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People power n a chilly February day, volunteers mob Andrew Schaefer’s Wildside Farms in Singers Glen to build a tractor bridge, O marking one of the newest phenomena to hit Harrisonburg: the Valley Crop Mob. Providing assistance for small- scale sustainable farms, they knock out big projects in a single afternoon. There is strategy behind this people- powered marvel, says co-organizer Garrett Stern (’11). The Friendly City Food Co-op and JMU EARTH spon- sor these monthly mobs to build a bridge between JMU and the community and to advocate for locally grown food and sustainable farming. “The Crop Mob is the easiest way to unite people in an environmental way and build connections back to farmers, because everybody has to eat,” says Stern, who is also the Harri- sonburg Farmer’s Market newly hired program manager. Farmers who strive to farm organi- cally consider the mobs a real boost. “It’s been great having this much help, getting all this done at once,” Sherri Huffer told the Staunton News Leader when the mob descended on her Gather- ing Rabbitry and Farm in Mount Sidney in March. “They’re getting a lot of things done that would not have gotten done.” The mob last hit Janet’s Garden in Greenville in April. M ✱ Watch the Crop Mob video at www.jmu.edu/ bethechange/stories/ FirstCropMob.shtml

Michelle Strickland (’14), foreground, heads to the site of the emerging tractor bridge with an armload of stones to assist 12 other JMU students volunteering at Wild- side Farms in Singers Glen. Inset: Organizer Garrett Stern (’11) contributes a load of cement to the tractor bridge project.

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The Dance of Art and Science Can this be science? JMU takes cross- disciplinary collaboration to a new level. P a g e 3 0

F e a t u r e d 30 The Dance of Art and Science By Brad Jenkins (’99) A yearlong academic emphasis on the “Dance of Art and Science” began with more than 4,000 freshmen Up Front dancing in the shape of a double helix on the Quad during Orientation and culminated with a presentation by Liz Lerman, of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and Francis Collins, chief of the National Institutes of Health 1 Full Frame and mapper of the human genome. The science of exploration and the art of research came together for students Crop Mob descends on from varying disciplines. They learned how to tackle life’s most complex health issues and they learned, as Wildside Farms to help build Collins said, “It will take people from a host of disciplines to decide what to do with scientific advancements.” a tractor bridge

28 Health and Hope on the Go by Jean Young Kilby 4 22807 Nearly half of the homeless people in the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County area are children. The students Your letters and feedback and faculty members in the JMU Department of Nursing are addressing basic health care issues for this under- represented population with a Health Care for the Homeless initiative. To reduce barriers to health care, nursing 6 Contributors students and their professors visit Mercy House and provide basic health screenings and education. They also 7 Directions connect clients to much-needed community resources. JMU President Linwood H. Rose on creativity and the 27 One World by Jacquelyn Walsh (’09) dance of Art and Science Political science major Alexandra Robbins (’09) and geographic sciences major Daniel Haney (’07) take the Be the Change spirit to Cambodia’s Aziza’s Place to provide education, health needs and independence. On the Cover: Suitcase nursing student (regional community cover) and freshman 46 You Look Good for 100 Baby! by Michelle Hite (’88) Orientation DNA Dance (arts cover) The JMU Alumni Association celebrates 100 years of alumni successes this fall during Homecoming, Sept. by Diane Elliott (’00). See both at 30– Oct. 1. This is the year to be back in the ’Burg to celebrate JMU alumni and the Be the Change spirit. www.jmu.edu/MadisonOnline.

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M@ dison Bright Lights IraqAndBack.com 8 News Carnegie Foundation applauds JMU/community engagement; presidential search founder and Ameri- firm selected; campus traffic changes; Phi Beta Kappa; Businessweek lauds College of can hero Maj. Justin Business; Thermal Fluids Lab; social work program named outstanding; and much more Constantine (’92) helps fellow wounded 11 By the Numbers Who is Todd Shifflett and why is he first? What are No. 4, 19, 35 soldiers. P a g e 2 0 Contents and 100? The Madison Project celebrates its 15th anniversary 13 Celebrating the Arts The grand opening gala for the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts 18 Dukes Turf by David Driver Women’s basketball star Dawn Evans (’11) is ready to create her own shots and a powerful future; Duke Dog Pride’s 2,011 in 2011 Be the Change Daniel Haney (’07), left, and Alexandra Robbins (‘07) take the Be the Change spirit to Cambo- Departments dia’s Aziza’s Place. P a g e 2 7 15 Special Report by Andy Perrine (’86) An investment in higher education is key to restoring economic strength 17 Connections JMU is on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, Wordpress.com. and Twitter. Stay connected to the JMU Nation Peer Pressure 20 Bright Lights English professor Annette Federico, Members of the Psy- iraqAndBack.com founder and American hero Maj. Justin chology Peer Advis- Constantine (’92), and 2010 Student Stage Manager of the ers celebrate 20 Year Bekah Wachenfeld (’11) years. P a g e 4 7 Stewardship 24 Expressions by Lynda Ramsey and fellowship The art of Madison Madison alumni and donors meet the 26 Transformations by Lisl Magboo (’12) students their gifts psychology major Trisha Smith (’14) has not let a brain AVM are supporting. slow down her academic career or her dreams and goals P a g e 2 5 40 Professors You Love Nancy Delosh Rusinak (’88, ’91M) honors psychology professor Bijan Saadatmand Transformations 41 Mixed Media Book announcements and music releases by From brain AVM and rehab to advocate and professors and alumni psychology major, Trisha Smith (‘14) is helping others. P a g e 2 6 Alumni Get connected: 43 News An invitation from the alumni associa- www.jmu.edu tion president, alumni staff update, 2011 Alumni Award nominations, JMU Alumni Get inspired Association centennial, JMU alums at to be the change LIVESTRONG, Psychology Peer Advisers The Be the Change website has stories and videos about students, professors and alumni celebrate 20 years, Road Dawg logs more changing the world. Sign up, connect, chime in: than 12,000 miles, and the Save the Date www.jmu.edu/bethechange calendar Share your Be the Change story at [email protected] 50 Class Notes News from alumni and faculty emeriti, visit jmu: scholarship thank-yous and a Class of Prospective students, alumni, community members, JMU friends: Find it all here. The JMU 1958 Professorship thank-you from events calendar, campus map, area lodging and David Pruett. JMUWorks features for- dining. Log on before you roll in to the ‘Burg: mer Breezers at Rhudy & Co; alumni www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/visitor/ highlights on Janice C. Wiley (’77), Kim also: Wheeler (’09) and Wes Mitchell (’10) Follow @JMUnews on Twitter. 64 Picture This Suitcase Nursing helps local kids Parents: Madison Society starts new JMU tradition Student nurses and professors bring health and hope Visit www.jmu.edu/parents with Spirit Rock to area homeless children and families. P a g e 2 8

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MadisonSpring/Summer 2011 Vol.34 No.2 As general manager of JMU’s student newspaper, The Breeze, Brad * * Executive Editor Jenkins (’99) advises the news staff and oversees advertising sales Pam Brock and general operations. “My goal,” he says, “is to empower students Managing Editor to produce the paper so they have real-world experiences that will M ich e lle H ite (’88) guide them in their careers.” Before becoming general manager, Art Director Jenkins was a reporter and editor at Harrisonburg’s Daily News- B i ll Th om p son Record. His greatest joys, he says, are “my girls” — his wife, whom Writer/Communication Assistant Colleen Dixon he met during his freshman year at JMU, and two daughters, who JMU Web Managing Editor know and love the JMU Fight Song. Read Jenkins’ cover feature about JMU’s yearlong Jan G i llis (’07, ’11P) emphasis on the “Dance of Art and Science” beginning on Page 30. Be the Change Coordinator Mar tha B e ll G r aham University Photographers Gabrielle Piccininni (’11) is an English and studio art double D ian e E lli ott (’00) K ath y l Am major with a minor in medieval and renaissance studies. The University Designers Madison magazine editorial intern is applying to graduate schools Lyn da r Ams e y to continue her study of literature. She hopes to work in the R i n n S i eg r ist publishing industry after graduation. Piccininni was inducted into Carolyn Wi n d m i lle r (’81) JMU’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this year, and she is a member Proofreader S h e r ry Mat t h e ws of the Sigma Tau Delta honor society. Read her alumni articles Editorial and Design Interns about Ed Turner (’60) and his Madison legacy family on Page 46, Co lle e n Calle ry (’11) and Teacher of the Year Janice Wiley (’77) on Page 56. She also t y le r m c avoy (’12) wrote about Colleen Legge (’97) and other alumni working with the LIVESTRONG Gab r i e lle P i cci n i n n i (’11) Am e lia Woo d (’13) Foundation in Texas. (Page 48). Additional Contributors T i m Bo r n y (’13) M i chae l Car afa (’13) M i chae l Car p e n t e r (’97) Jean Young Kilby is a freelance writer and an instructor in the j e ff r e y Cr e t z (’03) Intensive English Program at Eastern Mennonite University. A SAR AH DAVIS (’13) Mar i ssa D e n n e h y (’11) brief teaching stint in Ethiopia launched her English as a Second Davi d D r ive r A J F i sch e r (’92) Language career, and she has since enjoyed her work with B i l l G e n t ry international students, many of whom now study at JMU. She is Alyssa G e r l an d o (’07M) K e vi n G i bso n (’05) a graduate of both the University of Arkansas and the University Dan Go r i n (’11) L i sa Ha (’04, ’10M) of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned a master’s l i n da cab e Hal p e r n degree in education. She and her husband, Bill, are the parents R i char d H y p e s Jam e s I rwi n (’06) of two grown daughters. Read Kilby’s story about the JMU Department of Nursing’s R e b ecca K n o r r (’11) Health Care for the Homeless program on Page 28. Cat h y Ku s h n e r (’87) J o nah L i g h t L i s l Mag boo (’12) HOLLY ly MArc u S (’03) Jam i e Mars h Amelia Wood (’13) is an editorial intern in the Madison magazine M i k e M i r i e l lo (’09M) N i kk i Par rott e (’11) office and also writes for The Breeze and Political Currents, the An dy P e r r i n e (’86) Pau l a P o lg l as e (’92, ’96M) newsletter of the political science department. Read her alumni C . Davi d P r u e tt articles about AmeriCorps volunteer Kim Wheeler (’09) on Page Nan cy D e los h R u s i nak (’88, ’91M) T i na Safavi e (’11) 59 and HIV educator Wes Mitchell (’10) on Page 61. Wood is st e ve s m i t h (’71, ’75M) double majoring in media arts and design and English. She is also san d e s n e ad e (’82) K e l ly Swe e t (’84) completing the pre-professional program in secondary education. A N o r m S haf e r m i chAe l S To lo FF member of Zeta Tau Alpha, Wood also works as a frontline assistant Cas e y Te m ple to n (’06) for the JMU Computing Help Desk. Jacq u e ly n Wal s h (’09) r Achae l Walt e rs Mat t h e w Wo r d e n Contributing Offices “Graphic utility player” is how Rinn Siegrist describes the most Offices of Alumni, Be the Change, Public Affairs, Sports Media Relations, Photography Services current of her many roles in nine years at JMU. 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Creativity and discovery A meeting of the scientific and artistic minds highlights the DNA of Madison

moment of ster- economy. It has also triggered ethical ling clarity and debates on issues like cloning and pri- b r e a t h t a k i n g vacy. Bringing the arts into our dis- beauty occurred cussions urged us to explore the pro- on this campus cesses of reflection and engagement this semester, and that bind us as a community and IA was proud to be a part of it. assist us in informed decision mak- Francis Collins, chief of the ing. At JMU, that’s part of preparing National Institutes of Health and educated and enlightened students. former director of the landmark The inaugural season at the Human Genome Project, visited Forbes Center was the perfect focal JMU to lecture about genetics as part point for the Dance of Art and Sci- of a yearlong university series on this ence and an entré to another momen- complex science and its equally com- tous occasion — the center’s grand plex societal implications. JMU President Linwood H. Rose talks with Francis Collins, chief opening. A gala, a sold-out student of the National Institutes for Health, at the culmination perfor- This renowned geneticist and mance of JMU’s yearlong Dance of Art and Science initiative. performance of Kiss Me Kate and a physician gave us a glimpse of the performance by opera star Denyce scientific mind in top form when he said, “… where science becomes Graves celebrated the magnificence of the JMU arts experience. something exciting and enormously significant is when you take that The gala showcased our new performance venues, the teaching and creative leap and say, ‘I have this wild crazy idea that life works that way. learning spaces, and our generous donors who made them possible. Let’s design a really creative experiment and see if we’re right’ — and Just after the Forbes Center gala, we received word of a sig- we’re usually wrong.” nificant recognition for the College of Business. Known for its In response, McArthur Genius Award winner and equally renowned Integrated Functional Systems class, the CoB is ranked 28th in the nation choreographer Liz Lerman (also on campus for the occasion) said, “But among public and private undergraduate business schools according to then there’s something in the room to work with. Then you have some- Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual rankings. In 2010, the CoB ranked 41st thing. Before you had nothing. … Most artists are like that.” and in 2008, 54th. This year among public institutions, JMU’s Col- Lerman and Collins had revealed lege of Business ranks 11th. This something momentous — creativ- ‘What we deliver better than any other jump in the rankings is due to a ity fuels both art and science, and institution of higher learning is a broad committed and talented faculty. creativity leads to discovery. Collins knowledge-based perspective combined I am pleased also to report, this described how his creative leap and with a propensity for engagement.’ year the Virginia General Assembly early failure ultimately led to a clini- added $6.1 million in state funding cal trial to treat an extremely rare genetic disease. Lerman explained for JMU. I’m hopeful that this infusion is a permanent reversal of the how early ideas led ultimately to artistic breakthroughs, including the trends experienced in the last three years of budget reductions for higher creation of Ferocious Beauty: Genome, which her company performed education. This budget includes funding for enrollment growth of 100 prior to the audience discussion. students, an increase in full-time faculty members, operation and main- The exchange between these two creative minds affirmed the value tenance of new buildings and additional financial aid. I’m also hopeful of the cross-disciplinary and collaborative approaches to education that that this funding signifies an acknowledgment of the vital role higher is cultivated at JMU. Our approach sparked this yearlong Dance of education plays in the health of our economy and our society. Art and Science initiative that brought these two prodigies to campus. There is no better example of this vital role than JMU’s selection It started by welcoming our freshmen at Orientation with the “DNA for the 2010 Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Dance on the Quad,” encompassed master classes, exhibits, perfor- Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The honor recognizes mances and the opening of the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts. the breadth and depth of JMU’s relationship with the wider commu- In my estimation, the Dance of Art and Science went further. It nity. This mutually beneficial partnership is part of the DNA of JMU revealed the unique DNA of James Madison University. Nowhere else — community involvement, collaboration, creativity. Again, the words in higher education does this degree of cross-disciplinary collaboration of Dr. Collins illustrate the worth of what we do at JMU: “What we occur so regularly, with such impact. What we deliver better than any humans have been gifted with is the ability to think beyond the obvious. other educational institution is a broad knowledge-based perspective That’s what we are all hungry somehow to do.” combined with a depth of disciplinary competency and a propensity for engagement that leads to graduates equipped to make a difference in a world that is so intricately interconnected. The field of genetics has begun to transform the health care and medical fields and provides entrepreneurial opportunities that stimulate our Linwood H. Rose, President James Madison University

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individual being helped can’t ignore. Carnegie Foundation They learn from each other. Through that learning, stereotypes are bro- Student organizations applauds community ken, trust is built and relationships are helped with clean- formed. That is how an authentic and up projects in April engagement meaningful community is developed.” around Harrisonburg The honor will to say “thank you” to By Rebecca Knorr (’11) the local community. only deepen JMU’s engagement, according to James Shaef- JMU has joined an exclusive roster of 311 fer, associate vice provost for outreach and institutions of higher education that have engagement. “We fully expect that the pro- been granted Community Engagement cess and data gathering required for com- Classification by the Carnegie Foundation. pleting the application will serve as a tem- The classification acknowledges the plate for enhancing JMU’s campuswide extensive academic, research, teach- community engagement activities,” he says. ing and service programs through which Leaders of several JMU programs note JMU collaborates with the community, as that the award confirms the mutual bene- well as the high number of students and fits of community engagement. While professors who volunteer. The application More than 900 students volunteered for The health-focused collaborations benefit area process included documenting the exten- Big Event on Sat., April 9, to help wih service nonprofits and organizations, they also projects in the Harrisonburg community. Stu- sive ongoing efforts across JMU. dents then enjoyed some fun at Madipalooza. help prepare society’s future health and “It is heartening to see this level of human services workforce. These experi- commitment and activity,” Carnegie President Anthony Bryk said ences provide JMU students with “a heightened awareness of real in a written statement. “Clearly, higher education is making real community assets and needs,” says Rhonda Zingraff, director of strides in finding ways to engage with and contribute to impor- JMU’s Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services. tant community agendas.” Rich Harris, director of the Office of Community Service- Chelsea Foster (’11), a JMU senior majoring in communica- Learning, says his program “helps meet the needs of our local tion science and disorders, says that a commitment to service has community and improves the standard of life in the Shenandoah Jbeen instilled in her during her time at JMU. “The reciprocity Valley through partnerships with 80 local agencies.” of service is something that both the individual helping and the ✱ Learn more at www.jmu.edu/outreach/carnegie.shtml

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[Pedestrian Safety] [Presidential Search] Campus traffic changes coming Board selects his August, JMU will change how friendly campus. In addition, the public transit consulting firm students, faculty and staff mem- system will run more efficiently. bers, and community visitors navi- The navigation changes include the addition MU Board of Visitors gate campus, resulting in safer, of four gates, reconfigured parking lots around Rector James Hartman more pedestrian-friendly, environ- portions of the Bluestone area of campus, some announced that Green- mentally sustainable and efficient travel. bike lane and crosswalk modifications, and the T addition of a bus staging area near Godwin Hall. Jwood/Asher & Associates This phase of campus development comes at will serve as the search firm a critical time in the life of JMU. During the The gated portion of campus will be closed assisting JMU in identifying its past few years, JMU has made great progress from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. next president. The firm will in its overall commitment to environmental The gates will open on weekends and after 7 provide consulting services to sustainability on campus. The outlined navi- p.m. M-F, during certain events and during the the board to attract a suitable gational changes will help reduce single occu- summer months. M applicant pool, provide overall pancy vehicles and traffic congestion. ✱ Specific details about the location of the guidance to Reducing the total number of vehicles will gates, parking, buses and pedestrian routes the search pro- also provide a safer and more pedestrian- are available at www.jmu.edu/navigatejmu/. cess and assist the search committee with candidate evaluations. “We are excited about the selection @ James of Green- Hartman wood/Asher announced & Associates the firm that as the search will help find firm that will JMU’s next president. assist us in finding the next president of James Madi- son University,” says Joseph Damico, chair of the presidential search committee. “Their knowledge of JMU will serve this process, and ultimately this university very well.” Greenwood/Asher & Asso- ciates also helped JMU in the search for the dean of the Col- lege of Visual and Performing Arts, George Sparks. In December, President Lin- wood H. Rose announced that he will step down from his position in June 2012. “I have To reduce single-occupancy vehicles and traffic congestion on campus, the university will been a part of JMU for the vast change how students, faculty and staff members, and visitors navigate through campus. majority of my adult life and for one-third of the university’s life. accepted this job, I said that it “I love this institution; I lenged; but also supported and By July 2012, I will have served was the best university presi- love the mission and values nurtured along the way.” M almost 14 years as president. dency in the country. I meant for which it stands. I have the ✱ See the video and read the “I announce my intentions it then and I still feel the same highest respect and regard for transcript from the December now so that the board and way. It isn’t the beautiful cam- the people here who are devot- press conference announcing the university will have suffi- pus or the well-maintained ing their professional lives to Rose’s decision to step down: cient time to search for a new buildings, although they do the betterment of the univer- www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/general/ president,” Rose said during make for a pleasant place to sity and its students. I hope news/general11394.shtml the press conference. “When I work every day; it is the people. that I have inspired and chal-

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They come here for help. Too often we can’t. @ It breaks my heart when I can’t help. Brad Barnett, JMU Office of Financial Aid senior associate director

She has everything she needs — grades, community service, the whole resumé fore ver — everything except those last few dollars. you can make a difference . Learn more at www.jmu.edu/MadisonForever

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Bythenumbersdifference,” he says. He was inspired to share his talents with students because of how kind ONE they were to him. “I just Jonathan “Todd” Shifflett, the wanted to give something JMU housekeeper in Wampler back,” says the talented Hall, is the first JMU house- singer and guitarist. His keeper to perform a series of con- fall 2010 concert featured certs for students living in a cam- a musical message about pus residence hall. Shifflett does helping the home- more than whistle a tune while he less, and his spring works; since 2003 he has shared 2011 concert show- an inspirational and positive cased the healing musical message with students “When we actually do something, power of love. and we put our whole heart into during concerts each fall and it, we can make a big difference,” ✱ www.jmu.edu/be spring semester. “It’s all about says JMU Be the Change member thechange/people/ encouraging people to make a and housekeeper Todd Shifflett. shifflett.shtml

Kiplinger’s Personal The JMU Army ROTC Duke ‘This award shows the Battalion is “Four-Star” for the Finance ranks JMU fourth time. ROTC cadets earned hard work the Duke Bat- as No. 19 among the prestigious 2010 MacArthur talion cadets, instructors its 2011 list the “10019 Best Values in Public Col- @ 4 Award in recognition as one of and human resources the top eight ROTC units in leges.” JMU was ranked 21st the nation. The battalion staff all have done and in 2010. The Kiplinger analysis received the high honor continue to do.’ ranks four-year colleges that deliver a stellar previously in 1992, 1998 — Lt. Col. Robert E. Pettit III, education at an affordable price. and 2004. The honor commander of the Dukes Battalion ✱ www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges recognizes units in accom- plishing their missions of More than The JMU Alumni training and commissioning 5,000 pro- Association celebrates the majority of the lieutenants spective JMU its 100th year in 2011. entering the Army each year. students Don’t miss the 100th ✱ Read more at www.jmu.edu/rotc/ and 5,000and their parents visited campus during anniversary100 celebration honoring YOU, at www.jmu.edu/bethechange/operation- February 2011 CHOICES events, which the JMU alumni. The party starts after the purple-pride.shtml include admissions open houses, academic Homecoming football game, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. sessions and campus tours. That’s more in the Festival Ballroom. Stay tuned to Madison Project, one of JMU’s visitors than ever for a CHOICES week- Madison magazine, and your mailbox, for premier a cappella groups, end. Go Dukes! ✱ http://visitjmu.com/ more details. ✱ www.jmu.edu/alumni celebrated its 15th anniversary on March 19 with a reunion Madison College was 15 concert in Wilson Hall. named for fourth ✱ www.facebook.com/TheMadisonProject U.S. President James Madison in 341938, but 34 years ago (in 1977) the university took on the president’s full name, James Madison University. The Father of the Constitution believed in the value of higher education and the “power which knowledge gives.” (Above): Ronald E. Carrier and ✱ More on this world JMU board member Bonnie Paul changer and JMU admire JMU’s new sign. (Left): Current and former Madison Project mem- eponym at www.jmu. Gov. Mills Godwin and Inez Roop bers celebrate 15 years of alumni harmo- edu/bethechange/ (‘35) at the signing ceremony. nies in an anniversary concert.

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12 @ e n i z a g a M n o s i d a M S ha my decision process when merly cantly in the 2011 rankings. learn that JMU jumped signifi- thrilled, but not surprised, to deciding between other schools per trending up JMU business [ in its sixth annual ranking. undergraduate business schools country among public and private JMU’s business school 28th in the ac to come to JMU, she says, “ Looking back on her decision are to undergraduate students. Businessweek C tually usedtually d applied to in Virginia.” Bloomberg Businessweek A is “to get into the arena.” said, telling the new inductees how important it something nobody else in the world knows,’” she

out of my lab many times and thought ‘ lished in 2010. inducted into JMU’s chapter, which was yearestab- marks the second class to be honor society in the country. This and most renowned academic founded in 1776, is the oldest ing a March 2011 ceremony. chapter of Phi Beta Kappa dur- alumna inducted into JMU’s cian-scientist, became the first excitement in scientific discovery. “ uates accepted membership in Phi Beta Kappa. JMU alumni inducteeConstance Wilson first[ s a Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa A BusinessWeek Businessweek important the Maguire knows how enior major finance Kelly graduating senior she is s k Bloomberg eynote speaker, Wilson conveyed her Businessweek Wi critical care physi- anesthesiologist and board-certified onstance A ) ranked lon lson (’70), a rankings rankings ] Bloomberg g with Wilson, 108 undergrad- ] N (for- S in I oci I eely wa n I

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tion and exceptional effectiveness week public universities in the to 28th overall and 11th among lege of Business, says, “JMU’s rise services, and job placement. teaching quality, facilities and JMU received straight “ and salary starting tutional data such as median recruiter survey results and insti- based onrankings student and College of Business ranks 11th. among public institutions JMU’s 41st and in 2008, 54th. This year 201 among public universities ... reflects the I Beta Kappa. into Madison’s chapter of Phifirst JMU alum to be inducted Constance Wilson (’70) is the wa dedication and exceptional effective- Robert Reid, dean of the Col- Businessweek ness of our faculty and staff, and the 0 the business school ranked positive results of engagement with rankings reflects the dedica- ‘JMU’s rise to 28th overall and 11th lked I students in the learning process.’ kn et al.:MadisonMagazine-Spring/Summer2011 ow develops its isn(7)poorahb in litt(0) hsc ru oreyo evngoaetti t giovane vin ke of courtesy group physics (’00); t elliot diane by aph photogr (’70) wilson is the development of a drug to block sepsis. research on to the discovery of the sylvania. While there, her grant-fundedaged the research critical led care unit at the University of Penn- at Massachusetts and respiratory intensive care/cardiologypleted fellowshipspostdoctoral research in pulmonary medicine SA dean of the College of Business of College the of dean Through T s Business- A — Robert Reid, Robert — ’s” cores. in A E -1- nda son College in 1970, Wilson com- ease, stroke and cancer. son’s disease, multiple sclerosis, ing rheumatoid arthritis, Parkin- implications for diseases includ- ment. Wilson’s research has sepsis, asthma and renal impair- inflammations associated with the treatment and suppression of been identified as important in ine receptors, proteins that have conducts research on adenos- numerous international patents. A tical company S pat researcher who holds 16 U. adenosine, the promise of which G he cea, Wilson continues her lzh ene given me exposure to flow charts.” ations during C me as Maguire. “This task was simple for a flow chart for a manager,” says mer in my internship was to create first assignment this past sum- from internship that led to a job offer for helping her secure a summer and the Recruit- the small class sizes in her major tional students in the learning process.” positive results of engagement with of our faculty and staff, and the S A Wilson is an active physician ents, five pending patents and he founded the biopharmaceu- fte eimer’s disease, heart dis- A Maguire couldn’t agree more. ral Hospital. credits the -1- r graduating from Madi- D I S adenosine protein. ha yst elo d taken a course in oper- ems C itte Consulting. “My E nda I S O nte A O he B 3 - cea, which D B 3 grated Func- also man- uke 00 that had 00 class, program S . M T ire. “Using Recruit- recruitment services,” says Magu- work environment,” says Reid. uates have in the professional the positive impact that the grad- the quality of our graduates and positive feedback that they value hire our graduates have provided year. “Corporate recruiters that boost JMU’s overall ranking this results from recruiters helped job offers as a senior.” tually receive multiple full-time cial arena last summer and even- obtain an internship in the finan- huge part of what enabled me to in Villigen, in experiment noted for role Physics group [ (’11) Parrotte Nikki By the background. the experiment can be seen in data run. The main detector for for an upcoming muon lifetime Scherrer Institute preparing JMU’s on-site team at Paul physics professor Kevin ous measurements, according to lion, 20 times better than previ- to a remarkable one part per mil- mined the lifetime of the muon at the Paul to complete. years took 10 that experiment physics for its role nals ain particle international project. netti, who led JMU’s effort in the

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gala Performances and a gala in February marked the official grand opening of the Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, with its five state-of-the-art performance venues. Patrons and donors gathered for a performance by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the Roberts Center for Music Performance

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(Above): At the gala after othy Thomasson Estes Center the performance, mezzo- for Theatre and Dance. The soprano Denyce Graves visits with Lois (’64) and center opened late last sum- Bruce Forbes. (Inset): George Sparks, dean of mer and has been the scene for the College of Visual and a Masterpiece Season full of (Inset): A grand entrance: Linwood and Judith Performing Arts, thanks Rose kick off the celebration of the arts. (Above, donors for transforming student learn- theater, dance and music performances by l-r): Joining the president in a grand opening toast ing and lifting the quality of the arts are Forbes Center benefactors Richard and Shir- experience in the Shenandoah Valley. professors, students and visiting artists. ley Roberts (’56) and Lois (’64) and Bruce Forbes.

(Above): Board of Visitors Rector (Above): Joe Dami- James Hartman (Above): The celebra- co (‘76), former (‘70) and his wife, tion is bittersweet for rector of the JMU Carolyn, with Denise Whitman, whose Board of Visitors, board member late husband, Richard, with Dick Roberts. Judy Strickler as dean of the College (Left): Don Albright (’60), whose gift of Arts and Letters, long and emeritus dance named the Inter- promoted the idea of a professor Earlynn Act reception hall. JMU arts center. (Right): Miller, the donor for (Left): Scholarship JMU golf coach Jeff whom the dance donors Karyn and Forbes (’92) and his wife, theater is named. Tom Dingledine. Stephanie (‘92 ’93M).

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was also an author on the paper [SCHEV Awards] and a co-director of the JMU work program with a 2011 about the research. Center for Science, Technology, Award for Outstanding Insti- A muon is an elementary par- Kolvoord and Engineering and Math Educa- tutional Practice in Student ticle similar to the electron with tion, and Outreach. Learning Outcomes. the same negative electric charge, Rosser named Rosser has been a professor JMU’s program was one of a spin of half but more rest mass. outstanding at JMU since 1977, and holds four selected from 32 appli- For technical reasons, the posi- the Kirby L. Cramer Jr. Chair cations for the 2011 award. tive muon (antiparticle) decay was he State Council of of Business Administration. CHEA cited it for consistent actually measured, Giovanetti says. Higher Education for He is best known for applying success in developing, applying The experiment allowed Virginia and Domin- ideas from complex nonlinear and maintaining evidence of researchers to determine the muon ion Resources honored dynamics to various sub-fields student-learning outcomes as a lifetime, which is directly related TJMU profes- of economics. part of ongoing efforts to evalu- to the strength of the weak force sors Robert A. Rosser founded ate and improve the program and therefore determines the weak Kolvoord and J. the Society for of study. The program’s senior coupling or weak charge to an Barkley Rosser Nonlinear Eco- assessment is competency-based unprecedented accuracy of 0.6 Jr. with the 2011 nomic Dynamics and includes a written compre- parts per million. Giovanetti says, Outstanding and co-founded hensive exam, a comprehensive “This weak coupling constant, Faculty Award. the United oral exam and a field practicum/ the Fermi constant, is a funda- Kolvoord is States Society internship evaluation. mental natural constant, similar a professor of SCHEV Outstanding Faculty for Ecological “Excellence in assessment is Awardees Barkley Rosser to the electric charge for electri- integrated sci- and Robert Kolvoord. Economics. He an ongoing process positively cal forces. It is needed for exact ence and tech- has served for impacting the curriculum as calculations of processes in the nology, and Rosser is an eco- nearly a decade as editor of the well as teaching and learning world of elementary particles.” nomics professor. They join 12 influential Journal of Economic strategies,” says R. Ann Myers, The JMU team built and recipients who were selected Behavior and Organization. M professor and head of the JMU tested several electrical compo- from a pool of 106 applicants Department of Social Work. nents used in the experiment, nominated by their institu- [Outstanding Outcomes] Senior social work major which originated at the Univer- tions for excellence in teaching, Sarah Pike says, “By attending sity of Illinois and Boston Uni- research, knowledge integra- department meetings through versity. A host of other univer- tion and public service. Social work my position on the Student sities in the United States and Kolvoord joined the JMU program works Advisory Committee, I witness abroad joined in over the years. faculty in 1995 as an early firsthand the effort each and @ “The people involved were member of the integrated sci- he Council for every staff member puts into hard-working and dedicated to ence and technology program. Higher Education making the program the best doing a high-quality measure- He serves as the interim direc- Accreditation recog- it can be based on feedback ment. They were also eager to tor of the School of Engineering nized JMU’s social received from students.” M explore and share ideas with a T very open and friendly attitude. [Thermal Fluids Lab] We had many top-notch stu- JMU engineering professor Olga Pierrakos dents, postdoctoral researchers Researchers able to and integrated science and technology professor and professors working on this Karim Altaii secured the grant for the equipment. project. So my students and I tackle heart, water, The lab is also open for use by professors and students from other disciplines at JMU, as well as were able to learn a great deal in researchers from neighboring colleges and univer- a very supportive environment,” aerodynamics sities, area companies, and area schools. continues Giovanetti. “Core esearchers at JMU have a new lab Pierrakos has already used the heart simula- physics knowledge coupled with with cutting-edge technology in tor in collaboration with doctors from Rock- research experience is the goal their arsenal to study heart condi- ingham Memorial Hospital and the University of our curriculum. Our students tions, aerodynamics, water flows and of Virginia Medical Center. M learn as well as contribute.” M R even applications not yet considered. A $500,000 grant from the National Sci- ‘Core physics ence Foundation was used to equip the state- knowledge cou- of-the-art advanced thermal-fluids labora- tory. Located in the Health and Human pled with research Services building, the lab is outfitted with a experience is the stereo particle image velocimetry system, a goal of our cur- flow visualization water tunnel, a subsonic riculum. Our stu- wind tunnel and a heart simulator system. (Right): Professors discuss dents learn as well JMU’s new thermal fluids lab, as contribute.’ which is helping JMU collaborate with local hospitals. — Kevin Giovanetti

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prominence, the percentage of the university budget funded by the commonwealth is still far less than it was even just 10 years ago. But policymakers in Richmond are seeing the connection between higher education and the new economy with fresh eyes. In a Richmond Times-Dispatch o n l i n e c h a t , McDonnell said, “This year’s leg- (Right): A promotional poster islation created a significant new for Something Ventured, a documentary by Paul Holland link between higher education and (’82) about venture capitalists. job creation.” (Above): Apple is one of the As seismic scale forces continue companies founded on money to shape our American society and provided by venture capitalists economy, preparing for what lies featured in the documentary, according to Holland, below. ahead will force a set of priorities that may not always be clearly understood or agreed upon. That’s why Virginia’s political leadership — no matter which side of the aisle one may sit — deserves credit for its budget decisions relative to higher education and economic prosperity. And not just policymakers deserve credit; private giving to James Madison University continues to develop. The annual fund is making solid gains in ‘Events depicted in the film during the late ’50s, ’60s and @ spite of the downturn, and major ’70s in Northern California arguably mark the start of our donors are telling us that they shift from an industrial to a knowledge-based economy.’ believe in our mission. They view supporting Madison as an investment Mike Markulla of Apple says, “You could The speed of this transformation is blind- in our knowledge-based economy and walk down the street in 1976 and talk to a ing. Not since the late 19th century and social vitality. hundred people and say, ‘Would you like early 20th century has business trans- In this context, Holland’s film Some- a personal computer?’ They’d say, ‘What’s formed society so fundamentally. Capi- thing Ventured is far more than a paean that?’” Not only is the personal computer talism may be rough, and Godin may be to capitalism. Events depicted in the film now essential to nearly every sector of right about the guys in Detroit being out during the late ’50s, ’60s and early ’70s in society, according to the National Ven- of luck; but we’re highly adaptable crea- Northern California arguably mark the ture Capital Association, venture-backed tures. And we can learn. M start of our shift from an industrial to a corporate revenue also accounts for 21 ✱ Learn more about the film at http:// knowledge-based economy. In a key scene percent of U.S. gross domestic product. somethingventuredthemovie.com

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Creating her own shots Dawn Evans joins a new team to fight an incurable kidney disease By David Driver

awn Evans is a fighter. This may not be immedi- Evans was told that FSGS is untreatable Virginia Sports ately apparent when the senior point guard runs and that her kidneys were in Stage 4, with Information onto the court during team introductions, but about 20 percent of normal efficiency. When Directors Associ- ation’s 2011 Vir- ask any player who’s tried to guard her. Or ask her kidney function reaches 15 percent, a ginia Player of the her fans and friends about the incurable kidney transplant will be necessary. The diagnosis Year, Dawn Evans disease that she battles every day. Yet JMU’s all- explained her frequent headaches and extreme (inset and No. 23) time leading scorer has shattered many other JMU women’s bas- fatigue but threatened her basketball career — shares the 2011 D CAA title moment ketball records. even her ability to live a normal life. with teammates. She made history this year as the Colonial Athletic Associ- “I remember Dawn coming to my office, ation’s all-time leading scorer with 2,667 points, and she was and I didn’t know what to say,” recalls Brooks. “It’s not like she named 2011 CAA Player of the Year. had a sprained ankle. All I could do was hug her and cry.” The fact that she wasn’t chosen during April’s point-guard- Many players might have called it quits, or at least sat out the heavy WNBA Draft was a shock to teammates, Dukes fans and season. After spending a week in the hospital for tests, Evans hit JMU women’s basketball coach Kenny Brooks (’92). “Some the hardwood 10 days later with her teammates and scored a things make no sense at all,” Brooks wrote via Twitter. game-high 31 points versus Duke University. Yet, Evans takes it all in stride. “I don’t plan on quitting,” she Despite the fatigue, Evans missed only two games that sea- says. Exactly what you’d expect to hear from a natural leader. son and started garnering national media attention. In March When she’s not creating plays on the court, Evans is leading the 2010, she was named the Most Outstanding Player of the CAA charge to find a cure for Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, an tournament and helped JMU take its first CAA title since 1989. incurable kidney disease that attacks the filtering system of the The NephCure Foundation, an organization funding kidney. She was diagnosed in 2009, early in her junior season and research to find a cure for FSGS, picked up on Evans’ media just one day after scoring a school-record 38 points to lead the draw. They recruited her to help bring attention to the founda- Dukes to an upset at 14th-ranked Virginia. tion and its work.

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“Once I figured out what it was all uted. “I’ve always respected Dawn as a about, I was all in,” says Evans, who player,” says Martin. “We’re all part of is fighting the disease with the same the same family, the basketball family.” determination she brings to the court. Evans was born in Germany to a Evans exchanged e-mails with former military family and was a young girl NBA Miami Heat All-Star Alonzo when her family moved to Tennessee. Mourning, a NephCure ambassador She began playing organized basket- who returned to his sport after a kid- ball in a church league when she was ney transplant. She learned that FSGS 4 years old. Rosalyn and Rodney, her affects people of African descent at five parents, were both guards at a school times the frequency of the general popu- in Texas and her brother, Dale, was a lation. “I’ve been able to do something standout at Bluefield College. at JMU to create a name for myself,” she When she was 12, Evans spent says. “And since my diagnosis, I am able the second of two stints as an aspir- to use that to do something good … not The V Foundation for Cancer Research, one of the ing actress in California. She briefly just for myself or my team but for peo- nation’s leading cancer research fundraising organi- met Ray Charles while she was one ple I don’t even know.” zations, named NephCure ambassador Dawn Evans of 10 children cast to do an Olym- With NephCure’s help, Evans the 2011 V Foundation Comeback Award winner. The pics promo. She also played basket- annual award is given by The V Foundation for Can- launched “Sign on for Dawn,” a fund- cer Research and ESPN. ball against Frankie Muniz, the star raising website created to raise $10,000 of Malcolm in the Middle. for FSGS research. When JMU sponsored “NephCure Night” at Evans and her family eventually decided to return to Tennessee, its Dec. 22 home game against U.Va., Evans appropriately scored a where she could focus on basketball and academics. While playing school-record 42 points (one of her 53 JMU records). AAU ball in high school Evans attracted the attention of Brooks Yet some of Evans’ most meaningful moments on the court and his coaching staff. “They were one of the first teams to recruit have come in the quieter moments after the games. That’s when me,” Evans recalls. the NephCure ambassador visits with FSGS patient families, “I watched her play half a game,” says Brooks, who soon real- which frequently include small children. ized Evans would be a great fit at JMU. “We had a pool of four “Dawn is an amazing person, very bright, very smart, … an point guards we were recruiting; Dawn was the one we wanted.” incredible athlete,” says Michael Levine, who brought his 8-year- Evans fell in love with JMU and turned down opportunities to old son Matthew to meet Evans at the Dukes’ game at Hofstra play closer to home at Tennessee-Chattanooga, Belmont in Nash- University. “It’s important for Matthew to see a role model … ville and Louisville. Her father regularly made the nine-hour drive somebody battling the disease and who is excelling in her sport.” from Clarksville to Harrisonburg to see her play at the Convo. “Dawn is very gracious,” notes Brooks. “She is not about get- Evans helped lead the Dukes to their second CAA title in ting personal publicity. It’s phenomenal the way she has handled March and to the NCAA play-offs for the second straight year. this whole experience. Her approach is, ‘I am going to fight it and “She is very good with the basketball in her hands,” says Delaware bring awareness to NephCure.’” coach Tina Martin. “She can create her own shots.” Evans calls the post-game encounters “an honor and inspiration. Though the WNBA may have dropped the ball in this year’s I tell kids that, even after we lose a game, we’ve got to keep going. draft, many have lauded Evans’ future, including Sports Illustrated, Nothing can hold you back. If you can fight this disease, then you USA Today, ESPN, the Associated Press and NCAA.com. can fight anything in life.” Wherever life takes Evans — the WNBA, playing pro ball over- Among the first coaches to contribute to the NephCure cause seas or Hollywood — one constant is a guarantee. She’ll devise her was Wendy Larry of longtime Colonial Athletic Association rival own game plan. In fact, she’s already doing it. Instead of losing Old Dominion University. herself to kidney disease, she found a way to fight back and help “On the court it is war, but this just goes to show how good others do the same. M people are,” Evans says. “When we played ODU in January, I gave ✱ Get on the ball and “Sign on for Dawn” by donating to Coach Larry a big hug before the game. She got the ball rolling.” NephCure Foundation at www.signonfordawn.org. More about Tina Martin, veteran coach at CAA foe Delaware, has also contrib- Evans at www.jmu.edu/bethechange/stories/evansDawn.shtml.

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Bright[Justin Constantine (’92)] A real American hero By Capt. Jeffrey Cretz (’03)

he singular pull of the sniper’s trigger changed one made by the members of the armed forces. He sold the shirts on his hero’s life forever. In that moment, time stood website www.iraqandback.com, but has since updated his idea. Now still. The date was Oct. 18, 2006. he offers the T-Shirts for Troops program. For every $10 tax-deduct- U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Major Justin Con- ible donation, a T-shirt is sent to a wounded warrior at the Brooke stantine (’92) was shot Army Medical Center in San Antonio, six weeks after being Texas. His goal is to send 3,500 T-shirts, deployed to Iraq. He has since turned and he’s close; he has sent more than 2,000. Twounds into triumph, and he helps Constantine is still recovering. He has other veterans do the same. more planned surgeries. Recovery after Many of Constantine’s memories such an injury is a piecemeal process — about his injury are still blurry. He one that has come with upsides he says. knows the bullet entered behind his “I married an amazing woman, have met left ear and exited from his mouth, tons of great people, and I’m doing a lot causing catastrophic damage. He for wounded warriors that I wouldn’t have knows he is alive because a Navy corps- been doing otherwise. I’ve created two man provided rescue breathing and businesses, both related to my injury and performed an emergency tracheotomy both to help other veterans.” while under enemy fire. Constantine says a friend of his father During the first week of his recu- Major Justin Constantine (‘92) and his wife, encouraged him to join the Marine peration period at Landstuhl Regional Dahlia, work to help wounded veterans success- Corps. The family friend served as a Medical Center in Germany, Constan- fully reintegrate into American society and allow Marine in Vietnam. After high school, Americans to show their pride and appreciation tine’s head and throat were so swollen with T-Shirts for Troops at www.iraqandback.com. Constantine applied for a Reserve Offi- that he had to communicate by writ- cer Training Corps scholarship but was ing. He remembers writing a note to his girlfriend Dahlia, “Hey, denied. He was not deterred. He knew he wanted to serve in the we’re in Germany. We’ve never been here together, we should go Marines. “I remember sitting on the hill outside of D-Hall as the out and do something,” oblivious to the severity of his injuries. Persian Gulf War kicked off in 1990–91,” he says. “My goal was Gradually, he began to realize the serious nature of his wounds as to become a Marine officer.” he noticed the extent to which medical personnel, his mother and Constantine joined the Marine Corps in 1997 while still enrolled girlfriend went to ensure he did not see his reflection in mirrors at the University of Denver School of Law. He earned his law and windows. They taped get-well cards over reflective surfaces. degree in 1998. He has served as a prosecutor and as Constantine’s actions since his injury embody the philosophy of a defense counsel. “In just my first year as a defense the ancient Chinese proverb: “Better to light one candle than to counsel in Japan, I probably handled about 10 fully- curse the darkness.” Since returning to the states, Constantine has contested trials, argued 25 motions, managed over 50 dedicated his professional life to helping wounded veterans as they guilty pleas with sentencing arguments, and had return home. “Unfortunately, it seems like many wounded warriors 15 administrative hearings,” he says. have bad stories about their care. Although I received some amaz- He volunteered for his first deployment in ing care along the way, I also was very frustrated at certain points.” 2006 to Iraq. He was a civil affairs team The damage caused to his face brought many inquiring stares leader attached to an infantry battalion from onlookers. Constantine and Dahlia, now his wife, dis- in Al-Anbar Province at the height cussed the matter. As a way to help answer unasked questions, he of the insurgency. At that point, it designed a T-shirt with the phrase “Iraq and Back.” was difficult to find Iraqis willing When he wore his T-shirt, people began approaching him and to work with U.S. and coali- asking about his experiences. Constantine realized he had created an tion forces. One of opportunity for Americans to express their gratitude for the sacrifices Constantine’s goals

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was to enable Iraqi contractors to rebuild the basic infrastructure of their cities. He says, “If you provide Iraqis with a stake in their own community, you inject money into the local economy and give them a positive outlet for their energy. When people are busy working and contributing to the well-being of their families, they are not sitting around thinking about ways to attack others.” His exemplary service in Iraq earned Constantine several medals and badges while deployed in Iraq. He currently works with the FBI in the National Security Law Branch. Prior to joining the FBI, he served as a lawyer and counsel for the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee. Constantine’s injury earned him the Purple Heart, and his story has another “Purple” connection. The JMU Duke writer of this article, Capt. Jeffrey Cretz (’03), is a reservist in the U.S. Air Force who served in Afghani- stan. And, while Constantine spent part of his recovery in the National Naval Medical Center, Lt. Rachel Engler (’05) was one of his nurses. Read about all three of them on JMU’s Opera- tion Purple Pride website at www.jmu. edu/bethechange/ operation-purple- pride.shtml. M

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Award-winning stage manager Bekah Wachen- feld (‘10) is an apprentice at [Bekah Wachenfeld (‘10)] Walnut Street Theatre, the oldest and most Staging success subscribed theater company in By Marissa Dennehy (’11) the world.

ekah Wachenfeld may work students against powerhouse M.F.A. stage ognized for stage management. Finkelstein behind the scenes — literally management students from the likes of nominated her for the regional award, and backstage — but her work has Yale, Carnegie-Mellon, N.Y.U., the Uni- she won first place and then competed for taken her from the Kennedy versity of Cincinnati, etc.,” he says. “Each the national award for her work on the Center to Walnut Street Theatre, discipline in the broad range of design and JMU production of Twelfth Night. As a a national historic landmark. technical theater is represented — includ- national winner, Wachenfeld spent a week Wachenfeld (’10) is a stage management ing lighting; technical direction; and cos- at the Kennedy Center working with the Bapprentice working on the 202nd season at tume, makeup and scenery design.” theater technical crew. “I learned how to Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, the Wachenfeld credits her success to the breathe along with the actor during a per- most subscribed theater company in the “hands-on learning environment” at JMU. formance to know exactly when the right world with 56,000 annual subscribers. A “Professors in the theater department are sup- moment is to change a light or a sound theater and dance major, Wachenfeld served portive and talented, and they share their tal- cue,” Wachenfeld says. as stage manager for eight JMU theater and ents with students.” She also values the expe- JMU also knows how to recognize talent. musical productions and earned national rience of working with and learning from her As an undergraduate, Wachenfeld received attention during her senior year. The United peers. “The JMU student body is a fortress of a School of Theatre and Dance scholar- States Institute for Technology named her inspiration. I learned how the theater runs by ship, the Stratford Players Scholarship and the 2010 National USITT Clearcom Stu- working side by side with many of my peers.” the Snyder Fund Award. As a senior she dent Stage Manager of the Year. And her peers value Wachenfeld. As a received the Phillip S. Grayson Award for “I was absolutely thrilled. It was truly an junior she was one of eight national winners Achievement in Technical Theater. honor,” says Wachenfeld, who found her in the Kennedy Center American College At the Walnut Street Theatre Wachen- niche in stage management while in high Theater Festival, where she was also rec- feld performs the duties of an assistant stage school. “Stage management allows me to manager. She works with a production be a key part of the production and bring it from the beginning of the rehearsal process, to life,” she says. ‘The JMU student tracking props and scenery pieces, to help- Richard Finkelstein, professor of stage body is a fortress ing bring the director’s vision to life. She design in the JMU School of Theater and of inspiration.’ works with N.Y.C. and Philadelphia actors Dance and an internationally renowned and enjoys the problem-solving process set designer, worked closely with Wachen- — Bekah Wachenfeld (’10), during productions. “I enjoy overcoming feld as an undergraduate. “The USITT 2010 National USITT Clearcom Student any challenges that arise,” she says. M top stage management award pits JMU Stage Manager of the Year ✱ Learn more at www.walnutstreettheatre.org/.

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[Annette Federico] catalog. Today, the department has faculty The Madwoman and the F-word with expertise in these fields. “Students get that the intersection of gender and sexuality, By Jamie Marsh cultural and political power and language is a site of tremendous importance, whether ew of English professor Federico was “floored,” when she picked you call yourself a feminist, a post-feminist, Annette Federico’s students up the book in 1983 as a master’s degree nothing, or something else,” Federico says. call themselves feminists. student. She bought her own copy and JMU students are still learning those les- “Today’s undergrads don’t like wrapped it in press-sensitive plastic. That sons from the Madwoman book. Federico to be labeled,” she explains. copy is still in her home library, along with assigned parts of the 719-page tome dur- Their hesitancy to embrace the second edition published in 2000, and ing a seminar on the Bronte sisters in fall the title isn’t disheartening, even for this now her own influential 2009 reappraisal. 2007. The course was in conjunction with F noted feminist author whose most recent “I suppose Madwoman and other works of theater professor Roger Hall’s stage produc- work is a collection of critical essays, Gil- feminist lit crit from the early ’80s reached tion of Jane Eyre. Though the play’s script bert and Gubar’s the Madwoman in the me because these books insisted that reading was written in 1998, it was obviously a Attic After Thirty Years. Just take away the and studying literature is not an arcane pur- reading of the novel through Madwoman’s “F-word,” she says, and groundbreaking analysis, students’ enthusiasm Federico realized. The for “feminist” notions feminist critique had is still palpable in class- been simply absorbed room discussion — even into the new dramatic when the ideas are veiled interpretation. She re- within 120,000-word read those chapters and Victorian novels. found it “bold and full Keep in mind, it wasn’t of insights” even for so long ago that such the generation she calls discussions weren’t facili- “third-wavers.” “The tated in English classes. Brontes can inspire a As recently as 1991, when fan following, but we “When students put down their text-mes- Federico left a tenure- saging devices and re-learn the pleasure of took our fandom into track job at a college in focused reading, the experience is very sat- intellectual depth and New Jersey to join the isfying,” says Roop Distinguished Professor heights, and became JMU faculty, the Eng- in English Studies Annette Federico, who good readers and critics,” published a book of essays looking back 30 lish curriculum was still years on The Madwoman in the Attic. she recalls. “I thought it fairly traditional. “The might be an interesting department’s focus was very canonical, and suit, but something that connects meaning- subject for a collection of essays.” the canon in most U.S. English departments fully with people’s lives,” she says. Federico sent out calls for papers for the before the 1970s and ’80s was Anglo-Amer- The canon has since been bulldozed. collection. Exactly 30 years after the original ican and male,” she says, “but this was 1991!” English departments have established publication, Federico and scholars from across Academically, Federico wasn’t exposed to courses not only on women’s literature but the country reflected on how Madwoman women’s studies or female professors, but on a multiplicity of literatures and view- influences teaching, women in academia, and she was “distantly in tune with the ‘women’s points from the Middle East, Africa, and the feminist activism. In the book’s acknowledge- movement.’” In 1979 a groundbreaking Carribbean, and about African-American, ments, she credits “the students in that class, work of literary criticism was published: Asian-American, gay and lesbian writers. who convinced me that the long chapters I Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s The Modern young women have a less threat- assigned from The Madwoman in the Attic are Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer ened view of male domination than their still both controversial and intoxicating.” and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagi- mothers may have had, and considerable Victorian-era women authors certainly nation. The authors re-examined British academic advantages. That’s why it was so didn’t use the “feminist” word, nor could literature in search of a female tradition, important in 1991 when Federico joined they have imagined the current opportuni- developing a theory known as the “anxi- JMU’s fledging Women’s Studies commit- ties for women. JMU students can minor ety of authorship.” Federico explains that, tee, when the English department did not in women’s studies, take classes on gender “because of the way women were socialized, have any courses on women’s literature. and psychology, U.S. women’s history, body to even dare to pick up a pen and declare Though hired to teach 19th-century Brit- studies, women and race, women and war, you have a story to tell or a poem to cre- ish lit, Federico says she “loved the oppor- and on and on. “They don’t have to fight ate was in itself a frightening, unfeminine, tunity” to expand her teaching repertoire. for these courses,” Federico says. “They’re ‘monstrous’ act.” The book’s first sentence A trio of professors drew up a set of courses now respected fields of intellectual inquiry. was a summarizing shocker: “Is the pen a on women’s fiction, poetry, drama, and Maybe if they had to fight for them, they’d metaphorical penis?” on feminist theory, and got them into the be less afraid of being labeled feminist.” M

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The art of Madison The words, thoughts and philosophy of fourth U.S. President James Madison permeate the JMU culture and community. This quiet, diminutive and intellectu- ally powerful president changed the world. Much like JMU students, alumni and professors change the world one person and one idea at a time. This “Be the Change” attitude is not just lip service. Behind the scenes in AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and nonprofit work; in the classroom; funding scholarships; and leading the charge in Fortune 500s and national organizations, JMU alumni, students, faculty and staff members, donors and volunteers breathe life daily into the legacy of President James Madison and the Be the Change spirit. How appropriate that this “James Madison word cloud” artwork, created by JMU graphic designer Lynda Ramsey, is the cover for the 2011–12 JMU Be the Change Calendar. The calendar is presented annually as a gift to the donors who fund JMU scholarships and professorships. “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,” said President James Madison. And the JMU Be the Change spirit puts that knowledge into action that changes the world.

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History professor Lamont King representing the King Trust Foundation, which annually funds Summer in Ghana scholarships, with a n n u a l s t e w a rdship luncheon scholarship recipient Devan Stewardship Ellison (’11), a history major and Africana studies minor.

(Insets, l-r): Program pre- senters Mary Sue Nelson (’56); Shirley McKinley (’58); senior Josh Kelaher (’11); Tina Beck Updike (’73); Susan Fersner, director of charitable planning; and Joanne Carr, senior vice president of University Gathering links donors, students Advancement. and the Madison Experience (Left): Sisters Gerry Spitzer Lewis and Alpha Spitzer he Stewardship Luncheon has become (’37) catch up with Board an annual JMU tradition in honor of the of Visitors member Judy @ donors who create the Madison Experience Strickler (’60). (Below): Gladys Lisanby (’49) with for so many students. Guests at this year’s daughter Elizabeth; hus- luncheonT included student scholarship recipients, fac- band, James; ulty award recipients, members of the JMU adminis- and Russell tration and volunteer boards, and of course, donors. Weaver The luncheon program celebrated the 30th anni- Society member Nellie versary of the Madison Founders Society, which Long (’49). recognizes donors who have remembered JMU in their wills and estate plans. Attend- ees also remembered the life of Inez Graybeal Roop (’35), a lifelong friend and co- founder of the society, who President Linwood H. passed away last November. Rose offers personal Highlights of the luncheon greetings and a included anecdotes from Tina thank you. Beck Updike (’73), Shirley (Above): Stephen Rhoads with Katlyn Knowles McKinley (’58) and Mary Sue Nelson (’56), Soriano, recipient of the Lambda who charmed the audience. Perhaps one of the most Chi Alpha Memorial Scholarship. (Right): Clair inspirational stories came from senior Josh Kelaher Karaffa, the first-ever recipient of the Victoria Alcantara Memorial Scholarship for Nursing, (’11), a scholarship recipient who is committed to with Thomas Knoblauch and Lorna Alcantara, developing affordable green-living technologies. Victoria’s stepfather and mother. Kelaher thanked donors, fully attributing his future success to the JMU donors who have made his education possible. President Linwood H. Rose closed the event with thanks on behalf of the entire university. ✱ Watch the video of the luncheon program at www.jmu.edu/donors. (Above): Secondary education graduate Charles Wynes (’52), here (Right): Sisters Marian Goodloe (’58) and Joyce with Judith Rose, went on to earn Marlene “Molly” Wood (’55) laugh with Maggie his doctorate in history and teach Kyger, associate dean of the College of Education. at the University of Georgia. He and Wood says she treasures meeting students at the his wife, Carolyn, returned to take annual luncheon. part in the celebration of donors.

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TRANSFORMATIONS

Trisha Smith’s journey back After a frightening, life-changing day, freshman adjusts to AVM and sets ambitious goals By Lisl Magboo (’12) and Paula Polglase (’92,’96M)

itting next to freshman Trisha Smith in class, you Although not 100 percent back to her pre-AVM self, Smith was might notice her brown, curly hair, her casual style or ready to return to JMU in fall 2010 to repeat her first semester. the way she concentrates on the professor. Smith looks She takes multiple medications, suffers short-term memory loss, has like an average JMU freshman. vision problems that impede her ability to obtain a driver’s license She is not. Smith is trying to concentrate, but it is and fights depression. hard. The potential for recurring Arterio-Venous Mal- Recognizing that she could not succeed on her own, Smith Sformation and seizure activity in her brain engulfs her thoughts. sought help to ease back into school. Vision and class accommoda- “ Every day is a new barrier to overcome,” says Smith. tions, note-taking assistance, stress-management training and learn- The fall 2009 semester was coming to an end as Smith pre- ing-style assessments provided by the JMU Office of Disability Ser- pared for the upcoming week of finals. She found it difficult to vices have helped Smith rebound academically. stay focused and concentrate “We can be proactive in on her work. Blurry vision, removing barriers, reducing slurred speech and loss of stigma, and creating more feeling on the left side of her accessible and welcoming envi- body ensued, a combination ronments together,” says ODS of symptoms Smith never director Valerie Schoolcraft. recalled experiencing before. While Smith was on the Based on her roommate’s road to recovery, her coun- intense concern, Smith was selor recommended creating rushed to the hospital where video documentaries. Smith’s she was quickly diagnosed latest video, The Appointment, with a brain AVM, a tangle received distinguished recog- of abnormal arteries and veins nition at the American Acad- that had burst and were bleed- emy of Neurology’s annual ing in her brain. She now film festival. knows the facts: 50 percent of A screening of the people who have a brain AVM Trisha Smith (’14), center, reunites video and panel dis- bleed do not survive. The with Brooke Powell (’13), her 2009 cussion took place at freshman roommate, and Powell’s survivors almost always have mother, Beth, who insisted that JMU during Disabil- some form of disability. her daughter check on Smith and ity Awareness Week in After two weeks in various call 911. That call most likely saved April, which was spon- hospitals in Virginia, Smith her life. Smith suffered a brain sored by ODS. “I was AVM bleed (right) in December relocated to Germany, where 2009 while studying for exams. glad that ODS gave her parents live. Smith was me the opportunity to admitted to a rehabilitation center to recover from the aftermath have this event, to share my story and to spread awareness of both of the AVM bleed: stroke-like symptoms, residual blood swelling in disabilities and brain injury,” Smith says. “I definitely think it was the brain, poor visual perception and loss of coordination. something students and faculty needed to hear.” “For awhile, I couldn’t shower or use the bathroom by myself. When asked about her decision to return to JMU, Smith says, “I I was in a wheelchair because of poor stability, with a helmet really couldn’t see myself doing anything else. I envisioned some- strapped to my head for protection,” Smith says. thing bigger for myself and knew I had to come back to accomplish The rapid occurrence of events that fateful day in December left my goals.” Smith with emotional issues to overcome as well. Confused and “Trish is incredibly self-determined and is a positive self-advo- frustrated, the thought of “Why me?” constantly echoed in her cate,” Schoolcraft says. “I admire and respect her passion to press mind. “I felt like I was living my last day with each day that passed on, to share her story in her own voice, in her own way, in the hope because everything was happening so fast,” she says. that we can all understand and support one another better.” Smith has not let her medical condition cloud her goals and About the Authors Paula Polglase (’92,’96M) and Lisl Magboo (’12) dreams as a student. Previously a law enforcement major, now a work together in the JMU Office of Public Affairs. Magboo, a public rela- psychology major, Smith has made it a personal goal to help others tions major and computer information systems minor, is an intern.This year who are struggling. “I want to provide others with the kind of sup- she has exercised her writing skills, contributing to stories on the Wayland Hall renovations, Saferides, Venture Creation and Relay for Life. Magboo is port I have received,” Smith says. “I want to help people the way managing editor for the JMU yearbook, Bluestone, and is pursuing a sum- others have helped me.” M mer internship in the public relations field. ✱ Watch Smith’s video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ccsP2ziNQ

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ONEWORLD

Putting ideas into action Alumni duo nurture and educate children in Cambodia’s Aziza’s Place By Jacquelyn Walsh (’09)

magine not being internships at local busi- able to afford to nesses, which is important feed or care for your for them to get real-world own children. experience, he adds. JMU alums Alex- Robbins, a political sci- andra Robbins (’07) ence graduate, and Haney, Iand Dani el Haney (’07) are a geographic science gradu- fixing this problem 9,000 ate, both lived in Hillside miles around the globe in Residence Hall as freshmen. Cambodia. The duo has taken They reconnected during the JMU “Be the Change” their senior year in an off- spirit to Aziza’s Place, a learn- campus housing complex, ing center for impoverished Madison Terrace, and then children. As interim directors, began dating. Robbins and Haney give kids When Robbins gradu- a place to live as well as a free ated, she considered joining education. They also keep the the Peace Corps but a fam- children’s family connections ily friend, who started the intact. The children are not foundation for Aziza’s Place, orphans; their families work suggested she work there. in the municipal dumpsite Robbins traveled to Cam- picking up trash for less than bodia in September 2007 Daniel Haney (‘07) and Alexandra Robbins (‘07) are interim directors of $2 per day. Aziza’s Place in Cambodia. The alums nurture, train and educate 21 chil- and Haney followed three “This lifestyle is a hazard- dren at the residential learning center. months later. “We get to ous and difficult one for the put our ideas into action,” families,” says Robbins. “Most of the children we took in were at says Robbins. “This unique kind of serving opportunity is rare one time garbage pickers themselves.” in America.” The children’s family members come monthly to visit at Aziza’s As an undergraduate, Robbins hosted a radio show on WXJM Place, and the children go to visit them at home weekly, add Rob- and started a chapter of the National Organization for Women, bins and Haney, who also started a community outreach program which became an official club during her senior year. She also par- to connect families with free resources, and employ family mem- ticipated in the Washington Semester program, a semester-long bers at Aziza’s Place whenever possible. internship in the Metro-D.C. area. Robbins and Haney provide 21 children with a public school Haney, a member of the varsity rugby team at JMU, got a taste education through the Cambodian system as well as supplemen- of Study Abroad when he traveled to the Philippines in May 2006 tal classes in their native language Khmer. The students also through a JMU program with Jonathan Walker, an integrated sci- learn mathematics, computer skills and English. Extracurricu- ence and technology professor. “You try to interpret what your lar activities include karate, soccer, film, art, traditional Khmer teacher is teaching through books in class, but nothing compares dance and music. to getting to experience it in the world,” says Haney of Boyce, Va. “Since we have only 21 children it makes our program very Haney was a member of the adventure club and enjoyed rock unique and structured. We give each child the nurturing and climbing and working out at UREC’s climbing wall. opportunities they deserve,” says Robbins, a Reston, Va., native. Robbins and Haney hope the native Cambodians will be able The children range in age from to take over direction of Aziza’s Place in the coming year. “There ‘We give each 6 to 18. “Usually a child comes are still business, finance and marketing aspects that have to be to Aziza’s Place at age 6 or 7, done,” says Haney, “but we have all but one of the staff prepared child the nurturing and this way the children get a — a difficult task because most of the population of Cambodia and opportunities lot of one-on-one interaction as is uneducated.” With five administrative staff and 10 other staff they deserve. We they grow up here.” members the Aziza’s Place team has become “a very close-knit Next year Aziza’s Place will family,” adds Robbins. get to put ideas have its first high-school grad- After they return to the states, Robbins and Haney will continue into action.’ uate, who is “more than ready to be a part of Aziza’s Place as board members. M — Alexandra Robbins (’07) for college,” says Haney. The ✱ Learn more about this JMU duo’s work at www.azizafoundation. Aziza’s Place director students also start summer org/projects.html.

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healthhope &on the go JMU nursing students tend society’s vulnerable homeless … especially the children by Jean Young Kilby

hildren squiggle in their seats in a banana-yellow room at Mercy House. “How clean do you think your teeth are right now?” Emily Mitchell (’11) asks them. This week the children are learning about personal hygiene. Little Carly, her bright eyes dancing, examines a picture that Mitchell has handed her. She takes the paper in her hands and looks closely at the rotting teeth and decaying gums. Slapping the paper down, she declares in a matter-of-fact voice, “I’ve seen worse.” Mitchell giggles. Carly giggles with her. In Carly’s world, lack of (Above): Carly represents the most vulnerable population dental care is not uncommon. of the community’s homeless, the children. Here she learns a Mitchell and Stevie Burcham (’11), both JMU nursing students, along little about hygiene, nutrition and confidence through JMU’s with Tammy Kiser, clinical instructor in nursing, are part of an emerging innovative outreach to Harri- sonburg’s homeless. JMU initiative called Medical Suitcase Clinic for the Homeless. Once a

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week in groups of two, JMU nursing students travel to Mercy House, a haven created to empower families to overcome home- lessness together, to live out JMU’s nursing motto: The science of healing. The art of caring. They are part of a program that takes health care to local homeless shelters, seeking to serve the most vulnerable populations of society. Two years ago university and community leaders joined forces to examine ways to provide health care to the more than 300 homeless people in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, an estimated 47 percent of whom are children. The coalition that resulted, the Healthy Community Council, came up with a plan that addresses their unconventional and complex needs. These needs are often unexpected. Mercy House child services coordinator Sara Davis (’10) observes, for example, that since homeless children struggle with low self-esteem and poor self- presentation, they are often targets of bullying. So nursing students conduct role-playing sessions in which they serve as mentors, encour-

When you bring health to a community, JMU nursing student David Rea (’11) takes a blood pres- you bring peace to a community. sure reading. Both JMU students and the local homeless – Linda J. Hulton, professor of nursing benefit from the merger of learning and outreach of JMU’s “suitcase nursing” program.

aging the children to recognize and consider their positive quali- problems of the homeless: foot ulcers from frostbite; winter flu, cold ties. The nursing students work with image issues, showing how and coughs; respiratory infections from smoking; diabetes; and blad- small details such as tucking in a shirt, brushing hair, smiling, and der infections. Those who cannot be treated out of the suitcase are wearing modest clothing can influence how others view them. As referred to the Harrisonburg Community Health Center. a result, Davis says, she has observed the children out on the play- “The police used to come here pretty frequently,” Hulton says ground standing up for themselves, touting their own virtues when of Our Community Place, “just to check things out. But not so previously they would have bowed their heads in shame. She has much anymore.” With one man at his bongo drum, another busy seen self-respect blossom among the children. For this she credits at a computer, others dozing on sofas and most participating in the the nursing students. screening activities, it does feel like a place of peace. Hulton shares The purpose of the Medical Suitcase Clinic is not only to educate her mantra: When you bring health to a community, you bring the public on health issues but also to connect clients to community peace to a community. She believes she and her nursing students resources through screenings and referrals. While Mitchell and Bur- are part of this peace-bringing process. cham converse with the five children who reside temporarily at Mercy Jane Hubbell, associate director of JMU’s Institute for Innova- House, trying to convince them that asparagus isn’t all bad, another tion in Health and Human Services, says that this medical suitcase group of JMU nursing students interacts with an adult population at clinic is filling a gap in health care services, increasing the quality of Our Community Place, a day shelter dedicated to the inclusiveness life for the community and paving the way for empirical research. of those struggling with life’s difficulties. These students are part of “What gives this particular initiative a unique twist,” says Hubbell, a health education and screening fair. With their nursing professor, “is that we’re melding the best of the university and its strengths Linda Hulton, they’re poised by their handmade poster displays tak- with the support of the community.” With coordination by ing blood pressures, screening for vision, discussing pedestrian safety, IIHHS, more than a dozen community agencies contribute finan- warning against smoking and teaching dental health. cially to the clinic to hire a nurse practitioner and a medical case David Rea (’11) says he’s a hands-on learner, and that he chose manager. She adds, “I think JMU should be proud of the fact that JMU’s nursing program largely because the professors adjust their it is committed to graduating enlightened students and in doing so learning tools for the students. JMU’s use of simulators, life-like is improving the quality of life for our citizens in this community.” mannequins, to teach nursing skills such as starting IVs and tak- Hubbell sees the medical suitcase clinic not so much as JMU’s ing blood pressure attracted him to JMU’s nursing program. Katie bridge into the community, but as a tapestry, weaving together all Lidard (’11) adds that she was drawn to JMU’s nursing program the rich, vibrant, diverse strands that make up the collective cul- because nursing students and faculty work closely together. ture. “Nursing students graduate and go to work at hospitals,” she This is indeed the case. Nursing professors accompany the students says. “They don’t get to see [homeless] patients in their environ- to area shelters for education and screening. Once these initial stu- ment. This medical suitcase clinic will change the lenses of our dent screenings are complete, the “suitcase nurse” comes in with a bag nursing students and improve the quality of life for all our citizens. of medical supplies, enabling that nurse to treat a few of the chronic After all, she says with a nod, ‘they’ are ‘us.’” M

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{from the quad to the stage to the lab, Madison explores the complexity of genetics}

A couple of scientists and some dancers walk into a Chinese restaurant. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.

It really happened, though.

The scientists joined the dancers to talk about deoxyribonucleic acid. You may know it as DNA. Over dinner,

as they talked about amino acids, proteins and ribosomes, someone suggested a visual aid might help.

So the scientists, Judy Dilts among them, turned nap-

kins, knives, forks, spoons, chopsticks and glasses around

to demonstrate the intricate way DNA sustains human

life. The dancers grabbed a mini video camera, capturing

the impromptu science seminar.

“If you can use analogies — things people see — some-

times it’s easier for people to pick up the concepts,” says ADilts, associate dean of the College of Science and Math see the

sciencewho has been known to get her own students up in front of the classroom to demonstrate protein synthesis. D a n c e The dancers with whom Dilts and other JMU professors were sharing Chinese food included choreographers

from the D.C.-based Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The dinner was a planning session for a yearlong exploration

of science at JMU, an investigation that uses the arts as that analogy, the spark for a conversation about some of

the most complex scientific issues of our time.

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(Left): Ali Hammond (‘11) puts final touches on a double-helix sculpture that includes close-ups of facial features as art of an advanced photography class exhibit. (Right): A scientist’s question spurs the creative process. Gregor Mendel, the 19th-century scientist who studied the inheritance of traits in pea plants, comes to life in the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performance, Ferocious Beauty: Genome.

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science D a n c(Above): e A master class in motion, conducted by Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, with JMU dance students in the Forbes Center. (Left): Freshmen embrace science in the Dance of Art and Science during Ori- entation on the Quad.

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Many of the yearlong explorations and discussions hap- ized knowledge typically associated with a student’s major, pened in perhaps the unlikeliest of places on campus: the but also broad integrative knowledge that requires students new Forbes Center for the Performing Arts, where a soprano to frame complex societal problems and issues from the vari- recital or musical comedy usually draw audiences. Here, ous perspectives of the humanities, arts and science,” he says. almost as far as you can physically be from students in biology and chemistry labs on the east side of campus, science and art merged in a way uniquely possible at Madison. The dance of art and science Students wrestled with the complexities that arise from A yearlong academic emphasis on the “Dance of Art and Sci- genetic advancements. Dancers and poets interpreted intri- ence” is just one example of how JMU educates and trains cate biological processes, giving audiences a dynamic view of students to participate in society’s most complex issues. what usually is seen only under microscopes. The university JMU’s newest students confronted the issues before they community pondered a future where genetics will be a major even arrived for Orientation in August. At home, all 4,000 player for everyone from biologists to businessmen. freshmen had an assignment: Read nine New York Times sto- “We believe all citizens need to be sci- ries about the issues that genetic advance- entifically and quantitatively literate,” ‘We want to show that ments raise. The articles were part of a says Jerry Benson, interim provost and there are many ways two-year series by Times reporter Amy senior vice president of academic affairs. Harmon, who won the 2008 Pulitzer “Just as important, we want to show that to experience and Prize for her work and who came to cam- there are many ways to experience and understand science so pus in February to talk with students. understand science so science is accessible Her series, “The DNA Age,” includes to all students.” science is accessible emotional stories of people faced with the With opportunities and possibilities to all students.’ fallibility of their own genes and the deci- widespread since the historic mapping of sions they confronted because of the infor- — jerry Benson, the human genome 10 years ago, scien- mation they received. interim provost and senior vice tists’ knowledge of how genetic anoma- president for academic affairs Take Chad and Colby Kingsbury. Fol- Mlies contribute to some diseases is grow- lowing in vitro fertilization, the cou- ing, as is the ability to treat those ailments. Still, the deeper ple tested their eight-cell embryo, wanting to make sure the scientists dig, the more questions they unearth. The implica- embryo implanted into Colby Kingsbury did not have a defec- tions run the gamut, from health care (what do you do if you tive gene that causes colon cancer, a gene that ran in her hus- know you have a lethal gene?) to business (what are the ethi- band’s family. The embryo did not, and it was implanted and cal issues for companies who sell genetic testing?) to politics later became the daughter they are now raising. (what role does the government play in regulating how far In small groups with faculty facilitators, students con- we push the limits of science?). templated the circumstances of this The possibilities are real. Con- embryo-testing example and numerous sider: You could get online right now, other scenarios. How should we respond point your Web browser to one of sev- when science gets ahead of current pol- eral genetic-testing company sites, and icy? How much science does a nonsci- within days, you could be spitting into entist need? What are the implications a vial that will make its way back to a of sharing your genetic information lab where your DNA will be analyzed {Continued on Page 34} within six to eight weeks. Then, you’ll be back at that same website, finding out what ailments may be lurking in A pulitzer visit your future. And you can do it — as one In February, students met Amy Harmon, site promises — for just $199. the author of this year’s freshman reading But should you? selection. Harmon’s multi-part series The This question is deeply personal. DNA Age won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Yet society must address the resulting its exploration of the decisions brought on issue: What should we do with this by genetic knowledge. Harmon brought knowledge? Producing students who several of her stories’ sources into the can participate in that discussion discussion, including a woman who, after is at the heart of a rigorous educa- discovering she has a gene that makes her tion, Benson says. “The educational more likely than others to get breast cancer, had both breasts experience to meet this goal must removed. “The knowledge they receive gave them choices include a focus on both the special- they wouldn’t have had without the DNA testing,” Harmon told the hundreds of students at her lecture.

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Getting personal The study of genetics hits home for Carly Starke (’14)

On the difficult days — the ones when his muscles are quivering or when his short- term memory falters — Robert Starke finds strength more than 300 miles from his Clarksburg., N.J., home. There, at a biotechnology lab at JMU, Starke’s daughter, Carly Starke (’14), is researching turkeys, specifically a vaccine to treat Bordetella avium, or a form her father’s illness. Involved in research Carly Starke (‘14) works on an avian of avian whooping cough. It has nothing with a vaccine-development company whooping cough study. She is learning to do with her dad’s multiple sclerosis, but near her home during high school, Starke skills she may apply one day to help the research and lab skills she is learning connected with Louise Temple, JMU pro- solve the mysteries behind diseases. may one day help scientists treat MS and fessor of integrated science and technol- for a power company, has a mild form of other diseases. Starke’s academic path is ogy, about helping with the professor’s MS. Over the years she has become more a source of strength for her parents, both research on respiratory disease in tur- aware of the affects. Two years ago, his of whom have faced medical challenges. keys. Using molecular biology and bio- symptoms began progressing, and more Starke’s father was diagnosed with chemistry techniques, Temple and the people became aware that he has MS, multiple sclerosis 30 years ago. Her students are trying to create a live vac- which can have symptoms that come and mother is currently undergoing treatment cine that can immunize the turkeys. go. He walks with an odd gait, and getting Ofor breast cancer; doctors found it early “Any research experience is valuable up stairs can be difficult. enough that her prognosis is excellent. training,” says Temple, who adds that “I want to help my mom and dad,” says As a science student who has enjoyed most students don’t start researching Starke. “I want to develop treatments drawing since she was 5, Starke fit right until they are juniors or later. “Our work, and cures for other people, too, because I in to the Dance of Art and Science, JMU’s even though it is with poultry diseases, is know what they’re going through.” yearlong use of the arts to explore genet- relevant training for any kind of biomedi- Starke studies her science material with ics. For her, it all began with the dance on cal work she might choose later on. The a personal curiosity, wondering what may the Quad, which turned freshmen into a techniques she is learning and practicing, be lurking in her own genes. And yet, she huge strand of DNA. There, she wore a yel- the skills in literature critique, communica- is resigned that there’s no changing it. low shirt and represented thymine, one of tion of scientific findings — all of these are “Whatever happens, happens,” she says. four DNA elements. “The dance connected extremely valuable for someone like her.” “If it’s meant to be, it’s going to happen.” everything I had learned in high school Starke knows the value, and she’s Starke tells her parents about the about DNA and showed how much JMU grateful. “I am just a freshman, and I am research she’s doing, and even though it has to offer,” she says. already doing undergraduate research,” doesn’t pertain to their illnesses, it shows A large part of her Madison Experience she says. “That goes to show how JMU them that research can make a differ- will be learning to do genetic research. And gets students involved. I am doing work ence. “It encourages them,” she says. if some diseases have genetic components, that juniors and seniors are working on, “They know there’s hope and that there then Starke is optimistic that perhaps the and I am understanding what’s going on.” are people like me in the sciences who cure to those diseases could be found in More valuable, though, may be Starke’s are motivated to do something.” the genetics research she does later in life. understanding of how science will help Robert Starke sees that motiva- There is no cure for her father’s MS, others like her mother, who have breast tion when he discusses science with his which attacks the central nervous sys- cancer, or her father, whose MS symp- daughter. “Because of her passion for tem and can range from mild to severe. toms are starting to show. research, I have hope that one day she will The progress of the disease — which can Starke’s father, an electrical trainer find a cure or treatment and maybe solve include paralysis or loss of vision — is mysteries of other illnesses,” he says. “I unpredictable. Its cause is unknown, but ‘They know there’s honestly believe that if there were more scientists wonder if genetics plays a role. people with her passion, illnesses like MS Scientists already know that genetics can hope and that there are and cancer would be cured.” contribute to some forms of breast can- people like me in the The research process also encourages cer. Women whose grandmothers, moth- Starke. She sees the successes and failures, ers or sisters have had breast cancer may sciences who are moti- and knows that sometimes the failures lead have a higher risk, too. vated to do something.’ to success. “You may not find what you’re Starke came to JMU enthusiastic to looking for now, but we have to keep trying make a difference, partially because of — carly starke (’14) because it may be out there.” M

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with family? Is stem- cell research that results in the destruction of an embryo OK in the name of curing diseases? For Carly Starke, a JM U biotec h nolog y major from Clarksburg, N.J., “The DNA Age” discussions were more t ha n ac ademic. Her father has multiple sclerosis, and Starke (’14) says the LIz Lerman Dance of the protons move at the same stories revealed to her the pos- Exchange Choreogra- speed, so not everyone has to sibilities of DNA testing. pher Elizabeth Johnson move so fast,” she tells them. visited campus several These possibilities really hit times. She helped fresh- Wait. Did she just say “pro- home during winter break, men dancers turn the tons?” Well, of course. How when doctors diagnosed process of cellular res- else would she tell them how Starke’s mother with breast piration into a dynamic to create a dance that interprets visual experience. cancer. Starke thought back to cellular respiration, the intri- one of “The DNA Age” stories she had read, the personal cately complex process the body uses to harness energy from story of 33-year-old Deborah Lindner, whose mother had the food it takes in? been diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy “In dance, we are used to tackling different concepts and at 48. Deborah Lindner and her mother, they discovered, putting them into movement,” says Joanna Rose (’11), a shared a defective copy of the BRCA1 gene, and that raised senior dance major who helps lead this group of freshmen Deborah Lindner’s risk of getting breast cancer sometime in dancers. Doing that requires research. For this dance, the her life 60 to 90 times. group collaborated with biology professor Carol Hurney, With no signs of cancer (including a clear mammogram), who offered the dancers a science lesson. The descriptive but the high risk of getting it in the future, Deborah Lindner words she used in her lesson became the thread of the dance had both breasts removed, lowering her risk of cancer by 90 movements: carry, transport, slice, energize, break. percent, but causing anguish among family members who “It’s a process,” says Rose, who is referring to cellular respira- didn’t understand her radical approach to her errant genes. tion, but could just as well be talking about the process of inter- Starke had gone into the freshman readings thinking preting science with a dance. “There are a lot of different steps.” about genetic testing because of her father’s MS. Now, she’s For Logan Van Meter (’11), a senior in the School of Art thinking about both of her parents’ ailments. “Could I be and Art History, the steps started with research and ended predisposed to breast cancer,” she wonders. “Could I pass it on a canvas in the collaborative senior class exhibit The on to future children? Chromo Zone: Photo-genetic Art. “I fall right in the middle still,” Starke says. “It would be During fall semester, Van Meter and four other seniors in good to know. You could prepare for it, potentially treat it. art professor Corrine Diop’s Advanced Color Photography But I don’t know how my mind-set would be knowing.” class researched genetic issues and possibilities to develop a In the next three years, as she continues to delve into photo exhibit at Harrisonburg’s Smith House gallery. her biotechnology major, Starke hopes to find her answer. {Continued on Page 36} Maybe her research will cross paths with an art major’s exploration of ethical issues?

The rigor and language of art Torsos spin. Feet leap. Hips twirl. Bodies roll across the hardwood floor as 15 freshman dancers warm up for an evening rehearsal inside the Forbes Center’s new dance theater. Elizabeth Johnson, a choreographer with the Washington- area Liz Lerman Dance Exchange for a Dance of Art and Science residency program, tracks the movements. John- Students in the School of Art and Art History Advanced Color son, in black yoga pants and a woolen hat with multicolored Photography class researched genetic issues and developed stripes, gathers the group, and offers some advice. “Not all the Chromo Zone exhibit for Smith House gallery.

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francis collins personifies the fusion of science and the arts Human genome scientist engages JMU students by linda cabe halpern, dean of University Studies

While JMU students connected ideas serving as director of the National Human Chief of the through the Dance of Art and Science this Genome Research Institute. His genetic National Institutes academic year, they also engaged in con- research has led to the identification of for Health and versation with the chief of the National the genetic variants associated with type mapper of the Institutes for Health and mapper of the 2 diabetes and the genes responsible for human genome, human genome, Francis Collins. cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, Francis Collins “Scientists’ growing understanding of among others. on stage with Liz Lerman. The duo human genetics is leading to a revolution What is perhaps less well known about talked about the of how doctors prevent, diagnose and Collins is his lifelong immersion in both similarities of treat illness,” says Collins. “This is a very science and the arts. their fields. exciting moment. Science and art can Want proof? Just look at his Huss & work together to improve humanity.” Dalton guitar, where the neck features an performance of medieval music and Collins presented the lecture, “Art Imi- inlaid design of a double helix. He strapped drama. Collins’ mother, Margaret Collins, tates Life: The Dance of DNA, Decoding on his guitar and shared a DNA-inspired playwright and teacher, was quite simply and Doctoring,” in conjunction with the tune with students after his lecture. a force of nature. Margaret and Fletcher opening of the Forbes Center for the Per- A Shenandoah Valley native, Col- Collins founded both the Oak Grove The- forming Arts. He also spoke to biology lins grew up in Staunton and Augusta ater in Augusta County and an organi- students and attended Furious Beauty: County. He grew up in an extraordinary zation called Theater Wagon to support Genome, a Liz Lerman Dance Exchange household, filled with music, theater, the arts both locally and beyond. For Wperformance that uses dance, video and dance, poetry and other celebrations of many decades this dynamic pair gath- music to explore genetics. Collins and Ler- the arts from the extremely scholarly to ered around themselves an amazing man shared the stage after the show to the avant-garde to the crowd-pleasing. community of artists, writers and musi- discuss the interplay in science and art, His father was Dr. Fletcher Collins, Yale- cians, as well as generations of appre- saying that the two complement each trained medieval musicologist, cultural ciators and participants. other and share many similarities, espe- laureate of Virginia, head of the theater I was fortunate enough to participate in cially creativity. program at Mary Baldwin College, and this community, so I am sure the first time Collins is well known throughout the lifelong advocate for the contemporary I ever saw Dr. Collins was probably some- world for his groundbreaking work, and he time in the late 1960s. I’m sure he had a has published two books — The Language guitar in his hand. of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for ‘This is a very exciting Francis Collins has deep knowledge Belief (2006), and The Language of Life: moment. Science and and respect for the performing arts that DNA and the Revolution in Personalized complements his extraordinary achieve- Medicine (2010). art can work together ments in science and medicine. We are He led the effort to complete the to improve humanity.’ extremely honored that he shared his Human Genome Project, the success- experiences with JMU students and the ful mapping of the human genome, while — francis collins Madison community. M

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Photos in the Chromo Zone exhibit by Logan Van Meter explore the ethics of creating “designer babies.” He says his work acts as a “catalyst for thought.”

Van Meter researched the ethical “town hall meeting” of our time. It can be one of the languages questions that arise when parents can that bridges the gap between scientists and the rest of us. manipulate DNA to create a “designer Of course, that’s true of many of history’s major issues. baby.” It’s possible already to select a child’s sex and to screen “As human culture evolves, it tells its most important stories for disabilities. If it becomes possible, should parents be able through the arts,” says Linda Cabe Halpern, University Stud- to predetermine cosmetic traits? “A baby, please. Blond, ies dean and an art historian. “It’s part of how we understand freckles — hold the colic” is how the Wall Street Journal put ourselves as humans. Arts really are the place where people it in a 2009 story exploring the issue. work out the real business of life and human aspirations.” Van Meter says that digging into the questions surrounding designer babies and illustrating them with photos was “intense.” He portrayed the dilemma with larger-than-life Science and creativity close-ups of a toddler’s face showing different genetic/cos- Tell someone a university is looking at science through art, and metic choices. The images greeted visitors to the gallery with they’ll probably raise an eyebrow. But bring together two giants the instruction “Select Your Child’s Eye Color.” in their fields and you reveal the true power and insights of cross- “You start to learn about genetics, and it is astounding, disciplinary collaborations in the classroom and in research. and a really profound shake-up,” says Rhonda Zingraff, asso- Choreographer Liz Lerman and scientist Francis Collins ciate dean of the College of Integrated bring that perspective to their disci- Science and Technology who provided ‘Creativity is really what plines. Both agree that science and art much of the leadership for the Dance are not so different in their approaches. of Art and Science initiative. art and science strive for.’ After Lerman’s company presented The shake-up — that’s where the — francis collins, Furious Beauty: Genome, a mod- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange comes in. chief of the National Institutes for Health ern dance that presents the questions The arts, the group’s eponym says, is the and mapper of the human genome genetics raise, the choreographer and

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scientist casually sat on It’s an apt metaphor stage after a Dance of Art for JMU life, and in the and Science event in Jan- end, the way students uary. Surrounded by the will gain the knowledge show’s dancers, Lerman to tackle deep issues tied and Collins discussed the to complex science like similarities in their fields. genetics, says Hurney. Collins led the mapping Just as DNA has to be of the human genome 10 Choreographer Liz Lerman, far left, with Francis Collins, says, “I think unzipped to work, so, years ago. During this dis- the question is, what are we going to do with our scientific knowledge?” too, JMU students can’t cussion he recalled his work developing a treatment for pro- live isolated; they must open themselves up to faculty, other geria, a disease that causes children to age at seven times the students and the community. normal rate. It affects fewer than 100 children worldwide, and “If you just show up and think I’ll fill your head, you’re not most die from a stroke or heart attack when they are 12 or 13. participating in the college experience,” Hurney says. “Partic- Collins had researched the disease for two decades when a ipation is the first step in becoming a part of a community.” post-doctoral student asked to help. He gave Tisha McCoy-Ntiamoah, director of her a hypothesis, one that he was almost sure The GenEds — JMU’s orientation programs, says the August was wrong, but, he thought, at least she had history, sociology, Dance on the Quad emphasized how vital a place to start. “Sure enough,” Collins said, community is to the whole Madison Experi- “the hypothesis was absolutely, completely, literature, the ence. “No matter their major, no matter their off-the-wall wrong.” humanities, and background, students must collaborate and Along the way, though, Collins learned engage in society,” says McCoy-Ntiamoah. some things about the disease no one else yes, arts and sci- What they learn in their liberal arts classes had. This led to a clinical trial of a drug that ence — “that is the — the wisdom of the ages and the promises could help. Not a cure yet, the trial has so far real stuff” of life. of the future — will inform them no matter succeeded. what they specialize in. “Creativity is really what art and science — Carol Hurney, Professors, meanwhile, show students that strive for. Some science is not that creative. executive director of JMU’s General Education courses aren’t just some- You turn the crank and do the next obvious Center for Faculty Innovation thing to get out of the way so they can move experiment,” Collins says. “But those moments where science on to the “real stuff” of their major. “The GenEds,” Hurney becomes something exciting is when you take that creative explains — history, sociology, literature, the humanities, and leap, and you say, ‘I don’t really know what I’m doing, but I’ve yes, arts and science — “that is the real stuff” of life. got this wild, crazy idea that maybe life works that way.’” Lerman, who has worked with other universities on projects that use dance to explore various disciplines, says “Issues such as genetics ethics can’t be decided by scientists alone. Ask a big question, and you need more than one discipline to answer it.”

Breaking through disciplinary barriers “Societies and higher education put people in these silos that are artificial,” says Carol Hurney, executive director of the JMU Center for Faculty Innovation. Hurney was a star of an August Dance of Art and Science event that featured 4,000 freshmen creating a gargantuan replica of DNA. The freshmen, in neon orange, blue, yellow and red shirts (each color representing a different base in the DNA structure), shimmied, held hands and spun around as a massive double helix in the center of campus, stretch- ing the length of the Quad. Donning a cycling jersey with Biology professor Carole Hurney, wearing a helmet-cam, “unzips” two yellow paw prints and “Go Dukes” emblazoned on the human strand of DNA created on the Quad by 4,000 freshmen the back, Hurney then pedaled her bicycle through the during Orientation. The experience introduced them to the complex double helix, “unzipping it” as it replicated. intellectual issues they will encounter over their academic careers.

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That perspective lured Brittany Hoe- hlein, a freshman from Long Valley, N.J., to JMU. While visiting and applying to more than a dozen schools, she told admissions counselors that she wanted to “major in dance but also something else.” Most other colleges discouraged her from choos- ing a double major. “Here,” Hoehlein says, “I was told to use the two majors to complement each other.” She’s majoring in dance and kinesiology. “JMU wants to create fully well-rounded students who go out and make a difference in the world,” she says. “Nothing can exist on its own.” That’s true within the sciences, too. “Genetics is deeply pausal women, was part of an hour-long Biology and ingrained in all other [biological] disciplines,” says Tim Bloss, conversation Francis Collins had with biotechnology a biology professor. “And one needs to understand how they biology students when he visited JMU students in the Biotechnology all fit together before one can understand one discipline com- in January. Collins discussed genetic Lab 480 perform pletely.” That, Bloss says, creates a science student prepared advancements, induced pluripotent stem DNA straining. for the rapidly changing world of genetics. cells, the ethics of geneti- Part of that preparation is being able to cally modifying humans and the science- communicate with a non-scientific public. ‘This is the religion connection. Hailey Huebner, a junior from Waterford, century of biology. It’s what Collins told the students as he Va., has picked up that theme in numer- It’s going to be prepared to leave —when he became more ous classes. “A lot of the professors are good career counselor than scientist — that stuck about making sure we understand that not a wild ride. ... It’s with Huebner. everyone understands what we are learning. going to get more “This is the century of biology,” Collins We’re not the ones making the decisions, told students. “It’s going to be a wild ride. … and we’re not the ones spending the money complicated as It’s going to get more complicated as we go for us to do the stuff we do,” she says. “It’s we go along.’ along.” But scientists can’t be the ones who important to be able to relate to those out- — francis collins, make the final call on what to do with the side of the scientific community: those who chief of the National Institutes knowledge we gain from genetic research. approve grants or market what we do. It’s for Health and mapper of the It’ll take people from a host of disciplines to important to communicate that this is what human genome decide what to do with the advancements. we did and this is how it’s helping you.” “It will be breathtaking,” Collins added. Huebner, who with other students has been research- Breathtaking. Like art. And science. If we equip future ing fish and rats to discover how a particular enzyme may leaders to make the right decisions. be depleting estrogen and causing health problems in meno- Breathtaking. M It’s art; it’s science: It’s a grape? The Dance of Art and Science continues: Watch the DNA Dance on the Quad! Listen to a DNA serenade by Francis Collins! Watch Dr. Collins’ lecture. See more art. Read more stories. See it all at www.jmu.edu/link/das

Can you guess what it is? It’s a grape! Biology students took an art- ful look at objects under the microscope during a microscopy class and then created an exhibit of their photos. Take a look and try to guess what the images are at www.jmumicroclass.blogspot.com.

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A year of the Dance of Art and Science Throughout the year, the Dance of Art and Science academic initiative brought together the study of genetics and DNA through dance, art, photography, poetry, music and research. A sampling of some of the events:

n Preface — This program introduced freshmen to JMU’s academic rigors, classes and the expectations for college students. Students read “The DNA Age,” a group of Pulitzer Prize-winning stories by The dance demonstrated, artistically, the The DNA Dance New York Times writer Amy Harmon. Students also discussed the process of cellular respiration — the body brought 4,000 series with faculty facilitators. turning food into energy. freshman together to form a massive n The DNA Dance — Nearly 4,000 freshmen converged on the n The Chromo Zone: Photo-genetic double-helix on the Quad on Aug. 26 to perform a dance they learned during Orientation. Art — Seniors in the fall Advanced Color Quad and for an Students formed the shape of a double helix, and biology professor Photography class worked all semester to unforgettable intro Carol Hurney rode her bike through the crowd to “unzip” the DNA develop photography based on DNA and to JMU. strands. The goal: To “unzip” barriers to bring stu- genetic issues. Pieces included topics like dents together and to learn more about genetics. “designer babies” and the DNA structure and the perplexity involved in DNA issues. Students’ work culminated in an exhibit at Harrison- n Challenging The burg’s Smith House art gallery. Rules: A Conversation About Creativity n Liz Lerman Dance Exchange — Artists from the Liz Lerman — JMU Scholar-in-Resi- Dance Exchange were in residence for 10 days in January, conduct- dence Michael Singer ing master classes for JMU students, local middle- and high-school talked with Visiting Artist students and a local Governor’s school. The dancers also performed Liz Lerman about collabo- Ferocious Beauty: Genome, a collaboration among artists, scientists rations across the arts and and educators, and inspired by the mapping of the human genome. sciences in September. n An Evening of Poetry and Dance — The Furious Flower (Above): JMU Scholar-in-Res- n Visiting Scholar — poetry center hosted a poetry and dance salon in January. The idence Michael Singer and Liz Kathy Takayama, associate event featured a collaborative poem and dance. A group of dancers Lerman explored art and science director of the Sheridan Cen- heard the poem for the first time two hours before the performance, collaborations. ter for Teaching and Learning and then developed the dance within that short time. at Brown University, spoke on “Visualizing the Science of Genomics” in n Looking Closely: Images by Artists and Scientists — September. She holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology and This exhibition, held February through April, presented images that was a National Institute of Health Postdoctoral Fellow in the Depart- cross the divide between science and art in both process and prod- ment of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. uct. Fall semester students in Biology 432: Light Microscopy were n Fall Student Dance Recital — The Liz Lerman Dance given a semester-long assignment to bring to class found objects to Exchange worked with freshman dance majors for their fall recital. look at under the microscope, photograph them and post them to a class photoblog (www.jmumicroclass.blogspot. com). Students in Art 362: Digital Photography JMU student dancers make collaborated with biology students, and each cellular respiration “visible” during the Fall Dance Recital. visited the others’ labs, learning different methods of framing, capturing and enhancing photographs. n Amy Harmon — The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist visited with students in February and discussed her work on “The DNA Age.” She also met School of Media Arts and Design students and spent a day with student editors from The Breeze. n “The Intersection of Genetics with Ethics” — JMU and University of Virginia professors discussed how genetics affects health care and the ethical dilemmas that arise.

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Uncle Bijan! Bijan Saadatmand brings an international flavor and caring attitude By Nancy Delosh Rusinak (’88, ’91M)

uring my first semester at JMU I took the Intro It was always a treat to hear Uncle Bijan coming — and more to Psychology class taught by Dr. Bijan Saadat- often than not, you heard him before you saw him. Whistling, mand. It was a large class of about 150 students, singing, greeting other students or professors, he was a party on and we met in Godwin Hall. Each morning two legs. At that time, the psychology department’s main office Dr. Saadatmand bounded into the room — he was situated in such a way that you couldn’t see who was com- bounded everywhere — instantly captivating his ing from the side hallways. Many professors would round the audience.D He was able to talk to that corner without warning. very large class in a way that made us Not Uncle Bijan. He feel like he was talking to each of us was also known for his individually. Always approachable, Dr. strong homemade Man- Saadatmand explained his name in this darin Vishnofka, which way: “Some people have I heard was served in a very hard time with extremely tall (three- my last name. It’s Saa- foot high) decanters full datmand, and if you ever of fruit. need to pronounce it, you Bijan was a hugger. say ‘Saw That Man,’ and He hugged other profes- you’re just fine. But most sors, he hugged students, of my students call just call he hugged custodial staff me Uncle Bijan, and that and he hugged the mail- is fine, too.” man. His office door His lectures were full of was always open. You energy and fun to experi- Psychology professor Bijan always felt welcome. If Saadatmand is best known by ence. His tests, however, students as “Uncle Bijan” and you had a problem, he were not. I remember being remembered for this giving wanted you to come tell quite flummoxed because attitude, welcoming nature him about it. If you were even though I liked his class, and his hugs. He directed the struggling with a class, a JMU International Students and loved him, I struggled and Scholars Services for friend, a roommate, he to keep a ‘B’ because the many years and still teaches wanted to help. tests were so challenging. part time. (Below): “Uncle Uncle Bijan taught He definitely made sure we Bijan” takes a photo with the me more than introduc- had a good introduction to home economics faculty in tory psychology. More the 1975 Bluestone. the world of psychology. importantly, he taught At the end of the year, he told us if we ever needed a letter of me to live each day to the fullest — that was his modus operandi. recommendation for anything to just ask. He would “remember No matter what the circumstances, he said to live, enjoy, smile us.” I felt cynical about that, thinking there was no way he could and help someone in need. remember all 150 students. Yet, shortly after deciding to declare I spent many years employed in the psychology field, mainly psychology my major, I began a work/study job in the psychol- in industrial organizational work. But, that’s just work; not life. ogy department. My duties included answering phones, making Every day I try to find an opportunity to bring some joy into copies, mimeographing (yes, I am dating myself), and greeting someone else’s life. Everyday I find someone to hug. visitors. I saw many of Uncle Bijan’s well-written letters of recom- I spent three years at JMU working on my undergraduate mendation. Each letter contained something personal about each degree and three more working on my Ed.S. in Counseling Psy- student. I was amazed at how well he could remember all of us. chology. Throughout my Madison Experience, Bijan Saadat- mand always brought a smile to my face, always made me feel About the Professor Bijan Saadatmand joined the JMU faculty in reassured. There are many wonderful psychology professors, and 1971 and directed JMU International Student and Scholars Services for de- happily many of my professors still teach at JMU. I can honestly cades. He retired as a full-time psychology professor in 2003 but has remained say that Uncle Bijan was a professor I loved. M an active part of the JMU community. A native of Iran, Saadatmand has recruited hundreds of international students and professors and helped them navigate complex and changing visa issues. He also created the “Parade of About the Author Nancy Delosh Rusinak (’88, ’91M) is a self-employed International Color,” in which JMU students from 94 countries processed in survey/data analyst and adjunct faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth native dress and carried their counties’ flags during JMU President Linwood University. She teaches research methods in the VCU Wilder School of Govern- H. Rose’s 1999 inauguration celebration. The parade has become a tradition ment. Her life’s passion is her family. She lives in Richmond with her husband, during JMU’s annual International Week. David Rusinak (’87) and her dying-to-go-to-JMU kids, Matthew and Ashleigh.

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B o o k s M u s i c MixedMedia & F i l m { Books} Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics By Brian Kaylor; Lexington Books, 2011; ISBN-10: 0739148788

hen Bible-quoting Sunday School teacher Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential election, it marked a new era of presidential campaign discourse. The successful candidates since then W have followed Carter’s lead in publicly testifying about their personal religious beliefs and invoking God to justify their public policy positions and their political visions. JMU communications studies professor Brian Kaylor analyzes the religious-political discourse used by presidential nominees from 1976 to 2008 and describes key characteristics of their confessional rhetoric that represent a substantial shift from the tenets of the civil-religious con- tract. This new confessional political style is characterized by religious-political rhetoric that is testimonial, partisan, sectarian and liturgical in nature. To understand why candidates have radically adjusted their “God talk” on the campaign trail, Kaylor examines religious-political shifts in American society since the 1950s. ✱ www.lexingtonbooks.com

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often surprising and instructive Oh Shenandoah Voices Hushed and When Upon stories from the long history of and Still Christianity. The book includes the Field of By Lisa Meyer (’83) a guide for group discussion Glory are among 2009 Southern and ideas for how people of the songs Meyer Heritage Music faith can respond. chose to remem- Awards Winner ber “the people ✱ www.baylorpress.com/ who lived, sur- Book/219/The_Friends_We_ Lisa Meyer (’83) joined the United Daughters of the vived and died during this period Alumni Keep.html Confederacy in 2003 and of our American history.” became chair for the Music of the Meyer was named the 2009 Painkiller Ghosts Confederacy for the state of Ten- Southern Heritage Music Associ- By J. Marc Harding (’98) nessee. Her 12-song CD, Voices ation’s Female Artist of the Year The Friends We Xlibris, 2010 Hushed and Still, contains famil- and its Up and Coming Artist of the Year. Keep: Unleashing ISBN13: 978-1-4500-4214-7 iar and lesser-known tunes from ✱ Christianity’s Compas- After his girlfriend’s death, the Civil War, arranged by Neil www.voiceshushedand 30-something Thymothy X. Andrews. Old Folks at Home, still.com sion for Animals Exler moves By Laura Hobgood-Oster back home (’85); Baylor Univ. Press, 2010 with his that changes the direction of died years ago. Creative writ- ISBN: 9781602582644 mother, his life. Meanwhile, Suzanne is ing major Marc Harding (’98) The Friends We Keep introduces Suzanne, stalked and threatened by a man served as photography editor for the situations animals face and changes she dated briefly. Soon, the man JMU’s student literary magazine today — as companions, as ani- his name begins appearing in the lives Gardy Loo!, contributing fiction, mals in sport, as animals raised to Thyme. of Exler’s friends with disturb- poetry, photography and comics. for food and as creatures in the Exler then ing consequences. Exler begins ✱ www2.xlibris.com/ wild. Laura Hobgood-Oster witnesses to hear the jingle of his dog’s bookstore/bookdisplay. (’85) simultaneously retells a tragedy collar occasionally, but his dog aspx?bookid=75942

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Alumni News JMU Alumni Association announces alumni centennial, James Irwin (’06) joins alumni staff, 2011 Alumni Awards...... 44

Edwin Turner (‘60) JMU Legacy Family The Turners boast 12 Dukes By Gabrielle Piccininni (’11) ...... 45

Save the Dates This is the year to be in the ’Burg: Madison Alumni Conference, Homecoming and Family Weekend...... 46

Psychology Peer Advisers Celebrate 20 Years By Colleen Callery (’11) ...... 47

Four Alumni Help the Healing at LIVESTRONG By Gabrielle Piccininni (’11) ...... 48

A New Madison Tradition Students and alumni etch this tradition in stone By Michelle Hite (’88) ...... 64

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{Alumni Association} {Call for Nominations} 2011 Alumni Awards Nominate a classmate or alumni chapter for the 2011 alumni awards ive a shout-out to your fellow alumni with a nomination G for the 2011 Inez Graybeal Roop (’35) Dis- tinguished Alumni Service Award or the Ronald E. Car- rier Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. The Roop award was created in 1971 and recognizes alumni whose dedication and The late Inez Roop (’35) volunteer commitment has significantly enhanced the goals and mission of JMU and the alumni association and/or who has given of themselves for the enrichment of others and the betterment of their communities. Created in 1997, the Carrier Award recognizes an individual who has excelled in his or her profession for a minimum of five years and has attained recognition from peers or other professionals as an News outstanding member of their field. Visit the alumni association website for more information or to nominate a JMU It’s time to party! alum at www.jmu.edu/alumni/ This is the year to get back to the ’Burg and help celebrate awards/. For additional information e-mail Alan Maynard Ronald E. Carrier, Alumni 100 years of alumni successes (’06) at [email protected]. M president emeritus By AJ Fischer (’92), president, JMU Alumni Association Board {Alumni Relations Team} his is a special year for James Madison University. June 13 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alum- nae Association at the State Normal and Industrial School for James Irwin (’06) T Women. In the past century, graduates of the Normal School, joins alumni staff the State Teachers College, Madison College and JMU have made a tremendous impact on society as they advance the Madison spirit Former Breeze editor named assistant director beyond the classroom. Now, as the JMU Alumni Association celebrates its 100th year, the The JMU Alumni Association welcomed James Irwin (’06) to university and the alumni association leadership invite members of its staff in late March as assis- the Madison family back to campus to celebrate a significant mile- tant director of alumni relations. stone: 100 years of alumni. Whether you are a weekly visitor to cam- Irwin, a former section editor at pus or haven’t been back in decades, we encourage you to return home The Breeze and executive editor and see what you helped create. As alums from day one — and as of Curio while a student, gradu- alumni for life — our Madison Experiences have been made possible ated cum laude in three years by those who came before us. They strengthened the JMU experience with a bachelor’s degree in for all of us. media arts and design. He is the Join us throughout the year as we celebrate our anniversary. And author of Midnight in Chattanooga: The game, the team and mark your calendars for the last weekend in September for Home- the dream behind the rise of JMU football, which is available coming, Sept. 30–Oct. 2, as we welcome you back and celebrate how at the JMU Bookstore. Prior to joining the JMU staff, Irwin far we’ve come together. M was sports editor of The Washington Examiner. M

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Madison Alumni Conference is June 3–5 The annual Madison Alumni Conference is an event not to be missed! The 2010 conference won an Award of Excellence from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Don’t miss this year’s Madison Alumni Conference June 3–5 to see which chapter and chapter leaders are rocking the Purple Pride. The three-day leadership conference includes an awards Madison Alumni banquet and workshops to learn how to Conference make alumni chap- June 3–5, 2011 ter events memorable Madison Experi- Extend your ences. Hang out with Madison Experience the Alumni Vol- unteer of the Year, the Alumni Group of the Year, the top Chapter Leader and more. The first 30 registrants stay in a You look good for 100 baby! residence hall for free! Homecoming and Alumni Association Current and future alumni volunteers are Centennial: Sept. 30–Oct. 1 encouraged to attend. omecoming 2011 will be extra special as the JMU Get involved at www. Alumni Association celebrates 100 years of JMU jmu.edu/alumni or alumni. Don’t miss this year’s Homecoming events, News Learn more or register for events at contact maynaraj@ especially the anniversary celebration in the Festival jmu.edu or (540) H www.jmu.edu/alumni Conference and Student Center. Celebrate 100 years of Purple 568–2786. Pride, alumni achievements and alumni who embrace the Be the Change spirit. If you are a member of the Classes of 1966, 1971, Family Weekend is Oct. 14–16 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006, or are interested in Don’t miss all the JMU family fun, including the football game hosting a special reunion for a student organization or major dur- versus Villanova. Immerse yourself in the Madison Experience by ing Homecoming Weekend, please contact the JMU Office of

Alumni attending a concert, cheering on the Dukes, meeting other Madi- Alumni Relations to start planning. son families or touring campus. Family Weekend is your opportu- The alumni association has already planned a number of activities nity for a taste of campus life. Visit your son’s or daughter’s campus for Homecoming, so don’t let your group miss the fun. Remember, home, talk with university staff members or attend a class or if the alumni office does not hear from your class or organization, a presentation. Register early since many of the ticketed events sell reunion will not be planned. Take charge of your reunion experience. out quickly! For more information visit www.jmu.edu/parents/ If you are interested in chairing or being a member of a plan- Family_Weekend.shtml. For football tickets contact the JMU ning committee for your group, call (888) 568–2586 or e-mail Athletics Ticket Office at (540) 568-3853, or www.jmusports.com. [email protected]. M

ou’ve got the JMU Drive home the sweatshirt and the pur- Y ple water bottle. You may even own the Purple Pride Purple Pride! flip flops. Why not get a JMU When you buy a JMU license license plate and support JMU plate, $15 of the $25 annual scholarships? A portion of the fee is transferred to JMU for purchase price from Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles Legacy Scholarships. Choose supports the JMU Alumni either design: Duke Dog or Association Legacy Scholarship fund. Show your spirit and help fund education at JMU. the JMU seal. In 2009–10, the alumni association awarded $49,000 in scholarships to 48 legacy students.

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Published46 Madison by JMU Scholarly Magazine Commons, 2011 Ga m e- Day P h otogr a p h by meg allen (’10, ’11M); D u k e Dog by Da n Go r i n (’11), Plate by K at h y L a m 49 AlumniNews 50 47 s M 2 0 1 1 wa a few A e r y for Life nly M O ela R say it’s the one say it’s s U M ’d ing up and fund- 0 0 6 , t he p e e r I ett s. “ S n 2 advisers spearheadedan effort to make that positive difference tan- gible to the Jess a peerbody. Major, student adviser in the Class of 2006, proposed funding a psychology stu- scholarship. dent ing a scholarship fund is no small task:minimum endowmentthe is $25,000. other student organizations have attempted such an endeavor, with varying degrees of success. The peer advis-ers have been fundraising since 2006, raising nearly $2,000 dollars through class fundraisers and personal con- tributions, and garnering around $12,000from faculty members, alumni and parents I van r i n g / E ety, work with Habitat for larship for students in the s P oci S cho S on

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Madison College. Wade lives in On Sept. 24, 2010, Sunnyside Retirement Home in 60 Marcia E. Angell rep Harrisonburg and is a retired resented JMU and President Classteacher. She taught for 43 years Linwood H. Rose at the inaugu Notes in the Blue Grass, McDowell ration ceremony for Clark Uni and Monterey areas of Vir versity’s ninth president, David ginia. She retired as a guidance P. Angel. “I wore the hood I counselor from Highland High received from JMU when I was School in 1971. awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 2003,” says Marcia Angell (’60) represented Nancy Creel Winborne Angell, who earned her M.D. JMU as Clark University inaugu- 48 represented JMU and from Boston University in 1967. rated its ninth president. President Linwood H. Rose Angell is a senior lecturer at anniversary of the organization at the inauguration ceremony Harvard University Department established by President John F. of Furman University’s 11th of Social Medicine. She adds, Kennedy in 1961. Cox taught Ruth Maloy Wade celebrated her 105th birthday in December. president, Rodney Alan Smolla. “Clark University in Worcester, elementary school in Sierra “The October day was perfect Mass., has about 2,000 under Leone from 1967 to 1969. “My The JMU Alumni — cool, crisp air, and our lovely graduates. President Angel, who Peace Corps service helped me 30 Association will cele South Carolina foothills out specializes in economic geog look at my country from the brate its 100th anniversary this lined against blue skies.” Win raphy, has been on the Clark outside, and see the beauty as year, but Ruth Maloy Wade has borne says, “President Smolla, faculty since 1987. As someone well as the warts,” she told the a little more experience on the who previously served as dean named Angell, I find the spell Hartford Courant, which pub longstanding alumni group. of the law school at Washington ing of his name peculiar! It was lished a story about the anni Wade celebrated her 105th & Lee University, emphasized an impressive occasion, and I versary gathering. “The Peace birthday on Dec. 1, 2010! The the value of liberal arts in his was proud to represent JMU.” Corps let me see the oneness history major graduated from speech. He said, ‘More impor of people. The differences are the State Teachers College tant than accolades is living a Five members of the all trappings — color, cloth at Harrisonburg eight years life that makes a difference in 66 Class of 1966 met in ing. We’re all one,” adds Cox, before JMU became known as the world.’” Orange, Va., for the group’s an elementary education major yearly gathering and a visit to and former teacher. Cox may be Montpelier, James Madison’s the first JMU student to have ancestral home. Classmates served in the Peace Corps. As attending this year were Marlene of 2010, more than 350 JMU Renalds Breu, Kitty Cosby Har- students have served the inter low, Susan Dove Huffman, Judy national service organization. Burtner and Nancy Caldwell Nor- man. Every summer these alum On Oct. 1, 2010, Cath- nae and several other classmates 70 erine V. Arnold of Farm gather at select locations to keep ington, N.M., represented JMU in touch and reminisce about and President Linwood H. Rose Madison days. at the inauguration ceremony for Dene Thomas, the eighth Louise Schullery Cox president and first woman presi 67 of Windsor Locks, dent of Fort Lewis College in Conn., joined more than a historic Durango, Colo. “It was Nancy Creel Winborne (’48) represented JMU at Furman University’s dozen former Peace Corps vol a privilege and honor to repre presidential inauguration. unteers to celebrate the 50th sent JMU,” says Arnold.

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Frank D. Higgins virtuoso hole (humorously depicted in M. Susan Caspero 72 (’77Ed.S.) and his bassist, Howland’s new novel Landini 76 Benjamin was named wife, Gail Saufley Higgins (’73), joined Cadence). Howland also per director of special education for ClassNotesboth retired from teaching in Howland forms with Howard Livingston the Madison Elementary School the Allegheny County school and & Mile Marker 24. Before District in Phoenix, Ariz. ✱ system. Their son Ryan, a 2002 Peachey’s moving to the Keys in 2000, Jyl Stover Gamble and two of her JMU grad, works for Miller- band to Howland was the timpanist Madison College roommates, Coors in Charlotte, N.C. and form a of the National Chamber Kay Rand Dickerson and Kathy their daughter, Laura (’07, ’08M), new trio. Orchestra and leader of the Dean Ulrich, have remained is an occupational therapist for Howland, critically acclaimed Howland in contact since their college Rockingham Memorial Hospi Peachey Ensemble recording group. days. Gamble also celebrated tal in Harrisonburg. Hal Howland (’73), and Ramos Learn more about Howland her two daughters’ graduations. author of Landini Cadence. have a vast at www. halhowland.com. Jennifer Gamble graduated from Hal Howland is a repertoire ✱ Dennis G. McAdams and his Christopher Newport Univer 73 member of the Carl of classic and contemporary wife, Effie, live in the Hopongo sity, and Jacquelyn Gamble Peachey Band, the house band rock, soul, funk, blues, reggae, Village on Rendova Island in the graduated from Turner Ashby at Captain Tony’s Saloon in pop and original music. The Solomon Islands. McAdams fell High School. ✱ Cheryl Asti Key West, Fla. Howland and group performs every week in love with the spot while he was Heimerman represented JMU Peachey are Washington, D.C., end and on special occasions a Peace Corps volunteer in 1974. and President Linwood H. Rose natives and longtime friends. throughout the year at the Learn more about the couple at at the inauguration celebration Samson Ramos, a Miami famous Hemingway watering www.dennisandeffie.com. for Elizabeth J. Stroble as the

Mengebier endowed professorship: Thanks to Class of ’58

Dear members of New York City to visit two luminaries who address at the JMU College of Science and the Class of 1958: have influenced me: mathematical physicist Mathematics graduation ceremony in May As the first recipient Freeman Dyson, at the Institute for Advanced 2009. After recovering from a moment of of JMU’s Mengebier Studies in Princeton, and experimental psy- panic, I was honored to do it. Endowed Profes- chologist Lawrence LeShan in N.Y.C. The I am delighted that Michelle Hughes is sorship, I want to Mengebier funds made this valuable trip pos- also now a Mengebier recipient. Michelle and I express my thanks sible. Later in June 2009, I attended the 13th became friends in 2007 when we were among and let you know what doors your dreams and International Noetic Sciences Conference in JMU’s first contingent to attend Boot Camp generosity have opened. I felt great respon- Tucson, Ariz. For years, I had wanted to attend for Profs in Leadville, Colo. JMU is blessed sibility to set a precedent for the wise use of this perennial conference but never felt it with a plethora of gifted and dedicated faculty this gift. David Brakke, dean of the College appropriate to ask for departmental funds to across all disciplines. Many are deserving of a of Science and Mathematics, helped in that attend a conference outside my discipline. fellowship; few are chosen. Michelle and I are regard. We agreed that the funds would be The Mengebier funds also supported stu- honored and humbled to represent JMU’s stel- transferred to the college. dent research by physics major Ralph Herman lar faculty, and we are deeply grateful for the To date, the Mengebier funds have made (’09). His work helped physics professor Bill vision and generosity of the Class of 1958. possible a wonderful array of opportuni- Ingham and me to complete a project started ties. It allowed me time to complete a book in 2007. A paper bearing our three names as Appreciatively yours, I have been working on for a decade: At the co-authors was submitted to the journal Com- Dawn of the Third Copernican Revolution. In puter Physics Communications. C. David Pruett, June 2009, while completing a draft of the As a Mengebier recipient, I was asked by JMU professor of mathematics manuscript, I traveled to Princeton, N.J., and Dean Brakke to deliver the commencement

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veterans, history buffs and read unique business and entertain ers who enjoy a peek into the ment trial firm. Groce is a busi inner workings of an intelligent ness lawyer with more than 20 man’s heart.” Outskirts Press years experience representing published the book. Learn more companies across Asia, Europe at www.outskirtspress.com/ and North America. treasuresfromtheattic. John Kubesh says Paul M. Thompson 82 that he is looking 80 of Southlake, Texas, forward to rooting for the Dukes represented JMU and President in the new and improved Linwood H. Rose at the inau Bridgeforth Stadium. guration of Kenneth W. Starr as the 14th president of Baylor Janet S. Beamer and University. More than 100 83 John Joseph Beamer universities were represented (’79) represented JMU and Linda Thomas-Glover, (left) new president of Eastern Shore Commu- at the special event on Sept. 17 President Linwood H. Rose at nity College, shares in the celebration with Robin Rich-Coates (’76), on Constitution Day. Davis the inauguration celebration an ESCC faculty member and JMU alumna. “Missy” Thompson accompa for Buffalo State College’s new 11th president of Webster Uni Teacher of the Year. She was nied her husband to the event. president Aaron M. Podolefsky. versity. The ceremony was held one of eight regional teachers of Paul Thompson is a member of Janet Beamer writes, “The last on Sept. 25, 2010, in Webster the year who were eligible to be the JMU Alumni Association time I wore a cap and gown was Groves, Mo., a suburb of St. named the top 2011 Virginia Board of Directors. He writes at my 1983 JMU graduation. Louis. ✱ Robin Rich-Coates from Teacher of the Year. Wiley to Madison, “I was proud to Dr. Podolefsky spoke about the Eastern Shore, Va., represented became eligible for the Area represent JMU at this inau importance of education and JMU and President Linwood H. 5 honor when she was named guration at Baylor University the struggles that universities Rose at the inauguration cele 2011 Teacher of the Year for in Waco, Texas.” Prior to the are facing in these economically bration for Eastern Shore Com the City of Lynchburg Public inauguration ceremony, Judge challenging times. As I listened munity College’s fourth presi Schools. She is an early child Starr moderated a symposium to his inspirational words, I dent Linda Thomas-Glover. hood special education teacher on “The Role of the Supreme thought about my Madison “I was proud to wear two hats at Hutcherson Early Learn Court in American Society.” Experience and the classroom

Notes at the inauguration — one as ing Center in Lynchburg. She Thompson adds, “Starr is an and life lessons that I learned. a faculty member of Eastern majored in speech pathology at impressive individual, and the Thank you, Dr. Rose for the Shore Community College and JMU. (Read more on Page 56) event was enlightening and enjoy- opportunity for John and me to one as a delegate representing able. Judge Starr presented all of represent our alma mater in my James Madison University,” says Charles Welsh (’79M) the attendees with small bound hometown.” ✱ The Southern Class Rich-Coates. “Dr. Glover spoke 79 published Treasures copies of the Declaration of Inde Heritage Music Association about ‘renewal, recommitment, from the Attic: My Father’s Letters, pendence and the Constitution.” named Lisa Foltz Meyer the 2010 and reflection’ as it relates to the 1944-1945 from the States and Female Artist of the Year and the progress of the college.” Aboard Ship in the Pacific. Welsh David Groce joined Up and Coming Artist of the found the letters in his father’s 81 the St. Louis-based Year. In 2010, she released her Janice Carter Wiley attic and decided to assemble BrickHouse Law Group as a new CD, Voices Hushed and Still, 77 is the 2011 Virginia them into a book because of the partner. BrickHouse Law Group a collection of southern and rare Department of Education Area 5 “valuable insights they offer to is an intellectual property, songs from the Civil War era.

scholarship thank you Dear Mr. Robert and Mrs. Paula K. Frazier (’75, ’91M):

Thank you so much for the very generous donation of the Paula K. Frazier Scholarship Endowment in Elementary Education. I am honored and grateful to be the 2010–11 recipient. Your gift will go a long way in helping me reach my academic and professional goals. I have wanted to be an elementary educator since I was 8 years old. I am proud of my progress and am enjoying my Madison Experience. I have also learned a lot from working and volunteering in the Harrisonburg community. Your spirit of giving and support will be passed on to the future students I will help educate. Thank you again for making a big difference in my educational experience. Kelsey A. Loy (’11) Sterling, Va. Janet S. Beamer (’83) congratulates Buffalo State College’s new president Aaron Podolefsky.

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JMUWorks Former Breezers back together at Rhudy & Co. Shared Madison Experiences strengthen public relations team By Sande Snead (’82)

hen Breeze Managing Editor Donna Dunn (’94) communications and marketing company, I told him, ‘Flip would be hired Nicole Motley (’95) as co-news editor in proud.’ JMU and The Breeze literally brought us back together.” 1993, Motley took Dunn aside and told her that Shortly after Dunn began working with Rhudy & Co., her long- she just didn’t think she could work with Drew time friend, van Esselstyn, joined the staff. What is interesting vanW Esselstyn (’94). Drew, likewise, held a private meeting with about the close-knit friends and co-workers is that they live spread The Breeze managing editor and said that he was pleased to be out all along the East Coast. Dunn lives in Lynchburg, Va., Rhudy in hired as co-news editor as well, but he just didn’t think he could Richmond and van Esselstyn in Lebanon, N.J. work with “that girl, Nicole Motley.” Wait for it … yes, the co-news Yet, they work together seamlessly. editors are now married. “Nicole and I are from Nearly two decades the same hometown and later Dunn and Nicole we went to high school Motley van Esselstyn are together,” Dunn says. “So still friends and both work we had the same writ- for Richmond, Va.,-based ing and communication Rhudy & Co., owned by teachers our whole lives. fellow Breezer Jonathan We have the same founda- Rhudy (’95) and his wife, tional knowledge, follow Michele. the same rules and work

“There’s something well together. We remem- Class about those long nights ber well what JMU journal- at The Breeze, eating ism professor Dave Wen- pizza every Wednesday delken used to say about and Sunday night in the the importance of the nut

basement of Anthony- graph.” [i.e., the story in a Notes Seeger,” says Rhudy. “You nutshell]. really form tight bonds. Michele Rhudy And The Breeze was the founded Rhudy & Co. in best classroom of all. Former Breeze staff members say their shared Madison Experi- 2003 after nine years at Donna and Nicole are both ences and friendships make the working environment at Rhudy & CRT/tanaka, Virginia’s accomplished journalists, Co. a trusting and respectful one. Left to right are Nicole Motley largest public relations (’95), Jonathan Rhudy (’95) and Donna Dunn (’94). and JMU gave us all that firm. The following year foundation.” Jonathan followed his wife The Breeze has been ‘JMU has that small-school feel. You are and left CRT as well. The JMU’s award-winning truly able to know the people you go to husband-wife team works student newspaper since from their home and man- 1922. Currently, the news- school with, so friendships develop that ages an eight-person team paper prints 9,500 copies can withstand the test of time.’ specializing in strategic and is distributed on cam- communications planning, pus every Monday and Thursday. It is also available online (www. public relations and marketing, employee communications and breezejmu.org) and there are, of course, social media connections. editorial services. That was not the case in the mid-1990s. The small company has amassed an impressive array of clients, “We used Macs and still used X-Acto knives to cut out the notably Bon Secours Virginia Health System, Hamilton Beach and copy,” recalls Rhudy. “Then, we ran it through wax machines to Luck Stone Corp., among others. paste up the pages. Invariably there were run-ins with the X-Acto “When you work remotely the way we all do, you have to know knives, and many nights we were still pasting up the last pages as and trust the person you don’t see face to face all the time,” says the printer from Martinsburg, W.Va., waited.” Dunn. “You have to know that if you leave a phone message or send Van Esselstyn also remembers the close friendships: “JMU has an e-mail, that the other person received it and will act upon it. That’s that small-school feel. You are truly able to know the people you go where our JMU friendships come in. We all enjoy working together.” to school with, so friendships develop that can withstand the test Rhudy concurs. of time.” “Our shared Madison Experience really goes deep,” Rhudy Rhudy reconnected with Dunn at the 2008 memorial service says. “I’ve known Donna and Nicole longer than I’ve known my wife. for a favorite journalism professor, Flip DeLuca. “We both thought We have an incredible amount of trust and respect for each other, a lot of Flip,” Dunn says. “When I found out Jonathan had his own and we continue to learn from each other.” M

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the Marching Royal Dukes. Their son, Matt, is a junior in high school. scholarship

Laura Hobgood-Oster thank YOU 85 published her third Dear Kay A. Harter (’84): book, The Friends We Keep – I am so honored to receive the Carl Unleashing Christianity’s Compas- L. Harter Memorial Scholarship sion for Animals. The professor for Anthropology. It was wonderful of religion and environmental to meet you at the scholarship lun- studies holds the Paden Chair cheon! With your help, I am studying in Religion at Southwestern abroad in Cairo, Egypt, this spring University. ✱ Lt. Col. Michael and completing research for my R. McWright (ret.) represented senior thesis. My Madison Experience JMU and President Linwood will help me reach my goal of pro- Bob Carter (’84) cycled his way across the country and to better health. H. Rose at the inauguration of moting cultural understanding via Bob Carter of Atlanta appointed to anchor the 5 p.m. Spalding University President international humanitarian research completed a 50-city news. I’ve been at WWL-TV Tori Murden McClure on Sept. and diplomacy. Being an anthropol- 84 ogy major at JMU has shaped how I bike tour to raise awareness for 23 years.” Hoss is married 7, 2010. McClure is the 28th look at the world. There is so much about obesity and other health to Betty-Ann Hoss, and the president of Spalding University to learn and so much to work on. I issues. He lost 95 pounds on in Louisville, Ky. McClure has couple has two daughters, Alli- cannot wait to see what the future his cross-country trek. Watch son, 11, and Katie, 9. ✱ Kevin numerous academic commenda tions and is the first woman to holds for me, and I have people like his video at pedalwithpurpose Kordek was elected president you to thank for these opportunities. ✱ receive the Peter Byrd Trophy. tour.com/. Gene C. Fant was of the National Pest Manage Thank you, and God bless! appointed vice president for aca ment Association. He is the “She discussed her passions as a demic administration at Union first NPMA president elected world adventurer and humani Lindsay Holt (’11) University in Jackson, Tenn. He from Virginia. Kordek and tarian,” says McWright. “She is Glen Allen, Va. continues to serve as a professor his wife, Mary Beth (’82), live best known as the first woman of English. ✱ On Nov. 14, 2010, in Virginia Beach, Va., and and first American to row across their daughter, Elizabeth Ashley the Atlantic Ocean. She is pas Kordek, is a student at JMU. sionate about transforming the the NFL Hall of Fame nomi Notes ✱ John W. Powers directs the power of education, something nations. Haley never missed a recruiting efforts for Conoco I’m glad to say President Rose game with the Dukes and is the Phillips to find the best and and JMU embrace.” ✱ John Poff first and only NFL player to be brightest Ph.D. researchers to Jr. and Melanie Butler Poff are a member of five Super Bowl help address the world’s grow happy that their daughter is a championship teams. He was Class ing energy demand. ✱ Linda JMU Duke. Kaitlyn Poff (’15) a vital force with the San Fran Ryder Wolf of Summit, N.J., will attend JMU this fall. The cisco 49ers, who won the Super was promoted to member serv student-athlete will be a member Bowl in 1989 and 1990, and the ices supervisor of the Summit of the women’s swim team and Dallas Cowboys, who took the YMCA. Her husband, Steve, plans to earn a nursing degree. championships in 1993, 1994 is project manager for Quality and 1996. Haley received the Technology Services. Their Lynn Duffy is pursu 2003 Ronald E. Carrier Distin daughter, Rachel, is a fresh 86 ing a post-doctorate guished Alumni Achievement Mike Hoss (’84) represented man at JMU and a member of certification in clinical child Award at JMU and says, “playing JMU at the inauguration of psychology. Duffy’s service to for JMU coach Challace McMil McNeese State University’s the community includes posi lin was the highlight of my new president. tions on the board of directors Madison Experience.” ✱ Barry for a local homeless shelter, Matherly, executive director of Michael Hoss of New Orleans and the local youth program the Lincoln Economic Develop represented JMU and President Save the Youth Inc., serving ment Association for Lincoln Linwood H. Rose at the inau as a church elder and now as County and Lincolnton, N.C., guration ceremony for McNeese president of her local ministe was chosen to chair the planning State University’s sixth presi rial association. Her daughter, and business development com dent Philip C. Williams. Hoss Launa Ashley, graduated from mittee of the International Eco writes, “It was a unique and Liberty University and is now nomic Development Council. fantastic experience, and I was pursuing a master’s degree. The IEDC is the premier mem honored to represent JMU and bership organization dedicated President Rose. Geaux Dukes!” Charles Haley, a former to helping economic develop Hoss is the interim news direc 87 senior All-American ment professionals create high- tor of WWL-TV (CBS) in with the JMU football team, quality jobs, develop vibrant New Orleans. “I was recently Mary Beth (’82) and Kevin was a Class of 2011 finalist in communities and improve the Kordek (’84). quality of life in their regions.

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Internationally 90 acclaimed acoustic gui tarist/singer/songwriter David scholarship LaMotte gave a benefit concert on Dec. 5, 2010, for Fairfax- thank YOU based nonprofit Our Daily Dear Walter (’84) and Martha Curt: Bread Inc. The nonprofit pro Receiving the Curt Physics Scholarship was the final factor in helping me vides emergency assistance to decide to attend James Madison University. I love JMU, especially the struggling families throughout physics department, and I’m very glad I’m here. I am currently taking 21 the Fairfax County area of Vir credit hours, and tutoring two students in physics and calculus. My heavy ginia. Lisa Paine Whetzel (’88), workload does not allow me much free time, and I am not able to research Our Daily Bread executive as much as I would like. Last semester, I worked with Brian Utter, and director, says that the nonprofit I eagerly look forward to next semester when I will be able to return to research projects. I’m also part of JMU’s Science Fiction and Fantasy sponsored a golf tournament Guild. I can’t imagine a better or more faithful group of friends. Last year, last May that was organized by I helped run Madicon, SFFG’s yearly spring convention. I helped staff the Steve Werrlein (’88). More than event, and I coordinated a panel on “Inaccuracies in Game and Sci-Fi 40 JMU alumni participated. Physics.” It was awesome! With my education and research experience at Former JMU Alumni Associa- ✱ Angela Reddix is CEO of A. tion President Jon Offley (’89) JMU, I plan to continue my education in graduate school. I’m most inter- represented JMU at Morgan Reddix & Associates, Norfolk’s ested in quantum physics, nuclear fusion and NIF, granular systems, and State University’s presidential 2010 Small Business of the Year. nanotechnology. Thank you for this scholarship. Coming to James Madison inauguration. The Hampton Roads Chamber University was one of the best decisions of my life. Thank you. of Commerce members select Andrea Olsen Burns Elizabeth Visosky (’12) the award finalists. A. Reddix & earned the Certified Fairfax, Va. 88 Associates offers a competitive Association Executive creden internship program. tial. The CAE is the highest award for the Virginia Elementary to managing director with

professional credential awarded. Class Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Physical Education Teacher of the Deutsche Bank, Institutional Burns works for the Pediatric Corbett appointed Year. At the association’s annual Client Group, in the fixed Nursing Certification Board 91 Michael F. Consedine of convention, Samsky presented a income division. as chief financial officer/chief Mechanicsburg, Pa., as the workshop on a heart lab she uses operations officer. She lives in insurance commissioner for the to teach fifth-graders about the Suzanne Sysko Rockville, Md., with her hus Notes Commonwealth of Pennsylvania human heart. ✱ Matthew Was- Clough, M.D., is band, Frank, and 7-year-old 93 Insurance Department. From niewski (’94M) is the new his the founder and chief medi daughter, Emma. 1999 to 2011, Consedine prac torian of the U.S. House of Rep cal officer of Baltimore-based ticed with the law firm of Saul resentatives. In October, Nancy WellDoc. Clough’s company Lt. Col. Eric D. Arnold Ewing LLP as a partner and vice Pelosi (D-Calif.), then-House received FDA clearance for its retired after 21 years 89 chair of the firm’s insurance prac Speaker, appointed Wasniewski flagship system, the Diabetes of active service in the U.S. tice group. The communications as the House historian following Manager®, which is being her Army, serving his last assign major earned his juris doctorate the recommendation of a selection alded by the health care indus ment as professor of military from Widener University. ✱ committee and in consultation try for its help in the treatment science at Indiana University at Mark Hughes earned a Doctor with then-House Minority Leader of type 2 diabetes and overall Bloomington. During his career of Ministry degree from Baptist John Boehner (R-Ohio). potential savings to the U.S. he deployed to Panama, Haiti, Theological Seminary in Rich health care systems. BusinessWeek Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo, mond on May 30, 2010. Hughes Daniel W. Phillips III, listed WellDoc among 15 new Hungary and Iraq. He is a pro has served as pastor of Berea Ph.D., is associate pro mobile “Health Solutions to gram manager for URS Corp. at 92 Baptist Church in Rockville, Va., fessor of sociology and criminal Watch For.” The biology major Naval Surface Warfare Center since June 1999. ✱ Investigator justice and chairs the Division of now works as an endocrinolo in Crane, Ind. ✱ On Oct. 21, David Peter Klisz was recognized Social Sciences at Lindsey Wil gist. She lives in Wilmington, 2010, Jon E. Offley of Ellicott as the 2009 Virginia Deputy of son College in Columbia, Ky. He Del., which also has a WellDoc City, Md., represented JMU the Year at the Virginia Sher is president of the Anthropolo office. ✱ Eric Levitt completed and President Linwood H. Rose riff’s Association annual confer gists and Sociologists of Ken his third year as assistant super at the inauguration celebration ence. Since joining the Hanover tucky (2009–13) and editor of intendent for instruction in of Morgan State University’s County Sherriff’s Office in 1998, the Kentucky Journal of Anthropology Spartanburg School District 3 12th president, David Wilson. initially in the uniform patrol and Sociology and the International in Glendale, S.C. He has co- Offley says, “Dr. Wilson gave division, Klisz has served the past Journal of Sociology Research. He has written three books and oper a great speech about his goals. seven years as an investigator in also published two books: Mental ates Carolina Classroom Educa He desires to increase Morgan the general investigative division. Health Issues in the Criminal Justice tional Services, which develops State’s national profile and He lives in Ashland with his wife System and Probation and Parole: lesson planning software student enrollment. It was a and daughter. ✱ Andrea Samsky Current Trends. Phillips also chairs designed for administrators to great honor to represent Dr. received the Virginia Association the Institutional Review Board track and analyze data to ensure Rose and James Madison Uni for Health, Physical Education, at Lindsey Wilson College. ✱ teachers are working toward versity.” Recreation and Dance 2011 Sean Tobin was promoted meeting academic standards.

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✱ Timothy Persons presented Activity under the office of is a registered dietitian and store/). Last fall the chef visited the graduation speech for the the U.S. Director of National works as a clinical nutritionist Washington, D.C., and raised Graduate School of Arts and Intelligence. and certified diabetes educator. money for his first school Sciences at Wake Forest Uni ✱ Nathan Lyon, host of A Lyon — Long Branch Elementary versity on May 15, 2010. His Viola Holmes (’95M) in the Kitchen on the Discovery School, in Arlington. He also speech was titled “Three Easy 94 of Charlottesville won Health channel, completed tap visited with and cooked with Pieces.” Persons is the chief the 2010 American Dietetic ing the first season of Growing JMU students and Gregory scientist in the U.S. Govern Association Diversity Leader A Greener World for PBS. View Layne, the executive sous chef ment Accountability Office in Program Award at the ADA’s full episodes at www.growing for E-Hall. Lyon also co-hosted Washington, D.C. Previously annual Food and Nutrition agreenerworld.com. In Decem the Dine LA Restaurant Week he was employed as a techni Conference and Exhibition. ber, Lyon published a children’s and cooked and spoke at the cal director with Intelligence The conference was held in adventure book, Sam The Clam. Second-Annual Gastric Cancer Advanced Research Projects Boston in November. Holmes (www.authorhouse.com/Book Fund Gala in San Francisco.

A special teacher for special-needs preschoolers Janice C. Wiley (’77) is Virginia Area 5 Teacher of the Year By Gabrielle Piccininni (’11)

n the morning of Sept. 15, Janice C. Wiley (’77) Inspired by her parents, Adell and Keen Carter, to pursue a was on lunch duty, surrounded by dozens of perky career in education, Wiley studied speech pathology at JMU. She preschoolers. While exiting the serving line with recalls the immense benefit of working with professors from a one of her students, Wiley caught a glimpse of an wide range of disciplines. “My professors willingly shared their unexpected and distressing sight — her husband. experiences and prepared us well for the real world.” O“I love my husband very much, but when I saw him, I was terrified!” After three decades in classrooms, Wiley says she continu- After noticing her husband’s broad smile, and the approaching ously feels challenged and rewarded by interactions with students. Lynchburg City School Superintendant “I am a teacher by choice. It is who I am Paul McKendrick holding a bouquet of and what I love to do.” flowers, Wiley was put at ease. With Wiley currently works as an early a kiss from her husband and a letter childhood special education teacher at Notes of congratulations from McKendrick, Hutcherson Early Learning Center and Wiley learned of her nomination as contends that the greatest lesson she the 2011 Virginia Teacher of the Year has learned is the importance for the representative for Area 5 and her sub- teacher to develop a close, personal sequent candidacy for the official Mary relationship with each child. Wiley Class V. Bicouvaris Virginia Teacher of the teaches her preschoolers the value Year Award. of relationship building by showing a Each year the Virginia Department respect for, and interest in, her stu- of Education selects eight teachers dents, their parents and other teachers. who epitomize the best in teaching and “I share my joy and excitement about a who are the best among all the Teach- student’s success and inspire others to ers of the Year from across the state. Janice C. Wiley (’77) is the 2011 Teacher of the Year embrace the educational vision for stu- These eight represent eight areas of for Lynchburg City Schools and Virginia Area 5. dents,” she says. the commonwealth, and one of them Wiley begins each school day by is given the state’s top honor. Wiley’s ability to inspire, encourage greeting her preschool, special-needs students at the bus stop and challenge her students is part of her successes as an early and then works with them in an inclusive classroom setting. In the childhood education teacher and among the reasons she was afternoon, she transitions to her classroom for preschool students selected as the top Teacher of the Year for Area 5. with autism. After receiving the nomination by her school division in April, Wiley provides her students with a learning framework within Wiley entered into the application process for the top Virginia which each child is free to explore and engage in active learning. Teacher of the Year award. “I work with such a phenomenal group “An interested, supportive, invested and fully present teacher of professionals,” says Wiley. As the first special education teacher is vital to each child’s success,” she says. After determining the selected as Teacher of the Year for Lynchburg City Schools, Wiley learning style that works best for each student, Wiley utilizes wanted to particularly represent her colleagues in special educa- research-based strategies proven to activate the brain. tion and preschool special education with her best efforts. “I love what I do,” says Wiley. The unparalleled experiences of “It is the most exciting event to happen to me in my 34 years of seeing students accomplish a task they have struggled with, hear- teaching. I am honored and humbled,” says Wiley. Amidst the gig- ing speech impediments overcome, or watching as students with gles and curious smiles of countless preschoolers, Wiley explains special needs are included in play activities with peers are just that the funniest part of the surprise was watching the students’ three examples of the small miracles Wiley inspires. Though, this reactions. One little girl, taking note of the flowers and kiss from Teacher of the Year attaches her success to her students’ achieve- her husband, congratulated Wiley on being pregnant! ments. “I am rewarded when I see my students succeed.” M

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He is currently filming season like more information about Ginny Dangerfield tinyurl.com/RwandaYoga two of Growing A Greener World creating nonprofit organizations, 96 Bostick of Nashville Experience2010 and visit his and presented at the Second- identifying grants and/or manag was promoted to program man website at www.steadfast Annual Tasty Awards in Los ing grants. The book is available ager in the Medicaid Policy Unit freedomyoga.com/. ✱ Jamie Angeles. Learn more about the through Amazon.com. Brown for the Tennessee Department Mottram is the author of the busy chef at www.chefnathan lives in Culpeper, Va., with her of Human Services. ✱ Paul M. sports blog at http://mister lyon.com. husband and two sons. ✱ Mat- Fugelsang is a licensed mental irrelevant.com. The blog cov thew Warner’s fifth book, Blood health counselor in Florida. In ers professional sports teams in Shauna R. Miller Born, is a horror novel set in the addition to offering face-to-face the Washington, D.C., area, 95 Brown has published nation’s capital. The book was psychotherapy in St. Augus including the Redskins, Wizards, Power for Purpose: Your Guide to published this spring. Learn more tine, he offers distance therapy Capitals and the Nationals. The Getting Grants. The book is for at matthewwarner.com/blood options via telephone and Skype. School of Media Arts and Design novice grant seekers who would borninfo.html. Learn more at www..paulfu major is married to Christine Keat- gelsang.com. ✱ Kerry Callahan ing Mottram (’00), and the couple Mandulak was promoted to assis has two Future Dukes. tant professor at Portland State EMERiTINOTES University. She completed her Cheryl L. Covel and former faculty news doctorate and joined Portland 00 accepted a position State’s faculty in 2009. with Setliff Turner and Hol land PC’s Annapolis/Baltimore igma Press of Seoul, South Korea, published Esther JMU Parents Council office. Covel was previously Minskoff’s book Academic Success Strategies for Adolescents members Rick and employed as a confidential law in Korean in 2010. 97 with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Lane Witthoefft (’97P, ’01P, clerk with the New York State Minskoff is professor emerita of special education. Originally ’03P) represented JMU and Supreme Court and operated publishedS in English in 2003 by Brookes Publishing, the French President Linwood H. Rose at her own law firm. She is thrilled translation of the book was published in 2006 by Cheneliere Educa the inauguration for Hampden- to be back on the East Coast tion of Montreal. Minskoff and fellow JMU professor David Allsopp Sydney College’s 24th president with her husband, Eric, and Class wrote this with funding from two federally funded JMU programs. Christopher B. Howard. The their sons, Charlie and Andrew. The programs were established to better meet the needs of high- ceremony was held on Nov. ✱ Justin Kittredge leads the school and college students with learning disabilities and ADHD. 11, 2010. Rick and Lane are Reebok basketball department parents to three JMU alumni: and is in charge of all on-court

In collaboration with the Notes Cameron Jason (’97), Edward (’01) and basketball products for colleges JMU Parent Relations Nickels spoke Brian Witthoefft (’03), and two and the NBA, as well as all ten Office and the Office of about his book daughters-in-law, Susan (’97) nis products. While working Outreach and Engagement, at the first JMU Faculty Emeriti and Jaclyn (’03). The Witthoefft at Reebok, Kittredge has spent the JMU Faculty Emeriti Lecture. family includes several other time working with grassroots Association initiated the alumni, and proud JMU par basketball organizations. He Faculty Emeriti Lecture Se ents Rick and Lane Witthoefft realized there were few outlets ries. The lectures are open support JMU students with the in the Boston area that helped to the campus community and the general public. Faculty Emeriti Witthoefft Family Scholarship. coach underprivileged kids on Association Executive Board officers Rex Fuller, Violet Allain ✱ Nate Young, producer for the and off the court. With the and Mary Lou Wylie select speakers and encourage feedback and short film, Brick Novax Pt. 1 and help of his wife, he started the participation from all JMU Faculty Emeriti Association members. 2, won the Jury Prize at the nonprofit organization Shooting The first two lectures, held April 14 in Memorial Hall, featured 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Touch Inc., www.shootingtouch. Cameron Nickels talking Young is a computer informa com. The nonprofit’s goals are about his latest book, Civil tion systems alumnus. to educate young people about Bob Bersson War Humor. life skills, mentor all players and and Greg Versen presented Kelly Gray was a to coach the fundamentals of the second lecture on 99 contestant on the basketball to improve individual “The Blues.” A reception Food Network reality TV show confidence. In three years Shoot followed the presenta ✱ Worst Cooks in America. Marc ing Touch has developed and tions. Emeriti faculty T. Herndon was elected presi launched six outreach programs members are invited to dent of the Rocky Mountain that educate, mentor and coach submit proposals for future Bob Bersson and Greg Versen Chapter of the International participated in the first JMU young adults through basketball. lectures. Send your ideas Faculty Emeriti Lectures in April. Interior Design Association. He Kittredge has also developed to Rex Fuller at rfuller@ is a senior associate with RNL two Sabbatical Grant programs northriver.coop. ✱ in Denver, Co. Jordan Mal- that enable college graduates to lah continues the community travel overseas for 10 months, service-learning spirit experi ✱ give back to the global commu All former professors are encouraged enced at JMU. He works on to contribute an “Emeriti Note” at nity and impact positive social yoga retreats and other service change through basketball. ✱ [email protected]. projects in Rwanda. Read more Agatha Kulesza, founder of about his journeys at http:// Agatha K, LLC, spoke to stu

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scholarship thank YOU Dear Malcolm and Maureen Lane (’00P): As a computer science faculty member, Professor Lane, I am sure you can understand — I don’t think I could escape the quiet hum of a computer fan if I tried. They’re the medium of my writing, and for that reason alone I think I love them. Computers are my entertain- ment, my encyclopedia, my thesaurus and my dictionary. There isn’t anything more widely useful on this planet, and if there was I would probably be reading about it on a computer. I want to be part of the world of computer-building and programming. I want to be part of the leading edge that makes our technology what it is today and what it will be tomorrow. For these reasons and more, I am honored to receive 2005 alumni visiting the ‘Burg and grabbing some Purple and Gold the 2010–11 Lane Scholarship for Computer Science. As a sophomore gear at the Bookstore are (l-r): Jurgens Bauer (’04), Future Duke computer science major, it means an immense amount to me to be Elsie Bauer, Christina Rose Bauer (’05), Bryan McCabe (’05), Brittany acknowledged within my own area of study. I hope to maintain this Iveson McCabe (’05), Katie Murphy Larson (’05), Brett Larson, Future level of excellence throughout my entire computer science career. I want Duke Charlie Larson, Kelly McCardell (’05) and Tim Berceau. to share my knowledge and work ethic with students I currently counsel, and hopefully mentor, as a computer science teaching assistant. Thank future leadership potential,” Hokie husband agrees she most you for these opportunities. says McGowan Fund Execu definitely is a Future Duke.” ✱ Kayla Funke (’13) tive Director Diana Spencer. Andrew M. Trice co-authored Stafford, Va. Cashman serves as president Professional Adobe Flex 3. He is of the Georgetown Graduate also a contributing author to Student Consulting Group and Flex 3 Cookbook and writes a dents in the JMU College of com. Lora’s husband, Christopher is a founding member of the weekly blog for InsideRIA.com. Business on March 29, 2011 Nalberczinski (’03, ’07M) owns Georgetown Francophile Asso Trice is the principal architect in Zane Showker Hall. The Massanutten Computer in Har ciation. Prior to graduate busi for the Adobe practice of Cyn accounting major graduated cum risonburg. He earned a B.S. and ness school, Cashman served in ergy Systems in Washington, the Peace Corps as consultant D.C. He and his wife, Marta,

Notes laude. After working at a “Big an M.S. in technical and scien 4” public accounting firm for tific communication. to the Philippine Depart live in Silver Spring, Md. a year, Kulesza left the public ment of Education, where she accounting field to brave the Chicago-based Wil worked to expand libraries and Meghan Ely, founder uncertain entrepreneurial waters 01 liam G. McGowan implement teacher-training 03 and president of

Class of small business start-ups. After Charitable Fund named Brooke programs affecting more than Richmond, Va.,-based niche nearly a decade of running her Cashman a 2010–11 McGowan 20,000 rural schoolteachers. A marketing and public relations own accounting and bookkeep Fellow. The JMU double major native of Vermont, Cashman firm OFD Consulting was the ing service company, Kulesza in English and French is a also earned a Master of Arts in keynote speaker for The Busi created an online course for per second-year M.B.A. student at applied linguistics from Ameri ness of Wedding Ireland Con sonal finance, adding an Inter Georgetown can University in 2005. ✱ Amy ference in Killarney, Ireland. net leg to her business. In 2011, University Golden worked as a school-based OFD Consulting LLC is a Kulesza is also releasing her McDonough occupational therapist in Fairfax marketing and public relations first book, Sweaty Armpit Duct School of County schools until 2004. She firm that services the wedding Tape Girl: A Memoir. She calls it Business. She now serves as an occupational industry. Learn more at www. a “courageously honest story of is one of 10 therapist for orphans in Johan ofdconsulting.com. ✱ Brooke what it takes to be truly happy McGowan nesburg, South Africa. She Ashcraft Ferguson (’05Ed.S.) and successful.” ✱ Lora Nalber- Fellows who also serves as the housemother was promoted to coordinator czinski owns the Speech and participated at a children’s home for 12 of developmental education at Language Center in Harrison orphaned and abused children. Virginia Western Community Brooke Cashman (’01) is a ✱ Chrystal Jones Shawn says that College in Roanoke, Va. Fer burg. She earned her master’s in 2010–11 McGown Fellow at speech pathology from JMU in Georgetown University’s even though she is married to guson and her husband, Todd 2002. She offers speech therapy, graduate business school. a Virginia Tech alumnus, they (’05), live in Roanoke. ✱ Emily occupational therapy and physi shared “good news” on Sept. M. Pinion-Jenkins published cal therapy services. Her focus is in the first McGowan Sympo 11. Yes, the Dukes beat the her first book, From There to pediatrics, and largely the autism sium on Business Leadership Hokies 21–16 in Blacksburg, Hear … How I Got My Cochlear population. The center offers and Ethics on Nov. 6 at the but this JMU/Tech duo also Implant. A photographic free autism screenings and other National Archives in Wash welcomed their first child, Ellie, biography of a young child’s community service programs. ington, D.C. “The McGowan on Sept. 11. “Ellie decided to hearing journey, the book Learn more about the center and Fellowship Program for prom arrive two weeks early, and I answers a variety of questions Nalberczinski’s work at www. ising M.B.A. candidates isn’t really think she was a good luck commonly asked during the thespeechandlanguagecenter. solely about academics and charm,” says Shawn. “Even my cochlear implant process.

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Discovering America Kim Wheeler (’09) serves others in a memorable year with AmeriCorps By Amelia Wood (’13)

s a JMU Student Ambassador, Kim Wheeler (’09) dis- bye to very long hair that I had been growing out for years. Several covered AmeriCorps at a university service fair. Then, JMU Student Ambassadors and JMU alumni donated to St. Baldrick’s she discovered America one service project at a time. through our efforts, and I will never forget that!” AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps Her service with AmeriCorps left Wheeler with quite a few Aprovides “many opportunities that I am interested in, like travel, unforgettable experiences. service projects and teamwork with people my age,” says Wheeler. In South Dakota, Wheeler’s team planned to work with Habi- She has fought fires in Idaho, helped clean up the 2010 oil spill in tat for Humanity to renovate areas of the Cheyenne River Indian the Gulf of Mexico, renovated Reservation. Two days into their Indian Reservations in South work an ice storm hit, and efforts Dakota and raised money for immediately turned from renova- children’s cancer research. tion to disaster relief. “Thou- “The friends I made as a Stu- sands of power lines were down, dent Ambassador are all incred- and several already impoverished ibly motivated and inspiring peo- local communities were left with- ple who made me want to be a out heat and running water for better person. I learned how fun weeks,” she says. Wheeler’s team service can be,” says Wheeler. helped run a 24-hour emergency After graduating with a B.S. call center through the Emer- in media arts and design, and gency Operations Command Class a minor in sports communica- Center, answering phones and tion, Wheeler spent the summer directing community members on her second service trip to to the necessary resources. The Nicaragua. She also backpacked team also helped run a shelter, around the country, visited a delivered food and water, and beach with friends and spent made rounds throughout the Notes time with family. Reservation community to report In October 2009, she on progress. joined AmeriCorps and dove While serving on the Chey- into service projects related to enne River Indian Reservation, education, the environment, Wheeler participated in a sweat public safety and disaster relief. lodge, a native spiritual ceremony. Wheeler lived, worked and trav- “It was incredible and an unforget- eled with 10 people from all over table experience,” she says. the United States. “They became The remainder of Wheeler’s my second family,” she says. “We AmeriCorps service included run- worked full time in 10 nonprofit Kim Wheeler (’09) discovered America and expanded her love ning disaster shelters, conducting organizations, and I did more than of serving others during a memorable year with AmeriCorps. controlled fires to fight wildfires in 100 hours of additional volunteer Idaho, leading youth events, main- work with 15 other nonprofits.” taining parks and campgrounds, Wheeler started in Vinton, ‘The friends I made … are all incred- and helping recovery efforts from Iowa, where she trained in CPR, ibly motivated and inspiring people Hurricane Katrina. first aid, Red Cross Safe Spaces, Wheeler also helped clean up Red Cross Mass Care, Red Cross who made me want to be a better the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mex- Shelter Operations, Hands of person. I learned how fun service ico. “We were in Mississippi when Peace, ATV safety, chain saw can be,’ says Wheeler. the oil hit the beaches,” she says. usage, diversity issues, cooking, “It was one of the saddest things nutrition and driving courses. I have ever witnessed. It was yet another horrible blow for the Gulf AmeriCorps training is intense, and Wheeler says she felt “well community, still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.” And some- equipped for anything” that might cross her path. Like most Ameri- times the best way to help is to drop the gloves and just listen. “We Corps volunteers, one thing that doesn’t need to be taught is self- spoke with community members about all they had been dealing sacrifice. In her first six weeks, working in Omaha, Neb., Wheeler cut with over the last five years, and it was absolutely heartbreaking,” her lengthy blonde hair in solidarity to support children with cancer. says Wheeler. “Our team was supporting the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which raises The legacy of Wheeler’s volunteer efforts epitomizes the money for children’s cancer research,” recalls Wheeler. “I said good- power of one and the JMU community’s Be the Change spirit. M

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minored in physics, discussed the energy industry, energy usage, entrepreneurship, venture capi talism and the emerging field of clean-tech startups. Starr started his first auto-detailing business in Richmond, Va., when he was 17. After graduation, he joined Strategic Enterprise Solutions, a federal government-consulting firm, in Reston. He currently works in Austin, Texas, for Energy Xtreme®, a new clean- tech venture.

“Then and Now” (l-r) are 2005 classmates Kate Fullenkamp, John Tato and Amanda Bellistri. Rob Anderson won Nikki Sparks graduated Sarah V. L. Castleberry Erin Frye traveled to 09 the fifth season of the 04 from Virginia Com 06 earned a juris doc 07 Africa in June 2008 critically acclaimed Chicago monwealth University School of tor degree from New England to teach music to children and comedy and talent competition Dentistry in 2008 and practices Law at Boston in May 2010. ✱ do volunteer work through Impress These Apes (www. dentistry with W. Baxter Per Steven Gaberdiel (’07M) lives in the Cross Cultural Solutions impresstheseapes.com). Ander kinson & Associates, Ltd., in Mechanicsville with his wife, program. “I have always been son has also performed regularly Powhatan, Va. Kristin Mimm Gaberdiel (’06, involved in volunteer work; in the Chicago comedy and ’07M). Both earned their under prison ministry, playing improv scene with iO (www. Christina Rose Bauer graduate degrees in account music at local soup kitchens; chicago.ioimprov.com), Gay 05 writes, “I recently vis ing and a Masters of Science but, I really wanted to chal Co., pH, and as a contributor ited Harrisonburg with a group in Accounting degree at JMU lenge myself and make myself for The Paper Machete (www. of alumni for a mini-reunion. in 2007. ✱ On Oct. 29, 2010, uncomfortable. That is when thepapermacheteshow.com). We stayed at Massanutten Jennifer Ramsey of Arlington, you grow the most, writes Frye, ✱ Music industry major Ted and spent a great weekend Va., represented JMU and a communication major with Beidler moved to Nashville visiting campus and the JMU President Linwood H. Rose at a concentration in public rela after completing an internship Notes Bookstore. We enjoyed reliv the inauguration celebration for tions. “I was placed in a village with Red Light Management ing Madison memories.” ✱ Montgomery College’s ninth called Hohoe, four hours from in Charlottesville after gradua Shay Cochrane of Wesley Cha president, DeRionne Pollard. Ghana’s capital, Accra. I used tion. “Red Light set me up with pel, Fla., won the prestigious “Dr. Pollard outlined her vision my voice and my guitar to teach an internship here as well,” says WeddingWire Bride’s Choice of making Montgomery College the children many songs. I also Beidler. “And, I finally got a big Class Awards™ 2011 for Wedding the most relevant community brought supplies and taught the break. After working with him and Engagement Photography. college in the nation by meeting children how to make their own on a video shoot in October, Cochrane is a frequent con the needs of both students and rhythm instruments. The chil JMU alumnus Phil Vassar (’85) tributor to Madison magazine. the community,” writes Ramsey. dren blessed me in ways I could offered me a gig on the road WeddingWire is the nation’s “This was a great experience, and never imagine. They showed for two weeks to film some leading wedding technology I was proud to represent James me what true faith, joy and love behind-the-scenes and live foot company. Recognition for Madison University.” ✱ Courtney look like.” In June 2010, Frye age to promote his new album. the Bride’s Choice Awards is Culbertson Swartzentruber (’12M) returned to Ghana with her I learned how to film and edit determined by recent customer will complete her M.A. in Eng family and a few friends to live video as I went. I guess I did reviews and extensive surveys lish at JMU in May 2012. and work in the Hohoe Chris a good job since I was invited from 750,000 newlyweds. Shay tian Orphanage. “We taught to stay with the tour! I ended Cochrane Photography stands English, art and music, and up being on the road with his among the top five percent of coached the children in soccer. group for about six months. I wedding professionals in the We brought 16 suitcases worth did a video blog for every show WeddingWire community. ✱ of donations,” adds Frye. “I have and sold merch on the road. Dan Jensen (’08M) of Reston, fallen in love with the Ghanaian It was a great experience. We Va., competed on the TV game culture.” Stay tuned to a future toured all over the states and show Jeopardy in January. The issue of Madison to read Frye’s Europe. While on the road I marketing major earned his incredible story. kept up my contacts with every M.B.A. at JMU in 2008. ✱ one in the Red Light office, and Three 2005 Dukes took time for David Starr, director of was offered a full-time position some “Then and Now” Madison 08 federal business devel in June. 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ond-degree students attaining a Ministry after graduation. “I sota Vikings quarterback Brett DeVos Institute of Arts Manage B.S.N. and R.N. license. ✱ Jane chose Christian Appalachian Favre with a tackle in Week 13. ment. ✱ Wes Mitchell is complet Walters served in Mt. Vernon, Project because I wanted to This marks the first time in ing an internship with Grassroot Ky., with Christian Appalachian work on a personal level with JMU football program history Soccer Inc., located in Lilongwe, Project, a nonprofit poverty the people I love,” says Walters. that two former Dukes suited up Malawi. Grassroot Soccer is a relief organization. Walters for the same NFL team. During nonprofit organization that uses volunteered in the CAP Elderly The NFL’s Buffalo Bills the off-season, Moats is back in the transformative power of soc Services program providing 10 signed Mike Caussin in the ’Burg finishing his degree cer in the fight against HIV and transportation and advocacy December after the Jacksonville at JMU. He left JMU only AIDS. Mitchell is responsible services. As an undergraduate, Jaguars released him. Caussin nine credits shy of graduation for assisting in the planning and Walters volunteered with Appa spent the 2010 preseason and to take part in the NFL Draft. implementation of youth-tar lachia Service the first 12 weeks of the regular Moats worked out in the gym geted HIV prevention education Project during season with the Jaguars prac and the classroom during spring programs, networking with the an Alterna tice squad. The Bills needed semester. ✱ Kara E. Damico community, and planning and tive Spring to bolster its personnel due to completes her Master’s in Early coordinating community events. Break trip. She injuries. Caussin joins his for Childhood Education at JMU Read more about the political completed an mer JMU teammate linebacker and graduates in December. ✱ science major below. ✱ Kellen internship Arthur Moats in Buffalo after Sarah Lokitis was selected as a Suber accepted a job as staff at Catholic the two spent four years playing fall 2010 intern at the Kennedy assistant to Vice President Joe Campus together at JMU. Moats was the Center for the Performing Arts. Biden. Her duties include sched Bills’ sixth round pick in the She served as the marketing uling the vice president’s daily Jane Walters (’09) volunteered 2010 NFL Draft and has been communications intern in the events. She previously served in for the Christian Appalachian a backup linebacker for most of marketing department of the a similar job with U.S. Senator Project in Kentucky. this season. He injured Minne Kennedy Center as part of the Ted Kaufman of Delaware. Class The power of soccer Wes Mitchell (’10) helps fights AIDS with Grassroot Soccer By Amelia Wood (’13)

magine the power of JMU Political Science Profes- Notes Michael Jordan if basketball sor Melinda Adams peaked Mitch- was the only sport anyone ell’s interest in Africana studies. “I watched. Soccer is an inte- enjoyed learning about her experi- Igral part of most local cultures ences and expertise in African around the world. Simply arriving politics,” says Mitchell, who added at a field with a soccer ball will an African studies minor to his win you instant friendships and minor in communication studies. immediate access to a local com- As an undergraduate Mitchell munity. What better introduction interned at the U.S. Embassy in — striking up a friendly soccer Harare, Zimbabwe, giving him game and then an educational his first real taste of Africa. “I conversation about one of the would eventually like to get more world’s most prevalent diseases. After a friendly game of soccer, Wes Mitchell (’10) edu- involved with African politics and cates others about HIV and AIDS. Mitchell works for the economics, but I love working for Soccer fan and political sci- nonprofit Grassroot Soccer organization and is currently ence major Wes Mitchell (’10) stationed in Lilongwe, Malawi. Grassroot Soccer and influencing is an intern in Lilongwe, Malawi, young people in Malawi,” he says. with the nonprofit organization Grassroot Soccer. He is “using the Mitchell accepted his current internship with Grassroot Soccer transformative power of soccer in the fight against HIV and AIDS.” right after graduation. “Knowing that I wouldn’t see my family and Mitchell’s journey to Malawi started during his senior year of friends for the next year, I tried to see everyone before I left for high school while applying for college. “Throughout high school I Africa,” he says. researched just about every academic program at JMU because I Mitchell helps out with numerous aspects of the nonprofit knew that it was my first choice. I’ll never forget the day I got home including planning and implementing educational programs, from school to find that JMU admissions packet in my mailbox. I developing relationships with other community organizations, didn’t even visit the other schools I applied to,” he says. organizing events, monitoring programs and recruiting volunteers. Mitchell was a member of the JMU men’s club soccer team for He hopes to attend a graduate program to further his educa- four years. He was in charge of fundraisers during his sophomore tion in African politics and economics. “I can’t wait to get back and and junior years, and served as social chair his junior year. He also see all the new and exciting things going on at JMU,” he says. “I’ve coached varsity boys’ soccer at Spotswood High School. “I con- really missed JMU football and Homecoming.” M sider myself a more outgoing and personable individual as a result of the culture at JMU,” Mitchell says. “JMU prepares students for ✱ Read Mitchell’s blog at http://wesinmalawi.wordpress.com, the real world after college.” or learn more at www.grassrootsoccer.org

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fanie Smith and Karl (’97), a Angela Prandi Hanlon (’00) Loving, 1/20/11 ✱ Jennifer FutureDukes son, Matthew James, 11/24/10 and Steven, a daughter, Alyssa Lemley Shepard (’03) and Ste- 1980s Leslee Foreman and ✱ Lisa Haines Simmons (’98) Frances, 8/3/10 ✱ Holly Bry- phen (’03), a son, Logan Alex

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Class and Gary (’90), a daughter, 12/3/10 ✱ Victoria Saluja Sophie Michelle, 7/28/10 ✱ Williams (’03) and Daren, a Eliana Lilly, 1/30/10 ✱ Clifton Draude (’99) and Ryan, a Julie M. Harris Moeller (’00) son, Max Carter, 1/14/10 ✱ V. Rowe Jr. (’92)and Julie, a daughter, Leena Capri, 10/6/10 and Peter (’00), a son, Harris Elizabeth Kerestes Gmelin daughter, Beatrix Helen, 2010 ✱ Janelle Way Dubicki (’99) Michael, 11/13/10 ✱ Jennifer (’04) and Steven (’04), twin ✱ Pat Southall Smith (’92) and Stephen, a son, Mason Aylor Stokes (’00) and Jamie daughters, Alexis Nicole and and Emmitt, a son, Elijah Robert, 10/3/10 ✱ Michelle (’01), a son, Levi Reeves, Kimberly Alison, 8/13/10 ✱ Alexander James, 9/22/10 ✱ Gorrasi and Michael (’99), a 8/18/10 ✱ Camille Surface Mary Beth Tatum Gustafson Karin Starr (’93) and Eric, son, Owen Michael, 6/18/10 ✱ Timmerman (’00) and Geof- (’04) and Adam (’14), a girl, a daughter, Elin Carlene, Molly K. Gilligan Lynch (’99) frey (’99), a son, Grant Wil Camryn Grace, 11/22/10 ✱ 4/16/10 ✱ Andrea J. Camfield and Tim (’99), a son, Connor liam, 1/15/10 ✱ Nicole Stone Erin Benford Oman (’04) and Hill (’95) and David, a daugh Declan, 2/2/10 ✱ Greta Brunk Bono (’01) and Daniel (’01), Ryan, a son, Andrew Ryan, ter, Christina Nicole, 4/23/10 Newborn (’99) and Michael, a a son, Lucas Peter, 6/11/10 ✱ 9/3/10 ✱ Jesse Thornton ✱ Ginny Dangerfield Bostick daughter, Alexa Leigh, 6/24/10 Pamela Rosinski Makinson Weckstein and Scott (’04), (’96) and Rich, a son, Jackson ✱ Alonsa Price Riddle (’99) (’01) and Shawn, a daugh a daughter, Jeanna Corinne, Lee, 8/2/10 ✱ Kerry Callahan and Gary (’98), a son, Hayes ter, Bailey Paige, 4/14/09 ✱ 12/1/10 ✱ Amanda Sue Lind- Mandulak (’96) and David Sheridan, 8/26/10 Dawn Plaugher Schaal (’01) say Alsbaugh (’06) and Brian, (’98), a son, Henry Jameson, and Jeffrey (’00), a son, Evan a daughter, Madeline Lindsay, 3/17/10 ✱ Katie Nelson 2000s Katherine Runey David, 4/8/10 ✱ Chrystal 7/7/10 ✱ Jade Estep Dalton and Dan (’97), a son, Jacob Copeland (’00) and Robert Jones Shawn (’01) and Bret, (’06) and Christopher (’05), Richard, 4/29/10 ✱ Yvonne (’00), a daughter, Elizabeth a daughter, Ellie, 9/11/10 ✱ a son, Matthew Christopher, Peterson Shortlidge (’97) and Ann, 4/27/09 ✱ Christina Sarah Butler Oates (’03) and 4/10/10 ✱ Erin Helbig (’06) Swithin (’96), a daughter, Fleming and Kevin (’00), a Charles (’02), twin daughters, and Travis (’05), a daughter, Audrey Grace, 7/6/10 ✱ Ste son, Connor Joseph, 7/15/10 ✱ Avery Margaret and Madeline Lucy Ann, 11/4/10

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A new tradition etched in stone Madison Society unveils Spirit Rock By Michelle Hite (’88)

ne of JMU’s newest student organizations, the Madison O Society, unveiled what it hopes will become a new James Madison impersonator Sarah Everette JMU tradition — Spirit Rock. (‘12) signs Spirit Rock as President James Not quite as huge as Kissing Madison after the unveiling ceremony. Rock, the five-foot rock rests on the Festival Conference and Stu- dent Center lawn, and students painted purple and gold messages on it after an unveiling ceremony in March. University Unions Director Dave Barnes addressed the inaugural group of signers/ painters. “We hope Spirit Rock will become another symbol of what it means to be a part of the JMU community,” he said. “Sign- ing Spirit Rock will be an ongoing, positive tradition for JMU, and we hope it gets painted over and over with positive messages.” The Madison Society, which was founded in early 2011, aims “to serve the JMU community by promoting, enhancing, and celebrating JMU’s finest tra- ditions.” The organization University Unions will attempt to unite stu- Director Dave dents, alumni professors and Barnes asked students to share administrators who share a positive mes- M sages or sign passion for Madison. their names dur- ✱ Watch a video and learn more ing Spirit Rock’s at www.facebook.com/pages/ unveiling. (Right): The-Madison-Society/ Stephen Rodgers, 179433958767617 or medical direc- @Madison_Society on Twitter. tor for Student Health Services, shares advice.

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The sound and the music ... and the inspiration Soon Hee Newbold (’96) has traveled to exotic lands with her music. Everywhere she goes she inspires. As a pro- lific composer with FJH Music, Soon Hee is especially popular with students. Her works range in difficulty from beginning to advanced, allowing groups from elementary school to college orchestras to play her pieces. Soon Hee is a frequent guest conductor and clinician for festivals, schools and conferences. Her music has premiered as far away as Singapore and Jakarta where a “Newbold Music Festival” was held in the composer’s honor. Soon Hee’s Facebook page is covered with posts from students thanking her for writing their favorite pieces. “I have never heard music as inspiring and as adventurous as yours,” one young musician wrote. Many of her works are Soon Hee Newbold (‘96) and deeply personal including her well-known Endless Dreams, written for her adoptive mother who is battling Hun- Erin Rettig (‘96) met at JMU tington’s disease. Soon Hee is also an accomplished violinist and an actor. and married after graduation. Soon Hee met Erin Rettig (’96) while they were both studying music at Madison, and the couple married after The renowned composer and graduation. Erin is as equally accomplished as a sound engineer for top Hollywood movies. This powerhouse cou- Hollywood sound engineer are tops in their fields, and they ple has set the bar high in their respective arenas. They are a testimony to their Madison Experiences, as together are bringing the sound and the they deliver the sound and the music to a new generation of appreciative listeners. music to a new generation.

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