A publication for Alumni and Friends of Kent State University Summer 2008 volume 7 — Issue 4

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Media Convergence Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications moves to a new high-tech home in Franklin Hall It Must Be Summer WKSU brings Garrison Keillor back to Blossom Music Center The future starts here, at Kent State University

Dr. Lester A. Lefton, President

Franklin and JMC students, and puts Kent State among a handful of top universities Kent State University has opened whose students are truly ready for the new another portal to the future. age of information and ideas — the world’s Some of you who remember creaky old most valuable currency. Franklin Hall — built in 1926 — from You can read this fascinating story in this your undergraduate days will be amazed issue of Kent State Magazine. And come by by its transformation into a high-tech Franklin Hall sometime. Jeff and the faculty home for our beyond-the-curve School are proud to show you the changes they have of Journalism and Mass Communication implemented. (JMC). Another type of media convergence The $22-million upgrade created more happens this summer, as Kent State’s own

Gary Harwood, ‘83 than just new space and 21st-century WKSU hosts a live performance of Garrison technology. The building is designed to Keillor and his “Prairie Home Companion”

Photo by reflect the profession that trains there — at Blossom Music Center, summer home of Kent State President open, interactive, creative and wrapped the Cleveland Orchestra and Kent/Blossom Lester A. Lefton around the new media reality: “convergence.” Music. This will be Keillor’s fourth Blossom Convergence refers to the future of appearance, a testament to this stunning media in which journalists with a variety outdoor facility and to the worldwide reach of skills — print reporting, video, digital and influence of WKSU-FM. photography, Web design and even blogging You can share in the pride that Kent State, — will converge to produce a single story. your university, is leading on several fronts Generations of mistrust and competition in the next wave of media innovation. It is between, say, print and broadcast journalists, the same spirit of creativity and foresight are being swept away by technology and Kent State brings to its role as a major audience demand. Franklin Hall will help research university, preparing our students to our JMC faculty produce graduates with compete in the global marketplace. the multimedia skills to lead this media As alumni, you remain our most revolution. important product as well as the measure of Much credit goes to JMC Director Jeff our success. We hope Kent State Magazine Fruit and the active, innovative faculty of helps all 180,000 of you stay connected the school. They saw the future and brought to this great university and engaged in its it back to the university. That spirit infects future.

Kent State’s Downtown Gallery, which recently moved to Main Street in the heart of Kent, is the only commercial-style university gallery On the cover: of its kind in the Kaitlyn Lionti, a senior broadcast United States. journalism major and news direc- Read more about it tor of TV2, in the 2,000-square-foot on page 12. studio and state-of-the-art broad-

cast control room in the newly Bob Christy, ‘87 renovated Franklin Hall.

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c o n t e n t s Summer 2008 • Volume 7 • Issue 4

Board of Trustees Features Andrew J. Banks R. Douglas Cowan, ’64 Dennis E. Eckart Emilio D. Ferrara, D.D.S., ’59 Sandra W. Harbrecht, ’71, Chair Aimee L. Huter, student Patrick S. Mullin, ’71, Vice Chair Gina Spencer, student Jane Murphy Timken Brian D. Tucker, ’75, Secretary Jacqueline F. Woods

Executive Officers Dr. Lester A. Lefton, President Dr. Robert G. Frank, Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs, and Provost Dr. Patricia A. Book Photo by Jeff Glidden, ’87 Vice President, Regional Development Dr. David K. Creamer, M.S.A. ’86, Ph.D. ’90 Senior Vice President, Administration Eugene J. Finn, Vice President, Revolution in the Newsroom . . . .page 2 Institutional Advancement The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Issue to Issue Dr. Harold Goldsmith has a new high-tech, convergent-friendly home in Vice President, Franklin Hall. Enrollment Management and Student Affairs News Flash . . . . page 14 Edward G. Mahon Vice President, Information Services, • Partners form minority business accelerator It Must Be Summer ...... page 6 and Chief Information Officer • Moerland named Arts & Sciences dean Dr. Kathy L. Stafford, ’70 WKSU-FM brings “A Prairie Home Companion” to Vice President, Blossom Music Center for a live national broadcast. • Hillel at Kent State breaks ground University Relations Willis Walker, J.D. for new home Interim Vice President, Human Resources, and Chief University Counsel A Secret Revealed ...... page 8 • DEVO founder receives honorary degree Dr. Michael Kalinski emigrated to the U.S. with Magazine Editorial Committee • Press acquires Ohio History a vast store of memories and professional knowledge, Thomas R. Neumann Associate Vice President, as well as a document that would end the secrecy of University Communications and Marketing steroid research in the USSR. Class Notes ...... page 22 Flo Cunningham, ’83, M.A. ’86 Director, University Communications • Flashback: Intramurals and Marketing Editor • Beyond the Push of a Button . . . page 10 Alumnus brings legal expertise to For the complete list of committee With the help of a new device, physically disabled inner-city schools members, follow the Contact link at people can now turn computers on and off. www.kent.edu/magazine. • Alumna wins prestigious writing award Comments and letters can be sent to: • Back by popular demand, the University Communications and Marketing, Art Is Smart Downtown . . . . . page 12 Kent State University, P.O. Box 5190, Kent, Homecoming parade Ohio 44242-0001 or [email protected]. The School of Art’s Downtown Gallery makes it big on Main Street. • Alumni meet with President Lefton www.kent.edu

Published quarterly in conjunction with Upcoming Events Great Lakes Publishing Co., 1422 Euclid Ave. Unheard Voices ...... page 16 Suite 730, Cleveland, Ohio 44115 A Kent State doctoral candidate studies sexual Back cover [email protected] violence during the Holocaust.

Countdown to Centennial . . . . . page 18 When it comes to majors, education, nursing and business are consistently top choices among students.

Blue and Gold Pride ...... page 20 New book celebrates the rich history of KSU athletics.

p a g e 1 Revolution

In Franklin Hall, faculty and students embrace convergence

Mojos. One-man-band reporters. from the already heaping plate of requests Bubble journalists. from the industry, says Jeff Fruit, director of Call them what you will, today’s reporters Kent State’s School of Journalism and Mass are toting more than just notepad and ink to Communication (JMC). cover the story. The journalists’ toolboxes are “Yes, you have to have strong writing brimming with technological tackle — digital skills; yes, you have to have good critical and and video cameras, audio recorders and a analytical thinking skills; and yes, you have to laptop computer equipped with Internet have some expertise outside the program. All access and editing software. of these are things that our alumni say they Where are the photographers? See the had in order to compete in the marketplace,” Mojos. Fruit says. “But now we’ve added multimedia What about the videographers? Ask the skills to the list; and you need to be better bubble journalists. in something other than your core area of “‘Mobile journalists go out with a notepad, expertise, whether it’s writing, photography or a video camera and a digital camera. They videography.” write the story, capture the audio and video Today’s multimedia environment suggests and file to the Web,” says Bryan Wroten, editor that students need to be great at one thing, of the Daily Kent Stater for Spring Semester pretty darn good at something else and have a 2008, senior newspaper journalism major working knowledge of everything else, he says. and honors student. “‘Bubble journalists’ are “That was not the case 10 years ago, and reporters who are able to encompass and that was not the case when I was in school. handle it all.” Being good at one thing was enough,” Fruit While some might debate whether or not a says. “Today, for many students, it’s not. You story or video should be reviewed by an editor need to have a broader range of skills.” prior to being uploaded to the Web, from Exceptional writing skills remain critical Wroten’s viewpoint, there isn’t necessarily a for students in JMC, but to clinch their dream right or wrong way to handle the situation. job, they need “a little something more,” “It’s just one approach that can be used to see if it works,” he says. “It is weird for me to think that as a newspaper journalist, I will have to do all of these things and more.” Beyond the byline Today, journalism, public relations and advertising majors are expected to have additional skills, with nothing subtracted

p a g e  47 By Rachel Wenger-Pelosi, ‘00 Photographs by Jeff Glidden, ‘87 Revolution in the newsroom

p a g e  Creating convergence Fruit says. The list includes because none of the other Fruit traces the first from state capital funds and competent photography employees understood rumblings of media about $2 million in private abilities, videography know- how to use Facebook or convergence to a 1996 support and gifts, included how, some Web or page YouTube,” he says. “Our Poynter Institute seminar. five main contractors and 30 design and proficiency in students were familiar with Kent State JMC was selected subcontractors. blogging or podcasting. these things, not necessarily as an “up and coming” As of fall 2007, students The JMC curriculum because of anything we program, one that was and faculty are reaping the adjusted to assist students did, but because they were investing in curriculum for benefits of the four-year in understanding today’s comfortable in the social the 21st century. project. Collaboration media audiences. In the networking environment “JMC faculty visioned abounds, with rooms named past, mass communication when they went into the with the folks at Poynter for corporate sponsors, was one-way, with the workplace, and they helped about what the curriculum including the FirstEnergy industry compiling news and that business move ahead.” needed to look like for where Interactive Auditorium, information and sending to In addition to they thought the business was the Gannett Collaborative readers. Today, audiences comprehending multimedia, going at that time,” Fruit says. Classroom and the Cleveland are more engaged in the students must have an “That was our launch into the Plain Dealer Classroom. A process, Fruit says, with the entrepreneurial sense. world of new media. We were gift from the Dix Family, Web giving people a voice via Whether at an educational several years ahead of the longtime JMC supporters, posting comments to a news institution, newsroom or curve at that point in time, will provide decades of Stater site or blogging. The school’s corporation, they should and we’ve worked very hard editors to have an office in audience analysis course understand what they are to stay there. It’s a daunting the converged newsroom discusses the change in contributing and that their challenge for students and named after Helen Dix, ’38, focus from mass to targeted efforts are mission-critical to faculty to keep up with the M.A. ’64, the first female audiences. the business, he says. changes.” editor of the Stater and Ironically, Fruit, longtime JMC supporter. now in his sixth year as More than $4 million in program director, says the technological investments buzz surrounding media complete the upgrades, convergence started at about including Black Squirrel Radio the same time the program integration, JMC/student underwent an accreditation media computers, classroom process in 1996 and was audiovisual equipment and a found out of compliance with cutting-edge TV2 broadcast facilities. With Taylor Hall studio complete with a 3-D housing print media, public virtual studio. relations and advertising, Student media are taking and the broadcast and radio advantage of the converged programs occupying the newsroom, a space at the end Music and Speech Center, of the second floor where JMC was split a quarter mile The Daily Kent Stater, TV2 Jeff Fruit, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, apart, in two facilities, as it and Black Squirrel Radio leads a tour of Cleveland Plain Dealer editors and business managers had been for quite some time. join to report news to their through the renovated Franklin Hall. This accreditation respective audiences, as Fruit adds that this new “Good ideas are now deficiency and a spike in well as team up to produce knowledge of a multimedia more in play, no matter student enrollment in the content for KentNewsNet. and multiplatform delivery of where you are sitting at a 1990s are what placed the com, a collaborative Web site news and information should business. There are going to program on the university launched in spring 2007. be understood by journalists, be opportunities to move up, radar and led to its inclusion Discussion about how the but also by public relations move out and move on if you on the capital improvement converged newsroom would and advertising majors. are thinking that way,” list to be able to gather all of be utilized happened long For example, JMC’s Public Fruit says. its programs under one roof before the move. A student Relations Online Tactics Students can now in Franklin Hall. ` media task force talked course helps prepare students acquire all of these skills and In 2005, Franklin Hall about how student media to utilize the online realm. much more while working slowly metamorphosed into would handle a breaking “Several of our PR shoulder-to-shoulder in a high-tech, convergent- news story, an everyday news students came back with the school’s new home in friendly dwelling for the story and other projects and glowing reviews from their Franklin Hall — a dwelling School of Journalism and planning, Wroten says. “We internships. Supervisors said for all that is convergent Mass Communication. The had to make sure we were that these students became savvy. $22 million renovation, communicating with the ‘social networking gurus’ with $15.5 million coming each other.” p a g e  47 It’s having a lot of little before, most of it was analog experiments going on at the video. Franklin Hall’s same time: in classrooms, production studio is now all one-on-one, in small groups, digital. with good ideas coming from “My old way of thinking wherever they are coming, about what you can do and and then building upon what what you can’t do with a is working. If something is video signal is completely going along pretty well, and out the window because people are getting into it, we are dealing with digital then we should run with it.” information,” he says. Daily Kent Stater Editor Bryan Wroten (right) in the newsroom, talking For example, Fruit The complexity of the with section editors, the morning following the March 4, 2008, primary says the birth of the equipment is what students election in Ohio. KentNewsNet.com Web site would see in an outside Kaitlyn Lionti says that as a news delegation process. is driving some curriculum broadcast environment, freshman she wasn’t aware of “We are open to others’ changes. Smeltzer explains. The the variety of student media opinions, and if there is any “We noticed that students equipment before was outlets available. kind of disagreement, we try are trying out some new rudimentary and basic. While “Being in different to work it out,” she says. things on the site, and as students could learn on it buildings created a divide faculty we know that we need very well, it didn’t necessarily with student media. to do what we can in the transfer into the professional Some people viewed us as Revolution, not classroom to provide support world. competitors, which should evolution for what they are trying to Lionti says the technology not be the case,” she says. Decision-making accomplish,” he says. makes JMC unique in that few “We have two different processes in the converged David Smeltzer, stations in the United States media that are trying to do newsroom and new assistant professor in the are utilizing sets of this kind, the same thing. We have the developments in student School of Journalism and especially for live broadcasts. same goal, which is to get the media are supported by Mass Communication, The addition of the broadcast news out there.” curriculum, Fruit says. says that when it comes to station’s 3-D rendered set Lionti, now a senior While it is challenging technological enhancements allows TV2 the versatility to broadcast journalism major for faculty and students and changes he, like students, change set backgrounds at any and news director of TV2, to keep up with changes is on a learning curve. “But time, she says. adds there is usually little stimulated by convergence, I have to try to be ahead of Her goal as TV2 news disagreement about which Fruit says it’s critical. At students on that curve.” director for the spring is to stories are covered by a a journalism educators For example, while smooth out any issues with particular student media conference he attended last Smeltzer worked with broadcasting and operating in outlet. summer, other programs sophisticated production the new building and studio. “For the most part, news were discussing their five- or equipment many times She wants to build a solid can be handled by newspaper, 10-year curricular foundation so the station can radio or television — it’s reviews, but JMC’s Presenters make use of a high-tech classroom, really “take off” in the fall, just the way we go about perspective is that addressing students attending the Social Media even though she graduates in it,” she explains. “We are the review needs Boot Camp and Leadership Summit. A renovated May 2008. getting used to the idea that a to take place on a Franklin Hall enabled instructors and guests “All of the changes in the broadcast and print reporter continual basis. to interact with students as the region’s social past year have really made can work together on a story. “We need to be media experts provided hands-on workshops this a great opportunity for They can talk about angles reevaluating what and seminars in podcasting, blogging, search me,” she says. “A lot of my and share interviews. They we’re doing all of engine optimization and other online tools. friends who graduated last are encouraged to bounce the time,” he says. year were disappointed that ideas off each other and in “We have informal they didn’t get to be a part of the end, have two stories groups that meet the Franklin move. about the same thing that every summer to “Some of the transitions communicates two different discuss how we have been a challenge, but I perspectives.” can change things. wouldn’t change a thing in At first, Lionti says, Sure, it’s sometimes the process. It’s totally been she was concerned about about changing and worth it.” the difference of opinion adding courses, but For more information and among student media leaders it’s also about what to read some JMC student regarding news judgment, faculty members success stories, visit www. but to the contrary, everyone are doing to make kent.edu/magazine. is open-minded about the things happen.

p a g e  By Bob Burford, WKSU-FM Public Relations Director It must be summer … WKSU Brings Garrison Keillor Back to Blossom

hirty-four years ago this July, the very first broadcast of “A Prairie Home Companion” took place in a St. Paul, Minn., college auditorium. Reportedly there were 12 Tpeople in attendance. Things surely have changed since those early days. “A Prairie Home Companion” is now a mini-industry. The show is heard on 580 public radio stations in the United States, and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks — reaching an audience of more than four million listeners. It also has launched an impressive array of merchandise, from books, CDs and DVDs to mugs, jewelry and apparel. And the engine behind it all is writer and humorist Garrison Keillor. Garrison Keillor was born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, 1942, in Anoka, Minn. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in English and got his start in radio at the student station, Radio K. When Keillor started “A Prairie Home Companion” in

1974, the format was not unlike today’s: Bob Christy, ‘95 an old-time radio variety show with

guest musicians, comedy skits and phony Photo by p a g e  47 Photo by Dana Nye there with the show was than 100 written or recorded right after Marilyn Manson works to his name, including It must be summer … or somebody like that had 11 books. A new, as-yet- WKSU Brings Garrison Keillor Back to Blossom been there the night before, untitled Lake Wobegon book and the fans had completely is due this fall from Viking torn up the grass. The Press. He is a sought-after Blossom folks had worked guest speaker. And when the overnight and around the radio show is on break, he clock; and by the time we and his troupe do a series of got there, they had resodded non-broadcast shows, dubbed the entire lawn for our show. “The Rhubarb Tour.” All this fresh grass had just Scott adds, “People appeared magically.” say, ‘He’s 65. Is he slowing Scott says the venue down?’ and I say, ‘No, he’s plays a role in the show. gearing up.’ He really is; he’s “A Prairie Home Companion” cast commercials. But Keillor “The setting makes a big revving up. He has more From left: Fred Newman, Tim and company toiled for difference. Some of the projects and more irons in Russell, Sue Scott, Garrison Keillor years before hitting it big outdoor shows can be just the fire than ever. I feel like a in the 1980s with national lovely. Places like Blossom slug in comparison. It never distribution. are charming, where you can ceases to amaze me that he Locally, “A Prairie Home see the people out on the just keeps putting out all this Companion” is heard on lawn. When it’s a lovely night wonderful stuff.” Kent State’s own WKSU- — or even when it’s not such For Scott, the enduring FM. And this summer, a lovely night — those places appeal of Keillor’s show and WKSU-FM brings Keillor are great,” she says. his signature “News From and “A Prairie Home Lake Wobegon” monologue Companion” to Blossom is simple. “I think it all Music Center for a live Scott still marvels at boils down to this: Your national broadcast. Keillor’s abilities. “He never imagination is still called The June 21 show will stops writing,” she says. forth. In this day and age be Keillor’s fourth visit to “I mean, he is constantly there isn’t a whole lot of Blossom Music Center in writing. He is writing in that. It’s radio, and we take Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. “I’ve the van on the way to the you with us,” she says. heard that Blossom is one airport, in the waiting area Tickets for “A Prairie of his favorite venues, and at the airport, on the plane, Home Companion” live at that’s one of the reasons he on the jet way leaving the Blossom Music Center on visits the area so often,” says plane. If he can’t set up his June 21 are now available Al Bartholet, ’76, WKSU- laptop, he’s got a yellow pad through all Ticketmaster FM’s general manager. “Like of paper and a pen. outlets, and online through Tanglewood, near Boston, “Every once in a while Ticketmaster.com. it has a national reputation you think that at some For more information on for wonderful acoustics and point he is going to take a the event, visit WKSU.org, beautiful grounds.” break. And I think really the or call WKSU-FM at 330- Joining Keillor for only time I’ve seen him do 672-3114. the Blossom performance anything other than write For additional stories, will be his usual troupe of is maybe reading The New including some personal performers and musicians, York Times on Sunday. That’s anecdotes about writer including voice actors Sue obviously just how he is and humorist Garrison Scott and Tim Russell, wired. That always amazes Keillor, visit www.kent.edu/ sound-effects guy Fred me. I don’t know when he magazine. Newman, and the Guy’s All- sleeps — I really don’t.” Star Shoe Band featuring Keillor maintains an Rich Dworsky. exhausting schedule and Sue Scott, who has been shows no indication of a member of the cast since slowing down. In addition to 1992, says, “I have tons of writing and performing the Garrison Keillor at memories from Blossom. weekly radio show, he is a Blossom Music Center, 2005. I think the first time I was prolific author. He has more

p a g e  Scholar sheds light on Olympic doping in former By Lisa Lambert, M.A. ‘05 Soviet Union

Dr. Michael Kalinski At that time, Kalinski unknown, arrived in the most scholars to have their spreads several photo albums could not have imagined the United States in 1990. work translated into English out on a table and begins to circumstances under which Despite his pioneering and sent to foreign journals. flip through the pages. He he would return to the West work in signal transduction, Kalinski, now associate is the young man in the more than a decade later. in which he was years professor of exercise science photos, sharing the stage with ahead of Western scholars, at Kent State University, similarly costumed men and Kalinski found himself recounts his first attempt women. The photos embody Starting Over in a foreign country with to make inroads with a passion for ballroom Next to the photo albums few possessions and little the American academic dancing and for life, visible sits a stack of thick textbooks, credibility — the Soviet establishment at Columbia in Kalinski’s expression then University in New York. and now. “The professor was sitting He explains that across the table and I brought though he has devoted out six textbooks [Kaminski his professional energy had authored] and several to exercise biochemistry, published articles and put he enjoyed unrelated them on the table,” Kalinski opportunities through dance. says. The professor gingerly Years ago, when his team picked up a book, tossing of dancers was chosen to it aside almost in the same spend a month in France to motion, and said to Kalinski, represent the culture of the “I don’t know this.” Soviet Union, Kalinski’s love At that moment, affair with the West began. Kalinski understood that professionally, he was starting over. Despite 19 years of rigorous scholarship, he says, “I knew I should not feel anymore that I was somebody — I was a nobody.” While every immigrant faces difficulties in the transition to a new country, Kalinski’s experience was somewhat more difficult because he was 47 years Kalinski as a professional dancer old when he came to the

in 1986. Jeff Glidden, ‘87 United States. “I started “We gave a concert in learning English in

front of 1,200 diplomats and Photo by the beginner’s class in their families at UNESCO,” Michael Kalinski Riverside church in Kalinski says. “The just a few of the dozen Union did not permit Manhattan,” he says. And, just Ukrainian representative to books Kalinski has published its scientists to travel four years later, he was able to UNESCO came to us after throughout his lengthy abroad to interact with their publish his first monograph the performance and said, career. The years of research counterparts from around the in English, Exercise and ‘You guys in one evening did and scholarly effort poured world, and the government Intracellular Regulation of more for Ukraine than we into their pages meant set up numerous obstacles, so Cardiac and Skeletal have done in many years.’” nothing when Kalinski, and it was virtually impossible for Muscles (1995). p a g e  47 Fulbright Award Winner Contributes to Sport Science Scholarship in Asia

Kent State Associate Professor of Exercise Science Dr. Michael Kalinski has returned from Asia’s Still, for better or worse, Capacity, with instructions to largest sports institute, where there is no such thing as a pass the document to fellow he conducted research, taught clean slate. When he left the department heads. students and lectured to peers as Eastern Bloc in the wake of Kalinski reviewed the a Fulbright Scholar. the fall of the Berlin Wall and report, which touted the the Chernobyl disaster, not use of steroids. Rather than Kalinski was awarded only did Kalinski carry with circulate the report, he the prestigious Fulbright grant in him a vast store of memories locked it away in his desk biological sciences for 2007- and professional knowledge, drawer. Two years later, 2008. Fulbright but he also carried across the International Olympic grants are made to U.S. citizens the Atlantic a document that Committee specifically and nationals of other countries for a variety would end the secrecy of banned steroids after a test steroid research in the USSR. was developed to detect of educational activities, primarily university their use. lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and In a totalitarian regime, A Secret Revealed teaching in elementary and secondary schools. Kalinski explains, distrust and Since the program’s inception, more than 273,500 The 39-page document fear are rampant and secrets participants — chosen for their leadership confirmed what many in the well-kept. Soviet scientists West had long suspected had as much incentive as potential — have had the opportunity to observe — a state-sanctioned doping coaches and athletes to each other’s political, economic and cultural program had fueled the participate in the doping institutions. world’s predominant Olympic program and were rewarded During his semester in India, Kalinski machine, turning athletes for success with free cars, conducted research and lectured on sport into research subjects and the apartments and other perks physiology, sport biochemistry, sport nutrition pursuit of success in sport into otherwise difficult to procure something dangerous. under a communist regime. and other topics of interest to national athletic The document, one Kalinski, like others inside coaches, students and scientists. of 150 numbered copies, the Soviet sports machine, “I have realized already that through remained tucked away, until would have faced severe my international work I can actually contribute after Kalinski obtained U.S. repercussions for revealing to increasing mutual understanding and respect citizenship a decade after the doping scandal. Only on his arrival. “My top priority U.S. soil — with his academic between the United States and other nations,” during my early years in credentials in tact — did he says Kalinski. the United States was to feel able to speak out. Kalinski helped organize two national re-establish my academic His document, the first workshops on sport excellence at the Sports career,” he says. Kalinski felt and last of its kind to be Authority of India, Bangalore, and Guru Nanak that to reveal the document publicly revealed, remains Dev University, Punjab. Additionally, Kalinski at that time would call his the only hard evidence of motives into question. the doping program in the presented the keynote address, titled, “Hormonal, In 1972, when Kalinski former Soviet Union. Signal Transduction and Immune Responses was chairman of the To date, no charges have During Exercise,” at the Physiological Society of department of sport been leveled against former India annual conference. biochemistry at the Kiev Soviet officials for actions While in India, Kalinski, along with Dr. Institute of Physical Culture, Kalinski considers to be the institute’s research vice crimes against humanity. C.A. Conn, published the book, Ergogenic Aids: president gave him the For more information, Performance-Enhancing Substances in Sport classified research report, visit www.kent.edu/magazine. and Exercise. Anabolic Steroids and Sport

p a g e  Photo by Gary Harwood, ’83

beyond the push of a button New device helps physically disabled turn on computers By Melissa Edler, ’00, M.A. ’07

More than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical control, robotic and electrical equipment for the Trumbull disability, according to the 2005 American Community Survey Campus, originally declined to assist because he didn’t believe by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large percentage of those people he knew enough about computers. “I was always afraid of open- have little or no use of their hands to manipulate a computer ing up computers, because I didn’t know how they worked,” he says. or access the Internet. While several helpful technologies, such McElravy smiles as he remembers what a professor in as special switches to activate hardware and software, have been mechanical engineering technologies always used to tell him: created for those with physical disabilities, one big problem “‘If you think it, we can do it.’ That’s the attitude I’ve always remains — turning the computer on and off. tried to have,” he says. “For months, we looked for a device for someone who lacks Deciding he should learn more about computers, he worked fine motor skills but couldn’t find anything,” says Dr. Joseph on the research project as part of his master’s degree in technol- Drew, Kent State associate professor of political science. ogy at Kent State. Drew and his graduate assistant, alumnus Ron Franklin, ’92, Within two months, McElravy had developed a prototype M.Ed. ’95, approached Kenneth McElravy, ’04, M.T. ’06, a that would address the issue by adding a jack to the back inte- manufacturing lab technician at Kent State Trumbull, for some rior wall of the central processing unit and paralleling it to the help. McElravy, who is in charge of all computer numeric on/off circuit of the motherboard. Any existing technologies, p a g e 1 0 47 7 8 ’ , n e d d i l G f f e Photos by J

Opposite page: Thanks to a new computer device created by Kent State researchers, simple tools, such as the sensitive plate switch (left) or multiple switch (right) that previously were used to operate a keyboard or mouse, now can assist computer users who lack fine motor skills in turning their computers on and off. Ron Franklin (foreground) -- who is quadriplegic and a graduate assistant in political science for Dr. Joseph Drew (background) — has benefited personally from the new computer device. Kenneth McElravy, a manufacturing lab technician at Kent State Trumbull, created the prototype that assists computer users with physical disabilities to turn their computers on and off more easily. such as sensitive or sip/puff switches that can be turned cost to the company, to make computers more accessible on with minimal pressure or a quick blow of air, can be for those with physical disabilities. plugged in to the added jack, allowing users with physical While Dell declined, Hewlett Packard has shown inter- disabilities to turn on the computer by themselves. est, and Drew plans to make a presentation on the device “The idea is to help people with disabilities be as inde- to them within the next year. pendent as possible,” says Drew, who has also designed “This is a minor correction for Hewlett Packard, but it a unique online Master of Public Administration degree would be a real boost program, the only one in the nation to meet and exceed for computer users who have little or the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And no use of their hands,” says Drew. Franklin, who is quadriplegic, says that’s exactly what the The device is available for purchase at a cost of $5 device has done for him. Previously, he would have to wait plus shipping. For more information, visit www.kent. to begin his work until someone from the department edu/magazine. could turn on his computer for him. “Now that I have the device in my office, I don’t have to look for other people to help me when my computer needs turned on or there’s an unexpected power outage,” he says. Online Even better in Franklin’s mind is the knowledge that others care. He says, “Being a person with disabilities Exclusives myself, it means a lot that people are so dedicated to helping us be more functional in the workplace, at school Visit www.kent.edu/magazine to view a video interview and at home.” and demonstration of this new technology. You can also In the near future, the group hopes their invention will read about how Dr. Joseph Drew is working to help help an even larger number of people. Drew has con- veterans with physical disabilities acquire any online tacted computer manufacturers, such as Dell and Hewlett degree offered in the United States. Packard, and suggested they add an extra jack, at minimal

p a g e 1 1 By Rachel Wenger-Pelosi, ‘00 Photographs by Bob Christy, ‘95

Kent State University director of galleries, Anderson Turner

Anderson Turner, Kent State’s Downtown like advertising for a small professor of art, was located M.F.A. ’02, thinks that artists Gallery is a unique business.” across the street from the and small business owners venture because it is the Turner has worked with current location. The gallery have quite a bit in common. only commercial-style the school in many roles was at 223 North Water For Turner, owning a university gallery of its kind since his arrival at Kent State Street from 2005 to 2007, business or working as in the United States. In as a graduate student eight and although the landlord an artist is more than just conjunction with six other years ago. Upon entering and neighbors in that a career decision. It is a galleries, including the the Master of Fine Arts location were very congenial, lifestyle choice. School of Art Gallery; the program, the only one in the school preferred to be in As director of galleries Michener Gallery, located Northeast Ohio, he started the midst of things on Main for Kent State’s School of on the second floor of the work with the gallery Street, says Dr. Christine Art, Turner wears many University Library; Eells — once named Gallery 138 Havice, director of the hats. Writer, farmer and, of Gallery, located on the because of its location at School of Art. course, artist, he says that he grounds of Blossom Music 138 East Main Street — and The opportunity to feels lucky and is especially Center; and two student immediately following move into the current pleased with the university’s galleries in the School of graduation was hired as part- space arose when Cass and newest gallery location. The Art building, the Downtown time administrator to run Bob Mayfield, of McKay Downtown Gallery moved Gallery offers students the the space. Bricker Gallery & Framing, in October 2007, and is chance to display and sell “Picasso said you paint purchased the former Tuttle now located in the heart of art alongside regional and what you know, and I guess Building on the north side downtown Kent. national artists. that is kind of what I tried of Main Street and sought “We’re offering an “There is a lot of teaching to do. I bulked up sales by tenants for half the space, entrepreneurial opportunity that goes on here. This selling things that I knew Havice says. McKay Bricker, for students interested in process helps educate about — what we would call an award-winning custom art, and that is a wonderful students about one aspect more craft-like items. After framing business, has thing,” Turner says of the of what it means to be an all, Kent State University been located in the Kent Downtown Gallery, located artist. Students can show and is unique in that it has both community for many years. at 141 East Main Street. sell art while learning about craft and fine art divisions,” The downtown location “This is something we pricing and how to approach he says. offers a Kent State presence should be very proud of a gallery director about their Gallery 138, established in the city beyond the because no other school is work,” he says. “Selling by Michael Loderstedt, campus and serves to move doing that.” yourself as an artist is a lot currently an associate the School of Art’s mission p a g e 1 2 47 By Rachel Wenger-Pelosi, ‘00 Photographs by Bob Christy, ‘95

into the larger community, “We are figuring out weekends and swung “The downtown location Havice explains. creative ways in which to hammers and hung drywall. provides the right space “Having another venue partner with even more Now I don’t have to hunt for for delivering some of the for art is valuable to the Kent community members,” studs in the wall for hanging. best of Kent State’s arts school. In our downtown Turner says. “We are It is as a gallery or museum activities, such as small scale spaces we have emphasized very open and ready to should be,” he says. music, dance or cabaret presentation of work by collaborate with our On October 26, 2007, the performances and poetry faculty, students, staff, neighbors and friends.” Downtown Gallery opened readings, as well as, again, emeriti and alumni, as well He says that the 1,000- to the public. Havice says a location in which to see as by local and regional square-foot location is triple the facility will continue to what’s happening in the artists who are creating the size of the previous coordinate its programming visual arts in the larger interesting and provocative space. While pleased about with other events occurring world.” things,” she says. the additional room, he in downtown Kent, and to Visit www.kent.edu/ wasn’t confident at first find fresh ways to introduce magazine to watch a video Because the Downtown about how the location the public to exciting and interview with Anderson Gallery also sells art, it would translate physically important new art. Turner and see some recent offers students in particular into an art gallery. Acting as director of the work from the Downtown a chance to understand With assistance from galleries has provided a Gallery. some important differences Brian Sullivan, ’95, unique opportunity, Turner between works seen in a equipment laboratory says. “I am happy that we’ve museum setting, where sales technician in the school, always been able to remain ONLINE are not a feature, versus Turner says they were able open and that I’ve been a those in a commercial gallery to revamp the space. The part of moving the gallery EXCLUSIVE setting, where works may be two had worked together through three different for sale, she adds. before, building simple items spaces, into one that is Motivational Moves The Downtown Gallery like pedestals or hanging better suited from where we Kent State student Melissa raises the bar for School of lighting, “... but in this case, started.” Knestaut has received national recognition for her research Art capabilities. It can show we took every bit of Brian’s The school will work project, which involved using two, three or four individual knowledge as a builder for within the university and dance to increase artists at a time, and Turner the last 25 years and used community to encourage happiness and motivation plans to unveil a new show that,” he says. others to utilize the space as a among residents at a homeless every three weeks. “We came in on the place for events, Havice says. shelter. Read about it at www.kent.edu/magazine. p a g e 1 3 N e w s F l a s h

Partners form minority Arts and Sciences, primarily business accelerator responsible for development and coordination of new Akron Urban League, research initiatives and Akron SCORE and Kent oversight of contract and State University have grant activity. Both grant and formed a collaboration to contract funding increased propel minority business significantly during his ten- growth in Northeast Ohio. ure, with a large measure The Partnership for of growth coming in col- the Minority Business laborative projects between Accelerator, a consortium of departments and colleges. these three organizations, Dr. Timothy S. Moerland Moerland’s research inter- will provide the education, ests include biochemical and training, mentoring, inten- physiological mechanisms of sive support, networking Moerland named Arts & temperature compensation; and cultural understanding Sciences dean muscular physiology and required to significantly the energetics of muscular increase the success and Kent State University’s contraction; and intracel- growth of minority-owned College of Arts and Sciences lular diffusion and molecular businesses. The GAR will be led by an administra- transport. He received an Foundation awarded tor, scientist, scholar and FSU Developing Scholar $345,580 for two years of teacher from Florida State Award and a University operation. University. Teaching Award. He co-holds and other supporters cel- The accelerator will Dr. Timothy S. a U.S. patent, “Biomolecular- ebrated the beginning of provide intensive sup- Moerland, chair of FSU’s based Actuator.” construction on an 11,000- port to African-American Department of Biological He holds a bachelor’s square-foot, state-of-the-art and Hispanic owners of Sciences, will become dean degree in biological sci- facility to be located at small- to medium-sized of Kent State’s largest col- ence (High Honors) from Lincoln and Summit streets. businesses with growth lege on May 15, 2008. Michigan State University, The new building will be potential in Medina, Portage “I’m looking forward to the and master’s and doctorate close to campus and will and Summit counties. The opportunity to assume this degrees in zoology from the include a student lounge, accelerator dovetails into the post at Kent State, a major University of Maine. sanctuary, café, computer region’s Advance Northeast national research institution,” Read more at lab and Jewish library. Ohio economic action plan, Moerland said. “I firmly www.kent.edu/magazine. Hillel at Kent State is which has identified urban believe in the core mission the foundation of Jewish assimilation and racial of public universities, and in Hillel at Kent State breaks collegiate life for Kent inclusion as attributes that their value to the nation and ground for new home State University and the positively impact the growth the local community.” University of Akron. The of regional economies. At Florida State, Moerland Representatives from organization serves more Read more at also served as associate dean Hillel, Kent State, the city than 1,500 students annu- www.kent.edu/magazine. of research for the College of of Kent, the state of Ohio ally with social, religious,

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cultural and leadership devel- visual and musical style that opment programming. was different from anything Read more at during the 1970s “new wave” www.kent.edu/magazine. music scene. DEVO became a favorite on MTV, and will DEVO founder receives always be remembered for the honorary degree red “flower pot” hats in their hit video “Whip It.” Trivia question: When and For the last two decades, where did the innovative and Mothersbaugh has estab- iconic musical group DEVO lished himself as a respected give its first concert? Answer: and prolific composer in On April 1973 in the Recital popular and commercial Hall at Kent State University, music, writing music for where group founder Mark more than 70 feature films Mothersbaugh was an art and countless television student. Nearly 35 years projects, commercials and DEVO founder and prolific composer Mark Mothersbaugh will receive later, the university’s Board of video games through his an honorary degree from Kent State, Trustees conferred an honor- production company Mutato where he was an art student. ary doctor of humane letters Muzika. The Emmy-win- degree upon Mothersbaugh ning composer’s work has for his numerous path-break- also been recognized with an ing contributions to the fields Academy Award nomination, of music and the visual arts. the Clio award and the pres- Mothersbaugh, a pioneer in tigious Richard Kirk Lifetime Online synthesized music, was a Kent Achievement Award from State art major who studied Broadcast Music Inc. Exclusives printmaking and painting Read more at Catch up on the latest from 1968 to 1973. His artis- www.kent.edu/magazine. Kent State news and events tic sensibilities were evident at www.kent.edu/magazine. in DEVO, which developed a

p a g e 1 5 Study examines sexual violence during the Holocaust

By Melissa Edler, ‘00, M.A. ‘07 Photographs by Jeff Glidden, ‘87

Kent State doctoral candidate Monika Flaschka.

p a g e 1 6 47 Voices Study examines sexual violence during the Holocaust The suffering of the experienced during that time. and master’s degrees in punishment often was based estimated six million Jews “There’s always this anthropology (’01) and on the previous behavior and killed by the Nazis during assumption that German history (’04) from Kent State. morals of the female children World War II has been given soldiers never raped anyone being abused. Girls were voice through numerous during WWII, which is considered sexual beings examinations of the completely wrong,” says Blaming the victim who invited sexual contact, Holocaust. Voices less often Monika Flaschka, a Kent Similar to military so if the girl was believed by State doctoral candidate in court cases dealing with the court to be at all sexually history. Because of the Nazi the rape of adult women, precocious, her behavior regime’s racial ideology, court-martial records of could be a mitigating factor people believed German men accused of raping or in determining punishment soldiers wouldn’t rape abusing children are filled of the accuser. “racially inferior” Jewish or with assumptions about For instance, in 1940, Slavic women and children normative gender roles of a German soldier was because it was against their the accused and the young accused of sexual misconduct ideals, she explains. women and children who with a seven-year-old girl. Using court-martial were assaulted by them. According to the court, the documents from 1933-45, “Heterosexual girl belonged to a father who Flaschka investigated masculinity was extremely had been sterilized and a the influence of race and important to the German mother who had questionable gender on punishments of military,” says Flaschka. morals. During sentencing German soldiers during For example, in a 1942 proceedings, the judge WWII for her dissertation. case, a German soldier explained: “To be considered She spent four months was accused of having is the fact that the immoral combing through the court- homosexual contact with acts of the accused were not martial records in Freiburg, a 13-year-old boy. During yet of a very severe nature, and Germany, and translating sentencing, the judge stated: the girl, already not entirely them into English. “With [his conduct], he morally pure, very much In contrast to the amount demonstrated that he poses accommodated the efforts and of scholarly attention a significant threat for our propensities of the accused.” devoted to sexual violence youth, and that only a very In October 2007, in other genocides, rapes severe punishment can, Flaschka presented her committed by German in the future, deter him research at the Fourth soldiers and members of from his actions, which are International Conference on the Nazi Party during detrimental for the nation.” Holocaust and Women in WWII have been the focus Men who abused Israel. She hopes to publish of relatively few scholarly male children were more her dissertation as a book, analyses, Flaschka says. severely punished than and to teach and continue her “How can we talk about those who abused female research on issues of gender, rape in other genocides children, because their identity and sexual violence. when we don’t discuss it in behavior violated norms of “It’s incredibly important Kent State doctoral candidate Monika Flaschka. heard are those of the our fundamental example of heterosexual masculinity. to understand what happens women and children who genocide?” she questions. The courts viewed this as a in the past and how gender were victims of rape or Even less attention has been severe threat to the normal influences not only what sexual abuse by Nazi soldiers paid to the sexual assault of heterosexual development happens, but also how those during that time. children, female and male, of male children and the events are experienced and In a 2006 study published under the Nazi regime. German nation, adds articulated by those who in the Journal of Child Sexual “It’s important to note Flaschka. survive them,” says Flaschka. Abuse, researchers from Haifa that women and children in While the behavior “While it’s important to University in Israel found the Holocaust faced different of men who abused me to hear their voices, it that Holocaust survivors experiences than men in the male children was called also should be important to who suffered sexual abuse Holocaust — not worse, but “abhorrent,” German soldiers everyone else.” during WWII were more different,” says Flaschka, who abused female children For more information, traumatized by molestation who has a bachelor’s degree were not given this label as visit www.kent.edu/ than by any other of the in psychology from the their conduct did not violate magazine. horrifying events they University of Arizona heterosexual norms. Instead,

p a g e 1 7 MAJOR Decisions Education, nursing and business remain top Kent State majors By Anna Riggenbach, Kent State magazine journalism student

Most Kent State University students will change their major at least once during their college careers. While many students change their minds about an ultimate career choice, they eventually select from among the same top majors. And that list has remained con- stant over the years. Kent State University began as Kent State Normal School in 1910. The school was initially established for teaching education, and education has remained one of the most common majors over the decades. Since early on, elementary education has been a popular choice for students. The alumni database ranks elementary education in the top 10 from the 1940s to the present. The business management degree also has been on the list fairly consistently. Marene Sanders, ’94, academic program director in the College of Business Administration, says she understands why graduating with a business degree is so popular. “What job does not have a business aspect? Business in general is attractive to students be- cause they know on a personal basis there will be an aspect of business they will be working in, no matter what field they enter. “Even professions like teaching and nursing have business aspects to them,” Sanders says. “You might ultimately end up in the business Future teachers observe a “master teacher” in Merrill Hall side of a profession.” (1914). Kent State was founded in 1910 as a Normal School, Because of the popularity of the business a two-year school for training elementary teachers. degree, the college has started business “learn- p a g e 1 8 47 Left: A nursing student practices drawing liquid into a syringe during a clinical session at a local hospital. Photo by B o b C h r i s t y, ’ 9 5

Below: An overhead view of the Olga Mural Financial Engineering Trading Floor, located in the College of Busi- ness Administration. Photo by Jeff Glidden, ’87

ing communities” to give 100,079 during the 2006-2016 students access to mentors and time frame. This was the first business professionals in the occupation on the InfoNet list community. that required a higher educa- In 1971, the Bachelor of tion degree. Science in Nursing degree was Other consistent front-run- established and has been one ners in the top 10 Kent State of the top two majors on and degrees list include market- off since at least 1980. ing and management science. Dr. Laura Dzurec, dean of In recent years, psychology, the College of Nursing, says justice studies, business admin- the popularity of the nursing istration and library and in- She says most students enter major typically cycles about formation sciences have risen college expecting to pick a ca- Online every five years. The nation in popularity, while degrees in reer that they will work in for is currently at the front edge biology, health and physical the next 30 to 40 years, which Exclusives can be intimidating. of a serious nursing shortage, education, and curriculum and Visit www.kent.edu/maga- she adds, which explains the instruction (secondary) have “We don’t place a great deal zine to read about how degree’s current prominence. declined. of emphasis on what you want the university has adapted “We expect it to get much Judith Rule, ’73, M.Ed. ’01, to do with the rest of your life, some of its educational just for the next five years,” offerings and facilities over worse in areas where the Ed.S. ’03, academic advisor the years to meet changing she says. “Students need to population is aging rapidly,” with the First Year Advising workforce and community she says. “There are more Center, says today’s students find out what is important to needs. options for health because of come to the university knowl- them.” You can also follow technology.” edgeable about the industries the links at www.kent. edu/magazine to check America’s Career InfoNet that correspond with their out upcoming Centennial ranks registered nursing fifth majors, but ultimately their Celebration events and among the top 50 occupations values drive what career path recent articles about Kent with the most openings, with they follow. State history.

p a g e 1 9 Authors Cara Gilgenbach, ’95, and Theresa Walton Photo by Gary Harwood, ’83 Blue and Gold pride Kent State athletics history celebrates rich tradition By Jillana Gall, Kent State English major

Cara Gilgenbach, ’95, and Theresa Walton share a passion archival collections. Walton, who teaches the history and for Kent State University athletics, and following three years of philosophy of sport and physical education in the School research and writing, they have a book to prove it: Kent State of Exercise, Leisure and Sport, requires students to write a University Athletics, a historical review, is now available. paper on a topic in Kent State sports history using archival The book, which records the major athletic events since resources. Over the years, the work of these students has the founding of the university, contains 210 photographs and encouraged the authors to collaborate on a book that docu- 10 chronological chapters that cover each decade of Kent ments Kent State’s rich athletic past. State’s athletic history. It also highlights renowned athletes, Walton says researching the book has been an extensive coaches, faculty, staff and administrators. In addition, it cap- process in which they utilized not only the library’s archival tures the evolution of physical education, intramural sports collections, but also yearbooks, local newspapers and athletic and athletic traditions. conference records. Gilgenbach and Walton both acknowledge the work of Upon completion of their research, Walton admits that Kent State students as inspiration for their book. Gilgenbach, she was surprised by the large number of successful Kent head of the university’s Special Collections and Archives, State athletes who transitioned into professional sports supplied the book’s numerous photographs from the library’s careers, as well as the number of Kent State athletes who p a g e 2 0 47 Live Golden Eagle Makes Mascot Debut

For the first time in more than 10 years, a live Golden Eagle is representing Kent State as its official mascot. Flash joins the Kent State community through an educational part- nership with Back To The Wild® (BTTW), a wildlife rehabilitation and nature education center located in Castalia, Ohio. Above: Former Kent State foot- Flash will serve as a symbol of pride for ball player Jack Lambert, at the university community and will also make his induction into the Football appearances throughout the year at various Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Photo by Jeff Glidden, ’87 Intercollegiate Athletics and other university events. Each visit will be accompanied by an Right: Former Kent State track educational message. star and Olympic bronze med- Kent State previously had a live Golden alist Thomas Jefferson. Eagle appear at numerous home football Photo by Gary Harwood, ’83 games from 1985 to 1995. It is believed that the Jan. 23, 2008, debut of Flash was the first time a live mascot has appeared at a Golden Flashes basketball game. Visit www.kent.edu/magazine for more information about the live Golden Eagle and have competed in the Olympics. Jack Lambert, Thurman Munson Back To The Wild, as well as a history of Kent and Al Sherman are just a few of the well-known alumni. State’s mascots. Gilgenbach adds that she was fascinated when she learned

that, at one point, sports were not just an activity as they are Photo by Jeff Glidden, ’87 now, but a part of the curriculum for students. Walton says that the purpose of this book is to encourage appreciation for Kent State’s history and promote pride in its outstanding athletes. “By writing this book we hope to generate interest in Kent State history and its athletic programs, as well as encourage stu- dents to explore the resources available in Special Collections and Archives at Kent State,” says Gilgenbach. The 128-page book, a part of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of Sports” series, is available at www.amazon.com. For more information about Kent State athletics or the Special Collections and Archives, visit www.kent.edu/magazine.

p a g e 2 1 Alumni Association

INTRAMURAL SPORTS Intramural sports have been part of the Kent

State experience for more than 90 years. In the

beginning, participation was compulsory (a physi-

cal education requirement). Over the years, the

requirement was dropped, but the tradition and

fun of intramural sports continued. Intramural

competitions, officiated by students, provide a low-

stress opportunity for those who are not varsity

athletes to participate in sports and recreational

activities during their college years. Both serious

and casual athletes are invited to play.

p a g e 2 2 47 Alumni Association

Class Notes ’53 to lecture publicly for Fresno a Cleveland high school during planned giving and endowments John W. Stahlman, Hudson, Fla., County Libraries and other early World War II. * k Donald for the Simon Wiesenthal is Abn. Ranger Captain, Korean organizations. * D. Zukerman, Willoughby, Ohio, Center, one of the Conflict. Stahlman retired from is retiring after 35 years teaching largest international Jewish the U.S. Foreign Service in ’69 math at Cleveland Public human rights organizations. 1986 and in 2007 published US Thomas M. Batiuk, Medina, Ohio, Schools. He has been a professional Foreign Service: From New is the creator of the syndicated fundraiser for 28 years. * k Frontier to War on Drugs. cartoon Funky Winkerbean. ’72 Gary A. Zwick, J.D., Solon, Ohio, Batiuk’s new book, Lisa’s Story: James L. Mack, M.A., Erie, Pa., of Walter & Haverfield LLP, was ’59 The Other Shoe, chronicles Funky has been the CCIS director/ recently named one of the 100 Rosemarie Cardoso, M.A. ‘62, Winkerbean’s main character human services administrator top attorneys by Worth magazine Clarence, N.Y., is a retired Lisa Moore’s ongoing struggle for Erie, Pa., for 30 years. * for the third year in a row. * art educator for Kenmore- with breast cancer. The book Tonawanda schools in New was published last year by The ’73 ’77 York. Cardoso also edited a Kent State University Press. Robert J. Gage, J.D., Chevy Marty Hilovsky, M.S. ‘81, compilation of family histories, k Robert J. Cerny, Wooster, Chase, Md., has been a Stow, Ohio, is the president of The Romanians of Salem, Ohio Ohio, is an appraiser and an partner and head of the real EnviroScience Inc., the sole 1900-2000. * instructor of courses on historic estate practice group for recipient of the environmental homes. k Rich Hollenbaugh, the Washington, D.C.-based award given by Biodiversity ’62 J.D., Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio international law firm of Alliance and Dominion, the Jack Huber, Raleigh, N.C., is lawyer and partner with Carlile Covington & Burling LLP for parent company of Dominion a professor of psychology at Patchen & Murphy LLP, has 30 years. Gage was recently East Ohio. Meredith College. Meredith taken office for a three-year term selected by the Washington College recently received a as a member of the Board of Business Journal as one of ’78 $100,000 gift in honor of Huber Governors of the American Bar four finalists for the “2007 Top Charles W. Bluman, M.A. ‘80, in support of the Department of Association. He will represent Washington Area Lawyer” Canton, Ohio, retired after Psychology and the Meredith Ohio and Illinois. Hollenbaugh in the field of real estate nearly 30 years as a photo Autism Program (MAP). * has served in many capacities transactions. * k Carter E. lab manager at Kent State. k for the local and national bar Strang, B.S. ‘73, J.D., Cleveland, Janice M. Phelps, Pickerington, ’64 associations. Ohio, was elected vice Ohio, recently published a book Ben Kolita, Mentor, Ohio, is the president of the Federal Bar titled Open Your Heart With owner of Kolita & Co. Kolita was ’70 Association Northern District Pets: Mastering Life Through presented with the 2007 Public Nancy L. (Van Meter) Bradley, of Ohio Chapter. * k James W. Love of Animals. Service Award by the Ohio M.Ed., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Walker, M.Ed. ‘79, Massillon, Society of CPAs. For 30 years, is the chief evaluator with Ohio, was in secondary ’79 he has also volunteered for the Therapy Dogs International Inc. education for 30 years and is Dawn M. Brown, Munroe United Way of Lake County, and * k Leona W. (Wright) Farris, now in his third year as adjunct Falls, Ohio, is an occupational he serves on the board for the M.A., Stow, Ohio, is involved in instructor of mathematics and therapist for Therapy Partners. * Mentor Public Schools. Kolita many activities to improve her physics at Stark State College has also served as a committee community and has received in North Canton, Ohio. Walker ’80 member and treasurer for many community service awards published Before I Go in 2003 Julie Friedman, B.F.A. ‘87, the Willoughby Chamber of and recognitions. She was also and is listed in Who’s Who in Medina, Ohio, had her artwork Commerce. k Robert B. the first black female hired American Education. * included in the Ohio Arts Woods, Miami Springs, Fla., is as an assistant professor at Council’s Riffe Gallery exhibition retired after 43 years in radio the University of Akron in the ’74 “New Horizons: Rewards of Time and television news. * department of home economics. E. Gay Hawk, Saint Petersburg, & Place.” k Monica Silver, * k Gerald R. Lanyi, M.Ed., Fla., has accepted the position South Euclid, Ohio, is the creative ’65 Ed.S.’72, Wooster, Ohio, is of director of public relations art director for GE Consumer and Robert Spirko, M.B.A. ‘70, an education supervisor and for Windmoor Healthcare of Industrial. Silver also designed Hinckley, Ohio, is the author of adjunct professor at Ashland Clearwater. Hawk has worked art and a booklet for the CD The Palestine Conspiracy. University in Ashland, Ohio. * k with Windmoor for the past 12 Metaphor by another Kent Ron Sterlekar, Houston, Texas, years as director of admissions, State alumnus, Noah Budin. * k ’66 is the owner of Direct Marketing as well as business office Norma J. Sundberg, Tallahassee, Norma A. (Haggberg) Kaser, Network, and is semi-retired but director. * Fla., has been a freelance writer Fresno, Calif., continues very active as a board member for nearly 50 years, and has teaching reading and English of The Mission of Yahweh, a ’76 published poetry and essays at the Madera College Center. homeless shelter in Houston. * Mark W. in a number of magazines and * k Paul W. Kaser, Fresno, Glickman, newspapers. Sundberg has also Calif., has retired after 31 years ’71 M.Ed., Boca published a children’s book, An teaching English, journalism and Peter M. Jedick, Rocky River, Raton, Fla., is Odd Fable, which was released film studies at Reedley College in Ohio, is author of The West Tech the new CFRE in September 2007. * Reedley, Calif. Kaser continues Terrorist, a mystery novel set in director of * Annual Member * Life Member (Continued on page 25) p a g e 2 3 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBER PROFILE

Ann M. Dunning, AIA ’65

Ann was one of the first female graduates of the School of Architecture and Interior Design. She worked for 14 years at architecture firms in the Cleveland area before opening her own practice in 1979. Her work focuses on the preservation of historic structures and renovation projects that maximize the use of exist- Greatest lesson learned at Kent State ing home spaces. She stays connected to the university by keep- I’m not very good at chemistry. I started out in the pre-engineering ing up with the professional accomplishments of other graduates, program and switched to architecture when the chemistry and physics judging student work and gathering with Kent State friends. got to be too much. In this way, I was able to combine a technical approach with a creative endeavor, forge a new path and find that it was the right one for me.

Favorite Kent State professor Bob Shively taught us things that were really difficult but he made them simple to understand. All those little things that — at the time I thought I would never need to know — now I use them on a daily basis.

Most significant life accomplishment Owning my own architecture firm for 29 years. Being able to be among the first in Cleveland to use new computer programs to make my practice work.

Favorite campus memory Traying on front campus.

Why I joined the Alumni Association It is the responsibility of a professional to continue to support where you came from, and in return, those organizations will also support you.

www.ksualumni.org Alumni Association (Continued from page 23) ’81 president for Global Aerospace, an insurance Neal E. Shapero, Shaker Heights, Ohio, is the company. Get reconnected at managing partner of the Cleveland law firm of Shapero & Roloff Co., L.P.A., and was recently ’87 www.ksualumni.org elected to a two-year term as board chair Lisa M. (Horvath) Vidacs, North Royalton, of the Ohio, Kentucky and Allegheny Region Ohio, was recently promoted to senior vice of the Anti-Defamation League. k Karen A. president at the Federal Reserve Bank (Andrus) Tollafield, Mentor, Ohio, a teacher of Cleveland with responsibility for cash for Beachwood City Schools, published an operations and protection services. k article in the 2007 winter edition of the Ohio Lee (Gonzalez) Woodward, M. Ed. ‘91, Journal of English Language Arts (OJELA). * Tampa, Fla., recently published Tumultuous Journey, Poems Along the Way. ’82 Brian D. Coyle, Raleigh, N.C., is senior ’88 vice president/community development James R. Cozzarin, Mentor, Ohio, is the investment manager for Branch Banking immediate past president for the American Kent State’s & Trust Co. Coyle’s book, Soul Riders, was Medical Writers Association (AMWA), and online alumni community recently published. k David G. Futey, ‘86, will serve an additional one-year term on the M.A. ‘93, Colorado Springs, Colo., former organization’s executive • Access the alumni directory 16-year employee of Kent State, is co- committee. Cozzarin is a • Create a personal page author of Landforms of Southern Utah: A credentialed editor in the life with pictures Photographic Exploration and Geology sciences and is a member • Network with Kent State Underfoot in Southern Utah and photo of the Board of Editors in alumni across the country contributor to Geology Underfoot in Central the Life Sciences and the • Find out about the latest Nevada. Landforms of Southern Utah was Council of Science Editors. university news and a finalist in the Science category of the Cozzarin has held numerous alumni events National Best Books 2007 awards. Geology posts for AMWA over the past seven years. k Underfoot in Southern Utah was selected as Jay G. Fridy, Cincinnati, Ohio, has been named • Submit Class Notes one of the Southwest Books of the Year for vice president of development for Beech 2006. Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada Acres Parenting Center. * Registering is was selected by Science & Film as a Best Book for Earth Science in 2001. k Carol J. ’90 simple and free. (Crist) Korman, Akron, Ohio, is an education Kevin E. Dael, Athens, Ohio, is the new coordinator at Akron Children’s Hospital. director of the Trimble High School Go to Korman is also the recipient of the 2007 Marching Band in Glouster, Ohio, where he Excellence in the Role of the Professional also teaches math. * www.ksualumni.org Development Researcher award from and try it out! the National Nursing Staff Development ’91 Organization. * Jessie L. Grant, Kalamazoo, Mich., is working as a university curriculum advisor and ’84 coordinator of the alpha program at Western Vicki L. (Drummond) De Santis, Massillon, Michigan University. k Robert W. Wieder, Ohio, has joined the law firm of Amer M.S., Los Angeles, Calif., co-authored two Cunningham Co., L.P.A. in Akron, Ohio. De books: Landforms of Southern Utah: A Santis will practice in the areas of civil Photographic Exploration, in August 2007; and litigation and appellate practice, health care Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah, in 2006. law, personal injury, professional liability, Landforms of Southern Utah was a finalist in Kent State University medical malpractice and wrongful death the Science category of the National Best Alumni Association k claims. While working at Aultman Hospital in Books 2007 awards. * Andrea Wright, P.O. Box 5190 Canton, Ohio, De Santis received the Nurse Pontiac, Mich., was elected to the Pontiac Kent, OH 44242-0001 Excellence Award in the Heart Lab in 1992. k General Employee Retirement System as an 330-672-5368 Roseanne Korfant, L.S.M. ‘98, Sarasota, Fla., is employee trustee. Wright was also appointed Toll free 888-320-KENT the community affairs coordinator for ABC-TV. to the Hospital Finance Authority Board by [email protected] k Beverley L. Laubert, Lewis Center, Ohio, is the Pontiac City Council. * the state long-term care ombudsman for Ohio www.ksualumni.org and is president of the National Association of ’92 state long-term care ombudsman programs. * Robert C. Beer, M.B.A., Noblesville, Ind., has joined BSA Life Structures as a project ’86 manager. BSA is a national leader in Aaron I. Mandel, B.A. ‘86, J.D., St. Louis, facilities design for health care, education, Mo., practices law at Brinker & Doyen. research and technology in Chicago and Mandel also passed the exam to become Indianapolis. a certified specialist in wine and joined ’93 the Century Club due to having tried more Debbi (Peters) Myers, B.S.N. ‘93, than 100 wine varieties. * k Scott D. Ross, Bakersfield, Calif., is a CRNP CWS nurse M.B.A., Madison, N.J., was promoted to vice practitioner for a dermatologist. * * Annual Member * Life Member (Continued on page 29) p a g e 2 5 Alumni Association

Carter Strang, ’73, M.Ed. ’79 Teacher turned lawyer can’t leave the classroom behind

By Anna Riggenbach, Kent State magazine journalism student

The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Once at Kent State, he enrolled in the College of Law. He started at Arter & Association has added a unique twist on Honors College and played football and Hadden before taking a job at Tucker the three Rs commonly taught in school hockey. He earned a degree in educa- Ellis & West LLP, where he is now a — “rights, responsibilities and realities” tion and never regretted the decision. partner with a focus on environmental — and its members are sharing these “The education I received for being a litigation. perspectives and their legal expertise teacher was just outstanding,” he says. While in his current position, Strang with more than 3,000 inner-city Cleve- Soon after graduating from Kent accepted the job as chair of the 3Rs land students as guest lecturers in social State, Strang was hired as a teacher program in the summer of 2007. After studies classes. serving as a volunteer the previous Kent State alumnus Carter year, he saw firsthand the impact Strang, ’73, M.Ed.’79, serves as the program was having on area chair of the 3Rs program, which students. He thinks this type of provides assistance with the public/private community partner- social studies portion of the Ohio ship works because of the personal Graduation Test (OGT), as well as satisfaction the volunteers gain career counseling for life after high and the tremendous benefits the school. students receive. Strang seeks volunteers for the “It’s difficult to get high-school- program, serves as a lecturer him- age kids to sit down to set goals self and has spent countless hours and formulate a plan for the future with Cleveland school officials to — to think about, ‘What are the improve and define the focus of this things you want to do and what do year’s program, including rewriting you need to do to get there?’” of all the lesson plans to be more In addition to providing a struc- “student centered” and focused ture for goal-setting, lessons for the on achievement of the objectives 3Rs classes have included explana- established for each lesson. tions of due process, search and “Many of these kids do not seizure and the First Amendment. have a lot of direct contact with This is the second year for the people practicing law and others in program, and it works in conjunc- professional careers. Our hope is to tion with the Cleveland Metro- help with goal-setting and career politan School District along with planning to assist these students Carter Strang, ’73, M.Ed.’79 East Cleveland Shaw High School. in thinking more about what they It was recognized as a model for want after graduation,” Strang says. bar association/school partnerships Strang’s career path began at Kent and coach at Shaker Heights High nationally, and has won both the Lexis- State and was inspired by a special role School, where he was recognized as Nexis Community Outreach and Edu- model in his own life: his father, Leo, a Martha Holden Jennings Scholar for cation Award and the 2007 American who was hired as the head football outstanding teaching. Bar Association’s Partnership Award. coach in 1964. A middle school After teaching for a few years, he was Strang recently spoke about 3Rs student when his father took the posi- invited to teach a criminology class, at the Los Angeles Bar Association’s tion, Strang and his family moved to which inspired his career change. Diversity Summit, where it was identi- Kent from Massillon, Ohio. “I was looking for a new challenge, fied as the largest “diversity pipeline” “I practically lived in Memorial and it was the right time to do it,” initiative (encouraging minorities to Gym on the weekends and went to he says. enter trades/professions) of its type in all the sporting events and concerts,” Encouraged by other teachers, Strang the United States. Strang says. “There really wasn’t any took night classes to get his law degree. “We would love to see the program question in my mind where I wanted to In 1984, his hard work paid off when he grow and have seen a lot of interest in go for college.” graduated from the Cleveland-Marshall that happening,” he says. “It is some-

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Top: Carter Strang and students from John Hay High School study the “3Rs.” Right: A photo from Strang’s student days, when he played football for Kent State. He is no. 8 in the middle of the front row.

thing that would work well in Akron and awards in honor of his parents: the Leo Bar Journal article urging area lawyers other school systems.” Strang Award, given each year to a foot- to sign up: “Participation in 3Rs has a Strang’s involvement with the commu- ball player; and the Betty Strang Award, positive effect that cannot truly ever be nity doesn’t stop with the 3Rs program. given to an art student in the Honors measured.” He is vice president of the Federal Bar College, where his mother worked as a To learn more about the Cleveland Association (Northern District Ohio secretary for a number of years. Metropolitan Bar Association’s 3Rs Pro- Chapter) and a Cleveland Bar Trustee. But, most importantly, Strang has gram, visit www.clevelandbar.org. He is also a member of the Kent State enjoyed this opportunity to make a real University Honors College Advisory difference in the lives of Cleveland-area Board, and has set up two Kent State students. As he wrote in his Cleveland

p a g e 2 7 Alumni Association Jacquie Marino, ’94 Alumna receives prestigious writing award By Sarah Colvin, Kent State public relations student, and Elizabeth Slanina, MLIS ’07, Assistant Director, Alumni Relations

It’s been four months since Cpl. Stan Mayer returned from Iraq, and he can’t stop thinking about Graham. He wears a navy blue Red Sox hat — Jacqueline Marino, ’94 Photo by Gary Harwood ’83 just like the one Graham used to wear. He drinks Guinness — Graham’s favorite beer. Until he forgot it at an ex-girlfriend’s apartment, he wore

Kent State Honors College alumna a black bracelet imprinted with the words “Die Strong” for Lance Cpl. and assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Lance Graham, the gunner in his truck and one of his closest friends. Jacquie Marino, ’94, spent six months researching and conducting interviews — from “Blood Brothers,” Cleveland to write “Blood Brothers” for the June 2006 issue of Cleveland Magazine. Magazine, June 2006 “When 16 Marines from Cleveland’s 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment were killed a different focus, in a single week, I knew their friends and it became a chronicle of would have a story when they came several Brook Park Marines’ actual home. I began interviewing Marines experiences. Mayer even supplied some The 3/25 lost 48 Marines randomly, talking to any Marine who of his journal entries for the feature. during one tour of duty in Iraq, 16 in wanted to talk from 3/25, thinking I’d Mayer wrote: that single August week. focus on a sniper unit whose losses got It’s August and everyone is dying. Sick of “Blood Brothers” earned Marino the the most play in the media,” Marino told the faces, imagining what they look like in Gold Eddie Award for the best single the Nieman Narrative Digest, which print, on the blurry front pages of newspapers story among regional publications at the named her story a “notable narrative” at home that we’ll never see. Who is alive to 2007 Eddie Awards, a national competi- on its Web site. witness their own 15 minutes? Not anyone tion sponsored by Folio magazine. However, after getting to know two who leaves us here. ... At 23 years old, oddly, “I was really surprised my story was of the men through her interviews, this is where I finally begin to see whiskers recognized because it was such a difficult Cpls. Stan Mayer and Jeff Schuller, growing on my face. My first facial hair’s story to read,” says Marino. “You always she decided that the story should have come in gray. Twenty-three going on 60. fear that it will come off as a journal-

p a g e 2 8 47 Alumni Association (Continued from page 25) director of historic preservation, ’94 School of Graduate Studies Melissa A. (Cox) Varner, at Ursuline College in Pepper B.S.E. ‘95, Knoxville, Tenn., Pike, Ohio. Wagner is also a ist profiting off the experiences of others. But when these is a former teacher who project architect at Sandvick guys read what I wrote, they said, ‘You got it. You said what now owns Sun Smart PR, a Architects Inc. we were saying,’ and that meant more to me than winning company which specializes in in Cleveland. the award.” helping other companies deal * Eric G. Marino has won many local awards and another national in sun-protective clothing and Williams, award for her outstanding writing abilities. In 2000, she products. The company markets M.Ed., received a Clarion Award from the Association for Women and sells its own products. Blacksburg, k in Communications. In 2006, she received two first place Richard L. Orndorff, Ph.D, Va., is the awards from the Press Club of Cleveland and one first Spokane, Wash., teaches at director of the multicultural place award in consumer reporting from the Ohio Society Eastern Washington University. academic opportunities program of Professional Journalists. In 2007, she won first place in He co-authored Landforms of at Virginia Tech. Southern Utah: A Photographic the Ohio Excellence in Journalism competition for “White Exploration, Geology Underfoot ’98 Coats,” a series about medical students. in Southern Utah, and Geology Jae D. Cho, Cleveland, Ohio, Marino, a 1994 graduate of Kent State, earned bachelor’s Underfoot in Central Nevada. has joined the architecture firm degrees in journalism and mass communication and politi- Landforms of Southern Utah of CBLH Design as a project cal science. She also earned a master’s in nonfiction writing was a finalist in the Science manager. k Mellissia Fuhrmann, in 2002 from Johns Hopkins University. category of the National Best Upper Arlington, Ohio, holds a “I started out as a political science major at Kent State, Books 2007 awards. Geology law clerk position with Attorney but I decided to study journalism during my sophomore Underfoot in Southern Utah General Marc Dann’s office in year on the Washington Program in National Issues,” was selected as one of the the Crime Victims Section. * k says Marino. “Of all the powerbrokers I met on that trip, Southwest Books of the Year David A. Labanc, M.Ed., Aurora, I enjoyed hearing from the journalists the most. They had for 2006. Geology Underfoot in Ill., is the director of development such passion and energy, and they truly loved what they Central Nevada was selected operations and major gift officer did. So I picked up a double major in journalism my junior by Science & Film as a Best for Elmhurst College. k Lisa year, worked for the Daily Kent Stater, interned at two Book for Earth Science in 2001. Lewarchick, Akron, Ohio, was dailies and helped start a short-lived magazine. Interest- recently promoted to manager ingly, some of my professors who were so instrumental in ’95 at Enterprise Risk Management my education are now my faculty mentors.” Jeffrey C. Wetzel, B.A., (ERM) for Diebold Inc., North k She has been a journalist for 13 years and enjoys being B.S. ‘96, Pittsburgh, Pa., was Canton, Ohio. * Jonathan L. a freelance writer and contributing editor for Cleveland promoted to principal at Burt Tucker, M.B.A., Auburn Township, Magazine. She has been published in a variety of newspa- Hill architecture firm. Ohio, received a 2007 NSTI pers and magazines, including The Plain Dealer, Memphis (Nano Science and Technology ’97 Institute) Nanotech Fellow Award and Agence France-Presse. She also freelances for other Valerie L. Baker, Denver, for outstanding contributions professional publications, including The Christian Science Colo., was promoted to senior toward achievement of the Monitor. investment executive at Trilogy International NSTI nanotech- In addition to writing, she enjoys being an assistant Financial Services. k Betsy nology, microtechnology and professor of magazine journalism at Kent State. Blankenship, M.L.S., Marion, biotechnology communities. In a sense, she has followed in the footsteps of her father, Ohio, was awarded the Jay Tucker is the lead marketing John A. Marino, who is an associate professor of business Ladd Distinguished Service manager for Keithley’s Research management technology at Kent State Trumbull. Howev- Award at the Academic Library and Development; Education er, she says she did not think about teaching until she went Association of Ohio (ALAO) 33rd Business. to graduate school. annual conference. * k Mark “I always loved writing,” she says. “When I taught an L. Fink, B.G.S. ‘98, Toledo, Ohio, ’99 expository writing class at Hopkins, I realized why my earned his Ph.D. in curriculum Harriett J. Walker, Ed.S., Las dad always worked so much — teaching someone what and instruction, educational Vegas, Nev., is the membership you know and love is hard work. But when you finally get media. * k Diane M. Kaulen, chair of Southern Nevada through, it’s very rewarding.” Pearland, Texas, is a certified Mensa Society and is a member On the Kent Campus, she teaches feature writing, news- life specialist. Kaulen recently of Henderson Symphony writing and magazine publishing regularly. Recently she published a book for children and Orchestra. * taught political journalism, a new special topics class she teens who survive a loved one’s suicide: In the Wake of Suicide: ’00 created with political science professor Thom Yantek. k “Now that I am a professor, I get great support from A Child’s Journey. Brandi G. Shanon M. my colleagues and loads of inspiration from my students,” La Banc, M.Ed., Aurora, Ill., is the Larimer, Orlando, assistant to the vice president Fla., is the Marino says. at Northern Illinois University executive director Her award-winning story is available at the archives of Division of Student Affairs. k for Enzian Theater www.clevelandmagazine.com. Timothy R. Wagner, M.Arch. and Florida Film ‘98, Sheffield Lake, Ohio, is an Festival. k Pascual Zamudio, assistant professor and the new Berlin Center, Ohio, graduated * Annual Member * Life Member

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with the USAF ROTC and serves Hudson, Ohio, has been named ’05 ’06 as a captain in the USAF as an the director of health education Susan M. Baldwin, Ph.D., Matthew L. Barcus, Hopedale, F-15E pilot. and research at Robinson Orchard Park, N.Y., is an Ohio, is a loss prevention agent Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, assistant professor at SUNY at at Nordstrom. * k Mark E. ’01 Ohio. k Claudia L. Kovach, Buffalo State College. Baldwin Miyashita, M.S., Orrville, Ohio, Erin R. Weston, M.Ed. ‘04, Broadview Heights, Ohio, is one of 11 elected by the has been promoted to senior Gordon, Ga., is the pre-nursing completed the examination for Centers for Disease Control application developer/analyst admissions advisor at Georgia accreditation in public relations, and Prevention to be a national at J.M. Smucker Company. k College and State University. * k entitling her to use the APR trainer for the School Health Christopher B. Piatt, Atlanta, Lauren E. Wiley, Canton, Ohio, professional designation. * k Index (SHI) assessment tool. Ga., is a media coordinator is a market specialist in the Jenn Lapso, Springfield, Ohio, Baldwin was also a presenter for CNN. * k Emily C. Platz, marketing department for JoAnn is an account executive for at the Oxford Roundtable on M.L.I.S., Columbus, Ohio, is a Stores Inc. in Hudson, Ohio. Alcone Marketing Group Inc. Obesity Prevention. * k Daniel librarian for Farmington Library * k Eugene D. Walters, Stow, Jacob, Kent, Ohio, is a business in Conn. 02 Ohio, is the district marketing analyst at FirstEnergy Corp. Brittney R. Black, M.Ed. ‘06, manager for ARAMARK Higher in Akron, Ohio. * k Lori K. ’07 Dayton, Ohio, is the young Education. * Long, Ph.D., Cleveland, Ohio, Jessica S. Hanlon, Poland, alumni and student relations published her first book, The Ohio, has joined the J.M. coordinator for Ohio Wesleyan ’04 Parent’s Guide to Family Friendly Smucker Company as a trade University in Delaware, Ohio. * Steven R. Flaughers, Akron, Work. While at Kent State, marketing analyst, south. k Ohio, was named managing Long served as the graduate Laura Neidert, M.Ed., Farmville, ’03 partner of Proforma ETS in student trustee on the Board Va., has accepted the position Kathryn R. Grandstaff, Bryan, Fairlawn, Ohio. Flaughers was of Trustees. k Carrie L. Short, as assistant director of career Texas, has been accepted into also featured as a Varsity M.Ed., Brunswick, Ohio, was development at Hampden- the Master of Public Service K alumnus. * k Bryan D. promoted to assistant director Sydney College in Hampden- and Administration Program Granger, North Canton, Ohio, of financial aid at Baldwin- Sydney, Va. at the George Bush School of was promoted to senior support Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Government and Public Service analyst at J.M. Smucker at Texas A&M University. Company. k Suzanne Hughes, M.S.N.,

* Annual Member * Life Member Homecoming ‘08 is Saturday, Oct. 11

Back by popular demand, the Homecoming parade is returning for this year’s Homecoming festivities on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. “As the university prepares for its Centennial Celebration, it seemed appropriate to reinstate the tradition of the Homecoming parade,” says Lori Randorf, MBA ’99, executive director of alumni relations. “The parade has always been very popular, and it’s an exciting opportunity to bring together the university, alumni and the sur- rounding communities.” This year’s parade theme is a “Salute to Service,” honoring our men and women in military service (present and former). For up-to-date Homecoming infor- mation, visit www.ksualumni.org.

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President Lefton Visits With Alumni from New York to Naples Kent State University President Lester Lefton recently went on the road to greet alumni and share his vision and priorities for the university in the years ahead. Six events were held in cities throughout the country, including Pittsburgh, Pa.; Washington, D.C.; New York, N.Y.; Naples, Fla.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Chicago, Ill. Hundreds of alumni attended these events sponsored by the Kent State President Lester Lefton shares his vision for the future of the university at an alumni reception in Washington, D.C. University Alumni Association.

1.) Alumna Aidan Russell, ’06, and Michelle McCall, ’07, with President Lefton in Washington, D.C. 2.) Mitch Dickey, ’82, and Bill Armstrong attend the alumni reception in New York City. 3.) Christine Garber, ’01, and Andrew Garber meet President Lefton at the alumni reception Homecoming ‘08 in Washington, D.C. is Saturday, Oct. 11 1. 2.

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4.) Alumni gather at a reception in New York City. From left: Holly Curp, ’98; Adam Ristow ‘03; Patrick Gahagan, ’98; Molly Kearns, ’99; and Marcia McCraw, ’84. 5.) Kent State Alumni Association Atlanta Area Representative Tony Kamson, ’79, and Larry Hassel, ’83, with President Lefton at the reception in Atlanta. 6.) At the reception in Washington, D.C., Robert Bacon, ’01, and Roosevelt Hold discuss the future of Kent State University. 7.) Renee Krivine, ’79, and Jonathan Krivine join other 6. 7. alumni at the New York City reception. p a g e 3 1

prespage.indd 1 3/19/08 4:49:02 PM Alumni Association Life Members of the Kent State University Alumni Association L o s s e s he Kent State University Alumni Association strives to support the mission of in the ksu family T Kent State University and provide its members with benefits and services. As space permits, Kent State Magazine will acknowledge new and current life members ’41 of the association. A partial list has appeared in each issue since spring 2004; additional Elaine R. (Hicks) Bolyard, Amherst, Ohio, names will appear in future issues. A complete list of life members can be found at June 2007. www.ksualumni.org. For information on becoming a life member of the alumni asso- ’48 ciation, call 330-672-KENT or toll free at 1-888-320-KENT. Ruth P. Neidert, Naples, Fla., May 2007. Douglas Belfield, Baltimore, Md. William Wajert Sr., Beaumont, Texas Michael Whipple, Fishers, Ind. ’49 Ralph Brown, Saint Petersburg, Fla. J. Charles Walker, Key West, Fla. Juanita Whisman, Steubenville, Ohio Charles D. Petty, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, William Brown, Ashburn, Va. James Walker, Massillon, Ohio Nancy Whitehead, Kent, Ohio David Bugby, Sanibel, Fla. Traci Walkosak, Lakewood, Ohio Thomas Whitehead, Kent, Ohio July 2006. * Cynthia Cain, Cortland, Ohio W. John Walkosak, Cleveland, Ohio Jerry Whitmer, Akron, Ohio ’52 Robert Chaka, Mentor, Ohio Elaine Wallace, Canton, Ohio Kathleen Whitmer, Akron, Ohio Rusty Lobdell, M.B.A. ‘57, Wheat Ridge, Anthony Chapman, Gahanna, Ohio Arvid Waller, Grand Blanc, Mich. Sara Whitson, Akron, Ohio Colo., October 2007. k Louis F. Peterson, Shannon Chapman, Gahanna, Ohio Dennis Walsh, Prospect, Ky. William Whyte Jr., Little Rock, Ark. John Crandall, Mendham, N.J. Dale Walter, Maple Heights, Ohio Kurt Wiant Eds, Westlake, Ohio M.Ed. ‘57, Newton Falls, Ohio, January 2008. Phuong Do, Hanoi, Vietnam F. Carl Walter Jr., Pepper Pike, Ohio Ann Wiedeman, Stow, Ohio ’63 Lori Etter, West Lafayette, Ohio Eugene Walters, Stow, Ohio Robert Wiedlund, Dayton, Ohio Elizabeth T. (Toth) Fisher, Chardon, Ohio, Scott Etter, West Lafayette, Ohio John Walters, Amherst, Ohio C. Bernetta Wiencek, Hudson, Ohio December 2007. James Evans, Cookeville, Tenn. Carl Walz Col USAF (Ret.), Centreville, Va. Stephan Wilder, Canton, Ohio Dennis Farmer, Chesterland, Ohio Susanna Wanamaker, Cranberry Twp., Pa. Joseph Wilks, Toledo, Ohio ’70 Michelle Farmer, Chesterland, Ohio John Wanchick, Columbus, Ohio Kate Wilks, Toledo, Ohio Laura M. Wiandt, Solon, Ohio, Dolores Freeman, Powell, Ohio Michelle Wann, Dorset, Ohio Edward Willeman, Salem, Ohio February 2007. Gary Gardner, Kent, Ohio Richard Ward, Largo, Fla. Nancy Willeman, Salem, Ohio Malinda Geis, Ravenna, Ohio Beverly Warfield, Rancho Mirage, Calif. Nicole Willey, New Philadelphia, Ohio ’72 Matthew Geis, Ravenna, Ohio Paul Warfield, Rancho Mirage, Calif. Carlene Williams, Rancho Mirage, Calif. Dale Covey, Akron, Ohio, October 2007. k Barbara Graham, Mantua, Ohio Donald Wargowsky, Aiken, S.C. Charlene Williams, Waimanalo, Hawaii Philip J. Minick, Centerville, Ohio, Gerald Graham, Mantua, Ohio Garfield Warren, Fayetteville, N.C. Cynthia Williams, Atlanta, Ga. October 2007. Thomas Hess, Charlotte, N.C. Janet Warren, Tallmadge, Ohio Frederick Williams, Columbus, Ohio King Hill, Cleveland, Ohio Kathryn Warren, Rio Rancho, N.M. Glenn Williams, Ravenna, Ohio ’75 Shenell Hinton, Sandusky, Ohio Thomas Warren, Tallmadge, Ohio James Williams, Sagamore Hills, Ohio Sandra J. Hadley, New Philadelphia, Ohio, Barbara Holt, Cortland, Ohio Richard Warther, West Chester, Pa. Janet Williams, Columbus, Ohio April 2007. Christine Horvath, Kent, Ohio Richard Watkins, Sheffield, Iowa Joseph Williams A.I.A., Winter Park, Fla. Stephen Horvath, Kent, Ohio George Watson, East Palestine, Ohio Tracy Williams, Delaware, Ohio ’76 Roland Hudec, Euclid, Ohio Karen Watson, Kent, Ohio Helen Williamson, Perrysburg, Ohio Thomas M. Farrar, Mogadore, Ohio, Daniel Jacob, Kent, Ohio Angela Weaver, Avon, Ohio John Williamson, Perrysburg, Ohio December 2007. Kerrie James, Mississauga, Ontario Michael Weaver, Avon, Ohio Stewart Willits, APO, AE ’78 Donna Ketchum, Tarpon Springs, Fla. Patricia Webb, Colorado Springs, Colo. Paul Wilms, North Olmsted, Ohio Larry Kline, Charlotte, N.C. Thomas Webb, Colorado Springs, Colo. Betty Wilson, Cincinnati, Ohio Chad N. Blooming, M.Ed. ‘96, Wooster, Jolynn Knerr, Strongsville, Ohio Wendy Webb, Greensboro, N.C. Christopher Wilson, Mineral Ridge, Ohio Ohio, May 2007. H. David Kracker, Mansfield, Ohio Marion Weber, Port Orange, Fla. David Wilson, Leesburg, Fla. ’79 Louise Lawler, Cleveland, Ohio Thomas Webster, Belpre, Ohio Doris Wilson, Jackson, Mich. Mary K. Dulzer, Ph.D., Cleveland, Ohio, Paul Lewis, Atlanta, Ga. Richard Weigle, Aiken, S.C. Gail Wilson, Chardon, Ohio Rudolph Libertini Sr., Hudson, Ohio Brooks Weingart, Alliance, Ohio Judy Wilson, Akron, Ohio October 2007. Kerry Macomber, Mogadore, Ohio Gerald Weinstein Ph.D., Cleveland, Ohio Linda Wilson, Massillon, Ohio ’92 John Maitland Jr., Napa, Calif. Donald Weir, Lake Oswego, Ore. Matthew Wilson, Hermitage, Pa. Ronda S. (Hopper) Cole, Salineville, Ohio, Michael Marcinkoski, Akron, Ohio Elizabeth Weir, Lake Oswego, Ore. Matthew Wilson, Copley, Ohio October 2007. k Brian M. Kegarise, South Megan Nelson, Lindenhurst, Ill. Neil Weisthal, Beachwood, Ohio Robert Wilson, Akron, Ohio k Linda Nutter M.A., Ashville, Ohio Michele Weitzel, Copley, Ohio Scott Wilson, Burbank, Calif. Euclid, Ohio, October 2007. * Michael J. Rebecca Poor, Grove City, Ohio Louise Weizer, Macedonia, Ohio Stephen Wilson, Barnesville, Ohio Quatroche, Wickliffe, Ohio, September 2007. Andrew Protz, Streetsboro, Ohio Harold Weller, Orlando, Fla. Trevor Wilson, Chardon, Ohio ’06 Patrick Rabideau, Maumee, Ohio Kathleen Welsh, Akron, Ohio Wendy Wilson, Aurora, Ohio Todd R. Wunderle, Akron, Ohio, Linda Rateno, Sagamore Hills, Ohio Thomas Welsh, Akron, Ohio Jeffrey Winn, Sausalito, Calif. Robert Rateno, Sagamore Hills, Ohio Jerome Wendel, Traverse City, Mich. William Wintour, Lakewood, Ohio October 2007. Margaret Reyes, Bloomington, Ill. John Wertheim, Phoenix, Ariz. Doris Wise, Ravenna, Ohio Jessica Ring, New Market, Md. Mary Wertheim, Phoenix, Ariz. Martha Wise, Ravenna, Ohio Friends of Kent State Michael Ring, New Market, Md. Carol Wessler Smith, Broadview Hts., Ohio Nancy Wise, Westerville, Ohio Jan (Bentley) Barker, Charleston, S.C., Francis Rojas, Burlingame, Calif. Erin West, Alliance, Ohio Ralph Wise, Ravenna, Ohio December 2007. k Jon Brooks, Cincinnati, Carol Roose, Waverly, Ohio Marianne West, Jupiter, Fla. Susan Wise, Roanoke, Va. Ohio, October 2007. k Bruce M. Larrick, Audrey Scuba, Kent, Ohio Melvin West, Sun City West, Ariz. William Wise A.I.A., Westerville, Ohio k Ronald Smith, Gastonia, N.C. Myra West, Mogadore, Ohio Cynthia Wisner, Plymouth, Mich. Akron, Ohio, November 2007. Robert E. William Smrekar, Cleveland, Ohio William West, Mogadore, Ohio Neal Wisner, Plymouth, Mich. Williamson, Hudson, Ohio, September Abby Snowberger, Stow, Ohio Alys Westmeyer, Martinsburg, W.Va. Dwight Witcher, Fort Washington, Md. 2006. k Richard R. Zink, Canton, Ohio, Violette Szilvas, Gallipolis, Ohio Richard Westmeyer, Martinsburg, W.Va. Teryl Witcher, Fort Washington, Md. December 2006. Mary Theaker, Mansfield, Ohio Erin Weston, Gordon, Ga. Thomas Wohlwend, Stow, Ohio Kathryn Trebilcock, Carnegie, Pa. Alan Weston II, Gordon, Ga. Virginia Woide, Medina, Ohio Dianne Volak-Ulis, Canton, Ohio Donald Wexler, New Port Richey, Fla. Virginia Wojno-Forney, Akron, Ohio Katherine Wagnitz, Akron, Ohio Diane Wheelock B.S., M.S., Syracuse, N.Y. Fredric Wolf, Bellevue, Wash. Mary Wajert, Beaumont, Texas James Whipple, Burtchville, Mich. Jacqueline Wolf, Painesville, Ohio p a g e 3 2 47 Addressing critical health care needs

America is facing a nursing shortage. As the baby boomer population ages, hospital visits are rising dramatically, and estimates show one million additional nurses are needed by 2020.

Kent State is leading the way in filling that gap.

Ranked nationally in the top 2 percent of nurs- ing programs by size, the university supplies the majority of nurses to Northeast Ohio’s major hospitals. And projects underway will boost the skills and number of nurses available.

Recent gifts from alumni and friends have made possible a $15 million health and science building at the Ashtabula Campus and a $250,000 nursing simulation lab on the Kent Campus. Similar projects are planned for the Stark and Salem campuses.

But more support is needed to provide scholarships, professorships and equip- ment to ensure the health care system can keep pace with aging residents. Learn how you can help at www.kent.edu/development or by calling 330-672-2222.

Seeing an urgent need and providing the solution? That’s excellence in action.

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IBCad.indd 1 3/26/08 11:45:15 AM m A G a z i n e Summer 2008 For a complete listing of concerts, lectures, performances, exhibits and other events at Kent State’s eight cam- puses, visit www.kent.edu/ecalendar. Kent/Blossom Music Porthouse Theatre May 9 http://dept.kent.edu/blossom “Four Decades of Dynamite Theatre” Canton Symphony Orchestra 330-672-2613 40th anniversary celebration 8 p.m. On the grounds of Blossom Music Center Kent State Stark July 2 www.porthousetheatre.com Fine Arts Theatre Miami String Quartet 330-672-3884 www.stark.kent.edu with Jerry Wong, piano 330-499-9600 7:30 p.m. June 12-28 University Auditorium Anything Goes

July 9 July 3-19 Kent/Blossom Music Faculty Alice… including members of The Cleveland Orchestra July 24-Aug. 24 and Hugh A. Glauser School of Music The Music Man 7:30 p.m. University Auditorium Eells Gallery July 20 At the entrance to Blossom Music Center Annual Side by Side Concert http://art.kent.edu/galleries/ Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra with The Cleveland Orchestra Glass Invitational 7:30 p.m. Curated by M. Sean Mercer Blossom Music Center

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