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FOR ALUMNI & FRIENDS OF ROWAN UNIVERSITY SUMMER 2013 A new day for New Jersey 16 | Permanent presence 22 Home, shacks, home 30 | Captain of a dream 36 Brown & Gold Gridiron Homecoming Country Concert Classic Picnic & Pep Rally Saturday, September 14 Friday, October 18 Join football alumni and friends for the annual pre- A limited number of alumni tickets are available for the game picnic as the Profs take on Framingham State. first-ever Homecoming Country Concert & Pep Rally Enjoy a barbecue buffet and updates on the season. featuring Liv Devine, Joe Nichols and Uncle Kracker. 11 a.m., Football Field, near the Team House 5 p.m., Rowan Hall Green Rohrer College of Business Fall Gala Class of ’88 25th Reunion Friday, September 27 Saturday, October 19 Class of ’88 classmates are invited to celebrate their 25th Join us for a dinner honoring members of the RCB Reunion. Enjoy your day at the Homecoming festivities community with special guest speaker Jeffrey Tambor and party into the night at a reunion reception in the (Arrested Development). Watch your mailbox for info. Kopenhaver Center for Alumni Engagement. We hope you take the time 6 p.m., Eynon Ballroom to attend an alumni event 5:30 p.m., Shpeen Hall this year. As the University and our alumni population Baseball Diamond Club Rowan Alumni @ NJEA continue to grow we Golf Tournament Thursday and Friday, November 7 – 8 are always seeking alumni volunteers to get Saturday, September 28 All GSC and Rowan educators are invited to visit our involved with our Alumni Baseball alumni and fans from all generations are booth at the annual NJEA Teachers Convention at the programming. If you’re invited to the 2013 golf outing. Registration is $110 Atlantic City Convention Center. interested in hosting an per golfer. Hole sponsorships are available for $100. 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., Atlantic City alumni event in your area, have a suggestion for an Register today at alumni.rowan.edu/DCGolf. alumni event, or would 1 p.m., Ramblewood Country Club, Mt. Laurel Martin Luther King Jr. like to plan a reunion Scholarship Breakfast please email us at Join the Alumni Choir Monday, January 20 alumni rowan.edu. Saturday, September 28 Rowan welcomes Martin Luther King III as the To register for an event, speaker for the 28th annual breakfast. Tickets are $75 purchase tickets or for All alumni are invited to join the Alumni Choir at the more information, visit College of Performing Arts “Fall Choral Celebration” each, with proceeds supporting the Myers Scholarship. rowan.edu/alumni in honor of the late Clancy Miller. If you’re interested Tickets sales start in September at alumni.rowan.edu. or call Alumni Relations in singing or attending the concert, please contact the 9:30 a.m., Eynon Ballroom at 856-256-5400. music department at 856-256-4651. Due to the popularity 8 p.m., Pfleeger Concert Hall Annual Comedy Show of our events, refunds cannot be made unless Friday, January 24 specified. Rowan School of Osteopathic Make reservations now for our 11th annual comedy Medicine 16th Annual Golf Classic night. Food and cash bar. $40 per person, first-come, Sunday, October 6 first-served seating, limit 10 tickets per alum. Connected? 8 p.m., Eynon Ballroom, Rowan University Update your email Join RowanSOM alumni, students and friends for a address by visiting round. Registration and sponsorship information is alumni.rowan.edu or available at alumni.rowan.edu/SOMGolfClassic. More Alumni Programming emailing [email protected] 8:45 a.m., Harbor Pines Golf Club, The Alumni Association welcomes alumni and friends to make sure you receive our monthly e-newsletter. Egg Harbor Township to the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for Alumni Alumni are also encouraged Engagement as we host educational and social events to find us on Facebook, Homecoming 2013 including Holiday Quizzo, How to Survive Your Twen- Twitter, LinkedIn and ties, and our second Annual Alumni Wine Mixer. The Instagram! Friday and Saturday, October 18 – 19 Mark your calendar and make plans to return to “Prof Alumni Relations Office will also be hosting assorted Country.” Our Homecoming festivities have something alumni networking and happy hour events throughout for everyone. See ad on p. 51 and watch for info in mail. the region, so join us at Rowan or on the road. Summer 2013 Vol. XVIII, No. 1 36 features departments COVER STORY 2 Mailbox 16 A new day for New Jersey And a new era for Rowan University 4 Campus News by Patricia Quigley ’78, M’03 22 Permanent presence 14 Commencement Henry Rowan, at the heart of the University forever 28 Alumni Profile 30 Home, shacks, home 42 Alumni Advisor Remembering recycled campus housing after World War II by Toni Libro ’60, M’67 44 Class Notes 36 Captain of a dream 69 Honor Roll Marvin Creamer’s voyage around the globe and into history by Barbara Baals ON THE COVER ROWAN MAGAZINE PHOTOGRAPHY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Rowan Magazine is published ADVERTISING CONTENT Craig Terry EDITOR PRESIDENT twice yearly by the Office of Rowan Magazine accepts ads All content copyrighted by Who benefits from Jonathan Kolbe Lori Marshall M’92 David Burgin ’82, M’02 University Publications and is at the editor’s discretion for Rowan Magazine. All rights Rowan’s new day? 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Send inquiries to: address changes to: now and tomorrow: Barbara Baals Karen Holloway M’14 John Campbell ’08 Rowan University Rowan Magazine Rosie Braude ’08, M’09 Editor, Rowan Magazine OPERATIONS COORDINATOR c/o Alumni Relations Wesley Leckenbusch, Jerry Carey ’77 201 Mullica Hill Road Paula Bethea ALUMNI RELATIONS Rowan University Janet Holloway ’87, Dennis Dougherty Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701 201 Mullica Hill Road, PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS DIRECTOR M’93, Alejandro Steve Levine ’87, M’07 856-256-4195 Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701. Jackie Randall ’13 Kathy Rozanski ’89 856-256-4322 (fax) Ramirez ’15, Tabetha Melanie Moore ’16 Chris D’Angelo ’07, M’10 [email protected] Please recycle this magazine. Dobbins, Anastasia Cruz D’16. PHOTO: CRAIG TERRY Summer 2013 | 1 mailbox Treasures Missing link year with a mile-long list of good news to share and to share have not received a developments to make us really enjoyed your new copy of Rowan I all proud. article in the summer Magazine since last I The bad news is that 2012 Rowan magazine summer. Have there been with all that’s going on, about Grace Bagg any recent copies I’ve it has been a challenge “RSVP from one sifter missed? Thanks. to keep all the balls in to another.” Joe McAleer ’66 the air here at Rowan I have known Grace Bonita Springs, Florida Magazine and University Bagg since I entered Publications. Glassboro State Teachers am a Rowan graduate I appreciate your calls College in 1942 and until I who receives the and e-mails (from right she passed away as the alumni magazine at the down the road and as far result of an automobile address below. One issue away as Arizona). It’s accident in Vineland. was delivered to my home good to know you missed You requested earlier this year but I don’t staying in touch. donations of memorabilia recall receiving a copy of I hope you enjoy this for the University the fall/winter issue. issue and find more than Publications archive. I Has that issue published ever to take pride in as a have a photo of Grace, yet? If it has, I have not graduate or friend of the my mother and me, taken received a copy and would brown and gold. in May 1971 when Grace appreciate having one sent presented a Distinguished to my address. Let us know what you think: Alumnus diploma to me. Martin Walsh ’96 [email protected] If a satisfactory copy Westmont can be made of the Lori Marshall Rowan University diploma and photo, I editor’s note: Joe’s and Carriage House would be honored to give Martin’s inquiries are just 201 Mullica Hill Road them to the archive. I’ll a couple of the many we Glassboro, NJ 08028 give you the original. received via e-mail and Beulah Lafferty phone from alumni who Brinker ’46 missed the link that the Woodstown magazine provides. The good news is our editor’s note: As alma mater has had an always, we are honored incredibly busy, historic and grateful to receive memorabilia, photos and documents that help tell the story of our alma Holding on mater and the people who for history make her “more than Try as we might, cold stone.” Please call we’ve encountered us at 856-256-4195 about yet another delay your donations or send in releasing the them to Karen Holloway, University history University Publications, book. Thanks for Rowan University, 201 your patience. We Mullica Hill Road, promise it will be Glassboro, NJ 08028 worth the wait.