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On Top of painter, a photographer, a member ucts. To date, theirs is the largest "I've been around the world," he of the national guard, an art direc and most successful brand mer says, "but now my home is in The World tor, and a creative director. Then in chandise program in the history of Syracuse." "I have found no challenge to equal 1976, he enrolled in SU's Indepen children's product manufacturing. Seikaly's first home was Leba it;' wrote James D. Morrissey '59, dent Study Degree Program, ma What's next for the Cabbage non, where he learned soccer and in the July 1984 issue of National joring in advertising design. But he Patch king? Plans include a new track. His fumily moved to England was still unsure ifthis was the right Geographic. He was describing the character to be introduced in 1987 and then Greece; still Seikaly hadn't climb he led up the "forgotten" East business for him. His advisor, Don and increased promotion of a recent played his initial basketball game. Face of Mount Everest in 1983. Al Trousdale, told him it was. addition-cuddly critters named It was while attending prep though Chinese climbers had taken The advice hit home, and today 'Koosas. "We hope,"says Schlaifer, school in Massachusetts that the Schlaifer, grown up or not, is run the same route before, Morrissey "that there will be more sales out teen-aged Seikaly first dribbled, ning the billion-dollar empire of and his team were the first Ameri there, and a few more opportunities faked left, and shot. He returned to cans to scale the 29,028-foot peak Cabbage Patch Kids. to do exciting work." Athens a basketball prodigy, play from the Tibetan side. Schlaifer's luck turned when he ing on the country's national team A Stockton, Calif. , heart sur saw how taken his daughters were Orange to favorable reviews. Seikaly was geon, Morrissey first tackled the with Little People dolls, created by Globetrotter encouraged to find a Division I col East Face of Everest in 1981, but Xavier Roberts. The dolls were ac lege team in America, and thanks was thwarted by threats of ava companied by a "cabbage patch" No college basketball star forgets to Coach Jim Boeheim's annual lanche. In late September of 1983, legend, and Schlaifer expanded the hundreds of playground games basketball camp he found SU. Sei he led a team of 13 men on a second upon this, creating a new concept behind him, even ifthe playgrounds kaly enrolled for the spring 1984 attempt. Their journey ended in which included dubbing the dolls are as far away as Athens, Greece. semester; he didn't play that season, mid-October, amid bad weather Cabbage Patch Kids. He presented That's where but began learning the team's sys and illness. Only six of the 13 the concept to Roberts, and in 1982 Rony Seikaly, tems while getting a head start on reached the summit. Schlaifer Nance & Co. was award 1984-1985 his degree in management informa Although Morrissey himself was ed exclusive world rights to market Orangeman tion systems. not among them, he was thrilled by the concept. starting center, Last fall , Seikaly's basketball the experience. "The miracle is that Schlaifer created the logo, graph once called potential was unveiled in the all of us survived," he wrote. ics, and additional Cabbage Patch home. Orangemen's first game, and a Morrissey first began climbing in characters, while his wife, Su process of adjustment began. " It's the Adirondacks while an under sanne Nance, wrote an expanded a little slower in Europe," he says. graduate at SUNY College of En version of the Cabbage " The referees let you play in vironmental Science and Forestry. Patch legend. As the exclu Europe. It's more physical. Here, After completing his training at sive Cabbage Patch licens the players are more athletic. They SUNY Upstate Medical Center, he er, they contract with jump higher and they're stronger." went on to scale the high peaks of firms around the He has started every game since, Africa, South America, Alaska, world, such as though, showing steady improve and the Himalayas. Two years ago, Coleco, to ment; barring injury, he will likely he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro manufucture start every game through the with his 20-year-old son, David. the prod- 1987-88 season. Currently, he and his team of moun After each of them, Seikaly re taineers from the 1983 Everest ex turns to his off-campus apartment pedition await permission from and phones his parents back in China to climb Nomchebahraw, Athens. "I call them after every the highest unci imbed mountain game," he says. "I always tell them in the world. how much I like it here." For Morrissey, it seems, there will always be another mountain and another challenge. Underground Art A 48-foot-long mural by Margie Hughto, nationally known King of the ceramist and associate professor of Although he hails from art at SU, has been installed in the Cabbage Patch Greece and first played soc new Utica Street station ofthe Buf Nine years after earning his cer, Rony Seikaly was quickly falo subway system. bachelor's degree in illustration, converted to basketball when Hughto's massive mural is made Roger Schlaifer '67 still didn't he came to America; for one -·~~~~~· up of 550 colored clay sections that know what he wanted to do when thing, he's 6feet, 10 inches are enhanced by layers of colored he grew up. He'd already been a tall. Seikaly is now SU's liquid clays and colored glazes. medical illustrator, a surrealist starting center. Ranging in height from 12 to 32

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are also watching sales of Bright Lights, now in a sixth printing of 55,000 copies, hoping to see its name soon on The New York Times best-seller list. Not bad for someone who just wanted to "earn enough reviews to get a second novel published." One From the Heart When veteran filmmaker Peter Hyams '64 was asked to write, pro duce, direct, and do the cinematog raphy for the film 2010, he was faced with a terrifying offer. It meant making the stquel to Stanley Kubrick's classic science fiction film, 2001. The problem was, he told a reporter, that "you can't go into something thinkiqg you can do anything as well as Stanley Kubrick." But still, lOJOwas a story Hyams wanted to tell. Once assured that he could "make a film so com pletely different it would be hard to compare the two," he decided to take on the challenge. Working closely with Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 and 2010, Hyams gave his movie a strong Professor Margie Hughto is one of 23 people providing art for new subway stations in Buffalo. The station emotional slant. Kubrick's film, on where her clay mural hangs will open next month. the other hand, had relied largely on groundbreaking special effects. feet, it can be seen from both the up Aside from her talent, 40-year for llinity Fair; and begun work on Hyams says he chose the more per and lower levels ofthe subway old Hughto claims organization is the movie script for Bright Lights. personal route because "so often station. her success secret. "I do work Shooting is to begin this November. films that are technically ambitious Representing the four seasons, hard," she says, "and I try to make In the meantime, Mcinerney and tend not to be films of the heart. I the mural, Hughto says, "is quite the most of every day." his Random House editor are pre thought this was about something impressionistic. Summer is lush paring his second novel for publica that was very emotional." with green and heavy color . . . Bright Light tion this September. As yet untitled, 2010 involves a Soviet and while winter is made up of blues, the novel takes place in Japan. They American scientist journeying to mauves, and swirling white." Graduate student Jay Mcinerney Hughto's mural is part of the has taken a leave of absence from largest art project ever to be fund his studies becm~se he can't keep up ed by the federal government. Four with his work. Wh:y not? Because teen n~;w Buffalo subway stations he's too busy keeping up with the are being decorated by 23 artists, at success his first novel has brought a cost ofjust over $1.5 million. The him. Utica Street station housing the Written in the second person, mural will open with a dedication Bright Lights, Big City is a witty ceremony on May 18. novel that chronicles the adventures In the meantime, Hughto is work of a young man caught up in the fast ing on creating handmade paper for lane of the hip New York disco a solo exhibition at SUNY/Potsdam scene. this summer. In the fall, &he willl;>e Since Bright Lights was pub in Wisconsin as a resident artist at lished this past fall, Mcinerney has the Kohler Co. , which produces been caught up in a pretty fast lane porcelain and ceramic bath prod himself. He has traveled to Holly ucts. During the several months she wood to strike a movie deal for his will spend there, Hughto plans to novel with Columbia Pictures and create large translucent decorative producer Jerry Weintraub; spent a metal folding screens. "I hope they week with Mick Jagger in New will be· used by corporations and York City for a May Esquire pro placed in front of their large win file on the rock star; flown to Jay Mcinerney's extracurricular activities this year have included a dows," she says. Mprocco to interview Paul Bowles movie deal and an interview with Mick Jagger.

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as she can. "Once you've taken it up, you cannot really decide when you will get out of it," she says. "It will decide when it will be done with you." 3-D Science Like Queen Victoria, Steven Chamberlain is an advocate of stereopair photography-a tech nique that combines two pictures into a single image that appears to be three-dimensional. Victoria's enthusiasm for stereopair viewers made them a fad in the late 1800s, before the advent of motion pic tures. But Chamberlain's interest in stereopair photography is more serious. An associate professor of neur ology and associate director of the Institute for Sensory Research, Chamberlain writes and lectures about the advantages ofusing ster eopair photography in neuroana tomical research and publications, and as a communications tool for mineralogists. Stereopair is already used in some scientific applications, such as aerial photography for topo graphic maps, but Chamberlain says it can also aid scientists who Neuroanatomist Steven Chamberlain believes that stereo photography, first popularized in the 19th century rely on microphotography-pho and later in 1950s movie theaters, should be adopted by scientists to better capture the detail and dimension tographing through a microscope. of extremely intricate subjects. Microphotographs are often out of-focus, since their depth of field Jupiter together, and contains a cal forms ofHindu dance- Bharata deillic journals, cross-country skis, is so small. "But stereopair strong message about peace. Im N atyam and Kuchipudi. Her dance and collects reggae music to which photography," Chamberlain says, pressed with the feeling and depth training and religion are the zenith she often warms up before practic "moves what is out-of-focus onto a of Roy Scheider's performance in of a spiritual awakening that began ing her dance. different perceived plane so the Jaws, Hyams cast him in the lead, in high school and culminated at One day, she says, she hopes to brain can concentrate on what's in as astronaut Heywood Floyd. su. return to India for further study and focus." A former CBS anchorman, "I took a course in comparative to earn her Ph. D. In the meantime, When used in neuroanatomy, it Hyams chose a career in film over religion at SU," she says, "and I she will continue to dance as long has different advantages. Com- one in journalism, he says, because realized I really did resonate with "journalism is covering what is. Hindu symbols." Drama is covering whatever story Later, after seeing Indian dances it is you want to tell ." And in 2010, performed on campus, she put despite the inherent risks, Hyams together a unique independent could tell the story he wanted to tell: study program in India, where she a story about peace. trained with a Hindu dance master, Natraj Ramakrishna, and also with Dancing Across a temple dancer. Since graduating, she has returned to India twice for Cultures further study. East and West have met in Roxanne Today, her life is a synthesis ofln Kamayani Poormon Gupta '74, dian and American lifestyles. Mar '84. As one of a handful of riedtoJayantGupta, whomshemet Americans trained in Indian dance, in India, she lives with him and their she performs and lectures here and son, Kapil, in Waterloo, N.Y. From abroad at everything from dance her home, Gupta schedules Hindu conferences to gatherings of poets. dance lectures and performances, For Gupta, her work is both an does free-lance writing for the art form and a spiritual practice. A Finger Lakes Times, writes scholar Roxanne Gupta is a rare American scholar ofHindu dance, equally Hindu, she is trained in two classi- ly papers on Indian dance for aca- likely to be lecturing or performing.

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"The industry was really on its synthesizer to be a helpful tool in his knees when I got into this business," own work. A sound technician who Bing recently told Forbes. "I knew majored in radio at SU, Giovanelli that steel had no place to go but up." also writes the AUdio Magazine col Bing's talent and training for bus umn, ''Audioclinic;' which answers iness ensured that the prediction questions about audio technoiogy. would prove true. Of course, his For T7 years he wrote the column basketball reputation doesn't hurt his on a manual typewriter and was Detroit-based business either. De unable to edit his copy himself. two troit is one of three cities where he years ago he switched to computers. played professional ball. Now, with an Apple lie and a Street "When I call someone and leave Electronics Echo Plus speech syn my name," says Bing, "he usually thesizer, Giovanelli can edit his calls me back." writing. He also uses his computer to schedule appointments, write correspondence, store phone num Sound Advice bers and addresses, and listeh to the Jazz pianist Gap Mangione is back on campus teaching. Joseph Giovanelli '53 is editor and King James Bible. publisher of a newsletter which he "We all want to be as independent puter-calculated stereopairs simul "If it's a choice between working can neither see nor read. Blind as possible," says Giovanelli. "I've taneously show the inside and out as a musician or getting a formal since birth, Giovanelli writes, edits, taken on BAUD because it helps side ofa subject, Chamberlain says. education," he says, "either would and produces BAUD, an audio others to meet this need." " This can make research go much be valuable." Then, as though cassette " newsletter" about com faster." recalling his own experience, he puter technology and applications Sour Success An avid mineralogist, Chamber adds, "both would be even better." for the blind. Distributed interna lain also promotes stereopair use in tionally and published six times a What's in a name? A great deal, ap this field. He regularly lectures Man of Steel year at an annual rate of $18, each parently. When Larry Donald, Bas using a slide show of stereopairs, newsletter contains three hours of ketball Times publisher, published which appear to "jump out of the No matter what he does, winning spoken articles devoted to develop a list of the best and worst people screen at you," as a means of in seems to be the name ofthe game for ments in computer applications for and things in basketball at the start creasing people's awareness of David Bing '66. the blind. ofthis season, he dubbed SU's Sour mineralogy-and of the technique. Today he rules the courts of Bing BAUD articles are contributed by Sitrus Society the best pep band in "Stereopair photography is so ef Steel Inc. with the same finesse that both Giovanelli and his readers, and the country. "When the band has a fective in conveying three-dimen made him a star for the stJ basket cover a wide variety of topics, from nickname all its own, that's an ad sional objects," Chamberlain says, ball Orangemen in the mid-1960s tutorials on how to use programs vantage," notes Donald. "that I hope one day it will be and later for three professional designed for blind users to free There is also an advantage in hav routinely used in science and trade teams. Last fall, President Reagan classified ads for subscribers want ing outgrown the name, which orig journals." dubbed the seven-time National ing to sell anything from transcrip inated from the wrong notes the Basketball Association all-star "Na tion services to special game pro band often played when it was first tional Minority Small Business Per grams, such as "Trivia Talk." formed in 1970. Now, with an all Gap's Back son of the Year." Articles also cover latest devel time high membership of 125, the Renowned jazz pianist Gap Bing Steel, the first black-owned opments in computer technology band is in tune and gaining in pop Mangione '65 is back attending steel service company in the coun for the blind, such as a new, port ularity-on campus and off classes at SU, but this time as a try, buys steel from domestic mills, able computer which has a speech thanks in part to coverage by na teacher and consultant. cuts it to order, and then delivers to synthesizer. Speech synthesizers tional network and cable television. With 17 albums and years ofplay 53 customers, including Ford Motor speak both the commands and the "Nevertheless,'; says George ing concerts behind him, Mangione Co. , General Motors, and Deere & text a user types on the keyboard, Gross, a junior and Sour Sitrus is helping reevaluate SU's Music In Co. Bing estimates that his com allowing a blind user to edit what chairman, "I was amazed that peo dustry Program and teaching a pany's sales will exceed $40 million he or she writes. ple outside of Syracuse knew who course on the history of jazz. by June 30, the end of its fifth fiscal Giovanelli has found the speech we were." Mangione, who began his year year. The band's popularity is based on long appointment in September, is Bing developed his business sav both its musical ability and its in delighted to be back in the School vy at the same time he was capitaliz corrigible enthusiasm. "Whenour of Music, which, he says, helped ing on his basketball skills. While team's losing and the crowd is shape his career. Mangione had piling up scoring records with the down, we're still cheering," says already recorded three albums Orangemen, he earned a bachelor's Gross. And when they're playing, when he returned to SU in 1961, degree in economics and marketing. the fans often join in by helping to after having been a Syracuse stu As an NBA all-star, Bing worked in conduct. dent for one year in 1958. The sec business during off-seasons, logging "It's really great to have so much ond time around, he considered 10 years with the National Bank of participation and interest in the himself "perhaps a bit ofa success." Detroit and Chrysler Corp. After band," says Gross, who has been But SU, he says, made him better retiring from professional basketball with the group for two years. " We able technically and expanded his in 1978, Bingjoined the now defunct have people telling us this is the best musical outlook. Paragon Steel, a structural steel it's ever been." Now, he's helping other musi company. By the time Paragon went With no more sour notes to haunt cians get the best musical education under, Bing had already started his it, the Sour Sitrus Society is savor they can. own firm. Steel magnate David Bing ing the sweet sound of success.

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