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40 under 40 22 | Checkered past 48 | More than the M.D. 56 Rowan Alumni vouchers to Rowan students with a valid Alumni Ambassador will be recognized Career Webinar Series Rowan ID—all others will be required to at halftime. pay a minimal fee. Rowan students, faculty, 2 p.m., Wackar Stadium Every Wednesday staff, alumni and the outside community are Whether you’re contemplating a career welcome at this event. Athletics Hall of Fame change or interested in developing a new 5 p.m–10 p.m., Hollybush Green skill set, the weekly Rowan Alumni Career Induction Ceremony Webinar Series has something for you. Black Alumni & Sunday, October 9 Webinars are free to all alumni and are Celebrate the 1990s Men’s Soccer National hosted every Wednesday evening. Friends Reunion Championship team, Crystal Feo Engelhart To learn more, please visit Friday, October 7–Sunday, October 9 ’99, Maggie Goodman-Reed ’06, Maurice alumnicareerservices.org/rowan See page 77 for more information. Ransome ’94 and Josh Schwartz ’09 at the 2016 Rowan-Glassboro State Athletics Hall Rowan Alumni Regional PROFlympics Homecoming of Fame Induction Ceremony. Meet-Up, Monmouth County 2016 Alumni Tent, Athletics 11 a.m., Eynon Ballroom, Chamberlain Student Center Thursday, September 15 Tent & Beer Garden Rowan’s in Red Bank! Come by one of Saturday, October 8 NJEA Networking Event Monmouth County’s best upscale pubs Alumni, family and friends are invited at Tun Tavern after work. Grab a drink and bite to eat to enjoy an all-you-can-eat buffet, a Thursday, November 10 with fellow Rowan alums. PROFlympics beer garden, tailgating games, The Rowan University College of Education 6:30 p.m., The Downtown, Red Bank kids’ activities and a photo booth. Each and the Office of Alumni Engagement alumnus and one guest can attend FREE invite Rowan alumni educators to enjoy a Diamond Club of charge, as long as you preregister by networking reception following the New September 16. For alumni and guests who do Golf Tournament Jersey Education Association (NJEA) not preregister, there will be a $10 fee. The Friday, October 7 Convention. Appetizers will be provided and PROFlympics beer garden and food truck Enjoy a day on the greens with fellow a cash bar will be available. Registration for are cash only. Families, friends and reunion Rowan/GSC baseball alumni. Registration is this event is free. groups are encouraged to meet under the $150 per golfer, including breakfast, greens 4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m, Tun Tavern, large tent or in the tailgating area. Athletics fees, alumni giveaways and lunch. To learn Atlantic City alumni, family and friends are invited to more and to register, please visit alumni. reconnect in a special section of the rowan.edu/diamondclubgolf alumni tent. save the date 9:30 a.m, Scotland Run Golf Club, 11 a.m., Parking Lot C, Wackar Stadium Williamstown Holiday Helper Saturday, November 19 Class of 1966 50th Reunion PROFlympics Homecoming Boro in Lights 2016 Block Party Saturday, October 8 Friday, December 2 See page 77 for more information. #RowanGIVES Day Friday, October 7 Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Come out to the annual homecoming block Homecoming Football vs. Run for Rowan 5K party to enjoy delicious food, music and Salisbury University Saturday, April 22, 2017 fun from around the world as we celebrate Saturday, October 8 Golden Years Reunion the PROFlympics! There will also be a kids’ Friday, June 2, 2017 zone, live performances, artisan vendors Cheer on the Profs as they face Salisbury and much more. RAH will provide free food University. The 1991 football team and

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COVER STORY 2 Mailbox 22 40 under 40 Profiles of some of our most remarkable young and youngish alums 6 Campus News by Diane Angelucci ’81, Barbara Baals, Rosie Braude ’08, M’09, Steve Levine ’87, M’07 and Patricia Quigley ’78, M’03 14 Commencement

48 Checkered Past 18 Rowan on the Rise Rowan’s link to Ford Racing and the finish line at the 1966 LeMans by Frank Comstock ’77 46 Alumni Advisor

56 CMSRU: More than the M.D. 62 Class Notes The bigger story behind and beyond the historic first graduation by Patricia Quigley ’78, M’03 80 Afterwords

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Run for Rowan A few hundred alumni and friends pounded out a 5K in April to help raise more than $5,000 for Rowan’s Emergency Scholarship Fund that helps students with life-altering crises to stay in school. Charlie Grab ’16 blazed across the finish line at 17:38 and Jeanine Dowd ’00, M’03 and Evan Stone ’13 posted firsts for the alumni women and men. Put next year’s event on your calendar to warm up your spring and support students in need: April 22. More photos on p. 66.

PHOTO BY CRAIG TERRY Rowan researches how to build better roadways and runways

ONE OF ONLY A DOZEN he performance, reliability and of Transportation, CREATEs will house a endurance of the nation’s highways heavy vehicle simulator (HVS) to help WORLDWIDE, ROWAN’S NEW and runways may soon get a big determine the long-term impact of wear, boost from research at the South weather and other variables on the road RESEARCH FACILITY WILL TJersey Technology Park at Rowan University. surfaces that are critical to our economy, TEST PAVING MATERIALS AND Part of the Henry M. Rowan College of environment and defense. Engineering, the new Center for Research The HVS can simulate up to two decades TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE and Education in Advanced Transportation of highway and runway use in just months, Engineering systems (CREATEs) is the only enabling researchers to assess existing THE TRANSPORTATION facility in the Northeast and one of fewer materials and evaluate the potential of than a dozen worldwide capable of testing new ones. INFRASTRUCTURE THAT paving materials in near-actual conditions Dr. Yusuf Mehta, professor of civil and EVERYONE DEPENDS ON to help design better road surfaces. environmental engineering, will head the Funded by nearly $5 million in grants and new center where he and his staff will contracts from the State of New Jersey, the conduct work for New Jersey and other U.S. Department of Defense/Army Corps of states, government agencies and private Engineers and the New Jersey Department industry.

6 | Rowan Magazine "MY LITTLE HUNDRED MILLION" Henry Rowan, podcast hero

David Joseph “This episode is my eulogy for Hank Rowan. In the asphalt @DavidJoseph1408 I never met him, but he’s a hero of mine. I laboratory, student @Gladwell @Panoply researchers Andrae Great episode. want to understand why he didn’t become Francois and Harsh Incredibly thoughtful. A must for anyone everyone’s hero… why Hank Rowan’s example Pandya prepare interested in didn’t spread beyond Glassboro, New Jersey.” to test aggregate philanthropy and samples. real impact. That’s how New York Times best-selling writer Malcolm Gladwell introduced his July Phil Renato “If something @genericjewelry 21 podcast that used analogies from (related to a road @Gladwell @Panoply professional sports management, air travel surface) fails, we can I have never forwarded and the Industrial Revolution to examine and determine if that a link to a podcast to happens in all more people than this explain—and some might say expose—the one. #GoingToAnnoy situations, such as EveryoneInAcademe imbalance in higher education philanthropy. different weather Higher education “runs on philanthropy,” conditions or at Gary Baker Gladwell said, but a lot of contributions don’t different @GJPBaker temperatures… and @Gladwell Yes! Such make any sense and go to “the wrong places a good podcast. help find a solution,” Very cool to hear my for the wrong reasons… basically we’re Mehta said. favorite author talk talking about the same wealthy, elite CREATEs will about my college like include a 50-by-90- that. #RowanPROUD schools getting the biggest donations foot hangar that will again and again.” house equipment, Pcook The podcast includes a 2006 interview @pcook3384 offices and lab space as @Gladwell @Panoply with Mr. Rowan in which he discusses the well as an outdoor Hopefully wealthy possibility of donating to his alma mater, testing environment donors will hear that can be designated this and educate MIT, which at the time of his gift in 1992 was themselves by visiting for specific types of in the middle of a $750-million fundraising Rowan before giving materials and clients.

KEVIN MONKO to the same old “top” campaign. “My little hundred million wouldn’t Mehta said that univ(ersities). have made hardly any difference at all,” while it’s difficult to simulate actual use, CREATEs can closely Jeffrey Greeson he said. @mindfulnesslab mimic the way road surfaces perform in the With that conviction and sense of purpose, @Gladwell As a prof at long term. Duke & UPenn, moving Mr. Rowan committed to the gift that would “The HVS can demonstrate what happens to @RowanUniversity transform a public college in in the field and that is why it is so valuable,” this fall, I am he said. INSPIRED after New Jersey and everyone hearing your College of Engineering Dean Anthony associated with it for podcast! Lowman expects the new facility to boost generations to come. the economy as it furthers Rowan research Listen or download initiatives while meeting the needs of government agencies, manufacturers and Episode 6, “My Little contractors. Hundred Million,” “CREATEs will help ensure the quality of at iTunes or visit our roads and help our clients save money,” Lowman said. “It will enable Rowan to attract revisionisthistory.com. manufacturers, which in turn will lead to more highly skilled jobs in our region.”

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Drs. Lowman and Blank inducted into National Academy of Inventors than 75 papers in peer- vertebral discs. Recently he founded reviewed journals. ReGelTech, a company focusing on Rowan’s senior vice injectable hydrogels for noninvasive president for Health treatment of degenerative disc Sciences, Blank is a disease. His research also could lead professor of biology to more effective oral delivery of with more than 30 insulin and other treatments. years’ experience in Blank has received numerous research program grants and contracts from the development, technology National Institutes of Health and commercialization the Department of Defense and has and regional economic published more than 60 articles on development. molecular and cellular pathology “The NAI induction of Dr. and genetics. He holds three patents Lowman and Dr. Blank is a related to the use of nonthermal major milestone for Rowan plasma for medical and other University,” said President applications. He is the recipient Ali Houshmand. “It speaks of a Leukemia Society of America to the dream of Henry Scholar award (now the Leukemia Rowan, an innovator and and Lymphoma Society) and is a Dean Anthony n a first for Rowan University, entrepreneur who saw that kind of fellow of the Philadelphia College Lowman and Senior Dr. Anthony Lowman and potential in our school. They are of Physicians. He is vice chair of the Vice President Kenneth Blank Dr. Kenneth Blank were inducted role models who represent what may Board of Directors of the University are Rowan’s first Iin April as Fellows of the National be achieved.” City Science Center in Philadelphia inductees into the Academy of Inventors (NAI). Lowman’s hydrogel research, and a member of the New Jersey prestigious national Lowman, dean of the Henry M. which has earned 11 U.S. patents, has Council on Innovation. academy. Rowan College of Engineering, is a a number of promising orthopedic Established in 2009, NAI prolific international speaker who market applications and may one recognizes and encourages has attracted more than $25 million day be used to treat patients with inventors with patents from the for research and published more lower back pain from damaged U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Sen. Cory Booker visits Rowan with encouraging words

With a welcoming standing ovation and an hour of appreciative attention, 157 incoming Rowan University Educational Opportunity Fund students embraced U.S. Sen. Cory Booker when he made Rowan the Gloucester County stop on his 21-county Jersey Summer Road Trip in August. He strode into Eynon Ballroom with President Ali energy that kept him moving from his first Houshmand joined students to anecdote to his farewell, a 360-degree- welcome U.S. Sen. spin-around SnapChat video that he shot Booker to campus. on his cellphone with the students.

8 | Rowan Magazine JONATHAN KOLBE JONATHAN Soon to be doctors Almost annually, top Sherri First M.D. match rankings organizations English and give Rowan high marks A crucial rite of passage occurs at Reserve, learned his placement in overall and for special Daniel Lefler U.S. medical schools each spring December’s Military Match. showed off programs and colleges. as Match Day pairs graduating Haddonfield native and class their match In May, Rowan received an students with residency president Daniel Lefler is headed results at especially strong notice— programs. to an internal medicine program inclusion in a list of the CMSRU in at the Hospital of the University of On March 18, members of the nation’s top 100 public March. Pennsylvania, his first choice. first graduating class of Cooper schools by American City Medical School of Rowan “It’s one of the best programs Business Journals, the in the country,” said Lefler. University in Camden opened parent company of the “I couldn’t be more excited!” sealed envelopes to learn where Philadelphia Business they’ll complete three- to seven- At Rowan University School of Journal. In its listing, year residencies, which vary by Osteopathic Medicine in Stratford, the organization ranked specialty. Forty-two were offered all 160 students in this year’s Rowan #97 among the residency matches at programs class secured residencies, top 477 public colleges around the country. The 43rd including four who are heading to and universities examined student, a colonel in the U.S. Army military programs. across the United States.

During his spirited talk, Booker financial and personal support “I’m telling you right now, the peppered listeners with life lessons services to about 600 educationally crowds will never lead you in the right direction. They will from his college football days at and economically disadvantaged lead you to mediocrity.” Stanford University, encouraged students. them to make the most of their “If you want to be great at Describing his freshman something, you have to study educational opportunities and encounter with a 6-foot-8-inch, greatness.” pushed them to change the world. 350-pound football player and The former mayor of Newark many other experiences, he talked Among the attendees were 16 told about his habit of writing out about overcoming his own youthful incoming freshmen from Newark, his goals and how he skipped parties fears and insecurities and offered including Nathesia Brown. She so he could study. He quoted writers subtle suggestions and high-energy was impressed, especially with the and leaders and took questions exhortations. senator’s message of people needing from the students in Rowan's EOF to go after what they really want. “If you want in life what other Pre-College Institute. The institute “It was inspiring. It was amazing,” people don’t have, you have to is the first step in the EOF program be willing to do things in life she said of Booker’s talk. “It was a at Rowan, which provides academic, other people won’t do.” moment I will never forget.”

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2ND ANNUAL Winner of two major awards, ROWAN GIVES DAY RAISES NEARLY $87K film professor’s “Quest” Rowan hosted its second annual day of giving during the spring, a 24-hour on path to PBS online marathon under the hashtag #RowanGIVES that raised $86,895 to support programs and initiatives that the Rowan community believes in. When the drive ended at midnight, 1,240 donors had contributed, exceeding individual donor goals and far surpassing the $63,629 that was raised in 2015. First time donor Omarey Williams ’07 gave to support Rowan Radio WGLS-FM, where he was student station manager and where he continues to host the "African American Profile" each Wednesday. “Rowan has given me so much, especially Rowan Radio,” said Williams, the Cumberland County deputy clerk. “It continues to be an important part of my life.” A one-man The March pledge drive, which drew documentary several challenge gifts, asked for help crew, Jonathan from students (including Ralph Anderson Olshefski KEVIN MONKO ’16, below), staff, faculty, administrators, earned two alumni, family and friends. The challenge onathan Olshefski’s decade-long movie “ITVS comes major grants gifts totaled $26,000, including $15,000 project about a North Philadelphia on board as a for his decade- from philanthropist Robert Carr and family soon may come to PBS and this coproduction long project $6,000 from President Ali Houshmand. year won a prestigious MacArthur partner, which with the The challenge funding was split among grant and an Independent Television involves financial Rainey family. the eight designations with the most Service (ITVS) grant, providing funds and investment, individual gifts: CMSRU Street Medicine, support that make it even more likely to air. networking and The Rowan Fund, SOM Annual Fund, the Now in post-production, Olshefski’s various other support,” he said. “I retain Early Childhood Demonstration Center, “Quest: the Fury and the Sound” earned the full creative control so my vision for the Rowan EMS, the Office of Social Justice, ultracompetitive ITVS grant that funds, film won’t change.” Diversity, and Inclusion, the James S. Huff- promotes and presents projects for public His film documents a decade in the life Miller Memorial Scholarship and Rowan television and cable, often for PBS. of Christopher “Quest” and Christine’a Unified Sports. While he could not disclose the award “Ma Quest” Rainey as they work, raise Rowan will host its third annual day of details, Olshefski, an assistant professor in their children and run a music studio giving March 1, 2017. the department of radio, television & film in from their North Philadelphia home to the College of Communication & Creative provide a positive alternative to the violence, Arts, said that in addition to considerable addiction and poverty afflicting parts of their financial support the grant could provide a neighborhood. fast lane to public television. While the quality of the finished film A “coproduction agreement,” the ITVS is paramount, Olshefski said the 10-year award follows Olshefski’s acquisition movie project has also greatly informed in January of a $100,000 MacArthur his teaching. Foundation Documentary Film Grant. “Students entering the creative arts fields BOB HILL In his third application to the often have to scratch, claw and grind their ITVS, Olshefski was one of five way forward,” he said. “You often have to successful filmmakers out of fight for a few years, but if you do that, 242 applicants. good things will happen.”

10 | Rowan Magazine Public-private progress

Stretching east to west, nudging borders mile from Route 322 to the Main and High A BIRD'S EYE VIEW (NEW PROJECTS IN TEAL) north and south and rising five or more Street downtown district. New Rowan 1. Bunce Hall 9. Whitney Center stories in some places, A seven-story Boulevard. businesses include an 04 RCHELICAM 2. Business Hall (opening 10. Courtyard by parking garage construction projects on Rowan's Inspira Urgent Care center, Tony January 2017) Marriott hotel campus and its neighboring (15, above) is set to Luke’s cheesesteak shop and 3. Engineering Hall 11. Enterprise Center ’ GEOFF GELAY open in December public-private project, Rowan a South Jersey Federal Credit (opening January 12. 220 on the Boulevard Boulevard, are transforming the and soon after, Union branch. A Chickie’s & 2017) 13. Barnes & Noble area and the opportunities more student and Pete’s Crab House and Sports 4. Campbell Library market-rate housing 14. Housing (opening they provide for serving the Bar will open this fall. 5. Evergreen Hall September 2017) university and region. and mixed-use Elsewhere, Holly Pointe facilities for retail, 6. Chestnut, Magnolia 15. Parking garage Developed in partnership Commons (student housing) and Willow Halls (opening January with Nexus Properties, SORA recreational and and an engineering research 2017) professional space. 7. Holly Pointe Holdings, Kinsley Construction facility (CREATEs) are set to Commons (now open) 16. 301 High Street (University Art Gallery and the borough, the $350-million Rowan open at press time, with Business Hall and 8. Rowan Boulevard and PR/Advertising Boulevard. project stretches one-third of a Engineering Hall scheduled for January 2017. Apartments dept.)

LEAP Academy helping parents earn Rowan degree ulio Sanchez is going back to college, and mentoring, academic counseling, financial Jhe’s thrilled about it. aid guidance and a 15-percent discount on A Camden father of two, one of whom tuition. Rowan offers five undergraduate attends LEAP Academy University Charter degree programs in Camden: sociology; hu- School in Camden, Sanchez was among man services; law and justice; construction 24 students who graduated in June from management; and disaster preparedness the school’s inaugural LEAP Institute for and emergency management. Adult Learning. Sanchez, who holds an associate degree The eight-week program provided two and is a certified drug counselor, will hours of instruction each week, covering begin classes this fall for a degree in human such topics as time management, stress services after more than a dozen years reduction and strategies for staying in out of school. college. “The biggest thing about this program was LEAP Academy students Canaah and Hannah celebrate with their mom, Kellie Woods, at her Rowan partnered with LEAP Academy to it opened my eyes to see returning to school graduation from the LEAP Academy-Rowan increase access to a four-year degree by of- as plausible,” Sanchez said. “It warmed me program that helps parents go back to school. fering institute graduates a range of benefits up to the classroom environment and let me at Rowan’s Camden campus, including know that it’s OK to go back.”

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Scholarships take students to study abroad

aria Hidalgo and and academic growth for me,” Tyler Jiang are says Hidalgo, who is seeking taking that whole more opportunities to study or “I’m-an-ambas- work abroad. Msador” responsibility to a whole Meanwhile, Jiang, a resident of new level. Bryn Mawr, Pa., this year became Both juniors and ambassa- the first Rowan student to earn a dors for the Admissions Offie, coveted $20,000 David L. Boren Hidalgo and Jiang each landed Scholarship. Beginning in Janu- highly competitive scholarships ary, Jiang, a history and inter- SUMMER national studies FUN-DAMENTALS major, will study About a thousand little kids, for seven months tweens and teens got a at Tsinghua Uni- taste of science, arts, sports versity in Beijing, and more in 11 different China. summer programs at Rowan. Sponsored by Campers took to music, the National Se- football, cheerleading and curity Education academic programs that Program, Boren turned hazy, lazy days into awards provide brain-building, goal-setting, American students friend-making days. More with resources and than just something to do on Tyler Jiang (left) and Maria Hidalgo both landed prestigious scholarships to study abroad. Jiang is encouragement to summer vacation, the camps the first from Rowan to receive a $20,000 Boren acquire language are part of Rowan's mission Scholarship to study in China. Hidalgo spent four skills and experi- to improve exposure and weeks at the Fulbright Summer Institute in the ences “in countries access to higher education. United Kingdom. critical to the to enhance their undergraduate future security and stability of experiences and help launch their our nation,” according to Boren careers. officials. Hidalgo, a communication Upon their graduation from studies major, earned a spot in college, Boren awardees are guar- one of the most prestigious and anteed a 12-month job with the selective scholarship programs federal government. Jiang, who ONCE AGAIN, SOM internationally when she studied will study Mandarin, is consider- GERIATRIC MEDICAL at the Fulbright Summer Insti- ing a future as a policy analyst for PROGRAM AMONG tute at the University of Bristol in the Department of Defense or the “AMERICA’S BEST” England. State Department. For the 15th time, the annual The third Rowan student to According to Boren officials, U.S. News & World Report ranking land a summer Fulbright, Hi- out of 820 applications, only 165 of America’s top medical schools dalgo spent four weeks in the UK Boren undergraduate scholar- includes Rowan University School on a research project focusing on ships were awarded this year. of Osteopathic Medicine for slavery and the Atlantic heritage. “It’s a great opportunity for me geriatric medical education. Hidalgo, who was born in the to study abroad and to demon- The Stratford-based school tied Dominican Republic and earned strate that students from Rowan at 12th for geriatrics with the her American citizenship as a do amazing things,” says Jiang, University of Pennsylvania’s freshman, seized the opportunity who plans to earn his doctorate. Perelman School of Medicine to study alongside students from “Analysts are always challenged in a tally released March 16. colleges throughout the nation. to stay one step ahead. I’m drawn “It was social, cultural, historic, to that.”

12 | Rowan Magazine Rowan athletes score inaugural Conference Cup and more

Rowan University Athletics athletes qualify for nationals, this spring was named the best three of whom earned All- overall program in the New Jersey America status. The men’s and Athletic Conference (NJAC) and women’s 4x100-meter relays also took the inaugural NJAC Cup, received All-America honors. capping a year of really big wins. ALL-AMERICA AND Rowan won the NJAC OTHER HONORS Championship in women’s soccer and softball, the women’s A total of 25 Rowan athletes earned and men’s track and field teams All-America honors in 2015-16, were conference champs for the including softball players Shilah Seven-time All- American Shailah indoor and outdoor seasons and Snead and Ashley DeYoung, who made the All-America first team. Williams ’16 is the the women’s basketball team most decorated captured the regular season title. Among women track and athlete in program Rowan's softball Softball tied for third field athletes, senior Shailah history. team ranked fourth at the NCAA Division III Williams received All-America in the final National Championship Tournament. honors in the 200- and 400-meter Fastpitch Coaches Eighteen student-athletes were Women’s basketball hosted dashes and her 400-meter time Association Top 25 named NJAC Special Award Poll after a 42-11 the first- and second-round broke the school record that winners and 179 received All- season, a school games of the NCAA Division III she set in the prelims (54.93). Conference honors, the most record. Championship Tournament and The 4x100 meter relay team of any school in the conference. Classroom stars, too, 128 Rowan athletes carried a grade point average of 3.4 or better. Rowan swimming was named a Scholar All-America team by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America, and 10 field hockey players were named to the National Field Hockey Coaches Association National Academic Squad. GREAT COACHING Four members of Rowan’s coaching staff were named advanced to the second round. of Williams, freshmen Aspen NJAC Coach of the Year: Scott Men’s swimming and diving McMillan and Ebonique Jones Leacott (women’s soccer), Brad finished 11th at nationals out of 57 and junior Lexxus Matos earned Bowser (men’s swimming teams where junior Jesse Novak All-American recognition. and diving), Derick “Ringo” placed second in the 100 freestyle Williams, the most decorated Adamson (women’s indoor and and third in the 50 free. Named student-athlete in program history, outdoor track and field) and All-America in both events for ends her tenure as a seven-time Dustin Dimit (men’s indoor the second straight year, Novak All-American in indoor and and outdoor track and field). competed at the Olympic trials outdoor competition. This is Leacott also was named the in the 50 freestyle this summer. the first time since 1992 (Rona South Atlantic Region Coach Always in the running, the Henderson) that one student- of the Year and Dimit the men’s and women’s outdoor athlete was an All-American in Outdoor Track & Field Atlantic track and field teams had 17 three events at one championship. Region Coach of the Year.

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Bigger, better than ever

20Rowan held five days of Commencement celebrations 16 in May for some 2,800 participants, beginning with a ceremony for the first graduating class of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. More than 650 people celebrated the CMSRU milestone in Camden as 43 medical students received their degrees under a giant white tent. Joining in the festivities were Gov. Chris Christie, Camden Mayor Dana Redd, deans, faculty, administrators and hundreds of family members and friends. On the Glassboro campus, seven more Commencement programs featured a wide range of distinguished speakers, including: • Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer and director of the Fels Planetarium at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia (College of Science & Mathematics and School of Health Professions) • philanthropist and businessman Robert Carr (William G. Rohrer College of Business) • state Sen. and Rowan alumnus Fred H. Madden Jr. (College of Humanities & Social Sciences) • Tony-award-winning producer Nicholas Paleologos, executive director of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (College of Communication & Creative Arts and College of Performing Arts) • founder and executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education Dr. Shaun Harper (College of Education) • engineering executive and longtime friend of Rowan engineering education Robert C. Braun (Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering) • Dr. John Becher, president of the American Osteopathic Association (School of Osteopathic Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences)

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14 | Rowan Magazine Commencement BOB HILL

1. Happy hands and faces, all in the family for College of Communication & Creative Arts. 2. Rohrer College of Business MBA grads Natallia Szeligowski, Marina Campo, Christian Locke, Jamie Kifferly, David Corum, Matthew Slevenski, Nafisa Soeltan, Kathleen Radaszkiewicz, Sarah Fecteau. 3. Qi Zhong, Shono Bin Zhong, Shumin Yao at the College of Performing Arts ceremony. 4 5 4. Rohrer College of Business graduates during BOB HILL the Wednesday morning ceremony. 6 5. President Houshmand photo-bombs SGA President Anthony Wohlrab’s selfie with the Class of 2016. 6. Thursday morning excitement at the Communication & Creative Arts and Performing Arts ceremony. 7. Marking a Commencement moment with a new master’s degree in computer science, Quadii McMillan, Arafat Qureshi, Joseph McMillan. 8. Scott Morschauser, history professor (center) and master’s degree in history grads Rachel Corma, Victoria Parks, Andrew Karaszkiewicz, Joseph Cranston, James Thatcher, Matthew Douthitt, Jessica Mosley, Ivorine Fung. 7

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15. Scien ce & Math and Health Professions grads kicked off the ceremonies in Glassboro with smiles. 16. On Friday afternoon, SOM honored its graduates in the military with commissioning as well as degrees in medicine. New Jersey Army National Guard Medical Corps Col. Gary Brickner presided as grads recited the oath of service, from left: Jiewen Yu DO ’16, Air Force; Amanda Olagunju DO’16, Air Force; David Kephart DO’16, Air Force; Robert DiFilippo DO’16, Army; Paul Cusmano DO’16, Navy; Samantha Bartling, DO’16, Navy. 17. Maste r of Biomedical Sciences graduates 11 Aaron Connell, Jasmine Cortez, Bela Desai, 12 JONTHAN KOLBE Subhanu Dheri, Michael Fabiano, Sarah Galarza, Davendra Goswami, Melanie Linton. 18. CMSRU grads on their way to 9. Michael Lazzarus and Caprice Chase at the Commencement. College of Education festivities. 10. Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering graduates enjoy the ceremony. 11. Rober t Goldberg and Imoh Ikpot share a proud memory at the CMSRU ceremony. 12. Gaby Rochino, CEO & cofounder of “Think like a girl” collects congratulations from professor Tom Merrill at Friday’s engineering ceremony. 13. Maste r’s in public relations grads Fabio DiColandrea ’12, M’15 and Shatoyah Best ’15, M’16. 14. The “Lit Girls Group” snap a selfie for their digital diaries, front: Olivia Langerhans, Kathryn 14 Lehocky, Kaitlyn Greenwood, Anna Ay, Courtney Mahnken. Back: Megan Lynch, Allyson Horowitz, Rachel Kinsey, Ellen Bonitatibus, Jamie Howell, Samantha Picone, Lisa McCloskey. 13

16 | Rowan Magazine Freeholder Bill Moen @BillMoen Congrats @RowanCHSS grads! Also congrats my friend @WJCastner on Distinguished Alumnus recognition! #viewfromstage

Bielenda Leigh My daughter graduated last Tuesday with her physics degree. I graduated in 1994! #RowanPROUD

John Whitesall Big day today! #rowan16 #proud parents

Mark Berkey-Gerard @mabege Congrats to all of the #journalism graduates at @RowanUniversity today. What a great crew. You make my job fun. Wish you the best. #Rowan16

Nicole Clark @nicoleeee_clark Now hotter by two degrees! Couldn’t have done it without you Rowan #Rowan16

Chelsey(CJ)Fairfield @fairfielc4 That awesome moment when you graduate #rowan16 JONTHAN KOLBE Sammi Mazza Only a few more minutes of being an undergrad #Rowan16

Stephen Cirino @futuremgmt @NickPaleologos great Commencement speech at 15 Rowan today! #Rowan16

Summer 2016 | 17 initiatives

Ask anyone who visits a Rowan path is clear. All of this is good news campus or follows the University via for students, alumni and friends of news media, social media or word-of- Rowan University.” mouth, and it’s clear that Rowan has a lot going on. It’s almost too much See the full report at to keep up with—new buildings, new rowan.edu/ontherise programs, more students, greater access, expanding partnerships, more research—and the list continues. To put Rowan’s progress and promise in perspective, a 2016 report offers key statistics, easy-to-read graphs and photos in Rowan on the Rise: A 10-Year Snapshot. Drawing from topics in the report, including affordability, economic impact, enrollment, research, athletics, construction and fundraising, Rowan Magazine illustrates a few of the stats from the last decade here. “Rowan has a responsibility as a public institution,” President Ali Houshmand said. “We’ve set ambitious goals as a higher education leader, so it’s important to be a model in communicating what we aspire to achieve and how we’re progressing. In most areas, we’re doing tremendously. In the few areas in which we have more work to do, our

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All over the world, in countless challenges and with boundless potential, Rowan’s young alumni are making a name for themselves— and for Rowan. Here are just a handful of them, in no particular order. We’re proud to share their stories and inspire even more. PHOTO BY NATHAN MCMAHON Adam Chazen 30 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’08 Visual effects coordinator, HBO’s “Game of Thrones”

Those fire-breathing dragons on would do so well. The biggest kick Student University Programmers HBO’s “Game of Thrones”? for me is how many people love (SUP), Rowan Television Network “100 percent real,” Adam Chazen it. I love that what I’m doing in a and Cinema Workshop. For SUP, says. Spoken like a man devoted to small black room is bringing joy to he oversaw a $150,000 budget, making the fantastical believable. millions of people.” personally booking talent. From Titanic Studios in Belfast, Chazen, who lives in Belfast “When I was 19 or 20, I was Northern Ireland, Chazen spends during shooting and in Los talking to agents. It was fun to 10-, 12- and 15-hour days bringing Angeles during post production, make those connections,” he the dragons, battle scenes and other left for Hollywood soon after his says, noting that the negotiations computer-generated effects on Rowan graduation. Like many he entered into helped him “Game of Thrones” (GOT) to life. RTF alumni who go west, he slept understand the industry. When he He joined the visual effects team at on the couch of a fellow Prof as he landed in LA, he met up with those the critically acclaimed series five built his career. same agents for lunch as he built years ago in its second season. The Rowan network in LA is his professional network. Now visual effects associate strong and growing, but there’s Chazen makes his career producer, Chazen has won four also a solid University connection decisions based on opportunity— Primetime Emmy Awards for on GOT. Paul Russo RTF ’11 joined and fun. outstanding special visual effects. the visual effects staff four years “I’ve never really said, ‘In 10 In September, he’s up for his fifth. ago. Jake Chusid RTF ’12 is a post years, I’m going to do this or He marvels at his good fortune to production assistant. that,’” he says. “I just kind of roll work with colleagues he treasures “We’ve made the Rowan name with the punches. If something in an environment that fuels his known on ‘Game of Thrones,’” comes along, I think about it and creativity daily. says Chazen, Rowan’s 2013 say, ‘Maybe this will be a great “I’m fortunate to work with Distinguished Young Alumnus opportunity.’ I just kind of go with some of the best in the world,” awardee. “It’s a large industry, but it all. “I tell everyone, ‘If you work says Chazen, whose industry also very small. In our business, hard and you’re a good person, credits include “Yogi Bear,” “Percy teams bring teams along. At ‘Game good things will happen.’ I’m Jackson and the Olympians: The of Thrones,’ we haven’t hired enjoying the ride.” Lightning Thief,” “Iron Man 2,” anyone just off of their résumé.” “2012” and “Transformers 2: Though one of his Emmys is Revenge of the Fallen.” in LA—the others are in Belfast “I’m working on the coolest stuff and New Jersey—Chazen rarely on TV that is right up there against spends time in Hollywood. A bit blockbuster movies,” continues of a nomad due to his intense work Chazen, who likens “Game of schedule, he just moved out of his Thrones” to “Lord of the Rings” 12th apartment. meets “The Sopranos.” Chazen attributes his success “It’s amazing that a show with to his RTF education and to his dragons and mythical things extracurricular activities, such as

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Jay Gould 37 | B.A. Law & Justice Studies ’01 Technology entrepreneur/angel investor the most important qualities to At a time when the average person could succeeding at anything CATHERINE NI scarcely grasp what the Internet would in life. Then being ab- 38 | B.S. Mechanical Engineering ’00 become, Jay Gould already was building solutely and relentlessly Deputy director of International Internet businesses in his dorm room. obsessed with accomplishing your goal,” Apache Fire Control Programs at A few short years after graduating from Gould says. Lockheed Martin Missiles & Fire Control Rowan, he pioneered and sold one of He learned those lessons early in his In short, Henry M. Rowan College of the first social networks, RateOrDate, life. “My grandfather told me if you love Engineering grad Catherine Ni’s job is and the first video-sharing site, Music what you do, it’s not work. So I’m blessed to save the lives of military personnel. Video Codes. that I haven’t worked a day in my life and In her current position, Ni serves 15 The Toms River resident has built a get to hang out with my best friend every international customers, focusing on reputation as a high-growth technology day, my wife,” says Gould. 3 the Modernized Target Acquisition entrepreneur and angel investor. He sold Even with his success, he is driven Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision his most recent company, Yashi, a leading by something more. “I was working Sensor and Fire Control Radar. local video advertising platform, for toward creating a better life for my kids “What I love the most is working with $33 million in 2015. Gould co-founded before they were born,” says the father of war-fighters. When I sit down with the company with his wife, Caitlin. two. “I was thinking about them before customers, I sit down with pilots who Success, he says, comes with a positive I even met my wife. I’m very family fly the world’s best attack helicopter,” Ni said. “I know the equipment and the attitude…and exceptional focus. “I believe oriented. At the end of the day, that’s technologies my team is responsible for habits, character and temperament are what it’s all about.” are saving people’s lives. We’re protecting our soldiers. We’re protecting our allies. This isn’t just the United States that is in the battle. This is a world fight. I feel SHAUN T. responsible for that.” 38 | B.A. Health & Exercise Science ’01 | Motivational fitness expert & host Lockheed has fast-tracked Ni from Day One, placing her in its Operations It’s INSANITY. In addition to his workout videos, he Leadership Development Program right How else do you describe how Shaun T also has footwear, clothing and prepared out of Rowan. (now Shaun Thompson Blokker) turned food lines. Shaun T married Scott Blokker, “For the most part, every 18 months my the freshman 15—actually, 50—into a president and chief operations officer of job changes,” the mechanical engineer phenomenal career as an international Shaun T, Inc., in 2012. says. “It’s all been centered on a greater fitness expert, motivator and host? “The outer body, what leadership role in the business, but When he hit the Rowan Rec Center to we look like, definitely it’s been very diverse—from interna- drop some weight, Shaun T found his calling has an impact tional business development to strategic in helping others to get in shape through on who we are,” planning/mergers and acquisitions to movement and motivation, dance and fun. Shaun T told Rowan program management.” The founder of the successful Hip Hop Abs students during an Grateful to Henry Rowan and a full and INSANITY workouts, Shaun T has sold impassioned speech scholarship, Ni said the College was more than 10 million workout DVDs since on campus. “I want wonderful preparation. “It was a well- 2007. His workouts now stream to a half- your inner core rounded program that made you think million viewers on demand. to thrive, too.” of all aspects of your project. I feel like it Whether he’s leading live self-coined was more of an incubator for what the “ShaunTervention” events or providing real business world was like.” motivation and inspiration via his “Trust and Believe With Shaun T” podcast, Shaun T focuses on changing people’s lives. 4 CHRISTOPER LUKACH 34 | B.A. Communication with a specialization in public relations ’04 President & Co-owner, Anne Klein Communications Group

At age 24, Chris Lukach joined the ownership team of a national public relations firm specializing in strategic communication, planning and crisis management. In January, Lukach officially takes sole ownership of Anne Klein Communications Group (AKCG), a company that’s slightly older than he is. Yet, Lukach doesn’t find that clients or peers take him less seriously because of his age. “The confidence you project overcomes any percep- tions you get based on age,” says Lukach. “Early in my career, I was given opportunities to work and learn. I have really great confidence in the counsel that I give.” And that counsel has led to a very successful career in crisis communication. “Crisis practice is extraordinarily rewarding,” he says. “We are constantly getting our hands dirty. We’re dealing with how our clients operate, stay in business and keep 6 their staffs employed. A crisis is not a crisis because it makes noise. It affects the bottom line.” Based in Mount Laurel, AKCG’s expansive client list Her grief immeasurable, includes several health care providers, hospitals, higher Leigh Paynter Leigh Paynter Martinez education institutions, nonprofits and many more. did what she does best. “I love the diversity,” says Lukach. “I love the fact that Martinez She told the story. we work with so many different types of projects. It’s “I was grateful for the 34 | B.A. Communication ’04 hard to get bored by a project.” opportunity,” says Mar- Television reporter Becoming a president and owner of a national company tinez, who landed her in his early 30s isn’t the peak of his success, Lukach says. ‘dream job’ in May as a “My title and role are nice, but I measure success based general assignment and on the value and effect of the work we do with clients.” breaking news reporter at KTVU Fox2 in San Francisco—the top- rated news organization in the nation’s sixth-ranked media market. “I had so many questions about heroin. My brother never admitted to using it. His death shocked everyone. It was therapeutic to get some 5 of my questions answered and attempt to help someone else who has someone they love suffering from an addiction.” Martinez’ piece, produced for NBC affiliate KGET 17 News in Bakersfield, Calif., aired in May of 2014—just two months after her only sibling died of an accidental overdose. When he couldn’t get the assistance he needed for his PTSD, Marine Corps Cpl. Jared Paynter turned to drugs to self-medicate. Jared served tours of Iraq and Afghanistan with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines Echo Company. He saw his best friend die in battle. “Jared never got over it. He felt responsible,” Martinez says. “He really was just a broken man when he came back. He used drugs to try to feel normal and happy again.” Martinez told the story of her family’s loss as she produced a compelling segment on heroin addiction. Fittingly, the piece ended with a dedication to Jared. PHOTO BY CRAIG TERRY

26 | Rowan Magazine Adept at telling other people’s stories— Michael John Trotta “In my work, I’m helping someone either be informed or get their story out,” she says— 38 | B.M. Music Education ’02 Martinez says the segment “showed a side M.M. Choral Conducting ’08 of me the viewers hadn’t seen and, also, how Composer, musician, visiting professor attached I was to the story.” Not backing down from a challenging How do you get to One year ago, in response assignment is a quality that has helped Carnegie Hall? to increased demand for Martinez rise steadily in her career. If you’re Dr. Michael John his compositions, Trotta In just seven years, she has been a self- Trotta, you spend a year relocated to Manhattan to described “one-man-band” reporter— composing a feature-length work as a full-time freelance camera person, producer, editor, writer composition commissioned composer. He also serves as and on-air talent—in Sarasota. Additionally, by four choirs from across a guest conductor and clini- she was a general assignment and the country that culminates cian, working with choirs investigative reporter at two Sacramento with a performance at the throughout the country. stations. In Bakersfield, she was a weekend iconic 125-year-old New He is a former director of news anchor, evening producer and senior York City venue. choral activities at Virginia reporter. Trotta wrote "Seven Wesleyan College and K-12 For KGET in Sacramento, she spent Last Words" for choirs in choral music educator. five months investigating gang culture in Louisville, Ky., Raleigh, “Being a composer is the

PHOTO BY BY GODOY NABOR PHOTO Stockton, Calif. Gang members gave her N.C.; Greenville, S.C.; and culmination of all of my unprecedented access, she says, because they St. Louis, Mo. Choirs and learning and teaching experi- wanted to change their community. orchestras in those cities will ences,” Trotta says. “When “I’m really proud of that work,” Martinez says. “I’m perform the 40-minute work, I’m doing my job at the high- grateful to the gang members. They were willing to tell ending with a Carnegie Hall est level, I write something their story and they did it because they were frustrated performance Trotta conducts that shows off the best parts with what was happening in Stockton.” next Memorial Day. of a particular group. By After leaving Rowan, Martinez spent two years No stranger to that stage, immersing myself in what teaching English in Armenia with the Peace Corps. The Trotta first performed at they do, through composer experience, she says, helped her become a better reporter. Carnegie Hall with the residencies, I can learn about “I’ve seen people struggling to make ends meet,” says Rowan Concert Choir what will fit the group, then Martinez. “That makes you so much more sympathetic in 2001. He made his translate that into music.” to people’s experiences. You gain a great appreciation for conducting debut there Often organizations find the hard work that they put into their daily lives. Seeing in 2014, leading a concert him through his record- that helps me persevere a little bit more for a story.” of his own compositions. ings. He has three CDs out, As her career grows, Martinez continues to honor her This past season, he was with three to be released brother’s memory. Before his death, Jared, a talented commissioned to write two in the next year. Trotta has artist, told his friends he was working on a huge project world premieres for the published 50 pieces, and he to address PTSD. prestigious institution. expects to release 25 more After his death, she found the canvas he bought. It was In addition to providing compositions in the next blank. “Not a pencil mark on it,” Martinez says. “To this access to world-class venues three years. day, I don’t know what he was thinking. But he wanted to and an excellent education, His biggest thrill is being do something.” Trotta says Rowan provided married to his wife, Rachel. Recently, Martinez teamed up with South Jersey- him a solid undergraduate Second to that, he says, is based printer Dan Uszaki to develop T-shirts promoting music education and a high- “being able to do what I love PTSD awareness. Proceeds from online sales go to causes level graduate program that the most every single day, focusing on PTSD or mental health. gave him practical solutions which is writing music that “I just want to wear a shirt so that people ask what it for the real-world challenges communicates to performers means. Veterans come up to me and say, ‘I’m a Marine. of musicians and educators. and audiences.” Or I’m Army. Thank you.’ I couldn’t save my brother. But I want to try to help others.”

Summer 2016 | 27 Rebekah Marine 29 | B.A. Advertising ’09 Bionic model

Sometimes—but not often—Rebekah led to New York Fashion Marine’s arm clashes with the fashions Week appearances, public she models. speaking engagements “That’s why it’s more of a black/ and press coverage from grayish/silver tone. It matches more of major media outlets such as what I’m modeling,” says Marine, who has "Today," TIME, People, US modeled at New York Fashion Week three Weekly, Cosmopolitan8, and times, wearing Anna’s Loud, Archana Teen Vogue. The Daily Beast Kochhar, Josefa da Silva, and Antonio dubbed her “one of the Urzi, among others. most talked-about models “My arm is a fashion accessory.” at New York Fashion Week.” Born without a right forearm, Marine Earlier this year, Marine was told—repeatedly—that she was not modeled for Runway of model material because of her limb differ- Dreams, a gala honoring ence. But in her early 20s, just as she began the debut of an adap- using a myoelectric prosthesis called the tive new clothing line by i-limb quantum, she decided to follow Tommy Hilfiger. her heart and pursue a modeling career. “I don’t think the industry Doing all of her own marketing and was ready for me 10 years PHOTO BY CHRIS LOUPOS public relations—“I write my own press ago,” she explains. “Now, releases, do my own PR,” she says— it’s more open to models like me.” and even people in technology fields. Marine dubbed herself the “bionic model.” An ambassador for both Touch Bionics, Yet, she struggles with being considered “I knew I had to brand myself as a which developed her prosthetic, and the “inspirational.” product, which is something Rowan Lucky Fin Project, a nonprofit organization “To me, I’m just living my life,” Marine taught me,” Marine notes. that raises awareness and celebrates says. “But I love being able to make this Since then, her career has exploded. those born with limb difference, Marine statement, to make a difference for people. Marine’s modeling work for the travels the country sharing her story with “We’re all beautiful. We’re all unique. Nordstrom’s anniversary catalog in 2015 young people, disability rights advocates And we should celebrate that.”

JOHN SADAK 37 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’00, MA Public Relations ’03 “I was always a big sports fan,” he says. Broadcaster CBS Sports Network “But I realized early that I was not going John Sadak doesn’t just love sports. New York Yankees’ Triple-A farm club to play professionally. My only varsity He lives them. in Scranton, Pa. letter was on the math team.” Sadak has broadcasting in his Last fall, he was part of a small but Sadak was named Broadcaster of the blood and it really began to boil elite group of broadcasters announcing Year by Ballpark Digest in 2013 for his when he was still at Rowan, calling NFL games for the Westwood One radio work with the RailRiders and was twice Profs games and running the sports network, calling the play-by-play in a named Delaware Sportscaster of the department for Rowan Radio 89.7 dozen NFL stadiums. Year by the National Sportscasters and WGLS-FM. “It’s the cornerstone of my He even called an NFL playoff game, Sportswriters Association. career in broadcasting,” Sadak says. the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Hous- “I’m very fortunate,” he says. Sadak calls football, basketball and ton Texans, as well as his second NCAA “For me, the end game would be to other sports nationally for CBS Sports Division I men’s basketball tournament work at the highest level in sports— Network. Additionally, he is the lead and the women’s Final Four. Moreover, football, basketball, baseball, hockey. announcer for the RailRiders, the he has called games for ESPN and FOX. I love it all.”

28 | Rowan Magazine 11 ASHLEY ABDULLAH 30 | B.A. Spanish ’06 10 Enterprise marketing manager, Univision Chad Mire Since earning her Spanish degree 39 | B.S. Biology ’02 magna cum laude, Ashley Abdullah’s Assistant professor passion for Hispanic culture has driven Galveston National Laboratory, her to ever-loftier heights at Univision, Department of Microbiology a Spanish language media company. and Immunology Joining Univision in its Vineland In 2015, Abdullah returned University of Texas Medical Branch office shortly after graduation, to campus to inspire College of When Dr. Chad Mire dresses for work, Abdullah swiftly advanced in the Humanities & Social Science graduates it’s in a positive pressure suit—“our company, moving to Miami in 2013. as Commencement speaker and to space suits,” he says—with a HEPA In October 2015, she crossed over receive the College’s first Medal of filter hooked up to an air hose. from media planning management Excellence for Alumni Achievement. Such precautions are critical to Mire: creative marketing as enterprise She brims with energy and en- he’s conducted research on Ebola marketing manager for the Enterprise thusiasm for her career and more. since 2008. Development Division. The division “I love, love, love Hispanic culture, A virology class with Dr. Joanne Scott creates and incubates new businesses, history and language—every aspect,” at Rowan triggered the biology products and services designed to meet says Abdullah. graduate’s interest in viruses. After the needs of the Hispanic community. On a personal level, she cherishes earning his Ph.D. in molecular “In this role, I’ve been able to her family. “Those are all big pas- sciences at University of Tennessee develop that creative muscle, and I’m Health Science Center in Memphis, sion points for me,” she says. “I think he’s studied several other Biosafety loving it,” she says. “I think it’s the that paints the background of why I Level 4 viruses—those for which perfect combination of being strategic have pursued the paths that I have there are no approved vaccines or and creative.” personally and professionally.” therapeutics—in Boston and Texas. Numerous influences came into On a day-to-day basis, Abdullah “We know we have things that play for Abdullah, beginning with heartily champions those in underserved work against Ebola,” says Mire. Rowan, which offered her a rich communities and provides content Indeed, a vaccine he helped assess the multicultural student body, supportive that helps them feel empowered. safety of proved 100-percent effective faculty and a comfortable environment “This is what I bring every day to work when administered within 10 days to in which to develop, she says. and what drives me,” she says. “I love West Africans exposed to others who “Rowan had the most amazing being able to work in Hispanic media, had the virus. “That was such a thrilling and embracing program out of showing that we are just as good, if moment when we learned that.” everywhere I had looked,” she says. “It not better, than the general market. seemed like a place where I knew I “I love this field. Nothing excites could grow, but it felt like home.” me more.”

Summer 2016 | 29 David Lester 28 | B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering ’10 Show programmer, Walt Disney Imagineering

Once upon a time in a faraway land—actually, it was 2005 in a computer lab in Monroe Township, Middlesex County—David Lester dreamed of becoming a Walt Disney Imagineer. 13 So he did. “It’s a dream job in so many ways,” says Lester, a show LINETTE RIVERA RODRIGUEZ programmer for Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Calif. “It’s just a magical experience.”` 29 | B.A. Sociology ’11 In 2009, Lester and three friends entered a project in Sergeant, New Jersey Army the Disney Imaginations, a design competition open to National Guard college students beginning in their junior year. They’d been planning for the competition since that discussion in the While terrorism has prompted wariness through- computer lab their sophomore year of high school. out the world, Sgt. Linette Rivera Rodriguez is “My friend said, ‘Dave, we’re going to enter this when courageously charging into new territory. we’re juniors in college.’ It didn’t seem crazy to me at all,” One of only two female combat engineers Lester says. in the New Jersey Army National Guard, in In a studio in a basement, the team spent years fleshing November 2015 she was among the first out ideas, ultimately deciding on “Disney’s Spaceport,” a women in the Army to earn the 12B combat conceptual futuristic interactive theme park with an original arms military occupational specialty. storyline and characters. “We are no longer limited to staying behind a Among 130 international entries, the team took first place, desk in the military,” says Rodriguez, who lives in putting them on Imagineering’s radar. Though winning the St. Augustine, Fla. “There is now full integration— competition was no guarantee of a job, it did open up a series adding great balance to our military. Resiliency, of interviews. discipline and desire to continue to educate One of Lester’s interviews turned into a three-month yourself to become a subject matter expert is key.” internship as a ride controls engineer at Walt Disney Rodriguez, who is pursuing a master’s degree Imagineering. The following June, he began full-time work in homeland security from Fairleigh Dickinson as an associate ride controls engineer. In 2012, he was University, embraces the challenges and promoted to show programmer. opportunities offered through her service. “Disney is my only job,” says Lester, who became a show “My values align with the Army’s core values— programmer while working on Star Tours, a motion personal courage, integrity, discipline, loyalty simulator attraction based on Star Wars. There, he caught and respect. Those are all required and expected the attention of leaders who invited Lester to work on characteristics of a great soldier in all military updates to the Orlando version of the attraction. occupation specialties,” she says “That is one of “In Florida, I did show integration and started my creative the many reasons I love serving.” work,” he says, adding that working at Disney has allowed him to work with outstanding mentors. “Show programming is what brings the attraction to life. It’s what integrates the experience.”

30 | Rowan Magazine WALT WALKER 32 | B.S. Civil Engineering ’05 M.S. Environmental Engineering ’06 Project manager, Greeley & Hansen

In a village of about 800 in the Philippines, Walt Walker spent five years helping residents develop a reliable water supply, learn to troubleshoot the system and find ways to generate revenue, including issuing water bills. 13 “When you leave a community, you have © DISNEY to have the confidence they can sustain the system on their own,” Walker, who’s been involved through Engineers Without Borders-USA, says. “You’re basically taking In 2013, Lester, then just 25, got the opportunity of his young farmers and having them evolve into social career when he was named “star pilot” of Star Tours in Tokyo entrepreneurs and innovators.” Disneyland. He spent seven months in Japan working on every He’s been doing that kind of volunteerism nuance of the show—from overseeing animatronics, lighting and since his Rowan days, when he worked on painting to getting the sensations of flight just so. a water project in Bangladesh and later Lester has since worked on attractions for Disney’s Animal conducted related research with Dr. Kauser Kingdom and Magic Kingdom in Orlando, animated vehicle ride Jahan in civil & environmental engineering. systems for the immersive Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland, Since then, he has spent vacation time and, most recently, helped bring a new version of the popular on initiatives in El Salvador, Guatemala and Pirates of the Caribbean boat ride to life for Shanghai Disneyland, Malawi as well. which opened in June. Walker also served as president of the Lester also helped to bring a bit of Disney history back to EWB-Philadelphia Chapter from 2012 to life. At the 2013 D23 Expo, a convention for Disney’s official fan 2016 and still is a regional EWB student community, he worked on a team that resurrected the famed chapter mentor and advisor. “Hatbox Ghost” figure, originally proposed for Disneyland’s The new Brooklyn Haunted Mansion. Popular in Disney lore, the ghost was removed resident plans to from the attraction in 1969 because Imagineers at the time could volunteer with the not get the figure’s special effects to work to their liking. New York City Instituting what Lester calls “trade magic,” the team engineered a chapter in way to make the ghost work to perfection. For the 60th anniversary the future. of Disneyland in 2015, the ghost was added back to the ride. “Working on it was an absolute thrill,” says Lester, whose current project is Walt Disney World’s much-anticipated Avatar attraction. Though he knows all that goes into the Disney magic, Lester still enjoys moments of genuine awe. That happens to him on Journey to the Center of the Earth, located in Tokyo DisneySea. It’s one of his favorite attractions. “There are so many tricks to that ride. You really do feel like you’ve gone to a deep, dark, cavernous area of the earth,” he says. Ever the engineer, Lester pauses. “It also has an excellently crafted control system.”

Summer 2016 | 31 BRIAN SEAMAN 35 | B.S. Physics ’03 B.S. Mathematics ’03 Director16 of engineering for data science at Walmartlabs

The average Walmart shopper might not think there’s a connection between ultracold atomic physics and the low, low prices they’ve come to expect. But there is one. His name is Brian Seaman. Having graduated from Rowan, Seaman earned a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. After writing a dissertation focused on the abstract field of ultracold atomic physics— artificially chilled, slow-moving particles—he considered a career in academia. Instead, Seaman turned to industry. As director of engineering for data science at 15 Walmartlabs, Walmart’s San Bruno, Calif.-based technology division, Seaman leads a Silicon Valley ADRIENNE GIORDANO O’HARA team of product managers, engineers and data 31 | B.A. Journalism & Public Relations ’07 scientists to help shape the Walmart shopping Executive director, global communications & public relations experience online and inperson across areas like Toys “R” Us inventory management, customer preferences, and Her company’s vision statement is to In nine years, she’s advanced from of course, pricing. put joy in kids’ hearts and a smile on public relations coordinator—“the “These things are all very math, science and data parents’ faces. lowest rung,” she notes—to becoming, driven,” he says. It’s as fun as it sounds, says Adri- at 28, one of the company’s youngest Seaman, who married alumna Rachel Specht enne Giordano O’Hara, executive di- directors. In July, she was promoted (chemical engineering ’13), has been with Walmart rector of global communications and to her latest role as executive director, for about five years. A San Francisco resident, public relations for Toys “R” Us, which where she’s responsible for external he also is a competitive ultradistance runner and boasts more than 1,000 stores and media relations, global internal trains up to 50 miles a weekend for a 100-mile race. 66,000 employees in 36 countries. communications and corporate Working at Walmartlabs fits a career goal of “It’s a very positive and exciting communications. atmosphere to be in,” she says from As spokesperson for both Toys trying to help people, Seaman says. “At Walmart, her North Jersey office, where Nerf “R” Us and Babies “R” Us, O’Hara they really try to live by the motto ‘save money, games are always close at hand. is an expert on toys and baby live better,’” he says. “Even with products like “There’s a lot you can love with products, giving hundreds of media organic food. It’s generally expensive, but when this business.” interviews annually. a company like Walmart gets behind the organic Two weeks after leaving Rowan, Plus, she says, “I can spot a hot toy food trend, they can make a difference in making O’Hara landed at Toys “R”Us. when I see one.” it affordable.”

32 | Rowan Magazine same name as his: David B. Wilson. The film was broadcast on MSNBC in 2008 and sparked a national conversation about race relations in America. “‘Meeting David Wilson’ enabled me to 17launch theGrio,” Wilson says. “It gave me the credibility but also the relationships.” Following the success of “Meeting David Wilson,” he returned to Rowan in 2009 for the University’s annual Martin Luther King PHOTO BY ZACHARY KIESCH Jr. Scholarship Breakfast, where he delivered the keynote address. That same year, Wilson launched a TV journalism career and Dan Woolsey, his “Meeting David David A. Wilson that included stints at local news Wilson” co-director, founded theGrio.com. 39 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’99 outlets and a position with “48 The site provides stories and perspectives Founder/executive editor, theGrio.com Hours” on CBS in New York. for an African-American target audience Wilson wrote and co-directed through aggregated and original video David A. Wilson cut his own path after the acclaimed, feature-length documentary, packages, news articles and blogs. graduating Rowan, pursuing a career in "Meeting David Wilson," becoming a media “It’s an important site and people trust it. journalism, becoming a filmmaker and sensation and civil rights champion with I think that’s why it’s been around for seven launching theGrio.com, an independently the film, which traces his family’s origins as years and why it has the potential to be owned news site geared toward the African- slaves in America. around for many more,” says Wilson. American community. In the documentary, Wilson locates and Because of his site’s influence, Wilson last Born and raised in Newark, Wilson is befriends a descendant of the family that year was invited to the White House to meet one of 10 children. After graduation, he enslaved his own, a man with nearly the President Barack Obama and the First Lady.

CATHERINE DYCIEWSKI BEAUDOIN 27 | B.A. English ’12, B.A. Education ’12 | Instructional coach and teacher

Jorgensen-isms. Clearly, Beaudoin was a model learning and student achieve- That’s what Catherine student. Now, just four years ment. In that role, she serves as a Dyciewski Beaudoin calls the into her professional career, mentor and coach to some teach- nuggets of wisdom shared by she’s also a model teacher. ers who are decades her senior. emeritus College of Education After becoming teacher of “The teachers I work with are Professor Donna Jorgensen. the year in Florida’s Okaloosa very open to new techniques, her for teaching in “Many times I’ve thought, County School District, Beaudoin which is really fun. I get to model Okaloosa County, where many ‘Would Dr. Jorgensen approve last year was named one of the lessons for them and help them of her students struggle with of my outfit?’ laughs Beaudoin, top five teachers in the entire plan lessons. I’m in the class- poverty and challenging family who says Jorgensen’s lessons state of Florida. rooms every day,” says Beaudoin. situations, Beaudoin says. have stuck with her. This year, she was promoted to She attributes much of her “I chose Rowan because it “She always reminded us instructional coach in her school success to Rowan’s challenging had the best, most rigorous, that we are professionals and district. Beaudoin works with curriculum. Attending classes in program in the state. Rowan has that it’s important to act and teachers on professional develop- City of Camden schools while an played a big part in my success look the part.” ment initiatives that improve undergraduate helped prepare as a teacher,” she says.

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MICHAEL MARTIRONE 32 | M.S. Teaching ’09 High school social studies teacher

What does he love about has gained plenty of respect teaching? 20statewide for his giftedness in “So many things,” Michael the classroom. Martirone says, pausing. “What Honored as his district’s I love most is the journey I make 2015 Teacher of the Year, with the students. I get to see Martrione was a runner-up for the statewide competition. NAFISA SOELTAN them grow from adolescent to adult. It’s a journey we’re taking Additionally, he was named one 35 | B.A. Psychology ’13 19 together, not just with the kids, of 10 finalists for the Princeton M.B.A. Management Information Systems ’15 but with their families.” University Distinguished Senior consultant, HighPoint Solutions, It’s also a journey Martirone Secondary Teaching Award, Philadelphia himself has taken. which recognizes the finest secondary teachers in New Jersey. English is not her first language, and America Martirone is a social studies Martirone began his profes- is not her first country, but Nafisa Soeltan is teacher at Egg Harbor Township sional career in Washington, D.C. flourishing in both. High School, his alma mater. as a legislative assistant to two From Rotterdam, the Netherlands, but raised He laughs that his old locker former congressmen. largely in Suriname, a former Dutch colony outside the yearbook room is “Working in D.C. was fun, in South America, Soeltan arrived in the U.S. usually inhabited by a junior but it wasn’t fulfilling,” says with a degree from Inholland University of unconcerned about neatness. Martirone, who counts among Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and, after Sometimes, he wants to say in his mentors Karen Scerni Burd completing studies at Rowan, set out to make jest, “Have some respect, man,” (Education ’75, ’85), who has her mark in America. as he walks by. taught in EHT for 40 years. At HighPoint Solutions, a multinational But there’s no question “People told me teaching was consulting firm, Soeltan works with life science Martirone, an eight-year teacher, what I should be doing. But and health care clients to ensure that business I had to find it for myself. processes are operating at peak efficiency “Teaching gives me a through the support and implementation of chance to give back and be complex communication systems. someone else’s mentor for a She is a frequent traveler for business new generation of students. and pleasure, has family in the Netherlands, It’s what I was put here to do.” Suriname and Aruba, and speaks six languages: Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German and Surinamese. “Fate brought me to America and I’m so glad it did,” she said. “In America, there’s a feeling that everything is possible. There is always a creative way to figure out a solution.”

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Anthony Mongeluzo 35 | B.S. Management Information Systems ’02 President, PCS, pilotLight LLC and Monge Realty LLC PHOTO BY CRAIG TERRY

Creativity. Innovation. Passion. Customer boast nearly 700 clients and more than 100 “TechBytes.” “A lot of tech guys are uncom- service. Those tenets have driven Anthony employees. “By using it, we’re creating time.” fortable in front of the camera,” he says. Mongeluzo to tremendous success as an Time is something the ever-dapper, ever- Not so Mongeluzo. award-winning businessman and serial in-motion Mongeluzo never wastes. After graduating second in his class at entrepreneur. At age 20, he founded PCS (Pro Computer Shawnee High School in Medford—“No. 1 Of course, the TechTank, his fully Service) in his parents’ house. Now with five went to Yale. No. 3 went to Princeton. I’m equipped, 26-foot-long mobile office, helps, offices in four states, the company provides a South Jersey guy. I wanted to stay in the too. When you’re the president and CEO customized, built-to-scale IT service community,” he says—Mongeluzo entered of three thriving companies, partner for plans. PCS was recognized as one of the Rowan as a radio/television/film major. two others, and a sought-after technology fastest growing firms in the region for five A discussion with his sociology professor, expert on television, you look for every consecutive years by both the Philadelphia Jay Chaskes, changed that. Chaskes told him possible advantage. Business Journal and NJ Biz. he should consider management informa- “I’m on the road 25 hours a week. Working In 2009, Mongeluzo founded pilotLight tion systems instead. “Dr. Chaskes told me in the TechTank, I pick up two Studios, which provides web application that if I was good enough, I’d find a way to to three office days each week,” Mongeluzo development. He’s also president and CEO do both television and MIS. I look at that says of his sleek 2016 Ford transit van. of Monge Realty LLC. advice as one of the crossroads in my life.” With TechTank “captain” Rick Sayers Additionally, Mongeluzo is a partner Rowan’s first-ever Distinguished Young at the wheel, Mongeluzo deals with the with both Speakeasy Creative, a digital Alumnus awardee, Mongeluzo has been minutia of business—managing e-mail, agency that provides website design, content honored repeatedly for his accomplish- making appointments, handling phone marketing, and reputation management, ments and community service. At age 29, calls. That frees up his time to engage with and ConnectOps, which helps businesses he was the youngest CEO inducted into the his staff when he arrives at the offices of his use LinkedIn to attract new clients. Philadelphia 100 Hall of Fame. He’s also a companies, which earn a combined annual Since 2008, Mongeluzo has appeared as five-time winner of SmartCEO magazine’s revenue of nearly $13 million. a technology expert and adviser on Fox Philadelphia Future 50 Award, which rec- “The TechTank is a customer service 29 news’ “Good Day Philadelphia.” On ognizes the fastest growing companies the vehicle,” says Mongeluzo, whose companies the weekends, he hosts his own segment, region with more than $5 million in sales.

Summer 2016 | 35 Kevin Basden 33 | B.A. Accounting ’03 STEPHEN GILL Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers 30 | B.S. Entrepreneurship & Marketing ’08 Internet entrepreneur/innovator As he races up the ladder of one of the largest, Settling for the status quo and Leadnomics, which reached most prestigious international firms, Kevin Basden isn’t Stephen Gill’s style. 26th in the Inc. 500 ranking of unstintingly extends a hand to others just beginning While still at Rowan, Gill the country’s fastest-growing their career climb. launched his first business, companies. “Reflecting on what has made a difference to me, NoLimit Interactive Media, Witnessing the evolution I point to the countless mentors, sponsors and other a digital marketing agency. of the technology landscape supporters in my life,” said Basden, director in the risk Shortly before graduation, is exhilarating, says Gill, who assurance practice at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). he co-founded socialreach, also advises approximately “No one does anything on their own. Because I’ve a general internet-marketing 20 internet startups and other benefitted from the support23 of people in my life, I have an company that was one of the digital media companies. first businesses in the Rohrer “I’ve been immersed in tech, obligation to support others.” College of Business Incubator. watching the landscape evolve Basden, who also holds a master’s degree in accounting Since then, Gill has over the last 12 years. There’s from Villanova University, helped forge a relationship relentlessly built businesses still so much room for growth. between PwC and Rowan University, which became a by being customer-first and The ad tech space has shaped strategic recruiting source for the firm. He is one of the product-focused, creating the face of modern commerce, youngest members of the Rohrer College of Business efficiency through innovation and it’s an exciting time to build Accounting Advisory Board. In addition, he mentors and building topnotch tools that make advertising students through its accounting mentorship program. technology and sales teams. better,” he says. Based on his leadership, the Philadelphia resident was He co-founded Red Online The challenges that unfold invited to join the board of directors of the Philadelphia Marketing Group, a diversified daily energize him as he solves Mural Arts Program and serves on the development technology and digital media new business problems and committee. This year, he also helped lead PwC’s 2016 company that helps advertisers relieves pain points for his and publishers maximize their clients, particularly in the digital State of the Internal Audit Profession study and was revenue; Tiller.com, an advertis- and advertising industry. invited to Genesis Park, which is PwC’s global leadership ing platform for Like most successful development program. native, the entrepreneurs, he has devoted In his career at PwC, he enjoys connecting with emerging countless hours to growing his executives at some of the largest companies in the world. digital format; businesses. He’s fortunate, he “I have many opportunities to interact with leaders says, to have a great network and work on unique strategic initiatives—to see business of successful influencers and in a different light than many people would at this point business partners. in their careers,” he says. “They help me focus on being His commitment to others rounds out his perspective. the leading organization in our “Any of us could measure our success based on category in a rapidly growing professional accomplishments, but being more balanced market,” says Gill. makes it imperative to challenge yourself with questions like, ‘Am I an effective mentor? Have I made a difference in some way?’”

36 | Rowan Magazine 24 Briana Feola 30 | B.F.A. Studio Art ’08 Creative director, Brainstorm Prints & Goods 25 Jason Snyder 33 | B.A. Art Education ’07 Art director, Brainstorm Prints & Goods

In the printmaking classrooms of Rowan’s Westby Hall, Briana Feola and Jason Snyder learned about art, technique, equipment and teamwork. Together, they pursued a printmaking hobby housed in

Snyder’s childhood bedroom—using the PHOTO BY BILL KRAMER 23 bathtub to clean print screens. Nine years later—mirroring Rowan’s as Urban Outfitters, L.L. Bean, and packaging and all other managerial print studio right down to the same Bed Bath & Beyond. business responsibilities. exposure unit—Feola and Snyder own “We didn’t set out to start a company,” “It’s good stress,” Snyder says. “I’m Brainstorm Prints & Goods, a full-fledged, Feola says. “We were just floating along dealing with all these things that are going 1,700-square-foot illustration and poster doing projects for ourselves and freelancing to help us move the company forward. design company located in a former textile and realized that we weren’t really finding I wish I could stay up for 24 hours.” mill in Dover, N.H. career jobs that we wanted to do.” “I love that we can make this really Initially printing 25 to 30 limited- Now, they’re their own bosses. Feola weird life work somehow,” Feola adds. edition runs that they hoped would guides the direction of the company “It’s like job security in a weird way. We sell at craft fairs, the husband-and- and each project. Snyder designs each can’t be fired. We can have hard times and wife team now prints 1,000-run retail piece. Yet, both also handle Brainstorm’s things not go our way, but it’s just us in a projects for big-name companies such accounting, marketing, customer service, room making art and trying to sell it.”

JOLENE HERNANDEZ 30 | B.A. Psychology ’12 In between working as an activities specialist Global dance teacher at Harlem RBI, a nonprofit youth program where she also teaches dance, Hernandez There’s something there. Whether she’s in does her own fundraising to travel to Malaysia or New York, Jolene Hernandez can Malaysia each year. feel it. “Dance,” she says, “transcends language.” Last year, she offered 15 dance workshops Hernandez saw that firsthand when she in Malaysia. This fall, she’ll return to expand established dance classes in her school the program and explore avenues26 to create in Kuala Rompin, Malaysia, as part of her “cross cultural dance exchanges” between 2013-14 Fulbright Program English teaching students in New York and Malaysia. She’s assistantship. She watched teens gain looking to establish a dance video pen pal confidence—and a means of self-expression— exchange program. as they grooved to Taylor Swift. “They would learn about each other’s She formed Dance With Me, a program cultures and see that dance really is their that offers dance workshops in Malaysia. common language,” says Hernandez.

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“135 years of Phillies history and I had a front row seat to the best five years,” says Casterioto. “I’ve been fortunate to work for the team in the greatest time in Phillies history.” Through his work, Casterioto became close to many in the organization, including Jim Thome, who is seventh on the all-time He has a shiny World Series ring and counts Major League Baseball home run list, and as his friends the winningest manager in Charlie Manuel, who guided the team to Greg Philadelphia Phillies history and one of the victory in the 2008 World Series. best home run hitters of all time. That October, he watched from the Casterioto Yes, Greg Casterioto says, baseball has batting cage as the team clinched the series. 39 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’99 been very good to him. “I’ve met some of Casterioto knew he had to get hustling— Director of baseball communications, the best people in my life through baseball. “There’s a lot that goes into it after you win. Philadelphia Phillies It’s the best sport there is,” says Casterioto, I had to get Charlie to the interview room,” who, through a little luck and a lot of pluck, he says—but he cherishes the few moments turned an undergraduate internship in the he shared with Manuel in his office after the Phillies’ ticket office into a public relations victory. Dallas Green, who led the Phillies to career with the team. their only other World Series win in 1980, A lifelong Phillies fan, Casterioto joined was there, too. the media relations office full time in 1999 “It was just me, Charlie and Dallas Green,” and worked his way up to director during says Casterioto, who cherishes a photo taken 27 the team’s championship seasons. It has that night. “It was a very special moment for been, he says, the best of times. me that I know nobody else got to have.”

JULIA ENGLAND 24 | B.A. Education ’13, B.A. Math/Science Liberal Studies ’13 Special education teacher When the mood hits her, Julia England a cane. Upbeat and ebullient, she has transforms her cane into a limbo stick in the learned to walk three times. hallways of Westampton Middle School. “I figured out by going through some of “Sometimes, I make my students limbo the tough things in my life that teaching under it,” chuckles England, who teaches special education is what I need to do. special education students in fifth through It’s my purpose,” notes England, whose eighth grades. “I’m pretty open with my students include those with ADHD, students about my health problems.” dyslexia, autism and schizophrenia. Diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic She hopes her determination encour- Dystrophy Syndrome, an extraordinarily ages her students to work through their painful nerve condition, England in recent own challenges. years has gone from being wheelchair “It’s easy to kind of give up. But it’s bound to using a walker to now using more rewarding to get it done.”

38 | Rowan Magazine Freddy Araujo 30 DEVI PARIKH 39 | B.A. Law & Justice Studies ’00 Detective sergeant, New Jersey State Police 32 | B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering ’05 Freddy Araujo thinks about treat someone. I learned how to Assistant Professor, freedom a lot. “I tell my detec- respect someone’s constitutional Bradley department of electrical tives, ‘Don’t get complacent when rights. That background helped and computer engineering you’re arresting someone. They’re tremendously when I went to the Allen distinguished investigator of artificial intelligence losing their freedom. Wars have academy. I use what I learned Head of the Computer Vision Lab at Virginia Tech been fought for freedom. People every day.” In a meteoric 15-year Someday, if Dr. Devi Parikh has her way, people who career with the New Jersey are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear State Police, Araujo has photographs popping up on social media. been a general road duty Parikh specializes in artificial intelligence with trooper, a uniformed an emphasis on visual intelligence, which involves member of a special task force in Irvington and machines making sense of visual data. Newark and an officer for “We have a lot of data on social media that is not the drug trafficking north accessible to a large percent of the population with and the cargo theft units. visual impairment,” says Parikh, whose cousins Amip Promoted to detective Shah ’02 and Amol Shah ’00 also are Rowan engineering sergeant for the central graduates. security unit, Araujo is Currently, she’s researching ways in which devices, assigned to the gangs and such as computers and smartphones, can take visual organized crime north information and translate it into words, even enabling unit, where he previously people to ask questions about that fundamental visual served as an officer. His information to get more expansive verbal responses. state police duties have As an undergraduate, Parikh worked with Dr. Robi included working security details for President Barack Polikar. She knew she wanted to take her education have died for that.’ The person Obama and Israeli Prime Minister further, though she hadn’t planned on pursuing a Ph.D. they arrest may also be willing to Benjamin Netanyahu. Indeed, Parikh, who earned her master’s degree and die to preserve their own freedom Those high-profile assignments her doctorate in electrical and computer engineering and to take the officer’s life in the were fascinating, Araujo says. from Carnegie Mellon University, isn’t the kind of process,” he says. But he takes the most pride person to make long-term plans. Araujo first explored the in protecting—and serving— “I tend to work on a day-to-day basis. I want to concept of freedom in depth New Jerseyans. ensure I’m happy on a day-to-day basis,” she says. “I in law and human rights, an “I’ve had people shake my hand think my long-term goal, if I have one, is to just keep undergraduate course taught by when I hauled them off to the doing that.” professor Herbert Douglas. He county jail,” says Araujo, the son Thus far, that approach has played out quite well. got a hard-earned C plus. of Peruvian immigrants. “I always Parikh, whose husband also is a Virginia Tech “That grade probably means ask them for their story. I want to more to me than any ‘A’ I ever know what led them down that professor, has earned numerous awards, presented at got. Herb Douglas was tough. road. Then, I try to offer advice to conferences around the globe and published extensively. “In that course, I learned as a help them improve She is most proud of two accolades: a Sloan Research law enforcement officer how to their situation.” Fellowship, decided by senior members in her field; and the Rowan Medal of Excellence for Alumni Achievement she received at Commencement 2016.

29 Summer 2016 | 39 Randel Swanson PHOTO COURTESY OF PENN MEDICINE 3129 | D.O. ’11 Assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

She was 19. So was he. She was driving “I’m particularly interested in the role of U.S. Marine Corps Band and spent four years outside of Pittsburgh. He was in western the immune system and autoimmunity in traveling the world as a USMC musician. Pennsylvania on leave from the Marines. secondary neurodegeneration,” says Swan- After leaving the Marines, he joined Their lives intersected when she crashed son. “We are actively investigating the role the Army National Guard and attended and he tried to assist her. of autoantibodies in post-TBI neurodegen- college on the GI Bill. He surprised himself. She died. eration and also investigating the utility Carrying with him the lessons he learned in Her death inspired him, this kid who of autoantibodies to serve as novel TBI the military, he finished his undergraduate barely finished high school. Inspired him to diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers.” degree in two and a half years. leave the Marines, medal in hand for trying If successful, their work could impact He applied for a paid summer internship to save her life. Inspired him to pursue his survivors—from kids who suffer mild at Penn, but didn’t make the cut. So he childhood dream. TBIs from sports-related concussions to volunteered to work for free with a profes- Today, Dr. Randel Swanson is doing individuals who suffer severe TBIs from sor performing neuroimaging research. just that. After earning a Ph.D. from car accidents. Work he did. After a couple of weeks the Rutgers and a D.O. from Rowan, Swanson It also could impact veterans Swanson professor found money to pay him, and, is working to discover links between treats once a week at Philadelphia’s in nine months, Swanson contributed to traumatic brain injury (TBI) and secondary Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical three scientific publications. The experience neurodegeneration, such as cognitive Center. Says Swanson: “They ask, ‘What’s helped him land a full scholarship to impairment and Alzheimer’s disease. my risk? Am I going to get Alzheimer’s? graduate school/medical school. A professor for about a year, Swanson Am I going to get dementia earlier in life?’” Having a calling to work in the field received his first grant from the combined Swanson’s road to pursuing answers to of neurorehabilitation, he completed National Institutes of Health/Association those questions was circuitous. “I’ve always, residency training in physical medicine of Academic Physiatrists Rehabilitation since I was in the second grade, said I was and rehabilitation in the Temple Medical Scientist Training Program going to be a brain doctor,” he recalls. There University School of Medicine/Moss shortly after landing at the University of was a time that hardly seemed likely. Rehabilitation program. Pennsylvania School of Medicine. A curious kid with a short attention span, Today, his mentored research is He works with a mentorship team com- Swanson didn’t do well in classes, barely performed in Penn’s world-renowned prising two Penn physicians (Drs. Douglas made it through high school and lacked Center for Brain Injury and Repair. H. Smith and Eline Tjetske Luning Prak) confidence in his ability to handle college. Tomorrow, he hopes to uncover answers in and Rowan University School of Osteopath- Ungrounded, he joined the Marines with his own lab to improve the quality of life ic Medicine researcher Dr. Robert Nagele. a friend, auditioned, was accepted into the for patients who have suffered TBIs.

40 | Rowan Magazine AMANDA C. SHOFFEL 33 | B.A. Law & Justice Studies ’05 Senior counsel, Special Federal Litigation Division New York City Law Department

Over a few short years, Amanda C. Shoffel incidents can be emotionally practically went from law and justice to “Law & draining but among32 the most Order.” She’s not acting in or otherwise affiliated satisfying to try. with the TV show. But she is living the life—as a “Those cases are much tougher, litigator in the New York City court system. higher profile…but not for good

Part of a team of about 120 attorneys, Shoffel reasons,” she says. “Someone was hurt STOELKER TOM BY PHOTO defends employees of the New York City Police badly and an officer had to make a split Department, the District Attorney’s Office and second decision to use deadly force.” the Rikers Island correctional facility against The 2009 graduate of New England Law lawsuits alleging violations of civil rights. Boston began her career in a similar position, Her cases most often involve alleged violations of as a deputy city solicitor in the Civil Rights the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees protec- Unit of the Philadelphia Law Department. tion against unlawful search and seizure and exces- She loves the career she’s charted and sees sive force, or the First Amendment, which protects herself in it for the foreseeable future. But, she the rights to freedom of speech and religion. adds, it’s not like stories on TV—at least not Shoffel, who has tried about 35 cases since “Law & Order.” beginning her law career six years ago, says “Some days it feels closer to ‘CSI,’” she said. cases in which she defends police shooting “Every jury wants to see forensics and DNA.”

Gerard Ohen 33 | B.S. Business Administration ’05 Director, global talent acquisition, Verizon

Gerard Ohen believes the right talent on a At Rowan, Ohen served the community team can make all the difference. through campus leadership positions, His passion for problem-solving initially including president of Alpha Phi Alpha. landed him in academia, where he created He was the first African-American Board environments inspiring students to meet of Trustees student representative. their full potential. He urges students to welcome challenges, Seeking broader challenges, he jumped be passionately curious and constantly into recruiting, branding Verizon as an seek to improve themselves and their employer of choice to professionals. environments.“I took advantage of Now, Ohen is responsible for delivering an opportunities that pay dividends years innovative, data-driven talent acquisition later,” he said. “Do not wait to start making strategy that will help Verizon win in the a difference once you graduate or reach a global market. certain career level. Start now."

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Summer 2016 | 41 Brian Murphy 30 | B.A. Radio, Television & Film ’08 | Comedy writer/actor

He was thisclose to the By late 2009, Murphy was appearing After a season as host and writer for “fun, cool world” of comedy. in videos and writing sketches for MTV’s “Middle of the Night Show,” Too bad Brian Murphy was making CollegeHumor Originals. By 2011, he’s now an actor for “Adam Ruins copies, answering phones and trying to he moved up to a full-time sketch Everything” on TruTV. regulate the office air conditioning. writer and performer. He worked for Murphy, who grew up watching “The “I had that job for two years,” says CollegeHumor for seven years, writing Simpsons,” “South Park,” and “Saturday Murphy, who, at 22, landed a job and starring in comedy sketches that Night Live,” got his start as a writer at the Manhattan reception desk at irreverently illuminate the world’s for Venue, the student alternative press CollegeHumor, a website of original absurdities. magazine at Rowan. “It was the first comedy content that draws 10 million With more than 200 million views, time I realized that comedy took a lot viewers monthly. “I would get to his writing credits include “Tinderella: of work and wasn’t just messing around contribute and then I was consistently A Modern Fairy Tale,” “The Boy Who with your friends,” he says. “At Venue, reminded that I was the office manager. Cried Literally” and “Star Wars Cantina everyone was so funny and so good. I “Looking back, I can tell you I most Band Auditions,” among many others. was so impressed and intimidated.” definitely should not have been a writer With his wife/“comedy life partner” Currently, he and Axford are collabo- right away. The job actually allowed me Emily Axford, he created the popular rating on a satirical relationship advice to grow as a writer and learn by being “How to Plan a Wedding in Ten Steps book. “There are grains of truth in it… right there. It gave me time to improve.” (The Honest Version).” but mostly it’s crazy,” he laughs.

MELISSA SCHIPKE 29 | M.B.A. ’14 | Entrepreneur

Melissa Schipke thrives on easy to be passionate about it,” “Being an alumna is more making connections. says Schipke, CEO of Tassl, an than just giving donations,” Inspired by the Collingswood alumni engagement platform she says. “There are so resident’s passion, the Rowan designed to enhance college many amazing ways to stay University Innovation Venture alumni networks. connected, give back and grow Fund committee last year “The alumni network is one personally and professionally invested $100,000 in Tassl, a of the most valuable networks through the resources provided company she co-founded. that we’re part of and is often by our alma maters. Tassl “Our company is all about untapped,” said Schipke, who hopes to make that as easy building relationships and is working with the Rowan as possible.” understanding how to University Alumni Association strengthen relationships, so it’s and Penn State University.

42 | Rowan Magazine 35 JONATHAN BARNES 31 | M.M. Jazz ’06 Musician first class, U.S. Navy

A professional trumpet player with the Commodores Jazz Ensemble, Jonathan Barnes plays a key role in a 19-member unit of the U.S. Navy Band. After graduating, the College of Performing Arts alumnus earned a master of music in jazz performance Trymaine Lee from the Manhattan School of Music. Before joining the Navy, he 37 | B.A. Journalism ’03 | National reporter MSNBC was an adjunct professor at Rowan. Since his acceptance into the Trymaine Lee has achieved more than In addition36 to his Pulitzer, highly competitive Navy Band many people see or do in a lifetime. Lee in 2006 was named Emerging program in 2012, Barnes played at Just two years past his Rowan Journalist of the Year by the National the White House, during President Commencement, Lee, along with Association of Black Journalists and Obama’s second inaugural parade, a small group of colleagues at The later won the April Sidney Award for and scores of concerts and Times-Picayune newspaper in New coverage of the Trayvon Martin case. programs. “The greatest reward is getting Orleans, won a Pulitzer Prize for In 2015, he was named to the Ebony to see our veterans at concerts,” coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Magazine Power 100 list honoring Barnes said. “At the end of each Thereafter, he spent four years heroes of the African-American show, we play a medley of the as a reporter for The New York community, a group that included service songs and ask veterans to Times—the elusive Holy Grail Prince, NBC news anchor Lester Holt stand and be recognized. There’s a for many journalists—but left for and talk show host Wendy Williams. great deal of pride and I really think new media opportunities with the A true multimedia journalist, he’s they love it.” Huffington Post. now at work on a book about the real Now, as a national reporter for cost of gun violence in America. PHOTO BY CRAIG TERRY 37 MSNBC, Lee tells stories online and “I don’t do this job just for the thrill reports live as news is breaking. of it,” Lee says. “I do it because it’s Besides Katrina, Lee covered important work and because I know some of the biggest stories in recent that what I do really matters.” memory. Among them: the 2012 Others agree. Between 2015 and slaying of Trayvon Martin, where 2016, Lee’s work helped MSNBC he was one of the earliest reporters receive three Salute to Excellence to take the story national; the Awards from the National Association 2014 police shooting of Michael of Black Journalists—two last year for Brown in Ferguson, Mo.; and the coverage of the Ferguson protests and San Bernardino and Orlando one this year for the network’s digital terror attacks. series, “Geography of Poverty.” Jonathan Tevis 28 | B.A. Public Relations ’12 Director of external relations, PhillyVoice.com

Jonathan Tevis is a modern He held a similar position public relations practitioner in a after college with Philadelphia somewhat unexpected position. Media Network, owner of The Where most PR people “pitch” Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News media for coverage, Tevis has and Philly.com news site. embarked on a public relations Tevis says he and others in career with the media. PhillyVoice.com management A magna cum laude Rowan use analytics—online tracking JEREMY ZEE alumnus, Tevis is helping tools—to measure readership of 26 | B.S. Mechanical Engineering ’11 reinvent news in the Philadelphia features, sports and other content Operations engineer market at PhillyVoice.com, a and use that information to plan Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. – purely online news source. future content. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center In his position, he serves Analytics enable them to cull Greenbelt, Md. as company spokesperson, specific data, such as the number oversees production of external of visitors clicking on stories, When NASA’s Earth Observing System’s communication pieces, handles how long they stay to read them flagship satellite Terra suffered an anomaly corporate social media, builds and where they click off when earlier this year, was shut down and partnerships with organizations they’re through, Tevis said. subsequently repaired, Jeremy Zee helped and manages “native” “With print newspapers there’s transition it from safe mode to science advertising—paid content that no way to know how many mode, making it fully operational again. site visitors want to read. readers you actually had for a “That was one of the most important given piece,” he says. “We can see roles in my job,” says Zee, who focused exactly what readers want.” on the hardware and software needed PhillyVoice.com, which to facilitate communication between the launched in January of 2015, has spacecraft and NASA ground stations since had more than 13 million in Alaska and Norway and ensured the unique visitors, according to functionality of all ground components Tevis. The company has about 30 while the spacecraft was being recovered. employees, including journalists As a Honeywell employee contracted and support staff. to NASA in Greenbelt, Md., Zee works on “In a startup culture you tend Aqua and Aura missions, as well as Terra. to wear a lot of hats,” he says. “Those three missions provide a “But it’s a lot of fun.” lot of earth science data, including carbon dioxide, ice melts and ocean temperatures,” says Zee, who lives in College Park, Md. “They also take pictures that are used for things like forest fire 38 responses and weather forecasting.”

44 | Rowan Magazine Caitlin Terry 34 | B.S. Civil Engineering ’05 Director of projects, Hydromissions International

She contracted parasites and high fevers; financing her projects in was targeted by leeches; patched her own 40developing countries. injuries; trekked for hours with drilling Sometimes on her equipment; lost her boot in thigh-high own, sometimes partner- mud and lived in jungles, mountains and ing with a few others, the African bush. Terry doesn’t simply Meet Caitlin Terry, of Vineland—sort install projects. of. The licensed professional engineer has “My primary role is to spent the past seven years traveling to plac- design systems along- es like Tajikistan, Nepal, Uganda, South side community leaders Sudan, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama with resources generally and Haiti. There, she has implemented safe found on the ground, PHOTO BY ELLIANA DANIELA SONNTAG WOOD water and adequate waste systems, first unique to each village,” as a volunteer and then full time with the she says. “The highlight for me is when a graduation on projects in Central America small nonprofit organization Hydromis- community comes together to participate with Dr. Beena Sukumaran’s Engineering sions International. She shares stories and in the project, and they have pride in what Innovators Without Borders students. photos from her outposts on her blog at they’ve done. “I do this because I’m passionate about howmanycows.com “If they can say ‘Look what we’ve done helping people in need. Very simply, I want She raises her own funds to do this, for our families’ and they see it as some- those I serve to know, above all, they are with monthly supporters and crowdfund- thing they have done with my assistance loved by God. I worked in one community ing, so she can help most of the year and not something I have just done on my in El Salvador where they actually called in places few Americans see. Prior to own for them, then I feel accomplished.” themselves The Forgotten People of the joining Hydromissions, she worked as A couple of things drive the woman who High Mountains. I go to these remote a licensed engineer for The Shaw Group developed her skills in Rowan engineering communities because I want to let them (now CB&I) in Moorestown, largely self- clinics and who has volunteered post- to know they are not forgotten.”

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DIANE DONOFRIO ANGELUCCI ’81 is a A writer in Media & Public Relations, South Jersey-based freelance writer whose STEVE LEVINE B’87 M’07 was formerly work has appeared in numerous consumer a journalist in New Jersey, New York and professional publications. and Pennsylvania.

BARBARA BAALS is celebrating her 10th PATRICIA QUIGLEY, B’78 M’03, year as assistant director in Rowan’s Office of assistant director of Media & Public Relations, Media & Public Relations. is an award-winning PR practitioner and ROSIE BRAUDE B'08, M'09 is assistant director journalist who has been published regionally, of Rowan’s Office of Media & Public Relations. nationally and internationally.

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Summer 2016 | 45 alumni advisor

Fantasy football, real strategy, real fun Guru and analyst Matt Camp talks fundamentals of the virtual game

hen I entered my first all those years ago, I was eventually able fantasy football draft in to parlay a love of fantasy football and a league of five friends the NFL (National Football League) into 20 years ago, we were a career as a fantasy football analyst. all clueless. We didn’t For those of you who may not be familiar know how to draft the “perfect” team, much with the term, fantasy football is a recreational by Matt Camp ’08 Wless run an entire league. But after starting activity in which participants serve as owners out so ill-prepared on of virtual professional football teams. The that day in late August “owners” choose their team rosters from NFL players. During the season, they amass points based on the players’ performances in real-world competition, such as rushing, passing, scoring, interceptions, etc. Teams with the most points move to the playoffs and eventual championships. As I prepare for the upcoming season, it’s still exciting to think about Draft Day, the day when team selections begin. But the dynamics have shifted greatly, turning fantasy football into an activity that’s gone from five months of fun to an almost year-round discussion of players, strategy and the NFL news cycle that never seems to end. To deal with major shifts in both the real and fantasy football worlds, I have had to adjust my philosophies to fit the times. Based on my experience, here are some guidelines you may find helpful.

Take the long view While the draft is an exciting day, it’s nowhere near as important as it used to be to your

46 | Rowan Magazine fantasy team’s success. Even so, you need managers once showed in picking players who to keep on top of the effects of free agency, were both runner and receiver. That strategy the NFL draft, coaching changes, injury no longer works because those roles have updates and any interesting tidbits coming become more specific in today’s game. Also, out of off-season workouts. It’s a lot to running back injuries are a big concern, so process, which can be overwhelming as you teams don’t invest as much money in them. prepare for your drafts, but it’s necessary. Matt Camp ’08 is Assuming that how you’ve successfully Stay open the lead fantasy football analyst strategized and played in the past will If you want to stay competitive throughout for Bleacher continue to work can be foolish. Also, too the season, making trades and working Report, one often fantasy owners are too rigid with their the waiver wire are paramount. (The of the biggest draft strategy, and that leads to reaching for waiver wire allows managers to replace sports media lesser players. In short, the fantasy football injured players and poor performers.) player who refuses to adapt will lose. companies in You must be vigilant when it comes the world. Camp can be seen in to managing your roster. The NFL is a Keep it simple multiple videos each day during the week-to-week league thanks to injuries, One of the most popular questions I’m NFL season on Bleacher Report’s matchups and new gameplans changing asked in July and August is what players to multiple platforms analyzing the all the time. Consistency isn’t easy to find, take in the early rounds and when to take latest news, statistics and injuries to so you must stay on top of players on the them. For the early rounds, my best advice provide advice for both season-long rise, even if it’s only for a short time. is to take the best player available. It seems and daily fantasy leagues. Camp overly simplistic and not very insightful, but is also one of the original hosts on Keep it fun there’s really no reason to overthink it. If Sirius/XM Fantasy Sports Radio you’re second-guessing a pick you made in Many of us play fantasy football with varying (Sirius 210/XM 87) as part of Sirius/ the first or second round, it can often lead degrees of stakes, so while I appreciate the XM Fantasy Football and Gameday. to additional mistakes with subsequent levels of commitment, excitement and At Rowan, Camp held multiple picks. Keep it simple and stick with players disappointment I see throughout the season, positions at the Rec Center’s you feel the best about regardless of position just remember that it’s still supposed to intramural department and was a (other than quarterback, which you should be fun. Don’t tweet a player because he brother of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. If always wait to get in later rounds). fumbled at an inopportune time or got you have a fantasy question, follow Most fantasy owners have ditched the injured during your championship game. him on Twitter, @TheMattCamp. old-school philosophy that your first pick Share your complaints with your friends, has to be a running back. The position has pretend to run a superstar team and enjoy become much too volatile to build your team the fact that no matter what happens, you around with the same confidence fantasy get to do it all over again next year. n

Summer 2016 | 47 48 | Rowan Magazine by Frank Comstock ’77 Photos courtesy of the Ford Motor Company Archives and the Rowan University Archives and Special Collections

The thick stench of gas and burning rubber hung in the summer air. The bone- rattling roar of dozens of race cars deafened officials and spectators. Always thrilling and sometimes deadly, the 24 Hours of Le Mans began in June 1966 as usual, with the French tricolor signaling the start of the grueling endurance contest. When the checkered flag waved at the finish the next day, Leo Beebe M’85 had helped make history for Ford Motor Company and international motor sports.

Summer 2016 | 49 As director of special vehicles, he had to apply all of his skills as a communicator, logistician, team leader Beebe, who would become the first dean of what is now and motivator to bring the people and teams in various the Rohrer College of Business, was at Le Mans to settle racing venues together to reach his goal. For many an international feud between auto titans Henry Ford years, Beebe carried a small card from Ford in his II and Enzo Ferrari. With a business deal gone bad wallet. It said simply, “You better win.” when Ferrari walked out on Ford, Beebe became Ford’s Beebe knew exactly what those words meant. He point man in the corporate grudge match. Ford wanted was to use all his talents, as much of Ford’s money as wins in all the major auto races in the world within two he could get his hands on, find the best drivers, the best years. No American had won at Le Mans, so beating engineers, the best cars, engines and transmissions and Ferrari in Europe was paramount. then go out and conquer worlds that Ford had, at that point, dabbled in only on a small scale. To dominate Finding challenge with Ford the racing world, Henry Ford II would take his Beebe had never seen an auto race when Lee Iacocca company back to its roots in a very real sense because and Henry Ford II asked him to take over his grandfather, the first Henry, had shaped his early Ford’s racing program. His route to reputation by building racing cars—and sometimes racing began in World War II racing them himself—to prove that his cars as the Navy assigned him were reliable. to a young officer named Above: Before the Henry Ford II, grandson Learning to win race, GTs rested of the first Henry Beebe’s first two challenges were to among the line-up. Ford, founder of the win on Southern and Midwestern Inset: Henry Ford II company that bore stock car tracks with the NASCAR arrived at Le Mans his name. Young and USAC series in open-wheel ’66 depending on Ford quickly saw racing—commonly known then Beebe to deliver a win. Beebe’s team Beebe’s potential as Indy racing—and in Grand stunned the world and invited him to Touring (GT) style racing, then and satisfied work for his family’s mostly concentrated in Europe. the boss. company after the To learn about racing, Beebe did war. Specializing in what he did best: he listened, he Opposite: Beebe’s #13 badge didn’t fixing broken programs, observed, he visited racing venues and hinder the Ford Beebe became Ford’s he took meticulous notes—probably team’s performance. favorite troubleshooter. mostly in his head. When he had command

50 | Rowan Magazine of the situation through careful observation, Beebe took over. There was no question that he was in charge. While not ignoring any type of racing, the fastest results could be achieved in the stock car racing venues in the South and Midwest because Ford already had well-established programs in both areas. Beebe threw money at the teams, argued with racing circuit officials and occasionally threatened to pull Ford support from stock car racing. In the Daytona 500 stock car race in February 1965—one of the three majors Leo had to win—Ford took the top 13 positions and 19 of the top 21 positions. The first box on his list could be checked off: dominance at Daytona. The Indianapolis 500 had been a disaster for Ford in 1964 as Beebe, new on the job, just looked on and learned. He vowed 1965 would be different. He reorganized the teams, redistributed money, hired more drivers and, with his team, developed an innovation that would change Indy style racing forever: cutting time in a typical pit stop to less than half. With a new fueling system, redesigned wheel locks and a total team effort, Ford and driver Jim Clark won the 1965 Indianapolis 500 and Beebe checked off box number two on his to-do list. The final challenge Only one box remained to be checked: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race that took a terrible toll on men and equipment, a race that Henry Ford II wanted to win more than anything. There wasn’t much chance for the 1965 Le Mans race, but Beebe and his team flew to France right

Summer 2016 | 51 and their various parts started lasting longer. Engines and transmissions were run with reaching Beebe’s goal of lasting 48 hours. Every part of the car was improved and tweaked before the racing fleet was finally shipped to France.

The Le Mans course uses a combination of The winning strategy permanent race circuit and public roads The 24-hour race traditionally begins on a June temporarily closed for the competition. afternoon and ends where it started, with pit stops This illustration shows the race route in measured in seconds throughout the day and night. 1966 on which [A] competitors sped on the Dunlop Curve; [B] a Ford GT40 outpaced a Fifty or more cars contend for the Le Mans title, Ferrari; and [C] a Ford entry navigated the raced by multiple drivers on the closed course Mulsanne Corner hairpin turn. at average speeds above 200 mph. Those who finish the race can log more than 3,000 miles, depending on the conditions. Eight factory Ford GT40 Mark II cars started the 1966 race, but only one had to win to satisfy Henry Ford. Several of the factory Fords and all of the independently entered Fords had dropped out with only hours left in this severe test of drivers and cars. Three factory cars were still running in the pre-dawn, rain-slicked hours when everyone’s nerves were frayed and the cars were being stretched to their limit of endurance. after winning Indianapolis. But by then the Ferrari vehicles were out of the LE MANS CIRCUIT 1966 running and Henry Ford was all but assured of 8.4667M (13.6259KM) They knew they had to try and had to learn from their his win. It would be the first for an American team 1. Start/finish mistakes if they couldn’t win. at Le Mans. 2. Dunlop curve Beebe had only one more year Several hours before the end of the race, the Ford 3. Esse to check off that final box. Through the team started talking about how it would end. Beebe 4. Tertre Rouge end of 1964 and into 1965, the Ford team tweaked their was confident but cautious. The Ken Miles/Denis 5. Mulsanne Straight Le Mans cars, trying different engines, transmissions, Hulme GT40 Mark II number 1 Ford was in the lead 6. Mulsanne Corner brakes and body configurations. The team’s goal was with the Bruce McLaren/Chris Amon number 2 Ford 7. indianapolis CORNER to get the cars to last through 24 hours at high speed running in second place with another factory entry 8. arnage corner without breaking any significant parts. Beebe’s goal several laps behind. Everyone expected the race to 9. maison blanche was 48 hours because the former insurance salesman end with the first two cars in those same two positions. wanted an insurance policy of his own. The 1965 race Le Mans officials approached the team and said they offered hard, valuable lessons. Car by car, the Ford could agree to a tie if Ford wanted that. teams dropped out with failed engines, transmissions Team members expressed opinions but Leo or accidents. While most team members went back to understood that responsibility for the decision their hotels, Leo stayed up all night, as he had done in ultimately rested with him. In an unpublished 1964, listening and watching. interview with noted automotive historian and author Planning for the 1966 Le Mans began the next David Lewis, Beebe said, “Ken Miles, who later died, morning as Leo held what he called a victory meeting regrettably didn’t win the race that year. I had some in a French hotel. He told his team that they would real difficulties over that. But, he was a daredevil and return the next year and win. There was no other I pulled him in and literally engineered the end of that option. Beebe was known in meetings to sit back, race—one, two, three… I called Ken Miles in and held even when he was the leader, and just listen and take him back because I was afraid the drivers would knock notes. When all had said their piece, he would look at one another off. All you need is one good accident everyone and say something like: “I don’t know much and you lose all your investment.” about [insert any subject], but it’s obvious that none of Beebe made the call on the team’s plan to have the you do, either. Now, here’s what we’re going to do.” He three remaining Fords come across the line together, would then rattle off—sometimes without the benefit although an arcane rule at Le Mans in those days of notes—what had to be done, who was going to do would ultimately affect the finish. The rule said that it and—sometimes, exactly how it should be done. if there was a tie, the car that had traveled the furthest The Le Mans committee met every two weeks at in 24 hours, based on its starting position, would be Ford after that and all red tape was eliminated in the the winner. Miles was leading in the number one car Ford bureaucracy. Le Mans was on the front burner at and would have won as long as he crossed the line Ford with all departments involved. Slowly, the cars 100 feet or so in front of McLaren, who had started

52 | Rowan Magazine · Consulted for and advised Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan · Led 1956/1957 relocation of 35,000 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. · Headed efforts to relocate thousands of Cuban refugees in 1960 · Provided day-to-day leadership of the National Association of Businessmen in 1968 with goal of placing 100,000 hardcore unemployed men and women back in the workforce; returned almost 200,000 people to work · Served as leader and board member for Boys Club, Rotary, a Hollywood producer held YMCA, United Way At a White House a casting call for the perfect reception with professor, Beebe would have been President Gerald Was founding member of Ford in 1976, · the first choice with his carefully Reading is Fundamental Beebe was in tailored wool suits, button-down familiar territory, shirts and tweed jackets. Yet, he had some having advised · Sat on boards of directors presidents and for many companies and decidedly nonacademic turns in his career, their staffs including heading up Ford Motor Company’s for decades. three universities racing program during its most successful · Served as president of the period in the 1960s. Beebe came from a Industrial Audio Visual Association working-class family. He hawked newspapers as a boy, sold car insurance at a time when · Was board member, American people didn’t even need it and taught and Academy of Achievement coached in several Michigan school districts. He joined the Glassboro State College faculty · Helped found what became in 1972, helping found the business program. the Rohrer College of Business In 1973, he hosted Henry Ford II as the keynote speaker at GSC’s first Management Institute. · Worked with Dr. Bob Lynch to He became dean in 1977 and retired from form the GSC Management Institute academia in 1985, having helped increase business enrollment ten-fold. He immediately Was twice CEO of K-Tron returned to industry for an encore career and · passed away in 2001. His vast collection of · Served as School of Business dean papers and memorabilia is archived at Rowan for eight years in Glassboro as a special collection in Campbell Library.

Summer 2016 | 53 On Father’s Day in June, 50 years after his dad celebrated the Ford victory over Ferrari at Le Mans, Edsel Ford II watched the new GT take the title again. The win satisfied fans of the American supercar as it did in ’66. As Beebe recalled the result of the Ford-Ferrari rivalry years later, “Ford’s reputation for performance soared.”

several positions behind Miles. Miles backed off as he Same Beebe, different opportunity approached the line, possibly irked by Beebe’s restraint. The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans stands out in racing The McLaren car came across first and would have history in large part because Beebe was in charge. been declared the winner anyway since it had traveled By the time he arrived in Glassboro to guide the farther because of its starting position. The Ford team had won, but many thought the business program, he had also counseled U.S. wrong Ford car had placed first. The racing media presidents, orchestrated major international exploded and the result is still discussed more than humanitarian relief efforts and led business, industry 50 years later. The Ford team, and Leo Beebe as the and civic organizations to innovate in countless ways. man who made the ultimate decision, were both Far from the acrid, noisy racetrack, Beebe invested praised and vilified in the press at the time and the the extraordinary insight from his experience of controversy over the finish line strategy continues international motor sports, corporate leadership and today among die-hard racing fans. public service in another 30 years as an executive, Few at the time understood that Beebe had volunteer and educator. Fifty years later, his example gone back to basics to win for Ford: teamwork was still teaches and inspires. paramount. His instructions from Henry Ford II were clear. Ford needed to win at Le Mans. Not any particular driver, but Ford Motor Company. Beebe, in Frank Comstock ’77 turned to writing fiction and deciding to have the cars come across the line together, nonfiction about 10 years ago after doing technical had secured a win for the team. He had done what he writing for many years. With two published novels, had to do for Henry Ford and his company. He could many short stories and a number of articles, he has check off the third and final box. also won awards for his photography and stained glass.

Beebe, center, and some of his staff. Known for studying details before proposing a plan, he said in 2001, “Our experience at LeMans illustrates the importance of knowing your market and developing the right product for the market.”

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“I will always remember my first patient. providing the opportunity to work with She called me ‘doctor’ since day one… patients early and often. even though I told her that I was not Holly Caten noted: “People love to a doctor.” go to clinic and have their own patients. That's how Marci Fornari described I think that is truly special. You are able the start of her clinical experience at the to provide care to Camden residents Cooper Rowan Clinic. She and several very early on, really get entwined in their classmates told their stories as part of a lives and learn about the city through video history of the first Cooper Medical a patient’s perspective.” School of Rowan University class. Martin Weaver, Jr., one of the co- Located across directors of the student clinic board, said, from Cooper “My patients at the clinic taught me what University Hospital it meant to be a proud member of the See the students’ video stories at in Camden, the clinic Camden community and that the practice rowan.edu/coopermed/TheJourney reflects CMSRU’s of medicine is not purely science but an commitment to art that is influenced by many socio- providing a humanistic education for politico-economic factors. The clinic tomorrow’s physicians. taught me how to be a competent and Students, supervised by clinical faculty, compassionate doctor—skills that I’m sure run the facility and work with patients my future patients will appreciate.” ages 14 and older from Camden who may have no insurance or be underinsured. Sharing success Service in the clinic is mandatory for all Dressed in black caps and gowns medical students during their first three on a warm May day, Fornari, Caten years. On any given day, they may take and Weaver were among 43 students to histories or perform physical exams of graduate as part of the first CMSRU class. people with the kind of conditions for All of those students have stories to tell— which those with adequate insurance stories of sacrifice, grit and, most of all, would see a primary care physician. success. But theirs are not the only stories The clinic is one of the things that that were a part of Commencement 2016 sets CMSRU apart from other medical or the early days of CMSRU. A much schools. It brings to life CMSRU’s mantra: larger story goes beyond individuals “Camden is our classroom. Camden is who one day will deliver babies, remove our home.” And it’s as important to the diseased organs and ensure healthier lives. medical students as it is to the patients, It is the story of a new medical school and reflecting the school’s commitment to the city it calls home.

56 | Rowan Magazine Summer 2016 | 57 “CMSRU—aNd its studeNts— have been the iMpetus for all that creatiNg a partNership followed. “When the State of New Jersey asked, CMSRU is the University responded. There were many conversations of course, but there ceNtral to was no doubt we were going to do this.” the rebirth That’s how Dr. Ali Houshmand, Rowan University president, recalled the phone of the CitY.” calls and meetings with state officials and others in 2009. CoNGressMaN The state’s request was straightforward: DoNald Norcross Partner with Cooper University Health Care to found a new medical school. The state’s expectations were clear: Create a program that prepares physicians with exceptional clinical skills and a commitment to the community, build a school that addresses the health care needs of a city and region. JONATHAN KOLBE JONATHAN “Rowan already was growing in programs and recognition,” Houshmand said. “The request by the state was an under the founding dean, Dr. Paul Katz, opportunity we had not dreamed of, who had facilitated the start of The but it was one we knew was critical for Commonwealth Medical College in our school and region.” Scranton as its vice dean. His team The partners built the medical school included other administrators with experience starting and leading medical school programs. It was not an easy process. Tackling something that complex while so many are watching never is. But both Rowan and Cooper brought much to the table, not least of which were the vision to see what could be, the drive to make it happen and committed leaders and staff eager to expand 21st century medical education in New Jersey. CMSRU evaluated more than 3,000 applications from students who wanted to take a chance on the brand new medical school. In the summer of 2012, it welcomed 50 students, men and women from New Jersey and beyond, many with nontraditional backgrounds, some pursuing second careers, some from

JONATHAN KOLBE JONATHAN underrepresented populations in medicine.

58 | Rowan Magazine Some people would say, “And the rest well as studying anatomy and diagnosing Above: Brian McCauley discusses is history.” But the truth is, the opening illnesses based on symptoms. Together, a new medication with his patient of CMSRU was just the start. they contributed more than 7,000 service at the Cooper Rowan Clinic. hours to their adopted hometown. Opposite: midway through their boLsteriNg coMMuNity Katz likened most medical schools in medical education, Rebecca Lowy Perhaps it’s easy to look at the the United States to Starbucks, where you and Alexandra Vrancik harvested greens to share with Camden six-story medical school on South can get a predictable cup of coffee. neighbors as part of the students’ Broadway, close to Cooper University “I think we were very intentional in the service learning commitment. Hospital, and assess it in isolation. kind of medical school we wanted,” the Here’s where a relatively small group of dean said. “We wanted to distinguish students came to study. But the students ourselves in the shadow of five medical came to study in a place where they schools in Philadelphia and three in believed they could make a contribution. New Jersey.” They have not studied in isolation, nor To do that meant attracting students will the others who follow them. eager to provide care to underserved Opened in 2012, the partnership of communities, flourish in an innovative Rowan and Cooper has from its formative environment and strive to be physician days emphasized providing students with leaders. the first-class academic training needed for them to become outstanding clinicians chaNge oNgoiNg and instilling in them a commitment to Buildings are going up. Buildings are serve the community. coming down. Students’ days were filled with There’s a life cycle of sorts playing out mentoring youngsters in their adopted in the City of Camden right now. Some city and providing health care services as abandoned structures have given way to housing. Some empty lots are now home Medical and Health Sciences Education to community gardens. The eds-and-meds Restructuring Act to develop educational presence, that colloquial reference to and research assets to support growth in education and health care, is growing, the regional health care arena. and opening CMSRU was a pivotal stage “The medical school is an anchor for in the process. the eds-and-meds corridor,” Kolluri said. “What makes the school so important Make no mistake, Camden already for the city and its residents is its focus was a player in health care and education. on urban health and urban health care Cooper University Health Care has served services. The vision that all of us have the city since 1887. Our Lady of Lourdes for an eds-and-meds corridor starts with Medical Center dominates the landscape a context-sensitive development and context-sensitive services. When you are talking about urban development, it is very important to make sure the project is relatable to the community and provides access to members of the community. CMSRU is on the forefront of this thinking.” Richard Stagliano, president and CEO of the Center for Family Services, agrees. The nonprofit human services agency he has led for 35 years, headquartered in 14 historic houses on Benson Street about a half block from CMSRU, shares the medical school’s commitment to the city and its residents. “There have been many starts and stops in terms of how to rejuvenate this city,” Stagliano said. “I see the medical school as sort of a beacon of hope, the

JONATHAN KOLBE JONATHAN transformation of Broadway and the downtown area, the transformation of our neighborhood here. It’s a symbol of the Above: Each year, students spend in the Parkside section of town. Virtua renaissance happening here in the city. time shadowing physicians at Cooper Camden is nearby. The world-renowned “It’s the way Rowan and Cooper are University Hospital during Week on Coriell Institute for Medical Research the Wards, a program supporting going about it,” he added. “They are not has been making advances in scientific CMSRU’s commitment to providing just in an ivory tower. They are engaged students with early and ongoing studies for six decades. Rowan has had a in the community.” patient care exposure. campus in the city since 1969, and Rutgers- Today, the change in a city that has Camden’s predecessors—South Jersey Law Opposite: The charter class marched gone through decades of ups and downs to its Commencement ceremony in School and the College of South Jersey— is highly visible. Camden in a procession of students, date to the 1920s. • The Rowan/Rutgers-Camden faculty and leadership from Rowan Board is developing a Joint Health and its primary CMSRU partner, Working in a 140-square-foot office Science Center at Broadway and Cooper University Health Care. at 200 Federal Street, three floors above Martin Luther King Boulevard, to be shared by Rowan and Rutgers. downtown Camden, Kris Kolluri has as • New student housing, one-, good a handle as anyone on the impact two- and three-bedroom CMSRU has had on health care and the city. apartments with hardwood floors Kolluri is CEO of the Rowan University/ and an onsite café, faces the Rutgers-Camden Board of Governors, medical school. the body created by the 2012 New Jersey • Rowan, in conjunction with the

60 | Rowan Magazine Camden County Improvement Authority, plans to build a 1,000- car parking garage as part of the planning and build-out of the medical school. • Rutgers is constructing a school of nursing near the Walter Rand Transportation Center. All of this will impact the economy of the region. Eds and meds are the largest employers in many large cities, the segment with the fastest-growing job categories. In Camden, almost 40 percent of jobs are in these fields. “Cooper Medical School of Rowan University is an integral part of the redevelopment of our city,” said Camden Mayor Dana Redd. “CMSRU brought more educational opportunities and greater access to health care services to our community. It also brought more jobs and construction to Camden. This medical school is helping to transform its hometown and is improving the quality of life for our residents in many ways.

CMSRU has been a catalyst for change.” KOLBE JONATHAN U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross, who as a state senator guided all the legislative steps now bearing fruit in classes and now enrolls 305 students. For “You are the class entering in August 2016, more Camden’s renaissance, agrees. “CMSRU— the first and its students—have been the impetus than 5,900 people applied for admission to for all that followed. CMSRU is central CMSRU, which accepted 88. The Liaison taNgible Committee for Medical Education, the to the rebirth of the city.” evideNce of Perhaps Gov. Chris Christie said it best nationally recognized accrediting body for addressing graduates at Commencement: medical education programs leading to CamdeN’s the Doctor of Medicine degree in the U.S. “You are the first tangible evidence of futuRe.” Camden’s future.” and Canada, in June awarded CMSRU the highest level of accreditation available to a GoverNor medical school in the United States. growiNg SucCess Chris Christie On a warm May day, in front of Houshmand is part academic, part hundreds of family members, friends, visionary, part collaborator and part proud faculty and dignitaries—including Gov. father when he assesses the graduates, the Christie—the first class graduated. people who made their education possible These new doctors now are spread and the future. across the country, at places like Walter “That Rowan had a role in creating a Reed National Military Medical Center medical school in New Jersey, that in Washington, D.C., the University of we are contributing to such an important Southern California in Los Angeles and city as Camden, that we are educating Cooper University Hospital. They plan the next generations of physicians— to practice family medicine, emergency this has been rewarding, of course. medicine, surgery and more. It also has created new opportunities for These new physicians are just the start. our distinguished University. I couldn’t CMSRU has welcomed increasingly larger be more proud.” ■

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husband, Ronald, have 40s 50s two children and two grandchildren. One Sara Foster Roberts ’43 Jesse Leroy Bright ’50 grandchild is Christopher lives in Sea Isle City and resides in Glassboro and Napoleon ’19, a Rowan spends the winter in owns Land of Canaan engineering student. Louisiana with family. Cemetery in Elk Township. He is a former Don Fague ’52 spends his Riletta Twyne Cream ’44 Glassboro School Board time painting landscapes served as an elementary member and served as a and participating in school teacher, supervisor, counselor and teacher church activities. principal and Camden for 44 years in County freeholder Joan Ebert Marcell ’52 Philadelphia schools. throughout her career. retired in 1993 after Dolores Bryant Johnson ’51 being awarded with Florence Ferrarie ’45 takes part in missionary Teacher of the Year from retired 30 years ago and activities with senior Washington Elementary spends winters in citizen groups. School in Bergenfield. Palmetto, Fla. She has two children, Phyllis Mae Kuhlthau Marie Angello Fitzpatrick six grandchildren and Pall ’51 taught in Japan Warner ’45 enjoys one great-grandchild. from 1967-1970. retirement by traveling Carmella Spallone with her husband. They Emily Sciarrotta Conti ’52 Roadarmel ’52 moved to live in Silver Spring, Md. is an active member of Florida after retiring Phyllis Hitchner Cramer ’47 Mercer County Retired from the Maple Shade has traveled to every state Educators. She and her School District in 1992. except Alaska. She belongs to the California Retired Teachers Association and Travelers Joy, a Japanese drumming ensemble. She has 10 great-grandchildren. Grace Downer ’47 retired in 1985 after teaching for Farewell to 31 years in New Jersey, Texas and Pennsylvania. Coach Wackar She has volunteered with The University community the American Red Cross, the Ocean County lost legendary professor, coach WGLS inducts new Hall of Famers and mentor Richard Wackar Historical Society and the in August at press time. Community Medical Family and friends celebrated with WGLS staff and Center in Toms River. students in April as the station welcomed its newest Plans for a memorial service Hall of Fame inductees, Omarey Williams ’07, during the Profs football season Barbara Dacy ’48 is still Kelly Viseltear ’97 and Ken Kopakowski ’79, are under way. taking classes after M’99. Started in 2005, the Hall of Fame honors For information, please visit teaching for 40 years. graduates, faculty and staff who have been alumni.rowan.edu or call Arlene Drake Measely ’49 instrumental in the growth and development of 856-256-5400. retired after 26 years in WGLS-FM and have been long-term supporters of the station and Rowan University. education.

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Golden Years celebrates 1. BACK: Louise Chinnici ’55, Carl Scheetz ’56, Barbara Castelli DeRuchie ’59, Jean Lang Stelmach ’58, veteran educators Robert Gerardi ’55, M’63, Edward Colangelo ’55, Donald Farnelli ’59, Elinor Lubin Bernstein ’58, Alberta Joe Chinnici ’55, M’64, Harry Beaudet ’54, Robert Freno ’57, Binaghi Harnyak ’58. FRONT: Etta Jane Wigglesworth Alumni who graduated 50 W. Robert Smith ’57. MIDDLE: Leroy Bright ’50, M’68, Heiser ’60, Doris Ledden Tice ’59, Maryanne Spiesz or more years ago returned Emily Conti ’52, Janet Bussom ’56, Constance Mazzola ’56, Brown ’59, Marjorie Hamilton-Bill ’58, Marion Loew to campus for a special Caroline Freno ’57, Priscilla Riegel Flynn ’57, Moore ’58, Alma Young Dobson ’59, Rita Barker Krall reunion including breakfast Laura Ferral Boyd ’58, M’76, Janet Nutt Gibbins ’54, ’59, Marven Hill ’59, M’66. and a tour of the College of Ben Lynch ’53, M’63. FRONT: Virginia Lutz Scheetz ’56, 4. BACK: Patricia Frudden Cottrell ’66, Harriett Reardon Education at James Hall. At Anita Eberhart ’55, Dolores Johnson ’51, Florence Bailey ’60, M’66, Constance Lechowitz ’67, Cyril Dunn ’62, the Golden Years luncheon, Ritter Ferrarie ’45, Marilyn Campbell Plasket ’50, M’71, Ed Bouvier ’61. MIDDLE: Judy DiJoseph Fields ’66, Josephine Campbell Carson ’55, Theresa Guadagno the Alumni Association Lorraine Meschi-Ollek ’66, Carrol Matwiow DeMarco ’66, Winslow ’55, M’70, Riletta Twyne Cream ’48. recognized the 2016 Lifetime Elaine Doherty Ansink ’60, Geraldine Bernard ’66 Service Award recipients, 2. Lifetime Service Award honoree Joseph Renzulli ’58, Barclay, Robert Kirkbride ’62, M’66, John Gruccio ’61, Dr. Joseph Renzulli ’58 and College of Education Dean Monika Shealey. M’65, D’73. FRONT: Ann Louise Furman Grippo ’66, Dr. Robert Belle ’58. Olivia DiRico ’62, Anne McGroarty Heck ’64, Richard 3. BACK: Ed Markman ’58, M’70, William Horton ’59, Klimek ’63, Mary Cocove Lamey ’63, M’83, Janice Kilby Eugene McCann ’59, M’69, Bill Pentony ’59, M’63, Robert Witting ’65. Belle Jr. ’58, Joseph Renzulli ’58, Joan Markman ’58. MIDDLE: Joyce Hoffman Cooper ’58, M’97, Martha Swain 5. College of Education Dean Monika Shealey, Norbury ’58, Helen Shannon Kunicki ’58, Lifetime Service Award honoree Robert Belle ’58.

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Alta Dill Bogush ’53 had a Josephine Campbell Nancy Froelicher ’55 lives career as a teacher and Carson ’55 retired in in a senior health care writer, teaching in New 1991 from Vineland apartment in Moorestown Jersey, Missouri and Development Center as and enjoys gardening, Massachusetts and a speech therapist and reading, acrylic painting writing and editing teacher of the and writing. numerous papers and handicapped. book manuscripts. Robert J. Gerardi Sr. ’55 Joseph Chinnici ’55 and spends time selling Bernard “Ben” Lynch ’53 Louise Chinnici ’55 both vintage sheet music on received the Lifetime volunteer as ESL teachers eBay after a 57-year career Service Award from the and enjoy spending time in education. Dr. Gerardi Small world on the high seas Rowan University with their four children, worked in eight states in GSC grads Diane Lisa Mazzei ‘69 and Rose Dobosz Alumni Association in nine grandchildren and various capacities and Daku ‘66 met while on a cruise to Greece. 2015. He retired as one great-grandchild. was an adjunct at eight See note, p. 66. principal of Highland Both Joseph and Louise universities. Regional High School in are retired from teaching. Janet Bussom ’56 and Elizabeth Lee Dias for the St. Andrews Blackwood. Ed Colangelo ’55 served Charles Bussom ’72 Haarlander ’57 and her Episcopal Church in Laurel Dirkes Nealer ’53 two years in an Aviation celebrated their 60th husband divide their Bridgeton and 25 years retired in 1996 and Army unit in Korea after wedding anniversary time between Tortola, as a part-time announcer spends the summer at graduating. While at in June. British Virgin Islands, for radio station WSNJ Lake Garrison in then-GSC, he was the and the Jersey Shore. in Bridgeton. class president both Carl Scheetz ’56 and Monroeville. Robert Belle ’58 received freshman and sophomore Virginia Lutz Scheetz ’56 Katherine Bixby Nix ’57 the Alumni Association’s Janet Nutt Gibbins ’54 has years. He retired 20 years live in Ocean City and enjoys volunteer work, Lifetime Service Award a grandson graduating ago after teaching and celebrate their 60th playing bridge, reading at the 2016 Golden Years from Rowan in 2016 and a coaching for 41 years. wedding anniversary and spending time with granddaughter who plans this year. her great-grandchildren. Reunion. He directs two Anita Eberhart ’55 retired Southern Regional to attend Rowan. in 1997 after 42 years Priscilla Riegel Flynn ’57 is W. Robert Smith ’57 retired Education Board Anthony Razzano ’54 and teaching first, second and on the Board of Elders in 2015 after serving in programs: the SREB- JoAnn Perrino Razzano ’56 third grades and working and in the choir at the many positions: 22 years State Doctoral Scholars have been married for with a child study team as Woodbury Presbyterian as a Methodist church Program and the SREB 60 years. They have three a learning disabilities Church. She has four pastor, 27 years as a Alliances for Graduate children and seven teacher consultant in Egg children and five Millville teacher, 25 years Education and the grandchildren. Harbor Township. grandchildren. as administrative assistant Professoriate Doctoral Scholars Program. Prior 1 2 to joining SREB, he served as the director of the Office of Federal TRIO Programs for the U.S. Department of Education. Elinor Bardfeld Bernstein ’58 retired after teaching elementary school in Vineland for 28 years. She also volunteered for the American Red Cross and mentored elementary SOM friends and foodies grads gather children for 17 years. SOM alumni and friends met in June for lunch, networking and a cooking demonstration at Basilico, Marjorie Hamilton Bill ’58 the Italian cuisine favorite in Millburn. retired in 1994 after 1. Abigail Herron DO’05, Staci Kallish DO’05 and Stacy Thompson DO’05. teaching for 27 years in 2. Daniel Conte DO’86, Martin Blackwell DO’88, David Bollard DO’86, Michael Ruzek DO’10, Heba Zaky, Upper Pittsgrove Ira Monka DO’84 and Gloria Canizales DO ’13. Township, Daretown, Monroeville, Pittsgrove

64 | Rowan Magazine Township, Johnstone, Alberta Binaghi Hornyak Martha Swain Norbury ’58 Maryanne Spiesz Brown ’59 Deerfield Township ’58 is a member of two taught for 27 years in works with children as a and Olivet. singing groups: The Lower Township, Cape member of St. Mary’s Grandparent Association Joyce Hoffman Cooper ’58, Notables and Coro Lirico. May and Millville. She She has four children and has one daughter, three in Buena, where she M’59 is a retired teacher served as president and and celebrates 60 years four grandchildren. grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. vice president. of marriage to her Edmund Markman ’58 husband, Paul, They has an educational Joseph Renzulli ’58 Robert Colangelo ’59 have two children, five consulting business received the Alumni retired in 2000 after grandchildren and two and works with charter Association’s Lifetime 23 years as a teacher and great-grandchildren. schools that receive Service Award at the 2016 administrator in East Brunswick and as an Rose Forcinito ’58 is a funding through the Golden Years Reunion. administrator in Webster book lifelong member of St. No Child Left Behind He is a professor of Freehold Township. Charlene Webster ’95 Mary Magdalen Church and Individuals with educational psychology He has two sons and published Discovery, in Millville and also the Disabilities Education at the University of lives in Naples, Fla., her first novel. parish organist. She and acts. He is married to Connecticut, where he with his wife, Ginny. See note, p. 74. her husband, Peter V. Joan Markman ’58, who also serves as director Forcinito ’58, have been retired after a successful of the Neag Center for Barbara Castelli DeRuchie married for 56 years and teaching career and is a Creativity, Gifted ’59 retired after 35 years spending time with have three children and partner in her husband’s Education and Talent of teaching. She enjoys friends, family and her two grandchildren. business. Development. traveling, reading, and three grandchildren.

Alma Young Dobson ’59 1 2 spent 33 years teaching and now spends time with her three children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Donald A. Farnelli ’59 retired after 52 years as a Rowan professor of astrophysics and the earth sciences. He is 3 4 the University’s longest- tenured faculty member and served as Commence- ment grand marshal through 2016. Marven Hill ’59 is retired and lives in Atlantic City with his wife and two sons. Three generations of his family are Rowan graduates: his mother-in- Alumni return to mentor and inspire law, Leona Jackson Hayes Volunteering their time and expertise, 1. PROS alumni panel: Daniel Errera ’12, Jake Brown ’13, ’70; his wife, B. Devolia Hill alumni from the Peer Referral and Kara Ohlson ’12, Dayna Silver Ensminger ’09, John Stephan ’08 ’80 and his daughter, Orientation Staff, Rec Center student 2. What’s Next? panel: Anthony Phillips ’84, Sherri Eldridge ’13, Melanie Hill White ’01, M’12. staff, and panels from the Black Alumni Terry Henry ’85, Angelique Hilton ’15, Paul Hilton ’83, He is a member of Alpha Reunion Committee and Student Alumni Joana Allie-Hopkins ’86, Sherrie Hicks ’85, M’99, M’15, Theta Lambda Chapter Association came back to campus to meet Melanie Burney ’84, Francisco Morales ’99, Derek Jones ’01, M’03 of Alpha Phi Alpha with students. Drawing on experience that 3. Surviving Your 20s panel: Brighid Burgin ’12, Saleem Wright ’07, Fraternity and The began in college, they offered advice about Beth Burnston ’10, Benjamin Donia ’15, Shannon Hug ’09 Golden Circle of South getting careers started, making changes 4. Rec Center alumni panel: Sara Tsivikis Solecki ’10, Ed Dean ’09, Jersey, a senior citizens and making the most of their oportunities. Kyle Rosa ’12, Bridgette McMahon ’11, Kevin McMahon ’06 social club.

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William Horton ’59 retired tours and training Castelli DeRuchie ’59, as superintendent of adolescents. She lives in Judy Silver Hoffman ’59, Pitman schools. the Cornelia Hancock Anita Mikytuck ’59, house in Salem and Anne Weidner Gill ’59, Rita Barker Krall ’59 retired chairs Cornelia Hancock/ and Judy Bodener ’60 after 41 years teaching Civil War Weekend. have gathered for fourth, fifth and sixth monthly lunches since grades, and as a principal, Jean Tomasella Vanderford graduating. in Atlantic City. She ’59 retired as a district earned a master’s degree administrator from Rose Dobosz Daku ‘66 from Villanova University. Burbank, Calif., schools. and her husband, Walter Daku, met a couple for Generations of Rowan family pride Eugene McCann ’59, M’69 She is still involved in the first time on a 2015 At Bunce Hall to celebrate another graduation, taught in Vineland from education as a writer and cruise in Greece. The the Damiri clan: Carl Lange ’98, Danielle Sharples 1959 through 1971, when publisher of over 260 couple: Diane Lisa Mazzei Lange ’08, Valerie Gambino ’16, John Damiri ’16, he became a united books for teaching basic ‘69 and her husband, John Kathleen Lange Damiri ’89, M’11, Peter Damiri ’89, service representative at skills. She lives in Mazzei ‘69. They enjoyed Carol Lange ’93 and Darren Boyle ’89 (Mary Hewitt the New Jersey Southern California with reminiscing about their Damiri ’91, M’01, not pictured). See note, p. 74. Education Association, her husband of 47 years. times at GSC. Rose He served in that post retired from working for for 28 years, retiring in the federal government Dr. Libro’s latest book of John P. Gruccio ’61, M’65, 1999. He is married and after 25 years. She and poetry, The Carpenter’s M’73 retired after 25 years has five children and 60s her husband have three Lament in Winter, is as a teacher, principal 11 grandchildren. daughters and six available from Finishing and chief school William Pentony ’59, M’63 Harriett Reardon Bailey ’60 grandchildren. They Line Press or Amazon. administrator, as well as retired in 1992 after a plans to open the Endicott live in Olney, Md. Sandra Clifford Eck ’61 director of education at career in education. Reardon Family Museum Leesburg State Prison. Antoinette C. Libro ’60, retired in 2002 after in Ocean View this fall. He served as deputy Doris Ledden Tice ’59 M’67 received the teaching and keeps up is a retired guidance EttaJane Wigglesworth Lifetime Service Award with NEA and NJEA coordinator of Vineland’s counselor but is still Heiser ’60, Maryanne from the Alumni through local retired Office of Emergency involved with school Speisz Brown ’59, Barbara Association in 2014. teachers. Management for 29 years. Cy Dunn ’62 taught high school and college after 1 2 graduating from GSC as class president. He is enjoying retirement in Forked River.

Robert Kirkbride ’62 taught junior high until 1973 when he obtained a real estate license and began working in the real estate profession full time.

And they’re off—in the first Alumni 5K 3 Grace Kuebler Sheppard ’62 More than 250 alumni, family and friends ran retired after 51 years through campus for the inaugural Run For Rowan of teaching. 5K in April. Runners and sponsors raised more Nancy C. Smith ’62 travels than $5,000 to support the Rowan University with senior citizen Emergency Scholarship Fund. Save the date for groups from Glassboro. the 2017 Run for Rowan 5K: Saturday, April 22. Richard Klimek ’63 1. Robert Taclan ’12 leads the way. retired from Burlington City 2. Whoo RU, Kristina Ryder M’12 High School. He was 3. Some of the day’s winners: Jim Ryan, Evan Stone ’13, Jeannine Dowd ’03, Charlie Grab ’17 inducted into the Burlington City Athletic

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University and studied at wedding anniversary her husband and the New School for this year. volunteers for Habitat Social Research. for Humanity. Carol Matwiow DeMarco Lorraine T. Carr ’65 is ’66 retired in 2009 after a Mary Angresano Voskian enjoying retirement after 39-year teaching career in ’66 taught elementary teaching kindergarten Buena Regional School education for 25 years and Pre-K for 25 years. District. She and her and has lived in Vienna husband, Leonard, have and London. Eleanor Evanouskas Kover been married for 52 years ’65 taught for 29 years in and have two children. Edison Township, 25 as a reading specialist for Judy DiJoseph Fields ’66 taught for 25 years and 70s grades K–8. now enjoys traveling. Benjamin Pulcrano ’65, Kathleen Big California mountain, small Rowan world who spent the past 21 Judith Gustafson Isaksen Woodruff At top of the Wisdom Tree Trail in Burbank, years as an instructor ’66 is enjoying retirement Wickham ’71 Calif., Patrick Bean ’11, Lauren Avon and Maria at Georgian Court and has traveled to China, is a professor Wilson ’07 took a break. Out on her own hike University, is the author Russia, Italy and France. at The University of with another Rowan grad, Maria Brasco ’15, right, of 10 local history During the summer, she Mississippi where she has noticed they had Rowan bag and knew the manuscripts. He is works at the Ocean Grove taught for 17 years. This surprise Rowan rendevous deserved a snapshot. celebrating 50 years of Beach office. past year, Dr. Wickham lectured at the Sorbonne marriage with Sharon A. Gloria Van Steyn Mohr ’66 on civil rights issues. She Pulcrano ’65, who is taught elementary grades Hall of Fame, the South Anne McGroarty Heck ’64 has published articles in retired and works for over 29 years in Jersey Soccer Hall of taught first grade, second American Journalism and part-time at auctions. Indiana, New Jersey Fame, and the Soccer grade and children with Newspaper Research and Illinois. Coaches Association of learning disabilities for Marie Marino Adair ’66 Journal. Her fourth book, New Jersey Hall of Fame. 11 years. She married her is executive director Barbarasue Pratt The Time of Your Sadness, He has two sons and two husband, Tim, in 1974 of the New Jersey Schmidt ’66 and her is due out in 2017. She grandchildren. and had a son in 1977. Association for Super- husband celebrated once worked at the vision and Curriculum their 50th wedding Atlantic City Press and the Barbara Hafenmaier She is now partially Development. She has anniversary in April. Newark Star-Ledger. Kyritsis ’63 retired after retired from their received several They have three children more than 30 years as company, Holt Realty. Mary Ritzer Christianson outstanding director and one grandchild. an elementary teacher C. Richard Miller ’64 is awards, including the ’72 and Linda Romano in the West Windsor- retired and enjoying life ASCD Affiliate of Nancye Davies Tuttle ’66 Gardner ’72 visited Rowan Plainsboro Regional in Boynton Beach, Fla. Excellence award. works as a freelance for the first time in over School District and writer for several New 40 years. They toured Hamilton Township in Carol Stuart ’64 earned Robert H. Bakley ’66, M’69 England newspapers. Mimosa Hall, where they Mercer County. a master’s degree from retired in 1998 after 32 She lives in Maine with lived the year it opened. Lehigh University years of teaching in Mary Cocove Lamey ’63, and a six-year profes- Collingswood and M’83 taught as an adjunct sional diploma from The Cherry Hill. He writes at Rowan and Rutgers University of Connecti- patriotic and historic and now enjoys traveling cut. She taught literature, stories for local with Richard Klimek ’63. environmental science newspapers and lives Eva Borden Wincek ’63 is and geography to in Sea Isle City with retired. She and her elementary school his wife, Bonnie. students. husband were honored Pat Fradden Cottrell ’66 as the 2015 County Joseph Anastasia ’65 retired in 2006 after Volunteers of the Year retired in 1994 after being awarded Teacher in Albany, N.Y. teaching psychology and of the Year in Mine Hill A warm Warner Bros. welcome Frances Ziegler Garrity ’64 sociology at Long Township. She is a Sue Kroll ’83, Warner Bros. Pictures president, retired after 52 years in Branch Senior High bicyclist and traveler Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, made education and enjoys School. He earned a along with her husband, time for lunch with R/T/F major Erin Cahill ’17 spending time with her master’s degree in 1968 with whom she is during her summer internship in Los Angeles. grandchildren. from West Virginia celebrating their 50th

68 | Rowan Magazine Water Bottle Giveaway Homecoming Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night Wednesday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, 2 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. Women's Soccer vs. John Jay College Football vs. Salisbury University Men's Basketball vs. Eastern University Soccer Stadium Wackar Stadium Esby Gym Free Rowan Athletics water bottle to See page 77 for details. Faculty and staff pregame reception first 100 students with ID. and recognition at halftime. Water Bottle Giveaway Friday Night Lights Wednesday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m. Ugly Sweater Day Friday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m. Men's Soccer vs. Rutgers-Camden Saturday, Dec. 10, 1 p.m. Football vs. William Paterson University, Soccer Stadium Women's Basketball vs. Montclair State University Wackar Stadium Free Rowan Athletics water bottles to first Esby Gym Ugly sweater competition for Beats headphones. Pregame inflatables, free food, halftime contests 100 students with ID. and fireworks. Gift card and T-shirt giveaways. Gold Rush Match National Girls & Women in Sports Day Break the Record Thursday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, 1 p.m. Women's Volleyball vs. Stockton University Women's Basketball vs. The College of New Jersey Field Hockey vs. Eastern University Esby Gym Esby Gym Wackar Stadium Fans, wear your Rowan gold. Free T-shirts to Pregame activities for youth up to grade eight. first 100 students with ID. Free food and serving Help Rowan break the NCAA Division III competition for Apple watch and more. Unified Sports Night attendance record of 2,381! Cell phone wallet Wednesday, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. giveaway and Fitbit halftime competition. Cross Country Alumni Day Men's Basketball vs. The College of New Jersey $15,000 Soccer Shot Saturday, Oct. 15, (races start at 11 a.m.) Esby Gym Inter-Regional Border Battle Wednesday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m. Unified Sports Club will be honored during pregame West Campus Women's Soccer vs. New Jersey City warmups and will play a game at halftime. Alumni honored between races and Soccer Stadium at 3 p.m. reception. $10,000 Half-Court Shot/Alumni Day One student with ID in attendance will Saturday, Feb. 4, 3 p.m. have the chance to win $15,000 during the Unified Sports Night halftime competition. Men's Basketball vs. New Jersey City University Monday, Oct. 17, 5 p.m. Esby Gym Women’s Volleyball Alumni Night Men's Soccer vs. Brooklyn College One lucky fan will have the chance to hit a Soccer Stadium Friday, Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m. half-court shot for $10,000. Alumni reception Unified Sports athletes recognition and after the game. Women's Volleyball vs. Frostburg State University game at halftime. Free soccer stress balls. Esby Gym Football Alumni Career Day/ Alumni will be honored during the match Military Appreciation Day Spring Practice and reception afterward. Saturday, Nov. 5, 1 p.m. Friday, April 7 Football vs. Kean University Men’s Soccer Alumni Night Alumni Career Day (4-6 p.m.) Wackar Stadium Spring Practice (6-8 p.m.) Saturday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. Active military and veterans receive free Wackar Stadium Men's Soccer vs. William Paterson University admission with ID and will be honored Alumni social at Landmark Americana Soccer Stadium during the game. Free Rowan Athletics Tap & Grill at when? Dinner reception at 5:30 p.m. and alumni camo rally towel to first 100 students honored at halftime. Free cell phone wallet with ID. to first 200 students with ID. Kids Day Fan Appreciation Night Saturday, Dec. 3, 1 & 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 4, 7 p.m. Women's Basketball vs. William Paterson University (1 p.m.) Field Hockey vs. The College of New Jersey Men's Basketball vs. William Paterson University (3 p.m.) Free T-shirts to first 150 students with ID. Esby Gym Halftime competition for a flat-screen TV. Photos with Santa. Shooting for Santa Toy Drive.

MEN & WOMEN’S SOCCER Saturday, April 22, 3 p.m. Soccer Stadium Athletics alums BASEBALL WOMEN’S LACROSSE MEN’S BASKETBALL Head coach are invited back Saturday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Scott Baker (men’s) to competition Baseball field West Campus Esby Gym [email protected] on friendly Head coach Head coach Head coach 856-256-4684 home turf Mike Dickson Linsday Delaney Joe Crispin Scott Leacott (women’s) throughout the [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] sports seasons. 856-256-4687 856-256-4680 856-256-4672 856-256-4694

Contact WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SOFTBALL FIELD HOCKEY FOOTBALL (FLAG GAME) coaches for Friday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, 10 a.m. Sunday, April 9, 4 p.m. Saturday, June 17, 3 p.m. more info. Esby Gym Softball field Wackar Stadium Wackar Stadium Head coach Head coach Head coach Head coach Gabby Lisella Kim Wilson Michelle Andre Jay Accorsi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 856-256-4681 856-256-4688 856-256-4891 856-256-5466 class notes

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President’s Forum friends President and Mrs. Houshmand hosted the 1. Kavita Gupta, D.O. ’98 and Sanjay Gupta, M.D. largest gathering of President’s Forum friends 2. Dana and Anthony Marino ’02, M’03. at The Union League in Philadelphia this 3. Rosemarie and Joseph Matranga ’80, M’14. spring. The annual reception brings together 4. President Ali Houshmand, Patricia ’87 and Joseph Miskel ’87, Farah Houshmand. alumni, corporate and foundation allies and 5. Kathleen and Joseph Wisniewski Jr. ’84. regional leaders to celebrate Rowan successes 6. Michael Vernamonti ’09, President Ali Houshmand, William Moen, Jr. ’09. and to inspire support for more ambitious 7. President Ali and Farah Houshmand with Diane ’74 and Craig Welburn. achievements. 8. Sean ’05 and Ivena Fischer.

70 | Rowan Magazine Albert Morgan School social studies and students navigate the ’73 celebrated supervisor, was an challenges of financing a his 30th adjunct instructor in the college education. He also anniversary college. Upon retirement, founded the Future Stars as pastor of Bridgeton’s they endowed the Ida and Foundation, a nonprofit Union Baptist Temple Jeff Margolis Medallion that provides scholarships Church on May 22. Former in Multicultural to students who find classmates attended a Education in the college. creative ways to celebrate daylong service honoring Cynthia Mather Crowthers their cultural heritage. him. Known as “God’s ’76 retired in June 2015 Mailman,” Pastor after teaching for almost ’80s all over again Morgan has a congrega- 40 years, most of them in tion of more than 1,500, Medford’s Taunton Forge Laurie Dodd’s 35-year-old GSC sweatshirt brought 80s vintage style to a mini-reunion in Savannah, Ga., the largest church Elementary School, Diane Massa Shulman ’84, Marylynn membership in Bridgeton. where she taught various Frances Frola in April. DeMarco Murray ’86, Julie Altieri Follis ’84, A former Vineland grades. She lives in Laurel Wise ’81, impact Jacqueline Inferrara Hesketh ’84, Laurie Kofod Dodd schools educator, he has Springs with her husband, manager for ’84 and Jackie Pizzi Dorflaufer ’84had a great time also served as a Bridgeton Roy, and two sons, Patrick United Way of and are eager for their next adventure. City Council member. Crowthers ’07 and Robert Greater Philadelphia and Jeff Margolis M’75and Ida Crowthers ’10. Southern New Jersey, Margolis M’75 Ann Rempkowski Rizzi ’77 was inducted into the were Michelle Roberts teams at Gander Hill Atlantic County Women’s honored by the Collier- retired in November 2015 Jones ’82 is a Prison in Wilmington, after 39 years of service in Hall of Fame in March. Lee Chapter of Hadassah Delaware Del. Previously, she the judiciary. Her last The county organization for their outstanding Department of served 21 years as an position was assistant recognizes women who community achievement Corrections internal investigator for the and leadership. Jeff was manager of the Middlesex have made outstanding affairs investigator at Camden County County Superior Court’s achievements and an academic advisor and the James T. Vaughn Prosecutor’s Office, Criminal Division. significant contributions adjunct faculty member Correctional Facility, retiring in 2011. During to women’s and girls’ in Rowan’s College of Gerald N. Covella ’79 is Smyrna, Del. The first those 21 years, the New causes or in community Education and was president of the College female to serve in this Jersey Police Training endeavors. Fran has elected to the Wall of Funding Authority. The position, she trained with Commission certified her worked with United Way Fame three times. Ida, a organization, located in the critical incident and as a physical training retired Ocean City High Vineland, helps parents for more than 20 years. hostage negotiations instructor for the Camden County Police 1 2 Academy. She was also a member of the hostage negotiations team and worked part-time as a mental health therapist at the South Jersey Behavior Resources Center in Camden. John Bertagnolli DO’83 is president of the SOM Alumni Association. Alumni catch Phillies phun 3 Dr. Bertagnolli is an The Alumni Association welcomed more than 200 associate professor of grads and friends to Citizens Bank Park when the family medicine at SOM. Phillies hosted the Braves in May. A pregame party He has received the and other amenities made the outing a winner. American Osteopathic Association’s Mentor of 1. ’16 grads attended their first alumni event. the Year award. 2. Marianne Venezia ’14 , Raymond Santiago ’14 Ira Monka DO ’84 received 3. Thomas Hagen ’78, Michael Riggs ’78, Gene Miller ’78, the 2016 SOM M’97, William Alvaro M’98. Distinguished Alumni Award at Commencement

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he was named Physician she is the immediate of the Year by the New past president of the Jersey Association of New Jersey chapter. Physicians and Surgeons. Wayne Carlsen DO ’86 Lori Wells ’84, M’94 retired announces the March from public education in birth of his first grandchild, October after 30 years of Kenna Lee Wilson. service. She spent the last Wayne is immediate past 16 years at Haddon chair of the National Amoriello book Township as a counselor Board of Osteopathic at the Van Sciver Medical Examiners’ Thomas Amoriello Elementary School and Board of Directors. Jr. ’96 wrote a book the William G. Rohrer introducing the Keith Forrest Art teachers make history Middle School. She plans guitar to children. ’88 received Rowan alumni swept all categories of the National to move to her cabin in See note, p. 74. the 2015-16 Art Education New Jersey State Art Educator of the Rangeley, Maine. Atlantic Cape Year awards, representing all levels of art education Kristine M. Simoes ’85, M’91 Community College from elementary to higher education. From left, Dave Johnson ’05 Jane Graziano M’95, Kelly in May. A former received the 2016 PR Pro “Faculty of the Year” above: , University Hospital of the Year Award from the award for the third time. Digioia ’07 and Dawn Carson ’06 accepted their trustee, he was a member New Jersey chapter of the The award is decided by a awards in May at the New Jersey Governor’s Awards in Arts Education ceremony in Trenton. of the UMDNJ Board of Public Relations Society college-wide student vote. It was the first time in the 30-year history of the Trustees, where he Forrest, an associate of America. The award awards ceremony that Rowan College of Educa- provided a strong voice honors excellence in public professor of communication alumni earned recognition at every level. for the School of relations and service as a tion who founded the Osteopathic Medicine. role model to staff and college’s communication He is the first SOM practitioners entering the program in 2007, has than 100 published Richard Kader DO ’88 alumnus to be named a field. Simoes is a professor, earned 15 teaching awards articles, essays and is a partner with Virtua trustee on the Board of director of the journalism/ since 2004. He created the commentaries. He is an at a new location in the American Osteopathic public relations program college’s Communication accomplished runner Linwood, Virtua Atlantic Association and is the and internship coordinator Awards show, now in its with more than 50 medals Shore Family Practice. immediate past president at Monmouth University ninth year. Forrest writes in events including Farrell Silverman DO ’11 of the SOM Alumni in West Long Branch. about parenthood, media marathons, half mara- joined Dr. Kader’s Association. In 2014, A longtime PRSA member, and politics, with more thons and duathalons. practice.

Another engineering milestone FROM LEFT: Robi Polikar, Cherish DiSante ’12, M’13, Nathaniel Lowman, John Benigno ’13, Kellianne Bond, Robert VonBriel ’13, Doug Cleary, Stephen Pindale ’13, Bethany Brigandi ’15, Daniel Einbinder The College of Engineering Alumni ’13, Kimberly Johnston, Matthew Wojcik ’14, Beena Sukumaran, Nicolette Camishion, Kokeb Abera ’15, Council welcomed grads and honored the Anthony Marino ’02, M’03, Daniel Bailey ’15, Xavier Rose ’08, Nicholas Pytlowany ’15, Philip Baillie ’15, Class of 2016 at its first Alumni Initiation Andrew Haupin ’15, Jeffrey Eker ’16, Freha Tahir, Nicholas McBride, Harrison Hawkins, Joe Hader ’04, at Rowan Hall in May. Students shared Kevin Schmalbach, Michael Deemer ’16, Rachel James ’13, Tony Lowman, Patrick Myers ’16, Mariah their clinic projects, met alumni from Soyring ’17, Kevin Dahm, Charles Grab, Stephen Kulik ’16, Brighid Burgin ’12, Eric Constans, Barbara within the industry and everyone signed Wynn, Jenn Vernengo, Robert Hesketh, Jennifer Kadlowec, William Kearsley ’00, Ian Miller ’16, Carter a beam connecting Henry M. Rowan Hall Bagnell ’16, Matt Leoncini ’16, Marcos Villa-Gonzalez ’04, M’05, Kate Everett ’16, Alexander Herman ’14, to the new Engineering Hall. Jillian Sharkey, Bryan Nese ’04, Steven Chin, Patrick Mawhinney ’14, Hnin Khaing

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Tony Pinizzotto ’91 1 David Raudenbush ’88, M’91 is an teaches English language on-air manager for the arts at Pennsauken High creative department of School. He has been in BUZZR/FremantleMedia, the district for 24 years. the country’s first He also works as an all-vintage game show independent literacy channel, seen in over consultant and blogger 30 million homes. and is editor of GolfStyles Charlene Webster ’95, New Jersey magazine. writing as Char Webster, Deborah Bayer DO’89 has published Discovery, has created a blog at her first novel. The book, 2 Welcome, baby Harmony Communications which is aimed at a Calabrese (harmonycommllc.com) to teenage audience, is Lisa Haneke help clinicians improve available at smashwords.com Calabrese ’93 and her their communication skills. and other online sites. Deborah encourages Rowan husband, Michael, Thomas Amoriello Jr. ’96 alumni to visit her site. welcomed Angela in has published A Journey January. Kathleen Lange Damiri ’89, to Guitarland, a book M’11 and her husband, designed to introduce Peter Damiri ’89, returned children ages 5-12 to their tory. He frequently to campus to see their son, first guitar experience. contributes guitar John Damiri ’16, receive his The story takes place in advocacy articles to 1 bachelor’s degree in public the classroom of a special Tempo Magazine and relations in May. Their musical character named serves as the guitar second son, Nicholas, is a Maestro Armadillo. The education chairperson for freshman at Rowan College book, published by Black the New Jersey Music at Burlington County. Rose Writing, is the first Education Association. Michelina DeSanti DO ’89 in a series and is available He lives in Lambertville. is president of the New at blackrosewriting.com. Jennifer Jersey Association of Amoriello, a music Gilbreath ’97 is Osteopathic Physicians teacher, who has a freelance and Surgeons. introduced the guitar to copy editor more than 5,000 children, Richard and proofreader. She has earned a master’s degree a son from her first 2 Edevane ’89 is in classical guitar Jason Wood a cameraman marriage to performance from ‘97. with the Eagles After being diagnosed and Phillies. Shenandoah Conserva- in 2001 with a molar 90s Franklin Brown ’90 is deputy chief of police in Glassboro. He began his Foundation hosts 28th Annual golf outing career with the borough in 1991 and has been part Alumni and friends golfed to benefit the Collard and Harris memorial scholarships and others. of many units including the Bike Unit, K9 Unit, 1. Joanne Runner, William Runner, Brittany Petrella ’11, Police Athletic League, Magically appearing alumni Tony Galvin ’89. and Detective Bureau. He Danielle Delaney Harkins ’99, Gena Krug ’99, 2. Eli Carter, Gus Bader ’68, Lou Butler ’92. is a graduate of the West Melissa Garrison Retano ’99, Steve Magid ’01 and 3. Mike Caramanica ’11, Al Irons, Mike DeAngelis, J.T. Mills ’92, M’94, D’09. Point Command Patrick McAuley ’98. attended a magic show 4. Melissa Dersch ’02, Tom Holland ’79, Rhonda Leadership Program as performed by David Corsaro ’98 at Philadelphia’s Locklear Holland ’72, Wes Allen. well as the NJ Certified South Street Magic Theater in March. Public Manager Program.

74 | Rowan Magazine children in heartbreak- Barbara Bungy ing and traumatic ’99 is chief situations. operating officer at Denise Vitola Philadelphia FIGHT ’98, managing community centers. director of FIGHT is a community Makovsky health organization Integrated Communica- which serves low-income tions in New York, communities. Bungy, received the 2016 who has served on Alums’ film project wins big American Business FIGHT’s board of Award for Executive Rowan grads competing in the 2016 48 Hour Film Project Los Angeles won directors since 2012, and Woman of the Year. Best Film, Best Writing and Audience Award, beating 91 other entrants. previously worked for the Jack Swiker ’04, M’07, Ed Bauman ’11, Adam Bradshaw ’11, Jenny Vogel ’11 and She has also been listed Drexel University College Tommy Oceanak ’09 made the short film with a local cast (above) in just two among the Top 25 Women of Medicine through the days. It will screen at the Burbank International Film Festival in September in PR by PRNews and by St. Christopher’s Hospital and will go on to represent Los Angeles against all the city winners around PRWeek as one of the “40 for Children. During her the world at Filmapalooza 2017, with the chance to be one of 10 films to screen Under 40” PR Profession- time at Drexel, she was at the Cannes Film Festival. als. Before joining the Center of the Urban Makovsky, she was with Child executive director, MSLGROUP, a public pregnancy, one form of family medicine. 14 years, making him the HIV Prevention Services relations network of rare miscarriages known Previously, he directed headmaster with the program manager and companies. as gestational trophoblas- the department’s longest tenure through- director of grant funded tic diseases (GTDs), she residency program. out the school’s 57-year Rich Wiest ’98 is a programs within the created MyMolarPregnancy. Cosmo F. Terrigno ’98 is history. Terrigno is also librarian at the Glassboro Dorothy Mann Center for com, the first comprehen- headmaster of Wood- secretary for the branch of the Gloucester Pediatric and Adolescent sive online information land Country Day Hug-a-Bear Foundation’s County Library System. HIV. She has earned two and support system for School in Bridgeton. Board of Trustees. The He earned a master’s master’s degrees at women with GTDs. Her With the extension of his Cumberland County- degree in library and Drexel, one in public website and support contract through June of based organization information science at health and the other in groups have helped 2018, he will have served provides toy bears to Drexel University in 2010. business administration. women around the world deal with miscarriage, the misunderstanding of others and the fears that come with these diagnoses. She has compiled, edited and published two book collections of women’s stories about dealing with GTD. George Scott DO ’97 is president of the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Scott has served on the board since 2005, holding every office in “Rowan West” gathers at Angel City Brewery BACK: Juan Sanchez ’11, James Amatrudi ’10, Vincent Yearly ’12, Benjamin King ’10, Ryan Murphy, the organization. He West Coast alumni gathered at Angel City Brewery Michael Nagle ’10, Cameron Baker ’11, Eddie Ewing ’12, was president from in April at one of several annual meet-ups organized 2012-2014. He serves as Mark Torres ’12, Jake Chusid ’12, Kevin Lau ’06. through the Rowan Alumni in LA Facebook group, MIDDLE: Ed Bauman ’11, Gianna Gugliuzza ’14, assistant dean for a networking tool and support group for alumni Maria Brasco ’15, Adam Bradshaw ’11, Sarah Hollins, clinical education and is making the leap to pursue careers in Los Angeles. Jenny Vogel ’11, Cait Walsh ’12, Kathy Paterson ’12 an associate professor in FRONT: Michael Gallo ’09, Paul Russo ’12. the SOM department of

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adult supervision–sex offender unit. She is a 00s leader for the Latina- Hispanic Network, the Gina Lemanowicz Pusloski Professional Latinas Alliance and the Hispanic ’03 became a Certified Alliance of Atlantic Fraud Examiner in County. February. She is a fraud investigator for the state Russell McNeil ’04, who of New Jersey. has taught sixth grade at Linda Vista Elementary Gloryvie Reyes ’03 Recognition for PR pro Welcome, baby School, in Orange, Calif., Pimpinella received the 2016 Atlantic since 2013, was named Darrah Foster ’12 (left) received the Philadelphia Cape Community Public Relations Association’s 2016 Fast-Track Steven Pimpinella ’05 2015-16 Teacher of the Award in June. The award honors a PPRA College Distinguished Year. He earned a and his wife, Erin, member who has made great contributions to the Alumni Award. The multiple teaching announce the birth of organization, the profession and the community, award recognizes credential at California Alexandra on July 19. and who exemplifies PPRA’s vision for the future. graduates for their State University, professional, personal, Fullerton, in 2011. public or community- Jessica Lea Pingitore ’04 a board of directors She and her husband, based accomplishments. Al Lewis ’06, and their (Sigma Sigma Sigma) member of the National Reyes is a senior bilingual two children live in and her husband Association for Campus probation officer in the Williamstown. Visit announce the May Activities, the recognized Gloucester Country ellenparrylewis.com or birth of Jaxson. leader in higher Probation Department’s education for providing e-mail ellenplewis@gmail. com Katie Brownlow Rayburn the knowledge, ideas and . See photo, p. 77. ’04 married Ryan A. 1 2 resources to promote RJ Salls ’09 married Rayburn at the Pitman student learning through Lauren Foy Salls ’09 Golf Course in Sewell on engagement in campus on July 8. Lauren’s maid December 12, 2015. life. Board members of honor was Nikki Frank Williams ’05 are responsible for the Broome ’20, daughter married Annie association’s overall of Mike Broome ’84. Raczko on July 25, strategic direction, See photo. p. 78. 2015. Williams, a film effectiveness and producer, has a financial stability. documentary titled Kimberley Jackson DO ’08 3 4 “I am Santa Claus” on works with the Colorado 10s Netflix. He’s working on Cross-Disability Raffaele Bernardo DO ’10 his first feature film. Coalition. She visits is clinics throughout an assistant professor of Ashley M. Kalena ’07 Colorado to train medicine at Yale School received CableFax physicians on working of Medicine. He Digital Award for with people with completed a fellowship as Best Official Show Site: disabilities. She is a chief fellow in infectious Breakthrough and for board member of the diseases at Yale-New Best Website Design: Colorado Cross Haven Hospital in New Breakthrough. Ashley Weddings and engagements Disability Coalition and Haven, Conn., in June. is a digital media Phamaly, a theatre Francesca Parrillo ’11 Kyle Ragonese ’10; Jessica Hauser Ortega ’10 1. and producer for National company in Denver for note, p. 78. Geographic Channel. people with disabilities. married David Ortega on 2. Jessica Hauser Ortega ’10 and David Ortega; May 7 in a surprise Joseph Lizza ’07 note, this page. Ellen Parry Lewis ’09 ceremony disguised as an is assistant had her fourth novel, engagement party. 3. Katie Brownlow Rayburn ’04 married director of Risking a Life, published Ryan A. Rayburn; note, this page. Campus by Metal Lunchbox Alexis Davison LaPietra 4. Julia Swope Carite ’12 and Carl Carite III ’09; Center operations and Publishing. Risking a DO’10 received the 2016 note, p. 78. programs at Stockton Life takes place in South Innovative Practice Award, University. He also is Jersey and Philadelphia. which recognizes her

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FRIDAY 10/7 College Corner Alumni Tent, Athletics Tent 11 A.M.–2 P.M. Diamond Club Golf Tournament & Beer Garden 9:30 A.M. Bowe Blvd. & Carpenter St. Saturday 10/8 | 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. Scotland Run Golf Club Parking Lot C | Wackar Stadium Homecoming Football Game Alumni, family and friends are invited to enjoy 2 P.M. | Wackar Stadium Homecoming Block Party an all-you-can-eat buffet, a PROFlympics beer 5 P.M.–10 P.M. garden, tailgating games, kids’ activities and Annual Step Show Hollybush Green a photo booth. Each alumnus and one guest 7 P.M. | Pfleeger Concert Hall can attend FREE of charge, as long as you preregister by September 16. For alumni and SATURDAY 10/8 RAH Paint Night guests who do not preregister, there will be a Homecoming Parade Time TBD | Student Center Pit 10 A.M. $10 fee. The PROFlympics beer garden and food Parking Lot O truck are cash only. Families, friends and reunion SUNDAY 10/9 groups are encouraged to meet under the large Homecoming Tailgate Athletics Hall of Fame tent or in the tailgating area. Athletics alumni, 11 A.M.–2 P.M. Induction Ceremony family and friends are invited to reconnect in a Parking Lot C 11 A.M. | Eynon Ballroom, special section of the alumni tent. Chamberlain Student Center

Class of 1966 50th Reunion 2016 Black Alumni & Friends Reunion Saturday 10/8 Friday 10/7–Sunday 10/9 The Class of 1966 Reunion Committee invites members of the “Class of The Black Alumni Reunion Committee will host a series of events Construction” to celebrate their 50th reunion. Multiple activities have been during this year’s Homecoming festivities. A meet and greet with fellow planned, including: breakfast, campus tours, lunch, reserved seating at the alums, faculty, staff and students and the Old School Jam will take place on Homecoming football game, a cocktail hour and dinner. Friday night. The Jazz Soiree will take place on Saturday, and the reunion weekend will conclude with a fellowship breakfast on Sunday morning. For more information, please visit alumni.rowan.edu/classof66 For more information, please visit alumni.rowan.edu/blackalumnireunion class notes

Alternative to Opiates Medical Center in (ALTO) program that Vineland, is a staff helps emergency depart- intensivist with The ments to use pain med- Intensivist Group, a ication other than opiates. division of Sound Physicians. He will Matthew LaPorta DO’10 practice in Philadelphia has joined the department and Wilmington, Del. of surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College Francesca Parrillo at Thomas Jefferson Ragonese ’11 married University in Philadelphia. Kyle Ragonese ’10 in More GSC and Rowan family ties He completed a surgical August 2015. The RJ Salls ’09 Lauren Foy Salls ’09 Novel setting critical care fellowship at wedding party included and met at Rowan in 2006 and married in July, adding to their Row- Ellen Parry Lewis ’09 Innova Health System in Anthony Spatola ’10. an family connections. Above, RJ Salls ’09, Lauren set her fourth novel Falls Church, Va., in June. Jeanette Wehner ’11 was Foy Salls ’09, Ronan Colman ’84, Mike Broome ’84, in the Delaware Michael Ruzek DO’10 named the 2016 Ocean Nikki Broome ’20, Tricia Cregan Colman ’84. Valley. See note, and his wife, Heba, County Teacher of the p. 76. welcomed their first Year by the New Jersey to outfit her classroom hematology fellowship at child, Juliana, on July 10. Education Association. with technology and Houston Methodist A fifth-grade and special Adam Bradshaw ’11, engineering materials. Hospital. She completed education teacher at Tommy Oceanak ’09, a pathology residency, Brick Township’s Emma Julia Swope Carite ’12 Shane Meredith ’10 and serving as chief resident, Havens Young Carl Carite III ’09 Eddie Ewing ’12 won Best married at Rutgers Robert Wood Elementary School, she Independent Short Film (Sigma Pi) on October 9, Johnson Medical School. was also the district’s at the Independent 2015. Julia is a graphic teacher of the year. She Rachel Swarrow DO’12 has Filmmakers Showcase designer at Rowan has been recognized for begun a cytopathology for the film “Other Side.” University School of creating one of the state’s Osteopathic Medicine. fellowship at Geisinger Gabriel Lerman DO’11, first elementary STEM Medical Center in who completed a critical classrooms. A grant she Betty Chung DO ’12 Danville, Pa. She care fellowship at Inspira wrote provided $30,000 has begun a pathology- completed a pathology residency at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical 1 School in June. Jordan DiPinto ’13 begins his final year of law school at University of Pennsylvania this fall. He has accepted a position with Drinker Biddle & Reath in Philadelphia. Danielle Brasco ’13 earned her master’s degree in school counseling from 2 Wilmington University in Class of 2016 Senior Send Off May. She is employed as a The newest members of the Alumni Association school counselor at Bells gathered in the Student Center Pit one last time Elementary School in before Commencement Week. The annual send-off Washington Township. gives seniors a chance to pick up yearbooks, enjoy live music and toast their accomplishments. Veronica Jeziorski ’16 and Jesse Kosior ’16 received 1. Some of the graduating class, all ready to celebrate. Woodrow Wilson 2. Ed Martinez, Matt Kotch, Dylan Colon, Dylan Teaching Fellowships, Corring, all ’16. which provide each $30,000 to complete a

78 | Rowan Magazine specially designed master’s degree. In return, Stay in touch they are committed to teaching for three years Start a new job? Take a trip? Get married? as part of a statewide Do something fun? Share your Class Note and effort to prepare science, photo a couple ways: Post your note and photo technology, engineering (online only) through the Alumni Association and math teachers for Online Community. Visit alumni.rowan.edu to careers in New Jersey’s register. Click on new user and enter your name, high-need schools. She birth date and Alumni ID (from the Rowan will teach biology at Magazine mailing label) and choose a username It all started in the ballroom Vineland High School and password. Or send your submission to On the University Green at Commencement, North and he will teach [email protected]. John Kong ’10 and Grace Shao ’12, M’17 celebrated physics at Millville Senior her new master’s degree—just days after John’s High School. marriage proposal, which took place on campus, Nick Vicente ’16 works at too. The couple met at a movie night in the Student Center Eynon ballroom in 2009 but didn’t exactly Smith & Diction with Our sympathies hit it off right away. Eventually, they became best Mike Smith ’10, the friends and then started dating. In May, John studio’s co-founder and Vincent DiRenzo ’50 Helen Mougakos ’74 tricked Grace into planning her own proposal art director. The firm, John Odorisio ’51 Bernice Robinson ’74 party back in the ballroom, where Carolyn Strow ’13, which started in 2015, is Frank Bortle ’53, M’61 Patrice Ware ’74 family and other friends were in on the surprise. working on a design, Janet Saul Magliocco ’54 Dayton Cooper ’75 After working at Blacklight Power Inc. in the branding and signage Virginia Randall ’54 Mary Ann Simon Pensiero ’75 Princeton area, John is in a Ph.D. program at overhaul of the Frank Bortle Jr. ’55, M’60 Barbara Meyer Snyder ’75 Purdue University, planning a career with a Independence Visitor Sandra Rosenblum ’59 Mary Lore ’76 pharmaceutical company. Grace looks forward Center in Old City. Eugene Hawn ’60 Donna Pedrick Paradis ’76 to a career in public relations and the beauty Patricia Nutt Procaccino ’61 Betty Stoneking industry—and maybe a wedding in the ballroom. Edith Walsh ’63 Anderson M’77 Mary Paczkowski Tilton ’64 Dorothy Barna ’77 Margaret Vanderslice Gary Beard M’77, M’88 Bucklin ’65 Otis C. Hicks ’80 Remembrances Virginia Penney Boyce ’66 Bess Green Kidd ’77, M’80 Fond eulogies of campus friends offered by AFT colleagues Beatrice Still Reed ’68 Maryellen Kelly ’80 Christine Dommergue Patricia Bardello ’81 Richard J. Ambacher Jr., Communication Studies Winfield ’68 Dan Rovner ’81 Richard J. Ambacher Jr. died on July 19. He was 82. Ernest Cipolone ’69, M’72 Dolores Gilbert ’82 A 1961 GSC graduate, he earned a Yale University master’s degree in fine Harriet Emonds Bernadette Hamilton Slavoff ’69, M’76 Melberger ’82 arts before coming to then-GSC. He served as the college’s community Mary Coulter Joan Grogan ’83 relations director and was a member of the communications department, Baitinger ’70, M’74 Joseph Kolb M’83 serving three consecutive terms as its chairperson. Norris Biron M’70, M’75 Patricia Nichols Lummis ’84 He was president of the University Senate from 1992 to 1995 and retired in James Brimer M’70 Thomas Goga ’85 2000 after 33 years as a professor and administrator. After retiring, he taught Michael McEvoy ’70 John Hartman ’85 a public speaking course for the College of Communication for several years Elva Morris ’70 Sean Harvey ’86 and was Rowan Magazine’s associate editor for two years. Marvin G. Sills ’70 Mary McColligan Tucker ’86 He was chairman of the Gloucester County College Board of Trustees and Susan Messinger Dawn Cain Canady ’88 Monahan ’71 served on the Gloucester County Library Commission and the Brown and Mary Ott M’92 Betty Strittmatter Drozd ’72 Gold Alumni Association. Lynn James ’93 Patricia Foltz ’72 Richard was an avid golfer and an accomplished photographer who moved Elizabeth Welch ’94 Alberta Jackson ’72 easily from the darkroom to digital. He wrote and produced several plays and Robert Easter ’96 Irene O’Neill Sauro ’72 a textbook, Arriving at Meaning, published by Kendall Hunt. James Allen ’98 Joseph Feuda ’73 He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Elaine (nee Bonelli); two sons, Michael Yetter ’99 Doris Shapiro Grossman ’73 Richard J. III (Marge), and John J. (Karen); four grandchildren, Katie, Liz, Alissa Genevieve Farnan ’09 Janet Huggan ’73 and Emily; three brothers, Harry, Robert and Bruce and two sisters, Heather Jeffrey Melillo ’14 Samit and Candace Parkins. He was predeceased by his brother, Jeffrey. Patricia Raiczyk Nicgorski ’73 Memorial services were held on July 25. Contributions in his name may Ivan Arcaya ’74 Faculty and friends be made to the Rowan Foundation Bagin/Ambacher Scholarship Fund, 201 Augustine Figueroa ’74 Richard J. Ambacher Jr. Mullica Hill Rd, Glassboro, N.J. 08028-1701. Barbara Dranoff Fomalont ’74 Richard Wackar

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History repeats itself in a Rowan family affair By Donald A. Errera ’77

Don Errera is the chief n 1969, Richard Nixon became the nation’s GSC was good to us. It provided the basis for of investigations for the 37th president, Neil Armstrong and Buzz sound careers that enabled each of us to find New Jersey Division of Aldrin became the first men to walk on the fulfillment in our jobs while raising our families. Gaming Enforcement. moon and the Vietnam War was still raging. At the time, I don’t think any of us actually realized ISesame Street debuted and my eldest sister, Jackie, what a great opportunity we had in our own entered Glassboro State College. I was a high backyard. GSC was truly a value in terms of what school freshman and recall viewing the first of it cost my parents to give us the quality of education four children going to college as a big change for we received. our family. Even though the college was only In 2008, Cuban President Fidel Castro stepped 16 miles away, it seemed like a long distance to down and President Bush began attempts to avoid me then. But as a commuter, she would be home the Great Recession. Apple began selling the often. No matter what I thought, it would be a great MacBook Air, and my eldest son, Dan, was about experience for her. She wanted to be a teacher and to begin his college career. He wanted to be an for that career, GSC was as good as it gets. accountant, so our college search looked for schools In 1970, Nixon was still president, the Beatles with a quality accounting program that were also broke up and my second eldest sister, Bobbi, began affordable. Dan was academically successful in high her college education—also at Glassboro. She, too, school and had several offers. But the final selection wanted to be a teacher, so my parents reasoned, led him to the same place that has served my sisters if GSC was good enough for Jackie, it was good and me so well—Rowan University. As with us enough for Bobbi. The foundation was laid for all those years ago, the decision was the right one. their long careers in education. The topnotch, affordable education he received It was 1973. Watergate broke but Nixon was launched him on his career as a CPA with the still hanging on as president, a Vietnam accounting firm of Deloitte-Touche. cease-fire agreement was reached, In 2012, gas was $3.91 per gallon, Curiosity Rover Sesame Street was still on landed on Mars, the Mayan Calendar ended (but the TV and I was next in world didn’t) and my youngest child, Mark (Middle line for college. I didn’t child Megan went to Stockton only because Rowan want to follow in the did not offer her major.) was about to begin his footsteps of my sisters, college career. I guess you could say we have zero so I enrolled in Rutgers, career imagination in our family, because Mark also New Brunswick. After a very short chose accounting. He, too, had several college offers, stint there, I realized that the “big but in the end, Rowan would be his home for four city” university experience was not years. He graduated this year and has accepted an for me and, yes, soon after I found offer with PricewaterhouseCoopers. myself a GSC student. Unlike my two Four years ago, I started what could become elder sisters, I was an accounting another family tradition, and once again I returned major and credit that degree to the place that has led to such fulfilling lives for with helping me to enjoy a so many of my family members.—back on the very successful career and go campus as an adjunct professor in Rowan’s law on to earn graduate degrees. and justice program. In 1976, Gerald Ford was So, as you can see, Rowan has played an president and NBC tossed the extremely important part in my family’s lives. peacock logo. And continuing I stopped long ago seeing it as just another local the family tradition, my sister, state school, for I have experienced many times Patti, was off to GSC to major over just what a precious resource the school has in education. been and continues to be. n

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50-mile relay to campus When ties between (right) officiating at The torch of knowledge, in Glassboro. Farnelli state colleges and the kickoff, and a state literally, a running theme would hand off the Trenton were stronger, police escort for the run torch to cross country symbolic gestures like on the turnpike. On the steps of the state teammates, all seniors GSC’s torch run were Still a symbol of Capitol in 1959, senior and models of the best a big deal, with Student enlightenment, the torch Donald Farnelli accepted student athletes— Council President appears in the University the Torch of Knowledge and future educators— Marven Hill ’59 and seal and logo, a reminder from Gov. Robert coming out of Glasboro Education Commissioner of the promise and Meyner at the start of a State College. Frederick Raubinger power of education.