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A PUBLICATION FOR SALISBURY UNIVERSITY FALL 2016 SUMagazine www.salisbury.edu SUALUMNI AND FRIENDS Magazine From Revolutionary Gift to Academic Hub GUERRIERI ACADEMIC COMMONS OPENS page 3

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26 New Sea Gull Stadium SU proudly cuts the ribbon on its new athletics facility.

9 Conway Hall Honoring an alumnus and legislator who has made a great impact on SU.

Departments 3 Features 19 Alumni News 10 25 Athletics Farewell 28 Class Notes At his passing, we celebrate President Norm Crawford.

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WELCOME

Letter from the President Volume 47 • 2016 PRESIDENT Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach Since 2000, I have had the honor and privilege of being the VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVANCEMENT AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS President of Salisbury University. In my 16 years here, the Dr. T. Greg Prince SU skyline has been enhanced, the campus footprint and our ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND academic offerings have increased, and yet we still have been ALUMNI RELATIONS able to maintain our friendly, small-school feel. Even with all Jason E. Curtin ’98 the physical enhancements, it really is always the people of ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS SU – our students, faculty and staff – who truly make us Susan Maxwell Eagle A Maryland University of National Distinction. DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND GIFT DEVELOPMENT For example, Salisbury University was spotlighted in Jayme E. Block ’97 & M’99 The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the nation’s top ALUMNI RELATIONS AND ANNUAL GIVING STAFF producers of Fulbright Scholars in 2015-16. (SU and the Naval Sandy Griswold Michelle Malinger ’13 Academy were the only two Maryland campuses to earn the Melinda B. Khazeh Erin Smith ’09 & M’11 distinction.) Among our recent Fulbrighters, of course, are COPY EDITOR faculty, staff and former students. Drs. Dean Kotlowski of History and Olivier Roche of Christine B. Smith M’02 Management and Marketing taught and researched in Austria and Belarus, and administrator VISUAL IMAGES COORDINATOR Aaron Basko bolstered connections in Japan. From the English Department, Dr. James King Kathy D. Pusey ’86 took area educators to Ghana to explore cross-curricular connections on a Fulbright-Hays CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Jeanne Anderton ’76 Melinda B. Khazeh grant, while Dr. Manav Ratti created a garden in Salisbury with a Canadian Fulbright. Alumna Jayme E. Block ’97 & M’99 Kathy D. Pusey ’86 Payge Jennings is in South Korea on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, and next Jason E. Curtin ‘98 Megan Raymond spring, Dr. Andrew Sharma of Communications Arts will teach at the Indian Institute of Mass Todd Dudek Erin Smith ’09 & M’11 Communications in New Delhi. Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach Michael Suber Susan Maxwell Eagle Jerry Wilson ’62 Diversity, globalization and inclusion continue to be priorities on campus, as well. Joey Gardner WWE, Corp. The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education named SU among the top 50 universities in the nation Barry Ziehl ’91 offering “outstanding opportunities to Hispanic students.” Last winter, I led a University System CONTRIBUTORS of Maryland delegation to Cuba to explore opportunities for collaborations in higher education. Dr. Janet Dudley-Eshbach Nancy Talbott ’16 Facilities improvements have been another highlight of 2016 with the opening of the Dr. Bea Hardy Dr. G. Ray Thompson Julius M. Jones Jr. ’06, M’09 Jerry Wilson ’62 Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons and the new Sea Gull Stadium. Supported by an Ron McGann ’88 Barry Z