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VOL. XXX, NO. 1 NO. XXX, VOL. MonmouthMAGAZINE UNIVERSITY HAWKS HELP HAITI Calendar of MonmouthMAGAZINE UNIVERSITY EVENTS APRIL 8 Volume XXX, No. 1 MARCH H.R. Young Lecture Series MAY Winter 2010 MARCH 10 Speaker: Joe Anastasio, MAY 1 Alumni: Speed Networking Event partner Capco Best of the Met: Live in HD PAUL G. GAFFNEY II Rebecca Stafford Student Center Bey Hall - H.R. Young Auditorium Armida – Gioachino Rossini President Anacon Hall A 6:00 PM Pollak Theatre 6:30-9:00 PM 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: JEFFERY N. MILLS APRIL 9-APRIL 16 Register with Alumni Office Fine Art: Second Senior Exhibition 4:20/2 Intermissions) Vice President for University Advancement $22 Publisher MARCH 20 800 & Rotary Ice House Galleries Alumni: Wine Tasting Opening reception: April 9, MAY 15 7:00-9:00 PM MICHAEL SAYRE MAIDEN, JR. Wilson Hall Best of the Met: Live in HD Editor 6:00-8:00 PM Free Armida – Gioachino Rossini Call Alumni Office for details. APRIL 10 Encore Rebroadcast Pollak Theatre HEATHER MCCULLOCH MISTRETTA MARCH 22 Performing Arts: Suzanne Vega 7:00 PM (Approx Running Time: Assistant Editor Provost Film Series: Tycoon: A Pollak Theatre 4:20/2 Intermissions) New Russian 8:00 PM $22 JIM REME Panelists: Provost Thomas S. $40 University Photographer Pearson and Dr. Kevin Dooley APRIL 11 MAY 20 BLAZE NOWARA Pollak Theatre Performing Arts: In the Mood: A Commencement Assistant to University Photographer 6:00-8:18 PM 1940s Musical Revue PNC Bank Arts Center Free Pollak Theatre 1:30 PM DESIGN OF 4 MARCH 23 3:00 PM Design Children’s Theater: Pinocchio $32/$40 JUNE Running Rabbit Theatre Monmouth University Magazine is APRIL 16 JUNE 3 Pollak Theatre Kislak Real Estate Institute published by University Advancement. Performing Arts: Totally Mozart 10:30 AM Pollak Theatre Leadership Excellence Award $10/$12 Reception Monmouth University Magazine 7:30 PM Honoring John A. Giunco, 400 Cedar Avenue MARCH 25 $22/$30 partner, Giordano, Halleran West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898 Visiting Writers Series: Colm APRIL 22 & Ciesla, and Peter Reinhart, Tóibín National Theatre: Live in HD Wilson Hall Auditorium senior vice president & HOW TO CONTACT US: The Habit of Art —a new play by general counsel, K. Hovnanian 4:30 PM Alan Bennett CLASS NOTES: Free Enterprises [email protected] Pollak Theatre Wilson Hall MARCH 26-APRIL 2 7:00 PM For more information $20/$22 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Fine Art: First Senior Exhibition call 732-571-4412 [email protected] 800 & Rotary Ice House Galleries APRIL 23 Opening reception: March 26, JUNE 5 Performing Arts: Lunasa and Alumni: Reunion 7:00-9:00 PM Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill OFFICE OF ALUMNI AFFAIRS Free Wilson Hall Marilynn Perry, Director of Alumni Affairs Pollak Theatre For more information [email protected] MARCH 27 8:00 PM call 732-571-3489 800-531-ALUM Best of the Met: Live in HD $30/$38 Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas APRIL 25-MAY 7 Pollak Theatre Fine Art: Annual Student Show 1:00 PM (Approx Running Time: 800 & Rotary Ice House Galleries For information about 3:45/1 Intermission) Opening reception: April 25, Alumni events call Alumni $22 1:00-4:00 PM Affairs at 732-571-3489 APRIL Free APRIL 27 For information about APRIL 5 Visiting Writers Series: Nicole Performing Arts call the Provost Film Series: The Cooley box office at 732-263-6889 Vanished Empire Wilson Hall Auditorium Panelists: Provost Thomas S. 4:30 PM For information about other Pearson and Dr. Andrei Kuteinikov Free events contact Special Pollak Theatre (with reception to Events at 732-571-3509 follow) APRIL 27 7:30 PM Urban Coast Institute Free Coastal Policy Roundtable: Working Waterfronts GENERAL INFORMATION: APRIL 9 www.monmouth.edu Turrell Board Room, Bey Hall Best of the Met: Live in HD 8:00 AM 732-571-3400 Hamlet – Ambroise Thomas Encore Rebroadcast APRIL 30 Monmouth University supports equal opportunity in recruitment, Pollak Theatre Soccer admission, educational programs, and employment practices, and 7:00 PM (Approx Running Time: Golf Outing complies with all major federal and state laws and executive orders 3:45/1 Intermission) Sun Eagles Golf Course, Fort requiring equal employment opportunity and/or affirmative action. $22 Monmouth Call 732-263-5837 for details. MonmouthCONTENTS UNIVERSITY FEATURES 03 3 Hawks Help Haiti 6 Special Team Offers Special Care 10 A {Monmouth} Toy Story 14 Champions of the Ocean 06 16 Sports Hall of Fame 2009 DEPARTMENTS 10 2 MailQuad 20 On Campus 28 Athletics 34 Alumni News 38 Hawks in Print 14 41 Class Notes ON THE COVER: Kureé Cain, a junior majoring in Political Science and History, led a candlelight vigil outside Wilson Hall on January 26 to help raise funds for Haiti relief efforts. She is the president of the Monmouth chapter of the National Council of Negro Women. Photo: James Reme. CORRECTIONS: The women’s field hockey team defeated top-seeded Rider 2-1 in the semifinal game on November 6, but lost in the NEC championship game the following day to Lock Haven 2-0. Cody Ross Pitts is a senior Honors School student majoring in Chemistry, not Physics. We regret the errors. Monmouth University Magazine (ISSN 15549143) is published four times annually by Monmouth University, periodicals postage paid at West Long Branch, NJ and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Changes of address should be mailed to: Attention: Mailing Address Changes Room 321A, Wilson Hall Monmouth University 400 Cedar Avenue West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764-1898 Copyright © 2010, Monmouth University. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, duplicated, displayed, broadcast, or posted electronically via web, e-mail, or other means, or used in multi- Cert no. SW-COC-002556 media in any form, without express written permission from the Editor, Monmouth University Magazine. MAILQUAD post + e-MAIL + fAx + phone VETERANS RESPOND TO PRESIDENT GAFFNEY I am very proud to say that I served in THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS from 1955 to 1959. After earning an Honorable Discharge, I enrolled in Monmouth College. In 1963 I received a BS in Sec. Ed. with a major area of study Chemistry. After a 34 year career as a Chemistry Teacher, Dept. Chair and Supervisor of many departments, I finished my career as an Instructor at the University for preparing those who will I read President Gaffney’s letter in the recent Monmouth University (5 yrs. in the Physics, serve and remembering those who have. Monmouth University Magazine and saw his Chemistry and Med Tech Dept.). Warm Regards, note requesting that alumni who are veterans Yours Truly, Ray contact you. I served in the Marine Corps Edward J. Miller '63 from 1966 to 1970, including 13 months in I graduated from Monmouth in 2002 Viet Nam. After completing my enlistment I just wanted to take a moment to say with my MA in History. I am responding to in the Marines I enrolled at Monmouth “thank-you” for the kind words you wrote President Gaffney’s letter in the recent issue and graduated with honors in 1973. My about my military service in the most recent of Monmouth University Magazine. My picture experience at Monmouth was a valuable and issue of the MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY is on the top right corner of page 3, just above nurturing opportunity at a time when the MAGAZINE. Currently, I am a mobilized President Gaffney. I also was part of the country did not appreciate the dedication reservist assigned as a military historian to article by Heather Mistretta in the fall 2007 and sacrifices made by Viet Nam veterans. the US Army Center of Military History at issue titled Memories of Vietnam. Monmouth prepared me for a successful Fort McNair. While being away from home Gil Beck career in financial services industry working is never easy, the experiences I have gained for two major multi-national banks. I met being deployed last year in Kuwait and I read President Gaffney’s request to notify wife at Monmouth (she is a 1972 graduate) most recently to the ISAF Joint Command you about my service. I retired a LTC from the and we have been married for 36 years. We Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan have USAF in 2005. I am a nurse anesthetist and currently live in Bluffton, South Carolina. been extraordinary. Most of all, the quality of worked in USAF as a staff, instructor and chief Regards, the history graduate program at Monmouth, nurse anesthetist and commander (deployed Wayne Kachelriess under the guidance of my graduate advisor hospital after 9/11.) I graduated Monmouth (Dr. Chris DeRosa), was exceptional and 1971. I was in the last nursing class from I am a veteran of the Korean conflict prepared me for my future endeavors as a combined Monmouth Medical Center and military historian. and served in the Coast Guard reserve and Monmouth College; we ended up graduating active duty from February 18, 1953 to January Again, thank-you for remembering those from Brookdale Community College. members of the Monmouth University 4, 1957. Following my graduation from I applaud your programs to assist AD and Monmouth, I was Veteran’s Coordinator family who serve our nation. retired military; all the best. Very Respectfully, and Assistant Registrar and then Associate Ken Christine L. Croskey LTC, USAF (Ret) Admissions Director and Financial Aid Director. Kenneth R. Foulks Jr. '89, '07M Lieutenant Colonel, US Army Reserve Jay O. Petersen '59 Military Historian My name is Raymond Sandelli and I am how to submit a 1970 graduate of Monmouth. In the last issue of the University magazine, President A LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Gaffney’s letter reached out to graduates who served our country and suggested we Your comments and suggestions regarding Monmouth University Magazine are welcomed contact you.