Cazenovia College Magazine spring/summer 2008 StudentsStudents HelpHelp RefugeesRefugees PutPut DownDown NewNew RootsRoots ExtremeExtreme Makeover:Makeover: TheThe KitchenKitchen ReconnectingReconnecting withwith AlumniAlumni Men’sMen’s BasketballBasketball WinsWins NEACNEAC SeasonSeason TitleTitle SuccessSuccess onon thethe SetSet Maggie Sliter’07 excels in local television producing role spring/summer 2008 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Cazenovia College Magazine Vol. VII No. 1 CONTENTS Editor Wayne A. Westervelt Managing Editor Laura A. Benoit Associate Editor Sylvia E. Needel Contributors The Small Julie Billings Joan Brooks Brandon Holt Carol M. Satchwell Undergraduate College Shari Whitaker Art Director – A Unique American Asset John Seiter Cazenovia College Board of Trustees yond the basics of reading, writing and American institution thought to provide arithmetic became increasingly appar- the quintessential college experience. Yet Chair ent to the citizens of the new nation. there are no public policies or laws that Jim G. Brock Jr. Vice Chair In Central New York, leading citizens specifically support this vital segment of Richard L. Smith took on the task of creating educational higher education. Secretary institutions that would eventually be- Richard C. Alberding come undergraduate colleges of distinc- While costs have risen, federal funding Treasurer tion. These include Hamilton College has not. David L. Warren, president of Richard S. Scolaro (1793), Colgate University (1819), and the National Association of Indepen- Cazenovia College (1824). dent Colleges and Universities writes, Dacia L. Banks ’94 Eric M. Brown ’97 “Congress must keep up its commitment Albert J. Budney At the time Cazenovia College to needy students; their future and the fu- Grace N. Chiang was founded as a Methodist semi- ture of the national interest depend on it.” Dixie Getman Conway ’71 Seiter John Photo: nary, the Erie Canal system was under Sandra Diefendorf ’82 construction and the Monroe Doctrine One of the reasons the United States has Victor A. DiSerio proclaimed that European powers had the best higher education system in the Pamela Schmidt Ellis ’67 no right to interfere with the affairs world is that it is the most diverse. We Paula Stec Fenger ’75 Michael Flannery ’86 of the Western Hemisphere. Leland are a destination because we offer higher Stephen D. Fournier Stanford, future president of the education opportunities in the widest Catherine A. Gale Photo: Susan Kahn Photo: Central Pacific Railroad, governor of possible variety of institutional profiles. Amanda Larson Gebhardt California and founder of Stanford Among these, the independent under- Dorion S. Germany ’92 azenovia College shares a University, attended Cazenovia in the graduate college – a unique national John H. Koerner John S. Morris special place in American his- 1840s. His motto, “It is not so much asset – is the most distinctively American Hal Henty Photo: Photo: John Seiter John Photo: Margery Pinet Susan Kahn Photo: tory with other baccalaureate what a man says, as what he does, that institution. 4 10 26 David W.C. Putnam Ccolleges. While the research-intensive makes him of use to the world,” could Catherine D’Onofrio Reeves ’69 universities in the United States are be adopted by our alumni and students We need to safeguard the place of under- H.J. Refici ’96 Cover Story Academic Corner Trustee based upon European models, the form at present day Cazenovia, where doing graduate colleges, the bedrock of Ameri- Betsy Rosenfield Samet 4 10 24 Maggie Sliter ’07 shares her Extreme Makeover: The Kitchen Highlights Thomas Tartaglia of higher education that is character- things in the world is emphasized as can higher education, in the landscape of story of how hard work and by Elizabeth Moore, associate Spotlight on Trustee Mark J. Tierno istically American is the small under- part of our liberal arts education. American higher education. As one of initiative led to a job in professor of Interior Design Eric Brown ’97; welcome to James G. Webster III graduate college. When the United America’s historic institutions, Cazenovia television production new trustees - Professor Emerita Arthur W. Wentlandt Student Updates Margery A. Pinet and alumna States was in its most formative stage, Today, the ability of independent col- College needs the support of its alumni Bradford G. Wheler 12 Campus News Students help refugees put Betsy Rosenfield Samet citizens of the “Great Experiment” leges to provide members of our society and friends to assure that the opportuni- Susan Glaser Zipper ’58 6 established institutions that became with opportunities for intellectual, ties we offer to a diverse array of students Career Services: At Your Service, down new roots; My Adventure Wildcats News social, and ethical growth is increas- will continue to be made available. Trustees Emeriti from Freshman Year to Dream of a Lifetime on The Scholar Ship 26 part of the fabric of the nation. Career; Byron Pitts, CBS News by Ashley Willumitis Men’s Basketball wins first-ever ingly important. Cazenovia College is Winifred E. Coleman Robert S. Constable national correspondent, North Eastern Athletic Conference Among the colleges established during one of 1,600 independent, nonprofit Charles B. Morgan addresses this year’s graduates 14 (NEAC) regular season title; the Colonial era that still exist today educational institutions in the United Jay W. Wason Sr. Reconnecting with alumni All-Conference honors Faculty & are Harvard College (1636), The States that enroll more than three Barbara C. Wheler 8 in Albany, Cazenovia, Florida, are announced College of William and Mary (1693), million students. About half of these Staff News New York City, and Schenectady; Margie and Yale (1701). After the American students attend small, predominantly Mark J. Tierno The Cazenovia College Magazine is published two Physical Plant Department Alumni Profiles - President times a year by Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, provides service and a warm Russell ’72 and Rosario Revolution, the need for education be- undergraduate colleges – a uniquely N.Y. It is entered as nonprofit material from the welcome; Professor Karin Bump Bianchi ’95; and Reunion 2008 - Utica Post Office. Circulation is about 18,500 appointed to the NYS Task Force Remember, Revisit, Reconnect free copies, and it is produced by the Office of on Retired Race Horses Communications. Send comments to Cazenovia College Magazine, Office of Communications, Cazenovia College Magazine: Spring/Summer 2008 22 Sullivan St., Cazenovia, N.Y. 13035. cover photo: Susan Kahn Cazenovia College Magazine: Spring/Summer 2008 2 Phone: 315.655.7378. 3 © 2008 Cazenovia College COVER STORY Capstone project on Bridge Street. In addition to her She shadowed the producers and role as producer, Sli- essentially became a producer in ter has also come full putting together a video of the Bridge circle, now serving as Street operation. the show’s internship Seiter John Photo: Success on the Set supervisor. Sliter’s continued presence on the set Once an intern for Bridge Street, Sliter enjoys incorporating college students – like Cazenovia’s while producing her capstone project One of the interns Zachary Zabella (left) – into the show’s production. Alumna excels in local television put her in the right place at the right she supervises is time. An opening for a full-time pro- Zachary Zabella, a producing role ducer became available in the spring Cazenovia College of 2007. “I still remember Julie [one of Communication the show’s hosts at the time] calling me Studies major. “As an into her office and asking me if I would intern working with be interested in the position,” she says. Maggie,” he says, “I have been exposed Sliter recalls going through the formal to a fast-paced mass interview process, and the stress of media environment waiting to find out if she would be that has helped me offered the job. “Following graduation, grasp what my career I was either going to work on Bridge path may look like.” Street, or I was going to get on an airplane with a one-way ticket to Las Zabella has also Vegas,” she laughs. The job offer came worked with Sliter and the flight to Vegas never happened. on campus and Seiter John Photo: continues, “As a Sliter (right) communicates with those on the set Being able to highlight people and student, and now as as she reviews an upcoming segment of a recent places in Central New York is Sliter’s a producer, Maggie episode of Bridge Street. favorite part of the job. She says that is used to completing she is still learning as she researches what needs comple- topics, finds guests and creates ways tion and not backing Photo: Susan Kahn Photo: to present informative and entertain- out before it’s over. She is a workaholic, it will be a thrill watching her continue to ing topics to the show’s viewers. She is but has fun in everything she does. grow in her career.” rofessionalism, confidence and the College’s 2008 fashion show. “I never interns working on various shoots that proud of her role in providing an in- Bridge Street is a perfect fit for her.” an impeccable work ethic led thought I would be working on the set highlighted different places in Central formation outlet that goes beyond the Sliter remembers her “Communication in Maggie Sliter ’07 to the first step just a few years later.” New York. station’s local newscasts. “Unless you Sliter credits her Communication the Mass Media” course as being the catalyst Pon the television ladder of success. One work for the show,” she says, “you don’t Studies education and her experi- for her interest in the communications field. of the first graduates of the College’s During the fall semester of her senior Soon after the “Intern Challenge” was realize how much actually goes into the ences on campus for teaching her to be Her experiences working on WITC-FM, Communication Studies program, Sliter year, Sliter was hired as an intern on the finished, Sliter was asked to book and planning of a four-minute segment.” professional and confident.