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Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 The Magazine of Willia m WP a t erson Universi t y Dear Friends, Volume 8, No. 2 Summer 2007 The recent tragedy at Virginia Tech immediately altered the perspective of educators around the world. I realized that E x e c u t i v e E d i to r in a matter of minutes one madman can destroy the peace and Stuart Goldstein, Associate Vice President learning environment that we work so hard to enhance. for Institutional Advancement This harsh reality has led us, and most universities and colleges, to reassess our M a nag i n g E d i to r security, emergency management, and communication systems, as well as our student Mary Beth Zeman, Director, Public Relations support services. Traditionally, campuses have been thought of as nurturing environ- ments that are insulated to a great extent from the outside world. 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W H O W E A R E disability services will relocate to the Stu- dent Center, which will continue to house offices for campus activities, hospitality and dining services, and more than fifty student clubs and organizations. “The quality of campus life is enhanced when students, faculty, and staff can attend events and access services in a building that’s attractive and comfortable—a place where people want to congregate,” says John Martone, vice president for student devel- opment. “This complex—now including the John Victor Machuga Student Center, Wayne Hall, and the Ballroom—will be the hub for all our students, both residential and commuter.” Highlights of the renovated facility include a new information desk, and sev- UNIVERSITYREPORT eral outdoor patios and lounges. A glass- enclosed bridge on the second floor links the Student Center to the Ballroom and A view of the new University Commons meeting rooms, all equipped with state-of- the-art multimedia capability. Wayne Hall, William Paterson’s central Renovated Student Center The glass facades on both sides of the dining facility for resident students, has Complex to Be Known as renovated Student Center allow those out- received upgrades including a new student “University Commons” side the building to view the activity inside. lounge on the ground floor. The Pioneer The expanded and renovated student The inside provides expansive views of the Restaurant, previously located on the second center complex will serve as the focal point campus, especially of the new student quad- floor of the Student Center, will be located of an invigorated central campus. rangle on the south side of the complex. in a renovated space on the second floor of Designed with an expanse of glass “We’ve tried to create a sense of place,” Wayne Hall. “Students will now be able to windows to highlight William Paterson’s says Bob Bennett, associate vice president access all of the University’s dining options, p a g e visually beautiful suburban location, as well for capital planning and design. “Many stu- from Wayne Hall to the food court, without 4 WF o u r as new—and flexible—space for student dents enter the campus from Lot 5, so we leaving the complex,” says Martone. activities and events, the complex will offer have created a new plaza and drop-off area students seamless access to student develop- between Wayne Hall and the Cheng Library, ment services, activities, meeting rooms, and including the bus stop for New Jersey Tran- dining venues, all under one roof. sit buses and the campus shuttle.” In addi- “A state-of-the-art campus center that tion, the entire area has been re-landscaped provides a supportive social and extracur- and features new seating areas on benches ricular environment is essential for all of our and low walls, and new trees and other students,” says President Arnold Speert. planted areas. “We’ve designed the new complex as the In addition to significantly expanded heart of the campus, where our entire com- space for events, including a new five hun- munity will gather and interact. With this dred-seat Ballroom, new meeting rooms, concept in mind, we’ve decided to call the and a transformed food court, the offices of

complex the University Commons.” the vice president for student development, Looking through the expanded Machuga career development and advisement, and Student Center UNIVERSITY New M.B.A. Choices ment business,” says Steve Marcone, interim annual Sales Career Fair, during which sales Offer Specialization in dean of the College of the Arts and Com- majors interviewed with business execu- Accounting, Finance, and munication and director of the music man- tives from more than twenty-five firms for Music Management agement program. “There is an explosion of full- and part-time sales positions as well as The University has introduced three new opportunities for ambitious entrepreneurs internships. Among the featured speakers master of business administration (M.B.A.) and professionals seeking careers in the was Angelica Berrie, president of The Russell

degrees with concentrations in accounting, fields of product development, marketing, Berrie Foundation, along with several of Russ REPORT finance, and music management offered digital distribution, live performance, artist Berrie’s former colleagues, who spoke about through the Christos M. Cotsakos Col- management, licensing, mobile, and more.” his impact on the sales profession. Alumni lege of Business. Students may choose the and students of William Paterson’s profes- general M.B.A. degree program, or one University Celebrates Russ sional sales degree program also made short of the three specialized concentrations, Berrie’s Philanthropic Legacy presentations including Michael Filachek ’05, beginning in the fall 2007 semester. In a unique celebration of the late Russ major account district manager, ADP Major “We’ve broadened our M.B.A. offer- Berrie’s philanthropic legacy, the University Account Services; Dan Kraus ’06, account ings to meet the demands for a range of specialties in these areas,” says Sam Basu, dean of the Cotsakos College of Business. “The M.B.A. program is not only for under- graduates with a degree in business—it’s for undergraduates coming from a variety of academic backgrounds, including those in music and creative arts, who want to pursue career paths in management.” The accounting concentration is designed to offer students the added ben- efit of preparing them for the C.P.A. (certi- fied public accounting) exam while they obtain their M.B.A. degree; the finance concentration will prepare students for the C.F.A. (certified financial analyst) exam while they obtain their M.B.A. degree. The innovative M.B.A. in music manage- ment, one of the first in the nation, is a Michelle DiBella (right), a May 2007 graduate of the professional sales program who recently began a unique program that will open paths to full-time sales position at Hess, at the Russ Berrie celebration with (from left) David Reid, executive director of the Russ Berrie Institute and a professor of sales at the University, Sam Basu, dean, Christos M. Cotsakos management and entrepreneurial careers College of Business, and Angelica Berrie, president of The Russell Berrie Foundation in the music and entertainment industry. “We have worked with advisors from joined with his other beneficiaries in a series manager, Hess; and Michelle DiBella ’07, corporations to tailor these curriculum of memorial events coordinated by The Rus- an intern at Hess who began a full-time tracks to meet the demands of the real- sell Berrie Foundation to coincide with his sales position there following graduation. world business environment,” adds Francis birthday on March 18. Berrie established “The Career Fair is a wonderful expres- Cai, professor of economics and finance the Russ Berrie Institute for Professional sion of what Russ was hoping the Russ and director of the M.B.A. program. Sales at William Paterson in 2003 to help Berrie Institute for Professional Sales would The M.B.A. in music management, an p a g e elevate the profession of sales with programs do—namely, elevate the profession of sales outgrowth of the master of music degree 5 Wf i v e for students and working professionals. and encourage young people to pursue a program in music management, is the only “When I first met Russ Berrie, he career in sales,” says David Reid, execu- M.B.A. of its kind in the New York/New described his longtime dream of creating a tive director of the Russ Berrie Institute and Jersey metropolitan area and one of the university-based institute that would provide a professor of sales at the University. first in the nation. The program builds the preeminent sales education program,” In addition, in recognition of Berrie’s upon William Paterson’s close proximity to says President Arnold Speert. “His vision philanthropic dedication to health issues, New York and international reputation for was to elevate the field of professional sales particularly diabetes, William Paterson’s Health music education. Students will complete while providing younger people in the field and Wellness Center offered information on a graduate internship and benefit from with skills necessary to excel. It was his diabetes at its annual Women’s Health and distinguished faculty, alumni, and guest unselfish dedication to future generations Fitness Night on March 20 in addition to lecturers who range from veteran New that spurred his generous and transforma- diabetes screening at the Health and York musicians to top record executives. tional gift to William Paterson University.” Wellness Center. “We developed this degree to give stu- The Russ Berrie Institute held a series of dents a direct route to the upper levels of ceremonies from March 20 to 22 during its the rapidly changing music and entertain-

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Bachelor’s Degree in have enough determination to overcome Athletic Training Established difficulties; people who have integrity, ideas, William Paterson has expanded its under- and the courage to act on them,” she said. graduate degree programs to include a “Today begins a new chapter of history: REPORT bachelor of science degree in athletic train- one that will be written by our passions and ing. The new degree program, to begin in actions. Take a good look at all the individu- the fall 2007 semester, replaces the athletic als around you and see in them the heroes training concentration of the University’s of tomorrow.” bachelor of science degree in physical President Arnold Speert encouraged education, and increases the number of the graduates to recognize their individual undergraduate majors to thirty-three. accomplishments. “Today is your com- UNIVERSITY The program, which recently received mencement day,” he said. “It is the celebra- continuing accreditation from the Commis- tion of what you have accomplished and of sion on Accreditation of Athletic Training the potential that each of you has to impact Honorees Sonia Rosado and Cory A. Booker with the lives of the few around you and the Education, provides rigorous professional President Arnold Speert (center) preparation. Upon completion of the many you will encounter.” program, students are eligible to take the He urged the graduates to focus on ways Board of Certification examination. to improve life for others. “Each of you can be noble,” Speert continued. “Each of you Under new guidelines from the National can be creative. Each of you can be essential Athletic Trainers Association, all athletic to progress, to understanding, to success. training programs must be designated as That is the meaning of today’s celebration.” separate degree programs by the 2014-15 At the graduate commencement cer- academic year. emony later in the day under a tent at 1600 Certified athletic trainers are trained, Valley Road, 334 students were awarded skilled, health care professionals who are master’s degrees. Leslie Agard-Jones, dean directly responsible for the prevention, of the College of Education, who is stepping recognition, evaluation, immediate care, down from his position of dean and taking a rehabilitation, and reconditioning of sabbatical, gave the commencement address; athletic injuries. Lakeisha Brooks, the president of the Grad- Students accepted into the fifty-five- Leslie Agard-Jones uate Student Organization, who received a credit program must complete a minimum master’s degree in public policy and interna- of nine hundred hours of supervised clinical Booker, who won the office of mayor in tional affairs, also addressed the graduates. education experience. Facilities include 2006, told the 1,831 bachelor’s degree recipi- “You have acquired the knowledge and skills two athletic training rooms and a clinical ents and an overflow crowd of family and that can be used to change the environment education laboratory, as well as a human friends gathered on Wightman Field, about around you,” said Agard-Jones. “You can performance laboratory where students the lessons he learned from dedicated com- make a difference…The real test of the qual- can assess injuries. As part of their clinical munity leaders in Newark, and his struggles ity of your education and your commitment experience, students shadow a variety of to help fight drugs and crime and bring to learning will be demonstrated in how professional practitioners, including a improvements to one of the nation’s poorest you used the knowledge you have acquired chiropractor, podiatrist, orthopedic surgeon, communities. In recognition of his commit- throughout your lifetime.” and a family physician, as well as the ment “to finding real solutions no matter University’s own athletic training profes- how difficult the effort required,” the Board

p a g e sionals who are assigned to assist William of Trustees awarded Booker an honorary 6 Paterson’s student athletes. doctor of laws degree. Ws i x Sonia Rosado, a Passaic County freeholder Newark Mayor Urges Graduates who served on the William Paterson Univer- To “Stand Tall” and Inspire Others sity Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2006, also Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, who has received an honorary doctor of laws degree won national attention as a fervent com- in recognition of her more than twenty-five munity activist who is determined to bring years of “dedicated, accomplished experience reform to Newark, urged the graduates at in education and government service.” the University’s 184th commencement on Laura Weinstein, a summa cum laude May 15 to speak out against injustice and graduate with a bachelor of science degree serve as an inspiration to others. in mathematics who had a successful career “Stand up. Because the world needs as a mid-level manager before deciding to Judy Linder (left), executive director of alumni relations, with May 2007 graduate Karen Ellis you. It needs your uniqueness, it needs your become a teacher, was selected by the admin- (center), this year’s recipient of the Alumni Associa- honor, it needs your love,” said Booker. istration to speak on behalf of the Class tion Outstanding Senior Award, and Alice Stegen “Stand up so that other people are inspired of 2007. “I believe the world needs people Macaluso ’57 (right ), who received the first Out- to stand with you.” who value self-improvement, people who standing Senior Award fifty years ago UNIVERSITY

It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of three members of the University community. REPORT

campus for use by faculty, students, and of science degree program in nursing, staff. A computer literacy course was which prepares nurses for leadership in

instituted for each student. community-based nursing. Involved for The Towers Residence Hall Com- many years in community-based care, plex was constructed during his tenure, she established a nurse-managed, INMEMORIAMtripling the College’s capacity for on- community-based center for a poor, campus residents. Additionally, the Rec medically underserved population. She Center was completed in 1982, provid- was the recipient of numerous awards, ing space for recreational activities for including the C.A.R.E. award, the students, staff, and alumni. highest award given by the New Jersey In addition to his work on campus, State Nurses Association for excellence Seymour C. Hyman Hyman was active in higher education in nursing research, and served on the on the state level, promoting the idea American Nurses Credentialing Center, Seymour C. Hyman, president of of greater autonomy for the state’s nine a national committee designed to pro- William Paterson College from 1977 to four-year colleges. mote and enhance public health through 1985, died on December 21, 2006 at age Prior to his appointment as president credentialing professional nurses. eighty-seven in Sarasota, Florida. He was of William Paterson, Hyman was deputy responsible for strengthening the core chancellor for the City University of Adele L. Lenrow, associate professor operations of the institution, increasing New York (CUNY). He had previously of communication, emeritus, died on the diversity of students and staff, and served as CUNY’s vice chancellor for November 12, 2006. Appointed to the providing the basis for the institution’s campus planning and development, University’s faculty in 1967, Lenrow future growth and development. overseeing design and construction for joined the speech department initially, Hyman led William Paterson through university facilities. He was a licensed but when that department was reorga- major academic, administrative, and professional engineer in New York and nized in the early 1970s, she was trans- physical plant changes. Beginning in New Jersey. ferred to the newly formed department 1978, he initiated a college “drive for of communication, where she remained excellence” by raising admissions stan- Barbara J. Bohny, associate professor until her retirement in June 1991. Active dards each year. Under his leadership, of nursing, died on January 27, 2007. in the department and concerned about new curricula were developed, including Appointed to the faculty in September pedagogy, she was chairperson of the a master of business administration 1995, she was the coordinator of the undergraduate curriculum commit- degree, a bachelor of science degree in graduate program in nursing for several tee, and served as a mentor to women computer science, and two rigorous pro- years. She was sixty-seven. Her career on the faculty. She primarily taught fessional degrees in the arts: a bachelor began as a clinical nurse, but evolved courses in interpersonal communication of music degree and a bachelor of fine over time to include education and including speech and language classes in arts degree. research. She received numerous grants addition to serving as an advisor to the p a g e Other initiatives implemented at this 7 totaling $1.76 million from the U.S. department’s education students in her Ws e v e n time included an environmental science Department of Health and Human Ser- role as faculty liaison to the College of curriculum, an honors program in vices, Division of Nursing, which helped Education. Lenrow was actively involved biopsychology, humanities, and interna- to fund her advanced practice program in developing the plan for the renova- tional management, and a new general development and her research into dia- tion to Hobart Hall in the early 1990s, education program that required students betes and the stress patterns in families and also served on the Admissions and to take half of their credits in a specified caring for the chronically ill in a home Academic Standards Committee for the variety of liberal studies courses in addi- setting. In 1996, Bohny became proj- Faculty Senate. tion to their major requirements. Under ect director for a three-year, $750,000 his leadership, the College developed grant to the University that was used to and implemented a technology program, expand the institution’s nascent master which included the first computers on

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Students help build housing for musicians Jay Ludwig examines the magical yellow socks Professor Miryam Wahrman (center) works with students in New Orleans Visalam Mahalingam and Christian Montes on their DNA samples

Music Students to work on the Habitat for assistant professor of music Bryant Morin, Frank Perrone, Spend Spring Break in Humanity’s Musicians’ Village, who coordinated the trip. Tiffany Tanner, and Tara Wis- New Orleans Building where seventy single-family “This was really a way to help niewski. ONHomes CAMPUSfor Displaced homes are being rebuilt for my students—music education Musicians musicians and others who were majors—see how an individual Ten students and two faculty displaced by Hurricane Katrina can really make a difference by Community Health members from the William in 2005. pooling resources and efforts.” Professor Offers New Paterson music department “Music is such a big part “You must be there a while Approach to Stress traveled to New Orleans during of New Orleans culture,” says to comprehend the size of the Management spring break week in March Carol Frierson-Campbell, an devastation and appreciate how Richard Blonna, a profes- much New Orleans has accom- sor of community health, has plished so far,” says Stephen developed a multidimensional Marcone, interim dean of the approach to managing stress College of the Arts and Com- that incorporates numerous munication, who accompanied coping strategies and emphasiz- p a g e the students along with Frier- es health and wellness, which he 8 We i g h t son-Campbell. “It was a truly outlines in a new book, Seven rewarding experience for all Weeks to Conquering Stress. of us.” Blonna’s program includes To help raise funds for the an innovative fitness program project, a number of music that combines aerobic walking department faculty members with mindful meditation. To performed in a Mardi Gras- accompany the book, he has themed concert on campus in released a two-disc Gathered at the Habitat for Humanity Musicians’ Village in New Orleans are February. CD that provides (bottom, left to right) William Paterson University students Shannon McClure Students participating in instruction in a and Tara Wisniewski, Westminster Choir College (WCC) students Juliane Dowell, New Orleans were Emmanuel variety of relax- Lauren McDowell, and Alison Reinsch, William Paterson students Mike Giroud Coloma, Joe Fioretti, Michael ation techniques and Frank Perrone; (top, left to right) music professor Carol Frierson-Campbell, William Paterson students Vivian Lau and Tiffany Tanner, WCC student Joe Giroud, Vivian Lau, Melanie including dia- Alden-Sawtelle, and William Paterson students Bryant Morin, Joe Fioretti, and Lipman, Shannon McClure, Manny Coloma phragmatic breathing, visual- Ludwig, an adjunct profes- Immigrant Experience the headlines—I ization, and meditation. sor of communication, as Dr. In the Post-September 11 had to do so through “Building a stress-resistant Joy, who gives Dr. Wigdul the Era is Focus of English fiction.” lifestyle is central to cop- fuzzy socks at the center of the Professor’s Novel Budhos is a ing with stress. As a health film. It premiered Ask Me No Questions, a Fulbright Scholar, CAMPUS educator I’ve made a life-long on campus during young adult novel, is and the recipient of commitment to building hardy the Communica- the latest book by a 2007 New Jersey health habits and teaching my tion Department’s Marina Budhos, an State Council on the students the importance of a Comedy Festival last assistant professor of Arts Fellowship for healthy lifestyle,” says Blonna, November. English at William prose writing. who has taught a popular stress Guerrieri says the Paterson. It tells the management class at the Uni- idea for the film came story of two teenage versity since 1988. from a pair of fluffy girls from Bangla- Music Professor Blonna provides a broad socks her mother sent desh who live with Issues CD Recorded repertoire of coping strategies her some years ago. their mother and On Campus based on his Five Rs of Cop- “I’m from New Orleans and father in Queens on expired Payton MacDonald, assistant ing Model (Reorganize, Relax, it’s cold here in the winter, so visas, not quite underground, professor of music, and a per- Release, Rethink, and Reduce). I would wear the socks in my but always looking over their cussionist who is a specialist “The five Rs of coping work office to keep warm,” she says. shoulders. One day soon after in Indian music, especially together to provide a synergis- After meeting Ludwig, learn- September 11, everything the tabla, an Indian drum, has tic effect in helping you con- ing about his career as an actor, changes. Their father decides recorded a compact disc con- quer your stress,” he explains. and seeing him in a play on the family should head to taining new compositions. The “People respond differently campus, Guerrieri wrote the Canada for asylum because of CD, Payton MacDonald: Works to stressors and approaches to script for the film with him in the newly instituted Muslim for Tabla, was recorded on coping. By using these five dif- mind. Registration Act, which calls for campus for Atma Records,ON and ferent strategies, each person An article she read about a every man over eighteen from features a campus percussion can develop a unique personal film festival created specifically certain Muslim countries to ensemble. stress management program for the deaf gave Guerrieri the register with the U.S. govern- “To my knowledge, this is the tailored to his or her own per- idea of creating a film with no ment. At the border, he is first full-length CD on a major sonality and lifestyle.” dialogue. “I thought it would arrested by the Immigration record label which explores and Naturalization Service new compositional approaches and detained. to North Indian tabla drum- Campus Serves The book has received ming,” MacDonald says. As Location for numerous commendations MacDonald’s compositions, Communication including selection as Best Book which include three concer- Professor’s for Young Adults and a Notable tos for tabla and percussion New Short Film Book by the American Library quartet, as well as several solo After trudging through day Association for 2007. It is works for tabla, are performed after day of his dull, lonely life, currently in its fourth printing. by the William Paterson Uni- a stodgy old professor receives The events of September versity Percussion Ensemble, an unexpected gift—a pair of 11 spurred her into writing the which is composed of students magical fuzzy yellow socks— book. “I wanted to get inside who are majoring in percus- that takes his life in a different Joan and Jay Ludwig on location in a the skin of that experience, sion. The CD p a g e hallway in Hunziker Hall 9 direction. all its complexities— was recorded and Wn i n e That’s the plot of Acade- how a young person engineered in be a challenge—and an oppor- mania!, a seven-minute film could feel as if his or the University’s tunity to hone my craft as a by Gina Guerrieri, an assistant her whole future rest- state-of-the- visual storyteller—to write a professor of communication ed here, in America, art recording screenplay using strictly cin- at William Paterson. The film, and then one day wake studio in Shea ema language, and no dialogue, shot entirely on campus last up and it was vanished; Center with the to communicate the narrative.” winter, including exterior foot- or their own anger and assistance of Guerrieri used an office age of Hunziker Hall taken confusion about their David Kerzner, associate and hallways in Hunziker Hall during a February 2006 snow- family, their parents, break- professor of music and head for the film. “Everyone on storm, features Jay Ludwig, ing the law. These are internal of the sound engineering arts campus, from maintenance to professor of communication, as struggles and I knew to get program. campus police, was enormously the grumpy geology professor to the human story—not just helpful,” she says. Dr. Wigdul, and his wife, Joan

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 “The fact that the One example used in ion piece to his earlier film, recording features the book is the story of the Friendly Persuasion, in which the William Paterson Little Red Hen, which relates he investigated Iranian cinema Percussion Ensemble to building effective teams. In after the revolution.

CAMPUS speaks a lot about the story, the Little Red Hen The Lost Cinema explores the high quality of lives in a house with a cat, a key issues of Iranian New Wave our music students dog, and a mouse. The ani- cinema, a film movement that and the percussion mals are lazy, so the Little Red took hold in the late 1960s dur- department,” says Hen does all the housework. ing the final years of the Shah’s MacDonald. “The One day, she gathers some reign. It was conceived as a recording engineer, ingredients to make a cake protest against the extant film Dave Kerzner, did an absolute- and asks the others for help. and then take action. industry that was considered to ly fabulous job on the project.” They decline. So she bakes the “I became a sociologist be less concerned with art and The University students cake alone and consumes the because I wanted to influence politics, and was dependent on involved in the project were Joe cake herself, without sharing society for the better,” says films exported from the United Bergen, Mike Deluccia, April it with the others who did no Korgen. “Sociology is a perfect States and Europe. McCloskey, Mark Richardson, work. The others, seeing that place to bring civic engagement For the documentary, Mike Sperone, and Justin Wolf. they missed out on a treat, into the classroom. This book Akrami analyzed selected are remorseful and afterwards offers students and profes- films and conducted a series of always help with the work. sors concrete suggestions for interviews with filmmakers and The lesson? “Leaders try to exercises and activities that can scholars. Through the film he get followers to work along side connect issues and problems exposes the trend of politically them, but are often met with in the community with what is themed films that created a resistance. Most people find it learned in the classroom.” sense of awareness for viewers. ON easier to sit back, watch some- An accompanying Web site “I wanted to shed light on one else do the work, and jump offers additional resources, an important cinematic tradi- in when it all comes together, including research guides and tion, which has been kept from just like the dog, cat, and links to Web sites and journal the public eye for the past mouse in the story,” Chirichel- articles on social issues and three decades,” Akrami says. lo says. “But like the Little Red topics covered in each chapter. “The 1979 revolution in Iran Hen, leaders know that there is According to Korgen, ended a secular monarchy and Education Professor a lot to be done, so they just do connecting the classroom to replaced it with an Islamic Uses Children’s it. They do not wait around for the community is vital for theocracy. It brought radical Literature to Build followers to join in.” today’s students, particularly changes to all aspects of Ira- Leadership Skills first-generation college stu- nian culture and society. Some For Principals dents. “For some students, this fifty years of filmmaking prior A new book by Michael New Book by Sociology could be their first exposure to to the revolution fell victim to Chirichello, associate professor Professor Focuses on thinking they actually can the sweeping changes and was of education, uses examples Civic Engagement influence society,” she says. deemed un-Islamic in the view in children’s literature to help Kathleen Korgen, associate “Bringing their own experienc- of the new ruling class, and school principals build stron- professor of sociology, is the es into the classroom also therefore banned. The mov- ger leadership skills. co-author of a new book that makes teaching and learning a ies made in those fifty years p a g e In Learning to Lead: Ten aims to help sociology students lot more interesting.” are part of a national cultural 1 0 Stories for Principals, Chirichello Wt e n become engaged and effective tradition, and I don’t think explains that “the literature citizens who can strengthen they should be so drastically written for and loved by chil- our democratic society. Communication affected by a political change, dren provides rich metaphors In The Engaged Sociologist: Professor Films no matter how profound that that can help school leaders Connecting the Classroom to the Documentary on change is.” expand and develop their Community, Korgen and co- Iranian Cinema capacity to lead effectively. author Jonathan M. White, an The Lost Cinema, a new film The lessons for school leaders assistant professor of sociology by Jamsheed Akrami, associate portrayed in this book are dis- at Bridgewater State College in professor of communication, tilled from the lessons learned Massachusetts, teach students is a feature-length documen- through the characters in stories how to use the tools of sociol- tary about the Iranian cinema loved by young children.” The ogy, from hands-on data collec- before that country’s revolu- book is co-authored by Nancy tion to library-based research, tion. The film is a compan- Richmond, a retired principal. to investigate social problems Benefit Versus Risk: The Hard Choices Surrounding Science and Ethics Bioethics and Society, Professor Miryam Wahrman To keep the course as current is a predisposition,” offers Janel as possible, Wahrman reads vocif- Burgos Malva, a biology graduate erously, and shares related news- student. “But that doesn’t mean paper and magazine articles with you will get that disease.” the class as a basis for discussion. Paras, a seventh grade sci- During a class session on patients’ ence teacher, says the course rights, she hands out articles has not only provided her with C l a s s N o t e abouts the children of a secret Nazi ideas regarding curriculum for her breeding program in the 1940s, a students, but has also been an wrongful birth trial that centers eye opener. “At the beginning of on a genetic disorder that wasn’t this class I thought I knew where diagnosed, and the ethics of lying I stood on all bioethics cases to a patient about her chances such as abortion, euthanasia, in of being able to leave a nursing vitro fertilization and others,” she Professor Miryam Wahrman discusses the ethical issues surrounding DNA samples home and live independently. explains. “However, now I can see These articles form the basis for every perspective of each case The laboratory tables in Science cussing the issues, she returns the much of the course’s written work, and can understand how certain Hall are prepared with everything samples to each student, to do with which focuses on case studies of bioethical cases get resolved. It’s needed for a simple experiment— as they see fit.) current bioethics issues. a great class.” test tubes, beakers, distilled water, These questions are at the On most evenings, the class Wahrman, who was a member saline solution, soap solution. heart of Wahrman’s course, Bio- includes a pro and con discussion of the in vitro fertilization team at These basic scientific tools will be ethics and Society, an elective of a bioethical issue covered in Mt. Sinai Medical Center that pro- used this evening by the students for undergraduate and gradu- one of the course texts, Taking in Professor Miryam Wahrman’s ate students pursuing biology, Sides: Clashing Views on Contro- class to collect an important bio- biotechnology, or other science- versial Bioethical Issues. Students logical specimen: their own DNA related degrees, as well as any volunteer to lead the discussion. sample. student who has taken a course Following the DNA lab session, The students swish water in in biology. “Ethics is an absolutely two students, Megan Smith, an their mouths to collect cells from essential part of science educa- undergraduate majoring in biol- inside their cheeks, which they tion today,” she says. “Every issue ogy, and Bethany Paras, a biol- spit into a test tube. By combin- has some ethical questions.” ogy graduate student, discuss ing various reagents (or chemi- The course begins with the whether genetic testing might cals) according to the protocol of history and principles of bioethics, lead to a denial of employment the experiment, each student is but the majority of the semester Graduate student Bethany Paras and insurance. prepares her DNA sample able to extract a visible strand of is devoted to addressing a multi- “It will lead to discrimina- p a g e DNA that is then placed in a tude of contemporary bioethical tion,” says Smith. “When you duced the first test tube baby in 1 1 We l e v e n smaller test tube. When the exper- issues, such as cloning, stem cell think someone will get a disease New York State, has been thinking iment is concluded, Wahrman col- research, gene therapy, disease in five years, why would you hire and writing about bioethics for lects the samples from each screening, infertility, abortion, them?” many years, and says that every- student, and then poses a series of genetically modified food, bio- “Employers should only judge one is affected by today’s cutting questions for them to think about. engineered animals, euthanasia, potential employees by their cre- edge medical science, environ- “Who owns this DNA and patients’ rights, and animal rights. dentials,” says Paras. “Employers mental issues, and new develop- why?” she asks. “What should I do can’t discriminate on the basis of ments in biotechnology. with these samples? Should I send other physical traits such as sex “Even non-scientists should them to the registrar to place in or disability, so having someone’s have an understanding of these your files? Should I send them to an DNA information would be dis- issues in the modern world,” she insurance company? Should I keep crimination as well.” says. “All of us in our personal them in my freezer? If you have A lively discussion ensues, as lives have to make health and this information, it raises ethical students share their own view- medical decisions—and there are and moral questions.” (After dis- points on the topic. “Genetics no easy answers.” w Who owns these DNA samples?

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 John A. Byrne ’75 Making Business “Where’s the dog?” asks John A. Byrne ’75,

executive editor of BusinessWeek magazine and

acting editor-in-chief for BusinessWeek.com, News as he looks over the layout of the March 26 issue, the magazine’s biggest annual issue, during the Work morning “walkthrough.” By Barbara E. Martin ’93, M.A. ’94

p a g e 1 2 Wt w e lv e John A. Byrne, executive editor, BusinessWeek, and acting editor-in-chief, BusinessWeek.com, during a morning “walkthrough,” a review of all the pages of BusinessWeek magazine, which are posted on a wall in the order in which they will appear in the magazine

here’s the dog?” he repeats, Casual, precise, and collegial, Byrne show, or via some interactive tool to engage almost to himself, as he makes crafting a weekly business magazine, the reader. Some content gets delivered via reviews the magazine’s his responsibility for the past two years, mobile blasts, emails, newsletters, and in content with a group that seem almost easy. A constant smile on his seminars and conferences. The magazine’s “W p a g e includes several managing editors, the art face, and an upbeat attitude make him focus is no longer on news or merely an 1 3 Wt h i r t e e n director, and others charged with creating approachable to his staff. Quick to confer analysis of the week’s most important busi- the weekly consumer magazine. with his editors, equally quick to make a ness news. It’s on original, fresh, and sur- As executive editor, Byrne, who is decision, he undertakes the task at hand prising journalism that keeps our readers responsible for the content and “look” with a clear sense of purpose: to produce a on top of, and ahead, in the game of busi- of the magazine, is referring to the least product of value to the consumer. Online ness. The magazine is a thinking person’s important story in the magazine that responsibilities, added this spring, have consultant, informing him or her of what week. “In every issue there’s a story that changed his focus. they need to know to stay competitive, and slips through that shouldn’t be there,” he “I no longer think of BusinessWeek as to be the smartest person in the room.” explains. “Even at the very end, after all the a weekly magazine,” he says. “Instead, I Byrne, a first-generation college gradu- copy has been approved, I’ll look for the think of BusinessWeek as a brand under ate, grew up in Paterson, and earned a weakest story, to see what can be pulled, or which we have many ways to deliver news, bachelor’s degree in English from William what’s marginal. I’ll take it out to improve analysis, opinion, advice, and investiga- Paterson, and a master’s degree in journal- the overall quality of the magazine.” tive journalism. Some goes online in story ism from the University of Missouri. form, or as a video or podcast, or a slide

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are tacked to a wall in a long corridor in the same order they are to appear in the finished magazine. This gives Byrne, his editors, art director, and those in charge of advertising, a realistic view of how the magazine will look. Byrne scrutinizes each page, makes suggestions, approves some, and calls for changes on others. “This is the time I check the flow of the book,” he says. “We look at the diversity and variety of the stories, the art, the adjacencies, and whether there are too many photos. The BW50 issue at 144 pages has more advertis- ing as an annual issue, and is the biggest magazine of the year.” Podcasts, digital media files shared over the Web, are an increasingly popular way to provide information. The magazine now produces twenty-two different podcasts. Byrne himself tapes three podcasts: one Byrne discussing business issues with Christopher Power, an assistant managing editor at the magazine, on the week’s cover story (the most popu- who oversees the international bureaus lar one), one on moving up the corporate ladder (the third most listened to podcast After a stint as London bureau chief for rial meeting, attended by senior editors monthly), and a new weekly series that is a Fairchild Publications, Byrne joined Forbes who gather in a conference room to pitch review of the week’s most important busi- in New York and was recruited to Business- their story ideas for the following issue. ness news. Week in 1985 as its managing editor. Over Decisions must be made—which book to “A podcast is just another method of the next seventeen-and-a-half years, he review, what goes into the wine column and storytelling,” he explains. “It allows people wrote a record fifty-seven cover stories and the music column, which cover stories are to listen and learn from us while in the eight books. Byrne surprised colleagues by in contention. Sometimes four stories are gym, or on a jog, or commuting to work. jumping ship in 2002 to Fast Company as scheduled for the cover. Roughly 700,000 of our podcasts are down- editor-in-chief, only to return to Business- loaded every month and they have enor- Week in August 2005. Within three months mous influence.” of his return, he had written and reported “More people get their The McGraw-Hill building has outfit- his fifty-eighth cover for the magazine. news online for free,” ted an ultramodern studio on one of the Since his return to BusinessWeek, his upper floors geared for both audio and primary responsibility is management. he says. “That changes video where the podcast interview with the “I miss writing,” Byrne says. “But I like editor or author of the cover story occurs. managing people and I like being involved the game, but in good Taking advantage of a different medium in so many different aspects of crafting a pleases the iconoclast in Byrne. Meant magazine.” ways.” to simulate a conversation between two What does it take to put such a publica- informed people, it is an explanation of the p a g e tion together? Recently, Byrne offered a Between meetings, Byrne checks and cover story that week. 1 4 behind-the-scenes look when he allowed Wfo u r t e e n answers his own e-mail “to know what’s For the podcast on the BW50 article, WP Magazine to follow him through a going on,” he says. “I answer every e- the editor is slated to write the script, typical day at work on a Tuesday in March mail—maybe not to the satisfaction of the which Byrne hopes to schedule for as he and his staff prepared the special person writing in, but I answer every one. I 2:30 p.m. He sits at his computer and annual issue, “The Best Performers: The need to stay on top of it.” During the time picks out a song to introduce and close the BusinessWeek Fifty” (BW50), a cover story he spends in the editorial meeting, twenty- podcast, a task the former music critic for that appraises the best performing compa- nine new messages fill his mailbox: from The Beacon likes to do. Using iTunes, he nies of the year. readers, the publisher, authors of books, looks for songs that would appeal to a baby His workday begins on the forty-third updates on ideas from the meeting, and boomer audience, the target audience for floor of the McGraw-Hill Building at 49th artists sending sketches to use as illustra- BusinessWeek, and are tied to the theme of Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan tions in the magazine. the issue. Since the BW50 issue is focused with a quick walk down the hall to get the Two hours later, during the morning on the best companies, he selects Simply first of the many cups of coffee he con- “walkthrough,” Byrne meets with other the Best, a song that was a big hit for Tina sumes each day. On Monday, Tuesday, and staff members to look at the layout of Turner. He directs his assistant to check Wednesday each week, he runs an edito- the magazine. Pages from the magazine with the scriptwriter and producer to see if -

they agree with his choice; the podcast has had been included. Byrne sets the tone— every night, which typically translates into been moved back to 4:30 p.m. friendly, yet informative—while presenting about forty-five minutes of internal read- Then it’s on to a business lunch with the podcast as a service to the listener. (The ing, and many more hours devoted to read- Kimberly Weisul, the editor of SmallBiz podcast is archived and can be heard on ing the competition. magazine, a publication of BusinessWeek BusinessWeek.com.) “How would I be able to make good targeted to companies with three hundred “The value of this podcast is that it judgments for the magazine if I didn’t read or fewer employees. “It’s good for me to sit makes the BusinessWeek brand come alive the competition?” he asks. “For our maga- with Kim,” Byrne says. “It’s a good way and personalizes and enriches the experi- zine we look for stories that are not report- to catch up.” He often uses the lunch hour ence of reading the cover story,” Byrne ed elsewhere, stories that have a contrarian for business and recently took the writ- says. “It may make the listener read the view, or we marshal new reporting. All add ers who cover the finance industry out to magazine and it’s a good way to get infor- value to the magazine.” lunch. “It’s one of the highest performing mation out to the public, and share with Despite the changes in the process of groups,” he explains. “I wanted to let them them the tremendous amount of work that getting news out to interested listeners and know how pleased I am, to celebrate them, goes into the cover story.” readers, Byrne, as executive editor of the and to let them know that I’m paying atten- Podcasts are just one example of how magazine and acting editor-in-chief of the tion.” business news as an entity has changed online site, seems energized rather than Upon his return to the office, Byrne with the advent of the level of technology daunted by the challenges ahead of him. walks through cubicles to talk with the currently available. “As executive editor, I’m enormously writers and editors—he makes such rounds “It’s faster, global, and far more com- proud of our staff and the amazing work an average of six times a day. Clearly petitive,” Byrne reveals. “The market it does every day online and every week in solicitous of his staff, he checks in to see leader online isn’t any of our traditional the magazine,” he says. “Truth is, I’m awed how people are doing. “I will ask someone print rivals like Forbes, Fortune, or The Wall by the intelligence, the commitment, and about their ideas, what they’re working on, Street Journal. It’s Yahoo Finance.” the passion of our people. I’m thrilled at what they’re excited about, or if they have “More people get their news online for the incredible success we’ve had in creating a problem,” Byrne says. “And if there is free,” he adds. “That changes the game, a site with more than two hundred original something I have a problem with, this is but in good ways. More people consume pieces of journalism a week.” w the time to discuss issues.” BusinessWeek content today than at any By late afternoon, he begins to receive other time in our history because we have Editor’s Note: pages to read and proof. As the finished more than seven million online readers As we go to press, we learned that John A. pages are ready, his assistant brings in final alone.” Byrne has been appointed executive editor/ versions, which he reads and approves. To keep up with the fast pace and his editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek’s fast-grow- Pages then are corrected using his sugges- dual positions, Byrne also takes work home ing online operations. tions, and they move on toward production. Half the magazine is “closed” or finalized on Tuesday; on Wednesday the complete issue is “closed” and on Friday, it hits the newsstand. With a script still unavailable for the podcast, it is finally postponed until the next day. In the podcast recorded for the BW50 issue the following day, Byrne interviews Suzanne Woolley, an associate editor at BusinessWeek and the editor of the story. As p a g e 1 5 she outlines the top ten businesses selected, Wf i f t e e n Byrne asks pertinent questions which explain to the listener the process by which the companies had been vetted. This year, in addition to using a financial measure as a tool, a protocol was created whereby edi- tors and correspondents, all experts in the industry they cover as reporters, weighed in with their opinions. This also provides an opportunity to mention that McGraw- Hill, BusinessWeek’s parent company, was not included in order to avoid a sense of impropriety, but not before Byrne, in mock Byrne with a magazine page he has edited. The page contains a review of a book written by a physician, horror at the exclusion, notes that the com- called How Doctors Think, a clear example of Byrne’s interest in providing readers of the magazine with pany would have scored in the thirties if it information that is not just straight business news

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 Myths and Facts

About College Drinking

University Program Helps Students Make Informed Choices

By Terry E. Ross ’80

p a g e 1 6 In National Lampoon’s Animal House, John Belushi, as the outlandish Ws i x t e e n Bluto, thrusts a six-pack at his fraternity buddy and says, “My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.”

hirty years later, audiences are still laughing at the William Paterson University began taking a very proac- silly, grossed-out antics of a misfit fraternity gang in tive, comprehensive approach to dealing with issues of alco- Tthis 1978 pop culture hit. In real life, however, alcohol hol and drug abuse nearly five years ago. “We’ve made it a overindulgence is no joke to college administrators, health priority,” explains John Martone, vice president for student professionals, parents, and most students. Young, inexperi- development. enced drinkers who push the boundaries of their newfound With the vision and support of the Board of Trustees, freedom or attempt to live up to a distorted image of college the president, and the provost, William Paterson has built life suffer real consequences. Binge drinking can lead to an alcohol prevention program that includes the commit- fights, assaults, accidents, and alcohol-related deaths. ment and cooperation of departments across campus. From the offices of Student Development That’s why, for the past four years, the report drinking moderately or not at all.” to Counseling, Health, and Wellness, Police University has been conducting anonymous Students who can repeat the message have and Public Safety to Residence Life, and surveys on campus about alcohol consump- won sweatshirts, iPods, and other prizes. First-Year Experience to Recreation, tion. For example, in a random survey The message has also been featured on everyone plays a role in promoting healthy taken of 421 William Paterson students full-sized candy bars given out on Hallow- behavior. Students who serve as “peer health in spring 2007, 19.5 percent of students een and Valentine’s Day, Starbucks coffee advocates” are also part of the mix. This year, reported that they never drink alcohol; sleeves, and chewing gum. the University began reaching beyond the 39.9 percent of students reported hav- “When students first hear the social borders of the campus, partnering with local ing two or fewer alcoholic drinks at their norms message, most of them don’t believe towns, police departments, bars, and retailers last social drinking occasion; 54.8 percent it,” says Rebecca Fegely, coordinator of resi- to increase public awareness and advocacy. reported having three or fewer drinks; and dence education for residence life. “They 64 percent four or fewer drinks. According say, ‘There’s no way this is true.’ So that’s to Sherman, having fewer than four drinks something we work on. We work really hard Dispelling myths about at one sitting may be considered moder- with first-year students who are trying to college-age drinking ate drinking, which mirrors the national live up to the myth that college is all about numbers. The results, which coincide with partying. We’re trying to be as proactive as As one of the first steps in building a com- research performed at other universities possible, educating students in a preventive prehensive prevention program, William across the nation, show that most William way, and giving the best tools to make the Paterson applied for and received an early Paterson students drink in moderation or best decisions for themselves,” she adds. grant from the New Jersey Higher Education not at all, says Sherman. Students who serve as “peer health Consortium on Alcohol and Other Drug “We continue to run the social norms advocates,” a program sponsored by the Prevention and Education in 2003. With campaign,” says Sherman. “Each year we University’s Counseling, Health, and the help of this funding, the University do different kinds of activities to promote Wellness Center, are very helpful in educat- established a committee to conduct the fact that if students drink at all, most ing fellow students about alcohol abuse and research and launched an advertising students drink responsibly.” This year’s other health issues. The group includes campaign to reduce high-risk drinking poster campaign features the social norms approximately twelve students who are on campus. message in various languages, including trained under the direction of Jill Guzman, “One of the biggest challenges we face Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, a registered nurse and associate director of is dispelling the myths and misperceptions Japanese, and Spanish. counseling, health, and wellness. about alcohol consumption,” explains Glen The social norms message is also spread “Our peer health advocates are the eyes Sherman, associate vice president and dean via e-mails to students, interactive contests, and ears of the Center, reaching out to the of student development. “Studies show and giveaways at athletic and social events. student community and giving us valuable college students typically believe that their At football, field hockey, basketball, and feedback,” says Guzman. “I’ve learned that peers are drinking more excessively, and soccer games, the announcer will say, I can offer all types of health education to may try to conform to this perception in “This time out the William Paterson Social students, but if it’s not coming from their order to fit in.” Norms Committee wants to inform you that peers many of them don’t want to hear it. What leads students to have these most William Paterson University students Students pay attention and relate better misperceptions? One reason, according to researchers, is that the few students who drink excessively at social gatherings are usually loud, rowdy, and get all the atten- tion, while the majority of those who drink responsibly go unnoticed. The myth is p a g e further reinforced by movies and television 1 7 Ws e v e nt e e n shows that depict college life as one big keg party. When students discover that their peers are consuming less alcohol and do so less frequently than commonly believed, studies indicate that they are more likely to make a healthy modification of their own behavior. This concept, known as the social norms approach, has proven effective nationwide in achieving large-scale positive results and is used by several colleges and universities in New Jersey. Carola Gremalich (center), a nurse with the University’s Counseling, Health, and Wellness Center, moderates a meeting of peer health advocates, including (in view, left to right) Aaron Goldstein, Ada Grafals, Abdul Taylor-Kamara, Jonathan Gilbert, and Dawan Worsley

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 when they hear information from fellow Why freshmen are most at risk and promulgating in our residence halls students.” Peer health advocates are trained and on our campus,” says Sherman. to participate in campus events sponsored “We know that the first six to eight weeks of “Alcohol.edu is probably, in our view, by the Center, including HIV prevention, freshman year is a time of great vulnerability one of the best programs out there,” adds smoking cessation programs, and tabling on for students,” says Sherman. “They’re Martone. “And it’s an investment because various health topics. They also put on dra- entering a stage in their life when they’re it costs the University about $20,000 a matic skits about alcohol abuse for students forced to make decisions more on their own year. But I think it’s one of the most effec- at the University’s First-Year Orientation. than ever before. If they’re living on campus, tive measures we’re taking because it’s so Abdul Taylor-Kamara, a sophomore in particular, it’s a new start for them. They data driven.” majoring in business, works as both a peer need to think more independently and more This past fall, when students at health advocate and a resident assistant. wisely because the stakes are higher.” William Paterson were asked to evaluate “When it comes to drinking, I tell students their experience with Alcohol.edu, they that if they do drink, there’s a safe way to rated the course very favorably. Eighty-nine go about it, taking into consideration their percent of students said it helped them feel body mass, timing of drinks, and eating more prepared to make decisions about beforehand. If I’m able to plant a seed and alcohol; eighty-six percent said they would give students a little bit of information, at recommend it to their friends; and seventy- least it’s inside their head. I feel like I’m seven percent said the course stimulated helping to save lives,” he says. talks with friends about college drinking. “Not all the programs are so serious. We The full benefit of the program, Martone have fun as well,” he adds. Taylor-Kamara believes, will be realized three years from and other peer health advocates helped to The current social norms poster campaign features now when all students, through senior year, organize a Valentine’s Day party in Century a message in various languages, including Chinese have been required to take the course. Hall this past year. “We had mock cocktails, Parents are also welcome to take the course including strawberry daiquiris To help with this transition, the if they wish, and approximately seventy- and pina coladas, to show University introduced Alcohol.edu, a two- five have done so. that you can have fruity and-a-half-hour online alcohol prevention drinks without alcohol. course that is now required for all first-year It snowed that day and students and transfer students with less Creating an environment on campus most resident students than eleven credits. The course educates that promotes good, clean fun stayed on campus. students about the implications and poten- The party was well- tial consequences of problematic alcohol The University, through offices such attended and every- at a time of their life when they are most as Campus Activities, has intentionally body had a lot of fun,” vulnerable. The program is customized and focused on expanding recreational and he reports. interactive, informing students about blood educational co-curricular activities. At the alcohol levels, blackouts, hangovers, and same time, Sherman stresses the impor- other important facts. The purpose is to tance of working with campus police and overcome what researchers call the “college the judicial system to make sure the Uni- effect”—an increase in the prevalence and versity has clear policies that are consis- intensity of high-risk behaviors that often tently enforced. “We have worked closely accompanies the transition to college. with our student leaders in planning cam- “While the social norms campaign pus-wide events that are consistent with our p a g e addresses the majority of students who philosophy of promoting and supporting 1 8 either do not drink, or drink moderately, safe, healthy fun. That’s an important part We i g h t e e n there is a smaller number who do drink of being successful with this,” he says. excessively—we’re not pretending that those The annual Music Fest, for instance, is students don’t exist,” says Sherman. “For an event that in past years had problems those students, Alcohol.edu really addresses associated with alcohol. Soon after Martone what happens if you drink too much, and arrived, the issue came to a head when Greek how to mitigate the effect by separating Senate representatives approached him for drinks with time, food, and so on. permission to hold the event. Martone “It’s also a chance for us to promote the asked, “Why would I approve something values of our institution. If you engage in that my staff says is a huge event with a lot that type of drinking and behave in ways of problems—students getting drunk, that are not socially desirable, that’s con- damage, and vandalism, calls from faculty trary to the values that we’re promoting complaining of noise, and general trash all around the center of campus?” Abdul Taylor-Kamara, a sophomore, works as both a peer health advocate and a resident assistant priately. The group is working closely with the mayors and the police chiefs of the sur- rounding towns, including Wayne, North Haledon, Haledon, and Prospect Park. “We’re planning to host an educational program on the latest practices in checking identifications and how to train your servers not to serve to intoxicated people, as a way of partnering with them,” says Sherman. Other projects include efforts to address parents about underage drinking and passing town ordinances that make it illegal to have alcohol consumption by minors on private property. “If parents clearly knew that they were going to be held liable and responsible for the consequences, they would take a

Students gather to enjoy the Music Fest, an annual event with food and music more active role in preventing it. So getting ordinances passed, and having them enforced, is critical in the effort to eliminate To their credit, Martone reports, the underage drinking. So underage drinking is parties where kids are going to homes and president of the Greek Senate and several everybody’s concern.” drinking,” according to Sherman. students took on the challenge by working Fr. Alan F. Savitt, the executive director with campus police and other departments of the Passaic County Council on Alcohol- to make sure it ran smoothly and success- ism and Drug Abuse Prevention, invited fully. The event was shifted to Tuesday so Sherman to make a presentation about students could take advantage of activities William Paterson’s alcohol prevention during an extended common hour without program at one of its events. Sherman sub- missing classes. Guidelines were enforced sequently volunteered to become part of and the location was moved away from the organization’s countywide coalition to the center of campus. New generations address underage drinking, and now serves of students have followed this example— as chairman of the group. “We meet about understanding that it’s their event, they’re once a month with town alliances, identify responsible, and they need to make it work. issues of concern, and have come up with “It’s a fun event with food and music—and four projects that we felt we could accom- we haven’t had a problem since. We want plish,” he says. Glen Sherman, associate vice president and dean of student development, addresses community leaders to reinforce the fact that college is fun, This fall, for example, William Paterson’s about underage drinking there are different things to do, and if we peer health advocates will perform dramatic all work together we can have a good time,” presentations for incoming high school “William Paterson University has says Martone. freshmen on the topic of alcohol and drugs made great progress on partnering with at five area schools. The skits will be similar the community to advance the issue of to the ones they perform at the University’s prevention of underage drinking. This is an Reaching beyond the borders first-year orientation, but tailored to a of the campus evolving, ongoing process,” says Sherman. younger age group. “The peer health “It shouldn’t take the death of a student, an p a g e advocates are working very hard to make overdose by a student, or alcohol poisoning 1 9 “The most exciting and final piece of our Wn i n e t e e n the program developmentally appropriate approach, which we have been developing to get a community’s or the University’s for incoming high school students, because the past year, is reaching beyond the borders attention. In our case, it did not. they’re much younger,” says Sherman. of our campus and partnering with the “The old way of thinking was that col- “Until now there hasn’t been a lot of community,” says Sherman. “Colleges do leges, universities, and their administrators collaboration between high schools and not exist in isolation. They exist in munici- might avoid this issue because they didn’t colleges when it comes to prevention,” palities where students are going off-campus want any negative publicity, or have anyone explains Sherman. “This is one way we can to restaurants, to bars, and purchasing think there is a problem. We don’t have a partner with high schools—it’s a start.” alcohol at retail establishments. That’s problem—we’re no different than any other For another project, the coalition is obviously a concern to us and to the town- institution. But you can’t put your head in planning ways to work with the retail ships. But additionally, the township concern the ground and avoid facing these issues. establishment and bar owners in town to has to do with their high school and middle The potential consequences of doing so are make sure they are not promoting alcohol w school students who are also engaging in just too serious.” to underage drinkers or serving inappro-

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William Paterson University Foundation Raises Highest Amount Ever at Annual Legacy Award Gala

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p a g e 2 0 Wt w e nt y Domenick Stampone ’94 (far left), president of the Alumni Association, joins Faculty Service Award recipient Barbara Grant ’54 (fourth from left) and Distinguished Alumni Award recipients (left to right) Judith Lissemore Merz ’69, M.A. ’70, Tami Cotsakos ’71, Suzanne Mechanic Kabis ’75, Annmarie Puleio ’75, and Sam Dedio ’88

The William Paterson University Founda- Recipients of this year’s Legacy Award is presented by the William Paterson tion raised close to $500,000 at the Foun- were David F. Bolger, president of Bolger Alumni Association to outstanding Uni- dation’s seventeenth annual Legacy Award & Co., Inc. and The Bolger Foundation; versity alumni in recognition of significant Gala and Silent Auction held on April 14 David J. Kasparian and Michael N. Kas- achievement. The 2007 recipients were: at The Villa at Mountain Lakes. The total parian, partners, MDK Development, Tami Cotsakos ’71, vice chairman, Main- represents the highest amount ever gener- LLC, headquartered in Paramus; and Uni- stream Holdings, LLC; Sam Dedio ’88, ated by the Legacy gala. The annual event lever, headquartered in Englewood. senior portfolio manager and head of U.S. raises funds to support the University’s The event also included the presenta- active equity, Julius Baer Investment mission of promoting student success and tion of the University’s Distinguished Management; Suzanne Mechanic academic excellence. Alumni Awards and Faculty Service Kabis ’75, M.D., president of The Renal Award. The Distinguished Alumni Award Group of Central New Jersey, associate DEVE L OPMENT NEWS

President Arnold Speert (far left) and Sandra Deller (second from left), vice president for institutional advancement, with Legacy Award honorees (left to right) David J. Kasparian, partner, MDK Development; David F. Bolger, president of Bolger & Co. Inc. and The Bolger Foundation; Michael N. Kasparian, partner, MDK Development; and Paul Bello, vice president, Unilever, who accepted the award on behalf of Unilever professor of clinical medicine, UMDNJ, David Bolger to benefit clinical instruction possible quality. We greatly appreciate their and senior attending, Robert Wood John- at The Nel Bolger, R.N. Nursing Labora- investment in our students and this great son University Hospital; Judith Lissemore tory.” institution.” Merz ’69, M.A. ’70, M.Ed. ’76, Ed.D., The Faculty Service Award is given by “Support for the Legacy Award Gala retired superintendent, Cedar Grove Public the University’s Alumni Association to fac- helps William Paterson to develop and Schools; and Annmarie Puleio ’75, execu- ulty members nominated by William Pater- enhance programs that engage students in tive director, The Fred C. Rummel Foun- son alumni in recognition of demonstrated new and innovative ways,” says Deller. “It dation. career achievement and commitment to helps us to provide all students—commut- “During the evening, Christos Cot- the University. This year’s recipient was ers and residents—with a living-learning sakos and Suzanne Cotsakos, the daughter Barbara M. Grant ’54, Ed.D., professor environment that enriches their educational of Christos and Tami, made a surprise emeritus of curriculum and instruction. experiences in the classrooms, labs, studios announcement of a gift to match the “Partnerships form the bedrock of and throughout our active campus. Most p a g e Legacy net proceeds,” says Sandra S. the University’s ability to play a vital and importantly, support enables us to offer 2 1 Deller, vice president for institutional vibrant role in our students’ lives,” says scholarships to exceptional students—often Wt w e nt y- O N E advancement and president of the William President Arnold Speert. “The generos- with significant financial need.” Paterson University Foundation. “This ity of our donors and other friends of the gift will benefit the Department of Music University combine with our faculty and in recognition of Tami Cotsakos’s Distin- students to create a potent formula for suc- Legacy Chair guished Alumni Award. I am also pleased cess. Partnerships help to generate the cru- to announce that during the same evening cial resources that we rely on day after day Dr. and Mrs. Christos M. Cotsakos we learned of a generous contribution from as a University committed to the highest

Distinguished Honorary Chairs

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 basis,” says Sandra S. Deller, vice president ments, in student development, for cultural University Foundation for institutional advancement. “This cam- programming, and in our recreational facili- Launches Fundraising paign offers the community an opportunity ties,” says Joanne Nigrelli, executive director to partner with us to provide resources that of development. “Because the Annual Fund Campaign for enhance the college experience for all our pools its gifts to support important Univer- University Commons students, whether residents or commuters.” sity projects, each gift has immense value For more information on the Campaign and impact. All gifts accomplish big things.” The William Paterson University Foun- for the University Commons, including One of the greatest areas of impact of dation has launched a fundraising cam- available naming opportunities, please the Annual Fund is in the award of scholar- paign to support the newly expanded and contact the Office of Institutional Advance- ships to deserving students. The inspir- renovated University Commons complex, ment at 973.720.2615 or philanthropy@ ing story of one of this year’s scholarship which includes the John Victor Machuga wpunj.edu. recipients, Petro Matsyshyn, exemplifies Student Center, Wayne Hall, and a new the power of educational transformation Ballroom and other meeting spaces. The made possible by gifts to the Annual Fund. complex serves as the focal point of an Annual Fund Provides When Matsyshyn came to the United invigorated central campus. States from the Ukraine in 1998, he was Naming opportunities are available for a Vital Support for already an exceptional student. Supported number of areas in the complex, including Students by a full four-year scholarship to St. Basil the new five hundred-seat Ballroom, the College Seminary in Connecticut, he redesigned multipurpose room, the food More than ever, William Paterson Uni- earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, court and rooftop terrace, the main student versity depends on the philanthropy of its and then attended seminary school for two dining room, and numerous other lounges, alumni and friends to launch innovative years, but decided not to finish. Friends meeting rooms, and office suites. programs, create scholarship opportuni- from New Jersey helped him with hous- “The University Commons is central ties, and fund enhancements to maintain ing and suggested that he attend William to providing William Paterson students its margin of excellence. The Annual Fund Paterson, where he decided to major in with a learning environment outside the serves as a vital source of flexible financial biology. classroom, including extracurricular activi- support that can be directed to the Univer- Characterized by biology Professor ties such as student clubs and leadership sity’s areas of greatest need, often bridging Pradeep Patnaik as “a truly gifted student,” development through organizations such the gap created by budget shortfalls. Matsyshyn was able to devote time to his as the Student Government Association, “Each year, Annual Fund dollars are rigorous coursework, as well as serve as a as well as a welcoming environment for used to fund grants that bring about research assistant in the biology depart- students and faculty to interact on a daily enhancements in our academic depart- ment, due to support from a number of

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The new University Commons complex includes (left to right) Wayne Hall, the new Ballroom, and the expanded Machuga Student Center DEVE University scholarships, including the achieving students with an interest Donald L. Hughes Scholarship, funded by Partnership with BD in sales, while giving visibility to AAA of North Jersey, as well as Alumni our program, which offers the only

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Association Academic Scholarships. Now bachelor of science degree in pro- OPMENT Matsyshyn is a May 2007 graduate of Wil- Professional Sales fessional sales in the country.” liam Paterson with a bachelor of science Students Chris Alloy, a senior majoring degree in biology, summa cum laude, and is in professional sales, received the on his way to Columbia University College When William Paterson established the BD/RBI Sales Scholarship for the

of Dental Medicine this fall. Russ Berrie Institute for Professional 2006-07 academic year. “Sales and NEWS “I am so grateful for the scholarships, Sales—and the first bachelor of science service have always motivated me, which encouraged me to pursue academic degree in professional sales in the world— and my goal is to graduate and get excellence and have inspired me to achieve BD, the leading global medical technology a sales job that I can be proud of,” my dreams,” says Matsyshyn. company, took notice. he says. “The scholarship from BD Scholarships such as those awarded to The company made a three-year, allowed me to have only one job that Matsyshyn, which are provided by money $60,000 pledge for scholarships for students was part-time. I was able to have most of raised through the Annual Fund, are integral in the professional sales program. It was, my nights free which I spent studying.” He to recruiting the best and brightest students for BD, a somewhat unusual gift: while the is grateful for the BD scholarship. “Receiv- to the University. “Students who might company regularly supports education, ing the scholarship is an honor that few otherwise not be able to afford a college edu- those funds are typically directed toward others have been given,” he adds. cation are given the opportunity to succeed,” healthcare education. BD, located in Franklin Lakes not far says Nancy Norville, director of annual “The professional sales program at Wil- from the University’s Wayne campus, giving. “Student lives are transformed, one liam Paterson is the first place to secure an manufactures and sells medical devices, by one, with gifts from the Annual Fund.” undergraduate degree in sales,” says John instrument systems, and reagents, and is For the donor, the choices of giving are Gormally, vice president of sales for BD dedicated to improving people’s health many. In addition to scholarships, gifts can Diagnostics - Preanalytical Systems. “BD is throughout the world. The company’s re- be earmarked to support the University’s a growth company and we have a vision for lationship with the University spans nearly five colleges, individual academic depart- expanding our organization. When we look thirty years; BD was an original sponsor of ments, faculty grants and research, and to harvest talent, we look for experience. the University’s Distinguished Lecturer student and campus programs. Annual This program offers a way for us to look Series and supported the series for more Fund gifts expand and enrich the academic at people with academic training in sales, than twenty-five years. experience for all William Paterson stu- people we can mold. We’re very excited With a sales force of five hundred in dents. The entire William Paterson com- about the possibilities.” the United States alone, BD is continually munity joins with Matsyshyn in expressing The BD/Russ Berrie Sales Scholars seeking new and emerging talent, including its appreciation to the thousands of alumni Program awards scholarships to full-time students such as Alloy and other profes- who generously support the Annual Fund students who are enrolled in at least one sional sales graduates. “We would like to each year. professional sales course with at least a 3.0 take the best of the best and find them grade point average. Applicants must also homes at BD,” Gormally says. In addition, For more information about the Annual write an essay outlining their professional the company is looking to offer continuing Fund program, or making a donation to goals, extracurricular activities, work expe- education to its current sales force, by tak- this year’s Annual Fund, please call the rience, and participation in sales activities. ing advantage of the Russ Berrie Institute’s Office of Institutional Advancement at This year, three students received $5,000 customized training programs for sales pro- 973.720.3201 or visit us online at www. scholarships; two each received $2,500. fessionals, which take an academic approach wpunj.edu/philanthropy. “Many William Paterson students work to the discipline. p a g e 2 3 one or more jobs while also attending col- “We are committed to working with the Wt w e nt y- t h r e e If you are interested in serving as a lege full-time, so these scholarships support Russ Berrie Institute and the faculty in the volunteer for our fundraising program, their ability to focus on their studies and professional sales program,” says Gormally. please call one of our Annual Fund other extracurricular sales pursuits,” says “We have a shared vision. I look forward to staff members: Robert Peterson, chair of the University’s taking the relationship with the University Department of Professional Sales. “The to the next level of excellence.” Nancy Norville, Director of Annual scholarships also allow us to attract high- Giving, 973.720.2782 Alan Grossman, Associate Director of the Annual Fund, 973.720.3920 Ann Appleby, Program Assistant, 973.720.3201

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 Pi neer News WHERE SPORTS SET US APART

Sibling Rivalries Make for Pioneer Successes

iblings. Some are close, Sajnoska says with a laugh. Conference (NJAC) Player and year behind her twin in terms Sserving as each others’ best Sajnoska and her brother, Defensive Player of the Year, of eligibility. Next fall, Lori friends and confidants. Others junior Chad Sajnoski, echo a while Lori started twenty-six will be a senior, meaning that choose to go on separate paths, sentiment shared by many of games as the team’s power only one Custis will be in uni- creating their own unique the sibling Pioneers: it may not forward, one of the spark plugs form at the Rec Center. places in the world. always be easy, but the rewards that helped the team reach the “I’ll be in the stands next But one trait almost all sets of a shared athletic and aca- NJAC Tournament final and year, watching her play,” Luci of siblings share is competi- demic experience are well the second round of the NCAA explains. “That will be the first tiveness in some phase of their worth the extra effort. Division III Tournament. time I have been in that posi- lives—socially, academically, or Identical twins Luci and The Custis twins learned to tion, so it will be weird.” athletically. That’s why it may Lori Custis started their post- coexist on the court from the Luci Custis may want to ask be surprising that, of the three high school years at different opening tip, when as fourth Matt Osman for some advice hundred student-athletes who schools, with Lori enrolling graders their team needed both about how to encourage a sib- were members of William Pat- at William Paterson, and Luci a point guard and a forward. ling from the sidelines. That’s erson’s intercollegiate athletics going to Caldwell College. The two positions sometimes because the men’s soccer teams this past year, ten pairs Neither one planned to play require different on-court per- defender will be in the stands of siblings chose to share the college basketball, but each sonalities (“My sister would this coming September, watch- Pioneers’ playing fields. found herself missing the never go inside,” Lori says with ing younger brother Eric play “At first, my brother didn’t game, and her sister. a grin), but it has allowed them for the Pioneers. really want me to come to “I was going to come to to help each other be successful. Franklin High School team- William Paterson,” says fresh- William Paterson anyway, even “If she’s on the right side, I mates and close friends Jay and

p a g e man swimmer and Garfield though I wasn’t planning to know that she’s going to spin to Adam Hooper, who share the 2 4 native Kristina Sajnoska. “We play,” says Lori. “I missed the middle for a shot and make same age difference as Matt Wt w e nt y- fo u r had always been on the same basketball, but I didn’t really it,” Luci explains. “So, if she’s and Eric, were already com- teams growing up. But I wanted want to play without her.” on the right block, I’m going to mitted to playing together at to share this experience with William Paterson women’s give her the ball.” William Paterson in the fall of him. We would sometimes basketball head coach Erin “It gives me more confi- 2005. Eric was the lone holdout bicker and fight when we were Monahan had recruited the dence, having her on the court,” to the foursome sharing the growing up, but since high school Custis twins out of Abraham adds Lori. “We always know same college pitch, entertaining we have become a lot closer. Clark High School, so when where the other one is on the recruiting pitches from several “We’ve always been com- the Roselle natives decided floor and we find each other. It other programs. But, when it petitive with each other, mostly to return to the court, it was just makes me more comfort- came time to make his deci- with school. We swim different a windfall for the Pioneers. able (playing with Luci).” sion, family, friendship, and events, but he will always tell Combo guard Luci was an All- Lori stepped away from the familiarity won out. me that he could swim the American this past season as court for the 2004-05 season, “The campus was nice and breaststroke better than I do,” well as the New Jersey Athletic making the younger sister a the guys on the team were News Pi great,” says Eric, who will begin Pioneer defensive back line, five matches during his career, nearly every day, his junior campaign this fall as while Eric patrolled the midfield. and Eric was our leading point the two share the the team’s leading returning On rare occasions when the two scorer last fall, so obviously same couch to scorer. “I knew Coach (Brian) found each other side by side, they both had important roles watch Wheel of For- ne Woods from before, playing for though, the younger Osman had with our team. They could tune and Jeopardy. him with Match Fit Academy no question about his role. vent to each other if things “I had been

(club team). Matt had a little “He definitely told me what got tough but still have that watching Wheel, er bit of input on my decision. He to do,” Eric states with a laugh. brotherly bond, which helped and then I started knew that I could have gone to “There was no back talk. I just with the continuity of our team to watch Jeopardy a couple of Division I schools, did what I was told and kept as a whole. It’s the same thing and I got the whole but I love it here.” my mouth shut.” for me and Keith. Working family hooked,” “On the field, I treat him Brian Woods knows what together at William Paterson, Matt explains. “I’m like an equal,” says Matt, who it’s like to be in such close we can bounce things off of not really into going finished his Pioneer career this quarters to a sibling, since his each other about each of our out much, and I’m a fall as a two-time all-NJAC younger brother, Keith, has programs, and get honest and big TV buff. Now my mom has performer. “But I am a senior occupied the office next door effective feedback.” gotten me hooked on Deal or and a four-year starter, so I get to Brian’s for the last ten years If there is no doubt about No Deal.” a little more respect from the as the William Paterson wom- which Osman was the domi- From the triumphs and other guys on the team. Off the en’s soccer head coach. nating personality on the field, disappointments of athletic field, I help him with whatever “Matt and Eric were both there could be a heated discus- competition to the everyday he needs—registration, classes, instrumental to our success sion about which one would routines of college life, there is whatever.” last year,” says Brian. “Matt make the better game show truly no one better to share it Matt helped anchor the started eighty-three of eighty- contestant. That’s because, with than your sibling. w

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Pioneer siblings gather in the stands on Wightman Field. Sitting (left to right): sophomore Cathy Hartwell (swimming and diving), senior Luci Custis (basketball), junior Diana Schraer (softball), freshman Courtney Schraer (volleyball), sophomore Eric Osman (soccer), senior Don Reinertsen (baseball). Standing (left to right): sophomore Melissa Hartwell (swimming and diving), junior Lori Custis (basketball), sophomore Courtney Packard (field hockey), senior David Packard (football), junior Dan Lamego (football), sophomore Mike Lamego (football), sophomore Dan VandeVrede (baseball), senior Matt Osman (soccer), junior Steve VandeVrede (baseball), junior Chad Reinertsen (baseball). Not Pictured: Jay and Adam Hooper (soccer), Kristina Sajnoska and Chad Sajnoski (swimming and diving).

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 r Women’s Basketball Reaches NCAA Tournament, Garners Numerous Awards

he William February 24) in the final, but All-America Fourth Team, the Rookie of the Year after leading TPaterson wom- the Pioneers were rewarded Kodak/WBCA All-America the Pioneers with 5.7 rebounds nee en’s basketball team for their accomplishments this Honorable Mention Team, the per game, adding 7.3 points entered the 2006-07 season with an at-large bid to the d3hoops.com All-Region First and 2.4 steals per contest to season picked to finish NCAA Tournament. Making Team, and the All-NJAC First give William Paterson a sweep second in the New their sixth-ever appearance in Team. The 2007 NJAC Player of the NJAC’s specialty awards. Pi Pi News Jersey Athletic Confer- the national tournament, and and Defensive Player of the Junior guard Michelle Pelli- ence’s North Division. first since 1998, the Pioneers Year, she led the Pioneers with chero earned a spot on the All- Instead, the Pioneers pulled off a 69-61 first-round 2.9 assists and 2.7 steals per NJAC Second Team, scoring a put together a season to remem- upset of No. 22/22 McDaniel contest, adding 13.3 points team-best 14.0 points per game ber, achieving a 23-6 overall on March 2 in Ashland, Virginia. and 4.9 rebounds per game. while leading the NJAC and record, the NJAC North William Paterson later fell to Custis became the seventeenth ranking fifteenth in Division Division title, a share of the host Randolph-Macon, 74-59, in member of William Paterson’s III in three-point field-goal NJAC overall regular-season the second round on March 3. 1,000-point club on November percentage (.420). She scored crown with an 11-2 league mark, Erin Monahan, in her four- 21 in a game against New York her 1,000th point during the and a berth in the 2007 NCAA teenth season leading her alma City Tech, finishing her career Pioneers’ second-round NCAA Division III Tournament. mater, was named the NJAC sixth in Pioneer history with Tournament contest, and William Paterson fell just and Russell Athletic/Women’s 1,357 points. She also owns established a new school single- short of winning its second- Basketball Coaches Association William Paterson’s career steals season record with eighty-six ever NJAC Tournament title, Region 3 Coach of the Year. mark with 279. three-pointers made. w losing to Kean on a buzzer- Senior guard Luci Custis Freshman guard Elisa beating three-pointer (62-59, was selected to the d3hoops.com Brown was named the NJAC

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Members of the women’s basketball team cheer on their teammates during an upset of McDaniel College in the first round of the NCAA Division III national tournament a l u m n i n e w s

GREETINGS FROM YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Alumni:

n this issue it’s my pleasure to provide you with a summary of your e-mail address to [email protected]. alumni programming and communication this year and share with Congratulations to Alumni Association President Domenick Stampone Iyou the activities of several alumni. ’94 on his recent election as mayor of Haledon, a community adjacent Since July your Alumni Association has: to William Paterson University. Domenick, who has served as president n Hosted more than a dozen regional and constituent receptions/activi- of the Alumni Association membership since fall 2004, began his ties in New York, New Jersey, and Florida in addition to events such involvement with the Association in 1991 when he was appointed to the as the Athletic Hall of Fame and the Senior Send-Off and the tradi- Alumni Executive Council as a student representative. As a student, he tional activities surrounding Homecoming and Commencement served as editor-in-chief of the Beacon newspaper and was a recipient n Initiated the fourth edition of the alumni directory in cooperation of the Alumni Association’s Undergraduate Fellowship, the organization’s with Harris Direct most valuable and selective scholarship. n Communicated with alumni via nine issues of efocus, our electronic On behalf of the Executive Council and the staff of Alumni Rela- newsletter. Using this communication tool, alumni were provided with tions, I’d like to wish success to our colleague Audrey Bonaparte-Watts priority access to several popular events, including the opportunity ’95, who left the University to pursue a full-time career with Mary Kay to be a part of the live audience of the Martha Stewart Show in New Cosmetics. During her more than eighteen years in Alumni Relations, York City Audrey served as the advisor of the Student Alumni Council and coor- Please be sure to visit our address update form at www.wpunj.edu/ dinator of the fiftieth reunion and Pioneer Society activities. We thank alumni/ to keep your contact information current. We want to be sure her for her service and wish our friend well! that you receive all of our mailings with details of upcoming programs and activities. To receive efocus, the University’s online newsletter, send

A Father, Six Siblings, Ten Cousins, and an Uncle: The Healy Family Goes to College hilip Healy, the father of Bianco ’81, M.Ed. ’00. “My Psix children—James, Mary mother, Hannah, who grew up in Jo, Kathy, Joseph, Teresa, and Ireland, often told us that we had

Joan—received a master’s degree such a great opportunity at the p a g e from William Paterson College in college, that she had never had, 2 7 1977. With their father as inspi- and it was what we could make Wt w e nt y- s e v e n ration, all of the Healy children of those opportunities that was followed one another up the hill important.” into William Paterson College, Philip and Hannah lived what each earning a bachelor’s degree, they taught. and all going on to earn at least “We always saw our father, one master’s degree; the eldest, who is an ordained deacon, and James ’79, also earned a law de- now has eight degrees, in his gree from Rutgers University. chair reading a book, or studying, In this close-knit family so that was the unspoken inspira- circle, there needed, of necessity, tion for education and intellec- to be a source of motivation and a tual pursuits,” says Joan Healy spirit of cooperation for success. Wielenta ’85. “My mother was This came from the elder Healys. the motivator who encouraged The Healy family gathers on campus in the 1980s. From left: Kathy, James, Joan, S“My parents P gave us a strong us, pointing out how lucky T and Tleresa, Joseph, and M Iary Jo GHT work ethic,” says Kathy Healy fortunate we were.”

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 Born over a span had already been through Joe, a 1982 graduate, was James, the eldest, who uncle, James Healy ’78, of seven years, the sib- the classes we were in. president of the Student died in 2006, was the now deceased, was a lings helped each other We helped each other Government Association, undisputed leader of the manager. “We did a lot L IGHT

T through school. with the homework. It it was a natural for me Healy siblings. It was he as a family,” Bianco says. “Being so close in was all done in a spirit of to go there too. Other- who handed out college Eventually, ten of their

age, we were in tune survival, of helping each wise, I might not have paperwork and advice to cousins also graduated with each other,” Bi- other to get through.” done that. A lot of it was his younger brother and from William Paterson, SP anco says. “There was “There was always the unspoken, but there was sisters when the time keeping up what had by no competition between example of the person also a lot of support and came to apply to William then turned into a Healy us. It was helpful to have in front,” Wielenta, the constant encouragement Paterson. family tradition. someone ahead of us who youngest, adds. “Since from everyone.” “When it was your “We never com- turn, he handed you peted with each other the financial aid packet because of the values we James B. Healy ’79: Friend and Neighbor to All and helped get all the were brought up with,” applications done,” re- Wielenta adds. “We There are those we meet in life who seem to walk under a members Wielenta. “The were raised with a sense golden cloud. James B. Healy ‘79, son, brother, friend, and neighbor, was such a man. Although only forty-eight years rest of us followed in of positivity. And our old when he died in 2006, he managed to touch many his path. We succeeded Catholic school upbring- people’s lives in that short time. because we had a brother ing gave us a strong sense The eldest of the six children of Philip and Hannah like James.” of spirituality. There was Healy, he grew up in Wayne, graduated from De Paul All the siblings also no question that all High School, and was the first of his siblings to attend and worked their way would attend college. We graduate from William Paterson College. He later earned a through school, working had a lot of direction, and law degree from Rutgers University, and was appointed to on campus while attend- structure.” James Healy the bar in 1983. ing school full-time: Today, all are success- “James was a saint,” says Joan Healy Wielenta ‘85, James worked in the ful. James was a lawyer; one of his four sisters. “He was a humble, gentle servant. He served everyone he audiovisual department, Mary Jo, currently a met and lived to help others, whether it was his family or someone else in need, he Mary Jo Healy Ridge ’80, homemaker who lives was there to help.” in the office of veteran’s in Massachusetts with He worked for the New Jersey Department of Transportation for nineteen years, most recently as a federal liaison. In his time away from work, he selflessly inspired affairs, Bianco in the li- her family, worked as and helped others. brary and the art gallery, a geotechnical drafter; “He was an attorney, so he was always counseling one way or the other,” says and Joe, Teresa Healy Kathy, a former graphic Wielenta. “He volunteered for Catholic Charities, was an alternate representative Hoey ‘84, and Wielenta designer, is currently to the Catholic International Education Office at theU nited Nations, and helped worked in admissions. a media specialist with anyone who needed help. It was never about him, it was always about others. He They also had a lot the Flemington/Raritan was an advocate for the unborn, for the disabled, for immigrants, and helped his of fun, playing softball School District. Joseph co-workers.” together, or meeting is equity research direc- “When he died, it was not an ordinary loss; James was different,” Kathy Healy friends at Billy Pat’s Pub tor with Legg Mason in Bianco ’81, M.Ed. ‘00, another sister, remembers. “When we lost him we lost an on campus on Thursday Baltimore, Maryland; advisor, a friend, a lawyer, and a director. He was everything you would ever want in nights. Teresa is a cardiac a person. The whole world changed when he died.” Six children in col- rehabilitation specialist James frequently traveled to Ireland, often taking trips with his parents and other family members. He was extremely thoughtful, kind, and caring, never speak- lege at once could have in Rhinebeck, New York; ing ill of anyone. been difficult, but the and Joan, also currently Wielenta remembers when she was at a crossroads in her life. “I was always Healys worked as a team. a homemaker, previously working so much,” she says. “One day, James took me out to lunch and said, ‘Joan, “Dad worked as an worked as a franchise your job is not your identity, you can balance your life to have so much more.’ From engineer at American manager for baby prod-

p a g e that day on, I changed the trajectory of my life. He was very insightful and made me Cyanamid, and Mom ucts for the international 2 8 realize that my life could be different if I wanted it to be.” was a waitress who division of Johnson & Wt w e nt y- e i g h t James Witterschein ’79 met James Healy on their first day of freshman year in a worked in Bamberger’s Johnson. German class and remained close friends over the years. He remembers how the en- in Willowbrook for more Wielenta credits tire Healy family was close. “If you knew them, you became a part of the family,” he than twenty-one years,” William Paterson for says. “What created a bond between James and me were our common experiences remembers Bianco. “Af- the foundation of their at William Paterson. We both worked on campus and also worked on weekends. ter school, we would all success. We became really close in our senior year when I joined the Irish Cultural Club.” be sitting around doing “We learned life and “James was a genuine good guy,” Witterschein continues. “Not only to me, but to the Witterschein family. As an attorney, his first client was my brother Tom. He our homework. Later, work skills at the college had received a ticket, and was scheduled to appear in court. James, who had passed we would eat dinner to- in addition to getting an the bar just days before, insisted on representing him. Since this was out of town, gether, and we all helped education,” she says. “It James had no court clothes and borrowed some powder blue pants and a checked to clean up the dishes. was our entrée into the shirt from Tom that didn’t fit right. He looked ridiculous, and even the judge made We all worked together.” world. We lived in a small a comment on his clothes, but James didn’t care. He wanted to make sure Tom was In addition to their town and the college all right and won the case.” campus jobs, they expanded our horizons James Healy left a legacy of good works and inspired others to be more like him. worked weekends at and provided us with the “Many people have said to me that they want to be more like James,” Wielenta the Regency House opportunities that we says. in Wayne, where their would otherwise not have pursued.” SP

Mark Reeves ’90: Giving Back to the Community

s the director of the every perspective, spiri- graphic design, Reeves T Astrategic project tually and emotionally,” worked as a freelance L IGHT management group for he says. “I have gained designer for Warner corporate staffing at The so much…and I need to Brothers Records in Hartford, one of the give back.” New York. “I loved largest investment and As a member of the it, but it wasn’t a very insurance companies board of directors of the secure life,” he says. He based in the United Connecticut/Western took a job as a claims States, Mark Reeves ’90 Massachusetts Region adjuster for Progressive focuses on how to hire of the National Confer- Insurance in Princeton, the right people to help ence for Community and and found he enjoyed the the company meet its Justice (formerly known business. “I liked the idea business goals. as the National Confer- of helping people work

“I love being able to ence for Christians and Mark Reeves through their issues,” he work on strategy and Jews), Reeves has been says. In 1996, he earned a translate it into reality,” active in speaking to of the city’s schools, tion Army each holiday law degree from Rutgers says Reeves. “I also love local groups about the including West Middle season to create a “toy University School of Law to work with people and organization’s work. He Elementary School, where store” where financially in Camden, and worked find creative ways to has been involved in Reeves has volunteered disadvantaged parents as litigation counsel for solve problems and help many of its programs, as a “Reading Buddy” can gather gifts for their Massachusetts Mutual the company be more including serving as a for three years, spending children. “Everyone really Life Insurance Company, successful.” volunteer facilitator for time each week reading enjoys it,” he says. “The and in private practice Reeves’s passion for Community Conversa- to second and third grade least we can do is help before joining The Hart- helping people achieve is tions on Race, which students and serving as a others who need it.” ford in 2001. not limited to his work brings together groups role model. He also has For Reeves and his “My education at at The Hartford, which of people from diverse served as a mentor in the wife, Andrea, a family William Paterson has is based in Hartford, racial and ethnic back- company’s Alliance for law attorney in private allowed me to have a broad Connecticut. He devotes grounds for a dialogue Academic Achievement practice, serving the career and do a number a significant portion of about personal experiences Program, lending support community is important of different things,” he his time to volunteer and public policies that to a Hartford-area college as they seek to be role says. “In business today, activities that range from affect race relations. student and providing models for their six-year- you need to be flexible in race and gender equity Reeves is also active career advice and net- old son Parker. “We want your thinking and your issues, to the arts, to in the community working opportunities. to show him the value of ability to grasp ideas. I helping young people through programs run He has also involved giving back,” he adds. got that grounding at w succeed. by The Hartford. The his own department A graduate of William William Paterson.” “This is hugely company supports public in community service, Paterson with a bachelor important to me from education through part- working with the Salva- of fine arts degree in nerships with several

Ellen Denuto ’74, M.A. ’96: Developing a Future for Troubled Students

p a g e Denuto ’74, M.A. ’96, couldn’t find what I was Along the way, she photography took off, so 2 9 belongs to the second after. I liked the way light found time to teach. An I put teaching on hold,” WT w e nt y- N i n e category: from the time fell on things, and the early goal was to become she says. she took her first photo way someone looked in a a college professor, and Denuto’s work has of an old neighbor with particular moment, so I to that end she pursued appeared on the covers a Brownie camera at decided to take up pho- a master’s degree in the of numerous magazines age seven, she knew she tography.” mid-1990s. including New Jersey wanted to be involved in That decision provided “I always said that Monthly and New Jersey the fine arts in some way. a long, and often satisfy- when I retired from Bride magazine. She has Ellen Denuto Later, while a student ing career for Denuto as a photography, I wanted shot stock images that at William Paterson Col- commercial artist, fine art- to teach,” she states. were used in greeting ome artists come lege, she tried printmak- ist, and teacher. For many Around the time she cards for Hallmark and Sto their career after ing at first, but soon put years, she lived in artists’ received her degree, she American Greetings, and years of study. Others it aside. “I like the idea housing in Paterson, and moved from Paterson to in ads for AT&T, Ralph know in their bones that of capturing a moment in continues to run her own the old farmhouse she Lauren, Safilo eyewear, art will be their life from time,” Denuto says. “But successful business, Ellen now owns in western Seiko watches, and Apple a very early age. Ellen no matter what I tried, I Denuto Photography. New Jersey. Then “my computers, among others.

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 Denuto frequently graphing,” Denuto says. they can go out and make exhibits her work, and For instance, she encour- a living as a professional is a founding member ages them to focus on iso- photographer. I can give L IGHT

T of the New Jersey lating singular elements them more exposure to chapter of the Ameri- on buildings, rather than what’s happening. Not

can Society of Media trying to capture the only for the inner-city Photographers. entire structure, and as a students, but also the SP Currently work- result, use the light they Livingston ones too. ing as a photography find to incorporate form Recently, I took them teacher at Livingston and design into their them to Paterson and High School, she has also photography. enlisted the help of four worked with students “I try to teach these professional photogra- who have special needs. kids to express them- phers to help them with She has worked at Runaway Shopping Cart by Ellen Denuto selves with a camera,” their shoot that day. If I Daytop Village, a residen- ciate everything they do overlooked and need a she continues. “I try to weren’t a professional, tial school in Mendham have. That’s why I love voice to be heard—that’s get them to talk about they might not have had for teens with substance working with the disad- what I try to do when I their problems through that experience.” abuse issues, as well as vantaged, and also with work with them.” their photography. Once Although she’s not with students at the Pat- the Daytop students, who In an effort to open they have someone who ready to give up her pho- erson Youth Project, an are impoverished in other their eyes to the world pays attention to them it tography career, working after-school program. ways. All are hungry for around them, she assigns makes a big difference.” with students continues “The inner-city knowledge and atten- students to photograph She’s pleased that her to be another way she students touch me in a tion and are motivated their environment. “I art career has taken this uses her art. “That’s special way,” Denuto to experiment, explore, give this project so that turn toward teaching. where I would prefer to says. “They inspire me. and work hard—nothing the students begin to “Because I’m a profes- be,” she says. w They have so little, yet is ever handed to them. really see and connect to sional photographer, I don’t miss it, and appre- These children are often items they are photo- can show students that

Class of 1957 Celebrates Fiftieth Reunion Young Alumni Chapter Hosts

embers of the Class of 1957, who graduated when the University was known as Networking Night MNew Jersey State Teachers College at Paterson, returned to the campus May 13 to 15 to celebrate their fiftieth reunion. Events included a dinner dance, held at the ore than forty people in a matter of cafeteria at 1600 Valley Road; tours of the campus; attendance at the Senior Send-Off Malumni gathered in eight-minute intervals. reception; and a lunch at the Allan and Michele Gorab Alumni House. w Hobart Manor on March Sharon Rosengart, direc- 22 for Crazy 8 Network- tor of the University’s ing Night, hosted by the Career Development and Alumni Association’s Advisement Center, served Young Alumni Chapter. as the evening’s facilitator. Modeled after popular Also in attendance were speed dating events, the Alumni Executive Council program offered partici- members Russell Muter pants the opportunity ’73 and Marilyn Raben- w p a g e to meet eight different horst ’69, M.A. ’70. 32 0 Wt hON i rEt y

Members of the Class of 1957 gather with the Alumni Association banner at the reunion dinner dance. Front row, left to right: Mary (Hanisian) Brake, Theresa (Salerno) Groeller, Virginia (Hakim) Contrino, Thekla (Daly) Hargraves, Rose Jung, Bertha (De Block) Ligos, Dolores (Wain) Clarke, Al Piaget; second row, left to right: Ronald Sherman, Lois (Milsop) Camlet, Joyce (Walsh) Pfeiffer, Janet (Gibson) Mahon, Katherine (Stegman) Kecherson, Arlene (Josten) Seiders, George Ligos; third row, left to right: Alice (Mincey) Richardson, Alice (Stegen) Macaluso, Mildred (Rusnak) Korkes, Rosanne Bowles, Harriet (Bressler) Copeland, Joan (Hantson) Comiskey, Natalie (Martin) Bogert, Elizabeth (Degroot) Snyder, Clarissa (Rotsaert) Wolpert, Florence (Sahagian) Pagella, Alma (Fried- hoff) Raba; fourth row, left to right: Marie (Wienke) Kominiak, Jack Drury, Myra (Goldfischer) Sherman, Dolores (Schwartz) Berlin, Carole (White) Kidd, William Flynn, William Clancy, Eugene Alumni gather in Hobart Manor for Networking Night Casaleggio, Victor Rabasca, Donald Broseman, Patricia (Gorman) Huyghebaert SP

William Paterson Alumni Participate in New Jersey T State Colleges and Universities L IGHT Reunion Program in Washington, D.C.

illiam Paterson WUniversity alumni in the Washington, D.C. area joined alumni from New Jersey’s state col- leges and universities for a reunion on February Reginald Baker ‘87 and Presi- 12, 2007 at the Rayburn dent Arnold Speert Alumni gather at the Marco Island home of Don Hall ’43 and his wife Yvonne. Left to right: Sandra House Office Building at S. Deller, McChesney Hughes, Ann Schwietering ’84, Elizabeth Agoston ’72, Erica McDermott ’89, The Capitol. Alumni met Judy Linder, Nancy Erskine ’71, M.Ed. ’92, Carl Veaux ’60, President Arnold Speert, and Don Hall ‘43 with University President Arnold Speert, Sandra Deller, vice president for University Connects with Florida Alumni institutional advance- ment, and Judy Linder, he Alumni Association was on the road in Florida in February for a series of events executive director of Twith alumni. President Arnold Speert, accompanied by Sandra Deller, vice alumni relations, as well John Anderson ‘70, Michele president for institutional advancement, and Judy Linder, executive director of alumni as members of New Anderson McBride, R.N. ‘83, relations, met with alumni at a reception at Morton’s Steakhouse in West Palm Beach, as Jersey’s Congressional Thomas A. Fitzgerald ‘89, Judy Linder, and Sandra well as at a dinner in Marco Island hosted by Don Hall ’43 and his wife, Yvonne. They delegation. Pioneer pride Deller also visited with alumni at the annual Paterson Day celebration held in Davie, where was obvious! w many William Paterson alumni with connections to both the city of Paterson and the University were among those in attendance. w

Alumni Association Celebrates Fortieth Anniversary of Nursing Program

ore than seventy- Nel Bolger, R.N. Nursing Mfive nursing alumni Laboratory, a patient and nursing faculty joined simulation laboratory together on campus on suite, which is being fund- May 6 to commemorate ed by a generous gift from the fortieth anniversary of local philanthropist David the nursing program on F. Bolger through The campus. Alumni reunited Bolger Foundation. w with former classmates, p a g e reminisced over photo- 3 1 Wt h i r t y- on e graphs and nursing mem- orabilia, and shared their personal stories of their William Paterson experi- ence and their professional careers. In addition to Alumni from the earliest graduating classes gather at the event. First row, left to right: remarks by President Nancy (Wronka) O’Brien ‘78, Cheryl Delillo ‘78, Janet Kopf-Sigall ‘74, Pamela Ogens ‘74, Rose- Arnold Speert, Julie Bliss, mary (Alexander) Bowers ‘76, Mary Jane (Biegel) Kozel ‘70, Betty (Koziar) Altmann ‘72, Debbie chair of the nursing (Kluk) Dirgo ‘76, Christine Schlageter Lacey ’72; second row, left to right: Ellen Terpstra Tanzola department, provided an ‘71, Mary (Jennings) Bowers ’78, Jayne (Mueller) Fiero ‘73, Therese (Traino) Carlson ‘82, Patricia update to alumni on Welter-Meyer ‘74, Elizabeth (Natterer) Palestis-Kattak ’71, Lynn (Holland) Cohen ‘72, Marilyn upcoming enhancements (Stout) Kranich ’74; third row, left to right: Patricia (Scanlon) Lucarelli ‘78, Deborah (Weil) to the nursing program, Elizabeth Hoogmoed ’99, Oppenheimer ‘77, Elizabeth (Garvey) Sorrentino ‘79, Lynn (Kohli) Rodgers ‘76, Maureen (Herzich) including creation of The a graduate of the nursing Montany ‘76, Marlene De Roo-Dolan ‘72, Joan L. McEntee ‘72, Joan (Schaper) Sinski ‘77, and program, speaks at the Joyce E. (Schuurman) Mulleedy, ‘70 anniversary ceremony

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handles civil litigation, Wikstrom Patricia celebrated his gradu- cialist with Global Success Cor- Schanen displayed her Mona Brown was accepted is a member of the Million ation from Wilkes University with poration…Anat Fort, pianist, artwork in an exhibit titled No into the executive M.B.A. Dollar Advocates Forum, which a master’s degree and a 4.0 G.P.A. founded the Anat Fort Trio in Soldiers in the Scenery at Saint program at Colorado Technical recognizes attorneys who have and continues his eleven-year 1999, which was named “one of Xavier University’s SXU Gal- T Institute…John Ferrari was demonstrated exceptional skill, career as a high school television, the best jazz shows of 2003” by lery in Chicago, IL. L IGHT the featured percussionist for the experience, and excellence in trial radio, and digital media teacher All About Jazz-NY. Most recently, Classics for Kids music programs advocacy and have obtained recov- in Washington. Fort played at the BAMCafe at the Howland Cultural Center eries on behalf of their clients in at the Brooklyn Academy of in Beacon, NY…Sheila excess of one million dollars. In Music. Fort also released her 2 thousand 2 McAllister-Greve, M.A. the community, he has been active new album, A Long Story, Mike Fornarotto took ’92, earned a Ph.D. in communi- in the Municipal Alliance Against 19 ninety 3 on ECM Records…Laurie over as co-coach and co-manager cation from Rutgers, The State Drug and Alcohol Abuse, served Gregory Scott was Gazdalski Genna was of Bloomfield’s American Legion University of New Jersey, School as chairman of the Florham Park appointed president and CEO of nominated for the 2006 Sussex baseball team. of Communication, Information, Jaycees, and is secretary of the Weingart Center Association for County Sports Hall of Fame for and Library Studies on October Florham Park Junior Chamber his executive leadership and man- her excellence in swimming… 1, 2006. McAllister-Greve is the of Commerce. agement experience with WCA David Graessle founded public relations practitioner and and in the nonprofit sector for a summer musical day camp, 2 thousand 3 an adjunct professor of commu- more than thirteen years. Rock-in Summer Camp, to teach William Donahoe was nications at Bergen Community boys and girls ages ten through promoted to president and chief College…Jodi (Hanowitz) 19 ninety 1 seventeen aspects of being in operating officer of Foodtown, Mulholland, M.Ed. ’90, Christine McGuigan a band, from writing songs to Inc…Valerie Gross joined was named principal of Stony- Bruness received an arts 19 ninety 4 performing and learning about McCarter & English, a law firm, brook School in Kinnelon. grant from the New Jersey Tommie Patterson is the music business. The summer practicing in the areas of financial Meadowlands Commission in the new boys basketball coach at camp, located in Garfield, suc- services and litigation…Mark 2005 for her original artwork, Eastside High School in Paterson. cessfully launched this summer, Guiliana, founder, drummer, 19 eighty 8 which has been displayed in Patterson previously coached in two weekly sessions in July and and composer for his trio-musical several solo exhibitions, group basketball at Paterson Catholic… ensemble Heernt, celebrated the Pamela Purdue was named August…Chris Kastner shows, and galleries in New Domenick Stampone was June worldwide release of the associate director of communica- was recognized for developing Jersey…Steve Franco was elected mayor of Haledon. group’s debut album, Locked in a tions for St. Pius X Spiritual Life the North Arlington High School named rookie of the month for his Basement…Renita McKin- Center in Blackwood, a Catholic Band, where as music director he success with Weichert Realtors ney, M.B.A., was recognized retreat house in the Diocese of has helped the band grow from six in Franklin Lakes…Alison by the Herald News for her com- Camden. Purdue earned an M.A. to forty-eight members…Maria (Cullerton) Johnson, 19 ninety 5 mitment to service as ombuds- in pastoral ministry at Caldwell Pucella, M.Ed. ’06, joined M.S. ’94, and her husband Mark Kellie (Conforth) Fos- man for Superior Court of New College in May 2004. Purdue is a Century 21 Preferred Reality, Inc. Johnson announce the birth ella joined Litchfield Inter- Jersey, Passaic Vicinage…Mag- single mother of five sons whom in Butler as a sales associate. of Evelyn Mary Johnson on mediate School in Litchfield, CT, gie Puente joined Lincoln she raised while attending William March 15, 2005. Evelyn Mary as a part-time teacher…Mark Elementary School in Englewood Paterson…Bill Stewart joins brother Hayden and sister J. Quiles, M.Ed., was named as a school psychologist…Jill played drums with his jazz trio Amelia…Frank Noviello principal of Seth Boyden Demon- 19 ninety 7 Sanders competed in the at The Jazz Gallery in New was praised by the Jersey Journal stration School in Maplewood… Scott Carlson joined New York City marathon in York…Frank J. Weber was for his Friday night jazz singing Blair Schleicher-Wil- Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland November 2006. promoted to senior vice president performances at the Martini Grill son was elected to a four-year & Perretti law firm…John J. of lending operations at Boiling in Wood-Ridge. term on the Mountain Lakes Emslie joined Drinker Biddle Springs Savings Bank. Borough Council. & Reath law firm, practicing in the areas of corporate law and 2 thousand 4 securities. Stephen Crawford joined 19 eighty 9 19 ninety 2 World Design Marketing of Hil- Larry Mash, M.Ed., was 19 ninety 6 ton Head Island in South Carolina David Wikstrom has appointed middle school principal Jennifer Augulis was as senior graphic designer… joined the Florham Park town at Solomon Schechter Day School promoted to group marketing 19 ninety 8 Itay Goren performed with council. A partner at Javerbaum Mohamed Khairullah the Itay Goren Trio at the twenty- was elected mayor of Prospect fifth anniversary celebration of Park. He is the first Arab Ameri- the Dorothy E. Henry Branch can Muslim mayor in New Jersey. of the Sussex County Library… Ian Ziering ’87 dances the Jennifer Hayden was tango with professional accepted at Oxford University where she will pursue a master’s dance partner Cheryl 19 ninety 9 degree in nature, society, and envi- Burke in the semifinals of Marc Piro was named vice ronmental policy…Samantha Dancing with the Stars president of Valley National Bank Kszepka was hired as assistant in Wayne. softball coach at Susquehanna University. p a g e 2 thousand 3 3 Wt h i r t y- t h r e e Susan Hammond, M.F.A. 2 thousand 5 ’05, displayed photographs from Christy Gordon was one her Salt Lake Series in the Sussex of fourteen women out of three County Courthouse in New- hundred applicants to be selected ton…Maryann McFadden as a ballgirl for the Philadelphia celebrated the release of her novel, Phillies for the summer of 2007… The Richest Season, published by William Kane, M.Ed., was Aventine Press…Celia Mil- promoted to elementary school Alumnus Ian Ziering Featured on Dancing With the Stars ton earned a master of divinity supervisor in Kinnelon… degree from Union Seminary in Beverley Parrillo, Ian Ziering, a 1987 graduate of William Paterson University, who is an actor, Broadway per- 2003. She has a private practice as M.Ed., was hired as a first grade former, and filmmaker, made it to the semifinal round of the recent fourth season of the hit a civil celebrant, writing and per- teacher at West School in New ABC reality show, Dancing with the Stars. Ziering and his professional partner Cheryl Burke forming weddings, adoption cel- Canaan, CT…Jim Tighe is were among four couples out of the original twelve to advance to the semifinals. Ziering, the ebrations, divorce ceremonies, and the first county representa- former star of the hit TV show Beverly Hills 90210, has been acting since age twelve. He has memorials. She is based in North tive to be selected to the state appeared in more than one hundred commercials, in several independent movies, including Haledon…Adam Niewood Democratic Committee’s Next Domino, Savate, No Way Back, and Stripped Down, and in guest roles on TV shows such as led his musical group, Rabble Generation Training Program JAG, among others. He wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Man vs. Monday, a comedic Rousers, at the Trumpets Jazz in Sussex County…Michael short film. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in dramatic arts. Club in Montclair…Virginia Turco returned to North Jersey Scala, M.Ed., was appointed to unveil a series of stunning new principal of Aaron Decker School magic tricks at 12 Miles West

Volume 8, Number 2 Summer 2007 Theatre in Bloomfield. Turco is a unique magician who combines tricks, illusionary lighting, dancers, and music L IGHT to produce an electrifying act T that has been performed to sold-out audiences from New

York City to Atlantic City, It is with great sadness that the Alumni Association ’58 Dena (Horowitz) Harwin Robert Steven Meyers and landed him a spot as the mourns the death of Catherine Guirreri ’34, B.A. Kensington, CT Paterson, NJ SP opening act on VH1’s Storytell- ’54, who died on April 20, 2007. She was ninety-six August 31, 2006 June 13, 2006 ers/Save The Music. and lived on her family’s farm in Lafayette. She graduated from the Paterson Normal ’59 Margaretann Grieco-Cariati Carmine Perrapato, M.A. School in 1934 with a teaching certificate that Lansdale, PA Garfield, NJ 2 thousand 6 allowed her to begin a thirty-three-year teaching December 5, 2006 November 22, 2006 Jonathan Acquavella career. Her first two jobs were in one-room school- joined Amper, Politziner & Mat- houses in Sussex County, where she taught kindergarten to sixth grade. Marilyn Jane Smith ’77 Rita (Friedman) Bernstein, tia, a certified public accounting Later, she taught fourth graders in the Lafayette Consolidated School San Rafael, CA M.A. and consulting firm, as a staff before retiring from the Newton Halstead Street School in 1977, thereby October 5, 2006 Englewood, NJ accountant in the firm’s tax ser- coming full circle since she was a graduate of the Newton School district. vices group…Tim Alworth August 25, 2006 A strong proponent of education, she also earned a bachelor’s degree in ’64 Gerard Conklin instructs drum corps students as education from the Paterson State Teacher’s College in 1954, which she a music teacher at Manchester Jackson, NJ Elizabeth Baskin “Buster” pursuedI for twentyn years while raising her two M children, Josephemoriam and Ann, Regional High School…Ryan July 2, 2006 Sheats teaching, and working on the farm. Broderick joined Ferguson, Ewing Township, NJ Guirreri was a respected and beloved teacher who loved teaching. She CommonHealth’s founding pro- Joseph A. Guidetti July 1, 2006 cared deeply about helping others, not only students, but also members fessional advertising and promo- Stillwater Township, NJ tion agency, as traffic coordinator, of the community who were in need. She donated food to the hungry, June 10, 2006 ’79 Michael Del Vecchio where he will act as a liaison tutored students, and was a 4-H leader. She was the recipient of many among account team members to honors from community organizations, was a member of the Retired Edu- Wayne, NJ ensure completion of projects… cators Association, and was a charter member of Delta Kappa Gamma, an ’65 Evelyn J. LoProto January, 2007 Jonathan Cohen has joined international, professional honor society for women educators. Lodi, NJ Amper, Politziner & Mattia, a cer- August 16, 2006 Arne Elbri tified public accounting and con- Paramus, NJ sulting firm, as a staff accountant ’28 Mildred Grenfell Ellis ’45 Isabelle L. Williams Roem Lilyan Boss Schwartz August 10, 2006 in the firm’s audit and accounting Wyckoff, NJ Vancouver, WA Clifton, NJ group…Tara Cooper was January 24, 2007 Richard T. “Rick” appointed acting children’s librar- May 20, 2006 July 14, 2006 ian at Lee Memorial Library in McConnell Allendale…Duane Cosby Elsie (Sieber) Davie ’49 Joseph Serra ’68 Dr. Grace Smith Rockaway Township, NJ was assistant vocal director of the Plantation, FL San Francisco, CA Lincoln Park, NJ July 14, 2006 production of Carousel with the January 26, 2007 June 16, 2006 June 9, 2006 South Plainfield Summer Drama ’80 Rachel Susan (Cosby) Program for young actors in the ’30 Inez B. Belli ’50 Peter DiLeo ’69 Elizabeth Sics Alston community… Keith Diaz Clifton, NJ Rochelle Park, NJ Unknown Orange, NJ is a health and physical educa- April 2006 August 14, 2006 tion teacher at Livingston High May 23, 2006 January 19, 2006 School…Jason Jaksetic was inspired by one of his fifth-grade ’34 Eileen Dolores Totten Evelyn (Muller) Muscara ’70 Sadie Barnes Michael A. Rolls drum students who suffers from New Vernon, NJ Wyckoff, NJ Belleville, NJ Toms River, NJ spinal muscular atrophy and will August 7, 2006 October 22, 2006 October 18, 2006 November 22, 2006 raise money to help children with this genetic disease during a 140.6 ’35 Esther (Sugar) Krawitz Thomas J. Verga ’71 David Erskime Moore ’82 Jerald D. Zigman mile race during the Ironman Boca Raton, FL Hasbrouck Heights, NJ Ft. Meyers, FL East Brunswick, NJ World Championship in Hawaii September 30, 2006 April 22, 2006 in October 2007…Jennifer June 15, 2006 August 15, 2006 Larned is a project coordinator for The Entech Group in Den- ’39 Ruth Farrell ’52 Frieda Silverman ’73 Kenneth Vandenberg Arthur N. Urbanski ville…Kerri Lindenthal- Ridgewood, NJ Orlando, FL Duluth, GA Bangor, PA er was named to the New Jersey August 28, 2006 May 21, 2002 April 21, 2006 July 24, 2006 Athletic Conference All-Academic Team for the 2005-2006 academic Ella Kiss Ringers ’53 Beatrice (Hinchman) ’75 Beatrice (Leckie) Jury ’83 Dr. Brian Christopher Fee year…Willie Moore, a Charlottesville, NC Gruber Suffield, CT Littleton, CO p a g e new teacher at St. Leo’s Catholic June 15, 2006 October 2, 2006 32 4 School in Irvington, supported July 25, 2004 North Haledon, NJ October 13, 2006 Wt h i rONt y-Efo u r Mayor Wayne Smith’s visits to local schools to teach civics les- Evelyn (Jackson) ’76 John Calabrese ’93 Elizabeth A. (Holmberg) sons…Lauren Shears Schwaeble Patricia Ann (Ruffing) Hackensack, NJ Larkin accepted a position in the Depart- Rio Rancho, NM Cerne April 16, 2006 Westminster, CO ment of Public Information with December 31, 2006 Wethersfield, CT August 21, 2006 Essex County Executive Joseph February 8, 2007 John Geraghty, M.A. N. Divencenzo, Jr….Kenrick ’42 Barbara (Stouter) Hogan Bayonne, NJ Ramdath, M.Ed., was selected ’57 Daniel Deluca September 11, 2006 from fifty teachers as Paterson’s Tinton Falls, NJ first Teacher of the Year for his August 28, 2005 Cold Springs, NJ dedication to his students at Gar- July 26, 2006 Andrew Hric ret Morgan Academy…Robert ’43 Jean (Allison) Zendler Rockaway, NJ Ricadela, who was inspired Meza, AZ Hilda Dorer August 7, 2006 by his daughter, enrolled as a non- January 15, 2007 Canal Fulton, OH traditional student and earned his December 21, 2006 William S. Jurewicz secondary education degree to ’44 Ruth E. Bennett Williams Hamburg, NJ pursue his long-term dreams of Leonard Vanderveld, Jr. October 26, 2006 becoming a teacher. West Milford, NJ July 29, 2006 Bowling Green, VA February 18, 2007 SP

1997 Michael A. McIntosh Shawn Halpin, M.M. to Sarah Van Buskirk to Amanda Webster Veilleux Keith Grace T

to Amy Clark March 25, 2006 July 14, 2006 L IGHT July 13, 2006 Amy Lee Owens Renee Kolbe Lisa Menegus to Sean David Chamer to Daniel Zaleski to Kenneth Cundari November 2006 July 22, 2006 April 23, 2006 2002 Lorraine Oppermann 1998 Lindsay Chadwick to Craig Ferguson 1952 1994 Kristen Ann Lindblom to Richard Gordon May 21, 2006 Clare Tillman Margaret Dupuis to Derek LeVangie March 4, 2006 to Antonio Giardina to Timothy King May 13, 2006 2005 December 28, 2005 September 17, 2005 Kimberly Lewicki Christopher Cota Thomas Philbrick to Joshua Bennett to Colleen Carson 1986 Deborah Gade to Ellen McTiernan July 22, 2006 Unknown David Cole to Jason Roemer July 2, 2006 to Elaine Balis May 12, 2006 Megan McDonald Brian Ersalesi, M.Ed. August 13, 2006 1999 to Bartlomiej Popa to Jennifer Mariano Catherine Barbara Elterlein May 21, 2006 May 6, 2006 1989 to Thomas James Pahl James Finn June 17, 2006 Jeffrey Pavese Lindsay Janas to Nancy LaRosa to Amy Saks to Theodore Berry October 22, 2006 Heather Liquore Date Unknown June 30, 2006 to Daniel Aaron 1992 November 2, 2003 Kelly Rankin 2006 Kimberly Clark to David Sperling Danielle Lyn Breslow to James E. Bryant III 2000 September 29, 2006 to Nicholas Marino September 9, 2006 Andrea Festa May 28, 2006 to Tom Zembilis Kristin Tauber 1993 September 24, 2006 to Sean McHale Holly Marie Gardner, M.Ed. Patricia Hughes Deborah Gade and April 1, 2006 to William Terrill to Anthony DeAnni Jason Roemer Kristy A. Lynch November 5, 2005 April 7, 2006 to Giuseppe Oliva 2003 Amy Kulwanoski, M.A. ’01 May 15, 2006 Tara Patrice DiNuzzo, M.Ed. Allison Ann Mopsick to Dr. Michael Aldi to Ian Hughes to Bradley Stevens August 26, 2006 Anthony F. Tomasello August 19, 2006 October 14, 2006 to Margie Incorvaia Tommie Patterson April 7, 2006 2004 Teresa Ann Norman, M.Ed. to Kimeka W. Samuels Daria Canta to William Roman August 3, 2006 2001 to Michael Interdonato September 30, 2006 Jamie Lynn Durham January 28, 2006 1995 to Ronald Thaddeus Wardell Danielle Tomasini Alice Donlin June 30, 2006 Stephanie Cassidy, M.A. to Christopher Warner to James McDermott to Robert Bolich July 3, 2006 July 10, 2004 Hope Gillesheimer June 23, 2006 to Charles Gander, Jr. Patricia Hughes and May 2007 Anthony DeAnni

Alumni Association Executive Council Election Ballot p a g e 3 5 The Alumni Association Executive Council Nominating Name: Wt h i r t y- f i v e Committee has endorsed the following alumni to serve as Signature: members for the terms indicated:

At-Large Council Members – Term 2007-2010 (vote for seven) Your name will be used by the Alumni Relations Office to authenticate your q Jean Aires ’64, M.A. ‘88 vote, which will be considered at the Annual Meeting of the Alumni q Paul Bonney ‘00 Association on October 25, 2007. q betty Eastman ‘74 Please fax your completed ballot to 973.720.3202 or mail to: q Charles Helwig ‘61 q Allison Kendall-Worman ‘75 William Paterson University Alumni Association q roosevelt “Chris” McCollum ‘92 Allan and Michele Gorab Alumni House q beverly Schweighardt ‘59 42 Harmon Place q write-in-Candidate North Haledon, NJ 07508

Deadline for submission is October 15, 2007

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Digital color print by Daniel Valentin, a senior majoring in fine arts and political science. Winner, Best in Photography, 2007 Annual William Paterson University Student Art Exhibit.

“This photograph was taken at Echo Lake in West Milford at a friend’s house; the lake was frozen and there was a bonfire. I particularly like photo- graphing at night, and capturing landscapes that are in some way surreal.” Y o U R g u i d e t o cu l tu r a l a ct i v i t i e s U a t W i l l i a M P A T e r s o n U n i v e r s i T Y

Young Alumni Chapter Summer Bash, Bar A, Lake Como, NJ, 2:00 WP p.m. to 8:00 p.m., $10 admission

Annual Alumni Night at the Minor League Baseball Lakewood Blue- clawsJuly 21, vs. 2007 the Asheville Tourists, FirstEnergy Park, Lakewood, NJ, Picnic Dinner 6:35 p.m., First Pitch 7:05 p.m., Admission: $18 adults (13 and older), $12 youth (ages 4-12), free for children under age four pcomingEVENTS August 2, 2007 PIONEER PRIDE WEEK, a week of events celebrating Homecoming 2007. Catherine Bebout “Harbinger” Pioneer Women’s Soccer Team vs. College of New Jersey, Wightman BEN SHAHN GALLERIES Field,AL 3:30UMNI p.m. EVENTS Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Admission is free. Pioneer Pride Day: wear orange and black and show your Pioneer For further information, call the galleries at 973.720.2654 spirit;October 10,Pioneer 2007 Volleyball Team vs. Mt. St. Mary, Rec Center, 7:00 p.m. Court Gallery: “Facing Changing Times”; South Gallery: Homecoming, featuring Pioneer Football Team vs. College of New Faculty Exhibit: Works of Art in All Media OctoberJersey, 11, Wightman 2007 Field, 1:00 p.m.; Pioneer Men’s Soccer Team vs. Rutgers- Camden, Wightman Field, 5:00 p.m. East Gallery: “Prints and Company,” an exploration of the direction of various printed matter now September 17-October 19, 2007 October 13, 2007 Pioneer Café featuring student talent, University Commons Multipurpose Room, 8:00 p.m. South Gallery: Catherine Bebout: “Off the Map: Journeys inSeptember Cartography,” 17-November a 30,site-specific 2007 installation and one-of-a-kind print assemblages

Court Gallery: Bradford Graves: “This Mirror Can October 14, 2007 Annual Meeting of the Alumni Association, Allan and Michele CrackOctober 29-Novembera Stone—Sculpture, 30, 2007 Maquettes, and Drawings from the 1980s” Gorab Alumni House, 7:30 p.m., all alumni welcome

TKE Red Carnation Ball, TBA, University Commons Ballroom AOctoberRT 29, 2007-March 3, 2008 October 25, 2007

14TH ANNUAL SUMMER JAZZ WEEK Shea Center, Visit the Alumni Web Site at www.wpunj.edu/ALUMNI/events.htm for further 7:30 p.m. Call 973.720.2371 for tickets and information details.November Please3, 2007 contact the Office of Alumni Relations at 973.720.2175 to register or with questions. Pianist James Weidman and Friends

Swing Night with saxophonist/clarinetist Dan Block

July 23, 2007 Saxophonist Lenny Pickett and the William Paterson Summer Jazz Ensemble directed by Steve Marcone July 24, 2007 Vocalist Rebecca Parris July 25, 2007 Billy Taylor Trio with Special Guest

JulyOT HER26, 2007 MUSICAL EVENTS MUSICJuly 27, 2007 Summer Concert Choir, Shea Center, 7:30 p.m. VISTAS SERIES Shea Center, 8:00 p.m., 973.720.2371 for tickets and information August 5, 2007 Comic Mike Birbiglia

Ava Allyon, Peruvian folklorico singer

October 10, 2007 Preservation Hall Jazz Band, co-sponsored by the Jazz Studies Program November 2, 2007 Preservation Hall Jazz Band Volume 8, Number 1 Winter 2007 December 8, 2007