THE MAGAZINE OF MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY » FALL 2018 BEATLEMANIA EXPLAINED Why the Fab Four still fascinate us. AN page 04 EXAMINED PAW BEARER The life of a pet funeral director. LIFE page 32 Acclaimed sculptor Brian REEL Hanlon ’88 finds the untold EXCITEMENT Catching sharks stories behind his famous subjects. for science. page 22 page 36 GRADUATE STUDIES YOUR FUTURE: MASTERED Information Session 11/17 @ 10 a.m. REGISTER @ MONMOUTH.EDU/INFO Continue your studies by pursuing a graduate degree at Monmouth University. Programs include: • Addiction Studies • Anthropology • Business Administration (MBA) • Clinical Mental Health Counseling • Communication • Computer Science • Criminal Justice • Education - Teaching, MSEd, MEd and EdD options • English • History • Information Systems • Nursing (MSN, DNP) • Physician Assistant • Social Work - Traditional/Advanced Standing MSW • Software Engineering • Speech-Language Pathology Graduate scholarships available for eligible students. 732-571-3452 | West Long Branch, NJ MU206017_GRAD_Ad-8x10.5_Generic_FINAL.indd 1 9/12/18 4:58 PM GRADUATE STUDIES Contents Features | Fall 2018 YOUR FUTURE: BACKSTORY » Keith Dunton and his research team fish for sharks for hours, sometimes casting lines until MASTERED midnight. Despite their best efforts, it still took two trips to photograph our “Tag Team” Information Session feature. On the first night, the team didn’t get a single bite. 11/17 @ 10 a.m. Story, p. 36. REGISTER @ MONMOUTH.EDU/INFO Continue your studies by pursuing a graduate degree at Monmouth University. Programs include: • Addiction Studies • Anthropology • Business Administration (MBA) • Clinical Mental Health Counseling • Communication • Computer Science • Criminal Justice • Education - Teaching, MSEd, MEd and EdD options • English • History • Information Systems • Nursing (MSN, DNP) • Physician Assistant • Social Work 22 28 32 36 - Traditional/Advanced Standing MSW LARGER THAN LIFE A CHANGING INDIA ALL CREATURES TAG TEAM GREAT AND SMALL • Software Engineering Sculptor Brian Hanlon Ending gender-based Tracking sharks to under- sees his subjects from violence in the world’s Prepping pets for stand how catch and release • Speech-Language Pathology a unique perspective. largest democracy. the afterlife. affects their numbers. Graduate scholarships available for eligible students. 732-571-3452 | West Long Branch, NJ photo TOM LYNCH Fall 2018 MONMOUTH 01 MU206017_GRAD_Ad-8x10.5_Generic_FINAL.indd 1 9/12/18 4:58 PM Contents Departments | Fall 2018 MONMOUTH » VOL. 38. NO. 1 10 18 44 Monmouth magazine is published thrice annually by the Monmouth University Division of Enrollment Management. Vice President for Enrollment Management Robert D. McCaig, Ed.D. Associate Vice President, The Front Marketing & Communications currents » RESEARCH & REFLECTION Tara Peters ’94, ’99M Editor 04 07 08 Tony Marchetti NEED TO KNOW UNLOCKING CONCEPTS Assistant Editor Beatles expert Kenneth HEALTH AND SELF A look at how Monmouth’s Breanne McCarthy Womack explains the band’s A look at Monmouth’s new Insti- marine research vessels enduring cultural influence. tute for Health and Wellness. stack up. Design & Layout Dog Ear Consultants TIDES » CULTURE & COMMUNITY Contributing Writers Caren Chesler 10 13 14 Nick DiUlio A TRUE GATHERING HOW MONMOUTH Morganne Dudzinski ’11, ’13M ORIGINAL TOGETHER WAS MADE Kelley Freund Mark Gola Art Professor Vince A new campaign—“Togeth- Long Branch Senior High Michael S. Maiden ’07M, ’14M DiMattio practices what er We Can”—will support School was once the center Molly Petrilla he teaches. student scholarships. of Monmouth academics. Photographers PLAY » SPORTS & FITNESS Matthew Aquino Anthony DePrimo Matt Furman 18 20 21 Steve Greer GRIDIRON GRIT SPORTS SHORTS AHEAD OF THE GAME Tom Lynch Student football manager Updates from the Office of A Q&A with women’s Illustrators Frank Delaney is ready for Athletics Communication and soccer head coach Josue Evilla any challenge. New Media. Krissy Turner. Dung Hoang Julie McLaughlin On the cover The Back The Rest Sculptor Brian Hanlon ’88, Class notes » ALUMNI LIFE Letters, 03. photographed by Matt Furman Campus Briefs, 15. A Day at the Beach, 16. 44 49 Alumni Roundup, 46. THE BRINGING In Memoriam, 55. CHANGEMAKER THE DRAMA Stephanie Ramos is paving Scott Granville creates West Long Branch, NJ 07764 the way for expanded paid entertaining shows for 732-571-3489 family leave. English language learners. monmouth.edu 02 MONMOUTH Fall 2018 letters people and their stories would PRAISE YOUR PROFS: add to the prestige of Monmouth Is there a Monmouth professor you'd like to give University. a shout-out to? Write us at A perfect example would be Dr. the address below. Walter S. McAfee, who was one of my professors in the early 1960s. Dr. McAfee was a theoretical physicist who taught advanced physics at Monmouth. While he was working for our govern- ment, he was involved in Project Diana [the first time radio waves were bounced off the moon and successfully received back on Earth]. Dr. McAfee contributed the necessary theoretical calculations, including a radar cross-section of Re: Summer 2018 I enjoyed my experience at the moon, radar coverage pattern, Monmouth University’s Autism Monmouth tremendously. The in- and the distance to the moon—all Program Improvement Project structors were the best, the school crucial to the project’s success. (“Improving Autism Education”), was unbelievably beautiful, and all Gary H. Barnett ’63 directed by Drs. Lauderdale-Littin of the activities were fun and en- and Haspel in the School of Edu- riching. The students all got along, cation, is a tremendous example were best friends, and enjoyed of the level of scholarship and each other. We didn’t have politi- Let’s commitment to community that cal issues. I was not pleased when Connect TELL US our faculty possess. Thanks to I read the Q&A with Dante Barry For more content the pioneering vision and gener- (“The Organizer”) in the summer and photos, follow WHAT ous support of the Autism MVP issue. I don’t care if people are us on Twitter and Foundation, Monmouth University sky-blue pink. I started an all-black Instagram: YOU is at the forefront of providing school in Hayward, California, and @monmouthumag evidence-based training for public sent my own daughter to it. I loved school teachers of students with all my students, had them at my THINK autism. The partnership with Au- home, and they were part of my tism MVP Foundation has been life. I just think there should be Email us at magazine@ critical in identifying areas of need more positive articles in the mag- monmouth.edu, or write and improvement in special ser- azine. I think we all need to focus vices across central New Jersey. more on the positive. us at Monmouth As a result, participating teachers Evie (Pizzulli) Dopart ’61 magazine, Monmouth are demonstrating increased confidence and competencies in University, Alumni House, working with children on the au- 400 Cedar Ave., West tism spectrum, and their students Remembering Long Branch, NJ 07764. are seeing improved academic, social, and behavioral outcomes. a pioneer Submissions for the The Autism Program Improvement I have a suggestion for future Letters page are subject Project would not exist without issues of the magazine: a series of to editing for clarity and the generous endorsement from articles about former and present the Autism MVP Foundation, and professors who have significantly length and must include we are grateful for the opportunity achieved notable accomplish- the writer’s name, address, to collaborate on this good work. ments in their careers and fields of and phone number for John E. Henning, Ph.D., Dean of endeavor. Not only would this be the School of Education interesting, but I feel noting these confirmation. Fall 2018 MONMOUTH 03 Currents RESEARCH & REFLECTION Liner Notes 1 KW: “New Zoo Revue, which, looking back, was kind of a goofy show but I can’t speak to 11-year- old me about it.” 2 The animated tele- vision show originally ran on ABC in the 1960s. Why do you think the Beatles NEED TO KNOW » Topics & trends 3 were able to do it? KW: “Their first I think it has very much to session with George do with their lives. They were is June 1962, and the working-class kids when they Bigger than last session with all started this project in Liver- four Beatles present pool, and may not have had themselves was August 1969.” many of the privileges—but they 4 knew how to work hard. These eatlemania will descend on campus in November Womack is teaching are guys who had everything in “The Evolving Art- courtesy of a four-day international symposium the world by the time they were istry of the Beatles” roughly 22 to 24 years old, and Bmarking the 50th anniversary of the band’s this semester. Among yet they still persisted. They still other things, stu- landmark LP The Beatles (aka The White Album). We wanted to take their music and dents explore how asked Monmouth’s own Kenneth Womack, a world- their ideas places. That’s excit- the band “begins ing to me, and it’s a great story renowned authority on the Beatles, why the Fab Four are with songs like ‘Love for our students4. Me Do’ … and ends still the band everyone aspires to top. That self-consciousness is why with the powerful the Beatles are no different from symphonic suite that INTERVIEW BY TONY MARCHETTI Picasso or Joyce. They aren’t is the Abbey Road just trying to, as Paul once said, medley. That’s a long How and when did you become So an obsession was born? “write a song and get a swim- road to go in such a a Beatles fan? I suppose, though you used the ming pool.” They’re thinking, It was 1977, and my favorite word fan before. I’ve never real- short period,” says “This is for all time.” There’s a morning television program1 was ly been a fan in the sense that I Womack.