Fall/Winter 2014 The Magazine of Arcadia University CHAMPION FOR A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE ALSO: RACING TO SAVE THE SNAPPING TURTLE • EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESSFALL/WINTER TRAINING 2014 | 54 ON THE INSIDE Arcadia’s Emergency Preparedness Drills 8 Emergency Response Team at Arcadia works with local and federal law agencies to prepare for critical incidents. ON THE COVER Mary Alice Conrad shows off her range of motion for Dr. Kate Mangione. Photo by Jordan Cameron ’17 SPRING/SUMMERFALL/WINTER 2014 Read the student blog because.arcadia.edu Photo courtesy of Charles Wright Watch the videos vimeo.com/arcadiauniversity Share your stories [email protected] View additional photos flickr.com/arcadiaunivnews Racing to Save the Snapping Turtle Champion for a Good Quality of Life For years, Dr. Tobias Landberg has led efforts Dr. Kate Mangione works to improve 32 to change perceptions of the snapping turtle. 38 outcomes for those with broken hips. 2 From the President 24 2014 Commencement 4 News+Notes 29 2014 Reunion Recap 16 Athletics News 42 Class Notes 18 Alumni News 56 Faculty Contributor: Dr. Angela Kachuyevski For more information, Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis www.arcadia.edu/magazine FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE ARCADIA UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY President DeVille Christensen with Joanne Formica For centuries, colleges and universities have served as Managing Editor Isaacson ’59 and Daniel DiPrinzio Faye Senneca ’59 incubators of critical thought and discovery. The scientific ▼ Art Director and cultural advancements fostered by higher Dan Brumbach education have been catalysts for societal and Contributing Writers economic growth, and, in almost every case, Lini Kadaba Darryl Konicki faculty are at the heart of these developments. Jeff Spence Lea Sitton Stanley The research that Arcadia’s faculty conducts Patricia Szuhaj Courtney Wright today enriches, enhances, and encapsulates our Campus News Editor University’s liberal arts ethos. This issue of Arcadia Christopher Sarachilli ’14 magazine highlights just a sample of faculty Class Notes Editor research projects, including Dr. Tobias Landberg’s Nancy Woehrle groundbreaking work with National Geographic Student Contributors Raven Eckman ’16 and other conservation groups on the snapping Jasmine Henderson ’15 turtle, an often misunderstood creature with Jen Retter ’16 a perilous and uncertain future; and Dr. Kate EXECUTIVE BOARD President Mangione’s research and work with osteoarthritis Dr. Nicolette DeVille Christensen and hip fractures in the elderly, as she examines Vice President for the effects of longer-term physical therapy. University Advancement Mary McRae While our faculty’s scholarship and research is It is clear that Vice President for a large part of the Arcadia community, its impact stretches University Relations Matthew Golden, Ed.D. faculty at beyond our campus to the lives of local, national, and Arcadia have Chief Marketing and international community members and directly affects our Communications Officer and continue ecological systems. Importantly, Arcadia faculty members Laura Baldwin ’12MBA to make an enlist students in these vital research activities, providing Arcadia is published twice a year by the Office of University opportunities for Arcadia students to work alongside Advancement, in conjunction indelible mark with the Office of University faculty in the classroom, lab, clinic, or field. Through these Communications. 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Easton Road Glenside, PA 19038 215-572-2900 Looking forward. magazine.arcadia.edu Arcadia University strives to make environmentally conscious and socially responsible choices in printing to reduce the University’s carbon footprint. Nicolette DeVille Christensen, Ph.D. President 2 | ARCADIA MAGAZINE 14.P8017 Like the magazine redesign? Or not? Let us know your feedback. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR NEW MAGAZINE PROVIDES DEEPER CONNECTION I wanted to thank you for the excellent magazine, which I believe has been immeasurably strengthened since its recent overhaul. I enjoyed reading more stories about what today’s Arcadia students are doing on campus and abroad. I also liked learning about our students’ many accomplishments and the interesting professional lives of our graduates. All in all, the stories and photos made this issue of Arcadia a very interesting read and helped me feel a deeper connection to what is going on at Arcadia. Spring/Summer 2014 The Magazine of Arcadia University I have a suggestion to consider: adding an email address for contributors to the magazine. For example, I wanted to write to Prof. [Kalenda] Eaton regarding her CALL article on “The March on Washington 50 Years Later” for but had to search online to get her email address. Again, thanks to the entire University Communications STORIES team for their continued work to create a great magazine for Arcadia. Maddy Stein ’68 Also: Experiential Learning | The Art of the Matter SPRING/SUMMER 2014 | 54 Trustee Campus Traditions KUDOS TO UNIVERSITY’S PEACE CORPS PREP PROGRAM In the recent magazine, I read with interest about the Peace Corps Prep Program. I am a returned Peace Corps volunteer, met my husband—also a We want volunteer—in Peace Corps, and we are taking our children to meet friends in our host country this summer. I am so pleased to see the connection between to hear about Arcadia, global curiosity, and the problem-solving skills developed in Arcadia’s your favorite special liberal arts education being recognized. traditions at Stacey Downey ’88 Peace Corps, Poland, 1992-94 Beaver and Arcadia! CLEARING THE RECORD The previous issue of Arcadia magazine reported that Samer Abboud, Ph.D., We’re collecting assistant professor of history and international studies, had contributed pieces stories and photographs to share to Eurasia Review, Iranian.com, and PalestineChronicle.com. Dr. Abboud had on the new Arcadia not contributed pieces to these outlets; they had reposted work that he had alumni website. published elsewhere. Share yours at [email protected]. Send letters, feedback, or suggestions to Daniel DiPrinzio, director of communications and managing editor of Arcadia magazine, at [email protected]. SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE U.S.41 NEWS RANKING, PARTICIPANTS72 IN THE 677MEMBERS OF THE 950CORN DOGS SERVED AT UP 7 SPOTS FROM 2013 INAUGURAL GOLF OUTING CLASS OF 2018 THE PRESIDENT’S PICNIC FALL/WINTER 2014 | 3 NEWS+NOTES CAMPUS | WORTHY OF NOTE | GLOBAL | ATHLETICS | ALUMNI | TRUSTEE | Q&A The Knight leads first-year students Watch the video at through the Honor Guard during the vimeo.com/arcadiauniversity/picnic President’s Picnic after New Student Orientation on Aug. 26. CAMPUS NEWS Arcadia Observes Freedom Summer’s 50th Anniversary In the early 1960s, Beaver College received a On Sept. 20, Phyllis B. Taylor ’63 participated letter from segregationist community members in in a panel discussion in the Commons Great Room Eastern Shore, Md., calling for the expulsion of in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the civil two students. The students were Freedom Riders rights campaign that brought students from around who went to Eastern Shore to rail against the country to Mississippi to help African Americans racial segregation. Beaver refused to expel either register to vote. Panel and audience members at the student, and, decades later, one of those students event discussed the significance of Freedom Summer returned to campus to remember the Freedom and its place in the Civil Rights Movement as well as the Arcadia Honored Summer of 1964. connection between civil rights work then and now. for Watershed Efforts In May, the Tookany/ Tacony-Frankford Watershed (TTF) Partnership presented PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL Arcadia with its Educator Award ACKNOWLEDGES COLLABORATION for the University’s sustainability and At the Festival de Sueños stewardship efforts in improving the on June 12, Pan American TTF watershed Academy Charter and stormwater School, Philadelphia’s infrastructure. Arcadia has several student first international interns working with baccalaureate elementary the TTF, and the school, acknowledged its green roofs, porous pavement, rain gardens, multifaceted collaboration and underground with Arcadia University. retention and irrigation Arcadia’s collaboration systems are all part of the University’s with Pan American sustainability efforts. Academy began three Arcadia also helped years ago, when Adriana develop the Circuit, a trail system that Gonzalez-Lopez, Ed.D., connects the campus to director of the Building Cheltenham Township Behavioral and Educational and the Greater Philadelphia region. Support Teams program in The Commonwealth the School of Continuing of Pennsylvania Studies, received a grant and Montgomery