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Inside:

Pioneers in
Space and Song

Is All Fair
in Warfare?

LETTERS

Small world department

On October 29, 1994, my wife, Helen T.
Rockwood ('87), and I were helping moni-
tor a youth road race in Anderson, South
Carolina. Just before the start of the run,
the race director asked me if I could take
a man to his house so he could get his
extra set of keys. He had locked his car
with the keys in the ignition, and his movie
projector was in the locked car.

During our conversation on the way to
this gentleman's house, I noticed he did
not have a southern drawl. Neither do I.
He asked me where we come from. I told
him we had lived in Tower City, Pennsyl-
vania. He said he knew the area well,
because he had graduated from Lebanon
Valley 20 years ago. His name is Michael
Dortch ('73), and he now lives in Ander-
son with his wife and three children.

Paul and Helen Rockwood
Starr, SC

Cover kudo

Saw my painting on the cover of the Fall
1994 Valley. The composition, details and
color are excellent. It's a fine publication.
Thank you to all involved.

Neil Dreilbelbis
Malvern, PA

A Valley fan...

As I have told you many times, The Val-
ley is the best college magazine I see. The
Fall 1994 issue is excellent — the articles,
certainly, but the Annual Report, as well.
As one who has produced his share of
wooden and colorless annual reports, I
know their opposite when I see it.
Congratulations!

Dick Jones

Dick Jones Communications

Dalton, PA

...and another

Just wanted to let you know how much I
enjoyed reading the combined Fall 1994
Valley and Annual Report. I sat down and
read it cover to cover. I think it's one of
the best issues so far. What an exciting
year we have had. It just gave me a good
feeling to know I'm part of the college's
success. Thanks again for putting out such
a wonderful magazine. I feel truly fortu-
nate to be part of the LVC family!

Susie Greenawalt
Assistant to the Director,
Continuing Education,
Lebanon Valley College

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Dazzling days in January,
Light reflects from
Sixteen-foot aluminum stems
Creeping up the sides of buildings.

Men at the ends

Bloom in flannel and wool:

Shirts and socks from Christmas, petals of

Hunter's orange, painter's white, trucker's plaid.

Masculine flowers —

Bees are sleeping, but women buzz below

While the grunting blossoms scrape, scoop,

Scrub and squeegee.

Flakes of paint pollinate their beards:

Green and blue and gray.

Wet leaves slurp on their boots, trying

To return to the rusted rain gutters.

Puffs of steam pant from their mouths; white

Wrists peek out from between red

Cuffs and brown gloves.

As the sun sinks, the petals close up,

The silver stems fold down,

And the buds go in to watch football.

— Amy Shollenberger ('96)

Editor's Note: Shollenberger, an English major,
recently helped revive Greenblotler, the college
literary magazine. The Fall 1994 issue may be
obtained for $2.50 from the English department.

Vol. 12, Number 3

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Lebanon Valley College Magazine Winter 1995 J

Departments

Features

16 NEWS BRIEFS

is NEWSMAKERS

21 ALUMNI NEWS

23 SPORTS

25 CLASS NOTES

Editor: Judy Pehrson

Writers:

Laura Chandler Ritter

JohnB. Deamer, Jr.

Nancy Fitzgerald

Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson

Nancy Kettering Frye ('80)

Dr. Steven M. Specht .

Diane Wenger ('92)

Seth J. Wenger ('94)

Glenn Woods ('51), Class Notes

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On the Cover:

"Gundemar," a 1992 mixed media painting
(color ink, water color and quill) by Arthur
Hall Smith, was exhibited in the college's
Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery November 4-
December 16. Smith said he drew his inspira-
tion from a folksong, "A Mighty Ship,"
recorded by Susan Read in the 1940s. It re-
counts the Gundemar's sailing on "o'er moon-
lit wave." For Smith, the shapes in his
painting, and how they are scattered, brought
to mind the sails of a ship with such a ghostly
presence. "It's the 'Flying Dutchman' meta-
phor, I guess," he notes.

2 A Soaring Career

Elizabeth Bains ('64), a member of NASA 's space simulation team, turns
a love for computers and a knack for managing people into a science.

By Nancy Fitzgerald

5 Songs of Grief and Friendship

Gary Miller ( '68) has gone from high school music teacher to conduc-
tor of top opera stars and an eminent men 's choir.

By Nancy Fitzgerald

War Is Hell-Is It Moral?

o A panel discussion helps students and the community take a hard look

at waging modern war — and working for peace.

By Laura Chandler Ritter

Focus on the Future

J_Q A conversation among faculty, students and administrators sheds some light

on higher education — where it's headed nationally and at Lebanon Valley.

By Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson

Reach Out and Touch Someone

+ a Alumni Ambassadors use their own sucess stories to sell prospective

students on the idea of attending Lebanon Valley.

By Seth J. Wenger ('94)

At Homecoming '94,
skydivers presented an
aerial display and
delivered the Lebanon
Valley flag and game ball.
Other activities during the
weekend of October 21-23
included a party Friday
night and a tailgate tent on
Saturday, where more than
250 alumni received a free
Valley mug. Homecoming
also featured departmental
open houses and the induc-
tion of members into the
1994 Athletic Hall of Fame
(see page 24).

A Soaring
Career

NASA scientist Elizabeth
Bains ('64) rises to the
challenge in everything
from planning flight
simulations for astronauts
to developing a space
station.

By Nancy Fitzgerald

Dr. Elizabeth Bains with Pete Smythe,
Lockheed project head for maintenance
and operations.

Though she's spent her life
with feet firmly planted on
planet Earth, Dr. Elizabeth
(Miller) Bains ('64) has a
pretty good idea of what the
astronauts experience each time NASA
launches a shuttle into space. That's be-
cause she has helped create the software
for the computer simulators used to train
the astronauts.

"We have a computer simulation of
the shuttle and all the operations that go
on in orbit. It' s kind of like a video game —
there's a cockpit with all the switches and
display screens laid out, and the camera
views that the crew will see in space,"
Bains notes. "The screen shows them
everything they'll see in flight when they
look out the window."

Bains was a high school junior when
the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the
first satellite. She recalls writing an essay
about how space flight would influence
history, but didn't quite dream that one
day she would have a part in it. "I had an
interest in science, but not necessarily in
space flight," she says. "I just sort of fell
into it." Now the deputy branch chief of
NASA's simulation systems at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston, she
"fell into" that job only after years of
study and preparation, a road that started
out in Annville and wound its way down
to Houston.

Elizabeth Miller arrived at the Valley
from Kutztown, Pennsylvania, in I960,
an 18-year-old physics major at a time
when female scientists were a rare breed.
"It was really unusual back then," she
says. "My father was an engineer, and he
had some doubts about my pursuing a
science major, but he tried not to discour-
age me. I think he was just glad I didn't
go into engineering — back then, before
the women's movement got started, that
was definitely a man's world. Deep down
he was probably hoping I would change
my mind, but my mind was made up."

At Lebanon Valley, she found that
studying science didn't have a whole lot
to do with gender. "I don't really know
what my classmates thought about it,"
she recalls. "But I just did what I enjoyed.

I've always concentrated more on the
work itself, and when you do that, people
don't worry as much about the differ-
ences. I knew right from the start that I
wanted to major in physics, but I'd
always liked English, too — I figured that
would be something to fall back on if the
science didn't work out."

As it turned out, she didn't need
English as a safety net, but studying it
enriched her education and helped con-
tribute toward her career as well. "I
remember that at Lebanon Valley, all of
us were interested in a number of things —
science and math students were interested
in music, and of course I had an interest
in literature. I remember in my sopho-
more year, when we took a general
humanities course, the three prizes for the
top students all went to science majors. I
took one prize, and so did a chemistry and
a biology major. So all the sciences were
represented. We were very proud of that."

At NASA, as a manager respon-
sible for writing budgets and
reports, Bains has found that a
broad liberal arts education and good writ-
ing skills are two of the more important
tools in a scientist's bag of tricks.
"A sense of confidence and breadth of
experience — those were two of the best
things I got at Lebanon Valley. There
was an assumption here that you would
use everything you knew — a lab report
should be written as well as an English
essay. That's turned out to be an excel-
lent background because an ability to
write helps you anywhere you go as a
science major."

With her physics degree tucked under
her arm, she headed out for the work
world, and found a different sort of wel-
come from the one she'd received at Leba-
non Valley. "I never assumed that being a
woman would be a problem, and I'm not
aware that it has been — except once, when
I was turned down for my first job
because they felt it was a man's job. They

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Astronauts spend the months before a launch training with the simulation software developed by Bains and a team of scientists.
"It's kind of like a video game, " she notes. "The screen shows them everything they'll see inflight when they look out the window. "

weren't sure people would accept direc-
tion from a woman, so they avoided the
problem by not hiring me. But I think it
worked out very well after all. If I had
gone there and settled in, I wouldn't have
had nearly as interesting a life."

Bains went on to a position I
with the Naval Surface Weapons
Laboratory, outside Washington,
D.C. "I knew that I wanted even-
tually to teach in a college, but I
thought I should get some expe-
rience before I moved on to
graduate school, so I took this
job with the naval weapons lab.
It was an early computer job,"
she explains. Working on a pro-
gram that predicted projectories
for shells fired from guns, "we
hand-calculated the same things
the computer had done just to
make sure the answers matched up. We
used the old mechanical, rotary-type
calculators," she recalls.

From the naval lab, Bains went on to
graduate school at the University of Ten-
nessee in Knoxville, where she earned a
master's degree in college teaching and

a doctorate in physics. She also met her
future husband, Dr. James A. Bains, Jr.,
who was also working on his physics dis-
sertation. After receiving their doctorates,
the pair moved on to teaching positions at

Bains enters data to control the computers
that run a flight simulation at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston.

Alcorn University in Mississippi and then
down to Houston, where they both took
jobs with Lockheed Aerospace Corpora-
tion at the Johnson Space Center.

For the Bainses, balancing two heavy-
duty science careers with a home
life has been something of a chal-
lenge. "Even though I don't have
children, I still have my husband
to consider, not just myself. In
Mississippi, for example, my hus-
band found he didn't particularly
like teaching, and when he was
offered a job in Houston, I gave
up a job I liked to go with him,
and took a job with Lockheed.
There's always a lot of give-and-
take." Now he runs his own con-
sulting business, a situation the
couple finds ideal. "After years of
trying to synchronize our lives
with our two jobs — and both of us spend-
ing late hours in the lab — we get to spend
more time at home together." And do
they spend their free time together talk-
ing physics? "Never," Bains answers with-
out a moment's hesitation.

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In 1988, Bains began working directly
for NASA, where she now serves as
deputy chief of the simulation sys-
tems branch. In developing simulation
software, she would meet with other sci-
entists to solve problems, and work with
astronauts in crew training. "A couple of
years ago, they decided to have a third
astronaut leave the spacecraft to help
position a robotic arm — it was originally
planned that there would be only two. So
we had to scramble and set everything up
to make sure that all three of them could
be seen out in the bay, and maneuver
precisely enough so that one of them
wouldn't get pinned into this very mas-
sive satellite. He or she would have no
way of getting out of the way if some-
thing came in the wrong way."

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In the cockpit of the STS-66, Bains uses
the hand controller to move the arm
toward capture of the payload.

When the actual moment arrived, Bains
and her colleagues watched the monitor
with bated breath as the astronauts
performed their tasks. "We were a little
nervous watching them at first, but by
now we have a good deal of confidence —
the astronauts come back and say, 'Yes,
the simulator works. That's what it's
really like up there.' That's very satisfy-
ing to hear."

Now as a manager at NASA, Bains is
somewhat removed from the technical
part of the job. She spends less time on
the computers and more time talking about
budgets and getting involved with plans
for other projects, such as developing a
space station. But, she says, one of the
most satisfying aspects of her new posi-
tion is working with people. "It's great to
help them discuss
career options," she
says, "to talk about
what areas they'd
like to work in, and
to make sure they
get good experience
so that if they want
to go into manage-
ment later, they'll
have a good foun-
dation."

As a successful
woman physicist,
Bains finds herself
cast as a role model
for many of the
young women in her department. "Some
of them do turn to me — I hadn't realized
until recently how much. They find that
they can come to me more easily than to a
man, to talk about balancing their fami-
lies and their work. I try to make it easy
for them — with a simulation that runs from
8 in the morning until midnight, some of
them work in the evenings to share the
child-care responsibilities. This kind of
work does change the family. The hus-
band has to be much more involved."

Poised on the brink of this new phase
of her career, Bains looks back on her
years at the Valley and the solid founda-
tion they gave her. "It was a very nurtur-
ing atmosphere for a young scientist,"

she recalls. "Bob O'Donnell and Jake
Rhodes [professors emeriti of physics] in
particular were very interested in their
students and very thorough. Bob's style
of teaching especially appealed to me —
he was logical and detailed. He worked
through things and forced you to do the
same. It turned out to have been a good
preparation because you got used to do-
ing things in detail; it's just a good habit
to have. I've used this in all my work,
which has always involved the same kind
of working through details and determin-
ing what's right."

When Bains can get away from the
lab, one of her biggest pleasures is sing-
ing. Though she wasn't involved in cho-
ral groups at the Valley, she's since
become a member of her church choir,
and a few years ago she participated in a
singing group that performed in Vienna
and at Carnegie Hall. Though she comes
from a musical family, she likes to kid
that "I'm the only one who's played
Carnegie Hall."

The demands of her new job have cut
into her musical commitments, but one
day soon she plans to get back to singing.
In the meantime, she says, "My job is my
hobby. I really do enjoy it. In fact, when I
finish with all the required work — the per-
sonnel things and the budget — that's when
I go down to the lab and fool around with
the computers. I'd had second thoughts
about going into management, but now
I've made my decision to stay there. But
that's all right — as long as I can still go
down to the computers when my work is
done. That's what I really love to do."

Nancy Fitzgerald is a Lebanon-based
freelance writer who contributes regu-
larly to national education and consumer
publications.

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Songs of
Grief and
Friendship

On his long journey from
Annville to Carnegie Hall,
Gary Miller ('68), director
of the renowned New York
City Gay Men's Chorus, has
encountered both triumph
and tragedy.

By Nancy Fitzgerald

Gary Miller conducts a weekly New York City Gay Men 's Chorus rehearsal. Over the
past 15 years, the group has lost some 60 of its members to AIDS.

It's a rainy, blustery November
evening, but for New Yorkers, a
stoic breed, business proceeds as
usual. Down along the serpentine
streets of Greenwich Village, trade
is brisk at the Italian pork store, the bak-
ery, the shops that sell Moroccan tunics
and Turkish rugs. And over on Barrow
Street, just off Sheridan Square, a hun-
dred-and-something men, with their brief-
cases, backpacks and umbrellas, have
made their way to the theater inside the
Greenwich Community Center. They
come here every Monday night, after work
and after supper, to sing.

They are members of the New York
City Gay Men's Chorus. Over the almost
15 years of their existence, they have lost
some 60 of their members to AIDS; too
many of their performances have been at
memorial services and funerals. To them,
perhaps, the storm outside — which has
turned at least one cheap subway
umbrella inside out — is a minor inconve-
nience, just a little rain. They've trudged
through it for music and friendship and
sometimes for comfort in their grief.
Tonight they've faced the elements to
rehearse for their Christmas concert, a
few weeks away, at Carnegie Hall.

Inside the theater, it's bright, noisy,
like a classroom before the teacher walks
in. But when musical director — and
former high school music teacher — Gary
Miller ('68) arrives, brisk and focused,
it's down to business. There are announce-
ments about a pre-concert retreat, breath-

ing exercises and a long lesson in Catalan
pronunciation for a carol called "The Fro-
zen December." Then Miller and the cho-
rus launch into a long and labor-intensive
evening of making music.

For Miller, directing the chorus is the
most challenging — and rewarding — job
he's ever had. It's also a job he never
imagined doing. "I never thought that I
would be conducting a regular series at
Carnegie Hall or that Carnegie Hall would
refer to us as one of their men's choruses,"
he says. "Or that the likes of Marilyn Home
and Roberta Peters would sing with us.
Back at Lebanon Valley, I had always
thought I was going to grow up and be a
music teacher for the rest of my life."

It's a long way from Annville to
Carnegie Hall, from schoolteacher to
professional conductor, from the closet to
the open stage in New York City. Miller
shared his journey with us on a recent
rainy night.

Old Annville Days

Growing up in York, Pennsylvania,
Miller had always had an ear
for music and an eye on Lebanon
Valley. "I remember in high school that
there was no other college that I wanted
to go to," he recalls. "My chorus teacher
was from LVC and my band teacher was
from LVC. I wanted to learn music, and
there was no other place I wanted to go. It

never occurred to me that there might be
other schools. I was delighted to go there."

He arrived on campus in the fall of
1964 — the United States was beginning
air strikes against North Vietnam, the Civil
Rights Act had just been passed, the
Beatles had recently invaded American
shores. But in Annville, Miller found life
chugging along as usual.

"I majored in music education," he
says, "and as a result, that was all I was
really interested in at the time. If there
were honest, in-depth conversations in
the political science department, I cer-
tainly wasn't aware of it. I don't even
remember a demonstration against the
Vietnam war while I was there — and it's
outrageous that a campus should be that
insular. But I have many friends with the
same kind of background, and we were
all from the same area of Pennsylvania.
We lived very private lives with our fami-
lies, and when I moved away to college —
it was 50 miles — I thought I had made the
biggest move possible."

While the world raged outside
Annville, Miller and his fellow scholars
concentrated on their academic pursuits.
For Miller, that meant immersing himself
in music. "I have great memories of Dr.
Pierce Getz and my whole concert choir
experience," he says. "He was sort of my
father figure, my mentor, without his even
knowing it. Everything I got from LVC in
terms of choral conducting was from him.
And I was also very much involved with
the musicals, and even managed to get a

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The chorus has received rave reviews
for its performance in Carnegie Hall.
In March, Miller will conduct an opera
concert there, featuring Frederico Von
Strata, Benita Valente, Roberta Peters and
Jerry Hadley.

leading part in one of them." Looking
back on his college days, he recalls an-
other teacher fondly — Renaldo Rovers,
who died during his senior year. "I was
the last student of his to give a senior
recital," he says, "and I'm not sure to this
day that I'm not the one who killed him!"

As a young gay man, living on a small
campus in a religiously and politically
conservative region was another chal-
lenge. But, he admits, "It wasn't only
LVC that was problematic. It was a whole
different time back then."

In the early 1960s at Lebanon Val-
ley— and just about everywhere else —
homosexuality was an issue that stayed
strictly in the closet. "I wouldn't say that
I was open about it," Miller recalls, "but I
certainly knew that I was gay, whatever
that meant. What I didn't know at the
time was that there was a whole culture, a
whole community, of gay people out there.
But there certainly was no organized group
on campus. The people I knew there who
were gay were very quiet about it. We
knew among ourselves, but we certainly
were not out on campus." After a
moment's reflection he adds, "On the
other hand, I don't think we were fooling
anybody either."

In 1968, with degree in hand, Miller,
embarked on a teaching career. Most of
his fellow graduates were taking teaching
jobs close to home, but Miller was eager
to spread his wings. "I was actually the
toast of my class," Miller recalls with a
chuckle, "because we all went for teach-
ing jobs after Lebanon Valley. Most of
them were staying in this area and sign-
ing contracts for $5,600 a year, and I

signed a contract in Patchogue, out on
Long Island, for $6,800 for my first year
of teaching. Everyone thought I was go-
ing to be very wealthy."

After his three-year teaching stint,
Miller went to the University of Michi-
gan in Ann Arbor to pursue a master's
degree in music. Compared with the Val-
ley, "the difference was incredible," he
recalls. "The University of Michigan at
that time was involved with the legaliza-
tion of marijuana, and it was a completely
different kind of atmosphere than the one
at LVC. Actually, it was a bit overwhelm-
ing." After receiving his master's degree
in 1972, Miller went back to the class-
room, teaching vocal music in Whippany,
New Jersey, for 1 1 years.

'We're Not an
AIDS Chorus'

While living in New York City
and commuting out to his New
Jersey teaching job, Miller be-
gan to sing with the New York City Gay
Men's Chorus. The chorus had been
formed in March 1981 at the Washington
Square United Methodist Church in
Greenwich Village, when two newcom-
ers to New York handed out photocopied
flyers asking people to "come out and
sing." And when the original director
abruptly quit a few months later, Miller
stepped in to fill the job. For Miller and
the other members, the chorus was — and-
continues to be — equal parts musical,

social and political. "When we first started
it," he recalls, "it was the typical commu-
nity chorus. I mean, it was like the Mor-
mon Tabernacle Choir when the Mormons
come together to sing. Here in New York
there's obviously a very large gay com-
munity, so this was our community to
come together and sing. But the music
was the important thing. We were always
very serious about our music."

By 1982, the chorus had taken on
another layer of meaning for its mem-
bers, as the community became immersed
in the AIDS crisis. Before long, the group
that had been singing at small concert
halls and local churches and colleges
found itself singing at the memorial ser-
vices of members who had died of AIDS.

"The memorial service is becoming an
art at this point," says Miller. "Some of
the guys plan the services for themselves
on their deathbed and dictate what they
would like the chorus to sing — it's
bizarrely amusing. There are constantly
people who are sick and in the hospital —
at the moment, we have two men on their
deathbeds, three others in the hospital and
one who died just one month ago. It's
always part of who you are."

In the midst of the devastation of los-
ing friends and lovers, the chorus became
a source of strength and healing as well,
helping members carry on and find mean-
ing as they struggle with illness and grief.
"There's a certain amount of our reper-
toire that addresses AIDS head on," Miller
explains. "We commission things that deal
directly with it. But other music that might
have an entirely different meaning to you
takes on a whole new meaning in the
context of gay men singing together.
There's a song that we'll sing tonight
called 'Love Lives On' that was never
meant to do what it has done for us. 'Love
goes on beyond good-bye, the truth of us
will never die.' That has a very personal
meaning for us."

Miller is quick to point out that the
significance of the chorus goes beyond the
AIDS crisis, devastating though that has
been. "We've lost, I would say, 60 mem-
bers since we've been in existence," he
explains. "But on the other hand, we are

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not an ADDS chorus. It's part of our com-
munity and we sing as therapy and to raise
money for research. But the chorus started
before the AIDS crisis, and I hope it is
here long after the AIDS crisis has ended."

The Opera Connection

In 1980, with the chorus still in its
embryonic stages, Miller resigned his
teaching position in New Jersey. "It
became pretty clear that if I didn't leave
public education," he recalls, "then pub-
lic education might think that I should
leave them. I'm not sure that would have
been the case, but I didn't want to be in an
uncomfortable situation." One impetus for
his resignation came on the occasion of
the chorus's first review in the New York
Times. The headline on the review read —
or seemed, to Miller, to scream — "Gary
Miller Conducts Gay Chorus." "I saw that
headline and thought, 'Well, that's it.
There goes my j ob . " '

He went on to a staff position with
Columbia Artists Management, Inc.,
which represents a number of world-
renowned artists and performing organi-
zations, including opera singers Marilyn
Home and Kathleen Battle. He started at
the bottom, at half the salary he'd been
earning as a teacher, but found the sacri-
fice worthwhile. "It was a very high-pres-
sure job," he says, "but it was also great
because part of my job was going to con-
certs. How bad can that be? I don't mean
to treat it lightly, because when an artist
we represented snapped his fingers, we
were at his beck and call. But when an
artist like Kathy Battle or Marilyn Home
sings, there is no more glorious sound in
the world."

Miller left CAMI in 1993, but many of
the connections he made there eventually
benefited the chorus. Several of the art-
ists he represented at Columbia, includ-
ing Marilyn Home and Roberta Peters,
have performed with the chorus at
Carnegie Hall. And in March 1995, Miller
will conduct an opera concert with the
chorus to benefit an AIDS outreach pro-
gram. Among the names on that night's
program will be Frederico Von Strada,

Benita Valente, Roberta Peters and Jerry
Hadley, all top-echelon singers with whom
Miller became connected at CAMI.
"Actually, I've been very lucky," says
Miller. "It was the thrill of my life to
conduct Marilyn Home at Carnegie Hall.

Gary Miller: "Once people come and
listen, they're pleasantly surprised. "

And I think we've also been connected
with these people because frankly — and
modestly — the chorus is very good. We
sell out our performances, so it's great
exposure for an artist to sing at Carnegie
in front of 2,800 screaming fans."

Hills and Valleys

Singing at Carnegie Hall is a
mountaintop experience, but most
days, for Miller and his chorus, are
filled with less auspicious moments and
fraught with challenges, large and small.
Especially troubling have been recent
political and social developments. As a
result of the November elections, govern-
ment grants from New York City and state,
which provide some of the financial sup-
port for the chorus, are expected to die
out. Worse, Miller fears a conservative
backlash against the gay community.

"I fear what Newt Gingrich is trying to
do with his 'Contract with America,'"
Miller says. "When he talks about family
values, it's very clear that I am not
included in any one of his families. And
hate is not a family value, as far as I am
concerned. I fear the little bit of progress
we've made in the last decade is all about
to be washed away. I mean, we've made
progress in spite of Ronald Reagan, in
spite of George Bush. Perhaps we'll make
progress in spite of Newt Gingrich. But
hate crimes against gays and lesbians are
up, and it's very frightening."

Meanwhile, the chorus goes on, mark-
ing its weeks from rehearsal to rehearsal,
filling up its calendar with college perfor-
mances, AIDS benefits, a free concert at
the Washington Square Methodist Church.
As always, the friendship goes hand-in-
hand with the music. The chorus's "Night-
ingale Brigade" cooks meals and cleans
house for members who are suffering from
AIDS; a special fund provides money to
help sick members with their day-to-day
financial concerns. Other money is chan-
neled directly to AIDS research organiza-
tions. With Christmas coming, the chorus
will honor it with songs that have mean-
ing for everybody, and songs that have
meaning just for them.

Miller is looking toward the future.
Now teaching music part-time at a pri-
vate school in Manhattan, he finds him-
self devoting more time to the chorus.
Engagements are already booked well into
1998 — a festival in Tampa next year, a
West Coast tour for 1997, the Gay Games
in Amsterdam in 1998. Pleased with the
success of the chorus, he' s also a bit leery
of all the media attention, including that
of his alma mater. "It's so trendy to be
gay these days. You see it on television —
every situation comedy has a token gay
character who's politically correct. And
we've been media darlings for a while—
we represent the gay community in a safe
way — we're an acceptable way for the
media to meet their gay quota. I don't like
that being the reason particularly, but I
think it motivates people to come and
listen. And once they do, they're pleas-
antly surprised."

Winter 1995

War Is Hell-
Is It Moral?

Taking a hard look at
modern warfare and
weapons, a new course
crossed the boundaries of
disciplines and prompted
a lively panel discussion.

By Laura Chandler Ritter

What is the place of eth-
ics in warfare? That
was the first of many
knotty questions posed
to a disparate panel of
experts: two Army colonels, the college
chaplain and a nurse who had tended sol-
diers wounded in Vietnam. The four pan-
elists— including a much-decorated
veteran and a war protestor — had come to
the Mund College Center's Leedy The-
ater in December to do battle with age-
old questions and modern dilemmas.
When should a nation use its military
might? What alternatives are there? What
is the price of war — and of peace?

Their discussion on the "Nature and
Morality of Modern Warfare" was the
final activity in a new multidisciplinary
course titled "Society and its Weapons."
The course was a project of the physics,
political science, psychology, and philoso-
phy and religion departments. It consisted
of four three- week sessions, each led by a
different professor and emphasizing a dif-
ferent aspect of war. The course attempted
"to provide students with an in-depth
understanding of war's many aspects,"
explained Dr. Mike Day, chair of the
physics department.

Some 22 students were enrolled in the
class, which was taught jointly by Day;
Warren Thompson, associate professor of
philosophy who also moderated the panel;
political science professor John Norton;
and psychology professor Steven M.
Specht. The class took two field trips in
Pennsylvania — to an artillery firing range
at Fort Indiantown Gap and to an artillery

Sgt. David Paxton, a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard 28th Infantry Division
(Mechanized) Artillen> unit, showed students in the "Society and its Weapons" course
how his unit uses equipment to obtain the weather data necessary for firing artillery.

manufacturer in York. They also heard a
lecture by Col. Anthony Hartle, a mili-
tary ethics instructor from West Point who
wrote one of the textbooks used in the
course.

It was during the panel that the ex-
perts' unique perspectives came into play.
They recalled their own experiences in
coming to terms — on the personal front
and as Americans — with the issues of
warfare.

As a result of recent U.S. successes
in Grenada, Panama and the
Persian Gulf, many Americans
have a "John Wayne" perception that mili-
tary force can solve crises, commented
Col. Tom Norton, one of the panelists.
Based on those U.S. successes, he added,
"how do you tell the public that military
force cannot solve all world issues?"

Col. Norton frequently wrestles with
such issues in his role at the U.S. Army
War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
where he is chaplain and director of ethi-
cal development programs for the depart-
ment of command and leadership
management. He had begun the panel dis-

cussion by stating that the use of military
force has to be the very last use of power
that a society chooses, an option chosen
only when political, economic and psy-
chological efforts to resolve conflict have
failed.

As a nation, he noted, "We have to be
careful we don't find ourselves seduced
into becoming involved in areas of the
world that are not related to our national
well-being."

Another panelist, Col. William Richar,
a much-decorated veteran, spent
15 years in active duty and 22 more in
the National Guard. He served in
Germany and Vietnam, winning several
medals including the Purple Heart, Bronze
Star and the Vietnam Service Medal.
Being named commander of the 2,300
people who form the Pennsylvania
National Guard 28th Infantry Division
(Mechanized) Artillery unit "fulfilled one
of my life-long goals, to command," he
observed.

Panelist Ann Thompson also saw duty
in Vietnam, as a nurse "patching up young
men and women." She said she had
"watched young men crying in fear and
pain for their mothers, and I've seen young
men and women lose their minds in the

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insanity of war. I have seen what war
costs our country in human terms."

Thompson, who is now a psychiatric
mental health clinical specialist at the
Lebanon Veteran Affairs Medical Cen-
ter, recounted a childhood incident. When
she was 4 years old, she injured another
child. In the process, she said she felt a
rush of power as adrenaline coursed
through her, a feeling that lasted until she
saw blood running down her friend's face.
She used the experience to explain that
"war is an exciting thing. You think you're
doing the right thing, a lot of adrenaline is
pumped and you get energized.

"But we also get seduced by the
adrenaline, the excitement of war,"
Thompson added. "We need to teach peo-
ple how to solve problems and manage

conflict to avoid war. When we do have
war, we have to figure out beforehand
what we're willing to pay for it."

Rev. Darrell Woomer, chaplain of
Lebanon Valley College, told the audi-
ence that although history has shown "war
is not the answer, we go back to it again
and again. For centuries we have been
searching for an alternative to war. Since
war begins in the minds of men, it is in
the minds of men that defenses against
war must be built."

Woomer cited the atomic weapons test-
ing in the 1950s, which recent news
accounts suggest exposed children and
terminally ill patients to relatively high
doses of radiation. He charged that such
testing — and the violence of war — indi-
cate that "there is not respect for human

"We need to teach people how to

solve problems and manage conflict

to avoid war. When we do have war,

we have to figure out beforehand

what we're willing to pay for it."

Panelists who debated the morality of war were the Rev.
Darrell Woomer, Col. William Richar, Ann Thompson and
Col. Tom Norton.

life." An avowed anti-war protestor,
Woomer questioned how and on whom
the next generation of weapons will be
tested. And he emphasized the importance
of working to create the possibility of
peace.

In discussing efforts on the part of
Western nations to blame the Persian Gulf
War entirely on Saddam Hussein,
Woomer pointed out that the weapons
used by Hussein were not manufactured
in Iraq. "Now they're blaming everything
on Hussein, without accepting responsi-
bility for their own role in the problem,
and that's wrong." he said.

The military's language of war came
under fire — from a military man. In that
vocabulary, killing the enemy is termed
as "surgically taking out," and people are
referred to as "soft targets." While such
language makes it easier to participate in
training and warfare, it "doesn't make it
right," Col. Norton said.

For Col. Norton, the price of war is
measured in Dover, Delaware, "where the
body bags come in. Any time a decision
to go to war is made, it must be made
with Dover, Delaware, in mind," he said.

When the panelists seemed to be con-
curring that war is a dehumanizing expe-
rience, one student from the audience
asked them to explain the process by
which dehumanization takes place.

In a moving statement, Col. Richar
quietly described that instant during com-
bat when "someone is standing next to
you, and suddenly he is not there any
more... the loss of a friend right before
your very eyes."

While differing on whether war is
necessary, the panelists found common
ground in agreeing that the cost of war-
fare is high, too high to be undertaken at
all in some situations. Only in the most
exceptional circumstances should war be
the solution, they felt. And no one dis-
agreed with Col. Norton's assertion near
the end of the evening that "in armed
conflicts, there are no winners."

Laura Chandler Ritter is a staff writer for
the Lebanon Daily News.

Winter 1995

Focus on
the Future

Gathering around a huge
table elicited some
intriguing viewpoints on
issues affecting the
classroom and the
workplace.

By Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson

College professors, admini-
strators and students are of-
ten short-sighted. Because
of the day-to-day pressures
under which we work — for
example, I have to prepare tomorrow's
8 a.m. class, then grade that set of essays,
then get to that committee meeting at
4 p.m. — we almost always are concen-
trating on the immediate task at hand, on
short-range goals. Only rarely do we get
to step back for a few minutes and think
about the college as a whole and the
direction in which we're heading.

In October, 25 faculty, administrators,
trustees and students were able to do just
that by joining a "conversation" spon-
sored by The Pew Charitable Trusts, a
non-profit organization based at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania's Institute for
Research on Higher Education. The Pew
Higher Education Roundtable sponsors
"roundtable discussions" at colleges
across the country, ranging in size and
mission from the University of Maryland
and Northeastern University to Lake For-
est College and Piedmont Virginia
Community College.

Here at Lebanon Valley, we met three
times up at Kreiderheim. On Friday night,
September 30, we began the discussion
by talking about two essays in Policy Per-
spectives, a publication of the Pew
Roundtable group, on the external forces
affecting higher education in America to-
day. The next day, we talked about the
impact of those nationwide forces on
Lebanon Valley. Then four weeks later,
after digesting our 10 hours of discus-

sions, we reconvened on the Saturday
before Halloween to discuss our conclu-
sions.

When I was invited to join the Round-
table, I hesitated, since it meant giving
up a Friday night and two Saturdays.
Besides, the thought of being stuck in a
room full of faculty and administrators
for an entire day, all of us seated around a

tutions, of course, get hefty tax support,
which is why they can keep tuition lower.)
And although we derive almost two-thirds
of our operating budget from tuition, we
cannot simply continue to raise tuition.
However, as parents have less money to
spend, increasingly they are shopping for
value when their offspring choose a col-
lege, and price is the biggest obstacle for

Dr. John Norton (left), chair of political science, and Dr. Arthur Ford ( '59), associate dean
for international programs, share a lighter moment during the Roundtable discussion.

huge table, isn't the first thing that comes
to mind when I think of the words "fun"
or "interesting." Looking back, I'm not
sure I'd call those sessions fun, but they
were interesting. I'll try to summarize
some of the things we talked about.

No college exists in a vacuum. One of
the more important external forces affect-
ing American colleges is the economy.
To a large extent, market forces dictate
what the college can and cannot do. At
Lebanon Valley, we've filled all of our
available dorm space, so we can't raise
money simply by adding students. Mean-
while our costs continue to rise (high
technology is expensive, and salaries and
benefits are growing). Our tuition is
already more than three times as high as
Millersville University's (public insti-

President John Synodinos was among the
25 people gathering to take a long-range
look at higher education.

10 The Valley

the parents of most prospective students.
The cost of a college education also
affects our current students, each of whom
will graduate with a debt of almost
$15,000 on average. With that kind of
debt load at such a young age, is it so very
surprising that our students look at our
curriculum with the kind of consumer
mentality typical of someone shopping
for an appliance or an automobile? Job
anxiety and the vocationalism it spawns
pose important challenges to the very idea
of the liberal arts, and precisely to the

The interactive video network that the
college is also developing has the poten-
tial to broaden dramatically our course
offerings. A student at Lebanon Valley
will be able to enroll in a course at, say,
Lehigh University, and "sit in" on the
course electronically. Not only will our
student see and hear the Lehigh professor
and the Lehigh students in that class, but
he or she will be able to ask questions and
join in discussions — all via electronics.

Faculty and students here at Lebanon
Valley are already taking advantage of

"Precisely to the extent that we value
the liberal arts, we cannot afford
to scoff at our students' careerism."

extent that we value the liberal arts, we
cannot afford to scoff at our students'
careerism. Without consciously intend-
ing to do so, Americans have shifted the
bulk of the cost of a college education
from parents to students themselves, in
the form of long-term debt, and that is a
decision with troubling implications.

A second major external force affect-
ing American colleges is the explosion of
technology. At Lebanon Valley, our small
size has enabled us to keep abreast of
innovations that would be financially im-
possible for larger universities. The cam-
pus here is completely wired with fiber
optics: faculty offices, dormitory rooms
and the new library will all be electroni-
cally connected, without cumbersome
modems. In addition to being connected
to each other, we're connected to the out-
side world via the so-called "information
superhighway." We can access, via per-
sonal computer, catalogs at 200 other col-
lege libraries, and via interlibrary loan we
can get any book in those catalogs within
days. Such access eliminates the disad-
vantage of our relatively small library
holdings, and levels the playing field in
terms of our competing with much larger
universities.

various e-mail (electronic mail) "lists,"
which are essentially ongoing conversa-
tions via personal computer involving
sometimes thousands of people interested
in the same topic. For example, in putting
together a proposed panel for next year's
American Studies Association conference,
I've been able to "talk" electronically to
colleagues at the University of Colorado,

Dr. Mark Mecham, chair of Lebanon
Valley's music department.

Mary -Linda Armacost, Pew Charitable
Trusts moderator.

the University of Missouri and the Free
University of Berlin — people interested
in the issues and questions that interest
me. I never otherwise would have "met"
these people.

Despite the money invested in this
technology and the opportunities it af-
fords us, many professors do not require
their students to use it. Old habits die
hard, and for professors and students,
learning how to use this new technol-
ogy— or learning to want to use it —
remains a major task.

Another drawback to the new technol-
ogy that some participants mentioned is
its dangerously seductive appeal. For ex-
ample, we can get so caught up with the
idea of making a certain class available
electronically to students at campuses
across the country that we may lose sight
of the value of small classes. If, for ex-
ample, 200 students across the country are
enrolled in a class by means of interactive
video, what kind of genuine discussion
are they likely to be able to engage in? To
say, "We'll cap the enrollment at 20"
ignores the very real cost of such technol-
ogy. It's tempting to tell ourselves that
investing in the technology is worth the
cost because it will enable us to be more
efficient, i.e., fewer teachers will be able
to reach more students. But such quantita-
tive measures of efficiency ignore the qual-
ity of the teaching that takes place.
Similarly, although the new technology
gives students access to an exciting array
of educational opportunities, one partici-
pant pointed out that the technology can't
make students want to learn. A young man
who isn't interested in Homer's Iliad isn't
going to change his mind simply because
Homer is now available on CD-ROM.

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11

A third external force affecting
Lebanon Valley College is the
job market for our graduates, or
more specifically, the kinds of skills for
which employers are looking. In general
terms, business people tell us that they
look for three skills or traits in the people
they hire: the ability to communicate ef-
fectively, the ability to think critically and

"For professors who think that their
courses are foremost in students' minds,
learning that students are more likely to
be thinking about roommate problems
or cafeteria food or Annville s thin
nightlife was a healthy reminder of our
own undergraduate concerns."

Dr. Andrew Brovey, assistant professor of education, and Bill Brown ( 79), dean of admission.

the willingness to accept responsibility.
The Roundtable discussion quickly turned
to the respective advantages of training a
specialist or a generalist. The consensus
seemed to be that at Lebanon Valley, we
do better at producing specialists, largely
because our departmental majors are stron-
ger than our General Education program.
On the other hand, most people seemed to
agree that the generalist' s skills are every
bit as important as the specialist's, espe-
cially since the average adult changes
careers several times.

This discussion of the kinds of stu-
dents the marketplace wants us to pro-
duce led to a broader question: Is our
primary function really the training of
students for jobs? If we graduate some-
one who is a good biologist, or a good
musician, or a good 2nd grade teacher,
have we then fulfilled our responsibility?
Or is poet/essayist Wendell Berry right
when he argues, "The thing being made
in a university [or college] is humanity. . .
human beings in the fullest sense of those
words — not just trained workers or knowl-
edgeable citizens but responsible heirs and
members of human culture... The com-
mon denominator has to be . . . the idea that
good work and good citizenship are the
inevitable by-products of the making of a
good — that is, a fully developed — human
being." That question, to my mind the
most interesting that we asked, was never
clearly answered.

We also asked ourselves whether the
college's mission statement adequately
reflects our sense of Lebanon Valley's
purpose, and whether in fact there is a
shared purpose or core values to which
all of our faculty and staff would sub-
scribe. Some argued that consensus is
something we haven't fought hard enough
to attain, and that such a consensus is
precisely the sine qua non of a small col-
lege with a genuine identity, such as Reed
in Portland, Oregon, or St. John's in
Annapolis, Maryland. Others argued for
a looser consensus, consisting in a shared
concern for our students and a commit-
ment to the broad goals and values of the
liberal arts.

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Dr. Howard Applegate, chair of history and American studies; Dr. Susan Verhoek,
professor of biology; and Deborah Bullock { '95), student trustee.

A fourth important external force is
the changing fabric of our nation's iden-
tity, i.e., our societies and our workplaces
are growing increasingly multicultural and
multiracial, and many jobs require em-
ployees to work not only with other
Americans but with people in or from
other countries. The foreign studies com-
ponent of our General Education program
is one means of addressing this trend, but
our student body and our faculty and staff
do not reflect the diversity that many of
our students will encounter when they
graduate.

The relative homogeneity of the cam-
pus population led to a discussion of cam-
pus life, or dorm life, which one student
at the Roundtable said was the chief source
of student dissatisfaction. For professors
who think that their courses are foremost
in students' minds, learning that students
are more likely to be thinking about room-
mate problems or cafeteria food or
Annville's thin nightlife was a healthy
reminder of our own undergraduate con-
cerns. One participant wondered whether
faculty have a role to play in improving
the community life of the dormitories.
Annville and Lebanon Valley are rela-
tively isolated, which is a strength in terms

of safety and security, but a weakness in
terms of socialization. Are faculty respon-
sible for the social needs, the socializing
skills and graces, that society and the
workplace will expect from our gradu-
ates? Might it be possible to inject a fla-
vor of cosmopolitanism into the
atmosphere of Annville? Or would the
Conrail horns and the faint odor of
manure drown it out?

Finally, there seemed to be general
agreement that the college is on the right
track, that things are much better now
than they were only 10 years ago, that the
college has turned itself around. Even that
kind of success brings a danger: as things
get better, as people believe that things
are going well, resistance to change in-
creases— if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
However, the world doesn't stop chang-
ing, nor do the external forces affecting
the college. If prosperity increases our
resistance to change and innovation, then
our current position may not last.

Did any specific proposals emerge
from the 17 hours of discussion?
That's expecting a lot from pro-
fessors, a notoriously long-winded tribe,
but with helpful prodding from adminis-
trators and students, several proposals did
emerge. The most concrete one (proposed
for early summer 1995) involves a sum-
mer seminar for faculty who teach writ-
ing-intensive courses, which would aim to
create a united-front approach to writing
instruction across the curriculum. The plan-
ning for this seminar is already under way.

Other proposals involved more fac-
ulty workshops on technology in the class-
room (some of these have already been
held), as well as expanding the workshop
in syllabus development that some fac-
ulty members began earlier this year.

There was some support for the ap-
pointment of a "teaching scholar" outside
any department, which might be one small
way to de-emphasize the specialization
that dominates, in a sometimes debilitat-
ing fashion, American higher education.

Some people urged "structural sup-
port" for collegewide studies, e.g., Gen-
eral Education, the Honors Program,
writing-across-the-curriculum, with the
idea of complementing the established
structural power of the departments. The
idea of a monthly forum in which faculty
get together to listen to what their col-
leagues are working on drew consider-
able support. And finally, several
participants mentioned that a forum for
ideas, like the Pew Roundtable — a place
to sit down and talk more regularly about
issues like these — would be a valuable
addition to campus life.

I don't know if I could go through a
Pew Roundtable every month. It was an
intensive, tiring 17 hours of talking, a
kind of hothouse atmosphere. But like a
good hothouse, the Roundtable germi-
nated a number of good-looking sprouts.
Now the question is whether those sprouts
can survive and grow outside the hot-
house.

Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson is an associate
professor of English.

Winter 1995 13

Reach Out
and Touch
Someone

It's fun to talk to
prospective students,
Alumni Ambassadors have
found as they share their
college experiences. In fact,
their own career success is
a strong selling point for
their alma mater.

BySethJ. Wenger('94)

The personal touch. A concern
for students as individuals.
That's what sets Lebanon
Valley apart. For many pro-
spective students, the first
exposure to the Valley's special brand of
one-on-one contact comes in the form of
a telephone call from someone who's seen
that firsthand: the college's own gradu-
ates. These Alumni Ambassadors answer
questions, discuss educational options or
sometimes just listen.

For freshman chemistry major Deborah
Katz, a call from an Alumni Ambassador
last spring reaffirmed her decision to come
to the Valley. "I had already felt that the
people at Lebanon Valley were welcom-
ing, and it just showed another way that
they were interested in incoming stu-
dents," she says.

"I think the personal touch has swayed
more than a few students," adds Alumni
Ambassador Dale Schimpf ('69). "They
see that, hey, somebody cares."

There are currently 40 active Alumni
Ambassadors in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
New Jersey and Connecticut. They con-
tact local students who have been accepted
at Lebanon Valley but have not announced
whether they will attend.

Assistant Director of Admission
Susan Borelli-Wentzel, who directs the
Alumni Ambassador program, says that
both the students and the alumni enjoy
the calls. "The prospective students are
amazed that a busy professional would

take time out of his or her schedule to
call. It's really neat for them.

"It's also an opportunity for the alumni
to share their experiences," she contin-
ues. "They love doing it. It's really great
for alumni to talk to a student who's
interested in Lebanon Valley."

Deanna Metka Quay ('84) certainly
feels that way. "I like the opportunity to
talk to prospective students. The calls are
always positive, whether or not the stu-
dents decide to go to the college," she
notes. She's been making the calls since
her graduation.

Donna Diehl Kuntz ('67), who has
been an ambassador for 12 years, chaired
the Alumni Admission Committee for the
past five years. She makes eight to 12
phone calls each year in the Lebanon area,
as well as making other informal con-
tacts. "I have children who have just gone
through high school, so I've had a lot of
kids come through the door over the past
few years," she explains. "Some of them
I've steered toward Lebanon Valley."

Some of Kuntz' s best conversations

Susan Borelli-Wentzel directs the Alumni
Ambassador program.

have been with the parents of prospective
students. She recalls one student in par-
ticular: "I had talked to both her parents,
and they said they weren't considering
Lebanon Valley, because they just
couldn't justify the price. I told them,
'What you really need to look at is the
cost, as compared to the price.' The stu-
dent was in the top of her class, so she
had been offered a Vickroy Scholarship."
The parents reconsidered, and their daugh-
ter is now attending Lebanon Valley.

The Alumni Ambassador program was
initiated 25 years ago by Gregory Stanson
('63), now vice president for enrollment
and student services. Over the years, the
program's administration has changed
hands numerous times, and participation
has waxed and waned. Since 1990, when
Borelli-Wentzel became director, the pro-
gram has taken on new vitality. She is
reorganizing it to provide better support
for the ambassadors. The new structure
will offer three ways of participating. One
group of alumni will identify and recom-
mend prospective students from their com-
munities. The second group will actually
call those prospective students. The third
group, the county coordinators, will orga-
nize the activities in counties with many
callers.

In the past, alumni have made their
calls during a two-week spring phonathon.
But by spring, many prospective students
have already made their final decisions,
so Borelli-Wentzel will be giving the am-
bassadors their lists of potential students
much earlier in the year. Alumni can then
make the calls at their convenience. Each
graduate usually calls about 10 students.

These organizational changes have met
with the approval of the Alumni Ambas-
sadors. "I can't say enough about how
well Sue's been taking care of things,"
says Schimpf, who has been a caller since
the program began. "These last few years
have been great."

Most ambassadors are recruited by
word of mouth, says Borelli-Wentzel. Her
office also mails recent graduates a letter
inviting them to join. To attract more
alumni to the program, she is looking into
other strategies.

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Alumni Ambassador Donna Diehl Kunz ( '67) encouraged Arianne Zeck and Nathan Greenwalt to become connected to the college-
and they did. Both are now freshmen.

"We'd like to offer this service to a
greater number of students, but we're
limited by the number and location of
callers," she says.

Though many of the most active am-
bassadors are educators, Borelli-Wentzel
says that all alumni, regardless of profes-
sion or age, can be effective callers. She's
heard graduates who have been out a while
say things like "I'm too old to talk to
these kids." But, she affirms, "that isn't
true." All alumni can offer the valuable
perspective of their experience, she em-
phasizes. "It's a great opportunity for stu-
dents and their parents to have their
questions answered by a professional,
rather than by an admissions person."

Adds Quay, "We're one of the better
endorsements for the college. I can't think
of a better advertisement for Lebanon Val-
ley than the success of its alumni."

Seth Wenger ( '94) is an editor/analyst at
Biosis in Philadelphia.

On Call for the Valley

Yes! I am interested in being an Alumni Ambassador.

O Please send me additional information in the mail.

[~J Please call me to discuss the program and how I might help.

Graduation Year:

Telephone: (daytime)

Best time to reach me:

Winter 1995

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NEWS BRIEFS

A challenge from Kresge

The Kresge Foundation has awarded the
college a $500,000 challenge grant
designed to spur fund-raising for the new
library. There's a catch, however. To
receive the grant, the college must raise
by December 1, 1995, the final $2.1 mil-
lion needed to fund the library project.

"The all-or-nothing terms of the grant
are formidable," says President John
Synodinos, "but the challenge could not
have come at a better time. The grant will
give impetus to renewed fund-raising
efforts."

Regional campaigns among alumni and ■=
friends are under way or planned in Har-
risburg, the Lancaster-York area, the
Allentown-Bethlehem area and Reading.
Next fall, campaigns will be conducted in
New York, northern New Jersey and
Maryland.

Competition for Kresge challenge
grants is intense, and the college is fortu-
nate to have received one, Synodinos
noted. The grant is one of 116, totaling
$43.8 million, that the foundation awarded
through November 1994. In 1993, the
foundation reviewed 777 proposals and
awarded grants totaling almost $74.5 mil-
lion to 174 charitable organizations in 38
states and the District of Columbia.

The Kresge Foundation, based in Troy,
Michigan, is a private foundation created
by the personal gifts of Sebastian S.
Kresge. It is not affiliated with any
corporation or organization.

History uncovered

A few pieces of Lebanon Valley history
were uncovered in October when a time
capsule found in the cornerstone of the
library was opened and the contents
revealed.

The capsule — a copper box — was
filled with papers and booklets dated be-
tween 1 956-57. Among them were a cata-
log, a copy of the alumni magazine, a
campus newsletter, two annual reports
from the Pennsylvania Conference of the
United Brethren Church, some prints of

the Carnegie Library and a letter contain-
ing the names of building committee
members.

The capsule opening drew the atten-
tion of reporters from newspapers, radio
and TV stations in Lebanon, Lancaster
and Harrisburg. On hand to answer media
questions about what the campus was like
in the 1950s were former faculty and staff
members Dr. Clark Carmean, Dr. Edna
Carmean ('59), Dr. George Marquette
('48), Dr. Perry Troutman, Dr. Robert
Riley, Dr. Jean Love and Robert Smith
('39).

The copper capsule, along with its
contents, will be added to the college's
archives and put on display once the new
library is completed.

Special event
at Leedy Theater

Broadway star Carol Lawrence came to
campus to help dedicate the newly reno-
vated Leedy Theater on December 9 with
a performance of "A Love Letter to
Lenny," a tribute to the late composer/
conductor Leonard Bernstein.

Nearly 200 guests attended the dedica-
tion and private performance, hosted by
Lebanon residents Ken and Linda Leedy,
and their son and daughter-in-law, Greg
('92) and Kathleen Ryan Leedy ('90). The
Leedys donated the funds to renovate the
theater. Greg and Kathleen Leedy were ac-
tive in student theater while at the college.

(Top) Dean William McGill chisels open
the cornerstone containing the library time
capsule. (Bottom) Dr. Arthur Ford ( '59),
associate dean for international programs
and professor of English, looks through the
papers found inside.

(L to r) Greg Leedy ( '92), Ken Leedy,
Carol Lawrence, Linda Leedy and
Kathleen Ryan Leedy ( '90) celebrated the
dedication of the Leedy Theater.

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Arnold Gallery dedicated

The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery was
officially dedicated in ceremonies on
November 4. Some 200 people attended
the dedication and reception. Artist Arthur
Hall Smith, whose works were being
exhibited, donated his painting, "Clochard
Series: Aspects of Abraham," to the
college.

Artist Arthur Hall Smith (left), Art Gallery
Director Dr. David Brigham and Suzanne
H. Arnold (for whom the gallery is named)
gathered for its dedication. One of Smith's
paintings is featured on the cover.

Gretna in residence

The Gretna Theatre company, which lost
its home when heavy snows collapsed the
Mt. Gretna Playhouse last winter, will be
in residence at the college for the summer
season, May 15 through August 11. The
company will perform in Leedy Theater.

Organ-chorale lecturer

Paul Salamunovich, music director of the
Los Angeles Master Chorale, was clini-
cian for the 42nd Annual Organ-Choral
Lectureship, held October 1 . He led three
sessions: "Contemporary Culture and the
Church Musician: Phrasing, Intonation
and Tonal Development through
Gregorian Chant," "Registration in Ser-
vice Playing: Musicality through Articu-
lation" and "Communication in the
Rehearsal."

Salamunovich is an authority in the
teaching and performance of Gregorian
chant and the music of the Renaissance.

He was awarded the "Knight Commander
in the Order of St. Gregory" citation by
the Vatican for his outstanding contribu-
tions in the field of sacred music. He was
also the first recipient of the Lifetime
Achievement Award presented in
Carnegie Hall by MidAmerica Produc-
tions.

Management careers

More than 250 high school students from
throughout Central Pennsylvania came to
campus for the Sixth Annual Manage-
ment Career Day in October. Keynote
speaker was Harrisburg businessman
David Stefanic, president and CEO of TV
Host, Inc. His talk, "Common Sense as
Used in Business," was followed by a
variety of seminars on human resource
management, computers, international
business, manufacturing, sales and mar-
keting. The speakers were executives from
ALCOA, Merrill Lynch, Jonestown Bank
and Trust, Allstate Insurance, AMP,
Cornwall Manor and HERCO.

A game, Business Jeopardy (patterned
after the television program, "Jeopardy")
was popular with students, as was a unique
stock market simulation exercise.

Calling all donors

The 1994-95 Phonathon got off to a solid
start during the fall term with some
$74,000 raised toward this year's goal of
$175,000. Student volunteers called
alumni from late September until Decem-
ber 1. They began calling again during
the first week in February, and will con-
tinue through April 27.

Award-winning
publications

The College Relations Office won five
awards in a recent competition sponsored
by the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of
the International Association of Business
Communicators (IABC).

The college's Case Statement received
a gold award (first place). It was designed
by Communicorp with help from Dick
Charles, vice president for advancement.
Also receiving a gold award was Jim
Woland, director of cultural programs,
for his 1993 Authors & Artists series
brochure.

"Real Scholarships," a brochure on the
achievement scholarship program,
received a silver award (second place) and
"Real World," the study abroad brochure,
received a bronze (third place). Both pieces
were designed by Communicorp.

Seth Wenger ('94), formerly a student
assistant in college relations, received a
silver award for his design and production
of 1994 Spring Arts Festival materials.

Food fair

The day was warm and sunny and the food
delicious at the college 's food fair in
October.

Students, staff and faculty sampled the
wares of 27 food service vendors in a
gigantic food fair on October 6. Held out-
doors under gloriously blue skies, the fair
featured a wide selection of entrees, sal-
ads, finger foods, items hot off the grill,
desserts and beverages. After tasting the
goodies, participants were asked to jot
down their favorites to help guide Hall-
mark Management, the college's food ser-
vice caterers, in choosing products and
vendors.

"We got a better idea of what our 'cus-
tomers' want," stated Scott Derr, dining
services production manager, "and we will
alter our menu accordingly."

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NEWSMAKERS

She cares!

Freshman Angie Koons has been named
one of America's 10 most caring young
people by the Caring Institute in Wash-
ington, D.C. On December 2, Sen. John
Glenn (D-Ohio) presented her with a Na-
tional Caring Award at a ceremony in
Washington. The award, established in
1985, recognizes young people who have
demonstrated extraordinary compassion
and caring. As part of the honor, Koons
also received a scholarship and a certifi-
cate to attend U.S. Space Camp in Hunts-
ville, Alabama, next summer.

Koons was nominated for the award
while she was a senior at Northern Leba-
non High School, where she tutored and
coordinated the peer counseling program
that served over 100 students. She also
played a key role in establishing a stu-
dent-run teen contact line in conjunction
with two alcohol and drug treatment cen-
ters. In addition she served as vice presi-
dent of Students Against Drunk Driving
(SADD) and was a member of the student
council and Students Helping to Aid the
Disabled and Elderly (SHADE). Koons
coordinated a volleyball marathon and
several all-night activities that raised over
$2,500 for cystic fibrosis.

At Lebanon Valley, Koons is a mem-
ber of the Black Culture Club and also is
a mentor in the college's Education Part-
nership Program, which helps disadvan-
taged high school students prepare for
and attend college.

Exhibits in New York

Artist-in-residence Dan Massad exhib-
ited his work at the Tatistcheff Gallery in
New York City throughout the month of
December.

Finishes degree

Sharon Arnold, associate professor of
sociology and social work, has received a
master of social work degree from Temple
University and also has become a licensed
social worker.

Dr. Howard Applegate Dr. Steven M. Specht

Dr. Barney Raffield

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Dr. Barbara Denison ( '79)

Dr. Philip Billings

Dr. Perry Troutman

Receives promotion

Judy Pehrson, formerly director of Col-
lege Relations, has been promoted to ex-
ecutive director of College Relations.
Pehrson, who has been with the college
for five years, will continue to be respon-
sible for supervising personnel and bud-
gets in the offices of Public Relations,
Publications and Sports Information, and
for editorial supervision and production
of The Valley magazine. In addition, she
will supervise personnel and the budget
of the Office of Cultural Affairs and par-
ticipate in the college's efforts to recruit
international students.

Conference presenters

Dr. John Norton, chair of political sci-
ence, presented a paper titled "Must
Democratic Politicians Pander? A Case
Study of the Campaign Rhetoric of Bill
Clinton," to the Northeast Political Sci-
ence Association annual conference in
Providence, Rhode Island. Norton served
as a commentator on the November elec-
tions for a number of local television and
radio programs.

Elaine Feather, director of continu-
ing education, and Dr. Barbara Denison
('79), associate director, were presenters
at the 56th annual meeting of the Asso-
ciation for Continuing Higher Education,
held in Toronto, Canada, in October. The
two described Lebanon Valley's partner-
ship with Franklin & Marshall College in
bringing a quality continuing education
program to the Lancaster community.

Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson, associate
professor of English, chaired the session
on 20th-century American Poetry at the
Central New York Conference on Lan-
guage and Literature at SUNY-Cortland
in October.

Dr. John Heffner, chair of religion
and philosophy, presented a program to
the Philosophy of Religion Discussion
Group of the Greater Philadelphia Phi-

losophy Consortium. The program, held
at St. Joseph's University, was devoted to
problems of sense perception as related
to religious experience, with a focus on
William Alston's book, Perceiving God.

Dr. Salvatore Cullari, chair of psy-
chology, presented a workshop on "Cur-
rent Strategies for Measuring Psycho-
therapy Outcomes and Client Satisfac-
tion" for the Pennsylvania Psychologi-
cal Association annual conference in
Harrisburg.

Dr. Thomas Liu, assistant professor
of mathematical sciences, presented a
paper on "Teaching ODE with Derive
and Maple V Software," at the Seventh
Annual International Conference on Tech-
nology in Collegiate Mathematics in
Orlando, Florida, in November. His
paper will be published in the conference
proceedings.

Bryan Hearsey, chair of mathemati-
cal sciences, presented a paper in August
at the Actuarial Research Conference in
Corvalis, Oregon. His topic was the
Actuarial Faculty Forum, a national orga-
nization of actuarial science educators
that Hersey helped organize. He also
edits the group's newsletter.

Chemistry professors Drs. Carl Wigal,
Owen Moe and Richard Cornelius and
eight Lebanon Valley chemistry and bio-
chemistry majors attended the national
meeting of the American Chemical Soci-
ety in Washington, D.C. Three students
presented papers. Junior Dan Lehman
presented a paper, co-authored with
Wigal, titled "Acid-catalyzed Reactions
of Substituted Quindiols." Junior Diane
Porter presented a paper, also co-authored
with Wigal, titled "Markovnikov Addi-
tion in the Organic Laboratory: Synthesis
of 2-Bromo-l-Methylcyclohexanol."
Senior Dan Neyer presented a paper titled
"Redox Chemistry of Substituted
Benzoquinones," which was co-authored
with Junior Trent Snider, Wigal and
Moe.

Dr. Philip Billings, chair of English,
gave a reading from his poetry and prose
in November at the Lebanon branch of
Harrisburg Area Community College.

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Faculty publications

Dr. Howard Applegate, chair of history
and American studies, and his wife,
Shelby, had three articles printed in A
Collector's Guide to Automobilia, edited
by John Gunnell and published by Krause
Publications, 1994. The articles are titled
"Automotive Literature as a Restoration
Tool," "Automotive Literature Buyer's
Guide" and "Collecting Automotive Fac-
tory Photographs."

Dr. Salvatore Cullari, chair of psy-
chology, has published a paper, "Levels
of Anger in Psychiatric Inpatients and
Normal Subjects," in Psychological Re-
ports. The results may have implications
for clarifying psychiatric diagnoses as well
as for understanding the contribution of
anger to emotional problems.

Dr. Steven M. Specht, associate pro-
fessor of psychology, is co-author of a
paper, "The Hippocampus: A Biological
Model for Studying Learning and
Memory," that has been accepted for
publication by the journal Progress in
Neurobiology.

Dr. Eugene Brown, professor of po-
litical science, has published two journal
articles on Japanese national security
policy: "Japanese Security Policy in the
Post Cold War Era: Threat Perceptions
and Strategic Options," in the June 1994
Asian Survey, and "The Future of Japan's
Defense Policy: The View from Tokyo,"
in the Summer 1994 Journal of East Asian
Affairs.

Dr. David Brigham, assistant profes-
sor of art/American studies and director
of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery,
has published a book, Public Culture in
the Early Republic: Peale 's Museum and
Its Audience. The book's publisher is the
University Press Division of the
Smithsonian Institution Press.

Dr. Steven Williams, professor of bi-
ology, had two photographs published on
the cover of the August American Jour-

nal of Botany, the journal of the Botani-
cal Society of America. His microphoto-
graphs show the sensitive hairs on leaves
of two carnivorous plants. Another of his
photos, of a different carnivorous plant,
was published on the cover of Science,
the journal of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.

Named to board

Dr. Barney Raffleld, associate professor
of management, has been named to the
board of advisors for Alloy Tech., Inc., a
New Hampshire-based management in-
formation company serving the nation's
metals industry. Raffield also has been
invited to provide a manuscript and serve
as manuscript reviewer for an upcoming
special issue of The Journal of Business
and Industrial Marketing. He also was
recently listed in the 49th edition of Mar-
quis' Who 's Who in America.

Elected president

Theresa Bowers, adjunct instructor of
music, has been elected president of Re-
gion I and a member of the national board
of directors of the Association of Lutheran
Church Musicians, a pan-Lutheran orga-
nization of musicians in the United States
and Canada.

Named to committee

Dr. Dale Summers, assistant professor
of education, was named to the research
committee of the Pennsylvania Associa-
tion of College and Teacher Educators.
He was also listed in the 25th edition of
Marquis' Who 's Who in the East.

Identifying plants

Dr. Susan Verhoek, professor of biol-
ogy, has completed a yearlong study of
the flowering plants in the Quittie Creek
Nature Park. The study, requested by the
Friends of Old Annville Quittie Park Com-
mittee, surveyed all species of herbaceous

plants, shrubs and vines growing in the
park and indicated their habitat; it also
pointed out seasonally interesting plants.
In an independent study project super-
vised by Verhoek, Lynn Sosnoskie ('94)
researched tree species in the park.

Retirees

Dr. Perry Troutman, professor of reli-
gion, has retired after 34 years of service.
He twice served as acting chair of the
department of religion; was chair of the
Student Affairs Committee and of the Fac-
ulty Policy Committee; and was a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of the
Board of Trustees.

Troutman is founder of The Friends of
the Durham Cathedral, a group that raised
over $15,000 to commission a stained-
glass window to replace clear-glass win-
dows in the Durham Cathedral in England
(see the Fall 1993 Valley).

Hal Fessler retired in September as
director of maintenance after 10 years of
service. He was responsible for oversee-
ing the college's team of carpenters, elec-
tricians and painters, as well as
coordinating jobs with outside contrac-
tors. Replacing Fessler is Chip Schwalm,
who brings 25 years of experience as a
construction superintendent.

Academic Team nominee

Junior Nhien (Tony) Nguyen was se-
lected as the college's nominee for the
1995 All-U.S.A. Academic Team, spon-
sored by USA Today. Nguyen, a triple
major in biology, philosophy and Span-
ish, is a pre-med student. He has com-
pleted an internship with the Lebanon
Family Health Services AIDS Program.

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ALUMNI NEWS

Unlocking Mysteries
of the Brain

By Dr. Steven M. Specht

The 1990s have been designated
"The Decade of the Brain" by the
president and Congress, along
with a variety of scientific agencies
including the National Institutes of Health
and the National Science Foundation.
The designation reflects the rapid and
continuing progress being made in neu-
roscience research. Alzheimer's, Parkin-
son's disease and other neurological
disorders afflict millions of individuals
in the United States. To lay the ground-
work for treatment and cures, the gov-
ernment is making more grant money
available for basic and applied research.
Several recent Lebanon Valley graduates
are actively contributing to this effort.

Stanley Hulet ('93), a psychobiology
graduate who is in the doctoral program
at Penn State's Hershey Medical School,
is investigating the relationship between
iron and oxidative processes within brain
cells. Responding to recent studies on
oxidation, millions of Americans now
take "antioxidants." Hulet' s research is
helping unlock the mysteries of how oxi-
dative processes damage the brain after
neurological trauma, injury or disease.
He presented results from his ongoing
research at the annual meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience in Miami
Beach, Florida, in November.

Psychology graduate Michael Smith
('94) also presented findings from his
research at the Miami conference. As part
of his doctoral work on hypertension in
the neuroscience program at the Univer-
sity of Wyoming in Laramie, he is exam-
ining which brain chemicals and areas are
involved with regulating sodium intake.
Identifying the role of these chemical trans-
mitters may one day contribute to the de-
velopment of more effective treatment of
hypertension and may reduce the risk of
stroke and heart disease. Smith recently
had a paper accepted for publication in the
prestigious journal Brain Research.

Penn State doctoral student Stanley Hulet
( '93) researches how oxidative processes
damage the brain.

Kristen Boeshore ('92), a doctoral stu-
dent in the neuroscience program at Case
Western Reserve University School of
Medicine in Cleveland, is investigating
the chemicals involved with survival
and differen-
tiation of neu-
rons in the
retina during
visual system
development.
These results
will help medi-
cal profession-
als develop
scientific tech-
niques to spare
neurons from
injury and death. A psychobiology gradu-
ate, Boeshore presented her findings
at last year's Society of Neuroscience
meeting in Washington, D.C.

On another front in the continuing
effort to understand the brain, psychology
major George
Hollich ('95)
spent last sum-
mer working
with Dr. James
McClelland, a
world-famous
cognitive psy-
chologist at
Carnegie-
Mellon Uni-
versity in Pitts-
burgh. Hollich
was involved in a research project using
computers to model the way in which the
brain's neural networks process informa-
tion. The work he did with Dr. McClelland
is being submitted for publication to a pro-
fessional journal.

The Lebanon Valley community can be
proud of these outstanding researchers for
contributing to the scientific discoveries
being made during "The Decade of the
Brain." These discoveries may play a role
in saving millions of lives and increasing
the quality of life for millions more.

Dr. Steven M. Specht is an associate
professor of psychology.

Unlimited
Possibilities

By Nancy Kettering Frye ('80)

Soft-spoken chemist Martha
Harbaugh Wolfersberger ('65), a
winner of the 1993 Otto Haas
Award for Technical Excellence from
Rohm & Haas, seems to share an impor-
tant common bond with soft-spoken poet
Emily Dickinson. Both the Rohm & Haas
researcher and the Amherst recluse can
say, "I dwell in Possibility."

Growing up in a Waynesboro, Penn-
sylvania, family of four, Martha hadn't —
for financial reasons — really considered
the possibility of going to college. "I'd
thought I might work in a nice department
store," she recalls. But a high school guid-
ance counselor, "who really took his job
very seriously," she recalls, recognized in
this honor student the possibility for some-
thing more. He arranged for her to be
tested, and she was officially validated as
"college material."

Indeed, Lebanon Valley was so im-
pressed with her scores and grades that
the Admission Office called and offered
her an interview. She eventually entered
the medical technology program and took
a chemistry class during her first term —
simply because it was required. "But,"
she says, "once I got into the chemistry
class, I just found it incredibly fantastic! It
was very, very interesting. I then proceeded
to take all the chemistry courses I could,
and by my junior year, I decided I wanted
to do chemistry and not medical technol-
ogy."

Wolfersberger credits Dr. Karl Lock-

Winter 1995 21

Alumni Association President John Schoch
( '72) (second from left) met with Japan
Alumni Club members (from left)
Keiichiro Yagasaki, Keiko Yunoki Komine
('81), Masami Uchida Tabe ('54), Mrs.
Yagasaki and Kiyofumi Sakaguchi ( '67).

wood (who left the college shortly after
she graduated) and Dr. Anthony H. Neidig
('43), chemistry professor emeritus, for
encouraging her to earn a B.S. in science.
"I thought I was a dumb female and
perhaps didn't have any business being
there, but they acted like they didn't nec-
essarily see it that way. I was getting As
in chemistry, and they both encouraged
me to go to graduate school. I remember
on a final exam that Dr. Lockwood wrote
some very complimentary remarks. I am
very grateful to both of them."

In fact, so grateful is she to her men-
tors that she has designated the $5,000
donation from Rohm & Haas (part of her
recent award) to go to the chemistry
department in honor of Dr. Neidig.

The Rohm & Haas award recognized
Wolfersberger's work as the major con-
tributor to the development of a new latex
polymer product
known as E-3120,
used to protect
wood. Originally
designed for
kitchen cabinets,
E-3120 "provides
a good, hard,
clear coating, re-
sistant to stains
and scratches,"
she notes. What
makes E-3120 so
special? Well, says Wolfersberger, offi-
cially it's a radiation-curable, water based
clear coating system. In her work, she
defined the structure/property relation-
ships and produced state-of-the-art per-
formance from a latex polymer
Unofficially, she states, "What makes it a
big deal is really an environmental issue.
Other paint-makers are trying to reduce in
their products what E-3120 has never had.
The final product contains nothing toxic,
no solvents or other volatile organic com-
ponents."

She has been spending long hours (usu-
ally 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.) on the E-3120 pro-
ject, running reactions, reading and

Martha Harbaugh
Wolfsberger ( '65)

writing reports, participating in monthly
review sessions and conferring with col-
leagues. The project entailed 12 to 18
very intensive months. "I can't believe I
get paid for doing something I enjoy so
much," she says.

While Wolfersberger works "pretty
independently," she stresses that team ef-
fort is also required to nurture a discovery
like E-3120 through the initial research,
the business exploration and, finally, the
scale-up work, producing gradual incre-
ments from one liter to 12,000 gallons.

Also involved closely with the project
was another Lebanon Valley graduate, co-
worker Dr. Ron Beckley ('66). He's a
former college roommate of Martha's hus-
band, Dr. Michael Wolfersberger ('66),
who is now a research biologist at Temple
University.

Except for a brief early-marriage stint
as a waitress in Lebanon and a short time
at Whitmoyer Laboratories in Myerstown,
Wolfersberger has spent 29 years of her
working life at Rohm & Haas, happily
researching polymer possibilities.

Although E-3120 was developed
through "concentrated efforts directed to-
ward a specific objective," she says cre-
ativity is most definitely a part of working
in science. "I guess there's something in
your own make-up that makes you a sci-
entist, but there also needs to be someone
to encourage it with expertise and enthu-
siasm." For her, that someone was Tony
Neidig who, as a dedicated and creative
teacher, also knows what it means to
"dwell in Possibility."

Nancy Kettering Frye ( '80) is a Lebanon-
based freelance writer.

Sun Never Sets on LVC

Alumni Association President John
Schoch ('72) brought Lebanon Valley a
bit closer to Japan last fall when he met
with a small group of alumni and parents
at the Tokyo American Club. Schoch took
the group on a nostalgic tour of the Val-
ley through old photographs taken by Dr.
Clark Carmean. He also brought them up

to date on the latest news with current
photos and information about the new
library project. Arrangements for the event
were made by Kiyofumi Sakaguchi ('67)
and his secretary, Yasuko Sugiura.

Class of '64 Meets

Ken ward Lee ('64) and Donald Kaufmann
('65) joined forces in October to host a
Class of 1964 mini-reunion at the Radnor
(PA) Hotel.

Seventeen class members and guests
attended, coming from the Delaware Val-
ley and Pennsylvania — Mechanicsburg,
Hershey, Annville and Dallas. Attending
were: Donald and Hannah Kaufmann, Mr.
and Mrs. Ted Bonsall, Dennis and Julie
Geib, Mr. and Mrs. Jon Yost, Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Hildreth, Dr. Ronald Kresge,
Ed Spahr and guests, and Mr. and Mrs.
Kenward Lee.

Plans are being made for a future re-
union in Hershey.

Lancastrians Gather

Wind and rain did not deter some 40 alumni
and friends in the Lancaster, Pennsylva-
nia, area from gathering at Bent Creek
Country Club on November 1 . The group,
which included alumni from the 1940s
through the 1980s, weathered an autumn
storm to attend the event and hear the
latest news from Lebanon Valley.

President John Synodinos and Tom
Reinhart ('59), chairman of the board of
trustees, brought greetings to the group.
During the evening, Reinhart announced
that Harry and Carol Yost ('62) ('62) have
agreed to co-chair the Lancaster County
regional campaign, part of the national
comprehensive campaign, Toward 2001.
Plans are now under way to form
a Lancaster area chapter of alumni and
friends.

22 The Valley

SPORTS

By John B. Deamer, Jr.
Director of Sports Information

North to Alaska

The men's basketball team began its 1994-
95 season on a chilly note when it trav-
eled to The Tournament of Champions in
Fairbanks, Alaska, on November 18 and
19. But team members warmed right up
with a victory over Hawaii-Pacific.

The annual tournament, in its third year,
is hosted by the University of Alaska-
Fairbanks (UAF). National championship
teams from NCAA Division II and III and
the NAIA are invited to compete along
with UAF, a Division II program.

Lebanon Valley opened the tournament
by taking on UAF. In the other first-round
game, Oklahoma City, the 1994 NAIA
champion, battled Hawaii-Pacific, the
1993 NAIA champion. (Hawaii had taken
the place of the 1994 Division II cham-
pion, which declined the invitation.) Okla-
homa and Hawaii entered the year ranked
number one and two respectively in the
national polls.

The Dutchmen shook off their 23-hour
trip north and played hard against UAF,
despite giving up obvious advantages in
height, strength and speed. With :05 left
in the game, Lebanon Valley tied the score
at 73-73 on a trey by junior forward Jason
Say. UAF's Nanooks, which means polar
bears, inbounded the ball to guard Deon
Moyd, who hit nothing but net on a trey
attempt just before the buzzer sounded to
give UAF a 76-73 win.

In the consolation game, Lebanon Val-
ley faced Hawaii-Pacific's Sea Warriors —
a team that was bigger, stronger and
quicker than UAF's. Two of the Sea War-
riors starters were 6'8", 240-pound John
Strickland, an NBA prospect, and a 7'-l"
250-pound center from Germany.

All-American guard Mike Rhoades
wasn't fazed by the superior looking oppo-
sition. In one of the best efforts of his
marvelous career, Rhoades scored 31
points, dished out eight assists and hauled
in six rebounds to lead Lebanon Valley to
a 77-68 overtime win over the Sea Warriors.

Coach Brad McAlester turns the Alaska-
Fairbanks Nanook mascot into an LVCfan.

Rhoades dazzled the crowd with three
treys beyond 30 feet and pin-point assists
that left the opposing players shaking their
heads in disbelief.

With the victory over Hawaii, Leba-
non Valley became the first Division in
team to win a game in this tournament.

Rhoades and Say were named to the
All-Tournament team. Say scored a
career-high 25 points against Hawaii-
Pacific and hauled in a career-high 13
rebounds against UAF.

Lebanon Valley experienced blizzard
conditions on its five-day trip to the brink
of the Arctic Circle. Over three feet of
snow fell during the stay, and temperatures,
for the most part, were well below zero.

The Dutchmen spent some of their free
time touring the city of Fairbanks, which
has a population of 40,000. They visited
the house of Santa Claus, just off North
Pole Drive. Saint Nicholas promised a lot
of toys for the good Dutchmen.

Men's Soccer (3-17)

Lebanon Valley finished the soccer sea-
son as an improved team. The Dutchmen
had three wins in their 20-game schedule
and were 1-6 in the MAC Commonwealth
League.

Sophomore forward Greg Glembocki
led the team during the season with four
goals and six assists for 14 points. Junior
forward Rongrig Sangpo, of Katmandu,
Nepal, had six goals and one assist for 13
points. Senior Rostislav Kopylkov, of St.
Petersburg, Russia, had five goals and
two assists for 1 2 points.

Lebanon Valley loses only one player
to graduation and returns a talented group
of freshmen and sophomores.

Field Hockey (11-8)

The good news was a return trip to the
MAC playoffs. The bad news was an up-
set loss against Wilkes and a non-appear-
ance in the NCAA playoffs for the first
time in three years.

Lebanon Valley finished the year 1 1-8
overall and 6-1 in the MAC Common-
wealth League. The Dutchwomen lost to
Wilkes 4-3 on the road in the first round
of the conference playoffs.

Senior forward Alissa Mowrer led the
Dutchwomen this season with 21 goals
and added eight assists for 50 points.
Mowrer was an NCAA CFHCA Regional
and National First Team All-American.
She also was an MAC Commonwealth
League All-Star.

Senior midfielder Joda Glossner was
an NCAA Third Team All-American and
a member of the MAC Commonwealth
League First Team. Glossner, a three-sport
athlete, finished the season with two goals
and three assists.

Also named to the MAC Common-
wealth League First Team was senior right
winger Becky Wiest. Wiest scored four
goals and led the team with nine assists.

All three players are NCAA Academic
All-Americans, a list reserved for those
starting athletes with a minimum grade
point average of 3.5.

Football (3-6)

Despite an opening day 10-0 win over
Johns Hopkins, Lebanon Valley struggled
through the beginning of the season, then
got back on course and nearly pulled off
an upset that would have shaken the
national rankings.

In addition to the win against Hopkins,
the Dutchmen recorded wins over Albright
(34-20) and Juniata (28-21) with a last-
minute touchdown. Lebanon Valley lost
in the closing seconds to Delaware Val-
ley (35-31) and went to the final minute
in a tough 14-12 Homecoming setback
against Lycoming.

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Lebanon Valley was roughed up in
games against Moravian, Wilkes and
Susquehanna, but in the last week of the
season gave Widener all it could handle
in a 24-13 loss to the NCAA playoff-
bound Pioneers. The Dutchmen came
within an inch of scoring on a two-point
conversion that would have given Leba-
non Valley a 15-14 lead with just over six
minutes left in the game.

Four Dutchmen were named to the
MAC Commonwealth League First
Team — senior tight end Ed Donley, jun-
ior offensive lineman David French,
sophomore punter Ryan Currie and jun-
ior defensive back Ed Boyer.

Donley led the team with 44 recep-
tions for 463 yards. Currie finished 14th
in the nation with a 38.7 yards per punt
average. Boyer led the team with five
interceptions and was second on the team
with 68 tackles.

Named to the MAC Commonwealth
League Second Team were freshman de-
fensive lineman Edwin Heisey and junior
linebacker Cory Mattern. Heisey started
all nine games and throughout the season
was a force against opposing lines, with
47 tackles. Mattern recorded 58 tackles,
third on the team, and picked off three
passes in the win over Albright.

Women's Volleyball (22-8)

For the second consecutive year, Leba-
non Valley surpassed the 20-win mark,
ending with a season record of 22-8. The
Dutchwomen were 4-3 in the MAC Com-
monwealth League.

Senior Angie Shuler, an MAC Com-
monwealth League Ail-Star, was the top
setter for the Dutchwomen, with 698
assists. She also had 39 service aces and
107 digs.

Another MAC Commonwealth League
All-Star selection from Lebanon Valley was
sophomore outside hitter Natalie Baruka.
She led the Dutchwomen with 319 kills,
97 digs and a team-high 78 blocks.

Men's and Women's Track and Field

Senior Jeff Koegel rounded off his bril-
liant four-year career by finishing in 36th
place in the NCAA Division III Cross
Country Championships. Koegel com-
peted against 183 runners. He was one of
over 3,600 men who vied this season for
the top NCAA prize.

Koegel qualified for the NCAA Cham-
pionship race by finishing fourth in the
NCAA Mideast Regional Championships
at Allentown, Pennsylvania. He won six
meets during the season, the last win earn-
ing him the MAC Championship.

24 The Valley

Also at the MAC Championships, sopho-
more Ed Brignole finished in eighth place.
In the women's race, Liz Frey, a promising
freshman, took fifth place, and at the re-
gional championships landed in 30th place.

Four Named to Hall of Fame

Four outstanding athletes were inducted
into the college's Athletic Hall of Fame on
October 22 during Homecoming festivities.

■ Lorraine Heitefuss Barry ('79) was a
three-sport Most Valuable Player in field
hockey, basketball and lacrosse.

A four-year member of Lebanon
Valley's field hockey team, Barry was
co-captain her senior year and earned four
varsity letters. She was a member of the
Lancashire Three, an award voted upon
by college field hockey coaches in recog-
nition of excellent play.

In basketball, Barry also earned four
letters and was co-captain of the team her
sophomore, junior and senior years. She

Hall of Famers: Rick M. Coleman ('78),
Ronnie L. Gassert ('78), Lorraine Heitefuss
Barry ( '79) and Maj. Gen. Ross S.
Plasterer ( '57).

played lacrosse her junior and senior years.
Kappa Lambda Nu named Barry Lebanon
Valley's Outstanding Women Athlete.

Barry, a biology/business major, was
a member of the National Honor Society.
She graduated with a B.S. degree in biol-
ogy and received the college's Beta Beta
Beta award in recognition of her academic
excellence in the major.

After graduation, Barry coached field
hockey on a junior varsity level at Annville-
Cleona High School for one year. Today,
she is vice president of commercial lines
for Keckler and Heitefuss, an independent
property and casualty insurance agency in
Hershey, Pennsylvania.

■ Rick M. Coleman ('78) is the college's
leading career rusher in football, with
3,068 yards.

Coleman, who earned a B.S. degree in
economics, was on the football team from
1974 to 1977, earning four varsity letters.

He led the Middle Atlantic Conference
(MAC) in rushing his senior year and was
a member of the All-MAC team. Coleman
also earned a varsity letter in track and
field. His jersey, number 26, was retired.
Today, Coleman is an account execu-
tive for Steiner Studios in Annville.

■ Ronnie L. Gassert ('78) won four let-
ters in both football and track and field.
In 1976, he was All-State Honorable Men-
tion, All-ECAC (Eastern College Athletic
Conference) and All-MAC (Middle At-
lantic Conference). He also was All-MAC
in 1975. As a member of the track and
field team, Gassert set records in the 100-
yard dash and the shotput. He was MAC
shotput champion in 1978. In 1977,
Gassert turned down an invitation to try
out with the Dallas Cowboys, and in 1978,
declined a similar invitation from the
Philadelphia Eagles.

A graduate of Muhlenberg High School,
Gassert was named to the Berks County
All-Decade Team for the 1970s. In 1992,
he earned a black belt in karate. Gassert
resides in Reading, Pennsylvania.

■ Maj. Gen. Ross S. Plasterer ('57) won
eight letters — four each in football and
baseball. He also was a four-year mem-
ber of the basketball team, and was a
member of the varsity squad his senior
year. That year, he was also co-captain of
the football team.

He played semi-professional baseball
in Hershey during the summer between
his junior and senior years, and during
the summer after he graduated. He joined
the Marines in 1957 as a second lieuten-
ant, and played in Florida for the
Pensacola Goshawks, a Navy team. He
also coached Softball and basketball while
in the Marines.

His Marine Corps record is a distin-
guished one. He served two tours of duty
in Vietnam and in Okinawa, Japan. In his
career, he flew more than 6,400 hours. His
decorations include the Legion of Merit;
the Distinguished Flying Cross with two
gold stars in lieu of a second and third
award; a Bronze Star Medal with Combat
"V"; the Purple Heart; the Air Medal with
two gold stars and Numeral 52; and the
combat ribbon. He is also entitled to wear
the Presidential Service Badge.

A native of Lebanon, Plasterer earned
his B.S. degree in accounting. In 1973 he
earned an M.B.A. degree in financial man-
agement from Widener University and in
1976, an M.A. degree in public adminis-
tration from the University of Southern
California. He retired from the Marines
in 1991 and lives in Norfolk, Virginia.

CLASS NOTES

Pre-1930s

Deaths

Irene S. Lindemuth '24, November 2 1 , 1 993.
For 40 years, she was a school psychologist and
research assistant in the Reading (PA) School
District.

Irene A. Schrope Maurer '29, October 21,
1994. She retired from the former Hegins Town-
ship (PA) High School, where she taught foreign
languages.

Charles R. Troutman '29, January 26, 1994.
He retired in 1965 as superintendent of the alloy
and tool steel division at the Bethlehem (PA)
plant of Bethlehem Steel. He was active with the
International Executive Service Corps, which
aided underdeveloped nations including Brazil,
Greece, Argentina, South Korea and Mexico.

1930s

Deaths

Dorothy Snyder Yeager '32, December 23,
1993. She was a retired teacher from the Lebanon
(PA) School District.

J. Stewart Glen, Jr. '36, April 21, 1994.

Ella Mason Hamilton '38, June 17, 1994.
She retired in 1981 after 24 years as librarian at
Roebling Elementary School in Florence Town-
ship, NJ.

Frank Bryan '38, May 7, 1994. He retired
after 27 years as director of instrumental music at
Asbury (NJ) High School. In 1946, he organized
the Asbury Park Municipal Band, which played
summer concerts for over 40 years on the
community's beachfronts.

1940s

News

Jeanne K. Winemiller '47 retired after 23
years as an elementary school teacher with the
Crestview (OH) School System. She still teaches
50 piano students aged 6 to 50.

Joyce Meadows Kauffman '48 has been ap-
pointed to the North Carolina State Board of Di-
rectors for the Caring Programs for Children.

A. Vincent Sherman '49 retired in 1984 as a
special education teacher with the Berks County
(PA) Intermediate Unit. He composes music and
still plays guitar, golf and pool.

Deaths

H. Herbert Strohman '40, September 16,
1994. (See page 29.)

Dr. Donald J. Glen '42, September 18, 1994.
He was a retired dentist who resided in
Chambersburg, PA. Surviving are his wife, Mar-

Complete the Connection!

The Lebanon Valley Phonathon will
continue during the next few months,
and students will be calling to ask
you to consider a gift to the Annual
Fund. When they call, pledge your
support. You'll be LVC PROUD that
you did!

garet A. Cox Glen, '42, and sons George S. '70 of
Chambersburg and David J. of Silver Spring, MD.
L. Christine Mumma Myers '46, September
6, 1994.

1950s

News

Howard H. Smith '50 is a retired United
Methodist minister living in Quincy, PA.

Louis Fried '51, vice president of Informa-
tion Technology Consulting for SRI International
(formerly Stanford Research Institute), has pub-
lished his second textbook, Managing Informa-
tion Technology in Turbulent Times. It is a
professional guide and graduate level textbook,
published in September 1994 by John Wiley &
Sons. The book reflects best practices in informa-
tion technology management garnered from Louis'
work throughout the world with major corpora-
tions and governments.

Dr. Sterling F. Strause '52 retired from W.
H.Brady Co. in Milwaukee. He was 1993 chair-
person of the Milwaukee section of the American
Chemical Society.

Adele (Mickey) Begg Lauder '52 writes that
she retired from teaching in 1990 and enjoys golf,
travel and attending university classes. She lives
on Long Island, NY.

Hon. John Walter '53 was named a Paul
Harris Fellow by the Lebanon Rotary Club for his
involvement in and service to community organi-
zations and projects. He was presented with a
Paul Harris certificate, medallion and pin; Paul
Harris was the Rotary founder. Walter is presi-
dent judge of the Lebanon County Court of
Common Pleas.

John R. Morris, Sr. '59 and his son, John,
Jr., are co-owners of Rocky Mountain Hat Co., in
Bozeman, MT. John, Sr., a physicist and part-
time cowboy, grew up in Pennsylvania and was a
member of LVC's physics department. The fa-
ther-son team had a customized bow business
before moving to Bozeman from Colorado in 1 984.
John Sr. and his son, a geologist, put their science
backgrounds together to come up with the tools
needed to build cowboy hats, including span-cut-
ting, steaming and blocking, and how to size heads.
John, Sr.'s father is Jack W. Morris '39.

Deaths

Joseph L. Gorshin '55, May 31, 1994. After
33 years of service, he retired on January 1, 1988,
as manager of the corporate data center and tele-
processing network at Armstrong World Indus-
tries, Inc., in Lancaster, PA, He is survived by his
wife, Ethel A. Gorshin, and two sons: L. Louis,
Jr. and Alan W.

R. Barry Boehler '57, October 21, 1994. He
was a real estate broker in Lebanon, PA. At LVC,
he was a member of the basketball team. He is
survived by his wife, Mildred E. Brown Boehler,
and a daughter, Cynthia L. Boehler, of Lebanon.

Charles T. Brightbill '58, July 26, 1994. He
was retired from the Tuscarora (PA) School Dis-
trict, where he had been a music teacher and
junior high band instructor. Charles was a past
president and treasurer of the Conococheague
Aududon Society; a former volunteer and speaker
for the Bureau of State Parks; and a former nature
director/counselor at Cowan's Gap State, where
the Visitors Center was named for him. He took
part in rebuilding Fort Loudon (PA) on its origi-
nal site, where a proposed new museum is to be
named after him.

Darryl L. Myers '59, September 4, 1994. He
was senior vice president of the United States
National Bank in Johnstown, PA.

1960s

News

Col. Rosalyn Knapp '61, who retired from
the Air Force, is a bookkeeper and banquet man-
ager for the Seaport Inn Corp. in Alexandria, VA.

Sylvia Bucher Weaver '62 is director of
music at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in St.
Charles, IL. She and her husband, James, have a
daughter, Laura, and a son, Michael.

Rev. George M. Weaver, Jr. '63 is a clergy-
man at the St. Paul's United Methodist Church in
Etters, PA.

Betsy McElevee Zehner '63 has moved to
Baton Rouge, LA, after having lived in Virginia
for 20 years.

Dr. Elizabeth M. Miller Bains '64 (see pro-
file on page 2), deputy branch chief of the Simu-
lation Systems Branch for NASA, discussed
"Using Classical Mechanics in Flight Simulation
at NASA" on October 25 in LVC's Garber
Science Center.

Patricia McDyer Pece '64 and her husband
returned recently to the U.S.A. after spending a
year in Abu Dhabi, where her husband was an
Army officer working with the United Arab Emir-
ates Air Force. Patricia tutored children and adults
in remedial reading and English. They are cur-
rently residing in Chambersburg, PA.

Martha Harbaugh Wolfersberger '65 (see
profile on page 2 1 ) won the 1 993 Otto Haas Award
for Technical Excellence from Rohm & Haas.

Winter 1995 25

Explore Europe's
Diversity with two

Lebanon Valley faculty
members. May 15-27

Visit Germany, Austria, Switzerland,

Italy, Monaco and the French Riviera.

Alumni, parents, faculty, students and
friends of Lebanon Valley are invited to
take part in this travel/study experience,
guided by Sharon Arnold and Sherrie
Raffield, both of whom are associate pro-
fessors of sociology. The program offers
an optional three credits in Multicultural
Studies.

For more information, call Arnold
at (717) 867-6156 or Raffield at
(717)867-6154.

Claudia Hostetter '66 is a school psycholo-
gist for the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit
No. 13 in East Petersburg, PA.

Carol Warfield Tallman '66 in September
1994 completed 26 years of employment in the
Libraries of the Pennsylvania Historical and Mu-
seum Commission in Harrisburg. Carol currently
serves as librarian in charge of the Commission
Libraries.

Alma Payne Bobb '67 writes, "When I was
graduated in '67, I was already a middle-aged
coed! Now, I'm an octogenarian, and my new
address is a 'retirement facility for independent
seniors.' I moved from Hershey in 1988 and,
since then, have been an active volunteer at Santa
Fe's Wheelwright Museum of the American
Indian. Am still blessed with good health."

Rev. Donald B. Kitchell '67 is a pastor in
Gilmer, TX. He and his wife, Carolyn, have two
sons: Bryant and Shane.

Elizabeth Beer Shilling '67 completed her
second bachelor's degree in June 1993 at Towson
State University, graduating summa cum laude in
music education. She teaches primary level gen-
eral music in Montgomery County (MD) and
teaches flute for Towson State's Music Prep
Department.

John R. McFadden '68 is planned giving
officer for the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsyl-
vania in Elizabethtown.

Ann Richard Brennan '69 received a
master's degree in science education from Florida
State University in Tallahassee. She heads the
science department at Etowah High School in
Cherokee County, GA.

Margaret L. Jones MacGowan '69 is asso-
ciate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of St.
Mary's County in California, MD.

Joseph A. Torre '69, principal of Carteret
High School in Fords, NJ, was the subject of a
feature article in The News Tribune, Woodridge,
NJ, on August 9, 1994. Joe received a master's
degree in student personnel services from Kean
College of New Jersey. He and his wife, Lee,
have two sons: Gregg and Brian.

Deaths

Bruce T. Younker '62, September 1994. He
was owner of J.O. Younker and Sons, Inc. in
Bethel, PA.

Curtis R. Miller '64, August 8, 1994.

1970s

News

Larry A. Bowman '70, president of the
Chemung County (NY) Chamber of Commerce,
has been awarded the designation of Certified
Chamber Executive (CCE) by the American
Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE). Larry
is the third active Chamber of Commerce execu-
tive within New York State to achieve the CCE
designation, and joins approximately 160
chamber executives nationwide who hold this
designation.

Rolanda II. Hofmann Divelbiss '70 is teach-
ing part-time in an innovative alternative high
school program for dropouts. Her husband, Steve,
has his own construction and marketing busi-
nesses. Their son. Brad, 13, raises 4-H steers and
was the Franklin County (PA) Grand Champion
in 1992, his first year in 4-H.

Rev. Dr. G. Edwin E. Zeiders, Jr. '70 was a
speaker at the Dimock Camp Meeting on August
7, 1994, near Susquehanna, PA. He titled his mes-
sage "The Love of God Urges Us On." He is the
district superintendent of the Wellsboro District
of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the
United Methodist Church, president of the Laurel
Mountains Habitat for Humanity and a member
of the Williamsburg Foundation.

Walter S. Frankowski, Jr. '73, of Berks
County, PA, was named general attorney insur-
ance and claims for the Metropolitan Edison Co.
He will manage insurance, personal injury and
property damage claims and workers' compensa-
tion claims. He will also be involved in other
legal and regulatory matters. He has 1 1 years of
service with Met-Ed. He holds a J.D. degree from
Delaware Law School of Widener University.

Donald C. Johnson '73 has been elected to
the central chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports
Hall of Fame.

Dr. Ruth Wilson Kauffman '73 is a clinical
psychologist with a private practice in Lancaster, PA.

Rev. Charles A. Rothermel '73 is a United
Methodist minister for the Eastern Pennsylvania
Conference in Lancaster.

Elena Ann Palomba Bartlett '74 teaches kin-
dergarten for the West Shore School District in
Lewisberry, PA. She and Kevin J. Bartlett were
married on July 16, 1994.

Dr. Melaine A. Wilson '74 married Dr.
Jeffrey P. Bomze on October 22, 1994. Melaine is
a clinical psychologist at the Bryn Mawr (PA)
Hospital.

P. Chase Howe '75 is the codes compliance
officer for Hampden Township in Cumberland
County, Mechanicsburg, PA. He is involved with
the development of a Geographic Information
System (GIS) for Hampden Township. He chairs
the Harrisburg Lacrosse Club.

Stephan Sanko '75 is a physican with RGOA
in Rochester, NY. He has four children: Kara,
Jenna, Andra and Alyssa.

Nelson Rudiak '76 is a morning show host
for WOUR Radio in Utica, NY.

Merrily Robinson Smith '76 is a registered
nurse in a medical specialty unit in Columbia,
MD. Her husband, Miles, is an electrical engineer
at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Frank A. Tavani '76 is associate football
head coach at Lafayette College in Easton, PA,
under Head Coach Bill Russo. The 1994 season is
Frank's eighth as a member of the staff. As an
running back while at LVC, Frank was twice
named the team's MVP. During his senior year,
he became the first player in the school's history
to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a single
season. Frank received All-America recognition
for the College Division by the Associated Press.
He was inducted intoLVC's Athletic Hall of Fame
in fall 1988. Frank and his wife, Agnes, have four
children: Liam, Meghan, Daniel and Bridget.

Maj. John Joseph Harvey '77 is executive
officer of Marine Aircraft Group 46, Detachment
Alpha, Marine Corps Air Station, Camp Pendleton,
CA.

Keith Symons '77 and his wife, Joan, recently
completed coursework to reach the master's plus
15 graduate-credit level in the Hamburg (PA)
School District, where they are both elementary
teachers. They have a daughter, Teresa Anne, 3.

Dr. Charles H. ("Chuck") Blevins '78 has
recently been promoted to senior director of ad-
vanced manufacturing within Pilkington Barnes
Hind, a major contact lens manufacturing com-
pany. Chuck will be temporarily relocated from
California to Southhampton, England, to head an
advanced manufacturing project. He expects to
return to California in two years.

Timothy A. Kriebel '78 is pastor at Tabor
United Methodist Church in Woxall, PA. He and
his wife, Anna Marie, have two children: Angela
Louise and Richard Robert.

Dr. Jefferson Lee Hatch '79 graduated from
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary on May 2 1 ,
1994, with his doctor of ministry degree in mar-
riage and family ministry. He lives in Newton,
NJ, and is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church
of Branchville. He and his wife, Kay King Hatch
'81, have two sons: Scott Robert and Bryant Davis.

Helen Meissner '79 is program director for
investigator-initiated research, cancer prevention
and control at the National Cancer Institute in
Bethesda, MD. She and her husband. Dr. Steven
Van Wagoner '80, have three children: Rachel
Ali and twins Carly Meliss and Emily Renee.
Steven is a staff psychologist at George Washing-
ton University in Washington, D.C.

Robert L. Showalter '79 is manager of the
Shillington Branch of the Bank of Pennsylvania
in Reading. He is responsible for staff manage-
ment, deposit and loan growth, and business de-
velopment. He received a graduate banking and
finance degree from Central Atlantic Advanced
School of Banking, Bucknell University, and has
completed various American Institute of Banking
courses.

John M. Sultzbaugh '79 is a project engineer
in the engineering department of Hauck Manu-
facturing Co. in Cleona, PA. He is responsible for
research, development and design for combustion
systems for new industrial heating markets.

David R. Trone '79 is vice president/controller
of Kuhn Transportation Co. Inc. in Gettysburg, PA.

1980s

News

Paul R. Laird '80 is assistant professor of
music history at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence. He and his wife, Joy Ellen, have one
child, Caitlin Thomas Laird.

Kristie Olson Kroll '80 teaches science to
grades 5-8 and language arts to 5th graders at

26 The Valley

Saint Mary, Star of the Sea School in Indian
Head, MD. She has a son, Michael, and a daugh-
ter, Melissa.

Patricia A. McGregor '80 is a customer ser-
vice troubleshooter at Appleseed's, a women's
clothing mail order firm based in Beverly, MA.
She sings in the choir at the Memorial United
Methodist Church in Beverly and teaches at the
adult education center there.

Pam Shadel Fischer '81 is assistant vice presi-
dent of public relations and vehicle finance for
AAA New Jersey Automobile Club in Florham
Park. She is married to Charles J. Fischer '82.
He is a special education teacher and assistant
football coach at Roselle Park (NJ) High School.

Joseph R. Gebhard '81 was named 1993
salesman of the year for Superior Wines and Spir-
its in Lancaster, PA.

James G. Glasgow, Jr. '81 is managing di-
rector of the Travelers Realty Investment Co. in
Walnut Creek, CA. He married Laurie Simcox in
Chicago on December 30, 1992.

Rev. Cynthia A. Snavely '81 is a minister for
the Unitarian Universalist Church in Columbia,
MD.

Dr. Michael H. Goodman '82 is a pediatric
neurologist at the Cooper Hospital/University Cen-
ter in Camden, NJ, and is an assistant professor of
clinical pediatrics at the Robert Wood Johnson
School of Medicine at Camden. He is a fellow of
the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. Michael F. Gross '82, assistant professor
of biology at Georgian Court College in Lake-
wood, NJ, has been appointed director of the biol-
ogy graduate program.

Scott Mailen '82 is a member of LVC's bas-
ketball staff. He and his wife, Karen T. Tulaney
Mailen '82, welcomed their fifth child, Abigail,
on November 11, 1993.

Richelle Kaye Porter '82 married Scott
Trayer on July 2, 1994. They live in Morgantown,
WV, where Scott is doing his residency at West
Virginia University.

Stuart G. Smith '82 is a medical technologist
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Stephen W. Beecher, Jr. '83 is a police officer
for the Mt. Olive Township in Budd Lake, NJ.

Karen A. Breitenstein Johnson '83 is work-
ing part-time in the Allergy Lab at the Lancaster
(PA) General Hospital. She and her husband,
Daniel, have two sons: DJ and Korey.

David E. Kerr '83 and his wife, Kay, wel-
comed daughter Bryn-Erin on June 23, 1994. They
have two sons: Jasen and Ian.

Rajan Y. Kanitkar '83 is a software engi-
neer for Litton Data Systems in Mobile, AL. He
and his wife, Jyoti, celebrated their eighth wed-
ding anniversary on August 15, 1994. They have
a son, Nishant, and a daughter, Sonali.

Sheila McElwee '84 married Marc Witmer
on October 29, 1994, in Havertown, PA. She is a
research technician for Lankenau Medical
Research Center in Wynnewood.

Mindy Smith Niles '84 is a freelance musi-
cian and private music teacher in Hampstead,
MD. She and her husband, Tim Niles '86, have
two children: Christine Marie and Courtney Lynn.
Tim is assistant vice president of information sys-
tems for the Canton Agency in Timonium.

Deanna Metka Quay '84 received a Ph.D.
from Lehigh University in summer 1994. She is
teaching at the Pennsylvania State University,
Berks Campus in Reading, PA. She is also a
visiting research scientist at Lehigh.

Bryan G. Rowe '84 gave a recital at the Christ

United Church of Christ in Annville, PA, on
September 18, 1994. Bryan played on a Baldwin
baby grand piano that was dedicated in memory
of Jeffrey Miller and his son, Derek Miller, who
were killed in an accident on September 1, 1993.
Bryan, a friend of the Miller family, is organist
and choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Incarna-
tion, the Episcopal Cathedral of Maryland in Bal-
timore. In 1993, Bryan released "Songs of the
Soul," his first compact disc, featuring 10 original
piano compositions.

Judy Sargeant Williams '84 and her hus-
band, Glenn J. Williams, welcomed a daughter,
Amanda, on June 9, 1994.

Bryan E. Achey '85 and his wife, Laura
Clugston Achey '88, welcomed a daughter,
Megan Lillian, on June 4, 1994.

Dr. David P. Baldwin '85 and his wife,
Nancy, welcomed a son, Daniel James, on
September 15, 1994.

Foster J. Gibble '85 is marketing training
manager for Butler Manufacturing Co., Roof
Division in Kansas City, MO. Foster received an
executive M.B.A. from Memphis State Univer-
sity in May 1993.

Jennifer Wright Hertzler '85 and her hus-
band, Jonathan M. Hertzler, welcomed a son,
Josiah Joseph, on March 28, 1993.

Correction: Jeanne Page Wiedenmann '85
is the human resources director for Edward Don
& Co. She and her husband, Charles, bought their
first home, in Woodbury, NJ.

Mark Alexander '86 is a full-time student at
the University of Maryland School of Law in
Baltimore.

Dr. Michael Andrews '86 finished the resi-
dency program in oral and maxillofacial surgery
at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland. He has
a private practice in Carlisle, PA. He and his wife,
Jestine, have a son, Michael, born on December
26, 1993.

Dicksie Boehler Lewis '86 is a full-time mom
to her son, Jake, and a volunteer with the Ameri-
can Cancer Society in Henderson, NV.

Dr. David Kurjiaka '86 received his Ph.D.
in exercise and sports science from the Pennsyl-
vania State University in December 1993. He is a
post-doctoral fellow in microcirculatory physiol-
ogy at the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale
University.

Anthony A. Meyers '86 teaches at St. Paul's
School for Boys in Brooklandville, MD. He also
coaches junior varsity soccer and middle school
tennis.

Maria T. Montesano '86, a medical writer/
editor living in Hershey, PA, has been selected to
the board of directors of the Hershey Symphony
Orchestra. Maria oversees advertising and public-
ity for the symphony.

Theresa Rachuba '86 married John Paul
Leatherbury III on August 20, 1994. Theresa is
an actuary for W.F. Corroon Corporation in
Baltimore.

Rev. Betsy Martin Brauw '87 is the pastor at
Church of the Redeemer United Church of Christ
in Hershey, PA. She and her husband, William
H. Bruaw '87, moved to Hershey in January
1994. Bill is a program specialist for the Pennsyl-
vania Office of Mental Retardation in Harrisburg.

Kristi Cheney '87 is an HIV/AIDS case man-
ager/social worker for Family and Community
Service of Delaware County in Media, PA. Kristi
received a master's degree in social work from
Rutgers University. (Kristi wants to know, What-
ever happened to Paul Smith?)

Know an

Outstanding

Graduate?

Each year, during Alumni Weekend,
the Alumni Awards Committee pre-
sents Alumni Citations to Lebanon
Valley graduates who have excelled
in service to the college, their profes-
sion or their community.

The committee needs your help in
identifying candidates. Please feel
free to nominate yourself.

I wish to nominate the following
Lebanon Valley graduate for an
Alumni Citation:

Name and LVC class year

Street address

City

State Zip

Please use a separate sheet to list
achievements in serving the college,
his or her profession or the community.

Nomination submitted by:

Name and LVC class year

Street address

City

State

Zip

Return form to: Alumni Programs
Office, Lebanon Valley College, P.O.
I Box R, Annville, PA 17003.

Gilbert Eng '87 is an account executive for
Electronic Data Systems in Herndon, VA.

John D. Hibshman '87 is recreational sports
director, head women's volleyball coach and soft-
ball coach at Viterbo College in La Crosse, WI.

Jeanne A. Hagstrom Shanahan '87 moved
in January 1994 from Arlington, VA, to New
York City to become the assistant to the editor of
The National Review. Jeanne also heads the New
York chapter of The Conservative Network. She
and her husband, David, have a son, William
David, born on June 23, 1992.

Brian P. Lukenbill '88 received Pennsylva-
nia certification in elementary education in
August 1994.

Deborah Gill Lough '88 is an attorney for
Lebanon County in the Judges' Chambers.

Winter 1995 27

A License to
Be Proud

Show the world that you are proud to be a
Lebanon Valley graduate with an LVC
license plate!

The Alumni Programs Office is working
with the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation to design an official Leba-
non Valley license plate. All alumni living
in Pennsylvania will receive a mailing with
additional information.

There is a one-time $20 fee for the plate,
in addition to the annual registration
renewal fee. A mini-
mum guarantee of 500
requests is needed
■^ ^^ I \ before the state will
tissue the plate.
For more informa-
tion, call Diane Wenger C92) or
Ken Lewis ('93) in the Alumni Programs
Office, toll-free at 1-800-ALUM-LVC.

Christian Hamann '88 received his Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania on October
7, 1994.

Lisa Russoniello Sabatino '88 is a vocal mu-
sic teacher for Whippany Park (NJ) High School.

Robert J. Schalkoff '88 is a teacher at the
Noda Academy in Yamaguchi, Japan.

Urs Schwabe '88 is operations supervisor for
Ryder Dedicated Logistics in Frazer, PA. He and
Karin Dadio were married on July 30, 1994.

Jeane L. Serrian '88 is the assistant to the
dean of clinical practice activities at Thomas
Jefferson University in Philadelphia.

Candace A. Slichter '88 is a customer ser-
vice representative/loan officer for Meridian Bank
in Palmyra, PA.

Michelle M. Durkin Sorensen '88 is a Span-
ish teacher in the Central Dauphin School District
in Linglestown, PA. She and her husband have a
son, Matthew, born on June 20, 1993.

Dr. Ramona S. Taylor '88 is a post-doctoral
scholar at Battelle-Pacific Northwest Labs in
Richland, WA.

Dr. Carl Cameron Miller '89 is a post-doc-
toral student at the University of Rochester.

Lynne E. Smith '89 and Jeffrey T. Wolff
'90 were married in February 1992.

Barbara S. Lowie '89 married Gary G. Hicks
on July 9, 1994. She is head Softball coach at
Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.

Joy L. Mummert Umstead '89 is a social
worker for Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, PA.

Melissa Andrews Yannerella '89 is a kin-
dergarten teacher for the Myron L. Powell School
in Cedarville, NJ. She received a master's degree
in education from Glassboro State College. She
married Brian J. Yannerella on July 23, 1994.

1990s

News

Marc M. Allen '90 is a programmer for FD1
Services in Frederick, MD. He graduated with
high honors from Villa Julie College in Stevenson,
MD, with a B.S. in business information systems.

Dr. Sandra K. Aumiller '90 was awarded
the doctor of osteopathy degree from the Phila-
delphia College of Osteopathic Medicine on June
5, 1994. She is an intern at Suburban General
Hospital in Norristown, PA.

John Brenner '90 is marketing representa-
tive for Glatfelter Insurance Group in York, PA.

Eric Felbeck '90 is a natural resource spe-
cialist for the Bureau of Reclamation in Casper,
WY.

Donald S. Friday '90 is assistant men's basket-
ball coach at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA.

John W. Galvin '90 is night audit manager at the
Sheraton Valley Forge Hotel in Valley Forge, PA.

Laura Judd '90 and Shawn Gingrich '90
were married on June 25, 1994. They reside in
Bethlehem, PA. Laura, who teaches 2nd grade at
Smithfield Elementary School in East Stroudsburg,
PA, recently completed her master's degree at
East Stroudsburg University. Shawn is attending
Westminister Choir College full-time to pursue a
master's degree.

Daniel R. Nudo '90 is press scheduler for
Mideast Aluminum Industries in Mountaintop, PA.

Paul H. Paulson, Jr. '90 is the organist at
Gladwyne (PA) United Methodist Church.

Bradley A. Rinehimer '90 is a casualty claims
representative for Crawford & Co. in Broomall,
PA. He and Nancy Lex '93 were married on June
25, 1994, in Berlin, NJ.

Dr. Sherry D. Scovell '90 graduated from the
University of Cincinnati with an M.D. She is a
surgical resident at the Graduate Hospital in Phila-
delphia.

Brenda K. Dolinger '91 is a 7th grade science
teacher at Milton Hershey School in Hershey, PA.

Kelly Michelle Snyder Hein '91 graduated
from Lancaster Theological Seminary with an
M.A. in religion. She is working toward combin-
ing medicine and ministry with a long-term goal
of becoming a hospital chaplain. Kelly's hus-
band, Dwight, is pastor of Emmanuel Church,
United Church of Christ in Sandusky, OH.

April M. Horning '91 was married to Rich-
ard C. Hershey on October 1, 1994. April directs
the adult and youth choirs at the United Methodist
Church in Annville, and is a long-term substitute
teacher in the Cornwall-Lebanon School District
in Lebanon.

Gregory R. Leedy '91 is supervisor for New
Penn Motor Express in Rochester, NY. He and
his wife, Kathleen Ryan Leedy '90, have a daugh-
ter, Carolyn Alice Leedy, bom on January 27, 1993.

Kristen L. Boeshore '92 is a Ph.D. candidate
in neuroscience at Case Western Reserve Univer-
sity in Cleveland.

Barbara Buchanan '92 is a 2nd grade teacher
in the Upper Moreland School District in Willow
Grove, PA.

Kelly Connelly '92 is a graphic artist for
USA Direct, Inc., in York, PA.

Amy L. Glavey '92 married John F. Gaul on
April 16, 1994, in Pemberton, NJ. Amy is a
chiropractic assistant and X-ray technician for
Cabarrus Chiropractic Clinic in Kannapolis, NC.

Peter J. Grindrod '92 is a public safety
supervisor for Sacred Heart University in
Fairfield, CT.

Brian A. Henry '92 is a landscape designer
for Huber's Nurseries/Landscape Design in
Manheim, PA. He is also a part-time graphic art-
ist for Davis W. Cooper Printing Co. in Willow
Street, PA.

John G. Jewell '92 received his master's
degree in experimental psychology at Bucknell

University in May 1994. He is a doctoral candi-
date at Kent State University in Ohio.

Laura Beth Shearer Krpata '92 is a 3rd
grade teacher with the Northern Lebanon School
District in Fredericksburg, PA.

Pamela J. Merther '92 is a 3rd grade teacher
at St. Mark's School in Hyattsville, MD.

Katherine M. Shenk Morrison '92 is direc-
tor of personnel and manager of information sys-
tems for College Hill Poultry, Inc. in
Fredericksburg, PA.

Philip J. Nourie '92 works for PR Newswire
in New York City as a junior account executive
for the entertainment, media, publishing and pro-
fessional sports accounts.

John P. Perozich '92 passed his comprehen-
sive examination in August 1994, and is now a
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Molecular
Genetics and Biochemistry at the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center. His work has been
published three times in the past year.

Keith K. Schleicher '92 is with the market-
ing and analysis division of Signet Bank Cards, a
national issuer of credit cards based in Richmond,
VA. Keith received an M.S. degree in statistics
from Ohio State University in June 1994.

Stephen Teitelman '92 is an emergency medi-
cal technician at the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey in Camden. He is also a
second-year nursing student at The Helene Fuld
School of Nursing.

Joanna Wierman '92 is a 1st grade teacher
and religious coordinator at Annunciation Blessed
Virgin Mary School in McSherrystown, PA.

Douglas Zook '92 is a science teacher at the
Perryville (MD) High School.

Cory A. Boltz '93 is band director at James
M. Bennett Senior High School in Salisbury, MD.
He and Dawn R. Meyer were married on June 25,
1994, in Camp Hill, PA.

Christopher Krpatra '93 is enrolled full-
time at the Evangelical School of Theology in
Myerstown, PA, in the master of divinity pro-
gram with an emphasis in Christian education.

Marie E. Landis '93, of Middleburg, PA,
welcomed a daughter, Katelyn Marie, on July 7,
1994.

Kelly Lawrence '93 is a chemistry teacher
for the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional Board of
Education in Woodstown, NJ.

Lori M. Moyer '93 is a music teacher for
Educational Music Services in York, PA. At the
Evangelical School of Theology in Myerstown,
she is pursuing a master of arts degree in religion,
specializing in Christian education.

Melissa M. Noll '93 is bookkeeper/secretary
for Riegel Engineering, Inc. in Leesport, PA.

Jan M. Ogurcak '93 is a 1st grade teacher at
the Jackson Elementary School, Eastern Lebanon
County School District in Myerstown, PA.

Heather L. Rimmer '93 is a social worker
for IHS of Hershey (PA) at the Woodlands.

Todd C. Rupp '93 teaches in the Upper Dau-
phin Elementary School in Harrisburg.

Kristen Webster '93 and Byron Brought
'92 were married on August 20, 1994.

Mary Anne Yohe '93 is a technical director
for non-invasive cardiology at Georgetown Uni-
versity Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Michael R. Anspach '94 is an auditor for
Coopers & Lybrand in Harrisburg.

David Aulenbach '94 is a graduate student at
the University of North Carolina in Greensboro
majoring in percussion performance.

Christine L. Berry '94 is an 8th grade teacher

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The Valley

of reading and Spanish for the Penn Manor School
District in Pequea, PA.

Tamela Bieber '94 is ICM case manager for
Northumberland County Mental Health/Mental
Retardation in Sunbury, PA.

Jonathan Black '94 is on the technical sup-
port staff for Turtle Beach Systems in York. PA.

Rebecca M. Blessing '94 is a German teacher
for the Mechanicsburg Area intermediate and
senior high schools.

Jean K. Bright '94 is a purchasing agent for
GPU Nuclear Corp. in Middletown, PA.

Susan Bugash '94 is quality controller for
Mott's (a division of Cadbury Schweppes, Inc.)
in Aspers, PA.

Jennifer Bullock '94 is advertising coordina-
tor for The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Kelly Ann Burke '94 is assistant manager for
Allan Powell in Cranford, NJ.

Christopher L. Chandler '94 is a graduate
student in special education at East Stroudsburg
University. He is also a substitute teacher for the
Kids Peace School, Pleasant Valley School Dis-
trict, Bangor School District and East Stroudsburg
School District.

Cathy E. Connors '94 is administrative
assistant/trust services for Pennsylvania National
Bank in Harrisburg.

Michelle Cunningham '94 is director of pub-
lic relations at Mt. Hope Estate and Winery, spon-
sor of the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in
Manheim.

Janet Mihalich Duck '94 is training manager
for Burle Industries. Inc. in Lancaster, PA.

Elizabeth A. Earp '94 teaches 3rd grade for
the Eastern Lebanon County School District in
Myerstown, PA.

Kent C. Eckerd '94 is a corporate support
analyst for Pennsylvania Blue Shield in Camp
Hill. Kent is a student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Carol Long Edris '94 is human resources
manager for Steckel Printing, Inc. in Lancaster, PA.

Andrea Eppley '94 does free-lance artwork
for advertising.

Carol Fedorchak Fields '94 is on the mar-
keting staff for Vision World in Lebanon, PA.

Melissa A. Fleegal '94 is research technician
for the Hershey Medical Center.

Ronald A. Flowers '94 is senior loss preven-
tion consultant for EBI Companies in
Wormleysburg, PA.

Denita Jo Foreman '94 is administrative
director for Penn National Gaming, Inc. in
Grantville, PA.

Deborah L. Forsythe '94 is a school nurse
for the Millersburg (PA) School District. She is a
graduate student in school nursing at Millersville
University.

Amy Fuelleborn '94 is a high school science
teacher for the Upper Darby (PA) School District.

Nancy V. Gray '94 is a pre-kindergarten
teacher for the Free To Be Me School in
Woodstown, NJ.

Portia Groff '94 is an LGH assembler for
Amp. Inc. in Mt. Joy, PA.

William L. Groves '94 is senior computer
system analyst for Hershey Chocolate USA in
Hershey, PA. He is enrolled in LVC's M.B.A.
program.

Christine Harner '94 is a chemistry teacher
for the Berwick (PA) Area School District.

Phillip W. Heffelfinger '94 is a corporate
engineer for Kunzler & Co. Inc. in Lancaster, PA.
Phillip is a student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Amy Hilbert '94 is a case manager for Fam-
ily Care for Children and Youth, a foster care
agency in Pottstown, PA.

Jill M. Hulet '94 is publicity and promotions
coordinator for HERCO-Hersheypark Area/
Stadium in Hershey, PA.

Shirley Hunter '94 is a 6th grade teacher at
the John Beck Elementary School, Warwick
School District in Brunnerville, PA.

Thomas J. Kennedy '94 is a manager trainee
for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Lancaster, PA.

Michael J. Kitchen '94 is family preserva-
tion coordinator for Family Support Associates in
Harrisburg, PA. Michael is a graduate student in
counseling at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA.

Kris Kohler '94 is a graduate assistant in
football at Rowan College of New Jersey in
Glassboro, and is in Rowan's graduate program
in student personnel services.

Kristine Rie Kuhn '94 and Timothy P. Butz
'93 were married on August 6, 1994, in
Shippensburg, PA, by the Rev. Dr. John Abernathy
Smith, the former LVC chaplain. Kristine is a
mathematics teacher and assistant volleyball coach
for the Shippensburg School District. Tim is a 5th
grade teacher for Conestoga Elementary School
in the Penn Manor School District in Millersville,
PA.

Patricia Landolfi '94 is a pre-kindergarten
teacher at the Little Friends Hamilton Day School
in Trenton, NJ.

John E. Lauffer '94 is a teacher's aide at the
Liberty Park Child Development Center in Spo-
kane, WA. He is also a Presbyterian volunteeer at
a mission, where he uses his talents in clowning
and German.

April E. Lehman '94 is a 7th grade math
teacher for the Smithburg (MD) Middle School.

Christopher S. Long '94 is a 6th grade teacher
at the Northern Lebanon (PA) School District.

Stacey Miller '94 is senior research analyst
for Hershey Chocolate USA in Hershey, PA.
Stacey is a student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Keith Murray '94 is on the information ser-
vices staff for United Parcel Service in Harris-
burg. Keith is in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Eric Mushrush '94 is an 8th grade language
arts teacher for Lehighton (PA) School District.

Bradley D. Newcomer '94 is a graduate stu-
dent at Widener University School of Law in
Wilmington, DE.

Paul M. Palkovic '94 is production superin-
tendent for NARCO in Womelsdorf, PA. Paul is a
student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Kim M. Potocny '94 is the organist at the
Annville United Methodist Church. She is a gradu-
ate student in musicology/music history at Catho-
lic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Donna M. Powell '94 is an employee ben-
efits/health services specialist for Mack Trucks in
Middletown, PA.

Steven J. Progin '94 is controller for S.E.
Meyer Packaging in Palmyra, PA. Steven is a
student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Jennifer Reeder '94 is a mental health
aide for United Health and Human Services in
Bedford, PA.

Mark T. Schiefer '94 is an auditor for the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

Teresa M. Scianna '94 is employed by
Kidspeace in Reading, PA.

Kenneth S. Seiler '94 is an electrical engi-
neer for Metropolitan-Edison Co. in York, PA.
Kenneth is a student in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Christine M. Siple '94 is bank teller/cus-

tomer service representative for First National
Bank of Ohio in North Olmsted.

Bruce A. Smith '94 is president of Infinity
Investments, Inc. in Hershey, PA. Bruce is a stu-
dent in LVC's M.B.A. program.

Chester (Chuck) A. Smith '94 is packaging
supervisor for Sterling Health in Myerstown, PA.

Dwight E. Smith '94 is an accountant for
Aungst & Co. in Lebanon, Pa. He married Jenni-
fer Shimer on July 16, 1994.

Donna M. Smoyer '94 is an information
assistant for the National Association for the Edu-
cation of Young Children in Washington, DC.
Donna is a graduate student at the George Wash-
ington University in Washington, D.C, where
she is studying health services management and
policy.

Kristen A. Spitzig '94 married Robert M.
Mayfield on January 15, 1994, in the Old Chapel
Moravian Church in Bethlehem, PA. She is sales
and catering manager for Holiday Inn in Lancaster.

Marianne Wenger '94 is nursing supervisor
at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon, PA.

Seth J. Wenger '94 is editor/analyst of the
Bio Business Section of Biosis, Inc. in Philadel-
phia.

Jamie C. Wilson '94 is a general clerk for
Homedco in Lancaster, PA.

Bethany A. Yohe '94 is a 6th grade teacher at
Centerville Elementary School in the Hempfield
School District in Lancaster County, PA.

In Memoriam

Lebanon Valley and the area music
community mourned the passing of
H. Herbert Strohman ('40), father of
Thomas M. Strohman ('75), instructor
of music at the college.

Strohman was described by The Daily
News as one of the "The Strohman Broth-
ers, probably Lebanon's most musical
family of all time." He and his seven
brothers all played musical instruments.
Two of his sisters also played instruments,
and the third sister was a vocal musician.
Their father, Harry J. Strohman, was a
musician and music teacher who orga-
nized a number of local bands, including
the West Lebanon Boys Band.

Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on
January 27, 1910, Strohman graduated
from Lebanon High School. He played
flute, saxophone and clarinet. Between
1930 and 1936, Strohman traveled with
a dance band before enrolling at Leba-
non Valley, where he was a KALO
brother and earned a degree in music.
On November 27, 1941, he married
Nora Franklin ('38), a musician and
music teacher. From 1942 to 1945, he
served in the U.S. Army. For 33 years,
Strohman taught instrumental music and
directed the Junior High School Band in
the Lebanon School District. He retired
in 1975.

Winter 1995 29

Helping New Grads
Connect with a Career

Wouldn't it be nice if
you could find out
about your future
career while you still
had a chance to change
your mind?

Lebanon Valley stu-
dents and graduates
can now do exactly
that, thanks to a new
program from the
Career Planning and
Placement Office.
Conducted in coopera-
tion with the Alumni
Council and the
Parents Council, the
new on-line Career
Connection service enables students and
graduates to talk with alumni who are
already established in their fields. Par-
ticipating alumni answer questions by
phone or in person, and some will even
sponsor an internship or assist in net-
working.

Sophomore psychology major Erica
Schneck used Career Connection to
contact Don Frantz (73), the man

Dick London ('65) and junior Suzanne Enterline call up the data base
of Career Connection alumni.

behind the "Amazing Maize Maze"
and the producer of Walt Disney's
new show on Broadway, "Beauty and the
Beast." Erica had always been
interested in the theater, and she
wanted to know what it took to
be successful in the business.

"He gave me hope, because he worked
his way up," she said after they had talked
on the phone several times. "I saw that

you don't have to be from a
rich area to be successful."
Career Connection is
the brainchild of Dick
London ('65), chair of the
Alumni Planning Com-
mittee and president of
Actex Publications. Actex
underwrote the costs of
setting up the service, and
London wrote the letter
asking alumni to partici-
pate. His letter generated
more than 500 responses,
"the best response to any
program we've run in
the last two and a half
years," according to Diane
Wenger ('92), director of alumni pro-
grams.

Erica hasn't made up her mind what
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better equipped to make the decision.
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"I'm sure I'll use it again."

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