses, hustles each day to a new initiative in the Kornberg School take public transportation to the Harris of Dentistry at Temple. Zakir, who had School of Business in Upper Darby, never before seen a dentist, had been iden- Pennsylvania. When she completes her tified by the school as being at risk for training to become a medical assistant, dental disease. she ’ll join the just 18 percent of residents in Bell told Wellmon she wanted to help her ZIP code who hold a professional degree. schedule an appointment for Zakir at one She ’s spent almost her entire life in of several dental clinics in North the neighborhood, where the median Philadelphia; the appointment would be income is just below $18,000. It ’s a place paid for through the family ’s Medicaid. where help rarely comes unsolicited, Wellmon agreed and a few weeks later which is why Wellmon was skeptical the made the short walk up North Broad Street day Elleatha Bell called, asking questions to Kornberg so Zakir could see a dentist at about Zakir and whether she could help the school’ s pediatric dental clinic. him access dental care. Zakir Wellmon (right) receives attention from Elleatha Bell, a community health worker with Project ENGAGE.

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A young visitor gets a dental exam at the Kornberg School of Dentistry.

Zakir was found to be in good dental Pennsylvania hadn’t seen a dentist in “A health insurance company became health and at low risk for cavities. He is the past year, compared to 8.5 percent of interested in testing a new model because scheduled for another visit in the spring, nonpoor children. everyone is tracking the realities of high-cost when he’ll receive his first fluoride treat Ismail originally developed the idea for care,” Ismail says. “We believe we can pro ment. For his mother, finding a nearby Project ENGAGE while working in Detroit as vide a solution.” dental clinic was a relief. a professor of health services research and “It’s tough to find places that accept cariology at University of Michigan. There READY, SET ...SLOW Medicaid,” Wellmon says. he saw the same need among people living in Detroit’s inner city and floated the idea of Early elation about finding a project partner RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME an outreach model to regional healthcare was dampened by legal and administrative providers. They all balked. hurdles for Ismail and his staff. The Wellmons’ experience is exactly what “We were ahead of our time proposing Project ENGAGE called for the develop Amid Ismail, dean of the Kornberg Dental this—before people started talking about sys ment of a database utilizing the healthcare School, had envisioned for nearly a decade. tems and integrated care,” Ismail says. records of UnitedHealthcare beneficiaries, Ismail, who came to Kornberg in 2008 from But his arrival in Philadelphia was well- which would then be accessed by commu the University of Michigan, is the architect timed. Following the signing of the Patient nity health workers. As a state-contracted of Project ENGAGE, a multimillion-dollar Protection and Affordable Care Act, he says, provider of Medicaid insurance in effort to link low-income children in North the national conversation around healthcare Philadelphia, UnitedHealthcare had to Philadelphia with dental care. began to change. Expanded coverage meant ensure no privacy laws would be violated. Project ENGAGE contacts families to initi potential new customers who previously In an age when laws such as the Health ate preventive care for children under couldn’t afford care, and providers began Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 5 years old who have never seen a dentist or to take interest. place an increased emphasis on the privacy are at high risk for tooth decay, hopefully He shopped the idea around to regional of patient data, the project was a tough sell before their caretakers face costly dental providers over several years and finally to the legal teams of all parties involved. emergencies. The need is great: Nationally, found a taker. In February 2013, “We went into uncharted ground with oral infection is the leading chronic disease UnitedHealthcare awarded Kornberg a a health insurer giving data on their patients in children, with a prevalence five times that $750,000 grant to fund Project ENGAGE, to a dental school for use in a large registry, of asthma. According to a 2008 study by in conjunction with a companion grant of which would then be accessed by people in the Public Health Management Corporation, $1 million from the United Health Foundation. the community,” Ismail says. “When we first more than 25 percent of children living It was the breakthrough Ismail had been presented that, they said, ‘Are you really below the federal poverty line in southeast seeking for the better part of a decade. serious about doing this?’”

34 TEMPLE “Everyone is tracking the realities of high-cost care. We believe we can provide a solution.” – AMID ISMAIL, DEAN, KORNBERG SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY

This caused delays, but legal teams for all EASIER SAID THAN DONE Once families make an appointment of the parties involved eventually reached through Project ENGAGE, the community an agreement. Ismail then had to find a Bell and four other workers began contacting health workers conduct follow-up sessions vendor to build the database and recruit families in July of 2014. In theory, they to review the results of the visit, provide oral community health workers. To aid in the would schedule appointments at one of six hygiene information and help set dental- latter process, he hired Nija Rivera, CPH ’12, clinics—either at Kornberg or one of five care goals. But occasionally contact is lost who earned a master of public health degree community-based clinics that agreed to along the way. at Temple, as project manager. participate—through phone calls to the fami “Some parents will schedule an appoint It was critical that Rivera find workers lies of children who met the Project ENGAGE ment, and then the day comes and they who could navigate both the five ZIP codes criteria. But the reality is different. don’t show up,” Rivera says. Project ENGAGE would cover and the health “Originally we thought there were about Despite the program’s hurdles, Ismail care system. Workers would be tasked with 4,000 eligible children, but when we ran remains optimistic and believes strongly scheduling appointments, assisting with the report in July, there were only 960 kids,” that Kornberg must take the lead in testing paperwork and sometimes helping families Rivera says. “Insurance changes. They might new models for healthcare. And if Project apply for assistance such as public transpor lose insurance or fall out of an income ENGAGE is successful, Kornberg will be seen tation vouchers. bracket, so when the report is run again as a national pioneer in making preventive Familiarity with the neighborhoods and there might be more or fewer eligible dental care a reality. hardships faced by residents who lived in children.” “Health is connected with all of the social, them would also be crucial to efficiently Calls to the families who still qualify often economic and cultural beliefs that people enroll families in the project. go unanswered; messages are unreturned. have, and we cannot isolate it from that. We “We cover a wide range of the city, and So Bell and the other workers follow up by need to design programs for people who use a lot of the neighborhoods have very differ knocking on doors. them,” Ismail says. “We are on the road and ent populations,” Rivera says. know the direction. It’s a matter of main To find community workers from the taining momentum until we get results.” neighborhoods Project ENGAGE targets, Bell says she’s already seen the benefits of Rivera looked to Temple’s Health Project ENGAGE in action—each phone call Information Professions Career Pathways Ryan S. Brandenberg or visit improves the lives of families like the Initiative, which certifies low-income Wellmons. “Being here for children,” Bell Philadelphians for health professions. It says, “and helping them get dental care is an was there she met Bell, a resident of awesome feeling.” ■ Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood. “I have a daughter, and she didn’t have Kyle Bagenstose, SMC ’11, is a professional writer healthcare when she was born, so I took her who works in journalism and marketing. He to a health center,” Bell says. “Just going lives in Philadelphia’s Francisville neighborhood. through that process and feeling like nobody A Project ENGAGE participant brushes her teeth at the is there for you is really discouraging.” Kornberg School of Dentistry’s Pediatric Dental Clinic.

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1950s per year and that won the ADRIAN R. KING SR., LAW ’67 with CreateSpace. The book Governor’s Silver and Gold documents the longest-open LOUIS F. DEL DUCA, CLA ’50 joined the law firm of Christie Award for service to older espionage case brought before Pabarue and Young in was awarded the Bar Medal, Pennsylvanians. She also was the U.S. courts. He was the FBI Philadelphia. He focuses on the highest honor conferred by recognized by the Retired agent who led that investigation. the defense and resolution of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Senior Volunteer Program medical malpractice claims. (PBA). The medal honors PBA of Montgomery County as 1970s members whose efforts have Volunteer of the Year. RAY DIDINGER, SMC ’68 resulted in significant improve MICHAEL S. ELKIN, SMC ’70 ment in the administration of published a revised, updated 1960s published his first novelI, 95, justice or in the legal profession, and expanded edition of with CreateSpace. He is features or who have performed outstand FREDERICK J. ZORN, CLA ’61 The Eagles Encyclopedia with editor of the Jewish Exponent and ing service to the association, Temple University Press. published Charlie Chameleon’s an award-winning playwright. the profession or the community. First Day of School and ABR: YOU DEBORAH GROSS-ZUCHMAN, CLA ’69 CAN READ! A Basic Essentials GERHART (JERRY) L. KLEIN, SMC ’70, MARVIN J. ROTHENBERG, FOX ’52 English Literacy Program for was profiled in the April 12, 2014, LAW ’80 earned a master of business Adult Beginning Readers with issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer received a Lew Klein Alumni administration degree at the CCB Publishing. Since retiring with her husband, Phillip. She in the Media Award and was Fox School of Business 2014 as a teacher and principal in the is a retired art teacher and a inducted into the Temple Commencement. He completed School District of Philadelphia former project manager for the University School of Media and his course work over 59 years. and as an adjunct professor at Mural Arts Program who contin Communication Hall of Fame. Rothenberg also was reappointed Temple, he has tutored adults ues to create art. He is executive vice president last year as a member of the at literacy centers. and co-owner of Anne Klein Borough of Fort Lee, New KATHERINE NEWELL, CLA ’69 Communications Group in Jersey, Board of Ethics. He is Class of 1965, your 50-year was elected chair of the Internal Mount Laurel, New Jersey. retired from both his practice as reunion will take place Alumni Weekend 2015, April 24–26! Revenue Service’s Advisory a marketing consultant and as Committee on Tax Exempt and J.D. SUTTON, CLA ’70, SMC ’73 adjunct professor of marketing NILES S. BENN, FOX ’67 Governmental Entities for the at Rutgers University. appeared in the Orlando 2014–2015 term. She is director was a featured speaker at Shakespeare Theater’s produc of risk management and ethics SELMA GOLD SAVITZ, BYR ’58, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia tion of Nicholas Nickleby in liaison officer for the New Jersey EDU ’77 Association 2014 Winter Florida. He also performed Educational Facilities Authority. Management Seminar held Thomas Jefferson, a solo play, at celebrated 25 years as director in the Cayman Islands. He is various venues, and portrayed and pianist of the New Horizons JOHN W. WHITESIDE III, EDU ’69 founder of Benn Law Firm Philadelphia-born botanist, artist Senior Glee Club, a Narberth, in York, Pennsylvania. published Fool’s Mate—A True and explorer William Bartram Pennsylvania–based ensemble Story of Espionage at the at the Cullowhee Native Plant that performs more than 30 National Security Agency Conference in North Carolina. concerts in senior communities

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CLASS OF 1993 AP Photo/Choo Youn-kong, Pool Photo/Choo Youn-kong, AP

“My policy was one of economical diplomacy,” Shihab says, “opening your window to everyone and not treating anyone like ALWI SHIHAB an enemy.” Shihab also served as the coordinating minister for People’s DEGREE: MA, religion, 1993; PhD, religion, 1995, College of Liberal Arts Welfare from 2004 to 2005. Among other responsibilities, he coor OCCUPATION: Purveyor of peace dinated relief efforts in the region of Aceh after the devastating tsunami in 2005 killed 168,000 Indonesians. LOCATION: Jakarta, Indonesia “I was there for three months, and you cannot imagine how hor rible the situation was,” Shihab says. “Every day you met someone Alwi Shihab, CLA ’93, ’95 (pictured above left with former U.S. who had a terrible experience. Everyone had lost a father or son Secretary of State Colin Powell), does more than wish for world or daughter.” peace—he works to make it a reality. Through his roles in the Indonesian government and as a renowned religious scholar, he has worked to bring together at-odds governments and foster “I’m trying to make this world a more religious tolerance. peaceful place.” “We are living in a world where we really have to think about human dignity,” Shihab says, “and that means from all different kinds of religions and communities, not just our own.” In addition to his experience in Indonesian government, Shihab Most recently, Shihab served as Indonesia’s special envoy to the also is a respected international scholar and business professional. Middle East and on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)— He holds five degrees, including two doctorates—one of which he an international body that is second in size only to the United received from Temple—and has held professorships at institutions Nations. There Shihab worked to advance economic and social including Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, Temple and the cooperation among the OIC’s members, drawing on prior interna Harvard Divinity School. tional business experience, as well as professional connections A professor of religion, Shihab strives to cultivate his students’ garnered from nearly a decade spent studying in Cairo, Egypt, to tolerance of different cultures and religions. He is presently work foster new relationships. ing on a book titled American Students’ Perceptions of Islam, which Prior to that appointment, Shihab served as Indonesia’s foreign he hopes will help bridge the divide between Western and Islamic minister—a position similar to the U.S. secretary of state—from 1999 cultures. to 2001. In that role, he helped build relationships with previous “I’m trying to make this world a more peaceful place,” Shihab adversaries, such as Portugal, which had severed ties with says. “This is not the Middle Ages. We need to think about human Indonesia after the latter nation invaded East Timor in 1975. dignity across all religions.” —Kyle Bagenstose, SMC ’11

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NANCY R. KIRSCH, CPH ’71 Families at the Penn State Luncheon. An associate profes EDWARD G. LONGAZEL, CLA ’77 Extension campus in sor in the School of Podiatric received the American Physical was promoted to vice president Doylestown. He is senior Medicine at Temple, he has Therapy Association’s Catherine and chief compliance and shareholder in the law firm served at the Boston Marathon Worthingham Fellow Award privacy officer for Drexel of Pozzuolo Rodden PC. for 30 years. Each year, during the association’s NEXT University in Philadelphia. Palamarchuk leads a group of 10 Conference and Exposition. LYNNE CHERRY, TYL ’73 to 15 Temple podiatric medical Kirsch is a physical therapy pro SUSANNA LACHS ADLER, LAW ’78 students in the marathon’s main fessor and program director of published Empowering Young medical tent. was elected to the board of the physical therapy doctoral Voices for the Planet with Sage directors of the National Museum program at Rutgers University. Publications in March 2014. B. CHRISTOPHER LEE, LAW ’76 of American Jewish History in She is an author, illustrator, Philadelphia. She is a former DAVID D. RAMADANOFF, BYR ’71 filmmaker and lecturer. was inducted into the National trustee of Temple University, Academy of Distinguished is music director and conductor serves on the Beasley School ALAN M. FELDMAN, CLA ’73, LAW ’76 Neutrals. He is a shareholder in of the Young People’s Symphony of Law Board of Visitors and the law firm of Jacoby Donner Orchestra in Berkeley, was named Lawyer of the Year is a member of the board of PC in Philadelphia. California. During the orches in the 2015 edition of The Best the Jewish Learning Venture tra’s northeastern tour last Lawyers in America in the area in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania. EDWARD P. CAINE, FOX ’77 June, it performed at Carnegie of personal injury litigation and Hall in New York City as part mass tort litigation class actions merged his accounting practice, RICHARD J. BRIGGS, TYL ’78 of World Projects’ Sounds of and received the Champion of EP Caine & Associates CPA LLC, curated an art show titled My Summer International Music Justice award from Community with that of Stephen Mankowski. Big Fat Painting at Brian Morris Festival. Also in June, the Legal Services, a Philadelphia He also is current president of Gallery in New York City. orchestra performed at Harvard nonprofit that provides free the National Conference of University in Cambridge, civil legal services to people Certified Public Accountant ABBIE GREEN FRIEDMAN, CLA ’78 Massachusetts. with financial need. Feldman Practitioners, the second-largest is an attorney in the law firm CPA organization in the U.S. was elected to the board of JAMES N. REMSEN, SMC ’71 of Feldman Shepherd directors of the National Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock PETER GOUZOUASIS, BYR ’77, ’78, ’90 Museum of American Jewish published a young-adult histori & Dodig LLP in Philadelphia. History in Philadelphia. She also cal novel called Visions of was awarded a research grant maintains a private law practice Teaoga with Sunbury Press. from the Social Sciences and WILLIAM C. ZEHRINGER, CLA ’73, ’81 in Las Vegas. It is about an adolescent girl Humanities Research Council who stumbles upon local Native published a young-adult adven (Canada) to study the impact of PETER H. STOCKMANN, LAW ’78 American history. ture novel, I Want a Hero, with music-making practices on 21st Tate Publishing. century adolescents. He is a joined the intellectual property JOSEPH R. POZZUOLO, FOX ’72, professor of music education at and technology group in the law LAW ’75 HOWARD J. PALAMARCHUK, CLA ’75, the University of British Columbia firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King POD ’79 in Vancouver. From 1983 to PLLC in Syracuse, New York. presented a continuing legal 1988, he was music director education talk titled Retirement was honored at the 2014 Boston of WRTI/JAZZ90 at Temple. Planning for Middle Income Athletic Association Volunteers

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RODGER BARNETTE, MED ’79 These?” that appeared in Food JULIAN JENKINS, SSW ’81 JERRY A. LINDHEIM, CST ’83, LAW ’88 and Drug Policy Forum. Termini will begin a five-year appoint was a featured speaker at presented a lecture in also presented at both the 2014 ment at Kijabe Hospital in Working Fathers, an event Copenhagen to members of the Food and Drug Law Institute Kenya, Africa, in summer 2015. that served as a lead-up to the Danish bar who practice per Conference and the 2014 Food He will teach anesthesiology 2014 White House Summit sonal injury and insurance law. and Drug Law Institute Webinar. residents, medical students and on Working Families in Previously, he has lectured on nurse anesthetist students while Washington, D.C. The first of topics of evidence deposition continuing to practice clinically 1980s its kind at the White House, and trial and courtroom prac in the hospital’s operating room the event took aim at issues tice. He is a partner in Locks AMINTA G. HAWKINS BREAUX, and intensive care unit. He is concerning working fathers and Law Firm in Philadelphia. CLA ’80, EDU ’04 chair of the Department of how they figure in the family Anesthesiology at the School was named vice president of unit today. BARBARA A. NUGENT, SMC ’84, of Medicine at Temple. advancement at Millersville LAW ’93 University in Pennsylvania. FREDERICK (RICK) E. LEVINE, SMC ’81 was named a Director to Watch RICHARD D. GEBERT, LAW ’79 Previously, she served as interim raised $98,895 on Kickstarter by Directors & Boards magazine. vice president for development was appointed to the senior to launch XOAB, an artisan sock That list comprises women and alumni relations and as leadership team in the law firm company, with his brother Neil. directors who showcase experi vice president for student affairs of Grant Thornton LLP. He will He is also one of the co-authors ence, energy, enthusiasm and at Millersville. serve as east regional managing of The Cluetrain Manifesto: innovation in their respective partner in the firm’s northeast The End of Business as Usual fields. Nugent serves on the WALTER PLOTNICK, TYL ’80 and southeast regions. (Basic Books, 2001) and was boards of directors for MetLife is represented by Eyemazing previously a web architect in Funds and the Episcopal ROCHELLE KIMMINS, FOX ’79 Editions, an online gallery whose Sun Microsystem’s Java Group. Healthcare Foundation. office is based in Amsterdam. was promoted to tax director in ROBERT A. LEVINE, DEN ’81 MARC S. RASPANTI, LAW ’84 the Edison, New Jersey, office of THOMAS J. DUFFY JR., LAW ’81 the Mironov Group. She also has visited La Sagrada Familia presented on a panel titled taught college-level accounting received the La Justicia Award Orphanage in La Ventanilla, “Damage Theories” at the courses at Brookdale Community from the Hispanic Bar Peru, with a group of dental American Law Institute College in Lincroft, New Jersey. Association of Pennsylvania. professionals and students. Continuing Legal Education He was recognized for his work The trip was organized in part Group’s False Claims Act NEALE PERL, BYR ’79 on behalf of the catastrophically nership with the KinderSmile Institute in New York City. He injured and for the creation Foundation. While there, partici is a partner in the law firm of was appointed president and of the Duffy Fellowship, pants screened, educated and Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick CEO of the Scottsdale Cultural which underwrites the full-time treated more than 150 children & Raspanti LLP in Philadlephia. Council in Arizona. He also salary of staff attorneys at area and supervisors. is president emeritus of public-interest legal-service DAVID R. SMEDLEY, CLA ’85, ’87 Washington Performing Arts in organizations. Duffy is founder TIM DEJONG, TYL ’83 the District of Columbia, where was appointed as initial associ of the law firm of Duffy + he served as president and CEO created an installation of glass ate editor for practice and Partners in Philadelphia. from 2002 to 2013. work in several Houston-area appointed to the editorial board office buildings. One piece was of the Journal of Student BONNIE GLANTZ FATELL, LAW ’81 ROSEANN B. TERMINI, EDU ’79, entitled “River of Glass” and is Financial Aid for 2014–2015. He LAW ’85 was selected for inclusion in meant to look like the Blanco is the associate director of com the 2015 edition of The Best River in central Texas. Another pliance and policy in the Office was appointed vice chair of Lawyers in America. Previously, work, in the lobby of the of Student Financial Assistance the Health Care Law Committee she served two terms as regent Petrobras America building, at George Washington of the Pennsylvania Law of the American College of is called “Sunrise at Matagorda University in Washington, D.C. Association. Additionally, Bankruptcy for the Third Bay.” DeJong specializes in com she co-wrote an article titled Circuit in the District of mercial installations and is the “The Role of the United States Delaware. She also is an attor owner and creative director Federal Food and Drug ney in the law firm of Blank of Wimberley Glassworks Administration: Regulator, Rome LLP, where she served in Houston. Watchdog, Facilitator or All of as chair of the Women’s Forum from 2008 to 2013.

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CLASS OF 1985 CARRIE DELONE Ryan S. Brandenberg DEGREE: MD, internal medicine, School of Medicine, 1985 OCCUPATION: Leading physician LOCATION: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

On a hot July night in 1969, Carrie DeLone, MED ’85, watched television in her family’s living room, anxiously waiting for U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon. “Children had a keen interest in science at the time,” she says. “Astronauts were our superheroes, not entertainment superstars.” Even among her science-loving peers, DeLone’s curiosity about the subject was especially intense. “I repeatedly questioned my early science teachers to the point they would get annoyed with me,” she recalls. The self-described “science geek” also enjoys working with peo ple, so when it was time to focus on higher education and a career path, medicine was a logical choice. “Becoming a physician offered a chance to interact with people and also use the science that I love,” she says.

“Becoming a physician offered a chance to interact with people and also use the science that I love.”

Her dual interests in science and people culminated last year, when DeLone was appointed physician general for the common wealth of Pennsylvania. She credits her 20 years of clinical experience and Temple education for preparing her for a complex job that involves advising the governor and improving the overall health of all Pennsylvanians. DeLone has also been influenced professionally by her volunteer work. “Volunteering with the homeless has made me more keenly aware of the influence of substance abuse on the health of individuals, families and communities,” DeLone says. “Although substance abuse can be found in all socioeconomic populations, working with the homeless brings a profound understanding of how desperate and distressed some people are.” Substance abuse is one of many tough issues DeLone is facing head-on as physician general. She also is involved in projects that tackle Alzheimer’s disease, childhood obesity and immunization. “I’m a strong advocate of vaccination and have spent extensive time dispelling myths surrounding vaccine safety,” she says. When she became physician general, DeLone “realized I had been given an opportunity to impact the health and safety of all Pennsylvanians, not just individuals.” She is, she says, just as enthusiastic about science now as she was 45 years ago when she watched a man walk on the moon. —Leslie Feldman, SMC ’82

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CLASS OF 1975 Ryan S. Brandenberg

surgical interventions that relieve pain while improving the quality of life and extending lives,” Nagler says. HARRIS NAGLER Nagler joined what was then called Beth Israel Medical Center in 1989 to lead the Department of Urology; throughout the years DEGREE: MD, School of Medicine, 1975 he held various positions there, including chair of the faculty prac OCCUPATION: Top doc tice plan committee, chief of graduate medical education, and president of the medical center from 2009 to 2014—first as interim LOCATION: New York, New York and then as president. When Beth Israel combined with Mount Sinai in 2014, Nagler became the center’s physician-in-chief. Harris Nagler, MED ’75, has been practicing medicine for 39 years, but he can still remember exactly where he sat during lectures in Temple’s Kresge Hall. “I didn’t plan my career. I lived it, by “Third row, first seat off the center aisle on the right,” Nagler bringing my passion and commitment recalls. “I can still hear the description of ‘uncinate fits’ [which cause a person to hallucinate odors] and see the man who smelled to the job at hand.” the fresh baking bread of his youth when there was none to be smelled.” Even with such a notable career, Nagler stresses that he does not From his experience in the School of Medicine to becoming work to achieve a position but for the passion. “I didn’t plan my physician-in-chief of Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan, Nagler career,” he notes. “I lived it, by bringing my passion and commit has seen medicine evolve—especially his specialty, urology. “It is ment to the job at hand.” a field that has embraced change and seized upon new technolo And it all started in a seat in Kresge Hall. Says Nagler, “I hope gies,” he explains. So perhaps it is no surprise that it is also consid that all Temple University medical-student graduates feel the same ered one of the most competitive fields and attracts some of gratitude that I do for the education and opportunities it has the brightest students. afforded us.”—Samantha Krotzer, SMC ’11 “It is a surgical specialty that provides the practitioner with the satisfaction of longitudinal relationships and the immediacy of

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WILLIAM S. HAWKEY, EDU ’86, ’97 works to improve the social and KEVIN J. LAWRENCE, BYR ’91, FOX ’98 C. S’THEMBILE WEST, CLA ’94 economic lives of underserved was named head of school at was named chief marketing presented the 11th annual women and girls. the Pennington School in New officer in the law firm of Pond John Hall Liberal Arts Lecture, Jersey. Previously, he was asso Lehocky Stern Giordano. Dancing Metaphors: Creative MARILOU E. WATSON, CST ’87, ciate head of school and dean Previously, he worked as the Self-Construction and Liberal PHR ’91 of faculty. director of U.S. medical market Arts Education, at Western received Philadelphia Business ing for Elsevier and at American Illinois University in Macomb, MARION K. MUNLEY, LAW ’86 Journal’s Minority Business Express. In 2013, he received where she is professor of wom Leader Award, which recog the PR News Social Media Icon en’s studies. was awarded an honorary doc nizes influential business lead Award. toral degree and delivered the ers who are making a difference KELLY HIGGINS, THM ’95 commencement address to in their communities. She is TRICIA LILLEY, SMC ’91 the Class of 2014 at Marywood was appointed director of a partner in the law firm of Fox University in Scranton, served as a panelist for “2014 athletics in the Department Rothschild LLP. Pennsylvania, where she is Strategic Priorities and Trends– of Intercollegiate Athletics, chair of that university’s Board CMO Panel,” hosted by the Intramurals and Recreation PETER G. GURT, FOX ’89 of Trustees. She also is a part Metropolitan Philadelphia at State University of New York ner in the firm of Munley Law was appointed the 10th presi Chapter of the Legal Marketing College of Technology—Alfred. in Pennsylvania. dent of Milton Hershey School Association. She is chief market in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He ing officer in the law firm of Fox GARY D. WHITE, BYR ’95 JANIS L. WILSON, LAW ’86 had served the school as senior Rothschild LLP in Philadelphia. is music director and conductor vice president and chief operat appeared on the television pro of the Philadelphia Sinfonia ing officer since 2009. TODD M. HAY, ENG ’92 gram Nightmare Next Door in Association, a symphonic youth an episode titled “Bloodshed in was promoted to associate vice orchestra in the Philadelphia Biloxi.” She also was a commen 1990s president at Pennoni Associates, area. In June 2014 the orchestra tator on two episodes of Deadly an engineering, design and performed to a sold-out crowd VIRGIL M. MARTI JR., TYL ’90 Affairs, ”Spellbound” and consulting firm. He serves as in the Kimmel Center for “Playing with Hearts.” All the had a solo art exhibition titled the firm’s office director for its the Performing Arts. The programs were broadcast on the Forest Park at Locks Gallery in Edison location. Mendelssohn Club of Investigation Discovery channel. Philadelphia. The show was an Philadelphia also performed, investigation of the sublime and GWENDOLYN M. KINEBREW, led by Temple Professor EMMANUEL (MANNY) ANASTASIADIS, romanticism through history. CST ’92, ’97 Emeritus of Choral Activities ENG ’87 Alan Harler, its artistic director. was awarded a 2014 Woodrow PAMELA C. BRECHT, LAW ’91 received the Management and Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship YOICHIRO YODA, TYL ’95 Operations/Intelligent presented “Qui Tam Litigation: from the Woodrow Wilson Transportation System Council An Overview” at the New Jersey National Fellowship Foundation. had a solo art exhibition titled Individual Achievement Award Association for Justice’s The fellowship recruits top- The Great Gatsby in Blue at from the Institute of Boardwalk Seminar 2014 in quality teacher candidates to Nantenshi Gallery in Tokyo. Transportation Engineers for Atlantic City. The paper was teach math and science in high- advocating for and deploying intended to educate attorneys need Ohio schools. TONY POCOROBBA, CLA ’96 intelligent transportation sys about the unique procedural was named vice president of tem (ITS) technology. He is the and substantive aspects of the MICHAEL KUETEMEYER, TFM ’94 Vacant Property Securities LLC, Pennsylvania Department of False Claims Act. received a grant from Asian Arts in its Bristol, Pennsylvania, Transportation’s traffic opera Initiative’s Social Practice Lab location. He previously served tions and ITS manager in south DANIEL J. CIECKA, FOX ’91 to create Time Lens—Pearl as client services manager in the eastern Pennsylvania. is the owner of PEPBowl, a bowl Street, a mobile app that fea firm, where he oversaw the client ing alley affiliated with Programs tures images and video footage relations and billing services WANDA CONYERS PRICE, FOX ’87 Employing People. That organi of life on Pearl Street in team and was essential in the is serving a two-year term zation is a nonprofit that pro Philadelphia’s Chinatown neigh development of the Bristol site. on the board of directors for vides education, recreation and borhood. He also is an assistant Soroptimist, an international job placement services to people professor of film and media arts women’s organization that with intellectual disabilities. at Temple.

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CHAD CORTEZ EVERETT, TYL ’97 and other critical technologies F. Allen ‘Tex” Harris Award cavity risk and make treatment were demonstrated and evalu for Constructive Dissent in and restoration recommenda had a solo art exhibition titled ated by both countries. Ketudat a ceremony held at the U.S. tions based on patients’ cavity From the Nightclub to the Club is a lieutenant colonel in the Department of State in risk. He owns and operates of Enlightenment at Gallery 919 Royal Thai Army. Washington, D.C. He is regional Santa Teresa Dental in Morgan Market in Wilmington, Delaware. security officer in the U.S. Hill, California. MICHEL WASHINGTON, SMC ’99 Embassy in N’Djamena, Chad. JAMES A. LAUGHMAN, SSW ’97 TRACY Z. MALEEFF, CLA ’02 was named Poet of the Year at was named executive director JOSHUA A. CHODOROFF, BYR ’01 the Baltimore Crown awards. was awarded the inaugural of PerformCare, a national, She also was named Miss was named among 25 semifinal Dow Jones Innovate Award full-service managed behavioral Maryland Plus USA and was ists nationwide for the Grammy at the Special Libraries healthcare organization in one of 10 finalists at the national Music Educator of the Year Association 2014 Annual Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Miss Plus USA competition. Award, a joint partnership and Conference and INFO-EXPO Washington works in the Brand presentation of the Recording in Vancouver, Canada. She is ANULA M. SHETTY, TFM ’97 Strategy group at Capital One Academy and the Grammy library resources manager in received a grant from the Asian in Maryland, where she was Foundation that recognizes the law firm of Duane Morris Arts Initiative’s Social Practice selected to participate in a educators who have made sig LLP in Philadelphia. Lab to create Time Lens—Pearl career development program nificant and lasting contributions Street, a mobile app that features for African Americans. to music education. Chodoroff JOHN CAPERILLA, ENG ’03 images and video footage of life teaches at Highland Park High was selected as one of on Pearl Street in Philadelphia’s School in Highland Park, Illinois. 2000s Montgomery County Chinatown neighborhood. Community College’s 50 LINSEY B. BOZZELLI, LAW ’00 LINN V. MCDONALD, BYR ’01 Fabulous Alumni. DONALD L. BOWERS JR., CLA ’99 received a Pennsylvania spent two weeks in May 2014 is chief of police for New Diversity Council Most Powerful teaching at Sichuan JONATHAN F. ECKEL, TYL ’03, ’06 Holland, Pennsylvania, and & Influential Women award. Conservatory of Music and held an art exhibition titled serves on the advisory boards She is vice chair of Blank Southwestern University of A Return to Reason at the Tioga for Cross Connection Ministries Rome’s Corporate, Mergers Finance and Economics in Gallery in Bryn Mawr, and Elanco Social Services and Acquisitions and Securities Chengdu, China. She has stud Pennsylvania. Network as part of his depart practice group and a member of ied at the Royal Academy of ment’s community outreach the Philadelphia Bar Foundation Ballet and Dance in Buffalo, MATTHEW M. MARSIT, BYR ’03 efforts. He retired from the Board of Trustees. New York, and she runs the Whitemarsh Township, Linn McDonald School of Dance is artist-in-residence in winds Pennsylvania, Police NANDA KUMAR, LAW ’00 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. and director of the wind ensem Department in 2006 and served ble at Williams College in was among 13 attorneys recog as chief of police for New Britain SCOTT CHRISTENSEN, CLA ’02 Williamstown, Massachusetts. nized by the Pennsylvania Borough, Pennsylvania, from He also is director of bands at Diversity Council with participated in Operation 2006 to 2010. the Hopkins Center of Leadership Excellence in the Crimson Viper 2014, a joint Dartmouth College in Hanover, Law awards at the organization’s military exercise that included RUDY A. ESPIRITU, TYL ’99 New Hampshire. 2014 Philadelphia Diversity and Army, Navy and Air Force was hired as technical director/ Leadership Conference. The participants from the U.S. and JESSICA J. SWEENEY, FOX ’03 senior associate at the architec award recognizes attorneys Thailand, during which humani tural and interiors firm Mancini in the Philadelphia region who tarian assistance, disaster relief received the Lower Bucks Duffy. have demonstrated outstanding and other critical technologies County Chamber of Commerce leadership, resolve and achieve were demonstrated and Staff Recognition Award. She is ARMANI KETUDAT, CLA ’99 ments for the benefit of their evaluated by both countries. vice president of marketing for clients and communities. Kumar Christensen is a major in the First Federal of Bucks County, participated in Operation is a partner in the Philadelphia U.S. Army Reserves. Pennsylvania. Previously, she Crimson Viper 2014, a joint mili office of Reed Smith LLP. was named to the Bucks County tary exercise that included ANDREW HUANG, DEN ’02 Courier Times Forty Under Army, Navy and Air Force NICHOLAS R. PIETROWICZ, LAW ’00 40 list of local business leaders participants from the U.S. and has implemented a new ques to watch. Thailand, during which humani was awarded the American tionnaire, Caries Management tarian assistance, disaster relief Foreign Service Association’s by Risk Assessment, to assess

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CLASS OF 1966

STEVE SANSWEET Diana Mulvihill

DEGREE: BS, journalism, School of Media and Communication, 1966 OCCUPATION: Record-setting collector LOCATION: Petaluma, California

Steve Sansweet’s crowning achievement—the one that landed him in Guinness World Records—is so big he had to build a 9,000-square foot museum in Sonoma County, California, to hold it. Rancho Obi-Wan is home to the world’s largest privately owned collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Sansweet has about half a mil lion pieces, including a Darth Vader costume, at least one of every Star Wars action figure ever made, more than 3,000 movie posters, a library, fan-made art, life-size Lego characters, an animatronic cantina band and Star Wars pinball machines. For fans, visiting Rancho Obi-Wan is like walking into heaven—every shelf, wall and case is packed with lovingly arranged treasures. Sansweet, SMC ’66, admits he’s a born collector, but long before he fell in love with Star Wars, he was a Temple-trained journalist. Like many journalism majors, Sansweet worked for The Temple News, where he reported on President John F. Kennedy’s assassina tion and President Lyndon Johnson’s campus visit.

“Temple is where it all started. That was where my life opened up.”

“We churned out a newspaper four days a week,” Sansweet says. “I learned teamwork, mentoring, accuracy, editing, and how to balance work and school—the basis of who I am as a professional.” After graduating, Sansweet spent the bulk of his journalism career at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where for 23 years he covered everything from earthquakes to the movie industry. In 1977, he attended a Star Wars screening for journalists, and a dormant love of science fiction was reawakened. He soon started buying every Star Wars action figure he could find. More than a decade later, Sansweet did a freelance project for Lucasfilm,Star Wars director George Lucas’ production company, which led to the first of his 16 books about the franchise. In the mid-1990s, after nine years as The Wall Street Journal’s LA bureau chief, he both made a bold career change and found a new home for his growing collection, moving to Petaluma to direct Lucasfilm’s content-management and fan-relations efforts and open Rancho Obi-Wan. “I started as a journalist. Then I went into marketing. Now I run a nonprofit museum. I feel like I’ve led a charmed life,” says Sansweet, who was honored with a Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Award in 2009. “But Temple is where it all started. That was where my life opened up.” —Hillel J. Hoffmann

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LEIGH ANN BUZIAK, LAW ’04 KARLY B. WATSON, THM ’05 DAVID M. HERSH, LAW ’07 Technical.ly Philly, a technology news and events network, with was elected partner in the law joined the sales team at SMG, competed in the Challenge Brian James Kirk, SMC ’09. firm of Blank Rome LLP in an entertainment and conven Atlantic City triathlon to raise Philadelphia. In addition, she tion venue management firm. awareness of the Endeleo BRIAN JAMES KIRK, SMC ’09 serves on the Young Lawyer As sales manager at the Project, a nonprofit organiza Editorial Board of The Legal Pennsylvania Convention tion he co-founded with was named a Young Intelligencer, provides pro bono Center in Philadelphia, she Maureen Holland, LAW ’07, to Entrepreneur of the Year legal services to many local s responsible for the social, increase access to education by the Greater Philadelphia organizations, and is an active multicultural, educational, opportunities for underserved Chamber of Commerce. He member and fundraiser for religious and fraternal markets. populations around the world. is co-founder of Technical.ly the nonprofit organization Back Philly, a technology news on My Feet. MENA M. HANNA, BYR ’06 DAVID J. ULBRICH, CLA ’07 and events network, with Christopher Wink, CLA ’08. was appointed dean of the published Ways of War: EDWARD GALLAGHER III, EDU ’04 Barenboim-Said Academy in American Military History from was appointed head of the mid Berlin, Germany. The academy the Colonial Era to the Twenty- 2010s dle school at AIM Academy in is an extension of the West- First Century with Routledge. Class of 2010, your five-year Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Eastern Divan Orchestra. Matthew Muehlbauer, CLA ’08, reunion will take place Alumni where he will work to create an Previously, Hanna was assistant is co-author of that book. Ulbrich Weekend 2015, April 24–26! innovative learning environment artistic director of the Houston is a professor in the Department for children with language- Grand Opera. of History and Political Science DOREEN L. GARNER, TYL ’10 based learning differences. at Rogers State University in spent nine weeks over the sum Previously, he served as assis JOY M. HOLLAND, TYL ’06 Claremore, Oklahoma. mer at Skowhegan, an intensive tant upper school dean of held an open studio summer residency program for emerging Girard College in Philadelphia. GAVIN B. WHITT, TFM ’07 residency in the Art Gallery visual artists in Madison, Maine. (TAG) at the University of West mounted an original one-man She also was awarded the 2014 JOHN D. PERKINS, BYR ’04 Florida in Pensacola. It is the show called The Orange Hair Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship, joined Butler University in first in a series of annual resi in Philadelphia as a part of given each year to a Rhode Indianapolis as associate director dency projects TAG will offer the fifth annual SoLow Fest. Island School of Design MFA of choral activities and assistant to a local artist each summer. student who shows exceptional professor of music. Previously, MATTHEW S. MUEHLBAUER, CLA ’08 promise in painting, sculpture, he taught at the American DARYL S. FREEDMAN, BYR ’07 film, video, mixed media or published Ways of War: University of Sharjah in United performance art. was selected for the apprentice American Military History from Arab Emirates and developed program with Santa Fe Opera in the Colonial Era to the Twenty- that country’s first music pro KEVIN HARDEN JR., LAW ’10 New Mexico. A mezzo-soprano, First Century with Routledge. gram in higher education. In she covered the roles of Frau David Ulbrich, CLA ’07, is co was named to the Public 2010, he founded the Nassim Krone in Mozart’s Impresario author of that book. Interest Law Center of Al Saba Choir, the first Arabic and Death in Stravinsky’s Philadelphia Board of Directors. four-part choir in the Arabian Le Rossignol. ERICA I. WERNICK, TYL ’08 Previously, he served as a Gulf region. prosecutor in the Philadelphia wrote and produced a comedy REBECCA C. HAINS, SMC ’07 District Attorney’s Office, where Class of 2005, your 10-year short entitled 7 Things Nobody he was assigned to the South reunion will take place Alumni published The Princess Problem: Tells You About Moving to L.A. Weekend 2015, April 24–26! Philadelphia Focused Deterrence Guiding Our Girls Through the It reveals funny snippets of life Task Force. He also is an attor Princess-Obsessed Years, a toolkit in Los Angeles and is based on JAMES MADISON, TFM ’05 ney in the law firm of Eckert for raising empowered, resilient her e-book titled L.A. Bound: Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC co-founded Expressway Grip, daughters and helping parents The Ultimate Guide to Moving to in Philadelphia. a video, lighting and grip teach their daughters to think Los Angeles. equipment rental house in critically about race and gender Philadelphia, and Expressway stereotypes and body image. CHRISTOPHER WINK, CLA ’08 Productions, a company whose was named a Young clients include Under Armour Entrepreneur of the Year by the and the U.S. Army. Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He is co-founder of

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CLASS OF 2008 Marc Campos

job and “means to the literary end.” What drew her to law was the “narrative, particularly in criminal cases,” she explains. “In ELIZABETH SILVER those worlds, the work is about the person, telling a story from a particular perspective, which translated in my mind as fiction.” DEGREE: JD, Beasley School of Law, 2008 Silver got her BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in creative writing from England’s University of East OCCUPATION: Woman of letters ...and law Anglia. Back in the U.S., she worked in the publishing industry and LOCATION: Los Angeles taught writing and literature before heading to Temple to study law.

To say that Elizabeth Silver, LAW ’08, is inspired by the law may be an understatement. The Los Angeles–based attorney is the author “The work is about the person, telling a of 2013’s The Execution of Noa P. Singleton, a highly acclaimed debut story from a particular perspective, novel rife with the drama and legal conflict that result when one’s protagonist sits on death row. which translated in my mind as fiction.” More specifically,The Execution of Noa P. Singleton is the story of a young woman convicted of murder who has never said a word in The inspiration for Noa came while Silver was in her last semes her own defense and the murder victim’s mother, a Philadelphia- ter of law school, when she took a class on capital punishment. based attorney who commits to making a bid for clemency—if Noa Then, while serving as a judicial clerk in Texas, she drafted an starts talking. opinion on the death penalty—the issue at the heart of her novel. The book is everything a young writer wishes for her work: It After finishing her clerkship she took a year off to write, then was published by Crown, a division of Random House; was called moved to Los Angeles for a law job. The powerful story of Noa sold a “fantastic first novel” byThe Washington Post; has been optioned just two months later. for a film (“It is quite fun to think of dream casts,” says Silver); and Her career roles are now reversed: Silver writes full time (a sec is being translated into six languages. ond novel is in the works) and moonlights as a lawyer. “I want to Silver, who was raised in New Orleans and Dallas, always knew keep my foot in the game,” she says, “and to experience the thrill she wanted to be a writer, just like she always knew she wanted to of the courtroom, which even at its most banal moments is a center be a lawyer. Though, Silver says, she planned for law to be a day of great drama and story.” —Alix Gerz, SMC ’03, CLA ’07

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CLASS OF 1995 STACEY SAUCHUK Joseph Labolito V.

DEGREE: MEd and PhD, College of Education, 1995 OCCUPATION: First lady LOCATION: Wayne, Pennsylvania

Stacey Sauchuk’s office at Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne, Pennsylvania, is part museum: Mannequins wear ing antique uniforms stand in the corners. A wall of photographs displays an impressive roster of leaders, each portrait of a military man who has served as the academy’s president. Except for one. In the center of the wall hangs a photo of Sauchuk, who is not only a civilian, she’s the nation’s first woman president of a private military academy and college. The job was also a first for Sauchuk, who had never worked in a military setting before she started her tenure at Valley Forge in April 2013. Established in 1928, the academy is an all-male, private boarding school. The college, which was founded in 1935, began admitting women in 2006.

“I’ve always had an interest in education and the tools it takes to make sure students have a solid foundation.”

Before coming to the academy, Sauchuk worked for 11 years at Education Management, one of the largest providers of private postsecondary education in the U.S., as senior vice president of academic programs and student affairs. She admits that “there was an adjustment period” to the mili tary setting, but shaping the minds of future leaders was her first and only concern. “I’ve always had an interest in education,” she says, “and the tools it takes to make sure students have a solid foundation.” Sauchuk, who was born outside of Baltimore, Maryland, acquired some of those tools at Temple’s College of Education, where she earned a master’s of education and PhD in school psy chology. While at Temple, she gained firsthand knowledge of what it takes to create an environment where students thrive. “The military model offers a structured way to teach students life skills that will propel them ahead,” says Sauchuk. “While at Temple, I realized that no matter your gender or background, structure is a key to success. Education can be a great equalizer.” On an average day, students at the prestigious military academy she now heads can be found on the yard, marching in lockstep and working to exemplify the academy’s motto: Courage, Honor, Conquer. Sauchuk believes strongly in that motto, and in what she thinks of as its complement: “My personal life motto,” she says, “is Faith, Love, Joy.” —Jazmyn Burton

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JEFFREY S. POZZUOLO, LAW ’10 student affairs professionals to has been in materials conserva YANGBIN PARK, TYL ’13 interact with and learn from tion since 2010, she has worked presented a continuing legal presented I Wasn’t Doing senior administrators in the on projects for Greenwood education talk titled Retirement Nothing, a solo show held in field. He is the associate director Gardens in Short Hills, New Planning for Middle Income 40th Street AIRSpace Gallery of resident life at International Jersey, Lady Chapel of St. Mark’s Families at the Penn State in Philadelphia. All the works in House in Philadelphia. Church in Philadelphia and the Extension campus in the show were made during the State Museum of Pennsylvania Doylestown. He is an attorney Artist-in-Residence Program at ALEXIS B. CANARY, FOX ’12 in Harrisburg. in the law firm of Pozzuolo the same gallery. Rodden PC. is social media and public rela CAMELLUS O. EZEUGWU, FOX ’13 tions strategist at CoLabination, MICHELLE A. WEST, BYR ’13 AMBER COWAN, TYL ’11 an online branding platform was profiled in the May 9, 2014, is a principal dancer with the that allows independent cloth issue of the San Francisco is the 2014 recipient of the touring production of Jim ing designers to showcase their Chronicle. He is the CEO of Rakow Commission, a $25,000 Henson’s Sid the Science Kid Live. work and consumers to buy Whose Your Landlord, a website award given to an artist to create directly from the designers. designed to help students make a work for the permanent collec SIENNA MARTZ, TYL ’14 informed decisions about tion in the Corning Museum of SHELLEY E. JACKSON, BYR ’12 choosing a rental property. was included in a roster of Glass. She is an adjunct instruc 21 artists invited to exhibit art tor in the Glass Program in the entered the International Opera THOMAS D. FEISTER, FOX ’13 in a show titled Wearable Art: Tyler School of Art. Studio of the Opernhaus Zurich, Inspiration in Thread, which where she played Echo in has passed the CPA exam. He is celebrated the 10th anniversary NATHANIEL BEAU HANCOCK, BYR ’11 Strauss’ Ariadne Auf Naxos a member of the audit team at of the Chung Young Yang under Fabio Luisi and Mary-Ann ParenteBeard, a top 25 account was named the winner of the Embroidery Museum in Seoul, in Schwemmer’s Robin Hood ing and business advisory firm, 2014–2015 Ellen Forman South Korea. It took Martz more under the baton of where he works out of the Memorial Award, which sup than 500 hours to create a Michael Zlabinger. Reading, Pennsylvania, location. ports Philadelphia-area chore hand-dyed silk gown for the ographers by giving them the exhibition. BRITTANY L. LEWIS, SMC ’12 ZACHARY B. KISSEL, FOX ’13 opportunity to set a work on Drexel University’s Dance was crowned Miss Delaware is the head of DevOps at ALI WATKINS, SMC ’14 Ensemble as part of the Drexel 2014. Previously, she was a Computer Services Unlimited, joined Huffington Post as Dance program. corps member in the Teach For a Maryland-based IT services a political reporter in its America program. She cur company. He provides support Washington, D.C., bureau. ALLEN MENDENHALL, LAW ’11 rently teaches seventh-grade for projects with a focus on Previously, she was an intern at English language arts at Prestige availability, response time, published Literature & Liberty: McClatchy, where she was part Charter School in Wilmington. data integrity and security. Essays in Libertarian Literary of the team that broke news Criticism with Lexington Books. about the CIA spying on the LATOYA A. STROMAN, SMC ’12 LIAM L. MCKENNA, SMC ’13 He is staff attorney to Alabama Senate Intelligence Committee. Supreme Court Chief Justice is casting producer and segment was appointed editor of For that work, she was featured Roy S. Moore, managing editor producer for Genealogy Wareham Week, a newspaper on the cover of Temple’s fall of the Southern Literary Review Roadshow, season two, on PBS, in Massachusetts. 2014 issue. and a doctoral candidate in where she led the show’s intern English at Auburn University ship program and hired three in Alabama. Temple students. Stroman also is an associate producer of Flex MICHAEL T. BEACHEM IV, EDU ’12 & Shanice: All in the Family on the Oprah Winfrey Network. attended the National Association of Student CASEY WEISDOCK, TYL ’12 Keep Temple posted! Personnel Administrators Mid Email [email protected] to share your recent news and update Manager’s Institute in Albany, enrolled in the master of science your information. You also may mail your notes to: New York, a program that degree program in historic pres Editor, Temple provides an opportunity for ervation at the University of Bell Building, 3rd Floor Pennsylvania. An architectural 1101 W. Montgomery Ave. conservation technician who Philadelphia, PA 19122

WINTER 2015 49 This list includes those in the Temple community who have passed away since IN MEMORIAM the last issue of Temple.

1930s 1950s Joseph H. Engle, MED ’56 Nicholas Kozay Jr., EDU ’56

Lorraine R. Nyemetz, EDU ’33 Omar N. Barth, CLA ’50 Robert Dias John W. Poole, PHR ’56 Nadeine R. Cope, EDU ’35 Marc S. Lapayowker, CST ’50, MED ’54 Greta B. Richards, CLA ’56 Arthur Colley, EDU ’36 Paul Lewis, FOX ’50, CLA ’61 Donald Arthur Carlsen, MED ’57 William Silverstein, DEN ’36 Jack Lutz, CLA ’50, EDU ’53, ’66 John J. Cowley, EDU ’57 Jean Moser Lamb, EDU ’37, ’41 Arthur J. Shivers Jr., CLA ’50 Edward R. Germer, FOX ’57, EDU ’62 Sidney M. Steiger, LAW ’37 Florence B. Strockbine, CPH ’50 Anthony H. Murray Jr., LAW ’57 Abraham W. Mamlin, DEN ’38 George M. Kent, MED ’51 Addie M. Ossi, CPH ’57 Dante W. Renzulli, PHR ’39 Leonard Markowitz, CLA ’51, CST ’59 Donna R. Garner, CPH ’58 Paul E. Swain, PHR ’51 G. Carl Pettinato, EDU ’58, CLA ’64 CURTIS ALLEN Karl Edward Unger, CLA ’51 1940s Louise M. Priole, EDU ’58 Marvin E. Aronson, MED ’52 LEONARD, Matthew J. Cairnes, Barney Bernstein, EDU ’40 ENG ’59 David Cohen, LAW ’52 Steven F. Gadon, Sidney J. Gold, FOX ’40 LAW ’59 EDU ’61, CLA ’79 William B. Gaynor, MED ’52 George A. Isaac, Lillian Cohen Kovar, CLA ’40 FOX ’59, EDU ’65 Curtis Allen Leonard, EDU ’61, James D. Mendenhall, DEN ’52 Margaret Parcel Krotow, CLA ’79, dean emeritus of the Dorothy Scheingold, SED ’41 CLA ’59 Bernice L. Metz, EDU ’52 Jacob W. Miller, Temple University School of Harold Tanenbaum, DEN ’41 EDU ’59 Alvin Steinberg Jr., DEN ’52 Social Work, passed away in Ernest C. Montefusco, Maurice Louis Turoff, DEN ’41 EDU ’59 August 2014. He received a John Allan Cooper Sr., DEN ’53 S. David Taylor, Stephen Abrahamson, EDU ’42, ’48 FOX ’59 bachelor of science in second Mildred Capparell Gale, CST ’53 ary education from Temple Mary J. P. Birchett, CLA ’42, ’48 James D. Hill, POD ’53 and a master of social work Edward L. Udis, DEN ’42 1960s from the University of Meyer Charles Rose, LAW ’53 Cryder H. Bankes Jr., ENG ’43 Pennsylvania. He also earned William H. Bachman, MED ’54 Marguerite D. Borzelleca, EDU ’60 a PhD in political science and Norman Elson, CST ’43, MED ’46 Harry C. Cohen, CLA ’54 Gayl P. Gentile, EDU ’60 urban planning from Temple. Leonard S. Rome, POD ’43 Paul Jay Fink, CST ’54, MED ’58 Alberta Muhammad, CPH ’60 Leonard began teaching at Margaret Martin Trego, TFM ’43 Jay E. Fleck Jr., DEN ’54 Harry Shevchuck, ENG ’60 Temple in 1968 as an assistant Eleanor S. Pinto, EDU ’44 professor of social welfare Joseph James Gormley, MED ’54 Eugene B. Myerov, DEN ’61 Norman W. Wray Sr., EDU ’44, ’50 and became the director of William G. Jones, MED ’54 Michael L. Ripic, EDU ’61 the then-new Special Marilyn C. Weber, CPH ’45 Charles E. Mitchell, LAW ’54 Russell Lebar, EDU ’62 Recruitment and Admissions Carolyn Corey Jarin, SED ’46 Program the following year. Herbert Berkowitz, EDU ’55 Harry E. McFarland, EDU ’63 Anna B. Young, In 1979, he began teaching EDU ’46, ’55 William Cassels Jr., ENG ’55 Marion B. Norris, EDU ’63 full time in what was then Milton Neustadter, FOX ’48 Richard J. Marshall, EDU ’55 Charles H. Simpson, EDU ’63 known as the School of Social Joseph W. Palis, CST ’48, DEN ’52 Robert L. Allen Sr., FOX ’56 Ruth M. Fliegel, CLA ’64 Administration. In 1994, he Nancy H. Pappas, CPH ’48 was appointed dean of the Robert W. Bond, EDU ’56 Morton J. Roth, ENG ’64, CST ’67 school, and he retired in 2002. Shirley S. Itzenson, BYR ’49 John C. Carney, EDU ’56 Steven E. Carl, CST ’65 Alfonso Taglianetti Jr., CLA ’49

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Russell E. Eisenbise, CLA ’65 Paul K. Woodburn, SSW ’74 Regina M. Hobaugh, CLA ’91 Richard Lee Fredrickson, EDU ’65 Pennie H. Marcus, CLA ’75, EDU ’83 Darliene Christie, SSW ’92, ’95

Robert P. Lonergan, MED ’65 John M. Erik, PHR ’76, ’86 Eric A. Mondress, FOX ’94 Robert Dias Joel Riegel, EDU ’65 Joseph A. O’Donnell, CST ’76, William J. Wester, FOX ’94 EDU ’82, ’88 Louis M. Waronker, CLA ’65 Deborah Broadnax, SMC ’95 Evelyn N. Robinson, EDU ’76 Anna Jane Zerbe, EDU ’65, ’70 Stephen S. Evans, CLA ’95 Floyd D. Martin, EDU ’77 Dolores W. Battiste, EDU ’66 Louis F. Spina, CLA ’95 Pedro Encarnacion, EDU ’78, ’81 Anthony A. Geno, EDU ’66 Ivory L. DeWitt Jr., CLA ’97 Marguerite Johnson, CPH ’78, ’82 Judith L. Murphy, EDU ’66 Stuart R. Fenster, SSW ’97 Alan F. Markovitz, LAW ’78 Donna M. Guenther, MED ’67 Anthony Bernard Richardson, EDU ’97 Donna F. Williamson, EDU ’78 Lawrence R. Watson II, LAW ’67 Brandi J. Brice, CLA ’99, LAW ’03, ’07 RICHARD J. Gary G. Berger, CST ’79 Alan S. Cutler, DEN ’68 Maureen E. Halpin, POD ’99 Gloria Washington Hicks, MED ’79 KOZERA Jeffrey Steven Freedman, CLA ’68 Ronald G. Kinzler, CLA ’68 2000s Richard J. Kozera, former fac ulty member and associate Stanley B. Lindner Jr., EDU ’68 1980s Roslyn D. Campbell, EDU ’01 dean in the Temple University Florence C. Whitney, EDU ’68 Seymour Green, FOX ’80 School of Medicine, passed Megan J. Shoap, CPH ’04 Dorothy G. Douglas, EDU ’69 away in August 2014. Ann J. Laeuchli, LAW ’80 William L. Bertoti, EDU ’05 Sheldon B. Kall, CST ’69, MED ’73 Francis J. Shane, CLA ’80 Kozera received his under Sean M. Distler, ENG ’08 Alan R. Kosher, SMC ’69 graduate degree from Richard R. House, TYL ’81 David G. O’Hara Jr., CLA ’08 Amherst College in 1961 and Jerry E. Lego, EDU ’69 William C. Paynter, FOX ’81 Katie T. Amodei, TFM ’09 graduated from the Yale Gail D. Mackey, CPH ’69 James C. Swilley, THM ’81 University School of Medicine Raymond N. Portnoff, CST ’69, DEN ’73 in 1965. He served as a lieu John J. DiNella, POD ’82 tenant commander with the Louis William Ross, FOX ’69 2010s Betty A. Jurasits, EDU ’82 U.S. Naval Reserve Medical Margaret Gallagher Lukhard, SMC ’82 David Kedra, CLA ’10 Corps during the Vietnam War. Before arriving at Temple 1970s Michael R. MacInnis, TYL ’82 Joshua Schwartz, FOX ’10 in 1987, Kozera was chief of Gregory T. Rowe, FOX ’83 Amelia E. Caglia, THM ’14 Richard Z. Hartranft, EDU ’70 the Department of Medicine Lenore S. Spiegel, CLA ’83, in the Cincinnati Veterans Michael S. Leone, TYL ’70 EDU ’88, ’91 Affairs Medical Center. Peter D. Quick, FOX ’70 Daniel M. Borislow, FOX ’84 Kozera was a professor of David Walker Raymond, LAW ’70 CORRECTION Ogden O. Hackett, EDU ’84 endocrinology at Temple Richard L. Sharp, FOX ’70 In the fall 2014 issue, Doris Lee-Anne Jackson, FOX ’86 and served as acting dean of Robert Dennis Diehl Sr., EDU ’71 Coover Ropp, PHR ’49, was the School of Medicine in Ronald W. Lamar, BYR ’86 incorrectly listed as deceased. 1991, 1996 and 2002. During Heidi A.E. Ludwig, EDU ’71 Jeffrey A. Dipaolo, FOX ’87 Her son, David G. Ropp, his 27-year tenure, he over Ihor Zujewskyj, EDU ’71 David D. Kunkel, PHR ’87 PHR ’87, is deceased. saw accreditation site visits Robert Allender, EDU ’72, ’77 Additionally, the name “Ropp” and presided over several Madelyn D. Bradley, CST ’88 was printed as “Rapp.” renewals of the medical Karen L. Bartis, CLA ’72 Frank G. Fiumara, CPH ’88 school’s curriculum. He also Willis F. Larrabee, EDU ’72 Elaine L. Schalck, EDU ’89 To submit a name for this list, regularly served as master Dale H. Reinecker, EDU ’72 of ceremonies at the School Mark Wollman, LAW ’89 email [email protected] Richard Leo Werkheiser Sr., EDU ’72 or call 215-204-7332. of Medicine’s White You also may mail your notes to: Coat Ceremony. Frank E. Gramer, CLA ’73 1990s Editor, Temple Paula M. Cohen, SSW ’74 Bell Building, 3rd Floor Lawrence L. Ferreri, FOX ’74 Bruce Russell Ganey, POD ’90 1101 W. Montgomery Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122 Gladys K. McConnell, CLA ’74 Joanne P. Will, LAW ’90

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