OSWEGOOSWEGOALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO ■ VOL. 28, NO. 1 ■ SPRING/SUMMER 2002 Olympic Gold and Green Oswego Alumni and the Winter Games Plus In Memoriam 9/11 Campus Center Concepts Library Café Brewing JUST A FEW OF THE 50Ways to Love Oswego #9 Start or volunteer with an alumni club in your area #14 Visit Tyler Art Gallery or attend a sporting event #17 Sponsor an intern #23 Name Oswego in your will #26 Attend Reunion July 19, 20 and 21 #28 Send a virtual card to an Oswego friend at www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu #32 Donate at a gift club level at www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/development #46 Encourage a high school student to visit Oswego To learn more about these ways to love Oswego, along with the other 40, contact the Alumni and University Development Office at #47 Host an alumni event in your home King Alumni Hall, 300 Washington Blvd., Oswego, NY 13126; or call 315-312-2258 or 315-312-3003; e-mail [email protected] or visit #49 Share your expertise through ASK our Web site at www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu (Alumni Sharing Knowledge) SPRING ● SUMMER 2002 Alumni Association of the State University of New York at Oswego OSWEGOOSWEGO Vol. 28, No. 1 14 Campus Currents 3 A new Campus Center, a library café and other happenings Olympic Gold . and Green 14 Oswego alumni share in the Olympic dream In Memoriam 9/11 22 Celebrating the lives of alumni lost on Sept. 11 GOLD 6 Graduate of the Last Decade 38 How one alumnus went from ‘TOP to the top of entertainment news PLUS Club News 12 Class Notes 29 Alumni Bookshelf 36 Weddings 44 Back Cover ON THE COVER 38 Derrick Salisbury ’90 with the Olympic flame at Medals Plaza FROM THE Oswego Alumni Magazine President’s Desks Elizabeth Locke Oberst Shannon Perry ’02 eptember 11 continues to have a pro- Our hearts go Publisher Editorial Assistant Michele Reed Weddings found impact on our campus. While out to the families Editor Class Notes our last issue of the Oswego alumni touched by loss in Jim Russell ’84 Julie Harrison Blissert S Lyle Fulton magazine featured the heroes and survivors of the disaster. We Staff Photographer Linda Morley that terrible day, this issue focuses in part on have extended an Kiefer Creative Loomis ’90, M ’97 the 11 alumni we lost in that tragedy. They invitation to them Graphic Design Tim Nekritz Sharon Fulmer Patricia Rycraft were among the best and brightest — intelli- to come back to the Production Specialist O’Toole ’79 gent, active people, making a real difference in alma mater of their Lisa Potter Contributing Writers the world and their careers. They were also de- loved ones, to take Deborah F. Stanley Memorials voted family members and cherished mem- part in our special President bers of our alumni family. tribute and to take The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. Board of Directors The campus plans a special tribute to some comfort in our continuing concern Lori Golden Kiewe ’84 James DiBlasi ’87 those affected by September 11, all of the he- and commitment. If you can make it back to President Sylvia Muncey Gaines ’76 roes, the victims and the survivors of the at- campus that evening, please do and lift your Mark Tryniski ’85 *Lester Gosier ’37 tack on America. Our May 17 Torchlight Cer- candle in solidarity and hope. If not, think of First Vice President Elizabeth Gura ’84 *Tracy Chamberlain emony, the evening before commencement, your alma mater, your fellow alumni and the Jennifer Shropshire ’86 Higginbotham ’86 will pay tribute to all Oswego alumni touched new graduates we are sending out into a Second Vice President Lyndsay Jenks *Dr. David Hanchett ’92 by the attacks. Our Masters of Ceremonies will world, changed forever, but full of dreams Cristantello ’74 James Holland ’83 be New York City firefighter Robert Bacon ’95 and the promise of so many great things. Past President David Kidd ’49 and NYPD officer Brendan Chamberlain ’91, Elizabeth Oberst *Edith Maloney Executive Director Knight ’50 representing all the police officers, firefighters, Patrick Magin ’91 Francis Acevedo ’87 *Carol McLaughlin ’45 rescue workers and volunteers, of whom we Debbie Adams-Kaden ’78 Davis Parker ’47 William Bacon ’59 are so proud. Robert was trapped for hours in *Joseph Savage ’77 Elizabeth Nichols Constance Schwartz ’90 the rubble of the Twin Towers and Brendan Bates ’68 *Herbert Siegel ’40 Marilyn Mason Bell ’75 came back day after day to help with the recov- Olive Brannan Spargo ’31 ery efforts. We are proud of them and their Connie Holmes Bond ’51 Norman Brust ’49 Molly Casey St. John ’99 many colleagues. *Maurice Bullard ’80 *Barry Thompson ’77 Jon Vermilye ’66 Sherman Cowan * ’91, M ’94 At large John Daken ’66 FROM State University of New York at Oswego Deborah F. Stanley Dr. Joseph Grant the Editor’s Pen President Vice President for Dr. John Presley Student Affairs Provost and Enrollment Management e’re working on Oswego weeks be- On a sadder note, the Oswego family lost Nicholas Lyons Vice President for Kevin Mahaney fore it lands in your mailbox. So 11 cherished members on Sept. 11. But we cel- Administration and Vice President for it’s the day after the first day of ebrate their lives and the spirit they shared Finance Development and Public W Affairs spring as I’m writing this column and it’s a with all of us in a series of articles by Patty typical Oswego early spring day. A patch of Rycraft O’Toole ’79. Office of Alumni and Parent Relations sun at noon and five inches of fluffy snow on And like those crocuses popping up, our King Alumni Hall the steps of King Hall by midnight. campus is renewing itself like never before. SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126 Phone: 315-312-2258 Fax: 315-312-5570 But never fear — Rudy’s opened a week Read about plans for the first new building in E-mail: [email protected] ago, the students are heading for Cancun as I 35 years, an exciting place to gather in the li- Web site: www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu pen this and the crocuses on the hill below brary and new trees to surround the statue of Swetman are poking their heads out of the our founder at Sheldon Hall. ground (or they were before the Lake Effect Oswego may be noted for its winters, but buried them today). If these images don’t when spring does come, we know how to rel- make you think of hope and dreams and life, ish it. Speaking of relish, I think it’s time for a just flip through the pages of this issue of Texas hot! Oswego. There’s nothing like the Olympics for re- minding us that dreams can come true. Relive Oswego is published three times a year by The Michele A. Reed Oswego Alumni Association, Inc., King Alumni Hall, the memories with a half dozen alumni who State University of New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY followed their dreams to Salt Lake City. Oswego editor 13126. Printed April 2002. OSWEGO ● Spring/Summer 2002 2 C AMPUS CURRENTS ‘Main Street’ to run through heart of campus three-level multi-use space A that includes an academic commons, convocation spaces and an ice hockey rink is in the concepts for Oswego’s new Campus Center and a renovated Swetman-Poucher complex. Sweeping views of Lake Ontario behind walls of glass, a cov- ered walkway to connect the aca- demic heart of campus with the stu- dent center and a unique approach to clustering academic spaces and social areas will all be part of Os- wego’s first new building in 35 years. The new design project is planned in a move to bring Os- wego’s facilities in step with the col- lege’s goal of a “learner-centered environment,” according to Jerry DeSantis, associate vice president for facilities management. “It really is a physical representation of a learner-centered environment,” he The Academic Commons is part of the conceptual plans for a renovated Swetman-Poucher complex. said. “It is the integration of com- munity events, academics and resi- dence life.” The $22-million Campus Center is being said. “Getting off ‘Main Street,’ we will find wall of glass.“There will be a lot of glass,”said built with a $17-million matching grant from faculty offices — a more ‘residential area.’” DeSantis. “It will be very visible at night.” the New York State Legislature. Oswego will Walking into Swetman Hall by the main The upper level of the Campus Center have to raise about $5 million to complete the doors, instead of seeing a staircase leading up will house lounge space, a ticket booth, retail project. Renovations to Swetman-Poucher, or down as now, visitors will see two levels, space and meeting rooms. including relocating departments to other with the Academic Commons taking up the The lower level will include a food court, buildings, will amount to another $17 million. upper level: current concepts call for a lounge a catering services area, locker rooms and area, surrounded by academic departments. support rooms to serve the ice arena. Flow is important The lower level, also visible and accessible DeSantis stressed the multi-use nature of Putting the Campus Center and Swet- from the main door, will be the Educational the space.“There will be lots of different-sized man-Poucher projects together was impor- Planning Center, housing such offices as Ca- venues, and each can be set up in different tant, according to DeSantis.