THE MAGAZINE OF MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY » SPRING 2017

BRUCE The Boss returns to campus for a candid conversation about his life and works, and to mark the start of a new partnership with the university. page 24

PROJECT TVD In the operating room with Monmouth students in Vietnam. page 28

RETURN OF THE KING Coach King Rice’s return to UNC, in pictures. page 18

CALL MY NAME An excerpt from critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos’ new book. page 36 Contents Features | Spring 2017

BACKSTORY » In “Call My Name,” Melissa Febos details the overwhelm- ing sense of loss and aban- donment she felt during her father’s long trips out to sea. To explore these and other themes in this book excerpt, Milan-based artist Joey Guidone produced a series of illustrative metaphors for the magazine. Story, page 36.

24 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Boss returns to campus for a can- did conversation about his life and works, and to mark the start of a new part- nership with the university. 28 PROJECT TVD Two art professors. One communica- tions major. One physician assistant student. How an immersive learning experience abroad helped bring life to a volunteer doctor program. 36 CALL MY NAME An excerpt from Abandon Me, the new book from critically acclaimed writer Melissa Febos. PLUS: A Q&A with the author.

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MONMOUTH is THE MAGAZINE OF MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY » SPRING 2017 10 22 44 published thrice annually by the Monmouth University Office of External Affairs.

Vice President for BRUCE The Boss returns to campus for a External Affairs candid conversation about his life and Jason Kroll works, and to mark the start of a new 1982 1984 1988 partnership with the university. Associate Vice President, page 24 The Front Marketing & Communications currents Tara Peters ’94, ’99M PROJECT TVD In the operating room with Monmouth students in Vietnam. Editor page 28

04 07 08 Tony Marchetti RETURN OF THE KING Coach King Rice’s return to UNC, in pictures. NEED TO BÉISBOL AND EXPLAIN page 18 Assistant Editor KNOW APPLE PIE THIS CALL MY NAME An excerpt from critically acclaimed author Melissa Breanne McCarthy Febos’ new book. Prof. Stephen Chapman Prof. Stanton Green on Prof. James Mack comes page 36 offers a cure for the polar- baseball’s role in assimilat- clean about the effective- Creative Director ization of American politics. ing American immigrants. ness of hand sanitizers. Tiffany Wysocki 1994 1997 2000 2017

TIDES Design & Layout Dog Ear Consultants “ tual, social, and athletic facets 10 12 14 we thought of life at Monmouth. Class notes Contributing Writers Sea change are still here of course, but that THE VOICE OF HOW MONMOUTH A DAY AT Tobias Carroll it was section also features a new look WELCOME TO THE NEW HER GENERATION WAS MADE THE BEACH Pete Croatto time for a and additional content. Brandon Gould MONMOUTH MAGAZINE. Morissa Schwartz harness- There’s more to Wilson Casting lines in the complete Editorially, we changed our es the power of words Hall’s Aeolian organ predawn hours on Ryan Jones approach as well. In this and to inspire her peers. than meets the eye. Manasquan Beach. Meeri Kim, Ph.D. ome say evolution is a slow, gradual process. overhaul— future issues, we will be telling Gary Kowal ’13 Others argue it is one marked by sudden “fits and a fish- stories in new and different Molly Petrilla P L AY starts.” The redesigned Monmouth magazine that climbing- ways; the photo essay on page S 18 is one example of this. We Photographers you hold in your hands resulted from both types out-of-the- will also be featuring more sto- 16 18 22 Bill Cardoni of transformation. sea moment ries that touch upon issues and DRIVEN RETURN OF FAST FOOD Danny Clinch events happening in the world Andrew Cohen in the A freak injury saved THE KING Sushi—and science— Like all quality magazines, izes in magazine design and ed- around us. Tina Colella evolution Adriana Zelaya’s life. Now King Rice returns to his alma propel runner Dylan Monmouth has continuously itorial strategy, we reimagined The result of our work, we hope, Matt Furman she wants to save others. mater. A story in pictures. Capwell. evolved through the years. But every facet of Monmouth. Visu- of this is a magazine that you find more Tom Lozinsky most of the recent alterations ally, there is a new nameplate magazine. inviting and enjoyable to read, Mark Ludak ’81 have been subtle. In fact, it has on the cover and new typogra- one that highlights the best of Kevin Seifert been more than a decade since phy, increased white space, a ” what Monmouth University has the magazine underwent a new color palette, and bigger, to offer. We are excited to share The Back The Rest Illustrators significant redesign. Given the bolder photos and illustrations this new version of Monmouth Davide Bonazzi Class notes From Where I Sit, changes that have taken place throughout. This new design with you, and we look forward Joey Guidone 03. Campus Briefs, in media and publishing during reflects the classic and modern to hearing what you think of it. 44 56 09. You Spin Me that period, we thought it was aesthetics of the university Please share your thoughts with Right Round: A time for a complete overhaul—a itself. us at [email protected]. THE REMEMBERING Look at Tuesday fish-climbing-out-of-the-sea Structurally, we changed the While you’re at it, be sure to visit CHANGEMAKER JULES PLANGERE JR. Night Record Club, moment in the evolution of this magazine’s dimensions and pa- our website, monmouth.edu/ Alaina Love’s Passion The trustee emeritus 13. Alumni Roundup magazine, if you will. per. We also moved the features magazine. It too has evolved. Profiler helps people had a major impact on and events West Long Branch, NJ 07764 During the last eight months, to the middle of the publication better understand them- the university. calendar, 46. 732-571-3526 and with help from Dog Ear and created a new opening sec- TONY MARCHETTI, EDITOR selves and their jobs. In Memoriam, 55. www.monmouth.edu Consultants, a firm that special- tion that highlights the intellec- March 2017

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“ Fact checking itself has become a political issue. ”

NEED TO KNOW » Topics & trends Just the facts HOW CAN WE CUT THROUGH THE POLARIZING PARTISANSHIP THAT HAS GRIPPED POLITICAL DISCOURSE? FOCUS ON EVIDENCE, NOT IDEOLOGY, SAYS STEPHEN CHAPMAN, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. INTERVIEW BY TONY MARCHETTI

Q: Your research has shown public and the policy products move away from the wishes of how continuous partisan of the state government. The the public. They’re maximizing control in state governments longer one party holds onto their utility from the party per- affects policymaking. Can you control due to the lack of elec- spective rather than looking at it explain? toral competition, the more that from the electorate’s standard. My main argument there is bias grows and the gap between about institutional control, and the wishes of the citizenry and So what should the average how in the absence of an elec- the policy products of the gov- citizen do because of that? toral threat—when one party ernment grows. That’s not for me to say. One controls the state government of the things I say at every level and doesn’t have to worry about Why is that? of my teaching is that I am a losing power—[elected officials I’m a rational choice theorist, positive political scientist, and are] more likely to shift away and at the fundamental level keeping with that framework, from the wishes of the public that theory states that actors it’s not my place as a scholar to and create policy more in line will maximize their utility. talk about policy prescriptions. with their party’s ideal point. Think about what motivates It’s more about the about the For example, if a state’s citi- elected officials: They want public recognizing that the lack zenry is center-right, and the to keep getting elected, they of an electoral threat can bring Republican Party knows it’s want to advance in the party, about negative outcomes. going to get re-elected over and and they want to make “good” I always tell people that if you over—instead of creating policy public policy. If they don’t have want to talk evidence related to that’s center-right, [that gov- to worry about re-election, they social and economic policies, I ernment will] create policy far- can focus on advancing in the can anger both sides of the aisle. ther right than the preferences party and making “good” public For example, we can talk about of the citizenry. So a duration policy. If you think about what GMOs [genetically modified of institutional control induces makes “good” policy for advanc- bias, by which I mean a diver- ing within the party, it makes Stephen Chapman’s research focuses on gence between the wishes of the sense why elected officials political polarization in American politics.

04 MONMOUTH spring 2017 illustration DAVIDE BONAZZI spring 2017 MONMOUTH 05 CURRENTS organisms]. Most people on the might say that it doesn’t exist or Do you think this lack of de- left hate GMOs even though the they don’t find a significant re- mand for objective evidence thrust of the scholarly evidence lationship, we have a mountain and facts is causing the in- shows no evidence of harmful of evidence that says it does. creasing polarization we see in effects from GMO crops. For the I think it’s going to take more politics today? right, climate change is usually engagement from the scholarly There has been some research a heated topic. Again, there is realm into the mainstream to that’s not fully developed that overwhelming scientific evi- really bring about change like looks at the effects of gerry- dence that it is occurring and is that. mandering, and how it creates man-made. safe districts, allowing more You would have no idea of my extremist candidates to get into political leanings by reading In the last election we saw a power, therefore creating more any of my research. And I think proliferation of fake news. and more polarization. There that’s what’s undervalued and Now we’re hearing terms is also research that says ger- underrepresented in our cur- like “alternative facts.” What rymandering does not explain rent political climate: We, as a challenges does that present polarization, that it has to do society, need to employ objec- academics who value evidence with the manner Democrats and tive research to reach policy over opinion? Republicans represent their con- positions. I think as far as this movement stituents. This is an area where toward a post-truth America— we need to look at multiple It seems like opinion trumps it’s frightening not just for factors instead of trying to find objectivity in politics today. academics but for anyone who the one factor that explains ev- We live in a world where my places stock in understanding erything. But I do think the lack opinion is just as good as your the larger issues within the of evidence-based policy dis- opinion, where there’s this par- context of each other. It’s also cussions contributes to the ex- adigm that we should respect important to be able to criti- tremism we’re seeing, because everyone’s opinion [all of the cally analyze the full breadth of if an extremist candidate says time]. But if someone tells me evidence available. A good ex- something that’s completely the world is flat, I’m going to ample of this is the study Trump off the wall, on the right or Baseball “has played a role in In the field tell them they’re wrong, and I’m continuously cites as evidence left side of the aisle, no one is many of the historic landmarks BEFORE TEACHING going to show them that I have of voter fraud—a study that has there to fact check them. Fact of American history,” says Green. at Monmouth this accrued knowledge and ev- been debunked repeatedly by checking itself has become a Béisbol and He cites Robinson and baseball University, Green idence as to why they’re wrong. “ other scholars and no political political issue. as playing as big a role in the directed major What I’m saying is, instead of scientist in their right mind integration of American society archaeological looking at any concept or issue instead of would cite it in their research. How can we get past that, and apple pie “as any other social institution.” research in South from a preconceived-notion looking make it easier for the average AMERICA’S PASTIME HAS HELPED WAVES Most commanders in chief go- Carolina and Ireland basis, let’s use an evidence base at any So in a word it’s… citizen to better understand OF IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE TO THE US. ing back to George Washington as well as grant- and not be so frightened to Frustrating, but it’s nothing the evidence and facts on both played baseball. The first pitch is supported research change our opinions in the face concept new ... and again I think it should sides of the issues? BY PETE CROATTO a presidential staple. The game is in Denmark, France, of new evidence. Most of my or issue motivate scholars to become [One way] is to move away “deeply rooted in the American Massachusetts, or anthropology professor Stanton Green, research and teaching focuses from a pre- more accessible, to coming out from what I call the CNN mod- experience,” says Green. and Illinois. on the idea of using evidence in of the ivory tower…and doing el, where we have a moderator baseball’s role in assimilating immigrants into Aside from its infusion in the place of ideology to reach policy conceived- something that is going to enact and somebody from the right American way of life, the game America can be found in a three-inch-by-five- decisions. notion real change. and the left and they clash, F is also “an emotional lever” for basis, let’s Prior to the internet, I think and anybody who’s watching inch black-and-white snapshot. The scene features many. After all, Green asks, who I can’t help but think of cli- we gave more credence to ex- doesn’t learn anything except two young, first-generation Americans: Green’s father, doesn’t remember his or her mate change as an issue where use an perts in the field and trusted talking points. Instead of hav- first baseball game? Even the crouched in a catcher’s stance, plays stickball on evidence and ideology are evidence them more. Now I think you’re ing that modality, I think what game’s pattern—no clock, long battling it out when it comes base and seeing more skepticism about we really need is a move from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, circa 1940, while Green’s periods of stasis jolted to life to policymaking. what both social and natural the normative—that is, what mother watches from the sidewalk. by surprise—mimics our day to When we think for example not be so scientists do because we have should be—to a positive—that day. A routine ground ball can about President Trump … wa- frightened more access to information. To is, what is and why? Then The photo is at the heart of The subject matter is ever- turn into something else entire- vering on the possibility that to change counter that, I think we need we can approach policy—any Green’s research into the an- changing. The players of Euro- ly. Just ask Bill Buckner. climate change is real, it’s up to our to offer more perspective on issue really—from a more lev- thropology of baseball and his pean heritage—think Lou Geh- Those who think that Green is academics and experts in the the scientific process—what it el-headed position and a less study of the sport’s intersection rig and Hank Greenberg—have basking in patriotic hyperbole field with confronting that and opinions means to engage in a question polarized, less partisan point with American culture. This is given way to Jackie Robinson might want to buy a plane tick- ABOVE: The photo of saying, no that’s not true. We in the face and look for and evaluate evi- of view. When we’re able to no leisurely pastime for Green: to today’s influx of Latinos and et. Fly over the United States, he Stanton Green’s father have this long body of research of new dence. That’s the key to weeding look at more than what one He has presented papers at Asians. Each wave brought says, and you’ll see baseball di- playing stickball in that yes it’s happening, and yes out the more scrupulous as- pundit says to the other—that the National Baseball Hall of baseball to dizzying heights amonds dotting the landscape. Manhattan in the 1940s evidence. lies at the center of it’s man-made. And while there pects of the information we’re is what could progress us as a Fame and given a TED Talk on while providing an evolving The game is literally ingrained Green’s research on base- are a handful of studies that ” bombarded with every day. society. the topic. snapshot of America. in the country. ball and U.S. immigrants.

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EXPLAIN THIS » Answering your burning questions Q: Is hand sanitizer bad for you? n the late 1600s, Brands with these higher alco- “A lot of antibacterial soaps Antonie van hol concentrations “kill most and washes had triclosan, but of the germs and bacteria that there really wasn’t any convinc- ILeeuwenhoek, a we accumulate by touching ing evidence that these prod- Dutch textile merchant things all the time,” he says. ucts had a benefit as an antibac- The Centers for Disease terial agent,” says Mack. That, whose hobbies included Control and Prevention warns as well as data suggesting that handcrafting microscopes, hand sanitizer with an alcohol long-term exposure to those scraped some plaque concentration below 60 per- products could pose health cent and non-alcohol-based risks due to bacterial resistance off his teeth, mixed it sanitizers aren’t nearly as to triclosan, prompted the Food Campus with rainwater, and put effective. The latter, whose and Drug Administration to ban it under his lens. He saw active ingredient is triclosan, the marketing of antibacterial only reduces the growth of wash products containing the Briefs something curious— germs—it doesn’t kill them. ingredient last year. THE SCENE AT WEST LONG BRANCH “many very small living Additionally, it may not work “If you used those, you could animals, which moved equally well for all classes of have exposed yourself to bacte- germs and is more likely to ria that could give you an infec- very prettily,” he wrote irritate the skin. tion,” says Mack. —Meeri Kim »»More than 400 graduates Colleges praised Monmouth for in a letter to the Royal received degrees at this year’s its commitment to sustainability winter commencement ceremony, based on academics and career Not to The second annual Society of London. held January 13 in the OceanFirst preparation, “green” policies, initia- miss: weeklong celebration will His discovery of what we know Bank Center. John J. Esposito, tives, and activities. showcase the academic as bacteria was a breakthrough the chairman and chief executive Student in microbiology. When later ex- 10-second IS SANITIZER officer of Warner Music Nashville, »»Former New Jersey governor and Scholar- and creative work of periments revealed those little bonus delivered the commencement EPA Administrator Christine Todd ship Week, Monmouth students. For a “animals” can cause disease and question AS GOOD AS address and received an honorary Whitman received Monmouth Uni- illness, people were encouraged Doctor of Music degree, while versity Urban Coast Institute’s high- April 17–23 complete listing of events, to wash their hands using soap WASHING Christie Pearce Rampone ’99, HN est honor, the National Champion visit monmouth.edu/ to remove bacteria and prevent ’05 received the Distinguished of the Ocean Award, at a December scholarshipweek. infection. Alumni Award. This year marked reception held in conjunction with Today, many instead reach for YOUR HANDS? the final time the university will the institute’s annual Future of the hand sanitizer. But is its fre- “Hand sanitizer just does what it says— hold a winter commencement. Ocean Symposium. Whitman was quent use good for you, or can it Beginning in 2018, the spring recognized for her service as a lead- have harmful side effects? it sanitizes your hands, but it doesn’t commencement exercises will be ing voice for the environment and “Hand sanitizers are really clean your hands,” says Mack. If you reconfigured “to better serve our for her outstanding contributions to good if they’re alcohol-based, have filth on your hands, the sanitizer distinct undergraduate and gradu- coastal and ocean conservation and and the alcohol content must ate cohorts,” said President Brown sustainable communities. be at least 60 percent and up doesn’t get to the bacteria underneath in an announcement to campus ABOVE: Karyn Calabro to 95 percent,” says James P. last December. »»Monmouth’s 17th annual Big Cusanelli ’89 (left), the dirty surface. You’re just sanitizing president of the Alumni Mack, a biology professor who the top of the filth.” Additionally, soap Event, which was held on Saturday, Board of Directors Ex- has researched the efficacy of »» For the third year in a row, The Nov. 5, sent hundreds of student ecutive Committee, and To ask a question of our and water are more effective than hand Princeton Review has named volunteers into the towns sur- Monmouth President faculty experts, email essential oils from plants, and Paul R. Brown presented [email protected] the organic compound meth- sanitizer at removing or inactivating Monmouth one of the country’s rounding campus, where they took Christie Pearce or mail Explain This, Mon- ylglyoxal from Makuna Hon- most environmentally responsible part in cleanup and beautification Rampone ’99, HN ’05 mouth Magazine, Wilson certain kinds of germs, such as with the Distinguished Hall, West Long Branch, ey, as agents against several universities. The 2016 edition of projects at close to three dozen Alumni Award at winter NJ 07764. multidrug-resistant bacteria. norovirus and Clostridium difficile. the company’s Guide to 361 Green worksites. commencement.

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“ I think this generation is incredible in the way that its members are accepting and embracing of people’s talents and differences. The voice ” of her generation MORISSA SCHWARTZ HARNESSES THE POWER OF WORDS TO CHALLENGE AND INSPIRE HER PEERS. BY BREANNE MCCARTHY

ords have always been important to else?—words. While recovering from a serious illness as a child, Morissa Schwartz. At 10, she had her first she wrote a list of goals for Wstory published in a local paper. A year herself. “It included 12-year- later, a national magazine printed one of her articles. old things, like I wanted to be on television [and] I wanted to At 17, she published her first book, and by 22, she had learn how to play the ukulele,” started her own publishing company. she says. But she found the exercise rewarding and kept at Today, the 23-year-old is a by bigger publishing companies. it, and she extols its virtues in best-selling author, digital en- Since its launch, GenZ has pub- one of the motivational talks trepreneur, motivational speak- lished more than 40 books inter- she gives high school- and col- er, performer, and Guinness nationally on topics ranging from lege-age audiences throughout World Record holder among love and mortality to bullying and the tristate area. other things. (“I get bored eas- mental illness. Five of the compa- Today, her goals include ily,” she says with a laugh.) But ny’s titles have made Amazon’s graduating with her master’s there is a focus to her myriad bestseller list. degree (that’s scheduled to pursuits, and a desire to use her But GenZ is more than just happen this May) and giving a skills and talents to help fellow a publishing company, says TED Talk. There are still some post-millennials—people born Shwartz. She created it as a re- whimsical items on her list as between the mid ’90s and mid source for novice and aspiring well: She wants to recapture ’00s—follow their dreams and writers, with whom she shares her Guinness World Record find success. It’s part of the rea- advice through videos, blog title for creating the longest son one publication nicknamed posts, and podcasts. She also chain of handmade bracelets, her the “Voice of Generation Z.” wrote an e-Book, Writing for and is at work on 2,500 of Take her company, GenZ Pub- the New Generation, which she them. lishing, for example. Schwartz offers free of charge through her “I’ve accomplished about 75 founded it in 2015 specifically company’s website. OPPOSITE: The first arti- percent of the things on the cle Schwartz had published to help new and young writers, Schwartz’s pursuits are to a was a Mother’s Day story list,” says Schwartz. “I’m still a group she says gets overlooked large extent directed by—what about her mom, Sherri. totally adding to it.”

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HOW MONMOUTH WAS MADE » Landmarks & stories OF MAMMOTH On the PROPORTIONS record THERE’S MORE TO MONMOUTH’S We asked students to name their AEOLIAN ORGAN THAN MEETS THE EYE. favorite album of all BY BREANNE MCCARTHY time. Here are some responses: nchored at the top of Wilson Hall’s central Astaircase, its pipes and 1 wires radiating throughout the building, Monmouth’s ABOVE: From left, The Beatles, Kurt four-manual Aeolian opus Cobain of Nirvana (photo courtesy of Sub Pop records, Debbie Harry of Blondie, Bob 1677 organ was once the heart You spin me Dylan (photo courtesy of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration of Hubert T. Parson’s Shadow and Bruce Springsteen (photo by Frank Black on Both Sides Stefanko). by Mos Def Lawn mansion. —Jamier Gee right round JOIN US: Tuesday Night Record Club is Parson, who owned the estate free, but registration is required. Monmouth now calls home, had AT TUESDAY NIGHT RECORD CLUB, MUSIC Visit monmouth.edu/record-club the organ built into the fabric of his LOVERS EXPLORE SOME OF THE MOST mansion. It spanned two floors and BELOVED ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. included double harps, double sets of cathedral chimes, a Concertola BY BREANNE MCCARTHY 2 (self-playing piano) with double con- trollers, and nearly 5,000 pipes that hen John thority on the Beatles. “He was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club were installed behind gilded facades Lennon heard tweaking John Lennon.” The Band (March 21) and Bruce at both ends of the building’s second Beatle was so upset he never got Springsteen’s Nebraska (April and third floors. The organ vibrated WBob Dylan’s over it, says Womack. 25). But Womack says October’s to life each morning when Parson “4th Time Around,” he was The furor induced by the song Blonde on Blonde session led to and his wife, Maysie, began their dai- was one topic of discussion one of his favorite moments of reportedly infuriated. ly routine of eating breakfast to the during the October installment the series so far, when a Dylan Physical Graffiti by tune of Christian hymns. The Great The song, off Dylan’s 1966’s of Tuesday Night Record Club, fan in the crowd admitted he Led Zeppelin Hall’s 285,000 cubic feet of airspace Blonde on Blonde, sounds sim- a recurring series that debuted didn’t know the history con- —Samantha Bastone produced a unique surround sound ilar to the Beatle’s 1965 tune, on campus last fall. Described nected to the song. experience, enriching the acoustics organ-ization “Norwegian Wood,” which itself as a book club for records, the “We have great moments like of the instrument. is reminiscent of earlier Dylan event brings music lovers to- that where we’re able to give Organs such as this were once a 1929 89 songs. Some say Dylan wrote “4th gether to discuss and explore an people another way of think- popular feature in the mansions year installed years old Time Around” in response to album’s cultural, political, artis- ing about something that they of America’s fabulously rich, but the Beatles’ perceived appropri- tic, and historical impact. Each know very well,” says Womack. 3 4,910 $63,000 Monmouth’s is reportedly the only pipes original cost ation of his musical styling, but 90-minute session features an “Too often, a cultural experi- remaining residential stereophonic (1928 dollars) whether or not that response was expert panel and special guest ence or anything that we do is surround sound Aeolian in existence  $2 million good natured has been debated moderator, and attendees are very passive—you go to a movie today. It has deteriorated with age estimated 55,000 for years. encouraged to participate. and you sit there while the though, and has not been played restoration cost valve “It was very intentional what Nirvana’s Nevermind and movie washes over you. I think since the 1970s. (2003 dollars) parts Bob was up to,” says Ken Wom- Blondie’s Parallel Lines have al- one of our missions should be to ack, dean of the Wayne D. Mc- ready received the Record Club help people think more deeply Wildflower by Murray School of Humanities treatment, and still to come about popular artifacts that are The Avalanches and Social Sciences and an au- this semester are the Beatles’ so widely consumed.” —Anna Maynard

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A DAY AT THE BEACH » Coastal moments, captured SEPT. 12, 2016 A fisherman casts lines but no shadow during the pre-dawn hours in nearby Manasquan, New Jersey.

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THe stats Here’s how Adriana Zelaya stacks up by the numbers. 6'2" height 10.5 points per game as a high school senior

leaving her with a nearly five- inch scar above her belly but- Driven 5.2 ton. After successful surgery, A FREAK INJURY SAVED ADRIANA ZELAYA’S rebounds per game her prognosis was good—at LIFE. NOW SHE WANTS TO SAVE OTHERS. as a high school least where her survival was senior concerned. “They weren’t sure BY RYAN JONES I’d be able to run or even walk again,” she says. Basketball, driana Zelaya didn’t want to go. She was in a sport that ran in the family, grade school then, a 9-year-old kid in Arizona that she’d played since she was old enough to pick up a ball, Aon a school trip to the county fair, when one of seemed out of the question. her friends talked her into braving the house of mirrors. In January, nearly nine years It took some convincing—“I don’t really even like fairs,” after she almost died, Zelaya took a hand-off at the top of she says—but reluctantly, Zelaya agreed. the key and spotted up for a three pointer against Siena. Inside, reaching out to feel her of Zelaya’s suffering: pancre- Swish—her first points as a Divi- way through the disorienting atic cancer. “When I elbowed sion I college basketball player. maze, Zelaya smacked her hand myself,” she says, “I actually Needless to say, the 6-foot-2- against a mirror and accidentally ruptured the tumor.” She can inch freshman forward has elbowed herself in the stomach. laugh now at the absurdity of far exceeded those doctors’ For most kids, the result would it: Had her best friend not expectations—and her own. “I have been a bruise and some dragged her into the fun house never thought I’d be at Mon- temporary embarrassment. For that day, the fast-moving can- mouth playing basketball on a Zelaya, something was different: cer, so rare in children, might full scholarship,” she says. “It’s She soon felt nauseous, and got not have announced itself until definitely been a happy ending sick on the bus ride home. Her much later. “It was a miracle,” for me.” parents took her to the ER, and she says. “If I’d waited a couple Now she wants to help write before long she ended up in the more months, it would have other people’s happy endings. hospital; no one had an answer. been too late.” Inspired by her grandmother’s “They thought it was a hemato- As it was, Zelaya was only be- career and her own experience ma,” Zelaya says, but her grand- ginning her ordeal. The tumor as a survivor, Zelaya is majoring mother, a nurse, insisted there was so large—“bigger than in molecular biology, with plans was something more serious a softball but smaller than a to go into medical research. As going on. She was in and out of grapefruit,” she says—that a young as she is, she says she’s the hospital for the next month, microscopic procedure was still getting a sense of her po- on and off pain meds, and lost 20 ruled out, leaving her with no OPPOSITE: Zelaya earned tential career paths, “so I don’t pounds off her slender frame. choice but invasive surgery. All-Division Honorable know exactly what I want to do. Mention as a senior at Finally, a second opinion from a Doctors took more than half Millennium High School in But I do know the people I want new doctor revealed the source her pancreas in the process, Goodyear, Arizona. to help.”

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» Meet with a president—or two: The coach has a laugh with President Emeritus Samuel Magill (below, at left), a 1950 UNC grad, and President Paul Brown.

IN AN INSTANT » Athletes, frame by frame return of the king HAWKS BASKETBALL COACH KING RICE LEADS HIS TEAM BACK TO HIS ALMA MATER. A DAY IN PICTURES. REPORTING BY GARY KOWAL ’13

s a point guard for the University of North Carolina from 1987 to 1991, » Rise and shine: Rice heads to the King Rice led his team to two ACC titles and a Final Four. Last December, team breakfast A he returned to the school for only the second time as a head coach. We and first meeting followed Rice throughout game day as he reunited with old friends and prepared his of the day. Hawks to take on the Tar Heels, who at the time were ranked 9th in the country.

» Keeping things loose: Rice and Julian squeeze in some one-on-one during the Hawks’ morning shootaround.

» Family matters: The coach departs for the Dean Smith Center with his wife, Summer, and their youngest son, Julian. » Working lunch: Older son Alexander, The team watches a sophomore guard game film of North for prep school pow- Carolina to do erhouse St. Anthony’s some last-minute High School, missed scouting. the trip because his team had games.

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Noon 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 p.m. 11 p.m.

»Game face: The Hawks take an early lead and keep it close into the second half before UNC runs »King’s court: away with it late. Final “I’m the luckiest guy score: 102-74. that, in 1987, Coach Smith gave me a schol- arship and it’s made me have a great, great, great life,” says Rice, who played 140 games for the Tar Heels.

»Final prep: “Play hard, play smart, play to- gether, have fun,” is the team motto.

» Friendly competition: “He’s top notch as a man, as a coach, and as a mentor,” says Rice about Tar Heels Head Coach Roy Williams, who as an assistant »Debrief: “We didn’t have to Dean Smith helped our best night tonight. recruit Rice to UNC. North Carolina is awesome,” Rice says at the post-game press conference.

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RITUALS POINT MAN » Warmups & superstitions Senior guard Justin Robinson passed former Hawks John Giraldo Fast ’96 and Alex Blackwell ’92 to move atop Monmouth’s Div. I career food scoring list during the team’s SUSHI—AND Jan. 30 win at Marist. On Feb. 3, SCIENCE—PROPEL Robinson was honored with a DYLAN CAPWELL. postgame celebration following BY BRANDON GOULD the Hawks’ home win over Saint Peters. (He sank 29 points that night for good measure.) Pictured that evening are (left to right) former head coach Dave Calloway ’91, ’95M; King Rice; former coach Ron Krayl; Giraldo; Robinson; Ron Kornegay ’69, ’74M; and Blackwell.

efore he made a name for himself on the Ear candy velocities that Capwell should hit national scene, Dylan Capwell was just a kid Capwell listens to during training and relays that rap and rock to stay will get his heart rate into optimal Bwho liked to run. And eat raw fish. pumped during his zones to allow his body to better hour-long warmup. process the lactic acid. Capwell, the national run- Since 2014, Capwell has been Three songs that Capwell’s work with Grady ner-up in the 800 meters at the working with physiologist Shannon always do the trick: also led to a new pre-race war- 2015 indoor NCAA Champion- Grady. Every eight to 10 weeks, mup routine—one specifically ships, says his routine of eating Capwell gets tested running repeat »»Duran Duran’s designed for him. It includes a sushi the night before meets 800s, starting off with an interval “Hungry Like 15-minute walk; joint mobility started back in fourth grade after of 2:50 before repeating the run, the Wolf” training through ankle, knee, he and his dad sampled some at with each subsequent interval »»Kanye West’s and hip spins; sprints; and a an Asian market. Nowadays, su- decreasing by 10 seconds. Be- “Through the Wire” set of drills that includes static shi is reserved for nights before tween runs, Grady takes a drop »»Journey’s stretching, squats, and leg swings. big races—“it’s a bit pricey,” says of blood from Capwell’s finger “Faithfully” Altogether, it takes him about Capwell—but there’s another and measures how much lactic an hour. When he’s done, only element to his training routine acid his body has built up and is two steps remain to his pre-race that likely plays a larger part in processing. With those results, ABOVE: Capwell and ritual: clear his mind and step to his success: exercise science. Grady designs workouts and his pre-race tradition. the line.

22 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo CARDONI; MONMOUTH ATHLETICS (opposite) THE BOSS RETURNS TO MONMOUTH FOR A CANDID CONVERSATION AND TO MARK THE START OF A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSITY.

TEXT BY B ETONY MARCHETTI ON THE PHOTOS BY DANNY CLINCH NIGHT a rock and roll legend took the stage in Pollak Theatre to share stories about R C his career, it was a pre-show announce- ment from President Paul R. Brown that provided the most newsworthy takeaway. While welcoming the sell-out crowd to January’s “A Conversation with Bruce Springsteen,” Brown announced a new collaborative partnership to establish The Bruce Springsteen Ar- chives and Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Through the collaboration, Monmouth becomes the official archival repository for Spring- U steen’s written works, photographs, periodicals, and artifacts (see sidebar on p. 27). The news elicited applause that only amplified with Springsteen’s arrival on stage moments later. The evening marked a homecoming of sorts for the singer, who regularly performed on campus in the 1960s and 1970s. That’s where moderator Robert Santelli ’73, executive director of the Grammy Museum, started the conversation, asking Springsteen about his appear- ances on the Great Lawn and in the college gymnasium. “I played some big shows here,” Springsteen recalled, smiling. “At $1 per head, 2,000 people—that money lasted a long time.”

24 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo credit NAME NAME photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 25 Sitting center stage, opposite Santel- “ to write, asked Santelli. “I’ve benefit- Bruce, The Institution li, Springsteen was funny, candid, and ted a lot from the therapeutic value of at times disarmingly modest through- Music is therapy,” the singer joked.) Nonethe- The new collaboration broadens an exist- out the 90-minute conversation. At important less, fans were thrilled to hear Spring- ing relationship between Springsteen and one point he recalled how as a teen, he to activism steen share those stories in person. Monmouth University, which has served watched bands perform at CYO danc- “The event was a once-in-a-lifetime as the home of the Bruce Springsteen es in Freehold, New Jersey. Looking in the sense experience,” said Albert Holguin, a Special Collection since 2011. The Bruce at lead singers and guitarists, he’d tell that it stirs music industry major and one of the Springsteen Archives and Center for himself, “I can’t do that.” He didn’t passion. audience members called on to ask American Music will preserve and promote understand the bass, and drums were Springsteen a question. “Very rarely the legacy of Bruce Springsteen and his too expensive, he said, so he focused It stirs does one get to hear about the behind- role in American music while honoring and on the rhythm guitarist, standing interest… the-scenes story that led to success, celebrating icons of American music like in the back, strumming chords, and [and] especially for an artist as successful as Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, Hank “looking cool.” curiosity. It Bruce Springsteen.” Williams, Frank Sinatra, and others. The “I could be that guy,” Springsteen said. Springsteen, never one to shy away expanded partnership will help to more When Columbia Records signed moves you from talking politics, kept the conver- deeply integrate the history and inspiration him in the early 1970s, Springsteen to question sation focused on his career. But one of American music into the curriculum recalled, you were either a New York your of the last audience members to ask and research experience at Monmouth. It or California artist. Record executives a question that night asked him about will also serve to bolster an already highly wanted him to be the next Bob Dylan beliefs and his activism. successful music industry program at the and for audiences to associate him with strikes “Music is important to activism in the university. the Big Apple. But Springsteen wanted straight sense that it stirs passion,” said Spring- “Monmouth University is excited by the to remain loyal to his Jersey roots. A steen. “It stirs interest… [and] curiosity. opportunity to grow our relationship with postcard he saw on the Asbury Park to your It moves you to question your beliefs Bruce Springsteen,” Monmouth University boardwalk gave him the idea for his first emotions. and strikes straight to your emotions. President Paul R. Brown said in a statement. album title and cover. After you’ve heard it, it marinates in- “Our partnership has been a natural one— “I pulled it out and said, ‘Yeah, Greet- ” side you and ends up coming out in your just steps from Springsteen’s birthplace ings from Asbury Park,’” Springsteen own energy.” and the site where Born to Run was written, said. “That’s New Jersey. Who’s from The music of activist artists like Arlo Monmouth University’s location brilliantly New Jersey? Nobody. It’s all mine!” Guthrie and Pete Seeger is important captures the essence of Springsteen’s music As Springsteen detailed his journey in the same way hymns are important while providing the academic heft of one of from up-and-comer to critical darling to churchgoers, said Springsteen. “It only nine university affiliates of the Grammy with meager album sales to interna- makes us stronger in our beliefs. And Museum. The establishment of The Bruce tional superstar, he kept fans enter- in a certain moment, the right song can Springsteen Archives and Center for Ameri- tained—and laughing. Some highlights: start a fire.” can Music celebrates and reinforces the Jer- About his early songwriting tech- sey Shore’s legacy in the history of American niques: “I had a rhyming dictionary and Additional reporting by Breanne McCar- music, while providing a truly transformative I was going with it 100 percent,” said thy and Tiffany Wysocki. experience for our students.” Springsteen. On the pressure he felt to make a hit album following lackluster sales on the first two: “Outside forces could never put more pressure on me than I put on myself.” On the universal appeal of “Born in the U.S.A.”: “That song has been interpret- ed and misinterpreted so many times it appeals to everyone.” On his epic 2009 Super Bowl halftime performance: “It was the most terrifying and thrilling 12 minutes of my work life.” Throughout the conversation, Spring- steen touched on many of the same events chronicled in his autobiogra- phy, Born to Run. (Was it therapeutic

RIGHT: Moderator Robert Santelli ’73, executive director of the Grammy Museum, and Springsteen discussed everything from music to activism.

OPPOSITE: Backstage with Santelli, Springsteen, and Monmouth President Paul R. Brown.

26 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 27 HOW AN IMMERSIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN VIETNAM CHANGED THE LIVES OF TWO MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND HELPED BRING LIFE TO A VOLUNTEER DOCTOR PROGRAM.

PROTEXT BY TONY MARCHETTI

PHOTOS BY MARK LUDAK ’81 JECT AND ANDREW COHEN

28 MONMOUTH springTVD 2017 photo credit NAME NAME photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 29 LAst Spring, as she NEARED THE END OF her second year in Monmouth’s phy- interact with volunteer doctors provid- sician assistant graduate program, ing care in three hospitals in Da Nang, a Subika Mohammad ’11 came to a real- city in the country’s central region. ization. Her semester had been filled “I saw it as an opportunity to parallel with clinical rotations, many of them the experiences of the patients I came in operating rooms, during which she across every day,” she says. “Like them, noticed something troubling. I would be entering a completely differ- “I saw that very often you become ent world, taken away from my familiar jaded from being in that environment,” surroundings, where I would not know says Mohammad. “Your perspective anyone nor understand the language. changes. As providers, we go in know- Unarmed of my fancy medical jar- ing everything about our patients, gon and of all the various diagnostic and we’re entrusted with their lives. trinkets we use in the United States, I Yet patients often don’t understand would have the opportunity to build the [terminology we use] and have no on other skills, such as empathy and clue what’s going on.” It was as if once compassion. Furthermore, I would be a patient puts on his or her hospital able to test my medical skills because gown, medical providers “forget their I would be stripped of a thorough his- humanity.” tory to help reach my diagnosis, and So when Mohammad learned she I would have to rely more on asking could apply to take part in a medical succinct pertinent questions, reading mission to Vietnam, she was intrigued. non-verbal cues, and performing a very “ The trip would allow her to observe and thorough physical exam.” Unarmed of ... the various diagnostic trinkets we use in the United States, I would have

The medical mission was coordinated One of the team’s volunteers is Dr. the oppor- inside the o.r. tunity Previous spread: Communications major by Project TVD (Team of Volunteer Saifuddin Mama, an Ob/Gyn at Cooper Courtney Moore ’17 filming inside the Doctors), an organization that since 1999 University Hospital, and the husband to build operating room at Da Nang Women has sent physicians and health care pro- of Robin Mama, Ph.D., dean of Mon- on other fessionals to Da Nang to lecture, consult, mouth’s School of Social Work. The and Children’s Hospital. Above: Subika skills, such Mohammad ’17M (center), a student in the and deliver care alongside local doctors. Mamas have been going to Vietnam Physician Assistant program, observing a The organization was founded by Dr. each summer for the last six years, and as empathy surgery performed by Project TVD doctors Tung Van Dinh, a Vietnamese-born Dean Mama has developed relation- and com- in the same hospital. doctor who emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. ships with three NGOs (in Da Nang Today it is run by his four children, three and Saigon) that provide internships to passion. of whom are medical doctors. Monmouth M.S.W. students enrolled in ”

30 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photos (and opening spred) MARK LUDAK photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 31 immersion experience “Vietnam is a developing part of the world, but it’s an important one that we need to know,” says Andrew Cohen, chair of the Department of Art and Design and a professor of Asian art. “We need to know it beyond that there was a war there. It has a rich culture. It will be a good trading part- ner. There’s so much going on in Southeast Asia in general, but Vietnam in particular, that we can benefit from.”

the program’s International and Com- “ Moore. Each day brought a new filming ry that Project TVD can use to recruit vol- munity Development concentration. I quickly location, and with it the physical chal- unteers for future missions. “It’s the longest When Project TVD needed to begin lenges of setting up shoots by herself film I’ve ever made,” says Moore. documenting its work, Mama says she realized while navigating a foreign city. “The experience in Vietnam was life immediately thought of her colleagues, I was the Perhaps most intimidating for her was changing,” she continued. “It took me art and design professors Andrew Co- ‘other’ in that many of the shoots took place in- out of my comfort zone, but it also set hen and Mark Ludak, as well as how to side operating rooms. “I never thought in a number of career options for me. It include Monmouth students. “I’ve seen Southeast I’d be able to do that,” says Moore. “I al- opened the door that I can do interna- how life changing these experiences are Asia; that ways figured if I was in the O.R. it would tional documentation.” for students,” says Mama. was a new be because I was on the table getting cut For her part, Mohammad says she took Joining Mohammad, Ludak, and open. It was pretty incredible.” away everything she had hoped to and Cohen in Vietnam was senior com- experience The immersive, learning-by-doing aspect more from the experience. Sitting in on munications major Courtney Moore. for me. of the experience is part of what made the consults between Project TVD doctors Serving as a one-woman production trip so valuable, says Ludak. (He and and their Vietnamese patients helped crew, her role was to film the volun- ” Cohen photographed the Project TVD her “see medicine through a different teer doctors meeting with their Viet- doctors in action, and many of their lens.” From a more tangible standpoint, namese counterparts, consulting with pictures were used on a website Mon- interacting with doctors from the Mayo patients, and performing surgeries—a mouth computer science and software Clinic and Johns Hopkins, and observ- lot of surgeries—and produce a docu- engineering students later created for ing them inside the operating room, mentary of the trip. Project TVD.) “For Subika and Courtney was invaluable she says. Filming eight hours a day in and it wasn’t just, ‘I’m going to see what the “The first 15 months in physician around three Da Nang hospitals pre- world is about.’ They had expectations assistant school is all book learning,” sented a host of challenges. For starters, to perform and produce. That’s the part says Mohammad. “You get a stepwise there were language and cultural differ- that was really good and different,” instruction manual for what you should ences to transcend. “I quickly realized says Ludak. do in real life. ‘OK, a patient comes in I was the ‘other’ in Southeast Asia; that Moore shot nearly 60 hours of footage that with this, you do 1, 2, 3.’ But in real life was a new experience for me,” says she is editing into a 20-minute documenta- there’s always something thrown at you

32 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photos ANDREW COHEN spring 2017 MONMOUTH 33 that’s not in the book. And it was awe- nent, promotes the development of “ some watching these incredible doctors global change agents willing to take cal- The first 15 troubleshoot.” culated risks in their careers and bring months in “This was a unique opportunity for the benefits of global literacy to their Subika and Courtney to apply what they family, friends, and communities.” Physician have learned at Monmouth in an inter- In fact, Mohammad’s experiences in assistant national context,” says Mama. “It was Vietnam very quickly inspired her to school is a hands-on experience that definitely take action closer to home. Last fall, she took them out of their comfort zone. helped facilitate a pop-up health clinic all book They were both very professional, and in East Orange, New Jersey, through learning. we were all quite proud of their adven- American Muslims for Hunger Relief. You get a turous attitude and what they contrib- The clinic brought together a team of uted to the trip and the organization.” medical students to provide care and stepwise “Our faculty leadership in Project long-term health education program- instruction TVD underscores the impact such ming for residents with limited access manual for global experiences have upon our un- to affordable health care. She’s now dergraduate and graduate students,” organizing a similar event for Atlantic what you says Jon W. Stauff, Ph.D., Monmouth’s City residents. should do vice provost for global education. “The “Vietnam taught and shaped me as in real life. transformative nature of education both a person and provider,” says Mo- But in real abroad, including faculty-led programs hammed. “It was an incredible experi- with a relatively short travel compo- ence.” life there’s always something thrown at you that’s not in the book. Faculty impact An accomplished fine art and documentary ” photographer, Professor Mark Ludak says Vietnam was the first time he photo- graphed inside a surgical setting. “It was startling at first…. But as a faculty member, I think when students see you’re chal- lenging yourself—that provides them with a role model. They realize it’s OK to take chances. It’s OK to try things. It’s OK to try to improve yourself. And I think that has an effect on them.”

34 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photophotos credit MARK NAME LUDAK NAME photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 35 AN EXCERPT FROM ABANDON ME, THE NEW BOOK FROM MONMOUTH PROFESSOR MELISSA FEBOS. CALL MY

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOEY GUIDONE

NAME36 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo credit NAME NAME spring 2017 MONMOUTH 37 When I was seven, my sea captain father at sea, my moth- taken our captain and left her beating that Jessie down the street fit her name. er a strobing lighthouse of missing, I the shore with her hands? Jessie was fast and blonde, a streak of stood alone in my bedroom, renaming It was an early lesson. The ocean dis- girl, hook of J, dot of i, bared teeth of all my toys Melissa. You, and you, appears things. It is a hungry, grabbing long e. It is no wonder that to hold Jessie and you. A child’s narcissism, maybe. thing. In its deep, there is nothing to in my mouth came to feel like holding A punishment for my dolls. I didn’t reach for. Next to it, I was a girl gulping Jessie in my mouth. words, unlocking the riddles of our no matter our family. But I loved the word mercy. choose my name, but I could choose to a woman’s grief. On her knees on the bedroom floor, bodies, I chanted my name. I pressed how many The idea of falling to one’s knees moved give it away. A small triumph. But no Jean Piaget believed object permanence Jessie pressed two naked dolls together, it against my teeth. To give it edges. To something in me that I tended like a matter how many dolls I christened to be learned within the first two years of clicking their immovable parts. What shake loose what it carried. To teach it dolls I secret. Melissa, the sound of my name still life. That is, a thing disappeared contin- are they doing? I asked. You know, she meaning. christened So I left out Jesus. Have mercy on me. shocked me: hum of M, soft L, hiss ues to exist. But what if it never appears said. And I did, so I told her. I named I learned the magic of repetition from Melissa, Under my breath, on the way to school, ending openmouthed. Melissa, my again? Or disappears long enough to learn the sex parts I knew. She repeated Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, which I in the ripped back seat of a white Suba- teacher called each morning. Here, I to live without it? By two years old I had them back to me. Those strange sounds found on a thrift store shelf, filmed with the sound ru with a hand up my shirt, I waited to inched. already learned two fathers. One addict. turned in the space between us. And dust. I studied it as Franny Glass stud- of my detach from the definition of my daily It was a ribbon of sound, a yielding sib- One sea captain. My birth father was Jon, they were ours. ied The Way of a Pilgrim, mesmerized name still life, to feel the blooming quiet of some- ilant thing. Drag it along a scissor blade a name like him, just a man. The Captain I used to repeat words under my by the idea of incessant prayer. Like thing holier. and it curls. I wanted a box, something had two names: Robert for the merchant breath, on the way to school, in the me, Franny incanted a set of words—the shocked Even those ancient monks, writers of with corners I could feel. Zoe or Ka- marine, and rounder Bob for his inti- bath, chanting their sounds until they Jesus Prayer—hoping to syncopate me: hum of the Philokalia, believed that the repe- trina. Those girls ruled the school bus. mates. Bob, so close to Dad. Both taught detached from their meaning. The their intention with her heart’s beat, M, soft L, tition of words, and willingness, was all You could press your fingers into Melis- me how to watch someone leave and not moment when those sounds fell free the surge of her blood, turn even the hiss ending one needed. Faith could be summoned sa. It was hum and ah, and esssss—more chase them. of their object—like the moment the mysterious work of her organs holy. in the self, in saying, in the body. One sigh than spit. When I asked my mother, Why Me- swing hung horizontal to its frame, Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me, open- didn’t need to believe in God to walk On family vacation in Florida, after lissa? I already wanted a new name. the body weightless, just before goes the prayer. mouthed. toward God. I only had to believe in a days pickling in the hotel pool, eyes Jackie, Britt, Tina. You can drill a hole gravity clutched it back—giddying. It Jesus was a cool guy, the Captain said. Melissa, my word. So I started looking for it. pinked from its blue brine, my mother with Jackie. You can slingshot a rock unlatched something in me, the proof But religion was not. The nuns who The Captain did not give me religion. asked me, Melissa, why, when the ocean with Britt. Even Tina can hurt some- that anything could be pulled apart, swung wooden yardsticks against him teacher He gave me other treasures. A bloom of was steps away, why the pool? Because body. Melissa was bringing a ribbon to could scatter into dumb freedom, a and his brothers were not. My abuela told called each desert roses the size of my arm, a freck- the pool has sides, I told her. I was al- a swordfight. Melissa was leading with bell ringing not for dinner or church them to be good, to pray, to beg the help morning. led ostrich egg, true pirate stories. Jon, ready spilling out, grasping for edges. my softest part. or alarm, but for the simple pleasure of no one but God. My abuelo had beaten on the other hand, had given me native And what chance did I stand against A word shapes the mouth with want of making it ring. them senseless. Help never came. Here, I blood, which meant something only the ocean? How many times had the sea and wonder for its object. By six, I knew Just as Jessie and I chanted those Praying to Jesus was not for anyone in inched. because it showed on my face. It was

38 MONMOUTH spring 2017 spring 2017 MONMOUTH 39 When I me that Febos was changed from Febo, father, my grandfather, Modesto, at the asked my because my great-grandfather thought age of seven, woke from sleep to find it too close to feo, which means ugly in his father attempting to hang him by a mother, Spanish. A cute story. And a lie. Or myth, noose from the ceiling. He never slept Why maybe. The uglier our own stories, the in Amador’s house again, but under the Melissa? more some of us need pretty ones. cars of neighbors, returning days to care The Captain’s grandfather, Amador, for his mother and younger siblings. I already was a jíbaro—mountain-dwelling Modesto, from the Latin modestus, + wanted a peasants, laborers of mixed indigenous means “moderate, sober,” though he new name. Taino and Spanish blood who had also drank himself mad. The terrible worked alongside slaves on the cane, legacy of his father was nothing a name Jackie, tobacco, and coffee plantations. could remedy. Those hard hands carved Britt, Tina. Amador, from the Latin amare, mean- my own father, whose first mercy was ing to love. Ironic, as he was a monstruo. the sea. qA You can MEMORY, drill a hole Or alcohol, and that breaking work, The Captain, on his voyages, made a made him one. My guess: he was a lover. habit of searching the phone books for LANGUAGE, with Jackie. Sometimes the only cure for a soft heart Febos. The only reference he ever en- You can is hard hands, or the elixirs that change countered was in Cervantes’ Don Quix- AND LOST slingshot them. ote, in which the Febos gang are a band In the mountain village of Cayey, Taino of marauders who roam the Pyrenees. a rock for “a place of waters,” the Captain’s He was looking for something, too. HISTORY with Britt. AN INTERVIEW WITH Even Tina MELISSA FEBOS can hurt BY TOBIAS CARROLL somebody. Melissa was bringing a elissa Febos’ writing ribbon to a perfectly captures the swordfight. Mweb of connections that can empower us, haunt us, or leave us emotionally the one thing that reminded me of him, exhausted. In her critically every time someone asked me, What acclaimed memoir Whip Smart, are you? I wished it had meant something to she chronicled her experiences him, that he had given me a name I working as a dominatrix could decipher. Then everything might during a self-destructive period be different. He might be someone other than a drunk stranger living in a of her life, documenting a Florida trailer. And then who would I rarely-glimpsed subculture of be? New York. In her new essay My history seemed to end, or begin, with this name. Melissa. We packed collection Abandon Me, she those seven letters and a few boxes in delves more fully into human In Abandon Me, you tell of writing cause I was so sure I wanted to build the car. My mother and I drove away poetry as a child and starting school my life around this. from him. We didn’t take anything else. complexities, juxtaposing knowing you wanted to be a writer. As much as I was a social, verbal, Lucky, I was told, to have wrecked so scenes from throughout her life Was there one moment you knew that interactive young person, I was also young, to have washed ashore with no while examining depression, definitively? very private and prone to fantasy. I memory. I was a crazy reader as a kid…an ob- would play weird imaginary games True, I did not remember my first addiction, relationships, and the sessive, fiendish junkie for books…. By where I would go into the woods and father. But forgetting, like leaving, bonds of family. Here, too, she the time I was 10, I was already telling pretend I had just fallen from another does not erase someone. The Captain ventures into complex territory, people I was a writer. A few years planet and wander around alone pre- became the only dad I knew. And every after that, I added college professor. tending I was discovering Earth and time he left port, we wrecked again. dealing with her connection to I used to make my little brother play making up stories and little plays. The A new father brought me a new name. both her biological father and “school” all the time and give him experience of building a world was One from Puerto Rico. homework. Clearly, I had the hubris always something I did privately, so the man who raised her, referred The origin of Febos is not simple. early on. Those were really the only it makes sense that translated most There aren’t many of us. My abuela told to in the book as “the Captain.” occupations I ever considered, be- directly into writing.

40 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo MATT FURMAN spring 2017 MONMOUTH 41 “ When you open the door to a story that desperately How did you go from writing fantasy sciousness of my own curiosity about a new depth of gratitude for how lucky I wants to be to such candid nonfiction? where I come from and what that part was to have him for a father, and a new told, that’s I went to college thinking I would be of my identity meant to me, because I’d depth of gratitude for how hard and a poet. Then about halfway through… never interrogated it in any way. At that successfully both of my parents loved your best I switched to fiction and basically time, it felt safer to approach it from us and tried to correct the missteps of story, it never went back. All my fiction was the outside. Instead, I went and wrote a their own parents. I called him the Cap- doesn’t just very heavily based on autobiographical different novel and then essays, and the tain because he’s a captain, but [also] material, but it never occurred to me to subject resurfaced in a very different way. because I was writing about two fathers g o away. write nonfiction…. In graduate school, in the book, and I had to differentiate ” I took a nonfiction survey class where There’s a passage in Abandon Me between them. The dedication was…a we wrote an op-ed and did a book re- where you’re talking with the Cap- gesture to make clear that he’s my fa- view and then a memoir. When I wrote tain about his reaction to Whip ther—in the truest sense of the word. that memoir it just poured out of me Smart and how your own take on with an urgency that I had never ex- memory has evolved in the time Does writing so candidly about perienced writing fiction. Fiction was since then… your life affect how you interact with always somewhat painstaking for me, I think this process that happened students? and slow. The nonfiction wanted me to very organically and subterraneously My teaching and my writing are sep- write it. When you open the door to a for me—of having an impulse and start- arate things in many ways.… The way story that desperately wants to be told, ing to write about something—it feels that I teach is very much about the that’s your best story, it doesn’t just go like a hustle or a trick that I play on process of craft. It is about translating away. It kept knocking and eventually I myself that I keep falling for over and experience into art, but I don’t speak said, “Okay, this is what I’m doing,” and over again where I say, “Oh, I’m going to to my students’ experience, I speak to I never went back. write an essay about my name.” And by their process of creating art. the time I get to the end of it I say, “Oh! As a rule I don’t talk about my expe- You’re drawn to the sounds of words. This is about the legacy of historical rience in the classroom; I’m very clear Does that go back to your time writ- trauma in my relationship with my fa- about that if it ever comes up. I have had ing poetry? ther—surprise!” many cute moments with students com- I’ve always been in love with the sound The writing process becomes a way ing to my office with my book after the of words. Something that I write about in that I can detach from myself and en- semester is over and confessing their “Call My Name” is how I used to repeat ter my writer persona and figure out experience of it, and that’s fine. I prefer words to myself as a kid and pull the the narrative of my own mysteries and it that way. The personal nature of my sounds apart…. I think my attraction to questions and trauma and transforma- work can be distracting. But I have a lot language and words is very rhythmic tions, and at the end of it I’ve done the to say about craft and that’s the ground and musically based. And I do think the process but I didn’t have to do it in ther- on which I meet my students. things I most loved about writing poetry apy or with another person. Then I can I’ve taken with me to prose. show it to other people and be honest Are there things you’re hoping to about it. do with your next project that you Abandon Me grew out of a very differ- An interesting byproduct of this pro- weren’t able to with Abandon Me? ent project that would have incorpo- cess is that I also subject other people I like to read very broadly, and I do a rated King Philip’s War. How did you to it, because they are necessarily im- lot of research and not a lot of it makes get from that theoretical book to this plicated in those stories. Particularly it explicitly into my work. In Abandon one? with this book, which is so much about Me, it made it into the work more than Shortly after I finished Whip[ Smart], I my family. In the same way that writing anything I’ve ever written. There are a lot wanted to write a historical novel about forces a conversation with myself about of threads of philosophy and psychology the Wampanoag Tribe, from which I de- my own experience, it also has forced and history and spiritual writings. That scend. I ordered all these books and made conversations with my family that we felt so good, to integrate all of my research all these notes. Then I had a discouraging might have avoided otherwise. interests, and I definitely see myself mov- conversation with my agent at the time ing even more in that direction. I’m in the that led me to abandon the idea com- Why did you dedicate the book to the “earlyish” stages of writing another essay pletely. I don’t think that was entirely a Captain? collection and I think that there will be result of being discouraged by external At its most basic level, I think [Aban- a much bigger research element. I think forces. I also wasn’t yet clear on why or don Me is] a book about love and about I’ll be in conversation with the external what I wanted to write about it. what it means to be cared for and how world a lot more than I have. I think it’s a That was the beginning of my con- that forms you. In writing it, I arrived at good time to do that.

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love notes Alaina Love’s own “passion arche- types,” as defined by her Passion Profiler:

»»Builder. Builders have a strong sense of urgency to deliver results, work tireless- ly to reach goals, and are known for getting things done.

»»Transformer. Trans- CHANGEMAKER » Alumni making waves formers identify and embrace possibilities for improvement and growth in business, The profiler the environment, ALAINA LOVE HELPS EMPLOYEES LINK themselves, and THEIR PASSIONS TO PURPOSE, ALLOWING others. THEIR ORGANIZATIONS TO THRIVE. »»Healer. Healers BY MOLLY PETRILLA have a passion for creating peace in laina Love ’79 tion followed: how could the turmoil and repairing As Love prepared to hand back is a builder- company have held on to her? broken relationships profile results at his company, In 2005, she began inter- or broken spirits. she noticed the CFO was “an Atransformer- viewing people from different They help others outlier; I got the feeling people healer, but she’s more industries, asking them about successfully navigate looked at him as the guy who pain. interested in what you are. finding purpose and passion in always said no.” But his profile their work. With the data she results included “conceiver”—a A leadership and talent man- collected she began to identify rarer archetype indicating agement consultant, Love has 10 passion archetypes. Now someone who thrives at innova- spent the last decade building those pillars (creator, con- tion. Love says the CFO’s team her own psychometric tool ceiver, discoverer, processor, realized they’d written him off and administering it to more teacher, connector, altruist, as “a bean counter” when really, than 10,000 employees across healer, transformer, and he could help find the creative the U.S. She calls it the Passion builder) form the base of her solutions they needed. Profiler, and she uses it to iden- Passion Profiler. “Suddenly they’re asking his tify people’s strongest “passion Love has gone into prominent opinion and he’s offering it,” archetypes” (things like altruist, organizations with her profil- she says. “I got notes from him teacher, or healer) and through er—General Electric, NASA, afterward about what a big those, helps her clients better the Environmental Protection difference [the profile] made understand themselves and Agency, the Department of De- for him personally and profes- their jobs. fense. Using responses from sionally.” The idea came from personal her advanced survey, she dis- Now Love wants to take her experience. As executive di- tributes passion reports that message beyond the office. rector of human resources for show people their strongest She’s working on a book about Merck in the early 1990s, she archetypes and unpack their “passionality” and hoping her was shocked when her boss hint- motivations, vulnerabilities, passion-defined archetypes be- ed that Love might be next in and strengths. The reports come a full-fledged movement. line for vice president of human help employees and employers “I want to rival or exceed resources. More than that, she understand themselves and what Myers-Briggs has done,” couldn’t believe she wasn’t more each other, which ultimately she says, referencing perhaps excited about the possibility. leads to better teamwork and OPPOSITE: With her the most famous personality When she still couldn’t muster more engaged workers, she Passion Profiler, Love has assessment. “I want this to be more enthusiasm a year later, says. helped large businesses something that people around and organizations such as Love left her job to try some- One of her favorite examples General Electric, NASA, the world know about and ben- thing new. But a nagging ques- involved a chief financial officer. and the EPA. efit from.”

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»»Carmen M. Penta ’67 (Acct.) was »»Joseph E. Conroy ’79 (Psych.), in history from Boston College, »»Stacia Manzo McDonough ’87 elected to serve as director of the Ph.D., has relocated to Beau- and his divinity degree from (Engl.) is the organizer of “They 1st Constitution Bancorp’s board fort, South Carolina. Conroy is a Regis College, Toronto School of Kept Us Safe, Let’s Keep Them of directors, effective January 1, board-certified neuropsychologist Theology. Warm,” a drive to collect new 2017. Penta is a certified public and sport/performance psycholo- clothing for the formerly homeless accountant with over 40 years of gist, who practiced in the Mon- »»Best-selling author Patty Azzarel- veterans housed at Community experience with Pricewaterhouse- mouth County, New Jersey, area lo ’86 (Elec. Eng.) had her second Hope/Hope for Veterans housing Coopers and EisnerAmper LLP. He for more than 20 years. His new book, Move: How Decisive Leaders in Lyons, New Jersey. What was is a founder of Wiener, Penta and practice, Lowcountry Neuropsy- Execute Strategy Despite Obsta- once an annual event is turning Goodman, a central New Jersey ac- chology, is located in Port Royal, cles, Setbacks & Stalls, published into a year-round effort, says counting firm, as well as of Addeco South Carolina. Conroy served for by Wiley in February. Azzarello, McDonough. Last spring, she col- Pollaco & Penta LLC, an accounting many years as the consulting neu- who at 33 became the youngest laborated with Zimmer Bioment, and consulting firm. Previously, Pen- ropsychologist to the Department general manager at Hewlett-Pack- a Parsippany-based company, to ta served three years as a member of Sports Medicine at Monmouth ard, draws on more than 25 years of collect $18,000 worth of items for of the advisory board of Jersey University and for several years as international business management the veterans. Shore Bank and three years as vice the assistant consulting neuropsy- experience to identify the chronic chairman of the board of directors chologist to the New York Giants. challenges that keep organizations »»Kathryn McNaughton ’88 Alumni of Colonial Bank. Penta, who owns from decisively executing strategy; (Chem.), Ph.D., joined Avrobio Inc. and manages 10 commercial real she also offers up a practical game as senior vice president of port- estate properties in Monmouth and 1980s plan to overcome these obstacles. folio and program management roundup Ocean counties, also served as a Azzarello has held leadership roles in November. Headquartered LISTED BY GRADUATION YEAR member of the board of directors »»A History of Submarine Warfare in general management, marketing, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Campus of the Central Jersey Bank for 13 Along the Jersey Shore, co-authored sales, and product development Avrobio Inc. is a clinical-stage grows quality grapes that they Calendar: years. by Harry Ziegler ’80 (Engl.) and Jo- and was formerly vice president and biotechnology company develop- 1960s use to make their own award-win- seph G. Bilby, was published by The general manager of HP OpenView, ing transformative, life-changing ning wine. Ennis, who received Not-to-Miss History Press last August. Ziegler chief marketing officer for Siebel gene therapies for rare diseases »»Thomas P. Gallagher ’62 (Poli. Monmouth’s Distinguished Alumni events 1970s is the associate principal at Bishop Systems, and president and CEO and cancer. McNaughton, who has Sci.) received the Harvey Milk Award in 2008 for his activities in Spring 2017 George Ahr High School in Edison, of Euclid Software. Today, she more than 20 years of experi- Award from The Pride Network preserving New Jersey’s Pine- »»John Amato ’73 (Psych.) (M.S. Ed. New Jersey. This is the seventh owns and operates Azzarello Group ence in the biotech industry and at last fall’s New Jersey LGBT lands, is a realtor specializing in ’80) and his wife, Gabriele, shared book he has co-authored on New Inc., a small consulting group in earned her doctorate in chemistry Awards Reception. Eleven years conservation, open space, and Songwriters by the the photo (next spread) from their Jersey history. California. from Princeton University, was after graduating, Gallagher, at farmland preservation nationwide. Sea, March 18 » Enjoy summer 2016 trip to Divi Little Bay the time an employee of the U.S. He continues to be involved with an evening of intimate, Beach Resort in St. Maarten. While »»Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Keehn ’83 relaxed, and inspired Department of State, became Monmouth, having been an orga- round-robins courtesy there, Amato says he spoke with (Bus. Adm./Mrkt.) (MBA ’90) the first civil servant of any nizing member of the university’s of special guest artists several prospective students about assumed command of the New including Larry Kirwan of promoted: government in the modern world Real Estate Institute, and currently Black 47, The Weeklings Monmouth’s athletes, its academics, Jersey Air National Guard in Au- to voluntarily come out of the serves on the advisory committee “Acoustics” with Zeek and its beautiful campus. gust 2016. He oversees both wings Brig. Gen. closet as a homosexual. In 2014, for the Urban Coast Institute. and Lefty Weekling, Joe of the NJANG: the 108th at Joint D’Urso, and Joe Rapolla. Kevin J. Monmouth University honored (Photo, p. 49) Monmouth University »»David J. Ennis ’74 (Bus. Adm.). Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst and Gallagher with its Distinguished student musicians will See note for Bary C. Sherman ’63. the 177th Fighter Wing at Atlantic Keehn ’83, Alumni Award and recognized »»Kenneth Dalecki ’65 (Hist.) deliv- open up the show. City Air National Guard Base. 8 p.m. Lauren K. Woods ’90M him during its Founders’ Day ered a lecture at the Universidad Theatre. Ticketed. »»Angel Kames ’75 (Bus. Adm.) Convocation. Católica in Asunción, Paraguay, on was recently featured in the »»Rev. R. Bentley Anderson ’86 American politics and journalism Asbury Park Press’ Small Business (M.A. Hist.) was the speaker at Tuesday Night Record »»Bary C. Sherman ’63 (Bus. Adm.) shortly before the November 8 Club, March 21 + April Spotlight Q&A column highlighting Presbyterian College’s baccalau- and David J. Ennis ’74 (Bus. Adm.), U.S. election. A former reporter 25 » Described as a book his eatery, the Cuban Café. Kames reate service for its graduating club but with records, friends since they were 5 years for the Asbury Park Press, Dalecki music lovers are invited co-owns the café, which serves class last May. An associate old and fellow Monmouth class- covered presidential elections from to attend these 90-min- authentic Cuban cuisine, with professor of African and Afri- mates, continued their annual fly Richard Nixon to George W. Bush ute sessions where an Dunechky Hernandez and Roberto can-American studies at Ford- expert panel, special fishing adventure this year on the as a journalist based in Washing- guest moderator, and Perez. (Photo, p. 49) ham University, Anderson is an Metolius River in Camp Sherman, ton, D.C., where he worked for audience members meet ordained Roman Catholic priest Oregon (photo next spread). They Thomson Newspapers, Congres- to discuss the greatest and member of the Society of albums of all time. Next »»Dr. Bill Schroeder ’78 (Bio.) shared reminisced about life and their sional Quarterly, and The Kiplinger up is the Beatles’ Sgt. news of a mini-reunion for biology Jesus (Jesuits). He is the author Brig. Gen. Michael L. Cunniff, left, days as Hawks: Both are members Washington Editors. He was a guest Pepper’s Lonely Hearts alumni held last summer in Laval- of Black, White, and Catholic: the adjutant general of New Jersey, of TKB, Monmouth’s first fraternity, lecturer for his son, Linden Dalecki, Club Band (March 21) in lette, New Jersey. Pictured with New Orleans Interracialism, Woods Theatre followed presents Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Keehn ’83, and founding members of TKE, Ph.D., a professor at Pittsburg State by Bruce Springsteen’s the special guest that day, retired 1947–1956, and several articles which evolved from TKB. Along University in Kansas, who was a Nebraska (April 25) in professor Don Dorfman, are Sharon that deal with the issue of race ’90M, the deputy commander of the Wilson Auditorium. with his wife, Lynn, Sherman has, visiting professor in Paraguay. Many 7:30 p.m. Free; registra- Lasher ’81, Phil Crincoli ’79, Schroed- and religion in post-World War New Jersey Air National Guard, with since 1990, led PEP Worldwide, of Paraguay’s elite students study in tion required. er, Tom Sheralis, Dr. Larry Kaplan ’78, II America. Anderson received a global training and consulting Kansas universities under a program Jim Golden, and Dennis Torode ’84. his bachelor’s degree in history the NJANG guidon during a change organization. The couple also granting them in-state tuition. Continued, p. 49 (Photo, p. 49) from Presbyterian, his doctorate of command ceremony last August.

46 MONMOUTH spring 2017 photo U.S. AIR NATIONAL GUARD/MASTER SGT. MARK C. OLSEN spring 2017 MONMOUTH 47 CLASS NOTES previously vice president of R&D »»Jodi Cohen Wrublik ’91 debt and equity investments started his own company, Solar Pipeline Program Management at in a range of industries. She Source LLC, which specializes (Psych./Crim. J.) was named Black Maria Film Festi- Synageva. vice president of operations of val, March 30 » Founded advises clients on a fund’s initial in the sales and installation of Insurance Marketing Center in in 1981 as a tribute to organizational structure and residential and commercial solar Thomas Edison’s devel- »»Mary Anne Reno Puentes ’88 Rockville, Maryland, where she opment of the motion documentation and consults with panels. The company’s sales office (Engl.) was named the 2015–16 has worked since 2004. IMC is a picture at his laboratory managers regarding operational and headquarters are located in Teacher of the Year for George division of Assured Partners out dubbed the “Black and regulatory best practices. Brick, New Jersey. Maria” film studio in West Washington Middle School in of Lake Mary, Florida. Wrublik Orange, this festival Watson is based out of the firm’s Wayne, New Jersey. Puentes, lives in Montgomery County, showcases the work of Roseland, New Jersey, and New »»Edmund Fitterer Jr. ’98 (Crim. who began teaching there five independent filmmakers York, New York, offices. J.) was re-elected as a board Maryland, with her husband, from around the world. years ago, has had a significantly Tom, and son, Bennett. Her 6:30 p.m. Pollak Theatre. member for the Eatontown positive impact on the quality daughter, Shayna, is in her third Free. »»John F. Giraldo ’96 (Comm.) Board of Education on Novem- of student education and the year of medical school. was inducted into the Marist ber 8, 2016. surrounding community. Her Autism Speaks Fund- High School Hall of Fame on family is very proud of her ac- »»Donnalyn Giegerich-Zapcic raiser, April 2 » Amici November 19, 2016, for his role »»New Jersey American Wa- 1 2 Forever, a classical cross- complishment. ’92 (MBA), CIC, a nationally over opera band founded in leading the school’s 1992 ter promoted Kevin Keane acclaimed motivational business by Geoff Sewell, will basketball team to the state ’98 (MBA) to senior director »»Kim Przybylski-Lorenzini ’89 and wellness speaker, consul- perform songs from musi- championship. Giraldo, who is of coastal operations for the 3 cals, operas, and popular (Bus. Adm.) was hired as vice pres- tant, and columnist, gave the music to raise funds for currently a health/physical edu- company’s coastal region, which ident of marketing and business keynote address on leadership Autism Speaks New Jer- cation teacher in the Guttenberg includes areas in Atlantic, Cape sey. The concert, held on development for Farmers of Salem resilience for the 2016 Inter- World Autism Awareness school district and head coach May, Monmouth, and Ocean Insurance Company. Przybyls- national Association of Claims Day, will coincide with of the boys’ basketball team at counties. With over 27 years of ki-Lorenzini was a member of the Professionals Annual Conference the Art+Autism gallery Matawan Regional High School, experience with the company, exhibition at the Pollak women’s basketball team as an at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Gallery (April 1–May 31) was inducted into the Monmouth Keane will now be responsible undergraduate. Inn & Spa in Sonoma, California. showcasing the talents of University Athletics Hall of Fame for water production, field cus- Giegerich-Zapcic is the president artists living with Autism in 2010 for helping the Hawks tomer service, water transmis- Spectrum Disorder. and CEO of DLG Consulting. 8 p.m. Pollak Theatre. get to the 1996 NEC tournament sion and distribution operations, Concert is ticketed; championship and first NCAA and will oversee local construc- 1990s gallery is free. »»Debra Fournier ’93 (Bus. Adm.) tournament appearance. tion projects. »»Allison Bretzger Miskulin ’91 is pleased to announce the open- (Art) ATR-BC, LPC, LCADC, ACS, ing of her own financial services Continued, p. 50 »»Tom Cardinale ’97 (Bus. Adm.), »»Eileen Wolff ’98 (Crim. J.) opened a new office for Shade firm, Seaview Wealth Manage- CPA, MST, was promoted to (M.S.W. ’14) was appointed local Tree Art Therapy in Sparta, New ment. A boutique wealth man- partner of EisnerAmper LLP, and office manager for the North Jersey. Art therapy is an alterna- agement firm, Seaview special- works in the firm’s New Jersey Local Office of Child Protection tive form of expressive therapy izes in working with individuals tax group. Cardinale specializes and Permanency, formerly the that uses the creative process of experiencing significant financial in large corporate tax com- Division of Youth and Family making art to improve a person’s transitions in the areas of retire- pliance for private and public Services, in Monmouth, New physical, mental, and emotional 5 ment, divorce, or widowhood. companies, including consulting Jersey. Wolff has 15 years of well-being. Fournier was recently featured on strategic tax planning, income experience with the division. as “The Face of Wealth Manage- tax provisions, and mergers and She is a licensed social worker in »»Melissa Surdez ’91 (Comm./ ment for Women” in Monmouth acquisitions. He is also a board the state of New Jersey and has Speech./Thtr.) was honored Health & Life magazine and is member on the Leon Hess Busi- completed the Violence against as Johnson & Johnson’s 2016 recognized by her peers as an ness School Council and is active Women and Children Certifica- Working Mother of the Year. experienced and knowledgeable in several initiatives across cam- tion through Rutgers University. The honor came after Working certified financial planner and pus, including student mentoring Most recently, she graduated Mother magazine named Johnson certified divorce financial ana- (SEEMA program), academic from the 2015–16 Department of 4 & Johnson as one of 100 Best lyst. (Photo, opposite.) consulting, and accounting soci- Children and Families’ Manage Companies for working mothers ety events. (Photo, opposite.) by Data Fellows Program. RIGHT: 1. Bary C. Sherman and invited the company to ’63 and David J. Ennis ’74; 6 7 »»Cheryl Groenveld Watson nominate a top working mom. 2. John Amato ’73 and wife, ’94 (Bus. Adm.), CPA, joined »»Daniel F. Pasquinucci ’97 (Crim. »»Christie Rampone ’99 (Sp. Surdez was recognized not only Gabriele; 3. Dr. Bill Schro- the financial services industry J.) was promoted to lieutenant Ed.) (HN ’05), the captain and eder ’78, retired professor for her passion and resilience Don Dorfman, Sharon practice of CohnReznick LLP, with the Freehold Township Police center back of Sky Blue FC, a after battling breast cancer for Lasher ’81, Phil Crincoli an accounting, tax, and advisory Department in Monmouth County, New Jersey-based professional six years but also for her “stellar ’79, Tom Sheralis, Dr. Larry firm. Watson’s expertise includes New Jersey, on November 22, soccer club that participates in Kaplan ’78, Jim Golden, work ethic” and leadership skills, and Dennis Torode ’84; 4. investment strategies such as lev- 2016. Lt. Pasquinucci has been the National Women’s Soccer according to Johnson & Johnson. Angel Kames ’75 (center) eraged buyouts, venture capital, serving in law enforcement for 18 League, was named the 2016 De- with Cuban Café co-own- years. (Photo, opposite.) fender of the Year for Sky Blue. Surdez successfully juggles her ers Dunechky Hernandez real estate, distressed invest- career as senior human resourc- and Roberto Perez; 5. Tom ments, mezzanine capital, and Rampone played every minute of es director, with raising her Cardinale ’97; 6. Debra royalty opportunities. She also »»After spending more than 15 every match last season and was Fournier ’93; and 7. Daniel children, Quinn and Brielle, with F. Pasquinucci ’97 with his has expertise in analyzing clients’ years in the construction industry, named to the NWSL Second XI her husband, Lance. daughter, Ava. determinations of fair value of John A. DeGeorge ’98 (Bus. Adm.) team.

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Medical Group in Las Vegas, Ne- for 27 years—14 as an administra- Parker Homestead-1665 board of 2000s vada, and in 2015 was named the tor—Takacs most recently served trustees in November 2016. Ziobro Women in the World Film Festival, April 3 » Social Worker of the Year by the as assistant superintendent for currently serves on the executive »»Stephanie Renzo Bennett ’01 For the first time, Women Nevada Chapter of the National curriculum and instruction of board of the nonprofit Oral Histo- in Media-Newark will (M.A.C.P.C.) and her husband, Earl, hold its 8th annual Inter- Association of Social Workers the Middletown Township, New ry in the Mid-Atlantic Region and welcomed their ninth grandchild national Women’s History (NASW). This past summer, she Jersey, public schools. Takacs has is editor for New Jersey Studies: last year. Last February, The Poet’s Month Film Festival at was elected to a two-year term a bachelor’s in elementary and An Interdisciplinary Journal, a Monmouth University. Treasure, the third book in her fic- The festival will focus on as chapter president. Jones’ vol- early childhood education from joint venture of the New Jersey tional Within the Walls series, was independent films that unteer activities include serving East Stroudsburg University, a Historical Commission, Rutgers published by Wild Flower Press. illustrate the resilience as an agency field instructor for master’s in creative arts education/ University Libraries and Mon- and determination of “Much of my graduate research women who triumph the University of Nevada, Las supervision from Rutgers Univer- mouth University. At Monmouth, in the field of digital culture and over adversity worldwide. Vegas School of Social Work; as sity, and a doctorate of education she teaches a variety of courses 7:30 p.m. Pollak Theatre. communication informs the sto- Free. a representative for the South- in educational leadership from 1 on public history, oral history, and ryline, but it’s filled with mystery, ern Nevada Human Trafficking Walden University. archives management. adventure, and a little romance,” Task Force; as director of policy Visiting Writers: Colm 2 3 says Bennett. “It’s set in 2071 in an Tóibín, April 4 » The for Friends of Parkinson’s; and »»Tom DeBlass ’04 (Sp. Ed.) was »»The Association Forum and America that has vastly changed, Irish novelist, essayist, as a volunteer for the Dementia inducted into the Central Regional USAE weekly newspaper named and much of it takes place at the playwright, journalist, Friendly Nevada initiative in School District Hall of Fame last Lindsay Currie ’05 (Hist./Poli. poet, and short story Jersey Shore. My hope is to have writer was nominated for partnership with the Cleveland October. A 2000 graduate of Sci.) one of the association com- the trilogy turned into a film. Know a Tony Award for best Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Central Regional High School in munity’s 40 most accomplished play in 2013 for The Tes- any screenwriters?” Bennett says tament of Mary, and his Health. Bayville, New Jersey, DeBlass professionals under the age of 40. 2016 also marked her 10th year novel, Brooklyn, inspired holds school records in the long The award recognizes association as associate dean of communica- the Oscar-nominated »»Gregory Acquaviva ’03 (Hist./ jump and high jump relay. He was or nonprofit professionals who 2015 film by the same tion and media ecology at Palm name. Tóibín is currently Poli. Sci.) was named a 2016 “New also a county and state sectional demonstrate high potential for Beach Atlantic University. She the Irene and Sidney B. Leader of the Bar” by the New Jer- champ in the long jump. He is the success in leadership roles and 4 and her husband traveled to Italy Silverman Professor of sey Law Journal and was named owner of Ocean County Brazilian exhibit a strong commitment to the Humanities at Colum- last year, where she presented a bia University. 4:30 p.m. to NJBIZ’s 2016 Forty Under 40 Jiu Jitsu. the association management and paper at the University of Bologna. Wilson Hall Auditorium. list for his commitment to business nonprofit industries. Currie is the “We turned the opportunity into Free. growth, professional excellence, »»Meghan Abendschoen Gottshalk director of stakeholder engage- a vacation: Florence, Bologna, and community service. Acquaviva ’04 (Hist./Ed.) (M.A. Ed. ’10) and her ment for the Regulatory Affairs Continued, p. 51 and Venice. It was the trip of a works for UnitedHealth Group as husband, John, welcomed a son, Professionals Society. lifetime!” vice president, state government Brett William, on April 23, 2016. The affairs. family lives in Bernardsville, New 5 »»Jaymie Santiago ’05 (Art) was »»Cornell Key ’01 (Crim. J.) and Jersey. (Photo, p. 51) States of Grace, April 17 named president of New Bruns- his wife, Angela Lueddeke Key ’04 »»Jamie Kornacewicz ’03 (M.A.T.) » This on-screen/in-per- wick Tomorrow on July 1. He was (Soc. Work.) (M.S.W. ’05), celebrat- married Matthew Clemente on April »»Angela Lueddeke Key ’04 (Soc. son event, a program of previously director of program the Mid Atlantic Arts ed their 10-year wedding anni- 29, 2016, at Bonnet Island Estate in Work.) (M.S.W. ’05). See note at Foundation, includes a operations and vice president for versary on September 30, 2016. Manahawkin, New Jersey. Kornace- Cornell Key ’01. screening of the film, the organization, which is committed The Keys both work at Monmouth wicz is a second grade teacher in States of Grace, followed to improving the lives of residents by a Q&A with the University: Cornell is the assistant Middletown; her husband works »»Lynne Koller ’04 (M.B.A.) (DNP director, Mark Lipman. living in the city of New Brunswick coordinator of strength and con- for AJ Jersey and is also the head ’14) published the article, “It could The drama follows a pio- located in Middlesex County, New neering AIDS specialist, ditioning in the Athletics Depart- ice hockey coach for Middletown never happen here: Promoting Dr. Grace Dammann, and Jersey. He has more than 12 years ment, and Angela is a disabilities North. The couple lives in Middle- violence prevention education for her family in the wake of of experience in program develop- specialist in the Department of town, and they are expecting their emergency department nurses,” in a life-changing accident. ment and administration in the area, 6 7 7:30 p.m. Pollak Theatre. Disability Services. The couple first child. (Photo, p. 52) The Journal of Continuing Educa- Free. including projects with the Rutgers lives in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, tion in Nursing last August. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance with their children: Jasmine, Jor- »»Greg Mescall ’03 (Comm.), a Program-Education, Rutgers Coop- A Rodgers and Hammer- dan, and Julian. (Photo, p. 51) sportscaster and the director of »»Nicole Virgilio ’04 (Anthr.) is stein Tribute, April 20 » erative Extension, Rutgers Against communications for USA Water engaged to marry Sean Smith Monmouth University’s Hunger, New Brunswick Commu- renowned Concert and »»Jacqueline C. Jones ’02 Polo, attended his third Olympic in April 2017. Virgilio is a fourth CELEBRATIONS Chamber Choirs, along nity Food Alliance, and the New and fifth grade English language with featured soloists, Brunswick Community Farmers (M.S.W.) received the Alumni games last summer. ENGAGEMENTS: 1. Christina DiPrisco ’13 and Ray Award at the School of So- arts teacher in Asbury Park, New will perform Richard Market, and served as a partnership Villanova ’13. Nicole Virgilio ’04 and Sean Smith. Rodgers and Oscar cial Work’s 4th Annual Alumni »»Joe Palazzolo ’03 (Engl.) was Jersey. Her fiancé is a sous chef in 2. Hammerstein favorites as coordinator for NJ Partnership for Lecture, held on November 17. elected to Sigma Pi Fraternity, Ocean County. The couple lives in 3. Shannen Wilson ’14 and Ryan Murphy ’14 4. Jessica part of this tribute to the Healthy Kids New Brunswick. He Jones has more than 14 years International’s board of trustees Brick. (Photo, p. 51) duo that created popular holds a master’s in public affairs and Sinai ’12 and Joseph Baldino ’12. ANNIVERSARY: Broadway musicals of experience as a professional last summer. including The King and I, policy from Rutgers University. social worker and more than 25 »»Melissa Ziobro ’05 (Hist./Poli. 5. Cornell Key ’01 and Angela Key ’04. BIRTHS: Oklahoma, The Sound of Music and South Pacific. years of experience in health »»Jill Takacs ’03 (M.S. Ed.) started Sci.) (M.A. History ’07), specialist 6. Meghan Abendschoen Gottshalk ’04; husband, John; 7:30 p.m. Wilson Hall. »»Toni Bodrato Schweizer ’07 care, community-based agencies, as superintendent of the Jenkin- professor of public history in Free. (Comm.) and husband, Bill, wel- and education. She currently town, Pennsylvania, school district Monmouth’s Department of His- and son, Brett William. 7. Brooke Ella, daughter of Toni comed their first child, Brooke Ella, works with HealthCare Partners on August 1, 2016. An educator tory and Anthropology, joined the Bodrato Schweizer ’07. Continued, p.52 on June 30, 2016. (Photo, p. 51)

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»»Erin Connolly-Kriarakis ’08 with Atlantic Health System, and »»Vector Marketing, the sales the Long Branch Public Schools in 1 (Comm.), senior marketing man- Flynn works for Atlantic Health and marketing arm of Cutco Long Branch, New Jersey. Bernhard Southside Johnny and ager for the New Jersey region the Poor Fools, April 28 System in the patient satisfaction Cutlery, named Mallory O’Neil is a police officer for the Township of CohnReznick LLP, an account- » Playing a wide range of department. ’11 (Comm.) as the campus re- of Ocean Police Department. ing, tax, and advisory firm, was music from Dylan, Mose cruiting manager of Vector East. Allison, Muddy Waters, named a Leading Woman Brand NRBQ, Richard Thomp- »»Kimberli Gerechoff ’09 (Anthr./ O’Neil will support local man- »»Gina M. Mattiello ’13 (Hlth.) Builder by Leading Women En- son, Emmylou Harris, The Elem. Ed.) married Joseph D’An- agers in their campus recruiting completed a gerontology certif- Band, George Jones, and trepreneurs. Connolly-Kriarakis more, The Poor Fools will gelo on May 21, 2016, at Scotland and outreach efforts in the icate and graduated from Seton received the honor at LWE’s also dive into some of Run Golf Club in Williamstown, Northeast, Eastern, and Midwest- Hall University’s physician assistant The Leaders Behind the Biggest the Southside’s Asbury New Jersey. Gerechoff is a teacher ern regions of the United States, program in 2016, earning the cre- Jukes material–revisiting Brands event, which was held some classics as well in Clifton public schools. Her to help students maximize their dentials PA-PC. October 17, 2016, at The Palace as the underperformed husband is a commercial leasing earning potential at Cutco. at Somerset Park in Somerset, deep tracks. 8 p.m. Pollak liaison and assistant project man- »»Tara Quigley ’12 (Hist./Poli. Sci./ Theatre. Ticketed. New Jersey. ager with Edgewood Properties. »»David Ogden ’11 (Bus. Adm.) and Ed.) and Owen Stewart ’13 (Hist./ Alumni Reunion, May The couple honeymooned along Jessica Levine are engaged to be Ed.) were married August 13, 2016, 20 » Catch up with »»Dr. Rex David S. Gido ’08 (Nurs.) classmates at this the California coastline and lives in married on March 31, 2017, at St. in Belmar, New Jersey. Nicole graduated from Lake Erie College annual event fitted for Nutley, New Jersey. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church Pfeifer ’12 was the maid of honor. of Osteopathic Medicine with a alumni of all class years. in Clifton, New Jersey, followed Quigley is a teacher in Middle- One dollar from each doctorate of osteopathic medicine ticket sold to attend this »»Jarred Weiss ’09 (Comm.) (M.A. by a reception at the Westmount town, and Stewart is a teacher in degree. He plans to start a family cocktail reception will go 2 3 C.P.C. ’11). See note for Mallory Country Club in Woodland Park. Carteret. (Photo, p. 52) medicine residency at Niagara to support the Alumni Rapisarda Weiss ’10. Legacy Scholarship fund. Falls Memorial Medical Center in 5:30 pm. Wilson Hall. »»Julio D. Rodriguez ’11 (Hlth. St.) »»Mariana Sierra ’12 (M.A. Engl.) Niagara Falls, New York. Ticketed. received a doctorate of education wed Matthew Hall ’13 (M.A. Engl.) 2010s in health education from Teachers on November 11, 2016. »»Nicole Kavanaugh Foster ’08 College, Columbia University, in (Music) received her doctorate »»Olivia Hanson ’10 (Comm.) and 2016. »»Jessica Sinai ’12 (Bus. Adm.) of chiropractic medicine degree Ryan Corning ’10 (Crim. J.) were (MBA ’13) is engaged to marry from Palmer College of Chiro- married on June 10, 2016, at the »»Ashley Zielinski ’11 (Bus. Adm.) Joseph Baldino. The couple is practic last September. Foster Dove Canyon Golf Club in Trabu- (M.B.A. ’14) was appointed assis- planning a June 2017 wedding. lives in southern California and is co Canyon, California. Monmouth tant business administrator for the (Photo p. 51) completing a three-year residency alumni in attendance included Hillsborough Board of Education in diagnostic imaging. bridesmaid Hope Otto ’10, Gary in Hillsborough Township, New »»Nicole Fullerton ’13 (Comm.) Walck ’10, Alpha Xi Delta big sister Jersey, last November. was promoted to communica- »»Jessica Krakower ’08 (Sp. Ed./ Amanda Nagy ’09, Matt Kortjohn tions and marketing manager Hist.) was honored at the Staten ’09, and Olivia’s father, Robert »»Brenden Bernhard ’12 (Crim. J.). at Tipton Communications in 4 5 Island NFP Association’s sixth an- Hanson ’70. Olivia works for the See note at Kristin Gaul ’12, ’16M. Newark, New Jersey, last year. nual Community Service Awards local government of the City of Previously a communications on November 20 at The Vander- Mission Viejo, and Ryan works as »»Theresa Burek ’12 (Comm.) and specialist with the company, bilt at South Beach. Krakower is an information security analyst II William Dowd ’11 (Hist./Ed.) were Fullerton continues to imple- the coordinator of academic pro- for Wells Fargo in Irvine, Califor- married July 23, 2016, at Church ment strategies to meet clients’ gramming at Eden II Programs, nia. (Photo, p. 52) of the Nativity in Fair Haven, New communications, social media, an autism agency and school Jersey. The reception was at The marketing, and public relations program dedicated to providing »»Mallory Rapisarda Weiss ’10 Mill in Spring Lake Heights, New needs in her new role. She also opportunities to children and (Comm.) wed Jarred Weiss ’09 Jersey. Bridesmaids and grooms- now oversees all Tipton client adults living with autism. She (Comm.) (M.A.C.P.C. ’11) on June men from Monmouth were Macey communications support. has been with Eden II for nearly 25, 2016. (Photo, p. 52) Marko-Baicher ’12, Kenslie Mulhern eight years and has received two ’11, Michelle Pieczynski ’13, Sean »»Nicki Gross ’13 (M.B.A.) was Spotlight Awards for her extra »»William Dowd ’11 (Hist./Ed.). See Mulhern ’11, Benjamin Hutterer ’11, hired as the player develop- efforts, which include supporting note for Theresa Burek ’12. Vincent Elardo ’12, and Michael ment coach for Toronto Raptors’ family services, training students Williston ’11. Burek works as a D-League affiliate Raptors 905, to become runners, and working »»Robert Lucchesi ’11 (Bus. Adm.) senior publicist for FOX Business making her the only female coach as a special education teacher married Melissa Ball on June 17, Network, and Dowd is a social in the NBA Development League. support service provider for over 2016, in Florham Park, New Jersey. studies teacher at Liberty Middle Gross, who played soccer as an three years. CELEBRATIONS The couple went on a two-week School in West Orange, New undergrad at Seton Hall University, honeymoon to Greece. Lucchesi Jersey. (Photo, p. 52) ran track and served as a graduate MARRIAGES: 1. Jamie Kornacewicz ’03 and Matthew »»Lisa Bessemer ’09 (Comm.) is an accountant with Pricewater- manager for the men’s basketball married Stephen Flynn on Clemente ’03. 2. Olivia Hanson ’10 and Ryan Corning ’10 houseCoopers, and his wife is an »»Kristin Gaul ’12 (Anthr./Elem. Ed.) team while pursuing her master’s August 26, 2016, at St. Mary’s Ro- 3. Mallory Rapisarda Weiss ’10 and Jarred Weiss ’09. ultrasound tech at Summit Medical (M.S. Ed. ’16) and Brenden Bern- at Monmouth. man Catholic Church in Denville, Group. The couple lives in Morris hard ’12 (Crim. J.) are engaged and New Jersey. Bessemer works 4. Tara Quigley ’12 and Owen Stewart ’13. 5. Theresa Plains, New Jersey, with their planning a July 2017 wedding. Gaul »»Matthew Hall ’13 (M.A. Engl.). for the oncology service line Burek ’12 and William Dowd ’11. kitten, Presley. is a special education teacher for See note for Mariana Sierra ’12.

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»»Michelle Mullins ’13 (Hlth. cal company and is working toward Medicine, and Murphy is in IN Memoriam St.) completed an accelerated a Master of Science in chemistry the last year of his master’s in »»ALUMNI bachelor’s in nursing program and chemical biology. (Photo, p. 51) nursing program at Yale School Pauline Poole Foster ’40, Ph.D. (Lib. Stu.) Aug. 28, 2016 at New Jersey City University in of Nursing. The two plan to be Shirley Muriel Zagury Miller ’44 (Exec. Sect.) June 23, 2016 May 2015 and has been working at »»Laura Garcia ’14 (Crim. J.) married in early spring 2018. Paul Murray Beutell ’52 (Lib. Stu.) Oct. 23, 2016 Monmouth Medical Center as a attends Rutgers School of Law, (Photo, p. 51) Robert William Letts ’58 (Bus. Adm.) Sept. 10, 2016 registered nurse in the Mother- where she is a member of the David Engebretson ’59 (Bus. Adm.) Oct. 29, 2016 Baby Unit since August 2015. Rutgers University Law Review and »»Jennifer Hoffman ’15 (Comm.) Robert Franklin (Bob) Marsh ’59 (Bus.) Oct. 29, 2016 co-president of the Association of is a production assistant at MLB Samuel Thomas Howard III ’60 (Bus. Adm.) July 7, 2016 »»Victor M. Nazario III ’13 (Hist./ Latin American Law Students. She Advanced Media. She works for James R. Garrity Sr. ’64 (Bus. Adm.) Nov. 29, 2016 Poli. Sci.) graduated cum laude was a member of the 2016 class the NHL side of the company Douglas T. Morris ’67 (Hist./Ed.) Aug. 11, 2016 from Florida Coastal Law School of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney creating content for NHL.com and Herman P. Unanski ’68 (Elec. Eng.) Nov. 21, 2016 last spring. He received a certif- & Carpenter’s summer associate various social media outlets, such Robert Bilofsky ’69 (Bus. Adm.) Oct. 4, 2016 icate in business law, pro bono program. as Twitter and Instagram. Kathleen Patricia Snype Smith ’69 (Elem. Ed.) July 21, 2016 honors, and law review honors. Col. Wilbur C. Bishof ’70 (Bus. Adm.) (MBA ’71) Oct. 6, 2016 »»Philip Nappen ’14 (Music) is the »»Eric Otten ’15 (Hlth./Phys. Ed.) Edna Elizabeth “Betty” Costa ’72 (Elem. Ed.) Nov. 21, 2016 »»Owen Stewart ’13 (Hist./Ed.). digital sales manager for Equity joined the Howell Township Police Inez Smith Tice ’72 (Elem. Ed) Nov. 18, 2016 See note at Tara Quigley ’12. Communications in Atlantic City, Department in Howell Township, Jeffrey Richard Gilman ’73 (Psych.) Oct. 13, 2016 New Jersey. New Jersey, last fall. Otten began Send us Remembering Robert Vincent Lombardy Sr. ’73 (Elem. Ed.) Nov. 13, 2016 »»Christina DiPrisco ’13 (Bus. his law enforcement career with your news Louis Napoletano Jr. ’74 (Bus. Adm.) Sept. 13, 2016 Adm.) and Raymond Villanova ’13 »»Shannen Wilson ’14 (Psych.) the Bradley Beach Police Depart- Wesley A. Beal ’75 (M.B.A.) Nov. 5, 2016 (Chem.) are engaged and planning became engaged to Ryan Mur- ment in 2012 as a Class I Police Monmouth University Robert J. Dennis Cadigan ’75 (Psych.) a 2018 wedding. The couple met phy ’14 (Psych.) on September Officer before transferring to the encourages alumni to Edward S. Jarzyna ’75 (Elec. Eng.) Aug. 24, 2016 during their freshman year and 3, 2016. Because the two met Matawan Borough Police Depart- share news regarding J. Randolph Walton ’76 (Elec.Eng.) Nov. 29, 2016 have stayed together ever since. in high school, Murphy decided ment in 2015 as a Class II Police career changes, awards and honors, marriages, Emmett William G. Zitzmann ’76 (Bus. Adm.) June 12, 2015 DiPrisco works as an assistant buy- to propose to Wilson in the Officer. anniversaries, births, Susan Louise Thorpe Cestare ’77 (Soc.) June 12, 2016 er and is working toward a master classroom where they shared and other life events for Irene Downey ’78 (Phil.) Nov. 13, 2016 of professional studies in fashion their first class together. Wilson »»Angelo Trento ’15 (M.A.C.J.) inclusion in Class Notes. You can submit your news Mueller Rose Recinelli Peters ’78 (Hlth. Std.) June 23, 2016 merchandising. Villanova works as is a third-year dental student joined the Howell, New Jersey, Po- online at monmouth.edu/ Robert E. Kelly ’79 (M.B.A.) Oct. 10, 2016 ClassNotes; by emailing it obert Mueller, who died Jan. 18 at age 91, was a an HPLC chemist for a nutraceuti- at Rutgers School of Dental lice Department last fall. He pre- Joseph D. Lindline ’83 (Soc. Work) Sept. 2, 2016 to classnotes@monmouth. polymath in the truest sense of the word. He viously served on the Philadelphia edu; or by writing us at Elver Herman Stone ’87 (M.B.A.) Oct. 18, 2016 Police Department. Trento has a Class Notes, Monmouth was a scientist, engineer, inventor, and technical Robert Joseph Williamson ’94 (Bus. Admin.) July 17, 2016 bachelor’s degree in criminology/ University Magazine, 400 R Cedar Ave., West Long writer, as well as a poet, musician, puppet maker, and Patrick Cashin ’98 (Comm.) July 24, 2016 Not to sociology from Wilkes University. Branch, NJ 07764-1898. All Erin C. Patrick ’07 (Music) Oct. 27, 2016 Miss: Home- submissions are subject prolific artist who, in 2014, donated 1,500 pieces of his »»Last fall, the Catholic Journal pub- to editing for clarity and »»FRIENDS coming length. We welcome sub- life’s work to Monmouth University. lished a four-part article on Pope Pius missions of high-resolution Eileen M. Ackerman (former adjunct) Aug. 26, 2016 Weekend XII’s “silent” war written by Gary De- digital images for possible Mueller’s creativity was ev- science professor Saliba Sarsar Virginia “Ginny” Ulrope Chafe (former student) Aug. 17, 2016 inclusion with your class Oct. 20–22 Gregorio ’16 (M.A. Hist.). DeGregorio note; however, we reserve ident early on: By 13, he had ’78. “His work was a response to Harry Cotugno (former professor) Aug. 27, 2016 is a former certified public accountant the right not to print written several science fiction the inhumanity caused by war, LizaJane Kahn (former student) Dec. 21, 2016 in the state of New Jersey and also submitted photos due to Rose Marie Soviero Kiefer (former student) July 17, 2016 space limitations or issues stories. He later served in the racial injustice, and so many served as chief executive officer for a with image resolution. U.S. Navy and earned degrees other events and behaviors that Caren Franzini (2014 Kislak Real Estate Institute Service to real estate concern in the state from In addition to the news in electrical engineering from deform our world,” says Sarsar. the Industry winner) Jan. 25, 2017 items sent by alumni, the 1996 to 2015. Married with two daugh- university receives press MIT and aesthetics from NYU, “He wanted to reform it, and Harry C. Mahler (former student) Sept. 17, 2016 ters, a son, and two grandchildren, he releases from business- yet he never stopped creating transform it into something David M. Martin (Professor Emeritus of English) Sept. 7, 2016 is retired and lives in Shrewsbury, New es and organizations art. He worked in various medi- much more beautiful.” Donald McKenzie (former professor, director of M.A.T and announcing alumni Jersey. He received his bachelor’s in achievements, and ums, specializing in woodcuts Monmouth University is in- M.A.L.S. programs) Nov. 27, 2016 accounting from William Paterson subscribes to an online and abstract oil paintings. His credibly fortunate to possess Rose M. Migliaccio (former staff) Sept. 23, 2016 Save the dates! We look forward to University. news clipping service that Robert Emmett Mueller (friend) Jan. 18, 2017 provides news items about ability to combine science and such an extensive, diverse seeing you back on campus for a full alumni. These items are art led him to develop his own collection of Mueller’s artwork, Adeline L. Parker (former staff) July 27, 2016 »»Kristen Flynn ’16 (Chem.) has edited and placed in the painting style, which he called which will continue to serve Ann J. Pestana (former staff) Oct. 26, 2016 weekend of festivities highlighted appropriate class section. a research appointment in the Monmouth University “mathematico-abstract.” His as a source of inspiration for Sen. Joe Palaia (honorary degree recipient, 1999) Aug. 20, 2016 by the football game on Saturday, Movassaghi Group at the Massa- Magazine staff members works were featured at the students and faculty from all Jules L. Plangere Jr. (honorary degree recipient, 1986; chusetts Institute of Technology. try to verify the accuracy Metropolitan Museum of Art, disciplines, says Sarsar. trustee emeritus) Sept. 18, 2016 Oct. 21. Visit monmouth.edu/ of this information; howev- The group’s research interest is Robert Sipos (Professor Emeritus of English) July 6, 2016 homecoming for details. er, the university cannot be the Museum of Modern Art, “Something Bob said, which has synthetic organic chemistry. Flynn, responsible for incorrect the Pushkin Museum, and the stayed with me, was, ‘Creativity Robert Anthony Slawska (former student) Aug. 28, 2016 who performed research under information contained Orin R. Smith (honorary degree recipient, 1994) Aug. 16, 2016 herein. If you would like us Victoria and Albert Museum in is a young person’s gift and an the guidance of Prof. Massimiliano to correct any inaccu- London, among other places. adult’s duty,” says Sarsar. “He Sheron “Sherry” Topham (former employee) Sept. 4, 2016 Lamberto while at Monmouth Uni- racies that have been For Mueller, art provided a way practiced what he preached.” Patricia “Patti” Varca (former student) Nov. 14, 2016 printed, please contact the versity, began her doctoral studies magazine at magazine@ to express his feelings about the Elizabeth Ann Pieper Wainright (former employee) Aug. 31, 2016 at MIT last fall. monmouth.edu. world, says friend and political ABOVE: Mueller pictured in the 1960s. Raymond E. Wolff (former student) Aug. 2, 2016

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Plangere’s to our mission has helped to lifelong transform us into a university of Remembering distinction.” support His foundational investment for civic in the Monmouth University Jules L. causes and Polling Institute to foster great- er public understanding of so- volunteer cial and political issues, and his service had marquee gift to build the Ocean- Plangere Jr. a major First Bank Center, which bears onmouth University was saddened by the loss his initials on center court, have impact been essential building blocks of Trustee Emeritus Jules L. Plangere Jr. HN ’86, on both in the increased national promi- Mformer chair of the Board of Trustees, who died Monmouth nence of Monmouth University. peacefully on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. He was 95. Plangere’s lifelong support for University civic causes and volunteer service As board chair, Plangere champ- port for young journalists at the and the had a major impact on both Mon- ioned the adoption of the univer- student-run newspaper, The Out- region. mouth University and the region. sity’s first strategic plan, which look; lighting for the soccer facil- His many awards and recogni- focused on achieving regional ities at Hesse Field on the Great tions—including the President’s distinction by enhancing aca- Lawn; and the first leadership Vision Award, renamed the Jules demic quality and establishing gift to the Monmouth Stadium L. Plangere Jr. Medal in his honor closer community partnerships. currently under construction. in 2015; the Monmouth Award His steadfast belief and support At the dedication for the for Communication Excellence; for the promise and possibility of award-winning Jules L. Plange- and an honorary Doctor of Laws all Monmouth University could re, Jr. Center for Communica- degree—and charitable endeavors achieve endures in endowed stu- tion and Instructional Technol- are still too few to mark the lasting dent scholarships; the endowed ogy named in his honor in 2002, influence of a beloved and humble Jules L. Plangere, Jr. Chair in President Emerita Rebecca ABOVE: Plangere humanitarian who sowed seeds of American Social History; sup- Stafford said, “His commitment pictured in 1988. possibility far and wide.

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