Vol. 11, No. 2, SUMMER 2019

BONAVENTURE TheMagazine of St .Bon aven ture Unive rsity

16 Distance Doesn’t Matter For Dan, ’95, and Gayle Patton, honoring Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., through an endowed scholarship is as natural as the friendship they have shared with “Padre” for nearly 30 years.

18 The 21st Century Library In a digital age of untrustworthy sources, the multitude of benefits offered by a library – and its librarians – are more important than ever.

28 It Takes a Village Head men’s basketball coach Mark Schmidt reflects on the wins on and off the court.

INSIDE Franciscan Minute ...... 4 Reunion Photos ...... 12 The Pathway to Success . . . .14 Class Notes ...... 33

Editor Editorial Contributors Photography Contributors Submit Class Notes: www.SBUmagazine.com Bonaventure Magazine Beth Eberth Susan Anderson, ’11 Danny Bush, ’13, ’15 Address changes: [email protected] P.O. Box 2509 Tom Donahue, ’76 Liam McGurl, ’17, ’19 Additional contacts: 3261 W. State Road Emma Fox, ’22 Office of Alumni Services St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 Liam McGurl, ’17, ’19 www.sbu.edu/alumni (716) 375-2000 Jennifer Pulver (716) 375-2302 [email protected]

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2 President’s Message Lofty aspirations and the path to get there We have an obligation to help students envision their meaningful contributions to society rom the day I became the 21st president of St. Bona- He’s spent summers at our Franciscan Institute and at - venture University, I’ve had one overarching goal: that tended retreats at Mt. Irenaeus. one day I’d be able to look parents squarely in the eye I’m confident Fr. Russel is up to the task because of his di - aFnd tell them, “Your child’s life will be transformed here.” verse background, from his work promoting ecumenical and That’s a lofty aspiration, but most of you understand, in interreligious dialogue the last four years at the General Curia hindsight, that this remarkable institution was a transforma - of the Order of Friars Minor in Rome, to his prior role at tional touchstone in your lives. Siena College, working directly with students as the director Our difficulty has always been figuring out a way to trans - of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy. form our students intentionally, not intuitively, to convince Add to that his experience as an academic in the classroom, their parents with evidence, in foresight, that this place will and I’m not sure we could have found a better candidate. have a profound impact on To be clear, mission integration isn’t a one-person job. Fr. their children’s personal Russel will only serve as the beacon to guide our entire cam - and professional lives. pus community down this path. Fifty years ago, almost 50 It’s imperative that faith-based schools like St. Bonaventure friars and sisters served as create a culture where mission integration is top of mind faculty or staff at Bona’s. across the institution so we can educate students to shape the Probably 90% of our stu - future we want. We have an obligation to help students envi - dents were Catholic. Mis - sion their meaningful contributions to society. sion integration was Catholic universities are of vital importance in today’s wrapped in brown robes world. The real impact of a St. Bonaventure education is ulti - and black habits and didn’t mately dependent on our ability to embed and integrate our really need to be purpose - Franciscan mission and values in every aspect of our work. fully artic ulated. We’ve done that at Bona’s for more than 160 years. Nicole 2019 is a stark contrast. Antonacci is a perfect example. Nicole just earned her MBA Fewer than 20 friars com - this May after finishing her BA in psychology in 2018. bined are on campus and at But instead of immediately joining the workforce, Nicole is Mt. Irenaeus. Less than two-thirds of our students are Catholic devoting a year of service to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, help - and an ever-increasing number come to us having practiced no ing to teach middle school kids in San Diego to express them - organized religion at all growing up. selves though art and poetry. But students still thirst for meaning in their lives, perhaps “Something I learned at Bonaventure,” Nicole said, “is that more so now than ever as our society becomes more politically there is so much beauty in uncertainty. This lesson gave me fractured and insular. Young people want to connect with each the courage to set my MBA aside, put my faith in God first, other and the world in more meaningful and purposeful ways and dedicate this year to serving as a Jesuit Volunteer.” and I know St. Bonaventure can show them how to do it. All we need to do now is structure our institutional efforts — In my first months on campus, I formed a campus-based inside and outside the classroom — more formally to ensure Commission on University Mission. The commission was that all of our students are realizing the life-changing experi - charged with revising our mission statement and values (see ence Nicole Antonacci had. page 4), solidifying our relationships with Mt. Irenaeus and Holy Name Province, and — perhaps most important — articu - lating a rationale to hire a vice president for Mission Integra - tion. Fr. Russel Murray, O.F.M., emerged from a national search this spring and begins work in August, but it won’t be his first Dr. Dennis R. DePerro trip to Bonaventure. St. Bonaventure President

St. Bonaventure University Board of Trustees* Robert J. Daugherty, ’77 Michael A. Anderson, ’77 Michael E. Hill, ’96 Les Palm Ann Swan Board Chair Steven G. Barry, ’88 Fr. Linh N. Hoang, O.F.M. Richard A. Penna, ’68 Lynda M. Wilhelm, ’86 Kathleen A. Colucci, ’77 Lana D. Benatovich Fr. Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., ’05 Very Rev. John E. Puodziunas, O.F.M. First Vice Chair Janet I. Bodnar, ’71 Albert C. Horton, ’66 Bill Purcell Trustees Emeriti Daniel F. Collins, ’73 Kevin A. Cleary, ’02 Bharat Kohli Leslie C. Quick III, L.H.D., ’75 Raymond C. Dee, L.H.D., ’64 Second Vice Chair Fr. Thomas E. Conway, O.F.M. William J. Lawley Jr., ’85 Carol A. Schumacher, ’78 John R. "Jack" McGinley, L.H.D., ’65 Timothy J. Finan Dr. Dennis DePerro Cindy Abbott Letro John D. Sheehan, ’82 Charles Osgood, L.H.D. Vice Chair for Academic Excellence Michael T. Fossaceca, ’88 Paul C. McDonald, ’80 James E. Stitt Laurie A. Branch, ’04 Thomas M. Garvey, ’74 Yvonne Minor-Ragan Marvin W. Stocker, ’65 Board Secretary Deb A. Henretta, ’83 Very Rev. Kevin J. Mullen, O.F.M. * Board members as of May 31, 2019

SUMMER 2019 3 Franciscan Minute Ensuring a strong foundation of community at SBU

By Fr. Francis Di Spigno, O.F.M. Bonaventure says, “… there should be no St. Bonaventure Values knowledge without love.” St. Bonaventure Informed by our Franciscan Charism, ’m sure you’ve heard the expression, knew that the life of the mind must be con - we are a COMMUNITY … “The more things change, the more they nected to the love of the heart, for “knowledge … nurturing COMPASSION . stay the same.” Here at St. Bonaventure, without love is in vain.” What is learned in the … seeking WISDOM. tIhere are a lot of changes taking place, not to classroom, the residence halls, the chapel and … building I NTEGRITY. return to what was but to build what is to locker rooms must be integrated to who we come. are in the world. foundation of our community re- One of the changes is the rewording of our The question of our university’s values was mains strong and stable. mission statement and a new set of univer - a different story. There were several univer - Despite these important changes, sity values. It is not a coincidence that this is sity “values” flouting around so it was clear one thing that won’t change is intro- happening in conjunction with the upcoming that we needed to create one set of values that ducing our Franciscan charism to arrival of our new mission officer. define who we are today. After numerous the next generation. conversations, a survey of our alumni, stu - In early July, the University Min- St. Bonaventure Mission Statement dents, faculty and staff, and consultation with istries team spent an afternoon and St. Bonaventure is a Catholic university the administration and Board of Trustees, we evening with our 2019 Orientation dedicated to educational excellence as in - knew first and foremost that St. Bonaventure Team at Mt. Irenaeus (pictured formed by our Franciscan and liberal arts tra - is a community. below). It was a wonderful time to- ditions. In the words of our patron, we We then set out to name exactly what type gether in that gorgeous setting. The believe that there should be “no knowledge of community is at the core of who we are, highlight was the incredible sharing without love,” and thus seek to transform the what holds us together, and what drives us on that took place during the Mass in lives of our students, inspiring in them a life - long commitment to service and citizenship.

St. Bonaventure embraces students, faculty and staff of all faiths and cultures and strives to bring out the best in every individual through meaningful relationships. As an aca - demic and spiritual community, we endeavor to prepare our students for the challenges they will face in their professional careers and personal lives.

Any successful organization knows how im - portant it is to have solid mission and values statements. They define us; remind us who we are, what we do, and why we do it. From the very first time Dr. Dennis De - Perro spoke on campus as our president, it was apparent that he not only understood toward the future. We are a community nur - the chapel as we brought the day to that but embraced it wholeheartedly. We are turing compassion , seeking wisdom , and a close. grateful! building integrity . Although not everyone was In June, Dr. DePerro announced that Fr. The primary Franciscan value that we offer Catholic, everyone knew the Fran- Russel Murray, O.F.M., will become the vice the world is community. We are a community ciscan spirit was alive and well. A bit president for Mission and Integration (see of people who like each other and who, at overwhelmed with the experience of page 3). A Presidential Commission on Uni - times, don’t. We are a community of people acceptance and love that was in the versity Mission had recommended the uni - who have similar thoughts, and sometimes, chapel that night, one of the stu- versity reestablish the office for Mission not. But, as a community, we know that our dents quietly said to me, “Religion Integration, update the SBU mission state - common unity flows out of our respectful ex - wasn’t like this when I was growing ment to make it relevant to today’s experi - change of our differences as well as our joyful up,” to which I replied, “That’s why ence, and “identify a list of Franciscan values recognition that we are Bonnies. we do it.” unique to the university and specifically con - As a community that nurtures compassion That’s why the Franciscan charism nected to our patron, St. Bonaventure.” we recognize that everyone is created in God’s and spirituality are so vital to the The substance of our mission statement did image and likeness, so we strive to echo God’s who, what, and why of St. Bonaven- not change but it now frames the spirit and unconditional love for one another. As an in - ture. It is what makes us different. words of St. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio. stitution of higher learning we not only focus It is what makes us, us. Taken from his Itinerarium Mentis in on acquiring knowledge, but also on becom - Fr. Francis Di Spigno is executive Deum/The Soul’s Journey into God , ing wise. We prize the value of integrity so the director of University Ministries.

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Matt DiRisio, ’10 , is a co-author of Sr. Elise Saggau, ’94, has completed can magazine to actor Martin Sheen. “Lessons Learned: Battlefield Decep - writing a history of her religious commu - In addition, the popu - tion.” A compilation of vignettes taken nity. “The Franciscan larity of the recent from history, the book takes a sneak Sisters of Little Falls, award-winning film “At peek behind the curtain of battlefield Minnesota: A Journey Eternity’s Gate” caused a wizardry, showing to New Frontiers, 1950- reissue of the 1983 grad - how both ancient 2018,” is a 434-page pa - uate’s book “Blessed and modern com - perback published by Twilight: The Life of Vin - manders wove the Vesuvius Press in cent van Gogh,” a first- dark art of deception Phoenix, Arizona. It can person account of the into their victories. be purchased by calling artist’s life. It recounts desper - Jan at 320-632-0604. ate deceptions that The $30 price includes tax, postage, and turned certain anni - handling. Mark Macedonia, ’82, is the author hilation into victory, of “The Soles of Cyrus Eblis,” which was engages the leader - published Feb. 5. ship dilemmas of risk and reward when JG “Greg” Faherty’s sixth novel, “Hell - Eighteenth century Lynn, Massachu - lives and equipment are on the line, and rider,” will be published in August through setts, is a tranquil and prosperous hub for examines the tightrope balance between Flame Tree Press. “Hellrider” is a supernat - the colonial shoemaking industry until the battlefield deception and honor. ural thriller with darkly comic overtones. “If arrival of a dark and mysterious stranger Described as “the perfect tool for edu - Quentin Tarantino remade ‘Sons of Anar - who brings a new and cating leaders during professional devel - chy’ with ghosts, heavy metal-spouting psy - diabolical meaning to opment sessions,” the book explores chopaths, and a surprising love story, you’d the manufacturing of military deception through the venera - have something like this book,” said Fa - soles. ble lenses of Sun Tzu and Carl von herty. “Fans of classic On the eve of the Clausewitz, all the way up to Norman ’80s horror will love it.” American Revolution, Schwarzkopf in the present day. New York Times best- as the North American selling author Jonathan continent is on the Maberry (“Code Zero,” verge of a profound Babatunde Adekson, Ph.D., ’03, “Rot and Ruin”) de - transformation that will is the author of “Supervision and Treat - scribes it as “A thunder alter the course of world ment Experiences of Probationers with and muscle ride history, a New England teenager living Mental Illness: Analyses of Contempo - through dangerous ter - and working in Lynn is thrust unwittingly rary Issues in Community Corrections.” ritory. Fun, wicked, and to the forefront of a more menacing con - Emerging from a qualitative research unrelenting. A horror flict — a terrifying battle with a demonic study on the rehabilitation experiences thriller that breaks the rules and the speed presence that has its roots in an ancient of adult male proba - limit at the same time.” universal war between good and evil. tioners with mental The book will be available through all Macedonia is a social studies teacher for health illness, this standard outlets. For more information, the Seneca Valley School District in west - book describes the visit www.jgfaherty.com. ern Pennsylvania, where he teaches AP treatment and reha - Faherty, Class of 1984, is the award-nomi - world history and honors United States bilitation experi - nated author of “Carnival of Fear,” “Ceme - history to sophomores and freshmen. ences of these tery Club,” and “The Burning Time” (which “The Soles” is available from online and individuals and con - takes place in a town that readers will rec - other booksellers. For more information, textualizes their ex - ognize is very similar to Olean). He lives in visit cyruseblis.com. periences within the the haunted Hudson Valley of New York landscape of mental and is hard at work on his next book. health treatment in the United States. Michael Ryan, ’77, published a new Often underserved in outpatient com - book, “Make Your Career Go BOOM! Not munity support programs, probationers Bob Kunzinger’s new book of essays, Bust: Practical tips to succeed in an ever- with mental health illness (PMIs) face “A Third Place: Notes on Nature,” is avail - changing world.” stigma and obstacles in seeking mental able from Madville Press of Texas, Amazon, Legendary business author Ken Blan - health treatment and rehabilitation. The and bookstores worldwide. His award-win - chard calls it “one of the best self-help book offers insights into the study of ning essays in this collection have been books I have read.” stigma as it relates to probationers and praised by writers including Tim O’Brien Universities across the country are the work of probation officers in further - and Sam Pickering and have been described using the book to prepare their soon-to- ing treatment and rehabilitation options as mesmerizing by NPR’s Jacki Lyden. be graduates for the realities of building a for PMIs. This is Kunzinger’s eighth collection of es - career and businesses use the book to Adekson is a writer and researcher at says, including the notable “Penance: Walk - provide employees with a competitive Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State ing with the Infant,” which was celebrated edge, said Ryan, who travels extensively University. by diverse audiences from Inside the Vati - >>

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giving talks and presentations regarding become the reader’s very own Philosophy those who clean the hotel rooms, tend concepts in the book. of Living and Leading. the beet fields, endure disasters both “Make Your Career Go BOOM!” is a LeBoeuf held various staff and leader - natural and man - fast- paced, easy-to-read book packed ship positions in the Army, as well as fly - made.” wi th 40 tips for thriving ing UH-1 helicopters in the continental Spanning three in life and in business. U.S. and Europe. She was professor and presidents – Bush, There is no sugarcoat - head of the Department of Physical Edu - Obama, and Trump – ing. Just solid advice cation at the United States Military Acad - Barry crisscrossed the people can apply right emy at West Point, from 1997 until her nation, filling deeply away to make their ca - retirement in 2004. moving narrative reers go BOOM and snapshots paired with avoid going Bust. Peo - visual snapshots from ple need to drive their Ron Iannone, ’62 , professor in the award-winning Times photographers of career car, not sit in the College of Education and Human Services locations from the tiniest dot on the map back or stay stuffed in at West Virginia University and founder to the city that calls itself the Capital of the trunk. His advice of West Virgini a Public Theatre, has pub - the World. puts people firmly behind the wheel. lished two books. In addition, he will be This is the fifth book by Barry, also the Ryan, an award-winning journalist and going back to the theater to help with author of “The Boys in the Bunkhouse,” business executive, is a former vice presi - fundraising and audience development. which was selected as the All Bonaven - dent at The Ar izona Republic. He is pres - His first book, “School Ain’t No Way/Ap - ture Reads book for 2016-17. ident of Ryan Media Consultants, a palachian Conscien - strategic communications and marketing tiousness,” was company. He and his wife, Margaret, live written several years Rosemary Proe in Gulf Breeze, Florida. The book is ago as an attempt to Aubert, a member of available exclusively on Amazon. offer a curriculum the Class of 1968, has that was more hu - published her 20th manistic and relevant book and fifth poetry In the new self-published book, “Devel - to the lives of poorer collection, “Strong, oping Your Philosophy of Living & Lead - and rural children. Certain and Alone: ing One Moment at a Time,” Brig. Gen. Specifically, an exper - Poems in the Voice of (Retired) Maureen K. LeBoeuf, imental program was Isaac Newton” (Carrick Ed.D., ’76, shares the stories that have designed and implemented for 34 middle Publishers, 2018). affected not only how she lives her life, school students. The results were shared but also how she overcame obstacles, in a daily journal format. broke through barriers His second book, “A Not So Normal A professor’s new book serves as a and grew to become an Family,” takes place in Port Byron, New guide for understanding and combating unexpected yet out - York. One of the major characters, Bo- one of the most pressing concerns of col - standing leader start - Jean Franklin, was a victim of violence lege students today: stress. ing at a very early age. when she was 12. Now, several years later, “Rethinking Stress in an Age of Ease: A Beginning with funny she is twice divorced and sharing her two Field Manual for Students of all Ages” is anecdotes about what daughters with her ex. As the man con - the third book by William Elenchin, life was like as the fifth victed for the violent attack many years Ph.D ., associate professor of sociology of nine children in a ago is set to be released on parole, things and chair of the Department of Sociology family led by a strict come to a head for Bo-Jean and her fam - and Criminology at St. Bonaventure. but loving Irish Catholic father and a ily. Both books are available at the Book brilliant and equally loving mother, Exchange and Amazon. >>> WE LOVE MAIL! LeBoeuf recounts how a golf ball through We are happy to print brief sum - a window, a red ribbon, a broken ukulele maries of new books, CDs and other and other childhood memories each con - New York Times columnist Dan Barry, multimedia works published by tributed to an important life lesson. ’80 , is the author of “This Land: Amer - SBU alumni, faculty and staff. She also shares significant experiences ica, Lost and Found,” published last Send a copy of the book or collected during 28 years in the U.S. September. Selected from a decade CD and summary press release Army. Using these experiences, LeBoeuf of his distinctive “This Land” to [email protected] or via developed a written doctrine – a Leader - columns, Barry presents a “powerful snail mail to : ship Philosophy – which she was able to but rarely seen portrait of America.” Bonaventure magazine rely on with confidence. An educator at Barry began “This Land” in 2007 in the P.O. Box 2509 heart, LeBoeuf concludes the book by wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve St. Bonaventure University guiding her readers through the exer - of a national recession aiming to write St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 cises of selecting the values most impor - columns about America – “not the one All books mailed to the magazine tant to them, defining those values and populated only by cable-news pundits, but are shared with Friedsam Memorial turning those same values into what will the America defined and redefined by Library for its collection.

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“Psychological and soci - ological research tell us that levels of depression and anxiety have in - creased dramatically, es - pecially over the last 30 years,” he noted. “That is really the core of what the book is about, that social dynamic of how, as things have become easier, levels of stress have ac - tually increased instead of decreased.”

At its dawn in the early 20th century, the new technology of aviation posed a crucial question to American and British cavalry: What do we do with the airplane? Lacking the hindsight of historical perspective, cav - alry planners based their decisions on incom - plete information. “Harnessing the Air - plane” by Dr. Lori A. Henning, assistant pro - fessor of history at St. Members of the Class of 2023 get to know each other during Orientation ice breaker activi - Bonaventure, compares ties in July. Second from the right is freshman Houston Tyree, who you may have seen on the how the American and university’s Instagram account sharing videos about being #BonaBound and the transition British armies dealt with to college. Follow our account @Stbonaventureuniversity. this unique challenge. This book examines the ramifi - cations of technological in - ENROLLMENT NEWS novation and its role in the fraught relationship that developed between tradi - Bona’s tops 500 freshmen again tional ground units and emerging air forces. Henning shows that the American and For the second straight year, more than 500 freshmen have confirmed for British experiences with military aviation dif - fall classes at St. Bonaventure, giving the university its two largest freshman fered. The nascent British aviation service classes in the last 11 years. made quicker inroads into reconnaissance “St. Bonaventure offers a transformative education, and we’re pleased that and scouting, even though the British cavalry our value is being recognized both regionally and nationally,” said Bernie Va - was the older institution with more estab - lento, vice president for enrollment. “Having two consecutive classes surpass lished traditions. The American cavalry, de - 500 students is testament to the work being done across the entire university spite its youth, contested the control of to let students and families know that SBU is the right choice.” reconnaissance as late as the 1930s, years St. Bonaventure was ranked No. 1 in New York and No. 2 in the North on after similar arguments ended in Britain. U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 list of best regional university values. “Harnessing the Airplane: American and Strong numbers for the second straight year from the schools of Education British Cavalry Responses to a New Technol - and Business, plus new majors in criminology and health science, helped the ogy, 1903-1939” was published by the Uni - university achieve its enrollment goal. versity of Oklahoma Press. “We have been committed to developing academic programs that meet market demand to ensure sustainability,” said Dr. Dennis R. DePerro, uni - versity president. Dr. Chris Mackowski’s publisher, Savas Broadcast journalism and sports media were approved as majors for this Beatie, is releasing 10 of his Civil War books coming fall in the Jandoli School of Communication. on audio. As part of the project, Mackowski, a St. Bonaventure’s summer and fall graduate confirmations are up 39% professor of journalism and mass communi - from 2018 to 2019, Valento said. cation at St. Bonaventure, was invited to do “We continue to do extremely well in our online graduate counseling pro - the narration for several of them. grams, and our new master’s program in cybersecurity is growing nicely,” he The first, his most recent, “The Great Battle said. Never Fought: The Mine Run Campaign,” Later this year, the university will begin renovations of historic Francis was released in mid-April. Mackowski’s au - Hall, the future home of the School of Health Professions. The school began diobooks are available on Audible, Amazon, offering undergraduate classes in 2017, and graduate programs in physician iTunes, and other major audiobook retailers. assistant studies and occupational therapy are being developed.

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English professor Simpson awarded receives fellowship $119,373 NSF Dr. Megan Walsh, chair of the research grant Department of English, was Dr. Scott Simpson, assis - awarded a 2019-2020 National tant professor of chemistry, Endowment for the Humanities has been awarded nearly fellowship at the American Anti - $120,000 in grant funding quarian Society. for research from the Na - This award grants Walsh sup - tional Science Foundation. port for four months of resi - The grant, which awards dency to work at the AAS, a $119,373 to Simpson’s re - major independent research li - search group, is titled, “Col - brary. The AAS-NEH fellowship laborative Research: was awarded for research on her Fundamental Studies on third academic book project, the Environ - “Bad Archives: Extra-Illustration mental Fate of and the History of Information Short-Chain Management in the United A salute to scholarship and Emerging States.” Courage and the strong support of community highlighted the an - Fluorinated Walsh’s project examines the nual scholarship luncheon held on campus May 3. Pictured with Alkyl Sub - history of libraries, data collec - President Dr. Dennis R. DePerro are (from left) Amina Golden-Ara - stances Using Mass-Spec - tion, a nd the organization of baty and Rebekah Liszewski, members of the Class of 2019, who trometry and Molecular knowledge in the United States in served as guest speakers for the event and represented the 572 stu - Modelling.” the 19th century. She is investi - dents who received scholarships this past academic year. The grant helps Simpson gating the critically understudied, and student researchers but hugely important, practice of identify per-fluoroalkyl and extra-illustration — readers ALL BONAVENTURE READS poly-fluoroalkyl substances, would cut up and then glue his - known as PFASs, which are torical documents, pictures, and Memoir ‘Dear America’ chosen compounds that are emerg - other valuable texts into rare ing environmental contami - books, often “ruining” them in the for this year’s all-campus read nants widely used in eyes of modern librarians and cu - products such as firefight - rators. St. Bonaventure has chose n “Dear America: Notes of ing foams, ingredients in With the explosion of print at an Undocumented Citizen” by Jose Antonio Vargas as its textiles, and food contact the beginning of the 19th century, All Bonaventure Reads (ABR) book for 2019-2020. materials. readers created countless scrap - “Dear America” tells the story of Pulitzer-Prize win - Studies have shown a rise books, blank forms, systems for ning journalist Jose Antonio in cholesterol levels among note taking, and card catalogs to Vargas and his journey through those exposed to these com - organize the vast amount of de - life as an undocumented immi - pounds while more limited tails and data that they had begun grant in the United States. populations have experi - to encounter daily. With passion and ambition, Vargas expresses what it enced infant birth weights, means to be an illegal citizen effects on the immune sys - in a time where fear for being tem, cancer, and thyroid deported is at its highest. hormone disruption. Vargas, who was born in the Philippines, says his memoir is “not a book about the politics of immi - 25 gration. This book is about The number of years homelessness, not in a traditional sense, but in since the founding the unsettled, unmoored psychological of the women’s state that undocumented immigrants like myself find studies program! ourselves in.” An Emmy-nomin ated filmmaker and Tony-nominated The university producer, Vargas is a 2004 graduate of San Francisco marked the occasion State University. during a March An elementary school named after him will open in his hometown of Mountain View, California, this fall. lecture series.

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BOARD LEADERSHIP PUTTING A FACE ON HOMELESSNESS QCA exhibition captures dignity of region’s homeless; incorporates social justice opportunity for students A ne w exhibition that opens this dents to provide items and food fall at the Regina A. Quick Center that will benefit the homeless. To for the Arts will help museum vis - do this, the Quick Center is part - Sheehan, ’82, elected chair of SBU itors put real faces to the chronic nering with the university’s Fran - community concern of homeless - ciscan Center for Social Concern Board of Trustees; Henretta, ’83, ness. (FCSC) to provide an introduction and Hill, ’96, elected officers “Out of Darkness: Putting A Face to the work of the FCSC as well as on Homelessness” is a por - John “Duffy” Sheehan, ’82, has been named chair trait series by Gary L. of St. B onaventure’s Board of Trustees. Wolfe o f Buffalo. The exhi - Sheehan takes over for Bob Daugherty, ’77, who bition, originally displayed will pass the gavel to Sheehan after a four-year term in 2013, will feature por - as chair. traits of 29 people Wolfe Deb Henretta, ’83, was elected vice chair, and met through the Matt Michael Hill, ’96, was elected secretary. Urban Hope Center on Sheehan is the senior vice president and chief fi - Buffalo’s East Side. nancial officer at Terex Corporation in Westport, “The primary goal of this Connecticut. She ehan was elected to the Board of project has been to raise Trustees in 2015 and has served the last two years public awareness of the as the chair of the Finance Committee. plight of the homeless Henretta is a partner at G100 Companies, a C- through portraits painted Suite Leadership Development company, while in a technique that cap - “Al in the Night” (2013) is from the collection of also serving as vice chair of SSA & Company (a tured not only the vulner - Dr. Michael Wood. G100 company). She served on the Board of ability and social Trustees from 2003 until 2008 and rejoined in alienation experienced by these various volunteer opportunities. 2016. She is chair of the Branding, Marketing and individuals, but also their human Two other exhibitions will open Communications Committee. dignity and the hope to which they with the fall semester on Aug. 26: Hill was appointed president of Chautauqua In - cling,” Wolfe says in his artist “The Sublime in the Common - stitution in 2017 and has been a trustee since 2013. sta tement. place: the sculpture of Conrad He was director of the Regina A. Quick Center for Wolfe has invited several mem - Levenson” will be featured in the the Arts at SBU from 1999-2002. bers of the homeless community atrium and front gallery through Four trustees stepped off the board in June: who sat for the portraits to attend Dec. 1, while “Microcosm,” featur - Bharat Kohli, Les Palm, Les Quick, ’75, and Marv the opening on Sept. 13. The exhi - ing photographs by internation - Stocker, ’65. Coming onto the board in September bition will be on display in the ally known photographers will be Luke H. Brown, ’89, Mark Gianniny, Laurie Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery Beatrice Pedicone and Yasuko R. Krupa, ’82, and the Hon. James T. Walsh, ’70. on the Quick Center’s second floor. Oki, will be featured in the mezza - In the two weeks between the nine gallery. This exhibition, cu - exhibition opening and the artist’s rated by photographer Barbara University names founding director Sept. 29 gallery talk, the Quick Luisi, will feature a gallery talk on of Occupational Therapy program Center will challenge SBU stu - Nov. 14. Joseph Pellerito Jr., Ph.D., OTR/L, has been named the founding director of the occupational therapy program at St. Bonaventure. Since 2017, he has been the director and associ - $1.7 million ate professor of occupational therapy at American International College in Springfield, Massachu - The amount of money awarded to St. Bonaventure setts. Pellerito earned his Ph.D. in medical sociology University students through endowed and annually from Wayne State University; his master’s degree in funded scholarships during the 2018-2019 academic technology in special education and rehabilitation year. When you endow a scholarship, you create a from The Johns Hopkins University; and his bache - lor’s degree in occupational therapy from Western permanent and critical legacy of support for Michigan University’s Lee Honors College. deserving students.

SUMMER 2019 9 A Great- Great-Great- Great Story Founding president of St. Bonaventure’s By Tom Missel College, Italian friar Fr. Pamfilo da Magliano (top portrait). ourteen years ago, an email from an aunt to a sister started His grand-grand- a chain of events that culmi - grand-grandniece nated on a Reilly Center stage with a Flavia Pietrobat - moment that “felt like a fairy tale.” tista, a member of FA young woman from a small village in SBU’s Class of Italy, who needed two chances to pass 2019 (right). the English language exam before she could begin her freshman year, closed the student address May 19 at St. Bona- venture’s 159th Commencement with this, first in elegant Italian and then in looking for the family Pietrobattista.’ With a shocked look the woman said, fluent English: ‘It’s my family,’” said Sr. Margaret. “Feeling as though I was about to faint, I said, ‘Signora, I am the presi - “As the grand-grand-grand- dent of St. Bonaventure University.’” grandniece of our founding friar, The woman invited her into her home, located her daughter Laura — who allow me to offer a blessing to had emailed the president in 2005 but never replied to Sister’s response — you, my dear classmates: and over the next three hours Sr. Margaret met 20 members of the Pietro - Congratulations and many wishes battista family. for a bright future for all of you.” One of the youngest Pietrobattistas was 10-year-old Flavia. Two years later, 21 family members came to Allegany to celebrate the uni - SBU’s Founding Family versity’s 150th anniversary. In 2006, spurred by a dead-end “I was really excited to come here the first time with my parents,” said email she received the year before from Flavia, who graduated in May, magna cum laude, with a degree in interna - an Italian woman named Laura Pietro - tional studies and a minor in international business. “Even the architecture battista, then-University President Sr. of the university reminded me a lot of Italy. It felt like home.” Margaret Carney, O.S.F., walked the Four years later, she visited the area again with her sister, Giulia, and real - streets of the little town of Magliano ized, “I really wanted to come study here.” Dei Marsi, searching for relatives of the Unable to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) on her man — Fr. Pamfilo da Magliano — who first attempt after her senior year of high school, Flavia came to St. Bona- founded the university and served as venture in the spring of 2015, not as an official student but for a trial run, to its first president from 1859-1867. sit in on classes to work on her English skills and get acclimated to campus “I noticed an elderly woman sweep - life. ing off her stoop. I approached her and She spent half her time on campus, and half with Bob and Kim Donius at asked, ‘Signora, can you help me. I am their home in nearby Alfred.

10 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE The Doniuses were on the pilgrimage when Sr. Margaret met Flavia in 2006, and had be - come good friends with her parents over the en - suing years. Bob teaches in the Department of Theology and Franciscan Studies, and was SBU’s vice president of University Ministries for nine years. Language was the highest hurdle Flavia had to get over, but a deep desire to master English en - abled her to pass the IELTS (Inter national Eng - lish Language Testing System) exam so she could get her student visa to enroll at Bona’s in the fall of 2015. “One of the challenges in learning a foreign language is becoming unafraid to make a mis - take,” Donius said, “but because Kim (Donius) knows Italian and has taught it, she was able to say to Flavia, ‘Don’t worry about making mis - takes.’ … It was a joy to see her flourish, and she’s really become a scholar of the language.”

Her Extended Bonaventure Family The willingness of the Doniuses, empty- nesters with four grown children, to open their home to Flavia played a vital role in her success at Bonaventure. “Once I saw how Kim and Bob just naturally took her in as part of the family, it made all the difference in the world,” Sr. Margaret said. “She not only had a place to go, but they were that mentor, that friend, that go-to person she could talk with if things weren’t going well. And they didn’t do it out of obligation, they were happy to do it. … “Seeing how far she has come, and watching her walk down the aisle at Commencement, I was overwhelmed,” she said. “It was like a fairy tale.” Flavia is indebted to the Doniuses for open - ing their home, and their hearts, to her. “They’ve meant a lot to me. They helped me get through the whole process to get here, writ - Above, Flavia Pietrobattista, gives the student address at May’s Commencement Cere - ing recommendation letters, letting me live mony. Top photo, she is pictured with Bob and Kim Donius (center) and her sister Giulia. with them for the first six months, keeping a room for me the entire four years when I wanted to visit,” Flavia said. “They are just like seeing one of his family members benefit from his sacrifice.” my parents.” The reverence the Pietrobattistas have always had for Fr. Pamfilo — the Bob Donius said Flavia’s parents were over - family has some of his textbooks, an oil portrait of him sent from America, whelmed with joy Commencement weekend, and a marble plaque on the house announcing the place of his birth — has not only watching their daughter give the stu - not been lost on Flavia. dent address, but for all the support she re - “I feel his presence all the time,” she said. “The portrait of him in the ceived during her time at Bonaventure. Quick Center with all of the other university presidents — every time I pass “I really got choked up during the Baccalaure - by, I just need to stop and look at it and thank him for this opportunity. I ate Mass hearing that line in the Bonaventure would hope he would be so proud of me. Even though I obviously never Blessing song about the founders,” Bob said. “I met him, I always feel a connection with him.” really felt like we wanted to do this for Pamfilo. In the end, Flavia leaves St. Bonaventure with the same feeling so many He sacrificed so much to come to the United graduates have. States and, 160 years later, we got to be part of “The community here — the people, the professors and the friars — they really want to help people achieve what they want in life,” she said. “You’re Learn more about the university’s founders on the not just a number here. They really make you feel like you matter as ’ Archives website at archives.sbu.edu. an individual.”

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Members of the St. Bonaventure community put their hands together for this photo by Liam McGurl, ’17, ’19. Pictured (clockwise, beginning with the friar’s hand): Fr. Michael Calabria, O.F.M., who is wearing jewelry representative of the Islamic world alongside his Tau cross ring; Matthew Tyssee, ’20; lacrosse player Cian Collins, ’22; Bona Wolf Noah Casillas, ’22; Spectrum member Emma Fox, ’22; ROTC cadet Eoin Hart, ’21; lacrosse player John Fox, ’22; Jenadiah Morrell, ’20; and Amina Golden-Arabaty, ’19. All in for The Bonaventure Fund From boosting scholarship aid to Marisol Woods-Jones, ’22 , is a enhancing the living & learning double major in English and experience at St. Bonaventure Spanish from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Included in her list of University, your gift to The Bonaventure literary skills is slam poetry, a Fund makes all the difference. special type of poem that tends to tell an intense story through both Huge thanks to the more than 4,200 the words and the voice of the alumni and friends who contributed performer. Armed with passion and creativity, Woods-Jones is one of more than $2.55 million to the fund Bona’s talented young poets. this past fiscal year. The bonds of Bonaventure are stronger because Learn more about of you! Marisol Woods-Jones and view “A Love Poem,” written and The following are a few of the performed by her: students whose lives you touch www.sbu.edu/MarisolWoodsJones with every gift.

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With computers and the concepts sur - rounding the devices ever evolving, Zachary Delardi, ’21, has risen to the challenge. The computer science and cy - bersecurity double major from Monroe, New York, spends hours analyzing mal - ware, breaking viruses, or reading up on the latest information about artificial in - telligence, data mining, machine learn - ing, and more.

Read Zach Delardi’s story and view his video: www.sbu.edu/ZacharyDelardi

A family friend introduced Syracuse, New York, native Kaylee Brabham, ’19 , to St. Bonaventure. Graduated in May Being a triplet belonging to a pair with degrees in health science and biol - of Bona alumni, Victoria “Tori” ogy, Brabham will begin the doctor of Wangler, ’21 , has found herself per - chiropractic program at the University of fectly at home at Bonaventure. She Western States in Oregon this fall. She works for the university’s Depart - said her time at Bona’s was filled with ment of English and the Laurel, rigorous coursework and caring profes - which is the country’s oldest stu - sors. Brabham especially appreciated the dent-run and continuously pub - attention given to her by Dr. Claire Wat - lished college literary magazine. son, director of the public health pro - From Honeoye Falls, New York, gram (pictured with Brabham and the Wangler is a double major in pro - SimMan Essential manikin), who men - fessional & creative writing and tored her in a number of ways. English, as well as a Spanish minor.

Learn about Kaylee Brabham’s first interaction Enjoy a Q&A with the simulation manikin: with Tori Wangler: www.sbu.edu/KayleeBrabham www.sbu.edu/VictoriaWangler

Stories like these grow out of gifts like yours. Make your annual contribution now & create a strong start for the new semester! Donate online at www.sbu.edu/donate or return the enclosed envelope with your gift. Your donation will go to work immediately for students like Marisol, Zachary, Tori and Kaylee.

Serving in the Franciscan spirit University members gathered at the Hyatt Regency in Rochester on May 2 to celebrate the lives of five exemplary individuals who express Franciscan values in all they do. Surrounding master of ceremonies Jim Aroune, ’87, are 2019 Gaudete Medal Awardees (from left) Adam, ’88, and Andrea, ’90 (MSED), Jablonski, founders/directors, Building Futures, Inc.; Carm Urzetta, ’65, special assistant to the president, Bishop Kearney High School; St. Bonaventure Presi - dent Dr. Dennis R. DePerro; Lauren Dixon, chief exec - utive officer, and Mike Schwabl, president, Dixon Schwabl, an integrated marketing and advertising agency.

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Alumnus Dan Patton, ’95 (center), is pictured with Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., and University President Dr. Dennis DePerro. Distance doesn’t matter By Susan Anderson, ’11

ore than a decade has passed since they last sat It was a rough beginning for Patton. across from each other. More than 1,800 miles Never a strong student in high school when it came to tests, separates them, and 28 years have flown by since he had to study twice as hard. He also struggled with whether they first met in Francis Hall. he wanted to continue his diving career at Bona’s. MBut for Dan Patton,’95, and Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., But Fr. Rich’s presence made all the difference. the strong bond forged between them at Bona’s will last for - ever. Throughout our years at St. Bonaventure we A scholarship as a diver for the swim team brought Patton have been given a vision, to look into the from Buffalo to St. Bonaventure. Fr. Rich’s friendship and guidance kept him here, helping him graduate with honors and future with an appreciation of the past.” move on to the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Richmond, Virginia. “ Today, Patton and his wife, Gayle, of Houston, Texas, have “Fr. Rich became a father figure to me during a scary time,” established the Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., Endowed Schol - Patton said. arship to pay tribute to that friendship. He helped lighten the mood in Francis by rearranging small items on Patton’s perfectly ordered side of the room. It became a Over the last four years we have created a joke for Fr. Rich and Patton’s roommates to figure out which ob - past that is unique and distinct to the ject was askew. community of St. Bonaventure University. Fr. Rich was the person who coordinated many conversations with financial aid staff to allow Patton to get the necessary fi - The experiences we have shared have “ nances to continue at Bona’s without his athletic scholarship. Es - given us memories that will last a lifetime.” sentially, Fr. Rich went to bat for the talented student he saw in - From Dan Patton’s 1995 Commencement Speech Patton. Today, Patton is a founding shareholder of Scott Patton PC, a Houston law firm where he specializes in employment and com - They met when Patton was one of only three freshman ath - mercial litigation matters. letes living in the upperclassmen-dominated Francis Hall. Fr. “If Fr. Rich didn’t do wh at he did for me, I wouldn’t be where Rich, chaplain for the Department of Athletics, called third I am today,” Patton said. “I didn’t come from money. Putting floor Francis home. his neck on the line to help me stay here meant a lot.”

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Patton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a minor in education from St. Bonaventure and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Consider yourself invited! Houston Law Center. Dan and Gayle Patton invite fellow Bonnies to join them in From serving as a resident assistant in Robinson-Falco - honoring the positive influence Fr. Rich had on so many lives during nio Hall to delivering the student speech during the uni - his nearly 20 years on campus. versity’s 135th Commencement Exercises, Patton A gift of any size to the Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., Endowed embraced all he gained at Bona’s. Scholarship will help provide much-needed financial aid to “To have Fr. Rich in my life with all that he taught me is deserving Bona students. It will become a reliable source of support a special thing,” Patton said. “I really value what I learned in perpetuity and be among the many gifts made in honor of a friar here. It’s the friars who instilled a lot of things in me. I through the decades. don’t think people realize the influence of the brown To make your contribution or for more information, please robes on campus. The friars are the lifeblood of Bona’s.” contact Joe Hoag, gift officer, at (716) 307-5516 or [email protected]. To all of you who have touched, influenced and challenged us, you Honoring the friars through the decades. Following is a list of have given us so many gifts, and we funds established in a friar’s name at St. Bonaventure University: thank you.” “ Fr. Benedict Ballou, O.F.M., Fr. Owen Leary, O.F.M., Mike Scholarship Reilly & Art Harkins Endowed For Fr. Rich, the scholarship bearing his name is an Fr. Ignatius Brady, O.F.M., Scholarship honor. Memorial Endowment Fr. Brian A. Lhota, O.F.M., “Have you ever met a friend? Somehow, with Dan, I Fr. J. Gregory Brennan, O.F.M., Scholarship knew we would be friends and it wouldn’t be just tem - Memorial Endowment Fr. Valentine Long, O.F.M., porary,” Fr. Rich said. Endowed Scholarship Present for Patton’s graduation in 1995, officiating at Fr. Bertrand Campbell, O.F.M., his marriage to Gayle in Houston in 2002, and baptiz - Scholarship Fr. Crispin Maguire, O.F.M., ing their oldest son, Brady, at Bona’s in 2004, Fr. Rich Fr. Alcuin F. Coyle, O.F.M., Endowment stayed in touch with Patton. Endowed Scholarship Fr. Gerald McCaffrey, O.F.M., “When you have good people in your life, they are a Fr. Joseph De La Roche d’Aillon, Endowment for Athletics blessing,” said Fr. Rich. “I couldn’t be more proud of O.F.M., Scholarship Fr. Gervase “Bo” McMillen, Danny. He’s worked very hard.” O.F.M., Scholarship It was just before Christmas when Patton called him Br. Gabriel J. Del Mastro, O.F.M., with news of the scho larship he and Gayle planned to es - Memorial Scholarship Fr. Gerald McMinn, O.F.M. tablish in his name. Fr. Joseph Doino, O.F.M., Scholarship “It’s the nicest Christmas gift I’ve ever received. It will Endowed Scholarship Fr. Cyprian Mensing, O.F.M., help a lot of people,” said Fr. Rich. “One of the things I’ve Fr. Richard Flaherty, O.F.M., Scholarship loved about Bonaventure is that we believe in you and in Endowed Scholarship Fr. Albert O’Brien, O.F.M., what we hope you will get different here from a public Scholarship school. The Franciscan difference is by the way we live Fr. Remigius Fleishell, O.F.M., our lives, not by what we say.” Scholarship Fr. Thomas Plassmann, O.F.M., Fr. Rich served at St. Bonaventure from 1983 to 2003, Fr. Conrad Harkins, O.F.M., Memorial Scholarship working in Campus Ministry and as Athletics Depart - Endowed Scholarship Fr. Timothy Quinn, O.F.M., ment chaplain. Today he serves at St. Anthony Shrine in Fr. Irenaeus Herscher, O.F.M., Endowed Scholarship Boston, though he visits campus each fall. Memorial Scholarship Fr. Dan Riley, ofm, Endowed Looking back on nearly 30 years of friendship with Pat - Fr. Daniel Hurley, O.F.M., and Scholarship ton and his family, Fr. Rich feels like n o time at all has Robert Hurley Scholarship Fr. Silas Rooney, O.F.M., Service passed. & Social Entrepreneurship “It’s like we never left Bona’s. If needed, distance is not Fr. Mychal Judge, O.F.M., Class of Endowment a problem.” 1957 Scholarship Fr. Claude Kean, O.F.M., Fr. David F. Sweeney, O.F.M., To my fellow graduates, as we stand in Endowed Scholarship Scholarship the present poised to proceed into the Fr. Francis Kearney, O.F.M., Fr. Ceslsus Wheeler, O.F.M., future, let us not forget one another, this Endowed Scholarship Endowed Scholarship institution or the past we have shared. “ Fr. Maurus Kennedy, O.F.M., Fr. Gervase F. White, O.F.M., Good luck and may God bless you all.” Scholarship Endowed Scholarship Rev. Cassian Kirk, O.F.M., Fr. Lambert Zaleha, O.F.M., Endowed Scholarship Susan Anderson is director of fundraising Memorial Scholarship communications at St. Bonaventure.

SUMMER 2019 17 he Friedsam Memorial Library, having evolved T through generations of St. Bonaventure culture, offers communal workspaces with shared printing and experts on staff. Collaboration breathes through each connected room in the building, from digital-only conversations with classmates to conference room run- throughs of group presentations. It’s the one-stop, academic oasis for students of all majors and professors of all backgrounds. In a digital age of untrustworthy sources, the internet offers valuable, but sometimes limited, information, Library Director Ann Tenglund Redefining what learning explained. For that reason, she stressed the multitude of benefits a looks like in a 21st century library offers are more important than ever. Between benefiting from the experienced knowledge of a reference librarian and delivering free access to important research articles that are a LIBRARY licensed resource, the library steps up where an internet search cannot. St. Bonaventure librarians have Text by Liam McGurl, ’17, ’19, & Jennifer Pulver always played an important role in Photography by Danny Bush, ’13, ’15 research conducted at the library and university. Since the inception of the library, reference librarians have assisted students and professors with identifying resources for academic work.

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SUMMER 2019 19 library staff may answer inquiries from other loca - tions during their on-call period. “We’ve always helped people find resources and determine a way they can approach their research,” Tenglund said. “Now, we also have to work a little bit harder to make sure people realize what a good source of information is and isn’t.” Developments are in progress to expand the tech - nological tools the library has at its disposal so that further assistance such as screen sharing of re - source results and message scripts are more easily accessed. A Professor’s Best Friend Dr. Paul Barretta, professor of marketing, sees the library as the foundation of both his own and stu dent research. Barretta, as a professorial re - quirement, is expected to publish scholarly works every academic year. Citing the library as his “favorite place on cam - pus,” he admitted that he’s a bit of a bookworm for casual reading. However, the library’s resources that make professorial research affordable and timely is what draws him to the building most often. It is the combination of traditional elements of the library (the books) and the digital tools, such as being able to run an electronic search for books and academic articles, that opens up a world of po - tential knowledge and helps users make the most of the library, Barretta said. “What ties it all together is knowing that the ref - erence desk is always manned with the brightest, most resourceful librarians one could ask for,” he said. Barretta said he recently utilized the library for his own research, focused on sports and music consumer behavior research, in order to fulfil his Ann Tenglund, named In the past, these services might have been re - university requirement and satisfy his innate cu - library director at stricte d to library hours. Today, the reference librari - riosity. Friedsam in 2018, ans are the most accessible they have ever been. “I used a lot of library resources over the sum - has worked at the Students, faculty and staff have 24/7 access to ref - mer as I was doing some research,” he said. “It library since she was erence librarians through “Ask Us 24/7” virtual chat. took a lot of work in archived in formation and con - an undergraduate The 24/7 reference cooperative provides an around- temporary academic journals.” student. the-clock reference service, built by a cooperative of Barretta offered two examples of times when li - participating libraries. Libraries agree to answer brary resources made what could have been an ar - questions for each other in real time, using shared duous process a breeze. virtual reference software. “When I was writing a particular paper I came This ease-of-access initiative, provided to both on- across an author who had written some very mean - ground and online students, is implemented by a ingful work on the subject of my paper. It turned network of reference librarians around the world out that we happen to have one of his fairly rare who dedicate time to answer questions and assist books in our archives,” he said. “customers” at a location i n the network. “Another time, on a final revision of a paper I was With Friedsam Library as a participating mem - asked to run a particular statistical test. I spent two ber, the St. Bonaventure community gains access to full days in the library researching how to best run reference librarians at any time of day or night in - this test. This involved finding examples of the spe - cluding holidays, so a student writing at 3 a.m. can cific method the editors requested I use, then access the virtual chat provided through the service downloading and installing a particular software and receive the help he requires to locate sources that I needed to run the test, interpreting the find - and materials for his work. Likewise, our own SBU ings and revising the paper before it could be ac -

20 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE cepted for publication. I am not sure how I would have managed this without the resources provided me by the library and the library staff.” Friedsam Facts For his on-ground students, though, the library be - comes especially important given the university’s ge - ographic location – removed from in-person access The reading room to major institutional research initiatives. Barretta furniture is original from often asks groups of students to utilize diverse li - the library’s opening in brary resources in order to uncover more well- 1938, although it was rounded discoveries. recently refinished. Whether students are on the SBU campus or part of an online cohort, Zoom meetings with the library are typical occurrences. As students delve deeper The building was into their own academic endeavors, they often find a designed in the Italian greater need for in-depth and specific reference ma - transitional style that terials. Students are often surprised and pleased to was typical of Franciscan learn that they are able to “meet” with an experi - monasteries in the 16th enced reference librarian from the Friedsam staff, century, with Harvard virtually, to assist them with locating the correct ref - brick for the exterior and eren ce materials. red Spanish tile for the roof. In an effort to preserve the Harvard brickwork, the Collaboration is Key interior wall by the stairs still bears the As the library continues marching into a digital-dom - original bricks that were part of the once inant, collaborative culture in higher education, online exterior wall. and virtual tools will continue to improve, creating greater access to information and increased methods. Tenglund touched on the improvements already made SBU Archives regularly to the space, and shared her hopes for the future. assists journalists, Tenglund explains: “There is a concept of ‘library as biographers, historians place’ that is well known among librarians. This con - and architects with their cept describes the concept of people gathering in one work. Items from our location with others involved in similar tasks.” collection have been The library is the only centralized location where featured on notable new and emerging information technologies can be media such as ESPN, HBO, NBC Sports, combined with traditional knowledge resources in a A-10, the National Film Board of Canada, user-focused, service-rich environment that supports and Georgia Public Television. today’s social and educational patterns of learning, teaching and research. 1 In recent years, this concept has grown even The library’s Franciscan though increased internet use and substantial online Institute Collection of rare resources allow people to work in solitude. The im - books and manuscripts portance of co-working in some type of central space dealing with Saint Francis, has emerged as an antidote to this isolation, allowing Franciscan history and many people to balance autonomy against a need to Franciscan thought — the connect with others. rarest of which are housed In many places, such as in academic libraries like in the Holy Name Library addition to Friedsam, people involved in solitary work gather in Friedsam — is the most extensive open workstation areas to soak in the vibe of connec - Franciscan research collection in the tion. Americas. Many people who enjoy this type of work or study Archives.sbu.edu arrangement attribute a greater focus to their own individual efforts when sharing a common space with a common focus. In an effort to further support its three-floor setup, St. Bonaventure’s library has continually focused on collaboration by enhancing acces sibility and expand - ing workspaces. In 2002, an accessibility lift was built for community members with mobility limitations. >> 1 http://www.clir.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/pub129.pdf

SUMMER 2019 21 Some students like the open work areas of Friedsam Library so they can easily collaborate and work together. Others find the tucked away cubbies are more their niche.

In 2015, the Library Instruction Lab and reference li - hoped-for design transformation over time. brarian desk were moved to the facility’s main floor for “Ideal collaborative workspaces would easier access. look a lot like how the back part of the main The library boasts two seminar rooms and two floor is shaping up, thanks to the Class of study rooms, but Tenglund envisions more work - 2018 gift,” she said. “Some of the furniture spaces that are private. This, she added, will help to is already in and has been getting use.” accommodate a wider range of academic processes. The future, as Tenglund sees it, is the abil - “It would be great to have some moveable parti - ity of the library to serve online, virtual ef - tions — not floor to ceiling, but maybe shoulder forts while amalgamating an increased height so that views from windows, etc. are not ob - ability for in-person collaboration. She sees structed,” Tenglund explained. “One of the requests libraries as the perfect bridge toward that we have had from students is for more study rooms, goal, particularly in a university setting. because they want more private workspaces, and this Rachel Pelsang, a biology major in the type of arrangement would allow for a more open at - Class of 2019, said she frequently utilized li - The library is mosphere while still giving small groups additional brary research in her studies, but most of all appreci - named for Col. options.” ated the library for offering more of these diverse, Michael Fried - A development already underway was made possi - collaborative workspaces over time. sam (1858- ble through a Class of 2018 gift to the university. As The library is where she learned to study her fresh - 1931), known part of this senior gift, $10,462.84 worth of student man year, mostly because of a workspace layout that for his philan - donations were put toward a new space area of the li - allowed her to receive academic support from peers, thropy and in - brary. These donations came from class event ticket she said. volvement in sales, individual donations and fundraising efforts “Making the transition to St. Bonaventure was so education. over four years. much easier by being able to study alongside my Trustees of his Offering a comfortable and modernized learning friends and upperclassmen who had already taken fortune gave environment, this space will include bright couches the class,” said Pelsang, a native of Blue Grass, Iowa. $125,000 to and booth seating that give students an escape from “I can remember not understanding a concept and the university long-term study sessions in more formal structures. walking over to the table next to me to discuss it with for the con - Tenglund added that this workspace would serve as a sophomore. There is definitely a helpful at - struction of the library. an exemplar, small-scale model of the library’s mosphere in the library.” 22 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE Students recruited by $600,000 STEM grant four years ago discover camaraderie along with Full STEM scholarship ahead By Tom Donahue

hirteen students recruited by St. Bonaventure University four years ago with scholarships funded most jobs in science now involve not just biology, let’s say, but by a nearly $600,000 National Science Foundation also chemistry, physics and computer science, and vice versa.” Tgrant left campus with diplomas in hand this past May. The program’s objective was to recruit students in each of the All earned degrees in disciplines related to science, university’s five STEM disciplines, and for 90 percent of the 25 technology, engineering and mathematics, and many are scholarship recipients to graduate with a STEM-related de - on a path to STEM-related careers. gree, then embark on a career in STEM or enroll in a STEM The success of the $594,287 “Discovery Within Com - graduate program. munity” grant has inspired university officials to seek a Thirteen graduates from an initial cohort of 25 students Track Two NSF grant in order to enroll another cohort of means the 90-percent graduation goal wasn’t met, but not that students interested in STEM-related studies in the fall o f the program wasn’t a success, said Dr. David Hilmey, associate 2020. professor of chemistry and one of the grant’s four other co- The grant program that just ended enabled the uni - principal investigators, who was named dean of Arts and Sci - versity to recruit 25 academically talented students with ences one year into the grant program. Bad timing jeopardized financial need to its majors in biology, chemi stry, com - hitting the 90 percent mark from the start, said Hilmey, as no - puter science, mathematics and physics as freshmen in tification of the grant approval came in the middle of the an - the fall of 2015. nual admissions cycle, when many college-bound high school “Not enough young people are going into these fields to seniors had already narrowed their list of desired schools. fill the jobs that are needed, so the purpose of these NSF “We started with numbers that didn’t quite match up with grants is to increase the numbers going into STEM gradu - where we wanted to be, so we brought in a group of students ate programs or careers,” said Fr. Peter Schneible, that included some who knew what they wanted to go into, but O.F.M., associate professor of biology and department a number who didn’t. Some of the students eventually decided chair. Fr. Peter served as principal investigator for the to go into different areas and left the STEM fields, resulting in grant and oversaw administration of the program funded their being dropped from the program,” said Hilmey. by the award. “But for the students who took advantage of the grant, it was “We called the grant ‘Discovery Within Community’ be - a strong program that had a lot of success,” he said. “The pro - cause we wanted to build on the community structures al - gramming that Fr. Peter put together really gave students a ready in place at St. Bonaventure,” said Fr. Peter. The first-hand view of not only what they’d gotten themselves into, grant provided scholarship recipients with tutoring and but where they could see themselves in the future.” academic support through the university’s Learning Cen - As it did with the initial grant, the university worked with the ter, and career-preparedness services from the Career Washington, D.C., based consulting firm McAllister & Quinn and Professional Readiness Center. Most program partic - in preparing and submitting the Track Two grant, said Ann ipants completed the CPRC’s Competitive Edge Certifi - Lehman, associate vice president for grants and research, and cate program, which arms s tudents with skills sought by chief of staff at St. Bonaventure. employers and graduate schools. The new grant includes a shared residential community for The students also took courses together, attended and the scholarship recipients, a feature of the first grant for which presented at group conferences, and came together for there was insufficient time to implement. “It also includes ad - numerous on-campus symposia that included presenta - ditional activities to create more cohesiveness among the stu - tions by area professionals in STEM-related careers. dents,” said Lehman. “The goal was to create a camaraderie among them A determination on the Track Two grant is expected this based upon the common classes they took and common summer. experiences they had,” said Fr. Peter. “We brought the Profiles on a chemistry, biology, physics and various majors together to stress the interdisciplinary computer science major from the program nature of contemporary science, to let them see that >>

SUMMER 2019 23 Full STEM ahead Text by Tom Donahue | Photos by Danny Bush Meet four recent St. Bonaventure graduates who were participants in the “Discovery Within Community” National Science Foundation grant program. All said the NSF scholarship made it possible to attend St. Bonaventure, or solidified the school as their top choice, and all are on a path to careers in STEM fields.

Alexandra Izydorczak meeting and a national ACS conference in Boston. She Alexandra Izydorczak is a native of also served a summer chem - Holland, New York, and graduated in istry internship at the Uni - May with a major in chemistry and a versity at Buffalo. minor in mathematics. Izydorczak was a member An honors graduate, she earned the of the women’s ice hockey American Institute of Chemists Award team and co-captain of the and several American Chemical Society women’s field hockey team. (ACS) honors, including the Penn-York She participated in the Section Excellence in Chemistry Freshman Leadership Pro - Award, an undergraduate research gram and was a student poster award, and the Chemistry worker for the Office of Ad - Promise Award. missions. Izydorczak le arned of the “Discovery She completed the Compet - Within Community” grant program as a itive EDGE program and was senior in high school and said the award inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, helped cement her decision to attend St. Bonaventure. the national honor society for first-year college students. She served as a student assistant in the Department of Izydorczak will attend the Ph.D. chemistry program at the Uni - Chemistry, conducting research on amino acids under versity at Buffalo in the fall. the tutelage of Dr. Scott Simpson, assistant professor of “I plan on becoming a researcher in a lab, whether in govern - chemistry. They co-published an article in the Journal of ment or industry, and the research experience I gained at SBU, Chemical Education. along with being a lab assistant, has helped prepare me,” she Izydorczak also presented at conferences, including said. “The opportunity to attend conferences through the grant the American Chemical Society’s 2018 national fall program has been very beneficial.”

Geoffrey Paul Broadbent A native of Olean, New York, Geoffrey and senior adviser to Phi Eta Sigma, the Broadbent graduated in May with ma - national honor society for first-year col - jors in biology and political science, and lege students. a minor in Spanish. A dean’s list student Off campus, he was a swim coach for throughout his academic career, he was the Enchanted Mountain Aquatic Club, a named the Class of 2019 Ideal Bonaven - lifeguard for the city of Olean, and a ten - ture Man and received the Political Sci - nis coach at Archbishop Walsh Acad - ence Award and Spanish Honor Society emy. He is also a junior staff member for Award. the New York West chapter of HOBY, a “I would not have been able to attend global nonprofit that engages young peo - SBU without the STEM grant,” he said. ple in service and leadership activities. “I was ready to attend a different institu - Broadbent was a tutor and supplemen - tion for financial reasons when I learned tal instructor with the university’s Stu - I had received a STEM grant. It allowed dent Success Center, and completed the me to come to St. Bonaventure and to Career and Professional Readiness Cen - get really involved on campus.” ter’s Competitive EDGE program. “The Broadbent served as executive board EDGE program helped me develop my president of the Student Government professional skills, which will benefit me Association and SGA representative to when I enter the workforce,” he said. the Faculty Senate, a lead student am - The NSF grant program “did help me bassador for Admissions, a resident as - prepare for my career,” said Broadbent, sistant, a volunteer EMT with the noting he was able to spend three hours a campus Medical Emergency Response week shadowing an Olean pediatrician. Team, an Orientation leader, and secre - He will be a first-year medical student this tary-general of SBU’s Model United Na - fall at the George Washington School of tions chapter. He was also an inductee Medicine and Health Sciences.

24 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE Nicholas Martel particularly rewarding for Martel. “They Olean, New York, native Nicholas exposed me to work and topics in fields I Martel graduated in May with a major in knew little about and would not have oth - physics and a minor in mathematics. erwise,” he said. He remembers having narrowed his The program succeeded in creating a college wish list down to St. Bonaventure sense of community among the students, and one other school when he learned of said Martel. his acceptance into the grant program. “To say that we all became best friends “Although my choice was probably al - would be an exaggeration, but the pro - ways going to be Bona’s, the program gram certainly introduced me to people I seemed exciting and reaffirmed my deci - would not otherwise have known. We sion,” he said. were encouraged to take classes together Martel, a Presidential Scholarship re - and attend regular programming to - cipient, was inducted into Sigma Pi gether,” he said. “I did feel I was part of a Sigma, the national physics honor soci - learning community, not because the pro - ety. He was a physics lab assistant during gram molded us into a closed-off com - his junior and senior years at St. Bona- munity, but because it reminded us not venture. He was a member of the univer - to close ourselves off, to reach out.” sity Concert Band and won the The day after he graduated, Martel Instrumental Music Award his senior began a full-time internship in the pack - year. He was also a member of the age and product design engineering de - ORION Astronomy Club, serving as pres - partments at Siemens Power and Gas ident and vice president, and of the Community College in Olean, and com - Division’s Dresser-Rand facility in SEARCH Retreat Team. pleted the Competitive EDGE program Olean. “I hope this leads to a full-time He served as the physics through the Career and Professional career in industry, but I would also love coordinator/intern for a Dream It Do It Readiness Center. to pursue graduate school in physics or Western New York event on campus, was The NSF program’s on- and off-cam - mechanical engineering, or maybe earn a Kids College instructor at Jamestown pus symposia and conferences were an MBA,” he said. Eric Wojcik

Eric Wojcik graduated a semester early, in December 2018, ing a computer science teaching assistant. He was also a judge with a Bachelor of Arts in computer science. He works for for the annual Invitational High School Programming Contest Computer Task Group in Buffalo as an IBM contractor, work - on campus and assisted with the Department of Computer Sci - ing as a help desk technician, as he pursues a career in IT. ence’s annual Girls Day event, which provides hands-on com - A native of Buffalo, Wojcik learned of the NSF grant program puter experiences for girls in middle school. at St. Bonaventure from his guidance Wojcik provided IT support and web counselor as a senior at Canisius development while interning with an High School, where he was a Olean wood products firm, and was straight-A student. St. Bonaven - a malware penetration tester as an ture’s financial aid package was al - intern with Silo City IT in Buffalo. ready the most generous among the He was also the group leader of a schools he was considering, so the team that competed in the 2016 New grant “definitely made the choice (to Era Hackathon, a competition in attend SBU) easier,” he said. which teams developed web-based Interested in biochemistry early and mobile solutions to help New on, “I decided to pursue my hobby — Era, the Buffalo-based global head - studying computers and their inner wear company, improve its brand. workings,” he said. “I am happy that I got to be a part Wojcik found the opportunity to of the program,” said Wojcik, and participate in symposia and confer - he’s hopeful NSF funding is secured ences through the grant program most to keep it running. He added, however, beneficial. “Attending the symposia as a STEM scholar allowed that “seeing as how we were a guinea pig class, there were me to interact with respected professionals in fields ranging bound to be kinks that needed to be worked out.” Wojcik said from physics to biology. Learning about different STEM fields he’d like to see an equal representation of grant scholars across has helped me realize the impact that all fields have on one an - STEM fields, noting biology and chemistry majors were in the other,” he said. majority, and more team building exercises to build even more Wojcik served as a computer science tutor with the Learning of a camaraderie among program scholars. University officials Center his sophomore and junior years at St. Bonaventure, an note both are points of emphasis in their application for a experience that honed his teaching skills and led to his becom - Track Two NSF grant.

SUMMER 2019 25 Q&A

Aaron Chimbel Dean of the School of Communication

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26 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE 01 Why did you want to become a journalist? ism. I have talked to groups in Cuba and Olean about “fake news” and how to be better news consumers. This is actually a funny story. When I was in middle school, I may have talked back to my parents a time or two. Why is accreditation of the School of Commu - Part of my punishment was that I could not watch TV, except 05 nication so important for Bonaventure? for the news. So, I began watching the news. A LOT. I remem - ber eating breakfast each morning while watching the TODAY It’s really a way for people across the country – and the Show. I thought it was cool how Bryant Gumbel and Katie world – to know just how great of a program we have. We Couric got to talk to people about all kinds of interesting things know that this has been a very good program for 70 years. and go around the world to do it. I was hooked. Now we have this relatively exclusive, outside validation that we are among the best. In fact, just 19 private universities in If journalism as we once knew it is dead, how do this country have accredited programs in this field, which puts 02 you think it can be (or is being) revived? us in the company of Syracuse, Columbia, NYU, Elon, USC, American University and other well-respected programs. There is a lot of really good journalism out there, maybe more than ever, and we are able to share that information in What is your vision for the Jandoli School? more compelling ways than before. The biggest challenge news 06 organizations have is figuring out their business models. First, I have to say the future of the Jandoli School is I am a big fan of the nonprofit investigative and accountabil - built on a great foundation that started 70 years ago with ity news organizations like ProPublica, Investigative Post, the Russell Jandoli. His commitment to excellence and his focus Center for Public Integrity, the Texas Tribune and more, which on writing and ethics are still keys to what we do today. are doing great work. Going forward, we need to expand what the school does and The Washington Post, led by legendary editor Marty Baron connect more broadly with campus and beyond. We also need and the money of Jeff Bezos, is doing great work, too. It shows to be more collaborative in what we do. Right now, students that with smart investments and a commitment to doing thor - who work for the newspaper, radio station, newscast and the ough, important journalism, you can be successful. local news website all work in separate places and rarely work The big news organizations will be fine. The bigger concern is together. Media i s much more intertwined now and the phys - in local news where small and mid-sized papers have been hit ical and organizational structure for our students needs to particularly hard. There has not been a lot of success in making reflect that. To achieve this goal, we would need to do a those organizations financially stable. If those papers don’t major renovation of the Murphy Building to create modern exist, it leaves a lot of people in what are now being called spaces. “news deserts.” 07 Is social media making it impossible for con - What is the biggest challenge in seeing that sumers to determine what is legitimate news? 03 students hit the ground running when they graduate? For a long time it was clear what the media you were con - suming was and where it was from. You got your news from It’s important that students think broadly about how and your daily newspaper and the evening news. Now, every - where they can practice journalism. There are a lot of new news thing is mixed together and coming at us in a flood of infor - organizations that can allow students to bypass the traditional mation. It requires each of us to be our own editor – and small town newspapers and television stations that are the tra - that’s hard. It means we have to put our own biases aside to ditional first jobs. The skill sets we teach are in demand by vir - figure out what happened. It’s also why we should all con - tually all employers, so a degree in journalism or sume a variety of sources of information. communication is very valuable no matter what you want to do. What do you see as the biggest opportunity to What is your vision of what journalism is becom - 08 grow the Jandoli School? 04 ing and what can educational institutions like SBU do to help convince the outside world that There are many. I am excited about our new under - good, ethical journalism is vital to our society? graduate majors in sports media and broadcast journalism and the growth of our strategic communication major. We The great thing about the nonprofit news organizations is also have two strong online master’s programs in integrated that their work is widely accessible via digital platforms. For marketing communications and strategic leadership. programs like the Jandoli School, we can do some of that The stellar reputation of the school and our recent accredita - work, particularly in a community here in Western New York tion give us a lot of credibility as a program and my focus with where there aren’t a lot of news organizations and where na - the new programs and our marketing efforts is to help tional reporters rarely come. Our local news website, TAPinto prospective students see why this program, with its personal Greater Olean, led by faculty members Anne and Rich Lee, is attention and amazing alumni network, is such a great choice. a good example of how our students can fill the void and get The skills a student builds in our program are so valuable in great experience. The Lees and their students have also col - the world today and allow graduates to be successful in many laborated with the Olean Times Herald. It’s also important areas, especially when you combine them with the great for us to talk with the public about how to find good journal - liberal arts education you get at St. Bonaventure.

SUMMER 2019 27 Mark Schmidt gestures toward the Bonaventure faithful after the Bonnies thumped Rhode Island, 68-51, to reach the 2019 A-10 tourney title game.

It Takes By Cameron Hurst, ’19 Mark Schmidt admitted that he didn’t allow himself Mto think about it during the season. A Village At the time of St. Bonaventure’s 79-56 victory over George Mason on Feb. 17, the Bonnies were just begin - ning a run in which they would win seven of their final Head men’s basketball eight regular-season games to enter the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament as the fourth seed and the coach Mark Schmidt owners of a double-bye into the quarterfinals. reflects on the wins on The last thing on Schmidt’s mind — even though he led the Bonnies out of the darkest period in program and off the court history and into its modern-day renaissance — was having just passed Larry Weise as the program’s win - ningest coach.

28 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE “When you’re going through some - composed primarily of Rochester na - thing, you’re so obsessed with that day, tive Tyler Relph as well as Tyler Ben - with that game that you’re not really son, Zarryon Fereti and Michael Lee, focusing on the record,” he said. for setting the standard for modern “That’s the furthest thing from my Bonaventure basketball. mind. You’re just trying to get your “They all started it,” he said of the team as prepared as you can for the four. “And, it wasn’t easy for them. next game. ... Sometimes if you look Those guys, they bought into what we ahead, you get bit by what you didn’t were selling. They set the foundation do today.” and you have to have somebody start But now, nearly three months since it. We were lucky to have those four. the Bonnies’ miracle run came just a They were character guys.” three-pointer short of a chance to go to Five seasons later, in 2012, the cul - the NCAA Tournament for the third ture Schmidt helped create yielded its time, Schmidt is finally able to sit back greatest result — the development of and reflect on an achievement that Andrew Nicholson into Atlantic 10 might have been folly to even think of Player of the Year, and an Atlantic 10 when he became the program’s 19th Championship victory over the Xavier head coach in the spring of 2007. Musketeers, coached by Schmidt’s “I always say the record isn’t my good friend Chris Mack. record, it’s our record,” Schmidt said. “The last 20 seconds of that game, “It’s our program’s record, it’s the when Xavier went back on defense and community’s record, it takes so many stopped pressing and our guys were people to be successful. If it takes a vil - The last 20 seconds dribbling the ball around, to me, I wish lage to raise a child, it takes everybody everyone in the world could have the to have a good basketball program.” of that game, when feeling that I had — that sense of ac - That “village,” however, began as a complishment,” Schmidt remembered hurting program. In the four years fol - Xavier went back on of that moment in Boardwalk Hall. lowing the 2003 eligibility scandal, “ “When you take over a program, you defense and stopped Schmidt’s predecessor had only just don’t know if you’re going to have amassed 22 wins, leaving only four pressing and our success. You put in all this time and all scholarship players on the roster after the things that you do, you just don’t the North Attleborough, Massachu - guys were dribbling know if what you envision will become setts, native became head coach on the ball around, to reality. April 10, 2007. “To see those kids ... to see Andrew But while other candidates were call - me, I wish everyone Nicholson’s face,” he added. “That’s ing the job “career suicide,” Schmidt, a the best moment, because you had former assistant at Xavier University in the world could time to enjoy it for those 20 seconds.” under Skip Prosser, was drawn to the have the feeling that But after another successful season opportunity to rebuild the program, four years later in 2016, capped by a citing the fan base as a main reason I had — that sense of win over a ranked Dayton Flyers team why. But even he didn’t fully under - and a share of the A-10 regular-season stand how much basketball meant to accomplishment. title, the program’s faith was shaken the Bonaventure community until he after the Bonnies were left out of the was a part of it. - Mark Schmidt on St. Bonaventure’s NCAA Tournament. “I knew the importance of basketball 2012 A-10 Championship Nevertheless, Schmidt used the infa - here. I knew that they would get great mous “snub” as a teaching moment. crowds. I just didn’t know the true im - “We try to build our program on portance of it and how involved the From there, the rebuild was under - handling adversity and trying to move community is and how important bas - way. ” on, and not letting adversity affect us ketball is to the alumni,” he said. “To “The biggest thing as the head coach in a negative way; using adversity to me, that was the biggest shock.” is that you’ve got to change the culture make us stronger,” he said of the set - He added, “I remember going to Buf - from a losing and a here-we-go-again, back. “I have a Martin Luther King Jr. falo and speaking and I remembered feeling-sorry-for-ourselves atmosphere quote that I talk a lot about: The ulti - an older lady stood up and said to me, to a program that’s going to learn how mate measure of a man is not where ‘Coach, it’s good for you to be here. to win again,” Schmidt said of those he stands in moments of comfort and But, understand, the winters up here early years. “It’s all about culture. It’s convenience, but where he stands at are cold. But, for the last four years the work ethic, it’s that commitment. times of challenge and controversy . If they’ve been really cold.’ That put It’s earning the right to be successful.” we didn’t have character guys in our things in perspective for me.” Schmidt still credits that first team, program, it would have been a mo -

SUMMER 2019 29 ment where it knocked us down and we stayed there.” The Bonnies didn’t stay there. Instead, two years later, the 2017-18 team — led by co-A10 Player of the Year Jaylen Adams and transfer Matt Mobley — rode a 12-game winning streak to finish out the regular season, a run highlighted by heart-stopping home wins over Rhode Island and Davidson, to finally avenge the disap - pointment of 2016. They not only earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament, but defeated a Power 5 program, UCLA, in the First Four. “Getting to the NCAA Tournament and beating UCLA, it just proved to our guys that we can handle adversity,” Schmidt said. “We kept on fighting and we improved. We didn’t listen to the naysayers. Good things happen when you do that.” The key to Schmidt’s success, he Mark Schmidt celebrates with students after his first Reilly Center Arena victory, a 97-80 win over claims, has been forming strong rela - Binghamton on Nov. 12, 2007. tionships with his players — something he credits Prosser for teaching him during their time together. you’re no better than anyone else. ture’s Mount Olympus means. “You become a father figure,” “He’s the mentor, he’s the reason I’m “These wins ... they’re our wins,” he Schmidt said. “I say it all the time: My where I am because he taught me so said. “That’s how I look at it. It’s not all wife and I have three sons at home, but many different lessons.” about me. I’ve just been the beneficiary every year we have 13 stepchildren that And while the future is bright — the of a lot of people’s hard work.” become a part of our family forever. Bonnies return A-10 All-Rookie team - Cameron Hurst is a journal - That’s what Skip taught me. It’s a fam - ers Kyle Lofton and Osun Osunniyi and ism and music double major at ily, it’s about relationships, it’s about add transfer Bobby Planutis and four- St. Bonaventure. The treating people the right way, and that star recruit Justin Winston, among Jamestown, New York, you may be the head coach of an im - others — Schmidt is more than cog - native anticipates graduating in portant sport at the university, but that nizant of what being atop Bonaven - December 2019.

30 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE Classes with the masters

SBU music students head to Hollywood for a first-hand look at the music industry and careers

By Cameron Hurst, ’19

wo thousand, five hundred and forty-seven miles. Upon my enroll - In reflecting on our experience, I decided to re- ment at St. Bonaventure University, never did I believe that my un - open the notebook I had kept during the trip. T dergraduate career would include a school-sponsored trip of that Upon doing so, I realized that several boxed distance, which equals the mileage between SBU and Loews Hollywood words and phrases from my rather chaotic note - Hotel in the heart of Los Angeles. taking told the story of the week: But, the improbability of traveling that distance didn’t even scratch the “Less is more.” surface of the experience that seven other students, our two professors and I “Find your tribe.” had while in attendance at the 2019 ASCAP (American Society of Com - “Humility.” posers, Authors and Publishers) “I Create Music” Expo. “Collaborate.” Over the course of three days, we attended masterclasses, networked with What we had expected to be a conference fo - fellow musicians and learned just how supportive the often-misunderstood cusing on the individual accomplishment of music industry – reported by ASCAP to be a $1.2 billion dollar business last writers and musicians quickly showed its hand year – truly is. to be quite the opposite. None of this would have been possible without SBU professor of music Dr. Les Sabina and lecturer Laura Peterson, who worked for nearly a year to or - ganize the trip that brought Noelle Acaso, Billy Vink, Angelina Giglio, The students were able to meet some of the most success - Christina Giglio, Kathleen Garvey, Michelle Onofrio, Jessica Matias and me ful and influential people in the music industry, including to Hollywood. And certainly none of it would have been possible without the Paul Williams, president of ASCAP (top photo), and Keenan-Martine Endowment, funded by a gift from Leslie C. Quick III, ’75, Grammy-award winning artist Wyclef Jean (second photo), former Board of Trustees chair, and his wife, Eileen. all while taking in the sights, such as Hollywood Boulevard.

SUMMER 2019 31 By the end of the first day, Noelle, weeks aw ay from Commencement, perhaps said it the best. “I really thought this was going to be more dog-eat-dog,” she said. “But, I’m pleasantly surprised. This is awesome.” We began our journey in the wee hours of May 1, departing by plane from Buffalo and fly - ing to Chicago for a connecting flight to Bob Hope Airport in Burbank – a short 20-minute ride from our hotel. We spent much of that night exploring Holly - wood and doing the essentials – making a stop at In-N-Out Burger, walking along the Holly - wood Walk of Fame and checking out where the red carpet is laid for the Academy Awards. The conference kicked off the next morning, the whirlwind officially commencing with an address by ASCAP President Paul Williams – composer of the Academy Award-winning song “Evergreen,” famously performed by Barbra Attending the annual ASCAP EXPO in Hollywood were (front row, from left) Christina Giglio, Streisand in “A Star is Born.” Williams encour - Michelle Onofrio, Angelina Giglio, Noelle Acaso, music lecturer Laura Peterson, and Jessica Ma - aged the gathering of singers, songwriters, and tias. In back (from left) are Cameron Hurst, Kathleen Garvey, music professor producers to “write your truth, write your pas - Dr. Les Sabina, and William Vink. Below is Capitol Records’ headquarters in LA. sion and write what you wish to see in the world.” From there, we were off to various master - But what happened next was unbelievable. classes, networking events, information ses - Jean invited those in the audience who sions, open mic opportunities and, most “wanted to catch a vibe with him and his notably, critique sessions, during which Sabina friends” to come on stage with him. Seconds had a soundtrack queue critiqued by “Walking later, hundreds of young musicians out of the Dead” composer Bear McCreary. crowd of 2,000 rushed the stage. After dinner and a little more exploration Now, at first glance, this seemed like a terri - around the city, the majority of us reconvened ble, unsafe idea. ASCAP security probably for the center stage showcase. thought so, too. This popular first-night tradition featured But those who came on stage yielded the floor award-winning writers and performers LeAnn to their fellow musicians, waited patiently for Womack, Stephen Bishop, Jack Tempchin and their turn, and created some of the greatest art Wyclef Jean, who engaged in a bit of dialogue, I ever bore witness to. collaboration and, most of all, music, during a I looked over at our group, seated in the third concert event that unplugged some of the row. Tears streamed from nearly everyone’s greatest songs of the last 30 years. Their stories lightening, it was Jean who eyes. of creating music were each unique, but so sim - stole the show during the first It was in that moment that “less is more” was ilar in substance. part of the evening program. personified, that attendees had found their The next morning brought a phenomenal Jean, a three-time Grammy tribe while humbling themselves in order to session with some of the top vocal consult - award-winning rapper and collaborate. ants in Hollywood, among them Buffalo na - producer, told audience mem - It was a moment none of us will ever forget. tive Edie Lehman Boddicker, who has had a bers about a year-long project And, while the lessons we learned at this con - lauded career as a vocal contractor with cred - titled “Wyclef Goes Back to ference came from world-famous artists be - its ranging from “The Carol Burnett Show” to School,” released in March, neath the ASCAP banner, decked in the 2019’s “The Lion King” remake. and featuring young artists sunshine, bright lights, and colors of Holly - A conversation with the musical team be - from around the country he wood, it dawned on me that they were not new. hind the hit NBC television show “This Is Us” had discovered during various Rather, they were just reinforcements of the was followed by a quick lunch, and then it visits to universities, colleges same lessons we had learned two thousand, was back to the main ballroom for a conver - and high schools. five hundred and forty-se ven miles to the east, sation and presentation by Wyclef Jean, im - He brought several of these taught to us by world-class professors, in - mediately followed by “The Roots” artists with him – Jazzy Amra, fused with the Franciscan spirit, within red co-founder, Questlove, in conversation with Raquel, TJ Riley and Samantha brick buildings beneath our own banner at St. Williams. Uzbey – who performed an im - Bonaventure. But, while Questlove was surely the head - provised “vibe” session with Improbable? Maybe. Unforgettable? liner and his conversation with Williams en - Jean. Absolutely.

32 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE Class Notes Alumni gatherings spark Bona family connections

Greetings St. Bonaventure Alumni, Message from the National Alumni Association Board President What an amazing couple of weeks it has been with graduation, Alumni Reunion Weekend, and the Robert Peraza Memorial Golf Outing. serving students to attend St. Bonaventure and follow Rob’s ex - During Commencement weekend, I had the op - ample. portunity to welcome the Class of 2019 to our The love for Rob was evident by the attendance of recent Peraza alumni family at the candlelight ceremony. It was scholarship recipients who wanted to show appreciation for the an amazing weekend overall, and the Franciscan funding they received. It was an amazing day, but what really made values learned inside and outside the classroom me appreciate our Bonaventure family was when everyone stood were evident throughout the weekend in conversations and re - for a moment of silence in Rob’s honor and prayed together as one. marks. I encourage you to stay active within your region and engage with Alumni Reunion Weekend was another success, with more than other Bonaventure alumni. Visit www.sbu.edu/alumni and con - 1,000 alumni and friends attending and enjoying the perfect sider participating in an upcoming event, hosting a Bona gathering weather. A special thanks to the amazing staff who work so hard to or service project with friends, or planning a visit to campus. welcome back alumni year after year. Pax et Bonum, This year I had the chance to participate in the Robert Peraza Memorial Golf Outing. Rob perished during 9/11, yet his memory continues to live on. This outing helps raise money for The Robert David Peraza An - nual Scholarship at St. Bonaventure, which provides funds for de - Kevin Cleary, ’02

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1951 ranc/Amazon, and “True to women’s and LGBT rights. After receiving a Walt Horylev was the Eyes: The Tanenbaum B.A. from St. Francis College, SBA, Biviano named the 2019 Photography Collection” for earned an ABD in philosophy from Fordham Hilton Citizen of the Ryerson University Press. University and taught phi - Year. He is pictured This year he is working on losophy at Fordham and with Hilton Mayor Joe books about the Beat Move - the College of New Lee. Horylev is the ment t hrough photographs Rochelle. He worked as a 38th recipient of the by Joey Tranchina; historic religious education director award, given to those photographs of Niagara in Wappingers Falls, New who have made signif - Falls and their impact on York, and Spokane, Wash - icant contributions to North American culture; ington, and became youth the community. His and “The Theory of Every - director for the Spokane volunteer efforts, in - thing: Art by John Wood” Diocese. He served as director of the Immer - cluding serving as vice for SUNY Alfred. Bannon sion Project, a community corrections pro - mayor and trustee for most recently served as in - gram for the Spokane County Juvenile 22 years and photo - terim director and research Court, while earning a Ph.D. in educational graphing many historical and memorable professor at the Burchfield Penney Art Cen - leadership at Gonzaga University. He events, markedly improved the quality of life ter at Buffalo State College. In 2012, he re - worked as a workforce diversity/sexual ha - in the village. tired as the longest-serving director (17 rassment prevention/management consult - years) at George Eastman House, the Inter - ant and trainer for Washington State 1960 national Museum of Photography and Film University and the Washington State De - Terry Kearney has retired upon his 50th in Rochester, New York. H e can be found at partment of Personnel, as well as private anniversary with Merrill Lynch. At the time his studio at 195 Garrison Road, Williams- clients, until his retirement in 2008. Biviano of his retirement, he was a financial adviser, ville, NY 14221, and welcomes contact from has six children, nine grandchildren and senior consultant and vice president in the alums at [email protected] or four great-grandchildren. He lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania, office, where he 585-217-7879. In retirement, Dr. David Bi - Spokane and spends winters in Chacala, Na - spent his entire career. viano founded and serves as adviser to the yarit, Mexico. Cambodian Children’s House of Peace 1964 (2008-present), a residential home for 30 1965 Tony Bannon has three books now in dis - countryside children to attend school, voca - After 40 years as a sales executive in the tribution: “Portraits: William Coupon” for tional training and university. A world trav - steel and titanium forging business for Park- Damiani Press; “Traces: Poems by Robert eler, he has visited 35 countries and been a Ohio Industries and Canton Drop Forge, Lax, Photographs by Roman Loranc” for Lo - civil rights activist for peace and justice, John Motsay retired at the end of 2016 to

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spend time with his family, play golf 1969 John Broderick, ’87, and travel. “I’d like to get to some William “Bill” Pfohl retired as pro - Bona’s games, especially when they fessor emeritus from the Psychology receives national honor play in Virginia,” he writes. Department at Western Kentucky Uni - versity in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The National Association of Student Personnel He taught there for 36 years, training Administrators named Old Dominion University school and clinical psychologists. Pre - President John R. Broderick, ’87, a co-recipient viously he worked as a school psychol - of its 2019 President’s Award. ogist in Cattauraugus County and Broderick received the award March 12 during Plainfield, New Jersey. He and his the organization’s wife, Ginny (Pasko), ’71, are travel - annual conference ing and enjoying new adventures. in Los Angeles. The award honors 1976 college or univer - Lisa Biedenbach was honored as sity presidents who the Salesian Guild’s Communicator of have, over a sus - 1966 the Year at the organization’s 75th an - tained period of Ron Scott and his wife, Angela, cele - niversary celebration in January. The time, advanced the brated their 50th wedding anniversary guild is named for St. Francis de Sales, quality of student on Nov. 30, 2018. They are enjoying patron saint of writers. Its annual din - life on campus by spending time with their two grand - ner is a gathering of Greater Cincinnati supporting student sons. Ron continues traveling the U.S., Catholics working in various commu - affairs staff and racing their vintage 1972 Mallock. nication fields. The Distinguished programs. Communicator of the Year Award rec - Broderick, who 1967 ognizes a communications colleague has led Old Do - John Loving and his wife, Pam, cele - who exhibits professional excellence minion University John Broderick holds an MSED in brated their 50th wedding anniversary and faith in action in the workplace. for more than 11 counseling psychology from SBU. on April 19. They were married in Pen - One of Biedenbach’s nominators de - years, has been a sacola, Florida, following scribed her as “a commu - champion for inclusiveness. He implemented a his completion of Navy nicator of high reorganization of the Office of Affirmative Action flight training. He retired ethical, moral, into the Office of Institutional Equity and Diver - from the Navy as a cap - and professional sity, created the Office of Intercultural Relations tain with more than standards. She be - and set up the President’s Task Force for Inclu - 4,500 flight hours and lieves in her cause. sive Excellence. For his initiatives on div ersity, 851 carrier landings. She prays with the Diversity Champion Award was renamed in The Lovings live in Stu - every word she his honor. In addition, the Broderick Dining Com - art, Florida, enjoying writes.” Biedenbach mons was named for Broderick and his wife, Kate, retirement, their two has served on St. (SBU ’90, ’93) at the request of student leaders, to grown kids and two Bonaventure’s Na - recognize their commitment to inclusion initia - grandchildren. tional Alumni tives and student success. Board, was named The university has also constructed a $20 mil - 1968 Alumnus of the Year in 2011, and has lion Student Success Center and Learning Com - Joseph Brett’s article on moral in - advised the Franciscan Institute on its mons and subsequently recorded the highest juries of soldiers, “The Instrument of book publishing program. She is direc - graduation rate in its history. Benefiting from his Your Fate,” was featured in Harvard tor of operations for Central Connec - commitment to diversity and inclusion, Old Do - Magazine in May. Brett describes tions, a nonprofit senior center in minion has become one of the most diverse insti - mental and emotional trauma — re - Middletown, Ohio. Biedenbach also tutions in Virginia, with students of color making ferred to as moral wounds — that have owns LAMB Editorial Consulting, up 48 percent of enrollment. emerged as a separate category of seri - which focuses on providing book man - During Broderick’s tenure, Old Dominion has ous wartime injury. Brett, who holds a uscript development, editing, copy ed - become a leader in social mobility, an initiative master’s in public administration from iting and proofing for clients. She that aims to help more students graduate. The Harvard Kennedy School, illustrated worked for more than 25 years for university is rated in the top 15 percent among in the essay his own experience follow - Franciscan Media and also served in more than 1,300 schools ranked in the Social Mo - ing service in Vietnam with the 108th communications positions with the bility Index. Artillery Group, Dong Ha. Brett is a Franciscan Sisters of the Poor and Broderick has helped secure more than $860 lecturer and co-facilitator for the Insti - Western-Southern Life. A fourth-gen - million in new public and private resources, and tute for Healing of Memories, an advo - eration member of St. Boniface the university has become a research leader in cate and past vice president for the Church in Northside, where she is a fields including flooding resilience, cybersecurity, Veterans Heritage Project, and a past lector and choir member, Biedenbach bioelectrics, and modeling and simulation. president and active member of Sis - is past president of the parish pastoral His honors include the Virginia Center for In - ter City programs. He has also served council. She and her husband of 25 clusive Communities’ Humanitarian Award, the on the board of the Harvard Club of years, Bob, are residents of Ross Urban League of Hampton Roads’ Marian Palmer Phoenix. Read the magazine story at Township, Ohio. Dennis Gleason Capps Award and a Visionary Award from the harvardmagazine.com/2019/05/bret was honored by Catholic Charities of Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. t-on-moral-injury.

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Onondaga County with its President’s creased the number of league sports from 19 Award, which honors individuals who are to 22, and initiated the SoCon Academic Ex - devoted to the betterment of the human change, the first academically oriented col - condition and demonstrate vision and lead - laboration in Southern Conference history. ership in their contributions. A resident of Syracuse for 15 years, Gleason has a deep 1978 commitment to improving life for residents Susan English has retired from The Uni - of Central and Western New York. Gleason, versity of Texas at Arling - who retired from National Grid after nearly ton after a 30-year career 40 years with the company, served on in the Office of Advance - Catholic Charities’ board for 12 years in a ment and Alumni Rela - number of roles and committees. His com - tions as the director of munity service interests have also included special events, and the Di - the United Way of Mohawk Valley, United vision of Student Affairs as Way of Buffalo and Erie County, the Boys & the associate director of Girls Club of Buffalo, and the Western Erie events and leadership pro - Canal Heritage Corridor Planning Commis - grams. For her spirit and sion. Joan Kurkowski-Gillen received dedication, she received a 30-year Univer - Former Bona hoopster Peter van Paassen, ’01, second place in the Writer of the Year divi - sity Service Award and a Scholarship Brick, brought a group of students from Amsterdam to sion by the Catholic Press Association of the which is located on the UTA campus. Eng - visit ESPN, a visit arranged by another Bona United States and Canada. The award was lish is now a leadership and event consultant J/MC grad and athlete, Rayna (McCartney) announced at the CPA’s 2018 conference in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Mari - Banks, ’03. Van Paassen is a lecturer at the Ams - held in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This category anne Fulgenzi began a health coaching terdam University of Applied Sciences, where he recognizes an individual for exemplary work practice – Mind-Body teaches in the International Sports Management & in 2017 by judging creativity, thoroughness Health Solutions – for busy Business bachelor’s program. He also does some and effectiveness. She is a correspondent for women who want to basketball coaching at the Dutch Basketball Feder - the North Texas Catholic newsmagazine and gain/maintain health, have ation’s youth academy. “This speaks to the special lives in Saginaw, Texas, with her husband, more energy, and feel more bond Bona alums have, always willing to connect Kevin, ’74 . They have five children and five grounded and less stressed. and help out,” said Banks, an assistant producer at grandchildren. She received her certifica - ESPN. Fellow alum Chris LaPlaca, ’79, senior vice tion as a health coach in president of corporate communications at ESPN, 1977 2012 from the Institute for spoke to the students during their tour. Ann Hannigan Brittain was appointed Integrative Nutrition. Those who are inter - director of Resettlement Services for The ested in learning more about her practice try as an SBU undergraduate, arrived at United States Conference of Catholic Bish - can log on to www.mindbodyhealthsolu - Morrisville in the fall of 2001. He has pro - ops (USCCB) in July 2018. USCCB is the tions.com. vided leadership within the SUNY Mor - largest of nine national resettlement agen - risville campus community and at the cies through which all 1980 conference and national levels throughout legal refugees enter the Tom Reuning has retired from his career. Carroll successfully led the Mus - U.S. She formerly was teaching after 35 years. In October, he tangs to NCAA Division III affiliation in a the director of Immigra - and three friends opened Wellsville three-year time period – a process that typi - tion and Refugee Serv - Brewing Company, located in down - cally consumes four years. He increased the ices for the Diocese of town Wellsville, where he is the head department’s full-time staff, created an elec - Buffalo, New York. John brewer of this farm brewery. tive physical education program, obtained Iamarino retired as approval from the New York State Depart - commissioner of the 1983 ment of Education for a New York State Southern Conference, the Betsy Hughes was named senior Coaching Certification, obtained and main - nation’s fifth-oldest NCAA vice president and chief develop - tained oversight of the college’s intramural Division I collegiate ath - ment officer at and open recreation program, and success - letic association. He was United Way of fully launched the department’s first devel - the second-longest serving commissioner Metro Chicago. Hughes opment program. During his tenure, Carroll (13 years) in the 98-year history of the con - comes to the United Way has overseen more than $20 million in ath - ference. Iamarino marked his 40th year in from the Illinois Institute letics facility improvements at Morrisville. intercollegiate athletics this year, having of Technology, where she Carroll also was instrumental in Mor - previously worked at Georgetown Univer - helped raise $400 million risville’s transition to full-time membership sity, Jacksonville University, the Sun Belt during her 16 years at the within the North Eastern Athletic Confer - Conference and the Northeast Conference. school. That included ence (NEAC) in 2009. In all, the athletics He was commissioner of the Northeast Con - heading Illinois Tech’s Fueling Innovation program has garnered 30 regular season ti - ference for nine years before his appoint - campaign, which raised more than $250 tles, 24 conference tournament titles, and 21 ment to the SoCon in January 2006. During million. Greg Carroll will retire in October NCAA Division III postseason tournament Iamarino’s term, the conference launched its from his position as Morrisville State direc - appearances since Carroll’s arrival. own digital network, created a hall of fame, tor of athletics, where he has spent nearly successfully returned the basketball champi - two decades at the helm of the Mustang ath - 1984 onships to Asheville, North Carolina, in - letics program. Carroll, who ran cross-coun - Donna L. Burden, Esq., founding mem -

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Lawrence leads Catholic Medical Partners 1991 Stephanie (Litz) Chase is the assessor’s Thomas P. Lawrence, MD, ’98, was named president and clerk, deputy clerk and town historian for CEO of Catholic Medical Partners, a network composed of the town of Pendleton, New York, where she nearly 1,000 physicians and Catholic Health healthcare system. lives with her four children, who attend St. CMP is the largest group of independent practicing physicians John Fisher College and Starpoint Central in Western New York. School. Most recently, Lawrence was chief medical officer at Innova - tive Health Alliance of New York, a clinically integrated network 1993 in Albany, New York. Prior to that, he was the president of Dr. Kelly Rohan received a $3.4 million Mount Carmel Medical Group in Columbus, Ohio; chief medical five-year grant from the National Institute officer of St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates in Al - of Mental Health to conduct research on bany; and chief medical officer and vice president of Penin - adult depression treatments. Louis Rus - sula Regional Medical Group, and chief medical officer and sell Jr. is a litigation claims manager with vice president of medical affairs for Peninsula Regional Med - the Erie Insurance Group, overseeing claims ical Center in Salisbury, Maryland. in litigation in Northwestern Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Western Maryland. Rus - sell began his career with Erie Insurance in September 1996. Most recently, he was re - ber of Burden, Hafner & Hansen, LLC, was North Carolina. She previously was the sponsible for overseeing home office con - appointed to the Audit Committee of the In - branch manager of the Bordeaux Commu - verted claim files for the Harrisburg, ternational Association of Defense Counsel nity Branch Library in Fayetteville, which Indiana, Virginia and Maryland branch of - (IADC) and its foundation. was selected as one of the 10 best libraries in fices. He has also been responsible for over - The foundation works to the state by Best Things North Carolina in seeing the surety claims workflow and he serve as a platform for ed - 2018. Prior to that, she was the adult pro - managed the structured settlement program ucating the public and the gramming librarian at the Olean Public Li - among the branch offices in partnership legal community on cur - brary. with Erie’s law division. Russel has obtained rent litigation issues and a number of professional certifications, in - supporting the integrity of 1988 cluding certified insurance counselor (CIC), the legal system through - Dr. Michael P. Gabriel , a professor of associate in claims (AIC), associate in insur - out the world. In January, history at Kutztown University, appeared on ance management (AIM), associate in gen - Burden presented at the Themis Advocates C-SPAN’s “Lectures in History” series. The eral insurance (A-INS), general insurance Group’s annual meeting in South Beach, program, which first aired in January 2019, certificate (INS), associate in claims man - Miami, Florida. Her presentation topics featured a class he taught about military agement (AIC-M) and associate in service were “Autonomous Vehicles, Vessels & Air - engagements during the American Revolu - (AIS) designations. craft” and “What Claims Professionals Need tion fr om April 1775 to July 1776. It can be to Know about the Legislative, Regulatory found online at https://cs.pn/2WoccvI. 1994 and Legal Impacts on Business, Insurance Gabriel has taught at Kutztown since 1994, Marty Biniasz, marketing manager of the and Everyday Life.” Greg Faherty and he has authored three books on the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, New York, launched his second resume company, Revolutionary War. was recognized at the 128th Annual Conven - www.milliondollarresumes.com, which spe - tion of the International Association of Fairs cializes in resumes, cover 1990 and Expositions (IAFE) as a graduate of the letters, LinkedIn profiles, Julie (Kalata) Sheedy was promoted to Institute of Fair Management. The institute executive bios, and other a new senior leadership role in the Loretto consists of a series of courses covering the job search documents for Health System, chief marketing and en - areas of core competency necessary for top-tier executives and gagement officer. In addi - today’s industry professionals and volun - corporate officers. “In tion to marketing and teers involved in the production of their today’s competitive em - communications, em - agricultural fair. Courses ployment landscape, ex - ployee engagement and include management, risk ceptional executives need the foundation/corporate management, marketing, an exceptional resume to philanthropy, she will programming, operations stand out from the crowd,” writes Faherty. A also supervise the devel - and year-round facility certified professional resume writer (CPRW) opment of long-term usage. Biniasz enrolled in since 1999, Faherty has owned and operated workforce strategies, in - the program in 2016 and www.a-perfect-resume.com since 2000, and cluding professional and community part - was one of 38 graduates has also served as a senior writer for several nerships, mentoring programs and honored at the IAFE Con - of the world’s top resume preparation firms. structured training to develop a strong em - vention. In 2018, a ranking ployee workforce. Sheedy joined Loretto in of top fairs and exhibitions named the Erie 1987 2016 after serving in manager and director County Fair the largest county fair east of Mary Lapp DiRisio accepted a position as roles in communications at Welch Allyn for the Rocky Mountains, the fourth largest the librarian IV/branch manager of the 14 years. She holds a master’s degree in county fair in the United States and 13th Cliffdale Regional Branch Library and the communications management from Syra - largest fair overall in North America. Biniasz West Branch Library in the Cumberland cuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of has directed special projects for the fair in - County Library System in Fayetteville, Communications. cluding the opening of the fair’s Heritage &

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History Center and the creation of a culinary leagues in client, customer or patient facing arts center. He is the author of two books roles. Andrew L. Neyman , CPA, was ad - For the next edition about the Erie County Fair. Eric Fisher mitted into the partnership was named U.S. editor for SportBusiness, a at Chiampou Travis Besaw & London-based sports industry news and in - Kershner LLP. He joined the telligence service, where he leads American company in 2013 as a princi - editorial operations from his pal and has more than 20 New York-area base. Fisher, a years of professional experi - 25-year veteran of sports and ence. Neyman specializes in business media, joins Sport - providing auditing, account - Business after a 14-year run ing, and consulting services with Sports Business Journal, for manufacturing, real estate, and service where he was a staff writer companies, employee benefit plans, and covering Major League Base - nonprofit organizations. He serves as a ball, ticketing, technology, treasurer, board member, and finance com - and digital media. His wife, Maribeth mittee member for WNY United Against (Franczyk) Fisher, ’94, is an adult serv - Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Inc. Additionally, ices librarian with the Scotch Plains (N.J.) Neyman is a member of the American Insti - Public Library. Matt Harrison was ap - tute of Certified Public Accountants and the What keepsakes and memorabilia do pointed director of systems engineering for New York State Society of Certified Public you keep around as a reminder of the IT sales department at Geico. He is re - Accountants. your time at SBU? Write to us at mag - sponsible for 200 information technology [email protected]. We will feature some professionals dedicated to providing out - of your responses in a future issue of standing technology solutions for their cus - Bonaventure magazine. And if you o n

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e was one of two representatives of the United Lagos, Nigeria, for three years starting in S States Conference of Catholic Bishops September 2019. (USCCB) at the meeting, which drew to - 1997 gether 40 delegates from Catholic bishops’ 1996 Dr. Marc DelMonico (fourth row back, conferences in 15 countries and included Ste phen Battaglia received the CVS second on the right) and delegates for the in - three days of reports and presentations dis - Health Paragon award for 2019. The annual ternational meeting “Promotion & Forma - cussing the best ways each nation has imple - Paragon Awards recognize the best of the tion of the Laity: Best Practices” are pictured mented efforts to re-energize participation best among CVS Health employees. It is the with Pope Francis following the papal gen - in the Catholic faith and the life of the highest recognition in the company for col - eral audience of Sept. 26, 2018. DelMonico church among adult Catholics. DelMonico is director of certification for Ecclesial Ministry and Service at the USCCB. For more infor - mation about the meeting, visit DelMonico’s website, churchmd.com/rome. Jayme (Maley) Hines completed her doctorate of education (Ed.D.) with a focus in educa - tional leadership from the College of Saint Mary in Omaha, Nebraska. Hines is an in - structor at Keene State College, where she teaches in the Education Department. She and her husband, Jamison, Class of 1996 , live in New Hampshire with their two kids. Kristan McMahon is president of the Robert H. Jackson Center, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting liberty under law through the examina - tion of the life and work of Supreme Court Bonnies network Abroad Justice Robert H. Jack - Bob Cox, Class of 1977, hosted the MBA International Business class at the Jason Filter Company in son and their relevance Shanghai, China, in May. The students also met with Anne Ruisi, Class of 1981, online editor of China to current events and issues. She joined the Daily, during their two-week trip to China.

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Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York, alumni and stakeholder engagement. Say-Wit - after nearly 20 years as a practicing attorney ter is a 2017 graduate of SUNY Empire State and brings a range of experience in the non - College with a master’s degree in business ad - profit and association sector. One of the hall - ministration and in 2019 will be awarded the marks of her most recent work is the diversity school’s Emerging Leader Award out of more and inclusion guidance she has provided to than 80,000 alumni. She frequently writes, nonprofits and associations over the last two speaks, and teaches classes and conference years; she also brings significant nonprofit sessions on topics related to communications, board experience on national and regional or - fundraising, leadership, and life. She is the ganizations. McMahon was principal of Vetted president of the Board of Directors for the As - Solutions, a Washington, D.C.-based company sociation of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) of focused on providing executive search solu - Western New York and serves on the Content tions as well as diversity and inclusion and suc - Advisory Committee for AFP Global. cession planning guidance to associations and nonprofits. She serves on the boards of Youth 2003 For Understanding, Sitar Arts Center, and Matthew Kahm was promoted to executive American Association of University Women- vice president and chief operating officer at Falls Church (Virginia) Branch. She previously Shults Auto Group. Kahm served as a member of St. Bonaventure’s Board continues to oversee Shults of Trustees and as president of SBU’s National Auto Group marketing efforts Alumni Association Board. and general manager respon - Hitting the links for scholarships sibilities at Ed Shults Ford - The 18th annual Robert Peraza ’94 ’96 1999 Lincoln & Kia of Jamestown. Memorial Golf outing was held June 21 in Andrew and Joanne He also leads Yonkers, New York. More than 60 alumni, (Fregault) Knox are and manages family and friends attended, raising funds finishing their first year group business for the Robert Peraza Memorial Scholar - of international teaching operations on key initiatives in - ship. Pictured above are alums (from left) in Kathmandu, Nepal, cluding technology, asset man - Donnie Roberts, ’95, Steve May, ’98, Mike with their daughter. An - agement, fixed operations, new Minardi, ’95, and John D’Arcy, ’95. Mark drew and Joanne teach vehicle operations and business your calendar and join in next year’s outing: high school; Andrew development. Over the past few June 26, 2020! teaches geography and years, Kahm has streamlined the history, and Joanne marketing efforts of Shults Auto teaches literature and Group, led the technology trans - theater. Teaching formation of the company, and abroad has been a spoken at industry gatherings, in - dream of theirs for cluding at the Automotive Leader - years, and they are ship Roundtable and Awards in pleased to have landed in Kathmandu. Andrew Miami, Florida, where he discussed “The Fu - and Joanne Knox are pictured in front of a ture of the Automotive Business and Technol - structure built to honor the rain god and bring ogy,” and to Cox Automotive executives at the a fruitful harvest. company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Traci (Saltzman) Washburn was ap - 2001 pointed assistant dean for advancement at the Pamela Say-Witter is vice president for In - Syracuse University School of Architecture. A stitutional Advancement at D’Youville College, seasoned professional with 15 where she oversees all institutional fundraising years’ experience in higher programs, including alumni education administration, she and donor relations. Say-Wit - has held progressively more ter previously worked at Tro - responsible roles in Advance - caire College, where she ment and External Affairs at served as the vice president Syracuse University since for Development and Com - 2011. She previously served munity Engagement for as director of development for Two Proud nearly six years. In her role leadership annual giving in the university’s Ad - Bona Educators there, Say-Witter and her vancement and External Affairs office. Earlier Carol Goodridge-Harrington, ’80, and marketing and communications team brought in her career she served as the director of Jennifer Russo, ’00, were proud to work home seven national and regional awards in Alumni Giving at Syracuse University’s College together training the next generation of two years, successfully launched a total college of Visual and Performing Arts as well as the as - teachers to enter the field. Goodridge- rebrand and new website and saw marked im - sistant director of the Cortland Fund at SUNY Harrington is a university supervisor at provement in targeted marketing, advertising, Cortland. She began her professional career in St. John Fisher College and Russo and social and digital engagement. Her devel - graduate admissions at Syracuse, first with the teaches high school history in East opment and alumni relations teams achieved College of Law and subsequently for the School Rochester. across-the-board increases in giving and of Educat ion. She holds a certificate of ad -

38 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE Class Notes vanced study in disability studies from the rate and utilize the power of cutting- 2009 School of Education at Syracuse. edge technology. Ken Lish was elected to serve a four-year term on the Superior, Colorado, Board of 2004 2006 Trustees. The board adopts Ryan Ackley completed a Master of Sci - Jessica (Manocchio) Christensen , ordinances and resolutions, ence degree in leadership and innovation senior communications manager for appropriates funds to con - at Daemen College in Amherst and was ap - Praxair Inc., was appointed to the duct town business, and pro - pointed assistant vice president for infor - Board of Directors for Unite By Night, a vides policy direction for mation management in Daemen College’s nonprofit startup that fights against town governance. Lish is Information Technology department. racism, bias and discrimination in also a certified public ac - Ryan Michelle Wilcox joined Boundless Western New York and beyond. Matt countant and certified fraud Connections as the company’s program Renninger was named the real estate examiner employed by the outreach manager for the pilot Technology manager of Lamar Advertising’s Provi - National Science Foundation’s Office of In - Center initiative in Olean. dence office, which covers all of Rhode spector General to oversee grant audits of the She is responsible for cre - Island and Eastern Massachusetts, in - nation’s largest research institutions. ating and sharing pro - cluding Boston. He previously was the gram-related content and real estate manager of Lamar’s office in 2010 building and maintaining Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Patrick Justin Klumpp relationships in the com - Schmitt was elected treasurer of has been an associ - munity, including Wayne ate director for those with students County, New ESPN for four and local employers. York, in the years, working on As liaison with local schools, colleges November various projects and funding organizations, her ef - 2018 general such as Sportscen - forts are aimed at recruiting partici - election, after ter, NFL Live and pants for programs, as well as running unop - College Football coordinating with various agencies posed. Signing Day. He to offset program costs and fees for Schmitt was also earned his sec - participants. Wilcox has held posi - sworn in and ond Emmy for his tions as a reporter and social media started his work on College specialist and most recently as manager of first term as county treasurer on Jan. 1. GameDay. Klumpp was promoted to associ - donor services at the Cattaraugus Region ate director II in April and will be working on Community Foundation. A 2007 graduate 2008 NFL Monday Night Countdown in the fall. of Leadership Cattaraugus, she is secretary Stephanie Nikolaou was accepted of the Cattaraugus Community Action into the Harvard Graduate School of board of directors. The tech centers pro - Education and will begin working with vide a focal point for young and old with the Education Policy and Management various skill sets and interests to collabo - cohort beginning in the fall of 2019.

Births / Adoptions

Welcome, Baby Bonnies! Harper Lucia and Emily Barbara to Ian Tyler adopted by Alicia (Becker), Tammy and Steve Nicholson, ’94 ’04, ’06, and Jonathan Larson, ’09 Raegan Elenor to Kristin and Charlie Zachary Alexander and Tyler Phoenix to Riley, ’01 Lauren (Krieger), ’05, ’06 and 2011 Randall Kozlowski, ’04 Finn Edward to Kathleen (Schreier), Vanessa (Pillmore) Marquette was hon - ’01, and Jason Rudgers Cooper James to Amber Buttles, ’04, ored in late December 2018 as the “Home - Jackson Adams to Bernice St. Clair, ’05, and Cody Cipalla town Hero” at the Syracuse vs. St. Bona- ’02, and Adam Griffiths Patrick Devereux to Callie (Riorden), venture basketball game. “This was very Lucy Evangeline to Kyleen (Prue), ’03, ’06, and James Banko, ’02 meaningful and surreal to me, as SBU was a and Matthew Anderson, ’03 Josephine Ophelia to Samantha House, big part of my life and where I made the best Ezra Quinn to Erica and Matthew ’11, and Nathan Funke of friends. And now I work at SU – where Ellison, ’05 Lillian Josephine to Mollie (Curran), everyone knows about the Bonnies because of how often I talk about the school,” she Fiona Grace to Lynne (Muccia), ’08, ’11, and Daniel Marzo, ’11, ’12 writes. Marquette works at Syracuse Univer - ’09, and Tyler Herman John Robert to Katie (Klimek), ’11, ’12, and Bobby McFall, ’11, ’12 sity’s Institute for Veterans and Military Leah Catherine to Kate (Moulton), ’07, Families. Read more about her honor online ’08, and Matthew Chmielewski Brayden Charles to Katelyn (Schrock), at veterans.syr.edu/news/vanessa-mar - Elena Faith to Gina (Sementelli), ’06, ’13, and Adam McDermott, ’13 quette/. and Brian Schreiber

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2012 lationship manager at Citizens Bank in advertising agency. UM is a member of Inter - Brian Bohrer represents Ross Stores Syracuse , New York, where she is responsi - public Group, operating under the IPG Media - Inc. as the corporation’s military re - ble for the Middle Market brands branch. McGilvray cruiter. He has worked for Ross since portfolio for the commer - ser ved as president and account 2015, expanding his responsibilities cial bank. Rooney first executive of St. Bonaventure’s from an area supervisor to the role of joined Citizens Bank as an student-run advertising agency, operations manager within the com - intern in 2014 and has an affiliate of the American Ad - pany’s Southeast Distribution Center. since moved up the ranks, vertising Federation, Kwerk - Previously, Bohrer served in the active most recently serving as works. She also served as duty and reserve components of the associate regional man - co-president of an online maga - United States Navy for nearly nine ager. Rooney, a Syracuse zine dedicated to college women called Her Cam - years. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live native, lives in Strathmore, the same neigh - pus SBU. McGilvray was named the 2019 Mary A. in York, South Carolina. Bridget borhood where she grew up. She is a mem - Hamilton Woman of Promise. Steele , a Buffalo attorney, was recog - ber of the Salvation Army Young Leaders nized for her work with Volunteer Board and serves on the board of trustees at Lawyers Project (VLP) and was Bishop Ludden Jr. Sr. High School. Kelly awarded its Say Yes Legal Clinic Award Telaak was promoted to senior accountant in November. Steele volunteers at the at Chiampou Travis Besaw & Kershner LLP. general advice walk-in clinic of the Buf - She joined the firm as a staff accountant in falo Public Schools Adult Education January 2016. Center. She is a junior board member of the VLP’s Rising Champions for Jus - 2016 tice, and pitches in with the Attorney of Dean Southworth was promoted to sen - the Morning eviction defense program. ior accountant at Chiampou Travis Besaw An associate in the health care and & Kershner LLP. He joined the firm as a human services practice of Barclay staff accountant in October 2016. Damon LLP, she assists clients with regulatory and compliance matters in - 2017 cluding corporate compliance, HIPAA Collin Jones is an account executive at and data privacy, reimbursement, con - Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Ala - tracting, network development and bama. FDA-related issues. Her legal career began with the New York State Attor - 2018 ney General’s office in the Buffalo En - Haylei John was named a 2019 Diversity vironmental Protection Bureau where Scholar by Ward Greenberg Heller & she handled cases involving lead paint Reidy LLP. Featured in local and national hazards. She was honored in 2017 by publications, Ward Greenberg’s Diversity the New York State Bar Association for Scholar Program, now in its fourth year, completing more than 50 hours of pro offers first-year law stu - bono service. dents the opportunity for a 10-week paid summer Samantha Berkhead, ’14, moved to Moscow, 2013 appointment. In addition Russia, in February to begin a new job as news Alex Teixeira graduated cum laude to performing meaningful editor of The Moscow Times, the leading inde - from the Wake Forest University work for the firm, the pro - pendent, English-language newspaper within School of Law in May 2018. Teixeira gram includes a short- Russia. Here is how she describes life a few was an executive editor for the Wake term secondment with an months into her dream job: Forest Journal of Law & Policy, repre - institutional client, which sented the school at the National provides the scholars a chance to establish As a student at St. Bonaventure, I dreamt of Moot Court Competition in New York close relationships with outside organiza - moving to another country after graduation. City, and was selected by his class - tions. Successful scholars are invited back When I moved to Moscow this February to become The mates to be the student speaker dur - to the firm for a summer associate position M“oscow Times’ news editor, I was ready to start living ing his class’ hooding ceremony. After the following year. John is attending Cor - my dream — but I also knew my life was about to change graduation, Teixeira passed the North nell Law School, where, during her first forever. I was swept from buttoned-up, all-business Carolina Bar Exam and earned a year, she has been involved with the Na - Washington, D.C., to a colorful, chaotic megapolis clerkship at the North Carolina Court tive American Law Student Association steeped in a millennium of history and culture I knew lit - of Appeals in Raleigh, North Carolina. and the American Constitution Society. tle of. In Russia, you have to be ready for the unexpected John will be located in Ward Greenberg’s to happen at any time. As a journalist, this means drop - 2014 Rochester office. ping everything and jumping on the phone as soon as Mary Best Loliger has joined the Julian Assange is arrested or when a nationwide protest law firm Hodgson Russ LLP in Buf - 2019 movement breaks out. As a journalist, that’s the rush falo as a content marketing specialist. Tierney McGilvray moved from Buffalo I’ve been chasing after my whole life. It was at St. Bona’s to New York, New York, to accept a sum - where I learned how to chase that rush and tell the truth 2015 mer position as a strategy resident at Uni - with accuracy and integrity. For that, I’m Grace Rooney was promoted to re - versal McCann (UM), a global media and very grateful.

40 BONAVENTURE MAGAZINE ” Alumni Deaths

Alumni Deaths A directory of deceased alumni is available on Bona’s Online. Not a member of Bona’s Online? Register at www.sbu.edu/alumni.

Ann Kaluza Ewing, ’47, Rixford, Pa. Sr. Lorraine Masucci, ’58, Auburn, N.Y. George R. Brix, ’71, Grayson, Ga. Frank A. LoVuolo, ’48, B inghamton, N.Y. Daniel B. Walsh, ’58, Glenmont, N.Y. Rosemary L. Sinnott Butler, ’72, Dr. Donald J. Kelley, ’48, Orchard Park, N.Y. Thomas B. Langan, ’59, Island Pond, Vt. Baldwin, N.Y. Rev. John L. Donovan, ’49, Thomas P. Murray, ’59, Buffalo, N.Y. Francis J. Guidone, ’72, Jensen Beach, Fla. South Boston, Mass. Edward F. Forrest, ’60, Olean, N.Y. Dr. George J. Hallesky, ’72, William L. Bennett, ’50, Webster, N.Y. * Lawrence S. Spoto, ’60, Le Roy, N.Y. Scott Township, Pa. F. Shane Franz, ’50, Fort Myers, Fla. Richard A. Stevenson, ’60, Coralville, Iowa Mary Jude Pachan, ’72, Collins, N.Y. John T. Halloran, ’50, John F. Lambert, ’61, East Hampton, Conn. Diana M. Myslinski, ’74, Orchard Park, N.Y. University Heights, Ohio Patrick J. Ryan, ’62, Universal City, Texas Stanley S. Wolanski, ’75, Columbia, Pa. Louis H. Pelow, ’50, Lady Lake, Fla. Dr. Joseph M. Pastore Jr., ’63, Dr. Charles Chambers, ’76, John P. Sullivan, ’50, Clinton, N.Y. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Hummelstown, Pa. Rev. Paul J. Belzer, ’51, Buffalo, N.Y. James E. O’Connor, ’64, Richmond, Va. William C. Murphy, ’76, London, England Msgr. Ernest J. Daley, ’51, Erie, Pa. Edward H. Radigan, ’64, Olean, N.Y. Michael T. Hefferan, ’80, Norwalk, Conn. Louis A. Heuschneider, ’51, Syracuse, N.Y. Joseph Anticoli, ’65, Midlothian, Va. Caleb M. Clark, ’81, Solomons, Md. George U. Robotti, ’51, Shelburne, Vt. Sr. Ann K. Bolton, ’65, Amityville, N.Y. Philip J. Farenga, ’81, Terrytown, N.Y. Thomas A. Ryan, ’52, Vienna, Va. Michael J. Daley, ’66, Hamilton, Ohio Joseph A. Cardinale, ’82, White Plains, N.Y. * Dr. William J. Connolly, ’53, Anthony F. DeVincentis, M.D., ’66, Mark E. Bartula, ’83, Rochester, N.Y. North Haledon, N.J. Orchard Park, N.Y. Kathleen T. O’Toole Hnat, ’84, Col. (Ret.) Charles T. Patanella, ’53, Barbara A. Swartz Knight, ’66, Bradington, Fla. Geneseo, N.Y. Gulf Shores, Ala. Dr. Terrence L. Hunt, D.D.S., ’84, Michael L. A’Hearn, ’54, Port Jefferson, N.Y. James M. Moynihan, ’66, St. Louis, Mo. Rocky River, Ohio William M. Warda, ’54, Lackawanna, N.Y. Anthony A. Citino, ’67, The Villages, Fla. Janet McMahon, ’84, Buffalo, N.Y. John J. Quinones, ’55, Lockport, N.Y. David A. De Francisco, ’67, Brian P. Florenz, ’88, Brewster, N.Y. Anthony J. Ruggeri, ’55, Fort Myers, Fla. Fort Mohave, Ariz. Christopher A. Pollock, ’89, Portville, N.Y. Thomas W. Morris, ’56, Ocala, Fla. David A. Harvey, ’68, Warrington, Pa. Lillian A. Gavett, ’94, Columbia, Mo. Warren J. Thomas, ’56, Lilburn, Ga. James S. Servidea, ’68, Newton, N.J. Georgina K. DiChristina, ’99, Angola, N.Y. Francis N. Carducci, ’57, Eastchester, N.Y. Timothy J. Bohen, ’69, Shelter Island, N.Y. Joseph R. Murphy, ’00, Buffalo, N.Y. Lt. Col. Jerald T. Desmond, ’57, Richard F. Matthews, ’69, Olean, N.Y. Daniel R. Foust, ’06, Kenmore, N.Y. Tinto n Falls, N.J. Richard Ray, ’69, Buffalo, N.Y. John V. Andreach, ’09, Stony Brook, N.Y. Raymond F. Lavoie, ’57, Plattsburgh, N.Y. Patrick J. Daly, ’70, Wood Ridge, N.J. Gary Krypel, ’17, Williamsville, N.Y. Angelo L. Fratarcangelo, ’58, Olean, N.Y. Ronald P. Fodge, ’70, Churchville, N.Y. Richard T. Kennedy, ’58, Bellevue, Wash. Sr. Patricia Blostic, ’71, Parsippany, N.J.

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In Memoriam

Retiree Mary Jane Baxter Dr. Joseph M. Pastore Thailand, Brazil, Poland and 2006. He was a university trustee passed away April 24. She re - Jr., ’63, Professor Emeritus Australia. After retiring in from 1988 through 1995, and a recip - tired from the university in 2015 in Residence at the Lubin 1991, he worked for 10 more ient of the New York Metro Gaudete as circulation supervisor after a School of Business at Pace years as a CIA contractor. Ryan Award in 1997. 33-year career at Friedsam Me - University, passed away May received the university’s morial Library. 13. He was 77. Pastore was a Gaudete Medal in 2005 and Dr. Kimberly Young,* director of former professor, School of was inducted into the ROTC St. Bonaventure’s Strategic Leader - Lawrence “Larry” Galen - Business dean, and vice presi - Hall of Fame in 2006. ship program and professor of com - tine , an employee in the house - dent for Academic Affairs at munic ation in the keeping department at the St. Bonaventure University. Daniel B. Walsh , a 1958 Jandoli School of university since 2001, passed Following his service to alumnus and Olean, New York, Communication, away Jan. 30. St. Bonaventure, Pastore native, passed away in Decem - passed away Feb. 28. mo ved on to dean and vice ber 2018 at the age of 83. Young began teach - Retiree Katherine “Katie” presidential roles at Pace Uni - Walsh, who served a two-year ing at St. Bonaven - Kreyd t passed away April 26. versity and Boston College. tour of Korea with the Army’s ture in 2002 and Kreydt, who retired from 7th Infantry, taught and taught in the Jandoli St. Bonaventure in 2005, worked Thomas A. Ryan , a 1952 coached at area high schools School and the for decades at the university in alumnus, passed away Dec. before launching a successful School of Business. The pinnacle of various clerical positions, includ - 31, 2018, at the age of 87. career in politics. He was a her career was being the pioneer re - ing a number of years in the pur - Ryan served as an infantry member of the New York As - searcher to first identify internet ad - chasing department. officer in the Army for three sembly for 14 years, serving as diction as a psychological condition years during the Korean majority leader from 1979 to in 1995. A licensed psychologist, she Don McLean, a member of the War. He served his country 1987, and was the president of became an internationally known ex - St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of for another 35 years as a CIA the Business Council of New pert on internet addiction, publishing Fame and the radio play-by-play operations officer, including York State for nearly 20 years, numerous article s and books on the man for the Bonnies for 33 years, overseas tours in Japan, from 1987 to his retirement in topic. passed away Feb. 6 at ag e 90.

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Good friends in the City of Good neighbors This trio of Bona J-school graduates likes news, but loves their friend - ship. The three alumnae are all working for Buffalo television sta - Connecting across the miles tions. From left, Brittany Slomba, ’17, is a news assistant at From north to south and coast to coast, President Dr. Dennis R. DePerro Spectrum News; Jackie Roberts, ’16, is a news reporter at WGRZ – took to the road this past academic year to meet with alumni and friends Channel 2; and Catie Brown, ’17, is a photographer at WGRZ – and share the good news of St. Bonaventure. Above, DePerro pauses with Channel 2. (from left) Bill Purcell, a member of the university’s Board of Trustees and former mayor of Nashville, and Gerry Helper, Jandoli School graduate of the Class of 1979 and senior VP for the Nashville Predators. A tour of the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville followed.

Brothers Brig. Gen. Patrick D. Frank, ’89, and Lt. Col. Mark P. Frank, ’00, spent quality time together during the Distinguished Visitors Day at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in May. Patrick Frank is the Command - Congrats to our newest M.D.s! ing General of the Joint Readiness Training Center Nine St. Bonaventure alumni graduated from George Washington University and Fort Polk. Mark Frank was attending the Distin - School of Medicine May 19. Pictured in their graduation robes (along with their guished Visitors Day to visit his soldiers from the field and where they’ll do their residency) are (bottom row, from left) Aayushi Sar - New York Army National Guard that were building dana, ’15, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, New York, obstetrics-gynecology; readiness during the premier combat training cen - Kelly (O’Sullivan) Corrigan, ’15, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, transitional ter exercise. He recently graduated from the Ad - year; Tina Boortalary, ’15, Thomas Jefferson University, internal medicine; Simone vanced Operations Course instructed by the U.S. A. Bernstein, ’14, Washington University in St. Louis, psychiatry; Vivian Lee, ’15, Army Command and General Staff College at Fort University of Southern California, internal medicine; and (back row, from left) Leavenworth, Kansas. Mark Frank is serving as the Hannah N. Robinson, ’15, Madigan Army Medical Center, obstetrics-gynecology; New York Army National Guard Deputy G1 Vanya Aggarwal, ’15, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, internal medicine; (human resources) Officer at the Joint Force Head - Arun Muthiah, ’15, Brown University, internal medicine; and Pranathi Ari Gulla - quarters in Latham, New York. palli, ’15, University of Texas Medical School-Houston, anesthesiology.

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Bonnies graduate from Alumni hit the slopes in wyoming Marine Corps Basic School A number of SBU alumni got together in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to ski in March. Pictured (from left) are Dan Gasapo, Class of 2013, and William Tim Deskin, ’89, John Verden, ’92, Jim Kivari, ’92, Sean Kelly, ’92, Dave Crossed, ’88, John Kivari, ’89, Dan “Matt” Lane, Class of 2017, graduated Walsh, ’91, and Mike Nash, ’90. from The Basic School of the United States Marine Corps on June 26 in Quantico, Vir - ginia. The men were part of 5th Platoon, Cheering on the Bravo Company 2-19, and were also room - mates. 2nd Lt. Lane, who played soccer at Bonnies in ‘Cuse SBU, will be a military police officer and Alumni from the classes of 2nd Lt. Gasapo will be a communications 2002 and 2003, their spouses officer. The Bonnies graduated from the and kids take in a men’s United States Marine Corps Officer Candi - basketball game in Syracuse on dates School in November. As luck would Dec. 29, 2018: Greg and have it, out of more than 400 candidates Shanna Anderson; Michael and from across the country, both Bonnies Jenny Cummings; Brian Ferrare ended up in the same platoon. and Kari (Jones) Ferrare; and Anthony Matacale.

Unfurl! new Jersey alumni cheer on the Bonnies! Michael Damiano, ’06, has crossed off a couple bucket list items during the past A group of alumni and family gathered on Feb 1. to cheer on the Bon - year. He is pictured above March 10 on the summit at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tan - nies vs. Davidson at Miller’s Ale House in Paramus, New Jersey. Pic - zania. One of the guides is helping him hold the Bona banner in the wind. Last tured with family members are Mary Ann Liddy Johnson, ’85, Kim November, Damiano and alumnus Matthew Agostinelli, ’06, ’07, visited the pyr - Harnek Molke, ’82, Tom Moore, ’74, Cathy Moore, ‘74, Joann Condon, amids at Giza in Cairo, Egypt. ‘81, Jim Avagliano, ’72, Kathleen Major, ’86, and Mike Maguire, ’86.

SUMMER 2019 43 Weddings

Anna VanToai and Carl Pfadt, ’09, ’10

Katie Rueppel, ’10, and Brent yancich

Samantha Kauffman, ’13, and nick nguyen, ’13

Megan McDermott and Ian McBride, ’05, ’06

Kelly o’Sullivan, ’15, and Joseph Corrigan

Lindsay Stowell, ’14, and Brian weightman, ’14

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Lost Alumni We’ve lost touch with a number of alums and need your help! Our hope is to find lost alumni who will be celebrating their reunion in 2020. If you know the where - abouts of the following alumni, please let us know at www.sbu.edu/foundalumni. Robert E. Cronin, ’60 Jessica Van Cleve and Andrew Dugan, ’15 George A. Korb, ’60 Daniel J. McNally, ’60 Richard J. Taylor, ’60 George K. Konnick, ’65 Anthony J. Erena, ’70 Paul J. Marano, ’70 Albert J. Mazza, ’70 Thomas G. Sendlakowski, ’70 Kathleen Walsh, ’70 James L. Zubert, ’70 Michael W. Allan, ’75 David Malpiedi, ’75 John L. Rothengast, ’75 John C. Tornatore, ’75 Thomas J. Abbott, ’80 Paul A. Ammermuller, ’80 Thomas F. Burger, ’80 Mark L. Gudelski, ’80 Susan (Weber) Handel, ’80 Louis R. Joachim, ’80 Judith M. Kelley, ’80 April Mason, ’12, ’14, and Francisco nieves, ’12 Jo hn S. Kelly, ’80 Kathleen M. (Waterstrat) Mazur, ’80 Kevin Gerard McLean, ’80 Kevin M. Stoffer, ’80 Kathleen A. (Cunningham) Thompson, ’80 John P. Enright, ’85 Cheryl M. Franklin, ’85 Karan Marie Horan, ’85 Cynthia Ann (Boyea) Marushak, ’85 Michael Joseph Becker, ’90 Garvin Wellington Ferguson, ’90 Alicia Maresco, ’90 Joseph Francis Szot, ’90 Patrick R. Coyle, ’95 Maureen M. Parker, ’95 Jessica Jo (Gowlis) Sciarretto, ’95 Brad J. Teemley, ’95 Alyson L. Dennis, ’00 Shane T. Abrams, ’10 Ana Elizabeth Collado, ’10 Robert Christopher Donlin, ’10 Katelin Brooks, ’16, and Matthew Corcoran, ’16 Carrie Kathleen Howland, ’10 David Poteet Seyler, ’10 Alexander Joseph Vitanza, ’15

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Melinda Tubbs, ’10, and Mike Paltridge

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Laura Kelkenberg and Rich Place, ’09

Christine Mooney, ’15, and Daniel Dunnigan

Colleen Smith, ’04, and Michael Dunn

Colleen Quinn, ’08, and Edwin Molina

Missy D’amato and Matt Renninger, ’06

Kiara Catanzaro, ’15, ’16, and Josh Carniewski, ’13, ’14

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Photo by Ron Raff Bonaventure ruggers leave their mark St. Bonaventure’s men’s and women’s rugby teams had great showings in their first national 7s rugby tournaments. The women reached the consola - tion bracket title game of the NSCRO National 7s on April 28 in Pittsburgh, and the men defeated Notre Dame, 15-12, on June 2 to win the Bowl bracket of the Penn Mutual CRC outside Philadelphia. Above, Alex Chura, who scored the winning try late in the Bowl bracket title game, races past an Irish defender in the Bonnies’ 28-21 last-second pool play win over Notre Dame on June 1. In the women’s division at the Penn Mutual CRC, SBU stars Emily Sion (inset photo, left) and Kelly DeGrood helped the NSCRO All-Stars to a 7th-place finish with a 24-0 win over Notre Dame. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s Bonnies 3, Notre Dame 0.