THE MAGAZINE OF

WILLIAM PATERSON

UNIVERSITY

SPRING 2004

the art of

ming fay:

nature, light, Wand healing

INCLUDES SPECIAL SECTION— PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2003 THE MAGAZINE OF

WILLIAM PATERSON

12 UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS SPRING 2004

FEATURES WDEPARTMENTS MING FAY: NATURE, SYMBOL, AND MYTH INSPIRE PUBLIC ART A sculptor who finds his inspiration in nature explores the use of art in healing and recovery UNIVERSITY REPORT By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A.’94 The latest news from William Paterson Page 12 Page 4 5

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SUCCEED ON CAMPUS Engaging people and interesting events THROUGH HANDS-ON LEARNING Page 8 Five William Paterson students discuss the hands-on learning opportunities that have shaped their University education By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A.’94 and Terry E. Ross ’80 DEVELOPMENT NEWS Page 16 Advancing academic excellence through philanthropy Page 20

SPECIAL ISSUE: PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2003 Highlights of the University’s commitment to student success, academic excellence, PIONEER NEWS Athletics Highlights and community outreach Page 23 Page 27

PAGE SPOTLIGHT W1 Alumni News ONE Page 53

PARTING SHOT Of a Kindred Spirit Page 64

WHAT’S UP WP Calendar of upcoming events 30 Inside Back Cover

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 WPERSPECTIVE THE MAGAZINE OF WILLIAM WPATERSON UNIVERSITY Volume 6, No. 1 Spring, 2004

E XECUTIVE E DITOR Stuart Goldstein, Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement Dear Friends,

M ANAGING E DITORS Lorraine Terraneo, Executive Director, In this new issue of WP Magazine, we present a profile of a professor of art who Marketing and Public Relations; creates spectacular, larger-than-life sculptures, an article about students who thrive Mary Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations in unique opportunities for hands-on learning, and descriptions of accomplish- ments from many facets of the University. A LUMNI A SSOCIATION Allison Worman ’75, President of the Alumni Executive We feature Ming Fay and his fascinating approach to the creation of sculptures Council; Judith Linder, Director of Alumni Relations; that adorn public spaces throughout the country, and the work of five students who, Audrey Bonaparte-Watts ’95, Assistant Director like so many of their classmates, are committed to learning in real-world situations

M ARKETING AND P UBLIC R ELATIONS that enhance their education. In the 2003 President’s Report, which is included, we Editorial: Christine Diehl, Brian Falzarano, Minne Hong Ho, describe University-wide highlights that help to form a foundation for the future. Robert A. Manuel, Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94, Lori For example, the strategic and swift development of the Russ Berrie Institute for McCurley ’03, Terry E. Ross ’80, Phillip Sprayberry Professional Sales is a work-in-progress with vast potential. In less than eighteen Design: Nadia Tedesco ’04, Bob Verbeek ’95 months, we transformed the Institute from Russ Berrie’s dream into a one-of-a-kind P UBLICATION D ESIGN educational resource for students and working professionals. In December, we AGCD, Montclair, NJ - Allan Gorman, Art Director; opened the Russ Berrie Professional Sales Laboratory, a unique interactive facility, Linda Lobdell, Designer to help students and professionals sharpen sales skills in a simulated business

P HOTOGRAPHY environment. The lab is already in active use by eager students and corporate sales Bill Blanchard; Pete Byron; Rich Green; Roy Groething; teams seeking a competitive edge. Brigitta Hanggi; Craig Phillips, Steve Smith The development of the University master plan is another example of an accomplishment that firmly points us toward the future. The plan, named one of WP is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement, ten outstanding projects in a recent issue of American School & University Sandra S. Deller, Vice President. Views expressed within Magazine, was developed to support our academic mission. The development and these pages do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the maintenance of facilities is particularly important now that our campus has grown to editors or official policies of the University. ©2004 by The include multiple sites. A renovation of the Machuga Student Center and Wayne William Paterson University of . www.wpunj.edu Hall and the construction of a new ballroom are in full force and on schedule for A DVERTISING AND E DITORIAL O FFICES completion in 2006. We also have moved forward with plans for four new residence WP, The Magazine of William Paterson University halls—two by the fall of 2005 and two by the fall of 2007—to accommodate the Office of Institutional Advancement growing demand for residence life. William Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ 07470-2103; 973.720.2615 Our promise for the future is enhanced by our $30 million comprehensive campaign which has entered its final two-year public phase. The 2002-2003 S END CHANGES OF ADDRESS TO THE: academic year was the University’s best fund-raising year ever with donations that Office of Alumni Relations, William Paterson exceeded $9 million. During this final phase, we will continue to seek support for University, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne, NJ 07470-2103; 973.720.2175 endowments, scholarships, and the Annual Fund, which supports scholarships, PAGE academic programs, the arts, and other aspects of the University. W2 W ILLIAM PATERSON U NIVERSITY TWO Arnold Speert, President When we launched the comprehensive campaign, we decided to call it “Affecting Chernoh M. Sesay, Provost and Lives…Shaping Worlds” because of our collective ability to teach, nurture, and Executive Vice President affect the lives of our students. This issue of the magazine and the President’s Report provide numerous examples of how the University succeeds on a consistent B OARD OF T RUSTEES basis. We are proud of the many outstanding ways that our faculty and staff prepare Gwendolyn P. Taylor, Chairperson students for the complex world beyond our campus by helping to provide Frederick L. Gruel, Vice Chairperson Sonia Rosado, Secretary knowledge, skills, and experiences. Our commitment to student success drives us Peter Fan • Clarice B. Jackson • day after day. This commitment ensures a future of excellence for our students, Michael L. Jackson • Mauricio Mattos • faculty, and all of William Paterson University. Vincent J. Mazzola ’73 • William J. Pesce ’73 • Henry J. Pruitt, Jr. • Robert H. Taylor • Carla Temple • Arnold Speert (ex officio) Sincerely,

President University Unveils New Recruitment/ Image Campaign

The University launched a new comprehensive recruitment/image campaign last fall. The Office of Marketing and Public Relations, in conjunction with The Sawtooth Group, a Woodbridge-based advertising agency, developed the campaign, which focuses on the University’s unique educational offerings that combine classroom learning with real-world experiences, from faculty mentoring to internships to hands-on research to performance opportunities. The new tag line is “Live It. Learn It.” Mass media placements, primarily during the fall and spring, are concentrated in the University’s five feeder counties—Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic, and Union–- and include print ads, mainly in higher education supplements, billboards, and cable television spots on various channels in the Cablevision, Comcast, and Patriot systems. The campaign was Jersey’s 41st Annual ads and billboards were recognized for creative Exhibition. The television awarded Certificates of excellence at the Art commercial received a Excellence. WPMAILBOX Director’s Club of New Bronze Medal, and the print WE WELCOME LETTERS ABOUT

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Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 WHO WE ARE UNIVERSITYREPORT WHAT WE’RE DOING

WHO WE ARE

Student Center Renovations and dining service rooms and a new Russ Berrie Institute Opens Begin Renovations and construction university club. Professional Sales Laboratory began last summer on the John Victor The two-and-a-half-year project is On Campus The Russ Berrie Professional Machuga Student Center, Wayne Hall, designed to permit sections of the Student Sales Laboratory, a unique interactive which contains the main dining facility for Center to remain open throughout resource for learning sales skills, opened in resident students, and a new ballroom construction and continue to function as a December in the University’s building at 1600 between the two structures. center of activity. The new ballroom and Valley Road. Designed to enable business “The renovations, expansions, and conference rooms should be finished by students and working professionals to construction will significantly expand our spring 2005. The extensive interior develop and sharpen sales presentations in a ability to meet the wide-ranging needs of renovations of the Student Center and simulated business office environment, the our campus community,” says Stephen Wayne Hall are scheduled for completion in lab is part of the Russ Berrie Institute for Bolyai, vice president for administration and 2006. The $40 million project is funded Professional Sales at William Paterson. finance. “The Student Center is the hub of through bonds issued by the New Jersey “Employing advanced technology that campus life for our students and we’re Education Facilities Authority. has been adapted specifically for our needs, looking forward to providing an up-to-date For updates on the construction process, the sales lab will help students master the art facility.” check the University’s Web site and click of communication in a face-to-face situation. This is crucial to professional sales, PAGE At the Machuga Student Center, a three- on the project’s link. W4 story façade will provide a new entrance particularly in today’s economy when FOUR onto Zanfino Plaza. A new entrance is also successful people not only sell planned for the Caldwell Plaza level. The products and services, but present entire first floor will be renovated; existing business strategies and solutions,” food service and dining areas will be reconfigured into one large food court, STUDENTS LAUREN SNYDER, MATTHEW FLEMING, YALITZA FIGUEROA, AND MARIA GUERIN IN THE SMART CONFERENCE ROOM which includes a new two-story atrium. On the second floor, a glass-enclosed bridge will connect the Student Center to the main level of the new building, which will include a 500-seat ballroom that can be subdivided into three, smaller, event rooms. JESS BORONICO, DEAN, CHRISTOS M. COTSAKOS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS; That building’s lower level will be divided ANGELICA BERRIE, CEO, RUSS BERRIE AND COMPANY; JAMES BROWN, into four conference rooms. Wayne Hall will EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RUSS BERRIE INSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL SALES; AND receive a new façade, and include storage ARNOLD SPEERT, PRESIDENT, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, AT THE SALES LAB OPENING says Jim Brown, executive director of the education designed to advance the field of UNIVERSITY Russ Berrie Institute. professional sales. It is the first program of its The facility includes a control room kind in the Northeast. connected to five labs and a smart conference room. It features state-of-the-art technology including robotic digital cameras to record University to Celebrate students practicing sales presentations, plasma Sesquicentennial in 2005 REPORT screens to display the interactions on single or When President Marion Shea reflected split screens, one-way mirrors to allow viewing on the University’s upcoming centennial by professors, an editing room for creating celebration in 1955 electronic DVD portfolios, and computer- in a speech to students and faculty based stations for teaching telephone sales. PRESIDENT MARION SHEA LEADS A COMMENCEMENT Distance learning and videoconferencing of then-Paterson PROCESSION, CIRCA 1955 capability are also available. State Teachers When William Paterson was founded in Faculty will use the lab to teach students College, she 1855 as the Paterson City , a variety of skills, including how to make a encouraged her the institution sought to improve the in- good first impression, how to effectively colleagues “in the service training of teachers while providing describe a product or service, and how to pioneering spirit of educational opportunities for the children of maintain ethics in the sales process. The our antecedents to dream new dreams and Paterson’s millworkers. Classes were held lab supports the Russ Berrie Institute’s see that they come true.” At the beginning only on Wednesday evenings and later undergraduate curriculum, which includes of a tremendous period of institutional Saturday mornings in Paterson’s East Ward courses for business majors in negotiation, growth, which would be marked by School. Today, more than 11,200 students sales information systems and technology, expansion of facilities, programs, and pursue studies in 30 majors and 19 graduate and professional sales, as well as its enrollment, Shea said, “This is the start of a programs, taking classes seven days a week education and training courses for working bright new century for us...Those who have on a vast 370-acre Wayne campus facilities professionals. passed this way have lighted the way for us; equipped with sophisticated technology. The opening came just a year after Russ it is they who have been the pioneers of “Our sesquicentennial provides an Berrie, the late founder and chief executive their century; it is for us to pioneer ours.” opportunity to link our past with our officer of Russ Berrie and Company, Inc., Images of the University’s past and future,” says President Arnold Speert. “A announced that he would invest $6.2 million visions of its future will once again converge strong appreciation of where we have been to establish the Russ Berrie Institute. The during 2005, when it celebrates another helps us to chart where we are going. This Institute represents a unique partnership major milestone — its 150th anniversary as anniversary between the private sector and higher an institution of higher learning in New provides our Jersey.

Share Your Memories and Memorabilia! Thousands of individuals have played a Also, as a salute to the University’s 150th clothing, part in William Paterson University’s 150-year anniversary in 2005, a new University archive and mugs history. Whether you are an alumnus, faculty is being established to recognize and • Art work, or staff member, student, parent, or friend, celebrate the history of the institution. posters, and we encourage you to send us your “The need for an archive is vital to any drawings recollections from your time on campus. institution that desires to preserve its • Publications, PAGE If you have a story to tell or a memory to tradition and heritage as a way of articles, W5 share, we’d love to hear from you. developing a distinct identity,” says Robert handbooks, and calendars FIVE Specifically, we’d like to know: Wolk, archivist and special collections Materials that are donated, or loaned, to • What class or faculty member had the librarian for the University’s David and the archive will be housed in the David and most impact on your life and why? Lorraine Cheng Library. “William Paterson Lorraine Cheng Library’s environmentally • What is your favorite memory of your University has a long and proud history in controlled Archives and Special Collections time on campus? the state of New Jersey, and this new Room. Selected items will be featured in E-mail your memories to us at archive provides the opportunity to collect exhibits and in University publications during [email protected], or mail them to WP the materials that will document that the year-long sesquicentennial celebration. Magazine, Anniversary Recollections, William history.” To donate items to the archive, or discuss Paterson University, 300 Pompton Road, Items being sought for the archive the project in further detail, please contact Wayne, NJ 07470. We will compile your include: either Robert Wolk, 973.720.2289 or memories and use many of them in future • Photographs, recordings, and videos [email protected], or Anne Ciliberti, library issues of WP, as well as on the University’s • Yearbooks, graduation rosters, and director, at 973.720.2113 or 150th anniversary Web site. programs [email protected]. • Memorabilia, banners, pennants,

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 W PAGE SIX 6 UNIVERSITYREPORT present, andfuture. photos that theUniversity’s depict past, hundred expected morethanone toinclude andnarrative. photographs The bookis commemorative bookfeaturing historic a since1966,isworking faculty Paterson on the William andamemberof sociology of (see page 5). students, faculty, andstaff perspective of fromthe theinstitution relate thehistoryof organize, andpreserve materials that will andstaff,faculty toactively collect, University community, particularly retired closely withthe Alumni andthe Association are working staff thelibrary of Members campus. on ChengLibrary and Lorraine archive hasbeenestablished intheDavid anniversary arewell underway. 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CCNY LUMNI W ILLIAM S G PEERT RIER , P AUL Health andSafety. in-chief ofthe a university. include Itsmembers residenceatNew Jersey inpermanent in orchestra is theonly professional Symphony at William University Paterson theHighMountain Chamber Orchestra, Hostetter. andmusicnew conductor directorPaul broughtby leadership — andfreshartistic Symphony at William University Paterson by itsnew name—HighMountain exciting signified thisseason, new direction UniversityPaterson hasembarked an on Leadership New NameandArtistic Paterson UniversityAdopts The Orchestra atWilliam ’68, editorof company; andDr. JeanneMagerStellman of StorageTek, a$2billionworldwide CEO ofExabyteCorporationandco-founder EE,presidentJuan A.Rodriguez‘66 and Edward R.Morrow Brotherhood Award; UPN9 Newsandarecipient ofthecoveted H SETRLASTHE LEADS OSTETTER Established in1986asthe Wayne and musician, was namedconductor Communication. the and Arts of College theUniversity’s Garcia, deanof explains Ofelia serves,” orchestra appropriately the totheregion refers “We believe thisnamemore reserve that thecampus. borders Preserve, awell-known nature totheHighMountain Park refers musicians.professional established metropolitanarea student instrumentalists, and artists,University faculty gifted Hostetter, aprominentconductor The new namefor theensemble Women andHealth Encyclopedia ofOccupational H The Orchestra at The Orchestra William IGH M OUNTAIN S YMPHONY and editor- UNIVERSITY following a year-long search. “All orchestras JOHN MARTONE, ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF derive a portion of their character from the STUDENT DEVELOPMENT, CHRISTINE KELLY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR conductor — Paul Hostetter is a talented, OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND KEVIN CAPPALLO, DIRECTOR OF EDUCATIONAL SALES FOR THE TIMES, AT THE exciting conductor whose love of music and AMERICAN DEMOCRACY PROJECT KICKOFF interest in sharing it is very strong,” says Garcia. “We look forward to his artistic forum for students, faculty, and staff was leadership.” held last November 20 featuring an address REPORT Hostetter, who also serves as an associate by Kevin Cappallo, director of educational professor of music, is the conductor of the sales for the New York Times. John Martone, associate vice president New Jersey Youth Symphony, artistic Davis, who teaches at School No. 28 in and dean of student development, is working director for the Winter Sun Music Festival Paterson, chose Coletta as the teacher who closely with Kelly on the project. “Many of in St. Petersburg, Florida, and music had the most impact on her life. “As an our students are involved in community director for the Festival Orchestra at the undergraduate teacher, he impacted my service activities such as tutoring or Stony Brook Summer Festival in Stony career in such a positive way that whenever I volunteering for nonprofit organizations,” Brook, New York. He has appeared as a questioned my teaching, he was the one I he explains. “As we develop programs guest conductor with the New Jersey would turn to,” she wrote. “If only I could unique to our campus through the project, Symphony Orchestra, the American put into action all of what he tells us, what a my goal is to ensure that students are Composers Orchestra, and the New York better parent and teacher I would be. A lot of involved in our community and in City Opera, among others, and was associate his words have greatly impacted me over the purposeful engagement that leads to ways to conductor for Leonard Bernstein’s Candide years and a lot of what he said I have tried to improve and perhaps change public policy.” on Broadway. put into action. I know that by my continued The project’s 178 member campuses For information on upcoming concerts, association with Dr. Coletta, I can’t help but represent more than 1.3 million students. check the calendar listings on the inside grow both as a parent and as a teacher.” back cover. Presidents, chief academic officers, faculty, and students at participating institutions University Selected to will be linked together across campuses as Participate in American the project moves forward, thus creating a Democracy Project national conversation on civic engagement. William Paterson is one of 144 public colleges and universities nationwide that have been invited to participate in the University American Democracy Project, a national Hosts initiative that seeks to increase civic Conference On engagement levels of U.S. students Globalization attending public colleges and universities in Mary Robinson, the twenty-first century. The project is co- former president of sponsored by the American Association of Ireland and former State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) United Nations and the New York Times. High Commissioner As a member campus, the University for Human Rights, and Jan Kavan, president ANTHONY COLETTA, PROFESSOR OF ELEMENTARY AND EARLY will develop civic engagement initiatives — of the 57th United Nations General CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, WITH KATHY DAVIS AT THE GOLDEN both intellectual and experiential — which Assembly, were the keynote speakers during APPLE AWARDS CEREMONY PAGE are tailored to the needs and climate of the a two-day conference on campus last W7 Education Professor Honored institution. November that addressed the effects of SEVEN With Newspaper in Education “Our first step is to gather information globalization on the individual. Award Anthony Coletta ’64, a William on all the various programs already in place The event, cosponsored by the University Paterson professor of elementary and early on campus that deal with issues of civic and the College of Criminal Justice childhood education, has received a Herald engagement, and to look to further develop in New York, brought together policy makers News 2002-2003 Golden Apple Award. He academic and cocurricular programs that and scholars to discuss the many important was nominated for the award by Kathy Davis will prepare our students to be active issues connected to globalization. In addition ’85, M.Ed. ’94, a former student. citizens in their communities,” says to the two keynote addresses, the conference The Golden Apple Awards Program, Christine Kelly, assistant professor of featured panel discussions that provided a instituted by the Herald News five years ago, political science and program coordinator for historical perspective on globalization and annually honors teachers who have made a the project on campus. “Active citizenship is addressed the challenges and opportunities it difference in their students’ lives. Each year, the key to community empowerment.” presents to world populations. the newspaper invites students to write a To introduce the University’s (continued on Page 26) letter nominating a present or future teacher. involvement in the project, a campus-wide

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 PLACES TO GO THINGS TO DO ONCAMPUS PEOPLE TO SEE

WOMEN’S THEATRE RECORDING STUDIO HAUSER’S ENGLISH CLASS

English Professor the . She has emerging and established opportunity to combine Named Fulbright written articles for journals women theatre artists, is now classroom learning with Scholar such as The Review of in residence at the University. practical experience.” Donna Perry, a professor of Education, Radical Teacher, The company, in its tenth “Our new residence at English, has been awarded a New Directions for Women, and season under artistic director William Paterson University Fulbright Teaching Fellowship Belles Lettres, The National and producer Barbara may be the most exciting event for the academic year 2003- Women’s Studies Association Krajkowski, an adjunct in our history,” says 2004. She is spending the first Journal. professor of communication at Krajkowski. “We are looking six months of 2004 teaching Perry’s previous awards William Paterson, moved to forward to reaching new American studies courses to include a New Jersey the University after leasing audiences as well as serving graduate students at the Governor’s Fellowship in the space in several venues. In more young women interested University of Rome, Italy, Humanities and grants from addition to presenting its in careers in the theater.” where she also is conducting the National Endowment for productions in the University’s The company debuted on research on Italy’s influence on the Humanities and the New Hunziker Black Box Theatre, campus in November 2003 American women writers of Jersey Department of Higher the company will explore with Kindertransport, the story

PAGE the nineteenth and early Education. A member of the additional collaborations with of a young German girl sent to W8 twentieth century. faculty since 1982, she academic departments. live in Britain prior to World EIGHT The author of Backtalk: currently serves as chair of the Students may audition for the War II. Upcoming productions Women Writers Speak Out, English department and company’s productions; those include Wit, to be staged May Perry served as co-editor with previously directed the who participate will earn 20 to June 5. Nan Bauer Maglin of “Bad University’s Writing Across Actor’s Equity credit. Founded in 1993, the Girls”/“Good Girls”: Women, the Curriculum program. “We are delighted that the Women’s Theater Company is Sex, and Power in the Nineties. Women’s Theater Company is unique in New Jersey in its Her works have appeared in now in residence on our focus on offering audiences an numerous edited volumes, Women’s Theater campus,” says Ofelia Garcia, opportunity to enjoy the full including Conversations with Company Now in dean of the College of the Arts scope of theater by women Maxine Hong Kingston, Residence and Communication at William artists. Through its theater Contemporary American Women The Women’s Theater Paterson. “Our students will productions, educational Writers: Gender, Class, Company, a full Actor’s Equity have the chance to work with outreach, and new works Ethnicity, and Beyond Portia: group that offers a creative, professional actors, which will development programs, it Women, Law, and Literature in educational environment for provide them with an excellent supports the development of women artists and promotes to a record store. ensemble led by new works in the American “I picked out a Morris. theater. The company provides few records He has opportunities and advantages myself. And since performed with the New Jersey for women artists at every level then, once every ONCAMPUS of production. Eighty-five other month or Percussion percent of its staff members so, we’d continue Ensemble, the (excluding actors) are women to go back to that New Jersey New and the company also assists record store,” he Music Ensemble, women playwrights in recalls. At age The Gatteways developing their work. nine, he began Orchestra at taking trombone Eastman School of Music, jazz lessons, and at guitarist Russell Malone, and Tyshawn Sorey: A fourteen years R&B/blues vocalist Rhonda Different Drummer old, his Clark, and was a member of When Tyshawn Sorey grandfather gave BluArk and the New Arkestra

auditioned on trombone for the him his first, TYSHAWN SOREY (1996-1999), both led by Star-Ledger’s Scholarship for much-coveted, set legendary poet/playwright/ Performing Arts in 1999, he of drums. It was activist Amiri Baraka. didn’t expect to face twelve then that he Sorey currently leads two At William Paterson, Sorey judges. “I was completely began performing as a gospel ensembles and plans to record values the encouragement and nervous,” he recalls. “So drummer at churches and with them in the future. He wisdom he’s received from nervous, in fact, I actually other local events. can be heard on such CDs as professors like Don Braden, walked out of the room. I’d Throughout his teens, Halim Suliman’s Word Rhythm Harold Mabern, Kevin never auditioned in front of Sorey won several awards for and The Music of Andre Vida, Norton, and Vinson Hill, who that many people.” But after his musical talents, including a with saxophonist Anthony perform in on a taking a moment in the hallway 1996 gospel competition “for Braxton, and Vija Ayer’s Blood regular basis. to gather his courage, he went most outstanding percussionist.” Sutra. “Tyshawn is a great student, back in to perform. And much He twice won first place in the “I am always respectful of and exceptionally talented,” to his surprise, he won. Since Connie Woodruff Foundation’s musicians who are innovators says David Demsey, coordinator that day, he’s come a long way music competition, a prize that and take risks,” says Sorey. He of the Jazz Studies Program. and audiences around the honors Newark students who remembers a time when he was “I’d characterize him as not world have witnessed his take part in a citywide jazz afraid to express his only one of our best students, talents first-hand. competition. He won first individuality. “I would have all but about four of our best Sorey was the first winner place in the group category in these ideas in my head and students,” says Demsey, of the Star-Ledger’s four-year 1998, followed by first place in would never write them out referring to his multiple talents scholarship, and also will be the solo category in 1999. He because I was afraid to… on drums, trombone, piano, the first recipient to graduate also won a gold medal in 1998 thinking, ‘this music is never and as a composer. college. He expects to receive and two silver medals in 1999 going to get played.’ ” Now he Sorey has studied and his bachelor’s degree in jazz for music in the NAACP ACT- improvises and doesn’t always performed with Michele studies from William Paterson SO (Afro-Academic, Cultural, follow the rules. “My music is Rosewoman, the pianist and in May. Technological, and Scientific not really jazz, it’s more atonal, composer, and credits her with Born in 1980 and raised in Olympics) competition in New and has elements of jazz and PAGE being a major influence. W9 Newark, Sorey spent his youth Jersey. other things.” Another mentor is Lawrence NINE learning a variety of “I always wanted to be a In addition to school and “Butch” Morris, a conductor instruments, including the jazz drummer,” says Sorey. performing, Sorey is an intern and leading innovator in jazz, trombone and drums, as well “By the time I got into high at Jazz for Teens at the New new music, and improvisation. as most brass and percussion school, I was a pretty decent Jersey Performing Arts Center He has performed inter- instruments and piano. He also player. I always played drums (NJPAC), where he’s been a nationally as a drummer/ is a gifted composer, busily as a hobby, but I never took it peer counselor for five years, percussionist with both intent on creating his own style as seriously as I do now.” Sorey helping to teach ensembles and musicians. In 2002, Sorey of music. spent several years debating master classes. He also works traveled to Germany, Belgium, Growing up, Sorey enjoyed whether to focus on trombone as a private tutor, when and Holland as part of listening to jazz and learning or drums, before setting his possible, offering one-on-one Rosewoman’s jazz quintet. In how to play piano by ear. When sights on being a drummer. “I instruction in composition, 2003, he traveled to Italy as he was seven years old, his finally know what I want to drums, and trombone. part of a fifteen-person uncle took him on his first trip do,” he says.

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 Languages and Cultures Professor C L A S S N O T E S Receives This issue marks the debut of a new feature, Class Notes. Beginning with this issue of WP Magazine, we will bring

CAMPUS National Award ON you a first-hand look at a selected University course to provide an in-depth perspective on William Paterson faculty, To Study the issues and topics they explore, and their teaching strategies. Appalachian English Judy Bernstein, an What Really Makes Us Americans? assistant professor Students Explore Their Ancestry of languages and Through Literature cultures, received one of Modern American Literature, Professor James Hauser twenty-two grants given nationwide from the American “The United States is called a melting pot. What does that statement Council of Learned Societies mean?” to study Appalachian English James Hauser, a professor of English, poses the question to as part of non-mainstream students, mostly juniors and seniors, in his Modern American Literature class. language varieties spoken in JAMES HAUSER the United States. “You lose part of who you are in a melting pot,” responds Aneta Appalachian English is Sutkowski, a senior majoring in English. “In order to understand the culture you came from, it helps to speak to your spoken in the region of the immigrant grandparents. Many of them came from a tough situation. They can tell you about your culture and help Appalachian Mountains, which you appreciate what they had.” Sutkowski herself emigrated from Poland at age nine. includes areas of West Hauser continues with the thought-provoking questions. “Most of the recent stories you’ve read are about , southwestern people who came to the United States. They are outsiders in this culture,” he tells the class. “Most of them came and Virginia, here for something. Was it a search for the American Dream? How were they derailed in their search for joy?” eastern Tennessee and Hauser asks the students to gather in small groups and discuss how these questions relate to the stories Kentucky, western North they’ve read. Carolina, southeastern Ohio, The course examines representative American literature written from World War I to the 1990s, and students in and northern and Hauser’s class are using The Norton Anthology of American Literature as their primary textbook. A syllabus outlines Alabama. While the region has the semester’s reading list, grouped into categories, including poetry, forms of story telling, the Harlem Renaissance been the focus of much and African American writing, drama, and modern vs. post-modern fiction. attention and research in terms Students begin with stories by writers who offer their vision of the American Dream, including Willa Cather’s of its history, folklore, and Neighbor Rosicky and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams. music, there has been no “Take Dexter Green, for example, the main character in Fitzgerald’s Winter Dreams,” explains Hauser. “He systematic study of varieties of attends an Ivy League university in the East and sets out to achieve great wealth. Dexter turns his back on his the English language spoken immigrant past and thinks only in terms of the future. He has to be careful how he talks and dresses because he’s there. still trying to create that future. This is who I can become, says Dexter, the embodiment of the American Dream.” “Appalachian English has Says Hauser, “Many Americans don’t look back.” many interesting properties in As the class progresses, the students are introduced to modern writers who celebrate their cultural heritage terms of grammar and rather than losing themselves in search of the idyllic. Writers like N. Scott Momaday, a Pulitzer Prize-winning vocabulary. Many can be traced author whose book, The Way to Rainy Mountain, explores his Native American heritage and Kiowa tribal myths. to the language of the Scots- Gloria E. Anzaldua, a Chicana, is another author who freely mixes Spanish text with English in her influential PAGE Irish who settled in the region book, Borderlands/La Frontera. W10 Students explore how the writing of each period reflects the American social issues of the time—issues TEN during the American colonial period in the early eighteenth related to race, class, and gender, as well as industrialization, technology, and urbanization. They study the nature century,” Bernstein explains. of both modernism and post-modernism in twentieth century American writing, as well as some of the cultural “This study provides the and literary forces that led to their development. opportunity to preserve this Hauser, who is also director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at the University, places a strong variety of English, since it is emphasis on writing. He assigns study questions for reflection, and students write at least two typed pages of changing rapidly. It will also journal commentary every week. Creativity is welcome, and responses might include drawings, a story or poem promote the legitimacy of this inspired by the readings, or even a parody of an author’s style or ideas. Grades are also based on active class form of English and participation, short papers, and a final essay and exam. contributes to the heritage of Hauser, who has taught at William Paterson since 1970, hopes that the course teaches students who the Appalachian culture.” Americans are as a people. Bernstein is currently “Many of our students and their families have come to the United States from other cultures. I really want them to know about our social history as seen by writers who themselves may have immigrated to the U.S.,” he says. “Through these works, they’ll see how people lived, what they thought about, valued, and how they tried to make sense of the world. They’ll learn about other things too, like the struggle of women and their social roles, and the special difficulties African Americans face in coming of age in America.” conducting research in the large-scale recording project in Psychology Professor Silverstein, who Archives of Appalachia at East order to obtain their degrees. Authors Book on describes Freud as Tennessee State University, This new studio gives them the Freud’s Theories and his “most passionate which contains a number of opportunity to work on Therapies interest” since his oral histories on audiotape. She equipment that is standard at Long before his death in 1939, first undergraduate ONCAMPUS is also planning to interview a professional studios, which is a the theories of Sigmund Freud psychology course, number of native speakers of real benefit.” were the subject of much joined the Appalachian English. Designed to function like a debate and controversy. In University faculty “As a linguist, I am professional facility, the studio particular, scholars of the in 1975. He is also interested in looking for the features two control rooms and famous psychologist and his the author of universals in human language, three spaces for live work have long discussed how Children of the Dark Ghetto: A rather than the differences,” performance, including an Freud came to develop his Developmental Psychology. she says. “Part of my goal in isolation room for vocals, a ideas, which became the this project is to provide medium-sized studio for a building blocks of modern research that demonstrates the small instrumental group, and psychoanalytic theory. History Professor diversity and richness of a larger room that can In his new book, Barry Receives Woodrow American culture.” accommodate eight or nine Silverstein, a professor of Wilson Fellowship musicians. psychology and a specialist in Zachary Morgan, an assistant The facility provides the Freud, discusses the literary, professor of history, has Renovated Recording capability to record four events scientific, philosophical, and received a Career Studio Enhances Audio simultaneously, including from cultural influences that Enhancement Fellowship from Engineering Program remote locations such as Shea impacted Freud’s thinking and the National The University’s growing Recital Room 101 and the main informed his writing. Titled Fellowship Foundation for the program in sound engineering stage in Shea Auditorium. What Was Freud Thinking? A 2003-2004 academic year. arts will be greatly enhanced by William Paterson is the only Short Historical Introduction to This prestigious award the Music Department’s newly university in New Jersey to Freud’s Theories and Therapies, supports junior faculty from expanded and renovated offer a bachelor of music the book offers a primer for underrepresented groups with sixteen-track recording studio. degree with a concentration in students, particularly the completion of books and “This is truly a state-of-the- sound engineering arts. psychology majors, who are research projects that are art facility which will provide Launched in 2000, the interested in understanding required for tenure. The our students with the hands-on program will graduate its first Freud’s viewpoints and fellows are selected from a pool experience they need to be students in spring 2004. methodologies in historical of national candidates and are competitive in the industry,” Students in the program are context. supported for an academic says David Kerzner, an prepared for employment in a “Over the last four decades, year. Morgan was one of assistant professor of music wide range of positions in there has been an abundance of twenty faculty nationwide and coordinator of the recording studios, audio post- works on Freud by those who selected to receive the award. program. “Our students are production facilities, wish to either support or Morgan is currently required to run recording professional audio product demolish his theories,” conducting new research for a sessions as part of the companies, television, and Silverstein explains. “My goal book on blacks and corporal curriculum, and to complete a theatre, among others. has been to present a more punishment in the Brazilian balanced view, and to assess the navy from 1860 to 1910. A meaning that Freud’s specialist in the history of theoretical constructs and modern and colonial Latin PAGE W11 clinical experiments had for him America and the African ELEVEN at the time of their creation in diaspora, Morgan joined the late nineteenth-century William Paterson faculty in Vienna.” 2001. He holds a doctorate in history from Brown University. w

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 Ming Fay: Nature, Symbol, And Myth Inspire Public Art

– By Barbara E. Martin

“THINGS HAVE NO MEANING UNTIL

HUMANS GIVE THEM MEANING.”

— MING FAY

ature and light are twin themes in the Nwork of sculptor Ming Fay, professor of art at William Paterson. He is increasingly involved in public art projects around the country in which he is continually re-inspired by nature to create art that uses some element of the natural world to illuminate an idea which is grounded in fantasy or mythology. “I am more interested in symbolic meaning,” Fay explains. “I am always inventing, searching, and playing in an imaginative way. I’m a hybrid—I’m a scientist who creates or clones an object, and then finds meaning in it.” His works are often larger than life, imbued with symbolic meaning but made with simple materials and tools. He uses an armature over which he builds the sculpture, often with a mixed media he has formulated over the years.

PAGE A current interest is seeds of all sorts. W12 Although he has lived in New York City for TWELVE more than thirty years, he believes in the sanctity and importance of nature in everyday life. “The body needs something more organic, softer, and more natural,” he says. “I’m interested in seeds because they are natural objects with cycles of time. That inspires me. I may find a seed to use as a source of inspiration, extract what I need, and create something else from it. At one

MING FAY IN HIS NEW YORK CITY STUDIO GINGKOBERRY GWA IN THE OREGON CONVENTION CENTER

point I used seeds very literally as models for sculpture, but now I use them more interpretively—I use them as a metaphor and also as materials to work with. For example, when I propose a public art project, I usually go first to the site and see what’s available, to see what materials I can use that are applicable to the site, and I try to share that inspiration with the audience.” For a piece that was commissioned by the Oregon Convention Center, his of the land and its people. The narrative awareness of art took place. It was not a research revealed that the region was once structure is part nature and part mankind, revelation, but a slow awareness at age eight home to the ginkgo tree, said to have with a reference to kinetic mobiles, playful or nine, and it grew out of an illness. healing qualities. Additional research and transforming. The translucent floating “I had a very severe attack of uncovered Northwest Native American seeds are based on mandalic shapes from appendicitis,” he remembers. “It became tribes who believed in a tree of life called nature that represent the breadth of life.” infected, and I had an operation. Medicine Gwakalekala, long thought to belong in the Today, the piece, Gingkoberry Gwa, was hard to come by. I was very sick for cedar family. stands in the Convention Center, unveiled about a year, and was in bed for a long “Ancient forests of the region and the last April. Fay constructed giant red and time. The only things I had to look at were indigenous Native American tribes served purple “Gwa” flowers, made of steel and picture books. I read everything from as sources of my inspiration,” he says. glass, that hang from the ceiling. Two master painting books to comic books “The shape of the giant cedar trees set the green, fourteen-foot-tall, Gingko berries, during that time. That was my spiritual tone for the piece. The microstructure of cast in bronze and weighing two thousand healing.” When he wasn’t able to read, he the leaves correlates with the greater pounds each, stand as sentinels at each end began to notice the way natural light came structure of the tree. Inspired by the of a long hallway. into his room and how that light changed Native American design of the tree of life, Born in in 1943, Fay comes by during the day and how it affected I set out to design a three-dimensional his artistic credentials naturally—he is the everything in the room. Gwakalekala tree for the space. The child of parents who were artists, but who “I can visualize that time in my life,” narrative power of oversize objects creates a created a nonpressured environment for Fay says. “Looking at visual things—the fantastical experience of imagination and him, not insisting or even encouraging him books and the light were very important. conjures metaphors to the spirit. The tree as an artist, rather allowing him to see their These days, the visual is always television. spirit is embraced for its magical power and creativity as an example. The family, which I was lucky that I went through my its connection to the idea of life. The work included a sister, moved to in experience without that. Essentially, the PAGE is not a replication of a cedar tree, but a the early 1950s. It was there, outside of the source for my work comes from the W13 distilled image about the mysterious repressive reach of Communist China, a imagination of going back to that place. THIRTEEN strength of nature. Gwakalekala contains period of time when art had to be Reading and looking at the light which is mythological threads that relate to the spirit politically correct, that his first conscious very important and healing.” The idea that light can heal is present in elements of his work today. He has been commissioned to create a children’s rooftop healing garden for Westchester Medical “I’m a hybrid—I’m a scientist Center in Valhalla, New York. His concept for the work is based on the time, now who creates or clones an object, almost fifty years ago, when he was ill and confined to his bed, and refined during a and then finds meaning in it.” lifetime of work as a sculptor.

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 He consults with environmental very special place for them. In mythology, and to provide shade and outdoor psychologists and discusses his ideas for there are places that people go to for enjoyment. Umbrella plants will be the Medical Center with them, an ongoing inspiration. The garden is man-made, but introduced into the setting to provide process necessary to accommodate the it’s the same concept. The garden is not shade and diffused light. Rock screens, children’s needs. But his idea has already just another dose to be injected into a sick relief sculptures in the form of river rocks germinated. “My design is based on having child—the inspiration will come by just or fossil trees, will be used to frame the a place you want to get out and explore being there.” garden into spatial compositions. Animal because it’s so different. I’m also Sky Garden’s narrative is based, as is so sculpture forms will serve as seating for committed to using the forms I create for a much of Fay’s work, on nature. “Birds in patients and their families. good purpose.” the sky drop seeds onto the hospital. Trees This project will take several more years “Art can be a major transformative start to grow on the roof. The roots of the before completion, a process Fay says is not force in the process of healing and tree dig deeply into the walls and form a uncommon in public art. “That’s the recovery,” he adds. “As a sculptor I have green dome in the sky. The nest is a healing nature of public art projects. You can’t get been researching and investigating the garden in the hospital,” Fay explains. too anxious, the project won’t let you; it possibilities of realizing that art improves The garden will contain several has its own agenda and schedule. It’s a the quality of life, culture, and the sculptural elements that will have familiar mystery. No one really knows. You just have experience of health care and healing.” forms, but “embody their own mythical, to keep working at it.” Sky Garden is meant to be a place for magical, and awe-inspiring qualities, to Recently awarded an arts project grant children who are severely ill. “This might merge the arts, architecture, health care, from the National Endowment for the Arts be their only outdoor experience during and the community,” he adds. to support his commission from the their stay,” Fay says. “The kids are kept in As planned, the garden will contain a Children’s Hospital Foundation, he is using specific environments for their own water fountain, in the shape of a round leaf. that resource to work on developing illnesses. Access to the garden becomes a The fountain will be a social gathering elements for the garden. Currently, he is prescription for daylight and fresh air. I’m space where movement of water and deciding how to best include light in the trying to provide them with something a reflection of the sky is available. A spiral garden. little more interesting than just being path will be the focal point of the garden, “The main thing I’m working on right outside by transforming the rooftop into a and trees will be planted to act as screens, now is how light heals,” Fay relates. “If you were ill and were denied light, that would not be healthy. So then, I decide we want light. The question is then—well, what kind of light? What does it look like? These are the questions I am imposing on myself. First, it seems like a yes-no situation, we want light. Yes. Well, what kind of light? What does it look like? How do we make it? Light with some form and shape. How, I don’t know yet, but that’s what I’m developing now. I’m always looking into things that will heal. If art is acceptable to heal, then that concept will spill over into other things.” As a sculptor, Fay sees himself as PAGE someone who makes an object that is W14 FOURTEEN inspired by nature and then finds a meaning for those objects. In the same way, he has given his ancestry meaning. Although Chinese by birth, he lives in America by choice, and he now sees himself as a mix of Chinese and American. “The work I do now no longer has the distinction of being Chinese or American, it has to do with me as a person. And that person is a mix. My mind goes back and forth.”

FAY WITH A PROTOTYPE FOR ONE OF THE FLOWERS FOR THE OREGON CONVENTION CENTER INSTALLATION NATURE FIGURES PROMINENTLY IN FAY’S SCULPTURE

from the Amazon, which are hung onto trees on the Montalvo grounds. Inside, a golden money tree is hung with fruits; exotic flora are also on display. This year also will see the installation of a 27-foot-high cast aluminum sculpture at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Seattle. His design is based on a kernel from a cedar cone, and is meant to be about balance and spiral energy. Working from a model which was scanned into the computer, he worked on the texture, shape, and form of the mold before it was sent for casting at a foundry in Walla Walla, Washington. At eighteen, he left Hong Kong to realized that I didn’t want to do design,” The Metropolitan Transit Authority in accept a scholarship to the Columbus he says. “I thought sculpture was a more New York City has awarded Fay the College of Art and Design in Columbus, personal pursuit and I wanted to do my commission for the Delancey Street Ohio. He went on to earn a bachelor’s own work. In design, the pursuit belongs Subway Station as part of its ongoing arts degree in fine arts from the Kansas City to the client.” series, Arts for Transit. He has designed a Art Institute, and later earned a master of His study of design has stood him in colorful mosaic mural depicting a cherry fine arts degree from the University of good stead over the years as he draws on orchard for the uptown platform at California, Santa Barbara. skills learned and applies them to his Orchard Street based on research that With his father’s approval he studied commissions of public art. “One of the revealed the Delancey family’s land held design. “It was a miracle that I was reasons I have survived in public art is cherry orchards years ago in the area. For awarded a scholarship, because otherwise it because I studied design. I understand the the downtown platform (where the train would have been impossible if I didn’t have business aspect of public art—how to crosses to Brooklyn), he again created a that opportunity,” he recalls. “It was accommodate a client’s needs, the structure large mosaic mural, this time of two shad difficult because I had no family here, and of presentation and design, reading fish, indigenous to the Hudson River and no money. But it was a journey that blueprints and contracts, and working in once almost extinct. The design is a essentially changed my life. A door had areas such as occupancy. These are things metaphor for rejuvinal celebration and opened for me, and I stayed in the arts and that a fine artist does not normally learn.” the spirit of immigrants who continue to made it as an artist.” Fay, who has been teaching sculpture cross over the waters. But he walked away from design as he classes in the College of the Arts and Such site-specific works are the grew more interested in sculpture. “I Communication since 1985, is on leave hallmark of Fay’s art—his private work, this semester to work on some of his his public art, and what he teaches to his many projects. First, he is in a group show students at William Paterson. “The time I at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center take to work on public art gives me a new “Art can be PAGE in Kohler, Wisconsin. His entry, called perspective in my teaching,” he says. “I W15 Cordyceps’ Cousin, is a whimsical take on a teach the students the basic skills of FIFTEEN a major mushroom organism that grows on larvae sculpting, but I try to make them realize found in China and Tibet, and is believed what they see in their minds. There is a transformative to have healing qualities. Cordyceps Cousin, how and a why to the way a three- which has a companion piece called Forked dimensional object is made. Essentially, I Tongue, was constructed in his studio in help them develop their imagination— force in the New York City, and is made of mixed find their story and the reasons for it. I media. Cordyceps, almost eight feet tall, is also want to teach them to carry on the process of painted green. tradition of sculpting. I’ve been teaching He currently has a solo exhibit at the all my life. At first, I didn’t realize that healing and Montalvo Gallery in Saratoga, California, teaching would be a lifetime career. I titled “Money Tree and Monkey Pots.” knew I wanted to sculpt, and somewhere The indoor and outdoor installation along the way, I found a way to do it, recovery” introduces the monkey pot fruit, originally through teaching.” w

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 University Students Succeed Through Hands-On Learning

ONE OF THE HALLMARKS OF A WILLIAM — By Barbara E. Martin and Terry E. Ross

PATERSON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IS

THE INSTITUTION’S FOCUS ON HANDS- Rachelle Hoffman: In her freshman year, along with Internship at production classes, she began to film ON LEARNING. STUDENTS HAVE some of the campus sports events. “I Dateline NBC Supports took the initiative and joined the crew. NUMEROUS OPPORTUNITIES TO GAIN On-Campus Studies To be able to physically do something is EXPERIENCE THAT ENHANCES WHAT love for television production, an really important,” she says. Aeagerness to learn, and a strong In that spirit of learning by doing, she THEY LEARN IN THE CLASSROOM. ON sense of curiosity led Rachelle Hoffman found her niche on campus. “I love working in television,” she BOTH THE UNDERGRADUATE AND ’04 to pursue an internship at Dateline NBC, the network’s signature broadcast says. “I consider what I do in school a GRADUATE LEVELS, STUDENTS ARE for NBC News. kind of an internship, because it’s hands- The internship, which she completed on. I’ve gotten all my best experience ENGAGED IN RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH last semester, was built on a solid base of from covering sports in my freshman year at school and our two news FACULTY, INDEPENDENT STUDY hands-on learning at William Paterson. A communication major, Hoffman worked programs at school.” PROJECTS CONDUCTED UNDER FACULTY on the communication department’s two “Internships provide the kind of student-produced news shows: Live at experience employers are looking for. In MENTORS, INTERNSHIPS IN THEIR Five and The Cutting Edge. Both shows today’s competitive market, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc., expect entry-level CHOSEN FIELD, AND ON-CAMPUS air four times a week on the campus WPBN-TV network, giving students workers to have logged some ‘real EMPLOYMENT AND EXTRACURRICULAR work in a variety of areas both on-air and world’ experience,” explains John in production. Rhodes, associate professor of ACTIVITIES. HERE ARE PROFILES OF FIVE On those programs, Hoffman gained communication, who teaches broadcast classes at the University. “So when a WILLIAM PATERSON STUDENTS WHOSE experience as the on-air talent and producer, and learned about editing, student interns with a TV station or HANDS-ON LEARNING EXPERIENCES ARE graphics, and camerawork, both in the network, that student’s chance of classroom and out in the field. landing a job in the industry improves LEADING TO THEIR SUCCESS.

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LILY HWANG JUNIOR RODNEY RACHELLE HOFFMAN MARC MEDLEY AMANDA MORAS by about one determine if there is a relationship between ecosystems in northern New Jersey.” hundred percent. land use and water quality. The upper The results confirmed that intense As Rachelle section, mostly residential, flows through urban land use in and around Paterson has Hoffman enters the North Haledon and Haledon; the lower decreased the water quality of Molly Ann job market, she has section flows through the highly urbanized Brook. The diversity and density of key a leg up on the towns of Prospect Park, Haledon, and types of macroinvertebrates and fish were competition.” Paterson before it enters the Passaic River substantially reduced in the lower section Because she had adjacent to John F. Kennedy High School compared to those in the upper section of actual production in Paterson. “The lower part has more the stream. experience gleaned from working on the businesses and run-off from cars and Hwang says she was fascinated by the campus programs, Hoffman wanted an industrial activity and has been channelized wonderment of just “how small living internship that offered her an alternative for flood control,” explains Hwang. things can be, even to the naked eye.” She experience. Working with Sebetich, Hwang set out to was also surprised to discover that some She accepted the Dateline position and test the hypothesis that stream macroinvertebrates were able to thrive in has not regretted it. channelization along with urban land use the polluted waters. “That tells you how “I’ve learned a lot of different things decreases water quality. amazing life is,” she adds. about being a professional at work through Collecting the data was a “fun and Hwang is planning for a career in the internship at Dateline,” Hoffman says. dirty” job, “ but also “physically rigorous optometry but says she’ll “always be an “I’ve learned a lot of new things in regard and time consuming,” says Hwang. Once a ecologist at heart.” A dean’s list student to networking and how to deal with people. week, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., she and scholarship recipient, Hwang is active It’s been good.” drove from site to site to collect the in science clubs and also a member of the At Dateline, which is produced at samples. She used a surber sampler, a metal Student Government Association’s Court 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, she frame with an attached sieve, to measure of Judicial Review. She chose political worked three days a week in the Day of Air the macroinvertebrates, including insects science as her minor because she believes Office with the associate producers. She and worms, per square foot. “You put the that “scientists should be politically aware helped to set up the control room, pass out device into a shallow area right after the of things that are happening around them.” scripts, record the program’s anchor Stone riffle, pick up rocks, and shake them to Phillips as he taped intros and breaks clean out that square foot. Then you which are inserted into the programs plunge it into a bucket of water and pull before and after reports, and delivered and out the macroinvertebrate,” she explains. Marc Medley: Inspiring retrieved tapes as needed by the producers. She usually took two samples per site, Students to Read Inspires Now finished with her studies, she is which took about ninety minutes. looking for a job in television as a producer “Through her extraordinary efforts, Lily Future Administrator or as an on-air talent and is currently busy gained invaluable experience in ecological arc Medley is an avid reader who sending out resumes. fieldwork, data analysis, report writing, and Mjuggles five or six books at a time. It public presentation of her results,” says was his passion for reading that led him to Sebetich. “The outcome is significant, and host The Reading Circle, a radio show about she has contributed to the understanding books on William Paterson’s broadcast Lily Hwang: of the effects of land use on natural station, WPSC 88.7 FM. Every Friday Science Major Takes before the crack of dawn, he arrives on campus to interview authors and discuss On Ecology Study the latest books. The program, which he harnsmorn Hwang, also known as started in June 2001, airs on Fridays from PAGE W17 “Lily,” is a junior majoring in biology 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. C SEVENTEEN with a passion for bio-conservation. As Medley teaches language arts at part of the class Ecology, Evolution, and Paterson’s Public School No. 6, and tries Behavior, taught by Lance Risley, professor to instill that same enthusiasm for books of biology, Hwang was required to take a in his eighth grade students. one-time stream sampling at Molly Ann “I always thought the students would Brook, a small tributary to the Passaic River read more if they were allowed to select in North Haledon. She enjoyed it so much their own books,” he says. Medley tested that she enrolled in an independent study this theory by conducting an action this past summer under the direction of research project as part of his master’s Michael J. Sebetich, professor of biology, to degree program in educational leadership examine the “Effect of Urbanization on at William Paterson. The project, the Water Quality of Molly Ann Brook.” equivalent of a thesis, allows educators to Hwang’s objective was to compare the gather information about the way their upper and lower sections of the brook to schools operate and implement a plan to

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 improve student Medley earned his bachelor’s degree in Junior Rodney: outcomes and business administration from William Team Leader at strengthen teacher Paterson in 1984, and always found effectiveness. opportunities to teach. While attending E TRADE Financial Medley’s plan was college, he worked as a substitute teacher at Learning Center to augment and Passaic County Technical School for two or Junior Rodney ’03, working as a increase the years. “I had my own class and absolutely Fstudent technology consultant at the number of books loved it,” he says. He knew then that he E TRADE Financial Learning Center children read, in would eventually return to education. during his senior year at William Paterson addition to required literary works, and During his years at AT&T, Medley was a remarkable education in itself. A help them develop a lifelong love of worked in the consumer marketing business administration major, Rodney was reading. organization and relished the occasional hired to oversee the trading room and “Action research is important because it opportunity to teach corporate classes. instructional facility from its inception. gives teachers opportunities to become “I would train the telemarketers, and I’d The job itself was challenging enough, and school leaders and work collaboratively,” come back with such a feeling of ‘Yes!’” helping out during the creation of the says Michael Chirichello, chair of the The ultimate realization came when he Center was exciting as well as demanding. Department of Educational Leadership. “It received a master’s degree in It was a ground-floor opportunity to learn creates a school-wide mindset for communication from Fairleigh Dickinson about the installation, testing, and support improvement, and empowers those who University, and the institution hired him for the Center’s myriad of financial data participate.” to teach communication courses as an feeds, databases, and software. Medley enlisted the help of seventy adjunct professor. “It was only one night Faculty and students needed to learn students and parents, and three other a week, but whatever night of the week how to use the room, and Rodney was there language arts teachers at School No. 6, and that was, that’s the day I couldn’t wait for,” much of the time, actively offering them incorporated children’s self-selection of says Medley. “So the teaching was driving instruction and support. If there were books into the school’s 2003-2004 lesson everything.” problems, he helped to find solutions. He plan. It allows the students to alternate When he is awarded his master’s degree soon became an expert at controlling the between reading an assigned book and a in educational leadership in May, Medley Center’s sophisticated equipment. choice of their own, and the results have will be qualified to become an educational Before long, Rodney was holding been positive. administrator, such as a principal or training sessions for the very same “When children were asked why they supervisor. Would he miss the classroom? professors who taught him in class. He selected a particular book, their responses Medley quotes Chirichello, his mentor, who demonstrated the technical capabilities of were almost always the same,” says Medley. has taught him to view it as an opportunity the room, showing them how to control the “They’d say, ‘It was something I could to “teach teachers.” “When you go into student terminals, and search the Web. relate to’ or ‘The story was about a administration, you not only have an “I had the advantage of getting paid to teenager like me.’” Two students, one from opportunity to help a class of thirty kids, learn,” says Rodney, who himself was the Dominican Republic and one from you’re helping a school of 1,200 or whatever surprised at how much he absorbed in a Costa Rica, chose books with plots the size. In other words, your message can short period of time. Learning directly containing events that were similar to those be much broader. That’s something I from consultants from Reuters, Data happening in their respective countries. constantly think about,” he says. Stream, and other software providers who “I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the Medley lives in Paterson with his wife, came in almost weekly to give classes, results,” says Medley, who found that Jean, and their two children. children will read if given the right PAGE motivation and interest. His study showed W18 EIGHTEEN a definite increase in both the number of books the students read and their reading time. Medley, 41, took the alternate route to a JUNIOR RODNEY SPEAKS WITH teaching career after spending fifteen years KAREN AUSTIN, VICE PRESIDENT as a marketing executive at AT&T. He AND BRANCH MANAGER, VALLEY NATIONAL BANK, AND BEVERLY always longed to be a teacher. “For me, the WHITE, REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENT, biggest impact is whenever you touch VALLEY NATIONAL BANK another life in some way,” he says. “You DURING THEIR TOUR make a difference, and that’s what I wasn’t OF THE E TRADE getting in the corporate world.” FINANCIAL LEARNING CENTER Rodney became adept at using the same and taught math and science to high school Ansari, also a professor of sociology. tools used by economic researchers. students. When his family decided to move “That class helped me to understand The most rewarding benefit of this to New Jersey, Rodney chose to enroll at what was happening in the country after experience was “learning how to get William Paterson as an international the terrorist attacks,” she reports. “We detailed, inside information on any student. He felt comfortable in the diverse visited a mosque while people were there corporation,” says Rodney. “I like to check atmosphere, and excelled as a student. and I noticed that the congregants had out companies that claim they are doing Throughout his years at the University, built a very strong community structure.” well because when I look closely at their Rodney always worked and studied hard, This led Moras to her hypotheses: records, I sometimes discover they’re not. usually carrying an average of eighteen to 1. “That there would be high degrees of When you get information from the twenty-one credits each semester. He was a involvement in houses of worship by those primary source, you get an internal view Dean’s List student and won numerous who are defined as visible minorities,” and and can make a better judgment. I can awards and honors. He received the 2. “That there will be positive correlation validate information that I’m learning on William Paterson University Presidential between the outside marginalization that the news. This has really been a major Scholarship, Scholars Award of Excellence, one experiences and their religious advantage for me,” he adds. Alumni Association Scholarship, and was involvement.” “Thanks to the dedicated service of named to Who’s Who Among Students in In her study, she included a mosque Junior, the Center has been a success in American Universities and Colleges. He also serving Circassian Muslims, African developing and executing many initiatives,” was elected president of the International Americans who were members of a Baptist says Haiyang Chen, director of the Student Association and was active in many church, and Latinos at a Catholic church. E TRADE Financial Learning Center. school activities. She completed forty-five interviews with Rodney helped to create and supervise a Prior to his job at the E TRADE males and females that she conducted on- real-time E TRADE Trading Challenge center, Rodney worked as a resident site. contest for more than fifty students who assistant in a campus residence hall and as Through this research, she found that used simulated funds to purchase stocks a student technology consultant for the those who were considered minorities and mutual funds. He also helped to instruction and research technology outside their religious institutions became introduce the Center to local banks and department. Juggling work and school majorities within their religious businesses by making presentations to helped him to be a better time manager and communities because their interactions in representatives from Wachovia Securities, a better person, he says. Rodney’s long- the house of worship provided a sense of Merrill Lynch, Commerce Bank, and term goal is to own his own company. community. others. “The socialization provides an Rodney came to the United States in important form of communication for 1997 from Jamaica and received his them,” Moras reports. “They lose their associate’s degree from Kirkwood Amanda Moras: sense of segregation and the institution Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Hands-on Research helps them to assimilate.” From 1999 to 2000 he returned to Jamaica “Amanda’s work was exceptional,” Provides Insight for Parrillo reports. “Her field research and Student interviews provided a rich abundance of uring her senior year, sociology major information to write a fine comparative DAmanda Moras ’03 had an analysis.” opportunity she just couldn’t pass up. Original research projects serve as Through an assignment for an valuable learning experiences, according to undergraduate class, she was able to apply Parrillo. “Their original works enable them to apply all that they have learned in a PAGE the concepts learned in class to gather W19 meaningful and satisfying quest for primary research for a project. NINETEEN “Doing the research, I saw the knowledge,” he says. “Nothing beats theoretical concepts spring to life,” she learning by doing. In their hands-on says. “I was able to apply what I’d learned research students utilize all the knowledge in class to a real-life situation. Research and skills they have learned and advance made the information tangible.” their own breadth and depth of knowledge. Moras’s senior seminar class, led by It’s education at its best.” Vincent Parrillo, professor of sociology and Moras is currently a graduate student chairperson of the department, was asked at the University of Florida-Gainesville, to focus on Paterson. She based her where she is continuing her research, this project, “Minority Status and its Effects on time in family studies and gender equalities Religious Involvement,” on a class she had at the university’s Center for Gender taken in the fall of 2001: Muslim and Equalities. Islamic Institutions, taught by Maboud (continued on Page 26)

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 HOW WE’RE GROWING DEVELOPMENTNEWS WHERE WE’RE GOING Taub Foundation, provides University Enters Public Phase of an opportunity for future Comprehensive Fund-raising Campaign teachers from Paterson to gain degrees from the Building on the most successful fund- For the final phase of the campaign, University and then return raising year in University history, William support will be sought in key areas: to teach in Paterson. Paterson University has entered the final • Endowments, including the • Support for the Small Business two-year phase of a comprehensive establishment of endowed Development Center to bolster fundraising campaign. faculty chairs, to assist in its efforts to help emerging The campaign was launched five years maintaining faculty Passaic County small businesses ago to support scholarships, endowments, excellence in teaching and develop the tools needed to academic programs, the arts, and other research and enhance the succeed in an increasingly needs of the University. Titled “Affecting visibility and prestige of the complex and competitive Lives...Shaping Worlds” because of the entire University. environment. institution’s ability to teach, nurture, and • Scholarships to provide • Additional funds for the Women affect the lives of the University’s opportunities for education in Math, Science, and students, the campaign supports the to deserving young people. Technology program. The University’s mission and creates new program is designed to opportunities for student success. • Donations to the Annual encourage more women to “The support of our more than 50,000 Fund, which help the pursue careers in science and alumni is crucial to our future,” says University respond to new mathematics, which in turn will University President Arnold Speert. “We opportunities and urgent help to encourage more women move forward with pride in our past and needs such as student to become math and science excitement for our future—and with assistance, faculty teachers who can be role models appreciation for the generosity of our ever- development, scholarships, for girls in elementary and growing community of friends and and capital equipment. secondary schools. supporters. Parterships with alumni and A number of specific programs from each • Support for the Asian Studies friends enable the University to recruit of William Paterson’s five Colleges have Program, which provides outstanding faculty, enhance student been identified for support through the students with a multi- excellence with innovative programs, and campaign. Examples include: disciplinary education in build state-of-the-art facilities.” language, culture, art, The 2002-2003 academic year marked • Expansion of the Shea anthropology, geography, the best fund-raising year in the Center complex with new history, philosophy, political University’s history. Donations to the performance space and new science, and sociology. The University exceeded $9 million, including space for the music rapid economic and social department. Built in 1968, PAGE a $6.2 million gift to establish the Russ development in Asia is W20 Berrie Institute for Professional Sales. the facility is a centerpiece of important to the United States TWENTY Contributions to the Alumni Annual Fund the University for many and many corporations will need visitors to campus and increased to $291,000 in fiscal year 2003. more and more employees who requires renovation to meet Donations earmarked for scholarships understand Asia and Asian future needs. increased to $1.8 million—a nearly 400 development. Support for this percent increase compared to the previous • Expansion of the scope of program would fund visiting year. the Paterson Teachers for scholars, colloquia, student “The impact of this generosity is felt Tomor row Prog r am to exchange, scholarships, and faculty research. every day on campus,” says Speert. “The provide its students greater success that we continue to achieve as a exposure to cultural The comprehensive campaign will university demonstrates the depth of programs that will serve as a culminate in 2005 with a gala celebration commitment maintained by our donors. catalyst for creative and innovative teaching. The marking both the completion of the Together they have helped to create a spirit campaign and the University's 150th of giving, a sense of community that is program, which was initiated with seed money from the anniversary. reassuring and inspiring.” Sandra S. Deller Named Reserve University DEVELOPMENT (CWRU) in Vice President for Cleveland, Ohio, a Institutional Advancement private, research institution with an endowment of more Sandra S. Deller has been appointed vice than $1.4 billion. In SANDRA S. DELLER president for institutional advancement at that role, she was the William Paterson University following a senior development national search. NEWS officer reporting to She is responsible for providing overall the CWRU president, leadership, management, and coordination Previously, she of the University's fund raising, alumni served as director of affairs, public relations, marketing, and major gifts and publications programs. special assistant to the “I am delighted that Sandra has joined senior vice president the William Paterson University producer, talent of development and community to assist us in developing the coordinator, and university relations at relationships and resources that will host for Midbreak- CWRU. In that role, support university excellence,” says Arnold 18, a live weekly in concert with the senior administration Speert, president. “She will provide policy news and interview program broadcast on cabinet, she planned a $1 billion capital level direction and supervision of fund- the CBS affiliate in Lafayette. campaign for the institution. From 1987 raising programs as we begin the final two- Deller is a graduate of Xavier to 1992, she was executive director of year phase of our comprehensive fund- University in Cincinnati, Ohio, with a development and external affairs for the raising campaign.” bachelor’s degree in English and Bolton School of Nursing at CWRU. Deller, who brings more than twenty communications and she has completed Earlier in her career, Deller served as years of progressively responsible graduate course work at Butler University director of development for the Cleveland experience in the areas of fund raising, and Purdue University in Indiana. Her Hearing and Speech Center, as a institutional advancement, development, book with Joyce Fitzpatrick, Fundraising consultant to John Carroll University, as and public relations to the institution, most Skills for Health Care Executives, was the director of development and public recently held the position of assistant vice selected for the American Journal of relations at the Greater Lafayette Museum president of principal gifts at Case Western Nursing “Book of the Year” award for 2001. of Art in Lafayette, Indiana, and as

Orlando and Lorraine Saa “Both my wife and I are educationally Latin II. He is assistant director of the oriented, and believe that if we educate Languages and Cultures Faculty Lecture Endow Scholarship people we will be in a much better world,” Series and coordinates four presentations says Saa. The scholarship is named in every semester. For the past fifteen years, he Orlando Saa, a honor of their mothers, Maria Saa and has coordinated the department’s annual professor of Marietta Cutillo, whom they loved and Poetry Recitation Contest, which brings languages and adored. It provides support for a student together more than seven hundred students cultures, and his majoring in Spanish who requires financial from twenty local high schools. Saa has wife, Lorraine, assistance and maintains a minimum 3.0 written four books and numerous articles, PAGE who taught W21 grade point average. and his poems have appeared in more than TWENTY-ONE English at Born in Cuba, Orlando Saa came to the thirty anthologies in the United States and Hoboken High United States in 1958 and is a former Jesuit abroad. School for priest who taught at Loyola University in According to Saa, his most gratifying nearly thirty New Orleans, Louisiana, before coming to contribution to the University is the time he years, have William Paterson. He teaches classical spends advising students and helping them endowed the Greek, Spanish, and Latin at the University, achieve their personal and career goals. “I first scholarship and has been an active member of the enjoy talking with my students, and am also ORLANDO AND LORRAINE SAA for a student Department of Languages and Cultures concerned about their lives, and helping majoring in Spanish. Both are dedicated since his appointment in 1974. He them to become productive citizens,” he educators who have taught countless introduced Latin to the curriculum more says. In June 2002, the Latino Chapter of students who continue to regard them as than twenty years ago; the language the Alumni Association presented him with mentors and life-long friends many years continues to grow in popularity and course an appreciation award for his “untiring after graduation. offerings have been expanded to include

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 dedication and support.” He participates in many community and social events, and frequently lectures in the Spanish NEWS communities of Union and West INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE New York. He currently is an C HARITABLE G IFTS P ROVIDE A L ASTING I MPACT advisor to an interfaith group that meets regularly in Rutherford, and enefactors of William Paterson University can inspire and works to promote harmony and Bsupport numerous educational initiatives while reducing their tolerance in his hometown of taxes and generating new income. Lyndhurst. Like her husband, Lorraine Saa Contribute now with: likes to stay involved with the

DEVELOPMENT community and volunteers as a • Outright gifts of cash, appreciated securities, tutor. “I’m teaching some dear Turkish or real estate friends how to speak English,” she says. “I love seeing them progress, and the best • Life income gifts through deferred payment reward is their love and friendship. gift annuities and charitable trusts “We feel blessed with everything we have been given in life, and through this • Gifts in your will scholarship we hope to be able to help others,” she continues. When her husband • Gifts of life insurance celebrates his eightieth birthday on May 8, Support your alma mater while choosing a charitable gift that 2005, Lorraine plans to invite family, colleagues, and friends for a party at the can most benefit you and your loved ones. University. “In lieu of gifts, we’re asking our Please contact the Office of Development at 973.720.2615 about the various guests to make a donation to the Maria Saa types of life income gift arrangements and other gift planning vehicles offered and Marietta Cutillo Family Scholarship Fund. To me, that’s very important,” she by William Paterson University. says.

Marjorie Heller—Planning for the Future

nine years, took the opportunity presented administration from . A to her and never looked back. classroom teacher for many years, she “The scholarship was a chance to follow worked her way up to leadership positions a different career path,” she says. “I had in administration. virtually no money and no idea of “No other work is as important or attending college.” rewarding as teaching,” she says. “But But all that changed when a guidance now we need more people to step into

PAGE counselor at Clifton High School met with educational leadership. It’s important for W22 her in June, just a few days before she was institutions like William Paterson to TWENTY-TWO set to graduate and begin a secretarial job. encourage educators to prepare for “I absolutely had to work and earn leadership positions.” money,” she remembers. “But the guidance To that end, Heller encourages teachers counselor looked at my grades and realized in her district to pursue advanced degrees. I could be eligible for a scholarship based She has also set up a charitable trust for on my class rank. William Paterson, and has used the MARJORIE HELLER “Paterson State took me with no college institution’s planned giving program to prep credits based on my academic become a major donor to William Paterson A four-year full scholarship from Paterson potential,” she continues. “The college University through her estate. State College changed the course of opened up a new life for me. It gave me a “Because William Paterson gave me a Marjorie Heller’s life tremendous start.” life-altering experience, I am now in a A 1962 graduate with a bachelor’s Education became increasingly position to be able to give back to the degree in education, Heller, superintendent important. She earned a master’s degree in of schools in Little Silver for more than education and a doctorate in educational (continued on Page 26) Pi neer NAUGLE News WHERE SPORTS SET US APART FIVE NEW MEMBERS INDUCTED INTO ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

MEMBERS OF THE ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME AND THE ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME SELECTION COMMITTEE GATHERED AT THE 2003 INDUCTION CEREMONY: (STANDING, FROM LEFT) ALAN ANDERSON ’81, BASEBALL; JOE BROCK ’80, BASEBALL; JOE LYNCH ’91, BASEBALL; MARY MASTRO ’72, FIELD HOCKEY; ANTHONY LISTRO ’87, BASEBALL; ED MITCHELL ’97, BASEBALL; JEFF ALBIES, BASEBALL COACH; MARK EVANGELISTA ’65, BASEBALL AND SOCCER; ALLAN GORAB ’72; JOSEPH DIGIACOMO ’73; LARRY ARICO, FOOTBALL COACH; ERIN MONAHAN ’91, BASKETBALL COACH; (SEATED, FROM LEFT) FRANK BARKER ’89, BASEBALL; MELISSA BEDFORD-GUTEKUNST ’89, SWIMMING; DANIEL JANKELUNAS ’43, BASEBALL; KEN WOLF, FORMER BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, SOCCER, AND GOLF COACH; WILL MYERS, FORMER SOCCER COACH; GABRIEL VITALONE, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION; ALPHONSE SULLY, FORMER FENCING COACH; KATHLEEN SINRAM ’99, SOCCER; (KNEELING, FROM LEFT) BRIAN FALZARANO, SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR; STANLEY BAVARO ’74, SOCCER; AND ART EASON, M.A. ’71, FORMER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR. into the American Coach of the Year, NJAC Coach Baseball Coaches of the Year, and New Jersey Association Collegiate Baseball Association (ABCA) Hall of Coach of the Year. Fame in January, is one of the Jankelunas helped write the he William Paterson as twenty-seven New Jersey country’s preeminent college first pages of William Paterson’s TUniversity Alumni Athletic Conference (NJAC) baseball coaches. With a record proud athletic history. In 1943, Association Hall of Fame championships. In addition, he of 780-336-10 entering the he was named director of added five new members was successful in achieving current season, he is among the athletics and baseball coach in during the 2003 induction facility upgrades for the Rec leaders in coaching victories addition to being the team’s star ceremony on November 17 at Center and the softball field. among active Division III pitcher, while also working at a the Madison Hotel in He also initiated the Big coaches. He has coached the U.S. Naval defense plant seven Morristown. Brothers, Big Sisters program Pioneers to national days a week for nine hours per Honorees included Art at the University, which championships in 1992 and day. He threw the first no-hitter Eason, M.A. ’71, former increased student-athlete 1996, seven regional titles, and in school history, shutting out PAGE director of athletics; Jeff Albies, participation in the eleven NJAC crowns. In Montclair State, 1-0, on April W23 who is entering his thirtieth community. Eason served in addition, twenty-nine of his 17, 1943. Upon his graduation, TWENTY-THREE season as head baseball coach; numerous positions, including former players have signed he was awarded a gold baseball Dan Jankelunas ’43, a baseball president of the Collegiate professional contracts, and basketball for playing four and basketball standout; Ed Athletic Administrators of including former Yankee Dan varsity seasons in each respective Mitchell ’96, a baseball player; New Jersey; chairperson of the Pasqua and outfielder Bryan sport. and Melissa Bedford- National Collegiate Athletic Graham, the 2003 NJAC Player Mitchell provided Gutekunst ’93, a swimmer. Association (NCAA) of the Year and a sixteenth- consistency during his Eason served as director of Nominating and Division III round selection of the Kansas playing days. As a freshman, athletics from 1972 to 2002. Self-Study committees; NJAC City Royals last June. Twenty- he played a key role as the During his tenure, the football committee; and seven of his players have earned Pioneers won their first national Pioneers captured national secretary of the National All-American honors. His championship in 1992. He also championships in baseball, Association of Collegiate numerous accolades include was a member of three NJAC women’s swimming, and track Directors of Athletics. ABCA National Coach of the championship teams (1992-93, and field (individual), as well Albies, who was inducted Year, Mid-Atlantic Region 1995) and reached the Division

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 III College World doubles (45) and runs (165), 800-yard freestyle relay, and career, she was named the New Series twice (1992 seventh in hits (185) and at-bats the 400-yard medley relay. The Jersey Association of and 1995). A three- (548), and eighth in runs batted following season, she qualified Intercollegiate Athletics for time all-conference in (128). for the NCAA Division III Women Division III Woman selection (1993-95), Bedford-Gutekunst enjoyed championship meet in the 50- of the Year in 1994. Bedford- he earned All- one of the finest careers in yard freestyle, 200-yard Gutekunst graduated with school American and All- women’s swimming history at breaststroke, and 200-yard records in the 100- and 200-yard Mid-Atlantic Region William Paterson. In her individual medley. As a junior, breaststroke, the 200-yard honors in 1995. freshman season she set six she captured the 200-yard individual medley, and was part of Overall, he batted school records and earned breaststroke championship at teams that set records in the 400- .338, set a school All-American status in the the Metropolitan Conference yard freestyle relay, 400-yard record for walks 200-yard freestyle relay, the Swimming and Diving medley relay, and 800-yard (138), and ranked third in 400-yard freestyle relay, the Championships. To cap her freestyle relay.

HALLIE COHEN: COACH ACHIEVES DUAL MILESTONES laques and banners cover really mean too much in my Pnearly every square inch mind,” says Cohen. “What of Hallie Cohen’s office and really matters is the growth of serve as a timeline to mark her my players and setting an many significant coaching example for them and for me achievements. The lack of to keep working to improve available wall space is a clear myself. It’s not really the illustration of the success she milestone of 400 wins that has achieved as coach of the matters other than being William Paterson field hockey honored by your peers who and softball programs. respect the job you’re doing.” Cohen has been passionate Quick as Cohen is to divert about both since her days as a talk of her accomplishments,

scholarship student-athlete at they continue to draw one’s COHEN (CENTER) WITH FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS BECKY PULSINELLI (LEFT) AND LAUREN CLARK (RIGHT) Rutgers University. In 2003, attention. She is the Pioneers’ that passion resulted in a pair all-time leader in softball The approach was an “What sets us apart from of coaching milestones: her victories with 227, and has instant success. More and others and allows us to be 400th softball victory on piloted the program to its only more of the region’s and successful is that I set March 21 against Allegheny two New Jersey Athletic state’s top players started standards and try not to divert College, and her 200th field Conference championships playing field hockey and from them,” Cohen continues. PAGE hockey victory on September (1999 and 2003). Meanwhile, softball for the Pioneers, “I tell the prospective student- W24 14 against King’s College at she has guided the field elevating a pair of winning athletes the truth and always TWENTY-FOUR the Betty Richey Invitational hockey team to its only two programs to championship stand up for what I believe.” Tournament at Vassar College. postseason appearances (2000 level. Cohen’s open-door Indeed, Cohen’s squads Believed to be the only coach and 2003). policy stays that way from the have achieved a steady stream in NCAA history to win 400 Her success is due to equal first campus visit through of success during the past four games in softball and 200 in parts dedication and graduation. years. Her field hockey teams field hockey, Cohen is the unflinching attention to even “High school kids want to are 53-19 with two postseason most celebrated field hockey the smallest of details. About feel like they’re part of a appearances while producing and softball coach in William five years ago, she changed her family,” Cohen says. “Every All-Americans Leslie Dube Paterson history, having approach to the recruitment campus has its own flair. If (2000, 2001) and Krista coached both sports since process by inviting prospective kids come up and feel that’s Hinshillwood (2003). arriving from Fairleigh student-athletes to come to part of who they are, they feel Meanwhile, her softball teams Dickinson University- campus, talk to current a connection right away. We’ve have a 123-44-1 record over Florham Park in 1995. players, and stay overnight to had great success with that. those four seasons, including “The milestones don’t get the true feel of college life. two NCAA Division III COHEN DISCUSSES STRATEGY WITH preparation, and Softball Championship SOFTBALL PLAYER NIKKI ARIAS commitment as a appearances (2001 and 2003). teacher and coach In addition, five players were the story. All who know Hallie have made a world named All-Americans: Morgan are touched by her concern for of good in the Dunlap (2001, 2002), Courtney each and every athlete she outcome of the lives Heller (2002), Lauren coaches, on and off the field.” of your athletes and Hertzberg (2000, 2001), Sam To balance both sports as have helped them Kszepka (2002), and Diane adeptly as Cohen has is a credit become better Naugle (2000, 2001). In to her time management skills. people.” addition, Cohen has coached Although the details of her Field hockey three consecutive NJAC work can make her job seem junior midfielder Cheryl Softball Players of the Year: like a race against the clock, Naurath, a two-time All-NJAC Naugle (2001), Kszepka she manages to fit everything selection, agrees. “She knows (2002), and Katie Morris into her helter-skelter how to coach you and work (2003). schedule, awing players and with you. If you listen to her, Moreover, Cohen’s student- colleagues alike. you’ll see your skills improve.” athletes are often among the “I think she does a great job This is among the many top academic achievers in the juggling both teams,” says reasons Cohen still oversees junior Kelly Harchetts, an All- athletic department. For the coaches, helping student- both programs. “Those South Atlantic Region fall 2003 semester, five field athletes navigate their way exhilarating and exciting goalkeeper in field hockey and hockey players and seven through the four years they are moments that become once-in- a starting outfielder for the softball players were named to together. a-lifetime experiences after all softball team. “During hockey, the Dean’s List. “When you get into this the hours and hours of hard she’s always thinking hockey “Hallie Cohen recruits kind of job, you know from the work and preparation—that is but her door is always open to quality student-athletes who very beginning that you want why I have coached for twenty- her softball players if you need represent William Paterson to help the student-athletes,” three years,” she says. “Every to talk about school or home or University with class and are a Cohen says. “Teaching is such year is different. Every group whatever.” true reflection of her,” says a big part of coaching. Seeing of athletes brings new Along with working hard to Sabrina Grant, director of growth on the field offers challenges for me—it never build championship teams, athletics. “Her achievements tremendous satisfaction. It gets old.” Cohen’s mission is to be a are measured in numbers, but shows that your passion, that only tells a small part of friend and mentor to those she

PIONEER BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYS IN CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ARENA hat is it like to play in a banner,” says sophomore 1987 to 1990, had contacted memory from playing college Wfamous college forward Robert Simpkins. the athletic director at his basketball. Jeff Fogelson was basketball arena? The William “That’s when it really hit me.” alma mater, Jeff Fogelson, kind enough to provide us Paterson University Men’s Head coach Jose Rebimbas, about playing either before or with this opportunity. We PAGE W25 Basketball Team had the who played at Seton Hall from after a Seton Hall game. After hope this is the beginning of a TWENTY-FIVE opportunity to find out on ironing out the details, it was long relationship between our December 13 when they decided William Paterson two programs.” played the U.S. Merchant would play on the same day Senior guard Brandon Marine Academy at Seton Hall hosted St. Peter’s. Constantine made the most of Continental Airlines Arena in Rebimbas hopes it can become his Meadowlands experience, East Rutherford, New Jersey, an annual event. scoring a game-high 24 points the home of the New Jersey “The experience was all en route to a 69-57 victory for Nets, the New Jersey Devils, about the kids,” Rebimbas William Paterson. “This was a and Seton Hall University. says. “We just wanted to have dream come true,” Constantine “I thought it was just our players take away a great says. “To step on the floor another game until I looked up where so many legends have and saw Julius Erving’s BRANDON CONSTANTINE played was amazing.” w

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 P (continued from Development News/ Linda Niro – Banking P Marjorie Heller, page 22) Executive Who Wants University,” she says. “I greatly appreciate To Give Back P the opportunity they gave to me many years P ago. Most places can use some economic “I HAD A VERY GOOD LEARNING support. It was natural for me to give to EXPERIENCE AT WILLIAM PATERSON, P William Paterson; it’s a very deserving AND MADE MANY FRIENDS WHO I’MSTILL place. Since I have been so closely involved FRIENDS WITH TODAY,” says Linda Niro, a in the field of education, I want to support 1976 graduate who fondly remembers her P the people coming behind me.” days on campus. Now a senior banking executive, Niro is P a leadership donor who has given her Alumnus Honors Political generous financial support to the LINDA NIRO P Science Professor with University. She also serves as a member of chief financial officer of its holding the board of directors of the William company, Provident Financial Services. Scholarship Paterson University Foundation. “I’d like She is a member of the bank’s executive to give something back to the University,” management team, and is responsible for MICHAEL PERRY, A 1990 GRADUATE OF she says. “I had a good four years there.” all the financial reporting and business WILLIAM PATERSON WITH A BACHELOR’S Although Niro earned her degree in planning of the company. DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, HAS special education, she took a job as a teller As a student, Niro lived in Pioneer and PLEDGED TO CONTRIBUTE $100,000 to the in a commercial bank after graduation, Heritage halls and worked in the Student Alumni Annual Fund over the next ten thinking it would be temporary. “I worked Center’s pub, and candy and newspaper years to establish a scholarship in honor of until 2:00 p.m., so I was free to go on job store. When she visited the campus several Martin Weinstein, a professor of political interviews in the afternoon,” she says. But years ago for the first time in twenty-five science. after a while, Niro discovered that she years, she marveled at the new buildings His gift will create the Martin Weinstein liked banking, and accepted an offer to and advancements. Scholarship to provide annual scholarship join Provident Bank’s management “It’s a terrific university, and a great awards for political science majors. “I training program. “I was able to start at place to learn,” she says. “From what I saw wholeheartedly believe that my success is the bottom and it was an on-the-job in the College of Business, the students due to being a student at William Paterson learning situation, which I think in have as close to a hands-on environment as and specifically of Professor Weinstein,” retrospect was the best,” she says. they could have in a classroom.” Niro was P says Perry. “Creating the scholarship fund Niro began her career working in the especially impressed with the E TRADE in his name allows me to honor him and to bank’s branch network. After five years Financial Learning Center and its 2P fulfill what I see as an obligation to assist and several promotions, she received an electronic trading screens. “I have one in future generations of William Paterson offer to join the finance group in the my office,” she says. “It’s one thing to sit P students in any way possible.” treasury department. She was promoted in the classroom and use a textbook, but Perry is currently the director of from assistant vice president to treasurer there’s really nothing like being out in the P financial evaluation for JP Morgan Chase & in 1989, and is currently the senior vice real world and experiencing the real work Co. He resides in Sparta, New Jersey, with president and chief financial officer of The environment. That’s just one more P his wife, Dawn, and daughter, Isabella. Provident Bank in Jersey City, as well as advantage that the students have.” w P PAGE W26 TWENTY-SIX P (continued from University Report, Page 7) (continued from Hands-On Learning, Page 19) P Robinson, currently the director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative A self-confessed “poor student” in high school, Moras turned in New York, asserted that accountability is the key to human rights. her life around while at William Paterson, graduating magna cum “Human rights include the right to food, safe water, health, education, laude with a 3.8 grade point average. “I just didn’t understand how and shelter,” she said. “It comes down to better systems of important school was,” she says. “What I do now affects the rest of governance that are seen as holding leaders accountable for goals my life.” they’ve made. The central challenge is finding ways to build on, More importantly, she gained the confidence she needed to connect, and bridge divides.” succeed. “I found out that I have more potential than I thought I The conference was the second event in an ongoing collaboration had. I have an analytical mind which is needed for research.” between William Paterson and John Jay that is designed to provide faculty Not sure which career path she wants to follow, she would like and students with a unique opportunity to explore issues of global to continue her studies in a doctoral program. “While I figure out importance through a series of discussions, conferences, and joint exactly what I want to do, I’m going to stay in school. That way, I research projects in the areas of politics and economics, among others. w have more options in the end.” w 2 SPA L U M TN LIGHTI N E W S GREETINGS FROM YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Alumni, GREETINGS FROM OUR NEW HOME IN THE ALLAN AND MICHELE GORAB ALUMNI HOUSE! The alumni relations staff is now settled, and we have welcomed many visitors to our lovely new offices on Oldham Pond in North Haledon. During Homecoming in October, a group of alumni who were actively involved in the Veterans Association during their time on campus inaugurated the Veterans Lounge at the House. It was a wonderful event. I continue to enjoy connecting with alumni both on campus and off. During the fall semester, I had the pleasure of talking to hundreds of alumni during a reception at the annual New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) teacher's convention in Atlantic City.

My sincere thanks to the more than 1,400 alumni who took the VETERANS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS (FROM LEFT) F. GERALD TRAILLE ‘94, JOSEPH FANEY '74, time to complete our alumni survey and help chart the direction of PATRICIA SOTTILI '74, MICHAEL DRISCOLL '74, AND STEPHEN HUTNIK '74, AT HOMECOMING the Alumni Association. Results of the survey were presented to the Alumni Executive Council at its December meeting. The results are rich with valuable information and feedback. Be sure to read the article on page 56, which provides more details. Two specific themes run through the results: a desire for reunions based on academic majors and/or concentrations, and opportunities to network with alumni in similar career fields. Look for additional programming in the coming year that addresses the survey results. If your e-mail address is part of your alumni record, you should have received three e-mails during the fall semester which updated you on alumni activities and included a link to efocus, the University's PAGE twice-a-month, online newsletter. Responses to the e-mails have been W53 encouraging! We've received questions about the University, alumni FIFTY-THREE record updates, and items for the News Notes section of Spotlight. If you have an e-mail address and haven't heard from us, please visit the secure address update form at www.wpunj.edu/alumni to update your record. I plan to provide additional and more frequent updates, JUDY LINDER (THIRD FROM LEFT) AT THE NJEA RECEPTION WITH (FROM LEFT) LESLIE AGARD-JONES, DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, DR. HOWARD STRAUB '70, DEBBIE PANAS, GREG PANAS ’99, so help us help you stay connected. AND JOHN H. STRAUB II '68 P.S. If you live in South Jersey, mark your calendar now for August 6, 2004, when we will hold our annual outing to FirstEnergy Field for a barbecue and Lakewood Blueclaws game. Visit the Alumni Events Web page for details.

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 town school (the Newton farms and had to do Catherine Guirreri ’34, B.A. ’54: Elementary School in chores before they LIGHT Newton, which she had walked to school for their Living History attended as a child), and a lessons. When they rural school (a one-room arrived at school, there ARMED WITH schoolhouse in Wolfpit in was more work to do. SPFORTITUDE T , Sussex County). “The boys brought in RESOURCEFULNESS, AND After graduation, she water, wood, and coal, A STRONG WORK ETHIC immediately enrolled in and the girls put on their INSTILLED BY HER the school’s baccalaureate aprons and then peeled ITALIAN IMMIGRANT program, graduating in the vegetables they PARENTS, young 1954 with a bachelor’s brought from home,” Catherine Randazzo, a degree in education. She Catherine writes in her farm girl from Lafayette, “worked for a year, but book. arrived in the fall of 1931 not as a teacher.” Her “The Statesville to attend Paterson State first job as a regular students came from Normal School. teacher was in the one- families who were poor,” Housed in School room Statesville School, Catherine explains. "I No. 24 on 19th Avenue in her hometown of wanted them to have a and East 22nd Street Lafayette, where she hot lunch, so I prepared (just off Market Street), stayed from 1935 to the stock for a soup at it was Paterson’s only CATHERINE GUIRRERI 1943. For one year of home the night before, institution of higher teaching, she was paid and each child brought learning, and a stepping thought she would make around, she would take $850. some vegetables for the stone for Catherine and a good teacher. the trolley or more often Life in a one-room soup. I would stir the other first generation They interceded and walk where she needed to school, where the soup or stew while I was college students like her. helped her to apply to go. She spent many students ranged from giving a lesson.” Catherine’s sister, the Normal School, hours studying in the kindergarten to sixth She often had classes Mary, died when where she enrolled in the library with other grade, required all her of more than thirty Catherine was a baby, three-year program. But students. ingenuity and resources. students. The day began leaving her the youngest life was still hard for her Catherine remembers She wrote about her with morning exercises, and only daughter. The and she had to work her Dr. Roy Shaffer, experiences in a book the flag salute, a reading family moved from way through school. principal of the Normal called The One Room from the Bible, the Brooklyn when she was “Miss (Edith) School from 1925 to School: Lord’s Prayer (both at 12. Her father died when Jackson, a professor, 1933. “He taught us to “It was September the parents’ request), she was just 15, and she helped me to find a job discipline the children,” 1935, the little red and the singing of a continued to live on the with a family in Glen she remembers. “He schoolhouse had been patriotic song. Subjects farm with her mother, Rock,” Catherine established the newly painted. For included reading, Carolina, and brother remembers. “I worked curriculum, which weeks, the school had mathematics, language, Saverio. for them for a year. I did included music and art. been cleaned and history, geography, The family was of the cleaning and cooking When I graduated I polished. The big stove science, art, and music. modest means, and and looked after the could fit into any in the back of the room “We had workbooks, and Catherine was able to children.” After that, she classroom. I had many was now ready for those a few maps in the attend school only worked for a minister wonderful teachers cold, wintry months school,” Catherine because her brother gave and his family in including Miss Jackson, ahead. In the front of the reports. “Using the up his chance to study Paterson. They had two who was head of the P & room was a pump organ workbooks allowed each PAGE engineering as his father children and the wife was Q Club. She taught us ready to be played by child to work at his or W54 had, took a job in the FIFTY-FOUR chronically ill. Again, she how to give a tea social. I pupils who had piano her own level.” local quarry, and kept the cooked and cleaned and also studied with Miss lessons. Piles of new On Fridays, they did farm going. took care of the children. (Marguerite) Tiffany, an books and supplies were 4-H projects, and once a In high school, “They used to entertain art professor.” Catherine on the desks ready for month a bandleader Catherine had to work to quite a bit and remembers being action. The big bell in came to the school for help the family, and sometimes I had to stay assigned a book a night, the belfry was ready to the children who played consequently her grades until 9:00 p.m. After that because there were not alert the students that instruments. Rounding suffered. But there was I would study, sleep for enough books in the school was about to out the students’ something about the two hours, and get up library for everyone. begin.” education were spelling young girl that impressed and go to school.” When it came time for A typical schoolday bees, theatrical those around her, During the school student teaching, she started at 8:30 a.m. to productions, visits from particularly her principal year, she lived at the requested an assignment accommodate the rural the bookmobile, and field and neighbors who were YWCA in Paterson on that included a city lifestyle of the children, trips. college professors. All Market Street. To get school (School No. 24), a many of whom lived on PT SP

The school day ended born and began a Agricultural Society in farm is smaller than it family to take over at 3:30 p.m. The children successful career in the commemoration of the once was, down from 250 the farm after her went home, but their Halsted Street School in 250th anniversary of the acres to 180 acres. But parents retire. LIGHT teacher stayed on. “After Newton until she retired county. it’s diversified: a farmer “We went school, I corrected books in 1977. She taught for a Today, the farm is rents out some acres to through a lot of for two to three hours.” total of 33 years. still in the family, eighty- grow corn and rye. Ann tough times,” says “The duties of The family worked one years after Catherine’s and her husband Bob Catherine. “But I teacher, always varied, hard on the farm, but ill father purchased it, and grow flowers and crops, like living here. Ann and were even broader in a health forced Leo to sell at 93 she continues to and their daughter Bob live nearby, and Joe one-room school,” the cows in 1957. He live in the farmhouse her Tiffany will soon start comes to visit. I’m Catherine writes in her died in 1963. husband renovated more building a house there contented here.” book. “In addition to “She kept everything than sixty years ago. The and move in with her serving as instructor, going all these years,” recreation supervisor, and says Ann of her mother. principal, I also served as “She kept the farm, sent Alumnus Continues Olympic Spirit nurse, janitor, and social us to college, paid for our worker…all for $85 a weddings, all by herself.” ALMOST TWELVE YEARS Kuwait and Iran. “I 1984, when Saddam month.” But Catherine is AFTER WINNING A GOLD returned to Iraq in Hussein’s son Uday took But she loved characteristically modest. MEDAL at the 1992 January to try to it over. “I was there to teaching. “What I learned “As I look back, it Summer Olympics in determine what Iraqi observe the process to from teaching at doesn’t seem like a Barcelona in the athletes need to rebuild see that the elections Statesville, and earlier as burden, because it was demonstration sport of their Olympic teams,” were fair,” Perez reports. a student teacher…served something that I wanted taekwondo, Herb Perez Perez says. “If they need “Basically, I was there to me well in my later years to do. It just came ’92, the University’s only training, financing, or help them become of teaching,” she says. “It naturally.” Olympic athlete, is still coaching, whatever their autonomous by giving was more than money Encouraged by Ann living the Olympic needs are, I’ll try to them advice and the that kept me in teaching. to write down the stories ideals: sport, art, and arrange that for them.” benefit of my expertise.” I treasured the warm she often told, Catherine culture. The Iraqis are expected Perez recently relationships I developed recently wrote four other No longer a to field athletes in eight accepted a staff position with my students. It’s memoirs besides The competing athlete, Perez sports, including archery, with the Olympic true that I was considered One-Room School, continues to speak, write, boxing, taekwondo, Council of Asia (OCA), a strict teacher, but I was chronicling her life and support his sport, a swimming, and the governing body of all respected.” experiences on the farm martial art that wrestling. sports in Asia and a She stayed at the and growing up in rural originated in Korea more He also served as an regional division of the Statesville School until Sussex County. She than 1,400 years ago. observer for elections International Olympic 1939, when she moved collaborated with Connie Committed to the held in Iraq to replace Committee. Perez will to the Lafayette Consoli- McIntyre, who gathered Olympic movement, he the country’s National head the International dated School until 1943. her reminiscences and is currently part of a Olympic Committee, Relations Department Catherine married her turned her stories into United States Olympic which had withered since for the OCA, which childhood sweetheart, history. The books, Committee (USOC) Leo Guirreri, in 1940, which are bound with effort to help rebuild and together they took fabric saved from Iraq’s sports programs so over the farm. Catherine’s father’s the country can send “My grandmother upholstery shop in athletes to the 2004 gave them the farm,” Williamsburg, Brooklyn Olympics to be held in remembers Ann Cutler, (which he gave up when Athens in August. Catherine’s daughter. he moved his family to Perez, who is a PAGE W55 “But also the bills and the farm in 1922), are a member of the USOC’s FIFTY-FIVE taxes. They couldn’t have lively look back into a International Relations kept the farm without the time now long gone. She Committee, traveled to income from teaching.” donated the first book, Iraq in summer 2003 and Leo renovated the The One-Room School, to again in January 2004, house and the barn, and the Lafayette when he also visited bought a herd of 48 dairy Preservation Society. cows. Catherine took Another volume, My leaves of absence from Years on the Farm, was teaching when Ann, and published last year by the later her son Joe, were Sussex County HERB PEREZ

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 presides over forty- training,” he says. “And Sports Festival. He also France. intellectual approach. four countries (soon there are so few Hispanic coached the 1993 World While at William Without the experience LIGHT to be forty-five role models for kids. Championship Team and Paterson, Perez at William Paterson my when Iraq rejoins Personally, I’ve is leader of the 2004 supported himself life would have been very the council) in the transcended the bond of Junior World team. In through school by different. Far East, Middle ethnicity. But I’ve had a 2003, he received the working at Blimpie’s at “I’m lucky,” he adds. SPEast, T and some lot of opportunities, and inaugural George night and going to school “It could have been countries of the former I want to give back and Steinbrenner Athlete during the day. A detour worse for me; there Soviet Union. help people succeed.” Award from the USOC into music—playing the wasn’t always enough Perez, a non- His interest in martial for his personal efforts to guitar in a rock band— money or time for practicing attorney and arts grew as a young boy. help athletes from took him away from his school. But it all seems an author who lives in Born in New York to a Afghanistan receive studies, but he came back to have worked out.” San Francisco, is the Puerto Rican father and sports training. to earn his degree. In fact, he enjoyed his owner of Gold Medal a Polish mother, he was Perez completed a One of his mentors at education so much that Productions, a full- twelve years old when he bachelor’s degree at William Paterson was one of his dreams is to service video and film began to study William Paterson in John Peterman, professor teach college-level production company taekwondo to protect philosophy after of philosophy and now classes. through which he himself in the rough balancing his studies director of the “I like to help distributes training tapes neighborhood in which with working and University’s honors people,” Perez says. “I for athletes and runs he lived. After years of competing between 1978 program. Perez calls a am blessed to be able to fitness programs. study, he became an and 1992. He later class on Aristotle, which do what I want to do, and He says it is difficult award-winning athlete. earned a juris doctor Peterman taught, “a have the opportunity to for kids to find the In addition to his degree from Rutgers significant experience” help people. I don’t own information they need to Olympic Gold Medal, Law School. Perez also for him. a lot of stuff, but I have a succeed. “Through his numerous awards earned an executive “I owe John Peterman lot of good friends and summer camps and include gold medals at master’s degree in sports a lot,” Perez remembers. memories.” seminars, I can help the 1987 Pan American organization “He has a unique style of them with the various Games, 1987 World Cup, management from the teaching: he motivates by components of Olympic and 1986 Olympic University of Lyon, using a positive,

Alumni Survey Provides Valuable Information

PROFESSIONAL which was sent via e-mail survey, we are currently field; thirty-six percent The University’s NETWORKING to more than 9,400 re-evaluating our alumni expressed interest in Office of Institutional OPPORTUNITIES, CAREER alumni. The summer and fundraising programming organized Research and MENTORING PROGRAMS, 2003 issue of WP programs to more closely by college or Assessment, which ALUMNI TRAVEL Magazine also invited reflect the interests of department of created the survey and PROGRAMS, AND SPECIAL interested alumni to our alumni.” graduation. analyzed the results, INTEREST REUNIONS are participate in the survey, Highlights of the • Twenty-one percent of presented the findings to among the programs which contained survey include: the respondents said the Alumni Association William Paterson questions on alumni • Forty-five percent of they were interested in Executive Council at its University graduates are services, development, the survey respondents becoming more December 2003 meeting. interested in, according affiliations, and student expressed interest in involved in Alumni to a recent survey of experiences. returning to campus for Association activities. PAGE alumni administered by “I am gratified that so professional networking • In terms of activities W56 the Office of Institutional many alumni took the gatherings; twenty- alumni would like to FIFTY-SIX Advancement. time to answer the survey eight percent said they participate in during More than 1,400 and give us their would return for a the next three years, alumni who reside in opinions and input about reunion of alumni from respondents were most forty-three states ways the University can their same academic interested in campus responded to the March better serve its many program or major. visits, professional 2003 online survey, alumni,” says Judith • Fifty-one percent of the networking, continuing Linder, executive respondents would like education, and graduate director of alumni to see programming courses. relations. “In light of the centered around alumni data gleaned from the in their professional PT SP Alumnus Joins with Students to Produce New Literary Magazine LIGHT

DISCUSSING IDEAS FOR FUTURE ISSUES ARE (FROM LEFT) PHIL DONCHEVICH, DAN TULINO, AND MARK TAMBONE

level of enthusiasm. “Relationships and Sex,” “We want people to to be released in spring be fired up and excited 2004. Issues are available about writing down ideas at the Barnes & Noble in that are extremely West Paterson. important to them,” says “We’re a small press Donchevich. that exists right here, To that end, each right now,” says Tambone. issue focuses on a single “You’re reading about topic that they feel is voices that are dealing currently of interest and with a particular topic importance to the and this is as true and real SINNER AND SAINT concentration in writing. this was the perfect way general public. The first as it’s going to be for the PRESS, ONE OF NEW “As soon as Essence was to describe ourselves and two issues contained moment.” JERSEY’SEMERGING, finished, these people the magazine,” says literary pieces about ARTISTIC LITERARY disappeared again.” Donchevich, who is also “Feeling Safe” and For additional information MAGAZINES, is the Tambone knew if a senior. “It set the tone “Technology in the and submission guidelines, culmination of hard work they wanted to keep the —we thought everyone Modern Era.” They are e-mail the magazine at and dedication by literary community could relate to being a currently working on the [email protected] William Paterson strong, they “might have sinner and a saint.” publication’s third issue, University alumnus to do something off Financial support focused on the theme Mark Tambone ’01, campus.” The trio from the Student M.A. ’04, and decided to direct Sinner Government Association undergraduate English and Saint Press toward (SGA) provided the majors Phil Donchevich William Paterson funds the trio needed to Douglas Hamilton: and Dan Tulino. students and local forge ahead. “The Giving Back is a Priority Their interest in writers who otherwise University and the SGA literary publications might not have an outlet really helped us get the JUST SEVEN SHORT University’s Alumni began several years ago for displaying their project going and they YEARS AFTER Annual Fund, a practice when they produced and artistic abilities. They still do.” GRADUATING IN 1975 he has continued every edited Essence, the stressed the importance The three editors WITH A BACHELOR’S year since. English Department’s of their publication want the public to DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING, Statistics reveal that literary magazine. This appealing to this hidden understand that writing experience provided the class of writers. requires commitment Douglas Hamilton made most alumni don’t start young writers with the “The talented writers and effort. his first donation to the donating quite that early skills and knowledge they who wrote for Essence “The actual act of needed to start their own transferred over to our writing is so demanding, PAGE publication. They were own publication,” says emotionally and W57 also interested in Tulino, a senior. mentally,” says Tulino. FIFTY-SEVEN appealing to a specific They found much “It takes passion.” group of writers and support on campus for Donchevich wants artists. their endeavor. English people to enjoy the “We noticed in professor Brad Gooch creative literary pieces publishing Essence that provided the inspiration that have been composed there was a small for the magazine’s title by local talent. He community of writers when he wrote “Sinner encourages readers to who were so thankful or Saint, both or submit their own that somebody was neither,” as an writings and in “that willing to publish their inscription in a book he way, we can inspire work,” says Tambone, gave to Tambone and people to be more than who recently earned a Tulino. “We were having just closet writers.” They master’s degree in a hard time deciding on a are particularly looking English with a name but instantly knew for writers with a high

DOUG HAMILTON

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 in their careers. Paterson College, as the “Being part of the “Everyone leads busy appeal to alumni and

LIGHT For many, the first University was then committee, and lives,” he says. “But friends for unrestricted years just after known, for which he is remaining active, makes being part of the support. The fund commencement are a profoundly grateful. me feel like I’ve gone committee has brought directly supports student time of starting new “It’s all about giving home again,” says me back to campus, to scholarships, grants to SPjobs T and families, as back,” he says. “The Hamilton, who served as my old neighborhood— faculty and staff, and it was for Hamilton, who school has given me so national chair of the William Paterson.” other alumni programs. married his wife, Carole, much. Once a person is committee for two years. The Alumni Annual in 1978. While working successful, they should “All the members of the Fund is a comprehensive full-time as an accountant, give back. It’s important committee are dedicated he earned an M.B.A. from not to forget the next to raising funds to help Fairleigh Dickinson group of students. They students succeed.” University in 1981. Their deserve our help.” Hamilton, who now son, Douglas, Jr., born in So every year since works as a controller for INVEST IN THE FUTURE 1980, is a 2002 graduate of 1982, he has made a Victory Box Corporation, the University, and is donation to the Fund. which manufactures ENSURING THE FUTURE OF WILLIAM currently studying for a When his son started corrugated boxes, PATERSON STUDENTS IS THE GOAL master’s degree in media school at William believes that it’s arts at William Paterson. Paterson in 1998, he important for alumni to OF THE ALUMNI ANNUAL FUND Hamilton, who grew deepened his stay in touch with the NATIONAL CHAIRPERSONS up in a tough neigh- involvement by joining University and the borhood in Paterson and the Annual Fund friends they made as MICHAEL AUTORINO, M.A. ’73 graduated from Eastside Committee because it undergraduates. Being AND MARIANNE AUTORINO, M.A. ’78. High School, was was a good way to stay involved in fund raising awarded a four-year in touch with the is a good way to make scholarship to William University. that happen. “With each gift to the Alumni Annual Fund, our generous donors make a meaningful difference in the lives of William Paterson University students by creating opportunities for UPCOMING their success,” says Michael Autorino. “Your contribution can fund a scholarship for a deserving ALUMNI EVENTS student, or a new program that yet again distinguishes the University.” May 16 to 18, 2004: Class of 1954 – 50th Reunion Activities Marianne Autorino emphasizes the benefits of a June 28 to July 23, 2004: Spotlight Theater Company Alumni Chapter gift to the Annual Fund: “Scholarships inspire PAGE Summer Theater Camp W58 confidence and personal growth, faculty grants FIFTY-EIGHT July 24, 2004: Young Alumni Chapter Summer Bash, Bar A, Belmar, NJ, 2:00 p.m. support research and enhance the University’s

August 6, 2004: Lakewood Blueclaws Game and Barbecue programs and facilities, and Alumni Association

October 2, 2004: Homecoming programs provide professional enrichment and networking opportunities for students and alumni.”

Join the Autorinos in supporting the 2003-2004 Alumni Annual Fund. To make your gift, contact Andrew McKay ’90, director, Alumni Annual Fund, at 973.720.3201 or [email protected]. PT SP

19 sixty 7 19 seventy 1 ACE Man of the Year by the board of directors. GENE SUDOL, M.A. ’79, RICHARD VITALE, M.Ed., the ACE, which stands for recently joined the New York well-known college basketball

Architecture, Construction, LIGHT office of Prudential Florida WCI analyst for ESPN, was one of and Engineering, is an Realty. He was formerly a New several celebrities contacted by the after-school program for Jersey licensed real estate agent, as White House to deliver an high school students 19 plus... well as the principal of Wayne inspirational message to the troops designed to introduce them Hills High School in Wayne, NJ. fighting in Iraq. to the industry… DENNIS He was also employed in the FRANK MARCO, who has more residential home construction 19 thirty 2 19 sixty 3 19 seventy 3 than 20 years of experience in industry and retail sales. He is a MILDRED (KAPLAN) SPITZ PAULINE T. FLYNN retired marketing, corporate member of the Naples Area Board PHYLLIS (DANISI) TAISTRA was featured as the “Get to Know from Indiana University-Purdue communications, and public of Realtors, the Florida retired from the Verona school Me” profile in the weekly religion University located in Fort Wayne, affairs, is currently the director of Association of Realtors, the district and was honored by the section of the Rockford Register IN. She served as chairperson of the Trenton offices of Public National Association of Realtors, faculty and staff of H.B. Star because of her years spent at the department of audiology and Affairs Management LLC, a the National Association of Whitehorne Middle School at the Temple Beth-El in Rockford, IL. speech sciences for more than 25 national public affairs and Secondary School Principals, the Highlawn Pavilion in West She was past president and served years. A full professor since 1985, government relations Association of Supervisors and Orange. Taistra began her career on all of its committees. she was selected as a Woman of firm…JOANNE (GODRI) VAN Curriculum Developers, the New in Verona in 1973 as a long-term Achievement in Fort Wayne in STEYN, M.Ed. ’81, was recently Jersey Principals and Supervisors substitute. In 1980 she became a 1992, and was named a Fellow of selected as a Morris Plains 19 forty 1 Association, and IDEA Fellow. reading specialist, and in 1990 the American Speech-Language- assumed the position of learning Teacher of the Year for 2003. A LOUIS SIROTA and Hearing Association in 1995. disabilities teacher/consultant. teacher at Borough School, she CHARLOTTE PLATT Recently, Flynn was presented 19 sixty 8 She also served as a student has been with the Morris Plains SIROTA ’59 celebrated their with the honors of the Indiana GAYNELL (TENEYCK) council adviser at the middle school district for the past 16 60th wedding anniversary on Speech-Language-Hearing CHIESA, M.A., recently retired school for many years…SUSAN years. Van Steyn holds September 25, 2003. Association…BENJAMIN from the public school system in V. W I D M A N N has been teaching certifications as teacher of the JONES recently had his artwork Accomac County, Virginia, visually impaired students for a handicapped K-12, elementary 19 forty 6 showcased in the WBGO Gallery following a successful teaching public school district located in education K-8, and learning ROSE (MAIO) DEBIASIO, in Newark, NJ. His exhibit was career in social studies. She and the Tampa, FL, area for 18 years. disability teacher consultant. M.A. ’63, of Lodi, NJ, was titled “Woman I Love.” her husband, PATRICK V. honored as a “Woman of CHIESA, M.A. ’70, are now 19 seventy 4 19 seventy 6 Achievement” by Assembly- 19 sixty 4 relocating to Roanoke, VA… PATRICIA (WARE) ROBERT R. BURROUGHS, woman Rose M. Heck during GEORGETTE ANTHONY WILLIAM FITZGERALD was promoted to former police chief of Westwood, Women’s History Month. (KLEMCHALK) LENTZ, GRAUSO is currently a associate professor of physical and a Bergen Community College Debiasio is a member of Kappa M.A. ’71, an adjunct professor at substitute teacher after working in therapy at St. Francis University alumnus, delivered the address at Delta Xi, the National Honor William Paterson, was cited in an statistics for the federal in Loretto, PA…KENNETH Bergen Community College’s 34th Society in Education; she was also article by student Andrew government for 30 years and as a HESS has been selected as the commencement. Burroughs was listed in Who’s Who in Community Satkowski. Titled “Dear Professor math teacher for three years. new pastor of St. Paul’s United awarded the Bergen County Leaders. Lentz,” the entry appeared in the Grauso, who is married with four Chief ’s Association Achievement third annual edition of the Church of Christ in Garwood, NJ. children and four grandchildren, Award for Excellence in 1992, and University’s publication, He has served as director of 19 fifty 7 was also a competitive gymnast for is the recipient of numerous Celebrating Student Writing Across Christian education at 30 years…PATRICIA ANN citations. He received the African VINCENT WARASKE, M.A. the Curriculum, Prize Winners, Community Church of Cedar (PATTEN) HANNON has been American Leadership Award from ’61, shows his pride in Paterson’s 2001-2002…JOYCE WILD was Grove, and is an ordained elder… teaching second grade in the Bergen Community College in past by collecting artifacts named Associate of the Month for JEFFREY B. RATTNER is the Kinnelon school district for the 2002, was honored by the Iota documenting the rich history of Coldwell Banker in Pompton proud grandfather of his first past 20 years. She received her Epsilon Omega Chapter of Alpha the “Silk City.” The City Council Plains, NJ, for the months of grandchild, Kaileigh Elizabeth, master’s degree from Seton Hall Kappa Alpha Sorority as Black of Paterson has named him official March and May, 2003. Wild has born on February 20, 2003… University in 1999. Man of Inspiration in 1992, and historian. He has delivered been in real estate for more than ARLENE T. (HESS) THORN was presented the Community hundreds of lectures over a 40- 25 years, and was previously a received her master’s degree in Service Award by the Urban year period, some of which have 19 sixty 5 teacher in the Lincoln Park school teaching and learning from NOVA in 2002. She has had 25 years of League of Bergen County in 1984. taken place at William Paterson JAMES LALLY was chosen as a district for five years before joining experience teaching health and He is presently serving on the University. 2003 Teacher of the Year by the the real estate business. physical education, and is Criminal Justice Advisory Hanover Park school district. presently teaching alternative Committee of Bergen Community 19 sixty Lally was one of two recipients to 19 sixty 9 education… JACQUELINE College… KEVIN R. CARR was receive this award from Hanover PAGE DORIS PERTZ GELLAR FRANCES (PASQUARIELLO) (KIRCHNER) TYNDALL recently chosen as the 2003 Park High School. He currently W59 WOOLF, M.A. ’64, was recently PURCIELLO, M.Ed. ’72, has performed in the Pocono Choral Governor Teacher Award recipient teaches algebra, calculus, FIFTY-NINE named Pequannock Library’s retired from the position of Society’s final concert of the for the Andover (NJ) Regional trigonometry, probability, and Artist of the Month. Some of her superintendent of schools in spring 2003 season. Tyndall, who School district. He has been an statistics. He also coached paintings depict the effects of war Haledon, NJ. She served the serves as accompanist for the educator in the field of special freshman boys’ basketball… such as, “Landmine Disaster in district for more than 26 years as a choral society, is an elementary education since 1976 and has GAIL REILLY recently joined Kosovo,” and “Iraqi Will He teacher, vice principal, principal, school music and chorus teacher taught in the Andover district the teaching staff of the Academy Come Back.” Woolf has taught in and superintendent…ANNE L. in the Andover (NJ) School since 1980… JANICE of Moore County, formerly known the Boonton and West Caldwell (ORLANDO) STARACE is the District, and the music director of (VELCHECK) DELANEY is as MAST (Math, Language Arts, school districts for more than 25 new director of guidance at her church. currently a third grade teacher at Science, and Technology) Charter years. Nutley High School. She has been Pinewood Elementary School in School, located in . a guidance counselor there since 19 seventy 5 Timonium, MD. Delaney began 19 sixty 1 1993, after serving as a classroom her career as a substitute teacher 19 sixty 6 teacher for 24 years. MICHAEL CANDIDO, for various school districts in New HOWARD S. NEWELL retired president of J. Moore & Company Jersey following graduation. She from the Emerson school district ELAINE M. (HOWELL) Mechanical Contractors in later worked in a hotel/restaurant, after serving for 42 years as a EBERHART retired from Livingston and president of the for several newspapers including teacher, class advisor, coach, teaching after more than 26 years Mechanical Contractors the Bridgewater Courier News, director of the community school, of service, and has now become a Association of New Jersey in USA Today, Red Bank Register, and National Honor Society Continental Airlines flight Springfield, was recently voted and The Baltimore Sun. advisor. attendant.

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 LIGHT Former Beacon Editors Discuss Media Business n December, former Beacon Ieditors John Byrne '75, editor-in-chief of Fast Company

SPmagazine, T and Susan Ungaro '75, the editor-in-chief of Family Circle, returned to campus to participate in the Alumni Association’s Annual Chapter Holiday Party. Byrne, who is president of the Beacon Alumni Chapter, interviewed Ungaro about her experiences on campus, and her long career in publishing, including ten years at the helm of Family Circle. The event took place in the Martini Teleconference Center in Hobart Hall. Present at the Beacon event were (from left) Lori Michael ’03, Stewart Wolpin ’78, Colin Ungaro ’75, Susan Ungaro ’75, John Byrne ’75, Brad Weisberger ’92, Michael Mulcahy ’73, M.A. ’77, Susan Byrne, and Larry Clow ’04.

19 seventy 7 woodwind instructor who has 19 eighty for her industry achievements. spent many years touring and She led the office in sales, and in JILL (TEMPLETON) NANCY L. BAUMAN, M.Ed., performing with jazz artists 2002 was in the New Jersey CARLILE was honored by the has been named the East Windsor including Dizzy Gillespie and the Association of Realtors (NJAR) Blairstown Teachers Association at Regional Teacher of the Year. She Phil Woods Big Band… Circle of Excellence Sales Club at its eighth annual teacher has been a teacher for 16 years, THERESE (HORN) the bronze level…LEE ANN recognition ceremony at and is presently a third grade MCCLACHRIE recently joined (LINFANTE) GANLEY and her Blairstown Elementary special education teacher at the the new Riverdale Public Library husband, Richard, announced the School…JIM MARTIN, M.A., Ethel McKnight Elementary as a children’s librarian…SUSAN birth of their daughter, Julia, on was named top RN for 2003 at School. Bauman previously served REINSTEIN, M.A., was one of November 3, 2002. She joins Chilton Memorial Hospital in for nine years as a homebound three artists whose works were sisters Marisa and Daniela… Pompton Plains, NJ. He was instructor in the district…DEAN exhibited at the Valley Hospital THOMAS MONARQUE has honored by several area mayors KAZABA, a 28-year veteran of Gallery in Ridgewood, NJ. She is retired from his position as and dignitaries at Chilton the Randolph Township Police a member of the Ridgewood Arts Midland Park’s police chief, after Memorial Hospital’s 2003 Nurse Department, was sworn in as KEVIN GORDON ‘85 Council and Salute to Women in serving in the position for 17 Excellence Ceremony… police chief… ANTHONY the Arts at the Stable in years. He is now working for GEORGE E. WILLIAMS PESSOLANO won a seat on the 19 eighty 5 Ridgewood. Reinstein is currently Midland Park-based security recently retired from the U.S. Northern Highlands Board of KEVIN GORDON has been teaching at the Ridgewood and firm Danbee Investigations, Inc., government as a supervisory Education. He is general manager named vice president of marketing Paramus community schools in which deals mainly with special agent following 34 years of of Pepsi-Cola Bottling Group of and promotions for ADPRO, Inc., addition to holding private classes corporate security issues service. He is presently a New Jersey, as well as an adjunct a Cleveland-based promotional in her studio…NANCY throughout the U.S. and abroad… mediation and law enforcement professor at William Paterson marketing agency located in SHAPIRO, assistant health FLORENCE M. (OKKEMA) consultant. University. Pessolano has an Solon. He will be responsible for commissioner for the NIEUWENHUIS, M.Ed. ’89, is M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson marketing the agency, as well as General Health District, has been the principal at Eastern Christian University. overseeing marketing and 19 seventy 8 elected president of the Ohio Middle School in Wyckoff, NJ, promotions programs for the RICHARD COSTELLO has Public Health Association, Ohio’s which serves grades five to eight. agency’s regional and national retired after serving as deputy oldest and largest public health 19 eighty 1 clients… EDWARD C. MEIER, police chief in West Orange for professional organization… HELEN (COWAN) 19 eighty 4 M.Ed., has been named the 2003 more than 30 years. During his LOUIS TALARICO was BREWBAKER graduated from MARK EDWARD recipient of the Humanitarian career in law enforcement, he was recently appointed as the Family Nurse Practitioner MCCAULEY has moved into a Award, presented by the Bergen honored with several awards, superintendent by the Florence program at Radford University, new role as project business County Professional Counselors including the New Jersey State Board of Education. He is a VA, with a master’s degree in specialist for A&H Operations. Association.A counselor at Policeman’s Benevolent resident of Freehold Township nursing. She also was inducted He has been with TARe, Cliffside Park High School, he Association’s Valor Award and and chief curriculum into Sigma Theta Tau, the Transamerica Reinsurance, a received the award for his work three Essex County medals. The administrator for MySchool411 International Honor Society of PAGE division of Transamerica with a support group for students West Orange Police Department Inc., a Manalapan-based Nursing, Psi Epsilon Chapter. who have suffered the death of a W60 educational company specializing Occidental Life Insurance, since awarded him three Medals of SIXTY 1995… EUGENE POLLES, parent. Meier’s previous awards Excellence as well as 26 in instructional software which 19 eighty 2 M.Ed., was appointed principal of includeTeacher of theYearin commendations. In 1981, he was allows parents to assist their the Walter T. Bergen School in 1989, StarTeacher of theYearin named “Police Officer of the children with their school work. JOHN KENNEDY, a forensic Bloomingdale. He was the chief Year”… FREDERICK detective for the Bergen County school administrator for the EBENAU continues to serve as Sheriff ’s Office in Hackensack, 19 seventy 9 Montague school district. the financial officer for the NJ, also has taken on the job of the DEBRA (KNEPPEL) ANIANO Previously, Polles served as borough of Ocean Gate in Ocean department’s sketch artist. He has joined the staff of Yardville principal in the Prospect Park County. He has worked in several drawn the faces of nearly 900 National Bank, Hamilton, NJ, school district and taught college municipalities throughout New people wanted in murders, rapes, where she serves as vice president courses as an adjunct professor at Jersey, including Camden, sexual assaults, thefts, and and product manager in the bank’s Caldwell College and New Jersey Manchester, and Paterson… burglaries. Approximately 85 marketing department. Aniano is City University… JUDITH THOMAS HAMILTON percent of his composites end up responsible for developing new WOOP, M.Ed., is currently participated in the Jazz/Rock matching the suspect. types of accounts and bank serving a three-year term on the Music Program, a summer music services for business and personal town council of Butler, NJ. Woop camp offered by the Scranton 19 eighty 3 account customers, as well as is retired as nurse of Butler High Cultural Center and the managing existing bank products. DENISE AVAGLIANO, a sales School. Pennsylvania Jazz Alliance. associate for the Kinnelon office of Hamilton is a saxophone and Weichert Realtors, was recognized TIMOTHY NATALE PLESNIK PT SP

1996, and Counselor of the County elected chairman of the board of SeaGate Homes in Palm Coast, Bergen County Counselor of the birth of her daughter and in 2000. He has been working in the Tri-County Chamber of FL. She was previously employed Year. She has served as a guidance third child, Colleen the district since 1982… LISA Commerce. Since 1998, she has at Hertz Corp. and Embry-Riddle counselor to 500 students yearly Theresa, on July 11,

ANN (GARRETT) PARADISE, been a principal in the Clifton- Aeronautical University… since the establishment of the 2003…JERYL JOYCE LIGHT married with two children, began based regional accounting firm RICHARD J. PISSOTT is a middle school nine years ago… ORSINO is the vocalist her professional career working for Sax Macy Fromm & Co., PC, C.P.A. for a real estate DON REENSTRA, former and guitarist for the band the FBI for four years conducting where she is the co-director of the development company in Honorable Judge of Hawthorne, From the Desk of Sally. undercover investigations in New Real Estate Industry Services Woodcliff Lake, NJ. recently retired from the bench. The New York City-based Jersey. After moving to , Group. Alexander has served as He became the Hawthorne band won a competition at the she worked with the IRS for eight the Tri-County Chamber vice 19 eighty 9 borough prosecutor in 1970, Hard Rock Café battle of the years as an investigator. She is president of finance for the past borough judge in 1979, and a bands in spring currently pursuing a position as an four years, and as the vice WILLIAM B. BORENSTEIN superior court judge in 1992. 2003…KATHLEEN elementary school teacher… president of membership and vice was promoted to entertainment During this time, he also had his STOUTER PHILLIPS and her MARIAN (MURPHY) chair of the board for the past manager of Harrah’s and own law practice for more than 20 husband, Joseph, announce the WEINER has been named year…DAWN NATALIE Showboat Atlantic City Casino years…RITA SELBY, a legal birth of their son, Joseph Thomas regional vice president of Cherry BELOF obtained her doctorate in Hotel. Previously, he worked as secretary at a law firm in New York Phillips V, on January 5, Hill-based Commerce Insurance chiropractic from Life University the event coordinator for City, is also a jazz musician. As a 2002…MICHAEL J. VOZA is Services. Weiner has nearly 30 in Atlanta, GA, in 2001. She Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, jazz journalist, she has written the elementary school health years of experience in the previously worked as a nurse at NJ. He also was the arena booking numerous articles for the New teacher for the Lyndhurst school insurance industry, particularly in Hackensack University Medical manager for the Harlem York nightlife guide, HotHouse district. He also served as head the areas of business and Center (NJ) and St. Joseph’s Globetrotters and director of magazine, and Jazz Singer football coach for the Lyndhurst operations management. She most Hospital in Tampa, FL. She arena bookings and entertainment magazine. She is currently High School Sub-Varsity Team. recently served as vice president of married Fred Ganter in March for API in Bay City, MI… performing at local jazz venues and JACQUELINE A. operations for Brown & Brown 2003…SUSAN (POLLAK) has issued a recording of classics 19 ninety 2 Metro. She holds the Chartered KOWALSKI, M.Ed., has (SARRACCO) SLOEZEN was and her original works which is Property and Casualty graduated from Syracuse one of two teachers selected to available on her Web site, LYNN KRATZ, M.Ed., has been Underwriter and Certified University with a master’s degree represent the Ramapo-Indian www.ritaselby.com. appointed principal of Insurance Counselor designations. in library science. She is a Hills Regional High School Bernardsville Middle School. She librarian for the Syracuse City District in the 2002-2003 previously served as assistant Governor’s Teacher Recognition 19 ninety 1 principal and guidance director at 19 eighty 6 School District…THOR JORGENSEN has been named Program. She has been an GEORGE BETTS has been Bernards High School. She has 28 SHANNON ANN (IRISH) a partner at The R&J Group, educator for 14 years and a music promoted to executive director years of experience in teaching HIRSCH received her master of a full-service integrated marketing and band teacher at Ramapo High and head of medical operations and school administration… arts degree in teaching and communications firm in School for five years. and clinical project management at CHARLES LAUZIERE was learning from Nova Southeastern Parsippany, NJ. A member of the Novartis Pharmaceuticals elected to the board of education University, FL…JOHN KEITH firm since 1996, he also will serve 19 ninety Corporation where he worked for in Oxford, NJ…KIMBERLIN D. MARTINSEN has been as vice president of marketing and 11 years. His son Cameron was (PAYNE) MATTHEWS is an employed in the Loss Prevention/ ERIC ALEXANDER, a jazz born on November 19, 2001… administrator for the director of strategic planning…WALTER D. tenor saxophonist, performed with Security Department at the Ritz- LEAVER joined End II End ALEX BOCCHINO, a Summit professional practice at Corporate Carlton Hotel in Sarasota, FL, his quintet as part of the 23rd Middle School music teacher, Operations in Parsippany, NJ. She Communications, Inc., as vice season of the Central Pennsylvania since October 2001. Previously, president and controller. His wife, recently performed in a concert has worked for the company for Martinsen served with the State of Friends of Jazz monthly concert with the New Jersey Percussion more than 10 years…DAVID G. TRACEY G. (MCMAHON) series in Harrisburg, PA… Department of LEAVER, M.Ed. ’93, is planning Ensemble at William Paterson STROEBEL announced the birth Corrections for 10 years… ANTHONY DENOVA was University’s Shea Center for the of his first son, Andrew James to return to teaching in named deputy county DENISE MIHAL is the 2004…JO-ANNE (CARUSO) Performing Arts. The concert Stroebel, on July 12, 2003. He also executive director of Presbyterian administrator by the Passaic honored Raymond Des Roches, has completed his third feature MITCHELL recently joined County Board of Freeholders. At Orthopedic Hospital in Charlotte, Century 21 Preferred Realty as founder of the ensemble, who film, Calling Augie, with NC. Previously, she was director the age of 23, he was elected to the retired after 35 years at William -area film director director of relocation…REV. council in North Haledon, serving of nursing at Presbyterian TYRON WILLIAMS is the Paterson…DONNA M. Jonathon Cross of World Rock Orthopedic and Presbyterian from 1985 to 1988, becoming the (AMBROSE) CICCOLINI and Pictures…BARBARA J. choirmaster at St. Leo’s Grammar fifth youngest councilman in the Center of Medicine, administra- School in Irvington, NJ. In 2000, her husband announced the birth WIGGIN, M.A., received the tive director of nursing at state at that time. DeNova was of their son, Joseph Peter, on July 2003 Educator of the Year award he won first place in the again elected to the council from Homestead Hospital (FL), and McDonald’s Gospelfest and his 11, 2002…LISA M. (PINES) from Madison Lodge 93 of the critical care nurse manager at 2000 to 2002 and ran for mayor of INGALLS worked for First Free and Accepted Masons. She choir was third. In 2001 and 2002, North Haledon in the 2002 South Miami Hospital. Mihal has the choir took second place. The Union Insurance Services as a has been the language arts been an active volunteer for the election…THOMAS A. department coordinator until the department coordinator for five choir has been featured on an FITZGERALD has joined FOX United Way, American Heart ABC television production, birth of her twin boys, Atticus years at Hanover Park Regional PAGE Association, and Juvenile 5 WTTG-TV in Washington, James and Holden Pines, on High School. She is advisor to the performed at the New Jersey D.C. as a general assignment W61 Diabetes…SANDRA DIANNE January 22, 2002…JOHN K. award-winning Hanover Park SIXTY-ONE Performing Arts Center, and reporter. Previously, he was a YOUNG-RITCHWOOD is recently helped launch Gospel MCGUINNESS was promoted student newspaper, The Forum, currently associate director of arts reporter, anchor, and host for to lieutenant in the Morris and serves as teacher-coordinator Month during a performance in News 12 New Jersey…KAREN training at the New Jersey Newark City Hall. They plan to Township Police Department. A for the independent study Performing Arts Center, following BAKSA BOGDAHN member of the department since program at the high school. record their first CD…TOM W. MILAZZO, a sales associate in the a lengthy career in advertising and VILA, JR. received his master’s 1980, McGuinness was named Wiggin is also the recipient of the marketing. She also landed a first West Milford office of Weichert New Jersey Crime Prevention New Jersey Governor’s Teacher of degree from New Jersey City Realtors, was recognized for her soprano spot in the NJPAC University. Officer of the Year for his the Year award, and is annually Jubilation Choir. Previously, she industry achievements. She is innovative educational programs nominated for Who’s Who Among was director of education at the currently a member of the Passaic dealing with drug and alcohol America’s Teachers by current and Regional Performing Arts Center, 19 eighty 8 Board of Realtors… PAUL abuse, and received awards from former students. the organization that manages The SANDRA R. (PIETRYAK) PLESNIK and his wife, the New Jersey Crime Prevention Annmarie, announce the birth of Kimmel Center for the Performing MONTANO was recently Officers Association. He now 19 ninety 3 Arts in Philadelphia, PA. promoted to vice president of their son, Timothy Natale, on teaches the first responder trading technologies/market data September 22, 2003… curriculum at the Police Academy KURT GEISINGER and his KATHLEEN POLICANO, wife MICHELLE L. BECK 19 eighty 7 services at JP Morgan Chase in for the basic recruit and the in- New York City…DEANNE M.Ed., guidance counselor at service classes…ERIN GEISINGER ’94 announced the KATHLEEN (KECKEISSEN) (GILDRED) MORITZ has been Elmwood Park Memorial Middle (SHAUGHNESSY) birth of their daughter, Christina ALEXANDER, C.P.A., has been named a permitting specialist for School, has been selected 2003 MONAHAN announced the Michelle, on June 18, 2003…

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 ’72 ET STEIN ’79 DAVID BIRKNER Upper Saddle River, NJ Clifton, NJ July 2003 April 2003 LIGHT IN MEMORIAM ’74 KENNETH HESS RITA R. (BARBARA) KRUPA Landing, NJ North Haledon, NJ July 2003 April 2003 ’29 LILLIAN E. ALLEN, B.S. ’50 ’54 RUTH L. (GREENBERG) SILBER NANCY (DAVIS) HOWE Hackensack, NJ Glen Rock, NJ Vineland, NJ DENNIS M. MCCARTHY ’82 JUANITA “NITA” (JONES) GIBBS May 2003 June 2003 August 2003 Secaucus, NJ Atlantic City, NJ

SP T June 2003 June 2003 SISTER GRACE MENTON ’58 BARBARA A. (ROZANSKI) LOGAN ’69 ELIZABETH (JONES) EADES, Yardley, PA East Brunswick, NJ M.A. ’76 KAREN E. (HANSEN) INGENITO ’84 ELEANOR A. ENGLISH- June 2003 June 2003 Madison, MS Ridgefield Park,NJ SCHLUTER November 2003 February 2002 Dumont, NJ ’33 EVELYN (HENNION) ’60 GEORGE J. HACKES, M.A. ’69 May 2003 ANTONUCCI Whippany, NJ NANCY SHULL, M.A. FLORENCE ALICE LOTT Paterson, NJ June 2003 Hackettstown, NJ PHILLIPS ’92 CAROL ANNE PODGURSKI June 2003 September 2003 Paterson, NJ Ridgewood, NJ ’63 DAVID HOMCY June 2003 May 2003 ’36 MINNIE E. (SHEW) HARRIS, M.A. North Balm Beach, FL THERESA (URBAN) THRELFALL ’65 April 2003 West Milford, NJ ’77 ELAINE S. KRUSE ’94 MAUREEN HENRY Old Bridge, NJ October 2003 Wayne, NJ Saddle Brook, NJ July 2003 ’64 DOROTHY E. CLARK WILLER, May 2003 July 2003 M.ED. ’72 ’71 BEVERLY ALLAN ’38 ETHEL BERMAN, M.A. ’52 Franklin Lakes, NJ Kinnelon, NJ ’78 HOPE MARIA MCLEAN-AUSTIN Little Silver, NJ May 2003 November 2003 Plainfield, NJ Unknown July 2003 ’68 CAROL BORTHWICK, M.A. ’79 MILLICENT CLOUGH FOLTZ ’41 EDNA CAFFREY Mahwah, NJ NEWMAN, M.A. JOSEPH PEZZINO, JR. Garfield, NJ August 2003 West Milford, NJ Lodi, NJ Unknown June 2003 June 2003

DAVID SIMON was recently is to promote, develop, and as a reporter, she has received Journeys, a holistic travel appointed to teach communications produce original works by aspiring awards from the North Jersey company. Ricca is a member of the at Ridgedale Middle School in playwrights from all over the Press Club and the Working Press Maine Women’s Network and the Florham Park. Simon previously country. The theatre group is an Association of New Jersey… Institute of Certified Travel taught English at Ridgefield High official chapter of the William ANDREW M. PIESTER is the Agents…NICOLE (GRAVES) School and Boonton Middle Paterson University Alumni manager at Route 23 Enterprise WATSON announced the birth of School… DOMENICK Association. The company’s latest Car Rental in Wayne, NJ. her daughter, Cianna Nicole STAMPONE won a seat on the production is Transatlantic… Watson, on August 19, 2003. Haledon, NJ, town council. He is JENNIFER L. (GARRETT) 19 ninety 7 a former assistant prosecutor for DERANEY and her husband 19 ninety 9 Hudson County and former Andrew. J. Deraney announced WILLIAM P. FORMAN member of the Manchester the birth of their son, Matthew received the 2003 Teacher of the GINA BUTKA, M.A. ’01, has CHRISTINA MICHELLE GEISINGER Regional High School Board of Andrew Deraney, on March 19, Year award for academic been appointed instructor of Education. Stampone is the chair- 2002…JOSEPH S. excellence in the classroom at English basic skills at Bergen LYNN PELKEY is the design elect of the New Jersey State Bar FAGLIARONE currently Gretta R. Ostrovsky Middle Community College in Paramus, director of the New Jersey Jewish Association Young Lawyers operates a computer/network School in Wood Ridge, NJ… NJ. She has served as a lecturer at News. Division, vice president of the consulting company. He resides in MICHELLE (SANTANIELLO) Bergen Community College, an William Paterson University Middletown, NJ, with his wife and GATES has been teaching in adjunct instructor at Felician 19 ninety 4 Alumni Association, and former two children. Paterson, NJ, for six years, four College, and an instructor at years as a second grade teacher the Hispanic Institute in DANIEL CIMMINO, who has president of the Hudson County and the last two years as a third Hackensack…LORISE been stationed in Newport, RI, for Bar Association Young Lawyers 19 ninety 6 grade teacher. She was married on (MANCUSO) GOEKE is the the past two years, will soon leave Division. He and his wife, Amy, NATHANIEL JANOFF, October 21, 2001, to Michael principal of Our Lady of Lourdes for Gaeta, Italy, where he will be also announced the birth of their founder of the Nat Janoff David Gates… FRANK R.C. School in Paterson, the deputy legal counsel for the second daughter, Caterina Ensemble, recently performed at MICHAEL IANNOZZI is NJ…CHRISTINE JEAN U.S. Navy 6th Fleet. He and his Elizabeth, on September 19, Montclair High School. The managing large information (SALES) HOWARD is a sales wife also announced the birth of 2003…BOBBY SYVARTH has ensemble, which features Janoff on technology projects for the ABC assistant and on-air talent at their son, Louis…JOE embarked on a career in music guitar, performs a mix of jazz and News and ABC Daytime WSSS Star 104.7 and WKNS FARNSWORTH is the drummer that has included recordings and blues. His latest CD is titled programming divisions of the Kiss 95.1, two Infinity for the veteran jazz group, One for live performances. Syvarth formed Looking Through, and combines American Broadcasting Company, Broadcasting stations in Charlotte, All. He has recorded one album the Bobby Syvarth Combo in rock and classic jazz…DENISE where he has been working for five NC. She previously worked at under his own name and can be 1995. He also recorded his debut (LUNIOR) JUDGE has been years… THOMAS TUFARO WOBM in Bayville, NJ… heard on recordings by album, Nice Hat, for LCD Music PAGE promoted to lieutenant in the U.S. recently completed a master’s KATHRYN J. (BOAL) THOR, saxophonists Benny Golson and in 1994…JEAN A. WYPLER II, W62 Navy, and is serving as a training degree in educational M.Ed. ’02, and IRA P. THOR Cecil Payne and pianist Michael a police office in Montclair, SIXTY-TWO officer aboard the U.S.S. Mason, administration at St. Peter’s ’01 announced the birth of their Weiss… JENNIFER L. recently graduated from the Essex stationed in Norfolk, VA… College in Jersey City. son, Gavin Andrew, on February (NIGHTINGALE) GEISLER County College Police Academy. DEANNA M. OPTHOF has 13, 2003…LAURIE-ANN and her husband announced the He is deputy chief of the West joined The Marcus Group in (KUNCKEN) VAN WINKLE birth of their second child, Caldwell Volunteer Fire 19 ninety 8 Secaucus, NJ, as an account and her husband Sean announced Kaitlyn Margaret, on January 12, Department. He is a certified executive. The Marcus Group is CARRIE ANN THERESA the birth of their daughter, Jadelyn 2003; she joins her brother Sean EMT, a CPR instructor, and a one of the Northeast’s largest (BARANOWSKI) LEDOUX Sierra, on January 19, Michael…CANDY L. volunteer for the West Essex First public relations and governmental and her husband, Dustin, 2003…STEVE ZACHARKO (OSTERHOUDT) GORDON Aid Squad, where he holds the affairs counseling firms. Most announced the birth of their participated in the first National and her husband, KEITH rank of crew chief. recently, she served as public daughter, Emilee Sarah, on Wrestling Alliance of 2003. GORDON ’97, announced the relations/media specialist for the January 16, 2002. Ledoux is a pre- Zacharko, whose wrestling name is birth of their second child, Alyssa 19 ninety 5 Bergen County Department of kindergarten teacher in “Hadrian,” began training at Lee, born on April 9, 2003. She CHRISTOPHER BUDINICH, Human Services. Opthof Georgia…AIMEE J. RICCA is CAMP IWF in December 1999. joins her brother Zachary… a singer and actor, performed at previously was an award-winning the owner of Bonne Amie Travel, He and his brother, Roman NICOLE (COSTANZO) various venues in New York and reporter and columnist for a located in Maine. A certified travel Zacharko, are both considered top PYHEL and her husband, New Jersey last summer. Budinich Bergen County weekly newspaper associate, accredited cruise prospects at the CAMP IWF Pro BRIAN JOSEPH PYHEL ’93, is president of the Spotlight and a reporter and producer for counselor, and destination Wrestling Training Centre, having announced the birth of their son, Theatre Company, whose mission Time Warner Cable. For her work specialist, she recently acquired practiced martial arts for more Brett John, on May 8, 2002… the U.S. division of Dreamtime than 10 years. The Zacharko PT SP brothers completed their training GEORGE Q. GEUTHER has and Damn Yankees at the County Rivera Middle School in Brick, 2 thousand 3 at CAMP IWF in November joined the Hardyston Township College of Morris. He is presently NJ… JOSH ROMAN is a DAVID KAPLAN, 2000, and continue to be two of Police Department as a patrolman. working at an ad agency… partner in JR Publicity, a new M.Ed., a teacher at

IWF’s main attractions. He recently completed the 61st KRISTIE (MUCHA) VAN public relations and marketing LIGHT Somerville Elementary Basic Police Training Class at the GAALEN is a registered nurse, agency that especially seeks to School in Ridgewood, NJ, Morris County Fire Fighters and and her husband, MICHAEL work with entertainment industry 2 thousand has been appointed to a Police Academy…PAUL M. LEE VAN GAALEN, works for clients. It is located in Holland half-year administrative ANGELA G. BECKER MAC CRACKEN and the Department of Veterans Township, NJ… JIM internship program. He appeared on Good Morning PATRICIA MARIE (O’KANE) Affairs in St. Petersburg, FL… SALTZMAN is a woodwind serves as a technical consultant at America to discuss her volunteer MAC CRACKEN ’99 announced EDWARD WYCKOFF is an area instructor at Fiordaliso Music the school and has been active in work with the nonprofit the birth of their son, Joseph manager for Retail Grocery Studio in Essex County, NJ. He the Saturday science enrichment organization Children’s Rights Christopher, on December 31, Inventory Specialists in Baltimore was the first saxophonist to program in the district… Incorporated, which is working to 2002…JOSEPH N. PASCHALL County, MD. complete William Paterson’s TIMOTHY MARK LISCHAK reform the foster care system in joined the Hillsborough Township intense master’s degree program has received the first Michael G. New Jersey. Becker, who spent 14 Police Department in 2001. His in jazz. Saltzman will continue as 2 thousand 2 Collins Award, presented in the years in a foster home, talks about recruit class (27-01) of the an instructor for the University’s memory of Collins, who was a her experience and needed Somerset County Police Academy COURTNEY ANN HELLER Summer Jazz Improvisation pioneer in the television editing reforms…DANIEL GREGORY was featured on a Court TV series, joined the Princeton Borough Workshop. His new CD, Along the industry in New York City… is a language arts teacher at The Elite. Police Department as a Way, features his original SHANNON MEYER was Hanover Park High School in East probationary police officer. Since compositions. He often performs appointed Butler High School’s Hanover, NJ. He was also her graduation from the in New Jersey and New York City 2 thousand 1 athletic trainer and physical appointed head coach of the Gloucester County Police clubs…LEAH TOMAINO education/health teacher. She is football team. He has been JULIA MARIA GOMEZ is Academy, she had worked for the recently displayed her artwork at certified by the American Red associated with Hanover Park currently seeking her teacher Washington Township Police the Clifton Arts Center. She Cross and the National Athletic High School since his student certification via the alternate Department as a Class II Special currently teaches art to children Trainer’s Association… DANIEL teaching days and involved with route…DAVID O’NEILL starred Police Officer…KELLY and adults through the Randolph ZEISS has enlisted in the U.S. the Hanover Park football in Guys and Dolls at the Cranford RANKIN is an eighth grade Parks and Recreation Department. Marine Corps. program for seven years… Dramatic Club. He previously special education teacher at Lake Her work has been exhibited in performed in the Wizard of Oz New York City and New Jersey.

DAWN PALMORE AND Brian M. Yaworski, M.A. ’98 MARC WILLIAMS ‘97 to Jennifer M. Garvey March 1, 2003

1996 Nicole M. El-Khatib to Peter Emil LaMonte August 30, 2002 1991 1994 Diane M. Anderson Patricia Diaz 1997 SCOTT HOFSESS ‘92 AND JOANNE SHU to Stephen Joseph Bach to Michael R. Grillo Frank Michael Iannozzi December 20, 2002 Unknown to Rosemary Ann Hillman August 17, 2002 Edward Calcagno Lisa P. Weinberger, M.A.T. ’03 1992 Matt Nelson to Loren Haug to Aaron Pickett John H. Grus to Lauren D. Wescoat ’99 Jeena Ibrahim August 16, 2002 September 30, 2001 to Margaret N. Gervino October 2001 to Tony Williams ’98 April 26, 2003 June 7, 2003 Tiesha D. Cassell 2001 Eileen Wilson to Kevin A. Murray Kate Elizabeth Alleger Scott Hofsess to Thomas G. Cook Nicole Leppert August 11, 2003 to Michael Francis Kramer to Joanne Shu November 13, 1999 to Paul Magrini ’00 June 28, 2003 August 31, 2003 Unknown Kelli M. Falkenstein 1995 to Michael B. Martone Matthew Robert Jordan 1993 Loren A. Alviene, M.B.A. ’01 Marc Williams July 6, 2002 to Cara Rose Nardone David G. Carter to Daniel Pineiro to Dawn Palmore May 18, 2003 to Kerry L. Evers ’93 September 21, 2002 June 5, 2003 Michael Gatti July 11, 1998 to Renee Lynn Gugger Kristie Mucha PAGE Christine Ann Baldo 1998 July 19, 2003 to Michael Lee Van Gaalen ’01 Londa L. Haycock to Keith Patrick Sturges Nicole Graves September 2, 2001 W63 SIXTY-THREE to David A. Ogden January 3, 2003 to Jonathan Watson Kristy N. Holzli February 15, 2003 March 29, 2003 to Ihor Andruch Michele Frances Shauger John Joseph Dowd III May 4, 2002 to Jeffrey Krill Robert A. Vetrano to Nancy Kathryn Lanner Christie Carla Miller February 14, 2003 to Juliet E. Spampanato March 29, 2003 to Anthony Pontari Jill Jason July 4, 2003 July 6, 2002 to Brian Davis 2002 Vesta Michelle Godwin March 30, 2003 Christina M. Quinones to Rev. Reginald V. Clark Matthew J. Tonzola to Scott Zanotti May 22, 2003 to Susan Marie Farraro ’99 Christine Jean Sales March 29, 2003 December 21, 2002 to James C. Howard Michele Skikus May 2002 2003 to David Castellano 1999 Michael John Russo Unknown Adam C. Beder 2000 to Leni F. Meyer to Allison J. Laning Keri Bartik Unknown May 2, 2002 to Craig Parrella August 23, 2002

CHUCK ALLEGER, KATE ALLEGER ‘01, MICHAEL KRAMER, AND LYNN ALLEGER ‘69

Volume 6, Number 1 Spring 2004 WPARTINGSHOTS

OFAKINDRED SPIRIT: THE SALLIE FAMILY PAINTINGS BY KIMANNE SMITH, M.F.A. ’04 MASTER OF FINE ARTS THESIS EXHIBITION: FOURTEEN NEARLY LIFE-SIZED OIL PAINTINGS AND NUMEROUS COLOR MONOPRINTS YOUR GUIDE TO CULTURAL ACTIVITIES UWP PCOMINGEVENTS AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY

MUSIC Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and subscription information July 26-30, 2004 Jazz It Up! Festival, 7:30 p.m., Shea Center

THEATRE Call 973.720.2371 for information WOMEN’S THEATER COMPANY, IN RESIDENCE AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY

May 20-22, 27-29; June 3-5, 2004 Wit by Margaret Edson, directed by Barbara Krajkowski, Hunziker Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m., also May 23 and 30 and June 2 at 2:00 p.m. SPECIAL EVENTS May 16-18, 2004 Class of 1954 Reunion Activities, 973.720.2175 Commencement 5/18 May 17, 2004 Senior Send-Off, 7:00 p.m., 1600 Valley Road, 973.720.2185

May 18, 2004 179th Commencement, Undergraduate Ceremony, 10:30 a.m., Wightman Field (rain date, May 19), Graduate Ceremony, 4:00 p.m., Rec Center (rain or shine) 973.720.2222

Paul Hostetter, conductor

PERFORMING SEASON Saturdays, 8:00 p.m., Shea Center

October 23, 2004 "Musical Angels," works by Tchaikovsky and Mahler

February 26, 2005 "Genius of Past and Present," works by Joyce, Mozart, and Strauss

April 30, 2005 "The Sound of Pictures," Mae and Fletcher Fish Young Artist Competition finalists, works by Mussorgsky

HOBART MANOR RECITAL SERIES Sundays October 23, 2004, February 13, 2005, April 3, 2005 5:00 p.m. recital followed by reception with guest artists at 6:00 p.m., Hobart Manor

FAMILY CONCERT November 21, 2004 "The Magic Orchestra," 3:00 p.m., Shea Center

Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information. High Mountain Symphony