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Alumni Association of the State University of New York at Oswego We give you Oswego OSOSWEGOWEGO Vol. 41, No. 4 however YOU want it! Oz to LA 21 There are more than 600 Oswego graduates living in the City of Angels, working in different professions from lawyer to author Can’t get enough NEWS to apparel manufacturer to filmmaker. A few alumni share why and how they came to be residents of LA. about Oswego? Wicked Weather 26 Part of SUNY Oswego alumni’s bragging rights resides in Make sure you’ve 9 having conquered the (sometimes) inclement winter weather. But the dramatic weather and lakefront campus also make the college the perfect place for students to learn in a world-class opted IN to ALL of meteorology program. Including: our email categories! Translating Mother Nature in All of Her Temperaments 27 To help our alumni customize your interactions with your alma mater, we established more SUNY Oswego’s signature program in meteorology email categories so you can receive the news and announcements you want to know about. has prepared hundreds of the leading weather experts, including many who appear on our televisions every day. You can opt in to the kinds of emails you wish to receive at any time by logging in to OsweGoConnect, the exclusive online community for Oswego alumni, at alumni.oswego.edu. The Blizzard of ’66 31 Jim Farfaglia ’77 shares stories from the Blizzard of 1966 and the late meteorology professor Bob Sykes 4 Alumni General 4 Regional Events 4 Reunion 2016 in his two new books.

General interest alumni Invites to events/happen- Communications relating 18 The Storm of the Century 33 communications or those ings in your geographic to a specific year’s reunion Al Roker ’76 talks with Syracuse-area meteorologist with expected appeal to a area, osweGO Digest activities, currently Molly Matott ’15 about his new book, The Storm of broad alumni audience monthly events calendar Reunion Weekend 2016 the Century, during an on-campus event.

4 Newsletters 4 Campus General 4 Solicitations The Last Word 48 Former FBI Agent William Eric Plunkett ’81 traces his ability Lake E-ect, athletics, Major campus news Appeals for support for to write his first book, The G-Man and the Diamond King: A True Parents, special interest and messages from the The Fund for Oswego FBI Crime Story of the 1930s, to his essay writing at Oswego. and school/departmental president or college and special fundraising 15 newsletters leadership challenges and initiatives PLUS Campus Currents 3 Calendar 17 Class Notes 35 Alumni Bookshelf 40 [email protected] Weddings 44 In Memoriam 46 Do you still use your oswego.edu email? ON THE COVER: One of the many benefits offered to alumni by the Oswego Alumni Association is lifetime use of an oswego.edu email! In an effort to Illustration by Marty Blake enhance security, alumni who want to keep an oswego.edu email 315-312-2258 will be required to renew your account annually. Look for an email alumni.oswego.edu 16 3227 coming to you soon to renew your account! [email protected]

Alumni_Email Ad_final.indd 1 11/5/15 2:50 PM FROM THE OSWEGO Alumni Magazine Elizabeth Locke Oberst Sam Carges ’14 President’s Desk Publisher William Eric Plunkett ’81 Margaret D. Spillett Jeff Rea ’71 Editor Contributing Writers ooking out on foliage, crisp, snowy winters and beautiful Eileen Crandall Paul Cardinali ’65 Associate Editor Brian Denman ’09 the late autumn sunsets all year round. SUNY Oswego Don Mortimer ’58 L Tyler Edic ’13 alumni take pride in your ability to with- Dan Nicolette ’72 Oswego campus Associate Editor Michael Riecke landscape and stand the strong winter winds off Lake Online Magazine Chuck Perkins Jim Russell ’83 Heather Sheffield ’07 reflecting back on Ontario and enjoy trying to surpass each Staff Photographer Nadine Sherman 2015, I can still feel other’s accounts of record snowfall storms. Kiefer Creative Alex Mance Sorbello ’07 Graphic Design U.S. Lacrosse the electricity and Read about one of those storms, the Bliz- Lisa Potter Contributing Photographers enthusiasm that filled zard of ’66 detailed in a new book by Jim In Memoriam Morgan Altland ’17 Megan Maye ’16 Pearl’s Sunset Strip Farfaglia ’77, on page 31 and see where Michael Bielak Julie Blissert Aaron Wilson ’17 President Interns Deborah F. Stanley in West Hollywood your class year stacks up in the accompa- during an Oswego nying Top 10 snowiest seasons chart on The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. alumni event last February. The room page 32. Board of Directors Keith Chamberlain ’87 Kathy Smits Evans ’84 literally buzzed from the dozens of But perhaps, more powerful than President La-Dana Renee Jenkins ’94 Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) even lake-effect storms in uniting our Lisa Marceau Schnorr ’87 Maureen Flynn Kratz ’04 First Vice President Don Levine ’78* and other alumni networking, brain- alumni through generations and across Steve Messina ’91* storming ideas, pitching projects and great distances is the role that SUNY Donna Goldsmith ’82 Josh Miller ’08 Second Vice President Dana Segall Murphy ’99 swapping stories with each other. Oswego has played in your life. During my Elizabeth Locke Oberst Cathleen Richards ’09 Executive Director Mark Salmon ’93 Here, in sunny California, our Oswego travels throughout 2015, you expressed Dan Scaia ’68 Edgar Ames ’68 Stefen Short ’10 alumni were connecting and creating and gratitude for the life-changing friendships Tim Barnhart ’02 *Jennifer Shropshire ’86 Marc Beck ’93 caring about each other’s careers and about and mind-opening experiences you had Christie Torruella Paul Brennan ’93 the happenings at their beloved college. here at SUNY Oswego. You can relate to Michael Byrne ’79 Smith ’08 Jeffrey Sorensen ’92 As you’ll read in the “Oz to LA” article on the stories I share about the transforma- Mike Caldwell ’70 Karen Colucci Coia ‘89 **Deborah F. Stanley page 21, West Coast alumni connections tions occurring in our current students and Raelynn Cooter ’77 Kevin Sutherland ’05 Lisa Court ’83 Koren Vaughan ’95 to Oswego remain strong despite the nearly about their dreams being formulated and **Kerry Casey Dorsey ’81 Rick Yacobush ’77 Thomas Yates ’89 Amy Vanderlyke 2,700 miles that physically separate them realized. You know because you experi- * At large ** Ex officio Dygert ’01 from our lakeside campus. Their energy for enced this, too. I am confident sending our Jerry Esposito ’70 their work and their passion for their alma future graduates into the world knowing State University of New York at Oswego mater are yet another example of the that you’ll be there to support and guide Deborah F. Stanley Kerry Casey Dorsey ’81 Oswego alumni ties that bind. them—one Laker to another. President Vice President for That event in LA was one of more than So as the snow begins to fall this Lorrie Clemo Development and Provost and Vice President Alumni Relations 20 events the college hosted this year across holiday season, I hope that no matter for Academic Affairs Jerald Woolfolk the country, including New York, Boston, where you are, you will carry Oswego Nicholas Lyons Vice President for Student Vice President for Affairs and Enrollment Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., with you, as you will always be part of Administration and Finance Management Phoenix, Chicago and cities in Florida. No our Oswego family. Office of Alumni and Parent Relations matter where we are or what the season— King Alumni Hall, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126 the first question we hear is: “So how’s the Phone: 315-312-2258 weather in Oswego?” Fax: 315-312-5570 Email: [email protected] The shared experience of studying on Website: alumni.oswego.edu our lakeside campus unites Oswego facebook.com/oswegoalumni alumni, no matter where you are in the Warm wishes, @oswegoalumni country—or in the world. Our physical Deborah F. Stanley, President campus is unique. We have stunning fall

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Local Lakers Program Helps Alumni Connect in Their Region

fter Michael Kanick ’02 gradu- Initially, the OAA will focus Aated with history and political on re-launching programs in the science degrees from SUNY Oswego, following areas with the highest the Binghamton, N.Y., native made density of Oswego alumni: some con nections through his Oswego l Albany, N.Y. network to launch a successful career as l Greater New York City a digital strategist in Washington, D.C. l Rochester, N.Y. “Not only did the school provide l Syracuse/Central New York me with a world-class education, but I Do you want to become a l Greater Washington, D.C. also met some amazing people—both But that doesn’t preclude alumni students and professors—who led me Local Lakers Ambassador? in other areas from volunteering to to D.C. and directly led to job oppor- Visit alumni.oswego.edu/locallakers or be Ambassadors. For example, Aaron tunities based on their networks,” call 315-312-2258 for details. Varcasio ’04 hosted an Oswego he said. alumni social at a restaurant in Kanick said he’d like to connect Denver last summer. Approximately with other alumni in his area—particu- alumni connect to their alma mater and 25 alumni and friends came together to larly those who are just starting out— each other, according to Laura Pavlus network, socialize and share stories about so he volunteered to serve as a Local Kelly ’09, director of alumni and parent their time along the shores of Lake Ontario. Lakers Ambassador. He is one of 65 relations. “I am very happy that I had the alumni who stepped forward to plan The Ambassadors will identify activi- op portunity to host an alumni event and host activities for Oswego alumni ties or events they’d like to plan for their in Denver,” Varcasio said. “It’s been a in their areas. region, and the Oswego Alumni Associa- goal of mine for quite some time, and it The Oswego Alumni Association tion will assist each group by providing happened! It was great to meet so many formally re-launched a regional alumni online registration tools, email and people from all walks of life, and I will program, Local Lakers, last summer marketing support, an Oswego banner definitely do it again.” l to help Oswego’s more than 80,000 and other materials for the activities. —Margaret Spillett

Freshmen ’83RUSSELL JIM College Welcomes Most enrollment: 1,506 Culturally Diverse Class Ever UP

Freshmen 6.6% Early Transfer enrollment: Decision Commitments 162 700 Culturally Highest ever diverse 4.5% increase freshmen: 460 Highest ever 30.5% of class

Members of the Class of 2019 and transfer Freshmen from students took part in the annual Welcoming Torchlight Ceremony Aug. 21 in the Freshmen STEM majors NYC: 286 Convocation Center and Arena in the Marano 405 highest ever 4.4% increase from 2014 Campus Center. MaryCate Rice ’16 encour- 30.6% increase from 2014 aged students to “do more and work harder” 86.6% increase from fall 2010 101% increase from 2011 in her welcoming remarks.

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Alumni Couple Provides ‘Real Money’ for Student Investment Club JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM he best way to learn responsible ship last summer, one of the first things financial management is by the analysts told me was that they want- actually spending and invest- ed to see investment club-style experience Ting your own money. Husband and wife, on applicants’ resumes. That has made Christopher Tuohy ’81 and Doreen me all that much more grateful for this Mochrie ’85, have established a fund opportunity on our campus.” with a $100,000 gift to the Student Mochrie and Tuohy said they are Investment Club so its members can especially thankful for the lifelong friends do just that. they made at Oswego. This fall, Mochrie “We hope that the fund gives Oswego took a long weekend to Nashville with her students real-life experience and puts college girlfriends—a tradition of traveling them in a better position to get a job together that the group does every other when they graduate,” said Tuohy, a year. For Tuohy, his connection to Oswego guidance counselor at Walt Whitman began during a trip to campus with his High School in Huntington Station, N.Y. the financial markets. Also, I’m incred- parents in February of his senior year of “The club has real money to manage. ibly impressed by club and fund advisor high school. The students will learn both life and [Marcia Belmar Willock ’50 Professor “I had an immediate reaction—I just business lessons as they put real money of Finance] Mary Rodgers, as well as by knew and told my dad, ‘I want to come to at risk, as opposed to just learning some the enthusiasm of the members and offi- school here,’” Tuohy said. “Of course, that’s theory in the classroom.” cers of the Student Investment Club.” not what has kept me connected all these The establishment of the fund also Finance major and Student Invest- years. It’s the people—my lifelong friends carries personal significance to Mochrie, ment Club President Kevin Stein ’16 land- that I made.” managing partner and global head of ed an internship at an asset management Mochrie added: “We both have a investor relations at Perry Capital in company last summer, so his involvement strong affiliation with Oswego and will New York City. in the club has already paid off for him. He always be grateful for the people we’ve “I work for a hedge fund on Wall expects those experiences will continue to met and relationships we’ve built there Street, and there are not a lot of Oswego help him upon his graduation in May. over the years.” l grads on the Street,” Mochrie said. “This “The Student Investment Club uses —Margaret Spillett gift will give young people the opportunity many of the concepts we learn in class to learn about the market. With the practi- but then applies them to managing an cal experience they’ll gain from manag- actual portfolio,” he said. “The experience ing the fund, club members will have a in the club will definitely set me apart real advantage if they pursue a career in from other candidates. During my intern-

JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Top Historian, Author, Engineer Helps Students Discover ‘Amazing STEM Women’ ill Tietjen, chief executive officer of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Jauthor and electrical engineer, spoke to a standing-room only crowd on Sept. 10 about scientific and technical women, whom she featured in her best- selling and award-winning book, Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. Her visit was part of the Ernst & Young Lecture Series, supported by a gift from Robert Feinberg ’78 and his wife, Robbi, as well as Ernst & Young. l Pictured at left are: Tietjen, Robbi and Robert Feinberg and President Deborah F. Stanley.

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 4 CAMPUS CURRENTS JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Find the Founder! In the Summer 2015 issue, the Sheldon statue can be found in the upper right section of the Brian Stratton ’79 photo on page 35. The grand prize winner of a College Store gift certificate and Sheldon Hall print is Tim Noffsinger ’74. Winning Sheldon Hall prints are Matthew Caldwell ’02, Rosalie Nicastro DiMeo ’63, Denham R. Griffin ’47, Mary C. Helmer ’83 and Anne Montreal ’91. A tiny replica of the Sheldon statue, pic- tured here, is hidden somewhere in this issue. Find the Founder and send us a letter or email with the location and page number, your name, class year and address. We will draw one Campus Puts Charge into entry at random from all the correct answers and the winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to the College Store and a Electric-Vehicle Movement print of Sheldon Hall. The next five entries drawn will receive atti Tifft, secretary in economics and political science, tries out Sheldon Hall prints. Send your entry to Find the Founder, P one of the new ChargePoint electric-vehicle charging stations King Alumni Hall, 300 Washington Blvd., Oswego, NY 13126, on her 2015 Tesla S70D. The Shineman Center south parking lot’s or email [email protected]. Entries must be post- three stations, which have the capacity to fuel up to six cars simulta- marked or emailed by Feb. 15. l neously, are among the first in Oswego County. l

Richard S. Shineman ’83RUSSELL JIM Center Receives LEED Gold Certification he Richard S. Shineman TCenter for Science, Engineering and Innovation, shown with the demonstra- tion wind turbine in fore- ground and solar panel array on the roof, achieved Leader- ship in Energy and Environ- mental Design (LEED) Gold certification, according to Cannon Design, following the final construction review by the U.S. Green Building Council. l

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Noteworthy News The Rankings Roundup of the top 225 colleges in the 11-state region as part of its “2016 Best Colleges: everal national organizations have Region by Region.” The rankings are issued their college rankings, and SUNY S based on students’ ratings as well as Oswego continues to receive high praise for academics, admissions selectivity, finan- affordability, hands-on learning opportuni- cial aid, fire safety, quality of life and ties, green practices, student and graduate sustainability. success, excellent faculty and academic programs. Top Master’s-Level Institution: Wash- Here are some of the college’s most ington Monthly recognized Oswego at No. recent honors: 53 among public master’s-level institu- tions nationwide, based on the college’s Top 25 Ranking for Online MBA: “contribution to the public good.” The School of Business’ online master’s in business administration program came A-Plus School for B Students: U.S. in at No. 22 in Princeton Review’s recent News also selected Oswego for its “A-Plus honored SUNY Oswego “for its success in ranking, based on surveys last year of Schools for B Students” list. The media expanding programming by developing business school administrators and nearly group’s “America’s Best Colleges” guide competencies relevant to graduates’ lives.” 2,000 students enrolled in programs at ranks nearly 1,400 colleges nationwide, 80 business schools. Top 15 Public Regional Universities: compared on a set of performance indica- U.S. News Media Group ranked SUNY tors that include peer assessment, reten- More than 12 Years as a ‘College of Oswego among the top 15 public regional tion rate, faculty resources, student Distinction:’ Innovative learning oppor- universities in the North for 2016 in its selectivity, financial resources, the differ- tunities at SUNY Oswego grew in 2014– rating, released in September. ence between predicted and actual gradu- 15, earning the school recognition again ation rates (58 percent and 63 percent, among the nation’s Colleges of Distinc- Best in the Northeast: The Princeton respectively, for Oswego—both up from tion. The website and e-guidebook Review in August rated SUNY Oswego one last year), and alumni giving. l

College Establishes New Academic Programs ith more than 110 academic programs, Oswego offers a courses in chemistry, health promo- broad range of degree and certificate programs that are tion and wellness, and counseling and Wrevised in response to advances in the discipline, the needs of psychological services. The new minor our region and the changing demands of our students. This year, the holds the potential to broaden future college has established several new programs to meet those ever- employment and graduate school evolving market demands. opportunities for students in majors Master’s in Graphic Design and Digital Media: The 30-credit such as wellness management, biol- hour program combines courses in studio, thesis, history and theory ogy, psychology and more. and practice. Structured in two tracks—specialist and generalist— Certificate in Behavioral the interdisciplinary coursework allows students to focus the degree Forensics: This 15-credit online cer- Brianna Favata ’17 and to meet their career aspirations. tificate of advanced study examines Sandra Bargainnier, chair Minor in Illustration: Because illustration is re-emerging as the intersection of human behavior of health promotion and a contemporary form of communication, the establishment of the with the legal system, and provides wellness, examine tools minor adds weight and legitimacy to the experience and qualifica- opportunities for law enforcement, used in nutrition classes. tions of graphic design and studio art students as well as majors in court, corrections, mental health coun- disciplines that offer illustration-rich careers, such as the sciences, seling and other professionals to advance their knowledge about the creative writing, and cinema and screen studies, among others. The signs and motivators of behavior in those within or headed toward 24-credit minor is a re-packaging of courses already offered to meet the criminal justice system. students’ request for such a credential. For more information about these and other academic Minor in Nutrition: To help meet the needs for professionals in programs, visit oswego.edu/admissions. l a booming field, the college added the 18-credit minor that includes

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Two Oswego Alumni Among AACSB's 100 'Influential Leaders' Worldwide ACSB International, the global accred- to low-income high school students. It has iting body and membership associa- helped more than 5,500 students enroll in Ation for business schools, announced 219 colleges to date. Over 1,000 have grad- Sept. 22 that SUNY Oswego graduates uated and are now architects, lawyers, doc- Robert Moritz ’85 of PricewaterhouseCoo- tors, firefighters, teachers, bankers, nurses, Robert Moritz ’85 Virginia Donohue ’88 pers and Virginia Donohue ’88 of On Point accountants and counselors. Donohue for College have been recognized among its received a bachelor’s degree in accounting Donohue and Moritz join leaders such inaugural group of 100 Influential Leaders. from Oswego in 1988. as the CEO of one of the world’s largest “We are proud that Bob and Ginny have Moritz serves as chairman and senior global relief services, a technology pioneer been selected among the first 100 AACSB partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the who is working to cure cancer, the founder Influential Leaders,” said college President second largest accounting firm in the of a global e-commerce powerhouse, and Deborah F. Stanley. “They are indeed vision- United States, where he has advocated for an enterprising president credited with ary change agents who have benefited gender equity, diversity, work-life balance reviving an international toy industry favor- our society. Their accomplishments are and talent development. His commitment to ite—Legos. More than 20 industry sectors examples of the extraordinary contributions quality-of-life issues for employees has been across 21 countries are represented among Oswego alumni make daily in the fields to effective, as demonstrated by PwC’s ranking the Influential Leaders, including Sam which they have devoted their lives, and by career specialists Vault.com—for the Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam’s Club; they provide incredible inspiration for our past three years, Vault has ranked PwC as Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state current students.” the No. 1 accounting firm based on firm cul- and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Donohue left a corporate career to ture, work-life balance, compensation, busi- and Martin Whitman, for whom Syracuse found On Point for College, of which she ness outlook, training opportunities and University’s business school is named. is executive director. The Syracuse-based prestige. Moritz graduated from Oswego The full list of recipients is online at nonprofit makes higher education accessible with an accounting degree in 1985. www.aacsb.edu/Influential-Leaders. l

Walker Health University Police Earns Center Reaccredited National Recognition ary Walker Health Center, the UNY Oswego’s University Police Mprimary care center for SUNY SDepart ment took first place in the Thre’s S Time… Oswego students, earned three-year reac- college and university category of the 2015 DECEMBER 2015 creditation in May from the Accreditation National Law Enforcement Challenge, Association for Ambulatory Health Care, according to the International Association 1 2 3 4 5 according to Angela Brown, the new of Chiefs of Police. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 director of student health services for This is the third consecutive year that 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 the college. Oswego’s University Police has been The reaccreditation effort was led by selected as a national winner—and the first 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 former director Elizabeth Burns, who time it has come in first—in the competi- 27 28 29 30 31 recently retired after 32 years of service. tion that recognizes excellent law enforce- Accreditation signifies that the health ment traffic safety programs. s 2015 comes to a close and we center has met the AAAHC’s recognized Police departments are judged on their Ahead into the final stretch of our national standards for quality health care, department policies and guidelines, historic $40 million campaign, “With said Brown, who is a board-certified nurse training of officers, incentives and recogni- Passion & Purpose,” be sure to send in practitioner. Among other measures, a tion, public information and education, your end of the year gift to The Fund representative of the organization made a enforcement activity, and effectiveness of for Oswego. Help create opportunities day-and-a-half site visit during spring efforts, all in the areas of speed enforce- for our current and future students. semester. The three-year duration of the ment, occupant restraint, driving while Please use the envelope included in reaccreditation means that the AAAHC intoxicated enforcement, and state or local this issue of OSWEGO Alumni Maga- found no issues that needed remediation. l issues. The local issue highlighted was zine, or you can make your gift online distracted driving. l at alumni.oswego.edu/givenow.

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Snapshots: Research and Creative Work JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Home Economics Re-Envisioned he field once known as tion in Changing Times Thome economics is (University of Georgia Press, alive, well and informing 2015) looks at how the many other branches of subject has evolved and knowledge, according to a expanded into “a multidisci- new book co-edited by plinary field” addressing history professor and Honors “issues related to daily living Program Director Gwen Kay by applying concepts from and Sharon Y. Nickols, dean the physical and social and professor emerita at the sciences, the arts and human- University of Georgia. ities, and its own specialized Remaking Home Economics: areas of study,” they write Resourcefulness and Innova- in the introduction. l Patanjali Parimi JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Antenna Maker Awards $100K Research Grant to Wireless Lab he college’s Advanced administered through the TWireless Systems Research Research Foundation, Oswego’s Center has won a two-year, wireless center will be respon- $100,000 research grant from sible for design, simulation, a Western New York antenna measurement and preliminary manufacturer to co-develop prototyping of miniaturized, high-efficiency compact omnidirectional antennas. antennas for railway transpor- Scientists will test a variety of tation systems and, potential ly, synthetic materials and other other applications. techniques to achieve size reduc- Patanjali Parimi, director tion. STI-CO will produce a of the research center and final prototype and manufacture Gwen Kay principal investigator for the the wideband antennas. grant, said STI-CO Industries The agreement calls for of Orchard Park made the the collaborating researchers award to take advantage of to disclose any new data, Judging Free Speech the college’s state-of-the-art discoveries or inventions to olitical science faculty member Helen J. Knowles wireless lab and equipment, the Research Foundation’s Pco-edited and helped write Judging Free Speech his professional experience and Technology Transfer Office for (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015), a 300-page book exploring the center’s doctoral-level and potential patent protection. the First Amendment opinions of nine key justices over post-doctoral research staff. The center’s research labora- the course of a century of Supreme Court decisions. “This is the first company tory in the Shineman Center The book, co-edited by Steven B. Lichtman of Shippens- to sponsor our research,” features signal generators, signal burg University in Pennsylvania, traces important develop- Parimi said. “We hope to analyzers, network and imped- ments in the jurisprudence of free speech and expression, from continue to attract funding ance analyzers, and computers Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. through William J. Brennan and on from other companies, as well.” running cutting-edge software to Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Stephen STI-CO has clients in packages. An anechoic chamber Breyer of today’s court. Conceived for use in the classroom, law enforcement, emer- for testing in an environment the book helps close a gap in the literature about free speech, gency response, transit and free of reflections of sound and particularly among textbooks for courses on the First Amend- other realms in the United electromagnetic waves recently ment or civil liberties. l States and Canada. opened in Wilber Hall. l Under terms of the grant,

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 8 CAMPUS CURRENTS JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Body Punishment aggie Lamond Simone, Mfreelance writer and adjunct instructor in communi- cation studies, has published a memoir titled Body Punishment: OCD, Addiction and Finding the Courage to Heal (Central PROVIDED Recovery Press, 2015). Taking Rachel Lee seven years to write and three weeks to sell, the book exposes Grant to Support Research decades of Simone’s self-abuse, on Hawaii’s Lava Flows suicidal thoughts, misdiagnoses and self-loathing, and has drawn achel Lee of the atmospheric and a wide range of attention from Rgeological sciences department will national news. For more about research the behavior of lava flows on the her book and writing career, visit island of Hawaii and in laboratory simula- maggielamondsimone.com. l Maggie Lamond Simone tions, thanks to a highly competitive two- year, $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Low Down on Jazz Bass Working as co-investigator with colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh, hen Danny Ziemann, who teaches bass in Oswego’s music department, could not where she earned a doctorate and did post- Wfind a book or other resources to supplement his lessons, he wrote one with the doctoral work, Lee will study the molten encouragement of his students. The resulting work, The Low Down: A Guide to Creating rock at temperatures exceeding 2000 degrees Supportive Jazz Bass Lines (Institute for Creative Music, 2015), also features 50 audio files to Fahrenheit to better predict the flows’ complement instruction. l

behavior as the lava cools. The overarching SHERMAN NADINE goal is to alleviate hazards through more accurate prediction. Lee plans to do much of her data analysis at SUNY Oswego. She will involve under- graduates in that work and in experiments using thimble-size samples of lava. Larger scale lab work will take place at Pittsburgh and at Syracuse University’s Lava Project. Other collaborators on the NSF project include researchers from Blaise Pascal University in France and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. The fieldwork, likely next summer, will take place at lava flows on and around the Big Island’s Mount Kilauea, a volcano that has been erupting continuously since 1981. Researchers will study the properties and behavior of the flows using instruments that are handheld as well as satellite-based. “Particularly from a hazard perspective, this [research] gives us a lot of information on where the lava may flow as it cools and how fast it may progress,” Lee said. “Ultimately, Danny Ziemann we hope to modify flow models to help miti- gate hazards and loss of property.” l

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Students Make Great Advances Kristen Eichhorn Named Faculty Fellow JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Through Summer Scholar Research Projects resident Deborah F. oah Seabrook ’17 (right), pre-med biology major and PStanley has named Nhonors student, discusses his research project poster about Kristen Campbell Eichhorn, cardiac glycosides with chemistry professor Casey Raymond on professor of communication Sept. 4 at the Summer 2015 Scholarly and Creative Activities studies, as SUNY Oswego’s Symposium in Sheldon Hall Ballroom. Among the programs latest Faculty Fellow in represented were faculty-student Challenge Grants, student-faculty the President’s Office. Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants, Global Laboratory and high Eichhorn is the fifth school scholars who benefited from summer work on the SUNY faculty member to serve in this Oswego campus. The Summer Scholars program is supported by capacity. She will learn about The Fund for Oswego. l the projects and objectives of the offices of the president Kristen Eichhorn

JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM and vice presidents and serve as a liaison to the faculty. As Faculty Fellow, she 2010 to 2013 she chaired the has an office in Culkin department of communica- Hall. She continues to teach tion studies. She served as the this semester and has been interim dean of the Division elected to serve as one of of Extended Learning in 2013. two SUNY Faculty Senators She earned a bachelor’s representing Oswego, along degree in communication with Diana Boyer of the studies and Spanish from atmospheric and geological Canisius College, master’s sciences department. in communication research Eichhorn’s first academic from West Virginia University posting was at Towson Univer- and doctorate in commu- sity. She moved to SUNY nication research from the Oswego in 2007, and from University of Miami. l

SUNY Grants Support Development of Academic Programs to Meet Workforce Demands he college has earned three SUNY to “develop tomorrow’s health care With the assistance of earlier High THigh Needs grants totaling $197,000 leaders” Needs grants, the college has worked with to expand programs in human develop- such businesses as Novelis, MedTech and l A second year of support for Oswego’s ment, health services administration, and Welch Allyn to fill needs for skilled proposed new biomedical and health biomedical and health informatics. workers through the software engineering informatics master’s degree program, The SUNY-wide Office of Academic and electrical and computer engineering $60,000 for salary and software Affairs and the Provost approved programs. proposals for: The college last year received a High SUNY High Needs grants, established Needs grant of $85,800 for the planned in 2006, foster innovation and train the l Expansion and extension of the under- BHI graduate program. SUNY Oswego has next generation of high-tech workers. graduate human development program partnered with businesses and economic Proposals must demonstrate that they “to meet the need for community and development organizations—including would help meet state demand for profes- social service workers,” $83,500 for Central New York hospitals and Center- sionals in such realms as engineering, salary and marketing State CEO—to develop a curriculum for nursing and other health care occupations, l The master of business administration helping meet workforce needs in informa- renewable and clean energy, biomedical in health services administration, tion technology in health care. and biotechnical fields, agriculture, agri- $53,500 for promotion and marketing business and information technology. l

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SUNY Oswego’s First Start-Up NY Partnership Forged JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM UNY Oswego has partnered with management, business administration SDesigner Hardwood Flooring CNY of and concepts such as lean manufacturing, East Seneca Street in Oswego in a Start-Up energy conservation and design. This NY project—the college’s first—that holds and future Start-Up NY collaborations promise for 19 new jobs. promise to materially advance the college’s The company will employ local hires commitment to provide applied learning as well as talented SUNY Oswego interns experiences for our students, share our and cooperative-education students to faculty expertise and state-of-the-art participate in engineering, design and research facilities, and drive economic manufacture of panelized flooring that uses growth in Oswego County and regionally.” a patent-pending, first-to-market system, Start-Up NY enables new and according to Sherry Marmon, majority expanding businesses to operate tax-free owner and president of the company. for 10 years on or near university campuses. College President Deborah F. Stanley The collaborations offer companies such Oswego’s Designer Hardwood Flooring own- ers (from left) Joe Marmon, vice president, said Designer Hardwood Flooring’s as Designer Hardwood Flooring direct and Sherry Marmon, president and majority designation demonstrates that Start-Up access to advanced research laboratories, owner, show samples of panelized flooring to NY projects can encourage new local experts in business and industry, and SUNY Oswego President Deborah F. Stanley. manufacturing while furthering such a ready pool of talented degree-seekers SUNY Oswego goals as experiential eager for real-world learning. In turn, the learning, college-to-career support and a companies promise to deliver jobs—more strengthened greater Oswego economy. than 3,600 pledged statewide to date include, besides decade-long business tax “The company has pledged to integrate among 128 approved businesses. relief, a five-year exemption from state SUNY Oswego students into the business The state recently accepted the and local income taxes for those hired and experience,” Stanley said. “It has agreed company’s portion of its Seneca Street site certified as new employees and a reduction to use this facility as a training site for as eligible for Start-Up NY benefits that in those taxes for the next five years. l

Emergency Fund Established for Students in Critical Need aul Fullum ’72 of Fullum ’72 Endowed Student Emergency begin a new educational adventure: law Auburn, Ala., knows Fund, to honor his late wife and to school, an endeavor he’d always dreamed that sometimes, a little assist SUNY Oswego students who are of doing “for fun.” Fullum passed the help can go a long way. dealing with an emergent, unforeseen Alabama state bar examination in 2014. Following the death of his wife, circumstance during the academic year “We always valued education,” said Linda Searby Fullum ’72, in 2008, he that could prevent them from continuing Fullum, who earned a B.S. in political Pdecided to help others in emergency their education. Working through the science at SUNY Oswego, while Linda situations by working with the Salvation Dean of Student Affairs Office, students graduated with a degree in childhood Army and the Domestic Violence experiencing an emergency can apply for education. “It’s especially important to Intervention Center in eastern Alabama. the fund. help those who might not be able to con- There are times when financial sup- Paul, who met Linda at SUNY tinue without help to overcome a difficult port, like the kind provided by these Oswego, shared with her a lifelong love situation in their lives.” agencies, can change everything for an of learning—and support for SUNY —Eileen Crandall individual in need, Fullum said. Oswego—that makes this a fitting way “Sometimes people are in extremely to continue her legacy. difficult situations, and a helping hand “I’ve always believed that education with life expenses can make the differ- is something you borrow, then you pay ence in their success,” he said. it back to someone else,” said Fullum, With that in mind, Fullum has estab- who retired and sold his company, Auto/ lished the Paul ’72 and Linda Searby Mate Dealership Systems Inc., only to

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Tyler Hall Renovations Include a Seat-Naming Campaign for Waterman Theatre

seat-naming campaign launched It is, however, a way to stay connected A Sept. 1, offering donors an opportu- to the past while providing for the Please, Take nity to leave a lasting legacy and play a future, Pretzat said. All naming leading role in program enhancements at gifts support the School of Your Seat! the newly renovated Charlotte Waterman Communication, Media and Theatre on the SUNY Oswego campus. the Arts Equipment Fund. Part of a $22.2 million renovation Waterman Theatre is slated for completion in mid-2016, located inside Tyler Hall, which Waterman Theatre will be the premier has been closed since the end of venue for a wide range of performing spring semester 2014 for renova- arts events. tions. The new theatre will feature “Waterman Theatre’s walls have state-of-the-art lighting and sound absorbed many a high moment, a good systems, new rigging for curtains Name a seat in the newly renovated collection of wrong notes and a great deal and backdrops, a new elevator for Waterman Theatre for $500 per seat. Learn more of excitement over the years,” said Dr. Julie the orchestra pit and floor traps at alumni.oswego.edu/watermanseats Pretzat, dean of the School of Communi- throughout the stage that may be or 315-312-3003. cation, Media and the Arts. “We feel many removed to accommodate set design, will want to be part of that experience for according to Facilities Design and years to come.” Construction Project Coordinator Robert tion staff have been added to the theatre. Seat naming is a wonderful gift for an Lloyd ’81 M’90. Two new catwalks will be “Waterman Theatre has always been arts lover and a lasting tribute to a family built for a total of three, and an acoustical sort of a ‘sacred space’ for students, faculty member or loved one, Pretzat said. Each cloud ceiling is being installed. and alumni in music and theatre who have name will be engraved on a plaque affixed The theatre’s seating has been recon- spent countless hours rehearsing and to one of the 410 seats available in the figured to be more audience-friendly, with performing there,” Pretzat said. “Theatre seat-naming campaign. two sets of stairs dividing the seating into and music performances from the past Seat-naming donations are 100 percent three sections. There will be two levels of 40-plus years still echo in the memories of tax-deductible. Donors are not eligible to wing seating. Additionally, several seats can those who performed and attended.” l select a specific seat, nor does seat naming be removed to accommodate wheelchairs, —Eileen Crandall serve as a reservation for performances. and two lifts for stage actors and produc-

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Alumna Educator Establishes Scholarship for Students Dedicated to Community Involvement t wasn’t long after an Crawford credits her experiences adventurous Linda at Oswego—and around the PROVIDED 1960YEARBOOK Schultheis Crawford ’60 globe—with giving her a earned a degree in education that curiosity about the world and sheI boarded an airplane for Chile. a successful lifelong career as Tasked with teaching children in a an educator. small mining village in the desert region “Oswego was my personal of northern Chile, her journey covered launching pad,” said Crawford, many legs of difficult rural travel that who was a residence mentor for concluded in front of a desolate house. Johnson Hall during her time “I was just dropped off there,” at Oswego. That job she recalls Crawford said. “I was told, ‘This is where fondly, as she does her memory Linda Schultheis Crawford ’60 the teachers live.’” of wearing a large firefighter’s hat as she with her husband, Stan Feeling the full impact of being thou- led students down to the rocky shores of sands of miles from home, an exhausted Lake Ontario during fire drills. “All of my “Oswego was so good for me,” Crawford gathered her things and headed experiences were amazing, and I want Crawford said. “I want others to have for the door. A young woman opened it to pay it forward to help others benefit that, too—and a lifetime love of adven- to greet her. from what I’ve been fortunate enough to tures and learning.” They looked at each other in surprise. experience.” Crawford lives with her husband, “She looked so familiar. I said, ‘Don’t Crawford has established the Linda E. Stan, in Colorado Springs, Colo. I know you?’ and she said, ‘Didn’t you Schultheis Crawford ’60 Scholarship as a —Eileen Crandall go to Oswego?’ and we both laughed,” celebration of being the first in her family said Crawford, of her unexpected meet- to attend college. This scholarship seeks ing with Jane Banker Meng ’58. “Here to reward an individual pursuing a career I had traveled so far away, only to find in teaching children in grades 1-6, and Oswego again . . . in the middle of the who has demonstrated a commitment to northern Chilean desert.” community involvement and volunteerism. ALEXANDRASORBELLO’07MANCE Renovated Waterbury Hall Re-Opens for Fall 2015 ess than a year after Waterbury Hall closed for an $8.8 million Lfacelift and update, the residence hall opened its doors for 230 student residents in August. The renovated Waterbury has added eight additional rooms and three kitchens, and all floors, rooms and common spaces are now wheelchair accessible. Upgrades to the technology, mechanical systems and roof will improve life within the building as well. The restrooms have been updated in modern configurations, and the building has gender neutral restrooms, new lounges on each floor, new windows and a lakeside terrace. All the furnishings are new. Work was completed by general contractor PAC & Associates of Oswego. King & King Architects of Syracuse, working with Facilities Services’ major projects unit, designed the project to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold standards of sustainability. For example, the atrium-like entranceway, designed to Cyrus Sassouni ’18, a resident assistant in Waterbury Hall, save costs and energy, serves as a solar chimney to pull in cooler air stands ready to welcome visitors. during warm months to the building’s upper levels. l

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Press Agent Provides Theatre Students a Glimpse Inside Broadway s a press agent for Broad way ’83RUSSELL JIM to pursue a major in theatre— Ashows, Juliana Hannett ’95 a decision that has served her has seen her share of euphoric well as a press agent. successes as well as devastating She has always felt the failures. pull of the theatre, both for a Her Broadway productions career and as an avid consumer have included Take Me Out, The of shows. History Boys, Beauty and the “The theatre is such a Beast and Into the Woods. In perfect place for me,” she said. 2008, she headed up the “Theatre days are long days, but Broadway and National Tour I love the sense of community.” campaigns for Billy Elliot and Hannett’s role as a press Memphis, along with the 2010 agent encompasses the develop- and 2012 productions of the hit Juliana Hannett ’95 ment of publicity plans, she told musical Elf. She was senior press students, and includes keeping agent for the hit Broadway abreast of trends in the business. revival of David Hare’s Skylight and Larry guest for an Artswego Theatre Talk public One trend she discussed is the movement in David’s Broadway debut as playwright and forum as part of the Oswego Alumni the Off-Broadway community to offer fewer star of Fish in the Dark. Association’s Alumni-In-Residence (AIR) experimental, edgy shows. So much is driven But she said she learned as much or program, with support from The Fund for by ticket sales that more avant garde produc- more from the failures as the successes. Oswego. Hannett, who earned a B.A. in tions often take the hit, she said. “I’ve worked on many shows that have theatre from Oswego and an M.A. in theatre “So now I get excited when I hear of died pretty spectacular deaths,” Hannett told from Hunter College, encouraged students something edgy happening,” she said. In students in Associate Professor Jessica to be well-rounded. fact, there are new playwrights who are Hester’s Introduction to Theatre class “Oswego taught me the importance experimenting with new styles, a thrilling during a Sept. 9 campus visit. “You can work of diverse skills,” said Hannett. She didn’t development in the business, she said. for a year on a show, and it just doesn’t make really have aspirations to act, took physics Hannett’s upcoming projects include it. You can learn a lot from that.” classes for “her own amusement” and A View from the Bridge, Shuffle Along and Hannett returned to campus to speak to accepted her parents’ insistence that she Groundhog Day. l more than 10 classes, and was the special minor in business at Oswego if she intended —Eileen Crandall JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Personal Loss at Sandy Hook Spurs School Safety Presenter ichele Gay, whose 7-year-old Mdaughter, Jospehine, lost her life in the Sandy Hook school shootings in December 2012, advocated for improved school safety and security in the nation’s schools during a Sept. 17 presentation in the auditorium of the Marano Campus Center. Her appearance was part of the SUNY Oswego public justice department’s Michael Climek ’05, the operations manager fall Cutler Speaker Series, an initiative of of Public Policy Research Lab at Louisiana State University, talked to Professor Leigh the Cutler Public Justice Excellence Fund, Wilson’s Introductory Fiction Writing class endowed by David Cutler ’74. l Sept. 28. His visit was part of the Oswego Alumni Association Alumni-In-Residence program, supported by The Fund for Oswego.

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Author Finds Inspiration in the Performing Arts ’83RUSSELL JIM or Jennifer Thompson Jackson ’94, But her love of the written word was Fthe process of writing books is “only also part of her artistic journey, as she one piece of [her] own artistic puzzle.” earned an M.A. in literature from Cali- “There’s no one right way to be a fornia State University at Los Angeles, writer,” Jackson told more than 100 taught composition and worked on her attendees at an Artswego Living Writers writing career. Series public event on Sept. 9. She returned It was during a visit with her three to campus through the Oswego Alumni young nieces that she found the inspiration Association’s Alumni-In-Residence (AIR) for the Punkydoos, a story about a little girl program, with support from The Fund who assembles a rock band. Jackson’s for Oswego. nieces demanded her creative attention,

JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM and turning everyday objects into musical instruments was a form of play. Jackson’s husband, a composer and songwriter, created a Punkydoos song to go along with Jackson’s resulting picture book, which was illustrated by Dan Andreasen and is intended for 3 to 7 year olds. Writing the Punkydoos allowed Jackson to integrate her own love of music with the story. “I loved finding the beats in the word choices, the musicality of each word,” she said. Jackson, whose first book manuscript garnered an agent but was never pub lished, Jennifer Thompson Jackson ’94 gave advice to aspiring authors and fielded questions about her path to publication. Speech Expert Leads Since the release of the Punkydoos, she Jackson, who authored the children’s told the audience, she has had difficulty Workshop for Theatre book The Punkydoos Take the Stage focusing on writing. She and her husband (Disney Hyperion, 2014), never took a welcomed a baby boy, who arrived prema- Department creative writing class during her time at turely and was still in the hospital when the oted theatre voice and speech Oswego. Instead, she found her path into book was released. He is now thriving. Nspecialist Barry Kur ’74 spoke in the world of writing through performance Despite her “traumatic entry into classes in the college’s lab theatre in Hewitt and dance. motherhood,” Jackson knows she will Union on Aug. 28. A professor emeritus of “Writing is only one medium through write again. theatre at Penn State, Kur is a master teacher which to tell a story, and I consider myself “The words will be there when I’m of Lessac training for improved voice and a storyteller,” said Jackson, who was a dual ready,” she said. “If you thought I was body work and director of certification of theatre and English major at Oswego and coming here to inspire you, you’ve got it the Lessac Training and Research Institute. now resides in Burbank, Calif. backwards. I’m here to be inspired by all of He has been the voice, speech, dialect and Her love of storytelling began with you, and to reconnect to the period in my text coach for more than 100 professional theatre, where she developed original life when I was an emerging writer.” and academic productions. Kur returned to character-driven physical theatre pieces. Jackson has a young adult novel campus with Oswego Alumni Association’s This led to work as a choreographer for concept in mind for her next project. For Alumni-In-Residence program, with actors on stage and screen. She won an more information about the author, visit support from The Fund for Oswego. l NAACP Award for her work with Corner- www.jenniferjacksonbooks.com. l stone Theater Company and shared an LA —Eileen Crandall Weekly Theater Award for Best Revival with The Actors’ Gang.

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JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Lorraine Marano’s Legacy Lives On Through $7.5 Million Endowment arking the two-year anniversary of Mthe death of SUNY Oswego’s largest donor, the trustee of the Lorraine E. Marano Living Trust, Theresa A. Sugar Scanlon, came to campus Sept. 28 to dedi- cate with President Deborah F. Stanley a plaque installed in the Marano Campus Center, which was named in honor of Lorraine and Nunzio “Nick” Marano’s generous community spirit and their $7.5 million gift. Marano’s estate gift to SUNY Oswego—the largest in the college’s 154-year history—has been invested to establish the Lorraine E. and Nunzio “Nick” Alumni Panel Offers Advice to C. Marano Endowment, which will be used to fund scholarships for students with Students During ALANA Week financial need, especially those who are first-generation college students. The he key to success as a student is setting tunity Program at SUNY Oswego; and endowment is expected to yield at least T goals and evaluating how well you Soheila Ahmad Yaddow ’08, teacher for $300,000 annually in perpetuity to support are meeting them—every single day. the Enrichment Program, Frazer K-8 School students. The college expects to select the That’s the advice one alumna offered to in Syracuse, N.Y.—echoed McGeary’s first recipients of the scholarships in a crowd of about 50 students and other advice on time management. All juggled 2016-17 academic year for use in the participants at an alumni leadership panel involvement in a variety of campus clubs 2017-18 academic year. l held Sept. 21 in the Marano Campus and organizations alongside their academic Center. The panel, part of the 29th annual endeavors, and all encouraged students to ALANA (African, Latino, Asian and Native be realistic when it came to involvement and American) Student Leadership Conference to find a network of support on campus. at SUNY Oswego, provided students an “Surround yourself with positivity, opportunity to interact with—and gain and positive people,” Matombo said. As a insight from—successful alumni. student, Matombo taped signs on the door Tiffany McGeary ’11, a medication and wall in his residence hall room that said nurse for Oswego Behavioral Health “Don’t Ever Give Up,” so it would be the last Services, told students that she kept a thing he saw before falling asleep. “That planner and at the end of each day, helped to motivate me to do all the things reviewed what she had accomplished— I had going on, plus keep a good GPA.” a valuable method to manage her time, The panelists also visited classrooms assure she was always prepared and, most and made presentations through the importantly, meet her goals and build Oswego Alumni Association’s Alumni- new ones. In-Residence (AIR) program, with support “You have to have goals,” McGeary from The Fund for Oswego. said. “If you have goals, you can know The ALANA Student Leadership when you get where you want to be, and Conference is a weeklong multicultural then you can put other goals in place.” celebration featuring a fashion show, lead- Other panelists—Rufaro Matombo ’12, ership workshops, a gala banquet and a digital media producer for “The Combat musical performance by the Williamsburg Jack Show” on the Loud Speakers Network; Salsa Orchestra. For more information Grace Maxon-Clarke ’11, academic plan- about ALANA, visit oswego.edu/point/ ning counselor for the Educational Oppor- alana-student-leadership-conference. l

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 16 CAMPUS CURRENTS JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM Events Visit alumni.oswego.edu for complete listing.

Dec. 5 Reunion 2016 Planning Committee Meeting* Dec. 5 Track and Field Alumni Reunion* Jan. 9 Reunion 2016 Planning Committee Meeting* Feb. 6 Men’s Basketball Alumni Reunion* Feb. 6 Reunion 2016 Planning Committee Meeting* March TBD Alumni and Friends Event in North Carolina* March TBD Alumni and Friends Events in Florida* April 2 Oswego Alumni Board of Directors and GOLD Leadership Alumna Artist Returns to Restore Her Mosaic at Penfield Council Meetings* Three decades after she installed her vivid mosaic on the south face of Penfield Library, April 16 Reunion 2016 Planning Committee Meeting* Suzanne Gaffney Beason ’84 returned to freshen it this summer. Beason, who was amazed to see how well her creation held up, came back to campus to pursue a master’s degree in April 30 Field Hockey Alumni Reunion* art, building on a career that has included DC Comics and Marvel Entertainment in New York May 6 Oswego College Foundation City. She also recently participated in an alumni art exhibition titled “Tyler Hall Wayback Board of Directors Meeting** Machine” at the Oswego Civic Arts Center. l May 13 Commencement Eve Torchlight Ceremony* June 9-12 Reunion 2016*

JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM June 11 Oswego Alumni Board of Directors Meeting* June 12 Theatre Alumni Reunion in NYC*

Mark Your Calendars Now: JUNE 9 - 12 REUNION 2016

* Alumni and Parent Relations, 315-312-2258 ** University Development, 315-312-3003

alumni.oswego.edu/events

LECET Continues to Support Presidential Scholars For the 19th consecutive year, the New York State Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET) has supported Oswego’s Presidential Scholars Program. Bill Shannon, business manager for the Upstate New York Laborers’ Council and LECET representative, presented a check for $25,000 to President Deborah F. Stanley in October. l

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New Lakers Turf Stadium Officially Opens

ith a flip of a ceremonial coin, a PERKINS CHUCK Wnew chapter for Lakers athletics began Sept. 1 as the new Lakers Turf Sta- dium was officially opened for play. Dan Scaia ’68, a member of the 1966 Championship Lakers men’s soccer team, did the ceremonial coin toss following the remarks of Sue Viscomi, Lakers athletics director, and College President Deborah F. Stanley. The $2.37 million state-of-the-art facility hosted the men’s soccer game against nationally ranked St. Lawrence University, followed by the women’s field hockey game against top 20 ranked William Smith College. Before the game, President Stanley welcomed students and campus and community members to the mostly full 1,000-seat stadium.

CHUCK PERKINS CHUCK Student athletes, coaches, Dan Scaia ’68 and key administrators helped celebrate the opening. From left: Jenna Jevons ’17, Corinne Kimmelman ’17, Brandi Lusk, Sue Viscomi, Jerald Woolfolk, Deborah F. Stanley, Don Scaia ’68, Robert Friske, Andrew Mayrick ’16 and Todd Lawson ’16.

lectual life, a life lived to its fullest,” she President Stanley described the progress said. “And we make the commitment to that the campus has made in the past decade our athletes at this level to host a wide range to improve athletics facilities, including the of athletics experiences—24 intercollegiate ice rink in the Marano Campus Center, the sports—and to make sure that they’re renovation of Romney Field House, a new playing in the best of conditions.” track and the Lakers Turf Stadium. The stadium is the new home field for Following the president’s remarks, a Dan Scaia ’68, center, prepares to flip the men’s soccer, field hockey and men’s and ceremonial photo was taken of Stanley, coin to officially open the new Lakers women’s lacrosse teams. In addition to the Viscomi, Scaia, Vice President for Student Turf Stadium. 1,000-seat stadium, the new facility features Affairs Dr. Jerald Woolfolk, men’s soccer a 16-foot LED scoreboard with a color elec- head coach Robert Friske, women’s field “I’m standing on a field that is the tronic message display and a 10- by 48-foot hockey head coach Brandi Lusk, men’s embodiment of our excellence and I’m press box, providing space for professional soccer captains Todd Lawson ’16 and thrilled to be here,” Stanley said. “The fact media and Oswego’s student-run media Andrew Mayrick ’16, and women’s that it sits on this plateau gives it an aura outlets WTOP, WNYO and The Oswegonian field hockey student-athletes Corinne of authority. We hope that helps all of our to cover the games. Kimmelman ’17 and Jenna Jevons ’17. athletes who are using this stadium. I could A camera deck atop the press box Two music majors, Aaron Caraco ’16 go on and on about this stadium itself, but allows for games to be broadcast to multiple and Ashley Domenech ’16, sang the what I want you to know is that we are platforms by the on-campus, student-run national anthem before the men’s soccer committed to the student-athlete. We are television station WTOP10-TV, including game got underway. committed to a healthy mind and a healthy Internet streaming so parents, alumni and Then the fans, including Scaia and body. fans who can’t make it to the game can his wife, Linda, took their seats in the new “Division 3 is built on the philosophy watch from their desktops and mobile stadium to cheer on the Lakers. l that athletics is an integral piece of an intel- devices. —Margaret Spillett

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 18 CAMPUS CURRENTS ATHLETICS Alumnus Inducted into National Lacrosse Hall of Fame hen Robert Hartranft ’64 offered to LACROSSEU.S. Hartranft played baseball and basket- W help coach baseball at the Farming- ball for SUNY Oswego during his freshman dale (N.Y.) public school district back and sophomore years, but had to leave the in 1967, he was handed a lacrosse stick. teams to get a job during his junior and “They told me when a position opened senior years. At Oswego, he learned from up with baseball, they’d let me know,” basketball coach John Glinski and baseball Hartranft said. coach Walter Nitardy, and applied lessons A self-proclaimed “baseball and from Nitardy’s fierce defensive strategies to basketball kind of guy,” Hartranft had never the lacrosse field. played lacrosse. But a year later, when a Robert Hartranft ’64 celebrates a cham- “They were great coaches, and Oswego district coaching position became available pionship win with the Farmingdale lacrosse was such a nice place where everybody for baseball, Hartranft declined. team. knew everybody,” said Hartranft, who “I told them, ‘no thanks,’” said earned a B.S. in history, was a member of Hartranft, who was also the district’s Amer- wins, ranking third all-time among boys’ Beta Tau Epsilon fraternity and met his ican history teacher. “I was having too much high school coaches. Hartranft led Farming- wife, Maria Clapps Hartranft ’65, while fun coaching lacrosse.” dale to the New York State Championship in an Oswego student. Two of his children, Nearly 50 years later, the Oswego 2011, and also finished as state runner-up in Nancy Hartranft Del Giudice ’90 and County native has gained legendary status 1978 and 2003. His teams have captured 13 Greg ’97, are alumni, as well. among lacrosse’s elite, with an induction Nassau County championships and made 41 “One thing that’s great about high into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, consecutive playoff appearances. school coaching is that you can encourage part of the Lacrosse Museum located at He has been selected as the conference the kids to use it as an avenue to get into U.S. Lacrosse headquarters in Baltimore. coach of the year 10 times, and named the college,” he said. “I want to win as much as Hartranft was honored in an Oct. 24 Nassau County coach of the year twice. the next guy, but in the end, the life lessons ceremony and joined just over 400 lacrosse Hartranft also served as head coach of are what matter, and that the kids learn to greats who have earned Hall of Fame the U.S. Men’s Under-19 National Team work hard.” distinction. He is only the third high school in 1992 and led Team USA to the world On the heels of receiving some of the coach to be honored with induction into the championship. He was named winner of highest honors bestowed in the lacrosse Lacrosse Hall of Fame. the U.S. Lacrosse Gerry Carroll Award as the world, Hartranft has no intentions of Hartranft’s achievements span an National Coach of the Year in 2013. retiring from the sport just yet. impressive career in the sport he never But back when he was just starting out, “It’s not a job,” he said. “I love the intended to coach. He’s still the head lacrosse Hartranft learned his new sport alongside kids. They keep me young; they keep me coach at Farmingdale High School. Through his young team, and by “picking the brains” laughing.” l the 2015 season, Hartranft has logged 694 of colleagues. —Eileen Crandall

Play Clock Winding Down on Lakers Athletics Challenge ime is running out on the 2015 Lakers Athletics All gifts from alumni-athletes, current coaches, student-athletes Challenge. Do you know how your team ranks? Your and former coaches through Dec. 31 to any designation count toward T support could help your team rally to (or maintain!) the the Lakers Athletics Challenge. lead, and secure a $1,000 gift for your team. Make your gift online at alumni.oswego.edu/supportathletics, Remember if we secure 625 donors from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, call 315-312-3003 or use the envelope included in this issue of 2015, Rich ’80 and Beth Kagan Lashley ’80 will donate $30,000 OSWEGO Alumni Magazine. to The Fund for Oswego. The men’s and women's teams with the highest percentage of alumni participation will each receive $1,000 for their team!

19 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 CAMPUS CURRENTS to ATHLETICS OZ LA New Head Coach for Men’s and Swimming and Diving Teams Women’s Cross Country Named Recognized by CSCAA he SUNY Oswego men’s and women’s CHUCK PERKINS CHUCK he Oswego State SUNYAC Championship T swimming and diving teams were rec- TAthletics Department crowns, three student- ognized as NCAA Division III Scholar All- hired Sarah Ritchie to athletes to All-Region America teams by the College Swim Coaches head its men’s and wom- recognition and one Association of America (CSCAA) for the 2015 en’s cross country pro- individual to multiple spring semester. In order to be named on the grams in the summer All-America honors. All-America list, squads must earn a combined 2015. Ritchie also aids the A three-time team team grade-point average of 3.00 or higher. track and field teams in captain for the Golden Both the Laker men and women had their distance events. Eagles, Ritchie also spent the second-highest GPA of all the honored A Hilton, N.Y., native, a year assisting the track SUNYAC schools. The women’s swim- Ritchie came to the Lakers and field teams at Hilton ming and diving team has been named a from Brockport, where High School while she Scholar All-America team 11 of the past she spent three years on attended Brockport. 13 semesters, as the CSCAA produces the the coaching staff after a Ritchie holds a B.S. in list for both semesters each academic year. successful collegiate career mathematics from It is the third-straight spring semester for the Golden Eagles. Brockport and is currently working on an that the Laker men have earned a spot on She coached athletes to the breaking M.S. in athletic administration at her alma the Scholar All-America team list. l of nine school records, five individuals to mater. l

Women’s Ice Hockey Hires New Assistant Coach

reg Haney of Mar- PROVIDED Prior to assisting the injury after his junior year. This opened Gcellus, N.Y., joined Pointers, Haney spent two the door to the coaching realm as he began the SUNY Oswego wom- seasons at Western New his journey behind the bench as a student en’s ice hockey team as its England University as an assis- assistant, aiding with video breakdown and full-time assistant coach. tant coach and the recruiting on-campus recruiting. Before coming to coordinator. Haney developed Haney spent a year at Onondaga Oswego, he spent a year at a strength and conditioning Community College before heading to University of Wisconsin- program for the Golden Cortland, with the Lazers posting a perfect Stevens Point when the Bears while also heading the 15-0 season on their way to the 2007 Pointers made a run to recruiting and scouting efforts. NJCAA National Championship. the national champion- Other coaching experience During his high school years, Haney ship game before falling includes a year as an assistant played for Solvay where he was a two-time to Trinity College. While at Stevens Point, at the National Sports Academy in Lake First Team All-New York State selection, Haney helped two student-athletes to Placid and a year as a student assistant at his including New York State Player of the Year All-America selections and five to All- alma mater, SUNY Cortland. in 2005. Haney holds a B.A. in communica- Conference accolades, including Wisconsin In his playing days as a forward for tions and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player the Red Dragons, Haney appeared in 42 education. l of the Year. games, collecting 22 points on six goals and 16 assists before suffering a career-ending

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ccording to a 2013 study by the University of Southern California, Los Angeles has “shifted from a place of transplants to a home where the majority are native Californians.” Yet, there is a common apho- rism in LA that “you’ll never meet a native Angeleno.” This is because many residents of LA, or Angelenos, have a story about why, when and how they became residents of Southern California. Some aspired to work Ain Hollywood, LA’s trademark entertainment business, or to be located in the United States’ largest manufacturing and trade hub. Others just wanted to live in a place where the sun is constantly shining down over palm trees. Each area of LA is unique to the rest, but is still part of its collec- tive expanse. Passing through the sprawling metropolis reveals a vast collection of diverse individuals from various backgrounds, nationali- ties, professions and socio-economic statuses. Equally diverse are the unique group of Angelenos with the common bond of having gradu- ated from SUNY Oswego. There are more than 600 Oswego graduates living in the City of Angels, working in different professions from lawyer to author (see Jennifer Thompson Jackson ’94 on page 15), to apparel manu- facturer to filmmaker to PR professional. Despite the geographical distance from their alma mater, many of these alumni are still connected to their Oswego friends, classmates and former

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professors, and leverage those connec- Coming, as well as Oswego’s Solid State tions. Some, like Kyle Crowell ’14 and jazz ensemble under the leadership of Ryan Farmer ’14, even took the risk of Professor Emeritus Hugh Burritt. moving to LA together (read more on But his passion for music was only page 25). the first step of his winding path to Heather Krug ’94, right, and Kelly To better prepare tomorrow’s become founder and principal of Gerdes Leighton from Medalist Sports at television and entertainment graduates, Law, a media and copyright law firm the USA Pro Challenge Oswego provides an opportunity to look located in Beverly Hills. Gerdes, who inside the LA lifestyle and network with grew up in New Jersey, moved to Pulaski, said. “We decided during that ride that alumni working in the industry with the N.Y., when his father purchased the wherever we were going to go, it was Hollywood POV program (read more on Pulaski Democrat. He attended Oswego going to be warm.” page 24). In an ever-expanding society, because he enjoyed the program and had Unlike Gerdes, relocating to Los the story of Oswego alumni helping one friends already there. Angeles was always an interest for Long another has been told time and time Gerdes knew he wanted to pursue Island native Heather Krug ’94. UCLA again by generations of graduates— a master’s degree, and considered was one of the schools she considered as far reaching as the opposite corner journalism after working for a few years attending, but Lake Ontario and SUNY of the nation. at the Democrat, but visited a friend Oswego’s great reputation made her studying law in Southern California and ultimately come to Oswego to earn enjoyed the environment. One evening, dual degrees in creative writing and while driving to Pulaski with then girl- psychology. Ted Gerdes ’74 was immersed in music friend, Kathleen Mooney ’82, to whom “My playwriting professor, Brad at Oswego. He enjoyed national acts he is now married with three children, a Korbesmeyer [now the interim dean of that visited at that time, like David terrible snowstorm hit. Graduate Studies], left a huge impression MakingCrosby and theGordon Move Lightfoot, and he “We got hit with a whiteout blizzard on my writing,” Krug said. “Coming played in a band called The Second where we couldn’t see the road,” Gerdes out of school, I thought I wanted to be

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 22 OZ to LA Alumni Trivia Celebrity Connections — Can you connect these Which celebrity has theatre alumnus and costume Oswego alumni with the celebrity they have worked designer Jef Billings ’71 not designed outfits for? with? Clues can be found in past issues of the A. Kathy Bates OSWEGO Alumni Magazine! B. Reese Witherspoon Constance Schwartz ’90 Debra Messing C. Michelle Kwan

Andrew Miano ’95 Bear Grylls D. Cher

Jon Kinnally ’87 Nicole Kidman Cher. and Kwan Michelle Bates, Kathy as

Heather Krug ’94 Hilary Duff such celebrities for dresses designed has design, costume skating figure

B. Reese Witherspoon. Billings, most known for his professional professional his for known most Billings, Witherspoon. Reese B.

Joanna Shelmidine ’89 Michael Strahan Answer:

helped Grylls start production company Bear Grylls Ventures. Grylls Bear company production start Grylls helped

management and production company, SMAC Entertainment. Krug Krug Entertainment. SMAC company, production and management

“According to Greta” (2009). Schwartz is partners with Strahan at at Strahan with partners is Schwartz (2009). Greta” to “According Which profession does theatre alumna

alongside Messing. Shelmidine has acted as stunt double to Duff in in Duff to double stunt as acted has Shelmidine Messing. alongside Therese McLaughlin ’84 work in? Kinnally, a writer and producer, appeared on an episode of “Will & Grace” Grace” & “Will of episode an on appeared producer, and writer a Kinnally,

Miano worked with Kidman on “The Golden Compass” (2007). (2007). Compass” Golden “The on Kidman with worked Miano Answers: A. Screen and voice actress B. Beekeeping C. Personal assistant Which famous director has theatre alumnus Paul D. Pet boarding

Hellerman ’78 worked with on multiple films?

magazine. Variety

A. Steven Spielberg with interview 2014 a in hobbyist” advanced “an as herself described

. She She . Times Angeles Los

B. J.J. Abrams the with interview 2012 a in interests these of A, B, C & D. Trick Question! McLaughlin said she pursues all all pursues she said McLaughlin Question! Trick D. & C B, A,

C. Quentin Tarantino Answer:

D. Danny Boyle

co-producer on “Jackie Brown” (1997), according to IMDb.com. to according (1997), Brown” “Jackie on co-producer

Until Dawn,” (1996), which he also co-produced. Hellerman was also a a also was Hellerman co-produced. also he which (1996), Dawn,” Until Which major book and film franchise does

on “Reservoir Dogs” (1992), “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and “From Dusk Dusk “From and (1994) Fiction” “Pulp (1992), Dogs” “Reservoir on accounting alumnus Paul Condolora ’82 help

manager production a was Hellerman Tarantino. Quentin C.

Answer: promote?

A. Harry Potter JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM B. Lord of the Rings Andrew C. The Hunger Games Miano ’95, D. Twilight second from

right, meets Entertainment. Brothers

with members Warner with Digital HP and Development Franchise Global Potter Harry A. Harry Potter. Condolora serves as senior vice president of of president vice senior as serves Condolora Potter. Harry A.

of Oswego’s Answer: Blackfriars theatre organ- ization in the Chu Atrium in fall 2011.

23 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 Oswego Students Get Inside Look At Entertainment he sprawling metropolis Angeles, full of sightseeing, networking RIECKEMICHAEL of Los Angeles is prob- and studio visits—made possible by the ably most known for alumni and friends of Oswego. Hollywood, the section Janice Simcoe ’83, account director that is home to the enter- for Disney’s Yellow Shoes Creative Group Ttainment industry. Because of this, many and SCMA advisory board member, talented celebrities, actors, artists, musi- has worked with the Hollywood POV cians, producers, directors and show- team for several years to answer ques- runners, some of them SUNY Oswego tions and provide a tour of Walt Disney alumni, call Los Angeles their home. Studios. Simcoe handles marketing and Before walking across the stage at promotion of the entertainment giant’s graduation, students considering reloca- parks and resorts. tion can experience Angeleno culture “I wanted [Hollywood POV students] at Hollywood POV, an exclusive behind- to see what happened to someone the-stage look at big-budget movie and who was in their shoes,” she said in a of TV Arts & Sciences, Nickelodeon television studios offered by Oswego’s 2013 interview with OSWEGO Alumni Animation Studios and Warner Brothers School of Communication, Media and the Magazine. Studios, to name a few. Arts (SCMA). Other professional visits have includ- The program was founded in 2005 Students apply to the annual three- ed television sets such as “The Big Bang by School of Communication, Media and week summer session course, which Theory,” “Friends,” “Mom” and “The Price Arts Dean Emeritus Fritz Messere ’71 starts with classroom instruction and is Right,” as well as iconic entertainment M’76. culminates with a 10-day visit to Los establishments such as The Academy —Tyler Edic ’13

a screenwriter. I had some publishing LA also happens to be the perfect experience, so I transitioned to a PR role location to find fashion inspiration, and it was a natural fit for me.” said David LaDuke ’82, founder and Krug was hired by Rogers & Cowan, president of American Garment, an a national public relations company in apparel manufacturing company that New York City, and later transferred to “I only knew two has produced for many well-known the LA office. brands such as Calvin Klein, DKNY, “I only knew two people in LA,” people in LA. It was a Polo Jeans and Kenneth Cole. After Krug said. “It was a leap of faith that I’d earning a degree in business administra- recommend for anyone. If something leap of faith that I’d tion at Oswego, LaDuke enrolled, along- scares you, that’s a good thing.” side Ivy League graduates, in the highly Since then, she has worked at a few recommend for—HEATHER anyone. KRUG ’94 competitive Macy’s Executive Corporate major PR firms, working with such Training Program in New York City. clientele as Coca-Cola, General Mills If something scares you, “I’m from Upstate New York, but and NFL. She was recruited by adven- I was living in the city working for turer and television personality Bear Consultingthat’s LLC, a goodfor Al Roker thing.” Entertain- Unionbay, managing the East Coast Grylls to run his global company, Bear ment, owned by Al Roker ’76 and based women’s business,” LaDuke said. “I was Grylls Ventures. in New York City. Krug said that a getting tired of the everyday bustle of Most recently, Krug has been doing proximity to LA’s entertainment capital New York City, so I left my job.” PR work with her business partner and makes it the perfect place to work in PR, LaDuke landed in LA after being friend Jon Harris through her own although technology makes it easy to recruited by a major denim production firm, Heather Krug PR & Marketing work with clients around the world. company. In 2004, LaDuke founded

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Young Alumni

American Garment from the connections Filmmakers he had made in the apparel manufac- turing business. Although much of his Leverage Connections role is overseeing the day-to-day opera- tions, LaDuke enjoys the creative side yle Crowell ’14 and Farmer works as the head of new Ryan Farmer ’14 media at Combustion World Industries, of the process. He started his own line knew they needed a production company owned by actor of clothing called Laila Jayde and enjoys to be in Los Angeles and comedian Christopher Titus. He painting on the side. to pursue their travels with Titus, managing merchan- “Sometimes just from walking the Kmutual passion for filmmaking. Both dise, editing videos, assisting with streets of LA or going to restaurants, you studied cinema and screen studies at script breakdowns and handling other can get a feel for the colors and trends Oswego and collaborated frequently administrative duties. that people are wearing and buying,” as students. Crowell and Farmer were among LaDuke said. So, a couple months after grad- 20 alumni who spoke with current uating, without any jobs or housing Oswego students during a Hollywood lined up, the duo drove from Upstate POV reception organized by Dolly in New York to start their careers in August 2015. The alumni told their sto- Los Angeles’ trademark entertainment ries and offered advice to those looking Despite being 2,684 miles from business. Crowell and Farmer reached to move to LA after graduation. Oswego, LA alumni still find ways to out to their friend Matt Bourgeois ’11 “We all help each other out,” stay connected to their alma mater and for help. Crowell said. “It’s great.” Lifelongtheir friends they Bond made at Oswego. “When Matt first moved to Los —Tyler Edic ’13 “Some of my closest friends are Angeles a while back, he stayed still from Oswego,” said Krug, PR pro. with our friend from Oswego, Tony PROVIDED “There are about eight of us who keep in Valentino, until he could find a place touch regularly and meet up whenever to live,” Crowell said. “He saw that possible.” Maggie Dolly ’07 [Dolly is a mem- Attending or hosting regional ber of the GOLD Leadership Council] events in the area, speaking with current needed a roommate and moved in with her. Ryan and I stayed with them until students and recent alumni, supporting we found our own apartment in North the college financially or returning home Hollywood.” to speak to current students and see As a freelance cinematographer, former classmates are just a few ways Crowell regularly collaborates with that the powerful network of alumni in his alumni peers. He spent a month in the LA area stay involved. Cambodia with Bourgeois document- “Going to college at Oswego, you ing the musical travel series Evrywhr learn a lot about yourself, and you learn a in Cambodia and has worked on com- lot about other people,” copyright lawyer mercial and independent projects with Kyle Crowell ’14, center, with business Gerdes said. “You’re in close quarters, Sam Moores ’15 and Charles Hickey partners Brennon Delonzo, left, and Tony Valentino, visited Austria while capturing often because of the cold, with people ’13. In September 2015, Crowell trav- eled to France, Jordan, Austria and footage for DreamTrips in 2015. from all areas of life and people that you Belgium to document footage for the might never have met otherwise. It was travel agency DreamTrips. an amazing experience.” l

25 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 HEATHER SHEFFIELD ’07 SHEFFIELD HEATHER Part of SUNY Oswego alumni’s bragging rights resides in having conquered the (sometimes) inclement DANNICOLETTE ’72 weather, particularly the snowy, cold winters, on campus. But the dramatic weather and lakefront campus also make the college the perfect place for students to learn in a world- class meteor ology program. Plus, nothing brings a campus together like being snowed JIM RUSSELL ’83 in or blown around by the (occasional) stiff wind off the lake. What follows are a few stories about severe weather and the faculty and alumni who forecast and cover them.

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 26 JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM

METEOROLOGY PROGRAM ADVANCES IN STEP WITH TECHNOLOGY BY EILEEN CRANDALL n the beginning, there was a single teletype machine spitting out National Weather Service reports in ISUNY Oswego’s Piez Hall. There were students and professors gathered around pieces of paper, working out complicated mathematical equations using raw meteorological data to develop weather forecasts—with a pencil. “There just wasn’t much available in the way of tools,” said Howard Shapiro ’74, laughing. “We really were the early pioneers.” Shapiro, who was among the first to graduate with a SUNY Oswego meteorology degree, recalls the first students of the program trudging around taking snow depth measurements, in an era of limited ability to gauge the current regional weather status—never mind forecast it. From left are meteorology majors Lauren Cutler ’17, North Canton, Ohio; “One time, I was on the phone with the National Alec Zuch ’17, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.; Lucy Bergemann ’17, Westwood, Weather Service out of Syracuse,” Shapiro said. “They Mass.; and Christina Reis ’16, Buffalo, N.Y. They practice creating a weather had no idea Oswego was getting pounded with snow.” forecast in the Shineman Center’s Meteorology Broadcasting Lab. This was before modern geostationary weather satel- lites even existed, Shapiro explained. The available data wasn’t sophisticated enough for them to see what was T happening some 35 miles away. Now, more than 40 years later, times—and technology—have Check out a slide changed. The presence of state-of-the-art equipment, with huge show of submitted advances in the accumulation of knowledge, has set the science of winter weather meteorology on a path of rapid growth. And from the days of a few photos at program pioneers, to today with an enrollment of 90, SUNY Oswego oswego.edu/magazine. students are at the forefront of the field, as part of one of the largest undergraduate meteorology programs in New York and one that T attracts students from throughout the Northeast.

27 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 THE INFLUENCE OF NICOLE HANNON FERRIN ’07 is a meteorologist A GREAT LAKE for the National Weather Service in Juneau, Alaska. The SUNY Oswego Atmospheric and “My freshman year and senior year there was heavy lake- Geologic Sciences program, home of effect snow for several days with classes cancelled. I was the meteorology students, is no longer the meteorology club president my senior year when we held the first housed in Piez Hall, which was replaced Lake Effect Conference. We even had all sorts of lake-effect weather in 2013 with the $118 million Richard S. Shineman Center for Science, Engi- (waterspouts, graupel) that weekend. Couldn’t ask for a better place to neering and Innovation. The program study the weather!” now boasts multiple observation decks, national funding, research credentials and modern equipment. According to Dr. Alfred Stamm, balloons,” Dr. Stamm said. “The sensors their experiences at SUNY Oswego, who joined the department in 1977, get the wind using global positioning and it’s been drawing aspiring weather today’s students have access to high- software and all of the data is transmitted students since the inception of a meteo- powered computers and current data to our ground station. We can also rology major in 1971. designed for forecast modeling and measure weather parameters with a teth- According to Dr. Stamm, a campus weather prediction. There’s a new wind ered balloon.Via the Internet, we get data perched on the eastern edge of the Great tunnel simulation area to test wind from around the world and predictions Lakes System—with its capability of instruments and simulate flow around from many different models worldwide.” churning up powerhouse snow storms objects. There are two towers with In other words, it’s come a long way and waterspouts—gets the blood weather instruments to keep track since the teletype machine. pumping in the meteorology depart- of and archive current weather: wind, But there’s another fundamental ment and propels students on to careers, temperature, humidity, visibility, factor that has been present as a including broadcast meteorology world- precipitation and solar radiation. backdrop to these astounding develop- wide and a wide range of positions with There are also instruments to ments in meteorologic technology: the National Weather Service. measure cloud heights and wind from 50 Lake Ontario. For all students, past and “Storms come from the west, off the to 400 meters above the Earth’s surface. present, it has been a bonding force in lake,” Dr. Stamm said. “It gives us lots of “We can find temperature, humidity pressure and wind with our radiosonde

system, which carries sensors aloft using JIMRUSSELL ’83

ROB PERILLO ’83 is the chief meteorologist for KATC/ABC in Lafayette, La. “Of course I was—and still am—a big fan of lake-effect snows. I can remember one moment in class when a waterspout was spotted out on the lake ... nobody asked for permission ... we all got up, ran out of the classroom and got onto the roof at Piez Hall. The waterspout was wrapped in ’snow,’ and no one seemed to care that it was 15 degrees, with the wind whipping in February ... until about 3 minutes later.”

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 28 snow, lightning and waterspouts, which is exciting weather to observe.” DAVE LONGLEY ’94 is the chief meteorologist for And today’s students couldn’t agree WSYR-TV in Syracuse N.Y. more. “I grew to love lake-effect snow “While the Blizzard of ’93 is memorable along with back home in Buffalo, and Oswego’s all the snow events in my time at Oswego, a unique event proximity to Lake Ontario not only occurred the following year. In May 1994, there was an annular eclipse lets me experience its own brand of of the sun, and it was decided that we should have a picnic/barbecue lake-effect snow, but also allows me to outside of Piez Hall. The weather was beautiful and sunny. We had a learn how to forecast it and conduct research,” said Christina Reis ’16, who great view of the eclipse and some good food, too.” is a dual meteorology and broadcasting major and chief meteorologist at SUNY Oswego’s WTOP-10. “The opportunities are growing each year, in both the broad- casting and meteorology departments, so I am able to get plenty of hands-on METEOROLOGY ALUMNA REACHES FINAL FOUR experience in both fields.” IN WEATHER-INSPIRED REALITY TV SHOW The forecasting lab faces the lake so When hundreds of seasoned and aspiring meteo- students can watch rologists submitted applications to compete in a storms approach. The reality television show featuring hilarious weather- deck and observation related challenges, a SUNY Oswego alumna was among the 12 finalists chosen. room look both north Christina Faraone ’11 of Walden, N.Y., and west. And while a was selected to join the latest charge in the reality cutting-edge facility TV movement as a contestant on “America’s Next on a Great Lake that Weatherman.” TBS teamed up with comedy web- spans 7,320 square site Funny or Die for the new series, produced miles—larger than the by Mark Burnett and United Artists Media Group. entire state of Connect- The cast of “America's The grand prize: $100,000, an agent and icut—may draw students here, some Next Weatherman” included an appearance forecasting the weather on CNN. opt to leave classrooms and get into the Christina Faraone ’11, Contenders sparred through assignments about elements farther afield. second from right. weather knowledge, while the show’s producers Each year, a team of students travels devised odd situations and weather-inspired snafus for them to navigate. Faraone, a marine meteor ologist for the FleetWeather to Kansas as part of a Storm Chasers Group, made it to the Final Four before she was eliminated on Sept. 19. “The most rewarding thing about doing the show was all the new friends I made along the way,” Faraone said. “I still keep in HOWARD SHAPIRO ’74 touch with the other contestants.” is a retired meteorologist Faraone, whose most memorable moments on the for WTVT-13 in Tampa, show included dressing up as Tornado Terri to teach kids about tornadoes and creating a rap song about the Fla. weather, said the show was a fun way to teach others about meteorology—a passion she nurtured as a “We walked outside (Swiss student at SUNY Oswego. Village, a collection of cottages “SUNY Oswego is, in my opinion, the best place rented to students on Route 104), to get a meteorology degree,” Faraone said. “The and there was 4 feet of level snow professors are wonderful.” Faraone, who just earned her Federal that had happened in the night. Aviation Administration Aircraft Dispatcher We used a broom to poke around Certification, returns to campus once a year to and find the car because we were attend the student-run Great Lakes Atmospheric afraid to use a shovel and dent it. Science Symposium. She will continue pursuing a career in aviation meteorology. It took days to dig our neighbors —Eileen Crandall out; there were no plows coming to the rescue.”

29 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 PAUL’65 CARDINALI program. Other research initiatives have gotten students out of the classroom, KIMBERLY NEWMAN ’09 is a meteorologist at WTOL including one staffed largely by under- 11/FOX in Toledo, Ohio. graduate students: the OWLeS (Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems) program. “My greatest weather memory from SUNY Oswego was of SUNY Oswego received National Science the waterspouts that used to form over Lake Ontario. My Foundation funding to fly and drive meteorology class of 2009 had access to the roof of Piez Hall, and we into the heart of lake-effect snowstorms would climb the rickety stairs and ladder to get up there at least a few to study their structure and improve times a day. I learned so much about forecasting for the Great Lakes forecasting. region from my time spent on that roof—that’s probably why I still work along the lake shores today!”

METEOROLOGY Dr. Veres said he joined SUNY ALUMNI: NEW YORK A COMMUNITY Oswego following the completion IN SEARCH OF of his doctoral studies at the University TO NEW ZEALAND of Nebraska-Lincoln because of the ADVANCEMENT opportunities for growth within a Christopher Brandolino ’96 On the heels of moving into its new space strong department. has swapped hemispheres for a in Shineman, the meteorology depart- “The advanced technology allows meteorology job, more than once. students and faculty to perform research The SUNY Oswego meteorol- ment’s growth has not slowed. It hired ogy graduate worked at WSTM- its first climatologist, Michael Veres, who and further our understanding of clima- TV (CNY Central's Channel 3) started in the Fall 2015 semester. Veres tology,” said Dr. Veres. for more than a decade before plans to broaden students’ training to A global viewpoint will only advance getting hired by the Australian include knowledge of climate dynamics, students’ understanding of the weather, Bureau of Meteorology in Perth with coursework dedicated to practical Dr. Veres said. at the end of 2007. He returned computer modeling and data analysis. Like all sciences, meteorological to Syracuse two years later to advances evolve in cadence with the become NewsChannel 9’s meteo- times and the technological advances rologist for “The Morning News,” available to its students. Reflecting on and co-hosted “Bridge Street” on PATRICK CAVLIN this evolution—from his time on the weekdays. ’13 is a meteorolo- Oswego lakeshore to his retirement And in 2014, Brandolino gist for WMAZ TV returned to the southern hemi- home in Sun City, Ariz., where he now sphere to take a position with in Macon, Ga. lives with his wife, Gail Lehrich Shapiro the National Institute of Water ’74, Shapiro is full of admiration. and Atmospheric Research in “My most memorable weather “What the students have today Auckland, New Zealand, recently moment at SUNY Oswego was compared to what we had, it’s just earning a promotion to princi- driving through a lake-effect snow amazing,” said Shapiro, who spent 35 pal scientist and forecaster for band with my friend one evening years as a meteorologist for WTVT-13 in NIWAR. during my junior year. The snow Tampa, Fla. In his newest role, Brandolino It was a job he landed because he leads a team of six meteorologists started coming down so heavily had a tape of himself standing in a tiny who deliver forecasts and digital that we couldn’t see anything. We room in Oswego’s TelePrompTer cable content from a new NIWAR stu- couldn’t see the road, the shoulder dio. And one of those new team TV offices. members will be able to share … we had to come to a complete Shapiro would walk downtown to stories about Oswego’s lake-effect stop in the middle of the road and stand in front of the single camera in his snow: Benjamin Noll ’13. just sit there and wait for it to end. parka and deliver the forecast for city Brandolino met Noll when Noll residents. It was one of the coolest experi- was a student in a meteorology No graphics, no computer modeling. class he taught at SUNY Oswego. ences of my life, but it also Just him. l showed me how fast conditions could change during a lake-effect snowstorm.”

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n January 1966, 10-year-old He ended up interviewing more than Jim Farfaglia ’77 was cele- 200 people who lived and worked in the brating his grandmother’s area at that time. surprise 70th birthday party in In the book, Farfaglia shares some Fulton, N.Y., when what would of those stories, pieced together from become known as the Blizzard personal accounts, newspaper articles of ’66 started blasting the region and weather reports. The stories include with snow and winds in excess of 60 miles how farm workers lived in their barns perI hour. Luckily, his family in their to care for their animals, how a utility trusty ’58 Ford Fairlane arrived safely at employee helped distribute milk to fami- their nearby home—the place where they lies from a utility truck and how snow would be trapped for the next week. plow drivers basically stayed on the road This experience, with its dramatic for four days straight and worked hard to snow accumulation, snow drifts and dodge abandoned snow-covered cars on Two young men ventured out sepa- white-outs, etched itself permanently the roads. rately to visit girlfriends—and neither into Farfaglia’s mind and the Fulton- In one of his favorite chapters, made it. One was lucky enough to liter- based author decided to commemorate Farfaglia points out how the “Circle of ally walk into the side of a barn and find the 50th anniversary of the storm by Life” doesn’t stop for a winter storm. his way inside to safety, and the other writing a book. Babies were born inside homes without became disoriented by the blinding snow “When I put the call out that I doctors, or women in labor trudged and was buried. His body was found 13 was writing a book based on people’s through the deep snow to get to a road days later. He was one of four people who memories of the ’66 storm, my phone that had been plowed, while others rode died in CNY and 33 who died from the rang nonstop for weeks and every day skidoos, toboggans and snowmobiles to storm nationwide. my email inbox had a new story waiting the hospital. Brides and grooms canceled “I tried to take the reader through the for me,” he writes in the prologue of his weddings via local radio stations, and whole circle of life,” Farfaglia said. book, Voices in the Storm: Stories from the honeymooners ended up being snowed In addition to tragedies, the storm Blizzard of ’66. in at home. also brought out heroic acts and kind-

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one of the top 10 ’58 MORTIMER DON highest snowfall seasons in Oswego? ata compiled from 1884 to ’66 1993 and published by SUNY Oswego Professor Bob Sykes D Photo of Piez hall above lists the years in which the most snow fell over the course of the entire winter submitted by Paul Cardinali '65. Photo of cars buried in season in Oswego. Data beyond 1993 2007 submitted by Brian was obtained from National Weather Denman ’09. More submitted Service annual summaries and Weather photos online at oswego.edu/ magazine. ’07 Source, LLC. Keep in mind that there are several factors to measuring snowfall, and instrumentation and methodology have improved steadily over the decades. nesses between neighbors, including on than 40 interviews with former students, Annual snowfall data may vary from the SUNY Oswego campus. For example, meteorologists, friends, family members source to source. One thing is certain: the storm hit the weekend before spring and Sykes’ own notes about his life, the Oswego gets a lot of snow! semester started, but approximately book, In Pursuit of Clouds: The Journey of 450 students had made it to campus. Oswego’s Weatherman Bob Sykes, details 1. 1971 – 1972: 324 inches The storm shut off the campus from Sykes’ contributions as a meteorologist food supplies, and the dining halls stationed in Greenland during WWII, his 2. 1977 – 1978: 287 inches were running out of milk and bread groundbreaking research on lake-effect 3. 1976 – 1977: inches to feed the snowed-in students. When storms, his 20-plus years teaching at 272 Wrestling Coach Jim Howard learned of SUNY Oswego and his reliable forecasts 4. 1995 – 1996: 230 inches the predicament, he recruited about 15 on WSGO radio, including the Blizzard people and their snowmobiles to drive to of ’66. 5. 1985 – 1986: 228 inches the store and deliver food to campus. The book also contains interviews 6. 1970 – 1971: inches with several of his former students who 227 went on to become great meteorologists 7. 2000 – 2001: 205 inches Uncovering themselves, including Syracuse-based NewsChannel 9 WSYR’s Dave Eichorn, 8. 1993 – 1994: inches More Stories 204 During the research for the Blizzard of the Weather Channel’s Tom Niziol ’77 9. 1969 – 1970: 200 inches ’66 book, Farfaglia encountered a related and Al Roker ’76, who wrote the fore- story—that of weatherman and Oswego word for the book. 10. 1992 – 1993: 196 inches meteorology professor, Bob Sykes. Sykes “These books go hand-in-hand logged his snowfall measurements for with each other, so I decided I had to more than 40 continuous hours and write them and release them together,” by the end of the 34-hour blizzard, he Sykes said. “Writing two books at the recorded 102 inches of new snow. same time—I wouldn’t recommend that “If you talk to anyone who was here to anybody! It’s been two years in the in 1966, they will tell you that the area making, but I’m glad that I did it.” got 102 inches of snow in that storm,” Both books were released in Farfaglia said. “That was Bob Sykes’ October, and are available for purchase measurement of that storm.” at the river’s end bookstore, 19 W. Sykes’ name and weather reports Bridge Street, Oswego, or online at kept coming up in the conversations with www.riversendbookstore.com. sources for the blizzard book, and Farfa- ’57 glia decided he had to write a second book about the late Sykes. Based on more Photo by Don Mortimer '58

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ess than a year after he did live Then he headed over to the Marano on-campus broadcasts of “Wake Campus Center to greet the more than Up With Al” and NBC’s “Today” 200 people in the auditorium and nearly show, Al Roker ’76 returned to 600 people watching WTOP-10 TV’s live campus Sept. 25, making time Roker webcast of the book discussion. for visits with students before an “This is a proud moment for the Levening book reading and discussion of ON CAMPUS TO college,” said President Deborah F. his latest writing project, The Storm of Stanley, who served as emcee of the the Century. event. “Two Oswego alumni meteorolo- He made good use of the blue Chuck TALK ABOUT gists on stage together talking about this Taylors he was wearing for the trip. compelling new book—one who is After broadcasting his morning perhaps the most well-known meteo- shows in New York City, Roker arrived rologist in the country and the other who in Oswego midday, just in time to pick The is just starting out in her career. We take up his signature Al Roker sub from the pride in our ability to educate individuals Oswego Sub Shop for lunch. Then it was who pursue lives that make the world a off to meet with student reporters from Storm more informed—a better—place.” WTOP-10 TV, The Oswegonian and Roker, America’s favorite weath- WNYO radio, and record some promos erman and 13-time Emmy Award- with Molly Matott ’15, weekend meteo- winning TV personality, said he initially rologist for CNY Central/NBC Channel of the set out to write his first non-fiction book 3 in Syracuse, and President Deborah about the 10th anniversary of Hurricane F. Stanley. He did an interview with Katrina. But during his research for the WRVO, the on-campus National book, he kept coming back to the Great Public Radio station. Century Hurricane of 1900, a massive, category He made time to stop by the annual five hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. ALANA (African, Latino, Asian and “It is still the deadliest natural Native American) Student Leadership BY MARGARET SPILLETT disaster in our country’s history,” he Dinner, which wrapped up the week of said. “More than 10,000 people died in events around the theme “Empower- the city of Galveston on Sept. 8, 1900, ment for the Future.” and on Sept. 7, there were 38,000 people who lived in Galveston.”

33 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 JIM RUSSELL ’83RUSSELL JIM “We like to think that we control our Matott: With today’s forecasting destiny and our universe,” he said. “We models, how do we balance not tend to find out rather painfully that we underselling big events and not over- don’t … I’m very proud of this book and sensationalizing small events? I think it speaks to the human spirit. Roker: Well, I think that’s the key. “It’s really an American story, and We can’t possibly call everything the I’m honored to bring it to you.” storm of the century, or “Will there be a The event was co-sponsored by devastating storm coming up? I’ll have SUNY Oswego and the river’s end book- the details.” We can’t do that and expect store in Oswego. people to listen to us when it’s time to really listen to us. So I think we try on the Weather Channel and the “Today” show to be somewhat circumspect about Excerpts hyping, if you will, a storm. Matott: You mentioned before that Molly Matott ’15 and Al Roker ’76 from the Q&A even before the storm hit, Galveston was a pretty progressive city in terms of with Molly both race and gender, and they might Roker explained how political have had a setback when the storm hit differences between the U.S. and Cuba Matott ’15 and and racially divide once again. But in at the time prompted the U.S. War the future of Galveston, it was actually a Department to cut off the telegraph lines, pioneer in racial and gender equality. which, in essence, isolated Cuba and its Al Roker ’76 Roker: Because they had to. They meteorologists, who had issued a forecast Matott: As a person who has covered realized that people had to come together a week before calling for a hurricane natural disasters like Katrina and Super- to survive. It was pretty amazing. The to make landfall about 100 miles from storm Sandy, did that make the book whole episode was one that a lot of Galveston. The U.S. meteorologists had easier to write for you or was it more people could learn from. forecast showers and breezy conditions difficult having witnessed it firsthand? Matott: I also wanted to mention for Sept. 8. Roker: You try to be somewhat that your book was the first book to “The tide started coming in and it dispassionate about it. You don’t want use the oral histories collected in Izola kept coming in, and people thought it to gild the lily. You want to make sure to Collins’ Island of Color (2004). By was a novelty,” Roker said. “They all look at what was written about it back using those oral histories, did you feel a went down to see the water in the streets. then and also how they talked about in connection to the people? They were playing in it and enjoying their own words in some of these oral Roker: Yeah, because it’s some- it, but the water kept coming and kept histories. What these folks experienced body’s voice. A lot of the accounts and coming. Waves started to increase. When spoke for itself and you didn’t have to research that we had was third-person this storm made landfall, it had winds embellish it. reporting. This was people in their own of over 200 miles per hour and waves of Matott: Imagine that the storm voices telling their story. It’s pretty anywhere between 15 to 30 feet.” happened today with our transport of compelling. When you have somebody’s He described how several major U.S. communication and social media and voice speaking to you across time and a figures, including news titans William television and radio. How do you see lot of very distinct voices, very elegant Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer, that playing out in today’s time if the voices, you have to stop to take notice. Red Cross founder Clara Barton and storm was to hit tomorrow? Matott: As a TV man, what do you female crusading journalist Winifred Roker: The good news is that we see the future of television being in five Black, played a role in the recovery. have more information at our availability to 10 years? “One of the things that fascinated me than ever before. We don’t just have Roker: I have no idea. This whole most about this event was this confluence access to our own computer models and livestreaming thing really caught on. It’s of larger than life characters who are part forecasts; we have access to that informa- like back to the future. When television of American history,” Roker said. tion from around the world. We have an started, everything was live, and now Roker said he hopes the book opportunity to look at all those different everybody can be a live broadcaster— highlights not only the stories and heroic models and we have the ability to tell which is great—but Jeff Goldblum’s deeds of the people from 1900, but also people about it. But human nature being character in Jurassic Park put it very some lessons still to be learned about what it is, the longer out you talk about succinctly: “Just because you can, doesn’t major weather events. a disaster, the less likely people are going mean you should.” l to be to heed the warnings.

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Call us at: 315-312-2258 Email us at: [email protected] Fax us at: 315-312-5570 Visit our website at: Class Notes alumni.oswego.edu Note: Class notes included in the magazine come from a Engaging Young Minds: Life as an variety of information sources, such as alumni submissions, news Educator and Environmentalist releases, social media posts and news media reports. To submit Some people are born to be educators, and your class note, email alumni@ Sandra Balduzzi Geddes ’65 is one of them. oswego.edu, call 315-312-2258, Born to immigrant parents in Solvay, N.Y., fax 315-312-5570 or submit she was the oldest of four children and the online at alumni.oswego.edu. first in her family to go to college. “I desperately wanted to be a teacher early on—maybe when I was 9 or 10,” she said. “My parents believed in education and 1946 70th supported me because I was so focused.” Geddes knew Oswego offered programs JUNE 9-12 in teaching so she enrolled—a move that Murray Wilkow ’48 and Rita ultimately launched a 44-year career as an Miller1951 Wilkow 65th ’50 celebrated their elementary school teacher, including the 65th wedding anniversary on June last 20 years of her career at Westbrook 25. Murray served as anJUN industrialE 9-12 Elementary School in Bethesda, Md. arts teacher, school counselor, coun- Although she considered herself a class- seling department chair and adjunct room teacher first and foremost, Geddes, a.k.a professor1956 60th at Hofstra University and the “Stream Queen,” made national headlines currently conducts Bereavement 1946 70th for her innovative, applied lessons in science Support1946 70thGroups for Hospice of JUNE 9-12 and ecology. This work in science sprung from New York. The couple resides in Old JUNE 9-12 the fact that the science teacher had left the Bethpage (N.Y.). JUNE 9-12 1961 55th school shortly after she started and a new curriculum was needed. Sandra Balduzzi Geddes ’65 1951 65th with her husband, William 1951 65th JUNE 9-12 Not knowing too much about science herself, she began designing curricula that JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 was interesting to her and relevant to society. were also the first researchers to document on 1966 50th She also tied science lessons into her fourth video macroinvertebrates, which are the best 1956 60th grade class’ reading, language arts and social indicators of the health of a stream. 1956 60th JUNE 9-12 studies assignments. Her students raised She and her students have been featured JUNE 9-12 underwater bay grasses, American shad, in the New York Times, Washington Post and JUNE 9-12 rainbow trout and horseshoe crabs in their 1971 45th several books for their environmental work. study of the local stream. “These changes happened—shad was 1961 55th She initiated partnerships with other 1961 55th JUNE 9-12 restored, the dam notched—not only because teachers in the county, with parents and with of our children, I know, but they believe they JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 environmental organizations. To help obtain made these changes,” Geddes said. “They felt 1976 40th and keep funding, she created an environ- empowered.” 1966Robert 50th “Bob” Hartranft ’64 mental club for fifth graders called the Aqua Although she retired four years ago and 1966 50th was inducted into theJUN NationalE 9-12 Eagles. They were responsible for educating has since moved to be closer to family in Lacrosse Hall of Fame Oct.JUN 24.E 9-12 Dur- everyone from kindergarteners to legislators Philadelphia, her science program lives on ’80, ’81, ’82 JUNE 9-12 ing his high school lacrosse coaching about the fourth graders’ work. at her former school and her desire to start career 35th Reunion he earned 694 wins, the third Her students’ work contributed to the the program in her new city remains. In the highest record among his peers. In 1971 45th restoration of the American shad into the meantime, she enjoys reading to her young 20131971 he 45thwon the Lacrosse Gerry JUNE 9-12 Potomac River and the creation of a notch grandchildren, nurturing the next generation of Carroll Award as the nationalJUNE 9-12coach JUNE 9-12 in the Little Falls dam so that the spawning inquisitive minds. of the year. See story on page 19. —Margaret Spillett 1991 25th shad could return to their native stream. They 1976 40th 1976 40th JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 35 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 ’00, ’01, ’02 JUNE 9-12 15th Reunion ’80, ’81, ’82 ’80, ’81, ’82

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1956 60th 1961 55th CLASS NOTES JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 Lawrence Fuller ’72 M’76 Norm Remsen ’64 retired after northeastern United States. He was a of public service as director of state- 1946 70th 51 years of teaching industrial arts. member of the SUNY Oswego men’s wide nutrition program for older retired from the SUNY Oswego The 1961last 43 55th years were spent with the ice hockey team, and has also been adults,1966 providing 50th about 24 million chemistry department, for which he JUNE 9-12 students of Schaghticoke Middle a scout for the National Hockey meals annually through 1000 meal served as department chair. He was School in New Milford, Conn.JUNE 9-12 League’s Quebec Nordiques. sites and preparation facilities.JUNE 9-12 honored for his years of service with a reception in the Marano Campus Richard “Ric” Gillespie ’69 and 1951 65th his wife, Pat Thrasher, co-founded Center in April. 1966 50th The International Group for His- 1971 45th Glenda Blake ’73 featured a JUNE 9-12 toric Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). series of paintings called The Body JUNE 9-12 The group’s mission is to solve the JUNE 9-12 Electric at the Cooperative Gallery 213 in Binghamton, N.Y. In 2012 Amelia Earhart mystery. Ric and Pat 1956 60th Paul Caron ’69, Ph.D, is a live in rural Pennsylvania. John Condon ’72 is chief oper- she received a grant from the Com- coach1971 and 45th scout for the Florida Top Florence Reed ’69 of Albany, ating1976 officer 40th and chief financial munity Foundation for South Cen- JUNE 9-12 10 Baseball Academy, covering the N.Y., retired in March after 44 years officer for The Henderson Group, tral New York for a series named Dominican Republic, CubaJUN Eand 9-12 the Media, Pa. JUNE 9-12 Unlikely Dance. Lois Frankel ’73, Ph.D., ’80, ’81, ’82 founded1961 55th Bloom Again Founda- 1976 40th 35th Reunion tion in Pasadena, Calif., in 2008. At 66, Alumna Makes Big Screen Debut The charity, which providesJUNE 9-12emer- JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 gency financial assistance to work- Two months after graduating from SUNY to have hope.” ing women facing medical crises, ’80, ’81,Oswego, ’82 Sharon Watroba Burns ’71 moved It was when she was working as a coat launched1966 50th a New Jersey Chapter in 35th Reunionfrom her hometown, Amsterdam, N.Y., to New check in 1977 that she1991 met 25th her future hus- May 2015. York City—transitioning from student of the- band, Jim. In 2002 he unexpectedly died of Karen Zablotsky SchoonoverJUNE 9-12 atre to professionalJUN actress.E 9-12 leukemia. At the age of 53, she became aJUN E 9-12 ’74 was honored by New York State Senator John A. DeFrancisco during In New York City, Watroba Burns found widow. ’00, ’01, ’02 1971 45th ways to survive as an actress for over a quar- “I just didn’t care about auditioning,” the second annual Teachers of Excel- 1991 25th 15th Reunion ter of a century—acting in everything from Watroba Burns said. “My pilot light went out.” lence awards program on May 7 at the Solvay (N.Y.) Middle JUNSchool.E 9-12 soap operas to the TV series Kennedy. She Her survival job as a personal assistant JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 even worked with David Mamet in a Chicago became her only job until her friend of more ’00, ’01,production ’02 of Midsummer’s Night Dream. than 25 years, Adriana Trigiani, an author, 1976 40th 15th ReunionSurvival often meant living from perfor- wrote a character in her2005 novel, 10th Big Stone Gap. mance to performance, doing background Watroba Burns said Trigiani told her, “’I JUNE 9-12 work or finding workJUN Eoutside 9-12 of the acting keep thinking of you as I am writing this JUNoneE 9-12 ’80, ’81, ’82 industry. character Nellie Goodloe.’” Teresa Ferlito ’76 retired from ’08, ’09, ’10 35th Reunion “You can’t assume that you know what’s When Trigiani rewrote the novel as a her position as Oswego Health 2005 10th 5th Reunion going to happen,” Watroba Burns said. “You screenplay, she offered Watroba Burns the vice president and chief operating officer of Springside at Seneca Hill. have to keep yourself open to things. You have role of Nellie, a detail-oriented town planner. JUNE 9-12 JUNE 9-12 Paulette Rosenfeld Henry ’76 The movie, Big Stone Gap, is a romanticJUN E 9-12

PROVIDED is the lead software business analyst ’08, ’09, ’10 comedy about Ave Maria Mulligan, played by for Concentrix.1991 25th She lives in Amherst, 5th Reunion Ashley Judd, who feels as though her life has N.Y. plateaued until she meets Jack MacChesney, Alice Maguire ’76 wasJUN awardedE 9-12 played by Patrick Wilson. It was released in the Robert Christen Award for JUNE 9-12 ’00, ’01, ’02 October. Excellence15th Reunion in Technical Collabora- In fall 2013, Watroba Burns traveled to tion for her accomplishments as a Big Stone Gap, Va., to begin filming, and saw props master and supervisor at the that one of the extras was her friend and Goodman Theatre in Chicago.JUNE 9-12 SUNY Oswego alumnus, Kenn Naegele ’72, Kevin T. Murphy ’76 received the Outstanding Art Alumni pictured at left with Watroba Burns. Achievement2005 10th Award from Fin- All of Nellie’s scenes, including one with ger Lakes Community College, Whoopi Goldberg, made the final cut of the Canandaigua, N.Y. He JUNcontinuesE 9-12 film. The two bonded over their mutual crav- to create art in his home studio in ing for sweets. ’08, ’09, ’10 Canandaigua. 5th Reunion “I’m keeping my fingers crossed that John Beach ’77 is test center nothing but positive results come from the manager for Prometric Inc. of Syra- release of this film,” Watroba Burns said. cuse, N.Y. JUNE 9-12 —Aaron Wilson ’16 Andrew Bieber ’77 is a geog- rapher for Environmental System Research Institute in Chicago.

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Growing up in Haiti, Abner JeanPierre ’90 JUNE 9-12 PROVIDED “My SUNY education opened up many was among a generation of Haitian children doors for me, and I want others to continue deprived of adequate access to education— to have that opportunity,” JeanPierre said. 1951 65th an obstacle that shaped his future. “Part of the Council’s role is to advocate, col- “I am passionate about giving children lectively and individually, with policymakers JUNE 9-12 living in poverty a better tomorrow,” about a host of issues affecting SUNY Albany JeanPierre said. “Being from Haiti, I learned and the entire SUNY system.” These issues at an early age the tremendous power1956 60ththat include appropriate funding for SUNY, reason- government holds, and how that authority able tuition, continued capital investment can be exercised for good or ill. My current JUNE 9-12 and support for tuition assistance programs, position gives me a tremendous opportunity JeanPierre said. to be involved in the many different ways that “I have benefitted enormously from New York state government plays1961 a positive 55th my SUNY education, and I would like to do role in the life of citizens.” my part to ensure that SUNY remains strong for future stu- JeanPierre has worked in the public sector for moreJUN Ethan 9-12 dents, especially those from low- to middle-income families,” 20 years in positions involving research, analysis, compensation JeanPierre said. and classification. He is currently the1966 director 50th of classification JeanPierre is also a child advocate and event representa- and compensation at the New York State Department of Civil tive for Compassion International, an organization operat- Service in Albany (N.Y.), where he oversees the department’sJUNE 9-12 ing in 26 countries. Through its child sponsorship program, programs for nearly 70 state agencies and 150,000 employees. Compassion works with more than 1.5 million children living in A veteran of the United States Air Force, JeanPierre poverty, giving them the tools to become contributing members earned a B.A. in communications from1971 45th SUNY Oswego and a of society. master of public administration degree from SUNY Albany. He JeanPierre and his wife, Norma, live in Latham, N.Y. They received the Governor’s 2003 Tribute to Leaders of ExcellenceJUNE 9-12 have three sons. —Eileen Crandall in State Service, and has served on the Council of SUNY Albany for the past six years. 1976 40th

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Margaret “Peggy” LaTulip ’80, ’81, ’82 Sandra Levy Grossman ’82 is a distribution sales representative for Focarino ’77 retired from her posi- 35th Reunion computer programmer for the Men- American Woodmark Corporation. tion as commissioner for patents at tal Health Center of Boulder County, Andrew Fliss ’86 has been pro- the United States Patent and Trade- Colo. moted to director of sales and mar- JUNE 9-12 mark Office after 38 years of service. Ronald Kurtz ’82 is a finan- keting in the Americas for tvONE. In September, she became a senior cial controller for Shyft Analytics in Previously, Fliss served as tvONE’s patent advisor at Oblon in Alexan- Ira1991 Rosenheck 25th ’80 of Owego, Waltham, Mass. During his time at director of marketing. dria, Va. In her new role, she advises N.Y., is a software engineer for Lock- SUNY Oswego, he was an Oneida Bill Paben M’86 taught art and Oblon clients in the areas of patent heed Martin Corporation.JUNE 9-12 Hall resident assistant. inspired students in the Cazenovia prosecution, procurement and rule- Rosemary Crane ’81 was Patricia Shea ’83 is an associ- Central School District (N.Y.) for based U.S. Patent and Trademark elected’00, ’01, ’02to the Board of Directors ate editor for the Catholic Diocese of the last 30 years. He retired at the Office practices. of15th Zealand Reunion Pharma in 2015, and Syracuse (N.Y.). end of the 2014-15 school year. Brian Cohen ’79 is the chief was named a member of its Audit Maureen Eno ’84 was hon- David Chartrand ’87 was hon- financial officer for DigitalOcean, Committee. She is a memberJUNE 9-12of the ored by New York State Senator ored by New York State Senator a cloud infrastructure provider for Oswego College Foundation Board John A. DeFrancisco during the sec- John A. DeFrancisco during the sec- developers. The company is head- and the Transplant House Commit- ond annual Teachers of Excellence ond annual Teachers of Excellence quartered in New York City with tee at2005 University 10th of Pennsylvania. awards program on May 7 at the awards program on May 7 at the Sol- data centers throughout the world. Alan Graham ’81 of the Wayne Solvay (N.Y.) Middle School. vay (N.Y.) Middle School. Robert “Bob” Gasperetti ’79 is County (N.Y.) Sheriff’s DepartmentJUNE 9-12 Linda Bartello Goewey ’85 Mark Glickman ’87 has been a furniture maker in Mount Tabor, was promoted to lieutenant of road M’88 CAS’06 is superintendent of named chief commercial officer of Vt., who builds Shaker, Arts & Crafts, patrol.’08, ’09, ’10 Hudson Falls Central Schools (N.Y.). POZEN. and original furniture designs. 5th ReunionFrancine Scuderi Emmi ’82 She began her career as a fifth-grade Kevin Moran ’87 is the sports John Wallen ’79, Ph.D, J.D., was joined INFICON as a corporate teacher in the Oswego City School editor for The Troy Record/Sara- recruiter in East Syracuse, N.Y. She appointed legal advisor for Crinetics JUNE 9-12 District. togian. Throughout his career, he Pharmaceuticals. had previously worked as a corpo- Andrew Behrend ’86 of Cherry has acquired more than 20 writing rate recruiter at Seneca Data Distrib- Hill, N.J., is the northeast builder awards. utors Inc. in Syracuse.

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Curt Schultzberg ’87 works in Heather Krug ’94, chief execu- (Ill.) School District 220. She is pur- the business development group for 1991 25th tive officer of Heather Krug Public suing a doctorate in education from Gerstein Fisher of New York City. Relations and Marketing Consulting National1946 Louis70th University. Christopher Lewis ’88 has JUNE 9-12 LLC in Los Angeles, counts Al Roker Allison Lanning Szatanek ’97 been named head coach of Rollins ’76 among her firm’s clients. M’05 was honored by JUNNewE 9-12 York College (Fla.) men’s lacrosse. ’00, ’01, ’02 Dawn Richards Richey ’94 State Senator John A. DeFrancisco 15th ReunionDebra Brillante M’91 has been Gary Marcoccia ’88 is a pro- named superintendent of elemen- is the compliance officer for VNA during the second annual Teachers fessor of engineering for Cabrillo tary schools for the Catholic Arch- Homecare, Syracuse, N.Y. Previ- of Excellence1951 65th awards program on Community College in Aptos, diocese of Philadelphia. JUNE 9-12 ously, she was the manager of emer- May 7 at the Solvay (N.Y.) Middle Calif. Joseph Fritz Orzelek ’91 gency preparedness for Crouse Hos- School. JUNE 9-12 Gary Morris ’88 of Hannibal, released A Parlor City Romance and pital in Syracuse, N.Y. Sean Doyle ’98 is the new assis- N.Y., is the director of Career Ser- A Little2005 Children’s 10th Music, both col- Jarrell Robinson ’94 is the tant vice president for McGuire vices/Compass for SUNY Oswego. lections of music. senior director of Student Life - Development1956 60th Company in Buffalo, He recently received the Chancel- Dan Walker ’91 is theJUN lightingE 9-12 Health & Wellness Services for N.Y. lor’s Award for Excellence in Profes- designer at Full Spectrum Produc- LaGuardia Community College Anna Ioannidis M’98JUN hasE 9-12 been sional Service. ’08, ’09, ’10 (N.Y.). While a student at SUNY promoted to claims supervisor at tions5th Reunion in Glen Ridge, N.J. Thomas J. Murphy ’88 is chief Susan Palmer Coyle ’92 has Oswego, Jarrell was active in the Phi POMCO in Syracuse, N.Y. executive officer of SR Energy LLC, been named the 4-H youth develop- Beta Sigma Fraternity, Black Student 1961Geoffrey 55th Morton ’98 is the new a biofuels technology development ment community educatorJUN forE 9-12 Cor- Union, Gospel Choir and Caribbean executive principal/director of sec- company. He was featured by BioFu- nell Cooperative Extension of Sen- Student Association, and served as a ondary education at WestJUN GeneseeE 9-12 els Digest Daily in May. eca County (N.Y.). She lives with her Student Orientation Leader. High School in Camillus, N.Y. Adam Seery ’88 retired after family in Macedon, N.Y., where they Christopher Ball M’95 was William T. McDonald ’99 of 1966 50th 20 years with the New York City raise dairy goats, rabbits, chickens honored by New York State Senator EFP Rotenberg LLP was appointed Police Department. He last served and market hogs. John A. DeFrancisco during the sec- to the Commission on Statewide as a forensic interviewer in child Antony Gaibraith ’92 was ond annual Teachers of Excellence Attorney Discipline forJUN theE 9-12 New abuse investigation. After retirement ordained as Zen Buddhist priest Rev. awards program on May 7 at the York State Unified Court System. he joined the Pennsylvania Inspec- Do’an Prajna and was also named Solvay (N.Y.) Middle School. Sandra Waldron ’99 is a certified 1971 45th tor General Office as a welfare fraud chief abbot of the Five Mountain Thomas Carlson ’95 is the trauma professional and a creden- investigator. Zen Order, during a ceremony in new executive director of the Inn at tialed alcohol and substance abuse Howard Botting ’89 M’07 June at Chùa T Bi Temple in Kan- Menorah Park in Syracuse, N.Y. counselor. She has beenJUN appointedE 9-12 was named a Regional Teacher sas City, Missouri. He is currently Keith Chidsey ’95 joined executive director of The Brambles, of the Year by the New York State the head teacher and abbot of Lotus Research & Marketing Strategies a business that provides housing and 1976 40th Technology and Engineering Edu- Heart Zen in Oneida (N.Y.), where Inc. in Baldwinsville, N.Y., as the care for adults with intellectual dis- cators Association. He is a tech- he leads meditation classes and Zen director of research analytics. abilities in Mathews, Va. nology education teacher for the services for the local community. Robyn Rhyner ’95 is assistant Justin Wiedrick JUN’99E 9-12M’04 Fayetteville-Manlius (N.Y.) school director of financial aid for Jeffer- was appointed to the SUNY Mas- Michael Jackson ’92 has been ’80, ’81, ’82 district. son Community College in Water- ter Teacher Program. This program named dean of Millersville Univer- 35th Reunion Katherine Doan Hutter ’89 is sity’s College of Science and Tech- town, N.Y. allows dedicated STEM teachers the senior director of development, nology. He lives near Lancaster, Pa. Patricia Plumley Hildreth ’96 to share their innovative teaching advancement services and opera- George F. Merritt ’92 was M’03 is a manager of ELA test devel- techniques with their colleagues.JUNE 9-12 tions at Mount Sinai Health System unanimously appointed as super- opment and senior content consul- He teaches at Adirondack Central in New York City. intendent of Edwards-Knox Central tant for the American Institutes of School District in Keene, N.Y., and 1991 25th Christine Motto ’89, an Schools (N.Y.). George and his wife, Research in Las Vegas. has coached multiple levels of foot- adjunct instructor of English and Jocelyn, live in Alexandria Bay, N.Y. Susan M. Hoffmann M’96 ball, basketball, baseball, softball creative writing at SUNY Oswego, Grant Howe ’93 is chief tech- of Cazenovia received the SUNY and lacrosse. JUNE 9-12 was awarded the 2015 Provost’s nology officer for ECi Software Chancellor’s Award for Excellence ’00, ’01, ’02 Award for Teaching Excellence by Solutions, a developer of industry- in Adjunct Teaching for her work at 15th Reunion Part-Time Faculty. specific information technology Morrisville State College, where she Neil Laird ’90 is a professor solutions and software. has taught since 1993. of geoscience at Hobart and William Kristen A. Munger M’93, Rosemarie Pupparo ’96 M’99 JUNE 9-12 Smith Colleges (N.Y.). Ph.D., is the new associate dean of is the transfer success advisor for the Melinda “Mindy” Smart M’90 First in the World program at SUNY Joan Koral M’00 was honored the School of Education at SUNY 2005 10th was honored by New York State Oswego. Oswego. She previously worked at by New York State Senator John Senator John A. DeFrancisco dur- David Swarthout ’93 is vice Cazenovia College. A. DeFrancisco during the sec- JUNE 9-12 ing the second annual Teachers of president, general counsel and sec- Melissa L. Schrader-Perez ond annual Teachers of Excellence Excellence awards program on retary for Monetate Inc. in Palo Alto, Barcomb ’97 M’98 is the new chief awards’08, ’09, ’10program on May 7 at the May 7 at the Solvay (N.Y.) Middle Calif. financial officer for the Children’s Solvay 5th Reunion (N.Y.) Middle School. School. Deborah Eastman ’94 is a Home of Jefferson County in Water- Jennifer Relyea Yager ’00 is resource specialist for Lincoln Ele- town, N.Y. a testing center assistant for Sche- mentary School in the Oakland April Jordan ’97 is the new nectady County (N.Y.) CommunityJUNE 9-12 (Calif.) Unified School District. director of extended services and College. staff development at the Barrington

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Amy Fires Bonanno ’01, her Education as the principal of the awards program on May 7 at the Eric Fritz ’03 took command of husband, Maj. Brian Bonanno, and Wood Road Elementary School. Solvay (N.Y.) Middle School. Company B of the 642nd Aviation their two children moved to Pre- Rosemarie “Roe” Ampha ’02 Joseph Storch ’02 is an asso- Support Battalion at Islip MacArthur toria, South Africa. Brian will be is the program administrator for ciate counsel in the SUNY Office Airport in June. He is a New York the liaison for the New York Army Greenwich Alternative High School of General Counsel and chair of Army National Guard Major, a vet- National Guard and South Africa in Greenwich, Conn. the Student Affairs Practice Group. eran of the war in Afghanistan and a State Partnership Program. Joseph Donofrio ’02 is co- He was recognized by the National CH-47 Chinook helicopter pilot. He Russell Carlson ’01 of Las Vegas founder of Karbyn, a software and Association of College and Univer- lives in Webster, N.Y. is chief strategy officer for Dynamic design agency. The company is sity Attorneys as the recipient of Pauline Johnson Braun ’04 Minds Consulting. While attending located in New York City, with an this year’s First Decade Award for M’05 of Rochester, N.Y., is the SUNY Oswego, he was a member of office on Long Island. Joseph’s wife, his outstanding service to the asso- marketing director for Premium the men’s basketball team. Michelle Gotay Donofrio ’01, is ciation and to the Practice of Higher Mortgage. Theresa Beyrau Correll ’01 the chief financial officer for the Education Law. Shannon Jaskot Forkin ’04 M’05 was honored by New York company. Theresa Bondgren M’03, was promoted to senior tax manager State Senator John A. DeFrancisco Christopher Hockey ’02 is the Dana Dietz M’03 and Beth Anne for Dannible & McKee, a certified during the second annual Teachers associate director of transfer success Lozier CAS’03 were honored by public accounting and consulting of Excellence awards program on and technology for SUNY. New York State Senator John A. firm. She lives in Altamont, N.Y. May 7 at the Solvay (N.Y.) Middle Devin Kerr ’02 of Liverpool, DeFrancisco during the second Ira Heimowitz ’04 of South School. N.Y., is a user experience designer at annual Teachers Of Excellence Orange, N.J., works at Whitsons Mark Northrup ’01 appeared Syracuse University. awards program on May 7 at the Culinary Group, a food service in the Rochester (N.Y.) Jewish Com- Daniel Lorber ’02 is an internal Solvay (N.Y.) Middle School. company. munity Center’s CenterStage The- revenue agent for the Internal Rev- Shanelle Calvin ’03, member- Kimberly Irland ’04 of James- atre production of Into the Woods enue Service in New York City. ship manager at the Virginia Society town, N.Y., is the director of Cam- in May. Gayle McCabe M’02 was hon- of the American Institute of Archi- pus Life at Jamestown Community Cara Talmadge ’01 was ored by New York State Senator tects and the Virginia Center for College. At SUNY Oswego, she was appointed by the Ballston Spa Cen- John A. DeFrancisco during the sec- Architecture, graduated from MEN- a member of the Honors Pro- tral School District (N.Y.) Board of ond annual Teachers of Excellence TOR Richmond, a nine-month lead- gram and participated in the VEGA ership program.

Brick Building, a Fulton Family Affair

At first, Kelly Crissy Nickerson ’04 started PROVIDED “It was devastating to see that hap- building Lego with her sons, Ian and Declan, pen, and we had to pay tribute to such to help improve Ian’s fine motor skills. She a beautiful local attraction,” Nickerson bought a couple of Lego sets and watched said. “And we’re so happy they rebuilt the Lego videos she found on YouTube. screen. This summer we went to see A Lego “I would comment on videos, and Lego Brickumentary.” fans from around the world responded to Nickerson, who studied broadcasting me,” said Nickerson, a Fulton, N.Y., native. and mass communication at Oswego, said “They were all very nice.” That’s when she that technology like YouTube and Google decided to start her own YouTube channel. Hangouts makes it possible to be a part Nickerson’s YouTube channel, Kelyn39, of the supportive Lego community. The dedicated to displaying Lego projects she Nickersons chat with other Lego fans via works on with her family, now has more webcam every Saturday. than 800 followers. When she isn’t building Lego creations “After chatting with fellow YouTubers, with her children or posting videos on my family ended up going to the Philly YouTube, Nickerson works as a library and Brick Fest in April 2014 and met a lot of the people we spoke computer lab aide in the elementary school her boys attend and with online,” Nickerson said. “That’s when we discovered that serves on the Board of Trustees for the Fulton Public Library. we wanted to build and display our creations.” Nickerson said that while playing with Lego is a lot of fun, Nickerson, with the help of her husband, Andrew ’04; moth- it has also made a positive impact: “Since getting involved with er, Karen Crissy ’01; and the kids set out to build a replica of Lego, Ian’s fine motor skills have skyrocketed, and he no longer the Midway Drive-In Theatre in Minetto, N.Y. The outdoor movie needs occupational therapy through the school. It’s been an venue had just recovered from a severe storm in July 2014 that amazing experience.” caused the screen to collapse. —Tyler Edic ’13

39 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 CLASS NOTES Alumni Bookshelf We celebrate and share the success of Oswego alumni authors, illustrators and recording artists, who may ask their publisher/distributor to send a copy of the work to the Oswego alumni office to be considered for this column and our website, where cover photos of all works in this column will be displayed.

Pearl Wolf ’51 Adell Endres ’72 M’83 CAS’83 early families who created what trip down one of North America’s is there now. wildest rivers turned into a trip The Marquis Surrenders Paul the Pizza Prince of desperate measures and wil- THE WILD ROSE PRESS INC., 2015. ADELL ENDRES, 2013. Yvona Fast ’81 derness survival. A story about a Paul knows Garden Gourmet: Fresh & Denise Ashe Devine ’89 M’93 lord who disguises he wants to Fabulous Meals from your himself to prevent be a prince, North Country Garden, CSA, or Close Reading for an assassination but a prince Farmers’ Market the Whole Class only to discover of what? BLOATED TOE PUBLISHING, 2013. SCHOLASTIC, 2015. the person he’s This children’s story explores the The book provides Devine co-authored after is the many kinds of careers available a variety of reci- Close Reading daughter of a duke. He becomes to children and the factors they pes that help the for the Whole hopelessly entangled in the might consider when they make reader prepare a Class, a resource schemes of this woman, in spite their decision about what they wholesome family for instructors in of yearning to find someone who want to be when they grow up. meal and achieve selecting and analyzing close would love him as more than the Kevin J. Palmer ’76 a healthier lifestyle. readings. masked figure he’s become. The Quiet Rich: Ordinary People William Plunkett ’81 J. Fritz Orzelek ’79 ’91 Dr. Sanford Sternlicht ’53 Reawakening an American The G-Man and the Diamond A Parlor City Romance and A August Wilson’s Twentieth- Dream King: A True FBI Crime Story Little Children’s Music Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s BALBOA PRESS, 2015. ORANGE FRAZER PRESS OF OHIO, 2015. A LITTLE CHILDREN’S MUSIC NETWORK Companion Palmer dem- & MUSICAL ENTERPRISES, 2015. The G-Man and TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015. onstrates how the Diamond Orzelek presents Written for stu- everyday people King, set during both the mature dents, teachers and became rich the Depression sounds of chamber, lovers of drama, while using their in Cincinnati, orchestral and this reader’s guide moral compass Ohio, reanimates solo works in his introduces its audi- in his new per- the story about double CD release, ence to the works sonal finance guide. It is possible the murder of Nelson Klein, an A Parlor City Romance, and the of August Wilson and the histori- to not only lead a good life but FBI agent, and the subsequent youthful tunes of childhood in his cal and biographical information a wealthy one. Everyday people trial of George Barrett, the collection of original composi- that influenced his works. can learn how to acquire wealth first man executed under a new tions, A Little Children’s Music. after reading this book. Alan Scott ’55 statute that made the murder Dr. Jodi Ann Weinstein Mullen Timothy J. Pauldine ’79 of a government agent a federal Reaching Eighty-5 ’92 M’94 and June M. Rickli offense. See “The Last Word” on AMERICA STAR BOOKS, 2015. Sandy Pond: Images ’04 M’06 page 48 for more details. Scott has created of America Child-Centered Play Therapy a series of poems ARCADIA PUBLISHING, 2015. Derek Miller ’84 Workbook: A Self-Directed that focus on the This well- Troubled Waters Ahead Guide for Professionals real and current researched CREATESPACE, 2015. RESEARCH PRESS, 2014. world. Unlike his book includes Miller tells the This workbook first book, which a collection of story of navigat- is designed to was published images and his- ing the 40-mile help both new while he was 19 and attending torical insights Gunnison Canyon and experienced SUNY Oswego, these works are all about Sandy section of the play therapists less lyrical and impressionistic Pond, New York. The stories Moose River. establish a and instead focus on the hard are brought together to inspire What was to be child-centered reality of present-day challenges. respect for the area and for the a once in a lifetime adventure model of therapy through inter-

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Women’s Honor Society, Alterna- Aaron T. Woodruff ’07 married manager. Kate served as lead drama- tive Spring Break, Juggling Club and Stephanie K. Papineau April 11 at St. turge in the June 2015 production The Oswegonian. Martin de Porres Catholic Church The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Aaron Percy ’04 of Austin, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The couple Bryant Cook ’11 was promoted Texas, is a senior software develop- resides in Ossining, N.Y. Aaron is to digital designer for Pinckney ment manager for Blackbaud Inc. a police officer with the New York Hugo Group, an advertising agency Amanda Rick ’04 is the execu- Police Department. in Syracuse, N.Y. tive director at Community Options Allegra Anka ’08, Kelly Olsen Thomas DiRoma ’11 is in Binghamton, N.Y. ’06 and their band, Cayetana, per- the assistant director of stu- active processes. The work- Justin Perron ’05 is an assistant formed at Riot Fest in Denver in dent involvement for Lynch- book is partially based on the professor (tenure track) in the phys- August and Chicago in September. burg College (Va). At Oswego, he authors’ experiences of work- ics department at California State Christopher Blakley ’08 was was active in Delta Kappa Kappa ing with children at SUNY University San Marcos. While an promoted to digital design and fraternity. Oswego. Oswego student, he was a member development strategist by Pinckney Donald J. Hebert ’11 married of the men’s ice hockey team and the Hugo Group, an advertising agency Regina C. Blackley on May 24 at St. Jan Best ’05 M’08 Society of Physics Students. in Syracuse, N.Y. John’s Lutheran Church in Orchard Mary DiGesare Mantelli ’06 Anthony Borrelli ’08 was hon- Park, N.Y. Donald is pursuing a doc- Poe Tree: Poems Inspired by M’08 was appointed as the princi- ored with an Essence Award for torate in statistics and is employed Edgar pal of St. Francis-St. Stephen School Leadership by Gannett Central by the University of Rochester. ISWM PUBLISHING, 2015. in Geneva, N.Y. Mary and her hus- New York Media. He is a reporter for Christine A. Perkins-Davis A series of band, Roy, have two children and live the Press and Sun Bulletin, Bingham- ’11 graduated from basic military poems inspired in Seneca Falls, N.Y. ton, N.Y. training at Joint Base San Antonio- by the works Brian Potter ’06 of Liverpool, Sarah Kane ’08 is a budget ana- Lackland, San Antonio, Texas, as Air of Edgar Allan N.Y., was promoted to tax manager lyst at Ithaca College (N.Y.). Force Guard Airman 1st Class. for Dannible & McKee, a certified Michael Ferlito ’09 is regional Melissa Potocki ’11 is residence Poe, this col- public accounting and consulting sales manager for Hazera Seeds in director for Siena College (N.Y.). lection includes firm in Syracuse, N.Y. He specializes Rochester, N.Y. Lauren Adam ’12 is a brand such pieces in the manufacturing, automotive Brendan Hamel ’09 joined strategist for Terakeet Marketing in as “Begin Morning,” “Civil and professional service industries. Third Party Administrator Alterna- Syracuse, N.Y. Twilight” and “In My Skin.” Meghan Fraser ’07 is the exec- tive Service Concepts as a National Lauren Lipinoga ’12 is an aca- In the introduction, Best utive director for the Greater Utica Account Executive. He will be based demic success coach and financial describes a gnarled old tree, Chamber of Commerce. She is also in Georgia. literacy program coordinator at a few random encounters the media coordinator for the Boiler- Emily Rumpf ’09 M’10 was the University of South Carolina in with crows near the odd tree maker Road Race and steering com- honored by New York State Senator Columbia. and how the tree and crows mittee member of the Greater Utica John A. DeFrancisco during the sec- Hannah Moreau ’12 is a spe- planted the idea in her mind Commerce Catalyst Young Profes- ond annual Teachers of Excellence cial education manager for Success sionals Group. awards program on May 7 at the Sol- Academy Charter Schools in New to write this book of poems. Ashley Lynn Fuller ’07 is man- vay (N.Y.) Middle School. York City. Kit Farrell ’12 ager for an internal medicine physi- Holly Lyndaker ’10 is a new Jeffrey Singer ’12 was pro- cian’s practice at Memorial Health deputy for the Jefferson County moted to Audit Senior for Dannible Am I Doing This Right? Services in Savannah, Ga. (N.Y.) Sheriff’s Department. & McKee, a certified public account- KATHERINE FARRELL, 2015. Anthony Izzo ’07 is the diversity Daniel Pucci ’10 was named to ing and consulting firm in Syracuse, In this first and inclusion specialist for NBCUni- Zagat’s 30 Under 30 list for New York N.Y. He lives in North Syracuse, N.Y. book by Farrell, versal in New York City. City. He is a cider director for Was- Amanda Adami ’13 is pursuing a young col- Jeff Knauss ’07 is the president sail, a restaurant and cider bar in a doctorate in veterinary medicine at and managing partner of Digital Manhattan. the University of Tennessee College lege-educated Hyve. The digital marketing agency Benjamin Sumner ’10 was of Veterinary Medicine. woman comes is settling into its new space in Syra- promoted to Audit Manager for Timothy James ’13 is a broker- to terms with cuse’s Franklin Square (N.Y.). Dannible & McKee, a certified pub- age investment professional for the life’s inherent Eric Morgan ’07 joined Seneca lic accounting and consulting firm in Vanguard Group in Scottsdale, Ariz. chaos and discovers what it Savings as a mortgage loan origina- Syracuse, N.Y. He lives in Cazenovia, Julia Kulaya ’13 is a shopper/ means to be a twenty-some- tor. Previously, he worked as a mort- N.Y. stitcher for Euroco Costumes. She thing in the 21st century. gage loan originator at Alliance/NBT Margaret “Maggy” Terpstra is the wardrobe supervisor at the Bank. He resides in Liverpool, N.Y. ’10 joined Research & Marketing Cherry Lane Theatre, New York LeAnne St. Gelais Shaler ’07 Strategies Inc. in Baldwinsville, N.Y., City, for a production of Catch the of Oneonta, N.Y., is the assistant as a marketing and communications Butcher. director of admissions for SUNY coordinator. Paul Rodrigues ’13 was signed Oneonta. She married Matt Shaler Katherine Boswell ’11 wrap- as a forward by the Greenville (S.C.) June 28 at the Skyline Lodge at High- ped up the 2014-2015 season at the Swamp Rabbits professional ice land Forest in Fabius, N.Y. Irish Classical Theatre Company in hockey team for the 2015-16 season. Buffalo as a dramaturge and house The team is owned by Fred Festa ’82.

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A Smooth Transition into the Professional World While a lot of young graduates office. Bob was interested in knowing how were struggling to find jobs in we were doing at KPMG, what engagements their field at the time, Yiserlyn we have worked on and what he can do to Marte ’08 M’09 landed a job at help going forward. He was extremely helpful big-four accounting firm KPMG during my transfer from the audit practice to LLP before she even graduated the advisory practice within KPMG. I actu- from SUNY Oswego. ally saw Bob recently at one of the Oswego As a Hispanic teenager from Alumni New York City events.” the Bronx, N.Y., Marte came to Can you explain the role of a senior Oswego to pursue the five-year compliance officer? B.S/MBA program in account- “At JPMorgan Chase, I currently test the ing. She now works as assistant quality over anti-money laundering and fraud vice president/senior compliance suspicious activity reports. I believe the edu- officer at JPMorgan Chase in cation I received at SUNY Oswego helped Brooklyn, N.Y. more when I worked in the audit practice at How did you obtain your job KPMG, but it was definitely a great founda- before leaving Oswego? tion for my career.” “I applied to multiple accounting Have you visited Oswego recently? firms through SUNY Oswego and “No, but I would like to! My cousin, Jasmilex landed an on-campus interview Mejia ’18, is at Oswego, also studying with KPMG. I interviewed with a accounting.” partner from the Syracuse office, and after the interview I told What is one of your highlights him I was interested in going from Oswego? Yiserlyn Marte ’08 M’09 back home to New York City. I “I liked all of the opportunities that SUNY traveled back to New York for the interview Oswego offered, from being a Spanish and and a few days later I received a call from business calculus tutor and being involved the recruiter letting me know that they in the Beta Alpha Psi Honor Society to the were interested in giving me an offer.” various volunteer opportunities. For example, I hosted Emi Valerio ’11 in Hart Hall when And you were still a student she was a high school student and showed when this happened? her around campus. She ended up choosing “Yes, I got my contract to become an audit SUNY Oswego. I hope I played a small part associate at KPMG in November 2009 and in her decision!” graduated in December.” —Tyler Edic ’13 Have any Oswego alumni helped you out along the way? “Bob Garrett ’83, [KPMG managing partner and Oswego College Foundation board mem- ber] would occasionally host SUNY Oswego alumni breakfasts at his office. There were about six or seven of us at the New York

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Cydni Williams ’13 is an agency sity’s Master of Social Work pro- account strategist for Google Inc. in gram. At Oswego, he was a teaching New York City. assistant and was active in Public Carol Wu ’13 pursued her Justice Club and the Criminal Jus- Oswego dreams after graduation and tice Educators Association of New became a flight attendant. On one York State. Matters of her recent flights, she connected Molly Matott ’15 of Liverpool, with Mitch Alfonso ’85. N.Y., is the NBC3 weekend morn- By Executive Director Mary Yaeger ’13 of Somerville, ing meteorologist for CNY Central. Betsy Oberst Mass., is a development communi- At SUNY Oswego, she was involved cations manager at Emerson Col- with WTOP, Meteorology Club his issue talks about lege in Boston. At Oswego, she was and DelSarte, and she worked as a one of the favorite top- involved with DelSarte, Lamba Pi Laker Leader. ics of Oswego alumni Eta, Omicron Delta Kappa and the Katie Ranno ’15 is a part- T … winter weather! I often say Public Relations Student Society of time camera operator for WUTR/ this is one of the common America. WFXV/WPNY in Utica, N.Y. While bonds that unites Oswego Brian Zambrzycki ’13 is a sub- a student at SUNY Oswego, she alumni over the generations! stitute teacher for the Department was active in BASIC, WTOP and Winter weather stories … of Defense Education Activity, the the Media Summit. including the mythical “ropes,” school system operated on behalf of Christopher Romita ’15 was girls getting blown away, cars the U.S. Department of Defense. At promoted to dining room man- being buried, classes being Oswego, he was active in Tau Kappa ager of the West Side Tennis Club cancelled, sledding at Fallbrook Epsilon fraternity, Psi Chi and in Forest Hills, N.Y. Romita started and more … are all a somewhat Omicron Delta Kappa, and was an at the club as the Snack Bar man- magical part of the Oswego student experience. admissions tour guide and sociology ager. Aside from food and beverage The other thing that binds alumni together over the years is, department teaching assistant. management, he also assists in the of course, our legendary sunsets and our majestic “Great Lake!” Mary Godnick ’14 of Liverpool, coordination of events for the For- How lucky we are to share these special experiences. N.Y., is a brand strategist (SEO) for est Hills Stadium. The other main feature this issue talks about is our student/ Terakeet Marketing in Syracuse, N.Y. Michelle Slowik ’15 is a alumni connection between Oswego and LA. This brings to mind Allyssa Marie Harmer ’14 research assistant for Hezel Associ- another enduring hallmark of our Oswego Family … helping students M’15 of Palermo, N.Y., is an asso- ates in Syracuse, N.Y. and recent grads launch their careers through alumni connections. ciate at Dermody, Burke & Brown Kara Vormwald ’15 is a pro- There are many ways you can—and do!—support these efforts. CPAs in Syracuse, N.Y. ducer for WBNG-TV in Bingham- You can volunteer for the Alumni Sharing Knowledge (ASK) program Katie Knudsen Mondrick ton, N.Y. to speak with current students interested in your career field. This can M’14 is development manager of take several forms—from speaking on the phone, critiquing resumes, Loretto, a comprehensive healthcare meeting in person, hosting a student at your workplace … whatever service organization in Central New works for you and the student. York. She and her husband, Lincoln, Making us aware of internship or co-op opportunities at your live in Verona, N.Y. workplace and helping current Oswego students apply and get selected Anthony Turnbull ’14 is a full- for these important hands-on learning opportunities are also invaluable time student in Syracuse Univer- to helping them prepare for the world post-Oswego. And finally, letting us know about job openings at your employer and trying to help other alumni get a foot in the door—or reaching back to give a hand up—are ways you can and do support and give back to your alma mater and your fellow alumni. We also offer opportunities for alumni to come back and speak directly to students—in classes or on panels or other student events on campus. We truly value and thank you for this alumni volunteer service. So, now as I look out my window at King Alumni Hall at the beau- tiful fall foliage, I know our winter weather will not be far behind. And so the cycle continues! We encourage you to continue to share your Oswego stories with us, through the alumni magazine, on our social media channels or in person back here on campus. And that you continue to help our current students and fellow alumni through career networking opportunities. We all hope to see you in person soon … on campus or at one of our regional Local Lakers events.

43 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 WEDDINGAlbum ]

Jessica Swier ’99 and William Finnerty were married Nov. 22, 2014, in Woodbury, N.Y. Jessica is an 8th grade science teacher on Long Island and William is a union carpenter in Manhattan. The couple resides in Smithtown, N.Y. Jodi Castello ’06 M’09 and Patrick Maniccia were married July 23, 2015, aboard the cruise ship Carnival Splendor sailing from New York City to St. John’s New Brunswick, Canada. From left are Dan Williams ’09, Angela Rayter, Beth Farwell ’06 M’09, Jessica Bautista ’06, Jodi Castello ’06 M’09 CAS ’09, Patrick Maniccia, Heather McDonald Simonds ’07, Melissa Penoyer Miller ’00, Justine LeVea ’11, Margaret “McGee” Kelly Maniccia ’61, MaryBeth Maniccia Docos ’90 M’95 and Sheri Pender ’06. Not pictured: Ashley Champion Kelly ’06. The couple resides in Watertown, N.Y. She is a school counselor at Indian River Middle School in Philadelphia, N.Y., and he is a warehouse manager for Eagle Beverage in Watertown.

Samuel Graeme Austin ’12 and Fredrica Germany were married Aug. 29, 2015.

OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 44 Madeline Phillips ’09 and Andrew Rohlin ’09 were married on June 27, 2015, at Midvale Country Club in Penfield, N.Y. From left, back row, are Joey Durgin ’08, Bobby Inzalaco ’09, Jeremy Donovan ’10, Derek Dunning ’09, Christopher Hill ’08, Kyle Stephenson ’09; second row, Dick Holbrook ’08, Lavonn Brown ’08, Melissa Schumacher ’08, Andrew Rohlin ’09, Christina Estes ’09; third row, MaryEllen Holbrook ’09, Liam Flood ’09, Madeline Phillips ’09; front row, Cara Livermore ’09.

LeAnne St. Gelais Shaler ’07 and Matt Shaler were married on June 28, 2015, at the Skyline Lodge at Highland Forest in Fabius, N.Y. In attendance were: Johanna Vrubel, Stacey Wolcott Walton ’07, Jacob Puusalu, Jessica Sperati, Alysha Taggart ’12, Ashlea Tamburrino, flower girl Michaela Sperati- Epding, LeAnne St. Gelais Shaler ’07, Matt Shaler, Glenn Phillips, Breanna Shaler, Kendra Doerr, Pete Campagna and Chris Kasdorf.

45 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 CLASSIN MEMORIAM NOTES

Elsie Cates Shirley ’39 of Boylston, N.Y., died Park School before being appointed principal at Bob was an industrial arts teacher at East High Nov. 2, 2014. Prior to her retirement, she taught in Riley Elementary in 1966, where he served for 20 School in Rochester, N.Y., for many years. He is the Sandy Creek Central School District. years until his retirement. He is survived by seven survived by his wife, Sandra Ross, three daughters Oswald Kopp ’40 of Lincoln, Neb., died May children, Donna ’72, Denise, Donald, Deanna, and three grandsons. 22, 2013. He earned a doctorate from Columbia David, Dean ’85 M’88 CAS’94 and Dorrie, and his Peter Schieffer ’62 of Sayville, N.Y., died July University and was a professor and principal of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 6, 2015. Pete worked as a teacher for 38 years, retir- the laboratory school at SUNY Potsdam. He then Patricia McConnell Pritchard ’51 of ing from the West Islip Union Free School District. held a one-year position with the National Edu- Oswego died July 13, 2015. She was a teacher in the Surviving are his wife, Karol Harding Schieffer cation Association before taking a position as Hannibal Central School District until her retire- ’63; daughters, Susan and Sharon; and two grand- assistant superintendent in Orchard Park, N.Y. In ment. Surviving are her children, including Marla daughters. 1961, Ozzie became department chair of elemen- Berlin ’85 and Tricia Caroccio ’95, 21 grandchil- Richard Helmer ’63 of Myakka City, Fla., tary and secondary education at the University of dren and 14 great-grandchildren. died April 4, 2015. Dick taught industrial arts Nebraska – Lincoln. He was predeceased by his Claire Tormay Taber ’51 of Liverpool, N.Y., technology for 15 years and then worked as a wife, Marie Hildenbrand Kopp ’40, and is sur- died May 30, 2015. She taught for more than 30 supervisor for a furniture manufacturer. He is sur- vived by a daughter, a granddaughter and a great- years in the Syracuse City School District. Claire vived by his wife, Patricia. grandson. is survived by a son, Richard, and four grandchil- Audrey “Pat” Brannen Pickens ’63 of Sag Jean McGivney Leonard ’46 of Hender- dren, including Richard ’12. Harbor, N.Y., died Aug. 1, 2015. son, N.Y., died March 8, 2015. She and her family Stanley Roberts ’52 of McDonough, N.Y., Ruth Tarnacki Spiegel ’63 of Syracuse, N.Y., built and operated Len Mar Greens Golf Course died on Aug. 10, 2015. He served with the U.S. died July 24, 2015. She worked in the Syracuse City in Pulaski for many years. She is survived by five Army during World War II. He taught in Van School District before and after she raised her chil- children, 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grand- Etten, N.Y., at Oneida County BOCES and at Oris- dren. She is survived by a daughter, Catherine children. kany (N.Y.) High School. Surviving are two sons Maestri ’91, and her husband, Richard; a son, Willard Allen ’47, Emeritus Professor and many grandchildren. Edward ’99, and his wife, Melinda Winans Spie- of Industrial Arts of Winter Haven, Fla., died John McDonough ’53 of Baldwinsville, N.Y., gel ’99; and six grandchildren. June 30, 2015. He served with the U.S. Army Air died May 21, 2015. He served with the U.S. Army Margaret O’Donnell ’64 of Saratoga Springs, Corps during World War II. Will earned a mas- following his graduation from Oswego. John N.Y., died June 14, 2015. She was a teacher in the ter’s degree from Penn State and a doctorate from earned a law degree at Syracuse University in 1958. Syracuse City School District for many years, retir- Indiana University. He began his teaching career He was a Workers’ Compensation defense attor- ing in 1989. Margaret is survived by 10 nieces and at Beaver River High School in Beaver Falls, N.Y., ney for many years. He also served as Corporation nephews and a brother-in-law, David Clancy ’52. and moved into higher education in 1951 at Ball Counsel for the City of Syracuse, and from 1964 Richard Broekhuizen ’65 of Plantation, Fla., State University. In 1953, Will returned to Oswego to 1967, as Salina Town Justice. John is survived by and Franklin, N.C., died June 16, 2015. He taught where he taught industrial arts from 1953 until his wife, Bertha Cornwell McDonough ’52; chil- for 38 years at Nova High School in Davie, Fla. his retirement in 1985. Will is survived by his wife, dren, John, Kevin ’78, Anne Gavin ’83, Catherine, Surviving are his wife, Patricia Mason Broekhui- Lois; three sons, Steven, Robert and Richard; five Eileen and Brendan; seven grandchildren and a zen ’64; a daughter, Kristi Duchon; and two grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. great-grandson. grandchildren. Donald Dockstader ’47 of Englewood, Fla., Terence Trudeau ’53 of Snyder, N.Y., died Francis Maunder ’65 of Parish, N.Y., died died July 15, 2015. He served with the U.S. Navy June 23, 2015. He received a master’s degree from Aug. 16, 2015. He taught in the Camden Central during World War II. Donald earned a master’s St. Lawrence University and a doctorate from School District and for 30 years in the Altmar-Par- degree at Cornell University. He taught in the Bowling Green State University. He was an indus- ish-Williamstown Central School District, retiring Gloversville (N.Y.) School District for 31½ years trial arts professor at Buffalo State for 24 years, in 1998. He also taught computer science at SUNY and taught part-time at Fulton-Montgomery retiring in 1985. Terence started his own com- Oswego. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Community College in Johnstown, N.Y. Surviving pany, Powerlab, after his retirement. The company Wells Maunder ’66, four sons, two daughters and are four children and 15 grandchildren and great- designed and manufactured instrumental labora- five grandchildren. grandchildren. tory equipment until it closed in 2005. He is sur- John Quimby ’66 of Rhinebeck, N.Y., died Betty Reed Dowdle ’47 of Oswego died July vived by two daughters. July 4, 2015. Following graduation and one year 10, 2015. Betty taught for in the Oswego City Bernard Wray ’54 of Rome, N.Y., died Aug. 1, of teaching driver education at Red Hook High School District in the Oak Hill School, the Mitch- 2015. He served with the U.S. Army. Bernie taught School, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where ell Street School, Kingsford Park School and industrial arts technology at the Hawthorne he served with the Army Corps of Engineers and Leighton Elementary School. During the sum- Cedar Knolls School in Westchester County, and Military Intelligence in Vietnam. John earned a mer, Betty taught reading at SUNY Oswego in the in the Binghamton City School District. Surviving master’s degree and a Professional Certification in graduate program for many years. She was prede- are his wife, Joanne, five children, seven grandchil- School Administration and School Counseling at ceased by her husband, William ’53. Surviving are dren and three great-grandchildren. Bernie was SUNY Albany. He worked for more than 30 years three children and four grandchildren. predeceased by a brother, David Wray ’50. in the Hyde Park Central School District, first as Virginia Hafner Lyon ’48 of Seekonk, Mass., Lillian Tutino Pettigrass ’55 of Fleming, an industrial arts technology teacher, then 10 years died May 21, 2015. Virginia was a former mem- N.Y., died Aug. 6, 2015. She is survived by five chil- as a school counselor. John retired in 2000. He is ber of the Oswego College Foundation Board of dren, nine grandchildren and three step-grand- survived by his wife, Suzanne, four children and Directors, and, along with her late husband, Floyd, children. nine grandchildren. was a longtime supporter of SUNY Oswego. Richard Allen ’57 of Middletown, N.J., died Lynn Saunders ’66 of Jacksonville, Ill., died Donald Goewey ’50 M’57 of Oswego died June 13, 2015. He served with the U.S. Navy. Rich- June 20, 2015. He received a master’s degree from June 21, 2015. He served with the U.S. Army dur- ard taught industrial arts technology at Red Bank the University of Nebraska and pursued a doctoral ing World War II. Don earned a master’s degree (N.J.) Regional High School for 36 years, retiring degree at Ohio University. Lynn began his career at Colgate University and completed doctoral in 1993. He is survived by five children, 11 grand- in education at MacMurray College, where he studies at Syracuse University. He taught in Utica, children and 11 great-grandchildren. taught from 1967 to 1972. After working in sales Fulton, Morrisville and Red Creek before com- Robert Costigan ’57 of Penn Yan, N.Y., died for WJIL Radio in Jacksonville, he moved to Flor- ing to Oswego in 1959. He taught at Kingsford Jan. 17, 2015. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. ida, where he owned and operated a restaurant in

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Daytona Beach. In 1981, he returned to Jackson- dra; a daughter, Courtney O’Neil ’13; and a son, instruction and superintendent of schools. She is ville, where he taught at Illinois College until his Jeremiah. survived by her husband, Alan; a daughter, Jenni- retirement in 2000. Lynn is survived by his wife, Keith Johnson ’74 of Watertown, N.Y., died fer Zaborsky; a son, Sam; and three grandchildren. Susan Szymanski ’66; three children, Scott, Col- Aug. 4, 2015. He worked as a salesman for Viking- Rev. Ralph Locke ’88 of Geneva, N.Y., died leen and Mark; and eight grandchildren. Cives, Phillips Cable, Sam’s Club and Aflac Insur- June 25, 2015. He served with the U.S. Army dur- Jon Whalen ’66 of Auburn, N.Y., died July ance. He is survived by his father, Richard; a ing the Korean War. Ralph earned an associate’s 12, 2015. He served with the U.S. Army in Ger- daughter, Sara; his companion, Linda Rohde; and degree at Finger Lakes Community College. He many during the height of the Cold War. Jon a brother, Richard. worked for the City of Geneva Water Depart- taught in Fulton for four years then at Manhas- Roberta “Bobbi” McKenna Brabant ’75 ment for 23 years, retiring in 1986. Ralph earned set High School until his retirement in 1993. After of Roanoke, Va., died July 9, 2015. She received a a master’s of divinity degree at Bexely Hall Divin- his retirement, he and his son, Bernard, an NYPD master’s degree in social work from Syracuse Uni- ity School in Rochester, ordained into the Diacon- lieutenant, co-authored two books. He is survived versity in 1978. She was a social worker for the ate in 1992 and ordained into the Priesthood of by three sons, five grandchildren, one great-grand- New York State Mental Health Department, and the Episcopal Church in 1983. He served as Vicar daughter and his companion, Janet Wiegand. had a private practice in Watertown for 12 years. of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Grace Willowdale Sister James Denis (Theresa) Herold ’67 of She worked for Fresenius Dialysis Center in Roa- Episcopal Church, Christ Episcopal Church and Syracuse, N.Y., died July 24, 2015. She was a Sis- noke for 20 years. Bobbi is survived by her hus- the Church of the Epiphany until his retirement. ter of St. Francis for 62 years. She was an educator band, Joseph, and a son, Jeffrey. Ralph is survived by his wife, Nancy, four children in schools in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Mary Jean Fortino Church ’75 M’80 of and five grandchildren. Ohio. She was the director of the Volunteer Pro- Oswego died June 13, 2015. Jean was a read- Michael “Mick” DeLapp ’90 of Bridgeport, gram at St. Joseph’s Hospital for eight years, and ing teacher in the Oswego City School District N.Y., died July 19, 2015. He earned an associate’s a secretary for Catholic Charities in Syracuse for from 1975 until her retirement in 2005. She is degree at Onondaga Community College. Mick 11 years. Surviving are three brothers, two sisters, survived by her husband, Michael ’79; her sons, worked as an office service coordinator for Carrols several nieces and nephews, and the Sisters of St. Michael and Christopher ’08; her brother, Fran- Corporation for 16 years. Surviving are his wife, Francis. cis ’74; and her sister, Anne Marie Rubin ’74, and Norma, and his daughter, Hannah. Michael Kulak ’70 of Syracuse, N.Y., died brother-in-law, Gary Rubin ’74. Thomas Ebdon ’94 of Virginia Beach, Va., Aug. 1, 2015. He formerly taught in the Jordan- Richard Ziobro ’75 of Peachtree City, Ga., died July 5, 2015. He is survived by a son, Joshua, Elbridge Central School District for more than died June 10, 2015. He received a master’s degree and his sister, Debbie Cauley. 10 years. He was an educational consultant for from SUNY College of Environmental Science Benjamin Chernoff ’96 M’98 of Marcellus, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. and Forestry. Rich worked for Osmose Inc. of Buf- N.Y., died July 7, 2015. He is survived by a daugh- Surviving are his son, Andrew; his mother, Marge falo and was serving as vice president of research ter, Delia; a stepson, Tyler; his parents, Charles and Kulak; three sisters and two brothers. in their Griffin, Ga., office. Rich is survived by his Barbara; and two siblings. Richard Spadaro ’70 of Altamont, N.Y., died wife, Sue Nelson, and his brother, Kenneth. Karen Sherman Farnham ’97 of Hannibal, April 28, 2015. He taught industrial arts technol- John Fassett ’76 of Rodman, N.Y., died June N.Y., died Aug. 4, 2015. She earned an associate’s ogy at North Colonie Shaker High School before 30, 2015. He worked as a meat cutter at his family’s degree at Onondaga Community College. Karen opening his own business, Dick Spadaro Early business, Fassett’s Meat Market, and other stores was employed by the American Legion Post 1552 Ford Reproductions. Dick is survived by his for many years. John is survived by a daughter, for many years. Surviving are her husband, Wil- mother, Betty Spadaro. Joanna Loomis, and a son, Jaryn. liam; three daughters, Alicia Mooney-Flynt ’91, Peggy DeVey Marsh Bailey ’71 of Syracuse, Linda MacDougal-Spross ’76 of Mace- Robin Cuzzupoli and Elizabeth Mooney ’05; two N.Y. died Aug. 13, 2015. She was an administrative don, N.Y., died Jan. 18, 2013. She taught in the stepchildren and 12 grandchildren. assistant for many years. Peggy is survived by two Rochester City School District. Surviving are her Daniel Dolecki ’99 of Salamanca, N.Y., died sons, two daughters and eight grandchildren. husband, Terence; son, Bryantt; and daughter, July 20, 2015. He was employed at Dr. Green Lawn Winston Harrell ’71 of Groveport, Ohio, Shenandoah. since 2010. D.J. is survived by his parents, Daniel died Aug. 5, 2015. He received a master’s degree Robert Tompkins ’76 of Syracuse died Aug. and Diane; a daughter, Madelyn; and four siblings. from the University of Kansas. Winston was a 21, 2015. Bob retired from the Public Employ- Ram Chaudhari, Professor Emeritus of social worker in the mental health department of ees Federation in 2014. He is survived by his wife, Physics, died June 20, 2015. He earned a bache- the Veteran’s Administration for 35 years. He is Claudia Varacalli-Tompkins ’77; son, Brian; and lor’s degree from Agra University (now Dr. B. R. survived by a son, Winston. daughter, Sanela Delic. Ambedkar University) in India and his Ph.D. in Richard Magde ’71 of Geneva, N.Y., died Roger Merrithew ’77 of San Luis Obispo, physics from the University of British Colum- May 8, 2014. He taught industrial arts technol- Calif., died Dec. 7, 2014. He retired after a long bia in Vancouver, Canada, in 1964. He completed ogy at Penfield High School for 11 years, retiring career as a social worker. Surviving are his wife, post-doctoral research at the Royal Military Col- in 1982. Dick purchased a farm that he worked Joanne, and sons, Justin and Ryan. lege of Canada before joining the faculty at SUNY on part-time while he was teaching. Following his David Ball ’78 of West End, N.C., died Feb. Oswego in 1966, where he taught physics until his retirement, he worked on his farm full time. Dick 9, 2015. retirement in 1998. Ram is survived by his wife, was a member of the National Guard. He is sur- Brian Hall ’86 of Cambridge, N.Y., died Aug. Raj, three sons, a daughter, seven grandsons and vived by his wife, Merna, four stepchildren and 23, 2015. He was employed in quality control at five great-grandchildren. eight step-grandchildren. General Electric after a 26-year career with Kent Thomas Seawell, Professor Emeritus of Art, Jeremiah O’Neil ’72 of Pulaski, N.Y., died Industries. Surviving are his wife, Pam; son, Brian; died Aug. 28, 2015. He was a graduate of Wash- Aug. 16, 2015. Following graduation, Jerry was and daughter, Carly. ington University and Texas Christian University. drafted into the U.S. Army, where he was a coun- Kathleen Byrne Gramet CAS’87 of Syra- He taught in Oswego’s art department from 1963, ter-intelligence coordinator/agent for the 82nd cuse and Pawleys Island, S.C., died June 3, 2015. when he was hired to establish a printmaking pro- Airborne Division in N.C. He worked for the She earned a bachelor’s degree at SUNY Brock- gram, until his retirement in 1992. From 1992 Oswego County Department of Social Services port, a master’s degree at Niagara University and until 2014, he taught screen printing and begin- from 1976 to 1978. He taught math at Sandy an Ed.D. at Columbia University. Kathy worked ning printmaking classes as an adjunct instructor Creek High School from 1978 until his retire- in the North Syracuse Central School District as at Texas A&M University – Commerce. Thom is ment in 2012. Jerry is survived by his wife, San- a teacher, principal, assistant superintendent for survived by his wife, Barbara Frey, and four sons.

47 OSWEGO l Fall/Winter 2015 THE LAST

Public Justice: Education, Career and History

’m from a family of SUNY Os- PROVIDED Iwego graduates; father, sister, two brothers and a cousin. I en- tered Oswego as a junior in the Public Justice program in the fall of 1979. My schedule included Public Justice 301 with Dr. Nor- man Weiner in one of the large lec- ture rooms at Lanigan Hall. I had

never been enrolled in such a large PROVIDED class and had some difficulty with the course. Dr. Weiner was a de- manding professor, but with a large number of students, you have to be. He forced you as a student to think for yourself, as his exams in- volved quite a bit of essay writing. I went on to have Dr. Weiner as a professor in all my semesters at Oswego. He used to always say, William Eric Plunkett ’81 “Every solution creates another problem.” Boy, isn’t that the truth. Not being someone who is overly adept at writing, it still a young agent named Nelson About the Author amazes me that I had a book B. Klein, was assigned to the William Eric Plunkett ’81 is an published. I was still in the FBI in Cincinnati FBI office, and was the Oswego, N.Y., native who spent 2008 when I started the research first FBI agent killed in the line of his career as an FBI agent in on an FBI agent who was killed in duty since the bureau’s official Syracuse, N.Y., Cincinnati, Ohio; the line of duty in 1935 as a result establishment in 1935. His killer, The G-Man and the Diamond and Washington, D.C. He was of adversarial action. The victim, a nasty career criminal from King: A True FBI Crime Story of involved in counterintelligence

PROVIDED Kentucky by the name of George the 1930s is not only the story of operations with the Central W. Barrett, was the first man two men whose paths crossed in Intelligence Agency, and investi- executed under a new statute that a backyard shootout with tragic gated national security matters. made the murder of a govern- results; it is the story of one of He is a member of the Fraternal ment agent a federal offense. America’s most dangerously Order of Police, the Society of My research began when I exciting decades—and the birth Former Special Agents of the FBI, attended a memorial service for of modern crime-fighting. The Knights of Columbus and the Agent Klein, held in Southgate, All proceeds from book sales Federal Law Enforcement Officers Kentucky, nearly 75 years after will go to the Society of Former Association. He lives in Cincinnati, Klein’s death in the deadly Special Agents of the FBI Ohio, and enjoys golf, kayaking shootout beside a flower garden Foundation. and cycling. l in the little town just north of Cincinnati. Feeling melancholy for the forgotten agent, I took on Klein as my personal case.

FBI Agent Nelson B. Klein

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or Betsy Waterman, retirement has she also served as chair. In addition to her there was a won derful sense of professional F been a time to remain in tune with lifelong love of music, she has expanded accomplishment.” lifelong passions—and discover into other passions as well— The program required practice and new ones. skijoring (a sport that includes pro gres sive learning experiences, Waterman “One of the most cross country skis, being said. exciting things I have been pulled by one or more dogs) “It was a wonderful thing to see, when the doing since I retired is play- and nature photography, to students gave up their focus on grades and ing with a band that performs name just a few. strictly knowledge-based learning, and began Celtic music,” said Waterman “I have had the opportunity to take pride in the slow mastery of skills crit- from her Sandy Creek (N.Y.) to photograph moose, elk, loons, ical to the practice of school psychology.” home. “Music has been a part of wild horses, eagles and bears,” said —Eileen Crandall my life since I was a child.” Waterman, who enjoys Waterman began her musical career at challenging herself with PROVIDED age 6 with piano lessons. She later added clar- new experiences. inet, ukulele, guitar, clavietta and keyboards Hard work to achieve to her repertoire of musical instruments, and success is hardly new for has most recently started learning the Celtic Waterman, who built a lever harp. career training profes- She has performed with musical theater sionals in the field of groups, choruses and bands over the years. school psychology. Now she is an integral part of The Tug Hill “I had the privilege Players, a six-member band. of working with wonder- “Performing with this group has allowed fully talented students,” me to explore a different area of music with Waterman said. “I some very talented musicians,” she said. “A remember one evening in friend and I do nearly all of the arranging of my office several students music for the group. It is very satisfying work, worked together creating to listen to the intricate sounds of what makes the games that were to be up a song, arrange them for our particular part of an early reading group and then hear it all come alive as we program for students play together.” with speech and language Waterman retired in 2009 after a 14-year problems. There was no career with SUNY Oswego’s counseling and academic credit that went Betsy Waterman and her co-pilot, Murphy, on Lewey Lake, psychological services department, for which with their hard work, but Adirondack Park