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MISSION: ICView is the magazine of the Ithaca College community of alumni, parents of current students, employees, retirees, supporters, friends, and neighbors. CONTACT US: [email protected] or (607)274-1813, or visit ithaca.edu/icview. FROM THE PRESIDENT

ON AUGUST 27, ITHACA COLLEGE WELCOMED 1,514 first-year students to our campus during a Convocation that was filled with energy and excitement as the newest members of our IC family prepared to begin a transformative phase of their lives. Our Convocation capped off a weeklong orientation for all incoming students—the first time in decades that we’ve oriented an entire class together, intentionally building community among and a strong identity for the class of 2023. For me, an incredibly moving part of our Convocation ceremony is the singing of our alma mater, “Ithaca Forever,” and hearing the voices of our first-year students combine with those of returning students, faculty, staff, alumni, and trustees. This is a powerful moment, connecting not only those of us in the arena but also generations of our IC family. “Ithaca Forever” sets a firm expectation—right from the PHOTO BY ADAM BAKER ADAM BY PHOTO start of a student’s time on campus—that ours is an institution and a community that endures. As we begin this new academic year, “Ithaca Forever” remains in the air long after Convocation. These two powerful words are the title of our strategic plan, which lays out nine goals and numerous objectives supporting each. Our community created this plan over the course of the past year, and this year we begin activating it. Ithaca Forever places current and future students at the core of everything we do: they are our “why.” But to truly understand Ithaca Forever in this new context, we are called to think about what it means to participate fully in the life of this institution and how it’s connected to our ability to cultivate a sense of belonging as a member of the IC family—in both our lived experiences while we are on campus and across time and space. There are many ways our strategic plan addresses this intention, and I invite you to read the full plan at ithaca.edu/imagining-ithaca. I want to share three specific initiatives contained within our plan that really excite me and will help us fulfill our mission to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance. The first is to become a year-round place for living and learning. We are going to explore ways in which all of our campuses—in Ithaca, New York City, Los Angeles, and London—can provide innovative programming, ranging from professional programs to unique immersion experiences, for all life stages. The second is a commitment to support our faculty, staff, students, and community in testing innovative ideas and failing forward. One way we plan to do this is to establish a separate limited liability corporation incubator to facilitate research and business development. Finally, we will continue our strong investment in the mission-critical, student-centered goals of our existing facilities master plan. Our physical campus directly affects our students’ lives and IC experience, and we must transform this campus in ways that will make us more connected to one another as members of a community and as scholars seeking a balanced, holistic education that is integrated and cross-disciplinary. Ithaca College is a place where creativity flourishes, where the fire of intellectual inquiry is lit and fed. It’s also an enduring mindset, a touchstone for our alumni, families, and neighbors. And as I begin my third year as president, I am thrilled to join with our IC community to realize the promise of Ithaca Forever.

All my best,

SHIRLEY M. COLLADO President

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IC HAS A BALL Last spring, students, faculty, staff, and prospective “ What better way to show students alike had the chance to hop into an adult-sized ball pit filled with school spirit. The experience was part your love for IC than being of a social media pop-up event planned by senior social in a room that just has media strategist Natalie Jenereski ’09 and supported through an IC Presidential Seed Grant. This marketing Ithaca College plastered technique is used by national brands to encourage consumers to share their love for a brand on social all over it?” media, and the pop-up was timed to coincide with IC’s accepted students weekend, Ithaca Today. The pop-up — BRIAN HANSHAW ’21 included 11,000 blue, white, and silver balls and neon signs celebrating Ithaca College and Bomber pride. “What better way to show your love for IC than being in a room that just has Ithaca College plastered all over it?” said Brian Hanshaw ’21, a social media student assistant.  To see more photos from the pop-up event, search #ICPopUp on social media!

ithaca.edu/icview | 3 4 | 2 ON SOUTH HILL SOUTH ON 0 19 “We acknowledge that while this plan provides the This fall, Ithaca will Imagining become Ithaca Forever, as TO ITHACA FOREVER FROM IMAGINING ITHACA years, will it require additional collaborative work to will provide anexceptional educational experience that within our community that produced said David community our within it,” H. community andfrom the Ithacacommunity area, andIlook forward analyze choices andmake challenging and decisions.” Lissy ’87, chairof the Ithaca College Board of Trustees. Ithaca is the result of the hard work andthoughtful strategic plan, andwe applaud the collaborative process strategic framework for the college over the next five shared with the campus community latershared this fall, community with the campus and sustained strategic our planning process. Imagining the next generation of Ithaca College students. actions. ideas into turning the strategic plan hasenvisioned that the community the college will officially launch Ithaca Forever. to seeing how this tremendous effort our will shape o of the intentional, inclusive approach that guided and participation of of people hundreds from college our is accessible, affordable, and responsive to the needs of institution in the yearsinstitution in to come.”

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CLASS OF 2019 CALLED TO BE BEACON OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY

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achievement of their degree to serve as a beacon of hope O BY T and opportunity for others. García delivered the main PHO address to some 1,500 graduates at the ceremony on May 19. “Today we celebrate far more than a degree achieved; an honorary doctor of letters degree. She also awarded we honor a dream, your dream, realized,” García said. “I honorary doctorates to educator and journalist Melissa am proud that each of you now joins me and President Harris-Perry and Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick. Collado in being the change we want to see in the At the ceremony, retiring executive vice president world so that the next generation of diverse students and senior advisor to the president Nancy Pringle was encounters less obstacles and more opportunities, less also presented with the inaugural Presidential Medal, discrimination and more equal pay, less broken hopes which honors a member of the IC family or a valued and more broken glass ceilings.” institutional partner whose contributions better the IC President Shirley M. Collado presented García with community and our world.

and inclusive leadership. It was established by a gift from Gloria Hobbs, an honorary member of the Ithaca College Board of Trustees, who was inspired to create the award after learning about Collado’s inclusive vision for the Ithaca College community.

CROCE For more than 10 years, González has run the Urban A Mentor Initiative, a distance mentorship program that pairs middle school students from Brooklyn, New

ANNI SANT York, with students from Ithaca College. González has V also co-created and conducted a series of workshops GIO on inequality in higher education, inclusiveness and O BY T excellence in the hiring process, microaggressions in

PHO the classroom, and how to have difficult dialogues in the workplace. Her teaching and research focuses on inter- and intra-group relations between and within FACULTY MEMBER RECEIVES communities of color in the United States. PRESIDENTIAL AWARD “Belisa González has been working to help Ithaca College and our community become a more equitable and inclusive place for all of us since her arrival on On May 14, Belisa González, associate professor of campus 12 years ago,” said Wade Pickren, now retired sociology and director of the Center for the Study of director of the Center for Faculty Excellence. “Her Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, was presented with the commitment to inclusive education has been evident in President Shirley M. Collado Award for Outstanding her teaching, her work with students, her scholarship, Contributions to the Ithaca College Community. her service, and her leadership—as well as her work in The new award supports the professional this community and beyond. She is dedicated to making development of the chosen faculty member, providing our world, our campus, and our community places $5,000 to further enhance the capacity for equitable where inclusion and equity matter for all of us.”

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“We rewrote the entire plan, practically from scratch,” said Carlie McClinsey ’19, one of the team’s cochairs and presenters. “We weren’t pumped about the direction we were going. Our creative team came up with a great new idea in two days, and we went ahead with it.”

AN OSDOL Their idea? Defend the Dog, a courtroom concept V

TT where hot dogs were the defendants in a trial. “To us, O

SC hot dogs have always been a good food,” explained Connor Sheffield ’19, a member of the group’s creative O BY T team. “They’ve just been falsely accused of being a bad PHO one. We set out to defend them.” This is the first time since 1993 that an IC team has won the national competition. AD LAB WINS NATIONALS “I was very excited for this year’s Ad Lab team win, and within hours of the announcement, 10 or A team of nearly two dozen Ithaca College students took so of our 1993 team were on Facebook Messenger home first place in the American Advertising Federation talking excitedly about it,” said Patrick Holland ’93. (AAF) National Student Advertising Competition at the “The amount of hard work, creativity, and strategic organization’s annual conference, thanks to a last- thinking—along with a bit of luck—to accomplish what minute change in strategy. they’ve done is remarkable.” The challenge was to create a strategic advertising, Scott Hamula, the team’s mentor and advisor, marketing, and media campaign for Wienerschnitzel who is also associate professor and chair of IC’s hot dogs that also elevated perceptions about the hot Department of Strategic Communication, received dog in general. The team made a daring decision just AAF’s 2019 Distinguished Advertising Educator award a few weeks before they had to submit their plan that during the conference. paved the way to victory.

FIRST GENERATION CENTER ESTABLISHED

From financial aid and course registration to unusual

terminology, like bursar and registrar, the college GE ‘11 A experience can be intimidating and difficult to navigate. V It’s even harder for first-generation students, who may not have college graduates in their families to ALLISON USA whom they can turn for guidance and advice. New and expanded programming at Ithaca College aims to O BY support first-gen students throughout their time T on campus. PHO The First Generation Center is supported by a fund First Generation Organization founder Omar Stoute ‘18 (left) and Quaine Joseph ‘18 pose for a established by the chair of the Ithaca College Board photo after the 2018 Commencement ceremony. of Trustees, Dave Lissy ’87, and his wife Suzanne Lissy ’88, through the Lissy Family Foundation. Among the programming offered by the center is the FIRST earned plaudits, as the college was recently designated Look preorientation program, FIRST Place residential a “first forward” institution by the Center for First- learning community, and year-round programming Generation Student Success. The First Forward program focused on academic preparedness and time recognizes institutions of higher education that have management, as well as a lecture series and leadership demonstrated a commitment to improving experiences development opportunities. and advancing outcomes of first-generation IC’s efforts to assist first-gen students have already college students.

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ALUMNUS ESTABLISHES BUSINESS ANALYTICS LABS

When making choices that can lead a business to

its boom or its doom, it’s critical to have a working GE ‘11 A knowledge of the latest tools of the trade. Now, two V dedicated business analytics laboratories at Ithaca College will provide students with hands-on experience ALLISON USA to help them thrive in a world that relies on data to drive innovation. O BY The endowment to create the lab spaces, which T opened this fall in the Roy H. and Dorothy D. Park PHO Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise, was School of Business students work on projects in an established by John J. Neeson ’84, a graduate of the accounting analytics class led by assistant professor Margaret Shackell-Dowell. School of Business and an authority on business- to-business marketing and analytics. Neeson’s gifts support the creation of the Neeson Business Analytics compared to far larger competitors) to offer lab spaces Lab and the Neeson Digital Marketing and Analytics Lab, fully dedicated to the study of analytics. and establish the John Neeson ’84 Endowed Software “In my world, we look to see why companies are and Database Fund to support software updates and growing,” Neeson said. “Analytics has been the fastest- future upgrades to the Neeson Business Analytics Lab. growing area in business over the last seven years, and While it is common to find educational resources understanding analytics gives businesses an edge, as such as virtual trading rooms in business schools they can be more precise in their actions. The digital across the country, IC’s School of Business will be marketing and analytics labs will give students the among the very few institutions (and the first of its size skills businesses are looking for today.”

STUDENTS WIN NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MEMBERS ELECTED STRATEGY COMPETITION The Ithaca College Board of Trustees has elected two new members. A team of students from the School of Business traveled In April, Jan Singer ’86, previously the chief executive to the prestigious International Collegiate Business officer of Victoria’s Secret Lingerie, was elected to a four- Strategy Competition last April and took home first place. year term. She has held executive leadership positions The students took over the management of a simulated in many of the biggest companies in fashion, including manufacturing company and assumed responsibility Chanel, Prada, Calvin Klein, Nike, and Spanx. for key strategic and operational decisions in marketing, At the board’s May meeting, wine industry finance, and operations. They were also responsible for consultant Kathleen Keltos Newlands ’89 was delivering a strategic business plan, an annual report, elected to a four-year term. Newlands joined E. & J. and a formal oral presentation to judges who acted as Gallo Winery in 1989 as a sales representative and the company’s board of directors. The students—Meryl worked in 11 different positions there for more than Berger, Ginny Fimmano, Ferdinand Mase, Demetri 10 years before becoming vice president of marketing D’Orsaneo, and Dalton Elias—were all seniors in the for St. Supéry Estate Vineyards and Winery in Napa capstone Strategic Management course, taught by Valley, California. associate professor of management Duncan Duke. The The board reelected three board members at the opportunity was made possible by Jay and Sandra Gelb, same meeting and named retiring board secretary, who personally funded the grant proposal. Nancy Pringle, an honorary trustee.

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IC RANKS HIGHEST IN STATE IN DIRECTORS’ CUP

OGRAPHY For the fourth consecutive year, the Bombers have T finished in the top 20 of the Learfield IMG College

D3PHO Directors’ Cup standings, which ranks the performance of all Division III colleges in the country. Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in NCAA postseason competition in up to nine women’s and nine men’s sports. This year, Ithaca was the top school in TEVE FROMMELL, S New York, edging out the State University of New York O BY

T College at Geneseo by 8.5 points, and led the Liberty

PHO League, beating its closest conference rival by 177 points. IC is just one of six Division III schools to finish within the top 30 every year, including Amherst College, Calvin GYMNAST EARNS College, Emory University, Middlebury College, and NATIONAL TITLE Williams College.

Courtney Christoforo ’21 won an individual title in the uneven bars at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Championship last spring with a score of 9.675. Christoforo is the eighth gymnast in school history to earn an individual title at the NCGA Championship and the third to win a title on the uneven bars, joining Lisa Gould ’85 and Sandy Picioccio ’87.

TWO LONG-TIME COACHES RETIRE ATHLETICS ANNOUNCES

At the end of last spring, two long-time coaches 50TH ANNIVERSARY HALL announced their retirements: baseball coach George Valesente ’66 and softball coach Deb Pallozzi, MS ’93. OF FAME CLASS “Coach Val” coached Bombers baseball for 41 years, bringing home two national championships. He was Ithaca College’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics named to the IC Athletic Hall of Fame in 1980 and the has officially announced the 50th Ithaca College Athletic American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in Hall of Fame class. Eight student–athletes and one team 2005. His son, David Valesente, was named the new head will be enshrined in the hall of fame in a ceremony baseball coach in August. on Friday, October 11, during Alumni Weekend: the Pallozzi coached the Bombers for 31 years, and her 1980 baseball team, Gary Bucci ’76 (baseball, football), team won the program’s first national championship Sean Burton ’09 (basketball), Robert Driscoll ’74 in 2002. She ranks ninth all-time among Division (administration, baseball, hockey), Abby Hanrahan ’03 III softball coaches for victories (with 864). She (softball), Meghan Morningstar ’06 (track and field, was inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches volleyball), Lindsay Hicks Reeves ’79 (administration, Association Hall of Fame in 2011 and to the IC Athletic gymnastics, swimming and diving), Jessica Welch Shea Hall of Fame in 2012. IC hall of famer Hannah Shalett ’03 (lacrosse), and Dan Sheehan ’95 (lacrosse, coaching). Quintana ’07 was named the new head softball coach You can read more about the inductees in the next in June. issue of ICView.

8 | 2019 • Fall Language Pathology andAudiology Susan Durnford, Clinical Associate Professor, Speech- Ron Denson, Assistant Professor, Writing Dan Briotta, Associate Professor, Physics andAstronomy Alan Cohen, Associate Professor, Graduate StudyinBusiness Greg Bostwick, Professor, Theatre Arts Marlene Barken, Associate Professor, Politics Pathology andAudiology Luanne Andersson, Associate Professor, Speech-Language academic year: The following retired faculty members the 2018–19 in geometric group theory, groups studying through their years the HRpositions in in Yale School of Medicine and Hartford, Connecticut, where of shehadbeen amember andSciences,Humanities began herposition on 1. July vice president of marketing andenrollment strategy. actions on topological metric spaces. She was dean of academic affairs atTrinity College in to that, sheserved progressively in responsible strategic the mathematics faculty since 1995. Sheisanexpert in the university’s central HRoperations. human resourceshuman roles atCornell andworked for eight director for Cornell University’s Research Division. Prior andorganizationalfor human development and Four the college joined administrators last summer. planning. Since 2017, Harris resources was the human On May 6, Hayley Harris became IC’s vice president On August 9, Koehler Laurie the college joined as Melanie Stein, the new dean of the School of COLLEGE NAMESNEW DEAN AND THREE NEW VPS

PHOTO SUBMITTED FACULTY RETIREMENTS

PHOTO BY SHANA SURECK Wendy Kobler, the college joined 3. on September Kobler Gordon Stout, Professor, Performance Studies Gary Sforzo, Professor, Exercise andSport Sciences Susan Rosenthal, Associate Professor, Management Pamela Pospisil, Instructor, Mathematics Chris Pogorzala ’82, Assistant Professor, Gerontology and Studies Elisabeth Nonas, Associate Professor, Media Arts, Sciences Steven Mauk, Professor, Performance Studies Kurt Komaromi, MS’03, Assistant Professor, Marketing Lynn Gitlow, Koehler came to IC from George Washington University S Cornell University, Miami University, andthe University where shewas senior vice provost for enrollment University Fort Wayne, and Wittenberg University. and the experience. student Prior to that, sheheld leadership rolesleadership enrollment in atBryn Mawr College, held the same title atKentucky State University in P Frankfort andhadpreviously held executive positions of Virginia. in advancementin atAlabama A&MUniversity, Purdue t h e o i The new vice president of institutional advancement, n t o , L s a a u b r o i e K

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SKIP MULLER LEAVES LASTING LEGACY AT ITHACA COLLEGE

BY DAVE MALEY

The legacy of Herman E. “Skip” Muller Jr. ’51 will long Empire State Housing Foundation, Metropolitan Opera be felt at Ithaca College. Muller—who passed away National Council, Leopold Stokowski Society, and on February 10 at the age of 90—provided over four National Endowment for the Arts. decades of service to the college, including eight years Skip’s mother, Florence Sidur Muller ’33, was an as chair of the IC Board of Trustees, during which he active alumna. His father, Herman E. Muller Sr., joined presided over a critical presidential transition. the Ithaca College Board of Trustees in 1950 and was Skip received his degree in business management elected as chair one year later. During a time when from the college in 1951 and went on to earn an MBA IC was struggling financially and on the verge of from Columbia University. He spent his professional bankruptcy, his guidance helped secure a strong future career in accounting and management consulting, for the college, and he led the board in the decision to working for prestigious firms including New York move the campus from downtown to South Hill. City’s Pannell Kerr Forster before becoming a private Herman and Florence were tragically killed in an financial consultant. He was active with a number automobile accident in 1965, but their mark on the of community and civic organizations, including the college and the campus lives on through the Muller

10 | 2019 • Fall Faculty Center, dedicated in 1969, and the Herman E. honorary doctor of letters degree. The degree citation and Florence S. Muller Memorial Chapel, dedicated noted, “You are an example to our graduating students in 1976. of all that is possible with an Ithaca College education. Skip continued the family connection by joining the Your life and service truly embody the values of the board of trustees in 1966, serving initially through 1982, Ithaca College mission to engage in a lifetime of at which time he was named an honorary trustee. He learning, dedicated to fostering intellectual growth, was reelected to active trusteeship in 1991 and chosen aesthetic appreciation, and character development.” as chair in 1993, a position he held until 2001. Upon Upon being named chair emeritus, a resolution retiring from the board in 2003, he was once again from the board stated, “During his tenure, Skip led named an honorary trustee, and in 2011 he was granted the institution with an unwavering hand through one the status of chair emeritus. of the most significant presidential transitions in the His own tenure on the board spanned many critical college’s history, oversaw the expansion of the college’s years of significant growth and change at his alma infrastructure, and championed an institutional mater. As chair, Skip successfully led the college through plan that strengthened the college into a strong and the transition from long-term president James J. nationally recognized, academically competitive, Whalen to the 1997 selection of Ithaca College’s seventh comprehensive institution in the field of and first woman president, Peggy R. Williams. higher education.” At Muller’s memorial service held at New York City’s Current board chair David Lissy ’87 pointed out Brick Presbyterian Church, that, even as an honorary Williams spoke of his trustee, Skip continued impact on both her and to regularly attend board the college. meetings up until a few Skip’s commitment to Ithaca College “I met Skip for the first years ago, when his health time 22 years ago—almost was evidenced both through his service prevented him from to the date—for the first and through his and Evie’s ongoing and traveling to the college. round of interviews for active yearly philanthropy. The Muller Acknowledging his service the presidency of Ithaca family has had a profound impact on to the college and his College. Skip gave me the this institution, and Skip embodied all lifelong career in business, opportunity of a lifetime, Lissy said that Skip’s real that was and is Ithaca College. and I will be forever passion was music. grateful,” said Williams. “For over 50 years, Skip — DAVID LISSY ’87 “Throughout that time and was a member of the Grove in the years thereafter, Skip Street Stompers Band, encouraged and supported playing his bass weekly on me in my role, nudged me Tuesday evenings until 1 where appropriate, and was clear a.m. at Arthur’s Tavern in Greenwich Village. In his late on the distinction between the role of the board and 80s, when he could no longer travel with his bass to the the CEO. He led with a firm, yet caring hand. Beneath village, he performed weekly at the noontime senior that sometimes gruff and impatient demeanor was citizens’ music program at the New York City Public a man who cared deeply about Ithaca College and all Library. Everyone who knew Skip knew that he was associated with it. I am fortunate to have had Skip in always happiest when he had his bass in his hand.” my life.” He is survived by his wife, Evelyn G. Muller, and his Skip’s leadership was marked by his deep desire to grandson, Grayson Muller Cowing. firmly root the board’s decision-making in delivering “Skip’s commitment to Ithaca College was evidenced a high-quality, transformative student experience. both through his service and through his and Evie’s He also believed strongly in an inclusive approach ongoing and active yearly philanthropy,” said Lissy. to developing trustees, always looking for ways to “The Muller family has had a profound impact on this leverage the skills and expertise of all board members institution, and Skip embodied all that was and is in contributing to the greater good of the institution. Ithaca College.” In 1998 he received the Ithaca College Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award for his outstanding contributions to the college, and at the 2004 Commencement ceremony he was awarded an

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On the eve of a historic Cortaca matchup at MetLife Stadium, alumni reflect on what the game means to them.

BY PATRICK BOHN ’05, MS ’07, AND KERRY C. REGAN

IF YOU’VE CHOSEN to read this article, there’s Jersey—after the National Football Foundation invited a good chance you already know something about the schools to play there in celebration of the 150th the Cortaca Jug. You know it’s the nickname given anniversary of college football. It’s there that the rivalry to Ithaca’s annual football game against the State will take on a collaborative twist: the Bombers and Red University of New York (SUNY) College at Cortland. Dragons will attempt to break the all-time Division III You might even have heard the origin story of the jug single-game attendance record of 37,355. itself—how in 1959 Ithaca captain Dick Carmean But this story isn’t about the upcoming game or ’60 and Cortland captain Tom Decker talked about attendance records. This story is about the Cortaca you creating a trophy prior to that year’s game, and Decker might not know about—the one that also takes place on subsequently picked up a stoneware jug at a yard sale in the sidelines, in the athletic training and locker rooms, Homer, New York. and spills over to the campuses and the towns. It’s a story This year, both the jug and the game are moving of strong family ties, shifting family allegiances, and the from their upstate New York home to a much bigger family-like connections that grow with a team and in a venue—MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New community when a game is more than just a game.

12 | 2019 • Fall “FAMILY” CIRCLES family, and that belief permeated the college during his tenure—which coincided with the height of the Cortaca You might think that for the players and coaches who rivalry. Similarly, the idea of family also resonated have bled Bomber blue in Cortaca games over the years, strongly with former head coach Jim Butterfield and his the strongest memories would be the on-the-field players, especially during Cortaca week. action—the big tackles, long runs, and crucial decisions “From James Whalen, to the trustees, the deans— that determine the Cortaca Jug’s mailing address for everyone was pulling for you that week,” said Mike the following 12 months. And you’d be half right. But Scott ’89, a running back on the Bombers’ 1988 national for those who took part in the championship team. “You games, those plays all added didn’t want to let the family up to something bigger: a down by losing Cortaca. sense of family that resonated “I remember that, heading among the players. ARCHIVES

into Cortaca week, our locker “During my freshman Y room manager ‘Cagey Dave’ year, we were down on [Dave Ankrum] and our field the goal line at the end of room manager ‘Bobcat’ [Bob the game, driving for the OLLEGE LIBRAR Hart] would remind me of winning touchdown,” said C how many yards I’d run for CA quarterback Josh Felicetti ’06. in Cortaca the year before,” “I tried to run it in and got Scott continued. “And I would tripped up at the two-yard THE ITHA be thinking that I didn’t even OF line, and we wound up not Y remember how many I’d run scoring and losing 16-12. I TES for. That’s how much the game think about that play OUR meant to them.” O C every day. T Players from both schools

“My junior year, we were PHO also realized that the Cortaca up by a point in the second Former head coach Jim Butterfield was result had a major impact not half, and I scored on a one- a strong believer in the Ithaca College only on their campus, but in yard run,” he continues. football family. their respective towns as well. “When I got to the sidelines As Scott said, “You did not [IC’s former head coach Mike Welch ’73] hugged me want to lose Cortaca and then go out to eat at the Pine and told me he loved me. I told him I loved him. It was a Tavern that night because you’d hear it from people.” really special moment.” Paul Parker ’90, Scott’s backfield running mate The familial nature of Cortaca wasn’t just confined in 1988, can attest to that—literally. That year, the to the players however. Former President James J. previously undefeated Bombers lost a heartbreaker to Whalen believed in the idea of the Ithaca College the similarly undefeated Red Dragons, 21-20. Parker’s

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1950S OCTOBER 9, 1965 1970S Coached by Dick Lyon, Ithaca OCTOBER 17, 1959 defeats Cortland, 13-12, for 100th SEPTEMBER 29, 1973 The first Cortaca Jug game is win in program history en route to Ithaca defeats Cortland, 41-33, in played on Ithaca’s South Hill Field. its only undefeated season. the first of nine straight victories The Red Dragons prevail, 13-7. for the Bombers and the longest OCTOBER 7, 1967 winning streak in Cortaca history. 1960S Jim Butterfield, a future College Football Hall of Fame coach, makes OCTOBER 29, 1960 his Cortaca debut as Ithaca falls to The Bombers win their first Cortland, 11-7. jug, 12-6.

ithaca.edu/icview | 13 mother and sister had traveled to see the game, and after CORTACA BLOODLINES returning to Ithaca from Cortland, they wanted to go out While many former players speak fondly of the family- for dinner. Instead of going with them, Parker decided to like atmosphere surrounding the jug, for some, taking head back to his room for the night, but he gave his family on the Red Dragons is part of their family tradition. members a tip before he did: “I told them, ‘You probably Bobby Garone ’15 doesn’t remember attending a want to eat somewhere outside of Ithaca,’” he laughed. Cortaca Jug game when he was just two years old, but his “I’m actually not sure where they ended up.” family sure does. “I was walking around with my parents, Decades later, former players returning for Cortaca and everyone was screaming the F-word,” he said. “So I still feel those family bonds. In some ways, it’s like time started screaming the F-word and running around.” has stopped. “I remember seeing One of those parents was Bob Coach Welch before a game one Garone ’87, an all-American center year,” Scott said. “He looked exactly for the Bombers who helped the same, and when we caught up, “ We sort of refer Ithaca go 4-0 in jug games when it was like we’d never been apart. to it now as the he was a member of the team. When I come back for a Cortaca ‘Bomber Brotherhood’ It’s no surprise Bob passed on to game, it’s family all over again.” Bobby and his brother Nick ’20 Marc Hudak ’90, an all-Ameri- and regardless of an appreciation of the rivalry— can center and captain on the 1988 when you played, we although he did not pressure either team, who also spent a year on are all connected of his sons to attend Ithaca. In Butterfield’s staff, knows first- fact, when deciding where to play hand how important the idea of the in this way.” college football, Bobby’s final two Ithaca College football family was —MARC HUDAK ’90 schools were Ithaca and Cortland. to the coach: “It was a core phi- When he was only offered a walk- losophy of his,” he said. “We sort on spot for the Red Dragons, he of refer to it now as the ‘Bomber chose Bomber blue. Brotherhood,’ and regardless of when you played, we Unfortunately for Bobby, his teams didn’t have the are all connected in this way. About 60 of us got togeth- same success his father’s did: they dropped all four er last year for the 30th anniversary of our 1998 nation- contests during his career as part of a seven-game al championship and it was great seeing everyone.” Cortland winning streak from 2010 to 2017. One of Hudak added that he expects the brotherhood to those games was a 27-3 loss in 2011, which happened to show up in force at MetLife stadium in November. “I be Nick’s first Cortaca game. am sure we will have several hundred former football “Once I saw my first Cortaca, I realized how big it is players show up for this year’s Cortaca game, and it will and how crazy the rivalry really is,” he said. “I couldn’t be great to see them,” he said. even hear myself think.”

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1980S Ithaca takes back the jug, defeating Cortland, 49-26. Current NOVEMBER 5, 1988 NOVEMBER 8, 1980 Cortland head coach Dan MacNeill Both teams sport 8-0 records and Running back Bob Ferrigno ’81 is on the Ithaca sidelines as a meet at Cortland’s Chugger Davis runs for 133 yards in a 21-7 Bomber Bomber assistant coach. Field in front of nearly 8,000 fans. win, finishing the regular season Coach Dennis Kayser ’74 and his with 1,307 yards and setting NOVEMBER 8, 1986 Red Dragons win the thriller, 21- a single-season record that In a 40-12 Ithaca rout, George Mack 20. (Later the Bombers and Red still stands. ’87 catches a school-record four Dragons meet for first and only touchdown passes. time in the NCAA playoffs, and NOVEMBER 5, 1983 Ithaca wins, 24-17.) In a game televised by ABC,

14 | 2019 • Fall And although Nick didn’t get to see older brother “I realized that the best way to get thrown out of Bobby claim the jug, those games clearly had a positive the family would have been to attend Cortland,” Keith impact. When it came time to pick a college, there was said. “My uncle was all about beating Cortland. Playing really only one choice: “My brother played here, my football for them was outside of his realm sister and my dad went here, and I’d been coming [to of consciousness.” games] since 2011,” Nick said. “I felt comfortable here.” Keith made his uncle happy, choosing to become a The third Garone family member to take part in the safety for the Bombers. Tom would take Kevin and his Cortaca Jug, Nick is a captain for this year’s squad. He’s brother, Mark, to Keith’s games to watch their cousin. also moved the family During those visits, he would win-loss record back to often tell his sons matter-of- the positive side, as the factly: “This is where you will go Bombers have gone 2-1 to college.” ARCHIVES during his first three years. Y Mark wound up eschewing That’s a source of pride that edict and attending Holy for his older brother. “One Cross, where he played football of my regrets is that we for four years. But it was Kevin OLLEGE LIBRAR never beat Cortland,” Bobby C who truly danced with the said. “So it’s really been CA devil—or Dragon. An offensive rewarding to see [Nick] lineman, he was recruited beat them a few times.” THE ITHA by Cortland. In fact, Kevin’s OF This year marks the Y recruiting visit to Cortland was 12th time that a member of TES during the 2004 Cortaca Jug the Garone family will play OUR game, meaning not only was he O C in a Cortaca Jug game. And T on the opposing sideline during it’s the eighth and final PHO the game but his father, Tom, sat time Bob will see one of in the Cortland stands as well— his sons take part. “To have Since the early ’90s, crowds of more than for a while anyway. my two boys play in the 10,000 are common in Cortaca games held “At halftime, he went to the in Ithaca. Cortaca game—watching Ithaca side and sat with his them play in a game I friends,” Kevin said. “I can only played in—that’s something special to me,” Bob said. imagine how painful [sitting on the Cortland side] must The Cortaca rivalry is also special to the Heinzelman have been for him, but he was incredibly supportive.” family, which counts three Cortaca participants among Thankfully for the Heinzelman clan, Kevin saw their ranks: Tom ’75, his son Kevin ’10, and his nephew a 47-22 Bomber victory that day and, when Kevin Keith ’95. And according to Keith, the consequences of picking the wrong side would have been dire. (continued on page 18)

1990S record when 10,903 fans show up NOVEMBER 5, 1994 to watch Ithaca defeat Cortland, 23- First-year Ithaca head coach Mike NOVEMBER 3, 1990 14. It’s the first Ithaca game to draw Welch ’73 wins his Cortaca debut, Graduate assistant coach for the more than 10,000 fans. 15-13. Welch goes on to win nine Bombers in 1983 and 1984, Dave Cortaca games during his career. Murray coaches his Cortaca debut NOVEMBER 6, 1993 for the Red Dragons. The Bombers Butterfield leads the Bombers to NOVEMBER 8, 1997 win, 28-14. a 32-14 win over Cortland for the The Red Dragons win their first 209th and final victory of his career game at Butterfield Stadium NOVEMBER 9, 1991 in his final home game. since 1967, defeating the A revitalized jug rivalry breaks Bombers, 33-28. Ithaca’s single-game attendance

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(Top left) Jim Butterfield being carried off the field after the 1973 Cortaca Jug win. (Top right) Cortaca creators Tom Decker and Dick Carmean ’60 at the 2008 game. (Middle left) IC’s cheerleaders at the 2013 matchup. (Middle right) A Bomber player making a leaping grab in the 1967 game. (Bottom left) Dennis Kayser ’74 working with Cortland’s quarterback in practice. (Bottom right) Nick Garone ’20 in action during the 2018 matchup.

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(Top left) Members of Ithaca College’s dance team performing at halftime in 2017. (Top right) The captains and coaches for IC and Cortland at MetLife Stadium for a sneak peek. (Middle left) Isaiah D’Haiti ’20 in action during the 2017 matchup. (Middle right) The weather playing a part in the 1998 game. (Bottom left) Kevin Heinzelman ‘09 and his father, Tom ‘75, with their jug wins for the Bombers. (Bottom right) Emeritus professor of exercise and sport sciences Kent Scriber ‘72 and Marie Dardano ‘15 working with an athlete.

ithaca.edu/icview | 17 made his visit to Ithaca, something clicked. He decided so many games with my brother, I didn’t need to.” to continue the family tradition of being a Bomber Matt’s decision to go to IC worked out well for the and help them retain the Cortaca Jug. Bombers, who got another all-American, this time at “Something just felt right,” he said. “I felt at home linebacker. For the younger Scalice, winning the Cortaca there. There’s something about Ithaca and South Hill Jug was one of the highlights of a standout career. “You and Butterfield Stadium that I wanted to work my tail get total support from the whole campus community,” off to be a part of.” he said. “As a player you’re supposed to look at it just like Being a part of all that naturally means getting to any week, but you could tell there’s something special compete for the jug. As Joe Scalice ’06 recalls about about winning that game.” visiting South Hill as a recruit, that can make all the OUTSIDE THE LINES difference. “[The coaches] Cortaca Jug games aren’t just had the Cortaca Jug out, and the domain of the players they talked about it—the last and coaches. Anybody who game of the year, the biggest has been to a football game— little rivalry in the country especially a Cortaca Jug with 12,000 people at the game—knows that countless game,” he said. “It was like, other people are involved. ‘Wow, Division III played in And for them, the Cortaca front of that many people. memories are just The storied tradition going as indelible. on that long.’ It was fantastic. Lynn Bacon Steenberg ’78 That’s something I wanted to was the first female athletic be part of.” trainer to work with the Joe wound up a first-team

O SUBMITTED football team. Steenberg was all-American performer T a physical therapy major—the on the offensive line and PHO athletic training program was was part of the dominating Fans cheer on the Bombers during the not accredited at the time— Cortaca win Kevin 2017 game. and a multisport athlete in Heinzelman saw in 2004. Also high school who was naturally in attendance at that game? Joe’s younger brother, drawn to working in athletics, football in particular. Matt Scalice ’09, who, along with the rest of Scalice clan, But at the time, the staff in football locker rooms was went to all of Joe’s games. Those contests left such an dominated by men. impact on Matt that when it came time to choose where “Kent Scriber ’72, [former head athletic trainer and to go to college—and play football—the choice was athletic training program director], introduced me to the obvious. “I didn’t even do a tour,” Matt said. “I’d been to

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2000S NOVEMBER 10, 2001 completions. Running back Jamie A Cortaca-record 12,620 fans Donovan ’07 sets a Cortaca record NOVEMBER 11, 2000 converge on Butterfield Stadium with 203 rushing yards. In the final game at Cortland’s to see the Bombers defeat the Red Chugger Davis Field, the Bombers Dragons, 21-14, clinching Ithaca’s NOVEMBER 12, 2005 top the Red Dragons, 27-20, first playoff berth since 1994. The first overtime game in Cortaca behind a school-record 39 carries history ends with the Red Dragons from running back Tommy NOVEMBER 13, 2004 prevailing, 37-30. Felicetti throws Giorgio ‘01. In a 47-22 Ithaca rout, quarterback for a Cortaca-record 373 yards. Josh Felicetti ’06 raises his career totals to 5,380 yards and 418

18 | 2019 • Fall program,” she said. “And Coach Butterfield was extremely Keeping players focused is always a challenge when supportive of women working with men’s sports. If it it comes to athletes who may be out of the action due wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t have been able to do it.” to injury. But it was even more challenging during Steenberg worked with the football team during Cortaca. “We had to be extra vigilant,” Trowbridge said. the 1976 season, which was one of the three years her “The players were much more pumped up, and the boyfriend (and later husband), Matt Steenberg ’77, MS extra adrenaline could mask pain and make it harder ’78, was on the squad. “I’d been to Cortaca before, but for them to recognize fatigue. We also had to be on I realized pretty quickly that I preferred being on the the lookout for players downplaying a possible injury sidelines to being in the stands,” she said. “There was because no one wanted to miss Cortaca.” more energy and excitement in the air.” As if that wasn’t difficult enough, with so many fans Cindy Trowbridge agrees. Currently an associate in attendance, athletic trainers were plying their trade professor in the athletic training program at the in cramped quarters. “I remember University of Texas, she served my first game at Cortland,” as an athletic trainer for Ithaca Trowbridge said. “Their stadium football from 1994 to 2001. “I at the time didn’t have a natural went to the University of Colorado “ Coach Butterfield was barrier between the stands and the during a period where they won extremely supportive sidelines, and the fans were right a national championship in of women working on top of us. A fan could tap me on football,” she said. “And, although the head if they wanted to.” I’d been told about Cortaca, I with men’s sports. If Trying to do your job in front never thought I’d experience it wasn’t for them, I of more than 10,000 fans is a something with the intensity of daunting task. And the pressure the Colorado–Nebraska rivalry. wouldn’t have been didn’t end when the players, But I remember looking around at able to do it.” coaches, and staff retreated to my first jug game, and I thought, the locker rooms at halftime. In ‘It really is that serious.’” —LYNN BACON STEENBERG ’78 fact, for members of the college’s The palpable feeling of cheerleading and dance teams, excitement hits everyone involved that’s the time when everything with the game. “I remember being on edge and hyped ramps up. Even though they’d been working and up when I was working during Cortaca,” said Sarah perfecting their routines for months, this performance Piebes ’06, who was an athletic training major. “After was different from any other. all, I was still a student, and I’d been working with these “[Cortaca] is so much more overwhelming than the guys since August. But I had to remind myself that I typical home game, and there is a lot more pressure on couldn’t participate. I had to be a professional, which the cheerleaders to perform,” said Alyssa Orlando ’14. meant controlling my emotions and helping the players “But because there are so many happy people cheering I was working on stay focused as well.” you on, you can’t help but enjoy it.”

NOVEMBER 10, 2007 and Bob Gneo ’85 as the only NOVEMBER 11, 2017 Donovan scores a trio of rushing Bombers with three interceptions In Ithaca head coach Dan touchdowns to break Ithaca’s all- in a jug game. Swanstrom’s Cortaca debut, time record of 44. He would finish freshman quarterback Wahid Nabi his career with 46. 2010S ’21 sets a school record with six touchdown passes. The Bombers NOVEMBER 12, 2011 NOVEMBER 15, 2008 snap a seven-year Cortaca losing Kicker Andrew Rogowski ’12 Cornerback Jason Chier ’09 streak with a 48-20 victory. intercepts a record-tying three sets a school record with his 13th passes as the Bombers upset field goal of the season in 27-3 NOVEMBER 16, 2019 previously unbeaten Cortland, 35- Cortland win. Ithaca and Cortland play the 13. Chier joins Kevin Farrell ’86 Cortaca Jug at MetLife Stadium.

ithaca.edu/icview | 19 In fact, for some half-time performers, the extra fans But Kayser, who has called Butterfield one of his mean extra energy. mentors, quickly turned around the Red Dragon “Cortaca is one of the times you can really feel the program, instilling a culture of discipline and school spirit coming from so many students at once, all accountability. Wins followed, and by 1988, Cortland was directing their energy and attention towards one thing,” one of the top teams in the country—along with Ithaca. said Avalon Singer ’18, who was a member of Pulse, the That November, the two teams met at Cortland’s college’s hip-hop dance team. “Being on the receiving Carl A. “Chugger” Davis Field for what was really the end of all of that during the biggest football game of first iteration of the Cortaca Jug as we know it today. the year was a special moment. Dancing during the Contrary to the games of the past, Welch, who at that half-time show took months of preparation, learning time was an assistant coach, remembers the atmosphere choreography and practice. I would say that for many that day as frenzied. of us, myself included, Cortaca was an event we looked “We were playing in front of 8,000 fans,” he said. forward to.” “The only thing holding them back was a snow fence. It was so loud I couldn’t get the players’ attention to get THE PAYOFF FOR SWITCHING SIDES the game started.” That day, Kayser’s team was victorious over his alma The passion with which so many members of the Ithaca mater 21-20 (though the Bombers would get revenge in College community approach the the NCAA playoffs). By switching Cortaca Jug might make the idea sides in the rivalry, an Ithaca of crossing to the Cortland side College alumnus had not only unfathomable. But over the long “ Cortaca is one of the given Cortland the biggest win in history of competition between the times you can really school history, but he had, in the two schools, several individuals words of Welch, “turned the game have sported both Ithaca blue and feel the school spirit into a national phenomenon.” Cortland red. coming from so many The game continued to grow Current Red Dragons head students at once, in prominence and size in the coach, Dan MacNeill, a Cortland following years. In a preseason alumnus, served as an assistant all directing their article in 1991, Sports Illustrated coach on Jim Butterfield’s staff energy and attention writer John Walters wrote: “The for two years in the ’80s, and biggest little game in the country Larry Czarnecki ’76, a former towards one thing.” could turn out to be Ithaca versus all-American and assistant coach SUNY Cortland by the shores of — AVALON SINGER ’18 for the Bombers, also served as Cayuga Lake on Nov. 9.” He was Cortland’s head coach from 1983 to prescient. Cortland came into the 1985 and then later as a long-time game the top-ranked team in the assistant coach. East region, but the Bombers prevailed 23-14 in front of But of all the IC-Cortland crossovers, there’s one you a then-school-record crowd of 10,903, en route to their need to know about if you want to understand why the third national championship. 2019 game is going to be played in an NFL stadium in Crowds of more than 10,000 fans then became front of 30,000 to 40,000 fans: Dennis Kayser ’74 played commonplace, and for alumni not fortunate enough to for Jim Butterfield and even remembers holding the jug make it back to South Hill for the game, viewing parties aloft at South Hill field after the Bombers won 41-33 in began popping up in New York City, Washington, D.C., 1973. But it wasn’t until he switched sides and became and Los Angeles, where typical noon Eastern Standard Cortland’s head coach in 1986 that he became arguably Time kickoffs meant the “Cortacal” festivities began in the most critical figure in the evolution of the rivalry. the early morning hours. Although Butterfield turned Ithaca into a national But even time zone changes haven’t been enough to power by the mid-1970s, Cortland’s program did not slow the growth of the Cortaca Jug reputation. So now, follow suit, which left the jug game lacking something. 33 years after Kayser switched allegiances and gave the Crowds at Cortaca were solid, though other Ithaca home jug a jump-start, the two programs will set out to make games drew more fans. And not only did Ithaca win Division III history. almost every year, but the scores were often lopsided “Cortaca was always intense,” said running back Bob as well, with 30- and 40-point Bomber victories Ferrigno ’81. “And moving the game to MetLife is going not uncommon. to make it even more so.”

20 | 2019 • Fall A FAMILY AFFAIR If you were asked to describe a Cortaca Jug have a few words with Jim Butterfield, before his game to a total stranger, you’d probably have former coach, who never forgot a member of the a specific image in your mind: getting up early Bomber family, would ask him, “How’s my Lynn?” to tailgate with your friends before heading A little more than a decade passes and you’re to Butterfield Stadium and trying to beat the back on the sidelines watching Matt, now in crowd to a good spot. You’d probably be clad his second stint as a Red Dragon assistant, still in Bomber blue, looking down (literally) on the seeking out Jim Butterfield before the game for a players beneath you, perhaps letting your eyes hug and a quick word as Butterfield, now retired, wander from time to time to the view of Cayuga still inquires about his Lynn. But out of the corner Lake stretching out in front of you. of your eye, you might catch a glimpse of Matt’s But if you could hop into a time machine son, Ryan ’05, zooming around as the Cortland to follow members of the Steenberg family ball boy, getting yelled at by good-natured fans throughout their four decades of being involved intent on a little razzing. with the Cortaca Jug, you’d get a much more Before long, Ryan’s old enough to go to complete picture of everything the game college, and—what do you know—he’s playing embodies from both sides of the field. for the Bombers, first as a quarterback and then The early views Lynn Bacon Steenberg ’78 as a linebacker, where Lynn can watch him from had might mimic your own, as she cheered on the familiar home bleachers, next to Matt, who the Bombers—and her future is no longer coaching for husband, Matt Steenberg Cortland. If you watched ’77, MS ‘78—from the Ryan in a jug game, you bleachers before moving would see that he never down to the sidelines for “ It’s a family affair. stops giving maximum her junior year, breaking Part of our hearts effort, which is the reason barriers and setting the he earned the Whistleman stage for Sarah Piebes ’06 are on both sides.” Award, just like his father, for and countless other female his continued effort until the athletic training students to —LYNN BACON STEENBERG ’78 whistle blows. follow in her footsteps. After Ryan graduates Matt might still be fired though, the Steenberg up from the night before, when the seniors would clan once more turns their backs to the lake, as speak to the rest of team about the importance of Matt returns to the Cortland sideline for a third the Cortaca Jug before ripping off their shirts to time, first as an assistant coach, and now as a staff fire up the squad. Then he’d be in action, first as member who works with the players on developing a tight end and then as a wide receiver, running mentorship and leadership skills. By this point, he routes and helping the Bombers to a perfect jokes, his family’s been involved with the jug “in record in jug games when he was a player, extra every way except cutting the grass before motivated on this day because Cortland didn’t the game.” recruit him. But there’s one common theme in all those Flash forward to 1984, and suddenly, you’re changes, over all those decades, over the lake not looking out at Cayuga Lake anymore. disappearing and reappearing from view as they You’re on the visitor side of the field, looking were drawn from one side of the stadium to the at Butterfield Stadium’s iconic rock wall as you other. For the Steenbergs, like so many before watch Matt, now clad in Cortland red as an them, the Cortaca Jug is more than a game. “It’s assistant coach for the Red Dragons, walk out a family affair,” Lynn said. “Part of our hearts are onto the field before the game to embrace and on both sides.”

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DON’T WAIT OS SUBMITTED TO GRADUATE T PHO BY KELLI B. AN ‘04

SHOOTING VIDEO FOR NEW YORK FASHION WEEK OR TAKING OVER “ I’ve just been super Instagram’s official account to cover the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., would be bucket-list achievements for most media professionals. For student fortunate in that way, entrepreneurs in Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications, however, that I knew what I it’s business as usual—even if they are writing term papers en route to an event or blocking out time between classes to remotely attend a client meeting. wanted to do, and “I feel like I’ve had a significantly different experience than other people,” I’ve had the chance said Casey Schoch ’19, who is one year into a five-year contract with Amazon to stream her short film, Dead Weight, which she created as a sophomore at IC. “I’ve to meet all these just been super fortunate in that way, that I knew what I wanted to do, and I’ve had incredible people the chance to meet all these incredible people who have helped me move forward with my career.” who have helped By taking advantage of the hands-on training, mentorship, and alumni network afforded by Ithaca College, Schoch and other students have been able me move forward to take their careers to the next level. Rather than putting their dreams on hold with my career.” until after graduation, they have been building their media livelihoods while earning their degrees. —CASEY SCHOCH ’19

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Malick Mercier: The Journalist

Out of the blue in March 2018, Malick Mercier ’21 heard The Instagram pitch may have come as a surprise, from a producer at Instagram. She got right to the point, but Mercier has been building a professional portfolio he recalls: “How would you like to be the host for our and reel since high school, when the self-professed March for Our Lives coverage?” aviation geek began freelancing for aviation news site Just a few days later, Mercier [@classymalick on AirlineGeeks.com and interning with public access Instagram] was in Washington, D.C. He shared his Manhattan Neighborhood Network. experiences at the demonstration against gun violence Ithaca College, he said, offered the chance to build with Instagram’s followers—which at the time numbered on those skills from day one—and a full-ride scholarship more than 230 million. through the Park Scholar Program. “Just seeing that “I was lifted high into the sky via a scissor lift above other schools wouldn’t let you get hands-on experience, the crowd that I now know was hundreds of thousands of especially your first year, was just really annoying,” he people,” Mercier said in interviews with the college right said. “I think a lot of us are already figuring out ways to after the march. “I was truly moved at that sight—all those tell stories, whether it be on social media or on other people coming out to fight for something they believed platforms, in high school.” in, and it was organized by students! I could feel the Mercier scaled back his projects temporarily while on energy, which strengthened me and my work.” leave from the college to recover from a car accident. But That led to a wave of other opportunities. Media he sees that break as a way to find his focus and hone in company Mic asked Mercier to host its Instagram on his goals amid the opportunities coming his way. coverage of the first stop on the March for Our Lives “I’ve been approached by all these different brands Road to Change tour. Teen Vogue and shoe brand TOMS and news organizations,” he said. “I’m figuring out, who cast him in a video urging young adults to vote—and then do I actually feel I’m more like? Realizing where your came JetBlue, Converse, CNN, DoSomething.org, and values are and what you align with more is a cool thing the list goes on. that I’ve been able to do,” said Mercier.

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Kristin Butler: The Marketer

An open spot in her high school schedule proved meetings and working on projects. “It was really exciting serendipitous for Kristin Butler ’20. Butler’s mother to see that I was able to really make a difference within suggested she take a marketing class to learn how to the startup culture,” she said. “You can feel insignificant better market herself for job opportunities. “I ended in large corporate environments, and I didn’t feel that at up doing really well in it, and actually loving it, and all here.” understanding all the strategies and the ideologies that “I feel like I know a lot, and I should know a lot come with it,” she said. “It really inspired me to want to because there was no department of marketing there do something with marketing.” when I started,” Butler said. “It was just a startup with five With that new career path in mind—and two people, and I was the one involved in all this marketing. parents who graduated from the Park School as TV-R It really let me see that I’m far more capable of doing majors—Ithaca was the first place Butler looked for a things than I even dreamed of.” marketing program. The college’s integrated marketing Now a senior, Butler has shifted her focus. “I really communications degree seemed like a perfect fit. want to be in an advertising agency and be a part of The summer after Butler’s freshman year, she had an that,” she said. internship with Boston-based startup Armored Things, She’s still freelancing for Armored Things but has which quickly escalated into bigger opportunities. The also taken on other clients—including a photography- company uses technology to create safety solutions for videography company that uses drones. “I’ve been large venues. helping them understand how to position their brand,” “The first week I was actually promoted,” Butler she said, “as well as determine how to target an audience said. “I was able to work on social media for them and using social media. I’ve been able to challenge myself help them network with clients, and so that was a really and accomplish things that I had never even realized that great experience.” I would attempt to accomplish,” Butler said. She continued working for Armored Things through her sophomore year at Ithaca, remotely attending

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Jake Lattimore: The Videographer

Launching a YouTube channel at the ripe old age of as photographer-videographer Mike Holland ’16, who 10 provided Jake Lattimore ’21 with his first foray into worked on the Everybody’s Tour for the rapper, singer, media. By his freshman year of high school, he was songwriter Logic. “He’s doing something that, honestly, shooting and editing videos for his Instagram my dream would be to do,” Lattimore said. (@jakelattimore4)—and hatching a business idea. “What was best for me was going to a school that will “I realized that there were a lot of fields where the set my future up,” he said. “That’s why I chose Ithaca.” advertisements and videos made for them were very Once at the college, Lattimore quickly took advantage boring,” he said. “I thought that I could just put a good of the IC Drone Workshop, which gives students access spin on them and make them exciting.” JL Media was to the fleet for projects after they take a licensing course. born before Lattimore’s sophomore year of high school. “It’s almost given me the open road to go and do what I It was around that same time that Lattimore got his want to do,” said Lattimore, and added: “I’m working with first drone, seeing it as an investment in a tool that a lot of equipment now that I’ve only dreamed of.” video producers weren’t yet taking advantage of. “I used As his skills grow, so has his roster of projects. it to make my videos different and to separate myself Lattimore has taken on diverse clients, shooting video for from others,” he said. big events and organizations including New York Fashion Clients hiring Lattimore based on his work portfolio Week, Rochester Jazz Festival, and Save a Child’s Heart, as were often surprised to discover he was so young. “I was well as local restaurants, gyms, and real estate agencies. going to business meetings, and my mom would drop He sees the semester as a training ground to prepare me off,” he said. “I walk into the meeting with a mouth full for breaks where he’ll focus on his own work. “It gives me of braces and a button-down [shirt], and they’re like, ‘Oh, the time to hone my craft, to learn new things and how to you’re Jake.’” be better,” he said. When Lattimore looked toward college, he kept spotting Ithaca connections in artists he admired—such

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Casey Schoch: The Filmmaker

When film festival acceptances started rolling in for “I was super fortunate to know exactly what I wanted Casey Schoch ’19 and her short filmDead Weight, her to do when I came in freshman year,” Schoch said. bosses at film distributor Digital Media Rights took “Because of that, I was able to hit the ground running. notice. They helped Schoch—who was there for a summer When it came time to film, I knew exactly what I had internship—broker a deal with Amazon to stream to do.” Dead Weight. With that first film under her belt, Schoch has since But before she signed the contract, Schoch knew made a historical re-creation for a class, focusing on the she should get professional advice. She decided to seek last day of novelist Virginia Woolf’s life. And last spring guidance from faculty members Phil Blackman in the she finished her senior thesis film—a comedy that follows School of Business and Jack Powers in the Park School. a couple who stage a fight to trick a restaurant into giving Blackman and Schoch went through the contract them free food. line by line, with Blackman providing an explanation for Then there are her passion projects in progress. The the key terms and what they meant for the film. Powers first is a spoken-word piece called “Last Entry,” about focused on the financial aspect and the image of the film a girl who’s dealing with depression. The second is a to make sure the deal was fair. psychological thriller she originally conceived as a short Fast forward one year into the five-year contract, in high school that she’s turning into a feature film. As a and she’s starting to make a profit from users watching. freshman, Schoch pitched the project to Dan Heffner ’78, “That’s unheard of for a student film,” Schoch said. executive producer of the Saw movie franchise, when he At Ithaca, Schoch got involved right away with IC’s visited for a Pitch It to Produce It event. He liked it, she media incubator, The Studio. “Not only did I pitch my said, and recommended a few changes. own ideas for The Studio, but I was also able to work on “I feel like every single thing that’s happened with other people’s scripts and give critiques,” she said. this process has definitely been just super helpful in Dead Weight came to life during the spring semester understanding where to even go after graduating, and of Schoch’s sophomore year. The idea for the film, about what you can do with the work that you do have,” a heist gone wrong, came from a short poem she’d Schoch said. written for a creative writing class. Schoch also directed, executive produced, and edited the film.

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TIPS TO SUCCEED Building a business as a full-time student is no easy feat. Here, the students share what’s helped them excel:

1 Get organized. Butler keeps a detailed schedule, allocating “ It’s okay to focus time for her class and work commitments, as well as personal time. on yourself before That lets her easily determine how much time she can devote if a client has a sudden need or a short deadline—and when she has to say no. you take on other “It’s okay to focus on yourself before you take on other responsibilities,” responsibilities.” she said. —KRISTIN BUTLER ’20 2 Maintain your network. Getting work can often hinge on your connections, Lattimore said. “It’s all about what people can say about you—if they like your work and how hard you work,” he said. “So, making sure that I show people that I’ve only continued to get better and grow is something that I really try my best to do.” “ Had I not had a reel... I would have been 3 Build a presence. Mercier credits his Instagram opportunity in part to having a professional, approachable presence online. “Had I passed by.” not had a reel, and had I not had a blog, and had I not had all this stuff for them to vet me by, I would have been passed by,” he said. —MALICK MERCIER ‘21

4 Enlist help. After doing almost every role for Dead Weight, Schoch said she learned to outsource different project roles to people she can trust—and can help teach others on the crew. “That way, in the future, I can rely on them for bigger roles and bigger things,” she said. “ [Being young] doesn’t mean that you have 5 Set a fair price. The students agree that their entrepreneurial endeavors have taught them a lot about setting a fair price for their to charge a very work—and not accepting lowball offers or requests for free work. Being minimum price.” young, Lattimore pointed out, “doesn’t mean that you have to charge a very minimum price.” —JAKE LATTIMORE ’21

ithaca.edu/icview | 27 REMEMBERING Karel Husa AND HIS MASTERPIECE, Music for Prague 1968

BY SHERRIE NEGREA ARCHIVES OLLEGE C CA THE ITHA OF Y TES OUR O C T PHO KAREL HUSA WAS RELAXING AT HIS SUMMER “I thought, wouldn’t it be great if we had a concert for cottage on Cayuga Lake on August 20, 1968, when he the anniversary of Music for Prague and after that piece, turned on his transistor radio and heard some alarming we have a brand-new piece that is going to be significant news: the Warsaw-Pact troops had just invaded his enough that it’s going to be celebrated 50 years from native Czechoslovakia, and thousands of troops and now,” said Hughes, who directed the concert along with tanks were rolling into Prague. Benjamin Rochford, associate conductor of bands. As a composer, Husa responded the way he knew best—through music. He had just received a FROM PRAGUE TO ITHACA commission to write a piece for the concert band at It was a fluke of history that Husa, who won the Ithaca College, where he had been appointed a lecturer Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1969 with his String Quartet of composition the year before. Distraught by what was No. 3, even became a composer. After growing up in happening in his home country, Husa spent the next six Prague, he decided to study engineering but was forced weeks composing what would become his best-known to abandon his plans when Hitler’s troops occupied work—Music for Prague 1968. Czechoslovakia in 1939 and closed all the technical After an initial performance on campus, the Ithaca schools. Husa, who had played violin and piano as a College Concert Band premiered the four-movement child, enrolled in the Prague Conservatory, earned a piece at the Music Educators National Conference, doctorate in composition from the Prague Academy of Eastern Division, in Washington, D.C., on January 31, Music, and then moved to Paris to study conducting 1969. Within months, bands on college campuses with Eugene Bigot and Andre Cluytens. across the country were playing it, and over the next In 1954, Husa arrived in Ithaca after having been 50 years, Music for Prague 1968 would appear on concert invited to Cornell for a position as instructor of music programs more than 10,000 times. theory. He joined the faculty at IC as a lecturer in “It was like an earthquake because what I heard and composition in 1967. what people heard was something that they had never Dana Wilson, IC’s retired Charles A. Dana Professor heard in band music,” said Frank Battisti, ’53, MS ’64, of Music, recalled that Husa brought a European touch a friend of Husa’s who became the director of the New to the School of Music. “Karel was always dressed England Conservatory Wind Ensemble. “It changed the rather formally—always in a jacket and tie—and evolution of band and wind ensemble music from that was very gracious to everyone,” said Wilson, who point on.” was on the faculty with Husa in the mid-1980s. “But In honor of the 50th anniversary of its premiere, the beneath the genteel and polite exterior was a person Ithaca College Wind Ensemble performed the roughly of great depth and intensity. This was conveyed in this 23-minute piece at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in important work but also in most of his music.” New York City on April 27. Hoping to inspire another A year after Husa began teaching at IC, Kenneth groundbreaking composition, Chris Hughes, director Snapp, conductor of the concert band, commissioned of bands at IC, commissioned Carter Pann, a composer him to write a piece for the ensemble. The at the forefront of wind ensemble music, to write a new composition would become his second work for band; work, which he named Labyrinth, for the concert. his first was a concerto for saxophone commissioned ARD V TEIN/HAR OGRAPHY T TEVE HOCKS S O BY T TUDIO PHO PHO S The Ithaca College Wind Ensemble performed at Lincoln Center last April. Their performance was supported by a gift from Fred Laub ’71 to the Beverly Baker ‘54 School of Music Travel Fund.

ithaca.edu/icview | 29 in 1960 by Battisti when he was the band director at parts of it—you could almost feel the tanks in the Ithaca High School. invasion,” said Don Riale ’69, a trumpet player who “Basically, I had never written for a wind group performed in the world premiere. “It was a very because no one had asked me to,” Husa said in an powerful piece.” interview with the Band Director Media Group shortly The band members who rehearsed the piece with before his death in 2016. “I had always admired wind Husa quickly realized that Music for Prague 1968 was not music, but as a violinist I was initially drawn more to another John Philip Sousa march. Many were aware of the orchestral sound.” the invasion and why Husa was deeply affected by it. Within months of receiving the commission, Husa “He was just emotionally torn by what had learned that the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact countries had happened in Prague, and he was a very sensitive man,” invaded Czechoslovakia. The attack successfully halted said Gary Rockwell ’69, the principal percussionist the liberalization reforms known as the Prague Spring, of the band at the time. “And we were in the ’60s and which had been launched by Alexander Dubcek, the all the Vietnam stuff was going on, too. It was like secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia. someone had thrown a hand grenade in the middle of “Husa was appalled by what our college education.” he saw was going on in his native At rehearsals, which began country,” said Mark Radice, a “ It’s a piece in October 1968, Husa would professor of music theory, history, experiment with the score, asking and composition at IC and author that addresses a the band members to test out his of Karel Husa: A Composer’s Life in ideas. The students would then Essays and Documents. “He saw the universal longing pencil in the revisions in their music. commission from Ithaca College as “Husa was making changes as we a perfect opportunity to make for freedom, and went along,” Riale said. “He would a statement.” add different sounds and textures Husa’s siblings were living that resonates that he was going for. If something in Czechoslovakia when 250,000 didn’t quite come off the way he troops invaded Prague, killing 137 with any person wanted, he would change it.” civilians and seriously wounding Woven through the piece 500 people. When Czechoslovakia in any land.” was a 15th-century song of the became a Communist country in Hussites—a pre-Protestant Christian 1948, Husa’s music was banned —MARK RADICE movement that originated in there, and he was not able to return Bohemia—called “Ye Warriors of to attend his own mother’s funeral. God and His Law.” Husa wrote that “I couldn’t believe these two friends, the Soviet the song has been “a symbol of resistance and hope Union and Czechoslovakia, would attack each other,” for hundreds of years, whenever fate lay heavy on the Husa said an interview with Cary Magazine after retiring Czech nation.” to North Carolina. “I remember the 1939 occupation What was its most experimental scoring technique, by Hitler when I was 18. I knew what freedom was and however, was the third movement, written exclusively why people fight for that.” for percussion. Husa divided the percussion players into three groups and assigned each to a different A MUSICAL EXPERIMENT station on the stage. While composing Music for Prague 1968, Husa used “This is Husa’s earliest score to explore the a range of sounds to reflect what he had heard possibility of spatial music,” Radice said. “So, not only over the radio on those two days in August: the do we have an organization of the pitches and rhythms, piccolo solo opening the piece mimicked a bird call, but the place where the sound emanates is part of the symbolizing freedom. Clanging bells referred to musical scheme.” Prague’s designation as “the city of a hundred towers,” representing calls of distress and victory. THE ROAD TO WASHINGTON The snare drum signified the troops marching in, After its unofficial premiere in Ford Auditorium on and the trombone’s glissando recalled the military December 13, 1968, a music review in The Ithaca Journal airplanes landing. called the piece a major work that expressed a quest “You could tell with the drums and the military for freedom. “One left after this last work with a strong

30 | 2019 • Fall feeling that music as great as this should not be written At the same time, the piece began attracting about: one should only listen, and be deeply moved,” attention in Europe, and Husa was invited to conduct the reviewer wrote. it in France. But because concert bands were not as Six weeks later, the band embarked on a tour that common in Europe, Husa wrote a new version of began with a concert at Rahway High School in Rahway, the work for orchestra. His decision to transcribe it New Jersey, a blue-collar, working-class town. The next led many American orchestras, including the Boston stop was a concert at the Elkton Senior High School Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Cleveland in Cecil County, Maryland, where Riale, the trumpet Orchestra, to add it to their repertoire. player, had grown up. It was not until 1990—22 years after the The reaction of the audience gathered in the church composition was written—that Husa returned to was “very muted,” Riale recalled. “This is an area that his homeland to conduct the piece at Smetana Hall was not particularly sophisticated musically. It was in Prague. probably the kind of music that none of them had ever “It was the first time that the piece was permitted to heard before—nothing even close. They did applaud at be performed in Czechoslovakia,” Radice said. “At long the performance, but it was very reserved.” last, Husa returned to his native country, triumphant, The reception at the Music Educators National optimistic, and free.” Conference (MENC), After retiring from IC which drew music and Cornell, Husa moved teachers from to Apex, North Carolina, elementary school to where he lived until

college, however, was ARCHIVES his death on December overwhelming. Along with 14, 2016. Yet his legacy

the band, Husa, OLLEGE continues—through his who attended the C music, and at IC through CA premiere, received a a professorship created standing ovation. in his honor to bring “It was incredibly THE ITHA renowned composers to OF well received there,” Y campus. Rockwell said. “It was a TES In 1986, the Karel OUR staggering performance, C Husa Visiting Professor and the audience was Karel Husa (left) works with a music student. of Composition was very emotional.” established at IC to As clarinetist Karen provide support for Dembow Erler ’70 recalled, playing at the prestigious leading composers to visit campus, lecture on their conference was an unforgettable experience. “It was music, and give private lessons to composition majors. really exciting because we put everything we had into The professorship was created by Dana Wilson and it,” she said. two formers deans of the School of Music—Arthur Ostrander and Gregory Woodward (who was a HUSA’S LEGACY professor of composition when the program After the premiere of Music for Prague 1968, its was established). popularity spread quickly across the country. One Beyond campus, Music for Prague 1968 continues to conductor, William Revelli, director of bands at the be performed, particularly in its 50th anniversary year. University of Michigan, made it his mission to expose The piece is regularly played throughout the world for audiences to the piece and performed it more than 150 the message it conveys, Radice said. times with bands in the United States and Europe. “It’s a piece that addresses a universal longing One reason the composition was so widely for freedom, and that resonates with any person embraced was that it expressed the anti-Soviet fervor in any land,” he said. “Fortunately, in the case of simmering across the country in the 1960s. “We were in Czechoslovakia, the story of the struggle had a happy the middle of the Cold War, so a lot of ensembles played outcome, and so the work is not only an optimistic it for political reasons,” Wilson said. “Any statement work but also a beacon of hope.” against Soviet aggression was a positive statement from the Western perspective.”

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JULIA

O BY O BY T T PHO PHO REGIONAL EVENTS BRIDGE THE ALUMNI EXPERIENCE Alumni who reside in close proximity to Ithaca can events that included a movie night at Hollywood Bowl take advantage of myriad local opportunities to stay with a live orchestra, an LA Alumni Volunteer Day at connected to the alumni and IC communities. And even Operation Gratitude, the ICUnity Summer Event, and if you live 200 (or 2,000!) miles from campus, regional the annual Los Angeles Holiday Happy Hour. Farther events coordinated by the Office of Engagement and north, IC alumni in the Pacific Northwest attended IC Constituent Relations are designed to bring the IC alumni gatherings at Seattle Mariners and Portland alumni experience to you, no matter where you are. Trailblazers games. EAST COAST REGION CORTACA The college’s largest alumni presence is found in the For alumni across the nation, Cortaca is an annual Northeast, and so we accordingly hold many events occasion to break out the blue face paint and IC swag in this region. Just a few examples include alumni and cheer the Bombers on to victory. Can’t make it to meetups at New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and the game at MetLife Stadium on November 16? Cortaca DC United games; brewery tours (including Harpoon viewing parties for alumni have you covered! Parties Brewery) in Boston and Philadelphia; and excursions for the 2019 contest are being held in select cities; visit to Tanglewood in Massachusetts to hear the Boston alumni.ithaca.edu for a complete list. Symphony Orchestra under the stars. Additionally, IC’s Office of Engagement and Constituent Relations ICUnity hosts regular summer events in New York City, is dedicated to expanding regional programming for Boston, and Washington, D.C. alumni, and to that end hosted first-time IC alumni events in cities such as Durham, North Carolina, in 2018 WEST COAST REGION and Dallas, Texas, in 2019. If you have a suggestion for IC’s thriving West Coast alumni community enjoyed an IC alumni event in your community, please share many opportunities to connect during the year. In the it with us! Simply email your suggestion to alumni@ past year, Los Angeles–area alumni took advantage of ithaca.edu or call (866) 442-2586.

Photos above: (Left) Charlie Eberhardt ‘93 and his son, Hayden, at an IC event at the Buffalo Bills training camp. (Top right) Clemenza Nwinye and Katrina Nwinye ‘08 attend our inaugural Dallas meetup. (Bottom right) Molly Sherwood, Helen Murphy ‘17, Steve Meehan, and Jennifer Barlow ‘87 at the Harpoon Brewery event in Boston.

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DEAR IC FRIENDS,

Serving on the Alumni Association Board of Directors is a wonderful opportunity to help guide the college’s efforts to sustain a dynamic alumni community with strong ties to the institution and to each other. It takes a lot of time and careful consideration to cultivate a board that represents the multitude of experiences and talents of IC’s incredibly varied alumni community, and so I’d like to extend my gratitude to John Balduzzi ’01 and Arthur Catalanello ’90, respectively chair and vice chair of the Membership Committee, for their incredible dedication to this

O SUBMITTTED crucial responsibility. T Each year, the Membership Committee, led by John and PHO Arthur, collaborates with the goal of producing a pool of diverse nominees to represent our alumni community while considering aspects of representation such as class year, school, gender, identity, orientation, and ethnicity. The committee then produces a vetted pool of nominees for consideration. As a result of the committee’s work, the board’s newest slate of directors assumed their roles earlier this summer: president-elect Christy Agnese ’06 (School of Music), Michael Hertzendorf ’89 (School of Business), Ellen Israel ’79 (School of Humanities and Sciences), Sarah Richards ’89 (School of Humanities and Sciences), and Jocelyn Scriber ’72 (School of Health Sciences and Human Performance). Please join me in congratulating the board’s newest members! If you’re interested in serving on the Alumni Association Board of Directors or can think of alumni candidates for consideration, I encourage you to nominate them to join the board in 2020! Please visit alumni.ithaca.edu to learn about the nomination process and access the online nomination form. Nominations must be received by December 31, 2019. I send you my best wishes and hope to see many of you at MetLife Stadium on November 16 for Cortaca 2019!

AMI MAKI ’94 President, Alumni Association Board of Directors

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1965 1970 1976 JUSTIN G. SCHILLER served as the BOB MARX and his wife, Joy, general editor of the book, Sendak were honored as “business and Blake: Illustrating Songs of persons of the year” by the Innocence. For the book, author Granby (Connecticut) Chamber Maurice Sendak was asked to of Commerce. Their company, produce a single line drawing for Landmark Tours and Cruises, is seven different poems from William celebrating 28 years in business. Blake’s Songs of Innocence. Bob is past president and a 14-year board member of the 1968 Granby chamber. He has also VADA TRUEX is a served as president of two service sales associate with Eve Parkes and Don Bishop enjoy singing organizations in Granby—the Keller Williams Christmas carols at nursing homes in the Lions Club and UNICO (Unity, Rochester, New York, area. Realty in Oklahoma Neighborliness, Integrity, Charity, City. She also works Opportunity). Bob was the sports as a church organist 1971 information director at Ithaca twice a week and RICH GOODWIN is the co-captain of College from 1977 to 1980, performs occasional piano recitals, the Ely Fagan Post 1151 American when the Bombers won national usually at retirement centers. Legion baseball team in Rochester, championships in football New York. The 1967 team won the and baseball. 1969 American Legion New York State DAN KARSON retired after Championship and in August 2018 1982 working as a lawyer for 45 years. was named a “team of the ages” on MARK HAUSER calls college He spent 35 years as chief legal the Frontier Field Walk of Fame. basketball games for Westwood officer at Kroll, a risk advisory One radio. Prior to that, he was the and business investigations firm, 1973 football and basketball play-by- the last five years as chair of JANET JACOBS is the founder, play radio announcer for Wofford the company. Dan continues to vice president, and program College for 26 years. advise Kroll in a senior consultant manager of Therapy Missions, an role and is also engaged in organization designed primarily 1983 volunteer activities. to treat children and adults with NELL MCCORMACK disabilities. This group educates ABOM is vice BILL SWEET was inducted into family members in proper care president of the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame in techniques and trains other marketing and Connecticut. He taught English at clinicians in updated therapy communications for Bristol Eastern High School for 35 procedures. Therapy Missions the Pennsylvania years and coached soccer at the has sent teams of occupational, Bankers Association, school for 50 years. Twice named physical, and speech therapists, overseeing all communications the Connecticut Soccer Coaches nurses, and teachers on dozens operations within the organization. Association Class L coach of the of missions to countries across She brings more than 30 years year (1994 and 2008), he was also the globe. of expertise in journalism, named New England’s soccer government, marketing, media, coach of the year in 1994. The 1974 and public relations to the position. Connecticut High School Coaches ROBERT DRISCOLL Prior to this role, Nell was founder Association chose him as soccer was promoted to and president of her own public coach of the year in 1999. vice president at relations firm. An Emmy Award– Providence College. winning television host and He works on the producer, she has received president’s numerous industry awards for leadership cabinet her journalism, media, and public and is responsible for management relations work. at the college, including its strategic plan. He continues to serve as the school’s director of athletics.

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Relations. Prior to this, he was the executive vice president of syndication at Sony Pictures Television, managing sales and marketing for first-run and off- network programming and domestic feature films. TED KEEGAN ‘83

O BY 1989 T CRAIG BAILEY is PHO celebrating the Rebecca Spencer performed the featured comedic mother role of Carol Strong in a 30-year anniversary production of Catch Me If You Can at Musical of Floydian Slip, a Theatre West, one of Southern California’s weekly Pink Floyd premier union regional musical theatre show heard on companies. Since graduating from IC, she SOME THINGS ARE embarked on a 30-year professional musical more than 100 theatre, concert, and recording career stations in the United States, in New York City. In 2004, she received a Canada, and overseas. He aired Backstage Bistro Award for her debut solo his first episode of Floydian Slip Difficult to recording, Wide Awake and Dreaming. She on Ithaca College’s student was also an original Broadway cast member station 106-VIC. Roll Over and early collaborator for the musical Jekyll & Hyde. 1992 The Textor ball at IC 1986 MICHAEL CAPOZZOLA is a may be impossible to MIKE ROYCE was standup comedian living in roll over. But rolling the executive London. He has performed over a gift from your in France, Ireland, the United producer, IRA? That’s simple! If showrunner, and Kingdom, Bulgaria, Germany, you are 70.5 or older, head writer for the Spain, Denmark, Poland, Israel, Netflix series One the Netherlands, Luxembourg, a new, permanent Day at a Time. This and Turkey. He will also make a law allows you to past year, the show—based on brief appearance in the film Men make a gift of up to Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcom of the in Black: International. $100,000 to Ithaca same name—was nominated for a College from your Peabody Award as well as three 1993 Critics’ Choice Awards. DIANA CHAROS individual retirement REILLY conducted account—without 1987 the New Jersey incurring income tax TIM JONES was hired as executive Youth Symphony at on the withdrawal. vice president and chief lending Drew University last officer with Genesee Regional December. She is For more information Bank and works as its commercial the conductor of about charitable the Flute Choir, Flute Forum, and banking business development IRA rollover gifts, and sales executive. Tim is primarily Fortissimo Flutes. visit ithaca.edu/ responsible for oversight and management of the sales culture, 1994 plannedgiving or with a focus on building new and AMI MAKI is the chief operating email plannedgiving deepening existing commercial officer at the Institute of @ithaca.edu. loan, deposit, and treasury Contemporary Art in Boston. management client relationships. She is in charge of operations for Previously, he was the administrative the museum and also oversees vice president/group manager of employee engagement, diversity, commercial banking for M&T Bank equity, accessibility, and inclusion. in Rochester, New York. Previously, Ami was associate director of operations and PHILIP MARTZOLF has been collections management at the named president of NBC Affiliate

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FAIR VOTES FOR ALL Sangita Sigdyal ’95 is trying to make politics less polarizing

BY TOM KERTSCHER

Not long after arriving at Ithaca College in 1991 from her native Nepal, Sangita Sigdyal ’95 took a trip to Seneca Falls, New York. Visiting the site of the Seneca Falls Convention, a gathering where the women’s suffrage movement was launched in 1848, brought a discovery. “I didn’t realize women [in the United States] didn’t have the right to vote until not too long ago,” Sigdyal said. Now, the United States is marking the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which was passed in Congress in 1919 and became law in 1920. O SUBMITTED

Sigdyal, after becoming a U.S. citizen and casting T her first vote in 2016, is now the managing director PHO of FairVote, a non-partisan Washington, D.C.–area nonprofit that pushes for electoral reforms. FairVote’s board chair is Krist Novoselic, a Washington state civic With ranked choice, voters can rank multiple leader and founding member of the rock band Nirvana. candidates in their order of preference; candidates do best when they attract a strong core of first-choice support while also reaching out for second and or third choices. More women need to be in office. Female “It creates more civil campaigns whereby, if you are a candidate running for office, you are not only trying leaders and their work style often lead to be the voters’ first choice, but you’re also trying to be to consensus building, which is really the second choice,” Sigdyal said. “So, you cannot be a needed in today’s political climate. divisive force running a campaign; you must bring the highest number of people under your tent to win, and that changes the tone of campaigns.” “This has been a work in progress for humanity and According to FairVote, ranked choice is used by the United States in particular,” Sigdyal said, reflecting the state of Maine and a number of cities, including on her Seneca Falls visit. “I guess it brought it front and San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Cambridge. A record center. Many of the rights—such as the 19th Amendment number of women were elected to Congress in 2018 and the Voting Rights Act prohibiting racial and, largely because of that, a record number of discrimination in voting—shouldn’t be taken for granted women are now serving in Congress. Moreover, a as there were long fights before they were won.” record number of women are now also serving in state After getting her bachelor’s degree from Ithaca legislatures across the country. and a master’s in public administration from Columbia It took nearly 100 years for a woman, Nancy Pelosi, University, Sigdyal served as director of operations and to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives interim chief operating officer at the Open Government in 2007 and, of course, the country has not yet elected Partnership, a 75-country initiative to promote a woman president. But Sigdyal said she is encouraged government transparency; and she worked at the World by the number of organizations that are helping women Bank, launching a campaign to open up and transform run for office and raise money for their campaigns. public contracts. “More women need to be in office,” she said. After having lived in the United States for longer “Female leaders and their work style often lead to than the first 18 years of her life spent in Nepal, Sigdyal consensus building, which is really needed in today’s decided to give up her native citizenship in 2016 to political climate. So, I think engaging the 50 percent become a U.S. citizen. That’s when she got the sense of our population in political leadership is super that perhaps American elections could be done better— important. From voting, we’re now at a point where we with ranked-choice voting, a priority of FairVote, where need more women to lead. This country needs female she went to work in November 2018. leaders to help fix our broken democracy.”

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Davis Museum at Wellesley College. starred review; Cool Careers with and public capital as well as closing Ami is currently the president of the Animals; and the young reader’s the company’s initial public offering. Ithaca College Alumni Association edition of How Full Is Your Bucket? Board of Directors. 2001 2000 MALINDA LOGAN is starring in ABRAHAM N. and producing an off-off Broadway CEESAY is the revival of the award-winning play chief executive My Sister, My Sister. She produced officer of Tiburio a short film that has received Therapeutics, festival recognition and also won a a private best actress prize at Riant Theatre’s biopharmaceutical 2017 Strawberry One-Act Festival. company that focuses on developing She has worked as an associate treatments for rare neuroendocrine instructor at Columbia University. tumors and rare endocrine Ilka Rivard (left) met fellow IC alumnus diseases. Before joining Tiburio, 2002 Aaron Tveit ‘05 in the pre-Broadway he was the chief operating officer DANE FISCHER is the head coach opening of Moulin Rouge at the Emerson at scPharmaceuticals, developing Colonial Theatre in Boston. Ilka is the visitor for the College of William & Mary experience manager at Emerson College, and leading all operational and men’s basketball team. Previously, overseeing the visitor center and commercial aspects of the he was an assistant coach at admission events. company. He was vital in raising George Mason University, Rider more than $140 million in private University, and Williams College. 1997 LYNN SMITH is the founder of Healy, a company that combines the best of emerging technologies to solve long-lasting problems in the health care system. Her goal is to create a system where patients control and influence their own health care. 1998 HEATHER BURNS PAGE received her PhD in teaching and learning (science education) from New RECOGNIZE THE York University in May 2018. In January of that year, she joined SERVICE, TALENT, the Affinity Field Support Center as an academic policy lead. Later, AND COMMITMENT she became the instructional lead, providing math and science OF YOUR FELLOW instructional support to New York IC ALUMNI City public high schools.

AUDRA WALLACE was promoted to editorial director of Scholastic Submit a nomination for the News, editions 3-6. She began as an assistant editor on Scholastic News, 2020 ALUMNI AWARDS a national classroom magazine for  ithaca.edu/alumni-nominations children, in 2006. Audra has also written several children’s nonfiction Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2020. books for Scholastic including Yosemite, which earned a Booklist

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TURNING GRIEF INTO ACTION Lou Magrone ’04, DPT ’06, and his wife, Francine, launched Walk in Sunshine to support grieving parents

BY JESSICA TROSKOSKY

The months leading up to a baby’s birth are often filled O SUBMITTED with excitement, planning, and information-gathering T through books like What to Expect When You’re PHO Expecting and Dude, You’re Gonna Be a Dad. Parents- to-be may celebrate with pregnancy announcements, succeed as one of the top medical device salespeople gender reveal parties, and baby showers. in the country. “But nothing could have prepared me Most likely these were the types of things Lou for the most horrific experience of my life. However, Magrone ’04, DPT ’06, and his wife, Francine, were in the back of my mind was the football helmet on the thinking about as they prepared for the arrival of their Ithaca locker room wall that said, ‘Champions Meet first baby in March 2017. However, in an instant, their Challenges Head On.’ And this is what we did.” Since world shattered. At 30 weeks pregnant, Francine noticed his time at IC, Magrone has gone on to own 12 limited that the baby’s movements had slowed. She tried to liability companies in construction, medical billing, and chalk up her concerns to first-time pregnancy jitters but hardware—in addition to creating Walk in Sunshine. couldn’t shake her fears. She went to the hospital where Walk in Sunshine helps parents who have lost a child she worked as a family nurse practitioner and confirmed through stillbirth or other unexpected loss. The not-for- that the baby was still, and there wasn’t a heartbeat. profit provides financial assistance to New Jersey families who are grieving the loss of a child and online resources for families around the world. Magrone writes blog posts about maternal health care and other relevant resources My Ithaca collegiate career helped to to bring grieving parents together. In the future, they hope the organization will grow to support better create this charity. The college doesn’t stillbirth and infant loss research and prevention. just provide education. Its football According to the National Center for Health coaches, professors, and mentors help Statistics research, more than 20,000 babies are stillborn every year in the United States. The Stillbirth prepare students with life skills like Collaborative Research Network states that the causes coping, working hard, and compassion. of about one-half of stillbirths cannot be explained, making preventative care challenging. “Losing a child is a difficult story to share. But On January 6, 2017, the Magrones both Walk in Sunshine allows me to talk about something welcomed and said goodbye to their baby boy, very important to me and gives me a way to help Joseph Louis Magrone. The days following Joseph’s others,” said Magrone. birth were long and riddled with tasks that no one Getting Walk in Sunshine off the ground in August preparing for the arrival of a baby would ever want to 2018 as a charity was no small feat. It took tenacity, hard imagine. The Magrones had to arrange an autopsy, work, and a passion for helping others. purchase a family burial plot, weigh the costs of “My Ithaca collegiate career helped to create this honoring Joseph, and so much more. Without a charity,” said Magrone. “The college doesn’t just provide single resource to help with all the decisions to make, education. Its football coaches, professors, and mentors the process was a gut-wrenching experience that like Father Scott Kubinski help prepare students with life ultimately led the Magrones to start a charity called skills like coping, working hard, and compassion.” Walk in Sunshine. Magrone lives in Westfield, New Jersey, with “As an entrepreneur and someone who has evolved Francine and their second son, Nicholas, who was my career, I am no stranger to life and business baptized by Father Scott, one-time chaplain at IC. challenges,” said Lou Magrone, who left his Staten You can learn more about Walk in Sunshine at Island physical therapy practice in 2010 to eventually WalkinSunshineCharity.org.

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2004 KELLI GRANT AN NETWORK NIGHTS 2020 is a senior editor for Acorns + CNBC, overseeing a team that produces articles for Acorns Grow. She assigns and edits stories and writes her own pieces. In her previous position, she was a reporter with the CNBC personal finance team. 2007 ZAHIDA SHERMAN is the director of the Multicultural IT’S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU DO. Resource Center at Oberlin College. IT’S ABOUT WHO YOU ARE. Her main roles are to lead the center in its support and services to underrepresented students and Join us this winter at one of our Network Nights. guide members of the campus community in their understanding These events bring together alumni and students to and navigation of equity, identity, make connections and get to know one another. You and belonging. Zahida works with can give students perspective on life after college and students, faculty, staff, alumni, and tell them about your successes and struggles . . . community members to realize the center’s vision. and the insights you’ve gained from both. 2008 DION RABOUIN JOIN US: is the markets editor for Axios, a New York City publication started Monday, January 6, 2020 by the founders of Politico. Dion Boston oversees the Tuesday, January 7, 2020 markets team and writes the daily Axios Markets newsletter, which Los Angeles features news, analysis, Sunday, January 12, 2020 commentary, and interviews with global leaders in business, finance, and economics. He makes regular  For more information or to register, appearances on Marketplace, the visit ithaca.edu/networknights. most listened-to radio program in the United States, as well as Fox Business, CNBC, MSNBC, and other media. Previously, he was the Everyone is welcome! If you anticipate needing accommodation or global financial markets reporter have questions about the physical access provided or the event in at Yahoo Finance and the host of general, please contact us at (866) 442-2586 or [email protected] its Midday Movers broadcast as far in advance as possible. program. Dion was also the sole New York–based emerging Hosted by Career Services and the Office of Engagement and Constituent Relations markets reporter for Reuters,

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ALUMNUS WINS JAZZ COMPETITION Bobby Spellman ’10 dedicated his composition to Anthony Bourdain

BY ASHLEY REEDMAN TIN

Trumpeter and philosophy major Bobby Spellman ’10 MAR beat out 54 anonymous entrants last spring to win the CASEY David P. ’60 and Susan W. Wohlhueter Jazz Composition O BY Contest with his Ethiopian-infused, Duke Ellington– T

inspired entry, The Kingdom of Aksum. PHO The piece was performed by the IC Jazz Ensemble, with special guest trombonist Vincent Gardner, last May. Spellman, who typically writes for a nine-piece jazz Spellman started playing the trumpet in fourth band, had to make adjustments to The Kingdom of grade and pursued it semi-professionally in high school Aksum, first written and completed in December 2018. before joining the IC Jazz Ensemble in college. He went “Writing for jazz orchestra is similar in many ways, but on to perform and compose for jazz groups in Ithaca, the feel of the band and the options you have are very Boston, and Brooklyn and said he saw the contest as different when you’re working with 17 or 18 voices in another opportunity to navigate new stylistic avenues four distinct sections. I had to really get into the jazz in jazz. orchestra mindset in order to use the wider palette in a “I always try to push myself deeper into uncharted responsible way,” said Spellman. musical territory by combining contrasting sounds and This is Spellman’s first entry in a composition competition. He said that he didn’t participate for the purpose of winning but for the opportunity of producing and performing new music for jazz enthusiasts, professionals, and the general public to I always try to push myself deeper into enjoy, while also being challenged by the contest’s uncharted musical territory by combining criteria and deadlines. contrasting sounds and concepts, and for “The purpose of the exercise for me was to create this piece I wanted to apply traditional a new piece of music, and the competition part was, more than anything, a deadline and a set of parameters Ethiopian tonalities to the classic big- to follow,” he said. “I was content to have completed band aesthetic. something new regardless of the outcome, but I was happy to hear that [the judges] liked the music.” Spellman was awarded $1,000 and received a concepts, and for this piece I wanted to apply traditional recording of the jazz ensemble performing the piece Ethiopian tonalities to the classic big-band aesthetic,” with Gardner. A trombonist with the Jazz at Lincoln said Spellman, whose musical inspiration comes from the Center Orchestra since the early 2000s, Gardner has blending of cultures. The composition was also inspired contributed many arrangements to the Jazz at Lincoln by and dedicated to the late celebrity chef, author, and Center Orchestra and other ensembles. travel documentarian Anthony Bourdain, who bridged In addition to teaching, Spellman composes cultural gaps between people through food. and performs for the Dingonek Street Band and his “I think we gain a lot as human beings from Revenge of the Cool Nonet, both based in Brooklyn, examining and absorbing a multitude of contrasting New York, where he lives with fellow IC Jazz Ensemble ideas from divergent perspectives. It’s how we got jazz musician and fiancée, woodwind instrumentalistEmily music and sushi burritos. Art and culture give us a way Pecoraro ’12. to see life from other viewpoints and to celebrate our “Both Susan and I are thrilled to promote new talent shared humanity,” said Spellman. in the realm of jazz,” said David Wohlhueter ’60, whose The contest rules required that the composition be gift established the competition. “This contest is a written for a 17-piece jazz orchestra: five saxophones, win-win for both the aspiring writers and the young four trombones, four trumpets, and a rhythm section musicians in the IC Jazz Ensemble who not only get to consisting of piano, guitar, double bass, and drum set. play the entries but actually pick the winner.”

40 | 2019 • Fall ALUMNI NOTES covering Latin America as well as 2012 the U.S. Treasury, currency, and ALEX CANOVAS has been named stock markets. artistic director of the Young New Yorkers’ Chorus. He also made 2009 his Lincoln Center debut with the CORNELL Mostly Mozart Festival’s premiere WOODSON is the of In the Name of the Earth, which global head of was performed at the Cathedral diversity, equity, of St. John the Divine. Alex also and inclusion for the serves as director of music at St. California-based Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Sarah Furie (left) on the Rotary float with tech company and associate conductor of Choral Looker. In this role, he is Rotary International President Barry Rassin Chameleon, also in Brooklyn. and wife, Esther Rassin. Sarah is the digital responsible for developing, marketing associate at the Pasadena implementing, and evaluating the KAYLA INANC MUSTO is a Humane Society & SPCA. She is in charge company’s global diversity vice president at The Door, a of all digital media, runs the social media strategy, which includes driving consulting, marketing, and public platforms, updates the group’s website, and works on flyers, postcards, event programs, diversity initiatives for hiring relations idea house with offices and signage. On New Year’s Day, she walked underrepresented populations, in New York City, Chicago, and in the Rose Parade with the Rotary float. diversity training, and diversity Los Angeles. She’s been with the retention strategies. company for six years, where she DEANNE STEWART began as an account coordinator. is in the ensemble 2010 of the North JAYLENE CLARK KELLY MCKENNA is a program American touring OWENS is the specialist for the Office of External company of the director and Relations at the Law Library of Tony Award–winning cowriter of the play Congress. Kelly promotes the hit, Beautiful: The Renaissance in the services of the library through Carole King Musical. Throughout Belly of a Killer public programs, professional the show, she portrays members of Whale. The play—in visits, communications, and early pop girl groups such as the which she also plays the role of outreach activities. Her work Shirelles and the Crystals. Bridget—explores the multifaceted focuses on measuring the library’s issue of gentrification in Harlem impact to determine how to best 2014 through spoken-word poetry, engage audiences from various BEN KNOWLES theatre, song, and more. sectors. While a student, Kelly also manages the Performed twice at Ithaca College, hosted a specialty show called Eve operation center at the play first premiered in 2011 and Out Loud on 92-WICB. Miller Brothers has appeared at theatres such as Solar in the Times Square Arts Center, 2013 Conshohocken, National Black Theatre, and ABIGAIL DIXON received Pennsylvania, which Theatre Horizon. her master’s degree in higher provides third-party operations education from the University of and maintenance for solar farms. Pennsylvania Graduate School Customers for the company of Education. include Goldman Sachs, New Energy Solar, and Marina Energy.

“IchosetoattendIthacaCollegebecause Your gift to the IC Annual Fund provides IknewitwouldbeaplacewhereIcouldgrow, a one-of-a-kind learning environment that facilitates life-changing moments. prosper,andthrive. Withoutalumnisupport of thecollege,Iwouldn’tbehere.”  give.ithaca.edu [email protected] —JALEEL GREEN ‘19, DPT ‘21 (877) 250-3269

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GOOD GRANOLA BEGINS AT HOME Brian Tetrud ’11 used his mom’s recipe and an economics degree from IC to launch a health-food business

BY BRIAN HUDGINS

When Brian Tetrud ’11 began exploring the feasibility O SUBMITTED of turning his hobby into a business, he had two main T

tools: a recipe and a spreadsheet. PHO As an IC student, Tetrud used a family recipe to make granola for himself that he also shared with his friends. But once he decided to put it out for public Majoring in economics at IC gave Tetrud the consumption, he embarked on a year’s worth of insight to analyze the food industry overall—to see how homework—and the granola became the fundamental big it is and differentiate the various players—from the ingredient in the success of Ladera Foods. types of products that dominate to the various up-and- “When we started, it was a pretty nascent space,” coming brands. Tetrud said. “Overall, premium granola was not very “Overall, it helps with the analytics side,” Tetrud said. common. There were some local premium brands but “I wanted to go into a career in renewable energy, and no national premium brands.” those were the first jobs I had at Tesla and other solar startups. I started the granola company as a hobby.” His hobby first gained a foothold in local stores and then took a big leap forward in 2015 when Ladera Foods landed a spot on Whole Foods shelves. I wanted to go into a career in renewable “That was an ‘aha’ moment,” Tetrud said. “Many energy, and those were the first jobs I had food startups who are premium producers go to Whole Foods. Then I hired a team, and we got into Safeway.” at Tesla and other solar startups. I started The local granola, made in Redwood City, the granola company as a hobby. California, has found a customer base primarily in the western half of the country. Supermarket chain H-E-B has provided a Texas outlet, and Ladera Foods also Walking the aisles at local markets in the San sells roughly 600 bags of granola per month nationally Francisco Bay Area gave Tetrud an avenue to compare via Amazon. Tech companies in the Bay Area have his infant company to products already established on provided another sales outlet by letting Ladera sell shelves. His ever-growing spreadsheet contained brand granola in their cafeterias. names, corresponding shelf prices, sugar content, Yet rapid growth presented a challenge. protein content, and product amounts per container. “Expansion happened quickly, which costs money,” “Every granola had so much sugar,” Tetrud said. Tetrud said. “I had to repay that debt, which was a big “For people trying to stay away from sugar, that is a challenge financially to get through that time period. key differentiation for us. My mom is a Stanford-trained We then had to stabilize at a lower level of growth.” medical doctor. That [low sugar] became our niche. The company’s measured growth includes the hiring Taking a broad sweep of the industry allowed us to find of additional staff to service accounts—with an eye on our position—we had the lowest sugar content at three expanding to the East Coast. In addition to the flavor grams per serving.” varieties featured on the Ladera website, the company A local bakery owner gave Tetrud some pointers is planning later this year to introduce Ladera Bites— regarding packaging, vendor contact information, flavor high-protein, bite-sized puffs. varieties, and an efficient use of rack ovens fit for baking A major influence on the beginning and hundreds of pounds of granola. evolution of Ladera Foods has been Tetrud’s mom, “We got some help from people who were not Dr. Karen Butterfield. necessarily competitors with our business,” Tetrud said. “She crafted that recipe and shared it with me,” “Once you are solidified as a brand, it’s much easier to Tetrud said. “She has always been inquisitive, and it talk with competitors. They know you aren’t going to try has been nice to have her asking questions, being a to steal their customers or a recipe.” sounding board and having that support.”

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The discovery was published in the consists of health, business, local, Journal of Coloration Technology. foreign, and national news. 2017 TAYLOR MOODY STEPHANIE SAIAS is a video is the event editor for Dick Clark Productions, coordinator at Best the world’s largest producer and Events in Los proprietor of televised live event Angeles. Taylor entertainment programming. helps produce a Stephanie creates promotional variety of events videos for award shows including such as product launch parties, Hanna Friedlander is the human remains the Golden Globes, Academy of food festivals, and award-show analyst for the Michigan State Police. after parties. She also assists with In addition to tracking all unidentified Country Music Awards, Billboard remains in Michigan, she also leads Music Awards, Hollywood Film venue research, vendor outreach experiments used for teaching law Awards, NBA Awards, and Dick and management, design enforcement personnel. Hanna participates Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with concepts, client conversations, in the interstate Emergency Management and budgets. Assistance Compact, which allows her to Ryan Seacrest. In her free time, assist in emergencies. she is a freelance photographer CARLEY NEWMAN is the and videographer. marketing and growth coordinator 2016 for WPP, a marketing and MICHAELA BLAND is the 2018 advertising company. Carley recipient of a Skadden Fellowship. works in the New York City office A third-year law student at Roger researching prospective clients and Williams University School of Law organic growth through events. in Bristol, Rhode Island, Michaela will work with the Rhode Island Celebrations Center for Justice and focus on finding legal solutions for JOHN MILLER ’87 and Patricia the school-to-prison pipeline. Brotschul; October 13, 2017, in Fellowship applicants must Guilford, Connecticut. propose a public-interest project SARA GERSTENBLATT ’09 and and find a sponsoring nonprofit Michael Mandy; October 20, 2018, organization providing civil legal Sarah Johnson is a production assistant in Newport, Rhode Island. Rachel services to the poor, including for E! Live Events, supporting the creation Rauch ’09, Lindsey Nadolski the working poor, the elderly, the of E!’s Live from the Red Carpet show, broadcast on E! News. Her responsibilities ’09, Eleni Hardman ’09, Nick disabled, or those deprived of include brainstorming and pitching ideas Corasaniti ’08, Dan Hausermann their civil or human rights. for the show, the preview show, and the ’08, Drew Appleton ’08, Jordan after-party show. She also researches the E! Rait ’08, Trevor Dolge ’07, and Ben NICOLE GODREAU is a brand archives, clips and edits footage to be used strategist at Twitter, helping to in entertainment packages, and assists the Mayhew ’08 were members of the develop and position best-in- segment producers throughout the show. wedding party. Since starting, Sarah has worked on the class creative opportunities to the Emmy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, KALYA INANC MUSTO ’12 and world’s largest marketers. Nicole Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Michael C. Musto; September 29, helps to align innovative, creative Grammy Awards, and Oscars. 2018, in Cortlandt Manor, New uses of Twitter with advertisers’ York. Kara Zdrojeski ’12, Elicia marketing objectives. ANGELA KIM Wartman ’12, and Carli Mazich- is the morning KATRINA PIEMONTE worked with Addice ’12 were members of the coanchor, reporter, wedding party. Ithaca College chemistry professor and producer for Mike Haaf on a research effort that Newswatch 12 JACQUELINE DONG ’11 and Jason discovered a low-water method Today in Sandoval; August 25, 2018, in of dyeing cotton with indigo. Rhinelander, Hudson, New York. The process uses less water and Wisconsin. She joined the team in eliminates the need for reducing August 2018 as a reporter and agents, chemicals that are used to weekend anchor and producer help dye adhere to cotton and that before transitioning to the early are harmful to the environment. morning hours. The two-hour show

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Introductions North Carolina, at age 82. A graduate of IC’s Department of GINA DEMASI ’01: Ari Elizabeth English, she earned a master’s Moonves, June 7, 2018. degree in education from Elmira TO PLACE AN College and taught English at ALUMNI NOTE, EMILY PHILLIPS ’02, MM ’06, and Dryden and Watkins Glen High Dan Cappuccio: Connor James, Celebration, Schools. After retiring, she spent October 5, 2018; joins older Introduction, or 19 years assisting her husband, brother, Joseph. Farewell, please visit William, in his law practice. She is ithaca.edu/icview and BETSY UHLER COLOMBO ’04 and survived by her husband; daughter Bret Colombo: Indiana Randall, and son-in-law, Lydia and Jeffery fill out the online form. July 2, 2018. Voorheis; son and daughter-in- law, William and Karen Ruger; and ICView reserves the right to MICAH KARG ’04 and Jessica grandchildren, Devyn and Jason. edit for length and clarity. Hammerman: Henry Milo, June 1, Notes can also 2018. GEORGE SCHUNCK, February 6, 2019, at age 88. An honorary be mailed to VICTORIA TIDMARCH KETCHAM trustee, George served on the ICView ’04 and Jeffery Ketcham: Elliott Ithaca College Board of Trustees Ithaca College Charles, June 16, 2018. from 1982 to 1993. During those 953 Danby Road years, he played a tremendous Ithaca, NY 14850-7002 Farewells leadership role in managing and directing the college’s finances PHOTOS BETTY BIRDSEY, November 7, through his decade-long service Photos should be at least 2018, in Ithaca, New York, at age as chair of the Investment and 3.5 inches wide and have 90. Betty was the first music/ Finance Committee. He had a a resolution of at least audio librarian at Ithaca College, son and grandson who both 300 dpi. If you mail a serving from 1969 until her graduated from Ithaca College, glossy print to us, please retirement in 1995. Prior to moving and throughout his life George make sure to include your to Ithaca, Betty held library and remained an avid fan of Bomber contact information and music librarian positions at the football. George was predeceased the names of any people Dallas Public Library, Oberlin by his wife of 62 years, Barbara in the photo. College, and the University of G. Schunck. He is survived by his Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She three children, James (Kristen), FAREWELLS held a music degree from the Lawrence ’81 (Karen) and Lorraine Farewells honor alumni, Eastman School of Music in cello (John View); as well as his four current or retired performance as well as a master grandchildren, Allison, Brendon, employees, and students of library and information science Kenneth (Molly), and Matthew who have passed away. degree from the University of Schunck ’19. Space limitations may Denver. Betty is survived by her compel us to include nieces, Paige Morgan of Ithaca, ARTHUR L. STONE ’49, June 7, only career, military, and Beth Morgan, and Debbi Morgan. 2018, at age 91. A World War II volunteer activities. U.S. Navy veteran, he received HEINZ KOCH, September 2, his degree in physical education This Alumni Notes section 2018, in Ithaca, New York, at and taught in the Georgetown includes news that was age 86. A longtime professor and Earlville central schools from received by May 1, 2019. of chemistry, he came to Ithaca 1952 to 1961. After receiving Because of the nature of a College in 1965 and retired in 2007. a certificate in guidance from tri-annual publication and He was named professor emeritus Colgate University, he became the volume of notes we in 2009. A founding member of director of guidance in the Marion receive, you should expect the Council on Undergraduate central schools, where he stayed to see your note about six Research, Heinz continued to until his retirement in 1986. He is months after you submit publish scholarly research with survived by his son, Bruce, and his your information. undergraduate students until well daughter and son-in-law, Brenda after his retirement. and George Strickland. LUCINDA BANFIELD RUGER ’58, December 22, 2018, in Durham,

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CARLEENA ANGWIN ’01 TheCarleenaShow The Carleena Show is a podcast and YouTube channel, where Angwin invites guests from across the globe to sit down with her via Skype and share their personal journey.

MARY I. ARLIN and MARK A. RADICE Professor Emerita of Music Theory and Professor in the Department of Music Theory, History, and Composition (respectively) PolyculturalSynthesisinthe PHOTO SUBMITTED PHOTO MusicofChouWen-chung (Routledge, 2018) Arlin and Radice coedited this RE-EXAMINING MEALTIME collection of essays about composer Chou Wen-chung, who was displaced Assistant professor Joslyn Brenton’s book from China in 1948. They also challenges the ideal of the home-cooked meal. contributed essays for the collection, as did Ithaca College music librarian BY DAN VERDEROSA Kristina L. Shanton.

FOOD PUNDITS AND CELEBRITY CHEFS often put forth a narrative that growing your own vegetables and cooking meals from scratch can help cure many of society’s KENDRA BARRETT ’08, ills—everything from childhood obesity to environmental degradation. Joslyn Brenton, DPT ’09 an assistant professor in Ithaca College’s Department of Sociology, disagrees. In the new book, Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and YesICan!AGirland What We Can Do About It, Brenton and her coauthors, North Carolina State University HerWheelchair associate professor Sarah Bowen and University of British Columbia assistant pro- (American Psychological fessor Sinikka Elliott, interviewed more than 150 mothers and spent 250 hours going Association, 2018) with families to the grocery store and watching them cook and eat. Their conclusions fly in the face of the above narrative. Rather than acting as a Barrett, who works as a pediatric panacea for societal issues, the emphasis on family meals places a disproportionate physical therapist, coauthored this burden on families and mothers. book with Jacquelin B. Toner and “Food pundits and food experts—they’re giving us the same message: if we slow Claire A. B. Freeland, who are both down, if we prioritize food in our lives, if we just take the time to care and get back pediatric psychologists. This children’s in the kitchen, everything’s going to be better. We don’t find that at all,” Brenton said book tells the fictional story of a in an earlier interview. “What we’re looking at in the book are structural inequalities typical day in the life of a young girl and how they shape people’s lives and what they eat.” who uses a wheelchair. The book Structural inequalities—where one group of people is attributed an unequal includes a note to parents, caregivers, status in relation to other groups—create societal imbalances in the roles, functions, and teachers with more information rights, opportunities, and decisions available to these various groups. on discussing disabilities with children “We wanted to know how diverse mothers of young children think about food and helping them to build positive, and how they see their own relationship to food. What we find is a complex picture, empathic relationships. and that’s sometimes hard to work with,” Brenton said. >>

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MICHAEL DEMASI ’91 WhatTheySaid:25Years of TellingStories (Troy Book Makers, 2018) This collection of articles highlights the wide variety of people DeMasi has written about during his 25-year journalism career in upstate New York. The collection includes stories from a priest at a maximum-security prison, a salvager who bought Albany’s biggest and ugliest building, a mayor who became the Pied Piper of Guyanese BRUCE CLARKE ’67 immigrants, and a friendly clock RYAN BERMAN ’98 enthusiast named Smiley Lumpkin. DeathbyGrandJuryandOther ReturnonCourage: D.C.s Storie ABusinessPlaybookfor CourageousChange (Gatekeeper Press, 2019) Clarke’s book features the fictional (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2019) stories of defense attorneys, Berman spent three years shadowing defendants, detectives, witnesses, and business leaders, CEOs, as well as an investigators during a spectacularly astronaut and a U.S. Navy SEAL, in violent era in Washington, D.C.’s order to discover how they’ve achieved history, from the 1980s to the early some of their biggest business and 21st century. personal accomplishments.

VICTORIA CORLISS ’86 ThePendulum’sTruth (Brown Corliss Publishing, 2019) Coauthored with Leigh Brown, this is ABBY ELLIN ’89 the third entry in the Brown Corliss Duped: DoubleLives,False Books library. It is the story of Ava Dell, who believes that everything Identities,andtheConMan happens for a reason. But, unlike her IAlmostMarried friends and family, she also believes she (PublicAffairs/Hachette, 2019) knows why they happen. She happily In this hybrid memoir and piece of shares her insights with the people she investigative journalism, Ellin’s second loves, providing them guidance and book, she not only writes about her affirmation until the day her awareness own mistakes but also investigates the fails her. When tragedy results, Ava science and art of lying. NINA BOUTSIKARIS ’09 suddenly finds herself in a moral and emotional dilemma. I’mTryingtoTellYouI’mSorry: AnIntimacyTriptych (Black Lawrence Press, 2019)

In Boutsikaris’s latest publication, she pairs art with experience, as she not only examines others around her but also questions her own actions.

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MELLISSA PATNELLA ’19 DynamicExistence (Bowker, 2019) Pantella’s first book of poetry contains many pieces that examine the emotional experiences of life.

DAVID GREENBERG ’06 SONDRA LEVENSON ’78 SitDown,ShutUp,You’re Appearances GonnaWinThisThing: (She Writes Press, 2019) AnIncredibleTrueStoryof Written under the pen name Sondra Helene, Levenson’s book is a fictional OvercomingImpossibleOdds account of what happens when tragedy inandoutoftheCage strikes and shatters a seemingly perfect (Mimo Publishing, 2019) life. This dramatic story of love and loss highlights the importance of family. In his first book, Greenberg recounts SARAH SKILTON ’99 the details of his first amateur mixed FameAdjacent martial arts cage fight and then (Grand Central Publishing, 2019) describes his journey of growing up, confronting adversity, and Skilton’s latest book is a romantic finding himself. comedy about the sole cast member of a 1990s song-and-dance show for kids who didn’t become famous, and

ANTHONY GUILIANTI ’11 who, 25 years later, sets out to confront her famous ex-friends at a televised ThirtyDaysofRed reunion special. Guilianti won the Best Adapted Screenplay award at the Burbank International Film Festival with this MONTY WEINSTEIN ’62 screenplay, which is based on the book of the same name. It tells the story of FromtheMobtothe a seemingly picture-perfect couple Therapist’sChair whose lives contain dark secrets. (Family Therapy Center for New York HEIDI OROS ’85, MM ’88 & Georgia 2018) KeystoTransposition:AMethod In this biographical book, fortheTeachingandLearningof Weinstein shares both his unconventional upbringing and TranspositionontheHorn how his later life experiences helped (Ensemble Publications, 2018) him excel in his career as a marriage Coauthored with Pete Nowlen and and family therapist. Brian O’Donnell, Oros’s method book provides a concrete strategy to mastering transposition based on the historical reason hornists transpose. Skills are built through exercises and then the student progresses to excerpts. It includes tips, musical advice, practice techniques, and much more.

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