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The  Valley 

Lebanon  VALLEY  College  Magazine     Summer  1998  ^ 


Campus  I 
as  Canvas: 
Expanding 
the  Vision 


G.  Daniel  Massad:  Recent  Still  Lifes 


Suzanne  H.  Arnold  Art  Gallery- 
May  21  -June  21,  1998 


"Obviously  —  have  I 
overstated  this?  —  the 
mere  recording  of 
fascinating  detail  is  not 
what  drives  me.  It  is  the 
image  that  drives  me,  the 
image  and  its  embedded 
meanings,  its  power  to 
absorb  us  briefly  in  its 
world  and  to  return  us  to 
our  own  lives  with  clear 
eyes,  calm  hearts." 

-G.  Daniel  Massad 


G.  Daniel  Massad,  Airangement  with  Pumpkin  Stem, 

1997,  pastel  on  paper,  16  x  16  1/4  ins.; 

The  Snite  Museum  of  Art,  University  of  Notre  Dame 


G.  Daniel  Massad:  Recent  Still  Lifes 
celebrates  the  recent  achievements 
of  the  renowned  Lebanon  Valley 
College  artist-in-residence  who 
calls  Annville  home.  Before  opening 
in  the  Suzanne  H.  Arnold  Art 
Gallery,  this  exhibition  was  on 
display  at  Tatistcheff  &  Co.,  Inc., 
New  York  (April  4-April  29). 

A  master  of  meticulously  rendered 
still-life  works,  Massad  imbues  even 
the  most  commonplace  of  objects 
with  expressive  tensions  and 
underlying  psychologies.  By 
modeling  forms  in  powerful  lights 
and  darks,  Massad  evokes  the 
hidden  story  of  the  real,  the  poetry 
of  the  everyday.  His  works  are  In 
the  permanent  collections  of  such 
institutions  as  the  Metropolitan 
Museum  of  Art,  New  York;  the 
Philadelphia  Museum  of  Art;  the  Art 
Institute  of  Chicago;  and  the 
National  Museum  of  American  Art, 
Washington,  D.C. 

This  exhibition  is  made  possible  through 
the  sustaining  sponsorship  of  ASK 
Foods,  Inc.  and  Hershey  Foods 
Corporation,  as  weU  as  a  generous  gift 
from  Ellen  and  Nicholas  Hughes. 


G.  Daniel  Massad,  Per  Gradus.  1997,  pastel  on  paper, 
16  1/2  X  16  1/2  ins.;  private  collection 


The 


VOL.  15,  Number  2 


Lebanon  Valley  College  Magazine 


Departments 


Features 


14     News  Briefs 

1 7     Sports 

27     Newsmakers 

31      Class  News  &  Notes 

Ediior   ]ud\  Pehrson 

Aisislant  Ediloi :  Nancy  Fuzgerald 

Wrilcrs: 

Thomas  Epler 

Ed  Gruver 

Tom  Hanrahan,  Sports 

Susan  Hess 

Mary  Belli  Hower,  News  Biicfs, 

Newsmakers 
Barbara  Miller 
Laura  Ritler 
Robert  Smith 
Glenn  Woods  '5L  Class  Nolcs 

Desij^ner:   tAiithia  Kercher '86 

Photography: 
Dennis  Crews 
Jerry  Kahnoski 

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charge  to  alumni  and  friends 

On  the  Ci)\er:  :\  ;)/ki(i>giii;i/i  and  a 
drawin^Jrom  the  ic/lcjjc  iir(:/n\cs  s/unv 
what  the  caminis  looked  like  in  lSb7 
PUiHoy^ttij'h  h\  jein  K(i/iH(is/;i 

the  Willev  Tuagaznie  is  jiroiiiuetl 
appro.xnnately  si\  months  ui  advanee  ol 
when  it  is  received  by  ils  readership.  .As 
such.  Class  Notes  news  received  after 
production  has  begun  will  be  inchulei.1 
In  the  next  issue  of  the  magazme. 


2       An  Enxironmcnt  for  Learning 


.4  ( iil(i'i;c\  plwsu  id  scKi/ii;  eiilnuues  the  Iciiniini;  that  takes  plate  there.  sa\s 
ii  \\eU-l;nii\\i\  histoi  lan. 

B\  LAL  RA  Rrn  1  R 

Campus  As  Canvas 

Till'  nuiie  (lungs  change,  the  ntme  the\  lenuaii  the  siiiue  iis  the  mllege 
CdMdiiius  lis  (iinijiiis  cv/iiniMiiii  pUins 

BYNANd  LII/t,LlULI1,\.\DJ(  m  PillRSON 


6      Glory  Days 

This  scasi)n.  the  Indl  uiis  in  .And\  Pdiiloo's  eoiirt  —  ami  he  intends  to  keep  on 
itiiniin^t;  with  it 

B\  ED  GRL  VER 

9      Seeing  With  the  Heart 

Rejiisiiig  to  let  hhiidiiess  diiikeii  hei  di earns.  Leslie  Madei   'J.S  lool:s  jorwanl 
to  a  juiiire  i)/  ser\ ice  to  (idicis. 

B\  BARBARA  MILLER 

1 8    Science  for  Generation  Next 

In  lehaiioii  \'alle\'s  newest  niiistei's  degiee  piognim.  working  teaJieis  leiini  /iin\  to 
make  science  tome  alixe  in  the  elassioom. 

BY  NANCY  FITZGERALD 


21     Reducing  the  Fat  of  the  Land 

R(>iuili/  Yaiger  '6')  helps  eidorie  eounters  evei  \wlieie  lia\e  then  eake 
and  eiil  it  too 

BY  ROl^ERI  SMLril 


22    Educating  Through  Art 


I  ehanoii  Wdley  guul  —  iind  lonnei  doodlelmg  —  C"lier\l  Knl;  .\i 
that  a  pu  tuie  lealh  is  niii(li  a  (liiiiisiiiul  words 

BY  IIICi\l.\s  PPI  1  R 


:  pi  in  es 


24    Famil)'  Ties 

7/ii(iHi;/i  (lie  ii/'s  and  downs  oj  a  jew  il(>;cn  li/<'(iiii(s.  t/iiM'  \\  est  Hall  ainmiuie 
hiiie  MiiMiiiii/  (lie  (i('s  (lull  hind. 


B\  NANl'i  I  irZcllULD 


I  eslie  Madei  iind  hei 
guide  dog  i(erlini; 
are  a  jamiliar  sight 
on  I  iini/ii(s 


{Left  to  right  I  Matthew  Green  '00,  Fatoumata  Njie  '00  and  Beth  Light  '01  find  the 
college 's  lien-  Peace  Garden  an  excellent  venue  for  discussions. 


Environment 


By  Laura  Ritter 

The  physical 
setting  of  a  college 
is  closely  tied  to 
the  learning  that 
takes  place  there, 
says  historian 
Sheldon  Rothblatt. 


Learning 


For  historian  Sheldon  Rothblatt,  the 
challenge  of  today's  colleges  remains 
essentially  the  same  as  it  has  for  cen- 
turies —  to  create  a  place  in  which 
something  called  a  liberal  education 
can  take  place. 

At  a  time  when  the  campus  of 
Lebanon  Valley  College  is  undergoing 
dramatic  change.  Rothblatt's  talk 
before  an  audience  of  about  150  in 
Leedy  Theater  last  October  empha- 
sized the  critical  role  of  environment 
and  space  on  the  personal  kind  of 
learning  that  takes  place  on  a  college 
campus.  A  college  must  offer  students 
quiet  spaces  where  thoughts  can  wan- 
der, he  said,  as  well  as  vistas  and  unex- 


pected views  that  give  rise  to  creative 
and  imaginative  thought.  It  must  also 
offer  spaces  where  students  and  others 
can  meet,  interact  and  learn  from  one 
another 

Rothblatt  said  that  historically,  the 
university  and  the  college  —  while 
both  centers  of  education  and  learning 
—  are  rivals  and  contend  with  one 
another  for  the  soul  of  students  of  the 
future.  Universities,  he  said,  developed 
in  cities.  "They  are  large,  sprawling 
centers  in  which  masses  of  students 
acquire  professional  knowledge,  under 
faculties  largely  oriented  towards 
research."  he  noted.  "Positioned  histor- 
ically for  mass  education.  uni\ersities 


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"LVC  is  a  learnino  environment,  an  environment  that's  interesting. . . 

with  many  different  iiinds  of  structures,  paths,  places  to  go  and  wander. 

It's  a  place  where  you're  invited  to  go  for  a  stroll  with  yourself." 

—  Sheldon  Rothblatt 


at  the  Lindergruduaic  lexel  are  some- 
what impersonal,  plural  in  oiillook.  tol- 
erant, and  they  tolerate  eccentricities, 
giving  students  freedom  to  live  where 
they  v\ant.  and  siLuly  what  lhe_\  waul 
across  a  diNcrsified  cinriculiim." 

Colleges  on  the  olhei"  hand.  ha\e  a 
dilTerent.  non-professional  kind  of  edu- 
cation as  their  focus.  Historically,  col- 
leges have  walls  and  are  "boundaried. 
enclosed,  protective  of  the  young  peo- 
ple inside."'  he  said.  .Smaller  and  anti- 
urban  by  nature,  a  college  is 
"humanistic  rather  than  technical, 
devoted  to  developing  character  and 
independence  in  students.  The  curricu- 
lum is  devoted  not  to  imparting  specif- 
ic knowledge  needed  for  an 
occupation,  but  ""rather  to  make  your 
life,  your  personal  life,  worthwhile."" 
Rothblatt  said.  Colleges  are  essentiallv 
aimed  at  the  youngest  students,  he 
said,  students  once  as  young  as  14  and 
today  primarily  under  2 1 . 

Contrasting  the  impersonal,  highly 
academic  life  of  the  university  with  the 
personal,  more  intimate  nature  of  the 
college.  Rothblatt  said  the  focus  of  the 
college  was  to  prepare  students,  when 
they  ""went  out  into  the  world  to  feel 
secure  about  thenisehes.  armed  with  a 
deep  understanding  of  human  natuie 
and  capable  of  becoming  a  leadei  m 
society." 

Today.  Rothblatt  said,  the  university 
borrows  from  the  concept  of  a  college 
while  the  college  borrows  from  the 
concept  of  the  university.  For  example, 
he  said,  because  manv  students  go  on 
to  university-based  giaduale  schools. 
the  graduate  schools  exert  a  tremen- 
dous pressure  on  the  curriculum  of  the 
college  to  turn  away  from  its  tradition- 
al focus.  ""Similarly,  nearly  all  universi- 
ties, imder  pressure  to  become  moie 
personal  and  intimate,  have  created 
within  themselves  a  colleges  of  arts 
and  letters,  where  students  experience 
the  undefinable  yet  obviously  impor- 
tant atmosphere  typical  of  the  college 
environment.""  he  stated. 

To  illustrate  his  views  Rothblatt 
offered  slides  and  discussed  the  devel- 
opment of  the  University  of  California 


at  Santa  Cru/  in  the  I96()s.  as  a  univer- 
sity in  search  of  a  college  atmosphere, 
compvised  of  discreet  colleges  so  that 
""every  student  in  the  place  would 
relate  to  something  intimalc  and 
small."' 

He  tlescnbcd  the  campus  as  a 
""series  of  lov\-rise  buildings  in  the 
midst  of  the  forest  ...  with  no  building 
so  towering  or  imposing  it  can  oppress 
the  human  si/e.  ll  has  gardens,  and  ter- 
races that  take  advantage  of  the  views 
and  keep  broadening  the  vision,  lead- 
ing young  people  to  see  the  possihilitv 
of  life  outside  themselves."" 

He  also  presented  slides  ol  a  ""uni- 
versity college""  in  Stockholm,  called 
Sodertorns.  located  m  what  was  once  a 
iKtspital  building.  Though  the  facility  is 
Lirban  anti  serves  large  masses  of  stu- 
ilents.  Its  ilesign  also  strives  to  incor- 
porate the  college  ideal.  While 
Sodertorns  aspires  to  be  a  university, 
"they  are  terribly  eager  lo  mtiiKluce  in 
student  life  something  thev  have  no 
name  for.  but  we  have  a  name  for:  col- 
lege life,""  Rothblatt  said.  ""Thev  want 
to  personalize  these  interior  spaces  so 
thai  when  siudenls  are  wailing  around, 
those  spaces  will  he  attractive,  nice  lit- 
tle gathering  spots  where  students  will 
stop  to  dial  and  perhaps  have  coffee. 

"It  still  looks  like  a  university.""  he 
added,  ""but  inside,  they  are  trying  to 
create  some  of  the  intimacies  that  go 
w  ith  a  college."" 

Rothblatt  believes  the  great  battle 
between  the  model  of  the  large,  urban 
universitv  and  the  small,  relativelv  iso- 
lated college  is  a  conflict  that  is  unre- 
solvable.  Unfortunatelv.  he  said,  "the 
whole  collegiate  idea  is  dving.  increas- 
ingly more  tlifficiill  to  maintain  within 
modern  iinivcrMlies  devoictl  to 
research.  It's  a  fanlaslic  pressure  the 
universities  exeit  on  colleges.  Students 
plan  to  go  on  to  universities  for  gradu- 
ate degrees,  and  the  universitv  thus  dri- 
ves the  college  awav  from  its  original 
shape,  its  original  task." 

Still,  he  saitl.  'the  college  gets  its 
revenge,  lis  revenge  is  to  personalize 
the  universitv.  to  force  it  awav  from  iis 
natural  lendencv   lo  he  bureaiicralic. 


large,  and  impersonal,  to  he  a  knowl- 
edge center,  not  a  personal  center,  forc- 
ing it  to  hang  on  to  the  idea  that  it  is 
possible  to  create  spaces  for  young 
people  so  that  thev  have  to  collide, 
thev  have  to  live  and  learn  about  one 
another  in  spaces  that  encourage  them 
to  think  about  attachments  to  other 
people  and  to  life." 

The  mission.  Rothblatt  said,  and 
one  that  is  currentK  finding  expression 
in  the  many  building  projects  under 
way  at  Lebanon  Valley  College,  is 
""creating  an  environment  that  is  inter- 
esting and  in  some  sense  alive,  in 
which  the  spirit  comes  to  life."  .At  the 
same  time,  a  college  environment 
shoLild  also  coimieiact  the  luurowing 
effect  of  studv  -  "the  solharv  life  of 
scholars  w  ho  nev  er  get  out  of  their  own 
minds."  he  said. 

in  a  personal  discussion  after  his 
talk.  Rothblatt  offered  his  impression 
of  the  transformation  currentlv  under 
wav  on  the  L\'C  campus.  ""This  will  be 
a  campus  where  students  will  have  ... 
manifold  experiences  in  an  interesting, 
variegated  environment  carefullv  orga- 
nized to  make  them  wimdrous.  hut  also 
to  appeal  to  something  in  their  vouth."" 
he  said.  ""It's  a  learning  environment, 
an  environment  that's  interesting,  with 
symbols  111  It.  man\  different  kinds  of 
structures,  paths,  places  to  go  and  wan- 
der. It"s  a  place  where  vou"re  invited  to 
go  for  a  stroll  with  vourself."' 

Rothblatt  is  a  graduate  of  the 
L'niversity  ot  California  at  Berkelev, 
where  he  also  earned  his  M.A  and  PhD. 
He  was  also  named  Idirman  Student. 
King"s  College.  Cambridge  Universitv. 
He  has  been  honored  with  numerous 
aw  ards  and  was  a  Shelbv  Cullam  Dav  is 
Fellow  at  Princeton  L'niversitv.  as 
well  as  a  winner  of  a  Guggenheim 
Fellowship.  He  has  written  dozens  of 
essavs  and  three  bcmks.  the  most  recent 
calletl  /'/((•  Mihlcru  I'mvcvsiix  and  Its 
Disctuuvnts.  published  last  year  bv 
Cambridge  Universitv  Press. 


Laura  Ritter  is  a  staff  writer  for  the 

Lchcincn  Dailv  News. 


SIMMER  IQ'^8 


Redrawing 
Campus 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 
and  Judy  Pehrson 


The  college  Is  keeping  an  eye  on  Its 
heritage  as  It  embarks  on 
ambitious  expansion  plans. 


In  the  beginning,  it  was  just  a  small  town  —  a  few  hundred 
houses  suiTounded  by  cornfields,  nestled  in  the  mountains,  sit- 
ting alongside  a  meandering  creek.  But  back  in   1866.  the 
founders  of  Lebanon  Valley  College  saw  something  a  little  differ 
ent.  To  them,  their  little  piece  of  Ann\'ille  was  something  special. 
Free  from  distractions  and  far  from  busy  cities,  they  disco\'ered  the 
perfect  en\ironment  for  a  community  of  scholars  embarking  on 
learning  and  a  \'ocation  of  ser\  ice. 

Now  more  than  a  century  later,  the  mountains  and  the  cornfields  are  still  there,  the  Quittie  still  meanders 
through  town  and  the  campus  is  still  a  canvas.  The  picture  we're  painting  is  a  little  different,  but  the  theme  is  much 
the  same  —  creation  of  a  campus  environment  for  learning  and  ser\  ice.  set  against  the  backdrop  of  the  twenty-first 
century. 

"The  college  is  in  the  midst  of  a  major  transformation  as  we  meet  the  needs  of  yet  another  generation  of  stu- 
dents —  who  demand  not  only  academic  excellence  but  also  a  spacious,  beautiful  campus  with  the  best  facilities 
and  the  most  up-to-date  technology,"  says  President  G.  David  Rollick.  "It"s  a  major  transformation,  but  also  one 
which  deepens  our  commitment  to  the  college's  mission." 

The  college's  new  five-year  physical  therapy  program,  (see  back  cover)  and  the  beautiful  building  which  will 
house  it.  will  continue  the  mission  of  ser\ ice  to  others.  Rollick  states. 

"Rhysical  therap\  is  also  a  natural  outgrowth  of  Lebanon  Valley's  traditional  strength  in  the  sciences,  "  he  says. 
"Our  nationally  ranked  science  programs  will  be  an  important  component  of  the  new  program.  There  will  also  be 
a  strong  liberal  arts  component,  which  is  in  keeping  with  the  tradition  of  the  college.  In  addition,  we  intend  to  con- 
tinue to  give  the  indi\  idual.  personalized  attention  to  students  that  we  have  been  known  for  over  the  years." 

The  new  sports  fields  under  construction  are  also  in  keeping  with  Lebanon  Valley  tradition,  he  states.  "Athletics 
has  always  been  an  important  part  of  college  life  at  the  Valley  —  an  impressive  40  percent  of  our  students  play 
intercollegiate  sports,  and  more  than  70  percent  participate  in  intramural  sports.  They  will  be  able  to  take  good 
advantage  of  the  increased  spaces  for  athletic  and  recreational  activities." 

A  new  ba.seball  field,  varsity  soccer  field  and  soccer  practice  areas,  comprising  some  20  acres  on  the  west  side 
of  Route  934.  are  nearing  completion,  as  are  a  new  softball  field  for  the  women's  varsity  team,  football  practice 
fields,  and  intramural  playing  fields  in  the  area  east  of  the  Arnold  Sports  Center.  Work  on  this  20-acre  project, 
already  25  percent  complete,  will  be  finished  this  summer.  In  addition,  a  new  field  hockey  stadium  will  be  created 
next  summer  at  the  site  of  the  present  baseball  diamond. 

Work  is  also  well  along  on  an  environmental  study  area,  including  ponds  and  wetlands,  which  is  being  devel- 
oped on  the  five  acres  of  land  just  east  of  the  Arnold  Sports  Center.  Scheduled  to  be  completed  this  fall,  the  area 


THE  VALLEY 


will  provide  teaching  and  research  opportunites  for  students  and  faculty,  as  well  as  a  series  of  restful  park  land 
walkways  for  the  entire  campus  commLinity. 

Bringing  people  and  all  of  these  new  spaces  together  will  be  a  system  of  walkua\ s  and  gardens  which  will 
connect  the  main  campus  with  the  expanded  athletic  fields  and  the  en\  ironmenlal  study  area. 
Work  will  begin  shortly  on  a  pedestrian  bridge  across  Route  434  to  connect  the  east- 
ern and  western  sections  of  campus.  In  addition.  impioNcments  —  both 
structural  and  landscaping  —  will  be  made  to  the  bridge  that  currently  ^^ 


tad  tracks 


^f>^'"^' 


f\e^ol- 


to  Pollick.  "The 
founders  knew  th;: 
era.  We"re  buildin 


To  soke  current  parking  problems  on  the  main 
campus,  the  area  on  both  sides  of  the  existing 
football  field  will  be  developed  into  parking 
this  summer  for  resident  students  and  visi- 
tors to  the  Arnold  Sports  Center.  Spaces  will  be 
provided  for  about  750  vehicles. 

"We  are  lortLuiate  that  the  college  has  the  land  a\a: 

able  to  expand."  sa\s  [\>llick.  "Man\  institutions  do  not 

ha\e  this  option.  The  athletic  fields.  en\  iroiimental  study 

areas  and  wetlands  under  construction  are  a  relatively 

low-cost  and  immediate  means  ol  beautil\ing  the 

campus  and  proxidmg  facilities  siudcnts  want  and 

v\ill  use." 

A  more  spacious  and  beautiful  campus  is  ke\  to 
attracting  the  students  Lebanon  Valley  needs  in  order 
to  grow,  he  adds.  "Students  and  parents  ha\e  increas- 
ingly high  expectations  when  thc\  \isit  prospecti\e 
colleges,  and  studies  show  thai  first  impressions  are  criti- 
cal. While  Lebanon  Valley's  campus  iiad  been  renovated  and 
impnned  enormously  oxer  the  jiasi  decade,  it  still  did  not  measure  up  to 
many  of  our  competitors'  campuses  and  facililies.  The  new  jirojects  we're  undertaking 
will  help  close  that  gap." 

Most  importantly,  the  new  imtialnes  will  create  a  better  einironment  for  learning,  according 
physical  environment  of  a  campus  is  inextricably  tied  to  the  learning  process.  The  college's 
it  and  created  a  campus  which  met  the  academic  and  spiritual  needs  for  a  liberal  education  of  that 
g  on  that  legacy  to  create  a  campus  en\  iionment  that  fultllls  the  requirements  of  a  new  century." 


Ncincy  Filzficiiihl  is  freelance  writer  Inised  in  Cleauii. 
Judy  Pehrsou  is  executive  director  of  collc'^c  relatioits. 


SUMMER  1QQ8 


Glory  Days 


In  a  couple  of  Cinderella 
seasons,  a  once-rangy  teenager 
is  transformed  into  a  champion. 


Bv  Ed  Gru\cr 


Franklin  &  Marshall  men"s  bas- 
ketball coach  Glenn  Robinson 
stood  outside  the  visitor's  locker  room 
beneath  Lynch  Gym  late  in  the  e\'ening 
on  Monday.  January  1'^).  I'-J'-JS.  Just 
moments  earlier.  Robinson,  a  27-year 
coaching  veteran,  had  witnessed  some- 
thing neither  he  nor  the  sellout  cmwd 
of  1 .500  had  ever  witnessed  before. 

For  a  span  of  8:09  min- 
utes in  the  middle  of  the 
second  half.  Lebanon 
Vally  College  junior  for-  , 
ward  Andy  Panko  scored 
25  consecutive  points,  a 
feat  that  max  \er\  well 
rank  not  onh  as  an  NCAA 
Division  III  record,  but  also  a  record  at 
every  level.  The  NBA  record  is  23 
straight,  set  b\  Bernard  King  of 
the  New  York  Knicks  in  a  1^984 
playoff  game. 

Panko  finished  the  81-69  win  with  a 
career-high  45  points,  tying  him  with 
Howie  Landa  '53  for  the  third-highest 
single  game  mark  in  school  history: 
Landa  accomplished  the  feat  in  1953. 
Don  Johnson  "73  owns  the  two  highest 
marks.  56  and  49.  both  set  in  1972. 

"We  basically  tried  to  keep  him 
from  getting  the  ball."  Robinson  said. 
"We  didn't  want  him  to  hit  any  open 
"threes.'  And  he  didn't  ,  1  don't  think 
he  made  a  single  jump  shot  [from 
three-point  range].  But  he  figured  us 
out.  and  when  he  got  half  a  step,  he's 
just  way  too  big  to  stop." 

A  half-step  may  be  all  Andy  Panko 
needs  to  beat  opponents  the  quality  of 
F&M.  But  the  muscular  6-8,  205- 


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pound  All-American  forv\ard  has  taken 
a  series  of  long  strides  since  his  high 
school  days  as  an  undersized,  seldom- 
used  post  player  at  Harrisburg's 
Bishop  McDevitt  High  School. 

"1  knew  he  would  deselop  into  a 
good  player  because  1  knew  he  would 
grow  a  couple  of  more  inches."  said 
LVC  head  coach  Brad  McAlester.  who 
scouted  Panko  in  high  school  four 
years  ago.  "1  also  knew  he'd  grow 
physically  because  he  was  very,  very 
weak  in  high  school  and  had  not 
touched  weights  at  all.  Once  he  learned 
how  advantageous  it  was  to  lift,  he  fell 
in  love  with  it  and  now  he's  one  of  the 
strongest  guys  on  the  team. 

"I  can't  say  that  1  realized  he'd  be 
as  good  as  he's  turned  out  to  be.  but  I 
thought  he'd  be  good  because  he'd  be 
facing  the  basket.  But  certainly  he's 
reached  heights  that  1  thought  and 
everybody  thought  were  a  little 
behind  him." 

Everybody,  that  is.  except  Panko 
himself,  who  for  the  second  season  in 
a  row  led  the  Middle  Atlantic 
Conference  in  scoring  with  a  personal- 
best  26.1  points  per  game  average  — 
up  a  full  point  from  last  year's  MAC 
leading  total.  He  was  named  the  MAC 
Commonwealth  League  Most  Valuable 
Player  for  the  second  straight  year. 

As  a  junior  at  McDex  itt.  Panko 
played  the  guard  position,  which  helps 
explain  his  somewhat  unique  combina- 
tion of  being  a  big  man  with  a  small 
man's  dexterity.  Between  his  junior 
and  senior  seasons  in  high  school,  he 
grew  five  inches,  reporting  back  to  the 
Crusaders  in  the  fall  of  1994  at  a 
height  of  6-7. 

.Switched  from  the  backcourt  to  a 
post  position  his  senior  season.  Panko 
became  the  pivot  man  on  a  team  whose 
quickness  dictated  they  play  a  free- 
wheeling, fast-break  style.  Had  he 
been  the  middle  man  on  a  team  that 
favored  a  low-post,  half-court  offense, 
Panko  may  have  averaged  more  than 
the  1  7  points  per  game  he  posted  as  a 
senior. 


THE  VALLEY 


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"He  never  saw  the  ball."  MeAlester 
said.  "He  had  other  kids  on  his  team 
who  were  really  athletic  and  did  all  the 
shooting,  and  they  kind  of  put  him 
inside  and  that's  where  he  stayed.  You 
really  didn't  see  him  on  the  outside 
perimeter  until  some  of  the  all-star 
games.  And  that's  when  you  saw  what 
this  kid  could  do." 

What  McAlester  and  a  number  ol 
college  coaches  —  incliidmg  Robmson 

—  saw  was  a  rangy  kid  who  could 
handle  the  ball,  a  kid  with  long  aims 
who  was  still  growing.  McAlester  sokl 
Panko  on  l^VC  by  showing  him  the 
perimeter  ol  the  court. 

■"This."  McAlester  told  the  wide- 
eyed  17-year-old.  "is  where  voLi're 
going  to  pla\ ." 

Panko  tell  in  lo\e  with  the  idea  ol 
being  a  shooting  forward  on  a  program 
still  basking  in  the  success  of  the  19'-M 
NCAA  Dnision  III  national  champi- 
onship. As  a  junior  and  senior  at 
McDevitl.  Panko  and  his  father.  Dr. 
Andrew  Panko.  Sr.  —  a  University  of 
Scranton  alum  who  hatl  pla\ed  the 
game  in  college  as  well  —  woukl  sii  in 
the  stands  at  Lynch  Gym  and  watch 
with  awe  and  fascination  as  a  bulldog 
guard  named  Mike  Rhoades  willetl  the 
Flying  Dutchmen  to  the  top  of  D-lll. 

"Watching  Mike  jiisi  ama/ed  me." 
Panko  said.  "He  was  so  good  as  a  point 
guard.  Yeah,  we're  different  positions, 
but  I  admired  the  things  I  saw  in  him. 
especially  his  attitude  toward  the  gamc 

—  he  just  loved  it.  No  matter  whether 
it  was  a  pickup  game  or  what,  he 
always  worked  hard.  He  wanted  to 
win.  and  he  always  had  thai  hunger 
to  win." 


Aihlv  (cciUcr)  is  (inly  ihc  saonil pUnci'  in  Flyiiii;  Diilchiiicii  hiiskclhcdl 
hislnry  to  he  twice  iiciiiii-tl  All-Amciittiii. 


.As  soon  as  Panko  committetl  lo 
LVC.  McAlester  made  good  t)n  his 
recruiting  promise  and  ptit  him  on  the 
perimeter  where  he  could  face  the  bas- 
ket. "He  fell  in  lo\c  with  it." 
McAlester  sank  "He's  a  iialural  scor- 
er and  as  his  confidence  grew,  his 
ability  grew." 

His  Ireshman  season  saw  Panko 
lead  lA'C  by  scoring  369  points  ami 
averaging  14.!S  per  game.  He  IclI  ilic 
team  in  scoring  1  1  times,  and  had  an 
1  1-game  stretch  in  which  he  scored  in 
double  figures.  He  was  rewarded  at  the 
end  of  the  season  w  ith  the  Rookie  of 
the  "tear  title  in  both  the  MAC 
Commonwealth  League  and  the  EC  AC 
Southern  Reuion. 


Opponents  hoping  to  see  him  strtig- 
gle  through  a  sophomore  slump  were 
disappointed.  Improsing  on  his  num- 
bers 111  assists,  blocks,  steals,  rebounds 
and  points.  Panko  produced  a  team- 
high  70.1  points  and  a  2.^.6  points-per- 
game  average.  The  latter  ranked  him 
Lust  in  the  M.AC  and  fifth  in  the  nation 
in  l)i\  ision  III.  His  stunning  season 
was  highlighted  on  February  2,"^.  L^)7. 
when  he  became  the  22nd  pla\er  in 
school  histor\  (and  the  quickest  — Just 
.^0  games)  to  reach  l.DUU  points  for 
his  career. 

By  the  time  he  poured  in  a  then 
career-high  41  points  against  Drew 
Uni\ersit\  on  February  S.  1997.  the 
one-time  skinny  kid  frt>fn  McDe\itt 


"I  never  expected  him  to  be  a  Mike  Rhodes  type  - 

a  take-charge,  take-you-by-the-shirt,  coal-region 

type  kid.  I  thought  he'd  be  very  good  and  be  a 

scorer,  but  never  the  sole  leader  of  the  team," 

—  Coach  Brad  McAlester. 

Ciicich  Ihciil  Ml  .\/i  s/(7'  ic(<ii;iii:i'il  I'mikn's  poiciiliiil  Unir 

\cars  cii;<>  witcii  lie  saw  him  plu\  iii  Hisliop  McDcvill 

Hiiih  School  111  Hanisbuiii. 

SPRING  1998 


was  a  well-known  figure  in  Disision 
III.  He  led  his  team  in  scoring  in  17  of 
their  28  games.  Once  so  shy  and  timid 
he  rarely  started  con\ersations,  he  has 
grown  into  a  superstar  player  comfort- 
able with  himself  and  his  surround- 
ings. 

"1  never  expected  him  to  be  a  Mike 
Rhoades  type  —  a  take-charge,  take- 
you-by-the-shirt.  coal-region  type  kid," 
McAlester  said,  "i  thought  he'd  be 
very  good  and  be  a  scorer,  but  never 
the  sole  leader  of  the  team.  Guard 
Danny  Strobeck  is  still  our  leader  as 
far  as  the  ultimate  guy  who  does  all  the 
talking,  but  Andy"s  getting  better  at  it 
e\'ery  day." 

Strobeck  and  Panko  have  been 
roommates  for  three  years  and  the 
junior  point  guard  acknowledged  that 
the  two  hit  it  off  personality-wise  from 
the  start.  "We  click  together."  Strobeck 
said.  "We  know  where  each  other  is  on 
the  court  and  that's  a  good  thing 
because  down  the  stretch  in  a  tough 
game,  we  need  to  go  to  him." 

Of  course,  pail  of  Panko's  success 
has  to  be  credited  to  his  teammates  — 
Strobeck,  guard  Keith  Phoebus,  for- 
ward Joe  Terch,  and  center  Dan  Pfeil 
—  talented  players  whose  abilities  pre- 
sent defenses  from  concentrating  sole- 
ly on  Panko.  In  addition,  McAlester 
has  developed  Panko's  physical 
skills  and  knowledge  of  the  game  and 
the  combination  of  skill  and  strategy 
has  helped  Panko  become  arguably 
the  best  player  in  Division  111  at 
his  position. 

By  the  end  of  his  sophomore  sea- 
son. Panko  had  been  named  MAC 
Commonwealth  League  Player  of  the 
Week  four  times  and  ECAC  Southern 
Division  Player  of  the  Week  three 
times.  He  ranked  among  the  nation's 
leaders  in  scoring,  field  goal  percent- 
age, free-throw  percentage  and 
rebounds,  and  he  led  LVC  into  the 
MAC  title  game  and  into  their  first 
berth  in  D-III's  "Big  Dance"  (NCAAs) 
since  199.^. 

LVC's  Cinderella  season  ended  pre- 
maturely, but  Panko  put  an  exclama- 
tion point  on  the  post-season  run  when 
he  launched  what  is  arguably  the  sec- 
ond most  dramatic  and  memorable 
shot  in  recent  LVC  history  —  a  30-foot 
heave  at  the  overtime  buzzer  that  gave 
the  Flying  Dutchmen  a  classic  victory 
over  Wilkes  University  in  their  MAC 
semifinal  sjame.  The  shot  stunned  the 


heavily  favored  Colonels,  who 
stood  stock  still  in  disbelief 
along  with  the  3.000  or  so  fans 
who  packed  their  gym.  Only  Jason 
Say's  buzzer-beater  at  the  end  of  regu- 
lation in  the  national  championship 
game  in  Buffak)  ( 1994)  lanks  ahead  of 
Panko's  shot  for  pure  drama. 

Even  now,  a  year  later,  that  single 
play  still  brings  a  smile  to  Panko's 
boyish  face.  "The  Wilkes  game."  he 
said,  grinning.  "It's  a  packed  house  at 
Wilkes,  a  great  atmosphere,  and  you 
hit  the  buzzer-beater  and  go  to  the 
MAC  championship.  It's  all  you  can 
dream  of." 

Panko  has  continued  to  forge 
dreamlike  performances  in  1997-98. 
Named  by  The  Sportliiii  News  as  the 
Division  III  Preseason  Player  of  the 
Year,  he's  lived  up  to  that  lofty  title  by 
again  leading  the  team  in  scoring  and 
rebounding.  His  25.5  points  per  game 
average  was  seventh-best  in  the  nation 
this  season  and,  out  of  28  games  this 
season,  he  led  the  team  in  scoring  22 
times  and  in  rebounding  17  times.  In 
those  same  28  games,  he  scored  20  or 
more  points  19  times  and  30  or  more 


points  1 1  times.  Postseason,  he  gar- 
nered a  plethora  of  honors:  The 
National  Association  of  Basketball 
Coaches  (NABC)  named  him  Middle 
Atlantic  District  Player  of  the  Year  and 
a  First-Team  All- American  for  the  sec- 
ond time;  Basketball  Weekly  named 
him  Di\ision  111  Player  of  the  Year; 
Basketball  Times  honored  him  as 
Division  III  First  Team  Ail-American 
and  Division  HI  National  Player  of  the 
Year;  and  Columbus  Multimedia 
recognized  him  as  National  Player  of 
the  Year. 

"He's  phenomenal,"  said  Juniata 
College  head  coach  Rick  Ferry. 
"Offensively,  he  does  everything  a 
player  at  this  level  can  do,  and  then 
some.  When  1  go  out  to  recruit  kids, 
even  some  of  those  that  are  at  the 
Division  11  level  are  not  close  to  him." 

Ex-Widener  University  head  coach 
C.  Alan  Rowe  agreed.  "Panko  can  hit 
the    three'  or  he  can  get  a  good  first 
step  and  take  you  to  the  basket.  He 
leaps  well,  which  helps  him  get  sec- 
ond opportunities  on  his  shots." 

Second  opportunities  are  some- 
thing Panko  and  LVC  would  have 
liked  to  have  had  when  it  came  to 
the  postseason  in  1998.  They  took 
aim  at  a  return  trip  to  both  the 
MAC  title  game  and  the  D-III 
tournament,  but  were  unsuccess- 
ful. Although  LVC  lost  to  eventual 
MAC  champion  Wilkes  in  the  con- 
ference semifinal  and  missed  out  on  an 
NCAA  D-III  tournament  berth.  20- 
year-old  Panko.  an  elementary  educa- 
tion major  who  dreams  of  a  career  in 
professional  basketball,  looks  forward 
to  new  seasons  and  a  bright  future. 
And  through  it  all.  he  can  count  on  the 
support  of  his  family. 

"They  stuck  by  me  even  at  McDevitt 
when  1  was  playing  JV  ball."  he  said. 
"They're  my  best  friends.  They're 
always  there  for  me  whether  1  have  a 
good  game  or  a  bad  game. They're 
happy  with  what  I'm  doing  and  I'm 
happy  because  I  know  they'll  always 
be  there. 

Basically,  1  feel  like  I'm  living  the 
glory  days  right  now." 


Ed  Griiver  covers  sports  for  the 
Lebanon  Daily  News. 


THE  VALLEY 


c 


Leslie  Mader  doesn't 


let  anything  slow  her 


down.  Blind  since 


infancy,  she  thinks  of 


her  disability  as  a 


stepping-stone  on  her 


path  to  success. 


Tentati\ely  tiptoeing  through  Hfe 
isn"t  the  path  walked  by  24- 
year-old  Leslie  Mader  "9S.  a 
Lebanon  Valley  College  senior  who 
says  she  has  "alwaNs  jumped  in  with 
both  feet.""  She  lo\es  rising  to  a  chal- 
lenge, and  so  far.  irmst  challenges  ha\e 
met  their  match  when  they've  faced 
this  Lebanon  woman  who.  blind  since 
the  age  of  one.  is  stri\ing  toward  a 
career  goal  of  counseling  so  she  can 
ease  pain  in  other  peoples"  li\es. 

Leslie,  always  encouraged  by  her 
father,  Royce  Mader.  Jr..  to  "do  e\  er\  - 
thing,  and  not  ask  for  special  pri\  i- 
leges,"'  has  taken  his  ad\  ice  to  heart. 
Her  professors  extol  her  talents  and 
tenacity,  and  enthusiasm  for  life  flows 
through  her  melodious  \oice. 
Described  as  an  "o\erachie\er."  she 
spent  a  semester  last  Near  stud\mg  m 
Germany,  is  majoring  in  psychology 
and  minoring  in  German  and  music, 
training  as  a  \olunteer  sexual  assault 
counselor,  and  planning  to  get  married 
in  the  next  couple  of  \ears. 


with  the 


Heart 


Bv  Barbara  .Miller 


Leslie  k)u>\\s  she  iciii  depend  on  Sterlnii;.  her  i^iiiile  iind  eanipcinlon. 


SPRING  1998 


She  is  described  by  Dr.  Sal  Cuilari. 
chairman  of  LVC"s  psychology  depart- 
ment and  one  of  her  professors,  as 
""\ery  independent.  It  is  amazing  to 
watch  her  —  I  think  a  lot  of  our  stu- 
dents find  her  inspiring.  She's  the  type 
of  student  you  wish  all  your  students 
were  like." 

Leslie  doesn't  want  to  sound  like 
she's  ""tooting  her  horn."  but  she  does 
admit  to  being  a  nitpicker  and  a  per- 
fectionist. '"I  ha\'e  always  expected  to 
do  well  m  things.  I  have  only  recently 
learned  to  cut  myself  some  slack. 
Learning  has  always  come  easily  to 
me  -  it  is  a  gift,  and  1  am  grateful  to 
God  for  it." 

Leslie  was  a  year-old  infant  when 
she  was  diagnosed  with  cancer.  ""They 
tried  radiation  and  chemotherapy." 
she  explains,  "but  the  cancer  had 
begun  moving  along  my  optic  nerve 
and  they  were  afraid  it  would'se 
spread,"  she  said.  She  has  permanent 
prosthetic  eyes. 

A  1991  honors  graduate  of 
L.ebanon  High  School.  Leslie  attended 
a  school  for  the  blind  at  the  age  of 
four,  but  after  a  year  was  ""main- 
streamed"  in  regular  public  school 
classrooms.  She's  grateful  not  to  ha\e 
been  segregated  from  her  sighted 
classmates.  ""If  you  li\e  onl>  with 
blind  people."  she  insists,  ""it  keeps 
you  isolated  fiom  the  sighted  commu- 
nity —  and  then  they  don't  know  how- 
to  handle  us  when  we're  thrust  upon 
them.  It's  better  for  us  to  have  experi- 
ence with  the  sighted,  whom  we'll  be 
spending  the  rest  of  our  lives  with.  We 
live  in  a  sighted  world,  and  we  need  to 
learn  how  to  function  w  ith  them." 

A  Quest  for  Success 

Froin  the  beginning,  it  seems. 
Leslie  learned  to  function  with  flying 
colors.  At  the  age  of  1 1,  she  went  on  a 
backpacking  trip  on  the  Loyalsock 
Trail  in  Lycoming  County.  ""At  first  the 
school  didn't  want  to  let  me  go."  she 
recalls.  "But  I  went,  and  I  did  well." 

So  it  wasn't  surprising  when,  dur- 
ing her  junior  year  at  LVC,  she  decid- 
ed to  venture  a  bit  farther  afield, 
spending  a  semester  in  Cologne,  an 
adventure  in  which  she  was  encour- 
aged by  Dr.  Jim  Scott,  her  German 
professor.  "I  was  very  eager  to  see  her 
do  the  program,"  he  says.  "I  felt  it 
would  help  her  to  become  more  inde- 
pendent, and  have  a  maturing  experi- 


Leslie  often  uses  Miller  Chapel  office  faeilities 
iliirini;  her  time  on  campus. 


ence.  There  was  some  hesitation  on  a 
number  of  lines.  Leslie  and  I  were  the 
only  two  people  who  thought  she 
should  realh  do  this." 

Most  sight-impaired  young  people 
in  Germany  attend  schools  for  the 
blind,  so  finding  a  host  family  for 
Leslie  was  a  challenge  —  and  a  major 
irritant.  But  her  persistence  paid  off 
when  the  college  was  able  to  find  a 
blind  couple  to  host  her.  "They  were  in 
their  early  30s,"  explains  Scott,  "and 
both  were  professionals  with  careers, 
and  they  agreed  to  take  Leslie.  At  first 
she  was  somewhat  reluctant,  because 
she  doesn't  like  to  think  of  herself  as 
blind.  But  I  did  tell  her  that  "This  is 
the  best  situation  you  could  have.  You 
will  be  living  with  people  who  are 
what  you  warit  to  become.  You  will  see 
how  this  works."  So  she  went,  and  was 


a  real  highlight  of  the  program.  The 
director  there  told  me  she  could 
not  ha\e  imagined  the  program  with- 
out her." 

Leslie's  decision  to  go  to  Germany 
came  as  no  surprise  to  Dr.  Stephen 
Specht.  a  professor  of  psychology  and 
one  of  Leslie's  teachers.  ""The  only 
thing  I  was  concerned  about  was  her 
dog  and  how  she  would  get  there," 
says  Specht.  who  confesses  he  keeps 
biscuits  in  his  office  for  Sterling 
Michelle,  her  black  Labrador  seeing- 
eye  dog.  As  it  turned  out.  Sterling 
adjusted  famously  to  life  in  Germany 
—  a  little  rambunctious  the  first 
week  or  so,  she  eventually  adapted 
to  her  new  surroundings.  Her  only 
faux  pas  was  snitching  a  piece  of 
toast  from  a  fellow  traveler  in  an 
airport  cafe. 


"Leslie  is  very  independent.  It  is  amazing  to 

watch  her  -  I  think  a  lot  of  our  students  find 

her  inspiring."  —  Dr.  Sal  Cuilari 


10 


THE  V.ALLEY 


Leslie,  too,  adapted  quickly  to 
German  life  —  after  a  bit  of  initial 
homesickness  and  the  inevitable  cul- 
ture shock.  But  a  bundle  of  mail  arri\- 
iiiL'  in  October  proved  to  be  jusi  what 
she  needed.  "For  my  birthday  my  par- 
ents had  a  bunch  of  people  write  lo  me 
and  they  had  all  the  letters  brailled  and 
sent  them  to  me.  I  laughed  and  cried 
m\  uay  through  them."  And  once  she 
got  oN'er  those  homesick  pangs,  she 
went  on  to  sa\or  her  new  en\ ironment. 

"Cologne  was  absolutely  wonder- 
ful," she  says.  "Studying  abroad  is  an 
unbelievable  experience,  in  terms  of 
maturation  and  experiencing  another 
culline.  Well,  it  changed  m\  life  -  1 
met  my  fiance  there."  The  lucky  lellou 
is  Raphael  Netolil/ky,  a  friend  of  liei- 
host  parents,  who  is  blind  in  one  c\c 
and  has  10  percent  sight  in  the  other. 
"He  does  (.|uite  well."  she  says,  adding 
that  he  is  winking  toward  the  ec|uiva- 
lent  of  a  master's  degree  in  social 
work,  and  is  employed  as  a  probation 
officer.  The  couple  aie  unsure  about 
whether  they'll  make  their  future 
home  m  the  Ll.,S.  or  Ciermaiiy. 

Her  experience  in  Germany  may 
have  been  a  precursor  to  more  exciting 
adventures  to  come.  "Two  things  1 
would  real!)  lo\c  lo  lr\  —  which 
would  probably  horrify  some  people 
—  are  hang  gliding  and  skydiving." 
she  says.  "1  think  it  wiuild  be  an 
incredible  expeiience.  1  would  love 
to  fly  unfettered  with  anything,  and 
these  are  two  of  the  closest  ways  to  get 
to  that." 

Those  w  iio  ha\c  come  to  know 
Leslie  wouldn't  lliul  her  aviary  aspira- 
tions unusual. 

"I  met  her  as  a  student  m  interme- 
diate German,"  says  .Scott.  "1  was  told 
1  was  going  to  have  a  blind  stutlent  in 
my  class  —  which  1  had  no  experience 
with  before  —  and  1  was  told  she 
wouki  be  no  problem.  Well.  1  found 
this  to  he  absokitclv  true.  She  is  a 
superb  stutlenl  who  did  all  the  work 
anybody  else  tlid  lor  the  course,  and 
did  it  extremelv  well.  She  is  preparing 
herself  for  a  life  that  enables  her  to 
help  other  people,  f hat's  where  she  is 
most  happy."  Scott  said, 

Leslie  even  met  the  challenge  of  a 
tough  course  like  statistics  head-on. 
"She  never  wants  a  break  that's 
unfair."  explains  Spechl.  "It's  been 
great  having  her  as  a  student.  Because 
she  is  blind,  she  doesn't  take  notes  - 
she  just  sits  aiul  listens  to  me.  and  is 


able  to  surpass  90  percent  of  the  class 
in  her  performances  on  tests."  With 
Leslie's  needs  in  mind.  Spechl  devised 
tactile  methods  of  teaching  statistics, 
"so  she  can  feel  the  things  1  was  show- 
ing the  rest  of  the  class."  (See  sidebar.) 
"1  find  Leslie  challenges  me  as 
well,"  says  Spccht.  "It's  great  having 
her  in  class.  It's  sort  of  a  symbiotic 
iclationship,"  Specht  said.  "I  would 
say  we  are  good  friends,  too.  1  lease 
her  sometimes  —  I'll  say.  'Leslie,  your 
abacus  needs  some  batteries."" 

Overc()minf»  Obstacles 

While  her  handicap  has  certainly 
created  some  obstacles  m  her  lite. 
Leslie  points  out.  "Everyone  has  some 
thlTicullies.  your  cross  to  bear  1  don't 
think  blindness  has  made  it  harder 
for  me." 

She  lives  in  her  own  apartment  in 
Lebanon,  having  decided  three  years 
ago  it  was  lime  to  jump  from  the  nest 
of  her  parents'  home,  forging  her  own 
path  aiul  living  pretty  much  the  wav 
everv  bodv  else  does  —  minus  the  tele- 
\  ision  set. 

But  setting  up  housekeeping  pre- 
sented its  own  challenges.  "Shopping  1 
loathe."  she  says.  "Sometimes  when  1 
shop  with  friends  it  can  be  fun.  But  my 
paients  help  w  ith  gioceries."  She  terms 
hci'sclt  onlv   a  "rudiinentai  v   cook." 


whose  sense  of  smell  and  taste  — 
important  gastronomic  guides  —  were 
(.lamaged  by  the  radiation  she  under- 
went as  an  infant.  But  she's  looking 
forward  to  a  richer  culinary  future: 
"My  fiance  is  a  wonderful  cook,  so  he 
will  do  the  cooking  in  our  family." 

Without  the  gift  of  sight,  Leslie  has 
come  up  with  some  creative  ways  to 
go  about  the  business  of  learning.  Like 
many  blind  people,  she  hasn't  both- 
ered to  learn  to  write  much  other  than 
her  name,  and  relies  on  memorization 
to  an  astonishing  degree.  She  never 
tapes  lectures  (listening  lo  them  later 
puts  her  to  sleep),  relying  instead  on 
her  excellent  memory.  "People  marvel 
at  this.  hLit  I  L!uess  I've  honed  it.  I 


"I  find  Leslie  challenges 

me  as  well.  It's  great 

ha\ing  her  in  class.  It's 

sort  of  a  symbiotic 

relationship."  says 

Dr.  Stephen  Specht. 


/'.sm7(i'/ih,'\  I'lofcssor  Sh'plun  .S'/ni  /)/  iU'\li;i!c'cl  n  scl  el  s/'cciiil  "taclilc 
hoiiids"  III  hclji  Leslie  iiiiihrsuiml  ihc  (W.siiiluils  ol  iiiiiinlil<iU\c  iiihilxsis. 


SPRING  1QQ8 


11 


memorize  most  phone  numbers.  And  I 
don't  usually  take  notes.  1  do  study 
with  friends  after  class  —  I  tell  them 
what  1  understand,  and  they  tell  me  if 
I'm  conect  or  no[.  And  often  1  do  need 
the  res'ievv." 

Back  in  elementary  school,  she 
relied  on  Braille  books,  but  found  that 
Braille  takes  longer  and  costs  about 
S7.0()()  for  a  book.  "I'm  a  struggling 
college  student  and  I  can't  afford  that." 
says  Leslie,  who  calls  herself  a  "speed 
reader"  of  recorded  textbooks. 

While  studying  doesn't  faze  her. 
research,  on  the  other  hand,  "is  a 
nightmare.  It's  like  my  hell  —  getting 
everything  read  and  reread,  and 
putting  it  in  order."  She  listens  to  arti- 
cles on  tape,  or  her  father  reads  them 
to  her.  and  she  has  him  highligiit  what 
she  wants  lo  include  in  hei"  paper.  She 
puts  her  paper  on  tape,  and  then  has  it 
transcribed.  Leslie  is  a  proficient  typ- 
ist, who  uses  an  electric  typewriter  and 
a  word  procesor.  But.  she  adds.  "I  am 
a  computer  moron." 

Most  of  her  tests  are  done  orally, 
■"the  professors  often  read  the  ques- 
tions to  me,  and  then  write  down  my 
answers."  she  explains.  Or.  teachers 
will  record  the  test  on  tape  and  ask  her 
to  record  her  answers. 

What's  It  like  going  through  the 
obstacle  course  that  Leslie  runs  every 
day  of  her  life?  Specht  relates  that  dur- 
ing an  exercise  in  which  students  were 
instructed  to  pick  a  handicap  to  try  on. 
those  who  chose  to  be  blind  were  sur- 
prised at  how  difficult  and  emotionally 
draining  the  temporary  experience 
was.  But.  he  points  out.  "Leslie  said 
that  to  be  honest,  it's  not  really  fair  to 
judge  from  that  experience,  because 
when  you  are  blind  almost  from  birth 
you  don't  know  what  you're  missing. 
She  doesn't  see  it  as  a  disability  or 
handicap.  She  doesn't  know  any  other 
way.  so  she  said  it's  not  so  devastating 
for  her.  To  me.  that  is  a  real  good 
example  of  what  Leslie  is  all  about. 
There  are  practical  barriers  for  her  in 
the  world,  but  it  isn't  an  emotional 
thing,  where  she  feels  sorry  for  herself 
or  is  hampered." 

Leslie  insists  that  adults  who  lose 
their  vision  have  a  tougher  adjustment 
than  someone  like  herself  who  grew 
up  without  vision.  "They  feel  the  loss 
more.  1  think,"  she  says.  But.  she 
points  out.  those  people  do  have  the 
comfort  of  their  memories.  "I've  felt 


"I  am  not  deceived  or  distracted  by  visual 

stimuli.  For  example,  to  me,  skin  color  is  less 

than  irrelevant.  I  don't  know  what  people 

look  like,  so  it  doesn't  matter." 

—  Leslie  Mader 


sad  when  someone  tried  to  describe  to 
me  fine  art.  or  the  beauty  of  a  sunset." 

Cullari.  who  had  never  taught  a 
totally  blind  student  before  Leslie's 
arrival  on  campus,  was  uncertain,  ini- 
tially, about  what  to  expect.  "I  think 
we  all  had  concerns  at  first,"  he  recalls. 
"A  lot  of  the  classes  involve  sensory 
perception,  and  statistics,  for  example, 
is  difficult  enough  for  students  who 
can  see.  To  her  credit  she  hasn't  shied 
away  from  taking  those  kinds  of  class- 
es. At  first  I  think  we  were  not  so 
much  concerned  whether  she  would  be 
able  to  do  the  work,  but  whether  we 
could  accommodate  her." 

And  Cullari  insists  that  the  accom- 
modations haven't  been  very  dramatic 
—  the  only  adjustment  to  his  teaching 
method  has  come  in  the  form  or  oral 
exams.  "We  treat  her  as  a  regular  stu- 
dent," he  says.  "Her  dog  is  in  the  class, 
of  course,  which  is  usually  not  a  big 
deal.  Actually,  Leslie  adds  a  lot  to  the 
class,  and  always  has  a  question  or  a 
comment  to  make." 

Sterling  Michelle,  Leslie's  seeing- 
eye  dog,  is  always  at  her  side,  and 
Leslie  has  become  so  attached  to  her 
canine  companion  that  she  doesn't 
think  she'd  trade  her  in  for  20-20 
vision.  "1  don't  think  I'd  want  to  have 
vision,"  she  insists.  "There  are  so 
many  things  I  would  have  to  give  up. 
Sight  would  not  be  worth  trading  my 
seeing-eye  dog  for.  She  is  like  my 
own  child." 

Sterling  will  stop  at  curbs,  and 
blocks  Leslie  with  her  body  at  the  top 
of  stairs  or  obstacles.  Leslie  learned  to 
use  a  cane  in  third  grade,  but  got  her 
dog  in  1991  when  she  was  17. 

Looking  to  the  Future 

Leslie  turned  to  psychology  as  a 
major  because,  she  says,  "People  have 
told  me  I  would  be  good  at  it,  and  I 
thought,  'That  is  something  I  could 
do.'  And  I  genuinely  like  people,  and 
feel  a  sense  of  empathy  for  them." 


After  graduation  this  spring,  Mader 
said  she  hopes  to  counsel  survivors  of 
sexual  assault,  and  she's  now  undergo- 
ing training  as  a  volunteer  with  the 
Sexual  Assault  Resource  and 
Counseling  Center.  She'd  also  like  to 
train  as  a  domestic  violence  interven- 
tion volunteer. 

"I've  known  some  people  who  have 
been  assaulted."  she  says.  "I  don't  like 
pain,  and  I  want  to  do  something  about 
stopping  it,"  she  said.  "It's  difficult 
work,  by  definition  painful.  You  must 
protect  yourself,  without  becoming 
cold.  It  is  a  tightrope  you  have  to  walk. 
I  feel  I  can  do  it  —  1  mean,  someone 
has  to." 

Leslie  feels  that  her  blindness  may 
even  be  an  asset  to  counseling.  "1  am 
not  deceived  or  distracted  by  visual 
stimuli,"  she  explains.  "For  example, 
to  me,  skin  color  is  less  than  irrelevant. 
1  don't  know  what  people  look  like,  so 
it  doesn't  matter."  A  hindrance,  she 
admits,  might  be  that  she  can't  watch 
body  language.  "But  a  sense  of  that,  I 
think,  1  can  get  from  voices.  1  think  a 
lot  of  this  work  settles  on  feelings." 
And  she  figures  her  small  stature  may 
be  less  intimidating  to  people  who 
may  have  been  abused. 

Cullari  agrees  that  Leslie  has  the 
makings  of  a  good  counselor.  "I  think 
she  could  bring  a  lot  of  unique  things 
to  counseling,"  he  says.  "Her  whole 
attitude  is  so  optimistic,  never-say-no, 
and  she  is  always  wanting  to  improve 
things.  I  think  having  someone  who 
had  lo  overcome  so  much  in  her  life 
could  add  a  new  dimension  to  therapy. 
She  has  been  very  good  at  bringing 
that  optimistic  view  of  the  world  most 
of  us  don't  have,  and  most  of  us 
haven't  had  to  confront  the  types  of 
problems  she's  had  to  confront."  And, 
while  she  won't  be  able  to  pick  up  on 
nonverbal  cues,  such  as  body  language 
and  facial  expressions,  Cullari  insists 
that  she  can  make  up  for  any  lack. 
"She  sort  of  has  a  sense  about  it.  She 
may  not  see  visual  cues,  but  she  is  bet- 


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THE  "VALLEY 


ter  at  pickins:  up  the  vocal  kinds  of 
cues  that  most  people  miss." 

A  Sense  of  Joy 

No  mutter  what  path  her  lite  takes. 
Leslie  is  sure  she'll  enjoy  the  sounds 
she  hears  alony  her  way.  "I  remember 
people  by  their  voices,"  she  says. 
"Each  voice  is  unique.  And  I'll  be 
.singing  anywhere  and  everywhere  I 
am  —  I  lose  music."  A  self-taught 
pianist,  she  plays  by  ear  and  memo- 
ri/es  all  her  music.  And  though  she's 
also  a  member  of  the  LVC  concert 
choir,  she  does  wish  she  could  have 
done  more  with  theatre  or  dancing. 
As  a  child,  she  remembers  alwass 
wanting  to  be  a  ballerina,  or  a  jockey, 
or  a  figure  skater.  "You  ha\e  to  be  tiny 
for  all  those  things.  The\  were  a 
chikl's  fantasy.  Btil  once  I  staitetl 
singing.  I  never  looked  back." 

While  music  has  been  her  pleasure, 
her  faith  has  hccii  her  gtinle.  She 
strives,  she  sa\s,  "in  live  as  .lesus 
Christ  did  —  to  love  one  another. 
That's  what  we  are  called  to  do."  Not 
suiprisingly,  one  of  her  hobbies  is  col- 
lecting angels,  which  she  views  as  the 
archetype  for  people  everywhere. 

Ever  the  optimist,  Leslie  embraces 
a  philosophy  of  looking  on  the  bright 
.side,  "Have  you  ever  just  touchetl  a 
bouquet  of  flowers?  Or  stopped  and 
listened  to  a  birdsong?  These  are 
things  that  sighted  people  miss.  I  think 
in  terms  of  lextures.  hot  and  cold.  I 
have  no  concept  oi  color,  no  frame  of 
reference  whatsoever. 

Picture  a  young  woman  who's  con- 
fident in  herself  and  facing  the  future 
with  joy  and  enthusiasm  —  that's 
Leslie  Mader.  With  her  circle  of  close 
friends  she  fits  right  into  life  at  the 
Valley, 

Specht.  who's  observed  Leslie 
interacting  with  her  classmates,  sees  a 
young  woman  who  knows  how  to 
experience  the  joy  of  friendship,  ".She 
is  very  interactive  with  her  fellow  stu- 
dents," he  says.  "They  love  her  and  her 
dog.  They  are  very  helpful  to  her."  ,\ikI 
when  he  sees  Leslie  and  Sterling  leave 
this  spring,  it  will  be  with  a  mixture  of 
joy  and  regret.  "1  don't  know  what  I'll 
do  when  they  leave  here."  he  says.  "It 
will  be  a  sad  dav  for  me." 


Barbara  Miller  is  a  staff  writer 
for  the  Lebanon  bureau  oj  the 
Harnsbur}i  Patriot. 


A 

for 

Statistics 


Dr.  Steve  Specht  is 
the  first  to  admit 
that  he's  no  carpen- 
ter. But  if  you 
want  to  know  about 
bell  curves  and  bar 
graphs  and  any  of 
the  measuring  tools 
that  psychologists 
use  to  understand 
the  mysteries  of 
human  behavior  — 
well,  he's  your  man. 
The  problem  was  — 
how  could  he  convey  all  this  visual  information  to  a  student 
who's  blind?  When  Leslie  Mader  enrolled  in  his  statistics 
course,  he  knew  he'd  have  to  come  up  with  a  new  way  to  help 
her  "see"  the  visual  examples  that  illustrate  statistical  con- 
cepts. 

The  result  is  a  set  of  "tactile  boards,"  a  crafty  solution  that 
helps  Leslie  understand  the  aspects  of  various  quantitative 
analyses  —  the  meat  of  a  course  required  of  every  psychology 
major.  A  solid  grasp  of  statistics  is  essential  for  all  successful 
research  or  clinical  psychologists. 

Each  of  Specht's  boards  demonstrates  a  different  concept 
— from  curves  made  of  cord  and  expo.xy,  showing  positively 
and  negatively  skewed  distributions,  to  scatterplot  copper 
"BBs"  representing  positive  and  negative  correlations. 

Another  of  Specht's  innovations  is  a  set  of  23  wooden 
blocks  constructed  to  form  two  frequency  distributions  with 
different  degrees  of  variability.  The  blocks  —  one-by-one-inch 
pieces  of  wood  expertly  cut  and  sanded  by  Specht's  sister, 
Michele  Coupe  —  are  embedded  with  copper  BBs  correspond- 
ing to  Braille  numbers.  They  can  be  placed  manually  at  the 
appropriate  places  along  the  curve  to  help  Leslie  understand 
how  a  frequency  distribution  is  built  by  accumulations  o'i  indi- 
viduals with  scores  of  particular  values. 

Touching  these  boards  gives  Leslie  —  who's  had  no  \  isual 
experience  —  a  way  to  "visualize"  difficult  statistical  con- 
cepts. "This  makes  it  real  for  her."  says  Specht.  "For  sighted 
students,  everything  1  do  is  pictorial,  so  this  helps  me  do  the 
same  sort  of  thing  for  Leslie,  1  keep  thinking  of  ways  to  refine 
the  boards.  It's  like  writing  a  paper  —  there's  never  a  time 
when  you  think  viHi'rc  realK  done,  "i'ou  think.  "Well,  maybe  if 
1  changed  this  one  thing  it  would  be  better.'  But  Leslie  is  such 
a  good  student  that  wdrking  with  her  is  a  new  challenge  to  me 
as  a  teacher.  It's  alwav  s  fun  —  and  1  learn  a  lot  as  well." 

—  Naiici/  Fitzgerald 


SPRING  NQ8 


13 


NEWS     BRIEFS 


LVC  on  ice 

When  yiHi  think  of  ice  hockev  vou 
probably  think  of  New  England  or 
Canadian  teams  or  the  Hershey  Bears. 
Now  you  can  add  Lebanon  Valley 
College  to  that  equation. 

Beginning  ne.xt  fall,  the  inaugural 
Flying  Dutchmen  "icemen"  will  skate 
into  the  historic  oval  rink  of  Hershey 
park  Arena.  Head  coach  Allan 
MacCormack,  a  former  two-time  State 
University  of  New  York  coach  of  the 
year,  has  been  busy  recruiting  and  has 
received  an  enormous  response  from 
hockey  players  and  fans  alike. 

As  MacCormack  stated  recently. 
"There  has  been  an  overwhelming 
amount  of  interest.  The  thought  of 
playing  for  a  college  with  a  proven 
success  record  in  both  academics  and 
athletics,  combined  with  the  opportunity 
to  play  all  of  your  home  matches  on  the 
Bears'  home  ice.  seems  to  appeal  to 
many  quality  student  athletes." 

Mark  Sunday.  October  2.S  at  I  p.m.  on 
your  fall  calendar,  and  plan  on  being  at 
Hersheypark  Arena  for  opening  night' 


Integrating  marketing 

To  bolster  the  college's  marketing 
efforts.  President  David  Pollick 
appointed  Vice  President  for 
Advancement  Deborah  Read  to  chair  a 
campus-w  ide  task  force  to  create  an 
integrated  marketing  plan. 

The  task  force  reviewed  various 
aspects  of  the  college  —  academic, 
athletic,  administrative.  eo-cuiTicular  — 
and  determined  Lebanon  Valley's 
strengths,  the  major  audiences  we  need 
to  reach,  and  the  most  effective  ways  to 
reach  those  constituencies.  The 
resulting  marketing  plan,  which  was 
presented  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  at  the 
May  meeting,  will  insure  that  the 
entire  college  communicates  a 
consistent  message. 

Task  force  members  are  Deborah 
Fullam  '81.  vice  president  and  controller; 
William  Brown  '79.  dean  of  admission; 

Networking  grant 

The  college  will  continue  to 
electronically  network  its  student 
residence  halls  thanks  to  a  $2.^.000  grant 
from  Bell  Atlantic  through  the 
Foundation  for  Independent  Colleges. 


Biiihani  Kotch.  Bell  Atlantic  Jixtricl  maiuii;i'r,  presents  a 
$25,000  check  ti>  President  David  Paliuk. 


Inc.  of  Penns>  Kania  (FlC)  for  the 
Campus  Technology  Fund. 

FiC  is  an  affiliate  of  the  Association 
of  Independent  Colleges  and 
Universities  of  Pennsylvania  (AlCUP). 
The  grant  will  be  used  to  complete  a 
project  starteil  in  the  early  1990s,  when 


Greg  Stanson  '63.  vice  president  of 
enrollment  services;  Elaine  Feather, 
director  of  continuing  education;  Judy 
Pehrson.  executive  director  of  college 
relations;  Lou  Sorrentino  "54.  director 
of  athletics;  Andrea  Bromherg. 
executive  assistant  to  the  president;  Dr. 
Michael  Day.  chair  of  the  Physics 
Department;  Dr.  Jeanne  Hey.  chair  of 
the  Economics  and  Political  Science 
Department;  Dr.  Mark  Mecham.  chair 
of  the  Music  Department;  Wendie 
DiMatteo  Holsinger.  trustee;  Bruce 
Rismiller.  trustee;   Wes  Dcllinger  '15. 
trustee;  Kristen  Angstadl  "74.  president 
of  the  Alumni  Association;  and  Jeanine 
Schweitzer  '98.  student. 

A  series  of  four  subcommittees  were 
also  set  up  which  include  faculty,  staff 
and  members  of  the  community. 


LVC  began  building  the  infrastructure 
needed  to  support  a  netw  orking  system. 

The  award  was  one  of  six  presented  to 
AICUP's  member  schools  from  a  grant 
competition  that  attracted  45 

applications.  To 
receive  the  grant. 
Lebanon  Valley 
College  raised  an 
additional  SI 2. 5(K) 
for  campus  technol- 
og\  impro\cments. 
When  the  project 
is  complete,  stu- 
dents living  in  all  of 
the  college"s  major 
residence  halls  will 
be  able  to  connect 
their  computers 
directly  to  the 
campus  network. 
This  will  allow  stu- 
dents to  search  the  catalog  of  the  college 
library  or  of  any  of  hundreds  of  libraries 
around  the  world,  to  pick  up  an  assign- 
ment from  a  professor  via  e-mail  or  the 
Web.  or  to  retrieve  a  copy  of  a  journal 
article  for  a  paper  —  all  from  the  conve- 
nience and  comfort  of  their  dorm  rooms. 


14 


THE  VALLEY 


1998-99  tuition/fees 

The  E\ecuti\e  Committee  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  approved  tuition,  required 
fees,  and  room  and  board  for  the  1998- 
99  academie  >  ear. 

For  resident  students,  tuition  and  fees 
will  be  516.610  and  room  and  board 
$5,300.  The  new  fee  structure 
represents  a  3.89  percent  increase  o\er 
1997-98.  Commuter  students  at  the 
college  will  pay  SI 6.566  in  tintion  and 
fees  —  a  3.96  percent  increase  o\er 
last  year. 

According  to  President  Da\  id  Pollick. 
"The  college  is  continuing  its  efforts  to 
keep  increases  below  the  five  percent 
average  for  private  colleges  nationalls 
while  still  increasing  the  le\el  of  rncrit- 
and  need-based  financial  aid." 

He  noted  that  the  college  will 
continue  its  se\en-\ ear-old  achic\enient 
scholarship  program,  which  rew  ards 
academic  achievement  in  high  school. 
Some  82  percent  of  our  entering  full- 
time  freshmen  receive  one  of  the 
achievement  scholarships. 

Business  boost 

Some  350  students  from  oxer  20  high 
schools  throughout  Central  Penns\I\ania 
got  business  ad\ice  from  L\'C  trustee 
Wendie  DiMatteo  Holsinger.  chief  exec- 
utive officer  of  ASK  Foods.  Inc.   Her 
keynote  address  for  the  annual  Business 
Career  Da\  tocused  on  the  qualities  and 
marketable  skills  emplo_\ers  look  for  in 
business  graduates. 

The  da\  featured  a  \ariety  of  seminars 
presented  b\  area  business  leaders.  The 
sessions  co\  ered  human  resource 
management,  international  business, 
marketing  and  sales,  finance,  and 
business  applications  on  the  Internet. 

Founders  Day  honoree 

The  1998  Founders  Da\  celebration  in 
February  honored  Leonard  Washington, 
retired  CEO  of  the  Department  o\ 
Veterans  .Atfairs  Medical  Center 
in  Lebanon. 

The  Founders  Day  award  recogni/es 
individuals  w  hose  character  and 
leadership,  in  the  spirit  of  the  tounders 


of  Lebanon  \'alle\  College,  contribute 
to  the  enhancement  of  life  in  Central 
Pennsyhania. 

Washington  joined  the  staff  of  the 
Lebanon  VA  Medical  Center  in  1963  as 
a  professional  social  worker.  He  later 
held  a  series  ol  increasingly  responsible 
positions  w  ithin  the  Veterans  .Admin- 
istration, including  in  Washington. 
DC  and  returned  to  Lebanon  in 
1982  to  serve  as  CEO  until  he  retired 
in  December. 


President  Pollick  coniiraUtlalfs  Lfontiitl 
Washiui;t(>ii.  ihe  I'^^H  Foaiulers  Day 
Awiird  rc<  i/iicnl. 

.Actixc  in  the  coniniunit\ .  Washington 
was  a  member  of  the  planning  com- 
mittee that  designed  the  Leailcrship 
Lebanon  \'alic\  Program  and  cunenll\ 
ser\  es  as  a  board  member  for  man\ 
communit\  organizations,  including  the 
Lebanon  Valley  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Washington  has  also  appeared  in 
numerous  performances  for  the  Lebanon 
CommiinitN  Theater,  the  Theater  ol  the 
Se\enth  Sister  and  the  Phoenix 
Ra\enswing  in  Lancaster,  and  lor 
Kreider  Brother  Productions  and 
KK  Productions. 

W  ashington  holds  a  bachcKir's  degree 
from  Dillard  Unixersity.  and  master's 
degrees  in  social  wdrk  from  Howard 
L'ni\ersil\  and  business  administration 
from  Northwestern  Uni\ersit\'s  Kellogg 
School  of  Manaiienient. 


Filled  with  pride 

It's  been  a  >ear  to  remember  for  the 
college's  marching  band.  The  group, 
formally  known  as  "The  Pride  of  the 
X'alley."  lived  up  to  their  name  as  they 
were  enthusiastically  met  w ith  numerous 
standing  o\  ations  both  at  home  and  at 
away  games  throughout  the  semester. 

"This  is  the  best  band  in  ni>  I  I  \ears 
w  ith  the  college."  states  Robert  Hearson. 
associate  professor  of  music  and  band 
director,  who  explains  that  one  of  the 
most  amazing  things  about  the  band  is 
Its  student  statt".  "The  thing  that 
makes  us  unique  is  that  students 
write  and  teach  the  shows.   It's  reallv 
a  learning  tool  for  them." 

The  1 1  -person  student  crew 
consists  of  drum  majors:  marching 
and  maneuvering  coaches; 
instructors  in  tw  iriing.  drum  line, 
guard,  ritle  and  silks;  drill  designers; 
and  a  \  isual  coordinator.  Hearson 
o\  ersees  and  advises,  but  lets  the  stu- 
dents use  their  creati\it\  and 
know  ledge  to  develop  the  show  s. 
For  the  past  three  \  ears,  the  band  has 
been  informallx  known  as  "The 
Marching  Hundred.  "  and  is  cunentl\ 
comprised  of  50  percent  music  majors 
and  50  percent  nonmajors.   Next  year's 
group  also  looks  strong  —  Hearson 
expects  (^2  new  freshmen  from  this  year 
to  return,  resulting  in  a  total  of 
120-130  members. 

There  are  several  off-campus 
indi\  idiials  w  hose  w  ork  behind  the 
scenes  has  also  been  \  ital  to  the  band's 
success.  .Musical  arrangements  for  the 
perlorniances  arc  written  b\  Skip 
Norcott.  a  member  of  Quartet/Die 
Posaunen.  with  percussion/drumline 
w(irk  arranged  b\  Hearson's  son-in-law. 
.lohn  R.  I;\ans.  a  musician  who  performs 
w  ith  the  Naples  Philharmonic  in  Florida. 
Hearson  also  credits  Clxde  Mentzer  '34. 
a  resident  of  the  West  Chester  area,  who 
lor  man\  \ears  has  allocated  funds  to  the 
marching  band  to  help  w  ith  travel 
expenses.  "It's  a  wonderful  gesture. " 
stated  Hearson.  who  described  Mentzer 
as  an  a\  id  band  supporter  who  is 
"alwaxs  there  lor  us." 


SPRING  1098 


Winning  Web  pages 

The  Career  Planning  and  Placemen! 
Web  home  page,  designed  by  Stan 
Furmanak.  systems  and  reference  librari- 
an, received  a  Silver  Award  from 
Adguide's  Job  Sites. 

The  college's  Web  pages  as  a  whole 
were  recognized  as  outstanding  in  a 
recent  study  done  b\  three  researchers  at 
Boise  State  University.  Lebanon  Valley 
was  rated  in  the  top  decile  of  the  209 
public  and  pri\  ate  colleges  and 
universities  whose  Web  sites 
were  evaluated. 

You  can  \  imI  the  college's  Web  pages 
at:  htpp://\\  vvw.lvc.edu. 

Art  sparks  interest 

Joan  Bertin.  executive  director  of  the 
National  Coalition  Against  Censorship 
in  New  York,  served  as  keynote  speaker 
for  the  spring  Humanities 
Colloquium.  "Art Attacks: 
The  Politics  of  Ciiltiire." 
The  colloquuim 
explored  the  impact  of 
artistic  metlia 
and  what 
happens  when 
artists  become 
iiudlvcd  in  the 
political 
process.  It  also 
looked  at 
censorship 
and  w  hat 
happens 
when  art 
comes 
inider  attack. 
""Artists  frequently 
celebrate  our  shared  values,  assimiptions 
and  conventions,  but  they  can  also 
challenge  or  attack  these  same 
certainties."  explained  Dr.  James  Scott, 
professor  of  German  and  an  organi/er  of 
the  colloquium.   ""When  artists  push  this 
envelope  of  expectations,  communities 
—  or  parts  of  them  —  often  push  back." 

A  local  example  of  the  collision  of 
artistic  and  community  \alues  occurred 
last  fall  in  Annville  when  a  show 
entitled  ""Sex  Is  Art"  was  canceled  at  the 


Union  Hose  Company  because  the 
community  objected  to  its  content.  The 
colloquium  examined  that  event  in  a 
panel  discussion  that  occurred  in 
conjunction  with  an  art  show.  "Image 
Wars."  in  the  Mund  College  Center, 
which  featured  u  orks  from  the  banned 
show,  as  well  as  other  controversial  art. 

The  colloquium  also  included  a  film 
series,  introduced  by  National  Public 
Radio  film  critic  Bob  Mondcllo.  The 
series  was  a  combination  of  foreign  and 
American  films  ranging  from  the  new 
release.  Wclcdiiic  Id  Siirajevd.  to  the 
classic  black  comedy.  Dr.  SirciiigelDvc. 

Other  highlights  included  a  dance  per- 
formance by  nicholasleichtcrdance  of 
New  York  City,  and  a  reading  by  award- 
winning  author  Lucinda  Roy.  Lectures 
were  given  by  Sandra  Levinson, 
executive  director  of  the  Center  for 
Cuban  Studies  in  New  York;  Dr.  Hollis 
Clayson  of  Northwestern  University; 
and  Dr.  Jonathan  Weinberg  of  Yale 
Uni\'ersity. 

Swedish  visitors 

Kerstin  Lonngren  and  Kjell  Ostberg. 
administrators  from  Sodertons 
Hogskiila.  a  new  public  university  in 
suburban  Stockholm,  spent  two  days  in 
March  touring  the  campus  and  learning 
how  Lebanon  Valley  has  successl'ull\ 
dealt  v\ith  increasing  enrollment  and  an 
ever-changing  physical  plant. 

The  two  administrators  spent  a  total 
of  eight  days  in  the  United  States. 
\  isiting  Stanford  University,  the 
University  of  California  at  Bcrkelc\. 
St.  Mary's  College,  and  Northwestern 
University  in  Evanston.  Illinois,  before 
arri\'ing  at  Lebanon  Valley.  The\  took  a 
particular  interest  in  the  landscaping  at 
Lebanon  Valley  and  commended  the 
college  for  its  crealix  e  use  of  space. 

Physics 
luminary  lectures 

Harvard  Professor  Robert  Pound,  one  of 
three  phvsicists  who  discovered  Nuclear 
Magnetic  Resonance  (NMR).  delivered 
two  lectures  at  the  college  in  April: 
'"From  Radar  to  NMR  —  fhe  Bemninas 


of  Nuclear  Magnetic  Resonance"  and 
"Weighing  Protons." 

The  discovery  of  NMR  was  a  major 
scientific  advance  and  has  become  wide- 
ly known  through  its  application  as  a 
medical  diagnostic  tool  (known  as 
Magnetic  Resonance  Imaging) 

Pound  was  the  ""electronic  whiz  kid" 
of  the  three  young  physicists  who 
discovered  NMR  in  solids  in  late  1945. 
He  is  a  former  chair  of  the  Harvard 
Department  of  Physics,  and  has  received 
numerous  honors  and  awards,  including 
the  National  Medal  of  Science  in  1990. 
His  visit  was  funded  in  part  by  a  grant 
Irom  the  American  Institute  of  Physics. 

Ten  big  ones 

Quartet/Die  Posaunen  celebrated  its  1 0th 
anniversary  as  Lebanon  Valley's 
trombone  quartet-in-residence  with  a 
performance  March  22  that  turned  into  a 
tribute  to  retiring  Dean  William  McGill. 
McGill  was  the  person  responsible  for 
bringing  the  group  to  the  college  in 
1988.  and  the  quartet  acknowledged  his 
help  by  presenting  the  a\'id  baseball  fan 
with  two  letters  from  the  St.  Louis 
Cardinals,  a  replica  of  a  193.5  Cardinals 
baseball  cap  and  an  autographed  photo 
of  baseball  great  Whitey  Kurowski. 

High-tech  delivery 


Music  recording  technology  majors  (left 
to  right}  Craig  Underwood,  Cindy 
Perroth  and ,/.  /4/('.v  Lang  display  some 
sline-of-the-art  equipment  loaned  to  the 
college  hy  Tascam,  a  large  producer  of 
technic(d  products  for  the  music  industry 
and  a  suhisdiaty  of  TEAC.   The  college 
also  has  an  internship  program  with 
Tasciun.  which  Lang  will  he 
participating  in  over  the  summer. 


16 


THE  V.ALLEY 


By  Tom  Hanrahan 

Sports  Information  Director 

Women's  basketball 

(16-7.  8-6  MAC) 

Head  coach  Peg  KaiitTman.  behind  a  trio 
of  senior  captains,  led  the  team  to  the 
college's  best  record  since  women's 
baskethall  began  in  1904. 

Chrissy  Henise.  Kathy  Ziga  and  Tricia 
Rudis  closed  out  their  collegiate  careers 
in  dramatic  fashion,  leading  the  Fl\  ing 
Dutchwomen  to  the  brink  of  the  team's 
first-ever  postseason  appearance.  LVC 
was  a  finalist  for  inclusion  in  the  EC.AC 
Southern  Region  Championships  but 
missed  out  by  a  narrow  margin. 

Ziga  and  Henise  were  joined  b\  junior 
Melissa  Brecht  and  sophomore  Serenity 
Roos  as  four  of  the  Dtitchwomen's  fi\e 
starters  were  named  to  the  \\.\C  .All- 
Academic  Team  in  March. 

On  the  court.  Ziga.  Henise  and  Roos 
each  established  new  school  records  for 
women's  basketball.  For  her  efforts.  Ziga 
was  selccied  as  a  M.AC  Commonwealth 
League  Second  Team  .All-Siar.  .Also. 
Rudis  mo\  ed  into  4th  place  on  the 
college's  all-time  rebounding  list;  she 
finished  with  610  lolal  career  rebounds. 


i.   > 


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Diitchwonuin  Tcini  Riihl  sreiils  the  IhiII. 

Wrestling  i2-\}.  i-^maci 

Jtiiiior  grappler  Ted  Kenimerling  i24-.^M 
reeled  off  19  straight  wins  lo  start  the 
season.  He  ended  the  season  b\  t\  ing 
Rich  Kichman  '86  as  the  school's 
highest  finisher  in  the  NC.A.A  Di\ision 
111  Wrestling  Championships. 
Kemmerling.  from  Pine  Gro\e.  finished 
4th  at  the  NC.A.As  on  March  6-7. 
becoming  the  3th  Dutchman  to  earn  All- 
.American  wrestling  honors. 


SPORTS 


During  the  regular  season.  Kemmerling 
placed  1st  ( 150  poundsi  at  both  the  Kings 
College  Monarch  Tournament  and  at  the 
LVC  Gerald  Petroles  Tournament. 

Junior  co-captain  Larry  Larlhey  ( 177 
pounds),  son  of  head  coach  Law  rence 
Larthey  '72.  had  a  strong  season, 
finishing  second  on  the  team  with  16 
\ictories.  Larthey  was  followed  in  the 
win  category  b\  sophomtire  William 
Skretkowic/'s  (27.3  pounds)  1."^  wins. 

Men's  and  women's 
indoor  track  &  field 

Sophomore  .All-.Amencaii  .Ann  Musser 
earned  the  women's  Most  Outstanding 
Athlete  .Award  at  the  M.AC  Indoor  Track 
and  Field  Championships,  held  February 
28  in  the  .Arnold  Sports  Center. 

Musser.  from  W'omelsdorf  had  a 
throw  of  l.'vl  1  meters  (4.^-0  1/4)  in  the 
shot  put.  smashing  the  M.AC  record.  She 
also  holds  MAC  outdoor  records  in  the 
shot  and  discus.  Musser  has  captured 
four  .M.AC  gold  medals,  two  indiiors 
(shot)  and  two  outdoors  (shot  and  discus). 

.At  the  NC.A.A  Dnision  111  Champion- 
ships in  .March.  Musser  placed  ."^th  in  (he 
shot  put.  throwing  1.^.  19  m  (4.^-.^  l/4i. 
her  fifth  school  recortl.  and  earning  .AU- 
.America  honors.  Ha\  ing  placed  8th  at 
the  1997  outdoor  national  championships 
in  the  discus.  Musser  becomes  the  first 
two-limc  All-.Amcnciin  in  track  and  field 
for  Lebanon  \  alle\ . 

Se\  en  other  Fh  ing  Dutchmen  earned 
MAC  gold  medals.  Richard  Hopf  a 
junior,  defended  his  title  in  the  men's 
high  jump,  clearing  6-6.  and  Jacob 
Tshud\ .  a  senior,  cleared  1  .^-6  in 
capturing  the  pole  \ault.  which  he  also 
won  in  199.3.  Jana  Romlein.  a  Ircshman. 
captured  the  women's  33-meter  hurdles, 
running  a  9.14  in  the  finals  after  setting  a 
school  record  of  9.03  in  the 
preliminaries.  The  men's  800-meter 
rela_\  also  struck  gold  m  1:.^6.S1.  with 
juniors  Matthew  Franks  and  Robert  Dekle. 
sophomore  Darnell  .\IcKen/ic  and  senior 
Stephen  Raab  earning  the  top  pri/e. 

Men's  Basketball 

(20-8.9-5  M.AC.  HC.AC 
South  Champions) 
Coach  Brad  McAlcster  guided  the  men 
to  a  20-win  season  and  3  tournament 
championships  in  1997-98. 


] 


Junior  tri-capiains  .Andy  Panko.  Dan 
Strobeck  and  Joe  Terch  controlled  the 
game  when  necessary,  while  sophomore 
starters  Dan  Pfeil  and  Keith  Phoebus 
took  over  on  occasion,  as  did  freshman 
Steven  Horst.  Mark  Wisler.  the  lone 
senior  on  the  squad.  pro\  ided  mature 
leadership. 

The  team  missed  out  on  the  M.AC 
Commonwealth  League  title  in  the  most 
exciting  game  of  the  season.  The 
Dutchmen  went  to  double  o\ertime  with 
.Albright  before  succumbing.  Unfazed. 
LVC  plowed  through  Allentown  in  the 
first  round  of  the  MAC  playoffs  before 
losing  in  the  semifinals  to  D-lll  Final 
Four  participant  W  ilkes. 

During  the  regular  season  Lebanon 
Valley  won  the  championship  trophies  for 
the  LVC  Rinsd  Manjtwtte  Invitatumal. 
the  SpoiHiiii^le  CItis.sIc  at  Franklin  & 
Marslnill  and  the  ECAC South  Rfii'mn 
Chiiiupiojiships  held  at  Lynch  Hall. 

Men's  and  Women's 
Swimming 

(l-S.  I -7  M.AC;  i-9.  1-8  M.AC) 
First-\ear  head  coach  Marv  Gardner  took 
o\er  the  reins  not  long  before  the  season 
began  and  de\  eloped  the  tw n  teams  into 
M.AC  competitors. 

Highlights  of  the  season  include  a 
double  win  at  FDL'-Madison.  The  men 
touched  out  a  three-point  \  ictor\  (31-48) 
behind  the  strokes  of  seniors  Mike 
Huang  and  John  Schmidt,  sophomore 
Damon  Da\  is  and  freshman  Da\  id  Keiser. 
The  w  omen  skipped  the  drama  and 
turned  a  1  .^- 1  ."^  tie  into  a  1  1 S-6S  decision. 

The  women  lose  |ust  three  seniors  from 
the  squad  and  should  return  stronger  than 
e\er  next  season.  Veterans  Shannon 
Jarmol.  Daria  KoxarikoNa.  Stacy  La\ in 
and  Wends  Warner  gi\  e  w  a\  to  a 
>outhful  corps  that  feature  junior 
Melanie  Good;  sophomores  Carrie 
Clinton.  Kristina  Haines.  Katie  Riddle. 
Danielle  Tucker  and  Kara  Nagurnx ;  and 
freshmen  Janel  Dennis.  Shannon 
Feather.  Janet  Kennedy.  Jessica  Kindt. 
.Amy  Lyons  and  Leah  Semof'fskv . 

Feather  turned  in  LNC's  top  mark  in 
the  M.AC  Championships  with  a  12th- 
place  finish  in  the  l()()-\ard  breaststroke. 

Lavin.  Jamiol.  Kovariko\  a.  Good. 
Nagurny  and  Clinton  w  ere  all  named  to 
the  M.AC  .AIl-.Academic  Team  in  March. 


SPRING  1998 


17 


for 


GENERATION  . 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 


Deep  w  ithin  e\'ery  cell  of  the  human 
hod_\.  inside  the  nucleus,  is  the  long, 
tightly  coiled  strand  that  stores  the 
genetic  code  for  the  entire  organism. 
It's  called  deoxyribonucleic  acid  — 
DNA.  It's  the  master  plan  that  directs 
the  activities  of  the  whole  body  and  it's 
a  fingerprint  for  every  single  human 
being  —  nobody's  DNA  is  exactly  the 
same  as  anybody  else'.s. 

Rich  Benz  talks  about  DNA  for  a 
li\'ing.  A  biology  teacher  and  chairman 
of  the  science  department  at  Wickliffe 
High  School  in  Wickliffe.  Ohio,  he's 
been  known  to  use  everything  from  a 
fluorescent  ceiling  light  to  a  SHnky  toy 
to  help  explain  the  principles  of  DNA 
to  the  young  people  in  his  classes.  So 
when  the  issue  of  DNA  came  up  dur- 
ing the  O.J.  Simpson  trial  a  couple  of 
years  back.  Benz  paid  attention.  And 
when  the  jury  failed  to  con\  ict  in  spite 
of  the  DNA  evidence.  Benz  was  con- 
cerned. "The  DNA  evidence  was  legiti- 
mate, and  the  experts  spent  lots  of  time 
trymg  to  explain  it.  But  when  it  came 
right  down  to  it.  it  looked  like  the  sci- 
entific evidence  was  ignored." 

Whatever  your  opinions  on  the  con- 
troversial O.J.  Simpson  trial.  Ben/'s 
concern  raises  an  important  point. 
"Science  literacy  is  a  critical  issue."  he 
insists.  "That  means  yini  can  pick  up  a 
newspaper  and  understand  the  reports 
on  the  deadly  ebola  \irus.  or  know 
what  your  doctor  means  when  you 
hear  that  you  have  bacterial  pneunm- 
nia.  or  reach  an  informed  opinion  on 
human  cloning  or  global  warming,  il 
means  you  can  weigh  the  scientific 
e\idence  when  you  are  called  to  serve 
on  a  jury.  It  goes  beyond  being  pre- 
pared for  the  workplace  —  although 
that's  also  critical  —  to  acting  as  a 
responsible  citizen  in  a  democracy." 

Yet  when  it  comes  to  mastering  the 
basics  of  science.  American  students 
lag  far  behind   their  counterparts 


LVC's  new  Master's  in  Science  Education 
is  helping  teachers  preps^re  a  new 
Qenerat^ion  of  scientifically  savvy 
kids,  ready  to  make  -their  way 
in  tomorrow's  global  village. 


around  the  globe,  in  1991.  when  the 
Educational  Testing  Service  conducted 
its  International  Assessment  of 
Educational  Progress  (lAEP)  of  13- 
year-olds.  American  middle-schoolers 
placed  thirteenth  out  of  15  nations  in 
science.  More  recently,  in  the  Third 
International  Math  and  Science  Studv. 
released  in  June  1997.  American  8th 
graders  did  worse  than  those  in  every 
other  major  intlustnalizcd  nation, 
including  Japan  and  Germany.  "As  a 
science  educator.  I  take  those  reports 
very  seriously."  says  Benz.  who  serves 
on  the  standards-setting  committee 
of  the  National  Assessment  of 
Educational  Progress,  which  is  helping 
to  establish  guidelines  for  the  US 
Department  of  Education,  as  well  as  on 
state  standards  committees.  "Being 
thirteenth  affects  all  our  children,  when 
they  try  to  get  into  the  same  college  as 
kids  from  abroad,  or  compete  for  jobs 
in  the  global  marketplace.  This  is 
important  to  everybody." 

It's  an  issue  that's  especiallv  impor- 
tant here  at  Lebanon  Valley,  where  a 
brand-new  master's-level  program  has 
been  introduced  to  help  teachers  edu- 
cate, inspire,  and  excite  new  genera- 
tions of  young  scientists  —  and  future 
citizens.  It  came  about,  pretty  much, 
because  one  fifth-grade  teacher  found 
out  —  entirely  by  surprise  —  how 


much  fun  science  can  be.  And  she 
w  anted  other  teachers,  and  other  fifth- 
graders,  to  share  in  the  excitement. 

"When  I  got  excited  about  teaching 
science,  it  v\'as  sort  of  like  a  religious 
con\eision."  explains  Maria  Jones, 
interim  director  of  the  master's  pro- 
gram. "I  wanted  to  share  that  excite- 
ment with  other  teachers.  But  I  found 
that  there  weren't  many  programs  to 
help  prepare  teachers  to  go  out  and 
teach  science  —  in  Pennsylvania,  there 
are  only  four  in  the  v\hole  state,  and 
none  of  them  are  in  this  area." 

So  Jones  teamed  up  with  LVC  biolo- 
gy professor  Allan  Wolfe.  It  didn't  take 
much  con\incing.  since  Wolfe  had 
been  going  into  the  local  elementary 
schools  for  the  past  20  years,  providing 
classroom  science  experiences  and 
short  summer  courses  through  the 
Parents'  Comnuttee  for  Learning 
Enrichment. 

The  result  is  the  newly  created  mas- 
ter's degree  program  in  science  educa- 
tion, which  debuted  the  fall  1997 
semester  and  currently  enrolls  26  stu- 
dents. The  program  is  targeted  toward 
teachers  who  are  out  in  the  trenches, 
vMirking  in  elementary  and  junior  high 
schools,  and  who  want  to  learn  ways  to 
help  their  kids  get  their  hands  dirty  and 
do  science  —  not  just  hear  about  it. 
And  for  that  to  happen,  teachers  also 


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THE  VALLEY 


CoiirseMork  in  the  iiuislci's  c/  smiK  c  cdiiciilicn  proi^niiii  includes  n  let  oj  luincLs-on  piculuc.  On  n  rcccnl  fwld 
nip  li>  Qidtlic  Park.  (Ulinti  pnitiiinn  director  McnUi  Jones  (rii;ln)  and  her  students  explored  various  elements  in 
nature  w  Inch  can  he  iiu  hided  in  a  teat  liiiii;  unit  on  the  eeosxslein. 


have  to  overcome  some  negati\e  per- 
ceptions —  froii^  administrators,  par- 
ents, and  sometimes.  e\'en  the  i<ids 
themselves. 

"There  are  all  these  obstacles  out 
there  about  why  you  can't  do  science." 
Jones  explains.  "It's  too  e\pensi\e.  it's 
messy,  it's  time-consuming.  Well,  here 
teachers  learn  how  they  can  do  science 
—  and  it's  not  so  complicated  after  all. 
Last  week,  we  learned  how  to  put 
together  a  lab  kit  that  contains  some 
borax  and  some  Elmer's  glue  —  you 
literally  just  add  water  and  your  kids 
fmd  out  all  about  chemical  change.  It 
doesn't  take  \ery  long,  and  it  costs 
practically  nothing." 

Let's  Find  Out 

It's  that  can-do.  let's-fmd-out  atti- 
tude that  is  the  stuff  of  science,  and  it's 
also  the  backbone  of  Lebanon  Valley's 
nev\'est  academic  program,  .lones  first 
concei\ed  the  idea  back  m  1944.  short- 
ly after  arriving  at  Lebanon  Valley  as 
the  director  of  the  Science  Education 
Partnership,  which  pro\ides  support 
and  teachiim  materials  to  clemenlar\ 


and  iimldle-school  teachers  in  a  six- 
county  radius.  She'd  already  receixed 
a  master's  degree  in  science  education 
from  Clarion  Universit\.  and  she  knew 
what  a  difference  it  made  in  her  own 
fifth-grade  classroom  at  Lawntoii 
Elementary  School  in  the  Central 
Dauphin  district.  Wouldn't  it  be  great, 
she  thought,  to  have  a  program  like 
that  offered  closer  to  home?  So  after 
enlisting  Wolfe's  support,  the  two  went 
to  work  —  like  good  scientists  — 
doing  a  bit  of  research  to  test  their 
hypothesis:  thai  if  Lebanon  Valley 
offered  a  science  education  pro- 
gram for  v\orking  teachers,  people 
would  come. 

Jones  and  Wolfe  sent  out  question- 
naires to  some  .^.000  teachers  in  more 
than  six  surrounding  counties,  and  the 
o\  erw  helmingls  positi\e  response 
showed  that  there  was  enough  interest 
out  there  to  gel  the  program  started. 
Brand-new  this  academic  \ear.  the  pro- 
gram requires  24  hours  of  coinsework. 
as  well  as  a  six-credit  research  thesis 
and  a  comprchcnsne  written  exam. 
Classes  are  offered  duriii!:  the  fall. 


spring,  and  summer  semesters,  so  stu- 
dents can  plan  to  complete  the  degree 
requirements  in  three  years. 

Instruction  —  which  is  almost 
entirely  of  the  hands-on  \ariet\  — 
includes  courses  such  as  Principles  of 
Ph\sical  Science,  which  uses  chem- 
istry concepts  to  make  connections  to 
e\er\da\  substances,  establishing 
chemistr_\  as  an  integral  part  ot  life. 
Other  offerings  introduce  teachers  to 
microscopy,  fill  them  in  on  recent 
ad\ances  m  science,  and  help  them 
make  the  connections  between  science 
and  technolog\  and  emerging  ethical 
issues.  .Although  the  program  is  target- 
ed to  those  w  ith  undergraduate  degrees 
in  elementary  education,  applicants 
with  secondary  science  teaching 
degrees  are  also  considered. 

But  all  that  seems  kind  of  —  w  ell. 
academic.  To  find  out  what  the  pro- 
gram is  realh  abiiut.  we  \isited  a 
classroom  recently,  to  watch  some  of 
the  instructors  of  future  scientists  in 
action.  Deep  in  the  recesses  of  the 
Garber  Science  Center.  Maria  Jones 
holds  forth  o\er  a  space  that's  part  lab- 


SPRING  1998 


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oratory,  part  practice  classroom,  part 
teacher's  lounge,  as  students  recount 
the  results  of  last  week's  assignments 
—  a  carefully  recorded  observation  of 
the  changes  caused  by  sunlight  on 
strings  of  colored  beads  —  share 
teaching  tips,  and  dig  into  tonight's 
lesson.  By  the  time  the  evening's  over 
they've  learned  to  make  recycled  paper 
from  old  newsprint,  and  they've  come 
up  with  some  interesting  ways  to  inte- 
grate the  recycling  experiment  with 
social  studies  issues  and  language  arts. 

This  course  —  Science  Education 
in  the  Elementary/Middle-School 
Classroom  —  serves  as  a  model  for  the 
teacher-students  to  take  back  with 
them  to  their  own  schools,  as  partici- 
pants go  about  the  sometimes-messy 
business  of  asking  "How  come?"  and 
learn  that  it's  OK  to  not  always  know 
all  the  answers. 

"Teachers  think  they  have  to  be  the 
givers  of  all  knowledge,"  says  Jones. 
"They  worry  about  not  knowing  the 
answers  to  all  their  students"  questions 
about  science.  But  here  they  learn  that 
they  don't  have  to  know  it  all.  They 
learn  to  say  to  their  kids,  "Let's  go  find 
out  together.'  That's  what  scientific 
inquiry  is  all  about."  On  a  recent 
Wednesday  evening,  half  a  dozen 
teachers  became  students  again,  asking 
questions  that  lead  them  to  their 
own  discoveries. 

Discovery  Zone 

In  two's  and  three's,  Jones's  stu- 
dents are  hard  at  work,  absorbed  in 
their  tasks,  employing  pans  of  water, 
sheets  of  plastic  needlework  canvas,  a 
kitchen  blender,  and  a  couple  of  paper 
clips  as  they  transform  soggy  old 
newspapers  into  crisp  new  writing 
paper.  Jones  is  scurrying  from  one 
group  to  the  next,  checking  on 
progress,  offering  words  of  advice.  "As 
students  are  working  on  an  experiment, 
I  like  to  walk  around  and  take  notes  of 
their  comments,"  says  Jones.  "It's  a 
good  lesson  in  observation,  and  it 
helps  students  figure  out  whether  or 
not  they  let  their  expectations  cloud 
their  results.  They  can  do  that  with 
their  own  students,  too.  It's  a  good  way 
to  keep  track  of  who's  on  task,  who's 
participating,  who's  observing.  It  can 
be  a  very  worthwhile  tool,  when  you 
read  back  their  comments  later  on." 

The  students  she's  observing  are  a 
disparate  group.  There's  Jane  Watts,   a 


seventh-grade  life  science  teacher  at 
Cedar  Crest  Middle  School  in 
Lebanon,  who  grew  up  out  in  the  coun- 
try, surrounded  by  nature.  '"We  were 
always  doing  outdoor  things,"  Wyatt 
recalls.  "I  remember  helping  my 
grandma  collect  and  dry  wildflowers." 
Alongside  her  is  Betsy  Kreider,  a 
self-proclaimed  mall  rat,  whose  knowl- 
edge of  botany  may  have  been  gleaned 
from  the  potted  plants  outside  The 
Gap.  but  who  now  fmds  herself  living 
in  a  farmhouse  and  helping  her  first- 
graders  make  connections  between  sci- 
ence and  literature.  "This  course  has 
been  wonderful,"  says  Kreider,  who 
works  in  the  Eastern  Lebanon  County 
school  district.  "I've  used  every  single 
assignment  with  my  kids.  They  always 
know  when  I've  been  to  class  because 
we  do  something  fun  in  school  the 
next  day." 

Charles  Harley  is  a  28-year  teaching 
veteran  who  works  at  a  junior  high 
school  in  the  Boyerstown  school  dis- 
trict, an  hour  and  a  half  from  Annville: 
Fong  Ho,  a  recent  graduate  of  Penn 
State  Hanisburg  is  a  long-term  substi- 
tute teacher  in  Susquehanna  Township. 
Margie  Hall  is  a  special-ed  teacher  in 
the  Cornwall-Lebanon  district,  who 
sees  the  hands-on  nature  of  science 
as  tailor-made  for  the  needs  of  special- 
ed  kids. 

And  then  there's  Crystal  Egan,  who 
isn't  even  a  teacher  —  but  thinks  she 
might  like  to  be.  Egan,  who's  part  of 
LVC's  computer  services  user  support 
team,  has  a  degree  in  animal  biology 
but  discovered  the  fun  of  teaching  sci- 
ence when  she  became  a  mom.  "I've 
been  teaching  my  daughter  science 
since  day  one,"  she  says.  "I've  found 
that  I  enjoy  taking  technical  terms  and 
relating  them  to  human  terms,  and 
showing  my  six-year-old  that  science 
is  cool.  People  don't  realize  how 
much  science  is  linked  with  every- 
day activities." 

Working  Connections 

More  and  more,  science  is  also 
linked  to  our  lives  at  work  —  whether 
or  not  we  call  ourselves  scientists. 
"Competence  in  science  is  important  in 
so  many  disciplines,"  says  Terry 
Peterson,  counselor  and  senior  advisor 
to  U.S.  Secretary  of  Education  Richard 
Riley.  "Problem  solving  is  central  to 
science  —  setting  out  your  problem 
and  coming  up  with  a  hypothesis.  That 


kind  of  scientific  method  is  central  to 
all  kinds  of  jobs,  from  working  on  a 
production  line,  to  working  in  an 
accounting  firm,  to  working  in  any  of 
the  health  fields.  Even  if  your  career 
isn't  directly  related  to  science,  there 
are  more  and  more  jobs  that  require 
scientific  skills  —  all  workers,  for 
example,  have  to  be  able  to  analyze 
data.  And  with  self-directed  teams  and 
flattened  layers  of  bureaucracy,  you 
have  to  be  able  to  solve  problems  on 
your  own,  not  wait  for  the  answers  to 
come  down  from  on  high." 

But  a  scientifically  literate  work- 
force won't  just  happen,  insists 
Peterson.  "To  get  people  to  this  level 
of  proficiency,  you  have  to  start  at  the 
elementary  level  and  build  up  science 
skills  from  there.  And  to  do  that,  you 
need  good  teachers  —  and  there's  cer- 
tainly not  an  oversupply  of  well- 
trained  science  teachers." 

And  that's  what  Lebanon  Valley's 
effort  is  all  about  —  sending  well- 
trained  teachers  out  into  the  front  lines 
to  fire  up  a  new  generation  of  inquiring 
minds.  "Our  experience  with  the 
Science  Education  Partnership  has 
convinced  us  that  elementary  teachers 
are  eager  to  learn  science,  and  that 
they  can  do  and  inteipret  science,"  says 
Dr.  Alan  Wolfe,  chairman  of  the  biolo- 
gy department  and  director  of  the 
Master's  program.  "They've  returned 
to  their  schools  and  convinced  their 
students  that  science  can  be  fun.  Many 
of  our  first  students  in  the  Master's 
program  are  these  newly  converted  sci- 
ence enthusiasts,  who  have  evolved 
from  uninterested  ""science-phobes"  to 
knowledgeable  ""science-enthusiasts" 
—  and  knowledgeable,  enthusi- 
astic teachers  produce  excited,  interest- 
ed students,  no  matter  what  the 
subject  area." 


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freelance  writer  who  contributes  to 
national  education  and  consumer 
publications. 


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Reducing  the  Fat  of 


By  Robert  Smith 


V, 


ou  probably  don't  know  Ri)nald  Yargcr  '69. 
but  chances  are  you've  tasted  the  results  of 
his  labor.  A  scientist  for  Nabisco.  Yarger  is  involved  in  the 

development  of  low-calorie  triglyceride  fats,  the  "secret  ingredients"  in  reduced-fat  foods 
consumed  by  health-conscious  snackers  the  world  over. 

"Nabisco  has  had  a  major  program  for  about  seven  years,  developing  low-calorie  fats  \\n 
cookies  and  crackers."  explains  Yarger.  who  was  part  of  the  team  that  helped  develop 
Salalrim.  It  is  an  ingredient  also  used  in  products  like  granola  bars.  Life  Sa\ers.  and 

Hershey's  low-calorie  chocolate  drops. 

Yarger  came  to  Lebanon  Valley  as  a  chemistry 
major  —  but  he  also  brought  ak)ng  his  love  of  music 
He  was  active  in  the  marching  band,  the  pit 
orchestra,  and  Phi  Mu  Alpha  .Sinfonia.  "i  still  pla\ 
the  tlute.  and  enjoy  it  immensely."  says  Yarger.  who 
leads  a  tlute  ensemble  and  frequently  plays  at  his  church,  "it's  never  quite  left  me." 

But  science,  it  seems,  was  his  llrst  love.  During  the  tumultuous  da_\s  of  the 
1960s  and  early  197()s,  as  the  Vietnam  War  raged.  Yarger  chose  to  keep  his  distance  as 
he  pursued  his  scientific  studies.  "Certainly  on  campuses  all  around  the  country  there  were  lots  of 
discussions  and  demonstrations  about  the  war."  he  recalls.  "But  1  didn't  participate  much.  I  found 
'  security  in  doing  the  chemistry  and  science  in  the  laboratory  and  hoped  1  wouldn't  be  called." 

As  it  turned  out.  Yarger  had  spent  his  undergraduate  da_\s  wiseh.  A  high  lottcrx 
number  spared  him  from  the  draft,  and  after  graduating  from  Lebanon  Valle\.  he  enrolled  at 
Syracuse  University,  where  he  earned  his  Ph.D.  Atler  two  years  of  postdoctoral  work  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  Yarger  spent  12  years  as  a  research  chemist  for  General  Foods.  In 

1988  he  landed  a  position  at  Nabisco,  where  he's  been  ever  since.  One  of  his 
projects  was  e\aluating  the  use  of  Olestra.  the  zero-calorie  fat  used  in  some 
chips  and  other  snack  foods. 


Yarger,  w ho  li\es  in  Madison,  New  Jersey,  w  ith  his  w  ife 
Sharon,  now  fmds  himself  mo\ing  away  from  laboratory,  or 
"bench."  work,  and  into  product  de\elopment.  "I'm  learning 
how  to  make  these  ingredients  on  a  grand  scale  by  \  isiting  plants  and 
working  w ilh  cUher  manufacturers."  ,\nd  though  he  won't  rexeal  an\  trade 
secrets,  he  will  say  that  he's  now  hard  at  wcirk  on  another  ingredient,  a 
low-calorie  carbohydrate.  "It  is."  he  predicts,  "the  next  wa\e  oi' 
lesearch  in  the  food  industr}."  '"^-..^ 


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'In  the  first  grade,  I  got  into 
trouble  for  drawing  faces  into  the 
alphabet  letters,"  she  remembers. 
Now,  Cheryl  Kirk  Noll  does  more 

than  add  faces  to  the 
printed  word  —  she  gives  it  life. 


Harriet  Tubman,  a  biography  ®  Abrams  &  Co.,  1994 


The  Crane  Wife'Q  Steck- Vaughn,  1998 


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Educating 

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By  Thomas  Epier 


ow  many  of  us  can  say  that  we've  made  a  career  out  of  something  that  used 
to  get  us  into  trouble?  Cheryl  Kirk  Noll  '72,  a  successful  artist  and  educator, 
may  be  unique  in  this  distinction.  Noll,  a  resident  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  remembers  admonitions  from  more  than  one  schoolteacher  for  her  unsolicited  doodling.  Now  she  has 
just  completed  illustrating  what  she  describes  as  one  of  her  most  inspired  works.  The  Crane  Wife  (Steck- 
Vaughn,  1998).  This  24-page  children's  book,  which  recounts  the  journeN'  of  a  man  and  his  discover)-  of  an  ail- 
ing crane,  was  a  joy  for  its  illustrator. 

Parents  and  waiting-room  patients  may  recognize  Noll's  work  in  Highlights  for  Children,  and  will  join  teach- 
ers in  recalling  her  useful  illustrations  in  The  Ben  Franklin  Book  of  Easy  &  Incredible  Experiments  (John  Wiley  & 
Sons,  1995)  as  well  as  Where  is  Thumbkin?  (Gryphon  House,  1993). 

Multicultural  themes  recur  throughout  Noll's  work.  She  has 
illustrated  a  biography  of  Harriet  Tubman  and  done  Micmac 
Indian  and  Japanese  folktales.  In  19i)5,  she  illustrated  the  series. 
Our  Global  Village  Cultural  Teacher  Resource  Guides  for  Canada, 
Turkey,  and  South  Korea  (Milliken  Publishing). 

The  child  of  a  school  superintendent,  she  grew  up  knowing  the 
value  of  consciously  expanding  one's  own  worldview,  and  is  shar- 
ing that  knowledge  with  her  teaching  degree  from  LVC  -  most 
recently,  through  work  with  the  "Artist-in-Residence"  program  of 
the  Rhode  Island  State  Council  for  the  Arts. 

Now  in  her  fourth  \ear  with  the  progiam,  she  leads  groups  of 
children  in  appreciating  art,  while  teaching  illustration  as  a 
"process"  -  from  the  need  for  an  artist's  work,  through  its  research, 
development  of  a  point  of  view,  and  completion  of  the  actual  work. 

"Freelancing  has  its  advantages,"  she  notes,  "such  as  a  degree  of  independence,"  which  allows  for  flexibilit)' 
and  time  with  her  13-year-old  son,  Philip. 

A  native  of  Delaware,  Noll  found  Lebanon  Valley  to  be  the  "perfect  place-very  nurturing,"  a  place  where 
she  met  people  who  would  remain  important  to  her  throughout  her  life.  Just  ask  former  roommate  Dr. 
Stephanie  Milkowicz  Kirk  '72,  who  married  her  brother  And).  Or  her  friend  L\dia  Kauffman  Schnetzka  "72, 
with  whom  she  still  shares  enthusiasm  for  family  and  education. 

Mrs.  June  Herr  '34,  professor  emeritus  of  education,  was  "one  of  those  dedicated  teachers  who  taught  )ou 
how  to  teach  by  example,"  remembers  Noll.  "Professor  Herr  saw  teaching  as  a  noble  profession."  She  adds 
that  Herr  has  had  a  profound  influence  on  her  own  teaching. 

The  college  also  gave  her  the  latitude  to  pursue  her  interest  in  art  by  encouraging  her  to  design  an  uidepen- 
dent  study  that  allowed  her  to  creatively  fulfill  her  education  requirements.  Among  other  things,  she  explored 
the  "subjects"  of  her  dorm  in  charcoal  drawing.  "I  also  did  the  life-sized  portraits  that  came  to  life  for  Gilbert 
and  Sullivan's  Ruddigore"  she  remembers  fondly.  She'd  sometimes  tote  a  sketchbook  around  campus  in  those 
days  —  and  a  lot  of  her  former  classmates  are  lurking  in  its  yellowing  pages. 

So  where  does  she  get  such  inspiration  toda\?  She's  no  stranger  to  research  -  the  local  librarians  in 
Providence  know  her  by  name.  But  "life  underfoot"  —  what's  around  her,  while  she's  working  —  adds  fla\or  to 
her  ever-developing  talent. 

"In  the  first  grade,  1  got  into  trouble  for  drawing  faces  into  the  alphabet  letters,"  she  remembers.  Now, 
Cheryl  Kirk  Noll  does  more  than  add  faces  to  the  printed  word  -  she  gives  it  life. 


Clurxl  Kiik  \oll  in  lur  sliiJio. 


Thomas  Epler  is  a  staff  writer  for  the  Lebanon  Daily  News. 


SUMMER  1998 


23 


West  Hall  provided  a  home-away-from-home 
for  these  former  residents  who  forged  bonds  that 
have  lasted  a  lifetime 


uckingham  Palace  ii  dcfinitch'  was  not. 
W'csl  Hall,  sitting  on  the  corner  of 
Sheridan  A\enue  and  White  Oak  Street, 
w  as  a  hare-bones,  no-frills  dormitory  — 
a  t\vo-stor\'  frame  house  with  eight 
bedrooms,  a  single  bathroom,  and  a  parlor  whose  main 
attraction  was  a  radio. 

But  it  was  a  remarkable  place  nonetheless,  a  home- 
away-from-home  to  a  generation  of  Lebanon  Vallev 
College  women  whose  friendships  have  endured  some 
fift\-odd  years,  from  the  tail  end  of  the  Depression  into  the 

early  years  of 
WVirld  War  II,  and 
through  the  twists 
and  turns  of  a  few 
dozen  lifetimes. 
West  Hall  is  long 
gone,  knocked 
dow  n  around 
1949  to  make 
room  for  Lynch 
Gymnasium,  but 
still  the  dorm's 
alumnae  keep 
coining  together, 
year  after  year,  to 
talk  about  old 
times  and  share 
new  experiences. 

"l  think  the 
reunions  started 
even  before  I  grad- 
uated in  1940," 


Ritul\  u>  face  the  world  from  the  from  porcli  of  West 
Hall  are.  second  from  left  to  rifjht.  Grace  Cexer 
Aston  '.I'y.  Mabel  Jane  Miller  '41.  Audrey  Fox  '39. 
Frances  Pnitzman  Kauffman  '41.  and  Dorothy 
Yeakel  Horn  '39.  Joinini;  them  is  a  visitor  from 
another  donn.  far  left. 


says  Esther  Wise  Hovis.  "But  1  know  that  just  about  even,' 
year  since  then,  we've  met  at  one  of  our  homes,  or  at  a 
restaurant,  just  to  touch  base  with  one  another  Loiiking 
back,  even,thing  at  West  Hall  was  ver\-  meager  compared 
to  college  dorms  today,  but  we  were  such  a  small  group  — 
there  were  only  fifteen  of  us  living  there  —  and  we  all  got 
along  so  well.  We  really  enjoyed  doing  things  together.  'VVe 
were  more  than  just  friends  —  I  think  w e'\e  a]wa\s  felt 
more  like  cousins  to  one  another." 


By  Nancy  Fitzgerald 

That  spirit  of  kinship  brought  six  of  the  West  Hall 
alumnae  to  Lebanon  Valley  on  a  recent  earl\-  autumn  day. 
And  o\er  coffee  and  dessert  the>'  did  what  cousins  alwavs 
do  —  trade  stories,  share  laughs,  and  bring  each  other  up 
to  date  on  the  ups  and  downs  of  their  lives.  The 
con\ersation  revealed  a  college  that  seems  in  many  ways 
quaint  and  old-fashioned  but  that  sent  some  thoroughlv 
modern  women  out  into  the  world. 

West  Hall  came  fully  equipped  with  a  species  unknown 
to  toda\'s  college  student  —  a  house  mother  —  along  with 
a  rigid  policv  of  curfews.  "I  remember  the  time  my  friends 
sent  me  out  to  Hot  Dog  Frank's  to  get  them  some  franks." 
recalls  Hovis.  Tt  was  after  hours,  so  to  get  back  in. 
somebod)-  had  to  pull  me  through  a  window,  and  I  thought 
I  was  safe  —  until  the  house  mother  smelled  the  hot  dogs 
and  I  ended  up  going  before  the  jigger  board. "  the  college's 
disciplinar}'  committee. 

But  even  the  house  mother  was  included  in  the  Sundav- 
evening  tea  parties  that  residents  took  turns  hosting  in 
their  rooms.  "We  would  ser\e  whatever  we'd  been  sent 
from  home  that  week,  or  whatever  we  could  find  — 
sometimes  it  v\as  just  peanut  butter  crackers,"  recalls 
Peggy  Bo\xl  Fauber  '41.  "We'd  talk  about  ever\-thing  that 
was  going  on  and  hnd  out  what  was  happening  with  all 
our  friends."  And  they  recorded  their  Sunday-night 
meetings  for  posterity  in  notebooks  that  they've  saved  to 
this  day  —  offering  a  glimpse  into  life  at  the  College  and 
the  world  be\ond  in  the  late  1930s  and  early  1940s. 

College  life  w  as  a  far  more  formal  affair  than  it  is  today, 
with  meals  at  North  Hall  sen.ed  on  linen  tablecloths,  and 
compulsor\-  chapel  serxices  where  places  were  assigned 
and  enipt\  seats  were  conspicuous.  .And  extracurricular 
actixities  were  especiallx'  popular  —  not  onlv  for  their 
intellectual  and  social  possibilities,  but  because  thev 
allowed  female  students  to  stay  out  past  their  usual 
seven-o'clock  wecknight  curfew.  "There  was 
the  German  Club,  and  La  Vic.  and  the  Green 
Blotter  Society,"  explains  Martha  Davies  SJ 

DeHaven  '42.  "That  was  the  literar\-  ^ 

w  e  w  ould  write  stories  and  ^ 

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poems  and  read  them  at  meetings 
.And  1  was  editor  of  La  Vic  mv 
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s,^. 


ports  —  then  as  now  —  were  a  great  way 
for  students  to  unwind  after  a  long  day 
of  classes,  and  women  could  choose 
between  intercollegiate  field  hockey  and 
basketball,  as  well  as  intramural  games  between  the  dormi- 
tories. "We  all  had  to  play  just  to  get  a  team  together,"  says 
Hovis,  an  avid  athlete  who's  passed  her  genes  down  to  her 
grandson  Matt  White,  now  a  rookie  pitcher  for  the  Tampa 
Bay  Devil  Rays  expansion  team.  "And  Miss  Henderson,  the 
phys-ed  teacher,  would  take  us  to  Philadelphia  to  see  the 


Martha  Davies  DeHaven  '42  and  Phoebe  Geyer  Etter  '42  <^rah  their  books 
and  head  for  classes  from  the  haven  of 'West  Hall. 


international  teams,  and  to  Hershey  to  see  the  Bears  play." 
But  some  things  ne\cr  change.  Coursework  was  rigor- 
ous, and  standards  — 
as  well  as  expecta- 
tions —  were  high. 
DeHaven,  who  with 
classmate  Bob  Dressier 
was  one  of  Lebanon 
Valleys  first-ever 
psychology  majors, 
also  majored  in 
English,  history,  and 
French.  "I  wanted  to 
get  my  moneys  worth 
out  of  my  college  edu- 
cation," she  explains 
simph'.  "We  were 
expected  to  do  well  at 
a  time  when  most 
women  were  expected 
to  marry  and  have 
families.  Being  at 
Lebanon  Valle);  in  the 
late  1930s,  was  one  of 

the  few  times  I  felt  equal,  when  I  felt  that  ever\'thing  was 

available  to  me." 

The  women  of  West  Hall  took  that  spirit  to  heart  and 

ran  with  it  long  after  graduation.  DeHaven  went  on  to  earn 


a  degree  as  a  registered  nurse  from  St.  Lukes  in  New  York 
City  and  made  a  career  in  nursing  administration  and 
teaching,  Hovis,  a  music  major  who  discovered  that 
nothing  in  life  could  ever  be  quite  as  difficult  as  pleasing 
music  department  chair  Mary  Gillespie,  taught  elementary 
school  music  in  Franklin  County  for  some  thirty  years. 
Grace  Geyer  Aston  '39  also  enjoyed  a  thirty-year  career 
teaching  music,  retiring  recently  from  her  position  in 
Hummelstown;  Margaret  Boyd  Fauber  '41  enjoyed  a  25- 
year  elementary  school  teaching  career  in  Manheim. 

Frances  Prutzman  Kauffman  '41,  an  English  and 
German  major  and  Latin  minor,  taught 
intermittently  while  bringing  up  a  family  of  five. 
And  English  major  Edith  Metzger  Booser  '39 
forged  a  volunteer  career  that's  still  going  strong. 
As  president  of  the  Interfaith  Housing  Board  in 
Middletown,  she  helped  establish  a  126-unit 
senior  citizen  housing  complex  and  set  up  an 
adult  day-care  program;  now  she's  hard  at  work 
tr\'ing  to  build  an  indoor  community  swimming 
pool  —  she's  already  obtained  a  525,000  grant 
Irom  the  Robert  Wood  Johnson  Foundation  as 
part  of  their  Faith  in  Action  program. 

The  West  Hall  alumnae  are  grateful  to  the 
college  for  a  lot  of  things.  "We  knew  everybodx' 
there,"  sa\'s  Fauber,  "and  our  education  gave  us  a 
wonderful  foundation."  Aston  agrees  that  the 
personal  touch  was  a  meaningful  ingredient  of 
her  college  years.  "All  of  our  classes  were  small, 
and  we  were  together  all  the  time  —  that  really 
But  when  you  ask  these  women,  some  fifty  years 
after  their  graduation,  what  was  the  best  thing  that 
Lebanon  Valley  College  gave  them,  Esther  "Wise  Hovis 
speaks  for  her  dorm-mates  and  "cousins"  when  she 
answers  without  a  moment's  hesitation:  "They  gave  us 
West  Hall." 


helped. 


Marqiierite  Martin  chats  with 
Maiy  Gillespie,  the  ever  exacting 
Music  Department  chair. 


Six  faithful  West  Hall  alumnai  gather  for  their  yearly  mini- 
reunion  at  Kreiderheim.  fall  1997.  Top:  Frances  Prutzman 
Kauffman  '41.  Peggy  Boyd  Fauber  '41.  Edith  Metzger 
Booser  '39.  Bottom  row:  Martha  Davies  DeHaven  '42, 
Grace  Gexer  Aston  '39.  Esther  Wise  Hovis  '40. 


26 


THE  V.-XLLEY 


NEWSMAKERS 


"v^fgaJ 


New  faces 

Dr.  Stephen  C.  MacDonald,  w  ho 

replaces  retiring  Dr.  William  MeCiill  as 
dean  ol  the  facults'  and  \iee  president  for 
academie  alTairs  on  July  1.  brings  superb 
credentials  {o  the  job. 

Currently  associate  dean  of  Dickinson 
College,  he  i<iincd  Dickinson  in  H^.SN 
and  has  worn  many  hats.  He  has  directed 
and  taught  in  the  Freshinan  Seminar 
Program,  overseen  international  el  forts 
in  curriculum  and  I'actilty  deselopment, 
promoted  teaching  elTectiseness  thiough 
the  college's  Teaching  Center  W  ithout 
Walls,  directed  the  summer  scht)ol 
program.  de\eloped  and  s\ritten  grant 
proposals,  and  serxed  as  altirmatixe 
action  officer. 

From  198.^-(S8.  MacDonakI  was  liirec- 
torof  the  Central  ['ennsvKania 
Consortium,  w here  he  de\eloped  and 
adminisiereil  collaboi"ati\e  intcr- 

insiitutional  programs 
I  in  students,  faculty 
and  administrators  at 
Dickinson.  Franklin 
c^  Marshall  and 
( rctl\sburg  colleges. 
lie  has  also  taught 
history  at  the 
L'ni\ersil\  of  Maine 
at  1  oil  Kent. 
Lynchburg  College  in 
Virginia  and  the  Uni\ersity  of  Virginia. 

He  rcccivetl  a  nuii^iui  cum  Uimlc 
bachelor's  degree  m  historv  Irom  Tufts 
University  and  was  named  to  Phi  Beta 
Kappa.  He  earned  a  Ph.D.  from  the 
University  of  Virginia  in  iinKlern 
European  histors . 

Between  19(i2-6.S.  MacDonald  ser\cd 
in  the  United  .States  Army  w  ith  tours  in 
Vietnam  and  Okinawa.  Japan. 

He  is  the  author  of /\  Genmin  Rcva- 
liitlon:  Local  Clumi^c  and  Coiiliiuiilr  in 
Prussia.  1 9 1, S- 1 922  {New  York;  Garland 
Press,  1991 )  and  a  ntimber  of  Journal 
articles.  He  has  also  scrsed  as  a  consul- 
tant on  international  programs,  writing 
priigrams  and  freshman  seminar  pro- 
grams for  seseral  unnersities 
and  collesies. 


Virginia  K.  Hand  has  been  appointed 
director  of  the  Lancaster  Center,  replac- 
ing Barbara  Denison.   Hand  served  as  an 
adjunct  lecturer  in  psychology  at 

Alvernia  College, 
and.  before 
relocating  to 
Pennsylvania, 
served  as  director 
of  continuing 
edtication  at  St. 
Thomas  .Aqtiinas 
College  111  Sparkill. 
Ncu  "I'ork.  She 
completed  a 
bachelor's  degree  in  liberal  arts  and 
sciences  as  an  adult  student  at 
St.  Thomas  Aquinas  and  a  master's  in 
counseling  from  Long  Island  University. 

Ann  He.s.s  Mvers 

has  been  named 
director  of  Annual 
(living.   She 
comes  from 
Dickinson 
College,  where  she 
was  associate 
director  of  college 
relations  in  the 
div  ision  of  external 

affairs.  She  holds  a  bachelor's  degree 

from  Kenyon  College. 

Kelly  Alsedek  is 

the  college's  new 
director  ot 
ptiblications. 
replacing  Jane 
Pakida.  She  was 
formerly  director  of 
publications  at 
Dickinson  College, 
and  also  served  as 
assistant  director  of 
iniblic  relations  at  Ciettysbiirg  College. 
She  is  an  awartl-w  mmng  tlcsigncr  who 
holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in  biology 
with  an  art  minor  from  Gettysburg 
College.  She  has  also  studied  art.  art 
history,  graphic  design  and  advertising 
at  Penn  State  L'niversity  and  the  '^'ork 
Acatlemv  of  Art. 


Brian  Lemma  has 

been  named  loan 
coordinator  for  the 
linancial  aid  office. 
He  was  formerly 
employed  by  the 
Pennsylvania 
Osteopathic  .Medical 
Association  as 
public  relations 
/public  affairs 
coordinator,  and  holds  a  bachelor's 
degree  from  l^li/abethtovMi  College. 

Julia  Harvey  has  been  appointed  tech- 
nical services  librarian,  replacing  Alice 
Diehl.  who  retired  in  December.   For  the 
last  seven  years.  Harvey  serv ed  as  coordi- 
nator of  OCLC  and  Information  Services 
at  PALINFT.  a  library  network  consor- 
tium 111  Philadelphia.  She  holds  a  bache- 
lor's degree  from  Cedar  Crest  College 
and  master's  degrees  in  library  science 
from  Drexcl  L'niversitv  and  in  education- 
al atlniinistration  from  Rider  College. 

Joseph  R.  Dillon  .|r. 

has  been  named 
assistant  director  of 
Media  Services.  ,-\ 
l^-n)?  graduate  of 
Lebanon  N'allev .  he 
previouslv  was 
emploved  as  a 
freelance  audio 
engineer  tor  Fox 
Sports.  Disnev  and 
the  Kennedv  Center. 

Kohin  Mover  has  joined  the  advance- 
ment stal'f  as  a  part-time  development 
assistant.   She  is  a  I'-)'-)!  graduate  of 
Lebanon  Vallev  and  worked  in  the  annu- 
al gi\  iiig  oil  ice  during  her  lour  vears  as 
a  stLideiu. 

New  titles 

Carolyn  Lauver  has  been  appointed 
director  ol  development.   Lauver  |oined 
the  college  in  P)^)2.  and  has  served  as 
the  director  ot  annual  giv  ing.  the 
associate  director  of  development,  and 
as  the  acting  director  of  development. 
Her  new  responsibilities  include 


SIMMER  1QQ8 


managing  the  o\erall  development 
operation,  which  encompasses  major 
gifts,  planned  gi\  ing.  annual  gi\  ing. 
research,  and  gift  processing. 

Pamela  Lambert  "96  has  been 
appointed  assistant  director  of  annual 
giving.  Lambert  has  been  with  the 
college  tor  1 0  years,  most  recently 
serving  in  the  annual  giving  position  in 
an  acting  capacity.   Her  responsibilities 
include  managing  the  phonathon.  the 
senior  class  gift  dri\  e.  and  reunion  gi\  ing. 

Joins  the  board 

John  .\.  Synodinos.  president  eiuciitiis. 
has  been  named  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees.  He  was  president  of  the 
college  from  1988  to  1996. 

Research  srant 

The  Ex.xon 
loundation  has 
awarded  a  S.'i.OOO 
research  grant  to 
Dr.  Carl  VVigal. 
associate  professor 
nl  chemistry.  The 
grant  supports  the 
elforts  of  Wigal's 
research  group  inves- 
tigating the  de\'elop- 
ment  of  new  methodologies  for  the 
region-specific  synthesis  of  quinone 
derivatives.  Quinones  are  naturally 
occurring  compounds  found  in  all  living 
systems.  Synthetic  derivati\'es  of 
quinones  are  used  as  medicinal  agents 
and  antioxidants.  The  grant  represents 
Exxon's  continuing  support  of 
$15,000  over  the  past  three  years  for 
Wigal's  efforts  in  undergraduate 
chemical  research. 

Honored 

Dr.  Dale  Summers,  professor  of  educa- 
tion, received  the  Student  Council 
Award  for  Teaching  during  the 
Founders  Day  ceremonv.  This  is  the" 
second  year  in  a  row  that  he  has  been 
recognized  by  students  tor  excellence  in 
teaching. 

In  addition.  Alpha  Phi  Omega  —  Nu 
Delta  received  the  President's  .Award  on 
Founders  Day.  The  coed  service 
fraternity  was  honored  for  contributing 
over  1,000  hours  of  service  to  both  the 
collese  and  the  community. 


Math  whiz 

Jason  Lee  "99.  a  17-year-old  math  and 
physics  major  from  Malaysia,  ranked 
67th  on  the  prestigious  William  Lowell 
Putnam  Math  Competition  exam.  He 
was  among  2.?  10  people  across  the 
United  States  and  Canada  w  ho  took  the 
test  in  December. 

Those  who  know  Lee  aren't  suiprised. 
He  scored  a  pert'ect  800  in  math  on  the 
SAT  test  when  he  was  just  15.  His 
English  score  was  720.  even  though  his 
native  language  is  Malay.  The 
Harrisburg  Patriut  featured  Lee  in  a 
recent  issue. 

Honorable  mention 

Beth  Paul  "98.  a 

political  science 
major,  was  named 
Honorable  Mention 
in  USA  Toihiv's 
ninth  annual  All- 
USA  College 
.Academic  Team. 
She  was  chosen 
from  a  field  of  1.194 
students  nationwide 

and  was  one  of  55  students  to  receive  an 

honorable  mention. 

Making  the  srade 

Dr.  Barbara  Vlaisavljevic.  associate 
professor  of  accounting,  passed  the  Bar 
Exam  after  attending  Widener 
Uni\ersitv  on  a  full  scholarship  and 

graduating  fourth  in 
her  class.  She  began 
the  three-year 
program  at  Widener 
ni  the  fall  of  1995. 
attended  classes 
year-round  and 
graduated  in 
December  of  1996. 
In  addition  to  her 
studies  at  Widener. 
she  also  attended  the  law  school  of  the 
University  of  Geneva  in  Switzerland 
during  the  summer  of  1996. 
Vlaisavljevic  plans  to  use  her  law  degree 
in  her  ciuTcnt  tax  practice. 

Chris  Kortright.  campus  security 
officer,  has  successfully  completed  the 
Pennsylvania  Municipal  Police  Officer 
Act  120  certification  course. 


Dr.  Leon  Markowicz.  professor  of 
business 
administration, 
received  an  individu- 
alized Master  of  Arts 
in  creative  writing 
froin  Antioch 
College  in  Yellow 
Springs.  Ohio.  He 
completed  the  degree 
during  his  sabbatical 
last  year. 

Maria  Jones,  interim  director  of  the 
master  of  science  education  program,  has 
been  accepted  into  the  doctoral  program 
at  the  Pennsyhania  State  University. 
University  Park  campus.  Her  area  of 
study  is  curriculum  and  instruction,  with 
a  concentration  in  science  education. 

Elected  to  serve 

Dr.  Owen  Moe.  professor  of  biology. 
v\as  nommated  and  unanimously  elected 
president  of  the  .Middle  Atlantic 
Association  of  Liberal  Arts 
Chemistr\  Teachers. 

Dr.  Susan  .Atkinson,  professor  of 
education,  was  re-elected  to  a  two-year 
term  on  the  Middle  States  Council  for  the 
Social  Studies  administrative  board. 

Dr.  Donald  Kline,  assistant  professor 
of  education,  has  been  elected  to  the 
position  of  1998  vice  president 
for  the  Pennsylvania  Science 
Teachers  Association. 

Dr.  Arthur  L.  Peterson,  president  of 
Lebanon  Valley  College  from  1984-87. 
has  been  named  president  of  the  Center 
for  the  Stud\  of  the  Presidencx 
in  New  "^'ork. 


Quoted 


Dave  Evans,  director  of  Career  Planning 
and  Placement,  was  quoted  in  a  story  in 
the  Los  Angeles  Times  entitled.  "How  to 
Handle  the  Thorny  Problem  of  Modest 
Grades."  The  article  also  appeared  in  the 
Dallas  (Texas)  Morning  News,  the 
Louisville  (Kentucky)  Courier-Journal. 
and  the  Allentown  (Pennsylvania) 
Morning  Call. 


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Campus  writers 

Judy  Pehrson.  execuli\c  director  of 
college  relations,  had  an  op-ed  piece  piih- 
lished  in  the  March  13  edition  of  Tlw 
Clin.stiiin  Sciciu  c  Moiiitar.  Entitled 
"Disgruntled  C'hniese  Workers  Miss  the 
'Iron  Rice  Boul.""  the  article  was  based 
on  her  obser\ations  as  a  Fiilbright 
lecturer  in  China  during  the  I996-Q7 
academic  year. 

Dr.  John  Kearney,  professor  of 
English.  \\  role  an  op-ed  piece  on  the 
Middle  East  which  was  picked  up  by 
Scripps-Howard  Nev\  s  .Service  and  seiu 
to  380  papers  aroimd  the  countr\ . 

Dr.  .Sal\atore  C'ullari.  chair  o\  the 
Ps\cholog\  Department,  co-authorcii  a 
receiitK  released 
textbook  entitled 
Fi>iiihhili<iiis  (if 
Clinical  Fsycluil(>\i\. 
The  book  is  designetl 
for  senior  under- 
graduate students  or 
first-\ear  graduate  stu- 
dents in  clinical 
psycholog)  courses. 
Published  b\  .AlKn 
and  Bacon,  the  book  includes  chapters 
by  Cullari  and  l.'i  other  writers. 

Dr.  (iary  (irieve-Carlson.  professor 
of  English,  wrote  resiews  of  Terri 
Meister's  Mtivcmcnt  and  Modernisnt: 
Years,  Eliol.  Lawrciue.  Williams,  and 
Eai'h  Twcniicdi-Ccnuirx  Daiuc:  .lanis 
HaswelTs  Pressed  Agmnsl  Divinity: 
W.H.  Yeats's  Feminine  Masks:  and  Mark 
Richardson's  The  Ordeal  at  Rahert 
Frost:  The  Poet  and  His  Poetics  for 
Choice.  He  has  also  written  the  entry  on 
Charles  Olson's  poem.  '"The  Distances."" 
for  Salem  Press's  Masterplots  II:  Poetry. 
Dr.  Louis  .Manza.  assistant  professor 
of  psychology,  is  the  senior  author  of  a 
chapter  in  the  Handbook  oj  Implicit 
Learninii.  a  recent  scholarl\  text  edited 
by  Michael  Stadler  and  Peter  Frensch. 
and  published  by  Sage  Publications. 
The  chapter.  "Artificial  Grammar 
Learning  and  (he  Mere  Exposure  Effect: 
Emotional  Preference  Tasks  and  the 
Implicit  Learning  Process."  pro\  ides  an 
overview  of  Man/a" s  research,  which 
focuses  on  unconscious  cognition,  con- 
ducted over  the  past  four  years.  The 
chapter  w  as  co-authored  by  Diane  Zizak 


and  Arthur  Reber.  both  from 
Brooklyn  College. 

Dr.  David  Laslvv.  professor  emeritus 
ol  psschology.  and  Samuel  Mudd  of 
Gettysburg  College  have  written  an 
article  that  will  appear  in  the 
.Administration  and  Policx  in  Menttd 
Health  ./oiirnal  this  fall.  The  study 
concluded  that  psychiatric  patients' 
ratings  of  services  can  be  \alLiable  in  the 
assessment  and  management  ot 
psychiatric  ser\ ices.  The  article  was 
titled  "Program  Image  Ratings  of  a 
Psychiatric  Facility  as  a  Measure  of 
Svstem  Performance." 

Dr.  Philip  Oles.  assistant  professor  of 
chemistry,  had  a  manuscript.  "Fractional 
Factorial  Experimental  Design  as  a 
Teaching  Tool  for  Quantitatne 
.Analysis.""  accepted  for  publication  in 
the  .loiirnal  ol  Chemiial  Fihicalion. 

Dr.  Carl  Wifjal.  associate  professor 
ol  chemistiA  .  had  a  manuscript  accepted 
for  publication  in  the  .hnirniil  of 
Chemual  Fducatuni  entitled 
"Determining  the  Authenticit\  of 
Gemstones  Using  Raman 
Speclidscopv ."  The  work  was  co- 
authored  b\  cheinisirv  ma|ors  .Varon 
.\ponick  "98.  Kniedio  Marchozzi  "96. 
and  Cynthia  Johnston  'S7.  adjunct 
professor  of  chemislry. 

Dr.  Donald  Byrne,  professor  of 
religion  and  history,  had  a  poem.  "The 
.Accountant's  Daughter."  accepted  for 
publication  in  the  spring  issue  of  West 
Branch  (Bucknell  L'niversity ).   Four 
other  poems,  were  published  in  the 
December  issue  of  The  .\lin;a:inc  of 
Speculative  Poetry.  The  editors  have 
nominated  the  latter  poems  for  The 
Pushcart  Prize  Will:  Best  ot  the 
Small  Presses. 

Song  Wenwei.  \  isiimg  prolcssor 
from  Nanjing  Uni\ersity.  and  Judy 
Pehrson.  executive  director  of  college 
relations,  had  articles  published  in  the 
i'niversity  F(niim  on  Collei;e  Fni^lish 
Teaihiiii;.  a  Chinese  education  journal. 
Song's  article  was  entitled  "The  Role  of 
Optimal  Input  in  Language  Learning  and 
Teaching."  and  Pehrson's  was  titled. 
"Integrating  Languag 
.lournalism  Course." 


Dr.  Jaciyn  Fov\ler-Frey.  director  of 
academic  services,  published  a  refereed 
article  entitled  "Issues  of  Culture  in  the 
English  as  a  Second  Language 
Classroom"  in  the  February  issue  of  the 
PA.ACE  Journal  of  Lifeloni:  Learnins;. 


Busy  artist 


Dan  Massad.  artist-in-residence.  spent 
two  davs  111  October  as  a  visiting  artist  at 
the  University  of  Oklahoma,  lecturing 
on  his  own  work  and  giving  critiques  on 
the  work  of  graduate  students  in  the 
School  of  Art.   In  addition,  two  of  his 
pastels  w  ere  in  a  show  at  the  Southern 
Alleghenies  Museum  of  .Art  ("Dramatic 
Realism:  The  New  Baroque"). 
In  .April,  he  was  featurd  in  a  solo 
exhibition  at  the  Tatistcheff  Gallerv  in 
New  York. 

Presenters 

President  David  Pollick  served  as  a 
presenter  for  the  Council  of  Independent 
College's  Presidents  Institute.   Pollick 
led  a  session  enlilled  "Fresh  .Approach 
to  Helping  Students  .Afford  Tuition." 
with  Sanuicl  Speck,  president  of 
Mtiskingiim  College. 

Dr.  Sharon  Clark,  professor  of 
man.igcmcnt.  taught  a  course  entitled 
"Caring  w ith  Cultural  Sensitiv itv"'  at  the 
Governors  School  for  Health  Care,  an 
annual  program  for  150  gifted  high 
school  seniors  from  throughout 
Pennsv  Ivania.  The  five-week  program 
was  held  at  the  Univcrsitv  of  Pillsburgh 
Medical  School. 

Dr.  Carl  W'igal.  associate  professor 
of  chemistry,  presented  a  paper  entitled 
"Integration  of  Molecular  Modeling  into 
the  Chcmisirv  Laboratorv  Curriculum" 
at  the  214th  National  Meeting  of  the 
.American  Chemical  Societv  held  in  Las 
Vegas.  Ncv  ada.  The  paper  w  as  co- 
authored  bv  Dr.  Richard  Cornelius. 
professor  ol  cheniisirv .  and  Jeffrey 
Raher  "97.   .Also  attending  the  meeting 
w  as  .Aaron  .Aponick  '98.  a  senior  chem- 
istrv  major,  who  also  presented  a  paper 
entitled  "New  .Methologv  forQuinol 
Sv  nthesis."  This  vv nrk  vv  as  funded  in 
part  bv  the  [-.xxoii  E-ducation  F-'oundation 
and  the  National  Science  Fotindation. 


SUMMER  1998 


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Dr.  John  Heffner.  chair  of  religion 
and  piiilosopiiy.  presented  a  paper, 
■"Body.  Soul.  Mind.  Spirit:  Reframing 
the  Mind-Body  Problem""  at  Cabrini 
College.  He  served  as  one  of  the  invited 
speakers  for  the  symposium.  ""Bod\ . 
Mind.  Soul.  Spirit:  Religion  and  the 
Philosophy  of  Mind.""  sponsored  b\  the 
American  Cathohc  Philosophical 
Association's  Philadelphia  Chapter. 

Dr.  Susan  Atkinson,  professor  of 
education,  presented  the  workshop 
""New  spapers  Aren't  Just  for  Teaching 
Current  Events  Anymore"  at  the  annual 
Pennsylvania  Council  for  the  Social 
Studies  Conference. 

Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  professor  of 
psychology  presented  ""Fi\e-Year 
Follo\v-Up  Study  of  Brief  Residential 
Nicotine  Treatment"  at  the  .American 
Society  of  Addiction  Medicine  in 
Minnesota. 

•  Dr.  Donald  Kline,  assistant  professor 
of  education,  presented  a  session  at  the 
New  Jersey  Science  Teachers 
Association  state  convention  describing 
the  use  of  concept  mapping  as  an 
instructional  design  tool  for  teachers.  In 
addition,  he  served  as  the  registration 
liaison  for  the  National  Science 
Teachers  Northeast  Regional 
Coinention  in  Pittsburgh. 

Dr.  Richard  Cornelius,  professor  of 
chemistry,  and  Dr.  Carl  VVigal. 
associate  professor  of  chemistry, 
attended  the  3 1st  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Middle  Atlantic  Association  of  Liberal 
Arts  Teachers  held  in  Maryland. 
Cornelius  served  as  a  moderator  for  a 
discussion  session.  ""Teaching  Chemistrv 
Using  Intranets  and  the  Internet."  W'igal 
was  a  presenter  for  a  discussion  group 
entitled  ""Molecular  Modeling:  What. 
Where.  When  and  How  Much'!*" 

Winnins  runners 

Kudos  to  Lisa  Yinjjst.  campus  security 
officer,  and  Deb  Simmons,  wife  of 
assistant  men's  basketball  coach  Bob 
Simmons,  who  represented  LVC 
proudly  by  finishing  in  the  top  100 
female  finishers  out  of  approximately 
5.000  female  ninners  in  the  1997  Marine 
Corps  Marathon.   Despite  poor  weather 
conditions,  their  times  qualified  them  for 
the  Boston  Marathon. 


The  race  attracted  over  15,000 
runners,  including  Vice  President  Al 
Gore.  Lisa  and  Deb  also  had  their 
names  printed  in  The  Wiishiiigtim  Past. 

GTE  Ail-American 

Casey  lezzi  '98,  a  senior  forward  on  the 
college's  field  hockey  team,  recently 
became  the  school's  first  member  of  the 
prestigious  GTE  Academic  All-America 
College  Women's 
At-Large  Team.  She 
helped  lead  the  LVC 
team  to  their  second 
straight  NCAA  Final 
Four  appearance  and 
to  their  first  Middle 
Atlantic  Conference 
Championship  since 
1992.  She  excels  in 
the  classroom  as 
well,  and  has  made  the  Dean's  List 
every  semester  and  the  MAC  All- 
Academic  Team  four  times.  An  English 
major,  lezzi  is  a  three-time  member  of 
the  NFHCA  National  Academic  Squad. 

Celebrating  service 

The  following  full-time  employees 
celebrated  a  service  anniversary  or 
retirement  in  1998: 

Five  Years:  Dorothy  Brehm, 
accounts  recen  able  coordinator;  Judy 
Burger,  humanities  secretary:  Terry 
Dundore,  facilities  services  personnel; 
Candice  Falger,  Science  Education 
Partnership  assistant;  Barry  Hill, 
director  of  music  recordmg  technology 
and  assistant  professor  of  music;  Peg 
Kauffman.  head  coach  of  women's 
basketball;  Christopher  Kortright. 
security  officer;  Charlene  Kreider, 
assistant  to  the  vice  president  for 
advancement;  Ronnie  Kulp,  facilities 
services  personnel;  David  Newell, 
assistant  dean  of  student  serMces; 
Susan  Sarisky,  assistant  director  of 
admission;  Dr.  Carl  Wigal,  associate 
professor  of  chemistry. 

10  Years:  Donald  Boone,  associate 
professor  of  hotel  management;  Donna 
Brickley,  computer  ser\  ices  assistant; 
Nancy  Hartman,  accounts  payable 
coord mator/hookkceper;  Stella 
Jeronis,  facilities  services  personnel; 


G.  Rosalyn  Kujovsky,  secretary  for  the 
Chaplain's  Office;  Pamela  Lambert 
'96,  assistant  director  of  annual  giving; 
Patricia  Laudermilch  '96,  assistant 
registrar;  Robert  Leonard,  chair  and 
associate  professor  of  business 
administration;  George  Lovell, 
superintendent  of  facilities  services; 
Daniel  McKinley,  director  of  freshmen 
programs;  Christine  Reeves,  financial 
coordinator  for  gifts  processing;  Dr. 
Barbara  Vlaisavljevic.  associate 
professor  of  accounting;  Allen  Vingst, 
director  of  security  and  safety. 

15  Years;  Dr.  Howard  Applegate, 
professor  and  chair  of  history  and 
American  studies;  Dr.  James 
Broussard,  professor  of  history;  Dr. 
Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  political 
science;  Dr.  Scott  Eggert,  professor  of 
music;  Dr.  Dale  Erskine,  professor  of 
biolog>  and  director  of  Youth  Scholars; 
Dr.  Michael  Fry,  professor  of 
mathematical  .sciences;  Ronald  Good, 
associate  director  of  admission. 

20  Years:  Irene  .Anspach.  facilities 
services  personnel. 

25  Years:  Dr.  Owen  Moe,  professor 
of  chemistry;  Dr.  Stephen  \Mlliams. 
professor  of  biology;  Rosemary  Vuhas, 
dean  of  student  ser\'ices. 

30  Years:  Dr.  Allan  Wolfe,  professor 
of  biology. 

Retirees:  Alice  Diehl,  technical 
processes  librarian; 


Richard  Joyce, 

associate  professor 
of  history; 


Dr.  William 
McGill,  senior  vice 
president  and  dean 
of  the  facult\. 


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CLASS     NEWS     &     NOTES 


DEATHS 


Man  Wyand  Coblentz  '15.  August  ^. 
14411  SIk'  was  si-cretan.  tn  the  Dean  of 
Faculty ,  HimkI  (^(illegt.  rredurick,  Md. 

Elizabeth  Gallatin  Snoke  '18.  October 
2U,  I'W".  In  1421,  she  moled  to  the 
W  a.shington  area,  uhere  she  worked  first 
as  a  teacher  at  an  elementar\  school  in 
Che\y  Chase  and  then  ;ls  a  salesperson 
at  Woodward  and  l.othrop,  Washington. 
[)i.  .she  was  llie  widow  of  the  late  Dr. 
Hubert  R.  Snoke  '20. 

Dr.  Oliver  S.  Heckman  '22,  .Ma\  ll 
19')^.  He  retired  to  ,Siin  (aty.  .Arizona  in 
1%4  from  l.anghome.  Pa.,  where  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Neshamin\ 
School  District. 

Lero>  H.  Hain  '26.  Febrnar\  H.  144" 

Sadie  Daub  Krumbine  '27.  JtiK  S. 
144",  .She  was  a  retired  school  adminis- 
trator. ha\ing  been  the  principal  of  the 
South  Lebanon  Flementan  School. 

.•Vdam  I.  Dundore  '28,  September  I". 
144".  He  had  been  the  owner  and  opera- 
tor of  an  Fsso  Senicenter  in  Lancaster. 
Pa.  since  143".  He  retired  in  14"  1, 

Edith  Catherine  Light  '29.  December 
26.  144".  She  was  a  retired  payroll 
snpenisor  for  Wagner  Klectric  Inc..  -\.|. 

Emmeline  Shaffer  .Miller  '29. 

.\o\ ember  144"  She  was  a  public  school 
teacher  for  14  \ears  and  also  sened  as  a 
librarian.  Her  numerous  acti\ities 
included  seniug  in  the  New  C.entup. 
Literan  Club  and  Iniled  .Methodist 
Women;  she  also  worked  as  librarian  for 
Stoneybrook  I  nited  .Methodist  Church. 
Gahanna.  Ohio,  and  ser\ed  as  the  first 
woman  president  of  the  .illh-member 
\\esler\dle  Historical  Siiciet\   Her  hus- 
band was  Rev.  Millard  J.  >iiller  '28. 


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Helen  Hain  Shearer  '30  is  a  resident  in 
Phoebe  Herks  \illage.  Werners\ille.  Pa. 

Winona  Shroff  Botello  '36  and  her 

liusband.  Salvador  liotello,  celebrated 
their  idth  wedding  anniversan'  on 
October  S.  1446. 

DE.ATHS 

Olive  Morrow  Doughertv  '30, 

\o\ember  144" 

Rev,  Harry  Vi,  Zechman  '30.  juh  24. 
144",  He  received  a  master's  degree  from 
Columbia  I  ni\ersit\,  New  ^ork.  and  an 
honoran.  doctorate  of  divinilx  from  1,\( 
in  14S6  He  sened  .It  the  billowing 
Penns\l\.mia  churches:  Mrunnenille 
I  nited  Methodist  IJiurch.  Hethan\ 
1  nited  Methodist  Church  of  Lebanon. 
Pine  drove  I  nited  Methodist  ('hurch  in 
Pine  (lro\e.  Derr\  Street  Church  in 
Harrisburg  and  the  First  1  nited 
.Methodist  Church  in  Palmvra.  where  he 
had  been  pastor  emeritus  tor  10  years 
before  retiring  in  14"", 

Naomi  Shively  Depuy  '32  September 
16.  144",  She  retired  in  P)"-;  alter  ill 
years  of  teaching  in  the  Chambersburg. 
Pa.  ,\rea  School  District. 


.Mmeda  Me\er  Horst  '32.  |anuar\  2s. 
I44,S. 

Mary  Goshert  Reisinger  '32. 

Ninember  I",  144"  she  retired  as  an 
elementarx  music  teacher  from  the 
Harrisburg  School  District, 

Ruth  Coble  Burkhart  '33   \ugust  IS. 
144".  She  was  emploved  b\  the 
Lancaster  School  District  for  s"  years, 
where  she  was  a  fourth-grade  teacher  at 
Hubert  Lultou  Flementar\  School.  She 
later  became  a  speech  therapist  with  the 
district  and  retired  in  14"1 

('laude  R.  Donmo^er  '33.  November 
2  I.  14>)",  He  was  a  retired  cost 
accountant  with  ,i(l  vears  of  service  at 
(lilbert  Vssiiciates.  Reading.  Pa,  He  was  a 
life  member  of  Covenant  1  nited 
,Methodisl  Church.  Lebanon.  Pa.,  where 
he  was  a  choir  member  for  6(1  years  and 
held  nian\  church  offices.  In  his  earlier 
years,  he  held  a  national  ranking  in  ten- 
nis and  taught  manv  area  plavers.  He 
was  elected'to  the  L\C  ,Uhletic  Hall  of 
Fame,  the  Pennsvlvania  Sports  Hall  of 
Fame  and  the  Central  ('hapter  of  the 
Pennsvlvania  Sports  Hall  of  lame. 

.■Vlbert  .\.  Kaslusky  '33.,|ulv  14.  144". 
He  retired  as  an  executive  for  Times 
Square  Corp..  Brooklyn.  N,V,  His  widow 
is  Haidee  Blubaugh  Kaslusk>  '3-i.  who 

retired  as  a  librarian  Irum  the  Brooklvn 
Public  Lihrarv 

.Myrle  Deaven  McLaughlin  '35. 
December  24.  144",  She  retired  as  a 
teacher  trom  the  Northern  Lebanon 
.School  District.  Fredericksburg.  Pa.  after 
t3  vears. 


Clarence  C,  .\ungst  '38.  August  6. 
144"  He  was  owner  and  operator  of 
(ieneral  Insurance  Agencv  in  Allentown. 
Pa.,  for  -i5  years  and  chairman  of  the 
Lehigh  City  Housing  Authority  for  25 
vears.  He  is  sunived  bv   his  wile.  Sara 
Light  Aungst  '37.  a  daughter.  Judith 
Ann  Aungst  Freeman  '64  and  a  son. 
Scott  1,.  Aungst  "2. 

Robert  S.  Black  '38.  October  15,  144" 
He  was  a  supenisor  at  Hershey  Foods 
(^orp..  Hershey.  Pa. 

Violette  Hoerner  Diehl  '38.  April  1446 

Dorothy  Zeiters  Clippinger  '39. 

December  2".  144()  She  was  a  retired 
music  teacher  from  the  Harrisburg 
.\cadeniv.  Harrisburg.  Pa.  and  was  a 
member  of  the  cello  section  of  the 
Harrisburg  Svmpbonv  Orchestra  She 
was  the  widow  of  Robert  S.  Clippinger 
',39. 


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Esther  Wise  Hovis  '-lO  wrote  to  sav  that 
her  grandson.  Matt  W  bite,  has  signed  to 
pitch  with  the  new  expansion  baseball 
team,  the  Tampa  Bay  Devil  Kays. 

Rev.  William  H.Jenkins  '40  and  his 

wile.  Man.  celebrated  their  ssth 
wedding  anniversarv  on  Jul;  14.  199^. 


Dr.  Dorothy  Landis  Gray  '^^  was  a 

guest  conductor  in  October  144"  at 
LvouFest.  l.von  (College.  Batesville.  Ark., 
where  she  tatight  from  1446-S6.  .\t  the 
festival  she  directed  a  HKl-voice  choir 


otable  literary  ettorts  by  Lebanon  Valley  alumni  Include 
two  current  books.  John  Light  '48  has  written  An 
Infantryman  Remembers  World  War  II,  which  recounts 
his  experiences  as  a  front-line  soldier  with  the  U.S.  Army's 
104th  Infantry  Division,  the  Timberwolves.  The  Annvllle  native 
and  retired  Dickinson  College  professor  fought  in  Europe  from 
1944  to  1945,  Last  year,  he  belatedly  received  a  Silver  Star  for 
his  heroism  in  saving  wounded  fellow  soldiers  during  combat 
In  Holland,  The  book  is  available  at  the  Allen  Theatre,  Main  St,, 
Annvllle,  Pa, 

Paul  Fisher  '47,  a  retired  professor  of  music  at  Mlllersville 
University,  has  recently  completed  the  biography  of  the  late 
Edward  P,  Rutledge,  who  served  on  Lebanon  Valley's  music 
faculty  from  1931  to  1954,  Rutledge,  who  lived  at  a  time  of 
rapid  growth  and  development  of  musical  education  in 
American  schools,  contributed  to  the  growrth  of  LVC's  music 
department.  Fisher's  work  Is  a  labor  of  love,  a  testimony  to  the 
man  who  was  his  teacher,  mentor  and  friend.  "He  was  a 
modest  person,"  Fisher  recalls,  "yet  always  demanding  of  his 
students."  Under  Rutledge's  direction,  Lebanon  Valley  College 
saw  the  institution  of  the  chorus,  the  band  and  the  orchestra. 
He  is  remembered  for  his  boundless  energy  and  his  devotion  to 
the  college.  Fisher's  book  is  available  at  the  college  bookstore. 


consisting  of  si.\t\  alumni  singers 
returning  for  a  choir  reunion,  plus  the 
members  of  the  current  college  choir. 

Rev.  Bruce  C.  Souders  '4-1  has  been 

elected  to  the  Bcjard  of  the  Shenandoah 
Arts  Council.  W  inchesler.  \'a. 

Edviard  E.  Stansfleld  '44  sings  with 
the  Barbershop  Keystone  Capital  Chorus, 
Harrisburg.  Pa.  The  chorus  won  their 
division  championship  in  194". 

Elizabeth  Reiff  Marino  '46  traveled  for 
,■)  weeks  in  Italv.  playing  the  viola  bv 
Invitation  in  Tuscan;  in  a  c;istle  with  13 
others  from  California  and  New  York. 

Dr.  Carl  L.  Derr  '4''  and  his  wife.  Olive 
Reemsnjder  Derr  '49.  celebrated  their 
5(ltb  wedding  anniversary  with 
daughter,  grandchildren  and  great- 
grandchikiren  in  Texas. 

>S.  Jeanne  Kitchen  \Sinemiller  -i" 

w;ls  honored  by  the  National  Honor 
Societv  of  Cresniew  High  School. 
\shland.  Ohio  ;is  a  teacher  who  had 
inlluenced  members  during  their  12 
years  ;ls  students.  Recognized  five  times 
before.  Jeanne  had  been  a  first-  and 
second-"rade  teacher  for  23  >ears  in  the 
school  district.  She  h;us  been  retired  for 
nine  vears. 

Dr.  Michael  R.  Kurilla  'iS  is  retired 

and  lives  m  North  Inn  Mvers.  Fla. 


Paul  0.  Shettel  iS  retired  from  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsvlvania. 
Department  of  Labor  and  Industrv.  as  a 
vocational  rehabilitation  counselor.  He 
works  part-time  ics  a  maintenance 
technician  for  Clabell  Management  Co.. 
Lancaster.  Pa, 

DEATHS 

Rev.  Dr.  Paul  E.  Horn  '40.  November 
23.  144",  He  retired  on  June  30.  14S0 
from  Stevens  .Memorial  I  nited  -Methodist 
Church.  Harrisburg.  Pa.  where  he  sened 
from  14"3-,S(|.  From  1443-61.  Paul 
sened  parishes  in  Scotland.  Pa,. 
Shippensburg.  Pa.,  and  \\a.shington. 
DC  In  1'1S4,  while  sen  ing  in  the  latter 
p.irish.  the  congregation  relocated  to 
silver  Spring.  Md..  htiilding  a  church 
that  meriteci  a  citation  from  the 
Washington  Board  of  Trade  in  its  20th 
Biennial  Awards  for  Architecture,  He  was 
elected  superintendent  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Conference  of  the 
Lv.mgelical  I  nited  Brethren  ("hurch  in 
14(irand  sened  until  14{iS.  Paul  then 
held  the  position  ol  Susquehanna 
('(inference  superintendent  from  19"0- 
"3  He  received  an  honoran  Doctor  of 
DIvinitv  degree  from  Albright  College  in 
14s"  and  was  given  a  similar  degree 
from  I,\(',  in  14(i6,  He  sened  as  an  L\(" 
trustee  from  14S2-"'l  His  late  wife  was 
Dorothy  Veakel  Horn  "39  He  is 
sunived  hv  three  daughters,  two  of 
whom  are  1\("  graduates:  Mary  Patricia 
Horn  Nelson  '70  and  Paula  A.  Horn 
Nichols  '", 


Sl'MMER  1QQ8 


31 


SPREADIN 

THE      I 


WOI^ 


Dr.  Housman  checks  a  child| 
an  outlying  clinic  irt'l 


Lebanon  Valley  College  has  a  long  tradition  of  service, 
sending  its  graduates  out  into  the  world  to  use  their  gifts 
for  the  benefit  of  others.  So  it  seems  only  natural  that 
many  alums  should  have  taken  that  call  to  serve  into 
missionary  work,  sharing  their  faith  and  putting  their  talents  to 
work  in  far-flung  corners  of  the  globe.  We  tracked  down  four  of 
LVC's  missionaries  and  spoke  to  them  about  their  work. 

Dr.  Peggy  Olver  Johnson  '75,  a  United  Methodist  minister 
in  Baltimore,  says  the  seeds  of  her  vocation  were  planted  back 
in  Annville,  where  she  learned  to  appreciate  music  with  all  of 
her  senses  and  came  "to  accept  Christ  as  my  savior.  The 
religious  roots  of  the  college  are  the  jewel  of  my  education." 
Johnson  has  taken  those  discoveries  and  put  them  into 
practice  in  her  life  at  the  United  Methodist  Church  of  the  Deaf, 
where  she  serves  a  congregation  made  up  entirely  of  the 
hearing  imparled  and  leads  a  choir  whose  members  are  "deaf 
as  stones."  It  was  through  her  ministry  that  Johnson  learned  of 
a  deaf  school  in  Kenya  that  needed  some  helping  hands,  and 
she  and  six  of  her  parishioners  rose  to  the  challenge.  In  the  fall 
of  1997  they  traveled  to  the  Kaaga  School  for  the  Deaf  in  Meru 
and  the  Njia  School  in  Maua  to  get  to  know  the  people  —  and 
to  learn  their  unique  sign  language.  A  follow-up  group  will 
return  in  July  1998  to  teach  Bible  school,  establish  a  deaf 
church,  assist  AIDS  victims,  and  work  on  renovations  to  the 
schools'  crumbling  dormitories.  "The  children  in  Kenya  are  so 
impoverished,"  Johnson  says.  "They  don't  have  much  more 
than  the  clothes  on  their  backs.  But  their  spirit  of  life  and  joy  are 
awesome.  After  being  there,  the  world  is  a  smaller  place  for  me. 
I  can't  see  the  church  as  just  us  or  our  little  building  anymore." 

When  the  teenaged  Lucille  Esbenshade  '41   heard  the  tales 
of  church  missionaries  and  the  work  they'd  done  in  Africa 
during  the  1930s,  she  knew  that  was  the  path  she  wanted  to 
follow.  So  soon  after  her  graduation  from  the  Valley,  where 
she  majored  in  history,  she  headed  to  the  Philippines,  sent  by 
the  Evangelical  United  Brethren  Board  of  Missions,  to  realize 
her  dream.  She  spent  five  years  teaching  Oriental  history  and 
scripture  in  two  secondary  schools.  "The  conditions  were 
rather  primitive,"  she  says.  "I  slept  on  a  cot  and  cooked  over  an 
open  fire.  But  the  students  were  excellent.  They  were  all 
planning  to  go  into  some  profession  where  they  could  help 
people."  After  returning  to  the  U.S.  to  earn  a  master's  degree 
in  religious  education,  she  was  sent  back  out  on  another  five- 
year  teaching  stint,  this  time  to  Sierra  Leone.  Although  health 
problems  prevented  her  from  further  overseas  mission  work, 
Esbenshade  went  on  to  become  a  United  Methodist  minister  — 
she  was  one  of  the  first  women  ordained  in  1968  —  and  has 
spent  most  of  her  career  in  churches  in  Indiana,  where  she's 
presently  serving  as  interim  pastor  at  a  small  congregation  in 
Indianapolis.  But  her  missionary  days  are  happy  —  and 
inspiring  —  memories.  "Some  of  the  situations  were  difficult," 
she  admits,  "and  some  were  wonderful.  But  on  the  whole  it 
was  a  great  experience." 


Rev.  David  Stum  '66  arrived  at  the  Valley  with  a  calling  to 
the  ministry,  and  found  a  place  that  "nurtured  my  vocation." 
And  thougfi  he  hadn't  thought  about  preaching  the  gospel  in 
any  place  more  exotic  than  Silver  Spring,  Maryland,  where  he's 
pastor  of  Good  Shepherd  United  Methodist  Church,  God  — 
working  in  the  myhsterious  ways  for  which  He  is  so  widely 
renowned  —seems  to  have  had  other  plans.  When  Stum's 
wife.  Sheila,  an  employee  of  the  U.S.  Agency  for  International 
Development,  received  a  two-year  post  in  Nicaragua,  Stum 
found  a  way  to  join  her  while  continuing  his  ministry.  Through 
a  program  called  Si  a  la  Vida  ("Yes  to  Life"),  an  inter- 
denominational project  for  street  kids  hooked  on  glue  sniffing. 
Stum  counseled  troubled  children  and  helped  supervise 
dormitory  renovations.  "One  thing  these  kids  really  needed 
was  a  healthy  male  role  model,"  explains  Stum,  "and  as  much 
as  anything  I  became  a  surrogate  parent,  showing  them  that 
there  was  somebody  who  cared  about  them.  Working  with 
them  and  teaching  them  some  basic  construction  skills  was  a 
good  way  for  that  to  happen."  Stum  worked  for  Si  a  la  Vida,  in 
Managua,  from  1995  to  1996,  and  he  took  quite  a  lot  back  with 
him  when  he  returned  home.  "The  perspective  I  received  in  a 
third-world  country  is  having  a  big  impact  on  my  present 
ministry,"  he  says.  "We're  finding  ways  in  our  own  church  to 
get  more  involved  in  mission  projects.  The  experience  of  taking 
a  year  out  of  the  institutional  church  and  serving  the  poor  in 
the  third  world  is  invaluable." 

Dr.  Harold  Housman  '51    is  a  man  with  a  vision  —  and  he's 
spent  much  of  his  life  sharing  it,  quite  literally,  with  those  in 
need.  After  completing  his  medical  studies  at  Thomas  Jefferson 
University  in  Philadelphia,  Housman  went  to  Tanzania  to  serve 
his  internship  at  a  hospital  run  by  the  Eastern  Mennonite  Board 
of  Misisons,  where  he  stayed  on  for  fifteen  years.  The  depth 
and  breadth  of  his  training  was  remarkable.  "We  did 
everything  ourselves,"  he  says.  "We  couldn't  pass  a  patient  on 
to  the  next  doctor."  And  one  of  the  things  he  learned  in  the 
process  was  eye  surgery,  a  specialty  he  decided  to  develop 
with  further  study  at  the  Wills  Eye  Hospital,  now  a  part  of 
Jefferson.  After  finishing  his  three-year  residency  program  he 
returned  to  Lancaster  and  practiced  there  for  many  years,  but 
he  never  stopped  thinking  about  going  back  to  Africa.  The 
chance  came  when  he  sold  his  practice  in  1993  and  headed  off 
to  Nigeria  where,  through  the  Christian  Blind  Mission,  a 
German  organization,  he  trained  Nigerian  general  doctors  to 
perform  cataract  operations  —  a  critical  service  on  a  continent 
where  some  18  million  people  are  waiting  to  have  cataracts 
removed.  Housman  worked  in  Nigeria  for  more  than  three 
years,  returning  to  the  U.S.  in  1996.  Looking  back  on  his  years 
at  Lebanon  Valley,  he  recalls  a  place  that  rigorously  trained  him 
in  the  sciences  while  encouraging  his  vocation  to  serve  the 
church.  "I  remember  Dr.  Neidig  in  organic  chemistry  class 
saying,  'In  human  cells,  there  are  thousands  of  chemical 
reactions  going  on  at  the  same  time  —  It  makes  you  wonder 
where  it  all  came  from.'  There  was  always  a  deep  respect  for 
great  religious  truths." 


32 


THE  VALLEY 


George  A.  Katchmer  '40,  October  2X, 
1997.  (leorRi'  retired  in  I')(i9  as  assistant 
protessdr  of  healtli  anil  pinsical 
education  at  .Millers\ille  State  (J)lleKe. 
Millers\ille.  Pa.,  where  he  coached 
football  and  ba.seball  for  IS  years. 
Earlier,  be  bad  lanjibt  and  coached  at 
Cherpi  Tree  and  Newport  bii;b  scbiiols. 
In  I9SS,  lie  coached  .Millersville  to  its 
first  bowl  game,  the  Kotar\  Bowl,  held  in 
.Middlelown,  He  organized  the  hrsl 
I'ennsyhania  Dutch  Bowl  in  ITO.  0\er 
the  course  of  his  career,  (leorge  wrote 
four  books  and  ill  magazine  articles  on 
football  and  baskelball  coaching 
and  recruiting. 

Dr.  Sterling  II.  Kleiser  '40,  December 
IS,  104"  lie  was  a  retired  dentist. 

Dr.  Donald  Havtrstick  '41,  June  27, 
1997,  He  was  a  retired  veterinarian. 

Isabel  ShattoHelbley  '41, 

.\pril  r.  1997. 

.Marion  Snavely  Kllenberger  '42, 

\o\ember  i.  199"  She  had  been  an 
elementary  teacher  at  the  Milton 
llersbev  .School  for  1 1  \ears  and  at  Ka,sl 
Hano\er  Idementan  School  for 
four  years, 

Katharine  Jane  ,Sherk  .McLaughlin 

'43,  Jnh  9,  'l99"  She  was  a  teacher  at 
Susquelianna  High  Schocil,  Progress,  Pa 
She  is  sunived  In  her  daughter.  Dr. 
Patricia  J.  Mclaughlin  '74. 

Dale  X.  Brubaker  '44,  June  1.  199" 

Jeanne  Waller  Hoerner  '45,  September 
17,  199".  She  was  a  fomier  elementary 
and  music  teacher,  who  was  married  to 
Richard  J.  Hoerner  '44. 

G.  Harold  Bucher  '47,  \ugusl  10,  199" 
.\  former  Irnstee  of  l.\(;,  he  was  retired 
from  Ihe  Peoples  National  Bank  of 
Lebanon  as  president  and  CW. 

E.  Peter  Strickler  '47,  October  l4, 
199",  He  was  president  of  Strickler 
Insurance  (^o.,  Lebanon  and  a  former 
president  of  Washington  Mutual 
Insurance  I'eler  was  an  \M\  trustee 
emeritus  .uid  lormer  treasurer  of  the  col- 
lege. He  was  former  director  (}f  the  (lood 
Samaritan  Hospital.  Lebanon;  a  Na\y 
veteran  of  WoHd  War  IL  a  founding 
member  of  the  Lebanon  Cotinty 
W  orkshop;  a  director  and  past  president 
ot  the  (^lualitv  Inn;  and  ;i  board  member 
of  Faniih  and  (hildren  s  Senices. 
Northwest  Bank,  the  'iMC.V,  Bo\  Scouts 
of  .America,  Lebanon  (.ouiit\  Industrial 
(jirp.  and  the  I  niled  Wa\   He  was 
among  the  first  group  of  recipients  to 
receive  an  L\(:  .Alumni  .Yssociation 
('itation  on  June  I,  I9(),S. 

Richard  (irabo>es  '48, 
December  .i.  199'(v 


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NFAVS 


Floyd  M.  Baturin  'SI  has  a  familv 
practice.  His  two  daughters  are  partners 
in  his  law  firm  and  his  son  is  a  law  clerk 
in  the  office,  which  was  established 
in  1917, 


Lee  R.  Thierwechter  '51  serves  on  the 
Bo;ird  of  the  Stewardship  of  Life  Institute 
al  the  Lutheran  Fheiildgical  Seminan., 
(ieltvsburg.  Pa  In  N(i\ember  199",  he 
completed  teaching  his  third  annual  1(1- 
week  PennsvKania  (lermaii  course  at 
the  Belleville  Mennonile  School,  .MiflJin 
Ijiunlv,  Pennsvhania,  Lee  writes  a  week- 
h  column  entitled,  '  Lii  Pennsilhaanisch 
Deitschi  Schtimni, '  in  the  PennsvKania 
(lernian  dialect  for  \lilllin  (lonntv's 
newspaper,  The  (.oiiiily  (thscrvcr.  for 
the  past  three  winters  he  has 
participated  in  the  annual  lAangelical 
Lutheran  Church  in  .America 
stewardship  conference  held  in  Chicago. 

Dr,  Eugene  F.  Kobylarz  52  is  self- 
eniplined  as  a  dentist  and  lives  in 
Brick,  \j. 

Adele  "Mickey"  Begg  Lauder  '52  is 

president  of  (ilen  (kne  Women's  (loll 
League  and  won  low  gross  and  longest 
drive  awards  to  finish  the  season  in  (lien 
Head,  N,y,  before  driving  south  to 
Florida's  east  co:ist. 

Edgar  D,  Landis  '53  retired  as  (11)1  s 
executne  vice  president  of  hnance  CDI 
is  a  leading  provider  of  broad-b.ised  out- 
sourcing solutions,  through  technical 
and  temporan  staffing  ser\  ices  and 
management  recruiting,  to  a  diverse 
blue-chip  client  ba,se,  Kd  joined  CDI  in 
19",i  as  vice  president,  becoming  a 
director  of  the  compain  in  l9"Sand 
executive  vice  president  ol  liiiance 
in  I9,S" 

Betty  C,  Hungerford  '54,  of 

llarrisbing.  Pa,,  is  the  recipient  of  the 
Lrnest  R.  McDowell  ,\ward  for  Excellence 
ill  Public  Relations,  presenled  December 
1 1,  199"  b\  the  Pennsylvania  Public 
Relations  Societv,  an  organizalion  of 
prolessional  communicators  est;iblished 
in  I9S0  The  award  has  been  iiresenled 
aiinnalh  since  1991  to  an  individual 
who  has  demonstrated  excellence  in  the 
field  of  public  relations  over  a  sustained 
period  of  time  and  who  has  given 
unselfishly  of  his/lier  abilities  to  both 
the  profession  and  the  community.  Betty 
joined  the  Society  in  1969  and  has  held 
a  number  of  leadership  posilions,  culmi- 
nating with  her  election  .is  presideni  in 
19,S".  ,\s  past  president  of  the  l.\C 
.\lumni  .Vssociation,  she  has  held  leader- 
ship positions  in  the  Dauphin  I  nit  and 
Pennsyhaiiia  Division  of  the  American 
Cancer  Societv  and  in  nunierous  other 
civic  and  charitable  organizations. 

Dr.  Anton  F.  Kiehner  '55  retired  as 
iiistnimentLiI  director  of  music, 
Coneslog.i  High  School,  Ocean  City.  N.J. 
in  199(1.  He  and  his  wife  now  live  six 
months  in  Ocean  Citv  and  six  months  in 
their  motor  home,  with  three  of  those 
months  spent  living  in  .Mesa,  Ariz  Since 
199(1,  lhe\  have  traveled  to  (Ireece, 
■|'urke\,  Russia,  the  Baltic  States,  China, 
South  America  and  Africa 

Edith  Werntz  Taylor  '55  his  mowd  to 
Charlotte.  N,C.  to  be  near  her  onK 
diiughter,  Susan,  and  her  family. 

Clair  L,  Kelly  '56  is  emplmed  In  (It,) 
l.;iwii  .iiid  Landscape,  (hambersburg.  P;i 


Rev.  Richard  David  Leonard  '56 

is  pastor  of  Salem  I  nited  Methodist 
Church,  Delta,  I'a  He  and  his  wife, 
Irene,  have  seven  children;  Elaine, 
Peter,  Beth,  .Andrew,  Joy,  Joshua 
and  .Marvellen. 

Grace  Gorbey  Connell  "57  is  a  part- 
time  court  officer  at  the  Delaware 
Count)  (Courthouse,  .Media,  Pa. 

Joan  C.  Conway  '57  has  been  named 
artistic  director  of  the  Chamber  .Music 
Festival  of  Saugatuck  and  premiered 
"Interplay"  by  David  Cillingham  for 
piano/four-liands  and  orchestra, 

Robert  J.  Nelson  '57  came  out  of  retire- 
ment to  be  vice-president  of  .Seibels 
Bruce  I  nivers.il  Insurance  Co.,  Winston- 
Saiem,  N.C. 

Doris  Kane  Vounken  '57  is  team 
leader  for  instrumental  and  vocal  music, 
K-12,  South  Plainfield  Public  ,Schools, 
NJ.  She  is  \oc;il  music  teacher  for  the 
Siiutb  Plainfield  .Middle  School. 

Dr.  George  G.  Cunningham  '58  is 

superinlendent  of  schools.  Maine  School 
Administrative  District  -~1, 
Fryeburg.  .Maine. 

Rev.  \Sayde  \.  Atwell  '59  retired  from 
the  Hasteni  Peiinsvhania  Conference  of 
the  I  nited  .Methodist  Church  and  was 
assigned  ;is  interim  pa.stor  of  (Ireen  Mill 
I  nited  Methodist  Church.  Conestoga.  Pa 
He  is  also  a  volunteer  chaplain  with  the 
Pastoral  Care  Department  at  St.  Jo.seph 
Hospital,  Lancaster,  Pa, 

John  \X.  Colangelo  '59  retired  recenllv 
as  associate  prolessor  in  the  .Music 
Department  at  .Millersville  Iniversitv, 
Miilersville,  Pa. 

Ruth  Anna  Miller  '59  is  artist-in- 
residence  at  Ihe  Palmyra  Public  l.ibran. 
Palmyra.  Pa,  She  created  a  ship  in 
conjunction  with  the  Pennsylvania  sum- 
mer reading  program,  "Grab  the 
Treasure;  Be  a  Bookaneer!"  She  holds  a 
master's  degree  from  the  Iniversitv  of 
.Michigan,  ,\nn  Arbor,  Mich, 

DEATHS 

Miriam  Keller  Gottlieb  '51,  Ma\  ,sO, 
199"  Ellen  Gottlieb  Snader  '76  is 

.\liri;mi  s  daughter 

Roberta  R,  Bounian  "53,  October  (i, 
199"  She  w;is  ;i  second. iry  science 
teacher  in  the  West  Shore  School 
District.  Lemoyne.  Pa. 

Donald  L  Gingrich  '54,  October  29, 
199"  He  retired  on  juK  1,  1990  after  .s(i 
years  as  a  music  teacher  in  the 
Southeastern  .School  District. 
Stewarlstown,  Pa  He  also  served  as 
director  of  music  at  Stewarlstown  I  nited 
Methodist  Church  lor  ,■12  vears. 


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NEW.S 


Ronald  I.,  Diet/.  '60  is  in  his  19th  year 
as  cbor.il  director  of  the  York  (Pa.) 
Sviiipboin  Chorus,  and  is  currently 


preparing  Beethoven's  Ninth  Symphony 
for  the  spring  season.  He  also  performs 
:ls  a  singer  with  the  chamber  group. 
"Jubilate.   Dillsburg.  Pa. 

Stephen  R.  Waldman  '60  retired  after 
iU  years  of  teaching  high  school,  middle 
school  and  college.  He  and  his  wife. 
I.enore.  live  in  Boynton  Beach.  Fla. 

Rev.  Dr.  John  C.  Britcher  '6l  was 

recenth  awarded  national  certification 
as  a  criminal  psychopathologist  and  doc- 
toral addictions  counselor  by  the 
National  Board  of  Forensic  Counselors, 
Subsequently  he  was  named  a  diplomate 
by  the  same  organization.  He  and  his 
wife,  Kim,  were  presenters  at  the  2nd 
,\nnual  \\a,shington  State  Domestic 
\iolence  Conference  on  the  topic 
Racisni./Oppression  of  Korean 
Women  Immigrants." 

Aglaia  Stephanis  .Ahmed  '62  is  a  phys- 
ical therapist  at  the  Cerebral  Palsey 
Center.  Ramsey,  NJ. 

Dr.  Joseph  R.  Hooper  '62  retired  from 
,St,  \incent  .Medical  Center  as  a 
cardiothoracic  surgeon.  He  and  his  wife. 
Carolyn,  live  in  Port  St,  Joe.  Fla. 

Kay  Steiner  Kelbley  '62  is  director  of 
Emergency  Support  Senices  for  the 
Salvation  Amiv  Davlon.  Ohio, 

Doris  Kohl  Smith  '62  retired  from 
Bellmore  .Merrick  (Central  High  School. 
Bellmore.  .N.V.  after  22  years. 

Dr.  James  L.  Beck  '64  was  named  one 
of  the  "Top  Docs  "  in  cardiology  in  the 
.May  199"  issue  of  Vk'  /'boeiiLx 
Miiiiiiziiie.  The  studv  was  commissioned 
b\  the  magazine  and  w:is  completed  by 
the  Behavior  Research  Center  of  \rizona 
following  interviews  with  some  .StiO 
health-care  professionals. 

Rev.  Ronald  J.  Beistline  '64  is  pastor 
of  Rebersburg  I  nited  Methodist  Parish. 
Rebersbnrg.  Pa. 

Dr.  Guy  H.  Gerhart  '64  is  a  medical 
doctor  in  DuBois.  Pa,  He  and  his  wife, 
(lail.  have  five  children;  (lary.  Bradley. 
Craig.  Lome  and  Jonathan. 

James  D.  Huey  '64  is  a  teacher  for  the 
Diocese  of  Harnshurg.  Harrisburg.  Pa. 
He  and  his  wife.  Bemadette.  live  in 
Hershev.  Pa. 


Dolores  Mallen  Neuroth  '64  is  a  med- 
ical technician  at  Carthage  Area 
Hospital.  Carthage.  N.V..  where  she  was 
recenth  appointed  daylime  blood  bank 
and  toxicology  technician. 

Kenneth  S.  Wliisler.Jr.  '64  retired  a.s 
manager  of  (,)ualitv  S\  stems  for  W  itco 
Corp.'Petrolia.  Pa.  on  \pril  ,i(),  199",  He 
ha,s  started  a  consulting  auditing 
business,  Jireb  (liialitv  Senices,  in 
Fdinburg,  Pa.  J(^)S  provides  consulting 
and  auditing  senices  principalh  to  the 
Pitt,sburgh  and  (Teveland  areas.  He  and 
his  wife,  Nancy  Bintliff  Whisler  64, 
have  two  children;  Beverix  and  David, 


SUMMER  1998 


33 


The  article  "Mr.  Besecker's  Opus,"  which  appeared  in  the  fall  '96  issue  of  The  Valley,  gives 
but  a  glimpse  into  the  life  of  a  very  unique  person.  I  will  attempt  to  give  some  added 
insights.  First,  it  needs  to  be  clarified  that  Richard  Besecker  '55  has  been  retired  from 
teaching  in  the  Greencastle-Antrim  school  district  since  June  1989,  but  he  does  continue  to  give 
private  voice  and  piano  lessons. 

Since  Mr.  Besecker  is  a  very  humble  person,  he  would  be  reluctant  to  speak  of  himself  and  his 
achievements.  But  the  repeated  successes  of  his  students  as  members  of  the  district,  regional, 
state,  and  All-East  choruses  speak  volumes  about  the  caliber  of  his  teaching  abilities.  Some 
'students  have  even  garnered  the  coveted  "first  in  the  state"  position,  one  as  recently  as  1996  in 
the  second  soprano  category. 

To  truly  understand  the  great  impact  and  influence  he  has  had  on  the  lives  of  his  students  over 
many  years,  one  need  only  speak  to  a  sampling  of  his  students  who  are  very  eager  to  share  what 
Mr.  Besecker  has  meant  to  them.  Here  are  some  of  those  thoughts  shared  by  former  students 
who  are  currently  studying  music  in  college  or  are  now  music  educators  themselves. 

"Mr.  Besecker  is  an  excellent  teacher  because  he  is  an  excellent  musician,  both  as  a  vocalist 
and  pianist,  an  excellent  communicator,  and  his  life  exemplifies  high  moral  and  ethical 
standards.  He  is  a  role  model  for  his  students,  and  his  faith  is  the  foundation  of  all  he  does."  For 
him,  "music  is  the  means  to  praise  God,"  and  many  of  his  students  share  that  conviction.  In  the 
words  of  one  of  his  former  students  "Mr.  Besecker  is  the  one  person  who  set  my  soul  on  fire  to 
sing  for  the  Lord."  "He  shares  himself,  his  strong  Christian  faith  and  his  love  of  music  with  all  his 
students."  They,  in  turn,  have  great  respect  for  him.  This  rapport,  his  ability  to  motivate,  his 
encouraging  positive  ways,  combined  with  his  high  expectations  produce  outstanding  results. 
His  teaching  is  truly  an  act  of  love  as  evidenced  by  the  minimal  lesson  fee.  As  one  current 
college  student  pointed  out,  "he  could  be  earning  much  more  if  his  fee  were  in  line  with  what  is 
the  going  rate."  College  students  often  return  to  study  with  him  over  the  summer  or  for  a  visit 
because  of  the  quality  of  his  teaching  and  for  the  pleasure  of  seeing  him.  In  spite  of  his  current 
health  problems,  he  continues  to  be  very  positive. 

Mr.  Besecker  taught  his  own  son  and  daughter,  both  of  whom  went  on  to  major  in  music  in 
college.  His  son  credits  him  with  his  excellent  preparation,  which  placed  him  a  year  ahead  of 
others  in  his  music  techniques.  He  also  directly  credits  his  career  as  a  church  musician  to  his 
father's  influence. 

The  respect  for  Mr.  Besecker's  high  standard  of  excellence  is  acknowledged  by  his  peers.  A 
music  teacher  in  an  adjacent  school  district  shared  how  Mr.  Besecker  was  his  mentor  in 
preparing  students  to  compete  successfully  in  music  auditions.  This  teacher  never  studied  with 
Mr.  Besecker,  but  recognized  his  abilities  and  asked  to  observe  him  "at  work." 

Another  example  of  Mr.  Besecker's  commitment  to  excellence  and  his  method  of  teaching 
was  given  by  yet  another  student  who  has  since  gone  on  the  teach  music  at  all  levels  from 
elementary  through  college,  and  also  privately.  As  a  high  school  student  this  student  showed 
potential,  but  Mr.  Besecker  wouldn't  accept  him  into  his  high  school  choral  group  until  he 
learned,  with  Mr.  Besecker's  help,  to  read  music.  So  great  is  this  former  student's  respect  that 
he  still  prefers  calling  him  "Mr.  B"  rather  than  by  his  first  name. 

"Mr.  Besecker  expected  excellence  and  the  students  rose  to  that  level.  He  always  practiced 
what  he  taught  and  expected  of  his  students  only  what  he  required  of  himself."  The  person  shar- 
ing this  quote  is  now  a  music  educator,  calls  him  "the  shining  example  of  my  life"  and  confirms 
that  the  discipline  he  instilled  has  had  lifelong  benefits. 

Another  protege,  who  recently  began  her  career  as  a  music  teacher,  says  "her  ultimate  goal  is 
to  be  just  like  him."  There  can  be  no  greater  tribute,  Mr.  Besecker.  You  make  LVC  proud! 

(Note:  People  interviewed  by  the  author  included  Dave  Besecker,  Megan  Esser,  Ron  Eshleman, 
Niki  (Leckron)  Kauffman,  Richard  Overcash,  Tanya  Woody,  Amy  Zimmerman) 


Wayne  A.  Berry  '65  is  retired  after 
selling  his  U-rooni  bed  and  breakfast  in 
San  Juan,  Puerto  Rico,  which  he  ran 
for  10  years.  He  now  lives  in 
I.ongv'iew,  Texas. 

Dr.  James  G.  Code  '65  is  professor  of 
music  at  Motint  Allison  ll[iiversit\', 
Sacbille,  NB,  Canada.  He  had  two  works 
published  by  Ma\fair  Music  in  Toronto: 
"Ijicounters"  for  English  horn,  trumpet 
and  piano;  and  three  duets  for  llute 
and  basso(}n. 

Diana  Nelson  Laul  '65  retired  in  June 
1497  after  2S  years  in  Lebanon 
Township,  NJ. 

Judith  Shellhammer  Schwalm  '65  is  a 

sixth-grade  teacher  at  Annv  ille 
Elementary  School,  ,\nnville,  Pa.  Her 
four  children  have  presented  her  with 
four  granddaughters. 

Audrey  Wahler  Smith  '65  represented 
the  faculty  of  C.ranbury  School  in 
Cranbury,  N  j.,  when  the  school  was  rec- 
ognized as  a  National  Blue  Ribbon 
School  of  Excellence  in  W  ashington, 
D.C.  on  November  7,  1997.  Audrey  has 
been  a  kindergarten  teacher  at  the 
school  for  IS  years. 

,\lbertj.  Taylor,  Jr.  '65  retired  in  |iine 
1997  after  il  years  as  an  English  teacher 
in  the  Centennial  School  District, 
Horsham.  Pa. 

Judith  Smith  Ermigiotti  '66  is  an 

academic  advisor/instructor  at  Temple 
liniversity.  Ambler.  Pa. 

Carol  Mickey  Fleisher  '66  is  a  budget 
analyst  with  the  li.S.  Army  Corps  of 
Engineers,  Pittsburgh  District. 

Helen  Brenner  Gerber  '66  retired  from 
the  Harrisbiu'g  School  District  after  31 
years. 

Linda  Bninner  Stoe  '66  retired  in 
I'ebruan  199'  as  coordinator  for  the 
learning  inslitute,  Pinnacle  Health 
System.  Ilarrisburg,  Pa. 

Elizabeth  Beer-Shilling  '67  is  an 
elenientan  strings  teacher  in  the  Anne 
Arundel  Counts'  Schools,  Annapolis,  Md. 

LeAnn  Leiby  Chandler  '67  is  a  (illD 
instructor  and  adult  education  instructor 
at  the  Carbon  County  \o-tech  School, 
Jim  Thorpe,  Pa.  She  anil  her  husband, 
liugene,  ha\e  three  children: 
Christopher  '71,  Lorilee  and  .Andrew: 

Dr.  Harold  F.  Giles  '67  works  at  the 
I'niversity  of  North  Carlina,  Charlotte, 
for  the  Polymers  Extension  Program.  He 
teaches  extrusion  (Introducton,  Basic 
and  Advanced)  and  Design  of 
Experiments  seminars  to  people  in  the 
pla.stics  industiT  in  South  Carolina  and 
the  .Southea.st,  He  does  consulting  in  the 
area  of  composites  and  has  been  elected 
to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  SPK 
Composites  Division. 


34 


THE  VALLEY 


Dr.  William  J.  Lamont,  Jr.  '67  is 

:issociale  professor.  Department  of 
Horticulture,  at  Penns\lvania  State 
1  niversit),  I  ni\ersil>  i'ark.  His 
appointment  comprises  "S".i  extension 
work  and  2S"c,  research,  with  emphasis 
on  the  culture  and  management  of  pota- 
toes and  other  \egetable  crops.  He 
retired  from  the  Naxal  Reser\e  in  U)4S  at 
the  rank  of  Commander.  He  and  his 
wife.  Phyllis,  ha\e  two  children:  W  illiani 
HI.  and  keiin. 

Roberta  Gable  Reed  '6'  works  in  the 
Ke.search  Institute  of  Hassetl  Heahhcare, 
and  is  involved  in  lipid  and  liprotein 
studies.  She  senes  on  the  editorial  board 
of  Clinical  Chemistiy  and  began  a 
three-U'ar  term  on  the  Board  of 
Directors  ot  the  \merican  Vssociation  for 
Clinical  Chemistrv  in  l')9,S. 

Darnl  W.  BrLxius  '68  is  a  technical 
director  with  Capital  Resin  Corporation. 
Columbus.  Ohio.  He  and  his  wife.  Linda, 
have  two  children:  Jennifer  and  William. 

Charles  J.  DeHart,  III  68  is  an 

attorne\  with  Caldwell  and  keams. 
Harrisburg.  I'a.  .\n  interview  with 
Charles  was  printed  in  the  I'lilridl-Scus 
concerning  the  issues  of  fanii  transfers 
within  tamilies. 

Anna  Schwartz  '68  has  been  selected  to 
be  a  member  of  the  .New  jersev 
Svmphonv  Orchestra  .Master  Teacher 
Collaborative  for  lOQ"  and  IWS. 

Richard  .Simington  '68  is  director  of 
gih  planning.  I  ni\ersin  Relations,  at 
Alfred  I  ni\ersit\.  .Mfred.  W 

James  R.  Van  Camp  '68  was  named 
Naico  Chemical  Co  marketer  of  the  u-ar 
and  was  promoted  to  senior  product 
manager,  \alco  Chemical  ("o.. 
Naperville.  111. 

,\lan  J.  Balma  '69  and  his  wife,  Mitzi 
Sans  Balma  '69  celebrated  2"  years  of 
marriage  in  December  199".  .\lan  is  a 
department  head  at  Lucent 
Technologies.  Inc.  .Middletown.  NL  with 
management  responsibilities  for  s\slem 
engineering  of  large  sohware  s\  stems 
that  manage  traffic  switched  networks 
He  is  harboring  dreams  m  the  next 
decade  ol  climbing  the  tallest  point  in 
each  of  the  SU  states  (~  down)  and 
hiking  the  Appalachian  Trail  .\litzi  is  a 
member  of  the  technical  staff  at  Lucent 
Technologies,  where  she  does  software 
engineering  ot  small  business  communi- 
cations systems. 

James  .\.  Grube  "69  is  president  of 
Teamwork  Company,  inc.,  Annapolis, 
.\ld.  He  and  his  wife.  Maggie,  ha\e  two 
children:  Howie  and  Tucker 

Franklin  S.  Hoch  '69  is  owner  of  Hoch 
Insurance  Agency.  Inc..  Lleetwood,  I'a. 
He  and  his  wife.  Dori.  have  two  children: 
Matthew  and  Katie. 

Re\ .  .Margaret  L.  Jones  MacGonan 

'69  isp;Lslorat  ("ommunit\  I'resbxterian 
Church  of  Sand  Hills.  Kendall  Park.  \.l, 

Kenneth  H.  Matz  '69  won  an  Kmm\  for 
"Be.st  News  ,\nchor '  Mid-Atlantic  Region. 
October  199" 


Frederic  Marsik  '65  has  spent  a  good  chunk  of  his  life  in  a  lab  coat.  For  more  tha/t  25  years, 
the  laboratory  has  been  his  home-away-from  home,  where  he's  peered  into  his 
microscope  to  help  diagnose  —  and  develop  treatments  for  —  a  string  of  puzzling 
diseases.  It's  been  an  interesting  —  and  circuitous  —  career  path,  that's  taken  the  LVp  biology 
major  from  Annville  to  research  positions  with  world-renowned  research  institutes  and 
pharmaceutical  giants;  to  teaching  stints  at  major  universities;  and  to  the  directorship  of  the 
microbiology  and  serology  labs  at  a  large  metropolitan  medical  center. 

Now  he's  made  his  way  to  the  Food  and  Drug  Administration's  drug  evaluation  aili^'research 
center  in  Rockviile,  Maryland,  where  as  a  microbiologist  he  reviews  clinical  and  laborafbry  data 
from  pharmaceutical  companies  to  determine  the  safety  —  and  the  usefulness  —  of  .hew  drug 
products.  "It  can  take  five  to  ten  years  before  a  drug  makes  it  to  the  public  because  of  the  many 
studies  that  need  to  be  done  and  analyzed,"  Marsik  explains.  But,  he  insists,  if  s  a  worthwhile 
wait,  since  FDA  regulations  provide  confidence  for  consumers  who  purchase  prescription  and 
over-the-counter  drugs.  One  of  his  most  recent  reviews  involved  a  new  antibiotic,  the  only  one 
available  to  treat  life-threatening  infections  with  enterococci.. 

Marsik  credits  his  LVC  education  with  setting  him  on  the  road  to  his  scientific  career.  "My 
experiences  in  biology  with  Dr.  Hess  and  Drs.  Wilson  and  Bollinger  were  the  experiences  that 
convinced  me  to  go  into  the  biological  sciences.  The  classes  were  just  the  right  size  for  me.  But 
the  great  thing  about  LVC  is  that  it's  a  liberal  arts  school  and  gives  you  the  opoportunrty  to  expe- 
rience many  fine  classes  —  you  might  come  thinking  you  know  what  you  want  to  be,  but  the 
experience  at  LVC  chgallenges  you  with  its  many  opportunities." 

After  his  graduation,  he  pursued  his  Ph.D.  studies  at  the  University  of  Missouri  in  Columbia, 
where  he  and  his  adviser  drew  attention  to  the  role  that  the  organism  Staphylococcus 
epidermidis  plays  in  causing  serious  and  tough-to-treat  infections.  Today,  this  common  skin 
organism  is  recognized  as  the  major  cause  of  infections  among  AIDS  patients.  Postdoctoral  work 
brought  him  to  Hartford  Hospital  in  Connecticut  —  there  Marsik  and  his  colleagues  were  the  first 
to  recognize  and  publicize  an  outbreak  of  a  life-threatening  staph  infection. 

As  professor  of  pathology  at  the  University  of  Virginia,  Marsik  published  articles  on  infections 
caused  by  contaminated  breast  milk;  at  Oral  Roberts  University,  as  professor  of  microbiology 
and  internal  medicine,  he  took  a  look  at  medicine's  human  side.  "The  school  was  attempting  to 
show  the  importance  of  the  spiritual,  emotional  and  physical  aspects  of  the  healing  process," 
explains  Marsik.  It's  a  theory  that  has  gained  widespread  recognition  over  the  years. 

Marsik  landed  his  first  research  job  at  the  prestigious  Memorial  Sloan  Kettering  Cancer  Center 
in  New  York;  from  there  he  moved  on  the  Merck  &  Co.  in  Rahway,  New  Jersey,  where  he  was 
part  of  the  team  the  developed  some  of  the  first  antiviral  medications,  such  as  interferon.  Other 
assignments  have  led  Marsik  to  jobs  with  Becton  Dickinson  Microbiology  Systems  in 
Cockeysville,  Maryland,  were  he  served  as  director  of  research  and  development  for  media 
technology,  and  to  Crozer  Chester  Hospital,  near  Philadelphia,  where  he  worked  with  burn 
patients.  But  he  admits  that  one  of  the  most  satisfying  moments  of  his  career  took  place  at 
Milwaukee  Children's  Hospital,  where  he  served  as  director  of  the  microbiology  and  serology 
labs.  "My  most  rewarding  experience  there  was  helping  in  the  diagnosis  of  a  fungus  infection  in 
the  brain  of  a  five-year-old,"  he  recalls.   "The  child  was  originally  diagnosed  with  a  cancerous 
tumor  of  the  brain,  for  which  there  was  a  very  poor  prognosis.  Discovering  that  it  was  a  fungus 
infection  allowed  the  child  to  be  treated  and  cured." 

Marsik  now  lives  in  New  Freedom,  Pennsylvania,  serving  as  treasurer  for  his  local  fire 
department  and  pursuing  his  interests  in  travel  and  history  —  recently  he  visited  the  Czech 
Republic  to  learn  about  his  heritage. 

But  one  of  his  strongest  and  most  enduring  interests  has  been  his  alma  mater  —  which  led 
him  to  his  present  avocation  as  LVC  Alumni  Ambassador.   "I  hope  I  can  be  instrumental  in 
helping  someone  decide  on  Lebanon  Valley,"  he  says.  "And  I  hope  that  other  LVC  alumni  will 
make  an  effort  to  congratulate  those  in  their  communities  who  have  chosen  LVC.  It  could  be  that 
simple  gesture  that  makes  them  come  to  the  Valley."  It's  an  altogether  worthy  effort,  Marsik 
believes.  "My  experience  at  LVC  made  me  a  well-rounded  individual  as  an  adult  —  something  I 
didn't  appreciate  until  my  early  thirties.  But  that  experience  still  guides  my  approach  to  my  job 
and  my  life." 


Susan  M.  Hess  is  a  freelance  writer  based  in  Fredericksburg,  PA. 


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35 


Done  Bnden  Skinkus  '69  ;iiid  her 
husband  recently  retired  and  mined  to  a 
house  on  the  beach  in  southern 
Delaware,  where  their  boat  is  docked  at 
their  front  door. 

Rae  Thompson  "69  is  self-employed  as 
a  freelance  writer/consultant,  .She  wrote 
a  chapter.  "Responding  to  the  Call  of  the 
Soul,"  published  in  The  ^eir  Boltoin 
Line:  Bringing  Heart  and  Soul  to 
Business  ( 1996,  New 
Leaders  Press.) 

DEATHS 

N.  Patricia  Shonk  '63,  September  16, 
IW".  She  retired  in  I'l'Xi  :is  a  music 
teacher  and  high  school  band  director 
after  30  years  in  the  .Madison  School 
System,  .Madison,  Conn.  In  1984  she  was 
the  first  woman  elected  to  Phi  Beta  .Mu, 
the  national  school  band  master 
fraternity.  She  was  a  field  hockey  coach 
at  Daniel  Hand  High  School,  .Madison, 
and  Valley  Regional  High  School  in  Deep 
Ri\er.  Conn.,  which  won  the  state  cham- 
pionship in  1994.  She  also  sened  as  a 
field  marshal  for  the  field  hockey 
competitions  at  the  m96  Summer 
Olympics  in  .Atlanta,  Ga. 

Robert  E,  Horn  '66,  November  ",  194' 
Since  January  199",  he  was  vice 
president  and  chief  financial  officer  of 
PM.'£  Resources  Inc.,  York,  Pa.  He  sened 
the  company  from  1980-89  as  executi\e 
\ice  president,  secretary,  treasurer  and 
chief  executive  officer.  From  January 
1994  to  January  190",  he  was  a  tax 
accountant  w  ith  Dorwart,  .\ndrew  &  Co. 
He  also  worked  for  Capitol  ,Ad\ isors. 
From  I96(i-'80  he  was  a  trust  investment 
officer  with  National  Central  Bank.  York. 
.\  veteran  of  the  U.S.  .\rni\,  he  served 
from  1960-'62  with  the  I34th  Ordnance 
Hawk  missile  repair.  He  was  the  hus- 
band of  Carole  Duncan  Horn  '65. 


TO 


Nms 


Kevin  E,  Gamer  '71  and  his  wife  Deb 
have  recently  moved  from  Newport 
News,  \a.  to  Hampton.  \a.  Kevin  is  a 
licensed  clinical  social  worker  in  Ft. 
Story .  \  irginia,  where  he  operates  a 
substance  abuse  clinic.  He  also  plays 
keyboard  and  trumpet  in  the  country- 
western  band,  "Northwest  Passage." 

Glenn  E.  .Moore  "2  is  director  of 
busine.ss  planning,  global 
communications  business  division  for 
.VMP.  Inc.  Harrisburg.  Pa.  He  and  his 
wife.  Lynda  Ferry  .Moore  '68,  have  two 
children;  .Mexis  and  Zachary . 

Alison  Doney  Jones  '73  and  her 

husband.  .Michael,  have  two  children: 
Benjamin  and  Molly. 

Dr.  Debra  Kirchhof-Glazier  '73  was 

elected  to  the  Executive  Committee  of 
the  North  East  .\ssociation  of  .ydvisors  for 
the  Health  Professions. 

Bill  Morrison  '73  joined  Kirkegaard 
and  Perry  Laboratories.  Gaithersburg, 
,\Id.  in  the  summer  of  9"  as  national 
sales  manager.  KPL  has  prov  ided 


Senior  Master  Sgt.  Jim  Katzaman'74,  ...v 
Force  officer  in  the  Pentagon  briefing  room.  (UwSI 
Force  photo  by  Staff  Sgt.  Angela  Stafford)! 

thaveling  the 
information  highway 


April  1,  1973.  La  Vie  Colle0enne,  in  a  journalistic 
coup,  scoops  The  New  York  Times,  The  Washington 
Post,  and  all  the  major  networks,  reporting  President 

Richard  Nixon's  resignation  some  16  months 

prematurely.  Was  it  the  result  of  top-notch  reporting? 

Highly  placed  sources?  A  timely  phone 

call  to  the  Psychic  Hotline? 

Actually,  it  was  just  the  April  Fool's  edition  of  the  college 
newspaper,  but  for  Jim  Katzaman,  then  a  junior  and  the 
paper's  editor-in-chief,  rt  was  the  beginning  of  a  career  noted 
—  with  the  one  exception  of  Lebanon  Valley's  annual  college 
prank  —  for  the  accurate  and  reliable  reporting  of  information. 

Katzaman  '74  took  the  writing  skills  acquired  during  his 
days  at  Lebanon  Valley  and  used  them  to  build  his  career  in 
the  Air  Force.  "Choosing  the  Air  Force  was  easy,"  he  recalls, 
because  it  offered  him  the  career  choice  of  information  (later 
known  as  public  affairs).  Plus  —  and  this  is  important  —  he 
"didn't  have  to  learn  to  swim  by  jumping  off  the  side  of  a 
destroyer,"  as  his  father  had  claimed  to  have  done.  But  he 
has  jumped  into  his  share  of  stormy  waters. 

Early  in  his  career,  as  a  young  staff  sergeant  at  Dover  Air 
Force  Base  in  Delaware,  Katzaman  found  himself  and  his  unit 
briefing  major  print,  wire,  and  television  networks  as  the  Jim 
Jones  cult  suicide  victims  were  flown  in  to  the  mortuary 
there  from  Guiana  in  November  1978.  Katzaman  and  his 
colleagues  pulled  36-hour  shifts  as  planeloads  of  bodies 
arrived,  fielding  reporters'  questions  and  assuring  the  news 
media  that  there  was  no  chance  for  contamination. 

Katzaman  has  also  served  as  a  staff  writer  for  Airman,  the 
official  magazine  of  the  Air  Force.  Sent  to  the  Philippines  to 
cover  a  psychiatric  technician,  he  was  caught  in  the  sporadic 
political  violence  that  broke  out  in  October  1987,  leaving 
three  airmen  dead.  Subsequent  assignments  sent  him  to  the 
University  of  Oklahoma  and  to  Fort  Meade,  Maryland,  where 
he  served  as  the  sole  public  affairs  person  for  the  Air  Force 
intellignece  group. 

Now  Pentagon  Bureau  Chief  of  the  Air  Force  News  Service, 
Katzaman,  with  a  staff  of  two  writers,  two  broadcasters  and 
a  photojournalist,  oversees  the  distribution  of  all  internal  Air 
Force  news  coming  out  of  Washington.  A  typical  workday 
includes  anything  from  administering  everyday  office  matters 
to  Interviewing  the  Air  Force  chief  of  staff  to  fielding  questions 
from  the  Washington  Post.  "Sometimes  reporters  think  you 
know  more  than  what  you're  saying,"  he  explains,  "but  you 
always  try  to  lay  out  all  the  verifiable  facts  on  any  story," 

Katzaman  manages  to  spend  plenty  of  family  time  with  his 
wife,  whom  he  met  while  stationed  in  the  Philippines,  and 
their  two  children.  They're  happy  to  be  living  in  the 
Washington,  D,C.  area,  where  they  all  enjoy  the  accessibility 
of  such  offerings  as  the  National  Air  and  Space  and  Natural 
History  museums, 

Ttiomas  Epier  is  a  staff  writer  for  the  Lebanon  Daily  News. 


immunoassay  and  molecular  biology 
reagents  to  researchers  in  the  life 
sciences  for  the  detection  of  proteins  and 
nucleic  acids  for  almost  20  years. 

Rev.  Michael  I.  Alleman  '74  is  senior 
pistor  at  Grandview  Inited  .Methodist 
Church.  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Karen  Behler  '74  is  a  music  teacher  at 
.Middletown  Elementary  School, 
Frederick  County,  .Md. 

Rev.  Dr.  Kenneth  Bickel  '74,  who 

played  on  L\Cs  golf  team,  had  his 
second  hole-in-one  this  past  summer. 
Jennie,  the  daughter  of  Ken  and  his  wife. 
Rev,  Nancy  Nelson  Bickel  '75,  is  the 
number-one  golfer  at  the  I'niversity  of 
Northern  Iowa,  a  Division  1  school. 

William  R,  Kauffman  '74  is  sales  man- 
.igii  v  ice  president  of  Sutliff  Chevrolet, 
llarnsburg.  Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Diane, 
have  four  children:  Kelly,  .\lex,  Eric 
and  .Michael. 

John  A.  Nikoloff  '74  is  president  and 
owner  of  Capital  .Associates.  Inc..  a  full 
service  public  affairs/government 
relations  firm  in  Harrisburg.  Pa. 

Frank  \.  Rutherford  III  '74  was 

awarded  the  Whalen  .-Vvvard  for  being  the 
19Q~  Outstanding  Chemistry  Teacher  by 
the  Southeastern  Pennsylvania  section  of 
the  .\merican  Chemical  Society .  In  June, 
he  was  appointed  a  P.ASCO  Technoiogy 
Educator  by  P.ASCO  Scientific  in 
Rosedale,  Calif  In  this  position,  he 
travels  around  the  region  training  high 
school  teachers  to  use  a  computer 
intersp.ice  data-acquisition  device  in  sci- 
ence labs.  This  past  summer,  Frank 
spent  a  week  at  L\C  helping  Professors 
Dick  Cornelius  and  Carl  W  igal  teach 
high  school  teachers  to  use  computers  in 
their  chemistry  classrooms  and  labs.  In 
-August,  he  presented  a  paper  for  Chem 
Ed  '97  at  the  Iniversity  of  .Minnesota. 

Deborah  Gemerd  Buckfelder  '75  is 

an  eighth-grade  math  teacher  in  the 
Palmyra  .Area  School  Di.strict.  Palmyra, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband.  William  C, 
Buckfelder  '74,  have  two  children; 
Adam  and  Scott.  Bill  is  manager  of  logis- 
tics at  Hershev  International,  Hershey,  Pa. 

Robert  E.Johns,  Jr,  '75  was  appointed 
to  the  board  of  directors  of  the 
International  Association  of  Conference 
Centers.  He  has  worked  ;is  the  general 
manager  of  the  Center  for  Executive 
Education  at  Bahson  College  for  the  past 
nine  years.  He  and  his  family  reside  in 
Holliston.  .Ma.ss. 

David  M.  Poust  '75  i.s  sales  manager 
for  speciality  products  with  Domino 
Sugar  Corp.,  Baltimore,  .Md.  He  and  his 
wite.Joni.  have  two  children:  Julia 
and  .Allison. 

Howard  P,  Scott  '75  is  a  teacher  at 
Catholic  High  School,  Baltimore,  Md.  He 
also  perfomis  with  the  Baltimore  and 
W  ashington  operas. 

Kenneth  A.  Seyfert  '75  is  national 
director.  Grace  Brethren  Investment 
Foundation,  Inc.,  W  inna  Lake,  Ind.  He 
and  his  wife.  .Anna,  have  nvo  children: 
Tara  and  Trov . 


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THE  V.-ALLEY 


Rev.  Richard  D.  Smith  75  is  pastor  ol 
Grace  (Inited  MethodiM  Cliurtli. 
Haiiovt-r,  Pa. 

James  R.  Sprecher  '75  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  chief  warrant  officer  three 
(CVi-i)  ill  the  IS,  Ariin  on  March  I, 
1W7.  lie  is  cnrrentiv  assii;iied  to  the 
Intehigence  and  Secnrit\  Coinmand 
(INSCOM)  and  is  stationed  at  I'ort 
Huachuca,  Ariz.  James  recei\ed  a  lironze 
Star  for  his  duties  durint;  Operation 
Desert  Storm  and  will  retire  from 
niihtapi  senice  in  ,\lay  I'HW. 

Judith  lleyser  Taylor  75  is  a  teacher 
in  ihetA-nlral  Daujihin  School  District, 
Harrishurj',  Fa.  She  and  her  husband, 
.Mtaiee,  have  two  children:  Natalie 
and  Lee, 

Raymond  C.  Bradley  76  was  the  !')')" 
winner  of  the  'TelK"  Award,  a  national 
award  for  non-hroadcast  video.  Ra\  is 
account  manager/  video  director  lor 
Rooftop  Productions,  Lebanon,  Pa. 

John  M.  Cullather  76  married 
Kathleen  Brown  on  September  Li.  14')~ 
in  Washington,  D.C. 

Carolyn  Reed  Sachs  76  is  an  indepen- 
dent music  teacher  in  Harrisonburg,  \a. 
She  and  her  husband.  Dr.  Stephen  \S , 

Sachs  76,  ba\e  four  children:  (iregon, 
Martha,  Sarah  and  Roberta.  Ste\e  is  pro- 
fessor of  music/piano  at  Kastern 
Mennonite  Lniversilv,  ILirrisonburg,  \a. 
He  toured  in  the  fall  of  >)"  with  the  i:.\U 
Piano  Trio.  (',:irolyn  and  he  performed  in 
two  duet  recitals  on  New  V'ar  s  L\e  for 
Harrisonburg's  'first  Night    celebration 

Doreen  Breder  Sigman  76  is  a  fifth 
grade  teacher  with  the  (ihnn  County 
School  District,  Urunswick,  (la.  She 
recenth  moved  to  St.  Simons  Island,  (ia. 
Doreen  obtained  a  master's  degree  in 
Middle  School  Ldiication  ;ind  a  .speci:ilisi 
degree  in  Middle  School  lilucalion 
(grades  i-S)  from  deorgia 
Southern  I  ni\ersitx 

Ellen  (iottlieb  Snader  "'6  is  owner  of 
I'lP  Printing,  Lancaster,  Pa 

Mar)  K.  Gallant  Syer  76  is  a  math 
teacher  and  K-l  J  math  coordinator  at 
C.oatesville  \rea  High  School,  Coatesville, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband,  llarn,  have 
two  children:  Christopher  and  Elizabeth. 

.\nne  B.  Khrhart  Bocian  77  is  in  her 

19th  year  as  a  senior  high  English 
instructor  in  the  Lower  Dauphin  .School 
District.  Ilummelstown.  Pa. 

Glenn  I).  Deaven  77  is  a  training 
speciali.st  with  the  .Administrative 
Otfice  of  Pennsvlvania  ('ourts. 
Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

Robert  S.  Frey  77  had  two  lull-lenglh 
articles  and  t\\t>  book  reviews  published 
in  the  fall  of  U)')-.  Ihese  include: 
"Effective  Small  Business  Response 
Strategies  to  l'eder:il  (lo\ernment 
Competitive  Procurements. "  The Jounuil 
n/Hiisiiicss  iiiul  Miiiuii;i'»uii/: 
"Environmental  Dredging  on  the 
Chesapeake  Bay  "  (coauthored  with  Dr. 
Erank  Pine).  World  Ihviliiiiiii.  Miiiiiii^  C- 
Coii.slriicliiiii:  "Review  ot  the'l'ruth 


.About  JAerytbing:  .\n  Irreverent  History 
of  Philosophv .'"  Snuitl  I'lvss  Mii};ii:iiii' 
and  '"Review  of  Jerusalem  and  the  llolv 
Land:  Lhe  first  Ecumenical  Pilgrim's 
(itiide. "  Smcill  I'rc.v  M{ii;ii:iiic.  Bob's 
fourth  book.  Smcivs/iil  I'mjiosiit 
Slnilciiics  far  Siiuill  Hiisiiics.ws.  has 
been  ac(|uired  bv  private-sector  business- 
es, governmenl  organi/.;ilioiis  and 
acatiemic  inslilulions  in  the  I  S.. 
Canada,  and  luirope. 

Roberta  L.  Snow  "'''  is  director  of  iher 
apv  si'rvi(.es  .uul  i.ise  inan:igement  tor 
Health  Soiilh  Reh.ibililalion  Hospital  in 
Oklahoma  ('ilv.  Okla.  She  .ilso  te:iclies 
socioliigv  and  hum. in  rel.itions  at 
Okl.ihoma  Citv  Commiinitv  College. 

Ronald  R.  Afllebach  '7S  is  director  of 
huiiKin  resources  lor  \lhright  :uid 
Wilson,  Americas,  Ch:irlesIon,  S.(..  He 
and  his  wife,  Susan  \flleb:ich,  welcomed 
their  fourth  daughter,  l:liz.ibeth,  on  June 
2-i.  l')4".  Their  oilier  d:iughlers  are: 
Kri.sten.  Katie  ,md  Amanda.  Ron  is 
pursuing  a  doctorate  in  business 
administration  and  senes  as  an  adjunct 
professor  of  management  at 
several  colleges 

Dr,  Charles  H.  Blevins  78  has  joined 
LileScan  m  S.ui  Jose.  Calif,  as  mana.ger 
of  new  product  planning.  He  recently 
returned  from  :i  2  1/2-year  a,ssignment 
in  laigland  where  he  led  a  new 
development  team  in  the  conception, 
creation  and  implementation  ot  a  state- 
of-the-art  conl:ic(  lens  m.iiuifacturing 
facililv  for  B:irnes-Hind.  He  h.is  also 
detailed  the  efforts  of  this  project  in 
three  recent  lecliires  given  to  the  C.oldeii 
(iate  Polvmer  I'orum,  lhe  Silicon  \.dlev 
Chapter  of  the  Projecl  Management 
Institute  and  the  Society  of  Concurreni 
Engineering. 

Dr.  Susan  Engle  Carney  78  is  diieclor 
of  qualitv  a.ssurance  and  control.  North 
Amenc:i  with  Novartis  Oinsumer  Health. 
Inc..  Lincoln.  Nebr 

.4iina  Marie  Macenka  Mantey  78  is  a 

primary  care  phvsician  assfstant  with  the 
McDowell  Hospiial,  ^L^rion,  N.C. 

CarenJ,  Luchanin  Reichhard  '78  and 

her  husband.  Bob,  live  in  .Scottsdale, 
Ariz,  with  their  son,  RJ 

Elizabeth  A.  Sanders  '78  plavs  clarinet 
with  the  Stockton  Svmphonv,  Stockton, 
(;aiir  and  the  Seaport  Woodwind 
Quintet.  She  also  plavs  clarinet  and  sa.\- 
ophone  with  the  Shlst  Air  force  Band. 
California  Air  National  Cuard.  Elizabeth 
teaches  band  in  the  l.odi  I  nified  School 
District,  Stockton,  Calif 

Evan  T,  Shourds  '78  is  a  soccer  coach 
for  the  ConeiiKiugh  Township,  Pa.  junior 
high  boys'  soccer  team.  It  went  16-12 
and  won  the  \  alley  of  School  Ligonier 
tourn:mient  lor  the  tirsi  time. 

Meredith  ^oung  '"S  is  i|u;ililv  manager 
for  Northwest  Coalings.  Oak  Creek,  Wis. 
She  compleled  .1  Doctor  of  N.iluropalhv 
degree  in  September  I'i'Mi  and  is 
currenllv  attending  l.apil:il  1  niversitv  of 
Integrative  Medicine.  Washington.  D.C. 
pursuing  a  PMI)  degree  (Doctor  of 
Phvsiatrics). 


Richard  J.  .Allen  '79  and  his  wife. 
I.oretta.  welcomed  a  daughter.  Rachel, 
on  March  12,  199". 

Rev.  Truman  T.  Brooks  '79  is  senior 
pastor  of  Christ  I  nited  Methodist 
Church.  Lansdale,  Pa.  In  |iilv  1996.  he 
and  his  wife.  Roseann  McGrath 
Brooks  '82,  adopted  two  children  from 
Piiebla.  Mevico:  Sandra  and  Tomas. 
Roseann  is  managing  editor  of  £\T,  a 
computer  publication. 

Matthew  M.  Curtin  "79  is  president  of 
Integral  Partners.  Inc..  Radnor.  Pa. 

Michael  F.  Faherty,  Esq.  '79  was  the 

speaker  for  the  Council  on  IMucation  in 
\Linagemenl  at  the  "Pennsylvania 
Workers"  Comp  1  pdate  199""'  seminar 
held  on  November  12.  199"  at  the 
Harrisburg  Hilton  Towers  His  topic  w:is 
"".Maintaining  (.ontrol  of  Claims  and 
Reducing  Costs  Through  \ggressive 
Return-to-Wiirk  Policies  '  Michael  is  a 
member  of  the  law  office  of  Marshall, 
Dennehey,  Warner.  Oilenian  and 
(loggin.  Harrisburg.  Pa. 

Karl  D.  Neiswender  '79  w;ls  selected 
Coach  of  the  ^ear  at  the  annual  South 
Jersey  Tennis  Coaches  .Associ.ition 
ban(.|uet.  .\lmoiK-s,son.  NJ.  Karl  is  in  his 
fifth  year  as  ('learfield  High  School  girls' 
tennis  coach;  he  also  teaches  math.  His 
hither  is  Dr.  David  D.  Neiswender  '53. 

Gloria  J.  Scarle  '79  is  comptroller/ 
owner  of  Triad  Construction  Services, 
Inc  .  'I':mipa.  fhi. 

Joan  H.  Squires  '79  is  president  and 
IT'.O  of  the  Phoenix  Symphony. 
Phoenix.  ,\riz. 

DEATHS 


David  E.  Klein  '7>,Januarv  20,  199S  He 
was  a  dispatcher  for  ISE  Red  Star 
Express.  Newark.  N.|. 

Marilvn  K.  Showalter  '78, 
|ulv  s,'l99". 


80 


NEWS 


Vicki  Greb  Cowan  '80  is  a  home-school 
consultant  for  Covenant  Life  School, 
Ciailhersburg,  Md  She  and  her  husband, 
Jim,  have  three  children:  Justin,  .\ndrew 
and  Philip. 

Steven  F.  Vozzo  '80  is  an 

environmental  supervisor  with  the  North 
(';iroliii.i  Division  of  Air  (,)ualit\. 
Eavelteville  Region.il  Ofhce.  Eavelteville. 
N  ('    He  and  his  wife.  Helen,  live  in 
Raleigh.  N  (".  with  their  three  children 
M:iria.  Eric  and  Wall. 

Bruce  D.  Bomberger  '81  is  coauthor  of 
the  book.  The  Trench  mni  Iniliini  Vrnr 
ill  I'cniisvlriinici.  /"5,i-/"6)'.  published 
bv  the  Pennsvlvani.i  Musiaim 
Commission 

Brian  R.  Claeys  '81  is  a  senior  benefits 
administration  speci:disl  with  Towers 
Perrin.  Philaik'lnhi.i,  P.i  He  .md  his 
wife.  Julie  Kauifman  Claeys  '81,  have 
one  child:  Bailev. 


Dr.  Caria  Powell  Desilets  '81  enjoys 
being  the  army  wife  of  David  Desilels  in 
ft.  Bragg.  N.C,  home  of  the  82nd 
Airborne.  She  and  David  have  5vo 
children:  Joseph  and  Henry. 

Jeff  T.  Mowrer  '81  is  general 
manager/PC  \  Professional  at  Donegal 
Highlanis  (iolf  Club.  Done.gal,  Pa. 

Craig  C.  Olinger  '81  is  deput)  chief 
accountant  ol  tin-  Division  of 
('orponition  finance.  I  S  Securities  and 
Exchange  Commission,  Washington, 
I)  (^  His  wife,  Christine  Lowther 
Olinger  '81,  is  a  chemist  in  the  Office  of 
Pesticide  Programs,  I   S.  Environmental 
Protection  Agency.  They  have  two 
children:  Douglas  and  .Mark. 

Noel  Kane  Stanek  '81  is  self-employed 
and  president  of  Kane  Slanek  A.ssociates. 
.Malvern,  Pa. 

(iary  R.  Zellner  '81  is  principal  of 
Northside  Elementary  School  and 
coordinator  of  elementary  special  educa- 
tion in  the  Palmyra  .\rea  School  District. 
P:ilmvra.  Pa  His  wife.  Carol  Withers 
Zellner  '81,  is  a  reading  instructional 
assistant  in  the  same  school  district. 
They  have  one  son:  Ryan 

Denise  L.  Ache)  '82  is  choir  director 
and  music  department  chair  at 
Middletown  High  School.  Erederick 
County.  .Md.  She  is  also  adult  choir 
director  at  Trinitv  t  nited  .Methodist 
Church.  Erederick.  Md. 

Linda  Te\ter  Behler  '82  and  her 

husband,  .\larlin.  welcomed  daughter 
Andrea  on  November  20.  I49(i.  Linda 
has  left  her  teaching  career  after 
15  years. 

Douglas  A.  Bufton  '82  is  regional  oper- 
.itions  man.iger  of  Southea.st  Tran.sport 
Inlernational  Pool.  Marietta,  (ja.  He  and 
his  wife.  Pamela,  have  two  children: 
Jennifer  and  Laura. 

Michael  G.  Groody  '82  is  a  cat;Lstrophe 
adjuster  for  t  SAV  Pompano  Beach.  Fla. 
He  and  his  wife.  Sandra,  have  two 
children:  Mickev  and  Olivi.i. 

Timothv  Gary  Long  '82  married  fori 
i:li/.ibelh  Steele  on  November  29,  199" 
in  first  (Jiurch  of  the  Brethren, 
Harrisburg,  Pa  Tim  is  a  st-lf-emploved 
financial  consultant  with  Kev stone 
Einancial,  Harrisburg. 

Felecia  Snyder  Summy  '82  and  her 

husb:ind.  lim,  welcomed  their  second 
child,  Jennifer,  on  Julv  12.  199". 

Robert  J.  Wlialen  '82  is  assistant  vice 
president  for  E.isteiiers.  Progress  Kail 
.Ser\ices.  Carev,  111.  He  and  his  wife. 
Donna,  have  two  children:  Brian  and 
Robert  111. 

David  J.  Allen  '83  and  his  wife.  .Mary, 
welcomed  a  daughter.  Eli/.aheth.  on 
Eebru:in  21,  199".  Thev  live  in  Palo 
.\lto,  Caiif.  David  is  director  of 
operations  for  RHL,  Inc..  Benicia.  Calif. 


SUMMER  19Q8 


Elaine  Woodworth  Norcross  '83  is 

senior  training  specialist  with  Degussa 
Corporation.  Ridgefieid  Park.  N.J.  She 
and  her  iiusband,  lohn.  were  married  in 
.\prii  lOir. 

Tina  Liek  Rockwell  '85  is  a  pharmac\ 
technician  at  Weis  Phannacy,  Jersey 
Shore,  Pa.  She  and  her  husband, 
\Silliam,  have  two  children:  Jon-Luc 
and  V.  esley . 

Bn an  G.  Rone  '85  is  director  of  nlLl^ic 
at  Grace-St.  Lukes  Epi.scopal  Church, 
.Memphis,  Tenn. 

Re\.  David  .\I.  Fne  '84  is  assistant  to 
the  president  at  .Martin  Luther  Home 
Societ),  Inc..  Lincoln.  Neb.  He  is 
pursuing  an  M.\  in  Journalism  and  .Ma.ss 
Communications  at  the  I  ni\ersity  of 
Nebraska-Lincoln. 

.\ni\  J.  Hosteller  '84  recently  became  a 
science  writer/columnist  for  the 
Richmond  TiincsDispiilch  after  nine 
years  ;ls  a  w riter  with  the 
Associated  Press. 

Diane  Shissler  Kamp  '84  is  senior 
claims  adjuster  for  Hershey  Foods 
Corporation,  Hershey.  Pa.  She  and  her 
husband,  Charles,  have  three  children; 
Joshua.  Meredith  and  .\le.\. 

WaVnc  C.  Meyer  '84  is  national  sales 
manager  for  True  Temper  Hardw  are. 
Camp  Hill,  Pa.  He  and  iiis  wife.  Janice, 
ha\e  three  children:  Joshua.  Nathan 
and  Hannah. 

.Marc  .\.  Nehille  '84  is  an 

environmental  administrator  with  Land 
OLakes,  Inc.,  Carlisle,  Pa, 

Dr.  \ .  Lyle  Trumbull  '84  and  his  wife. 
Tamara.  welcomed  a  .son,  .Mdes.  on 
.August  ",  199".  Lyle  is  a  postdoctoral 
research  fellow  at  Harvard  University. 
Cambridge,  Mass. 

Diane  M.  Carey  '85  studied  art  at  Christ 
Church,  Oxford  I  niversit)',  England  in 
199-1.  She  is  a  professional  artist, 
currently  showing  her  paintings  in  the 
Jane  Anthony  Gallen.  Newlown.  Pa,  On 
.March  .i.  199",  she  married  Atsushi 
Ninomiya.  They  reside  in  Kawiisaki, 
Japan,  where  Diane  is  studying  Japanese 
at  the  Kawaski  International  ('enter, 

Michael  G.  Cobb  '85  is  a  job  skills 
instructor  w itli  Jobs  for  Baystates 
Graduates,  a  private  nonprofit 
organization  located  in  Falls  River, 
.Maine.  Michael  teaches  interviewing 
skills  and  job  survival  skills  to  inner-city 
studenLs  at  W orcester  \ocational  High 
School.  He  and  his  wife  recently  moved 
to  Shrewsbury,  Maine  from  Exton,  Pa. 
His  wife,  (;atliy  Harkey  Cobb,  former  l.\(: 
assistant  dean  of  admission,  was 
promoted  to  the  position  of  regional 
manager  for  Eastern  Massachusetts  and 
the  Greater  Boston  Area  for  Kelly 
Services.  They  have  two  children:  .Megan 
Elizabeth  and  Sean  Michael. 

Gloria  Pochekailo  Evert  '85  received  a 
master  of  education  degree  from 
Bucknell  1  niversity  in  1991.  She  is 
currently  employed  by  the  Schuylkill 


Haven  Area  School  District  as  an 
elementary  guidance  counselor.  She  and 
her  htisband.  Brian,  have  two  children: 
Benjamin  and  Leah  Lvnn,  bom 
.April  Lr  199", 

.Melanie  Herman  Hartman  '85  and 
Bryan  M.  Hartman  '84  reside  in 
Hamburg,  I'a.  with  their  daughter 
Kaitlyn  and  .son  Christopher,  Melanie 
teaches  elementary  music  in  the  Daniel 
Boone  School  District,  Birdsboro.  Pa. 
Bry  an  teaches  secondary  vocal  music  in 
the  Tidpehocken  .\rea  School  District. 
Bernville,  Pa.  and  is  director  of  music  al 
St.  Johns  Lutheran  Church,  Hamburg. 

Jennifer  Wright  Hertzler  '85  and  her 

husband.  Jonathan,  have  two  children: 
Josiah  andjesielle. 

Suzanne  Flinn  Lacey  '85  is  a  client  ser- 
vice leader  with  General  Electric, 
Trevose,  Pa. 

Timothy  J.  S«  artz  '85  is  a  real  estate 
appraiser  for  The  Appraisal  Firm. 
.\iiddletown.  Pa,  He  and  his  wife,  Beth, 
have  two  children:  Kristin  and  Collin. 

Nicholas  F.  Verratti  '85  and  his  wife, 
.Michele  Gawel  Verrati  '8-J  welcomed  a 
second  son.  Jared  .\nthony.  on  October  ". 
199".  Their  other  son.  Justin,  is  three 
years  old, 

Steven  .M.  Weddle  '85  and  his  wife, 
Ann,  welcomed  a  daughter,  llaleigh 
Elizabeth,  on  October  S.  199". 

Jeffrey  E.  Boland  '86  is  senior  associate 
for  ZA  Considting.  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Rimberly  Pearl  Keene  '86  is  a  seventh- 
grade  social  studies  teacher  in  the 
Cornwall-Lebanon  School  District. 
Lebanon.  Pa. 

Julie  A.  Kissinger  '86  graduated  with 
an  .MBA  degree  from  St.  Joseph's 
1  niversity.  Philadelphia,  in 
September  1996. 

Johnna-Claire  Metz  '86  was  granted  a 
master's  degree  in  Industrial. 
Organizational  and  Human  Relations 
P.sycholouy  in  .May  199b.  She  is  currently 
working  for  an  international  company, 
Sanofi  Beaute,  New  York,  She  is  creative 
production  associate  for  Oscar  de  la 
Renta,  Worldwide,  V'ves  Saint  Laurent 
and  Nina  Ricci.  She  also  just  became  an 
accredited  landscape  and  design  critic. 

.Mark  N.  Sutovich  '86  and  his  wife, 
Melissa  Miller-Sutovich  '88  have 
relocated  to  Charlotte.  N.C.  with  their 
5vo  sons:  Ryan  and  Adam. 

Rebecca  Owens  Wise  '86  is  a  buver  for 
Belk  in  Charlotte.  N.C. 

Glen  .M.  Bootay  '87  and  his  wife,  Leslie, 
welcomed  twin  bovs.  Gage  and  Bailey, 
on  January  19,  199^. 

Kathy  L.  Brandt  '87  is  a  research  assis- 
tant at  the  Iniversity  of  .■Uabama, 
Birmingham. 

Andrew  R.  Brode  '87  is  a  systems  engi- 
neer for  Rite  Aid,  Inc.,  Etters,  Pa. 


Dr.  Michael  Cackovic  '87  is  a  .May 
199"*  graduate  of  Hahnemann 
1  niversity.  School  of  .Medicine  and  was 
commissioned  a  Lieutenant  in  the  IS. 
Navy  in  July  199".  He  is  an  OB/GI'N  resi- 
dent at  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  Bethlehem. 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Barbara,  have  three 
children:  Hannah,  Connor  and  Paige. 

.\nn  .M.  Cessna  '87  is  a  substitute 
special  education  teacher  in  the 
Lancaster.  Pa.  area.  She  received 
Pennsylvania  certification  in  special 
education  on  December  18,  199".  .\nn  is 
a  graduate  student  at  .Millersville 
1  niversity ,  .Millersville,  Pa.,  working 
toward  a  .M.Ed,  in  Special  Education. 

Nicole  A.  Emrich  '87  is  administration 
manager  for  Cort  Furniture  Rental. 
Aurora.  (aiIo. 

Jo  Ellen  Jeweler  '87  is  owner  of  Silicon 
\alley  Electronics,  .\nnapolis.  .Md. 

Glenn  R.  Kaiser,  Jr.  '8''  and  his  wife. 
Deanna,  welcomed  daughter  Bianca 
.Marie  on  October  26.  1997.  Glenn  is  the 
head  wrestling  coach  at  Upper  Dublin 
High  School  (Pa.). 

Eve  R.  Lindemuth  '87  is  manager  of 
worldwide  translator  relations  for 
Language  .Management  Internatiotial  of 
Denver,  Colo.  She  is  responsible  for 
managing  the  resources  and 
.standardization  of  the  recruiting  process 
for  the  company's  branches  in  the  I'.S.. 
Europe.  Asia  and  Latin  .\merica. 

Brian  S.  Salldin  '87  is  controller  for 
Jerome  H.  Rhoads.  Inc..  Lanciister.  Pa. 


Kimberly  .\nn  Burd  '88  married  Bruce 
.Andrew  Minke,  October  -i,  199"  in  Point 
Place  United  ,Methodist  Church.  Toledo. 
Ohio.  Kim  received  two  masters  degrees 
from  Bowling  Green  I  niversity  and  is  an 
instructor  and  adviser  with  Owens 
Community  College,  Findlay ,  Ohio. 

Donna  L.  Daeer  '88  married  David 
Hartzell  on  July  12.  199"  in  Perkasie,  Pa. 
Donna  is  a  second-grade  teacher  for  the 
Central  Bucks  School  District, 
Doylestown.  Pa, 

Shawn  M.  Fitzgerald,  Ph.D.  '88  is 

a.ssistant  professor  of  evaluation  and 
measurement  at  Kent  State  University, 
Kent,  Ohio.  Shawn  teaches  graduate- 
level  courses  in  statistics,  research 
design  and  program  evaluation.  He 
received  a  Ph.D.  in  Statistics  and 
Evaluation  from  the  University  of 
Toledo.  Ohio  in  December  199(). 

\^  illiam  \.  Giovino  '88  is  a 

mathematics  teacher  in  the  Lebanon 
High  School.  Lebanon.  Pa.  He  and  his 
wife,  Rhonnda  L.  Giovino  '95,  have 
one  child.  Antonia  Lin,  horn 
June.i,  199(1, 

Joanne  M.  Grier  '88  is  Medicare 
supenisor  for  Pennsylvania  Blue  Shield, 
Camp  Hill.  Pa.  She  and  her  husband, 
David,  have  two  children:  Ryan 
and  Kelly. 

Nan  Hanshan  '88  graduated  from  the 
North  Carolina  State  \eterinary  School 
in  May  1998.  She  will  be  joining  a  veteri- 
nary practice  in  Elizabethtovvn,  Pa. 


Dr.  .Mary  Beth  Seasholtz  '87  is  a 

senior  chemist  for  Dow  Chemical. 
Sanford.  .Mich. 

Andrea  M.  Tindley  '87  is  a  day-care 
licensing  representative  for  the  DPW 
(Central  Region  Day  Care  Licensing 
Bureau.  Hamburg.  Pa- 
Drew  R.  Williams  '87  is  print 
coordinator  for  Communications 
Development.  Washington.  D.C. 


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THE  VALLEY 


Gift  of  All! 

Ever  have  trouble  finding 
the  "perfect  gift"  for  that 
special  someone? 


Commemorative 
gills  made  in  honor  of 
loved  ones  -  for  Mother  s 
Day  or  Father's  Day.  the 
birth  of  a  child  or  grandchild,  a 
birthday,  wedding,  anniversarv 
graduation  or  other  special  occasion  -  can  be  sincere 
reminders  to  fiiends  or  family  of  how  much  you  care. 

A  comniemoralive  gift  in  his  or  her  honor  to  Lebanon  Valley 
College  thai  "gives  back"  to  others  can  be  a  most  appreciated 
gesture. 

Many  people  also  find  their  long-range  estate  and  financial 
plans  can  be  a  thoughtful  way  lo  make  gifts  in  honor  of  others. 

Please  contact  us  if  you  have  questions  about  the  best  ways  to 
give  -  either  long-  or  short-term.  We  will  do  our  best  lo  help  you 
accomplish  your  goals. 

Call  Paul  Brubaker,  Director  of  Planned  Giving 

717-867-6222 


Dr.  Joan  M.  Hevel  '88  married  Ik'nru'll 
lirouning  on  Octcibi-r  1 1.  IWb  on 
I'lfilffr  Ik-ach,  in  Mi};  Siir.  Calif  She  is  a 
pdsl  dotlnral  tflldw  in  llif  cheinistPi 
ik-parlnieni  al  the  Universin  of 
Hawaii,  Honolulu. 

Tracey  Montgomery  Hoffman  '88  and 
her  hnshand,  Richard  P.  Hoffman  '86 

welcomed  second  child  Kelse\  drace  on 
October  IS,  144".  Son  H\an  is  lour 
years  old. 

Susan  .Scott  lloskins  '88  is  a  graduate 
sludenl  and  lutor  of  inlern.itional 
students  at  the  I  ni\ersity  of  Delaware, 
Dover.  She  is  completiiii;  her  I'll. I), 
research  ni  the  linnuislics  department. 

Joanne  Hoffman  Hunter  '88  is  nation- 
.il  .iccounts  Medic. ire  risk  consiillant  for 
,\etiia  I  S.  Healthcare.  Middlelown.  Conn. 

Bonni  .Shartle  Keane  '88  is  a  third- 
grade  teacher/site  administrator  in  the 
Palm  .Springs  laiified  School  District, 
Palm  Springs.  Calif.  She  and  her  husband. 
Michael,  were  married  on  April  S,  144". 

Lisa  .M.  Kiss  '88  is  a  teacher  in  the 
\nn\ille-('leiiiia  School  District. 
Aninille,  Pa.  She  anil  her  hush.ind, 
Douglas,  welcomed  a  il.iugliter, 
Michelle,  ill  the  summer  of  1447. 

Brian  P,  I.uckenbill  '88  is  a  second- 
grade  teacher  .it  the  Penii-Mennille 
Klenientarx  (Center  in  the  Tiilpehocken 
Area  School  District,  Bermille,  Pa. 

Lvdia  H.  Neff '88  married  Thomas 
M'cCov  on  April  20,  144"  in  Hidgewood. 
NJ.  Lydia  is  a  first-grade  teacher  at 
Willard  Klenientar\  School.  Kidgewood. 

Lisa  Jennings  Nelson  '88  is  a  chemist 
for  \bhott  Laboratories,  .\bboll  Park.  111. 

David  J.  Sekula  '88  is  a  research 
techiiici.in  .it  the  Meinori.il  Sloan- 
Kettering  (..nicer  (enter.  Departmenl  of 
.Molecular  .Medicine,  New  ^ork. 

.Mithele  Dnrkin  .Sorenson  '88  and  her 

hushaiiil.  Dennis.  ha\e  three  i  hildren: 
.Matthew,  Christopher  and  .Melissa. 

Michael  Sleckman  '88  and  his  wile. 
Amber  Hegi  Steckman  '42  live  in 
Kinerslord.  Pa.  Michael  combines  his 
education  and  his  computer  skills  by 
providing  technological  training  and 
consulting  .sen  ices  to  a  number  of 
biisines.ses.  agencies,  schools  and 
nonprofit  organi/ations  in  the  northwest 
Philadelphia  area  Mich.iel  has  been 
te. idling  ill  the  continuing  education 
program  .it  ne.iiin  I  rsiiuis  College. 
Coliege\ille,  Pa. 

Dr.  Ramona  S.  Taylor  '88  is  assistint 
professor  of  cheniistn.  (lollege  of  the 
Holy  Cross.  Worcester,  Mass. 

Dr.  .Susan  J.  Toland  '88  is  director  of 
inlormation  resources  lor  (ah. nice. 
Princeton.  N.J. 

Sharon  H.  Weaver  '88  and  her 

hush. mil.  Dennis.  Iia\e  lourcbiklrcn: 
lireiil.  Kristin,  \lelod\  .mil  Midi, tela 


David  K.  Bush  '89  has  been  selected  as 
one  ol  eight  education  prolessionals  to 
commence  with  doctoral  studies  in  the 
higher  education  admimstr.ilioii 
program  at  the  I  iii\ersit\  of  \irginia.  He 
is  currentK  working  as  a  graduate 
assistant  at  the  Center  for  the  SliiiK  of 
Higher  Iklucation  and  resides  in 
Charlottesville.  \ a. 

G.  Scott  Carter  '8')  li.is  left  his  job  as  a 
law\er  in  W.ishinglon.  \>.i.  .iher  fi\e 
\ears  to  become  a  \ice  president  .it 
Washinglon  Mortgage  financial  droup. 
Ltd  .  a  commercial  mortgage  lender 
located  in  northern  \irgiiiia 

Beth  Trout  Coder  '8')  and  her 

luisli.iiid.  Brian,  welcomed  a  d.uighter 
on  lebruarv  21.  144"  belli  is  eiiiplmed 
as  a  student  a.ssistance  assessor  In  the 
Lancaster  (iiiidance  Center.  L.mc.isler. 
Pa.  She  prmides  SAP  serMCes  to  the  mid- 
dle schools  in  the  Solanco 
School  District. 

Deana  M.  ('.rumbling  '84  is  an 

einironnieiit.il  proleclion  speci.ilisi  with 
the  I  S  IT'\  recbnologN  Innovation 
Office.  Washington,  DC,  She  received  .in 
.MS.  degree  in  environmeiUal  science 
from  Diesel  I  niversity.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
in  the  spring  of  144". 

Stephen  J.  Futchko  HI  '84  ind  his 

wife,  ,\niy,  welcomed  their  first  child, 
Zacbarv  Kum,  born  on  ,Septeiiiher  l(>, 
144".  Stephen  is  a  supervisor  at  liedon- 
Dickinson.  York.  Pa. 

Rebecca  C.  Gaspar  '84  is  senior 
man.iger  lor  iniliv  idual  gi\  iiig. 
Department  of  Lund  Development,  Big 
Brothers/Big  Sisters  of  ,\iiierica. 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Todd  L.  (irill  '89  is  marketing  manager 
lor  \meric.m  Ret-liiel  ('onipanv. 
Weslhurv.  NV  lie  is  a  gr.idu.ite  student 
at  llolstra  I  mversitv.  Hempstead.  NA  . 
working  toward  .m  ,MBA. 

Barbara  Lowie  Hicks  '89  is  softb.ill 
coach.  |\  hockey  coach  and  residential 
hall  director  for  Hartwick  College, 
Oneonta.  N  'i 

Joel  A,  Kline  '89  is  an  elected  official  in 
the  orph.ins  court,  l.eb.mon  Coiintv 
Courthouse,  Lebanon.  Pa.  lie  .mil  his 
wife,  Laura,  have  two  children   Rachel 
and  Alexandra. 

Lac  1),  l.ongson  '89  h.is  been  named 
|iriciiig  manager  lor  the  HO-Conimerical 
Lines  Division  ot  Peiiii  Nation. il 
Insur.iiue.  Il.irrisburg.  Pa  His  respoiisi 
bililies  include  directing  rate  change 
impleinent.ilion,  managing  the  dividend 
issuance  system  and  premium,  loss  ratio, 
comniission  and  dividend  values 

Carl  W.  Mohler  '89  is  .iccouni  m.in.iger 
for  Berk-Tek.  New  Holland.  Pa. 

Laurie  A.  Mutz.  '89  is  .i  biologist 
with  the  I  S  Ariiiv  Corps  of  Lngineers, 
Dover.  Del 

Dr.  David  !'.  Mvers '89  receiitb 
married  Dr.  Marx  Brichlord  on  April  2(i, 
144".  Both  are  employed  at  LLCO 
('orporation.  St  Joseph.  Mich. 


Douglas  L.  Nyce  '89  is  head  of  the 
iiiusic  deparlmeiit  and  a  teacher  ol 
niusii  and  laiglish  at  Tamaki  (College. 
\ucklaiid.  New  Zealand.  He  is  also  music 
director  of  the  Aukland  (!itv  Brass  He 
and  his  wile.  Kosahnd.  and  daughter, 
Hannah,  live  in  \uckland. 

Thomas  W.  Reich  '89  is  a  biomedical 
repair  teiliniciaii  with  the  I  .S.  \rill\. 
fort  Bragg,  N(,. 

Lisa  Bauerman  Riley  '89  is  assistant 
director  pre  K  te. idler  at  Larlv 
Lxploreis.  Ilummelstown.  Pa  She  and 
her  husband.  Kandy .  welcomed  a  daugh- 
ter, Caitlin,  on  August  y  144". 

Deanna  Bennett  \etCese  '89  is  head 
teadier.it  Winston  Hall  Montessori 
School.  Re.iding.  Pa.  She  and  her 
husb.md.  I  lionias,  have  two  children: 
Nicholas  and  .Abigail. 


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NEWS 


Richard  L.  Beard  '90  and  Lisa  Henry 
Beard  '9,S  welcomed  a  son.  Ivkr  David. 
Januarv  ,S,  I44S  Kick  is  the  director  of 
lAC  s  Arnold  Sports  (Center 

Renato  R.  Biribin  '90  is  a  freelance 
novelist  and  scieenplav  writer  in  Studio 
Citv.  Calif 

Cynthia  \Satson  Cowburn  '90  and  her 

bush. mil.  J. lied,  welcomed  a  son. Tyler, 
oiijanu.irv  Is.  144" 

Kirk  ,A.  Cremer  '90  is  owner/director  of 
Broadwav  \oice.  Heading,  Pa.  where  he 
gives  singing  lessons  to  approximately 
iS  musical  theater  students  a  week,  lie 
runs  a  summer  theater  camp  for  kids 
and  is  also  kept  busv  .is  a  singer,  actor 
and  director  lie  directed  the  musical, 
"The  Secret  (larilen, '  al  Reading  s 
Genesius  llieatre  injanuary  I44,S. 

Kerrie  Brennan  Dacey  '90  ind  her 

husband,  ll.in.  had  their  first  child. 
Rachel  Lli/aheth.  on  June  Is.  144" 

Dr.  Angela  Davis  Darrup  '90  and  her 

husb.md.  (Iiris.  welcomed  their  first 
child.  Rebecca  Marie,  on  \pril  2".  144". 

Amv  Schmid  Deardorff  '90  is  a  half 
time  kindergarten  teacher  in  the  Lastern 
Lebanon  County  School  District. 
Mverstown.  I'.i  She  and  her  husband, 
Benjamin  A.  Deardorff  '90,  have  one 
child.  Nathaniel   Ben  is  .i  cheniistn  hiol- 
ogy  teacher  in  the  School  District  ol 
Lancaster.  Pa 

Dr.  Camille  Det.lementi  '90  is  .i  veteri- 
narian at  Animal  s  West  \eteriiian 
llospit.il,  (Ireenville,  Teiin 

Jill  M,  Glassman  '90  was  married  on 
December  il,  144(i  to  (hnstopher  M 
Ouellette.  Lhev  reside  in 
Bridgewater.  N  J 

Linda  M.  Hcpler  '90  is  district 
operations  specialist  w  ith  the 
Pennsylvania  ilou.se  of  Representatives, 
llarrishiirg.  Pa 


Rory  C.  Hertzog  '90  and  Diane  Capece 
Hert/.og  '90  welcomed  a  second  son. 
Bret  Joseph,  on  \kiy  I.  144".  Tlieir  first 
son.  Ryan  (;arl,  is  two 
years  old. 

Cynthia  \Soods  Kensinger  '90  and  her 

husband.  Jed.  welcomed  \dani  Henry  on 
January  I.  1 44.S.  lie  joins  his  sister. 
Sarah  Cynthia  is  a  home  economics 
teacher  at  Lebanon  \fiddle  School. 
Lebanon.  Pa.  They  reside  in  Lititz.  Pa, 

Robert  L.  Mikus  '90  is  director  of 
residence  lite  at  Lli/abethtown  Oillege. 
IJi/abetlitown,  Pa.  His  wife.  Donna 
Teator  Mikus  '90.  teaches  first-grade  in 
the  llempfield  School  District. 
Lancaster.  Pa. 

Rev.  Dwayne  D.  Nichols  '90  is  pastor 
at  Zion  1  nited  (Jiiirch  of  Christ. 
Selinsgrove.  Pa  He  and  his  wile. 
Deborah,  have  three  children:  Curtis, 
Janessa  and  Brent. 

Susan  V.  Noel  '90  married  Mark 
Specthrie.  Ksq..  September  h.  144"  in 
Greenwich.  Conn  Susan  is  a  certified 
paralegal  and  works  at  Wanvick  Savings 
Bank  in  the  mortgage  sen  icing 
department  as  the  mortgage  delivery 
administrator  She  reviews  legal 
documents  and  sales  loans  to  the 
secondary  markets  and  sets  interest  rates 
kir  the  hank 

Matthew  P.  O'Beirne  '90  is  training 
.ind  auditing  loordiiialor  for  First 
Option  lle.ilth  Pl.iii.  Neptune.  NJ   He 
and  his  wile.  |anet.  were  married  on 
October  14.  l"44(> 

Tamara  Hudish  Powell  '90  is  a  field 
sen  ice  coordinator  lor  l.a.sco  Bathware. 
Lli/abethtown.  Pa.  She  and  her  hus- 
band. Kenneth,  welcomed  a  daughter. 
Jenna  Leigh,  on  August  4.  144". 

David  J,  Schell  '90  is  an  environmental 
specialist  inarketing  infomiational 
sen  ices  manager  kir  W  ilton  Aniietale, 
.Mount Joy,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife. Janice 
Bechtel  Schell  '88,  li.ive  two  children: 
Jessie. 1  .ind  Mik.iel.i 

Dr.  Sherry  D.  Scovell  '90  is  a  surgical 
resident  at  the  Graduate  Hospital. 
Department  of  Surgery,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Cynthia  Sladek  Bass  '90  is  a  plan 
speci.ihst  with  ( (rl  Consulting  Group. 
Inc  .  Malvern.  I'.i. 

Dale  E.  Snover  '90  is  a  performance 
analvsl  lor  Pennsvlvania  Power  and 
Light  Co  .  MIeiitowii.  Pa.  He  and  his 
wite.Judv.  have  two  children:  Brian 
and  'iliclielle. 

Susan  M.  Spadjinske  '90  is  i  music 
specialist  choral  director  with  the 
\eriioii  Board  of  Lducation, 
Rockville.  Conn. 


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Paula  Boyd  Sutor  '90  attends  Cit\ 
College  of  San  Francisco,  Calif,  and  is 
sening  as  an  intern  on  the  production  of 
a  documentan'  b\  PBS  affiliate 
KCTS/Seattle.  Paulas  film,  Qirrie  Fisher 
Dream  See/uence.  had  its  uiirld 
premiere  at  the  13th  \niiual  Film  .\rts 
Festival  in  San  Francisco. 

Lori  Reed  Thomas  '90  is  a  music 
teacher  in  the  Mifflin  Count\  School 
District,  Reedsville.  Pa. 

Daniel  B.  Tredlnnick  '90  has  been 
appointed  by  Pennsylvania  Go\ernor 
Tom  Ridge  to  the  Governor's  Council  on 
Travel  and  Tourism.  Council  members 
advise  the  oovemor  on  policy  matters 
related  to  the  states  tourism  industn , 
the  second  largest  (behind  agriculture) 
source  of  economic  output  in  the 
Commonwealth.  Daniel  is  also  press  sec- 
retan  for  the  Pennsvhania  Fish  and 
Boat  Commission. 

Pamela  S.  Vincent  '90  received  a 
master  of  public  administration  degree 
from  Pennsylvania  State  I  niversirv  in 
.August  1996.  She  has  been  the 
supen  isor  of  the  radiology  department 
at  Shady  Grove  Hospital,  Rockville,  .\ld. 
since  July  1997.  She  is  also  clinical 
supervisor/instructor  for  Washington 
Hospital  School  of  Radiography. 

Joanne  S.  Bakel  '91  is  program  coordi- 
nator,' clinical  coordinator  tor  Penn 
State  I  niversity's  School  of  Radiography, 
Hershev  .Medical  Center,  Hershey,  Pa, 

Danielle  .M.  Campbell  '91  is  a  special 
education  teacher,  field  hockev  and 
swimming  coach,  and  Special  Olympics 
Softball  coach  in  the  Brancroft  Schools 
special  education  department, 
Haddonfield,  .N.J. 

Shirlev  Dietz  '91  married  David 
Haddad  on  .March  Is.  199".  She  is  an 
attornev  with  \\  ilmer.  Gates,  Fohrell  and 
Kelley,  P,A„  HunLsville,  ,\la, 

Brian  M.  Femandes  '91  is  an  actuary 
with  Balis  and  Co,,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Kelley  Gingrich  Finkelstein  '91  is  a 

claims  examiner  for  Pennsylvania  Blue 
Shield.  Camp  Hill.  Pa.  She  and  her 
husband,  .Michael,  welcomed  daughter, 
Rachel  Lauren,  June  2(1,  199". 

Angela  Fischer  Fracalossi  '91  is  a  self- 
employed  realtor  in  Danville,  Pa. 

Kathryn  Guindon  '91  married  Daniel 
Tisdel  in  .\pril  199S.  Kathy  received  a 
master  s  degree  from  North  Carolina 
State  I  niversity  in  .March  IWt.  Kathy 
works  as  a  fisheries  biologist  at  the 
Flordia  Department  of  Environmental 
Protection,  Florida  Marine  Research 
Institute,  St,  Petersburg,  Fla, 

J.  Ronald  Hess  '91  is  sales  manager  for 
the  Holiday  Inn-Harrisburg/Hershey, 
Grantville,  Pa. 

Brendalyn  D.  Knsiak  '91  is  general 
manager  of  the  Holidav  Inn  Coming- 
Painted  Post,  Painted  Post,  N,Y, 


.Andrew  S.  \Sangman  '91  is  a  salesman 
for  .AI.N  Plastics  of  Pennsylvania, 
Lancaster,  Pa, 

F.  Richard  Yingling,  Jr.  '91  is  an 

estimator  with  First  Capital  Insulation, 
Inc,  York,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Cheryl, 
have  nvo  children:  Kayla  and  Savannah, 

iMaria  L.  ,\beleda  '92  married  Jeffrey 
Boyd  .Mundwiler  on  .August  23,  199"  in 
St.  Paul  the  Apostle  Catholic  (Church, 
Annville,  Pa, 

Dr.  Joseph  Alia  '92  is  a  family  practice 
resident  in  Phoenix,  ,Ariz. 

Erica  .Allen  '92  married  Thomas 
Jucewicz  on  September  2(1,  199", 

Donna  L.  Becker  '92  is  a  member  of 
therapeutic  staff  support  for  I  nited 
Staffing  Sen  ices,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Lois  Rhine  Bickel  '92  is  a  houseparent 
at  the  .Milton  Hershey  School,  Hershey, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband.  Lynn,  have 
nvo  children:  Christopher  and  Shane. 

Kristin  Davis  '92  married  Jim  Hoffer  on 
June  7,  199"  in  Jonestown,  Pa,  Kristin  is 
a  sixth-grade  teacher  in  the  Northern 
Lebanon  School  District, 
Frederick.sburg,  Pa, 

Tara  J.  Hottenstein  '92  is  an  essay 
rater  at  the  I  niversity  of  Georgia, 
Testing  Scoring  and  Reporting  Services, 
Athens.  Ga, 

Tiffany  Ann  Lanphier  '92  married 
,\lichael  Scott  SholanskT  on  November 
29,  IW"  in  St.  Paul  the  Apostle  Catholic 
Church,  .Aiinv  ille.  Pa,  She  is  a  family 
therapist  with  the  Family  Focus  Program 
and  a  crisis  counselor  with  Good 
Samaritan  Hospital,  both  in 
Lebanon,  Pa. 

David  N.  Lauver  '92  recently  received 
his  .M.I),  degree  from  Penn  State  College 
of  .Medicine,  Hershey,  Pa.  David  is 
currently  a  resident  in  Internal  .Medicine 
at  Reading  Hospital,  Reading.  Pa. 

Tracey  Brass  Oberdorf  '92  is  an 

employment  training  specialist  with  the 
.Arc  of  York  (bounty,  York,  Pa. 

Kimberly  Shaffer  '92  married  Bryan 
Lee  .Mvers.  December  (3,  199"  in  Harpers 
Ferrv,\\,V. 

Joe  A,  Shermyer  '92  is  a  seventh-grade 
science/social  studies  teacher,  varsity 
football  coach  and  head  junior  high 
wrestling  coach  at  Holv  Name  of  Jesus 
and  E:ist  Pennsboro  High  School, 
Harrisburg,  Pa.  His  wife  Paula  Hitter 
Shermeyer  '92  is  a  first-grade  teacher 
and  junior  varsity  girls'  basketball  coach 
at  Holy  Name  of  jesus  and  Cedar  Cliff 
High  School,  Harrisburg,  Pa, 

Shawn  T.  Snavely  '92  married  Lori  M. 
Moyer  '93  on  November  22,  1997  in 
L\C"s  ,Miller  Chapel.  Shawn  is  employed 
by  Reading  ATM,  Reading,  Pa,  and  is  a 
candidate  for  a  master's  degree  in  music 
education  at  Penn  State  I  niversity,  Lori 
is  employed  by  the  Daniel  Boone  School 
District  and  is  a  candidate  for  a  master's 
degree  in  music  therapy  at  Immaculata 
College,  \Xest  Chester,  Pa, 


Kevin  J.  Sutovich  '92  married  Lara 
McCauley  on  September  27,  1997,  Kevin 
is  a  graduate  :issistant  in  chemistry  at 
Pennsvlvania  State  I'niversirv,  1  niversitv 
Park.  Pa, 

Timothy  J.  Tobin  '92  is  a  history 
teacher  and  an  assistant  football  coach 
in  the  Mahanoy  .Area  School  District, 
,Mahanoy,  Pa,  He  is  also  a  seventh-  and 
eighth-grade  basketball  coach  at 
Cardinal  Brennen  High  School, 

Christa  M.  Wachinski  '92  is  a  case 
manager  with  Haven  House,  a  partial- 
hospitalization  pro.gram  that  .serves  the 
mentally  ill,  located  in  .Allentown,  Pa, 

Robert  G.  Bledsoe  '95  is  market 
research  manager  for  New  tlolland 
North  .America,  Inc.,  New  Holland,  Pa. 
He  and  his  wife,  Claudia,  have  three 
children:  Scott,  Kevin  and  Kristy , 

Charles  W .  Bloss,  l\'  '93  works  for  Bob 
Gold  and  .Vs.sociates,  Chicago,  III.  The 
firm  does  managed  care  consulting. 
Charles  is  officiallv  an  ASA  and 
an  .M.AAA. 

.Michael  P.  Boyer  '93  is  company 
controller  for  three  quarries  in  the 
eastern  U.S.  for  Medusa  .Minerals.  He 
and  his  wife,  Lisa,  and  daughter,  Leah, 
recently  moved  to  Dingman's  Ferry,  Pa, 
in  the  Poconos, 

John  J,  DiGilio.Jr.  '93  received  a  Juris 
Doctorate  from  Pepperdine  I'niversity 
School  of  Law,  Maiibu,  Calif,  in  .May 
1996.  John  is  currently  enrolled  as  a 
master's  candidate  at  the  I  niversity  of 
Pittsburgh  School  of  Information. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa, 

Mark  S.  Dimick  '93  is  an  English 
teacher  and  adviser  to  the  senior  class, 
the  literary  magazine  and  Kev  Club  at 
,Annville-Cleona  High  School,  Annville, 
Pa,  Mark  is  also  director  of  music  at 
Salem  Lutbenin  Church,  Lebanon,  Pa., 
and  a  candidate  for  an  .M.,\.  in  English  at 
Millersville  I  niversit).  .Millersville.  Pa. 

Sandra  L.  Fauser  '93  is  a  third-grade 
teacher/liead  field  hockev  coach  in  the 
Eastern  Lebanon  County  School  District. 
.Myerstown,  Pa. 

Kevin  M.  Gerchufsky  '93,  '96  is  an 

associate  information  systems  analyst 
with  Bayer  Corporation's  diagnostics 
division,  Elkhart,  Ind, 

Stephen  .M.  Hand  '93  is  plant  human 
resource  mana,ger  for  Tyson  Foods,  Inc., 
Glen  Mien.  \  a. 

Stephanie  Hassler  '93  married  Torrey 
Martin  on  September  12.  1997. 

Shirley  J.  Hoy  '93  is  branch  manager  of 
Mid-America  Personnel  Resources, 
.Muncie,  Ind,  She  is  also  the  owner  of  a 
distribution  business  in  .Alexandria,  Ind. 

David  A.  Huffman  '93  now  lives  in 
(iolden.  Col. 

Stanley  W.  Hulet  '93  and  his  wife, 
.Melissa  Atkins  Hulet  '93,  welcomed  a 
daughter,  Ysabelle,  in  September  1997, 


Lynn  Schviahn  Jones  '93  is  an  aerobics 
instructor  with  the  Somerset  Valley 
YMCA,  Somerville,  NJ, 

Kimberly  E.  Klein  '93  is  a  self- 
employed  decorative  artistic  painter  in 
Lancaster,  Pa, 

Kelly  Lawrence  '93  married  Michael 
Glancy  on  June  21,  1997.  Kelly  is  a  high 
school  chemistry  teacher  at  Woodstovvn 
High  School,  Woodstovvn,  NJ. 

Jeffrey  D.  Martin  '93  is  deli  division 
manager  for  the  Bird-in-Hand  Baken , 
Bird-in-Hand,  Pa, 

J.  Thomas  Seddon  I\  '93  is  director  of 
fifth-  through  twelfth-grade  bands  in  the 
Rye  Neck  I  nion  Free  School  District, 
.Mamaroneck,  N,Y,  He  received  a  master 
of  music  degree  in  music  education  from 
the  Ilartt  School  of  ,\lusic.  He  and  his 
wife,  Alana,  have  one  son:  Peter, 

Linda  A.  Sterner  '93  is  a  Spanish 
teacher  in  the  Elizabethtown  Area 
School  District,  Elizabethtown,  Pa,  She 
completed  a  mister's  degree  in  Spanish 
from  Millersville  I'niversity,  ,Miller,sville, 
Pa,  in  August  199". 

Ryan  H.  Tweedie  '93  is  vice  president 
at'HR.Soft.  Inc,  .Morristown,  NJ, 

.Matthew  R.  Wood  '93  is  a  forensic 
chemist  in  the  (.)cean  County  Sheriffs 
Department's  Forensic  Laboraton',  Toms 
River,  NJ, 

,Matt  D.  Barr  '94  is  enrolled  in  a 
Physician  ,Assistant  .Master's  Program  at 
Beaver  College,  Glenside,  Pa, 

Donna  Smoyer  Bridges  '94  is  complet- 
ing the  residency  portion  of  her  master's 
coursework  in  Jacksonville,  Fla,  She 
hopes  to  receive  her  degree  from 
George  Washington  I'niversih  in 
December  199.S. 

Rebecca  Brown  '94  married  Patrick 
Pipino  on  October  12.  1'19".  Becky  is 
special  events  coordinator  for  the  Y.MCA 
of  S:iratoga.  Saratoga  Springs,  N.Y.  She 
is  attending  College  of  St.  Rose,  Albany, 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in 
elementary  education, 

Susan  R.  Cohen  '94  is  a  computer 
hardware  specialist  with  DSTI, 
Rockville,  .Md. 

Heather  Fennell  '94  married  Burr 
Burker  on  August  30,  1997  at  Western 
.Mary  land  College.  She  is  a  realtor  with 
Century  21  Realty,  Owings,  Md. 

Melissa  A.  Fleegal  '94  is  a  graduate 

assistant  in  the  Interdisciplinary 
Program  for  Biomedical  Sciences  at  the 
University  of  Florida,  Gainesville, 

Da\'id  V,  Gartner  '9-1  is  a  permanent 
employee  of  Merck  and  Co,,  West  Point, 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Christine  Berry- 
Gartner  '94,  live  in  Lancaster,  Pa., 
vv  here  Christv  works  for  the  North  Penn 
School  District  as  an  English  as  a  Second 
language  teacher. 


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John  A.  Harper  '94  is  recreation 
directcir  Inr  tlie  H\:itt  Regency  (Iraiid 
Cypress  Hotel.  Orlando,  i'la 

Gretchen  A.  Harteis  '94  is  a  phvsical 
therapist  with  Interim  lleallh  Care.  (Ireat 
I  alls,  \lonl,  .She  is  a  tra\elin!^  therapist 
who  nio\es  ahoiit  ever\  three  nioiiths 
and  hopes  her  next  stop  is 
Winter  I'ark.  Colo. 

Michael  A.  Hartman  '94  is  digital  sales 
specialist  lor  Lanier  Worldwide.  Inc.'s 
I'.S.  Operations.  Norristown.  Pa. 

Amy  L.  Ililbert  '94  is  in  therapeutic 
staff  support  at  the  Edgewater 
Psychiatric  Center.  Harrisbiirg,  Pa. 

Jill  M.  Unlet  '94  married  David  P 
.Sottde  on  April  S.  IW, 

Cathy  Connors  Kostick  '94  and  her 

husband.  John,  welcomed  a  daughter. 
Hannah  Pose,  on  .September  Id.  I')')". 

Rodney  J.  Kovach  '94  is  an  Knglish 
teacher  and  loothall  coach  in  the 
Northern  Lebanon  School  District. 
Fredericksburg.  Pa 

Christopher  D.  Long  '94  is  an 

elementar\  school  teacher  in  the  (Central 
Mucks  School  District  He  married  Heidi 
Lyn  Coeke  on  .\ugust  I.  I'M" 

Keith  W.  Murray  '94  is  president  ol 
llelp-l   \lo\e.  Inc..  Lake  Park.  Fla. 

Chad  .M.  Ott  '94  is  an  actuarial 
consultant  with  Reliance  Insurance 
Company.  Philadelphia.  Pa.  He  married 
.Maureen  Kaye  Delaney  on  ,\!a\  2-1.  1')')" 

Jennifer  Reeder  '94  married  Donnie 
Decker  in  Bedford.  Pa,  on  |ul\  1').  I')'!", 

Dcanna  .\I.  Sanders-Hoar  '94  is  a 

medical  technologist  with  llealthSoulh, 
Pleasant  dap.  Pa,  She  anil  her  hush.ind, 
Curtis,  have  one  child,  ('ullen  Robert. 
born  October  4,  D)')i 

Sheri  Lynn  Smith  '94  is  a  research 
technician  with  the  Department  of 
Radiology.  Center  for  N\IR  Research. 
Hershey  .'iledical  Center.  Pennsykania 
State  University,  Hershey,  Pa, 

Seth  J.  Wenger  '94  is  attending  the 
I  ni\ersil\  of  (leorgia.  .\thens,  pursuing  a 
master's  degree  in  (!onser\alion  lA'ologv 
and  Sustainable  Development  He  was 
awarded  a  uni\ersil\-wide  assistantship 
and  graduate  merit  supplement, 

Craig  S.  Campbell  '9S  is  night  securitv 
counselor  at  \cw  Lile  Bins  R.uich. 
Harleys\ille.  Pa 

Crystal  B.  Crovvnover  '9S  is  a  job 

readiness  skills  instructor/ca.se  manager 
for  (lomlwill  Industries  of  Central 
PennsvKania.  Inc.  Ilarrisburg.  Pa 

BradJ.  Diikehart  '9S  is  an  occupalinn 
al  therapist  at  ('hambersburg  Hospital. 
Chambershurg.  Pa 

Mark  W.  Henry  '9S  married  Jiid\ 
Clemson  on  August  i.  199",  The\  reside 
in  New  Iripoli,  Pa  Mark  is  an 
admissions  counselor  at  Northampton 
Community  College,  Bedileheni,  Pa. 


Debra  Keller  '95  married  Cory  \\ea\er 
on  April  19.  1997,  She  is  a  technical  sup- 
port engineer  for  II  NKT  Technologies, 
fairfa.x.  \a. 

Jeffrey  K.  Kostura  '95  is  a  ci\il 
engineer  Willi  M.ick  Concrete  Industries, 
Inc  ,  ,\ltanioiUe  Springs,  fla, 

Bridget  Ann  Lohr  '95  married  James 
Charles  (ieisel  '94  on  December  6. 
P)')~  in  lriiiit\  Lvangelical 
Congregational  Church.  Ilarrisburg.  Pa 
Bridget  is  a  therapeutic  support  staff 
worker  with  the  Dauphin  County  Youth 
AdMicate  Program.  Ilarrisburg  James  is 
an  in\entor\  specialist  with  ,s()0 
Communications,  Ilarrisburg, 

Karen  I.,  McConnell  '95  passed  the  CI'A 
es.im  m  M.n  140" 

Daniel  R.  Neyer  '95  is  a  forensic 
scientist  with  the  PennsxKania  State 
Police,  ,Media.  Pa 

Richard  D.  Ragno  '95  is  a  member  of 
the  I  ,S  Naw  Band,  performing  in  both 
the  ceremonial  hand  and  the  bra,ss  quin- 
tet. They  play  throughout  the  South, 
from  Lincoln.  Neb,  to  Charleston,  S,C, 
The  band  pla\s  concerts,  change  of  com- 
mands, retirement  ceremonies  and  ship 
comniissiiins  Richard  is  a  third-cla,ss 
pelH  officer 

William  R.  Saltz.er  '95  is  engineer  in 
charge  hir  the  remote  audio  division  at 
Sheffield  Audio/A  ideo  Productions. 
Phoenix,  Md 

Christopher  M.  Seller  '95  is  a 

correctiim.il  olhcer  for  Lebanon  County 
Prison.  Lebanon.  Pa, 

Harold  L.  Spangler.Jr.  '95  is  a  senior 
actuarial  analyst  with  Reliance 
Insurance  Co..  Philadelphia.  Pa, 

Danielle  Kileen  Vcrnet  '95  married 

(Ian  William  Cassatt.  Ir,  on  November 
11.  l')')"  in  Crace  K\angelical 
Congregational  I'hiirch,  Lawnton,  She  is 
a  seventh  grade  lite  science  teacher  at 
l.emiivne  ,Middle  School  in  the  West 
Shore  .School  District.  I.emoyne,  Pa, 

Michelle  ,M.  White  '95  is  a  third-grade 
teacher  in  the  (.ornwall-I.ebanon  School 
District,  i,ebanon.  Pa 

Linda  I.  Wink  '95  is  assistant  manager 
at  (iood  Hope  Kamih  Physicians,  Enola, 
Pa, 

Timothy  R.  Yingling  '95  is  assistant 
executive  director  for  the  Greater 
Pott,sville  .Sewer  Authority,  Pott,sville.  Pa 
He  and  his  wife.  Cannel.  have  two  sons: 
Nathaniel  and  Christian, 

Gretchen  A.  .\cornley  '96  married 
Miihael  lieiineron  November  15.  199" 
Gretchen  is  concession  manager  tor 
Siis(|uehanna  \allev  Amusement. 
Muldleburg.  Pa. 

\ni>  Jo  Aikens-VanBuren  '96  is  an  ele- 

meiitan  icaclicr  .it  II    \  Snvder 
ITementary  School.  Savre.  Pa. 

Heather  L.  Barrett  '96  is  a  legislative 
research  analvst  in  the  Pennsvlvania 
House  of  Representatives.  Ilarrisburg,  Pa. 


Kelly  S.  Bechtel  '96  is  a  French  and 
Spanish  teacher  for  the  Hermudian 
Spnngs  School  District.  Bermudian 
Spnngs.  Pa, 

Russell  W .  Britting  '96  is  pursuing  a 
master  of  education  degree  in  Adult  and 
Organizational  Development  at  Temple 
I  niversitv,  Philadelphia,  Pa, 

Jacqueline  Carusillo  '96  married 
Aaron  I,  Weston  '96  on  Julv  19,  199" 
Both  arc  prcsenllv  eniploved  as  teachers 
hv  the  Delaware  \allev  School  District, 
,\iillord.  Pa 

Tatjana  Cuic  '96  is  a  chemist  with 
Bayer  Corp,,  Myerstown.  Pa. 


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Spencer  J.  Dech  '96  is  a  graduate 
research/teaching  assistant  at  Ohio  State 
I  niversity.  Columbus,  He  is  pursuing  a 
masters  degree  in  exercise  phvsiology  at 
Ohio  State, 

Jennifer  A.  Fields  '96  is  a  French 
teacher  in  the  Palmvra  School  District. 
Palmvra,  Pa,  and  the  Lebanon  School 
District,  Lebanon,  Pa, 

Stephen  A.  Heck  '96  is  the  Indy  car  edi- 
tor for  KPM  Racing  News,  a  weekly 
motorsports  newspaper  based  in  Latrobe. 
Pa,  He  is  also  an  assistant  football  coach 
alSchuvlkill  \allev  High  School, 
Schuvlk'ill  Haven,  Pa 

Jennifer  L.  Hotzman  '96  is  a  graduate 
student  in  communication, 
ioumalism  at  Shippensburg  Iniversity. 
Pa,  She  is  also  working  parttinie  at 
Dauphin  Deposit  Bank  in  their  corporate 
communications  department. 


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Judy  A.  Kennedy  '96  is  enrolled  in 
the  graduate  program  for  reading/ 
language  arts  at  Millersville 
I  niversity,  Millersville,  Pa,  She 
and  her  husband,  Jeffrey,  have  one 
son  Adam 

Raymond  A.  Matty  '96  is  an 

accountant  at  AMP  Inc, 

Harnsburg,  Pa,   He  was 
V  recentlv  appointed  to 

Vl  serve  on  the  hoard  of 

■         directors  of  ,\lembers  FiiM 
Federal  Credit  t  nion, 
,Mechanicsburg,  Pa, 

ly  nne  A.  .Morrell  '96  is 

an  elementan  music 
teacher  in  the  Fiston 
School  District, 
Easlon,  Pa, 

Klizabeth  A.  Palmer  '96  is 

a  junior  .iccountant  with 
Dorvvart  \ndrew  and 
Companv,  CP\s.  l.ancLster. 
Pa, 

\S  alter  R.  Popejoy  '96  is  a 

fifth-grade  elementan  school 
teacher  in  the  Lebanon  School 
Distrtct.  Lebanon.  Pa 

Dominica  Pulaski  '96  is 

.issistant  manager  at  Nine 
West,  Rehobotii,  Del 


James  A.  Rightnour  '96  is 

an  actuanal  a.ssistant  tor 
Buck  Consultants,  .Secaucus, 
Nl 


Nancy  Rohrer  Sauder  '96  has 

established  .i  private  pr.ictice. 
Mediation  Sen  ices  Association,  in 
Lancaster,  Pa,  Her  specialty  areas  are 
lamilv  mediation  .md  organizational 
intcneiition 

Colette  Drumheller  Shatto  '96  is  a 

kmderg.irten  teacher  in  the  Howard 
Countv  Public  Schools,  (Tiild 
Development  ('enter,  Clarksville.  Md,  Her 


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Rachael  A.  Shattuck  %  is  rc.seniitions 
manager  at  the  Days  Inn.  Inner 
Harbor,  Baltimore. 

Trent  S.  Snider  '96  is  a  graduate 
student  in  the  department  of  chemistr\ . 
Pennsyhania  State  I  niversit). 
I  nixersity  Park, 

Brian  M.  Warner  '96  is  a  network  com- 
puting sales  speciahst  for  1B,\1. 
Vieymentor.  Mass, 

Jason  J.  Zitter  '96  has  been  named  bas- 
ketball coach  at  Northern  Lebanon  High 
School.  Fredericksburg.  Pa,  Jason  is  a 
teacher  at  Lebanon  Junior  High  School, 
He  was  a  meniber  ol  the  i  W-t  national 
championship  b;Lsketball  team  at  L\C, 

Nicole  L.  .Adams  '97  is  a  law  student  at 
\V;isliington  and  Lee  lini\ersity  School  of 
Law.  Lexington.  \a. 

Jasmine  L.  Ammons  '97  is  working 
towards  a  .Master  of  Arts  degree  in 
humanities  at  Pennsylvania  State 
I  ni\ersit\.  Harrisburg.  Pa. 

Tara  L.  Auman  '97  is  a  residential 
counselor  at  Philhaxen-Crossroads  West. 
Palni\ra.  Pa 


Patricia  Ritchie  Bender  '97  is  a 

durum  trader  with  Hershev  Foods. 
Herslie\.  Pa, 

Sharon  A.  Benton  '97  works  at  the 
information  desk  at  Clareniont  School  of 
Theolog\ ,  Claremont.  Calif,  where  she  is 
pursuing  a  master  ol  di\inity  degree. 

Mary  E.  Blankenmeyer  '97  is  head 
field  hockey  coach  for  Reading  Central 
Catholic  High  School.  Reading.  Pa. 

Melissa  B.  Blouch  '97  is  employed  by 
the  Harford  County  Public  Schools.  Bel 
Mr,  .Md,,  where  she  is  responsible  for  hve 
orchestras,  grades  four  through  12, 

Jennifer  L.  Bryan  '97  is  a  graduate  stu- 
dent in  clinical  psychology  at  West 
Che.ster  I  niversity.  West  Chester.  Pa. 

Christie  M.  Burger  '97  is  enrolled  as  a 
.student  at  Forest  Institute  of  Professional 
P,su'holog\ ,  one  of  the  few  professional 
schools  of  psycholo,i;\  in 
the  countr)-, 

Anthony  P.  Burke  '97  is  a  student  at 
Lake  Erie  College  of  Osteopathic 
Medicine.  Krie.  Pa. 

Jennifer  L.  Burkhart  '97  is  marketing 
manager.  Red  Rose  Transit  Authority . 
Lancaster.  Pa. 


Jennifer  L.  Byers  '97  is  studying  to  be  a 
legal  assistant/paralegal  at  Central 
Pennsyhania  Business  School. 
Lancaster.  Pa, 

Russell  J.  Ciliento  '97  is  a  laboratory 
technician  at  ASK  Foods  Inc. 
Palmyra  Pa. 

Regina  E.  Cocco  '97  is  a  graduate 
student  at  the  Lniversity  of  Illinois, 
Chicago,  in  the  .Microbiology  and 
Immunolog)  program, 

Thomas  P.  Cornish  '97  is  an 

investment  accountant  with  Farmers 
,\liitual  Fire  Insurance  Co,,  Salem,  NJ, 

Tenneil  L.  Daniels  '97  is  coordinator  of 
alumni  development.  Shippensburg 
University.  Shippensburg.  I'a,.  where  she 
is  also  taking  courses  toward  a  master's 
degree  in  comniutiity  counseling 
p.sychology. 

Mary  Keymer  Kernan  '97  is  executive 
assistant  for  Carmeuse  ,\orth  ,Mnerica, 
Chica.go  Heights,  III, 

Corrina  L.  Doerge  '97  is  the  assistant 
marching  band  director  and  concert 
band  director  at  Huntington  High  School 
in  Huntington,  Long  Island,  New  York, 


^Aonne  D'Uva  '97  is  a  teacher  assistant 
for  Nobel  Education  at  Chesterbrook 
,\cadem\,  Manalapan.  \J.  She  attends 
Kean  Iniversity  of  New  Jersey, 
where  she  is  majoring  in  speech  and 
audio  pathology, 

Troy  M.  Elser  '97  is  a  mutual  funds 
associate  with  Legg  Mason  Wood  Walker, 
Baltimore,  ,Md, 

Christina  N.  Ercek  '97  is  a 
communications  .specialist  with  Giant 
Food  Stores.  Inc..  Carlisle.  Pa. 

Ana  Prewitt- Rodriguez  Farr  '97  is 

assistant  to  family  relations  at  the  .Milton 
Hershey  School,  Hershey,  Pa. 

Patricia  Stein  Fisher  '97  is  an  accoun- 
tant with  ,\,MP,  Inc,  Harrisburg,  Pa, 

Dawn  S.  Friday  '97  is  a  manager 
trainee  with  Commercial  Credit  Corp,, 
York,  Pa, 

Lavinia  ,M.  Garcia  '97  is  a  graduate 
a.ssistant  in  the  Wellness  Center  at  the 
Iniversity  of  Scranton.  Scranton,  Pa, 

Lisa  Pmn  Geschwindt  '97  married 
,Mark  Feglev  on  .March  ,s,  1997,  Lisa  is  a 
first-grade  teacher  in  the  Hamburg  ,Area 
School  District,  Hamburg,  Pa, 


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Gregory  J.  Glembocki  '97  is  a  sales 
represL'iitativc  with  Paragon  Optical  do. 
Inc.,  Reading,  I'a. 

Todd  J.  (ioshtrt  '97  is  an  account  exec- 
utive lor  I'ublic  .Mortgage  Co., 
Lancaster,  Pa. 

Matthew  ,'\.  Gross  '97  is  a  graduate  stu- 
dent in  sec(indar\  counseling  at 
Shippenslnirg  I  niversit)', 
.Shippensbiirg.  I'a. 

Christopher  T.  Haak  '97  is  a  human 
resources  assistant  with  Dechert  Price 
and  Khoads,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Jessica  C.  Haas  '97  is  a  chemistry 
teacher  in  the  Solanco  School  District, 
yuarr)'\'ille.  Pa, 

Carolyn  A.  Hallman  '97  is  a  graduate 
sliidi'iil  M  hull. ma  I  ni\ersit\  of 
IVnns\l\ani.i,  maioring  in  industrial 
and  lahor  relations. 

Daniel  P.  Henderson  '97  is  a  sound 
engineer  uith  (lalf  Audio.  Ithaca,  .\.V. 

Joyce  Hodacz  '97  is  an  occupational 
therapN  a.ssistant  at  Pennsylvania  State 
Iniversity.  Berks  Campus. 

•  Danielle  Homberg  Hoy  '97  is  an 

erigMurniig  i  hange  distribution 
specialist  with  \eu  Holland  .North 
■America  through  the  Br\nes  Group,  New 
Holland,  Pa. 

l.ori  .\.  Johnson  '97  is  an  analyst  with 
Huntington  Life  .Sciences,  Point 
Pleasant,  N.J 

Allen  C.  Keeney  '97  is  a  graduate 
student/  teaching  a,ssistant  at  Johns 
Hopkins  I  niversity,  Bloomberg  Center 
for  Phvsics  and  ,\strononn . 
Baltimore,  Md. 

Kris  Weslev  Kelley  '97  is  a  nursing 
administrati\e  assistant,  scheduling 
coordinator  for  Integrated  Health 
Services.  Ilershe\,  Pa. 

Tammi  J.  kiick  '97  is  a  third-grade 
teacher  in  the  Central  York  School 
District,  York,  Pa. 

Patrick  M.  King  '97  is  a  staff 
accountant  for  li(;,\  Di\'ision  of  Biopool, 
West  Chester,  Pa. 

Daniel  A.  Kistler  '97  is  district  man- 
ager for  I  CI  1  lilities  Inc.,  Carlisle,  Pa. 

Roberta  L.  Kmiecinski  '97  is  a  hrst- 
line  supervisor  for  ld)S, 
Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

Jason  B.  Kopp  '97  is  a  general  laborer 
uidi  liLino\er  Sample  Book, 
Broilbecks,  Pa. 

Staci  1..  Koualczyk  '97  is  a  substitute 
teacher  in  the  Palmyra.  Pa.  area. 

Danielle  ,S.  Kraft  '97  is  a  credit  anahM 
at  .Security  National  Bank,  Pottstown,  Pa. 

Nicole  L.  Lancieri  '97  is  an 

educatel  ler.  at  the  Bancroft  School  for 
Handicapped  (Jiildren,  \oorhees,  N.J. 


Holly  .\1,  Landis  '97  is  a  contract 
specialist  with  the  Comnuinications- 
f.lectronics  Command  of  the  IS.  Army, 
i'ort  .Monmouth.  NJ 

Nina  K.  I.aiiver  '97  is  a  ihird-grade 
teacher  at  St.  Stephen  s  School, 
Harrishurg,  Pa. 

Kimberly  ,\.  Leister  '97  is  a  personnel 
assistant  for  Temps  America.  Vi  ayne.  Pa. 

Shelly  M.  Levan  '97  is  a  part  time 
cashier/supen  isor  at  Shurfine  Market. 
Shoemakersville.  Pa. 

Angle  L.  Lewis  '97  is  a  chemist  with 
Lancaster  Laboratories,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Kristi  S.  Lorah  '97  is  a  graduate 
student  majoring  in  school  psuiiology 
at  Lehigh  I  ni\ersil\,  Bethleiiem.  Pa. 

•Meredith  L.  I.utz  '97  is  an  operations 
research  analyst  at  Na\al  Inventory 
Control  Point,  .Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

Martha  R.  Mains  '97  is  an  elementary 
music  and  orchestra  teacher  at  Shohola 
i:lementar\  School  in  the  Delauare 
\alle\  School  District. 
Milford.  P,i 

Michelle  I).  Malloy  '97  is  a  Spanish 
teacher  at  Perry  ville  High  School  in  the 
Cecil  Count\  Public  Schools. 
Periy\ille.  Mil 

Lisa  K.  .Martin  '97  works  for  the  Palriol 
.Xciis,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Natalie  H.  McDonald  '97  is  manager  of 
Callen  I  n.  Ltd  .  \ninillc.  Pa. 

Lisa  Lehman  McMinn  '97  is  an 

accountant  at  High  Industries, 
Lancaster,  Pa 


Jennifer  J.  Mihalov  '97  is  a  member  of 
the  staff  support  team  at  Meadows 
Psychiatric  Center.  ,Millers\ille 
Lniversity,  .Millersville.  Pa. 

Stacey  L.  Miller  '97  is  a  substitute 
elementarv  teacher  in  the  Lycoming 
(jnmty  Scltool  District,  .Montours\ille, 
Pa.  She  is  also  taking  ciairses  in  special 
education  at  Mansfield  1  niversitx , 
.Mansheld,  Pa. 

Tammy  A.  Miller  '97  is  on  the  cost 
accounting  staff  at  Pepperidge  Farm, 
Demer.  Pa 

Robin  Hess  Mover  '97  and  her 
husband,  Da\id,  welcomed  a  daughter, 
Schylarjordyii.  on  September  I'),  1997. 

Bethany  O.  Mummert  '97  is  a 

graduate  student  in  the  Archive  Museum 
and  fxliting  I'rogr.im  at  Duipiesne 
t  ni\ersit\,  Pittsburgh,  I'a. 

Jennifer  A.  Nauss  '97  is  an  account 
analyst  with  HealthAmerica. 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Elizabeth  M.  Nissley  '97  married 
Benjamin  S.  Goodhart  '97  on 

December  (i.  I'M"  at  Holy  Name  of  Jesus 
Catholic  (Juirch.  Harrisburg.  Pa. 
Klizabelh  is  employed  by  (ionrad  .M. 
Siegel  Inc..  Harrisburg.  Benjamin  is 
employed  by  the  Penn.sylvania  Higher 
Education  .Assistance  Agency. 
Harrisburg. 

Timothy  M.  Ostrich  '97  works  with 
data  eiilrv  at  Keen  Transporl, 
Carlisle  Pa. 

Sharon  L.  Possessky  '97  is  pursuing  a 
ma.sters  degree  in  biology  at 
Clarion  l'ni\ersit\. 


President  Dciviit  I'lilUck.  left,  visited  Willi  Gerard  (Jcrt  '41 
mid  Marmirel  Mninilnin  in  Napti.  California  diiriiiii  a  recent 
trip  til  llie  West  Coast. 

•Ashley  E.  McMinnis  '9"  is  a  teaching        Jeffrey  C.  Raber  '9"  is  a  graduate 
a.ssistant  in  the  Ko.moke  City  Schools.  student  .it  the  I  niversity  of  Southern 

Koanoke,  \a  California 

Kenneth  R.  Mengel  '97  is  manager  of  Christa  Neil  Reinhart  '9~  is  employed 

the  l,icilil\  m, 111, igement  center  at  Bell  b\  llershe\  foods,  llershc\.  Pa 
,\tlantic,  Sl.ite  Cuilege,  Pa. 

Jennifer  ,M.  Rohrer  '97  is  a  drug  and 

Sarah  F,  .Melallo  '97  is  a  subsiiiule  alcohol  counselor  for  \  aniage, 

teacher  in  the  .Middletown  Area  School  Lancaster.  Pa 
Distnct,  Highspire.  Pa. 


Kyle  R.  Roth  '97  is  employed  by  Bob 
Roth  Building  Maintenance  Service, 
Catasauqua.  Pa. 

Vtayne  Sallurday  Jr.  '97  is  regional 
marketing  manager  for  North  .\jnerican 
Business  Technology ,  Cockeysville,  .\ld. 

John  H.  Savidge  '97  is  a  supenisor  for 
IILRt.O  at  the  Hershey  Lodge  and 
Convention  Center.  Hershey,  Pa. 

Brent  E.  Shoemaker  '97  is  president/ 
CEO  of  Tri-Count\  Decks-N-Sheis.  Inc.. 
Dover.  Pa 

Heather  L.  Smith  '97  is  a  psvchiatric 
a,ssistant  at  I'hilhaven  Hospital.  Mt 
Gretna.  Pa. 

Jessica  L.  Smith  '97  is  a  fourth-grade 
teacher  in  the  St.  Mary's  Public  Schools. 
Lexington  Park,  .Md. 

Patricia  .\nn  Steffy  '97  is  director  of 
housekeeping- laundry  sen  ices  at 
.Moravian  .Manor  Retirement 
(lomniunity,  Lititz.  Pa. 

Tina  Marie  M.  Teichman  '9"  is  a 

program  manager  for  Empowerment. 
Choice.  Options.  Pottsville.  Pa. 

Lori  A.  Testerman  '97  is  video- 
conferencing coordinator  for  Herron 
.Associates.  Inc..  Indianapolis,  hid. 

•Melissa  A.  Vargo  '97  is  a  graduate 
student  majonng  in  biochemistry  at  the 
I  niversity  of  Delaware,  Wilmington. 

Christina  J.  Watts  '97  is  a  prevention 
worker  at  the  Community  Counseling 
and  Resource  Center,  Cockeysville.  .Md. 

Michelle  M.  Weaber  '97  is  a  cook  and 
dietary  aide  at  Country  Meadows. 
Hershey.  Pa. 

Jennifer  A.  iSentzel  '97  is  enrolled  at 
W  idener  I  niversity  School  of  Law. 
Harrisburg  Campus.  Harrisburg.  Pa. 

Bridget  C.  \^  illiam  '9"  is  a 

management  trainee  with  AR.Y.M.\RK. 
Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Nathan  A.  Wisniewski  '9''  is  a  chemist 
at  Lancaster  l.aboratones,  Lancaster.  Pa. 

Tara  E.  Wolownik  '9"  marned  Darrick 
Homer  on  October  2S.  M9".  She  is  a 
teacher  assistant  with  the  Lancaster- 
Lebanon  ir  Ls,  Lancaster.  Pa. 

Carol  S.  /.earing  '9"  is  a  graduate 
student  at  Drew  1  niversity 
Theological  School. 

Beth  Anne  Zielsdorff  '9"  is  a  mutual 
lund  accountant  with  Merrill  Lynch. 
Ml.VM  Accounting.  Princeton.  N.J. 


DEATHS 

Barbara  Spatz  Hover  '95.  October  1-i. 
1  MO".  She  w as  the  wife  of  the  Rev 
Wilson  R.  Hover.  pa.stor of  Holv  Triniry 
Lutheran  Church.  Lebanon,  Pa. 


SUMMER  1998 


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6.  Spring-weight  jacket  -  $7 1 .95 

7.  LVC  alumni  hat -S  16.95 

LVC  alumni  sweatshirt  (sizes  M-XX)  -  $37.95 

8.  LVC  white  ceratnic  coffee  mug  -  $7.95 

9.  LVC  8-inch  hear -S  15.95 


SUMMER  1998 


45 


College  Embarks  on  New  Physical  Therapy  Program 


GriHind  will  be  broken  this  siiiiinierjor  itie  ne)\  32.0U0-foot  physual  therapy  faeilily. 


Architect's  rendering  oj  the  hiiiUliiig's  interior,  with 
therapy  pool  on  the  left. 


Two  generous  gifts  totaling  52.25  million  have  enabled  the  college  to 
establish  a  five-year  program  in  physical  therapy  which  will  begin 
enrolling  students  for  the  fall,  1999  semester. 

Dr.  Suzanne  H.  Arnold  committed  $1.25  million  and  trustee  Dr. 
Edward  H.  Arnold  has  committed  $1  million  to  build  a  beautiful,  mod- 
ern facility  to  house  physical  therapy  program  offices,  classrooms, 
teaching  laboratories,  a  therapy  pool  and  a  tltness/aerobic  center.  Work 
will  begin  this  summer  on  the  striking  structure  which  will  be  con- 
structed as  an  extension  of  the  Arnold  Sports  Center.  The  gifts  also 
allow  for  construction  of  athletic  program  areas  including  locker  and 
shower  facilities,  storage  and  a  training  room. 

Dr.  Ron  Scott,  formerly  an  associate  professor  in  the  University  of 
Texas  Health  Science  Center's  Department  of  Physical  Therapy,  has 
been  named  director  of  the  physical  therapy  program,  and  negotiations 
are  under  way  with  se\eral  regional  health  organizations  and  institu- 
tions for  clinical  sites. 

Look  for  more  details  on  the  new  program  in  the  fall  1998  issue  of 
The  Vcilley. 


Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Perinsylvania 
ANNVILLE,  PA  17003 

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