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—Regan Houser CONTENTS
Winter, 1997
VoLXV, No, 1
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EDITOR; Features Karen Oicsli ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Extravaganza Rich Regan Houser by Tradition ASSISTANT: Sharon Kerr Amid the grandeur of CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall, Bob FulU)n SPECIAL ASSISTANT: lUP's Jazz Ensemble, page 4 Ronald Mabon Maivhing Band, Sym- STUDENT ASSISTANTS: phiiiiy Orchestra, and Gerald Kimmel. Hilary' Staples DESIGN CONSULTANT: Wind Ensemble inspired Wesi Side Studio. Inc. the audience with superb Durham. N.C. musicianship in a collec- PHOTOGRAPHERS: John Bender. Ron Juliette. Barry tive perfomiance the Reeger. Jim Wakefield week of Thanksgiving, PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY: The Happy Craftsman Lawrence K, Pettii Bruce Graham Eraser VICE PRESIDENT The Record commutes to work in FOR INSTITI.ITIONAL 25 Even personal modesty ADVANCEMENT: New York and Holly- can"t diminish the glitter Joan M. Fisher wood, puts words in of tailback James Lifestyles the mouths of famous lUP Miijiaziiic is published quar- Suber's record-setting Lost and Found terly by Indiana University of Penn- actors, and rubs elbows perfonnances in his Class Notes .sylvania. a member of the State with the rich and glam- System of Higher Education. first season as an lUP Coming Up orous. Despite all this. starter. Births The magazine's address is Publica- he is determinedly IVIarriages tions Office, .122 John Sutton Hall. "normal." lUP. Indiana. PA l.-iTOS-IOS? Deaths
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FRONT COVER: The lUP Marching Band at Homecoming. 1996. Photograph by John Bender.
BACK COVER: Lights glow in Sutton Hall on a winter night. Photograph by Ben English. :a
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\ FEATURE
RIP Extravaganza Rich byTi^adition
Bv John Heyer
Amid tiie grandeur of Pittsburshi's Heinz Hall, lUP's Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Symphony Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble inspired the audience with superb musicianship in
a collective performance the week of Thanksgiving. While it
is wonderful these groups showcased the university's music
program in one day, this event represented just a fraction of the appearances our ensembles make every year.
usic at appeared in New York in response to invitations to per-
I UP has fomi at the Macy's Parade and in Carnegie Hall, respec- enjoyed tively. The Jazz Ensemble has toured extensively, tak-
a distin- ing first place in the Villanova Jazz Festival in 1994.
guished tradition that The Wind Ensemble's reputation continues to grow by
goes hiaclv to the virtue of the e.xcellent compact disk recordings that have founding days of the been issued in the past five years.
Nomial School in Celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year, the 1875. Music activity Marching Band has been directed by Charles Casavant has played an impor- since 1976. The ensemble served as the official band at tant role as the the U.S. Constitution bicentennial celebration in 1987. teachers' preparation Attention from that performance led to to an invitation
- school evolved into from Jacques Chirac, the mayor of Paris, to peiform at J the fourteen thousand- the America's Day celebration of the French Bicenten-
5' student university we nial in 1989. That same year, the band toured Washing- now represent. Our ton. D.C., with perfomiances on the steps of the Lincoln Above: .hick Sriinip atul tlie \\ iiul Ensemhlc tin the sur^c of music department is Memorial, at the Soldiers and Airmen's Home, and dur- Piltshurgh's Heinz Hull. Left: The lUP Marching Band performs Redskins for the crowd at the 1996 Homecoming football .game. enjoying a particu- ing the half-time show of the Washington larly rich moment in football game. Its members have appeared at halftime
its history. Enrollment for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia
in music is at a high point, and the quality of the stu- Eagles, and other NFL teams.
dents in the program ensures continuation of this vital The premier concert-wind group of the university, the tradition our outstanding alumni have cultivated. Perfor- Wind Ensemble, directed by Jack Stamp '76, has per- mances ha\ e never been stronger. formed across the state and has recorded works for vari- Just a week after the Heinz Hall performance, both 20 the Marching Band and the Symphony Orchestra
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VI-r>A' ^1
li- FEATURE
Hie Happy Craftsman
by Susan M. Lang
Dressed in blue sweatpants, a blue-and-red-checked flannel
shirt, and a "One Planet" tee shirt from a fictitious environmentalist group in his play Top of the World, Bruce
Graham looks like an ordinary guy, but his talent is far from ordinary. Over the years, the 1979 lUP graduate has carved out a niche for himself as a playwright and Hollywood
screenplay writer.
Bruce Graham commutes to work in INen \brk and
small in llie enler- get Well, the Dreyfuss one may be in what they Hollj^vood, Thai's no accomplishmeiil made? lainment world. He may be slouched in a call turnaround. You see. they'll develop about 1 10 to
puts v\ords in tlie patio chair, with his feet in red slippers com- 120 projects a year and make 12. So, there are writers moutlis of famous fortably elevated on the table. He may look like myself who sometimes make a great living, and rela.xed while he holds his unlit cigar, but we are. after none of the stuff ever gets made." actors, and all, sitting in the ""Dunston Room." That's what he calls Still, Playwright Graham is also working on a new
rubs elbows with the recent addition to his home that he jokes is paid for play, tentatively titled Coyote on a Fence, based on a the rich and by his first credited Hollywood screenplay for the movie death row inmate in Texas. Duusloii Checks In. "I wrote him out of the blue," he admits. "I saw an glamorous. While the movie had a short run at the box office, it article a couple of years ago about how he runs a death
Despite all this. gave Graham his first long-sought screen credit. His row newspaper. Part of his job is writing [inmates'] second screen credit will be the animated Don Bluth obituaries. Sometimes he'll take these brutal murderers he is determinedly film Aiuistasia. and try and find that one aspect in their lives that is pos- "normal." During downtime from screenwriting last summer. iti\e. because he doesn't want to write obitumes saying.
Graham wrote his first novel, now in the hands of pub- Well, this guy was an SOB.'" When it's completed, it
hshers for review. He is currently rewriting a screenplay will be Graham's eleventh play. for Richard Dreyfuss. called Gimd Citizen. Graham Graham's intense interest in theater goes back to his
wrote the original about five years ago. but the project youth in Ridley, a suburb of Philadelphia. There he was never developed. Since the success of Mr. Hol- began acting and writing his first one-act plays for high
land' s Opus, it's on again. school production. His time as a student at lUP was
"I had a three-picture deal at Universal and ended up spent further developing his many talents, including his
Bntce Gruhum at home doing si.x scripts there," Graham said. "Now, did they comedy writing skills. He and friends Billy Elmer and
I U P M A G A Z I N E 7 Mark Bernardo worked up a comedy routine thai they gions class with Joel MIecko. The published version
performed at local coffee houses and for the lUP com- acknowledges MIecko. Graham says he set the play in munity. his head in a bar like Patti's Bar in downtown Indiana. "We kind of shghtly illegally booked Fisher Audito- He also used his memories of Indiana as the setting for rium for a show and charged a buck a head." Graham his play Minor Demons, a compilation of murder cases
said. They were hoping to sell three or four hundred from the Harrisburg luid Philadelphia areas.
tickets but instead packed the house, which seats about Burkie was Graham's first professional production at 1.500. the Philadelphia Festival Theater for New Plays. He was
"I was rehearsing Eqtius. and I remember 1 said. 'Fve twenty-six at the time. The theater has produced all of got to break. I've got an eight his plays since, and he has
o'clock show.' I ran across to developed quite a local fol- FLsher. and there was a line "I HAD A THREE-PICTURE lowing, serving as playwright across the Oak Grove." Gra- in residence since 1989.
ham said. "'Whoa!" I thought. DEAL WITH UNIVERSAL AND Graham tackled writing his 'We'd better be funny.' The first screenplay after he left pressure was on." ENDED UP DOING SIX his teaching job. He gave The comedy team must himself two weeks to finish SCRIPTS THERE. NOW, DID have pleased the audience: the the screenplay, as he figured it men did another show the fol- would be a writing exercise THEY GET MADE? YOU SEE, lowing year and once again rather than production of a packed the house. After grad- THEY'LL DEVELOP ABOUT salable piece. Surprising even uation, Bernardo went to himself, he sold Room Full of work for ABC. while Elmer Candles, a spoof on North by 110 TO 120 PROJECTS A YEAR has continued his career in Northwest, optioning it for six comedy. months. The option, however, AND MAKE 12. SO, THERE Graham sees his lime at was dropped after the initial lUP as good preparation for ARE WRITERS LIKE MYSELF period. his eventual career in theater. "So I rewrote it and He was immersed in every WHO SOMETIMES MAKE changed the title and sold it aspect of production: acting, again," Graham said. "Then I directing, hanging scenery. A GREAT LIVING. AND had what's called a writing and writing. sample to .show that yes. I "I really think every play- NONE OF THE STUFF EVER could write a screenplay." wright should have some After he sold a script to the experience on stage. I've seen GETS MADE." Roseanne television series, he playwrights, and I've seen was offered a job as a staff
some plays where I thought. writer, a position he turned
'This guy's never been on stage in his whole life.'" he down. He values his cuirent independence as a writer
"We kind of slightly illegally said. "Some will ask the actors to do impossible things." and prefers to li\e near family and friends in Eastern booked Fisher Auditorium lor a "The funny thing is that Fve always really been self- Pennsylvania.
taught, too. because I had no playwrighting course," As someone who has worked as a writer for Univer- show and charged a buck a Graham said. "There wasn't one at lUP while I was sal and Fox, Graham says there is a difference between head. The night ot the show, I there. I did have one creative writing course at lUP. I writing plays and screenplays. ran across to Fisher, and think I got a B." The thought seems to make him "The biggest difference is not to fall in love with snicker. what you are writing." He has been in the writers' pool there was a line across the Graham does remember the encouragement he for movies like the upcoming Harrison Ford/Brad Pitt Oak Grove. 'Whoa,' I thought, received from theater professor Malcolm Bowes, who film The Devil's Own. He spent four weeks in a Man- tunny.'" 'We'd better be urged him to continue writing. "We went out after he hattan hotel suite doctoring the script. "I don't know if
had seen two of my plays, and I think he was shocked there are ten lines of mine in there." he said. "Movies because they were presentable," Graham said with a are not for labors of love unless you are producing or
laugh. "He said I should really try to learn more, directing them yourself, because you just have no
because I was just an actor then and it was taking up all power."
my time." Don't be surpri.seil in the future if Graham does get After lUP. Graham taught English at the Penncrest into directing, as he spent time stud>ing the process High School in the Rosetree Media District until 19S6. while working on Dunston. He'd also like to get back
It was during that time that he wrote his first full-length into acting, and he enjoys teaching. But he admits he
plays. Early One Eveniiif; at the Rainbow Bar and still loves the theater.
Grille and Biirkie. "It is funny because the theater is always going to be
Graham says he actually got the idea for the fiisl play a little more important." he said. "And it is so funny,
during his lUP senior year while taking a world reli- because that disappears. A movie stays there forever, so
8 lU P M A G A Z I N E "I'm a craftsman, or
craftsperson. I know the nuts
and bolts of how to do it. I'd
rather be a happy craftsman
v/ than an artist. Look at the
great artists. They're all nuts
or miserable."
The Graham Collection
Belmont Avenue Social Club: A play that focuses on racism. Graham
considers it his best.
Burkie: A play about a dying plumber; Graham says it is very loosely based on his family.
Champagne Charlie Stakes: Graham describes this as "On Golden
Pond at the Racetrack."
Cheap Sentiment: About an ex-screenwriter living in Maryland.
Desperate Affection: Very dark comedy about a painful relationship.
Graham considers it one of his best, based on audience reaction.
Devious a/leans: Written while Graham was studying at Villanova and
not usually included in his list of professional works. Has been
presented in lUP's Waller Hall.
Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille: God visits a bar after
a nuclear holocaust. Inspired, Graham said, by his experiences in Dr. Joel Mlecko's World Religions class.
Minor Demons: Graham said this is a compilation of murder cases
which he set in Western Pennsylvania.
Moon Over the Brewery; Graham's popular coal town play is set in Ashland, Pa. The BBC recently approached Graham about transform-
ing it into a made-for-TV movie.
/ Top of the World: A comedy about whales trapped in Alaska and the media circus that surrounds the event. .-^ Very Nice Neighborhood: Among Graham's professional works, but the
Bnuc Graham an hii parch playwright said it's not one of his best.
your mistakes are really there forever. In theater, your that he doesn't need to search out his next job; it will mistakes disappear, but so do the really good things." find him. For him. those good things are the intense comradery of Today, his feet elevated on the table in the Dunston cast and crew and the power of the playwright to exert Room. Graham is looking very comfortable with his "'^ control over his own vision. craft and his life.
"I'm a craftsman, or craftsperson. 1 know the nuts and bolts of how to do it," Graham said. "I'd rather be a Susan Lang is a pastor in the Lutheran ministry and a happy craftsman than an artist. Look at the great artists. widely puhlisliedfreelance writer who lives in Perkasie. They're all nuts or miserable." Pa. Her most recent contribution to lUP Magazine He says his greatest fear as a kid was the thought of appeared in the Sunnncr. 1995. issue. having to put on a lie and go to the same job every day.
"1 think 1 really give my whole life to something like this," he said. "Where 1 can sit around the house on a Wednesday morning." As an established Hollywood writer and Philadelphia playwright, he enjoys the fact
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pus regularly, and Martel can Kupchella said that since the Joan M. Fisher, vice president Time After Time help you benefit from their visits. mid-eighties, the Society for for Institutional Advancement, For more infonnation, contact Analytical Chemists of Pitts- said, "lUP can be grateful for the magazine's aniuuil Time Dr. Arlluir H. Martel, Director. burgh has supported the program consistent assistance from loyal edition of The Priiucinii Pre-Law Program. 202D McEl- financiall\ . along with the alumni, community, and national Review: The Best CoUei^e haney Hall. RIP. Indiana, PA Chemistry Department. The friends who continue to demon- for Ynu and How to Gel In 15705. Martel's telephone num- program's success has motivated strate their faith in the univer- included an lUP presence. ber is (412) .^57-2640; his fax the College of Natural Sciences sity's quality and future potential Genna McLaughlin '96 of number is (412) .^57-6485; and and Mathematics to offer a by participating in our leadership Jolinstown was interviewed for a his e-mail address is Visiting Scientists Program that giving societies. We welcome story about today's college [email protected]. encompasses faculty members their continued expression of scene, as were Housing and Resi- from all seven of the college's support for our efforts on behalf dence Life personnel Betsy departments. of students and alumni." Joseph and Jeff Docking. Donors who give gifts of $500 At the same time. U.S. News Visiting The or more will be recognized and and World Report published a acknowledged for their leader- story called "Pursuing a Low- Scientists New Giving ship support in a variety of ways, Cost Honors Option." which fea- nearly thirty years. including a donor honor roll, the tured honors programs at four Designations ForlUP's Chemistry Depart- first in five years, to be produced universities, including lUP's ment has sponsored a Vis- lulding upon the tradi- in 1997. Robert E. Cook Honors Colleae. iting Scientist Program in area .tions of nearly 125 years More information alxiut the schools. In the last academic B (if excellence while plan- annual giving societies may be year, six faculty members from ning for the challenges of the obtained from the Office of On Your Side inside and outside the depart- twenty-first century, lUP is Annual Giving, 313 John Sutton ment made fifty-eight presenta- implementing five new giving Hall.lUP. Indiana. PA 15705: lumni! Are you—Think- tions to groups of children from societies to recognize leadership (412)357-5555. ing of switching careers? second through twelfth grades in support of the IL'P Annual Fund. Wondering if you should A Armstrong. Cambria. Indiana, The new giving societies and law school? Talking about go to and Washington counties. corresponding gift levels are the Awards signing up for the LSAT? In addition to the school visits, following: Stop! Before you take thai faculty members John Wood and lUP College Council Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa examination or apply to law Frank Fazio conducted experi- S5()() - S1.24'-i Presented by lUP to Congress- school, talk to Arthur Martel, ments for small groups of chil- economics professor and lUP President's Council man John Murtha at the Decem- lUP dren at a May, 1996. Kids Day $1,250 -$2,499 ber commencement ceremony director of the Pre-Law Program. event that raised money for the Martel can help you make your Indiana County Community lUP Trustees' Council Alumni Ambassadorships career move, offering advice on Action Program. Three under- $2,500- $4,991-) Presented lo the following recent the best match between you and graduate chemistry majors alumni, who spoke to students in Willis Pratt Society a law school. He can counsel you assisted Wood and Fazio in the their respective colleges during $5,000- S'-i.^W^) let know on the LSAT and you Chemistry Booth. Homecoming weekend: are what preparation workshops According to the program's John Sutton Society College of Education: Divonna available. coordinator, faculty member $10,000 and above '95, of Westmin- Special programs for would- Mohr Stebick Lawrence Kupchella. some of Alumni, faculty and staff ster, grade teacher in be law school applicants are Md., a fifth the more popular .school topics members, parents, community the Carroll County Schools scheduled regularly in Martel's have been Chemical Magic, The friends, and businesses are Pre-Law Program. Alumni as of Fine Arts: John Ritter Amazing Properties of Liquid encouraged to support IL'P at one College well as students are invited to Francisco, owner and Nitrogen, and Astronomy and of these leadership gift levels. 'S8 of San take advantage of them. Law Illustration Sky Shows in the Planetarium. In With limited support from the designer. John Ritter visit school representatives cam- addition to Kupchella, Wood, state government and the cost of College of Health and Human and Fazio, other faculty partici- education continuing to rise, the Services: Donna Haase '90 of pants included Roberta Eddy, value and importance of private Baltimore, a lieutenant in the Connie Sutton, and Donald donations to lUP are great. Navy and registered nurse McKelvey.
1' 10 I I \l AO \ZI N K College of Hiiriianilies and
Social SciciKcs: C'hiislinc
Bravvdy "'^l of W'ashiiiglon.
D.C., associate director of (he Craft Center
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics: Denise Whitson Gurer "85 of Scotts Valley, Calif., computer scientist with THE ACCI DENIAL Stanford Research Center ACTIVIST Eberly College of Business: Lora PfB<,ONAl AND POl Moran Schildt 'S8 of Pittsburgh, marketing and advertising part- CANDACE ner u ilh Brahender Cox GINGRICH 1996 Black Achiever, awarded by Pittsburgh's Black Opinion magazine of the House. Candace Gingrich, To Yvonne Redd 'yi. assistant who now lives in Washington. to the associate provost and for- D.C.. has become a voice for gay mer director of Experiential Edu- and lesbian rights in America. cation who also is the first black An explanation of how she woman to hold a seat on Indiana became a symbol for gay and Borough Council. lesbian rights in reaction to her
already famous, conservative Reality check: U ilh CfUrcprcncurial American Council on the brother. The Accidental Activist sjnrit. Fred Marshall '95 ofIndiana Teaching of Foreign Languages The Wired Neighborhood has piihlishcd his first line greet- recounts Gingrich's upbringing of Papalia Award for Excellence in examines the pros and cons of ing cards. Unlike the standard Hall- and her years at lUP. "As Teacher mark. Marshall's cards are situa- Education various philosophical debates brother Newt was building tional and To Eileen Glisan. geared toward women, a profes.sor in about the Internet and reveals bridges with the Christian right. hence their name, .lust for Women. the Department of Spanish and advantages and disadvantages of In cooperation Candace was learning to openls with a local printer, Classical Languages making the computer the center he has printed two categories of express her homosexuality and. Justfor Women cards. The Reality of public and private lives. It m the process, discovering the 1996 Pepsi-Cola Company Checks cards carry legends that also explores civic networking, Scholarship Award boundaries that American soci- empower. (One card carries the which promotes the proliferation ety had constructed to limit the message. "I like you and I like hang- To Kristen Irish, a freshman of local networks that organize ing out with you. ..But that's it. I'm rights of gays and lesbians." from York. Pa., who is enrolled community information and cul- Sony. I'm not lookingfor a relation- cites the release from the pub- in the Robert E. Cook Honors ship right now. " ) The other. Boo Boo ture. College. lisher. The book also covers the Greetings, presents the ".sweeter side Gloria DeGaetano '72 is the relationship between brother and of relationships." Marshall stated in coauthor ol Screen Siiiarls: A a newspaper article. All the cards Pittsburgh's Miss Smiling Irish sister, as well as her work on Family Guide to Media Literacy, sport hand-drawn characters created Eyes, 1996 behalf of the Human Rights h\ load artists. published by Houghton-Mifflin To Erm Caldwell, a freshman Council. last April. An educational con- from Pittsburch Yale University Press sultant from Redmond. Wash.. released The Wired Neighbor- DeGaetano is hood by Stephen Doheny-Farina responsible for a wide range of lecturing, publish- '76 in October. .Associate profes- ing, and program production on Bookends sor of technical communications the media's impact on children. at Clarkson University in Pots- Aicidcntul Activist: A She .serves on the advisory Tlic dam, N.Y., Doheny-Farina is the Personal boards of Mothers Against Vio- ami Poliiiciil author of several books and is a lence in America, Better Viewing Memoir b\ Candace Gin- contributing columnist to Com- '89 Magazine, and the Television grich was released by Scrib- puler-Mediated Comiminicatioii Project. ner in September. Since Newt Magazine, an online periodical. 12 Gingrich's ascension to Speaker
1 II P \I \C \Z1 NE 11 Inclusive of all visual media. Screen Smarts offers the reader help with combatting advertising manipulation, stereotypes, and violence and offers more than a hundred family activities thai foster critical thinking. Jossey-Bass Publisher recently released Behavioral Risk Maiur^ciiwnt b\ Rudy YandrJCk 79. Yandrick. a writer, editor, and consultant, special- izes in managing workplace behavioral risks. He regularly writes for HR Magazine and Behavioral Healthcare Tomor- row. Behavioral Risk Management details how to identify potential Lcvon Kirkland mental health and behavioral problems on the job and outlines the intervention strategies that Chita Rivera performed in are most effective in preventing Fisher .Auditorium in November the behavioral risk. In the book. Yandrick demonstrates how as part of the Hehvig decreasing a broad variety of Distinsuished .Artist Series. problems not only saves on Charles Johnsim healthcare costs but also reduces absenteeism, high turnover, Changes employee and customer lawsuits, and workers" compensation a component of Foniierly on eight-by-ten-inch color pho- sender. Those planning to attend claims. the Counselor Education tos or cards. For three-dimen- the show to obtain autographs Department and most sional items, autographs will be may order tickets in advance for recently the Counseling. .Adult S22 each. Both players will be either player at $13 or $22 each, Education, and Student Affairs The Company limited to .'iOO autographs. depending on the type of item to Department, the Student .Affairs Proceeds from the seventy- be autographed. Checks should in Higher Education program has We Keep dealer, three-day show, sched- be made payable to Carl Hisiro become its own department. uled for March 7-9. and from the and sent to him with a self- civil rights experts Four autograph signings will he addressed, stamped envelope participated in the forum donated b) the chapter to Ihe prior to the show at 108 Nicolas America's Ethnic Culture: Fan Fever Foundation for lUP for the Court. Harrisburg. PA 171 10. Can We Live Together'.', held on scholarship endowment fund that ,At press time, the chapter campus in October. Moderated on Kirkland and the chapter has created to benefit announced that In ing Fryar. by Bettina Gregory, ABC senior Le\Charles Johnson of the ILIP students from the Harris- w ide recei\er for the Philadel- news correspondent, the panel Pittsburgh Steelers u ill be burg area. The chapter has spon- phia Eagles, will appear at the discussion in\ oh ed Linda signing autographs on Saturday. sored three similar shows in past show to sign autographs on Sun- Chavez, head of the Center for March 8. at the Harrisburg Area years which have resulted in day. March 9. Advance tickets the New American Community; lUP Alumni Chapter's card over .S2(I.()C)() being donated to for Fryar are $ 1 4 or $25 each, William Gray, former House of show. Readers of lUP Magazine the Foundation, including S9.000 depending on the item to be Representatives majoritv whip also have the chance to order to the scholarship endowment signed, and mail order prices are of the L'nilctl and president advance autograph tickets for fund. The show will be held at $19 or 316. depending on who Negro College Fund; Yolanda use at the show or to purchase Camp Hill Shopping Mall. .32nd supplies the item. Questions may King, activist and daughter of autographs by mail on eight-by- Street and Trindle Road. be directed to Hisiro at (717) Martin Luther King. Jr.; and ten-inch color photos. Mail order prices (which 545-1181. Arthur Schlesinger, fonner spe- According to Chapter Presi- include shipping and handling) President cial assistant to John dent Carl Hisiro '76. Kirkland. are S 1 8 for both players for an Kennedy. The event was made starting middle linebacker for the eight-by-ten photo supplied by possible by a grant from the Steelers. and Johnson, fonner the chapter and S 15 for a photo Chancellor's Office of the State number-one draft pick and start- or football card supplied b\ the Education. System of Higher ing wide receiver, will sign auto-
graphs at the show for $ 1 3 each
12 IIP M A G A Z 1 .\ E Commodore was a modem "A Wonderful Paris for the Bastille Day cele- mining tow n for those days. It bration, as well as many other Correction had running Place" water, indoor toilets, local performances which help to and an up-to-date w ash the Fall issue of IL'P Maga- house for spread the I UP word to the pub- the miners, but only Inzine. iUP Hah of Fame Concerning John Conio's one store in lic. What I would like to see in loun (the member Don Slusser was anicle "Digging in the company store). The the magazine is some sort of ref- described as the first cross Archives" (Suniniei-. people who traded in the com- erence to the Fall performance country All-American in univer- 1996). I was bom and grew up in pany store mostly drew a schedule. sity history. Although Slusser Commodore, one of the "snake" for their pay. This does not necessarily was the first to win All-America Clearfield Bituminous Coal My mother died at age ninety- mean that an article must be ded- track honors, the first individual Company mines located about four in Cleveland, Ohio. Five of icated each summer to the band, to be selected as a cross country sixteen miles east of Indiana. her children received college but the exhibitions perfomied by All-American was actually Dick Commodore w as a tovi n of degrees. Two had Ph.Ds. one of the greatest ambassadors Wolf "77. Incorrect infomiation approxiniateh nine hundred peo- The mines and towns of the from the school would be appre- on this subject was ple including twenties and thirties supplied to about twenty dif- were bee- ciated by many alumni I am quite hives the magazine's writer. ferent ethnic groups, all of whom of activities. It was a won- sure. The fall football schedule learned to speak English as a derful place to raise children. makes the SUMMER edition, second language. I started to M> w ife and I are grateful for why not the fall Marching Band school without knowing one the high standards and morals schedule as well. word of English and graduated that were part of our education in If mention can be included from Commodore High School those beautiful Allegheny hills. regarding Homecoming, why not as valedictorian in 19.^5. We alwav s look back to the Sat- all of the Marching Band sched- urday There were no policemen in night dances in John Sut- ule? Let"s be sure that with this this community. My father, an ton Hall. We look forward to magazine we show the pride of attending immigrant from Czechoslovakia, my sixtieth reunion in our on campus organizations as 1999. was killed in the mines in 1936 well as the current events that and left my mother w ith nine showcase our fine university. Stephen Glass children and no means of sup- 39 Thank you. Tustin. port. There was no kind of wel- Cilil'. fare or other support in those Jane E. Anderson-Wymer '90 days. Butler. Pa. I graduated from ISTC in Missing the {Editor's 1939. During those four >ears. I note: The copy dead- worked in the mines at night and Marching Band line for the Summer issue of lUP attended ISTC during the day Magazine is in mid-May. Onl\
quarter I and graduated in four years. Each fulK enjo> those fall events that have been receiving Teaching jobs were difficult to my lUP Ma^^a- scheduled by that time are find in those days, and discrimi- zme in the mail and hear- listed.) nation against Catholics was ing of many of the happenings at alma mater. rampant in the public school my However, one systems. important item seems to be miss- ing from this publication. World War II changed many The lUP Marching Band, one things. I was commissioned in of the the Marine Corps, married largest organizations on campus. Catherine Lentz (another ISTC rarely makes the pages of this magazine. graduate) in 1943. served in both I was a four-year World War II and Korea, retired, member of this band, and its history and taught in Junior College in is "leg- endary." California for more than twenty We travelled abroad to years, and I continue to be an active realtor at the present time.
I U P M .\ G \ Z I N K 13 CLASS NOTES
From Rockville. Md., Judy Oisalvo specialist degree from Converse National Council of Alpha Sigma 40s Stenger '85. an art teacher who was CollegC- Tau Sorority.
named in the fifth edition of Wlio's David Mitnick '71, a high school Nashville. Tenn.. resident Deborah Although otficiall\ retired lor nearly ]\ liii in Aint'i'ii tin EJui dlioii. writes counselor in the Norfolk Public Fleming '74 is an affiliate broker seventeen years, Rachel Hench that she and Harry Stenger '66 have Schools, serves on the board of the w Ith the local realty office. '41 ERA Blouse recently taught an adult two sons, Scott and Chris. Harry is a National Conference of Governor's edueation class in Beginning Sewing supenisor for the Montgomery Chief clinical dietitian at Johnson Schools and works part-time for the in Dallaslown, Pa. She says she County Department for Recreation Memorial Hospital. Kathleen Kanour state Department of Education as '74 would love lo hear from classmates. and works w ith the Montgomery Kelley was promoted lo director of the Virginia Governor's College football team. They may be supervisor of clinical nutrition School's medical college at Virginia reached via e-mail at senices. She lives in Enfield. Conn. Commonwealth University. DorlS 50s jstengertgi umd5.umd.edu. McGonigal Mitnick '72, who works Rosemary Krolick '74, M'94 has for Children's Hospital Norfolk, been named senior vice president According [o Marianne Demchack After conducting his second tour of in '89 is a presentation on the neglect and chief information officer of First Hornyak, Inends Irom the Class of Ireland, Gary Beuke made volunteering in a new pastoral care- of the chronically ill child at a Commonwealth Financial 1953 met over the summer at the conference held at the University of Corporation in Indiana. She retains Cottage Inn near Ebensburg, Pa. All giving unit at Conemaugh Hospital Massachusetts Medical her duties as president and chief those who attended taught school, in Johnstown. Center, and she coauthored a textbook chapter executive officer of Commonwealth all two retired. and but are The Program coordinator for power high-risk Systems Corporation, an FCFC group mckulcd Joan Everly Boyd, about home care for the systems research and development at infant. subsidiary, Jean Peron Celmer, Joan McKissick the U.S. Department of Energy's FreJtag, Grace Mylin Hays, Shirley Pittsburgh Energy Technology Formerly the drug and alcohol .Amisirong School District learning Ort Henry, Jean Raybuck Kerr, Center, John WinslOW '69 is retired treatment specialist supervisor at the suppoii teacher Eileen Zamperlnl Eileen Gratz Kole, Gilda Capella as a lieulen.mi commander in Naval State Correctional Institute at Serene '74 earned her ni.isler's Letter!, Dolores Blackburn IVIarefka, Rescr\e Intelligence. Cresson. John Paul '71 of Johnstown degree in education fi\e years ago. Audrey DelVlaria McGreevy, and has been promoted to unit manager She lives in Kittanning with her Charles WinwOOd '69, processes and Margaret Kracht Scalpella. Ihe of the State Correctional Institution husband, Peter. policy executive for the U.S. group plans to nieel in again June. at Somerset. His w ife. LoJS Customs Service, received the Employed by Sumner Schein Mielenhausen Paul '78, recently Retired from the Huntingdon Area Presidential Rank .^ward of Architects and Engineers in the retired as principal of .-\ll Saints School District. Patricia Foust Meritorious Service. Boston area, Cynthia Zajec '74, M'76 Catholic School. Rodgers '53 teaches at DuBois has been promoted from business Business College's Huntingdon. Pa., A resident of North Myrtle Beach. development manager to vice campus. 70s S.C.. for two and a half years, president of the firm. '57 Jeannie Steis DeAngelo '72 is in her Leonard Anderson and Janet Mc.idMlle. P.I,, resident Lorie Recently maiTied. Cheryl Ralston firsi year as kindergarten teacher in Ehlman Anderson '59 arc the proud Swartzbeck Darcangelo '75, M'91 '70, M'72, D'90 was named principal the community's Primary School. parents of two alumni distinguishing was elected president of the of Fallsvale Elementary School. She themselves in : the military Douglas Technical ser\ ices librarian at the Pennsylvania Association of WIC her husband, .August '89 and Macedonia, Anderson and Corrine Anderson Liniversiiy of Idaho College of Law. Directors for the third lime in live in Yucaipa. Calif. '95 (sec their respective Class Ruth Patterson Funabiki '72 fourteen years.
Notes). On sabbatical from Chandler-Gilbert received her master's degree in Sandra Taddie Nance '75 w as the Community College to work on her communication from Washington In the last year. Ned Wert '58 of 1946 John Elliott Memorial Award doctorate. Melinda Campbell State University. Ruth and her Brush 'v'alley. Pa., participated in recipient "for her numerous Rudibaugh '70 was inducted into Phi husband. Dean, live in Pullman. five juried exhibitions, and his work contributions to the .American K.ippa Phi Honor Society. She is Wash. has been exhibited at a Columbus. Association of Blood Banks as a writing the math reform curriculum Ohio, gallery. He aLso participated in An instrumental music teacher and committee chair, lecturer, and editor, for the Maricopa County the Long's Park Art and Craft teacher's assistant at Ihe Valley and especially for her outstanding Community College District and Festival in Lancaster. School of Ligonier. Deborah Thomas leadership of the Annual Meeting lives in Phoenix. .\ni. Mewherter '72 lives in New Deny. Scientific Program." She curtently
Assistant director of supply and Pa. Her daughter. Sharon, is a serves as director of the National
6GS transportation for Georgia's Fulton freshman in lUP's Robert E. Cook Reference Laboratory for Blood County, Keith Troutman '70 Honors College. Group Serology and director. Williamsburg. Va.. resident Gene received the 1446 Distinguished Technical Services, for Penn-Jersey In .1 careers, Flango '84 is vice president of the change of Cheryl BaSCO Service Award from the National Region of the American Red Cross '72 National Center for State Courts, the Pearce has given up substitute Defense Transportation .Association. in Philadelphia- largest court reform organization in teaching to sell real estate on Hilton Barbara Berkoff Bloom '71 and her NeidriCk '75 ol Dcltona. Fla.. the country. He and his wife, Carol, Head Island. S.C., where she lives Debbie husband. Ira. have moved to a new have three children, two of whom w ith her husband. Jack. has been appointed fourth grade home in Hummelstown. Pa. Barbara chairperson at Forest Lake serve in the amied forces. Employed in training and is a registered dietitian with the Elementary School, a brand new B.J. Wissinger '64, M'67 began her development with S&T Bank in Pennsylvania Department of Health. facility in the Volusia County Indiana. Patricia Klausing Simmons first year this fall as principal of Schools. Natalie Hoover Dean '71 of Drayton. '72 Tabernacle (N.J.) Primary School. was elected to ser\e a lw()-\eai S.C.. received an educational term as publications director oi the Thomas Baumann '78 has been appoinied lo Ihe Board of Govemors
1' 14 I I \1 \ C, A Z 1 N E of the Pennsylvania Irial Lawyers Rhode Island. Sherry Knapp '80 last
Associalion. summer received the C erlilicale ol Proficiency in the Treatment of Chairman ol hiisnifss anil mkkiI Alcohol and Other Psychoactive sciences al Westnioielarui C'minls Substance Use Disorders from Ihe rominiinily C"ollei;c. Robert American Psychological Associalion Kostelnik 76 ol ( Ireensburg College of Professional Psychology. received Ills I'li.D. in education Irom the University of Pittsburgh last Florida Keys Communilv College summer. English professor Susan Nugent D'80 participated in ,<\nierica and the Shawn Stine 77 is senior vice Sea. a National Endownienl lor the president and senior corporate Humanities summer institute that banking officer in Drovers Bank's examined .American culture as it corptirale b.inkmi: di\tsion. while his relates to the lives of maritime wife. Chrysta Rumbaugh Stine 77, personnel. is the York (Pa.) Health System's
vice president for finance. A story In a new position w ith I'nocal In about ho\\ the Stines balance their Brea. Calii . KarlPrimm'80 work lives with raising their two frequently travels to Southeast .Asia. children appeared in the Yurk Daily In a new position as business Rci ni'il last summer development manager lor Lord '81 Michael Shepelak 78 is director of Motor Company . Bill Bracken human resources for Coherent in has moved to Cleveland. Lan.sdowne. Va. A financial systems analyst for Although she had not competed in Reliance Insurance Company in
orienteering since days in ihe U I' Philadelphia. Mary Moy Braun '81
Orienteering Club. Kathy Fetherbay lives in Oaks. Pa., with husband Daly 79 could not resist entering the Rick and sons Michael and Kevin. IW.S US. Long Course Orienteering A music teacher in the Erie City Championships that were held in School District for fifteen years, Santa Clara. CaliL. where she lives. Karen Schroeck Briggs '81 has She won first place in her age group, recei\ed her masier's i.legree in although, she writes. "There wasn't Elementary Education and has any other woman competing in that worked extensively with Edinboro class with me to come in second. University on an Arts Infusion Still. I get points toward my national Project. She and her husband. ranking, and the lUPOC gets a Robert, have two children. Dan. plug." twelve, and Sarah, eight. Ephrata (Pa.) Area School Disinci Richard Gordon '81 began a three- instruction support teacher Michael year term last June as managing Davidson 79 also owns Recovery partner for Carbis Walker and Lnlmiited. a private outpatient Carrying a torch: hi icio^nitioii of Associates. LLP. a CPA firm w ith Operations director of PepsiCo counseling agency in Ephrata. his service to the community. Boh offices in five Pennsylvania locales. Restaurants in two states. Rob Tobin Gault 'SS uo.v one of5300 Commu- A clinical instructor for Jamestown He and Jennifer Kreuz Gordon '82 '82 completed his M.B.A. at George niry Hero Torchhearers chosen to Community College in Jamestown. have three daughters, Jessica, Mason University four years ago. participate in the cross-country relay N.Y.. Kathy Ruffcorn Taydus 79 of Megan, and Kathryn. and live in '85 is working on Linda Drew Tobin that delivered Ihe Olympic torch to Youngsv ille. Pa.. .iKo is .1 home care New Castle. in architecture at her degree its restini' place in Atlanta last sum- registered nurse. Southern Institute of Technology ran throui;h the Pigeon Cincinnati resident Tim Shepelak '81 mer. Gault and University and freelances in Forge. Tenn.. area. Attending the Married last June. Mary Brehm is assistant divisional chiel executive display for JCPenney. They live in festivities with Boh were his wife. Thompson 79 has relocated to of the Halma Group's .American Marietta. Ga.. with their daughter. Angle Tulenko Gault 'S3, and their Lanshome. Pa. Division, based in Sharonville. Ohio. Emily. children. Anna and Bohhy. Angle Vice president of public relations and Boh lived in Tennessee, until Gary Toretti '82 of Huntersville. and marketing at ProMedica Health Boh' s recctu promotiim with Cooper N.C-. was promoted to senior vice 80s System in Toledo. Rose Dill Glenn Industries took the family to Fort president of NationsBank, the '82 returned to campus in October to Wayne. Ind. nation's fourth largest bank. Promoted to captain. Blaine Corle speak to journalism students. '80 the Ale.xandria. Va.. commands On the pharmaceutical sales force of Piano. Tex., resident Linda Johnson Police Department Investigations Tap/Abbott Labs. Mary Cicero '82 has been named regional Division. Brooks '83 was named the business manager of Zeneca company's top representative Pamela Pollack Cubbison '80 and Pharmaceuticals.
nationally . She and her husband. her son, \\ ill. mo\ed last summer to Corinne Hosfeld Smith M'82 is live in Chicago. Raleigh. N.C.. where she is manager Gary, school librarian and em iri>nmental of leasing operations an assistant and A Marine staff sergeant. Gregory club sponsor at Elgin (111.) High vice-president at First Citizens Bank elites '83 completed the advanced School. She lives in Woodstock. & Trust. personnel administration course at University of Wisconsin biology The new director of the Division of Camp Lejeune. N.C, professor Wil Taylor '82 received Substance Abuse for the state of Freelance editorial illustrator Beth tenure last simmier He and his wife. Gallo '83 recentiv moved with her Robin, live in Eau Claire. !• 1 1 \L\r, \ZI NE 15 s
of God and is an elected member of advertising, marketing, and fund- several church-related boards. raising acti\'ities,
Owner of Abraczinskas Nurseries in Leslie Bartels Sacks '86 is Bloonisburg. Pa,. Anthony scheduling department manager for
Abraczinskas '85 is the father of Rollins Environmental in Bridgeport, three daughters, the oldest of whom. N.J. She lives in Ridley Park. Pa.,
Emily, is just turning eight. with her husband. Robert, whom she married in August. 1994. .After seven years of teaching emotionally handicapped New ^'ork JohnstcuMi familv nurse practitioner
City teens. Inken Chambers '85 is Stephanie Devine Yewcic '86 now a junior veterinary medicine completed West Virginia
student at Purdue University. She University's practitioner program in and her husband. Leonard VanCura, 199.'i and also works as a fitness and their son. Devon, live in West instructor. She and her husband, Lafayette. Ind. John Yewcic '86. a sports sciences master's degree candidate and Olean. N,Y.. rcsideni Janet basketball and track coach at Bishop Servinsky Lombardi '85 is a sales Carroll High School, have eight- representative for Bristol-Myers year-old twin daughters and a five- Squibb, year-old son. After ten \ears ol teaching in public Jill Felton Algarin '87 and her schools. Theresa Shevlin Maag '85 is husband. John, run three businesses full-time director of music ministries out of their Virginia Beach home, for Carlisle. Pa.'s St. Patrick's including America's #1 Power Catholic Church, where she is Wash. Jill has an infant son and two principal organist, choir director, and stepdaughters. Jessica, eight, and school music teacher. Terri and her Brianna. five. husband. Bob Maag M'85, band and
orchestra director .it Shippensburg At the wedding of Lynda and '87, (Pa. I High School, have four Richard Hoffman Robert Dixon children and say they would love to '87 and Dale Kowalewski '87 were hear from lUP friends. The Maags ushers. The Hoffmans live in
live in Carlisle. Pittsburgh.
Homecoming hoax: ii
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David Stewart '88, a supplier of The Cochranton (Pa.) Marching iiicdR'al capil.il i.'i.|iiipmenl, live in Band, directed hv Carl '90 and Molly Centreville. \ a Moyer Miller '90, hnnight home ns loiinh straight L.M.B.A. AAA Douglas Anderson '89 l imvniK championship this past October. comniaiuK I'luulic C\iiiipan\ cil Ilie
388th Meclianized Combat Engineer Pallk ip.inls ill llie weildilig oi Battalion of the 4th Infantry MaryAnn Fasold Poling '90 and her
Division, Ft. Hooil. lo\,. an.oidini: husixuul. .ijsiin. ueie Amy Schaadt to his parents Leonard Anderson '57 Readshaw '89 .md Albie Micklich ami Janet Ehlman Anderson '59. '91. \l,in\ lellcn\ alumni attended,
Robert Boyle '89 is the new director A nurse in the cardiothoracic ol liio Alleniali\e Community surgical intensive care unit at the
Resource Program and St. Michael's Hospital of the University of School Program, He and his wife. Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Kelli
Daun. and daughter. Samanth.i. Ii\ e Eshleman Holland '91 earned her in .lohnstown Master ot Science in Nursing tiegree
at Penn last summer. Matt Holland Michael Ferguson '89 is a lirsi-yeur '93 is a safety engineer with student at Dickinson School of Law .Amerada Hess Corporation. '89 In a promotion. Gary Homberg Dining in Dallas: President Lawreme Denise Hunchar '91 is godmother of was named senior programmer Pi'iiu. rr^lit. Ill led as host to a group lle.ilher Uibaiiuik. d.iughter ol Amy analyst of Computer Horizons, Inc., A Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie of alitmni wliile on business in Dal- Seaman Urbaniak '90 .md Frank and moved to Raleigh. N.C. Brad Mellon, Ray Jensen '92 plans a las. Altemlint> the hniiieh in Novem- Urbaniak '91. Dickerson '88 served as best man in specialty in physical chemistry and ber lit the famous Mnstaiii; Grill are. his ucdding to Susan Manning. Having relocated from Philadelphia is the recipient of the Mellon from left. David Huff '79. .Iidie Wood to Pittsburgh. Maria McDonald College of Science Fcllov\ship. '8fi, Marianne Orlando Pignone '75, '89 \\.is ni.inied in When Bob Reich '74. Polinsky '91 is de\elopmcnt Tom Pigiione Kelly Kossler October. Brian Eckenrode '89 w as When Tom anil Amyee Ritko assistant for Carnegie Museums of Keahon 'H2.Kathy Niezt>oda 'H8. is '92 were manied in best man. Bob still in McMonagle and .leanie Stephens '80. Pittsburgh and is volunteer assistant Keqffdber pharmaceutical sales for Searic but is November. ]^^5. bridal parlv coordinator of the St. Winifred now based once again in Pittsburgh. members included Kathleen Church Food Bank. Brian Polinsky Panasci-Williams '91, Maria Vivino Recently inarried to a fellow Pciin '93 is promotions assistant for Halzworth '92, Lori Forster In Elkhart, Ind.. David Bird M'93 Trafford High School teacher. Crlsty WBZZ-FM and a weekend on-air serves executive Wardocup '92, nul Lori Ray '93. as director of the '89 Hood Rizzardi li\es m Irwin with personality for WESA-FM. National New York Central Railroad her husband, ,\ndrew. Jeanette Lehman Partridge '92 is Museum. Members of the bridal party at the assistant branch manager for November wedding of Jean Schulte '93 Potomac (Md,) Valley Bank and Melanie Daniels is working on a '91 .losh and ShlTsin included Gwen master's degree in social work at 90s lives in Gaithersburg with her Swatski '91 , Kathleen Katekovich husband, Tim, a Navy lieutenant and Pitt. Lehman, and Jill Zimmerman. A At the wedding of Kjmberly Duss anesthesia resident at the National Selena Delimata '93 was in the Pittsbuighcr. Jean is a Ph.D. Coll '90 and her hiisliand. W illiani. Na\ al Medical Center in Bethesda. bridal parly of Colleen Klazas Bertz candidate at Duquesne. where she Amy Spencer McKee '88, Carole '93 in October. teaches English. She has also taught Wendy Metcalf Straatman '92 and Brumbaugh Swope '89, Vicki at LaRoche and in Duquesne's her husband. Warren, have a Bonham '90, Joe West '91, At the September wedding of Paul Saturday College program. daughter. Kate. Wendy recently '93 Stephanie Beggarly '92, and SherrI Funaro and Jennifer Murray transfeiTed to a new position and is '94 Funaro '94, Kevin Sterner '93 and Duss Schneider were Sean Steele '91 is a customer now a geologist for Phillips Karen Wesdyk '94 were in the participants. Kim is an English service representative for Bell Petroleum Company in Odessa, Tex. wedding party. teacher, and she and Bill live in Atlantic, and LeAnne Dickson Steele Pittsburgh, '93 is a charge nurse at Wightman A choral and music teacher at David McFarland '93 is assistant Center for Rehabilitation in Windber (Pa.) Area High School, director and Terri Doughty Emier '90, M'91 and planning GIS '92 Pittsburgh. Michael Vatavuk plays in the coordinator for Dartmouth, Mass., Rick EmIer '91 .«f Cedar Rapids, la., Johnstovvn Symphony Orchestra and where he lives with his wife. Laura asked Barbara Wallace '92 to Having received his M.B.A. degree in the Keystone Wind Ensemble, Cable McFarland '92, and young particii"tale in their wedding, while from the University of Buffalo. which is composed of lUP alumni son. many friends from IL P attended, Frank Urbaniak '91 is human and under the direction of lUP Terri is a benefits administrator for resources manager tor U.S. Gypsum In a recently assumed position at faculty member Jack Stamp, He and Triangle Plastics, Inc, and Rick is Company in Detroit and lives in SmilhKline Beecham his wife, Kimberly, have a daughter. completing his master's degree in the Woodhaven. Mich., with his wife. Phannaceuticals in King of Prussia. Lisa, who will be three in March. assistant physician's program at the Amy Seaman Urbaniak '90, who Pa., Gwynne Overdorf '93 is working
University of Iowa School of works part-time for a CPA firm, and The December, 1995. wedding of in the brand-new Biophannaceutical '93 Medicine, two children. Thomas Anderson and Stephanie Drug Manufacturing facility as a cell Newell Anderson '96 was quite the '90 culture biologist. Elizabeth Brinton Gerthoffer has Amy Cornelius '92 is a first grade lUP affair, as the bridal p.irty been named t.i\ compliance manager teacher at Pittsburgh's Northview When Amy and David Overholtzer included the following: Matthew for the Pittsburgh office of Ernst and Heights Elementary School and '93 were married in June. 1995. the Isenberg, '93, William Rok '93, Young. recently earned a master's degree in wedding party comprised the Roberta Santa Croce '95, Tricia child development at Pitt, following alumni; James When David McCracken '90 married Harmon '96, Julie Jacob '96, Diane Overholtzer '84, Rich Hartford '92, his wile. Tallinn, groniiismen Members of the wedding party of Giuliano, and Raeanne Hudacko. Lee Boggs '93, Chris Dunn '93, Kim included Tony Newman '88, Jim Dawn Hale Frank '92 and Dale Frank Endlich '93, and Beth Hildebrand Taylor '86, and Dan White '87, » hile '93 included Jamie Brown '91, David M'94. David, who teaches high several alumni attended. Edmunds '93, and Tara Humbert Nelson '93. II I P M A G A Z I N E 17 1
school uistrumental music in Charles County. Md.. says he would
welcome e-mail at ilovedi(«'ch.iiger.lackey.ch.kl2.md.us.
Gary Scanga '93 is a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Keith Spano '93 lives m Broomall,
P.i . .ind plans in be married ne.\t suniniei
David Todd '93 completed a six-
month Marine Corps deployinent to the Mediterranean which included the protection and evacuation of U.S. citizens from Monrovia. Liberia, and For more information ahout lUP and its activities, Men's Basketball security for the U.S. Embassy there. access the university's World Wide Web site at (412)357-2747 has http://www.iup.edu/. Slippery Rock. January 22. 8:00 p.m. He been a Marine for nearly At Bloomsburg. January 25. 3:00 p.m. three years. Alumni Activities Shippensburg. January 29. 8:00 p.m. A health and physical education (412)357-7942 At California. February 1 . 8:00 p.m. Sports Card Show. Harrisbury Area Chapter. Camp Ohio Valley. February 3. 7:30 p.m. teacher at F.dgewood High School, Hill Shopping Mall. March 7 and S. 10:00 a.m. Lock Haven. February 5. 8:00 p.m. Ken Brinkman '94 lives with his to Clarion. February 8. 9:00 p.m.; March 9. noon to 5:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. wile. Debbie, in Abingdon. Md. Alumni Reunion Weekend. June 13 through 1.5 Edinboro. February 12. 8:(X)p.m. At Slippery Rock February 15, 8:00 p.m. At the October wedding of Susan Artist Series At Shippensburg. February 19. 8:00 p.m. Carpenlto Heard '94 ami Tom Heard Bloomsburg. February 22. 8:00 p.m. (412),^57-2.M5 IVI'95, llic liiul.il parl\ included Kiss nftlie Spicier Woman. Fisher Auditorium. Kristen Olson '93 md KristI Klinke February 3. 8:00 p.m. '95. Swan Lalic. performed by the St. Petersburg State Women's Basketball Ice Ballet. (412)357-2747 Fisher Auditorium. February 6. Chattanooga resident Leah 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Slippery Rock. January 22. ft:(.10 p.m. IVIarkowicz '94 received a master's Bobby McFerrin, Fisher Auditorium. April 20. At Bloomsburg. January 25. 5:(J0 p.m. i-iegrcc in speech 8:00 p.m. Shippensburg. January 29. 6:00 p.m. language pathology
At California. February 1. 6:00 p.in. last May from the University of Conferences Lock Haven. February 5. 6:00 p.m. Memphis. (412)357-2227 Clarion. February 8. 6:00 p.m. Marylou IVIatas '94 is Celebrating African .American Heritage and Edinboro. February 12. 6:00 p.m. a first-year Culture Conference, features Dick Gregory, At Slippery Rock. February 15. 6:00 p.m. student ,it Dickinson School of Law. coordinated by the RIP African American At Shippensburg. February 19. 6:00 p.m. A respiratory therapist for Cultural Center. February 7 through 9 At Columbia Union. February 22. 7:30 p.m. Healthsouth Nittany Valley The Lively Arts Rehabilitation Hospital in State
(412)357-2.547 College. Julie Polacek '94 is Bluestory. storyteller Jackie Torrence and planning to be married in the spring. musicians Cephas and Wiggins. Fi.sher
Auditorium. February 1 1. 8:00 p.m. •At the wedding of Tabitha Sfitt Reed On the Town. lUP Music Theater. Fisher '94 .md her husKHul. M.iik. Gretchen Auditorium. February 19 through 22. 8:00 Harnish '95 md Gretchen Niceley p.m.. and February 23. 2:00 p.m. '95 participated in the ceremony. Michael White and the Liberty Jazz Band. Gorell Recital Hall. March 21. 8:00 p.m. Linda Schneider '94, M'96 is a Tlie Runner Slnmliles. Theater-by-the-Grove. pl.iniici \\ nil Ihc fn-Coiiniy Waller Hall Mainstage. April 10 through 12 Regional Planning Commission and and 16 through 19. s":00 p.m.. April 13. 2:00 p.m. a resident of Carlisle. Pa. Fifth Annual Sidewalk Commentary (Chalk on Kate Steele '94 is the new sales the Walk). Oak Grove. April 23 (raindate: April 24) cooidin.ilor ai the Holiday Inn in Indiana. University Museum .\t Ihc wedding l.isl June of .Art and (4 2).357-79.10 Graduate Art Association Juried E.xhibition. Angela Taylor Walker '94, members
January 1 7 through February 2 ol the briil.il p.iits inchided Amy Milton Bancroft: Earty Twentieth-Century Artist. Scripps Tomalis '93, Tracy Waitkus February 4 through March 28 '94, md Melanie Burrows '94. The
W.ilkeis .lie li\ ing in Pillshurgh.
A platoon leader in a combat support
equipment comp.ins .il Ft. Riley. '95 Kan . Corrine Anderson graduated from the U.S. Anny Airborne School at Ft. Benning. Ga.. the Mapping. Charting, and Geodesy
Course at Ft. Belvoir. Va.. and the
Engineer Officer Basic Course at Ft.
18 MP MAG AZIM'; '82 ami Robert Wagner, a daughter, l.cniianl VVockI, Mh,. .Kcorcllng In Friends from Alpha Gamma Delta Victori;i Krisien. October 5. 1996. hoi iiiivni-- Leonard Anderson '57 and classmates of Kathleen Kanour Births Id Christine Reardon Kardish '83 HMii Janet Ehlman Anderson '59. Kelley: I'le.ise loni.ui hei .u isiiin
70s .ind 1 Kardish, son. Christian 70 ; i:i.(i om a \\ lun Kill .Mul Janet Sabotchick lo Paul Diorio '78 .md Joan Thomas. June 9. 1996. To Daniel Bucher '95 »cu- ni.inicil m Debbie Whiting, Rhonda Santoleri Diorio '80, a son I' ml Kerr '83 and Rosemary Kerr, a '94 Gamma I Lisa Rjchart ind Lisa McCullough, and Gamma Nu\oMii\ Joseph. March 7, 1996, jo Beverley daughter, Natasha Gabrielle. August Ragantesi '95 ucio m iho hikl.il Sigma Fall, 1990, Pledges: Please End Mote '78 and Jerry Mole, ;i son, 5. 1996 To Gregory Mehallick '83 p.ii i\ contact Christine Fisher, 416 Sill Chandlci William. August 2. 1996, and Ellen Mehallick, .i sou, M.iii, Avenue. Fne, PA I6.S0,S. '95 To Mark Petrosky '78 and Denise March 2. 1994. and a son. Jake Ai iliL- ucckliny o! Andrea Elder
, ,1 son, John William, and Bnan lUillnian m hinc. Dawn Angela Cravotta: Please contact Petiosks Reed. July 3. 1996, To Tracy August 13, 1900 fn Michael '83 and Tyrone Hoffman '95 nul Jennifer Toffolo Susan Kennedy al (412) 33.^-3826. Maholtz Murray
'79 ,l Davidson .uul l ammv While, Murray '83, a daughter, Manah '95 pailK i|i.ili'il III llic Lcrcinciii\ Lisa Strednak: Please conlact Andy son, McCiae While, July 19, 1996, Amanda-Gwen, Oclober 2, 1996, To
'95 .^3 1 Gamble nul Samantha I kiw k .11 7A Columbia Road. Jennifer To Janet Ruck Graham '79 and Roy Elaine Hornacek Savoldi '83 and Smerkar-Schmader '95 were Columbia. MD 21044; (410) W2- Graham, a daughter. Molly Frank Savoldi. a son. Joseph Frank. hiuL-MiKiuls III iIk- wcikling lasl 7926, Eli/abelh, August 19, 1996, To August 25. 1996. To Nancy SL|iicnilxr oi Lori Kaye Vonada '93. Ken Norwitz and Michael Slater: Patrick Snyder '79 md Erin Slaughenhoupt St. Clair '83 and
'86, iw nis, a son, '84, i daughter. Stephanie Gressley '95 is associate I'leasc eonlaci Jellicv ll.ias al 2732 McDonel Snyder Michael St. Clair a daughter. Carly April 24, 1996, sak-s ni.inaycr al llie Holiday Inn in Tillia Street. Allison Park. PA Ryan James, and Taylor MacKen/ie, Marie, July 28, 1996. To Kathy To Beverly Klahr Wells '83 ami Indian. I. l.'slOl; (412)486-4489. Ruffcorn Taydus '79 ,ind Stan Mark Wells, a son. Geoltic> Kl.ihr, Dawn Hoffman '95 is an specialisi ai Rich Burkhardt: Please contact TayduS '84, a son. Joshua Ell. August 20, 1996, To Katherine Lenkerville blenientary School in llic Anthony Grenci at P.O. Box 949, November 2, 1993, Rudzinskas Adomitis '84 md Andy Millersburg (Pa.l Area School Butler, PA 16003-0949; (412) 283- ."Xdomitis. a son, Graham Christian. Di.strici and a board member of the 3046. 80s August 13. 1996, To Allan Patricia Millersbiirji Area Art Association. f>> William Fisher '8D md Kristen Lagally: Please contact Dombroski '84 and Patricia Kane Carey '81, .i son, Muh.iel l.\nian. '87, Julia Kim Kirsch '95 and Tracy Stellino Nu.il.i (J Le.iiy al 906 Henderson DombrOSki .i daughter, July 8. 199(1 lo Deborah Pedersen '95 were parlicipaiiis m the August, Boulevard. Fawn Lane. N.J, 07410; Ann, Jul> 20, 1906 lo Lisa Barrett '80 and Peter Flaherty, a son, Jordan '84 IW?. wedding oi Andrew Phillips (201)797-2174, McDermOtt and Dcnms Thomas, May 18, 1 996, To Merilee '94 and Julie Williams Phillips '95, McDemiott, a daughter, Rachel Mary Dudley and Mary Martin: Duffy Wagner '80 and Leonard and other alumni were among the Elizabeth, May 4, 1996, To Curt Please conlact Joe kowalski at (800) Wagner, a daughter. Nolin Rose, guests. Miner '84 and Jeanne Brown '86, a 267-9166, October 17. 1996. and a son, son. Tale Willi.ini, Oetoher 14, 1992, A police officer in Easton. Pa.. Sean Macklm James, May 10, To Friends from Alpha Gamma Delta 1906 To Gregory Richards '84 and '81 Molony '95 writes that he loves his Patty Moshos Baldwin md John Who Live in Western Pennsylvania: Patricia Coffman Richards '88, a '82, Kristin job but misses college life. Baldwin a daughter, Contact Kathy Guiliani Zin.ski (412) son. Matthew Tanner, July 6, 1996, Amanda, March 20, 1996. To Mary Firsl-year students at Dickinson 221-3982 lor inloniiation about a To Dave Williams '84 and Jill Moy Braun '81 and Rick Braun, a School oi Law include Lisa Neeper reunion and picnic. Shaffer Williams '84, a son, Mark son, KcMii Philip, Seplember 17, |H06, '95, Brian SInnett '95, and Tenia Hunter, October 1 9, To Marcie Charlson: Please contact 1906 lo Richard Gordon '81 .md Torquato-Eby '95. Anthony Abraczinskas '85 and Susan Bucklin al 601 Magnolia Jennifer Kreuz Gordon '82, i Sharon Abraczinskas. a daughter. Carrie Faulhaber Ryan '95 and Road. Mobile. AL 36606; (334) 602- daughter. Kalhr\ii Idaiiie, Seplember June 24. 1992, and a '81 Melis,sa. Vincent Ryan M'95 li\e m 7380. 12, 1996, To Laura Messineo daughter, Julie. July 26, 1993, To Schwenksville. Pa. She is an and Clement Udasco. a son. Devin Third Floor Langham Hall, 1969-71: Sherry Hoffer Baumgartner '85 and elementary teacher in the Spring- Christopher, June 7. 1996, To Please contact Dixie Canon Piper at Bryan Baumgartner, a son, Matlhew '81 Ford Di.strict, and he is a church Loretta Nocco Piper and Clair (814) 849-3738 or Jeannie Steis William, June 16, 1996, To Richard musician and music teacher. Piper, a daughter, D.ina Mane, May DeAngelo at (803) 272-1479 Burke '85 and Linda Burke, a 30, 1996, To Marybeth Trapani- A wireless communications regarding infonnation about a daughter, Kayleigh Ann, .-Xugust 21. Hanasewych '81 .md John consultant for Steven Bernstein & twenty-five-year reunion and beach 1996, To Inken Chambers '85 and Hanasewych, a son, Patrick John, Associates in Virginia Beach, Ed party. Leonard VanCura, a son, Devon October 4, 1996, To Denise Tiano Valdes '95 is engaged to Judy Failor John, June 19, 1946, ToSusan Jean Michelle ('Missy') Looper: Aloia '82 and David Aloia, a '96, w ho w orks for Cuisine & Roper DIPette '85 and Anihon> Please contact Lori Crouse Swade. daughter, Madison Hunter, July IS, Company. DiPette. a daughter. Jessica Marie. 902 Acri Road. Mechanicsburg. PA 1996 To Kristine Haglund Coyne Seplember 24, 1993. To Mary Beth Todd Brown '96 is a first-year student 170.S.^: (717) 732-2380. '82 and William Coyne, a daughter. Nobers Hockenberry '85 and al Diekinsnn School of Law. Molly Anne. June 6. 1996, To Abdellatif Bounhaim: Please contact Michael Hockenberry, a son, Ross James Cunningham '82 and Karen Heidi Malin '96 is assistant director David Poydencc. 406 Lutz School David. March 16. 1996, To Susan Cunningham, a daughter, Lindsay lor advancement and director of Road. Indiana. PA 13701; (412) Garrett Kalbaugh '85 and Karl Ta\ lor, June 13. 1 996, To GretChen alumni affairs at St. John's Jesuit 349-9113. Kalbaugh '87, a son, Nathan Risk Dick '82 and John Dick, a son. High School in Toledo. Zcdock, July 8, 1996. To Robert Members of 1983-86 lUPisces and Flhott James, Septembei I, 1996, To Kuhar '85 and Karen Sulkowski Barbra Smergalski, Kevin Carrai, Kathleen Fox Heberling '82 and Kuhar '88, M'90, a daughter. Chloe and Beth Donahue: Please contact Clayton Heberling. a son. Jeffrey. Lost and Found Charlotte. June 6. 1996, To Janet Wend) Slroup Marano al 47 South June 16, 1993. and a daughter, Servinsky Lombardi '85 and Joe Cherry Avenue. Maple Shade. NJ Bethany, August 8, 1996, 'fo Jeffrey Friends of Inken Chambers: Please Lombardi, a son, Dante, April 27, 08052, Maucieri '82 and Leanne Farber contact her via e-mail al 1996, To Bob Maag M'85 and Maucieri '83, a daughter, Abigail '85, [email protected]. 1986 Women's Varsity Volleyball Theresa ("Terri ") Shevlin Maag Mane, February 19, 1996, To Rob Team Members: Please contact a son, Brandon Michael. February 4. Robert Sherba: Please contact Eileen Tobin '82 and Linda Drew Tobin '85, Kalh> Shearer al 1700 West Prince 1993, and a son. Sean Patrick. at (412) 783-6346. Zamperim Serene a daughter, Emily May, Ma> I 1, Road #2038. Tucson, AZ 8.3705; >-22 1996. To Sandra Schneider Wagner (320) 888-3898. lUP MAG AZI NK 19 Cdiiliimcil from piii;e .1
oils band publishers. It also has premiered wind works by noted American composers, including David Dia-
mond. The ensemble has won acclaim for its compact disk series of recordings: The Band Music of Pennsylva- Hall Calling nia Composers. Winds and Voices, lUP Bands: 1995.
and lUP Bands of J 996. The group also can be heard on
elissa McBride other communities, mak- a commercial release on the Citadel label entitled Cele- I and her musi- ing visits to area schools, brations. Icians ha\e and hosting summer The Jazz Ensemble, directed by Gary Bird, plays a reached toward the pin- music programs. mixture of jazz styles, from Latin to swing, ballads to nacle: an opportunity to McBride also reaches fusion and performs about thirty times a year. Aside festivals perform in New York adjoining communities from jazz and statewide competitions, the City's Carnegie Hall. as conductor of the ensemble performed for the Pennsylvania Music Educa- tors Association Conference in 1992 and won the 1991 "The hall is one of the .Johnstown Youth Sym- most inspirational places phony and guest conduc- Villanova Jazz Competition. Greats such as Doc Sev- erinsen. Cleo Laine. Urbie Green, and Dankworth to plaj because of its tor for Pennsylvania John beauty and long history Music Educators Associ- have performed w ith the ensemble. of hosting great ation district festival Composed of more than fifty musicians, the Sym- performers," she said. orchestras. phony Orchestra offers a wide variety of concerts for university McBride came to lUP McBride attributes the and community, encompassing a vast from Stanford Univer- much of the orchestra's array of styles. Last year, the orchestra premiered and sity three years ago. success to the strength performed an entire program of contemporary works for Since then, she and the of the music department the Festival of Women Composers at lUP. The group string faculty Waxe as a H hole. "Most also sponsors the annual Concerto Competition, in worked in particular to schools that concentrate which soloists from the orchestra perform music from strengthen the string on education do not all periods. Melissa McBride. who joined the university section, which has more necessarily do as well in 1994. directs the Symphony Orchestra. than doubled in size and with performance. This In hannony with the offerings of the university-spon-
improved in quality. is the advantage that sored programs, our community, with its own sym- "String programs in lUP music students phony series, two museums, several galleries, and more high schools are fewer have: a strong perfor- than two hundred performing arts events each year sponsored by the university and by community organi- than band programs: it mance program to makes recruiting more enhance their teaching. zations, offers perhaps the richest cultural environment "^ of a challenge. " She and The better one can per- between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. other string faculty form, the better one can members actively recruit teach," she said. ./()/;/; Hcycr is dean of rite lUP College of Fine Arts. by playing concerts in
The lUP Symphony Orchestra at a peiformaiice in Gorcll Recital Hall
20 I I P \1 A G \ Z I \ E The Riches Right Here
Living in Sutton Corell Recital Hall, free Hall. I do, has two dis- Tuesday, 8 p.m.. Uni- tinct advantages: I am versity Percussion only a few steps awaj Ensemble Fall Concert, from the office, and we (Jorell Recital Hall, free are «ithin earshot of admission some of the best music Wednesday, 8 p.m.. performed in Western Chita Rivera In Concert, Pennsvh ania. Thanks to Fisher Auditorium, tick- the generosity of Frank ets from $8 to $16 and Mary (iorell and the Thursday, 8 p.m.. artistry of the students Faculty Chamber Music and faculty members of Series, (iorell Recital the College of Fine Arts, Hall, tickets from $2 to $4 (iorell Recital Hall Saturday. 8 p.m.. offers a highly distinc- Bands In Review, Fisher tive menu of music on Auditorium, tickets from almost a nightly basis. $3 to $5 Of course, (iorell (And those were only Recital Hall is not the the music events. Also only venue for lUP on the calendar was the music. In Fisher Audito- Theater Department's rium, in Waller Hall, production of Faust and and even in Miller Sta- two art exhibits.) dium, great music is Music events are also heard regularly. Some- scheduled through the times, it spills over into Office of Student Activi- local churches and com- ties and Organizations, munity centers. Many and funding has come events are free, with oth- from private sources like Judy Collins, Billy Joel, hope you, too, w ill make ers having ticket prices the Wilfred E. Helwig Harry Connick, Jr., your own guest appear- far below the going rate Distinguished Artist Wynton Marsalis, and ance soon at an lUP in major metropolitan Endowment (which the Temptations, not to music event. I promise it areas such as Pittsburgh sponsored Chita Rivera) mention a selection of will be an enriching or New York. and the (lorell family, as nationally known con- experience. For music lovers from well as from the Student temporary bands. throughout the Indiana Cooperative Association, Our guest Lawrence K. Pettil County region, thanks in the university, the Foun- performances are often President large part to the univer- dation for Indiana Uni- given a special lUP sity, there is almost an versity of Pennsylvania, touch. When Chita embarrassment of and other entities. In the Rivera appeared, the riches. Consider, for last few years, we've wel- show opened with a per- example, the College of comed such musical formance by the lUP Fine Arts Public Events luminaries as Itzhak Faculty Jazz Quintet. Office schedule for a Perlman, Andre Watts, Doc Severinsen joined typical week last Novem- Doc Severinsen, Cleo lUP's student jazz ber: Laine, Dave Brubeck, ensemble for two num- Sunday, .^ p.m.. Stu- bers before the main dent Music Recital, part of his show. We IP M A G A z i N E 21 . . Robert Boyle '89 and Daun Boyle, a Ll.iiightcr. S.im.mlha Nicole, June ?<. The Official lUP Magazine?Qvm: Put It in Writing. I40.S I o Susan Pauwels Brewer '89 ami Thomas Brewer '93, a daughter. Name Spouse's iiamc_ Victori.i J.ine. .Augusi .s. 1996. To Kelly Kennedy Deemer '89 and Maiden Name Spouse's Maiden name . Robert Deemer. a son. Ryan Robert. Soeial Security No. Spouse's SSN (if IUP)_ February 24. 1996. To David Kukula '89 and Diane Kukula. a daughter. Address Spouse's grad. yr. ( if IUP)_ Emily Anne. May 29. 1994. and a daughter. Sarah Katherine. June \5. Spouse's job title 1996 To Bonnie McCall Ordonez '89 and Rich Ordonez, a daughlcr, Graduation yr. Spouse's employer Madison Christine. October 27. 199.5 To Carl Ruppel '89 and Spouse's e-mail address Home phone ( Claudia Smith Ruppel '89, a son, Carl William. April 24. 1046. To Business phone ( News for Class Notes Diana Steiner Walls '89 and Bob Walls, a tlaughter. Emily Elizabeth, E-mail address September 20. 1995. Job title 90s To Mary Kay Costa Carey '90 and Employer, Kevin Carey '91, a son. Kc\ m John, f)ctohcr 1 1 . 144(1, To Roger DiBiase (Check one or more) '90 md Kelly Chambers DiBiase '91, .1 (.laughter, Fli/.ibeth .\nne. I/We would like to help defray the cost of publishing lUP Mai^uzinc by making a voluntary subscription contribution September 4. 1996. To Trent Sear of $ . (Ten dollars is a sugge.sted amount, but any contribution is welcome.) '90 and Jill Sear, a daughter. Megan Eli/aheth. August 12. 1996. lo Amy Here is news for Class Notes. Lost and Found. Marriages. Births, or Deaths. Seaman Urbaniak '90 and Frank Urbaniak '91, a son, Brian, March Please note: News that appears in this issue arrived in the tnagazine office on or before November S, 1 996. If \ our new s 2.\ 1445. and a daughter. Heather, came in after that date, it will appear in the Spring issue. News for that issue must arrive in the magazine office no later than July 16, 1446. To Tracy Fuhs February 7. 1997. News arriving after that date will appear in the Summer. 1997. issue. News for Class Notes. Marriages, Gressang '91 and Gary Gressang. a and Births must be reported either by or with the explicit approval of the subject(s). son. Joseph Charles. June 26. 1496. To Laura Guidice Lishinsky '91 and My/Our address is new David Lishinsk\. a son. Bradcn i44,s. lAVe get more than one magazine. Enclosed are labels. Joseph. Augusi 16, To Laura Cable McFarland '92 and David lo Sutton 15705: fa\ to her at (412) Jt57-799.V or send Mail RcKan Houser. lUP Magazine, ill .lohn Hall. Indiana. P\ McFarland '93, i son. Da\ id her e-mail al rphouser(i5'grove. iup.edu. W cs!c\ , April 5. 1496. To Wendy Metcalf Straatmann '92 and Warren Sna.ilni.iiin. a daughter. Kalhryn January 16. 199.S. To Paul Toohey Paul. April i\ i'wi,. To Randy Gyugyi. a son. Nathan Lawience, Rose. Jui\ 2(1. I44fi. To Christy '85 '86 .^0. 1996. To Lisa LetO '92 and Jeanne Toohe\ . a dauglitcr, Readshaw and Rhonda September Clawson Sweeney and David Jorel.in \l.iiic. \I.iilIi Ih. |Mi)h. To Aulenbach Readshaw '86, a Sauer '87 and Thomas Sauer. a Sweeney, a daughter. Cara Nicole, Mary McGowan Weaver '85 and Paul daughter. Andrea M.uie. Juh Id, daughter. Emily Nicole. September October 9, 1996. To Michael '87 Weaver, a daughter. Hayley 1996 To Elaine Morsey Tishko '86 21,1 996. To James Stuncard Vatavuk '92 and Kimberly 'Vatavuk, Elizabeth. May 10. 1996. To Davill and Jeff Tishko, a daughter, Sahrina and Jennifer Stuncard. a daughter, a daughter, Lisa Mane. March 1,1. Zynn '85 .uul Kimberly Cresswell Marie. Noveinber 25,1994, and a Emil> Elisabeth. August .H). 1996. 1994. To Sherri Baker Hill '93 and Zynn '86, a son. Bennett Alcv.inder. son, .Mexander Robert, May .^0. To Mike Cranmer '88 and Debbie Timothy Hill, a son. Jorden Andrew. June 19. 1996. To Walt Chorle '86, 1996, To Karen Swaile Welsh '86 Cranmer. a daughter. Regan June I. 1995. To Michelle Dacheux M'89 and Lisa Shore Chorle '88, a and Thomas Welsh, a daughter, Elizabeth. May 26. 1996. To Petrina SeitZ '93 and Paul Seitz, a daughter. '88 daughter. Sarah Anne. May 2.S. Rachael Margaret, December .i I DeNillo Florentine and Anthon> Natalie Alevis. August 29. 1996. To 1996. To Kurt Erich '86 and 1994, and a daughter, Rebecca May, Florentino. a son. Samuel Ambrose. Stephanie Saintz Smay '93 and '88 Christine Erich, a daughter. Nicole April .1. 1996. To Troy Wilhelm '86 May 10. 1996. To Jeffrey Grejda Tedman Sma\. a son. Brennan Jon. Christine. October 17. 1996. To and Theresa Wilhelm. a son. Kevin. and Jennifer Younker Grejda '89, a October .M. 1445 To Tami Cathy Heacox Gallila '86 and Torrey December M). \995. To Jill Felton daughter, [-.mily Louise. September McMahan Smithmyer '93 .md Jerry Galida. a daughter. Lauren Algarin '87 and John .Algarin. a son. -^. 199.^, and a son. .Andrew Charles, Smithmyer, a daughter, .Abbi Elizabeth, .Vril l.'i, 1996. To Tracy Da\ id. June .1. 1996. To Robin Bell May 21,1 996. To Amy Umbaugh Elizabeth, July 25, 1996. To Dana Bunner Hapeman '86 and Dale Bowser '87 and Rob Bowser, a son. GlasI '88 and Thomas Glasl, a son. Vaubel Watson '93 and Matthew Hapeman, a son. Douglas Kendal, Brett Roheil. August 14. 1996. To Jack Thomas. October 14, 1996. To \V aison. .1 son. Connor Grey. '87 '88 and August 2S. I W6. To Susan Rinebolt Dianne Frye Delisa and Jetfrey Paula Costanzo Lundeen September 2. 1996. To Corey Boyer '86 Mike Lundeen. a daughter. Rachel '95 a son, Kennedy and Mark Kenncd\ . .i Dells. 1. a il.mghler. Maria Rose. and Paige Painter-Boyer. daughter. Megan Da\wi. No\ ember .August 27. 1446. To Judy Lipnicky Ashley . June 4. 1996. To Mark Ethan Joseph, May 21, 1996. '88 21. I99.'i To benlse Maclean Kleist Diehl '87 and David Diehl '88. .i son. McCail and Allene McCall. a '86, M'89 and Gary Kleist, a son, Brett A.non. September 16. 1996. To daughter. Manssa. .August d. IWd. Mitchell Robert, May 26, 1996. To Cynthia Busch Gyugyi '87 and Paul To Michael Bertuzzi '89 and Beth Wenily Stroup Marano '86 and Grimm Bertuzzi '90, a daughter Erin Domenic Marano. a son. Daniel Elizabeth. October 27, 1996, To 22 IIP M A G A Z I ^ R exiT gencv £^A£B On display: I'hysic.s Depciruneiu facility member Dennis c \l hiisun. Itil. talked with Stale Syxlem ofHii^lier Education Cliancelltii James McCormick '59 after an ei/iiipment demtmslri linn Whilson x't'i'C '" " Weyandl Hall labtiratory. The occasiini was a campus visit by a team from the State System in late m October. The equipment, a sputtering machine, was acquired m ihrouifb a .i;ift from Bincontrol Technology. Wm ^ ^^ Sightseeing: \\ hen a warn from Fcnnsylvanuj' s Stale System of Higher Education came to lUP in late Octoberfor a visit, participants were shuttled across campus, seeing such sights as the new Ebcrly College of Business building and viewing plans for campus expansion. On the bus between slops at Eberly and Weyandt Hall. President Lawrence K. Petlil talked M with Vice Chancellorfor Academic and Student Affairs Mary Williams Burger. The reason for the visit was to show members \>vw yyy^- of the State System Board of Governors some of the unique programs lUP offers. The Board of Governors makes periodic %m^ visits to each State System campus. System visitor: F. Eugene Di.xon. chairman of the State System of Higher Education Board of Governors, listens to a student from the Robert E. Cook Honors College during a session in Breezedule in late October. Behind him is Anthropology Department faculty member Todd Koelfe. who discussed his research with members of the System's visiting team. I 11 P MAGAZINE 2 Samuel GarlolT. October 19, 1996. Tracy Pastorius '93 to D.ive 1930: Ester Wachob. 1932: Olive Marriages Bob Reich '89 to Carrie Healey. Hoskouic/. June 1. looo. Stephanie Mulholland Rumbaugh. 1935: October 26. 1996. SaintZ '93 to Tedman Smay. June 19. Blanche Wolfe Williams. 1939: 50s l4o;r Susan Carpenlto '94 to Mary Sauers Schreier. 'v'leva 90s '50 in Ruth Fox Funk Robert Thomas Heard M'95, October 1 2. Wonder Heckler Terri Doughty '90, M'91 to Richard O'Connor. April 17, 1996. 1406 Dana Flowers '94 id Phiihp Emier '91, May 25. 1996 KImberly 1940: Mary Michaelson Davis, Hov. M.i> IN. 1996 Andrew Phillips 70s DUSS '90 lo William Coll. June 22. Madelyn Gotwald Edmunds, John '94 '95, 1 '90 to Julie Williams August Cheryl Ralston 70, M'72, D.Ed. 1996 Mary Ann Fasold '90 u. jason Joseph*. Ralph Kier, 1947: Twyla 1005 Gregg Postage '94 to Anne l(i. lo August Macedonui. Noxemher Poling. .August .>. 1006, Eric Fox '90 Duncan Joyce, Mary Lou Bierer Henry '95, September Ml 1995. 199(1. Lorle Swartzbeck '75, M'91 to to Agnes Kaminski. September 2S. Shaffer Tabltha Stitt '94 to Mark Reed. Tom DarcauLiL-lo. July .M. 1996. 1996 David McCracken '90 to 1994. 1950: Mervin Wingard '79 September 17. Angela Taylor Mary Brehm to Tommy Tammy Hindley. May 24. 1996. Kelll '94 lo Art Walker. June 20. looo, Thompson. June 22. 1996. Eshleman '91 to Matt Holland '93, 1961: Barbara Kraft. 1989: John Andrea Elder '95 to Brian HuHman. July 22. 1995 Joanne ladiclcco '91 Woods. Walter Zolensky 80s June 20. ioo6 Carrie Faulhaber '95 . 1946. '82 to Jeftery Batt\ June 29. Jean Lorl Suess to Daniel Long. May to Vincent Ryan M'95, November 30. 1971: John Krocsko. 1974: Leslie '91 '83 Schulte lo Josh ShtT^in. 1 1 . 1996. Mary Cicero to Gary- 1006 Janet Sabotchick '95 to Coughenour November 2. 1906, Dawn Hale '92 to Brooks. June 17. 199.S. David Bali William Bucher. November 1 1. Dale Frank '93, Ma\ 25. loo6 1983: Karl Shaffer '84 to Lori Stairs. April 20. I'l9h. 1996 Holly Vasbinder '95 to Anthony Jeanette Lehman '92 to Timoiin Leslie Bartels '88 lo Roiun Sacks. CaplZ2i'98, August 24. 1996, 1992: Michael Ramsey Partridge. M.iich 0, 1496, Amyee August i.A. 1W4 Jill Felton '87 to RItkO '92 to Thomas McMon.igle. *Faci(lry or suiff member orformer John Algann. September 2. 1995. November 24. 1995. Tonya Yohn '92 faculty or staff member Richard Hoffman '87 to Lynda Deaths to Doug Woody, November o, 1996. Horvath. June 22. I^Wo Jeffrey Other Deaths Thomas Anderson '93 to Stephanie Grejda '88 to Jennifer Younker '89, 1917: Elizabeth Smiley Harper. John McManmon, who taught Newell '98, DcLemher.^O. 1995. 1^)0 October 12. 1 Cheryl Posplstle 1919: Sara Campbell St. Clair English at lUP from 1971 until his Michelle Dacheux '93 to Paul Seitz. '88 to Thomas Berezansky '92, retirement in 1994. died October 15, loos '93 1921: Jane Witherow Wallack. August 2 1 Paul Funaro lo October 12. 1996 Gary Homberg '89 1996. Jennifer Murray '94, September 14. 1923:Grace Way Bell. Ruih to Susan Mannuig. November 4. Clyde Miller, an lUP doctoral 1996 Lorl Kaye '93 to William McGrew . Lila Vallance Thompson. 1995. Christy Hood '89 to Andrew Vonada. September 2S. 1996. 1925: Bertha Wynn Arnold. Mildred c.uididate and an instmctor in the Rizzardi. August 2. 1996. Barbara Professional Studies in Colleen Klazas '93 to Tom Ben/ Beechey. Margaret Giegerich. Daisy Department of Jones '89 to Michael Hayes. June Hopkins Rugh. 1929: Helen Wood Education, died November 4, 1996. October 1 1 . 1 996 DavId Overholtzer 17. 1995 Joanne LIpnicky '89 to '93 to Ann Walz. June 17. 1995. McClure Mark your calendar for MuMhi ^eC4h^9H WeefCthd June 13-15. 1997 J oin us for a celebration of memories! Remember... the Cajjitol Restaurant, Friday, June 13 Trolley Tours J ohn Sutton Hall. Rush. Senior Ice Cream in the Park Prom, ROTC,The Dell, Green Room, University Museum Alumni Art Exhibit Pioneer Dinner Christmas Dinner, Homecoming, Welcome Back Reception Boar's Head, Swing Out, Saturday Alumni/Faculty Party- Night Dancing. Saturday. June 14 Distinguished Alumni Awards In the Spring, look for more Luncheon Class Reunion Dinners information your on Reunion Tours and Seminars Trolley Tours Weekend "97 activities for tlie classes Picnic in the Oak Grove of 1947, 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, I-Uppers and 1972. Or. caU the Office of Sunday. June 15 Capitol Rolls, College Lodge Alumni Affairs. 1-800-YES 2IUP. 24 1 U P M A G A Z I N E SPORTS — 1 The Record Eraser Bv Bob Fulton James Siiher. like some computer virus gone berserk, spent last fall deleting lUP records. The school's single-game rushing record"! Poof. The recordfor regular-season rushing yards? Gone. too. The standardfor 200- xard games in a career? Obliterated. Most touchdowns in consec- utive games? History. is. histor>- is what the soft-spoken •Yards rushing per game, regular season: 174.4 sophomore tailback spent the 1996 (fourth-best nationally) Factseason rewriting. In his first year as a •200-yard rushing games, season and career: 4 starter. Suber utiUzed his devastating •Consecutive 200-yard games: 2 (twice) blend of size (6-2. 236) and speed •Touchdowns, game: 5 (tied record set by Larry (4.4 in the 40) to rush for 1.865 yards Monsilovich in 1971 and equaled by Michael and wipe out some of school's most Mann in 1993) \enerated standards. •Rushing touchdowns, game: 5 (tied record set by But broach the subject of records and Suber—chris- Monsilovich in 1971) E^en persona! tened Suberman by the lUP sports infomiation staff •Touchdowns, consecutive games: 9 (tied record set by Mon- modesty can't turns as sheepish as Clark Kent. •Points scored, game: 30 in "'I don't really know if they mean anything.'" he said. silovich in 1971 and equaled by Mann 1993) diminish the "I just go out there and do what I'm supposed to do. 1 •All-purpose yards (combined yardage gained glitter of tailbacli don't really think about records.'" rushing and receiving and on kickoff and punt to per game, sea.son: 1 86. James Suber's Suber thinks only about finding the best route the returns) end zone, which he reached on nineteen occasions last •All-purpose yards per game, regular season: record-setting fall. His assault on enemy defenses—not to mention the 188.9 performances in record book—was unquestionably the highlight of a Many of the records Suber demolished were set by season that ended in excruciating fashion for lUP (8-3). Mann, who befriended Suber when he arrived on cam- his first season as Suber might have posted even better numbers had the pus from his native Norristown. They still correspond, an II P starter. tenth-ranked Indians not bowed out in the first round of in fact. Mann wrote to Suber not long after the Edinboro of lUP's 20-18 the NCAA Division II playoffs with a last-second 24-23 game, requesting a newspaper account loss at Ferris State (Mich.). victory. Suber was happy to oblige. After all, he rushed and But even in an abbreviated season—abbreviated by for 178 yards that day despite a painful rib injury than a minute lUP standards, at least—Suber set or equaled a multi- scored the winning touchdown with less tude of marks. Following is a partial inventory of his remaining. record collection: Suber exploded for five touchdowns two weeks later •Yards rushing, game: 261 in a 35-14 victory over Lock Haven and piled up 261 •Yards rushing, consecutive games: 471 yards to shatter the single-game rushing record set by •Yards rushing, three consecutive games: 634 Monsilovich twenty-six years before. He followed that •Yards rushing, sophomore: 1.865 with a four-touchdown performance in a 62-55 shootout •Yards rushing per game: 169.5 with Shippensburg that secured IUP"s playoff berth •Yards rushing, regular season: 1 .744 opposite Ferris State. H P \! 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"I'm last month, and former Ail- Plum, Penn twenty-eight Next month, she'll take part in looking at being successful here American ( I97.S-7S) Jim Haslett team had won con- the birth of another Softball pro- at Mississippi," she said. "I'm '91 marked his second year on secutive games and was ranked gram—this time as a head coach. really looking forward to being the New Orleans Saints' coach- first in a national high school staff, first as defensive poll. Coach Neil Gordon '71, an At Division I Mississippi, no part of a competitive program ing his less. "It's quite a challenge, but and setting a foundation for the coordinator. Haslett and Villar- offensive guard during his play- Hills to it's also a wonderful opportu- future." Much as she did in 1979 rial were on opposite sidelines ing days at lUP, led Penn nity," said Maudie, who played as a member of that inaugural October I.'? at the Louisiana the Pennsylvania Class AAAA three years at lUP and returned RIP Softball squad. Superdome. where the Saints championship in 1995. to coach the team during the Chris Villarrial not only made prevailed. 27-24. Sophomore goalkeeper Kris- 1989 season. "There aren't too the team after the Chicago Bears The swimmers of coach Peter ten BardeS and freshman many times you get to be an selected him in the fifth round of Ward excelled in schoolwork as defender Kelly Feeney were architect of a program at this the 1996 NFL draft—he found a well as pool work during the first-team selections on the level." Maudie is no stranger to home on the offensive line. Vil- 1995-96 sea.son. The College Pennsylvania State Athletic Con- building a program from scratch. larrial, who gained All-America Swimming Coaches Association ference women's soccer squad. She did just that as the first soc- honors as an lUP junior and of America honored the lUP Bardes led the PSAC in goals- cer coach at Barton (N.C.) Col- senior, debuted as a starter at women and men as Academic against average (0.76). lege, where Gary Edwards, who guard in a 19-17 victory over the All-America teams for the win- Former RJP shortstop Bruce heads the lUP men's basketball Oakland Raiders September 29, ter/spring semester of 1 996. The Yard, who was drafted by the program, once coached. "That only five games into his rookie women compiled a 3.05 grade- Los Angeles Dodgers in 1993, was a challenge, because I had season. He had started every point average, which ranked w ill soon head to spring training absolutely no background in the game since, as I UP Magazine eleventh in the nation among for his fifth season as a profes- sport," Maudie said. "I had went to press in November. Division H schools. The men, sional. Yard hit a career-high never played soccer, had never Two other products of the with an aggregate 2.97 GPA, .287 last summer and was espe- a coached .soccer. I had a soccer school's football program are ranked fourth nationally. cially effective following mid- li\ '81 to the class as a PE major at lUP. That also earning a elihood in the Terry Totten , a three-year season promotion San was the extent of my NFL: Jack Henry '69 wrapped up starter at defensive back and later Antonio Missions of the Class knowledge." Maudie remedied an assistant coach at lUP. has AA Texas League, for whom he the situation by attending every moved on to another winning batted .314. Yard is gunning for clinic she could get to, devouring Western Pennsylvania football a place in the Triple-A books on the subject, and picking program. Totten serves as the Albuquerque lineup this season. the brains of soccer coaches. linebackers coach at Division I- "Speculation is I should be able The result? In only their second AA Duquesne University, which to go to spring training with the longest said. "The year ( W5 ) of varsity competi- owned the winning Triple-A squad," he tion, the unheralded Bulldogs streak of any team above the shortstop position there is open projected to finish nintli in the Division HI level—nineteen right now and I was the next [in Carolinas Conference games—and a 1 0-0 record at highest everyday shortstop advanced to the league semifi- press time. The Dukes needed the fami system] last season. nals. Admittedly, Maudie is best only to win their second consec- Hopefully. I'll have an opportu- known for her work on the soft- utive ECAC Bow 1 to wrap up the nity to play there." ball diamond. She has won con- school's first undefeated season ference coach of the year honors since 1941. at three different schools: Wis- consin-Whitewater ( 1 99 1 ), Jovcf Mtiiiilii' h\ Bob rulton I 28 I II' \l \(;A/ NE Coming Home t)V Uol) iMllldll Willi apologies lo aiilhor When he finally tired of pro- ers who have a chance to get McMullan did a pretty good job Tluiiiuis WoKc. )ou ccin go home fessional baseball's nomadic belter and then help them to do of getting .some talented players again. Just ask Bob Miscik, who lifestyle, Miscik returned to that. We're not going to get the in here." has relumed to his alma mater as Western Pennsylvania—he's kind of players who go to Stan- Miscik expects improvement head baseball coach. originally from the Westmore- ford or Arizona State. All they over last year's record. More- For Miscik. a four- time NAIA land County community of have to do is put their uniform on over, he expects lUP to challenge all-district third baseman and Calumet—and pondered his and they're going to compete at for a postseason berth in the near shortstop at lUP future. The Indians (1977-80). coming haven't advanced to the back is like coming NCAA tournament since home. 1990, when McMullan "It is, 1 guess." he was in uniform—as the says. "I spent a great team's designated hitter. deal of time here: five Fact is, Miscik fore- and a half years as an sees a time when lUP undergrad and then ba.seball, much as the working toward my football and men's bas- graduate degree." ketball programs of Miscik returns recent vintage, contends "home" following a on a national level. fifteen-year whirl "People in our confer- through baseball's ence have gone to the minor leagues, finst as Division 11 World Series. an infielder in the There's no reason this Pittsburgh Pirates and school can't," said Mis- California Angels p, cik. who directed the organizations and later i Triple-A Rochester Red as a coach and man- -. Wings to within a game ager in the Baltimore of the International Boh Mist ik Orioles chain. He also League crown in 1993. played winter ball in The World Series Venezuela and Mexico. future. He never suspected it that level. The kids who come would be uncharted territory for Throughout his peregrinations. involved his alma mater. here as freshmen are going to be the Indians, but Miscik isn't Miscik never lost touch w ith the After Kevin McMullan a little more green. So my back- afraid to aim high. lUP program. stepped down to accept an assis- ground in developing players "I want kids to come here and Of course, securing updates was as tant's position at Division I St. .should help." have a great experience. After easy as calling his big brother. Den- John's University, Miscik cast Miscik's first lUP team will four years I want them to say, nis Miscik. a teacher and baseball his lot with lUP—for the second bank on several holdovers from 'I'd do that again.' That's my coach at Mt. Pleasant High School, time in his life. College coach- last year's 14-25 club, most main goal," he said. "But some- led all NAIA pitchers in eiimed mn ing seems a natural fit. given his notably short.stop Steve Murray, where along the line, if we can average (0.4 1 ) as ;in lUP senior in sterling reputation for develop- the Pennsylvania State Athletic put together a team that can go to 1 976 before embiuking on a profes- ing younger players. Jeffrey Conference batting champion the Wodd Series, 1 think it would sion;il career that, like his brother's, Hammonds, Manny Alexander, (.424) and Western Division be great. And once you get ended at the Triple-A level. Rocky Coppinger, Rick Krivda, Player of the Year. Pitcher Rich there, you have a chance to win "I knew what w;is going on here," Jeff Manto, and Ricky Gutierrez, Schnur and third baseman John it." tlie younger Miscik .said. "I kept in among others, can attest to Mis- Flickinger. who both joined Mur- For Miscik. that's about the touch enough to know who the cik's gift for bringing out the ray on the All-PSAC first team, only thing that could top coming coaches were and what kind of sea- best in his players. Those former also return. home to lUP: coming home with sons they were having." Baltimore farmhands drew major "I was surprised—happily a championship trophy. league paychecks in 1996. surprised—at the talent level "That's what you have to do, 1 here," said Miscik, whose team believe, to be successful at this opens the .season March 2 at Ft. level of college baseball," Miscik Myers, Fla. "I was expecting says. "You have to recruit play- much less, but I think Kevin I U P M .A G .\ Z I N E 29 Non-Protit Org. 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