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Pondering  the  Past  and 
the  Future  of  Baseball 


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A  Note  from  the  Editor 


"An  issue  of  The  Valley  devoted  to  base- 
ball?" a  colleague  asked  somewhat 
incredulously  as  I  was  planning  the 
Spring/Summer  edition.  "Is  there  that 
much  to  say  about  baseball?" 

It  turned  out  there  was  a  lot  to  say 
about  baseball — indeed,  the  game  seems 
to  be  entwined  in  the  lives  of  a  number  of 
the  college's  faculty,  administrators, 
students  and  alumni. 

A  three-day  humanities  symposium  in 
April  on  "Baseball  as  a  Cultural  Icon" 
provided  powerful  material  for 
the  lead  article  by  Jim  Mcintosh 
The  event  was  planned  by  base 
ball  aficionados  Dr.  Jim  Scott 
(foreign  languages).  Dr. 
Howard     Applegate 
(history).  Dr.  Don 
Bryne  (American 
studies),  War- 
ren Thompson 
(philosophy), 
Dr.  John  Kearney 
(EngUsh),  Dr.  Gary 
Grieve-Carlson  (En 
glish).  Dr.  Paul  Heise 
(economics),  Dr.  Art  Ford 
(associate  dean  for  international 
studies)  and  Dr.  William  J.  McGill 
(dean  and  vice  president). 

The  symposium  brought  several  base- 
ball experts  to  campus  and  drew  an  audi- 
ence from  both  the  campus  and  the 
community.  Activities  included  a  keynote 
speaker.  Dr.  Bruce  Kuklick,  University 
of  Pennsylvania  American  studies  pro- 
fessor who  has  written  a  popular  baseball 
book;  a  panel  discussion  featuring  local 
and  national  baseball  experts;  a  pitching 


clinic  conducted  by  the  college's  baseball 
team;  and  a  field  trip  (including  free  pea- 
nuts and  Crackerjacks)  to  see  the  Harris- 
burg  Senators  play  the  Portland  Sea  Dogs. 
In  his  article,  "Shadow  Memories," 
McGill,  a  life-long  baseball  fan  and  pitcher 
for  his  college  team,  muses  about  the 
connection  between  baseball  and  Ufe.  A 
profile  on  McGill,  "Going  to  Bat  for  Spit- 
ball,"  by  Greg  Bowers,  discusses  his  new 
role  as  part-owner  and  poetry  editor  for 
Spitball  magazine,  the  country's  only 
baseball  literary  magazine. 

Recognition  of  the  distaff 
side  comes  in  "The  Girls  of 
Summer,"  Nancy  Fitzgerald's 
article  detailing  women's 
100-year  history  of 
playing  baseball  and 
the  aspirations 
of  modern 
women — in- 
cluding Michele 
Bottomley  ('94)— 
to  continue  doing  so. 
In  'The  Long  Good- 
bye," Ford  reports  on  his 
mixed  feelings  about  hanging 
up  his  mitt  after  44  years. 
Three  poems  by  English  Profes- 
sor Phil  Billings  reveal  the  lighter  side 
of  the  littlest  leaguers,  and  a  lovely  story 
by  Bowers,  "When  a  Diamond  Was 
a  Girl's  Best  Friend,"  tells  the  baseball- 
linked  tale  of  a  romance  that  lasted  over 
60  years. 

We  believe  that  even  non-baseball  fans 
will  find  much  to  enjoy  in  this  issue,  and 
we  thank  all  those  who  have  made  it 
possible. 

— Judy  Pehrson 


Vol.  12,  Number  1 


Departments 


Features 


21  NEWSMAKERS 

24  NEWS  BRIEFS 

26  SPORTS 

27  ALUMNI  NEWS 
31  CLASS  NOTES 


Fielding  a  Cultural  Icon 

A  humanities  symposium  on  baseball  reveals  much  about  the  game  and 
those  who  love  it. 

By  Jim  Mcintosh 


Shadow  Memories 

A  fan  remembers  the  halcyon  days  of  the  national  pastime. 
Dr.  William  J.  McGill 


Editor:  Judy  Pehrson 

Writers: 

Glenn  Woods  ('51),  Class  Notes 

Dr.  Philip  Bilhngs 

Greg  Bowers 

John  B.  Deamer,  Jr. 

Nancy  Fitzgerald 

Dr.  Arthur  Ford  ('59) 

Dr.  William  J.  McGill 

Jim  Mcintosh 

Laura  Chandler  Ritter 

Steve  Trapnell  ('90) 

Diane  Wenger  ('92) 

Photographer: 
Dennis  Crews 


Send  comments  or  address  changes  to: 
Office  of  College  Relations 
Laughlin  Hall 
Lebanon  Valley  College 
101  N.  College  Avenue 
Annville,  PA  17003-0501 

The  Valley  is  published  by  Lebanon 
Valley  College  and  distributed  without 
charge  to  alumni  and  friends.  It  is 
produced  in  cooperation  with  the  Johns 
Hopkins  University  Alumni  Magazine 
Consortium.  Editor:  Donna  Shoemaker; 
Designer:  Royce  Faddis;  Production: 
Lisa  Dempsey 

On  the  Cover: 

With  baseball  season  in  full  swing,  signs  of 
America's  favorite  summertime  sport  are 
everywhere.  Photo  by  Christine  Armstrong, 
whose  sister  is  Denise  DePalmer  ('90). 


11  Going  to  Bat  for  Spithall 

Dr.  William  J.  McGill  translates  his  love  of  baseball  into  a  literary  venture. 
By  Greg  Bowers 

12  The  Girls  of  Summer 

Women  look  for  a  chance  to  really  play  ball. 
By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 

15  The  Long  Good-bye 

Hanging  up  the  spikes  and  glove  is  hard  after  44  years. 
By  Dr.  Arthur  Ford 

16  At  the  Pony  Baseball  Game 

Three  poems  from  Porches  2,  a  book  of  poetry  centering  on  Annville. 
By  Dr.  Philip  Billings 

Special  Section:  In  the  Winner's  Circle 

The  men 's  basketball  team  brings  home  the  NCAA  Division  HI  title. 


Fielding 
a  Cultural 
Icon 

Baseball  experts  and  fans 
gathered  at  the  college  to 
examine  the  state  of  the 
game  and  ponder  whether 
the  national  pastime's 
time  has  passed. 

By  Jim  McIntosh 


"There  is  no  greater  sorrow  than  to 
recall  a  time  of  happiness  in  misery.  " 

— Dante,  Inferno,  v.  727 

Pete  Rose.  That's  who  we're 
hkely  to  find  in  the  darkest  pit 
of  Dr.  Bruce  KukHck's  base- 
ball Inferno.  On  the  way  down 
we'll  see  Wade  Boggs  and 
Daryl  Strawberry,  Vince  Coleman  and 
lose  Canseco,  but  it  will  be  Rose — "the 
Richard  Nixon  of  baseball,"  Kuklick  calls 
him — sitting  unrepentant  and  pugnacious 
in  the  bottom  tier  of  Hell. 

Kuklick,  a  University  of  Pennsylvania 
professor  of  American  Studies  and  author 
of  To  Every  Thing  a  Season,  has  come 
to  Lebanon  Valley  College  to  key 
note  the  "Baseball  as  a  Cultural 
Icon"  symposium  held  April 
13-15.  He's  the  sympo- 
sium's heaviest  hitter,  an 
academic  with  a  small-press 
bestseller  and  just  the  right 
amount  of  fame:  He  won  the  1991 
Casey  Award  for  his  socioeconomic 
study  of  Shibe  Park  and  urban  Philadel- 
phia. 

To  Every  Thing  a  Season  is  certainly 
not  Kuklick' s  first  book;  he  has  written 
six  others  in  the  fields  of  American  politi- 
cal, diplomatic  and  intellectual  history. 
But  his  baseball  book  has  sold,  at  last 
summer's  count,  more  than  18,000  cop- 


ies, which,  he  reflects,  has  allowed  him  to 
"painlessly  pay  his  daughter's  way 
through  college." 

Since  Henry  Aaron's  biography  and 
Ted  Williams'  memoirs  also  appeared  in 
1991,  Kuklick  was  able  to  claim  a  hterary 
victory  over  two  of  baseball's  greatest 
legends.  Not  bad  for  a  kid  who  batted 
ninth  and  played  right  field  during  his 
sandlot  heyday. 

Kuklick — amiable,  witty  and  blessed 
with  more  than  a  trace  of  a  Philly 
accent — wears  his  fame  modestly.  In  fact, 
he's  a  little  leery  of  the  attention  he's 
received,  painfully  aware  of  the  fact  that 
his  academic  colleagues  look  askance  at 
his  "baseball  book."  (It  still  boasts  29 
pages  of  endnotes  and  a  chapter  on 
Philadelphia's  civil  rights  struggles.  No 
one  can  accuse  Kuklick  of  intellectually 
slumming  it.) 

To  Every  Thing  a  Season  is  founded 
on  the  very  sensible  notion  that  most 
people  have  a  somewhat  different  rela- 
tionship to  the  past  than  our  history  texts 
might  have  us  think.  For  instance,  he 
points  out,  many  people — especially 
Philadelphians — remember  1964  less  for 
the  advent  of  LBJ's  Great  Society  and 
more  for  the  collapse  of  the  Phillies  in  the 
last  two  weeks  of  the  season  when  they 
blew  a  6  1/2-game  lead  by  losing  10 


/  "There's         X 

/^  an  intimate  \ 

connection  between  tlie 
values  expressed  in  baseball 

and  American  culture 
\  generally."  / 

— Bruce  Kuklick        x 


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straight  games.  And  though  1964  was  the 
year  Martin  Luther  King,  Jr.  was  awarded 
the  Nobel  Peace  Prize,  Kuklick  points  out 
that  "the  'race  relations'  memory  for  many 
Philadelphians  is  Dick  Allen,"  the  con- 
troversial Phillies  slugger  who  alternately 
outraged  and  delighted  fans  with  his  fierce 
independence. 

KukHck's  own  memories  of  growing 
up  in  Philadelphia  are  steeped  in  base- 
ball. He  was  a  fan  of  the  Philadelphia 
Athletics,  the  lovable  bums  of  another  era 
when  Ferris  Fain  played  first  base  for  the 
A's.  He  was  also  a  fan  of  the  St.  Louis 
Cardinals,  in  the  glory  years  of  Stan 
Musial's  seven  batting  titles.  Musial,  of 
course,  was  that  rare  player  whose  talents 
transcended  hometown  loyalties,  and 
Kuklick  recalls  sending  Stan  the  Man  a 
fan  letter  in  those  wonder  years. 

He's  still  a  Phillies  fan,  of  course,  and 
though  he  admits  that  Lenny  Dykstra  can 
be  "vile"  at  times,  he  stiU  marvels  at 
Philadelphia's  transformation  during  last 
year's  Series;  "October  of  '93  in  center 
city,"  he  says,  "was  like  Mardi  Gras." 

But  Kuklick  has  come  to  Annville  this 
evening  to  speak  of  his  beloved  sport  not 
as  the  game  he  played  as  a  kid  but  as  a 
"cultural  icon."  And  that  responsibility  is 
daunting — even  at  an  informal  dinner  with 
Lebanon  Valley  humanities  faculty  mem- 
bers preceding  his  lecture.  Rising  to  the 
occasion,  Kuklick  has  about  him  the  air 
of  a  tribal  elder  mourning  the  passing  of 
an  era. 

"There's  an  intimate  connection 
between  the  values  expressed  in  baseball 
and  American  culture  generally,"  he  says. 
"My  own  sense  is  that  baseball  is  doing 
just  fine  but  that  it's  had  its  day  as  our 
premier  sport.  Baseball  is  a  very  re- 
fined sport,  and  American  culture  was 
once  more  refined  than  it  has 
become. 

"Baseball  is  elegant,"  he 
adds.  "It  strikes  a  balance  be- 
tween the  group  and  the  individual." 

It  is,  he  believes,  "a  game  of  greater 
complexity,"  whose  endlessly  permu- 
tating  statistics  "lend  an  intellectual  cast 
to  the  game. 

"Football  is  the  sport  of  the  future," 
Kuklick  admits;  "it  appeals  to  the  Ameri- 
can imperial  mentality."  Baseball  is  about 
"subtleness,"  he  adds;  football  is  about  "a 
delight  in  violence."  It's  a  contact  sport, 
after  all,  "not  elegant." 


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Spring/Summer  1994       3 


As  Kuklick  sees  it,  "the  American  trend 
toward  Groupthink"  has  effectively  num- 
bered baseball's  days  as  our  national  pas- 
time. He  sees  a  future  full  of  such  shameful 
exhibitions  as  1992's  Olympic  "Dream 
Team"  playing  basketball  teams  from 
nations  with  populations  smaller  than 
Pennsylvania's. 

After  the  dinner,  Kuklick  puts  on 
his  game  face  as  he  enters  the 
Miller  Chapel  lecture  hall,  shift- 
ing into  scholarly  mode  as  befits  a  Penn 
history  prof.  It's  time  to  get  serious  about 
this  American  icon  business. 

Out  comes  the  script.  Kuklick' s  prose 
becomes  denser,  more  properly  academic. 
The  athletes  who've  turned  out  to  hear 
this  man  who's  written  some  kind  of  base- 
ball book  listen  patiently,  but  I  wonder  if 
they're  somehow  disappointed  by  all  this 
talk  about  "practices,"  which  turns  out  to 
be  not  what  you  do  in-between  games  but 
something  Kuklick  defines  as  "coherent 
and  complex  forms  of  cooperative  human 
activity."  I  admit  to  losing  my  way  in 
sentences  like  "Goods  external  to  prac- 
tices are  contingently  related  to  them  by 
the  accident  of  social  circumstance." 

It  seems  as  if  every  time  Kuklick  veers 
into  a  good  baseball  anecdote,  he  pulls 
me  up  short  with  a  bit  of  validating  schol- 
arly prose  or  some  obligatory  comparison 
with  the  current  state  of  university 
humanities  programs. 

Pretty  soon,  though,  he  has  me  back  in 
his  orbit,  as  he  begins  to  hammer  Pete 
Rose  and  his  addiction  to  "the  sporting 
evil — gambling."  The  athletes  in  the 
audience  seem  to  prick  up  their  ears,  too, 
as  more  than  a  few  of  them  are  Rose 
supporters. 

But  for  Rose,  Kuklick  offers  no  quar- 
ter. "Athletes  involved  in  gambling  are  in 
a  strong  position  to  decide  the  outcome  of 
contests.  If  they  fix  a  game,  they  attack 
the  heart  of  the  sport  and  may  alter  it  for 
the  worse.  When  athletes  no  longer  play 
to  win,  the  point  of  the  practice  qua 
practice  is  lost." 

Kuklick  points  to  professional  boxing 
as  a  "practice  that  seems  almost  always 
susceptible  to  the  pressure  of  gambling, 
which  has  occasionally  almost  ruined  the 
sport."  But  it  is  a  comparison  between 
baseball  and  boxing's  garish  sister  sport, 
professional  wrestling,  that  sends  a  genu- 
ine shock  of  fear  through  anyone  taking 
Kuklick's  argument  to  heart. 

"Wrestling  was  once  a  professional 
sport  requiring  great  skill.  But  it  has  been 
transformed.  Some  people  may  now  think 
of  it  as  a  corrupt  practice,  a  kind  of  vulgar 
exhibition;  others  look  on  it  as  a  peculiar 


Baseball's  days  as  our  premier  sport  may 
be  over,  obserx'ed  Dr  Bruce  Kuklick 


kind  of  entertainment,  cartoons  for 
grownups." 

Rose  bet  on  his  own  team  to  win — a 
fact  that,  for  me,  has  always  made  Rose 
seem  innocent  of  any  grave  wrongdoing. 
Kuklick's  point,  though,  is  that  Rose  did 
not  bet  on  every  game.  When  Mario  Soto 
was  on  the  mound  for  the  Reds,  Rose 
never  bet.  It's  not  hard  to  imagine  how 
this  might  have  affected  Rose's  man- 
agerial style;  a  manager  with  a  greater 
stake  in  the  next  day's  game  might  leave 
Soto  on  the  mound  until  the  late  innings, 
resting  up  his  relievers  for  the  "game  that 
counts."  "Enmeshed  in  the  world  of  gam- 
bling," Kuklick  declares,  "Rose  could  not 
just  play  to  win.  He  made  the  moral  sound- 
ness of  the  sport  suspect." 

Although  Kuklick's  audience  is  more 
prone  than  most  to  recognize  the  gravity  of 
Rose's  sins  against  baseball,  he  harks  back 
to  that  more  famous  1919  Black  Sox  scam 
to  drive  home  his  point.  He  summarizes  a 
1 920  Chicago  Herald  &  Examiner  edito- 
rial that  argued  that  "the  scandal  was  as 
important  as  disarmament,  world  com- 
merce, racial  tensions,  and  prohibition 
....  [It]  said  something  about  national 
character." 

By  now  it  is  obvious  that  Kuklick  is  an 
apologist  for  another,  more  famous  base- 
ball academic,  the  late  Bart  Giamatti,  who 
faced  off  against  Rose  in  a  classic  battle  of 
patrician  standards  vs.  street-punk 
defiance.  According  to  Kuklick,  Giamatti, 
a  Dante  scholar  and  president  of  Yale 
before  his  brief  reign  as  major  league  base- 


ball commissioner,  "believed — in  baseball 
and  the  humanities — in  gentility  and 
respectability."  Giamatti  was  determined 
that  neither  Yale  literary  criticism  nor  ma- 
jor league  baseball  stoops  to  the  bathetic 
level  that  professional  wrestling  has. 

Kuklick  clearly  detests  Rose,  support- 
ing his  banishment  from  baseball  with 
passionate  conviction.  "Throw  Rose  off 
the  TV  shows  where  he  hawks  his 
autographed  baseballs,"  he  declares. 
"Nothing  is  too  severe." 

Railing  like  a  disgruntled  priest  against 
the  greed  that  constantly  threatens  to  over- 
whelm the  high  church  of  baseball, 
Kuklick  says  something  about  the  sport 
being  given  over  to  "people  who  aren't 
equipped  for  the  management  of  the 
sacred." 

Apparently  the  people  who  bought  up 
the  old  Shibe  Park  site  in  Philly  are  more 
equipped  for  such  management.  As 
Kuklick  mentions  in  the  last  chapter  of 
his  book.  Deliverance  Evangelistic  Church 
broke  ground  in  1990  for  its  Temple  of 
Faith.  Rumor  has  it  that  the  entrance  to 
the  church  is  located  where  Connie 
Mack's  home  plate  used  to  lie. 

Men  talking  sports.  Some  people 
swear  there's  a  circle  in  Hell 
reserved  just  for  men  talking 
sports. 

On  the  second  evening  of  the  sympo- 
sium— before  the  panel  discussion — I  find 
myself  at  a  dinner  with  a  roomful  of  aca- 
demic and  journalistic  baseball  fanatics. 

•  A  Lebanon  Valley  philosophy  pro- 
fessor (Warren  Thompson,  the  panel's 
moderator)  who  knows  more  about  base- 
ball uniforms  than  Edith  Head  knew  about 
Hollywood  costumes. 

•  Lebanon  Valley's  vice  president  and 
dean  of  faculty  (Dr.  William  J.  McGill) 
who,  for  all  his  hirsute  erudition,  prob- 
ably knows  more  about  the  national  pas- 
time than  my  creakiest  English  professors 
know  about  John  Milton. 

•  An  analytical  chemist  from  Philly 
(Mark  SchraO  who  serves  as  fiction  edi- 
tor of  baseball's  premier  literary  maga- 
zine, Spitball. 

•  A  Lancaster  news  editor  (Marv 
Adams)  who  plays  third  base  in  a  40-i- 
fast-pitch  league  in  Philadelphia. 

•  A  baseball  editor  for  the  country's 
best-known  sports  page  (Paul  White),  who 
holds  forth  with  the  zest  and  affection 
most  of  us  reserve  only  for  our  passions 
and  almost  never  for  our  jobs. 

Before  dinner  arrives,  I  realize  that  I 
have  box  seats  at  a  triviafest.  I  haven't 
witnessed  this  kind  of  aficion  for  minu- 
tiae since  I  collected  baseball  cards.  "All 


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right.  What  was  the  name  of  the  midget 
who  pinch  hit  for  the  St.  Louis  Browns?" 
someone  asks. 

Before  anyone  can  answer,  someone 
recalls  that  Browns  owner  Bill  Veeck 
threatened  to  shoot  the  three-foot- 
seven-inch  batter  if  he  tried  to  hit 
the  ball.  After  all,  the  diminu- 
tive batter  had  been  sent  in  as 
an  automatic  walk;  his  only  skill 
was  providing  an  impossibly  small 
strike  zone  for  the  opposing  pitcher. 

"Yeah — he  wore  the  number  1/8," 
someone  adds. 

"Eddie  Gaedel,"  comes  the  answer 
finally. 

There  are  more  tales  of  Veeck.  Adams, 
news  editor  for  the  Lancaster  Sunday  News, 
is  fond  of  Veeck's  book,  Veeck  is  a  Wreck. 
Adams  recalls  phoning  Veeck  one  day  and 
landing  a  lengthy  interview  with  him.  Like- 
wise, White,  the  USA  Today  baseball  edi- 
tor, speaks  fondly  of  Veeck,  claiming  that 
the  ornery  owner's  book  was  a  major  in- 
fluence for  him.  In  the  St.  Louis  stadium. 
White  recalls,  Veeck  had  the  grounds- 
keepers  dig  three  tiers  of  post-holes,  kept 
them  covered  with  sod,  then  moved  the 
fence  before  each  game,  depending  on  his 
opponent.  If  the  Yankee  sluggers  came 
to  town,  back  went  the  fence.  "Then  one 
day  during  a  rainstorm,"  says  White,  "one 
of  the  Tiger  outfielders  discovered  the 
post  holes." 

There's  a  lot  of  "whatever  happened 
to"  talk  tonight.  Since  I  am  the  youngster 
in  the  room,  most  of  the  names  seem 
obscure,  familiar  to  me  only  as  bold  cap- 
tions beneath  black-and-white  photos  in 


X    "Baseball    \ 

/  is  the  only  sport   \. 

/    without  a  clock.  That  \^ 

slower  pace,  that  relaxation, 

that  escape  from  the  life  that 

we  ail  have  to  deal  with, 

\is  what  makes 
it  special."       > 
w     —Paul  White  / 


those  over-  ^fcJP^^^^  sized  base- 
ball books  we  ^K^^^^used  to  pore 
over  on  rainy  Sat-  ^r  urdays.  I  played 
Little  League  in  the  early  '70s,  so  my 
passion  was  the  Big  Red  Machine,  the 
spark  plug  of  which  has  been  forever 
banned  from  the  game  of  baseball. 

There's  more  nuttiness — someone  re- 
calling a  Mr.  Ed  episode  on  which  the 
Dodgers  appeared.  A  memory  of  Ted 
Kluszewski's  last  name  stretching  across 
the  back  of  his  enormous  jersey. 

Adams  recalls  watching  the  last 
Phillies  game  at  Shibe  Park  and  his  fate- 
ful trip  to  the  concession  stand  for  a  hot 
dog.  When  he  and  his  friend  returned  to 
their  seats,  the  seats  were  no  longer  there. 
Zealous  fans  had  removed  them,  bolts 
and  all,  just  as  they  were  to  remove  the 
turf  from  the  field  that  day  to  sod  their 
backyards. 


The  baseball  symposium  drew  students  and 
faculty  as  well  as  people  from  the  community. 


It's  time  for  the  panel  to  wax  philo- 
sophical, and  do  one's  duty  to  heft  the 
ponderous  title  of  this  symposium  onto 
the  lecture-hall  stage.  Four  men  in  love 
with  baseball,  in  love  with  outfield  grass 
and  the  game's  slow  rhythm,  its  history 
and  its  minimalist  poetry,  will  attempt  to 
speak  wisely  about  their  lifelong  romance 
with  a  game  they  started  playing  not  long 
after  they  learned  to  read.  They  seem  a 
little  embarrassed  by  the  title  of  the  sym- 
posium, and  more  than  likely  they'd  like 
to  continue  discussing  the  first  time  they 
ever  saw  Bob  Gibson  pitch  or  how  they'd 
field  an  all-time  dream  team,  rather  than 
consider  the  sociopolitical  ramifications 
of  baseball. 

A  predominantly  male  audience  has 
turned  out  for  the  panel  discussion.  As 
the  speakers  take  the  stage,  a  Lebanon 
Valley  professor  is  handing  out  assign- 
ments for  English  390,  a  course  called 
"Sports  in  Literature." 

Men  talking  about  sports.  What 
could  be  easier? 

Thompson's  first  question 

of  the  evening,  it  turns  out, 

is  not  so  easy: 

"Why  is  it  that  baseball — 

not  football,  not  basketball,  not 

any  other  sport — so  often  has  been 

characterized  as  a  metaphor  for  life  and 

become  the  'national  pastime?'" 

Baseball,  responds  Kuklick,  "is  a  hu- 
man endeavor  or  'practice'  with  its  own 
internal  and  external  rewards.  It  is  the 
'national  pastime,'  a  kind  of  'national 
icon.'  In  view  of  recent  developments  in 
the  external  rewards  (for  example,  player 
salaries,  free-agency  and  billionaire  own- 
ers who  seem  motivated  more  by  the  bot- 
tom line  than  love  for,  and  knowledge  of, 
the  game),  will  baseball  continue  to  be 
the  national  pastime,  the  national  icon?" 
Suddenly  the  triviafest  is  over  and  this 
very  athletic,  very  muscular  audience 
wants  to  know  just  what  it  is  these  jour- 
nalists and  academics  have  to  say  about 
their  beloved  game. 

White,  the  USA  Today  editor,  decides 
to  take  on  the  first  issue,  completely 
capable  of  fielding  this  high-looping 
Texas  Leaguer  of  a  question.  "Baseball  is 
the  only  sport  without  a  clock,"  he  says. 
"That  slower  pace,  that  relaxation,  that 
escape  from  the  life  that  we  all  have  to 
deal  with,  is  what  makes  it  special." 


Spring/Summer  1994       5 


White  has  a  point,  but  considering  that 
most  Americans  are  sports  spectators 
rather  than  practitioners,  it  hardly  seems 
to  matter  that  the  game  you're  watching 
is  as  intense  as  basketball  or  as  "elegant" 
as  baseball. 

Furthermore,  during  a  game,  "there's 
lots  of  time  to  analyze  baseball  and  talk 
about  it,"  he  adds,  and  here  I  think  he's 
hit  upon  something.  What  other  sport  has 
given  rise  to  so  much  lovely  and  some- 
times gaseous  lore?  What  other  sport  is 
so  statistics  obsessed?  Perhaps  the  game's 
slow  pace  has  more  than  anything  else 
prompted  baseball  announcers  to  launch 
into  those  extended — and  sometimes  dis- 
tended— metaphors  the  sport  seems  to 
spawn.  And  who  knows  but  what  a  few 
Great  American  Novelists — Phillip  Roth 
comes  to  mind — first  plied  their  trade  in 
the  loneliness  of  right  field. 

Adams,  who  throughout  the  evening 
remains  refreshingly  unpretentious  about 
his  beloved  game,  has  the  audacity  to 
doubt  baseball's  enduring  status  as  "na- 
tional pastime."  "Before  the  early  "605," 
he  says,  "baseball  was  about  all  we  had." 
Baseball,  then,  was  the  national  pastime 
because  it  had  so  few  competitors  for  our 
attention.  "Life  was  simpler  then,"  he  says, 
and  though  I'm  skeptical  that  life  has  ever 
been  any  simpler,  he  makes  an  alarming 
point  that's  actually  far  more  interesting 
than  the  question  of  whether  baseball  is 
still  the  national  pastime:  "You  read  so 
much  today  about  the  information  high- 
way, about  cable  TV  and  what's  coming. 
I  thinkinsteadof  growing  together,  we're 
only  going  to  grow  further  apart." 

Baseball  was  once  a  dialect  that  many 
spoke  in  the  days  before  the  NFL,  the 
NBA  and  the  NHL  vied  for  our  viewing 
time.  Now  sports  fans  speak  a  variety  of 
languages,  and  it's  difficult  to  be  bilin- 
gual when  seasons  overlap  and  three  or 
more  levels  of  sport — high  school,  col- 
lege and  professional — occupy  our  time 

The  Spitball  fiction  editor,  Schraf, 
is  the  most  topical  of  the  paneli 
He  cites  Michael  Jordan's  un- 
successful attempt  to  wear  a 
White  Sox  uniform  beyond 
spring  training  as  evidence  that 
baseball  is  still  the  noblest  of  all 
sports — why  else  would  the  greatest 
basketball  player  ever  cast  off  his  Bull's 
singlet  at  the  height  of  his  career  to  play 
professional  baseball? 

Schraf  likes  the  fact  that,  unlike  foot- 
ball, baseball  is  "most  like  life"  because 
it's  played  all  week  long.  He  has  a  point.  It 
seems  to  me  that  football  learned  some- 
thing from  the  Protestants  and  operates 
from  Sunday  to  Sunday,  whereas  baseball 


still  holds  its  High  Mass  on  a  daily  basis. 

He  goes  on  to  make  the  most  auda- 
cious claim  of  the  evening.  "Most  of  the 
time,  whoever' s  the  best  comes  out  on 
top,"  he  observes.  In  pro  baseball,  the 
162-game  season  guarantees  that  the  best 
wins  "over  the  long  haul,"  and,  he  adds 
"the  idea  is,  we  hope  that  it  would  be  that 
way  in  life  too."  That  the  best  always  (or 
even  usually)  wins  is  a  leap  of  faith  not 
all  of  us  are  willing  to  make,  of  course. 

McGill  has  perhaps  the  most  aesthetic 
appreciation  of  the  game.  "Baseball  has  a 
kind  of  rhythm  to  it  that's  played  out  both 
in  terms  of  an  individual  game,  but  also 
in  the  sense  of  the  season,"  he  says.  "It  is 
a  much  subtler  game."  And  then  agreeing 
with  White,  he  says,  "A  baseball  game 
could  go  on  forever."  (Indeed,  some  of 
my  friends,  who  lack  McGill's  apprecia- 
tion of  the  game,  are  pretty  sure  that  base- 
ball does  go  on  forever.) 

"A  great  deal  of  hope  is  built  into  the 
game,"  the  dean  continues,  "an  infinite 
possibility  that  doesn't  exist  in  any  other 
sport." 

Several  times  during  the  evening,  the 
panelists  betray  their  baseball  chauvin- 
ism. Schraf,  quoting  some  charming  base- 
ball lore:  "There's  no  spot  in  the  world 
that  isn't  part  of  a  ball  park" — since  the 
foul  lines  of  unfenced  ballfields  extend 
infinitely. 

And,  "The  defense  starts  control  of  the 
game,  which  is  unique."  Or,  "the  offense 
is  one  against  nine";  the  inevitable  phrase 
"rugged  individualist"  surfaces  now. 

McGill:  "Baseball  is  more  interesting 


y^     There  has    \. 

/  been  an  elegiac,  \. 

/     sepia-tint  tone  to  the   \. 

^  conference,  a  bit  ofcharming\ 

sentimentality  as  these  aging  Little 

^    Leaguers  face  the  possibility  y 

X^     that  baseball's  glory      X 

^v  days  have        /^ 

\       passed.        / 


^^ 


because  it  doesn't  collapse  into  pure  physi- 
cality."  Of  course,  there  isn't  really  a 
major  sport  that  does  collapse  into  pure 
physicality;  what  quarterback  wouldn't 
defend  the  tactical  subtlety  of  his  game, 
what  student  of  basketball  could  ever  slan- 
der with  the  charge  of  "pure  physicality" 
what  Jordan  and  Magic  and  Bird  do?  Even 
boxing  has  its  nuances  and  mentality  that 
its  devotees  would  defend  to  the  death. 

White  makes  one  of  the  evening's  most 
intriguing  observations  when  he  mentions 
the  refinement  of  the  game's  dimensions. 
"Ninety  feet,"  he  says,  noting  the  dis- 
tance between  home  plate  and  first  base. 
"Why  90  feet?  It  seems  perfect,  doesn't 
it?  Why  are  there  so  many  plays  this  close 
at  first  base,  constantly,  every  night?"  He's 
right.  How  many  times  does  the  ball 
thwock  the  first-baseman's  glove  on  the 
instant  replay  just  as  the  baserunner's  foot 
hovers  above  the  bag? 

Schraf  again:  "Nothing  happens  on  a 
football  field  that's  as  dangerous  as  bat- 
ting." Maybe,  maybe  not.  But  nothing 
happens  on  a  diamond  or  a  gridiron  that' s 
a  tenth  as  bull-goose  loony  as  strapping 
yourself  inside  a  NASCAR  heap  and  go- 
ing fender  to  fender  with  the  good  old 
boys  at  Talladega.  Even  so,  something 
tells  me  that  the  University  of  Alabama  is 
still  a  few  decades  away  from  scheduling 
its  "Stock  Car  Racing  as  a  Cultural  Icon" 
symposium. 

Perhaps  the  fact  that,  as  one  of  the 
game's  great  philosopher-catchers  once 
put  it,  "It  ain't  over  till  it's  over"  is  what 
makes  baseball  the  sport  of  an  earlier, 
more  optimistic  time  when  baseball's 
ninth-inning  never-say-die  ethos  suffused 
the  culture.  Then  again,  maybe  Adams  is 
right,  and  baseball  simply  has  more  com- 
petition from  the  other  pro  sports. 

Everyone  on  stage  seems  to  be  mourn- 
ing the  passing  of  baseball's  primacy  as 
America's  pastime.  There  has  been  an 
elegiac,  sepia-tint  tone  to  the  conference, 

a  bit  of  charming  sentimentality  as 
these  aging  Little  Leaguers  face  the 
possibility  that  baseball's  glory 
days  have  passed,  eclipsed  by 
the  brutish  thuggery  of  the 
National  Football  League. 
Despite  their  wistful  tone,  the 
panelists  seem  imbued  with  that  same 
ninth-inning  optimism  when  they  pon- 
der baseball's  future.  Even  a  student  from 
the  audience  gets  in  on  the  act:  "Baseball's 
spring  training  is  basically  a  metaphor  for 
things  renewing  themselves,"  he  says,  and 
White  adds  that  "starting  football  camp 
in  the  middle  of  July  just  doesn't  have  the 
same  mystique  to  it." 

Not  all  the  students  in  the  audience  are 


The  Valley 


Those  attending  the  baseball  symposium  got  a  hands-on  look  at  the  fine  points  of  the 
game  from  Lebanon  Valley  pitching  coach  John  Gergle. 


caught  up  in  the  poetry,  though.  "Base- 
ball is  no  longer  the  national  pastime," 
one  student  declares.  "It's  not  going  to 
get  the  best  athletes  anymore.  It  doesn't 
let  the  players  show  their  personality." 

White  concurs.  "Baseball  lost  a  gen- 
eration. It  was  easier  in  the  cities  to  play 
basketball.  Baseball  became  a  suburban 
white  kids'  game.  But  now  we  have  more 
inner-city  youth  baseball  programs." 

As  much  as  he  loves  the  game.  White 
admits  that  baseball  can  be  a  little  boring. 
He  mentions  the  Seattle  Mariners'  season 
opener  that  was  rebroadcast  in  Seattle  dur- 
ing prime  time,  with  all  the  "dead  time" 
edited  out  so  that  one  pitch  followed 
quickly  upon  the  next.  Total  broadcast 
time?  48  minutes.  "And  that  was  an  11- 
inning  game,"  White  adds. 

At  some  point,  White,  McGill  and 
Adams  all  admit  that  baseball  probably  is 
no  longer  America's  national  pastime.  Just 
as  White  questions  what  qualifies  a  sport 
for  that  status — "after  all,  horse  racing  is 
the  best-attended  sport  in  the  U.S." — 
Adams  asks,  "Does  it  really  matter  that 
baseball  is  not  the  national  pastime?" 

It' s  a  good  question  whose  import  may 
not  have  been  properly  pursued.  Baseball 
is  an  elegant,  perhaps  even  cerebral  game. 
It  does  provide  a  bucolic  respite  from  the 
noisy  city.  It  has  produced  a  great  litera- 
ture like  no  other  American  sport  has. 
And  it  remains  the  oldest  and  most  sto- 
ried sport  in  our  country's  history.  The 
elders'  noble  task  is  done:  They  have  given 


the  ponderous  topic  for  the  evening  the 
old  college  try. 

But  it's  a  warm  spring  night  and  the 
memories  in  the  room  are  growing  denser 
by  the  minute.  Kuklick's  epilogue  in 
To  Every  Thing  a  Season  rings  especially 
true  as  the  conference  comes  to  its 
solemn  close: 

"We  cannot  keep  faith,  too,  because  in 
the  end  what  we  do  remember  we  trans- 
form and  often  love  simply  because  it  is 
the  past,  no  matter  what  its  character  at 
the  time." 

In  his  epilogue  Kuklick  recalls  a  long- 
time fan  who  exclaimed  how  strange  it 
was  "that  baseball  and  my  life  got  so 
entangled."  For  many  of  us — some  more 
than  others,  this  crowd  would  admit — 
baseball  has  gotten  strangely  entangled  in 
our  lives. 

As  I  step  into  the  stillness  of  nighttime 
grass  and  the  promise  of — maybe,  just 
maybe — a  winning  season  of  sorts,  I 
recall  the  charms  of  my  childhood  sum- 
mers: a  Tony  Conigliario  outfielder's 
glove  steeped  in  neat's-foot  oil,  glutinous 
bat  tape  and  a  brand-new  Rawlings  ball 
still  white  as  the  moon.  And  I  realize  that, 
yes,  here  I  am  in  Annville,  standing  in 
deep  left-center  of  somebody's  beloved 
outfield. 


Jim  Mcintosh  is  a  Lancaster-based 
freelance  writer.  As  a  child,  he  admits,  he 
batted  in  the  ninth  spot. 


Books  About  Baseball 

My  dinner  with  Dr.  Bruck  Kuklick  at 
the  Fenwick  Restaurant  in  Lebanon 
ends  up  being  the  high  point  of  the 
symposium  for  me.  Most  of  all  I  like 
talking  books  with  him. 

He  seems  fondest  of  Jules  Tygiel's 
book  about  Jackie  Robinson,  Baseball 's 
Great  Experiment.  When  I  mention  a 
recent  read,  Robert  Whiting's  You  Gotta 
Have  Wa,  about  the  adventures  of 
American  gaijin  breaking  into  Japanese 
pro  baseball,  he  mentions  two  more 
books  about  baseball  beyond  the  U.S. 
border,  one  concerning  Jamaica,  the 
other  the  Dominican  Republic.  Of 
course  there  is  Eliot  Asinof's  well- 
known  Eight  Men  Out,  which  exam- 
ines the  1919  Chicago  Black  Sox 
scandal;  W.P.  Kinsella's  Shoeless  Joe 
(upon  which  the  treacly  movie  Field  of 
Dreams  is  based),  Roger  Kahn's  The 
Boys  of  Summer,  Mark  Harris'  South- 
paw and  Douglas  Wallop's  The  Year 
the  Yankees  Lost  the  Pennant.  He  men- 
tions Zane  Grey's  short  piece,  "The 
Red-Headed  Outfield,"  and  a  surprise 
item.  The  Great  Gatsby.  (The  baseball 
connection  seems  tangential  to  me,  but 
Meyer  Wolfsheim,  famous  in  literary 
history  for  his  human-molar  cuff  links, 
is  based  on  Arnold  Rothstein,  master- 
mind of  the  real-life  Black  Sox  scam  in 
1919.) 

When  I  ask  Kuklick  what  he  thinks 
of  George  Will's  recent  bestseller  Men 
at  Work,  he  smiles.  "Will  is  a  political 
idealogue  who  thinks  that  baseball  is 
the  embodiment  of  the  Protestant  Ethic. 
It  really  annoys  me,"  he  says.  Then 
adds,  "It's  probably  just  jealousy  on 
my  part."  — JM 


Spring/Summer  1994 


Shadow 
Memories 

A  fan  replays  those  summer 
afternoons  spent  at  a 
ballpark,  in  the  days  when 
you  came  for  the  game,  not 
the  carnival. 

By  Dr.  William  J.  McGill 


A  homecoming  of  sorts: 
Cardinals  vs.  the  Cubs  in 
the  friendly  confines  of 
Wrigley  Field  on  May  17, 
1988,  with  me  sitting  in  a 
club  box  down  the  first  base  line.  I'm  in 
the  shadows  of  the  upper  deck  and  will  be 
for  seven  or  eight  innings,  until  the  sun 
works  around  to  where  it  comes  in  over 
the  grandstand  on  the  third  base  line. 

I  have  been  here  on  days  when  some 
shade  would  have  been  a  pleasure,  but 
today  is  uncommonly  cool.  A  lake  breeze 
from  right  field  and  beyond  stiffens  the 
flags.  A  pitcher's  breeze.  During  batting 
practice,  you  could  see  players  from  both 
teams  looking  at  the  pennants,  and  you 
could  read  their  minds.  And  when  the  pitch- 
ers walked  down  to  the  bullpens  to  warm 
up,  they  were  almost  swaggering. 

How  long  has  it  been?  Eighteen  years 
maybe.  The  last  time  had  to  be  when  I 
brought  my  middle  daughter  to  see  a  game. 
We  were  still  living  in  Michigan  and  had 
come  down  to  Chicago  to  visit  my  parents. 
Susan  couldn't  have  been  more  than  7,  so  it 
was  1 8  years  ago,  one  of  those  little  ironies 
of  life,  because  today  is  her  birthday. 

We  were  out  in  the  right  field  bleach- 
ers. In  those  days,  I  usually  sat  in  the 
bleachers.  I  don't  remember  who  the  Cubs 
were  playing,  and  I  don't  remember  who 
won  or  anything  about  the  game.  But  I 
remember  the  warm  summer  sun,  and  a 
Cub  hat  cocked  at  a  funny  angle  on  her 
blonde  head.  And  I  remember  that  she 
was  a  trouper — she  didn't  ask  for  ice 
cream  every  time  the  vendor  went  by,  or 
ask  to  go  to  the  John  whenever  the  game 
heated  up — she  was  interested  in  what 
was  happening  on  the  field.  And  we  had  a 
good  time,  father  and  daughter,  18  years 
ago,  in  the  Wrigley  Field  right  field 
bleachers,  when  we  were  both  children. 
So  it  has  been  a  while.  The  first  few 


years  I  came  to  games,  they  still  let  people 
sit  in  the  center  field  bleachers.  It  seemed 
to  be  an  unwritten  rule  that  anybody  who 
sat  there  had  to  wear  a  white  shirt,  and 
visiting  teams  were  always  complaining 
how  hard  it  was  to  pick  up  the  ball  out  of 
that  Rinso  white,  Rinso  bright  back- 
ground. In  those  days  Cub  pitchers  needed 
all  the  help  they  could  get. 

Hank  Borowy,  Dutch  Leonard,  Johnny 
Schmitz,  Cliff  Chambers,  Ralph  Hamner. 
One  of  the  few  games  I  ever  attended 
with  my  parents  was  a  Cubs-Boston 
Braves  game.  Charley  Grimm  was  the 
Cubs  manager  and  Ralph  Hamner  was 
pitching.  Hamner  walked  the  bases  loaded 
and  then,  after  a  visit  from  Jolly  ChoUy, 
walked  in  a  run.  Still  Grimm  stuck  with 
him — what  were  the  choices? — and  the 
Cubs  ended  up  winning  8-7. 

They  closed  off  the  center  field  bleach- 
ers to  give  the  hitters  a  better  background. 
That  green  oasis  in  center  field  doesn't 
look  much  different  now.  With  all  the 
refurbishing  they've  done,  you  would  have 
thought  they  might  have  jazzed  it  up  a  bit, 
put  in  a  fountain  or  something.  I'm  glad 
they  didn't.  Maybe  they  should  open  it 
back  up  and  just  require  people  to  wear 
green  shirts. 

I  never  sat  there.  Left  field  was  my 
favorite  spot.  I  liked  to  sit  about  15  feet 
toward  center  field  from  the  well,  the  place 
where  the  ivied  brick  wall  curves  away 
from  the  plate  before  joining  the  foul  line. 
Out  there  I  caught  home  run  balls  off  the 
bats  of  Gene  Baker  and  Ernie  Banks,  and 
just  missed  one  by  Billy  Williams.  Actu- 
ally "caught"  is  not  quite  the  word.  My 
technique  was  to  wait  for  the  rebound:  The 
first  guy  almost  always  muffs  it. 

It  was  later  that  they  put  in  the  basket. 
When  I  first  started  going,  I  don't  re- 
member seeing  anybody  reach  down  and 
try  to  grab  a  ball  that  hadn't  cleared — and 
wasn't  going  to  clear — the  wall.  Later  I 
saw  it  happen  once,  and  the  fans  booed 
the  guy.  But  things  changed.  In  1968  I 
saw  a  double-header  with  the  Cardinals, 
and  three  different  times  fans  in  the 
bleachers  interfered  with  balls  that  other- 
wise would  have  bounced  off  the  ivy. 
Both  teams  lost  runs.  The  "new  breed," 
the  Bleacher  Bums  they  would  call  them- 
selves, thought  it  was  funny.  Couldn't 
have  been  long  afterwards  that  they  put  in 
the  basket. 

And  I  remember  a  game  against  the 
Giants.  Leon  Wagner,  a  good-hit-no-field 
type,  was  in  left  field.  A  Cub  hitter  hit  a 
low  line  drive  past  third.  It  landed  fair, 
near  the  warm-up  mound,  then  hooked  into 
foul  territory  and  went  behind  the  bench 
where  the  Cub  relievers  were  sitting. 
Wagner  charged  toward  the  bench  as  the 


Cubs  scattered.  Several  of  them  pointed 
under  the  bench.  Wagner  was  in  a  panic, 
peering  and  searching  for  the  ball,  throw- 
ing mitts  and  warm-up  jackets  aside  in  a 
desperate  attempt  to  come  up  with  the  ball. 

What  he  didn't  know — and  what  all  the 
Cub  players  and  all  of  us  in  the  left  field 
bleachers  did  know — was  that  the  ball  had 
rolled  past  the  bench  and  into  the  comer. 

Willie  Mays  came  racing  over  from 
center,  screaming  and  waving,  but  Wagner 
was  too  desperate  to  hear.  The  bleachers 
were  roaring  with  a  peculiar  mixture  of 
cheers  and  laughter.  By  the  time  Mays 
got  to  the  ball  in  the  shadows  of  the  left 
field  comer,  it  was  too  late  to  do  anything 
but  toss  it  into  the  stands.  Nor  was  it 
surprising  that,  for  the  rest  of  the  game, 
Wagner  had  to  suffer  constant  reminders 
of  his  fmitless  search. 

But  now  it's  1988,  and  I'm  sitting  in 
a  box  seat.  Things  change.  For 
example,  the  metal  railings  that 
used  to  define  the  boxes — two  rows,  four 
seats  to  a  row — are  gone,  taken  out  to 
allow  for  more  seats. 

You  used  to  be  shown  to  your  seat  by 
an  Andy  Frain  usher,  just  as  you  would 
be  at  virtually  every  other  Chicago  arena 
and  many  of  the  downtown  theatres.  They 
wore  bright  blue  pants  with  a  gold  stripe 
down  both  legs  and  jackets — reminiscent 
of  high  school  band  uniforms — and  white 
military  hats.  And  of  course  they  were  all 
male.  Now  there  are  people,  both  men 
and  women  and  of  a  wide  variety  of  ages, 
in  khakis  and  polo  shirts  with  "Crowd 
Management  Control"  neatly  stitched  on 
the  pocket  as  if  it  were  a  club  name.  Crowd 
management  control  in  the  friendly  con- 
fines: certainly  a  sign  of  our  times. 

What  they  control  mostly,  it  seems, 
are  seat-nabbers.  Throughout  the  game  a 
perpetual  dance  occurs.  Clusters  of  three 
or  four  males  in  the  1 6-24  age  range  roam 
the  aisles,  and  when  they  spy  some  good 
seats — on  this  day  that  means  seats  in  the 
sun — they  sit  down  and  pretend  to  be- 
long. Soon  a  crowd  control  management 
person  arrives  and  asks  to  see  their  tick- 
ets. Most  often  the  intmders  shmg,  smile 
and  move  on,  perhaps  to  be  back  in  an 
inning  or  two.  Sometimes  they  attempt  a 
genial  charade  of  searching  their  pockets 
for  tickets,  buying  time,  but  finally  sur- 
rendering without  malice.  Only  once  do 
the  illegals  argue  with  apparent  mean- 
ness, and  quickly  the  one  crowd  manage- 
ment control  person  has  reinforcements. 

The  most  ubiquitous  enforcer  of  right- 
ful assignments  this  day  is  a  grandmoth- 
erly lady  in  a  blue  windbreaker  who  might 
be  re-enacting  years  of  patrolling  the  aisles 
of  an  elementary  school  classroom.  An 


8       The  Valley 


1 


The  romance  of  baseball's  past  is  portrayed  in  a  Wrigley  Field  painting  by  Jim  Annis  (1990)  titled  "A  World  Series  Remembrance: 
Chicago  Cubs  vs.  Detriot  Tigers  1945.  " 


amusing,  mostly  friendly  gavotte  it  ap- 
pears, yet  as  I  dutifully  sit  in  my  shaded 
seat,  I  feel  a  certain  uneasiness.  I  have  no 
memory  of  such  behavior  being  so  com- 
mon on  those  long-ago  summer  days.  Is 
this  another  manifestation  of  the  decline 
of  orderliness  and  civility? 

Others  might  view  it  as  part  of  the 
festive  air  that  now  characterizes  so  many 
ballparks.  Being  there  is  more  important 
than  the  game.  I  remember  being  in  the 
left  field  stands  at  Three  Rivers  Stadium 
during  the  "We  Are  Fam-a-lee"  year  for 
the  Pirates,  the  crowd  roaring  and  sway- 
ing to  the  sound  of  the  Pointer  Sisters 
after  a  Wilver  Domell  Stargell  home  run 
into  deep  left  center.  I  remember  being  in 
the  Metrodome  (alias  Roller  Rink)  in  early 
August  last  year,  the  Twins'  miracle  year, 
and  watching  the  wave  circle  the  stands. 
And  now  I  can  watch  Harry  Carey, 
grey-haired  and  paunchy,  leaning  out  of 
the  broadcast  booth  waving  his  arms  and 
leading  a  raucous  version  of  "Take  Me 
Out  to  the  Ballgame."  Festival  or  carni- 
val, it's  the  ballgame  that  counts.  Hankies 
are  for  colds. 


Only  once  in  all  those  years  did  I 
actually  have  direct  contact  with 
a  player.  It  must  have  been  the 
summer  of  1957,  or  perhaps  1958.  My 
college  roommate  came  up  from  Spring- 
field for  a  game,  and  we  intentionally  got 
seats  down  the  third  base  line,  close  to  the 
Cubs'  bullpen.  Before  the  game  started, 
when  the  bullpen  crew  came  down  from 
the  dugout,  we  went  down  to  the  railing 
to  try  to  speak  to  Moe  Drabowsky,  who 
had  been  a  fraternity  brother  of  ours  at 
Trinity  College  when  he  signed  with  the 
Cubs.  I  remember  reading  about  the  sign- 
ing in  the  European  edition  of  the 
Herald-Tribune  while  having  breakfast 
in  Salzburg,  Austria. 

But  here  we  were  leaning  over  the 
railing,  pretending  nonchalance,  and  chat- 
ting amiably  with  a  major  league  pitcher. 
What  do  you  do?  Lean  forward  and  give 
him  the  secret  fraternal  grip?  What  do 
you  say?  "How's  it  going?"  "How's  the 
arm?"  I  don't  recall  what  we  did  or  said 
because  we  were  talking  to  someone  we 
knew  but  who  now  was  inhabiting  a  dif- 
ferent world.  He  was  now  a  name  in  the 


newspaper,  a  name  you  heard  over  the 
radio,  "Now  warming  up  in  the  Cubs 
bullpen,  Moe  Drabowsky."  A  phrase  spo- 
ken in  the  patter  of  the  announcer,  exist- 
ing in  another  realm  of  reality. 

My  first  year  at  Trinity,  I  was  the  num- 
ber three  pitcher  on  the  freshman  team 
behind  Drabowsky  and  George  Case,  a 
stocky  righthander  who  made  it  as  far  as 
Triple-A  in  the  Giants  farm  system.  Which 
is  to  say  that  the  only  time  I  pitched  was 
in  a  practice  game.  Before  the  season, 
during  a  gym  class,  we  had  been  sent 
outside  on  a  cold  blustery  spring  day  to 
play  Softball.  Drabowsky  and  I  were 
shagging  flies  and  tossing  them  back  to 
the  infield  when  Dan  Jesse,  the  gym 
teacher  who  also  happened  to  be  the 
varsity  baseball  coach,  sauntered  over 
and  told  Moe  just  to  roll  them  in  so 
he  wouldn't  hurt  his  arm.  The  next  time 
one  came  my  way  I  roiled  it  toward  the 
infield. 

"What  the  hell  are  you  doing?"  Jesse 
barked. 

"Trying  to  protect  my  arm." 

"No  way  you  can  hurt  your  arm." 


Spring/Summer  1994 


Even  then  Moe  and  I  were  in  different 
realms  of  reality. 

Harry  Carey,  the  voice  of  the  Cubs? 
Not  hardly.  Ex-voice  of  the  Cardinals, 
and  since  then,  broadcast  booth  carpet- 
bagger, with  Oakland  and  Chisox  stick- 
ers on  his  luggage.  Remember  rather  Bert 
Wilson,  Jack  Quinlan,  Jack  Brickhouse, 
Vince  Lloyd— and  Pat  Pieper.  Pat  Pieper, 
the  seemingly  eternal  field  announcer, 
who  sat  in  a  folding  chair  by  the  screen 
and  kept  the  plate  umpire  supplied  with 
fresh  baseballs.  Then  they  moved  him 
upstairs  and  had  somebody  else  do  the 
gofer  work.  And  then... and  then  the  eter- 
nal became  finite,  human. 

I  prefer  to  remember  Carey  broadcast- 
ing with  the  Cardinals.  He  was  at  his  best 
when  he  was  teamed  with  Joe  Garagiola — 
and  those  were  Garagiola"s  best  days  as 
well.  But  we  are  talking  of  Wrigley  Field. 
I  recall  a  Cub-Cardinal  game  with 
Garagiola  catching  for  the  Cubs.  The 
Cubbies  were  up  by  one  run  in  the  top  of 
the  ninth  with  two  outs  and  the  tying  run 
on  second  base.  Schoendienst  singled,  and 
the  runner  tried  to  score.  The  throw  from 
the  outfield  was  in  the  catcher's  mitt  an 
instant  before  the  runner  slammed  into 
Garagiola,  sending  him  tail  over  teakettle. 
The  umpire  waited  for  the  dust  to  clear  so 
he  could  check  the  mitt.  Garagiola  ap- 
peared to  be  out  cold,  but  he  still  held  the 
ball.  Cubs  win! 

But  better  Harry  Carey  than  a  stuffed 
mascot. 

By  the  time  Carey  starts  his  routine, 
the  sunshine  is  only  a  row  away.  I  have 
endured  the  chill  because  my  neighbor 
came  better  prepared  than  1  and  loaned 
me  a  windbreaker.  The  coldest  I  have 
ever  been  at  Wrigley  Field  was  on  open- 
ing day  of  1963,  the  only  opening  day  I 
ever  attended.  I  know  it  was  1963  be- 
cause my  wife  was  with  me  and  was  eight 
months  pregnant  with  Susan,  today's 
birthday  girl  and  my  companion  in  right 
field.  The  temperature  that  day  was  36° 
and  it  was  overcast  with  no  sun  to  blunt 
the  edge  of  the  chill.  We  were  well- 
prepared  with  heavy  coats,  but  I  still 
recall  the  sheer  pleasure  of  buying  coffee 
and  holding  the  cups  in  our  hands.  Not 
surprisingly  there  were  more  coffee  ven- 
dors than  beer  vendors  that  day. 

That  memory  jogs  another  one,  but  from 
another  stadium.  In  1961  we  went  to 
Baltimore's  Memorial  Stadium  to  see  a 
twi-night  double-header  between  the  Ori- 
oles and  the  Yankees.  The  attraction  was 
that  Roger  Maris  was  close  to  the  home  run 
record  and  could  conceivably  have  reached 
it  that  night.  Ellen  was  about  eight  months 
pregnant  then,  too,  with  our  oldest  daugh- 
ter, Sally.  We  were  sitting  in  the  upper 


deck,  and  as  the  evening  wore  on,  we 
watched  the  night  sky  turn  to  a  deep  and 
violent  green.  The  storm  warnings  associ- 
ated with  a  hurricane  moving  up  the  coast 
seemed  on  the  verge  of  coming  true. 

Weighing  the  possibility  of  one  day 
being  able  to  reminisce  eloquently  about 
the  night  we  saw  Maris  get  the  record — 
against  the  at  least  equal  possibility  of 
being  remembered  as  the  husband  who 
forced  his  pregnant  wife  to  sit  through  a 
hurricane  in  the  upper  deck  of  Memorial 
Stadium — we  left  early,  the  only  time  in 
my  life  I  have  left  a  game  before  the  last 
pitch.  As  it  turned  out,  the  storm  didn't 
come.  Maris  didn't  do  a  thing,  and  Sally 
grew  up  to  be  a  lovely  strawberry  blonde 
Cubs  fan. 

Sally's  the  reason  I'm  here.  She  lives 
about  a  10-minute  walk  from  Wrigley. 
Last  year  she  promised  me  a  ticket  to  a 
Cub-Cardinal  game  for  a  birthday  present, 
but  I  wasn't  able  to  collect.  Now  she's 
thinking  of  taking  a  job  somewhere  else, 
so  I  figured  I  had  better  collect  my  present. 
She's  at  work  but  I'm  not  lonely — there 
are  so  many  vivid  memories  close 
at  hand. 

Like  the  double-play  combination  of 
Mauch  to  Smalley  to  grandstand.  I  have  a 
memory  of  another  Cub-Cardinal  game 
with  the  Cubs  holding  a  lead  into  the 
ninth,  when  the  Redbirds  got  a  couple  of 
runners  on  base.  The  man  ahead  of  me 
had  nursed  the  Cubs  along  the  whole  game 
with  almost  constant  chatter  that  had  al- 
ternately beseeched  and  encouraged  them. 
With  victory  now  so  close,  but  disaster 
almost  as  near,  he  became  frantic  in  his 
effusions.  "All  right,  all  right.  We  got  it 
now.  No  mistakes,  no  mistakes.  Just  put 
the  ball  in  there.  Make'im  hit  it,  make'im 
hit  it.  We're  behind  you.  Hit  it  anywhere; 
we'll  get  it."  On  a  2-2  count,  the  batter 
swung  and  lifted  a  high  pop  fly  toward 
short.  Instantly  the  man  was  on  his  feet, 
his  hands  clutching  his  head:  "Oh  God, 
no!  Not  to  Smalley.  Anybody  but 
Smalley."  To  his  surprise  and  unmistak- 
able relief,  Smalley  caught  it. 

Put-out  six  on  the  scorecard.  Keeping 
score  is  part  of  my  ritual  at  games,  which 
is  why  arriving  late  or  leaving  early  dis- 
tresses me.  It  would  leave  the  record  in- 
complete. The  first  thing  I  do  when  I  get 
home  is  to  run  the  totals.  How  could  I  do 
that  if  the  record  wasn't  there?  That's 
another  of  the  pleasures  of  Wrigley  Field. 
They  had  and  still  have  the  best  scorecards 
in  the  game.  Real  cards:  stiff  stock,  about 
8  by  11,  with  lots  of  room.  Infinitely  su- 
perior to  the  overstuffed  little  booklets 
you  get  most  places,  loaded  with  ads  and 
with  a  skimpy  page  for  keeping  score, 
almost  an  afterthought. 


I  have  a  friend  with  whom  I  used  to  go 
to  games  in  Pittsburgh,  an  eloquent  and 
learned  professor  of  English  with  the  face 
of  the  common  man.  He,  too,  diligently 
keeps  score,  albeit  with  a  less  sophisfi- 
cated  system  than  mine.  Along  about  the 
seventh  inning  and  his  second  beer,  he 
lights  up  a  cigar,  which  he  seriously 
smokes  through  the  waning  of  the  game. 
The  moment  the  last  out  is  recorded,  he 
stands  up,  takes  a  puff,  emits  a  mournful 
sigh,  tosses  the  scorecard  over  his  shoul- 
der, and  walks  away,  the  remnant  of  the 
cigar  still  clenched  in  his  teeth.  People 
have  different  priorities. 

The  scoreboard  at  Wrigley  is  also  the 
best  in  the  game.  They've  added  an  elec- 
tric message  board  at  the  bottom  for  an- 
nouncements and  advertising,  but  the  main 
scoreboard  remains  essentially  the  same. 
All  the  games  are  listed  and  the  scores 
can  be  put  up  inning  by  inning.  It  means 
you  can  look  up  anytime  you  want  and 
check  a  score.  Too  many  stadium  opera- 
tives think  it  is  sufficient  to  put  up  scores 
every  three  or  four  innings.  Even  those 
that  do  better  rely  on  the  minimalist  ap- 
proach, the  score  and  the  inning.  At 
Wrigley  you  can  see  the  whole  pattern 
unfold  before  your  eyes. 

Now  that  I  think  of  it,  my  youngest 
daughter,  Alison,  is  the  only  one  who 
never  attended  a  baseball  game  in  iitero. 
She  is  also  the  only  one  who  doesn't  have 
much  interest  in  the  game,  and  the  only 
one  who  has  never  spent  a  summer  after- 
noon in  Wrigley  Field.  She  has  many  vir- 
tues, but  no  one  is  perfect. 

When  the  sun  reaches  the  point  where 
it  shines  on  our  box,  it  begins  to  cast  the 
shadow  of  the  third  base  stands  onto  the 
field.  There  is  always  a  moment  when  the 
pitcher's  mound  is  in  the  shadow  of  the 
upper  deck,  and  homeplate  is  in  the 
shadow  of  the  lower  deck,  but  they  are 
divided  by  a  bright  splash  of  sunshine 
from  between  decks.  Those  are  the  mo- 
ments in  which  hard-throwing  relief  pitch- 
ers delight  and  batters  grip  their  bats 
tighter  and  try  to  squint  through  the  pat- 
tern of  light  and  dark.  Today  there  is  a 
new  element,  a  filagree  of  shadow  stretch- 
ing out  toward  second  base.  It  doesn't 
explain  the  bad-hop  grounder  off  the  bat 
of  Luis  Alicea  that  eludes  the  surehanded 
Ryne  Sandberg  and  costs  the  Cubs  the 
game  in  10  innings.  It  doesn't  explain 
anything,  but  it  bespeaks  the  change  that 
creeps  across  this  field  and  my  life  like 
the  shadows  of  evening. 


Dr.  William  J.  McGill  is  vice  president  of 
the  college,  dean  of  faculty  and  publisher 
and  poetry  editor  o/Spitball  magazine. 


10       The  Valley 


Going  to 
Bat  for 

Spitball 

A  college  VP,  Bill  McGiU 
has  become  an  MVP  for 
baseball's  one  and  only 
literary  magazine. 


By  Greg  Bowers 


L 


Baseball  has  played  a  central 
role  in  Bill  McGill  's  life. 


ooking  back,  it  was  a  perfect 
connection.  A  happy  accident. 
In  the  fall  of  1992,  Dr.  Wil- 
liam J.  McGill,  vice  president 
and  dean  of  Lebanon  Valley 
College,  had  been  toying  with  the  idea 
that  he  might  like  to  start  a  baseball  liter- 
ary magazine,  featuring  the  best  in  base- 
ball poetry,  fiction  and  art. 

Meanwhile  in  Cincinnati,  Mike  Shan- 
non, editor  of  Spitball  (a  magazine  that, 
coincidentally,  featured  the  best  in  baseball 
poetry,  fiction  and  art)  was  looking  for  help. 

"I  had  known  that  Spitball  existed," 
McGill  said,  picking  up  the  story.  "But  I 
had  never  seen  it.  Then  I  came  across  a 
reference  to  it  in  a  (St.  Louis)  Cardinal 
publication."  McGill,  a  lifelong  Cardinal 
fan,  wrote  to  Shannon  and  quickly  signed 
on  as  a  subscriber. 

In  one  of  the  first  issues  he  received,  he 
noticed  an  advertisement.  Spitball  was  look- 
ing for  partners,  investors  and  editors. 

"Why  start  from  scratch  if  it's  already 
there?"  McGill  thought. 

"We  needed  some  new  blood,"  Shan- 
non explained.  Spitball,  published  since 
1981,  has  held  a  significant,  if  less  than 
frontline,  place  in  publishing  as  the  only 
magazine  devoted  exclusively  to  baseball 
literature.  For  example,  the  magazine  first 
published  some  of  W.P.  Kinsella's  short 
stories.  Kinsella  is  the  author  of  Shoeless 
Joe,  the  book  that  was  later  made  into  the 
classic  baseball  film  "Field  of  Dreams." 

Still,  for  the  last  several  years.  Shannon 
found  himself  the  only  person  behind  the 
magazine,  saddled  with  all  of  the  work 
involved  in  publishing  the  quarterly. 

"I  was  getting  personally  discouraged. 
There's  a  lot  of  work  involved  in  putting 
out  a  magazine,  and  I  was  getting  tired  of 
it.  And  I  didn't  have  anybody  to  share  it 
with.  When  Bill  came  on  and  Mark  Schraf 


[another  partner  who  joined  the  team]  came 
on,  it  gave  me  some  people  to  share  the 
magazine  with. 

"I'm  grateful  to  have  Bill  McGill  as  part 
of  Spitball,"  he  said.  "He's  a  first-class 
guy,  and  I  really  mean  that  sincerely.  He 
has  a  genuine  interest  in  baseball  and  a  love 
of  baseball  literature.  I  consider  Bill's  com 
ing  into  Spitball  a  godsend." 

During  the  last  year,  the  magazine  has 
made  many  improvements.  The  new  part- 
ners immediately  computerized  the  opera- 
tion to  streamline  the  workload  and 
upgraded  the  quality  of  printing.  They've 
also  added  more  fiction  and  art  to  a  maga- 
zine that  once  heavily  emphasized  poetry. 
Circulation  has  jumped  from  approxi- 
mately 350  to  600.  The  goal  is  to  reach 
1,000. 

For  McGill,  now  publisher  and  poetry 
editor,  the  partnership  is  ideal. 

Bom  in  St.  Louis,  McGill  has  fond 
memories  of  listening  to  the  Car- 
dinals, particularly  during  the 
1940s — the  glory  days  of  the  franchise. 

"I  can  remember  going  out  at  8  o'clock 
and  playing  baseball  all  day  until  I  got 
called  in  at  night,"  he  said.  "One  of  the 
most  vivid  memories  of  my  youth  is  lis- 
tening to  the  Cardinals  and  the  Browns  in 
the  World  Series  (1944)." 

McGill  eventually  left  St.  Louis,  but  his 
heart  stayed  with  the  Cardinals.  He  still 
tunes  them  in,  late  at  night,  when  far-away 
radio  stations  sometimes  become  audible: 
"I  listen  to  those  games  all  the  time,  through 
the  static  and  everything  else." 

Although  baseball  has  always  owned  a 
piece  of  his  heart,  the  sport  was  forced  to 
take  a  back  seat  to  professional  pursuits. 
McGill  received  his  bachelor's  degree  with 
honors  in  history  and  general  studies  from 
Trinity  College  and  his  master's  and  doc- 


torate in  history  from  Harvard. 
He  is  widely  published,  with 
34  scholariy  papers,  25  essays, 
15  poems  and  42  book  reviews. 
Most  of  his  writing 
stemmed  from  his  academic 
interests.  Recently  though, 
with  his  involvement  in  Spit- 
ball, he  finds  his  thoughts,  and 
his  writing,  moving  toward 
baseball.  His  first  baseball 
piece,  a  memoir,  was  published  last  sum- 
mer in  the  magazine.  "It's  given  me  an 
opportunity  to  use  the  imagery  to  talk  about 
some  things  that  are  of  interest  to  me — 
including  baseball." 

His  most  recent  baseball-related  piece 
is  called  "The  Secret  of  Walter  Johnson's 
Balls"  a  short  story  that  occurred  to  him 
when  he  read  that  a  collection  of  baseballs, 
once  owned  by  Johnson  and  signed  by 
presidents  of  the  United  States,  had  disap- 
peared from  the  Baseball  Hall  of  Fame. 

"I  invented  this  story  about  what  had 
happened,"  he  said,  smiling  broadly.  "It 
was  just  sheer  fancy,  but  I  had  a  marvel- 
ous time  with  it." 

McGill  also  played  a  role  in  the  sym- 
posium "Baseball  as  a  Cultural  Icon,"  held 
recently  at  Lebanon  Valley  (see  page  2). 
Baseball,  more  than  any  other  sport,  it 
seems,  invites  thoughtfulness  and  creafiv- 
ity.  McGill  finds  that  aspect  attractive. 

"It  is  true  that  baseball  has  had  a  kind 
of  impact  on  American  culture,"  he  noted 
as  he  explained  some  of  the  thought  be- 
hind the  symposium.  "It  has  shaped  it.  It 
has  influenced  our  language. 

"Of  course,  that's  also  an  issue  that  can 
be  debated:  Does  it  really  represent  a  truth 
in  American  society,  or  is  it  simply  an 
escape?" 

Still,  obviously  this  intellectual  approach 
is  not  for  everybody.  McGill  appreciates 
that,  too.  "There  are  a  lot  of  people  who  do 
not  want  anything  to  do  with  this  intellec- 
tualism  of  the  game,"  he  said.  "But  that's 
the  beauty  of  baseball.  You  can  look  at  it  in 
all  kinds  of  different  ways." 

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Spring/Summer  1994       11 


The  Girls 
of  Summer 

Women  have  been  playing 
baseball  for  over  100  years. 
Finally,  people  are  noticing. 
And  some  day,  there  may 
be  more  places  on  the  roster 
for  the  Michele  Bottomleys. 

By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 

Picture  a  tousle-haired  and 
freckle-faced  seven-year-old 
who  lives  to  play  ball  and 
spends  every  spare  minute  oil- 
ing a  glove  or  throwing  a  ball 
against  the  back  stoop.  Think  of  that  kid 
growing  up,  traveling  up  and  down  the 
coast  of  California  on  the  tournament  cir- 
cuits, playing  on  the  high  school  team, 
heading  out  to  Indiana  for  the  national 
championships  and  then  going  on  to  pitch 
in  college. 

In  your  mind's  eye,  you're  seeing  a 
ballplayer  with  a  bright  future,  maybe 
even  a  crack  at  the  major  leagues.  Some- 
one with  an  incredible  fast  pitch  and  an 
intense  dedication  to  the  game.  Someone 
like  Michele  Bottomley  ('94),  who  played 
on  the  Dutchwomen  softball  team.  For 
that  is  her  story.  She  lacks  only  one  thing 
for  that  bright  future:  a  Y  chromosome. 

For  Michele,  graduation  in  May  was 
the  close  of  her  ballplaying  career.  "I've 
been  playing  since  I  was  seven,"  she  says 
"honing  my  skills  and  learning  to  be  the 
best  player  I  can  be.  Now  maybe  I  can 
coach  one  day,  or  play  on  a  recreational 
league.  You  can  dust  off  your  glove  and 
bat  and  run  around  for  an  hour  and  a  half. 
But  it's  not  at  the  same  level  of  chal- 
lenge." 

Michele' s  experience  is  not  unique. 
Participation  in  women's  collegiate  soft- 
ball  has  grown — in  the  last  year  alone, 
the  NCAA  reports,  13  teams  and  239  play- 
ers have  been  added  to  the  rosters  nation- 
wide. But  women's  softball,  like  women's 
baseball,  has  a  questionable  future  and  a 
rich  but  uncelebrated  past. 

Even  as  the  Lebanon  Valley 
Dutchwomen  dusted  off  their  equipment 
and  tallied  up  the  final  scores  for  their 
1993  season,  the  Colorado  Silver  Bullets 
were  having  their  first  shot  at  pro  ball. 
This  professional  team  of  women  soft- 


The  Lebanon  Valley  Dutchwomen  and  softball  Coach  Blair  Moyer  go  through  the  ritual 
"laying  on  of  hands"  before  a  big  game. 


ball-tumed-baseball  players,  sponsored  by 
Coors  Brewing  Company,  has  played  its 
first  few  games  before  an  optimistic  and 
curious  public.  "This  is  great  news  for 
female  athletes,"  says  Kathleen  Christie, 
spokeswoman  for  the  Silver  Bullets,  "just 
to  know  that  there's  a  future  in  women's 
baseball.  This  is  just  the  beginning." 

In  reality,  the  beginning  goes  back 
quite  a  ways.  It's  not  that  it  took  women 
so  long  to  start  playing  baseball — they've 
been  playing  professionally  for  over  100 
years.  It's  just  that  it's  taken  so  long  for 
people  to  notice. 


WESTERN 
BLOOMER  GIRL 

BASE  BALL  CLUB 


BLOOMER 
GIRLS 

vs. 
LOCAL  CLUB 


NAUD  NELSON 

CH«HO!0«  UDY  PITCKIP  if  THl  WOPUi 

-JING  THE  LADIES '•  CHIlORf H   SEAT5  rOR  All 


An  1890s  poster  reflects  the  fact  that  the 
sport  has  had  its  women  champions,  too. 


For  women,  professional  baseball  dates 
back  to  1892,  when  "baseball  clubs" 
known  as  the  Bloomer  Girl  teams  began 
barnstorming  the  country.  The  teams,  with 
both  women  and  men  players,  competed 
against  all-men's  teams  and  eventually 
sent  many  of  their  male  players  up  to  the 
major  leagues.  "They  were  immensely 
popular,"  says  Barbara  Gregorich,  base- 
ball writer  and  author  of  Women  at  Play: 
The  Story  of  Women  and  Baseball 
(Harcourt  Brace,  1993).  "They  were 
booked  years  in  advance  and  were  always 
invited  back  to  whatever  city  they  played 
in.  The  only  problem  is,  nobody  talks 
about  it.  The  knowledge  just  resides  in 
people  here  and  there.  When  somebody 
says,  'My  great-aunt  played  professional 
baseball,'  their  friends  just  reply,  'Of 
course  she  didn't.  You  must  mean  soft- 
ball.'" 

But  even  before  the  Bloomer  Girls, 
college  girls  were  battling  with  academia 
for  the  simple  right  to  put  together  a  base- 
ball game.  The  women  at  Vassar  College 
scandalized  the  residents  of  Poughkeepsie, 
New  York,  by  playing  baseball,  a  most 
unladylike  game,  on  the  lawns  outside 
their  dormitories.  The  first  collegiate 
teams  were  formed  in  Vassar  in  1866, 
and  Smith  College  followed  suit  within  a 
few  years.  When  women  joined  in  men's 
baseball  games  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, however,  school  authorities 
countered  with  a  ban  on  female 
ballplaying  and  ordered  local  police  to 
arrest  anyone  defying  it.  Today  there  is 
no  collegiate  baseball  for  females, 


12       The  Valley 


(From  top)  In  a  tight  game  of  women's 
Softball  with  Franklin  &  Marshall,  fans 
cheer  on  a  Dutchwoman  at  bat  while  her 
teammates  wait  their  turn. 


although  several  colleges  have  women 
playing  on  their  men's  teams.  Lebanon 
Valley's  first  women's  team  began  to  play 
in  1984. 

But  more  than  10,000  women  partici- 
pate in  college  softball. 

That's  where  the  Bloomer  Girls  ended 
up,  too.  They  played  to  packed  houses  up 
until  1934,  then  became  victims  of  the 
Great  Depression,  shunted  off  into  the 
less  expensive  and  easier-to-play  game  of 
Softball. 

However,  the  advent  of  World  War  n 
meant  a  shortage  of  men  to  play  profes- 
sional baseball.  So  Philip  K.  Wrigley,  a 
Chicago  businessman,  organized  the 
All-American  Girls  Baseball  League 
(AAGBL)  which  inspired  the  1992  movie 
A  League  of  Their  Own.  The  league  played 
for  12  seasons,  from  1942  to  1954. 
Before  its  demise,  the  AAGBL  was  an 
incredible  opportunity  for  hundreds  of 
women,  says  Gregorich,  "who  were  lead- 
ing lives  in  which  they  were  paid  to  play 
baseball  six  months  out  of  the  year." 

But  those  great  opportunities  were  tem- 
pered by  even  greater  disappointments. 
Especially  bitter  was  the  case  of  Jackie 
Mitchell,  who  played  in  the  minors  for  17 
years.  She  struck  out  Babe  Ruth  and  Lou 
Gehrig  in  a  1 93 1  exhibition  game.  Though 
she  signed  a  contract  with  the  Double-A 
Chattanooga  Lookouts,  her  contract  was 
later  rescinded  because,  according  to  the 
minor-league  baseball  commissioner, 
baseball  was  too  strenuous  for  women. 
"What  has  stood  in  the  way  of  women 
playing  baseball,"  says  Gregorich,  "is  not 
the  abilities  of  the  women  but  organized 
baseball  itself." 


Softball:  A  "Girl's  Game"? 

When  baseball  was  closed  to  women  in 
the  early  1950s,  they  turned  to  softball, 
an  indoor  game  devised  in  the  1 870s  that 
originally  used  a  boxing  glove  tied  up 
with  a  string  and  a  broom-handle  bat. 
Today,  across  the  country,  618  colleges 
offer  women's  softball,  and  many  offer 
athletic  scholarships  to  these  female  play- 
ers. And  participation  in  amateur  and  rec- 
reation leagues  is  growing  by  leaps  and 


bounds.  Of  the  4.5  million  softball  play- 
ers in  the  United  States,  47  percent  are 
female — among  youths  playing  the  sport, 
the  percentage  jumps  to  an  astonishing 
95  percent. 

And  with  the  advent  of  women's 
fast-pitch  softball  in  the  1996  Summer 
Olympics,  the  game  is  opening  up  an- 
other opportunity  for  female  athletes. 
"There's  a  tremendously  bright  future  for 
women  in  softball,"  says  Ron  Babb  of  the 
Amateur  Softball  Association,  the  gov- 
erning body  for  more  than  260,000  teams 
nationwide.  "There  are  now  a  lot  of  out- 
standing college  programs,  and  women 
can  compete  at  the  highest  levels  in  the 
nationals.  We  have  outstanding  players 
like  Lisa  Fernandez,  who  plays  for  UCLA 
and  for  the  Raybestos  Brakettes." 


But  the  question  persists:  Are  women 
playing  softball  in  such  great  numbers 
because  they  were  denied  the  opportunity 
to  play  baseball  as  children?  The  Little 
League  admitted  girls  to  their  teams  only 
in  1974,  but  not  without  a  fight,  and  won't 
say  how  many  girls  presently  participate. 
But  some  experts,  including  Gregorich, 
are  skeptical.  "A  year  after  girls  won  the 
right  to  play  Little  League,  they  started 
softball  for  girls,  and  the  overwhelming 
majority  of  girls  were  shunted  into  soft- 
ball." 

With  few  girls  participating  in  scho- 
lastic or  collegiate  baseball,  softball  is 
often  considered  an  inferior  "girl's  game." 
Though  softball  enthusiasts  insist  that  it's 
a  unique  game  and  reject  the  notion  that 
it's  simply  baseball  for  women,  the  sport 
has  become  a  metaphor  for  sexual  stereo- 
types. "Playing  hardball"  implies  mascu- 
line power  and  directness,  while  Softball's 
underhand  pitch — actually  a  very  efficient 
way  to  propel  a  ball — is  often  referred  to 
disparagingly  as  "throwing  like  a  girl." 
Michele  Bottomley,  who  pitched  for  LVC, 
puts  it  this  way:  "We  walk  a  very  fine 
line — either  they  tell  you  that  you  play 
like  a  girl  or  you  act  like  a  man." 

Many  women  who  play  softball  by 
default  have  always  dreamed  of  playing 
baseball.  "Fast-pitch  softball  is  great," 


Spring/Summer  1994        13 


says  Sharon  Ephraim,  president  of  the 
American  Women's  Baseball  Association 
(AWBA),  "but  when  I  first  started  play- 
ing baseball,  I  said  'Wow!  This  is  fun!" 
I've  followed  baseball  ever  since  I  was  a 
kid,  and  it's  great  to  be  able  to  play  it." 


Big-League  Dreams 

When  Lisa  Martinez  of  the  Silver  Bullets 
threw  out  the  first  ball  at  the  game  on 
May  8,  1994,  she  brought  underhand 
pitching  back  to  professional  baseball,  and 
big-league  dreams  back  to  little  girls 
everywhere.  Yet  female  baseball  players 
never  really  went  away — they've  been 
playing  here  and  there  in  remote  fields  all 
along,  just  for  the  love  of  the  game. 

Judi  Kahn,  37,  is  a  lawyer  by  day; 
when  5  p.m.  comes  around,  she's  a  first 
baseman  for  the  Gators,  one  of  the  three 
Chicago-area  teams  in  the  AWBA.  Now 
with  chapters  in  Michigan,  Florida,  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  and  Long  Island,  the  league, 
founded  in  1988,  is  doing  well — but  it 
hasn't  been  easy.  "It's  been  an  incredible 
struggle,"  Kahn  attests.  "If  women's  base- 
ball dies,  it  will  be  because  they  don't 
really  care.  But  there  are  just  too  many 
women  who  have  always  dreamed  about 
this.  When  we  started  out,  we  only  had 
five  baseballs  and  one  set  of  catcher's 
equipment,  and  we  worked  the  fields  our- 
selves." 

Adds  Kahn,  "But  women  keep  com- 
ing up  who  want  to  play,  who  want  to 
make  sure  that  college  is  not  the  end  of 
the  line.  I  still  believe  there  will  be 
women's  baseball — maybe  not  in  every 
city,  but  enough  for  people  to  take  advan- 
tage of  it  if  they  want  to." 

Though  the  AWBA  has  yet  to  track 
down  any  corporate  sponsorship  ("We 
sent  out  over  500  letters,"  says  Kahn, 


Michele  Bottomley  ( '94)  hopes  women  in 
baseball  will  become  more  than  spectators. 

"and  got  back  zilch"),  they've  had  their 
share  of  successes.  Right  now,  they've 
secured  a  great  new  field  in  a  park  along 
Lake  Michigan,  as  well  as  a  regular  col- 
umn in  a  local  sports  magazine.  One  of 
the  highlights  of  the  league's  history  was 
its  July  1991  exhibition  game  at  Comiskey 
Park.  "It  was  the  first  time  women  took 
the  field  at  a  major- league  ballpark,"  says 
Kahn.  "We  were  supposed  to  play  for 
three  innings  or  one  hour,  but  the  pe-^ple 
were  really  enjoying  it,  so  we  went  on  for 
longer." 


A  Long  Way  to  Home  Plate 

Kahn,  like  some  other  women  players, 
has  mixed  feelings  about  women's  pro- 
fessional baseball.  "It's  heartening,"  she 
says,  referring  to  the  brand-new  Silver 
Bullets,  "that  women  can  play  baseball 


and  get  paid  for  it.  But  really,  this  is  more 
of  a  dog-and-pony  show.  With  really  good 
women  playing  good  men,  the  men  will 
dominate — it  has  to  do  with  physique, 
size  and  the  dimensions  of  the  field.  I'm 
four-ten  and  a  half,  and  I  steal  bases  like 
crazy.  But  if  you  put  a  man  on  the  pitcher's 
mound,  there's  no  way  I'm  gonna  steal!" 

It  will  be  a  while,  she  believes,  before 
women  will  play  professional  baseball  on 
a  bigger  scale.  The  reasons  range  from 
lack  of  opportunity  at  the  youngest  ages 
to  baseball's  tradition-steeped  culture.  But 
one  reason  she  won't  cite  is  male  chau- 
vinism. "We're  never  going  to  be  able  to 
make  it  without  men's  cooperation,"  she 
explains.  "Besides,  like  they  say,  you 
don't  spit  in  the  well  you  want  to  drink 
from." 

Other  baseball  experts,  like  Paul  White, 
editor  of  the  USA  Today  Baseball  Weekly, 
think  that  women's  day  in  baseball  is  over- 
due. "It's  probably  taken  longer  than  it 
should,"  he  says.  "The  only  observation 
I've  heard  is  that  women  are  not  able  to 
do  power  hits.  A  bigger  problem,  I  think, 
is  that  women  haven't  had  the  opportu- 
nity to  play  against  reasonable,  progres- 
sive competition.  You've  got  to  have  the 
same  competitive  challenges  and  oppor- 
tunities when  you're  10 — not  just  when 
you're  21." 

Meantime,  after  graduation,  Michele 
Bottomley  headed  off  toward  a  career, 
probably  teaching  history,  and  maybe 
coaching  girls'  Softball  somewhere  along 
the  way.  But  for  her,  playing  ball  for  a 
living  is  still  a  dream.  "I  would  be  happy 
as  a  clam,"  she  says,  "if  I  could  play  ball 
and  get  paid  for  it.  A  boy  always  has  that 
hope  of  going  to  the  majors,  dangling 
before  him  like  a  carrot — and  even  if  he 
doesn't  make  the  majors,  maybe 
he  could  make  the  minors.  He  can  get 
involved  in  the  sport  he  loves  without 
sacrificing  income.  Women  just  don't 
have  that  option." 

But  in  the  future — who  knows?  The 
girls  of  summer  may  one  day  arrive  at  the 
Valley  with  their  gloves  and  bats  and  years 
of  training,  and  play  baseball  for  their 
alma  mater  alongside  the  men.  It  could 
happen.  Says  Barbara  Gregorich,  "The 
future  really  does  look  brighter  for  women 
in  sports.  I'm  90  percent  optimistic,  but 
we've  got  to  be  patient.  After  all,  look  at 
the  Mets.  They  were  all  professional  play- 
ers, but  it  took  them  a  long  time  to  come 
up  out  of  the  mud." 

Nancy  Fitzgerald  is  a  Lebanon-based 
freelance  writer  who  contributes  to 
national  education  and  consumer  publi- 
cations. 


14       The  Valley 


The  Long 
Good-bye 

To  his  dismay,  a  baseball 
junky  finds  that  for  every- 
thing there  is  a  season. 

By  Dr.  Arthur  Ford  ('59) 


A 


fter  44  years  of  continuous 
fast-pitch,  slow-pitch,  over 
40/over  50  baseball/soft- 
ball,  I  finally  hung  it  up. 
Recently  I  decided  that  I 
would  not  go  through  my  annual  ritual  of 
starting  the  new  season.  I  have  mixed 
feelings  about  it,  but  mostly  I  ask  myself 
why.  After  all,  I  can  still  make  the  play  at 
first.  I  can  still  go  to  right  field.  I  can  still 
go  deep  in  the  hole  and  come  up  firing  a 
rocket  to  third. 

Well,  maybe.  Maybe  not.  I  probably 
know  the  answer  to  that  question.  But 
another  question  is  even  more  compel- 
ling. What  kept  me  going  all  those  years, 
especially  after  the  first  dozen  or  so?  What 
is  it  about  baseball  that  grabs  and  holds, 
like  a  magnet,  like  a  lover? 

There  are  probably  as  many  reasons  as 
there  are  lovers  of  the  game.  But  let  me 
try  a  few. 

Baseball  is  a  game  for  all  ages.  In  fact, 
over  the  years  the  thing  I  liked  most  about 
baseball  is  that  it  ages  with  you.  As  the 
years  went  by  and  it  took  me  longer  and 
longer  to  bend  over  for  a  ground  ball,  the 
ball  came  at  me  more  and  more  slowly. 
As  my  throw  to  first  took  longer,  so  did 
the  base  runner.  The  miracle  is  not  that  90 
feet  between  bases  is  absolutely  perfect, 
always  has  been  and  always  will  be,  but 
that  it's  absolutely  perfect  for  the  majors 
and  for  the  over-50  church  league  as  well. 

The  symmetry  of  all  aspects  of  the 
game  is  appealing.  Two  strikes  and  you're 
out  would  have  ruined  the  game  genera- 
tions ago.  Sixty  feet,  six  inches  from 
mound  to  the  plate  is  perfect.  Sixty  feet 
five  inches,  and  batters  would  have  died. 
Sixty  feet  seven  inches,  and  pitchers 
would  have  died. 

But  baseball  is  more  than  symmetry. 
All  through  those  years  I  never  lost  the 
love  of  playing  the  game.  How  can  you 
not  love  a  game  whose  ultimate  goal  is  to 
arrive  home?  Other  sports  have  their 
bombs  and  their  slam  dunks.  Baseball  has 


its  fair  territory,  its  outfield,  its  safe  at 
first.  Oh  yes,  it  also  has  its  errors,  but 
that's  only  human,  as  Alexander  Pope 
would  say.  And,  true,  it  does  have  its 
steals,  but  they're  not  really  steals,  more 
like  pretend  steals.  The  bases  always  stay 
there,  ready  for  the  next  player. 

In  a  way,  I  love  even  more  than  the 
game.  I  love  the  standing  around,  even 
before  the  game  begins.  There's  nothing 
like  standing  in  the  outfield,  talking  with 
a  friend  about  the  Phillies  or  the  weather 
or  Plato  during  batting  practice.  If  the 
ball  comes  close  enough,  you  catch  it.  If 
not,  someone  else  will.  There  are  always 
plenty  of  people  standing  around  the 
outfield. 

I  also  love  the  standing  around  during 
the  game.  Basketball  players  never  stand 
around;  they  run  frantically  up  and  down 
the  court.  Football  players  stand  around, 
in  huddles,  concentrating  on  arcane  ar- 
rangements of  players,  both  defensive  and 
offensive,  before  trying  to  dismantle 
someone.  But  baseball  players  stand 
around  just  to  stand  around,  during  a 
game.  They  must  pay  attention,  of  course, 
but  mostly  they  just  stand  around,  espe- 
cially the  outfielders.  I  always  envied 
outfielders. 

Baseball  players  stand  around  just 
enough,  never  too  much.  In  England,  I 
watched  a  cricket  match.  One  of  the  play- 
ers stood  for  three  hours  and  never  touched 
the  ball.  That  was  too  much  standing 
around  for  me.  Again,  baseball  is  perfect, 
not  too  much  and  not  too  little. 


And  then  I  love  the  pace  of  base- 
ball. Standing  around  contributes 
to  the  pace,  but  pace  is  also  what 
happens  and  when  and  how  often.  It's  an 
unhurried  game,  reflecting  the  pace  of  a 
bygone  era,  of  a  childhood  richer  now  in 
memories.  Someone  once  pointed  out  that 
a  baseball  game  theoretically  could  go  on 
forever.  Others  have  pointed  out  that  some 
have.  I  like  the  long  slow  games,  prefer- 
ably going  into  extra  innings,  not  too 
many,  maybe  two  or  three.  I  like  being 
able  to  talk  about  the  game  while  playing 
it,  to  analyze  a  pitch  or  determine  just 
what  kind  of  pitch  you  might  get  with  the 
count  at  three  and  two,  and  a  man  on 
second. 

Mostly,  I  guess,  what  I  like  about  base- 
ball is  that  it  starts  in  springtime,  goes 
through  the  summer,  and  ends  when  all 
sensible  people  move  indoors.  Each  spring 
is  a  renewal,  and  baseball  is  part  of  that 
renewal.  Somehow  I  always  felt  younger 
when  the  season  began  and  I  dug  my 
glove  out,  put  on  my  hat,  and  headed  for 
the  practice  field,  usually  some  play- 
ground somewhere.  My  glove  was  always 
a  bit  stiff.  So  was  my  hat.  So  was  I.  But 
we  all  loosened  up  with  a  little  use.  And 
off  we  went  on  the  idealistic  wings  of  a 
new  season.  This  could  be  the  year  I 
finally  hit  a  grand  slam. 

I  never  did,  but  that  doesn't  matter. 
Despite  failure  after  failure,  once  or  twice 
during  any  season,  somehow,  miracu- 
lously, it  all  came  together.  Someone  hit 
a  ball,  sharply,  (miracle)  down  the  line  at 
third.  I  lunged  for  the  ball,  picked  it  clean 
(miracle),  pivoted  on  my  left  foot,  threw 
across  my  body,  and  fired  a  shot  to  first 
(miracle).  In  that  one  continuous,  fluid 
movement,  perfecdon  was  achieved.  It 
didn't  happen  often,  but  when  it  did,  when 
it  all  came  together  perfectly  like  that,  it 
made  the  season.  I  could  live  for  a  year  on 
one  of  those  moments.  And  the  possibil- 
ity of  that  happening  one  more  time  kept 
me  going  for  44  years. 

Then,  just  when  it  should,  it  al- 
ways began  to  turn  cold,  and 
the  season  was  over.  We  knew  it 
had  to  happen,  but  somewhere  inside  we 
hoped  it  never  would.  We  hoped  that  we 
could  go  on  forever,  spitting,  scratching, 
hitting,  fielding,  running — an  endless 
summer.  But  we  also  knew  that  baseball 
was  too  much  like  life.  It  had  to  end,  and 
so,  after  44  years,  it  did.  Just  like  that. 


Dr.  Arthur  Ford  ('59)  is  associate  dean 
for  international  studies  and  a  professor 
of  English. 


Spring/Summer  1994       15 


At  the  Pony  Baseball  Game 

1.  PEP  TALK 

Coach  says  all  the  kids  should  come  to  the  bench. 

He  tells  them  it's  a  BIG  GAME. 

Six  or  seven  kids  nod. 

Some  watch  the  other  team  take  infield. 

Some  get  grim  and  look  down 

at  pants  that  bag  to  the  ankles 

or  stretch  just  barely  to  the  knees 

and  across  the  thighs  like  sausage  casings. 

Stripes  of  various  un-matching  colors  peak  out 

from  beneath  most  of  their  stirrup  socks, 

half  of  which  are  on  backwards. 

One  boy  has  no  socks  at  all. 

Their  adjustable  caps,  pulled  in  to  the  last  notch, 

make  a  kind  of  second  beak  in  back. 

The  bills  are  bent  and  bear  footprints. 

Several  faces  sprout  bubbles. 

Coach  says  how  hard  they  have  worked  in  practice 

how  much  better  they  have  gotten, 

how  much  better  yet  they  will  have  to  play 

if  they  really  want  to  beat  this  team. 

Do  they? 

Do  they  really  want  It? 

Six  of  seven  kids  nod. 

Some  keep  looking  down. 

One  looks  around  for  something. 

One  gives  a  small  wave  to  his  mom. 

One  makes  rabbit  ears  behind  Bryan. 

Coach  says  no  messing  around  tonight. 

This  is  a  BIG  GAME! 

Now— do  they  have  anything  to  say? 

Mike:  "Can  I  catch?" 

Mark:  "Can  I  play  second?" 

Jason:  "Can  I  go  to  the  bathroom?" 

Josh:  "Who  took  my  glove?" 

Bryan:  "Coach,  you  have  a  mosquito  on  your  forehead 


At  the  Pony  Baseball  Game 

2.  ERRORS 

First  inning. 

Kids  a  little  tense. 

Coach  surveys  his  defense, 

waves  his  left  fielder  over — over — 

just  a  little  more— good. 

Now  at  least  he  is  in  fair  temtory. 


A  perfect  little  third  hop 

right  through  the  shortstop's  legs. 

Coach  swallows,  tries  to  think 

of  something  uncritical  to  shout  out. 

Too  late. 

The  shortstop  shouts  in, 

"Don't  worry,  Coach,  I'll  get  the  next  one!" 

A  25-minute  bat  for  the  other  team. 

Still  just  one  out. 

Coach  waves  his  right  fielder  back 

for  their  number  four  guy,  again. 

Right  fielder  waves  to  Coach. 

Coach  waves. 

Kid  waves, 

starts  to  walk  toward  the  infield,  crying. 

Coach  calls  time, 

trots  out, 

kneels, 

smells  the  problem. 

At  the  Pony  Baseball  Game 

3.  RALLY!  RALLY! 

Walks,  wild  pitches,  and  errors  mostly 

but  some  real  hits,  too, 

and  head-first  slides  with  dirt  down  the  pants 

and  signs  and  over-throws  and  spitting  and  everything. 

Coach  tells  the  batters  they  can  do  it. 

Batters  agree.  Parents  cheer. 

Bench  chants,  gives  high-fives  after  each  run, 

makes  "We're  Number  One!"  signs,  even  though 

this  will  only  tie  them  for  second  if  Water  Works  loses. 

Jeff  slides  home 

just  in  case  there  had  been  a  throw, 

then  casually  tosses  his  helmet, 

accepts  high  congratulations  all  down  the  bench, 

finds  his  cap  and  glove,  takes  a  seat, 

turns,  still  grinning,  to  Mark 

and  asks, 

"Who's  ahead?" 


Reprinted  from  Porches  2  by  Dr.  Philip  Biiimgs, 
professor  of  English  at  Lebanon  Valley  College  and 
chair  of  the  department. 


16 


The  Valley 


NEWSMAKERS 


New  trustees  on  board 

Four  new  members  have  joined  the  Leba- 
non Valley  Board  of  Trustees:  Erich 
Linker,  senior  vice  president  and  group 
advertising  director  for  The  New  York 
Times;  Patricia  Brown,  associate  coun- 
cil director  of  spiritual  nurture  and  evan- 
gelism for  the  Central  Pennsylvania 
Annual  Conference  of  the  United  Meth- 
odist Church;  Gail  Sanderson,  LVC 
assistant  professor  of  accounting;  and 
Deborah  Bullock,  a  senior  American 
studies  major.  The  board  also  awarded 
special  recognition  to  Gerald  Kauffman, 
who  has  served  as  a  trustee  for  30  years. 
He  was  named  trustee  emeritus. 

Linker  serves  on  the  Council  of  Direc- 
tors for  the  New  York  chapter  of  the  Boy 
Scouts,  and  on  the  boards  of  the  Men's 
Association  of  Garden  City  and  the  Ameri- 
can Advertising  Federation.  He  holds  an 
advanced  management  certificate  from 
Stanford  University,  a  bachelor's  degree 
in  business  and  a  teaching  certificate  from 
Lebanon  Valley,  and  a  master's  degree  in 
business  administration  from  Hofstra  Uni- 
versity. He  was  honored  by  Lebanon  Val- 
ley in  1990  with  the  Distinguished 
Alumnus  Award. 

Brown,  a  Harrisburg  resident,  is  also 
an  ordained  elder  in  the  United  Methodist 
church  and  a  certified  tutor  for  the 
Laubach  Literacy  Council.  She  is  a  mem- 
ber of  numerous  organizations,  including 
the  Association  for  Clinical  Pastoral  Edu- 
cation, Inc.,  the  Northeastern  Jurisdic- 
tional Town  and  Country  Association  and 
the  Academy  for  Evangelism  in  Theo- 
logical Education.  She  is  on  the  board  of 
the  Center  for  Spiritual  Formation  at  the 
United  Methodist  Church  in  Harrisburg, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  founding  board 
for  the  Women's  Rape  and  Crisis  Center 
in  Sullivan  County.  Brown  holds  an 
associate's  degree  in  Biblical  studies  and 
Christian  education  from  Northeastern 
Christian  Junior  College,  a  bachelor's  de- 
gree from  Lock  Haven  State  University 
and  a  master  of  divinity  from  Lutheran 
Theological  Seminary. 

Sanderson,  a  Manheim  resident,  joined 
the  college  in  1983.  She  holds  a  bachelor's 
degree  from  William  Smith  College  and 


an  M.B.A.  from  Boston  University.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  National  Association 
of  Accountants,  chair  of  the  Audit  Com- 
mittee for  St.  Luke's  Episcopal  Church 
and  a  member  of  the  Manheim  Central 
School  District  Strategic  Planning  Com- 
mittee. 

Bullock,  a  resident  of  Salem,  New  Jer- 
sey, has  been  active  on  campus  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  college's  volleyball  team, 
symphonic  band,  chamber  choir  and  con- 
cert choir.  She  has  been  secretary  and 
president  of  concert  choir  and  president 
of  LVC  s  chapter  of  Sigma  Alpha  Iota,  an 
international  music  fraternity.  In  addition, 
Bullock  is  a  presidential  leadership 
scholar. 

Kauffman,  a  Carlisle  resident,  works 
part-time  as  officer  of  the  courts  for 
Cumberland  County  and  as  pastor  emeri- 
tus of  Grace  United  Methodist  Church  in 
Carlisle,  where  he  served  for  32  years.  He 
has  actively  served  in  numerous  denomi- 
national and  interdenominational  minis- 
terial associations  and  on  councils  of 
churches.  He  is  former  president  of  the 
Red  Cross  of  Cumberland  County  and 
vice  president  of  the  United  Way. 
Kauffman  holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
history  from  Lebanon  Valley,  and  a 
bachelor's  degree  in  divinity  from  Yale 
University.  He  also  studied  at  Princeton 
Seminary  and  Oxford  University,  and  re- 
ceived an  honorary  doctorate  of  divinity 
from  Lebanon  Valley  in  1965. 

Welcome,  newcomers 

Ben  D.  Oreskovich  has  joined  the  col- 
lege as  assistant  controller,  replacing 
Michael  Gallagher.  Oreskovich  was  for- 
merly employed  at  KPMG  Peat  Marwick 
in  Harrisburg.  He  earned  a  bachelor's 
degree  in  professional  accountancy  at 
Penn  State  University  in  Harrisburg. 

David  Rodney  Brigham  has  been  ap- 
pointed assistant  professor  of  art  and 
American  studies  and  director  of  the  col- 
lege gallery.  Brigham  was  formerly  a  re- 
search associate  for  the  art  division  at  the 
Huntington  Library  in  California  and  an 
adjunct  assistant  professor  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Southern  California.  He  holds 
bachelor's  degrees  in  English  and  account- 


ing from  the  University  of  Connecticut,  a 
master's  degree  in  American  studies/mu- 
seum studies  and  a  doctorate  in  American 
studies,  both  from  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania. 

Stan  Furmanak,  who  has  served  as 
part-time  reference  librarian  for  several 
years,  is  now  on  the  staff  full-time  as  the 
systems  and  reference  librarian.  Furmanak 
has  a  bachelor's  degree  in  English  litera- 
ture from  the  University  of  Scranton,  and 
master's  degrees  in  English  literature  from 
the  Catholic  University  of  America  and 
in  library  science  from  Southern  Con- 
necticut State  University.  He  is  a  leader 
in  the  Great  Books  Discussion  Group  of 
Lebanon  County  and  a  volunteer  at  the 
Pennsylvania  State  Museum. 

S.  Jane  Owens  has  been  named  direc- 
tor of  the  Lebanon  Valley  Child  Care  and 
Learning  Center.  Owens  was  formerly  di- 
rector and  teacher  at  the  Little  Lambs 
Pre-School  in  Browns  Mill,  New  Jersey. 
She  holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in  elemen- 
tary education  from  Mansfield  Univer- 
sity and  a  master's  degree  in  the 
administration  of  early  childhood  pro- 
grams from  Nova  University.  She  also 
attended  the  Institute  for  Motivational  Liv- 
ing, where  she  received  certification  as  a 
behavioral  analyst. 

Cliff  Myers  has  joined  the  athletic 
staff  as  coach  of  men's  and  women's  ten- 
nis, replacing  Dale  Light.  Myers  coached 
tennis  at  Millersville  University  for  four 
and  a  half  years,  and  is  in  his  eighth  year 
as  tennis  director  for  the  Hershey  Coun- 
try Club.  He  will  coach  the  women  with 
the  assistance  of  Dee  Jennings,  adjunct 
professor  of  accounting.  Jennings  has 
served  as  an  advisor  and  coach  to  the 
team  since  Light's  departure  in  the  fall. 

Tenure  and  promotions 

Dr.  Howard  Applegate,  chair  and  asso- 
ciate professor  of  history  and  American 
studies,  has  been  granted  tenure,  along 
with  Dr.  Susan  Atkinson,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  education;  Dr.  Gary  Grieve- 
Carlson,  assistant  professor  of  English; 
Sharon  Raffield,  associate  professor  of 
sociology  and  social  work;  and  Barbara 
Wirth,  assistant  professor  of  accounting. 


Spring/Summer  1994       21 


Dr.  Phyllis  Dryden  has  been  ap- 
pointed associate  professor  of  English, 
and  Dr.  Robert  Leonard  has  been  named 
associate  professor  of  management. 

Articles  published 

Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  associate  profes- 
sor of  psychology,  published  two  articles 
titled  "Ego  Defense  Mechanism"  and 
"Clinical  Interviewing,  Testing  and  Ob- 
servation" in  MagilVs  Survey  of  Social 
Science:  Psychology  .  The  text  is  a  refer- 
ence book  on  psychology  written  for  the 
general  public.  Cullari  is  on  a  one-year 
sabbatical  writing  a  book  titled  Treatment 
Resistance. 

Dr.  Allan  F.  Wolfe,  professor  of  biol- 
ogy, presented  a  paper  on  "The  Morpho- 
logical and  Biochemical  Characterization 
of  Artemia  Sperm"  at  the  annual  joint 
meeting  of  the  American  Society  of  Zo- 
ologists, the  American  Microscopical  So- 
ciety and  the  Crustacean  Society  in  Los 
Angeles. 

Wolfe  presented  his  research  at  a  sym- 
posium, "The  Biology  of  the  Branchio- 
poda."  The  symposium  featured  17 
speakers,  including  researchers  from 
Korea,  Belgium,  South  Africa,  Italy  and 
Germany. 

Wolfe  also  participated  in  a  crusta- 
cean biodiversity  workshop  at  the  Natu- 
ral History  Museum  of  Los  Angeles 
County.  Scientists  from  Japan,  Korea, 
Australia,  Belgium,  Germany  and  the 
United  States  discussed  the  Crustacean 
Biodiversity  Survey,  a  project  that  at- 
tempts to  locate  and  classify  crustaceans 
around  the  world.  Wolfe  has  studied  the 
distribution  of  clam  shrimp  and  fairy 
shrimp  in  Pennsylvania  and  has  collected 
organisms  from  a  variety  of  locations. 

Timothy  Erdman,  adjunct  instructor 
of  music,  published  an  in-depth  article  on 
Milton  Hershey  in  the  April  1 994  issue  of 
American  History  Illustrated  Magazine. 
The  article,  titled  "Hershey:  Sweet  Smell 
of  Success,"  chronicled  the  rise  of  Hershey 
and  his  milk  chocolate  factory.  The  ar- 
ticle was  written  in  commemoration  of 
this  year's  centennial  anniversary  of  the 
Hershey  Foods  Corporation. 

Dr.  Michael  Day,  chair  and  associate 
professor  of  physics,  published  a  paper 
on  "Uncorrected  Factors  Approximation 
and  a  Comparison  of  Theories  for  Pre- 
dicting Thermal  Properties"  in  the  April 
issue  of  Physical  Review. 

Dr.  John  Heffner,  chair  and  profes- 
sor of  religion  and  philosophy,  published 
a  bibliographical  essay  on  recent  philoso- 
phy in  the  chapter  titled  "Contemporary 


Dr.  Gary  Grieve-Carlson 


Barbara  Wirth 


Dr  Phyllis  Dryden 


Issues  in  Philosophy"  in  the  new  14th 
edition  of  The  Reader's  Adviser,  Vol.  4 — 
The  Best  in  Philosophy  and  Religion, 
edited  by  Robert  Ellwood. 

Jim  Woland,  director  of  the  Authors  & 
Artists  series,  wrote  an  article  for  the  win- 
ter 1994  issue  of  Arts  Ink,  a  publication  of 
the  Mid  Atlantic  Arts  Foundation.  The 
article  was  on  "Presenting  Rural  Arts." 

National  talks 

Dr.  Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  politi- 
cal science,  was  the  guest  speaker  on  a 
one-hour  talk  show  on  KRLD  Radio  in 
Dallas.  The  interview,  which  reviewed 


the  foreign  policy  of  the  Clinton  adminis- 
tration during  its  first  year,  was  distrib- 
uted through  the  15-station  Texas  Radio 
Network. 

Brown  was  also  interviewed  on 
Pittsburgh's  station  KDKA  Radio  regard- 
ing North  Korea's  nuclear  program.  In 
addition,  he  was  quoted  in  a  USA  Today 
article  on  the  North  Korean  nuclear  crisis. 

Presenters  in  psychology 

The  following  psychology  students  and 
professors  presented  papers  at  the  65th 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Eastern  Psycho- 
logical Association  in  Providence,  Rhode 


22       The  Valley 


Island,  in  April: 

Dr.  Steven  Specht,  senior  Donna 
Smoyer,junior  Jennifer  Emery  and  jun- 
ior Elizabeth  Seibert:  "Positive  and 
Negative  Human  Taste  Contrast  After  a 
One- Week  Inter- Trial  Interval." 

Specht  and  R.J.  Tushup:  "Dispelling 
Psychological  Misconceptions  May  De- 
crease Interest  in  Psychological  Issues." 

Specht,  Tushup,  Dr.  Jan  Pedersen 
and  senior  Jennifer  Willett:  "Relax... 
Psychologists  are  Kind  and  Beautiful." 

Pedersen  and  junior  Stacey 
Hollenshead:  "Self-acceptance  and  Body 
Image  Among  Young,  Middle-aged  and 
Elderly  Females  Enrolled  in  Aerobic  Ex- 
ercise Programs." 

In  addition,  several  of  the  department's 
undergraduates  took  the  initiative  to  sub- 
mit paper  abstracts  to  the  psychology  de- 
partment at  the  University  of  Scranton  for 
presentation  at  the  Ninth  Annual  Univer- 
sity of  Scranton  Undergraduate  Psychol- 
ogy Conference.  The  following  papers  were 
accepted  for  presentation  in  February: 

Senior  George  Hollich:  "Factors  In- 
fluencing Sequential  Recall:  The  Verbal/ 
Visual  Debate." 

Senior  Teresa  Scianna,  Willett  and 
Specht:  "Tactile  Stimuli  Are  Recalled 
More  Than  Auditory  Stimuli  in  a  Short- 
Term  Memory  Task." 

Junior  Jennifer  Emery,  senior  Donna 
Smoyer  and  Specht:  "Positive  and  Nega- 
tive Human  Taste  Contrast  After  a  One- 
Week  Inter- Taste  Interval." 

Science  educator 

Mary  B.  McLeod  has  been  named  coordi- 
nator of  the  Lebanon  Valley  College 
Science  Education  Partnership. 

McLeod,  who  joined  the  college  in 
December,  was  formerly  an  environmental 
science  instructor  at  Valley  High  School  in 
Kentucky.  While  serving  at  the  high  school, 
she  organized  partnerships  with  the  Louis- 
ville Gas  and  Electric  Company,  the 
Louisville  Museum  of  History  and  Science, 
the  Metropolitan  Sewer  District,  the  Louis- 
ville Nature  Center,  Rohm  &  Haas,  Murray 
State  University  and  the  University  of  Ken- 
tucky. In  1993,  she  served  as  a  presenter  for 
numerous  professional  conferences,  includ- 
ing the  National  Association  of  Partner- 
ships in  Education  Conference  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

McLeod  is  a  member  of  the  Kentucky 
Science  Teachers  Association,  the  National 
Science  Teachers  Association  and  the 
Regional  Biology  Alliance.  She  holds  a 
bachelor's  degree  in  environmental  micro- 
biology from  the  University  of  Kentucky 


and  teacher  certification  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Louisville,  and  has  pursued  graduate 
coursework  in  environmental  education  at 
the  University  of  Louisville. 

Professional  meetings 

Dr.  Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  politi- 
cal science,  participated  in  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  International  Studies  As- 
sociation held  recently  in  Washington, 
D.C.  He  served  as  chair  and  discussant  on 
two  panels,  "Foreign  Policy  Analysis"  and 
"Nuclear  Weapons  in  Asia." 

Dr.  Tom  Liu,  assistant  professor  of 
mathematical  sciences,  presented  a  paper 
titled  "Optimization/Simulation  Methods 
in  Modeling  Electrochemical  Reactions" 
at  the  Joint  Mathematics  Meetings  in  Cin- 
cinnati in  January. 

Dr.  Diane  Iglesias,  chair  of  foreign 
languages  and  professor  of  Spanish;  Dr. 
Jim  Scott,  professor  of  German;  and  Dr. 
Joelle  Stopkie,  associate  professor  of 
French,  attended  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Northeast  Conference  on  the  Teach- 
ing of  Foreign  Languages  in  New  York 
City.  The  theme  was  "Teaching,  Testing 
and  Assessment:  Making  the  Connection." 
Iglesias  gave  a  paper  titled,  "A  Collabo- 
rative Project  for  the  Creation  of  FLES 
Programs,"  based  on  the  foreign  language 
department's  current  pilot  program  at 
Our  Lady  of  the  Valley  in  Lebanon. 
Also  attending  the  conference  were 
Debbie  Stoudt  ('92)  and  senior  Becky 
Brown. 

Warren  Thompson,  associate  profes- 
sor of  religion  and  philosophy,  in  Decem- 
ber attended  by  invitation  the  inaugural 
International  Scholars'  Conference  of  the 
United  States  Holocaust  Research  Insti- 
tute in  Washington,  D.C. 

Paul  Heise,  assistant  professor  of 
economics,  in  March  attended  the 
Eastern  Economics  Association  Confer- 
ence in  Boston.  He  chaired  a  session  on 
Adam  Smith  and  the  history  of  economic 
thought  and  commented  on  a  paper  about 
NAFTA. 

Honored  for  service 

The  following  individuals  were  recog- 
nized for  their  service  to  the  college  dur- 
ing an  employee  recognition  banquet  on 
April  28. 

For  25  years:  Philip  Morgan,  associ- 
ate professor  of  music. 

For  20  years:  Marilyn  Boeshore,  secre- 
tary of  alumni  programs;  Dr.  David  Lasky, 
chair  and  professor  of  psychology;  and  Elsie 
Neefe,  buildings  and  grounds. 


For  15  years:  Ralph  Long,  buildings 
and  grounds;  Oscar  Reppert,  buildings 
and  grounds;  and  Linda  Summers,  sec- 
retary of  the  registrar's  office. 

For  10  years:  Judith  Fox,  buildings 
and  grounds;  Phyllis  Kulikowski,  build- 
ings and  grounds;  Chalmer  Reigle,  build- 
ings and  grounds;  and  Bonnie  Tenney, 
secretary  of  buildings  and  grounds. 

For  five  years:  Marie  Bongiovanni, 
assistant  professor  of  English;  Mark 
Brezitski,  admission  counselor  and  assis- 
tant coach  of  football;  C.  Paul  Brubaker, 
director  of  planned  giving;  Richard 
Charles,  vice  president  for  advancement; 
Elaine  Feather,  director  of  continuing 
education;  Patrick  Flannery,  head  bas- 
ketball coach;  Jo  Lynn  Gerber,  secretary 
for  development;  Susan  Greenawalt,  sec- 
retary for  continuing  education;  Jeanne 
Hey,  assistant  professor  of  economics; 
Pamela  Hillegas,  secretary  of  physical 
education  and  athletics;  Alice  Kohr,  sec- 
retary of  student  services;  Margaret  Lahr, 
director  of  housekeeping;  Diana 
Levengood,  secretary  of  annual  giving; 
Bonita  Lingle,  secretary  of  the  music 
department;  Dr.  Jan  Pedersen,  assistant 
professor  of  psychology;  Cindy  Plasterer, 
secretary  of  admission;  Robert  Riley, 
executive  director  of  computing  and  tele- 
communications; Harry  Schools,  desk 
supervisor  at  Arnold  Sports  Center;  Jay 
Sorrentino,  buildings  and  grounds;  Dr. 
Steven  Specht,  assistant  professor  of 
psychology;  Dr.  Joelle  Stopkie,  associate 
professor  of  French;  and  Diane  Wenger 
('92),  director  of  alumni  programs. 

The  retirees  honored  were  Harold  L. 
Fessler,  director  of  maintenance,  served  the 
college  for  10  years;  Oscar  J.  Reppert, 
building  and  grounds,  served  for  15  years; 
and  Charlotte  J.  Rittle,  secretary  of  man- 
agement, served  the  college  for  22  years. 


Book 


reviewer 


Dr.  Barbara  J.  Denison,  associate  direc- 
tor of  continuing  education  at  the 
Lancaster  Center,  published  a  book  re- 
view of  The  Mennonite  Mosaic  by  Howard 
Kauffman  and  Leo  Driedger.  The  review 
appeared  in  the  winter  1993  issue  oi Soci- 
ology of  Religion:  A  Quarterly  Review. 

Registrar  elected 

Karen  Best,  registrar,  was  elected  to  a 
two-year  term  on  the  Nominations  and 
Elections  Committee  of  the  Middle  States 
Association  of  Collegiate  Registrars  and 
Officers  of  Admissions. 


Spring/Summer  1994       23 


NEWS      BRIEFS 


Grants  support  science 

The  National  Science  Foundation  (NSF) 
has  awarded  Lebanon  Valley  two  major 
grants — one  of  them  the  largest  in  the 
college's  history. 

That  grant,  for  $560,498,  will  support 
the  Science  Education  Partnership  for 
South  Central  Pennsylvania.  The  project 
is  aimed  at  strengthening  the  teaching  of 
science  in  grades  4-8  and  sustaining  the 
interest  of  students  with  science  aptitudes. 
Lebanon  Valley  will  be  linked  with  15 
area  school  districts  in  the  counties  of 
Lebanon,  Lancaster,  Cumberland,  Dau- 
phin and  Perry,  as  well  as  the  Milton 
Hershey  School. 

A  science  resource  center  will  be 
established  at  the  college.  It  will  give 
teachers  experience  with  science  equip- 
ment and  will  also  help  them  design,  test 
and  share  new  classroom  strategies  and 
innovative,  hands-on  experiences. 

In  the  first  year,  a  summer  institute 
will  train  a  group  of  32  teachers,  orga- 
nized into  teams  with  college  faculty  and 
students.  In  the  second  summer  institute, 
these  teachers  will  act  as  peer  leaders  to 
train  32  more  teachers. 

Six  Lebanon  Valley  faculty  mem- 
bers— four  from  chemistry,  biology  and 
physics  and  two  from  elementary  educa- 
tion— will  teach  in  the  institutes  and  pro- 
vide summer  and  pro  bono  school-year 
support  for  teachers. 

The  second  NSF  grant,  for  $150,000, 
has  been  awarded  to  Dr.  Richard 
Cornelius,  Chemistry  Department  chair, 
to  develop  a  new  curriculum  for  an  intro- 
ductory course  called  "Chemistry  Domes- 
ticated." It  will  teach  students  in  terms  of 
materials  and  activities  familiar  to  them. 
For  example,  the  curriculum's  chapters 
have  such  titles  as  "Soil  and  Fertilizer," 
"The  Laundry  Room"  and  "Blood." 

Two  chemistry  students — Christina 
Walters  and  Allen  Keeney — will  work 
with  Cornelius  on  the  three-year  project. 

The  Gallery  opens 

The  Gallery  at  Lebanon  Valley  College,  a 
combination  art  gallery  and  small  recital 
hall,  was  "christened"  by  two  groups  this 
summer.  The  New  Generation  Concert 


Visitors  to  the  new  Suzanne  H.  Arnold  Art  Gallery  admire  paintings  in  "Quartet,  "  the 
gallery's  inaugural  exhibit,  which  featured  four  Pennsylvania  artists. 


Series  featured  up-and-coming  young 
concert  artists  on  Thursdays  from  June  9 
through  July  7,  and  an  art  exhibit  spot- 
lighted four  leading  Pennsylvania  artists, 
June  9  through  July  10. 

The  facility,  which  incorporates  the 
Suzanne  H.  Arnold  Art  Gallery  and 
Zimmerman  Recital  Hall,  was  formerly  a 
Lutheran  church  that  dates  back  to  1890. 
The  brick  structure  has  been  renovated 
with  an  eye  to  maintaining  its  architec- 
tural integrity. 

The  gallery  is  the  gift  of  Suzanne  H. 
Arnold  of  Lebanon,  founding  chair  of  the 
college's  Art  Committee.  The  recital  hall 
is  the  gift  of  Nancy  Cramer  Zimmerman 
('53)  and  her  husband,  Richard,  formerly 
CEO  of  Hershey  Foods.  The  reception 
area  was  donated  by  Farmers  Trust  Bank 
in  Lebanon. 

Look  for  more  details  in  the  Fall  issue, 
which  will  cover  the  arts. 

Library  project  on  track 

In  mid-August,  groundbreaking  for  the 
college's  new  library  will  take  place,  with 
construction  expected  to  begin  Septem- 
ber 1.  All  library  books  will  be  moved, 
starting  July  15.  Library  operations  will 
shift  to  the  West  Dining  Room  and  Faust 
Lounge,  with  storage  in  the  lounge  areas 
of  Mary  Capp  Green  and  Vickroy  resi- 
dence halls. 

The  structure  should  be  ready  for  use 
by  mid- January  1996. 


Summer  spruce-up 

A  variety  of  renovations  and  improve- 
ments are  under  way  this  summer.  The 
major  ones  include: 

•  four  new  tennis  courts  on  the  athletic 
fields  adjacent  to  the  Arnold  Sports  Cen- 
ter; 

•  a  facelift  for  the  Mund  College  Center 
lobby; 

•  a  scene  shop  for  the  newly  renovated 
Leedy  Theater; 

•  an  elevator  accessible  to  the  handicapped 
in  Miller  Chapel; 

•  air-conditioning  for  Mund  and  the  first 
level  of  the  Carnegie  Building; 

•  a  new  ceiling,  carpeting  and  paint  for 
the  Blair  lobby  and  first  floor  office  area; 
and 

•  new  roofs  on  Hammond  and  Keister 
residence  halls. 

Little  Shop  of  Horrors 

The  campus  attracted  state  and  national 
attention  when  it  hosted  the  Third  Annual 
Eastern  Carnivorous  Plant  Convention  on 
June  3  and  4. 

Experts  from  Virginia,  New  York,  New 
Jersey,  Maryland,  Pennsylvania  and 
Canada  gathered  on  campus,  as  did  some 
local  residents  who  also  have  a  fondness 
for  Venus  Flytraps  and  other  insect-eat- 
ers of  the  plant  kingdom. 

An  Associated  Press  reporter  and  pho- 
tographer covered  the  convention,  and  its 


24       The  Valley 


organizer.  Dr.  Stephen  Williams,  profes- 
sor of  biology,  was  quoted  in  The  Wash- 
ington Post. 

LVC:  A  "best  value" 

The  college  is  featured  in  the  1994  edi- 
tion of  The  Guide  for  Students  and  Par- 
ents to  101  of  the  Best  Values  in  America 's 
College  and  Universities.  The  456-page 
guide,  published  by  the  Center  for  Stud- 
ies in  College  Enrollment  and  Tuition 
Issues,  named  Lebanon  Valley  as  one  of 
the  "best  regional  values." 

Another  guide.  The  Ultimate  College 
Shopper's  Guide,  lists  Lebanon  Valley  as 
one  of  the  top  10  liberal  arts  colleges  in 
terms  of  chemistry  research  productivity. 
Others  making  the  list  are  Amherst  Col- 
lege, College  of  Wooster,  Franklin  & 
Marshall  College,  Harvey  Mudd  College, 
Hope  College,  Lafayette  College,  Pomona 
College,  Pratt  Institute  and  Williams 
College.  The  publisher  is  Cader  Books. 

Fees  rise  slightly 

The  1994-95  tuition,  fees,  room  and  board 
are  3.8  percent  higher — the  smallest  in- 
crease in  more  than  a  decade.  Total 
charges  for  resident  students  will  be 
$19,000,  an  increase  of  $700  over  the 
previous  year.  The  new  total  includes 
$14,245  for  tuition  and  fees  and  $4,755 
for  room  and  board. 

The  college  also  announced  plans  to 
increase  scholarships  and  financial  aid  by 
20  percent.  Currently,  some  86  percent  of 
students  receive  scholarships  or  need- 
based  awards. 

A  winning  staff 

The  College  Relations  Office  walked 
away  with  a  plethora  of  prizes  at  the  Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania  Women  in  Communi- 
cations, Inc.  (WICI)  Awards  dinner  in 
May. 

The  WICI  contest  is  the  largest  in  the 
region,  and  the  college  was  competing 
against  businesses,  newspapers,  maga- 
zines and  other  institutions. 

Three  first-place  prizes  went  to  Judy 
Pehrson,  director  of  college  relations  and 


editor  of  The  Valley:  for  a  publication 
regularly  edited,  for  a  special  issue 
(Spring/Summer  1993,  on  international 
links)  and  for  the  issue's  cover  photo/ 
design  of  masks. 

Laura  Ritter  received  a  first  place  for 
her  story  in  the  magazine  about  Dan 
Massad,  "A  Magnificent  Obsession" 
(Winter  1993).  Nancy  Fitzgerald  received 
a  third  place  for  her  article,  "The  A-maz- 
ing  Don  Frantz"  (Fall  1993). 

First  place  in  the  public  relations  cam- 
paign category  went  to  Pehrson  and  Mary 
Beth  Strehl,  director  of  media  relations, 
for  the  "Amazing  Maize  Maze."  They 
received  a  second  place  for  the  AIDS 
Quilt  Exhibit  publicity. 

Jane  Paluda,  director  of  publications, 
and  John  Deamer,  director  of  sports  in- 
formation, received  an  honorable  men- 
tion for  the  athletics  recruitment  poster, 
"A  Lifetime  of  Winning  Starts  Here." 

Second  place  in  the  two-color  brochure 
category  went  to  Jim  Woland,  director  of 
Authors  &  Artists. 

Paluda  and  Pehrson  received  a  first 
place  for  the  black-and-white  M.B.A.  ad 
that  ran  in  Time,  Newsweek,  Sports  Illus- 
trated, U.S.  News  &  World  Report  and 
newspapers  in  Harrisburg,  Lancaster, 
Lebanon  and  Reading.  They  also  received 
second  place  for  the  1993-94  continuing 
education  marketing  campaign. 


Captures  first  prize 

The  14th  Annual  Quiz  Bowl  brought  over 
500  of  the  brightest  students  throughout 
south  central  and  southeastern  Pennsyl- 
vania to  campus  in  March.  Harrisburg 
Academy  took  home  the  Clay  Memorial 
Cup,  named  in  memory  of  the  competi- 
tion's founder,  Dr.  Robert  Clay,  former 
college  registrar,  who  died  in  1988. 

Phonathon  a  success 

Passing  its  goal  of  $160,000  in  April, 
the  1993-94  phonathon  finished  the 
spring  semester  with  a  total  of  $173,672 
in  pledges.  This  is  the  first  time  that  the 
goal  has  been  met  since  the  project  was 
brought  in-house  three  years  ago.  The 
student  staff,  directed  by  Shanna  Gemmill, 
associate  director  of  annual  giving,  con- 
tacted alumni,  parents  and  friends  of  Leba- 
non Valley  for  nine  weeks  during  the  fall 
and  from  January  through  April. 

Student  callers  were  Mary  Bullock  ('97), 
Suzanne  Enterline  ('96),  Jackie  Flanders 
('97),  Dori  Fleischer  ('94),  Brian  Hughes 
('97),  Colleen  McClafferty  ('96),  Heather 
Miller  ('96),  Karen  Neal  ('97),  Elizabeth 
Nissley  ('97),  Jodie  Smith  ('96),  Charles 
Ulrich  ('97)  and  Shannon  Weller  ('95). 
Managers  were  Jennie  Bullock  ('94)  and 
Catherine  Crissman  ('94). 


Student  phonathon  callers  reached  out  to  alumni,  parents,  and  friends  across  the  country. 


Spring/Summer  1994       25 


SPORTS 


By  John  B.  Deamer,  Jr. 

Director  of  Sports  Information  and 

Athletic  Development 

Women's  Basketball  (11-13) 

First-year  head  coach  Peg  Kauffman 
guided  the  Lebanon  Valley  women  to  their 
first  double-digit  winning  season  since 
the  mid-1980s. 

Junior  Amy  Jo  Rushanan,  a  member 
of  the  Middle  Atlantic  Conference  (MAC) 
All-Commonwealth  League  team,  led 
Lebanon  Valley  in  scoring  with  14.7 
points  per  game.  She  also  led  her  team  in 
treys  made  (39),  free  throws  made  (75), 
blocks  (29)  and  steals  (60). 

Junior  guard  Joda  Glossner  turned  in  a 
strong  performance  as  well.  Glossner  led 
her  team  in  scoring  in  five  of  the  last  nine 
games  of  the  season.  She  led  all  starters 
in  shooting  74  percent  of  her  free  throws. 

Junior  center  Michelle  White  led  the 
team  with  6.8  rebounds  per  game  to  give 
the  Dutchwomen  a  strong  inside  game. 

Three  freshmen  developed  as  the  sea- 
son unfolded.  White  and  Jennifer  Emerich 
each  scored  16  points  in  a  late-season  63- 
61  overtime  win  at  Muhlenberg,  one  of 
the  biggest  victories  of  the  year  for  the 
Dutchwomen. 

First-year  guard  Melissa  Bleyzgis  pro- 
vided perimeter  shooting  and  spread  the 
ball  nicely  offensively.  Bleyzgis  led  the 
team  with  58  assists  and  added  25  steals. 

Tina  Teichman,  also  a  freshman  guard, 
provided  improved  play  off  the  bench,  a 
luxury  the  program  has  not  had  in  recent 
seasons. 

Their  biggest  win  of  the  season  came 
against  powerful  Susquehanna  in  Lynch 
Hall.  In  an  earlier  game,  in  Selinsgrove, 
the  Crusaders  had  had  their  way  in  all 
facets  of  the  game  for  a  100-55  win. 

One  month  later,  Lebanon  Valley 
played  its  best  defensive  game  of  the  year, 
for  a  50-37  upset  over  Susquehanna. 

The  women  finished  6-8  in  the  tough 
Commonwealth  League,  but  stayed  in  the 
league  playoff  hunt  until  the  last  week  of 
the  season,  a  new  and  welcome  feeling  in 
Lynch  Hall. 

Men's  and  Women's  Swimming 

Junior  Harold  Spangler  brought  home 


Lebanon  Valley's  first  MAC  gold-medal- 
winning  performance  in  the  five-year  his- 
tory of  the  program.  He  finished  first  in 
the  200  meter  freestyle  with  a  time  of 
1:46.72,  a  new  Dutchman  record. 

Spangler,  MVP  of  the  men's  team  and 
president  of  the  Class  of  1995,  finished 
second  in  two  other  events — the  200  meter 
backstroke  (1:59.58)  and  the  100  meter 
backstroke  (:53.72). 

He  also  sparkled  in  two  relay  events 
when  he  helped  three  fellow  swimmers  to 
a  second-place  finish  in  the  400  meter 
freestyle  relay,  and  a  third-place  finish  in 
the  800  meter  freestyle. 

Senior  Mike  Hain,  who  along  with 
Spangler  was  on  the  two  medal-winning 
relay  teams,  finished  third  in  the  1 00  meter 
freestyle  with  a  time  of  :50.36. 

Gina  Fontana,  a  freshman,  finished 
third  in  the  400  individual  medley  event 
at  the  MAC  championships  with  a  time  of 
5:04.83. 

Senior  Jenn  Bower  was  the  women's 
team  most  valuable  swimmer. 

The  men's  team  finished  with  a  6-3 
season,  and  the  women,  4-5.  The  two 
records  gave  Lebanon  Valley  its  most  suc- 
cessful swim  season  to  date. 

Wrestling 

Freshman  167-pounderBilly  Adams  took 
the  wrestling  program  at  Lebanon  Valley 
by  storm  this  season. 

He  got  off  to  a  great  start  at  the 
college's  24th  Annual  Petrofes  Invita- 
tional when  he  finished  first  in  the  177- 
pound  weight  class. 

At  the  end  of  the  season,  Adams  fin- 
ished second  in  the  167-pound  weight 
class  at  the  MAC  championships. 

In  the  NCAA  Eastern  Regionals,  he 
came  in  second  in  the  167-pound  weight 


Amy  Jo  Rushanan  ( '96)  is  poised  for  a  jump 
shot  in  the  game  against  Susquehanna. 


class,  which  qualified  him  for  the  NCAA 
championships  at  this  weight  class. 

Adams  finished  24-5  in  dual  meets  on 
the  season.  All  five  of  his  losses  were 
tournament  related. 

Four-year  letter  winner  Jason  Watts 
became  the  first  wrestler  at  Lebanon  Val- 
ley to  be  named  a  national  wrestling  aca- 
demic Ail-American.  To  be  included  on 
this  list,  a  wrestler  must  be  an  important 
part  of  his  team's  success  and  have  a 
grade  point  average  of  at  least  3.25. 

Watts  finished  fourth  at  the  MAC 
championships  and  third  at  the  NCAA 
Eastern  Regionals  in  the  190-pound 
weight  class. 

Heavyweight  Chad  Miller,  another 
four-year  letter  winner,  finished  his  ca- 
reer with  a  dual  meet  record  of  74-36-1. 
Miller  led  the  team  with  dual  meet  wins 
in  the  1993-94  season,  and  finished  third 
at  the  MAC  and  NCAA  Eastern  Regional 
championships. 

As  a  team,  Lebanon  Valley  finished 
fifth  in  the  MAC  championships. 

On  the  MAC  Honor  Roll 

The  following  Lebanon  Valley  students 
were  included  on  the  1993-94  MAC  Aca- 
demic Honor  Roll.  To  be  eligible,  a  stu- 
dent-athlete must  be  at  least  a  sophomore, 
carry  a  3.2  grade  point  average  and  be  a 
starter  or  significant  contributor  to  the  team. 

Men's  Basketball:  Craig  Shametzka, 
a  sophomore  political  science  major  from 
Fawn  Grove,  Pennsylvania. 

Women's  Basketball:  Joda  Glossner, 
a  junior  English/secondary  education 
major  from  Duncannon,  Pennsylvania. 

Men's  Swimming:  Harold  Spangler, 
a  junior  actuarial  science  major  from 
Leola,  Pennsylvania. 

Men's  Indoor  Track  and  Field:  Eric 
Huyett,  a  sophomore  science  major  from 
Elverson,  Pennsylvania.  Jeff  Koegel,  a 
junior  math/education  major  from  Wood 
Ridge,  New  Jersey. 

Women's  Indoor  Track  and  Field: 
Colette  Drumheller,  a  sophomore  elemen- 
tary education  major  from  Hazleton,  Penn- 
sylvania. 

Wrestling:  Jason  Watts,  a  senior 
elementary  education  major  from  Den- 
ver, Pennsylvania. 


26 


The  Valley 


ALUMNI      NEWS 


When  a  Diamond 
Was  a  Girl's 
Best  Friend 

By  Greg  Bowers 

Most  of  the  records  and  statistics  of  Willis 
McNelly's  baseball  days  at  Lebanon  Val- 
ley College  have  been  lost  to  time. 

But  Mary  Creighton  McNelly  ('19) 
remembers. 

This  spring,  Willis  McNelly  ('16)  re- 
ceived posthumously  an  athletic  citation 
for  his  outstanding  contribution  to  Leba- 
non Valley  College  athletics.  He  is  the 
very  first  to  receive  this  new  award. 

And  no  one  is  happier  than  Mary,  his 
widow,  who  at  the  age  of  97  wrote  a 
series  of  letters  encouraging  the  college 
to  remember  her  husband's  baseball  play- 
ing days  as  a  student. 

"I  was  thrilled  to  get  the  LVC  athletic 
plaque  this  week,"  she  wrote  to  Diane 
Wenger  ('92),  director  of  alumni  pro- 
grams, from  Sun  City,  California. 

"I  called  a  few  loved  ones  who  loved 
Willis  as  much  as  I  did — or  almost  any 
how.  Thank  you  so  much  for  reminding 
the  committee  of  Willis  McNelly's  past 
in  LVC  athletics.  He  was  all  spirit!" 

College  yearbooks  indicate  that 
McNelly  was  a  catcher  for  the  Lebanon 
Valley  baseball  team  from  1914  to  1916. 

While  not  the  team's  best  hitter, 
McNelly  found  other  ways  to  contribute. 
The  yearbook  indicates  that  "Mic,"  as 
he  was  called,  could  also  "talk"  a  good 
game. 

"He  is  peculiarly  adapted  to  his  posi- 
tion, not  only  thru  his  tenacity,  but  espe- 
cially by  his  volubility.  This  art  is 
particularly  useful  in  putting  the  batter  in 
a  state  of  mind  conducive  to  anything  but 
accuracy." 

According  to  Mary's  letters,  McNelly 
was  the  favorite  catcher  of  Lebanon  Val- 
ley pitchers  Harold  White  ('17)  and  Gus 
Zeigler('17). 

"They  were  'pitchers'  and  always 
refused  to  pitch  unless  McNelly  was 
behind  the  bat — catching,"  she  wrote. 

Mary  also  remembers  that  her  hus- 


Willis  McNelly  ('16)  was  a  good  catch  as 
well  as  a  good  catcher. 

band  once  caught  the  eye  of  Connie  Mack, 
the  legendary  manager  of  the  Philadel- 
phia Athletics. 

"At  one  time,  Connie  Mack  asked  some 
LVC  players  to  try  out  with  him,"  she 
wrote.  "He  said  to  McNelly,  'Go  home, 
gain  10  pounds  and  come  back  in  three 
years,  and  I  will  make  a  world  champion 
out  of  you.'" 

World  War  I  intervened,  however,  and 
McNelly  joined  the  Army  and  was  posted 
to  Washington,  D.C.  The  couple  were 
married  there  in  1918.  Mary  worked  for 
the  government,  and  during  the  last  eight 
months  of  their  stay  in  Washington,  an- 
swered "all  of  President  Wilson's  mail  on 
the  subject  relating  to  my  department." 

McNelly  went  on  to  earn  a  master's 
degree  in  education  at  Columbia  Univer- 
sity. He  taught  school  for  15  years  and 
was  a  high  school  principal  before  be- 
coming director  of  sales  training  for 
Stanley  Home  Products  in  the  West.  Mary 
became  a  homemaker  and  looked  after 
their  three  children  (she  now  has  25  great- 
grandchildren). 

McNelly  died  in  1978;  they  had  been 
married  for  60  years. 

And  although  his  statistics  may  be  lost, 
his  wife — through  her  letters — helps  keep 
his  memory  alive. 

The  college  yearbook  may  not  have 
foreshadowed  this  athletic  citation,  but  it 
certainly  did  foreshadow  their  lasting 
love — even  if  it  was  occasionally  distract- 
ing to  the  catcher:  "Mic  had  one  failing," 
noted  the  yearbook.  "He  always  had  in 


mind  the  numerous  letters  that  he  would 
receive  from  Mary,  the  source  of  his  radi- 
ant smile." 

Repaying  a  Debt 

By  Stephen  Trapnell  ('90) 


For  John  A.  Schoch,  Jr.  ('72),  serving  as 
president  of  Lebanon  Valley  College's 
Alumni  Council  offers  "a  way  to  say 
thanks" — and  have  some  fun  too. 

A  history  major  who  ended  up  in  the 
business  world,  Schoch  left  Lebanon  Val- 
ley with  two  things  he  still  values:  a  solid, 
adaptable  education  and  strong  friend- 
ships. 

"We  really  don't  realize  until  we're 
out  of  school  for  a  few  years  what  the 
Valley  has  meant  to  us,"  he  says. 

Schoch,  43,  recently  began  a  two-year 
term  as  president  of  the  Alumni  Council. 
He  views  his  post  as  an  opportunity  to 
repay  a  debt  of  gratitude  to  Lebanon  Val- 
ley, which  he  feels  set  him  on  the  right 
path  in  life. 

A  native  of  Springfield,  New  Jersey, 
Schoch' s  first  contact  with  the  college 
came  at  a  football  camp  just  after  his 
junior  year  in  high  school.  The  camp,  run 
by  a  former  LVC  athletic  director.  Bill 
McHenry,  convinced  Schoch  that  he  had 
found  the  college  that  was  right  for  him. 

"I  was  just  very  pleased  with  the  school 
and  the  location,  and — most  impor- 
tantly— the  people,"  Schoch  recalls.  "I 
felt  that  it  fit  me  the  best.  Probably  one  of 
the  major  reasons  to  go  to  a  school  of  that 
size  was  so  I  could  play  football." 

A  quarterback  at  the  Valley,  Schoch 
saw  his  football  seasons  cut  short  by  a 
recurrence  of  high  school  knee  injuries. 
He  played  part  of  his  freshman  and  sopho- 
more years,  then  had  to  abandon  the  game. 
He  also  played  golf  and  was  a  member  of 
Philo. 

Schoch  planned  a  career  in  teaching 
and  coaching  until  he  discovered  that  in 
those  days,  "I  couldn't  make  any  money 
doing  either  one." 

After  graduating  in  1972,  he  began  a 
career  in  business,  first  working  at  a 
Ford-Mercury  car  dealership  in  Elizabeth- 
town,  Pennsylvania.  He  later  moved  to 


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Union  Carbide  Corp.,  working  in  sales 
and  marketing,  and  as  an  export  manager 
for  the  Far  East.  In  1984,  he  became  gen- 
eral manager  of  chemical  operations  at 
the  Wolff  Products  Division  of  Mobay 
Corp. 

Since  1991,  Schoch  has  been  general 
manager  of  Optimol  Lubricants  Inc.,  of 
Piscataway,  New  Jersey.  The  company,  part 
of  Castrol  North  America,  manufactures 
and  sells  specialty  lubricants  for  industry. 
His  job  takes  him  around  the  world — to 
Europe,  Asia  and  South  America. 

"I  am  in  one  of  our  export  markets 
almost  every  two  months,"  he  states.  "The 
cultural  differences  are  striking,  especially 
the  way  different  countries  do  business. 
It's  fascinating  and  a  real  challenge." 

Schoch  says  his  background  as  a  his- 
tory major  has  helped  him  all  the  way 
through  his  career.  He  is  especially  grate- 
ful to  his  history  professors — particularly 
Dr.  Elizabeth  Geffen  and  Dr.  Richard 
Joyce — and  their  approach  to  teaching. 

"They  were  constantly  challenging  you 
to  think.  If  anything  else,  that's  been  the 
big  carry-through,"  he  explains.  "They 
really  challenged  you  to  use  your  head,  to 
interpret  what  is  being  said,  and  then  make 
some  judgments  about  it.  All  of  that  has 
helped  me  be  more  astute  in  my  everyday 
business  life." 

Schoch  has  been  involved  with  the 
college's  24-member  Alumni  Council  for 
the  past  four  years.  The  group,  part  of  the 
Alumni  Association,  meets  several  limes 
annually,  and  its  members  are  busy  with 
committee  work  throughout  the  year. 

Schoch  says  he  hopes  to  build  on  the 
work  done  by  past  presidents,  and  "to 
focus  on  getting  our  younger  or  new 
alums  involved  and  to  develop  some  kind 
of  tradition  so  that  these  new  grads  feel 
part  of  the  Alumni  Association  immedi- 
ately." 

The  council  recently  took  action  to 
help  members  of  the  Class  of  1994  make 
the  transition  to  alumni  status.  Schoch 
attended  the  senior  dinner,  and  the  coun- 
cil also  gave  special  T-shirts  to  graduates 
proclaiming  them  members  of  the  "LVC 
Alumni  Association." 

"We  want  to  make  participating  easy," 
he  .states,  "and  if  we  can  make  it  fun,  then 


John  Schoch  ( '72)  hopes  to  spark  the 
interest  of  inactive  alumni. 


we've  really  accomplished  something." 

Schoch  believes  many  alumni  prob- 
ably look  back  on  their  years  at  the  Val- 
ley as  some  of  the  best  times  of  their 
lives.  One  of  the  goals  of  the  council,  he 
said,  "is  to  provide  an  alumni  organiza- 
tion that  gives  grads  the  opportunity  to 
rekindle  that  good  feeling  we  all  got  from 
being  at  the  Valley." 

The  council  would  like  to  promote 
regional  events  so  alumni  don't  necessar- 
ily have  to  return  to  Central  Pennsylvania 
to  meet.  For  example,  he  points  out, 
alumni  in  the  Philadelphia  area  recently 
attended  a  mystery  dinner  theater. 

Schoch,  who  lives  in  Mechanicsville, 
Pennsylvania,  with  his  wife,  Jamie,  and 
three  daughters,  finds  it  easy  to  rekindle 
the  friendships  forged  at  the  Valley. 

"The  friends  I  developed  at  Lebanon 
Valley  are  and  will  be  friends  for  life,"  he 
states,  adding  that  this  is  probably 
because  "these  are  people  you  lived  with. 

"You  can  go  1 0  years  and  not  see  some- 
body," he  said,  but  when  you  meet  up 
again  with  that  classmate,  this  sense  of 
friendship  "brings  you  back  very  quickly 
to  where  you  were." 

It's  that  sense  of  comradeship,  of 
shared  experience,  that  helped  Schoch 
make  the  commitment  necessary  to  head 
the  Alumni  Council. 

"I'm  very  excited  to  be  part  of  what 
I  view  as  a  very  dynamic  time  in  the  life 
of  Lebanon  Valley,"  he  says.  "We  really 
have  a  lot  to  be  proud  of.  The  Valley 
continues  to  grow  in  stature  and  recogni- 
tion among  the  leading  small  colleges  in 
the  country." 

Stephen  Trapnell  ( '90)  is  a  staff  writer 
for  the  Lancaster  New  Era. 


Faith  in  the  Arts 

By  Laura  Chandler  Ritter 

As  founder  and  president  of  Metro  Arts, 
Mim  Warden  ('57)  has  for  over  a  decade 
helped  to  define  the  cultural  agenda  of 
the  central  Pennsylvania  region. 

But  as  a  student  at  Lebanon  Valley, 
Warden  never  dreamed  of  a  career  in  the 
arts.  "I  didn't  even  know  there  was  such  a 
thing,"  she  said.  She  married  while  still  in 
college  and  graduated  with  both  a  degree 
in  elementary  education  and  a  baby.  "I 
needed  to  work,"  she  said,  so  the  summer 
after  graduation  she  began  teaching  5th 
grade  in  Harrisburg.  "I  thought  teaching 
was  the  way  my  life  was  going  to  go." 

But  just  as  she  began  her  career.  Sput- 
nik went  into  orbit,  eventually  sending  her 
career  into  a  tailspin.  Sputnik  "had  a  very 
strong  influence  on  education,"  she  said. 
"I  was  a  teacher  who  always  had  the  kids 
singing,  or  writing  creatively  or  putting  on 
plays."  But  at  that  time,  "part  of  the  reality 
of  teaching  was  that  you  had  to  be  more  in 
tune  with  scientific  things  than  I  was  plan- 
ning to  be  or  had  the  training  to  be." 

Still  she  continued  teaching  for  nine 
years,  then  "quite  by  accident,"  she  began 
a  second  career,  this  time  in  radio.  "I  was 
at  WMST  Radio  in  Harrisburg,"  she 
recalls,  "owned  by  Market  Square  Presby- 
terian Church.  I  was  an  on-air  announcer 
and  interviewer,  and  then  I  became  pro- 
gram director  and  ultimately  interim 
manager  of  the  station  for  10  months.  I  did 
just  about  everything,  writing  documenta- 
ries, producing  them,  selecting  music, 
managing  a  volunteer  staff.  I  also  moved 
pianos,  learned  to  operate  the  equipment 
and  cleaned  the  place  up." 

Perhaps  most  importantly,  she  also  "got 
to  know  a  lot  of  people  in  the  community, 
the  arts  and  in  the  religious  community." 

After  a  second  nine-year  career,  Mim 
(short  for  Marian  Irene  Marcus,  her  maiden 
name)  started  over  yet  again.  "I  was  hired 
to  run  a  little  downtown  storefront  art  cen- 
ter in  1987,"  she  said.  "I'm  leaving  it  in 
1994  as  Metro  Arts,  the  local  arts  agency 
for  the  capital  region,  with  a  budget  of 
several  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

"We've  evolved  and  developed  in 


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The  Valley 


many  directions  over  the  years — last  year 
the  Allied  Arts  Fund,  which  is  a  spin-off 
of  Metro  Arts,  raised  $548,000  for  25  arts 
organizations." 

Warden  said  she  had  long  been  inter- 
ested in  developing  the  arts  in  Harris- 
burg,  but  "in  1983-84,  when  we  were 
forming,  we  found  business  support  of 
the  arts  in  the  Harrisburg  area  was  lag- 
ging well  behind  businesses  in  the  rest  of 
the  country." 

To  change  that.  Warden  said,  "we  cre- 
ated an  institution  that  supports  arts  orga- 
nizations but  is  led  by  the  business  leaders 
of  the  community." 

While  she  could  never  have  guessed 
that  her  years  at  Lebanon  Valley  would 
lead  to  the  various  paths  she  has  taken, 
Warden  said  the  solid  liberal  arts  educa- 
tion she  received  at  the  college  has  served 
her  well. 

"Sophomore  year  we  had  a  course  we 
then  called  humanities,"  she  said.  "Every- 
one was  required  to  take  it.  It  included  the 
arts  across  the  board — music,  literature, 
fine  arts,  philosophy,  all  in  the  context  of 
history.  You  studied  a  period  and  all  the 
social  forces  that  came  into  play,  as  they 
related  one  to  another.  For  me,  that  was 
what  we  would  now  call  an  'aha!'  experi- 
ence. To  see  how  everything  all  fit  to- 
gether was  extremely  enlightening  to  me. 

"I  tend  to  be  a  generalist,  to  think  in 
terms  of  relationships  and  people.  In  that 
course,  you  began  to  see  why  people 
behave  the  way  they  do. 

"I  also  think  it  gave  me  a  good  cultural 
background,  so  I  could  talk  to  anyone.  Even 
if  I  didn't  have  an  in-depth  understanding 
of  every  issue,  I  had  the  broad  outlines  of 
human  history,  enough  to  enable  me  to  put 
two  and  two  together,  to  understand  what 
forces  and  relationships"  bring  about  many 
of  the  things  that  happen. 

Warden  said  during  her  16  years  at 
Metro  Arts  "it  has  been  my  dream  to 
create  a  cultural  center  in  downtown  Har- 
risburg. Now,  if  state  funds  are  forthcom- 
ing, which  we  expect  they  will  be,  we 
should  finally  see  that  project  under  way 
before  long." 

The  center,  to  be  called  the  Capital  Cen- 
ter for  Science,  Education,  and  the  Arts, 
came  out  of  the  cultural  planning  process 


that  Metro  Arts  helped  to  spearhead  from 
1988  through  1990,  Warden  said. 

Some  people  might  slow  down  once  a 
long-held  dream  is  realized,  but  not  War- 
den. Her  home  in  Lower  Paxton  Town- 
ship— a  rambling  house  she  and  her 
second  husband  bought  in  1986  so  there 
would  be  room  for  her  five  children  and 
(now)  seven  grandchildren  to  visit  for 
the  holidays — is  on  the  market. 

Warden  recently  decided  to  give  up 
life  in  the  mid-state  for  life  in  New  York 
City,  where  she  plans  to  explore  ques- 
tions she  has  often  thought  about  but  for 
which  she  has  never  had  time. 

"I  am  interested  in  ways  to  bring  to- 
gether the  arts  community  and  the  faith 
community,"  she  said.  "How  can  we  cre- 
atively bridge  these  gaps  that  need  to  be 
filled,  and  how  can  we  put  the  power  of 


A  new  career  path  is  opening  up  for  Mini 
Warden  ( •57). 

the  arts  together  with  the  power  that  comes 
from  the  spiritual  dimension  of  life? 

"How  can  we  make  the  tools  for  the 
arts  more  a  part  of  the  experience  of  the 
faith  community?"  Warden  asks.  "There 
is  a  tremendous,  rich  history  of  arts  and 
religion  together,  but  what  does  that  mean 
in  the  2 1st  century?  What  does  it  mean  in 
terms  of  multicultural,  multimedia,  inter- 
active arts?  What  do  the  tools  of  the  arts 
have  to  say  to  the  contemporary  and  fu- 
ture church?  If  we  don't  look  at  some  of 
this,  we  will  lose  a  lot  of  avenues  for 
reaching  younger  people,"  Warden  said. 


"The  church  is  not  a  dying  institution, 
but  it  is  an  aging  one,  unless  we  take 
seriously  the  means  of  communications 
that  reach  younger  people,"  she  added. 

While  she  knows  the  questions,  she  is 
not  sure  where  the  answers  will  lead  her. 
"It's  like  hacking  a  path  through  the  for- 
est to  find  out  what's  in  there,"  she  said. 

If  the  path  is  anything  like  others  she's 
hacked  over  the  years,  what  is  inside  is  an 
enriched  and  enriching  cultural  life  for 
those  around  her. 

Laura  Chandler  Hitter  is  a  Lebanon-based 
freelance  writer  who  contributes  regu- 
larly to  The  Valley. 

Help  a  student 
steer  to  a  career 

Alumni  and  parents  in  over  100  fields  are 
being  asked  to  volunteer  as  career  advi- 
sors for  students,  announced  Dick  Lon- 
don ('65)  chairman  of  the  Career  Planning 
Committee  of  the  Alumni  Council.  This 
new  Career  Connection  is  a  joint  project 
of  the  Alumni  Association  and  the  Par- 
ents Council. 

Alumni  and  parents  of  current  students 
will  receive  information  on  the  "Career 
Connection"  this  summer,  along  with 
London's  letter.  He  is  asking  them  to  vol- 
unteer to  serve  as  career  advisors — by 
telephone  or  in  person  if  they '  re  nearby — 
or  to  provide  internships  for  LVC  stu- 
dents. When  students  return  to  campus 
this  fall,  they  will  be  able  to  use  the  com- 
puters in  the  career  resource  room  to  look 
up  names  and  addresses  of  the  alumni 
professionals  working  in  the  students'  area 
of  interest. 

Career  Connection  volunteers  may 
specify  the  numbers  of  contacts,  hours  of 
day  they  prefer  to  be  called  and  the  type 
of  inquiries  they  are  willing  to  handle 
from  students. 

London  is  the  president  of  Actex  Pub- 
lications in  Winsted,  Connecticut,  a  pro- 
ducer of  actuarial  science  study  materials. 
He  describes  the  Career  Connection  as  "a 
way  that  alumni  can  give  back  to  LVC  in 
appreciation  of  the  benefit  that  we  have 
derived  from  our  experience  there.  This 


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requires  very  little  time  or  money,  and 
could  be  very  beneficial  to  our  students." 
For  more  information  on  the  Career 
Connection,  or  to  volunteer  your  services 
as  a  career  counselor,  write  to  Dick  Lon- 
don, Actex,  140  Willow  St.,  P.O.  Box 
974,  Winsted,  CT  06098.  His  telephone 
is  (203)  379-5470.  Or  call  the  Alumni 
Programs  Office  toll-free  at  1-800- 
ALUM-LVC. 

Awards  presented 
at  Alumni  Weekend 

■  Dr.  Mae  Fauth  ('33)  of  Indianhead, 
Maryland,  was  named  the  1994  Distin- 
guished Alumna  at  the  Annual  Awards 
Luncheon  held  April  30  during  Alumni 
Weekend.  The  Distinguished  Alumnus/a 
Award  is  presented  annually  by  the 
Alumni  Association  to  recognize  out- 
standing service  to  one's  profession,  the 
college  and  the  community. 

Fauth  earned  her  B.S.  in  chemistry  at 
LVC  in  1933,  and  later  on  earned  a 
master's  degree  at  Columbia  in  1946  and 
a  Ph.D.  from  the  Pennsylvania  State  Uni- 
versity in  1955.  She  is  a  research  scientist 
at  the  Naval  Ordnance  Station  in 
Indianhead,  where  she  has  been  employed 
for  40  years.  A  highly  regarded  expert  on 
environmental  problems,  critical  materi- 
als and  rocket  propellants,  Fauth  has  pub- 
lished numerous  articles  and  also  has 
taught  chemistry  at  Penn  State  and  Charles 
County  Community  College.  An  accom- 
plished world  traveler,  she  has  visited  over 
180  countries. 

During  the  awards  ceremony.  Alumni 
Citations  were  presented  to  four  other 
alumni: 

■  Donald  Kreider  ('53),  of  Norwich,  Ver- 
mont, is  professor  of  mathematics  at 
Dartmouth  College  and  president  of  the 
Mathematical  Association  of  America.  He 
earned  his  B.S.  in  mathematics  at  LVC, 
and  in  1958  received  his  Ph.D.  from  Mas- 
sachusetts Institute  of  Technology.  The 
co-author  of  three  books,  he  has  written 
numerous  articles  for  professional  journals. 

■  Kristine  Kreider  Lynes  ('63)  earned 
her  B.S.  in  elementary  education  at  LVC, 
and  in  1975  an  M.S.  in  advanced  educa- 
tion from  Wagner  College.  She  resides  in 
Durham,  New  Hampshire,  where  she  is  a 
teacher  at  Oyster  River  Elementary 
School.  The  recipient  of  the  President's 
Award  for  Excellence  in  Mathematics 
Education  in  1992,  a  prestigious  national 
honor,  Christine  conducts  teaching  work- 
shops and  has  written  about  computer  use 
in  the  classroom  for  Instructor  magazine. 


■  Dr.  Si  Pham  ('79)  earned  a  B.S.  in 
chemistry  at  LVC,  and  in  1983  received 
his  M.D.  from  the  University  of  Pitts- 
burgh. He  is  an  assistant  professor  of  sur- 
gery and  the  director  of  the  adult  cardiac 
transplant  service  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh  School  of  Medicine.  The  au- 
thor of  numerous  papers  and  abstracts, 
the  cardiothoracic  surgeon  was  one  of  the 
team  of  surgeons  who  last  year  performed 
the  heart-liver  transplant  operation  for 
Pennsylvania  Governor  Robert  P.  Casey. 

■  Tibor  Sipos  ('64)  holds  a  B.S.  in  chem- 
istry from  LVC  and  a  Ph.D.  from  Lehigh 
University  (1968).  In  1990,  after  working 
for  Johnson  &  Johnson  for  23  years  in 
pharmaceutical  research  and  development, 
Sipos  formed  his  own  company.  Diges- 
tive Care,  Inc.  He  is  also  an  adjunct  pro- 
fessor of  chemistry  at  Lehigh  and  an 
adjunct  professor  of  medicine  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Medicine  and  Dentistry  of  New 
Jersey.  Sipos  and  his  wife,  Elizabeth, 
reside  in  Lebanon,  New  Jersey. 

■  The  Carmean  Award  in  Admissions 
was  presented  to  Rita  Castiglia 
Mackrides  ('55)  in  recognition  of  her 
outstanding  efforts  in  assisting  the  admis- 
sions office  in  recruitment  of  new  stu- 
dents. Mackrides,  who  has  a  B.S.  in 
elementary  education  from  LVC,  and  an 
M.S.  in  pupil  personnel  from  Bucknell 
University,  has  been  a  guidance  counse- 
lor in  the  Susquehanna  School  District 
for  20  years.  A  1989  recipient  of  the  LVC 
Miles  Rigor  Society  Award,  she  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Harrisburg.  Her  husband.  Bob 
Mackrides  ('54),  and  daughter,  Karen 
Mackrides  ('87),  are  also  LVC  graduates. 

Association 
elects  officers 

John  A.  Schoch,  Jr.  ('72),  of  Mechanics- 
ville,  Pennsyvania,  was  elected  president 
of  the  Lebanon  Valley  College  Alumni 
Association  during  the  annual  meeting 
held  April  30.  Other  alumni  elected  to 
office  were  Kristen  R.  Angstadt  ('74), 
first  vice  president,  David  S.  Todoroff 
('80),  second  vice  president,  and  George 
M.  Reider,  Jr.  ('63),  secretary. 

New  members 
on  Council 

The  following  were  elected  members  at 
large  of  the  Alumni  Council:  Richard  E. 
Denison,  Jr.  ('81)  and  Helen  F. 
Heidelbaugh  ('90).  Rachel  E.  Kline  ('83) 
was  appointed  to  fulfill  an  unexpired  term. 
The  following  at  large  members  were 


re-elected:  Jennifer  Bowen-Frantz  ('81), 
Michael  B.  Buterbaugh  ('80),  Anthony  T. 
Leach  ('73)  and  Deana  Metka  Quay  ('84). 
Lloyd  E.  Beamesderfer  ('39)  was 
elected  president  of  the  Senior  Alumni 
Association. 

Opening  doors 
in  Vietnam 

On  February  15,  1994,  the  seventh  day  of 
Tet,  Luong  Nguyen  ('79)  returned  to  Viet- 
nam to  join  an  education  advisory  com- 
mittee formed  to  help  the  nation's  Ministry 
of  Higher  Education  map  out  a  new  plan 
for  reforming  the  system. 

"For  three  long  days,  I  worked  along 
with  100  Vietnamese  experts,  scholars, 
educators,  deans  and  presidents  of  the 
nation's  top  universities,"  Luong  noted. 
"There  were  40  overseas  Vietnamese  pro- 
fessors from  many  elite  universities  who 
also  came  home  to  help." 

Luong  presented  a  paper  advising  the 
government  to  "act  now,  quickly,  to  exit 
from  the  old,  obsolete  Marxist-Leninist 
school  of  thought  and  swing  to  a  com- 
plete free-market-oriented  system." 

He  is  product  technical  manager  for 
Rohm  &  Haas  in  Singapore.  He  and  his 
wife,  Thi,  are  the  parents  of  two  sons. 

Alumnus  heads 
church  restoration 

Under  the  leadership  of  the  Rev.  William 
S.  Shillady  ('78)  the  Mamaroneck  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Mamaroneck,  New 
York,  has  embarked  on  a  campaign  to 
raise  $500,000  for  its  restoration.  He  was 
appointed  pastor  in  1988,  at  a  time  the 
church  was  experiencing  financial  diffi- 
culties and  a  declining  membership.  Un- 
der his  ministry,  the  congregaUon  became 
active  in  issues  like  low-cost  housing, 
racial  justice  and  environmental  protec- 
tion. Attendance  increased,  particularly 
among  the  younger  people,  and  gradually 
has  grown  to  about  400.  The  church  also 
has  become  financially  stable. 

The  impetus  for  the  restoration  of  the 
1 34-year-old  Victorian-style  church  came 
from  a  near  catastrophe.  In  September 
1990,  during  a  worship  service,  the  one- 
ton  bell  fell  from  the  tower,  narrowly 
missing  five  people.  Since  then,  the  bell 
has  been  rehung,  and  the  congregation 
has  hired  a  preservation  architect  to  su- 
pervise the  project.  The  church  will  be 
painted  its  original  colors  of  ivory  with 
maroon  trim.  In  March,  New  York  State 
unveiled  a  roadside  marker  commemo- 
rating the  church's  placement  on  the 
National  Register  of  Historic  Places. 


30       The  Valley 


CLASS      NOTES 


William  D.  Bryson,  a  Lancaster  County  busi- 
nessman and  longtime  community  volunteer,  died 
May  8,  1994,  at  the  age  of  92.  He  was  a  former 
Lebanon  Valley  trustee  and  received  an  honor- 
ary doctorate  of  laws  from  LVC  in  1968. 

Bisliop  John  B.  Warman,  the  former  United 
Methodist  Church  bishop  of  the  Harrisburg  area, 
died  on  November  2.  1 993,  at  his  home  in  Friend- 
ship, MD.  In  1974,  he  received  an  honorary  D.D. 
degree  from  LVC  and  was  elected  to  the  Board 
of  Trustees  for  a  three-year  term. 

Pre-1930s 

Deaths 

M.  Ella  Mutch  Leister  '17,  May  12,  1993. 
She  was  a  teacher  of  secondary  mathematics  and 
the  widow  of  the  Rev.  J.  Maurice  Leister  '15. 

Sara  Wengert  Hollinger  '18,  November  5, 
1993.  She  was  a  member  of  Memorial  Methodist 
Church  in  Cornwall,  PA,  where  for  many  years 
she  served  as  organist  and  pianist.  She  is  sur- 
vived by  her  son,  Richard  W.  Hollinger,  and  her 
daughter,  Eloise  Hollinger  Blanck  '41. 

Esther  Hughes  Kelchner  '25,  January  8, 
1993.  She  was  a  retired  English  teacher  at  Palmyra 
(PA)  High  School.  She  had  served  as  editor  of 
the  LVC  Senior  Alumni  Newsletter.  Surviving 
are  a  son,  J.  Robert  Kelchner  of  Montour  Falls, 
NY,  and  a  daughter,  Patricia  Shearer  Miller,  of 
Denver. 

Beatrice  Slesser  Shark  '26,  April  17,  1993. 

1930s 

News 

Rev.  G.  Edgar  Hertzler  '30  was  honored 
for  60  years  of  ordained  ministry  by  Twenty- 
Ninth  Street  United  Methodist  Church  in  Harris- 
burg on  October  24,  1993.  He  was  the  church's 
pastor  from  1937  to  1962.  He  then  served  at  St. 
Paul's  United  Methodist  Church  in  Elizabethtown 
and  later  at  the  Otterbein  Church  in  Harrisburg; 
he  retired  from  the  active  ministry  in  1973.  He 
was  a  trustee  of  LVC  from  1945  to  1970,  and  in 
1954  the  college  awarded  him  an  honorary  D.D. 


Olive  Morrow  Dougherty  '30  is  living  with 
her  daughter  and  family  in  the  Buffalo,  NY,  area. 
Olive  reports  that  hers  is  a  real  LVC  family:  five 
of  her  brothers  and  sisters  also  attended  LVC, 
and  two  married  LVC  graduates.  Olive,  who  was 
active  in  the  Philadelphia  Area  Chapter  before 
moving  to  Buffalo,  is  interested  in  knowing  if 
anyone  would  like  to  begin  a  Buffalo  Chapter. 

Henrietta  Wagner  Barnhart  '32  reports  that 
an  elementary  school  in  Charles  County  (MD) 
has  been  named  for  her  late  husband,  C.  Paul 
Barnhart  '30,  who  was  the  Charles  County 
superintendent  of  schools  from  1955  to  1963. 

Esther  Smelser  Duke  '34  does  volunteer 


work,  especially  with  young  single  mothers, 
ex-drug  addicts  and  ex-street  people. 

Russell  L.  Williams  '34  retired  in  1973  as 
supervisor  of  special  education  for  Delaware 
County  Intermediate  Unit  in  Media,  PA.  His  wife 
is  Alice  Staley  Williams  '32. 

Catherine  Wagner  Conrad  '35  was  the  sub- 
ject of  a  feature  article  in  The  Daily  Mail. 
Hagerstown,  MD,  on  October  15,  1993.  After 
graduation  from  LVC,  she  taught  9th-grade  his- 
tory for  12  years  at  Woodland  Way  school  in 
Hagerstown.  She  married  Dr.  Robert  Conrad,  a 
general  practitioner,  and  took  early  retirement  to 
help  him  in  his  practice  and  to  get  involved  in 
various  groups  and  organizations.  After  her  hus- 
band died  1 1  years  ago,  she  became  a  volunteer 
in  the  Washington  County  Schools'  English  for 
Speakers  of  Other  Languages  (ESOL)  program. 
Helen  Clark,  who  heads  that  program,  is  quoted 
in  the  article  as  saying  that  the  selfless  participa- 
tion of  volunteers  like  Conrad  is  invaluable  to  a 
program  that  has  only  a  handful  of  paid  staffers 
to  cover  25  schools  and  more  than  170  students. 
"She  really  is  a  wonderful  lady,"  Clark  said. 

Bruce  M.  Metzger  '35  in  the  fall  of  1993 
gave  a  lecture  in  St.  Petersburg,  Russia,  to  a 
group  of  translators  of  the  Bible.  The  Oxford 
University  Press  published  his  book.  The  Oxford 
Companion  to  the  Bible,  in  1993. 

Jack  R.  Morris  '37  attended  the  first  LVC 
Alumni  Hostel  in  June  1993  with  his  wife, 
Mildred.  He  published  his  book:  Seventy-Nine 
and  Thinking:  A  Christian  Looks  at  His  Life  and 
Beliefs. 

Deaths 

Rev.  Lester  M.  Kauffman  '30,  December 
25,  1993.  An  ordained  United  Methodist  minis- 
ter, he  served  in  three  churches  in  Pennsylvania 
and  one  in  Maryland  between  1934  and  1963.  He 
was  a  member  of  LVC  Board  of  Trustees  from 
1954  to  1973.  In  1954,  the  college  awarded  him 
an  honorary  D.D.  degree. 

William  J.  Myers  '30,  March  14,  1992.  He 
is  survived  by  his  widow,  Luella  Heilman  Myers 
'33. 

John  W.  Snyder  '30,  July  4,  1993. 

Dr.  Michael  Taranto  '30,  January  3 1 ,  1 994. 
He  graduated  from  Georgetown  University 
School  of  Medicine  in  1934  and  was  an  orthope- 
dic surgeon  in  Elizabeth,  NJ. 

Norman  Vanderwall  '30,  February  10,  1994. 
He  was  married  to  Miriam  L.  Muth  Vanderwall 
'29.  He  was  a  professor  emeritus  at  Harrisburg 
Area  Community  College,  where  he  was  a  former 
chairman  of  the  Division  of  Communications 
and  Arts  and  an  interim  dean  of  academic  affairs 
from  1978- 1979.  He  also  taught  English  compo- 
sition and  literature  at  the  former  Hershey  Junior 
College. 

Joseph  E.  Wood  '31  on  January  15,  1994. 
He  served  public  schools  in  New  Jersey  for  38 
years  as  a  teacher  and  as  an  administrator — six 


years  in  Trenton  and  32  in  Montclair.  He 
received  a  master's  degree  from  Columbia  Uni- 
versity, .served  in  China  with  the  Navy  during 
Worid  War  II  and  retired  in  1966  as  a  lieutenant 
commander  in  the  Reserves. 

Dr.  Donald  E.  Shay  '37,  January  6.  1994. 
Dr.  Shay  retired  in  1981  from  the  University  of 
Maryland  Dental  School  as  a  professor  of  micro- 
biology. He  had  been  associated  with  the  Uni- 
versity of  Maryland  at  Baltimore  (UMAB)  in  a 
teaching  capacity  for  36  years,  and  had  chaired 
the  Department  of  Microbiology  and  was  assis- 
tant dean  of  the  Biological  Sciences  of  the  Den- 
tal School.  Upon  his  retirement,  he  established  a 
fund  to  enable  graduate  students  to  travel  to  pro- 
fessional conferences  and  present  their  research 
papers.  In  other  post-retirement  endeavors.  Dr. 
Shay  devoted  his  efforts  to  establishing  a 
national  center  for  the  HLstory  of  Microbiology 
at  UMAB.  This  center  was  under  the  auspices  of 
the  American  Society  of  Microbiologists,  the  pro- 
fessional society  for  which  he  served  as  national 
secretary  for  seven  years.  He  retired  from  this 
second  career  following  the  dedication  of  the 
center  in  1991.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife,  the 
former  Sara  Frances  Ferrell,  and  a  daughter,  Mary 
Louisa  Rutledge,  of  Salisbury,  MD.  His  son.  Air 
Force  Maj.  Donald  E.  Shay,  Jr.,  was  declared 
Missing  in  Action  in  Southeast  Asia  in  1970. 

Duey  E.  Unger  '37.  He  had  retired  from  the 
U.S.  Postal  Service. 

Mary  M.  Strickler  '39,  December  20,  1993. 
She  had  retired  after  teaching  for  45  years  in 
Heidelberg  Township  (PA)  and  Lebanon  (PA) 
schools. 

1940s 

News 

John  V.  Moller  '40  entered  the  Manchester 
(VT)  Fall  Foliage  Run,  a  I  OK  course,  in  the  fall 
of  1993.  His  time  of  1:00:21  was  good  enough  to 
give  him  national  ranking  in  his  age  category  by 
the  U.  S.  Track  and  Field  Association. 

Raymond  C.  Hess  '41  and  his  wife,  Eleanor, 
celebrated  their  50th  wedding  anniversary  on 
May  22,  1993.  They  toured  England  and  Scot- 
land, including  the  Isle  of  lona,  in  July  1993. 

Rev.  Richard  R.  Rodes  '41  is  editor  and 
publisher  of  The  Sunshine  Quarterly,  a  newslet- 
ter spon,sored  by  The  Unitarian  Universalist  Con- 
gregation of  Columbia  (MD)  Owen  Brown 
Interfaith  Center.  The  newsletter,  printed  in  both 
English  and  Russian,  promotes  sharing  ideas 
among  its  400  Russian  and  America  subscribers. 

Richard  J.  Hoerner  '44  of  Pittsford,  NY 
makes  cherry  and  oak  furniture  for  friends  and 
relatives. 

Samuel  E.  Stein  '44  retired  from  dentistry  in 
1988  and  resides  in  Harrisburg. 

Sam  Rutherford  '48  retired  in  April  1993 
after  35  years  as  technical  director  of  Purosil 


Spring/Summer  1994       31 


Inc.,  an  aerospace  elastomers  fabricator  in 
Monrovia.  CA.  After  a  three-month  tour  that 
took  him  to  New  England  and  eastern  Canada,  in 
February  1994  he  started  a  new  career  in  income 
tax  preparation. 

William  D.  Ferguson  '49  was  a  visiting  pro- 
fessor of  law  at  the  University  of  the 
Witwatersrand  in  Johannesburg,  South  Africa, 
and  taught  at  the  University  of  Capetown  and  the 
University  of  Port  Elizabeth  during  the  summer 
of  1993. 

Deaths 

Ruth  Hershey  Geesey  '40,  December  I, 
1993. 

Mary  E.  Homan  Kurtz  '41,  February  12, 
1994. 

Rev.  Franklin  E.  Patschlce,  Sr.  '43,  Novem- 
ber 1 4.  1 993.  He  served  at  Trinity  Lutheran  Church 
in  Ephrata,  PA,  and  Emmanuel  Lutheran  Church 
in  Lancaster. 

Sarah  Ann  Curry  '44,  December  6,  1993. 
She  was  retired  from  teaching  at  the  Milton 
Hershey  School  in  Hershey,  PA,  and  had  also 
taught  in  Hummelstown  schools  and  at  the  former 
Felton  Elementary  School  in  Steelton. 

1950s 

News 

Joseph  G.  Dickerson  '50  is  a  retired  teacher 
who  plays  saxophone  and  clarinet  with  the  17- 
piece  "Big  Band"  in  Vestal,  NY. 

Ruth  Anne  Brown  Zimmerman  '51  is  a 
full-time  medical  technologist  at  the  Veterans 
Administration  Medical  Center,  Clinical  Labs, 
in  Denver.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Colorado 
Symphony  Chorus  and  is  a  church  soloist. 

Joe  Shemeta  '52  retired  as  a  building  supply 
"rep"  for  Reynolds  Co.  He  is  now  a  part-time 
sales  representative  for  Swatara  Village  Retire- 
ment Community  in  Pine  Grove,  PA. 

William  D.  Gorgone  '54  is  head  of  the 
department  of  law  and  is  the  township  attorney 
for  Saddle  Brook  in  Bergen  County,  NJ. 

Prowell  M.  Seitzinger  '54  retired  in  1984 
from  teaching  at  the  Lower  Dauphin  School  Dis- 
trict in  Harrisburg.  He  now  is  a  bank  courier  for 
P.N.C.  Bank  in  Camp  Hill. 

Julia  A.  Ulrich  Spangler  '54  retired  from 
the  Reading  (PA)  School  District,  after  teaching 
music  for  28  years. 

Ross  W.  Fasick  '55  retired  on  December  31, 
1993,  as  senior  vice-president  of  DuPont  Co., 
Wilmington,  DE.  He  is  a  trustee  of  LVC  and  chair 
of  the  college's  strategic  planning  committee. 

Dr.  John  B.  Allwein  '56  is  an  oral  surgeon 
for  the  Bay  Pines  (FL)  Veterans  Administration 
Medical  Center. 

Dr.  William  C.  Workinger  '57  was  awarded 
the  New  Jersey  Music  Educators  Association 
Distinguished  Service  Award  in  March.  He  is 
director  of  music  for  Millburn  (NJ)  schools  and  a 
board  member  of  the  North  Jersey  School  Music 
Association. 

Rev.  William  J.  Cowfer  '58  is  associate  for 
financial  resources  for  Barium  Springs  (NC) 
Home  for  Children.  He  and  his  wife,  Virginia, 
have  three  children:  David.  Jonathan  and 
Stepanie. 

Sally  Ann  Miller  '58  married  James  W. 


Checket  '59  on  October  7,  1993.  Sally  retired 
from  the  Lebanon  (PA)  School  district  after  29 
years  and  is  teaching  private  voice  students  at 
LVC. 

Susan  Oaks  Leonard  '59  retired  in  Septem- 
ber 1991  from  the  Spring  Grove  (PA)  Area  School 
District  after  30  years  of  teaching  elementary 
music  and  3rd  grade. 

Deaths 

Mary   Elizabeth   Funck  Gingrich   '52, 

December  6,  1993.  During  her  career,  Mary  had 
taught  at  LVC,  was  an  accompanist  for  Fred 
Waring,  worked  at  Cagnoli  Music  Co.  in  Hershey 
(PA)  and  played  the  organ  at  Gravel  Hill  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Palmyra.  Just  prior  to  her 
death,  she  was  the  organist  at  Christ  United  Church 
of  Christ  in  Annvilie.  She  is  survived  by  two 
sons,  Robert  H.  Gingrich,  Jr.  of  Mount  Gretna, 
PA,  and  James  F.  Gingrich  of  Okeene,  OK. 

Joan  E.  Killian  '56,  January  4,  1994.  She 
had  retired  as  a  school  psychologist  from  the 
Central  Dauphin  School  District  in  Harrisburg, 
and  had  taught  French  and  English  in  the 
Annville-Cleona  School  District. 

1960s 

News 

Philip  D.  Bronson  '60  was  named  to  Who's 
Who  Among  American  Teachers.  He  has  been  a 
mathematics  teacher  for  34  years  and  is  teaching 
at  North  Salem  High  School  in  New  York. 

Jacqueline  Simes  Rossi  '60  retired  from  the 
Kings  Park  (NY)  School  District  after  31  years 
as  a  vocal  and  instrumental  music  teacher. 

Kenneth  C.  Hays  '61  is  the  chairman  of  the 
Department  of  Fine  and  Performing  Arts  at  the 
Cumberland  Valley  School  District  in 
Mechanicsburg,  PA.  He  is  president  of  District 
7,  Pennsylvania  Music  Educators  Association. 

Barbara  Wogisch  Fragasso  '62  teaches 
physics  at  Central  Regional  High  School  in 
Bayville,  NJ. 

Warren  H.  Hoffman  '62  has  a  daughter, 
Amanda  Hoffman,  who  is  a  freshman  at  LVC. 

Delores  A.  Mounsey  '62  is  associate  dean  of 
the  College  of  Allied  Health  Sciences  at  Howard 
University  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Ronald  J.  Poorman  '63  is  the  director  of  the 
Symphonic  Band  and  Jazz  Ensemble  at  Southern 
Regional  High  School  in  Linwood,  NJ, 

Robert  R.  Swope  '63  is  senior  vice  presi- 
dent of  Bank  One  in  Youngstown,  OH. 

Thomas  W.  Weik  '64  is  president  of  Weik 
Investment  .services.  Inc.  in  Wyomissing,  PA. 
He  and  his  wife.  Donna  Ditzler  Weik  '72,  have 
two  sons:  Warren  and  Kenneth. 

H.  William  Alsted  '65  is  a  manufacturer's 
representative  for  Atlantic  Process  Systems,  sup- 
plying equipment,  systems  and  services  to  the 
process  industries  including  chemical,  food,  plas- 
tics and  pharmaceutical  firms. 

George  J.  Hollich  '65  is  the  humanities  co- 
ordinator and  director  of  summer  opportunities 
at  the  Milton  Hershey  School  in  Hershey,  PA. 

Karen  Mellinger  Poorman  '65  is  a  broker/ 
salesperson  for  Fox  and  Lazo  Real  Estate  in 
Linwood,  NJ. 

Linda  M.  Gronka  Anderson  '66  is  a  self- 
employed  landscape  designer.  She  and  her  hus- 


band. Mel,  have  two  daughters:  Kimberly  and 
Courtney. 

Dr.  Robert  E.  Enck  '67  is  an  oncologist 
with  Medical  Oncology  and  Palliative  Care  and 
also  medical  director  of  Mercy  Hospital's  re- 
gional cancer  center  in  Davenport,  lA.  His  new 
book.  The  Medical  Care  of  Terminally  III 
Patients,  published  by  Johns  Hopkins  University 
Press,  is  a  scientific  resource  for  physicians  and 
other  health  care  professionals.  It  covers  the 
physical  symptoms  of  terminally  ill  patients,  pain 
management  and  caring  for  patients  in  their  final 
days  of  life.  The  theories  and  techniques  apply  to 
diseases  such  as  cancer,  dementia,  motor  neuron 
disease  and  AIDS. 

Walter  L.  Smith  '67  has  been  certified  by 
the  USGTA  as  a  teaching  golf  professional. 

Gregory  P.  Hoover  '68  is  vice  president, 
technical  services,  for  Organon,  Inc.  in  West 
Orange,  NJ,  a  pharmaceutical  company  special- 
izing in  the  manufacture  of  skeletal  muscle 
relaxants  and  fertility/contraception  products.  His 
responsibilities  include  all  quality  operations, 
process  validation,  process  engineering  and  build- 
ings/facilities. 

Valerie  Yeager  Hutchinson  '68  received  an 
M.A.  degree  in  teaching  in  May  1993  from  the 
University  6f  South  Carolina.  She  has  been  mar- 
ried for  25  years  to  Dr.  Bert  Hutchinson,  a  spe- 
cialist in  ob.stelrics  and  gynecology. 

Kermit  R.  Leitner  '68  was  named  principal 
of  the  Susquehanna  Township  (PA)  Middle  School 
on  July  1,  1993.  Kermit  received  his  master's 
degree  from  Temple  University  and  his  adminis- 
trative credentials  from  Lehigh  University. 

Carl  R.  Sabold,  Jr.  '68  is  president  and  CEO 
of  the  YMCA  of  Reading  and  Berks  County  (PA). 
Carl  also  serves  as  president  of  the  Berks  County 
Transitional  Housing  Corporation  and  the  Berks 
County  Transitional  Housing  Partners,  Ltd. 

Dr.  Robert  G.  Jennings  '69  and  his  wife, 
Carol  Rutt  Jennings  '72,  have  moved  to 
Edmond,  OK.  Robert  is  a  dentist  with  the  Air 
Force  at  Tinker  Air  Force  Base.  They  have  two 
children:  Eric  and  Amy. 

Patricia  A.  Pingel  '69  is  coordinator  of  the 
Coastal  Nonpoint  Source  Pollution  Control  Pro- 
gram for  the  Pennsylvania  Department  of  Envi- 
ronmental Resources  Coastal  Programs  Division 
in  Harrisburg. 

Joan  M.  Schmehl  '69  is  senior  services  co- 
ordinator at  The  ARC  of  Lehigh  and  Northampton 
Counties,  Inc.  in  AUentown,  PA.  She  works  with 
mentally  retarded  senior  citizens,  holds  retire- 
ment training  classes  and  a,ssists  individuals  with 
joining  in  activities  in  .senior  centers,  neighbor- 
hood centers  and  their  communities, 

Ronald  G.  Yarger  '69  is  a  research  chemist 
for  Nabisco  Foods  Group  in  East  Hanover,  NJ, 

Deaths 

Karl  F.  Schwalm  '65,  November  17,  1993. 
He  was  the  owner  of  Down  Under  Distributors  in 
Fairbanks,  AK. 

Marianne  Lombardi  Harjehausen  '68, 
February  24,  1994.  Marianne  had  been  hospital- 
ized since  an  automobile  accident  on  August  12, 
1988.  She  died  in  the  Hospice  in  West  Palm 
Beach,  FL,  due  to  complications  from  her  inju- 
ries. She  is  survived  by  her  husband.  Navy  Lt. 
Cmdr.  Lawrence  (Larry)  O.  Harjehausen  (Ret.) 
and  her  daughter,  Hope  Marie  Harjehausen. 


32       The  Valley 


1970s 


News 

William  H.  Allen  '70  serves  on  the  North 
Penn  School  Board  in  Montgomery  County,  PA. 

Dorothy  Ann  Bassett  Lewis  '70  teaches  pre- 
schoolers and  kindergartners  at  Piaget  School  in 
Conshohocken,  PA.  She  has  two  sons:  Benjamin 
and  Timothy. 

Sally  Suter  Lownsbcry  '70  is  a  school  psy- 
chologist for  Intermediate  Unit  Numberl3,  serv- 
ing the  Lancaster-Lebanon  School  Districts. 

Dr.  David  E.  Myers  '70  is  professor/depart- 
ment head  of  the  Music  Education  Division  at 
Georgia  State  University  in  Atlanta.  He  will 
present  a  paper,  "Learning  as  Wisdom:  Music 
Education  and  Changing  Roles  of  Older  Adults 
in  Families  and  Communities,"  at  the  1 994  World 
Conference  of  the  International  Society  for 
Music  Education  in  Tampa,  FL. 

Kathleen  Wilke  Edwards  '71  is  a  science 
teacher  at  the  Hebrew  Day  School  in  Montgom- 
ery County,  PA. 

Sgt.  Kevin  E.  Garner  '71  joined  the  80th 
Division  Reserve  Band  in  Richmond,  VA,  in 
November  1992.  Kevin  married  Deborah  Lee 
Cocheron  December  18,  1993. 

John  Halbleib  '71  is  a  partner  in  the  Chi- 
cago-based law  firm  of  Chapman  and  Cutler.  At 
Northwestern  University,  he  earned  his  master's 
degree  in  management  in  1977  and  his  law 
degree  in  1982.  John  resides  in  Lemont,  IL,  with 
his  wife,  Jeanne,  and  their  four  children. 

P.  Theodore  Lyter  '71  is  a  chemist  for  the 
Pennsylvania  Department  of  Environmental 
Resources  in  Harrisburg. 

Dr.  Nancie  Hummel  Park  '71  is  the  owner 
of  Leisure  Consultants  and  an  instructor  of  lei- 
sure studies  at  the  University  of  Maryland  Col- 
lege Park. 

Dr.  Jane  Snyder  '71  is  a  psychologist  in 
private  practice.  She  and  her  husband,  Timothy 
Gutowski,  have  two  daughters. 

Richard  B.  Thompson  '71  and  his  wife, 
Linda  Witmer  Thompson  '73,  and  their  four 
children — Melanie,  Derrick,  Crystal  and 
Valerie — were  selected  Maryland's  "Family  of 
the  Year"  by  the  state  Parent/Teacher  Associa- 
tion (PTA)  in  November  1993.  For  13  years,  the 
Thompsons  have  donated  hundreds  of  hours  each 
year  to  the  schools  of  their  four  children.  Linda 
volunteers  in  school  libraries,  works  as  a  substi- 
tute teacher  and  organizes  annual  teacher  appre- 
ciation banquets.  Richard,  a  Federal  Aviation 
Administration  employee,  is  a  county  PTA  rep- 
resentative who  helps  in  the  classrooms  when 
he's  not  working.  Both  help  with  Scouts,  lead  a 
children's  choir  at  their  Methodist  church  and 
actively  participate  in  the  area's  sports  and  rec- 
reation councils. 

Dr.  Bruce  V.  Williams  '71  is  office  man- 
ager/organist for  the  Michigan  Ecumenical 
Forum  in  Lansing,  and  is  organist  at  Pilgrim 
United  Church  of  Christ  in  Lansing. 

David  Boltz  '72  is  a  teacher  and  band  direc- 
tor at  a  middle  school  in  the  Fairfax  County 
(VA)  Public  Schools.  He  received  his  M.M.  in 
Applied  Trumpet  from  the  Catholic  University 
in  1975.  After  20  years,  he  retired  from  the  U.S. 
Air  Force  Band  in  Washington,  DC. 

James  C.  Brandt,  Jr.  '72  is  senior  product 


quality  analyst  for  Certainteed  Corp.  in  Blue  Bell, 
PA.  He  received  an  M.B.A.  with  a  concentration 
in  statistics  from  Temple  University  in  August 
1993.  He  and  his  wife,  Joan,  have  two  children: 
Matthew  and  Lauren. 

Rev.  Gary  R.  Evans  '72  is  staff  pastor  at 
First  Assembly  of  God  Church  in  Brookfield,  CT. 
William  M.  "Bill"  Jones  '72,  a  veteran  of 
Desert  Storm,  retired  from  the  Marine  Corps  on 
April  1,  1992,  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colo- 
nel. He  is  an  assistant  aviation  education  special- 
ist (flight  instructor)  at  the  University  of  Illinois 
in  Champaign,  IL. 

William  C.  Quairoli  '72  is  senior  account 
agent  for  Allstate  Insurance  Co.  in  Palmyra,  PA. 
Lydia  M.  Kauffman  Schnetzka  '72  is  coor- 
dinator of  special  education  programs  and  ser- 
vices for  the  South  Eastern  School  District  in 
Fawn  Grove,  PA.  She  serves  as  president  of  the 
South  Eastern  Education  Association  and  was 
inducted  into  the  Delta  Kappa  Gamma  Society  in 
September  1992. 

Philip  D.  Rowland  '73  is  minister  of  music 
at  Central  Presbyterian  Church  in  St.  Louis.  He 
reports  that  his  choir  sang  a  Christmas  program 
with  the  St.  Louis  Symphony  Brass  at  the  St. 
Louis  Cathedral.  His  women's  chorale  sang  on 
classical  station  KFUO-FM  on  a  program  called 
"At  the  Garden  Live,"  broadcast  from  the  Mis- 
souri Botanical  Garden.  Recently  Phil  performed 
an  organ  concert  with  percussionist  John  Kasica 
of  the  St.  Louis  Symphony. 

Caret  Spiese  '73  was  one  of  the  directors  of 
"One  Sleepless  Night  Too  Many"  for  the  Theater 
of  the  Seventh  Sister  in  Lancaster,  PA.  Caret  is 
the  former  Margaret  W.  Whorl. 

June  Lohmann  Durham  '74  heads  the  kin- 
dergarten program  at  Emanuel  Lutheran  School 
in  Palchogue,  NY. 

Laura  Sazama  Festo  '74  makes  personal- 
ized children's  books  in  her  home  in 
Mamaroneck,  NY,  under  the  name  Laura's 
Create-A-Book.  She  and  her  husband,  Michael, 
have  a  son,  Michael  John  Festo,  Jr.,  4. 

Lucinda  Burger  Knauer  '74  is  a  middle 
school  music  teacher  and  chorus  director  for  the 
Reading  (PA)  School  District. 

Helen  Cummings  McQuay  '74  is  supervi- 
sor of  microbiology/immunology  at  Shore  Health 
Labs  in  Easton,  MD,  a  subsidiary  of  Memorial 
Hospital  Easton. 

Dr.  Melanie  A.  Wilson  '74  is  a  clinical  psy- 
chologist at  the  Bryn  Mawr  (PA)  Hospital  Youth 
and  Family  Center. 

Dixie  Drybread  Erdman  '75  and  her  hus- 
band, David,  welcomed  their  first  child,  Seth,  on 
September  29,  1993. 

Robert  E.  Johns,  Jr.  '75  is  the  general  man- 
ager for  The  Center  for  Executive  Education  at 
Babson  College  in  Babson  Park,  MA. 

Dr.  Charles  R.  Knipe  '75  and  his  wife,  Janet 
Schweizerhof  Knipe  '79,  welcomed  a  son, 
Alexander  Ryan,  on  October  16,  1993. 

Howard  P.  Scott  '75  teaches  at  Catholic 
High  School  in  Baltimore  and  performs  regu- 
larly with  the  Baltimore  and  Washington,  D.C. 
Operas. 

Lonna  Suavely  Thompson  '75  is  an  attor- 
ney in  the  General  Counsel's  Office  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  America's  Public  Television  Stations. 

Rev.  Peter  Cebulka  '76  was  ordained  a 
Roman  Catholic  priest  in  May  1993  for  the  Dio- 


Calling  graduates  of 

LVC's  Continuing 

Education  program. . . 


The  Alumni  Office  is  planning  a 
reunion  of  continuing  ed  alumni.  This 
will  be  an  evening  of  good  food  and 
beverages  with  time  to  reminisce  and 
swap  stories  with  others  who  earned 
their  degrees  the  non-traditional  way.  If 
you  would  like  more  information  on  the 
proposed  continuing  education  reunion, 
please  return  the  form  below  to: 

Diane  Wenger  '92, 
Director  of  Alumni  Programs 
Lebanon  Valley  College 
101  College  Avenue, 
Annville,  PA  17003 


Class  Year: 
Address: 


Daytime  phone: 


Check  below  if  you  would  like  to  help 
plan  programming  for  continuing  ed 
alumni: 

□  I  would  like  to  help. 
Q  I  am  unable  to  help  at  this  time,  but 
would  like  more  information. 


cese  of  Metuchen  (NJ).  Peter  is  serving  as  asso- 
ciate pastor  of  St.  Bartholomew  Church  in  East 
Brunswick. 

Edward  Howell  '76  is  secretary/treasurer  of 
S.H.  Quint  Co.,  Inc.  in  Philadelphia.  He  and  his 
wife,  Diane,  have  five  children  ranging  in  age 
from  4  months  to  1 1  years. 

Terri  Folkenroth  Konzen  '76  is  an  instructor 
in  piano  at  Grove  City  College  in  Grove  City.  PA. 

Rev.  R.  William  Sudeck,  Jr.  '76  and  his  wife. 
Pamela  Jean  Miller  Sudeck  '76,  are  on  a  one- 
year  furlough  in  the  United  States.  They  will  re- 
turn to  France  in  July  1994  to  resume  the 
missionary/pastor  work  that  they  began  in  1984. 
They  have  three  children:  Ja.son,  Jennifer  and  Julie. 

Howard  K.  Butcher  '77  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate 
and  an  assistant  professor  in  the  School  of  Nurs- 
ing of  Pacific  Lutheran  University  inTacoma.WA. 

Wayne  A.  Hawes  '77  recently  formed 
Battista  Hawes  Design,  a  graphic  arts  design 


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company.  He  and  his  wife,  Wendy  Sost  Hawes 
'76,  have  two  sons  and  live  in  Dartmouth,  MA. 

Sheila  Roche  '77  was  married  on  October 
16,  1993,  to  Capt.  Charles  T.  Cooper;  formerly, 
he  taught  foreign  languages  at  LVC.  They  were 
married  by  Rev.  S.  Ronald  Parks  '78. 

Jean  Hobson  Traver  '77  is  senior  business 
analyst  for  Shared  Medical  Systems,  a  health 
care  information  systems  vendor  in  Malvern,  PA, 
where  she  has  been  employed  for  10  years.  Her 
son.  Matt,  is  6. 

James  P.  Veglia  '77  teaches  music  in  the 
Hazelton  Area  (PA)  School  District. 

Dennis  Weidman  '77  received  his  master  of 
taxation  degree  from  Villanova  University  in 
August  1993. 

Linda  Staples  Alvis  '78  was  appointed  pas- 
tor of  the  Central  United  Methodist  Church  in 
Richmond,  VA,  in  July  1993.  She  remains  very 
active  in  the  youth  ministry  and  is  a  member  of 
the  Conference  Disaster  Response  Network.  Linda 
and  her  husband,  Gary,  have  two  daughters:  Jaime, 
12,  and  Kelly,  10.  Gary  is  pastor  of  Park  United 
Methodist  Church,  also  in  Richmond. 

Debra  Anderson  '78  of  Lemoyne,  PA,  is  a 
private  music  teacher  and  a  free-lance  musician. 

Jeffrey  A.  Bomberger  '78  has  been  admit- 
ted as  a  partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Squire,  Sanders 
and  Dempsey  in  the  Cleveland  office.  He  is  in 
the  firm's  public  sector  law  practice. 

Huan  H.  Do  '78  is  senior  consultant  for  Adia 
Information  Technologies  in  Houston.  Huan  and 
his  wife,  Anh,  have  four  children:  Belinda,  Kim, 
Steven  and  Timothy. 

Amy  Eveler  '78  married  Kevon  Snyder  on 
December  13,  1991.  They  live  in  Westchester,  PA. 

Joseph  E.  Graff,  Jr.  '78  recently  completed 
a  Ph.  D.  in  forest  science  at  Oregon  State  Univer- 
sity in  Corvallis. 

Kathleen  Lazo  '78  married  Adel  M.  Talaat 
on  February  11,  1993.  She  received  an  M.L.A. 
from  the  Johns  Hopkins  University  and  is  a 
cooperative  education  teacher-coordinator  at 
Franklin  High  School  in  Reisterstown,  MD. 

John  C.  Moeckel  '78  is  an  engineer  with 
Public  Service  Electric  and  Gas  Co.  in  Newark. 
He  and  his  wife,  Margaret,  have  four  children: 
Juliette,  Joseph,  Theresa  and  Andrew. 

Jeffrey  L.  Rezin  '78  is  director  of  corporate 
environmental  affairs  for  the  O'SuUivan  Corpo- 
ration in  Winchester,  VA.  He  and  his  wife, 
Sharon,  have  two  sons:  Lucas  and  Zachary. 

Elizabeth  Sanders  '78  is  president  of  the 
San  Joaquin  County  (CA)  Music  Educators  and 
the  band  director  at  Lodi  Unified  School  District 
in  Stockton.  She  plays  the  clarinet  with  the  Stock- 
ton Symphony. 

Dr.  William  S.  Shillady  '78  received  his 
doctor  of  ministry  degree  from  Drew  Theologi- 
cal School  in  1993.  He  is  pastor  of  the 
Mamaroneck  (NY)  United  Methodist  Church. 

Evan  T.  Shourds  '78  is  a  black  lung  claims 
examiner  for  the  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  in 
John.stown,  PA.  He  is  the  assistant  boys'  soccer 
coach  at  Conemaugh  Township  Junior  High  in 
Davidsville.  Evan  and  his  wife,  Cathy,  have  a 
son,  Zachary. 

Dr.  John  S.  Snoke  '78  and  his  wife,  Debra, 
announced  the  birth  of  a  son,  Jordan  John,  on 
December  17,  1993. 

Marty  Stabley  '78  is  a  senior  marketing 
research  analyst  with  the  Grocery  Products  Divi- 


sion of  Hershey  Foods  Corp.  He  and  his  wife 
have  a  son  and  a  daughter. 

Janette  Y.  Taylor  '78  is  in  the  Ph.D.  pro- 
gram in  nursing  at  the  University  of  Washington 
in  Seattle. 

Lorna  H.  Heltebridle  Veglia  '78  teaches  in 
the  Hazelton  Area  (PA)  School  District.  She  and 
her  husband,  James,  live  in  Hazelton  with  their 
daughter,  Laura. 

Rev.  Esther  Kittle  Ziegler  '78  received  the 
Woman  of  the  Year  Award  from  the  Lebanon 
(PA)  Business  and  Professional  Women  in 
November  1993.  She  has  been  director  of  chap- 
laincy services  at  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital 
in  Lebanon  since  1991.  She  also  serves  as  secre- 
tary/treasurer of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of 
Chaplains.  She  and  her  husband  live  in  Palmyra 
and  have  a  son,  Matthew. 

Truman  T.  Brooks  III  '79  earned  a  certifi- 
cate in  marital  and  family  therapy  from  the  Mar- 
riage Council  of  Philadelphia  in  July  1993. 

Cynthia  Shaw  Graff  '79  teaches  Spanish 
and  Shakespeare  at  Philomath  (OR)  High  School. 
She  recently  had  an  article,  "A  Conversation 
with  Gifted  Kids,"  published  in  Oregon  English 
Journal. 

Steven  G.  Jones  '79  is  a  Lutheran  minister 
serving  as  a  chaplain  at  the  Southeast  Pennsylva- 
nia Veterans  Center  in  Spring  City,  and  is  certi- 
fied as  a  fellow  in  the  College  of  Chaplains.  He 
recently  taught  a  course,  on  the  assassination  of 
President  John  F.  Kennedy,  at  Harrisburg  Area 
Community  College's  Lancaster  campus. 

Sharon  Green  Lawton  '79  and  her  husband. 
Rich,  welcomed  their  second  daughter,  Kimberly 
Anne,  on  August  14,  1993.  Sharon  is  president 
of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Rolling  Hills 
Giri  Scout  Council,  which  serves  over  6,000 
girls  in  the  central  New  Jersey  area.  In  a  note, 
she  remarked,  "You  can  imagine  how  proud  I 
was  when  the  first  piece  of  national  G.S. 
information  I  received  included  praise  for 
two  colleges  that  offered  scholarships  for  Girl 
Scouts  who  receive  the  Gold  Award.  One  was 
LVC.  Another  interesting  coincidence  was 
that  one  of  my  official  presidential  tasks  was 
to  present  the  Gold  Award  to  a  young  woman 
who  is  now  a  freshman  acturarial  science  major 
at  LVC." 

David  E.  McDowell  '79  is  the  minister  of 
music  and  youth  pastor  at  Stewartstown  (PA) 
United  Methodist  Church. 

John  S.  Palmer  '79  is  associate  parish  musi- 
cian at  Calvary  Episcopal  Church  in  Memphis, 
TN. 

Dr.  Si  Pham  '79  and  his  wife,  Marie-Chris- 
tine, announced  the  birth  of  a  son,  Benjamin 
Nicholas,  on  December  24,  1993. 

Rev.  Carrie  Wardell  Stine  '79  received  a 
master  of  divinity  degree  from  Gordan-Conwell 
Theological  Seminary  in  1983.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Herbert,  welcomed  a  third  child,  John 
Michael  Francis,  on  November  22,  1993. 

Deaths 

Juel  (Jay)  H.  Mosley,  Jr.  '79,  August  1 1 , 
1993.  He  was  a  teacher  for  the  Aiken  County 
(SC)  School  District.  He  was  also  an  announcer 
for  the  Augusta  Pirates  and  USC  Aiken  baseball 
teams.  He  is  survived  by  his  widow.  Donna  E. 
Mosley. 


1980s 


News 

John  Champlin  '80  is  vice  president  of  client 
services  for  Corporate  Systems  in  Amarillo,  TX. 

Dr.  Dana  S.  Felty  '80  and  his  wife,  Joyce  E. 
Felty,  announced  the  birth  of  their  second  son, 
Justin  Michael,  on  January  6,  1994. 

Michael  Garnicr  '80  is  practicing  law  in 
Falls  Church,  VA,  focusing  on  personal  injury 
and  product  liability  litigation.  He  volunteers  as 
regional  coordinator  of  the  national  Youth  Crisis 
Hotline.  He  and  his  wife,  Linda,  have  two  sons: 
Ryan  and  Matthew. 

Bong  Van  Nguyen  '80  received  his  master's 
degree  in  computer  science  from  California  State 
University  in  Fullerton. 

Richard  W.  Burke,  Jr.  '81  is  a  senior  vice 
president  of  The  Philadelphia  National  Bank. 
Richard  directs  the  development  and  delivery  of 
domestic  cash  management  products  and  ser- 
vices to  the  corporate  and  correspondent  bank 
marketplace.  He  joined  PNB  in  1981. 

Pamela  Shadel  Fischer  '81  is  vice  president 
of  Public  Relations  and  Safety  for  the  AAA  New 
Jersey  Automobile  Club  in  Florham  Park. 

Richard  E.  Harper  '81  has  been  recognized 
as  Associate  of  the  Year  at  the  Central  Pennsyl- 
vania Agency  of  Prudential  Preferred  Financial 
Services.  Rich  has  been  an  estate  planning  spe- 
cialist there  since  1988. 

Michell  R.  Hawbaker  '81  and  his  wife, 
Janice,  welcomed  a  son,  Michael  Blair,  in  May 
1992.  They  also  have  a  daughter,  Elisabeth. 

David  H.  Killick  '81  is  vice  president  and 
treasurer  at  Conrad  M.  Siegel,  Inc.  in  Harrisburg. 
He  joined  the  firm  in  1981  and  has  chaired  its 
finance  committee  since  1991. 

Steven  Robert  Miller,  Esq.,  '81  is  a  law 
librarian  at  Northwestern  University  School  of 
Law  in  Chicago. 

Elizabeth  Knowles  Sliwa  '81  and  her  hus- 
band, Joseph  E.  Sliwa,  welcomed  a  daughter, 
Kathryn  Maud,  on  July  27,  1993. 

Eva  Greenawalt  Bering  '82  is  vice  presi- 
dent of  patient  care  at  the  Providence  (PA)  Health 
System. 

Anna  Marie  Starr  Finley  '82  and  her  hus- 
band, Joe,  welcomed  a  daughter.  Sheila  Chris- 
tine, on  August  8,  1993. 

Dr.  Robert  Hogan  '82  joined  Beebe  Medi- 
cal Center  in  Lewes,  DE,  as  a  hematologist/ 
oncologist  in  August  1993. 

Scott  A.  Mailen  '82  and  his  wife,  Karen 
Tulaney  Mailen  '82,  welcomed  a  daughter, 
Abigail  Anne,  on  November  24,  1993. 

Timothy  J.  Smith  '82  is  senior  product 
developer  for  Relay  Technology  Inc.  in  Vienna, 
VA.  He  and  his  wife,  Sara  M.  Wardell  Smith 
'85,  have  two  children:  Daniel  and  Christopher. 

Timothy  J.  Wolfe  '82  is  executive  director 
of  student  development/dean  of  students  at  Val- 
ley Forge  Christian  College  in  Phoenixville,  PA. 
He  and  his  wife.  Donna,  have  a  son,  Nathan,  4. 

David  Beppler  '83  is  head  teller  at  the 
National  Bank  of  Boyertown  (PA). 

Stephen  J.  Kipp  '83  received  his  master's 
degree  in  middle  school  education  from  Georgia 
Southern  University  in  Statesboro  in  December 
1993. 

Tina  Liek  Rockwell  '83  is  a  Christian  edu- 


34       The  Valley 


cator  for  the  Simpson-Temple  United  Parish  in 
Altoona,  PA. 

Susan  Newman  Summers  '83  is  assistant 
vice  president,  systems  development,  for  Merid- 
ian Bank  Corp.  in  Wyomissing,  PA. 

Debra  Decker  Ward  '83  welcomed  her  first 
child,  a  daughter,  Jestine  Pheanna,  on  September 
26,  1993. 

Gregory  A.  Weaber  '83  is  marketing  man- 
ager for  the  Pasta  Group,  Hershey  Foods,  in 
Hershey,  PA. 

Michele  DePrefontaine  Witmyer  '83  is  a 
French/English  teacher  at  Warwick  High  School 
in  Lititz,  PA.  She  has  two  children:  Brandon  and 
Kyrstyn. 

Dawn  S.  Adams  '84  married  Daniel  G. 
Harkenrider  on  August  21,  1993.  They  reside  in 
Clinton  Corners,  NY.  Dawn  teaches  at  Millbrook 
Junior/Senior  High  School  and  coaches  the  girls' 
varsity  volleyball  and  basketball  teams. 

Sue  B.  Butler  Angelo  '84  and  her  husband, 
Joe,  welcomed  their  third  child,  Maria,  in  Octo- 
ber 1993. 

Jan  Smith  Beppler  '84  is  a  staff  nurse  on 
weekends  in  the  intensive  care  unit  at  Good 
Samaritan  Hospital  in  Lebanon,  PA.  She  and  her 
husband,  David  Beppler  '83,  have  two  children: 
Jenna  Hope  and  Wesley  Glen. 

Carol  Jordan  Fleming  '84  received  her  MA. 
degree  in  religion  from  Asbury  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  1986.  She  and  her  husband,  Terry,  wel- 
comed their  second  daughter,  Robin  Jordan 
Fleming,  on  November  16,  1993. 

Robin  L.  Hammel  '84  is  a  graduate  assistant 
at  the  UMDNJ-Robert  Wood  Johnson  Medical 
School,  Department  of  Neuroscience  and  Cell 
Biology,  in  Piscataway,  NJ.  She  has  a  predoctoral 
fellowship  from  the  American  Heart 
Association's  New  Jersey  affiliate. 

Virginia  A.  Lotz  Kenning  '84  is  market 
research  manager  for  Kraft  General  Foods  in 
White  Plains,  NY.  She  received  her  M.B.A.  from 
Sacred  Heart  University  in  1992. 

Laura  Augustyn  Kipp  '84  is  the  lead  teacher 
for  a  new  pre-kindergarten  program  in  a  public 
school  on  St.  Simons  Island,  GA.  She  and  her 
husband,  Stephen  J.  Kipp  '83,  have  two  sons: 
Daniel  and  James. 

Lisa  Meyer  Price  '84  is  a  librarian  at  the 
Mount  Laurel  (NJ)  Library. 

Amy  Barefoot  Stenvall  '84  and  her  hus- 
band, Jon,  welcomed  a  daughter,  Kelsey  Marie, 
on  June  9,  1993.  They  have  a  son,  Gunnar,  2. 
Amy  is  a  partner  in  a  computer  consulting  firm 
based  in  Seattle. 

Patricia  Housenecht  Tracy  '84  is  a  church 
secretary  at  St.  Matthew's  E.  C.  Church  in 
Emmaus,  PA.  She  and  her  husband,  Mark,  have 
three  children:  Valerie,  Benjamin  and  Megan. 

David  Twamley  '84  is  sales  manager  for 
Southern  Container  Corp.  in  Hauppauge,  NY. 
Dave  and  his  wife,  Teresa,  have  two  children: 
Kelly  and  David. 

Lucy  Wicks  '84  recently  returned  from 
China,  where  she  presented  continuing  educa- 
tion courses  to  nurses  at  Zhejiang  Medical  Uni- 
versity in  Hangzhou  and  Shanghai  Second 
Medical  University.  She  is  president  and  owner 
of  Wicks  Educational  Associates  Inc.  in  Camp 
Hill,  PA.  Lucy  specializes  in  enterostomal 
therapy,  which  focuses  on  patients  with  drainage 
wounds,  incontinence,  skin  breakdowns  and  other 


special  and  complicated  problems. 

Lori  Marie  Yanci  '84  is  a  pre-nursery  teacher 
at  Brookside  School  in  Sea  Girt,  NJ.  She  volun- 
teers in  recreation  therapy  at  Children's  Special- 
ized Hospital  in  Toms  River. 

Heather  Walter  Buffington  '85  and  her  hus- 
band, David  F.  Bufrmgton  '82,  announced  the 
birth  of  a  son,  Benjamin  David,  on  August  1 1, 
1993.  Their  son,  Nicholas  Walter,  was  bom  on 
May  10,  1990.  Heather  received  a  master  of 
music  educarion  from  West  Chester  University 
in  May  1993. 

Mary  Seitz  Mamet  '85  received  her  M.Ed, 
degree  in  secondary  school  counseling  from 
Shippensburg  University  in  December  1992. 

Jeanne  Page  '85  was  married  on  February 
22,  1992,  to  Charles  Wiedenmann,  who  is  a 
branch  manager  for  BankAmerica.  Jeanne  works 
for  Salem  City  Schools  (NJ)  as  an  English  teacher. 

Marlene  Turner  Sloat  '85  and  her  husband, 
Edward,  welcomed  a  son,  Bryan,  in  late  October 
1993. 

Jennifer  Deardorff  Atkinson  '86  and  her 
husband,  Chad,  announced  the  birth  of  a  daugh- 
ter, Mackenzie  Demaree,  on  November  30,  1993. 
She  joins  a  sister,  Kaitlin,  1  1/2. 

Rachel  Clarke  Besancon  '86  is  an  R.N.  at 
Albemarle  Hospital  in  Elizabeth  City,  NC. 

Steven  T.  Lenker  '86  is  senior  systems  ana- 
lyst for  the  Pennsylvania  Higher  Education  Assis- 
tance Agency  in  Harrisburg.  He  and  his  wife, 
Jolene,  have  two  children:  Faith  and  Zachary. 

Jean  Zimmerman  Scott  '86  is  a  physical 
therapist  for  the  Kessler  Insritute  for  Rehabilita- 
tion in  West  Orange,  NJ. 

Victoria  E.  Secreto  '86  was  married  to  David 
Shreiner  on  September  18,  1993.  Both  she  and 
Dave  are  employed  by  Silicon  Graphics,  Inc.  in 
Silver  Spring,  MD. 

Lisa  D.  Mercado  Silvia  '86  is  a  sales  con- 
sultant for  Scholastic  Book  Fairs.  She  married 
Jack  Silvia  in  1990.  They  live  in  Brick,  NJ. 

John  M.  Woods  '86  will  be  a  first-year  stu- 
dent in  September  at  the  Lutheran  Theological 
Seminary  in  Gettysburg,  PA. 

Susan  M.  Maruska  Bartal  '87  and  her  hus- 
band, Robert,  welcomed  a  son,  Nicholas  Ber- 
nard, on  June  7,  1993. 

Stanley  A.  Benkovic  '87  is  pursuing  a  Ph.D. 
in  molecular  biology  at  the  University  of  South 
Florida  in  Tampa.  Stanley  received  his  M.S.  in 
anatomy  in  1989  from  the  Pennsylvania  State 
University. 

Gary  D.  Kunkel  '87  is  a  member  of  the 
technical  staff  at  Bell  Laboratories  in  Middle- 
town,  NJ. 

Rhea  Lippe  '87  is  an  R.N.  at  the  Polyclinic 
Medical  Center  in  Harrisburg. 

Steven  F.  Nevin  '87  and  Janine  M. 
McCloskey  were  married  October  16,  1993,  in 
the  Church  of  St.  Mary  in  Schwenksville,  PA. 
Steven  works  as  a  chemist  for  Philadelphia  Elec- 
tric Co.  in  Philadelphia. 

William  P.  Rhodes  '87  and  Stephanie  Lynn 
Uhl  were  married  on  October  9,  1993,  in  First 
Baptist  Church  of  Rochester  (NY).  He  is  a  project 
engineer  at  Xerox  Engineering  Systems  in  Roch- 
ester. 

Dr.  Marguerite  Salam  '87  and  her  husband, 
M.  Anthony  Kapolka  III  '87,  welcomed  a  son, 
Joseph  James,  on  November  22,  1993.  They  live 
in  Annville,  PA. 


Linda  L.  Ulmer  '87  is  regional  director — 
hospital  based  skilled  nursing  facilities  for 
Diversified  Health  Services  of  Plymouth  Meet- 
ing (PA),  a  management  consulting  company. 

LeRoy  G.  Whitehead,  Jr.  '87  and  his  wife, 
Cheryl  Stoltzfus  Whitehead  '88,  announced  the 
birth  of  their  daughter,  Megan  Theresa,  on  April 
18,  1993.  They  reside  in  East  Windsor,  NJ. 
Le  Roy  is  the  vocal  music  director  at  Mataw 
Regional  High  School  in  Aberdeen  and  is  com- 
pleting work  for  his  master's  degree  in  educa- 
tional administration. 

Catherine  M.  Waltermyer  Boyanowskl  '88 
and  her  husband,  Mark,  welcomed  the  birth  of 
their  first  child,  a  son,  Benjamin  James,  on 
February  15,  1994. 

Samuel  H.  Brandt  '88  is  a  science  and  health 
teacher  for  the  Lebanon  (PA)  Alternative  Educa- 
tion Program  sponsored  by  Lancaster-Lebanon 
Immediate  Unit  13.  He  married  Holly  S.  Brown 
on  December  26,  1993. 

Shawn  M.  Fitzgerald  '88  is  a  Ph.D.  candi- 
date in  educational  psychology  at  the  University 
of  Toledo  in  Ohio. 

Amy  L.  Hannah  '88  married  Jonathan  Agree 
on  June  20,  1993. 

Brian  P.  Luckenblll  '88  and  his  wife,  Nancy, 
welcomed  their  first  daughter,  Kristin  Lynn,  on 
October  14,  1993. 

Urs  Schwabe  '88  is  senior  operations  super- 
visor for  Roadway  Logistics  Systems,  Inc.  in 
Avenel,  NJ. 

Olga  Judith  Semanchick  '88  and  Todd 
Corey  Blouch  were  married  in  late  1993.  Olga  is 
a  master's  degree  candidate  at  the  Pennsylvania 
State  University  campus  in  Harrisburg.  She  is 
also  a  training  and  development  consultant  with 
Pennsylvania  Blue  Shield  in  Camp  Hill. 

Martha  Bordic  '89  received  a  master's  de- 
gree from  Shippensburg  University.  She  is  work- 
ing at  the  U.S.  Army  Natick  (MA)  Research, 
Development  and  Engineering  Center,  as  a  behav- 
ioral scientist. 

David  K.  Bush  '89  received  his  master's 
degree  in  student  personnel  in  May  1993  from 
Slippery  Rock  University.  He  is  a  residence 
coordinator  for  Kutztown  University. 

Leslie  Walter  Daum  '89  is  a  veterinary 
assistant  at  Long  Valley  (NJ)  Veterinary  Clinic. 

Rebecca  C.  Caspar  '89  is  director  of  devel- 
opment at  the  Big  Brother/Big  Sister  Associa- 
tion of  Philadelphia.  She  is  working  on  an  M.Ed, 
degree  in  training,  design  and  development  at 
the  Great  Valley  Campus  of  the  Pennsylvania 
State  University. 

Rodney  H.  Gingrich  '89  and  Liza  Anne 
Montanaro  were  married  on  September  1 1,  1993, 
in  St.  Joseph  Church  in  York,  PA.  Rodney  is 
employed  by  Butler  Naylor  and  Co.,  P.C. 

Patrick  M.  Haley  '89  in  July  1993  became 
the  chief  histotechnologist.  Department  of  Ana- 
tomic Pathology  at  the  Milton  S.  Hershey  Medi- 
cal Center  in  Hershey,  PA.  He  and  his  wife, 
Theresa  Marie,  welcomed  a  son,  Daniel,  on  March 
18,  1992. 

Melissa  Hauton  Kreps  '89  is  a  senior  ser- 
vice representative  with  Manpower,  Inc.  in  Phila- 
delphia. She  received  her  M.A.  in  developmental 
psychology  from  Temple  University. 

Barbara  Lowle  '89  is  an  instructor/coach  at 
the  SUNY  College  at  Cortland. 

Kenneth  Miller  '89  received  his  M.Ed,  in 


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student  personnel  services  in  higher  education 
from  the  University  of  Pittsburgh  in  May  1993. 
He  is  the  volunteer  coordinator  of  the  Compeer 
Program  at  the  Aurora  Club,  a  mental  health 
agency  in  Harrisburg. 

Debra  Spancake  O'Connor  '89  earned  a 
master's  degree  in  elementary  education  from 
Millersville  University  in  December. 

Patricia  L.  Pontari  '89  is  completing  work 
on  her  master's  degree  in  counseling  psychology 
at  Western  Michigan  University  in  Kalamazoo. 

Chad  Sayior  '89  was  recently  promoted 
to  executive  director  of  the  Pennsylvania  House 
of  Representatives  Republican  Campaign 
Committee.  He  comments  that  he  is  "working 
for  a  Republican  majority  in  the  State  House 
in  1994." 

Kim  Weisser  Stockburger  '89  is  assistant 
cashier  and  branch  manager,  and  a  corporate 
officer  for  First  National  Bank  and  Trust  of 
Newtown  (PA). 

1990s 

News 

Scott  Barlup  '90  is  a  district  sales  manager 
for  the  Patriot  News  Company  in  Harrisburg. 

Sharon  L.  Barr  '90  and  Francis  J.  Doclierty 
'88  were  married  in  Boulder,  CO,  on  August  21, 
1993.  Sharon  is  the  director  of  music  and  drama 
at  the  Boulder  Country  Day  School.  Francis  man- 
ages Dawg  Inc./Guatemalen  Imports  in  Boulder. 

Kevin  B.  Dempsey  '90  is  an  addictions  coun- 
selor in  Baltimore. 

Peter  J.  Fowler  '90  is  sales  manager  for 
Circuit  City  in  Pompano  Beach,  FL. 

Joann  M.  Giannettino  '90  is  a  therapist  for 
Susquehanna  Valley  Community  Counseling  Ser- 
vices in  Lewisburg,  PA,  and  a  part-time  coach  at 
Ixwisburg  High  School. 

Ann  M.  Wentzel  Ginder  '90,  of  Myerstown, 
PA,  is  teaching  2nd  grade  in  the  Cocalico  School 
District. 

Shawn  M.  Gingrich  '90  was  guest  organist 
for  the  second  Musical  Celebration  of  the  225th 
Anniversary  of  Emmanuel  United  Church  of 
Christ,  held  on  the  Square  at  Abbottstown  (PA) 
in  November  1993.  He  serves  the  church, 
located  in  Hanover,  as  the  minister  of  music,  the 
organist  and  the  director  of  the  adult,  children's 
and  handbell  choirs.  He  also  maintains  a  private 
studio  for  piano  and  organ  students. 

Jill  M.  Glassman  '90  is  case  manager  for 
Senior  Quarters  in  Cranford,  NJ. 

Rev.  Michelle  S.  Grube  '90  received  her 
master  of  divinity  degree  from  Drew  Theologi- 
cal School.  She  is  pastor  of  the  Boothbay  Harbor 
(NJ)  Circuit. 

Matthew  S.  Guenther  '90,  a  German/ 
English  teacher  at  Exeter  Township  School  Dis- 
trict in  Reading,  PA,  completed  requirements  for 
the  Instructional  11  Certificate  and  was  elected 
the  advisor  for  the  school's  news  magazine  and 
yearbook. 

Teresa  Mary  Kruger  Heckert  '90  is  a  gradu- 
ate fellow  in  the  Psychology  Department  at  Bowl- 
ing Green  State  University  in  Ohio. 

Cynthia  Jane  Woods  Kensingcr  '90  and 
her  husband,  Jed,  welcomed  their  first  child, 
Sarah  Jane,  on  December  30,  1993. 

John  C.  Malloy  '90  begins  a  four-year  resi- 


dency in  oral  and  maxillofacial  surgery  at  Tufts 
University  in  Boston  in  July. 

Richard  L.  Miller  '90  is  product  director  at 
Air  and  Water  Technologies,  Research  Cottrell 
Division  in  Somerville,  NJ. 

Stephen  W.  Trapnell  '90  is  a  staff  writer  for 
Lancaster  (PA)  Newspapers,  Inc. 

Lisa  Biehl  Weidemoyer  '90  is  an  elemen- 
tary teacher  with  the  Brandywine  Heights  Area 
School  District  in  Topton,  PA. 

Barbara  D.  Arnold  '91  and  James  Eric 
Notter  were  married  on  September  4,  1 993,  in  St. 
Andrew's  Presbyterian  Church  in  Lebanon,  PA, 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Richard  Cassel  '60.  She  is 
employed  by  Allwein's  Flooring  in  Annville. 

Karen  Beres  '91  was  guest  performer  for  the 
Pickwell  Benefit  Concert  in  Lutz  Hall  at  LVC  on 
November?,  1993.  In  August  1993,  she  obtained 
her  master  of  music  degree  in  piano  performance 
from  Bowling  Green  State  University. 

CarIa  L.  Myers  Coomer  '91  has  been  pro- 
moted to  general  ledger  coordinator  at  the 
Myerstown  (PA)  plant  of  Sterling  Drug  USA. 

Amy  Earhart  '91  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate  at 
Texas  A  &  M  University. 

Laura  Hager  '91  has  been  named  produc- 
tion manager  at  Lieberman-Appalucci,  an  adver- 
tising and  public  relations  agency  based  in 
Allentown,  PA.  A  native  of  Lancaster,  Laura 
spent  24  years  in  the  Advertising  and  Marketing 
Service  Department  of  Armstrong  World  Indus- 
tries in  Lancaster. 

Chad  L.  McNaughton  '91  is  bank  manager 
trainee/assistant  bank  manager  at  Mellon  Bank 
in  Shippensburg,  PA. 

Carol  A.  Swavely  '91  is  a  2nd  grade  teacher 
in  North  Penn  School  District  in  Lansdale,  PA. 
She  is  enrolled  in  the  master's  in  reading  (reading 
specialist)  program  at  Gwynedd-Mercy  College. 

Kent  A.  Weidemoyer  '91  is  an  assistant 
branch  manager  for  First  Savings  of  Perkasie  (PA). 

Danielle  Bowen  '92  now  works  in  the  Divi- 
sion of  Taxation,  Motor  Fuels  Section,  in  the 
Office  of  Criminal  Investigation  for  the  state  of 
New  Jersey. 

John  C.  Bowerman  '92  is  a  customer  ser- 
vice representative  for  Pennsylvania  Blue  Cross 
and  Blue  Shield  in  Camp  Hill,  PA. 

Michelle  Brailosford  '92  is  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  clinical  psychology  at  Loyola 
College  in  Baltimore.  She  is  working  as  a  psy- 
chiatric counselor  on  a  child  inpatient  psychiat- 
ric unit  and  also  as  a  domestic  violence  client 
advocate. 

Rebecca  L.  Dugan  '92  is  an  employee  of  the 
Boiling  Springs  (PA)  Tavern. 

Shana  Godfrey  '92  is  in  the  master's  pro- 
gram in  educational  psychology  at  Valdosta  (GA) 
Slate  College. 

Karina  V.  Hoffman  '92  is  in  her  last  year  of 
nursing  school  at  York  College  of  Pennsylvania, 
working  toward  her  second  B.S. 

James  W.  Riegel,  Jr.  '92  is  a  student  at  Penn- 
sylvania College  of  Optometry  in  Philadelphia. 
He  married  Debra  Waters  on  September  26,  1992. 

Christopher  D.  Smith  '92  is  the  warehouse 
superintendent  for  the  Department  of  Pubhc  Wel- 
fare/Blindness and  Visual  Services  in  Harrisburg. 

Sarah  M.  Thompson  '92  is  assistant  director 
at  Kindercare  Day  Care  Center  in  Hershey,  PA. 

Kristi  Zangari  '92  is  a  first-year  medical 
student  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Osteo- 


pathic Medicine. 

Amy  M.  Bonser  '93  is  a  Ph.D.  candidate  in 

root  biology  at  the  Pennsylvania  State  Univer- 
sity in  State  College. 

Lisa  S.  Burke  '93  is  employed  by  Millima 
and  Robertson  in  Washington,  D.C.,  as  an  actu- 
arial student. 

Scott  M.  Davis  '93  is  a  correctional  officer 
at  the  U.  S.  Penitentiary  in  Allenwood,  PA. 

Laura  Etzweiler  '93  is  employed  by  Leba- 
non Valley  Offset,  Inc.  in  Annville. 

Amy  Noel  Fulginiti  '93  married  Timothy 
Dunigan  on  October  30,  1993,  in  St.  Catherine 
Laboure  Parish  in  Harrisburg.  Amy  is  an  elemen- 
tary school  teacher  in  the  Lower  Dauphin  School 
District. 

Denise  Gingrich  '93  is  a  middle  school 
music  teacher  in  Baltimore.  Her  granddaughter, 
Jody  Fisher,  was  born  on  September  7,  1993. 

Christopher  R.  Graver  '93  is  manager  of 
the  Tandy  Corporation/Radio  Shack  store  in 
Hummelslown,  PA. 

Deborah  L.  Gray  '93  is  a  graduate  student 
at  Fairleigh  Dickinson  University. 

Jennifer  J.  Hanshaw  '93  and  Sean  Hackett 
'93  were  married  in  LVC's  Miller  Chapel  on 
December  18,  1993.  Jennifer  is  an  editor  at 
Chemical  Education  Resources.  Sean  is  the  band 
director  at  Greencastle-Antrim  (PA)  High  School. 
They  reside  in  Waynesboro. 

Darin  T.  Heilman  '93  and  Jennifer  D.  Cole 
were  married  in  Milton  Hershey  School's 
Founders  Hall  in  Hershey,  PA,  on  November  20, 
1993.  Darin  leaches  math  and  coaches  football 
and  basketball  for  the  Derry  Township  School 
District  in  Hershey. 

Stacy  R.  Hollenshead  '93  is  a  student  in  the 
master's  degree  program  for  employee/addictions 
counseling  at  Villanova  University. 

Kelly  Lawrence  '93  is  teaching  chemistry 
and  physical  science  in  Woodstown,  NJ. 

Lori  A.  Day  Merkel  '93  and  her  husband, 
John,  welcomed  twins — Devon  Alexa  and  John 
Thomas — on  September  11,  1993. 

Tricia  Mummert  '93  is  a  caseworker  for 
Bell  Socialization  Services  in  York,  PA. 

James  D.  Renner  '93  is  a  full-time  student 
at  New  York  University.  He  works  part-time  for 
Arthur  Charles  Cohen,  Inc.  as  a  real  estate 
appraiser. 

Andrea  Shaffer  '93  is  a  social  worker  for 
Lutheran  Social  Services — Eastern  Region  Child 
Care  Programs  in  Lebanon,  PA. 

Khristian  Dane  Snyder  '93  is  a  student  at 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Podiatric  Medicine. 

Jill  Stanley  '93  is  a  project  scheduler  for 
Star  Expansion  in  Mounlainville,  NY. 

Graduate  Degrees 

News 

Lisa  Braccini  M.B.A.'92  married  Benjamin 
Frank  Barletta  on  October  23,  1993,  in  St. 
Anthony's  of  Padua  Church  in  Exeter,  PA.  Lisa 
is  a  1986  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  and  Science.  She  is  supervisor  of  Out- 
patient Pharmacy  Services  at  the  Milton  S. 
Hershey  Medical  Center  in  Hershey  and  serves 
as  national  vice  president  of  the  collegiate  devel- 
opment program  for  Kappa  Epsilon  Pharmaceu- 
tical Fraternity. 


36       The  Valley 


Shining  Moments  from 
an  Elegant  Evening 


The  light  of  their  lives:  Drs.  Clark  and  Edna  J.  Carmean  ('59),  honorary  co-chairs  of 
Lebanon  Valley's  Toward  2001  Campaign,  were  surprised  with  a  birthday  cake  replica 
of  the  college's  new  $6.2  million  library.  The  cake  was  presented  during  the  campaign 's 
Lebanon  County  kickqff  dinner  on  May  10.  President  John  Synodinos  congratulates  the 
couple,  who  celebrated  their  90th  birthdays  in  May. 


/n  a  lush  spring  garden  setting  that 
transformed  the  Lynch  Gymna- 
sium, 200  guests  enjoyed  a 
candlelight  dinner  while  being 
serenaded  by  flutist  Teresa  Bow- 
ers, adjunct  instructor  of  music,  and  harp- 
ist Phyllis  Peters.  The  occasion  was  the 
Lebanon  County  kickoff  dinner  for  the 
Toward  2001  Campaign. 

The  evening  continued  with  a  musical 
medley  by  the  LVC  Jazz  Band  and  an  an- 
nouncement by  President  John  Synodinos 
that  construction  on  the  new  $6.2  million 
library  is  scheduled  to  begin  this  Septem- 
ber. The  library  project  serves  as  the 
cornerstone  of  the  campaign.  Darwin 


and  Libby  Click,  both  members  of  the 
Class  of  1958,  served  as  co-chairs  of  the 
Lebanon  County  campaign. 

Currently  $13.3  million  has  been  raised 
toward  the  overall  $21  million  campaign 
goal. 

The  Campus  Family  Campaign,  a 
phase  that  involved  the  entire  campus 
community  from  faculty  and  administra- 
tors to  support  staff  and  maintenance 
personnel,  exceeded  its  goal  of  $250,000, 
for  a  total  of  $310,000.  Approximately 
65  percent  of  the  college  family  donated 
to  the  project;  their  gifts  will  fund  the 
grand  atrium  in  the  new  library. 


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The  Authors  &  Artists  Series  continues 
to  present  world  class  performers, 
actors,  dancers  and  musicians  in  sites  all 
around  the  Lebanon  Valley  campus. 

•  The  Second  Hand  Dance  Company  performs  in  the 
newly  remodeled  Leedy  Theater  on  September  2  and  3. 

•  During  Parents  Weekend,  Mobius,  a  piano  trio,  will 
be  on  stage  in  the  new  Zimmerman  Recital  Hall,  Sep- 
tember 24. 

•  Coming  up,  too,  are  The  Turtle  Island  String  Quartet 
(October  7),  Kips  Bay  Ceili  Band  (October  22  during 
Homecoming  Weekend),  Bela  Fleck  &  the  Flecktones 
(October  27),  and  Beausoleil  (November  2)  in  Miller 
Chapel. 

•  The  series  returns  to  the  Leedy  Theater  for  a  one- 
man  performance  by  actor  Evan  Handler  in  "Time  on 
Fire,"  a  moving  play  dealing  with  leukemia  and  survival 
(November  18  and  19). 

And  that's  just  the  fall  season.  For  a  brochure 
containing  the  complete  listings,  please  call 
(717)  867-6036. 

Performances  begin  at  8  p.m.  Tickets  are  $15  for 
adults  and  $4  for  children  and  students. 


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Turtle  Island  String 
iiartet  and  Beausoleil 
will  entertain  audiences 
in  Annville  this  fall  as 
part  of  the  Authors  & 
Artists  Series. 


Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Pennsylvania 
ANNVILLE,  PA  17003 


Non-profit  Organization 

U.S.  Postage  PAID 

Harrlsburg,  PA 

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Address  Correction  Requested