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LETTERS 


Inspiring  article 

I  want  to  congratulate  the  staff  of  The 
Valley  for  the  wonderful  article,  "Songs 
of  Grief  and  Friendship"  (Winter  1995). 
This  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  articles 
that  you  have  ever  published. 

It  was  inspiring  to  read  of  Gary  Miller' s 
(Class  of  '68)  achievements  as  founder 
and  musical  director  of  the  New  York 
City  Gay  Men's  Chorus.  Above  all,  I  was 
astonished  that  a  graduate  of  Lebanon 
Valley  performs  annually  with  the  great- 
est voices  in  the  music  world  and  in 
Carnegie  Hall! 

Thank  you  for  making  us  all  aware  of 
Gary  Miller's  important  contributions  to 
the  arts.  He  should  be  applauded  not  only 
for  his  musical  achievements,  but  for 
being  a  prominent  ambassador  for  Leba- 
non Valley  College. 

Interesting  articles  like  this  are  an 
example  of  the  continuing  high  caliber  of 
The  Valley. 

Stephen  Scanniello  '78 
Brooklyn,  N.Y. 


Can't  support  tliose  "ideals" 

This  is  not  a  "hate"  letter  or  a  conser- 
vative "backlash,"  but  it  is  a  personal 
preference.  When  I  attended  LVC,  it  was 
with  the  understanding  that  it  was  a 
Christian-based  school.  The  values  ex- 


pressed in  the  article  "Songs  of  Grief  and 
Friendship"  are  ANTI-Scriptural,  and  I 
cannot  support  them. 

Please  remove  me  from  your  mailing 
list,  and  send  me  no  more  Valley  issues 
or  other  mailings.  I  am  not  interested  in 
supporting  these  "ideals." 

Susan  E.  (Heister)  Harwell  '74 
Deltona,  Fla. 


Beautiful  people 

I  am  writing  to  comment  upon  the  beauti- 
fully written  portrait  of  Gary  Miller  in 
"Songs  of  Grief  and  Friendship."  As  an 
LVC  alumnus,  I  always  appreciate  learn- 
ing about  a  fellow  student's  road  to  suc- 
cess and  joy.  I'm  hoping  that  readers  were 
able  to  value  Gary  as  a  human  being  who 
clearly  has  attained  professional  and 
humanitarian  achievement  rather  than  to 
get  caught  up  in  the  fact  that  he  is  gay. 

Furthermore,  I  applaud  Lebanon 
Valley  for  daring  to  produce  this  article 
in  the  first  place.  I'm  sure  you  must  have 
presumed  that  some  criticism  may  come 
your  way. 

Sylvia  D.  Mayer  '76 
Camp  Hill,  Pa. 


He's  offended 

Perhaps  I  am  in  the  minority,  but  I  found 
the  article  "Songs  of  Grief  and  Friend- 
ship" offensive.  I  was  not  aware  that  Leba- 
non Valley  has  become  a  proponent  of 
the  gay  and  lesbian  tradition.  I  must  tell 
you  that  this  activity  has  no  place  in  my 
heart,  mind  and  soul!  I  notice  that  60 
members  [of  the  New  York  City  Gay 
Men's  Chorus]   have  succumbed  to 


AIDS — and  I  predict  that  the  rest  of  them 
are  well  on  their  way,  as  this  activity  is 
NOT  the  will  of  God! 

I  was  in  the  class  of  '44  and  my 
college  days  were  cut  short  because  I 
"volunteered"  in  the  U.S.  Air  Force,  not 
"protested"  as  the  gays  did.  I  am  shocked 
and  ashamed! 

Edward  E.  Stansfield  '44 
Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 


Promoting  peace 

Regarding  "War  is  Hell — Is  It  Moral?" 
by  Laura  Chandler  Ritter  (Winter  1995), 
if  we  want  to  find  peaceful  solutions  to 
problems  that  our  nation  faces,  one  an- 
swer is  to  initiate  peace  education  courses 
as  part  of  the  college  curriculum.  I  am 
sure  Rev.  Darrell  Woomer  [college  chap- 
lain] would  welcome  an  opportunity  to 
help. 

The  factors  often  missing  in  miUtaris- 
tic  solutions  are  knowledge  and  truth.  To 
ask  the  military  to  find  the  path  to  peace 
can  be  compared  to  asking  the  jack-ham- 
mer operator  to  use  his  tool  as  a  dental 
drill. 

David  B.  Kruger  '63 
Lebanon,  Pa. 


A  great  job 

You  are  doing  a  great  job  with  The  Valley 
— every  issue  gets  better. 

Jud  Stauffer  '82 
Red  Lion,  Pa. 


Vol.  13,  Number  1 


The  Valley 

Lebanon  Valley  College  Magazine     Spring/Summer  1995  J 


Departments 


Features 


17  NEWS  BRIEFS 

20  NEWSMAKERS 

23  SPORTS 

24  ALUMNI  NEWS 
29  CLASS  NOTES 


Editor:  Judy  Pehrson 

Writers; 

John  B.  Deamer,  Jr. 

Nancy  Fitzgerald 

Nancy  Kettering-Frye  '80 

Sandy  Marrone 

Jody  Rathgeb 

Stephen  Trapnell  '90 

Diane  Wenger  '94 

Glenn  Woods  '51,  Class  Notes 

Photographer: 
Dennis  Crews 


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The  Valley  is  published  by  Lebanon  Valley 
College  and  distributed  without  charge  to 
alumni  and  friends.  It  is  produced  in  coopera- 
tion with  the  Johns  Hopkins  University 
Alumni  Magazine  Consortium.  Editor:  Donna 
Shoemaker;  Designer:  Royce  Faddis;  Produc- 
tion: Jes  Porro. 


On  the  Cover: 

An  artist  infused  with  the  Taoist  beUef  that 
clouds  symbolize  the  vital  breath  of  nature,  Sung 
Wen-chih  in  his  work,  "Clouds  over  the  Yellow 
Mountains"  (1979)  also  recollects  the  landscape 
artists  of  the  17th-century  Ch'ing  Dynasty.  His 
painting  was  part  of  the  Chu-Griffis  Art  Collec- 
tion on  display  in  the  Suzanne  H.  Arnold  Art  Gal- 
lery during  the  "China  2000"  symposium.  Lesher 
Mack  Sales  and  Service  sponsored  the  exhibit. 


Window  on  the  Middle  Kingdom 

A  colorful  portrait  of  Chinese  art,  politics,  music,  martial  arts 
and  daily  life — and  predictions  for  its  future — emerged  during  the 
"China  2000"  symposium  this  spring. 


By  Judy  Pehrson 


Sorting  out  the  Chinese  Conundmm 

In  the  People 's  Republic,  the  economy  may  be  booming, 

but  there  are  major  weaknesses  ahead,  warns  Dr.  Andrew  Nathan 

of  Columbia  University. 


By  Judy  Pehrson 


Lessons  from  Confucius  2,500  Years  Later 

Wherever  she  went  in  China,  Temple  University's  Janet  Roberts 
became  known  as  the  "teacher  who  had  visited  the  home  of  Confucious. 


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12 


15 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 


A  Slice  of  Life  in  Annville 

From  munching  pizza  to  cheering  on  the  Dutchmen,  Nanjing' s 
Wu  Yingen  relishes  his  yearlong  stay  as  a  visiting  professor. 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 


He  Puts  a  Spin  on  Teaching  History 

The  classroom  of  John  Boag  '80  is  an  unheated  wheelwright's  shop 
in  Colonial  Williamsburg. 


By  Jody  Rathgeb 


A  Man  of  Many  Hats 


At  the  Rocky  Mountain  Hat  Company,  John  Morris  '59  and  his  son  craft 
cowboy  hats  and  other  custom  chapeaus. 

By  Seth  J.  Wenger  '94 


"We  were  very  much  impressed  by  the  foresight,  teaching 

philosophy  and  management  of  your  college.. .  .1  call 

Lebanon  Valley  College  a  beautiful  bridge  between 

China  and  the  United  States." 

— Xia  Zhaolong,  director  of  Xinhua  News  Agency  in  New  York 


2       The  Valley 


Window  on  the 
Middle  Kingdom 


At  "China  2000,"  a  semester-long 

colloquium,  the  college  and 

the  community  took  a  close  look  at  the 

intricacies  of  Chinese  politics, 

the  discipline  of  Tai  Chi  and 

a  legendary  culture. 

By  Judy  Pehrson 


China  had  always  been  sort 
of  an  abstract  concept  to 
Kelli  Sorg  '95.  She  recog- 
nized its  importance  but 
had  never  had  much  of  an 
opportunity  to  learn  about  it.  "I  knew 
where  it  was  on  the  map,  and  that  it  was  a 
poor  country  with  huge  numbers  of 
people,  but  that  was  about  it,"  she  says. 
Her  view  deepened  considerably  after  the 
recent  semester-long  spring  humanities 
colloquium,  titled  "China  2000:  The  Next 
Century."  The  colloquium  delved  into 
Chinese  politics,  economics,  education, 
art,  music,  film,  martial  arts — and  even 
its  cuisine. 

"  'China  2000'  really  opened  my  eyes, 
and  now  I  almost  feel  as  though  I've  been 
there,"  Sorg  says.  "It  was  a  powerful 
experience.  We  were  immersed  in  Chi- 
nese culture.  There  were  documentaries 
on  China  on  the  campus  cable  channel, 
displays  in  the  college  center,  a  Chinese 
film  series  and  art  exhibit,  outstanding 
lectures,  a  martial  arts  demonstration,  a 
concert  by  a  traditional  Chinese  ensemble, 
a  10-course  Chinese  banquet  in  Philadel- 
phia— it  just  went  on  and  on." 

All  of  the  events,  Sorg  says,  "provided 
a  colorful  portrait  of  China's  people  and 
history  and  helped  me  to  understand 
China's  growing  importance  in  the  world. 
I  especially  enjoyed  the  films  on  China 
because  they  allowed  me  to  look  into  the 
faces  of  a  culture  very  different  from  ours. 
You  could  actually  see  real  people  in- 
stead of  just  looking  in  a  book  and  seeing 
numbers  and  facts." 


Sophomore  Nate  Hillegas  and  freshman 
Beth  Paul  explore  the  map  of  China 
displayed  in  the  Mund  College  Center. 
(Below)  The  logo  for  the  colloquium 
incorporates  the  character  for  the 
word  China. 


Spring/Summer  1995 


As  a  result  of  the  colloquium  and  also  a 
class  this  spring  on  "Contemporary  China," 
Sorg  is  thinking  of  changing  career  direc- 
tions. "I'm  considering  going  on  for  my 
graduate  degree  in  foreign  relations,  and 
China  is  an  area  I  would  like  to  concentrate 
on.  This  semester  was  a  great  introduction." 

Junior  Jonathan  Smith's  horizons  were 
also  broadened  by  the  colloquium.  "I  was 
one  of  two  students  who  did  a  series  of 
six  Chinese  language  lessons  on  video  for 
the  campus  cable  channel,"  he  explains. 
"Dr.  Wu  Yingen  (see  story  page  10)  taught 
us  simple,  everyday  phrases,  and  it  was  a 
lot  of  fun.  I  knew  nothing  about  Chinese 
before,  but  now  I  think  I  would  like  to 
learn  the  language,  and  I  would  definitely 
like  to  visit  China.  The  colloquium  made 
me  look  at  things  in  a  whole  new  way." 

Sorg's  and  Smith's  reactions  are  not 
unique.  The  colloquium  was  enthusiasti- 
cally received  by  faculty,  students  and 
the  community,  according  to  Dr.  John 
Kearney,  professor  of  English  who 
attended  many  of  the  events.  The  sympo- 
sium "was  invaluable  on  campus  for  all 
the  variety  of  things  it  brought  in,"  he 
states.  "I  used  it  in  two  different  courses, 
and  students  were  able  to  bring  together 
politics,  economics,  film,  art,  etc.  in  their 
study.  I  just  read  a  paper  from  one  of  the 
courses,  and  it  was  a  model  of  interdisci- 
plinary learning — possible  only  because 
of  the  colloquium. 

"  'China  2000'  obviously  had  a  strong 
impact  on  the  community  as  well — 


Around  1918,  artist  Li  K'n-ch  'an  eked  out 
a  living  pulling  a  rickshaw  while  studying 
Chinese  traditional  painting.  "Mynah 
Bird  on  a  Palm  Tree,  "  painted  the  year 
before  his  death  in  1983,  shows  his  bold, 
precise  brushstrokes  and  sense  of  humor. 
The  work  was  part  of  the  Chu-Grijfis  Art 
Collection,  displayed  in  connection  with 
"China  2000.  " 


The  Valley 


During  their  two-day  stay,  the  eminent  Chinese  visitors  toured  the  campus. 


attracting  many  people  from  outside  the 
college  to  all  the  events  I  went  to," 
Kearney  adds. 

Chinese  officialdom  was  also  intrigued 
by  the  colloquium.  Two  diplomats  from 
the  Chinese  Consulate  in  New  York, 
Wang  Renliang  and  Chen  Jianguo,  both 
cultural  section  consuls,  spent  two  days 
on  campus  meeting  with  students,  faculty 
and  key  administrators.  Joining  them  were 


"We  were  surprised  that  such 

a  small  college  could  mount 

such  a  large  and  excellent 

series  of  events  on  China. . . 

Vve  never  heard  of  such 

a  comprehensive  program 

being  undertaken  b^  any 

other  school." 

— Xia  Zhaolong 


Xia  Zhaolong,  director  of  Xinhua  News 
Agency  in  New  York,  and  Han  Bowen, 
his  wife  and  colleague.  The  Chinese  del- 
egation was  on  hand  for  the  keynote 
speech  by  Dr.  Andrew  Nathan,  director 
of  Columbia  University's  East  Asian 
Institute,  (see  page  7)  and  for  a  panel 
discussion  the  following  evening  in  which 
Wang  participated.  The  two  consular 
officers  also  visited  the  Brossman  Busi- 
ness Center  in  Ephrata  to  view  video- 
conferencing technology,  a  preliminary 
step  to  setting  up  a  videoconferencing 
link  between  Lebanon  Valley  and  Nanjing 
University. 

The  Chinese  came  away  with  praise 
for  both  the  colloquium  and  the  college. 
"We  were  very  much  impressed  by  the 
foresight,  teaching  philosophy  and  man- 
agement of  your  college.  We  were  sur- 
prised that  such  a  small  college  could 
mount  such  a  large  and  excellent  series  of 
events  on  China,"  Xia  stated.  "I've  never 
heard  of  such  a  comprehensive  program 
being  undertaken  by  any  other  school.  My 
interviews  and  conversations  with  Leba- 
non Valley  students  indicated  that  they 
had  learned  a  lot  about  our  country.  I  call 
Lebanon  Valley  College  a  beautiful  bridge 
between  China  and  the  United  States." 

The  colloquium  was  a  massive  under- 
taking, says  Dr.  James  Scott,  director  of 
general  education,  who  played  a  key  role 
in  putting  "China  2000"  together.  "I  think 
it's  the  biggest  thing  we've  ever  done  at 
the  college,"  he  states.  "It's  interesting. 


A  panel  discussion  examined  China 's  role 
in  the  21st  century. 


"China  2000"  attracted  many  people  from 
the  area. 


Spring/Summer  1995        5 


Nathan  Spivey,  director  of  the  Oriental  Health  Serx'ice,  demonstrated  Tai  Chi,  a  series  of 
moves  to  harmonize  exercise,  meditation  and  self-discipline. 


because  we  started  out  with  fairly  modest 
intentions,  and  enthusiasm  was  so  great 
that  the  whole  thing  developed  a  momen- 
tum of  its  own.  We  just  kept  adding  events 
that  portrayed  different  aspects  of  China." 
A  world-class  art  exhibit  was  also  part 
of  "China  2000."  The  Suzanne  H.  Arnold 
Art  Gallery  featured  21  works  from  the 
respected  Chu-Griffis  Art  Collection. 
Included  were  the  renowned  paintings 
"Shrimp"  and  "Lotus,"  by  Chia  Pai-shi 


(Above)  An  exchange  of  gifts  and  (center) 
a  10-course  banquet  added  to  the  spirit  of 
international  good  will. 


"How  many  times  does  an 

American — especially  in 

this  county — get  to  sit  down 

with  Chinese  musicians 

and  talk  with  them? 

The  dinner  conversation 

was  fascinating,  and 

I  thoroughly  enjoyed 

their  concert." 

— ^James  Erdman, 
associate  professor  of  music 


(1863-1957),  known  as  the  "Picasso  of 
China"  for  his  innovative  and  powerful 
brush  work,  and  "Buffalo  Shepherd"  by 
Li  Ke-jan,  one  of  China's  leading  con- 
temporary artists. 

Dinners  and  luncheons  before  many 
of  the  events  gave  students  and  faculty 
access  to  a  variety  of  China  experts.  "It 
was  really  something  to  sit  down  with 
Andy  Nathan,  for  example,"  says  Dr. 
Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  political  sci- 
ence. "Nathan  is  one  of  America's  fore- 
most experts  on  China,  and  I,  along  with 
a  number  of  other  people,  had  the  oppor- 
tunity to  talk  with  him  in  an  informal 
setting.  That's  a  wonderful  experience, 
particularly  for  students." 

James  Erdman,  associate  professor  of 
music,  got  his  first  opportunity  to  hear 
Chinese  music  and  to  meet  Chinese  musi- 
cians. "It  was  a  real  learning  experience," 
he  says.  "How  many  times  does  an  Ameri- 
can— especially  in  this  county — get  to  sit 
down  with  Chinese  musicians  and  talk 
with  them?  The  dinner  conversation  was 
fascinating,  and  I  thoroughly  enjoyed  their 
concert.  It  proved  to  me  that  music  is  a 
universal  language." 

The  symposium  also  represented  the 
college's  increasing  emphasis  on  interna- 
tionalism. Five  years  ago,  17  American 
Fulbright  Scholars  had  come  to  Lebanon 
Valley  to  reflect  on  the  student  demon- 
strations in  the  spring  of  1989,  when  gov- 
ernment troops  fired  on  the  two  million 
people  gathered  at  Tiananmen  Square  in 
Beijing. 

Kelli  Sorg  hopes  the  college  will  do 
more  far-reaching  colloquiums  like 
"China  2000."  "They  provide  a  good 
chance  to  expand  learning  beyond  the 
classroom,  which  is  beneficial  to  students, 
faculty  and  the  community,"  she  says. 
"Also,  with  a  small  college  Hke  Lebanon 
Valley,  there  is  a  community  atmosphere 
and  everybody  can  learn  together." 


Judy  Pehrson,  executive  director  of  col- 
lege relations  and  editor  of  The  Valley, 
was  part  of  the  committee  that  planned 
and  implemented  "China  2000.  " 


The  Valley 


In  the  next  century's 

world  order,  the  place  of  the 

People's  Republic  is  far  from 

assured.  While  its  economy 

is  booming,  the  country  also 

faces  daunting  problems, 

says  one  of  the  nation's 

foremost  "China  hands." 

By  Judy  Pehrson 


Understanding  China  is  like 
peeling  an  onion.  There  are 
many  layers  and  the  out- 
side is  not  a  completely 
accurate  indicator  of  what 
is  hidden  within,  says  Dr.  Andrew  Nathan. 

"On  the  surface,  China  appears  to  be 
extremely  prosperous  right  now,"  explains 
the  professor  of  political  science  and 
director  of  Columbia  University's  East 
Asian  Institute.  Nathan  spent  two  days  at 
the  college  during  the  "China  2000"  sym- 
posium. "The  poverty-stricken  peasant 
China  that  we  were  familiar  with  from 
different  novels,  movies  and  media  im- 
ages has  given  way  to  a  huge  middle- 
class  society  in  the  coastal  cities.  If  you 
visit,  you'll  see  people  wearing  nice  cloth- 
ing, eating  at  McDonald's  and  Kentucky 
Fried  Chicken  and  buying  CD  players 
and  other  consumer  goods." 

Indeed,  says  Nathan,  China's  economy 
is  growing  at  the  rate  of  1 2  percent  a  year. 
That  gives  rise  to  predictions  in  some 
quarters  that  in  the  first  decade  of  the  21st 
century  China  will  overtake  Japan  and 
become  the  number  two  economic  power 
in  the  world  in  terms  of  gross  GNP. 

But  when  you  peel  down  to  the  next 
layer  of  the  Chinese  onion,  he  adds,  you 
find  that  the  impressive  surface  economic 
growth  disguises  some  important  weak- 
nesses. For  example,  corruption  is  wide- 
spread and  urban  inflation  is  running  at  21 
percent.  And  while  part  of  the  economy  is 
thriving,  the  public  sector  is  languishing. 

"One-third  of  state-owned  enterprises 
are  in  the  red — and  there  are  some  80,000 
factories  and  other  businesses  owned  by 


Sorting  out  the 
Chinese  Conundmm 


Columbia  University's  Dr.  Andrew  Nathan  outlined  five  possible  scenarios  for  the 
world's  most  populous  nation. 


government,"  Nathan  notes.  "Plus  many  of 
those  in  the  black  are  not  efficient — equip- 
ment is  old  and  broken  down,  there's  a  lot 
of  inventory  in  warehouses  because  the 
products  are  outdated  and  no  longer  mar- 
ketable, people  are  sitting  around  doing 
very  little  and  the  firms  are  paying  pen- 
sions to  large  numbers  of  retired  workers, 
etc.  Even  those  enterprises  making  money 
are  doing  so  because  the  government  is 
loaning  them  money  and  protecting  them." 

There  is  also  a  hidden  layer  of  politi- 
cal instability  and  the  possibility  of  a  pro- 
tracted power  struggle  when  Premier  Deng 
Xiaoping,  who  is  very  ill,  dies. 

"If  you  go  to  Beijing  and  talk  to  people 
privately— whether  to  intellectuals  or 
ordinary  people — they  are  all  paying  avid 


attention  to  the  dying  emperor  and  what 
will  happen  when  he  goes.  The  death  of 
the  emperor  always  produces  a  power 
struggle  in  any  imperial  court,"  Nathan 
observes. 

While  Deng  has  anointed  Jiang 
Zeming,  currently  head  of  the  Commu- 
nist Party,  to  be  his  successor,  there  are 
potential  rivals,  says  Nathan,  who  visits 
China  at  least  once  a  year.  One  is  Li 
Peng,  current  prime  minister  and  a  stal- 
wart of  the  conservative  faction.  These 
senior  leaders  are  suspicious  of  China's 
increasing  interaction  with  the  outside 
world  and  are  firm  supporters  of  the  poli- 
cies of  former  Chinese  leader  Mao 


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Zedong.  Li  is  the  hardliner  who  called  in 
the  troops  to  quell  the  student  uprising  in 
Tiananmen  Square  in  1989. 

A  third  possible  candidate  to  assume 
the  mantle  when  Deng  dies,  states  Nathan, 
is  Qiaoshi,  head  of  the  National  People's 
Congress  (NCP)  and  a  proponent  of  reform 
to  free  up  the  Chinese  economy  even  more. 

While  the  Beijing  elite  debate  who  the 
new  emperor  will  be,  what  socialism  is 
and  should  be,  how  much  of  the  economy 
the  state  should  own  and  other  such 
issues,  out  in  the  vast  countryside,  people 
are  keeping  their  heads  down  and  making 
money.  "The  folks  in  the  provinces  could 
care  less  about  the  political  debates," 
Nathan  says.  "They  only  care  about  get- 
ting that  local  GNP  up,  or  the  local  GNP 
of  their  unit  up — no  matter  how.  Manag- 
ers have  been  empowered,  and  factories 
and  assets  that  used  to  be  controlled  by 
the  state  have  been  given  over  with  the 
proviso,  'You  take  it,  you  make  it  work.' 
And  they're  getting  into  joint  ventures 
with  people  from  Taiwan,  Hong  Kong 
and  other  countries." 

In  a  country  with  so  many  conflicting 
and  competing  forces,  almost  anything 
can  happen,  warns  Nathan.  He  offered 
five  scenarios  for  China  in  the  year  2000: 

■  China  will  fly  apart,  much  as  the  former 
Soviet  Union  has  done,  with  areas  like 
Tibet  breaking  away,  offshore  Taiwan 
declaring  independence  and  Guangdong 
and  Fujian — whose  citizens  have  always 
felt  different  from  the  people  in  Beijing — 
going  it  on  their  own. 

"This  is  unlikely,"  Nathan  posited. 
"Keeping  the  country  together  is  so  impor- 
tant for  its  security  that  the  military  and 
central  government  would  never  allow  a 
break-up  to  happen." 

■  The  civilian  government  will  collapse 
and  the  military  will  step  in. 

Also  unlikely,  according  to  Nathan, 
because  there  are  so  many  military  groups 
that  it  would  be  difficult  for  them  to  get 
together  and  mount  a  coup. 


"The  poverty-stricken 

peasant  China  that  we 

were  familiar  with  from 

different  novels,  movies 

and  media  images  has 

given  way  to  a  huge 

middle-class  society 

in  the  coastal  cities." 

— Dr.  Andrew  Nathan 


■  Succession  will  work  and  Jiang  Zeming 
will  replace  Deng  Xiaoping  without 
incident. 

Nathan  is  skeptical  of  this  scenario, 
too.  "There's  a  power  struggle  going  on, 
people  don't  agree  on  the  direction  of  the 
country  and  don't  agree  that  Jiang  Zeming 
is  competent  to  hold  power.  I  believe 
someone  will  come  along  and  replace 
Jiang  Zeming." 

■  A  long  process  of  democratic  reform 
will  take  place  with  the  NPC  taking  power, 
making  changes  and  calling  elections. 

This  could  happen,  says  Nathan,  but  it 
would  be  difficult  because  NPC  delegates 
are  members  of  the  Communist  Party, 
and  the  party  controls  their  election.  Also, 
NPC  meetings  are  tightly  controlled  with 
very  short  agendas.  "The  only  way  this 
scenario  could  become  a  reality  is  if  the 
man  running  the  government  decides  to 
use  the  NPC  to  carry  out  reform." 

■  The  whole  system  will  fall  apart  and 
there  will  be  popular  uprisings,  strikes 
and  disorder  in  the  streets. 

The  main  factor  mitigating  against  this 
scenario,  says  Nathan,  is  that  no  one  wants 
it.  "They're  been  through  all  that  with  the 
Cultural  Revolution,  and  now  they  would 
really  like  to  have  the  peace  to  go  about 
their  business  and  make  a  living.  I  hope 
that  this  wisdom  at  the  individual  level 
will  cumulate  into  wisdom  at  the  collec- 
tive level,  although  we  know  that  often 
that  doesn't  take  place  even  in  our  own 
country." 


There  are  powerful  forces  nudging 
China  toward  "peaceful  evolu- 
tion"— particularly  the  economic 
development  that  is  bringing  about  mod- 
ernization, prosperity,  social  pluralism  and 
the  assertion  of  individual  interest,  Nathan 
points  out. 

Whatever  happens  in  China — and  no 
matter  who  comes  to  power — the  country 
faces  a  very  threatening  outside  world, 
and  that  could  complicate  its  future.  China 
is  ringed  by  a  number  of  hostile  nations, 
and  the  United  States  has  a  military  pres- 
ence around  its  borders  as  well. 

"China  has  22  entities  to  worry  about 
and  many  have  major  armies — the  top  1 1 
or  12  armies  in  the  world  surround  China. 
It  also  has  unresolved  territorial  disputes 
with  eight  of  those  countries,  and  since 
1949  it  has  had  military  conflicts  with  the 
United  States,  South  Korea,  Russia,  India 
and  Vietnam,"  Nathan  points  out.  "There 
are  no  buffer  states,  and  China  is  hard  to 
defend — all  of  which  adds  up  to  a  diffi- 
cult security  problem." 

In  order  to  keep  itself  safe,  he  adds, 
China  must  hold  the  country  together, 
make  sure  no  one  dominates  the  region 
around  it  and  preserve  an  environment 
that  will  fuel  economic  growth. 

So  how  will  it  all  end  up?  Will  China 
be  a  friend  or  foe  to  the  United  States — 
and  to  world  order — in  the  next  century? 

"It  depends  on  how  China  integrates 
itself  into  a  world  that  is  becoming  more 
and  more  interdependent,"  says  Nathan. 
"We  in  the  United  States  cannot  control 
that  outcome,  but  through  trade  and  cul- 
tural contacts  we  can  have  some  influ- 
ence over  China's  domestic  evolution.  We 
can  also  influence  the  way  China  relates 
to  the  world  through  the  wisdom  of  our 
own  government's  policy,  since  we  are 
still  the  most  powerful  single  government 
in  the  world. 

"And  since  America's  foreign  policy 
is  heavily  influenced  by  public  opinion," 
he  adds,  "it  is  significant  when  citizens 
inform  themselves  about  another  country 
like  China — and  your  humanities  sympo- 
sium is  a  wonderful  example  of  that — 
and  be  positioned  to  support  a  wise  foreign 
policy." 


8       The  Valley 


Lessons  from  Confucius 
2,500  Years  Later 


A 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 


professor  of  English  at 
Temple  University,  Janet 
Roberts  travels  far  and 
wide  lecturing  for  the 
Philadelphia  Museum  of 
Art  and  the  Pennsylvania  Humanities 
Council.  She  has  worked  with  the  Pearl 
S.  Buck  Foundation,  co-authored  text- 
books, published  her  own  poetry  and 
sponsored  a  child  in  Thailand. 

Yet  to  her  colleagues  in  China,  where 
she  spent  1986-87  on  a  cultural  exchange 
program  at  Fudan  University,  all  of  those 
accomplishments  paled  in  the  light  of  one 
pilgrimage.  Wherever  she  went,  she  was 
introduced  as  "the  teacher  who  had  vis- 
ited the  home  of  Confucius." 

At  the  university  in  Shanghai,  Roberts 
instructed  the  Chinese  faculty  in  Ameri- 
can poetry  and  methods  of  teaching 
English.  When  she  first  arrived,  she  had  a 
week  to  spare,  and  the  first  thing  she 
wanted  to  do  was  to  visit  Qufu,  the 
ancient  home  of  the  great  Chinese  teacher, 
and  to  climb  the  sacred  mountain  associ- 
ated with  Taoism  and  Confucianism. 

It  was  very  difficult  to  get  there,  she 
found  out.  A  series  of  trains,  buses  and 
untold  pairs  of  helping  hands  finally 
brought  her  to  her  destination,  where  she 
strolled  in  the  gardens  and  visited  his  tomb 
and  the  paviUon  where  he  taught.  That 
night  she  and  other  guests  dined  together 
in  the  Kong  family  home  and  slept  in 
their  guest  rooms.  It  was  a  fitting  intro- 
duction both  to  a  nation  that  publicly  dis- 
avows Confucianism  (it  was  banned  in 
the  People's  Republic)  and  to  a  people 
who  in  private  still  weave  his  teachings 
into  the  fabric  of  family  life. 

Confucianism,  whose  central  principle 
is  human  kindness,  is  a  philosophy  and  a 
guide  to  moral  conduct  rather  than  a  reli- 
gion. During  the  Cultural  Revolution, 
many  of  the  tablets  containing  his  teach- 
ings were  destroyed.  But,  says  Roberts, 
his  wisdom  was  passed  down  informally, 
from  generation  to  generation. 

At  the  "China  2000"  colloquium,  Rob- 
erts narrated  her  slides  on  education  in 
contemporary  China.  "It  is  very  clear  that 
Confucianism  is  not  dead  in  China,"  she 
affirmed.  "Young  students  spoke  to  me 
about  things  they  had  learned  from  their 


Janet  Roberts  offered  her  observations  on 
Chinese  education. 

parents  and  grandparents,  and  the  temples 
still  stand."  The  Chinese  emphasized  serv- 
ing the  community  rather  than  the  indi- 
vidual, she  observed.  Confucian  piety  was 
evident  in  the  honoring  of  family  mem- 
bers and  ancestors,  and  the  principles  of 
order  and  harmony  could  be  found  in  the 
elementary  school  classroom,  where  chaos 
was  very  unlikely  to  break  out.  She  found 
that  even  a  policy  that  Americans  might 
view  as  repressive — the  central 
government's  one-child-per-couple  law — 
was  accepted  calmly,  for  the  most  part,  as 
contributing  to  the  greater  good  of  the 
country.  "The  Chinese  people  are  too 


aware  of  the  difficulties  in  their  lives 
because  of  overpopulation,"  she  noted. 

There  were  times,  though,  when  she 
found  that  Confucian  ideals  and  Commu- 
nist realities  didn't  seem  to  meet  in  peace- 
ful co-existence — the  typical  Chinese 
undergraduate  was  a  case  in  point. 
"American  students  for  the  most  part  are 
more  ambitious,"  Roberts  says.  "But  the 
Chinese  student  feels  that  much  of  his  hfe 
is  regulated  and  plans  are  already  made 
for  him.  So  there's  less  sense  of  self- 
determination,  which  causes  less  atten- 
tion to  performance.  And  that  definitely 
does  not  augment  the  Confucian  ideal  of 
education  as  a  means  of  realizing  your 
merit." 

In  her  slides,  among  the  flashes  of 
craggy  mountains,  the  smiling  faces  of 
peasants  and  the  architectural  wonders, 
was  a  recurring  motif  in  poetry  and  paint- 
ings: images  of  the  plum  blossom,  the 
bamboo  shoot  and  the  pine  tree.  Known 
as  the  "three  friends  of  winter,"  these 
plants  symbolize  purity,  resihence  in  the 
face  of  adversity  and  incorruptibility. 
"They  are  planted  together,"  she  observes, 
"friends  in  association,  each  supplying 
what  the  other  lacks  and  living  in  order 
and  harmony." 


In  China,  students  of  all  ages  expect  order  and  harmony  to  rule  in  the  classroom. 


Spring/Summer  1995 


A  Slice  of  Life 
in  Annville 


It  was  August  of  1994,  and  Dr. 
Eugene  Brown  was  at  the  Amtrak 
station  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  to  meet 
a  visiting  professor  from  abroad. 
The  visitor's  arrival  here  was  a  big 
event,  and  Brown  wanted  to  mark  the 
occasion  with  a  suitable  welcome,  but  his 
overloaded  schedule  put  the  nix  on  a  big 
shindig.  So  on  the  way  back  from  the 
station,  the  Lebanon  Valley  political  sci- 
ence professor  picked  up  a  pizza  to  bring 
back  home. 

"There  was  this  distinguished  scholar, 
on  his  first  day  in  the  United  States,  sit- 
ting on  the  floor  of  my  family  room  eat- 
ing pizza  with  me  and  my  wife,"  recalls 
Brown.  "I  knew  right  then  and  there  that 
this  was  a  fellow  who  would  have  no 
trouble  at  all  fitting  into  campus  life." 

Brown,  it  turns  out,  was  right  on  tar- 
get. Professor  Wu  Yingen,  fresh  from 
Nanjing  University  in  the  People's  Repub- 
lic of  China,  has  become  an  admired 
teacher,  a  popular  campus  figure  and  the 
most  enthusiastic  basketball  fan  in  the 
history  of  Lebanon  Valley  College,  all  in 
the  space  of  his  eight  months  in  Annville. 
Wu's  visit  comes  as  an  outgrowth  of 
Dr.  Arthur  Ford's  year  in  China  as  a 
Fulbright  lecturer  at  Nanjing  in  1988-89. 
Ford,  professor  of  English  and  dean  of 
international  studies  at  Lebanon  Valley, 
helped  to  set  up  a  teaching  exchange  pro- 
gram between  the  college  and  Nanjing 
University,  considered  the  second  most 
prestigious  university  in  China.  Under  the 
agreement,  during  alternate  years,  each 
school  will  send  a  professor  to  teach  at 
the  other  school.  Wu  is  the  first  in  a  series 
of  Chinese  professors  who  will  make  a 
short-term  home  here  in  Annville;  next 
year,  Brown  will  spend  the  academic  year 
teaching  in  Nanjing.  "For  a  small  institu- 
tion like  Lebanon  Valley,"  says  the  po- 
litical science  professor,  "this  exchange 
is  quite  a  coup." 

Unique  Perspective 

Professor  Wu's  duties  include  team-teach- 
ing two  courses — "Contemporary  China" 
with  Brown,  and  an  English  course,  "Con- 
temporary Chinese  Literature,"  with  Ford. 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 

Nanjing's  Professor  Wu 

Yingen  quickly  adapted  to 

American  customs  while 

using  a  wok  and  a  quick  wit 

to  win  over  his  new  friends. 


For  Wu,  teaching  in  an  American  college 
has  been,  in  many  ways,  a  very  different 
experience. 

"The  students  in  China  may  work  a 
little  harder  than  the  ones  here  and  be  a 
bit  more  focused  about  their  studies,"  he 
explains.  "But  here,  teaching  is  more  chal- 
lenging for  the  professor.  The  students 
are  not  afraid  to  ask  questions  in  class, 
something  Chinese  students  would  never 
do.  They  would  not  want  to  embarrass  a 
teacher  or  put  him  in  an  awkward  posi- 
tion— if  the  question  were  a  difficult  one 
and  the  teacher  couldn't  answer  it,  he 
would  lose  face." 

Chinese  students,  Wu  explained,  tend 
to  wait  until  after  class  to  pursue  ques- 
tions and  problems  with  their  teachers — 
the  one-to-one  situation  takes  the  pressure 
off  the  professor.  Wu  says  he  welcomes 
this  change  in  the  educational  climate. 
"It's  good  that  American  students  ask 
questions.  It  challenges  me,  makes  me 
work  harder.  You  have  to  be  ready  for 
anything.  Here,  I  think,  'I'm  going  to 
give  a  lecture  tonight;  I  hope  the  students 
will  ask  a  lot  of  questions.'  That's  very 
different  than  the  way  it  is  in  China — it's 
a  totally  different  culture." 

Will  his  American  experience  affect 
his  approach  to  teaching  when  he  returns 
home  to  Nanjing?  "Definitely,"  he  replies. 
"The  students  there  want  to  ask  ques- 
tions, and  if  the  professor  encourages 
them,  I  think  they  will." 

For  students  in  Wu's  classes,  learning 
the  Chinese  perspective  presents  a  rare 
learning  opportunity — and,  sometimes, 
prompts  a  lively  classroom  discussion. 
Junior  Ben  Ruby,  a  political  science  major 
who  took  the  "Contemporary  China" 


course,  has  found  the  lively  exchanges 
enlightening.  "The  two  instructors  often 
seem  to  have  very  different  points  of 
view,"  he  says.  "We  talk  a  lot  about  po- 
litical repression,  such  as  Tiananmen 
Square.  Professor  Wu  is  from  a  different 
culture  and  sometimes  what  we  consider 
wrong  he  may  not.  Sometimes  he  seems 
very  defensive  of  China.  But  our  classes 
are  always  interesting,  and  he's  a  great 
guy.  He  learned  ournames  really  quickly, 
and  he  keeps  in  touch  with  us  in  and  out 
of  the  classroom.  I  just  passed  him  on  the 
sidewalk  and  we  stopped  for  a  nice  long 
chat." 

Wu's  team-teaching  with  Ford  sails 
on  the  somewhat  smoother  waters  of  lit- 
erature, avoiding  the  political  questions 
that  are  bound  to  be  more  controversial. 
Together,  Ford  and  Wu  devised  the  sylla- 
bus of  their  English  course;  it  consists  of 
eight  novels  or  works  of  collected  fiction 
written  after  1949,  the  year  the  People's 
Republic  was  established.  They  chose  the 
works  thematically  to  deal  with  such 
issues  as  life  in  the  countryside,  urban 
development  and  the  role  of  women. 

"I  think  that  Chinese  culture  is  a  misty 
thing  for  most  students,"  says  Ford.  "They 
come  to  this  course  with  only  the  vaguest 
notions  of  what  China  is  like.  Here  they 
get  a  good,  realistic  dose  of  what  life  in 
China  is  really  about  these  days." 

Though  Ford  and  Wu  are  from  oppo- 
site sides  of  the  globe,  they're  exactly  the 
same  age  and  have  lived  through  the 
events  that  figure  so  prominently  in  the 
literature  they  teach.  Yet  each  teacher,  of 
course,  has  a  unique  perspective.  "We 
were  both  12  years  old  in  1949,"  says 
Ford,  "and  so  we've  both  lived  in  the 
same  world  from  then  until  now.  But  this 
is  a  rare  opportunity  for  students  to  see 
these  events  through  Professor  Wu's  eyes. 
When  we  read  about  the  Cultural  Revolu- 
tion, for  instance,  or  the  opening  of  China 
to  the  West  in  the  late  '70s,  he's  been  able 
to  tell  us  what  it  was  like  to  be  there.  He's 
been  an  incredible,  firsthand  resource  for 
our  discussions." 


10       The  Valley 


From  Nanjing 
to  Annville... 

Wu  Yingen  was  bom  in  Suzo,  a 
city  famous  for  its  beautiful  gar- 
dens, about  100  kilometers  west 
of  Shanghai.  He  attended  sec- 
ondary schools  in  Shanghai,  and 
in  1963  graduated  from  Nanjing 
University  and,  later,  taught  in 
the  English  department  there.  His 
teaching  career  was  interrupted 
in  1 966,  when  the  Cultural  Revo- 
lution shut  down  all  Chinese  universities 
and  kept  them  closed  until  1972.  Along 
with  fellow  teachers  and  students,  Wu 
was  sent  to  live  on  a  farm.  There,  he 
worked  in  the  fields,  cooked  and  even 
learned  to  give  haircuts.  "We  just  went," 
Wu  explains,  "because  we  had  to.  There 
was  nothing  you  could  do  about  it.  But  it 
was  a  waste  of  our  time.  A  week  or  two  in 
the  countryside  to  get  to  know  some  peas- 
ants would  have  been  a  good  experience, 
but  a  whole  year — it  kept  us  from  doing 
so  many  other  things." 

Wu  returned  to  Nanjing  University  in 
1972,  teaching  English  and  serving  as  the 
director  of  the  school's  foreign  affairs 
office.  In  1982  he  traveled  to  the  United 
States  to  help  set  up  the  Johns  Hopkins- 
Nanjing  University  Center  for  Chinese 
and  American  Studies;  he  returned  to 
Nanjing  in  1985  to  serve  as  the  center's 
co-director.  The  center  enrolls  about  100 
students,  half  of  them  Chinese  and  the 
other  half  American.  "There  is  a  lot  of 
interest  in  studying  English  in  China," 
Wu  explains.  "It's  considered  the  most 
important  foreign  language,  and  many  pri- 
mary school  students  begin  to  learn  it  in 
the  3rd  grade — so  by  the  time  they  get  to 
the  university,  they've  already  been  study- 
ing English  for  10  years." 

As  China  becomes  more  deeply  in- 
volved in  the  global  marketplace,  the  study 
of  English  has  taken  on  increasing  impor- 
tance at  Nanjing  University  as  a  way  to 
prepare  students  to  serve  their  country 
after  graduation.  "The  central  government 
attaches  great  importance  to  students 
preparing  to  serve  what  we  call  the  four 
modernizations — industry,  agriculture. 


Wu  Yingen  lias  become  a  devoted  fan  of 
the  Dutchmen  as  he  shares  his  insights 
into  Chinese  culture. 

national  defense  and  science  and  tech- 
nology. We  hope  that  students  will  go  on 
to  serve  the  interests  of  all  the  people. 
So  learning  English  is  very  important," 
affirms  Wu. 

As  a  university  professor  in  China, 
Wu  says  he  enjoys  complete  academic 
freedom,  and  as  a  citizen,  more  political 
freedom  than  ever.  "We  can  criticize  our 
leaders,"  he  explains.  "People  are  enjoy- 
ing more  freedoms,  but  political  reform 
is  slow.  We  believe  that  economic  reform 
should  come  first — China  is  a  big  coun- 
try, with  a  lot  of  people  in  poor  living 
conditions.  We  want  to  help  people  in 
various  areas  to  become  better  off  and  to 
help  others,  helping  to  bring  up  the  whole 
community.  It's  different  than  the  Ameri- 
can system,  which  is  very  individualistic. 
You  have  the  very  rich  and  the  very  poor. 
We  educate  our  young  people  that  they 
should  serve  all  the  people." 

...and  Back  Home  Again 

Life  may  be  a  very  different  sort  of  busi- 
ness in  Annville  than  it  is  in  Nanjing,  but 
for  Wu,  the  transition — just  as  Brown 
predicted  early  on — has  been  seamless. 
Wu  has  collected  a  large  and  varied 
assortment  of  friendships  from  among  stu- 
dents, faculty  and  community  members, 
and  he's  become  famous  for  his  home- 
cooked  Chinese  dinners.  Cooking  was  one 


of  those  skills  he  acquired  during 
the  Cultural  Revolution.  "Every 
other  week  or  so  he  invites  stu- 
dents over  and  cooks  great 
meals,"  says  Angela  Hamish,  a 
junior  English  and  psychology 
major.  "He  makes  vegetable  fried 
rice  and  really  good  dumplings." 
Of  course,  Professor  Wu  is 
probably  best  known  on  campus 
for  being  a  loyal  and  devoted  fol- 
lower of  the  Dutchmen.  "He's  a 
great  basketball  fan  who's  gone 
to  every  game  and  knows  every  player," 
explains  Brown.  "He  knows  more  about 
the  game  than  I  do,  and  I  used  to  play  it  in 
college." 

One  surprise  awaiting  Wu  here  was 
the  American  approach  to  communica- 
tion. "Americans  are  very  straightfor- 
ward," he  explains.  "If  they  want 
something  they  say  'yes';  if  they  don't, 
they  just  say  'no'.  Chinese  people  won't 
usually  say  that  immediately.  But  I  had 
no  difficulty  adapting  myself." 

As  Wu's  year  here  draws  to  a  close — 
he  heads  back  to  Nanjing  at  the  end  of 
June — his  association  with  Lebanon  Val- 
ley will  continue.  The  college  is  hoping  to 
be  involved  in  a  videoconferencing  project 
that  will  link  Nanjing  University  with 
Lebanon  Valley  College  to  share  lectures 
and  conferences.  "I've  seen  a  demonstra- 
tion of  the  technology,"  Wu  explains,  "and 
it  will  be  a  wonderful,  useful  thing  for  us." 
It  will  be  with  mixed  feelings  that  Wu 
Yingen  returns  to  his  homeland.  What 
will  he  miss  the  most  when  he's  back  in 
Nanjing?  'The  people,"  he  responds,  with- 
out missing  a  beat.  "Being  here  at  Leba- 
non Valley  has  been  a  much  different 
experience  than  being  in  Baltimore  at 
Johns  Hopkins — I  didn't  have  these  feel- 
ings there.  I  didn't  have  the  chance  to 
meet  a  lot  of  different  kinds  of  people. 
But  here  the  people  are  very  friendly  and 
helpful — they  take  good  care  of  me.  When 
I  go  back  home,  I'll  miss  them  the  most." 


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


Spring/Summer  1995       11 


He  Puts  a  Spin  on 
Teaching  History 


In  an  unheated 
wheelwright's  shop  in 
Colonial  Williamsburg, 
John  Boag  '80  rounds  out 
his  college-days  fascination 
with  craftsmanship. 


By  Jody  Rathgeb 
Photos  by  Tom  Rathgeb 

Simply  put,  John  Boag  '80 
teaches  history.  His  classroom, 
however,  has  no  books  or 
maps — or  even  desks  and 
chairs.  He  never  gives  tests  or 
grades  papers.  And  his  students  can  num- 
ber in  the  thousands  during  a  single  day. 

That's  because  Boag  has  put  his 
Lebanon  Valley  major  in  history  to  use 
as  a  journeyman  wheelwright  at  Colonial 
Williamsburg,  Va.  He  teaches  visitors 
about  18th-century  life  and  craftsmanship 
as  he  works  with  hand  tools  to  transform 
blocks  of  wood  into  spoked  wheels  for 
carriages  and  carts. 

While  at  Lebanon  Valley,  the  history 
major  hoped  eventually  to  get  a  position 
with  the  National  Park  Service.  During 
summer  vacations,  he  volunteered  as  an 
interpreter  at  Colvin  Run  Union  Mills,  a 
restored  gristmill  in  Maryland,  where 
another  interest — craftsmanship — was 
aroused  and  where  he  began  to  see  a 
different  way  to  teach  about  the  past. 

"This  is  kind  of  an  alternative  field 
for  people  who  are  history  majors,"  Boag 
says,  making  a  gesture  that  includes  the 
wheelwright's  shop  and  all  of  Colonial 
Williamsburg.  "The  approach  here  is  a 
total  approach,"  he  adds,  explaining  that 
the  details  of  his  workplace,  from  tools 
to  lighting  to  his  clothing,  are  as  faithful 
as  possible  to  the  experience  of  the 
18th-century  craftsman. 

Boag's  summer  work  at  the  gristmill 
led  him  to  a  job  managing  it  after  gradua- 
tion. He  says  he  was  happy  there,  but 
contacts  he  had  made  through  conferences 
and  networking  made  him  cast  an  eye 


John  Boag  '80  takes  pride  in  making  well-crafted  wheels.  Hefty  wheels  like  this  one 
gave  colonial  wagons  greater  stability  on  rugged  terrain.  In  fact,  Palatine  German 
settlers  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa.,  in  the  1750s  were  the  first  to  build  the  large-wheeled 
Conestoga  wagons  to  haul  their  produce. 


toward  Williamsburg.  When  he  gained  a 
chance  to  make  a  move  to  what  he  calls 
"the  best  place  in  the  country"  for  total 
history,  he  became  an  apprentice  in  the 
wheelwright's  shop. 

At  the  time,  he  relates,  the  type  of 
craft  itself  didn't  matter  to  him.  "I  could 
easily  have  gone  into  the  cooper's  shop," 
he  says  by  way  of  example.  "But  as  it 
turns  out,  I  have  a  capacity  for  the  work 
here.  Not  everyone  does."  After  he  served 
a  six-year  apprenticeship,  he  became  a 
journeyman  in  the  shop. 

Even  though  Boag  was  only  in  his  20s 
when  he  began  working  at  the  privately 


run  restored  village,  he  was  old  by 
18th-century  standards.  In  colonial  times, 
boys  began  apprenticeships  at  age  14; 
they  developed  a  physical  capacity  for 
the  work  as  their  bodies  grew.  Today, 
says  Boag,  Williamsburg  wheelwrights 
find  their  work  grueling  as  they  try  to 
mold  already  developed  bodies  to  the 
daily  physical  demands.  Throughout  the 
craft  shops  of  the  village,  he  says,  "you 
have  an  increasing  number  of  people 
going  to  chiropractors  and  sitting  in  whirl- 
pools just  to  recover  from  their  day." 

Boag  knows  this  firsthand,  because 
four  years  ago  he  developed  a  shoulder 
problem  from  his  work.  Luckily,  though. 


12       The  Valley 


"We  have  the  best  kind  of  classroom  here. 
1  had  always  been  interested  in  some  sort  of 
outdoor /history -related  job. " 


his  own  historical  research  brought  him 
out  of  it.  Studying  how  wheelwrights 
worked  in  the  1700s  led  him  to  realize 
that  the  way  he  and  his  fellow  workers 
were  driving  spokes  into  the  wheel  hub 
was  not  only  causing  the  problem,  but 
was  inaccurate  as  well.  A  change  in  pro- 
cedure added  to  historicity  and  improved 
Boag's  health. 

While  Boag  did  not  need  a  tremen- 
dous amount  of  time  to  make  his  discov- 
ery, he  notes  that  research  sabbaticals  are 
available  to  Williamsburg  workers  to  help 
ensure  the  authenticity  of  their  teaching. 
And  despite  the  fact  that  the  costumed 
workers  make  wheels,  serve  meals,  print 
broadsides  and  give  directions  to  the 
restrooms,  their  main  job  is  education. 


"We  have  the  best  kind  of  classroom 
here,"  he  says,  recalling  that  back  in  his 
college  days,  few  understood  or  supported 
his  ambitions.  "I  had  always  been  inter- 
ested in  some  sort  of  outdoor/history- 
related  job,"  he  says.  Dr.  Elizabeth  Geffen 
(now  professor  emerita  of  history)  at  first 
couldn't  understand  what  he  wanted  to  do 
with  his  major,  he  recalls.  "But  when  we 
were  having  a  discussion  on  technology, 
I  brought  in  some  information  from  the 
gristmill.  Then  she  started  realizing  a  his- 
tory situation  can  be  a  teaching  tool." 

He  adds,  "I  wasn't  that  good  a  student, 
but  I  made  the  best  spin  of  my  college 
education." 

The  Valley's  influence  on  Boag  goes 
far  beyond  the  standard  four  years  of 


Leading  the  life  of  a  1700s  craftsman 
requires  using  hand  tools  .  .  . 


learning  authentic  techniques. 


,  and  always  wearing  one 's  waistcoat. 


Spring/Summer  1995        13 


In  Boag  's  wheelwright  shop  in  Colonial  Williamsburg  are  period  tools  and  parts  of 
wheels  in  progress,  including  hubs  (on  the  right). 


memories,  he  says.  Boag  and  his  sister, 
Jean  Boag  Reese  '76,  and  her  husband, 
Tim  Reese  '76,  are  the  third  generation  in 
their  family  to  graduate  from  Lebanon 
Valley  (their  grandfather  is  S.F.W. 
Morrison  '18  and  their  parents  are  Mar- 
garet Bower  '  5 1  and  Jack  Boag  '51). 

Boag  grew  up  hearing  stories  about 
Lebanon  Valley  and  looking  at  their  year- 
books. The  assumption  that  he  would 
attend  the  school  was  strong,  and  Boag 
didn't  disappoint  his  family. 

Unlike  other  family  members,  how- 
ever, he  did  not  meet  his  spouse  at  the 
college.  Boag's  wife,  Jennifer,  graduated 
from  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  in 
Williamsburg,  where  she  now  works 
in  development.  They  have  two  children, 
Robert,  5  and  Catherine,  3. 

"It's  been  really  difficult  with  a  Wil- 
liam and  Mary  grad,"  he  mock-sighs, 
describing  an  ongoing  college  rivalry  at 
home.  The  Valley's  1994  national  cham- 
pion men's  basketball  team,  he  comments, 


really  boosted  his  leverage  in  the  "battle." 
Would  he  consider  making  the  Boag 
family  fourth-generation  Flying  Dutch- 
men? "LVC's  a  great  school.  I'd  love  to 
send  my  kids  there,"  he  says. 

Living  and  working  in  Williamsburg 
places  people  like  John  Boag  in  the  odd 
position  of  straddling  the  18th  and  20th 
centuries.  How  else  to  explain  a  man  who 
wakes  up  in  a  modem  home,  puts  on  a 
waistcoat  ("To  be  seen  in  town  without 
your  waistcoat  is  like  walking  down  the 
street  in  your  underwear,"  says  Boag), 
uses  historic  hand  tools  at  work,  then  gets 
in  his  car  to  go  home? 


Although  he  wears  period  clothing, 
works  in  an  unheated  shop  illuminated 
only  by  natural  light  and  follows 
18th-century  methods  in  his  work,  Boag 
stops  short  of  saying  that  he  and  his  fel- 
low craftsmen  think  like  folks  did  more 
than  200  years  ago.  "An  1 8th-century  per- 
son wouldn't  have  considered  this  all  that 
bad,"  he  says,  gesturing  around  the  shop 
on  a  frigid  day.  "We  are  the  ones  bur- 
dened with  all  that  stuff  [of  the  20th  cen- 
tury]." And,  he  admits,  "You  can  only  get 
it  so  close.  You  can't  change  us  from 
being  in  the  20th  century,  and  without 
visitors  we  wouldn't  be  here." 

The  very  purpose  of  his  job — teaching 
— somewhat  taints  the  authenticity  of  the 
craft  shop,  he  says.  No  18th-century 
wheelwright  would  have  tolerated  crowds 
of  curious  onlookers.  Boag  likens  it  to  the 
reception  a  kibitzer  would  receive  in  an 
auto  body  shop  today.  But  Colonial 
Williamsburg  encourages  visitors'  ques- 
tions and  emphasizes  to  employees  the 
importance  of  hospitality. 

"By  and  large,  our  average  visitor  is 
into  it  and  wants  to  be  here,"  Boag  says 
of  his  unusual  classroom,  noting  that  it 
took  him  some  time  to  get  the  hang  of 
talking  to  the  crowds  while  working.  Even 
the  exchanges  among  the  four  workers 
become  part  of  the  educational  experi- 
ence, he  says.  "We  think  visitors  like  the 
interaction  among  us  just  as  much  as  talk- 
ing to  them." 

His  co-workers  agree  with  him  that 
working  at  Colonial  Williamsburg  is  "a 
neat  job,"  says  Boag.  "I  can't  see  anyone 
who  works  here  sitting  in  an  office." 

And  occasionally,  he  admits  to  a  bit  of 
awe  about  where  he  is.  "The  thing  that 
amazes  me — I'm  surrounded  by  some  of 
the  finest  craftsmen  in  the  country.  And 
I'm  considered  one  of  their  peers,"  he 
says,  looking  stunned. 

"I  couldn't  think  of  anything  else  I'd 
want  to  do." 

Jody  Rathgeb  is  a  freelance  writer  based 
in  Virginia. 


14       The  Valley 


A  Man  of 
Many  Hats 


How  a  physics  teacher,  GE 
researcher  and  headhunter 
turned  his  talents  to 
making  the  best  dam 
cowboy  hats  in  Bozeman, 
Montana. 

By  Seth  ].  Wenger  '94 

When  John  Morris  '59 
couldn't  find  the  right 
hunting  bow,  he 
thought  he'd  try  his 
hand  at  building  one. 
That  effort  led  to  the  highly  successful 
and  nationally  known  Rocky  Mountain 
Recurve  custom  bow  company. 

Then  when  John  Morris  couldn't  find 
the  right  hat,  he  figured  he  could  build 
one  of  those,  too. 

Now  Morris  and  his  son,  John,  Jr., 
make  custom  hats  full-time  in  their  shop 
in  Bozeman,  Montana.  They  make  all 
types  of  headgear,  but  their  biggest  sell- 
ers are  cowboy  hats,  which  Morris  field- 
tests  while  riding  on  his  friends'  cattle 
ranches.  With  a  backlog  of  four  and  a  half 
months,  business  is  booming  at  the  Rocky 
Mountain  Hat  Company. 

But  what  is  a  former  physics  professor 
and  General  Electric  researcher  doing  rop- 
ing cattle  and  molding  felt  in  Montana? 

The  story  begins  in  Central  Pennsyl- 
vania. Raised  on  a  farm  near  his 
hometown  of  Harrisburg,  Morris  followed 
in  the  footsteps  of  his  father  (Jack  Morris 
'37)  by  attending  Lebanon  Valley  Col- 
lege. He  majored  in  chemistry  but  dis- 
covered physics  his  senior  year. 

After  earning  a  master's  degree  at  the 
University  of  New  Hampshire,  Morris  re- 
ceived an  invitation  to  return  to  Lebanon 
Valley  to  teach.  "I  got  a  call  from  Jake 
Rhodes  asking  if  I  was  interested  in  com- 
ing back  as  an  assistant  professor  of  phys- 
ics. He  offered  me  $7,000,"  Morris  recalls. 
Dr.  Jacob  Rhodes  '43,  then  chairman  of 
the  physics  department,  is  now  a  profes- 


At  his  Rocky  Mountain  Hat  Company,  John  Morris  '59  steams  the  brim  of  a  cowboy  hat 
and  gives  it  a  "pencil  curl.  "  This  type  of  hat,  with  a  "Montana  crease"  in  the  crown, 
was  popular  in  the  1880s  and  1890s. 


sor  emeritus.  Since  Morris  was  finding  it 
difficult  to  raise  his  two  children  on  a 
graduate  stipend,  he  decided  to  postpone 
his  Ph.D.  and  take  the  offer. 

Morris  taught  at  Lebanon  Valley  from 
1963  to  1966,  then  accepted  a  position 
with  General  Electric.  After  several  years 
of  developing  large  screen  televisions  in 
Syracuse,  N.Y.,  he  transferred  to  the  cen- 
tral GE  laboratory  in  Schenectady.  He 
remained  there  for  nine  years,  when  he 
abruptly  decided  to  make  a  change. 

"In  1978,"  he  says,  "my  daughter  was 
finishing  her  sophomore  year  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Colorado,  and  my  son  was 
entering  Fort  Lewis  College,  in  Durango. 
I  drove  him  out,  and  when  I  got  there 
I  looked  around  and  said,  'I'm  staying.'  " 

Morris  returned  to  Schenectady,  quit 
his  job,  sold  his  house,  and  within  a  few 
weeks  was  searching  for  a  position  in 
Boulder. 

The  recruiting  agency  he  contacted 
offered  him  a  job  as  a  headhunter,  but  after 
a  few  months  Morris  realized  he  could  do 


better  on  his  own.  He  established  a 
headhunting  agency  for  oil  and  gas 
exploration  professionals.  His  scientific 
background  gave  him  a  good  rapport  with 
his  clients,  and  Morris  notes,  he  "ended 
up  having  a  very  successful  business." 
He  even  managed  to  help  launch  several 
new  oil  and  gas  exploration  companies. 

Eventually,  however,  oil  prices  started 
to  fall,  and  Morris  saw  that  the  future  lay 
elsewhere.  That  was  when  he  built  his 
first  hunting  bow.  Though  a  departure 
from  his  previous  work,  it  seemed  like  a 
natural  thing  to  do. 

"I've  always  been  a  bow  hunter,  and 
I've  always  been  a  craftsman,"  he  says. 
"I've  always  worked  with  my  hands." 

Having  divorced  several  years  before, 
Morris  remarried  in  1983  and  moved  his 
fledgling  business  to  Bozeman.  There  he 
and  his  wife,  Chandra,  were  joined  by 
Morris'  son,  who  became  a  partner  in 
Rocky  Mountain  Recurve.  For  several 
years  the  father-and-son  team  built  high- 
quality  bows  for  clients  around  the  globe. 
Then,  four  years  ago,  Morris  saw  another 
business  opportunity  in  his  futile  search 


Spring/Summer  1995        15 


for  a  well-made  custom  cowboy  hat. 

"I  couldn't  find  one  that  fit  right.  I'm 
sort  of  between  sizes,"  he  says,  explain- 
ing that  conventional  hats  only  come  in 
increments  of  one-half  inch.  Quality  was 
also  a  problem  in  most  of  the  hats  that 
Morris  tried.  So,  recalling  a  hatter  he  had 
once  seen,  he  set  about  making  a  custom- 
ized model.  He  was  pleased  with  the 
result:  "Actually,"  he  says,  "I  still  wear 
that  hat." 

Before  long,  Morris  and  his  son  were  in 
the  custom  hat  business.  They  started  from 
scratch,  designing  all  of  the  equipment  and 
tools  they  needed  to  prepare  the  raw  mate- 
rial, shape  the  hat,  and  most  importantly, 
size  the  customer's  head. 

"I  invented  a  device  that  allows  me  to 
measure  not  only  the  circumference  of 
the  head,  but  the  shape  of  the  head.  It 
feels  just  like  a  hat  when  you  put  it  on," 
Morris  says.  The  device  is  a  lined-copper 
band  with  adjusting  screws  that  can  mea- 
sure down  to  the  nearest  sixteenth  of  an 
inch.  The  band  is  then  used  as  a  model  to 
form  a  wooden  block,  over  which  the 
actual  hat  is  shaped. 

Morris  and  his  son  haven't  patented 
any  of  their  equipment.  "In  fact,"  Morris 
says,  "I've  made  the  equipment  for  other 
custom  hatters.  We're  not  competitive; 
there's  enough  business  out  there  for  all 
of  us." 

For  the  raw  material,  Morris  and  his 
son  use  three  grades  of  felt:  100  percent 
beaver,  50  percent  beaver/50  percent  rab- 
bit, and  100  percent  rabbit.  The  high- 
quality  materials  are  only  available  from 
one  supplier,  Morris  says. 

Customers  at  the  Rocky  Mountain  Hat 
Company's  retail  shop  in  Bozeman 
range  from  local  ranchers  to  tourists  go- 
ing to  and  from  nearby  Yellowstone  Park. 
Though  most  of  them  order  cowboy  hats, 
Morris  says  that  he  and  his  son  can  make 
virtually  any  hat  a  customer  requests,  in- 
cluding antique  styles  such  as  bowlers 
and  19-century  ladies'  chapeaus.  "Wejust 
build  all  kinds  of  hat  styles  and  sizes,"  he 


(Top)  John  Morris,  Jr.  (left)  models  a 
rodeo  favorite  with  a  "cattleman's 
crease,  "  while  his  dad  dons  an  old-timey 
favorite — especially  beloved  by  Hopalong 
Cassidy.  When  Westerns  became  popular 
in  the  1930s,  "each  cowboy  hero  had  to 
have  a  separate  kind  of  hat,  "  says  Morris, 
who  rims  the  business  with  his  son. 

(Above)  The  father-and-son  team  gladly 
share  their  trade  secrets  for  making  cus- 
tomized chapeaus.  Here,  John  Morris,  Jr. 
irons  a  brim. 


says.  "In  my  shop  here  I  must  have  35  or 
40  different  hats." 

Cowboy  hats  alone  come  in  numerous 
styles.  "There  are  still  regional  differences 
in  cowboy  hats,"  Morris  explains.  "The 
Great  Basin  cowboys,  called  Buckaroos, 
wear  a  different  style  than  the  Montana 
cowboys,  for  example."  As  far  as  his  own 
big  sellers,  he  says,  "there  are  two  fairly 
common  styles.  One's  called  a 
cattleman's;  it's  sort  of  the  standard  one 
that  rodeo  cowboys  wear.  The  other  one 
we  call  the  Montana  Crease."  That  style 
dips  in  the  front,  and  is  sometimes  called 
a  "Gus  Style"  hat,  he  says. 

Morris  and  his  wife  are  frequently  on 
the  road,  displaying  their  hats  at  regional 
rodeos,  gear  shows  and  cowboy  poetry 
gatherings.  When  not  traveling  or  mak- 
ing hats,  Morris  likes  to  hunt,  fish  and 
ride  the  range. 

"I've  got  rancher  friends  who  have 
1,000  or  2,000  head  of  cattle.  I  help  them 
out  sometimes,"  he  says.  "Around  here 
they  still  do  things  the  way  they  did  100 
years  ago." 

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


16       The  Valley 


NEWS      BRIEFS 


Whitaker  grant  funds 
science  education  project 

The  college  has  received  a  $316,817  grant 
from  the  Whitaker  Foundation  for  contin- 
ued support  of  the  Science  Education  Part- 
nership. This  program  seeks  to  strengthen 
science  teaching  in  grades  K-8  in  22  area 
school  districts  (see  "Turning  Kids  on  to 
Science"  in  the  Fall  1994  issue). 

The  grant,  payable  over  three  years,  is 
the  third  grant  that  the  Foundation  has 
awarded  to  the  college.  In  1993,  Lebanon 
Valley  received  $28,000,  and  in  1992, 
$80,000.  The  latest  grant  completes 
Whitaker  funding  of  the  Partnership. 

The  program  will  involve  an  estimated 
50,000  students  and  1,000  teachers. 
Directed  by  Maria  Jones,  it  offers  a 
"hands-on"  approach  to  science,  with 
opportunities  for  teachers  and  students  to 
work  directly  with  scientific  instruments 
and  with  experiments  and  projects  pro- 
vided through  the  Partnership's  resources 
center,  located  at  the  college. 


Campus  quizzers 

Over  500  of  the  brightest  students  from 
65  high  schools  throughout  southcentral 
and  southeastern  Pennsylvania,  as  well  as 
a  team  from  Colonia,  N.J.,  arrived  on 
campus  in  March  to  participate  in  the 
15th  Annual  Quiz  Bowl. 

The  competition,  the  largest  of  its  kind 
in  the  state,  challenged  students  to  test 
their  knowledge  by  answering  questions 
from  a  variety  of  academic  fields  as  well 
as  popular  culture.  College  faculty,  admin- 
istrators and  staff  spent  months  preparing 
the  questions  and  were  on-hand  to  serve  as 
judges  and  moderators. 

An  eight-member  team  from  Manheim 
Township  High  School  captured  the  title 
and  will  retain  possession  of  the  Clay 
Memorial  Cup,  the  competition's  "travel- 
ing" trophy. 


Members  of  the  victorious  Manheim  Township  High  School  Quiz  Bowl  team  ponder  a 
difficult  question  in  the  final  round  of  the  competition. 


Honoring  our  founders 

Earl  H.  Hess,  president  of  Lancaster  Labo- 
ratories, was  the  keynote  speaker  for  the 
16th  Annual  Founders  Day  Convocation 
on  February  2 1 .  The  college  honored  Hess 
with  the  1995  Founders  Day  Award. 

In  his  keynote  address,  Hess  decried 
the  breakdown  in  "the  moral  fabric  of  our 
society."  Older  Americans  have  derived 
their  values  from  the  family,  religion,  edu- 
cation and  the  workplace,  but  too  few  of 
them  now  assume  the  responsibility  for 
keeping  those  institutions  healthy,  he  said. 
He  commended  the  national  initiative  on 
character  education  in  the  schools,  citing 
programs  that  "add  a  fourth  and  fifth  R 
(respect  and  responsibility)  to  the  cur- 
ricula in  creative  ways." 

Hess  founded  Lancaster  Laboratories 
in  1961;  since  then,  the  company  has 
grown  from  a  one-room  lab  into  an  orga- 
nization with  more  than  500  employees 


providing  analytical,  R&D  and  consult- 
ing services  in  the  environmental,  food 
and  pharmaceutical  sciences. 

Throughout  his  career,  Hess  has  served 
as  a  scientist,  entrepreneur  and  community 
leader.  He  chairs  the  board  of  directors  of 
Mountain  States  Analytical,  Inc.,  in  Salt 
Lake  City.  He  is  a  founding  member  and 
treasurer  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Commonwealth  Foundation.  And  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Environment,  Economic 
Policy  and  Food  and  Agriculture  Commit- 
tees of  the  U.S.  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
He  was  a  former  president  of  the  American 
Council  of  Independent  Laboratories 
( ACIL)  and  chair  of  the  Pennsylvania  Del- 
egation to  the  1986  White  House  Confer- 
ence on  Small  Business,  as  well  as  the 
Lancaster  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  In- 
dustry. In  1994,  he  completed  a  seven-year 
term  as  a  director  of  the  U.S.  Chamber  of 


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Lebanon  Valley  President  John  A.  Synodinos  and  Founders  Day  honoree  Earl  H.  Hess 
admire  the  pewter  award  plate. 


Commerce,  serving  additionally  as  East- 
em  region  vice  chairman  and  Environ- 
ment Committee  cliairman.  For  14  years, 
he  was  a  director  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Chamber  of  Business  and  Industry. 

Hess  and  his  firm  have  received  numer- 
ous awards,  including  the  1992  Harvard 
George  S.  Dively  Award  for  Corporate 
Social  Initiative  for  achievements  in  com- 
bining the  best  aspects  of  a  free-market 
economy  with  a  deep  sense  of  social 
responsibility. 

Among  his  numerous  public  service 
honors  are  recognition  as  an  ACIL  Fel- 
low in  1992  and  as  the  1988  Business 
Leader  of  the  Year  by  the  Pennsylvania 
Chamber  of  Business  and  Industry. 

Task  Force  on  Diversity 

To  increase  diversity  on  campus.  Vice  Presi- 
dent and  Dean  William  J.  McGill  has  con- 
vened a  14-member  Diversity  Task  Force 
Committee.  The  committee  is  charged  with 
"establishing  goals  in  terms  of  diversity 
and  developing  strategies  for  creating  an 
environment  on  campus  in  which  diversity 
is  regarded  as  a  positive  value  and  in  which 
there  is  both  a  celebration  of,  and  respect 
for,  differences,"  according  to  McGill.  "It 
will  also  make  suggestions  as  to  how  we 
might  measure  our  success  in  reaching  these 
goals"  he  added. 

The  college's  previous  five-year  stra- 
tegic plan  set  forth  a  goal  of  increasing 
diversity,  but  did  not  outline  specific  strat- 
egies, McGill  noted.  "The  new  draft 
strategic  plan  reiterates  the  diversity  goal 
in  a  much  more  direct  and  specific  way. 


and  argues  for  it  in  terms  of  its  educa- 
tional value  for  all  of  our  students." 

The  committee  plans  to  draw  a  variety 
of  people — from  both  on  and  off  cam- 
pus— into  its  deliberations,  which  include 
general  forums  for  discussion,  according 
to  McGill.  "We're  trying  to  gather  a  vari- 
ety of  perspectives  on  this  issue." 

Serving  on  the  committee  are  William 
J.  Brown,  Jr.  '79,  dean  of  Admission  and 
Financial  Aid;  Dave  Newell,  assistant  dean 
of  Student  Services;  Greg  Stanson,  vice 
president  of  Enrollment  and  Student  Ser- 
vices; Cornell  Wilson,  student;  Albertine 
Washington,  an  elementary  school  teacher 
in  the  Lebanon  School  District  and  win- 
ner of  Pennsylvania's  Teacher  of  the  Year 
Award;  William  Lehr,  vice  president  and 
secretary  of  Hershey  Foods  Corporation; 
Sharon  Raffield,  associate  professor  of 
sociology  and  social  work;  Dr.  Gary 
Grieve-Carlson,  associate  professor  of 
English;  Dr.  Arthur  Ford,  associate  dean 
of  international  programs;  Deanne 
Dodson,  assistant  professor  of  psychol- 
ogy; Dr.  George  Curfman  '53,  professor 
of  music;  Linda  Summers,  instructor  in 
education;  Dr.  Michael  Fry,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  mathematical  sciences;  and  Joan 
Ortiz  '95,  student. 

International  programs 
scrutinized 

The  college's  international  programs — 
including  recruitment  and  study 
abroad — are  being  examined  by  a  com- 
mittee convened  by  Vice  President  and 


Dean  William  J.  McGill.  Objectives  of 
the  International  Programs  Committee 
include: 

■  serving  as  a  supervisory  group  for  the 
international  programs  of  the  college, 

■  stimulating  interest  among  students  in 
study-abroad  programs, 

■  assisting  in  the  recruitment  of  interna- 
tional students, 

■  encouraging  faculty  to  pursue  interna- 
tional opportunities  and  inviting  faculty  with 
international  perspectives  onto  campus, 

■  assessing  and  providing  advice  on 
international  issues  and 

■  acting  as  a  liaison  with  the  faculty 
concerning  international  programs. 

Judy  Pehrson,  executive  director  of 
College  Relations,  is  chairing  the  com- 
mittee, and  Dr.  Barney  Raffield,  associate 
professor  of  management,  is  secretary. 

Other  members  are  Dr.  Michael  Day, 
physics  chair;  Dr.  Phylis  Dryden,  associ- 
ate professor  of  English;  Dr.  Arthur  Ford, 
associate  dean  of  international  programs 
(ex-officio);  Vicki  Gingrich,  international 
student  advisor;  Angela  Hamish  '96,  stu- 
dent; Rostislav  Kopylkov  '95,  student; 
Beth  Paul  '98,  student;  Meiko  Mori,  stu- 
dent; Gail  Sanderson,  assistant  professor 
of  accounting;  Dr.  Joelle  Stopkie,  associ- 
ate professor  of  French. 

Minimal  increase 

Lebanon  Valley's  fees  will  rise  just  2.8 
percent  for  the  1995-96  academic  year — 
the  smallest  increase  in  12  years.  Tuition 
will  be  $14,390,  room  and  board  $4,755 
and  required  fees  $395. 

"We  are  pleased  that  the  fee  increase 
is  significantly  lower  than  that  of  many 
other  private  colleges,"  President  John 
Synodinos  stated.  He  noted  that  a  recent 
USA  Today  article  reported  that  many  pri- 
vate colleges  were  raising  fees  5  to  6 
percent.  "We're  committed  to  holding  our 
fee  increases  at,  or  near,  the  projected 
consumer  price  index,"  he  affirmed. 

The  college  is  increasing  its  overall 
financial  aid  budget  by  14  percent  for  the 
coming  year. 

Generous  bequest 

Enos  A.  Detweiler  '29,  a  Palmyra,  Pa., 
native  who  died  in  1992,  has  made  a 
bequest  to  Lebanon  Valley  in  the  amount 
of  $350,000  to  establish  the  Enos  A.  and 
Helen  A.  Detweiler  Fund.  Five  students 
have  already  benefited  from  the  fund. 

The  scholarships  will  be  awarded  to 
graduates  of  the  Palmyra  School  Dis- 
trict who  demonstrate  good  character  and 


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financial  need.  The  awards  are  renew- 
able annually  if  the  recipient  maintains 
a  minimum  2.5  grade  point  average. 

Enos  Detweiler  majored  in  history  at 
Lebanon  Valley.  After  graduation,  he 
moved  to  Evanston,  III.,  where  he  rose  to 
the  position  of  chief  of  marketing  for  the 
G.  H.  Tennant  Company.  He  retired  in 
1 964  and  lived  the  remainder  of  his  years 
in  Boynton  Beach,  Fla. 

Music  Students  to  benefit 

Mildred  Demmy,  age  76,  was  a  quiet 
woman  who  lived  simply  and  frugally  in 
a  cottage  at  the  United  Christian  Church 
Home  in  North  Annville.  Until  she  died 
last  January,  one  of  her  greatest  plea- 
sures, according  to  friends,  was  attend- 
ing the  free  Sunday  concerts  at  Lebanon 
Valley. 

"She  just  loved  music  and  she  loved 
those  concerts,"  says  Glenna  Stamm,  of 
Bethel,  executrix  for  Mrs.  Demmy 's  es- 
tate, which  left  $309,460  to  Lebanon  Val- 
ley to  establish  the  Clarence  and  Mildred 
Demmy  Endowed  Scholarship  Fund  for 
handicapped  music  students.  "She  was 
not  a  musician  herself,  but  she  used  to 
talk  often  about  how  much  she  enjoyed 
the  concerts.  As  far  as  I  know,  she  had  no 
other  connection  to  the  college." 

Mrs.  Demmy,  who  maiden  name  was 
Mildred  Wagner,  was  bom  and  raised  in 
Cleona,  Pa.,  and  graduated  from  Leba- 
non High  School  in  1934.  She  married 
Clarence  J.  Demmy  in  1942.  The  two 
had  no  children.  She  worked  in  the 
Hershey  chocolate  factory,  and  he  was  a 
plumber  for  Hershey  Estates.  Clarence 
Demmy  died  in  1982. 

"She  lived  a  very  frugal  life,"  says 
Mrs.  Stamm.  "She  was  also  a  very  pri- 
vate person,  but  a  very  nice  person.  This 
was  the  first  Christmas  that  we  didn't 
have  her  for  dinner,  and  she  was  missed." 

Lebanon  Valley  was  delighted  by  the 
Demmy  bequest,  which  only  recently  be- 
came final.  "It  was  a  pleasant  surprise," 
said  Dr.  Mark  L.  Mecham,  chair  of  the 
music  department.  "I  only  wish  I  had 
had  a  chance  to  meet  Mrs.  Demmy.  She 
must  have  been  a  wonderful  person.  Her 
generosity  will  help  many,  many  music 
students." 

International  Culture  Day 

"Languages  are  the  Bridges  to  Cultures" 
was  the  theme  of  the  13th  Annual  Inter- 
national Culture  Day,  held  on  campus  on 
March  24.  Over  600  students  from  for- 


eign language  clubs  at  20  area  high  schools 
participated  in  the  daylong  event,  which 
was  sponsored  by  the  foreign 
languages  department;  the  International 
Student  Organization;  and  the  Spanish, 
French  and  German  clubs. 

The  day's  activities  featured  work- 
shops led  by  Lebanon  Valley  students. 
Peter  Stasko,  a  Slovakian  student,  dis- 
cussed world  travel;  Jeff  Allchurch,  an 
exchange  student  from  Anglia  Polytech- 
nic University  in  England,  compared  the 
educational  systems  of  England  and  the 
United  States;  and  Huang  Wei  Kai,  a  Tai- 
wanese student,  held  a  Chinese  language 
session  and  performed  traditional  Chinese 
songs.  Art  Gallery  Director  David 
Brigham  gave  a  tour  of  Chinese  paintings 
in  the  Chu-Griffis  Art  Collection,  which 
was  on  display  in  the  Suzanne  H.  Arnold 
Art  Gallery. 

Treating  schizophrenia 

In  a  combined  effort  with  the  Harrisburg 
State  Hospital,  the  Institute  for  Psycho- 
therapy and  the  Veteran's  Administration 
Medical  Center  in  Lebanon,  the  college  co- 
sponsored  a  seminar  on  "Treating  the  Per- 
son with  Schizophrenia." 

The  seminar  was  designed  for  profes- 
sionals who  work  with  those  suffering  from 
schizophrenia  and  family  members  who 
are  also  affected  by  the  disease.  It  was 
organized  by  Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  chair 
and  associate  professor  of  psychology. 

The  seminar  featured  presentations  by 
Dr.  Joseph  DiGiacomo,  professor  of  psy- 
chiatry at  the  University  of  Pennsylva- 
nia; Dr.  Fred  Frese,  director  of  psychology 
at  the  Western  Reserve  Psychiatric  Hospi- 
tal; Dr.  Diane  March,  professor  of  psy- 
chology at  the  University  of  Pittsburgh 
at  Greensburg;  and  Dr.  Patrick  McKee, 
director  of  Spring  Lake  Ranch  in 
Cuttingsville,  Vt. 

Bishop  gift  aids 
library  and  chemistry 

Lebanon  business  leader  Vernon  Bishop, 
board  chairman  and  CEO  of  Lebanon 
Chemical  Corp.,  has  pledged  a  major  gift 
in  support  of  the  college's  Toward  2000 
campaign.  Half  of  the  gift  will  be  used  for 
the  new  high-tech  library,  which  will 
be  called  the  Vernon  and  Doris  Bishop 
Library,  and  the  other  half  will  establish 
the  Vernon  and  Doris  Bishop  Distin- 
guished Chair  in  Chemistry,  the  college's 


first  fully  funded  faculty  chair. 

The  Bishop  gift  to  the  library  will  as- 
sist the  college  in  qualifying  for  an  addi- 
tional $500,000  challenge  grant  from  the 
Kresge  Foundation.  The  gift  also 
advanced  the  campaign  to  within  $2  mil- 
lion of  its  $21  million  goal. 

Seniors  raise 
largest  class  gift  ever 

The  Class  of  1995  raised  $20,000  to  meet 
its  Senior  Gift  Drive — the  largest  amount 
ever  raised  by  a  graduating  class  and  the 
first  time  any  class  has  ever  met  its  goal. 

The  drive  began  in  mid-November, 
with  senior  Roni  Russell  as  director  and 
33  members  of  the  class  involved  in  the 
effort.  When  December  arrived  and  the 
goal  had  not  been  reached,  the  steering 
committee  decided  to  continue  contacting 
seniors  during  the  spring  semester.  "We 
were  happy  with  what  had  been  raised  at 
that  point,  because  we  had 
already  done  more  than  the  classes  before 
us,"  Russell  said.  "But  we  really  wanted 
to  hit  $20,000." 

The  steering  committee  conducted  sev- 
eral mini-phonathons,  as  well  as  some 
in-person  solicitations  to  reach  classmates 
who  had  not  been  contacted.  As  a  result, 
121  students  contributed  to  the  drive,  and 
the  class  reached  the  $20,000  m^rk. 

The  Senior  Gift  Drive  Committee  has 
decided  to  use  the  funds  to  help  construct 
the  Arch  Bridge  in  the  Peace  Garden, 
which  will  be  located  behind  Vickroy  and 
Center  halls. 

Students  rally  to  save 
federal  financial  aid 

During  the  spring  semester,  students 
launched  a  three-day  postcard  campaign 
to  fight  a  Congressional  proposal  to  cut 
$20  billion  in  federal  student  aid.  Over 
500  students  signed  the  pre-printed  cards, 
which  described  the  important  role  that 
student  financial  aid  plays  in  America's 
future.  The  cards  were  then  mailed  to  each 
student's  respecfive  senator  or  member  of 
Congress. 

Over  the  next  five  years,  the  proposal 
would  increase  student  indebtedness  by 
50  percent.  The  $20  billion  in  cuts  pro- 
posed include  removing  the  in-school 
interest  subsidy  on  Stafford  Loans  and 
eliminating  campus-based  aid  programs 
(Perkins  Loans,  College  Work-Study  and 
Supplemental  Educational  Opportunity 
Grants.) 


Spring/Summer  1995        19 


NEWSMAKERS 


Tenure/promotions  granted 

The  following  faculty  members  have  re- 
ceived tenure  effective  for  the  1995-96 
academic  year:  Dr.  Paul  Heise,  assistant 
professor  of  economics;  Dr.  Jeanne  Hey, 
assistant  professor  of  economics;  and  Dr. 
Steve  M.  Specht,  assistant  professor  of 
psychology. 

And  the  following  faculty  have  been 
promoted,  effective  for  1995-96:  Pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  associate  profes- 
sor are  Donald  Boone,  hotel  management, 
and  Dr.  Gary  Grieve-Carlson,  English. 
Promoted  to  the  position  of  professor 
are  Dr.  Sharon  Clark,  management; 
Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  psychology;  Dr. 
Michael  Day,  physics;  and  Dr.  Mark 
Mecham,  music. 

Scholarship  to 
honor  musician 

The  Fred  Erdman  Endowed  Scholarship 
Fund,  established  by  friends  of  the  Leba- 
non, Pa.,  musician,  will  offer  an  annual 
award  to  a  music  major  at  Lebanon  Valley. 

The  fund  has  grown  to  over  $1 1,000, 
thanks  to  a  scholarship  concert  held  in 
October,  a  special  dinner  and  other  events. 

Erdman  has  a  strong  connection  to 
Lebanon  Valley  through  his  two  sons — 
James  and  Timothy — who  are  adjunct 
instructors  in  the  music  department. 

Studies  in  Washington 

Kelly  Fisher,  a  junior  English  communi- 
cations major  from  Dover,  Pa.,  spent  the 
fall  1994  semester  studying  at  the  Ameri- 
can University  in  Washington,  D.C. 

Fisher  attended  seminars  led  by  Helen 
Thomas,  Sam  Donaldson  of  ABC  and 
other  Washington  journalists.  She  also 
interned  at  the  Democratic  Leadership 
Council,  where  she  helped  organize  press 
conferences  and  proofread  policy  papers. 
Through  her  work  with  the  Council,  Fisher 
got  to  shake  hands  with  Vice  President  Al 
Gore  and  President  Bill  Clinton  (who  was 
a  founding  member  of  the  Council  and  a 
former  chair). 


Horace  Tousley 


Carl  Steiner 


20       The  Valley 


Dr.  Gary  Grieve-Carlson 


Dr.  Klement  Hambourg 


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Anna  Piper 


Earns  degree 

Diane  Wenger  '92,  director  of  alumni 
affairs,  in  January  graduated  with  a 
master' s  degree  in  American  studies  from 
the  Pennsylvania  State  University  Harris- 
burg  campus.  During  the  spring  semester, 
she  taught  "Introduction  to  American 
Studies"  at  Lebanon  Valley. 

Receives  certification 

Richard  Charles,  vice  president  for 
Advancement,  has  been  designated  a  Cer- 
tified Fund  Raising  Executive  (CFRE) 
by  the  National  Society  of  Fund  Raising 
Executives,  an  organization  based  in  Al- 
exandria, Va.,  with  more  than  15,000 
members. 

Charles  received  the  three-year  certi- 
fication after  taking  an  exam  and  submit- 
ting a  professional  portfolio.  CFRE  status 
indicates  that  an  individual  has  achieved 
a  standard  of  tenure,  performance,  educa- 
tion, knowledge  and  service  to  the  fund- 
raising  profession. 

Retirees 

From  the  faculty : 

Dr.  Klement  Hambourg,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  music,  retired  this  spring  after 
13  years  with  the  college.  He  was  named 
a  professor  emeritus  of  music.  Hambourg 
directed  the  college  orchestra  and  taught 
string  methods  and  introduction  to 
music,  as  well  as  private  violin  and  viola 
lessons.  Each  year,  he  presented  a  recital 
on  campus.  He  plans  to  spend  his  time 
performing,  particularly  chamber  music 
on  campus  and  within  the  area;  continu- 
ing as  a  vioUnist  with  the  Reading  Sym- 
phony (since  1984);  and  writing  a  family 
history. 

Dr.  David  Lasky,  professor  of  psy- 
chology, retired  this  spring  after  21  years 
with  the  college.  He  has  taught  a  variety  of 
courses,  including  "Career  Counseling," 
"Research  Design,"  "Introduction  to  Psy- 
chology," "History  and  Theory  of  Psychol- 
ogy" and  "General  Psychology."  He 
chaired  the  department  from  1986  to  1994 
and  most  recently  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Institutional  Research  Committee  and 
the  Syllabus  Development  Committee. 
Lasky  plans  to  continue  working  part- 
time  in  a  non-teaching  capacity  and  to 
spend  time  traveling. 

Horace  Tousley,  associate  professor 
of  mathematical  sciences,  retired  this 
spring  after  14  years  with  the  college. 
The  mathematician  taught  a  variety  of 
classes,  including  calculus  for  science 
majors,  linear  algebra,  operations  research 


and  intermediate  statistics  for  math 
majors,  and  finite  math  and  elementary 
statistics  for  non-majors.  Tousley  chaired 
the  department  from  1982  to  1994  and 
has  served  on  numerous  committees, 
including  the  Central  Committee,  the 
Financial  Aid  Committee  and  the  Fac- 
ulty Policies  Committee.  He  has  also  been 
involved  with  the  college's  Open  House 
program  and  for  12  years  has  helped 
with  the  annual  Quiz  Bowl  competition. 

From  the  Housekeeping  staff: 

Carl  Steiner  has  retired  after  29  years  of 
service.  Steiner  was  responsible  for  the 
upkeep  of  Keister  and  Funkhouser  dor- 
mitories and  spent  his  last  year  on  cam- 
pus working  in  Miller  Chapel.  Before 
retiring,  he  was  honored  by  the  Chaplain's 
Office  for  the  caring  attitude  and  positive 
influence  he  displayed  toward  students. 

James  Werner  retired  in  December 
1994,  after  serving  the  college  for  over 
20  years.  Werner  joined  the  college's  Food 
Service  in  1971,  and  worked  for  Hall- 
mark Management  Services  for  one  year 
( 1 989-90)  before  joining  the  Housekeep- 
ing staff. 

Anna  Piper  retired  in  June  1994.  Piper 
began  working  for  Food  Service  in  1978, 
and  spent  1989-90  working  for  Hallmark 
Management  Services  before  accepting  a 
position  with  Housekeeping. 

Honored  by  peers 

Paul  Brubaker,  director  of  Planned  Giv- 
ing, in  January  was  honored  for  his  work 
with  the  Susquehanna  Planned  Giving 
Council.  Brubaker  was  awarded  a  plaque 
recognizing  him  for  founding  the  council 
in  1992  and  for  serving  a  two-year  term  as 
its  first  president.  He  will  remain  active  in 
the  organization  as  a  director. 

Dr.  Barney  Raffield,  associate  pro- 
fessor of  management,  served  on  the 
review  board  for  the  Journal  of  Mana- 
gerial Issues,  which  focuses  on  issues 
in  management,  marketing,  distribuUon, 
accounting  and  finance.  He  was  also 
named  to  the  1994  Academic  Council 
of  the  national  chapter  of  the  American 
Marketing  Association.  The  council 
develops  and  monitors  academic  stan- 
dards for  the  association. 

Winning  writer 

Marie  Riegel-Kinch,  adjunct  instructor 
of  art,  won  second  place  in  a  writing  con- 
test sponsored  by  the  Institute  of  Children's 
Literature  in  Danbury,  Conn.  She  was  one 


Spring/Summer  1995       21 


of  4,000  entrants  who  submitted  their  750- 
word  adventure  stories  for  children  ages 
7-10.  The  March  issue  of  Children 's  Writer 
named  the  top  three  winners  and  discussed 
why  they  were  chosen. 

Attends  inauguration 

Dr.  Susan  Verhoek,  professor  of  biol- 
ogy, represented  the  college  during  the 
inauguration  in  January  of  President 
Thomas  B.  Courtice  at  her  alma  mater, 
Ohio  Wesleyan  University. 

Art  featured 

Dan  Massad,  artist-in-residence,  exhib- 
ited "Pastels"  at  the  University  of  Toledo 
in  Ohio  from  January  8,  1995,  through 
February  5.  He  also  held  workshops  and 
lectures  for  students  there  for  a  week. 

Meetings,  meetings,  meetings 

Dr.  Mark  Mecham,  chair  and  professor  of 
music,  in  November  attended  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  National  Association  of 
Schools  of  Music  in  Boston. 

Karen  Best,  registrar,  attended  the  64th 
annual  regional  conference  of  the  Middle 
States  Association  of  Collegiate  Regis- 
trars and  Officers  of  Admissions  in  Atlan- 
tic City,  N.J.,  last  fall.  Best  serves  on  the 
Nominations  and  Elections  Committee. 

Donald  Boone,  assistant  professor  of 
hotel  management,  attended  the  Central 
Chapter  President's  Night  and  Installa- 
tion of  Officers  for  the  Pennsylvania  Res- 
taurant Association.  At  that  January  15 
event,  Boone  was  installed  for  his  fifth 
year  on  the  board  of  directors. 

Faculty  publications 

The  Journal  of  Chemical  Education  has 
accepted  for  publication  an  article  titled 
"Making  Sparklers  as  an  Introductory 
Laboratory,"  written  by  Dr.  Richard 
Cornelius,  professor  of  chemistry,  and 
sophomores  Allen  Keeney  and  Chris- 
tina Walters.  Keeney  is  a  double  major 
in  chemistry  and  physics,  and  Walters  is 
a  biochemistry  major;  both  students 
worked  in  the  Garber  Science  Center  labs 
last  summer.  Their  efforts  were  supported 
by  a  grant  from  the  National  Science 
Foundation  for  the  development  of  the 
new  chemistry  curriculum,  "Chemistry 
Domesticated." 

Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  chair  and  asso- 
ciate professor  of  psychology,  has  recently 


published  two  articles.  "Use  of  Individual 
Differences  Questionnaire  with  Psychiat- 
ric Inpatients"  appeared  in  Perceptual  and 
Motor  Skills  (1995,  Vol.  80)  and  "Levels 
of  Anger  in  Psychiatric  Inpatients  and 
Normal  Subjects"  was  in  Psychological 
Reports.  (\994,Wo\.  15). 

Publishes  book 

Dr.  David  Brigham,  assistant  professor 
of  art  and  director  of  the  Suzanne  H. 
Arnold  Art  Gallery,  has  written  a  book. 
Public  Culture  in  the  Early  Republic: 
Peale's  Museum  and  Its  Audience. 
The  volume,  published  by  the  University 
Press  Division  of  the  Smithsonian  Insti- 
tution Press,  focuses  on  Charles  Wilson 
Peale,  patriarch  of  a  prominent  artistic 
family  in  Philadelphia.  Peale  redesigned 
his  personal  painting  gallery  in  1786  to 
create  one  of  America's  first  museums  of 
art  and  science. 


Brigham  traces  the  development 
of  Peale's  Philadelphia  Museum  as  an 
educational  institution,  as  a  business  and 
as  a  form  of  entertainment.  He  demon- 
strates how  this  "world  in  miniature" 
helped  define  the  terms  of  participation 
in  early  national  cultural  institutions. 

The  college  publicized  the  work  at 
a  book  launch  in  May.  In  July,  the  Smith- 
sonian will  sponsor  a  book  launch. 

Offers  tax  seminar 

Daniel  Cesta,  assistant  professor  of  man- 
agement, sponsored  a  seminar  in  upstate 
New  York  dealing  with  tax  planning  tips 
and  investment  strategies  for  high-income 
taxpayers.  Cesta  and  the  Albany  office  of 
Merrill  Lynch  conducted  the  seminar,  held 
in  the  Schnectady  Public  Library. 


Honored  for  service 

The  following  employees  were  honored 
at  the  annual  employee  recognition  ban- 
quet on  April  27  at  the  Quality  Inn  in 
Lebanon: 

For  35  years:  Dr.  Perry  Troutman, 
professor  emeritus  of  religion. 

For  30  years:  Dr.  Arthur  L.  Ford, 
associate  dean  of  international  programs 
and  professor  of  English. 

For  25  years:  Dr.  Philip  Billings,  chair 
and  professor  of  English,  and  Dr.  Joerg 
Mayer,  professor  of  mathematical  sciences. 

For  20  years:  Lewis  Cooke,  equip- 
ment manager  of  the  Athletic  Department, 
and  Julie  Wolfe,  director  of  the  health 
center  and  head  nurse. 

For  15  years:  William  J.  Brown,  Jr. 
'79,  dean  of  Admission  and  Financial  Aid; 
Dr.  Donald  Dahlberg,  professor  of  chem- 
istry; Dr.  Michael  Grella,  chair  and  pro- 
fessor of  education;  William  Rothermel, 
Buildings  and  Grounds;  and  Patricia 
Schools,  secretary  of  Student  Activifies 
and  Career  Planning  and  Placement. 

For  10  years:  Dr.  Richard  Cornelius, 
chair  and  professor  of  chemistry;  Dr. 
Salvatore  Cullari,  chair  and  associate 
professor  of  psychology;  Robert  Dillane, 
director  of  Administrative  Computing; 
George  Heckard,  security  officer; 
Shirley  May  Kelley,  Buildings  and 
Grounds;  Gwendolyn  Pierce,  adminis- 
trative support  assistant  to  the  controller/ 
treasurer  and  to  the  vice  president  for 
Administration;  Mervin  Yingst,  Build- 
ings and  Grounds. 

For  five  years:  Karen  Best,  registrar; 
Susan  Borelli-Wentzel,  assistant  direc- 
tor of  Admission;  Dr.  Gary  Grieve- 
Carlson,  associate  professor  of  English; 
Sharon  Hirneisen,  Buildings  and 
Grounds;  Dr.  Thomas  Liu,  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  mathematical  sciences;  Dr. 
Mark  Mecham,  chair  and  professor  of 
music;  Judy  Pehrson,  executive  director 
of  College  Relations;  Dr.  Barney 
Raffield,  associate  professor  of  manage- 
ment; Sharon  Raffield,  associate  profes- 
sor of  sociology  and  social  work  and 
director  of  the  Honors  Program;  Denise 
Smith,  assistant  to  the  president;  Ella 
Stott,  catalog  assistant  and  library  secre- 
tary; Mary  Beth  Strehl,  director  of 
Media  Relations;  Dr.  Dale  Summers, 
assistant  professor  of  education;  and  Mike 
Zeigler,  director  of  user  services  and  com- 
puter workshops. 


22       The  Valley 


SPORTS 


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

Men's  Basketball  (MAC  Champions) 

The  men  captured  their  second  straight 
Middle  Atlantic  Conference  (MAC) 
Championship  with  a  61-56  win  over 
Wilkes  before  an  SRO  crowd  in  Lynch 
Gymnasium. 

Senior  guard  Mike  Rhoades  was 
named  a  First  Team  All-America  by  the 
National  Association  of  Basketball 
Coaches.  During  the  season,  Rhoades 
became  Lebanon  Valley's  all-time  scor- 
ing king  (2,050  points). 

Rhoades  also  became  Lebanon 
Valley's  all-time  career  (668)  and  single- 
season  (192)  assists  leader.  He  was  named 
the  ECAC  Southern  Division  and  MAC 
Commonwealth  League  MVP. 

Senior  center  Mark  Hofsass  and 
senior  forward  Jason  Say  were  also  named 
MAC  Commonwealth  League  All-Stars. 
Hofsass  surpassed  the  1,000-point  mark 
during  the  season. 

This  season,  Lebanon  Valley  received 
its  third  straight  invitation  to  compete  in 
the  NCAA  Division  III  Championship 
tournament.  But  its  hopes  for  a  repeat  of 
last  year's  crowning  achievement  came  to 
an  end  in  Lynch  in  the  first  round  when 
Goucher  defeated  the  Dutchmen  102-91. 

The  Dutchmen  began  their  MAC  play- 
off run  with  a  125-80  win  over  Upsala.  In 
that  game,  Lebanon  Valley  set  seven  school 
records.  The  three  team  records  were  for 
most  points  scored  in  a  game  (125),  most 
treys  scored  as  a  team  (15)  and  most  field 
goals  made  by  a  team  in  a  game  (48). 

Four  individual  records  were  also  set 
during  the  Upsala  game.  Hofsass  sur- 
passed the  1 ,000-point  mark  and  Rhoades 
became  the  all-time  scoring  king  (the  old 
record  was  1 ,976  points),  the  first  to  reach 
2,000  and  the  scorer  of  the  most  treys  in  a 
single  game  (7). 

In  the  semi-final  game  of  the  MAC 
tournament,  Lebanon  Valley  defeated 
Scranton  65-48. 

The  Dutchmen  finished  the  season  22- 
6,  their  second  straight  season  with  20- 
plus  wins.  First-year  Head  Coach  Brad 
McAlester  was  named  the  MAC  Com- 
monwealth League  Coach  of  the  Year. 


Lebanon  Valley's  seniors — Rhoades, 
Hofsass,  Say  and  guard  Keith  Adams — 
graduate  knowing  that  they  won  75  per- 
cent of  the  games  they  played  during  their 
college  careers. 

Women's  Basketball  (11-13) 

Even  before  the  season  started,  Lebanon 
Valley  lost  star  forward  Amy  Jo  Rushanan 
to  a  season-ending  knee  injury.  But  the 
Dutchwomen  remained  competitive  and 
recorded  their  second  straight  season  with 
10  or  more  wins  under  second-year  Coach 
Peg  Kauffman. 

Sophomore  forward  Susan  DuBosq  was 
named  an  MAC  Commonwealth  League 
All-Star.  DuBosq  led  her  team  this  season 
with  10.7  points  and  8.6  rebounds  per 
game.  She  scored  a  team-high  106  field 
goals  and  led  the  Dutchwomen  with  17 
blocks.  Among  MAC  leaders,  DuBosq  fin- 
ished the  season  ranked  among  the  top  10 
rebounders. 

Two  highlights  of  the  season  included 
wins  over  Moravian  (79-65)  and  Franklin 
&  Marshall  (59-58),  both  in  Lynch  and  both 
ending  losing  streaks  of  17  games.  Leba- 
non Valley  had  not  defeated  the  Moravian 
Greyhounds  since  1978.  The  win  over  the 
F&M  Diplomats  was  the  first  since  1985. 

Lebanon  Valley  also  defeated  Susque- 
hanna, 75-65.  The  Crusaders  had  come  to 
Annville  ranked  1 1th  in  the  country. 

Sophomore  forward  Jen  Emerich  and 
senior  guard  Joda  Glossner  were  named 
to  the  MAC  All-Academic  team. 


Guard  Mike  Rhoades  '95  was  named 
All-America  and  became  the  college's 
all-time  scoring  king  with  2,050  points. 


Men's  and  Women's  Swimming 

Senior  Howie  Spangler  placed  first  in  the 
100  yard  and  200  yard  freestyle  and  the 
100  yard  backstroke  at  the  MAC  Cham- 
pionships. The  accomplishment  earned 
him  the  David  B.  Eavenson  Award  for 
the  Outstanding  Swimmer.  This  is  the  sec- 
ond MAC  gold  metal  Spangler  has  won 
in  the  200  yard  freestyle. 

Junior  Bob  Twining  placed  second  in 
the  100  yard  and  200  yard  breaststroke  and 
sixth  in  the  200  yard  individual  medley. 

Gina  Fontana,  a  junior,  came  in  fourth  in 
the  200  yard  and  400  yard  individual  med- 
leys and  fifth  in  the  200  yard  breaststroke. 

Wrestling 

Though  struggling  as  a  team,  Lebanon 
Valley  produced  two  wrestlers  who  com- 
peted well  in  the  MAC  and  NCAA  East- 
em  Regional  Championship  tournaments. 

Sophomore  Joe  Howe  finished  second 
in  the  MAC  and  NCAA  tournaments  in 
the  190-pound  weight  class.  Howe  also 
finished  third  at  190  pounds  in  Lebanon 
Valley's  25th  Annual  Petrofes  Invita- 
tional. He  was  23-7  during  the  season. 

Senior  Chad  Lutz  finished  third  at  the 
MAC  Championships  and  fifth  in  the 
NCAA  tournament  at  167  pounds.  Lutz 
was  21-6  in  dual  matches. 

Men's  and  Women's  Indoor  Track  and  Reld 

Sophomores  Nathan  Hillegas  and  Jen 
Nauss  were  named  the  MVPs  of  this  year's 
MAC  Men's  and  Women's  Indoor  Track 
and  Field  Championships. 

Hillegas  finished  fourth  in  the  55  meter 
hurdles  (8.49),  first  in  the  400  meter 
(53.04),  first  in  the  200  meter  (23.92), 
and  was  part  of  the  3,200  meter  relay  race 
(third  -  9:18.89)  and  the  1,600  meter  relay 
(first  -  3:38.26). 

Nauss  finished  first  in  the  long  jump 
and  set  a  new  conference  record  in  the 
process  (18*3.75").  Her  performance 
qualified  her  for  the  NCAA  Division  in 
Championships,  where  she  eventually  fin- 
ished 10th  in  this  event.  Her  other  first- 
place  finishes  in  the  MAC  Championships 
came  in  the  55  meter  dash  (7.59)  and  the 
200  meter  (27.32). 


Spring/Summer  1995       23 


ALUMNI      NEWS 


Progress  Is 
in  His  Blood 

By  Nancy  Kettering-Frye  '80 

Dr.  John  C.  "Jack"  Hoak  '51  has 
spent  his  professional  life  actively 
working  for  medical  progress.  So 
it's  not  surprising  that  the  M.D.  was  bom 
and  raised  in  Progress,  a  suburb  of  Har- 
risburg.  Even  now,  in  his  retirement,  the 
idea  of  progress  seems  bound  inextrica- 
bly with  who  he  is  and  what  he  does. 

During  his  career  in  cardiovascular 
medicine,  Hoak  received  recognition  for 
his  basic  and  clinical  research  contribu- 
tions, his  clinical  skills  and  his  innovative 
training  and  research  programs.  He's  been 
especially  interested  in  blood  coagulation, 
platelets,  vascular  endothelium  and 
thrombosis.  The  physician  has  published 
125  scientific  papers,  including  a  chapter 
in  a  major  reference  work,  Kelley's  Text- 
book of  Internal  Medicine. 

After  a  30-year  career  in  academic  medi- 
cine, in  1989  Hoek  went  to  work  for  the 
National  Institutes  of  Health  (NIH).  He 
retired  in  January  1994  as  director  of  the 
Division  of  Blood  Diseases  and  Resources 
of  the  National  Heart,  Lung,  and  Blood 
Institute.  As  a  faculty  member  at  the  Uni- 
formed Services  University  of  the  Health 
Sciences  and  a  consultant  for  the  Walter 
Reed  Army  Hospital,  Hoak  continues  his 
tradition  of  contributing  to  scientific 
progress,  writing  for  and  speaking  to  the 
medical  community. 

Hoak  is  married  to  Dorothy  Elizabeth 
Witmer  '52,  who  at  Lebanon  Valley  was  a 
Homecoming  and  May  Queen.  For  30 
years,  the  Hoaks  called  Iowa  "home."  Here 
they  raised  their  family — two  daughters 
and  a  son.  Their  three  decades  in  Iowa 
were  a  very  active  time.  In  addition  to 
being  a  mother,  Dorothy  served  as  church 
organist,  pianist,  accompanist,  piano 
teacher  and  active  community  volunteer. 
"Professionally,"  Jack  Hoak  recalls,  "my 
'typical  day'  included  patient  care,  teach- 
ing medical  students  and  directing  a 
research  program." 


Dr.  John  C.  "Jack"  Hoak  '51  has  had  a 
distinguished  medical  career. 

Hard  work,  for  Hoak,  has  always  been 
a  way  of  life.  "I  was  an  'only  child'  and  we 
didn't  have  a  lot  of  money,"  he  reminisces. 
"I  was  interested  in  medicine  even  then, 
but  my  father  suggested  the  more  afford- 
able schooling  to  become  a  funeral  direc- 
tor." So  after  graduation  from  Susquehanna 
Township  High  School,  the  young  Hoak 
enrolled  at  a  school  of  mortuary  science  in 
Philadelphia. 

"Every  day,  on  the  way  to  classes,  I 
walked  through  the  courtyard  at 
Hahnemann  Medical  College,"  he  recounts. 
"A  cousin  of  mine  was  already  studying 
medicine,  which  stimulated  my  thinking 
and  encouraged  me  to  decide  that's  what  I 
had  to  do — money  or  no  money!  It  was 
then  that  I  applied  to  Lebanon  Valley  Col- 
lege for  my  pre-medical  education."  Not 
only  was  he  accepted,  but  he  received  a 
scholarship,  a  job  in  the  dining  hall  and  a 
place  on  the  basketball  team. 

While  the  Valley  during  those  "happy 
days"  was  admittedly  enjoyable,  Hoak  re- 
calls, "there  was  pressure.  Acceptance  into 
medical  school  was  extremely  competitive. 


so  excellent  grades  were  essential."  That 
prompted  the  chemistry  major  to  hand  in 
his  basketball  uniform  after  his  sophomore 
year  and  concentrate  on  his  academic  work. 

Although  Hoak  remembers  the  entire 
faculty  as  "outstanding,  very  supportive," 
he  especially  lauds  Dr.  H.  Anthony  Neidig 
'43  (now  professor  emeritus)  and  the  late 
Dr.  Andrew  Bender  (then  head  of  the  chem- 
istry department).  "They  were  both  simply 
outstanding  teachers,  very  stimulating,  very 
straightforward  in  their  teaching — and  very 
interested  in  students.  I  always  felt  I  could 
go  in  and  talk  about  my  work." 

After  Hahnemann,  the  young  M.D. 
interned  at  Harrisburg  Polyclinic  Hospi- 
tal, did  a  tour  in  the  Navy  as  a  medical 
officer  and  was  a  resident  in  internal 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Iowa  (UI), 
where  he  had  a  research  fellowship  in 
blood  coagulation.  In  1961,  he  became 
an  instructor  in  medicine  at  Iowa.  The 
next  year  he  spent  in  England,  where  he 
was  a  visiting  researcher  at  the  Sir  Will- 
iam Dunn  School  of  Pathology  at  Oxford; 
his  supervisor  was  Lord  Howard  Florey,  a 
Nobel  laureate. 

Returning  to  UI  to  teach,  the  hard- 
working Hoak  became  a  full  professor  in 
1970  and  was  named  director  of  the  UI 
Division  of  Hematology-Oncology. 

In  1984,  the  Hoaks  moved  to  Vermont 
for  three  years  while  he  chaired  the 
Department  of  Internal  Medicine  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vermont  and  served  as  chief  of 
medical  service  at  the  Medical  Center  Hos- 
pital of  Vermont  in  Burlington.  In  1987, 
he  returned  to  the  Iowa  faculty,  and  two 
years  later,  accepted  the  NIH  position. 

In  1992,  Hoak  received  the  Scientific 
Council's  Distinguished  Achievement 
Award  from  the  American  Heart  Associa- 
tion. A  year  later,  the  American  Society  of 
Hematology  presented  him  with  the  ASH 
Award  for  Outstanding  Contributions  and 
Services.  Most  recently,  he  was  honored 
with  the  Distinguished  Achievement  Award 
by  the  Department  of  Internal  Medicine  at 
the  UI  College  of  Medicine  and  also  as 
Alumnus  of  the  Year  by  the  Hahnemann 
University  School  of  Medicine. 

What  in  this  long  and  distinguished 
career  has  been  most  satisfying?  Hoak 


24       The  Valley 


quickly  responds,  "Training  young  physi- 
cians and  research  investigators!  A  num- 
ber have  gone  on  to  very  important 
positions.  And,  of  course,  the  research  con- 
tributions of  my  lab  group." 

The  Hoaks  live  in  Vienna,  Va.,  "eight 
minutes  from  Wolf  Trap  and  close  to 
Dulles  Airport  so  that  we  can  easily  travel 
to  visit  our  four  grandchildren."  Then 
there's  golf  and  gardening,  and  ushering 
at  the  National  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  where  Dorothy  plays 
in  the  bell  choir.  An  idyllic  retirement? 
Idyllic,  yes;  retirement,  no.  Motivated  by 
the  love  of  learning  and  of  teaching,  sus- 
tained by  the  quiet  satisfaction  of  contrib- 
uting to  the  advancements  in  medical/ 
scientific  knowledge,  this  illustrious  alum- 
nus continues  to  push  on  toward  new  fron- 
tiers of  human  understanding. 


Nancy  Kettering- F rye  is  a  Lebanon-based 
freelance  writer. 


Innovator  in  Art 
and  Engineering 

By  Sandy  Marrone 

A  sense  of  calm  pervades  the  Har- 
risburg  office  of  Tom  Whittle  '70 
as  he  sits  surrounded  by  remind- 
ers of  what's  important  to  him.  Pictures 
of  family  and  friends  dot  the  surface  of  an 
antique  wooden  table.  The  head  of  a  10- 
point  buck  Whittle  shot  near  Rausch  Gap 
dominates  one  wall,  and  Whittle's  lacrosse 
sticks  from  his  Lebanon  Valley  days  are 
propped  in  a  comer. 

No  three-piece  suit  for  the  CEO  and 
founder  of  an  engineering  firm.  He  spends 
his  days  in  casual  slacks,  a  sport  shirt  and 
a  tie. 

"I'd  like  to  leave  the  world  a  little 
better  off  than  it  would  have  been  had  I 
not  been  here,"  says  the  Highspire,  Pa., 
native  who  majored  in  physics.  After  some 
work  experience  in  water  pollution  con- 
trol and  graduate  courses  in  engineering. 
Whittle  started  Commonwealth  Engineer- 
ing &  Technology,  Inc.  (CET)  in  1979, 
and  two  friends  soon  joined  him  in  the 
business. 

CET  works  with  municipalities  and 
businesses  to  design  and  install  water  sys- 
tems and  waste  water  systems.  Its  clients 
have  included  Hershey  Foods,  Hanover 
Foods  and  the  country  of  Egypt. 

"Most  people  think  of  a  business  as 
something  to  generate  profit,"  Whittle 
says,  "but  we  opened  this  one  to  have  the 


Engineer  Tom  Whittle  is  a  Renaissance  man. 

freedom  to  try  new  things  and  to  make  a 
name  for  ourselves  as  a  good  and  innova- 
tive company."  Second  comes  profit.  "We 
must  make  some  to  stay  in  business,  but 
principles  of  honesty  and  integrity  are 
central  here." 

Innovation,  honesty  and  integrity  have 
served  CET  well,  for  today  the  company 
has  four  divisions  housed  in  a  new  build- 
ing in  Lower  Paxton  Township  and  an 
office  in  Huntington  County.  Though 
Whittle  and  his  partners  had  planned  on 
employing  about  20  people,  the  company 
now  has  50  employees.  "We  had  to  keep 
growing  to  provide  younger  people  with 
opportunities,"  says  Whittle.  This  sum- 
mer another  young  person.  Whittle's  son, 
Alton,  will  join  the  firm's  Huntingdon 
office. 

With  opportunity  and  innovation  come 
responsibility,  and  each  division  of  CET 
is  devoted  to  some  aspect  of  carefully 
managing  earth  and  water.  The  company 
was  one  of  the  first  in  Pennsylvania  to 
use  wetlands  to  treat  waste  water.  "Wet- 
lands can  be  used  where  other  on-lot  sys- 
tems cannot,"  says  Whittle,  "and  they  are 
aesthetically  attractive."  You  simply  cre- 
ate a  wetland  area  in  some  comer  of  a  lot 
and  plant  cattails  and  other  things  that 
grow  well  there.  As  the  plants  grow,  bac- 
teria surround  the  plant  roots,  where  they 
can  receive  the  oxygen  they  need  to  natu- 
rally treat  waste  water.  "We  recently  built 
wetlands  for  Penn  State  at  the  Stone  Val- 
ley Recreation  Area  near  State  College, 
and  we  just  finished  one  for  the  Valley 


Grange  in  York  County,"  Whittle  says. 

"This  is  a  good  profession  for  trying  to 
make  the  world  better.  Many  people  don't 
think  of  engineers  as  environmentalists  but 
as  people  who  move  the  earth  around  any 
way  they  want,"  he  says.  "But  we  use  the 
best  technology  available — high-tech,  like 
anaerobics  or  low-tech,  like  wetlands — to 
make  the  environment  better." 

In  fact,  one  of  CET's  divisions.  Earth 
Information  Services  (EIS),  is  teaching 
people  how  to  work  with  nature.  By  inte- 
grating computer  graphics  and  data  bases, 
EIS  is  helping  representatives  of  Egypt  to 
accurately  predict  rain  and  flooding  along 
the  Nile  River.  The  goal  is  to  manage 
crops  according  to  nature's  actions  and 
thus  maximize  yields. 

Surely  it's  taken  much  time  and  effort 
for  Whittle  and  his  partners  to  build  a  strong, 
successful  business  that's  known  for  cre- 
ative answers  to  complex  problems,  but 
that  doesn't  mean  Whittle  is  all  work  and 
no  fun  or  all  engineer  and  nothing  else. 

Whittle's  paintings  are  an  attracfive 
addifion  to  CET's  offices.  "I  took  a  stu- 
dio painting  class  at  Lebanon  Valley," 
he  says,  "and  I  still  paint.  My  work  is 
demanding,  so  to  take  time  off  and  paint 
is  good  for  me." 

Painting  isn't  the  only  hobby  that 
Whittle  learned  at  Lebanon  Valley  and 
has  stuck  with.  "I  played  on  a  lacrosse 
team  there,  and  I  continue  to  play  with  a 
team  in  Harrisburg,"  he  says.  "In  a  bigger 
school,  it  would  have  been  difficult  to  be 
on  the  team  without  being  real  good  at  it, 
but  everyone  was  active  in  intramural 
sports  at  Lebanon  Valley." 

As  Whittle  reminisces,  it's  clear  that 
his  college  days  were  happy  ones — so 
much  so  that  he  has  appointed  himself  as 
a  committee  of  one  to  reach  as  many  of 
his  classmates  as  possible  to  urge  them  to 
come  for  their  25th  reunion  this  summer. 

"We  had  lots  of  good  wholesome  fun 
at  college,"  says  Whittle  with  an  impish 
smile  as  he  recalls  being  the  object  of 
a  tradition  of  his  Knights  of  the  Valley 
Fratemity. 

If  one  of  the  Knights  got  engaged,  his 
fratemity  brothers  took  all  his  clothes, 
put  him  in  a  laundry  cart  and  wheeled 
him  around  campus.  "They'd  be  yelling 
and  screaming  to  get  everyone's  atten- 
tion," Whittle  says.  "Then  they  dropped 
me  off  at  a  girl's  dorm  with  only  a  towel. 
The  only  good  thing  about  it  was  that  it 
was  dark." 

But  there  were  serious  and  downright 
scary  times  too,  says  Whittle.  In  his  senior 
year,  Vietnam  War  protestors  were  shot  at 
Kent  State  University.  "Even  though  Leba- 
non Valley  seemed  divorced  from  that 


Spring/Summer  1995       25 


issue,  we  realized  we  were  living  in  strange 
times.  The  world  was  messed  up  and  scary, 
and  it  was  sobering." 

As  for  the  education  he  received, 
Whittle  particularly  enjoyed  the  special 
attention  available  from  professors  who 
sometimes  had  only  three  students  in  a 
class.  He  is  definitely  a  proponent  of  the 
liberal  arts  curriculum.  "I  never  realized 
until  later  what  an  advantage  the  liberal 
arts  can  be  in  making  you  a  well-rounded 
person,"  Whittle  says.  "Lebanon  Valley 
helped  me  by  not  teaching  me  to  be  one 
thing,  but  by  making  me  a  better  person. 
I  think  if  you  take  this  liberal  education 
and  tie  it  together  with  a  master's  pro- 
gram that  is  specific,  you  will  do  well  in 
the  world." 

You  might  even  build  a  company  from 
scratch,  paint  pictures,  play  lacrosse  and 
even  learn  to  read  the  moods  of  the  Nile. 


Sandy  Marrone  is  a  Palmyra-based 
freelance  writer  who  is  a  correspondent 
for  the  Harrisburg  Patriot-News. 


Hawaiian  Hospitality 

Three  alumni  in  Honolulu  enjoyed  break- 
fast with  a  Lebanon  Valley  touch  over  the 
Christmas  holidays.  Registrar  Karen  Best 
and  her  husband,  Ray,  while  on  vacafion 
in  the  50th  state,  met  with  Barbara  Lenker 
Tredick  '66,  Tom  Cestare  '71  and  Gary 
Frederick  '69  and  Gary's  wife,  Sandy. 

Over  a  leisurely  morning  meal,  the 
alumni  shared  memories  of  their  days  at 
the  college  (Gary  was  the  dorm  counselor 


in  Tom's  residence  hall)  and  current  news 
about  careers,  while  the  Bests  shared  pho- 
tographs and  the  latest  news  from  the 
college.  Before  the  meeting  was  over, 
the  group  had  made  plans  to  meet  again. 

Be  Part  of  College 
History  in  the  Making! 

In  their  book.  Having  Our  Say:  The 
Delany  Sisters'  First  100  Years,  the  sis- 
ters tell  wonderful  stories  of  family  life, 
college  years  and  life  in  Harlem.  As  105- 
year-old  Sadie  puts  it,  "When  you  live  a 
long  time,  you  have  stories  to  tell.  If  only 
people  ask." 

Well,  we  are  asking  you!  All  alumni 
have  stories  of  their  LVC  days,  whether 
humorous,  dramatic,  serious,  sad,  tragic, 
witty  or  seemingly  unimportant.  These 
stories  will  be  lost  forever  if  they  are  not 
preserved  in  some  manner. 

Glenn  H.  Woods  '51,  professor  emeri- 
tus of  English  and  a  volunteer  in  the 
Alumni  Programs  and  College  Relations 
offices,  is  interested  in  collecting  these 
anecdotes  from  the  past.  The  stories  might 
be  about  the  faculty  and  administration, 
fellow  students,  buildings,  organizations, 
townspeople  or  sports  events.  You  could 
put  these  stories  on  audiotape  or  video- 
tape or  simply  jot  them  on  paper. 

Send  them  to  him  at  the  Alumni  Pro- 
grams Office,  Lebanon  Valley  College, 
P.O.  Box  R,  Annville,  PA  17003.  Who 
knows?  They  might  appear  in  the  next 
unexpurgated  history  of  the  college!  If 
you  have  any  questions,  call  toll-free  at 
1-800-ALUM-LVC. 


Chemist  Honored 
for  Service 

Dr.  May  Fauth  '33  was  recognized  for 
her  more  than  39  years  of  outstanding 
accomplishments  in  the  area  of  energetic 
chemistry  and  environmental  science  ear- 
lier this  year  when  she  received  the  Navy 
Meritorious  Civilian  Service  Award,  the 
third-highest  honorary  award  under  the 
Navy  Incentive  Awards  program. 

Dr.  Fauth,  who  is  a  research  chemist 
at  the  Naval  Surface  Warfare  Center  in 
Indian  Head,  Md.,  in  July  will  celebrate 
40  years  in  government  service.  She 
received  the  1994  LVC  Distinguished 
Alumna  Award. 

Group  to  Assist 
Continuing  Ed  Students 

Adults  who  attend  college  part-time  on 
evenings  and  weekends  have  different  ex- 
periences and  concerns  than  students  who 
go  the  traditional  route.  Earlier  this  year, 
a  new  Alumni  Association  committee,  the 
Continuing  Education  Committee,  was 
formed  to  address  the  needs  of  this  group. 
Comprised  of  a  dozen  Continuing  Educa- 
tion alumni,  the  committee  is  staffed  by 
the  Alumni  Programs  and  Continuing 
Education  offices. 

At  its  initial  meeting,  the  group  chose 
several  projects  that  will  benefit  present 
and  future  non-traditional  students.  In  one 
of  these  projects.  Continuing  Ed  Con- 
tacts, graduates  will  be  invited  to  volun- 
teer as  informal  advisors  for  students  and 
prospective  students  in  the  evening  and 
weekend  program.  The  assistance  might 
be  just  answering  a  few  questions  by 
phone  for  students,  but  could  also  expand 
into  a  fuller,  mentor-like  role — it's  up  to 
each  volunteer. 

Other  projects  under  consideration  are 
holding  receptions  at  commencement  for 
Continuing  Education  graduates  and  their 
families  and  establishing  a  scholarship  to 
benefit  non-traditional  students. 

For  more  information  or  to  get  involved 
in  the  committee,  call  (717)  867-6320  or 
toll-free  at  1-800-ALUM-LVC. 


Sharing  LVC  stories  in  Honolulu  are  (from  left)  Barbara  Tredick  '66,  Sandy  and  Gary 
Frederick  '66,  Karen  Best  and  Tom  Cestare  '71. 


26       The  Valley 


The  High  Note 
of  Their  Week 

Alumni  who  still  love  to  lift 
their  voices  together  each 
Monday  gather  with  Pierce  Getz 
to  be  energized  and  inspired. 

By  Stephen  Trapnell  '90 

Behind  the  stage  in  Blair  Music 
Center,  a  dozen  voices  rise  in  the 
familiar  cacophony  of  scattered 
conversations.  In  this  rehearsal  room  are 
a  price  analyst  from  Selinsgrove,  a  music 
teacher  from  Lancaster,  a  day-care  center 
director  from  Womelsdorf.  In  a  few  min- 
utes, their  separate  voices  will  join  together 
as  one:  as  the  Alumni  Chorale  of  Lebanon 
Valley  College. 

Each  Monday  evening  during  the  aca- 
demic year,  the  Chorale  draws  together 
Valley  graduates  and  other  singers  from 
around  Central  Pennsylvania  for  a  two- 
and-a-half-hour  practice. 

In  the  center  of  the  room  stands  the 
man  who  forges  one  sound  from  these 
separate  voices:  Dr.  Pierce  Getz  '51,  pro- 
fessor emeritus  of  music  who  retired  in 
1990  after  teaching  for  31  years.  More 
than  six  feet  tall,  with  gray-white  hair,  he 
looks  the  part  of  the  conductor. 

He  plays  a  quick  tune  on  a  piano,  and 
the  voices  quiet  down.  The  Chorale  stands 
for  its  warm-up,  each  singer  stretching 
toward  the  ceiling  in  slow-motion 
aerobics. 

"Right  face!"  Getz  calls,  and  the  mem- 
bers turn  and  begin  to  pound  and  massage 
their  neighbors'  shoulders  and  backs. 

"Four-three-two-one  and  about  face," 
Getz  calls,  and  the  process  starts  again. 
The  evening  has  just  begun. 

It  was  nearly  17  years  ago  that  the 
Chorale  itself  began.  At  the  time,  Getz 
was  teaching  organ  and  directing  the  Con- 
cert Choir.  Choir  alumni  used  to  come  up 
to  him  after  campus  concerts  to  ask  him 
to  form  a  group,  "an  extension  more  or 
less  of  the  Concert  Choir,"  Getz  recalled. 
"They  wanted  to  continue  to  sing  that 
type  of  music,  and  they  wanted  to  sing  in 
an  organization  with  high  standards. 

"For  almost  eight  years,  I  kept  saying, 
'No,  I  don't  have  time.'  In  1978, 1  decided 
that  I  would  like  to  carve  out  some  time  to 
work  with  adult  voices  at  that  level,"  said 
Getz,  now  65. 

The  original  Chorale  of  42  singers 
included  33  Lebanon  Valley  graduates. 


Today,  over  50  percent  of  its  40  members 
are  alumni.  They  present  several  concerts 
each  Christmas  and  spring,  sampling  music 
from  all  the  major  styles  of  choral  litera- 
ture. They  sing  a  cappella,  or  with  key- 
board accompaniment  by  Lou  Ann  Potter 
and  sometimes  with  a  chamber  orchestra. 

Many  of  their  selections  are  of  a 
sacred  nature.  The  spiritual  quality  "needs 
to  be  an  integral  part  of  the  work  itself," 
Getz  said.  He  doesn't  like  to  consider 
music  as  mere  entertainment.  "If  it  is 
entertaining,"  he  observed,  "it  needs  to 
be  entertaining  in  a  deeper,  more  substan- 
tial manner  than  mere  casual  listening." 
In  recent  years,  the  group  has  offered 
complete  performances  of  Bach's  Mass 
in  B  Minor  and  Handel's  Messiah. 

The  Chorale  has  sung  in  area  churches. 


patrons,  as  well  as  some  fees  from  perfor- 
mances. Although  they  hire  musicians  for 
accompaniment,  the  singers  and  Getz  are 
volunteers. 

After  a  concert,  when  audience  mem- 
bers come  up  to  talk  with  the  singers,  said 
tenor  Mike  Zettlemoyer  '91,  "It's  a  feel- 
ing of  accomplishment  when  you  can  learn 
the  intricacies  of  a  piece  of  music  and 
present  it  to  people  and  see  and  hear  how 
truly  inspired  they  were." 

One  of  the  reasons  the  Alumni  Cho- 
rale originally  formed,  Getz  said,  was  that 
there  weren't  a  lot  of  local  groups  where 
graduates  could  sing.  But  around  1978, 
"there  was  a  mild  explosion  in  this  area 
of  choral  groups,"  Getz  said,  adding  that 
there  are  now  about  15  such  organiza- 
tions in  the  Harrisburg  area.  "We  have  in 


Some  Alumni  Clioiale  nuinben  iia\tl  giecit  distaiu.es  to  attend  the  weekly  lehearsals 


with  the  Harrisburg  Symphony  at  the 
Forum,  at  the  National  Cathedral  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  and  in  New  York  City's 
Alice  Tully  Hall  at  Lincoln  Center.  Their 
performance  with  the  Air  Force  Band  of 
the  East  at  Founders  Hall  in  Hershey  was 
recorded  on  compact  disc. 

In  February,  the  singers  joined  the 
Susquehanna  Chorale  and  Chamber  Sing- 
ers of  Harrisburg  for  the  Central  Pennsyl- 
vania Choral  Festival  at  Harrisburg' s 
Market  Square  Presbyterian  Church.  In 
April,  the  Chorale  participated  in  Jazz  at 
Engle  Hall,  the  45th  anniversary  of  the 
introduction  of  jazz  to  Lebanon  Valley's 
music  department. 

For  its  spring  concert  series  this  year, 
the  Chorale  took  on  a  new  challenge:  an 
entire  program  of  African-American 
music.  To  help  transform  the  Chorale  into 
a  gospel  choir,  the  group  brought  in  guest 
artist  Anthony  Leach  '73,  a  Pennsylvania 
State  University  faculty  member. 

The  Alumni  Chorale's  expenses  are 
paid  largely  through  donations  from 


one  sense  created  our  own  competition." 
He  pointed  out  Eric  Dundore  '79,  a  former 
Alumni  Chorale  member,  went  on  to 
direct  the  Harrisburg  Chamber  Singers. 

"To  me,  it's  extremely  moving  that 
former  students  feel  a  desire  to  continue 
to  sing,  whether  in  the  Chorale  or  in  some 
other  organization,"  Getz  said,  "and  that 
they  choose  to  sing  in  the  Alumni  Cho- 
rale is  particularly  moving  and  very  much 
appreciated." 

At  the  rehearsal,  Getz  is  leading  sing- 
ers in  "Why  Do  We  Deal  Treacherously?" 
by  Judith  Lang  Zaimont.  His  voice  is  not 
loud,  yet  it  carries  above  the  music.  He 
tells  the  Chorale  members  that  they  should 
not  rely  only  on  him  and  the  piano  for  the 
beat,  but  that  it  must  come  from  inside 
them.  For  many  of  the  singers,  the  music 
and  the  Chorale  are  indeed  a  part  of  them. 

"Mostly  I  do  it  because  I  love  it,  because 
I  love  to  sing,"  said  Sally  Allebach  '78.  A 
choral  music  teacher  in  the  Pottstown  School 


Spring/Summer  1995       27 


District,  she  drives  two  hours  to  Annville 
for  rehearsals.  The  soprano  appreciates  the 
chance  to  be  a  singer.  She  also  likes  learn- 
ing about  conducting  style,  vocal  techniques 
and  stylistic  approaches  to  different  litera- 
ture. "I  get  a  lot  of  information  that  I  use  in 
my  school  groups,"  she  explains. 

Luanne  Clay  '69,  who  had  sung  in  the 
Concert  Choir,  thinks  of  her  time  with 
the  Chorale  as  a  gift  to  herself — and  she's 
been  a  member  since  its  founding.  "It 
doesn't  seem  like  a  Monday  night  if 
I'm  not  there,"  said  Clay,  an  alto.  "The 
rehearsals  are  really  worthwhile.  If  you 
miss  a  rehearsal,  you've  missed  a  lot." 
Her  major  was  elementary  education,  and 
she  now  works  at  Crayon  Comer  in 
Womelsdorf. 

Baritone  Ivan  Wittel  '79,  a  music 
teacher  in  Lancaster  County's  Solanco 
School  District,  and  his  wife,  Kim,  joined 
the  Chorale  when  they  were  married  12 
years  ago. 

"I've  worked  with  lots  of  different 
groups.  It's  difficult  to  find  a  really  top- 
quality  choral  experience,"  Wittel  said, 
adding  that  the  Alumni  Chorale  offers 
that  challenge.  "I  like  the  fact  that  I  can 
still  have  some  attachment  and  associa- 
tion to  the  college,"  said  Wittel. 

Soprano  Victoria  Rose  of  Harrisburg, 
a  Chorale  member  for  about  seven  years, 
for  the  past  three  has  been  adjunct  in- 
structor of  voice  at  the  college.  When  the 
Peabody  Conservatory  graduate  moved 
to  this  area,  she  recalled,  "I  had  given  up 
ever  being  in  contact  with  the  level  of 
musicians  that  I  had  worked  with  in  Bal- 
timore." And  then  she  met  Dr.  Pierce 
Getz,  heard  the  Alumni  Chorale,  and  de- 
cided she  wanted  to  be  a  part  of  it. 

Chorale  members  echo  Rose's  belief 
that  Getz  helps  to  drive  that  desire  for 
quality.  A  veteran  of  the  Concert  Choir, 
he  observed  that  "there  was  almost  a  void, 
not  being  able  to  participate  in  a  group  of 
the  caliber  that  Dr.  Getz's  group  had  typi- 
cally been,"  said  Zettlemoyer.  He  joined 
the  Chorale  about  a  year  after  he  gradu- 
ated in  1991,  even  though  he  lives  in 
Selinsgrove,  almost  90  minutes  away. 
He's  a  buyer  and  price  analyst  for 
Sunbury-based  Weis  Markets. 

"I'm  sure  that  there  are  very  good 
choirs  in  this  area,  but  when  you've  been 
part  of  the  Concert  Choir,  there's  kind  of 
a  loyalty  to  Dr.  Getz,"  Zettlemoyer  said. 
"He  knows  in  his  mind  the  way  he  wanted 
the  music  to  sound,  and  when  we  at  least 
get  close  to  what  he  expects  to  hear,  his 
face  just  starts  beaming  with  this  big 
smile,  and  you  know  that  you've  per- 
formed at  least  to  your  level  of  ability." 


"He's  such  a  natural  teacher,"  said 
Rose,  adding  that  the  Chorale  "is  like  a 
master  class  in  choral  conducting.  For 
him,  it's  the  right  way  or  no  way.  It's 
always  the  music  first.  He  serves  the  music 
and  what  has  come  before  him,  and  God, 
of  course."  Even  rehearsals,  she  added,  are 
"a  worshipful  experience." 

A  native  of  Denver  in  Lancaster 
County,  Getz  grew  up  on  a  chicken  farm. 
His  family  was  a  musical  one.  His  father 
directed  local  church  choirs.  Getz's 
brother,  Russ  '49,  who  died  in  1986, 
served  on  the  faculty  at  Gettysburg  Col- 
lege and  directed  its  college  choir. 

It  was  while  a  student  at  the  Valley 
that  Pierce  Getz  experienced  a  defining 


Dr.  Pierce  Getz  '51,  the  Chorale's  beloved 
conductor,  started  the  group  17  years  ago 
to  give  Lebanon  Valley  graduates  an  oppor- 
tunity to  continue  singing. 

moment  in  his  musical  life.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  first  Intercollegiate  Cho- 
rus, conducted  by  Lara  Hoggard,  who 
was  also  working  with  Fred  Waring  and 
the  Pennsylvanians  at  the  time.  During 
a  concert  at  the  Forum  in  Harrisburg, 
Waring  himself  stepped  in  as  a  guest 
conductor. 

"From  that  experience  on,  I  knew  I  had 
to  be  a  choral  conductor,"  Getz  recalled. 

In  the  eight  years  after  earning  his 
bachelor's  degree  in  music  education  at 
Lebanon  Valley  in  195 1 ,  Pierce  Getz  went 
on  for  a  master's  degree  in  sacred  music 
at  Union  Theological  Seminary,  married 
Gene,  and  spent  five  years  teaching  in 
Japan.  There,  the  Getzes  spent  five  years 
as  educational  missionaries.  He  taught  at 
Doshisha  University  in  Kyoto  and  Miyagi 
College  in  Sendai,  where  he  organized  a 
glee  club  whose  members  still  meet  regu- 
larly to  rehearse  and  perform.  Getz  vis- 
ited Japan  for  their  reunion  concerts  in 
1991  and  1994. 


In  1959,  when  the  Getzes  came  back  to 
the  States,  the  alumnus  returned  to  the  Val- 
ley for  good.  He  taught  organ  and  directed 
the  Concert  Choir,  Chapel  Choir  and  Col- 
lege Chorus.  During  his  29  years  conduct- 
ing the  Concert  Choir,  Getz  led  the  group 
on  many  tours,  to  New  England,  Florida 
and  one  in  Europe  with  many  performances 
behind  the  Iron  Curtain. 

Getz,  who  earned  his  doctor  of  musical 
arts  degree  from  the  Eastman  School  of 
Music,  has  been  active  in  church  music. 
For  21  years,  he  served  as  organist  and 
director  of  music  at  Annville  United  Meth- 
odist Church.  Since  1987,  he  has  held  the 
same  position  at  Market  Square  Presbyte- 
rian Church  in  Harrisburg. 

He  also  leads  church  music  workshops 
and  is  a  consultant  to  churches  planning 
organ  installations.  His  wife.  Gene,  a  reg- 
istered nurse,  has  been  in  the  Chorale 
since  its  founding.  The  Getzes,  who  live 
in  Annville,  have  two  grown  children — 
Anita  Chapman  '76  of  Lebanon  County 
and  Joseph  Getz  '79  of  Harrisburg. 

Getz  smiled  as  he  recalled  the  surprise 
he  received  when  he  retired  in  1990. 
Former  Concert  Choir  members  had  been 
invited  to  return  to  campus,  and  after  a 
concert,  they  thronged  to  the  stage  to  sing 
together.  "It  was  just  a  sea  of  memories  in 
seeing  all  these  faces,  a  very,  very  mov- 
ing experience,"  Getz  remembered. 

The  conductor  doesn't  take  his  respon- 
sibilities lightly.  Working  with  his  former 
students  in  the  Chorale,  Getz  said,  has 
given  him  a  chance  to  see  "what  they  are 
doing  in  their  own  professional  fields, 
how  they've  matured  through  the  years 
into  responsible  teachers  and  musicians 
or  whatever  area  they're  involved  in." 

The  Chorale  encourages  people  to  audi- 
tion, Getz  and  the  singers  agree.  They  would 
also  like  to  forge  closer  ties  to  the  college. 
The  Concert  Choir  has  always  had  packed 
audiences  at  its  concerts,  Zettlemoyer 
remarked,  adding  that  "I  would  hope  that 
our  group  develops,  even  more  over  the 
years,  that  following." 

The  Chorale  has  enjoyed  presenting 
at  off-campus  concerts  its  high  level  of 
musical  excellence,  Getz  emphasized.  "It 
is  an  experience  that  very  few  conductors 
have  in  their  entire  lifetime,  to  work  with 
young  people  and  develop  musical  and 
technical  characteristics  that  can  be  car- 
ried on  for  years  and  years  following  their 
graduation.  It's  an  experience  that  per- 
mits constant  growth." 

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


28       The  Valley 


CLASS      NOTES 


Pre-1930s 


News 

Dr.  Oliver  S.  Heckman  '22  writes  that  he 
has  recently  traveled  to  the  South  Pacific  and  the 
Upper  Mississippi  areas. 

Deaths 

Ellen  S.  Keller  '25,  September  6, 1994.  She 
had  retired  from  the  Commonwealth  of  Penn- 
sylvania as  assistant  comptroller,  Department 
of  Property  and  Supplies  and  General  Services 
Department. 

Rev.  Clyde  Wilton  Tinsman  '25,  December 
10,  1994.  He  began  his  preaching  ministry  in  the 
former  Evangelical  United  Brethren  Church  in 
1917.  During  his  50  years  as  a  pastor,  he  served 
churches  in  Virginia,  West  Virginia  and  Maryland. 

Rev.  Dr.  Mervie  H.  Welty  '26,  November 
12,  1994.  He  was  a  retired  United  Methodist 
pastor  and  had  formerly  served  on  various  United 
Methodist  boards.  From  1946  until  1966,  he  was 
an  LVC  trustee.  He  also  served  on  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  United  Theological  Seminary  in 
Dayton,  Ohio. 

1930s 

News 

Edna  M.  Early  '31  is  living  in  Grace  Retire- 
ment Community  in  Myerstown,  Pa. 

Mary  J.  Eppley  '32  served  in  the  "ministry 
of  God's  service"  in  15  states  and  in  Canada. 

Esther  Smelser  Duke  '35  still  volunteers 
her  service  to  the  needy,  mostly  young  mothers 
getting  off  drugs.  She  also  teaches  a  small  class 
in  the  Japanese  language. 

Bruce  M.  Metzger  '35  was  awarded  the  1 994 
Burkitt  Medal  in  Biblical  Studies  by  the  British 
Academy  for  his  "contributions  to  New  Testa- 
ment and  related  studies  of  unusual  extent  and 
value."  In  70  years,  he  is  only  the  third  American 
scholar  to  receive  this  medal. 

Leia  Eshelman  Fretz  '36  of  Hagerstown, 
Md.,  and  her  husband,  Clarence,  have  been  liv- 
ing at  a  Mennonite  Fellowship  House  for  the  past 
two  years. 

Paul  T.  Ulrich  '38  of  Houston,  Texas, 
received  a  Governor's  appointment  as  a  delegate 
to  the  National  White  House  Conference  on 
Aging,  held  in  Washington,  D.C.,  in  May  1995. 

Deaths 

Dorothy  Hiester  Behney  '30,  December  1 5, 
1994.  A  retired  school  teacher,  she  was  the  widow 
of  Dr.  J.  Bruce  Behney  '28. 

Rev.  Robert  W.  Etter  '35,  March  28,  1994. 
He  was  a  minister  and  research  chemist.  He  served 
as  a  research  chemist  with  General  Motors  in 
Dayton,  Ohio,  from  1942  to  1944  and  with  RCA 


Have  Patience! 

Looking  for  your  news  in  Class 
Notes?  Our  deadline  for  eacli 
issue  of  The  Valley  falls  several 
months  before  the  issue 
actually  arrives  in  your  mailbox. 
The  lead  time  may  result  in  a 
delay  in  your  news  appearing, 
but  be  patient— it  will  almost 
certainly  make  the  next  Issue. 


in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  from  1953  to  1975.  He  retired 
as  a  minister  from  Coleman  Memorial  Chapel, 
United  Presbyterian  Church,  in  Brickerville,  Pa., 
where  he  had  served  as  pastor  since  1956. 

Dr.  John  K.  Kitzmiller  '39,  June  30,  1994. 
He  was  a  physician  in  general  practice  in  Harris- 
burg.  Both  of  his  daughters  are  LVC  graduates: 
Janet  K.  Stahe  '75  and  Joan  Kitzmiller  '77. 

Hilbert  V.  Lochner  '39,  May  16,  1994.  He 
served  as  assistant  professor  in  economics  at 
LVC  from  1947  to  1952.  From  1952  to  1962,  he 
was  personnel  director  for  the  Army  Air  Force 
Exchange  Services  in  Indiantown  Gap,  Pa.  He 
was  assistant  professor  in  economics  at 
Elizabethtown  College,  Elizabethtown,  Pa.,  from 
1962  to  1968.  While  at  LVC,  he  reactivated  the 
Pennsylvania  Pi  Gamma  Mu  Chapter.  Pi  Gamma 
Mu  is  a  scholastic  organization  of  the  National 
Social  Science  Honor  Society. 

Frank  A.  Rozman  '39,  January  6,  1995.  He 
was  a  retired  social  studies  teacher  for  the 
Susquehanna  Township  (Pa.)  School  District, 
with  27  years  of  service.  He  is  survived  by  his 
wife,  Tillie  A.  Smisi  Rozman,  and  a  son.  Dr. 
Frank  E.  Rozman. 

1940s 

News 

Dorothy  Landis  Gray  '44  is  writing  her 
dissertation,  the  final  requirement  for  her  Ph.  D. 
at  the  Catholic  University  of  America  in  Wash- 
ington, DC. 

Jeanne  Waller  Hoerner  '45  gave  the  fifth 
annual  piano-organ  recital  with  organist  Marilyn 
Kiefer  for  the  Scottsdale  (N.Y.)  organ  club  in 
Scottsdale  Presbyterian  Church.  She  is  a  retired 
teacher,  pianist  and  organist  from  Pittsford,  N.Y. 

Dr.  J.  Ross  Albert  '47  is  teaching  music 
appreciation  part-time  at  the  University  of  South 
Carolina  at  Spartanburg. 

Rev.  Franklin  G.  Senger  III  '48  was  hon- 
ored by  his  bishop  and  congregation  on  his  35th 
anniversary  as  pastor  of  the  Lutheran  Church  of 
the  Holy  Comforter  in  Washington,  D.C.  Two 
city  councilmen  presented  him  with  a  resolution 
from  the  council,  citing  his  extensive  community 
work. 


Dr.  John  E.  Marshall  '49  retired  from  his 
medical  practice  and  lives  with  his  wife,  Elaine 
Heilman  Marshall  '48,  in  Pawleys  Island,  S.C. 

Deaths 

Martha  Ross  Swope  '48,  January  5,  1995. 
She  was  retired  from  the  Cornwall-Lebanon  (Pa.) 
School  District,  where  she  taught  special  educa- 
tion students.  She  and  her  husband,  John  F. 
Swope  '42,  served  on  LVC's  Toward  2001  Ixba- 
non  Campaign  Committee.  A  scholarship  has 
been  established  in  their  honor.  She  instructed 
adults  and  children  in  swimming  at  the  Lebanon 
YMCA,  where  for  many  years  she  was  the  social 
director.  She  was  an  active  member  at  St. 
Andrew's  Presbyterian  Church  in  Lebanon,  serv- 
ing as  a  teacher  and  as  an  ordained  deacon. 

1950s 

News 

Dr.  Loy  C.  Awkerman  '50  retired  on 
December  31,  1994,  after  42  years  of  practicing 
veterinary  medicine.  He  and  his  wife.  Rose  Marie 
Root  Awkerman  '49,  have  moved  to  Lebanon, 
Pa.  Loy,  a  Harrisburg  native,  in  1952  opened 
a  mixed  practice  in  Manheim — he  treated  farm 
animals  and  household  pets.  Dairy  farmers  were 
frequent  clients,  and  he  responded  to  many  emer- 
gencies during  the  birth  of  calves.  Because  farm- 
ers were  up  early  to  milk,  it  was  common  for  the 
vet  to  get  a  call  long  before  sunrise.  He  was 
basically  on  call  24  hours  a  day,  seven  days  a 
week.  The  pace  became  more  hectic,  more  stress- 
ful, and,  in  1976,  he  limited  his  practice  to  small 
animals. 

Dr.  David  Wallace  '50  retired  from  the 
National  Park  Service  in  June  1994  after  33  years 
as  a  museum  curator  specializing  in  historic  fur- 
nishing planning. 

Harold  G.  Engle,  Jr.  '51  retired  from  the 
Hershey  Foods  Corp.  Technical  Center  on  Octo- 
ber 1,  1994,  with  38  years  of  service. 

Sara  Etzweiler  Linkous  '51  opened  an 
antique  shop  in  her  father's  funeral  home  and 
furniture  store  in  Columbia,  Pa. 

Rev.  Robert  P.  Longenecker  '51  retired  on 
June  30,  1994,  after  40  years  as  an  Evangelical 
United  Brethren/United  Methodist  pastor. 

William  F.  Miller  '51  and  his  wife,  Eliza- 
beth Gaskill  Miller  '54,  divide  their  time  among 
Florida,  Maine  and  Pennsylvania.  They  have 
realized  their  goal:  "Palms  in  winter;  pines  in 
the  summer." 

Lee  R.  Thierwechter  '51  retired  from  the 
Aid  Association  for  Lutherans  on  August  31, 
1994.  He  and  his  wife  are  still  involved  in  their 
own  partnership,  which  they  named  Unique 
Associates.  Lee  writes,  "In  addition  to  volunteer 
work,  I  am  reaching  the  finish  line  of  writing  my 
early  autobiography  in  Pennsylvania  German. 


Spring/Summer  1995       29 


Thanks  to  an  overwhelming  response 
from  alumni,  parents  and  friends, 
Pennsylvania  will  issue  an  official 
Lebanon  Valley  College  license 
plate.  The  Alumni  Programs  Office 
is  now  working  with  the  Transporta- 
tion Department  on 
^the  plate  design. 
If  you  signed  up 
,  for  a  license  plate, 
,you  will  receive 
additional  infor- 
"niation  in  the  next  few 
'months.  If  you  wish  to  sign  up, 
call  toll-free  at  1-800-ALUM-LVC. 


That  work  centers  around  Zour  Lutheran  Church 
and  the  22-acre  farm  where  we  lived,  and  the 
former  residence  of  Dr.  Ezra  Grumbine,  where 
we  lived  in  my  late  high  school  and  college  years 
(all  in  Mount  Zion,  Lebanon  County.  Pa.)."  He  is 
a  contributor  in  Pennsylvania  German  to  Scare- 
crow, a  monthly  magazine  published  by  Dillman 
Publications  and  Productions  in  Lewistown. 

Joe  T.  Oxley  '52  is  owner/director  of  the 
Monmouth  Day  Camp  in  Middleton,  N.J. 

Joan  Spangler  Sachs  '53  is  the  organist  at 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Falling  Springs  in 
Chambersburg,  Pa.,  He  is  also  a  private  piano 
teacher  at  Cumberland  Valley  School  of  Music 
and  a  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
Cumberland  Valley  Animal  Shelter. 

Robert  J.  Tarantolo  '53  retired  on  May  1. 
1994.  as  school  business  administrator  after  33 
years  with  the  West  Long  Branch  (N.J.)  Board  of 
Education. 

Edward  H.  Walton  '53  was  named  to  a 
committee  to  select  members  of  a  new  hall  of 
fame  for  Boston  Red  Sox  players.  The  hall  of 
fame  is  in  conjunction  with  the  New  England 
Sports  Museum.  Also  serving  on  the  committee 
are  museum  and  Red  Sox  officials  and  veteran 
sports  writers  and  broadcasters.  He  has  published 
two  books  on  the  Red  Sox  and  has  contributed 
numerous  articles  on  baseball  to  a  variety  of 
publications. 

Rev.  Canon  Stanley  F.  Imboden  '55  cel- 
ebrated 42  years  in  the  pastoral  ministry  as  he 
retired  July  1994  after  17  years  as  rector  of  the 
250-year-old  St.  James  Episcopal  Church  in 
Lancaster.  Pa.  In  1988,  he  received  an  honorary 
doctor  of  divinity  degree  from  LVC.  He  and  his 
wife.  Diane,  live  in  their  new  home  near  Mt. 
Gretna. 

Joyce  Hill  Madden  '55  is  a  member  of  the 
Pasadena  (Calif.)  Community  United  Methodist 
Church  Choir,  whose  concert  was  shown  on 
Christmas  Eve  1994.  on  CBS. 

Shirley  Warfel  Knade  '56  has  completed  19 
years  in  hospital  management  in  ambulatory  care 
services  in  the  family  planning  department  of 
Williamsport  (Pa.)  Hospital.  She  taught  music 
privately  and  in  the  public  schools  for  nine  years 
before  she  started  her  work  at  the  hospital. 


June  Lykens  Lantz  '57  retired  after  3 1  years 
of  teaching  music  and  English  in  Warwick  School 
District  in  Lititz.  Pa.  She  began  a  new  position  in 
October  1994  a.s  the  minister  of  music  at  Otterbein 
United  Methodist  Church  in  Lancaster.  June's 
husband.  Wilbur  Franklin  Lantz  '57,  completed 
an  interim  pastorate  at  Jerusalem  United  Church 
of  Christ  in  Penryn  in  January  1994.  He  was 
beginning  another  interim  pastorate  at  St.  Luke's 
UCC  in  Lititz  when  he  suffered  two  heart 
attacks.  Open  heart  surgery  followed.  The  Lantzes 
live  in  Blossom  Hill  in  Lancaster. 

Robert  J.  Nelson  '57  is  a  senior  vice  presi- 
dent and  board  member  of  Ranger  Insurance  Co. 
in  Houston. 

Deaths 

R.  Barry  Boehler  '57,  October  2 1 .  1 994.  He 
was  a  real  estate  broker  in  Lebanon.  Pa.  While  at 
LVC.  Barry  was  a  basketball  player.  He  is  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  Mildred  E.  Smith  Boehler,  and 
a  daughter,  Cynthia  L.  Boehler  '76. 

Dr.  JoAnne  Pieringer  '57.  July  22,  1994. 
Since  1976,  she  had  been  a  professor  of  bio- 
chemistry at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Osteo- 
pathic Medicine,  where  she  also  was  vice 
chairperson  of  her  department.  She  was  voted 
Teacher  of  the  Year  in  1992  and  1993,  received 
the  SNMA  Mentor  Award  in  1993  and  was  hon- 
ored with  the  Lindback  Award  for  excellence  in 
teaching  in  1982.  Surviving  are  her  husband.  Dr. 
Ronald  A.  Pieringer;  a  daughter,  Laura  L. 
Pieringer;  and  a  son,  David  A.  Pieringer. 

Charles  L.  Brent  '59.  June  26,  1994.  He  was 
controller  for  Telephone  Progress,  Inc.  in  York,  Pa. 

1960s 

News 

Joseph  B.  Dietz  '60  was  ordained  on  October 
8,  1994,  to  the  Sacred  Order  of  Deacons  in  the 
Episcopal  Church  by  Bishop  Allen  L.  Bartett  Jr., 
at  the  Christ  Church  in  Pottslown.  Pa..  Joseph 
serves  as  a  deacon  at  St.  Peter's  Church  in 
Phoenixville. 

Ronald  L.  Dietz  '60  is  the  director  of  the  York 
Chamber  Singers  in  York.  Pa.  The  group  recently 
sponsored  a  workshop  and  concert  by  The  Western 
Wind,  an  acclaimed  professional  vocal  ensemble. 
The  Chamber  Singers  appeared  with  the  "Wind"  in 
two  numbers  especially  arranged  for  the  occasion. 
The  Chamber  Singers  also  appeared  for  the  sixth 
Christmas  season  at  Longwood  Gardens. 

Brenda  Funk  Hughes  '60  married  Robert 
R.  Berry  in  April  1994.  She  graduated  from 
Oglethorpe  University  in  May  1994  with  a 
master's  degree  in  education.  She  was  selected 
for  Who's  Who  Among  America's  Teachers  in 
1994. 

Marilyn  RinkerTennerjohn  '62  was  included 
in  Who's  Who  Amont;  America's  Teachers  in 
1994.  She  had  an  article  published  in 
"RoundTable"  of  the  English  Journal.  March 
1994. 

Shirley  Brown  Michel  '63  of  North  Wales. 
Pa.  and  her  hu.sband.  Joseph  W.  Michel,  were 
saddened  by  the  death  of  their  only  child.  An- 
drew, on  December  17.  1993.  two  days  after  his 
18th  birthday. 

Sallie  Gerhart-Light  '64  teaches  computer 
to  children  in  grades  1  -6  and  to  adult  classes.  She 
also  presents  workshops  in  "HyperCard  Presen- 
talions/Multi-Media." 


Patricia  McDyer  Pece  '64  was  sworn  in  as 
an  AineriCorps-VISTA  member  in  December 
1994.  She  is  working  in  Chambersburg  (Pa.)  with 
the  Single  Point  of  Contact  Program,  which  helps 
single  mothers  leave  welfare. 

Dale  Hains  '65  umpires  at  more  than  200 
baseball  games  a  year  in  Florida  high  schools 
and  colleges.  He  also  helps  with  the  USA  Olym- 
pic trials. 

A.  Barry  Yocom  '65  is  enjoying  a  one-year 
sabbatical  from  Tredyffrin-Easttown  School  Dis- 
trict in  Phoenixville.  Pa.  He  will  retire  this  year 
after  30  years  in  the  school  district.  He  began  his 
career  with  the  district  as  a  social  studies  teacher 
at  the  Valley  Forge  Junior  High  School  the  year 
it  opened.  Three  years  later,  he  became  the  assis- 
tant principal  and  subsequently  accepted  the 
principalship,  a  position  he  held  for  nine  years. 
In  1980,  Barry  joined  the  central  administrative 
team,  serving  as  supervisor  of  secondary  educa- 
tion and  later  as  director  of  curriculum  and 
instruction.  In  1990,  he  became  acting  superin- 
tendent for  12  months.  He  was  honored  as  the 
"Citizen  of  the  Year"  by  the  Paoli  Business  and 
Professional  Association.  Barry  and  his  wife, 
Carol  Lisa  Clay  Yocom  '67,  have  four  daugh- 
ters; their  youngest,  Jennifer,  is  a  member  of  the 
class  of  1998  at  LVC. 

Robert  E.  Horn  '66  is  a  tax  accountant  with 
Dorwart,  Andrew  &  Co.,  a  CPA  firm  in  Lancaster, 
Pa. 

Bonita  J.  Young  Connolly  '67  is  the  sup- 
port service  coordinator  for  the  Association  for 
Retarded  Citizens  in  Frederick,  Md. 

Walter  D.  Otto  '67  accepted  a  position  with 
PP&L  to  head  a  project  that  started  in  February 
1995  in  Italy.  He  and  his  wife,  Pat,  are  living  in 
Milano. 

Ellen  Jackson  Patterson  '67  is  curator  at 
the  1767  Murray  Farmhouse  at  the  Poricy  Park 
in  Middletown,  N.J. 

Janice  Koehler  Richardson  '68  is  a  school 
librarian  with  the  Leander  Independent  School 
District  in  Texas. 

James  Van  Camp  '68  is  product  manager  at 
Nalco  Chemical  Co.,  Naperville,  11.  He  also  serves 
as  choir  director  at  the  Hanmee  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Glen  Ellyn,  where  his  wife,  Grayson, 
is  an  associate  pastor. 

Nancy  Robinson  Learning  '69  is  executive 
vice  president  and  COO  of  Tufts  Health  Plans  in 
Waltham,  Mass. 

Lars  J.  Lovegren  '69  is  an  income  mainte- 
nance caseworker  for  Pennsylvania's  Department 
of  Public  Welfare  York  County  Assistance  Of- 
fice in  York.  He  and  his  wife,  Marcella  L. 
Hilgefort  Lovegren,  have  two  children:  Sarah 
Elizabeth,  born  on  August  26,  1992,  and  Jacob 
Michael,  born  on  June  4,  1994. 

Carl  L.  Marshall  '69  was  honored  by  the 
Pennsylvania  Rehabilitation  Association  with  the 
Charles  Eby  Award  for  innovative  planning 
and  administration  of  programs  leading  to  the 
employment  of  people  with  disabilities.  He  is 
responsible  for  the  statewide  activities  of  the 
Americans  with  Disabilities  Act  for  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Office  of  Vocational  Rehabilitation. 

Patricia  A.  Pingel  '69  is  an  environmental 
planner  for  the  Pennsylvania  Department  of 
Environment  Resources,  developing  the  Coastal 
Nonpoint  Pollution  Program  to  improve  the  qual- 
ity of  Lake  Erie  and  the  Delaware  River  estuary. 


30       The  Valley 


Deaths 

Susanne  Marie  Leonard  Huey  '64,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1994.  She  was  the  wife  of  James  D.  Huey 
'64.  She  was  a  music  teacher  in  the  Diocese  of 
Harrisburg  and  a  partner  in  Family  Businesses 
Concessionaries,  Ltd.  She  had  done  graduate 
work  at  Yale  University  and  Temple  University. 

1970s 

News 

Karen  Kirby  Adair  '70  is  a  doctor  of 
chiropractic  medicine  at  the  A.  Adair  &  Lord 
Chiropractic  Clinic  in  Allen,  Texas. 

Barry  W.  Burdick  '70  married  Shari 
Halperin  in  October  1994  and  moved  to 
Newtown,  Pa.  Barry  is  vice  president  of  diversi- 
fied operations  for  New  Jersey  State  Medical 
Underwriters,  Inc.  in  Lawrenceville. 

James  M.  Rife  '70  works  in  the  sales/mar- 
keting department  of  Olympic  Packaging  Corp. 
in  Winston-Salem,  N.C. 

John  (Buzz)  Jones  '72  received  a  doctor  of 
musical  arts  degree  from  Temple  University  and 
was  awarded  tenure  at  Gettysburg  College,  where 
he  teaches  music.  He  directs  The  Buzz  Jones  Big 
Band,  which  will  perform  at  the  Montreux  Jazz 
Festival  in  Switzerland,  July  7- 1 0,  1 995  Priscilla 
C.  Baylan  '79,  David  L.  Godshall  '81  and  Wil- 
liam G.  Perbetsliy  '81  perform  with  the  band. 
Nancy  McCullough  Longnecker  '72  is  princi- 
pal of  Dublin  Elementary  School  in  Harford 
County,  Md. 

Tlieresa  Ann  Crook  Ziegler  '72  is  regula- 
tory compliance  advisor  for  SmithKline  Beecham 
Pharmaceuticals  in  King  of  Prussia,  Pa. 

Donald  B.  Frantz  '73  is  producer  for  the 
National  (U.S.)  and  Canadian  touring  companies 
of  Disney's  "Beauty  and  the  Beast."  He  was 
profiled  in  the  Fall  1993  Valley. 

Bonnie  Pliillips  Guggenheim  '73  has  been 
selected  by  Metropolitan  State  College  (MSC)  to 
serve  on  its  committee  to  develop  a  Middle  School 
Teacher  Certification  Program  for  the  State  of 
Colorado.  For  the  Denver  Public  Schools,  she 
co-chairs  the  Professional  Development  School 
Committee  at  Skinner  Middle  School,  a  lab  school 
for  MSC.  She  retired  from  the  Army  Reserve 
after  21  years. 

Anthony  T.  Leach  '73  was  the  guest  artist 
with  LVC's  Alumni  Chorale  for  the  second  half 
of  its  1994-95  season,  which  featured  music  of 
African-American  composers.  Tony  is  a  faculty 
member  at  the  Pennsylvania  State  University, 
where  he  is  a  candidate  for  the  Ph.D.  in  music 
education.  He  has  conducted  the  Penn  State 
University  Glee  Club,  Concert  Choir  and  the 
University  Choir.  In  addition,  he  is  the  founding 
director  of  Essence  of  Joy,  a  small  ensemble 
specializing  in  traditional  and  contemporary  gos- 
pel music. 

Photographs  taken  by  Robert  B.  Lee  '73  of 
Duane  Eddy  at  Hershey  Park  in  1959-60  were 
included  in  a  biography  of  the  rock  star  pub- 
lished in  Europe  in  December  1994. 

Scott  T.  Sener  '73  is  varsity  Softball  coach 
at  Manheim  (Pa.)  Central  High  School. 

Dr.  Marsha  Edwards  Zehner  '73  is  super- 
intendent of  the  Annville-Cleona  School  District 
in  Annville.  She  is  a  21 -year  veteran  of  the 
district. 

John  M.  Pumphrey  '74  is  chairman  of  the 
Maryland  State  Special  Education  Advisory 
Committee. 


John  F.  Halbleib  '75  is  a  partner  in  the 
Chicago  office  of  Vedder,  Price,  Kaufman  and 
Kammholtz,  a  law  firm  with  over  160  attorneys 
in  Chicago,  New  York  City,  Washington,  D.C., 
and  Rockford.  II.  John  represents  commercial 
banks  and  institutional  and  corporate  clients  in 
unsecured  and  asset  based  financings,  with  par- 
ticular emphasis  on  structured  finance  and  asset 
securitization. 

James  Kowalchuk  '76  ia  a  teacher  with  the 
Glynmn  County  Board  of  Education  in 
Brunswick,  Ga. 

Nancy  Lois  Miller  '76  married  the  Rev.  Dr. 
David  G.  Heberling,  pastor  of  First  United  Meth- 
odist Church  in  Media,  Pa.,  on  November  19, 
1994.  Nancy  is  pastor  at  Radnor  United  Method- 
ist Church  in  Rosemont. 

Sylvia  Frey  Moyer  '76  is  a  sales  counselor 
with  Gibraltar  Corp. -Rolling  Green  Cemetery  in 
Camp  Hill,  Pa.  She  was  profiled  in  the  winter 
1992  issue. 

Joanne  L.  Toby  '76  is  in  her  seventh  year  as 
associate  dean  of  student  development  at  Averett 
College  in  Danville,  Va. 

John  J.  Cooper  '77  is  a  caseworker  for  the 
Department  of  Public  Welfare  in  Reading,  Pa. 

Ronald  R.  Afflebach  '78  is  the  employee 
relations  manager  for  Hershey  Chocolate  North, 
a  new  manufacturing  facility  in  Hershey,  Pa.  He 
received  an  M.B.A.  in  management  from  St. 
Joseph's  University  in  1988.  He  plans  to  start 
working  on  a  Ph.D.  in  business  administration  at 
Temple  University  this  fall. 

Brian  S.  Allebach  '78  and  his  wife,  Jennifer, 
welcomed  twin  daughters,  Katherine  Lee  and 
Elizabeth  Janet,  on  November  9,  1994. 

Dr.  Walter  Kobasa,  Jr.  '78  is  an  obstetri- 
cian/gynecologist in  Wilmington,  Del. 

Michael  F.  Faherty  '79  is  an  attorney  with 
the  law  firm  of  Marshall,  Dennehy,  Warner, 
Coleman  and  Goggin  in  Harrisburg. 

Jan  Eric  Smith  '79  is  a  senior  chemist  with 
the  Jamestown  Paint  Co.  in  Western  Pennsylva- 
nia. In  a  previous  research  position  with  a  paper 
company,  Jan  was  awarded  a  patent  for  work  on 
paper  coating  and  application.  Jan's  wife,  Tina 
Ogden  Smith  '79,  a  pre-school  teacher,  received 
her  M.Ed,  from  Ohio  University  in  1980.  Jan  and 
Tina  have  two  sons,  Eric,  9,  and  Forrest,  4. 

1980s 

News 

Dr.  JoAnn  Jeffers  Clem  '80  is  an  optom- 
etrist at  Cherry  Grove  Eye  Center  in  North  Myrtle 
Beach,  S.C.  Her  hus;band,  David,  is  an  optician 
at  the  center. 

Denise  A.  Foor  Foy  '80  is  a  school  nurse 
with  the  Chestnut  Ridge  School  District  in  New 
Paris,  Pa. 

Kevin  Thomas  Leddy  '80  is  an  adult  learner 
counselor  at  the  Pennsylvania  State  University 
Altoona  Campus. 


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Lori  A.  Morgan  '80  and  Paul  R.  Celluzzi 
were  married  on  October  22,  1994.  Lori  is  a 
paralegal  with  the  law  firm  of  Sherman  & 
Shalloway  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  and  is  pursuing  a 
graduate  degree  in  legal  administration.  Lori  and 
Paul  have  four  children:  Olivia,  16;  Sarah,  ID; 
Christopher,  8;  and  Rachel,  4. 

Lisa  Togno  Burrowes  '81  and  her  husband, 
Paul,  announce  the  birth  of  their  first  child,  Paul 
Burrowes,  on  October  4,  1994.  Lisa  was  vice 
president/studio  operations  at  Group  IV  Studios 
in  Hollywood,  Calif. 

Andrea  Davino  '81  and  Robert  Danch  were 
married  in  April  1994.  She  is  a  principal  actuary 
of  A.  Foster  Higgins  and  Co.  in  Princeton,  N.J. 

Caria  Powell  Desilets  '81  writes,  "Home  is 
where  the  Army  sends  you."  She  is  serving  in 
beautiful  northern  Italy.  A  second  son,  Henry 
David,  was  born  on  November  4,  1993. 

Leo  C.  Hearn,  Jr.  '81  is  corporate  director. 
Health  and  Safety,  for  EMCON  in  Jacksonville, 
Fla.  He  is  responsible  for  the  management  of 
health  and  safety  programs  for  1,200  employees 
in  40  offices  nationwide  for  this  environmental 
consulting  company,  which  specializes  in  air  qual- 
ity, solid  waste  and  hazardous  waste.  He  recently 
signed  an  agreement  to  publish  his  second  book, 
A  Guide  to  the  Management  of  Lead-Based  Paint 
in  the  Industrial  Workplace.  He  serves  on  the 
editoral  board  for  the  Pb  Bulletin,  a  national 
publication  of  the  Steel  Structures  Painting  Coun- 
cil. He  chaired  a  session  on  lead  paint  abatement 
for  the  council's  international  conference  and 
exhibition  and  also  .serves  as  national  vice  chair- 
man of  the  American  Industrial  Hygiene  Asso- 
ciation Laboratory  Accreditation  Program.  He 
and  his  wife  have  two  children:  Sarah  Marie  and 
Leo  C.  Hearn  III. 

Ray  O.  Herndon  '81  is  editor  of  association/ 
business  publishing  at  Kendall/Hunt  Publishing 
Co.  in  Falls  Church,  Va. 

Sharon  P.  Love  Luyben  '81  chairs  the  music 
department  at  the  Wyomissing  (Pa.)  Area  School 
District,  where  she  also  serves  as  choral  director. 
Her  concert  choir  performed  in  the  Magic  King- 
dom of  Walt  Disney  World,  Fla.,  on  Palm  Sun- 
day 1995.  Sharon  resides  in  Wyomissing  Hills 
with  her  husband.  Bill,  and  sons  Nathaniel  and 
Trevor. 

Janine  Maletsky  '81  and  her  husband,  John 
Hayes,  welcomed  their  first  child,  Jonathan 
Maletsky  Hayes,  on  January  13,  1994. 

Craig  C.  dinger  '81  and  his  wife,  Chris- 
tine Lowther  dinger  '81  welcomed  the  birth  of 
their  second  child,  Mark  Nelson  Olinger,  on  May 
31,  1994. 

Debra  Poley  Schmidt  '81  and  her  husband, 
the  Rev.  Gary  Schmidt,  welcomed  a  daughter, 
Jessica  Christine,  on  October  10,  1994.  They 
have  three  other  children:  Jennifer,  Julie  and 
Jonathan. 

John  P.  Shott  '81  is  president  of  the  Leba- 
non School  Board,  on  which  he  has  served  since 
1989.  He  is  employed  by  the  Pennsylvania 
Senate. 

Scott  K.  Berger  '82  is  senior  programmer 
analyst  for  INTEL  Corp.  in  Chandler,  Ariz.  He  is 
completing  his  M.B.A.  at  Keller  Graduate  School 
of  Management.  Sally  Anne  Foose  Berger  '83 
is  a  3rd  grade  teacher  at  Jefferson  Elementary 
School  in  Mesa,  Ariz. 

Glenn  Steinmuller  '82  is  a  police  officer  for 
the  Nassau  County  Police  Department  in  Mineola, 
N.Y. 


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Rev.  Timothy  J.  Wolf  '82  is  northeast 
regional  director  for  the  Association  for  Chris- 
tians in  Student  Development. 

Colleen  Cassidy  Schleicher  '83  reports  that 
she  has  three  sons:  John  Cassidy,  Benjamin  James 
and  Timothy  William,  and  a  daughter,  Amanda 
Jane,  bom  December  31,  1994. 

Ralph  Ackerman  '84  and  his  wife,  Sharon, 
welcomed  their  second  child,  Garrett  John,  on 
January  3,  1995.  They  have  a  daughter,  Jordan. 

Holly  Hanawalt  Gainor  '84  and  her  hus- 
band, Ray,  welcomed  a  daughter,  Emma  Jean,  on 
June  6,  1994. 

Herbert  Hutchinson  '84  is  a  search  consult- 
ant for  Gordon  Wahls  Co.  in  Media,  Pa. 

Kay  Bennighof  Kufera  '84  and  her  hus- 
band, Joseph,  welcomed  a  second  son,  Joshua,  in 
July  1994.  He  joins  Gregory,  2  1/2. 

Wayne  Martin  '84  is  materials  manager  for 
Sandvik  Steel,  Inc.  in  Scranton,  Pa.  He  and  his 
wife,  Elizabeth  Justin  Martin  '87,  have  one 
daughter,  Kimberly  Elizabeth,  born  May  16, 
1994. 

Sheila  McElwee  '84  married  Marc  Witmer 
on  October  29,  1994.  The  couple,  who  are  both 
research  technicians,  reside  in  King  of  Prussia, 
Pa. 

Michele  Gawel  Verratti  '84  and  Nicholas 
Verratti  '85  welcomed  a  son,  Justin  Nicholas, 
on  May  13,  1994. 

Leslie  Gilmore  Webster  '84  and  her  hus- 
band, Stuart,  have  a  daughter,  Lauren  Grace, 
bom  July  1,  1994. 

Joanne  Stimpson  Nickerson  '85  and  her 
husband,  Stephen  J.  Nickerson  '83,  have  a 
daughter,  Lauren  Kaye,  born  on  October  1 ,  1994. 

Elizabeth  Gross  Swartz  '85  is  gallery  direc- 
tor at  Montana  Trails  Gallery  in  Bozeman,  Mont. 
She  married  Ben  Swartz  in  October  1990. 

Kent  D.  Henry  '86  works  for  Hewlett- 
Packard,  Bay  Analytical  Operation  in  Palo  Alto, 
Calif. 

Geoffrey  Howson  '86  is  a  critical  care  nurse 
at  Milford  (Del.)  Memorial  Hospital.  He  gradu- 
ated cum  laude  from  the  University  of  Delaware 
in  June  1994  with  a  B.S.in  nursing. 

Barbara  J.  deMoreland  Kirner  '86  is  a 
self-employed  skin  care  and  image  consultant  in 
Fort  Worth,  Texas. 

Rebecca  Wise  Marks  '86  is  a  buyer  for  Belk 
Co.'s  weekend  and  swim  division.  In  January, 
she  retumed  to  New  York  City  from  her  second 
trip  to  the  Orient,  where  she  spent  a  week  in 
India  and  a  week  in  Sri  Lanka,  Singapore  and 
Taiwan,  developing  a  sportswear  line  for  1995. 

Theresa  Rachuba  '86  married  Jay 
Leatherbury  on  September  20,  1994. 

Scott  A.  Wien  '86  is  employed  by  IBM  and 
trained  as  a  CNE  to  service  a  networking  envi- 
ronment in  New  Jersey. 

Denise  Heckler  Carey  '87  is  a  substitute 
teacher  and  head  field  hockey  coach  in  the  North 
Penn  School  District  in  Lansdale,  Pa.  Her  hus- 
band, Dave,  is  associate  pastor  at  Lansdale  First 
United  Methodist  Church. 

John  Hintenach  '87  is  a  business  develop- 
ment manager  for  Martin  Marietta  Specialty  Com- 
ponents in  Largo,  Fla.  He  was  married  to 
Kimberly  L.  McCardle  in  May  1994. 

Dorothy  Singer  Hoglund  '87  is  caseworker/ 
coordinator  for  the  Lebanon  County  satellite 
office  of  the  Pennsylvania  Association  for  the 
Blind.  She  is  responsible  for  managing  the  office; 
providing  case  management  for  core  services; 


and  transporting,  escorting  and  teaching  skills  to 
clients  who  are  blind  or  visually  impaired. 

Ursula  Hoey  Howson  '87  is  a  graduate  stu- 
dent/research assistant  working  toward  a  Ph.  D. 
in  marine  biology-biochemistry  at  the  College  of 
Marine  Studies  at  the  University  of  Delaware  in 
Lewes.  She  and  her  husband,  Geoffrey  Howson 
'86,  have  a  daughter,  Amanda,  born  on  January 
22,  1991. 

Eve  R.  Lindemuth  '87  is  a  recruiter  for 
International  Language  Engineering  Corp.,  an  inter- 
national translation  firm  located  in  Boulder,  Colo. 

Ingrid  Peterson  '87  is  teaching  educable 
mentally  handicapped  children  at  Gibsonton 
Elementary  School  near  Tampa,  Fla. 

Eric  J.  Shafer  '87  graduated  from  Candler 
School  of  Theology  at  Emory  University  in 
Atlanta  in  June  1 994.  He  is  a  pastor  of  three  rural 
churches  in  the  Central  Pennsylvania  Confer- 
ence of  the  United  Methodist  Church. 

Bonnie  J.  Shermer  '87  married  Lt.  Lonnie 
L.  Crawford  on  May  14,  1994,  at  the  U.S.  Naval 
Academy  in  Annapolis,  Md.  Kristi  Cheney  '87 
was  the  soloist  for  the  wedding  ceremony.  In 
January  1995,  the  couple  moved  to  Okinawa, 
where  Lonnie  will  serve  a  three-year  tour  of  duty 
with  the  Marine  Corps. 

Margaret  Springer  Timmons  '87  and  her 
husband,  Dan,  welcomed  their  first  child,  Caleb 
Andrew,  on  October  12,  1994. 

Karen  K.  Albert  '88  is  a  5th  grade  teacher 
in  the  Central  Dauphin  School  District  in  Harris- 
burg.  She  received  a  master's  degree  in  teaching 
and  curriculum  from  the  Pennsylvania  State  Uni- 
versity in  May  1994. 

Samuel  Howard  Brandt  '88  teaches  sci- 
ence and  health  in  the  Lebanon  l.U.  13  Alterna- 
tive Education  Program  in  Lebanon,  Pa.  He  and 
his  wife  welcomed  their  first  child,  Kenneth 
Samuel,  on  September  27,  1994. 

Desmond  J.  Coffey  HI  '88  is  a  dairy  micro- 
biologist for  Lehigh  Valley  Dairies  in  Fort  Wash- 
ington, Pa.  He  married  Kathy  M.  Hess  on  August 
13,  1994. 

Marjorie  A.  Schubauer-Hartman  '88  and 
her  husband,  Michael,  welcomed  a  daughter, 
Alexandra  Electra,  on  March  23,  1994. 

Lydia  Helene  Neff  '88  moved  back  to  her 
hometown,  Ridgewood,  N.J.,  and  is  an  elemen- 
tary BSI/suppIemental  instructor  in  the 
Ridgewood  Public  Schools. 

Desanie  D.  Vlaisavljevic  '88  married  Rob- 
ert D.  Miller  '91  on  May  7,  1 994.  Desanie  works 
for  the  Childline  (Child  Abuse  Hotline).  Robert 
is  a  carpenter  with  Shaeffer  &  Sons  Contractors 
in  Hershey,  Pa. 

Kristin  K.  Weible  '88  and  Ralph  D.  Heister 
HI  '90  were  married  in  LVC's  Miller  Chapel  on 
November  5,  1994.  Kristin  is  employed  by 
Lutheran  Social  Services-Child  Care  Programs 
in  Lebanon,  Pa.  Ralph  is  vice  president,  director 
of  environmental  services,  for  All  County  and 
Associates,  Inc.  in  Oley,  Pa. 

Kristine  Kropp  Betz  '89  is  teacher/director 
of  Winnie-the-Pooh  Pre-school  in  Summit  Hill, 
Pa. 

Sonja  R.  Compton  '89  is  working  in 
Morristown,  N.J.,  as  an  administrative  assistant 
in  quality  assurance. 

Maria  C.  Fazzolari  '89  is  an  industrial  engi- 
neer for  B.  Braun  Medical  Inc.  in  Allentown,  Pa. 
She  is  pursuing  an  M.B.A.  at  Lehigh  University. 


R.  Jason  Herr  '89  received  a  Ph.D.  in  organic 
chemisU-y  from  the  Pennsylvania  State  University 
in  August  1994.  He  is  a  post-doctoral  research 
fellow  at  the  University  of  Delaware  in  Newark. 

Andrew  Hower  '89  is  a  systems  analyst  with 
Ford  in  New  Holland,  Pa.,  and  head  junior  high 
football  coach  at  Conestoga  Valley  School  Dis- 
trict in  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

Christine  Richmond  Hower  '89  is  a  claim 
representative  with  the  Donegal  Mutual  Insur- 
ance Co.  and  earned  a  Paralegal  Certificate  from 
the  Pennsylvania  State  University.  She  and  her 
husband,  Andrew,  welcomed  their  first  child, 
Brett  Andrew,  on  June  24,  1994. 

David  P.  Myers  '89  has  earned  a  Ph.D.  in 
analytical  chemistry  from  Indiana  University  in 
Bloomington.  His  Ph.D.  dissertation  included 
construction  and  evaluation  of  a  plasma  time-of- 
flight  mass  spectrometer.  He  is  employed  with 
LECO  Corp.  in  St.  Joseph,  Mich. 

Beth  A.  Trout  '89  married  Brian  Coder  on 
December  31,  1994.  She  received  an  M.Ed, 
degree  in  guidance  and  counseling  from 
Millersville  University  in  May  1994. 

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Annette  Boyles  '90  married  David  B.  Stork 
on  November  4,  1994.  She  received  a  master's 
degree  from  St.  Francis  College  in  July  1993. 

D.  Scott  Carey  '90  is  a  licensed  psychiatric 
social  worker  at  Beth  Israel  Medical  Center  in 
Newark,  N.J.  He  received  a  master's  degree  in 
social  work  from  New  York  University  in  May 
1994  and  is  now  pursuing  a  post-graduate  degree 
in  health  care  policy  and  management  at  NYU. 

Camille  Declementi  '90  graduated  fifth  in  a 
class  of  94  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania 
School  of  Veterinary  Medicine  with  a  V.M.D. 
She  has  a  practice  in  Monaca,  Pa. 

Sharon  K.  Faust  '90  is  senior  research  lab 
technician  for  Connaught  Laboratories,  Inc.  in 
Swiftwater,  Pa. 

Matthew  S.  Guenther  '90  is  chairperson  of 
the  Exeter  (Pa.)  Junior  High  English  Depart- 
ment. He  teaches  German  and  creative  writing  in 
the  Challenge  Program.  He  is  advisor  to  both  the 
school  newspaper  and  the  yearbook,  which  took 
second  place  in  National  Scholastic  Press  Asso- 
ciation and  Pennsylvania  Scholastic  Press 
Association.  He  is  working  on  a  master's 
degree  at  Millersville  University. 

Harry  (Buddy)  S.  Oliver  HI  '90  is  a  sys- 
tems analyst  for  Fiberplex  in  Columbia,  Md.  His 
wife,  Kathy  Supplee  Oliver  '90,  is  a  social 
worker  for  the  Harford  County  Department  of 
Social  Services  in  Bel  Air,  Md.  The  couple  reside 
in  Glenelg. 

Elizabeth  Rosser  '90  married  Brian  Smith 
'90  on  May  28,  1994.  They  reside  in  Bensalem, 
Pa. 

Pamela  B.  Schaadt  '90  received  a  master's 
degree  in  organ  performance  from  the  Catholic 
University  of  America  in  1994.  On  September  3, 
1994,  Pamela  married  Christopher  Mathews  in 
Market  Square  Presbyterian  Church  in  Harris- 
burg;  they  reside  in  Frederick,  Md.  She  is  music 
director/organist  of  Middletown  United  Method- 
ist Church,  and  is  also  teaching  private  music 
lessons  and  Kindermusik  classes. 

Katherine  B.  Scheidegger  '90  is  a  finance 
and  contract  administrator  for  Physician  Com- 
puter Network  in  Morris  Plains,  N.J. 


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Susan  M.  Spadjinski  '90  and  Vincent  J. 
Sasone  were  married  on  July  9,  1994,  at  St. 
Thomas  Church  in  Southington,  Conn.  The  couple 
resides  in  Vernon. 

Amy  M.  Castle  '91  married  Douglas  Hosier 
on  October  22, 1 994.  They  live  in  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
where  Amy,  who  has  an  M.B.A.  from  American 
University,  is  product  requisition  analyst  for 
Ceridan  Employees'  Services. 

Sean  Patrick  Hunter  '91  is  a  social  studies 
teacher  for  the  Millersburg  Area  (Pa.)  School 
District. 

Kevin  T.  Kalb  '91  received  an  M.B.A.  in 
financial  analysis  from  Drexel  University.  He  is 
an  accountant  for  the  Eastern  Region  of  Safe- 
guard Business  Systems,  Inc.  in  Fort  Washington, 
Pa. 

Angela  M.  Krause  '91  is  a  music  teacher  at 
the  Marshall  Elementary  School  in  Harrisburg. 

James  McMenamin  '91  married  Regina  C. 
Wynee  of  Limerick,  Pa.,  on  August  6,  1994. 
James  is  a  millwork  sales  specialist  for  The  Home 
Depot  in  King  of  Prussia,  Pa. 

Todd  A.  Mentzer  '91  and  his  wife,  Joyce 
Attlx  Mentzer  '91,  welcomed  a  daughter,  Lauren 
Elizabeth,  on  August  21,  1994.  Joyce  graduated 
in  August  1994  from  the  Cincinnati  College- 
Conservatory  of  Music  with  a  master's  degree  in 
organ  performance. 

Maryann  Lucykanish  Pula  '91  is  a  5th  grade 
teacher  at  Central  School  in  the  Great  Meadows 
(N.J.)  Regional  School  District. 

Beth  Scbalkoff  '91  is  an  administrative 
assistant  at  Black  Petrella  Weisbord,  Inc.  in 
Plainfield,  N.J.  She  is  married  to  Thomas 
Miskewitz  '91. 

Rebecca  L.  Snyder  '91  is  advertising  coor- 
dinator for  Associated  Wholesalers,  Inc.  in 
Robesonia,  Pa. 

Diana  L.  Cook  '92  married  Todd  Musser  on 
June  18,  1994.  She  is  an  elementary  vocal/ 
general  music  teacher  at  Conrad  Weiser  East 
Elementary  School  in  Wemersville,  Pa. 

Brian  Amandus  Henry  '92  is  a  sales  repre- 
sentative for  Hechinger's  and  a  graphic  designer 
for  David  Cooper  Printing  in  Lancaster  County, 
Pa. 

Gregory  High  '92  is  the  manager  of  sales 
and  marketing  for  High  Hotels,  Ltd.  Prior  to 
joining  High  Hotels  in  1992,  Gregory  served  as 
marketing  representative  for  High  Associates, 
Ltd.  He  is  chairman  of  the  marketing  committee 
for  the  Tri-State  Association  of  Hampton  Inns, 
Inc.  and  is  chairman  of  the  High  Foundation 
Scholarship  Selection  Committee. 

Jan  Haneberg  Monteverde  '92  is  an  accoun- 
tant for  Conestoga  Ceramic  Tile  in  Harrisburg. 
She  and  her  husband,  Terrence  M.  Monteverde 
'92,  have  a  son,  Arthur. 

Alyson  J.  Neiswender  '92  married  William 
R.  Adams  '89  in  September  1994  in  Clearfield, 
Pa.  Alyson  is  a  substitute  teacher  in  the 
Brookfield/Danbury  schools  in  Brookfield, 
Conn.,  where  they  reside.  Bill  is  a  research  sci- 
entist II  for  Boehringer  Ingelhelm  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Co.  in  Ridgefield. 

Douglas  M.  Zook  '92  is  a  science  teacher 
and  football  coach  at  Perryville  High  School  in 
Elkton,  Md. 

Amy  G.  Batman  '93  is  a  student  at  the  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science. 

Kimberly  Bolden  '93  is  a  program  manager 
in  a  group  home  for  the  mentally/physically 


handicapped  for  New  Directions  in  Progress  in 
Harrisburg. 

Laura  Etzweiler  '93  is  a  transportation/rate 
analyst  for  Warner-Lambert  Co.  in  Lititz,  Pa. 

Lori  Folk  '93  is  in  the  second  year  of  a 
master's  degree  program  at  the  University  of 
North  Carolina  in  Charlotte.  She  is  also  a  teach- 
ing assistant. 

Harold  E.  Fultz  '93  received  an  M.S.  degree 
in  computer  science  from  Shippensburg  Univer- 
sity in  December  1994. 

Jennifer  Hanshaw  Hackett  '93  is  an  editor 
for  Chemical  Education  Resources  in  Palmyra, 
Pa.  Her  husband  Sean  Hackett  '93,  is  a  vocal 
music  teacher  for  Conrad  Weiser  High  School  in 
Robesonia,  Pa. 

Justine  Hamilton  '93  is  a  VISTA  worker  for 
the  Mayor's  Commission  on  Literacy  in  Phila- 
delphia. 

Theodore  A.  Jones  '93  and  his  wife,  Lynn 
Schwalm  Jones  '93,  welcomed  a  son,  Tyler 
Patrick,  on  June  7,  1994. 

Helen  M.  Major  '93  is  a  caseworker  II  in  the 
Mental  Health/Mental  Retardation  Association's 
early  intervention  program  in  Chester  County, 
Pa. 

Jan  M.  Ogurcak  '93  is  a  1st  grade  teacher  at 
the  Jackson  Elementary  School  in  the  Eastern 
Lebanon  County  School  District  in  Myerstown, 
Pa.  She  also  coaches  the  junior  high  school  girls' 
basketball  team  for  the  district. 

Zoanna  Lyn  Payne  '93  is  a  management 
trainee  for  Pepperidge  Farm,  Inc.  in  Denver,  Pa. 


David  M.  Sullivan  '93  is  a  tax  accountant 
for  Fishbein  and  Co.,  a  CPA  firm  in  Elkins  Park, 
Pa. 

Matthew  D.  Barr  '94  is  a  chemist  for  Ster- 
ling-Winthrop  Drug  Co.  in  Myerstown,  Pa. 

Lt.  Jennifer  I.  Bower  '94  graduated  with 
honors  from  the  officer  basic  course  in  Fort  Eustis, 
Va.  Serving  in  the  Army,  she  leads  the  546th 
Transportation  Company  (Airborne),  Fort  Bragg, 
N.C. 

Craig  C.  Connelly  '94  is  a  sales  person  for 
Furniture  Liquidators  in  Lebanon,  Pa.  He  is  mar- 
ried to  Dawn  R.  Hickman  Connelly  '92. 

David  Fromholt  '94  is  a  salesman  for 
Shyda's  Gun  Shop  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 

Cathi  Gable  '94  is  a  printer  for  Express 
Temporary  Services  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

David  V.  Gartner  '94  is  a  quality  control 
analyst  for  Sterling  Winthrop  in  Myerstown,  Pa. 

Kevin  E.  Kemler  '94  is  in  the  sales/market- 
ing department  at  The  Kern  Group  in  Lancaster, 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife  welcomed  a  daughter  on 
December  19,  1994. 

Christine  J.  Seibert  '94  is  a  financial  plan- 
ning assistant  for  Richard  Gabriel  Van  Buren 
Kohlhepp,  Ltd.  in  Horsham,  Pa. 

Matthew  J.  St.  Georges  '94  is  a  manager  for 
Tailfeathers,  Inc.  in  Agawam,  Mass. 

Samuel  Robert  Willox  '94  is  a  systems  ana- 
lyst for  Thomson  Consumer  Electronics  in 
Lancaster,  Pa. 


QuiniE  Cup  &  Founders  Cup  \ 

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Send  us  your  reunion  gift  today  and  help  your  class  move 
out  in  front  of  the  competition  to  win  the  Founders 
Cups  and  Quittie  Cup  for  Annual  Giving. 


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Know  a  bright  high-school  student? 


If  so,  we'd  like  to  hear  from  you. 
We're  seeking  your  support  in 
Lebanon  Valley's  admissions  effort. 
If  you  know  of  an  outstanding 
student  who  would  be  a  good 
candidate  for  Lebanon  Valley 
College,  call  our  Admissions  Office 
toil  free  at  1-80(M45-6181. 
Our  staff  will  send  information 
to  that  student. 

Perhaps  you'd  like  to  go  a 
step  further  and  become  a  member 
of  our  Alumni  Ambassadors 
Network.  (See  winter  issue  of 
The  Valley.)  Members  call 
prospective  students,  assist 
the  Admissions  staff  at  college 
nights  and  bring  students  to 
campus.  Call  the  toll-free  number 
above  to  lend  a  hand. 


Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Pennsylvania 

ANNVILLE,  PA  17003 

Address  Correction  Requested 


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