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Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 1997 Bridgewater State College Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bridgewater Magazine Campus Journals and Publications 1997 Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 7, Number 3, Summer 1997 Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College (1997). Bridgewater Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 3. Retrieved from http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_mag/44 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Homecoming '97 October 17 Football Game Inductions into the Athletic Hall of Fame; Bears vs. Westfield State College Young Alumni Event at the City Hall Pub Join us under the tent for a family barbeque in Boston during the game! October 18 Special Reunion celebrations for WHIM Phi Pi Delta Alumni Cookout alumni and Comment staff. Reunions for the Classes of '82, '87, and '92. Volunteers are asked to call the Alumni Office to help plan all of the Reunion celebrations. The more, the merrier! 1-888-85C-9555 Class Notes We welcome updates from alumni for Bridgewater magazine. Please fill out this form and return as soon as possible. Our readers are anxious to know about your activities, career news, family news, and other significant activities. Thanks for letting us publish your news. Name:--------------------- Class Year: ---- Mailing Address: (if this is a.change of address, please check this box 0 ) Telephone: _ Internet (e-mail) address: _ Your News: ----------------------- • People have been inquiring how to get in touch with old friends with whom they've lost contact. Why not try to "reach out and touch someone" in the class notes section? We welcome your small personal messages along the lines of "Jane Doe, '84, would like to know how John Smith, '86, is doing." Send it to us and we'll print it! E-MAIL us your class news! We welcome your class notes via e-mail. Please send to: [email protected] Seal with tape or staple Fold here Place Stamp Here Editor Bridgewater Magazine PO Box 13 Bridgewater MA 02324 Fold here ! Table of Contents A Publication for Alumni, Parents, and Friends ofBridgewater State College On the cover: David Robichaud, '83, has held a number of positions in television news during his career, Table of Contents most recently as an on-air reporter President's Message . 2 for WBZ-TV in Boston (see story on Alumni Profiles: page 3). David Robichaud, '83 3-5,9 Bob ('641 and Gail (78) Todd 6,8 azine staff: Nancy Reed Imai, 77 .7-8 Among the Missing Editor: David Wilson, '71 In search of current addresses for alums celebrating Editorial Board: Dr. Richard Cost, their 25th and 50th reunions in 1998 . 9 vice-president of institutional Development advancement; Marie Murphy, '86, Dr Laretta McHugh 10 director of public affairs; and Mary The 1840 Society........................................................... 10 Tiernan, director of alumni relations. College News Hall of Black Achievement 1 1 Contributors: Marie Dennehy, Lt. Governar Paul Cellucci 11 '92, office of public affairs; Winter Commencement 1997.. 12 Suzanne Penner; Michelle Stuart, International Exchange Programs at BSC 13-14 director of major and planned President Tinsley appointed to Boards 14 gifts; Marybeth Walsh, '97; Jamie Alan Comedy, Affirmative Action and Minarity Affairs Officer. 15 Deiana, '97 Michelle Stuart, Director of Major and Planned Gihs 15 Photography: D. Confar, Marie Bill DaVis, Chief Information Officer 16 Dennehy, Galaxy Studios, Kindra Mentors in Violence Program 16 Andrea Hubbard wins scholarship award...... 17 Clineff, David Wilson, Larry Dr. Elizabeth Kandel Englander publishes book Joubert, Marybeth Walsh, and on violence.................... 17 Linda Balzotti Stacy Higgins donates kidney to her brother 17 Correspondence: address all mail to Dr. Thomas Curley publishes biography of Sir Robert Chambers. 18 Editor, Student Services Summit 18 Bridgewater Magazine RiverNet Teacher Development Center and P.O. Box 42 Watershed Access Labaratory opens at Moakley Center 19 Bridgewater, MA 02324 Dr. Lynnette Willett...... 20 508-697-1287 Southeastern Massachusetts Legislative Caucus 20 e-mail to: College Honors Retirees.............. 21-22 [email protected] Alumni Update...... 23-24 Bridgewater is published quarterly Class Notes 25-30 for the information and reading Marriages 3 1 pleasure of Bridgewater State Births 31 College alumni, faculty, students, In Memoriam 32 staff, parents and other friends of the college. President's Message On Friday evening, May 16, I had the opportunity to address the fourth annual Chairmen's Dinner at the college, and I would like to share highlights of those remarks with you because the focus of the program that evening was on topics that I think are of interest to the alumni, friends and parents whom we reach through this magazine. I began by acknowledging the two hosts for the evening, Mr. Eugene Durgin, chairman of the college's Board of Trustee~, and Mr. Lo~ Ricciardi, '81, chairman of the college's fo~dation. Mr. Durgm and Mr. Ricciardi work tirelessly and WIth great success to strengthen the ties that exist between ~he college and the foundation. The resulting partnership is Important not only for the health of the college but also for the health of this region of the state. As so. many of our .alumni and friends know, that college­ Trustee Chairman, Eugene Durgin (center) reads inscription on SlIver bowL presented to Mr. Robert MeWade (left), vice president, ~oundation par~erslup has come to play an increasingly corporate affmrs ~nd communications of Raytheon Company. Important role m helping the college fulfill its twin missions, FoundatIOn Chmrman, Louis Ricciardi (right), looks on at which are: presentatIOn gIVen to Raytheon acknowledging their $100,000 gift (1) as a public college to provide to the citizens of south­ to open and eqUip the RiverNet Teacher Development Center and eastern Massachusetts and the entire Commonwealth with a Watershed Access Laboratory at the MoakLelJ Center. high quality education at a reasonable price, and, have taken place at Bridgewater this year, and two of those (2) to use the resources we have available here - which were centerpieces of the Chairmen's Dirmer program. include the expertise of our faculty, the talents of our First is the opening a few weeks ago of the RiverNet students, and the growing technology facilities we have on Teacher Development Center and Watershed Access Lab in campus - to be a catalyst for economic growth and develop­ t~e John Joseph Moakley Center for Technological Applica­ ment in this region. This year our partnership has also included the Common­ ?ons, and you will.find a story about the laboratory in this Issue of the magazme. We are very excited because work that wealth, via Massachusetts' endowment incentive program. directly affects our environment is going to take place there. This year the Commonwealth has agreed to match I was delighted that Mr. McWade from Raytheon was - one dollar for every two dollars -private gifts to state present so I could thank 11in1 and Raytheon on behalf of our colleges up to a total of $440,000. community. The Raytheon grant of $100,000 to open and The idea is to provide an incentive for public higher equip the facility is the first major corporate partnership the education institutions to become more aggressive in raising Moakley Center has received which focuses directly on funds from private sources. quality of life issues for southeastern Massachusetts. I am pleased to tell you, as I was to announce to those who The second project I discussed was the Institute for attended the Chairmen's Dirmer, that under the terms of the R~gional Development. Dr. Victor DeSantis of our political endowment incentive program, it looks at this moment as if SCIence faculty, who coordinates the work of the Institute, Bridgewater is going to qualify for every penny of the was there to provide an update on programs and projects $440,000 we were eligible to receive. curr~ntly underway. We see the Institute, which we opened That is wonderful news because in this economic climate at Bndgewater last fall, as a point-of-entry for the connec­ - where private funds must provide the "margin of excel­ tions we. alread~ have - and the connections we anticipate lence" for public colleges and universities as they tradition­ developmg -WIth the people, the schools, the organizations, ally have for private institutions - the endowment incentive the agencies and the businesses that are part of this region of progr~ is enormously important to Bridgewater. Helping the state. us build the endowment for Bridgewater State College is an I was very pleased to have the opportunity at the urgent priority if the college and its students, and thus the Chairmen's Dirmer to speak about these issues, and I am citizens of this region, are to be buffered from the shocks of a glad to have the chance now to share this information with state budget that rises and falls with the cycles of the all of.the readers of this magazine. Together we are working economy. to build a future for the college as distinguished as its past. I So the partnership between the college and the fow1dation am grateful for your continuing support as we work toward is cr:ucial because the foundation is both the engine and the that goal. vehicle for private fund-raising, and the success of this year's efforts have paid us back double. Our endowment is growing because of the partnership of Sincerely, the college and the foundation and consequently we as a college will be able to do more for the region and the people !J.~'-;:J~ who live here. Al:irian Tinsleyd I mentioned several other significant developments that President J Alumni Profile "We Have to Figure a Way to Get You on Television" David Robichaud, '83, is a reporter in the nation's sixth-largest television market .
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