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THE SPEECH HEARD ROUND THE WORLD Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson came to Syracuse University to dedicate Newhouse 1—a day that unexpectedly became a pivotal moment in global history

BY BOB WOODS

“THIS IS AN HOUR TO WHICH WE HAVE LOOKED FORWARD citywide that day. Invited guests, many dressed in their Sun- for a long time. It is an important occasion not only for the day best, sat in folding chairs, while the general public crowded City of Syracuse and the University, but for the nation and the onto the grassy knoll leading to the top of Piety Hill and the world.” When Syracuse University Chancellor William Tolley Hall of Languages. Alongside the cap-and-gowned Tolley was spoke those words, shortly after 11 a.m. on August 5, 1964, he seated an assemblage of academic and political dignitaries, had no idea just how prophetic and profound they were about most notably LBJ, whom the Chancellor introduced by saying, to become. “The president had a long and tiring day yesterday, and it was I was there that auspicious day, when President Lyndon B. not easy for him to be with us.” JOURNAL ALUMNI Johnson (LBJ) came to town. A 10-year-old Syracuse native, Indeed. Tolley, the University, and all of Syracuse had ex- I piled into my mom’s Ford Falcon station wagon with several pected LBJ’s appearance to be his last campaign trip before the siblings for the short drive to campus to join in the city’s highlight of the summer. A half century later, fuzzy recollections of the event reside in the adolescent vault of my memory bank, though the day’s fascinating—if almost acciden- tal—place in history allows for a vivid recreation. It’s compiled from more con- sequential eyewitnesses, as well as a

alumni.syr.edu public record, albeit still controversial, surrounding what became infamously known as the Gulf of Tonkin Incident and the advent of America’s deeper en- trenchment in the Vietnam War. This occurred a little more than eight months after the assassination of Presi- dent John F. Kennedy (JFK)—in Dallas on November 22, 1963—and Johnson’s swearing-in aboard Air Force One that same horrible day. Johnson was now campaigning for his own upcoming Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, election and dealing with the controversy swirling around the where he would officially become the party’s presidential can- U.S. military’s nascent actions in Vietnam. While Syracusans didate and in November defeat the Republican nominee, Ari- were thrilled to welcome the popular LBJ, we couldn’t imagine zona Senator Barry Goldwater, in a landslide election. that he was about to talk about an enemy attack on our Navy On the limousine ride from Syracuse’s Hancock International there and the rapid retaliation that would soon push the nation Airport, Johnson, the consummate politician, had reportedly much further into the war. pressed Newhouse for endorsements from his newspapers (782-5867) 1-800-SUALUMS Johnson’s long-anticipated visit headlined the dedication of (some of which he ultimately received, including from both Syr- Newhouse 1, the first of three buildings that today comprise acuse papers). Yet weighing much more heavily on his mind— the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, named and the crux of the fatigue and unease Tolley referenced—was for its benefactor, Samuel Newhouse, one of America’s original the game-changing substance of the president’s hastily sched- media moguls, whose vast print and broadcasting empire in- uled, live television address to the nation a little more than 12 cluded Syracuse’s two daily newspapers, The Post-Standard and hours earlier. The Herald-Journal/Herald-American. The $3.9 million concrete- In the days leading up to LBJ’s arrival at SU, his speechwrit- and-glass edifice, designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei, fea- ers most likely had prepared an innocuous paean to his hosts tured an expansive plaza on which a dais was erected that hot and the state-of-the-art journalism center, as well as mention and sunny Wednesday morning. of the landmark Civil Rights Bill he’d shepherded to Congres- Tolley delivered his speech from there, facing a sizable por- sional passage in April. They’d probably thrown in a few jabs tion of the estimated 100,000 Syracusans who turned out at Goldwater, too, contrasting his warmonger image to that of

42 Syracuse University Magazine Photos courtesy of SU Archives Published by SURFACE, 2014 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL President Lyndon B. Johnson of ongoing U.S. military in- attends the Newhouse 1 volvement in South Vietnam, dedication, August 5, 1964, beginning with President where he delivered the Gulf of Tonkin Speech, a reiteration of Eisenhower, continuing with his televised talk to the nation the President Kennedy, and in- previous night. Two days later, herited by Johnson, to con- the House and Senate passed the tain the communist insur- Tonkin Gulf Resolution, allowing gency from the north. the president to escalate U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. By then, there were ap- proximately 16,000 Ameri- FACING PAGE: LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson are greeted at can troops, euphemized as Hancock International Airport “advisors,” assisting South by Chancellor Tolley (left) and Vietnamese and other inter- Samuel and Mitzi Newhouse. national forces. But following those two attacks, the ante the president who promised a peaceful solution to the growing was going up, sternly warned the 6-foot-4-inch Texan, standing conflict in Vietnam. draped in a custom-made, size-44 silk doctoral robe in prepara- Ironically, Johnson instead delivered what will forever be re- tion for receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree. “I say this: ferred to as the Gulf of Tonkin Speech. After a couple of open- There is no threat to any peaceful power from the United States ing sentences lauding Newhouse and “this great institution,” the of America. But there can be no peace by aggression and no im- president picked up where he left Americans off the night before, munity from reply. That is what is meant by the actions that we again in a live broadcast (carried by NBC and CBS), but this time took yesterday.” spoke “to the people of all nations—so that they may understand without mistake our purpose in the action that we have been re- A CRITICAL TIME quired to take. Two days after returning to Washington, Johnson presented both “On August 2 the United States destroyer Maddox was attacked houses of Congress with a resolution asking for sweeping autho- on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin by hostile vessels of the Gov- rization to wage war in Southeast Asia, primarily Vietnam. On Au- ernment of North Vietnam. On August 4 that attack was repeated gust 7, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution passed the House unanimously, in those same waters against two United States destroyers. 416–0, and the Senate, 88–2, with 10 senators not voting and the “The attacks were deliberate. The attacks were unprovoked. only dissenting votes cast by Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest The attacks have been answered.” Gruening of Alaska. Just like that, the administration was handed The “answer”—given during the night and continuing even as essentially a blank check to “take all necessary measures to repel Johnson spoke—was bombing attacks by the U.S. Navy’s Sev- any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to enth Fleet on North Vietnamese and Viet Cong naval and ground prevent further aggression,” the resolution stated. forces operating in and around the waters off the coast of North August 5, 1964, cannot compare to “a date which will live in Vietnam, a communist-controlled country. He referred to years infamy”—as President Franklin Roosevelt declared of December 7, 1941, the day of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor—but the confluence of geo- political, military, and personal forces mark it as epochal, especially among some who were on campus that day. “That particular year, at that particular moment, it was par- ticularly dramatic,” says David Bennett ’56, then a “very junior faculty member” at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and currently professor emeritus of history, whose specialties include presi- dential politics and military history. “It was the year after [President Kennedy’s] as- sassination, and I remember enormous security precautions.” Besides black-clad Secret Service agents and swarms of police officers on the streets, there was no mistak- ing the uniformed riflemen on rooftops sur- rounding Newhouse 1, including the center tower of the Hall of Languages. Bennett cites candidate Johnson’s per-

Summer 2014 43 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol31/iss2/10 2 Woods et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL The 2001 book Reaching for Glory, exposing secret White House tapes President Johnson made in 1964 and 1965, revealed that the August 4 incident probably never happened. “When we got through with all the firing,” Johnson told McNamara, who had or- dered the bombing, “we concluded maybe they hadn’t fired at all.” Though not on those tapes, LBJ was also quoted as saying, “For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there,” referring to the Maddox crew’s reports of torpedo sightings in the water.

THE PRESIDENT’S WARNING Nonetheless, the Gulf of Tonkin Speech was well received in Syra- cuse. “A standing audience of many thousands replied with ap- plause after nearly every sentence of the president’s warning,” The New York Times noted the following morning. Among the local press corps was Peter Moller ’65, then an SU student working part-time for WAER, the campus radio station. “The day before, news director Bob Feldman asked me to cover the dedication because he couldn’t,” Moller says. “I said, ‘Oh, all right.’” The accidental reporter lugged a suitcase-size Ampex 601 reel- to-reel tape recorder, a microphone, and a headset to the event, and set up on the media tables spread out along University Place sona as the liberal activist who’d pledged to usher in the Great in front of the dais. “I knew I had a hot story afterward, so I ran Society. “That was the vision,” he says, “but there was this other back to the station near the Quad to get it ready for the 6 p.m. thing, this crisis in Southeast Asia.” newscast,” says Moller, a Newhouse professor emeritus who As it turns out, even before his arrival in Syracuse, Johnson’s taught in the television, radio, film department from 1980 to 2012. inner circle of “best and brightest” advisors inherited from JFK— “By that time, news people were calling from all over the country principally Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense to find out if we had anything that other stations might not.” Robert McNamara, and Special Assistant for National Security One of the Herald-Journal reporters covering the dedication was Affairs McGeorge Bundy—was already plotting to widen the war 29-year-old Dick Case ’56. “I had a telephone and a typewriter, half a world away, as it would be learned during Senate hearings because I was on deadline,” he says, remembering too that he was in 1966. “In May [1964], they decided that part of the process sitting next to CBS newsman Dan Rather. Case had already writ- would be that you’d need to get a resolution from Congress,” says ten most of his story, figuring he’d fill in details before filing it in Clemson University history professor Edwin E. Moïse, author of time for the afternoon paper’s edition. His plans changed, however, the 1996 book Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. when a city cop, Bob Busch, approached Case and said the presi- Although Johnson was squarely focused on his domestic agen- dent needed a typewriter. “I gave him my Royal office model—and da, according to Moïse, his foreign policy wonks envisioned the never saw it again,” says Case, who had to phone in his story. war as pivotal in preventing the domino theory, based on the be- The whereabouts of that typewriter remain a mystery—SU ref- lief that the fall of South Vietnam to communism would trigger a erence archivist Mary O’Brien says it’s not in the University Ar- repercussive toppling of neighboring nations. They prepared ex- chives—but Case went on to a distinguished, 53-year career with plicit, if not imminent, plans for escalating the war, “but if some- the Syracuse Newspapers. thing should come along that would make a good excuse, [they Whether Johnson himself used Case’s typewriter is unknown could] go ahead with the resolution,” Moïse says. as well, but the aftermath of LBJ’s Gulf of Tonkin Speech is etched Along came the Gulf of Tonkin attacks on the eve of Johnson’s in American history. Four months after the election, he ordered trip to Syracuse, the potential smoking gun. Or was it? “It was Operation Rolling Thunder, the relentless bombing of North Viet- hard to know, standing there listening to the speech, what the im- nam that stretched from March 1965 until November 1968, cou- plications were,” Bennett says. “We didn’t know whether or not pled with a huge buildup of ground troops. At the Vietnam War’s those American destroyers had been attacked in international peak, the United States had 543,400 boots on the ground. By the waters, or that what he was saying was simply what any Ameri- time the war ended in 1973, unsuccessfully, 58,220 Americans can president would say, that we can’t tolerate that, and we would had died and 153,303 had been wounded. respond. We didn’t know that would become the raison d’etre for Every other year, Bennett still teaches a course on U.S. history, American military power being used on the ground there.” from 1963 to the present. He makes it a point that his students In fact, Moïse claims, there is now widespread consensus that understand the significance of August 5, 1964. “I lay out that this while the August 2 attack on the Maddox did occur, the August 4 dramatic event occurred on their own campus, just a few feet attacks on the Maddox and a second U.S. destroyer, the Turner Joy, from the Maxwell Auditorium.” It remains an unforgettable day. « did not. “I am extremely sure about both of those,” Moïse asserts, adding that he interviewed a North Vietnamese officer aboard Bob Woods ’75 is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Madison, one of the PT boats that attacked the Maddox on August 2. Connecticut.

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» PULITZER PRIZE GIVING VOICE TO STRUGGLING FAMILIES

ELI SASLOW ’04 WAS WAITING FOR A HOME- bound train at New York City’s Pennsylvania Sta- tion when his phone rang with the big news. As he hung up, the symptoms of the flu that had strick- en him began to fade. A Newhouse newspaper graduate and Washington Post reporter, Saslow just learned he had won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his extensive work on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, reaching the Mt. Olympus of the jour- nalism profession. “I was really excited and, of course, honored,” says Saslow, who was return- ing home to the Washington, D.C., area, after traveling north to receive the George Polk Award for National Reporting, which also recognized his food stamp series. But Saslow hopes his recognition will especially help direct the public eye to the people he writes about and the difficulties I want readers to they face. “I want readers “pay attention to to pay attention to the sto- ries and to the people in the the stories and to stories,” he says, “who very the people in the often are not having enough stories who very attention paid to them.” In the award-winning six-piece se- them. “I try to spend enough time in their lives that I can often are not ries, Saslow portrays the struggles write about them in a complete and empathetic way in the having enough of families from all over the United paper,” he says. States who rely on food stamps to As a first-year SU student, Saslow started forging his writ- attention paid survive and those who are familiar ing skills at The Daily Orange, covering sports. “It taught me to them.” with their plight. A single mother how to write on deadline, and how to write quickly, and how of six from Washington, D.C., and to think about choosing and assigning stories—and it was a 9-year-old from Texas with cholesterol problems are also a tremendous amount of fun,” he says. After gradua- among the individuals in his articles that give a face to the tion, he became a reporter for The Buffalo News, then The 47 million people enrolled in the government program. Star-Ledger in New Jersey, and eventually The Washington “These big problems in the country, they’re not confined Post in 2005. “Story after story, slowly over the years, I start- to one kind of person and one place,” Saslow says. “Food ed writing longer and more ambitious stories and eventually stamps sustain one in every seven Americans.” writing about things other than sports,” says Saslow, who Looking to draw readers’ attention to the nation’s nutri- was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. tion problems, Saslow focuses on how the politics of Capi- From his experience reporting the food stamp issue, tol Hill affect people’s lives, using examples to illustrate Saslow says he came away with two valuable lessons. their powerful impact. “If you’re able to write about people “What I learned is that people are so trusting, and if you in ways where they’re not just stereotypes or stock char- spend the time to listen to them and take the time to get acters,” he says, “if you can make people feel real, then to know them, they’re usually so good, and their hearts are hopefully when readers finish a story they feel like they often in the right places,” he says. “The enduring lesson for know somebody and they understand what it’s like to be me is to try to go into every reporting situation with an open in that situation in a different way.” To do so, Saslow must mind and compassion at the center of what I’m trying to do.” spend days with the people he features, getting to know —Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro

Summer 2014 45 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol31/iss2/10 4 Woods et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL CLASSNOTES ORANGE NEWS from SU ALUMNI » SEND US NEWS OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. FOR LIFE To submit information for Class Notes via the Internet, go to alumni.syr.edu and register with the SU Alumni Online Community . FOR MANY OF US, A Items will appear in the magazine and in the Class Notes section relaxing summer is some- of the online community. Items can also be sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse University Magazine; 820 Comstock Avenue, Room 308; thing we look forward to Syracuse, NY 13244-5040. all year. But, for the Syracuse University Alumni Association 40s 60s (SUAA), summer is actu- Beverly Mach Geller ’47 (NUR) Marian Lief Palley ’60 (A&S), ally one of our busiest of Hightstown, N.J., became a G’63 (MAX) and her husband, times. During these few writer after careers in nursing Howard A. Palley G’63 (MAX), months, we welcome and interior design. Her poems of Newark, Del., co-wrote The thousands of new alumni for adults and children have Politics of Women’s Health Care been published in many literary in the United States (Palgrave into the SUAA. journals and anthologies. Her Macmillan). Marian is profes- For our newest latest books are My Family and sor emerita of political science alumni, summer began Me (Briendel Publishing), a book and international relations at at May Commencement. When I spoke to the Class of 2014, I of children’s poetry, and Daily the University of Delaware. Bread (Finishing Line Press), Howard is professor emeritus encouraged them to celebrate their relationship with SU as one a chapbook of adult poetry of social policy at the School of that lasts a lifetime. Although we are students for a definitive ([email protected]). Social Work and Distinguished period of time, we are Syracuse alumni forever. Many have Fellow at the Institute for Human taken these words to heart and have been participating in Services Policy at the University of Maryland. summer networking events coordinated by the SUAA and local alumni clubs throughout the country. These programs provide 50s Barbara Kane Kligerman ’61 our newest alumni with the forum to interact with established William Fibkins G’59, G’72 (SDA), G’62 (EDU) and her alumni—alumni who offer professional and personal advice (EDU) of Peconic, N.Y., wrote husband, Jack Kligerman ’60, four new books: The Emotional G’62 (A&S), won the Corner- through networking activities. At each of these events (known Growth of Teens: How Group stone Award presented by the as SUccess in the City in many regions), we are growing our Counseling Intervention Works Bozeman, Mont., public library professional Orange Network, one connection at a time. for Schools (2014); Wake Up, in honor of their outstanding Later this summer, our alumni clubs will host New Student Counselors!: Restoring Counsel- service to the library and liter- ing Services for Troubled Teens ary arts in their community. It Send-Offs to welcome incoming first-year students into the (2013); Angel Teachers: Educators was the first time a couple has Syracuse University family. At these events, new students and Who Care about Troubled Teens received the award. their families learn more about the University and what to ex- (2012); and Stopping the Brain pect their first year. It is also a fantastic time for us to let these Drain of Skilled Veteran Teach- Jerome J. McGann G’61 (A&S) ers: Retaining and Valuing their is an English professor at the new students know they are embarking on a lifelong relation- Hard-Won Experience (2012). University of Virginia in Charlot- ship with SU. All books were published by tesville. He is a newly elected There are so many ways for all of us to stay connected Rowman and Littlefield (www. member of the American and engaged with SU. You can keep updated on news and rowmaneducation.com). Philosophical Society, founded events by visiting alumni.syr.edu or following us on social media. in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin for Hall Groat Sr. ’59 (VPA), an the purpose of “promoting use- I hope you take advantage of these opportunities, and we look Impressionist painter from ful knowledge.” forward to seeing you on campus or at one of our club events. Manlius, N.Y., and his son, Hall Groat II, professor and chair of Tom Cullins ’67 (ARC) of Burl- Go Orange! art and design at SUNY Broome ington, Vt., is a retired architect County Community College in pursuing his lifelong passion for Binghamton, N.Y., held a joint painting and photography. He exhibition of their oil paintings has won 18 national photog- at the Beard Gallery in Cortland, raphy competition awards N.Y. The exhibition, Well Worth from the American Institute of the Struggle, explored the formal Architects. and conceptual relationships Laurie Taishoff ’84 between the work of father-and- Eileen Brady ’69 (A&S) wrote President, Syracuse University Alumni Association son artists. Muzzled, A Kate D.V.M. Mystery @SUAAPresident (Poisoned Pen Press), a novel about a veterinarian who, while P.S. This year, Orange Central will be held October 9-12. For making her rounds, discovers a bloody scene of bodies and 27 more details about that weekend, please visit alumni.syr.edu. blue-ribbon dogs running wild.

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Police suspect a murder-suicide, Anne P. Dunne ’74 (A&S) is science and engineering; and basic SEND US but when Dr. Kate proves the director of the radiology residency science. famous best-in-show champion is program at Geisinger Medical NEWS OF YOUR missing, a darker reality intrudes. Center in Danville, Pa. In April, Jeffrey Hoffman ’77 (VPA) of ACCOMPLISHMENTS. she was inducted as a Fellow in Marblehead, Mass., co-created the American College of Radiol- TeamImpel Marketing, which ogy, one of the highest honors the provides strategy and production college bestows on a radiologist, services across multiple platforms, To submit information for Class 70s radiation oncologist, or medical including brand development and Notes via the Internet, go to Todd Flaherty ’70 (A&S), physicist. advertising, website design and alumni.syr.edu and register president and CEO of the College production, video production, and with the SU Alumni Online Crusade of Rhode Island, received Barry R. Kogut ’74 (A&S), an content development. Community. Items will appear in the Paul W. Crowley Award from attorney at the Bond, Schoeneck the Rhode Island School Superin- & King law firm in Syracuse, is Paul Nunes L’77 (LAW) of Fair- the magazine and in the Class tendents’ Association. The award included in the 2014 Chambers and port, N.Y., is celebrating his 25th Notes section of the online is given each year to a Rhode Partners International Guide to the year as a partner at Underberg & community. Items can also be Island citizen who, in his or her Legal Profession, which lists the top Kessler law firm. He was named sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse professional and personal capacity, lawyers in 175 countries. Kogut one of the top 50 Super Lawyers of has demonstrated a long-standing focuses his practice in the area of Upstate New York for the second University Magazine; 820 commitment to improving the environmental law. year in a row. Super Lawyers is a Comstock Avenue, Room 308; quality of education for the state’s rating service of outstanding law- Syracuse, NY 13244-5040. children. Morgan Broman ’75 (A&S/NEW) yers from more than 70 practice is chief of staff in the office of U.S. areas who have attained a high Peter H. Stockmann G’70, G’73 Congresswoman Carolyn Mc- degree of peer recognition and (E&CS) joined Bond, Schoeneck Carthy, who represents New York’s professional achievement. CLASS NOTES LEDGER & King law firm’s intellectual 4th District. property and technology practice Brent Marchant ’78 (A&S/NEW) ARC — School of Architecture in Syracuse. Judith Leibensperger O’Rourke published his second book, Con- ’75 (A&S), G’10 (MAX) was sciously Created Cinema: The Movie A&S — College of Arts and Sciences David Champoux G’72 (NEW) of inducted into the Order of the Lover’s Guide to the Law of Attrac- Bluffton, S.C., is an associate dean British Empire (OBE) on February tion (CreateSpace Independent EDU — School of Education emeritus of Herkimer County Com- 12, 2014. She was recognized for Publishing Platform), available in munity College in Herkimer, N.Y. her work over the past 25 years to paperback and e-book formats. E&CS — College of Engineering He was one of three individuals develop and strengthen the bonds This new title is a follow-up to and Computer Science selected by Herkimer College to re- between Lockerbie, Scotland, his previous work, Get the Picture: ceive the 2014 Torchbearer Award, and Syracuse in honor of the SU Conscious Creation Goes to the ESF — State University of New York which recognizes those who have students and all those killed in the Movies (CreateSpace Independent College of Environmental made substantial contributions to terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight Publishing Platform), both of which Science and Forestry the college’s development. 103 in December 1988. examine how movies illustrate the principles of conscious creation— FALK — David B. Falk College of Lawrence V. Starkey G’72 (MAX) Marilou Parsons Ryder ’75 (EDU), also known as the law of attraction Sport and Human Dynamics wrote The Inheritance (CreateSpace associate professor, EDD Organi- ([email protected]). (formerly the College of Independent Publishing Platform), zational Leadership at Brandman Human Ecology) a suspense novel about how great University in Irvine, Calif., wrote Mark Grimm G’79 (NEW) is wealth can strain family relation- Rules of the Game: How to Win a Job an Albany-area public relations NUR — College of Nursing ships. in Educational Leadership (Delmar specialist whose article, “Tell the SWK — School of Social Work Publishing) and 92 Tips from the Truth Well: How to Be Prepared for Louis P. Dilorenzo ’73 (A&S), an Trenches: How to Stay in the Game Your Next Communications Crisis,” IST — School of Information Studies attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & as an Educational Leader. appears in PR News’ Crisis Manage- King, is included in the 2014 Cham- ment Guidebook. He also spoke on LAW — College of Law bers and Partners International Guide Ernesto De Nardin ’76 (A&S), pro- “Communication Clarity” at the to the Legal Profession, which lists fessor at the schools of medicine Financial Planning Association of MAX — Maxwell School of Citizenship the top lawyers in 175 countries. and dentistry at the University at Northeastern New York Sympo- and Public Affairs Dilorenzo has practiced labor and Buffalo, is associate editor for the sium in Troy, N.Y., in May. employment law for more than 30 journal Immunological Investiga- NEW — S.I. Newhouse School of years and is a managing member tions. He and a colleague wrote Public Communications of the firm’s New York City office. the textbook Contemporary Clinical Immunology and Serology. UC — University College Greg Ahlgren ’74 (A&S) is a crimi- 80s UTICA— Utica College nal defense lawyer in Manchester, Judy Douglas ’77 (A&S), G’81 JoAnn Laing ’80 (WSM), chair of N.H. His historical military novel, (MAX), client industry executive at Information Strategies in Ridge- VPA — College of Visual and field, N.J., was named a Leader Fisher (Amazon Digital Services), HP Enterprise Services, in Herndon, Performing Arts details the four-day battle between Va., is a member of the select com- Among Harvard Business School the Union Army and Navy and mission of the Arthur S. Flemming Alumnae, and one of New Jersey’s SDA — School of Speech and Confederate forces at Fort Fisher, Awards, which recognize exem- 2013 Best 50 Women in Business Dramatic Arts N.C., in 1865. It is available in plary federal service in leadership presented by Wells Fargo bank. e-format. and management; legal achieve- WSM— Martin J. Whitman School of ment; social science, clinical trials, Management and translational research; applied

Summer 2014 47 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol31/iss2/10 6 Woods et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL » TRADITIONS STANDING STRONG More than a century after its construction, Archbold Gymnasium continues to evolve in its service to the campus community BY RICK BURTON

HERE’S AN EASY TRIVIA QUESTION FOR YOU: NAME “those old-school, huge computer punch cards,” he has been a Syracuse University building that virtually burned to the a regular at the noon pickup basketball games on Mondays, ground, rose up out of its ashes, was rebuilt, still contains the Wednesdays, and Fridays since 1982. Through the years, he’s entrance to a secret walled-up tunnel, and yet finds itself in played with undergraduates, graduate students, administra- massive use today? The answer isn’t hard if you’ve read this tors, faculty, and staff from nearly every corner of campus. story’s headline or looked at the accompanying photos. “While I’ve grown and changed over time, the constant for But here’s a tougher one for you: How many departmen- me has always been ‘noon ball,’” Weiss says. “Pickup basket- tal offices are included in SU’s fabled Archbold Gymnasium? ball is a culture here at SU. The noon game has always been The surprising answer: More than 150 offices are spread inclusive and caters to those of us wishing to get as much throughout the building, providing space for Recreation exercise as we can during our lunch hour. In a nutshell, pickup basketball has enhanced my work week and put a little bounce in my life.” Providing a setting for a good work- out is standard for a building that in its storied history has hosted such varsity sports as basketball, gymnastics, and swimming, plus weekend-long dance marathons, annual course registration, and numerous other University func- tions, many tied to Commencement. But these details paint only a patchwork picture of the enormous gift given to Syracuse at the turn of the 20th century by John Dustin Archbold, the self-made oil executive and philanthropist who chaired the SU Board of Trustees from 1893 to 1916. And while Archbold’s co- lossal football stadium was torn down in Archbold Gymnasium, circa 1908 1978 and replaced by the 50,000-seat Carrier Dome in 1980, his combined gift Services, Army ROTC, Air Force ROTC, the Bursar’s Office, of a football stadium and gymnasium, first initiated in 1905, Math Department, Physical Plant, Scholarship Programs, changed Syracuse forever. Enrollment Management, Exercise Science, and Financial Archbold Gym opened in December 1908—the year after Aid. Archbold also features one fitness center (located on Archbold Stadium was unveiled. At the time, the rectangular what was formerly two basketball courts), one full-length brick and limestone-trimmed building contained a multipur- basketball court, one swimming pool, two multiuse exercise pose gymnasium, swimming pool, rowing tank, baseball cage, rooms, one fencing room, two rowing tanks, the offices for indoor track (measuring 12 laps to the mile) and, by fall 1911, the men’s and women’s intercollegiate rowing teams, as well a bowling alley. It also held the infamous “equipment/laundry as men’s and women’s locker rooms and accompanying fa- cage” (renovated into the current lobby in 1988) and locker cilities. In addition, there are three classrooms in the nearly rooms where the football team changed before charging down 88,000-square-foot building, a facility open for business a lengthy concrete tunnel into the Orange’s open-air stadium. 350 days of the year and one that actively serviced nearly Sturdy as the stone gymnasium appeared, it was nearly half-a-million users in the 2013-14 academic year. destroyed by a raging fire in January 1947. “It was devastat- Christopher Weiss ’84, G’93, senior academic counsel- ing,” says Tom McLaughlin ’51, a football letterman in 1948 or and tutor coordinator for Student Support Services, is a and 1949. “We worked out in Archbold. Did weights and longtime Archbold inhabitant. While he remembers regis- calisthenics for football. I can still remember how upset the tering for classes in the gym as a freshman in 1980, using guys were. I had some of my stuff burned in there. We really

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Archbold Gym with seats from Archbold Stadium to its west January 1947 fire

didn’t know how things were going Gym on a daily basis,” says Joseph to turn out.” Lore, director of the Department of After the blaze, most of the old Recreation Services. super-structure still standing was According to Lore, Archbold and demolished, except for the north Flanagan gymnasiums allow for wing, which escaped fatal damage. myriad healthy choices, including a The north wing was ultimately re- 10,000-square-foot fitness center, constructed and remodeled starting squash and racquetball courts, bas- in spring 1948. By February 1949, the ketball and volleyball courts, swim- athletic department returned to the ming pool, space for group exercise refurbished building, however, the classes and personal training, medi- reconstructed rear section of Arch- tation, and stretching, intramural bold was not completed until 1952. and sports club activities, an indoor Interestingly, Archbold also served ropes course, and open, drop-in bas- as the home to the SU men’s basket- ketball and volleyball. ball team up to 1955 when Orange Is the end in sight for old Arch- games were moved to the Syracuse bold, which has welcomed many War Memorial (1955-62). But it generations of students for work- Reconstruction after the fire wasn’t uncommon to see future Bas- outs? Hardly. In fact, it’s possible ketball Hall of Famers Dave Bing ’66 the brick building that has so nobly and Jim Boeheim ’66, G’73 playing withstood Syracuse’s chilly winters pickup games in the gym during the and blazing summers for more than off-season. a century—and is one of SU’s 15 old- Today, Archbold—located at the est still-active buildings—will con- elbow of Hendricks Chapel, the Phys- tinue to get more use than ever, Lore ics Building, and the Dome—and its says, “because of the commitment satellite arm, Flanagan Gym (built in to health and wellness by the Uni- 1989), still serve the recreational and versity community.” That’s no small physical fitness activities of students, feat, especially for a building that is but Archbold can’t hide its age. “An in constant use and is often over- incredible number of students, facul- shadowed by a sprawling stadium ty, and staff utilize the many healthy that has always stood guard to its opportunities available in Archbold immediate west. «

Rick Burton ’80 is the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management in the Falk Col- lege. He wrote about John Archbold’s legacy and the creation of Archbold Stadium in the Archbold Gymnasium today Spring 2011 issue, and is the author of the historical thriller The Darkest Mission (2011).

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IN 1945, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY IN- drove off to the theater in downtown Syr- formed me I had been accepted under the acuse—the start of 59 wonderful years GI Bill. After serving three years in North together. Africa and Italy, and receiving a Bronze Star Elaine was very active on campus. She and Purple Heart, I was most excited. I was sang at many dances and was featured on first sent to University College and then to the campus radio station with her class- the engineering school, but I did not do mate, Dick Clark ’51. As I was getting my well with courses like Differential Calcu- commission in the ROTC program, I was lus, so I was asked to take a three-day apti- proud that Elaine was selected ROTC

REFLECTIONS tude test. The result was high in art. queen. A talented painter, Elaine took a One of my Phi Kappa Tau fraternity job as curator at the Albany Institute of brothers suggested I meet the dean of History and Art after our graduation in Crouse Hall, where he was taking interior 1950. She went on to teach in the Sche- Elaine Kingsley ’50 and Lester Stoddard ’50 at the 1949 ROTC Ball. design. She asked to see my portfolio, nectady School System and returned to and, of course, I had none. She then en- Syracuse 10 years later to earn a mas- and had dinners with Colonel Sanders, rolled me in four classes during the Sum- ter’s degree in art education. When New Celeste Holm, Beverly Sills, Jim Brown mer Session. I am forever grateful to her York State adopted a program for gifted ’57, and Sidney Poitier. Syracuse opened as I received three A’s and a B—which I’ll and talented students, Elaine was asked a whole new world for us. come back to later. to serve as chair. She presented the pro- Elaine and I were blessed to have one In my junior year at Crouse, I was talking gram to schools across the state and later daughter, Alyson. In high school she ex- to my roommate’s girlfriend, Ginny, when introduced it to American schools abroad celled in art and painting and received the most beautiful girl I ever saw came in Milan and Athens. many awards and scholarships, which down the stairs. It was Elaine Kingsley, As for me, I had my own interior design brought her to Syracuse University, where who had graduated business in Schenectady and then Flori- she graduated in 1973. For 35 years, Aly- from Schenectady da. It was 50 years of pure joy. In 1958, I son has had her own painting studio in High School with was elected president of the Schenectady Hampstead, New Hampshire, where she me. With the help Junior Chamber of Commerce. I was later also teaches painting to students of all of Ginny and her elected president of the New York State ages. sorority sisters, I got and Ontario, Canada, Chapter of the In 2007, Elaine passed away at our my first date with American Society of Interior Designers home in Florida. I now live with Alyson Elaine. I picked her and then served on the society’s national and her husband. I have three grandchil- up at Zeta Tau Al- board of directors. In this capacity, I met dren and a great-grandchild, Summer pha in the used car and talked to many well-known people, Kingsley Thompson. She is the perfect I had bought with including Pope Pius XII and Pat and Rich- image of Elaine, thus the middle name. my Army pay. We ard Nixon (when he was vice president), Now, about that course I took back in the summer of 1946: For years, my daughter kept my 10 “B” watercolors Elaine Kingsley ’50, Queen in her garage. I framed and matted of the ROTC, on parade on those 10 paintings, now more than the Quad in 1949. 60 years old, for the “Artist of the Month” program at my golf club in Florida. Would you believe—five of them sold!

N. Lester Stoddard ’50 lives in Hampstead, New Hampshire.

Top left: Elaine and Lester in Schenectady, New York, 1955.

Left: Retired U.S. Senator Robert Dole and Lester Stoddard at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 2008. Both were wounded in Italy a day apart in April 1945.

50 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2014 9 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL Ed Katz ’81 (NEW/WSM), manag- John H. Buhrmaster ’86 (WSM), Joseph Urso ’92 (A&S) of Bangkok, ing principal of Katnip Marketing president of 1st National Bank of Thailand, is director of corporate in Westport, Conn., moderated a Scotia (N.Y.), is chairman of the 90s development within General Mo- panel discussion on marketing at Independent Community Bankers Jay Lipoff ’90 (A&S), a chiroprac- tors International Operations. the Connecticut Business Expo in of America. tor practicing in California, Md., is Hartford. In addition to working founder and president of the Foun- Donald F. Garber G’93 (ARC) of with clients in the fields of health Russell Ford ’86 (E&CS), vice presi- dation 4 Heroes, which supports Glenside, Pa., is senior health care care, entertainment, digital market- dent and global service leader— and enriches the lives of children manager at the Francis Cauffman ing, luxury homebuilding, and drinking water infrastructure at fighting cancer. The mission of the architecture firm, with offices in politics, Katz is on the producing CH2M Hill based in Parsippany, foundation is to promote the su- New York, Philadelphia, and Wash- team for the play, The King’s Speech, N.J.— received the Pioneer Award perhero inside and inspire children ington, D.C. He is an award-winning set to tour the United Kingdom at the 2014 BEYA (Black Engineer to overcome obstacles while lifting architect with more than 30 years later this year. of the Year Awards) STEM (science, their spirits (www.F4Heroes.com). of experience in the design and technology, engineering, math) project management of health care David Karwick ’82 (A&S), an Conference in Washington, D.C. Martin Schwab L’90, L’98 (LAW), facilities improvement projects. executive in the key investment an attorney at Bond, Schoeneck & services at KeyBank in Lewiston, Jack Douros ’87 (VPA), a freelance King in Syracuse, is the new chair Suzanne Sheets Colilla ’95 (NUR), N.Y., was named Citizen of the Year designer in Winston-Salem, N.C., of the law firm’s trust and estate a geriatric nurse practitioner with by the Town of Niagara Business won the 28th annual Carolina Blues department. He concentrates his the University of Pittsburgh Division and Professional Association for his Festival poster design contest practice in estate planning and of Geriatric Medicine, earned a dedication to volunteer service. sponsored by the Piedmont Blues the administration of estates and doctor of nursing practice degree Preservation Society. trusts with emphasis in related tax from Carlow University in May. Gerianne Wright Downs ’83 matters. She received the Anne DeNardo (NEW), assistant director for public Jim Charmatz ’88 (VPA) creates McGowan DNP Leadership Award, relations and publications at SUNY special effects for film, television, Lori Varlotta G’90 (EDU) is which recognizes academic Plattsburgh, wrote “Educational Op- and commercials for Legacy Effects, president of Hiram College in achievement and contribution portunity Program: A Place Called a special effects studio specializing Hiram, Ohio. She is the first woman of scholarly work to the nursing Home,” for the Spring 2013 issue in creature design, prosthetic make- president in the college’s 164-year evidence base. of Plattsburgh Magazine. Her article up, animatronics, and specialty history. received the Best of Category suits. His job includes concept Ken DeLeon ’95 (VPA) is president Award from the SUNY Council for design, photography, sculpting, Jennifer Bartok ’91 (A&S) married and creative director of DeLeon University Advancement. painting, web design, and graphic Bryant Taylor. They reside in New Group, a New York City-based design. York City and South Carolina. advertising agency that for the past Jill Kremins ’83 (FALK/WSM) eight years has worked with such is chief marketing officer at Kathy Orr ’88 (NEW/WSM), chief John W. Phillips G’91 (WSM), a re- clients as Comcast (Xfinity), Pirelli Boston-based American Student meteorologist for KYW-TV and tired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Tires, YMCA, and Villanova Uni- Assistance, a nonprofit leader in WPSG-TV, the CBS-owned stations is controller of The Coca-Cola Com- versity. The agency works in media, engaging students and alumni in in Philadelphia, was named to the pany in Marietta, Ga. He is founder creating TV and radio commercials, responsible student loan borrowing Hall of Fame by the Broadcast Pio- and chairman of the company’s handling social media, creating and repayment. neers of Philadelphia in recognition annual Veterans Day program and websites, and developing print and of her impressive body of work in co-founder and president of The outdoor advertising. Susan Buehle ’84 (NEW), execu- the market. Coca-Cola Company Military Veter- tive vice president at Bellevue Com- ans Business Resource Group. In his Gregg Hartvigsen G’95 (A&S), pro- munications Group in Philadelphia, Randi Davenport G’89, G’91 (A&S) new book, Boots to Loafers: Finding fessor of biology at SUNY Geneseo, serves on the Philly Ad Club Board of Chapel Hill, N. C., wrote The End Your True North, Phillips details the wrote A Primer in Biological Data of Governors. of Always (Twelve, Hachette Book three stages of transitioning from Analysis and Visualization Using R Group), a novel about a courageous the military to a civilian career— (Columbia University Press), a prac- Molly English ’84 (A&S/NEW) young woman’s struggle to rise transition, transformation, and tical and lab-oriented introduction is communications director at above her family legacy of violence integration—and the critical steps to R—the most widely used open- Syracuse-based Service Employ- to take charge of her own life. that need to be taken with each. source statistical and programming ees International Union Local 200 environment for the analysis and United. E. Martin Hinchliff G’89 (WSM) Chrys Ingraham G’92 (MAX) is the visualization of biological data. was inducted into the Dresser-Rand Joseph and Juanita Distinguished Peggy Huther Combs ’85 (A&S) Engineering Fellowship Program, Professor, professor and chair of Heather Wightman ’95 (A&S/ is the 11th commanding general of which honors individuals who have sociology, and chair of accessibil- NEW) and her husband, Richard the U.S. Army Cadet Command and attained the highest level of distinc- ity initiatives at SUNY Purchase. Koller ’95 (A&S), of Jersey City, the 85th to take command of Fort tion through significant engineering She is leading a team of doctoral N.J., announce the birth of their son, Knox—the first female commander achievements that have made a students and faculty at Purchase Harold Felix. in the history of each organization. global impact on the company. and Syracuse University in the research project “Minding the Gap: Janet Lewis Zelesnikar ’96 (NUR) Ilene Kobert ’85 (A&S) was named Eric Lynch ’89 (A&S) is a new The Textually Mediated Experience of Endwell, N.Y., co-wrote and a shareholder at the Miami office of member of the litigation practice of Everyday Accessibility.” self-published Silly Nomads from the Greenberg Traurig international of Polsinelli law firm in Phoenix. He Palmerston Close, the first of three law firm. has more than 20 years of experi- Kelly Rocha Light ’92 (VPA) of children’s books in the Silly Nomads ence as a litigator, advisor, and trial East Rockaway, N.Y., illustrated trilogy, which tell the tale of two Jeff McCormick ’85 (A&S), G’86 attorney working with clients in the two middle grade series, Elvis and Jamaican brothers who create their (WSM), managing partner, Saturn construction, mining, real estate, the Underdogs (Harper Collins) own exciting adventures based on Management, Boston, is an inde- banking and finance, insurance, and The Quirks: Welcome to Normal what they learn from TV (www. pendent candidate for Massachu- utilities, technology, and manufac- (Bloomsbury). mohallandlewisllc.com). setts governor. turing industries.

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New Yorker cartoonist Bob Mankoff has parlayed his liberal arts training into a successful career BOB MANKOFF ’66, CARTOON EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER, RARELY WENT TO CLASS at Syracuse University, so sometimes he only saw his professors during finals. “Once, I in ‘cartoonology’— overslept and arrived half an hour late for an exam,” says the former psychology major from and it’s serious the College of Arts and Sciences. “While grabbing the exam book, I caught the professor’s eye. He came over to my desk and said loudly, ‘Who the hell are you?’ The class giggled. business “I replied, ‘You know, I could very well ask you the same question.’ “He laughed. The class laughed harder. I flunked. Lesson learned, but not the one he was teaching.” Mankoff has come a long way from being a self-described “wise-guy—as in Jewish from Queens,” devoted to the aesthetics of his hair. “It was the ’60s. What can I say?” he says. After spending 20 years as a cartoonist for The New Yorker, he succeeded Lee Lorenz as cartoon editor in 1997. Since then, Mankoff has overseen the production of more than 14,000 cartoons and founded the online Cartoon Bank, which contains approximately 64,000 others published by the magazine. Mankoff has also written and edited multiple books, including the memoir, How About Never—Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons (Henry Holt and Company, 2014), whose title comes from the caption of one of his best- known cartoons. Syracuse University Magazine contributor Rob Enslin recently caught up with Mankoff to ask him a few questions:

I love the Alex Gregory cartoon in How of silliness in the world, and, for my sake, I About Never. You know, the one where the hope it never goes away. one caveman says to the other: “Some- thing’s just not right—our air is clean, our In your memoir, you discuss the difference water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, between “playful incongruity” and humor. everything we eat is organic and free- There are classic gag cartoons—you range— know, jokes for the sake of jokes. Then “—and yet nobody lives past 30.” [Laugh- there are jokes for the sake of communicat- ter] One of the main functions of satire is to ing that have value above and beyond the have fun making fun of people. There’s a lot joke. With The New Yorker, I want a mix of

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both. People often ask me what my most ing and mentoring the next generation of Stippling must have a Zen-like quality to favorite cartoon is. I tell them it’s like try- New Yorker cartoonists. When I was com- it, having to make all those tiny dots. ing to name your favorite Beatles song. It’s ing up, magazines such as The Saturday Eve- It’s a nice contrast to emailing and impossible because there are so many of ning Post were doing away with cartoons, tweeting people all the time. … By the way, them and your tastes change from mo- so opportunities were already few and I never use emoticons, especially smiley ment to moment. far between. It’s gotten worse since then. faces. Either something is funny or it’s not. You don’t have to point it out to the reader. So context is important. How has your psychology training made Something that might be funny in one you a better cartoonist? Well, humor is serious business. context or with one type of reader might Psychology and philosophy were the As a species, we’re always cooperating not be funny with another. When you only classes at Syracuse University in and competing with one another. It creates communicate with your audience, you which I got A’s. I like to think that my best tension, with which we use humor to deal. have to be thinking about who they are cartoons are influenced by the reflective Let’s face it, a lot of things in life aren’t too and what’s going through their minds. nature of these disciplines. great. There are no good jokes about fun At The New Yorker [which is a weekly Syracuse University taught me that vacations and healthy marriages. publication], the next issue we work on is humor requires chutzpah—that you called the “A” issue. We select car- And laughter? toons for the “A” issue about one It’s important. Studies show or two weeks in advance. Some of that laughter helps us function the cartoons are topical and have better, especially when we’re try- a very short shelf life—maybe a ing to solve serious problems. week or two—while others have an evergreen quality. Occasionally, we What’s the secret to winning the have a cartoon that starts out being New Yorker Cartoon Caption Con- topical, but, for one reason or an- test? other, we don’t end up using it, but You’ve got to be in it to win it. it can still work, when transposed Give it an hour, and write down your to another issue. ideas. Start off by writing the worst captions you can. This will help you You get approximately 500 sub- to free-associate because ideas missions a week. They must add come from ideas, even bad ones. up after a while. … Shorter is better. Put the punch The New Yorker has a fairly large bank of have to have the guts to do something, line at the beginning. And please don’t put purchased cartoons, from which we select instead of just thinking about it. It also “LOL” or a smiley emoticon anywhere in 16, 17, or 18 per issue. Also, I’ve founded helped me develop my intellectual side. your caption. the online Cartoon Bank, which has every I went from studying psychology and I always tell cartoonists to submit draw- New Yorker cartoon since the magazine philosophy to “cartoonology.” Looking ings in batches of 10 because in cartoon- was founded in 1925. back, my time at Syracuse University ing, as in life, nine out of 10 things never The important thing is that our cartoons formed the core of whom I am today. work out. All you need is one good idea. « don’t promote or refer to anything in the magazine, itself. They live in a sort of par- In addition to being well-educated, allel universe—one that informs and is in- you’re a remarkable stipple artist— formed by The New Yorker, while giving the which you don’t see a lot in cartoons. layout some breathing room. The cartoons In high school, I became influenced by the are also designed to lightly poke fun at our Impressionist Georges Seurat, who paint- readers. We try to let them be in on the joke. ed in a style known as pointillism. Origi- nally, I thought it was a crazy way to paint It sounds like you and David Remnick or draw, but when I enlarged photographs [editor of The New Yorker] are continu- in magazines and newspapers, I saw that ally evaluating humor. they, like Seurat’s paintings, were made There’s a strong overlap between what up of tiny dots. So I started using dots to David likes and what I like, but no two make my own distorted versions of photo- people have the same sense of humor. So graphs. Then I applied it to cartoons. Over there’s some discussion, some conflict, the years, I’ve gone back and forth with but mostly lots of fun. stippling. Lately, I’ve returned to it because An important aspect of my job is nurtur- it forces me to be at the drawing board.

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» THE REAL POWER OF SOLAR BY DAVID STALLER

WITH MY CAR IN PARK AND AIR CONDITIONING on 3, I recited my elevator pitch over and over in the non-descript office complex four summers ago. It was a forgettable day. Two weeks prior to this interview I had been laid off from my job as a project manager with a photovoltaic (PV) installation contractor. Solar had always been something to carry me through the bad times—when architects stopped designing and con-

IN THE FIRST PERSON tractors stopped building. Fifteen minutes, maintain eye contact, stay composed, and relax. I didn’t get the job. But what was interesting was how the interviewer, an executive for a multinational contractor, held my solar experience with such obvi- hold a majority market share, many inverters, and most ous disdain. During my short career in PV, I had heard combiner boxes, monitoring equipment, wire, conduit, nothing but enthusiastic inquiries: How much can I fit on and other installation materials are made, assembled, my house? Does it really work? Can I stop paying PECO? and designed in the United States. These are technical Yet now, post-interview, I was questioning my past. jobs that demand decent compensation and are diffi- Was solar for real, or was it just a bunch of opportunis- cult to out-source. The correlation of increasing solar tic hackers? It took some serious thought to stifle my production and jobs is hard to ignore. After all, this is anxiety, but I ultimately concluded that solar, like many technology that was designed for the rooftops of our forms of alternative energy, has not only a place in soci- homes and businesses. It is quite literally a rooftop (or ety, but also a purpose. ground-mount) power plant that, again I’ll reinforce Energy conservation and efficiency are the most this point, requires a proportionate amount of admin- cost-effective approaches to reducing energy demand. istrative, accounting, legal, and managerial support that Education is paramount to implementing conservation large utility-scale plants require. The point being, solar and efficiency programs, which often require lifestyle is no less a domestic power source than nuclear, coal, or changes that we tend to resist. Electricity—what it is, hydro, and I would argue serves us, our towns, and our how it works, and what’s involved in creating it—to states in more profound ways. most people is obscure, exotic, and taken for granted. Looking back on my interview, I now feel fortunate Many Americans lack even a basic understanding of that things didn’t go as I had hoped. Today, I am four simple electrical systems, such as one found in a home. years into my career as a solar engineer and am proud Start discussing loads, watts, and current with most to be part of this second wave of consumer interest. homeowners and their eyes begin to glaze over. What Unlike in the ’70s, and despite how much the industry solar can do is encourage home and business owners has slowed, it looks like we’ve reached a tipping point to understand basic electrical knowledge, for without and solar will be here to stay. It is my hope that every- this they could not appreciate their investment. After one looks past the stereotypes, the urban legends, the all, when people purchase a solar electric system, they fear-mongering, and focuses on the proven strengths of purchase a power plant, and thus become its CEO, CFO, PV—the real power of solar. and COO! It is this penetration of energy awareness that will propel any cultural movement toward smarter Dave Staller ’05, who holds a bachelor’s degree in civil en- thinking. And we can use PV, or solar thermal, as one gineering from the College of Engineering and Computer tool to nudge us in that direction. Science, is a licensed professional engineer with United PV is a distributed type of power generation that re- Management & Consultants of Lower Gwynedd, Pennsyl- quires local American businesses to sell, engineer, de- vania, where he specializes in PV system design, testing, liver, administer, install, and maintain. And despite the and maintenance. He rents in a solar-powered home in the predominance of media attention on foreign (and do- Brewerytown neighborhood of Philadelphia that is currently mestic—ahem, Solyndra) module manufacturers, who running an energy surplus.

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» Ujwala Samant G’90, G’95 » NOURISHING CHANGE

ON THE MORNING OF HER FIRST day of work at the Food Bank of South Jersey in February 2009, Ujwala Sa- mant’s job title was “grant writer.” But by the time she went home to her husband and son that evening, she was the organization’s new director of programs and services—a department that didn’t yet exist. “In the afternoon the CEO asked me to create the de- partment, and I told her I knew nothing about food banking,” says Samant, who earned a master’s degree in counselor education from the School of Education and a doctoral degree in social science from the Maxwell School. “She said, ‘I looked at your resume. You’ll do it.’” And so she did. Five years later, Sa- mant heads up what she calls “a re- ally good set of programs and teams,” including the agency’s core Feed More program, which last year solicited 10 million pounds of surplus food for dis- a London-based charity that serves time,” says Samant, who was recog- tribution to some 240 programs servic- impoverished communities in Af- nized with Britain’s Asian Woman of ing more than 173,000 people in New ghanistan, India, and Pakistan, focus- Achievement Award for social and Jersey communities. Other initiatives ing on schooling and teacher training humanitarian work in 2007. “Now my developed under her leadership include for girls and women. “There, women attitude to everything is, ‘It can’t be nutrition education activities, healthy and girls are hungry for change,” says worse than Afghanistan.’ If I can make cooking classes for families, and the Samant, who was born in Mumbai, a change there, I can work anywhere.” establishment of Kids Café sites to al- India, and first came to the United In addition to her professional leviate childhood hunger. “The part I States to pursue graduate studies. “In achievements, Samant has maintained truly enjoy is when our programs create the North-West Frontier Province in a close connection with SU. While at realistic and sustainable change,” says Pakistan, where women’s literacy is in Learning for Life, for example, she was Samant, who met her husband, Pascal some places zero, we still managed to active in SU London’s internship pro- Herve G’89, at SU (pictured). “When I erect 80 schools, all with health units, gram, providing students with hands- hear children wanting to eat kale chips, and trained more than 100 women as on experience at the agency—some- or teenagers saying they are drinking teachers and health workers and to thing she and her colleagues enjoyed. water instead of juice one year after manage the schools with village educa- She attributes her success and sense they have taken a small six-week class, tion committees, parent-teacher asso- of fulfillment to the interdisciplinary I think, ‘Yeah, we’re reaching someone ciations, and grassroots networking.” and collaborative nature of her educa- somewhere.’ When I see the change, She joined Learning for Life in 2003, tion at the Maxwell School. “The only when I see people using what they’ve helping transform it from a struggling reason I can easily change jobs and learned to better their lives, that’s the entity to a thriving one. Under her specializations is because I have this biggest victory. That’s where my work direction, the organization also sup- interdisciplinary outlook on the world has meaning.” plied resources to primary schools in that Syracuse gave me,” she says. Improving lives through education the United Kingdom to raise aware- “You don’t realize what a gift it is until was also central to Samant’s role as ness about and challenge racial and after you leave. It is rare to find.” executive director of Learning for Life, ethnic stereotypes. “It was an intense —Amy Speach

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» Chris Licht ’93 » News Matters BEFORE AMERICA WAKES UP, CHRIS LICHT ALREADY KNOWS of Public Communications, Licht says studying at the University what’s going on in the world. Every morning at 5:30, the execu- was a transformative experience for him. While at SU, he served tive producer of CBS This Morning meets with colleagues and de- as president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, worked at local ra- cides what will be news that day. After supervising the network’s dio stations 570 WSYR and 95X, and was a bartender on Marshall morning show, Licht tends to his responsibilities as vice president Street. “Syracuse gave me the opportunity to just try everything,” of programming for CBS News until he returns home to his fam- he says. “You walked out of here with a pretty good microcosm of ily by dinnertime. “One of the things that attracted me to go into the country.” In February, Licht returned to Newhouse to share his CBS is that I can be an executive, but also still have a show—get- views with students on the importance of network news. “When ting your hands dirty every day,” he says. people need real, reliable news, it’s where the public turns,” he says. Despite his highly demanding work life, Licht isn’t the obses- Licht began his ascent to the summit of the journalism indus- sively competitive producer he used to be. At age try from the ground level, producing syndicated 38, Licht suffered from a brain hemorrhage that You should medical television news for a company in Allen- threatened his existence, enabling him to under- town, Pennsylvania. There he learned the craft of stand what really is important to him. “Any kind of never follow a deadline-driven television and realized he needed baggage you have or anything that you’re worried defined path to to take risks to grow in his career. “You should never about, if you’re not worried about it when you’re ly- follow a defined path to get what you want,” he ing on a hospital bed, then it doesn’t matter,” says get what you says. “You have to find your own way.” Determined Licht, who chronicled the experience in his book want. You have to succeed, he moved to Los Angeles, where he What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac “ worked at KNBC, and then relocated to San Fran- TV Producer Put Down His Blackberry and Started to to find your cisco to continue working for the network. In 2007, Live His Life (Simon & Schuster, 2011). Along with own way.” Licht entered the national stage, helping to create his family, journalism was one of the few things that MSNBC’s Morning Joe with television host Joe Scar- came to mind when he was hospitalized. “I really love what I do, borough and becoming the show’s executive producer. and it’s a part of who I am,” he says. Now at CBS, Licht puts into practice the knowledge he’s gained Licht has wanted to work in news as early as he can recall. “My throughout his career. “That’s been the most gratifying thing,” he desk in school was in front of a world map, and I thought that’d be says. “I feel that CBS This Morning is the evolution of everything a perfect set,” he says. “I remember pretending to be Tom Brokaw.” I’ve learned.” But Licht says his self-actualization experience is far Growing up in Connecticut, Licht had his first experience with radio from over and cites CBS News president David Rhodes and CBS when he was a high school student. He interned for the newscast News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager for at WINE and then became a disc jockey at WRKI, a rock-music introducing him to the traditional reporting values of the network. station. As a radio intern, Licht met two Newhouse alumni who “I’ve been here for three years, and it’s been an incredible learning encouraged him to apply to Syracuse. “They got me really excited experience,” he says. “Our slogan is ‘Original Reporting,’ and that’s about it, and they wrote me recommendation letters,” he says. more than a slogan—that’s actually how we operate.” A broadcast journalism graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School —Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro

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DAILY ORANGE INITIATIVE » Digitizing History

DAN STONE ’65 HAS FINE MEMORIES versity and The Daily Orange to life.” of his time at The Daily Orange. In his Donors tend to sponsor the years they column “Millstones and Milestones,” he worked at the paper or attended SU. So reflected on campus issues and docu- far, almost 40 years of archival material mented Robert Kennedy’s race for the have been made available. But the pub- U.S. Senate in New York. Now, Stone’s lication’s early years are the hardest to work can be found online, thanks to the find sponsors for. “Unfortunately, many student newspaper’s digital archiving alumni who worked at the paper at that initiative that he’s helped fund. “I think time are no longer living,” Delaney says. every school in America would benefit Casey Fabris ’15, the DO’s editor in from a day-to-day chronology of what chief for this past school year, believes 111 YEARS AND was happening on its campus,” says the archives are a great resource for COUNTING Stone, a retired communications execu- both writers and readers. “For our staff, The first issue of tive based in Chicago. it’s important to have a knowledge of The Daily Orange For the past couple of years, The Daily how things were reported in the past,” appeared on September 15, 1903. Orange (DO) has been digitizing its print Fabris says. “It’s also great for readers It took Irving archives (dailyorange.com/archives) to who are interested in history about how Templeton 25 hours make its legacy available to young and things came together on the campus.” to handset the type old. A small committee of DO alumni Although the student newspaper before printing and and staff coordinates the initiative, try- wasn’t independent from the University delivering the paper. ing to raise enough funds to include ev- at the time Stone wrote his column back The DO flags shown ery single edition from the publication’s in the ’60s, he believes the DO’s mission here are a sampling more than a century of history. SU Ar- has remained the same. “It’s an ideal of the changes in chives has supported the initiative, help- training ground for future journalists,” culture and design ing compile print copies of the DO. “The he says. “It gives them a chance to look through the years. goal is to get every year, every paper, into issues more in depth and call stu- every semester,” says Meghin Delaney dents’ attention to them.” ’13, head of the archives committee and —Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro an education reporter for the Bradenton Herald in Bradenton, Florida. “We’re For more information on The Daily Or- working on a project that will bring the ange archives project, call 315-443-2315, rich and vibrant history of Syracuse Uni- or visit dailyorange.com/donate.

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» Oswaldo Ortega ’05 » FRESH THRESHOLDS

IF OSWALDO ORTEGA HAD TO RELY on just one word to describe his life this past year, “new” would do nicely. He became a newly licensed architect in Maryland; partnered with a buddy from graduate school on a pro bono project to envision a new art and education center in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica; and relocated from Washington, D.C., to Chicago to take a new job at Gensler, a global architecture, design, and planning firm, where his work has a new focus on design—all of which has him feeling ener- gized and grateful. “Honestly, I’m loving it all probably way too much,” says Ortega, who encountered even more new experi- ences on a recent business trip to Shang- hai, including his first stay in a five-star hotel. “That’s the first time I’ve ever flown someplace where there was a guy waiting for me with a sign with my name on it. It was pretty great.” An earlier first came for Ortega as a high school student in Brooklyn, where nizational development at Johns Hopkins has been involved in was a collaboration his love for architecture originated. That University. “The first was that I was prop- with his friend, Jason Pugh, to design a interest led him to pursue a bachelor’s de- erly prepared to enter the workforce. The new home for the Lil Ragamuffin summer gree at the School of Architecture, where second was that there’s a strong alumni camp in Jamaica. “We flew down there in his leadership roles base at HOK with a successful track re- June 2013 to meet with local town folks The alumni included founding cord. The alumni helped ease my transi- and come up with some ideas,” says helped ease my the Society of Mul- tion from academia to the workforce and Ortega, who has two siblings and a cous- “ ticultural Architects served as excellent mentors.” in who are also SU alumni. “We talked to transition from and Designers. Fol- Ortega also values having the opportu- them about how to think about what they academia to lowing completion nity to mentor others, often making him- want and then nail down a list of activi- the workforce of a master’s degree self available to SU students as a way to ties and functions they would like to have in urban design and give back and stay connected to the Uni- in their new building.” The result was the and served architecture at Co- versity. In both Washington and Chicago, creation of a 40-page vision document as excellent lumbia University in he has been actively involved in the na- that shares the story of the camp and mentors.” 2006, he joined the tional ACE (Architecture, Construction, proposes a design for building the Blue Washington, D.C., and Engineering) Mentoring Program, Mountain Art Institute—a 6,500-square- office of HOK, one of the world’s largest which seeks to inspire and encourage foot cultural and educational hub that design practices. While there, he served high school students to pursue careers in incorporates eco-friendly concepts in en- as project architect for various office design and construction. Additionally, he ergy usage, water conservation, and land buildings, a biotech laboratory facility, volunteers for the Metropolitan Planning impact. “It was an amazing experience,” and conceptual design packages for inter- Council, a nonprofit organization that he says. “The whole process—of trying to national clients. “I attributed my employ- helps residents and communities in the help people who want a space but don’t ment at HOK to SU for two reasons,” says Chicago region address the city’s plan- know how to make it happen—was inspir- Ortega, who also earned an advanced ning and development challenges. ing. I hope to do more of it in the future.” studies certificate in leadership and orga- Among the most fulfilling projects he —Amy Speach

58 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2014 17 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL » Ann Neidenbach ’84 » ADVENTUROUS INNOVATOR

ANN GIACOBBE NEIDENBACH IS FEARLESS BY NATURE. Whether ski racing down the side of a mountain in her youth, or tackling technology and business challenges as head of NASDAQ OMX Market Systems, she always goes full bore. “From competitive ski racing I learned you must look ahead, anticipate, and be able to react quickly when things don’t turn out as you expected,” says Neidenbach, who was born and raised in Barneveld, a small town on the edge of the Adiron- dack Mountains in Upstate New York. “When I think back on what has been the biggest influence on my career success, ski racing is at the top of the list.” Like most first-year college students, Neidenbach didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life. She explored ma- joring in English or biology, but eventually got hooked on man- agement information systems in the School of Business Ad- ministration (Whitman School). “I loved my systems analysis class, and that’s when I got really excited about a career in technology and designing systems,” says Neidenbach, who took full advantage of everything Syracuse University had to offer, including joining a sorority, serving as a residence advisor, cheering on the Orange sports teams, and studying abroad in London. “To this day, 30 years later, I remember that class vividly.” Not long after graduation, Neidenbach found a job as a pro- grammer at Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Back then, hospitals were managed by big accounting firms, so Neiden- bach received two years’ worth of technology training from Ar- thur Andersen, one of the country’s “Big Five” accounting firms at the time. “That was just dumb luck,” she says. “I was an em- ployee of Children’s Hospital, but I really worked for a partner at Arthur Andersen, so I went through some of their training courses. And then a head hunter recruited me for a technology position at a company called the National Association of Se- curities Dealers, which is the regulator of the NASDAQ stock market, and I have been there for most of my career.” At the same time Neidenbach’s career was growing, her family was growing as well. She got married and had two chil- dren while assuming ever greater responsibility at NASDAQ, including assignments in London and Stockholm. Now based in New York City, she leads NASDAQ OMX Market Systems Ann Neidenbach ’84 is joined by Jim Boeheim ’66, G’73 and and is senior vice president of NASDAQ OMX Group, where Otto the Orange at the NASDAQ closing bell on July 1, 2013. she is responsible for managing the strategic planning and development of global technology products and services for Neidenbach would like to encourage more young women the company’s markets and commercial offerings, as well as to enter the information technology field because it is flexible for the delivery team serving market technology customers from a work-life balance perspective, and is a great pathway across the globe. “I never could have imagined I’d be doing into the world of financial market exchanges. “Women are this when I was in college, but I’m adventurous and not afraid quite adept at working collaboratively, which is a necessary to take risks or make tough decisions,” says Neidenbach, skill in today’s workplace,” she says. “But in order to move who was profiled in the October 2013 special Elite 8 edition up into leadership positions, women must learn to be coura- of Wall Street & Technology as one of the top innovative tech- geous and embrace opportunities when they arise. No one— nology leaders from the capital markets. “Looking back, it’s including me—ever succeeded by playing it safe.” been an incredible career.” —Christine Yackel

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Josh Bornstein ’97 (NEW) Benjamin L. Riemer ’02 in the Syracuse City School is district supervisor of (A&S), an attorney at Bell District, Steuerwalt was a transition services at Union Nunnally & Martin in Dallas, panelist for the WRVO-1 County Educational Services was named to the Texas NPR News Community Commission in Westfield, Rising Stars list published Forum Series on “Childhood N.J. by Super Lawyers, a rating Nutrition and Physical Fit- service of outstanding ness,” which aired in May. Sarah O’Connell Sullivan lawyers from more than 70 ’97 (A&S) is the young adult practice areas who have at- Geoffrey Korff L’08 (LAW) librarian in the children’s tained a high degree of peer is president of Quaker City department at Nevins Me- recognition and professional Castings located in Salem, morial Library in Methuen, achievement. Ohio. Mass. Amy Peterson-Berry ’03 Christopher J. Stevens ’08 Felix Brandon Lloyd ’98 (A&S) and her husband, (A&S) is an associate attor- (A&S/NEW) is co-founder Brandon Berry ’01 (VPA), of ney in the Bond, Schoeneck of Zoobean, a company that Miami, announce the birth & King law firm’s Albany combines the perspective of of their son, Carson Robert office. He specializes in the educators and librarians with Andrew, who joins big sister areas of health, education data science to make app Hannah. and disability, white collar and book selections for criminal, and evidence laws. individual children. It also Mike Cardamone ’04 provides tools for families to (E&CS) and his wife, Samantha Aster ’09 (A&S), collaborate with teachers to Jacqueline Cerone ’07 a professional and product build their children’s literacy (VPA), started 21 Bundles, a liability defense attorney, is (www.zoobean.com). Lloyd service that sends baby-safe an associate in the New York and his wife and co-founder, products to expecting and City office of Ropers Majeski Jordan Lloyd Bookey, were new parents every month Kohn & Bentley law firm. featured on an episode of (www.21bundles.com). ABC’s Shark Tank in April. Holly Caiello ’09 (VPA) is Todd Rubin ’04 (ARC), vice campaign manager for the ORCHESTRATE Jason Jedlinski ’99 (NEW) president of the Republic of National MS Society Upstate is senior vice president of Tea company, was honored New York Chapter in Syra- OPPORTUNITY. marketplace development at by San Francisco’s North Bay cuse. She is responsible for News Distribution Network Business Journal as one of its organizing Walk MS fund­ in Atlanta. Forty Under 40 outstanding raising events in Syracuse, Launched in 2013, the Baker Artists young business and com- Mohawk Valley, Watertown, Program is creating incredible opportunities munity leaders of 2014. and Binghamton, N.Y. for our Setnor School students to connect Trisha Bombardo ’05 (VPA) Jeanine Kowalski ’09 with and learn from music professionals, on 00s is senior art director at (NEW) married Samuel and off campus. Myriam Bouchard ’01 Pinckney Hugo Group, a full- Staton ’10 (FALK) last (WSM) is a certified service marketing communi- December. They reside in business advisor at the cations firm in Liverpool, N.Y. Monterey, Calif. You can create these kinds of opportunities, Mid-Hudson Small Business Development Center. A life- too, with your gift to Syracuse University. Collin O’Mara G’06 (MAX) long entrepreneur, she is co- is president and CEO of the Whether you establish a new program that’s partner of The Suite Escape National Wildlife Federation, especially meaningful to you or support an B&B in New Paltz, N.Y. America’s oldest and largest existing initiative, you can make it possible wildlife conservation and For baritone Angky Budiardjono G’15, the Setnor School of Music is a Matt Torok ’01 (A&S) is education organization. for students like Angky Budiardjono to live head men’s soccer coach at nurturing environment where he’s realizing his dream of being an opera out their dreams. the University of the Ozarks Sage Suppa ’06 (VPA), an singer. It’s also been an open door to an exciting opportunity. Thanks to in Clarksville, Ark. actor, writer, director, and the Baker Artists Program, established through a gift from the Dexter F. YouTube vlogger, is working Learn how easy it is to make a lasting, Allison Bellins Dennis on preproduction for the web and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation, he was able to spend four weeks life-changing impact. Call us at ’02 (NEW/MAX) and her series 12, a parody of the training and performing in an intensive summer program at California’s husband, Keith Dennis, popular television show 24 315.443.1848 or visit giving.syr.edu. announce the birth of their ([email protected]; nationally acclaimed OperaWorks school. identical twin daughters, youtube.com/sagesuppa). Kate Elizabeth and Zoey Michelle. Allison serves as Benjamin C. Steuerwalt ’07 Read more about Angky, hear him sing, and learn how you can make it a public affairs specialist (EDU) married Jesika Pufnok possible for Syracuse University students to find their best voices. with the U.S. Environmental in July 2013 on the lawn of Protection Agency. the Wagner Winery in Lodi, Visit changealife.syr.edu/angky or call 315.443.1848. N.Y. 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For baritone Angky Budiardjono G’15, the Setnor School of Music is a nurturing environment where he’s realizing his dream of being an opera singer. It’s also been an open door to an exciting opportunity. Thanks to the Baker Artists Program, established through a gift from the Dexter F. and Dorothy H. Baker Foundation, he was able to spend four weeks training and performing in an intensive summer program at California’s nationally acclaimed OperaWorks school.

Read more about Angky, hear him sing, and learn how you can make it possible for Syracuse University students to find their best voices. Visit changealife.syr.edu/angky or call 315.443.1848.

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Karp, Eleanor Samborsky, Franklin C. Smith, Schumacher, A. Morgan Struthers, Roach Kerley, Howard A. Klein, Mary Frances Wood Strodel, Nad- 1960 Ilhami S. Cinkilic, Alice M. Irene Johnson Walker, Lois Cohen Mary Apenowich Lucas, Johanna zia Drumluk Sturbin, Georgette Dewey, Gerald S. Diamond, Rob- White 1944 Helen Corbin Ander- Nelson MacDonald, Stanley V. Poehland Thomas, Katherine Ham- ert L. Erwin Jr., John I. Harris, John son, Harriet Beckwith Brittain, Su- Scott, Grace Dilts Starwald, Martha brecht Young, Joan Nies Zell 1953 W. Lewis, Gloria Eastburn Lynch, san Paconda Copp, Laura Howitt Sweeney Sykes, Robert P. Wensley, Leona Goldfarb Attenberg, Elea- Stephen J. Novak, John A. Oster- Craft, Edward J. Karkut, Anthony Robert S. Winchester, Theodore M. nor I. Barnwell, Norma Fredenburg houdt, Edwin H. Parke, Kenneth P. J. Oropallo, Lillian Holmes Saue, Winkert Besch, Gordon H. Bradbury, Toshiko Siegel, Doris Handelman Spivack, Robert C. Sprague Sr., Lois Reinhart Kishimoto D’Elia, Emlen H. Faerber, William H. Throop 1961 Robert Stone, Frances Marshall Weber 1950 Warren W. Barth, Nancy Fos- Elaine Felberbaum Hirsch, Arnold F. Bohnen, Betty J. Denick, Robert

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» PASSINGS KAREN L. DECROW L’72 S. Hager, Carol Metzler Hall, Dolores mour, Lawrence A. Dugan, Robert B. Budgiss Pomilio, Robert W. Prouty Hammond, Harold D. Holland Jr., Jason KAREN L. DECROW, A NATION- 1962 Helen Zemek Baine, Edward A. J. Israel, William A. Landymore, Allen E. ally recognized attorney, author, Baker, Anne McMahon DeGraff, Carol LeBel, David C. Moretti Sr., Bessie Coo- Davis Evans, Margaret Smith Hafner, per Noble, Robert F. Thaisz 1974 Alan and advocate specializing in John R. Hammerle, Kevin E. Murphy, L. Arons, Mark J. Bennett, Geoffrey L. constitutional law, gender and Bonnie Van Buren Stiles 1963 Arlene Conklin, Eileen Taylor Duttweiler, Fred- age discrimination, and civil Millington Jameson, Walter J. Kon- erick R. Eplett, Robert T. Francis, Joan liberties, died at her home in jolka, Helen Millis Livingston, Frances M. Gaughan, Frank A. Halse Jr., Paul Jamesville, New York, on June 6, Harvey Mead, James Pike, William R. D. Leonard 1975 James A. Benedict, Sistek, Joan Patterson Sullivan 1964 Mona Goldstein, Randolph A. Leon- 2014. She was 76. She devoted Martin A. Abkowitz, Harold E. Bennig- ard, Miriam Wolff Levinson, Anthony her life to writing articles, col- hof Jr., Richard F. Bock, Lewis L. Bower, J. Maddaloni, Lynn G. Schrader, Ber- umns, and books on feminist issues and lecturing Harmon A. Dungan, Jeanette M. Pi- nice Alpert Schultz, Henry L. Thornton, on reproductive rights, and using litigation as a tool etrantoni, Joseph C. Rinere Jr., Robert Dolores O’Connor Van Vleck, Priscilla for social change. DeCrow’s lifelong activism and W. Sinnott, Eleanor Green Stephenson Alden Wessels, Ronald R. Young 1976 1965 Samuel N. Block, Bonney Cochran Etta Wilkerson Beard, Betsy J. Boyce, commitment to promoting gender equality had a Daubenspeck, Joseph P. Gee, Harold J. Jerry H. Brown, Robert D. Fetterly, profound impact on the lives of women and men, Henry, Alan E. Olson, Catherine Fair- Emanuel Lastra, James L. Schofield both in the United States and abroad. bairn Parratt, Howard G. Pinsly, Sylvia 1977 Willie Mae Gray Royal, Karen DeCrow joined the fledgling National Organiza- Dodson Prestopnik, Patsy A. Santoro, Chilek Skellie, Charles J. Walker 1978 tion for Women (NOW) in 1967, at a time when Charles P. Stackhouse Jr., Robert D. Stan G. Hungerford, Alex H. Westfried Tilroe, Michael J. Volpe 1966 Virginia 1979 Cynthia Palmer Davis, Frances the organization was pushing for equal pay for Zimmer Fosdick, Robert C. Friedman, Griffith Pugh, Carl F. Schrader, Beverly equal work—a concept that appealed to her, an William B. Holwick, Constance Short Barbushack Spensieri overworked, underpaid employee in the publishing Jeffers, Kathleen A. Linehan, Henry industry. In 1969, she decided to pursue a law de- M. Mathews, Gloria M. Tartaglia, Bar- 1980 Richard E. Blanford, Allen R. gree; during her first year as an SU College of Law bara Kling Weissberger 1967 Hubert Blodgett, Joseph D. Hull, Dennis E. Mar- W. Bunce, Patricia Yellen Finkelstein, tin, Lois Shank Yeakel 1981 Matthew J. student, she became the first woman to run for John D. Fitzgibbons, Mary Ann Fitz- Beaudoin 1982 Jane Fahey-Suddaby, mayor of Syracuse, the first woman to run for may- patrick Griffin, Bruce J. Lipsky, Roberta Sylvia Schaberl Feldbauer 1983 Ken- or in New York State, and one of only a handful of Schachle, Ronnie J. Straw, Beth Swope neth G. Barnett, Michael G. Hallisey, women running for office anywhere in the country. Williams, Charles H. Williams 1968 Charles McHugh, George H. Stevens From 1974 to 1977, DeCrow guided NOW as its Charles C. Aquino, Alvin L. Bragg Sr., 1984 Martha Jimerson Bezner, Randal Anthony C. Chillemi, Karen D. Con- F. Lundblad 1985 Anthony L. Brown, national president. Under her leadership, efforts nell, Jack B. Cover, Pete Fenoglio, Al- Mark R. Frega, Ellen Donah Haag, Carol to advance gender equality included persuading bert G. Gallo, Ilizana Spekmanis Graff, Weimer Lanier 1986 Mary Eagen Kem- NASA to recruit women; urging the U.S. Equal Glen G. Langdon Jr., Madeleine Relyea ple 1987 Vienna Sacher Hagen, Marc Employment Opportunity Commission to inves- Marchese, Kathleen Farmer Nicholson, J. Rosenblatt, Richard S. Ziperman tigate sex discrimination complaints; pressuring Robert R. Norton, Susan Haley Walsh 1989 Amy B. Barden, Thaddeus Iorizzo, 1969 Kenneth R. Brown, Dennis M. Bridget Hopper Jetton the three national television networks to include Brunelle, Andrew P. Cammuso, James women and minorities in front of and behind the F. Danner, Ruth Badger Denholm, Ed- 1990 Monesh V. Hiranandani 1991 camera; and influencing the male Ivy League ward W. Herbert II, June Woodbury Yvonne Odon Piburn 1992 Anthony schools to admit women. Karassik, Robert K. Lister, Guenther E. D. Jones, Catherine R. Solazzo 1993 In 1988, she co-founded World Woman Watch Vogt, Gail Pitman Yaus Victor E. Rennix Jr. 1994 Margaret M. Arneson, Kristen Kawa Caron, Kath- with the late Dr. Robert Seidenberg ’40, M.D. ’43, to 1970 Lewis R. Bush, James N. Dunn, leen Cerjan Herbst, Karen Kemper urge world leaders not to use religion or culture to Robert G. Farrell, Richard S. Feldman, Katz, Stewart A. Pollock 1995 Gail Ri- mask sex discrimination, and she campaigned tire- Marion Peterson Hall, Samuel C. Ju- ese Fish, F. Lockwood Morris 1996 Pe- lessly for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. riga, Andrew P. Kordalewski, Clyde F. nelope S. Cunningham 1997 Michael L. According to the late New York Times columnist Mosher II, Louise Carr Richards, Tracy Beller, Heather M. Wester 1999 Carol L. Smith 1971 Joan List Bart, Christine Dorey Stone 2000 Lori Hunter 2003 William Safire ’51, H’78, DeCrow was the first per- Limbach High, G. Robert Hinck, Le- John P. Cook, Margaret Kinane De- son on record to use the phrase “politically correct.” land H. Roberts, John M. Ryan, Joanne Guire 2006 Saif Jaber 2009 Marinda In recognition of her pioneering advocacy for Kohler Smith, Roger B. Taylor, John E. L. Williams gender equality, DeCrow was honored in 2009 by Unger 1972 Michael P. Alunni, Paul Syracuse University with the Arents Award and B. Anderson, Peter K. Ebeling, Janet Faculty: Alfred T. Collette ’47 (profes- C. Lane, James R. McGraw, Robert W. sor emeritus), William C. Stinchcombe was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Poremba, Janet Fyfe Schwartz, Charles (professor emeritus of history), John Fame—entering the ranks of the most celebrated W. Wood 1973 Marylee Manson Ar- Scott Strickland (professor of history) women in U.S. history.

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CONNECTING AND EMPOWERING SYRACUSE UNI- versity women was the motivation behind PowerUp Atlanta, an alumni event held in March at the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta. Some 135 alumni and VIPs from the community turned out to hear a keynote address by political science professor Kristi Andersen, followed by a panel discussion with some of SU’s most successful businesswomen who call Atlanta home. “This was the largest event we’ve ever done in Atlanta outside of sports,” says Karen Spear, executive director of regional advancement. “The Atlanta Regional Council did a phenomenal job of creating a program that attract- ed a diverse group of alumnae—from young women just starting out to those at the top of their careers—and in all different sectors of the professional world.” Andersen, Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is an expert on women and politics, political parties, and American political history. She spoke about recent research that supports the impor- tance of role models for young women and girls and how that changes their aspirations for themselves and their parents’ aspirations for them. “In politics and in business, seeing and learning about women leaders seems to motivate young women to vote at higher rates, make better decisions, and pursue more educa- tion,” Andersen says. Next, a panel of four distinguished Syracuse alumnae at the top of their fields engaged in a lively discussion about how they addressed certain challenges in their careers and overcame obstacles at different stages of life. Panelists included Tracy Barash ’89, vice president of brand development at Cartoon Network; Christine Larsen G’84, SU Trustee and CEO of First Data; Angela Robinson ’78, president and CEO at A.R.C. Media; and Kathy Walters ’73, SU Trustee and executive vice presi- dent of the consumer products group at Georgia-Pacific. Chairs were arranged in small groupings—not in a wonderful opportunity for women of all ages to dis- Audience members applaud at PowerUp rows—to encourage interaction among participants, cuss how they can connect and empower each other Atlanta. and there was ample time during the evening for in the workplace.” people to mingle. Attendees also had an opportunity PowerUp Atlanta was so successful that Spear says Angela Robinson ‘78 and Christine Larsen to meet a number of community leaders, including she hopes to plan similar events with Regional Coun- G’84 share a laugh CEOs, civic leaders, and the heads of nonprofit orga- cil members in Chicago, New York City, Washington, during the panel nizations. Walters noted she was very impressed with D.C., Los Angeles, and Boston to promote women’s discussion.

the research results shared at the start by Professor empowerment by example. In fact, there is some talk Political science Andersen on the importance of women as role mod- that Washington, D.C., where some very successful professor Kristi els, which led to a substantive conversation between alumnae live, will be the next stop. “It would be excit- Andersen (left) shares the stage participants and the panelists about how they’ve han- ing to replicate this event in other areas of the country with panelists dled their individual life journeys. “We enjoyed having and provide a way for our alumnae to form a network,” Angela Robinson the opportunity to share our stories and how we each she says. “Atlanta is one of the smallest of our regions ‘78, Tracy Barash ‘90, Christine Larsen have navigated the difficult balance between our per- and just the right size for a test market—it was a great G’84, and Kathy sonal and professional lives,” she says. “The event was place to start.” —Christine Yackel Walters ’73.

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