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The Nursing Shortage Family Values: Love Knows No Boundaries Beyond the Viewbook Telescopes and TV Scripts: Students at Work

V O L U M E S I X . N U M B E R O N E . A U T U M N 2 0 0 1 TH E CO L L E G E O F NE W JE R S E Y MA G A Z I N E Send address changes to: TA B L E O F CO N T E N T S FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK Office of Alumni Affairs The College of New Jersey PO Box 7718, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 BEGINNING TO HEAL 800/347-9621 AUTUMN 2001 [email protected] 4 The Nursing Shortage R. Barbara Gitenstein The dean of TCNJ’s School of Nursing examines what’s behind the WE WILL BE Just as this magazine was going to press, the September 11 terror attacks shocked the P re s i d e n t looming crisis, and identifies a variety of solutions. nation and our campus community. On behalf of the entire TCNJ community, I offer by Susan Bakewell-Sachs my condolences to those of you who experienced this national tragedy on the most Jesse H. Rosenblum Associate Vice President personal of levels. for College Relations Two weeks have not yet passed, and we continue to struggle together as a 9 Family Values JUDGED AS Jcommunity to understand these events, to provide support to those in greatest need Susan M. Long Two 1990 graduates explain how and why they became the parents and to one another, and to return to some semblance of normalcy. I know that we Executive Editor of two black boys and two white girls. will be able to regain our equilibrium and, over time, we will heal, for we are a strong Br uce B. V an D u s e n by Meg and Shawn Crawley ’90 nation and a strong community. E d i t o r A GREAT I was very proud of how The College responded in the face of the attacks. On September 11, our Student Government Association, supported by the Rebecca P. Goetz 16 Beyond the Viewbook administration, held a gathering on the lawn in front of Paul Loser Hall at 3:30 P.M., Design Dire c t o r So you’ve been out of college a few years? Wonder what it’s like on campus attracting perhaps 1,000 students, faculty, and staff. Student life staff and campus Cindy Friedman ’89 now? Three seniors offer their take on four years at TCNJ. PEOPLE ministries provided places for groups to gather and support one another and Graphic Communications Dire c t o r by Susan Alsamarai, Elizabeth Keohane, and Melissa Camacho counseling for those who sought help. In support of President Bush’s call for a national day of prayer on Friday, September 14, The College held a memorial service Tony Marchetti ’96 at noon in Kendall Hall, with overflow crowds watching the Washington, D.C., P roduction Coord i n a t o r 20 From Telescopes to TV Scripts memorial service in Brower Student Center. IN HOW WE C O N T R I B U T O R S Internships have become a basic part of TCNJ’s educational experience. Some Students have collected several thousand dollars for relief efforts; three blood Ann King, Ryan Groeger ’01, drives were held; campus life staff collected food clothing and donations; athletic have been life-transforming. Na i re m Moran, Suzi Nam, by Bruce B. VanDusen teams collected donations at each of their games and organized a 5K run/walk to raise Ma r got Palmer, and UNDERSTAND money for relief efforts; and care bags were prepared and delivered to relief workers in Thomas A. Parmalee ’02 Liberty State Park. Surely our national landscape has changed forever, both figuratively and literally. Mike Curry ’63 22 Trustees Adopt $250 Million Facilities Plan Alumni Affairs Dire c t o r In years to come, we Americans will come to understand our history as before With a new mission in place, the trustees have approved a detailed concept September 11, 2001, and after September 11, 2001. of what TCNJ needs in terms of physical plant to fulfill our aspirations. THIS HISTOR Y Designed by t.a.design by Susan M. Long The horrific events of that Tuesday exist as images and stories that speak to the Pr oduced by the depth of depravity and to the height of heroism. They also exist in personal realities Of fice of College Relations of pain, anger, and fear as well as in an historical complexity that we are obligated to learn, to appreciate, and to memorialize. We must not, we cannot, simplify what 34 Alma Mater In the 69 years we’ve been singing our song, much has changed. One key AND HOW cannot be simplified. player has not, however, and he has made a difference. But one truth remains—that in the face of the enormity of these events, we on the cover: must reach out to all suffering in the pain of the moment and resist foolish, Nurses provide most of the Words and Music by Franklin Grapel ’33 dangerous, wicked stereotyping. We will be judged as a great people in how we health care in America, but WE ACT AS understand this history and how we act as a nation. While I know much will be a serious shortage looms. expected of us as a nation and as a college community, I am confident that we will See page 4. 2 Campus News continue to respond with compassion and wisdom. 26 Lion’s Roar 28 Cultural Arts Calendar A NATION . Most sincerely, 30 In Focus: Students and Faculty 37 Alumni News 46 The College of New Jersey Bookstor e R. Barbara Gitenstein 49 Lion’s Tale Pre s i d e n t Find us on the Web The College of New Jersey: www.tcnj.edu TCNJ Magazine: www.tcnj.edu/magazine CAMPUScampus news NEWSC AM P U S Foundation honors three Looking back and ■ Improve the quality of the educational experience In addition, the building is the site of The 1855 by making courses more rigorous and rich, with more Room, formerly 31 South, an upscale restaurant open The College of New Jersey Foundation in April saying thanks independent study, collaborative research, and to the campus community and general public. ho n o r ed a local corporation and two longtime Fourteen of New Jersey’s best high school teachers internship experiences. As president from 1980 to 1998, Eickhoff volunteers for their service to the institution. The last spring won some unexpected recognition, thanks For students who express frustration with directed and oversaw substantial changes in the aw a r ds were announced at a “Spring Gala” event to students they had taught who now attend TCNJ. The College’s extensive general education req u i re m e n t s , design of the campus, curriculum, and mission of designed to reflect the theme of “Continuing the A year ago, entering freshmen were asked to likely changes in that area are expected to produce The College. During his years, the national Tradition of Excellence” by recognizing outstanding identify a high school teacher who not only was an some relief. reputation of the institution rose unmistakably. se r vice to The College and the community. excellent educator, but also had made an important Faculty discussions last spring generated a Today he serves as a distinguished professor of The honorees are: impact on their lives. The newly enrolled students variety of concerns, many linked to assuring a humanities, teaching courses within the First- ■ Janssen Pharmaceutica, a subsidiary of Johnson & nominated 65 teachers, who then were subjected to reasonable, but flexible, balance between a Year Experience Program. Johnson located in nearby Hopewell Township. interviews and other forms of appraisal. professor’s classroom teaching, independent The company long has been a large recruiter of Cristin Campbell, coordinator of processing and scholarship, and community involvement. By June, TCNJ students and enjoys an international of f-campus rec r uitment, managed what is expected to Another good admissions year however, the vast majority had agreed to proceed Although the figures were still preliminary, the reputation as an innovative company with superior be an annual event and said it was designed to honor during the fall with a detailed analysis of how best to Office of Admissions looked back during the summer community and employee relations. It was named a group of professionals whose work often is taken for achieve the new goals. Assuming no insurmountable on its recruiting of the sesquicentennial Class of “Corporation of the Year,” an honor accepted by granted. In May, College President R. Barbara problems, Provost Stephen R. Briggs, who also is vice 2005 with pride. A key number—the percentage of company President David Y. Norton. Gitenstein held a special reception at her Pennington president for academic affairs, plans to announce the ■ accepted candidates who actually enroll—rose this James Shissias, a member and former board residence where she presented each of the 14 with an new system of faculty and student work by January 1, year into the low 40s, meaning that more of the chairman of the TCNJ Foundation, which raises engraved paperweight. The honorees are: along with a timetable for implementing the many students we were anxious to have at TCNJ decided and manages private funds for The College. For Sister Mary Ann Betiska, Immaculata High changes, probably over 18 months. they wanted to be here rather than elsewhere. The more than a decade he has been closely involved School; Gail Cerelli, Ramapo High School; David According to Briggs, similar systems net result will be a first-year class slightly larger than with such projects as the fall TCNJ Golf and Tennis DeStefano, Williamstown High School; Vincent characterized by fewer student course requirements the 1,207 who started out as the Class of 2004. Classic. He was honored as “Citizen of the Year.” Farinaccio, St. Augustine Preparatory School; Salim and reduced faculty teaching loads already are in ■ Lisa Angeloni, director of admissions, said Robert A. Gladstone, who recently completed a Fayad, Red Bank Catholic High School; Pamela place at such institutions as Swarthmore, Amherst, The College’s strengths as an institution “continue term as chairman of the TCNJ Board of Trustees, Hyatt, Toms River High School North; John Graf, Williams, Duke, Princeton, and Bucknell. to attract some of the finest undergraduate applicants and who remains a member of both the board and Pequannock Township High School; Joan Iervese, in the region, not only fine young scholars, but the TCNJ Foundation. Gladstone, a partner in Susan E. Wagner High School; Robert Johnson, students who represent the best across the board, the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Shanley, was West Morris Central High School; Lynn Lubrecht, Commons takes a new name After nine years, the building known as Community both academically and co-curricularly.” named “Presidential Honoree of the Year.” Morris Knolls High School; Joan Mechura, Ocean Commons has been renamed Harold W. Eickhoff Among the entering class this fall are 420 Some 200 guests attended the reception and Township High School; Gale Motaski, Passaic High Hall in recognition of Eickhoff’s 19 years of service students classed as Outstanding Student Scholars, dinner at the Trenton Country Club. The Foundation School; Mary Perrotta, Nutley High School; and as TCNJ president. who qualified for merit-based scholarship aid totaling bo a r d expects to host the event annually. College Larry Silano, Wayne Valley High School. Pr esident R. Barbara Gitenstein, Foundation Chair Board of Trustees Chairman Walter Chambers more than $2 million per year. Of these, 61 will Susanne Svizeny ’79, and State Senator Peter Inverso Academic changes afoot said the trustees found it fitting to name a student- receive support for full tuition, fees, room, and board. sh a r ed in the presentations, and each of the honoree s centered building for Eickhoff in view of his long Also admitted were 66 National Merit Scholars, During the past year, the Office of Academic Affairs, spoke briefly. An excerpt from Gladstone’s rem a r k s and full commitment to student development. some of whom are included in the 420 scholarship faculty, and students have been involved in an may be found on the back cover of this issue. Opened in 1992, the centrally located structure recipients. The average SAT score of the accepted intense study and restructuring of the academic combines residences for 215 students, an 800-seat, class was 1250, up from 1240 last year. On average, program that is designed to improve both teaching Honorees at the 2001 Spring Gala were (from left): sky-lit dining area; a health center; psychological the students ranked in the top 10 percent of their and learning at The College. Much of the fall David Y. Norton, president of Janssen Pharmaceutica; services; and offices for students with disabilities. high school classes. semester has been devoted to obtaining faculty, James Shissias, and Robert A. Gladstone. The Class of 2005 also consists of many student, and administration contributions to students who were involved outside the classroom. the changes, which are expected to: Acting Governor Donald Many in the class were Eagle Scouts, Girl Scouts, ■ Reduce from four to three the number of classes DiFrancesco was on campus National Honor Society and Habitat for Humanity most faculty members must teach; August 15, to kick off a statewide members, class presidents, all-state or all-conference ■ Reduce the number of course units students must student safety program sponsored by athletes, and served with the New Jersey Junior complete for graduation from the present 40–42 Prudential Financial. While here he Philharmonic, International Exchange, Governor’s to 32–34; and modeled a TCNJ cap. School, Junior ROTC, and many others.

4 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 In New Jersey, half of the nursing faculty will turn Why it is 65 and be eligible to ret i r e by 2008. Although New Jersey is not yet turning away students, faculty sh o r tages soon may limit the capacity to educate coming, fu t u r e professional reg i s t e r ed nurses. By Susan Bakewell-Sachs Nationally, the employment growth rate of Dean of The School of Nursing Still, relative to demand, fewer and fewer nurses are entering the workforce. In 1995, 96,610 people took RNs through 2008 is projected to be above the all- occupations’ average (21.7 percent and 14.4 percent, Shortages of registered nurses (RNs) once again are state nursing board licensing exams, according to the respectively). Nursing also is expected to add the making headlines in many areas across the country. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Last most new jobs over the 10-year period (450,864, or Staff nurse shortages in hospitals are being blamed year, 71,475 did, a decline of 26 percent. Moreover, 2.2 percent, of total job growth). Several sources for closure of beds, mandatory overtime, stressful using different methodologies have published supply working conditions, cancellation of surgeries, and demand projections for RNs. In general, they increasing patient care errors, and nurses abandoning predict national shortfalls of 13 percent to over 20 the profession. Shortages in home care services have percent by 2020. The New Jersey Colleagues in left families caring for chronically ill members Caring project, headed by Geri Dickson from without vital nursing support. The consequences are Rutgers College of Nursing, projects the demand serious and the causes are many. for registered nurses in New Jersey in 2006 at 74,550 Overall growth in the health care industry has and a supply of only 60,600, an 18 percent shortfall. generated increased demand for nursing services over By 2020, the projected shortfall is 30 percent, or the past decade even as managed care cost 24,100 RNs. containment initiatives have brought hospital Nursing shortages are not new, but this one restructuring and layoffs among nursing staff. Today’s is both quantitatively and qualitatively different situation may be more a maldistribution of nurses from past shortages. The shortages primarily affect and shortage of specific kinds of experienced nurses hospitals since that is where most RNs work. than an across-the-board shortage. But today’s Table 1: Age Distribution of Nurses Historically, hospital nurse shortages were due largely problems pale in comparison to the massive shortage Source: U.S. Health Resources Administration, 2001. to low wages and/or increased demand for services. expected in 2010. That is when the baby boom The pool of available nurses was adequate, so higher generation of RNs retire without enough younger there is an inadequate supply of baccalaureate- pay brought more nurses from the labor pool back to nurses ready to replace them. That is when U.S. prepared nurses (BSNs) and others with training work or encouraged them to work longer hours. demographic trends will begin to dramatically shift and skills needed in the critical care, operating room, Unless we act promptly, the nursing labor pool itself toward the elderly, requiring more nursing services. labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, and will be drying up in the near future. There will be That is when the demand for RNs will outpace emergency departments. few RNs available to attract with higher pay. Many supply at every level of health care delivery. Reasons for this growing shortage of high-calibre will be retiring. Job prospects outside hospitals will This grim prospect is compounded by the fact 2.7 million. Of those, 2.2 million were employed in talent include expanding career opportunities for be more appealing. Finally, the march of technology that applications to nursing programs nationally nursing. Contrast that to the 723,537 allopathic and women, the failure to attract more men into nursing, will lead to more complex patient care situations, have been declining for the past six years, despite osteopathic physicians actively practicing and one and a persistent image of nurses as having subordi n a t e requiring smarter, better prepared nurses, as well as the fact that career opportunities have expanded. has a better sense of why nursing care defines health roles in health care. Other causes involve bright more of them per patient in the hospital setting. Inadequate numbers of nursing students in the care service in America. students who are being guided away from nursing pipeline combined with increased demand will result The 2000 RN statistics represent a 5.4 percent because it is not seen as intellectually challenging, in a critical shortage. It has the potential to threaten increase in the number of RNs from 1996, the and hospital-based nurses who are so dissatisfied with Nursing education public health by reducing access to and the quality of smallest increase reported since the initiation of their work environment that they are working In all states, registered nurses must graduate from a health care. national sample surveys in 1977. The same survey outside of hospitals or leaving nursing entirely. basic nursing program and pass a national licensing Sh o r tages of nurse educators and managers also exam. Basic education occurs at three levels: a two- Readers interested in having a prospective student found the mean age of RNs working in nursing to be ar e being rep o r ted. American Association of Colleges to three-year hospital-based diploma program, a two- sentScope admissions of informationthe pr o areb l e askedm to contact 43.3 years with only 18.3 percent under the age of 35 of Nursing survey data for 2000–2001 show the mean year community college-based associate degree in theRegistered Admissions nurses Office comprise at 609/771-2131, the largest group or of and 9.1 percent under 30. (See Table 1: Age ages of full-time, doctorally prep a r ed nursing faculty nursing (ADN) program, or a four- to five-year www.tcnj.edu.health care professionals in the U.S. According to Distribution of Nurses.) at the assistant, associate, and full professor ranks are bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) program, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, Men represented 5.4 percent of the RN 50, 53.2, and 55 years res p e c t i v e l y . Some states rep o r t which is the entry level into professional nursing. the total number of licensed RNs in 2000 was about population in the U.S., up from 4.9 percent in 1996. tu r ning away students due to faculty shortages. Graduates from all three may take the registered

6 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 nurse licensing examination. At the master’s level, Cadmus, a doctorally-prep a r ed nurse The high cost Strategies to reverse the tr en d s nurses specialize in clinical areas, administration, and Englewood’ s senior vice pres i d e n t Without measures to reverse these alarming trends, or education. for patient care, realized the increa s i n g of a nursing shor ta g e Most RNs—59 percent—work in hospitals. This is the U.S. in general and New Jersey in particular are Developed in the 1950s, the associate degree complexity of hospitalized patient care expected to decline to 53 percent by 2008. The vast in danger of serious breakdowns in health care pr ograms were designed to educate technical nurses needs in 1994 and proposed a new majority of new graduates begin their nursing careers delivery in the not too distant future. We need for hospital-based care. In 2000 about 40 percent of patient care delivery model to match as hospital staff nurses to gain acute care experience action on many fronts at once—data-gathering, the RNs rep o r ted having received their basic nursing those needs. At that time and because hospital salaries are among the highest work environment, education, and government education at this ADN level with the rest equally ap p r oximately 35 percent of the RNs for beginning RNs, with an average in the Northeast help—four areas identified by the Tri-Council for divided (about 30 percent each) between baccalaurea t e employed at the hospital were BSN- of $47,000. According to the American Hospital Nursing, which consists of four major national and hospital diploma programs. Agreements between pre p a r ed. By 1999, 55 percent of Association (AHA), nurses provide 95 percent of nursing organizations. educational institutions, known as arti c u l a t i o n En g l e w o o d Hospital’s RN workforce the care a patient receives while hospitalized. As much as we know about health care delivery, ag r eements, exist to encourage non-de g r eed RNs to we r e BSN- or master’s- p re p a r ed. The demand for A recent federal Department of Health and there is an urgent need for better data and more pursue the BSN degree. Unfortu n a t e l y , they have little nurses with baccalaureate degrees is increasing due to Human Services study found that the number and research into topics related to the existing and future ef fect. Nationally only a third of reg i s t e r ed nurses hold the complexity of patient care req u i r ements and mix of nurses in a hospital make a difference in the nursing workforce. Compatible and consistent a baccalaureate degree and about 10 percent have a or ganizational role changes requiring more technical quality of care patients receive. Researchers analyzed national, state, and local data collection must be ma s t e r ’s or doctorate. In New Jersey, 82 percent of knowledge, critical thinking, and human res o u rc e 1997 data of more than five million patient conducted to enable accurate and appropriate new nursing graduates are non-college educated and management skills. discharges from 799 hospitals in 11 states. A strong workforce planning. Our ability to make accurate only 15 percent of the associate degree nurses Outside the hospital setting also, baccalaurea t e - and consistent relationship was found between nurse workforce predictions is limited by the data continue their education. prepared RNs especially are in demand for their staffing and five outcomes in medical patients— available. We need more research studies on patient Why are these numbers significant? A knowledge, leadership potential, and community- urinary tract infection, pneumonia, shock, upper GI outcomes related to levels of nursing practice. pr edominantly non-college educated workforce is at based and non-acute care skills. TCNJ BSNs, for bleeding, and length-of-stay. Simply put: The more Lawmakers should be aggressively supporting this a disadvantage in terms of salary, power equity with example, begin their careers with a college education nurses on staff, the fewer problems. The results data collection through agencies such as the other health disciplines in health care systems, and in and are prepared for graduate study and career further showed a strong and consistent relationship National Institute of Nursing Research, and by maintaining a professional image. This disadvantage advancement. As RNs, they can advance and between nurse staffing and “failure to rescue” in further research on nursing, nurse staffing, and may be helpful to managed care organizations and succeed clinically, in administration, res e a r ch, and patients hospitalized for major surgery. Failure to patient outcomes. Management specialists and health care cost cutters, but it bodes ill for the nursing education. They can pursue master’s and doctoral rescue was defined as a death among patients with technology researchers must help find ways to keep pr ofession and public health. It will lead to more degrees in nursing or related fields. An RN with a shock, sepsis, pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis/ our older nursing labor pool productive and effective. dissatisfaction, more stress, and more resignations as master’s can be an advanced practice nurse (clinical pulmonary embolism, or GI bleeding. A higher We need professional market research to help morale and respect decline. Clearly, our pres e n t nurse specialist, nurse midwife, nurse anesthetist, number of RNs in these cases was associated with a counteract negative perceptions of the nursing career system of nursing education is flawed. nurse practitioner), health care consultant, health 3- to 12-percent reduction in rates of adverse and to enable educators to better recruit bright In New Jersey there has been a steady decline in economist, hospital executive, or nurse educator. outcomes. Given the considerable costs of every young men and women into the profession. entry-level RN graduates since a peak in 1995 with A doctorate opens up careers as nurse scientists, adverse outcome, this definitive study shows that If health care employers are to make an effort 12 percent decreases between 1997–1998 and researchers, top-level executives, consultants, and adequate skilled nurse staffing is cost-effective for comparable to other businesses to attract and keep 1998–1999. Table 2 shows the numbers and college professors. The numerous opportunities open hospitals. It also teaches us that, unless prevented, the best nursing staff, they have many ways to do so. distribution of RN graduates by program type for to these nurses are an often-overlooked but exciting the coming nursing shortage will bring with it serious The best educated nurses expect competitive wages, 1997–1999. reality of professional nursing. quality of care and economic problems. but most of them also seek opportunity for The College of New Jersey School of Nursing Nursing turnover in hospitals creates challenges advancement, compensation based on educational (SON) has had a fairly stable class size over the same in retaining experienced nurses. The primary reason preparation, flexible work schedules, and support for period. From 1998 to 2001, the number of first-year for turnover found in a 1999 study was “increased further education. Variable shifts, adequate ancillary nursing majors was 19, 22, 21, and 26. Transfer market demand” exacerbated by underlying causes personnel to perform non-nursing tasks, adequate students and RN students seeking the BSN add to such as “dissatisfaction with the job, the supervisor, staffing to address work levels and the need for the enrollment so that graduating class sizes for those or career prospects.” The second most cited reason overtime, and professional development and years were 48, 35, 32, and 33. for turnover was “workload and staffing.” Work advancement—all these are needed if employers Nearly all new graduates of the SON at TCNJ environment issues must be addressed if strategies to expect to retain experienced nurses. To enable an begin their careers in hospitals. Hospitals that offe r increase the overall supply of nurses are to succeed. aging workforce to continue to deliver direct care sa l a r y and role diffe r ences based on educational services, employers should be willing to consider pr eparation and that offer tuition support for lifelong redesigning the work environment. Targeted state le a r ning opportunities are especially attractive to and federal legislation may be essential to bring BSNs. Englewood Hospital in New Jersey has been Table 2: The Education of New Jersey RNs. about some of these improvements. hiring only BSN-prep a r ed RNs since 1995. Edna Source: N.J. Colleagues in Caring, 2001.

8 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Education initiatives in New Jersey should focus introduced in the New Jersey Assembly that would on increasing the supply of baccalaureate-prepared provide scholarship funds specifically for educating nurses and moving nursing graduates through nurses. That would be especially helpful at TCNJ graduate studies more rapidly. Supply initiatives must where it would significantly enhance scholarship focus not simply on the entry level nurses, but also support and attract more of our best and brightest Fa m i l y Val u e s on preparing educators, researchers, and advanced into this vital workforce. Graduating with minimal practice clinicians. Since there will be fewer debt would be a powerful career incentive and would registered nurses in the future, more baccalaureate encourage more nurses to pursue graduate degrees and graduate degree nurses will be needed to lead sooner. The average age of a nurse completing a teams of care providers. doctorate now is 45, much higher than in other By Meg and Shawn Crawley Attending college should be viewed as the norm fields of science. Both Class of 1990 for nursing education with articulation agreements as Focusing on recruiting and educating more The call came Bob, her husband, the alternative. The college setting is best prepared nurses is only one strategy needed to head off the at nine o’clock on a was good to her and to offer the range of programs required to meet the impending shortage. Changing the work environ m e n t no r mal Tuesday night in loved her and she loved changing nature of the nursing profession. TCNJ, for and retaining experienced nurses is equally importa n t . example, offers a four-year baccalaureate program, an Educators, hospital administrators, res e a r chers, nurses June while Shawn and I him, the color of his skin RN-to-BSN track, a post-baccalaureate school nurse at all levels, state and national policy makers, health were watching television. was such an issue? Surely certificate, and graduate study to become a family ca r e insurers, and consumers must be involved in “You have a son!” we were there are more important nurse practitioner. A master’s track for non-BSN- planning and implementing actions to maintain a told. After much hugging, components to a lifelong prepared nurses and an adult nurse practitioner track highly skilled professional nursing workforce. We can we marveled over our good commitment. This was my are in the final phases of approval. A planned critical see the problem developing; a crisis is looming but is fortune to have completed first exposure to racial care simulation lab will prepare students for critical not yet inevitable. Every effo r t focused on prev e n t i o n our family with the adoption prejudice and I found it care, operating room, and emergency department will help to insure that Americans will have access of John, our fourth child, difficult to comprehend. roles. At the same time, a $100,000 Helene Fuld to and receive high quality health care servi c e s . who is African American. When Bob and Kathy Trust grant allows us to partner with the Parish Nursing Network of St. Francis Medical Center to Susan Bakewell-Sachs earned her BSN at the University He would join Ryan, 7, also adopted a bi-racial baby enhance community-based nursing education. of Pittsburgh and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. adopted, and our two girl, their communication To counter the decline in students choosing In addition to administering TCNJ’s School of Nursing, biological daughters, Sarah, with our family improved, a nursing career, national and state marketing and she maintains a weekly “faculty practice” at Children ’ s 4, and Grace, 2. This is the as everyone seemed to want Hospital of Philadelphia where, as a pediatric nurse recruitment efforts must target the full range of story of how Shawn and I, to welcome Katie to the pr a c t i t i o n e r , she gives primary care to children born prospects: elementary, middle, and high school both raised in all-white family. Apparently children students; experienced RNs; and those seeking pre m a t u r ely and conducts res e a rc h . neighborhoods, came to make good diplomats. second degrees or career changes. As part of our have a multiracial family. I was not exposed to School of Nursing’s new marketing and recruiting emphasis, Assistant Dean for Student Services Gr owing up in true diversity, however, Patrick Roger-Gordon is reaching out to secondary Haddonfield, I never until 1986, when I entered school youth, offering them opportunities for first- imagined I would someday be the mother of two Trenton State College. There I worked as a resident hand experience with professional nurses. Partn e r s h i p s African-American boys. My childhood was the typical assistant and as an assistant to the residence director, between schools of nursing and all sorts of health white, middle-class experience: two brothers, one alongside African Americans, and people from other care employers can encourage internships for si s t e r , summer vacations at the Jersey Shore, holidays countries as well. All of the people on staff were students and lifelong learning opportunities spent with grandparents, and church on Sundays. The friends. All of us had a common purpose and we for experienced nurses, thus supporting career el e m e n t a r y schools I attended were all white with often got together in my campus apartment for advancement and retention. State and federal higher education budgets pe r haps two African Americans in my high school. meetings and to socialize. Some of my fondest should be supporting all basic nurse education, but My first meaningful exposure to race came when my college memories are of being on the residence life especially those baccalaureate programs designed to Aunt Kathy, with whom I am close, announced her staff and getting to know so many different people. produce a workforce of skilled leaders. Scholarship ma r riage to an African-American man. I also worked for the Collegebound program as aid for graduate education is essential to meet the At the time, the marriage met with a great deal an English tutor for two summers. In this program, obvious demand for advanced practice nurses, of resentment from our family. Though I was a young young, mostly minority, students live on campus for researchers, and educators. Several bills have been teenager at the time, I remember wondering why, if four weeks, going to classes and workshops designed

10 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 to motivate and prepare accept people of all walks of life, afford the costs. adoptive families renewed them to continue on to college. opened my eyes to a world of diversity Frustrated, we temporarily put my interest in adoption and Shawn That experience proved once again that I never knew existed. Meg was different from adoption on the back burner. Also, at and I began to search for an agency to you get back what you give. I respected those anyone I had dated before. She opened my heart as that time, New Jersey was not supportive of conduct the required home study. youngsters for studying during the summer, and no one else ever had done. transracial adoption. Shawn and I were interested in We hit the jackpot with Catholic Social they, in turn, respected me as a tutor. MC a child of another race because we felt the need Services. They could indeed conduct our home study there was the greatest. We had made the decision and they could work with us on the entire adoption SC After I graduated in 1990 with a BA in English, that rather than sink a ton of money into doctors process, including placement. We hadn’t expected I came to college pretty much a stranger to the East, I had made the decision to return to The College for and tests, we could serve a child far better by that, since we were not practicing Catholics. having been raised in the small northern Indiana farm my graduate work. It was shortly after graduation providing a home he or she might not otherwise Sharon Davis was our social worker, an African town of Argos, population that I met Shawn on a have. There are lots of American who didn’t raise 800. We had 45 students in blind date. Now, I truly do people on waiting lists for an eyebrow when we told my ninth-grade high school not go in for clichés of white babies from here or her of our interest in a child class. Most everyone in town sentiment, but I knew, from other countries, but few are of another race. She was either Southern Baptist, the moment I met Shawn, waiting for African- reviewed the process that as I was, or Methodist. I that he would be important American babies. would involve extensive didn’t have much opportunity in my life. interviews both together to meet people of other races We married in June SC and separately, the payment or cultures. 1992, exactly two years We spent a great deal of of fees, and the probability My parents divorced after our first date. Shawn time discussing adoption and of a six- to 12-month wait. when I was 15, and my had been working for how it would affect us and Shawn and I both felt mother, my sister, and I Kemper Insurance in our families. Meg’s fa m i l y comfortable with Sharon moved back to New Jersey Summit during my years in al r eady had experience with and began our home study during my sophomore year of graduate school. Unable to adoption and transracial the following week. high school. To say this was find work in the editorial families. For mine, it was For us—two rather a culture shock is an field, I secured a position new territory. My family held private people—the home understatement. We moved as a nanny, having had the belief that “blood is thicker study process was difficult to Flemington and thought we experience working with than water” and saw adoption at times. We were asked had moved to “the city.” It children during summer as a “great thing other people questions about our was at Hunterdon Central and holiday breaks. did.” In general, they did not childhood, families, High School that I first learned Before we married we openly accept the idea of me marriage, child-rearing what “racism” meant. I had a talked of having kids. I’m adopting. The idea of adopting philosophies, etc. I felt a sociology teacher I will remember for the rest of my life. not sure we ever seriously discussed how many; we a baby of another race generated a tumult. In my heart, great deal of guilt associated with my infertility. Here Th r ough his teaching I came to understand the world I just knew children would always be a big part of our though, I knew the decision to adopt was part of my was someone I loved beyond any bounds I had came from and that people of other races and religions could life. I suspected, due to irregularities in my cycle, that reason for being. I knew that in time, my family would known and I felt I was denying him an inalienable be friends. I began to form my own opinions and the beliefs I would have problems conceiving. I was right. I accept what was to come. They may not understand it, right: biological children. But I knew there was a that I live by today and try to teach my own children. visited an ob/gyn to discuss these issues. Due to my but their love for me eventually would open their hearts. child out there for us. I could feel it. That is what Trenton State College was a whole new world. There age, 25, I was told to relax, that I would get preg n a n t . MC gave me, gave us, the strength to move forward. I found I could be friends with people of other races and Be f o r e long, I became frustrated by what I felt was the Shawn’s job took us to Charlotte, NC, in 1993. As the home study progressed and the adoption could learn to feel and care for people with beliefs diffe re n t condescending attitude of my doctors. That, coupled It was there, in my position at a day-care center, that became more of a reality, Shawn and I began to tell fr om those instilled in me. It was there I began to associate with our own pro-adoption attitude, started us on our I came into contact with several families that had our friends and families of our plans. Friends were with people diffe r ent from me. jo u r ney toward Ryan, our first child. adopted a variety of children. We found no easier to tell. They were supportive. Some wrote However, what changed my views most dramatically We investigated several agencies in New Jersey, difference between the behavior of the adopted and references for our home study. Our families were was meeting Meg Cummings. The day I met her my life but either we hadn’t been married long enough, biological children or the feelings these parents had more cautious. After all, we were about to change changed forever. She, in her willingness and desire to didn’t have the right religion, or simply could not for their children. Our actual experience with the look of our families. Many were concerned about

12 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 perceived social of love and protectiveness. coming “home,” where her to stop crying by singing to difficulties for both us and the Ryan smiled at us and laughed when Ryan would be closer to his new her. There were those who assumed child. I think the general attitude could Shawn kissed his belly. We were a family. cousins and grandmother. However, we that our feelings for Sarah would be stronger be characterized by, “It’s your decision. You Life settled in. Ryan adjusted beautifully. Good were nervous about losing our contact with than those we had for Ryan. Maybe only adoptive have to know what you can handle and we support wishes came pouring in, and cynics raised their ugly Catholic Social Services. We wanted to expand our parents can understand this, but our love for Ryan you.” It was not the warm, fuzzy reaction you get heads. We expected it. Obviously, not everyone is family through adoption and our previous experience is so strong that having a child born to us in no way when you announce a pregnancy, but neither did it going to be in favor of a white couple adopting a black in New Jersey had not been positive. But as before, diminishes it. Adoption is its own miracle. It shut any doors. child, especially in the South. We were deliberately we believed events would transpire as they were involves a great deal of faith and trust, often between So then we had to wait. Wait, until a baby st a r ed at, told by co-workers that they could never do meant to. people who have never met. And when you see your became available and the birth parents had it, asked if Ryan had been tested for AIDS, etc. But We settled into life back in the North. We baby for the first time, whether it be adopted or born relinquished their rights. you know what? It was OK. updated our home study for to you, the feelings are the When a woman gets At the end of the day, I had Catholic Social Services, but same. We were filled with pr egnant, the family has my husband and my had one adoption after love and gratitude that God nine months to prep a re . beautiful baby boy. All I felt another fall through. It was had trusted us with these When adopting a baby, lives was lucky. during a routine physical children. can change with the ring of SC that my new doctor in Then, in January 1999, a telephone. And that’s what Flemington told me that if I while living in South Our families were happy happened just a few months wanted to get pregnant it Florida due to Shawn’s job, for us. We finally were able to after our first meeting with wo u l d n ’ t be a problem. It our daughter Grace was start our family. One of our our adoption social worker. I was simply a matter of taking born. Needless to say we greatest wishes was being was preparing my day-care the right dosage of a were busy. Ryan was 5, fulfilled. Some were cautious class for the playgrou n d medication called Clomid at Sarah was 23 months and and distant, until they saw when I was told I had a call. the right time of my cycle. now we had Grace, who and met Ryan. He has a My heart stopped. I knew. I We were skeptical, but had colic for her first 12 sweetness about him that ran to the phone. It was decided that since our weeks. It’s fair to say we literally draws you in. My Sh a r on saying, “You have a attempts at adopting again were not thinking about mother and sister absolutely son.” This was the day I had we re n ’ t working, perhaps this adding to our family again. fell in love with him; still, they been waiting for. I was was an avenue to re- e x p l o r e. Though our stay in had some trepidation about his so m e o n e ’ s mother. Three months went by Florida was short, it was a being African American and Ryan, as we named him, on the medication and wonderful place for us. We what they, and we, would was six months old when we nothing had changed. We were living in Plantation, a encounter. But in time those adopted him. He had been were not surprised. I don’t suburb of Fort Lauderdale fears dissipated. My father was less than supportive. with the same foster family since birth. He is bi- think either Shawn or I actually believed I would and Miami. The area is a huge melting pot of Given his deep Southern roots, our action was simply racial and one of the most beautiful children I’ve conceive. But then, on my fourth month it cultures and languages. Not one person questioned beyond him. It wouldn’t be until the birth of my first ever seen. We had to wait a week to see him because happened. I was pregnant. To say I was in a state of whether Ryan was ours. It was assumed he was. The daughter nearly three years later that he actually would his foster family was on vacation with him. It was disbelief doesn’t begin to describe it. I must have mood in South Florida was relaxed; the attitude of meet and get to know Ryan. Nevertheless, eventually he one of the longest weeks of our lives. Finally, we done five home pregnancy tests! To me, it was the people was welcoming. It was a wonderful feeling would come to love and accept Ryan as his grandson. drove to Winston-Salem, NC, to meet Ryan and miraculous. Ironically enough, two days later, we to be accepted immediately, without any need for We had brought our families into a world of multi- bring him home. received a call from Catholic Social Services telling explanations. culturalism without their permission. There have been We were nervous, anxious, excited. We knew the us that our latest birth mother had decided to keep challenges; but, all in all, love has proven to have no SC foster family would be there and that this would be a her child. Once again, events seemed to be boundaries. In 1998 I had been presented with a tremendous bittersweet day for them. But when Shawn and I happening according to plan. opportunity to work on a special project for Kemper walked into that office and saw Ryan in the crib, SC Sarah was born February 15, 1997, after 28 Insurance. I would be part of a small team working to laughing at the mobile over his head … well, nothing When Ryan was 13 months old, Shawn’s job hours of labor. Ryan, then age 3, was enamored of his replace the company’s claim system. The only catch was can prep a r e you for that overwhelming feeling brought us back to New Jersey. We were happy about new baby sister. He was often the one who could get

14 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 that it meant being far Although our new committed to each other joy adoption brings. from home for 12 to 18 months. community in Illinois was not as when we adopted him that we He had witnessed all the gifts Having learned not long before that our immediately welcoming and friendly as would do our best not only to give another pouring in with Sarah and Grace, but third child was on the way, we decided the whole South Florida, fortunately our move has been child a loving home, but also to give Ryan a now he could see for himself that the adoption family would temporarily relocate to Florida. I couldn’t positive. We are in a wonderful school district, sibling he could relate to in ways we never could. of a child is just as joyous as birth. imagine being away from my wife or kids two to three which emphasizes character and teaches children Shawn and I had no preference for a boy or a There is a song from the movie Tarzan that weeks at a time. how to express it in daily behavior. girl, but our social worker at St. Mary’s Services here Ryan and I have designated as “our song.” It’s titled We had no idea what to expect in regard to racial Ryan, though one of the few children of color in in Arlington Heights wanted Ryan to have the “You’ll Be in My Heart!” Part of the lyrics say, attitudes or what our son and family would encounter. his school, has done very well. He has not found it brother he longed for. We didn’t have to wait long. “Why can’t they understand the way we feel? Seeing life through the eyes of my African-American son di f ficult to make friends and, when they ask why he Two months into our adoption program, John Peter They just don’t trust what they can’t explain. I know can be both awesome and he a r t do e s n ’ t look like the rest of Crawley was born June 24, we’re different but deep wr enching. At the time of our his family, he is comforta b l e 2000, and came home to us inside us we’re not that move, Ryan was 4 years old. explaining that he is four days later. different at all!” Until then we had encountered adopted. This is not to say The kids came with us That is the philosophy blatant racism only rarel y , that Ryan doesn’t wish to pick up John at St. Mary’s . Shawn and I try to leave although the subtle variety was sometimes that he looked Fr om the beginning, we had with our four wonderfully much more prevalent. We did like his peers. We explain it explained the adoption unique children. We all not want to move him from is because of his intelligence, pr ocess to them, but seeing have different feelings; we Flemington, where he had been caring, and sports m a n s h i p their faces when they saw all pursue love and accepted, to a location that that his friends like him and John was priceless. Sarah friendship. What one looks would be painful. his sisters love him; it’s not kept asking, “Can we take like on the outside is merely South Florida was the because of what he looks him home now?” They all a cover for the miraculous only place I have ever lived like. And we also say, of wanted to hold and feed him. story within. where the kids feel comfortable course, that what he looks I think it was good for enough to ask, “Is he yours? like is part of who he is. Ryan, especially, to see the Why is his skin different?” Recently at church, during Much to everyone’s dismay, ch i l d re n ’ s circle with the kids really do notice differences pa s t o r , Ryan was asked, at a very young age. Children “Why do you think your are sponges, soaking up every pa r ents love you?” His last detail. They are not color- answer: “Because of who blind, nor should they be. We I am.” are all different. We try to teach our own kids that it is Shawn and I did wonder if Ryan would benefit Meg Cummings, an English major, and Shawn Crawley, these differences that make us who we are. We should by having a sibling of similar race. The reading we criminal justice, both graduated in 1990. While Shawn not try to ignore pieces of the whole, for if we do, we had done on transracial adoptions had confirmed surely will miss a very important part. that having siblings of similar race is beneficial. joined Kemper Insurance, Meg stayed on to get her ma s t e r ’s in 1992. They married the same year MC Other people we knew who had adopted children of another race were either part of a transracial family and now live in Illinois. It was difficult for us when Shawn learned the already, or adopted siblings of the same race. Florida project he was working on was being moved Re g a r dless of where we might live, Ryan still has to the home office of Kemper in Long Grove, IL, a to come home each night to a family who looks northwest suburb of Chicago. With a mixed-race di ff e r ent from him. No matter how strong we believe family, moving can be especially disconcerting, Ryan to be, we couldn’t help but think having a peer prompting wonder and worry about what the of similar heritage would be helpful. Our adoption case acceptance level will be. worker agreed it would benefit his self-esteem. We

16 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Sophomore Year After a summer of R&R, or three grueling jobs, it’s back to TCNJ and once again you have your friends all within a two-mile radius. For many, the sophomore By Susan Alsamarai, Elizabeth Keohane, and Melissa Camacho year is the time to delve more deeply into major courses. The truly heavyweight Honors Orga n i c Ch e m i s t r y and Mode r n European Literature await! “The College of New Jersey is located on 289 tree - about once again sleeping on the top bunk. Your about which nearly everyone has some good or bad Better get on ASTRO* or TESS* and sign up lined acres in suburban Ewing, New Jersey. Curren t parents either kiss you goodbye or stick around way story to share. You could either luck out and play for SET.* en r ollment at TCNJ is 5,666 full-time undergr a d u a t e too long, not wanting to let go. Everybody is tearful, with children for hours, or fold dirty clothes in a This also is the time when many of the students students, 342 part-time students, and 851 graduate but you don’t want to cry because, frankly, who shack in Trenton. who choose to become a part of Greek life pledge a students. Fourteen residence halls provide a variety of wants to be known as the uncool kid? Su d d e n l y , the year is over, and you can’t imagine fr a t e r nity or soror i t y . Or, as some have done living experiences for all students, with a total of The friendliness of your CA* and ambassador living without your roommate, and your new friends. rec e n t l y , start a new one. During pledge 3,507 beds on campus. The average combined SAT helps, and they keep talking about Welcome Week When you once again have tears in your eyes, moving season, it’s not uncommon to see sc o r e for all regularly admitted entering freshman for activities. Embarrassing name games, group dinners, out of your freshman room, you realize that college is brightly colored bandanas denoting the 2000–2001 academic year was over 1,250. TCNJ convocation (the opposite of graduation), and Play going to fly by. their group of choice tied to the pa r ticipates in NCAA Division III competition in Fair, that mass gathering of freshmen on the football bookbags of tired - l o o k i n g 21 sports (11 men, 10 women). You may choose from field getting to know each other, await you. All of “East 19? Where are you… Commons?* students. More entertaining, however, is trying to talk mo r e than 40 programs of study offe r ed through this you remember, but the thing you remember most 234… Where’s Chef Gene?* … I have to stop to many of the pledges who are under an onus of The College’s seven schools” (from TCNJ’s Web site). is hanging out in the dorms, making new friends. at the C-Store*… 8 A.M. class?… I missed silence for the season. Not surprisingly, this is the time But, who needs us to tell you this? Pick up a These friendships will either last a lifetime, or end Destinos!*… Who won? Rowan?… It’s snowing! when the genitalia of the library’ s lion statue endure a viewbook and there it is. What you really want to when somebody turns the lights out, and steals your Is class cancelled?… I have to hike it to variety of paint jobs and a T/W security desk may take know is what’s behind the façade. What’s college like towel when you’re in the shower, leaving you to walk Armstrong*… What did I just step in? Those a dip in Lake Ceva. For the pledges who survi v e , to day? What happens when you get off Route 31, back to your room wrapped in the shower curtain. geese!*… Is it Friday yet?… What’s going on at Gr eek life has a plethora of activities from fundraising drive in the main entrance and turn onto the circu l a r Welcome Week is a period without classes, and one Kendall? The Rat?*… Wanna go to AMC?… “slave” auctions, to annual semiformals, to the more drive we know as Metzger? Having been there and of the best weeks of your college experience. Then, Gotta meet my group… Big presentation traditional celebratory events. done that more than a few times rec e n t l y , we when you think the entire campus is already at tomorrow… What floor program?…” Sophomore standing also confers one of the remember thinking that all we need in the entire capacity, the upperclassmen move in. They’re not highest privileges at TCNJ, a parking spot for a car world is right here in the circle, which is why we quite as scary as expected; besides, they have cars. on campus. Never again will you be stuck at Quaker could go months without seeing real food or even our The First-Year Experience is comprised of Bridge Mall, a victim of the unreliable TCNJ mall pa r ents (unless we needed money). Let us tell you different parts, like Athens to New York,* Service shuttle service. But where can your newfound about it. Come along for the ride as we look back on Learning, Faculty Fellows, and living together on a vehicular freedom take you? Depending on your what could prove to be the best years of our lives. floor with other freshmen. At least that’s what they budget, anywhere from 7-Eleven to a club in New say. It also consists of chatting with new friends all York City. The udderly delicious Halo Farms (home night about relationships, eating chicken of the one-dollar ice cream pint) is so popular the cheesesteaks in T/W* at 11 P.M., and adjusting to mere mention of a “Halo run” produces a stampede Freshman Year starting papers late the night before they’re due. of students waving singles and screaming flavors. For So you spent the summer preparing for college by The main lesson of the first-year experience is that a little more pizzazz (and money) many students buying new clothes, hunting down those extra long you are now friends with completely different types make the trip to Princeton for dinner, shopping, or sheets, getting a message board, having that of people than those you hung out with in high just a walk down Nassau Street. If it’s dinner and a uncomfortable summertime phone conversation with school. It’s actually kind of fun when you get written movie, then you’ll find most at the AMC Hamilton, your new roommate, explaining that The College of up* for playing ball in the hallway or even just with 24 screens, five-dollar student prices, and all- New Jersey used to be Trenton State College (not talking during quiet hours.* you-can-stand butter for your popcorn. Rutgers!), and finding a refrigerator that measured On occasion, academic study also is part of On the other hand, what upperclassman would 21 by 28 inches. Now you’re here in the parking lot, college. Requirements include science, math, want to leave his comfortable, spacious new digs? and two looming towers await you—so begins the history, art, and rhetoric to broaden your Although the freshmen are relegated to Tra v e r s / Wo l f e “college experience.” If you’re a girl, you wonder how perspective of the world, so if you’re an and Norsworth y , sophomores have more choices. Most you’ll fit a carload of stuff into a room not much accounting major you naturally wonder why you enjoy the suites in Decker and Cromwell, next to bigger than your trunk. If you’re a guy, you’re amazed have to take a history course. A large part of the T/W. It’s usually a couple of months into the semester at how spacious the rooms are, and you’re excited freshmen experience involves Service Learning, be f o r e you discover the bathrooms aren ’ t cleaned for

18 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 you anymore, and you start missing freshman year. building you have never heard of, and that building Senior Year The other sophomore housing option has gender- you had class in last semester just disappeared. How often have you heard that in just a few years TCNJ lingo made easy: se g r egated hallways, quirky plumbing, and a Things are changing. Things are winding down. this construction* would be over and that pile of distinctive odo r . It is named Centennial Hall, but You have to settle into your major. You have to start rubble would be this fantastic building? Well the CA—Community Adviser. Students who work as residential advisers. residents affectionately refer to it as “Centenni Hell.” thinking about what you want to do in your life. rubble is still there, only now it’s in the shape of a They plan floor activities and have the power to write you up. Its rum o r ed renovation or demolition has tantalized Scary. building frame. But, hey, it’s senior year. By this time, Athens to New York—A required freshman course in Western students for years, but to collective dismay, it still So the work piles up, you’re doing group you’ve figured out what you want to do and what you civilization that can take many forms. Includes a service learning stands, barel y . (Late news flash: In June our trus t e e s projects, studying, and have become a lean, mean, like. Maybe you switched from business to education, component. announced Centennial will indeed be demolished; but paper-writing machine. But wait: College is or even joined a club to do something like act out T/W—Travers and Wolfe Halls, the freshman dorms. The complex the new proposed date? July 2005. Just enough time to definitely not all work. Maybe it’s just catching medieval battles. You’ve experimented with this and includes a gym and dining hall (open until midnight). squeeze each of the current classes into those decrep i t that, and figured out answers to questions like: How Written up—What happens to you when you are noisy during quiet rooms before they hit the dust.) long can I wait before a paper is due to start writing hours or play Frisbee in the hallway. Consequences, if any, depend on the Ever-hopeful sophomores look forward to the it? How little sleep can I have and still manage with offense and frequency. next two years, when they can have the ultimate in three classes in a row? How many times can I wear a Quiet hours—Designated hours when noise is supposed to be kept on-campus housing, the townhouses. They’re new. pair of jeans without washing them? How many days down and doors kept closed. In T/W even the hall lights turn off. They’re huge. Most importantly, they’re singles! in a row can I eat chicken fingers at T/W? How fast Commons (aka Eickhoff Hall)—A plush residence hall and main After a year or two with a roommate, many can I make it from the townhouses to my class in dining hall. Also where Health Services, Residence Assignments, and students crave the privacy of the townhouses. Forcina? How many beers can I handle before other offices are located. Renamed Eickhoff Hall after the former college As an added bonus, they seem less strictly looking dumb in front of the hot girl from the president, leaving students to wonder why the much older “New controlled than other housing. Hark, is burrito line? Residence Hall” remains unnamed. that a party I hear? For those who Other questions look to the future: Should I stay Chef Gene—“The Boss with the Sauce.” A former chef at TCNJ and an can’t handle the long trek from the townhouses, with my girlfriend/boyfriend, or look somewhere else? all-time favorite. Commons and New Residence Hall provide a step Alfonso’s band at the Rat, watching Scream 9 at Since I finally shaved off the goatee and grew out The C-store—A convenience store attached to Commons, where you up. At this time, you’re either praying to get on- the AMC, slouching in your friend’s room watching the crewcut, should I get a new ID?* You’ve probably can buy Quick Chek products at Gucci prices. campus housing, or can’t wait to move off. Pretty Woman for the 10th time or WWF Smackdown, got an internship now, possibly commuting to the Destinos—A Spanish soap opera that beat out Sabado Gigante for heading out to the Olive Garden, hanging out in city. You are almost done. Where did those four years inclusion in the Spanish curriculum. “What’s your IM* screen name?… Did you read Princeton, or breaking out the tight black pants and go? You thought you had all the answers, but now all Armstrong—Imagine the farthest place you’ve ever walked to and then his away message?… Is Dawson’s a rerun? Yeah, but ER good cologne for Kat-man-du.* There’s always you have is questions. What am I going to do? double it. That’s Armstrong, also known as the engineering building. is new this week… Do we have practice today?… Are something to do, and if the MAC machine in the Where am I going to work? Why are the door Geese—Although kept under control by the geese police (a lady and her you staying this weekend?… I have to do laundry… student center is working, it’s your lucky day! With handles in Holman Hall so big? Why is the Forcina dogs), they frequently make their mark on campus. Who has quarters?… Do you really have to separate the each passing year, the campus seems to shrink. You elevator so slow? Am I going to graduate? And, most The Rat—A restaurant/bar in the student center that also offers bands, lights and the darks?… Yes, mom, I am taking my get to class late because you run into what seems like important … What’s next? comedy acts, etc. vitamins. I promise I will call more often. By the way, everyone you know on the way. But, then again, it’s ASTRO—The archaic telephonic course-registration system. can you send some money?… Meet you at the Student nice that way. As a freshman, college seemed so TESS—Computer program used to register for classes and check Center for lunch… Call maintenance, our sink is backed intimidating; now you realize, “Hey, I own this Susan Alsamarai ’02 attends medical school at grades. Known to crash at inopportune times. up… I can’t believe I locked myself out of the room place.” Well, almost. One more year … . UMDNJ at Newark; Elizabeth Keohane ’02 is a SET—Science, Ethics, and Technology, one of the less popular required again… When are phone bills due?” biology and philosphy major; Melissa Camacho ’02 courses. “Where’s my roommate?… Rugby game is an English major. They offer IM—AOL Instant Messenger. A program used to chat online with your tomorrow?… I’ll send out a silent message… Someone special thanks to Tom Riles ’01, friends. Basically, the greatest homework distraction ever invented. Junior Year stole our marker again… Can we stop at Quaker a communications Housing Lottery—Determines whether third- and fourth-year students So it’s junior year. You’re halfway through. Or maybe Bridge?… I’m late for work… So, are you from North, studies major, for get campus housing, and if so, where. not, since the five- and six-year academic programs Central, or South Jersey?… Can’t, I have a meeting… his contributions. Kat-man-du—A popular night spot in downtown Trenton. are not uncommon. In any case, things have What class should I take next semester?… Does that Construction—At TCNJ, we have lakes, trees, buildings, and changed. If you hit the housing lottery,* you’re in count as non-Western, Gender, English, History?… Is construction—a permanent feature of the landscape. your own room in the townhouses. Otherwise, you’re TESS working? … Let me check my e-mail… Where are ID—It gets you food, it gets you into your building after midnight, but just glad to have housing at all. Of course, some of we going this weekend?… I need to use the ATM … I the picture stays the same until you graduate. your friends are living off campus now and you need a job… I need to see my adviser… TCNJ—Where the “T” stands for “The.” wonder why you’re still eating at Commons and I’m changing my major!…” T/W. You wonder what ever happened to all that free time you had as a freshman. Your classes are in some

20 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 From telescopes to TV scripts: interns try out the workplace

Each year, hundreds of TCNJ students temporarily The College has students involved in internships. interest in photography. She worked at Seward Wolfgang, a history and early leave the campus to sample life in the In recent months a wide variety of such experiences Johnson’s Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton ch i l d h o o d education major, taught world of work. has come to our attention. Here is a sampling of Township on a new museum project designed to hi s t o r y at the American Interna t i o n a l In some schools and departments (business and some unusual ones: house three-dimensional renditions of famous old School of Johannesburg, South Africa, education, for example) internships are an essential Tom Riles ’01 , a communication studies major, master paintings. and also worked with South African children at the part of the program, with paid staff coordinating and worked four nights a week last spring as a member of Political science majors long have been serving nearby River Sands School. managing dozens of students in the field every the tech crew for NBC television’s Late Night with internships with the New Jersey Legislature and Mark Van Horn ’01 , a technological studies semester working for a changing roster of firms and Conan O’Brien program, helping to coordinate the government offices. Last year, for example, Al major in the School of Engineering, did an agencies. The College’s Office of Career Services and scripts used by the participants. Ribeiro ’02 and three seniors—Tom Leach, Lissy internship at Hunterdon Central High School, its Student Employment Program are heavily Jessica Evans ’02 , a physics major, was one of Velarde, and Bill Quirk —spent their fall semester where he taught pre-engineering to four sections of involved in helping students explore internship 20 students nationwide selected for a paid, nine- working 12 to 15 hours a week in the office of former 20 students each. In addition, Van Horn was opportunities. week internship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Gov. Christine Whitman. Typical duties involved employed as a weightlifting coach, so he typically Most students enter internships with the Center in Palo Alto, CA. She worked on NASA’s working on data bases, preparing briefings for the spent 14 hours a day at school during the fall term of blessing and guidance of their professors or academic Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope. governor, responding to inquiries from legislators and his senior year. advisers. Most, but not all, earn academic credit for Joe Loeffler ’01 and Carmen Lefever ’01 , local officials, and attending meetings and press Melanie Falco ’01 , law and justice, spent the their effort. Frequently, however, students simply mathematics majors, took part in the summer conferences for the governor. spring semester working part time with state Sen. hear about an opportunity and apply on their own, Research Experience for Undergraduates at Lafayette Erin Donohue ’00 , a health and physical Diane Allen, a Burlington County Republican who hoping somehow to work the experience into their College and Williams College, respectively. Each has education major, won a highly competitive has been active as a sponsor of justice-related regular academic programs. Sometimes money is published the results of the research. internship allowing her to work last fall as an legislation. She researched a variety of police involved, either as regular take-home pay or as a Christina M. Holmes ’02 , women’s and gender assistant to the director of information and training and prisoner employment issues, attended stipend awarded after the fact. Most often no money studies/philosophy, worked for the New Jersey State publications for the New Jersey Devils, the meetings and generally served as a legislative aide. changes hands; the reward to the student is the Chamber of Commerce Foundation researching data professional hockey team. Cara Peterson ’00 , a business major, had credit earned and/or the experience gained. and collecting studies that would be used to establish Evan Seavey , a graduate student majoring in worked at G5 Technologies in Cherry Hill during While practice teaching probably is the most a summer camp for young girls with an aptitude for counselor education, spent 18 to 20 hours a week at the summer of 2000. G5 creates and operates virtual common internship at TCNJ, other types abound. and interest in math and science. the private Bonnie Brae Residential Center in enterprises active in collaborative e-commerce. In Some students intern right on campus—for example, Josh Breunig ’01 , a biology major and now a Liberty Corner, Somerset County. He did individual the fall, she returned to school, but did a part-time counseling other students as an assistant in the PhD/MD student at Yale, was one of several students and group counseling with troubled adolescent boys. internship as a Web developer with G5 until TCNJ Alcohol and Drug Education Program—while interning at Bristol-Myers Squibb, working on the After doing an independent study project on graduating in December. She now works there full others work many time zones away in Germany or pharmaceutical company’s cell research projects. literacy for her English major, Christine Peluso ’01 , time as an applications engineer. South Africa or a dozen other lands. Margo Bresnen ’03 , history, did a summer accompanied Michele Tarter, assistant professor of Bryn Markovich ’04 , a sociology major, Most internships involve one student going into internship as a volunteer docent at the William English, on 10 weekly trips to the maximum security in t e r ned for the entire 2000–01 academic year at the workplace to observe and participate as much as Trent House, built in 1719 by the reputed founder of section of the Edna McMahan Correctional Facility Womanspace, a shelter for abused women in Tren t o n . possible, usually supervised by an employee in the the City of Trenton. Her 50-page report details both in Clinton. They spent two and a half hours each Following 40 hours of training, she became part of the office involved. the history of the house and its owners, as well as her Thursday teaching women a course called Women’s ag e n c y ’ s community education staff, which meant In one unusual situation, however, six personal experience with the museum. She continues Autobiography. being in contact with virtually all aspects of the state’s mathematics majors studying to be secondary school to lead more than 100 tours a year as a paid guide. Malinda Wolfgang ’01 was one of 20 students in eff o r ts to reduce domestic violence. The experience teachers went as a group to Hightstown High School Another who turned a summer job the Department of Elementary and Early convinced her to seek a career in the field. at the invitation of that school’s math department. into an internship and part-time Ch i l d h o o d Education who did an It was the Markovich internship that prompted Participating in that spring 2000 program were employment is Lindsey eight-week practice- her faculty supervisor, Rebecca Li , assistant professor seniors Kimberly Callaer t, Michael Cimorelli, Young-Lockett ’02 , teaching interns h i p of sociology, to make an observation that might well Katherine Dahlquist , Christopher Gregor y, a fine arts major ab r oad during apply to the hundreds of internships filled by TCNJ Thomas McCafferty , and Ron Szymanski . with an the spring. students each year. Instead of working under only one teacher, the “I believe,” she said, “her experience really interns in this practice-teaching “cluster” each illustrates that the liberal arts education we are moved among several classes, teaching at various providing can be life transforming for our students. grade levels and meeting regularly with both TCNJ It opens their eyes to different worlds and helps them professors and the host school math professionals. find their ways to contribute to our society.” Vir tually every academic department in 22 TCNJ MagazineBr uce / AutumnB. Van D 2001u s e n D W G n o . 0 1 T h e C o l l e g e o f N e w J e r s e y

T R U S T E E S A D O P T and safety for motorists. Finally, a 300-space parking R, S. Travers/Wolfe Projects garage (N) will be built adjacent to the Travers and In addition to complete interior renovation, both Wolfe residence halls to replace and augment the Travers and Wolfe Halls will get lateral additions present staff and resident parking lot. All three decks to their 11-story towers and a Georgian exterior A $ 2 5 0 M I L L I O N are expected be complete by late summer 2002. makeover. On completion they will provide beds for O. New Apartments 144 additional students, thus serving all first-year Three new buildings will be built on current parking residents. This will be done in phases starting in M A S T E R P L A N lots 6, 7, and 8 to accommodate 586 students. With 2002. The new apartments (O) will allow each wing two to four students each, apartments will include a to be unoccupied while construction proceeds. As the president notes in her letter in this issue, the amount of student housing that will be lost as complete kitchen, a living/dining room, and a full A new two-story addition of the T/W link will Board of Trustees in June approved a $250 million Travers Hall, then Wolfe Hall, undergo bathroom. Construction is expected to begin late allow for an expansion of the ground floor dining roo m facilities master plan as a conceptual framework for reconstruction. Similarly, renovations to the original spring 2002. in a new classically detailed atrium and the construc t i o n campus construction over the next nine years. library building will be completed to allow Y. Green Lane Playing Fields of first-floor entrances on the south and north sides. The planned projects can be financed in part administrative staff to relocate out of Green Hall The fields will be improved in phases to provide T. Pennington Road Parking Garage Two through fee increases and state-supported bonds. As while that building is renovated. continuity of use for the intercollegiate and Accommodating 512 vehicles, construction is important, President Gitenstein notes, such a plan As it carries out this plan, TCNJ is committed recreation programs. Some of the improvements expected to be complete by late summer 2004. offers a vision that should challenge and intrigue to constructing state-of-the-art buildings while include new soccer, football, field hockey, and Z. Brower Student Center Expansion and potential donors who recognize the promise of preserving a large amount of green space throughout softball fields as well as new jogging/walking paths Event Center The College. the campus. The improvements will include new along Lake Sylva and throughout the playing fields. A major addition to the student center will provide One goal of the facilities plan is to support sidewalks, plazas, seating areas, plant materials, a new structure for events such as convocation, the educational, residential, and recreational needs and lighting. admissions open houses, concerts, sporting events, geared to an entering class of the optimum size. The capital letter prior to each project and visiting speakers. It will seat 2,400, with an A study of the most competitive colleges and corresponds to the map on the following pages. PHASE II (Fiscal Years 2003–2005) additional 400 removable seats on the main floor. universities in the nation, as defined by Barron’s, To view the entire plan, point your Web browser to C. New Librar y The addition also will provide more seating for the reveals that among the institutions that specialize http://pio.intrasun.tcnj.edu/facilities/plan2001.html After much discussion, plans call for a new three- dining area of the Food Court and Rathskeller, new in undergraduate education, TCNJ’s existing class story, Georgian-style library, located between the kitchens for the Food Court and Rathskeller, a ticket target of 1,200 for each freshman class is one of the existing library and Eickhoff Hall, with construction booth, and a performer/team dressing room. three largest in the nation. New Jersey already is one beginning in summer 2002. Construction is expected to begin late spring 2003. of the highest net exporters of college students in the PHASE I (Fiscal Years 2002–2003) The project will provide a comprehensive country. And, projections show that by 2008 New A. Science Complex library to accommodate the 25-year expected growth Jersey will have 18,000 more college-aged students Plagued by contractor problems, the Science of The College’s print and non-print collection. than in 2001. Given these facts, the trustees believe Complex is again under construction and slated for Some highlights include non-print media and TCNJ must respond appropriately—by increasing its occupancy in fall 2003. The complex will house the computer support services, a multi-purpose room, enrollment within its mission parameters. Since one departments of chemistry, mathematics, and physics, a 24-hour study room, and a café/food space. of TCNJ’s aspirant peers, The College of William and include faculty research laboratories, D. New Chapel and Mary, has successfully maintained its mission instrumentation rooms, a planetarium and To make room for the new library, the master plan with a freshman class of 1,300, TCNJ has concluded observatories. calls for the construction of a new chapel. The that it, too, could grow its first-year student M, B, N. New Parking Garages single-story structure will provide a large multi- enrollment to 1,300 over a four-year period Three parking decks are crucial to the facilities plan. purpose room to accommodate religious services, beginning with the fall 2004 entering class. Today The decks will allow more cars to park in a smaller plus a few, small meeting rooms. It will be located our residential facilities meet about 90 percent of the footprint, alleviating crowded parking and providing near Norsworthy and Decker Residence Halls. demand, even as we guarantee housing for all first- space for new structures. One deck (M) located near E. New Art Building and second-year students who want it. This plan will Pennington Road on college-owned property, will The College will add a new art building across phase in additional housing to accommodate a hold 668 cars. It will replace current student parking from the Music Building, on part of a current slightly larger enrollment and meet 98 percent of on lots 6, 7, and 8, which will become the site of faculty/staff parking lot. The proposed three-story projected housing demand by 2010. new student housing. A deck (B) on an existing structure will house, among other things, the College In addition, the plan has been designed to parking lot next to Forcina Hall will accommodate Art Gallery, various art studios/class laboratories, and minimize the disruption to students, faculty, and 275 vehicles. This project will allow for a re- studio support rooms. Construction is expected to staff. For example, new student apartments will be alignment of a sharp curve in Metzger Drive along begin in 2003. A rendering of the Travers/Wolfe towers constructed on campus to provide at least the same Lake Sylva, enhancing recreational use of the lake with the new parking deck as it will look

24 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 List of Proposed Projects: PHASE III (Fiscal Years 2006–2009) F. New Education Building Academic and Administrative Projects: A School of Education building is slated for A Science Complex construction on the site of Holman Hall. The art, B Forcina Parking Deck mathematics, and computer science departments, C New Library all currently in Holman, will move to new facilities D New Chapel before Holman is torn down. E New Art Building G. Old Library Renovation F New Education Building Currently, the library has two distinct architectural G Old Library Renovation styles—an original Georgian section built in 1930 H Computer Science Addition and Renovation and a modern 1968 addition. The original building K I Green Hall Renovation will be renovated and serve as offices for the F HB J 1968 Library Addition Demolition president and other administrative staff. The 1968 J A K New Academic Building annex will be demolished and the site will become L Campus Walks and Landscape Improvement green space. H. Forcina Hall Renovation G L Student Housing and Parking: The existing one-story annex to this building will M Parking Deck One be renovated and include an addition to house I NTravers/Wolfe Parking Deck C U the Department of Computer Science, now in O Student Apartments Holman Hall. P International Acquisition of Housing and I. Green Hall Renovation Instructional facility Green Hall, which serves as an administrative QTravers Hall Renovation and Addition E X building, will be renovated to provide space for the RTravers/Wolfe Link Renovation and Addition student services and information technology Z SWolfe Hall Renovation and Addition functions. The administrative staff that presently D T Pennington Road Parking Deck Two occupies Green Hall will be relocated to the U Centennial Hall Replacement renovated library during renovation of Green. V Decker Hall Renovation U, V, W, X. Other Student Housing Projects W Cromwell Hall Renovation M Centennial Residence Hall (U) is slated to be torn AA X Norsworthy Hall Renovation W V down in 2005. On the northern part of that site an M O S Recreational Facilities: academic building will go up, while a new residence R Q Y Playfields hall is built on the southern portion. The latter will T O Y Z Brower Student Center Expansion and replace Centennial Hall and will house about 100 N Event Center students in single rooms with suite-style bathrooms. AA Student Ice Rink Renovations of Decker (V) and Cromwell (W) O halls will provide single rooms for upperclass Future Building Sites students. Norsworthy Hall (X) is scheduled for complete renovation to house upperclass students in double occupancy rooms. AA. Student Ice Rink To increase the number of student recreational facilities, The College has plans for an ice rink to be built on the current site of the softball field, which will move to Green Lane Playing Fields. It will be an open two-story facility with a collegiate-size rink and seating for 750.

The map above locates existing and proposed building projects. Susan M. Long is TCNJ’s director of public information and marketing. Letters on the buildings correspond to explanations on pages 22–25.

26 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Campbell gives full credit for the strength of Erica DiStefano, another TCNJ’s women’s athletic program to the coaches and champion administrators who preceded her. Long before federal Li o n’s Roar It’s not every day that a track and field contender Title IX laws required it, The College had been Br enda Campbell recalls the ’7 0 s dedicated athletes. While a great many college from a Division III college shows those big-time tennis players of the 1970s tended to come up via committed to making sure that not only did men’s As Brenda Campbell drove onto the campus of Division I athletes how it’s done. But that happened private lessons and country-club and women’s programs have equal funding, but a fair Trenton State College in July 1969, she at the famed Penn Relays in April when TCNJ tournaments, most of Campbell’s students allocation of facilities and practice times as well. listened to radio reports of Neil Armstrong junior Erica DiStefano took a convincing first with had come for academic reasons, and just It was those early decisions to ensure that women’s walking on the moon. Arriving to teach a 5' 9 3/4'' high jump. happened to be good athletes and quick sports got strong support, she said, that have physical education (and do some coaching Not only did her leap set a college record, learners. There was no recruiting of produced the successful program of today. of tennis and swimming on the side), she but she is believed to be the first-ever winner of athletes in those days, and many women recalls thinking that she, too, was taking that event from a Division III college. Earlier in the who showed up to try out were not ready We’ r e number 3 of 395 an awfully big step. year, at the NCAA Division III Championships in for serious competition. However, those For the third straight year, the Lions of TCNJ ranked She had accepted the job over the Wisconsin, Di Stefano became TCNJ’s seventh third in the annual Sears Directors’ Cup competition who didn’t quit in the early going individual national champion in indoor track, with a phone, without ever seeing The College. Brenda Campbell responded well to Campbell’s no-nonsense for the best Division III college athletic program in That wasn’t important at the time because jump of 5' 7 1/4''. training regimen, team approach to winning, and the nation during the 2000–01 academic year. she only planned on staying long enough to save Di Stefano now is a four-time All-American boundless enthusiasm. With the contest based on each institution’s money for medical school. track athlete. In addition to winning this year’s Swimming then was far different from today’s finish in Division III competition in up to 18 sports, Today, with 32 years of coaching behind her, indoor high jump championship, she took second in sport. The longest races were only 100 yards, so The College’s rank was helped along by the fact that Campbell has retired to Kure Beach, in her native the outdoor high jump. In last year’s NCAA that starts, turns, and sprints were the key training women’s soccer earned 100 points for winning the North Carolina, with her German shepherd, Shiloh, Division III Championships, she placed in both the elements. A long practice session might see Division III national championship. several boxes of photographs and piles of other high jump and 100-meter high hurdles. swimmers doing 2,000 yards once a day, five days a Williams College in Massachusetts and mementos of a career that helped make TCNJ’s Di Stefano, a graduate of Trenton’s Notre Dame week. Today, training demands up to 7,000 yards, Middlebury College in Vermont took first and women’s sports program one of the nation’s best. Her High School, now is a senior majoring in health usually twice a day, six days a week. When Campbell second in the final standings among the 395 eligible swim teams placed in the NCAA Division III Top 20 and physical education. She was featured in the became head coach in 1970, practices began about Division III institutions. This marks the sixth four times in the ’90s and in 1997 TCNJ’s Diane “Faces on the Crowd” section of the summer issue Nov. 1 and the season ended in February. Now straight year TCNJ has ranked among the top five in Maise won the diving competition. Her tennis teams of Sports Illustrated for Women. practice begins Sept. 1, and the competition runs the Sears race. had a win-loss record of 335-79 and were the 1986 from Nov. 1 through mid-March. During the year, TCNJ sent 14 of its 21 varsity Division III National Champions. It was during Campbell’s tenure that women teams to the Division III Championship competition, She admits that her first impressions in 1969 coaches around the country broke away from the and finished the year with an overall rec o r d of 209- were rather negative. She had been used to coaching male-dominated athletic scene and went national 85-1, a .710 win percentage. In addition to the superb in Florida, where both tennis and swimming were under the aegis of the Association of Interco l l e g i a t e showing by women’s soccer last fall, the wres t l i n g , high-powered, big-time sports. At TSC, she found Athletics for Women. She was a driving force in field hockey, and women’s basketball teams all posted only seven tennis courts and a 25-yard pool with four AI W A, which had a strong regional and national fifth-place finishes. Other teams’ standings were: lanes so narrow that swimmers interfered with one pr ogram until the NCAA opened its doors to women. wo m e n ’ s cross country, 11th; men’s cross country, another when they did the butterfly. Even though 19th; men’s swimming, 15th; men’s golf, 19th; the pool was among the best in the state, how could wo m e n ’ s outdoor track and field, 12th. a team do serious training in such a small facility? But the women, many of whom were physical education majors, turned out to be both talented and Erica DiStefano, breaking the TCNJ record and The pool in use when this photo was taken in 1985 was winning the high jump at the Penn Relays in April. so small that butterfly contestants often made contact. Photo by C. W. Pack Sports.

28 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 CAL E N D A R OF EVE N T S February 2 April 17–May 1 Greater Princeton Youth Art Student Exhibition Orchestra Concer t College Art Gallery, Holman Hall Mark your calendar and treat yourself to an afternoon or evening of cultural Tickets required, 8 P.M. For hours, see Nov. 14 excellence and entertainment at The College. This academic year Opening reception, April 17, 5–7 P.M. February 9 o ffers wonderful exhibitions and perf o rmances Music Faculty Recital April 19 in art, theater, dance, and music. Robert Guarino, Tenor TCNJ Jazz Ensemble 8 P.M. Gary Fienberg, Director 8 P.M. February 27–April 3 Unless indicated otherwise, all events take place at the ▲ Music Building Concert Hall and are free of charg e . The Ancient House Radio Play College Art Gallery, Holman Hall May 4 For hours, see Nov. 14 TCNJ Orchestra November 14–December 12 Conductor December 8 Opening reception, Feb. 27, 5–7 P.M. Philip Tate, Conductor The Political is the Personal: Tickets required, 8 P.M. TCNJ Concert Band and Wind Ensemble Tickets required, 8 P.M. TCNJ February 28–March 3 Perspectives from the Latin American November 18 William H. Silvester and Diaspora Senior Music Recital George Balog, Conductors Opera Theater of TCNJ Presents May 5 College Art Gallery, Holman Hall Eileen Kier-Dilks, Mezzo-Soprano Tickets required, 8 P.M. Rodgers and Hart’ s TCNJ Chorale Monday through Friday noon–3 P.M. 8 P.M. The Boys from Syracuse Michael Mendoza, Director Thursday 7–9 P.M. December 9 Robert Parrish, Artistic Director Tickets required, 8 P.M. ▲ Robert Guarino Sunday 1–3 P.M. November 30 Senior Music Recital Kendall Hall Main Stage Opening reception, Nov. 14, 6 –8 P.M. The Messiah , sung by The Mendelssohn Susan Guckin, Clarinet, and Feb. 28, March 1 and 2, 8 P.M. Club Choir and TCNJ Music Faculty Robin Keyes, Euphonium March 3, 4 P.M. April 20 Collegium Musicum Soloists with the TCNJ Orchestra 8 P.M. Tickets required Information subject to change. Robert Guarino, Director Philip Tate, Conductor For more information, tickets, Tickets required, 8 P M Kendall Hall Main Stage January 23 March . . or to confirm any scheduled event, 8 P.M. Martin Luther King Day Celebration Women’s History and please contact the appropriate office Tickets required Events to be announced Jewish Awareness Month April 23 listed here: Events to be announced The Washington Ballet December 1 January 23–February 20 Kendall Hall Main Stage Art Exhibits—609/771-2652 TCNJ Percussion Ensemble National Drawing Exhibition March 5 Tickets required, 8 P.M. Music Events—609/771-2775 William Trigg, Director College Art Gallery, Holman Hall Copenhagen Theater Events—609/771-2775 Box Office—609/771-2775 8 P.M. For hours, see Nov. 14 Kendall Hall Main Stage April 27 ▲ For additional events, Artwork by Gloria Rodriguez Opening reception, Jan. 23, 5–7 P.M. Tickets required, 8 P.M. TCNJ Choir and Women’s Ensemble Michael Mendoza, Director point your Web browser to: November 16 December 2 March 6 Tickets required, 8 P.M. www.tcnj.edu/calendar. Radio Play: The War of the Worlds Senior Music Recital Multicultural Lecture: with SITI Company Jennifer Aldrich, Flute, and Mary Kennedy Cuomo April 28 Kendall Hall Main Stage Michael Bartlett, Saxophone P M Kendall Hall Main Stage TCNJ Wind Ensemble and Concer t Tickets required, 8 P.M. 4 . . 12:30 P.M. Band Senior Music Recital TCNJ Chorale William Silvester and George Balog, Lisa Miller, Violin, and Michael Mendoza, Director April 13 Conductors Amy Troxel, Piano Tickets required, 8 P.M. A Gala Evening of Music of the Stage Tickets required, 8 P.M. 8 P.M. Robert Parrish, Artistic Director December 5 ▲ John Amos Tickets required, 8 P.M. May 3–17 November 17 Collegium Musicum February Senior Fine Arts Seminar Exhibition TCNJ Orchestra Robert Guarino, Director Black History Month College Art Gallery, Holman Hall Philip Tickets required, 8 P.M. Events to be announced For hours, see Nov. 14 Tate, December 6 Opening reception, May 3, 5–7 P.M. February 1 TCNJ Jazz Ensemble John Amos in Halley’s Comet Gary Fienberg, Director May 3 Kendall Hall Main Stage TCNJ Percussion Ensemble Tickets required, 8 P.M. ▲ Philip Tate Tickets required, 8 P.M. William Trigg, Director December 7 8 P.M. TCNJ Choir and Women’s Ensemble Michael Mendoza, Director Tickets required, 8 P.M. 30 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Mendelssohn Club Choir Tracey Norlen took first place, winning $1,500, ■ Pablo Bar ry ’03 , an accounting major, is one of while Colleen McKay won $500 for second place in 42 recipients nationwide in this year’s the Smith Design Packaging competition. Steven PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Minority Scholars Award Bailey won the $1,000 AGCD Scholarship funded program. Barry was selected from about 100 by Allan Gorman. applicants based on a GPA of at least 3.2, success in ■ During the summer, two seniors majoring in key courses, and a required interview with a member In Focus■ St u d e n t s By definition, a TCNJ “scholar-athlete” is one who political science attended prestigious programs. of the sponsoring international CPA firm. The has achieved a 3.3 grade point average or better ■ The Austrian Fulbright Commission has awarded Horacio Oliveira attended the Ralph Bunch $5,000 renewable scholarship was presented in July while competing as a member of a varsity team. Kristin Mellage ’01 an Austrian Ministry of Summer Institute run by the American Political at the Minorities in Business Leadership Conference During the 2000–01 academic year, for the first time Education Teaching Fellowship for this academic Science Association at Duke University, while in New York. the number of such students reached 100. Each year year. A political science major with minors in history Robert L. Young attended the Gerald R. Ford a male and female student are singled out for what is and international studies, Mellage eventually plans School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Fa c u l t y now called the Harold W. Eickhoff Outstanding to attend law school. the University of Michigan. It is with sadness that we rep o r t the death of several Senior Scholar-Athlete Award. Last spring the award ■ ■ A recent call from the Robert Wood Johnson Christopher N. Brown , Peter Jaworski , and Beth members of The College community in recent months: went to two varsity soccer players: Shawn Fleming ’01 , University Hospital at Hamilton for volunteer artists McCahill, senior psychology majors, formed a team captain and goalkeeper of the men’s team, who had a ■ E. Donald Longenecker , professor of special to paint scenes in the facility’s stairwells prompted that took second place in the intercollegiate Human 3.93 GPA as an engineering science major; and education at The College from 1967 to 1974, and responses from two TCNJ students. Ker ry Resource Games held at Rowan University in the Rebecca Pearson ’01 , a quad-captain of chairman of the department for most of that period, Donovan ’03 , art/education, celebrated healthy spring. TCNJ beat teams from Drexel, Temple, the women’s team, who earned a 3.79 GPA as a died Feb. 28 at the Veterans Administration Medical exercise with a scene showing a jogger running Slippery Rock, Rowan, and Robert Morris psychology major. Center in East Orange. He was 76 and had lived in through a wheat field, while Luis A. Ramos Jr. ’05 , universities, but lost to the returning champion, ■ A new chapter of Habitat for Humanity took shape Yardley, PA, since 1956. A paraplegic as a result of a graphic design, painted people enjoying a healthy Penn State University. at TCNJ last spring, guided by Kimberly Megnin ’02 German bullet wound in World War II, Longenecker meal in a café. ■ Lisa M. Miller ’02 , a music major, has been through the process of approval by the Student oversaw a substantial expansion of and improvement ■ The Army Reserve Officers Training Corps has awarded a $2,500 Thomas H. Kean Scholarship by Government Association. Students expect to in the special education department. In 1974 awarded TCNJ students with four-year scholarships members of the Garden State Arts Center cooperate with the established Trenton/Princeton he became director of the The College’s Child that include full tuition, a monthly $250 stipend, Foundation, based on her nomination by TCNJ’s Habitat office to expand local housing opportunities Development Clinic and taught off and on until and a yearly book allowance of $600. Now Department of Music and her high academic for the poor. illness forced his retirement in 1977. He had earned sophomores, they are: Michael Fogler , an economics standing. ■ Biology students continue to shine on the national his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and major; Audrey Hsieh , a political science major; and ■ The three TCNJ juniors who had been preparing scene. Vijay Bhoj ’02 is one of seven New Jersey his PhD from the University of Texas. He also taught Jacqui Pruszinski and Evan Eidelber g, law and for the Graduate School of Criminal Justice at students and 300 nationwide to win a $7,500 at Penn State and maintained a private practice in justice majors. Rutgers University were accepted for that program Goldwater Scholarship for advanced study. He clinical psychology for 15 years before retiring ■ In April, Dana Drag ’01 and Lorraine Juzwick ’01 and are taking their senior years there this fall. Each intends to study cellular biology and work toward an in 1999. participated in a competition for best poster is expected to receive a bachelor’s degree from TCNJ MD or PhD degree. Joseph E. Burgents ’02 is one of ■ Benjamin J. Warner Jr ., 54, of the building presentation at the northeastern conference of the in May and a master’s in criminal justice from 12 students accepted by the National Science services department, died March 12 of injuries Consortium for Computing in Small Colleges held Rutgers in December 2002. They are Kristopher Foundation for last summer’s highly competitive sustained in an automobile accident two days earlier. at Middlebury College in Vermont. Their project, Arnold, Heather Buchanan , and Melissa D’Arcy . research program at the Marine Biological Research “Cluster Computing: Development of a Small-Scale Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA. Heather A. Cluster and Learning Modules for Undergraduates,” Displaying their college spirit, nine students and two advisers from TCNJ’s Residence Hall Association McMahon ’03 won a competitive $5,000 Maurice had been described as one of the top submissions orchestrated a 30-second role-play of the making of a movie at the National Association of College and Udall Foundation scholarship. McMahon, who has in the contest. University Residence Halls Conference in Los Angeles in May. Our students approached other delegates been active in major environmental projects at and asked them to be in TCNJ’s movie, playing parts as director, ■ Betsy Housten ’01 , president of the Gay Union at TCNJ, is one of 80 students preparing for a career in TCNJ until her graduation last spring, spent part of camera person, actor, and the like. environmental service selected for their outstanding her spring semester helping to run a national Day of The students also presented three program sessions at the conference, knowledge and commitment. Recognition for Abortion Providers on March 10. As the theme of which was “Be a Star,” and took an active role in a ■ Emily M. Gibson ’03 , a computer science major, an intern for the Reproductive Freedom Task Force community service project in which participants worked at a local spent the summer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight of Refuse and Resist!, she helped manage what has elementary school. Pictured are, from left, adviser Patrick Roger- Center in Green Belt, MD, working at become an annual expression of thanks to medical Gordon, Marisa Rotino, Mike Costabile, Caitlin Mara (with the Information System Technology Center. professionals who continue to provide legal abortion mustache); standing in back are Ryan Farnkopf, Mathew Ruggiero; in ■ Three senior graphic design majors won in the face of sometimes violent intimidation. front of them, RHA President Amanda Sargent, Kimi Suarez, adviser scholarships offered by the Art Directors Club of Michelle McCroy. Not pictured: Rachel Murphy and Matt Tomala. New Jersey in its annual spring competition.

32 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Warner, who also owned Club 10 in Hamilton, In retirement, he ran a small sporting goods firm, ■ Jo-Ann Gross , associate professor of history, has Biochemistry and Physiology. The article was co- joined the staff in 1993 and held a variety of MHK Sports Products. In 1994, Kline received the been elected secretary-treasurer and an executive authored by former biology majors Michael Verzi ’00 positions, including building attendant, assistant Alumni Citation Award, the alumni association’s board member of the new Association for the Study and Patrick Clifford ’99 . housekeeping supervisor and principal storeroom highest honor, in recognition of his many of Persianate Studies (ASPS), a professional ■ Charles McVicker , assistant professor of art, added clerk. Colleagues knew him as a loyal, considerate, contributions to The College and community. organization for researchers interested in societies to his many honors with an award at the 39th

and friendly co-worker and supervisor. ■ ■ ■ ■ based on the Persian language. She helped organize annual Watercolor USA exhibit ■ Gerhard Hagan , since 1987 an adjunct member of the first international conference of ASPS, held at the Springfield (MO) the faculty of, first, the mathematics department and ■ Janice Bossar t, assistant professor which took place in October in Shiraz, Iran, and Art Museum. Of 1,068 entries, later the computer science department, died Feb. 2 of biology, spent much of her is launching the association’s new annual journal, only 110 were accepted for the following a heart attack. Hagan was an admired and summer in what are known as the Studies on Persianate Societies. show. McVicker recently has “sacred forests” of Ghana in West particularly dedicated teacher. ■ Dawn Henderson , head coach of women’s won awards at three other Africa doing research on butterflies. ■ Michael Ekizian , a popular and versatile retired basketball, was named 2000–01 Coach of the Year by national shows: the American professor of English, died May 11, at the age of 62, Supported by grants, first from the the District 3 Women’s Basketball Coaches Watercolor, National following a long illness. He began his teaching career Zoological Society of Philadelphia Association. Henderson’s team made the NCAA Watercolor, and Adirondack at Hobart College in New York, joined The College and more recently from the National Division III final eight and won the New Jersey National exhibitions. Early this faculty in 1964 and, after retiring in 1994, continued Geographic Society, she used fruit- Athletic Conference title during the winter season. fall, he was a juror for the 2001 baited traps to characterize and to teach part time. While Ekizian taught creative ■ Stuart Koch , associate professor of political Adirondack show, held at Charles McVicker’s prize winning writing and the usual English and American identify butterfly communities in science, served on a state Senate Task Force on Old Forge, NY. watercolor, Deep Purple. different forest groves. Bossart is literature courses, he created new ones as well, Internet Access to Sex Offender Registration ■ Michael Robertson , associate professor of English, collaborating with the Forestry covering mythology, Afro-American blues and Janice Bossart photographed this Information that made recommendations leading to and David Holmes , associate professor of Institute of Ghana and an ballads, Kerouac and the Beat Generation, and Euphaedra sp. butterfly in Ghana. a state law passed in June that regulates how sex mathematics and statistics, have co-authored, with D.H. Lawrence. He wrote and published his own international expert on butterfly offender information will be made available on Roxanna Paez ’99 , a former statistics major working poems and stories, and a book, Chomaklou, on village taxonomy, who is doing a book on West African the Internet. under a Minority Academic Career Grant, a study of butterflies. Many of the forests involved have long life in an Armenian village in Turkey, influenced by ■ Matthew Lawson , assistant professor of sociology, newspaper articles that they attribute to the family ties to that land. He enjoyed all forms of been protected, not by government, but by religious and six students in his research methods course, American novelist Stephen Crane. Published in music, played piano with a local jazz and blues band, taboos, myths and legends, and may harbor participated in a survey of Trenton’s South Ward Volume 9 of “Stephen Crane Studies,” the paper and entertained often at The College, sometimes previously unknown species. during the fall of 2000. Lawson helped design the applies traditional authorship attribution and non- with his original blues compositions. He is survived ■ Celia Chazelle, associate professor of history, has survey of an area occupied by 10,000-12,000 Latino, traditional stylometric techniques to analyze 17 by his second wife, Joan. received an appointment to the Institute for Advanced white, and African-American residents. Volunteers previously unknown articles published anonymously Study at Princeton for the spring semester of 2002. ■ Michael S. Kline ’36 (E), director of career from the community and other local colleges in the New York Tribune between 1889 and 1892. She will be writing a book tentatively titled planning and placement at The College from 1959 interviewed a sampling of residents, while TCNJ’s ■ Rajib Sanyal , professor of management in the to 1977, died at his home in Bridgewater on June 12 The Carolingian Renaissance: The Rhetoric and Reality students entered and analyzed the data collected. School of Business, has authored an article entitled at the age of 85. As a State Teachers College of Reform in the Eighth- and Ninth-Century Wes t . The survey revealed problems of concern to the “The Social Clause in Trade Treaties: Implications undergraduate, Kline earned many awards, was ■ Men’s indoor track and field coach Steve Dolan residents and their views of what services are most for International Firms” in the February 2001 issue of the business manager of The Signal, editor-in-chief was named Coach of the Year for the NCAA needed in the area. the Journal of Business Ethics. Division III Atlantic Region after guiding his team of The Siren and a member of the Student Executive ■ Claire Lindber g, associate professor and ■ Glenn A. Steinber g, assistant professor of English, Board for four years. He taught and coached in to both the New Jersey and Eastern College athletic coordinator of the nurse practitioner program, has gave one of the keynote addresses for the Fu Jen Princeton public schools for many years, and was associations’ indoor championships. been appointed director of clinical services for Medieval Conference held in March at Fu Jen principal of Garfield High School in 1958. He ■ Charles Fenwick , associate professor of law and HiTOPS in Princeton, a non-profit agency providing University in Taipei, Taiwan. He spoke on current earned a master’s in education at Columbia and a justice, has accepted an appointment as a senior education and clinical services to young adults ages trends in Chaucer scholarship in the U.S. associate faculty member at St. Anthony’s College, doctorate at Rutgers before joining the administration 13–23. The agency is extending its reproductive ■ Jean Wong, assistant professor of language and at The College in 1959 as director of student Ox f o r d University, for its April to July 2002 spring health services to adolescent males. Her services communication sciences, presented a paper entitled teaching and placement, a position that evolved into se m e s t e r . Fenwick’s specialty is East/West comparative there are supported by a contract between “A Discourse Analysis of ‘(the) same’ in English a larger career planning role in 1972. cr i m i n o l o g y . He will both res e a r ch and lecture on his The College and HiTOPS. Lindberg also has been Conversation” at the annual international Among many other interests, Kline founded the “general opportunity struc t u r e” theory of crime at named to U.S. Rep. Rush Holt’s Healthcare conference of the American Association for Cub Scout movement in greater Princeton; wrote a St. Anthony’s, Kebel College, and Oxford’ s Oriental Advisory Committee. Applied Linguistics in St. Louis. Institute. In July 2000, Fenwick lectured at popular text, Master Guide for Student Teaching; ■ Don Lovett , associate professor of biology, recently played fast-pitch softball with a five-time state St. Anthony’s Jubilee Conference, celebrating the published an article about the effects of osmotic champion Somerville team; and organized golf 50th anniversary of the founding of the college. stress in the green crab in the journal Comparative tournaments in Somerville for 23 years.

34 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 AL MAMATalma mater ER A L MAMAT A few thoughts re g a rding our Alma Mater by Franklin Grapel ’33

When I entered college in The first draft of the 1929, I believe our school song text had to be shown to ended with “The State schools, Dr. Charles Rounds, head of the State schools forever/ the English department. He Three cheers for the Blue and made a few suggestions. One the Gold.” I remember having was that I hadn’t mentioned to sing it, along with the other Trenton in the song, just freshman men in the Clinton “alma mater.” Thus the start Avenue dormitory as part of of the second verse was revised our “initiation.” to “Trenton College, Blue and It was a good rhythmic Gold,” which now, of course, song, but at that time the would be incorrect. Also, he Normal School was being noted that my “Thou will phased out, and we were soon guide” was not in the correct to be in the process of style, so I had to change it to becoming a four-year college, Franklin Grapel, ’33, outside his home in “Thou wilt guide.” He was Cottekill, NY. the State Teachers College at correct, of course, but I’ve Trenton. Feeling that the words never liked this because the to the song would not fit the new status of the “t” followed by the “g” is hard to articulate when school, Miss Mabel Bray, chair of the music singing. Regardless of style, I still prefer “Thou will.” department, offered a prize of $25 for a new alma Next the music was submitted to Mrs. Eleanor mater song. Sabary, our piano instructor. She thought it was As part of our curriculum, all the music students good, with the exception of three ascending notes had voice lessons, usually taken in pairs. Sometime on “years unfold,” which lead to a different ending in 1931, I think, a fellow student, F. Van Lier for the melody. I felt my notes gave the closing Lanning, mentioned to Miss Bray during our voice measures a more dramatic lift, but I was overruled. class that I had the beginning of a tune that might Needless to say, I was angered by the change. make a satisfactory alma mater. There were no Now, I’m not sure whether she or I was right. words, and only about four complete measures. At last, the song was finished, accepted, and When I played this fragment for Miss Bray, she printed. I was given the $25 (big money in those thought it had possibilities. So, I was encouraged to days), and the new alma mater was presented to write some words and complete the song. the school by Miss Bray at one of our assemblies. My conception of alma maters leaned toward The whole school sang back then. I did not attend, the Cornell song, which begins “Far above Cayuga’s but could hear it, with mixed feelings, from one waters…” and is a sort of dignified hymn-like tune of the music rooms on the third floor. with words that express feelings for the college. (continued on page 36)

36 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 I have been particularly pleased twice when I similar? The other revisions are appropriate and Alumni News have ret u r ned to The College. At my 50th reunion, well expressed. Alumni’53 de t e c t i v e - m y s t e r y novel in Gr eater MiddlesexNewscommunications at the August 2000 throu g h Co n f e r ence Athletic Direc t o r college level. Bill moved from as I walked across campus, hearing my tune played on Fi n a l l y , some of the words written back in the Bill Burke (AS) has been ret i r ed since 1988 from his Br i a rw o o d Publications, a of the Yea r , and the Bill New Jersey to Chicago, and, the carillon was an exciting surprise that stopped me ’30s have had a prophetic aspect that could not have ca r eer in foreign service, but small press in Vir ginia. The Denny Football Hall of Fame he says, “was roped in by a not from the adventure of book is titled Stump Man, and Awa r d as Educator of the wild Texas woman,” in 1996. in my tracks. Then in 1999, at the inauguration of been anticipated. Our college continues to shine living. He has completed a takes place in South Jersey. Yea r . She looks forwa r d to Sandra and Bill now live in Pr esident Gitenstein, I was really thrilled to hear the “brighter as the years unfold.” In addition, even five-month road trip from his Jim and his wife, Helen, traveling around the globe in Fo r t Wor th, TX, with their cu r rent home in Oregon to recently moved to Whiting. her ret i re m e n t . two Siamese cats. beautiful, intense rendition sung by Sarah McClean “though far our steps may lead,” we can never forge t pursue his love for skydiving ’61 Ro b e r t Kraft (E) ret i r ed as Pro f e s s o r -Emeritus from the ’7 2 ’00, accompanied by The College Wind Ensemble. the enormous debt we owe for the guidance, education, in Florida. Then he was off to Patricia A. Daly (E) ret i re d Elaine Cohen Sigal (A S ) Paris for a backpack trek July 1 as the director of University of Delaware after I would have appreciated being contacted when and inspiration we received, and continue to rec e i v e , 26 years. He also taught at lives in California while ac r oss Europe to Capri, with a health, physical education running a large tutoring pause in Germany to hang and athletics in New the College of William and the necessary changes in the text were being fr om our rev e r ed alma mater. Ma r y and Syracuse company in Westfield, NJ. glide in the Alps. Bill’s Br unswick. Her 40 years of She has three children: Josh, considered. To me, “We enjoyed those days of old” message to his classmates: se r vice with the New Un i v e r s i t y . He will be living in South Florida during the 23, a graduate student in an Ed i t o r ’s note: Following graduation, Grapel, a music “W e all have to get older but Br unswick public schools MF A program at DePaul seems somewhat prosaic compared to the original we don’t have to get old.” included positions of teacher, winter and Delaware during ma j o r , taught in north e r n New Jersey for several years the summer. Un i v e r s i t y , Chicago; Yari, 19, “Name still blazing as of old.” Also, how can those ’57 coach, and administrator. a sophomore at Brandeis be f o r e taking a post at De Witt Clinton High School in the Two major awards she ’65 new words really apply to students still in college? James Michael Maloney (E ) University; and Adam, 17, a Br onx. He taught there for 29 years before retiring and published his second received this year are: the In July 2000, Nancy Glenz senior in high school. She If it’s not too late, may I suggest that that line be moving to Cottekill, in Ulster County, NY. Now 89, he (E) was named chairperson of celebrated her 30th wedding the Department of Graphic an n i v e r s a r y in June. She changed to “Famous as in days of old,” or something mows his own lawn, golfs, bowls, and is active musically, Communication Systems and playing the flute, piano, and drums, and singing. would love to hear from other Two careers—and then some Technological Studies and sp e e c h / t h e a t e r / E n g l i s h pr omoted to full professor at pe o p l e . One career was not quite enough for Joanna Sullivan Bur ri s (E), No r th Carolina A&T State Ma u r een Burke T ra v a g l i n e a Cherry Hill resident who graduated in 1948, accepting an offer to Un i v e r s i t y , Gree n s b o r o, NC. (N) earned a master’s in Changes through the years teach mathematics and coach drama in the Moorestown Junior and ’69 education from Wid e n e r Senior High School. After teaching on and off for 32 years, she took Michele Krajeski Fer ne r Un i v e r s i t y , Chester, PA, in up the law and now, at the age of 73, is 20 years into that phase of (AS) has ret i r ed after 32 years Ma y , and is a certified school Original 1932 words Revisions of 1997 her busy life. in education, the last 12 as a nurse in the Philadelphia Along the way she found time to earn a doctorate in mathematics high school principal. Her public schools. Alma Mater, Blue and Gold! fr om the University of Pennsylvania, serve on a board of education, daughter is graduating from Susan Kur z- Wy d n e r (A S ) Name still blazing as of old! We enjoyed those days of old. raise a family, become a college prof e s s o r , publish a textbook, run a college and will be entering received her master’s in busy law practice, and raise two of her four grandchildren . Hearts we pledge that thou shalt be the teaching profession in counselor education at TCNJ Two years out of college, she married Robert Burris, and together No r th Carolina. She hopes to in May. they built a life in Cherry Hill, where he was the township clerk. Shining through eternity. spend a lot of fun time with ’7 4 Brighter as the years unfold, Mem’ries cling as years unfold, While raising two daughters, Burris taught math in several schools, her husband, Alan. eventually winning a fellowship to attend graduate school in Aldonna Ambler (E ) Alma Mater, Blue and Gold! Philadelphia. After earning her doctorate in 1969, she joined the ’71 continues to stay in the news original faculty at Burlington County Community College, eventually Barbara Brown Kennedy as an entrep r eneur and (AS) has moved from business consultant. Last Trenton College, Blue and Gold T C N J, Blue and Gold! heading its math department. There she taught statistics and developed a course in remedial mathematics. Her textbook, Ba s i c Chicago to Raleigh, NC, winter she was one of five Thy brave spirit ne’er grows old, Ma t h e m a t i c s , was published in 1972 and sold well for more than wh e r e she has enrolled in women honored as National And though far our steps may lead, 10 years. No r th Carolina State Business Woman of the Yea r University to pursue a caree r (2001) by Office Depot at a Thou wilt guide our thought and deed Bu r ris decided to use her first sabbatical to see whether she might like a law degree. The “experiment” prompted her to cut back on her in horti c u l t u re . fancy event at Miami’s Doral On to heights as yet untold. teaching load and, in 1980, become a lawyer. She and another William Alan Rieser (A S ) Re s o r t. Others were cited for Alma Mater, Blue and Gold. teacher/lawyer formed a small partnership, and she focused on has published a new science their contributions to matrimonial law. Although she ret i r ed from teaching in 1990, she fiction novel, entitled GAM. wo m e n ’ s sports, technology says, “the best thing about practicing law He says he has “evolved and government, while she is that you never have to ret i r e.” th r ough several careers,” first was recognized for leadership The Alma Mater author writes it his way. Now a widow (her husband had in music, and second in as a woman entrep re n e u r . su ff e r ed from multiple sclerosis and died el e c t r onics engineering. He She also has completed a in 1983), she maintains an active legal now teaches electronics and book for the business owner As Franklin Grapel explains in the accompanying recollection, he never did like it back in 1932 when an practice in Moorestown, doing a lot of English professor insisted on “Thou wilt” instead of “Thou will”; nor was he all that pleased with the revisions estate planning, trust work, and Sh a r e your memories made in 1997 to accommodate the name change. When she read his account of writing the song and the occasionally serving as a court- a p p o i n t e d 300 words to: gu a r dian. Being a mathematician in the We all have a favorite college prof e s s o r subsequent revisions, College President R. Barbara Gitenstein found herself in full agreement with his views. The Editor, TCNJ Magazine co u rt r oom has its advantages, she says. or , to put it another way, a favorite Gr een Hall 202 As a result, we now are able, pleased, and proud to publish our official alma mater, words and music Judges have been known to advise an st o r y about one of our professors. How The College of New Jersey by Franklin Grapel ’33. opposing counsel to be cautious when about sharing your memories of a P.O. Box 7718 discussing numbers around Mrs. Burri s . fo r mer teacher with our readers? Please Ewing, NJ 08628-0718 Br uce B. VanDusen send your contribution of no more than Joanna Burris ’48 38 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 with a working title of Institute with a degree in Br eaking Through the Barri e r s Staying in close touch with his r oo t s Web site development and Se r ving the country for 18 years to Grow t h and hopes to find business programming. a publisher soon. Neil Bencivengo ’69 (B) MA ’73 has found success in an unlikely place: the high Ed w a r d A. Kaye (AS) is a On duty with NATO forces in post-war Kosovo, Maj. John McCarthy ’85 ’7 5 school district from which he graduated. senior partner at GSP (AS) worked to encourage civility between Serbians and Albanians. During In t e r national, a personnel Elizabeth Inverso Having grown up in then-bucolic Hamilton Township in Mercer County, the last half of 2000, McCarth y , then an intelligence officer with Task Force Maj. John McCarthy ’85 De G re g o r y (E) is a school Bencivengo ret u r ned there in 1970 to teach in his former high school. He went on to Neil Bencivengo ’69 se a r ch and placement firm Da g g e r , sponsored the Mogila School, which enrolled Serbs in the morni n g librarian in the Hamilton become vice principal, principal, and director of educational services before being specializing in accounting and and Albanians in the afternoon. Township school system. She named superintendent six years ago. finance headquarte r ed in the “W e have to start with kids,” McCarthy said. “Education is paramount. It will be 10–15 years also works part time at the It ’ s a little ironic, he admits. He now is in charge of 13,000 students and nearly 2,000 Wilentz Tower in Wood - be f o r e there is true peace.” Hamilton Township Library. employees—New Jersey’s eighth largest school district. “I don’t know of anyone else who has bridge. Ed also is president of The major’s proudest accomplishment was finding supplies for the school, which is so poor it Joseph M. T as s i e l l o (A S ) ended up being the superintendent of his own high school district,” he said. the Morris-Essex Chapter of still uses outhouses. A mission that started with simple requests for donations from his family was promoted to Bencivengo fondly remembers his experiences at The College, saying they were vitally the Institute of Management and friends soon turned into a community effo r t. superintendent in charge of im p o r tant in his development. “I owe all my success in life to my experiences at TCNJ,” he said. Ac c o u n t a n t s . “I started receiving materials from people I never heard of,” McCarthy said. “It shows the new subway car acceptance At The College he was a standout athlete, helping the soccer team win its 1965 national ’89 power of e-mail and the heart of the American people.” and warranty at the Pelham championship. He captained the soccer team his junior and senior years and was captain of Thomas E. Conway (B) was Mc C a rt h y ’ s military responsibilities included signals-collecting from the airwaves and maintenance shop in The the varsity baseball team his senior year. Maybe some of that rubbed off on his students last pr omoted to director of st a n d a r d questioning of civilians in the neighboring communities. Br onx, NY. Pelham is the year when Hamilton Township School District became the first in the history of New Jersey finance at JDS Uniphase While attending The College, he joined the Rider College ROTC program and was home of the No. 6 Lexington to win two state baseball championships. Co r p . ’ s Epitaxx Division. He commissioned a second lieutenant in 1983. He had served in Korea with the 102nd Military Avenue Local, and he will be Though Bencivengo graduated more than 30 years ago, he has kept in close touch with lives in Wall Township with Intelligence Battalion in 1989–90 and was intelligence operations officer for the 101st Airborne overseeing the transition of The College, serving on its Alumni Board. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was his wife, Meagan, and their Division during De s e r t Shield and Storm. In the spring of 1999, he was deployed to Tas z a r , the fleet from the aging aw a r ded The College’s Distinguished Alumni Athletic Awa r d in 1999 and recently was da u g h t e r , Molly, 3, and son, Hu n g a r y, as senior intelligence officer with the job of protecting one of NATO ’ s air bases during “R e d b i r d” cars to the new inducted into the Athletic Alumni Hall of Fame. Declan, 2. the air war with Serbia. R142A Kawasaki subway Bencivengo said, “The College has provided great opportunities for many young people Ka r en Vance Cooper (A S ) Now 38, he and his wife, Karen, and daughter, Shannon, have been based in Germany since railcars. In all, his division who have gone on to success. I promote TCNJ very much in Hamilton Township and I’m was inducted into the 1993. As an operations offi c e r , he oversees soldier training and equipment maintenance. will accept over 3,000 new happy to say that a number of our students are accepted there reg u l a r l y. ” inaugural class of the Marga t e “It is a decent lifestyle and honorable profession, which I do out of a sense of patriotism,” subway cars into the New City Athletic Hall of Fame in Mc C a r thy said. “It’s not just the service member that serves. Army life is difficult on the whole Thomas Parmalee ’02 York City transit system by November 2000. She lives in fa m i l y . My whole family is serving our great country.” the year 2006. Li n w o o d with her husband, Ryan Groe g e r image problems associated and have two daughters, team and assistant at Tem p l e Br ett Cooper ’90 (A S ) . ’0 1 ’7 7 Bwitho r dentown eating. Shefor the often last speaks 13 assistantKacee and professor Kiera. They of expect Universitythey have four for onechildren, year, hasLori, Ga r y Gellman (AS) and his Susan B. 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He and his HisCeane new Bentzley team is not(A S the) coverage in the annual video Tom McCar th y (AS) has which specializes in business the Year for 2001 by Yorktown (VA) Family had battled cancer most of wife,Tom GrayLinda,(E) reside is the in vice pr ofessor at Broo k d a l e pr esident of proj e c t changedcontender careers it used after to be, 14 whenyears pr oduction competition of made it to the “bigs,” joining se rv i c e s . the Newark St a r - Practice. Communityher adult life College,and was Ro b b i n s v i l l e . asit reacheda social theworker final in four the of the Prof e s s i o n a l the Philadelphia Phillies Deanne Wat r ous Otto (A S ) Le d g e r , and lives in Joseph M. Mor ri s (B) is diagnosed with breast cancer management for Gartn e r , Inc. teaching nutrition science, in’8 4 Maitland, FL. He is a mentalthe NCAA health Division field. During I Videographers of Central baseball team’s radio is a res e a r ch consultant in the Haddonfield with st a t e - c e r tified as both a fourbut has years given ago. that At the up totime focus of Grace Alfano Br un n e r (N ) championships1999, she earned in a 1985, certi f i c a t e Je r s e y . The Gellman brot h e r s br oadcasting department. He Education Test Development his wife, Debbie, county and municipal offi c e r . her death, it was rep o r ted that reg i s t e r ed prof e s s i o n a l on business, family, and andengineer her husband, in Florida Stephen and in1986, computer and 1992; programming. but at a In won the top prize competing hosted the pre- and post- Division of Data Recognition and son, Patrick. He works as chief accountant anwriting. annual While tennis most tour ofn aLm yne nn t ’ s (AS), are living in Union Jpa r n essu a conferencer y 2000, she last was summer hired against video journalists from game shows on the 17-station Corp., in Maple Grove, MN. Amy Munno (A S ) for Monmouth County and to benefit breast cancer ea r ned an MBA from Stetson writing deals with her Universitywith their son,in 1991. Forrest, and announcingby the United his Parcel appointment, Servi c e the New York metrop o l i t a n Phillies Radio Network this He also holds an adjunct is the co-editor of resides in Millstone. rspecialtyes e a r ch mightof helping be established people tw o - y e a r -old daughter, Campbellin Edison, saidto do it thatwould work. be his are a . season. In 1993, at age 32, faculty position at the Embry the quarterly print and named in her honor. William E. Niess (A S ) ’7 8 develop a normal and joinedShannon. Ver iGrace z o n is a clinical Hgoalo w toe v e coachr , in January, the Hilltoppers she Scott “Waz” W as i e n k o (A S ) Mc C a r thy began broa d c a s t i n g Riddle Aeron a u t i c a l li t e r a r y magazine, Since graduation as a health ’83positive relationship with rCommunicationses e a r ch scientist within May tochanged the national positions championship. within the has been an audio engineer the games of the Tren t o n Un i v e r s i t y ’ s Twin Cities The Unknown and physical education major, fMo o a dr y and Powers their Br bodies,on (A herS ) , No v a r tis Pharmaceutical in Donnacompany Schultz and is (N)now livesa in for 12 years and has rec e n t l y Th u n d e r , then a new minor Extension Campus teaching Wri t e r , in Ramsey. 2000 as manager of the Brian (left) and Lynn Muller -G u i s e r (E) has newalong book with stems her husband, from the East Hanover. logisticsManhattan specialist. Beach, CA, and realized a long- standing goal. league affiliate of the Phillies. res e a r ch methods and A year ago, Amy co m p a n y ’ s electronic data Gary Gellman been raising a family, experienceDiederik, and of afive close childr frienden , ’i8n 5t e r change program. He and is an administrator for On June 1 he opened Audio At the same time he was st a t i s t i c s . ea r ned a master’s in establishing a business in the whowill bebecame leaving involved for Li Jiang, in a ’M8 7e d c o r , Inc., an affiliate of Post Philadelphia, a rec o rd i n g handling the team’s public, cr eative writing Ahisr celioson Will, Aponte age (EN)5, live was in Lisa Allocco (AS) is an ’91 field of human nutrition, and, dChina,a n g e r ously for one abusive year to teach Reston,pr omoted V Ato. associate vice Paramount Pictures. studio in downtown media, and community Kyle Johnson (E) is the fr om William Paterson most rec e n t l y , writing a book. Englishrelationship at Li with Jiang a College.boyfriend. adjunctMichael professor Thomas in(B) the was Ph i l a d e l p h i a . relations. In 1996 he was Un i v e r s i t y . Her thesis proj e c t Soniapr esident Shaub for facilitiesZidzik ( B at) , New communication departm e n t pr oject manager at Nelson Having married Tom in 1988, AsEating a family, Behavior they Consultantswill have ownerJersey Cityof Sew University. It Goes, a pr omoted to lieutenant ’90 made assistant general Pr ofessional Sales in was a collection of six poems she received a master’s in manypublished opportunities the true story to help under colonelat Monmouth in the U.S.University, Army in manager of the team, and and six stories on the Josephcustom Schulmansewing studio(AS) in was teaching Critical Discourse Ma r y Bakey (B) and Paul, La w re n c e v i l l e . applied physiology and theat an title orphanage of A Great and Escape assist as Lrecentlye o n a r dtown, named MD, medical last spring Ma r ch and received his MBA her husband of nine years, won a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Larissa Kelly Milligan (B ) in d i v i d u a l ’ s connection to nutrition from Columbia amedical 44-page teams. paperback in andfr om Introduction Webster University, to Awa r d in 2000 for his work science and history. The 6-by- dwasi r ector elected of the vice Garden chair of State Co m m u n i c a t i o n . have 3 children: Paul Joseph received her MBA in University in 1989 and FTe h b e ru o d a o r r y e2000. L. Johnson It focuses(E ) on Adultpublic Medicalrelations Center at the Eighthin St. Louis, in May. Jr ., 4; Patrick Thomas, 2; and br oadcasting the Thunder marketing from Seton Hall 9-inch cardstock cover became a reg i s t e r ed dietician howwas appointed the young to woman the faculty MPetera r y CipkinsJo Y ou n g (AS)(E), anhas games on CN 8 television. A magazine she publishes with AnnualLinden. HeEducation is a family st a r ted a new job as the area Meghan Elizabeth, 1. She Un i v e r s i t y . that same year. She and Tom ofbecame the Department involved in of the Cphysiciano n f e r ence in ofprivate the practice ex t r emely popular health and works from home as a communications studies Sh a r on Mitchell (AS) is a th r ee friends offers new have two boys, ages 5 and 12, Languagerelationship, and why Communi- she stayed, dphysicali r ector ofeducation sales and teacher in major at TCNJ, he is writers an outlet for their atPr ofessionalLinden Family Association Medical of marketing for Wyn d h a m tre a s u r er for several school residential broker for and live in Tinton Falls. In andcation how Sciences she eventually in TCNJ’s CustomAssociates Clothiers. and co-director of districts. Her husband is a rem e m b e r ed for his Coldwell Banker. work, mostly short poetry and her business, Eating Behavior Schoolescaped. of Education as Hotels and Resorts, based in br oadcasts of the football fiction. When she’s not the Family Medicine Philadelphia. vice president of Wac h o v i a Tommie Mulligan (E) is in Consultants, of Holmdel, ’79 ’Residency8 2 at Union Hospital, Bank in its commerci a l games for The College and his ninth year teaching evaluating manuscripts, she Lynn counsels chronic eaters, Ka r en McCartney Dixon pShawna r t of theCampbell St. Barn(E),a b a s who ’88 banking department. both football and basketball science at Haddon Tow n s h i p enjoys writing Haiku, people with eating disorde r s (B) and her husband, Mike, forHe a 15l t h yearsc a r e System.was assistant Joe is Ma r c Ivry (B) rec e n t l y After a number of years for Princeton University. High School, where he also kayaking, stargazing, and and a range of other body have been married since 1996 mcoacha r ried of to the Kim University Nagel ’87 of; graduated from the Chubb giving radio and television Juliet A. Howat McGuinnes coaches girls’ varsity collecting pop beads. Vir ginia Wom e n ’ s basketball Eugene Regr ut o (B) has

40 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 ea r ned his MBA from Rutgers County College. His second ea r ned a master’s in (B) and Erin Soule Gar dn e r in the Schering-Plough and now is working in book, Images of America: counseling from Kean ’9 6 (B). Kristen and Ian live Re s e a r ch Institute in Try keeping up with Sheila Marlton as assistant Seaside Park, has sold out. University and now teaches in Morri s t o w n . Ke n i l w o r th. She earned a co n t r oller for MedQuist Inc., Michele Auletta (A S ) psychology in the Claudio Colajacomo (A S ) ma s t e r ’s in biology at In July, Sheila Callaghan ’95 (AS) left New York for a year’s residency at the the nation’s largest medical completed the Registered Woo dbridge Tow n s h i p writes from Rome, where he Montclair State University Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, where she and four other winners of Jerom e transcription and electron i c Municipal Clerks program at schools, while working as a was born, that he’s a in May. Fellowships are living a dream: They have been given the time, stage, and res o u rc e s — document management Rutgers University and pa r t-time counselor at night. technical manager with Ma r y Ammann Varg a s (E ) including actors and directors—to write and test out their dramatic crea t i o n s . Sheila Callaghan ’95 co m p a n y . ea r ned the RMC certi f i c a t i o n Stephen Charles Halpert Synelec EMA on the Via G. writes from Silver Spring, Since moving to Manhattan in 1999, Ca l l a g h a n had been one busy woman, fr om the New Jersey State (AS) recently completed a Pacchioni. After TCNJ, he MD, to bring us up to date making her living as a freelance Web designer while writing a variety of one-act plays for small ’9 2 Division of Local postdoctoral fellowship at the ea r ned a master’s in with her activities. After Lori B. Lewellen (AS) is theater groups in the hand-to-mouth world of off- o ff - B ro a d w a y . Last year, her play Ka t e Go v e r nment Servi c e s . University of California at engineering physics at graduation, she attended Cr a c k e rn u t s won her the $7,500 Princess Grace award and the sort of recognition that led to the pursuing her law degree at Regina S. Br ow n (A S ) Be r k e l e y ’ s Counseling Center Stevens Institute of University of Connecticut Nova Southeastern Je r ome Fellowship, valued at $9,000. worked for the Illinois state and was to take the Technology in Hoboken, and School of Law in Hartf o rd , In Februa r y she flew to Bucharest, Romania, to res e a r ch some Turkish baths that will figure Un i v e r s i t y , Shepard Broa d Division of Child and Family psychologist licensure exam spent a year in Austria graduating in 1998. On a Law Center in Fort in an opera cycle she’s writing that involves three women who turn into concrete, metal, and Se r vices as an orga n i z a t i o n a l in October. beginning work on a Skadden Fellowship, she wo o d. (We don’t have space to explain.) La u d e r dale, FL. consultant. She also has Bob Mantz (AS) has become doctorate in physics. In 1999 worked at the National Kathleen R. McMorr ow Back in the Big Apple, she joined an intense, full-time workshop in which five writers, five become a licensed clinical the senior rec r uiter for RCN, he accepted an offer for the Association for the Deaf Law composers, and five actors combined and exchanged talents to write and later perfo r m a whole (AS) is senior vice pres i d e n t pr ofessional counselor. a facilities-based position he now holds. Center in Silver Spring for of Rubenstein Associates lot of original songs. Ka r yn Dziemian Olsen (A S ) telecommunications firm Six years after graduation, two years and has stayed on Later in the spring she worked with an ensemble active in musical theater and puppetry, Public Relations in New Yor k is now balancing being with headquarters in Ayeola Gamble Elias (A S ) as a staff attorne y . She Ci t y . She oversees publicity wr ote for a new troupe of North w e s t e r n University grads called “Singularity,” workshopped one co o r dinator of Ca r negie Center, Wes t has traveled quite a bit, rep r esents people who are of her earlier plays for possible perfo r mance by the New Jersey Reperto r y Theater, and did a and marketing campaigns for communications for the Win d s o r . ma r ried, settled in Levittown, deaf or hard of hearing in clients in the real estate, public reading at a new play festival in Costa Mesa, CA. Wood r ow Wilson School at John B. Stephenson (A S ) PA, and won an award for the cases with nationwide impact Callaghan often uses fantasy in her writing to explore issues of personal identity and the arc h i t e c t u r e, investment Princeton University and moved to Dublin, Ireland, in alumni magazine she edits at alleging discrimination on the banking, retail, and hotel limitations of language. She likes myths and legends and says her work tends to be rooted in caring for her daughter, May 2000 to serve as vice The George School in basis of disability. She is the conventional story telling, with more reliance on poetic and visual effects than on witty in d u s t r i e s . Alexis, born in Februa r y pr esident of operations of an Newtown, PA. co-author of Legal Rights: Lisa Ann Myers (AS) has dialogue. Still, she says, her audiences seem to have a good time. 2000. She and her husband, in t e r net start-up, and rec e n t l y Her magazine, Th e A Guide for Deaf and Hard of Just now she’s working on a full-length play about a family who lives with an old and orna t e , ret u r ned to The College as Dave, have been building a was promoted to direc t o r . He Ge o rg i a n , took last year’s Hearing People, published in media relations manager in possibly valuable, and rather ugly table lamp. As she says, “it can go in a lot of directions.” As for house in Hainesport, near completed a master’s degree CASE Gold Awa r d for 2000. She and her husband, Ca l l a g h a n ’ s own direction, it seems to be up. the Office of College Mount Holly, and hope to be at Seton Hall University. independent school alumni Nelson, a lawyer with the Relations. She joins the staff th e r e by the time this is in Da r yl Minus-V in c e n t (A S ) , publications in the mid- De p a r tment of Justice Br uce B. Van D u s e n of The College from a print. Dave is an IT manager having earned his MBA, is an Atlantic states. Since 1997, working on immigration fe a t u r e-writing position at with the New Jersey State education prog r a m she has served the co-ed matters, live in Gaithersburg, The Courier-P o s t of Police. development specialist in the Quaker school as its public MD. and expects to complete his co-workers. While attending Beth Adler (AS) has Ch e r ry Hill. Michael Sabbatini (B ) New Jersey Department of relations and Web site ’96 ma s t e r ’s in management The College, he headed the graduated from the Julianne Roe (AS) earned a in f o r mation systems from Students with Disabilities University of Pennsylvania ma r ried Jaime Scotto of Ed u c a t i o n . di r ector in addition to editing Gr eg Coleman (AS) was doctorate in English from Fairleigh Dickinson in Association. During his College of Vet e r i n a r y Ma n c h e s t e r , NH, at the Christopher W arg o (AS) has and writing for the magazine. pr omoted to general manager Lehigh University in June De c e m b e r . senior year, he and his family, Medicine and is now a Immaculate Conception been promoted from direc t o r Immediately after graduation, of the Modesto A’s, a Class-A and is now an assistant Melissa Foley Miller (A S ) all avid New York Yan k e e practicing veterinarian, living Ch u r ch in Trenton in of admissions at DeVry she spent a year at the team for the Oakland pr ofessor at Cedar Cres t has been working as a fans, visited the Yan k e e s in Bridgewater. October 2000. The couple University in Long Island University of Frankfurt, Athletics prof e s s i o n a l College, Allentown, PA, seventh-grade teacher at a during spring training in Christine McDevitt Burke honeymooned in Hawaii and Ci t y , NY, to the same post at Ge rm a n y , conveniently near baseball team. teaching writing and 20th- Catholic school in Bellmawr. Florida. While there, he came (N) is an RN specializing in now live in Lawren c e De V ry University in Frank Elias, whom she had John Har ri s (AS) rec e i v e d ce n t u r y British literature. She married Robert in 1999 to the attention of the team critical care, and works with Tow n s h i p . Arlington, VA. met when he was an his DPM from Tem p l e Todd Smith (AS) marri e d and recently left teaching to executives, who for several the HealthSkil agency in the Ka r riem Salaam (AS) is Be r nadette Zimmer ma n n exchange student with her in University School of Devon Onraet Hale of Coral have her first child, Jonathan years gave him special access Allentown, PA, area. She completing his medical (AS) teaches language arts Mexico during her junior year. Po diatric Medicine in May. Cables, FL, in May, in New Daniel, on March 29. to games, players, and the lives nearby in Bethlehem. residency at Yale University. and math to students with They married in October He is serving a three - y e a r Hope, PA, after completing celebrities who attended Joseph Falk (AS) earned his Gerald Warg o (E) has been le a r ning disabilities at 1997, and have been living in su r gical residency in the his master’s in history at ’97 hi g h - p r ofile events. After Master of Arts in Tea c h i n g pr omoted to dean of Thomas O. Hopkins Middle Levittown. Frank is a Oa k w o o d Healthcare No r th Carolina State With great sadness we rep o r t graduation, Meister became a fr om TCNJ in May and is admissions at DeVry College School in Burlington corporate trainer for Higher Systems, Dearborn, MI. University with a 4.0 GPA. the death on Feb. 14 of systems analyst in the pursuing a law degree at of Technology in North Township. Last year she was Check, a Lawrence Tow n s h i p Following their wedding last He now is a teaching assistant David Meister (AS), of in f o r mation servi c e s Quinnipiac University in Bru n s w i c k . named her school’s “Tea c h e r fi r m that helps companies fall, Lisa Horne Fox (A S ) and PhD candidate in history Blairstown, who suffe r ed from de p a r tment of Merck & Co. Hamden, CT. ’94 of the Yea r. ” check on pros p e c t i v e and Dan Fox (B) live in Lodi . at American University in muscular dystrophy from the in Cokesbury, to which he Tara Jakubik (B) is an MBA Safiyyah Butler (AS) is a ’95 em p l o y e e s . Lisa is a senior proj e c t Washington, D.C. age of four, but lived a full life commuted an hour each way candidate at Rutgers financial aid administrator at Ch e r yl Lynn Baird (A S ) Travel has been high on di r ector for Market Measures Ma r y Elizabeth T ie t j e n (A S ) and earned the admiration of until the day before his death. Graduate School of the Chubb Institute. ea r ned her PhD in Aye o l a ’ s agenda, having been Interactive, a health care is in her fourth year of work a great many friends and A few years ago he also Management while working Lynn Wallace Coco (E ) bi o c h e m i s t r y from the to Costa Rica and Japan in in d u s t r y marketing res e a rc h to w a r d a PhD in the contracted leukemia, but told for Merrill Lyn c h . graduated from Georgi a n University of Utah in addition to Europe. Last fi r m in Livingston. She is Molecular and Cellular ve r y few people outside his Co u r t College in Lakewood October 2000 and now is a summer she accompanied completing work on a master’s Pathobiology Program at family circle. In a note to with a master’s in educational postdoctoral fellow in the a student group to Cuba in corporate and Wake Forest University Me i s t e r ’s family, a Merck co- administration and un i v e r s i t y ’ s Core Facility for wh e r e they worked on or ganizational communication School of Medicine. worker wrote that David had su p e r vision. She continues to Pr otein Interaction. im p r ovements to a Quaker at Fairleigh Dickinson “a rich, inquisitive, analytical ’93 teach fifth grade in the When Kristen Baksa (B ) meeting house in the city Un i v e r s i t y . Dan is a software mind, a strong indomitable An d r ew J. Anderson (A S ) Howell Township public ma r ried Ian Hamilton in May of Holguin. developer for Ernst and You n g spirit, major stubbornn e s s , teaches in the Continuing sc h o o l s . 2000, the bridesmaids Linda Ann Wil l i a m s o n and people who counted on and Professional Education Jacqueline Gior da n o (A S ) included Susan Pawelek ’95 So b i e s k i (AS) was prom o t e d De p a r tment of Ocean to clinical res e a r ch associate him every day.”

42 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Ke r ri Redmond (N) has an Metex Corp. in Edison, while Township School District. School District while at the college level.” pursuing a master’s of public ap a r tment in Red Bank from pursuing a master’s in She is also the assistant pursuing his master’s. ’0 0 administration with a which she commutes to her engineering management at wo m e n ’ s soccer coach for John Patrick Mosca (E) is Michael Robert Ahr en s (B ) concentration in women’s job as a staff nurse at Robert the New Jersey Institute of Middlesex County College. pursuing a master’s in physical is a financial advisor with st u d i e s . Woo d Johnson University Tec h n o l o g y . ’99 therapy at Columbia Mo r gan Stanley Dean Wit t e r Shawn Gerum (AS) worked Hospital in New Brun s w i c k . Erik Daniels (E) was featured Marisa Fer ra r o (AS) will be Un i v e r s i t y . in Lawrenceville. as a medical laboratory Stephen Thompson (A S ) in an ar ticle in The Tim e s of graduating from Rutgers Law Gre g o r y Vol p e (AS) won Victor Alcindor (E) teaches technician in the genetics ea r ned his master’s in Trenton on March 9 in School–Newark in May. She first place in the New Jersey eighth-grade English at de p a r tment of the University education from Maryg ro v e connection with his work as a spent the summer working as Pr ess Association 2000 Better Roosevelt Middle School in of Washington, and is now College in Detroit, finishing special education teacher in an associate in the NYC law Newspaper Contest in the West Orange. He is also pursuing a doctorate in with a 4.0 GPA. West Win d s o r- P l a i n s b o r o fi r m of Dewey Ballantine. go v e r nment rep o r ting and beginning a graduate prog r a m genetics at the University of Diana L. T im m o n s (N) is a High School South. Matthew Johnson (A S ) writing category for a series of at Rutgers University Utah, Salt Lake City. public health nurse with the Diana G. Johnson (AS) is graduated from Rutgers in stories on municipal spending (Newark) in the fall. Nicole Sabbatini Serino Visiting Nurse Association of pursuing a master’s in Ja n u a r y with a master’s in in Staffo r d Township, Ocean Jennifer Ar mi g e r (AS) has (AS) is an executive assistant New York, working on Staten entomology at Was h i n g t o n communication and Co u n t y . He is a rep o r ter at en t e r ed the University of at TIG Insurance in Tin t o n Is l a n d . State University and expects in f o r mation studies. He The Press of Atlantic City. De l a w a re ’ s doctoral prog r a m Fa l l s . Ro b e r t Wit h e r i d g e (A S ) to graduate next year. managed to earn a 3.70 grade Co u r tney Wil s o n (E) lives in in history. Heather Patricia Vander Berg became assistant director of Amy Marie Smith (AS) is in point average while working West Trenton and teaches at Nicole Casciola (AS) is in (B) passed the CPA exam in human res o u r ces for Kean her third year of teaching pa r t time at Johnson & Bear Tav e r n Elementary her second year at the November 2000. University in November 2000. th i r d and fourth graders in Johnson. Now he’s a Web School in the Hopewell Dickinson School of Law of Sabrina Wit t e n b e r- Wi l f r i d ’98 the South Brun s w i c k consultant for Johnson & Township school system. the Pennsylvania State (AS) teaches English at Melissa Barber Jo h n s o n ’ s Advanced Patrick W in g (AS) has just Un i v e r s i t y . Central Regional High (E) has moved Communications Grou p . completed his master’s in After Joe DiLuzio (A S ) School in Bayville, while to Mays Lisa Kim (AS) is a part- t i m e Middle Eastern studies at the graduated with honors in working on a master’s in Landing, and graduate student in art history University of Chicago and hi s t o r y, he entered a master’s English at TCNJ. teaches science at Columbia University and this fall began work on a PhD pr ogram in classical ’0 1 at Egg Harbor lives in Hoboken. in Near Eastern languages ar cheology at Tufts University, Five members of the class, all Middle School. After graduating, Ma t t h e w s and civilizations. “At the with plans to go on for a psychology majors, this fall John Br op h y Ntuthuko Mazibuko (E ) moment,” he writes, “my doctorate. After spending part began graduate prog r a m s (EN) is a senior taught fifth grade for a year in in t e r ests are in tribal politics of last summer on a dig in leading to doctoral degree s . pr odu c t his native country of South and organizations in medieval Tus c a n y , and the rest teaching Helma De Vri e s (AS) is at de v e l o p m e n t Africa, and has ret u r ned to and prem od e r n Central Asia Latin at the Camden campus the Univ. of Maryland, where engineer for the United States to work and Iran. Although I have no of Rutgers University, he’s she is studying interna t i o n a l definite plans, I hope to David Meister '97 and his dog, Ladd, were a familiar sight to w a r d a doctorate. He back in Boston for another relations and comparative travel next summer to Iran or to many on campus. Ladd was awarded an honorary degree in teaches sixth grade in the round of classes. politics. Kimberly Fair ch i l d Tur k e y . My ultimate goal is to computer science for having attended all of the required classes. Hopewell Valley Regional Krista Gar of a l o (AS) is at (AS) is at Rutgers studying teach Middle Eastern history the University of Georgi a social psychology. Ne i l Al b e r t (AS) has begun a doctorate in behavioral April Ellen Hild ’96 (E) wed Nicole Alexandra Lorenz ’98 ne u r oscience at the Univ. of Jonathan Jay Krihak July 1, (E) wed Iwan Furyk, Jr. Dec. Ca l i f o r nia at Berkeley. 2000. 30, 2000. Gwendolyn Seidman (AS) is Lisa Horne ’96 (AS) wed Da n Michele McClure ’98 (E) wed studying social psychology at Fox ’96 (B) Oct. 8, 2000. Chuck Green ’96 (B) Aug. wed d i n gs 20, 2000. New York University, while Kristen Anne Ingling ’96 (E ) Donald A. Woo d w a r d ’86 (E ) Lynn Wallace ’94 (E) wed wed Keith Hass June 24, 2000. Stacey War d ’98 (AS) wed wed Kate Gers May 19, 2001. Ro b e r t Coco June 30, 2001. Allison Meschke ’96 (B) wed Thomas Culley, Jr. Dec. 30, Gwedolyn Van Sciver ’87 Matthew P. Anesh ’95 (B ) Joseph Corn ’96 (AS) July 15, 20 0 0 . (AS) wed Thomas McCr ea r y wed Kimberly DeAngelis in 20 0 0 . Alex Falzone ’99 (AS) wed ’9 2 (AS) April 17, 2001. September 1999. Jill Iozzi ’97 (E) wed Jo n a t h a n Melissa Price Oct. 28, 2000. Brian Hurwitz ’92 (AS) wed Kristen Baksa ’95 (B) wed Ian Rocco ’98 (B) July 27, 2001. Megan Plachinski ’99 (A S ) Erika Corbin April 9, 2000. Hamilton May 28, 2000. Ch e r yl Jakubowski ’97 (N ) wed Daniel D’Orvilliers ’99 Todd Smith ’92 (AS) wed Ma r y Canto ’95 (AS) wed wed Jason P. Tansky Sept. 30, (AS) Oct. 9, 1999. Brian Hurwitz ’92 and Devon Onraet Hale May 27, Michael Rice Aug. 12, 2001. 20 0 0 . Jaime Wor onka ’99 (E) wed Erika Corbin; Michael 20 0 1 . Jason Fitzgerald ’99 (AS) in Dawn Krompascik ’95 (A S ) Scott LeFante ’97 (B) wed Sabbatini ’92 and Jaime Tammy Guzio Oct. 28, 2000. July 2000. Da r rel Kasper ’93 (B) wed wed Michael Porten Dec. 9, Scotto; Linda Williamson ’95 Karin Walpole ’94 (E) March 20 0 0 . Cari McGaffney ’97 (E) wed Shawn Gerum ’00 (AS) wed and Brian Sobieski; Kristen 31, 2001. Kathleen Mack ’95 (AS) wed Ro b e r t Bonner June 17, 2000. A’Lissa Richards Jan. 12, 2001. Michael Sabbatini ’93 (B) wed Jason Riha ’96 (AS) July 15, Ch e r yl Diane Menold ’97 (B ) Nicole Sabbatini ’00 (AS) wed Baksa ’95 and Ian Hamilton; Jaime Scotto Oct. 14, 2000. 2000. wed Christopher Ber tu c c i n i Michael Serino March 31, Dawn Krompascik ’95 and Tracy Jones ’94 (B) wed Linda Ann Williamson ’95 ’9 7 (AS) Sept. 3, 2000. 20 0 1 . Michael Porten; Greg Ziliani Je ff r ey Henrikson April 29, (AS) wed Brian Sobieski July Ch e r yl Babrisky ’98 (B) wed Sabrina Wit t e n b e r g ’00 (A S ) ’95 and Cheryl Babrisky ’98; 20 0 0 . 15, 2000. Gr egg Ziliani ’95 (AS) Oct. wed Damien Wilfrid Feb. 12, 20 0 0 . Lisa Horne ’96 and Dan Fox Barbara Ann Matagrano ’94 Melissa Foley ’96 (AS) wed 14, 2000. ’96; Gabrielle Carbone ’98 (AS) wed Richard Var gas Oct. Ro b e r t Miller Jan. 9, 1999. Gabrielle Carbone ’98 (E ) and Matthew Errico ’96; 23, 1999. wed Matthew Errico ’96 (A S ) Oct. 15, 2000. Michele McClure ’98 and Chuck Green ’96

44 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 Tonita Under du e (AS) is in UMDNJ-Newark. Sy n d i Michael Reynolds (AS) and Douglas W es t took a position Her job-hunting the clinical psychology Se i n f e l d (AS) is studying to Jennifer Stampfel (AS) both with Merck & Company in discoveries are chron i c l e d Do r othy Drake Oldis ’21 Au d r ey Ader ’37 Jean Ann Koenig Steiber ’71 pr ogram at Long Island be an osteopathic physician ar e enrolled in the physical Bluebell, PA. in an essay in un b o u n d , Un i v e r s i t y . Each of these at the New York College of therapy program at Arca d i a Gre g o r y Salmieri (AS), who the TCNJ student online Lucy Ter rito Dileo ’24 Ar thur Geilfuss ’41 Dennis L. Schick ’73 graduates will receive full Os t e o p a t h y . Summra Masood University in Glenside, PA. won the Department of magazine. It can be rea d Ruth G. Miller ’24 Dena Alvino Dodson ’42 Barbara McCullion ’79 financial support from the (AS) is pursuing an Emelynn Fajar do (AS) has Philosophy Cummings Prize on the Web at universities involved. op t o m e t r y doctorate at taken a lab technician for the best essay in ht t p : / / u n b o u n d . i n t r a s u n . t c Wilma Aronson ’25 John H. Callan ’43 Ma r y Jo Young ’82 A lot of medical school SU N Y -State College of position at MCP Hahnemann philosophy as a senior, is at nj . e d u / u n b o u n d / f a l l 0 1 / b e l decisions were made during Op t o m e t r y, while Jessica Zak University Hospital in the University of Pittsburgh , z/ Catherine N. Huether ’25 Ruth Ann Shoaf ’50 Al b e r t Michael Punk ’89 the spring. Here are the (AS) is on the same track at Ph i l a d e l p h i a . working toward a doctorate in d e x . h t m l . Boris Zisman ’25 Rose Marie Purves Michael R. Mills ’91 outcomes we have been able the Philadelphia School of In d u s h r ee Ghosh (AS) is in philosophy. Ri c h a r d Grippaldi (A S ) Venturini ’56 to confirm: Esther Ahn (A S ) Op t o m e t r y. doing clinical laboratory work Rosemarie Connelly (A S ) has won a full fellowship Rose Dewan Innes '27 David R. Meister ’97 is at New York University. Valay Desai (AS) is pursuing at Bristol-Myers Squibb in works in New York City on to pursue a doctorate in Ro b e r t C. Marince ’58 Ri c h a r d Br od s k y (A S ) a master’s in molecular La w r ence Township, while the editorial staff of Nature mi l i t a r y history at Tem p l e Ethel Hazel Hoffman ’28 Julia Sibilia Williams ’60 en r olled at UMDNJ-Robert genetics at Johns Hopkins Publishing Group, publishers Un i v e r s i t y , which history Annie Tindall Raab '28 Woo d Johnson in New Un i v e r s i t y , while Kh a m of the magazine Na t u r e an d de p a r tment chair Daniel Ruth M. Macphedran ’62 Br unswick. Jessica Galandak Von g p a s e u t h (AS) is at many other journa l s . Cr ofts describes as “one of Elizabeth Merrick (AS) went to New Orleans, University College of Dublin, A reliable source rep o r ts that the top places” for that Campbell ’29 Elsie R. Dole ’65 home of Tulane University’s Ir eland, working on a master’s Leigh Belz (AS), a di s c i p l i n e . School of Medicine. Jo s h in botany that focuses on jo u rn a l i s m / p ro f e s s i o n a l Joanna NewDeck is in A. Marga r et Sayre Welden ’35 Bre u n i g (AS) has begun a “plant fungal interaction.” writing major, was offe r ed a Washington pursuing a Ma r y Baker Cottrell ’36 PhD/MD program at Yal e Brian Policastro (AS) is job just five minutes after law degree at American Un i v e r s i t y . Susan Alsamarai studying to be a physician graduating at Lions’ Stadium Un i v e r s i t y . Or ville G. Parrish ’36 (AS), Ritu Shar ma (A S ) , assistant at the UMDNJ- last spring. She took it and Christine Strahan (E N ) Charles Yennie ’36 and Michael Link (AS) have School of Health Related now is an assistant editor at commutes from home in In Memoriam begun their medical studies at Pr ofessions. El l e magazine in Manhattan. Tur nersville to Hancocks

Julianne May, daughter of Dana Jones Mundy ’86 and Al Mundy; John Gerard, son of Maryanne Proto Tarrant new ar rivals ’88 and John Tarrant; Allison Ed w a r d Michael Marhe f k a Ma r yanne Proto T ar rant ’88 Ma r y Jane Reynolds Custy Brita Ludvigsen ’92 (AS) and ’7 9 (AS) and wife, Laura: a (E) and husband, John: a son, ’9 1 (E) and husband, Da v i d husband, Lars: a daughter, Grace, daughter of Jennifer da u g h t e r , Svetlana, Nov. 28, John Gerard, July 18, 2000. Custy ’91 (EN): a son, Peter Sarah Michelle, April 8, 2001. Vreeland Maney ’90 and 20 0 0 . John joins brot h e r , Anthony, 6, James, June 12, 2000. He joins Dianna Ackerman David ’93 Michael Maney ’91; Kaylee Len Cipkins ’83 (AS) and and sister, Julianne, 3. br other Andrew . (E) and husband, Stephen ’94 Maria and Ashlyn Margaret, wife, Ann Marie: a daughter, Shari Garfinkel Sullivan ’89 Lori Winans Donaldson ’91 (AS): a daughter, Jordyn Leigh, daughters of Lori Winans Kali Lauren, Nov. 27, 2000. (E) and husband, Michael: (E) and husband, John: April 19, 2001 Donaldson ’91 and John Dayna Jones Mundy ’86 (E ) identical twin daughters, Julia su r viving triplets, Ashlyn Krista Nitti Devers ’93 (E ) and husband, Al: a daughter, Rose, Oct. 10, 2000 and Olivia Ma rg a r et and Kaylee Maria, and husband, Brian Devers Donaldson; Cassandra Paige, Julianne May, March 20, 2001. Grace, Oct. 11, 2000. Oct. 1, 2000. ’9 3 (AS): a son, Cameron daughter of Anton Bodner ’92 Julianne joins sister Samantha, Lynn Jacoutot ’90 (BS) and Larissa Kelly Milligan ’91 (B ) Ma t t h e w , Aug. 29, 2001. and Tina Salvatico Bodner 4, and brother David, 2. husband, Kevin: twin girls, and husband, Robert: a son, Melanie Ruhl Miranda ’93 ’93; Cameron Matthew, son John Neveling, III ’86 (E ) Kate and Lauren, June 5, 2001. Ro b e r t Joseph, April 8, 2000. (B) and husband, Ken: a They join their brot h e r , Kevin of Krista Nitti Devers ’93 and and wife, Michelle Carlson Katherine Gatti Mottola ’91 da u g h t e r , Isabella Catherine, Brian Devers ’93; Isabelle, Neveling ’95 (E): a daughter, Jr . (B) and husband, Frank: a Feb. 12, 2001. daughter of Melanie Ruhl Kaci Alexis, April 17, 2001. Meg Haller-Kennedy ’90 da u g h t e r , Alexa Concetta, July Ka r yn Dziemian Olsen ’93 Dr . Charles Augustus Potter (AS) and husband, John: a son, 26, 2000. (AS) ’95 (MEd) and husband, Miranda ’93 and Ken ’8 6 (AS) and wife, Michelle: a Brian Matthew, Jan. 3, 2001. Ma r celene Dragos Barratt ’92 Dave: a daughter, Alexis Miranda; Alexis Hannah, da u g h t e r , Julia Patricia, Dec. He joins sister Nicole Lyn n . (AS) and husband, Ro n a l d Hannah, Feb. 21, 2001. daughter of Karyn Dziemian 10, 1999. Jennifer Vreeland Maney ’90 Ba r ratt ’92 (AS): a son, Colleen Pur te l l - T appen ’93 Olsen ’93 and Dave Olsen; (E) and husband, Mi c h a e l Br endan, April 13, 1999. Ca r ol D. Morrison Beyer ’87 (AS) and husband, John: a son, Susan Elizabeth, daughter of (AS) and husband John: a son, Maney ’91 (AS): a daughter, Anton Bodner ’92 (B) and Luke James, Feb. 27, 2001. Allison Grace, Aug. 2, 2000. Dianne Martello Brethauer Gunnar James, Dec. 29, 2000. wife, Tina Salvatico Bodner Me r edith Filinuk Sawyer ’93 He joins sister Madison and Juliet A. Howat McGuinnes ’9 3 (B): a daughter, Cassandra (E) and husband, William: a ’95 and Jeb Brethauer; Natalie br other Cole. '9 0 (AS) and husband, Da v i d Paige, Nov. 3, 2000. da u g h t e r , Abigail Elizabeth, Theresa, daughter of Kim McGuinnes '91 : a son, Liam Jan. 20, 2000. Nicole DeVincenzo T ay l o r Tesauro ’99; Francesca Patrick, Oct. 31, 2000. Gabrielle, daughter of Fabio Iucolino ’99 and Jennifer Iucolino

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48 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 THE COL L E G E OF NEW JER S E Y Two buildings, one site LiThis fallo faculty and studentsn’sTa moved into the new next door in 1993, the Department of Englishle Of ficial Ring three-story Social Sciences Building on the site of occupied Bray until it was demolished in 1999. the former Bray Hall, which students from 1963 The three-story Social Sciences Building would to 1995 will recall as the home of the Department have dwarfed the former Bray Hall, but now fits in of Music. with the other large structures nearby: Green Hall, Named for Mabel E. Bray, professor of music the Brower Student Center, Kendall Hall, and the fr om 1918 to 1948, Bray Hall was one of several Music Building. Its 76,000 square feet of interior st ru c t u r es completed during a rush of construction in floor space is more than three times that of Bray. It is the early 1960s. Clarinetist Roger W. McKinney, a home to five academic departments: law and justice, pr ofessor of music since 1957, recalls Bray cost about sociology and anthropology, psychology, history, and $338,000 at the time, and was overcr owded from the political science. day it opened. It included, besides faculty and staff Every full-time faculty member (56 at last of fices, five classrooms, 10 practice rooms, and a count) has a private office, with additional space for rehearsal space. He also remembers the small rec i t a l part-time faculty and office staff. The air-conditioned hall with its green, plastic, cafeteria-style chairs, a building houses 12 general classrooms, seven seminar tiny stage, and very poor acoustics. Despite the rooms, and a computer lab. On the ground floor and mo dest facilities, music instruction pros p e r ed, with basement levels, the Department of Psychology has the faculty more than doubling from 13 in 1962 to 28 several research rooms and some spaces for clinical, a decade later. When the new Music Building opened social, and physical study of children.

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50 TCNJ Magazine / Autumn 2001 A few thoughts about our students … At a special dinner in April, former Board of Trustees Chairman Robert A. Gladstone was honored as TCNJ’s “P r esidential Honoree of the Yea r .” As he accepted the award, Gladstone made some comments about today’s students, who are the beneficiaries of gifts to the TCNJ Foundation, of which he also is a board member. He said: The young men and women we help today will succeed to the leadership of their own generation, as we have to ours. They can expect: ■ To virtually eliminate genetically based disease; ■ To realize the dream of a sustaining, cheap, and clean energy source; ■ To extend a well-cared-for life beyond the allotted three score years and ten; ■ To provide sources of nourishment for the population of the entire world; ■ To expand our understanding of who we are, how we think, what the universe was before the moment of its conception, and where it is traveling; and ■ To be responsible for bringing safely home, hostages held by a hostile force on the other side of the earth

They will be charged with the awesome task of communicating the wisdom of the ages and advances of our technological marvels to all people—everywhere. They will be responsible for fairly, equitably, and ethically deciding how and among whom the fruits of our society are distributed. Most importantly, they will bear the burden of teaching all that they have learned to the generation that follows them. I have met the students of TCNJ, and I have worked with them. They are up to these tasks. I thank all of you for being here to support them.

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