F ALL 2005 CRANTO S JOURNAL N The Frank J. O’Hara Award A Look Back at Outstanding Examples of Service and Achievement CLASSES CELEBRATING MILESTONE REUNIONS: 1956 • 1961 • 1966 • 1971 • 1976 • 1981 • 1986 • 1991 • 1996 • 2001 Family Picnic Visit Children’s Activities www.scranton.edu/reunion Get more information Walk/Run S Volunteer for your Class Committee S Golf Outing Find lost alumni S Campus Tours View the schedule of events Faculty Guests O’Hara Awards Ceremony You may also contact the Alumni Office at (570) 941-7660 Grand Reunion or 1-800-SCRANTON, on the Commons or e-mail Class Dinners [email protected] REUNION 2006 • JUNE 16 -18, 2006 CRANTO S JOURNAL N INSIDE FALL 2005 • VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 4 13 EDITOR On the Commons Institutional Advancement Valarie J. Wolff Christopher M. “Kip” Condron ’70, DESIGNER President and CEO, AXA Financial, Francene M. Dudziec Inc., and Chair of the President’s CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Business Council, addressed an Sandra Skies Ludwig audience of 550 people at an Award Kevin Southard Robert P. Zelno ’66, G’77 Dinner in Manhattan. Stan M. Zygmunt, ’84, G’95 CLASS NOTES EDITOR Rev. Neil P. McLaughlin, S.J. PHOTOGRAPHY Terry Connors Don Hamerman Bill Johnson Rob Lettieri Michael Touey Paul Treacy The University welcomed 933 Terry Wild freshmen during Fall Welcome Weekend, ALUMNI RELATIONS VOLUNTEER Aug 27 – 28. Sidney Lebowitz PRESIDENT Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J. INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT & EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT Patrick F. Leahy 16 ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FOR ALUMNI AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Gerald C. Zaboski ’87, G’95 29 Athletics The Scranton Journal is published by The University of Scranton for its alumni and friends. The editorial offices are Winter Team in the Public Relations Office, O’Hara Hall, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510-4615. The telephone Sports Outlook number is (570) 941-7669. Web site www.scranton.edu/pr The address for The University of Scranton Alumni Society is Alumni Office, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510-4624. The telephone numbers are (570) 941-7660 and 1-800-SCRANTON. E-mail address: [email protected] Web site: www.scranton.edu/alumni If this issue is addressed to a graduate who no longer The Frank J. O’Hara Award maintains a residence at your home, please tear off the 31 mailing label and mail it, with the corrected address, to Award recipients discuss their the Alumni Office. The Alumni professional and personal endeavors The University of Scranton is a Catholic, Jesuit educa- Alumni News, Class Notes, Births, tional institution serving men and women, and it is com- mitted to affirmative action to assure equal opportunity Marriages and Death Notices for all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, handicaps, sex or age. © 2005 The University of Scranton On the CommonsOn the Commons During the Assembly, freshmen The incoming undergraduate class was University News participated in a candle-lighting ceremony drawn from more than 6,315 applicants, symbolic of Saint Ignatius’ centuries-old which is the largest applicant pool in the Class of 2009 Accepts directive to students that they “go forth University’s history and a 3.1 percent “The Scranton Challenge” and set the world on fire.” increase over last year’s record of 6,126 Fall Welcome Weekend featured the applicants. Scranton has seen its The University welcomed the Class traditional move-in of freshmen assisted undergraduate applicant pool increase by of 2009 during Fall Welcome Weekend, by approximately 500 upperclassmen, more than 70 percent since 2000. Aug. 27-28. A highlight of the weekend faculty and staff volunteers. Other events Scranton has also seen its graduate was a New Student Assembly held for the included a Mass, a lunch and dinner for school numbers increase steadily through 933 full-time freshmen and their families. students and their families, residence hall new degree offerings such as the doctorate In his remarks, University President Rev. and commuter student meetings, and in physical therapy. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J., thanked the students “Royal Olympics” on Sunday afternoon. The freshman class includes 61 children for “accepting the Scranton challenge.” In addition to the freshmen, the of University of Scranton alumni. “Scranton will challenge your certitudes, University welcomed 67 transfer students question your categories and never allow to the undergraduate day colleges, 84 adult you to settle for the quick fix or the facile students and 216 new graduate school answer,” said Fr. Pilarz. students. Incoming freshmen listened to remarks during a New Student Assembly held dur- ing Fall Welcome Weekend, Aug 27-28. 4 THE SCRANTON JOURNAL National Recognition Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Writer of Legal Thrillers Continues for Scranton Endowment Marks Receives Distinguished th U.S. News & World Report has ranked 10 Anniversary Author Award Scranton among the top 10 universities in Scranton celebrated the 10th Best-selling the north, among the “Great Schools at a anniversary of the Edward R. Leahy, Jr. legal thriller writer Great Price” and among the schools with Endowment during a reception held on James Grippando the best graduation rates in the campus on Sept. 28. received the 2005 publication’s 2006 edition of “America’s The Edward R. Leahy, Jr. Endowment Royden B. Davis, Best Colleges.” was created in 1995 with a gift from Edward S.J., Distinguished This marks the 12th consecutive year R. Leahy ’68 and Patricia Leahy to honor Author Award at that the University has ranked in the top the life and memory of their son, Edward, a dinner sponsored 10 in the Universities-Master’s in the whose personal disabilities were attended to by the Friends of north category. Scranton ranked eighth in with compassion and skill by many health the Weinberg the 2006 edition. professionals over the course of his life. This Memorial Library For the second year in a row, Scranton founding vision for the Endowment has on Sept. 17. Earlier also ranked 12th among Universities- grown to include a broad-based platform in the day, Mr. James Grippando Master’s in the north in the listing of for service learning within the University, Grippando held “Great Schools at a Great Price,” which and an emerging resource for persons with a book signing in the University bookstore. relates academic quality to the cost of disabilities and the underserved population The author of nine best-selling novels, attendance. Also for the second of northeastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Grippando’s novels have appeared on consecutive year, Scranton was listed as bestseller lists in USA Today and Knight- one of five schools in the north with the Edward R. and Patricia Leahy were joined by Ridder newspapers, as well as the New York best graduation rate. Leahy Fellows during a reception marking Times extended list. For the fourth consecutive year, the the 10th anniversary of the Edward R. Leahy, The Distinguished Author Award Princeton Review has named Scranton Jr. Endowment. From left: Ronald Deitrick, Series helps the Friends of the Weinberg one of the nation’s best institutions for Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director, Library Endowment Fund, which undergraduate education. Scranton has Exercise Science; Oliver Morgan, Ph.D., Pro- supports special gifts for the Weinberg been included among the elite colleges fessor and Chair, Counseling and Human Library’s collections and services. The listed in the Princeton Review’s “The 361 Services; Edward R. Leahy ’68, Patricia award is named for the late Royden B. Best Colleges” released in August. Only Leahy, Gary Mattingly, Ph.D., Professor, Davis, S.J., who served as the first about 15% of the four-year colleges in Physical Therapy; and Thomas Collins, Ph.D., president of the Friends of the Harry & America are in the 2006 edition of the Jeanette Weinberg Memorial Library. guide book published by Random House/ Professor, Counseling and Human Services. Princeton Review. Absent from photo is Margarete Lieb The Kania School of Management has Zalon, Ph.D., Professor of Nursing. for the first time been included among the elite colleges listed in the Princeton Review’s “Best 237 Business Schools.” Scranton is the only school in northeast Pennsylvania to be included among the 19 Pennsylvania universities profiled in the 2006 edition of the guide book, published by Random House/ Princeton Review. FALL 2005 5 On the Commons Scranton Support for Hurricane Katrina Nine Receive Presidential Scholarships Nine freshmen have been awarded full- tuition Presidential Scholarships named in honor of individuals who have made signif- icant contributions to the University and the community. Presidential scholarships are awarded to incoming freshmen with exemplary high school records both inside and outside the classroom. The scholarships cover the full cost of tuition for four years of study as long as the recipient maintains at least a 3.25 grade point average. The 2005 Presidential Scholars and honorees are: Alexandra Biga, The Hon. Paul Kanjorski Scholarship; Carmella Cala- brese, The Mrs. William Scranton Scholar- ship; Alex Deck, The Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sweeney Scholarship; Christine Giangiulio, The Mr. and Mrs. Michael Fairbanks Scholarship; Allison Greco, The Dr. and Mrs. R. Barrett Noone Scholarship; Nata- lie Kottke, The James Haggerty, Esq., Scholarship; Melissa Linskey, The Mr. Andrew Wallace Scholarship; Margaret Mathewson, The Dr. and Mrs. Collection tables were set up on campus for two days as one of several University initia- Charles Bannon Scholarship; and Daniel tives to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Marx, The Mr. Ralph Lomma Scholarship. University President Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, When the scope of the disaster afflict- During a liturgy for the victims of S.J. congratulated the 2005 Presidential ing Mississippi and Louisiana began to Hurricane Katrina, the University community Scholars.