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ARMY Sociology  Alternative Spring Break: March Volume 2, Issue 1 SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM, D EPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES & LEADERSHIP November 1, 2008 Upcoming Events: ARMY Sociology Alternative Spring Break: March 2009 AKD inductions: April Director’s Note Spike Lee as Guest Speaker Greetings from West Point where the leaves are changing colors and falling from the trees as 2008 American Soldiers in Iraq: Spring comes to a close. ARMY Sociology has had another rich year. Cadets continue to come as we Global Leadership Conference continue to build and steward it along. We said good-bye this year to the Sociology Class of 2008 in style—arguably one of the most cohesive classes in recent memory. In addition beloved colleagues have moved on—MAJ Bill White to Fort Riley and eventually Iraq and Dr. Ryan Kelty Inside this issue: has set-up shop at Washington College in Director‟s Note Maryland. This summer we welcomed Dr. Judith Rosenstein from Wells Trip Section of the Century College and CPT Jason Cadet and Faculty Trips Toole from Purdue University to the Who Got What? Sociology Faculty. We Graduation „08 had a tremendous recruiting year with the Alternative Spring Break in NOLA Class of 2011. Lots of you have sent pictures Dr. Charles Hunter Coates Award and notes making this a for Excellence in Sociology Recipi- rich second edition of the ent—2LT Amie Foster ARMY Sociology Newsletter. We hope you ARMY Sociology Classes find it of interest. Please 2008 AKD Inductees continue to keep in touch, be safe, make a difference, and make us proud and be sure to drop us a note. In particular, send us an ARMY SOCIOLOGY t-shirt from an exotic locale. This year‘s best ARMY Sociology Around the World photo comes from Dr. Kaffes, Hellenic Military Academy, Greece, sporting an ARMY Sociology t- ARMY Sociologists on the Move shirt below the Acropolis in Athens, Greece (see page 8). Emily Perez Receives Valor Award Segals Receive the BS&L Distin- guished Former Faculty Award Faculty Research Introduction to New Faculty Soon to be 2LT Randy Shed (Sociology „08) reflects on the rite of passage that is graduation. Army Sociology Program Website is located at http://www.dean.usma.edu/bsl/ ARMY Sociology Page 2 Cadets in PL470: Cinematic Images of War and the Military and faculty attended the NYC premiere of Spike Lee‟s (center) latest film Miracle at St. Anna in September. Cadets walked the Red Carpet and Mr. Lee promised to visit the class this fall at West Point . David Swanson (Sociology „10) called it the “Trip Section of the Century.” Below: ARMY Sociology in the house—2008 Firsties now LTs Jenna Berneskis, Jackie Oeser, Dani Hellman and Amie Foster with Dr. Kelty at the Spring Sociology Fiesta in Highland Falls. Photos with books on spring break! Above: MAJ KeKe Langkamp visualizing her lesson plan on Emotional Deviance in the Deviance & Social Control course. Sociology majors include from left Jazmine Stephens („09), Lene Baxter („08), and Jenna Lafferty („09). Volume 2, Issue 1 Page 3 Introductory Sociology cadets and sociology majors along with MAJ Darcy Schnack attend the Eastern Sociological Society Meetings February 21-24 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Dr. Bruce Keith (left), Dr. Morten Ender (rear) and cadets run Crescent City Classic in New Orleans during the Alternative Spring Break for Operation Provide Comfort II in New Orleans. CDTs (left to right) Kelly McKeon, Mark Kratchovil, Evelyn Zhang, and Leslie Willey with Dr. E atop the Zugspitze in the German Alps during the PL399: German Life and Culture. Army Sociology Page 4 Branching: Who Got What? ARMY Sociology Class of 2008 ARMY Sociology Class of 2009 Name Co. Branch Name Co Branch Cortlandt Armstrong D3 Armor Catlyyne Arreguin D4 Lene Baxter C2 Quartermaster Zachary Eakins B3 Ryan Brence F1 Air Defense Art SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM, Benjamin Franklin B1 DEPARTMENT OF Jenna Burneskis B2 Medical Services BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Andrea Gongaware B3 & LEADERSHIP Mary Ford A2 Quartermaster Amie Foster G3 Engineers Ashley Holzmann A4 Sociology Newsletter ATTN: MADN-BSL Wilson Galyean C2 Infantry Jenna Lafferty F3 United States Military Academy Allison Gould B4 Adjutant General Jeffrey Laughlin F1 Official Mail and Danielle Hellman B2 Ordinance Distribution Center Ashley Rowland B1 646 Swift Road Jackie Oeser C3 Quartermaster West Point, New York Jazmine Stephens C3 10996-1906 Heather Owney B3 Signal David White D1 Randy Shed E4 Infantry Newsletter Contact: Leslie Willey H2 Eric Wilson A2 Infantry Dr. Morten Ender Eric Wong D3 Infantry Phone: 845.938.5638 [email protected] USMA Graduation 2008: Dr. Morten Ender (left), Dr. Bruce Keith, and Dr. Ryan Kelty prepare to march into Michie Sta- dium on Graduation Day . Right, Dr. Kelty (left), 2LT Danielle Hellman (Sociology „08), 2LT Allison Gould (Sociology „08) and Dr. E weather the rain with shower caps on Graduation Day in Michie Stadium. ARMY Sociology Page 5 Alternative Spring Break in New Orleans working again -- not partying For the second consecutive to service.‖ ―I‘m sure the two LTs the members of the Lakeview sense of usefulness ... it really year the Lakeview Civic Improve- could have been doing one hun- community. made my spring break meaning- ment Association of New Orleans dred other things.‖ ful.‖ Loc Bao was perhaps the hosted cadets and faculty mem- Ender, a Sociology professor at most reflective of the team, quip- bers from the U.S. Military Acad- ―Last year the project was a USMA and occasional competi- ping, ―It is easy when you are emy from March 14th to 24th to huge success,‖ said Ender, ―we tive runner, noted a high point of living in comfort to forget that lead a major revegitation and exceeded all expectations in terms the trip stating, ―We were invited others are suffering … it‘s cliché civic beautification project. Con- of what a team of 12 cadets and to run in the Crescent City 10K but things like this really do teach tinuing their work from last year faculty could accomplish. No job run with two days notice. The you to take nothing for granted.‖ and focused on repairing green was too difficult for us.‖ The community members arranged for project this year further galvanized us to run, and two days later I spaces in the Lakeview commu- Dr. Keith emphasized, the community to again solicit found myself running my first nity that were devastated by Hur- ―USMA had a direct impact on contributions from local busi- 10K with 17,500 people. It was a ricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, the local community. For exam- nesses and community members big party. I outpaced three cadets the project was called ―Operation ple, in 2007 during the Spring for the trees, shrubs, and materials so my ego is still flying pretty high. Sudden Impact II.‖ Break visit, approximately 8 of needed for the project. Because After rising fairly early for the run, every 10 homes in the Lakeview of last year‘s efforts, local residents we ate lunch and went right back The cadets – Alexander Bowl- neighborhood remained uninhab- came out in force to provide lodg- to work. Our crew was tena- ing, William Budke, and Stepha- ited; by 2008, 8 of every 10 ing, transportation, and meals for nie Sefren [‗09]; Loc Bao, Kim- cious.‖ homes were inhabited. Members the cadets, as none of them were berly Cowan, Steven Nelson, of the Lakeview community at- from the New Orleans area. The In a March 27 story in the The Nathaniel Sheehan, and Ashley tributed this shift in fortune in project was a collaborative effort Times-Picayune, reporter Jeannie Sorensen [‗10]; and Brittney part to the landscaping efforts of centered out of the Lakeview area Paddison Tidy wrote: ―All the O‘Connell and Joterrica Wil- the USMA cadets.‖ However, not-for-profit volunteer coordina- young men and women who have liams [‗11], Office of the Dean, other neighborhoods remain tor centers called ―Beacons of come to our neighborhood in the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs blighted, particularly in Gentilly Hope.‖ Cadets and faculty again past two years are a credit to West and sociology professor Bruce and the lower 9th Ward sections worked with local residents and Point. I have no doubt that these Keith [Ph.D.] and Behavioral of New Orleans. The Beacon of volunteers from around the coun- young Americans will become Sciences and Leadership depart- Hope community members en- try to plant hundreds of trees, leaders of our nation. This gives ment and sociology Professor couraged the USMA delegation plants, and shrubs and create all of us inspiration and hope for Morten G. Ender, [Ph.D.], volun- to continue its support of some of flower beds around Lakeview signs a brighter future.‖ ―While the teered to go to New Orleans these neighborhoods that have adorning the roads going into the reward is in the work,‖ says Ender, during their 2008 spring break to yet to rebound from the disasters, ―there‘s some psychic groceries provide 11 consecutive days of Lakeview section of New Orleans. which occurred nearly three years gained from statements like this.‖ help to the community in its ago. ―Much as been accom- In addition to working full Similarly, Cadet Sefren noted that continuing redevelopment ef- plished, but much work remains,‖ days, cadets were featured in the ―the greatest thing about the trip forts. The trip this was co- said Keith. sponsored by the Cadet Scouting local newspaper -- The Times Pica- was probably the food and the Club and the Office of the Dean. yune, visited the World War II The trip, which began last year as Museum in New Orleans, partici- Axel Ender prepares the soil for planting trees in Lakeview / New Or- an idea between LTC Irving pated in the St.
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