THE POINTA Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Point Park University | FALL 2012 10 YEARS of Sport, Arts and Entertainment Management PIONEERS Go to the NAIA World Series Dear alumni and friends, It’s back-to-school season, and Point Park’s As we like to say, at Point Park students campus is filled with the energy that our are already engaged in the real world – a students bring with them as they return to more active, more professional education. our Downtown neighborhood. Our academic and social environment offers students many opportunities to explore If you’ve been here recently, you know that their academic and career ambitions with Point Park’s expanding campus is creating the ultimate aim of preparing them for 12 a growing academic, social and cultural engagement in life after college. hub for both our city neighbors and the TABLE OF CONTENTS University community. As you walk through Point Park families will get a close-up look the Academic Village you’ll see that, in at all that the University has to offer during 2 Feedback 24 Cultivating Young Writers addition to our beautiful Village Park and Family Weekend, Oct. 12 – 14. This is a great Point Park has a growing 2 News and Views new restaurant, Osteria 100, construction time for our students and their parents to community of students putting of the Wood Street Corridor project is finally spend together exploring the University and experiences into words using 14 12 Italian in the Village complete, with new trees, sidewalks, signage Downtown Pittsburgh. creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry Osteria 100 provides delicious and other genres and more. In the coming months, we’ll be new opportunity for student sharing more news about new campus And if you’d like to help spread the word servers, Downtown diners 26 South Africa Calling development projects, including new facilities about exciting new developments and Alumnus Glenn Veatch leads 14 Crafting a Winning Season in West Penn Hall and elsewhere. academic opportunities at Point Park, please engineering, operations and land tell a family member or friend about our Conservatory faculty, artists management for American Tower From photography and art exhibitions in upcoming Open House events for prospective collaborate to select productions Corporation in South Africa Lawrence Hall, to performances Downtown students and families: Oct. 20, Nov. 3 and Feb. 18 that serve audience interests and and at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, to cinema 2. Visit www.pointpark.edu/openhouse for student training 29 Class Notes and photographic art installations on Wood more information. 16 Dance Perspective 34 Pioneer Athletics Street, creativity plays a vital role in defining Garfield Lemonius brings insights Point Park baseball team returns the Point Park experience. The spirit of It is always our pleasure to extend a warm and technique into the studio to the NAIA World Series for the the individual is alive and thriving here. Our welcome to the neighborhood. in his work with young dancers 11th time faculty and students are immersed into Warm regards, the fabric of Pittsburgh. We’re proud to 18 SAEM Celebrates 10 Years provide a professionally rich atmosphere The Sport, Arts and Entertainment On the cover: TALK TO US! in which students benefit from academic Management program immerses The Point wants to hear from you. Send your THE Assistant professor A Magazine for Alumni and Friends of POINT | FALL opportunities through internships, faculty Point Park University 2012 and concert promoter business students in real-world comments and suggestions to: projects, and connections with alumni who Ed Traversari (grey shirt, education, hands-on experience Dr. Paul Hennigan foreground) provides Managing Editor are making valuable contributions in their President on-the-job education Marketing and Communications 10 YEARS 22 All Business Point Park University of Sport, Arts for Sport, Arts and respective fields. and Entertainment Management Entertainment Management Alumnus Ed Scott is the new 201 Wood Street PIONEERS Go to the NAIA World Series students at Stage AE on George Rowland White Endowed Pittsburgh, PA 15222 the North Shore. 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POINTpaRK.EDU 1 NEWS AND NEWS AND VIEWS VIEWS Paintings by Artist and Alumna Lynn Fero Professional Advancement Christopher Rolinson, associate professor of photojournalism and photog- in Upcoming Exhibition on Campus Lorelei Stein, Ph.D., professor of raphy, captures the stories and images of criminal justice and intelligence area veterans in his role on the multimedia Fero’s paintings will be the focus of a Inter/National Best of Show Award studies, has been appointed to the team for Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh, a new show in the Lawrence Hall Gallery, in 2003 and was named Box Heart’s Board of Trustees of Family Services nonprofit education organization preserving opening Oct. 19 through spring, 2013. Artist of the Year in 2004. of Western Pennsylvania. the experiences of local veterans from “Her paintings reflect an extraordinary all wars. The nonprofit partnered with sense of color,” says Point Park Trustee Fero has said her educational experi- Tatyana Dumova, Ph.D., associate Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Jack Tomayko, an avid art collector who ence was exceptional and she is thrilled professor in the School of Communication, Museum to film and archive veterans’ organized the exhibition. “She is a very to see how Point Park continues to served as a respondent at the Virtual stories using a variety of media platforms special alumna of Point Park.” prepare students for achieving their Conference of the International Commu- including video, photographs and blogs. Steve Hallock dreams. “Life is about the art. It’s that nication Association, part of the annual Raised in Pittsburgh, Fero is the daughter feeling you get when you create some- convention in Phoenix, Ariz. last May. Robert Skertich, Ph.D., assistant of an artist. She earned her degree thing and someone else looks at what Her role included providing commentary professor and program director of public through President Barack Obama’s drone Lynn Fero (COPA 1981, HON ’07) in theatre arts and went on to spend you’ve expressed – there are no words on research papers and engaging in administration and the undergraduate warfare in Libya found that rather than has always had a creative streak. A 25 years as an executive with Viacom, to describe it,” according to the artist. asynchronous discussions with virtual organizational leadership programs, serving in its traditional role of government longtime executive in the entertainment Paramount Pictures and CBS. Tomayko “That is very satisfying and that’s when presenters and attendees. She also co-authored “A Bad Time for Disaster: watchdog, the press vigorously endorsed industry, including her current position met Fero in 2007 when she returned to you find real purpose.” published a conference report reviewing Economic Stress and Disaster Resilience” a thread of presidential foreign policy as senior vice president of business Point Park as commencement speaker. the state of virtual conference technology. which was published in the scholarly doctrines and ensuing military endeavors affairs administration and product rights He commissioned her to create several The Lawrence Hall Gallery is on the Dumova joined two graduate students journal, Administration & Society. abroad,” according to Hallock. Peter Lang management at CBS Television new works, including a painting in which corner of the Blvd. of the Allies and for presentation of their research papers Publishing released The Press March to Distribution, she is also a nationally she created a series of trees symbolic Wood St. across from the Village Park.