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SUMMER 2012 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

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Science Fiction

Temple Scientists Tackle the lack of Logic in Sci-Fi And Disaster Films 32 ALUMNI HEART OF AFRICA

On the eve of South Sudan’s first birthday, John Prendergast, CLA ’86—one of that nation’s strongest proponents of independence—discusses the country’s contentious past and its promising future. Summer might call to mind leisurely pursuits, but the Temple community continues to educate, investigate and advocate. In this issue, professors use blockbuster movies to teach scientific principles; an alumnus fights for peace in Africa; a doctor seeks to prevent amputations; and a researcher works to improve literacy. TEMPLE2 Then & Now 3 From the Staff 4 Campus Voice 5 News 10 TUAA News 37 Class Notes 52 The Last Word

16 22 26 ACADEMICS RESEARCH COMMUNITY WEIRD SCIENCE LIFE AND LIMB SMALL TALK

Most big-budget sci-fi and disaster movies By collaborating with doctors across special- Underserved schoolchildren get a remark- make us wonder, “Could that really ties, a Temple researcher helps diabetic able head start in literacy, a result of the happen?” Two Temple professors reveal the patients and others keep legs, arms and feet research of Barbara Wasik in the College science behind the big screen. intact, against the odds. of Education.

12 FAREWELL: As Temple President Ann Weaver Hart steps down, Temple examines the enduring impression she made on the university.

ON THE COVER: In an illustration by Hugh Syme, images reminiscent of sci-fi and disaster films are swept into an unbelievably powerful tornado.

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Joseph V. Labolito FROM THE STAFF

VOL. 66 NO. 1 / SUMMER 2012 Senior Vice President, Institutional Advancement David L. Unruh in the interim Joseph Labolito V. Associate Vice President, Advancement Communications Richard M. Englert, provost and senior Nicole Naumoff vice president for academic affairs, Executive Director, Alumni & Development assumed the responsibilities of president Communications of Temple University July 1, 2012. He will Betsy Winter Hall, SCT ’01 serve as Temple’s acting president until Senior Editor the Presidential Search Committee com- Maria Raha pletes its work and recommends a final candidate to the Board of Trustees. Associate Editor Renee Cree, SCT ’12 The search committee, comprising trustees and representatives of the faculty Design and student body, continues to assess Temple University Creative Services (212-1112) potential candidates. Correspondence, Address Changes and Gifts A professor of educational administration, TASB/1852 N. 10th St., Philadelphia, PA 19122 Englert has served Temple since 1976. He 215-926-2562 / 800-882-7655 has been vice president for administration, Email associate dean and dean of the College of with fidelity to its mission of access to [email protected] Education, deputy provost and dean of excellence,” says Patrick J. O’Connor, chair Website University College, and chief of staff to for- of the board. “We call on all members of temple.edu/templemag mer Temple President Peter J. Liacouras. the Temple community to give Dr. Englert “The Board of Trustees has full confidence their full support during his time as Temple is published by Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. that Dr. Englert will ably lead the university acting president.” © Copyright 2012 by Temple University Temple University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all in every aspect of its operations. The university has pledged not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. This policy extends to all educational, service and We Asked, You Answered employment programs of the university. In the spring issue, we asked you to “Give SPRING 2012 UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Us 10!” answers about the magazine’s new look. Here’s some of what we learned.

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SUMMER 2012 3 CAMPUS VOICE

SINKING INTO Ryan S. Brandenberg SMART ART Robert Blackson arrived How do you choose what will at Temple Gallery in mid- be exhibited in the gallery? We have an advisory council, 2011. Since then, he has made up of people from across organized a staggering– campus and Philadelphia. When we meet, everyone brings and unorthodox–level of a question they don’t know the programming, from a answer to. A discussion ensues mobile blood bank to 10 about the different issues posed, and we vote. Based on audio exhibits about the votes, we decide how much moments of silence, to space, money and time to devote to [exhibits in] the gallery. draw attention to a variety of social issues. Is that different from how other galleries operate? Robert Blackson sits among two artworks: “Love Songs”—the records on the table, At the time of this interview, It is. Usually, a curator relies on chosen by Lucas Henry in the Boyer College of Music and Dance—and “I<3 CZ,” a fiber sculpture by Susie Brandt made from 120 skeins of yarn. the gallery featured a what they’ve seen in the art world, such as what kinds of performance-art piece exhibits they’ve seen, the types by Philadelphia artist of artists they know—things like R obert Blackson that. But here at Temple, our Tim Belknap. Over an OCCUPATION: Director, exhibitions and public programs, Temple Gallery mission focuses on what we LOCATION: Tyler School of Art, Main Campus eight-week span, Belknap need to learn about now. donned a NASA suit and Can you provide an example? We’ve heard that you make your With cultural institutions losing suspended himself in a In 2011, we had the Big Shale own clothes. How did that start? money and schools ending their giant white cube outfitted Teach-In to discuss the issue of That came out of my time [in art art programs, how do you make fracking. It’s a topic almost all school] in Scotland. I arrived in the case for art’s importance? like a spaceship. In this of us are interested in, whether January, and was not prepared Art instills in us a sense of setup, he used the internet- you’re an artist, a geologist or for how cold it was. I didn’t have humanity; we are drawn to it, conferencing software a mother of four worried about enough clothing, but there was believe in it and value it. Even your drinking-water supply. a sewing machine available to amid the destruction and Skype to talk to local We involved a number of students, and I could get fabric negativity [in the world], there’s fourth-graders about space speakers from across campus cheaply, so I decided to sew a sense that art should be saved. and across the city, to come things to keep me warm. I’ve I think that’s been borne out by exploration. Blackson says together to talk about what it been doing it ever since. history. If you visit ancient places the artist was inspired means to drill thousands of feet such as Greece, they didn’t keep by the shuttering of the below us, break apart a rock the notes on city-council and try to extract the gas within meetings or voting registration NASA program. that rock without harming cards; they preserved really the environment. curious objects instead.

4 TEMPLE NEWS

The Class of 2012 celebrates Commencement; the Owls join the Big East Conference; a Temple researcher’s innovation helps primary-care doctors detect growths; a film student is an Oscar nominee; U.S.News & World Report gives Temple high marks; thousands “get their Owl NEWS on” during Alumni Weekend 2012. PROGRESS in

Ryan S. Brandenberg Harrisburg After working vigorously for months to maintain Temple’s state funding and to avoid further cuts, the Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee has included flat funding for higher education in its proposed budget. If enacted, the bill would restore Temple’s appropriation to last year’s level, rather than further reducing it by 30 percent as proposed by Pennsylvania Gov. Thomas Corbett in February. The bill still must be approved by two-thirds of both state houses and Gov. Corbett, but it is an important step in securing fair funding for Temple this year. “This relationship has meant that Temple has been able to give our students access to a quality education,” says Tony Wagner, executive vice president, CFO and treasurer of Temple. He notes that in-state students pay approximately $10,000 less per year than Do the Math: out-of-state students because of state support. To advocate for Temple The Class of 2012 and to stay up to date The Class of 2012 celebrated Commencement about government May 10 in the Liacouras Center. affairs, join Temple Advocates Legislative The number of The oldest graduate Students from conferred degrees, is a 82 countries Outreach Network are represented by 43 states— (TALON) by visiting 8,668, 67-year-old the Class of 2012. plus Washington, D.C., makes it the student in the Puerto Rico and temple.edu/talon and largest-ever class Department Guam—comprise clicking “Take Action.” in university history. of English. this year’s graduating class.

SUMMER 2012 5 NEWS Ryan S. Brandenberg

Left: The women’s basketball team breaks in its practice facility in the newly renovated Pearson-McGonigle Hall. Right: An architecture student constructs a project in one of the numerous, light-filled studio spaces in the new Architecture building on Main Campus. New Digs for Architects and Athletes The Department of Architecture, which has Brigitte Knowles, Tyler School of Art “Now, we have a home of our own, where shared space in the Engineering building at senior associate dean in the Department of we can be whenever we want, card-swipe 12th and Norris streets since the 1970s, Architecture, believes the new space will our way in and work,” says Fran Dunphy, recently moved into a new, dedicated build- attract students and allow the department to head coach of men’s basketball. “We haven’t ing on 13th Street, doubling space for the grow. New programs and degrees also have had that luxury before. And I mean that sin- department. been added: Facility Management and cerely—it’s a luxury. There are plenty of The facility is the first to be completed as Architectural Preservation, for undergradu- really good basketball teams that don’t have a part of Temple’s 20/20 framework for ates; an undergraduate pre-professional what we do.” campus development, which includes an degree in architecture; and a graduate-level Pearson-McGonigle is undergoing a arts quad comprising the Tyler School of Art, professional degree in architecture. $58 million renovation, estimated to be the Boyer College of Music and Dance, and Additionally, engineering students will completely finished by the end of 2012. In the School of Communications and Theater. benefit. Steve Lengkeek, assistant dean of addition to the basketball facilities, the proj- Such spirit of collaboration, and new spaces finance and operations for the College of ect will add additional recreational space, for the arts, will help position Temple as a Engineering, says members of the college classrooms, offices and a front atrium that global destination for art of all kinds. are “relieved” to have the additional space will include retail space on Broad Street. vacated by the Architecture Department. Laura Kuserk, Class of 2016 “In the past five years, our program has grown by 50 percent and we were maxed out,” he says. “It’s a win-win for both Fast Facts

Ryan S. Brandenberg programs.” The new Architecture building and the additional Temple’s basketball teams also moved into space in Pearson-McGonigle provide students with their new, state-of-the-art practice facilities 190,000 additional square feet of campus space in in Pearson-McGonigle Hall on Broad Street. which to compete and create. In addition to new regulation-sized courts, the basketball facilities feature 24-hour Other Temple 20/20 proposed projects—including access, coaches’ offices, recruiting and meet- a science, education and research center; a resi- dence hall; a new library; and more—will add more ing spaces, strength and conditioning areas, than 1 million square feet of study and living space an academic study lounge and more. In addition to studios, classrooms and workshops, the to Main Campus and the Health Sciences Center. Architecture building has plenty of space for student socializing—or solitude.

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Mitchell LeffMitchell BIG EAST, WE’RE BACK! This fall, Temple’s intercollegiate athletic programs will begin to compete in the Big East Conference. Temple football will be a part of the conference at the onset of the 2012 season. All other sports programs will leave the Atlantic 10 Conference in 2013–2014. It is the first time in university history that all of Temple’s intercollegiate athletic programs will compete in the same conference. As a part of the Big East, all Temple men’s basketball and football games will be nationally broadcast, which could be a big boost for revenue, visibility, athletic recruitment, admissions and more. “This is arguably the greatest day in the history of Temple Athletics,” says Bill Bradshaw, director of athletics. “Big East will provide a national platform in a BCS [bowl championship series] conference for our student-athletes to compete with other highly respected educational institutions.” Maria Raha

Fast Facts Attendance at Temple The Owls defeat Duke University in one of the biggest upsets of the regular season. football games Duke—ranked No. 5 at the time of the game—had only one other loss in 2011–2012. averaged more than

Courtesy of Big East Conference 28,000 per game during ‘i Believe’ the 2011 season. Temple men’s basketball blazed trails through the 2011–2012 season. After winning its first outright Atlantic 10 regular-season champion- This past season, ship since the 1989–1990 season, the team made its 30th appearance the Owls scored in the NCAA tournament, during which it lost in the second round to

South Florida University. But the Owls’ winning streak is still impres- 50 . sive: From February 2009 to March 2012, they played 105 games with- touchdowns out losing back-to-back matchups. They also achieved one of the most Men’s basketball surprising upsets of the NCAA season, when they defeated Duke scored an average of University—which lost only one other game during regular-season play. And after Duke was defeated in the postseason, Temple boasted 76 points the second-longest winning streak in the nation. per game. The team ignited both Owl pride and a catchphrase courtesy of Jack Fatica, SBM ’98, and the Cherry Crusade, Temple’s fervent student Women’s basketball spirit squad. “I believe that we have won!” became Owls fans’ postsea- has competed in the son motto. To keep Temple spirits soaring, the Temple University NCAA tournament Alumni Association and the Owl Club handed out “I Believe” T-shirts, which flooded the postseason stands. 9 times In the first round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament, since 2002. Temple women’s basketball beat Quinnipiac University 75–60, and then defeated Harvard University 64–59. With a record of 23 wins and For more information nine losses, the Owls advanced to the Sweet 16, where they faced—and about the Owls’ 2012 fell to—Syracuse University. With an overall record of 23–10, the wom- football season and en’s team proved to be fierce competition all season long. Maria Raha tickets, check out the The Big East Conference welcomes Temple to its back cover! To see the postseason spirit of Temple’s fans, visit temple.edu/templemag ranks with a 25-story digital billboard in Times Square.

SUMMER 2012 7 NEWS

The School of Medicine attracted $125.7 million

Ryan S. Brandenberg in National Institutes of Health grants in 2011, averaging $261,300 per faculty member.

Only Stanford ($391,000 per faculty member); University of Chicago ($328,100); Yale ($313,700); and University of California, San Francisco ($271,300) beat Temple in average grant support.

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Chang-Hee Won, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and director of the CSNAP Laboratory, 1 is developing technology to better assess the growth of tumors and lesions. UT P UT sensational prototype O Fast Facts Temple engineers have created a prototype device that emulates and quantifies the sense of touch necessary for medical examination. Approximately The tactile imaging sensor was developed by Chang-Hee Won, asso- 4 2.6 million women in ciate professor of electrical and computer engineering. By detecting CaMERa the U.S. had a history the size and shape of lesions or tumors and their elasticity and mobil- of breast cancer as of ity, the device could aid doctors when they discover growths during January 2008.** examinations. More than 12 percent “Human hands have this amazing ability to touch something and 2 LED ELASTOMER LED of women will be tell if it’s soft or hard, if it’s wet, or even its temperature,” says Won, diagnosed with who also directs the Control, Sensor, Network and Perception (CSNAP) 3 TUMOR breast cancer during Laboratory in the College of Engineering. “We’re trying to emulate their lifetimes.* that tactile sensation with a device that will give us the mechanical how it works Breast cancer rates properties of what we are feeling.” in the U.S. have According to Won, studies have shown that cancerous lesions and 1. The handheld sensor is attached to a computer been declining over tumors tend to be larger, more irregularly shaped or less elastic than through a firewire port. the past 20 years. those that are benign. “Using the sensor, we can determine the prob- 2. The light is injected into the flexible and trans- Early detection is ability of a lesion or tumor being either malignant or benign.” parent elastomer, located at the end of the sensor. one reason for the The sensor can be attached to computers with cable ports. Equipped The elastomer touches and compresses the tissues, decrease.** with LED lights and a camera, the device has a flexible cube on the shining light on them. *National Cancer Institute. end, into which light is injected. “SEER Stat Fact Sheets: 3. If the sensor encounters a lesion or tumor— The sensor keeps the light within the cube unless a lesion or tumor Breast.” November 10, 2011. something that changes the contour of the elastomer seer.cancer.gov changes the contour of its surface, in which case, the light will reflect during compression—the injected light reflects out **American Cancer Society. out of the cube. Cancer Prevention & Early of the cube. Detection Facts & Figures 2011. The camera then captures the images caused by the reflected light. cancer.org They are processed with an algorithm that calculates a growth’s 4. A camera then captures the images caused by mechanical properties. the reflected light. “Most primary physicians’ offices are not equipped to perform tests 5. Multiple images of the tumor are taken and then such as mammograms,” Won says. “With this kind of information, they processed to estimate its size, mobility and elas can decide whether to monitor a growth or send the patient to a special- ticity. Malignant tumors tend to be bigger, less ist or a hospital for a more definitive diagnosis.” Preston M. Moretz, SCT ’82 mobile and stiffer than those that are benign.

8 TEMPLE Betsy Manning Bes 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show focused on Hawaiian on and sustainability. flora focused 2012 Show Philadelphia Flower International award-winning in the exhibit and Horticulture’s Architecture Landscape of Department The species. different 100 approximately from plants 1,500 and structure shade 15-foot mountain, a 18-foot an included exhibit The Land Life to the with ‘āina: AReturn Aloha Flower Show, International Philadelphia 2012 the in exhibit Hawaiian-themed its for Show” in won “Best Horticulture and Architecture Landscape of Department The &World ReportU.S.News Temple the ascended ranks in Schools the 2013 Graduate Best edition of Temp l e t in S t rank among Philadelphia’s many medical schools. 47 No. also News rankedU.S. Temple’s Medicine of School law inthe second-ranked school Pennsylvania. U.S. the in 58 No. to advanced spots Law of three School Beasley The kind. its of schools schools, the highest amongPhiladelphia-areafine-arts aNo. earned Art of Tyler School The 21313 of rank in the 52 nation. No. to 11climbed spots full-timeThe Business program of in School MBA the Fox ’ . s Ran in research, the second-highest the second-highest in research, nation the in k , maintaining as position its . in ho gs 2007, 2010 and 2012. and 2010 2007, 1997, 2005, 2003, 2002, 1993, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1987,12 times—in in Show” named “Best Temple has been F a s Ri t F a w! c t s se by by earned an Oscar nomination. an Oscar earned soldier in an injured carry Regiment, Marine 8th Company, Echo 2nd Battalion, with serving Marines Jaz place.” world abetter the making to work my contributes I hope “Ultimately, says. other,” each Otway with relationships on our reflect us help also but better, ourselves understand us help only not nuance Again Back for and Hell Festival Film atSundance Editing” Documentary “Best for prize first-ever the awarded was who Otway, to says. she work, her on focus to opportunity an her gave time study and for books career full-time her in atTemple. Trading fellowship minutes. 88 to footage raw of hours 100 from story war. of brutality the experiencing after life everyday to return to tries he as Harris Nathan Sgt. 25-year-old lows Oscar nomination. nomination. Oscar an earn job—and film-editing aprofessional with courseload her balance to managed student graduate arts media and year, afilm This From “ of of Richard SC Brooks, sc F Lynda Foote, SC Lynda Foote, ’84 Antonellis,Darcy ENG hisout career. including including “We live in a world of fascinating complexity, and stories that express express that stories and complexity, aworld fascinating of in “We live new nothing is award for anational honored being of excitement The a accepting before industry filmmaking the in 10 years She spent the down whittling for responsible was Otway editor, film’s the As Hell and Back Again Back and Hell edited Otway Fiona ma I hope my work contributes to m fun fa fun iona Otway joins numerous Owls who have worked behind the silver silver the behind worked have who Owls numerous joins Otway iona reen, including: reen, Cat on aHot yn B Hell and Hell Back u c king the world abetter place.” r — t M t s o ysti F a n iona nd c River,c T T

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Thousands of Owls got VIP treatment during the Temple University Alumni Association’s Alumni TUAA NEWS Weekend 2012.

TUAA board member Leonard Mellman, CLA ’49, pitched in as an Alumni Weekend volunteer. 1 3 Strutting down the Cherry carpet. Savoring a tasting at restaurateur Stephen Starr’s Route 6. Morning yoga, followed by an afternoon visit to a beer garden. Spending Saturday night with Grammy award-winning recording artist John Legend at the Liacouras Center. Thousands of Owls reveled in VIP treatment at more than 45 outings, tours, perfor- mances, lectures and parties—including a universitywide street fair and a live concert— during the Temple University Alumni Association (TUAA) Alumni Weekend 2012, April 20–22. No matter what the event, Alumni Weekend 2012 exemplified the adventurous, distinct spirit that defines Temple, as evident today as it was 50 years ago—when the Reunion Class of 1962 popu- lated campus—and 25 years ago, when the Reunion Class of 1987 were students. For more event photos and videos, visit myowlspace.com/alumniweekend. 4 1. Paint the Town Cherry Week spread Temple pride citywide. Buildings and landmarks, including the fountain in Franklin Square, were lit in Temple cherry. 2. Eighties pop music filled Temple Performing Arts Center while members of the Class of 1987 rued their college fashion sense and shared their favorite “you know you went to Temple if…” moments during

Photograph above: Ryan S. Brandenberg the 25th Reunion. 3. Alumni served the community while learning about herbal remedies at the Temple University Health Sciences Medicinal Garden at the corner of Broad and Venango streets. As a part of the Templedelphia experience, Photographs 1, 5: Betsy Manning; 2, 8: Joseph V. Labolito; 4. 3, 4, 6: Ryan S. Brandenberg; 7, 9: Dan Z. Johnson meteorologist David Murphy, SCT ’85, predicted the weekend’s sunny skies during a behind-the-scenes tour of WPVI 6ABC.

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Wisdom from the Reunion Classes When asked to give guidance to current students, members of the classes of 1962 and 1987 offered advice from experience:

“Remain centered in the now. Be in the present and enjoy it.” —Gwendolyn White Anthony, EDU ’62

“A bachelor’s degree isn’t enough. This is a complex world. A bachelor’s degree is only the beginning.” —Lynne Abraham, CLA ’62, LAW ’65

5 “You’re coming into a tough economy. Be conservative and patient. Grow and educate yourself to find what your heart really loves.” —Vivian White, SBM ’87

Get in the Game! Homecoming 2012—complete with last year’s popular Tailgate Row—takes place October 6 at Lincoln Financial Field. This year, the stakes are higher: The Owls face Big East opponent 8 9 South Florida! Reserve your seats 5. The Owls’ next generation of fans was treated to story time at the Street Fair. 6. With more than 45 events across at owlstix.com. Philadelphia, Hooter was one busy Owl. 7. Temple “paparazzi” photographed guests as they arrived at Mitten Hall for Rolling Out the Cherry Carpet, the weekend’s opening reception. 8. The 50th reunion class presented Temple more than $436,000 to support university initiatives, and created the Class of 1962 Endowed Scholarship Fund. Temple Trustee Phillip Richards, SBM ’62, will match all gifts to the fund up to $25,000. 9. Young alumni ate, drank and bowled until the wee hours of Saturday morning during the Young Alumni Late-Night Party in Northern Liberties.

SUMMER 2012 11 Indelible Legacy

The presidency of Ann Weaver Hart created a brighter hen Ann Weaver Hart, “The most remarkable and encouraging future, for both Temple University’s ninth local higher-education story of the [p]ast president, stepped down 15 years has been the rebirth and reinven- Temple and North June 30, 2012, after six tion of Temple,” Patrick Kerkstra wrote in years in Sullivan Hall, she left behind a gift The Philadelphia Inquirer one week after Wgreater than any building, endowed chair Hart announced her intention to step down. Philadelphia. or scholarship. She left Temple with “Ann Weaver Hart has been responsible momentum. for tremendous accomplishments and Not the kind of momentum you get from progress at Temple during her time as a push on a swingset—we are talking Broad- president,” says Temple Board of Trustees Street-Line-express-train-hurtling-along-the- Chair Patrick J. O’Connor. tracks momentum. The kind that builds. That progress began with careful plan- The kind that lasts. ning and a collaborative spirit. Soon after The years since Hart took office in sum- she assumed the presidency, Hart asked the mer 2006 have been marked by campus Office of the Provost to oversee a university- construction; the steady ascent of Temple’s wide academic strategic-planning initiative. academic reputation; fundraising mile- Beginning in 2007, hundreds of Temple fac- stones; a faculty-hiring surge; the implemen- ulty, staff and students came together over tation of a new GenEd program; new global the course of 18 months to create the initiatives; the expansion of its research Academic Strategic Compass, a five-year enterprise; new leadership and new affilia- plan for the institution’s academic future. tions at Temple University Health System; Using the Compass as a guide, the univer- community engagement; massive private sity focused on opportunities for student investment in the area surrounding Main success, research excellence, global commit- Campus; the hiring of nationally respected ment, community engagement and the athletics coaches; and, only months revitalization of Temple as a destination ago, an exciting deal that will move all of campus. The plan laid out clear goals in Temple’s intercollegiate athletic programs each area and provided annual measures to the Big East Conference. in order to gauge success.

19 U.S. Fulbright students, 7 Udall scholars (and 3 honorable mentions) and 3 Marshall

12 TEMPLE “The most remarkable and encouraging local higher-education story of the [p]ast 15 years has been the rebirth and reinvention of Temple.” — Patrick Kerkstra, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 13, 2011

scholars attended Temple during President Hart’s tenure. Approximately 270 community programs began between 2006 and 2012.

sUMMER 2012 13 20/20 Vision 2006 to 1114 (97 points above the national average) in 2011. Enrollment in the Honors The Academic Compass soon spawned an Program has risen, and Temple students economic planning initiative and, in 2009, now routinely win the nation’s most presti- the Temple 20/20 framework for campus gious and competitive academic awards, development—a guide for a state-of-the-art including Truman, Udall and Marshall living and learning environment that is cur- scholarships. In the past four years alone, rently taking shape on Main Campus. A new 19 Owls have been Fulbright students—an 50,000-square-foot home for the Tyler unprecedented streak of success. All of School of Art’s Architecture Department that was accomplished while retaining the opened in early 2012, completing a mini-arts diversity of Temple’s student body. In fact, quad in the northeast corner of Main today’s student population includes a signifi- Campus. A dramatic renovation of Pearson cantly higher percentage of students who and McGonigle halls, a project that will revi- self-identify as minorities—nearly a third— talize the student-recreation experience and than it did 25 years ago. provide training spaces for Temple’s intercol- Since 2006, many new, world-class inter- legiate sports, also is nearing completion. disciplinary research centers and programs Construction is under way at the site of a have made their debuts, including the new 660,000-square-foot, 26-story residen- Center for Obesity Research and Education; tial and retail complex at North Broad Street the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery and Cecil B. Moore Avenue that will bring Research; the Center for Preparedness, more than 1,200 beds, additional dining Research, Education and Practice; and the facilities and a major open landscape area to Campus got its first supermarket in more Public Health Law Research Program. Main Campus. Plans are being completed for than a decade. Critically acclaimed eateries Under Hart, Temple has recruited more a new 250,000-square-foot science, educa- ranging from the high end to food trucks than 350 new tenured and tenure-track fac- tion and research facility that will include have opened on or near Main Campus. ulty members from the world’s leading insti- new space for the colleges of Science and “Because of Temple,” Kerkstra wrote, tutions—an extraordinary achievement at a Technology and Engineering; a new parking “it is no longer difficult to imagine Center time when faculty hiring at many universi- garage; and more. City’s prosperity reaching well into North ties has been stagnant—including global Temple’s growth—especially the increas- Philadelphia along the Broad Street corridor.” leaders such as Magid Abou-Gharbia (drug ing number of students who choose to live discovery research); Jeffrey Draine,SSW ’90 on or near campus—has sparked millions More Than Mortar (social work); Gary Foster, CLA ’95 (obesity of dollars in private investment in the com- research); Michael Klein (chemistry); munities surrounding Temple, benefiting That momentum has manifested itself in Pepón Osorio (art and art education); students and local residents alike. New retail more than bricks and mortar. The academic Selwyn O. Rogers Jr. (surgery); and others. stores, restaurants and service providers qualifications of new students at Temple also Hart concluded Access to Excellence, have opened by the dozen. During Hart’s have improved. The average SAT score of the university’s first comprehensive fund- tenure, the neighborhood adjacent to Main freshmen increased sharply from 1088 in raising campaign, in 2009. It raised more

Temple’s research enterprise has grown exponentially between 2006 and 2012, when 19 research centers were founded. Since 2006,

14 TEMPLE than $380 million, exceeding both its origi- Global initiatives also have grown during Health System. Kaiser quickly recruited nal goal ($300 million) and its extended goal Hart’s tenure. In 2010, for the first time in high-profile physician-scholars and signed ($350 million). During her tenure, several of university history, more than 1,000 Temple game-changing affiliation agreements, Temple’s schools and colleges received the students studied abroad during one aca- including one with the prestigious Fox largest gifts in their histories. The Fox School demic year, capping a period of explosive Chase Cancer Center—a move that will of Business received $15 million from Dennis, growth in scholarship overseas. New inter- enhance cancer research and patient care EDU ’66, and Gisela Alter, to build Alter Hall, national opportunities and exchange pro- in the region for years to come. the school’s new home. And Madlyn and grams were launched in Europe and Asia, Temple’s flagship athletics programs are Leonard Abramson gave $10 million to the and articulation agreements with more than experiencing a national renaissance. After a School of Dentistry. In gratitude, Temple one dozen international universities were long drought, Temple football has had two renamed the Dental School the Kornberg established. In addition, new related pro- consecutive winning seasons and played in School of Dentistry after Mrs. Abramson’s grams were created, such as the Ann and its first bowl game in three decades in 2009 father, Maurice H. Kornberg, DEN ’21. Randy Hart Passport Scholarship and the before winning the Gildan New Mexico Bowl Diamond Ambassadors Program, which pro- in 2011. Temple men’s and women’s basket- The Owl Effect vides eligible students with $2,500 grants to ball have won conference titles and become help them fund studying at a Temple cam- fixtures in the NCAA tournament. All three Temple’s community engagement programs— pus in Italy or Japan, or at any of Temple’s programs are led by coaches hired under including hiring and housing initiatives, other program locations around the world. Hart (Steve Addazio, Fran Dunphy and educational support, health services, arts In 2011, Hart brought leadership, stability Tonya Cardoza, respectively). The ultimate and cultural activities, and volunteer efforts— and energy to Temple’s healthcare enter- endorsement of the success of Temple have grown. These efforts have earned the prise when she appointed Larry R. Kaiser Athletics came when the widely televised university the Community Engagement senior executive vice president for health Big East Conference extended an invitation Classification from the Carnegie Foundation sciences, dean of the School of Medicine and to Temple football for 2012 and the rest of for the Advancement of Teaching. chief executive officer of Temple University the university’s athletics programs in 2013– 2014, when all Owls teams will compete in the same conference for the first time in university history. Now, all Temple football and men’s basketball games will be nationally televised, positively affecting university revenue, athletic recruitment, admissions and more. For alumni and long-tenured employees, it is easy to see what has changed at Temple since Hart arrived in 2006. But can current students sense a difference? “Absolutely, yes,” says former Temple Student Government President Colin Saltry, SBM ’12. “When students walk around campus, the sense of momentum is palpable. The academic reputation has grown. Temple research is on the rise. The place looks great. “When we look back five or 10 years from now, we’re going to find a boatload of Temple grads who’ll say they were proud to be here at this time,” he continues. “The future is going to be amazing.” ■

Left, top to bottom: Ann Weaver Hart shares in Hooter the Owl’s Temple pride; President Hart stands in front of the Great Wall of China during her trip to Asia in 2007; President Hart and University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Mark Nordenberg testify on behalf of state funding for higher education in Harrisburg in 2011. Above: President Hart welcomes students back to campus in 2010. Photography by Joseph V. Labolito, except page 14, middle, by Ryan S. Brandenberg.

Temple has signed more than 200 partnership agreements with 112 institutions in 37 countries, from Costa Rica to Kuwait.

sUMMER 2012 15 Weird science Temple professors teach scientific principles through the lens of sci-fi and disaster films.

Story by Gary M. Kramer, SBM ’05

16 TEMPLE SUMMER 2012 17 hen it comes to action sequences, and the sounds of zooming, soaring ships as stunts, special effects and explo- they plunge through space. sions in Hollywood movies—from The law of conservation of energy proves volcanoes and earthquakes in the that minds do not produce enough energy to W end-of-the-world film2012 to move objects, Dubeck says. “You cannot get nuclear explosions used to save the world energy from nothing—you can only trans- from doomsday in Armageddon—most view- form energy from one form to another, or ers wonder, “How did they do that?” transfer it between objects.” In Star Wars, But when Temple professors Leroy Yoda moves a weighty spaceship with his Dubeck and Jonathan Nyquist see science mind, which violates the law of conservation presented on the silver screen, such eye- of energy. popping scenes usually prompt them to ask, Likewise, there is no air in space to trans- “Why did they do that?” instead. mit sound. “Sound waves move in air by Leroy Dubeck, professor of physics, and compressing air molecules. No molecules, Jonathan Nyquist, Weeks chair in environ- no sound transmitted,” Dubeck confirms. mental geology, respectively teach How Or, to cite the famous movie tagline for Alien, Things Work: The Physics of Everyday Life and “In space, no one can hear you scream.” Disasters: Geology vs. Hollywood, two courses that explain scientific principles to non- Getting a Kick Out of Terminator majors. Both classes debunk myths about everything from global warming and the Dubeck believes that showing films can capti- greenhouse effect to natural disasters, such vate pupils. He uses cinema to make science as earthquakes and tsunamis. “more relevant and interesting” to students Examples from action, sci-fi and disaster who tend to remember scientific ideas more films illustrate scientific principles. For successfully with cinematic examples. example, global warming may cause the He illustrates the law of conservation of polar ice caps to melt, but the idea that the momentum, which reads, “If one object event would flood Earth—as the premise of exerts a force on a second, the second exerts Mythbusters Waterworld suggests—just does not hold, an equal and opposite force on the first.” well, water. “There’s not enough ice in the Dubeck applies this theory to gunplay in Whether disasters on film are natural—such as caps to cover all the land,” says Nyquist, a film. “If a gun pushes the bullet forward, the tsunamis and volcanoes—or manmade, like geophysicist. bullet pushes back on the gun, which is why nuclear bombs, moviegoers tend to retain expecta- tions about such events. For example, Weeks Chair recoil occurs. The more powder there is in in Environmental Geology Jonathan Nyquist notes Even Yoda was Wrong the bullet, the more recoil. That’s reality.” that when viewers watch a volcanic eruption, they He points to the Terminator series, which assume that lava always moves at a flood-like Dubeck, a longtime film buff, started using relies heavily on gunfire. “When you see the speed. But different kinds of volcanoes produce examples from films in his classes when he bullet hit someone, the impact knocks them lava of varying thicknesses. witnessed the popularity of Star Wars. down. But there is never recoil!” However, even that sci-fi classic maligned a Dubeck rejects the idea that the character few principles of physics, such as telekinesis of the larger-than-life Terminator is so big

18 TEMPLE Global warming may cause the polar ice caps to melt, but the idea that the event would flood the earth as the premise of waterworld suggests just does not hold, well, water. “2012” Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Courtesy Columbia “2012” of and strong, he could “resist” the force of the recoil. And when the Terminator is later knocked down by a gunshot, the human who shoots the robot does not experience recoil, either. “In class, I compare that scene to a video of real guns—a Colt .38 and a sawed-off rifle,” Dubeck says. “The kick is enormous—you can’t hold the gun! In the movies, the human saws it off and knocks the Terminator down and he doesn’t recoil at all.”

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But Hollywood is not always wrong. Dubeck is impressed that the disaster filmDeep Impact—about a comet heading toward Earth—is “actually quite accurate.” “A comet 7 miles wide, seen two years before impact, is plausible,” he explains. “When [those chasing it] land on the comet, there is no gravity. Their attempt to destroy it with nukes fails—they just split it in two. The smaller comet piece falls into the sea and creates a tsunami.” The tsunami is caused because a comet the size of the one depicted in Deep Impact would release “energy equal to millions of Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs. That energy would be released, in part, as a pressure wave through the oceans,” Dubeck notes. Therefore, the energy would be great enough to displace sufficient amounts of water to generate giant tidal waves hundreds or thousands of feet high, as shown in the film. But some moments in Deep Impact favor visual appeal over accuracy. “The surfaces of comets have very low reflectivity—like a black carpet,” Dubeck says. “All you would

SUMMER 2012 19 Tyrannosaurus Wrecks Though Jurassic Park enraptured audiences with cloned dinosaurs stalking curious humans, a little scientific knowledge* recasts the films’ bloodthirsty hunters as creatures about as threatening as the Muppets.

see is black. Sunlight would not be reflected from the surface as seen in the film. You can’t see black in the movies, so they make it much lighter than it is. Viewers have to The story revolves around a group of clone- see it.” happy scientists. But DNA disintegrates over In his class, Dubeck contrasts Deep Impact time; what would happen to dino DNA after with the aforementioned Armageddon, a film millions of years? And if it were (miraculously) he admonishes for its “laughable” physics. harvested, its genome would then have to be Yet he uses Armageddon to assign research mapped. Who has time for that? projects, such as plotting the trajectory of a near-Earth asteroid and calculating its value and probability employing the Torino Onscreen, the Velociraptor impact hazard scale. (The scale is used by (not pictured) is as smart as NASA to predict the possible impact threat it is nasty: To hunt human of asteroids and comets.) prey, it learns out how to “It would take the simultaneous detona- use a doorknob. Though the tion of 10,000 atomic bombs to destroy the creature is thought to have asteroid in Armageddon,” he says. “Often, had the intellect of an movies will take five minutes of screen time ostrich, instant adaptation to solve a scientific problem that would take to manmade mechanics 500 years in real time.” would require a serious leap Dubeck aims to teach his students the in evolution. T. rex was no laws of physics so they can better understand better off mentally—it the world in which they live. “I want them to could have been outwitted learn more about the universe and the way by a cow. things work, and look critically at the information they get from mass media,” he says. “Most of them get their information from media, not scientific papers. If they learn to be more critical, that will be with them for the rest of their lives.” Though it handily chases a Jeep full of humans in the film, T. rex’s top speed is actually estimated to have Earthquakes Are Predictable been between 10 and 20 miles per hour. Hysterical humans on Segways Nyquist also wants his students to keep would have been more its speed. reading about the topics he presents in class, so they can “read between the lines” and be educated about the next earthquake. Nyquist says that one fallacy students often believe is that during earthquakes,

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Ryan S. Brandenberg Though amputation is often viewed as a common risk of diabetes, a group of Temple doctors saves limbs instead.

By Ilene Raymond Rush ILLUSTRATION By Jon Krause, TYL ’99

ast year, 64-year-old Hugh Green scheduled for leg amputations. Saddened by “Patients don’t always know where to get noticed that a bruise on his left foot the thought of “promising futures marred by treatment for these conditions,” he says. was starting to swell. A former tractor- missed opportunities,” Choi devoted himself “They often go from specialist to specialist, trailer driver saddled with diabetes, to treating the problem. losing valuable time in the process. There Lheart disease, kidney problems and cancer, Diabetes is often to blame for amputa- isn’t always a lot of coordinated care [among Green had lost part of his right leg already. tions—it can wreck blood vessels and cause different specialists], which is important, Now he had to worry about losing his left. circulation problems. Approximately 26 mil- since patients sometimes balance a number “There was a problem with blood getting lion people in the U.S. have diabetes, and of conditions including diabetes, heart to the foot,” Green says. “The blood wasn’t about 65,000 had lower limb amputations disease, kidney disease and complications making it to the toes.” in 2006, according to the most recent data from smoking.” Unfortunately, by the time he sought available from the American Diabetes Choi knew Temple had the resources care at Temple University Hospital (TUH), Association. A 2012 study from the Centers on staff to intervene and possibly prevent his toes were a lost cause. But a bigger ques- for Disease Control and Prevention found some amputations, but he also knew those tion loomed: Was there hope for the rest of that among people with diabetes, African resources were scattered across departments, his foot? Americans had higher amputation rates from Endocrinology to Podiatry. What if Green’s problem is one that Director of than Caucasians (approximately five per they worked together to offer patients quick Vascular Surgery Eric Choi often encounters 1,000, versus three). Adults aged 75 years and comprehensive care? Could they possi- at TUH. When he arrived at Temple about and older had the highest rate—about six bly begin to reduce the number of amputa- two years ago, he noticed a high number of per 1,000—compared to other age groups. tions Choi was witnessing in TUH? young people with diabetes who were Choi wondered how many amputations might be avoided with earlier intervention.

22 TEMPLE SUMMER 2012 23 Choi noticed a high number of young people with diabetes scheduled for leg amputations. Saddened by the thought of “promising futures marred by missed opportunities,” he devoted himself to treating the problem.

His questions spurred the creation of the to be taken care of—such as removing debris Saving Gait Temple Limb Salvage Center in March 2011. from a wound—it also is handled within one It is the first program in the region to offer or two visits. Hugh Green was diagnosed quickly when a limb-saving model of focused comprehen- More complicated problems—such as he visited the Limb Salvage Center to discuss sive care. wounds that have not healed in a year or his rapidly deteriorating foot. Once a treat- longer—require more information from prior ment assessment was made, he entered TUH Urban Salvage records, gathered during the first visit. Once for an operation that involved a vein bypass the patient’s problem and medical history graft to restore circulation to his damaged Philadelphia is an apt place for the center. have been established, relevant specialists limb. Without Choi’s help, Green might have Not only is the city plagued with high rates are brought in, such as diabetologists, cardi- arrived at TUH for an amputation instead. of diabetes, smoking and obesity, but ampu- ologists or plastic surgeons. When all the In fact, his case had already been deemed tation rates for men are four times higher in nuances of the case are covered, the group a “lost cause” by another major medical the city than they are in nearby Montgomery discusses treatment with the patient. All this center on the East Coast. County, Pa., according to Ronald Renzi, a activity takes place at the same location. “The care I had for my left foot was very podiatrist at Abington Memorial Hospital “Obviously, we can treat patients with different than I had for my right,” Green who recently studied regional amputation multiple specialists during multiple visits,” says. While he was recovering from surgery rates. This comes as no surprise to Choi, Choi says, “but we expedite the process so in TUH, several doctors from the center, who points out that rates of diabetes are two that all the tests and meetings with doctors including physical therapists, diabetologists to three times higher in Philadelphia than in occur within the first or second visit. That and cardiologists, visited him daily. The other parts of the country. makes all the difference, since we don’t doctors not only focused on his foot, but “The diabetes problem in Philadelphia is have to ask patients if they saw a certain also attended to the many conditions that multifactorial,” Choi says. “Factors include specialist, or if they have had a specific test. had contributed to his injury. high obesity, heredity, poor eating habits Everything is done right here.” “They were proactive from the start,” and lifestyle choices, lack of access to health- If surgery is needed, the center tries to he says. “The morning after the surgery, a care and lack of resources in general.” schedule two or three procedures at a time therapist said, ‘You have to get up and sit To combat this epidemic, Choi has formed to avoid multiple hospital stays. in a chair.’” He laughs. “And here I thought a high-powered, multidisciplinary team of In addition to using methods to open I was in the hospital to get some rest.” doctors who specialize in vascular surgery, blocked arteries and improve blood flow to Nine months later, Green is still learning podiatry, diabetology (a subgroup of endo- damaged tissues, Choi is researching a new to balance on his salvaged leg, but is able crinology focused on diabetics), cardiology, process called therapeutic angiogenesis. That to walk around his home without a walker. plastic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, radi therapy stimulates bone marrow to create To prevent future problems, his doctors ology, physical therapy and orthotics (devices stem cells. The enhanced bone marrow is have taught him how to monitor his diabetes that support or correct limb function). then injected into a patient’s leg to grow more closely. He now regularly checks his Patient care depends on the severity of the new blood vessels and improve blood flow. blood sugar before each meal and makes problem. For simple injuries, such as a foot “That is important,” Choi says. “Many an effort to go outdoors in his wheelchair ulcer that has not healed, a podiatrist will of the problems with these patients involve for exercise, which can help to lower examine the foot. If a patient has significant diabetes or peripheral artery disease [com- glucose rates. circulation problems, the podiatrist can call mon in smokers], both of which damage “I’ve finally gotten my diabetes under in a vascular surgeon. If anything else needs blood vessels.” control,” he says.

24 TEMPLE Temple Battles an Epidemic Instances of diabetes are two to three times about health and lifestyle changes can help higher in Philadelphia than in other parts of the prevent diabetes in Latinos, whose rates of the U.S. At Temple, the School of Medicine is working disease are nearly double those of Caucasians. to decrease that statistic dramatically. Daniel Rubin, assistant professor of endocrin Guenther H. Boden, Laura H. Carnell Professor of ology, attempts to improve diabetic outcomes by Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes studying how clinical practices treat the disease. and Metabolism, has found deficiencies in cell Recently, he established a dosage threshold for function in the tissues of overweight and obese insulin that balances blood-sugar levels without patients. Those cells produce proteins that can leading to low blood sugar. lead to insulin resistance, which increases the risk Elias S. Siraj, associate professor of medicine, of diabetes. He also studies how high levels of director of the Diabetes Program and program blood sugar and insulin affect blood coagulation, director of the Endocrinology Fellowship, and which could explain the link between diabetes and Henry Parkman, director of the GI Motility high blood pressure. Forward, March Laboratory, director of the Clinical Research Unit, Gary D. Foster, CLA ’95, director of the Center for chair of the Research Committee and professor Obesity Research and Education, and professor of of medicine, examine the use of an insulin pump In May 2011, Beverly Rathemore arrived at medicine and public health, examines the connec and a glucose-monitoring device to improve the center in a wheelchair. Her foot was tion between excess weight and diabetes, particu blood glucose control in diabetic patients who encased in a walking boot, but in an effort larly in children. Foster and his team found that suffer from gastroparesis, a breakdown in the to keep pressure off a bedsore, she had simple interventions, such as offering healthful stomach muscles. stopped walking. Though she had previously cafeteria food, can help decrease the risk of dia Kevin J. Williams, section chief of Endocrinology, received wound-care treatment in her for- betes in that group. mer home in New Jersey, the foot had never Diabetes and Metabolism, professor in the healed. Rathemore’s immune system also Matthew O’Brien, assistant professor of public Cardiovascular Research Center, and professor health in the Center for Obesity Research and of medicine and physiology, focuses on the link was compromised, from pancreatitis and Education, and assistant professor of medicine, between diabetes and atherosclerosis (hardening other serious ailments. When she relocated focuses on diabetes prevention in Latinos. of the arteries). He recently co-authored a study to live with her daughter in Philadelphia, Through his community health center, Puentes de that found that an abnormal molecular function her primary doctor referred her to Choi. Salud (“Bridges to Health”) in South Philadelphia, in the blood might cause the insulin production “When the Limb Salvage Center heard he studies how culturally sensitive materials related to type 2 diabetes. about my case, they said they would see me the next day,’” Rathemore says. “At the hospital, Dr. Choi and two other doctors looked at my heel and discussed it with the team. It was a very deep wound.” HealthTemple The doctors decided to put in an iliac stent—a small, self-expanding tube placed in an artery to treat peripheral artery disease— and performed a procedure to clear out plaque in the vein to prevent further block- age. By opening up the circulation pathways, doctors at the Limb Salvage Center were able to save her foot. During the summer, she paid regular visits to the center, and a visiting nurse came to her house to tend to the wound. By August, it had healed enough for her to decide to abandon both the boot and the wheelchair. “Now, I’m not only walking,” she laughs, “I’m on the verge of trotting.” ■

Ilene Raymond Rush is a freelance writer who lives in Elkins Park, Pa. Her work has appeared Eric Choi (left), director of the Limb Salvage Center at Temple University Hospital, and doctors including Andrew Meyr, POD ’06 in numerous regional and national publications. (right), collaborate on patient care to minimize amputations.

SUMMER 2012 25 26 TEMPLE Small Talk Techniques as simple as encouraging conversation in preschool promote long-term academic success.

story by Kim Fischer, CLA ’94 photography by Ryan S. Brandenberg And Joseph V. Labolito Illustrations by Robert frawley

oes anyone know what a ‘herd’ is?” improving young children’s reading compre- But most students are not reading at levels Trinette Ingram, a teacher at the hension, a foundation for later academic that would predict sufficient academic prog- “DSt. Paul Community Head Start center excellence. They also are the direct results ress as they grow. According to the National in Baltimore, asks a group of 3- and 4-year- of research by Barbara Wasik, literacy expert Assessment of Educational Progress, on olds as she points to a picture on the cover and Temple professor of early education. average, 25 percent of the nation’s children of a book. cannot read at basic levels of proficiency by “A group!” Rashon shouts proudly. All Talk fourth grade. But among children living in “Yes, it’s a group of animals,” Ingram poverty—based on an annual income below explains. Wasik has discovered that exposure to rich $22,000 for a family of four—that number The lively conversation continues as she language early in life sets children up for jumps to 50 percent. The U.S. Department of reads the book aloud. “What is a ‘flamingo?’ academic success or failure long before they Education also has found that children from What is a ‘flock?’ Who knows what ‘investi- enter a classroom. There is sound evidence low-income households enter kindergarten gate’ means?” that a strong vocabulary is linked to higher with foundational reading skills that are a The children respond quickly. reading scores and therefore, better compre- full standard deviation below their middle- “And when a baby elephant gets separated hension and long-term success in school. income peers. from its mother and herd,” Ingram asks, For example, a 2010 study followed public- Gaining vocabulary is particularly chal- “what do you think the elephant feels?” school students from third grade through lenging for children living in poverty: She points to the book’s illustrations, high school. The study found that students Research shows that those children have defines words and concepts, and asks open- who exceeded their reading grade level in fewer conversations with linguistically skilled ended and follow-up questions to extend third grade were more likely to enter col- adults, restricting their opportunities to use conversations with her students. Such seem- lege, and that third-grade reading levels cor- and hear language. ingly simple techniques could be the key to related with reading skills in eighth grade.*

suMMER 2012 27 Barbara Wasik, a researcher in the College of Education, sharpens the vocabulary of a student enrolled in the North Philadelphia Head Start program.

“Children learn new words by being So Wasik focuses on early language devel- assistant professor of curriculum, instruc- exposed to language in meaningful contexts, opment in Head Start programs. Active tion and technology in education, and and by having to use language in purposeful student-teacher exchanges are at the core of Wasik’s colleague. “You may not be thinking and functional ways,” says Wasik, PNC her work, designed to enrich preschoolers’ about how to get the kids talking.” Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education vocabulary and improve their ability to read at Temple. When children do not have con- and comprehend in elementary school and The Mouths of Babes text for the words they learn, they have beyond. Wasik’s early-intervention approach a lower capacity for comprehension and helps level the playing field for children from Before joining Temple in 2006, Wasik con- vocabulary skills. low-income families, providing them with ducted research at Johns Hopkins University School does not necessarily compensate more early opportunities to build a better in Baltimore. Initially, she was interested in for the limited vocabulary such children vocabulary and increasing their chances to tutoring first- through third-graders who might encounter at home. A recent study progress through elementary school and were having difficulty reading at grade level. concluded that 4-year-olds enrolled in Head high school successfully. But she soon realized that even in first Start—comprehensive services for children In the preschool classrooms where Wasik grade, those students lacked the vocabulary living below the poverty threshold—spend a says vocabulary foundation begins, teachers and basic language skills they needed to startling 59 percent of free-play activity in usually talk much more than they converse— begin reading. silence. Further, the high school dropout a result of the need to retain control of classes She determined that intervention would rate for low-income students is double that that are often overcrowded. be more effective if it started earlier, so she of youth from middle-income families, “Imagine you have to manage 30 pre- connected with a Baltimore preschool cen- according to the National Center of schoolers each day—it’s easy to fall into a ter, where she examined its instructors’ Education Statistics.** pattern of giving directions and monitoring teaching styles. behavior,” says Annemarie Hindman,

28 TEMPLE About 25 percent of the nation’s children cannot read at basic levels of proficiency by fourth grade; fully half of children in poverty cannot meet even basic proficiency cutoffs.

She remembers one preschool student in particular. “When I asked him what he was eating, he was able to answer ‘sandwich,’ but when I asked him what was in the sandwich, it became clear that he didn’t know the words for ‘ham’ or ‘cheese.’” That is when Wasik had an epiphany. “The teachers were not using specific vocabulary words with their kids,” she continues. “They were saying, ‘Please bring this over there,’ rather than saying, ‘Please put the crayons back in the art center.’ If a teacher assumes a child knows the name of a common object, that misconception can affect his or her comprehension skills down the road.” Since classroom conversations that promote language development are often a part of the natural rhythm in class, Wasik and her colleagues developed a training model for teachers that weaves language support into a wide range of daily activities. The intensive professional development program, called Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy (ExCELL), is extremely successful—and its results are inspiring. When a teacher enters training, he or she attends three-hour group training sessions to learn to support conversations in the classroom, encourage vocabulary development and listen actively. When the teacher returns to the classroom, he or she begins implementing the strategies learned in the group training sessions. A coach then observes and critiques his or her success at adapting Wasik’s techniques. The teacher

suMMER 2012 29 returns to training to learn new information Words, Words, Words Feast For 10, the child was only able to point and strategies, and the cycle begins again. to the illustrations for the vocabulary words. To train as many teachers as they can, the Teachers who have learned and imple- But when the two began acting out the book, researchers have turned to web-based tech- mented Wasik’s techniques have witnessed Unique was more engaged. Bond asked her nology. In addition, they are adding an ESL dramatic changes in student behavior. what she would need to make pancakes and component to improve language and read- “My kids are actually walking around, narrated her actions for her. From time to ing skills among students for whom English rhyming playfully to themselves and creat- time, Unique would say, “I’m cooking pan- is a second language. ing alliterative phrases at 3 years old,” cakes.” A complete sentence was a big break- “There is an assumption that kids are Trinette Ingram says. “That is huge.” through, for both Unique and Bond. Within adept at learning new languages on their Sherette Jacobs, another Head Start a few weeks, she was able to retell the story own,” says Carol Scheffner-Hammer, profes- teacher, noticed the results when she took her from Feast For 10. Ingram and her assistant sor of communication science and ExCELL students and their families to the National then became devoted to having one-on-one collaborator. “The reality is, it takes non- Aquarium in Baltimore after the class stud- conversations with students. English-speaking preschoolers in Head Start ied ocean life. Not only were the students programs about two or three years to catch able to identify the aquatic animals for their oral report up to their English-speaking peers.” parents; they also could converse about the To expand the program’s reach, Wasik animals’ appearances and behaviors. In 2011, Wasik and Hindman found that and her team recently received a prestigious “I have seen my kids blossom, not only in teachers who had participated in the four-year, $3 million Investing in Innovation terms of literacy skills, but also in terms of ExCELL program created higher-quality (i3) Development grant from the U.S. self-esteem,” Jacobs says. classroom environments than those who did Department of Education. The grant sup- In one case, note Ingram and Mary Alice not receive training, and that the children in ports relatively untested, promising and Bond, Wasik’s research partner at Johns those classrooms performed significantly innovative projects. Of the nearly 600 i3 Hopkins University, a child named Unique better in receptive vocabulary and phono- grant applications received this year, only struggled with delayed speech development. logical sensitivity. 23 projects were funded. When Bond and Unique read a book called

30 TEMPLE “I have seen my kids blossom, not only in terms of literacy skills, but also in terms of self-esteem.” —Sherette Jacobs, teacher, St. Paul Community Head Start

The results support the idea that intensive, ongoing professional teacher develop- Conversation Station ment can begin to bridge the preliteracy gap Conversations are a primary tool for oral language development in preschool classrooms. between young children in poverty and However, opportunities for kids to talk with others and receive feedback can be limited their more affluent peers. because of competing demands on teachers’ time. “If a child knows what a ‘herd’ or a ‘flock’ Barbara Wasik, PNC Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education, suggests that teachers is, then when it’s time to decode the word, use the concept of a “conversation station” to create consistent opportunities for conversa- knowing the concept is half the battle,” tion in the classroom. Wasik says. “The word will have meaning to the child within the context of what he or Conversation Station Guidelines: she is trying to read.” 1. Share the purpose of conversations and promote excitement. Under the current ExCELL model, one 2. Prepare an area where the conversation station will be used. coach meets with about 20 teachers per 3. Set time aside in the daily schedule for individual and small-group conversations. year. Wasik hopes to triple that number 4. Engage with one to two children at a time. using the new web-based format. The pro- 5. Extend current theme- or book-related vocabulary. gram will be piloted this fall in Baltimore 6. Provide materials, such as pictures or objects, to promote theme- or concept- and Lancaster, Pa., at sites that target both related conversations. urban and ESL populations. But in the 7. Ask open-ended questions and encourage children to share ideas. future, Wasik says, she expects to be able to 8. Listen thoughtfully and give children your full attention. reach Head Start teachers located at greater 9. Share comments that extend children’s responses. distances—even those in rural communities. “We are excited to give even more preschoolers a head start on success in school.” ■

Kim Fischer, CLA ’94, is assistant director of news communications at Temple.

*Lesnick, J., Goerge, R.M., Smithgall, C. and Gwyne, J. Reading on Grade Level in Third Grade: How Is it Related to High School Performance and College Enrollment? Chicago: Chapin Hall at University of Chicago. 2010.

**Chapman, C., Laird, J., Ifill, N. and Kewalramani, A. Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2009 (NCES 2012-006). U.S. Department of Education. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics. 2011.

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Tim Freccia As one of South Sudan’s staunchest advocates, John Prendergast, CLA ’86, is now working to maintain peace in the world’s newest country.

Story by Renee Cree, sct ’12 Ptete Muller

hortly before midnight on July 9, 2011, of history in the College of Liberal Arts. the people of Juba, a small outpost in “And in the south, Britain imposed a struc- S southern Sudan, gathered around a ture that was more in line with its colonial large digital clock in the square, counting practices in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, down the seconds until the region became including the presence of Christian missions South Sudan, the world’s first new nation from Europe, which Britain did not allow since 1993. Juba would be its capital. in the north.” The clock struck, and an explosion of joy Even when the country broke away from and celebration erupted. People danced in British and Egyptian rule in 1956, two civil the square, drove though the city honking wars raged almost back-to-back for the next their horns and waved their country’s new 50 years, costing 2.5 million Sudanese their flag. The next morning was bright and lives and leading to widespread displace- Pro-separation Sudanese activists demonstrate for sunny in the middle of the rainy season, independence in Juba, Jan. 4, 2011. ment. In large part, the conflicts stemmed as if to reflect the exuberance that filled the from a broken agreement by the government streets. A marching band performed “South And respond he did. While still enrolled in Khartoum to allow the south to operate in Sudan, Oyee,” the new country’s national at Temple, Prendergast made his first trip a semi-autonomous state. anthem. President Salva Kiir read from its to Africa, despite knowing little about the “The government declared its intention new constitution. political situation there. He says that first to impose Islamic law throughout the coun- John Prendergast, CLA ’86 (pictured left), trip irrevocably changed his career aspira- try, even in the south, where Islam is not says the joy in South Sudan was palpable. “It tions and life path. For nearly 30 years, he the predominant faith,” Talton says. “This was euphoric,” he says now, on the eve of the has dedicated himself to social justice in was in patent violation of the south’s semi- country’s first birthday. “For many people, some of Africa’s most volatile areas, includ- autonomous status.” it was the culmination of a lifelong dream.” ing Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Further, Prendergast notes that the north Prendergast has been dreaming of peace Congo, Sudan and now, South Sudan. never fully invested in the south with proper in Africa since he majored in geography and resources or infrastructure, leading to urban studies at Temple. That was when he Road to Freedom southerners’ harboring “tremendous griev- first saw images of the famine in Ethiopia ances” against the north. These grievances in 1983. “I couldn’t believe human suffering Sudan was two different countries long led to the formation of the Sudan People’s could still exist on such an operatic scale,” before South Sudan officially seceded. Liberation Army (SPLA), a rebel group based he says. “I felt it necessary to respond “There was a very strong North African, in the south that would fight the government directly, personally.” Arab and Turkish influence in the north,” for nearly 20 years during the Second says Benjamin Talton, associate professor Sudanese Civil War.

SUMMER 2012 33 south sudan FLag War and Peace Hurdles Ahead The flag of South Sudan commemorates its But it was not a war that led to the eventual turbulent past and celebrates its future. South Sudan has struggled during its secession of South Sudan—it was peace. In Green stripe–represents the agricultural first year. In the months since the country 2002, a ceasefire was established with the potential of the new country declared its independence, violent support of the Intergovernmental Authority skirmishes have erupted along the Sudan- Red stripe–depicts the blood shed to attain on Development, a confederation of the South Sudan border, particularly in the independence governments of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya and volatile, oil-rich area of Abyei. Both countries Uganda. Peace talks began in earnest and Black stripe–indicates the African people are attempting to claim it as their own. culminated in 2005, when SPLA and the Thin white stripes–stand for peace In addition, each contends that the other’s Sudanese government signed the Nairobi military forces continue to wreak havoc. Blue triangle–embodies the waters of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The sign- Sudan has been accused of attacking South Nile River ing marked the end of the last civil war, and Sudan with aerial bomb raids and ground ensured that the south would finally be Yellow star–symbolizes unity among the assaults, while SPLA has been accused of granted its autonomy for six years, followed 10 states of South Sudan raping and torturing members of the Murle by a referendum to vote on its independence. tribe, which received military aid from When the time came to hold the referen- Khartoum during the most recent civil war. dum, the threat of another war loomed. If other diplomats to urge them to monitor The fighting has pushed the two countries South Sudan did leave, it would take with it events in Sudan. dangerously close to another all-out war. a third of the country’s land and almost 80 The momentum he helped create in sup- “It has been a very difficult first year,” percent of its oil resources—a possibility that port of South Sudan’s independence ensured Prendergast says. “There have been internal did not sit well with the administration of that the referendum moved forward as conflicts in the south, and a brewing show- Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. Military scheduled in January 2011. He arrived in the down with the Sudan the south left behind. intelligence from around the world began to volatile Abyei region of Sudan just before Corruption issues also have undermined speculate on what Bashir might do to prevent the referendum took place. Only a few miles rapid progress. And the south turned off the the country from splitting. away, a skirmish between two neighboring oil pipeline that runs through the north to Prendergast wanted to help minimize the tribes resulted in more than 100 deaths while Port Sudan, which has created conditions possibility of war. Through the Enough Prendergast visited refugee camps and spoke for a real economic recession.” Project, the human rights organization he with inhabitants about their opportunity to Earlier this year, the African Union spon- co-founded in 2006, he launched a full-scale liberate southern Sudan. sored talks between the two countries to campaign to raise awareness about the situa- He then traveled to Juba and visited several discuss disputed issues including oil revenue tion in Sudan, and the need for the referen- polling stations. There, he met with former payments, citizenship status and the delinea dum on South Sudan’s independence to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, another staunch tion of the border between the two countries. move forward. As he campaigned, the atroc- supporter of South Sudan’s independence, Though conflicts stalled the initial round of ities that had swept through Darfur since and Kofi Annan, former secretary-general of talks, both presidents had agreed to meet and 2003—famine, rape and murder—haunted the United Nations. The four men have met resume negotiations at the time this article him. He aimed to keep them from spreading for years to discuss strategies to support was written. through South Sudan. peace and justice in Sudan. At this latest Prendergast says that a stronger interna- To do so, he enlisted the help of actor and meeting, they deliberated how the momen- tional diplomatic effort is needed to ensure director George Clooney and gave dozens of tum of the referendum could help alleviate lasting peace between Sudan and South interviews, raising awareness in the media the conflicts in Darfur and Abyei. Sudan, and is embarking on another media to stop what he calls a self-fulfilling prophecy: Despite the harrowing threat of violence, campaign to highlight those needs. “We “The less media outlets cover Africa, the less nearly 99 percent of Southern Sudanese peo- need to improve our game in support of the people know, so the less they demand news ple voted for their independence. South African-led peace process, and we need to agencies increase their coverage.” He also Sudan was born seven months later, without do much more to promote a political transi- met with U.S. President Barack Obama and the two countries going to war once again. tion in Khartoum,” he says.

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Left to right: John Prendergast, CLA ’86, actor and director George Clooney, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and 7th secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan convene during the South Sudanese independence referendum in 2011.

Prendergast’s nonprofit also is monitoring villages to get a real sense of what people organizations, including Human Rights activities along the border with the Satellite need. Recently, he headed back to Sudan Watch, the United States Institute of Peace Sentinel Project. It is an effort to monitor and South Sudan “to assess the human-rights and Not On Our Watch. both nations via satellite for possible indica- situation and see what we can do to help.” Prendergast returned to Main Campus in tions of war, such as mobilized troops or Despite a rough beginning, Prendergast is fall 2011 as the Leonard Mellman Visiting bombed villages. The Enough Project works optimistic about South Sudan’s future, and Scholar in the College of Liberal Arts. He with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, for peace across Africa. “Much of Africa is a shared his vision of the past and future of Google and satellite provider DigitalGlobe success story, in which elections are being Africa, and empowered students by sharing to analyze information and release reports to held to determine leaders, governments are with them strategies for effecting social the media and legislators, keeping the world’s investing in good economic policies and change. Also during his visit, Prendergast attention focused on the fragile region. democratic institutions are being built,” he was named a Temple University Alumni “After the independence of South Sudan, I says. “We have a long way to go, but Africans Association Alumni Fellow. think the world breathed a collective sigh of themselves are leading the effort to change “John is generally an optimist, and he relief, as if the troubles in this area would just the damaging status quo.” knows the people of Africa can continue to melt away,” says Carolyn Adams, professor of make headway,” Adams says. “For the rest geography and urban studies, who taught Deep impression of the semester, when discussing social jus- Prendergast as a student. “But we can’t tice issues, the students would say, ‘How assume that there will always be peace and Since first arriving in Africa nearly 30 years would John handle this problem?’” ■ prosperity. That’s what John is working on ago, Prendergast has become a renowned To view a video of Prendergast’s meeting with now—letting the world know that the separa- activist for peace there. He has served as Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter and George Clooney tion isn’t the end of the problems.” director of African Affairs atthe National at the South Sudanese independence referen- A tireless activist, Prendergast still travels Security Council under former U.S. President dum, visit temple.edu/templemag. back and forth between the U.S. and Africa, Bill Clinton and as special advisor to Susan making three to four trips per year. He visits Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. war zones and stays in refugee camps and He also has worked for several human rights

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1940s 1950s Stephanie Cohen, CLA ’59, SED ’80 Lewis F. Gould, PHR ’62 Alma P. Finestone, EDU ’45 Leonard Markowitz, CLA ’51, ’59 published The Nonstop Garden was named an alternate delegate with Timber Press. It is her third to the 2012 Republican National was awarded first prize at an retired after a 41-year career book. She also taught herbaceous Convention in Tampa, Fla. He is a exhibition of the Artists Cultural as an aerospace engineer with plants and perennial design at partner in the law firm of Duane Exchange, an organization for General Electric Co., where Temple for more than 20 years, Morris LLP in Philadelphia, and regional, professional artists. he developed materials for and founded and directed the is commissioner of Lower The exhibit took place at the orbital spacecraft and other Landscape Arboretum at Merion Township. Markheim Art Center in space vehicles. Temple’s Ambler campus. Haddonfield, N.J. Richard P. Miller, CHPSW ’62 Stanley Weintraub, CLA ’51 Anthony Pellegrino, CLA ’59 Ruth Miller Cox, EDU ’48 volunteers as a member of the published Final Victory: FDR’s was commencement speaker Microsoft Management Team’s was named to the Pennsylvania Extraordinary World War II at the Green Meadow School Technical Support Forum site. Music Educators Association Presidential Campaign with of Saipan in the Northern Hall of Fame in recognition of Da Capo Press. Mariana Islands. Robert P. Reid, CLA ’63, ’66, SBM ’69 39 years of teaching and service to the association’s boards and Howard W. Zucker, DEN ’58 teaches and develops noncredit committees. She plays viola 1960s and credit courses in digital received the 2012 Kornberg with Main Line Symphony photography. Reid also exhibits Alumni Association Education Hubert R. Doyle, SBM ’61 Orchestra, as she has for more his own photographic work, Award for his contributions to than 50 years, and co-directs published Ventures in the most recently at Barnes & education in dentistry at the the Havertown Choristers, World of Celebrities, Movies Noble’s Rowan University undergraduate and graduate which she founded in 1988. & TV, a memoir about his public location in Glassboro, N.J. levels. He is a practicing dentist; relations and writing career, a member of the Kornberg John Costanza, TYL ’49 with Joshua Tree Publishing. Herb Silverman, CST ’63 Alumni Board, Delaware State exhibited the paintings of Dental Society and Omicron published Candidate Without To learn about the Class of Deborah Gross-Zuchman, Kappa Upsilon; and a fellow 1962 Endowed Scholarship, a Prayer: An Autobiography of a CLA ’69, at his gallery in Bryn of the Academy of General visit myowlspace.com/1962. Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt Mawr, Pa., as a part of the Dentistry and International with Pitchstone Publishing. Bernard Dishler, DEN ’62 Delaware County Studio Tour. College of Dentists. was appointed president of the Edward N. Zissman, CST ’65 Pennsylvania Dental Association. was awarded the Howard He practices in the Yorktowne Phillips Center for Children Log in to myowlspace.com to share your recent news and Dental Group in Elkins Park, Pa. to update your profile. & Families Semper Fi Award, which annually honors advocates for children. Online class notes are run in Temple and other publications.

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John J. Aglialoro, CLA ’67 president of the Evangelical 1970s Marc P. Weingarten, CLA ’73 Association for the Promotion produced Atlas Shrugged: Part I, Gerald P. Madden, SBM ’71 presented at the Annual of Education, a national non- a film based on the first portion General Meeting of the profit that creates and supports participated in the Masters of the novel Ayn Rand published Association of Personal Injury programs for at-risk children. Basketball Association’s National in 1957. Atlas Shrugged: Part II is Lawyers in the U.K. on a panel Senior Tournament in Coral set to be filmed and released titled “Accidents Overseas: Craig Collis, CST ’69, ’73 Springs, Fla., in May. He played later this year. A Guide to Working With in the 70-plus division, along- was a teacher in Philadelphia International Lawyers.” side former NBA players. Stephen Frishberg, SBM ’67, for 10 years before developing He is a partner in Locks Law LAW ’71, ’96 math assembly programs, Firm in Philadelphia. Augustus M. Cileone, CLA ’72 which he has presented at more was selected as a “Philadelphia than 6,000 schools nationwide. published Feast or Famine, Laurence D. Wellikson, MED ’73 Top Rated Lawyer” in 2012, about growing up as a Catholic based on his AV Preeminent was listed as one of the “50 Most Deborah Gross-Zuchman, CLA ’69 Italian American, with Amazon Peer Review Ratings on Influential Physician Executives” Digital Services. Martindale-Hubbell, the exhibited her paintings at by Modern Healthcare. He is CEO company that has long set the the gallery of John Costanza, of the Society of Hospital Donald B. Kraybill, CLA ’72 standard for lawyer ratings. He TYL ’49, in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Medicine in Philadelphia. is a partner in the Philadelphia as a part of the Delaware was selected as principal law firm of Deeb, Blum, Murphy, County Studio Tour. author of a new history of Veronica Benning, TYL ’74 Frishberg & Markovich. Eastern Mennonite University had her painting, “Late Barry Packer Hertz, EDU ’69 in Harrisonburg, Va. The publi- Summer (Shady Trees),” added Richard M. Grappone, EDU ’67 cation will coincide with the is a professor of education at to the permanent collection university’s centennial celebra- retired from a 32-year career Lyndon State College of of the Portland Museum of tion in fall 2017. in the Camden, N.J., public- Vermont in Lyndonville. Art in Maine. school system. He served as a Blase Carabello, MED ’73 business teacher before advanc- Joseph H. Melrose, CLA ’69 George J. Blaine, LAW ’74 ing to city chair and supervisor was honored with the Simon received an honorary degree joined Ernst & Young LLP as of business education. Dack Award for Outstanding from Francis Marion University executive director in the firm’s Scholarship by Journal of the in Florence, S.C. He is acting U.S. national tax department, based Ronald P. Spark, MED ’67 American College of Cardiology. representative for management in Washington, D.C. The award recognizes cardiolo- was recognized by the University and reform at the U.S. Mission gists who are committed to per- of Arizona College of Medicine to the United Nations. Paula Mandel, CLA ’74 forming life-changing research. as the namesake of a new and Joan Myerson Shrager, distinguished service award for William D. Wine, SCT ’69 Patricia E. DeCaro, TYL ’73 EDU ’82, co-founded the Stained pathologists. Spark is a clinical is a film critic with KYW Glass Project: Windows That associate professor in that uni- was the recipient of the 2012 Newsradio in Philadelphia. Open Doors, an afterschool versity’s College of Medicine. Irving and Yvonne Twining He is working with the program in which high school Humber Award for Lifetime Pennsylvania Humanities students in Philadelphia create Kristin Bowman-James, CST ’68 Artistic Achievement. The Council on a regional lecture stained-glass windows for award is given to a female visual co-edited Anion Coordination series titled “Based on the schoolchildren in South Africa, artist in Washington state, age Chemistry, published by John Book: Best-Seller Cinema.” New Orleans and North 60 or older, who has dedicated Wiley & Sons Ltd. Using books and their film Philadelphia. They recently 25 or more years of her life to versions, such as To Kill teamed up with their students creating art. Anthony Campolo Jr., CLA ’68 A Mockingbird, The Graduate for an exhibition called Hand- and A Clockwork Orange, Wine Eye Collaboration, open from spoke at the Annual Palm Alan M. Feldman, CLA ’73, LAW ’76 will discuss the psychological April to June in Philadelphia. Sunday Breakfast for Men and differences between reading was included in 2012 Boys at the Lower Providence and viewing. Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Presbyterian Church in with 14 other attorneys in the Eagleville, Pa. He is founder and same firm, Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP.

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CLASS OF 2007 Jeffrey Phelps

Despite being on the team for a short nine months thus far, she has been able to visit elementary schools to talk about character- Fatima Maddox building, and to spend time with patients in children’s hospitals. “I love that I am able to play basketball professionally, and that I Degree: BA, advertising, School of Communications and Theater, 2007 am now an official Ambassador of Goodwill, traveling the world, putting smiles on families’ faces and making memories for them.” Occupation: Harlem Globetrotter As the first woman on the team since 1993, Maddox also Location: Philadelphia realizes she has a powerful impact on girls who are awed by the Globetrotters. “I really enjoy being able to show women and young girls that we can do anything we set our minds to,” says Maddox, As children, who among us did not occasionally pick up a basket- who was coached by a strong female while at Temple: three-time ball and try to spin it like a Harlem Globetrotter? Or attempt a half- Olympian Dawn Staley. As a senior, Maddox averaged 11.6 points court shot, or try to dribble two basketballs at once? per game as a guard. During the 2005—2006 season, she was For 86 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have amused the young named the team’s best three-point shooter. and the young at heart, giving kids a bevy of tricks to try at home For Maddox, embodying the powerful moniker “TNT” means and breaking down cultural barriers through their comedic game more than being a great dribbler. “I bring a passion for the game of play. Today, Fatima Maddox, SCT ’07—the ninth-ever female basketball,” she says, “as well as a passion to try and make others’ Globetrotter to grace the court—takes her role on one of the world’s lives better off the court.” Alix— Gerz, SCT ’03, CLA ’07 zaniest sports teams very seriously. The Colorado Springs, Colo., native, known as “TNT” for her “explosive” ball-handling skills, calls herself a “dribbler in the “I love that I am able to play basketball spirit of Globetrotter legends Curly Neal and Marques Haynes.” And, because the Globetrotters consider their players ambassadors professionally, traveling the world, of goodwill who are dedicated to both charity and entertainment, putting smiles on families’ faces and Maddox says the tricks and skills she executes on the hardwood allow her to do what she loves most: give back to her community. making memories for them.” “[The Globetrotters are] absolutely about more than sports. We spend a lot of time off the court giving back,” Maddox says.

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CLASS OF 1998 Ryan S. Brandenberg

plan to fill it.” Within a year, she had built the practice from the ground up. Though it is headquartered in the firm’s West Elena Park Conshohocken, Pa., office, it now encompasses Cozen O’Connor’s 22 offices around the world. Degree: JD, Beasley School of Law, 1998 “It just clicked in my head and heart that immigration law was what I was interested in,” Park says. Occupation: Immigration lawyer Some of Park’s successes include helping save lives, as was the Location: West Conshohocken, Pa. case with an Iraqi woman who worked as a translator for the U.S. military. Due to her affiliation with the troops, she was in danger To be a successful lawyer, immigration attorney Elena Park, LAW ’98, of being killed by Iraqi insurgents if she returned home. Over the says that aggression and intimidation—two traits often associated course of two years, Park worked tirelessly to find ways to keep with the profession—are not necessary. She realized that during her in the U.S., until she was finally granted asylum in 2008. a corporate law class in the Beasley School of Law, where she met For her commitment to that case, as well as for providing 200 Associate Professor of Law Eleanor Myers. “She was low-key, but hours of free legal work annually, the American Bar Association firm and assertive,” Park says. “I identified with her style and presented Park with the Pro Bono Publico Award in August 2011. thought, ‘If she can be successful, then I can, too.’” Park also helped Zhen Xing Jiang, an illegal Chinese immigrant Born in Canada to Korean parents, Park has a personal connec- who miscarried twins after she was seized by federal immigration tion to the U.S. naturalization process. Though it took her only authorities and taken to Kennedy Airport in New York City for about nine months to become a citizen, it can take up to five years immediate deportation. The case sparked protests in both or more for others. A desire to help immigrants navigate the Philadelphia and Beijing until 2007, when Jiang was granted resi- lengthy process inspired her to found the immigration practice dency in the U.S. at Cozen O’Connor, the law firm where she has worked since 1999. Park says cases like those are exactly why she started her immi- “No one was handling immigration law when I arrived at the gration practice. “I love language and culture, I welcome challenges firm,” she says. “I recognized a need and presented a business and I want to help those in need. All that ties into immigration law.” —Sharon R. Cole

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Francis X. Dillon, LAW ’75 Robert Davis, SBM ’77 David J. Nuddle, SBM ’79 Leslie B. Baskin, LAW ’81 spoke to several rotary clubs published his ninth training CD was appointed to the finance was named secretary of the across Bucks County, Pa., about about information technology committee of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia chapter of the necessities for estate planning. auditing, IT Auditing: Business Philadelphia, a Jewish organiza- International Women’s He is an attorney with Begley, Continuity and Disaster tion for college students. Insolvency and Restructuring Carlin & Mandio LLP in Recovery, with Pleir Corp. Confederation, an organization Langhorne, Pa. Brian Squires, CLA ’79 for women in the insolvency Patricia Spadaro, SCT ’77 and restructuring profession. is co-owner of MoneySaver Thomas W. Gamba, DEN ’76 She also is a member in the law published her seventh book, Coupons Inc., a company based firm of Spector Gadon & Rosen received the 2012 Kornberg Honor Yourself: The Inner Art of in South Florida that produces in Philadelphia. Alumni Association Leadership Giving and Receiving. She also is direct-mail coupon books for Award for his role in local den- a publishing coach. more than 800,000 subscribers. James G. Carroll, SBM ’81 tal and civic organizations. He serves on the American Dental Lloyd C. “Grey” Held, TYL ’78 Jerry N. Street, MED ’79 earned a doctorate in business Association Council on Ethics, administration from University participated in the Mattapoisett joined Houston Orthopedic and Bylaws and Judicial Affairs, and of Phoenix, an online institu- Library’s annual Afternoon of Spine Hospital in Bellaire, has published several articles tion. His dissertation was titled Poetry in Massachusetts. Texas, as physician partner. about dental ethics. Gamba The Effect of Pay for Performance also is past president of the on Intrinsic Motivation, Debra J. Silimeo, SCT ’78 Roseann B. Termini, EDU ’79, LAW ’85 Pennsylvania Dental Association. Performance, and Employee was named executive vice presi- spoke during the annual Food Retention: A Phenomenological James Kristie, SCT ’76 dent of Hager Sharp, a public- and Drug Law Institute Approach. Carroll works as relations firm in Washington, Educational Conference held in an operations specialist for has served as editor of Directors D.C., that focuses on education, Washington, D.C. She partici- the U.S. Postal Service. & Boards, a quarterly journal health and safety. pated in the panel discussion that covers business leadership concerning the Food and Drug Michael P. Gaughan, SCT ’81 issues, for more than 30 years. Debra K. Stein, CLA ’78, ’83 Administration’s Center for screened his short film,The Veterinary Medicine program, Phyllis M. Perkins, MED ’76 was recognized as an outstand- Story of the American Star, which focused on developments ing citizen in the borough of during the Davis Film Festival celebrated the graduation of her and goals in 2012. Parkside, Pa., for her contribu- in California in April. son, Louis M. Capecci, MED ’12, tions to the community, includ- from Temple University School ing her involvement in the 1980s Denise R. Rolfe, SCT ’81 of Medicine. Perkins serves as a creation of the Parkside board member of the Southern Phyllis Horn Epstein, LAW ’80 was promoted to national Community Theatre. New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, sales director, community was elected to a second term as and also serves on the admis- broadcasting, at TelVue Corp. Mary DiSanto-Rose, CHPSW ’79 treasurer of the Philadelphia Bar sions committee of the College in Mt. Laurel, N.J. She is a two- Association. She is a partner in of Physicians of Philadelphia. was awarded an honorary time Emmy award-winner for the law firm of Epstein, Shapiro Louis will be a surgical intern degree from St. Lawrence promotion and community & Epstein PC in Philadelphia. at Allegheny General Hospital University in Canton, N.Y. outreach advertising. in Pittsburgh. She also is an associate professor Lynn Shields Evans, LAW ’80 of dance at Skidmore College Gerald M. Weiss, LAW ’81 Robert D. Snyder, MED ’76 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. spoke to several rotary clubs published his second book, across Bucks County, Pa., about was awarded the Gold Cross The Lemberg Mosaic, with Joseph D. Mancano, LAW ’79 necessities for estate planning. of Merit of the Republic of Alderbrook Press. It is written She is an attorney with Begley, Hungary. He was recognized was included in 2012 under his pen name, Jakob Carlin & Mandio LLP in by the Hungarian Office of the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Weiss, and examines the Langhorne, Pa. President for his impact on with 22 other attorneys in the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia healthcare during his time in same firm, Pietragallo Gordon (now a part of the Ukraine). Budapest from 1996 to 2003. Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP.

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David M. Beverage, SCT ’82 Patty A. Romeu, SCT ’82, ’88 Robert G. Konchard, POD ’83 City District in Philadelphia. She was appointed co-chair designed the book Meet The co-produced The Loving Story became a member of the honor- of the Pennsylvania/Delaware/ Presidents. It contains more for HBO. The film documents ary medical staff of Midland Southern New Jersey Alliance than 400 photos and provides the lives of Richard and Memorial Hospital in Texas. Public Sector for the an engaging graphic overview Mildred Loving, an interracial Before semi-retirement, he International Council of of the presidents’ lives, focusing couple whose right to marry served as chief of surgery at Shopping Centers. on their little-known human- was granted by the U.S. both Physicians and Surgeons interest aspects. Supreme Court in the 1967 Hospital and Westwood Cheryl Anne Booker-Carter, case Loving v. Virginia. Medical Center. MED ’85 Sarah A. Gray, DEN ’82 Joan Myerson Shrager, EDU ’82 Joseph F. Roberts, DEN ’83 was granted privileges to practice received the 2012 Kornberg medicine at Grand View Hospital Alumni Association Service and Paula Mandel, CLA ’74, received the 2012 Kornberg in Sellersville, Pa. Award for her time, effort and co-founded the Stained Glass Alumni Association Business support of the Kornberg School Project: Windows That Open Award for his professional Bradford L. Clayman, SCT ’85 of Dentistry. Over the years, Doors, an afterschool program accomplishments and service Gray has served Kornberg as in which high school students to the community through was profiled inThe New York acting chair, supervisor, in Philadelphia create stained- dentistry. He currently serves Times for his documentary associate dean and vice dean glass windows for schoolchil- on Kornberg’s Board of Visitors OC87, about living with in several departments. She dren in South Africa, New and has served as president obsessive-compulsive disorder. also is an associate professor Orleans and North Philadelphia. of the Eastern Dental Society, in the Dental School. They recently teamed up with and as president and founding Michael J. Papa, CHPSW ’86 their students for an exhibition member of the Philadelphia received the President’s Award Charles J. Meyer, CHPSW ’82, called Hand-Eye Collaboration, Implant Society. for Outstanding Research and LAW ’86 open from April to June in Creative Activity at Central Philadelphia. Marc S. Raspanti, LAW ’84 became shareholder in the law Michigan University for his firm of Hofstein Weiner & Meyer a partner in the law firm of work in the areas of organizing Joseph Blum, LAW ’83 PC in Philadelphia, where he and Pietragallo Gordon Alfano social change and diplomacy. his partners practice family law. was named a “Philadelphia Top Bosick & Raspanti LLP, pre- He also is a professor of commu- Rated Lawyer” in 2012. He is a sented at King & Spalding’s nication at that institution. David L. Porretta, CHPSW ’82 partner in the Philadelphia law 21st Annual Health Law and firm of Deeb, Blum, Murphy, Policy Forum in Atlanta. He Grant Rawdin, LAW ’87 was named a fellow by the Frishberg & Markovich. participated in a panel called International Federation of was appointed to the Beasley “Legal Representation of Adapted Physical Activity in rec- School of Law Board of Visitors. Peter Brampton Koelle, LAW ’83 Healthcare Whistleblowers.” ognition of his scholarship and He is president and CEO of service to adapted physical was named a “Philadelphia Top Wescott Financial Advisory Michelle Chronister Shannon, activity around the world. Rated Lawyer” in 2012. He is a Group in Philadelphia, and also SCT ’84 partner in the Philadelphia law is current president of Temple firm of Deeb, Blum, Murphy, is vice president of marketing University Law Foundation. Frishberg & Markovich. and communications of Center

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CLASS OF 1988 Brian Lein

Location: Kabul, Afghanistan Ben Bloker

In Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Brian Lein, MED ’88, is the U.S. military’s version of Atlas: the well-being of its forces there rests on his shoulders. As senior medical officer, he travels throughout the mountainous country and oversees everything from the transport of wounded soldiers to disease control to ensuring medical sup- plies reach the most remote outposts. “The medical footprint here is pretty extensive,” Lein says. “I have to be sure everything is ready to take care of injured soldiers on the battlefield.” Yet this seemingly monumental responsibility is just one of many in Lein’s 32-year military career: From 2007 to 2009, Lein served as commander of the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, where all wounded and injured U.S. soldiers arrive from conflicts in the Middle East. Nearly 12,000 men and women pass through that facility each year. “It’s a pretty sobering experience, to see these soldiers wounded, and what a mortar round or high-velocity bullet can do to somebody,” Lein says. “But it shows the quality of medical care and the ability of medics to save soldiers’ lives on the front lines.” He first deployed to Landstuhl in 1993, where he treated casual- ties from the Battle of Mogadishu, famously recounted in the book and movie Black Hawk Down. He was later dispatched to the front lines of the Bosnian War. Prior to enlisting, Lein attended the School of Medicine at Temple after graduating from West Point military academy in New York in 1984. Later, he returned to Pennsylvania for a residency at Abington Memorial Hospital, which included surgical rotations at Temple. “It’s a sobering experience, to see Lein says he felt accepted during his time at the Medical School. “It was probably the best education I could have received,” he says. soldiers wounded. But it shows the When asked what the Temple community, and the public at ability of medics to save soldiers’ large, can do to support the soldiers in Afghanistan, Lein asks for continued good wishes. lives on the front lines.” “There’s not a day that goes by when somebody’s not thanking us or sending something,” he says. “When you see soldiers in the airport or walking down the street in uniform, thank them for their service.” —Kyle Bagenstose, SCT ’11

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CLASS OF 2002 Ryan S. Brandenberg

During his time there, first in Los Angeles and then in Washington, D.C., Frogley helped solve an international kidnap- Clark Frogley ping case that involved coordinating efforts between the U.S., Taiwan and China. For his efforts, Frogley received the Director’s Degree: EMBA, Fox School of Business, 2002 Award for Excellence from the FBI. Occupation: Singer and FBI agent turned executive An opportunity to work and live in Asia came when he accepted the position of assistant legal attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Japan, Location: New York City investigating crimes against U.S. citizens and government entities. He remained in Japan when he took a job with Goldman Sachs, Before he became an FBI agent; before he spent years investigat- eventually overseeing global security, investigations and logistics ing white-collar crime and economic espionage; before he over- from its Tokyo headquarters. It was then that Frogley attended saw hundred-million-dollar budgets for global corporations, Temple University Japan and earned his EMBA. After five years Clark Frogley, SBM ’02, had already traveled the world performing with Goldman Sachs, he joined Deutsche Bank, first in New York Top 40 hits for U.S. troops. as head of corporate security for the Americas, and then in While studying Japanese and Asian studies as an undergraduate Singapore as global head of fraud and investigations. at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Frogley joined a per- He returned to the U.S. in early 2009 to work for Chartis Global forming group called the Young Ambassadors, which traveled as Investigative Services, a subsidiary of American International missionaries and visited military bases worldwide. The group Group, where he was responsible for preventing fraudulent insur- sang everything from country to Sonny and Cher to ’80s pop. ance claims filed abroad. “There’s nothing like visiting a handful of soldiers on a remote Incredibly, Frogley says his time as a traveling performer and base at the top of a mountain in Turkey, during the Cold War, and his career in investigation and securities are linked inextricably. performing for them on Christmas Day,” Frogley says. “And “An international element was something that was going to be watching the tears just flow because someone brought a little bit required to really excel in my professional career,” he says. of home to them. It’s one of my most cherished experiences.” “I really enjoyed exploring and working with different cultures.” He once dedicated a performance of “God Bless the USA” to his —Brandon Lausch, SCT ’06, and Renee Cree, SCT ’12 father, Henry, a decorated war veteran and an FBI agent. Eventually, Frogley followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1988.

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Cheryl A. Tracy, SCT ’87 Joseph F. Hediger, SBM ’89 Karen F. Edwards, CHPSW ’91 Christopher S. Wilson, TYL ’92 was a featured artist in a five- was named a member of the was honored with the was appointed architecture person show at the Lancaster board of directors of the Outstanding Health Professional and design historian at Ringling County Art Association’s 2012 Hepatitis B Foundation in Award by the Eastern District College of Art and Design in Invitational Exhibit in Strasburg, Doylestown, Pa. He is assistant of the American Alliance for Sarasota, Fla. Pa. Her exhibit included 14 vice president and corporate Health, Physical Education, photographs representing the controller at Children’s Hospital Recreation and Dance. She is an Aleizha Batson, CLA ’93, THM ’96 theme “everything old.” of Philadelphia. associate professor of behav- was hired as public communica- ioral health and nutrition at the tions manager for the city of Pamela Moore, CLA ’88 Jack Klotz, SCT ’89 University of Delaware. Jacksonville, Fla. was named assistant superin- collaborated with Naoko Masuda, Jennifer L. Glasse, SCT ’91 tendent for curriculum and SCT ’07, senior web developer at Pat Branch, SCT ’93 instruction in the Millville Temple, on “Fukkatsu no Uta,” is a reporter with Al Jazeera was accepted into the 2012 School District in New Jersey. or “The Song of Rising,” a song news network based in Guy A. Hanks & Marvin Miller to raise funds for those affected Kabul, Afghanistan. Screenwriting Program at Sandra A. Romaszewski, CLA ’88 by the 2011 earthquake and University of Southern tsunami in Japan. He also is Christopher J. Preston, SBM ’91 was named a “Leader in Law” by California. The 15-week work- associate professor of broad- Chambers USA. She is an associ- was hired by Credit Suisse shop, founded by Bill and casting, telecommunications ate with Fox Rothchild LLP in the as managing director. He is Camille Cosby, was designed to and mass media at Temple. law firm’s Philadelphia office. located in the firm’s New York assist writers in the completion office and is head of trading for of scripts and to deepen the par- Aaron Luis Levinson, SCT ’89 David B. Snyder, LAW ’88 alternative investments. ticipants’ appreciation of African- appeared on the Latin Roots American history and culture. co-authored Pennsylvania series on World Cafe, which airs Jess Stainbrook, SCT ’91 Eminent Domain, the first com- on WXPN, an affiliate of National Michael D. Matthias, DEN ’93 plete revision of the original was executive producer of the Public Radio based at University document published in 1954. 2011 movie Seven Days in Utopia, joined Practice Without Pressure of Pennsylvania. He also oversees He is co-chair of the eminent featuring actors Robert Duvall Inc., a nonprofit organization Bell Tower Music, a student-run domain practice at Fox and Melissa Leo. He was respon- that specializes in healthcare project at Temple that focuses Rothschild LLC in Philadelphia. sible for all the business and for people with disabilities on music production. creative aspects of the project. based in Newark, Del. Steven S. Calande, CHPSW ’89 1990s Christopher M. Carl, SCT ’92 Kevin T. Moore, SCT ’93 was hired as football coach at East Catholic High School in John B. Bateman, CHPSW ’90 was named the Delaware earned a degree in nursing from Manchester, Conn. He also will Press Association (DPA) the University of Medicine and was appointed chaplain to the teach physical education at 2012 “Communicator of Dentistry of New Jersey. Pennsylvania Air National Guard. that institution. Achievement.” The award recognizes outstanding professional Yumy Thos L. Odom-Robinson, Marianne Crandall Follis, Dana Pirone (Garrity) achievement, and service to DPA CLA ’93 EDU ’90 Carosella, LAW ’89 and the local community. founded the East Coast Black received her PhD in library and presented during the Age of Comics Convention Inc., information studies from Texas John Joergensen, LAW ’92 Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s the nonprofit organization Woman’s University in Houston. Ethics Potpourri seminar. was appointed director of the behind the East Coast Black Age Of counsel in the law firm law library at Rutgers School of Comics Convention, which Kurt Conklin, CLA ’91, CHPSW ’04 of Stevens & Lee in Valley of Law–Newark. He also was held its 11th annual event in May. Forge, Pa., Carosella lectured assisted in the training of more named professor of law at about the disciplinary system than 150 staff members from that institution. Kimberly J. Elenberg, CHPSW ’94 in Pennsylvania. community-based U.S. organiza- was named 2012 “Alumna of tions that receive federal funding the Year” by the Milton Hershey to help prevent teen pregnancy. School in Hershey, Pa.

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Michael T. McCarthy, TYL ’94 Wendy T. Edsall-Kerwin, TYL ’98 Richard C. Liu, CHPSW ’99 Stephanie J. Peet, LAW ’03 showed his work in an exhibi- showed work in two art exhibi- was elected chair of the board was elected to the board of tion titled Human Form, at the tions this year. “Memory & of SEAMAAC (Southeast Asian directors of Developmental Galerie Duboys in Paris. Shadow” was included in Forged Mutual Assistance Association Enterprises Corp. She also is at Target Gallery in Alexandria, Coalition Inc.), a nonprofit ser- an associate in the Philadelphia Paul C. Pasles, CST ’94, ’97 Va., in May. She also was invited vices organization for immi- law firm of Jackson Lewis LLP. to create a piece for the Teapot grant and refugee communities received the 2011 Excellence Redefined 2012 invitational exhi- in Philadelphia. Peter B. Ranieri, TYL ’03 in Teaching Award from the bition at Mobilia Gallery in College of Liberal Arts and served as crafts judge for the Cambridge, Mass., in June. Sciences at Villanova University 2000s 46th Annual Media Art Exhibit in Pennsylvania, where he and Craft Fair in May. He also Hal I. Gullan, CLA ’98 Jessica L. Gerlach, SCT ’00 is an associate professor teaches metal arts and ceramics of mathematics. published Toomey’s Triumph: directed Small Small Thing, at Harriton Senior High School Inside a Key Senate Campaign, a film documenting women’s in Rosemont, Pa. Analisa Scrimger Sondergaard, with Temple University Press. rights issues in Liberia. LAW ’94 He also wrote The Upset That Jason Read, SBM ’03 Wasn’t: Harry S. Truman and the Kimi Takesue, SCT ’00 became magisterial district was nominated for the James Crucial Election of 1948, Jumping judge in Chester County, Pa. debuted her latest documen- E. Sullivan Award, which Through Hoops: Why Penn Wins tary, Where Are You Taking Me?, honors outstanding amateur and First Fathers: The Men Who Kenneth R. Atkinson, CLA ’96, ’99 at Anthology Film Archives in athletes in the U.S. He is head Inspired Our Presidents. New York City. The film docu- coach of Temple women’s published Queen Salome: ments life in postwar Uganda. rowing and also is a former Jerusalem’s Warrior Monarch Shavon L. Jones, LAW ’98 gold-medal Olympian. of the First Century B.C.E. launched 40orSo.com, an Kennita L. Burns-Johnson, CST ’01 with McFarland & Co. Inc., online community for profes- Jennifer Heckman Breslin, Publishers. The author of earned a doctor of osteo- sional women between the CLA ’04 several books, he also is an pathic medicine degree from ages of 35 and 45. associate professor of history the Philadelphia College of graduated from University of at the University of Northern Osteopathic Medicine. Arizona with a PhD in clinical Nicole (Zummo) Kraus, TYL ’98 Iowa in Cedar Falls. psychological science. She published an article in the Andrew Huang, DEN ’02 recently accepted a position David C. Kasarda, MED ’97 February 2012 issue of as director of program develop- completed a two-year, post SchoolArts magazine titled ment at CODAC Behavioral joined Grand View Emergency graduate residency in compre- “Snow Art.” Health in Tucson, Ariz. Associates in Sellersville, Pa. hensive esthetics and advanced fixed prosthodontics at Esthetic Long Ngoc Phan, DEN ’98 Susan J. Kim, MED ’04 Jason R. Mollica, SCT ’97 Professionals Dental Education was named one of Southern Center in Tarzana, Calif. He joined Southcoast Centers for launched JRM Comm, a public California’s “favorite dentists” owns Santa Teresa Dental in Cancer Care in Fall River, Mass., relations and social media by Inland Empire magazine, Morgan Hill, Calif., with his as a medical oncologist. marketing consultancy in based in Riverside. wife, Ann Lien. Buffalo, N.Y. Elizabeth E. Maplesden, TYL ’04 Erin C. Waltz, CLA ’98 Brian P. Iglesias, SCT ’02 Robert Chacko, SBM ’98 was named a finalist in the founded Counseltations, started a video production “Album Art/Photography” cate- launched Samsaric Brewery in a counseling and consulting company, Veterans gory of the 11th Independent Philadelphia. The company’s practice serving children and Expeditionary Media, based Music Awards, an international nonprofit arm raises funds to adolescents in Harrisburg, Pa. in New York City. competition featuring more than provide food, water and medi- 250 nominees. Her work also cine to countries in need, and Christian J. Giudice, SCT ’03 was included in Graphic Design art education to children in USA magazine’s American underserved communities. published Beloved Warrior: Graphic Design Awards for the The Rise and Fall of Alexis third year in a row. Argüello with Potomac Books.

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CLASS OF 1961 Richard DeBlasio

Degree: AAS, College of Engineering, 1961 Occupation: Energy visionary

Location: Denver Dennis Schroeder, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Since the environmental movement began in earnest in the 1960s, ideas about energy and the environment have been bandied about by political candidates, newscasters and interest groups alike. But Richard DeBlasio, ENG ’61, chief engineer of renewable energy at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Denver, focuses on the practical aspects of renewable energy and how to add them to the existing palette of the nation’s energy sources. “Energy is a critical path to the future welfare of America,” says DeBlasio, pictured right at NREL. “It means not having to be dependent on any entity to provide it.” When discussing the independence that renewable energy can bring, he adds, “On an even playing field, renewable technologies will be our gift to our children and future generations. That’s how important they are to a secure, safe and healthy America.” That passion has fueled DeBlasio since he joined NREL in 1978. For more than 30 years, he has been devoted to smart grid technology; that is, ensuring that renewable sources can be intercon- nected with existing electric grids, so that energy created by wind, the sun and water might help light a lamp in a house down the road. Today, the method for interconnectivity he developed is the national standard, making alternative energy sources more acces- sible, practical and viable than they have been in the past. For that standardization, DeBlasio won the 2010 Charles Proteus Steinmetz Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He and his colleagues have conquered the technical side of things, and it is only the legalities—such as acquiring the rights to actually interconnect grids, both with local government and other energy suppliers—that need to be hammered out before smart “Renewable technologies will be our gift grids become a reality. to our children and future generations. Though cultivating renewable energy is more expensive than harnessing traditional sources such as coal, DeBlasio says the That’s how important they are to a expense pales in comparison to other positive factors, such as secure, safe and healthy America.” safety, security and benefits to our health and environment. “We need to overcome the idea that renewable energy is desir- able, but too expensive,” he says. “The notion only drives renewable energy to the bottom of the list of options.” Despite its challenges, DeBlasio believes that renewable energy is independent energy, and the path to a brighter future for the U.S. —Alix Gerz, SCT ’03, CLA ’05

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Ann E. Cornell, SCT ’05 David A. King, EDU ’05 Silas A. Chamberlin, CLA ’06 Naoko Masuda, SCT ’07 was hired as editor-in-chief of was named president of was promoted to director of collaborated with Jack Klotz, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa. Malone University in Canton, stewardship and interpretation SCT ’89, associate professor of Ohio. He previously was at Delaware & Lehigh National broadcasting, telecommunica- Emran El-Badawi, CLA ’05 provost at Eastern University Heritage Corridor, a nonprofit tions and mass media at Temple, in Philadelphia. that seeks to conserve cultural on “Fukkatsu no Uta,” or “The earned his PhD from the and natural resources in the Song of Rising,” a song to raise Department of Near Eastern Jason M. Bresler, DEN ’06 counties in Pennsylvania that funds for those affected by the Languages and Civilizations at include the Delaware and 2011 earthquake and tsunami in University of Chicago. He also received the 2012 Kornberg Lehigh canals. He also serves Japan. She also is a senior web is the first director of the Alumni Association on the Pennsylvania Trails developer at Temple. Arabic Program at University Humanitarian Award for his Advisory Committee, and is a of Houston. longstanding volunteerism doctoral candidate at Lehigh Healey C. Whitsett, CLA ’07 in the Kornberg School of University in Bethlehem, Pa. Emily Geesaman, SCT ’05 Dentistry’s Haiti project. He wrote “High Debt, Low oversees the student group’s Information: A Survey of joined Buchanan Public Ned Rauch Mannino, SCT ’06 administration of dental care to Student Loan Borrowers,” Relations in Ardmore, Pa., as the citizens of Haiti, and also vol- published FingerTip Island II: The a paper examining how well senior account executive. She unteers for the Special Olympics Vincenzos’ Bully Problem, with students understand debt. will oversee traditional and Special Smiles program. Better Karma LLC. It is the sec- The paper was published by social media relations and pro- ond installment of his fantasy NERA Economic Consulting vide strategic communications book series, FingerTip Island. in Philadelphia, where she is counsel to clients. a senior analyst.

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Robert C. Palladino, TYL ’08 Michael P. Erb, SCT ’10 made of canned food. The Ken N. Sibanda, LAW ’11 structures were displayed in served as jury presenters chair writes for Minyanville.com, an will direct Species Venus, the rotunda at Liberty Place for Canstruction, an interna- Emmy award-winning site that a science-fiction film based in Center City in May. tional community-service event provides information for stock on one of his short stories. organized by the design and investors and traders. Eric Schuman, SCT ’10 construction communities. Charles Ray Starnes, LAW ’11 Philadelphia design teams com- Walter D. Johnson, ENG ’10 was hired as on-air host and was named an associate in the peted by building structures production coordinator at was promoted to navy seaman governmental liability and civil made of canned food. The WXPN, an affiliate of National upon graduation from Recruit rights defense department in structures were displayed in Public Radio based at the Training Command in Great the law firm of Lamb McErlane the rotunda at Liberty Place University of Pennsylvania. Lakes, Ill. PC in West Chester, Pa. in Center City in May. Adam J. Teterus, SCT ’10 Ashley D. Kelley, SCT ’10 Louis M. Capecci, MED ’12 Ernest K. Stuart, MUS ’08 manages Independents Hall, starred in a production of Ain’t earned a surgical internship launched the first Center City a co-working space and commu- Misbehavin’ at the Rep Theater at Allegheny General Hospital Jazz Festival, an event that nity in Philadelphia. in Portsmouth, N.H. in Pittsburgh. brought more than 50 musi- cians to four jazz venues Kyle Bagenstose, SCT ’11 Jessica Lawlor, SCT ’10 Richard R. Deaver Jr., CLA ’12 across Philadelphia. was named editor of Plymouth- was hired as marketing and is news director and host Whitemarsh Patch, a hyperlocal Katherine E. Yori, CHPSW ’08 communications coordinator of Morning Magazine at radio news website based in for Visit Bucks County, the offi- station KRMS News-Talk participated in Wheels for Conshohocken, Pa. He also is a cial tourism promotion agency 1150 AM–97.5 FM in Osage Wells, a 400-mile bike ride from contributing writer for Temple. for Bucks County, Pa. Beach, Mo. Nags Head, N.C., to Ocean City, N.J., to raise funds to help bring Thelma S. Gutierrez, SCT ’11 Andrea M. Petrucci, TYL ’10 Ashley R. Yezuita, CLA ’12 clean water to depressed areas completed U.S. Navy basic of northern Africa. served as public relations chair joined Teach for America, a training at Recruit Training for Canstruction, an interna- national corps of recent college Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Minka D. Farthing-Kohl, SCT ’09 tional community-service event graduates who commit to teach- Save the date organized by the design and ing for two years in under- debuted his new short film, Katherine E. Knowlton, LAW ’11 construction communities. resourced public schools. Cheap Extermination, at the Philadelphia design teams is an associate in the foreclosure annual South by Southwest Film competed by building structures and bankruptcy department in for a Temple Festival in Austin, Texas. made of canned food. The the law firm of Parker McCay structures were displayed in in Mount Laurel, N.J. 2010s the rotunda at Liberty Place tailgate! in Center City in May. Ariana Rae D. Dennis, TYL ’10

served as event chair for Chelsea Rosiek, CLA ’10 Canstruction, an international is head coach of the girl’s varsity community-service event lacrosse team at Wissahickon organized by the design and High School in Ambler, Pa. construction communities. P ost your class notes online! Philadelphia design teams com- Log in to myowlspace.com to share your recent news and Sarah Z. Salem, TYL ’10 peted by building structures to update your profile. Online class notes are run in Temple made of canned food. The struc- served as fundraising chair and other publications. tures were displayed in the for Canstruction, an interna- rotunda at Liberty Place in tional community-service event You also may mail your notes to: Center City in May. organized by the design and Editor, Temple construction communities. Philadelphia design teams TASB/1852 N. 10th Street competed by building structures Philadelphia, PA 19122

SUMMER 2012 49 IN MEMORIAM

This list includes those in the Temple community who have passed away since IN MEMORIAM the last issue of Temple.

1920s Ina Lois Johnson, CHPSW ’44 Frank R. Ryan, CLA ’53, ’55 Robert P. Rago, EDU ’61 Royal T. Popper, DEN ’45 William L. Walter, EDU ’53 Harry R. Reeve, SBM ’61, ’65 Florence Ahlfeldt Rodgers, CLA ’20 Leon B. Katz, DEN ’47 Ruth Fanta, POD ’54 Joyce G. Agostini, EDU ’62 John J. Sylvester, CHPSW ’47 John J. Kane, SBM ’54 Melvin D. Butler, EDU ’62 1930s Kathleen M. Bayer, CST ’48 Laura Cheatham Cousins, CST ’55 John R. Combs, ENG ’62 Beattie H. Jarvis, CHPSW ’48 Roger Scott Hertz, EDU ’55, ’72 Ronald R. Davenport, LAW ’62 Helen Burke Hauser, MUS ’32 Edith W. Van Wagoner, EDU ’48 David Krasner, DEN ’55 Ronald N. Downs, SBM ’62 James W. Freeborn, EDU ’35, ’46 Leonard Wasserman, SBM ’48 Robert F. Yackel, DEN ’55 Robert Dean Edwards, MED ’62 Gertrude K. Bratton, CHPSW ’36 Benjamin J. Bond Jr., SBM ’49 Robert S. Zane, ENG ’55 Berton F. Greenstein, SBM ’62 Hyman Cohen, SBM ’36 Robert J. Cohen, SBM ’49 Myra Magid Appleton, SCT ’56 Robert E. Griggs, ENG ’62 Helen M. McCoy, EDU ’36 Henry G. Matz, EDU ’49, ’57 Paul J. Dobransky, EDU ’56, ’63 George Kauffman, EDU ’62 Lewis Beloff, MED ’37 Aaron R. Miller, EDU ’49, ’60 Robert Moss, POD ’56 Anne P. Liebert, TYL ’62 Mary Reineberg Buchard, POD ’37 Gerald I. Prescott, SBM ’49 Donald P. Robinson Sr., ENG ’56 Edgar T. McGowan Sr., EDU ’62 Donald B. Smith Sr., LAW ’37 Flora Lucille H. Rauer, MED ’49, ’50 Eugene Sebastianelli, PHR ’56 Helen Lucille Mentzer, EDU ’62 Agnes Zacharias, CHPSW ’38 G.S. Scarborough Jr., SBM ’49 John E. Whare Jr., EDU ’56 T. Michael Stoltz, CLA ’62 Doris Severns Pappas, EDU ’39 Edward James Armstrong, SBM ’57 Michael Wachs, SBM ’62 1950s Lloyd Andrew Good Jr., LAW ’57 Donald J. Hershey, EDU ’63 1940s William C. Porter, CST ’57 Richard J. Koch, EDU ’63 Jerome Brody, SBM ’50 George V. Fagan, EDU ’40, CLA ’41 Robert E. Stevenson, MED ’57 Beulah S. Rothstein, EDU ’63 Daniel J. Celia, ENG ’50 Richard H. Rauch, LAW ’40 H. Orvin Strickler, DEN ’57 Louis J. Citrone, ENG ’64 William G. Hall, SBM ’50 Betty Deibert Boyer, CHPSW ’41 Michael F. Giovenella, EDU ’59, ’63 Ruth M. Gottschall, CHPSW ’64 Blanche G. Harman, CLA ’50 Marian T. Bradley, SBM ’41 Franklin Keil Kessler, EDU ’64 Charles R. McHugh, SBM ’50 Eugene Brody, PHR ’41 1960s Alfred A. Maurer, CHPSW ’64 James Grieve Smith Sr., EDU ’50 Frank Garrett, PHR ’41 Victor D. Petaccio, CLA ’64, ’74 John W. Cox, SBM ’51 V. Nan Angevine Apfelbaum, CHPSW ’60 Jessie E. Marco, CHPSW ’41 Joseph H. Wellendorf, ENG ’64 Pasquale J. Di Quinzio, CLA ’51 Henry Robert Boney, EDU ’60 Lorraine Walker Bardsley, EDU ’42 James K. Davis, EDU ’65 Ralph J. Smith, SCT ’51 Roy Lester Cameron Jr., LAW ’60 Charles Bernstein, DEN ’42 George Daniel Fedoruk, CLA ’65, EDU ’71 George L. Hatza, ENG ’52 Robert A. Holmes, MED ’60 Anthony J. Bucalo, DEN ’42 Ernest H. Firestone, EDU ’65 Ellwood Kauffman, CST ’52 Charles W. Smith, DEN ’60 Albert P. Hass, DEN ’42 I. Lee Hartman, CLA ’65 Joseph R. Mattioli, DEN ’52 Theodore Theodore, SBM ’60 Morton Koff, POD ’42 Clifford John Stevenson Jr., ENG ’65 Harold L. Sharadin, DEN ’52 William C. Albright, SBM ’61 Beatrice D. Leder, EDU ’42 David V. Swartz, EDU ’65 Joseph R. Sommer, SBM ’52 Dawson E. Hoffman Jr., EDU ’61 Thomas M. Aissis, DEN ’43 Gene J. Grubb, EDU ’66 Nelson G. Harris, LAW ’53 Theodore S. Jackaway, MED ’61 Dorothy Bothwell, EDU ’43, ’63 Jill A. Little, EDU ’66 Charles A. Parker, CLA ’53 Charles T. Maat, EDU ’61 Martin Siegel, CST ’43, DEN ’46 Ilsa E. West, CLA ’66 Walter M. Rhoades, EDU ’53 Enrique J. Martinez, CLA ’61 John M. Edmiston, MED ’44 Almont Bechtel Jr., SBM ’68

50 TEMPLE IN MEMORIAM

Vernon S. Blank, ENG ’68 Joan Dian Zeidner, CLA ’74 1990s Thomas Francis Lanagan, EDU ’68 Pamela Ann Hardy, SSW ’75, ’78 Christopher Getch, MED ’90 Martin F. Shannon, ENG ’68 William I. Hopkins, CLA ’75, ’79 Laurie S. Fetchko, CHPSW ’92 Terry Lee Bartolet, MED ’69, ’74 Lynn R. Jammer, MED ’75 Anthony L. Kunkel, SBM ’93 James R. Geiger, EDU ’69 Leonard Macalush, PHR ’75 John K. Meier, ENG ’94 James N. Keiler, EDU ’69, ’76 Patricia A. Wilson, CLA ’75 Courtesy Philadelphia of The Inquirer Robert E. Cahill, EDU ’96 Merrill A. Meneeley, EDU ’69 William J. Collins, EDU ’76 Sandra Nelson Morris, EDU ’96 Geraldine E. Ross, CLA ’69 Katherine Blakeley Teich, CLA ’76 Fitz Eugene Dixon Jr., HON ’97 Dennis C. Schmid, EDU ’69 Barbara P. Neiderhiser, CHPSW ’77 Anne W. Hummer, EDU ’98 Yvonne A. Norman, CLA ’77 Paris E. Smith, SBM ’98 1970s Pearlia Brenner Palmer, EDU ’77 Mark S. Chapell, CLA ’99 Robert R. Burnley, EDU ’78 Frank Amoroso Jr., ENG ’70 Alan L. Dayno, MED ’78 John Martin Arthur Bashoff, MED ’70 Dawson E. Hoffman, PHR ’78 2000s Joseph F. Campbell, SBM ’70 Roberts George W. Littel, EDU ’78, ’81 Nancy A. Bobkoskie, EDU ’01 John E. Lynch Jr., EDU ’70 Clarice W. Meade, EDU ’78, ’81 John B. Roberts, former George Shore, CLA ’03 Carol Sue Underwood, EDU ’70 professor in the School of John J. Oakes Jr., EDU ’78 Ian L. Hemphill, LAW ’04 Patty R. Bayley, SCT ’71 Communications and Marian Rothbart, CLA ’78, EDU ’82 Paul-Michel Dipaolo, PHR ’05 Theater, passed away Henri Deutsch, CLA ’71 Steven Sroczynski, SBM ’78 March 8, 2012. He was 94. Leophus King, CLA ’05 Lawrence J. Malloy, SCT ’71 Anna L. Feldman-Rosen, CHPSW ’79 A Temple professor from David M. Zuilkoski, EDU ’05, ’06 Joan C. Turner, EDU ’71 1946 to 1988, Roberts Philip B. Hultgren, MED ’79 Isabel Diaz, SBM ’08 helped found Temple radio Rita N. Cancila, EDU ’72, ’74, ’78 Dorothy P. Kaiser, EDU ’79 station WRTI-FM in 1953. Rita M. Freedman, CST ’72, SBM ’82 James A. Williamson, POD ’79 Throughout his career, Joan Runyan Harrington, TYL ’72 Roberts inspired countless To submit a name for this list, Gary M. Keisling, SBM ’72 email [email protected] students to pursue careers 1980s or call 215-926-2562. in communications. Barbara R. Ryan, CLA ’72, CLA ’80 Helen Keller Swaincott, William T. Gratz, You also may mail your notes to: “John Roberts set a near- EDU ’72, ’80, EDU ’80 CHPSW ’47 Editor, Temple perfect example for those Donald R. Zook, EDU ’80 TASB/1852 N. 10th Street Corinne O. Cody, EDU ’73, ’83 of us who were practicing James E. Erl, SCT ’81 Philadelphia, PA 19122 journalists and then Robert W. Marsch II, ENG ’73 Francis A. Pendino, SBM ’82 To view “In Memoriam” entered the academic Michael J. Neustadter, SBM ’73 online, visit myowlspace.com/ Joseph F. Greipp, CHPSW ’83 world,” says Paul Gluck, memoriam. Bruce A. Singer, DEN ’73, ’75 SCT ’76, associate profes- Lawrence R. Piltman, EDU ’83 sor of broadcasting, Leon V. Skalish Jr., SCT ’73 India E. Warren, SBM ’83 telecommunications and John D. Stewart, LAW ’73 mass media, and general Roger B. Fargo, SBM ’84 Warren William Wales, TYL ’73 manager of TUTV. “He Laura Sincoskie Lee, SBM ’85 William Morley Wright, SBM ’73 was an erudite presence Laura Furst Jacobs, MED ’86 who offered insight to Peter Paul Aiello, SBM ’74 students as an educator, Otto K. Wydogen, SBM ’86 Cyril O. Byron Sr., EDU ’74 and served as a model Lisa Aguanno Bujnowski, CLA ’87 Ruth West Fechter, EDU ’74 for media professionals.” Barbara G. McCloskey, SSW ’87 David J. Ference, PHR ’74 Joseph F. Dagui, PHR ’89 Michael Fleishman, EDU ’74 Michael J. Przywara, DEN ’89 Donald Joseph Martin, EDU ’74 David E. Shaffer, SBM ’89

SUMMER 2012 51 THE LAST WORD

Dissent is a major part of U.S. “ history. No sooner had the Puritans landed in Massachusetts Bay than Roger Williams was out running afoul of the authorities. The ultimate dissenting action was the American Revolution.

RALPH YOUNG, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY ” Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation, Pearson Longman, 2008

SHOW AND TELL Have you recently come across a quote from an Owl that inspired you? To share it, email the quote and the name of the person to whom it is attributed to [email protected]. It might be included in an upcoming issue of Temple.

52 TEMPLE Thanks to Dr. Fred Simeone, CST ’56, MED ’60, for sharing his Owl pride and extensive classic racing car collection. Learn more about the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia at www.simeonemuseum.org. Owl pride on your ride

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