Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University Bridgewater Magazine Campus Journals and Publications 1998 Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 8, Number 2, Winter 1998 Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College (1998). Bridgewater Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2. Retrieved from http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_mag/46 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The Bridgewater State College Foundation Presents BRIDGEWA TER FE A L New York City Opera performs The Daughter ofthe Regiment, Friday, April 3, 1998, 8PM Marie, the spirited darling of Napoleon's 21st Regiment, discovers love and her true identity in Gaetano Donizetti's melodious comic opera, The Daughter of the Regiment, performed by the New York City Opera National Company. Now in its 18th year, the Company is considered the premier touring opera company in the country. The Company travels in an old-fashioned "bus and truck" style, bringing vivid stagings of classic operas to both small rural communities and bustling urban centers. The Daughter of the Regiment will be sung in French with English supertitles. Orchestra Seats $37, Balcony Seats $30 Performance to be held at the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium For more information and to make reservations call 508-697-1290 or write Bridgewater State College Foundation P.O. Box 42, Bridgewater, MA 02324-0042 Alumni Gatherings and Travel Programs Washington, D.C. Alumni in the D.C. area are invited to attend an evening reception at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, March 24, 1998. Hosted by Congressman John Tierney, the reception is jointly sponsored by Bridgewater, Fitchburg, Salem, Westfield, and Worcester state colleges. Our college presidents and the Massachusetts senators and congressmen have been invited to take part in the evening. As part of the event, the alumni association is sponsoring a tour of Washington from March 22-25. Motorcoaches will leave the state college campuses on Sunday, and guests will stay at the deluxe Channel Inn, located on the Potomac River, through the morning of the 25th. Among the sites on the four-day tour are the White House, the Vietnam Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, and the Smithsonian Institute. For information and pricing, please contact the Alumni Office at (508) 697-1287. Berkshires Join us from April 24-26, 1998, as we travel to western Massachusetts for a spring weekend in the Berk­ shires. The trip departs from the Bridgewater State College campus and includes a tour of Tanglewood, the Norman Rockwell Museum and the town of Stockbridge, the Clark Art Institute, the town of Lenox, and the Yankee Candle Company. Our group will stay at the Jiminy Peak Resort in Hancock. Alumni living in the area will receive an invitation to join us for Sunday brunch at the Dakota restaurant on the Pittsfield/Lenox line. For information, please contact the Alumni Office at (508) 697-1287. •• Class Notes We welcome updates from alumni for Bridgewater magazine. Please fill out this form and return as soon as possible. Our readers are eager to know about your activities, career news, family news, and other significant activi­ ties. Thanks for letting us publish your news. Name: _ Class Year: _ Mailing Address: (if this is a change of address, please check this box D) 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 Fold here Place Stamp Here Editor Bridgewater Magazine PO Box 13 Bridgewater MA 02324 Fold here Table of Contents A Publication for Alumni, Parents, an~ Friends ofBridgewater State College On the cover: Juliette Johnson, Table of Contents Headmaster of Brighton High School, stands at the front door of the school. A graduate of Brighton High School herself and a member Medallion recipients for of the class of 1964 at Bridgewater 25 years ofservice to the State College, Ms. Johnson - in an college are (left to right); Judith Deckers, interview that begins on page 3 ­ Ian Johnson, talks about the challenges and Thomas Curley, satisfactions of working in the Robert Simmons, Boston Public School system. and Stephen Smalley. See story page 12. Bridgewater Magazine staff: Editor: David Wilson, '71 President's Message .... 2 Editorial Board: Dr. Richard Cost, Alumni Profiles vice president for institutional juliette johnson, '64 3-6 advancement; Eva Gaffney, director Rqy Braz, '69................ .. 7 of public affairs; Marie Murphy, '86, jett Corwin, '92 8 assistant director of public affairs; Adam Wolkon, '94 9-10 and Mary Tieman, director of Dan Talbot, '96 11 alumni relations. jennifer Carlino, '94..................................................... 11 Contributors: Michelle Poirier, College News director of major and planned gifts; Medallion ReCipients for 25 Years of Service........ 12 Karen Cooper, director of annual Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees................ 13 giving Racing the Latitudes to Change Attitudes........................ 14 Dr. Madhu Roo Spends Sabbatical in West Africa....................... 15 Photography: D. Confar, Marie BSC Ground Crew Creates a Good First Impression....................... 16 Dennehy, Kindra Clineff, David Dr. Reed Stewart Receives Award for Lifetime Achievement in Geography 17 Wilson Ms. Eva Gaffney Appointed Director of Public Affairs 17 Correspondence: address all mail to Hall of Black Achievement................................. 18 Editor Biography of Mary Hudson Onley.......................... 18 Bridgewater Magazine Student Profile: Heidi Goldrick . 19-20 p.o. Box 42 Bridgewater, MA 02324 DevB~(Ph~~~h;s. 21-22 508-697-1287 Five Reasons to Advance a Bequest.............................. 22 e-mail to: Alumni Update [email protected] Items, Dates, Programs and Events... .. 23-24 Bridgewater is published three Class Notes .. .............. ..25-30 times per year for the information Nota Bene and reading pleasure of Bridgewater Marriages. 31 State College alumni, faculty, Births . 31 students, staff, parents and other Deaths 32 friends of the college. President's Message Dear Alumni and Friends, The rising cost of a college education is a topic that is According to the census, between April, 1990, and frequently covered in the media and is on the minds of July, 1996, communities in Plymouth County - home to families all across the nation, as it for those of us who Bridgewater State College - saw population increase 4.9 work in higher education. percent. In adjacent Barnstable County, the population I was extremely pleased, grew by 8.2. All of this occurred at therefore, when Bridgewater's a time when the Commonwealth's Board of Trustees, at its September population as a whole increased meeting, accepted my recommen­ by only 1.3 percent. dation that we reduce student fees The future holds even more this year by 3.4 percent, so that we growth. While the SOO-square could bring Bridgewater's costs in mile area from Cape Cod to the line with a "fair share" formula northern suburbs of Boston and developed by the state's Board of from the coast to the Taunton Higher Education and the Legisla­ River grew by 17 percent over the ture, based on the premise that past twenty years, planners students at public four-year expect the population to expand colleges should pay 33 percent of by another 23 percent in the next the total cost of their education. twenty years. This is the first time the college The clear message for has ever reduced student fees. But Bridgewater State College in all of • there is more: this reduction in these figures is that its role as a student fees is combined with a 5.1 provider of high quality learning percent reduction in undergradu­ experiences at an affordable cost ate tuition this year authorized by will be more crucial in the years to the Board of Higher Education. come even than it is today. Consequently, the typical Bridgewater student is paying Bridgewater, located at the heart of southeastern approximately $128 less this academic year for his or her Massachusetts, is already geographically accessible via education than was paid last year, making the average major highways and, since September, daily commuter annual cost of tuition and fees for Massachusetts residents rail service. Simultaneously, we are working hard to at Bridgewater approximately $3,700. keep the college financially accessible as well. This is important news for our students, their families, At the same time, our faculty and staff continue to and for the region which Bridgewater serves, because the work very hard to maintain the quality of our academic more financially accessible Bridgewater is, the more likely programs, to acquire the technology resources we need it is that qualified students will have the resources to come to support teaching and learning, and to build the here. physical plant necessary to accommodate our growing There is yet another set of data that makes this devel­ educational community. We are making significant opment newsworthy. Figures released by the U.S. Census progress toward all of these objectives. I know you are as in the fall of 1997, and analyzed by a team from Harvard pleased to hear about these developments as I am to tell University, confirm what many of us had already ob­ you about them. served: we in this area of Massachusetts "live in the fastest-growing region in the northeast United States." Sincerely, A~--;:J~ Adrian Tinsleyd President Alumni Profile " "Sometimes I Feel Like the Mother of a Thousand Children" an interview with Juliette Johnson, class of 1964 by David Wilson, '71 Juliette Johnson is a 1964 graduate of mentors in your life?" she doesn't those children are more responsible Bridgewater State College who earned a hesitate in her answers.