The THE MAGAZINE OF HARTWICK COLLEGE Wick Fall 2016

Leadership Matters Perspectives, Experiences, and Opportunities Students are at the core of everything we do at Hartwick. They are our reason for being. They drive our daily decisions, guide our long-term planning, and inspired this comprehensive campaign. Our goals are their goals. —President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12

The Campaign for Hartwick Students is complete—record dollars were raised in record time—yet the need for scholarships continues. Our students truly appreciate your interest in their efforts AND your investments in their future.

Counterclockwise: Student leaders at A Toast to Success in The Campaign during True Blue, enjoying the Taste of Wick club fair, celebrating after a win, and welcoming new students during Orientation.

Please contact Vice President Gregg Fort to learn how you can endow a scholarship for tuition support or J Term experience: 607-431-4026 or [email protected].

Not ready to endow your own fund? Grow an existing scholarship instead. Find out about current and pending scholarships at www.hartwick.edu/giving/ scholarships-and-funded-awards. Leadership Matters

My mother was a lifelong student of organizations. A tireless Our alumni are leaders who marshal their personal and worker and dedicated community volunteer, sometimes she intellectual resources to advance their workplaces and followed and sometimes she led. After I became President of communities. Whether in healthcare, government, big business, Hartwick she would often gauge my resolve by asking, “Why do athletics, or the military, Hartwick graduates are anticipating, you work so hard? I thought you were a president.” managing, and creating change for the better. As you will learn from those who are highlighted here, they are acting on their Of course, she already knew how I would respond. In my view, values-fueled dreams and are making a difference. leadership is a gritty, grounded, roll-up-your-sleeves enterprise. Leaders are glistening icons only when you view them from a In a message that I sent after the presidential election I reminded distance. our community that in order to preserve our values we need to be introspective and take intentional, individual action. That’s Far from the limelight, our campus leaders are dressed in skirts, where leadership really finds its full expression—when you and I ties, sweaters, khakis, and sweatshirts that say “Hartwick.” express our role in our community to our fullest and best effect. Leadership at Hartwick is expressed in the dedicated service I hope that this issue of The Wick inspires you to step forward of our employees, students, and volunteers, including Board whenever you are able, and especially on the days when you don’t members. I recently convened a round table dialogue of campus think you can. Your leadership matters. leaders to discuss the future of the College and the liberal arts. I hope that you find this conversation to be as engaging and Best, enlightening as I did.

This fall we celebrated the successful conclusion of The Campaign for Hartwick Students: It’s Personal. So many individuals chose to step forward and make a difference with their generous gifts. I, and our students, are deeply grateful for their leadership. Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 President The LEADERSHIP 1 PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE Fall 2016 | Volume LVIII: No. 3 Leadership’s full expression across this campus and well beyond EDITOR AND FEATURES WRITER | Elizabeth Steele P’12 SENIOR DESIGNER | Jennifer Nichols-Stewart PHOTO EDITOR | Cindy McKown 8 CONTRIBUTORS | Alicia Martinez Fish ’91, Chris Gondek, BREAKTHROUGH Sabrina Lawrence ’13, David Lubell, Vernon Burnett Professor Mary Allen collaborates on an HHMI grant PHOTOGRAPHERS | Gerry Raymonda Photography, Emma and learns about herself as an Tannenbaum, and submitted educator in the process WICK ONLINE | Stephanie Brunetta EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, President Gregg Fort, VP for College Advancement 16 Karen McGrath, VP for Enrollment Management ROUND TABLE Dr. Meg Nowak, VP for Student Affairs Dr. Michael G. Tannenbaum P’14, Provost and DISCUSSION VP for Academic Affairs College leaders share their ideas Alicia Fish ’91, Senior Director of Engagement on the future of Hartwick and the liberal arts EDITORIAL OFFICE Bresee Hall, Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 Tel: 607-431-4054 28 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.hartwick.edu LEADING THROUGH CHANGE Comments are welcome on anything published in The Wick. Alumni perspectives on regional Send letters to The Wick, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, healthcare, Olympic sports, Oneonta, NY 13820-4018 or [email protected]. corporate responsibility, music The Wick is published by Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, in the military, government Oneonta, NY 13820-4018. Diverse views are presented and service, and more do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editors or official policies of Hartwick College.

The College Mission Hartwick College, an engaged community, integrates a liberal arts education with experiential learning to inspire curiosity, Engage with Us. critical thinking, creativity, personal courage, and an enduring passion for learning. Be a fan. Like us. www.facebook.com/hartwickcollege Connect with us. www.twitter.com/hartwickcollege Follow us. www.instagram.com/hartwickcollege Watch us. www.youtube.com/hartwickcollege COMMUNITY 4 22 EXTRAORDINARY REUNION & OPPORTUNITIES HOMECOMING University Innovation Fellows; Nearly 1,000 alumni, family, government position papers for and friends return to campus to Steve Green ’59, H’15; summer enjoy traditional gatherings and online is now for alumni create new favorites 5 34 REGIONAL RECOGNITION ATHLETICS Hartwick named Breakthrough A banner season for women’s Business of the Year and Partner soccer and field hockey; of the Year; Demi Manesis ’17 men’s soccer is an academic named Intern of the Year for her powerhouse; the new Dick work with the fire department Miller Memorial Locker Room

6 36 IN THEIR OWN WORDS ALUMNI NEWS Two students share the lasting Recognition for exceptional benefits of working as an graduates and friends; Alumni entrepreneur with Simon Baker Board elections; Save-the- ’93 and on a team internship with Date for True Blue 2017 Doug Stone ’83

10 38 CAMPAIGN SUCCESS CLASS NOTES On campus and off, celebrations Promotions and relocations, turn the spotlight on donors and the marriages and babies, get- students who inspire them togethers and getaways; remembering those who have passed away

49 VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHT Joel Patterson ’96 added 20th ON THE COVER: Brittany Sutliff ’17, Matt Randall ’20, and Katie Evans reunion co-chair to the ways he’s ’17—and more than 850 of their classmates, teammates, and friends— involved at Hartwick celebrated the successful conclusion of The Campaign for Hartwick Students at a special event on campus this fall. (See page 11.)

Hartwick College Board of Trustees Francis Landrey P’06, Chair Carol Ann Hamilton Coughlin ’86 Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’88 Janet Mitchell ’71 Arnold Drogen, Vice Chair Elaine Raudenbush DiBrita ’61 Thomas Johnstone Neal Miller ’72 Edward Droesch ’82, Treasurer Virginia Elwell ’77 William Kitson III ’86 Evelyn Milne Moore ’83 Betsy Tanner Wright ’79, Secretary Kathleen Fallon ’88 Dorothy Milligan Lewis ’65 Joel Patterson ’96 Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, President Michael Finnerty ’92 David Long ’83, H’14 Marina Mikhailova Regelman ’95 Keith Fulmer Charlene McCutcheon Marx ’77, P’10, P’15 Sarah Otto Sanders ’11 Keith Granet ’79 Bertine Colombo McKenna Steven Suleski ’76 Robert Hanft ’69, PM’06 CAMPUS NEWS

Students take on innovation and Out in Front entrepreneurship at Hartwick The College’s first University Innovation Fellows—Jackie Davis ’17, Committee. As a management consultant to the design industry, Christine Hughes ’17, Stephanie Sacco ’18, and Kelly Sprague ’17— Granet was acquainted with the d.school and its concept of have joined a national movement of emerging leaders determined a “makers space” to foster innovation and entrepreneurship. to effect change in higher education and well beyond. He arranged for President Margaret L. Drugovich to tour the d.school last spring and she was soon integrating the concept into Hartwick’s four are among 169 new University Innovation Fellows Hartwick’s plans for a Center for Collaboration and Innovation. (UIF) from colleges and universities across the country. Each Granet underwrote the team’s substantial application fee, and the competed to participate in the training provided by Stanford President asked Professor of Economics Carli Ficano and Assistant University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school). Professors of Business Pauline Stamp and Dan Vo to work with 14 teams who competed for a place in the program. These faculty “This is the first year that liberal arts schools are part of UIF,” continue to mentor the students chosen for the UIF experience. says Sacco, noting that initially the program was primarily for engineering students. “What we’re trying to do is very different, In March all 49 college and university teams are invited to very exciting. This will be groundbreaking.” During one creative Stanford to share the plans they’re making and the progress exercise at a “meet-up” of participating schools at Georgia Tech underway. In the meantime, the Hartwick team is working with this fall, she says, the Hartwick team’s problem-solving business their faculty mentors and keeping the President apprised to ensure thesis was noted as an example for others. that their best ideas about how to build a culture of innovation become grounded in the College’s plans for the future. (See back Hartwick’s interest in UIF started with Trustee Keith Granet cover for more.) ’79, vice chair of the Board of Trustees’ Strategic Innovation Critical Thinking in the Context of Power

“It is November 2016 and you (not Donald Trump) have just been elected President. What are the first two to three things you would do as the 45th President of the United States and why?”

This is the question posed to 15 Hartwick students by Steve Green ’59 in the fourth Stephen L. Green American Governance Essay contest.

Participants developed their position statement, then met with New York City real estate mogul Steve Green and his brother, author and political activist Mark Green, to discuss their ideas. The students will now spend months preparing in-depth research papers to support their point of view. The intellectual process is its own reward, but so is the honor of winning the contest and a cash prize—the result of a fund Green endowed in The Campaign for Hartwick Students.

The political science faculty facilitates this opportunity Hartwick student participants with Steve for students in any major. Professor Laurel Elder Green ’59 H’15 in his Manhattan office. coordinates the program and serves as an advisor along with Assistant Professor Jim Buthman; Professor Amy Forster Rothbart and Assistant Professor Caleb Goltz serve as faculty judges. Steve Green will make the final review of submissions in consultation with his brother and will name the winners at a campus event this spring.

4 THE WICK MAGAZINE REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED, SO ACT NOW! Good for Business Hartwick Named Breakthrough Business of the Year and Partner of the Year

Hartwick initiatives that support the region’s economic vitality are being recognized. The Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage (CCFB) recently was honored with the Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Breakthrough Business of the Year Award from the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce. Hartwick’s 4th The opening of the CCFB was “a breakthrough moment in the College’s history,” Summer Online: President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 said in accepting the award at a Chamber event. “In 2015, it was a growing reality that the craft food and beverage industry An Opportunity for presented what could be a breakthrough moment of its own for the economy of this region. Hartwick understood what was needed to meet the needs of a growing Lifelong Learning array of producers who wanted to assure the quality of their products.” (It’s not just for college students anymore.) Last summer, Hartwick was named Partner of the Year by Otsego Now, the hub for economic progress in Otsego County. Otsego Now Chief Executive Officer WHO: Sandy Mathes, Jr. commended Hartwick for “the launch of its Center for Craft College students; Hartwick alumni, Food & Beverage, its participation as a StartUp New York program campus, and its emphasis on creating STEM-based experiential opportunities for its students.” parents, and families; community members in courses taught by Hartwick faculty. Hartwick College is committed to leveraging our intellectual and educational resources in a way that WHAT: advantages economic development in the region. 22 course options, including business —President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 computing, controversial social issues, digital media, international relations, logic, microeconomics, organizational behavior, physiology, psychology, rock music, social media marketing, and writing. (And more—check online.)

WHEN: SESSION 1: June 5- June 30 SESSION 2: July 3- July 28 SESSION 3: July 31- August 24

WHERE: Home, office, library—it doesn’t matter. Classes are held completely online.

Demi Manesis ’17 was recognized by the Otsego County Chamber of Commerce as the HOW MUCH: 2016 Hartwick College Intern of the Year for the work she’s done with the Oneonta $299 / credit hour Fire Department to conduct a risk assessment of properties in Oneonta. Manesis (most courses are 3 credits, labs are 4) is pictured (center) at the annual Chamber awards dinner with Director of Career $199 non-refundable deposit due with registration Services Melissa Marietta, President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney, Hartwick CCFB Director Aaron MacLeod, and Professor of Economics Carli Ficano. MORE INFORMATION: www.hartwick.edu/summeronline

THE WICK MAGAZINE 5 IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Students Share the Impact of Extraordinary Opportunities

Learning to be Successful

In order to grow and discover who I am and what kind of values I want to live by, I need to be exposed to new experiences and uncomfortable challenges.

By JUSTIN HOSKINS ’17 Outside of the office, I was overwhelmed with the opportunities to make ever- Three-year degree student, business lasting memories. I visited bucket-list locations such as Los Angeles, Hollywood, administration major, finance Venice Beach, and Malibu. I had the minor, beneficiary of two summer pleasure of trying new foods from various internships funded by gifts to The nations around the world. My fellow Baker- Campaign for Hartwick Students Simpson students and I often rented bikes and rode along the beautiful shoreline and across the magnificent Golden Gate Bridge. I visited the Point-Reyes National Seashore I aspire to do great things in life, and and witnessed breathtaking views of many so I seek adventures that will bring natural beaches, hiked the desert terrain discovery and, ultimately, transformation. of Mission Peak Mountain across the bay, That’s exactly what happened with my visited national monuments, and enjoyed entrepreneurship experience as a Hartwick good times with visiting friends and family. Baker-Simpson Fellow in San Francisco, California, last summer. The many special people I encountered both in and out of the office during the summer gave me unique insights on life, It was an absolute honor to represent Hartwick College as I took adventure, personal discovery, and much more that I believe I on an internship in the field of venture capital with Rothenberg will remember for a very long time. My sponsor and friend Ish Ventures for 10 weeks. I experienced things and reached places Simpson shared his experience in football, life, and business over and limits that I’d never imagined possible. My entire experience many friendly lunches and dinners in an effort to teach me what wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the gracious and is required to become successful. generous support of Simon Baker ’93, Barclay and Sharon Simpson, and the Opportunities Fund at Hartwick. It is my philosophy that in order to grow and discover who I am and what kind of values I want to live by, I need to be exposed My summer was filled with fast-paced fun and adversity within to new experiences and uncomfortable challenges. In order to the challenges of living and working in a new city, across the transform, I have to move out of my element and take advantage country, in a new and exciting field. Through my internship of unknown opportunities. Hartwick’s Baker-Simpson Fellowship I gained professional skills in analytics, investment analysis, Program gave me those opportunities. The investment of time, portfolio management, and professional networking. My money, and mentoring by Hartwick College, Professor Penny experience with Rothenberg Ventures has added extreme value Wightman, Simon Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, my family, and to my career path after Hartwick. I plan on entering the fields of my peers will be with me forever. I am very grateful to them either investment banking or management consulting in which I for allowing me to spread my wings and reach places I’d never will need to utilize an analytical mind and distinctive work ethic. imagine I’d go.

6 THE WICK MAGAZINE IN THEIR OWN WORDS: Students Share the Impact of Extraordinary Opportunities

A Hybrid’s View of the World By MEGHAN SHEA ’17 within an evolving online marketplace, his original intended audience being “lovers” of whiskey. Twenty years later, the brand consists of two websites, ForTequilaLovers and ForWhiskeyLovers, English and business administration double major, and each brand focuses on three key aspects that, in combination, social media intern in the Enrollment Management occupy a niche place within the market: ecommerce, user- Division, and E-Board member of Student Senate generated content, and expert-generated content.

Two teams—one per brand and each comprised of four students Four of the disciplines that define a Liberal Arts experience representing four academic disciplines—met in September to are represented at a conference table on a Monday night. refine Stone’s marketing strategies. I’m working on the tequila “Economics” sits beside “Art” and across the table from team, along with Adam Abreu ’17 (economics), Kevin Blake ’17 “Business” and “English”; the students chosen to participate in (English), and Sergio Cisneros ’17 (art). We also work to improve the Brand Launch and Development Internship might be said to Soltado Tequila, a relatively new product, and the only infused embody their majors. añejo tequila in the USA. We have been concentrating on creating brand image and target markets for both brands. The whiskey Our leaders are Doug Stone ’83, CEO of the For-Lovers brand; team—consisting of Tom Gillon ’17 (English), Bree Jefferds ’17 Professor Carli Ficano (economics); Professor Susan Navarette (economics), Rosa Maun ’17 (art), and Lloyd Oliver ’17 (business) (English); Professor Pauline Stamp (business); and Professor Joe —has been tasked with strengthening the look and message of Von Stengel (art). Stone identified the skill sets he hoped to draw the ForWhiskeyLovers website. from in working with Hartwick, and last summer the professors selected two students from their respective departments to I am known in the group as the “hybrid;” my experience with be a part of this yearlong project. I am one of those students, literary analysis has allowed me to read consumer behavior and representing business in addition to my double major in English. advertisements just as I might a literary text. My training in business has afforded me an understanding of the diverse ways in Stone was a student on Oyaron Hill some 30 years ago, where which consumers engage in, and with, a marketplace. he double majored in management and psychology. He chose us to help advance his brands because he saw, “the ability to At this mid-year point in the internship, I am learning to take tap into the energy that was created by Hartwick’s Center for risks and stand up for my opinion. Most of all, I’m learning that Craft Food & Beverage and to take it from a scientific level to an the real world does exist on our academic campus. We are not interdisciplinary level.” He established the For-Lovers brand separated from reality merely because we are still students; rather our training gives us the twin advantage of perspective and insight into problems that those outside of the school do not always have the license or creative energy to realize.

We are not separated from reality merely because we are still students; rather our training gives us the twin advantage of perspective and insight…

THE WICK MAGAZINE 7 BREAKTHROUGH

The Role of Social Capital in College Success How contributing to a grant proposal changed By MARY ALLEN, PhD the way this professor approaches her work. Professor of Biology

Across the Unites States, college students once identified as For the past year I have worked with a remarkable group of non-traditional are rapidly growing into the “new majority,” colleagues* on a proposal to the Howard Hughes Medical a term coined by Carol Geary Schneider, president emerita of Institute (HHMI) 2017 Inclusive Excellence: Undergraduate the American Association for Colleges and Universities. This is Science Education Grants program. In December of 2015 our happening at Hartwick, where enrollment of first-year minority team submitted a pre-proposal on behalf of Hartwick. We were students doubled from 10% in 2008 to 21% in 2015. More than one of 511 institutions to enter the competition and among 91 20% of all incoming Hartwick students in 2015 were the first in selected to submit a full proposal this fall. HHMI is evaluating their families to attend college and 42% come from low-income those proposals now and will award 30 grants in the first families (compared to 23% in 2008). round of the competition, providing each institution with one million dollars across five years. The purpose of the Inclusive I noticed these changes among the students in my classes, Excellence competition is “to challenge institutions to develop but had not grasped the magnitude or implications of the effective ways to increase their capacity for inclusion to engage demographic shift until I began to think about how Hartwick all students and ensure that their success in science is not could increase capacity for inclusion of our new majority limited because they have different backgrounds or started at students. An expanded capacity for inclusion is necessary different entry points.” because new majority voices will play an essential role in finding solutions to the biggest challenges of our future.

8 THE WICK MAGAZINE Inclusivity will not be achieved with a single action, change, or initiative.

Although HHMI’s focus is the natural sciences, working on that with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the proposal led me to understand that inclusivity will not we can begin with the creation of a comprehensive structure for be achieved with a single action, change, or initiative and building a sense of belonging in the form of inclusive learning that it cannot be focused only on pedagogy and curriculum. communities focused on the challenges addressed in our new Inclusivity extends well beyond a diverse population of students interdisciplinary majors (Public Health; Environment, Society to identifying and removing barriers to student success, and Sustainability; Global Studies). and continues with change in the culture of departments, interdisciplinary programs, and the wider college community. For me, teaching is about constant adaptation and growth that includes learning new technologies, remaining knowledgeable New majority students arrive on campus distanced from in a field of specialty, and changing the ways I instruct students the cultural and family heritage that built their confidence in response to what we learn about approaches that have the and supported their earlier successes. When they encounter greatest meaningful, long-term impact. My involvement with insufficient opportunities to access similar social capital at preparing the HHMI proposal helped me to recognize an college the results are often isolation, decreased academic equivalent need to learn about the cultural and social heritage engagement, and lower rates of persistence and graduation. Thus of my students. For me, this is an exciting challenge, but not I realized a need to create more opportunities for my students to one I will overcome easily. The backgrounds and perspectives access social capital, and to build into my teaching a greater focus of the new majority are not only diverse, they are also very on topics relevant to the new majority. Inclusivity also requires different from my own, meaning I can no longer assume that we find ways to connect academic content to the social capital of our experiences overlap. So learning about these students and our students outside of the classroom. listening to their voices has become essential to my ability to help them access the social capital that will support strong, While developing the proposal, our team gathered information meaningful relationships of mutual respect and mentorship that from nearly 40 members of the Hartwick community, including characterize a Hartwick education. By building their leadership many who interact with students outside of the classroom. Their skills and strengthening community connections in such an perspectives led me to recognize that achieving real inclusivity environment, I can provide the best opportunities for learning at Hartwick will require effective integration of curricular to all of our students as I help them prepare to address the big and co-curricular structures in ways that emphasize the challenges of the 21st century. n interdependence of academic and sociocultural factors. I hope

* Allen’s HHMI grant proposal colleagues: KinHo Chan, professor of psychology; Mark Kuhlmann and Laura G. Malloy, professors of biology; Kevin Schultz, assistant professor of physics; and Margaret Arthurs, former director of corporate, foundation, and government relations.

THE WICK MAGAZINE 9 CAMPAIGN NEWS

$34.7 MILLION RAISED

OUR SUPPORTERS: The Campaign for Hartwick Students has changed every aspect of the student experience. 4,248 From tuition scholarships to study abroad, Alumni athletics to the arts, environmentalism to exercise, and everything in between, grateful 2,370 Parents students are benefiting from the generosity of others. 1,219 Friends and Ours is a great success story. Hartwick community members is now a stronger, more robust, more 603 vibrant college and community than it Corporations, foundations, was just a few years ago. Together we organizations have made history! —President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 250 at the Campaign celebration for major donors Employees 1,029 A gift to the Opportunity Fund component of The Campaign pushed us Hartwick students past goal. Sharon Simpson made a major investment in the Baker-Simpson Entrepreneurship Experience, which was initiated by her husband Barclay Simpson and his friend Simon Baker ’93. (See page 6 for one student’s insight into these extraordinary internships.) AND THEIR IMPACT:

Commitments made long ago literally paid off in this Campaign. With the passing of a few generous alumni and friends came more than $1 million 160 new or increased scholarships for in realized bequests. Generations of Hartwick students will be grateful to tuition assistance or off-campus study these forward-looking members of the College community. 4 NEW SPACES: William V. Campbell H’10 Fitness Center Celebrations of the people who wrote this success story—our generous Sally Griffiths Herbert ’88 Aquatic Center supporters—and those who will benefit the most—our students— John Christopher’s Café punctuated the fall semester. The parties began offsite with regional “thank you” events for donors: Doug Rivenburgh ’89 kindly hosted the Hartwick Center for Craft first reception in his New York City loft, then came a dinner celebration Food & Beverage in Washington DC, and David Long ’83 and Stephanie Isgur Long ’84 generously hosted a dinner in Boston. The festivities moved on campus for 5 MAJOR RENOVATIONS: a toast at True Blue, a wonderful celebration of our greatest supporters, Anderson Center for the Arts and finally a celebration of our students, for whom The Campaign was Binder Center for athletics designed. Stack Lounge Pine Lake Environmental Campus Johnstone Science Center

10 THE WICK MAGAZINE “Your generous gifts open amazing possibilities at Hartwick.” —Duffy Ambassador Melissa Gifford ’17

The most successful Every guest was welcomed by Student By evening’s end, diners has consumed Senate President Chris Shaw ’17, Hartwick fundraising drive in 660 pounds of chicken wings; another 110 President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Hartwick history closed pounds of burgers, dogs, and sausages; Swoop, and Student Senate E-Board 120 pounds of fruit; 100 pounds of members Mae Shea ’17, Adam Abreu ’17, with a celebration of its vegetables; 500 desserts; and so many and Tajera Morgan ’17. purpose: the students. flatbreads, salads, and sautés!

On October 25, students were joined by faculty and staff for a special community event in the Commons. The Aramark dining staff outdid themselves, serving 880 enthusiastic dinner guests an exceptional array of foods in just two hours! It gave new meaning to the term “free-for-all” when no meal pass was required. Come on in and enjoy… and they did!

Menu choices aligned with Campaign goals: tailgate classics for the Binder Center, international foods for J Term destinations, farm-to-table specialties for the Pine Lake “Thank you Challenge, and gourmet desserts befitting an Anderson Center art opening. for investing

The Commons looked like never before, thanks to fun photos of students in action in us.” and decorations aligned with Campaign —Two-sport athlete Courtney Coons ’17 objectives.

THE WICK MAGAZINE 11 GENEROSITY

PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPY

By ELIZABETH STEELE P’12 Chrissie Semenenko P’09 Honors her Son by Supporting Others

“Hartwick meant everything to D,” says Chrissie Semenenko of her late son, Dylan Clark ’09. “From the moment he came here it was his home. The connection ran so deep.”

Dylan was an artist who specialized in metal. His “Tusk” sculpture stands on the hillside overlooking Anderson Center for the Arts, the place where he developed his talent. His mother is still drawn to that site and to the art studios where he worked. She remains close to his friends and his former faculty and makes connections with current faculty and students.

“It’s such a joy to come to campus,” she says. “Hartwick was a multifaceted and profound experience for D. His spirit lives here and in the hearts of his friends.”

Over time, her relationship with Hartwick has become her own. Semenenko never misses the annual Partners in Scholarship Luncheon because “I so love meeting with the students and learning about what they’re doing,” she says. “It’s like

14 THE WICK MAGAZINE PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPY having my child here again by proxy, or even a grandchild. I feel continue to express their art,” Semenenko explains. “It gives me very invested in their travels, learning experiences, and growth, an ongoing participation in something so vital. I was inspired to especially at this time of their lives.” contribute to Hartwick because I was shown there was a need. Improving things for the students—that’s the impetus behind my Semenenko’s gifts to The Campaign for Hartwick Students gifts.” include an endowed J Term fund for art students. Thanks to her generosity, Nicky-Ann Duncan ’17 and Madison Paz ’18 will study Improving things… it’s an attitude she learned from her father. Geology in Art in Hungary this winter. “Scholarships are a big Serge Semenenko was vice chairman of The First National Bank add-on for kids who are not able to travel on their own without of Boston and a brilliant financial strategist with interests in the support,” Semenenko says, noting that her son loved to travel and entertainment industry. He was renowned for forging business went on numerous J Terms abroad with Hartwick. “I’m so glad deals that strengthened companies. “Daddy’s intent was always to this J Term component has expanded at Hartwick; it opens the make things run more smoothly and efficiently,” says his daughter. students’ views.” “He was creative in his work and saw himself as a person who mended things. He was generous and kind and humble.” This J Term fund is just one expression of Semenenko’s generosity. In addition to supporting the Hartwick Fund and scholarships, with her son she established the Semenenko Clark Award for Excellence in Art and Art History and the Semenenko Clark Excellence in Art and Art History Materials Fund. These endowments support both individual student I want to directly initiatives and faculty efforts to create the most challenging and engaging programs. “Hartwick professors care deeply about the students and are very invested in their wellbeing,” she says. “As I and concretely help became more familiar with their own creative work, my interest mushroomed.” Hartwick students.

—Chrissie Semenenko P’09 Semenenko’s appreciation for the arts developed during her five years in art school. “My interest has always been in the value of art,” she says, referring to the many benefits of living a creative life. “Art also has an incredibly valuable role in people’s psychological wellbeing.” A spiritual person who can be pragmatic, Like father, like daughter. Chrissie Semenenko never seeks she knows how difficult it can be to make a living as an artist. “It the spotlight; instead she steps back, appreciates others, and is so important that young artists develop their talent while in helps them reach for greatness. She calls Hartwick’s art faculty college and are prepared to continue to express that after they “inspiring,” the students “full of talent,” and President Margaret L. graduate,” she notes. “They have to be able to bridge from the Drugovich P’12 “enormously accomplished, articulate, and devoted enclave of college to the outside world.” to both Hartwick and its future.” The combination is powerful. “Everybody participates in this odyssey at Hartwick,” Semenenko Her generosity helps build such bridges. “I want to directly and says. “It all adds up to an institution that’s dynamic, works well, concretely help Hartwick students and improve their ability to and offers so much.” n

Chrissie Semenenko P’09 and some of her Hartwick friends: with President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 at Dylan’s “Tusk”; being congratulated by the President when her J Term gift to The Campaign reached endowment level; at the Celebration of Success in The Campaign for Hartwick Students with Beth Steele P’12; on Oyaron Hill this summer with her son’s good friend, Ethan Elston ’07, who wrote the dedication plaque at “Tusk”; and at a Partners in Scholarship luncheon with JCH Scholar Honour Harlowe ’16, who earned the Semenenko Clark J Term Scholarship to study in London and Paris and is now teaching in Seoul, South Korea.

THE WICK MAGAZINE 15 Point of View

The Future of Hartwick and the Liberal Arts Campus Leaders Share Their Perspectives

[ DISCUSSANTS] Margaret L. Drugovich, President of the College and parent of Liz Kelly ’12 Cherilyn Lacy, Faculty Chair and Professor of History Francis Landrey, Chair of the Board of Trustees and parent of Owen Landrey ’06 Chris Shaw ’17, Student Senate President and Baker-Simpson Intern

16 THE WICK MAGAZINE Hartwick College has done a great job evolving the liberal arts experience. —Chris Shaw ’17

y PRESIDENT DRUGOVICH: preparing more people for business as in any way detracting from The trustees, the faculty, and our students have expressed their the educational experience here, even as we preserve the liberal respective confidence in your leadership. Each of you, therefore, arts core? will contribute to the capacity building that will lead to our future. y SHAW: No, I think that it’s really an evolution of what liberal arts is going A lot has been written in recent years about the relative value of to mean. Not only now, but in the next 20 years and positioning a liberal arts education. Is there an associated issue that needs ourselves to creating the next generation of young minds to further consideration? tackle some really big issues. y LANDREY: y LACY: What was once part of a standard liberal arts curriculum is not The thing that dismays me is how much people focus on short- anymore. We are evolving, but we still need to consider what is term thinking about cost. They don’t think about the long-term essential. investment in what you actually learn, which is how to think and how to synthesize information from across numerous A broader base skill set than just expertise in a particular area disciplines. I am very encouraged that we still emphasize the is critically important and yet it can get lost in the discussion. interdisciplinary connections at Hartwick. There’s a broader realm of knowledge and thinking that’s critical to our future as a society and for the careers of our students. Value has to do with developing habits of mind and the ability to think about issues from multiple perspectives using multiple y SHAW: types of information. Value is how an education prepares you for I think Hartwick College has done a great job evolving the liberal a full, rich lifetime. arts experience to allow more science, math, and engineering into our curriculum, looking beyond the traditional, creative, and y LANDREY: communication skills that a liberal arts education really leans on. Over the next half century, a lot of the disciplines that people are Hartwick is really involving more of what is demanded in the learning today will evolve and change completely. Having a better market today. You can see that through our nursing program and foundation and more flexibility will be extremely important. the restructuring of the computer science program. y LACY: y DRUGOVICH: Our students engage in learning and growth and development on Do you see the progression toward preparing more nurses or so many different levels in so many different fields, regardless of their major. I think Hartwick does an excellent job of that.

THE WICK MAGAZINE 17 y DRUGOVICH: is the defining moment of their lives ignores all the evidence that Dr. Lacy has pointed to the fact that this broad-based education is people and institutions are constantly evolving. What a liberal what portends and predicts people’s ability to be successful. How arts education does is prepare students for a life in which they do you look at that challenge? will change and take new career paths. They will have the ability to be nimble. y LANDREY: The reality is that we cannot change the marketplace, we can That’s really the value of what we do. We prepare students to be only try to influence that marketplace to understand our value in the driver’s seat to take charge of their course. proposition. To a certain extent we have to be attentive to the fact that parents are saying to their children, “Show me how this y DRUGOVICH: major is going to get you a job.” That’s where we’ve been trying Let’s now look at social media. It’s become part of the way we to press through, working with the faculty and addressing new evolve as a community. It’s shaping us, or is it? What role do you academic programs to create career directions that, yes, will still see social media playing in our community today? have that liberal arts foundation. y SHAW: y DRUGOVICH: Social media has brought the world together in how we People can get distracted by the idea of the major as opposed to communicate and the way that information is spread very quickly the overall education. What we’re really trying to do here is make across borders. sure that no matter what you major in, you have a really broad educational platform. Maybe it does not have the impact of bringing us together for events, maybe it’s not a very good advertising medium, but it does y SHAW: bring information right to you, to your cell phone. Social media I have a double major in political science and economics and adds new perspectives and I think that’s really important. minor in environmental science and policy. I think that kind of interdisciplinary study exposes you to things that you wouldn’t y DRUGOVICH: have known otherwise. That really has value. It increases your Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that human capital. comes to you through these channels? y DRUGOVICH: y SHAW: Part of the short-term thinking says that what’s important is your For sure, but we have to be able to filter out what’s important first job. Whereas we know that it’s in your early 40s that this and what can be integrated later. Every human has to decide. It’s kind of education really pays off. easy to get overloaded in any subject; it’s easy to get overloaded if you read too many books. It’s always about moderation and how y LACY: smart you are in using it. For people to think that the very first job they get out of college

18 THE WICK MAGAZINE Value is how an education prepares you for a full,

rich lifetime. —Cherilyn Lacy

y LANDREY: y LACY: My perspective might be a little different. I see social media as The communities that will thrive and flourish in the 21st century having a lot of impacts and effects that aren’t realized yet; we’re will be those that think, “Here is a transitional moment. How still working on ways to integrate it into our system. Among them will we define ourselves as a community and how do we do that is the way we type something without as much thought as would mindfully so that all the aspects of technology don’t shape us? be appropriate. It’s a stream of consciousness that we send out Instead, how do we take charge of this to redefine how we interact there into the universe. We don’t spend enough time, some of us, as a community and go forward?” to shape our thoughts in a way that really presents what we want to say. Social media is changing the way we communicate. y DRUGOVICH: Chris, one of the things that seems true about your generation y DRUGOVICH: of learners is that they feel much less tied to place. Yet the way As a president—and many of my colleagues think about this, as we’ve done learning in the past, we’ve developed relationships well—I sometimes feel pressured by social media to react to what with one another in person in the process. We’ve come to depend is being done rather than to respond thoughtfully. As you suggest, on one another. A growing number of students start at one Francis, responding takes time, thinking through takes time, college and graduate from another, so they don’t get that sense of and in this atmosphere there’s a tremendous pressure to move permanency of place. How do you look at that? quickly. If you pause, your audience may believe you don’t care. y SHAW: y LACY: The way that students perceive where they belong is not the same I think of social media as one among many indications that, in as it was even 20 years ago. On my phone I have the Student the 21st century, our notion of community is rapidly changing Senate Instagram account. When I switch over to the Senate and that is going to affect who we are as a college. Increasingly we account and look through the pictures, I see the experiences that need to focus on how we’re all connected. students are having on campus and off campus.

It means that as an institution, increasingly, we will have to It’s so interesting to see what connections and what networks think not just about what we are on this hill, but who we are as all these students are coming from and what they’re planning a community that can extend around the world. Learning can on doing in the future. Through Student Senate we’re really connect all of us, not just here, in this location, at this particular trying to hash out the current traditions. It’s not like what was time, but beyond graduation and beyond physical constraints. happening in 1797 when students were coming in on horseback. That’s what I see in social media. We’re finding 97 things to do at Hartwick College before you graduate. I’m really excited to see that students are coming back y LANDREY: from around the world and discussing their Emerson and Duffy The networking opportunities are enormous and very valuable. scholarships or their entrepreneur ventures in San Francisco. I also want to focus on how we relate to each other in person. I With a global list of experiences, students are saying, “This is the worry sometimes about how technology affects our interactions. Hartwick experience.”

THE WICK MAGAZINE 19 We are evolving, but we still need to consider what is essential. —Francis Landrey P’06

y LANDREY: delivered education. It changed the way they educated, but it still A lot of that personal transformation happens in the classroom, did not eliminate the human desire for face-to-face interaction. I a lot of it happens outside of the classroom, and a lot of it’s about think that with social media’s ability to extend our network, we interaction with your fellow students, faculty members, staff, and really will be a community that involves more than our current administrators. The physical place, where that’s all happening, is members on campus – students, faculty, and staff. Alumni may be a critical part of what Hartwick has to offer because it provides even more integrated than they already are today. the environment that is conducive to a great deal of personal growth in a very important time in the lives of our children. y DRUGOVICH: What about you Chris? Can you see 30 years out into the future? y DRUGOVICH: I’m curious what you think our future might look like. Education y SHAW: has always been a principal mission of Hartwick College and yet I’ll be 52 years old in 30 years, so that’s really hard for me to the practical expression of that mission has taken different forms imagine. over the last two centuries. We’ve always had the same core values, we’ve always wanted to educate well, but the way we’ve My hope is that in 30 years we’ll have an alumni base that is done that has changed over time. stronger in Oneonta, that we’ll retain students to stay here and to make a living here. I’m really hoping that the change we’ll see is In 30 years, in 2047, we’re going to celebrate our 250th that we develop the economy in ways that young intellectuals will anniversary as an educational institution, which makes us rather want to stay here. They’ll grow an economy and they’ll grow the rare. There aren’t very many institutions in the United States that college. have been at the business of education as long as Hartwick. What do you imagine Hartwick will be in 30 years? My hope is that my generation of Hartwick learners will be willing to take up the large task of preserving what we have y LANDREY: created here for the next generation. Looking at the fundraising It’s so hard to conceive of where we, as a society and as a college, campaign that just ended and seeing that as an inspiration, our will be given that technology is changing at such a rapid pace. responsibility in 30 years will be to give back to the college in How will that affect what the college does in terms of educating; more than one way. will it be much more of an online experience? Because technology is so rapidly evolving, it’s hard for us to foresee how that will I can’t tell exactly what Hartwick’s future is going to be, but I’ll be affect the way people will become educated. a part of it. y LACY: y DRUGOVICH: The printing press transformed university education as That’s great, the idea being a part of change. As leader of Student Europeans knew it, but it didn’t kill it. People predicted that Senate, what is your role in creating our future? movies in the early 20th century would explode the way we

20 THE WICK MAGAZINE We all know that communities aren’t static, that there’s constant change. —President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12

y SHAW: y LANDREY: It’s fostering many leadership possibilities for people who The challenge for me is to keep an eye both on the present and are interested in many different things. It’s really providing a the future. We have to deal with our finances, our budgets, and platform where people feel comfortable advocating for themselves to understand from the president and the vice presidents and the and promoting the things that they’re really enthusiastic about. faculty our present day concerns while at the same time thinking My role is to offer the possibility for students to find it, within about the future. themselves, to reach out and become that change in Hartwick that we all understand that we need. I see my job as the chair as keeping an eye out for all constituencies and how we deal with both our present and y DRUGOVICH: ensuring the future that we’re envisioning. Cherilyn, as faculty chair, what is your role in Hartwick’s future? But I’m not here for those 30 years. My job is to keep that process y LACY: going and to continue to engender a culture within our board My moment right now as a leader is really dependent on the of finding ways to be proactive in achieving the mission and faculty themselves. I am not here because I applied for a job and achieving a vibrant future for the college. was hired. I’m in this position at this moment because of the faculty. My job, first and foremost, is to listen to them and to try y DRUGOVICH: to support initiatives that they might want to bring forward. It’s For me, legacy has always been making sure that this period the exact same thing, Chris—listening to people and doing what allows us to go to the next. I feel really strongly about that. One I can to facilitate anything positive they may want to build. of the ways we do that is by getting support for the college, by inviting a lot of people in. There are many leaders; there are many people with good ideas. The more I can support bringing those good ideas to fruition, the y LANDREY: more I will have done my job and been faithful to the charge. We can’t lose momentum, it has to keep going. y DRUGOVICH: y DRUGOVICH: Francis, of course the board is held at a very high level of Change has been a recurring theme in this discussion. Of course, accountability for the welfare of the college and for the future of that’s not surprising to any of us. We all know that communities the college, as well. How do you look at the challenge for you? aren’t static, that there’s constant change.

Like all of you, I’m very optimistic about our future. n

THE WICK MAGAZINE 21 Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction

22 THE WICK MAGAZINE Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction A Celebration of Hartwick Spirit! A jam-packed, fun-filled weekend for nearly 1,000 alumni, family, and friends.

Golden Jubilee Reunion / 50 Year Club Induction THE WICK MAGAZINE 23

Record-setting reunions; a toast to the success of The Campaign for Hartwick Students; dinners, receptions, and the Golden Jubilee; awards for careers of note and service with impact; Brooks’ BBQ, tailgating, sporting events, and more!

25th Annual WAA Golf Classic

Alumni at the Forefront

Edward Clough ’60 Scoreboard Dedication

26 THE WICK MAGAZINE Record-setting reunions; a toast to the success of The Campaign for Hartwick Students; dinners, receptions, and Save the Date! True Blue the Golden Jubilee; awards for careers of note and service with impact; Brooks’ BBQ, tailgating, sporting events, and more! 2017 October 6-8

25th Annual WAA Golf Classic

Alumni at the Forefront

Edward Clough ’60 Scoreboard Dedication

THE WICK MAGAZINE 27 By ELIZABETH STEELE P’12

LEADING THROUGH CHANGE, FOCUSED ON PEOPLE

HARTWICK ALUMNI move out into the world, ready for the opportunities and challenges ahead. At this school of the liberal arts, they have prepared with interdisciplinary study, experiential learning, creative problem solving, and collaborative effort. Now they excel in business and science, music and art, nonprofits and government, and more. Sometimes their title evokes “leader;” more often it is their actions that tell their story. Always, they do their alma mater proud.

These five alumni run the gamut. Betsy Tanner Wright ’79, a hospital CEO with 17 years on the job, succeeds in an industry in flux by anticipating change and communicating, always. Bronwen Knox ’08 is an Olympic medalist and team captain who’s now focused on inspiring the next generation of athletes while she builds a career out of the pool. Lt. Col. Domingos Robinson ’95 is a teacher by training, a musician at heart, and a soldier (when needed) who now conducts on an international stage. Jim Seward ’73, H’99 started his career in public service while still a student and, more than 30 years later, is still on course. Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 is a corporate vice president who advances her company by engaging thousands of employees in helping others.

THEIR MANY LESSONS LEARNED TRANSCEND INDUSTRY AND GENERATION.

28 THE WICK MAGAZINE Being able to improve the lives A SEAT of people who call this region at the Table home; that’s what

JIM SEWARD ’73, H’99 is right where he belongs: serving the citizens of motivates me. central New York. Newly elected to a 16th term representing the 51st Senate district, he is well positioned “to have an impact on what happens in New York and in my region.”

The work is personal for this Oneonta native, who says, “Being able to improve the lives of people who call this region home; that’s what motivates me. I have a real opportunity to be of assistance to our communities.”

In more than 30 years, Seward has been able to affect nearly every aspect of life in his district, which spans an area nearly the size of Connecticut. Recent committee assignments include chairman of the Senate insurance committee, the Senate standing committees on health and mental health, the Senate standing committees on education and higher education, the agriculture committee, and the finance and rules committees.

A proponent for economic development throughout New York, Seward is taking a critical look at how state monies are distributed. It’s an example of upstate-downstate tension and just one facet of what Seward calls “the challenge of getting results in a state with so much economic, political, philosophical, and geographic diversity. We are always working toward compromise; sometimes it doesn’t work.”

Despite the occasional frustrations, and his wish for “more hours in every day to reflect and prepare to meet the broad range of needs of my constituents,” Seward calls his job, “very satisfying work.” Whatever concerns his constituents concerns him. “Government has a tremendous impact on our daily lives, like it or not,” he observes, citing “everything from budget decisions to speed limits.” Jim Seward ’73, H’99 advocates for this region. Over the years Seward twice considered running for national office, but chose impact The resulting legislative grants for community over ambition. “States are great laboratories of innovation in policies and practices,” he development and economic initiatives include explains. “At the federal level, one size fits all and each representative is just one voice Hartwick’s Center for Craft Food & Beverage. He is pictured speaking at its opening with among 435. On the local level you’re often carrying out what comes down from federal and Board Chair Francis Landrey P’06 and President state.” Seward stayed where he knew his seniority and experience would make the most Margaret L. Drugovich P’12. difference, noting, “As time went on, it became harder to walk away from that.”

Seward’s career began while he was still in college. “We had no formal internship program then,” he recalls, “but Professor John Lindell helped me develop an internship with Majority Whip Donald Mitchell in the New York State Assembly.” After graduation Seward went on staff with other legislators, then into the Senate. In 1986 he ran for a Senate seat himself, won, and has been returned to the office by his constituents ever since.

His formative years at Hartwick happened at “a very tumultuous time in this country,” Seward recalls, noting the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. “I took a different path, rather than protest. First as a staff member and now as a senator, I have a seat at the table where decisions are being made.

“I had intended to go to law school, but I haven’t gotten there yet,” Seward adds, with his trademark smile. “I got involved in making the laws instead of interpreting them. That’s my way of making a difference.”

THE WICK MAGAZINE 29 I’m always scanning the MANAGING horizon for what’s coming. Change

BETSY TANNER WRIGHT ’79 is bucking an industry trend. At a time when the average tenure of a hospital CEO is 3.5 years, she has been at the helm of WCA Hospital for 17. Wright is, by far, the senior hospital administrator in western New York, and yet, she says, “I am just as excited and enthusiastic as the first day that I stepped into the CEO role.” Her enthusiasm for her work, her staff, and her community keeps it fresh; her calculated problem solving in a very competitive industry keeps her in demand.

The secret to her longevity? “I never ask anyone to work harder than I’m willing to,” Wright says. “And my ability to communicate with people and keep them informed is critical. I spend most of my time and energy working with our Board, physicians, employees, and our community.”

After 35 years in healthcare administration, Wright remembers when hospitals “operated as silos.” That’s in the past. “Over the last 15 years in particular, there have been a lot of improvements in collaboration and integration,” she says. “Now hospitals and physicians are working together, hospitals are talking to each other, and hospitals are working with other community agencies. We are seeing more and more affiliations and mergers.”

Wright just completed six years planning a transition for WCA Hospital and two years negotiating an agreement between it and UMPC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). “The affiliation will assure high-quality care for this community for years to come,” she says, clearly pleased with the result. As one who is “always scanning the horizon for what’s coming at us,” Wright says, “We had to become part of something bigger to ensure our ability to continue serving our region.” Hospital CEO, and Hartwick Board secretary, Betsy Tanner Wright ’79 has twice been WCA has been an independent hospital for 131 years and “this community was rightfully named one of the Most Influential Women in proud of that,” Wright notes. In order to protect this healthcare resource for the Western New York. Jamestown, NY, area, she assessed all options and made financially sustainable choices. “We’re taking this action at a time when many hospitals are closing or downsizing.” Instead, WCA is innovating with such programs as robotic surgery and bariatric surgery.

The successful conclusion of such a complicated process depended on extensive collaboration and extraordinary effort on the part of this CEO, who earned a BS in medical technology from Hartwick and an MBA from the University of Rochester. Wright’s contributions to this critical deal included “communicating and keeping the Board, medical leadership, and employees apprised of where we are and where we’re going; building support and positive energy within the workforce and the community; and positively and deliberately communicating with the regulatory bodies,” she says.

Wright’s job is demanding; “No doubt about it,” she says. The financial pressures alone are considerable and include “meeting the demands of patients, investing in technology, and managing the rising cost of healthcare. We must continue to meet the needs of the community while lowering the overall cost. My job involves breaking down such barriers to success.”

The context of her work more than balances the challenges. “By securing the future of the hospital, I am making a difference to people in our community,” Wright says, citing just one example. “Together with the hospital board, physicians, employees, and our supportive community, we are truly transforming regional healthcare. That certainly makes me feel good about what we do.”

30 THE WICK MAGAZINE Doing well and SPHERES doing good go of Influence hand-in-hand.

SUSAN SCHROEDER WARNER ’84 crosses disciplines. A strategic communicator, she works in the technology sector on engagement tools to create brand advocates. Warner is a vice president of worldwide communications at Mastercard and the senior manager responsible for global internal communications and employee volunteerism. This Hartwick English major describes herself as a “people leader, collaborator, and storyteller”—in that order.

Her job is all about people, whether she’s influencing them through her communications programs or they’re influencing her. “Throughout my career I’ve been fortunate to work with the most fascinating people,” she says. “At each place, from each person, I’ve learned so much and have benefited from their knowledge.” This includes her team of 10 and several communications colleagues worldwide. “We get together virtually and try to always move as one,” she says, noting that cultural sensitivity is important in all communications. “What works in New York might not work in Brazil or Singapore.”

Warner has built her communications career in consumer goods, entertainment, telecommunications, and now technology. (She describes Mastercard as “a technology company in the payment space; we move data all over the world.”) The context has changed, but her approach is constant. “Good communication skills transcend industry,” she says. “And good instincts for employee engagement trump everything.”

A communications VP responsible for employee engagement? Absolutely. “Employees are always your #1 brand advocates,” Warner explains. “If they don’t believe, no one else will.” Under Warner’s leadership, engagement includes outreach. “Doing well and doing good go hand-in-hand,” she says. “Volunteering in the community gives employees opportunities to be inspired and that’s critical to any company’s success.” Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 on campus this fall and in Pune, India, introducing one of her Warner’s eight years at Time Warner Cable brought two promotions and responsibility favorite employee engagement initiatives: TM for keeping 47,000 employees in 33 states informed and engaged. Her purview extended Mastercard’s Girls4Tech STEM program. to Time to Read, then the largest corporate literacy and mentoring program in the world, before she created two award-winning STEM education programs for the company.

When Warner moved to Mastercard, she brought her commitment to employee engagement and added a global scope and a focus on girls. The initiative in corporate responsibility became a good workforce development plan. “Eighty percent of jobs in the next 10 years will be STEM-related,” Warner explains, “but only 30 percent are currently held by women and there is declining interest in STEM among 10-to-11-year-old girls worldwide.”

Her efforts became Mastercard’s signature STEM program: Girls4TechTM. More than 1,000 employees—women and men—serve as role models and mentors for more than 11,000 girls in 13 countries. Using a hands-on, inquiry-based curriculum that was developed by company engineers and technologists, “We showcase that it takes all sorts of skills to be successful in STEM,” she says.

Warner personalizes this approach. “When I introduce myself to Girls4TechTM participants, I say, ‘I’m a writer. My job is to take what’s complicated and make it easy to understand.’” As a mentor, she considers her unlikely early influences, including Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, PhD. The featured speaker at Warner’s Hartwick graduation more than 30 years ago was a founder of the COBOL language and a pioneer in technology. “I saw what this tiny lady had done and was incredibly inspired,” she recalls. Now Warner does the same for girls worldwide. THE WICK MAGAZINE 31 To be successful, OUT I have to be balanced. in Front

DOMINGOS ROBINSON ’95 melds two very different worlds: music and the military. A lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, he is also the Commander of the Eighth Army Band stationed in the Republic of Korea.

“At the beginning of my career, I definitely saw myself as a conductor first and officer second,” says Robinson, who auditioned for the military while studying for his master’s in conducting at the New England Conservatory of Music. “As I gained more experience, I realized that they’re not in competition with one another. To be successful, I have to be balanced.”

Robinson studied music education in college and quickly gained experience. “Hartwick threw you in the deep end from the beginning,” he says of student teaching. “I liked that.” He also appreciated dedicated faculty such as Dr. Thurston Dox, whom he calls “one of the biggest influences in my life.”

His broad-based education supports the demands of his work. “Conducting isn’t just what you see when you go to a concert; that’s maybe five percent,” Robinson explains. “A large percentage of conducting is solitary, studying the music; it’s also working with the musicians to help them reach their potential as an ensemble and to perform the work as you envision it. That takes two-way communication, leadership, teaching skills, and, of course, conducting skills.”

Robinson’s ambition of “making music meaningful to people” is being realized. At home, he sees the Armed Forces bands as “the standard bearers for our American and military Lt. Col. Domingos Robinson ’95 leads heritage.” He has contributed to history as it’s being made, conducting at the inauguration musicians in their support of patriotism and of President George W. Bush, the state funerals of Presidents Reagan and Ford, the international relations. dedication of the World War II Memorial, after the attacks of 9/11, and more.

Overseas, Robinson sees the band’s role as quite different. “Internationally, we serve as ambassadors,” he explains. “There are places our leaders can send a band that they can’t send anyone else. We can set the conditions for strategic talks or make a foreign population feel more at ease with the Americans based in their country.” One example: when the Eighth Army Band played at a relocation and education center for North Korean refugees. “We were the first Americans they had ever seen in the flesh,” Robinson says. “I can’t give that feeling justice.”

Robinson leads the only American military band on the Korean Peninsula. Traveling the country in support of US forces and Korean allies, he has a diverse set of duties. “As Commander, I’m responsible for the training, well-being, and morale of my soldiers,” he says. “I’m also responsible for supervising all music support to US Forces Korea and our ROK counterparts. And, being forward deployed in a country that is technically still at war with the North, we also have to be ready to perform our security mission if the armistice is broken.”

The military context of making music presents challenges, including short assignments in any one location. “Although I’m the Commander of the Eighth Army Band, it isn’t my band; it’s the Army’s,” Robinson explains. “I’m a steward of the Army’s unit. A leader is supposed to set the conditions for success. I ensure that success will continue when I’m gone.”

32 THE WICK MAGAZINE To effectively HIGH lead you cannot Expectations be afraid of failure. OLYMPIC ATHLETE BRONWEN KNOX ’08 is a multifaceted woman. An exceptional water polo player, persistent student, and ambitious professional, she admits that balancing these competing demands “is not always easy. There are times when my sport takes the lead track and everything else comes in second. At other times it’s study that’s the lead running, and so on. I am constantly reevaluating my priorities.” Knox makes it work with “some great time management; a supportive team of friends, family, and colleagues; and open and honest communication.”

Knox studied nursing at Hartwick and biomedicine back home in Australia; then came a postgraduate degree in public health and now she’s studying law. It’s all getting her ready for “the day when I will have to give up international competition and enter the ‘real world’”, she says. “My goal is to go into health promotion and health policy, especially within minority communities.”

For years Knox’s life has centered on her sport. This three-time Olympic competitor helped Australia win bronze in Beijing in 2008 (12 goals) and again in London in 2012 (four goals) before she captained the Aussie Stingers in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. She was Australia’s captain when she played her 300th international game—this time at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Russia. (“To lead my fellow teammates out on the pool deck for our national anthem is one of my proudest moments,” she says.)

“Being team captain is very different from being a player,” Knox explains. “In the water you’re making the tough decisions and leading the team through action, but the responsibilities don’t finish there. I’ve found that to effectively lead you cannot be afraid of failure. If we never fail, we can never know what we may be truly capable of.” Australian Olympic team captain Bronwen Knox ’08 also captained the Hawks’ D1 water polo Success has brought intense scrutiny. “Pressure always comes with competing at this level, team in 2005-06, the year she led the nation whether it’s from the media or from performing for selection,” Knox says. “Predominantly in scoring. In 2012, she was inducted into the the pressure I feel comes from myself and my need to always be performing at my best. Hartwick College Athletics Hall of Fame. Whenever I feel the pressure building, I take a step back and return to the basics, back to what I know I am good at. That makes things simpler.”

Last year’s complications included a fractured collarbone that threatened her Rio appearance. “I considered quitting international sport then,” Knox recalls. “I wasn’t sure if I could get back to my peak performance and I didn’t want to continue just to play; I wanted to excel. I like to think of it as bouncing forwards, rather than just bouncing back.”

As she takes a year off from competitive play, Knox has her sights set on the future of her sport. “I hope to be able to inspire and develop the next generation of water polo players,” she says. “I would love to be a part of developing and implementing programs across my country and internationally that help promote gender equality, cultural differences, respect, and self-esteem. I believe sport is a great platform that can help break down barriers and create fun and supportive environments where people may thrive.” n

Photos courtesy of the Australian Institute of Sport Institute courtesy of the Australian Photos THE WICK MAGAZINE 33 ATHLETICS

BEST SINCE 2002 | Hartwick women’s soccer squad claimed an Empire 8 playoff spot for the first time in 14 years. The Hawks registered back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time since 1991 and 1992, finishing this season 10-5-3 overall. Madison Miller ’19, the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, was selected First Team Empire 8 and First Team All-Region. Rachel Weir ’19 received Second Team honors and was named to the Empire 8 All-Tournament Team while facebook.com/hartwickhawks Casey Boucher ’18 garnered Empire 8 Honorable Mention. Sierra Bentley ’18 also was named to the All-Tournament Team, twitter.com/hawktalk received Honorable Mention for the third time, and set both career (23) and single- season (13) records for assists. BEST SINCE 2009 | The field hockey team enjoyed two winning streaks and closed the season 13-5. The most wins in a season since 2009 brought the first Empire 8 league playoff appearance since then. A quintet of Hawks drew praise: Maria Stalder ’20 headlined the selections as Co-Rookie of the Year, Sarah Ryan ’17 and Shannon Carter ’17 E8 First Team and All-Region Second Team while Mikaelan Cucciarre-Stuligross ’17, Lex Richards ’18, and Stalder earned E8 Second Team honors. Ryan and Stalder were also named to the Empire 8 All-Tournament Team. AMONG BEST IN NATION | Billy Pine ’17 and Koree Reed ’18 finished the season leading the country in several statistical categories. Pine led the nation in both total offense (388.2 yards/gm.) and passing yards EMPIRE 8 RECOGNITION | Volleyball’s per completion (17.92). Reed completed Hannah Armstrong ’18 is an Empire 8 his season ranked first in receiving yards Honorable Mention pick. Her team-best (1,606) and receiving yards per game (160.6) 320 kills ranks seventh in a single season in and he was third in total touchdowns (17) program history and her 808 total kills puts and yards per reception (27.69). He was her eighth all-time in career kills. named an AFCA First Team All-American, an Empire 8 First Team pick at wide receiver and a Second Team All-Purpose selection, and D3football.com First Team All-Region. Running back Tito Pichardo ’16 joined Reed on the First Team. Pine and Brad Garcia ’18 each received honorable mention. SECOND STRAIGHT E8 PLAYOFF BERTH | Women’s tennis secured a spot in the Empire 8 Conference semifinals for the second consecutive season with performances that equaled both their overall (8-5) and Empire 8 (5-3) record from 2015. Heidi Rice ’18 was the Hawks’ first Empire 8 Second Team selection since 2010 after an 8-3 singles season. Kelly Napolitano ’18 earned Honorable Mention for the third consecutive season in singles and garnered Honorable Mention doubles with partner Kelli Ryan ’18.

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Academic and Athletic Recognition DI men’s soccer has ranked in the national top 10 in team GPA each of the last four years. This season the squad secured a 3.45 team GPA, tying for third in Division I men’s soccer along with Fordham, Northwestern, Seattle Pacific, and The University of Detroit Mercy. For the third consecutive season, Hartwick earned the Sun Belt Conference’s Men’s Soccer Academic Award for having the highest average GPA. Forward Mike Rood ’17 was selected for the CoSIDA Academic All-District Men’s Soccer First Team.

Men’s soccer went as high as fifth in the Southeast region rankings this season and the team ended its season 9-6-4 overall, earning a spot in the Sun Belt semifinals. Hamish Ritchie ’20 was named Sun Belt Co-Freshman of the Year, earned Second Team honors, and was selected to the Sun Belt All-Tournament Team. Johnny McBeth ’18 and Elliott Bentley ’20 were First Team selections. Mike Rood ’17 and Jack Donaldson ’17 earned league recognition for the second consecutive season and were Second Team picks. Rood was also named NSCAA Third Team All-Southeast Region.

Friends and fans of Dick Miller —former president of Hartwick Friends Gather to Celebrate Miller College and former mayor of the city of Oneonta—gathered in the Binder Center in November to dedicate The Dick Miller Memorial Locker Room. Pictured at its doors are: President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12, Mary Sapienza Miller ’72 and trustee Neal Miller ’72, Craig Van Cott ’75, Vinne Avanzato, Karen Elting, and Rick and Michelle Eastman. The Dick Miller Memorial Locker Room was named with a lead gift to The Campaign for Hartwick Students from Bob Spadaccia ’70, who served on the Board of Trustees throughout Miller’s five years as president. At the dedication ceremony, Miller’s friend Rick Eastman said, “Dick will always be a part of Hartwick College, Oneonta, and all the people who knew him.”

THE WICK MAGAZINE 35 ALUMNI NEWS

Alumni Board News

A Message from SCOTT HOLDREN ’80 ALUMNI BOARD PRESIDENT

Holdren was unable to join the leadership round table (see page 16), so was asked to answer one question from that discussion: What is your role in helping Hartwick get to its future?

My role isn’t too different from that of any graduate. We look back at our Hartwick years and remember what it offered us and those special The Votes Are In moments that really made a difference and shaped As a result of this year’s election, the following alumni will be joining or us. As alumni, we should give the same back to re-joining the Alumni Association for four-year terms: the College and its current students. If there was someone who helped you get through a tough time, Michael Doherty ’73 > Cody Fiduccia ’12 > Shanlee Ginchereau ’91 offer to be that person for a current student. EMail, Alexis Mays-Fields ’04 > Brianna Mckenzie ’16 > Addison Muller ’16 Skype, sponsor a student for a job shadow…. If Joseph Pellegrino, Jr ’13 > Amanda Robinson ’16 > William Rogers ’77 Hartwick helped with funds to close your financial gap, offer those funds to today’s students. Make For more information on the work of the Alumni Board or to contact any of its an annual gift to the Hartwick Fund; make a gift to members, visit www.hartwick.edu/alumni-and-friends/alumni-board/ the Legacy Scholarship; support your favorite on- campus affinity…. Connect With Us! For the next couple of years I get to wear the name Do we have your email? We are increasingly utilizing electronic badge “President, Alumni Board of Directors.” communications to keep alumni informed about events and other ways to When approached about this role, I had been in the engage with the College, so if we don’t have your email address, we may be secondary education world for 32 years, teaching missing you. in a high school, and had sent 110+ students to Hartwick. My wife and I are regular supporters of To update your contact information, visit www.hartwickalumni.org/ the Legacy Fund and Hartwick is in our wills. What updatemyinfo. You can also keep connected with Hartwick on any of these I saw with this role was the chance to personally social media networks. reach out to fellow alumni at a new level and to spearhead new initiatives to re-engage the Hartwick Like us. alumni body. www.facebook.com/HartwickAlumni Follow us. My bottom line? Hartwick helped shape my future www.instagram.com/hartwickalumni and I want to employ my talents to help create its best future. Many of us remember that moment we Join us. stepped on campus and had the immediate “This Hartwick Alumni Group on LinkedIn is the place for me” feeling. We should all give a bit of our best to ensure that Hartwick continues to be Tweet us. that place for many future generations. @hartwickalumni Save the Date! October 6-8, 2017 Start making your plans today! Visit www.Hartwick.edu/TrueBlue17 for information on activities and accommodations.

36 THE WICK MAGAZINE President Margaret L. Drugovich P’12 (left) and immediate past president of the Alumni Board Steve Suleski ’76 (right) congratulate Susan Schroeder Warner ’84, Neal Miller ’72, Thom Meredith ’73, and Harry Bradshaw Matthews. Meet the 2016 Alumni Award Winners Every year, the Alumni Association honors individuals for their career success or service to the College. The 2016 class of honorees was announced and recognized at True Blue Weekend and will be honored individually in their hometowns this spring. Watch for your invitations and help us celebrate these members of the Hartwick community.

Neal Miller ’72 [ Meritorious Service Award ] earning departmental distinction in each. He did an Emerson Miller earned the highest award conferred by the Alumni International Internship in Tanzania and taught in Germany as Association for his outstanding loyalty and service to the College. a Fulbright Scholar. After graduation, he earned a master’s in He is a member of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees, diplomacy and international relations from Seton Hall University. a past president of the College’s Alumni Board, and a long- serving member of the Citizens Board. A history major at the Thom Meredith ’73 [ Outstanding Volunteer Award ] ’Wick, Miller volunteers tirelessly on behalf of the College and Meredith has served on the Hartwick College Alumni Board, demonstrates his commitment to Hartwick students in a variety the Philadelphia Alumni Network, and the College Athletics of known and unknown ways. He and his wife, Mary Sapienza Task Force. He attends, and often hosts, regional alumni events Miller ’73, reside in Oneonta. and also regularly attends admissions events on campus. A political science major, Meredith built a career in event Susan Schroeder Warner ’84 [ Distinguished Alumna Award ] operations managing events for men’s and women’s World Cup The vice president of worldwide communications for Mastercard, Championships and Olympic soccer tournaments. He most English major Warner has held critical communications positions recently served as the Philadelphia venue director for Copa at companies including Time Warner Cable and Allied Domecq. America 2016, the world’s oldest international soccer tournament She has been dedicated to corporate social responsibility staged for the first time in the United States. throughout her career. In 2014, Warner launched Girls4TechTM, Mastercard’s signature curriculum for young girls around the Harry Bradshaw Matthews [ Outstanding Employee Award ] world, and at Time Warner Cable she created two award-winning Matthews is the associate dean and director of the College’s curricula that engage employees and children in 21 states Office of Intercultural Affairs, as well as president and senior on science, technology, engineering, and math. Warner was fellow of the United States Colored Troops Institute (USCTI). He nominated by her husband, James Warner ’82. regularly mentors students on genealogy research projects and he established the Harriet Tubman Mentoring Project, which has Ryan Smith ’06 [ Outstanding Young Alumnus] been recognized as a best practice for campus support programs Smith is the representative of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and services for student persistence and success. Matthews’ work and the World Communion of Reformed Churches at the United is published nationally and internationally, and he is a frequent Nations. He graduated magna cum laude from Hartwick in 2006 speaker and commentator on issues of race and pluralism. with a triple major in economics, political science, and German,

THE WICK MAGAZINE 37 CLASS NOTES

CATCHING UP: Marjorie Hatlee Macy ’68 and Suzanne Wilson ’68 connected with each other after 42 years! Majorie says, “In so many ways we former roommates showed that we still are alike. We think we A NURSES’ REUNION: Members of the nursing Class of ’62 never miss a chance to look pretty good for ’68 grads!” get together. Pictured: Merry Baker Boening, Ann Collson Johnson, MaryLu Wade Eshelman, Emily Walter Mikulewicz, Karin Karlsson Engkvist, Dinah McClure, and Carol Beecher Brown.

Raymond Davis is still living with his daughter and enjoying life. 1944 Maggie Field Rose is doing well and lives in Oneonta. Send your updates to your class correspondent: David

Trachtenberg, [email protected] 1957 Send your updates to your class correspondent: Donald Michel, 1950 [email protected] Call your class correspondent with your updates to: Dick Schoof, 334-798-2440 1958 Alice Heling Gridley says, “I am tickled to have spent the summer ‘working’ as a co-host at the Unitarian Universalist Denominational House on the grounds of Chautauqua Institute in western New York. Hope to hear from Hartwick friends in classes Share Your News of ’58 and ’59.” WHO DOESN’T LOVE 1962 Send your updates to your class correspondents: Sharon Conway at CLASS NOTES? [email protected] or Dinah McClure at [email protected] Neal Caple and his wife, Elaine, are mostly full-time Florida Submission Deadline: residents now. They enjoy the lifestyle in Florida: golfing, boating, Class Notes deadline for the next Wick is February 1. fishing, bridge, and volunteering. They seeDick Clapp and his Contact your class correspondent or send news to wife, Carol, once in a while when they are in Florida. Neal says “a [email protected]. Please understand that special hello to all my TKE ‘brothers’”. we may edit your Class Notes submission for length. Emory Ford and his wife, Susan Rogers Ford ’63, have moved Photo Requirements: to Wayland, MA. “I am still working with MTI (Materials Photographs must be 300 dpi and at least 800kb. Hartwick Technology Institute) as emeritus director and MTI Fellow and reserves the right to edit photos for use as it sees mentoring a Senior Engineering Design Class at Missouri Science appropriate. and Technology in Rolla, MO. Out of our home my grandson and I Contact: are working on 3D printing and additive manufacturing of custom For information, contact Sabrina Lawrence ’13 at designed parts. More than 50 years at Hartwick in chemistry and [email protected] or 607-431-4064. physics and I am still engaged in science.” Norma Trottere Grimaldi says “Joe and I continue living in Murrells Inlet, SC, enjoying the coastal life and all it has to

38 THE WICK MAGAZINE FRATERNITY BROTHERS: Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity met for a Brothers’ Reunion at the lake house of Neal Miller ’72 and Mary Sapienza Miller ’73 in September. A good time was had by all! Pictured: (back) Neal Miller ’72, Michael Adair ’72, Lynn Davenport ’69, Steve Wright ’69, Graydon Woodworth ’71, Thomas Russell ’71, William Kretzmer ’69; (middle) Dale Pensgen ’72, KAYAKING FUN: Jim Robert Bloom ’73, Peter Martin ’74, James Maziarz ’73, David Chadbourne ’72, Richard Taylor Parsons ’70 found his ’72, Paul Conboy ’73, John Wardle ’72, John DeAngeles ’71; (front) Andrew Ashworth ’74, passion for kayaking while in Joseph Nortz ’74. Not pictured: Fred Aron ’69, Edward Clayton ’76, Steven Mallor ’69, Brian retirement! Sarant ’75, Peter Schaber ’69, David Ward ’74, and Steven Young ’76. offer. We live in Puerto Vallarta for three months in the spring, Twenty-two members of the class enjoyed a celebration of their enjoying the wonderful weather and friendly people. I am 50th Class Reunion at True Blue 2016. Class ambassadors Janet working on completing my travel bucket list, exploring wonderful Sullivan-Wilson and Bill Cassidy presented each classmate places in both the US and Canada. Such beautiful places and such with a 50 Year Club pin to commemorate the reunion. memories made. At Hartwick I earned a degree that allowed me to pursue many different opportunities in the field of nursing for 1967 almost 50 years and now I am enjoying a retirement filled with all Send your updates to your class correspondent: Bruce Cameron, I looked forward to during the time I worked.” [email protected] Emily Walter Mikulewicz was one of seven nurses from the Bruce Cameron and Nancy Vogelsang are the co-chairs for class of 1962 who got together for their 54th annual reunion at the Class of 1967 50th class reunion. They are already planning the home of Merry Baker Boening and Bob Boening ’61. The communications and activities to encourage all classmates to conversation that began 58 years ago as freshmen continued with attend. The Golden Jubilee Dinner and 50 Year Club inductions the vigor, joy, and intimacy common to long-term friendships, will be held on Friday, October 6, 2017. Emily says, noting that it was their time at Hartwick that cemented their friendship. 1968 John Ressmeyer is still living in Norman, OK. He is active Send your updates to your class correspondent: Judith Elving with his local cycling club, riding about 200 miles a week and Bethe, [email protected] participating in local cycling races up to 100 miles. He recently Ken Hoglund writes that he has had some big changes since qualified for the 2017 Senior National Games in the cycling time 2012, which included selling his companies to his biggest trial event. He also still stays in touch and annually visits with competitor and, sadly, losing his wife to cancer. Ken remarried Ken Buechs ’61 and Ray Peiser. last December and lives in Charlotte, NC, with his new wife, Beth. She is the director of human resources for the new F1 team, 1965 Haas Formula 1. Thanks to her international company, the couple Carol Gaillard is active with the Upper Hudson Library System has been doing a great deal of travel, including to the UK, Italy, and serves as director of Cheney Library in Hoosic Falls, NY. France, Austria, Panama, Aruba, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the Bill Gaillard is still active with the Lions Club and the rescue Cayman Islands. Ken reports the future is bright with more travel squad, and he serves as director of the Hoosic Falls, NY, planned. They are now full-time residents of Boynton Beach, FL. community band and jazz band. 1969 1966 Michael Wolfe retired from academia and consulting to spend Send your updates to your class correspondent: Bill Cassidy, time with his six grandchildren. [email protected]

THE WICK MAGAZINE 39 VACATION FUN: Barbara Pyle Shipman ’83, Bob Shipman ’83, HAPPY NUPTIALS: Douglas Mark Lewis ’83, Megan Shipman ’11, and Michaela Shipman Stanton ’89 was married on FOREIGN TRAVELS: Mike ’14 enjoyed their yearly summer vacation and some Allagash beer in November 2, 2013. He and Doherty ’73 and his wife Ocean Park, Maine. (Not pictured: Barb Shipman.) his wife, Haruko, met in 2008 Kristine Kingery at Fountains while he was on a business Abbey in Yorkshire, England. trip to Tokyo, Japan.

Force KC-10 tanker aircraft and spent six days in the country. 1970 Mike has accepted a six-month detail to Headquarters, US Marine Jim Parsons says, “I have been retired for a number of years and Corps as its environmental planner. The couple resides in North have found my passion in retirement with kayaking and leading Potomac, MD, and invites any Hartwick alumni to come see them history hikes along the Hudson Valley. For the past five years, when in the DC area. I kayaked throughout northeastern United States and Canada. Susan Maude Petrosky cleaned out her desk and found pictures Last August, I explored the 100 wild islands in the North Atlantic that brought back many Hartwick memories. She found some off the coast of northeastern Nova Scotia. These islands are old photos of a pajama party that was held on the fourth floor of unchanged since formed by the last glacier.” Alumni Hall in the 1970s. She says, “Susan Lindsey, Carolyn Q, Barb Aurieau, Jan Horton, and I fondly remember that pillow fight 1971 we had!” Send your updates to your class correspondent: Barbara Vartanian, Stephen J. Silverberg has been selected to the New York Metro [email protected] Super Lawyers list as one of the top New York metro area lawyers for 2016. Each year, no more than five percent of the 1972 lawyers in the New York metro area are selected to receive this Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nancy honor. Stephen has been named to the Super Lawyer list for 10 DeSandolo, [email protected] consecutive years. Fred Stoss was again a mentor at a Climate Reality International Training Workshop, assisting attendees in presenting Al Gore’s climate change presentations. Fred received the NY 1974 Glenn Mayerschoff has been wood sculpting through the State Library Assistants Association’s Ray Murray Award for Alexandria, VA, Art League since retiring. He has been in classes supporting library assistants. He also received the Center for for four years and has done 13 abstract pieces, entered eight juried Environmental Initiatives’ Environmental Excellence Award shows, and sold two pieces. He says he really enjoys the process of (NGO/Education) and the first Friend of the National Library mallet and chisels to the wood. of Aruba Award for his work establishing the Caribbean Energy, Environmental, and Sustainability Education Program. Fred was cited among “Librarians as Sustainability Advocates, Educators, 1976 Karen Gilmore Sackett says “Glenn and I, along with our twin and Entrepreneurs” in The Entrepreneurial Librarian: Essays on the daughters, Heather and Hannah, Charlie and precious grandson, Infusion of Private-Business Dynamism into Professional Service. Adrian, live in the Charlotte, NC, area. Our daughter, Hillary, is a professor of economics at Westfield State University, in 1973 Massachusetts. I’m still working at a Marriott Courtyard. Our Send your updates to your class correspondent: Ronald Stair, retirement is a few years off, depending on health issues. In [email protected] my spare time I have play dates with my grandson. Family is Mike Doherty, a retired Army colonel and his wife, Kristine everything!” Kingery, traveled to England in April 2016. They flew in an Air

40 THE WICK MAGAZINE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: Longtime Hartwick friends celebrated their 50th birthdays in style in Sweden. Pictured: Michelle Brown Keyer ’87, Sally Griffiths HARTWICK AT THE LANES: Pam Perlman ’71, Eric Shoen-Ukre ’99, Jennifer Herbert ’88, Jean Marie McEvilly ’88, Kathy-Ann Smith ’99, and David Shoen-Ukre gathered in New York City for a fun night of Foth Campbell ’88, and Julie Van Steenwyk ’88. (Not bowling! pictured: husbands Tim Herbert, Andy Campbell, and Steve Keyer.) The group had an amazing time sharing memories from the good old days and making new ones in Sweden. in the 2016 Upstate New York Super Lawyers. Bob is the chair of Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC’s property department and an environmental and energy attorney. His practice includes New York State and federal regulatory compliance, environmental 1978 enforcement and litigation, and environmental issues in business Harout DerSimonian, PhD was appointed chief scientific and property transactions. officer at Biostage, Inc., a biotechnology company developing bioengineered organ implants to treat cancers and other life- 1988 threatening conditions of the esophagus, bronchi, and trachea. Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kathy Fallon, Dr. DerSimonian will direct and manage the cell biology, [email protected] materials science, and other scientific research that forms the Terry Connaughton writes that his son, Conor, graduated from basis of Biostage’s Cellframe™ technology platform. Westwood High School and is now enrolled at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Cape Cod, MA, where he is studying 1981 international maritime business. Send your updates to your class correspondent: Larry Tetro, Kathy Fallon shares that she has joined the Hartwick College [email protected] Board of Trustees and looks forward to giving back to Hartwick Steve Bedzis is in his second year of graduate study at the State because it gave so much to her. University at Albany. He is pursuing an advanced graduate certificate in the School of Education’s program in educational 1989 administration and policy studies. Send your updates to your class correspondent: Dorothy Kehm Holt, [email protected] 1983 Barbara Pyle Shipman, Bob Shipman, Mark Lewis, Megan 1991 Shipman ’11, and Michaela Shipman ’14 enjoyed their yearly Send your updates to your class correspondent: Rena Switzer Diem, summer vacation and some Allagash beer in Ocean Park, Maine. [email protected] Carol Daggs reports she was blessed to teach for the 2015-2016 1986 school year at Squaw Valley Academy in Olympic Valley, CA—the Send your updates to your class correspondent: Rob DiCarlo, site of the 1960 Winter Olympics. In addition to teaching music, [email protected] Carol was invited to perform at the Apollo Theater in New York Greg Howard has been named executive director of Ulster City. County Community Action. Greg has been vice president of human resources and former board president of the United Way. 1995 He has 30 years of human resource experience primarily in the Send your updates to your class correspondent: Louis Crocco, healthcare market, but also with other not-for-profits, including [email protected] United Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Inc. Louis Crocco will be touring the country again this winter Robert R. Tyson recently received two professional honors. with the National Tour of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. This He was included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017, a peer- holiday season tour stops include Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Omaha, review publication in the legal profession, and was recognized Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. Louis says,

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THE WICK MAGAZINE 41 WEDDING FUN: Dr. Ashley Bacchi ’04 and the Rev. Dr. Daniel THEY DO: Christopher Soto ’11 married Jennifer Barton at London said “I do” on May 20, 2016, on the labyrinth of Grace Lakeview Events Center in Oneonta on September 10, 2016. The Cathedral in San Francisco, CA. Pictured: Chris Ehlinger ’06, Dawn couple now resides in Oneonta where Chris is employed as an Jacobsen ’05, Lindsey Colella-Cabezas ’05, the bride, Lisa operations accountant for ACCO Brands. Pictured: (front) Molly Kettunen ’06, Rachel Dorsey ’07, Anna Sickler-Ehlinger ’06, Wagner ’13, Samuel Weinstein ’14; (center) Lindsay Pallay and Brenna Hanrahan ’05. ’17, Katie Curran ’04, Corinne Yanis ’15, Amaranta Henriquez ’15, Netanya Gelfand ’11, Dani Gelfand ’08; (back) Elizabeth Schantz ’15, Doug Carney ’14, the groom, Robert Mullen ’15, Ed Newman ’15, and Pablo Sanchez ’15.

“Please come and say hi! It’s always fun meeting up with alumni from around the country!” For more information go to www. irvingberlinswhitechristmas.com Tandigm health for continued dedication toward primary care Mark Stratton has been named the new superintendent of the in the extended Philadelphia area, and more recently was named Corinth School District. a Top Doc in the area for family medicine. Life is great, I miss Hartwick, and my nephew may be an incoming freshman in 2017, 1996 which is very exciting!” Send your updates to your class correspondent: Amy Krasker Brigitte Fielder and her husband, Jonathan Senchyne, welcomed Cottle, [email protected] their first child, Ezra Francis Fielder-Senchyne in July. The couple Gregg Bocketti recently released a new book, The Invention of the continue to work as professors at the University of Wisconsin- Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil. Madison, but are looking forward to the 2017-18 academic year, when they have research leave and will relocate to New York City. 1999 Brigitte will be a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow and is especially excited Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kristen Falk, about opportunities for archival research on the east coast and to [email protected] introduce Ezra to friends from Hartwick, Syracuse, and Cornell. Geno Carr will be featured on Broadway as one of the principal Ria Megnin is pursuing a dual master’s degree in social work and performers in Come From Away starting in March 2017. public affairs from The Ohio State University after 15 years in journalism. She reports receiving extraordinary support from her 2000 husband, Adam Lucas Megnin, their beloved chocolate lab Emma, Send your updates to your class correspondent: Kristin Hall, and their cats Sam and Tib. [email protected] Lindsay Silverman is proud to be running her fifth Boston Jennifer Ambrose earned a PhD in American studies from the Marathon (and 11th marathon overall) for the American Liver University of Iowa in December 2014. This past summer, she Foundation in April 2017. accepted a position as director of the Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Svetlana Zakharchenko and her partner Carlos Sanchez Center at Hamilton College. She’s excited to be back in the celebrated their son’s second birthday in September and are Northeast, working at her dream job, and close enough to visit awaiting the arrival of their second boy in January. Hartwick again! Charles Cantania writes “I have been pretty busy here in 2001 West Chester, PA. My family and I moved into a new home on Send your updates to your class correspondent: Jessica Hyde, six beautiful acres of country land within the last year. I am [email protected] still medical director for Willow Tree Hospice and continue to Faust Checho will star as Jones in the new Brian Klemesrud film, maintain my busy medical practice at Gateway Family Medicine. Dead Draw. I recently received a scholarship toward educational debt through Jim Kozubek is a staff scientist at the Brigham and Women’s

42 THE WICK MAGAZINE WEDDED BLISS: Classmates A ’WICK WEDDING: Gregg Ducey ’09 and Richelle Schmidt ’09 were surrounded by generations of Steven Sayles ’11 and Sarah Hartwick graduates at their wedding celebration. Family members included the mother and aunts of the Holmes ’11 met at Pine Lake groom: Laurie Baird Ducey ’75, Carolyn Baird Chamberlain ’79, and Heather Baird Lashier ’74. during Awakening and were Friends included Hartwick Swim Coach Dale Rothenberger P’00, P’02, P’05; his wife, Cathy McGrath married at The Bella Vista at Rothenberger ’88, P’00, P’02, P’05; and many alumni, including friends from fraternities and sororities. Casa Larga in Fairport, NY in July 2015.

Hospital with affiliation to the Broad Institute of Harvard has presented her research across the US and abroad, published University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His articles, and works as the events coordinator for the UC Berkeley first book, Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Library while completing her book manuscript. Crispr-Cas9, has just been published by the Cambridge University Press. His science writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The 2005 Atlantic, and Scientific American. Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nate King, [email protected] 2003 Amanda Stenske Aiello writes that she is married with a 2006 four-year-old son. Many things have changed from when she Send your updates to your class correspondent: Brian Knox, was a student here. She is working as an RN and staff educator [email protected] at a company that cares for people with developmental and Fern Beckhorn Barker and her husband recently moved to intellectual disabilities—a big change from her music education Portland, ME, and started a property management company. She degree from Hartwick. She is also teaching Autism Movement continues to paint. Therapy classes and working on obtaining her developmental Brian Knox and his wife, Andrea Bilello, welcomed their disabilities nurse certification. Amanda has been chosen to beautiful baby girl Caroline Emi on May 8, 2016. participate in a local program called Leadership Mohawk Valley. Amanda Stone married Clay Hagwood on December 22, 2014. She still enjoys singing and participating in local theater events Jessica Valluzzi married Wes Williamson in August 2014. She near where she lives. also earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University in 2014. Jessica is now a licensed clinical psychologist 2004 in California working at UCLA with Operation Mend as a part of Dvera Saxton worked with students and two interns in the Operation Mend Intensive Treatment Program for veterans the summer of 2015 in a creative workshop that led to the suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain conceptualization and design of two farmworker-themed video injury, and their families. games. These games will be digitized and ready for their public debut online by winter 2016. 2007 Amanda Rosenthal Tucker was promoted to executive vice Send your updates to your class correspondent: Joanna Cacciola, president and chief operating officer at Old Dominion National [email protected] Bank, overseeing the bank’s enterprise risk management, West Kraemer started a comedy podcast in 2016 (www.twojews. compliance, operations, and marketing programs. co) and graduated from law school in 2014. He is currently living Dr. Ashley Bacchi was married in May. Ashley received her PhD the dream in Miami, FL. He wants to share a special hello with his in Jewish History and Culture in the Greco-Roman World from old roommate, Ben Sheridan. the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, in 2015. She

THE WICK MAGAZINE 43 HAPPILY EVER AFTER: Elizabeth Lummie ’13 celebrated her wedding to Joe Kramer on June 4, 2016, in West Point, NY, THEY DO: William French ’09, son of Steven French ’80 and surrounded by friends, family, and of course her Hartwick family. Debra Fischer French ’80, married Erin Elisabeth Brady on June (Back) Sean Hoyt ’13, Ericalynn Cullen ’14, Katie Pennings ’14, 15, 2015, in York Harbor, ME. Among the Hartwick alumni who Colin Blydenburgh ’14, Mark Smith ’13, Britney Lintner ’13, joined the celebration: Sean Covert ’09, Fern Beckhorn Barker Aaron Rexford ’14; (front) Jenn Davis ’13, Tasha Bradt ’12, the ’09, Eileen Davidson Tanner ’09, the groom, Sheryl Niehbuhr bride and groom, Brandy Huppert ’13, and Maria Mastroianni ’13. Bernhard ’79, Steve Bernhard ’80, Deb French ’80, Matt Shellard ’09, Steve French ’80, the bride, and Steve Tanner ’09.

Catherine Winters is working as a chemist with the US 2009 Environmental Protection Agency two years after completing Send your updates to your class correspondent: Nicholas Forst, an undergraduate EPA GRO Fellowship as an Environmental [email protected] Chemistry student under the advisement of Hartwick’s Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad. Catherine and Zsuzsanna have 2010 stayed in touch since graduation. Catherine says, “While at Send your updates to your class correspondent: Wyatt Uhlein, Hartwick, students have the opportunity to make connections [email protected] that will last beyond graduation.” 2011 Steven Sayles and Sarah Holmes celebrated their marriage 2015 Nicholas Hills set off on a backpacking trip after graduating at The Bella Vista at Casa Larga, Fairport, NY, in July 2015. in December 2015. He has been to Puerto Rico and throughout Eric Goble, David Esposito, Billy MacElveen, Jon Stein, and Europe, and is now traveling thoughout the USA and Canada. Grace Encherman Conklin ’12 joined them to celebrate. He recently accepted a volunteer position in Colombia for six months beginning in January 2017. 2012 Gavin Jenkins began graduate school in September 2016 at the Send your updates to your class correspondent: Holly Sayman, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is [email protected] a PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Gwen Mathias was recently promoted to digital assistant 2013 media planner at Maxus Global in Los Angeles, CA. Maxus is an Send your updates to your class correspondent: Joan Carregal, advertising agency, and NBC TV is a client. [email protected] Monica Prager graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as a nurse practitioner, earning her master’s degree. 2014 Victoria Rooks has been accepted into the Peace Corps and Jack Pace and Katie Toomey ’15 are engaged. Jack is a departed for Swaziland in June to begin training as a health marketing analytics engineer at John Wiley & Sons in volunteer. She is living and working in a community to educate Hoboken, NJ. Katie is pursuing a graduate degree in nonprofit her neighbors on HIV/AIDS prevention, safe water accessibility, management and leadership at Rockefeller College of Public and nutritional advances. Affairs and Policy in Albany, New York. The couple plans to Tanya Streeter, RN, has been named nurse manager of the relocate to New York City. An August 2017 wedding is planned. Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) Lab at the Mohawk Valley Shiva Senthil was hired by the Clarkson University Athletic Health System. Department as the new assistant coach for the men’s basketball program for 2016-17.

44 THE WICK MAGAZINE IN MEMORIAM

Roy Rowan H’95, P’84 | Author and ALUMNI journalist Roy Rowan passed away September 13, 2016. A former foreign 1937 | Thomas G. O’Neil, Esq. passed away July 29, 2016. He received his BS in correspondent and a writer and editor political science from Albany Law School. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy during for Life, Time, and Fortune magazines, World War II, first in the Pacific and later as a member of the JAG. He was elected he covered Mao’s revolution in China as well as the Korean and Vietnam wars. mayor of Sidney, NY, and was a member and president of the Delaware County Bar He authored 10 books during his 70-year Association, the Sidney Hospital Board of Directors, and the Sidney Chamber of writing career and was the recipient of Commerce. He was predeceased by his brother James G. O’Neil Sr. ’47 and is survived the Henry R. Luce Award for lifetime by three children, eight grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. achievement in journalism. 1947 | Ella Thibado Cunningham passed away May 30, 2016. She received her BS In Asia, working as the Hong Kong in nursing from Hartwick College and her BA in education from SUNY, Oneonta. She bureau chief for Time, Inc., Rowan worked as a registered nurse at the Marcy Psychiatric Center, and then at the Rome covered the opening of China under Developmental Center for more than 20 years. She is survived by three children, seven Presidents Nixon and Ford and was one grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. of the last journalists to evacuate Saigon in 1975. Back in the United States, he 1947 | Mildred Gray Campfield passed away April 29, 2016. Before earning her BS in joined Fortune magazine as an editor and mathematics from Hartwick College, she taught in a one-room schoolhouse in Lena. She senior writer whose projects included was employed by Prudential Insurance Company and retired from the NBT Bank trust a groundbreaking cover story on the department in Norwich, NY. She is survived by several nieces and nephews. bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. 1949 | James T. Sherpey passed away March 5, 2016. He served in the Air Force during Rowan earned his undergraduate and WWII and earned the American Defense Service Medal and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater graduate degrees from Dartmouth College and served in the US Army. He Ribbon with a Bronze Star. At Hartwick he met his wife Dorothy R. Washburn ’48, was was awarded an Honorary Degree by a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, and graduated with a degree in physics. He Hartwick College in 1995 in recognition received his master’s from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an engineer of his exceptional career and his service in semiconductor manufacturing. He is survived by his three children, including his as a Hartwick trustee for nine years. daughter Deborah Sherpey Werrbach ’72 and son-in-law Robert R. Werrbach ’72; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Many of his papers and photographs now comprise the Roy Rowan Manuscript 1953 | Joan Servis Clayton passed away June 19, 2016. She graduated from Hartwick Collection in the Paul F. Cooper, Jr. with a BS in nursing before receiving her CAS from Fairfield University in school Archives in the Stevens-German Library. psychology with national certification. She worked as an operating room nurse at Glens (Visit www.hartwickcollegearchives.org.) Falls before working in the Ridgefield Connecticut Public School System as a guidance counselor and school psychologist. She is survived by one brother, five children, and six He was predeceased by his wife, Helen, grandchildren. and is survived by their four sons, including Marcus Rowan ’84, and one 1954 | David M. Samatulski passed away August 7, 2016. He received his bachelor’s grandson. degree in business administration from Hartwick College, was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and excelled in several sports. He was pursuing a career in Gifts in memory of Roy Rowan may professional baseball when he was drafted into the Army. He was stationed in Okinawa, be made to The Helen R. Rowan P’84 Scholarship for the Arts at Hartwick Japan, and was awarded a national defense service medal. He worked in insurance and College, which was established in 2012 by investment services, including more than 20 years with the Metropolitan Insurance Marcus R. Rowan ’84. Company. He is survived by his four children and two brothers.

1956 | Robert H. Hyzer passed away June 26, 2016. He received his BA in history and prelaw from Hartwick College. He retired from Bendix, ECD Division, as a senior analyst of production requirements and inventory control after 29 years of service. He also To make a gift in memory or in honor worked part time for 30 years at the Showcase Cinema in Oneonta. He was predeceased of an individual, go online to by his brother, Dr. Jarvis E. Hyzer ’52. He is survived by his three children, nephew www.hartwickalumni.org/give; Rudy J. Hyzer ’75, six grandchildren, and his long-time companion. contact Senior Director of Engagement Alicia Fish ’91 at [email protected] or 607-431- 1956 | Shirley Gillespie Tiffany passed away June 24, 2016. She received her BS in 4021; or mail your gift to: Hartwick College nursing from Hartwick College, then earned her master’s degree in community health Office of College Advancement, PO Box 4020, nursing from the University of Rochester and her degree as a nurse practitioner from Oneonta, NY 13820. Thank you.

THE WICK MAGAZINE 45 Upstate Medical. She worked at various hospitals in the area, teacher before returning to college in 1964. She graduated from the Tioga County Health Department, and co-founded the Hartwick College with a degree in English and became an English Community Care Network of Nichols, NY. She received the teacher at Norwich Junior High, where she was known for her Senator Thomas Libous Nurse of Distinction Award. She is innovative practices including individualized assignments and survived by her husband, Clarence C. Tiffany ’57; three children; the integration of multiple disciplines into student coursework. eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. She is survived by her husband, three children, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. 1957 | Thomas A. Brown passed away May 25, 2016. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music education at Hartwick and 1968 | Paul J. Kent passed away September 8, 2016. He his master’s at SUNY Potsdam, he taught music at Burnt Hills- graduated with a degree in biology from Hartwick College. He Ballston Lake High School and the College of St. Rose. He was served in the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command, a musician on the Earle Pudney TV show and founder of the separating in 1973 as a captain. He began his career with the Eastern U.S. Music Camp at Colgate University. He is survived by American Can Company in their plastics group, proceeding his wife, two children, and three grandchildren. to senior positions in sales, marketing, and manufacturing. He began a career in private equity management, running five 1958 | Martin “Marty” G. Decker passed away August 17, diverse companies as CEO over a 25-year span. He is survived by 2016. He joined the Army after high school and then earned his wife, Carol Kent ’68; their sons, and eight grandchildren. his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Hartwick College, his master’s degree from Springfield College, and his doctorate from 1968 | Christine Gettman Stephenson passed away September Boston University in education. He met his wife, Martha Decker 6, 2016. She graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s degree ’59, while playing in the Hartwick College band. He worked as a in English. A trained opera singer, she performed with the San psychologist for most of his career; taught psychology at Trinity Francisco Opera before moving to New York City, where she College; and was a career counselor, mediator, consultant, and continued to perform and was a vocal coach. She held a variety clinical psychologist until he retired. He is survived by his wife, of positions including assistant to the chairman of the Civil three children, and four grandchildren. and Environmental Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is survived by her daughter and two 1959 | Shirley May Lord passed away July 25, 2016. She received grandchildren. her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Hartwick College and her master’s degree from SUNY Cortland. She taught math for 35 1970 | Jan Davis Marshall passed away September 6, 2016. She years at Elmira Academy. After retirement, she joined the retired graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s degree in general teacher organization and pursued her love of singing. She is science before beginning her career as a research assistant at survived by her sister and many extended family members. Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. She was a senior professional assistant and genetics coordinator for Alstrom 1963 | Howson “Hap” A. Hartley passed away May 26, 2016. Syndrome Studies. She worked with families of children afflicted He served during World War II and was a recipient of the with Alstrom, leading to the discovery of the disease gene. She Purple Heart. He graduated summa cum laude from Hartwick and her husband founded Alstrom Syndrome International (ASI), College with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned a charitable foundation dedicated to treating and curing the a master’s degree from SUNY Oneonta. He was a dedicated disease. Her lifetime awards include the Galileo Galilei Surgical educator, continuing to teach at Hartwick and SUNY Oneonta Theater Medal for Scientific Achievement by the University of after his retirement. He was very involved in local and county Padua. She is survived by her husband, Robert Marshall ’70; a politics, serving as a town councilman and town historian. He is daughter; two granddaughters; and one sister. survived by four children, seven grandchildren, and seven great- grandchildren. 1976 | Eric C. Larson passed away January 2, 2016. He studied English at Hartwick College before graduating from the 1963 | Robert F. Stone passed away August 12, 2016. He received University of Massachusetts. He started in insurance and auto his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Hartwick College and sales before becoming an IT specialist for a number of real estate- taught for Stratford School for 17 years. A veteran of World War II, related companies. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and he proudly served in both the Marines and the Navy, as a medic numerous extended family members. in Guam. He was a pre-seller for Portraits International for more than 15 years, specializing in sepia and color. He is survived by his 1979 | Deborah Carr Bernhard passed away February 16, 2016. companion and several step-children, step-grandchildren, nieces, She received her BS in nursing from Hartwick and practiced nephews, and cousins. at Saint Clair’s Hospital in Schenectady, Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, Myers Community Hospital in Sodus, and 1966 | Reta Williams Merrill passed away July 7, 2016. She Rochester General Hospital. She worked very hard at taking raised three children and worked as a professional seamstress and care of her patients and family, as well as rebuilding the family

46 THE WICK MAGAZINE homestead and orchards on the shore of Lake Ontario. She is emergency room technician at Central Vermont Hospital and she survived by her husband, Greg Bernhard ’80; their two sons; and was part of the UVMMC Critical Care internship, finishing at the one daughter. top of her cohort. After graduation, she worked as an RN in the medical intensive care unit at UVMMC. She is survived by her 1981 | Anne Bookhout passed away May 28, 2016. She graduated mother and three sisters. with a BS in nursing, worked in various capacities in the healthcare field in Oneonta, and earned her master’s in healthcare 2012 | Shane E. Tanzosh passed away September 13, 2016. He administration from Cornell University. She founded and served played basketball for Hartwick College before graduating from as CEO of the Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins Shenandoah University. He was a sales representative and project County. She later founded Quickland Stables, a commercial manager with Green Mountain Services. He is survived by his equestrian riding and boarding facility at her residence, and parents, a brother, and a sister. assisted her husband in running a commercial trucking fleet. She is survived by her husband, two children, three grandchildren, and four siblings. FAMILY Kerry Flynn passed away September 6, 2016. She was a project 1981 | Thomas E. Conrad passed away July 6, 2016. He received and business leader at MVP Health Care, CDPHP, and Blue his bachelor’s in business management from Hartwick. He was Shield of New York for more than 25 years. She is survived by her the IT director for Pall Trinity Micro for 27 years. He is survived husband; two daughters, including Bailey Motala ’18; and one by his wife, two daughters, and a grandson. brother.

1989 | David L. Jenne passed away June 27, 2016. He graduated Elinor Goodwin passed away November 8, 2015. She entered from Hartwick with honors and a bachelor’s in management. He the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital nursing program worked at Sheffield Products and its successors for more than in New York, quickly achieving registered nurse status. During 35 years. He is survived by his wife, two step-children, seven World War II, she became head nurse on the ear, nose, and throat siblings, and many extended family members. ward of Columbia Presbyterian. She is survived by two sisters; two sons, including Stuart W. Goodwin ’75; and one daughter. 1991 | Matthew R. Cox passed away July 10, 2016. He received his bachelor’s in management from Hartwick College. He was an Dr. Roger Hickey passed away July 27, 2016. He was a devoted exclusive buyer’s agent realtor and an athlete. He is survived by and enthusiastic professor at Hartwick College and a passionate two sisters. physicist. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Science Discovery Center of Oneonta and the Advisory Board of Oneonta 2000 | Michael R. Andriski passed away Sept 15, 2016. He Newman Foundation. He had numerous papers published in The attended Hartwick College before joining Tri-State Painting/ Physics Teacher, research publications in the American Journal of Advanced Marine Preservation. He is survived by his wife and Physics, and publications in Physics Education. He also marketed their two children. the computer programs “Galileo,” an adventure-type game in physics, and “PhysWiz,” a collection of 37 interactive pedagogic 2001 | James Craig Sauers passed away August 8, 2016. He programs. He is survived by his wife, Paula Hickey ’82; daughter, graduated from Hartwick with a bachelor’s in anthropology Sharon Hickey ’88; and a brother. He was predeceased by a son, and earned his master’s in marine affairs and policy from the Kevin D. Hickey ’91. Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. He was a commercial captain with a 500 Raymond O. Hollis passed away August 1, 2016. He enlisted Ton Master License. He is survived by his wife and their two in the Army after graduating high school and spent two years daughters. in Germany. He worked at Liberty Mutual, but his passion was helping children learn to read. He started a program at the local 2003 | Deirdre L. Mestoik passed away September 1, 2016. She elementary school matching older adults with first- and second- attended Hartwick College for nursing before transferring to grade students having difficulty with reading and continued that Hudson Valley Community College. She was employed by Fusco work for 25 years. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Deborah Personnel and most recently by Health Related, Inc. (HRI) in Hollis Blue ’74, and her husband, Pine Lake Operations Manager Menands as a file clerk for vital records for the New York State Peter Blue; a son; four grandchildren, including Solvei A. Blue Health Department. She is survived by her mother and sister. ’01; four great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews; and a sister.

2011 | Stacy L. McLam passed away June 6, 2016. She earned a Dr. John W. Jack passed away August 27, 2016. He worked as BS in nursing from Hartwick, where she was on the Dean’s List a fiscal and research economist for the State of New York and all semesters and inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International received a National Institute of Public Affairs award to attend Honor Society for Nursing. Throughout college she worked as an Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He placed a high value

THE WICK MAGAZINE 47 on living a life of service to others and expressed that by serving on one of Leonard Bernstein’s televised young people’s concerts. as adjunct faculty in the graduate programs of Union College and Celebrating her legacy and her vital role in the American musical Russell Sage. He is survived by his wife, Sally Edwards Jack ’59; tradition, she was awarded an honorary degree from Hartwick their two children; and three granddaughters. College in 2015. She is survived by two daughters.

Walter Pope Maharay passed away June 26, 2016. He served Janet Westlund Bresee passed away August 16, 2016. She was a as a radioman in the 18th Infantry of the “Big Red One,” 1st lifelong dancer and friend to Hartwick College who taught at the Armored Division, and was awarded a Purple Heart as well as school for more than 35 years and founded the College’s Orchesis the FAME Theater Ribbon. He enjoyed a successful career with Dance Club. She was a devoted fan of Hartwick’s basketball The Beneficial Finance Company until retirement in 1978. He teams, the art department, and the Yager Museum. She is is survived by his wife; his son, Walter F. Maharay ’74; two survived by her daughter, son, and two grandchildren. granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; one sister; and one sister-in-law. Maureen Dugan passed away February 14, 2016. She joined the American Women’s Voluntary Services during WWII and was George J. Muehl passed away on April 25, 2016. He led an active an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Uniondale Fire life, owning and operating a dairy farm in Schenevus for 23 years Department. She continued her compassionate outreach, even and opening and running the Lake View Motel on Otsego Lake. with a family of eight, opening her home to international high He is survived by one brother; his wife, Olive Root Muehl ’40; school and Hartwick College students. She is survived by her two sons; and four grandchildren. eight children and 17 grandchildren.

V. Clark Switzer passed away on June 10, 2016. He was the Pamela Karwan passed away July 30, 2016. She worked in public youngest of eight children. He is survived by his wife and seven relations and fund development for 30 years in Nashville and children, including Rena Switzer Diem ’91. Maryland before returning to Upstate New York. She worked as director of media relations at Hartwick College before joining John Taylor passed away May 7, 2016. He is survived by his wife, Bassett Healthcare and the Friends of Bassett, serving as a fund Dr. Lynda Potter Ewen ’65; a sister, Christina Potter Moraski development and PR liaison with Bassett Hospital of Schoharie ’70; three daughters; one son; and one foster son. County and O’Connor Hospital. She is survived by her husband, daughter, two granddaughters, and one brother. Selma Trachtenberg passed away March 17, 2016. She taught in New York State public schools and was a substitute teacher Clarence D. Rappleyea H’92 passed away September 4, 2016. until she was 85. She is survived by her husband, Dr. David He earned a BA from SUNY Albany and taught at the South New Trachtenberg ’44; two sons; four grandchildren; and two great- Berlin Schools before earning his JD from Cornell University. grandsons. He was chairman of the New York Power Authority, leading the nation’s largest state-owned public power enterprise. Hartwick FRIENDS College awarded him an honorary degree in 1992 in recognition of his commitment to public service as the Norwich city attorney, William Bjorness passed away July 22, 2016. Hartwick’s head minority leader of the New York State Assembly, chairman of the men’s lacrosse coach for 17 years, he was one of only two coaches New York Power Authority, and trustee emeritus of Hartwick in the history of the program to amass more than 100 victories, College. He is survived by his wife, three daughters, seven leading his Hawks to seven ECAC Tournament appearances and grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. two Empire 8 playoff berths. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he helped win a national championship Carroll Sousa passed away May 24, 2016. During a brief in hockey, was a three-time All American in lacrosse, and was retirement from MetLife, she worked as the director of the inducted into the RIT Athletics Hall of Fame. At the international Hartwick College bookstore. Upon her return to MetLife she level, he coached at the ILF World Championships and for the relocated to Florida, where she became an active volunteer and Iroquois National Team. He is survived by his two children and was nominated for Florida State Park’s Outstanding Volunteer of three sisters. the Year. She is survived by her mother, husband, two children, six grandchildren, and three siblings. Marni Nixon McEathron H’15 passed away July 24, 2016. She is best remembered for having lent her voice to the film productions Susan Woodworth passed away September 3, 2016. She of My Fair Lady, West Side Story, and The King and I, among graduated with a BA in English from Middlebury College and others. She was an accomplished soprano who accompanied went on to engage her life in ministry, through a wide variety Victor Borge and Liberace, an acclaimed concert singer, a of meaningful work that included serving Hartwick College as specialist in contemporary music, a soloist with the New York campus minister. She is survived by her husband, children, and Philharmonic, a recitalist at Carnegie Hall, and a featured singer grandchildren.

48 THE WICK MAGAZINE VOLUNTEER HIGHLIGHT By MARINA CINAMI, Alumni Engagement Officer

It’s All About Reconnecting Trustee Joel Patterson ’96 added reunion co-chair to his volunteerism this fall

Joel Patterson ’96 is a very busy man, but his work hasn’t kept him from his alma mater. Patterson has been an active volunteer with Hartwick for nearly as long as he’s been an alumnus, beginning as a host for the MetroLink program just a few years after graduating. He continued hosting students in New York City until he moved to California in 2014.

Distance didn’t keep him from staying involved. In fact, Patterson increased his volunteerism considerably when he accepted President Margaret L. Drugovich’s invitation to become a Hartwick trustee in 2015. Patterson says, “The ability to give back… how could I resist?” Now in his second year on the Board, he most values “connecting with students, faculty, and staff as well as impacting the culture of campus.”

As if being a trustee weren’t enough, this year Patterson took the lead in planning the class of 1996’s 20-year reunion at True Blue Weekend, an event he co-chaired with classmates Brian Chandler, Brian Kuk, and David Bruno. “I was lucky to have co-chairs who were just as involved and motivated as I was,” he says.

For Patterson, reunion was “like dessert after a long meal.” The co- chairs spent nine months planning their reunion, right down to re- creating their freshman orientation T-shirts and class photo on Frisbee Field. The image was symbolic for Patterson, who says, “It’s all about reconnecting with classmates.” u Joel Patterson ’96, a theatre major, is the founder Class of 1997 take note: There are lessons to be learned from Patterson’s and executive producer of Letter 10 Productions. As the experience. When it comes to planning and promoting, he says, former executive producer of History Channel’s Pawn Stars “Start now!” And take varied approaches. For example, his class’ high and the creator of History’s Counting Cars, Patterson has participation in a Facebook group “started an organic conversation,” also produced shows for CBS News, MSNBC, A&E, IFC, and and the co-chairs made sure their mailed letter had “a lot of heart.” Discovery. He recently released the forensic investigative documentary special The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima Patterson is already taking his own advice. “We’ll use these approaches on the Smithsonian Channel. The special premiered last again for our 25th,” he says, noting that the Hartwick 96ers Facebook July and garnered attention from The New York Times, CBS group continues to be a space for classmates to connect, share, and Evening News, and NBC Nightly News. reminisce.

1996 Reunion Co-Chairs Brian Kuk, David Bruno, Joel Patterson, and Brian Chandler celebrate after being recognized for highest participation by a reunion class at True Blue Weekend. NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID HARTWICK COLLEGE Office of College Advancement PO Box 4020 Oneonta, New York 13820 USA www.hartwick.edu

With its team of The student group has a shared objective: to foster lasting innovation at Hartwick. University Innovation Initial ideas include creating an ongoing, multidisciplinary “makers space” on Fellows, Hartwick is campus; bringing regular TedX Talks to Hartwick; incorporating innovation and one of the first liberal entrepreneurship into the curriculum; and securing funding for original projects. arts colleges to join Each member brings her own perspective to the process. (L-R) Christine Hughes ’17 is a nursing major the innovation and and political science minor who is concerned about global health disparities; Jackie Davis ’17 is a political entrepreneurship science major and environmental science & policy minor who is passionate about reversing the trends of climate change; Kelly Sprague ’17 is an ISP environmental science major and three-year degree student who program at Stanford is an advocate for sustainable agriculture; and Stephanie Sacco ’18 is a business administration and political University’s d.school. science double major who is focused on innovation in the military.

(See page 4 for more on their work and the innovation initiative.)