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Thanks to the One And All campaign—and the EXPANDED $85.4 million raised from 14,001 distinct donors— CENTER FOR CIVIC Junior ENGAGEMENT AND Drew boasts this vast array of achievements. PROFESSORSHIP 1 PAGE 31 On the pages that follow, we take a closer look CIVIC at what was made possible by the generosity SCHOLARS of our remarkable community—One And All. PROGRAM ADDED PAGE 3 $31+ RENOVATED NEW YORK SEMESTER ON MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS MILLION HALL OF PAGE 22 TO THE ENDOWMENT SCIENCES PAGE 47 PAGE 40 BALDWIN Percent Increase ENVIRONMENTAL HONORS PROGRAM in CLA Alumni STUDIES AND Participation SUSTAINABILITY PAGE 6 7 PAGE 30 3 Faculty MAJOR Fellowships PAGE 36 PAGE 41 16 STUDENT ARTS-ACROSS-THE-CURRICULUM 38 RESEARCH SCHOLAR INITIATIVE SHIPS FELLOWSHIPS KEAN PAGE 14 PAGE 172 READING PAGE 28 FEATURES EVERYTHING ELSE ROOM NEW ANNUAL 6 A Fellowship of Scholars 4 Mead 205 PAGE 40 31 Into The Forest 42 Honor Roll 12 GIVING 14 Answered Prayers of Donors Ehinger INTERNSHIP RECORDS 154 Classnotes Center FUNDS 22 Manhattan Matters 172 BackTalk PAGE 34 PAGE 172 PAGE 30
DREW MAGAZINE Volume 44, No. 1, Winter 2017 PRESIDENT MaryAnn Baenninger, PhD PUBLISHERS Kira Poplowski, PhD VICE PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING Kenneth Alexo, Jr., PhD VICE PRESIDENT FOR UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT CREATIVE DIRECTOR Margaret M. Kiernan EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kristen Daily Williams C’98 CONTENT DIRECTOR Christopher Hann GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Peter Heineck, Rizco Design, Melanie Shandroff PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANT Lynne DeLade C’12 EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS Kevin Coyne, Christopher Hann, Andrew McMains, Amy Motzenbecker, Shannon Mullen, Leslie Garisto Pfaff HONOR ROLL CURATORS Julie Gill, Jane Driscoll Himmelrich CLASSNOTES COORDINATOR Kathleen Merusi LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WEBMASTER Justin Jackson C’05
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Robert Benacchio C’98, President, College Alumni Association Brandon Cho T’06, President, “I gave to the One And All campaign for Theological School Alumni Association many reasons, but the most important Drew Magazine (ISSN 0889-0153) is one was definitely our students. I saw this published by Drew University, campaign as an unprecedented opportunity 36 Madison Ave., Madison, NJ 07940, USA. to transform the Drew experience for all Standard rate postage paid at Madison, New Jersey, and additional mailing office. of them: to modernize the classrooms POSTMASTER: Send address changes to and laboratories in which they learn, to Office of Alumni Records, Alumni House, renew the spaces in which they hang out Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940. and to create or enhance the programs All material in Drew Magazine is ©2017 by Drew University. and initiatives that connect them to—and prepare them for—the real world. I am SUBSCRIPTIONS Through your relationship to Drew University, honored to have been one of the 14,001 you are a subscriber of Drew Magazine. donors who helped build for Drew the kind ADDRESS CHANGES OR TO UNSUBSCRIBE of foundation that will enable it to reach its Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 973.408.3229, full potential—and will propel the University [email protected] into a future in which it will shine more LETTERS TO THE EDITOR brightly than it ever has.” [email protected] or to the first address above —William M. Freeman C’74, Campaign Chair Drew University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action employer and educator. See the video featuring Olivia Blondheim Views expressed herein are those of the authors and do C’18, a Civic Scholar and Baldwin not necessarily reflect official policy of the university. Honors Scholar, at drew.edu/oneandall. Lacrosse Coach Tom Leanos surrounded by graduating players. On and off the field, Leanos’ mentoring matters. Page 11. 2 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 3 Bill Cardoni Bill Cardoni Adam Nawrot Mead 205 A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Nelson Henderson, an otherwise obscure Canadian farmer, is reputed to have shared with his son the following sage advice: “The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” Giving to others without expecting something in return lies at the heart of the world’s great religions and philosophies. It is an aspiration that underscores the inherent connectedness of the human race: the fact that none of us is an island, that we are mutually dependent on one another, that we owe much to those who have come before us, and have a responsibility to those who come after. It is, as such, a value that all of us would do well to remember—and to practice—as we go about our everyday lives, in whatever endeavor we may be engaged.
and have raised the value of a Drew diploma for those of you Engagement; the conversion of environmental studies into a t also happens to be an apt description of what more than who had the exceptionally good fortune to graduate from here. full-fledged major program of study; and the initiation of an 14,000 Drewids accomplished during our recently completed In the pages that follow, we recognize all of those who gave to arts-across-the-curriculum initiative. IOne And All campaign. Drew as part of the One And All campaign, and highlight some of These are impressive and inspiring accomplishments, but they Perhaps because ours is “the University in The Forest,” I immediately our most spectacular and emblematic successes. For reasons of don’t end there. During the One And All campaign, we also set recalled Henderson’s simple yet profound metaphor as I perused space, we couldn’t include a story on every tree that was planted new records for annual giving, increased our undergraduate initial drafts of the articles included in this special issue of Drew during this campaign, and so I’d like to provide a quick snapshot alumni participation rate by seven percentage points and added Magazine. I read with admiration and gratitude the stories of of just how much we accomplished: more than $31 million to the endowment. the many new trees planted by our alumni, trustees, students, n The establishment of 38 new scholar- Possibly our most notable achievement, parents, faculty, staff and friends in the larger community. Their ships, 16 new student research fellow- however, was that this campaign very generous gifts—given without any expectation that they would ships and 12 new internship funds, So much of our progress much lived up to its name. One And
ever receive the scholarships they established, or take classes supporting students across all three during the past few years would All was a truly egalitarian enterprise.
in the buildings they renovated, or study in the programs they schools, as well as the creation of three “ Though we received some big and piloted—added up to a remarkable $85.4 million, helping us new faculty fellowships and one junior not have been possible without extraordinary gifts, none topped the surpass our One And All goal by more than $5 million. professorship in mathematics. the significantly increased “ $3.25 million mark. Unlike most major fundraising campaigns with similarly Drew is clearly a school on the rise in a host of important respects: n The long-overdue transformation of support of our dedicated enrollment and retention have dramatically improved and long- the University Center into the Ehinger ambitious goals, there were no eight- awaited capital improvements on campus—such as the new Center, creating a new hub of student alumni and friends. figure gifts during One And All. This Commons—have been completed. We have added programs activity on campus. was not a campaign focused on and that both leverage our enviable geographic location and help us led by the 1%; our success was, instead, n The equally long-overdue renovation, expansion and modern- better prepare our students for the real world. It’s little wonder, the result of the collective dedication and leadership of the 99%. ization of the Hall of Sciences, the University’s primary facility then, that Drew is considered a “hot” school by one major national The $85.4 million we secured came from exactly 14,001 unique dedicated to teaching and learning in the STEM fields. publication and, according to another, is one of only 50 “colleges donors. This, in and of itself, makes One And All a rare and truly that create futures.” n The building of the stately Kean Reading Room in what was historic campaign—and it sets the stage for even greater success the original lobby of the Library, providing a fully mediated in the near future. One should definitely add the success of the One And All space that serves as one of the most popular study spots on campaign to our growing list of recent achievements. Indeed, so Words cannot fully convey what One And All has meant to this campus and honors the legacy of one of Drew’s most beloved much of our progress during the past few years would not have University and to its continued growth and prosperity. On behalf former presidents. been possible without the significantly increased support of of our faculty, staff and students, I offer you my deepest gratitude our dedicated alumni and friends. Your individual and collective n The launching of the Baldwin Honors program; the creation for all you have contributed to Drew. The Forest flourishes—once investments in the University have bolstered the unique offerings of Drew’s fourth dedicated New York City Semester (on media again—because of the many trees you have planted.
and benefits of a Drew education for current and future students— Lynne DeLade C’12 and communications); the expansion of the Center for Civic —MaryAnn Baenninger
4 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 5 A demanding honors program, created by descendants of the Baldwin Brothers during the One And All campaign, has prepared scores of Drew students to pursue postgraduate work at home and abroad, while fostering a sense of community that goes beyond the merely academic.
A FELLOWSHIP A weekly, non-mandatory “Tea with the Director” draws scholars eager for advice—or cookies—and a soupçon of inspiration. 6 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 7 Bill Cardoni OF SCHOLARS Bill Cardoni Hooper, now in her last The program accomplishes such camaraderie through shared classes and, sometimes, shared living year at Harvard Law, arrangements. Many students choose to live on a floor in McLendon Hall set aside for as many credits the Baldwin Honors as 24 Baldwin Honors scholars. Among them was Program with honing her Kishan Patel C’15, who’s now pursuing a master’s in international relations at Oxford. Patel remembers ability to write and research studying in the open area near the elevators and at the graduate level. fielding questions about the program from younger Drew hadn’t been on the radar students who’d just entered it. The Baldwin Honors of Mariel Hooper C’14. But in floor, he says, “encouraged a kind of de facto mentorship among upper- and lowerclassmen.” the fall of 2009, while visiting a The sense of community goes beyond the merely cousin on campus, she decided academic. A weekly, non-mandatory “Tea with the Director” draws scholars eager for advice—or cookies— to schedule an admissions A Scholarly Fellowship and a soupçon of inspiration. Alex Slotkin C’17, an English and philosophy major, remembers a particularly interview. The decision turned At Drew, Hooper majored in English and political fascinating conversation, about the difference between science. But thanks to her participation in the Baldwin 19th- and 21st-century medicine, sparked by something out to be life changing. Honors Program, some of her best friends are he’d recently learned in Introduction to Medical Ethics. scientists. “I did all arts and humanities,” she says, “The arguments didn’t much matter,” he says. “It was just Hooper, an exceptionally strong student throughout high “so I probably wouldn’t have met all the people that cool to find people who shared my academic interests.” school, was told that if she decided to apply, she’d most I did if I hadn’t been part of the honors program.” An annual holiday get-together is all about celebration. likely be admitted not just to Drew but also to its recently As a perk, students receive holiday gifts—usually established Baldwin Honors Program. The idea of spending The Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan, a Drew trustee and a clothing—emblazoned with Drew’s 1928 seal, designed four years among a community of scholars, along with the great-grandson of Arthur Baldwin, was instrumental in by the Baldwin brothers. At one recent celebration, Drew $25,000 annual scholarship awarded to all students in the founding—and funding—the program. He’s particularly President MaryAnn Baenninger earnestly asked a group program, helped clinch her decision to apply. impressed with the enthusiasm of its students, with of Baldwin Honors scholars what they needed from her. whom he meets every year, and what he describes as “Sweatpants!” one student called out. (Hamilton hints the Established in 2009, the Baldwin Honors Program— the sense of “fellowship” encouraged among them. pants may be forthcoming.) named for the Baldwin family, which has a long-standing Mariel Hooper C’14 is history of generously supporting Drew, starting with now in her last year at Leonard and Arthur Baldwin, the brothers who founded Harvard Law. Drew’s liberal arts college in 1927—owes its creation to the continuing largesse of the Baldwin family during the recently completed One And All fundraising campaign. knowledge.” Through a demanding 21-credit curriculum culminating in an eight-credit, yearlong senior thesis, the Building on an earlier program known as Drew program encourages students to think and work Scholars—which offered merit scholarships and the independently. To enter the program, students must chance to write a senior thesis to a small number of maintain an A average in a rigorous college preparatory students each year—it has helped to attract and retain program and score in the low- to mid-1200s on the SAT a group of exceptionally talented students, offering (or a total of 27 on the ACT)—or above. Most Baldwin them the opportunity to pursue the highest caliber Honors scholars are nominated before entering Drew, of undergraduate scholarship. Many go on to elite but first-year students and sophomores may also apply. graduate schools—Hooper is now in her last year at (The program is limited to 60 students per class year.) Harvard Law—and credit the program with honing their The going isn’t easy. The curriculum is challenging, ability to write and research at the graduate level. and the senior thesis is particularly daunting. “Students will say, ‘I was scared to death of this thing; I wouldn’t Baldwin Honors, says Louis Hamilton, the program’s have done it if it wasn’t required. And it’s been the The Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan, a Drew trustee director since 2013, “was designed to guide students most satisfying and rewarding thing I’ve done at Drew,’” and a great-grandson from being consumers of knowledge to producers of Hamilton says. of Arthur Baldwin, was Bill Cardoni, Lynne DeLade C’12 instrumental in founding— and funding—the program.
8 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 9 Cultural and Intellectual Enrichment
Barbara Walters, Leon Panetta, Condoleezza Rice—during Lederer’s time at Drew, they all spoke on campus before rapt audiences of hundreds as part of the Drew Forum. But Lederer and a few dozen of her fellow Baldwin Honors students got to meet them in an intimate setting before their respective speeches. “I was able to ask them questions directly, instead of sitting in the back of a packed auditorium,” she remembers. Honors students also enjoy sponsored cultural experiences, including concerts at Lincoln Center, opening nights at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and museum trips to New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
An Opportunity to Lead
The sense of community goes beyond merely the academic. Sharpening leadership skills is an integral part of the program, particularly during junior year, when students are required either to come together in a group to plan a project or event on campus or work one on one as a conversation partner with an international student. Last year, Alex Slotkin and Richa Patel C’17, along with a few other Baldwin Honors scholars, sponsored an international film A Broadening of Academic Horizons festival, pairing movies with ethnic foods, Patel says, “to help open an educational dialogue on diversity and the arts.” Inji Kim C’19 still remembers the anxiety she felt upon her initial encounter with Plato. His dialogue Meno was the first work assigned in the required first-year Honors Colloquium, in which a professor from a different discipline teaches each weekly class. “In the course of 13 weeks,” says the program’s well-loved founding director, Paolo Cucchi, “students meet more than a dozen wonderful faculty members, and as a result of that, some end up exploring programs they hadn’t known anything about when they arrived.” Like many new Baldwin Honors scholars, Kim found the required weekly essays tough going but loved the colloquium. In a recent Baldwin Honors newsletter, she recalled “making wonderful discoveries about liberal arts education.” Paolo Cucchi is the program’s founding “In the course of 13 weeks, director. During One And All, the Dean Paolo Cucchi Student Research Fund was students meet more than The program continues to test academic comfort zones in the established and has already supported a semesters that follow, thanks in particular to a series of challenging number of Baldwin Honors Scholars. a dozen wonderful faculty first-year, sophomore and junior honors seminars, which have ranged in recent years from Chinese Politics to the Jewish Jesus to members, and as a result of that, the Research in Industry and the Sciences Seminar, led by Drew’s some end up exploring programs distinguished RISE fellows. For Madeline Lederer C’16, who’s now in her first year of medical school at Temple University, the seminars they hadn’t known anything opened up new worlds. “Because I was a chemistry major,” she says, Honors students enjoy sponsored cultural and intellectual enrichment, about when they arrived.” “most of the classes I took were science based, but all of the honors including special opportunities to courses I ended up taking brought me into fields of religion and engage with guest speakers, like Condoleezza Rice, a Thomas H. — FOUNDING DIRECTOR PAOLO CUCCHI history and sociology, which really expanded my base of knowledge.” Kean Visiting Lecturer. Bill Cardoni, George Tenney, Lynne DeLade C’12
10 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 11 Outside Honors Baldwin Honors Scholars,
Hamilton says Baldwin Honors scholars are encouraged Past and Present to “turn an internal distinction”—acceptance into the honors program—“into an external distinction.” Some, KISHAN PATEL C’15 like Gina-anne Cameron-Turner C’17 and Rayyan MAJORS Sayeed C’17, have presented papers at prestigious Political Science and Economics undergraduate and professional conferences, often SENIOR THESIS From Colony to Country: paying for travel with grants from the Paolo Cucchi Models of Decolonization and Their Student Research Fund or the Baldwin family. Others Application to Post-Conflict State Building have used Baldwin and Cucchi grants to study abroad, to which Hamilton attributes the large number of ONE WAY THE PROGRAM HAS HELPED HIM Baldwin alumni now pursuing graduate degrees outside “Being required to write a senior thesis has made writing my master’s thesis so much easier. I know what works for the United States. Others have earned Goldwater me and what doesn’t.” Scholarships and National Science Foundation grants. Olivia Blondheim C’18 received a National Oceanic and CURRENTLY At Oxford University, working toward Atmospheric Administration scholarship and spent last a master’s degree in international relations summer studying at Oregon State University. CAREER GOAL “I first want to do a PhD, and my ultimate goal would be to work in an agency for the United Nations or for the United Nations in general.” A Senior Thesis RICHA PATEL C’17 Of the many opportunities afforded Baldwin Honors MAJORS Mathematics and Economics scholars for independent research, the senior thesis might be the most significant. Many Baldwin Honors SENIOR THESIS Quantifying the scholars consider the thesis the single most enriching Impact of News and Social Media aspect of the program. Maeve Olney’s C’13 experience Sentiment on the Stock Market working on her thesis helped the recent graduate of ONE WAY THE PROGRAM HAS HELPED HER William and Mary Law School earn a position on the “The data for my thesis was very expensive, and I thought school’s Journal of Women and the Law. A sociology I was going to have to change the topic because of that. major at Drew, Olney chose as her subject a quantitative But Dr. Hamilton suggested I apply for an honors grant analysis of wrongful criminal convictions in the United to offset some of the costs, which I did, and the grant came through.” States. She worked closely with sociology professor Scott Bonn, who helped her get the paper published in the CAREER GOAL “I hope to either work in the financial journal Criminal Justice Policy Review. Her research and world or go on to graduate school to study statistics— writing experience was also important in helping Olney a goal sparked by my participation in the honors program.” Maeve Olney C’13 is a recent graduate of William secure her first post–law school job with a Manhattan and Mary Law School. law firm, where her practice focuses on privacy and ROBERT SCHEFFLER C’14 cybersecurity law. Researching, writing and ultimately MAJOR publishing her thesis, she says, “was a great opportunity Biochemistry and Molecular Biology that I probably would have missed if not for the Baldwin Honors Program.” SENIOR THESIS The Small RNA Regulation of the Mannitol Operon in Vibrio Cholerae Mariel Hooper marvels at how her own thesis, on the rise Baldwin Honors scholars are of anti-government populism on both the left and right ONE WAY THE PROGRAM HAS HELPED HIM in Italy, presaged currents in the 2016 U.S. presidential “The selection of courses offered in the program, like encouraged to turn an internal distinction— election. She credits writing the thesis with her decision the course on the Reformation I took with Professor Hamilton, really broadened the way I look at the world.” acceptance into the honors program— to forgo graduate studies in favor of law school. Producing the thesis, she says, “gave me a taste of what CURRENTLY At Princeton University, pursuing a PhD into an external distinction. grad school would be like, and I knew that wasn’t what I in molecular biology wanted.” She’s more than happy with her choice—one of CAREER GOAL “To become a professor at a liberal the many benefits, she notes, that have accrued to her as arts college, in order to give others the mentorship
Tori Petrillo, Lynne DeLade C’12, Bill Cardoni. Facing page, DeLade. a Baldwin Honors scholar. experience that I received from my professors.”
12 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine WinterWinter 2017 2017 1313 The average debt incurred by seminary students across the United States is rising dramatically. At Drew’s Theological School, that trend has been tempered by contributions to the One And All campaign.
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14 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 15 Lynne DeLade C’12 “If it weren’t for the amount of institutional aid we can provide, most of our students would not be able to afford a theological education.” — DEAN JAVIER A. VIERA
Recent Miller Scholarship recipient Lawrence Hillis T’18 has spent hours talking with the Rev. Students are drawn to Drew’s Theological Dr. Clayton Z. Miller. School for all sorts of noble reasons. The promise of parlaying their degree into a high-paying career, it’s safe to say, is not one of them. Yet there’s no escaping the fact that graduate school is an The Rev. Dr. Clayton Z. Miller T’59, ’75 increasingly costly proposition. And as the nation’s student Endowed Scholarship debt crisis worsens, theology graduates, in particular, struggle to keep their heads above water. This makes scholarships and grants more important than ever at the Theo School, where Like Jesus’ Parable of the Talents, the story of this gift focus on the “here and now.” One contemporary issue hinges on a wise investment. As Miller tells it, back in 1980, they’ve discussed—a topic Hillis is especially interested roughly half the student body works full time. as a pastor in New York, he paid $80,000 for a home in in—is the challenge of ministering to members of a Florida. He ultimately sold it, 26 years later, for $1 million. church that, for financial reasons, has to be closed. Hillis, “If it weren’t for the amount of institutional aid we can “I’ve been very, very fortunate,” says Miller, a former Drew 27, calls Miller “a particularly fascinating individual.” trustee and adjunct professor in the Theo School. provide,” Dean Javier A. Viera says, “most of our students Peter Brown T’14 is just as big a fan. Three years after would not be able to afford a theological education.” Tithing the proceeds from the sale of the property he was selected as the first recipient of the scholarship, provided funding for the scholarship, which supports Brown still meets with Miller monthly. Brown spent The good news: Thanks to the One And All campaign, the Drew students preparing for pastoral ministry in the decades in the business world before discerning a late- United Methodist Church. Now retired, Miller says he in-life call to ministry. Now 64, he’s the pastor of a small Theo School now has four additional endowed scholarships. could have set aside money for the scholarship in his church in Connecticut. And he considers it a blessing to What’s more, the momentum from the campaign continues estate. Instead, he wanted the satisfaction of being able be able to discuss the challenges he’s facing as a new to see the funds bear fruit while he was still alive. pastor with Miller. to generate additional gifts, such as the newly minted David and Mindy Kwon Visiting Scholar and the Dr. Hwain C. Lee The active role Miller has taken as a mentor to the “For me,” Brown says, “it's a great opportunity to learn beneficiaries of his gift sets this scholarship apart. Go from someone who has a wealth of experience in the T’99 and Dr. William Lee Scholarship, which is in the process to the Celebration of Benefactors, an annual affair that pastoral field.” of being endowed. brings together donors and scholarship winners, and you’re sure to see Miller engrossed in conversation with It’s obvious that Miller enjoys these exchanges as much as the scholarship winners. Here’s a look at how the recently created Theo scholarships a Theo student. are already making a difference. Lawrence Hillis T’18, the most recent recipient of the “The gift that I give to them is not an end in itself,” he says. “It’s a means to a greater gift, which is Lynne DeLade C’12 scholarship, has spent hours talking with Miller at these gatherings. What strikes him most about Miller is his their ministry.”
16 Drew Drew Magazine Magazine I I drew.edu/magazine drew.edu/magazine WinterWinter 20172017 17 The Yanghwajin scholarship takes its name from one of South Korea’s most sacred Christian sites, Yanghwajin Mission the Seoul cemetery where many of the country’s early foreign missionaries are buried, including The Rev. Dr. Scholarship and the Appenzeller himself. The award is funded by “Life as an international an interdenominational organization that has Johnnie G. Andrew and Barbara become the cemetery’s caretaker, the Foundation student is really tough. McCann, Sr. for the 100th Anniversary of the Korean Church. Reading and writing in a His mentor and future Choi Missionary Viera, who has visited the cemetery, says it was second language is like a father-in-law, the Rev. a profound experience to see the graves of so Dr. Shellie Sampson Jr., Spirit Scholarship many men and women who responded to war, but when I got this Christ’s command to bring the faith to the encouraged him to come to ends of the earth. scholarship, it helped Drew, and even drove him to see the campus for the first “What was most moving is the way the Korean remind me why I’m here.” time. But Johnnie McCann Both of these awards, inspired by one of Korea’s most people preserve the memories of these men and says it was God himself who revered foreign missionaries, Henry Appenzeller T1885, women and revere their legacies,” he says. — SOOAH NA T’17 brought him to Madison. were created to assist exemplary Korean or Korean-American students who have a passion for spreading the Gospel. One of the scholarship’s first recipients is The day of that initial visit, 25 years Sooah Na T’17, a Theo student from South Korea. ago, Sampson had just pulled into Significantly, none of the donors are Drew alumni. That’s the parking lot when McCann heard a frequent occurrence in the Theo School, Viera says, a Receiving the award is “helpful financially, as well an interior voice telling him to come testament to the school’s far-reaching influence. as spiritually and mentally,” she says. to Drew.
“The Lord spoke to me, clear as day: ‘This is the place,’” McCann recalls.
He told Sampson as much that day, to which the elder pastor replied, “But you haven’t gotten out of the car yet!”
That decisive moment certainly proved to be providential. McCann wound up getting a full scholarship “Life as an international student is really tough. Reading to Drew, marrying Sampson’s and writing in a second language is like a war,” says Na, daughter, Tselane, now his wife of 31 the daughter of a Methodist pastor. “But when I got this years, and earning three graduate scholarship, it helped remind me why I’m here.” degrees from the Theo School.
Her goal is to become a pastor in the United States. She Following in his father-in-law’s calls it “an expression of my gratitude for the sacrifice of footsteps, McCann also became foreign missionaries who came to Korea.” a prolific recruiter for the school, as well as an adjunct professor. The Choi scholarship is provided by the New Jersey–based Now the scholarship he helped Andrew & Barbara Choi Family Foundation, established establish is making it possible for in 2014 by the founders of Bulbrite Industries Inc., a future generations of students manufacturer and importer of lighting products. The to answer their own calls to the foundation’s mission is to help Korean-Americans “find ministry at Drew. their passion and achieve their goals.” The first scholarship recipient will be named later this year.
Originally from South Korea, Sooah Na
T’17 intends to be- Jordan Cheeseman C’17 come a pastor in the United States. Lynne DeLade C’12
18 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 19 Yasin Cobb Sampson-McCann Yasin Cobb T’18, a 2016 Scholarship Sampson-McCann scholarship recipient, is exactly the type of Theo student the award’s This scholarship had its genesis in a gathering of Drew alumni and their friends donors wanted to encourage. at the annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference in Hampton, Virginia.
Cobb, 43, works full time as a United The discussion that day turned to the enduring legacy of two of the Theo Parcel Service driver during the day School’s most ardent supporters: the late Rev. Dr. Shellie Sampson, Jr. T’71, ’77 and attends classes at Drew in the and his son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Johnnie G. McCann, Sr. T’93, ’95, ’01. evening. A father of four, he hopes to start a nonprofit organization or Together, the two recruited and mentored untold numbers of African-American ministry that will help ex-convicts Theo students, who have gone on to serve in churches, large and small, throughout the United States and abroad. The group decided a scholarship re-enter society—a passion born For Janelle Greene T’17, of his own life experience. the award is a source of not named in memory and honor of Sampson was the perfect way to pay tribute only financial assistance, to him and carry on his work. but also moral support. Cobb was arrested for selling drugs when he was 18, and spent Sampson was a microbiologist-turned-pastor who led Thessalonia Baptist the next decade behind bars inside Church in the Bronx from 1982 until his death in 2014. Under his leadership, the Lewisburg Federal Correctional Thessalonia became a catalyst for educational and economic empowerment Facility in Pennsylvania. Upon in one of the country’s poorest neighborhoods. “He was a walking encyclopedia, Melaine Rochford T’16 a brilliant teacher [and] a no-nonsense man,” says McCann, the pastor of St. his release, he found support in credits the Rev. Dr. the prison ministry program at Johnnie G. McCann, Sr. Luke’s Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Calvary Baptist Church in Morristown, T’93,’95,’01 for bringing her to Drew. McCann provided principal funding for the scholarship, along with Kevin Miller, New Jersey, which provided him the Theo School’s director of admissions and one of McCann’s many recruits. with vocational training as an HVAC Additional support has come from numerous other donors. “It’s really a group technician and tuition aid he used of people, Drew alums and friends of Drew alums, who came together,” Miller to earn a bachelor’s degree in says. “Drew has so profoundly influenced them, they want to give back to psychology. the institution.” Few people in his situation, Cobb The scholarship is awarded to Master of Divinity students pursuing social says, ever get that kind of help— justice work in primarily urban, African-American churches and communities something he wants to change. “The gift that I in the United States. “One, it made God real for me,” he Melaine Rochford T’16, who credits McCann for bringing her to Drew, used explains. “Two, it made the family of give to them is not the award to help pay for her final semester last spring. God real for me. And three, it restored an end in itself. this sense of belonging to society. I “If I can follow in their footsteps, and the path they’ve already blazed,” she didn't feel like an outcast anymore.” It’s a means to a says of Sampson and McCann, “then I think I’d be doing something great.” The scholarship support also boosted Rochford at a critical moment and greater gift, which helped affirm her plan to continue her PhD studies at Drew.
is their ministry.” As with the other Theo scholarships, the award is as much a source of moral — THE REV. DR. CLAYTON support as financial assistance, says recipient Janelle Greene T’17. Z. MILLER T’59,’75 “It’s not about the actual dollar amount, it’s about community,” Greene says. “That’s ultimately what’s important—that somebody walks alongside of you in your journey and says, ‘I believe in you.’” Lynne DeLade C’12
20 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine WinterWinter 2017 2017 2121 MANHATTAN Three Drew community members conceived and generously supported the launch of a New York semester, which brings students MATTERS inside the city’s ever-changing worlds of communications and media.
22 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 23 Bill Cardoni Internet companies that constitute a vast industry in such flux that even the people who work in it can barely track its swift tides. “The Semester on “The experience of going Communications and Media not only adds to the there and seeing the actual growing array of experiential programs that leverage our proximity to New York, but also fills a big gap environment of where I in our curriculum. Without the leadership and generosity of Heath McLendon, Ed Moed C’89 and wanted to work, as opposed Tom Doremus C’68, none of this would have been to just the theoretical idea, possible,” said Chris Taylor, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. was really great.” “The Wall Street Semester turned out to be much — TAYLOR TRACY C'17 more successful than I even dreamed,” says Heath McLendon, a longtime university trustee whose idea it was to capitalize on Drew’s proximity to New York but they don’t know what Madison Avenue is, so we and establish a semester-long program that introduced came up with the idea of communications and media.” Book by book, they went through the list at the students to the world of Wall Street in which he had McLendon’s idea meshed neatly with an idea that long worked as a top executive. “So six or seven years Thomas Doremus C’68 had been pressing. An English Clockwise from top, Heath ago I said, ‘You know, the Wall Street Semester was a McLendon, Ed Moed C’89 meeting at the publishing house, discussing major at Drew, and a student in the first New York and Thomas Doremus C’68 success, so why don’t we expand the concept to have Semester on Contemporary Art, Doremus went on to a independently conceived and how best to sell the most copies of each title. a Madison Avenue Semester?’ I brought that forward successful career in architecture after earning a master’s generously supported the and nobody said no, but no one really wanted to pick Semester on Communications degree at Yale and is now executive director of the and Media. At Google, they heard the latest about a cutting- it up, so I kept pushing that.” Casement Fund, which offers grants that support writing Some of the hesitance stemmed from its suggested and the arts. “I was sitting around a conference table in edge project for schoolchildren. At both, the name. “It turned out that the name ‘Madison Avenue’ 2009 with the English faculty to set up a poetry reading in no longer had a resonance with students today,” the city,” Doremus recounts, “and I said, ‘I’ve always wanted marketing people were there, the publicity people McLendon reflects. “They know what Wall Street is, to see a New York semester for the English department.’” and also an eagerly engaged group, watching and absorbing—students from Drew’s New York Semester on Communications and Media.
“It was really interesting to be able to sit in on it to see what actually working there was
like, instead of someone just talking to us about working there,” says Taylor Tracy C’17, an English and art history major who took the course last spring, the second year it was offered, and whose long-standing career goal is to work in young adult book publishing. “The experience of going there and seeing the actual environment of where I wanted to work, as opposed to just the theoretical idea, was really great.” The sales meeting at the publishing house was for the Grand Central division of the Hachette Book Group, and the biggest buzz was for the new novel by Nicholas Sparks, of The Notebook fame. That visit was one of the early visits the class made last semester, and one that took them deep into the workings of the mercurial, chaotic and vibrant industry they were studying. Semester on Communications Drew students have been riding the train from Madison into the vast classroom that and Media students visit the is New York City for decades—for the United Nations Semester, the Semester on Made in NY Media Center Contemporary Art and the Wall Street Semester. In the spring of 2015, Drew started a in Brooklyn. new chapter: Students set out for new destinations—the advertising and public relations
agencies, television and radio stations, magazines and newspapers, publishers and Bill Cardoni. Facing page: Cardoni, Deborah Feingold, courtesy Thomas Doremus C'68
24 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 25 His belief in writing as a core skill with value across many professions was cemented in his own career, when his writing skills earned him a job designing a new home for the New Jersey Supreme Court: “They said, ‘We picked you out because we need somebody who can write’”—and his eloquent résumé proved he could. “I’ve heard that story over and over again in a lot of fields,” he adds, “where a lot of people have good experience but then it’s the person who can write who gets the job.” And the Semester on Communications and Media teaches students to approach writing with a fresh perspective. “You might think a course on writing is going to be boring and dull, but it isn’t at all, it’s the opposite of that,” Doremus says. As the vision for this initiative took shape, Ed Moed C’89 offered to guide its trajectory. “I’d always thought that Drew would provide that much more value if they started thinking about a program in communications and marketing, because it’s so much what the students want to get into now,” says Moed, a university trustee and a co-founder of Peppercomm, a strategic communications and public relations agency in Manhattan. “So I think this was really a good first step in that direction.” Moed not only offers generous financial support to the Semester on Communications and Media, he also offers his Through site visits and counsel and his own dynamic firm as one of the stops on talks with professionals, students learn that the the group’s whirlwind tour of the New York media world. world is changing in “In all the visits, we learned that the world is changing unexpected ways. in ways that were really kind of unexpected,” says Lisa Lynch, visiting associate professor of English and communications and director of the New York Semester on Communications and Media.
“There’s this tremendous convergence between legacy media and the world of advertising, and in order to understand anything about any part of the media you have to look at it holistically. My focus SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP was on all the changes that have happened, all the disruptions, trying to look at the ways that the media A BIGGER BITE The focus is on how nonprofits use business acumen to solve “There’s this tremendous system is reshaping itself.” social problems. With help from a social change organization, OF THE students will learn the skills needed to succeed in the sector The format is similar to the other New York and tackle real-world challenges. Starts in January 2017. convergence between legacy media semesters: Students travel into Manhattan two days and the world of advertising, and in each week, spend the morning in a classroom in order to understand anything about the Flatiron District discussing one segment of the BIG communications industry, then visit the workplaces any part of the media you have to of the people who are actually doing what they were discussing. The students see key concepts brought look at it holistically.” to life by industry leaders—and join in meaningful APPLE NEW YORK THEATRE discussions with them. The Daily Beast, The New Students will develop and perform an original ensemble piece —LISA LYNCH, DIRECTOR OF York Times, WNYC radio, WABC television, Viacom, Two new semesters. under the tutelage of Tectonic Theater Project. The development Mediacom, Everyday Health, Porter Novelli, Havas THE NEW YORK SEMESTER ON will take place in the fall and the performances in the spring— Health, Google—the class has visited outposts in first at Tectonic and then at Drew. Starts in August 2017. COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA every corner of the fractious media landscape. Bill Cardoni
26 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine WinterWinter 20172017 27 C’16, who took part in the first New York media semester. “It’s unbelievable, the face time you get with these heads of HR, CEOs of companies, heads of departments. They know your name and they give you their business card and “What they learned that they they encourage you to reach out to them because they wouldn’t learn in a classroom is how have a relationship with Drew, and I think that’s a unique experience you can only get at Drew.” to connect the dots between book A sociology and Spanish major from Connecticut, Murphy knowledge and practical experience.” played field hockey at Drew, and in the summer after her junior year scored a coveted internship that combined her — SANDRA JAMIESON, PROFESSOR OF love of sports with her career ambition in communications: ENGLISH AND DIRECTOR OF WRITING at Fenway Park for the Boston Red Sox, in the client services department, live-tweeting, blogging and leading ACROSS THE CURRICULUM pregame tours. “It was so much fun, and it introduced me to the world of sports marketing,” she says. “In a ballpark or a stadium there’s always another event happening even if “What they learned that they wouldn’t learn in a classroom your team is away.” Taryn Murphy C’16 scored an is how to connect the dots between book knowledge and internship in communications In the spring semester of her senior year, Murphy at Fenway Park. practical experience,” says Sandra Jamieson, professor commuted into Manhattan three days each week for an of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum, internship at Madison Square Garden. And two weeks who led the first New York Semester on Communications after graduation, she started work as the marketing and Media in the spring of 2015. “Students came in with coordinator for the New England Patriots Hall of Fame, very different interests, and so you would see the light The Hall at Patriot Place presented by Raytheon, an bulb go off for different people in different places.” interactive museum next door to Gillette Stadium in see myself in and which ones I couldn’t,” says Chloe “It opened your eyes to a lot of industries you might have Foxborough. “That was really my goal,” she says, “to Weiss C’18, an English major from Massachusetts. Radio not thought you would ever fit into,” says Taryn Murphy graduate knowing that I had a job.” and television got crossed off her list. “Those were both industries that I thought maybe I could see myself in, but Students learn to connect the after the visits I was like, ‘OK, I think it takes a very specific dots between book knowledge type of personality to thrive in this environment, and I don’t and practical experience. think I have it.’” She found health care public relations more appealing. “I knew I didn’t want to do consumer product work, like corporate branding for a mustard company,” she says. “I wanted to do something that was affecting people.” That was Heath McLendon’s goal, too. “You get these At Google—once the students got past the Lego room companies involved and you’re providing a lot more jobs to and the scooters in the halls and the presentation about a your graduates,” he says. “I can’t tell you how many people virtual reality project for elementary schools—they heard a got jobs because of the Wall Street Semester, and I think message they had heard before from their professors. “They the same thing is going to happen with the Semester on were stressing to us how important it was to have strong Communications and Media.” writing skills,” says Kate-Lynn Brown C’17, an English major Ed Moed knows how important that is, because it was his who plans to continue on to graduate school in library and own version of a New York semester—his two internships information science following her December graduation. “If at Manhattan communications firms in his senior year— you can write, you can learn all the other stuff—someone that paved his way into the industry. “It would have been will be willing to train you to learn that.” very difficult to be hired without them,” he says. A political Jamieson prized such moments. “We had a lot of alums in science major and business minor at Drew, Moed also took advertising who said, ‘We hire people who have degrees in part in the Semester in Washington Politics, which shaped liberal arts. Why? Because they can write, they can think his career in a different way. “It was great for me,” he says, quickly, they’re flexible, they’re more creative—that’s who “because I realized politics isn’t for me, business is.” we want in this business,’” Jamieson says. “The first time we The Semester on Communications Just as the Washington semester had for Moed, the went to a company and the person there said, ‘You’re the and Media helps students decide Semester on Communications and Media also helped some kind of people we want to hire,’ several students accused what they want to do—and sometimes what they don't. students decide what they didn’t want to do. “For me the me in their written responses of making people say that. So
Lynne DeLade C’12, courtesy Taryn Murphy C’16. Facing page, DeLade. best part of the program was seeing what industries I could that made it feel like a success to me.”
28 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 29 CONGRATULATIONS Into The Forest | Winter 2017 to the following College of Liberal Arts classes for their award-winning support of Drew.
GATEWAY AWARD BLUE SKY AWARD FOREST AWARD GOLD AWARD Biggest jump in annual Biggest jump in Highest participation Highest participation giving and largest participation by a by a class with of a class of the past amount to the annual class with 50+ alumni: 50+ alumni: decade: fund: 1968 1976 1956 2006
THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR STRONG PARTICIPATION. See how your class fared in supporting Drew last fiscal year (July 1, 2015–June 30, 2016).
Total Annual Total Annual Total Annual Class Participation Giving Fund Class Participation Giving Fund Class Participation Giving Fund
1937 100% $10 $0 1966 50% $18,510 $9,160 1991 30% $30,979 $19,618 1942 33% $100 $100 1967 42% $619,250 $9,640 1992 20% $101,647 $19,468 1943 38% $1,225 $1,225 1968 37% $88,913 $47,213 1993 25% $23,030 $13,995 1944 50% $1,000 $1,000 1969 35% $30,149 $24,399 1994 23% $20,590 $9,443 1945 67% $375 $375 1970 33% $32,784 $12,040 1995 23% $16,637 $8,782 1946 50% $10,825 $10,825 1971 42% $41,070 $20,730 1996 29% $13,417 $5,541 1947 65% $6,550 $6,550 1972 31% $624,178 $8,395 1997 23% $15,555 $11,272 1948 42% $52,140 $1,140 1973 27% $23,199 $12,452 1998 20% $5,539 $4,421 1949 47% $6,140 $4,215 1974 30% $194,425 $36,775 1999 27% $8,864 $6,092 1950 48% $1,593 $849 1975 27% $252,548 $19,463 2000 25% $13,212 $3,757 Norma Gilbert, who taught mathematics at Drew for 25 years, made a smart 1951 63% $13,305 $1,000 1976 41% $16,755 $14,150 2001 30% $30,770 $2,380 investment that enabled her son to 1952 59% $3,560 $2,460 1977 26% $40,398 $29,673 2002 25% $14,875 $4,345 make a $3 million donation to Drew. 1953 38% $4,330 $3,880 1978 24% $19,429 $11,700 2003 22% $28,613 $2,378 1954 59% $63,929 $11,737 1979 12% $15,828 $6,845 2004 22% $29,719 $9,106 1955 49% $6,671 $4,665 1980 26% $68,588 $27,202 2005 21% $4,140 $1,325 1956 76% $537,753 $5,360 1981 20% $24,778 $15,480 2006 20% $4,487 $1,187 1957 53% $29,956 $23,850 1982 21% $116,448 $3,930 2007 16% $3,893 $1,312 The Numbers Add Up 1958 53% $19,165 $10,990 1983 19% $31,932 $10,153 2008 12% $2,152 $1,507 A smart investment made by a Drew mathematics professor 30 years 1959 69% $114,130 $7,700 1984 21% $127,308 $23,029 2009 15% $2,072 $1,047 ago will bear academic fruit for generations to come. 1960 48% $1,105,175 $2,710 1985 17% $100,185 $28,954 2010 14% $2,981 $680 1961 51% $27,055 $3,535 1986 31% $31,789 $11,850 2011 16% $3,228 $1,350 ORMA GILBERT TAUGHT MATHEMATICS AT DREW FOR 25 YEARS, STARTING IN 1964, chairing the math department for several years in the 1970s. In 1976 she published 1962 61% $53,870 $14,745 1987 23% $24,168 $10,298 2012 16% $8,969 $6,136 Statistics, which became an academic bestseller. The book’s success enabled Gilbert 1963 48% $15,505 $8,565 1988 20% $40,182 $23,292 2013 14% $1,537 $400 Nto buy stock in Microsoft after the company went public. Three decades later, the 1964 46% $52,130 $36,355 1989 25% $225,482 $30,093 2014 16% $1,902 $488 windfall she reaped from the investment has enabled her son to make the largest gift ever 1965 47% $786,120 $19,566 1990 21% $13,697 $12,687 2015 13% $2,061 $188 devoted to Drew’s math program. The $3 million donation from Steven Gilbert, a photographer living in Brooklyn, will fund WANT TO BOOST THE NUMBERS FOR YOUR CLASS? the Norma Gilbert Junior Professorship in Mathematics, designed to attract gifted young mathematicians to The Forest. The gift is the seventh largest in Drew’s history. Also, Gilbert Visit drew.edu/makeagift or call 800.979.DREW. >>> University Archives
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“THIS SIGNIFICANT GIFT WILL GREATLY STRENGTHEN DREW’S MATH DEPARTMENT.”
— PRESIDENT MARYANN BAENNINGER
2016 will donate another $2 million if Enhanced Seating in the the University raises additional funds Tolley/Brown Circle to support the professorship and 60% class participation $15,488 total raised other math scholarships, research and internships. 2015 “This significant gift will greatly Fire Pit in the Tolley/Brown strengthen Drew’s math program,” Circle 36% class participation President MaryAnn Baenninger said. $15,195 total raised A Family of “It’s also a fitting tribute to Norma, Academics who was a leader on campus, a gifted 2014 teacher and, as a woman, a trailblazer. Refurbished Library Atrium Steven Gilbert’s father, The entire Drew community is incredibly 31% class participation Everett Gilbert, an grateful for Steve’s generosity.” $14,300 total raised accomplished chemist, earned a remarkable Norma Gilbert earned a bachelor’s 2013 180 patents during his degree—summa cum laude—from New Games for the EC career. And while Everett Smith College and a master’s degree 27% class participation didn’t teach, his father, $18,196 total raised Allan Gilbert, was an from New York University. Three years exceptional Renaissance after joining Drew as an instructor in 2012 scholar, and his brother, 1964, she received her PhD from the Creighton, was a renowned Stevens Institute of Technology, enabling her to become an assistant Pub Patio Bench 11% class participation art historian. Allan made professor and, later, a professor. his mark as a professor of $5,554 total raised English literature at Duke In the classroom she was an innovator, using, for example, closed-circuit television 2011 University, but he also to teach two sections of statistics at the same time. As the Paterson Morning News taught at Drew from 1963 explained in 1977, Gilbert taught “two differently paced classes simultaneously by Outdoor Deck for the until 1974. Chillaxing in style, Commons appearing before them in the same period alternatively ‘live’ and on videotape.” thanks to the Class 29% class participation Part of what drove her to write Statistics was a desire to have a more definitive of ’16. $6,618 total raised textbook for her students. 2010 Asked what his mother, who died in 2001, would have thought of his donation, Outdoor Deck for the Gilbert said, “She’d be very proud.” He added: “I’ve inherited a fortune, and Commons with that comes responsibility. And I think she would say, ‘That’s about the best 41% class participation thing you could do with it.’” Leaving a Legacy $12,376 total raised Gilbert’s generosity put Drew beyond its $80 million goal in its One And All Each year Drew’s senior class comes together to fill a need 2009 campaign, which raised $85.4 million by its close on June 30. It’s also his second within the Drew community. Reforesting Campus major contribution to Drew: In 2005 he endowed the Gilbert Family Scholarship 41% class participation in Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics in memory of his mother and father, $9,286 total raised INCE 1983, THE SENIOR GIFT SOCIETY HAS ENABLED GRADUATING CLASSES— Everett Gilbert, an accomplished chemist. with a little help along the way from trustee, alumni and presidential The junior professorship enables Drew to fund two math professors—a search is matches—to create lasting legacies and, at the same time, enhance the already under way—who are expected to join the Drew faculty next fall. Sstudent experience at Drew. Senior class gifts have endowed prizes, ren- ovated outdoor spaces and installed benches and signage around campus. At right, here's a rundown of the senior gifts established during One And All. Bill Cardoni. Facing page, University Archives
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At the Heart of It All After a $12 million renovation in 2012, the former University Center was transformed into the Ehinger Center, a LEED-certified, vibrant and stunning social hub ready-made for launching a million memories. The EC offers something for everyone and was made possible by One And All. Here, a few of the key names that tell the generous story.
The building is named after Tony Ehinger C’80 and Marianne Hyzak Ehinger C’80, who contributed $3 million toward the cost. Large, multipurpose Crawford Hall is named for John H. Crawford, III T’65 and Catherine Huntoon Crawford C’64. William W. Landis, III C’85 and Meredith Landis created the Café Hot Spot. Intrepid Acorn reporters work in the C’71 Meeting Room. WMNJ rocks from the EC, courtesy of Steve Lemanski C’89. A high rotunda was given in honor of Judy and Heath McLendon by Zachary Pappas C’06. Student Activities has a sweet suite thanks to Pamela MacFall Moed C’92 and Ed Moed C’89. The 1867 Lounge honors Drew’s founding date and donors Dean Criares C’85 and Karen Mayrose Criares, as well as all those who made 1867 gifts. The Space is a gift from Ann Lewis Noss C’75 and Jeffrey Noss C’75. A souped-up meeting space is named for Leo Grohowski C’80 and Nancy Grohowski. Thanks to Gates and Mary Ellen Hawn, commuter students have a place to lounge. The original 1970s bar top lives on in the C’80 Pub. The lobby is a gift of Marc Joseph C’48 and
the George W. Newman and Amy Klette Bill Cardoni, Lynne DeLade C’12, Karen Mancinelli Newman Foundation. Clockwise from top: toasting the C'80 Pub, pool tables in the cozy 1867 Lounge, lecture-ready Crawford Hall, barrel-vaulted ceilings in the dining space, The Acorn’s new digs, WMNJ streams live at drew.edu/wmnj, visitors of all kinds.
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A Fine Fellowship Among the innumerable benefits accrued to Drew by the recently completed One And All campaign was a series of fellowships devoted to the university’s faculty.
University Scholar in Everyday Ethics Created in 2013, the Myungsung Fund The Everyday Ethics faculty scholar was made provides $120,000 for student scholarships possible by a $45,000 donation from longtime and $30,000 for cutting-edge research by Drew benefactors Barbara L. and. Edward D. Theological School faculty. Among the Zinbarg G’98,’99 in order to explore the faculty recipients is Angella Son, an ethical notion and concept of “the good” associate professor of psychology and operating in various sectors of human life. religion, who received the funds to research a book on shame. Test Your The current Everyday Ethics scholar, Kate Ott, an associate professor from the Theological Patrice Marie and John Francis Kelly Drew School, is helping to coordinate coursework Faculty Fellowship in Arts and Letters in ethics across the campus and to integrate This $200,000 gift from Patrice M. Kelly Rugby IQ ethics with other disciplines and programs G’03,’15 and John F. Kelly is designed (Answers below.) on campus. to support the teaching, mentorship Which Drew president Myungsung Scholarship and Faculty and scholarship undertaken by faculty members in the Arts and Letters program 1 supplied the men’s Research Fund team with its first real at the Caspersen School of Graduate Drew has a long and fruitful history with rugby jerseys? Studies. South Korea, and the Myungsung Fund is The annual alumni game during Reunion weekend has been named What animal did the among the partnership’s most recent rewards. The poet Robert Carnevale, an adjunct in honor of beloved former rugby 2 men’s rugby teams of Hana Kim T’09,’11 and his father, Sam assistant professor of English in Arts and player Arthur D. “Soc” Deacon, III C’80, who passed away last year, with the the early 1970s adopt Whan Kim, coordinated the gift through the Letters, received the inaugural Kelly winning side awarded the Deacon Cup. as the official team Myungsung Church in Seoul. Fellowship in 2016. mascot?
Who scored the first 3 try in the history of the Drew Women’s Rugby Ruggers Unite Football Club? Which two Drew Part sport, part social club, rugby at Drew is 50 years strong—and counting! 4 ruggers went on to become college presidents?
ERSUADING FORMER DREW RUGBY PLAYERS TO GATHER EACH YEAR FOR AN alumni match during Reunion weekend was always a tricky proposition. College. Randolph-Macon
“Being against ‘the man’ is part of the fabric of our existence,” explains and College Moravian C’65, Martin University of Technology; Robert Robert Technology; of University
Ralph Scoville C’80. Auckland G’69, Hinchcliff John 4.
P C’96. Fennessey (Riggs) Emily 3.
But the 50th anniversary of Drew’s rugby program, celebrated in 2013, marked a pig. The 2. Oxnam. Robert 1. turning point. With help from the Office of University Advancement, hundreds of rugby alumni were found, and many of them helped make the One And All campaign a success. “The generosity of the ex-players has been amazing,” Scoville says. “More players are showing up each year for the alumni game.” The club raised more than $50,000 during One And All, helping to pay for equip- Associate Professor Kate ment, uniforms, travel and other expenses. The funds also helped secure the Ott is the Everyday Ethics scholar. services of David Knox, a member of the 1991 Australian team that won the first
Kimberly Craven. Facing page, Lynne DeLade C’12 Rugby World Cup, to coach the men’s team last fall.
36 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 37 THERE’S NO I I N TEAM In the final year of the One And All campaign, Drew’s athlete-alumni competed to see which sport has the greatest Ranger pride. Teams with the largest increase in athlete-alumni participation by percentage split $52,500 in prize money awarded toward their teams’ needs and priorities.
Congrats to the winners of the Blue & Green Challenge, and thanks to the many athlete-alumni for their generosity!
1st Place and $30,000 Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Lacrosse also established an endowed fund during One And All. 2nd Place and $15,000 Softball
3rd Place and $5,000 Baseball
Young Alumni Prize and $2,500 Baseball
BLUE& GREEN CHALLENGE
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Kirby Gate AROUND THE An improved entrance to campus via Glenwild Road, with extended roadway enhancements through the Ehinger Center parking lot, welcomes visitors and residents alike. Drewniverse A Closer Welch-Holloway Patio An insider’s guide to capital Ehinger Center Residents enjoy a renovated and Look at Hall The long-overdue transformation of the redesigned gathering space. improvements on campus, University Center created a new hub of student activity on campus. of Sciences thanks to gifts received during See page 34. the One And All campaign. Ehinger Center Parking Lot A redesign is in the works for this busy parking area.
Wilson Reading Room in the Methodist Archives Ceremonial Path A gift from Mrs. Maribeth W. Collins, this is the Commencement ready, with place for studying quietly, referencing the world’s much-needed repairs. largest collection of Methodist materials or consulting a Bible from the 11th century.
Kean Reading Room This fully mediated space is one of the most popular study spots on campus. Longtime university trustee Heath B. McLendon led the successful Kean Reading Room & Gallery effort, which raised more than $1 million.
Hall of Sciences Years in the making, a $15 million renovation brought the Hall of Sciences into the 21st century. See sidebar. Illustration: Anne Smith. Bill Cardoni, Lynne DeLade C’12
From top: Honors students Labyrinth and others can participate in Built of recycled bluestone between independent research in faculty the Hall of Sciences and Madison Avenue, research labs. Psychology the labyrinth is a gift from the Honorable students now use observation Ellwood R. Kerkeslager and Mrs. Ruth rooms for experiments involving Kerkeslager and Drew Theological human subjects. Anatomy and School Class of 2014 physiology classes, among as their class gift. others, use two renovated labs for biology and environmental science and sustainability. A larger chemistry lab allows RISE fellows and students to conduct research together. Visit drew.edu/hallofsciences to read about the generous people who made this renovation possible.
40 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Winter 2017 41 G ALL E During One And All, 14,001 alumni and friends gave to Drew.