KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Winter 2015 A GOLDEN BEAR GR EAT Andre Reed ’05 is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame page 8 GRADUATE STUDIES AT KU HOMECOMING 2014 REMEMBERING RANDY SCHAEFFER TOWER IS GOING GREEN THE SUMMER 2015 EDITION OF THE TOWER WILL BE ONLINE ONLY! This effort will save more than a half million sheets of paper this year. Watch the website, look for a notice in the Maroon and Gold Monthly, or send us your name and email address and we’ll let you know when the new edition is published. Email us at [email protected]. www.kutztown.edu/tower CONTENTS Winter 2015 FEATURES A GOLDEN BEAR GREAT 8 After his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Andre Reed ’05 comes home to KU. GRADUATE STUDIES AT KU 10 Graduate students can choose to pursue a KU master’s degree in 28 different programs. WELCOME HOME! 26 Sights from Homecoming 2014. 10 26 DEPARTMENTS 4 NEWS AND NOTES 14 BACK TO CLASS WITH ... Dr. Jack Treadway 16 KU FOUNDATION UPDATE 8 18 CLASSNOTES 20 John Gabriel ’78 ON THE COVER 23 Martha (Gartner) Hafer ’02 25 Remembering Randy Schaeffer ’72 ANDRE REED ’05 AT A RECEPTION IN HIS HONOR AT KU IN OCTOBER. PHOTO BY DAN Z. JOHNSON 14 KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE ACTING PRESIDENT OF KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY MARKETING: Tower magazine, issued January 2015, is published by Kutztown University, a member of the Dr. Carlos Vargas-Aburto Jennifer Umberger Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The Tower is published twice a year, one issue printed and a second online. It is free to KU alumni and friends of the university. ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY MARKETING/ COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING & DESIGN & PRINT MEDIA: A photograph on page 5 of the Winter 2014 edition of the Tower incorrectly identified individuals EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Camille DeMarco ’81, M ’01 as members of the KU Military Club. The individuals were actually members of the Wilson High John Green School JROTC. We apologize for the error. DESIGN: DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND Gipson Studio, LLC — Linda Gipson Address correspondence to: Kutztown University, Office of University Relations, ALUMNI RELATIONS: P.O. Box 730, Kutztown, PA 19530 or email [email protected]. Alex Ogeka CONTRIBUTORS: Telephone: 610-683-4114 www.kutztown.edu/tower DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS: Esther Shanahan M ’16, University Relations Editorial Matt Santos M ’03 Graduate Assistant; Félix Alfonso Peña Submissions for Classnotes may be sent to: [email protected]. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF UNIVERSITY PHOTOGRAPHERS: Susan Angstadt, Douglas RELATIONS/TOWER EDITOR: Benedict, Jason Cline ’14, William Espinola ’15, Dan Z. David Johnson Johnson, David Johnson, John Secoges, Jeff Uleau NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT Kutztown University does not discriminate in employment or educational opportunities on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran status. NEWS AND NOTES VISITING AUTHOR “Orange Is the New Black” Author Visits KU Six New Golden iper Kerman, best-selling author, memoirist and prison reform activ- Bears Enter ist, entered Schaeffer Auditorium on Thursday, Oct. 23, to thunderous Athletics Papplause. The audience — KU students, faculty and community members — had begun lining up outside at 5:30 p.m., in anticipation of Hall of Fame her 7 p.m. presentation. They weren’t disappointed. “I was enthralled listening to Piper Kerman speak about her experiences,” said TARA ELLIOT M ’15, a KU master’s degree candidate in mental health counseling. “And her ability to transform such an unpleasant experience into an opportunity to create positive change for other incarcerated women was impressive. Her story is a testament to the human condition and the ability to persevere.” Kerman spoke not only about the folly of her youth, in believing herself invincible and able to transport drug money across international lines without ADAMS consequences, but also of her own redemption, and realization that prison GRENEVICH ’04 BEN ’09 was nothing like what she expected. Before entering Danbury Federal Correctional Institution to serve her 15-month sentence, Kerman anticipated encountering uncontrollable violence and unruly prisoners. Instead, she discovered that her predictions were extremely inaccurate. “I spent 13 months in Danbury,” she recalled. “The women I met there befriended me and helped me. They helped me navigate my sentence, taught me how prison worked, supported me emotionally and shared their survival with me. I am eternally grateful to them.” DENLINGER EDWARDS- She also learned that most female offenders are moms; two-thirds are RUMMEL ’09 MAYES ’98 confined for nonviolent offenses; and both race and class have a lot to do with who ends up prosecuted and incarcerated. After her release in 2005, Kerman knew it would be easy to forget about the past and move on with her life. But she was determined to remember, and wrote “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” to raise awareness about how women KEMMERER ’09 LANDIS ’03 end up behind bars and what really happens behind prison walls. The Kutztown University athletic depart- ment inducted six new members into its Hall of Fame on Nov. 1. The 36th annual class includes: Niya Adams Grenevich ’04, women’s track & field/cross country; David Ben ’09, men’s basket- ball; Stephanie Denlinger Rummel ’09, softball; Margaret Edwards-Mayes ’98, women’s tennis; Joseph Kemmerer ’09, wrestling; and Shaun R. Landis ’03, men’s track & field. The six new inductees increase the membership to 187 since the Hall of Fame was formed in 1977. 4 TOWER | Winter 2015 KU Accepts Collection of Rare Pictures and conducting a 300- Percussion Instruments piece marimba orchestra at the 1950 Chicago Fair. In 1935 Musser organized 100 performers into the International Marimba Symphony Orchestra (IMSO) tour and in 1942 he founded the marimba studies pro- gram at Northwestern University, the first program of its kind. At 74, he was elected into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame. Musser died in 1998 at 97, in San Fernando Valley, Calif. Upon the settlement of his estate, all of his instruments and memorabilia were acquired by Kimble, who had organized a marimba festival in honor of Musser just months before his death. In 1979, Dr. Willis Rapp, retired The KU Percussion Ensemble performs a concert in honor of the late Clair Omar Musser. professor and former chair of the KU Department of Music, then a Kutztown University is now home to The KU Percussion Ensemble held professor at Millersville University, the largest collection of rare xylophones, a concert celebrating the collection and brought Musser to Lancaster to marimbas and vibraphones in the the music of Musser’s 1935 International re-create the music of the IMSO nation. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Dana Marimba Symphony Orchestra after tour. Beginning in 2009, Rapp spent Kimble, retired percussion instructor at the installation. four years creating full-score critical West Point Military Academy, chose Born in Lancaster, Pa., Musser was editions of all of the music per- KU to be the permanent home for his a marimba virtuoso, designer and edu- formed during the 1935 IMSO collection of rare instruments owned by cator. He appeared internationally in tour to preserve the legacy of the the late Clair Omar Musser, a world- more than 400 concerts, performing music. Rapp established the KU renowned percussionist. at the White House, for Paramount Percussion Ensemble in 1986. KU Offers Online Autism Endorsement Program for Educators Beginning in winter 2015, Kutztown University’s Department of Special Education will offer an online, 12-credit autism endorsement program for currently certified teachers or seniors who are enrolled in a program leading to instructional certification. The endorsement will provide current teachers and teachers-in-training with an in-depth background on working with students with autism. “Autism is the fastest growing disability,” explained Dr. Debra Lynch, chair of KU’s Department of Special Education. “One in 68 children will be diagnosed with autism. So persons who are already teaching have students in their classes with autism – or they are going to.” Requirements for the endorsement can be completed in three short semesters, over the winter, spring and summer sessions. Furthermore, the online-only format makes the endorse- ment accessible for both KU students (seniors) and current educators. All of the faculty in the special education department are certified to teach online, and all have experience with, and knowledge of, autism spectrum disorder. Winter 2015 | TOWER 5 NEWS AND NOTES VISITING AUTHOR Margot Livesey Captivates KU On Thursday, Oct. 16, acclaimed author Margot Livesey captivated a Kutztown University audience with a reading from the first chapter of her latest novel, “The Flight of Gemma Hardy.” The book, set in Scotland and Iceland in the early 1960s, is a reimagining of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre.” Livesey also held a master class, sponsored by the Department of English, which was open to students of any major. “After reading Margot’s stories, it’s difficult not to have a better understanding of ourselves,” said Jeffrey Voccola, assistant professor of English at KU. “We realize that … the problems we face in our own lives, the decisions we struggle to make for the good of ourselves and others, have been grappled with by people many times over, which, in the end, makes us feel a little less alone. These are the qualities only a gifted fiction writer can deliver.” As a young girl, Livesey was fascinated with Jane Eyre and the parallels of their lives – she too attended boarding school as a child and felt alienated from her more affluent peers. After deliberating for a while (she didn’t want to write ‘in the shadow of a masterpiece’), she decided it was time to give voice and life to Gemma – her own vision of Bronte’s indomitable heroine.