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Audrey Hirt Academic Center "*> *^ + \ < t / / f / / / \ VOL. 18, No. 1 J JANUARY 2002 i*^ AUDREY HIRT ACADEMIC CENTER .o- PROFILE OF MERCYHURST COLLEGE Founded: 1926 Degrees: Special Recognition: Main: 43 majors, 64 concentrations Type of college: Catholic liberal arts. Founded North East: Nine associate degrees, six • Ranked among the top tier of liberal arts by the Sisters of Mercy. Coeducational certificate programs colleges in the North six consecutive years since Feb. 9,1969. by U.S. News & World Report Best Undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Colleges Guide (15 of 20) School colors: Blue/Green/White Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Music • Second largest of the Mercy colleges in the country Motto: Carpe Diem - Seize the Opportunity Graduate degrees: Master of Science in Special • One of a select number of colleges and Education, Administration of Justice universities across the country to receive Enrollment: 3,000 on main campus, 625 at and Organizational Leadership the prestigious Newcomen Society Award Mercyhurst North East presented for being an educational leader Two-year degree programs: Associate of Arts, in the Erie community. Freshman Class of 2005: Associate of Science Main: 664 students from 29 states Recent Developments: and five foreign countries. Adult programs: Comprehensive degrees, post-baccalaureate certificates and • 2002 Main campus — Began work on $7.3 North East: 344 first-year students from 11 graduate programs. Accelerated degree million Audrey Hirt Academic Center; states and three foreign countries program. Teacher certification. expected completion date October 2002. Renovated Ice Center by adding new Full-time Employees: library holdings: 172,500 seating, offices and an expanded Main: 337 Online serials searching and public access concession stand; cost $300,000. North East: 80 catalog through Web-based system Constructed handsome brick entrance to Tullio Field. Faculty: Athletics: Main: 117 full-time North East campus — Constructed second North East: 27 full-time • Team name: The Lakers set of student townhouses at cost of $600,000. Opened new on-campus copy Campuses: 75-acre main campus with 44 • Sports: Basketball (M/W), Baseball (M), center in basement of Miller Hall. buildings in Erie, Pa.; 84-acre branch Cross Country (M/W), Golf (M/W), Completed renovations of Scouller Pool campus with 11 buildings in North East, Pa. Soccer (M/W), Softball (W), Tennis and the Main Street Annex now occupied (M/W), Volleyball (M/W), Rowing by the Municipal Police Training Academy Budget: (M/W), Field Hockey (W), Ice Hockey Main: $52 million (M/W), Lacrosse (M/W), Football (M), • 2000 Main campus — Constructed 9,500- North East: $5.5 million Wrestling (M), Water Polo (M/W) ^ square-foot fitness center and renovated the recreation center. Cost $1.25 million. Endowment: $10 million Conference affiliations: NCAA Division Built a sportsmedicine addition to the Division I in men's and women's ice athletic center. Cost $175,000. Purchased Cost main campus: hockey. Great Lakes Intercollegiate four additional Baldwin Garden Tuition $13,940, Fees $1,050, Room and Athletic Conference, Eastern College Apartments and signed agreement to buy Board $5,694. _ Athletic Conference and the Midwest the last four of the original apartments Yearly total for resident students $20,684 Intercollegiate Volleyball Association | (Highland Square). Engineered the / construction of a traffic signal at the front Cost North East campus: Team name for North East campus: The 0 "*fQO j^^^iri'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Tuition $8,070, Fees $840, Room and Saints Board $5,112. m^00^ I North East campus — Built two new Yearly total for resident students $14,022 Sports: Basketball (M/W), Baseball (M), state-of-the-art science labs and a new Softball (W), Soccer (M/W), Volleyball entrance to Miller Hall. Expanded and Number of Alumni: More than 11,000 (W), Swimming (M/W) relocated the bookstore. Cost $1 million. Purchased the Scouller Pool on North Fund raising: Preserving the Legacy Capital Conference affiliations: National Junior College Lake Street. Cost $25,000. Purchased a Campaign, October 2000 to present — Athletic Association and the Western New 10,000-square-foot bank building at 17 W. $15.7 million York Athletic Conference Main St. for the Municipal Police Training Academy. Cost: $75,000. Began construc- Accreditation: Middle States Association of tion on new student housing on the north Colleges and Secondary Schools edge of campus. Added a 10,000-square- foot storage bam to campus. TABLE OF CONTENTS VOL. 18, NO. 1 JANUARY 2002 Mercyhurst FEATURES /v\ -A, <3 SK R/IAP — Research/Intelligence Analyst Program President William P. Garvey, Ph.D. Mercyhurst responds: Sept. 11 COVER — The New Hirt Center Vice President of Institutional Advancement 8 The greening of Mercyhurst Gary Bukowski 73, CFRE SPECIAL EVENTS - HOMECOMING 2001 Editor Gennifer Biggs Weiss 11 Jamie Yule scholarship started Director of Public Relations 11 Barry Reunion unveils memorial and Publications 12 Spirit of Mercy awards part of 75th anniversary celebration Editorial Assistant Margaret Closson ALUMNI Contributing Writers 13 Tim McNichol: Young alum takes spirit of Carpe Diem Gennifer Weiss Don McQuaid on the road Deborah Wallace Morton 14 Hitting the road with Alumni Services Debbie Duda Gale 77 15 Evelyn DePalma: Mercyhurst grad at forefront of Cover national security ©2001 Weber Murphy Fox Architects PRESERVING THE LEGACY - Contributing Photographers 16 The Grand Dame gets a facelift Gennifer Weiss Rob Ruby Paul Lorei CAMPUS ACTIVITIES Chet Szymecki Annie Sitter 17 Working behind the scenes: Council for Exceptional Richard Forsgren '84 Children 18 Campus news GraphicDesign SPORTS Printing 20 The evolution of a sport: Rowing Printing Technologies 21 Laker Notes The Office of Public Relations, a division of the Institutional Advancement Office, CLASS NOTES publishes the Mercyhurst Magazine. I 22 News from alumni Please send letters to the editor, address 27 Deborah Duda Gale '77 from across the pond changes and alumni news to: Mercyhurst Magazine c/o Gennifer Weiss AT THE MARY D'ANGELO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Mercyhurst College 501 E. 38th St. IBC Schedule of events Erie, Pa. 16546 (814) 824-3315 Fax (814) 824-2473 or [email protected] N U A R Y 2 0 0 2 1 R/IAP students work behind the scenes on FEATURE front-page issue of intelligence * > A. / ifc N (pfc. / S Photo Courtesy Erie Times News-Rich Forsgren '84 by Deborah Wallace Morton What a decade ago was perceived by some garnering the attention of international Heibel's instincts, borne out by 25 as a "school for spies" with James Bond intelligence practitioners and decision-mak- years of FBI service, are proving to be right overtones has grown into one of the most ers in both the public and private sectors. on target. He has long advocated the need credible and prestigious cutting-edge pro- From its modest beginnings in 1992, for more and better trained intelligence per- grams at Mercyhurst College. when it enrolled 14 students, R/IAP is now sonnel to work in tandem with technology. What is more, the Sept. 11 terrorist the curriculum of choice for 100 undergrad- "The events of Sept. 11 demonstrated attacks on the Twin Towers and the uates and 20 graduate students from 11 both a strategic and a tactical failure on the Pentagon and the ensuing bio-terrorism, states and four foreign countries. Those part of our intelligence," Heibel said. "They including an anthrax scare on the well-trained and highly marketable individ- knew something was going on. They knew Mercyhurst campus that ended as a hoax, uals, many of whom will command starting something was going to happen. They just have catapulted the successful, albeit incon- salaries of $30,000 to $50,000, are finding didn't know what... There was not suffi- spicuous, program into the spotlight. internships and jobs in premier government cient follow-through." The Research/Intelligence Analyst institutions like the Central Intelligence Since Sept. 11, Heibel has been inun- Program (R/1AP) is a one-of-a-kind hands- Agency, Interpol and the National Security dated with speaking requests and is a high- on training ground producing graduates Agency, as well as Fortune 500 companies ly sought-after source for the national with entry-level skills for analyst positions like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola. media, including CNN, MSNBC and The in national security, law enforcement and Meanwhile, R/IAP's tenets have been Wall Street Journal. But nowhere is he more the private sector. used as the basis of a program at the at home than at R/IAP headquarters on the For some, the term, "intelligence," con- University of Manchester in England, while Mercyhurst campus, where training the jures up cloak-and-dagger images but, sim- in the states, the University of New Mexico intelligence analysts of tomorrow has taken ply put, it is actionable knowledge to assist and Wright State are using the R/IAP model on a whole new urgency. decision-makers. The preparation of that to institute hybrid programs of their own. "There is little true strategic intelli- "knowledge" is the work of highly trained At the helm of this mighty endeavor is gence coming out of law enforcement today, intelligence analysts who collect, correlate Robert J. Heibel, a retired FBI agent who in terms of threat assessments and under- and analyze information from diverse served as the Bureau's deputy chief of standing trends and their implications/' sources. counter-terrorism. He is both creator and Heibel said. "There is a real need for the Perhaps at no other time in history has director of R/IAP. federal government to upgrade the training the need for intelligence analysts and the Many distinguished institutions offer of existing analysts and provide funds for unique training offered at Mercyhurst been national policy and related theory degree colleges to start R/IAP programs." as timely The recent flood of telephone calls programs, but it was Heibel who recog- Heibel suspects the funding floodgates into R/IAP offices from prospective stu- nized the need for a college program will open as a result of Sept.
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