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Inside Opinion Sports : Life after graduation Summer rental Play ball Class of 1994 begin their search for College makes good use of Ithaca Lakers kick off 1994 season work in the 'r~al world' facilities during off-season with familiar faces Sum~~~ ITHACAN The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community Vol. 61, No. 30 Thursday, May 26, 1994 12 pages Free Three members begin Board terms By Bridget Kelly Nicole Young' 94 as student trustee, Summer Ithacan News Editor is a speech communication major with a minor in Italian. She has Two new members have joined worked as a teaching assistant for the Board of Trustees and a third the Department of Modern Lan­ has been elected for an extended guages and Literatures, and has term. been involved in ~everal ~tudcnt Ralph Siciliano, '72, was elected organizat10ns. in May as an alumni trustee and Her involvement include~ edu­ Yecenia Villar '96 as the new stu­ cational affalf;, officer for the Afri­ dent trustee. can-Latino Society, member of the Harold "Bud" Garrity '68, the Amani ~ingers, disc jockey for current alumni trustee will continue WICB-FM and choreographer for · on the board and Murray Yecenia Villar '96 the Kuumba Repertory Theater. Handwerker, who has retired from Harold Garrity '68 Ralph Siciliano '72 Villar received an Educational active status, was named honorary he worked with the United States Siciliano earned a law degree from He said he is looking forward to Iii-, Opportunity Program Gold Award trustee. Securities and Exchange Commis­ Brooklyn Law School and an LL.M. ti>rm on the Board of Trustee;,. for academic achievement last year Siciliano is an attorney and part­ sion as staff attorney, branch chief, in corporation Jaw from New York "It's something I've always and has been selected to participate ner with Newman Tannenbaum senior trial counsel, and assistant University School of Law. wanted to do because it is the gov­ in the Minority Undergraduate Fel­ Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt in regional administrator. Siciliano is president of the erning body of the institution," he lows Program of the National A;,­ Manhattan. He has worked for the After he received a degree in alumni association and has served said. sociation of Student Personnel Ad- firm for eight years, before which politics from Ithaca College, on its board of directors since 1980. Villar, who will be replacing See BOARD, next page 7 ,--------------------. i I I \ ~-·,.... Photo courtesy of Ithaca College Office of Public Information Music Professor Dana Wilson was named a Charles A. Dana Professor during the Ithaca College Board of Trustees May meeting. Wilson named Dana professor The Summer Ithacan/Bridget Kelly ceive the nomination," he said. "I Kit and Charlie Baker pause during the 1994 reunion. By Rachel B. Jaffe was asked to put together a file of "I'm going to prob­ Summer Ithacan Editor in Chief my activities so that it could be ably spend some time The Ithaca College Board of perused by a faculty committee, in these few months New memories Trustees named Professor Dana then the dean, then the provost, Wilson the Charles A. Dana Pro- then the president." with colleagues re­ Class of '41 couple tied the knot fessor of Music at its May meet- In a press release, Provost Tho- thinking the way the after meeting during 1981 reunion ing. mas Longin said all aspects of composition program cal education, the two knew Wilson is now one of three Dana Wilson's teaching surpassed expec­ can contribute to the By Bridget Kelly each other when they attended professors at Ithaca College; the tations, and that he was confident Summer Ithacan News Editor the College, because their other two are Professor of Politics that Wilson met the standards of the school." Kit and Charlie Baker look graduating class had less than Harvey Fireside and Professor of Dana Foundation. -Dana Wilson, like they have been together for two hundred students. Finance Raquib Zaman. Wilson explained the recogni- Charles A. Dana a lifetime. Charlie and Kit were not re­ Pamela Gearhart, who retired last tion that accompanies the Dana professor of music But the couple led separate ally friends, though. "She had year, previously held the title of award. "It's an honor in that it rec­ lives for 40 post-graduate years her nose in the air all of the Dana professor. ognizes an individual's contribu- time to work on composition amt to before they ever considered mar­ time," Charlie said. Wilson said he was nominated tion to the school over a number of contribute to the school, he said. riage to one another. "He was stoking fire under by a colleague early this year, so he years," he said. "It recognizes their "I'm working on an orchestra piece Although Kit was a music Newman Hall and I lived in was not totally surprised when he teaching, and it recognizes their - it's a short piece," he said. "I major and Charlie studied physi- See BAKERS, next page was gnmted the Dana. professional work." recently received a fellowship from "I was pleasantly surprised to re- , TheawardwillgiveW.ilsonmore See DANA, page 6 2 THE SUMMER ITHACAN June 9 1994 BAKERS BOARD Continued from previous page Continued from previous page "We would have a participation, Charlie said. 'The school has grown to en­ Newman Hall," Kit Baker said. At whole floor of girls that The Bakers said one of the rea­ compass so many schools," Kit said, ministrators this coming year. that time the College was located sons they feel close to classmates is pointing out the science programs She said her election to the Board downtown and there was no South would be sharing a the time period during which they and the school of communications. will allow her to be involved with Hill campus. bathroom. When it was attended the College. "It has a lot to Kit Baker said the student body changes in the school. "We used to refer to DeWitt time for a dance, every­ do with what period of your life it is more diverse than it was in I 941. "I see this as an opportunity to Park as our campus," Kit Baker is," Kit said. "This is a very broadening and en­ get involved - it is the utmost said, "It was the only place for one would have their The couple attended the College riching element of today's involvement I can attain in the congregating." irons plugged in and a during the Depression, and as campus,"she said. school," she said. "Not a whole lot After they graduated, the Bakers fuse would blow. " Charlie pointed out, everyone had Prospects for the future were of people get involved in really did not meet again for 40 years. -Kit Baker '41 to work. "I stoked boilers in the also different. Students did not al­ trying to change things." At their reunion in the summer basement of the dorm where I lived ways have the option of graduating It is important to remember that of 1981, each had recently lost a The Bakers invited three couples and worked in the dining hall for and immediately looking for jobs. Villar will represent faculty and spouse. "We came back for our that attend reunion with them and my meals," he said. One spring, a professor estimated staff, as well as students, she said. 40th reunion. That was when we since then, the group has had three "One of the reasons we feel close how many students from the class "I'm not really representative of met again," Kit Baker said... "We or four mini-reunions a.year. The is that we have that experience in wouJd be in the service, and how the students, but of the whole col­ were married the 26th of December four couples alternate hosting, the common," Kit said. many would not return, Kit said. lege." the same year." Bakers said. The Bakers said the school is "Most of our classmates went Garrity, who was elected alumni At the time, he lived in New "We can think of about any kind different now in many ways. into the service before they served trustee in 1989, will serve a five­ Jersey and she in Durham, New of excuse to get together," Charlie "It's rather unbelievable," one year in a job." year board term. He is yice presi­ York. Once they were married, they Baker said. "If you give us a roof Charlie said. The Bakers watched "If they did serve one year in a dent of the alumni association and moved to Durham where they have over our head and a place to meet the campus grow as they returned job, they were lucky," said Charlie, has served on the board of directors lived ever since. we don't have any problems, as every year for reunion. noting that many did not return alive. since 1980. "We built a new home about six longasthere'sagolfcoursenearby." "We came back while it was Even sports have changed since He founded Garrity Communi­ years ago," Kit said.