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MEMOIRS OF A NEWSPAPERMAN In a new book, Harry Rosenfeld recounts his journey from escaping Nazi Germany as a child to his role as an editor in the Watergate coverage that brought down a president

BY KATHLEEN HALEY JOURNAL ALUMNI HARRY ROSENFELD ’52 KNOWS THE immersed myself in my American life.” as a clerk/typist in the military history heavy responsibility of being a good edi- The now-retired newspaperman, who section. Returning to the Tribune, Rosen- tor. The former Washington Post metro- remains active as an editor-at-large and feld rose through the ranks as an editor politan editor guided two young report- a member of the Times Union editorial and later managing editor for the news ers through a series of stories that led board, crafted a life in journalism that service and then foreign editor. In 1966, to the resignation of a U.S. president was influenced by a childhood under a however, he left the struggling paper and changed the way a nation thought brutal regime and chan- as it was about to merge about investigative reporting. Most rec- neled his perspective with two other papers. “I ognize the names of those reporters— into the best of what it was heartbroken,” Rosen- Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward—but means to live in a democ- feld says. “I had spent Rosenfeld’s may not be as well-known. racy. His book has sent half my lifetime there.”

alumni.syr.edu His presence, however, in directing the him across the country In his job hunt, Rosen- prize-winning Watergate coverage is to packed audiences ea- feld was offered a posi- no less important. The facts were scru- ger to hear the tales of a tion by then-Washington tinized and the veracity of sources was young boy from Germany Post managing editor questioned, and Rosenfeld backed his who grew into the role of Ben Bradlee. He began reporters in telling the stories that even- a tenacious editor. as night foreign editor tually led to congressional hearings. “I Rosenfeld’s work in the before being assigned to knew the quality of our work, and I had newspaper business be- head the foreign desk, total confidence in it,” Rosenfeld says. gan even before he start- which meant an around- “We managed by our work to finally en- ed at SU in 1948. He had the-world trip to become gage the government.” already been working at the New York acquainted with staff correspondents In his new memoir, From Kristallnacht Herald Tribune as a shipping clerk, try- and report for a time from Vietnam. to Watergate: Memoirs of a Newspaper- ing to get his foot in the door. “I wanted Rosenfeld later took over as metro man (State University of New York Press, to do something of public service and I editor, the position he held on June 17, 2013) Rosenfeld chronicles his decades- thought journalism would be a good ve- 1972—the day a team of burglars was long career as an editor, including his hicle,” he says. While studying English arrested inside the Democratic National

(782-5867) 1-800-SUALUMS tenure at The Washington Post and the and American studies, and taking jour- Committee headquarters at the Water- fascinating, complex time in which the nalism courses, he covered sports for gate complex. When Rosenfeld and his Watergate scandal unfolded. He also The Daily Orange. “It was an invaluable colleagues learned about the arrests, tells of his years at the fabled New York experience, traveling with teams, writ- they knew there would be much more Herald Tribune and Albany’s Knicker- ing on deadline, doing feature stories,” to the story than a simple burglary. bocker News and Times Union, and looks says Rosenfeld, who was the first recipi- “Right away we found a White House back on life as a 9-year-old immigrant ent of the College of Arts and Sciences’ connection through Howard Hunt [a in New York City, having escaped Nazi Distinguished Alumni Award. former White House employee whose Germany with his family. “The segrega- After college he became an editorial phone number was found on one of the tion, the denigration of the Jews was assistant at the Tribune news service be- burglars],” Rosenfeld says. Into the sec- part of my normal life in Germany,” he fore being drafted to serve in the U.S. ond week, John Mitchell, the former at- says. “But I was old enough to know that Army. Newly married to his wife, Annie, torney general, resigned as head of the I was deliriously happy to leave it, and I he headed off to Korea, where he served Committee for the Re-Election of the

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President. “I knew then that this was going pretty high up,” he says. With the implications for a national scandal, Rosenfeld was cognizant that their coverage would be picked apart and had to be irrefutable. Woodward and Bernstein, or “Woodstein” as they were referred to, began leading the reporting and generat- ing scoops on the money trail. “They soon recognized what they had in their hands,” he says. “It was the story that would make their careers.” The pinnacle of The Post’s coverage came in two stories just before the November 1972 election. “The first said that the Nix- on campaign had for years been on a sabo- Harry Rosenfeld (above, left) joins colleagues from The Washington Post at the White House tage campaign against its opponents, long Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1973. Also pictured (from left) are style predating the current campaign, and that writer Donnie Radcliffe, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Ben Bradlee, and Edward Bennett Williams, a Bradlee friend and The Post’s attorney. Below: Running the foreign desk, Rosenfeld (right) confers they used all manner of dirty tricks funded with Lee Lescaze (left) in The Post’s crowded newsroom. by a slush fund,” Rosenfeld says. A long- worked-on follow-up story revealed how later, but long before “Deep Throat” was the following months, The Post, which was five people, including Mitchell, controlled revealed as FBI agent Mark Felt, Rosenfeld recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public the fund that was constantly being replen- came to realize every editor should know Service in 1973, continued its investigative ished. The final Nixon executive identified, a reporter’s sources. “What’s on the line pieces and Congress held hearings about and the most important, was H.R. “Bob” is not the reporter’s judgment—it’s the the break-in. The end came on August 9, Haldeman, the president’s chief of staff. newspaper’s,” he says. “The reporter ex- 1974, when Nixon resigned. “It vindicated A key, of course, in the work was “Deep tends the confidentiality on behalf of the our hard work at a time when no other me- Throat,” a moniker for one of Woodward’s newspaper. The newspaper has to make dia was doing it,” Rosenfeld says. sources. At that time, Rosenfeld decided sure the reporter did the right thing.” The events were turned into a best-sell- against knowing the source’s name. Years Nixon was re-elected that year, but in ing book by Woodward and Bernstein, All the President’s Men, and later a movie, with actor Jack Warden portraying Rosenfeld. “I thought it captured the work of the reporters accurately but less so that of the editors,” he says. “We did not make snap decisions, but argued and agonized over them.” In 1978, he was asked to head up the two Hearst-owned Albany papers, and later a third, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, for a time. “I wanted to run my own newspapers, and this was my chance to do so,” says Rosenfeld, who retired at the end of 1997, but is still connected to the newspaper business. With his many years as an editor, his best advice for those guiding reporters is to be open and curious and listen to their staff members—and be ready to defend them. “I think you have to be demanding, but with that you have to be fair,” Rosenfeld says. “They may not like you, but they have to respect you.”

Photos courtesy of The Washington Post Spring 2014 45 https://surface.syr.edu/sumagazine/vol31/iss1/10 2 Haley et al.: Alumni Journal ALUMNIJOURNAL CLASSNOTES Proud and NEWS from SU ALUMNI » Passionate SEND US NEWS OF YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS. To submit information for Class Notes via the Internet, go to alumni.syr.edu and register with the SU Alumni Online Community . THESE PAST FEW MONTHS Items will appear in the magazine and in the Class Notes section have been exciting times of the online community. Items can also be sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse University Magazine; 820 Comstock Avenue, Room 308; for Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-5040. alumni. Across the coun- try, we have been cele- Warren Kimble ’57 (VPA), a brating our inaugural year renowned American folk artist, in the Atlantic Coast Con- 40s received the 2013 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts ference (ACC) through Patrick McCarthy ’48 (A&S) of Oneida, N.Y., competed in the from the Vermont Arts Council. events and game-watch Empire State Senior Games and The award was presented to parties. As I traveled won a gold medal in badminton Kimble by Governor Peter Shum- around the country to singles. He and his wife, Patricia, lin last October at the Town Hall in Brandon, Vt. watch our athletic teams celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary in April. take on new competition, Harvey H. Kaiser ’58, G’65 I was energized by all of Doree Knoepke Steinmann ’48 (ARC), G’74 (MAX) pub- our loyal alumni who joined me in cheering on our alma mater. (SDA) wrote Your Second Fifty lished a paperback edition of The Building of Cities (Cornell Orange Nation is proud and passionate, and we are everywhere! Years: Rising Above the Myths of Aging (YSF Publishing), about University Press), examining the Back on campus, one of the highlights during these past people’s inspiring ideas for the city-building process in three few months had to be the “Ultimate Tailgate Party” held in the second half of life. The book is Upstate New York communi- Schine Student Center prior to the Syracuse/Duke men’s bas- based on Steinmann’s 20 years ties. Rewritten from his Maxwell School doctoral dissertation for ketball game. The event drew more than 600 alumni and friends of interviews on Cable Com- munity TV. Cornell University Press and first to celebrate this new rivalry. Then, to cap off this historic day, published in hardcover in 1978, Syracuse beat Duke, 91-89, in a dramatic overtime victory in the book is considered a classic front of a record-breaking crowd of 35,446! in the history of urban planning 50s and remains an invaluable re- If you’re looking for an opportunity to connect or possibly Frederick W. Morgan ’50 source for developers, architects, even reconnect with Syracuse University, mark your calendars (A&S), a retired social studies public officials, and citizens for this year’s Orange Central: October 9-12, 2014. Beyond re- teacher from the Elmira (N.Y.) involved in local government. uniting with friends and classmates during this Homecoming City School District, wrote a Kaiser also wrote Snooks Hol- story about his experience as a low: A Green Residential Project weekend, you will also have the opportunity to take advantage young soldier coming home for (Snooks Hollow Development), of faculty presentations, campus tours, a football game against Christmas from war in Italy in the story of a sustainable house the defending national champions, and much more. I hope you 1944. His story—The Kindness of design that achieved recognition will be able to join us on campus! Strangers—was published in the as the highest LEED rating home November/December issue of built in America at the time of I’m sure your time as a student brings back a lot of fond mem- Good Old Days magazine. completion in October 2012. ories—it certainly does for me! So now, I would like to challenge all alumni to support your local SU alumni clubs by becoming Joseph F. Zimmerman G’51, Arnold P. Etelson ’59 (A&S) active members. These groups are a great way to remain en- G’54 (MAX), political science was elected Montebello village professor at the University of justice, continuing 46 years gaged with the University. You say there’s not a local SU alumni Albany, wrote The Recall: Tribunal of judicial service to Rockland club in your region? Well then, please reach out to the Office of of the People, 2nd edition (State County and New York State. He Alumni Relations to see how we may be able to help you estab- University of New York Press, formerly served as Spring Valley lish one. 2013). justice for nine years and as Ra- mapo town justice for 36 years. Thank you for this opportunity to serve as your alumni asso- Milton R. Sheftner ’56 (A&S/ ciation president. It is an honor and a privilege to represent such MAX) of Marina del Rey, Calif., amazing alumni. was awarded the Archival Tech- Go Orange! nology Medal by the Society of 60s Motion Picture and Television Engineers last October. The Helen Dunn Frame ’60 (A&S/ medal was awarded to Sheftner NEW) wrote the second edition in recognition of his long-stand- of Retiring in Costa Rica or Doc- ing and continued leadership tors, Dogs and Pura Vida, an e- contributions to the motion book that aims to enable readers picture and television industry in to make an informed decision defining practices for the storage about retiring to or part-time Laurie Taishoff ’84 and archive of the industry’s film living in Costa Rica. President, Syracuse University Alumni Association legacy and digital media content.

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TRIBUTE » To learn more about Elie’s efforts in Chris AN ENDURING JOURNEY OF FRIENDSHIP Sawyer’s memory, visit pages.teamintraining.org/ By Elie Rabinowitz ma/HyannisT14/rabinowitz.

WHEN I WAS SELECTED AS A 2004-05 REMEMBRANCE Scholar—a scholarship set aside to honor the 35 Syracuse University victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 terrorist attack— I was reminded that we all must cherish every moment we are given because we don’t know when our last will come. I also learned that being a part of the Syracuse University community meant having the responsibility of honoring and remembering those who have touched our lives. In 2006, SU lost Chris Sawyer ’04, a member of our Uni- versity family who made a lasting impact on my life. Chris and I got to know each other well while serving in our shared role as Otto the Orange. Chris was an amazing entertainer and a great friend. He knew people everywhere he went. Chris could really work a crowd, including a 30,000-plus strong one in the Dome, with his endless spirit, energy, and enthusi- asm for all things Orange. When SU basketball games were nationally televised, Chris always had the best ideas for how to get Otto on camera. He would coordinate with the film crews and the band so that upon coming back from commercial break, they could lead with Otto playing the drums. Let me tell you, trying to fit be- hind the drum kit and play in full Otto costume was no easy task, but Chris pulled it off every time. I’ll never forget Chris’s last home game versus UConn in 2004. We all knew the rules and what Otto was and was not supposed to do, but he wanted to pump up the crowd one last, unforgettable time. After coordinating plans with friends and fans, Otto went crowd-surfing through the student sec- tion—a feat that probably never should have happened. But Chris just had to do it, and the crowd went wild. Man, did he love making games memorable for everyone. After Chris graduated, he went on to become a profes- sional mascot in both hockey and baseball. In 2005, Chris, a nis on Cape Cod. Since 2009, I have raised more than $12,000 healthy, strong young man, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s in Chris’s name. This year I have set my goal high, hoping to lymphoma. Although I’m sure he fought as hard as one could, raise $10,000 for this single event. Although I first started this he lost his battle with the disease, passing away a year later at journey for my friend Chris Sawyer, having told people about just 24 years old. what I’m doing has introduced me to so many others whose Remembering what I learned about honoring those in my SU lives have been touched by these terrible diseases, and I feel family, I signed up in 2008 to run the Phoenix Marathon as a privileged to be a part of this new family of incredible people. part of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Train- ing (TNT). In exchange for raising money for patient care and blood cancer research, TNT coaches will train anybody to be A graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences, Elie Rabinowitz ’05 prepared for an endurance event. I am proud to say that not resides on Cape Cod with his wife, Newhouse alumna Becca Miller only did I finish the race well that year, but in my first attempt ’05, two dogs, and three chickens; teaches high-school Spanish; at fundraising in honor of my friend, I raised more than $3,000. and coaches baseball. Along with serving as Otto the Orange and I have since completed three additional events for TNT, and being a Remembrance Scholar, he was an orientation leader and this June will compete in my first triathlon with them in Hyan- helped found A Men’s Issue.

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ORANGE LEGACY Members of the Rigolosi family gathered last fall for the Holy Name » Eight and Counting for the Rigolosi Family Medical Center Founders Ball at Chelsea Piers in New York City. Pictured (from left) are Robert R. A WELL-WORN PATH HAS DEVELOPED FROM NEW JERSEY South Campus, and sweeping Rigolosi ’91, Vince Rigolosi ’54, and the home of the Rigolosi family to the Syracuse University Hill. up at Crouse Hall to the sounds Elaine Rigolosi, Robert S. Rigolosi That’s because a long line of Rigolosi family members picked SU— of “beautiful organ music, or ’57, Charlie Rigoglioso ’51, Rebecca and more could be coming. To date, eight are Syracuse graduates. wonderful voices singing from Rigolosi ’92, and Ronnie Rigolosi First, there are the four brothers: Charles ’51, Vincent ’54, Robert the classrooms,” he says. Bob, ’65. All are SU graduates with the exception of Robert’s wife, Elaine, ’57, and Ronald ’65; then Charlie’s sons, Domenic ’78 and Daniel a 1992 Arents Award recipient, who is a professor at Columbia ’91, as well as Bob’s daughter Rebecca ’92 and son Robert ’91. went on to become a doctor, University. The medical center, It all started with Charlie, the oldest of seven children born to specializing in nephrology and located in Teaneck, New Jersey, Italian immigrant parents—a father who worked in a factory and a establishing dialysis programs honored Dr. Robert S. Rigolosi at the mother who was a seamstress. Charlie was a boxer, and earned a in New Jersey during a time event as the recipient of The Spirit of Healing Award, recognizing him when few existed. He is also the scholarship under boxing coach Roy Simmons Sr. ’25. Charlie told for his many years of distinguished “Simmy,” as the Rigolosi brothers refer to him, there were oth- founder and medical director of service to the medical profession. ers “just like him, even better” at home. Soon, Vince and Bob fol- the department of hemodialysis lowed. Ronnie arrived after SU discontinued the sport, but would at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, New Jersey. “I’ll always have been the fourth brother to enter the ring for the Orange. be grateful to Syracuse,” Bob says, “for giving us the educational Charlie, Vince, and Bob are all Lettermen of Distinction Award and inspirational support to reach high goals.” honorees. Charlie and Vince both battled their way to Eastern Ronnie also became a doctor, while Vince was the lawyer and Intercollegiate boxing titles, and Bob was a two-time New York politician in the family, having served elected office in his home State Golden Gloves winner, a U.S. Olympic finalist in 1956, and state. Vince credits his parents, who never attended high school, an NCAA finalist in 1957. for the family’s academic achievements. “They always valued edu- But Bob’s boxing stories don’t end there. In 1960, as a medical cation,” Vince says. “They went to work early in life shortly after student at the University of Rome, he was asked to work as an in- immigrating to the United States where they met, married, and terpreter with the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Bob knew the boxing raised four boys and three girls.” All of the Rigolosi children earned coach, and the team trainer was from SU. While there, Bob met advanced college degrees, with the three girls becoming teachers. the young Cassius Clay before he became Muhammad Ali. “He Vince most values the friendships he forged at SU that still ex- was 18 years old and the friendliest guy in the Olympic Village,” ist to this day. “I became exposed to people who had interests of Bob recalls. After Clay won the light-heavyweight gold medal, he every sort,” he says. “That goes a long way in developing you as autographed the sneakers he wore during his championship bout a person. It wasn’t just the experience I got in the classroom, but and gave them to Bob as a thank you for his help with the team. the experience I got on campus, too.” Bob chuckles when he tells the story of how, years later, his moth- So is eight enough when it comes to the Rigolosi family con- er accidentally threw the sneakers away. “I couldn’t be angry,” he nection to SU? Don’t count on it. “There are 24 nieces and neph- says. “She was throwing all of our old sneakers away before she ews out there, along with 26 grandnieces and grandnephews,” and my father moved.” Vince says. “It’s a running joke in our family that each of them has As for his time at SU, “great memories,” Bob recalls. He remem- to at least consider Syracuse, and be prepared for the needling if bers living with other student-athletes in temporary housing on they go somewhere else.” —Keith Kobland

48 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2015 5 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 1 [2015], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL Alan N. Willson Jr. G’65, G’67 Upstate College of Nursing. Her Salvatore Torquato ’75 (E&CS), a (E&CS), Distinguished Professor topic was “Healthcare for Women: professor of chemistry at Princeton and Charles P. Reames Chair in A Historical View.” DeCrow also University, published a paper SEND US Electrical Engineering at UCLA, was a panelist for the A Passion for describing a possible new state NEWS OF YOUR was elected to the National Acade- Law and Opera event held at the of matter in Physical Review E, a my of Engineering for his contribu- New York City Bar Association. journal for research in statistical, ACCOMPLISHMENTS. tions to the theory and applications nonlinear, and soft-matter physics. of digital signal processing. John P. Kellogg ’72, G’75 (NEW) is an entertainment lawyer and Molly Keim Morrison G’76 To submit information for Class Diana Knight Bendz ’68 (ESF), assistant chair of the music/ (NEW), a noted conservation strat- Notes via the Internet, go to a retired IBM manager, received business management depart- egist, was honored with the eighth the 2013 Technical Innovation ment at Berklee College of Music annual Rebecca Lukens Award by alumni.syr.edu and register Lifetime Achievement Award from in Boston. He developed the first the National Iron & Steel Heritage with the SU Alumni Online the Small Scale System Integrated free online course to focus on Museum in Coatesville, Pa. Community. Items will appear in Packaging Center at Binghamton music, Introduction to the Music the magazine and in the Class University for her contributions to Business, offered through edX, a Melissa Killeen ’77 (A&S), a the Greater Binghamton technical consortium founded by Harvard recovery coach who specializes Notes section of the online community. and MIT that offers free online in working with the recovering community. Items can also be study from leading universities and entrepreneur or business person, sent to Alumni Editor, Syracuse Frank Ritter ’68 (A&S) presented colleges around the world. wrote Recovery Coaching: A Guide University Magazine; 820 a photographic exhibition titled The to Coaching People in Recovery From World Trade Center: A retrospec- David J. Noonan L’72 (LAW), a Addictions (MK/RC Publishing). Comstock Avenue, Room 308; tive of the last twelve years…and partner in the Kirby Noonan Lance Syracuse, NY 13244-5040. from where we came, at the 331 & Hoge law firm in San Diego, was Scott Pitoniak ’77 (NEW) co- Main Gallery in New York City last selected for inclusion on The Best wrote The Buffalo Bills: My Life on a September. Lawyers in America 2014 list, and Special Team (Sports Publishing), named a 2014 Southern California a memoir by former Bills’ wide CLASS NOTES LEDGER Karen B. Winnick ’68 (VPA), a Super Lawyer and a Top 50: San receiver Steve Tasker. children’s book author and illustra- Diego Super Lawyer. ARC — School of Architecture tor, wrote Gemina, the Crooked-Neck Melissa Bennett ’78 (ARC) is the Giraffe (Santa Barbara Zoological Jack Rudnick L’73 (LAW) was building services group leader in A&S — College of Arts and Sciences Gardens), a nonfiction story about named director of the Technology the Boston office of Dewberry, a giraffe that inspired children Commercialization Law Program a leading professional services EDU — School of Education because she was comfortable with at the Syracuse University College firm that provides architecture, E&CS — College of Engineering who she was, even though she was of Law. engineering, and management and different from the other giraffes at consulting services to a variety of and Computer Science Joseph Fahey L’75 (LAW) is a public- and private-sector clients. the Santa Monica Zoo. ESF — State University of New York judge in the New York State Unified Court System and an adjunct law Dawne Chandler ’78, G’00 College of Environmental professor at SU. He wrote James K. (WSM) of Auburn, Calif., earned Science and Forestry McGuire: Boy Mayor and Irish Na- a Ph.D. degree in organization and 70s FALK — David B. Falk College of tionalist (SU Press), a book about management with a specializa- Genie Abrams ’70 (NEW) began a the life of a prominent business- tion in project management from Sport and Human Dynamics four-year term as a member of the man and leading Irish American Capella University. After retiring as (formerly the College of City Council of Newburgh, N.Y., on nationalist who, in 1894, became vice president, operations, for DST Human Ecology) January 1. the youngest mayor of Syracuse at Output communications solutions, age 26. Chandler is an adjunct professor NUR — College of Nursing Ken Goldberg ’70 (A&S), G’73 and consultant with Chandler (IST) is president of the Cleveland SWK — School of Social Work Robert P. Mitchell G’75 (NEW), Consulting Group. Heights (Ohio) Historical Society. assistant dean for diversity rela- He retired from his position as IST — School of Information Studies tions and communications, Faculty Randa Awn Handler ’78, G’79 librarian/records manager for of Arts and Sciences at Harvard (NEW) wrote and illustrated The LAW — College of Law the Northeast Ohio Areawide University, received the Service to Boy Who Spoke to God (Premier Coordinating Agency and has long Quinnipiac Award from Quinnipiac Digital Publishing), a fairy tale MAX — Maxwell School of Citizenship participated in activities involving University, which is presented that addresses children’s basic and Public Affairs local architecture and history. biennially to an alumna or alumnus questions about God. Set in a time NEW — S.I. Newhouse School of who devotes much of their time long ago, the fairy tale takes place Deborah Mackin ’71 (VPA) of to the continued excellence of in a magical kingdom where Greek, Public Communications Eagle Bridge, N.Y., co-wrote Survival Quinnipiac’s Alumni Association Chinese, Zulu, and Mayan tribes of the Hive: 7 Leadership Lessons UC — University College program. Mitchell is also a member live happily together. from a Beehive (AuthorHouse), of the SU Alumni Association which provides leadership lessons UTICA— Utica College Board and the SU Boston Regional and organizational “survival” tac- Council. VPA — College of Visual and tics through the eyes of one of the world’s most industrious and suc- Performing Arts Thomas Moore G’75 (A&S) wrote cessful creatures, the honey bee. A Religion of One’s Own: A Guide to SDA — School of Speech and Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Dramatic Arts Karen DeCrow L’72 (LAW) Secular World (Penguin). was the keynote speaker at the WSM— Martin J. Whitman School of Women’s Health: Where Are We Management Today? conference sponsored by

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» KUDOS: MY INDEBTEDNESS TO CERTAIN MENTORS AND MODELS By Peter I. Rose

IN 2003, THE YEAR BEFORE ogy. In addition to my fascination with race and ethnicity, my 50th college reunion I was intrigued by differences between those “on top” and and my official retirement others. Goldman’s doctoral thesis, “Differential Selection of from nearly as many years Juveniles for Court Appearance,” starkly revealed the power of teaching, I published of often unearned privilege and the different consequences Guest Appearances and Other of criminal acts committed by those having privilege in con- Travels in Time and Space, a trast to those without it. book of essays that included The third was Michael O. Sawyer, an instructor of a Max-

REFLECTIONS “Once an Orangeman…” well course required of all first-year students. Under his guid- In that story, I reflected on ance, we discussed several challenging events in then-recent my time at Syracuse and American history: the Sacco and Vanzetti case; the reloca- how a naïve freshman who tion and incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans in started out at Skytop, hop- 1942; and the riots that took place in Peekskill, New York, in ing more than anything to 1949 when the African American singer, actor, and activist become a professional skier, Paul Robeson returned to the United States after receiving soon found there were other the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviets. things in life worth pursuing. If Doug Haring and Nate Goldman were mentors, Mike This past fall, I shared a Sawyer was more of a model. What I admired most about fuller portrait of my life as a sociologist, ethnographer, writer, him was his dedication to teaching and the skill with which and travel journalist in Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Profes- he helped us to broaden our horizons, think outside the box, sor (Levellers Press). There again, I paid homage to my alma and carefully listen to the arguments of those with whom we mater. But what I failed to do was to say much about some fervently disagreed. of the faculty members who most influenced me, especially As many Syracusans know, Sawyer rose through the ranks, three men to whom I will forever be indebted. eventually becoming vice chancellor. I last saw him around The first was anthropologist Douglas Haring. He had 25 years ago when I was invited back to SU to give the Chan- spent much of his early life in Japan, the subject of his best- cellor’s Lecture. It turned out that because Chancellor Mel- known work. It was a society I would get to know—and write vin Eggers was away, Sawyer was asked to introduce me. about—many years later. I first went there as a Fulbright pro- (I’m sure the planners had no idea how much that meant to fessor and taught a course that reflected much that was in me.) After his generous introduction, I turned to the audi- the title of one of his most important publications, “Racial ence and said several things about my memories of a young Differences and Human Resemblances.” As I wrote in the Mike Sawyer, including the fact that in my time he was the preface to Postmonitions, “For as long as I can remember I only Republican on the Maxwell faculty. Mike interrupted me have been fascinated by ethnic differences and cultural re- and said, sotto voce, “I still am.” sponses to common human needs, wants, and fears.” Haring There were a number of others with whom I studied and was the guy who first encouraged me to follow this interest also admired, but none—save perhaps for ski coach and ar- in a systematic way. chitecture professor George Earle, who urged me to realize The second was Nathan Goldman, my undergraduate ad- there was a wide world beyond the slopes—were as memo- visor in the department of sociology and anthropology. Origi- rable or as important to me as these three. nally a clinical psychologist, he had practiced in Boston and as a naval officer in World War II, but his experiences with people from many walks of life led him to change fields. After Peter Rose ’54, the Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior the war, he studied for his Ph.D. in sociology at the University Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College, is the of Chicago. I took every course he offered at SU and, through author of many books, including most recently Postmonitions of him, became imbued with “Chicago sociology”—a combina- a Peripatetic Professor (2013) and They and We (seventh— tion of urban anthropology, ethnic studies, and human ecol- and 50th anniversary—edition, 2014).

50 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2015 7 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 1 [2015], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL Tim Wendel ’78 (NEW) of Vienna, away, as if in serious contemplation, of Attitudes and Behaviors (Maine also lends his voice to the minions, Va., wrote Down to the Last Pitch: inscribed with Kennedy’s quotation, College Press). Based on 20 years the bad guy’s little yellow helpers. How the 1991 Minnesota Twins and “God’s work must truly be our own.” of research, the book offers insight Earlier in his career, Renaud worked Atlanta Braves Gave Us the Best The artwork was placed within a into the differences between college as a story artist on such films as World Series of All Time (Da Capo memorial wreath garnished with men and women, as well as inter- Robots; Ice Age: The Meltdown; and Press). A founding editor of USA roses that matched those presented esting trends in students’ attitudes Horton Hears a Who! In 2006, he Today Baseball Weekly, Wendel is an to the First Lady early that fateful and behaviors since 1990. was nominated for an Academy exhibit advisor to the Baseball Hall day in Dallas. The wreath was then Award for No Time for Nuts, an of Fame and a writer-in-residence marched on November 22 by a U.S. Craig Borten ’87 (A&S) was animated short he wrote and co- at Johns Hopkins University. Navy Seal Guard team to a special nominated for an Academy Award directed. spot in a televised public ceremo- for his original screenplay for Christopher Kerr ’79 (A&S), a ny at Arlington National Cemetery. Dallas Buyers Club, which was also Jeff Speck G’89 (A&S), an award- litigation attorney for Jeffrey Freed- The wreath was permanently nominated for Best Picture. Borten winning city planner and urban man Attorneys at Law in Buffalo, donated to the JFK Library. first interviewed Ron Woodroof, the designer, wrote Walkable City: How was named to the 2013 Super movie’s real-life main character in Downtown Can Save America, One Lawyers list. Valerie Ann Leeds G’81 (A&S) is an 1992, but it took 20 years to get the Step at a Time (Farrar, Straus, and independent curator who organized AIDS drama made. Finally, it was Giroux, 2012). The book looks Mark P. Salsbury ’79 (UTICA) the exhibition and accompanying filmed in 2012 with Matthew Mc- at how walkability, combined wrote Human Capital Management: catalog for Southwestern Allure: Conaughey as its star. Borten also with smart growth and sustain- Leveraging Your Workforce for a Com- The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony at wrote Looking for Jimmy (2002) and able design, can help reinvigorate petitive Advantage (CreateSpace the Boca Museum of Art in Boca The 33, which is scheduled to come American cities. Independent Publishing Platform), Raton, Fla. The exhibition features out this year. a book that offers a roadmap for more than 40 outstanding artworks Eric H. Weitz ’89 (NEW) is chair- leaders and managers who seek to selected from leading public and Marianne Pilla Cushing ’87 (VPA), man of the Board of Governors of optimize their human capital (www. private collections that present a wrote Mahalas Lane, a novel the Philadelphia Bar Association. salsburyhcm.com). thorough picture of which artists inspired by her stay in a cottage on went to Santa Fe, what they found Maine’s rocky shoreline. Cushing is Denis P. Sweeney ’79 (NEW) compelling about the environment, a copy editor with Soma Intimates, of Corning, N.Y., owns Sweeney the work they produced, and the a women’s lingerie retailer based 90s Enterprises, a consulting firm that prevailing artistic trends, from in Fort Myers, Fla., where she lives Julie Dennehy ’90 (NEW), presi- specializes in a full range of mar- realism to modernism, which they with her husband, daughter, and dent of Dennehy Public Relations, keting, public relations, and video applied to Southwestern subject three “fur babies.” is incoming president of the Boston production services. He also is the matter. chapter of the Public Relations voice of high school football and Joseph Kasouf ’87, G’90 (VPA), Society of America (PRSA). She has basketball in New York’s Southern Maura McEnaney G’82 (NEW) L’90 (LAW) is general counsel at held numerous leadership roles in Tier for radio stations NEWS TALK wrote Willard Garvey: An Epic Life Counsel Financial in Buffalo, N.Y. public relations, including serving 1230, WENY-AM 1450, and GEM- (LibertyTree Press), a biography on PRSA’s Universal Accreditation FM 98.7. of the late Wichita tycoon whose Harris G. Siegel ’87 (NEW) of Board, and as co-founder and ad- “every man a homeowner” vision to Havre de Grace, Md., won the ministrator of the Boston Indepen- build affordable homes in develop- Lifetime Achievement Award from dent Practitioners Network, past ing countries eventually provided the Society of News Design at the 80s president of the Publicity Club of thousands of families, from South annual convention in Louisville, Ky. New England, and former director Bruce E. Machlica G’80 (NEW) of America to Asia, the opportunity to He was recognized for ground- of the International Special Events Victor, N.Y., is president and CEO ascend the economic ladder. breaking work, particularly in sports of the global sports marketing and and features design at the Asbury Society’s New England chapter. entertainment representation firm Hugh Johnston ’83 (WSM) of Park Press. Rosemary Hennessy G’90 (A&S) Chatham Communications Corpo- Greenwich, Conn., was inducted as is the L.H. Favrot Professor of Hu- ration, which has been retained by an inaugural member of the Chris- Linda D’Antonio G’89 (E&CS) of manities, professor of English, and the estate of Babe Ruth as its ex- tian Brothers Academy Hall of Fame Webster, N.Y., is a triathlete com- director of the Center for the Study clusive business manager. He also in Syracuse. peting in the Coeur d’Alene Ironman spoke recently to Newhouse public competition in Idaho in June—13 of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University in Houston. She relations classes on celebrity dam- Ann Giacobbe Neidenbach ’84 years after she was diagnosed with wrote Fires on the Border: The Pas- age control and crisis intervention. (WSM) of New York City is senior multiple sclerosis (MS). D’Antonio sionate Politics of Labor Organizing on vice president and head of market also is participating in the Race to the Mexican Frontera (University of Kevin M. Young ’80 (A&S), an systems at Nasdaq OMX. She was Finish MS —a unique program with Minnesota Press), which examines attorney at the Tucker Ellis & West named one of 2013’s “Elite 8” tech- the goal of creating a world free of the issues of labor and community law firm in Cleveland, was named nology executives by Wall Street & MS. This fundraising platform offers organizing on Mexico’s northern an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2014. Technology. athletes of all types the chance to help find a cure for MS while push- border from the early 1970s to the Bill Janocha ’81 (VPA), a freelance Joseph Zawistowski G’84 (WSM), ing their own personal endurance present day (www.upress.umn.edu/ illustrator and Mort Walker’s studio a chartered financial analyst, is the limits. Her “Iron for MS” team is book-division/books/fires-on-the- assistant on the Beetle Bailey comic Hudson branch manager for Wells open to anyone who seeks to train border). strip, was commissioned by the No Fargo Advisors Northeast Ohio for an endurance event while raising James Mackey ’90 (ARC) passed Greater Love organization to create market. awareness and funds for the MS the Architect Registration Exam artwork to commemorate the 50th cause. anniversary of the assassination of Sandy Caron ’86 (FALK), profes- and is now a licensed architect in President John F. Kennedy. With sor of family studies and human Chris Renaud ’89 (VPA) co-direct- the state of Massachusetts. permission from the JFK Library, sexuality at the University of ed Despicable Me 2, which received Janocha created a sepia illustra- Maine, Orono, wrote The Sex Lives an Academy Award nomination tion of President Kennedy walking of College Students: Two Decades for Best Animated Feature Film. He

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» TRADITIONS

WJPZ Radio

‘Greatest Media Classroom’ documents 40 years of student-run station’s history By Amy Speach

AS MIGHT BE EXPECTED OF A LIVELY legendary story as producer of Great- world experience for students,” says Ble- group of communications profession- est Media Classroom, a documentary film yle, now Onondaga County commissioner als who are jazzed up about radio, the chronicling the station’s history. Initiated of emergency communications. “With alumni of WJPZ (Z89) have lots of color- and funded by the WJPZ Alumni Asso- Syracuse University having one of the pre- ful ways of talking about the student-run ciation to commemorate the station’s mier communications schools and a lot of station that rocked their SU experience 40th anniversary, the project documents people training to go into the commercial and top-40’ed their careers. WJPZ’s growth, challenges, and achieve- world, we really saw a need to have an ex- Some describe the station ments from its founding in 1973 to its perience that reflected the mainstream of as remarkable, legend- recent studio expansion in Watson Hall. radio broadcasting at the time.” ary, and audacious. The film, edited by Oklahoma-based SVP The station’s founders called on New- Others say it pro- Media, includes audio clips, photos, and house professor Roosevelt “Rick” Wright Jr. vides a sanctuary in mementos depicting the station through G’93 to serve as faculty advisor and men- an often hypercom- four decades, as well as commentary and tor of the student-run enterprise, a role petitive media world. reminisces by WJPZ alumni, so many of he held for most of the station’s 40 years, Many remember it as whom have gone on to become commu- earning him the affection and gratitude of the first time they found nications industry leaders. Also featured generations of alumni and a place of honor other people like themselves; is footage of the station’s dynamic sports among the inaugural members of the WJPZ the first place they felt like they belonged. coverage and news programming, as well Hall of Fame. “If there is any glue that held And without exception, they speak of each as video clips of campus life through the this whole thing together over the years, it other as valued colleagues and lifelong years. “What drove the documentary wasn’t just the belief of students wanting friends—as family. Above all, generations was the remarkable story about WJPZ’s to make this a real-life working experience, of WJPZ alumni express gratitude for what origins and key moments along the way,” but also Rick Wright, who knew the busi- they consider the most comprehensive me- says MacFarlane, who spent two years re- ness and carried a lot of excitement with dia classroom they’ve ever encountered. searching, writing, editing, and producing him,” Bleyle says. “The world we were try- “People who have been or are members of the 30-minute film. “We got a lot of help ing to emulate—cutting-edge, commercial, WJPZ will tell you it is a life-changing ex- from our alumni who foraged through and competitive—that was his world.” perience,” says Scott MacFarlane ’98, who their documents and photos—and from Other milestones portrayed in the doc- was a disc jockey and station news director the resources in SU Archives—helping us umentary include the station’s historic during his years as a Newhouse student. piece together the station’s history.” move to the FM dial in 1985—the first “And that’s a strange thing to say about a Among the film’s highlights is the story student-owned and -operated station to radio station that’s in a small studio on a of WJPZ’s humble beginnings. Co-found- be granted a license by the FCC—and its college campus. You know from the second ed by Craig Fox ’75 and Bill Bleyle ’76 comprehensive coverage of the December you walk in that there is something distinc- with “begged and borrowed” equipment, 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight tive about it. There’s a culture and energy a hand-built antenna atop Day Hall, and 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. One of the and passion that the people have and the a radio signal less powerful than a light film’s most poignant moments features station fosters. It’s not just a student activ- bulb, WJPZ AM came into the world as a a sound clip of then general manager ity—it’s a joy.” nonstop-rock commercial radio station— Scott Meach ’90 signing off the air tem- Now an investigative television reporter “serving the universe from the top, top, porarily to mark, with silence, the day’s at an NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., top of Mount Olympus,” according to one solemnity. “Pan Am 103 was obviously a MacFarlane recently had the pleasure of the documentary’s audio clips. “There life-changing moment, and we all knew of helping share and celebrate WJPZ’s was a desire among us to create a real- that immediately,” says Meach, founder

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Listen to Steve Simpson, Jeff Silverblatt, and ‘Hot Shot Scott’ doing liners for the early station IDs. http://boffoyuxdudes. bandcamp.com/track/wjpz-hot-hits-top- of-the-hour-ids

Facing page: An early logo for the station is set against a photo of the original hand-built antenna atop Day Hall. Above: Members of the WJPZ Alumni Association came together in March for their 29th reunion banquet and fifth hall of fame induction ceremony, and for the premiere screening of Greatest Media Classroom.

and CEO of Atlanta-based SecondTicket, whole enterprise. But a period of aston- dience listening to us at certain times of a sports and entertainment ticket mar- ishing prosperity in the early ’90s stands the day. And at the time, we were 100 ketplace, and former WJPZ Alumni As- in shining contrast to those ongoing percent supported by sponsorship, so sociation president. “But there were a challenges. “We were a bunch of kids we were also competitive in that way.” lot of individuals at the station who rose just trying to learn to do this for real, but Friedman hopes alumni of all interests above the fear and the pure emotion and we were a force to be reckoned with,” will check out the film, which premiered acted so professionally to help commu- says WJPZ alumnus Matt Friedman ’94, in Syracuse on March 1 in conjunction nicate information to people on campus. a partner with Tanner Friedman Com- with the WJPZ Alumni Association’s We became a call center with live DJs in munications in Detroit. “We competed 29th reunion banquet and fifth hall of the studio 24/7 to serve that immediate in the Central New York market in every fame induction ceremony. “It will give need for news in a way that wasn’t easy way that a radio station could. We were everyone the opportunity to learn about to do back then. We basically became a breaking news stories, getting new mu- something excellent at Syracuse that real-life Twitter.” sic on the air first, and doing promotions they probably didn’t know about before,” Throughout the station’s history, fi- that professional stations emulated— he says. “And I think the success of our nancial difficulties often arose, some- giving away cars and vacation packages. radio station can be a real point of pride times threatening to put a stop to the We had more than 10 percent of the au- for all SU alumni.”

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David Sewell McCann ’90 (VPA) of and consultant relationships in the Ephraim J. Fink ’96 (NEW) is Karen Fox G’00 (MAX), a psychic, Charlotte, Vt., launched the media western United States. an equity member of the general medium, and medical intuitive and business Sparkle Stories, an online practice law firm Maya Murphy director of the Denver-based Aspen resource for original, high-quality Brad Wirz ’91 (WSM), creator of PC in Westport, Conn. He and his Program for Psychic Development, audio children’s stories for sub- Gone Reading (GoneReading.com), a wife, Michele Haiken ’96 (EDU), wrote Build Your Psychic Skills: The scribers around the world (www. philanthropic e-commerce site that a teacher at Rye Middle School in 90-Day Plan (Schiffer Publishing). sparklestories.com). Sparkle Stories sells book-themed products to ben- Rye, N.Y., created the Twitter blog continues to be the No. 1 iTunes efit reading-related charities, was The Teaching Factor. They live in Elizabeth Gebler Griswold ’00 Kids and Families podcast. featured in a Huffington Post story Stamford, Conn., with their two (NEW), graphic design director about ways to help build libraries in children. and project leader in the branded Allison Slater Ofanansky ’90 developing countries (www.huffing- environments market at MSA (NEW), a children’s book author, tonpost.com/kate-schmier/spread- John Guerriero ’96 (A&S/NEW) is Architects in Cincinnati, has been wrote New Moon, New Month, the the-magic-of-readi_b_4457128.html). an associate in the Segal McCam- named an associate at the firm. fifth book in her Nature in Israel se- bridge Singer & Mahoney law firm ries about Jewish holidays and their David Kelley G’92 (EDU) presented in New York City. Sarah Leadbeater ’01 (VPA) of connection to natural cycles. She a workshop, Corporate Sponsor- Amesbury, Mass., was recognized also released Patchwork Torah. Both ships in High School Athletics, at Erin Henderson Oxenham ’96 by the Massachusetts Technology children’s books were published by the 44th National Athletic Direc- (FALK) and her husband, Shawn Education Engineering Collab- KarBen/Lerner. tors Conference in Anaheim, Calif., Oxenham ’96 (NEW), of San Fran- orative as the 2013 Technology in December. The conference, spon- cisco, announce the birth of their Engineering Teacher of the Year “for Tim Robb ’90 (A&S) is general sored by the National Federation of daughter, Alexandra Ellery, who outstanding educational leadership counsel of National Financial Part- State High School Associations and joins big sister Olivia. in the promotion of technology and ners Corporation, a leading provider the National Interscholastic Ath- engineering education in the Com- of benefits, insurance, and wealth letic Administrators Association, Julie Gueraseva ’97 (VPA) monwealth of Massachusetts.” management services, located in provided an educational in-service launched LAIKA, New York City’s New York City. program for interscholastic athletic first magazine to offer a modern Melissa Buckley Kaule ’02 (NEW) administrators. guide to vegan living. of Langhorne, Pa., is national execu- Davita Smith Carpenter ’91 (A&S), tive director at Thirty-One Gifts, author, speaker, trainer, and coach, David R. Lucas ’94 (A&S) is the Melanie Atkinson Metzger ’98, one of the nation’s fastest-growing is president of Career & Life Bal- principal of Lucas Law Group (www. G’99 (IST) is assistant director at direct sales companies. ance Management in Aberdeen, LucasGroupLLC.com), a law firm in the Albany (N.Y.) Public Library. Md. Under the pen name Davita Melrose, Mass. John Raiti G’02 (E&CS), a robotics Nicole, she wrote Woman to Woman Melanie Barnas Simmons ’98 software and web developer at (Tate Publishing), a book about one Jen Reeder ’94 (A&S), who at age (NEW), director of advancement Brown University in Providence, R.I., woman’s self-reflections and tribu- 39 donated a kidney to her hus- at Our Lady of Mercy School for is a member of Robots for Human- lations as she journeys through life. band, Bryan Fryklund ’94 (A&S), Young Women in Rochester, N.Y., ity, a collaborative robotic learning in 2012, founded the nonprofit or- is president of the Genesee Valley research group that explores new Jeffery M. Fuller ’91 (ARC) is ganization Rock 1 Kidney to provide Chapter of the Association of Fund- aspects of how robots can learn president of CSDA Design Group, information and inspiration for oth- raising Professionals. and interact with humans and help an internationally recognized archi- ers who are considering becoming people with severe disabilities bet- tecture and engineering firm. Fuller donors. Kidney donors are invited Michael Alper ’99 (A&S/NEW) ter navigate the world. The team’s is based in CSDA’s Los Angeles to share their stories online at www. married Melissa Hanisch in July work was filmed at TEDx MidAtlan- office. rock1kidney.org. 2013 in Chicago. He is a probation tic (www.ted.com/talks/henry_ev- officer with the United States Dis- ans_and_chad_jenkins_meet_the_ro- Greg Hamilton ’91 (ARC), an archi- Amma Tanksley-West ’95 (A&S), trict Court for the Northern District bots_for_humanity.html). tect specializing in hospital design, G’01 (MAX) is vice president-strat- of Illinois. launched Chemo Cozy, a company egy and secretary to the corpora- Tito Bottitta ’03 (IST), Jared No- that provides clothing for cancer tion at the United Negro College Jamie K. McCallum ’99 (A&S), a vack ’06 (VPA), and Mike Swartz patients during chemotherapy Fund in Washington, D.C. sociology professor at Middlebury ’08 (FALK) are co-owners of treatments. As an outgrowth of his College in Vermont, wrote Global Upstatement, an international firm experience undergoing chemother- Keisha-Gaye Anderson ’96 (A&S/ Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit based in Boston that designs large- apy, Hamilton and his wife, Ellen, NEW) is a poet, author, screen- of Transnational Labor Organizing scale news and magazine websites. designed warm and comfortable writer, and former journalist whose (Cornell University Press), exploring Three of the firm’s sites won Editor clothing that allows easy access to work has appeared in the Killens the challenges and potential of & Publisher Awards, including Best oncology patients’ ports, PICC- Review of Arts and Letters; Small transnational labor strategies. Overall Website Design for Glo- lines, or other infusion sites without Axe Salon; The Mom Egg; Afrobeat balNews.ca, Best Daily Newspaper disrobing. Their second product Journal; Poems on the Road to Peace: Website for BostonGlobe.com, and line will be geared toward children A Collective Tribute to Dr. King; Best College/University Newspaper (www.chemocozy.com). Part of Sometimes Rhythm, Sometimes Blues 00s Website for DailyOrange.com, which the profits from Chemo Cozy will (Seal Press); and Streetnotes: Cross Emily Apel G’00 (NEW) earned a the firm created pro bono in 2012. be dedicated to funding cancer Cultural Poetics. Her television work law degree from Willamette Univer- research. includes documentary production sity College of Law in Salem, Ore., Lisa Kelly ’03 (EDU) and Michael for CBS, PBS, and Japanese televi- and was admitted to the Oregon Lombardi ’03, G’12 (WSM) of Candida Hoeberichts ’91 (FALK/ sion, and her feature articles have bar in October. She is an attorney White Plains, N.Y., announce VPA) is a director of investor rela- appeared in Psychology Today, Black with the Umpqua Valley Public the birth of their son, Benjamin tions at AEW Capital Management, Enterprise, Honey, and Teen People. Defender in Roseburg, Ore., where Geames Kelly-Lombardi. Lisa is an an international real estate invest- Anderson lives in Brooklyn and she represents indigent criminal attorney at Legal Services of the ment management firm. Based in teaches African American literature defendants. Hudson Valley, and Michael is an San Francisco, she is responsible for at CUNY (www.keishagaye.com). account director at Ogilvy. developing and maintaining client

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HONORS TONY AWARD WINNER The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Best Revival of a Musical, 2012

TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS Catch Me If You Can, Best Musical, 2011 Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Best Revival of a Play, 2012 Evita, Best Revival of a Musical, 2012 Matilda the Musical, Best Musical, 2013 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Best Revival of a Musical, 2013

GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATION Van Dean ’96 Matilda the Musical, » » Best Musical Theater Album, 2014 FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE VAN DEAN BRINGS BROADWAY SHOWS tion. “In addition to my communications the tragedy, is now available on CD, DVD, to life. As a producer, he finds the mate- courses, I took classes in entrepreneur- and Blu-ray. “We wanted the concert to rial or someone to create the material, ship, musical theater, music composition, be uplifting and an outlet for the kids to hires personnel, brings financial back- and music industry, all of which gave me express themselves,” Dean says. “It was ers together, and manages all aspects of the confidence I needed to start my own such a life-changing experience that we the business end of the production. And business.” decided to do a show with the children of in the nearly nine years since starting Winning a Tony Award in June 2012 Newtown the following summer.” his producing career, Dean has received propelled Dean to the top of the theater As promised, Dean helped recruit a five Tony Award nominations, a Gram- world, but as the year drew to a close, he team of Broadway professionals who do- my Award nomination, and won a 2012 was called upon to use his skill and expe- nated their time to work with 86 kids from Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musi- rience as a producer to offer support to Newtown, ages 5 to 18, and one Broad- cal for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. “My the residents of Newtown, Connecticut, way star to present Seussical—a musical initial plan had been to write for theater following the tragedy at Sandy Hook El- written by Lynn Ahrens ’70 and Stephen and producing wasn’t even on my radar,” ementary School. “I wanted to do some- Flaherty based on children’s books by Dr. Dean says, “but a friend offered me an thing to help, but didn’t know what I could Seuss—at the Newtown High School last opportunity to get involved behind the do,” says Dean, who grew up in nearby August. The four sold-out performances scenes in an Off-Broadway musical, and Trumbull, Connecticut. “Then a friend struck a chord in the community and re- one thing led to another.” suggested maybe we should do a benefit ceived national coverage. “It was magical A Broadway show can cost $2.5 million concert. I put the word out to ask, ‘Who is and better than many Broadway shows— to $16 million to produce, so to lessen the with me?’ and within two hours I had 100 you could feel the joy,” Dean says. “We’re financial risk, Dean launched the Broad- volunteers signed up. At that point I knew hoping to do a big show every summer and way Consortium in 2011. Because the we were on to something that could be re- maybe have smaller programs throughout investors own a piece of all of the shows ally meaningful.” the year while we help raise money for a produced by the consortium, they aren’t From Broadway with Love: A Benefit Con- new performing arts center in Newtown.” betting on any one show’s fortune. Dean cert for Sandy Hook took place in January Dean says he has always wanted to find also co-founded Broadway Records, which 2013 at the Palace Theatre in Waterbury, ways of giving back, and the Newtown releases cast albums of Broadway shows Connecticut. The concert brought togeth- productions have had the most impact on and live performances by such Broadway er a 42-piece orchestra, more than 100 him of anything he has ever done. “Some stars as Patti LuPone and Bebe Neuwirth. Broadway stars, and 300 young perform- of the parents told us how much the “I owe much of my success as a producer ers from local dance groups, the Sandy shows helped their children smile again to the freedom I had at SU to take a wide Hook Elementary School third and fourth and find their way back to being kids,” variety of courses that have all contrib- grades, and the Newtown High School Dean says. “This is a lifelong commitment uted to what I’m doing now,” says Dean, Chamber Choir. The benefit concert, for me. I’ve become very close with the who graduated from Newhouse with a which was broadcast on PBS last July and community—I feel like Newtown is my bachelor’s degree in TV and film produc- re-broadcast on the first anniversary of hometown now.” —Christine Yackel

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» Suzanne Butler G‘01 » SPIRITED SUPPORT AFTER EARNING AN M.B.A. DEGREE FROM the Whitman School of Management, Su- zanne Butler set out for Atlanta with few job prospects and contacts—but the cer- tainty that she wouldn’t miss an opportu- nity to succeed in this new beginning. “I’ve always felt that I never want to be at the end of my life and say, ‘If only…,’” she says. Today, more than a decade later and based in Chicago, Butler oversees Kmart’s online efforts as its digital marketing guru. If you cruise the Internet, you’ve probably come across several of the hilarious videos that are part of the company’s digital marketing strategy, such as last year’s “Big Gas Sav- ings,” “Ship My Pants,” and “Show Your Joe,” which together share close to 50 mil- lion views on YouTube. Butler, a Syracuse native, believes going to SU was the key to her success in com- bination with her tenacity. Her love for the school drove her to become presi- that Syracuse camaraderie.” I’ve always felt dent of the SU Alumni In 2006, looking for a change in venue and career that I never want Club of Atlanta first, growth, Butler moved to Chicago, attracted by its ur- “ and later the SU Alumni ban spirit. And the move paid off. Two years ago, But- to be at the end Club of Chicago. “I got ler was promoted to her current job, revolutionizing to where I am today be- Kmart’s marketing strategies by using social media of my life and say, cause of Syracuse Uni- platforms and humor. “I’ve been able to lead Kmart versity,” she says. in different directions than they’ve taken in the past,” ‘If only.’” The youngest of four, Butler says. “A couple of years ago, we weren’t doing Butler is the only one the kind of boundary-pushing digital work we are now.” in her family to attend Butler has directed the SU Alumni Club of Chicago for college, earning a B.A. degree in communication from about the same time she’s worked with Kmart. As club the University at Buffalo in 1994. But Butler believed president, Butler organizes all sorts of events—game- graduate school was essential to progress in her career. watching get-togethers, architecture cruises, talks with After two years as a part-time student and one as a professors—to reconnect the alumni population in the full-time, Butler completed her M.B.A. degree in mar- Windy City to SU. Last year, the club brought in Otto keting and landed in Atlanta, where she supervised the the Orange for an SU-Georgetown men’s basketball Delta Airlines-Coca-Cola marketing partnership as se- game. Otto also visited in March to attend another nior account manager for the flight carrier. During that game-watching gathering. But Butler says the alumni time, Butler started to engage with SU alumni, looking club isn’t just about sports. “It’s exciting that there are to bring to Georgia’s biggest city the spirit of bonding so many people across the United States who have an and mutual support of her time at SU. “Within a couple affinity for Syracuse,” she says. “And we try to help re- years of living in Atlanta, I heard about the SU alumni engage those people so they don’t lose that connection. club and wanted to get involved,” she says. “I missed Our job is to be that bridge.” —Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro

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Jesse Pickard ’06 » EDUCATIONAL GAME APP GURU A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO, WHILE BONING UP ON learning games for several languages and in such sub- Spanish in preparation for a trip to South America, ject areas as vocabulary and U.S. geography, as well Jesse Pickard discovered something about himself as an app for high school students preparing to take that was a little hard to admit: He was a terrible stu- the SAT. Plans are underway for continued expan- dent. “I hadn’t studied Spanish since high school, so sion into additional subject areas. “To create these to get back into it I hired a tutor,” he says. “But I would games, we have an interdisciplinary unit that includes forget to do my homework, show up late to class, or a game designer, an artist or animator, a game devel- even not go at all. It was a big mess.” At the same oper, and someone from time, Pickard realized he had no trouble whatsoever our educational content devoting his undivided attention to a completely dif- team,” Pickard says. “The It’s very collaborative, ferent activity: playing games on his phone. “So I just educational content team and a lot of fun.” figured, why not combine this thing that I loved and identifies the key skills we “ was addicted to—playing games—with this thing that need to build within any I was really struggling with, which was learning a lan- specific subject. So, with guage,” he says. geography, maybe we decide being able to read a That bright idea led to the 2010 creation of Mind- map is important—understanding that a star means a Snacks, a San Francisco-based company that creates capital and a dot means a secondary city. We’ll create interactive educational game apps in a range of sub- a game around that, with those four people sitting in jects for learners of all ages. Pickard is co-founder a room together until it’s built out. It’s very collabora- and CEO of the innovative startup, which began out tive, and a lot of fun.” of a small-business incubator in Philadelphia and Pickard enjoys sharing his experiences as a CEO developed its first product, a game app for Spanish with SU students, and regularly meets with iSchool learners, in just 90 days. “When we got it out, people students during the school’s annual Spring Break in seemed to really like it,” says Pickard, a graduate of Silicon Valley (pictured above). “It’s really inspiring to the Department of Art in the College of Visual and be around them,” he says. One thing he tries to get Performing Arts from Albany, New York. “They would across to students is they shouldn’t fear starting their say that, for the first time, they were really enjoying own businesses, something he learned from personal language learning, where in the past they felt like it experience, and from growing up in an entrepreneur- was a big chore.” ial family. He also cautions them not to enter into en- MindSnacks quickly gained popularity and praise, trepreneurship for the wrong reasons. “I try to give earning Apple’s Education App of the Year award and them the sense that you shouldn’t do it just because Pickard a place on the Forbes magazine “30 Under startups are the cool thing to do right now,” he says. 30: Games & Apps” list in 2011. In just four years, the “You should do it because there’s a thing in the world company has grown from four employees to a staff of that doesn’t exist yet that you cannot live without 25—an inventive and fun-loving group of engineers, seeing come to life. And that’s really the only reason artists, educators, and inventors—and now offers you should be starting a company.” —Amy Speach

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» Eyal Sherman ‘09 » LESSONS OF FAITH AND LEARNING

WHEN HE WAS JUST 4 YEARS OLD, THE unthinkable happened to Eyal Sherman. After surgery for a lesion on his brain stem, he suffered a stroke, leaving him a quadriplegic and vent dependent. His says. The family sat down with Nancy mind, however, was still intact. Eyal was Rothschild ’76, G’84, associate dean of the same bright, curious boy who had admissions at SU, who encouraged Eyal. been wheeled into an operating room just “The University was able to look at the days before. The year was 1986. total person,” Sherman says. “They made Eyal’s parents, Rabbi Charles and Leah a commitment to help Eyal have this ex- Sherman of Syracuse, were determined perience.” Some of that involved pure lo- to help create the best life possible for gistics, such as ensuring that paths lead- their young son. A key component of that ing to academic buildings were cleared of mission was making it possible for Eyal snow. But just as important was allowing to pursue his education, no matter the Eyal to explore different academic areas obstacles. Twenty-three years later, Eyal with professors and fellow students wel- graduated from SU, earning a bachelor’s coming him, as well as his mother and degree in fine arts. a nurse who both accompanied him to Charles Sherman writes of his journey classes. with Eyal in The Broken and the Whole, Dis- Admitted to the College of Arts and Sci- covering Joy after Heartbreak: Lessons from ences, Eyal pursued his studies through a Life of Faith (Scribner). Using his person- University College (UC), which provided al experience as a springboard, Sherman more flexibility in his coursework. The explores universal questions about doubt Shermans worked closely with UC Dean and faith, and the slow, gradual process to those early dark days following Eyal’s Bea Gonzalez G’04 and academic advisor of moving from anger to acceptance, stroke. After some 18 months in hospi- Emileen Butler ’00. After close to a de- from sorrow to joy. The book, which was tals, Eyal was able to come home. He had cade of study, Eyal graduated to a stand- published in March, has received early, missed years of school. “Then we started ing ovation and the cheers of family and critical acclaim. Kirkus Review called it “A using the word ‘if,’” Sherman says. “What friends. While a student at UC, Eyal blos- meaningful portrayal of how tragedy af- if Eyal could go to a school a few hours somed as an artist, painting with a brush fected and transformed one family and a week? When he finished elementary held in his mouth. “What I appreciated as especially one religious leader. Deeply school, what if he could continue on to a parent was that no one at SU ever told moving, extraordinarily thought-provok- middle school, to high school?” us, ‘It can’t be done,’” Sherman recalls. ing and entirely humane.” When Eyal graduated from Nottingham “That’s unusual for an institution. What Sherman also shares with readers Ey- High School in the Syracuse City School everybody said was ‘What can we do to al’s love of learning and his determination District, the family began talking about make this happen?’ The real beauty of it to attend and succeed at Syracuse Uni- college. “What kind of message would we is that people treated him as a student, versity. “We’d started off just happy that be sending to Eyal if his four siblings could as a regular kind of kid. That’s what most he was alive,” says Sherman, referring go to college and he couldn’t?” Sherman people want to be.” —Kathleen Curtis

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» Tanya Forrest Hall ‘93 » STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS

TANYA FORREST HALL THOUGHT SHE wanted to be a doctor, but at Syracuse University she began a journey of explo- ration that sent her down a dramatically different career path when she discov- ered the world of business. Today, she is an accomplished marketing professional with more than 15 years of experience in market- where she was responsible for developing and ing/media strategy, account management, busi- managing a multimillion-dollar operating budget ness development, brand messaging, and event and organizing community support for what is and broadcast production. “I started learning now the Prudential Center, a sports and enter- about what interested me, instead of what was tainment arena. Forrest Hall then signed on with expected of me,” says Forrest Hall, executive AURN in New York City, doing marketing and sales director for the Southeast region of Ameri- promotions until she married and relocated to can Urban Radio Networks (AURN) in Atlanta. Atlanta. Initially, she super- “I can truly say that my SU experience expanded vised multicultural marketing my mind academically and taught me much more for the Atlanta Braves, but I started learning about myself.” then returned to AURN, the about what interested After graduating with a bachelor’s degree largest African American- “ in retail management from the former College owned radio network, with me, instead of what for Human Development and the Whitman more than 300 affiliates na- was expected of me.” School of Management, Forrest Hall entered tionwide and an estimated 25 the Bloomingdale’s Department Stores execu- million listeners. She also is a marketing consul- tive training program. During nearly five years tant for Vanguard Strategic Partners. there, she was promoted from manager to buyer. Forrest Hall describes her time at SU as some But she was looking for more and studied sports of the best years of her life and a coming-of-age marketing and management at New York Uni- personally and professionally. She gained an ex- versity. “I used my mix of retail, marketing, and panded worldview and started to envision what sports management knowledge to transition to her life would be like after SU. “Professionally, the sports industry,” says Forrest Hall, who has Syracuse University has been my career path GPS served on Falk College’s Sport Management Ad- because I’ve had amazing mentors, both profes- visory Council. sors and alumni, who have given me a great deal Landing a position at Empire Sports and En- of guidance,” Forrest Hall says. “I bleed Orange, tertainment, Forrest Hall worked with such cli- as do many of my fellow alums, and I think we all ents as Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square have that innate bond. So many SU alums are do- Garden, Louis Harris and Associates (The Harris ing extraordinary things in their respective fields, Poll), and the New Jersey Nets. From there, she and by staying connected with one another we moved on to Newark Sports and Entertainment, continue to strengthen our network.” —Carri Prue

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Arron Robinson Neal ’03 Brooks Neal ’06 (VPA), di- Chelsea M. Pizzi G’08 (NEW) and her husband, rector of business develop- (NEW), public relations/ Robert Neal III ’03 (VPA), ment at Kentucky Speedway social media specialist at of Los Angeles announce in Sparta, Ky., was selected Atlantic Cape Community the birth of their son, Robert Kentucky Speedway’s 2013 College in Mays Landing, Eugene Neal IV. Salesperson of the Year N.J., received the inaugural after generating a more than Rising Star Award from the Kimberly Ross ’04 (A&S) 80 percent increase in new National Council for Mar- married Alex Kramer ’07 and incremental business. keting and Public Relations (FALK) in January. District 1 for her achieve- John R. Wright ’06 (A&S) ments, creativity, and poten- Rebecca Atwood ’05 (VPA) joined the Rogers Mantese tial for future success in the is a talent manager at The & Associates law firm in communications field. Group Entertainment in Farmington Hills, Mich. New York City, representing His practice focuses on Emily DiTomo G’09 (NEW) a list of accomplished actors representing health care is account manager to the working in film, television, providers and health care vice president at Philadel- and Broadway theater. professionals. phia-based Buchanan Public Relations firm. A seasoned Christopher J. Cummiskey Courtney Rae Kasper G’07 public relations practitioner, L’05 (LAW) is a senior (NEW) of Auburn, N.Y., is she has developed and associate at the elder abuse associate publisher of the executed communications law firm of Garcia, Artigliere Scotsman Media Group and strategies on behalf of & Schadrack in Long Beach, editor-in-chief of Today’s clients in the technology, Calif. CNY Woman. financial services, health care, utility, retail, and arts Marisa McCrone ’05 (A&S/ Joseph M. Murphy ’07 industries. MAX) earned a master’s (VPA) of Canastota, N.Y., BRING degree, with distinction, is a freelance illustrator in international relations who had an art exhibition OPPORTUNITY from the London School at Café Kubal on the SU 10s of Economics and Political Hill. Murphy’s show was a Matthew Nojiri ’10 (NEW) Science. collection of work from his TO YOUR is a reporter at the Reading Syracuse University series Eagle newspaper in Reading, Jesse Paskevich Sawby ’05 Where the Vale of Onondaga Pa. He reports on happen- HOMETOWN. (A&S) and her husband, Meets the Eastern Sky. The ings in the area and also Erick Sawby ’05 (VPA), pieces on display were a mix writes a weekly health When DeWitt LeFevre ’25 established a announce the birth of their of acrylic, watercolor, and feature about developments son, Samuel Erickson. Jesse pen and ink drawings, all of scholarship at Syracuse University, he at local hospitals. is a development coordina- which depict various images wanted most to help students from Lewis tor at the Barnes Founda- of the SU campus (www. Mitchell Bernstein ’12 County, where he grew up, started his own tion, and Erick is the director jmmurphyillustrator.com). of business development at (WSM) is manager of business, and became an integral part of operations at MAXX Sports Leadnomics in Philadelphia. Brian Holden ’08 (VPA) & Entertainment in New the community. is a principal at Holden & York City. Marisa Warren ’05 (A&S), Mickey, his family’s financial G’06 (VPA), an attorney services business located Like him, you can bring opportunity to Alec Burkin ’13 (WSM) in the Pedowitz & Meister in Winston-Salem, N.C. participated in the Gift of your hometown by endowing a scholarship law firm in New York, was Holden specializes in wealth Life campus bone marrow selected as a Super Lawyers management and income for students from your county or city, or donor drive, resulting in a Rising Star for the New York protection strategies, work- even your former high school. It will be perfect match for a woman Metro area. ing with both individual diagnosed with leukemia. the greatest gift you can give to future and business clients (www. He underwent the donation generations—the chance to attend SU, gain Ashley Connors ’06 (A&S) holdenmickey.com). and Hannah Lavon ’06 process to help save her an education, and live out their dreams. life, and the two met for the (VPA) are co-owners of Vs. Jeanine Kowalski ’08 first time at the Gift of Life Stuff (vsstuff.com), an online (A&S) married Sam Stanton Bone Marrow Foundation’s shop featuring colorful ’10 (FALK) last December. Learn more about creating a scholarship at Fourth Annual Walk for Life mittens, socks, and baby Jeanine is administrative at Florida Atlantic University SU. Visit giving.syr.edu/scholarship today booties that double as wear- assistant to student ser- in February. or call 877.2GROWSU (877.782.5867). able puppets and come in vices at Golden Gate Baptist playful pairs of rivals—from Theological Seminary in Mill cat vs. dog to dragon vs. Valley, Calif., and Sam is as- unicorn. The company has sistant director of Northern been featured in several California Golf Association magazines, including InStyle Membership in Pebble and Reader’s Digest, and on Beach, Calif. They reside in websites for CNN Money, Monterey. Metro NY, AOL Small Busi- ness, and others.

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Growing up in the farm country of Croghan, New York, Caroline Spink ’16 dreamed of attending Syracuse University. A scholarship established in 1987 by fellow Lewis County resident DeWitt LeFevre ’25 helped give her that opportunity. Today, Caroline is majoring in social work and hopes to someday work with veterans struggling with substance abuse—a group that, in her words, “gave up so much in order to protect and serve.”

You, too, can be the tipping point between high hope and real opportunity. To learn how, visit giving.syr.edu/caroline or call 877.2GROWSU.

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Edwards, Annunziato ise Howard Hopkins, Joyce Wood ard G. Vejnoska Sr., Leon V. Wilcox, Henry M. Greenhouse, Wilber C. R. Filocamo, Stuart L. Freer, Lynn Kelley, Margaret Bennett Kirsch, Edward R. Williams, Frederick R. Haseman, George V. Main, Barton Marley Wemett Nichols, Robert

62 Syracuse University Magazine Published by SURFACE, 2015 19 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 31, Iss. 1 [2015], Art. 10 ALUMNIJOURNAL » PASSINGS Mary Gilmore Smith ’29, G’38 Mary Gilmore Smith, a longtime ad- Sudack, Norma Kunze Tidd, Robert L. due, John W. Soderholm Jr., Thomas J. vocate and counselor for women in Town, Walter J. Turner 1963 DeEtte Wolff 1977 Marilyn J. Arnold, C. Greg- higher education who maintained Barnes Ballantyne, Keith A. Barnes, ory Forbes, A.R. Morehouse, Richard G. strong ties to SU for nearly 90 years, Richard B. Callen, Velma L. Dippold, Sanderson 1978 Ronald E. Eliasek 1979 died in Syracuse on January 18. She James H. Gottsacker, John E. Loos, Wayne P. Herrington, Mark E. Libertone Richard E. Mach, David H. Mitchell, Sr., Sheila Myers Crowley North, Albert was 106 years old. Devoted to lifelong learning, Smith earned Carol Reiner Motyka-Miller, Richard J. W. Paladini Jr., Helen Killory Qammar, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SU, and was named the Mullin, Eleanor Gessinger Pritchard, Joyce Dulgarian Swedberg, Carol S. University’s first vocational counselor of women in 1938. She Kenneth M. Shulman 1964 Marion Tams later served the University in several roles, including student O. Corder, Richard C. Diedrich, Paul E. dean counselor and academic counselor in the Women’s Center Knecht, Katherine H. Moran, Jeffrey 1980 Anthony Camasta, Constance P. Mullins, Douglas F. Newton, John Olson Donaldson, Howard J. Exman, at University College, where she co-founded the Eta Pi Upsi- F. Runion 1965 Ira H. Berger, Jeanne Katherine Church La Londe, Valerie lon Scholarship Program for women studying part time at SU. Beliveau Boop, Paul F. Bozych, Grace A. McCoy, Paul H. Smith Jr., Janey L. Thanks to her unwavering support of the program’s endowed Ho Chen, Mary Dawley Crane, Susan Waldman 1981 Keith E. Ellis, Cindy fund, Smith had the longest giving history of any annual donor at Reeves Dunn, James B. LaValle, Freder- White Erickson, Joan E. Patrick, Joella SU, which honored her in 2007 for her philanthropic efforts. Af- ick E. Peisel, Wayne L. Theobald 1966 Halberg Rand 1982 Charles L. Evans, Robert B. Barker, David I. Berlowitz, Sheila J. Wallbridge 1983 Barbara ter retiring from SU in 1972, she served as a community activist Charles G. Blanchard, Arthur J. Blume, N. Hunt, Anne Farmer Momot, Leslie and volunteer, including work as a literacy tutor. Among numer- Constance Bennett Connolly, Frank G. Hickey Noury, James S. Vacca, Ron We- ous honors, Smith was the recipient of a Chancellor’s Citation Cyzowski, Bruce K. Macfarlane, Ricky isfeld 1984 Neela Chevli 1985 Richard and the Melvin Eggers Senior Alumni Award. In 2004, she was R. Miller, Roderick N. Walts, William W. W. Hare 1986 Kathleen A. Legott, Ju- inducted into the archives of the National Women’s Hall of Fame West 1967 Wilfred J. Addison, James lie Siminoff Sisskind, Douglas A. Steb- H. Barish, James L. Bauchat Jr., James bins, Maureen Hefferan Swezey 1987 in Seneca Falls, New York. Predeceased by her husband, Edward H. Ellison Jr., Michael F. Fanelli, Richard Camille A. Nappi, Mark W. Sweeney, Smith, an SU business law professor, and her son, Sheridan, she L. Goodrich, Frederick F. McGauley Jr., Donald N. Tyszko 1988 Charles R. is survived by her daughter, Elizabeth Smith Hakanson ’67, G’71 Jeffrey A. Peck, David T. Perry, Raymon Kyle, Timothy S. Merrell, Louis F. Papa of Syracuse, two granddaughters, and generations of nieces and C. Scott 1968 David R. Beal, James M. 1989 Norma Danforth Curtis, A. Ron- nephews. Cimino, Thomas J. Csermely, Paula J. ald Medici, Debbie B. Molis, Michael G. Frendak, Lois Hammond Kirkendall, Da- Surowka, John M. Sweeney, Cynthia J. vid M. Sergeant, Mary C. Shoemaker, Tharinger John E. Trowbridge, Michael L. Villari, Luke LaPorta ’48, G’50 Walter P. Walawender Jr., Rodger D. 1990 Vladimir E. Avsitidisky, Colleen Yeager, William John Young 1969 How- Hyland 1991 Elizabeth Newton Lee ard A. Adams, Robert H. Dicks, Thomas 1992 Gerald R. Fry, Kay E. Goldthwait, Luke LaPorta, of Liverpool, New York, D. Ferris, Susan Gruber Owens Chadwick A. Jackson, James T. Ox- an educator and former chairman of endine, Corey J. Scialdo 1995 John T. the Little League International Board of 1970 Lynn E. Green Jr., Vincent M. Akiyama, Paul M. Dischner, Andrea L. Directors, died on November 19, 2013, Tieman 1996 Xiuju Zhang 1997 Scott Gryscavage Sr., Kathryn Bentley Hen- at age 89. Born in Jamaica, New York, derson, Fred V. Honnold Jr., Jean Burry W. Monnikendam, Phillip C. Stevens Patten, Thomas A. Rockwell, George LaPorta was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and earned a C. Stanton 1971 Carolyn Fulgenzi 2000 Christine A. DeFonce, Aric P. bachelor’s degree from the College of Arts and Sciences, a mas- Hanlon, George B. Hartman Jr., Rob- May 2001 Alfonso Gallo 2002 Terry ter’s degree from the School of Education, and a doctoral degree ert E. O’Neill 1972 Bruce B. Blidner, Dorman, Nancy Phoenix Goben, Chris- from the University of Sarasota. A letter winner of the SU football tine Anderson Miller 2005 Erzhena Edith Laup Bonawitz, Walter L. Curry, team, LaPorta devoted much of his life to working with youth in Carl Gussin, Marion Henry, Joseph F. Boudayeva, Karen D. Jones 2006 Kath- Ivanenok, John M. Werly, Theodore W. ryn L. Stopper, Louis Vivenzio 2007 sports. He is credited with introducing Little League baseball to Wing II 1973 Daniel W. Frost, Lawrence Matthew T. Patregnani 2008 Elissa Central New York and was a member of Little League Interna- A. Katzell 1974 Eleanor Smith Gilder, M. Nelson 2009 Dustin J. Friedland tional’s board from 1973 until his death, which included serv- Kim Savett Kershaw, Frank S. Kwiet- 2011 Yong Jae Shin 2012 Jeffrey L. Russ ing as board chairman from 1984 until 1997. LaPorta worked 2013 Kelsey C. Hogarth 2016 Jessica niak, Willie T. Miller, Martin Teplitsky, as a teacher, coach, and administrator for the Liverpool Central Flora Benveniste Tobak 1975 Christine Hauffe 2017 Matthew Brodsky Otakie Acheson, David A. Bennett, Paul School District for 31 years, retiring in 1979 as athletic director. W. Burton, Susan Johnston Carlson, Faculty/Staff: Patricia Meyers Dru- He then joined the development office at Syracuse University, Michael A. Goss, Anne C. Hankinson, ger ’74 (administrator); Bonnie Marks where he worked as a senior director for 21 years. Honored as Mary Corlett Higgs, Carlton L. Mc- Dunay ’90 (ITS); William P. Ehling ’43, G’52, G’54 (public relations, 1954-91) a National Athletic Director of the Year, LaPorta was a founder of Guire, James W. Moore, Patricia Ru- the Empire State Games. He is survived by his wife, Marie Lu- ark Schulte, Robert E. Smoot, Robert Edward McClennen (philosophy and C. Webster Jr. 1976 Dale M. Clayton, political science, 2003-14); Roy Scott brano LaPorta ’50; three children, James LaPorta, Nancy Rogers, Walter F. Gilcher Jr., Richard A. Lucas, (SU London, 1973-98); Otey M. Scruggs and Lisa Pesce ’87, G’91, and their families; a sister, Lorraine William D. McCance, Timothy J. Per- (history, 1969-95); H. Daniel Smith (re- Brenner; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. ligion, 1958-93).

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Waleed Abdalati ‘86 » UNDERSTANDING EARTH FROM ABOVE WALEED ABDALATI HAS TREASURED ALL THINGS NASA post at NASA, an assignment he refers to as “quite possibly since he was a little kid who spent weekends painstakingly re- the greatest job in the world,” allowing him “a front-row seat enacting the Apollo 11 moon landing with his best friend Matt. to some of society’s most fascinating technical and scientific They’d start out drinking Tang in Matt’s kitchen and then take achievements.” As chief scientist, Abdalati was principal sci- a slow-motion walk to the backyard shed, ceremoniously cra- ence advisor to the NASA administrator, working to assure dling their imaginary space helmets under one arm. “We’d get alignment among the priorities of NASA, the White House, in, shut the door, do a countdown, and bang ourselves vio- Congress, and the scientific community. “What we really do lently against the walls of the shed for a while,” says Abdalati, at NASA is pursue answers to questions that are at the heart who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical and aerospace of the human spirit—the things people have wondered about engineering from the College of Engineering and Computer since people have begun wondering,” he says. “From the time Science (E&CS). “And then we’d stop, step out, and be on the humans could stand upright and look upward, they wondered moon, right there in Matt’s backyard.” about the stars.” Decades later, during a two-year assignment as NASA’s Now director of CIRES—an academic institute with nearly chief scientist, Abdalati took part in—for real—another mo- 500 researchers, faculty, and administrative staff and close mentous event in spaceflight history: the successful Mars to 200 students, working in partnership with the National landing of the Curiosity rover in August 2012. “Watching that Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Abdalati focuses unfold—viewing the console room as the first images came his research on using satellite and airborne remote-sensing down to the mission control team—was truly amazing,” he techniques to understand how the Earth’s glaciers and ice says. “It’s a story of blood, sweat, tears, triumph, failures along sheets are changing and how that affects sea level rise and the way, and success—a really powerful one that illustrates climate. “I’m excited by this research, in part, because these the emotional and human element to all we do at NASA.” regions of the Earth are so beautiful,” says Abdalati, who The union of emotion and science holds great appeal for spoke to E&CS graduates at the college’s 2012 Convoca- Abdalati, whose enthusiasm expanded from engineering tion. “The first time I saw pictures of and was fortunate to do to Earth science during graduate studies at the University some work in the Arctic, I realized this is nature at its most of Colorado-Boulder (CU). He earned a doctoral degree at magnificent.” Ultimately, though, what energizes Abdalati is CU’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental the work’s importance and potential. “We’re trying to under- Sciences (CIRES) in 1996, going on to work at NASA as a stand sea level rise, which is something that matters to hun- scientist for 12 years before returning to CIRES as a geog- dreds of millions of people worldwide,” he says. “That’s the raphy professor and director of the Earth Science and Ob- order of magnitude of the number of people who would be servation Center. He took a temporary leave from CU from affected by a rise in the Earth’s oceans of three feet or more. January 2011 to December 2012 to accept the chief scientist That’s what speaks to me.” —Amy Speach

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