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Page 18 Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends:

It has never been more clear that the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the entire University of Massachusetts system have an enormously important role to play in helping to strengthen the economy and social vitality of the state. Our immediate region, the Merrimack Valley, suffered some of the worse job losses in the nation during the recent economic downturn. Particularly hard hit were high-technology businesses. Through this difficult period, the Lowell campus has pressed ahead with innovative research and assistance for new business ventures, all in service of our mission to support sustainable regional development. Related to this charge, we have organized a new regional development office to further focus our efforts and to broaden and deepen our impact. Drs. Edward March and Selma Botman, both of whom have extensive experi- ence in the practice and study of regional development, are leading a faculty task force whose objective is to work with the industries now driving or poised to drive the regional and state economy, matching UMass Lowell’s resources with their needs. This is an integrated approach, with our staff and faculty linking with state economic development agencies, the City of Lowell planning department, and legislative leaders. As we redouble our efforts on campus and beyond, your support is vital. We are most grateful for the generosity shown by our graduates, friends, and supporters in the private and public sectors. Our objective is to foster a stable, high quality of life for this generation and future generations in the Commonwealth. Again, thank you for your continued support. Your gifts and volunteer efforts help assure that our excellent programs are accessible to all and that we can contribute to Massachusetts at the highest level.

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William T. Hogan Chancellor Calendar of Events Friday, February 27 April 15-16 FEBRUARY 2004 Hockey vs. Maine STARTS Program February 2-10 Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. “Charlotte’s Web” Durgin Concert Hall Alumni Campus Abroad Cultural Season Saturday, February 28 UML South Orvieto, Italy All Alumni Hockey Night April 21 – May 12 Wednesday, February 4 UML vs. Maine Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. BIG student show Women’s Basketball vs. Bentley College Dugan Gallery Costello Gym 5:30p.m. UML south Men’s Basketball vs. Bentley College MARCH 2004 Reception & Awards: April 28, 2–4 p.m. Costello Gym 7:30 p.m. UML North March 3 – April 7 Wednesday, April 21 Rob Millard Timothy Harney Doug Bosch Installation “Getting Shot Out of the Cannon” “Selections” paintings and works on paper University Gallery Dugan Gallery University Gallery UML South UML South UML South Exhibit Reception 2-4 p.m. Exhibit Reception 2-4 p.m. Reception: March 3, 2 – 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 27 Saturday, February 7 Thursday, March 4 STARTS Program Women’s Basketball vs. Merrimack College Hockey vs. Merrimack College Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. “Romeo and Juliet” Costello Gym 2 p.m. Durgin Concert Hall Men’s Basketball vs. Merrimack College Friday, March 5 UML South Costello Gym 4 p.m. Alumni Golf Tournament and Luncheon Thursday, April 29 UML North Naples, Florida STARTS Program Sunday, February 8 Sunday, March 7 “Freedom Train” Hockey vs. Providence Tomas Kubinek: Certified Lunatic & Master of Durgin Concert Hall Tsongas Arena 2 p.m. the Impossible UML South Family Discovery Series Tuesday, February 10 Dugan Hall STARTS Program UML South MAY 2004 “First in Flight: Wright Brothers” Durgin Concert Hall March 10 – April 7 Sunday, May 2 UML South 3D Sculpture, Paper, Ceramics “Charlotte’s Web” Curated by Jim Coates Family Discover Series February 11- March 18 Dugan Gallery Durgin Concert Hall Alumni Holidays Escape Program UML South UML South London, England Reception: March 10, 2-4 p.m. Friday, May 7 February 4 – February 25 Friday, March 12 STARTS Program “Art & Copy” STARTS Program “Tom Chapin and Friends: This Pretty Planet” Dugan Gallery “Jim West’s Dinosaurs” Durgin Concert Hall UML South Durgin Concert Hall UML South Curated by Profs. Karen Roehr and UML South Arno Minkkinen May 15 – June 12 Reception: Feb. 11, 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 BFA Candidates Spring 2004 STARTS Program University Gallery Friday, February 13 “Very Eric Carle” UML South Hockey vs. UNH Durgin Concert Hall Reception: May 15, 2–5 p.m. Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. UML South University and Durgin galleries Saturday, February 14 Friday, March 19 Women’s Basketball vs. Assumption STARTS Program JUNE 2004 Costello Gym 2 p.m. “Remembering the World of Anne Frank” Durgin Concert Hall Sunday, June 6 Men’s Basketball vs. Assumption UML South Commencement Costello Gym 4 p.m. Tsongas Arena UML North APRIL 2004 Wednesday, February 18 Women’s Basketball vs. AIC Thursday, April 1 Costello Gym 5:30 p.m. STARTS Program For more information on alumni activities, Men’s Basketball vs. AIC “New Kid” please check our Alumni Web site Costello Gym 7:30 p.m. Durgin Concert Hall calendar:www.uml.edu/Alumni or call UML North UML South the Office of Alumni Relations, toll free Saturday, February 21 Sunday, April 4 (877) UML-ALUM or (978) 934-3140. Hockey vs. Boston College SCRAP Arts Music Tsongas Arena 7 p.m. Family Discovery Series For more information on Athletics, go to Durgin Concert hall Tuesday, February 24 UML South www.GORIVERHAWKS .com or call (978) 934-2310. STARTS Program Monday, April 5 “Amelia Bedelia 4 Mayor” Durgin Concert Hall STARTS Program For more information and reservations on UML South “SCRAP Arts Music” Durgin Concert Hall the Family Discovery Series, please call the Tuesday, February 24 UML South Center for the Arts at (978) 934-4444. For Women’s Basketball vs. SNH April 14 – May 12 more information and reservations on the Costello Gym 5:30 p.m. Rob Millard SMARTS Program, (978) 934-4452. Men’s Basketball vs. SNH Interactive Sculpture Costello Gym 7:30 p.m. University Gallery Interested in subscribing to The Connector, UML North UML South UML’s student newspaper? Please call Reception: April 21, 2–4 p.m. (978) 934-5009 or e-mail your request to [email protected] Upgrading Technology and Classrooms

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Colleges - Arts & Sciences vehicle crash safety engineer for Ford bleheads would go to the first 1,000 fans Montrie came up with the idea while There are many subjects and themes Motor Company, told the girls how through the gate. watching his family’s own home movies, that home movies allow historians to Girls Get WISE About crash dummies make us smarter. Almost immediately, the doll’s over- thinking about how amazing it was to explore, Montrie says, from holiday rit- Career Choices Japikse, who is responsible for ensuring sized, wobbling head was gracing the see aspects of the history. uals to social activism to recreational that the Ford Escape meets the govern- pages of The Boston Globe, the New “It occurred to me that these sources events. These mini-documentaries may Walking through Olney Hall, the ment’s new safety guidelines, described York Times, then Sports Illustrated. Soon, were fairly numerous and there was no provide insight into how American life classrooms and laboratories were full of her job and talked about how she gravi- television personalities from CNN to good explanation for why twentieth- is shaped by class, race, ethnicity, gen- middle-school girls folding paper to cre- tated to engineering looking for more ESPN were blathering about the Beat century historians haven’t been using der and modernity in general. ate satellites, practicing intubations and “hands-on” work after majoring in era tchotchke. them,” Montrie says. “Ideally, I will Anyone interested in contributing CPR on a dummy, and measuring and physics in college. weighing compounds to make pharma- Kerouac was renowned for his trade- begin teaching a course on U.S. social old home movies, or who would She encouraged the girls to get ceuticals. mark “spontaneous prose.” But he’d history with home movies starting in like more information about the involved with things that interest them never seen anything this spontaneous. the fall of 2004.” project, may contact Montrie at Four hundred middle-school girls and stay involved as they begin to make [email protected] or by descended on campus for the eighth “We were getting letters and calls The University’s Media Services their career choices. phoning (978) 934-4275. annual Women in Science and Engi- from everywhere, people begging to get Provost John Wooding, left, and John Sampas, agreed to store donated videotapes. To continue to encourage the literary executor for the Kerouac Estate, display neering (WISE) day, sponsored by a doll, pleading their case,” says Holla- girls’ interest in science, engineering the coveted Kerouac bobblehead. Philips Medical Systems, Genzyme and day. “The Spinners’ office put up a and technology, WISE awards 25 schol- Lowell Sun Charities. With more than world map where they’d stick a tack afternoon. By Saturday morning, they arships for summer science and engi- SRT Has New two dozen workshops to choose from, every time they got a call.” had 750 orders. neering camps. Recording/Listening including What Does the Army Eat?, Holladay and the Spinners were Through it all, Holladay has been Studio In the Land of Bobble, stunned. They ordered 250 more dolls asked time and again if the Beat icon Kerouac Is King and decided to sell them on the Spin- would approve of his likeness cast in Sound Recording Technology ners’ Web site for $20 each, with a bobble. (SRT) has a new classroom — a When it comes to unforgettable gim- portion of the proceeds benefiting “Kerouac had a great sense of humor. Critical Listening and Recording micks, the UMass Lowell English the University’s Kerouac scholarship And like most writers, he wanted Studio that Prof. William Moylan Department hit the “Jack”-pot. program. acclaim,” she says. “I think he would’ve says is “perfect in its accuracy.” The Kerouac bobblehead doll became The dolls went on sale on a Friday gotten a real kick out of it.” Moylan, chair of the Music an international knick-knack Department, says the new studio phenomenon. With its unique Home Movies Hold in Durgin Hall is being used for blend of kitsch meets cool, the Reel History recording and critical listening. plastic poet’s meteoric rise to In addition to supporting under- There aren’t too many of us who celebrity was downright graduate projects, Moylan says, would accept a neighbor’s invitation to “mind-bobbling.” the facility will be an asset to come over for an evening of watching graduate students in the proposed “We never expected any- old home movies. The phrases “Here’s SRT master’s program he hopes thing like this,” explains Wendell’s first steps” or “Let’s put in to launch in the fall. English professor and director Kimmy’s first day of school” don’t nec- of the Kerouac Conference on essarily stir viewing excitement in any- Bill Carman, associate director Four hundred middle-school girls participated Beat Literature Hilary Holla- one beyond the immediate family. of sound recording technology in the eighth annual WISE day. Here, the girls day. “The doll’s popularity is facilities, says, “This room isn’t are calculating the percentage of various ingre- Yet, these “personal documents” can dients needed, after weighing and measuring, astonishing.” just providing cutting edge offer a wealth of information for anyone to make an elegant pharmaceutical compound technology, it’s defining what Prof. William Moylan, left, chair of music and Holladay and Lowell Spin- interested in understanding various sound recording coordinator, and Bill Carman, in a workshop offered by Vanguard Medical cutting edge is.” Associates. ners Marketing Director John aspects of twentieth-century life. In associate director of sound recording technology Goode cooked up the idea as a facilities, try out the new Critical Listening and order to preserve this potential data, Recording Studio in Durgin Hall. Weather Forecasting and the CSI Lab, way to publicize the annual Prof. Chad Montrie, history, is collect- Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! The Kerouac bobblehead doll “beats” the girls were exposed to a wide variety the throw, sliding safely into third ing home movies and videos to create of fields and women professionals who Festival. They declared August base at LeLacheur Park. an archive for researchers interested in do the work. 21 Kerouac Night at the ball- interpreting that past.

Keynote speaker Alison Japikse, a park and announced that bob- (photo courtesy of ESPN.com)

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a rousing comedy about Little League Robots That Have Been rience a restenosis, or narrowing, of the baseball by Richard Dresser, to Rebecca to War Visit Campus artery within some weeks of surgery. Gilman’s “Boy Gets Girl,” Roehr’s “Coating the stent with an anti- A robot that worked well in the lab favorite, about a young career woman’s proliferative drug helps prevent the might not work at all at the World struggle against a stalker. restenosis of the artery,” explains Faust. Trade Center’s Ground Zero, where (Boston Scientific uses the drug pacli- Having only just recently become features were covered by masses of taxel and in the clinical trial only 7.9 familiar with the organization, Roehr loose paper and camouflaging dust. has become quite a fan of MRT. She percent of patients showed signs of sig- encourages other faculty to bring classes A robot that works in the lab won’t nificantly narrowed arteries after the to a performance, noting the inexpen- work in Afghanistan unless it can be implant, compared with 26.6 percent in sive group rates. carried up a mountain on a soldier’s the control group.) “But the drug must back. have a polymer carrier for retention of “As it is, an individual can get a sea- the drug on the stent.” son ticket for as little as $18 a play,” A robot that works in the lab, but Computer science students take a close look at the PackBot, a robot that has been used in war zones. The front arms rotate for traction on steep surfaces. says Roehr. requires a small truckload of guidance Faust has worked with Boston Scien- and control equipment, will not be from recent guest speakers at events Jette criticized research that pursues tific for three years, perfecting and In the long run, Roehr, now in her useful in Iraq. organized by Asst. Prof. Holly Yanco for “sexy” features such as mind-controlled developing production techniques for third year at the University, hopes that undergraduate and graduate students in robots but neglects important function- the polymer—specifically, a copolymer, her relationship with MRT will encour- Faculty and students in computer sci- computer science. al elements such as portability of the produced by the living cationic poly- age them to look to UMass Lowell for ence learned a lot more about the prac- robot and light-weight controls. The merization process that Faust helped to student interns. tical, real-world functioning of robots Mark Micire, president and CEO of pioneer. Prof. Karen Roehr of the Art Department displays American Standard Robotics, was a PackBot weighs 40 pounds with batter- the designs she created for the Merrimack graduate student at the University of ies and the controls fit onto a standard Boston Scientific teamed up with Repertory Theatre’s 25th season. The work ammunition belt, with a helmet- includes brochures, playbills, show cards and South Florida when he participated in Faust because he is recognized as one of bookmarks. robot-assisted search and rescue at the mounted visual display eyepiece. World Trade Center following the ter- Roehr Has Designs on the rorist attack. Faust Adds to Success Repertory Theatre of New Stent Robots have proved useful in search UMass Lowell Art Prof. Karen Roehr and rescue situations, as they can ven- Sponsored research conducted by is playing a major role in every produc- ture into spaces too small or dangerous Chemistry Prof. Rudy Faust has con- tion of Lowell Merrimack Repertory for people or dogs. But Micire said the tributed to the performance of a new Theatre’s 25th season, yet she never conditions at the Trade Center were drug-coated coronary stent developed takes the stage. much more challenging than any previ- by Boston Scientific Corp. in Natick. Xian Yan Wang and Hee Joon Ahn, third and fifth from left, are the first Tripathy Fellows, pursuing ously encountered. Roehr was brought on board to serve research in the materials and polymer sciences. With them are members of the fellowship awards The company announced recently as MRT’s Art Director/Designer, design- committee, associated with the Center for Advanced Materials, that was founded by the late Sukant “PackBot”—a tough, portable robot that clinical trials of the TAXUS™ ing every promotional piece for all the Tripathy. They are, from left, Dr. Ashok Cholli, Prof. Daniel Sandman, Prof. Jayant Kumar, Assoc. Prof. that has been deployed in Afghanistan stent for heart patients showed James Whitten and Susan Thompson Tripathy. 2003-04 shows, from playbills to and Iraq—came to campus and was “extraordinary” results. Boston Scientif- Sponsored research by Chemistry Prof. Rudy Faust, brochures to posters. She even suggest- First Tripathy Fellows Chosen demonstrated by Army Col. Bruce ic was awaiting federal approval to sell left, has contributed to the performance of a new ed and created a bookmark highlighting Jette. the device in the United States. It is drug-coated coronary stent developed by Boston Two graduate students — Xian Yan Wang and Hee Joon Ahn —have won the the season’s seven plays to appeal to currently the market leader in Europe, Scientific Corp. of Natick. first Tripathy Endowed Memorial Summer Graduate Fellowships to complete Jette directs the Rapid Equipping avid readers who may be less familiar ahead of Johnson & Johnson, the only their final year of research towards a Ph.D. The fellowship, awarded for out- Force, what he calls “geeks at war,” a the foremost experts in this technology. with live theatre. other company with a drug-coated standing research in the areas of materials science and polymer science, group that evaluates operational prob- Faust and his research group, in collab- stent. Projections put the worldwide Roehr says the process of putting provides a summer stipend and additional travel funds to participate in lems in the field and solves them. oration with polymer scientists at together pieces for a whole season national meetings during the following year. market at $4 billion by 2005. The PackBot, made by iRobot in Boston Scientific, were responsible for required extensive knowledge of each Stents are small wire-mesh cylinders; Wang is conducting research on electrospinning. She also was named the Burlington, uses up to 12 cameras to scaling up the polymer carrier, from the play to be produced in order to create outstanding graduate student for the College of Arts and Sciences and for they are threaded through blocked provide visual information to troops few grams that can be processed in a the look of a unified whole. UMass Lowell. Ahn is working on LED research. arteries in angioplasty procedures and and can operate in rough areas such as test tube to the commercial scale the wire mesh locks open to prop open The season includes a varied selec- The fellowship is awarded in memory of the late Sukant Tripathy, University Afghanistan, where “the terrain has production that Boston Scientific the arteries. Although bare metal stents tion of works, from “Rounding Third,” Professor and a former provost. He was an internationally recognized leader in two features: horizontal and vertical.” would need for a product launch the materials sciences, a dynamic research collaborator, and founder and were a significant advance over bypass It also can trip mines and trip-wires. into worldwide markets. director of the Center for Advanced Materials. surgery, nearly a third of patients expe-

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treasure-trove for labor economists Colleges - Education students of Massachusetts well. It is also a because of its extraordinarily high testament to our dedicated faculty and Tsongas Center Teaches Hands-on History retention rate. More than 66 percent of Graduate Education support staff who consistently strive to and Science to Teachers the original subject pool responded in Receives NCATE better their coursework, research and This past summer, middle school teachers went the latest survey round. Accreditation partnerships.” back to school at the Tsongas Industrial History Center for an intensive, eight-day Department of According to Galizzi, the data-rich The National Council for Accredita- Grad School of Ed Moves Education Content Institute on “Individualism, resource boasts more than 90,000 tion of Teacher Education (NCATE) to South — Next Stop, Industrialization and Impacts on the Environment.” measured variables. has accredited the Graduate School of Lawrence Mills The grant-funded institute was one of only 10 “The data set is so huge,” says Galizzi, Education through 2007 for initial concentrating on science and technology curriculum “you have to spend a lot of time just teacher preparation and advanced Four pairs of scissors snapped the red, frameworks in the state. learning how to use it.” preparation levels. white and blue ribbon that spanned the entrance to the fifth floor of O’Leary Tsongas Center staff members Dr. Beverly Perna She will get the opportunity to learn Following their visit, the NCATE Library, the new home of the Graduate and Dr. Timothy LaVallee directed the program that the NLSY79 as part of her study. She Board of Examiners paid many compli- School of Education. included lectures, visits to explore the resources of expects to be tapping into assistance ments to the school concerning the Lowell National Historical Park and hands-on offered by the Bureau of Labor Statistics qualifications of the faculty; quality of Dean Donald Pierson; Prof. Judith Boccia, experiences about the economics, innovations, and to help learn how to translate questions curricula; performance of graduates on director of the Center for Field Services and Studies (CFSS); Patricia Noreau, director of environmental impacts of the Industrial Revolution. Prof. Monica Galizzi of the Economics Depart- and interpret results, although she’s the state’s teacher tests; follow-up on Ben Prokuski, former vice ment will study workplace injuries in the United done a significant amount of work with success of graduates in the field; the libraries; and Joseph Caufield, assistant From UMass Lowell, Asst. Prof. Chad Montrie, president of the Waumbec States thanks to a $250,000 “Research Scientist this type of data-set before. relationships with elementary and to the provost, welcomed students and col- history, engaged the teachers in investigations of the Mills in Manchester, N.H., and Development Award” she’s received from the 94-year-old volunteer for the leagues to the renovated space. history of labor unions, Frederick Taylor’s ideas on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s The study will present econometric secondary school in the region; Lowell National Park, shows National Institute for Occupational Safety and “scientific management,” urban environmental research on the long-term economic applications of technology; plans for The new location includes the GSE facul- the workings of a loom to Health. upgrading facilities; and organization of ty offices, CFSS, a faculty/ student lounge, reform and industrial hygiene. Prof. Arnold O’Brien, Wilmington middle school consequences of being hurt in the teacher Timalie Fascione. two multimedia classrooms, a computer environmental, earth and atmospheric sciences, led Galizzi Receives Grant to workplace. Despite the intense research the four-day visit by the nine-member Prokuski was named volunteer the group on a field trip of significant geologic sites Study Worker Injuries that has been conducted on the team. room and a new information kiosk. And the of the year for the northeast school brought a piece of UML West to in the Merrimack Valley. region of the National Park NLSY79, Galizzi says no one has yet Dean Donald Pierson said, “The Service. Prof. Monica Galizzi, economics, has used it to look at worker injuries, accreditation approval is confirmation O’Leary — a garden that was in Upham Teachers became familiar with Tsongas Center won a “Research Scientist Develop- which became a regular part of the of what we already know — the Gradu- Hall inspired by former Dean Virginia Biggy. curriculum materials and hands-on workshops for students that could be used ment Award” worth nearly $250,000 survey in 1988. ate School of Education has outstand- GSE’s move to UML South is temporary in their own classrooms and in planning field trips. from the Centers for Disease Control ing students and alumni who serve the until construction is completed at the and Prevention’s National Institute for Lawrence Mills site in 2005. The Demon- Occupational Safety and Health. Over stration School will remain on UML West State Education Spending, Following Cuts, the next three years, she will use the in modular units until the GSE’s permanent Drops below Level of Prison Allocations money to conduct a study of work- Business History move to the Lawrence Mills complex. Following deep cuts in state spending for higher education, the most place injuries using a unique database Conference Brings recent of which saw the budget allocation of the UMass system known as the National Longitudinal 300 to Lowell slashed 20 percent, the state’s education appropriation stood at $816 Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Prof. Michael Best, emeritus in million—$14 million less than the amount being spent for prisons In 1979, the Department of Labor’s management, left, and Prof. and jails. Bureau of Labor Statistics began track- Bill Mass of the Regional Eco- The new budget figures, from a report by the Massachusetts Taxpay- ing the employment experiences of nomic and Social Development ers Association, set off a furor from legislators and consumer groups. nearly 12,000 teens and young adults. Department, took part in the “It says something very striking about the way that priorities have Every year or two, the bureau returns joint meetings of the Business crept up on us,” said Cameron Huff of the Taxpayers Foundation. “You to these randomly selected subjects to History Conference and the don’t see the same cuts in corrections because there’s nobody to shift learn more about their work lives, European Business History Association in Lowell last the costs onto. In higher education, it’s been the students and parents including items such as salary levels, June. Mass, who hosted the who have borne the brunt of the cuts.” on-the-job injuries and changes in event, says it marked the first time the two organizations met together in the Jack Wilson, UMass interim president, restated the University’s marital status. United States. Nearly 300 scholars from around the world attended. Prof. Judith Boccia, Patricia Noreau, Dean Donald Pierson and Provost John Wooding gather after the Graduate School case for taxpayer involvement. “An investment in the University of The survey project has proven to be a of Education ribbon cutting ceremony. Massachusetts truly represents an investment in the Commonwealth’s future,” he said.

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tinued focus on K-12 outreach, National Science Foundation. Colleges - Engineering Peru Project Celebrates 50 As luck would have it, her husband research and improvement of the He accepted the offer of a joint worked at Elliot Hospital in Manch- UMass Lowell’s Peru Project passed a freshman experience. He said he also appointment between the Directorate ester with Shawn Price, a UMass Low- Ting Assumes the Reins milestone of sorts in 2003, having hoped to spearhead some new initia- of Education and Directorate of Engi- ell senior in electrical engineering. She of College of Engineering installed 50 renewable energy systems tives, such as a civil engineering pro- neering at NSF, and continues to hold said Shawn had a reputation for being in 16 remote villages in the high When Prof. John Ting was asked, posal to work with developing a faculty position at UMass Lowell. a very resourceful person and her hus- during an interview for the engineer- countries to help them create a sus- Andes mountains. band advised her to contact him. John Ting, who has served as chair ing dean’s job, what his primary goal tainable infrastructure. Using solar or water power to gener- of the Civil and Environmental Engi- “I called Shawn to see if he could would be for the college, his response ate electricity in places barely accessi- Ting received a bachelor’s degree neering Department, is the new dean. help me with my project,” Beaudoin was modest: “Survival.” from McGill University, a master’s ble by truck or mule, teams of students says. “The timing was perfect. He Vedula, well known in the business “Survival is good in this climate. If from the California Institute of Tech- and faculty have installed emergency needed a project and I needed his and technology communities for his you come out in a few years time with nology and a doctorate from the Mas- radios and vaccine refrigerators in clin- skills.” commitment to education, will work your programs intact, with the quality sachusetts Institute of Technology — ics; placed laptop computers in schools on undergraduate education in math, What Price designed for this Assis- you’re hoping for, that’s a pretty good all in civil engineering. Prior to join- and light fixtures in churches, town science and engineering. He will also tive Technology capstone project was a goal all by itself,” said Ting, who was ing the UMass Lowell faculty in 1990, halls and village squares; and set up oversee existing programs, such as the step-sensing feedback device that the promoted last spring from chairman of he was a post-doctoral research fellow pumps for water distribution systems. Laboratory Improvements program, boy wore on a belt. The device the Civil and Environmental Engi- and lecturer at Cal Tech and a profes- Project areas have expanded, with and aims to develop new programs as received input from pressure-sensitive neering Department to engineering sor at the University of Toronto. solar water heating, aquaculture pro- appropriate. A local youngster tries the water with UMass dean. He replaced Krishna Vedula, jects and a sand filtration system for water purification. Lowell student Lara Thompson, who designed who stepped down after eight years to Vedula Leaves for Post Vedula’s tenure with the College of the sand filtration and water distribution system become a program director for the at National Science Engineering included many innova- July 2003 marked the thirteenth with Stacy Bletsis. National Science Foundation. Foundation tions, such as the Engineering in Mass time that UMass Lowell teams have This was the second trip on which Collaborative, the summer Design traveled to Peru on an international However, by all accounts, Ting is Krishna Vedula, who had served as Duffy included nursing students on the Camp, after-school Design Lab, and service project and, in the process, just the person to make sure the col- UMass Lowell’s dean of engineering team—Renee Michaud and Colleen the Introduction to Engineering course have developed their own professional lege thrives, as well as survives. Even since 1995, has resigned that post to Sousa. They completed nutrition and for school teachers. and personal skills. Besides the techni- though engineering, and the Universi- become a program director at the health surveys in hospitals in the larger cally skilled participants, nursing stu- ty as a whole, is grappling with budget towns and clinics in remote villages. cuts, faculty retirements and hiring dents have also joined the teams. “Rotary Chelmsford and Rotary freezes, Ting believes the current cli- Mechanical engineering Prof. John International gave us $27,000 for the mate offers vast opportunities as well. Duffy, coordinator of the graduate pro- summer trip and that was very signifi- gram in energy engineering, leads two “I feel that we are faced with some cant support,” Duffy says. “Of course, trips each year. He is struck by the incredible challenges — mainly fiscal every time we go, we come back commitment that students bring to the ones brought on by the state budget with more requests. There’s no end task of helping others. crisis — as well as issues in ensuring a to the need.” supply of well-trained, socially respon- “It’s impressive to see that the stu- sible engineers to meet the needs and dents can make such a difference,” he Youngster Hits His Stride demands of the regional and global says, “supplying villagers with clean with Assistive Technology economy,” he says. water, helping them survive.” Device “But now there is a tremendous Providing clean water to the village The 9-year-old New Hampshire boy opportunity to shape what’s happen- of Huayash was the project Stacy Blet- had a problem walking. ing. You have to think carefully about sis, recent graduate in mechanical what is really important and how to engineering, worked on. For her cap- Instead of striding normally, with the achieve your goals the right way,” he stone design project, Bletsis, along heel of each foot landing first, he walked on the balls of his feet. For his senior capstone project, Shawn Price adds. with partners Lara Thompson and developed an electronic device that has helped Acknowledging that Vedula leaves Matt Johnson, designed a solar water The boy’s physical therapist, Liliane this youngster overcome a walking disorder. Krishna Vedula, left, who stepped down as dean of engineering, is presented with a UMass Lowell “chair pump and distribution system for the Beaudoin, felt that what he needed Sensors on the boy’s feet trigger warning “incredibly big shoes to fill,” Ting said from the chairs” by Alfred Donatelli, chair of chemical and nuclear engineering, and John Ting, chair of village and a sand filtration system to was some type of feedback device sounds that help reinforce training received in he was looking forward to building civil and environmental engineering. Ting was appointed the new dean of engineering. physical therapy. upon established programs, with a con- purify the water. that would train him to break this walking habit.

8 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 9 CampusNews CampusNews from WJUL to WUML to better opportunity. A chance to build on Tsongas Center; and “awesome” resistive sensors placed under the balls July 1, the Institute’s budget was turing and attract nanotechnology reflect its status as a part of the UMass what I know. And maybe, if they’ll let history in Lowell. of his feet. reduced. Institute Director Ken Geiser firms to the region. system. Other campuses in the system me, a chance to share with the stu- The U.S. Department of Educa- “There was nothing wrong with him and a few other staffers kept vigil on The five campuses of the UMass sys- include WUMB at UMass Boston and dents. To make a better station for tion awarded the $1 million grant to neurologically,” says Price. “He would Beacon Hill as the House spent a full tem are connected to the global net- WUMA at UMass Amherst. everyone involved.” the Lowell Public Schools, which will just walk on his tiptoes. He had gotten week on votes overriding the governor’s work through the UMass-managed vetoed items. The TURI item came The new program, produced by the partner with the Tsongas Industrial into a bad habit and he needed some- Massachusetts Information Turnpike Campus - Outreach Lowell Sun and Lowell Community History Center, UMass Lowell’s Grad- thing to remind him to get his heels up—and passed overwhelmingly—as Initiative, a high-speed network that Broadcasting in partnership with the uate School of Education, Center for down.” the second week of voting began. links public higher education institu- University, airs from 5 to 10 a.m., Tsongas Center Event Kicks Field Services and Studies and History Geiser said, “It is a vote of confidence tions, libraries and other public agen- Price’s supervisor on the project was Monday through Friday. Off $1 Million DOE Grant Department, and the Lowell National in the 12 years of work with the busi- cies to the Internet. Jay Fu, an instructor in the Electrical Historic Park for a professional devel- nesses and citizens of Massachusetts Chancellor William T. Hogan calls Lowell Superintendent of Schools Engineering Department. opment program for Lowell’s fifth- and to create a safer and cleaner environ- WJUL Gets A New Voice, A it “an opportunity to serve the region Karla Brooks Baehr, a former history “If the boy walked incorrectly, the eighth-grade history teachers. This is ment.” New Show and A New Name in a new way.” teacher, had enthusiastic and encour- device would beep,” Fu says. “It’s an aging words for the nearly 60 teachers the first part of a six-pronged approach For Ellis, his move to the University audible feedback. If he continued to Rep. Thomas Golden of Lowell, who For 20 years, on the University radio in attendance at the kick-off event for to improve history education in staff seems a natural step. “I’ve been walk incorrectly, the volume of the spearheaded the override effort in the station, he has been the voice of UMass a federally funded Bringing History to the city. House, said, “The Institute gives people around the area a long time,” he says. beep would increase.” Lowell River Hawk hockey. For the Life grant. Baehr encouraged the teachers to throughout the Commonwealth the past six years, you have heard him on “And it’s not like I haven’t been Beaudoin says, “The final product “If we cannot make history come use the grant to improve ideas already basic, fundamental opportunity to WCCM and WLLH doing play-by-play involved with the station — I’ve been had an immediate, positive effect on alive in Lowell, no one can do it. Low- being implemented in the classroom breathe clean air and drink clean water. for the Lowell Spinners. He has been a doing sports on ’JUL for over 20 years. my patient. I’m quite optimistic regard- ell has all the ingredients to make his- and to use this program as an opportu- The people at the Institute do wonder- sports anchor, a news anchor, a debate It’s just that now I’ve been offered a ing the permanent correction of the tory come alive for our kids,” she said, nity to explore new ideas that need ful work. They help businesses help moderator, and a regular on-air inter- chance to take a slightly new direction boy’s condition.” resources. The grant is looking beyond themselves.” — to help develop public radio within citing exceptional teachers and library view host. His textbooks to other resources that will Indeed, Price says the boy no longer the greater Lowell community, to be a media specialists; a history of extraor- His colleagues on both sides of the name is give a richer and fuller picture of uses the device because his walking is valuable resource for the region. And dinary partnership with UMass Lowell; partisan divide agreed, with a vote of Bob Ellis. And the past. greatly improved. maybe, in the process, to create the the National Park; a facility like the 129 to 18, to reinstate funds for TURI. whether the potential for the station to have a “Of course,” he adds, “it’s not just the The Senate similarly voted to restore name is familiar wider reach.” device alone. He has been working funding, with Sens. Steven C. Panagio- or not, if you’ve with the physical therapist for a long takos of Lowell and Pamela Resor of lived for any time Ellis has made a career of reporting time. Giving him a tool to use when he Acton leading the effort in that branch. at all in the on the news and sports of small-town wasn’t in the therapist’s office was the Greater Lowell America. It began 28 years ago at a key.” UMass Lowell Joins Internet region, you’ve small station in a little town called Research Network almost certainly Bob Ellis Sayre, Penn. — his first job after grad- Campus Outlook heard his voice. uating from Emerson in Boston in The UMass system has joined 200 And now he is the voice of a new 1975— where he worked for less than Legislature Backs Toxics leading research universities, the feder- a year. After that it was WEMJ in al government and industry on the morning show on UMass Lowell’s stu- Use Reduction Institute dent radio station. Laconia, N.H., then WSLE in Peter- powerful Internet2 network that borough, then seven years at WKBK in It was a drama worthy of J.K. Rowl- enables researchers to share massive Called “Lowell Sunrise” — the show Keene. At some point in the early ’80s, ing, but the Toxics Use Reduction amounts of data with their peers is a roughly equal mix of local news, he was approached by a college in Institute (TURI) had no magic wand to around the world. sports, traffic, weather and features. Minnesota to do a one-shot assign- save the day—just cold, hard facts Using this network, scientists at And, for the first time since the sta- ment: the play-by-play of a hockey showing that Massachusetts is a cleaner UMass Lowell are collaborating with tion’s inception more than 50 years ago, game against the University of state because of the Institute’s years a major block of time —25 hours a colleagues at Northeastern University Lowell. Holding gears representing each Bringing History to Life grant partner, the logo of the project, are of effort. week — will be the province of a local Prof. Karen Cosse Bell, history; Interim Dean Charles Carroll, Division of Fine Arts, Humanities and and the University of New Hampshire The call from ULowell wasn’t long So when the Institute’s budget was on a $17 million National Science news organization, Lowell Community Social Sciences; James Corless, chief of interpretation and education, Lowell National Historical in coming — and before long, Bob Park; Lowell Superintendent Karla Brooks Baehr; Prof. Judith Boccia, Center for Field Services and vetoed June 30, those facts were shared Broadcasting. Foundation grant proposal to create a Ellis was the voice of the River Hawks. Studies; Prof. Patricia Fontaine, Graduate School of Education; and Dr. Peter O’Connell, Tsongas with area legislators who, in turn, con- Industrial History Center. Nanoscale Science and Engineering But that’s not the only change. And then of the Spinners. vinced their colleagues to save it. Center. The grant would advance While still at 91.5 on the FM dial, “And now this,” he says. “Another With the start of the fiscal year on research in nanotechnology manufac- the station has changed its call letters

10 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 11 CampusNews CampusNews Backpacks Become ‘Wormcycler’ Greenhouse Welcome Gifts for Children Should Have Positive Effect Entering Foster Care The Center for Family, Work and For children entering foster care, the Community (CFWC), along with transition can be swift and dramatic. dozens of project supporters, celebrated Often they move into the system so the grand opening of the “Wormcy- quickly that they don’t have the oppor- cler” greenhouse in October. The tunity to bring with them daily necessi- greenhouse is a major addition to the University’s Compost Education and Demonstration Site in the corner of the Riverview parking lot on UML South

Administrators from Brooks Automation and UMass Lowell, who designed the C++ customized training The 17-by-44-foot greenhouse will program for 15 employees, gathered at the graduation ceremony. They include, back row from left, Prof. house the now-famous Red Wiggler William Moloney, computer science; Prof. Thomas Costello, chair of computer science; Steven Wentzell, worms — the core of CFWC’s vermi- Chomsky Speaks to Overflow Crowd senior vice-president of human resources, Brooks; Dean Jacqueline Moloney, CS/CE; and Tom Kristoff, composting project, which is recycling director of development and training, Brooks. Front row, Joanne Talty and Catherine Kendrick both Noam Chmosky, second from left, appeared on campus in the fall to discuss of CS/CE. university food and yard waste into “Democracy and the Politics of War.” One sponsor of his talk was the Peace rich, usable compost. and Conflict Studies Institute, whose members include, from left, Prof. John Brooks Automation Selects enced software engineers, Brooks may MacDougall, Protestant Minister Imogene Stulken, Prof. Robert Gamache, Lowell for Switch to C++ save money over the long-term. and Asst. Prof. Daniel Egan. Brooks Automation, Inc. is one step Tsongas Center Awarded things this year, but reached out a demonstrations, street parades, dance closer to switching to C++ program- $99,590 for River Psychology major Maria Shay, right, presents little more into the community for parties and ethnic foods on six outdoor ming after 15 employees graduated Education supervisor Nancy Assenza, left, and area program involvement.” stages. As part of its commitment, from a customized C++ certificate pro- manager Carole Mathews with some of the back- More than 2,500 middle school chil- UMass Lowell hosted a booth at Board- vided onsite in Chelmsford by UMass packs being donated to the Department of Social Those efforts yielded a broader base Lowell. Currently, the company uses C dren from Lowell and surrounding Services. Shay and other members of the Psy- of community sponsors. More than ing House Park, at which brochures, programming, a procedural language, towns will now have access to more chology Club collected the Welcome Packs to $3,000 was contributed by Stoneham- flyers and other materials were dis- benefit children entering foster care. in developing their embedded software information about the Merrimack Riv- Bank, BankNorth and pet food manu- tributed to passersby. and would like to shift to C++ pro- er, thanks to a $99,590 grant from the ties others take for granted. Helping facturer Old Mother Hubbard. The gramming, an object-oriented lan- Institute of Museum and Library Ser- make this transition easier has been the money was used to purchase good Massachusetts State Sen. Steven Panagiotakos guage. Brooks, which delivers vices (IMLS) to the Tsongas Industrial joins Julie Villareal of the Center for Family, motivation behind the Psychology quality backpacks and other items not manufacturing automation solutions History Center for the expansion of its Work and Community at the grand opening of Club’s Welcome Pack drive held over directly donated. for semiconductor, precision electron- educational services. the “Wormcycler,” a greenhouse that will be the past two years. the centerpiece of the University’s Compost The idea for the drive was the brain- ics and other industries awarded the The grant, combined with a $45,000 Education and Demonstration Site. In its first year, the “Welcome Pack” child of psychology major and club training contract to the UMass Lowell matching grant provided by the Jesse drive collected more than 50 back- member Maria Shay, who was a social Division of Continuing Studies, and B. Cox Trust, will expand teacher The vermicomposting program, packs filled with personal items to be worker for 22 years. Corporate Education (CS/CE). workshops and other outreach activi- coordinated by the CFWC’s Julie Vil- presented to children entering foster lareal and project manager David Tur- “The personalized student support ties for the Merrimack Watershed care. Last year, organizers presented UMass Lowell Folks cotte, began as a small demonstration services provided to Brooks employees hands-on program to middle schools in more than 100 backpacks, containing Join in Lowell Festival project housed in a utility room in by our corporate on-site training team Chelmsford, Dracut, Lowell, Westford items ranging from underwear and Olney Hall. There, small amounts of UMass Lowell once again was a is just another example of how we and other watershed communities. socks to age-appropriate toys and food waste from local restaurants were major partner of the Lowell Folk Festi- Clare Dube, left, and Pauline Robidoux, center, work with each company to fit the Additionally, the Center will organize books, to representatives from the broken down by a few thousand worms val. This largest free event of its kind both of continuing studies, and Sandra Seitz program to their needs,” says Dean a Greater Lowell Environmental Department of Social Services (DSS). over a few days. in the country annually attracts from communications and marketing greet Jacqueline Moloney, CS/CE. Alliance and provide staff support to visitors to the UMass Lowell booth. The first year was “incredibly suc- member organizations. Since the composting potential of 200,000 visitors to the city. Switching to C++ will reduce cessful,” says psychology Prof. Doreen the earthworms is so great and the The University provided volunteers, Brooks’ software development cycle Arcus, co-advisor of the club. Last year, worms have multiplied so rapidly, the equipment and other resources to the times, increase code re-use and soft- she says, “We did very much the same project needed more space. The worms July weekend of traditional music, craft ware quality. And by retraining experi- are capable of reducing the waste to a

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tenth its size by volume. Over the past year, the Riverview ® site has been under ongoing develop- s ment for this purpose, culminating in LUMNI OLIDAYS RAVEL ROGRAMS the completion of the Wormcycler. A H 2004 T P According to the project consultant and “worm tamer” Bruce Fulford, own- THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL er of City Soil and Greenhouse Com- pany of Roslindale, the hoop-house structure will be able to handle several INVITES YOU TO TRAVEL WITH ALUMNI AND FRIENDS ... tons of recyclable waste, most of which will be provided by Aramark Food Services and the University’s Physical Alumni College in Spain - Castile Alumni College in Provence Plant Department. Creating Sunshine Through Technology June 29 — July 7, 2004 August 17 — 25, 2004 “As it is, we should have about five Tracey Ruth, right, a Lowell High School intensive special ed teacher, shares a Experience the splendor and history of Castile From the ambience of Aix-en-Provence, tons of finished compost by spring- smile with Calvin Atwood, second from right, a student in the class, at the recent and UNESCO World Heritage Sites from the experience this magnifique region of unveiling of a prototype prepared by students in the UMass Lowell assistive time,” says Fulford. “Ultimately, if we ancient city of Ávila. dazzling light in southern France. could expand even more on site, we technology program. The prototype, adapted from a Danish model, provides $1,595*, plus air $1,795*, plus air could probably handle all of the Uni- much-needed sensory stimulation—visual, aural, tactile— to seriously impaired students at the school. The UML students, Brian Pelletier, left, and Paula versity’s annual yard and food waste.” Sachette, center, developed their projects under the direction of Walt McGuire, “Presently, the University spends second from left, a project engineer at Analog Devices in Wilmington and an Alumni College in Sicily Germany’s Legendary Holiday Markets about $20,000 annually to have this adjunct professor of electrical engineering at UMass Lowell. September 18 — 27, 2004 November 27 — December 12, 2004 waste hauled to a landfill about 10 An inspiration to writers and artists, discover the In the European spirit of advent, explore fairy-tale towns with miles away,” says Turcotte. He is hope- band, Sergei, and their three children final leg, it took them 14 hours to mystique of this Mediterranean island from the Olde World charm in the very heart of Tannenbaum territory. ful that the money could be redirected came to this country three years ago. reach the summit and return to their hilltop town of Taormina. From $1,795*, plus air into the management of the site. Vorotnikova had gotten into climb- last camp. $1,695*, plus air “We plan to make the site financial- ing when she joined a mountaineering “We were very tired. The snow was ly self-sustaining,” he says. club while at Moscow University. deep and it was a very tough climb,” Once in this country, she says she and she says. For further information please contact University of Massachusetts Lowell Campus - People her family found many “rocks” to Mountain climbing obviously runs Office of Alumni Relations 600 Suffolk Street, Lowell, MA 01854 978-934-3140 climb in the New Hampshire area. in the family. The Vorotnikovas’ 16- Postdoctoral Fellow Scales It was in June of 2003 that she and year-old son and 13-year-old daughter Mt. McKinley six Russian friends traveled to Alaska each have won national climbing *All prices are approximate per person, Kate Vorotnikova and her friends and climbed Mt. McKinley. events in youth competition. based on double occupancy. intended to go directly to the West After making the ascent on the Rib and climb that route to the top West Buttress route, the weather of 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley. improved and Vorotnikova and three But the ranger advised against it others in her group were able to tackle because the weather was bad. So they the much more difficult West Rib. made an ascent to the top along the This route is known as a “technical” “easier” West Buttress route instead, climb because it involves very steep where the wind was blowing 40 to 50 ascents over rock, ice and snow, and miles an hour and the temperature was requires the use of ice screws, pitons, 25 degrees below zero. rope and other specialized equipment. Vorotnikova is a postdoctoral fellow Kate Vorotnikova, a postdoctoral fellow in the in cell biology in the Biological Sci- Vorotnikova and her friends made it University’s Biological Sciences Department, ences Department. A graduate of to the top in six days, two of which she climbed Mt. McKinley last summer over the difficult West Rib route. Moscow University, she and her hus- says were sunny and warm. On the

14 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 15 CampusNews CampusNews Doug Prime, Prime Mover in K-12 Engineering Education part of Doug Prime’s genius as a science,” he says. “Kids don’t have much Massachusetts K-12 Educational lic schools to expand his course for neering) program provided teacher is that he’s never com- opportunity to do hard thinking, open- Collaboration. teachers into a DesignLab After School scholarships for 24 girls. A pletely left fourth grade behind. ended problem solving and hands-on Walk down the halls in July, and an Training Course. Eleven math and sci- Jan Binda, Massachusetts That’s when Mr. Watson, elementary construction. They find that turning an excited buzz fills the air. ence teachers from five middle schools Public Affairs Manager for science teacher for Hubbarston elemen- idea into reality is incredibly empower- meet with Prime weekly and, within Sun Microsystems, says, “UMass tary schools, taught the wonders of ing, working through all the days, teach the activities in their Lowell’s DesignCamp was one homemade tin can telegraphs and testing and refining to make own schools. So, DesignLab will reach of four $10,000 Sun Microsys- pickle jar light bulbs. it work.” an additional 200 or more tems Summer Enricment students this year. Of course, Doug Prime, “My goal The centerpiece “My dream Grant Recipients in the Corey Warren, also from the Wang School, uses a drill press a UMass Lowell 1988 is to give kids of Prime’s vision is Raytheon has provided is to establish a Boston area (including to advance his project in DesignLab, which is funded by the mechanical engineering DesignCamp, an assort- $20,000 a year for the last magnet school Design Camp at BU). National Science Foundation to encourage student interest in hands-on science and engineering. alumnus who also holds an ment of weeklong work- five years to fund teacher I visited the camp one experience so of science and M.Ed. in curriculum and shops in science and training and curriculum engineering morning and was very impressed, middle and high school,” says Prime. they are more engineering, offered as day development in engineering not only with the quality of the “And it would be more than a school—it instruction, can say things for middle and like, “Most learning at the turned on to camp during four weeks in and technology. science and engineering projects would be a center of learning to hang all high school.” secondary level is abstract science.” July. He started the camp And Prime intends to being done, but also with the our activities on. It would be a profes- and book driven; it’s decon- at UMass Lowell in the enthusiasm and focus of the young sional development center for teachers, — Doug Prime expand opportunities for high — Doug Prime textualized.” summer of 2000. school students. He is collab- people engaged in the work. a place they could spend an in-service year and see best practices in action. It He’s also the Principal Investigator Using activities he had Sarah Bonomo of Tewksbury, left, and Suelen DeMendoca of orating with UMass Lowell’s Assistive “As a funder, Sun was especially Lowell work on design of their secret candy safes for the Electrical of a National Science Foundation developed as a middle school and Mechanical Gizmos workshop. The girls are working in Doug Technology Program to create a unique pleased to learn that these hands-on ASCEND (After School Centers for science and technology Prime’s Pasteur Hall lab, dubbed the Future Engineers Center. design competition for high school stu- learning opportunities will continue in Exploration and Discovery) grant of teacher, he initiated an Elec- dents. In 2003, the first High School the after-school DesignLab program for $325,000. trical and Mechanical Gizmos workshop Labs and classrooms are filled with Assistive Technology Design Fair fea- Lowell middle school students and that and led all three sessions by himself. kids—soldering, snipping, drilling, tured four teams of students from Tyngs- more teachers will be trained in how to Fifty-five students participated that drawing, testing and talking. Observers boro and Westford who teach design projects and first year. About 370 attended Design are struck by how very engaged the had tackled the sort of run workshops.” Camp 2003, and nearly half were youngsters are in what they are learning project normally com- Ray Waterman, senior prin- returnees from the previous summer. and doing. pleted by University cipal engineer in the Radar Prime is particularly pleased that girls Prime emphasizes that, although the seniors in electrical and Design Center of Raytheon now make up nearly a third of all program is a success, he does not want it computer engineering. Company, agrees: “The enthu- campers. to be an isolated accomplishment, and The students had to siasm that has been generated While he no longer teaches by him- won’t be satisfied until it ripples out, and find a client with a is very impressive. When I self, he does lead a couple of sessions ripples out again, reaching into every handicap, identify a visited the classrooms, these “Who’s calling?” Tyngsboro High School student of the same workshop. A dozen more classroom in the state. problem in daily living young kids were seriously Mark Douglas, flanked by teammates Kiersten science and technology teachers have Summer DesignCamps have been for that client and working. They enjoyed show- Lemoine and matt McOsker, demonstrates an resolve it, using whatev- ing us what they were doing easy-to-use telephone holder attached to a created their own workshop offerings, established at both Boston University wheelchair. The students designed the adaptation ranging from Shipwreck Electronics and UMass Dartmouth, with Prime er knowledge and skills and enjoyed talking about Doug Prime, left, director of K-12 educational for a client who had recently suffered a stroke and (You’re on a deserted island—could you serving as cheerleader and coach. they could apply. problems they had overcome.” could use only her left hand. Robo Puppy—his eyes move, outreach for the college, presents Vedula with use everyday materials to “reinvent” He also has started an after-school pro- Faced with this array of and his nose wiggles, as he As corporate engineers, says his own secret candy safe, sealed with an But hang around with Prime for more electricity?) to Flight School (Come gram, called DesignLab, funded by a outreach options, corpo- rolls along. Sarah Guo, Waterman, “We’ve recognized electromagnetic lock. The candy safe is a Windham, N.H., created him than five minutes, and you’ll find your- learn the science involved in designing three-year National Science Foundation hallmark project for students in Design Camp, rations and other funders in Animatronics, a new that if students reach college developed and directed by Prime. self entranced by stuff you never even flying objects.) to Electronics & Music ASCEND grant. DesignLab reached 120 are sitting up and taking Design Camp workshop about level and don’t have the sort of thought was interesting: circuits and (Wouldn’t it be awesome to build and middle school students in the 2002-03 notice. Sun Microsystems making automated machines. experience that Design Camp would not be vocational education, but solenoids, processors and animatronics, test your own audio speakers and an school year, each group coming for 10 and Raytheon Corpora- provides, they don’t choose a regular college preparatory program drill presses and electromagnetic motors. electric piano or electric guitar?). once-a-week workshops on mechanical tion have each contributed $10,000 in technology and engineering careers and where project work is not unusual, it’s Prime just can’t help being excited, Most of the teachers have taken and electrical inventions. scholarships and operating expenses to this is a detriment to our economy.” just run of the mill. and that enthusiasm is infectious. Prime’s Intro to Engineering In this 2003-04 school year, Prime has DesignCamp. EMC Corporation and the What’s next for Doug Prime? “I can hardly wait.” Massachusetts Technology Collaborative “My goal is to give kids hands-on course, funded by the Raytheon leveraged a 21st Century Community each gave $5,000 and UMass Lowell’s “My dream is to establish a magnet experience so they are more turned on to Corporation/University of Learning Centers grant from Lowell pub- WISE (Women in Science and Engi- school of science and engineering for

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She landed one finally, as a bank teller (she can’t recall for what bank). t was June 1981, midway through That lasted six months (“It was so the first year of a three-year reces- awful I wanted to jump out the win- sion — the worst in two decades I dow”), and was followed by a second — when Bonnie Comley, who had job, this one with an investment com- majored in business while supporting pany, making cold calls trying to sell herself as a lifeguard at the Woburn Y, mutual funds—in the dead of a reces- got her Bachelor’s degree from ULowell. sion, in the days before some people “There were no jobs,” she knew what a mutual fund was. remembers today. “None, “It was my best chance “Nobody was buying. Nobody. Some days zero. All my friends who had for an education, it was I’d be almost in tears. Here I was, the first majored in the sciences — where I could afford.” in my family ever to go to college, and what plastics engineering, chemi- — Bonnie Comley was I doing? Working as a bank teller? Mak- cal engineering — they were ing cold calls to strangers trying to sell being grabbed up right and left. But for a business mutual funds when nobody has any money to major? In 1981? It was a tough, tough time to be spend? I started asking myself: “Is looking for a job.” this what I earned a degree for? She had grown up in Bedford, the second of four Is this what I worked four years children of an elevator mechanic and his wife, the to do?’” first in her family to finish college — which she She decided it wasn’t. She managed only by dividing her off-time between decided to go back to school. the lifeguard job in Woburn and a job teaching swimming at a club in Tewksbury. Her choice “I didn’t know what else to do. of ULowell had been an easy one: “It was my best I was living at home, I’d had two chance for an education, it was where I could jobs I’d hated, I wasn’t making any money, and my parents were Bonnie, center, on a trip to afford.” Her parents, she says, “were of that Washington, D.C. during the generation who believed that with a college asking me everyday — ‘So what winter of her senior year at degree you can write your own are you going to do?’ And I ULowell. With her are fellow classmates and student-council ticket in life. They thought about it. And what I fig- members Georgina Betses, had trouble under- ured out was, I’d always been left, and Lynne Travers. standing why I was attracted to show business — having such a tough to movies, to TV. So why not learn something time landing a job.” about it? Why not give that a try? ”

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In the fall of 1982, she enrolled in a Master’s pro- But it didn’t last. Around It lasted five years, ’til 1990. Then the gram at Emerson College in Boston, where she the end of her second year, Travel Channel changed format, the learned the basics of broadcast journalism and got the producer sold the show to Nightlife show got dumped, and Bonnie was some hands-on experience with the production end another network, which back on the street. There was the usual of TV. There was a lot of it she didn’t care for (“I promptly cancelled it. And spate of commercials and modeling, some knew I didn’t want to direct or edit, and I wasn’t she was out of a job — it voiceovers, and — in the middle of it all — a sure that writing was going to wouldn’t be the last time. “In stint at Queens College, where she produced a be my thing”), but the process “Iknew I loved this business,” says Bonnie, children’s video to complete her master’s in general was exciting, and the show business. I “every five minutes you’re degree. And all the while, as she remembers it: on-camera end of things was knew I wanted to looking for a job.” “I was having lunches with people and sending out demo tapes, trying appealing from the start. be a part of it, to line up the next job. I was a little selective, I guess, but not very. and that I was And when you’re not look- You can’t afford to be selective, not if the rent’s going to get paid. Then, in the summer of 1983, willing to work to ing, she says, you’re doing You just adopt the attitude, ‘Okay, so that one’s over — so it’s on to a year after her ULowell gradua- see it through.” what you have to do to pay the next thing.’” tion and midway through her — Bonnie Comley the rent: “Not everyone can two-year Emerson stint, the real be Meryl Streep. But you The “next thing,” as it turned out, would be the last. Or at least the world came knocking on her door. scramble, you put in the last of its kind. In ’93 or ’94, she took a job reading scripts for a New hours, and, most of the time York producer. A year or so later, through one of those scripts, she met Bonnie, right, with other cast members of the off-Broad- “I got offered a job, with this little cable station in at least, you’re going to get another producer: a two-time Tony-winner (La Cage Aux Folles, The way production, “If It Was Easy”—Kevin Dobson (seated), New Jersey. It wasn’t ideal. The first few months, William Miller and Lynsey Ray. where you want to go...” Will Rogers Follies) by the name of Stewart Lane. And from then on, to they mostly just wanted me to do the Vanna White hear her tell it, life pretty much took care of itself. thing. You know, stand around in front of the the- And scramble she did. Only A sketch of Bonnie by the celebrity artist Al Hirschfeld (copyright 2001 atre and look pretty. But then things got better — it this time there were no drudge Al Hirschfeld). “It was just one of those things that happen. He had a script that wasn’t long before they had me interviewing celebri- jobs, no making change needed reading; I read it, we got to talking... He was trying to make a ties and theatre people, doing some pretty active behind tellers’ windows or cold-calling annoyed career change at the time—he’d been a producer for years, he wanted to stuff. I enjoyed that part a lot.” homeowners who were trying to feed supper to their branch out more, to do more writing and directing. So we got talking kids. And as hard as it was to hold a job behind the about that, about how he could manage it, about some projects he had camera, she had learned at least that, one way or in mind. And things just went from there.” another, the camera would be her milieu. They were married in ’97. A year later their daughter, Leah, was born. Bonnie and her mother, Virginia Comley, right, on opening night of last year’s revival of “Gypsy.” Lead actress “What did I do? Oh lord, what didn’t I do? I made And since then, the landmarks and achievements—acting and Bernadette Peters is at left. some commercials, I did some modeling, I acted in producing, writing and directing, individually and together, Broadway, an improv group. I was basically always hustling. But off-Broadway and summer stock— have been unfurling in a blur. it was all performance stuff.” She earned her first producing credit—for JFK: the Her next gig was a big step up: her own show on a Musical, in Dublin—as assistant to the producer (her cable channel, her first job as segment producer and husband), the year before they married. Then came host. It was called Nightlife TV, and it was on the Wait Until Dark at New York’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Travel Channel — a roving host and reporter, high- Minelli on Minelli, Thoroughly Modern Millie (another lighting the hotspots of New York. “We did a lot of Tony winner for Stewart Lane) and Lobby Hero a solo restaurants, comedy clubs, that sort of thing. I had a Bonnie Comley production, in London last year. Most Bonnie with actress Harriet Harris lot of fun, met a lot of people. It was something dif- recently it’s been Ragtime—also solo, also in London— of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” which earned a Tony for Bonnie’s Bonnie with her family: daughter Leah, now five, and husband, Broadway ferent every night. For me at the time, it was pretty and a revival of Gypsy, both in 2003. With Sam Mendes, director of “Gypsy,” husband, producer Stewart Lane. producer-director Stewart Lane. much a dream job.” on the play’s opening night last year.

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directed by Sam Mendes, with Bernadette Peters in the starring role, which has been at the Schubert Alums’ Business Venture Grew Out Theatre on Broadway since last spring. of Connector Experience By Jack McDonough “It’s been a pretty wonderful six years,” says Bonnie. “I’ve got a fairy-tale life: a great job, a pent- hen their advertising firm was in its infancy, They went into the business full-time in March house apartment, a wonderful husband, two terrific Brad Duquette ’00 and Chris Lefebvre ’99 of 2002. stepkids, a beautiful new daughter. I really couldn’t were afraid that Sally and Furby might cause W The break-through came in November of that year them problems. be much happier...” when the Commercial Venture Development arm of the Her next project, she says, will be to finish some It could be embarrassing, for example, if Sally, a Research Foundation invested in Vaward and gave them combination black Lab/collie, or Furby the cat started working space in Wannalancit. TV video projects she’s been producing. And after woofing or meowing while one of the “That investment helped us out tremen- that, there’s just no way to know for sure: partners was on the phone with a client. “That investment dously,” says LeFebvre, “and we moved into During a pre-theatre supper at Legal Seafoods in Boston just prior to the “I want to keep on doing all the things I’ve been They had no choice in the matter, helped us out this facility, which is great. We get advice from Boston opening of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” From left: Jenna Powell, doing—video, TV, acting, producing, all of it. however, because they launched their tremendously.” professionals and access to resources like Hank Powell, ’55, Molly McCarthy, Mary Jo Leahey, ’37; Nancy and business venture in the basement of phones, copiers and a receptionist.” Richard Donahue, and producers Bonnie Comley, ’81 and her husband There’s no end to the things I’d like to do...” Chris’s mother-in-law’s home in — Chris LeFebvre As part of the arrangement, Vaward hires Stewart Lane. Methuen – and Sally and Furby came It’s been a long, unlikely path from her girlhood in UMass Lowell students. with the territory. And all the while, somehow, even as new wife Bedford, her days as a ULowell undergraduate, and Since moving to the new quarters, Vaward has expand- But their company, Vaward Advertising, has since and mother, she managed to continue to act: those endless afternoons in the pool at the Woburn ed its student newspaper clients from about 80 in the grown and moved to pleasant — and animal-free — lead roles in If It Was Easy, The Golden Age and region to around 1,000 throughout the country. And the Y. And while she concedes she “could never have quarters on the fourth floor of the University’s list of companies that buy the advertising includes Frankenstein, all off-Broadway and regional produc- imagined in my wildest dreams” it all turning out as Wannalancit Mill building. tions, directed by her husband—who, meanwhile, names such as Macy’s, Office Max and Planned it has, she’ll tell you in the same breath that she’s Working on a commission basis, Vaward (one defini- Parenthood. had amassed another half-dozen Tonys and been not all that surprised: tion of that word is “forefront”) brings together college Duquette and LeFebvre said they expected that their nominated for the National Critics Playwright student newspapers and businesses that want to reach “I knew I loved show business. I knew I wanted to billing for 2003 would be somewhere near half a Award. the college audience. be a part of it, and that I was willing to work to see million dollars. The advantage for the students is that they have a Her most recent project, in tandem with her it through. And most of the time, I think, if there’s full-time sales representative that brings in revenue and husband and two other colleagues, has been something you really want and you’re willing to sacrifice, you’ll find a way to make it happen... maintains a relationship with advertisers. The advertis- Brad Duquette, left, and Chris Lefebvre used their the start-up of a new production company, ers benefit by having an agency that handles the myriad experience as Connector staffers to launch their Waxman/Williams/Lane/Comley—better known as “I couldn’t help but believe that. It’s been the story details associated with placing ads in dozens of papers own business, Vaward Advertising. WWLC. Its first project has been the Gypsy revival, of my life.” with varying requirements. Duquette, an English major, and LeFebvre, a plastics engineering major, worked on the Connector during their undergraduate years. That’s when they discovered that there was a substantial difference between the Connec- tor’s ad rates and the price their agency was charging advertisers. There was, they determined, an opportunity for competition in that business. LeFebvre had worked for Motorola and Duquette had been in sales and marketing for a start-up company before the two started their agency in the Methuen basement on a part-time basis in 2001. “We targeted regional chains and ‘mom and pop’ stores to begin with,” says Duquette, “and Following supper and a chat with the producers, UMass Lowell alumni gathered at the Wang Center in Boston for the opening represented 30 or 40 New England Colleges.” night of “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” From left: Rick Pierro, ’83, Eileen Pierro, Jim Dandeneau, ’80 and Debbie Dandeneau; John Davis of the UMass Lowell Advancement Office, Emily Moloney and Jacqueline Moloney, dean of Corporate Education and Continuing Studies.

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By Geoffrey Douglas The Charles J. Hoff Scholarship Program

Touching 800 Lives, one Life at a Time Hoff Scholarship award winners are eligible to receive their awards, equivalent to the cost of a full year’s tuition (excluding fees), beginning with the first semester of their sophomore year. To qualify, they must have e doesn’t know the exact been enrolled at UMass for at least two semesters, during which time they must have maintained a GPA of number, and he doesn’t 3.0 or higher. Hwant to name any names. But there have been a lot — at least Assuming they maintain this 3.0 GPA, their awards are renewable for up to six semesters. 800, he guesses, maybe as many as To date, the Hoff Scholarship Program, in place since 1991, has generated funds to more than 800 students 1,000 — and some of them came with at all five UMass campuses, totaling more than $1.6 million. Of this amount, the large majority—more than some pretty remarkable tales. $700,000—has been awarded to students at UMass Lowell. There was the former drug dealer The Hoff Foundation, the financial source of these funds, is headed by Chairman Charlie Hoff. Other officers and addict who had done jail time. and directors of the Foundation include Hoff’s wife, Josephine; their two daughters, Denise Hoff Diorio and He applied to be a Hoff scholar — at Deborah Hoff Casey; their sons-in-law, Jonathan Diorio and Thomas Casey; and Charlie Hoff’s brother, David. 38 years old — was approved, graduat- ed UMass with a 3.8 GPA, then got a job with a Big Eight accounting firm. Another one, also in his thirties, had It all began, as such things often lion pledge to the University. Since been able to make a difference in a been in jail for manslaughter — he’d do, with a problem that needed solv- then, what has become known as the lot of lives… been driving drunk, and killed a cop ing. In the mid-’80s, as a senior vice Hoff Scholars Program has awarded “It’s a great feeling to know that. in an accident. He came out of jail, president at Bausch & Lomb, Hoff scholarship funds totaling more than Sometimes I think I get more out of applied and was approved for a was put in charge of Applied $1.6 million to students at all five all this than some of the students do.” Hoff scholarship, and went on to Research Laboratories (ARL), a com- campuses. (Northeastern University, excel at UMass. pany division that was hemorrhaging at which he earned a master’s in money — $12 million in losses on engineering management, has Making a Gift to UMass Lowell “These are people who turned their Charlie Hoff’s family, shown at a recent gathering, are at the core of the Hoff Foundation, the financial source of $100 million in sales. A year later, likewise been a recipient of his gen- lives around,” says Charlie Hoff today. the Hoff Scholarship funds. Shown here with their children — Charlie Hoff’s grandchildren — they are, from left, When you give to the University of “We’ve had all kinds, all ages — son-in-law Tom Casey, daughter Deborah Casey; Charlie Hoff and his wife Josephine; and son-in-law Jonathan under his direction, the division erosity. Three years ago, he made a Massachusetts Lowell, you help us in many Diorio and his wife Denise. we’ve had grandmothers — every showed a profit. A year after that, he $1 million pledge there as well.) ways. Whether your support is for current bought it — with a partner, in a $32 operations, or designated for a particular kind of story you’d want to hear.” of the five UMass campuses at any There was a time, not long ago, Right from the start, the giving has program or scholarship, your gift helps the million leveraged buyout — and two Charlie Hoff (B.S., Lowell Tech point in time. when he did hire some of them. That been a family affair. Every year, as University fulfill its mission to provide a years later sold it, for more than twice high-quality education at an affordable price. 1966), at least officially, has been Their majors run the gamut from was back in his venture-capital days— nearly as he can guess, somewhere what he’d paid. With the profits, he You Can Make a Gift Today! retired for the past five years. But you management to nursing; their ages the early ’90s—when he bought into around 350 students apply for Hoff founded another company — Uni- Mail: wouldn’t want to take that too literal- range from 19 to 60; and ethnically, two companies, an optical-equipment Scholarships. Of these, roughly 225 Enclose your gift in the envelope outfit and a maker of circuitboards, versal/Univis, in North Attleboro — will be interviewed — if not by Char- attached to this magazine and mail to UMass ly. (Retirement, as Hoff likes to say, they are as diverse as the world. All which, five years later, was, with $20 Lowell, Office of Advancement, 600 Suffolk “is mostly a state of mind.”). After that joins them is their desire for an and turned them both around. Proba- lie Hoff himself, then by his brother, Street, Lowell MA 01854. bly more times than he can count, he million in annual sales, the largest his mother, one of two daughters, nearly 20 years in management with education, their financial need, their manufacturer of design eyewear in Phone: Call (978)-934-2223 (the University some of the largest firms in the north- academic merit (as reflected in their footed the bill for a student’s UMass sometimes other family members as Advancement office) and give by phone, or education, then became that student’s the United States. well. The University, will then make speak with a gift officer about establishing east — including Wang, Polaroid and GPAs, which must be at least 3.0 at a fund or scholarship. Gillette — and another decade-plus the close of their freshman years), and first employer in a job that often grew It was at that point that the giving the final decisions. In a typical year, to a career. began in earnest. Although he has says Hoff, roughly 40 percent of the E-mail: To contact a gift officer, send a as a major player in the venture-capi- the more subjective requirement that message to University Advancement at: tal world, Hoff today is in the business they be — as Charlie Hoff expresses “I believe strongly in the value of an served as a UMass trustee for 10 original 350 will be approved for [email protected] (among others) of giving away UMass it — ” the sort of people who’ll make education,” says Charlie Hoff today. years, and was a major donor well scholarships by the University. educations — 150 a year, more or less. a difference in their communities… “It’s what makes the difference. It’s before that — he set up the family- “There are all kinds of folks we’re And not only on the Lowell campus: the sort of people who, if I were still the key to what determines a person’s run Hoff Foundation as early as 1986 helping who, for one reason or there are dozens of Hoff scholars, each hiring, I’d want to hire.” mobility, and ultimately that person’s as a source for scholarships — six another, just aren’t able to do this for attending school tuition-free, at each quality of life.” years ago Charlie Hoff made a $1 mil- themselves. My family and I — we’ve

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By Jack McDonough the government or were wealthy were executed. But Phala Called A Humble Woman they let my father survive because he was able to con- Who ‘Epitomizes Excellence’ From the Killing Fields to the tribute to the village by cooking and farming. “We all had to wear black, dress the same and have Margaret McDevitt was an assistant professor and chair of the Classroom: A Remarkable Odyssey. College of Education’s acceptance committee when Phala Chea went the same haircut. If you didn’t work you weren’t fed. If you worked, you were given a small portion of food dai- to see her in 1994 to discuss teaching as a possible career path. She was only 3 years old when the horror began. ly. Anything more, you had to steal or do whatever you “It was obvious that she came to me only out of respect for George had to do to keep yourself alive. Tsapatsaris,” McDevitt says. “And, as she spoke, it became clear why For the next five years she lived through the madness of he had sent her to meet me. She had a quiet intelligence and a beauti- the Killing Fields, the genocidal massacre inflicted on the “My sister, who was 7 or so, had to work collecting ful, kind nature. But, because she was also a humble young woman, Cambodian people by Pol Pot and his infamous Khmer Rouge fertilizer but she also had to take care of me at home she seemed to doubt that it was appropriate for her to be there. regime. because the rest of the family was working.” “Nevertheless, I encouraged her to apply for the master’s program. When finally it was over and her family found its way to “There was But that’s all I did. The rest was all Phala. As her application package freedom in America, the fourth-grade classmates in her new The sister, Ratha, died of starva- no way for us moved through the committee, her ‘appropriateness’ became obvious school made fun of her because she looked different and tion by the time she was 11. to go back, to everyone. didn’t speak English. When, in 1979, the Vietnamese so we had to “When I first met her, I remember how insecure she was about her “I didn’t understand my peers or the teacher,” she says. invaded Cambodia and overthrew adapt quickly language skills, although that worry was totally unnecessary. Her verbal skills were excellent and her writing skills were outstanding. “I just watched and listened.” Pol Pot’s regime, Phala and her to survive.” parents were able to return to “It was a delight to have her in class that year. It was a lively group Today, Phala Chea is coordinator of the Parent Information Phnom Penh. and we all enjoyed Phala’s more thoughtful and serious approach. Center in the Lowell Public School system. In June of 2003, — Phala Chea she became the first Cambodian immigrant — and, at 31, “We looked for our relatives to “She was just a joy — one of those students a teacher never for- probably the youngest person — to receive a doctorate in see who survived and who didn’t,” she says. They gets. I’m very happy to have been even a small part of her life, her education from UMass Lowell. found her mother’s family, but learned that one brother, very remarkable life.” Phala’s uncle, had been worked to death in a prison •••••••••••••••••••• While working toward that degree, she taught English in camp. Lowell schools. Rosemary LeBlanc Considine, now the superintendent of schools in Fearing that the Khmer Rouge would return, the family Melrose, was a member of Phala Chea’s dissertation committee. But Phala was born in Phnom Penh in 1972. Her father, Tem, the connection is stronger than that. was a schoolteacher, and her mother, Eng Men, had her own “Her father worked for me at the Parent Information Center in retail business. Phala had one older sister, Ratha. 1987,” she says, “and I have known Phala since she was a child. In 1975, Pol Pot overthrew the government of Norodom “I think hers is a wonderful accomplishment. To think that she came Sihanouk and carried out his plan to turn Cambodia into a to this country speaking Khmer and made the leap from that to Utopian agrarian society. The Khmer Rouge evacuated cities, English, and completed a doctorate in the process is just amazing. forced the inhabitants into farming cooperatives in the coun- “And her dissertation was terrific. I was pleased to be part of her tryside and, in the process, caused the deaths of an estimat- committee.” ed 1.7 million people through torture, overwork, starvation and execution. •••••••••••••••••••• Like Considine, Assoc. Prof. John Catallozzi was a member of Phala Phala refers to that era as “the war.” Chea’s dissertation committee. Sitting in her sunlit office on Kirk Street near Lowell High “Working with Phala was very gratifying,” Catallozzi says. “She has School, she says, “I remember the war. I lived through it. We had a unique journey culminating in the attainment of the highest were forced to go into the countryside and leave everything levels of academic and personal success. behind. “She epitomizes excellence in professional education in terms of “We had to work manually and we couldn’t use technology. both preparation and performance. And she will serve as an ongoing Schools were banned. Medicine. Entertainment. Currency. “I remember the war. I lived inspiration and model for all who follow in her path.” Everything was banned. through it. We were forced to go •••••••••••••••••••• “I remember all these things. I remember staying home Dean Donald Pierson of the Graduate School of Education says, and not having to work because I was young, but my parents into the countryside and leave “Phala was an excellent student all the way along. Very conscien- had to go to work. everything behind.” tious. And now she’s an outstanding educator. “I’m confident she will continue to progress to even greater “During that time, people who were educated or worked for — Phala Chea leadership positions than the one she already holds.”

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left Phnom Penh and walked for a month ell School Superinten- or concerns,” and to her dissertation committee — As for her own future, she’s not certain. through jungles to a refugee camp in Thai- dent George Tsapat- Profs. Rodriguez, John Catallozzi and Rosemary “I’m not sure what I want to do now. I’m very land. saris, whom he had LeBlanc — who “motivated and pushed me and young in my field and I’d like to expand my known through his advised and guided me in completing the writing “It was a long walk and we had to be experience.” own job as parent liai- stage of my work.” very careful of mines along the way. We son at the Parent As for the past, she says, “The tragedies and the also were afraid because the Khmer Rouge Phala did her dissertation on the acculturation Information Center. nightmare, you don’t forget.” had hidden themselves in the mountains process of Cambodian students, a study she hoped Tsapatsaris suggested to Phala that she try educa- and jungles.” would contribute something to society. tion, and he put her in touch with Asst. Prof. Mar- After 18 months in the camp, a cousin in garet McDevitt at the then College of Education. “I know that living in this society is very diffi- the United States sponsored the family cult, coming from the horror that we experi- With McDevitt’s encouragement, Phala enrolled in and they traveled to Portland, Oregon. By enced,” she says. “I know the master’s program, received her M. Ed. degree this time, Phala had a younger sister, born what living here in a new in 1995, and began her teaching career. “The in Phnom Penh, and a brother, born in environment will do to us. Thailand. She taught English, ESL and other subjects to I wanted to study the prob- tragedies second graders at the Cardinal O’Connell School, lems that occur in the lives and the Phala was enrolled “During the and applied for admission to the University’s doctor- of young Cambodians in in the fourth grade in the summer, I nightmare, al program in education. She was not accepted. America and the way in Richmond Elementary School. watched other which that affects their you don’t “They suggested that I gain more work experience “There was no way for us to children playing academic performance and forget.” and try again,” she says. their social life. go back, so we had to adapt and speaking — Phala Chea quickly to survive,” Phala She then taught a year of seventh grade English and I tried out “I know what it’s like to says. “I was tutored one hour at the Daley School, during which she applied for live here and not know a word of English, to a day in an ESL class, learn- my English the doctoral program once again, and once again have to live in a foreign society. The children ing basic words like ‘book’ with them.” was told she lacked experience. Nevertheless, she need family support and must learn new skills and ‘pencil.’ But I was afraid was allowed to take two courses “to prove myself.” — Phala Chea and a new way of life. to speak because I thought She supplied the proof — earning As in both cours- others would make fun of me because I wouldn’t be es — and, with support from Prof. Juan Rodriguez, “They want to be Americans but their families able to pronounce the words correctly. was accepted into the program. want them to embrace the old culture. These are two totally different things and it’s hard to do. It “During the summer, I watched other children Meanwhile, her teaching career took her to a four- causes pressure and tension for adolescents playing and speaking and I tried out my English with year assignment at the Bartlett School (more sev- and affects learning.” them. I learned quite a bit and was able to commu- enth grade English) and then an appointment as a nicate with other kids in my neighborhood. By the facilitator for Chapter 636, a federal program to She knows these problems fifth grade, I could do some class work and under- ensure equity in education among seven Lowell ele- first-hand. stand English a little bit.” mentary and middle schools. “Other students here and in After her freshman year in high school, the family “I loved teaching. I loved the children. But I left it Oregon made fun of me moved to Lowell, in part to start a business here because I wanted to get into administration. My because of the way I looked where there is a large Cambodian population. doctorate is in lead- and acted. I was made fun of ership in schooling,” all the time.” Phala graduated from Greater Lowell Technical she explains. High School in 1990 and enrolled at ULowell where Part of the solution to these she studied biology because her parents wanted The move to the acculturation problems, she her to become a doctor. Parent Information says, is understanding. Center came in “I did it for a year and a half but I couldn’t handle “Educators must under- March of 2002. math and science, and I didn’t like it,” she remem- stand Cambodian students. bers, so she switched to political science and soci- Phala gives a lot Schools need to learn their ology, and graduated in 1994. of credit for her suc- background and accept their cess to Dean Donald culture.” At that point, she was uncertain of a career path Pierson who “was (“I thought about law but didn’t think I’d be a good there for any issues lawyer.”), so her father suggested she talk with Low-

28 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE WINTER 2004 29 FeatureStory FeatureStory The Job Ladder: It Still Exists But It May Not Be in the Same Place. American businesses traditionally have had strong The three have produced a number of reports on job “Ladder” has long been a common term in the business world. job ladders — or Internal Labor Markets (ILM) as they ladders, and Chris Tilly, sitting in his fifth floor office Employees have sought to “move up the ladder.” are known in social science circles. These ladders have in the O’Leary Library building one recent morning, been the means by which someone was hired by a explained what he, Moss and Salzman had discovered. They got a foot on the first “rung.” Sometimes it was a “tough climb.” company at entry level, got on-the-job training, The interesting thing they found, he says, is that the perhaps took some business courses, and over a number job ladder phenomenon is, in some ways, as strong as it of years moved up into better positions. ever was. To illustrate this, he points to their research By Jack McDonough But there has been a lot of discussion about how the into electronics. job ladder was disappearing over the past two decades “We talked to a large electronics manufacturer and because companies were found that they did a massive amount of outsourcing. finding ways to break up the (They call this company Monarch. They don’t use process. Two of the principal actual names in the reports.) Initially, they outsourced ways they were doing this each part separately but then they realized that it was were by outsourcing — worse trying to manage the purchase of 1,000 parts having operations once done than it was to make the parts themselves. within a company being done “So they started telling suppliers to give them by some other company; and components already assembled. Instead of buying 1,000 by the creation of remote call parts, Monarch ended up buying about six components centers — like the ones you that they would assemble, test and send out. call to buy a shirt or a frying pan. Chris Tilly “What’s interesting is that in that process they started going to larger and larger suppliers to the point In 1999, three UMass Lowell researchers received a where some of their suppliers were even larger than $300,000 grant from the Rockefeller and Russell Sage them. So there are the job ladders again — only foundations to look into the job ladder situation in a they’re not in Monarch anymore. They’re in this other number of industries. company,” says Tilly. The three were Profs. Phil Moss and Chris Tilly “That’s not to say the jobs are just as good — of the Regional Economic and Social Development Monarch tends to be unionized and the supplier tends Department (RESD) and Hal Salzman, a senior not to be unionized. There are other differences, too. research scientist in the Center for Industrial Also, it’s harder on the workforce because when you Competitiveness. move to a new company you may lose some of the priv- They chose to study four industries: financial ileges and advantages you have built up over the years. services (banks, insurance companies, etc.), food “But in terms of job ladders, they’ve popped up services (restaurants and cafeterias), electronics again.” manufacturers and retail businesses. Then the discussion turned to the food industry. Over time, they discovered some surprising things. One was that the ladders weren’t disappearing “A restaurant is, by definition, a small company,” altogether but they were moving. Another was that Tilly says. “Only so many people can work in a restau- when you order the prime ribs and the peach melba in rant. But they’re sourcing from food distributors that your local restaurant, the food probably isn’t actually are huge. And these distributors are, in turn, sourcing cooked there. from manufacturers.

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“When you go to a restaurant and get pasta or a portation had increased responsibility. They had to be able to make decisions “So, in that situation, the kind of stability that cut of meat, you tend to think it’s prepared in that the purchasing of cakes and to answer the service reps’ questions while cus- you think of with job ladders is again broken up. restaurant. But, more and more that food is actually and pastry by all but some tomers were waiting on the line. The problem with a case study like this is that the coming through a distributor from a manufacturer of the high-end restau- “So, again, this became a situation where the job story never ends. At some point we have to stop who’s preparing those dishes up to the final point, rants. ladder was squeezed down but grew back up,” he says. studying it but the kind of evolution we’ve seen and the restaurant is doing only the last minute doesn’t necessarily end at the point where we stopped Restaurants also report The researchers also looked at the work life and preparation. looking at it. an interesting side benefit family life implications of this job ladder situation. “One manager told us, ‘There’s more and more to using prepared foods: “I think we can conclude that there really are good “We found some interesting things,” Tilly says. “At food being done by the manufacturer than there is worker compensation reasons that job ladders have been a pretty persistent the risk of oversimplifying, banking and retail have on-site. The reason is quality. There are things that costs are lower because phenomenon.” become much more woman and family friendly you could buy that it would make no sense whatso- fewer workers are wielding Phil Moss industries. The cases we’ve looked at provide much ever for you to make. There are even some desserts large knives. more flexible career paths. out there that the finest pastry chefs in the city The food industry, Tilly says, “is another case of “Whereas, if you’re trying to manage in electronics where the outsourcing process is shifting things to “At the risk of oversimplifying, banking and or food services, they’re still very male environments bigger companies — in fact, national companies — retail have become much more woman and that expect you to go where the company sends you. where employees can move up. In restaurants, there If need be, you jump from job to job and place to family friendly industries. The cases we’ve looked is only so far that you can move up. But if you’re in place to move up. at provide much more flexible career paths.” the world of food distribution or manufacturing, — Chris Tilly you can move up to be a regional or national “But in banking, we found managers who basically manager — levels you could never attain in a stayed in one region, where they’d moved to a dozen couldn’t make as good. You can pretty much buy restaurant.” branches and moved up each time but still stayed in anything prefab now.’ ” the one region so they had a reasonable commute A similar story unfolded with call centers. A cook in one upscale restaurant said that all and could be home with their family at night. In a retail department store, employees are meat comes into the restaurant precut, and “Same thing with department retail. Careers in selling directly to the customer and there is a divi- salad greens are pre-packaged. The pastry chef said department stores move from store to store but man- sion of labor. But as stores began moving to technological improvements such as flash age to stay with a commuting distance,” he says. freezing, automated cake design and faster trans- catalog call centers, job opportunities increasingly moved to those remote centers. Although he points out a number of cases in which job ladders have diminished in one area only to reap- At first, the hierarchy in the centers was very flat. pear in another, Tilly says, “I don’t want to imply There were lots of customer service representatives that there’s anything inevitable about this but I do but not many supervisors. Not much chance for think there are reasons why it keeps happening. advancement. “For example, in the case of Monarch we had this “But,” says Tilly, “we saw in the 1980s and 1990s, happy story of them sourcing to these companies that they were adding more layers of supervision. There are now around the same size as Monarch. But just as were two reasons for this. First, the companies real- we were finishing the case study, Monarch made the ized that call center work was not as easy as they decision that they were going to start sourcing from thought. They had to recruit good people, motivate abroad. them and retain them, and to do that they had to offer them advancement. “It’s cheaper in China. It’s cheaper in Mexico. So, they say, ‘Enough of these suppliers here. We’re going “The second reason was that supervision was a to start shipping to suppliers down there.’ bigger job than they thought. Instead of simply having supervisors walking up and down the aisle keeping track of things, they discovered they really needed people with knowledge and management Hal Salzman

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River Hawk Pitching Staff Soars to New Heights Fall Sports – A Review By Bob Ellis

“There is no question that my By Chris O’Donnell For colleges and universities, the fall National Quarterfinals. “They looked height is an advantage,” he says. sports schedule comes to an end in this challenge dead in the eye and It was scary enough for opposing “An 88-mile-per-hour fastball late October/early November. The gave it their best effort,” said Head players to bat against 6-foot-10, from a 6-10 pitcher seems a lot goal is to extend the season, push it Coach Ted Priestly. He was talking 235-pound Steve Palazzolo, but come quicker to batters 6 feet tall. I’m until there are few other schools still about the final game; he might as well spring they will face another towering always trying to get the most out competing. At UMass Lowell, autumn have been talking about the season. of my height.” righthander, 6-foot-10, 230-pound sports in 2003 were extended far The team finished 15-5-2 and set Aaron Easton , the latest addition to Easton’s road to Lowell has beyond the scheduled close. records for goals, points, shutouts and the River Hawk pitching staff. had a few detours. The Water- For many teams, a visit to the wins. Jason Paige won the NE-10 The two are the tallest pitching duo ford, Maine, native played club NCAA tournament is a dream, often Scoring title; Jonathan Curran was in Division II – and likely the entire baseball at the University of an impossible dream, but at UMass testament to how far the program and named the conference’s top defensive country – and help form a potentially New Hampshire for two years Lowell it has become almost facilities have come in recent years. player; and Christian Figueroa was awesome UMass Lowell staff. but, eager to test his skills at a commonplace. This year, five of the named the top freshman. higher level, he enrolled at Second year Head Coach Shannon “There is definitely an advantage University’s six fall teams reached the Flagler University in St. Augus- Hlebichuk says she urges her team when a pitcher is that tall,” says NCAA promised land. One even Women’s Soccer tine, Fla. only “to love this game.” She believes first-year Head Coach Ken Connerty. hosted the NCAA Division II that love breeds success. “I have 20 The women’s soccer team was the “That kind of size is intimidating to a In addition to chalking up National Championship game. kids who love this game. Regardless one program that struggled during the batter. It enables a pitcher to release impressive statistics on the Three — men’s soccer, women’s of the outcome, at the end of the day, autumn of 2003. Finishing with a 4- the ball a little closer to the plate. mound, he graduated magna cross-country and field hockey — we love this game.” 10-1 record. When you’re that tall, you’re throwing cum laude with a business made first time visits to the NCAA But, the River Hawks wrapped up downhill. degree and still had a year’s eligi- tournament, scaling, in the process, Although they were underdogs all bility left. Because NCAA rules season long; they finished with a the year with a 2-0 victory over “I think Aaron can hit 88 to 90 heights unimaginable just a couple of prohibited him from transferring record of 15-7. American International College. miles per hour, and Steve is the years ago. to Division I or III schools, he The shutout was a team record 5th same way.” wanted to find the best Division Women’s Field Hockey Men’s Soccer during the season. UMass Lowell is coming off another II baseball program close to Men’s soccer rewrote its record book splendid season in which it finished home where he also could earn The River Hawks field hockey team and altered the balance of power 32-12 and won the Northeast-10 Con- a master’s degree. shocked the Northeast-10 conference, in Division II in New England. ference regular season and tournament rocked the field hockey establishment “I talked with a scout from the They did it in dramatic fashion. championships. The River Hawks also and nearly won a national champi- Cincinnati Reds and he told me earned their seventh straight and 14th onship. It was the team’s first ever vis- UMass Lowell won the Northeast- that UMass Lowell was the best overall trip to the NCAA Tourna- it to the NCAA Division II 10 tournament championship with a Division II school in New Eng- ment, where they advanced to tournament. 3-2 victory over perennial power land,” Easton says. “I thought it the regional final before losing to Southern Connecticut State Universi- would be great to come back and The team earned its way into the Franklin Pierce. ty. Depite trailing by 2-0, 10:18 into play. My family hasn’t seen me NCAA tournament by defeating long- the game. The come-from-behind The UML staff is already well- pitch in two years.” time field hockey powers Bentley and win put the River Hawks in the stocked with the likes of Palazzolo, These two River Hawks — 6-foot-10, 230-pound Aaron Bryant to win the Northeast-10 tour- Easton is currently pursuing NCAA tournament. senior Billy Lynch (9-1, 2.02 ERA) Easton, left, and 6-foot-10, 235-pound Steve Palazzolo — nament championship. his master’s degree in regional are the tallest pitching duo in Division II baseball. and junior Brad Laurin (6-3, 2.03 They went on to win the New Eng- economic and social develop- Before losing the national champi- Volleyball ERA). land Regional with victories over ment. onship game to Bloomsburg Universi- Franklin Pierce College, 3-0, and Palazzolo has established himself ty 4-1. The River hawks then defeated Trips to the NCAA Division II tour- “It was nice that Aaron was Southern Connecticut, 1-0. among the best in the region, going 8- Bryant College in the national semi- nament are not a shock to the UMass- looking for us, when usually it’s the 1 in nine starts last spring with a 2.25 final. UMass Lowell hosted the The season ended with a loss to Lowell volleyball team. They made other way around,” Connerty says. ERA. He also struck out 62 batters and national final four at Cushing Field a Dowling, 2-0, in Oakdale, N.Y., in the their fourth visit in the last six years. walked 27 over 64 innings.

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It was unfortunately, a short trip. Women’s Basketball Team ‘Whoops’ It Up The team had finished the regular Stone and Hlebichuk Named to After a Whale Watch season with a 20-8 record, but made an Athletic Hall of Fame embers of the women’s basketball team went whale watching early exit from the Northeast-10 tour- M out of Gloucester recently but the sighting that thrilled them the nament, losing to Merrimack College, im Stone, head coach of the baseball most occurred after their boat had returned to land. 3-2. J Jim Stone team for 37 years, and Shannon Joan Lehoullier, senior associate athletic director, says that when They lost to Bryant College, 3-0, (LeBlanc) Hlebichuk, coach of the field the team disembarked, the person working in the ticket booth in the opening round. hockey team for which she once starred, pointed to a woman sitting on a nearby bench and said she was “someone famous.” Cross Country have been inducted into the UMass Lowell Athletic Hall of Fame. The team discovered that the famous person was actress Whoopi The UMass Lowell men’s cross- Goldberg, who was in town to visit a friend who owns a restaurant Stone, whose reign lasted from 1966 country team has long been a domi- there. Goldberg readily agreed when the players asked if they could until May of 2003, posted a career record have their picture taken with her. nant force in New England running. Pat Riley That did not change in the fall of 2003. of 801-393-7 (.667). During that time, he “She was very nice and very friendly,” says Lehoullier. The women’s team joined the men was named New England Division II coach After the photo was taken, one of the players presented Goldberg in earning “powerhouse” status. of the Year nine times and Northeast Stan Van Gundy with a UMass Lowell t-shirt, and the actress said she would try to That was new. Region Coach of the Year wear it some time on her new television show. The women finished 2nd in the five times. As for the whales, Lehoullier says they finally did see some after Former UML Coach Van Gundy spending a long time searching through the morning fog. Northeast-10 conference champi- His 2001 and 2002 Takes Over Miami Heat onships and in the NCAA New Eng- teams advanced to the “But I think a lot of the players were more excited about seeing land Regional championships. The Whoopi than they were about seeing whales,” she says. Division II College Stan Van Gundy, performance earned the team its first World Series. one-time men’s ever invitation to the NCAA Division basketball coach at II National Meet. They finished 22nd A 1960 graduate of UMass Lowell, is now in the country. Springfield College head coach of the Mia- where he captained Nicole Plante was honored as the mi Heat of the National the baseball team his Northeast-10 conference Freshman Basketball Association. Shannon (LeBlanc) of the Year. senior year, Stone coached Hlebichuk Van Gundy replaced at Tilton-Northfield High The men’s team won its second Pat Riley who relin- School and Mascoma Regional in straight NE-10 Championship, the quished the coaching job Stan Van Gundy New Hampshire before coming to third in four years. They won their before the start of the 2003-04 season fourth straight NCAA Division II Lowell. but remained president of the club. Regional Championship. And Hlebichuk scored 33 goals and had a Van Gundy became the head coach finished 10th in the nation at the record 29 assists during her undergradu- at Lowell in 1988, succeeding Don national meet. ate career and was instrumental in helping Doucette the year after the then Chiefs Along the way there were individual the field hockey team to its best-ever captured the NCAA Division II champi- honors. Head Coach Gary Gardner record of 15-4 in 1997. onship. Over the next four seasons, his was named the NCAA Regional and teams had a cumulative record of 54-60. A two-year captain, she was twice named the NE-10 Coach of the Year. Patrick to the National Field Hockey Coaches He left the University in 1992 to join the Morasse was named the NE-10 Runner Members of the women’s basketball team went on a whale watch out of Gloucester staff at Wisconsin and three years of the Year. Jay Beausoleil was named Association Division II All-America team recently but their biggest sighting wasn’t a whale. It was Whoopi Goldberg, who was in and was named the 1997-98 NCAA Woman of the Year for the state later became Riley’s assistant. town to visit a friend. Goldberg agreed to have her photo taken with the team, whose the Conference’s top freshman and members also presented her with a UMass Lowell t-shirt. Nate Jenkins finished 1st in the of Massachusetts. He is the older brother of Jeff Van Gundy, coach of the Houston Rockets and NCAA regional meet. Before being named coach of the River Hawk field hockey squad, former coach of the New York Knicks. she earned a master’s degree in higher education at Arizona State University.

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Photo 1 Classmates from the State Teachers College 5 Class of 1938 returning to campus for their 65th reunion included Carolyn Allen Fowler, left, and Helen Knight. Photo 2 Photo 6 Members of the State Teachers College Members of the Lowell Textile Class of 1953 gather at the Whistler Class of 1943 celebrated 60 years at the 8 House art gallery reception and exhibit of Ed Adler’s work. Golden Alumni Luncheon. Seated, from left, From left, are Len Grubman, James Velantzas and Adler. are Ann McEnaney, Marie Pouliot Dumont, Catherine Hill Goodwin and Marjorie Waring Photo 7 Langdon. Standing, from left, are Gertrude 10 Reunion committee members and volunteers presented the Belanger, Muriel Landers, Louise Cavalieri University with a check for $165,567 raised by all the reunion Goni, Ruth Richie Kirby, Natalie Johnson classes to benefit the alumni scholarship fund. Gutridge and Lucille Charron. Photo 3 Photo 8 The Lowell Textile Institute Class of 1943 Reunion alumni who returned to campus for Homecoming visited returned to campus for its 60th reunion at the new campus recreation center. After lunch, they had an the Golden Alumni Luncheon. The luncheon opportunity to tour the facility and flex their muscles. was the kickoff to reunion weekend. Seated, from left, are Herbert Goldberg, Tom Gillick Photo 9 and William Haggerty. Standing, from left, Seen at the Homecoming luncheon on Saturday of Reunion Week- are Richard Petersen, Ralph Bullock and end are these members of the Class of 1953. Seated, from left, are John Colburn. Electra Kominis Parigian, Arpy Kludjian and Connie Panagiotopoulos Photo 4 Muldrow. And, standing from left, Rita Zoukee Mehos, Rosemary Textile graduates from the Class of 1948, O’Connor Hogarty, and Elsa Martinson Noy and spouse Bob Noy. and spouses, returned to Lowell for their Photo 10 60th college reunion. Lowell Textile reunion alumni gathered at the American Textile Photo 5 History Museum to celebrate with the Class of 1953, the last gradu- The State Teachers College Class of 1953 ating class of Lowell Textile. They are, from left, Tom Gillick ’43, Reva together again at the Golden Alumni and Morton Schlesinger ’43 and John Roughan ’48. Luncheon.

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Photo 14 The Massachusetts State College at Lowell Class of 1963 celebrated its 40th reunion at a dinner at the Radisson Hotel and Suites in 12 Chelmsford.

Photo 15 The Lowell Technological Institute Photo 11 Class of 1963 gathered for its 40th Celebrating their 50th reunion, members reunion dinner on Saturday evening of the Lowell Textile Class of 1953 enjoy of Reunion Weekend. dinner with their professor, John Goodwin ’39,’52, center, first row. Photo 16 & 17 The University of Lowell Class of Photo 12 1978 convenes for its 25th reunion Classmates and guests gathered to cele- dinner at the Doubletree Hotel in brate the 50th Lowell Textile reunion, are, Lowell. 15 from left, Margaret and Joe Flannery ’53, Robert Adell ’53, Stanley Berger ’53, Harvey Fishman ’53, and James 16 Velantzas ’53.

Photo 13 Members and guests of the State 13 Teachers Class of 1953 had a grand time reminiscing at their reunion dinner. From left, standing, are Jean Curtis MacCannell ’53, Pauline Desrochers Durant ’53, Anne Deurell ’53 and Margaret Connors Russell ’53. Seated, from left, are Bill MacCannell, Ellen Finnegan Leighton ’53, Scott Leighton and Earl Russell. 17

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Paul began the program in the where he con- She moved to Richmond, Va., 1954 Freedom. He will lead the Acre Family Day Care trains tered in Hippotherapy, where Hartford Co. in Hartford, 1960s. He still works part time centrates in the and completed a master’s charge to train his Seabees to women to run family child a horse is used as a therapeutic Conn. They live in Robert E. Bachelder retired as a police officer in Hamp- areas of Social degree. She works in a “won- improve their readiness posi- care businesses in their own tool to achieve P.T. goals and Southborough. as associate superintendent of ton, N.H., and recently Security, estate derful private nursing home,” tion for mobilization while homes, and provides ongoing improve functional mobility. Jeffrey Wilkins recently Melrose public schools in became an adjunct professor planning and and is happily married, with providing support to the Fleet administrative support, con- She has been married for 14 started a manufacturers repre- 1988. He is currently a of criminal justice at New administration, stepchildren and grandchil- and the Marine Corps in the tinuing small business and years to Bruce Barnhill and sentative firm promoting part-time professor at Salem Hampshire Technical Insti- and elder law. dren. Sarah also arranges emerging initiatives in the child development education, has two boys, Austin, 9, and heaters, sensors and instru- State College and leads tute. He lives in Hampton Vincent and his wife, Donna, music for and sings with a trio United States and overseas. and child care referrals. Daniel, 6. mentation to the plastics and Bob Bachelder’s Totem Pole with his wife, Dotty. He still have five grandchildren and a called Litesing and looks Joseph lives in Newton. Tom Delorey is celebrating After graduation, Natasha convection industries. The Orchestra, which plays at travels, skis and boats at their mountaintop home overlook- forward to recording a CD. 10 years with Lockheed Mar- (Parekh) Ramsingh attended company represents manufac- college events, public concerts second home in Maine. ing the Shenandoah. In the meantime, she would tin’s Knolls Atomic Power Lab St. Thomas University School turers from all across North and dances. love to hear from anyone from 1986 Robert G. Cameron has pub- as a nuclear physicist leading a of Law, where she received a America. the “way–back ’70s.” Dr. Kathleen (McGuire) 1967 lished a collection of his own development team. His wife J.D. in 1999. Natasha passed compositions for bagpipes. Steve Stillman recently self- Kaplan, a professor at Howard Donna–Lane Nelson writes Karen (LeBlanc) Delorey is the bar in Florida and became “From Other Shores” includes published the book Effects and University, recently published 1993 from Switzerland that her a registered nurse for the licensed to practice in that more than 100 tunes suitable Their Uses, which includes a new book in her series, Fer- novel Chickpea Lover has gone Schenectady (N.Y.) Commu- state. In 2000, she graduated for bagpipes and other tradi- 447 scientific effects. In his tility – God’s Way, Overcoming into a second printing. Her nity Hospice. They live in from the University of Miami tional instruments. 23 years as a lead engineer, he Infertility with Respect to the publisher has offered her both Schenectady with their 2- School of Law with an LL.M. designed many types of parts Bible, which is available from a paperback and large–print John D. Murphy is pleased year-old daughter, Hailey. in Real Property Develop- in disc drives. Steve resides most on–line bookstores. contract. to announce that son Brian, a Stephen Peterson and his ment, and opened Integrated with his wife on a large farm Dr. Kaplan’s Web site is junior at Auburn University, wife, Danielle, have welcomed Property & Title Services, in Shrewsbury. http://www.imappl.org/~ has been accepted into the their first child, Oliver Inc., a full-service title compa- 1969 kaplan and she would like Jana (Marino) DiNatale and university’s prestigious Build- Richard Peterson. Steve is ny. Natasha was married in to hear from old friends. husband Dave welcomed the David B. Tuttle has been ing Science Program. The 1982 a performance engineer for May 2003 to Ronald Rams- John Spead has been arrival of their daughter, 1956 named vice president for FAA program has been nationally Concord Communications, ingh, a Miami Dade County Mary Ellen Rowe is an appointed director of Global Amanda Pennell DiNatale, Gil V. Diloreto had a book Programs for BAE Systems, a recognized as one of the and coaches track at assistant state attorney. expedition coordinator at Environment, and Health & on Aug. 19, 2003. Jana is published under his pen major defense and govern- leading architectural and Westford Academy. Earthwatch, where they Safety at Serologicals Corpo- assistant district attorney at name, Gil Loring, in 2002. ment contractor. construction management recruit volunteers to partici- ration in Atlanta. Serologicals 1991 the Eastern District Attorney’s The book, Second Fiddle, majors in the country. pate in one-to-three weeks of is a global provider of biologi- 1989 Brenda (Coughlin) Monahan Office in Salem. is available through 1973 research and conservation cal products and enabling Eric W. Abelquist, director and husband Jason announce Darrell H. Thompson Amazon.com 1978 projects all over the world. In April 2001, Richard S. technologies, essential for the of Oak Ridge Institute for Sci- the birth of their second child, married Jennifer Chadwick, Goldman founded Goldman Frank Cavaleri joined research, development and ence and Education’s Radio- Brigid Grace, born on Feb. 13, a wastewater engineer from Consulting Associates, a man- Woodard & Curran, an envi- 1984 manufacturing of biologically logical Safety, Assessments, 2003. Brigid joins her big Santa Maria, Calif., on Aug. agement consulting practice ronmental consulting firm, as based life science products. brother, Zachary. On Sept. 14, Joseph J. and Training Program, is the 23, 2003 in Pismo Beach, headquartered in Johnstown, vice president in the Opera- Albanese, CEO of Com- 2003 recipient of the Elda E. Calif. Penn., which helps business tions and Management group. modore Builders, was named 1988 Anderson Award from the 1992 leaders develop and imple- Frank has more commanding officer of Naval Health Physics Society for his ment strategies for profitable than 20 years of Anita Moeller, executive Steve Damon, an active 1994 Mobile Construction Battal- knowledge and devotion to growth. His organization offers experience in director of Acre Family Day author and clinician in the Roberta (Grimes) Peladeau, ion (NMCB) 21 health physics. The award is 1957 a broad range of services the contract Care in Lowell, has been field of music education, has married in 1996, has three in the Naval presented each year to an out- nationwide in business plan- operations busi- named the 2003 Mas- been included in Marquis’ children, ages 8, 7 and 6, and Ernie Glantz ’58, left, his Reserve. Joseph standing young member of the ning, government business ness, including sachusetts Home–Based Busi- Who’s Who in America 2003. one on the way. Roberta is a wife, Judy, and Howard Zins is a commander Society for excellence in development, operations man- management, ness Advocate by the U.S. Steve teaches music at North- school nurse at her children’s ’57 met for dinner at the Eiffel in the Civil research or development, dis- agement, and organizational operations, and maintenance Small Business Administra- field Mount Hermon School. elementary school in New Tower restaurant in the Paris Engineer Corps, covery, invention, or other development. of municipal wastewater and tion (SBA). The Home-Based Susan (Sullivan) Grinblatas Ipswich, N.H. Hotel during the Clean 2003 U. S. Naval significant contributions to groundwater remediation pro- Advocate Award is presented and husband David welcomed Show in Las Vegas. Ernie is Reserve. Over the profession of health jects throughout the North- annually to an individual who their third daughter, Elena with Radici fabrics USA and 1974 the past 24 physics. Eric and his wife, 1995 east. He will oversee several has experienced the rewards Nicole, on July 2, 2003. She Howard is a consultant to the months, as operations officer Sandy, live in Oak Ridge with Vincent F. Bonzagni was contract operations projects in and difficulties of home-based joins her big sisters Hannah Dr. Love P. Maya is a full- institutional textile field. for the 7th Naval Construc- their children Alyssa, Eliza- admitted to the U.S. Supreme southern New England. businesses and has worked to and Leah. Sue left her posi- time English professor at tion Regiment, he was inte- beth and Gunnar. Court Bar in June 2002. He improve the climate for these tion as a trial attorney with North Shore Community grally involved with the 1965 retired in June 2003 from a businesses. Anita founded Goodwin Procter LLP in College in Lynn. From 1991 1979 mobilization and deployment Paul T. Sullivan has retired career with the Social Securi- Acre Family Day Care in 1988 1990 Boston two years ago to be a to 1994 she was an English of more than 1,200 Seabees in as director of Safe & Drug ty Administration and has Sarah E. Hopkins decided to in response to research show- Kathylyn (Tibbetts) Barnhill full-time mother. David is vice instructor at Roxbury Com- support of Operation Enduring Free program after 36 years now formed the Bonzagni Law pursue a career in occupation- ing two related community started Kids in Motion Thera- president /director of opera- munity College. She pub- Freedom in Afghanistan and, with the Lowell school system. Firm, P.C. in Front Royal, Va., al therapy after Proposition 2. needs: child care and jobs. py Services and is also regis- tions for loss control at the lished her first book, Off the most recently, Operation Iraqi

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Village Mat, in 1999 and is Diana A. Melnyk graduated materials restrictions. She also 2003 close friends of Ralph Waldo Emerson Asian Persuasion: Liou Helps ‘Terminator’ now working on two books of from Michigan State Law researched environmental and and other members of the transcendental short stories. School in May. She took the social benefits of organic agri- Danielle Sandra Carey is a circle. Paula is in her fifth year, as a Capture Governorship Massachusetts bar exam in culture and developed a pro- graduate student at Rivier freelance medical editor. Sean Liou and Arnold Schwarzenegger are a lot alike. Sure, one is a brawny, July and is now pursuing her ject for cleaner technology College working on an M.Ed. 1997 Dr. Francis T. Talty ’77, adjunct profes- Hollywood mega-star, while the other is a humble, computer software whiz. LL.M. in taxation at Boston transfer in the spray-painting Danielle is an sor in the Political Science Department, But appearances aside, these two have much in common. Joshua Stockwell recently University. sector from the U.S. to on-call substi- presented a paper and served on a panel passed the Patent Bar exam Bulgaria. tute teacher To start with, both are paradigms of immigrant success. Almost everyone at the annual meeting of the Law and during his third year at Ralph and social-sci- knows the Schwarzenegger story: Austrian bodybuilder storms America, wins 2001 Society Association last June in Pitts- R. Papitto School of Law at ence research seven Mr. Olympia titles, marries a Kennedy, becomes the most bankable 2002 burgh. Talty’s paper was Roger Williams University. Rena M. DiLando is a third- interviewer and action star on the planet. “Public Perceptions of Joshua is a submissions editor year student at Northeastern Thomas M. Sullivan joined is currently liv- But Liou’s tale is equally remarkable: Taiwanese student scrapes together Massachusetts Courts: An Sean Liou for the Law Review and a University School of Law. She the newly established intellec- ing in Dracut. money to study math and computers at UMass Lowell; launches two high-tech Examination of Support member of the Law Student interned with a Massachusetts tual property law firm Lowrie She would like firms in Silicon Valley; earns nomination to President Bush’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and its Effect on Use of Division of the American Bar district judge and in the Major Lando & Anastasi, LLP as a to thank all of and Pacific Islanders (has even lunched with the President at the White House half a dozen times); and Courts.” Frank and wife Association, the Student Crimes Division of the U.S. partner. Tom joins LL&A her professors in the Criminal when the tech bubble bursts, reinvents himself as a travel magnate, starting Always Best Tours and Patricia Sullivan Talty Association, and President of Attorney’s Office in Boston. from Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Justice Department who made Travel. ’78 reside in Lowell. the Armed Forces Law Stu- She is now interning at a New Glovsky and a “difference in my life.” And there are even more parallels. Both are West Coast Conservatives, both were key figures in dent Association. Hampshire law firm. Rena Popeo P.C. of Rob Velella and Rosalind the recent California recall vote and both are beloved by the Asian American community. recently purchased a home Boston, where Simon Thomsen ’02 will be appear- Wyman were engaged on June with her fiancé, Peter, in he was a mem- ing with Scrap Arts Music on Tuesday, That’s right, Asians love Arnold. 1998 28 at the Brewery during the Rochester, N. H. She plans to ber (partner) April 6, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Durgin And much of that adoration can be credited to Sean Liou. UML orientation leader’s Chojaa J. Ghosn, Ed.D. has graduate with a J.D. in May. and one of the Hall. Scrap Arts, in the tradition of Liou was the state chairman of “Asians for Arnold,” a grassroots campaign he launched to rally been appointed administrative banquet. Phyllis Gimbel Schnitman’s founders of its STOMP, is an all-percussion ensemble support for the “Terminator” turned “Governator.” director of Marketing & Plan- (Ed. D.) book, Solutions for Intellectual that presents a highly entertaining, ning, which includes physi- “It wasn’t hard getting the Asian community to back Arnold. His vision matches our ideals,” Promoting Principal-Teacher Property Section. Prior to Faculty visually rich performance on fantastic, cian relations, marketing, explains Liou. “We identify with him, having traveled the same hard road to become U.S. citizens.” Trust, was published in entering the field of law, Tom Assoc. Prof. Martin Moser mobile instruments skillfully fashioned planning and research for the With Liou’s help, Schwarzenegger captured 47 percent of the Asian vote. September 2003 by Scarecrow had a successful 10-year career of the University’s Manage- from salvaged and recycled junk. It is seven-campus Florida Hospital Education. Phyllis serves as as a senior electrical design ment Group conducted a based in Vancouver, British Columbia When Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger was preparing to take office, he appointed Liou to his transition system. He lives in the greater coordinator of Project Open, a engineer at Raytheon Corpo- workshop in September as and has toured extensively in the U.S. team. Orlando area with his wife, university-public school col- ration. part of the Women in Busi- & Canada. Simon hopes many alumni “Arnold chose me because I’m a successful Asian-American businessman, who will recruit other Fiona, and their son, Josef. laboration with Boston Col- Daniel J. McOsker was ness seminar series sponsored will be there to support him. Please call talented Asian-Americans,” Liou says. the Center for the Arts box office at Sarah E. White received her lege, Boston University, mobilized with the U.S. Naval by Enterprise Bank. In the And there’s one final tie that binds these two, a commonality Liou calls the most poignant. M.B.A. from Suffolk Universi- 978-934-4444 for further details. Brandeis University, Lesley Reserve in support of Opera- interactive workshop, titled “Arnold and I share something very special,” says Liou. “We’re living the American dream.” ty in 2003. Sarah’s husband, University and the Water- tion Iraqi Freedom. Daniel is “Everything you need to know Michael Fligg ’97, graduated town public schools. an admissions representative about preparing a presenta- from New Hampshire Techni- In Memoriam Vesela R. Veleva has been at the Spaulding Rehabilita- tion,” Moser described how to cal Institute in 2003 with a tion Hospital in Boston. organize and articulate ideas. appointed a social research Regina M. (Luongo) Karnilla 1951 1962 1973 1986 paramedic degree. 1921 analyst at the Citizen’s Advis- Heather (McWatt) His articles and case studies Edith T. (Miles) Handy M.Elizabeth (Shannon) Navin Edward F. Kelley, Jr. Robert F.Yeutter Nancy A. Beaman Peter G. Parent have appeared in The Journal Rita M. Sullivan Richard P. Kelly Roland J. Savoie, Jr. ers, Inc., one of the nation’s Pellegrino, CPHT and 1922 1952 1963 Mark L. Tocco 1999 oldest and largest socially Michael A. Pellegrino were of Business Ethics, Managerial Raymond H. Bennett 1937 Alfred V. Gellene Mary E. (Harrington) Mitchell 1974 Planning, Supervisory Manage- Mary J. (Chesworth) Huntley Barbara C. (Moore) Nannery Wilfred N. Dionne 1987 Jennie A. Black is engaged responsible investment man- married in April of 2003. 1923 1953 Frank J. Cammarata agement firms. Vesela has They honeymooned in Aruba ment, the Boston Business Mary I. (Garrity) Sullivan 1939 Robert F.Albani 1964 1975 to be married to Richard Fitz- Journal and more than 40 Rita H. (Edwards) Miller Abner M. Beder Diana C. (Moshos) Panousis Thomas E. Duval 1988 patrick ’96 on May 30. They more than 12 years experience and live in Lowell. Michael is 1924 James P. Boutiette Donna Marie Grenier management textbooks. 1940 1966 1976 recently moved into their new in the environmental and sus- a financial management asso- Rose H. (Harrington) Geary Mary J. (Manning) Boyle Doris I. (Ikalainen) Bourque Dorothy J. Zing Parker J. Crossley Alan J. Bielevich 1989 home in Londonderry, N.H. tainability field, particularly in ciate with Ernst & Young, and Paula Robbins, former assis- 1926 Ann W. (Jablonski) Lake James A. McConnell Kathryn S. Crawford sustainability indicators, cor- Heather is a lead technician tant dean of the Graduate Monica E. Cuddy Mary A. Whitten 1954 1967 Fay Datz Rita P. Noonan Robert W. Kulp, Jr. 1977 1991 porate governance, pollution, at CVS Pharmacy. School, has published her 1941 Dean R. Jackson Shawn J. Murphy 2000 and environmental and work- fourth book, The Royal Family 1927 Matthew Gass 1957 1968 Donald P. Nowak Antti Juhani Arjanen 1997 er health and safety. She joins of Concord: Samuel, Elizabeth, Catherine B. McGarry Elinor B. (Ahern) Smith Sylvia J. Ostman Karen Goncalves has Alice L. (Whittemore) O’Hearn William Spielman William A. Bagshaw 1979 Brian R. Boule become engaged to Patrick Citizens from Greiner Envi- and Rockwood Hoar and their 1943 Leon E. Gariepy Michael J. McCabe Faculty, Staff and Friends ronmental, Inc., where she Friendship with Ralph Waldo 1929 Marion E. (Brenton) Brown 1958 Charles E. Murphy Dolan. The couple will be Borden D. Billings Muriel S. (Burke) Cornwall Mary E. (Purtell) Hogan Paul P. Sbrogna 1980 married on Aug. 22 in Mar- researched environmental Emerson. It chronicles the June A. Bosworth Christos J. Bentas James L. Davies health and safety impacts of lives of three of the members 1931 1944 1959 1969 Michael P. O’Leary blehead. Agnes L. (Single) Doyle George F. Richardson Irene B. (Walsh) Glennon Michael J. Ficarra, Jr. Mike Demoulas the coated wire and cable of the most important family 1984 Alexander Dirko industry in relation to the new in 19th century Concord. 1932 1945 1960 1970 Marc R. Beauregard Zolton Fried Marie G. (Barry) Bresnahan Dolores E. (Allard) Buckley George F. Revelas Christine J. (Jacques) Gale Ronald G. Danisewicz Rhodes G. Lockwood EU and other regulations on They were neighbors and Jean A. (Doynes) 1936 1946 Schmottlach 1971 1985 Milton A. Fine Charles J. Eadie Cosmo J. Fedele, P.E. Stephen P. Gervais

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