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2 From the President 24 2014 Commencement

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18 Alumni News 56 Faculty Contributor: Dr. Angela Kachuyevski For more information, Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis www.arcadia.edu/magazine FROM THE PRESIDENT

TO THE ARCADIA UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY President DeVille Christensen with Joanne Formica For centuries, colleges and universities have served as Managing Editor Isaacson ’59 and Daniel DiPrinzio Faye Senneca ’59 incubators of critical thought and discovery. The scientific ▼ Art Director and cultural advancements fostered by higher Dan Brumbach education have been catalysts for societal and Contributing Writers economic growth, and, in almost every case, Lini Kadaba Darryl Konicki faculty are at the heart of these developments. Jeff Spence Lea Sitton Stanley The research that Arcadia’s faculty conducts Patricia Szuhaj Courtney Wright today enriches, enhances, and encapsulates our Campus News Editor University’s liberal arts ethos. This issue of Arcadia Christopher Sarachilli ’14 magazine highlights just a sample of faculty Class Notes Editor research projects, including Dr. Tobias Landberg’s Nancy Woehrle

groundbreaking work with National Geographic Student Contributors Raven Eckman ’16 and other conservation groups on the snapping Jasmine Henderson ’15 turtle, an often misunderstood creature with Jen Retter ’16 a perilous and uncertain future; and Dr. Kate EXECUTIVE BOARD President Mangione’s research and work with osteoarthritis Dr. Nicolette DeVille Christensen

and hip fractures in the elderly, as she examines Vice President for the effects of longer-term physical therapy. University Advancement Mary McRae While our faculty’s scholarship and research is It is clear that Vice President for a large part of the Arcadia community, its impact stretches University Relations Matthew Golden, Ed.D. faculty at beyond our campus to the lives of local, national, and Arcadia have Chief Marketing and international community members and directly affects our Communications Officer and continue ecological systems. Importantly, Arcadia faculty members Laura Baldwin ’12MBA to make an enlist students in these vital research activities, providing Arcadia is published twice a year by the Office of University opportunities for Arcadia students to work alongside Advancement, in conjunction indelible mark with the Office of University faculty in the classroom, lab, clinic, or field. Through these Communications. The opinions on the lives of and views expressed in the collaborations, priceless connections often are cemented. magazine do not necessarily express the official policies of students and It is clear that faculty at Arcadia have and continue to Arcadia University.

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NEW MAGAZINE PROVIDES DEEPER CONNECTION I wanted to thank you for the excellent magazine, which I believe has been immeasurably strengthened since its recent overhaul. I enjoyed reading more stories about what today’s Arcadia students are doing on campus and abroad. I also liked learning about our students’ many accomplishments and the interesting professional lives of our graduates. All in all, the stories and photos made this issue of Arcadia a very interesting read and helped me feel a deeper connection to what is going on at Arcadia. Spring/Summer 2014 The Magazine of Arcadia University I have a suggestion to consider: adding an email address for contributors to the magazine. For example, I wanted to write to Prof. [Kalenda] Eaton regarding her CALL article on “The March on Washington 50 Years Later” for but had to search online to get her email address. Again, thanks to the entire University Communications STORIES team for their continued work to create a great magazine for Arcadia. Maddy Stein ’68 Also: Experiential Learning | The Art of the Matter SPRING/SUMMER 2014 | 54 Trustee Campus Traditions KUDOS TO UNIVERSITY’S PEACE CORPS PREP PROGRAM In the recent magazine, I read with interest about the Peace Corps Prep Program. I am a returned Peace Corps volunteer, met my husband—also a We want volunteer—in Peace Corps, and we are taking our children to meet friends in our host country this summer. I am so pleased to see the connection between to hear about Arcadia, global curiosity, and the problem-solving skills developed in Arcadia’s your favorite special liberal arts education being recognized. traditions at Stacey Downey ’88 Peace Corps, Poland, 1992-94 Beaver and Arcadia!

CLEARING THE RECORD The previous issue of Arcadia magazine reported that Samer Abboud, Ph.D., We’re collecting assistant professor of history and international studies, had contributed pieces stories and photographs to share to Eurasia Review, Iranian.com, and PalestineChronicle.com. Dr. Abboud had on the new Arcadia not contributed pieces to these outlets; they had reposted work that he had alumni website. published elsewhere. Share yours at [email protected]. Send letters, feedback, or suggestions to Daniel DiPrinzio, director of communications and managing editor of Arcadia magazine, at [email protected].

SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE U.S.41 NEWS RANKING, PARTICIPANTS72 IN THE 677MEMBERS OF THE 950CORN DOGS SERVED AT UP 7 SPOTS FROM 2013 INAUGURAL GOLF OUTING CLASS OF 2018 THE PRESIDENT’S PICNIC

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Arcadia Observes Freedom Summer’s 50th Anniversary

In the early 1960s, Beaver College received a On Sept. 20, Phyllis B. Taylor ’63 participated letter from segregationist community members in in a panel discussion in the Commons Great Room Eastern Shore, Md., calling for the expulsion of in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the civil two students. The students were Freedom Riders rights campaign that brought students from around who went to Eastern Shore to rail against the country to Mississippi to help African Americans racial segregation. Beaver refused to expel either register to vote. Panel and audience members at the student, and, decades later, one of those students event discussed the significance of Freedom Summer returned to campus to remember the Freedom and its place in the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Arcadia Honored Summer of 1964. connection between civil rights work then and now. for Watershed Efforts In May, the Tookany/ Tacony-Frankford Watershed (TTF) Partnership presented PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL Arcadia with its Educator Award ACKNOWLEDGES COLLABORATION for the University’s sustainability and At the Festival de Sueños stewardship efforts in improving the on June 12, Pan American TTF watershed Academy Charter and stormwater School, Philadelphia’s infrastructure. Arcadia has several student first international interns working with baccalaureate elementary the TTF, and the school, acknowledged its green roofs, porous pavement, rain gardens, multifaceted collaboration and underground with Arcadia University. retention and irrigation Arcadia’s collaboration systems are all part of the University’s with Pan American sustainability efforts. Academy began three Arcadia also helped years ago, when Adriana develop the Circuit, a trail system that Gonzalez-Lopez, Ed.D., connects the campus to director of the Building Cheltenham Township Behavioral and Educational and the Greater Philadelphia region. Support Teams program in The Commonwealth the School of Continuing of Pennsylvania Studies, received a grant and Montgomery from the Commonwealth County also sent ▲ commendations for of Pennsylvania The Festival de Sueños also unveiled a series of prints designed by Arcadia’s Arcadia’s efforts Department of Community gallery assistant Jamar Nicholas for Pan American’s library space. (see above). In April, Associate and Economic Development Vice President of to work with Philadelphia-area schools. Costa Rica Preview students to meet and discuss Facilities Management With the grant, Dr. Gonzalez-Lopez global issues with the school’s eighth graders. and Capital Outlay Tom Macchi led a stormwater implemented Pennsylvania’s Positive Behavioral The Pan American staff includes four Arcadia management tour on Interventions & Supports (PBIS) initiative, a University graduates: CEO Wanda Novales earned campus as part of a disciplinary system that supports the emotional and a Superintendent’s Letter of Eligibility, special project funded by the League of Women social growth of students. education teacher Hazel Cespedes earned a master’s Voters of Pennsylvania Ellen Skilton-Sylvester, Ph.D., professor of degree in education, bilingual second grade teacher Citizen Education Fund education and The Rosemary and Walter Blankley Jennifer Lopez earned a bachelor’s degree, and through a grant from the PA Department Endowed Chair in Education, has been working art instructor Karen Rufino is working toward a of Environmental closely with the academy for two years, bringing her master’s degree in education. Protection.

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Bringing War Criminals to PAN-AFRICAN COLLECTIVE HIGHLIGHTS Justice VARIED DISCIPLINES Roland Adjovi, assistant professor “It’s late at night, the boats are coming in the Department of Historical and in, and I don’t think I’m okay.” Political Studies at Michelle Reale wrote to her boss as Arcadia, serves on she looked out across the Mediterranean the board of Civitas Maxima, a not-for- from her apartment in Lampedusa, an profit, independent Italian island between Libya, Tunisia, legal representation and Sicily. She saw a tragic scene: group for victims of war crimes. In refugees falling into the cold October September, the group waters, some pushed overboard by assisted in the arrest human traffickers. They plunged into and indictment of Martina Johnson, a the sea, joining other bodies that hadn’t former commander survived the trip to Sicily, refugees ▲ of the National from Sudan, Gambia, and Senegal Arcadia students meet with the Ministry of Youth Affairs in Freetown, Patriotic Front of seeking asylum. Sierra Leone, in spring 2014. Dr. Riggan’s course studied youth Liberia, for alleged unemployment and disability in the post-conflict country. war crimes during The refugees are part of a large the first Liberian emigration from Africa, explained Reale, faculty scholars,” explained Dr. Eaton, a literary scholar who civil war from 1989 to 1996. The case librarian at Arcadia. The sea turns into a “liquid examines writings and cultural theory from the African is the first criminal coffin” for the mistreated refugees, she said. Reale diaspora and whose courses range in topic from slave charge for crimes has been doing ethnography in Sicily for the past narratives to African and Caribbean literature. She, under international law committed by three years. She ventures to the Italian island five Dr. Loury, Reale, and Otieno had been studying Africa an alleged Liberian times a year, including one week for a Preview and the diaspora through their research, humanitarian perpetrator during the course, joined by 20 students who accompany her trips, and teaching, both in the classroom and abroad, war, which took more than 150,000 lives. to work in refugee camps and meet policy makers. when Adjovi arrived on campus as a resident scholar Adjovi also has When Reale watched the late-night horror in the and helped bring the group together. worked as a senior Mediterranean, the wounds from another tragedy Now teaching in the Department of Historical and legal officer with the Registry of the were still fresh. Earlier that day, a ship carrying Political Studies, Adjovi was appointed to the United International Criminal hundreds of African refugees encountered engine Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Tribunal for Rwanda trouble about a quarter-mile from the coast of May. He, along with Dr. Eaton, is developing a course and as lead counsel in a successful case Lampedusa. The ship caught fire as it sank, and for fall 2015 with a study abroad component in the against Tanzania more than 350 Eritreans, Ghanaians, and Somalis, West African country of Benin. The other members of before the African among others, perished in the sea. Yet another such the Collective also lead students abroad: Dr. Loury will Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. shipwreck occurred just a week later. co-lead a Senegal Preview course next semester with Dr. In November 2014, Jennifer Riggan, Ph.D., Riggan, who took a class to Sierra Leone this spring, associate professor of international studies and Reale teaches the Sicily Preview every year. at Arcadia, along with Reale and Roland Rather than travel, Otieno teaches courses with a focus Adjovi, then resident scholar at The College on service. For some of his classes, he requires students to of Global Studies, conducted a panel on the work with local nonprofits and service organizations. Lampedusa shipwrecks and trafficking across “They almost always show a fundamental the Mediterranean. transformation,” Otieno said. The panel was an early event sponsored by The Collective has developed rapidly since the Arcadia’s Pan-African Studies Collective, a group Lampedusa panel, with a stronger campus presence working, in varied capacity and in multidisciplinary and a new interdisciplinary minor in Pan-African fields, with African and African diaspora studies. Studies. It requires courses taken in fields ranging from Adjovi, Reale, and Dr. Riggan are joined by sociology and history to literature and film, reflecting Kalenda Eaton, Ph.D., associate professor of the varied roles of Collective members. It is the kind English; Doreen Loury, Ph.D., assistant professor of interdisciplinary collaboration that the Collective of sociology, anthropology, and criminal justice; hopes to foster in students taking the minor and one and Alex Otieno, instructor of sociology. that is evident in the panels, lectures, film screenings, “When [Adjovi] came here, he was interested and discussions that are scheduled for the 2014-15 in connecting on campus with a community of academic year.

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GOLDEN NAMED VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY RELATIONS

Matthew Golden, Ed.D., has joined Institute of Technology (NJIT). Prior to Arcadia as vice president for University NJIT, he served in a similar capacity for Relations. Dr. Golden, who brings extensive nearly nine years at The College of New experience in strategic communications and Jersey. Dr. Golden also served as deputy external relations in higher education, began director of communications at the New his position at Arcadia on Oct. 1. Jersey Department of the Treasury, serving Dr. Golden will lead Arcadia’s newly as spokesperson for New Jersey’s State formed University Relations unit, responsible Treasurer, and as assistant director of for oversight of internal and external University Relations at Kean University. communications strategy, government Dr. Golden earned a Doctor of relations, community development initiatives, Education in Higher Education print and web development, marketing, and Administration and Leadership from The brand strategy. Working in alignment with George Washington University, a Master of the University’s overall mission, goals, and Communications from Rutgers University, ▲ strategic planning efforts, Dr. Golden also and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Matthew Golden will serve as University spokesperson. Princeton University. He brings to Arcadia Most recently, Dr. Golden was associate extensive crisis management experience Federal Emergency Management Agency’s vice president for Communications, after having completed training with the Enhanced Incident Management Marketing, and Branding at New Jersey Department of Homeland Security and Command program.

ODDI SPENDS MONTH IN GHANA them as some of the nicest, happiest people she has ever met. Every day, she said, their THROUGH VIRA I. HEINZ PROGRAM attitudes inspired her to support them and he bowl of steaming red-red, a In Ghana, Oddi worked with Unite overcome her own struggles. thick rice and beans stew, was For Sight (UFS), a nonprofit organization “I worked hard to help the people there, just what Stephanie Oddi ’15 that provides resources to local clinics and but they work 100 times harder just to needed to redeem a tiresome sponsors outreach services for communities provide enough for their families to live on,” day. A trip to downtown in India, Honduras, and Ghana that face said Oddi. “Talking to the patients, realizing TKumasi had brought her face-to-face with significant barriers in access to eye care. Oddi their struggles, and helping make their lives suffocating crowds at the zoo, pressure from attended outreaches that sometimes took her just a little bit better were some of the best market vendors to buy their products, and three hours away from metropolitan areas parts of my experience.” inflated restaurant prices. Finding great into villages that receive traditional Ghanaian cuisine at a cost of only comprehensive eye care GH 4 (less than $2) was a comforting relief. year-round through UFS. Oddi, a chemistry/pre-forensic science She assisted clinic workers major, volunteered this summer in Ghana with patient registration, through the Vira I. Heinz Program for visual acuity exams, and the Women in Global Leadership. She wanted dispensing of medications to use the scholarship to see a part of the and glasses and also world she might not get the chance to observed optometrists, revisit anytime soon and was drawn to seeing firsthand the surgeries Ghana’s sometimes taxing challenges and that treat eye diseases and distinct culture. During her month-long conditions such as glaucoma stay, Oddi learned how to navigate the city and cataracts. of Accra on tro-tros (shared taxis), how to The patients with whom bathe and clean without running water, Oddi interacted made ▲ and how to dress conservatively in a hot, lasting impressions on her, Oddi worked with Unite For Sight, and met a few crocodiles, humid climate. and she tenderly refers to while in Ghana.

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Emergency Response Team Works with Local, Federal Law Enforcement By Jasmine Henderson ’15 THE ROBOT DRAGGED THE FALLEN OFFICER AWAY FROM THE EXPLOSIVE. While the treaded tires had a relatively smooth passage on the property’s flat grass, the robot struggled when it tried to navigate up a slight incline. The officer, wearing an 80-pound flak jacket and bomb disposal gear and lying on a plastic stretcher that was tethered to the robot, needed to be pulled to safety by human colleagues.

Fortunately, this was only a drill. This most recent Safety, Student Affairs, University Communications, event, on Sept. 3, tested the emergency response skills and other administrative units, worked with of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Lieutenant Al Stewart, adjunct professor of forensic Unit and local K9 units at the Crime Scene House, science, and local law enforcement to prepare the a University-owned split-level residence on Church community for possible campus emergencies, such as a Road typically used for crime scene simulations in chemical spill, a fire, or an active shooter. the Forensic Science program. Abington Township, “The arrangement between Arcadia and emergency Montgomery Township, Whitemarsh Township, units is a win-win,” said Lt. Stewart, who is also and the University of Pennsylvania Police Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Departments participated. Disposal unit commander. “It allows Arcadia to be This scenario was the third such emergency proactive in its approach to emergency situations, preparedness exercise to take place on Arcadia and the Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement University’s campus in the past year. Members of the agencies can get the practice they need to keep their Arcadia Emergency Response Team, including Public procedures fresh and efficient.”

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Last August, Arcadia hosted the FBI; Philadelphia The drills also allow graduate forensic science Police Department Bomb Squad; Cheltenham, students and undergraduate criminal justice Limerick, Plymouth, and Whitemarsh Township students to observe emergency preparedness Explosives K-9 Units and ATF divisions; Montgomery exercises that show real-life police work, and the County detectives; Cheltenham Township Police exercises “help them to understand the principles Department; Montgomery County Coroner’s Office; that are being presented in the classroom,” said and a S.W.A.T. team in a drill to stimulate a hostage Dr. Karen Scott, director and associate professor situation in the Dining Hall. This exercise received of forensic science. In last year’s exercise, students global attention in Detonator magazine, a publication participated by serving as hostages. of the International Association of Bomb Technicians Finally, the drills go a long way in bringing and Investigators. the University community together to best In March, the Emergency Response Team accepted prepare students, their families, faculty, staff, and an invitation to tour the Montgomery County administrators in the event of an emergency. Emergency Operations Center, where University “Arcadia is so far ahead of the curve,” said Lt. officials observed county processes and spoke with Stewart, who, during last August’s drill, saw firsthand center commanders. The result of that visit was a how important emergency preparedness is to the tabletop exercise on campus in May, during which law community. “Students were coming up [to the enforcement officials verbally walked members of the command post vehicle] saying, ‘thank you,’ because Arcadia administration and community through an they know this University is doing everything it can active shooter emergency scenario. for emergency preparedness.” “Emergency response work is collaborative, pulling resources from various departments and For more information, Lt. Stewart explains agencies,” said Joanna Gallagher, director of emergency.arcadia.edu emergency procedures Public Safety at Arcadia. to first-year students. ▼

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Award-winning Blog Offers Student View of Life at Arcadia

When June Thomquist ’18 moved to student writers: joining Andrews, Mallepalle, Mayr, Arcadia from Oregon, she likened the and Thomquist are Michael Barbalace ’16, Jordan southeastern Pennsylvania weather to a Cameron ’17, Casey Coen ’18, Megan D’Avella ’16, tropical climate, a far cry from what she Frances Dumlao ’15, Marcella Haddad ’18, Jasmine was used to in the Pacific Northwest. Henderson ’15, David Klein ’15, Kyle O’Kane ’18, It was one of a few adjustments to life Tatiana Redden ’17, and Jamie Stewart ’17. at Arcadia; others included living with In its first year,Because Arcadia has received recognition someone she had only met the day for its intuitive layout and enticing student-driven before and understanding Philadelphia content. The blog is a finalist for Best Blog in PR Daily’s accents. Like many first-year students, Content Marketing Awards, has won the Blog Standard Thomquist had to deal with a new, of Excellence and University Standard of Excellence in the sometimes strange environment. Web Marketing Association’s WebAward for Outstanding Seeking an outlet for the transition, she took to blogging Achievement in Web Development, and received about it for the University. Thomquist writes for Because Silver Awards of Distinction for Websites and Content Arcadia, a student-written blog that’s a collaboration Marketing in The Communicator Awards administered between students and the Offices of University by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts. Communications and Enrollment Management. For the authors, it also serves as an applied learning Thomquist’s first day is just one of the experiences experience, strengthening their communication abilities, shared by the Because Arcadia writers: The blog also offers getting them more involved in the community, and readers opportunities to visit tourist spots of London with teaching them to meet deadlines and manage their time. Francesca Mayr ’16, discover the beauty of mathematics “I know each week I have a draft due, and I have to with Jessica Mallepalle ’16, and navigate the workings of stay on top of it,” said Haddad. “It forces me to write web design alongside Janna Andrews ’17. and be responsible, and those are valuable skills for an Curated by Jen Retter ’16 and started in 2013, aspiring writer.” Because Arcadia showcases more than 180 posts from Arcadia students ranging from first-years to For more information, seniors. This second year brings a new roster of 15 because.arcadia.edu

ARCADIA AND BISHOP MCDEVITT HIGH SCHOOL SIGN LONG-TERM AGREEMENT ▼ Arcadia President Arcadia University and Bishop McDevitt High School have Nicolette DeVille entered into a long-term strategic alliance which includes Christensen and Bishop McDevitt the shared use of athletic facilities and a dual enrollment President Steve agreement. The agreement, which is set for at least 40 years Finley shake hands at the signing. and could be for as long as 55 years, gives the Arcadia athletic teams use of Bishop McDevitt’s fields and will provide other University programs access to Bishop McDevitt’s multi- purpose field for intramural activities. Bishop McDevitt field hockey and softball programs will have use of certain athletic facilities at Arcadia, including Blankley Field, Easton Field, and Haber Green. Arcadia and Bishop McDevitt will share athletic schedules with each other prior to the fall and spring seasons to ensure against any potential conflicts.

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Finding a Common Ground Peter Leuner, Ph.D., regional director of Arcadia’s programs in the U.K. and Ireland and director of Arcadia in London, admitted he was “conflicted in many ways” about the Scottish independence referendum. “I was born in Glasgow...but I’m concerned that one of the less ARCADIA STUDENTS WITNESS HISTORIC desirable outcomes of the Scottish SCOTTISH VOTE independence movement will be enturies ago, Scots fought for students to a contemporary play about the union to the growth of English ethnic nationalism, independence with pikes, swords, and provide further insight. Additionally, Arcadia faculty which will have shields. On Sept. 18, ballots were the and staff contributed personal experience both prior to unforeseeable weapon of choice. Arcadia students and after the vote. consequences for us all,” said Dr. Leuner, studying in Scotland watched as the Hamish Thompson, Ph.D., has been resident who was relocated Cdemocratic battle for independence played out. director at Arcadia’s Edinburgh Center for nearly four from Scotland as a While some signs pointed to a “Yes” vote, the years. A native of Scotland in favor of independence, child when his family moved to England. country voted to remain part of the U.K. by a narrow Dr. Thompson said that he moved through denial, Dr. Leuner said he margin, disappointing some and elating others. anger, and grief before landing at acceptance. While he and Dr. Thompson First-Year Study Abroad Experience (FYSAE) feels strongly about which decision was the right one, spent months discussing contrary students in Stirling and those studying abroad in he says students were a bit reserved at first. views and opinions. Scotland through the Office of International Affairs “On the whole, the students have been very However, the Arcadia attend classes with young Scots, many of whom cautious to venture opinions, but I have always professors found a common ground: longed for an independent home nation. Their time encouraged them to bring in the U.S. perspective, They believe it in Scotland has given Arcadia students a unique from the Declaration of Independence to the Civil is important for perspective on the independence issue, from its War, to contemporary secessionist movements from students studying abroad to be involved development to this year’s referendum vote to the Hawaii to Texas,” Dr. Thompson said. in talks about political resulting decision. The students also heard different Between homestay, campus life, and Arcadia resources, independence, so perspectives while living with host families in various students formed their own opinions. Dr. Thompson said they are bringing the conversation parts of the country through the Experiment in some students were disappointed in the “No” vote, but to the community International Living program. he encouraged them to focus on the positives. of international “Independence seems like something to celebrate,” “A direct result of this vote will be a fundamental educators. Dr. Leuner and said political science major Madison Luckenbaugh ’18, realignment as to how Scotland constitutionally relates Dr. Thompson, “but my homestay experience changed my mind. If to the rest of the U.K. as well as questions arising in along with Jaume you were a government worker, you were at risk of Wales and Northern Ireland,” said Dr. Thompson. Gelabert, Ph.D., academic director losing your job. It seemed safer to say ‘No.’” “All major parties in the U.K. are committed to a for Arcadia’s Spain Mary Koger ’18, a scientific illustration major, may substantial further devolution of power to Scotland. and Cuba programs, not have known much of the independence issue before The students will have arrived in one U.K., but will be presented a session on the ways that arriving in Scotland, but said her host family of “Yes” leaving a very different U.K. Arcadia’s Scotland voters was instrumental in making sure she was up-to-date. “In terms of the historical significance,” he continued, and Barcelona “We would watch the referendum debates on TV “this was the first time in more than 300 years the people Centers engaged students in debates while eating dinner,” Koger said. “It was everywhere.” of Scotland were asked if they wanted to be a part of on independence at Arcadia students didn’t have to go far for discourse the U.K. Given the closeness of the 55-45 vote and the the Forum on around the topic. The Edinburgh Center invited demographic age breakdown, it is probably inevitable Education Abroad’s European Conference academics, writers, and members of the Scottish that in the future this question will be revisited, with in Barcelona Parliament to address student questions and took perhaps a greater likelihood of ‘Yes’ next time.” in October.

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Selected media highlights NODINE NAMED PROVOST, ACADEMIC VICE Graciela PRESIDENT FOR 2014-15 Slesaransky-Poe, Barbara Nodine, Ph.D., who has served for more than four decades in faculty and Ph.D., founding dean and professor leadership positions at the University, will serve as provost and vice president for in the School Academic Affairs for the 2014-15 academic year. During this time, Arcadia will of Education, conduct an international search for the University’s next provost and vice president was featured in the Chronicle of for Academic Affairs. Higher Education Dr. Nodine, who also holds the rank of professor of psychology, joined Arcadia and was quoted in 1970 as a faculty member. She has served as chair of the Psychology Department in a Philadelphia Inquirer story and as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. During her tenure at Arcadia, on her research Dr. Nodine has been recognized for her research and work in the applications of with transgender cognitive psychology to teaching and learning and has maintained a deep dedication issues in schools. Brock Koller ’05 to the research-based, student-centered curriculum that guides the Psychology reviewed Boyhood, Department at Arcadia. a film that captures a coming-of-age story that was shot over a 12-year period, for 6ABC. Craik Named Dean of Health Sciences Wilson to Lead Global Business Koller interviewed Shekhar Desphande, Ph.D., On Sept. 1, Rebecca Craik, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA, In July, Arcadia appointed professor and became dean of the College of Health Sciences. Dr. Alla L. Wilson, Ph.D., chair of media and communication Craik joined the physical as dean of the School under whom Koller therapy faculty in 1983 of Global Business. Dr. studied, for the and was named chair of Wilson previously served piece. The two discussed how the department in 1993. as founding dean of the the film’s format During her tenure as chair, College of Business and required a different the Department of Physical Management at East mindset from both the cast and Therapy has grown in Stroudsburg University. crew. “Making faculty and student numbers, There, she led three program accreditations and this sort of film developed one of the nation’s helped to secure more than $1 million in grants and requires patience and money. The first Doctor of Physical funding for various projects. combination of Therapy degree programs, created an innovative Dr. Wilson is affiliated with several community the two suggests non-traditional curriculum, and gained a national and professional organizations, including the Monroe that there is a commitment to reputation for excellence. U.S. News & World Report County Business Education Partnership, the Academy making something ranks Arcadia’s PT program #14 in the nation and of Business Disciplines, and the Mid-Atlantic more valuable than second in Pennsylvania. Association for Colleges of Business Administration. temporary box office gains,” Dr. Dr. Craik also serves as editor-in-chief of Physical Deshpande said. Therapy, the official publication of the American Larry Atkins, Physical Therapy Association. She has published adjunct professor of journalism, extensively in journals including Experimental Brain Rosoff to Head Strategic Planning published several Research, American Journal of Public Health, and Issues pieces in major on Aging, and has contributed chapters to more than Nancy Rosoff, Ph.D., media outlets in 2014, including the 10 books. dean of Graduate and Washington Post, Dr. Craik has been influential across Arcadia’s campus Undergraduate Studies, will Huffington Post, The as a faculty advocate through her service on major serve as chair of the Strategic Philadelphia Inquirer, and WHYY’s committees such as Promotion and Tenure and Faculty Planning Initiative for the Newsworks. Council. She is co-principal investigator on a multi-site 2014-15 academic year. Dr. research project funded by the National Institute of Aging, Rosoff will work with the a division of the National Institutes of Health, to improve president and the provost recovery following hip fracture in older adults. to form a strategic planning task force to build upon current and future objectives to better the Arcadia community. Dr. Rosoff will For more on Dr. Craik’s appointment, continue her role as dean, overseeing, developing, and bulletin.arcadia.edu implementing academic policies and programs.

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McClure Named Chair of Physical Therapy, Secures $1.9 Million Grant for Research

Philip McClure, PT, Ph.D., FAPTA, has been named chair of “This is the single most common shoulder problem affecting the Department of Physical Therapy. a wide range of people, including high-level athletes, manual A professor of physical therapy who joined Arcadia in 1998, laborers, and weekend warriors,” said Dr. McClure. “Despite Dr. McClure has directed the University’s highly successful the high prevalence, the true nature of the weakness and the transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy program for 14 years. mechanisms by which exercise improves the symptoms are He has developed an international reputation for his expertise in poorly understood.” shoulder function. His research is in the structure and function of The measures used in the work will use electric stimulation the shoulder, and his goals are to prevent shoulder injury and to and fine-wire electromyography to capture how well the develop interventions to optimize shoulder function after injury. nervous system is driving the muscles. Muscle inhibition and In July, Dr. McClure was awarded a four-year grant worth weakness potentially caused by pain will be studied by testing $1.9 million from the National Institute of Arthritis and subjects before and after pain-relieving injections, and the Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, a division of the National effects of rehabilitation will be examined by testing after a six- Institutes of Health. He will serve as co-investigator and will study week exercise program. shoulder muscle activation patterns in patients with rotator cuff In total, Dr. McClure has helped secure or has worked on tendinopathy, as well as the effects of pain, weakness, and exercise. projects that have garnered more than $4 million in funding.

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Bill Jacobsen, Ph.D., adjunct professor American Theatre and Drama Society’s in Delivery and Exercise and Content of of international peace and conflict resolution, Publication Subvention Award in July for his Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Following was named Most Valuable Peacemaker for essay, “Turning ‘Negroes’ into ‘People’ on Total Knee Replacement Surgery: A Cross- 2014 in recognition of his work in and Stage: Anna Lucasta in Harlem and Sectional Observational Study” in the contribution to the field of conflict resolution. on Broadway.” International Journal of Physical Medicine Brooke Garwood ’15M, Christina Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., assistant and Rehabilitation. The paper explores Schneider ’15M, and Lisa Brutko ’15M professor in the School of Education, physical therapy needed after a patient received the Pennsylvania Psychological and Chett Farbstein, graduate student in undergoes total knee replacement. It was Association Graduate Students Community education, presented “HBO’s The Wire published in April and coauthored with Service Project Award for 2014. The Season Four as Text for Deconstructing Jessica M. DiRusso ’11DPT, Mindy J. students in Arcadia’s Counseling program the Opportunity Gap” to the Pennsylvania Hoover ’11DPT, Katherine K. Johnston were recognized for their service in Chapter of the National Association of ’11DPT, Monika Kasinova Butz ’11DPT, assisting the Montgomery County Foster Multicultural Education this past spring. Amy L. Phillips ’12DPT, Kimberly M. Parent Association and then-president Jan The presentation discussed pairing The Wire Nanovic ’12DPT, and Elizabeth Childs Lineberger ’13M. with scholarly work and other media to Cummings ’12DPT. Shannan M. DeLany Dixon ’98MSGC, inspire a conversation about the opportunity Tom Brinker Jr., LLM, CPA, professor CGC, was honored with the 2014 College gap in the classroom. of accounting, coauthored “Examining of Health Sciences Alumni Achievement Joe Zaweski, assistant professor and and Contrasting the Recent Alternative Award in April. Dixon also delivered a talk, academic coordinator in the Physician Calculation for the Home Office Deduction “Lessons Learned at Arcadia Continue to Assistant program at Arcadia’s Christiana, As It Applies to Self-Employed Individuals,” Open Doors,” discussing the value of her Del., campus, was appointed chair of the which appeared in the May issue of the Arcadia education. Since graduating from Competency Based Faculty Development Journal of Financial Service Professionals. Arcadia’s Genetic Counseling program, Task Force of the Physician Assistant Eleonora Bartoli, Ph.D., director of Dixon has become director of the Master’s in Education Association, the only national graduate programs in counseling and Genetic Counseling training program at the organization in the country for physician professor of psychology, co-authored “What University of Maryland School of Medicine. assistant education programs. White Children Need to Know about Jonathan Shandell, Ph.D., associate Carol Oatis, PT, Ph.D., professor of Race,” which appeared in the July issue of professor of theater arts, received the physical therapy, published “Variations Independent School Magazine.

and zoology, could be broadly categorized GRADY, VOMACHKA EACH NAMED in the area of endocrine physiology. He has PROFESSOR EMERITUS published extensively in journals since 1974. Among the awards he received are the Arcadia courses in writing, literature, and critical theory. University Professor of the Year Award He also organized and instructed the senior (2007), a National Science Foundation Capstone course in English, familiarizing Research Opportunity Award (1991), and students with literary theory and helping them the Lindback Distinguished Teacher Award develop their undergraduate theses. He is the (1990). He also received Arcadia’s Faculty author of several books on Shakespeare and Development Award six times (1997, 1998, Renaissance literature, has published more 1999, 2000, 2003, 2008). than 30 articles in journals and anthologies, and edited and contributed to an anthology of critical essays focusing on Shakespeare’s reception by major modern critics. Dr. Vomachka joined the biology faculty in 1988 as an associate professor; he was Hugh Grady, Ph.D. (above), and Archie named full professor of biology in 2000 and Vomachka, Ph.D. (right), who, combined, twice chaired the department (1989-2001, have taught at Arcadia for more than 50 years, 2005-06). He most recently was founding each has been named professor emeritus. dean of the College of Health Sciences, a Dr. Grady, a preeminent Shakespearean position he held since 2011. scholar who retired in 2014 after 27 years at Dr. Vomachka’s research interests and Arcadia, taught undergraduate and graduate areas of expertise, which include biology

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NEW WEBSITE FOR THE COLLEGE OF GLOBAL STUDIES

The College of Global Studies’ new website makes it easier for students, study abroad advisers, and faculty to find information about Arcadia’s study abroad programs. The site is centered around a program finder tool on the homepage, where it is easy to search by discipline, location, timeframe, or program type, such as internship. The homepage has dedicated areas for easy Visit the new site at access to important information for faculty, studyabroad.arcadia.edu advisers, and parents and families.

Executive Director of Kosovar President Institute Lectures on Building DeVille a New Republic of Kosovo Christensen his spring, Ilir Deda, executive director to Serve as at the Kosovar Institute for Policy Mentor for Research and Development and former International chief of staff and senior political advisor Education to the Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, Association Tdelivered a lecture at Arcadia addressing the rationale The Association for building a new Republic of Kosovo, lessons of International learned in the process, and what should be done Education Administrators has locally and internationally to facilitate nation-building selected President in the future. Nicolette DeVille Christensen as one of four academic For more information, and administrative bulletin.arcadia.edu leaders to serve as a mentor for the Neal Presidential Fellows Program. Dr. DeVille Christensen will Alumni, Students Enjoy be matched with Barbara Simmons, FYSAE Reunion inaugural dean and First-Year Study Abroad Experience associate professor of international alumni reunited at International education House Philadelphia on Sept. 20 for at William a FYSAE Reunion. Current students V.S. Tubman University in who participated in FYSAE also Liberia. During attended. Look for more information the 2014-15 on future FYSAE Reunions and academic year, Simmons will visit events, and update your contact Arcadia, shadow information through the FYSAE Dr. DeVille Facebook group or with the Office Christensen, and learn about of Alumni Relations (215-572-2160, Photo by Jordan Cameron ’17 Arcadia’s policies [email protected]). and procedures.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE CLOSES WITH RECORD-BREAKING SEASON

he women’s lacrosse team enjoyed its most Crothers had a career year in her final season successful season in program history in with the Knights: In addition to setting school 2014. The Knights went 18-2 overall, setting records in both assists (80) and points (114), she led the school record for wins in a season. They the Freedom Conference with 34 goals and all of also finished first in the Freedom Conference Division III in assists. Crothers finished her collegiate Twith an undefeated league record, captured the program’s career as Arcadia’s all-time leader in assists with 116 first Freedom Conference tournament title, and qualified and finished fourth on the career scoring list with for the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament 212 career points. for the first time in program history. Dunacusky was 18-1 for the season, with her one Erin Livingston was named Freedom Conference loss coming in the NCAA tournament. She led the Coach of the Year for the second consecutive season, Freedom Conference with a .550 save percentage while sophomore goalie Jordyn Dunacusky was and a 6.58 goals against average, which ranked fifth named Freedom Conference Defensive Player of the and sixth in the nation, respectively. Her wins and Year and a Second-Team All-Region selection. Senior goals against average were both single-season school attack Jenna Crothers received Second-Team ECAC records, while her save percentage was the eighth-best All-Star honors. They were among a program-best in a single-season at Arcadia. nine all-conference selections.

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Student-Athletes Score High Marks in Classroom Arcadia’s nearly 350 student-athletes once again tennis programs named proved their prowess in the classroom in the spring to the Middle Atlantic 2014 semester, earning a 3.33 cumulative grade point Conference Fall Academic average (GPA). Each of the 17 varsity programs earned Honor Roll, as well as a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0, with 12 programs seven Middle Atlantic above a 3.20 cumulative GPA and eight programs Conference Academic All- exceeding 3.40. Conference selections who A total of 87 Arcadia student-athletes earned a spot excelled both academically on the University’s Dean’s Honor List for earning and athletically. a GPA of 3.67 or higher. That group included 34 Five student-athletes student-athletes who earned Dean’s Distinguished were additionally named Honors List distinction for having a semester GPA to their Philadelphia between 3.90 and 4.0. Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Arcadia now has 16 of its 17 varsity programs with Academic All-Area teams. a team cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, with eight Whitney Boeckel ’15 was ▲ Brian Granata, programs maintaining a cumulative GPA above 3.20. honored by the College Sports Information Directors director of Athletics The Knights had 68 members of the baseball, of America, earning First-Team All-District honors as and Recreation, with basketball, golf, lacrosse, softball, swimming, and an at-large selection. inductees Keller, McGovern, Fitzgerald, Szeker, and Fencik, and President DeVille Christensen.

DETRA RETIRES AFTER MORE THAN FOUR Five Inducted DECADES AS SOFTBALL COACH into Athletic Linda Detra, a fixture of the Arcadia University athletics volleyball by the time she stepped down as athletic Hall of Fame family since 1971, retired as head softball coach and director in 1993 to return to coaching. Tim Fitzgerald ’08 Kuch Center manager at the end of the 2014 season. During Detra’s tenure as athletic director, Arcadia (men’s tennis), Laura Fencik ’07 Detra arrived at Arcadia as an assistant professor teams captured 14 Philadelphia Association of (softball), Cory of health and physical education and head field Intercollegiate Athletics for Women titles, seven Keller ’00 hockey coach. She was named department head the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics district (baseball), Jenn Szeker ’02 following year, and, four years later, she was named the championships, and six Keystone titles. In her 21 seasons (softball, women’s University’s first athletic director. as head softball coach, Detra compiled a 429-292-1 basketball, Under Detra, the department grew from five (.595) career record that included 14 winning seasons. women’s tennis), and former women’s sports (basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, She is the University’s all-time leader in wins and entered head men’s and riding, and tennis), with the addition of baseball, the 2014 season tied for 39th among active NCAA women’s tennis men’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, Division III coaches in victories. The Department of head coach Tom McGovern are the men’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s Athletics honored Detra in April prior to a doubleheader 2014 inductees tennis, men’s and women’s swimming, and women’s against Gwynedd-Mercy University. to Arcadia’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The five were inducted in a formal ceremony hosted by the Athletics Department and the Arcadia University Alumni Association on Oct. 11. Full bios for each inductee, as well as information on

▼ how to nominate Linda Detra (center) in someone for future 2012 after her 400th consideration, career win. With her, can be found at former athletic director athletics.arcadia. Shirley Liddle (left) and assistant coach Meredith edu/halloffame. Mayes ’10.

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Tom Johnston’s Lifesaving Business Model ALUMNI In 2009, the H1N1 influenza virus—commonly known Born and raised in Philadelphia, Johnston PROFILE as swine flu—caused worldwide panic. The initial studied computer science at Arcadia. He has outbreak in Mexico turned into a pandemic, ravaging worked for well-known tech sector companies Africa and Southeast Asia and, according to estimates, like Comcast and Microsoft, as well as in financial causing up to half a million deaths. Desperate to devise and digital security organizations. In 2007, a a plan to tackle the disease that plagued his country, year after receiving his MBA from the University Mexican President Felipe Calderón and his staff met of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, with scientists, health officials, and researchers. One of Johnston transitioned to the vaccine industry. those consulted was Tom Johnston ’96. Johnston calls the industry a “unique Then the vice president of strategy at Novavax, combination of entrepreneurial and Inc., Johnston and a team worked with the Mexican philanthropic spirit,” and he’s been operating government to develop a vaccine and distribute it in that mode for the past seven years. Now, he’s to the population through an chief executive officer of Mucosis, a vaccine emergency licensure procedure. He development company in the Netherlands. In shared his business model with the addition, he serves as an adviser to other vaccine Mexican authorities, a franchise and medical device companies around the world. model that allowed efficient local He has daily calls with groups in China and the production of much-needed Netherlands, and he is always on call to speak vaccines. Later, Johnston met with with investors, negotiating investment and the National Security Council at licensing deals in India, China, Spain, Mexico, the White House to discuss the and South Korea, among others. same strategy and how it could be “I have been afforded the great opportunity to used globally. work in different cultures creating deals that save Johnston takes an adaptive lives and make money,” Johnston said. “I think approach to business innovation, that comes from establishing trust and being an meaning he examines a business ambassador of your country, your company, and model in one industry and attempts yourself. Having realized this global view is my to modify it to work in another. biggest accomplishment.” He worked on the franchise model “Being an ambassador” is an idea that concept while an MBA student, Johnston first encountered when spending a year applying strategies from Coca abroad at Lancaster University in the United Cola’s manufacturing process to the Kingdom. He recalled advice from Lorna Stern, These are the vaccine industry. He proposed crafting a portion of vice president of Arcadia University and executive opportunities a vaccine in central facilities—as Coke does with director of The College of Global Studies, and its syrup—and shipping it to a different location former executive director David Larsen: to act of a lifetime to farther away to be finalized and administered. as a representative of Arcadia University, of the save lives and Johnston cited a possible, relevant application: United States, and of himself. It’s a mindset that, If there were a vaccine for preventing Ebola according to Johnston, he has carried throughout make a real infection, it could be manufactured on an aircraft his entire life. difference in carrier docked off the coast of West Africa and “When I visit China, for instance, there’s administered locally, a feat that would be much less bafflement and more openness and the world. more difficult under traditional models. understanding of what they’re doing and why “These are the opportunities of a lifetime to they’re doing it,” he said. “I aim to bridge things save lives and make a real difference in the world,” between cultures, between businesses, friends, Johnston said. and families.”

For more on Johnston’s work with Mucosis, visit bulletin.arcadia.edu

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CHRIS MACCHI ’12 HELPS BRING U.S. SOCCER INTO A DIGITAL AGE

OR THE CASUAL SOCCER FAN IN THE UNITED STATES, THE END OF THE WORLD CUP MAY SIGNIFY THE LAST TIME HE OR SHE WATCHES SOCCER UNTIL THE NEXT ONE, IN 2018. HISTORICALLY, SOCCER HAS SERVED AS A PERPETUALLY BENCHED SPORT FIN THE U.S., A NOTION THAT FRUSTRATES ITS DEDICATED, VOCAL FANS. Like any organization trying to make its way in a crowded market of well-known alternatives, Major League Soccer (MLS) has turned to novel marketing attempts to break into the public consciousness. Through YouTube channels such as KICKTV, MLS has circumvented the cluttered television market, posting more than 2,500 videos and reaching 1.2 million subscribers. As the Internet continues to antiquate every other form of media, MLS has carved a space for itself and attracted new fans. Perhaps out of necessity, it has become the most modern of the big sports, the young progressive in an old boys’ club. There hasn’t been a better time to work for MLS, according to Chris Macchi ’12. Macchi works as a media coordinator for MLS+, Leaning Tower of Pisa. Within a day, at least 30 the digital arm of MLS. Macchi grew up with soccer, photoshopped pictures were tweeted with the cultivating a love for the Columbus Crew and playing hashtag #Henrying. for Arcadia’s team. A biology major who originally Campaigns like the ball film and the Henry intended to pursue physical therapy, Macchi interned images reflect the league’s focus on digital with University Communications after graduation and at platforms and strategies. According KICKTV a few months later. Within a year, he found the to Macchi, it has helped grow soccer’s presence. position with a burgeoning company, MLS+. His passion At home in New York City, for soccer, something he had not considered having any Macchi says he sees evidence of changing influence in his career, was now the focus of it. attitudes toward soccer. “[It] is something truly remarkable,” he said UNTRADITIONAL MARKETING of the city’s soccer culture. “There are not many Macchi cited a project that he believes illustrates the places where you can watch a game in a Korean difference between MLS+ and other leagues’ marketing neighborhood in the morning, an Argentine styles: a film that explores the personal relationship neighborhood in the afternoon, and then in a RECENT between soccer players and the game itself. 25,000-seat stadium at night.” “It’s about how they fell in love with the [soccer] That number is only a fraction of the ALUMNI ball, whether that was in suburban Chicago or a field tickets sold for a summer match in Michigan. in Ghana,” said Macchi. In August, Manchester United and Real This approach to sports storytelling—slower pieces Madrid, two of the most popular soccer PROFILE lacking in game highlights and focused on the human teams in the world, competed in front element—is just one untraditional manner in which of nearly 110,000 people in Ann Arbor’s Macchi and MLS+ market the sport. They also work Michigan Stadium. It broke records for soccer with outside filmmakers, establish a strong social media attendance in the U.S. and is more evidence that presence, and create viral videos and images, like a meme sports’ big four—football, basketball, baseball, and based on New York Red Bulls forward Thierry Henry’s hockey—may soon need to make room for a fifth. eccentric goal celebration of leaning against the goal post, “The conversation has changed,” said Macchi, referring his head down and his hands on his hips. The MLS+ to soccer’s increasing popularity team exploited the unusual reaction and encouraged fans and accessibility. “If you aren’t to photoshop the player into other situations—standing going to drive the conversation, Watch the video against Muhammad Ali, for instance, or holding up the then someone else is going to.” vimeo.com/arcadiauniversity/chrismacchi

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MENTOR SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI MENTOR PROFILE DAVID EUWINGS ’06

As a senior business intelligence to various system usages. consultant at SRE Solutions, Inc., On a daily basis there are David Euwings ’06 implements countless ways to view automated technological solutions to and translate data, and it’s outdated manual systems in the energy, the creativity that it takes financial, pharmaceutical, and insurance and the randomness of sectors. Though his day-to-day duties dealing with that data that involve designing databases, developing drives me to do what I love automated packages, and optimizing to do. Arcadia prepared performance on a tight schedule, me to balance the daily Euwings has made the University’s responsibilities of work Alumni Mentor Program a priority. with the pressure and Euwings maintained full-time jobs at stress of other parts of life. a graphic software company, a business Attending only at night, continuity company, and an insurance with a full-time career and agency while earning a Bachelor of other responsibilities, took Science in Computer Science at Arcadia. a constant management of Upon graduation, Euwings began to time and priorities, but I focus on business intelligence, founding was fortunate to be able to SRE Solutions the year he earned his do both. bachelor’s degree. AM: Why did you decide to ▲ Mirabelli and Euwings on the Alumni Walk of Pride. Jenna Mirabelli ’16, a business become a mentor? administration major who was matched E: Mentorship, for me, goes with Euwings in 2012 for the Alumni back to high school. Many things were into [graduates] being quickly hired in Mentor Program, benefitted not going on in my life at that time, and not today’s workforce. Having someone who only from the advice and support she all were positive. I met two people who has been through the rigors of finding received from Euwings but also from his took me under their wings and guided me employment can aid in helping a mentee connections to the fashion industry. into manhood. I decided then that if I ever find success. Life lessons, which a mentor “I applied [to Arcadia’s mentorship had the chance to do the same for another can share, also can help mentees get program] because I wanted some young adult, I would not hesitate. through personal problems. guidance into the real world,” said AM: How many Arcadia students have AM: What do you hope to instill in Mirabelli, who envisions herself working you mentored? your mentees? in the business side of the fashion E: I have been involved in mentorship E: I try to be upfront and honest with industry after graduation. “Without at Arcadia University with two students I mentor and instill in them [Euwings’] help and connections, my life undergraduates for two years. I’m proud a sense of responsibility and that every may have been completely different— of the relationships I have with them and situation, regardless of the complexity, and more difficult.” how I’ve been able to assist them with their stress level, and potential impact, can be Here, Euwings describes his experiences problems and with making decisions. resolved with rational thought and proper as a mentor and his passion for guiding AM: Why are mentor programs planning. I try to reinforce that good students in the business fields. so important? things happen to good people when good Arcadia magazine: E: I believe mentorship and mentoring people do good things. How did the University prepare you to programs are essential to bridging the enter the working world? gap between generations and aiding in To become an Alumni Mentor, Euwings: Data exists everywhere, from the success of this upcoming generation. contact 215-572-2160 or credit card transactions to energy usage Not all courses of study will translate [email protected].

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Cranin, Greene Each Named Arcadia Appoints Three Trustee Emerita Marilyn Cranin ’54, to Board of Trustees ’96H (see below) and Ann Greene each have been Marc Walsh McKenna, M.D., FAAFP, and Ana was chief medical officer and associate executive director named trustee Pujols McKee, M.D., have been appointed to the at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. She has served emerita. Greene began on the Board of Trustees, and Danielle Frank ’12 has been on the boards of the American Cancer Society, Health Board of Trustees appointed a Recent Graduate Alumni Trustee. Partners Philadelphia, Philadelphia AIDS Consortium, in 1992 and served Since 1994, Dr. McKenna has been director of and the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment until 2014. She has served on boards Chestnut Hill Hospital’s Family Practice Residency Council. Dr. McKee earned a bachelor’s degree from for Academic Program, in addition to running his own practice. He the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Affairs, Buildings is a student health physician and consultant at Arcadia Doctor of Medicine from Hahnemann Medical College and Grounds, Enrollment University and La Salle University, medical director of and Hospital. Management, Springfield Township Schools, and a primary care sports Frank earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a International medicine physician at La Salle University. Dr. McKenna is minor in education from Arcadia, where she received Programs, and The College of a member of the Association of Family Practice Residency the Bette E. Landman Award and was involved with Global Studies. In Directors, the American College of Sports Medicine, the the Student Government Organization and the New her personal life, Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians, the Society Student Orientation Program. Since graduation, Frank she worked as assistant to the of Teachers of Family Medicine, and the American has been pursuing a master’s degree in counseling dean of admissions Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. McKenna earned a psychology at Holy Family University, expecting at the University of bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a Doctor of to graduate in 2015. Frank also works as a teen Pennsylvania for 15 years. Medicine from Georgetown School of Medicine. coordinator for the national nonprofit organization In addition to her Dr. McKee is executive vice president and chief Little People of America (LPA), which provides work with Arcadia, medical officer of The Joint Commission, a national support for individuals who are affected by dwarfism/ Greene has been a commissioner of nonprofit that accredits health care programs and short stature. She also is president of the local LPA the Pennsylvania organizations across the country. Previously, Dr. McKee Liberty Chapter. Historic and Museum Commission and a board member of Preservations Pennsylvania and CRANIN ’54, ’96H RECEIVES INAUGURAL the Historic House Project of the SERVICE AWARD Fairmount Park Commission. She has been active At Reunion, Trustee Emerita Marilyn Cranin ’54, ’96H made in her personal life and through her service at in community was awarded the inaugural Presidential Award for Arcadia as a trustee and volunteer. organizations and Excellence in Service and Commitment to Arcadia “She is one of the most generous, sensitive, and as a volunteer teacher and tutor University. President Nicolette DeVille Christensen energetic people I have ever known. It has been at the Schuylkill and Board of Trustees Vice Chair Jo Bennett, Esq., wonderful to have her as a friend for so many years,” Center for presented Cranin with the award, which was created said fellow Trustee Emerita Ann Greene. Environmental Education and the to honor special contributions to the University. School District of The award presentation was prefaced by an Philadelphia. introduction by Trustee Emerita Beverly Rappaport Goldberg ’53 and President Emerita Dr. Bette E. Landman ’04H, who commended Cranin’s “generous spirit” and her commitment to Arcadia University, which she called “outstanding over the years.” “She never lets anyone get in the way of what she believes is the right way to go for Arcadia and all the other organizations she supports,” said Goldberg. ▼ In a video that followed the introduction, Cranin’s President DeVille Christensen with family and friends, as well as members of the Arcadia Marilyn Cranin ’54, ’96H community, detailed the impact that Cranin has and Jo Bennett.

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 21 Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds AFTER TWO TOURS WITH THE U.S. ARMY IN IRAQ IN 2004 AND 2005, KEVIN POWERS TURNED TO CREATIVE WRITING. HIS DEBUT NOVEL, THE YELLOW BIRDS, CHRONICLES THE STORY OF 21-YEAR-OLD PRIVATE JOHN BARTLE’S STRUGGLE TO REPAIR HIS LIFE AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM SERVING IN IRAQ. THE YELLOW BIRDS WAS NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN 2012 AND WAS THIS YEAR’S “ONE BOOK, ONE PHILADELPHIA” SELECTION. IT ALSO WON THE PEN/ HEMINGWAY AWARD, THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD, THE SUE KAUFMAN PRIZE, AND THE ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD AND WAS HAILED AS ONE OF THE BEST Q BOOKS OF 2012 BY MORE THAN 20 PUBLICATIONS.

Powers spoke in the Kuch Alumni Gymnasium on Oct. 8 about the book, this year’s selection for the 2014 Summer Reading Program for new students at Arcadia. He also met with creative writing students and student veterans during his visit. Here, he answers questions from Arcadia magazine about why he enlisted, why he chose to write a novel instead of a memoir, and the differences in how he approaches his poetry and prose.

Q. Why did you enlist in the Army at age 17? Q. Was writing this book cathartic in any way? A. It’s a pretty common thing in my family. My father, A. It’s hard to say. I found it worthwhile to think about uncle, and both of my grandfathers served in the the subject in a way that was separate from my military. My role models had all done it, and I felt like own personal experience. It probably did clarify my A it would give me some opportunities that I might not thinking on things, though whether these results are have had otherwise. causal or not, I don’t know. Q. Did you write while in combat, or did you wait Q. Your novel is fiction, though we presume you until you returned home? just as easily could have written a memoir or A. I read when I could, but I didn’t have the mental autobiographical account of your experience in energy to do any serious writing while overseas. Iraq. Why did you choose to write a fictional novel Q. Did you always write? as opposed to a first-person, non-fiction book? A. I’ve been a writer since I was 12 or 13. Reading was A. I wanted to find a way to think about my important to me even before then. experience at war with a certain degree of critical Q. You received an MFA from the University of Texas distance. Time provided some of that, but, by using at Austin, where you were a Michener Fellow in invention and imagination, I hoped I’d be able to Poetry, and you recently published your first book create another layer of distance. All this was done of poetry, Letter Composed During a Lull in the in an effort to see things clearly. Fighting. How do you approach poetry and prose Q. Who are some writers who have influenced you? in different ways? A. There are so many. Larry Levis. Yusef Komunyaaka. A. The differences in approach are intuitive and difficult James Wright. Marilynn Robinson. Denis Johnson. to articulate. But I’d say that one of the main Hilary Mantel. This is actually a list of people who differences is in the room one has to work. Prose is have written books I admire. I don’t know if that’s the more forgiving, whether you’re looking at it in terms same thing as influence. of composition or revision. I also hope to achieve Q. What are you reading now? different things for a reader in each form. I want A. I’m reading a book called The Fall of the House of Dixie my prose to be immersive and my poetry to have an by Bruce Levine, an incredibly informative book immediate effect. But the sonic qualities of language about social changes in the South during and after are always interesting to me and that interest is the Civil War. hopefully apparent in both forms. Q. What are you working on now? A. I’m working on a novel set in Virginia in the early days of Reconstruction.

For more information, bulletin.arcadia.edu

22 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE I wanted to find a way to think about my experience at war with a certain degree of critical distance.

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 23 24 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE COMMENCEMENT 2014 Rain did little to dampen the spirits of the 512 Arcadia University students who earned baccalaureate degrees at the undergraduate Commencement on Friday, May 16. The Kuch Center Alumni Gymnasium crackled with energy as graduates and their families and friends celebrated the culmination of their studies at Arcadia.

In her address to the Class of 2014, honorary degree begin with a particular letter, focused on four words recipient and author Ellen Schecter ’66, ’14H focused that begin with “c”—cooperation, collaboration, charity, on a three-letter word beginning with the letter “j”—not and compassion. “job,” which many graduates are undoubtedly intent on “You graduates are so fortunate,” said Aaron. “What finding, but “joy.” Drawing from her memoir,Fierce Joy, I urge you to do at this new beginning is to learn to which describes her journey living with an incurable, give back. Embark on humanitarian giving now. It painful neurological disease, Schecter reminded gradu- may hurt at first, but oh, what a lovely feeling charity ates to focus on the joy that comes from within. will become. And…always have compassion in your “I’m not talking about the pleasures of success or hearts. If you don’t, you will have the worst kind of financial achievement,” said Schecter, who received an heart trouble.” honorary Doctor of Letters. “They’re external symbols This year’s Commencement also featured two long-stand- of recognition. I’m talking about the deep joy that ing members of the Arcadia community, as President burbles up from an inner sense of accomplishment— Emerita Bette E. Landman ’04H and Provost Emeritus from doing something you know has value.” Michael L. Berger marched with University administration President Nicolette DeVille Christensen noted how during the graduate ceremony. the graduates had earned their way in the annals of the The graduating classes showcased Arcadia’s leader- 161-year-old institution. ship in study abroad, as nearly 400 students in “Class of 2014,” she said, “as you leave this campus, the undergraduate ceremony, roughly three quarters of which has been your home for the past few years, I the class, had studied abroad during their time at remind you that you are forever an Arcadian. And that Arcadia, while nearly 23 percent of those completing you, as a member of the 158th graduating class, take graduate study earned credits abroad, including all your place in our historical community. …You will M.B.A. candidates. always have a place at Arcadia, whether at home or abroad. …You now belong to the history and legacy of this great institution.” SPECIAL AWARD RECIPIENTS The undergraduate ceremony followed Thursday’s The Senior Golden Disc Award was presented to John graduate Commencement on Haber Green, which cel- Arthur Doherty. ebrated the conferring of degrees on more than 600 Amber Weiner received the Ira R. Kraybill Award for master’s and doctoral degree candidates. Philanthropist Full-Time Study, and Thomas Adamski received the Ira and community activist Gerri Aaron ’14H, co-founder R. Kraybill Award for Part-Time Study. of the Dan Aaron Parkinson’s Disease Foundation, re- Rose Coyne, president of the Class of 2014, presented ceived an honorary Doctor of Humanities and addressed the Class Gift of a scholarship for a member of the Class graduates. Describing herself as “a businesswoman whose of 2018. business is philanthropy,” Aaron recounted the story of Angela Gillem, Ph.D., professor of psychology, how her late husband, Dan, emigrated to the United earned the Professor of the Year Award, presented in States from Germany in the 1930s to escape Nazi rule. conjunction with the national Professors of the Year In the midst of his successful career, Dan was diagnosed Program, jointly sponsored by the Council for the Ad- with Parkinson’s disease, sparking the Aaron family’s vancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie dedication and extraordinary support for many organi- Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. zations and programs that work to address the disease. A new award also was presented: The Michael L. Aaron, perhaps unknowingly setting a tone among Berger Faculty Scholars and Artists Prize went to the Arcadia Commencement speakers of words that Dr. Philip McClure.

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 25 IN SPITE OF OBSTACLES, SCHECTER FINDS BLISS IN THE PURSUIT OF JOY

Nearly a half-century ago, Beaver College student “I thought she was Schecter delivers the Commencement address at the undergraduate ceremony. Ellen Schecter reported, while on the College’s beautiful and smart and first London Semester, that “each morning charismatic. She dra- presents endless opportunities.” She tallied a few gooned me into writing and concluded, “Woe betide the lethargic [café] headlines,” said Rossett, who later worked stay alive. At one point, she was director of rat who doesn’t take advantage.” with Schecter at Upward Bound at the Uni- Publications and Media at Bank Street College The spirit so evident in that college news versity of Massachusetts. At this year’s of Education, which has an independent article shone brightly in the undergraduate Com- undergraduate Commencement, Schecter school that her children attended. mencement address Schecter ’66 ’14H delivered recalled faculty members such as Dr. Patrick “When I got really sick, I had to stop working,” at Arcadia in May. A woman, who lost a beloved D. Hazard, former head of the English De- she said. “I was learning Hebrew and raising career writing children’s books and television partment, pushing her intellectually: He “said money for a video about women and lupus, but shows to debilitating illness, still was advocating over and over again, I did it lying in bed.” for the pursuit of joy. ‘Schecter—no sand, no One day, seeking “We can always choose how to react to what pearl,’ until I frankly “ We can always solace, Schecter slipped happens to us,” said Schecter, who was diag- wanted to smack him. into a presentation by a nosed with lupus in 1988 and soon after with But I took this to mean choose how to react rabbi at a healing center. a rare form of peripheral neuropathy, a neuro- that…he was irritating “They were talking about logical disease. “I choose life. ... I see life burst me so that I could learn to what happens to how Jewish people weren’t all around me, golden and luscious as honey.” more and find joy in my supposed to be sick growing knowledge.” us. I choose life. I see alone,” she said. Schecter FROM A FLIBBERTIGIBBET TO A REFINER After earning a bache- life burst all around had always fought against OF PEARLS lor’s degree in English revealing her sickness. “It Schecter’s parents wanted to send her to a state and philosophy, Schecter me, golden and opened my heart, and, college after high school in Philadelphia, but headed to New York almost for the first time, I she chose Beaver. City, where she has lived luscious as honey.” started to cry.” All the “I really wanted to go to a women’s college her entire adult life, to notes she’d been taking on because I was kind of a flibbertigibbet,” Schecter pursue a master’s in –Ellen Schecter ’66, ’14H her symptoms and pain, said. “Boys were a distraction from academics.” English and comparative trying to understand the To earn the room and board her parents literature at Hunter College, City University of meaning of her illness, would become her first couldn’t afford, she did phone work for a bank. New York. She taught at a prep school while adult book, Fierce Joy: A Memoir. It was “soul-killing…just so boring,” she said. writing her thesis and then taught writing with That also encouraged Schecter to have an “The only thing I could do to make it fun was Upward Bound, a year-round college-prepara- adult Bat Mitzvah—to become a Bat Torah— to speak in accents.” tory program for low-income, first-generation at age 55, and to find a way to fulfill the Board member Dr. Allison Rossett ’68 was college-bound high school students. directive of the rabbis at her synagogue to a 17-year-old freshman when she met Schecter, “pray with your feet.” In the late ’90s, Schecter then-editor-in-chief of the Beaver News. Dr. PROFOUND PAIN, FIERCE JOY designed BJ Reads, a K-3 remedial program at Rossett recalls the immediate impression Schecter What followed was increasing success as a a public school. made on her—especially her persuasiveness. writer and producer of award-winning books Schecter remains devoted to the volunteer and television shows for children, including program, acting as coordinator and reading with Reading Rainbow. Standing at the pinnacle of the children. Once, she reached millions of chil- her TV writing career, with a good marriage dren through television; today, she reaches “one and two “delicious” young children, she “felt child, one word, one story at a time.” soaked in joy,” she told the graduates. No matter how many children she reaches, Then, overwhelming illness—“a whole however, the accomplishment is equally valu- beach full of sand”—knocked Schecter out of able to a woman who has been able to extract her fast-paced life. For years, she bounced deep joy from profound pain, a woman poised between periods of productivity and battles to to take advantage of endless possibilities. ▼ Schecter meets with international students from Singapore during Commencement weekend.

26 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE Gerri Aaron stands between her daughter, Alison L. Aaron Madsen ’85, and President DeVille Christensen.

GERRI AARON—LENDING VOICE AND SUPPORT TO THOSE IN NEED

Gerri Stone Aaron ’14H is making her mark—keeping with her Aaron Stay Fit Exercise Program at Arcadia in his honor. It serves Par- family tradition of passionate service, compassionate selflessness, and kinson’s and multiple sclerosis patients from the community and energetic activism. provides work experience for physical therapy students. The seeds of Aaron’s transformative philanthropy were planted early on. Arcadia has been a major vehicle for Aaron’s efforts because the family She marched in the streets of Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia to support has strong ties to the University and its surrounding community. causes in which she believed. She gave voice to the struggles of migrant Her husband served on Arcadia’s Board of Trustees; today, daughter farmworkers, lobbying for the movement being led by Cesar Chavez, and, Alison L. Aaron Madsen ’85 does the same. as a teenager, lunched with her father, Edward Stone, on the picket line when Aaron has set an example for her family and has been recognized by he and other Philadelphia Record employees struck the newspaper. numerous organizations for her generosity of spirit, time, and support. “I was politically active…because I didn’t have money to give,” said This trifecta of charity is impressive to those who know the development Aaron. “I did other things.” field. “Gerri’s generosity comes from a deep personal commitment to Today, Aaron supports causes around education, the arts, the transforming society,” noted Vice President for University Advancement environment, Jewish organizations, and health—particularly Parkinson’s Mary McRae. “Her philanthropy combines both financial support and disease, which her husband, Dan, one of the founders of Comcast, lived personal interest in those her support benefits.” with for nearly 25 years before his death in 2003. Her influence is felt largely in the Philadelphia area and in Sarasota, Fla., where she lives COMPASSION IS KEY part of the year. Aaron grew up middle class in Philadelphia, although the Great De- “Gerri has distinguished herself through extraordinary achieve- pression cast a shadow. Her father was a lawyer who lost more than one ments in civic engagement by volunteering for and supporting an job due to the era’s economic challenges and worked in a variety of array of community efforts and causes,” said Dr. Rebecca L. Craik, professions to support the family. She earned a bachelor’s degree in dean of Arcadia’s College of Health Sciences. “Her work has touched English literature from Temple University, where she met her husband. students, artists from various disciplines, women, and those with Before starting a family of five children—“my own tribe,” she called serious health issues.” them—she taught high school and was an attendance officer for the In 2000, Gerri and Dan Aaron helped found the Dan Aaron Parkin- Philadelphia School District. son’s Rehabilitation Center at Pennsylvania Hospital to provide The young family’s proximity to Arcadia’s campus allowed Aaron to education, counseling, and physical therapy for Parkinson’s patients take her children to musical concerts in Grey Towers Castle. Later, she with limited resources. Four years later, the family established the Dan taught dance and exercise classes at Beaver.

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 27 “Always have compassion in your heart,” she told the graduates. That compassion is something she has in abundance, and something for which Arcadia’s president is particularly grateful. “Gerri is unique on many levels,” said President Nicolette DeVille Christensen. “She brings a combination of business acumen, strategic vision, and deep compassion to her work. She is inspiring to me personally and to the Arcadia community as a whole.” LESSONS FROM COINS IN A TIN CAN Students march at the As Aaron’s means have changed graduate Commencement. through the decades, her determina- tion to get others to help make the world better has not. Just as she worked so long ago to elicit support Aaron’s Honors “I taught modern dance, yoga, and aerobics for migrant farmworkers, she hopes to moti- all over Philadelphia,” Aaron said. “I was very vate others when she says “yes” to serving on Gerri Aaron has received busy dancing through life.” yet another committee or to a financial gift. numerous awards and When daughter Alison Aaron Madsen, who honors throughout her life had taken a break from college, decided to for her philanthropy and return to school, her mother reminded her of “ In the last decade or so, her commitment to arts Beaver: “You’ll feel very comfortable there.” Aaron said her daughter loved the experience my mother has taken and education. These and wanted “to give back,” leading to her honors include the tenure on the Board. generosity to new levels. Legacy of Leadership “My parents set the example for me and my Award from the American siblings early on in life,” Aaron Madsen said at We only gain by giving Jewish Committee (AJC) the American Jewish Committee Spring 2014 in 2014, the Human Award Dinner. “And I have committed my away. We help ourselves career and my personal life to making this world Relations Award from the a more just, more peaceful, more loving place. when we help others. Gerri AJC in 2011, the Nancy In the last decade or so, my mother has taken Roucher Annual Arts generosity to new levels. We only gain by giving Aaron, my mom, gets it. Education Award from the away. We help ourselves when we help others. Sarasota County Arts Gerri Aaron, my mom, gets it. And because of And because of that, the Council in 2010, and the that, the world is a better place.” At the 2014 graduate Commencement, world is a better place.” Women in Power Award Arcadia recognized Aaron’s philanthropy as from the National Council well as her activism, bestowing on her an –Alison L. Aaron Madsen ’85 of Jewish Women in honorary Doctor of Humanities. 2009. In addition, she “We are grateful beyond words for your “If people who know me will then follow was inducted into the support of these wide-ranging interests, which my lead…” Aaron said, trailing off. “I do want Sarasota Community are evidence of your appreciation for, and other people to feel charitable.” understanding of, the realm of human As a young girl, Aaron remembers watching Video Archives’ Hall of experience,” said Janet Readinger, PT, D.P.T., her mother drop coins into a tin can at Fame in 2014. assistant professor of physical therapy and home—money that would go toward assistant director of clinical education, as she charitable causes. Aaron internalized the introduced Aaron during the ceremony. message “try to help the world…help the Aaron’s passion about giving back came poor people.” In her address, she urged, through clearly in her address to those receiv- “Learn to give back. Embark on humanitarian ing graduate degrees at Commencement. giving now.”

28 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE REUNION 2014 A Weekend Full of Learning, Laughs, and Surprises

1 early 200 Arcadia and Beaver College alumni, family members, and friends returned to commemorate and celebrate Reunion N this year, reminiscing and recalling their student days as they explored the University’s developing campus. The weekend kicked off with a visit to Philadelphia’s Barnes Foun- dation Museum. Nadia Koltsoon ’14, who earned a bachelor’s degree in art history, provided a historical perspective on renowned art collector Dr. Alfred Barnes, as well as the history behind his extensive and diverse collection of post-impressionist and early modern art, for the 39 alumni and friends on the tour. That evening, President Nicolette DeVille Christensen welcomed Reunion attendees during a celebratory cocktail reception with trustees and other University members. Peg Johnson Sutor ’54 hosted Class of 1954 classmates for dinner in her home, while the Class of 1964

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FALL/WINTER 2014 | 29 scholarships in their names, having raised $72,590 and $22,085, respec- 14 tively. As Sutor enthusiastically commented, the “Class of 1954 once again rolled out the thunder.” The Class of 1944, celebrating its 70th Reunion, received the Betty E. Landman Plate, having contributed $324,800 over the past five years—the largest combined Class Gift given to the University over the past five years. The Class of 1954 was presented with the Ethlyn Selner Mack Bowl in rec- ognition of its 32 percent five-year class participation rate. The presentation of the Mack Bowl was made all the more special as Irene Mack Goodsell ’54, daughter of Ethlyn (a graduate of the Class of 1918), was present. Exceptional class officers were recognized for their efforts to keep their classes connected to each other and the University. The 2014 Class Officer Award recipients were Loretta Parker Liljestrand ’54, Nancy Banks Mills ’54, Bonnie McDowell Lasky ’64, Helen Bosley ’69, Chris Hill Connell ’69, and Anthony Champi ’09. In addition, Reunion class members were selected by classmates to receive Mary Louise Armstrong Wolf Awards in recognition of extraordinary service and consistent dedication to their alma mater. Recip- ients of these awards were Sutor, Loli Jaeger Lindstrom ’59, Mary Lou Pickell Nelson ’59, Linda Mann ’64, and Susan Patt Mountz ’64. Faye Senneca ’59 received the Golden Disc for Meritorious Service for outstanding alumni volunteer leadership service. Senneca served as president of the Alumni Association and helped to reinvigorate its board celebrated its 50th Reunion over dinner, which featured a special presen- by recruiting new membership. She helped to ease the board’s transition tation on the state of the campus by Tom Macchi, associate vice president by managing the creation of a new Alumni Association Constitution and of Facilities Management and Capital Outlay. bylaws, which were adopted in 2012. A new addition to Reunion was presentations by the University’s faculty Susan Ginsberg Berk ’69 was honored with the Golden Disc for members and leaders. Reunion attendees heard from Lorna Stern, vice Distinguished Achievement for her professional and volunteer efforts. president of Arcadia University and executive director of The College of Among her accomplishments, Berk founded the destination management Global Studies, on students and international educational experiences; company Uncommon Boston, co-authored a popular guidebook on Helene Klein, J.D., director of Honors and Accelerated Programs, on Boston, and has continually contributed to the performing arts in her leadership, innovation, and communication skills developed through the local area, whether she was living in Boston, Santa Fe, or in her hometown University’s Honors Program; Bob Mauro, professor and chair of the De- of Phoenix. She has worked and volunteered with a number of organiza- partment of Visual and Performing Arts, and assistant professor Abbey tions, including the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the American Jewish Ryan ’03, on designing the creative experience; and Richard Wertime, Historical Society, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, as well Ph.D., director of Graduate Studies in English and the Humanities and as the Berklee College of Music, where her husband, Lee, served as pres- director of creative writing, on Arcadia’s literary life. Alumni also learned ident for 25 years. about the campus’ recent additions and planned projects from grounds On Saturday evening, nearly 60 recent graduates gathered on Haber Green manager Mike Saloma. for a Young Alumni Picnic, complete with barbecue treats, games, and more, At the Reunion Luncheon and Awards Ceremony, attendees watched while some alumni enjoyed dinner with an international flair in the Landman a slideshow of yearbook photos and heard President DeVille Christensen’s Library. Many wrapped up the weekend by exploring the Alumni Focus State of the University address, in which she chronicled the achievements Exhibition, which featured abstract art by Jannalyn Bailey ’09. of Arcadia faculty, staff, and students. Plans are in full swing for Reunion 2015. The 2015 schedule (June The University celebrated the inspiring philanthropy of this year’s 5-6) will include a mix of traditional Reunion events with exciting new Reunion classes during the luncheon, as the Class of 1964 presented its programs, including an Alumni Family Picnic and a Saturday evening 50th Reunion Class gift, providing more than $74,000 in support over the outdoor celebration. For more information on Reunion 2015, and to past five years. The Classes of 1954 and 1959 also raised funds to endow view photos from Reunion 2014, visit www.arcadia.edu/alumni.

Members of the Class of 2004 reunite on Haber Green. Betty Heavener Hottenstein ’49 and Frances Kochel Frezeman ’49 celebrate their 65th Reunion. John Zbyszinski ’99 joins Jon ’99 and Corinne Royer Greskiewicz ’02 and their children, Noah and Cali, in the Parade of Classes. Tori Miller Willman ’99 with a future Arcadian. The Knight welcomes (L-R) Donna Rimmer McManus ’89, Faye Senneca ’59, Susan Smyth Shenker ’69, and Barbara Kelly Breeden ’69. Alumni Association President Grace Wainwright Taylor ’10 (left), President DeVille Christensen, and Caitlin Rooney Meeker ’08, ’10M, present Susan Ginsberg Berk ’69 (center) with the Golden Disc for Distinguished Achievement. Classmates reunite at the Young Alumni Picnic. Members of the Class of 1954 pose with a plaque commemorating their Class Gift. (L-R) Peggy Lees ’64, Mary Ann Marshall Speakman ’64, and Sandy Parry Howard ’64 catch up with the Knight by the Wishing Well. The Class of 2009 celebrates its 5th Reunion. Clare McLaughlin ’14 performs for alumni at the Reunion Luncheon. The Class of 1964 commemorates its 50th Reunion with a dinner and gathering in the Landman Library. (L-R) Phyllis St. John Skok ’64, Sue Patt Mountz ’64, Linda Mann ’64, and Linda Johnston Austin ’64 gather around Professor Emeritus Lloyd Abernethy. Recent Arcadia graduates enjoy some spring sunshine at the Young Alumni Picnic.

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FALL/WINTER 2014 | 31 32 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE RACING TO SAVE THE SNAPPING TURTLE

On this August day, Tobias Landberg, Ph.D., scans the larger pond at the Curtis Arboretum, just down the street from Arcadia University. He is looking for snapping turtles—those elusive, ancient creatures he so adores that he has made them his life’s work.

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At a launch in Connecticut, Dr. Tobias Landberg (left) stands with Jim Tripp (right) of the Tributary Mill Conservancy, which Dr. Landberg credits as “a driving force of our success.” Photo by Daniel Owen/ FALL/WINTER 2014 | 33 Hartford Courant This is where one day I saw three snappers Dr. Landberg points out, it only puts those basking,” says Dr. Landberg, his words tinged powerful jaws to work when threatened. with excitement. He is a recently hired assis- “People come up and put sticks in their faces tant professor of biology at Arcadia. But in and want to mess with them,” he says, “and certain scientific circles, he has long been they will defend themselves.” As a result, snap- known as the go-to turtle guy. ping turtles are not much liked and often Back in the spring, when Dr. Landberg was hunted for consumption—so much so that at the popular local park to paint a landscape— scientists worry the population may not yes, he’s an artist, too—he enjoyed the rare, sustain the onslaught. lucky sighting of the trio on the banks. On this Through his research, Dr. Landberg is “Tday, alas, the shy snappers stay hidden. But working to change the critter’s image. Known that’s OK. Dr. Landberg has plenty to share as an integrative biologist, he studies organisms, about the much-maligned animal known for particularly amphibians and reptiles, at the its belligerent behavior. intersection of ontogeny (origins and Images from National Geographic’s Crittercam, “They have a very bad reputation,” he development), ecology, and evolution. which Dr. Landberg and allows. “People kill them wantonly. They go “I got progressively more interested in devel- his research students analyze. Stills courtesy out of their way to drive over them. Shoot opmental plasticity and how the environment of National Geographic. them. Club them. It’s just horrible, grotesque, affects the development of organisms,” he says. ▼ ignorant behavior.” “And how the responses you see in an organism The common snapping turtle (Chelydra evolve over time.” serpentina), of course, snaps. But as

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34 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE A turtle with attitude Dr. Landberg exudes a boyish eagerness for his ▲ work. “They’re adorable,” he says of the snap- Dr. Landberg has become an authority on respiration and locomotion physiology of turtles. per’s pull on him. Then he launches into an Photo courtesy of Charles Wright explanation of the turtle’s unique body archi- tecture—a hard, fused rib cage that surrounds Think March of the Penguins underwater, in Alexandria, Va., who works with the snap- all the organs—and how that relates to the without the soaring musical score. ping turtle project and invented the Crittercam way it breathes. Unable to expand its rib cage, “Snapping turtles are awesome,” he says. technology. “There’s just a whole myriad of the snapping turtle contracts muscles in front “They are my favorite organisms. It’s a turtle biological and ecological relationships we of its hind limbs. with attitude. They just look insane, ancient, really don’t know anything about because we Dr. Landberg has become an authority on like dinosaurs. They’ve been around at least can’t be there. And if we are there, guess what? respiration and locomotion physiology of five million years as a species. You hardly ever We’re changing the animal’s behavior.” turtles, research that dates back to his under- see them. They live in muck. They’re highly graduate days at the University of individual in their preferences. … There’s just Massachusetts at Amherst. There, he worked a lot of mystery about these animals.” Conveying the magic with turtles on treadmills (set to, not surpris- Footage shows the top of the turtle’s craggy The snapping turtle project arose because of ingly, very slow speeds) and designed a mask head and neck and occasionally a front claw; one man’s fascination with leatherback turtles. to measure respiration. most important, it shows what the animal sees Chris Luginbuhl, who lives in Connecti- Since his graduate student days at the Uni- out front. Instrumentation measures accelera- cut, was 4 years old when his father returned versity of Connecticut, he has participated in tion, temperature, and other factors. The from a fishing trip with a harpooned 1,100- an unusual project run mostly on grit and deployed turtles, about 25 so far, weigh anywhere pound leatherback that gained the family enthusiasm. Known as the Snapping Turtle from 16 pounds to more than 50 pounds. Ini- notoriety in 1951. He eventually started a Research Team, it connects adolescents and tially, the footage was black and white, no audio. foundation to support research on endan- teenagers in coastal Connecticut with scien- Now, images are colorful, in full HD, showing gered species and fund the first Crittercam in tists, ecologists, and others in studying the big off green algae or a colorful fish and, of course, the late 1980s. turtles found east of the Rockies. the turtle’s brown-black and olive color. It also Around 2007, Luginbuhl became interested Dr. Landberg is the research director. He, includes sound, often of water sloshing as the in the snapper’s environment, something no like everyone else involved, is bottom-walker covers its freshwater territory. one else had explored, in part because it was volunteering time and resources. How do you attach a camera onto a turtle’s not an endangered species. “I love to be in- But this is no run-of-the-mill back and then get it off? At first, a papier-mâché volved in projects that have not been done ecology outreach program. base would dissolve slowly, and the camera before,” he says. “To me, it made a lot of sense Snappers in Connecticut are being would break away. Nowadays, a computer is to see these animals’ world. Snapping turtles trapped, equipped with so-called used to cut a line that releases the device at a are in so many backyards all across America, Crittercams made available through specific time and location. and so little is known about them.” a partnership with the National The Crittercam, attached to not only turtles Marshall agreed and enjoyed the challenge Geographic Society, and then but also a host of other animals such as blue of designing a Crittercam for a smaller returned to the wild. After eight hours whales, sharks, and lions, provides an (compared to a whale or shark) animal and of taping, the camera separates from unobtrusive research tool to explore hard-to- for freshwater conditions, which required a the turtle and floats to the surface. Dr. observe—or never observed—behaviors and different release mechanism. Community Landberg’s job is to analyze the film habitats, scientists say. groups joined the effort. Next, the project shot from the snapper’s perspective. So “You can learn amazing things,” says Greg needed a snapping turtle expert to drive the far, he has collected 200 hours’ worth. Marshall, a National Geographic Fellow based research questions.

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 35 “ If we can provide images that connect people to our environment, it can make us care, and if we care, we will do something to protect it.” —Greg Marshall of National Geographic

In 2013, the project shared in one of the example because it shows that research is not biggest victories yet for snapping turtles. always about finding the answer but is also about Connecticut adopted regulations to limit questions. “And questions, to me, are more valu- individual harvests to 30 snappers a season. able than most answers,” he says. “Because good Before, any number could be taken. research stimulates more research.” “His research helps with conservation,” At Arcadia, he shares his projects with his Romano says. Models show, and the Crittercam undergraduate students in his Comparative Photo courtesy of Charles Wright data bolsters, that “snapping turtles do need Anatomy and Physiology course and solicits protection. So I think what he’s doing is a very, volunteers to conduct studies. “I got an email asking if anyone wants to very critical component.” Elizabeth DePace ’16, a scientific illustra- help put Crittercams on snapping turtles and Says Dr. Landberg of the regulations: “That tion major from Somerville, N.J., was one of work with teenagers in Hartford,” Dr. Land- effectively shuts down the commercial trade those who took the bait last year. Dr. Landberg berg says. “I thought, ‘Is this a trap?’” But his [in Connecticut]. It’s one of the highlights of says he selected her in part because of her art initial skepticism quickly faded. “I was ecstatic. my research career as a scientist. The stuff I do background. “Artists bring their own special I became the turtle guy.” is kind of esoteric. Turtles. Treadmills. Legal perspective,” he says. “To really analyze data, Dr. Landberg was the perfect fit, says protection of animals is very concrete.” it requires a lot of interpretation. You’re watch- Marshall. “He is the most expert snapping In addition, Mystic has collected tissue and ing murky, muddy, weed-covered video filmed turtle person I know,” he says. “He’s got a great blood samples from deployed turtles to assess for from the back of a turtle.” passion for citizen scientists. … Tobias is great toxins and heavy metals. Because snappers live For her part, DePace says she has always in conveying the magic of science.” long—50 years to upwards of 100 years—and been interested in biology. “I love research Luginbuhl seconds that. “He knows his eat both at the top and bottom of the food chain, questions and all types of science,” she says. stuff,” he says. “He’s very dedicated. It’s his they can serve as barometers of a watershed’s “The fact that I could see what’s going on whole life. That’s what you really need.” health. The turtle team hopes to secure state underwater with these turtles would be cool.” When he attends deployments, Dr. Landberg funds to support the costly analysis of samples. So far DePace, who gets independent study cannot wait to see the snappers. “He’s the one Dr. Landberg’s research agenda has required credit, has watched more than 60 hours of always handling the turtles,” says Tracy patience. Seven years into it, he is close to having footage—not all scintillating for sure but en- Romano, executive vice president of research a statistically large enough data set that allows for gaging enough. “You get very close and and zoological operations at Mystic Aquarium scientific conclusions and publications. in Mystic, Conn. In recent years, the aquarium Already, the team has had a 2010 note in the has collaborated on the project, focusing on Herpetological Review that focused on a snapper community outreach, education, and research. missing most of its lower jaw, earning it the nick- Dr. Landberg notes that the aquarium is a “key name Jawless. The old injury hurt its ability to partner…and has been critically involved.” suction feed and bite. Yet it somehow compen- Over the years, one video clip at a time, Dr. sated successfully, given its robust weight of more Landberg and the turtle team have helped to than 38 pounds, the note says. At the time, it sway public opinion. “That’s one of the values was the fattest turtle Dr. Landberg had ever seen. of having the image,” Marshall says. “If we can While he does not know exactly how Jawless provide images that connect people to our managed to thrive, Dr. Landberg loves this environment, it can make us care, and if we

care, we will do something to protect it.” ▼ Chris Luginbuhl and Dr. Landberg (right) with Jawless, one of the fattest turtles Dr. Landberg had seen. Photo courtesy of Charles Wright 36 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE personal with the turtles when you watch them himself among wildlife, he says. for hours and hours,” she says. But nature didn’t quite unfold While viewing the videos, she records how itself like a BBC documentary. long the turtles surface to breathe and how “Maybe you get a glimpse of some long they stay under. She also notes anything cool animal,” he says, “and then unusual, such as a small turtle that was eating it’s gone.” a dead fish until it noticed a huge snapper If he really wanted to observe headed its way and fast-stepped it out of there. animals, Dr. Landberg realized he Dr. Landberg has noticed interesting pat- had to go to college and scientif- terns. Turtles in shallow water tend to spend ically study them. Back in the a shorter amount of time underneath—say, States, he worked 12-hour days in several seconds. They also tend to surface and construction, then went to night dive a lot. But in deeper bodies of water, the school. But his studies suffered. animals linger below for prolonged periods “My body was wearing out and ▲ A snapping turtle navigates underwater with the Crittercam. that stretch into many minutes. “Then they my brain was rotting,” he says. “I Photo by Daniel Owen/Hartford Courant swim up to the surface and sit there a long was not learning enough.” time breathing, recovering,” he says. Finally, he enrolled at UMass, where he got ponds. That troubles Dr. Landberg. The slider Dr. Landberg says this appears to be a physi- a bachelor’s degree in anthropology in 2001 and the others, he fears, may threaten the ological response driven by the landscape. “This and then a master’s in organismic and evolu- natives—the snapping turtles. has never been explored in any turtles,” he says. tionary biology in 2004. From the start, this “I look at this, and this is a problem area,” Three more students work on other projects non-traditional student was attracted to re- he says. “What you see here is an abundance at the moment. One involves building the search. He worked on salamanders and began of introduced species. They’re going to be department’s skeleton collection. Sounding like his groundbreaking research on turtles and living at the expense of the native species.” something out of a horror flick, flesh-eating how they breathe. “I would have them walk Dr. Landberg wants to study the turtles beetles are used to clean off animal carcasses. on the treadmill while I measured breathing here, both the snappers and the sliders. In fact, Another project centers on crickets and spiders. and watched for locomotion patterns,” he says. he’s already a member of the arboretum’s steer- Colleague Wes Rose, Ph.D., an associate Dr. Landberg quickly became an expert in ing committee. professor of biology, notes that Dr. Landberg’s the small, esoteric field of turtle breathing. He “Ultimately, I would like to expand that research has broadened opportunities for Arcadia also was curious about how little changes—re- Connecticut project out here.” He has a host students. “Tobias brings a new area of expertise,” sponses to different environments—affect of questions, of course. Is the pond as degraded he says. “His work is at the nexus of evolution, overall evolution. At the University of Con- as it seems? What are the invasive species development, and animal physiology. It’s defi- necticut, he pursued his doctorate in ecology eating? How about the snappers? nitely a valuable addition to the department.” and evolutionary biology, defending it in 2010. Dr. Landberg envisions a project to drain Next came two post-docs. At the Smithso- the ponds and rid them of the sliders, goldfish, nian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and other invasives, or one day placing An irreplaceable predator he studied the developmental plasticity of the Crittercams on the snappers here. “I’d like Even as a baby, Dr. Landberg was fascinated red-eyed tree frog; he continued that interest, to get Arcadia students to work on the project,” by animals. “My mother would tell you I was studying salamanders and frogs, at Murray he says. obsessed with creepy-crawlers from the begin- State University in Kentucky. All of this, of course, is complicated and ning.” Born in Denmark outside of In 2013, Dr. Landberg joined Arcadia. His expensive—but if past experience is any guide, Copenhagen, Dr. Landberg has taken a circu- wife, Emily Jerome, is an administrative the turtle guy likes a challenge. itous route to both academia and Arcadia. He manager in the University’s School of Global This is, after all, about the snappers. The moved to San Antonio, Texas, with his father Business. The couple lives in Glenside, and turtles are top predators—if they disappear, and stepmother as a child and then to New the professor often makes the short commute that could have cascading effects down the England at 15. to campus on his Yamaha motorcycle. food chain. They also expose toxins in the “I was kind of a rebel, a trouble-making Back at the Curtis Arboretum, Dr. Land- environment. But most important to Dr. kid,” he says. Dr. Landberg attended three berg has spotted lots of creatures. Landberg, snapping turtles are unique. different high schools, eventually dropping “See this?” he says. It is a red-eared slider. “The loss of a major group of large, verte- out. Returning to Denmark, he worked in a Dozens of them swim at the surface of the brate fauna,” he says, “is irreplaceable in our foam factory and as a caretaker at an inn, but sun-dappled pond. “This is a dime-store turtle. imaginations, in our landscapes, and in bored with that, he made his way to Costa They sell for a quarter at every Walmart.” our environments.” Rica’s Monteverde cloud forest in 1992 and The slider, he explains, is an invasive species. built trails. Dr. Landberg had grown up watch- So too are the colorful, over-sized goldfish and Lini S. Kadaba is a journalist based in ing English naturalist Sir David Attenborough the large koi, which have reverted to a dull gray Newtown Square, Pa., and a former specials, and here was his chance to immerse hue. Likely dumped pets, they have overrun the Philadelphia Inquirer staff writer.

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Some physical therapists work in sports, helping athletes to recover from injuries and get back into the game. Others work with middle-aged and early retirement-aged patients who are experiencing the beginnings of debilitation due to aging. Still others are drawn to movement disorders like Parkinson’s.

Kate Mangione, Ph.D., is drawn to the elderly, and she can’t imagine working in any other field. “Take a room full of 4-year-olds, put them together; what are they like?” asked Dr. Mangione, in her office. “They’re mostly the same.” “Now,” she continued, eyes widening, voice growing more excited. “Take a room full of 80-year-olds or 90-year-olds. Can you imagine their life experiences? If you open up to them and let them open up to you, it’s great.” She had just stepped down from her “desk,” a treadmill with a tabletop holding her computer and pictures of her two children, one 14 years old, the other 18 months. It is a desk befitting a physical therapist, as Dr. Mangione has taught in Arcadia’s Department of Physical Therapy since 1995. A wall of her office holds a host of framed paper: a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Delaware, a Master of Arts in Gerontology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Pathokinesiology from New York University, licensure in New York and Pennsylvania, board certification in geriatric physical therapy. But, it’s the five-by-eights stuck to a nearby filing cabinet that she seems most proud of. “She was wonderful,” she said, pointing to a photo. “I would have loved for you to talk to her.” She pointed to another one, a 92-year-old designer for New York City’s Promenade magazine. Then more: holocaust survivors, a billionaire businessman (Harry Helmsley), and a woman who served in World War II and later volunteered with the Red Cross. The photographs are scenes from Dr. Mangione’s “clinical passion,” as she calls it—“30 years of working with older people.”

FALL/WINTER 2014 | 39 ▼ Mary Alice Conrad shows off her range of motion for Dr. Mangione. Photo by Jordan Cameron ’17

A PHYSICAL THERAPIST that has drawn her to the elderly since she was a Though volunteers have not been as plen- AND A LISTENER teenager listening to stories from her family. tiful as Dr. Mangione had hoped (they are Dr. Mangione’s lifelong dedication to the When she reached high school and college, her actively seeking participants), research has elderly has led to her current work with hip career path was clear. “I like old people and I like been ongoing at the three sites. Still in the early fractures, which she began studying in 1999 exercise,” she said. stages, drawing conclusions and evaluating after years of research on knee osteoarthritis. With the Red Cross volunteer, Dr. Mangi- data are months, if not years, away. After a fracture, elderly patients are given less one would listen to stories from the war while Dr. Mangione’s study begins just as patients’ attention than others when it comes to rehabil- the woman participated in Dr. Mangione’s prescribed physical therapy ends and their itation and long-term care, according to Dr. study of knee arthritis 20 years ago. Now, she’s Medicare coverage runs out. She aims to see Mangione. Some maintain that it’s hopeless, with Dr. Mangione again, this time participat- what happens when that therapy continues. while others believe that attention and money ing in research on long-term hip fracture Though she has seen great improvements an- are better spent on patients with more potential treatment. Dr. Mangione is working with ecdotally, she needs concrete data to quantify mobility. And, Dr. Mangione said, some simply Dr. Rebecca Craik, recently appointed dean what she has witnessed for years. do not want to be bothered by the elderly; they of the College of Health Sciences (pg. 12), One man interviewed for the current study don’t want to face the reality of aging. on research split among three locations: volunteered at a local hospital. He is legally She has taken on two roles in her work: one, Arcadia, the University of Connecticut, and blind, hard of hearing, and over 100 years as a physical therapist championing her patients’ the University of Maryland. In this instance, old—firmly in the target demographic. “My ability to maintain a good quality of life and to Dr. Mangione is managing rather than pro- people,” Dr. Mangione said. hold onto as much mobility as they can; the viding physical therapy. She designs all of the “I feel that I need to speak up for them,” she other, as a listener of their stories and a witness exercises and works with physical therapists, said. “I find them more resilient than any of us to the long lives they have lived. While both roles some of whom graduated from Arcadia’s would ever be. People want to do more, they are valuable to Dr. Mangione, it’s the second one Doctor of Physical Therapy program. really do.” A belief in the elderly is something that Dr. Mangione aims to instill in her students. The enthusiasm was infectious for Barrie Hip Fracture: Rates and Risks Greenberg ’08DPT, who assists Dr. Mangi- one and Dr. Craik in the hip fracture research. During physical therapy, Greenberg works in the study as a “blinded assessor.” She evaluates participants as they begin, usually about two months after hip fracture, and again at 16 and 500K+ 90% 2x 50+ 40 weeks after intervention. During the actual HIP FRACTURES The rate of incidences physical therapy, Greenberg evaluates patients’ Hip fractures happen doubles for each endurance, balance, walking speed, and ANNUALLY BY 2040 to people over age 60 decade after age 50 strength. Patients are given a comprehensive

40 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE “I find [the elderly] more resilient than any of us would Dr. Mangione knows her patients will not be delivering papers. She wanted them to feel “cured”—if they need to be—and that, relatively needed and useful. That’s important, she said. ever be. People speaking, they have less time to enjoy the benefits “Everyone tells them, ‘take it easy, take it want to do more, of physical therapy. easy,’” said Dr. Mangione. “It’s just this general None of these challenges seems to phase her. philosophy… . [In actuality,] it’s the opposite. they really do.” “You don’t fix old age,” she said. “It’s there. I get [They] need to be pushing [themselves], not them to the highest level and try to keep them sitting in a chair reading a book.” –Dr. Kate Mangione there, but it’s different [from other types of phys- In her therapy, Dr. Mangione pushes them ical therapy]. I don’t try to take away X, necessarily. beyond normal post-fracture care. That’s the goal interview to determine various factors, such as I look at people a little bit differently.” of her research: to evaluate the effects of longer their level of physical activity, their cognitive Part of that involves accepting the realities of and more intense treatment. She hopes to see ability, their diet, and their confidence in per- aging and not giving up because of other con- what happens when the elderly get the same sort forming the therapy. ditions, whether they’re physical or mental. of treatment given to younger patients. “The difference between working with Inspiration has come from unlikely sources; for “You need to walk uphill to stay at the same elderly and younger patients is that, typically, instance, while working with a former patient place,” she said. “Aging does that. I mean, they an elderly patient will have more comorbidi- with dementia, Dr. Mangione recalled an know it inherently. I see it in myself—it’s hap- ties,” said Greenberg. “This means that we are improv acting class she had taken after college. pening. I’m in my fifties, [and] I’m losing not just looking at a person who has a hip frac- “Let’s go to Queens,” the patient had said, strength. What do I need to do to keep myself ture, but someone who also may have diabetes, unaware that she was in Dr. Mangione’s clinic. going as long as I can?” hypertension, heart disease, etc. Therefore, Thinking back to the biggest rule of improv— She pointed to the treadmill desk, smiling. there is much more that you must take into always say yes—Dr. Mangione went with it. consideration during the evaluation.” “Okay,” she told the woman. “You’re the bus In May, Dr. Mangione was one of 13 physical driver. Take us to Queens.” Under this guise, they therapists named a Catherine Worthingham were able to complete the full therapy regimen. Fellow by the American Therapy Association. The AN OPEN-MINDED METHOD This open-minded method involves focusing award is given to physical therapists whose leader- Geriatric care is a physical therapy underdog. A on what Dr. Mangione calls “the sunny side of ship, influence, and achievements demonstrate sports physical therapist can see her patients aging,” an approach to old age that values what sustained efforts to advance the field of physical return to the field and score a winning touch- the elderly can do, not what they can’t. It is therapy for at least 15 years. down. Measured in years, a physical therapist about giving them the most function and mo- working with younger people can feel satisfaction bility they can have, believing that they are more in knowing he has helped make 20, 30, or even able than is often thought. While working at a For other stories on work 40 years of a patient’s life less painful. The geri- nursing home in the 1990s, she would assign from Arcadia’s PT department, atric physical therapist knows no such victories. the elderly small tasks to do, like collecting and bulletin.arcadia.edu

Vitetta Professorship Helped Launch Dr. Mangione’s Career In 1998, Dr. Mangione received the Stacy Anne Vitetta Ph.D. with few resources, the funds from the Vitetta family Professorship, established in honor of the late daughter of helped me grow into a nationally recognized researcher in hip trustee emeritus Frank G. Vitetta and his family. The prize— fracture interventions to improve recovery for patients. $40,000 awarded over two years—was crucial in Dr. Publications, presentations, national awards, and, most Mangione’s initial research that led to her future studies on importantly, subsequent grant funding have helped to develop hip fracture and elderly physical therapy. the research infrastructure at Arcadia—these are all due to “You have to start somewhere—and Frank gave me the the generosity of the Vitetta family. I will always be start,” she said. appreciative of these start-up funds since they directly led to The pilot data collected in these studies, according to Dr. the robust research career I have here at Arcadia today.” Mangione, led to the current multi-site study, which was The Stacy Anne Vitetta Professorship, established in 1995, funded for more than $10 million. Results from the Vitetta- is used to foster faculty research, preferably in the sciences. funded research also led to an additional $323,000 from the It is awarded to full-time professors who have been at Pennsylvania Department of Health and National Institutes of Arcadia for 10 years or less, and the professorship covers Health before the multimillion dollar grant. a two-year period. “The Stacy Anne Vitetta Professorship launched my “No one took a chance on funding research at Arcadia professional career,” Dr. Mangione said. “As a newly minted University until Frank Vitetta,” Dr. Mangione said.

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In Memorium 1937 Polly Wealand Kreider 1938 Marjorie Groves Schweitzer 1939 Marcella Lienhard Gleyre Virginia Hamilton Lawless 1940 Edna Cheyney Hoffman Ruth Hill Thomson Lucille Padmore Wood 1941 Drucilla Mitchell Fox Helen Snyder Smith 1942 Jane Stephens Dutcher 1943

Betty Kratz Miller 1944 ▼ Anna Hueber Geiger 1948 1937 Harriet Schlanger Stein and My (Carol’s) 88th birthday was Eileen Drexler Dillon We send condolences to Polly her husband, Herb, have been in August, and I swam 88 lengths Muriel Ruemmler Parlin Wealand Kreider’s family. Polly’s married 62 years, and Dick of the pool. My daughter Pam son, Brian, forwarded this photo and I celebrated our 64th was visiting me from Colorado 1949 of Polly with her Beaver friends anniversary in June. I know that and swam along, probably Anne Heaps Bailey and partners-in-mischief on the we have lost many husbands. to keep me honest! She had 1952 Atlantic City Boardwalk. On spent most of June hiking the Jean Quig Henzey the back of photo, it says, “L to Irene Lauterbach MacDonald Camino Portugues from Lisbon R: Dodo Nesbitt, Sally Snow suffered a pulmonary embolism to the Cathedral in Santiago de 1956 Parsons, Betty Snyder & Moi!” in January but has recovered. I Compestela, Spain, about 250 Ethel Cardona de Lamela believe she was in Philadelphia km, and then to the Atlantic in Nancy L. Shields 1940 at the time, seeing her doctors Finnesterre. In September, Dick 1959 We send condolences to Ginny as she does twice a year. and I will travel to the East Coast Gail Wittekind Munro Raymond, whose husband, to his 70th reunion at Dartmouth Gene, recently passed away. Marjorie Welde Parsons told me College in Hanover, N.H. We 1960 that Grey Towers Castle is now a also will visit my hometown Myrna Karofsky Hoffman 1948 historical landmark. She has sons of Nahant, Mass., and many Joan Borton Hoffman A note from Steward Parlin tells in Kansas and Pennsylvania and friends and relatives there. Janet Levine Tefft Levine us that his wife and our classmate, a daughter locally in Eaglesville. Marianna Harder Peckmann Muriel Ruemmler Parlin, died 1950 1964 in April. They had been married A chat with Helen Adam Stone It is always good to hear from Carol Jones almost 64 years, and he resides reveals that she is in retirement Anna Laura Neidert Thompson, at 2223 Kirkland Village Dr., and spends summers in Long who is so dedicated to our class. 1977 Bethlehem, Pa., 18017-4722. Our Beach with family. She has In May, she traveled down the Stanley Horne deepest sympathy to Steward. traveled this year to Antarctica coast. Three grandchildren 1978 and to South America. graduated from college—at Lois X. Ehrin I had a chat with Marian (D- Colgate, Radford, and George D) Murray Dentzel. We both I had a lovely chat with Marci Mason. Then she went to an 1982 had grandsons at Pepperdine Passon Landesberg. She has elementary school graduation. Mae Aronovitz Ciociola University in Malibu, Calif., who a daughter in Ohio and a son The best thing she reports is that 1994 have now graduated. She lost her in Jenkintown, Pa., and her they all have jobs. She is looking Concetta Doyle husband about 20 years ago and two grandsons had visited forward to our 65th Reunion lives in Santa Barbara, Calif. her the day we talked. in June. She has been in touch 2009 with Jeanne Bertolet Steinruck Rebecca Knight Has anyone been married longer I also talked with Tim Warren, and Jane Hellyer Vasile about than Betty Green Jennings? She son of Helen Curran Warren, Reunion. Stay healthy all of you and her husband, Bud, celebrated who was visiting his mother and save time for Reunion. their 65th anniversary on August for the summer, home from 20. Betty has lunch regularly his teaching position at The I heard from Barbara Baur who with Carolyn Miller Wittrock. American University of Cairo. is looking forward to a busy

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summer: four weddings and Jane Robinson Carpenter included many international CONTACT YOUR births of two great-grandchildren. always responds to my plea for meals, receptions, and lectures by CLASS EDITOR news. She teaches kindergarten professors and staff. At the Reunion Bobbie Tuft Boguslaw is busy in Sunday school, knits and plays Luncheon, a special Presidential 1939 Ruth Twelves Nevergole helping other seniors without bridge and dominoes. She fell, is Award for Excellence in Service and 600 E. Cathedral families. In March, she visited recuperating from whiplash, and Commitment to Arcadia University Road, Apt. A401 with her son, David, and is thankful she broke no bones. was presented to Marilyn Sunners Philadelphia, PA 19128 his family in San Antonio, She planned a family reunion Cranin and Class Officer Awards 1943 Fannie Rockefeller Gabriel where David was touring at the beach this summer. were presented to our Class [email protected] with the show Wicked. President, Nancy Banks Mills, and Marge Brown Wehner has had to me, your editor. The Parade of 1945 Lois Hinlein Hirsch Smokey Reaves DiRienzo two more great-grandchildren Classes was viewed by your editor 823 Elkins Ave. had some bad health over the since last we spoke. from a golf cart because of a left Elkins Park, PA 19027 winter but feels fine now. She knee problem. I pretended to be has a mother-in-law who is I had a nice visit with Penny the judge and I got away with it. 1946 Jean Bump Panek 100, and her friends think Sonntag Hahn and husband, Fred, 24104 Ann’s Choice Way that it is a hoot to have a at the Florida Reunion. She is back Our Class of 1954 Scholarship Warminster, PA 18974 mother-in-law at her age. in New Jersey to the mess left by Fund has set the bar high for 1947 Marilyn Yost Burhoe the hurricane. She and Fred keep the 2015 Reunion classes, 121 Timberline Trail Else Holm Froberg’s husband, busy with yacht club activities. according to Jane Maloney, Ormond Beach, FL 32174 Howard, passed away quietly I’m looking forward to seeing director for Annual Giving, in his sleep. So sorry to hear her again in Florida this winter. with a scholarship gift of more 1948 Carol Roland Ranger that. She aimed to get together than $70,000. We had two large [email protected] with Bobbie Klein Fraser this We extend condolences to amounts donated anonymously 1949 Margaret Sprinkle Yearsley summer in New Hampshire. Alberta Hamscher Lindsay, which made us shine. Thank you 3123 Colony Lane Bobby Hinchcliffe Russell whose husband passed away in to our two anonymous donors! Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 planned to go there as well. Hope March 2013. Her daughter took they all had a nice reunion. her on a cruise to Bermuda. At our class meeting, Nancy 1950 Barbara Bronson Danziger She keeps busy with AAUW began with a prayer and a [email protected] Phyllis Kline Heller lives and League of Women Voters. moment of silence for our 27 in a retirement community deceased classmates. Those who 1952 Marian Hemphill near Swarthmore, Pa., and 1954 were there were appreciative of 6699 Roberta Road SW keeps busy with gardening, You were missed at our 60th Class their present health, their family, Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469 bridge and schmoozing (her Reunion. Those who attended community relationships, and, Lillian Howarth Pagano words). She wants to hear from had a wonderful time attending most of all, their optimistic 10726 Sima Court Rosalie Van Dyke Morris. the scheduled activities, which view of the next decades. Santee, CA 92071-5912

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CONTACT YOUR Nancy appointed all of us as wife, Sung Sook. They do not live as well as a dog sled ride while CLASS EDITOR the Class President for the 2019 too far away in Norwood, Mass., on the trip. She reported that Reunion, and I will continue so they can bring such joy to the three more Guadalupe girls were 1956 Patricia Darling Kile to solicit news for the Arcadia whole family. All babies seem to looking forward to attending [email protected] publications. Please note my do that! She keeps in touch with Arcadia through the Blankley 1957 Emma Jane Murphy Burns email on the previous page. Elaine Kauffman Wynosky, Scholarship Program, making [email protected] her Beaver roommate, and says that a total of nine this fall. 1956 Elaine is as full of life as ever. Freda Friz Schopfer We send condolences to Harriet She wishes all the members of It has been an exciting year [email protected] Swoyer Baisch on the death the class good health and peace. for Paula Dinkelacker of her eldest son, Rob, from Wojciechowski. Her daughter, 1958 Dwaine Fry Sutherland cancer in March 2014. Toni Pilegge Scott hasn’t lost her Debbie, was married in [email protected] sense of humor! Read on to enjoy. September 2013, and her 1959 Kathleen Ostermann Barbara Daugherty Jenkins is Her bedtime matches mine (8:30- youngest granddaughter was [email protected] discovering that recuperation 9 p.m.). She loves her 9-10 hours married this past April. Paula takes a lot longer as we age. of sleep. She, too, has experienced underwent a partial knee Barbara is recovering slowly from lots of parties and graduations. replacement. She is active in back surgery. We wish her well. The last grandchild will start her church, leading a Bible college in August. She attended study group as well as a Prayer Barbara Zoubeck Surmonte her nephew’s wedding in Puerto Shawl Ministry. She loved and husband, Chuck, went to Rico and spent the summer in seeing everyone at our 55th! Italy in April with their children Montauk, N.Y. She is having a and spouses (nine people in very small “C” removed (found it Carole Brown Edwards writes all); the weather was nice and early). She tried to talk the doctor that her two children are sunny. They have two new into doing a little “up lift” as well. married and live in northern great-grandchildren, making a Thought she would give it a try! New Jersey. She has four total of five. Beau (in Australia) granddaughters and three great- was a preemie born in April, Freda Friz Schopfer continues grandchildren. She keeps busy only two pounds, two ounces. trying to keep as many ladies as playing golf, volunteering in her Emily (from Boston) was born possible exercising. She writes, church, gardening, traveling, the end of May, joining her “The support and fellowship and enjoying her family. three-year-old brother. Their among all my members is youngest grandchild recently exceptional and extremely Bernice Markin Garber reminds graduated from high school. She uplifting. You can’t be grumpy us that the Winter Olympics also writes, “Barbara Martell when you are trying to do Silver Medal in slope-style Rutan joined me on our garden ‘summon squats’ to some ’50s skiing was won by a boy from club trip to Pearl Buck’s house music. The Curves circuit Telluride, Colo., generating not far from Arcadia University.” continues to work its magic.” much excitement and celebratory parades in town. Another big Jeanne Stull Patterson reports It was great to hear from Diane event in Telluride is the annual from Florida that life is good! Baray Heavens. Like many Film Festival, which gives her the of us who already have or are opportunity to visit with Irene Patty Darling Kile (that is contemplating it, she and Don Moore Pedrick and Perk. She me!) is trying to get back to are getting ready to downsize and says there’s no need to travel since a normal life after a year of move into a condo hopefully in everything comes there! One various ailments, but perhaps the near future. In the meantime, of her grandchildren graduated this is the new normal! Do keep in late August, she underwent a from college in May and another in touch. Our next Reunion left shoulder replacement. She entered high school this fall. will be in 2016, so stay well has cut back on her community and plan on getting together at activities but remains very active Verna Lou Banks Johnson the University at that time. in her church and busy with their says “Hello” to all. She says she son, Andy, and his family. Their tells her family about her many 1957 16-year-old granddaughter, a fond memories of our days at We extend our sympathy soccer player, keeps them busy Beaver often. She and Jim are to Barbara Householder through the fall. Diane says she enjoying life at their continuing Middleton upon the doesn’t miss a minute of it! care facility of 1,800 people. death of her husband. They are busy taking part in the Rosemary Deniken Blankley many activities. She says, “There’s Letizia Picazio Smith writes wrote that her grandson nothing you can’t do here.” that there’s nothing too exciting graduated from high school last except turning 80! The family May and entered Northeastern Phyllis Blumenfeld Hoffman gave both her husband, Alan, and this fall to study electrical writes that her daughter’s her a celebration party, plus the engineering. She and Walt took daughter was Bat Mitzvahed joyful addition of their first great- their daughter on an Alaskan in February and her son’s two grandchild, Oliver, the grandson cruise. Rosie had promised her boys were Bar Mitzvahed in of their oldest son, Jim, and his that she would take a zip-line ride June. In May, she and Al visited

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with her sister and family in a back-to-school exhibit. It is Rose, 19, will be starting her In Memorium Florida. Al, a CPA, has left now out in paperback, and some second year at Northwestern. Marianna H. Peckmann ’60 the office and is now working schools are starting the year with Matthew, 19, will be starting his passed away unexpectedly from home. She is thankful that it. The new book, Voices from the second year at Duke, and Jenna, on April 30, at her home in “things are still jumping.” Oregon Trail, which came out in 16, and our baby, will be going North Wales, Pa. Marianna February, has been picked up by into 11th grade.” Rest assured, was devoted Although John is retired, the Junior Literary Guild and is Judie, that we’ll be sending payers to Beaver Jean Bankson Hearst is still now part of their collection. I’m and good thoughts to you. College and painting and gardening. They sending out postcards for possible Arcadia occasionally visit the Northeast school visits this year. Earl and And now a note from Travellin’ University. She served to visit relatives and friends, but I really enjoy doing them, and I Pat Fletcher Lyford: “My last as a member their daughter lives in Berkeley, couldn’t do them without him! news was this past March we had of the Board Calif., and their son, his wife, I can’t believe that one of our our yearly visit to Hilton Head, of Trustees from 2002 to and two grandchildren (ages 12 grandsons is starting high school. N.C. In early April we had a 2005 and loyally supported and 10) live in Bozeman, Mont. Can that be? And he is taller than local tour of the Seabrook Farms the Arcadia University Annual I am. Hugs and kisses to the Class Museum in Cumberland County, Fund for 51 consecutive years, nearly every year Eleanor Perrine Cox wrote, in of ’58.” Heartfelt cheers to you, New Jersey. Seabrook, the founder since her graduation. February, that in October 2012, Kay, on your continued success! of packaged frozen vegetables, Marianna was also active Hurricane Sandy felled her played a large role in the housing, in the Alumni Association, neighbors’ 100-foot tree, which I can relate to Clemmy Klein schooling, and employment of where she served as literally cut her home in half! The Brodsky’s hesitancy in regard to foreign nationals during WWII. Nominating Committee chair and as a member of family home on the New Jersey her new computer! She writes, Living in New Jersey all my life, I the Admissions, Awards, and shore was severely damaged as “I have a new Apple computer found the work that Mr. Seabrook President’s Committees. In well. For the past year she has but have only had one lesson did for these people fascinating. addition, Marianna served as been dealing with serious medical so I’m not skilled enough to We were in Alaska in late May the Class of 1960’s president problems, but she feels blessed to use it yet. No summer news through early June. We are so and was an active member of the Montgomery Bucks have come through it all so well. except our son is going to be comfortable with the region that Scholarship Club, which living in Venice for a year with when we go to our favorite art/ supports the Laura Lind 1958 his three daughters and Lynn, craft store and attend the Rotary McKee Scholarship Fund at I hope you all enjoyed a relaxing who had a fellowship which she clubs we are welcomed like Arcadia. In recognition of her summer. I am forwarding the had to ‘use’ and ‘redeem.’” friends. We had fantastic weather. dedicated commitment, the Alumni Association presented latest adventures (!) of the Class Peter took off for several fishing Marianna with its Mary Louise of ’58. By and large, we’re a little It was nice to hear from Marcia trips, which filled his freezer and Armstrong Wolf Award in grayer and a little stiffer, but we Merdinger Fox even though enabled us to bring some halibut, 1992 and the Golden Disc for have maintained our senses of her note was brief: “I just sold salmon, and lake trout back Meritorious Service in 1995. humor and zest for adventure. my house after owning it for home. In July, we made the long 38 years. My family leaves 12-hour trip to see my brother in Joanne (Pepper) Mintz Faust for Israel to celebrate the Bar South Carolina, followed by a trip brings us up to date with the Mitzvah of grandson Yarom.” to Mountain Top, Pa., with my following news: “Es and I will Congratulations, Marcia, Mahjong group to the vacation celebrate our 55th anniversary to you and Yarom, and my home of one of our members. She this August. We saw our first best wishes for a safe trip. is a descendent of the founder of grandchild graduate from Planters Peanuts and enjoys the Ursinus College this year, Judie Sann Grenen reports, “My summer home of her great uncle, which is where Es graduated life has changed dramatically. an Italian immigrant. When not 60 years ago, so Es was part of Carl is in a wonderful assisted on the road, I attend the Walnut the ceremony carrying his class living facility suffering from Street Theatre and Symphony flag.” How lovely and touching! Lewy Body Dementia, a form of in C and participate in Rotary dementia that hits the body first events with my husband and Kay Lanning Winters is with Parkinsons-like symptoms luncheon dates with Barbara obviously not considering and then the mind. Right now his Mick Steiger, Alma Alabilikian, retirement any time soon! She brain is still functioning though and friends. In the works is a writes, “I’ve been very busy not at the same level as it was. river cruise in October to see the finishing upThe Voices of the So after 55 years of marriage we Danube. Prior to the cruise we Underground Railroad and are living apart. It is not how will visit a friend in Prague and sending it off to Dial, part of I envisioned my life to be, but again see friends in Rome.” How Penguin Publishing. Now the choices we do not have. My the airlines must love the Lyfords! question is how much rewriting family has been wonderful, but will have to be done. It was a they do not live very close to us. As for me (Dwaine Fry very tricky book to write, with The grandchildren are grown Sutherland), I’m still busy so much secrecy attached to the up and doing their own thing. stirring the pot here at Montage. railroad. Earl and I took several Emily, 23, works at the NIH I keep the populace busy with research trips to complete it. I in Bethesda, Md. doing cancer 14 activities a month plus I write was pleased to see This School research. Ellen, 21, spent the last a newsletter. This is in addition Year Will Be The BEST! included semester in Peru and Ecuador to my work at the Trenton Area in the Giant grocery stores in and will be a senior at Hobart. Soup Kitchen and collecting

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CONTACT YOUR clothing for HomeFront. And, and the The Merry Crafter. She her husband, Chris Sodergren. CLASS EDITOR of course, there’s also the ringing takes her wood crafts, carousel- Elaine and Frank visited them telephone with “Grandma, style rocking horses, wood in Oceanside, N.J. They found 1960 Betty Holton Weiss do you think you can…(fill games, etc. to about eight shows it hard to come home and are [email protected] in the blanks)?” The latter I a year. Henry and Gina have already planning their next trip! 1961 Suzanne Decker Fenimore wouldn’t miss for the world! All one son, Don, who is married [email protected] this and two loving pussy cats to Chrissy and has two sons Beverly Bauvelt Hertler writes, who allow me to share their who live in Huron, Ohio. Don “My interest in fiber arts and 1962 Lynn Kronenberg Berman bed at night. Life is good! and Chrissy are vice presidents mixed media goes on. I continue [email protected] in the family online education to show nationally and locally 1960 business for autistic and special in fine art, fine crafts, and quilt It is with deep regret I report needs children. Gina traveled to shows and have won numerous the passing of two classmates. Alaska, San Antonio, Baltimore awards including best of show Marianna Harder Peckmann, Inner Harbor, and the National three times. I completed teaching our class president, died suddenly Carousel Association Convention a class in surface embellishment on April 30. She and Hans were in Leavenworth, Kan. There’s no at a local Arts Council. I also have married 53 years and have two slowing down for this classmate. become a jewelry stringer—I see children and five grandchildren. wonderful beads while shopping Marianna taught science for 25 Judy Jackson is recuperating for embellishment material years. She was Honor Council from a stroke in a rehab facility in and can’t resist the turquoise, president our senior year. Joan Swansea, Mass. We wish her well. amber, etc. I sell my jewelry Borton Hoffman died in Ocean through Museum Gift Shops City, N.J., on June 19. She and If the Alumni Office has your and a few small boutiques in Fred were married 52 years email you can receive the New Jersey. My daughter Heidi, and have four children and one e-newsletter Chronicles. You who unbelievably just returned granddaughter. Joan was our also may receive the Bulletin to to Bates for her 25th reunion, Student Government president. learn about campus updates. is enjoying life as the director of Joan and Marianna graduated Please email me news of your The School for Field Studies– one and two in our class. activities, family, and trips. Marine Research in the Turks and Caicos Islands. My daughter By the time you receive this, 1961 Hillary, a historic preservationist, our 55th Reunion will be Anne Willis Newman writes, is very much involved with the months away, the first weekend “In January, Walt and I joined restoration of the Capital Dome in June 2015 (June 5 and 6). our San Diego friends on a cruise in Washington, D.C. She also It will be rough organizing our to the eastern Caribbean. We presented us with a granddaughter Reunion without Marianna`s stopped at Nassau, St. Thomas, this year. Very exciting after a excellent leadership. Molly and St. Maarten. The best part long wait. My grandson is 11; Fretz Stevens, our new Reunion of the cruise was the ship Oasis he will be spending the month chair; Nory Berman Block, of the Seas. It had two rock walls, of August with me. Carl keeps the fund agent; Betty Holton a deck called Central Park, and a busy; he oversaw the repairs after Weiss, the class editor; and Gina deck called the Boardwalk. This Hurricane Sandy and now says Parsons Wostmann comprise deck had a full-sized carousel. he must rest—well deserved, and the Reunion Committee. We’d I rode it at least three times! since we still have our historic love some more classmates Rich, Rachel, and Pearse came residence in Red Bank, N.J.— to join us in planning a great to visit for about two weeks in there are always projects. This Reunion. We had more than 30 June. Just before they left, Rich, year will be the 10th reunion of classmates attend our 50th. Our Debbie, and David threw us a getting together with Inge Langer contributions to our alma mater surprise 50th anniversary party. and Marilyn Grassino here at enabled the bridge connecting Some of the guests came from the Jersey shore. We do a bit of the Commons and Castle walk a distance and really surprised shopping, dining, visiting old to be built. Walk on our bridge us! We continue in our usual friends in the area, and generally when you attend our 55th! routine. Walt drives people to just catching up and laughing.” the airport and sometimes to Gina Wostmann is a busy lady. medical appointments. I’m on Lyanne Lyndo Wassermann She teaches a ladies-only Texas the Session and still treasurer of writes: “I am fortunate and Hold’em Poker class one evening the church and the local Arcadia honored, as a trustee, to be a week and also plays tournament alumni club. I bowl, exercise, sing involved in many aspects of the poker. She is a dealer for a private in the choir, and continue as an wonderful world of Arcadia casino company for fundraising Avon representative (38 years).” where I serve on the University and other events. Gina belongs Advancement and Global Studies to the Pennsylvania Delaware Elaine Lemmerz Brown and Committees. My husband, Barry, Valley Wood Carvers Association, Frank have some exciting news to and I sponsor the Jewish Initiative and she carves full-size carousel share. Their first great-grandchild on campus, which has had a very animals plus small carvings has arrived. Paxton Turner successful year under the direction of various kinds. She has two Sodergren was born in May to of Julie Benioff, intern from the businesses, The Merry Carver their granddaughter, Aubree, and Reconstructionist Rabbinical

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College in Wyncote, Pa. I am (Lynn Kronenberg Berman) are also involved in the Mentoring planning to meet this fall in New Program and recently sponsored, York City with Lisa Stephens, with Barry, a year-end reception from Arcadia’s University in honor of the mentors to thank Advancement department. them for their efforts on behalf of the students. I visited The If any others also have gotten College of Global Studies at the together at alumni functions, Arcadia Center in London. It is please send me a note and an outstanding program! I also share about the event! have had the pleasure of visiting Arcadia programs in Barcelona, Gail Spevack Wohl shares: Palma, Paris, and Singapore and “Whoever said thirteen is encourage you, as you plan your unlucky is so wrong. Our family travels, to contact The College of thirteen went to Baltimore’s of Global Studies on campus to Inner Harbor for a July 4th arrange a visit to their centers. weekend of fireworks, sight- You will be amazed and so very seeing, family time, and much proud to see the efforts on behalf, fun together. We are settled in not only of our own students, Canal Walk in Somerset, N.J., but of all students from other a 55+ community, meeting new universities who use our more friends but living close to our old than 140 semester-, summer-, and friends, so we are keeping busy.” year-long study abroad programs as well as service learning Janet Copeland Zinman shares: and internship programs.” “Since Lee and I returned to the North after our stay in Florida, Frank and I, Suzanne Decker we have been busy getting our Fenimore, had a mini-reunion house ready to sell. Our youngest with Eva Oehrle Fronk in son, his wife, and three sons are Las Vegas in May. Eva was buying our house. Just today, we interim principal at Mountain finished cleaning out our attic, View Lutheran School there which had accumulated 46 years for a year. We had a delightful of “stuff.” We will remain in the visit including sightseeing at area in a much smaller home Hoover Dam, Valley of Fire and spend a little more time in State Park (where Eva saw Florida (while we still have young her first petroglyphs), and grandchildren). We are well Mt. Charleston. We also saw and are enjoying our northern a wonderful production of activities like theater, ballet, and Shrek the Musical by the Zion socializing, besides being around Lutheran High School. We the corner from our 7-, 6-, and were really impressed with the 11-month old grandsons.” professionalism of the settings, ▲ costumes, and acting. Eva will Lynn Auerbach Kaplan writes: bit awestruck! A miracle—they Suzanne Fenimore ’61 and Eva be interim principal of West “I have been reunited with a do happen. They found me!” Oehrle Fronk ’61 visiting in Mt. Portal Lutheran Middle School sister I never met, although I Charleston, Nev. Eva has been in Las Vegas this past school in San Francisco this school knew about her when I was 20, Sherry Kugler Weidner writes: year. Frank and Suzanne year, and you know I’ll plan 54 years ago! My dad had been “Chuck and I are looking forward drove down to visit her in May, another mini-reunion with her! married in Europe, had a child, to our annual Weidner family spending a delightful weekend and was divorced. With the reunion at Wrightsville Beach, together with sightseeing and Please keep sending news and coming of the war in the 1940s, N.C., July 12-19.We have been lots of visiting! remember the Annual Fund. we couldn’t get any information gathering at one place or another and my dad never talked about since our own children were 1962 the situation. About five weeks young. Now we total 16 from A small group of us were ago, I got a phone call from the Chuck’s and my immediate fortunate to meet with Dr. male companion of the sister I family, counting our three Nicolette DeVille Christensen, never knew. They live in Buenos children, in-law’s children, and president of Arcadia University, Aires, Argentina! Her name is eight grandkids plus variations in February at the Arcadia Winter Shirley Auerbach Mendel. She of 10 to 14 other immediate Reunion in Boynton Beach, will be 79 in October 2014. We relatives.Watching the children Fla. Several of us, including hope to meet next spring when grow up playing together has Cynthia Mindel Auerbach, Janet they visit this country. We and been a real joy.We have worked Copeland Zinman, Gail Spevack all four of kids have Skyped with out kitchen duties for meals Wohl, Linda May Sklar, the family and are very excited. with growing skill over the years. Connie Gerber Levin, and I I am still overwhelmed and a On another note, my brothers,

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some cousins, and I have been selling quiches from her Long 1963 on a “Lewis and Clark Discovery Island kitchen in 1973, armed Merle Arbogast Chorba wrote Journey” of our own. We started with little but a lifelong passion that she and George plan a seven- in May 2003 with a seven- for food. Four decades later, she is week summer odyssey north day canoeing/camping trip in now competing with the giants of from Florida, during which they Montana on the Missouri River. the industry across the globe. This plan to visit with lots of Beaver After that, we had a land trip book candidly tells her story and friends. First they will join Sue through Utah and other various offers business lessons along the Johnson Whitelaw and her involved states.This spring, we way, inspiring anyone with a good husband, Jack, in Washington, took an American River Boat idea, a bit of ambition, and a D.C., to explore that wonderful Cruise (note how our current ages healthy dose of passion. Available city. She says, “We always eat well changed our transportation) on at your local bookstore and online with them as they refined their the Columbia and Snake Rivers retailers in hardcover or e-book. palates all over the world!” Next in Oregon and Washington they will join Gail Nazzaro Biggs states.This concluded some great Barbara Davidson Johnson and Butch and Joyce Chabora adventures and family time.” writes: “Eleanor Newman Barr and John for more culinary Mantrom’s husband, Lou, died treats in Morristown, N.J. They When we had our 50th Reunion in June 2013, after a six-month will then be checking in with at Arcadia, a member of the illness. Ellie and Lou had been Barbara Quillen Dougherty and Class of 1957 told some of us to married for 52 years. Lou and I Bob Schnepfe in Dewey Beach, not be surprised by changes we had been friends while I was still Del., for a real treat: celebrating would see when coming back in high school. He was a good the year-plus anniversary of for our 55th Reunion. I took friend and one of the people who our 50th Reunion! After three her message to heart and am knew me best. One day Ellie called weeks back in Florida to change trying to stay in walking shape and said, ‘He has only asked for suitcases, they are off on a five- for our big one in 2017.” two things...the cat and when week Asian cruise. She adds, “It is Barb coming?’ When I heard will be wonderful, but it will Monica Mishkin Berke sends that, I packed and left the next also be especially grand to get us her current email and website day. He had two good days when back home to Sarasota, Fla.” addresses: www.giftsbymonica. we were able to talk, and then he com and monica@giftsbymonica. took a turn for the worse. Ellie; Connie Armour Wurster and com. She is selling custom-made his daughter, Kim; and I were Walt are both recovering from keepsake art glass music boxes. with him when he passed. Ellie recent surgery but are doing well. and I talk every few days, and They have put their wonderful Gail Williams Tattersfield shares I am planning a trip to Dallas historic home, Fernbrae Manor, with us: “Susan Mandelbaum to visit her in a month or so. up for sale and are ready to be Axelrod’s book, With Love and maintenance-free. A tax-friendly Quiches, is available on Amazon, As for me, 2013 was quite place near the water is in their Barnes and Noble, or Goodreads. challenging with various illnesses, future. In March, they lost their I have a pre-publication copy, and surgery, and medical tests. Not beloved cocker, Chianni, which it is really well done…however, a fun year; however, it could be sent them into mourning for not one mention of her couple much worse. We had two good quite a while. They then decided of years at old Beaver College or trips: a week in July at Ocean to get another cocker puppy, about any of us!” Susan started Pointe in West Palm Beach at and now their new Charli is ▼ a Marriott Resort with 15 bringing much joy to their life. family members and a Viking River Cruise on the Loire Gail Nazzaro Biggs reports that River in Southern France. her husband, Butch, has been We traveled with friends enjoying retirement for one year, we had made on an earlier and they have many traveling cruise on the Danube. This plans ahead. Last January, year I am doing everything they stopped by to see Connie I can to promote my good Armour Wurster and Walt in health. I have joined Curves Tennessee as they drove home and the YMCA and am from Florida. They arrived home exercising regularly.” just in time for a huge snow storm and the arrival of grand I also heard from Kathy baby No. 6. Baby Dean arrived on Kurtz who shared with February 13, weighing 8 pounds, us privately about the 3 ounces. Gail continues to be new location for her an active hiker and is president gallery in Philadelphia. of her 600-member hiking club.

Do continue to send in Sue Johnson Whitelaw was sorry news—we love hearing to have missed our 50th Reunion, about what’s new for you! but it was for a good reason—

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the birth of a granddaughter. have died. Our condolences and I, history/government CONTACT YOUR She says, “Certainly my life has to their families and friends. majors all, were thrilled that CLASS EDITOR changed in the past few years with Condolences also to Isabelle Mohl Lloyd Abernethy, professor Gail Nazzaro Biggs the birth of four grandchildren Selikoff, whose husband, Joel, emeritus of history, joined us for 1963 [email protected] within three years, something of a died the week before Reunion, the luncheon festivities. That mini-explosion. Keeping up with and to Marcia Krysa Hamilton, evening, we had yet another 1964 Linda Mann toddlers is always exhausting but whose son died last year. fabulous meal at the International [email protected] more so now when we’re just a Dinner in the library. few years older. Having said that, Our 50th Reunion was a grand we love it all.” With one family time for those who attended: Linda Throughout the weekend, we nearby in Washington, D.C., and Johnston Austin, Katherine were able to catch up and pass the other in San Francisco, they Fabian Bozarth, Mimi Hirsch on news: Carol Goodman lives bounce back and forth across the Brauch, Marcia Krysa Hamilton, in Bermuda and is principal of country. They are looking forward Carol Hacker Hillman, Sandy an elementary school. Priscilla to a week on the Outer Banks Parry Howard, Bonnie McDowell Greer lives in Guadalajara, with both families in August and Lasky, Peggy Lees, Barbara Mexico, and Mary Ann are anticipating a joyful, chaotic Ruthberg Leiland, Karen Holmes Speakman plans on seeing her vacation. They also did enjoy a MacIntyre, Linda Mann, Mary next winter when she visits trip to Paris and then a Dalmatian Roberts Marino, Virginia her son who is teaching there. Coast cruise on the Sea Cloud Baumgartner Morris, Susan Patt Linda Reppa Gordon is living this spring. This brought them to Mountz, Norma Oelkers Notzold, in Phoenix. Karen MacIntyre countries they hadn’t previously Jonni Franckling Sage, Kirsten keeps in touch with Diana visited, with Croatia and Cole Schneller, Catherine Kissner Mook Singer. Kathryn Koonce Montenegro being the highlights. Schultheis, Phyllis St. John Hower lives in Fredericksburg, Skok, Elsie McDonald Smoluk, Va. Emily Purdom Severinsen Robbie Kresch reports that she Mary Ann Marshall Speakman, lives in Mexico and is doing has lost 40 pounds in the past Carol McLuckie Van Sciver, and ceramics. Marcia Hamilton 16 months, writing, “Haven’t Gail Wollemann Vizethann. and Mimi Brauch recalled their been this thin since Beaver!” surprise meeting when they were She is singing in the choir at A number of us went on the rubbing headstones at a cemetery her synagogue in Calabasas, Barnes Foundation tour, an in Oxford, England. Eva Alcon Calif., and she also teaches overwhelming art collection that Katz lives in Israel and is teaching Sunday school occasionally at demands multiple visits, and structural linguistics. Susan her spouse Leni’s UCC church, enjoyed meeting the University’s Cohen and Jay Berman celebrated where she is moderator. She new president, Dr. Nicolette their 50th wedding anniversary adds, “My old course at Beaver DeVille Christensen. Our class this year. Nancy Roberts Reid of New Testament and Life and had its own private dinner and was not at Reunion as she was Teaching of Jesus finally has class meeting in the Landman being honored that weekend for paid off.” They continue to live Library. There, we voted to devote her 50 years as a church organist. in Woodland Hills, Calif., near our Class Gift to restoration work their wonderful grandchildren. in Grey Towers Castle, specifically Lynda Spielman Moser sent her She has experienced a couple of restoring woodwork framing regrets she and her husband are earthquakes while in California, the doors to the elevator that is in the throes of moving from our and she claims it is not fun. They being installed (which we may New York City home to Delmar, will be vacationing in their home all need to use next Reunion…). N.Y., (near Albany), which is in Vermont at the end of July Volunteers for class officers were the home of John’s daughter and and August and invite any and Catherine Schultheis, fund agent grandchildren. “This old house all to stop in if they are nearby. (who hopes someone else will of ours just got to be too much.” help her out); Susan Mountz, Naomi Hutchison Black says Phyllis Skok, and Mimi Brauch, Also in the midst of renovating that the biggest news in her family Reunion Committee; and a condo in Edina, Minn., and is that her grandson, Charlie, Linda Mann, editor. Any other moving was Sandra Krebs Hirsh. and son-in-law, Neil, are about classmates who would like to Janice Comstock Murray was to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise help out in any capacity are more still incapacitated from a fall awareness and money for research than welcome to let us know! that broke the bones in her right for eosinophilic esophagitis, a ankle; hopefully, she’s made great condition Charlie has suffered After a Saturday morning of strides in her recovery by now. from since his birth. They leave interesting faculty lectures, the on July 6. She asks, “Please keep Class of 1964 led the parade of Janet Spence Kerr’s family was them and the rest of the climbers classes to the Reunion Luncheon, celebrating son Matt’s graduation (many of them also have EoE) where Bonnie McDowell from his medical residency in your thoughts and prayers.” Lasky was presented the Class program in Portland, Maine. Officer Award and Sue Patt 1964 Mountz and I received the As always, I hope to hear from Sadly, classmates Sara Adams Mary Louise Armstrong Wolf you; otherwise, I’ll be mining the Satterthwaite and Carol Jones Awards. Phyllis, Sue, Linda, Memory Book in future issues.

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CONTACT YOUR 1965 Fireoved, Linda Phillips Pursley, Community Legacy in Santa Fe CLASS EDITOR Lisa Stone writes, “Greetings. I’m Charlene Pulis McClain, Linda by the New Mexico Committee bemused that I will turn 70 at the Cowgill Emerick, Barbara of Women in the Arts. She and Rebecca Just Wagner 1965 end of this month. This wasn’t Howland, Emily Solomon Lee moved to Phoenix. They [email protected] how I thought 70 would look, Farrell, Susan Ginsberg Berk, have two daughters. Lucy was 1966 Elizabeth Middleton compared to how my grandmother Helen Bosley, Debbie Lloyd married in August 2013 to Jon 4003 Penn Avenue, Apt. 711 looked at this age! My husband Fabiani, Susan Smyth Shenker, Fisher, and Nancy, married Pittsburgh, PA 15224 Steve is still actively engaged in Susan Francis Dodson, Barbara to Jake Langau, lives in Bern, the practice of dermatology at Kelly Breeden, Susan Rodgers Switzerland, with twins Rachel 1967 Gail Agerton SIU School of Medicine here in Fleming, Chris Hill Connell, and Julia, age 5, and Louisa, age [email protected] Springfield, Ill., but we do get to and Ellen Coleman. We spent 2. Susan keeps in touch with 1968 Judith McColl Barrow do a lot of traveling, including the class meeting catching up Patti Brownstein Rothman, [email protected] going Panama and Cuba last on our news for the past five who lives in St. Louis. They February and a Black Sea cruise years and continued doing the have visited the Lincoln, LBJ, 1969 Christina Anne Hill Connell with our two youngest children same at a lovely dinner at Susan and Bush Presidential Libraries [email protected] this summer, which included a and Rob Fleming’s charming together with their spouses. She stopover in Lake Como on the home in Chestnut Hill, Pa. also visits June Mamana Guertin way home to visit friends. These whenever she gets to Boston. have all been dermatology trips, Congratulations are in order but we will lead a trip to Israel to three classmates. Helen Helen Bosley is moving to semi- next April. I plan to come to our Bosley and Chris Hill Connell retirement from the management 50th Reunion and hope that both received the Arcadia and financial consulting practice others in our class are planning University Alumni Association she started more than 20 to do so as well. This time I won’t Class Officer Award for their years ago. She continues her offer to bring my own blanket service to Arcadia and their involvement in nonprofit boards and sheets on the plane and won’t commitment to the Class of and committees with Abington wind up freezing in the dorm. 1969. The Golden Disc Award Hospital, Girl Scouts, Mercer I’m staying in the nearest hotel!” for Distinguished Achievement Street Friends, and Makefield was awarded to Susan Ginsberg Highland Golf Club. She is also Mary Anne Anglade Rodriguez Berk in recognition of all that a member of the Admissions writes, “Gil and I moved back she has accomplished for the Committee of the Union League to Richmond, Va., at the end of communities in which she has of Philadelphia, which now 2011. We had lived in Richmond lived over the past 45 years. includes professional colleagues from 1974 through 2000 and of all stripes. Emmy Saltzman in Maple Glen, Pa., from 2000 Susan, married to Lee Berk for Miller from our class is also a until Gil retired from his allergy 38 years, became one of the most member. We saw Helen’s photo practice in Blue Bell, Pa., and I tireless and visible supporters with several friends from Beaver retired from Wealth Management of Boston’s hospitality industry, at her daughter Ries’s wedding in with US Trust/Bank of America. ultimately co-authoring a popular, the last issue of Arcadia magazine. We now live in a 1927 historic informative guide book, which and old building in the center sold more than 20,000 copies. Vicki Boccelli Damiani is a of Richmond. We enjoy the She gave generously of her time retired psychologist who taught arts (all faculties: music, dance, to the Berklee College of Music at the University of Indiana acting, kinetic, graphics, and in Boston, where Lee served as in Pennsylvania. She received sculpture) on campus at Virginia president for 25 years. Susan was her doctorate from the College Commonwealth University. also active in Boston’s Jewish of William and Mary. She VCU is now rated #1 in arts community. She worked with currently is on the Children, among public universities. A new the John F. Kennedy Library to Youth and Families Advisory Institute for Contemporary Art is develop a Presidential Festival Committee for Chester County, being built behind our building! at Temple Mishkan Tefilah and Pa., and she is a representative And we get to walk to it all! Our was named Volunteer of the Year for the Democratic Party. twin grandsons, oldest son, and by Boston’s Hadassah Chapter. his wife live one mile up. And, She and Lee moved to Santa Penny Ray is retired from her our twin sons live around the Fe, N.M., in 2004, where they private social work practice and beltway in D.C., right up 95. continued to be involved in loving it. She still lives in the Virginia Magee came last year for the community. They created house where her children grew a short visit and it was wonderful! “Friends of Santa Fe Jazz,” up in Maine, and she is enjoying I hope you are well and that we bringing nationally prominent being on several nonprofit boards. may all get together for our 50th.” musicians to stages in Santa Fe. She served on the board of the Judy Allen Smith has been a 1969 community performing arts dedicated wife, mother, and Our 45th Reunion has come center, The Lensic, and has served volunteer for her church and the and gone, and we all had a great as president of the New Mexico community of St. Simon’s Island, time! Those in attendance were Committee of the National Ga., for more than 40 years. She Vicki Boccelli Damiani, Penny Museum of Women in the Arts. and her husband, Tom, will be Ray, Judy Allen Smith, Ruth In 2012, Susan was honored as a celebrating their 44th anniversary

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this October. Their son, Kevin, is Phoebe Nell, was born in May also taken a group to the Edward newly married to Ana, and Lisa to their older son, Andy, and his Hopper exhibit at Middlebury and her husband, Chris, have one wife, Emily. Phoebe joins older College, also of interest to child. She recently retired from sister, three-year-old Zoe. At the your editor, as her mom lives being a teacher’s assistant, which end of June they moved from within a 10-minute walk of the gives her more time to dedicate to Cornwall, N.Y., to Harrisonburg, College Art Gallery! Ellen lives her role as a leader in the Stephen Va. Emily is finishing her in Philadelphia and keeps in Ministry. She is also involved dissertation for her Doctor of touch with Julia Rhoads King. in researching and writing the Theology with Concentrations history of her church and St. in Christian Education and New Susan Francis Dodson and Simon’s Island. She says that the Testament from Duke. She is her husband, Don, live in Fort most cherished of their travels starting a tenure-track position Worth, Texas. Her son, John, are to see their granddaughter, as assistant professor in Christian and his wife, Lee, live in Dallas Lucy, in the Northeast. formation, preaching, and and have graced them with two worship at Eastern Mennonite precious granddaughters, Avery, Ruth Fireoved Marino is a Seminary in Harrisonburg. 5, and Norah, 3. She and Don retired school psychologist, and Andy just started as pastor of the are enjoying retirement with she worked in this capacity for Mt. Clinton United Methodist lots of exciting travel. They have 37 years. She married Stephen Church in Harrisonburg, only recently been to New Zealand. Marino in 1990. She is now eight miles from the seminary. [They play duplicate bridge.] enjoying volunteering. Their younger son, Pete, lives in Susan is on the executive board of Alfred, N.Y., with his wife, Janet, the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra. Linda Phillips Pursley and and sons, Justin, 9, and Micah, Susan and Don spend summers her husband, Bill, who were 6. Pete works in administration in Colorado and spend lots of snowbirds living six months in at SUNY Alfred, and Janet is a time enjoying the outdoors. Pennsylvania and six months in stay-at-home mother. She also Sarasota, Fla., are now permanent has a photography business, Pine Barbara Howland, who worked residents of Sarasota. Linda says Hill Photography. Charlene and in marketing and management, she loves it there. Their newest Dave live in Venice, Fla. In the is now retired and involved in granddaughter, Hannah, was summer, they spend time in their nonprofit fundraising with the born in February 2013 in Boston. trailer to visit family and friends. Concord Carlisle Community Daughter Holly and son-in- Chests, which allocates funds to law Kris travel to Florida, and Linda Cowgill Emerick retired local human service organizations. a great time is had by all. Son from the classroom at the Cab She is married to David Watson, Rob and daughter-in-law Shana Calloway School of the Arts in a lawyer, who is now retired. are expecting a daughter in early December 2013. She immediately Their daughter Catherine and October. Between our 40th and found her new purpose in helping her husband, James, had their 45th Reunions, Linda has visited her son Brett and daughter-in- first child, a granddaughter for with Susan Rodgers Fleming, law Stasia, by looking after new Barbara and Dave, in March Vicki Boccelli Damiani, baby Faith, born in November 2014. Catherine is a teacher. Debbie Lloyd Fabiani, and 2013 with Down syndrome. Their other daughter, Laura, Marcia Ruff Matika. [Linda and From looking at the photos, works with autistic children at a Charlene Pulis McClain see Faith appears to be thriving. residential school outside Boston. each other in Florida.] Linda is Linda also has another new She spent three years in Abu an active member of the Women’s granddaughter, Ellie, making Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Interfaith Network, and she does a total of nine grandchildren. through work and is currently water aerobics three times a week. She keeps in touch with back at the main campus. Carolyn Richardson Hodges Linda let us know that Marcia and me, Chris Hill Connell. Barbara Kelly Breeden was a Ruff Matika is a retired librarian Linda was a very gracious professional librarian in a variety from the Connecticut State hostess during my Reunion of settings for more than 40 Library and has become very stay, and we had a terrific time years. She retired in 2009 after 21 interested in genealogy. catching up and reminiscing years at the U.S. Naval Academy about our time at Beaver. Nimitz Library. She and her Charlene Pulis McClain wrote husband, George, a retired Navy that after Reunion, she and Dave Ellen Coleman is still taking Commander, defense analyst, went to the U.K. They saw all of tours to various arts exhibits and professor, have two children, the sites in England, Scotland, and theatrical productions. She Beau, a financial advisor, and and Wales, most of them on is about to embark on a trip to Kelly Breeden Rodowsky, a a Grand Circle tour with 40 Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, high school history teacher in others. They had visited London to the Shaw Festival, and she Florida. After 10 moves in 20 and the area nearby in 1999 has taken groups to Stratford, years, Barbara and George have for two weeks on their own, so Ontario, to the Shakespeare settled in Annapolis, Md. Barbara they now feel like the U.K. can Festival, as well as to Toronto, is very involved in genealogical be marked off of their bucket Ontario. Of course, these are of research. She is a volunteer in list. Their fourth grandchild, interest to your editor! She has many activities at her church,

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and met Evy Krongard Franco endeavor in the future. Again, while visiting. (See photo.) Emily many thanks to Susan and Rob and Evy advise each other on for their generosity over the books and Netflix. She is step- years. We have all had such a mom to Jay’s sons, Steven and good time at Reunion dinners. Christopher, who are married to Andrea and Mary, respectively. We are already thinking about They have two grandchildren, our 50th Reunion, which will in Luca and Thea. She recently four years and about 330 days stayed with her roommate from as of this writing! We would Beaver, Diane Tischler Bloom, like to get as many classmates on her way to Florida. She sees to attend as possible, so if you Linda Klevit Hahn and Ellen are not on my mailing list, Coleman. Emily reported that please send me your contact Patty Broh Bort was in Greece information at chrisconnell@ at the time of the Reunion. cogeco.ca and I will be happy to add you to my list. We would Debbie Lloyd Fabiani retired last love to see you there, and we year. She travels extensively, and would love to hear from you. she has an apartment in Italy. She

visited Thailand, China, Dubai, ▼ 1970 Prague, Australia, and Hungary in Friends, it’s hard to believe it Emily Solomon Farrell ’69 including heading the Archives the past year. She keeps in touch has been almost 45 years since and Evy Krongard Franco ’69 and History Project that seeks to with Vicki Boccelli Damiani, we have graduated, but we in England. preserve 325 years of local parish Linda Phillips Pursley, are fast approaching our next history. She is currently finishing Susan Rodgers Fleming, milestone! I sincerely hope we a two-year term as president of and Susan Francis Dodson. can gather a group together for the Naval Academy Women’s this exciting event. Mark your Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit Susan Smyth Shenker is still calendars for June 5-6, 2015. supporting charities such as working as an assistant professor Here’s the challenge...45 at the Fisher House Foundation of counseling and development 45th. Let’s see if we can get 45 and local STEM camps for in the graduate school of Long together to celebrate our 45th! CONTACT YOUR underprivileged children in the Island University at the C.W. Join the Reunion Committee CLASS EDITOR Annapolis community. She is a Post campus. She is a widow with by emailing me or alumni@ lifetime member of Girl Scouts four children, two sons-in-law, arcadia.edu. Let’s do this! 1970 Cheryl Hopkins Damico of the USA, and she has been a and four grandchildren. Karyn [email protected] leader, trainer, and community is a professor of occupational 1975 1971 Judith Odonovich organizer, as well as member of therapy. Sarah is a major gifts SAVE THE DATE…JUNE 5-7, [email protected] the Board of Directors for Central officer at Red Cross in Greater 2015! It is our 40th…ouch! We Maryland, Campus Girl Scout New York. Jordan is a sophomore had a good group at the 35th… 1972 Louise Sgarro Advisor for the Naval Academy, economics major at Colgate and a very good time! All agreed [email protected] and part of the Council’s University. She keeps in touch to push to do it again for the 1973 Christine Kokas Recognition Committee. She and with President Emerita Dr. Bette 40th. Here is the chance. Where [email protected] George are currently finishing Landman ’04 and Marilyn did those five years go? OK…as their “bucket list” of visiting all Cranin ’54. Susan has been very always things will come up…and 1975 Patricia Roberts Lucas 50 states. Barbara keeps in touch involved in alumnae leadership plans will change, but right now, [email protected] with Linda Smith McAdoo positions at Arcadia in the past. mark June 5-7…and keep it in and Susan Smyth Shenker. mind. More details will follow! Linda Strickland Susan Rodgers Fleming and [email protected] Emily Solomon Farrell retired husband, Rob, generously hosted 1978 1976 Karen Schwartz Scheiner from teaching and is a docent at our 45th Reunion dinner this Mary Davis writes, “After I [email protected] the Brandywine River Museum, year at their lovely home in graduated from Arcadia, I taught which she thoroughly enjoys. Chestnut Hill, Pa. They have five for several years as a reading 1977 Mary Beth Hauser Hadley She also has a small business grandchildren with a sixth on the specialist in public schools before [email protected] called College Essays Count, way, who will possibly make his attending Temple Law School Candace Brasch Mitchell which helps students with or her arrival before these news in Philadelphia. I was a litigator [email protected] their writing. She writes for items are in print! In addition in several different areas of law newspapers from time to time. to their home in Chestnut Hill and practiced pro bono law 1978 Cheryl Wilks-Scherbner Her husband, Jay, retired this and their apartment in New York with different public interest flowersonlocation@ summer, and he will be teaching City, they have now acquired a firms, including Disabilities Law verizon.net at University of Pennsylvania. 117-acre farm in Iowa! The farm Project and ACLU. While I no She also is doing mosaics, and was left to Rob by his parents, so longer practice law professionally, 1979 Suneet Chauhan she provides many of us with at least one person in the family I still work as a lawyer with the [email protected] a summer reading list, which must have some idea about rural ACLU. Since moving to New 1980 Kathleen Kidd McNamara has been going for quite some living! We are very interested to York several years ago, I have [email protected] time. She traveled to England hear more information about this been producing off-Broadway

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shows. I have produced two 1982 us for our 35th Reunion. We CONTACT YOUR shows by Susan Charlotte: The Ellen Allard, M.Ed, is an award- would love to build momentum CLASS EDITOR Shoemaker, starring Danny winning recording artist who has for our 40th Reunion. Our goal Aiello, and She’s of a Certain been creating and performing is to have 40 (or more) alumni 1983 Barbara Reppert Million Age. I also produced the New Jewish-themed children’s songs for for our 40th Reunion–40 for 40. [email protected] York premiere of The Pretty more than 30 years. Among her Maybe, just maybe, they will let Mary Stillman Sundra Trap, Tennessee Williams’ one 10 CDs and hundreds of songs me wear the Arcadia University [email protected] act version of Glass Menagerie. are niche hits like “The Pet Song” Knight mascot’s costume. Seth Rudetsky and I produced and “Building a Better World.” 1984 David Eatough James Wesley’s Unbroken 1994 [email protected] Circle. I’ve also produced the Christopher Thomas’ paintings 1984 Bridget Rincon musical Disaster!, which ran off “The Story of the Human Body” on paper were the Alumni Broadway for six months and by Daniel Lieberman is, in the Spotlight Exhibition at the [email protected] may be moving to Broadway opinion of this slightly dorky Arcadia University Art Gallery last 1985 Bea Rincon Young soon. My current projects science teacher, a wonderful summer. His large-scale works are [email protected] include Wesley’s Art & Science, account of dispersal, change, derived from digital photographs, which had a successful run in adaptation, growth, persistence, turned into bitmapped images, 1989 Alice Visco Jacobs Dallas and will be moving to and resilience. The Class of 1984 and projected onto paper. [email protected] New York shortly. In addition, has dispersed, changed, grown, 1990 Linda Vandegrift I am producing David Brian and withstood various personal Lynne Arovas resides in [email protected] Colbert’s C.O.A.L. at 59E59 in challenges. While we are not Greenwich, Conn., works in March 2015. I also have several evolving in the biological use mixed media collage, and has 1992 Jennifer Seyfried other plays in the early stages of the term, we have adapted exhibited in five solo shows and jenniferseyfried@ of development. Stay tuned!” and kept the characteristics we more than 50 group shows, atkinsglobal.com treasured (selected) then and winning both first and second 1981 now. These include kindness, prizes for her work. Lynne is a 1993 Jenyfer Blatt Kennedy Linda Mattucci Schiavone curiosity, and creativity as well member of the Art Society of [email protected] writes, “After graduating in 1984 as cultivating an appreciation Old Greenwich, Greenwich Art with a Master of Science in for conversation and beverages Society, and City Lights Gallery. Pharmacology from Hahnemann served by the pitcher or glass. She is a past member of the University, I worked for 20 Women’s Caucus for Art. Arovas years in the pharmaceutical and Attending our 30th Reunion were currently works as an office medical writing industries. In Liz Green Brunton, Sharon administrator in Stamford, Conn. 2010, I returned to graduate McLeod Burke, Kathy Kroll school, this time to Neumann Dwyer, Keith Goldman, Janice Gammon Earhart ’94, ’96MSPT University, where in May 2014 Jones, Sara Hoener Pender, PJ has been named director of the I received my Master of Science Davis Story, Kathleen Scott Program in Physical Therapy at in Pastoral Counseling. I am Weaver, Anne Williams, and Washington University School of now happily employed by Life me (David Eatough). We are Medicine in St. Louis. She is also Counseling Services in Paoli, collectively and individually a professor of neurobiology and Pa., as a therapist, and I am teachers, researchers, advocates, neurology. She is a 2000 graduate working to accrue the required mothers, fathers, and survivors. of the Movement Science Ph.D. hours to obtain my professional We live locally and far away. Our Program and currently serves license. On a personal note, I children are writing plays, playing as the associate director of that will have been married 32 years ball, fighting fires, and getting program. Gammon’s research this September. My husband married. We all enjoyed the focuses on nervous system control and I have an 18-year-old son, pentennial Reunion weekend. Keith of movement and examines how who is a sophomore at Johns and I visited Dr. Gail Hearn and different treatment approaches Hopkins University studying her husband, Peter, in Philadelphia may benefit people with physics and applied mathematics, on Friday, followed by a trip for Parkinson’s disease. Her ongoing and a 16-year-old daughter who cheesesteaks with CheezWhiz® studies use neuroimaging, in is a junior in high school. I had at Jim’s on South Street. Boston conjunction with measures of the pleasure of revisiting Arcadia has lots of great places to eat motor performance, to determine this past month as I toured the but nothing like a true Philly how exercise interventions, new-and-improved campus with cheesesteak. Several of us visited such as tango dancing, impact my daughter for an admissions the Glenside Pub on Saturday and the brain and the body. visit. I was disappointed that sat in the traditional back booth the Castle was not open for with a pitcher and a pub club 1995 the tour as I wanted to show hoagie. We shared a wonderful Dynise Balcavage, MA was a her where many of my senior- meal in the Landman Library with guest speaker at the Shenandoah year memories were made. I the wild ladies celebrating their Valley High School, where also fondly recalled Bennie 50th Reunion. Hopefully, we will she is also a Wall of Fame Tate ’03H and his ever-present have their great attitudes when inductee. Dynise has written laughter as he greeted each we celebrate our 50th. We are a three mass market vegetarian of us in the dining hall. He wonderful class, and we truly hope cookbooks and 11 nonfiction will always be in my heart!” more of you will consider joining books for young readers on a

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CONTACT YOUR wide range of topics. In addition devoted to mental health topics Palm Restaurant in Philadelphia. CLASS EDITOR to her writing, she works as an called Mind Over Matter, She was honored to be the Silent associate creative director at and I am producing another Auction co-chair for this year’s 1996 Stacey Lombardi Soricelli Digitas Health, a Philadelphia mini-series called Vine Dining with Human Rights Campaign Gala [email protected] health care advertising agency, Chef Sara Glassman. Meetings are in Philadelphia, which won 1997 Maya Johnson part of Paris’ Publicis Groupe. held each week at Arcadia, and it Comeback Gala of the Year at [email protected] has been enjoyable being back on the National Awards weekend. 1996 campus, just in a different capacity. Beth co-founded Party Partners Tracey Reed Amy Bank ’96, ’99M, was of Philadelphia in 2013, a group [email protected] appointed to serve at Hopewell Brandon Rubenstein recently of leaders and decision-makers in United Methodist Church in accepted a job offer in California the hospitality industry working 1998 TaraJean Tweddle Trzaskawka Downingtown, Pa., as the pastor and made the big move with his together to increase business for [email protected] of young adults and leadership wife, Alison, and young son. He is all members, share leads, and 1999 Cat Kirschner Mattingly development. Amy and husband, now a learning systems specialist give back to the community by [email protected] Mike, have two daughters, for the California Strawberry participating in charity events Grace, 14, and Emily, 11. Commission in Santa Maria, Calif. and volunteering their personal 2000 Tricia Kershner Luddecke time to benefit those in need. [email protected] 2000 Michael McLaughlin owns 2001 Jennifer Bach Jones Bart Hotchkin ’00, ’03 a house in Blue Bell, Pa., After three-and-a-half years of [email protected] DPT has joined the staff of and works as a lawyer at the experience building Brown- Seaport Community Health law firm of Butler Pappas Forman’s wine and spirits portfolio 2002 Tiffany Strahan Center in Belfast, Maine. Weihmuller Katz Craig in key on-/off-premise accounts in [email protected] LLP in Philadelphia. New Jersey, Eva Powell has taken 2001 a position with Heineken USA as 2003 Eileen Butkovic Cook Carl Showers, a 20-year U.S. 2009 an on-premise New Jersey market [email protected] Army veteran, has been selected as Becca Austin is employed by The manager. Eva also continues Kerry Ann Braunstein Smith the latest winner of CollisionMax’s Wilma Theater in Philadelphia sculpting, and her works are on [email protected] Metal of Honor Award. He is as the wardrobe supervisor. display at Grounds for Sculpture from the third generation of his in Hamilton, N.J. Images can be 2004 Breann Donnelly family to serve in the military. Nicole Cook resides in Colorado seen at www.ECalderPowel.com. [email protected] Springs, Colo., and is currently Erica Fajge 2004 employed by Peak Vista Hilda Rivera earned her Master’s [email protected] It’s been awhile since we have Community Health Centers of Public Health (MPH) in 2012 shared any updates from the Class Foundation, making sure local from Drexel University. She is 2005 Sarah Holmstrom of 2004. I (Erica, co-editor) have residents facing barriers have a health educator at Thomas [email protected] been teaching English composition access to exceptional healthcare. Jefferson University Hospital, as an adjunct instructor at Manor Center for Urban Health. Bethany O’Brien College in Jenkintown, Pa., since Andrew Gilmore writes, “Since [email protected] September 2013. As a freelance receiving my BA in theater, I have After graduating from Arcadia 2006 Megan C. Corcoran writer, I was recently published been teaching film history classes University, Ashlie Servis earned megan.c.corcoran@ in Philadelphia Magazine, for Mt. Airy Learning Tree since her master’s degree in criminology disney.com while also writing regularly for 2009, in addition to performing in from Saint Joseph’s University. RantLifestyle.com. I also started plays and doing comedy podcasts While attending SJU, she began 2007 Dennis Balyeat my own professional website such as ‘The Chestnut Hill Improv working at A Woman’s Place, [email protected] and blog called Erica Brooke: Group’ (chestnuthillimprovgroup. a domestic violence agency in 2008 Caitlin Rooney Meeker Winning Wordsmith at writerebf. podomatic.com) and ‘SpeedLaughs’ Bucks County, Pa., as a resident [email protected] wordpress.com. Additionally, (tinyurl.com/SpeedLaughs).” counseling advocate at the I have been working with The shelter safe house. She is also a 2009 Barry Hendler Communications Group, a media Randi Hendler married the love program prevention specialist [email protected] production, public relations, of her life, Dan, on March 21. She, at the YWCA, which involves conference planning, and client her husband, and dog are moving teaching prevention-based lessons 2011 Carrie Fillebrown consulting company owned by into a house in the Pine Valley to elementary-aged children. [email protected] Robert Kieserman [program section of Philadelphia. Randi is Kimberly Lane coordinator of the Healthcare going into her fifth year of teaching 2011 [email protected] Administration program]. In in the Philadelphia School District. Rebecca Del Pizzo took home addition to various public relations the blue ribbon at the first-ever Derek Tracey and client projects, I have been Chrissy Hoffman is employed in Western Alumni Tournament [email protected] involved with a new initiative the development department at of Champions equestrian event. 2012 Susan Laverty with the company as an on-air Autism New Jersey. She is engaged Rebecca was the only rider to [email protected] correspondent for Health and to Christopher Toth and resides have competed at the three Wellness (www.healthwellnessweb. in Hightstown, N.J. Chrissy hunter seat alumni events and the 2014 John Doherty com), a new web series welcomed a new family member, Western Alumni Tournament. [email protected] celebrating health care in the Caelynn Anne, last January. Greater Philadelphia region. As Joe Clementi was named the new part of Health and Wellness, I Beth Minkus is the event and men’s soccer coach at Immaculata am hosting my own mini-series private dining manager at the University. He is also working

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as the athletic maintenance a successful way. PHASE One will Jillian Knowles, MSPT works as specialist in the Department assist with startup necessities, such an emergency medicine physician of Athletics. After graduating as business licensing, marketing, assistant in the Philadelphia area. from Arcadia, Joe received his signage, advertising, and more. She is learning to navigate the master’s degree in coaching and medical world as a physician athletic administration from 2013 assistant and honing her skills Concordia University in 2013. Congratulations to Jennifer in emergency medicine. Steiner who was married on 2012 May 16 to Steven Kotch in Congratulations to Claire Markeeta Stokes, MBA has Berwick, Pa. She writes, “We Wolfinger on her marriage to launched a small business spent the honeymoon in Paris Bryan Lanham on December development corporation, PHASE and Amsterdam and now reside 28, 2013 in Damascus, Md. (Philadelphia African American in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. I’m also The bride’s sister, Anne Marie Services for Entrepreneurs) pursuing a Master’s of Science in Wolfinger Mumper ’05, One. PHASE One will serve Human-Computer Interaction stood as Matron of Honor. as a microlender (lending from Iowa State University.” increments of $500 or $1,000) 2014 to start-ups during initial Erik Cwik has been appointed Jennifer Murphy Byrne, DPT is business development, allowing a teaching fellow in the English clinic director at KORT Physical entrepreneurs to begin the next Department at Boston College Therapy in Owensboro, Ky. step of launching new businesses in for the 2014-15 academic year.

In Memorium: Professor Emeritus William Bracy, Ph.D. 1915-2014

Professor Emeritus William Bracy, Ph.D., The Department benefited from Dr. Bracy’s a Shakespearean scholar who taught at gentle, measured, and visionary leadership, Arcadia University for 20 years, died one of the results of which was the expansion on June 25 at his home. He was 99. of Arcadia’s English curriculum to include Dr. Bracy joined the University as an the literature of Asia, well in advance of associate professor of English in 1965, the the articulation of our global mission. He same year he published his second book, and his wife, Addie, who worked in the Dr. Faustus: A Scene-by-Scene Analysis with University’s library, were beloved members of Critical Commentary. He was appointed the Arcadia community. The two were warm full professor at Arcadia in 1969 and and welcoming hosts who opened their home served as chair of the English Department to students and colleagues for celebrations in the 1960s and 1970s. Affectionately and the study of Shakespeare’s works. known within the campus community as Dr. Bracy’s gifts as a teacher of Shakespeare, “Mr. Shakespeare,” he served as director as well as his decades of service to Arcadia of the University’s annual Shakespeare University, were recognized through the recent festival, observing the birth and death of creation—spearheaded by Trustee Joan Brantz the Bard. He received the Lindback Award ’65, a former Community Scholars student for Distinguished Teaching in 1985. of Dr. Bracy’s, and her husband, George Though he retired from full-time teaching Brantz—of the William Bracy Award for in 1985, Dr. Bracy continued to teach in Distinction in Shakespeare Studies. Andrew the Community Scholars program up until Miller ’14 was named the inaugural recipient. his 90s on a variety of topics, including At the request of Mrs. Bracy and Shakespeare, modern drama, and other her family, donations in Dr. Bracy’s cultural interests. Other books Dr. Bracy memory should be made to the “Dr. ▲ published are The Merry Wives of Windsor: William Bracy Award for Excellence in Professor Emeritus William Bracy, Ph.D., a Shakespearean scholar who taught at The History and Transmission of Shakespeare’s Shakespearean Studies” through Arcadia’s Arcadia University for 20 years, died on Text (1952), Early English Drama from the Office of University Advancement. For June 25 at his home. He was 99. Middle Ages to the Early Seventeenth Century those who wish to make a donation in (1966), and Peerless Poet and Patron: Sonnets memory of Dr. Bracy, please note “in in the Shakespearean Mode (2001), which memoriam” along with the fund name also includes original poetry by Dr. Bracy. in the memo portion of your check.

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Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis Dr. Angela Kachuyevski, assistant professor of political science

I am a firm believer in the USSR had been dissolved. We then traveled power of international I had lived through the to Kyiv and to education. As an undergraduate collapse of the Soviet Union. Crimea to meet student, I had the opportunity This remarkable experience with international to study in Moscow. Although shapes who I am as a person, as experts, activists, and I had never been outside of the a scholar, and as a teacher. After non-governmental United States, I was eager to graduation I returned to Russia, organizations. visit the Soviet Union and learn where I lived and worked Students came away as much as possible about what among ordinary Russians. with a sophisticated I perceived as a mysterious, I learned to think through understanding of the tragic, and beautiful country. things from a completely many issues that are It was the fall of 1991, and I different perspective, to accept now fueling violent had more excitement than I that there can be more than conflict in the region. had bargained for as I set off for one way to interpret complex The causes of the Moscow just a few days after the events. I learned that resolving current Ukrainian failed coup against Gorbachev. conflict requires understanding crisis are poorly My semester was filled where others are coming from, captured by with experiences of historic whether or not you agree with competing narratives ▲ Dr. Kachuyevski teaches courses on proportion. I saw children them. I learned that speaking circulating in international relations, peace and climbing on toppled statues more than one language is a the international conflict resolution, and Eastern Europe. of Stalin. I stood in line for gift that allows you deeper media. My goal is to bread as political chaos led insight into other cultures introduce to students to economic panic and food and deeper understanding of both the historical knowledge thus contribute in some small shortages. I met young people politics, conflict, and peace. and the analytic tools needed way to empowering them to my age who had never seen These are skills I hope to to make sense of this ongoing go out into the world and be someone from a different instill in my students. It isn’t tragedy, as well as the many the change they wish to see. country. We spent long hours necessary to spend a semester other global challenges we face. talking about our respective in a collapsing superpower to In so doing, I hope to open countries, what life was like have an invaluable learning their eyes to the complexity of Dr. Kachuyevski may be reached for us, and how surprised experience. The important the world around them and at [email protected]. we were to find how much point is to accept that we were alike. I woke one different experiences lead morning to learn that the to different views, to be exposed to a variety of perspectives on important political events, and to be introduced to a region of the world that is not well understood. Before the current I hope to open crisis, I took several groups of students their eyes to over successive years to Ukraine to study conflict the complexity management. Throughout the semester we studied of the world international efforts to around them. mediate a solution to conflicts dividing Russia and Ukraine, including Crimea’s status, the rights of the Russian minority, and the status and rights of the Crimean Tatars. ▼ Dr. Kachuyevski (front row, far right) and the Honorable Christopher Cerski (back row, second from left) in Kyiv, Ukraine, with students in May 2013.

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