BEYOND MAJORS and MINORS Magazine Student Research Enriches the F&M Experience Marshall & Franklin Elements SPRING 2011

SPRING 11 / ISSUE 65

BEYOND MAJORS AND MINORS Magazine Student Research Enriches the F&M Experience Marshall & Franklin elements SPRING 2011

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Left: Spring ﬂowers bloom at the back Departments Editorial of Barshinger Center for Musical Arts The Editor’s Word 4 You Can Call Me Coach 13 Front cover: Stacy Huang ’11 in front Matters 5 Singing the Praises 16 of the Roschel Performing Arts Center Up Close 10 of Student Research Photos by Brian Donnelly Go Diplomats 12 Ring of Fire, 20 Class Action 28 Circle of Hope History Lesson 50 Spring in Full Swing 26

ISSUE NO. 65 A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION / EDITOR JILL COLFORD SCHOENIGER ’86 DESIGNERS ANITA FOCHT AND SPENCER ADVERTISING & MARKETING CON SULTING E D I TORS N ANCY C OLLINS AND JAS ON K LINGER / C O N TRI BUTING WRI TERS CHRIS KARLES KY AND STEPHEN P EED C O N TACT S E-MAIL [email protected] PHONE 717-291-3981 / CHANGE OF ADDRESS [email protected] / COLLEGE POLICY F&M DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF RACE, RELIGION, COLOR, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, OR NATIONAL OR ETHNIC ORIGIN IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF ITS EDUCATIONAL POLICIES, ADMISSIONS POLICIES, SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN PROGRAMS, ATHLETIC PROGRAMS, OR OTHER COLLEGE-ADMINISTERED PROGRAMS THE EDITOR’S WORD

In this issue we proﬁle three of these dynamic duos in the ﬁelds of chemistry, music and psychology.

A few years ago, I took my 14-year- In April the College held the inaugural old nephew, John, on his first tour of the Franklin Innovation Challenge (page 6) to Franklin & Marshall campus. I asked him encourage students to channel Franklin’s if he knew who Marshall was. He said, entrepreneurial and creative spirit. “Thurgood Marshall, maybe?” I told In addition to celebrating Marshall him right court, wrong Marshall. and Franklin, the College also It’s no surprise that occasional rumblings celebrated student-research collabora- surface that John Marshall is overlooked tions at the Spring Research Fair, on campus. That’s why members of the where dozens of students presented Diplomatic Congress decided to help their projects in the natural sciences, raise awareness of Marshall one week in arts and humanities, and social sciences. February by “kidnapping” Ben Franklin In this issue we profile three of these and covering up images of him. They dynamic duos in the fields of chemistry, then returned Franklin on Feb. 24 in music and psychology. commemoration of the 208th anniver- These collaborations are the natural sary of Marshall’s landmark decision extension of the great teaching and in Marbury v. Madison. great learning that F&M students How can a man of John Marshall’s stature experience throughout their college be overlooked? He was described by careers in classrooms and laboratories, columnist George F. Will in 2005— on the playing fields and at the on the 250th anniversary of Marshall’s College Houses. birth—as the “nation’s greatest jurist” Collaborative learning between engaged and the “most important American never students and supportive professors— to have been president.” As chief justice now that’s an endeavor both Marshall of the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years, and Franklin would support. Marshall is considered the principal founder of American constitutional law. Cheers, But that wily and talented Ben Franklin can throw a big shadow. One of the nation’s founding fathers, he was a diplomat, inventor, scientist, writer, printer, postmaster and much more. Of course, the College is proud of Jill Colford Schoeniger ‘86 both its namesakes, and it recognized [email protected] them with events during the spring semester. In February the College celebrated “John Marshall at the U.S. Supreme Court” (page 7) with a lively panel discussion in Washington, D.C. www.fandm.edu

MATTERS Emerging Writers Festival Turns 10

The participating writers may be of the Writers House and adjunct assistant emerging, but the Emerging Writers professor of English. Festival (EWF) itself already has emerged. “The festival has invited people who have Capping several months of celebrating gone on to become very successful,” its 10th anniversary, the EWF hosted five Wright says. “But the festival proper visiting writers and dozens of students, recognizes these same writers when faculty members and alumni April 13-15. they’re still relatively new to their careers. Hosted by the Department of English The students get to work with writers with and Philadelphia Alumni Writers House whom they can identify, and the writers and supported by Richard ‘50 and Edna find the same is true about the students.” Hausman P’85, the festival featured Working with these writers directly was promising American writers Jason a particular highlight for the students, Fagone, Elyse Fenton, Grace Krilanovich, especially the 10 on the EWF planning Alex Taylor and Henry Wolfe. committee who shadowed the writers Earlier in the spring, the College invited during their stay in Lancaster, answering a series of former emerging writers— questions and learning more about The Bye Bye Barbecue gives festival participants a chance to reminisce about the three-day Brock Clarke, Meghan Daum and Major the paths they could take in their celebration of writing. Jackson—to speak in recognition of the future careers. festival’s 10th year. “To me, it’s so much better interacting “This is an exciting moment,” Steinbrink A group of 10 F&M students and seven with writers than seeing them on stage,” says of the festival’s anniversary. “The faculty members organized the event, says Connie Renfrow ’12, who shadowed best thing for me has been the way EWF led by co-chairs Jeff Steinbrink, Alumni Fenton. “In a way it validates my efforts gets students involved with each other Professor of English Literature and Belles as a creative writing major to realize that and with the writers. A lot of students Lettres, and Kerry Sherin Wright, director successful writers have the same real-life catch fire at EWF.” and authorial struggles that I do. “ BRADSHAW

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Emerging writer Jason Fagone, author of Horsemen of the Esophagus, gives a craft talk at the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House. www.fandm.edu

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The ﬁnals marked the culmination of several months of Students Display competition, which began with more than 150 students submitting 89 proposals in four categories. Approximately Creativity in Franklin 30 alumni served as mentors, helping the students develop ideas into business plans and preparing them for each round Innovation Challenge of the competition. “Trex, Bryan and I began talking about the contest last fall,” says Jones, who spent the past 18 years working on the business side In the Great Room of Brooks College House, a group of F&M of the health-care industry. “We thought it would be great to students presents a proposal for a community-owned restaurant have an innovation center at F&M where students could apply in Lancaster. Next door, in the Brooks seminar room, two their ideas and bring their projects to the market. But we thought students champion the development of an English-language we should start with something smaller, a contest, to get people program for Lancaster’s refugee population. And in Bonchek thinking about being entrepreneurial.” College House, a group pitches a new international-mentoring program at F&M.

The presentations were just three of 24 proposals in the ﬁnals of the inaugural Franklin Innovation Challenge, sponsored by the Department of Business, Organizations & Society (BOS). The ﬁnal round took place on Friday, April 15, featuring 56 students from eight countries—and an abundance of creativity and innovation. The event was co-sponsored by the Great Teaching, Great Learning committee.

The contest was created and organized by Trex Profﬁtt, assistant professor of organization studies; Bryan Stinchﬁeld, assistant professor of business, organizations & society; and Keith Jones ’89, executive in residence and Harris Center Fellow.

“We’re amazed by the response,” Jones said. “We thought / IAN BRADSHAW PHOTOS it would be great if we got 20 proposals, and we got 89. The (l-r) Assistant Professor Bryan Stinchﬁeld and Zachary Adam ’14 help students don’t get course credit for this, but they’re gaining Aradhana Mahtani ’12 and Dipti Balwani ’11 set up their presentation. valuable experience. They’ve been so focused, and so thorough in everything they’ve done. And it’s given them the ability The contest was open to all F&M students. The proposals that to connect with alumni.” made the ﬁnal round represented 20 different majors and minors.

Fifteen judges, mostly F&M alumni, visited campus to judge the ﬁnal round. Winners received $1,250, while those ﬁnishing in second place ($750) and third place ($250) also received prizes.

The ﬁrst-place winners were:

tImproving F&M: Nicole Martino ’12, Ahmed Shaishab ’11 and Steve Tolliver ’11 (Shades of Green Tree Farm)

tEnvironmental Sustainability: Zach Foster ’11 and An Tran ’11 (Sustainable Institute Consulting)

tSocial Entrepreneurship: Eloisa Almaraz ’11, Christine Vaughan ’11, Julia MacDonald ’13, Melissa Sandoval ’13 and Tiffany Lockridge ’13 (Gallery of Hope)

Alumni judges included (l-r) Mark Kuhn ‘85, Chris Fuhrmann ‘76, tOpen Category: Eric Feinberg ’11 and Stefanie Langer ‘88 and Steve Ehrlich ‘87. Justin Thacker ’11 (FirstStep Investment Partnership) www.fandm.edu – Chris Karlesky ‘01 6 MATTERS

F&M Celebrates John Marshall at Supreme Court

It’s a tradition for attorneys to rub the feet of the bronze statue of Chief Justice John Marshall at the U.S. Supreme Court before going to argue before the court. This ritual supposedly brings good luck to the lawyers. The alumni, parents and friends of the College did not need luck during their visit to the nation’s Justine Freisleben ’03 (l) and Adrienne Bauer ’93, co-chairs of the Metro Washington DC highest court on Feb. 26 for chapter, presented Justice Samuel Alito with an F&M jersey. “Franklin & Marshall Celebrates John Marshall at the U.S. Supreme Court,” hosted by F&M’s Metro Washington DC Regional Chapter. They were guaranteed to be informed and entertained by a line-up that included welcoming remarks from Justice Samuel Alito and a panel discussion moderated by Grier Stephenson, F&M’s Charles A. Dana Professor of Government. The panel featured three distinguished alumni: Stanley Brand, (l-r) Assistant Professor Bryan Stinchﬁeld and Zachary Adam ’14 help Esq., ’70, Susan Ringler, Esq., ’77 Aradhana Mahtani ’12 and Dipti Balwani ’11 set up their presentation. and Steven Ross ’73. The event, supported ﬁnancially by the Alumni Association Board of Directors, drew more than 170 attendees. Participants at the Supreme Court event were (l-r) Justice Samuel Alito, Steven Ross ’73, Stan Brand ’70, Susan Ringler ’77 and Professor Grier Stephenson. ’BRIEN O

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John Marshall’s feet are worn down from the many (l-r) Eileen Graham, John Graham ’71 and Art Taylor ’80 enjoy the reception. www.fandm.edu lawyers who have rubbed the feet for good luck. 7

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health and safety Davis Wins Fulbright through street theater. More than 500,000 for Research in Nepal people have attended Carol C. Davis, associate professor of theater, has received performances of the a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research in Nepal Nepali Health Project during the 2011-12 academic year. Davis will undertake since its inception. research for her book project on Nepali theater. “In 1994, I went to “It seemed to me that there really hasn’t been a compre- Nepal to study very hensive book on Nepali theater outside of Nepal,” Davis theatrical ceremonies says. “Many of Nepal’s rituals and ceremonies are highly by Buddhist monks theatrical, but there wasn’t a book on the history and who live close to goals of theater.” Mount Everest,” Davis Carol Davis Davis will be based at the Gurukul School of Theatre says. “The monks used in Kathmandu, Nepal, from late August until early 2012. skits to bless the congregation, create community She will travel to remote locations to explore the history and teach their history. I was also struck by the lack of and inﬂuence of street theater. personal hygiene in the area, so we put the two things The Fulbright project marks a new chapter in Davis’ 15-year together and started the project.” relationship with Nepali theater. In 1996, she co-founded As a result of the health project, Davis was selected the Nepal Health Project with her late husband, Peter, as a winner in the Half the Sky contest sponsored by to teach rural inhabitants how to improve their personal The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in 2009.

U.S. News Recognizes Human Grant Received to Support Rights/Human Wrongs Class Writing Curriculum U.S. News & World Report Franklin & Marshall has received a $236,050 grant from released a list of “10 College The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation to enhance Classes That Impact the the College’s writing-across-the-curriculum initiative. The Outside World” on April 18. five-year grant will support professional development for One of the courses selected members of the faculty, and includes funding for workshops was Human Rights/Human and seminars with nationally recognized experts. Wrongs, which is taught “Our students are the most important beneficiaries,” at F&M by Susan Dicklitch, says Tamara Goeglein, associate dean of the faculty and associate professor of professor of English, who will direct the project through government and director June 30. “The Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation of the Ware Institute is devoted to students at liberal arts colleges. F&M already for Civic Engagement. has a fantastic track record of great writing instruction, Susan Dicklitch The article explains that and we are going to build on this and become a model these courses are ones that “allow undergraduate students for select liberal arts colleges.” to make a significant impact beyond the confines of The president of the foundation, Julie Kidd, cited F&M’s their colleges, while honing skills that may one day be “very thoughtful approach to integrating writing more applicable to their careers.” fully into the curriculum, something that I believe will U.S. News describes the F&M course taught by Dicklitch, be of benefit to students and faculty alike.” a political asylum expert, as: “Students work in pairs to Writing across the curriculum is F&M’s current writing help individuals seek political asylum in the U.S. After requirement for students. Goeglein says the requirement interviewing potential candidates for asylum, students aspires to be developmental, as students begin with work with an immigration lawyer to find evidence and a first-year writing course (often a first-year seminar), ready documents integral to the case. Not interested continue to satisfy the requirement in a Foundations in law school? No matter, as the class is available course, and conclude with writing in their majors. to any senior at the school.” www.fandm.edu

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Alfaro Aco Wins Fellowship for Work in Peru Alejandro Alfaro Aco ’11, an economics and government Students double major, has won a Princeton in Latin America Fellowship to support a year of development work Add New in Lima, Peru. Voices Alfaro Aco will work on issues relating to corporate social responsibility at Metis Gaia, a consulting firm that to F&M contributes to development in various forms and levels. A native of Mexico, Alfaro Aco will begin his work Website in Peru this summer. Robert Diggs ’13 Princeton in Latin America partners with nonprofit Five Franklin & Marshall students are providing an organizations throughout Latin America to match the unfiltered look at their college experiences through organizations with young, public-sector professionals F&M Voices, a new blog (Web log) that launched seeking full-year fellowships in development work. on the F&M website at http://blogs.fandm.edu. “The level of competition for these awards is very high,” Robert Diggs ’13, Mona Lotfipour ’12, Mike Manley ’14, says Monica Cable, director of postgraduate fellowships Athena Tahos ’14 and Lilah Thompson ’11 have begun and adjunct assistant posting regular blog entries on a variety of topics related professor of anthropology. to life at Franklin & Marshall. “Voices” gives readers “In the past, fellowships a closer look at issues important to F&M students, have been awarded to and other topics off the beaten path. graduates of Princeton, For Diggs, a sophomore government major, blogging Brown, the University of is nothing new; he wrote extensively about his experience Southern California, the studying in Egypt last summer. Diggs views the new blog University of Pennsylvania, as a perfect way to build upon topics he tweets about Georgetown, Middlebury on his Twitter account, such as the hot chocolate and Stanford, among at Jazzman’s Café. others. To my knowledge, this is the first year that an “Blogging is a window into how we think,” Diggs says. F&M student has received “It’s important to have the perspectives of students on this fellowship.” Alejandro Alfaro Aco ’11 the F&M website. It’s the difference between having a firsthand document and a secondary source. You’re In Peru, Alfaro Aco will perform impact assessments getting this directly from the source.” in the mining industry. “I’m interested in the idea of a big mining corporation having concern about its social, The students also plan to use the blog to explore hot- economic and political impacts,” he says. “Metis Gaia button issues. Lotfipour, for instance, has already written is multidisciplinary in its approach. I’ll be working with an entry about the public-health issues of AIDS vs. economists, sociologists and political scientists.” Alzheimer’s. A biochemistry and molecular biology major, she hopes to write about many issues related Alfaro Aco, who moved to Lancaster six years ago, to the field of public health. has received strong encouragement from his family. “The main motivation for us to move to the U.S. was Tahos says the blog is open and honest, directly from so my brother, Raymundo, and I could pursue higher the eyes of students. Visitors to the F&M website now education. That’s always been my mom’s policy,” Alfaro have five pairs of eyes to give them a glimpse of what Aco says. Raymundo is a student at Swarthmore College. is happening in the minds and lives of Franklin & Marshall students. Alfaro Aco has known about F&M since he was a child in Mexico, when he met James Taggart, the Lewis Audenreid Professor of History and Archaeology. Taggart became friends with Alfaro Aco’s mother while he was conducting research in Mexico, and is now a close family friend. “He would bring F&M shirts to us,” Alfaro Aco says. “I always had F&M in my head because of him.” www.fandm.edu

UP CLOSE Susan Minasian

The Rev. Susan Minasian, College chaplain, has been the director of admissions at the Lancaster Theological Seminary and pastor at several churches. Along the way, she has discovered that “it is my calling to remind people of their inherent worth and value.” Minasian has a master of divinity degree from the seminary, where she is in the doctor of ministry program.

How did you come to Lancaster? In 1985, I moved here to attend the seminary. I came because two family friends were graduates, and it was associated with the United Church of Christ. I wanted a place not far from my home in Richmond, Virginia.

How did you come to F&M? What’s funny is that back in 1985 I said I wasn’t sure I wanted to do parish ministry. I told people, “I think I’d like to be the chaplain at a place like F&M.” I began as a visiting chaplain, and then the position evolved each year into what I do today. I discerned that I did not want to be in the parish any more and the way opened up for me to be at F&M in a more intentional way.

How do you see your role? In the parish I needed to encourage people to take on leadership roles in order to make some things happen. Here my role is oftentimes to help people slow down and even stop so they can really engage in what it means to be a human being. One thing I am clear about is that I’m not here so the College looks good. I’m here to provide people with opportunities to have meaningful spiritual experiences.

What has been the biggest challenge? The shift from being the only pastor to a community of many people who help each other collectively is powerful. I’m not the only one whom people can turn to. It’s a challenge to realize how dispensable one can be, and at the same time it’s the greatest spiritual lesson I have learned. So the challenge has been a blessing.

Why do you enjoy your job? The beauty of being here is being

in a multi-faith context, from people who would consider themselves atheists and agnostics to the most practicing person of faith. They are here. It’s a microcosm of the world. www.fandm.edu DONNELLY 10 BRIAN MATTERS OLTNER N Lugo to Lead IN Admission and JOHN THE

Financial Aid Franklin & Marshall people, events and ideas regularly make news. Here are some recent headlines Daniel G. Lugo, associate dean of from national and regional sources. For more, log on to admissions at Carleton College, has been named vice president and dean thediplomat.fandm.edu/in_the_news. of admission and financial aid at F&M. 10 COLLEGE CLASSES THAT IMPACT “Daniel’s record of leadership in THE OUTSIDE WORLD student recruitment, management, U.S. News & World Report (4/18) fundraising and law make him ideally Under the tutelage of Associate Professor of Government suited to lead the recruiting efforts Susan Dicklitch, a political asylum expert, students work and student aid strategies of Franklin & Marshall,” President Daniel in pairs to help persecuted individuals seek political asylum R. Porterfield, Ph.D., said. “I look forward to a long and productive in the United States. partnership with him.” 5 QUESTIONS FOR... Lugo, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Carleton, in Northfield, Minn., and a law degree from the University of Minnesota, will join Fiscal Times (4/7) F&M in July. Assistant Professor of Economics Pavlina Tcherneva answers five questions about the U.S. economy. “I am deeply honored to be joining a college that has had a tremendous history of more than 200 years as a leader in the liberal ARTIST’S WORK AIMS TO MAKE STATIONS arts,” Lugo said. “Franklin & Marshall has advantages in being able OF THE CROSS “MORE IMMEDIATE” to recruit students from all over the world. I’m also excited to work Catholic News Service (3/31) with and for Dan Porterfield, who has a wonderful vision of the future Virginia Maksymowicz, associate professor of art, created of higher education and for F&M.” her sculpted reliefs of the Stations of the Cross using real Lugo directed the admissions and enrollment process for Carleton. people as models because she wanted each Station Among other achievements, he developed a data-driven recruiting to seem “more immediate” to viewers. strategy, played a leading role in recruiting a diverse student body, OIC LAUNCHES FUNDRAISING EFFORT and managed recruiting communications with particular attention FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INITIATIVE to social media and other e-recruiting tools. Philadelphia Inquirer (3/16) He previously served as a development officer during Carleton’s Art Taylor ‘80, chairman of the board of Opportunities capital campaign and an assistant dean of admissions. Lugo also Industrialization Center of America, says the Entrepreneurial worked for 10 years in New York as an attorney in the music and Mindset Initiative is a plan to establish training programs television industries. to assist black entrepreneurs and those who want to “I look forward to learning what makes Franklin & Marshall students become entrepreneurs. unique, and learning more about the F&M community and its culture,” Lugo says. “I enjoyed my conversations with the Admission 7 TIPS TO GET THE MOST OUT OF COLLEGE TOURS staff, where I see a wealth of talent that will help ensure we’re U.S. News & World Report (3/15) getting the best and brightest students.” Franklin & Marshall College tour guides are customizing the tours to match the interests of the students in the group.

INQLINGS: CRAFTING A SCULPTOR’S FINAL TRIBUTE Video about the Philadelphia Inquirer (3/13) Documentary filmmaker Karen Mintz ‘87 is working on a New President project about forensic sculptor Frank Bender, who has worked with the FBI, Scotland Yard and America’s Most Wanted To help introduce President to help identify homicide victims and wanted fugitives. Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph.D., to Franklin & Marshall constituencies, WE NEED TO REWARD THOSE WHO NURTURE the College produced a video A DIVERSITY OF IDEAS IN SCIENCE of the president’s first days at Chronicle of Higher Education (3/6)

F&M. The resulting video is titled Alan I. Leshner ‘65, P’99, CEO of the American “Meet President Dan Porterﬁeld.” Association for the Advancement of Science, writes that, To view it online, go to “America urgently needs to expand the array of ideas http://www.fandm.edu/president. we’re sampling, which means going beyond traditional communities to engage the nontraditional ones—

women and minorities—much more.” www.fandm.edu 11

GO DIPLOMATS WinterSportsWrap-up

Georgio Milligan ’12 and James McNally ’11 Gabriel de Melo ’12 Olivia Hill ’12

BAS KETB ALL Cup, awarded to the U.S. Squash Intercollegiate Doubles The men’s team won its second consecutive Centennial Champions. Finishing with an 11-5 record, Gabriel was named Conference (CC) crown and advanced to the second round a First Team All-American. of the NCAA Tournament, finishing with a 23-6 record. It was The women’s squad went 3-0 on the season’s final weekend a year of milestones. James McNally ’11 became the all-time to earn the Walker Cup and the 17th spot in the final national scoring leader with 1,796 points, surpassing the record held by rankings. The Diplomats (11-10 overall) played a brutal Donnie Marsh ’79. Coach Glenn Robinson passed the 800- schedule that included six of the top 10 teams in the nation. win plateau. Georgio Milligan ‘12 and Mike Baker ’11 both Chelsea Ross ’13 represented the Diplomats in the Holleran passed the 1,000-point mark in their careers. Milligan received Division draw at the CSA Championships. numerous honors, including First Team All-American by NABC, SWIMMING ECAC South Player of the Year and CC Player of the Year. The women’s team went a perfect 7-0 in the CC and Under first-year coach Kirsten Richter ’03, the women’s team 8-4 overall, finishing second at the CC Championship. finished 11-9 in the CC and 14-13 overall. The Diplomats Olivia Hill ‘12 won a gold medal in the 1,650 freestyle became the first team in school history to win a CC playoff and a pair of bronze medals, while Garland Bartlett ’12 game with a 61-49 win over Ursinus College. Megan Pauley ’12 won a silver in the 1,650 freestyle. and Alexa Barbush ’13 were named to CC Honorable Mention. The men’s team finished 3-3 in the CC and 3-8 overall, placing I NDOOR T RACK & FIELD second at the CC Championship. Jake Reingold ’13 won a Nils Michaelis ’13 won two gold medals to lead F&M to a gold medal in the 500 freestyle and three silvers, David Fell ’12 seventh-place finish at the CC Indoor Championship. He earned won a gold in the 200 IM and two silvers, Tim Landon ’14 a gold in the 55-meter hurdles and teamed with Tim Tillman ‘12, won a gold medal in the 400 IM. Tommy Bergstrom ’13 Brian Rivera ’13 and Mike Dohrman ’12 to take first in the and Conor Finnegan ‘11 teamed with Reingold and Fell 4x200 relay. to earn a silver medal in the 800 freestyle relay.

Sheena Crawley ’13 took ninth place in the mile at the National W RES TLING Indoor Track & Field Championship meet. At the CC Indoor Under its new coach, Mike Rogers, F&M ended a 23-match Championship, she earned three gold medals to lead F&M to a losing skid and closed out the dual-meet season with four fourth-place finish. Crawley won a gold in the mile (breaking her consecutive wins, including a 22-13 win over Millersville own school record with a 5:07.42), earned first place in the 800 University to capture the Rupp Cup for the first time. The meters and was a member of the winning 4x400 relay team with Diplomats collected 14 medals at five tournaments, including Caitlin Regan ‘12, Henley Siegrist ‘12 and Sylvia Zohrabian ‘13. two first-place finishes by Jake Bucha ’11. Bucha and Matt SQUAS H Fullowan ’12 both placed fifth at the EIWA Championships. The men’s squash team finished eighth in the nation after Bucha (31-6) became the third Diplomat wrestler to win 30 posting an 11-9 record. Gabriel de Melo ’12 and Gui de Melo matches in a season, while Fullowan advanced to the NCAA ’13 played in the top draw of the CSA Championships. Gabriel Division I Championships with a 27-15 record. teamed with Ryan Mullaney ’14 to capture the Ketchum www.fandm.edu

12 SINCLAIR DAVE

I played for Glenn Robinson more than 25 years ago. That puts me in my mid-40s, which must seem old to the young men now playing for Robinson, not to mention the un-coached junior high and high school boys who will start becoming men when they eventually play for him. Yes, it has been a while since I played for Robinson, and yet I ﬁnd myself thinking about him more now than at any other time since I graduated from Franklin & Marshall College. Surely that recall is in part spurred by Robinson’s winning his 800th game this past season, which garnered the national attention it deserved. A former player reﬂects on lessons But more than that, he comes to mind a lot more these days because the older we get, the more peeks we take learned from F&M’s Glenn Robinson back at our lives, and the more we consider the men and women who had an effect on us. Matt Steinmetz ‘86 What Robinson did for me, and I assume many of the hundreds of players he has coached at F&M, was lay a foundation for adulthood that is very much part of me today. It was instilled with an emphasis on teamwork and coopera- tion, and it relied heavily on respect and responsibility.

Robinson puts that foundation down for all his players, whether they are alongside him and working with him at the time or not. It is a foundation that remains long after you are gone from F&M, and you are free to leave it be or build on it as you like. www.fandm.edu

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14 Former Diplomat point guard Matt Steinmetz ’86 is an NBA analyst for Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, network of the Golden State Warriors. You can follow him on Twitter @MSteinmetzCSN.

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1. Glenn Robinson Court at Mayser Center is dedicated on Feb. 19. 2. Players surprise their coach with a banner after his 800th win over Gettysburg College on Feb. 9.

3. Robinson talks basketball with Matt Guokas, coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, who trained at F&M during the 1980s. 4. On the sidelines, Robinson is known for his intensity and insight. 5. The 2010-11 team celebrates winning the Centennial Conference title. www.fandm.edu [Photos 1, 2, 4, 5 by Dave Sinclair] 15 Singing the Praises of Student Research F&M students thrive as research colleagues and co-authors Libby Sternberg DONNELLY Assistant Professor Sylvia Alajaji and Stacy Huang ‘11 BRIAN

T o Westerners, East Asian music can conjure up all that “Dr. Alajaji was a wonderful mentor for me,” Huang says. “I only is perceived as “exotic” about the East. Its modal sounds, took one class with her, but she was the one who introduced this quartertones and unfamiliar dissonances provide few points field to me. She opened me up to this whole new world.” of reference for Western ears used to the angularity and key The world is that of ethnomusicology, the study of music and structures of classical and pop music. music-making in their social, political and cultural contexts. But for south China native Rujing (Stacy) Huang ’11, East Asian The aboriginal music Huang studied has a distinctive sound. music is not only familiar, it is part of her field of study, one Mostly a cappella vocal music that relies heavily on five-note that led her to a national conference last year to present her scales, it might remind Westerners of Native American chants research findings. with cadences in open octaves and fifths. Her story is typical of F&M students who take advantage of the When its music-makers migrate to a city where Western styles College’s research opportunities, which provide intellectually dominate, the aboriginal approach becomes blended with the enriching experiences as well as résumé-enhancing activities. tonalities of the West, much the same way that other cultural Often, by the time they complete their projects, these students traditions melt into the urban way of life. Huang found this are operating at the level of colleagues to their faculty advisers. particularly true of Kimbo Hu, Taiwan’s music legend of aboriginal Huang, a joint music and business, organizations and descent, whose command of both vernacular and Western society major, devoted spring and summer 2010 to looking musics has led to a distinct, nostalgic sound popularly known at a subgenre of Asian music that resulted in a paper— as “ocean blues.” “When Tradition Meets Modernity: Aboriginal Musics in Huang conducted her research during a semester abroad Taipei”— and attendance and presentations at major in Taipei, but it was her work with Alajaji that helped her ethnomusicology conferences. crystallize her pursuits into a paper that won her recognition Her topic was aboriginal Taiwanese music in the city of and opportunities. Taipei. She studied what happened to the music of aboriginal Alajaji also helped Huang focus on what questions to ask peoples of Taiwan when they migrated to the city. and how to properly research her subject. “People of aboriginal descent were using music to negotiate “When she came back from Taiwan, she had a great paper,

between their multiple identities: rural and urban, traditional and a foundation to work on,” Alajaji says. “We synthesized her modern,” says Sylvia Alajaji of Huang’s work. “It helped make work into case studies. We formulated her argument. Her the transition [to urban life] easier.” Alajaji, assistant professor groundwork was really impressive for an undergraduate.” of music, acted as an intellectual guide as Huang prepared So impressive that Alajaji suggested Huang accompany her to delve into her subject and as she wrote up her ﬁndings. to the annual Society for Ethnomusicology conference last www.fandm.edu

16 HOWARD November. Huang jumped at the opportunity and was able to network with scholars, handling the conference with PETER “grace and enthusiasm,” Alajaji says. It was the first of several opportunities for Huang to share her work. After the national conference, at which she was a volunteer, Huang presented her paper at the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology meeting, held in Pittsburgh this year, even though it was primarily a graduate-student gathering. Then, Princeton University invited Huang to the Asian Popular Music Conference, where she was the only undergraduate student presenting a paper among a sea of scholars. Alajaji helped prepare Huang for this milieu. “When we have a dialogue about work, it is as if I am talking to a colleague, not a student,” says Alajaji. A classically trained pianist, Huang credits Alajaji for helping her see “there is no limit” to her field. But Alajaji, too, has benefited from the collaboration, learning with her students as they approach research projects. “When I was interviewing for teaching positions, one of the big, big positives here were the student research opportunities,” she says. “What happily surprised me was that students have an interest in this particular area of research.” Associate Professor Tony Chemero has recruited several students Huang, who graduated in May, will enter Harvard’s ethno- to conduct research with him. musicology Ph.D. program this fall.

WHAT PROMPTS and Jayawickreme explored the variables in that and similar scenarios to determine what affordances sparked what would GOODNESS? be considered virtuous behavior. Huang found great As Jayawickreme explains it, “Say your family calls you brave, satisfaction in her aboriginal but you might not have the opportunity to show your bravery. music research, but for But you’re walking by a pond one day and see a person Eranda Jayawickreme ’05, drowning. Now you can exhibit your bravery.” That application virtue is its own reward. of virtuous behavior is what they studied. Or, rather, it is the topic “The idea is not only what predicts behavior, but how personality he explored in a paper traits and situations interact to draw it out,” Jayawickreme says. co-published with Tony It is a fascinating topic, but equally fascinating to Chemero Chemero, F&M’s associate is how students freely approach professors at F&M to talk professor of psychology and about such subjects. scientific and philosophical Eranda Jayawickreme ’05 was studies of mind. the Williamson medalist. “I’m not a retiring person,” he says good-naturedly, “but I never would have gone to talk to my teachers as an undergraduate The topic was not quite virtue, but how certain behaviors that [about research]. Here, students just drop by.” might be described as virtuous are drawn out by environment and opportunity. Chemero recruits students for research if he sees an opportunity that might match their skills and interest. Such was the As a student at F&M, Jayawickreme approached Chemero case recently when he identified Lin Nie ’10, a math major about the dicey problem of looking at values within the value- interested in the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. free context of science. Chemero was able to point him to He drew her into a project that uses Heidegger’s philosophy a branch of the field—ecological psychology—in which in artificial intelligence. Chemero was working. Chemero is not sure if F&M students realize the breadth The conversation grew from just talk to collaborative research

of the opportunities available to them when they come to on the topic of morally relevant situations. “We applied the idea campus, but he chalks that up to the newness of the overall of ‘affordances’—opportunities for action—to moral behavior,” college experience. “Students deﬁnitely hear about it, but Chemero says. you don’t really know what it’s like until you get into it.” For example, if someone drops something, what motivates a bystander to help pick up the dropped items? Chemero www.fandm.edu

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With Jayawickreme, “getting into it” meant publishing a paper RG E with Chemero in the Review of General Psychology in 2008 FORB on the topic of moral affordances. ERIC A Sri Lankan native, Jayawickreme is now a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest University after receiving his Ph.D. in positive and political psychology from the University of Pennsylvania last year. At his F&M graduation, he was awarded the Henry S. Williamson Medal as the outstanding senior. He has received numerous grants. He currently participates in The Character Project, a program co-sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation that explores character traits such as honesty and compassion and what precisely should be the centerpiece of an ethical theory. Jayawickreme landed on the F&M campus because he knew fellow countrymen who had come to the College and had wonderful things to say about it. He quickly discovered the opportunities for interaction with faculty members for collaborative projects, and all three summers he was a Hackman fellow (see sidebar). “I didn’t realize how spoiled I became with these opportunities until I left F&M,” he says. “Compared to a lot of other schools, F&M puts a lot of resources into student research.”

Associate Professor Jennifer Morford chose F&M in part because A JOB TURNS INTO A PAPER of the student-faculty collaborative opportunities. Caitlin Carney ’08 was not looking for a research project when she approached Jennifer Morford, associate professor But when Morford contacted Carney, it was to offer her of chemistry, about working in her lab one summer. She was a research position, not clerical work. By the time Carney was just looking for a job to supplement her cash flow. finished with her project, she was writing, not filing, papers Holding down a variety of part-time positions, including on the analysis of trace metals in marine environments. bell ringer, to help finance her education, Carney asked Morford “Caitlin’s first project was to compare two methods of about jobs at the end of her first year, thinking she could fit analysis for several metals in marine sediments,” Morford in maybe five hours of clerical work a week, supplementing says. “Her comparisons were critical for finding the most her other positions. Carney was happy when Morford said accurate and precise method of analysis to determine she would look into it. these metal concentrations.” This research was no small thing. Morford’s own area of expertise, analytical environmental chemistry, requires accuracy and precision in measurements. Carney helped lay the groundwork for accurate data gathering in an important field. As a result of that painstaking work, Carney was able to present her research results at the Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention in 2006. Ultimately, her work was included in three publications. She went on to tackle another project, looking at interactions between one metal, molybdenum, and various simple organic molecules as proxies for more complex organic material. She presented her findings at the Spring 2007 American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago, the Spring 2008 American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans (where she was awarded a Top Undergraduate Poster Award from the Geochemistry Division)

and the 2008 Environmental Chemistry Student Symposium at Pennsylvania State University (where she and Kelly Murphy ’09 were the only two undergraduates presenting alongside graduate students). Caitlin Carney ’08 was surprised to learn many of her medical school friends had not conducted research as undergraduates. www.fandm.edu

18 “A lot of my friends in medical school did not have those kinds Carney, a neuroscience major, felt as she delved into her of opportunities,” says Carney, now a student at Pennsylvania various projects. State University’s Hershey Medical School. “I probably learned more from research than from two full years It was happenstance that Carney took advantage of the research of classes,” she says. “I certainly learned a lot from my classes, opportunities early in her undergraduate education. Although but having the independence and freedom to do your own she remembers being told of F&M’s commitment to independent work, to go to your professors to talk about the work—it was research, she had wrongly assumed it was for juniors and seniors. multifaceted. For example, I took a statistics class, but I learned But faculty members such as Morford enjoy working with ﬁrst- so much in research about statistics. The research made me and second-year students. “I want them early so they can mine a better student, not just in chemistry, but in all my classes.” the depths of what’s going on over time, something you can’t Morford is happy when research opens doors for students, do if you do research for just one summer or one semester.” but she is overjoyed when it opens their minds: “I hope they “Mining the depths” of a particular ﬁeld was precisely how get out of it an inquiring mind.”

SUPPORTING STUDENTS WHO “AMAZE THEMSELVES” Franklin & Marshall has a strong commitment to student-faculty research projects, ranging from complex science experiments to social science explorations and humanities and arts projects. Many of these projects have resulted in papers co-authored by students and faculty members. From July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2010, 214 students combined to co-author 113 papers. That collaboration is driven by a thriving summer research program. Speciﬁc funds for summer research programs are made available through the Hackman Scholars program, which was established in 1984 through an endowment by the late William BRADSHAW

M. and Lucille M. Hackman. It encourages faculty members IAN to develop projects in all academic divisions of the College The College holds a Student Research Fair each semester at which that will involve students as research colleagues. students present and talk about their projects. The Hackman program is accompanied by other endowments, including the Eyler fund for student summer stipends to It would be far less resource intensive to crowd introductory support student-faculty research in biochemistry, biology or courses with students. F&M’s approach, using professors for chemistry; and the Rockhold fund for student summer stipends these courses and keeping enrollments small, represents a huge for economic research in developing countries. In addition, the commitment to facilitating close interaction between students College has grants funded through foundations and corporations and faculty. that support summer research for students. This investment pays off as students come to know professors During summer 2010, 67 students received more than $230,605 quickly, leading to the kind of welcome familiarity that lets of institutional support from the Hackman, as well as the grant- underclassmen feel comfortable approaching professors to funded Decision Theory, Howard Hughes Medical bat around ideas, often the ﬁrst step in determining whether Institute and Mellon Environmental Studies awards. During a research project is worth pursuing. the 2009–10 academic year, an additional 52 student-research The value of these projects is immeasurable. As students learn projects received $54,446 in support from the Leser, Nissley how to investigate a question systematically, they learn that and Marshall funds. “creating new knowledge is not capricious,” Steiner says. While other liberal arts institutions make similar commitments “There is a method to investigating the construction of what to student-faculty collaboration, Provost Ann Steiner says we know and to push the boundaries into the unknown.” F&M has made some key investments that especially facilitate Steiner often hears students say, “I never imagined doing such collaborations.

something like this,” a simple statement on the surface, but

“Our introductory courses are very small, usually no more than one that underscores the immense intellectual leap students 25 students. And in the natural sciences, our tenured and tenure- take as they explore research projects. “They surprise and track faculty members, not instructors, teach labs,” she says. amaze themselves,” Steiner says. “They are making genuine “This means that students and faculty get to know one another contributions to solving problems and answering questions, the moment students walk in the door.” and they help to change the way we understand the world.” www.fandm.edu

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20 Ring of Fire, Circle of Hope

F&M reacts to the Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters / Eric Schoeniger

On March 11, at about 1:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the seismograph his Japanese wife and their children. He visited F&M in 2009 in F&M’s Hackman Physical Sciences Building registered ground and 2010 as director of TGU’s American Studies program. motion. The movement, imperceptible to people in Lancaster, “We are all in shock, saddened and a bit disoriented,” was caused by seismic waves emanating from To¯ hoku, Japan, Long says. “But we are working hard to see that we get some 6,600 miles away. back on our feet.” On the F&M campus, the ripple effects of those waves are still felt. Sendai, the city closest to the earthquake’s epicenter, is home to To¯ hoku Gakuin University (TGU), an institution Culture and Conscience with which F&M has long had a close relationship. The Japanese people have been devastated by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. Yet they have TGU was co-founded in 1886 by the Rev. William Hoy, an 1882 responded with remarkable patience, grace and fortitude. graduate of F&M. Another F&M alumnus, David Schneder 1880, There was little or no looting or increase in crime, which became the school’s president in 1902 and held the post for might be expected in the face of shortages, and the country 34 years. Sixteen F&M alumni have served as TGU faculty. is already working to repair infrastructure. Since 1982, F&M has sent groups of students to TGU for ﬁve Japan has experienced many large earthquakes, most notably weeks of intensive summer study of the Japanese language, the Great Kanto¯ Earthquake of 1923, which killed as many as culture, politics, literature and history. In return, F&M hosts 140,000 people. In the past, such disasters were sometimes students from TGU’s American Studies program. interpreted as divine punishment. “The concept is referred to Several TGU students, as well as parents and other members as tenbatsu, which means heavenly retribution,” says Richard of the TGU community, died in the To¯ hoku earthquake and Reitan, assistant professor of history. “In fact, the mayor tsunami. Many faculty and staff lost homes and loved ones. of Tokyo used the term immediately following the recent And while TGU was not affected by the tsunami, nearly every earthquake, though he quickly retracted his statement.” building on TGU’s three campuses was damaged in the quake, Reitan cautions that understanding response to the disasters some severely, according to Christopher Long, associate through the lens of Japanese culture might be too simplistic. professor of sociolinguistics and associate dean of interna-

“People are coming together and helping one another, and tional affairs at TGU. this is very inspiring,” he says. “But it’s not uniquely Japanese; It will cost TGU up to $30 million for repairs, says Long. we see this in many parts of the world in response to tragedy. An American, Long has lived in Japan for several years with www.fandm.edu

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Richard Reitan, assistant professor of history (shown here during a summer session at TGU)

I don’t know that the notion of self-sacrifice for the greater problems in responding to the disasters.” Hasunuma, whole is a unique outgrowth of Japanese culture.” In fact, who was born in South Korea, has traveled to Japan often. Reitan says, Japan has great ethnic, religious and socio- Hasunuma agrees with Reitan that the Japanese nuclear economic diversity, and is far from a homogeneous society. industry is powerful. “Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates For Reitan, it is more accurate to view the response through the the Fukushima plant, has a lot of autonomy,” she explains. lens of global capitalism. “The values of the free market, profit- “TEPCO wasn’t disclosing information, and that was frustrating making and productivity are at work even in this crisis,” he says. to the Japanese people.” “Many of the nuclear workers are temporary laborers, working Nuclear power will likely remain important to Japan, in dangerous conditions with limited safety training, sometimes which lacks natural energy resources, but Hasunuma foresees without fully realizing the risks. And this prioritization of profit regulatory reform and a new environmental consciousness. over safety takes place worldwide.” “Historically, there was a strong environmental movement But the nuclear disaster resonates distinctively in Japan, the in Japan in response to the rapid industrialization following only nation to have had nuclear bombs dropped on it. “There is World War II,” she says. “The Fukushima crisis might a strong antinuclear sentiment among much of the population,” reinvigorate the movement. Reitan notes. “But that is held in check by powerful forces, “There’s an older generation that was directly affected by including the nuclear-power industry and the government.” the dropping of the nuclear bombs at the end of World The To¯hoku disasters have shed new light on the Japanese War II,” she continues. “They had to recover from that and government. “The current government represents the first rebuild the country. And now they have to deal with a crisis real turnover in Japanese government in more than 50 years,” that reminds them of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” says Linda Hasunuma, assistant professor of government. In the midst of their adversity, the Japanese people remain “It’s a new party that has never governed before, and it has strong. “The loss has been tremendous, and the devastation had trouble demonstrating leadership. That caused some is heartbreaking,” she says. “It is my hope that the Japanese www.fandm.edu

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E that the problems in the relationship between the nuclear industry and the government will be addressed and that

ERIC FORB the individual citizens of Japan will gain a greater voice.” And there is reason for hope. For one thing, the earthquake itself was not nearly as destructive as it could have been, in large part because of Japan’s investment in mitigating technology. “This was the fourth-strongest earthquake ever measured, but in terms of human casualties, it ranks 15th or so,” says Rob Sternberg, professor of geosciences and don of Bonchek College House. “So, as bad as it was, there’s evidence that if we can understand earthquake hazards and devote sufﬁcient resources to dealing with them, we can, to a certain extent, protect ourselves.” Linda Hasunuma, assistant professor of government, hopes the disaster will strengthen the environmental movement in Japan.

Waves of Earth and Water

Earth’s crust comprises giant slabs of rock that ride on the planet’s partially melted mantle, somewhat like sheets of ice on a lake. These “lithospheric plates” meet at plate boundaries, which often are the site of seismic faults and volcanic activity. In fact, an arc of plate boundaries known as the Ring of Fire nearly circumscribes the Pacific Ocean. R When plates slide alongside each other, they result in fractures E RG such as the San Andreas Fault. When they slam together, they E create mountains such as the Himalayas. When they pull apart, magma rushes up to fill the gap, as in Iceland. ERIC FORB There’s a fourth kind of plate interaction, which is when Rob Sternberg, professor of geosciences, says these disasters give one plate subducts, or slides beneath another. That is what you “an appreciation for nature and what it’s capable of.” happened in Japan. The nation of islands rests at the inter- section of four plates, which is why it endures more than decreases the speed but increases the amplitude. “Eventually, its share of seismic activity. you get a wall of water,” Sternberg says. “When tectonic plates come together, they apply stress and It was the tsunami—a word that comes to English by way of cause energy to be stored in the rock,” says Rob Sternberg, Japanese—far more than the earthquake that was so devastating professor of geosciences. “Eventually, the stress exceeds to northeastern Japan. In Sendai, a city close to the earthquake’s the strength of the rock, which breaks apart, releasing the epicenter but not reached by the tsunami, about half the stored energy.” buildings along the main road were damaged, some severely, Most of that energy is released as seismic waves that travel according to Sternberg. through the earth. The result is an earthquake such as the one But along 420 miles of coast, entire towns were all but erased that occurred in To¯hoku. But the To¯hoku earthquake did not just by the deluge, which reached six miles inland. Several towns lost release seismic waves. “At subduction zones, the overriding plate thousands of residents, up to half their population. Although tends to buckle in a vertical direction, similar to if you pushed Japan has invested billions of dollars in seawalls, the structures a rug and it buckled in the middle,” Sternberg explains. When offered little protection against wave heights exceeding 75 feet. that happens at the seafloor, it forces out waves of water. “From a scientific perspective, this was an awe-inspiring event,” The waves start out with a high speed—up to 500 miles per Sternberg says. “But as a geophysicist, I’m not immune to hour in the open ocean—but a low amplitude, or wave height. thinking about the human tragedy involved. This gives you As they approach land, frictional interaction with the seafloor an appreciation for nature and what it’s capable of.” www.fandm.edu

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Jingyi “Lena” Gu ’13, president of the Asian Cultural Society, helped organize the 1,000 Cranes for Japan to beneﬁt Toˉhoku Gakuin University.

Concentric Circles The To¯ hoku earthquake struck the day before F&M students left Ciao Bella hosted a Dinner for Japan to raise money to benefit for spring break, but the College responded quickly, sending TGU, and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee donated its support and sympathy to colleagues and friends at TGU. 50 percent of the proceeds from its Used Equipment Sale. President Daniel R. Porterfield, Provost Ann Steiner, Dean The most visible project has been the 1,000 Cranes for Japan of the College Kent Trachte and other faculty and professional campaign, organized by the Asian Cultural Society (ACS). staff immediately began communicating with one another The ACS encouraged people to buy a sheet of paper for $1, and the College community. They organized planning fold it into a paper crane and write a message of hope to meetings, which were well-attended by students, faculty send to TGU. members and professional staff. They also scheduled The idea was inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl discussion sessions during which faculty shared insights in Hiroshima whose wish was to finish 1,000 cranes before her into the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises, and into death, and by the legend that 1,000 cranes can grant a wish. Japanese culture and government. By May, ACS had collected 1,002 cranes and more than $1,000 In short order, a Japan Relief Project Fund was created under from F&M students, faculty, professional staff, alumni, parents the leadership of the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement. and the Lancaster community. Millersville University students The Catastrophic Relief Alliance (CRA) is coordinating student- also collected cranes to help reach the goal. led fundraising. Recognizing that TGU’s recovery will require During the project the cranes have been hanging in the a long-term commitment, CRA will explore options to help atrium of the Steinman College Center as a reminder the university through the summer and into the fall semester. of the College community’s commitment to supporting Thus far, student groups have undertaken several projects. its colleagues and friends at TGU.

The idea was inspired by the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl in

Hiroshima whose wish was to ﬁnish 1,000 cranes before her death, and by the legend that 1,000 cranes can grant a wish. www.fandm.edu

24 R E RG “Every year, many F&M students benefit greatly from E the relationship with TGU,” says Jingyi “Lena” Gu ’13, FORB president of the ACS. “The students in the exchange ERIC program have always received the warmest and most genuine welcome from our sister school. The rest of us have established lifelong friendships with the exchange students from TGU. We feel this is the time to deepen our bond and do something for them in return.” The money raised by the crane project and other fundraising activities will go toward offsetting the costs of the summer TGU travel course to F&M in August. Nine students and two Associate Professor Jim Strick explains how the tsunami flooded directors will be coming. the backup diesel generators at the Fukushima nuclear plant. “We have been able to offer one TGU student a full scholarship and reduce the cost significantly for the other Nuclear Power Plants: students,” Provost Ann Steiner says. “This summer marks the 30th anniversary of the summer exchange program between When Things Fall Apart F&M and TGU, so it was particularly important to us to make Nuclear power is clean and efficient, and compared with sure that we hosted TGU, despite the effects of the disaster. other energy sources it has a remarkable safety record. We hope to resume our trip to TGU next summer, if they But when things go wrong at a nuclear power plant, are recovered enough to host us.” they can go very wrong, very fast. One alumna who participated in the TGU program Nuclear plants derive their power from the fissioning as a student is AMirah Cummings ’07. Describing her of uranium atoms, which release an enormous amount experience in Japan, Cummings says, “We were completely of energy when their nuclei split. As the nucleus fissions, immersed in Japanese culture. I loved it. I brought away it emits two or three neutrons, which split additional uranium atoms, and so on, in a self-sustaining process. lifelong friendships. I still keep in touch with people I met in Japan.” “Within less than one microsecond, there will be a chain reaction that leads to an explosion,” says Jim Cummings reports that the people she knew in Japan Strick, associate professor in the Department of Earth have been accounted for after the disasters. “They are and Environment and chair of the Program in Science, devastated, but they are alive,” she says. “One thing Technology and Society. That is why nuclear plants that really impressed me is how organized and strong must control the fissioning process. the Japanese people are. They respond to these kinds To achieve that, pellets of uranium are encased in 20-foot of situations as an entire people. They will do well zirconium rods, which are grouped in assemblies of about with this, even in their time of grief.” 100 rods. The assemblies are submerged in water, which prevents them from overheating, Strick says. If the reactor needs to be shut down, control rods are inserted among the zirconium rods to absorb the neutrons and bring the nuclear reaction to a halt. When the To¯hoku earthquake struck, the reactors at the Fukushima plant shut down automatically. “But even with the reactor shut down, it takes days or weeks for the fuel rods to cool, because there’s so much residual heat and even some residual fissioning,” Strick says. The Fukushima plant was guarded by a 19-foot seawall, which was little defense against the 46-foot wave that struck there. The tsunami cut off power lines and flooded the backup diesel generators. Without pumps to circulate water, the reactors began to melt down. Temperatures in the reactor vessel can exceed 3,600

degrees Fahrenheit, according to Strick. When that happens, the fuel assemblies melt and collect at the bottom of the reactor. With no water to cool it or control rods to regulate it, Harrison Hoyes ‘07 and AMirah Cummings ’07 studied Japanese the melted uranium continues to ﬁssion and produce heat, culture during their summer program at TGU. and threatens to breach the reactor core. www.fandm.edu

Sprin g in

GOULD CK I Full S w i n g N Every spring the Franklin & Marshall campus comes alive with bright colors and vibrant activities, from casual outings to play Frisbee on the quad to formal gatherings to thank our donors, from lectures by famous ﬁgures New York Times columnist David Brooks delivers the North to a big welcome to potential students. Lecture to a packed house at the Alumni Sports & Fitness Center.

A Closer Look showcases F&M life and culture for accepted students.

The patio outside the Steinman College Center is a top spot for some outside studying.

A pie-eating contest at Ware College House beneﬁts the Coat Drive for Lancaster Refugees. BRADSHAW IAN ERGER B FOR C I ER BRADSHAW IAN

Warm weather means shorts, sandals and smiles. www.fandm.edu

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Sustainability Week is held each year to promote environmental stewardship. BRADSHAW IAN BRADSHAW IAN

Hartman Green turns into an F&M-style water park one sunny afternoon. GOULD CK I N

Lorenzo Daughtry-Chambers ‘11 (center) poses with Marianne and Joseph Nolt ‘59, whose Nolt Music Award made possible his trip to study the djembe at the University of Ghana. www.fandm.edu

27 CLASS fulfilling memories of my life at F&M ACTION Selig Schwartz, D.D.S., Dale Aulthouse writes: “I am ’40 reports from Palm and Lancaster.” ’60 living in the beautiful Beach Gardens, Fla., that he mountains of Tioga County, Pa., near recorded his first hole-in-one at ’53 Donald Krill writes from the Pine Creek Gorge, enjoying the the Eastpointe Country Club Golden, Colo.: “I am doing geology, abundant wildlife and long the week before his 91st birthday. part-time teaching existential social walks with my two dogs. In 2000 I On March 6, he won the “Legends work, counseling the homeless and retired from High Steel Structures, Championship” at Eastpointe. others, and entertaining at night where I was vice president of clubs and retirement homes with purchasing, after 52 years of happy ’41 Bob Butler is a Phi Kappa Psi both mental and standard magic.” employment.” alumnus who hopes the Phil Blaker reports: “Lynn Kerr, Wallace Bieber writes that chapter moves back to 560 W. James Sandy Babos and I had a ‘micro- ’54 Jennifer Conklin ’05 made a St., where he lived as an undergrad- reunion’ in Plano, Texas, when Phil presentation about her Peace Corps uate. He lives at the Cumberland was on his way to visit family in work in Ecuador to his congregation, Crossing Retirement Home in Austin. All of us are ‘retired’ and in Jordan United Church of Christ, in Carlisle, Pa., and wishes everyone in reasonably good shape, but typical Allentown. Jennifer said that her his class well. of F&M graduates we are all active in most gratifying work was with a community-service organizations and group of high school students and William Lascheid, M.D., and churches as well as with our families.” starting an education program that ’46 his wife, Nancy Lascheid, taught about HIV/AIDS. Robert Smith P’89 and his wife, R.N., received the Naples Daily News Annelise, represented the College Healthcare Heroes Award for lifetime Joseph Baily Jr. was a world at the inauguration of St. Mary’s achievement in healthcare at a ’57 traveler for years and is still College of Maryland’s new president luncheon in Naples, Fla. enjoying life at 74 with his wife, on March 26. Catherine. The Rev. Jay Ebersole, Ed.D., Byron Kohr will give a ’50 Bob Smith, M.D., reports that he writes: “I was happy to return ’61 presentation, “Climbing and Sheila Rabinowitz Smith will to my hometown of Lancaster for our Colorado’s 14,000-Foot Peaks Can have been married for 50 years on 60th Class Reunion at F&M last June Be Fun . . . Most of the Time,” about Aug. 6, 2012. To celebrate, their to meet many classmates and friends his experiences mountain climbing in three children and spouses, along and to immerse myself in the Colorado, during F&M’s Reunion with their five grandchildren, went to extraordinary campus environment. Weekend in June. He lives in New Grand Bahama Island in April. Bob An F&M Glee Club alumnus, a Delta Mexico. Sig and one of two classics majors in has been retired from his OB/GYN our class (John Zarker, Ph.D., in practice for seven years. He writes: Don Reiley, of Bedford, Pa., is Latin, and I in Greek), I happily “Looking forward to our 50th Class starting his second decade as co- shared my experience and precious Reunion in June!” editor of two Westlake publications – memories of those college years with Patent Law Basics, a single volume, my clergy colleagues, including two ’58 Bob Stern writes: “I continue and Patent Law Fundamentals, now Ursinus College alumni, Lancaster to live in State College, Pa., eight volumes. Don retired from Seminary grads, and our Singing with my wife of 50 years. Wilma and I the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Serenaders here in our retirement are both retired Penn State with more than 40 years of federal community. I also enjoy professors. I just had a book service. From 1964 to 1967, he corresponding (long hand) with published by Oxford University was an engineer on Project Apollo classmates when discovering their Press, Nausea: Mechanisms and (NASA’s moon launch) in New whereabouts in the alumni Management.” Orleans and Huntsville, Ala. magazine.” The Rev. Lou Wargo and his wife, ’59 Jim Hoeschele reports that Jan, have returned home after Lou ’52 Isaac Kaiser writes: “I he took his 14-year-old served for three months as interim celebrated my 81st birthday grandson on a trip to the Antarctic pastor of Waiola United Church of on Jan. 27. Fifty-five years after Peninsula aboard the National Christ in Lahaina, Hawaii. Waiola was graduating from Yale Law School, I Geographic Explorer, on which he founded by Queen Keopuolani in am still practicing civil trial law on met Rick Hauk, former commander of 1823 and is the third-oldest Christian basically a full-time basis. I have the Space Shuttle and friend and church in Hawaii. Lou continues to been a widower for six years now. next-door neighbor to Al Nauss. serve as an annuitant visitor for the Both of my children are happily Karl Nolph, M.D., has been UCC Pension Board. married, I have two grandchildren program chair of the Annual Dialysis who live in Maui, and I recently Conference for the past 31 years. ’62 Lawrence Reich writes: “I was

became a great-granduncle. My selected for inclusion in the

The annual event attracts up to skeletal frame has been successfully 3,000 attendees from 60 countries. 2011 edition of the Best Lawyers in patched together eight times, He is also a former editor of a America in the specialty of allowing me to play golf, ﬁsh, hike textbook of peritoneal dialysis; the bankruptcy and creditor-debtor into the Colorado mountains and latest edition is titled The Nolph and rights law. I was also named by generally enjoy life. I still have vivid, Gokal Textbook of Peritoneal Dialysis. Corporate Counsel magazine to its www.fandm.edu

28 CLASS list of Top Lawyers, Bankruptcy and he told me he learned his computer Jerry Kumin has earned the ACTION Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, for skills as a student at F&M!” accreditation of certified 2010. My great-nephew, Ben Lurio David Harrison reports: “It is a international property ‘11, is following in the footsteps of big year for me. My daughter, specialist, transcontinental not only me but also my nephew, his Margot, is getting married in St. referring consultant, and father, Doug Lurio ‘78.” Thomas, and I’ll follow when I wed is trained to facilitate real estate Tena Nauheim. And my 6-year-old transactions anywhere in the world. ’65 Bob Croyle met up with Ken grandson, Spencer, is ‘lettering’ He recently returned from a trip to Snyder ’43, who was soon to in three sports. Alas, Spencer and Costa Rica to evaluate the potential celebrate his 91st birthday, at my son and daughter-in-law, Will of a community under development Lakeside Country Club in Houston and Jamie, will shortly move to in the Pacific South zone. on March 6. Bob writes: “We enjoyed Toronto. The rest of the year will Donald Mackie retired in January reminiscing about Ken’s F&M days, be more typical for this third-year from City of Vancouver Aquatics and his career and his service as a Marine retiree: volunteering as a tutor in plans to visit his four children on a in World War II. Ken has kept up with an elementary school, helping out cross-country bike ride this summer. technology as he took several at the U.S. Botanic Garden and John Snyder writes: “I retired five pictures while we were together and Imagination Stage, and hiking, biking then emailed them to me. As I was years ago from Somers (New York) and traveling — including an annual Middle School, where I taught leaving, I saw him on his cell phone. hiking jaunt with Marc Silbert ’66.” His sense of humor is still good, as sixth-grade science. But it took

Why I Give

Jennifer M. Schlener ’94 F&M was my first choice. I fell in love with it on my I have consistently first visit. It was perfect from a geographic and size supported F&M standpoint, and it was a place I knew I could continue through various my passion for music without having to be a music campaigns and major. I majored in English and also played piano for the Annual Fund various groups, including F&M Players and Jazz Band. and have also I definitely credit F&M for launching my career. I arranged for a planned to teach at a private secondary school until the gift to the College spring of my senior year, when I was reading Franklin in my estate & Marshall Magazine and saw an ad for a position plan. I notified in the Alumni Office. As a student ambassador at the College in reunions, I had exposure to alumni relations and was writing so it knows enthused by the possibility of working at F&M. Cheryl this support is coming, and I will likely increase the McComsey Kauffman ’82 hired me, and I stayed at amount in the future. F&M for five years, eventually becoming the director of When I reflect back on my F&M experience, it alumni and annual giving. was a very rich one. I received an absolutely first- After leaving F&M, I went to an educational foundation rate education, had the privilege to learn from in New York and then made the leap into academic distinguished faculty members (both as a student medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center and and a colleague), and developed lifelong friendships. College of Medicine, serving in various roles, including It was the perfect college experience for me, and it director of development. I am now chief of staff at transformed me. For that, I am grateful. the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. Jennifer Schlener ’94 has named F&M as her primary I remember being seated with Dick Woods ’55, an F&M beneficiary for a set amount on one of her retirement plans. On Trustee at the time, at a College dinner when I was a her other two retirement plans, she has named F&M as her student. He spoke so positively about his experience second beneficiary and her partner, Roy, as the first beneficiary. at F&M, and that of his son, Jonathan ’91, now a To learn how to create your own generous legacy at F&M, you good friend of mine. Dick was very clear about the are invited to contact Stefanie B. Valar, F&M’s director of gift importance of giving back and remaining engaged planning, by phone (717-291-4272) or email (stefanie.valar@ with F&M. fandm.edu). www.fandm.edu

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MATT LESTER The Franklin & Marshall College Health Care Industry Alumni Forum provided an opportunity for alumni, parents, students and members of the College community with an interest in health care to come together. The discussion, moderated by Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Esq., ’76, highlighted the expertise and experiences of the panelists in the industry. Visit the Health Care Industry Alumni Forum website at www.fandm.edu/alumni/ health-care-industry-alumni-forum for a slide show, Podcast and video recordings of each panel discussion. Pictured here are panelists (l – r): Robert B. Vernon ’75; Keith W. Jones ’89; Samuel N. Lombardo; Michael B. Wood, M.D., ’65; David Best, M.D., ’75; Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Esq., ’76, Margery A. Brittain ’79; William J. Cochran, M.D., ’75; Roy Goldman, Ph.D., ’69; Richard L. Snyder, M.D., ’77; Harlan Weisman, M.D., P’12; Marcia Handler, Esq., ’86; Kelt Kindick ’76, P’07; and Douglas B. Sherlock, C.F.A., ’77.

until this past September to get my whether medicine can reduce their the board. I continue serving in both wife, Barbara, the SMS Counseling risk of heart failure. capacities but have begun planning Center secretary and scheduling Peter Kranz, Ph.D., is chief for retirement within the next few guru, to retire. I remain active in paleontologist at Dinosaur Park in years.” motor-sports journalism, writing Laurel, Md. He writes: “In less than Lewis Kaminester, M.D., and his a weekly, opinionated column for a year Dinosaur Park has become a wife, Vera, are celebrating their the trade paper, Area Auto Racing major attraction, hosting thousands 40th wedding anniversary. Lewis News, contributing to other auto- of visitors.” is president of the Palm Beach racing publications and helping After nearly 10 years as co-director County Society for Dermatology regional racers with sponsorship and Cutaneous Surgery and was and public relations activities. of the Samberg Family Foundation, Jerry Levine has returned to real named a Top Doc, Dermatology, Barbara has an antiques business for 2010 and many previous years. specializing in early-20th-century estate law as a principal in Kern Levine LLC, doing business as the He has practiced in North Palm hand-colored photographs and Beach, Fla., for 35 years. He writes: other period prints.” John and TenSquare Group in Washington, D.C. TenSquare assists charter “I’m still appreciating the wonderful Barbara divide their time between education I received at F&M.” their Carmel, N.Y., home, and their schools, other nonprofits and private Indian Harbour Beach, Fla., vacation real estate interests in all aspects of Joseph Laird Jr. writes: “We retreat. They have six children and 12 real estate development, financing, happily welcomed Jack Andrew grandchildren. leasing and management. Jerry into our family on Feb. 13, my fifth and his wife, Sarah Pokempner, grandchild to complement my six live in Washington and have three children: Trey (40), Katie (37), Andrew ’66 Robert Brooks P’98 represented the College at daughters, Abigail, Zoe and Emma, (29), Morgan (26), Emily (10) and the inauguration of Clarion Univer- and a son-in-law, Matt Golden, Alexandra (9). You can tell by the last sity’s new president on April 15. married to Abigail. two children, who are younger than my oldest grandchild, that I get to James Cappola, M.D., Ph.D., reports David Baker writes: “On lead a 45-year-old lifestyle at age that his son Thomas Cappola, M.D., ’67 March 12, at the 42nd annual 65, all thanks to Chris, my perfect assistant professor of medicine at meeting of the membership of York 44-year-old bride. We are living in Penn, has discovered that defects in Educational Federal Credit Union in New Jersey horse country full time

a gene linked to kidney function may York, Pa., I was recognized for 40 with summers on the Jersey Shore in predispose a person to heart failure. years of service as president and Bay Head. Professionally, Chris and Further research may determine CEO of the credit union and for 40 I are investment-banking business whether physicians can identify years of voluntary service on the partners focused on the information patients who have the defect and board of directors and as treasurer of www.fandm.edu

30 CLASS ACTION and software services industries with Health Care Industry Alumni Forum sciences at Aureus University School Petsky Prunier in New York.” in February. He also spoke to a of Medicine in Aruba. He is also Jamie Ann Meyers, Ph.D., formerly group of more than 30 students on director of clinical subspecialties and known as Jim, completed her what it means to be an actuary. Roy professor of urology. Arnie is still in gender transition several years ago is vice president and chief actuary for private practice in the Washington, and retired last August from her Humana Inc. D.C., area and is medical director of teaching position in the Department Walt Newcomb writes: “Bendy Greenbelt Urology Institute and Mid of Geoscience at Winona State and I returned from a 19-month Atlantic Cryotherapy. He is past vice University after 30 years of service. assignment in Kuala Lumpur in president of the U.S. section of the She is still active professionally April. Having grown accustomed to International College of Surgeons and is co-authoring a book for the warmth of Malaysia and never and a consultant for 21st Century laypeople on Minnesota geology as having adequately acclimatized to Oncology, Novasys Medical and part of Mountain Press’ “Geology the cold winters in southeastern Generic Medical Devices. Arnie and Underfoot” series. She volunteers Idaho, we were thrilled when I Lilian live in Old Town Alexandria, as a lead trainer with the Minnesota found a new work opportunity in Va., and Ebberup, Denmark. GLBTA Campus Alliance, as a New Orleans. In November we Charles Woernle, M.D., writes: “I board member of the Minnesota moved to the Crescent City, where retired on Jan. 1. I served over 24 Transgender Health Coalition I became executive vice president years with the Alabama Department and as a trainer on GLBT issues and assistant project manager at a of Public Health and since 1992 in faith communities. She and her company that manages and operates was assistant state health officer for wife, Peggy, live in Winona, Minn., petroleum storage and distribution Disease Control and Prevention. It and have two children and three facilities owned by the federal was a rewarding career, and I have grandchildren. government. Our children, Chuck many fond memories. I enjoy the Justin Newmark, Ph.D., P’15 writes: (31) and Virginia (26), are living in new reality of not having to go to “I’m happy to report that my son, Manhattan and Harrisburg.” work every day (although tiling the Nathan, has decided to follow in kitchen has seemed a lot like work).” my footsteps and will be attending ’70 Fred Cox, D.O., reports that F&M in the fall. He may be the only his book, 25 Bicycle Tours in ’71 James Clancy reports: “I am freshman whose father is paying his Pennsylvania’s Lancaster and Chester the nuclear oversight son’s tuition with his Social Security Counties, has been published by manager at PSEG Nuclear’s Hope check.” Countryman Press. He and his wife, Creek station in Hancocks Bridge, Margaret, live in Colorado Springs, N.J. My wife, Carole, is a teacher. We Edward Geltman, Esq., P’12, Colo., where they enjoy Telemark live in a historic farmhouse in ’68 P’14 writes: “I am pleased to skiing and other outdoor sports in Roadstown, N.J. My older son, Chris, report that my son, Jeffrey, is a the nearby mountains. They have is married to Jennifer and has a new freshman at F&M and has made the three adult children. Fred continues son, who was born on my birthday. dean’s list. My son, Andy ’12, also to practice general pediatrics. My younger son, Matt, is a junior at attends F&M and is president of the Arnold Willis, M.D., has been Temple University. I have earned Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and the named associate dean of clinical senior reactor operator, audit team Interfraternity Council. I am a competition law partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP in Washington, D.C. My firm recently completed a transatlantic combination with the U.K. law firm Hammonds to create a leading global law firm with 1,275 attorneys in 37 offices in 17 countries.” Eric Shoenfeld, M.D., was named 2010 Person of the Year by the Baldwin (Long Island) Herald for his commitment to the local community. Eric has practiced medicine in Baldwin for 34 years. He also serves as physician for the Oceanside, West Hempstead and Island Park school districts, mentors children in Baldwin schools and is assistant professor

of family medicine at SUNY-Stony F&M alumni in Utah met at the Utah Food Bank on Feb. 5 to pack nutrition boxes for senior Brook. citizens. The event, organized by the Penn Alumni Club in Salt Lake City, invited alumni from F&M and Princeton University to partner with them. Altogether 22 participants packed seven Roy Goldman, Ph.D., was a pallets of 36 boxes each. In attendance were (l – r) Nanette Dudley ’83, Addie Maudsley ’97, John ’69 speaker at the ﬁrst F&M Witmer ’67 and Jean Witmer. www.fandm.edu

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leader and national registry of overturn Oxford. Now, as his Upcoming radiation protection technologist computerized knee needs certifications. We are active travelers replacement, the company has once Events and enjoy Mexico and the again denied Dylan due to the Caribbean. We also sail at least one clause, ‘one leg per lifetime.’ I This summer, several F&M Regional week a year in some exotic location remember F&M as a place where Chapter programs are hosting such as St. Maarten, the Grenadines great ideas flourished. I learned from or the Yucatan. my teachers at F&M, ‘If you are not activities for the sports fan in all of outraged, you are not paying us. Featured events include baseball Allan Dechert was installed as the 2011 president of the New Jersey attention.’” games in Boston and Philadelphia Association of Realtors. Allan is Stanley Lerner, Esq., was appointed and tennis at the U.S. Open in New co-owner of Ferguson Dechert Real a lawyer panel member for lawyer- York City. Estate Inc., which primarily handles discipline cases by the Arizona real estate sales and rentals in the Supreme Court. Lawyer panel Avalon and Stone Harbor areas in members hear evidence of lawyer Metro Boston Chapter Cape May County. violations of the rules of professional conduct and, if warranted, impose Aug. 16, Fenway Park, Bruce Frankel writes that his book What Should I Do for the Rest of My sanctions. In 1999, Stanley was Sox-Rays Life? won the silver medal in the appointed a hearing officer in lawyer-discipline cases, and he is Join fellow Red Sox fans for a pre- careers category of the 2011 Axiom Business Book Awards. also a settlement officer in lawyer- game barbeque and a Tuesday discipline cases. His law practice evening contest with AL East rivals Alan Goldberger, Esq., has been concentrates on professional named by the National Association the Tampa Bay Rays. negligence. of Sports Officials (NASO) as its 2011 Mel Narol Medallion Award Lawrence Wallack and his wife, recipient. Linda Nettekoven, represented Metro Philadelphia Chapter the College at the inaugural dinner Richard Meltzer, D.D.S., writes: of Lewis & Clark College’s new Aug. 23, Citizens Bank “I am in my 35th year practicing president on April 7. Park, Phillies-Mets dentistry, specializing in intravenous sedation, and in my 11th year Lynda Sasscer Hill, who writes Come cheer on the Fightin’ Phils as volunteer dental director for ’73 under the name Sasscer Hill, as they spar with longtime rival the the Hebrew Home of Greater reports that her novel, Full Mortality New York Mets in this Tuesday night Washington. I have written several (Wildside Press), has been nominated published journal articles on NL East match-up, and join fellow for a 2011 Best First Agatha award sedation dentistry and served on Fummers at a pre-game tailgate. for mysteries published in 2010. The legislative panels for the District book has received positive reviews in of Columbia and Maryland. I was Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and recently awarded fellowship in the Mystery Scene Magazine. Metro New York Chapter American College of Dentists. I have many fond memories of F&M Robert Mongue was nominated for Aug. 30, U.S. Open faculty, including Professors Gault, the 2010 –11 University of Mississippi Tennis Championship Yoder, Snavely, Brubaker and Evans School of Applied Sciences Thomas and Coach Pittenger. I am looking Crowe Outstanding Teacher Award. Evening tennis at the U.S. Open forward to seeing my friends at In March he presented a paper, has become a fan favorite among Reunion.” Richard and his wife, “Beyond the Minimal State: A New Yorkers. Join fellow tennis fans Helene, have been married 39 years Contractual Analysis of Nozick’s for men’s and women’s first-round and live in Potomac, Md. Anarchy, State and Utopia,” at the annual conference of the Mississippi action on Tuesday night. Ned Tillman reports that his firm Philosophical Association. His merged with another organization to second book, The Empowered offer a full range of services that help Paralegal: Working With the Elder Stay tuned to www.fandm.edu/alumni firms become more sustainable and Client, was published by Carolina and our regional e-blasts for more enhance their market share. Academic Press in September 2010. details about these events and others in His third book, The Empowered Rick Goldberg, M.D., writes: your area. Haven’t seen our regional ’72 Paralegal Professionalism Anthology, “Five years ago my son, will be released in September 2011. e-blasts? Send your email address to Dylan, lost his leg in a car accident. [email protected] to receive Our insurance company refused to Cate Cunningham writes:

all the latest news. give him a computerized ’74 “Af ter a wonderful 18 months knee — despite seeing what this traveling in a motor home, I have wonderful technology can do for the settled back in Lancaster. I just can’t kids in war in Afghanistan and Iraq. I get too far from my roots. I am was able to convince the New York working at Housing Development State Insurance Commission to Corp. and just bought a house on www.fandm.edu

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Third St. My son just got accepted to grad school.” Victoria Hoath, D.M.D., reports: “Since retiring nine years ago I have been playing duplicate bridge and achieved the rank of silver life master in 2009. When not playing bridge I spend the rest of the week playing tennis and golf. Life is good. P.S. I’m not moving back East.”

Bruce Katcher, Ph.D., ’75 published a book, An Insider’s Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice (Amacom).

Debra Bernardi, Ph.D., writes ’76 from Naples, Italy, where she has a Fulbright Senior Lectureship in American Studies at the Universita degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale: Past and future Dips united at the D’Amicos’ home on Long Beach Island. These alumni and “This is a far cry from my usual life as their families have gathered a few times a year since their graduation from F&M, including an associate professor in the English ski outings hosted by the Urios in the Berkshire Mountains and golf outings in South Florida Department at Carroll College in hosted by the Wollams. Pictured are (front row) Michele Urio; (second row, l – r) Paula D’Amico, Helena, Mont.” Danielle D’Amico ’15, Teddy D’Amico, Katherine Wollam, Karen Nurmi Urio ’77 and Eleanor Bob Ewing was re-elected for his Avrutin; and (back row, l – r) Ted D’Amico ’76, Lee Wollam ’76, Michael Urio ’76 and Allen fourth term as secretary of the Avrutin ’74. senate for the state of Georgia. Charlie Kufs has published Stats With Cats: The Domesticated Guide International Women’s Day on Front Royal, Va., from Atlanta. I have to Statistics, Models, Graphs and March 8. taken the job of vice president of Other Breeds of Data Analysis. He development for Randolph-Macon Ralph Bender writes: “The book is a humorous ’78 was recognized Academy. We are excited to be back explanation of all the things you as a top financial adviser by in Virginia and closer to family, need to know to analyze data that LPL Financial and was named to the friends and F&M after 20 years away. they didn’t teach you in Stat 101.” LPL Financial Director’s Club. The Our daughter is a junior at Lynchburg Charlie is a Six Sigma Green Belt who distinction is based on an annual College, and our son will start as a works for the U.S. General Services production ranking of all registered sophomore at Randolph-Macon Administration. advisers supported by LPL Financial, Academy and looks forward to an independent broker-dealer, and is walking to his classes. My husband, Zach Richardson was elected awarded to fewer than 20 percent of Rob, will be back and forth to Atlanta ’77 to the Sedona Oak-Creek the firm’s 12,000 advisers nationwide. until our house sells and then join us Unified School Governing Board last Stephen Keat traveled to Baku, full time in the beautiful Shenandoah November. He first went to Sedona, Azerbaijan, in November to serve Mountains.” Ariz., in 1976 on a geology exchange as an election observer for the Sylvester Cox writes: “I reconnected program with F&M and Northern Organization for Security and with classmate Art Taylor and met Arizona University. He fell in love Co-operation in Europe. He also the newly appointed president, Dan with the area and returned 26 years traveled on official U.S. government Porterfield, at a dinner party at Art’s later to develop real estate. He and business to Georgia, Armenia and house in Clinton, Md. Art and I have his family have lived there for six the United Kingdom. vowed to stay in touch, taking in years, and their two children, now in Marilyn Suiter received the a jazz session in Baltimore several 7th and 8th grade, attend the Geological Society of America’s weeks ago, talking on the phone a Sedona schools. Zach switched gears 2010 Bromery Award for Minorities. few times and texting.” from real estate development to The award is given preferably to David Kabel, D.O., reports: “I was open an art gallery in 2005. His wife, African Americans “who have made promoted to clinical professor in Jill, is a wealth manager for significant contributions to research the Department of Psychiatry at the Oppenheimer & Co. in the geological sciences and who University of Texas Southwestern

Mary Schapiro was honored by have been instrumental in opening Medical School. I was elected by my the SEC Historical Society as one the geoscience ﬁeld to other peers as one of D Magazine’s 2011 of nine women who have changed minorities.” Best Doctors in psychiatry. Julie is the face of ﬁnancial regulation. becoming our stock-market manager The recognition coincided with the Kittie Callaghan Abell writes: and having a pretty good year United Nations’ commemoration of ’80 “In January we moved to doing that. Lauren is a junior in the www.fandm.edu

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International Baccalaureate program and his wife, Linda, were featured Archaea Productions LLC, producing and wants to go to college in the in Legatus Magazine for their commercials and videos.” United Kingdom. Katherine is having missionary work in Uganda. Their her bat mitzvah in August, followed nonprofit organization, Building a Charles Bortle, Ed.D., reports by a trip to Scotland to look for Bridge to Uganda, is a cross-cultural ’82 that he is the director of the castles and the Loch Ness monster.” partnership between St. Vincent de Center for Clinical Competency at Charles Ormsby, Esq., an attorney Paul Parish in Richboro, Pa., and St. the Albert Einstein Medical Center in with Semanoff Ornsby Greenberg Charles Bubaare Parish in southwest Philadelphia. The center specializes & Torchia in Huntington Valley, Pa., Uganda. The group has purchased in high-fidelity medical simulation mosquito netting and mattresses for and other innovative educational one of the schools, repaired broken opportunities for physicians, wells, supported the local residents and allied-health orphanage and is raising money personnel. to build a high school. Kim Brown Even, O.D., writes: “In February my husband, Ralph Even ’81 Rahul Akerkar writes: ’81, and I traveled to Sedona, Ariz., “Our restaurant, Tote on and the Grand Canyon. We had a the Turf, won the Best New wonderful trip on our first vacation Restaurant award at the as empty nesters, as our daughter Wallpaper Design Awards 2011, is now in college. Professor Claude held in London.” Yoder provided us with many hiking Marc Gann, Esq., was elected maps, notes and suggestions on president of the Nassau County what to see in Sedona.” (N.Y.) Bar Association. Amy Opengart Pappas and ’83 Todd Barry writes: “I just got Chris Pappas ’80 were in back from a fabulous trip to Lancaster in February to see Israel and Jordan.” their niece, Jennifer Robbins Scott Ewing has been named a ’13, perform in a Green Room principal and managing director of Theatre production of A Venture Incite Inc., a technology- Servant of Two Masters. While transfer firm with offices in Nashville in town they visited downtown and Oak Ridge, Tenn. He will be Lancaster and Central Market. responsible for developing Venture They also attended a basketball Incite’s strategy for building high- game in which the Dips beat growth companies in partnership Haverford and advanced to the with Tennessee research laboratories Centennial Conference finals, while overseeing the firm’s daily which brought back memories operations. of the great basketball teams Kurt Kaulback, M.D., F.A.C.C., was of the late ’70s and early ’80s. elected president of the medical It was the first time they had staff for Underwood-Memorial been on campus in 30 years. Hospital for 2011– 13. Kurt is board- They loved all the beautiful certified in internal medicine and new buildings and changes cardiovascular disease and has to the campus, especially the been affiliated with Underwood new stores and restaurants since 1992. He chairs the hospital’s on Harrisburg Pike. They also committees for critical care and enjoyed seeing some of their credentials, and serves on the favorite hangouts. pharmacy and therapeutics Dennis Westley P’12 reports: committee. He also serves on the “The Girls from 120 Nevin Street” met for “As a result of an acquisition, staff at Hahnemann University their annual pre-Christmas reunion weekend I can now be reached at BNY Hospital and as a clinical assistant in December, where they shopped, dined and Mellon Alternative Investment professor of medicine for Drexel saw a Broadway show. They make a point to Services.” University College of Medicine. get together once a year with a few simple rules: Wanda Whare writes: “I Ann Rinehart, M.D., is in her 17th no husbands, no kids, no work calls and no have been made partner at year practicing nephrology for worries. “Thirty years just melt away whenever Nikolaus & Hohenadel LLP in HealthPartners in St. Paul, Minn.

we get together,” writes Darlayne Erbacher Lancaster. Our son, Eric Snyder, Pursuing her passion for end-of-life

Glesias ’78, “Despite the years and our very who graduated from Full Sail care, she became board-certiﬁed in different lives, the bonds formed at F&M are University with a bachelor’s hospice and palliative-care medicine still strong.” Pictured (l – r) are Catharine degree in ﬁlm, has started his in 2010. She is married, has three own production company, sons and is starting the college- Hamilton ’78, Glesias, Barb Fehrle Gouzouasis search process. ’78 and Dina Brachman ’78. www.fandm.edu

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Gathered at the potluck supper are (front row, l – r): Hans Gulati, Lisa Lehman ’01, Hannah Rosenberg ’13, Linh Tran ’13, Karen Blair Yip ’00, Bari Herzstein Fishel ’01 (with son Max) and Deeanne Rosenberg P’13; back row (l – r) Dave Lehman ’68, Jennifer Nordhauser, Laura Fiore, Mike Joseph, Rachel Porter ’13, Maxine Petry ’11, Cory Van Galen ’13, Devon Fiore, Jason Port ’13, Andy Gulati, Sam Stone ’13, Lisa Brooks ’85, Steve Hicks, Dash Serebrin (son of Lisa Brooks), Richard Rosenberg P’13 and Jesse Yoburn ’02.

The Houston Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter again ambassadors of goodwill,” he says. “Working with GC welcomed a group from F&M to our community. The is like having extended family in Texas. And getting Catastrophic Relief Alliance (CRA) has come to the together for food and good cheer is like celebrating Galveston Gulf Coast area for the last three years to Homecoming on the road.” help in the restoration efforts that were so needed in The CRA has worked in other communities. Originally the wake of Hurricane Ike. Indeed, three years after the formed in response to Hurricane Katrina in New storm, there was still plenty for the group, composed of Orleans, which was its ﬁrst disaster response trip, the students, F&M staff and a few friends, to do to help our organization also works locally in Lancaster. community. Aside from the experience of joining together for a Each year, the area alumni have organized a potluck meal, and underwriting the cost of that meal, the Gulf dinner, which we brought to Galveston to enjoy with Coast Alumni wanted to do more. These young people the group. It is a time for alumni and current students do all their fundraising for the expenses of the trip, to interact, share stories and be part of a larger F&M each pays a small portion out of pocket, and they give community. up a chunk of their vacation to help those in need. With “Our collaboration with the Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter generous donations from area alumni, we were able to has been an invaluable opportunity to work together raise funds to cover the cost of two rental vans, fuel and with alums on a meaningful and important project,” says give the group some money toward their food expenses. Rachel Porter ’13. “Sharing a meal and swapping stories “As an F&M student, I participated in Habitat for was personal, insightful and enjoyable. It was especially Humanity, including a spring-break trip to West wonderful to be in a room full of talented and successful Virginia. Now as an alumna I am lucky enough to Fummers who were eager to offer advice about life support F&M students who are giving of themselves after college. It was nice to be able to ask questions in a and sacriﬁcing vacation to come help people in my relaxed setting. I am grateful to have traveled twice to community of the Houston-Galveston area,” says Karen Galveston and look forward to working with the Gulf Blair Yip ’00. “By bringing a big dish of food and Coast Alumni Chapter in the future.” offering a ride to the airport I hope I can show the Andy Gulati, the College’s systems librarian and students that the F&M community is far bigger than the associate librarian at Shadek-Fackenthal Library, serves Lancaster region.” as CRA’s adviser. “Gulf Coast alums have been our — Lisa Brooks ’85 www.fandm.edu

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Melissa Lane, Ph.D., returned ’87 from a two-month trip to Antarctica to take part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA. During this ﬁeld season she lived in a tent on the ice at subfreezing temperatures. The ANSMET group collected more than 1,200 meteorites that will be curated at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. She recently offered a lunchtime seminar, “A Beaker’s Trip to Antarctica: Living on the Ice and Hunting Meteorites,” to F&M students.

Andy Buchanan published an ’88 article in the Chicago Tribune about his experience with Former F&M football players Brian Fisher ’90, Sean Boardman ’89 and Jake Kolen ’92 traveled concussions while playing football at to Super Bowl XLV in Dallas. Fisher and Boardman won trips to the big game from Sirius/XM’s F&M. Mad Dog Radio. Pictured (l – r) are Fisher, Kurt Allen, Boardman and Kolen. Connie Kasperson writes: “I was promoted to director, corporate risk management, for the Holman ’84 Helene Carter writes: people —Aidan (10) and Alison Organization, a large, privately “Unfortunately, my son, (5) — keeps my wife, Aubyn, and me held company specializing in Joshua, chose to attend Haverford busy and largely sleep-deprived. I automotive products, fleet leasing Matt over F&M, but he is having a enjoy seeing classmate and fleet management. While risk Steinmetz successful freshman year. My on Bay-area TV as the management is my main focus, I daughter, Olivia, was named captain primary color commentator for the also get involved with the treasury of her debate team for next year. I Golden State Warriors.” function as well as estate planning, work as the admission director of the Terri Donati, M.D., reports: “In investment management and Commonwealth School in Boston, June my family and I will move personal risk management for which was recently ranked No. 1 in to Evergreen, Colo. I accepted a the Holman family. I work with Massachusetts by Boston Magazine.” position with a private practice, New classmate Anne Williams, who is West Physicians, where I will continue general manager of Holman’s Toyota Karen Sasky Hughes writes: to work in internal medicine. It is dealership in Mt. Laurel, N.J.” ’85 “I am working as a Spanish a large, privately owned, for-profit John Zengerle reports: “I am teacher for 3rd and 4th grade at organization of 17 offices and about directing the school play, Thoroughly Lincoln (Mass.) Elementary School. 65 primary-care providers. Our Modern Millie, Jr., at Quibbletown My husband, Mark Peter Hughes, son, Karsen, currently a freshman Middle School, where I teach.” wrote a young-adult novel, at Schreyer Honors College at Penn Lemonade Mouth, that was released State, will transfer to University of Morris Garten represented as a Disney Channel movie and DVD. Colorado-Boulder, where he will ’89 the College at the We have three beautiful children, continue to pursue his aerospace- inauguration of McDaniel College’s Evan (13), Lucy (11) and Zoe (9), and engineering degree. We are just new president on April 16. are all excited about the movie.” thrilled for the new adventure.” Pamela Girvin Hackett reports Colleen Weis and Marty Laiks Barbara Wenger writes: “Two kids, that Pediatric Therapeutic Services, welcomed their daughter, Allison Elijah, 6th grade (‘I want to be an the company she co-founded in Weis Laiks, with much joy on Oct. 8. outdoorsman’) and Ben, 3rd grade 1998, won a Stevie Award for Best They live in New York. (unicyclist, skateboarder); a wife, Woman-Owned Service Company, Jenn, in urban education but who Under 250 Employees. The company Andre Demian writes: “Life in should be a rabbi; and a dog. We all serves more than 5,000 children with ’86 northern California is quite spent a year living in Mexico, where disabilities each week. Pam and her tolerable. I completed a master’s Jenn and I worked 20 years ago. husband, Nick, have two children, degree in sport psychology at John Now I teach 24 fourth-graders. Best Lauren (10) and Cameron (6). In F. Kennedy University and have career move yet. En route to being addition to being a working mom, begun building a second career and a principal? TBD. Berkeley treats Pam has been traveling overseas a new professional practice as a me well, but I miss the Lancaster doing mission work with a school for sport-psychology consultant working summers!” children with disabilities in southern with collegiate golfers and other India. athletes. Raising two spirited young www.fandm.edu

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Steve Lipschutz, D.C., was than 10 years. I am also proud to say Rob Teplitz is running for a seat recently named a Top Doctor in I received an America’s Top Doctor in the Pennsylvania State Senate, Sports Medicine by Washingtonian award for 2010.” representing parts of Dauphin and Magazine. Steve has been owner and York Counties. clinic director of Quince Orchard Sarah Doherty Bricknell Medical Center of Rockville, Md., ’91 reports: “I just started Barry Finegold was elected for the past 18 years. The center working again after being out of the ’93 to the 40-member specializes in physical medicine workforce for 10 years. I am the Massachusetts State Senate in and rehabilitation, physical therapy, development director for Open November. He represents his chiropractic, acupuncture and Doors, a homeless shelter and low- hometown, Andover, as well as three massage. In June Steve and his wife, wage-worker housing program in other communities. F&M students Helene, will celebrate their 20th Kalamazoo, Mich. My husband, John, John Brody ‘11, Tom Georgevits ‘11 wedding anniversary. They have two still works for Kellogg, and our and Elizabeth Kerrigan ‘14 helped children, Julie (16) and Jared (15). daughters, Anna, Claire and campaign during the election. Barry Caroline, are 10, 7 and 5, was formerly a state representative Diane Beem writes: “My respectively. I am hoping to make it and is enjoying his new position in ’90 husband, David Sawicki ’88, out for the Reunion in June.” the Senate. He is the chair of the and I are thrilled to announce a Brian Guthrie writes: “I have been election-laws committee and sits on blessed addition to our family. selected to be the next executive other committees. He continues to Natasha June Sawicki was born Aug. director of the Teacher Retirement practice law at his firm, Dalton & 14 and joins siblings Matthew (10) System (TRS) of Texas, effective Finegold. and Dylan and Kira (both 8). We are Sept. 1. I’m currently serving as the Marc Leibman writes: “Tara Golden enjoying life in Maine.” deputy director and will continue in Leibman ’96 and I moved to Sara Sherk Hadfield and her that role until the transition occurs. Woodcliff Lake, N.J. I have been husband, Paul, welcomed twin boys, TRS provides pension and healthcare getting together monthly with Ken Nathaniel James and Aaron Daniel. benefits to 1.3 million educators and Belva ‘98, Alex Ross ‘94 and Chris The twins, born in October 2008, support staff in Texas and manages Kinzel ’99 in New York. We are became the Hadfields’ sons through a $107 billion trust fund. I continue seeing a lot of Corinna Gaal Fox ’96 adoption in August. They join big to live in Austin (almost 20 years and Jason Fox ’96, who live close brothers Samuel and Benjamin and now) with my wife, Melissa, and our by. Our eldest daughters are friends, sister Anna. The Hadfields live in three children, Ian (9) and Keira and and we are looking forward to Alaska, where Paul is an aircraft Shannon (both 4).” dropping them off at F&M in about pilot and mechanic for a Christian 12 years.” ministry. ’92 Michael Blake and Cordelia Jeffrey Marks has joined Alcatel- Meldie Malone Moore writes Zaslavsky Blake welcomed Lucent as senior counsel and director from Laguna Beach, Calif., that their second son, Maxwell Benjamin of regulatory affairs. He lives in she left her 16-year career in the Blake, on Jan. 31. Michael reports: Washington, D.C., with his wife, California Orange County District “Baby boy and mother are in great Attorney’s Office in September to health.” form a partnership, Gurwitz Moore LLP. They specialize in adoptions, assisted reproduction and education law. Meldie is married with two boys, Brandon (10) and Liam (2). SAVE THE DATE Amee Pollack’s latest hand- engineered artists’ book, Professor Pinkerton’s Pop-Up Library, Inauguration Weekend co-created with Laurie Spitz, is in the touring exhibition “The Book: A Contemporary View” September 23 – 25, 2011 at the Delaware Center for the Inauguration Weekend to Include Contemporary Arts and Towson Homecoming and Family Weekend Events University. The limited-edition book is also in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Design Join the Franklin & Marshall community Museum-Smithsonian in New York, for Inauguration Weekend that will encompass the University of Alberta in Canada, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Homecoming and Family Weekend events

Texas Tech University. in addition to the inauguration of Riaz Rahman, M.D., writes: “I am Daniel R. Porterﬁeld, Ph.D., happy to announce that I have as Franklin & Marshall’s 15th president. been working as an internist at the Monteﬁore Medical Center for more www.fandm.edu

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Barbara Welt ‘89 married assistant vice president of Cantor Merck & Co., and Daniel is a bridge A John Root on Aug. 7 in Insurance Group. In attendance engineer with FIGG Bridge Cincinnati, at Music Hall. John, a were: (front row, l – r) Dana Surena Engineers. Attendees included (l – r) professional violinist, also has a Mattson ‘92, Emily Swonguer Alexandra Kane-Weiss ‘00, Yoder, stained-glass business, and his Persson ‘00, Wendy Robin Stark ‘93, Luther, Randi Trzesinski ‘01 and company does residential remodels Erin Curran Wright ‘03, Kathleen Adam Henry ‘00. and church restorations. Barb has Ribaudo Bachiochi ‘03, Gwendolyn worked in product development for Yarbrough Nabel ‘03, Andrea Bottoni D Deana Sarrif ’03 and Michael Candle-lite for eight years and ‘05 and Mariah French Payne ‘98; Macrides, Esq. ’04 were recently was promoted to director of (middle row) Alicia Fishman, Jeremy married on Sept. 18 in Winterthur, product development. The couple Fishman ‘97, Mike Freed ‘97, Evan Del. Michael works as a court lives in Dayton. Attendees included Nabel ‘03, Melanie Topel ‘04, Randi attorney for a state judge, and (l – r) Laura Zolper Loheide ‘89, Simon Pillion ‘04, Marc Chalpin ‘93, Deana is a manager for the online Kristina Smith Nebel ‘89, Amy Toia Bryan Hart ‘01, Dawn Morrow and division at Estee Lauder Companies. Letteney ‘89, Holly DeCinque Chris Payne ‘00; (back row) Graham The couple lives in Manhattan with Procida ‘89, Michael Barrette ‘89, Wright ‘03, Jacob Walter ‘05, Matt their cat Reese, who was adopted in Welt, Laurie Berger Morris ‘89, Pillion, Marc Persson ‘00, Chris Lancaster while the couple attended Evelyn Farkas ’89 and Amy Winters McNally ‘96, Katie McNally, Stacy F&M. Cooper ’89. Gallin, Stuart Gallin ‘96, Andrew Morrow ‘98 and Josh Axelrad ‘98. E Krista Gerstenlauer Wolk ‘04 Ricardo Rivers ‘93 and and Jordan Wolk ‘05 were B Kendra Yoder ‘00 married married on married Dec. 27, 2010, at Annalai Wheat ‘03 were C married on Nov. 6 in the Poconos. Daniel Luther on May 1, 2010, the Walt Disney World Wedding The couple lives in New York City. in Hatﬁeld, Pa., where the couple Pavilion. The couple now lives in Ricardo is an associate vice now lives. Kendra is a GMP systems Atlanta, where Krista is an president-investments with Wells engineering senior analyst with elementary school teacher and Fargo Advisors, and Annalai is an Jordan is a tax attorney. www.fandm.edu

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Laura, and children Henry (6) and Del., office. He formerly was general Seattle’s mayor as a financial adviser. Willa (4). counsel at Cordjia, a Delaware- and My husband is working on getting Maine-based private-equity firm. He his nursing degree, so it has been a ’94 Carolyn Coffey writes: “My lives in West Chester, Pa., with his year of transitions for our family.” husband, Brian Venerus, and I wife, Cara, and their four children. Naomi Wallace Asher reports that joyfully welcomed our son, Eamon Kimberly Woudsma Worth, D.C., she has made the leap from theater Lawrence, into the world on Sept. 22. has been in practice, Woudsma to music and is now corporate I continue to work in legal services in Chiropractic, in Lafayette Hill, Pa., director of Wixen Music UK Ltd. She New York, focusing on consumer for nine years. She writes: “I married loves working in the music business, law.” an amazing human being last April. opening the U.K. office as a sister As our love has grown, so has our company to Los Angeles-based ’95 Eileen Ellis reports: “My desire to begin a life in the Bucks Wixen Music Publishing, which husband, Chris Korbuly, and I County area with his three children. administers more than 50,000 songs, welcomed our second son, Ian Laszlo We purchased a 20-acre estate in and is a successful company in its Korbuly, on Jan. 27. With the support New Hope, where we are making a own right. She lives in London with of midwives, Ian joined the ranks of beautiful life together. Our dreams her husband, Graeme, and their son, less than 1 percent of Americans of opening a Bucks County location Sam. born at home. Ian joins older brother for Woudsma Worth Chiropractic are Marc Friess was promoted to special Bryce (3). Chris started a new job in under way.” October with Interior Architects. I counsel at the law firm of Schulte continue to work for New Leaf Roth & Zabel LLP in New York, where Jon Bushey and Cathy he is a member of the finance group. Paper.” ’97 Stephens were married in Red Shannon McNally released her Lodge, Mont., on June 26, 2010. Jon Nancy Haines and Nate Balis write: latest album, “Western Ballad.” The is teaching and coaching football in “We had our first future Fummer! Boston Herald wrote, “You have to the local school district. Cathy is a Miles Levi was born on Nov. 17. We love an artist who studied religious pulmonologist at a local hospital. hope he’ll be a Poor Richard one day!” anthropology, was spurred on to Breeanna Wallence Ebben writes: a musical career by Los Lobos, “My husband, Greg, and I are thrilled Jennifer Schreiber-Bonsell and evolved in New Orleans, moved to announce the birth of our son, her husband, Karl, are delighted to Mississippi to record with Jim Ryan John, on Feb. 24. We hope he to announce the birth of their Dickinson and now turns the Allen will be in the F&M Class of 2033!” handsome baby boy, Aaron Charles, Ginsberg poem of this CD’s title on Nov. 24. Katie Magee Foxx and her husband, into a haunting song. Such is the Anne Victoria Smith von Brockdorff glorious complexity of native New Mark, welcomed a son, Matthew James, on Jan. 10. Matthew was also writes: “After a decade working with Yorker McNally. Her return to New high-profile and celebrity clients as Orleans to record with writer/ welcomed by big brother Jason and big sister Campbell. a residential interior designer, I have engineer/producer Mark Bingham decided to explore new territory has produced the best album of the Sheryl Friedman reports: “Zoe Alexis and am working in Brooklyn Heights singer/songwriter’s vastly underrated Friedman was born on Feb. 5. She at a startup Web-based company. career. Bingham and his cast of New joins big sister Sydney, who turned 3 Harold Charles von Brockdorff and Orleans regulars help bring her in January.” I were married on March 13, 2010, dreamy and soulful meditation on Eric Levy writes: “I will be graduating and are enjoying living on the Upper roots music to perfection.” with my Ph.D. in marketing and East Side in Manhattan. Harold is psychology from the University a mechanical engineer working for Kara Clarke and her husband, of Washington Foster School of Thomas Publications.” ’96 Mark House, welcomed their Business in June. I have accepted a son, Matthew Robert, on Sept. 9. position as an assistant professor of Vinnie Gruss Basile writes: “I Matthew joins big sisters Sophia (4) marketing at Cambridge University, ’99 am super-excited to report and Laura (2). Kara is marketing Judge Business School, in the United that I will begin work on my Ph.D. manager for Emerson Hospital in Kingdom.” next fall at the University of Concord, Mass. Annie Greiner Manning and her Colorado. I will be studying social Donna DiVenuto-Ball, M.D., and her husband, Steve, welcomed their first equity in mathematics and science husband, Bob, along with their son, child, Seth William, on Nov. 8. Annie education, putting my awesome F&M Luca, welcomed their second son, is assistant director of facilities and education in anthropology to use. Jude Anthony, on Dec. 6. operations at F&M. Much love to Professor Billig and my F&M teammates for the inspiration.” Jennifer Henson writes: “My husband, Jason, and I are pleased Amanda Allen reports: Mitzi Lieberman Davis writes: “We ’98 welcomed identical twin boys on to announce the November birth of “J e re my John was born on our baby girl, Alexa Jay Henson. Ally July 31, and we are just trying to Jan. 26. Marc and Ian join big sister joins big brother Jake, who turned 3 keep 3-year-old Ruby Jane at bay Abby, who was 3 in May. I am a in March.” long enough for him to turn 1! I took lawyer working for IBM.” Chad Williams joined Saul Ewing LLP six months off for my maternity leave Brian Eagle reports: “My wife, Gina, as special counsel in the Wilmington, and am now back to work for and I welcomed a baby daughter, www.fandm.edu

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Karl Walter is managing editor for U.S. Entertainment at Getty Images in Los Angeles.

Carrie Bruno celebrated the ’00 birth of her son, Zachary Lucas, born Jan. 26. She writes: “Surprisingly, the baby arrived with a rock hammer in hand!” Joy Ginter Cox reports that she and Frederick Cox welcomed their son, Andrew Frederick Cox, on Aug. 14. She also reports that Shelby Margut and Scott DeLong welcomed their son, Alexander Scott DeLong, on F&M alumni, parents and students gathered in Cova, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, in March 28, 2010. She writes: “We January. At the dinner, hosted by Victor Hsu ’83, P’12, P’15, and his wife, Mona P’12, P’15, hope they will be future F&M the group discussed the prospect of establishing an F&M network in Asia, bringing internship chemists, as Shelby, Scott and I were opportunities in China to F&M students and hosting regular events to reconnect the graduates. F&M chemistry majors.” In attendance (l – r) were Lu Li ’10, Libby Yang, Gabby Jiayin She ’11, Mandy Tsang ’12, Jacob Goldberg, Ph.D., writes: Andrew Tsang ’13, Min Zhao ’12, Victor Hsu ’83, Clement Hsu ’12, Jeremy Hsu ’15, Mona “I received a doctoral degree in Hsu P’12, Brian Chu Kwan Lam, “Winnie” Wing Yan Law ’07 and Ben Owens. Two other applied mathematics from Air Force alumni — Nick Shuyun Chen ’97 and Xin Xu ’09 — attended but are not pictured. Institute of Technology (AFIT) at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio, in March. My dissertation Gabriella, in September. A few international exchange experience topic was ‘An Analytical Model of months later we all moved to the to thousands of au pairs from around Nanoscale Visoelastic Properties of Boston area.” the world and host families across Polymer Surfaces Measured Using an Leslie Lyter Ferrari and Jon Ferrari the United States. Atomic Force Microscope.’” ’00 moved to Yardley, Pa., from New Gina Maletta-Sannicandro writes Elizabeth Mackey Johnson and her York. Leslie writes: “We are sad to from Philadelphia: “Loving life husband, Maj. Nicholas Johnson, leave nearby friends like Jonathan with my husband, Brian, and our welcomed Caroline Lilly on Nov. 9 in Lomma and his wife, Shea, and little coed basketball team, as we Beaufort, S.C. Allison Smith Parsley ’01 and John welcomed our fifth addition in Katie Schmidt McMurry writes: Parsley ’01, but we are excited to November. Anthony (9), Angelina “My husband, Jim, and I are proud be closer to our families and have (7), Dominic (4), Adrianna (2) and to announce the birth of Margaux a backyard for our quickly growing Vincenzo (5 months) are the joy of Jane on Jan. 28. Big sister Natalie little guy, Will. Jon’s job with the NFL our lives. Although life is chaotic with (5) is very proud. I’m working as a keeps him busy, and even a football so many kids, we are having a ball. photographer and freelance writer novice like me couldn’t help but have I still haven’t returned to teaching and graphic designer.” a blast at the Super Bowl this year.” since our oldest was born, but in Liz Burger Oliveros writes: “My Meg Gerstenblith, M.D., moved the interim I have been running an husband and I recently returned to Cleveland and joined the after-school program and summer from an extended vacation to visit dermatology faculty at Case Western camp at the recreation center that my husband’s native country, the Reserve University School of I grew up at, and plan to get back Philippines. We visited three of the Medicine. She also got engaged and in a classroom once ours are all in 7,107 Philippine islands. This trip was is planning a May wedding. school.” unique because my husband had not Leighann Poplaski, Esq., accepted a Tarun Jain writes: “Our first son, returned to the Philippines since he position with the Tenth District Court Avaan, was born Sept. 30 in was born there 38 years ago. The of Appeals in Columbus, Ohio, as a Hyderabad, India. I am an assistant trip allowed us to meet many of his judicial law clerk to the Honorable professor of economics at the Indian aunts, uncles and cousins for the Julia L. Dorrian. School of Business, which I joined first time and to enjoy the sites of in 2009 after completing a Ph.D. at Stephen Tavernier writes: “My Taal Volcano, the white beaches and the University of Virginia. My wife, wife, Deanna; daughter, Anna; and clear-blue water of Boracay, and the Ashima, is an editor at the Economic I have been relocated to Stavanger, bustling metropolis of Manila. It was and Political Weekly.” Norway, from Houston. We are an emotional and exciting once-in-a- Natalie Jordan is celebrating her enjoying the new climate and lifetime experience.”

increasingly longer days. We are 12th year at Cultural Care Au Pair, Hayley Rintel Queller, M.D., is also growing accustomed to being a cultural-exchange company in working as a primary-care sports- outside in whatever weather the day Cambridge, Mass. Having studied medicine doctor in East Setauket, may offer. My wife continues to work abroad while at F&M, Natalie now N.Y. Hayley, her husband and big for Esso, and I continue to work for serves as senior vice president sister Jillian Bryanne welcomed of the company and provides an Statoil, both as geologists.” www.fandm.edu

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Ashton Spencer into the family on Rachel Geller Leonard and Matt Mary Ellen Wilson Davies Aug. 9. Leonard welcomed their son, Tyler ’02 writes: “My husband, Paul, David, on Jan. 16. and I are proud to announce the ’01 Jacqueline Julius Bhandari James Outten opened a Hamburg, birth of our daughter, Hannah Jane and her husband, Amar Pa., new-car dealership, Outten Kia, Fern Davies, born March 16. I teach Bhandari, were married in the fifth dealership in the Outten German in Hillsborough, N.J., and September 2007 and welcomed their group, in October. James and his my husband is the payroll first child, Naveen James, on Dec. 3. wife, Jeanette, had a baby, Jade coordinator for the Boonton Board of Brian Cohen and Leslie Cohen Elizabeth, in November 2009. Education. We will be moving to a house in Bridgewater, N.J.” McGregor announce the birth of Amanda Ryan, V.M.D., writes: “After their first child, Nathaniel Jeffrey, graduating from the University of Dana DePaul and his wife, Andrea, on June 10, 2010. All are happy and Pennsylvania School of Veterinary welcomed their second daughter, healthy and residing in Alexandria, Medicine in 2009, I completed my Laila Elizabeth, on Jan. 4. Va. internship at Southwest Equine Kim Lundberg is working as a safety Tim Crall and Heather Skillings Medical and Surgical Center in data analyst for the Office of the Crall are moving to Taos, N.M., with Scottsdale, Ariz. I returned to the Secretary of Defense/Personnel and their children, Ellie (3 ½) and Bram Philadelphia area this past summer Readiness Office in the Pentagon. (18 months). Tim is doing a one- and am enjoying being closer to She is also coaching the Arlington year sports-medicine fellowship, friends and family. My husband, Volleyball Club under-15 team, one and Heather will study to become a Kevin, and I are expecting our of the top-ranked teams for that midwife. first child (a boy) any day now. We age group in the Northern Virginia Diana D’Amico, Rob Pawlewicz are hoping to make it to the F&M region. Reunion this summer.” ’00 and their two girls, Grace (5) Vaishali Gaba Malhotra and Atul and Ella (2), are spending the year Reginald Rytter writes: “Our family Malhotra welcomed a baby boy, in Providence, R.I., where Diana welcomed our second son on Dec. Neal Malhotra, born Dec. 11, in West is a visiting assistant professor at 9. His name is Andrew Decker, and Chester, Pa. Brown University. Diana earned both mom and baby are doing well. Wendy Sare Meadows, Esq., made her Ph.D. in September from New We also moved to a new house in partner at the law firm now known York University. Rob is writing his Warrington, Pa., in April 2010. Go as Howanski & Meadows LLC, in dissertation and will earn his Ph.D. men’s rugby!” Towson, Md. The practice primarily in May. Diana writes: “We’re having Heather Brandt Sohocki and Brian involves domestic relations and a blast. Grace and Ella love school, Sohocki welcomed their second family law. and Rob and I are looking forward daughter, Kate, on Nov. 15. Their first John Patrick Nealon writes: “In to celebrating our 10th wedding daughter, Carly, is 3. anniversary this summer.” 2010 I traveled to Vietnam with my Jill Flemming High has a 16-month- old daughter with her husband, Chris. Jill has been a pediatrician with Lancaster Pediatric Associates for almost three years. Eric Kane and his wife, Robyn, welcomed daughter Madison Lee, born Dec. 7. They live in Aventura, Fla., where Eric practices law in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration, and Robyn works as the manager of physician relations at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center. Dan Kratzer writes: “Since F&M, I completed dental school at Temple University and my orthodontic residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. I met my wife, Kristin, in dental school, and we had a baby girl, At the International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Melbourne, Fla., four former Eliza, in September. I now have

students and two current students of F&M’s Roger K.R. Thompson, the Dr. E. Paul and my own orthodontic practice, Frances H. Reiff Professor of Biological Sciences, attended and the students presented on animal Valley Orthodontic Specialists, in behavior. “It’s somewhat of a tradition,” writes Tim Flemming ’03. “Roger typically takes Allentown, Pa.” students who work in the primate lab to this same professional conference during their junior or senior year to present their research.” Pictured (l – r) are Dave Stahlman ’04, Lindsay Mehrkam ’09, Caitlin Knierim ’11, Ellen Fonte ’12, Carl Hagmann ’07 and Tim Flemming ’03. www.fandm.edu

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girlfriend, Wendy Robenski. I also animal law, commercial litigation, teaching from Fairleigh Dickinson moved to Boston and began working debt workouts and landlord/tenant University. as an attorney for Electric Insurance rights. Mark Strode reports: “On Feb. 18 in Beverly, Mass. I had a chance Rebecca Toroney, Ph.D., received a we welcomed the birth of our fourth to hang out with fellow F&M alum doctoral degree in chemistry from daughter, Vivian Leigh.” Andrew Dunleavy ‘05, who began Penn State and is starting a postdoc Ethan Zimman writes: “After a mild working as a salesman for Oracle position at the University of Chicago. Corp. outside Boston.” winter filled with learning how to Emily Wilson and Nathan Schy were snowboard, I was hired as a junior Tewlyn Underwood Yoburn and married Dec. 31 at the Breakers in writing associate at Phacil Inc., an Jesse Yoburn welcomed their first Spring Lake, N.J. Family, friends and IT-services government contractor in child, Cayla James, on March 3. more than 20 F&M alumni helped Arlington, Va. While it’s not a novel Tewlyn is a physician assistant in the celebrate the event. The couple lives or a screenplay, it’s gratifying having emergency room at MD Anderson in Charlotte, N.C. a job that puts one of my F&M Cancer Center, and Jesse is a majors to good use.” geophysicist at ExxonMobil. They Andrea Sancho graduated live in Houston. ’05 Cole Zucker returned from four from the University of South years of living and working in Carolina School of Law in May 2009, Luke Oeding, Ph.D., writes: Shanghai, where he was in sales ’03 passed the South Carolina Bar exam and manufacturing for construction “For almost two years I have and was admitted to the South been working as a National Science materials and the only English- Carolina Bar in November 2009. She speaking employee. He is now Foundation postdoc studying lives in Columbia, S.C., and is a staff algebraic geometry and fluent in Mandarin and has moved attorney at the South Carolina to San Francisco for his own representation theory, with a view Supreme Court. toward applications in signal company, Green Creative LLC, which processing, at the University of Mark Silberstein was hired as a distributes and sells LED lighting in Florence in Italy. I have also been general attorney in the Office of the United States. travelling around Europe, and among Chief Counsel of the United States the cool places I’ve visited are Department of Energy Richland ’07 Layne Amerikaner writes: Nordfjordeid, Oslo, Stockholm, Operations Office. He will work “Af ter spending the spring of Eindhoven, Pau, Nice, Barcelona, primarily on environmental law 2010 teaching English and studying Madrid, Tenerife, Coimbra, Trento, and policy issues related to the Spanish in Costa Rica, I started a Torino, Genova, Cortona, Rome, cleanup of the Hanford Site, a (fabulous) graduate program in Monopoli and Catania. In July I will decommissioned nuclear-production women’s studies and public policy at start a second postdoc at the complex in Hanford, Wash. George Washington University.” University of California, Berkeley.” Layne is set to graduate in May 2012. Alex Nackman, songwriter, Case Arkell is working as Gabrielle Albanese Osorio and Juan ’06 producer and composer, Carlos Osorio welcomed their first a contractor on projects in released his sixth album, This Afghanistan. baby, Sophia Grace, on March 1. Revolution, on Jan. 25. The album is Jeremy Steinbacher, Ph.D., reports: a two-year studio project. On Feb. 2 Jesse Berman has started a master’s “I am finishing up my postdoc at he celebrated the release with a degree program in international the University of Vermont and have show at the Mercury Lounge in New affairs at American University. accepted a position as assistant York. The album has garnered Amanda Jaskowak joined the professor of chemistry at Canisius positive reviews from the BBC and board of directors of IMPACT College in Buffalo, N.Y. My spouse, The Bowery Presents. Alex has also Philadelphia, a giving circle for Rebecca, and I will be celebrating been composing music for television young professionals that hopes our third anniversary this April and and film, working on projects with to support the next generation of will be welcoming our first child this AMC, HBO, MTV, the CW and other philanthropists in the Philadelphia fall.” networks. He is based in Brooklyn, area. She writes: “It’s my first board N.Y. membership, and I am very excited ’04 Sean Cannon is featured in a Tom Rieger became engaged to to be part of such a worthy cause.” new e-book, E-Mails From Jessica Bui, of Leola, Pa., in October. Catherine Luik completed an M.P.H. Home … the College Years, written The couple plans to marry June 18. degree, with a concentration in by his mother, Patricia Cannon P’04. In March, Tom became co-director environmental and occupational The book tells a story through actual of the Selahart Institute, a tutoring health, at the University of Arizona in emails sent between Sean and center for international Korean December. Patricia while Sean was at F&M. Sean students Elizabeth Reingold, Esq. is now a screenwriter, editor and , reports: “I director living in the Los Angeles Jennifer Ramirez and Paul Williams graduated from Widener University

School of Law in May 2010 and area. were married Sept. 4 in Dumont, N.J. Paul was recently promoted to senior passed the New York and New Tara Clarke, Esq., was named an risk analyst at Hiscox Insurance Co., Jersey bar exams. I am working as associate at Gohn, Hankey & Stichel and Jennifer is working full time and a court attorney for the Honorable LLC in Baltimore. Tara’s practice getting a master of arts degree in Eduardo Padro in the Supreme focuses on estate planning and wills, www.fandm.edu

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Court of New York, specializing in juvenile offenders and judicial drug diversion.”

Alissa Butterworth is finishing ’08 the first year of an M.F.A. program in English and creative writing at Lesley University in Massachusetts. She is working on her first novel and teaching a writing workshop to teens in Wayne, Pa. Lindsay Goldberg is thrilled to announce her engagement to Jeff Shouldis. The couple lives in Each summer, members of the Franklin & Marshall Chapel Hill, N.C., where Lindsay community gather in various locations to welcome our newest is in a graduate program studying educational psychology at the students and their parents to the F&M family. You are invited University of North Carolina. to connect with fellow alumni, parents and students and to Eric Hebner and Katie Dougherty help send off the Class of 2015 to Lancaster. ’06 welcomed their first child, Archer Washburn, in October. LOS ANGELES (SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CALIF.) Drew Martin was named employee Sunday, July 10, 3 – 5 p.m. of the month at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa., METRO BALTIMORE (BALTIMORE) where he is a Spanish interpreter. Sunday, July 31, 2 – 4 p.m. He recently moved into a new Hosts: Alice Matsas Garten ‘89 & Maury Garten ‘89 apartment. METRO BOSTON (SWAMPSCOTT, MASS.) Elizabeth Robertson has been named the recipient of the Graduate Saturday, Aug. 6, 3 – 5 p.m. Academic Award by the School Hosts: Debbie & Alan Kanter P’14 of Graduate Studies at Central Connecticut State University, where WESTCHESTER COUNTY (CHAPPAQUA, N.Y.) she is earning her master’s degree in Sunday, Aug. 7, 2 – 4 p.m. communication. This award is given Hosts: Kimber Sanseverino & Ray Sanseverino ‘68 to the distinguished scholar from each academic program. She works METRO NEW YORK (NEW YORK CITY) in human resources at the Timex Sunday, August 14, 2 – 4 p.m. corporate headquarters and lives in Host: Doug McCormack ‘85 Watertown, Conn. Additional send-off parties will be hosted in Connecticut Kristen Banholzer writes: “I (Litchfield County), Metro Washington, D.C., New Jersey ’09 graduated in January with an (Bernardsville), Pittsburgh and Metro Philadelphia. M.P.H. degree in epidemiology from More details will follow. Boston University. I am working as a clinical research assistant in the There are also two additional summer gatherings for alumni, Oncology and Palliative Care parents and students in the following locations. Plan to attend Departments at Children’s Hospital if you live nearby or are vacationing nearby: of Philadelphia.” CAPE COD (NORTH CHATHAM, MASS.) Matthew Barbot’s play, Infallibility, had a two-week run at New York’s Saturday, July 16, 5 – 7 p.m. Theater for the New City. He began Hosts: Kimberly Kreisel & Tony Kreisel ‘66 the play as his final project for the MARTHA’S VINEYARD (VINEYARD HAVEN, MASS.) Advanced Playwriting course at F&M. Another of his plays, End Saturday, Aug. 13, 4 – 6 p.m. Times, will be performed in Los Hosts: Carolyn & Winston Lowe P’10 Angeles, Miami and New York. The production is part of a six-play series,

“Who Could Have Predicted?” about Check www.fandm.edu/alumni for registration information. life in post-9/11 America. He writes: For further details, please contact Maura Condon Umble ’83, “I’m very excited, and I owe so much director of parent relations by email at maura.umble@fandm. to my theatrical education at F&M.” edu or by phone at 717.291.3888. www.fandm.edu

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Elizabeth Carrill reports: “I have Samantha Evans reports: “In F&M, he was a member of Alpha completed the second year ’10 the summer of 2010 my Sigma Phi. of a master in health services longtime boyfriend, Robert Moore, Paul F. McKinsey, Esq., ’40, of administration program at George proposed during our travels in Lancaster, died Dec. 25. He was 93. Washington University. I will Europe. We spent the rest of the He served in the Army Air Force spend my third and final year as summer volunteering in Arusha, during World War II. A graduate of an administrator-in-training at Tanzania, at an orphanage called Dickinson School of Law, he had the Homewood at Williamsport Positive Steps in Arumeru and a a private law practice in Lancaster Retirement Village.” special-needs school called St. and Quarryville for 40 years before JohnPaul Dicks writes: “In February Dymphinas. We loved our becoming counsel with Appel & I left my job and traveled to Belize experience so much that we creating Yost. He is survived by a daughter, to volunteer for several months. I’m a nonprofit that will find sponsors to two grandchildren, four great- working with the Toledo Ecotourism send AIDS orphans to a private grandchildren and a brother. boarding school.” Association, Ya’axche Conservation George E. Raab, Ed.D., ’40, of Trust and Sarstoon-Temash Institute Rob Fleisher is working as a Teach Doylestown, Pa., died Jan. 15. He for Indigenous Management. My for America Corps member in was 90. A Navy veteran of World War experience is opening my eyes to the Washington, D.C., teaching 10th- II, he received his master’s degree significant challenges and incredible grade special-education English and and doctorate of education from potential of empowering local social studies. the University of Pennsylvania. He decision makers in development Genevieve Guinn is engaged to taught at Lansdale High School, projects. My primary objective is Amos Brax Keeton. The wedding is was principal of the Experimental to launch a pilot project for the planned for Jan. 8, 2012. The couple School at Penn, and spent 23 years proposed Toledo People’s EcoPark, lives in Houston. at the helm of education in Bucks a holistic development and tourism County. He led the movement Emily Herchenroether and Tori platform for Belize’s impoverished that established Bucks County Lawrence have co-founded Toledo District. Conceived over a Community College. A member Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance decade ago, the plan is maturing of Alpha Sigma Phi, he is survived Co., a Philadelphia-based modern- during a time of great change for this by his wife, Betsy; a daughter; dance company. The company region, and I’m excited to be a part four grandchildren; a sister; and a presented “Source” in the 2010 of it.” brother. Philly Fringe Festival and a theater- Samantha Drazin graduated with adapted version of “Source” at the David A. Irvin ’41, of Akron, Pa., honors and received a master in Art of Public Memory, a conference died Jan. 6. He was 91. A member public relations degree from the at the University of North Carolina, of the wrestling and football teams, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Greensboro. At the conference Tori he earned a place in the College’s Fla., in December. She is an spoke about her undergraduate Hall of Fame and had offers to play account executive at Wall Street honors thesis, “Memory, Perception professional football. He worked Communications. and Architecture in Relation to as assistant plant controller at Jessika Mancino and John Warnick, Choreography.” Emily and Tory Armstrong World Industries. He Jr. ’08 got engaged on Christmas are also artists-in-residence at the is survived by a daughter, a son, morning. Their wedding will be held Mascher Space Cooperative in three grandchildren, four great- in spring 2012. Philadelphia. grandchildren and a sister. Sarah Meerschaert accepted Kari Taylor and Brian Burt were Edward Z. Filler, D.D.S., ’42 of a position as junior technology recently engaged. Their wedding Atlanta, died Dec. 5. He was 90. recruiter at Susquehanna will be held in F&M’s Nevin Chapel J. Carl Nolt ‘42, of Willow Street, International Group, in Bala Cynwyd, in June 2012. The couple lives in Pa., died March 9. He was 91. He Pa. She participated in her first poker Flagstaff, Ariz. retired in 1980 from Armstrong tournament at SIG, where poker is World Industries after 40 years used to teach employees about risk as manager of the reprographics and game theory. department. During World War II, Elisabeth Thompson reports: “I Obituaries he served with the Navy Seabees. A just finished an internship with the member of the board of directors of New York City Opera Co., where I Richard A. Press Sr. ’36, of Weston, the North Museum Associates, he worked closely with the marketing Mass., died Nov. 19. He was 95. was known for his expertise in the department and the artistic He was a fifth-generation jeweler field of natural history. A member administration. I am now searching at I Press and Sons Jewelers in of Delta Sigma Phi, he is survived for employment in the classical- Philadelphia. He founded Camp by his wife, Bess; a daughter; two music field.” Penn Valley and co-founded grandchildren; and three great-

Temple Beth Torah in Philadelphia. Ashley Wycoff writes: “Michael grandchildren. He is survived by three children, Clark, a Sigma Pi fraternity brother Paul C. Eiseman Jr., M.D., ‘43, two grandchildren, ﬁve great- and football player, proposed to me of Latrobe, Pa., died Dec. 19. He grandchildren and two sisters. on Dec. 23! We are planning a spring was 88. He received his master’s 2012 wedding.” Lester K. Keen ‘40, of Lancaster, degree in English literature from died Nov. 22 at the age of 92. At Columbia University and graduated www.fandm.edu

44 CLASS ACTION from Jefferson Medical School. A L. Kemper Owens, M.D., ’48, of for several different government veteran of the Korean War, he was an Baltimore, died July 24. He was 82. agencies. A member of Chi Phi, orthopedic surgeon for more than 30 A member of Phi Kappa Psi, he is he is survived by his wife, Joyce; years. A member of Kappa Sigma, he survived by two daughters, a son two daughters; four sons; several is survived by two daughters, a son, and three grandchildren. grandchildren; and a sister. seven grandchildren and a great- Andrew B. Sari ’48, of Barrington, Robert B. Leeper ‘49, of Malo, grandson. N.J., died Jan. 2. He was 89. He Wash., died March 13, 2010. He John L. Lobdell ‘43, of New Smyrna served in the Army during World War was 93. Beach, Fla., died Feb. 10. He was II. He earned a master’s degree from Arnold E. Lohmann ‘49, of Vista, 88. He served his country in the Temple University and dedicated Calif., died Oct. 15. At F&M, he was a Navy while stationed at Great Lakes his career to education for 35 years. member of Sigma Pi. Naval Station during World War II. A He is survived by a daughter, a son, member of Phi Sigma Kappa, he is five grandchildren and three great- Ernest F. Renk Jr. ‘49, of Harrisburg, survived by his wife, Vera; a son; two grandchildren. died on Oct. 19. He was 86. An Army granddaughters; and a sister. veteran of World War II, he was a vice Philip Simmonds ’48, of president at Fred S. James Insurance Arnold Silver, M.D., ‘43, of Tenafly, Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Dec. 21. Agency. A member of Phi Kappa Tau, N.J., died March 6. He was 89. An He was 89. He served in World he is survived by two daughters, a Army veteran of World War II, he War II with the Army’s 640th Tank son, four grandchildren and a great- earned a Bronze Star and Purple Destroyer Battalion. granddaughter. Heart. He graduated from the Ira “Corky” Diehm ’49, of St. John A. Kolonauski, D.D.S., ‘50, of University of Louisville School of Augustine, Fla., died Sept. 4. He was Medicine and practiced medicine Mechanicsburg, Pa., died Dec. 15. He 85. He served in the Army Air Force was 84. A Navy veteran, he served in Fort Lee, N.J. He was associate in Europe as a cryptologist during director of medical education at in the Pacific during World War II. World War II. He later became a A graduate of Temple University Englewood Hospital. A member computer systems analyst, working of Pi Lambda Phi, he is survived by School of Dentistry, he practiced a daughter, two sons and seven grandchildren. Joseph F. Gingrich ‘44, of Largo, Fla., died Jan. 6, 2010. He was 88. He was a great lover of the outdoors ‘SUBMIT A CLASS NOTE’ CONTEST and nature. He is survived by his wife, Martha; two daughters; two The Alumni Association is sponsoring a contest to help increase the sons; eight grandchildren; and eight great- grandchildren. number of class notes that are submitted to Franklin & Marshall Magazine. Kingston Johns Jr., Ph.D., ‘44, of Ft. Myers, Fla., died May 31, 2010. Submit a class note by July 8, 2011, to be entered to win a Franklin He earned his master’s and doctoral & Marshall sweatshirt. Notes can be submitted by mailing the coupon degrees from Cornell University. below to Franklin & Marshall Magazine, Franklin & Marshall College, Daniel H. Kunkel Jr. ’44, of Marco P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604-3003; by e-mail to magazine@fandm. Island, Fla., died July 6. At F&M, he was a member of Sigma Pi. edu; or by online submission at the magazine’s website at magazine.fandm.edu Guy H. Nooney ‘44, of Mountain View, Hawaii, died Oct. 9. He was

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in the York area and was a staff his mother; five sons; and seven until he retired. An Army veteran, dentist for 36 years at the Camp Hill grandchildren. he served in World War II. He is State Correctional Institution. He is Alfred M. Reingold ‘50, of survived by a sister. survived by his wife, Louise; three Grayslake, Ill., died Aug. 10. He was Robert W. Newman ‘51, of sons; and five grandchildren. 87. He served in the Army Air Corps Edgartown, Mass., died Jan. 27. He Gilbert L. Lescanec ’50, of Manheim, during World War II, attaining the was 82. An automotive retailer for Pa., died March 26 at the age of rank of staff sergeant. He also was 50 years in the greater Hartford, 82. An Army veteran of the Korean a Boy Scout leader. A member of Conn., area, he also volunteered War, he was a retired toxicologist for Zeta Beta Tau, he is survived by for the Children’s Museum in West E.I. DuPont. He earned a master’s his companion, Joan Hewlett; two Hartford and was president of the degree at the University of Oregon. children; two stepsons; a grandson; Martha’s Vineyard Preservation He is survived by his wife, Ruth; a and a brother. Trust. A member of Pi Lambda Phi, daughter; a son; two grandsons; and Charles R. Scheuing ’50, of he is survived by his wife, Jane; his a brother. Lancaster, died March 6. He was 85. children; four grandchildren; and a Joseph J. Noya, M.D., ’50, died A veteran of the Army Air Corps, he sister. Feb. 21. He was 82. A graduate was a cryptographer in the Pacific William A. Steller ‘51, of of University of Maryland School Theatre. He was an accountant Pennington, N.J., died Jan. 8. of Medicine, he had a long career with H.C. Rineer Sons and earlier He was 81. He was an analytical with the U.S. Public Health Service, was employed with Jackson Marine chemist for 42 years with American including holding positions as Sales. He is survived by his wife, Cyanamid Company. He worked at deputy chief of surgery and Virginia; a daughter; a son; four the Agricultural Research Center, later chief of the Department grandchildren; and two great- where he became the chairman of Surgery and chairman of the grandchildren. of the Radioisotope Committee cancer program at the U.S.P.H.S. George Litwinetz Jr. ‘51, of and radiation safety officer and Hospital in New Orleans. He also Nazareth, Pa., died Jan. 30. He was later manager of regulatory worked as an associate professor of 88. He was employed as a factory affairs. He is survived by his wife, surgery at Tulane Medical School. worker for Via Factory in Bethlehem Carole; a daughter; two sons; six He is survived by his wife, Marie; grandchildren; two sisters; and a brother. Edward K. Burdeau ‘52, of Lancaster, died Feb. 25. He was 80. A retired lieutenant colonel Former Dean Traina dies from the Army, he was a graduate of West Point. He was awarded Richard Traina, former dean of the College at numerous medals, including the F&M, died March 8 in Charlton, Mass. He was Air Medal. A member of Phi Sigma 73. Kappa, he is survived by his wife, Barbara; three daughters; a son; Traina earned his bachelor’s degree from Santa eight grandchildren; and two great- Clara University and master’s and doctoral grandchildren. degrees in history from the University of William C. Cooper, M.D., ’53, of California at Berkeley. Englewood, N.J., died March 24. He was 80. He received his medical A specialist in American diplomatic history, he degree from Cornell University. began his career at Wabash College in 1963 and He was professor emeritus of joined F&M in 1974 as professor and dean of ophthalmology at New York- the College. He was appointed academic vice Presbyterian Hospital Weill Medical president in 1981. In his 10 years at F&M, Traina College of Cornell University. An Army veteran, he worked at the was an important partner with Dean Bradley Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute R. Dewey during a significant period in the of the Columbia Presbyterian development of academic excellence at F&M. Medical Center. He was considered an authority in ophthalmic plastic He left F&M in 1984 to become president of Clark University, where and reconstructive surgery. He is he served for 16 years. During his tenure at Clark, he oversaw a period survived by his wife, Elizabeth; two of remarkable growth, which included enhanced partnerships with daughters, including Elizabeth the local community, a significant increase in the endowment, and Tracey Cooper ’83; and five grandchildren. construction of numerous facilities.

He is survived by his wife, Margaret “Polly” Traina; a daughter; two George W. Keitel Jr. ‘53, of Morgantown, Pa., died in January. sons; and 13 grandchildren. He received a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He www.fandm.edu

46 CLASS ACTION worked for the PA Department of Revenue, United Church Board for World Ministries, Greater Berks Food Bank, ACTV and the 700 Club. A Coach George member of Lambda Chi Alpha, he is survived by two daughters, two sons, McGinness dies four grandchildren and two sisters. Coaching legend George McGinness, of James L. Padula ‘53, of Wall, N.J., died Feb. 8. He was 79. An Columbia, Pa., died March 27. He was 96. Army veteran, he was an expert A graduate of West Chester University, marksman. He worked for Aetna Life where he was captain of the football team, & Casualty for 28 years and later as he was a Navy veteran of World War II. a self-employed legal investigator. Upon retirement, he became an McGinness joined the F&M community ESL teacher and tutor at Brookdale as an instructor of physical education Community College. He is survived in December 1945. He was promoted to by his wife, Patricia; two daughters; assistant professor in 1949, and in 1958, and two sons. he was named associate professor. Thomas A. Behney, Esq., ‘54, of Lebanon, Pa., died June 26, 2010. From 1945 to 1960, McGinness also He was 78. He was the founder and served as director of intramurals, and president of Lebanon Valley Catholic during the 1968-69 academic year, he was Home. He served three consecutive the chairman of the Physical Education terms as a commissioner of Lebanon Program. He was a member of the County and served as chairman of the board of commissioners for coaching staff of the 1950 undefeated seven years. A member of Chi Phi, football team that was inducted into the he is survived by his wife, Elaine; a College’s Hall of Fame. daughter; three stepdaughters; a Throughout his 34 years with the College, stepson; and a grandson. McGinness coached varsity soccer, track, Howard C. Barnhart Jr. ’55, of York, golf and swimming. Pa., died Jan. 1. He was 83. A Navy veteran of World War II, he taught in Swimming was his first love. He assumed the head coaching position the York City School District for more of the men’s swim team in 1947. It was McGinness who took on the than 30 years. After retirement, he responsibility of developing the first women’s varsity team in 1974. served on the district’s homebound teaching program. He did During his 33 years with the men and six with the women, McGinness postgraduate work at the University coached numerous individual and team champions who went on to win of Maryland, Pennsylvania State in the Middle Atlantic Championships, Eastern Championships and University and Millersville University. National Championships. He is survived by his loyal friend, Helen Lehman; a daughter; a son; The McGinness Pool in the Kunkel Aquatic Center is named after and three grandchildren. him, and he was inducted into the F&M Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 Walter L. Eaton Jr., M.D., ’55, of as a coach. Etna, N.H., died March 8. He was He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Dorothy; two daughters; two 77. He was a Navy veteran and a graduate of the University of sons; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was an associate professor of therapeutic radiology. He was a radiation oncologist at Norris Cotton in Lancaster from 1957 to 1998. He University School of Banking. He is Cancer Center for 25 years. A faculty is survived by a daughter, three sons survived by his wife, Patricia; two member at the Dartmouth Medical and seven grandchildren. daughters; and two grandsons. School, he served with several national cancer cooperative groups. Richard M. Sausser ‘55, of Harold L. Wiggins ’57, of Lancaster, A member of Chi Phi, he is survived Fleetwood, Pa., died Dec. 11. He died Jan. 4. He was 75. An Army by his wife, Katie; two sons; three was 77. An Army veteran of the veteran, he was a certified public Korean War, he worked for 20 years accountant for the Pennsylvania grandchildren; and a brother. with the First National Bank, retiring Utility Commission. He was a model- John H. Forrey Sr., O.D., ’55 of as its vice president and cashier. A train enthusiast. He is survived by his Lancaster, died Dec. 24. He was member of the American Institute wife, Judith; two daughters; a son; 77. A graduate of the Pennsylvania of Banking, Anthracite and Berks, and four grandchildren. College of Optometry, he practiced he was a graduate of the Bucknell www.fandm.edu

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Owen P. Bricker III ’58, Ph.D., of Gretchen; three daughters; and A graduate of the University of White Hall, Md., died March 23. seven grandchildren. Maryland at College Park and Bread He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard William B. Baird ‘59, of Pendleton, Loaf School of English, he was ABD University. An internationally Ore., died Feb. 12. He was 73. He at New York University. He was a renowned geochemist, he worked at was a pilot for 10 years as an Air theatre arts professor for 30 years at the U.S. Geological Survey for most Force captain and a pilot with Pan Anne Arundel Community College. of his career. An emeritus scientist, Am Airlines for two years. He was He is survived by his wife, Dorothy; a he also taught at Johns Hopkins then an insurance broker for 30 sister; and brother. University. He is survived by his years, running his own agency for Robert C. Landsiedel ‘62, of wife, Anne; three daughters; seven 20 years. A member of Lambda Chi Germantown, Pa., died March 20. He grandchildren; and a sister. Alpha, he is survived by his wife, was 71. A public-image consultant, James A. Corman ‘58, of Bellefonte, Marijo; two daughters; and two he worked at Drexel University in Pa., died Feb. 17. He was 74. He was grandchildren. its alumni affairs and development director of purchasing at Ruetgers- P. Blaine Clemens ’59, of offices. He also served as executive Nease Chemical Co., retiring after Smoketown, Pa., died Feb. 18. He director of the Friends of Benjamin 30 years. He held positions there was 73. A retired vice president and Franklin House USA, which raised in research and development, controller at Lukens Steel Corp., money to restore the London production, and sales. A member of he served on the local school boardinghouse where Franklin lived. the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, board. He is survived by his wife, A member of Delta Sigma Phi, he is he saw active duty in Germany Patricia; a daughter; a son; and four survived by a sister and brother. during the Berlin crisis. A member grandchildren. Michael A. Linshaw, M.D., ‘62, of Chi Phi, he is survived by his wife, Robert S. Melia ‘60, died July 23. He died Dec. 31. An Army veteran, he Mary; a daughter; two grandchildren; graduated from Hahnemann Medical a sister; and a brother. was 71. A member of Sigma Pi, he is survived by his significant other, Judy College and trained in pediatrics Elmer R. Dech, M.D., ’58, of Winnemore; and a stepson. and nephrology. He held academic Gardner, Mass., died Jan. 28. He positions at the University of Kansas, was 74. A graduate of Hahnemann William D. Abel ’61, of Boca Raton, University of Connecticut and Medical School, he served at Fla., died Feb. 9. He was 71. He was Tufts University. He joined Harvard Warren Air Force Base. Following his a certified public accountant and Medical School in 2000 and became discharge, he was a family physician entrepreneur, owning seven flower a leading pediatric nephrologist at in Gardner and the medical director kiosks at Pennsylvania Station in Massachusetts General Hospital. of the Naukeag Hospital. Later he Manhattan. He had a farm in the A member of Zeta Beta Tau, he is joined the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Dominican Republic that grew the survived by his wife, Diane, and three Clinic. A volunteer with Habitat for flowers. He and a friend started a sons. Humanity, he is survived by two synagogue in his gated community for High Holy Day services. A Michael Glenn, Ed.D., ’63, of daughters, a son, two stepdaughters, Montrose, Colo., died Dec. 16. He five grandchildren and a brother. member of Zeta Beta Tau, he is survived by his wife, Syd; a daughter; was 69. He earned his M.S., Ed.S. Larry R. Pike ‘58, of Lewisberry, Pa., a son; and two grandchildren. and Ed.D degrees from George died Dec. 27. He was 75. He earned Washington University, where he his M.B.A. from the University William S. Andes ’61, of Fairborn, was an adjunct professor. A Navy of Delaware. He was executive Ohio, died May 9, 2010. He was veteran, he worked in the federal vice president at Union Central 74. A retired Air Force major, he civil service in Norfolk, Va., and was Life Insurance and later became participated in the ROTC program at director of training at the NASA chairman, president and CEO of the F&M and was a Vietnam War veteran. Langley Research Facility. He is company. He was on the board of A career Air Force pilot, he received survived by his wife, Wendie; a son; a trustees of The American College the Distinguished Flying Cross sister; and brother. and the Million Dollar Round Table Medal. He was also an independent dealer for AMSOIL. He is survived Harold J. Kraft Jr. ’63, of Huntsville, Foundation. He is survived by his Ala., died Mar. 15. He was 70. wife, Sandra; two daughters; five by his companion, Paula Gray; a daughter; a son; and two grandsons. He served as director of quality grandchildren; and a brother. assurance at Brown, Int’l Corp (now Henry E. Rohland ‘58, of Lebanon, Clyde R. Nissley ’61 died Oct. 26. AAR), managing inspection and Pa., died Feb. 11. He was 75. A G. Ralph Smith II, Ph.D., ‘61, of testing. A longtime community lieutenant colonel, he retired from West Chester, Pa., died May 28, volunteer, he coached youth the Air Force after more than 20 2010. He was 69. He received his baseball and was an adult leader in years of service. His assignments master’s degree from Villanova the Civil Air Patrol. He is survived by included Thailand, Puerto Rico University and his Ph.D. from Temple his wife, Barbara; a daughter; four and Germany. He was awarded University. He was professor of sons; four grandsons; and a sister. English at California University of the Bronze Star for his meritorious Paul W. Gelpke ‘64 , of Mebane, actions during an intense conflict Pennsylvania for 30 years. He is N.C., died March 31. He was 68. in Vietnam. He later worked for survived by a sister. David W. Donovan, Esq., ’66, of Lebanon Seaboard Corp. A member Robert E. Kauffman ’62, of Arnold, of Chi Phi, he is survived by his wife, Willow Grove, Pa., died Aug. 13. Md., died March 3. He was 73. He was 65. An Army veteran of the www.fandm.edu

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Vietnam War, he received his law degree from Temple University. He worked at Joseph W. Donovan & Sons for many years. He is survived College mourns death by his mother, two daughters, a son, six grandchildren, a sister and two of Professor Russell brothers. Timothy P. Hanlon ’68, of Plantsville, Robert W. Russell, the Charles Conn., died Dec. 11. He was 64. A. Dana Emeritus Professor He was a lover of nature and history. of English, died on April 1 in He is survived by his wife, Katy, and Lancaster. He was 86. He came a brother. to F&M’s English Department in Harrison T. Southworth ‘68, of 1955 and became its department Lancaster, N.H., died Dec. 20 at chair in 1965, a position he held the age of 63. He served in the for eight years. He was appointed Army Reserves. He and his brother, Tom, operated the historic Garland the Charles A. Dana Professor of Mill, which evolved into a multi- English in 1968. generational family business, He received the College’s Garland Mill Timberframes. A member of Kappa Sigma, he is Lindback Award for survived by his wife, Cid; a daughter; Distinguished Teaching, retiring a son; four grandsons; and three in 1990. An accomplished brothers. ﬁction writer and memoirist, Dale F. Briggs ‘70, of Palmer Russell taught writing courses Township, Pa., died Jan. 12. He was at the College long before the 62. He earned his master’s degree department was able to offer a major in creative writing. from Lehigh University. He was an educator for 36 years at Bloomsbury An accident as a 5-year old damaged one eye badly, and he eventually Elementary School, and he was lost the sight in both eyes. A graduate of the New York Institute for a PIAA and NJSIAA ofﬁcial for the Blind, he competed on the high school wrestling team, where basketball, softball, and soccer. He is he began his lifelong love of the sport. His contribution to the sport survived by his wife, Marylu; a sister; and a brother. was recognized by his induction into the Pennsylvania and then the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, where he was awarded the Medal of Blaine E. Todd ’71, of Salem, N.J., died April 4. He was 79. An Army Courage in 2000. veteran, he served a 16-month tour He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University. in Korea. A brakeman on the B&O Two Rotarian Scholarships supported him as he began his work toward Railroad, he graduated from Clarion a B. Lit degree at Oxford University, where Russell met his future wife, State College and earned a master’s degree from F&M. He taught science Elisabeth D. Shaw, who died in 2005. for 32 years at Salem High School, His autobiography, To Catch An Angel, was published in 1962 and was a where he coached football and New York Times bestseller, which was translated into 32 languages. He wrestling. He is survived by his wife, also published a novel, An Act of Loving, and another autobiographical Carolyn; two sons; two grandsons; a great-grandson; three sisters; and a work, The Island. brother. He is survived by his wife, Jane Creed Donaldson Russell; a daughter; James C. Tolan, Ph.D., ’75 of three sons; six grandchildren; and a brother. Reisterstown, Md., died Aug. 6. He was 56. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from Auburn University. A dedicated clinical a son; and his father-in-law, Robert by his wife, Suzanne, and three psychologist for 30 years, he Harner ’50. daughters. improved the lives of people with Michael S. Lippe, M.D.,’76, of Scott D. Hartzell ‘89, of Wilmington, developmental disabilities. In Mahwah, N.J., died Dec. 22. He was Del., died Aug. 21. He was 42. He addition to his private practice, he 56. He earned his medical degree worked for Deardorff Associates. was a consultant to the Maryland from Pennsylvania State University. He loved the outdoors and was a

Developmental Disabilities He was an emergency room director member of the Mayflower Society of Administration and cofounder of at Good Samaritan Hospital in Delaware. He is survived by his wife, Baltimore’s Champion Baseball Suffern, N.Y. A licensed pilot, he flew Kimberly; his parents; a daughter; a League. He is survived by his wife, many volunteer missions for medical son; and a sister. Karyn Harner Tolan ’76 ; a daughter; flight organizations. He is survived www.fandm.edu

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‘Death to the clam’

Starting in the late 19th century, F&M students found a new way to acknowledge and celebrate the ending of classes. In late spring, the sophomore class, dressed in “devilish” costumes, would gather to hold a mock trial, make speeches, read poetry and then set aﬁre elaborate paper and paper-mache creations. Mathematics and science courses dominated the tradition, with the making of giant starﬁsh, lobsters and grasshoppers. In 1907, sophomores gathered at 421 Nevin St. in preparation for a tribute to zoology. On May 10, this giant paper-mache clam (pictured above) was sentenced by Judge Pluto of the Supreme Court of Hades, paraded past Dr. Schiedt’s house and burned at Williamson Field. — Christopher Raab, Archives & Special Collections Librarian

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50 ACHIEVING IS BELIEVING

The Scholar-Donor Lunch on April 16 provided Genesis Hines ’12 Hines, a biological foundations of behavior major, has many an opportunity to meet Reed Auerbach ’80, the person who endowed talents, and she shares them as a volunteer with an after-school the scholarship that she receives. dance program for at-risk youth. Hines will be the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree when Sharing of gifts is something Hines appreciates. She thanked she graduates next spring. That fact amazes her, especially because the Auerbachs for endowing a scholarship and having faith early on she wondered whether she was right for F&M. that F&M students would prove worthy of their support. “As a freshman I must admit that I oftentimes did not feel as “They invested in me before they knew who I was,” she said. if I belonged here, let alone possessed any talents that needed “What their gifts have made possible for me is indescribable to be exposed,” she said in her remarks at the lunch. and far-reaching.” During her first semester she spent a good bit of time questioning For that she is grateful. “There are many people who have her abilities—until she made the Dean’s List. shaped me with their gifts of wisdom, advice and knowledge. There are also people who continue to support my endeavors Bonchek College House Prefect David Stameshkin, to whom she had here at F&M financially. And I am the final product—wrapped, confided her doubts, told Hines making the Dean’s List proved she sculpted, blessed, enabled, loved and sent on my way with deserved to be here. “He believed in me more than I believed in myself. prayers and well wishes to expose my talents to the world.” His comment reminded me of something my mother said—that she recognized my talents before I was even willing to admit I had them.” Watch out, world. GOULD NICK

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Have Chalkboard, Will Travel Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Snehashish Bhattacharya continues the Franklin & Marshall tradition of promoting learning outside the classroom, literally. On a beautiful spring day, he took his class—and his chalkboard— to this cozy spot just south of Dietz-Santee Residence Hall. This area, with Jazzman’s Café and the spires of Old Main in the background, is a popular area for conducting an outdoor class. Another common sight on a warm day is a class that created a circle with Adirondack chairs on Manning Green in front of Shadek-Fackenthal Library.