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Vol.  16,  Number  2 
Departments 


1 6  News  Briefs 

18  Sports 

21  Newsmakers 

22  Class  News  &  Notes 

Vice  President  for  Advancement: 
Deborah  Read 

Editor:  Judy  Pehrson 

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Heather  Robino 

Barbara  Miller 

Cindy  Progin,  Class  Notes 

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On  the  Cover:  Dave  and  Ann  Lasky  deep  in  the 
Qutttif  Path  woods. 
Photograph  by  John  T.  Consoli. 

The  Valley  magazine  is  produced  approximately 
five  months  in  advance  of  when  it  is  received 
by  its  readership.  Class  Notes  news  received 
after  production  has  begun  will  be  included  in 
the  next  issue  of  the  magazine. 


The  Valley 

Lebanon  Valley  College  Magazine  v 

Features 


Summer  1999 


2      Forces  of  Nature 

Dave  and  Ann  Lasky  and  their  jriends  and 
neighbors  have  transformed  what  could 
have  been  an  environmental  disaster  into 
a   beautiful  spot  in  the  woods. 

BY  BARBARA  MILLER 

6      Patterns  of  the  Past 

An  international 
weavers  group,  with 
a  little  help  from 
zomputer  technology, 
is  using  a  19th- 
century  book  from 
the  college's  archives 
to  create  beautiful 
textiles. 

BY  BARBARA  MILLER 


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1 0  Formula  for  Success 

Lebanon  Valley's  chemistry 
department  continues  to  be  a 
wonderful  example  of  big  science 
at  a  small  college. 

BY  STEPHEN  TRAPNELL  '90 


1 4    Fields  of  Dreams 

In  just  two  vears.  the  vision  for  the  north  part  of  campus  has  become  a  reality. 


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joined  together  with 

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a  park  that  the  whole 

community  can  enjoy. 

By  Barbara  Miller 

Photography  by  John  T.  Consoli 


When  Dave  and  Ann  Lasky 
decided  to  move  to  Annville  trom 
Elizabethtown  in  1976  so  he  could  be 
closer  to  his  teaching  job  at  Lebanon 
Valley,  they  chose  a  site  along  the 
north  bank  of  the  Quittapahilla  Creek 
to  build  their  home.  It 
was  a  lovely  spot,  with 
shady  woods  and  an 
abandoned  limestone 
quarry  nearby. 

"We  kind  of  fell  in 
love  with  this  place 
right  away,"  says  Ann. 
"Before  the  house  was 
finished,  we  had  picnics  out  here  in 
the  backyard." 

The  woods  were  a  great  attraction, 
she  says.  The  three  Lasky  children 


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would  catch  snakes  and  tadpoles,  and 
build  torts.  The  family  would  pick 
red  raspberries  and  blackberries,  and 
the  array  of  wild  spring  flowers  would 
astound  them  with  a  succession  of 
blue,  white  and  yellow  blooms. 

"We  had  these  little  inflatable 
boats  with  paddles  that  we  took  into 
the  pond  in  the  quarry  for  the  kids," 
says  Ann.  "It  was  lots  of  fun." 

That  is,  until  the  trucks  started 
coming. 

One  day,  in  the  summer  of  1989, 
Ann  was  sitting  on  the  porch  having 
coffee  and  enjoying  the  view  when  a 
procession  of  dump  trucks  rolled 
into  view.  As  she  watched  in  dismay, 
they  dumped  the  residue  of  the 
cement  from  their 
trucks  down  the  hill 
into  the  area  of  the 
limestone  quarry  pond. 
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and  the  woods  became 
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for  all  kinds  of 
rubbish,  she  said. 
Angry,  the  Laskys  organized  a 
neighborhood  meeting  to  discuss  the 
distressing  situation.  The  group 
decided  that  instead  of  just  telling  the 


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township  commissioners  to  stop  the 
dumping,  they  would  request  that  a 
park  be  created  on  the  23-acre 
township-owned  property,  which  had 
been  sold  by  Bethlehem  Mines  to  the 
Township  for  SI 000. 

"At  first  the  children  in  the 
neighborhood  were  a  little  upset  that  it 
no  longer  was  going  to  be  just  'their' 
place,"  Ann  recalled.  "They  didn't 


want  anybody  walking  around  through 
what  they  considered  their  park,  and 
were  upset  with  the  idea  of  sharing  it 
with  other  people,"  she  said. 

But  they  got  used  to  the  idea,  said 
Dave,  who  is  professor  emeritus  of 
psychology  at  Lebanon  Valley. 

"In  fact,  everyone  kind  of  got 
excited  about  it,"  he  stated.  "No 
dumping  signs  were  posted,  with  a 


toll-free  telephone  number  to  call  if 
anyone  was  seen  dumping." 

Ann  and  her  friend  Kathy  Moe, 
wife  of  chemistry  professor  Owen  Moe, 
decided  to  form  and  co-chair  the 
Quittie  Creek  Nature  Park  commirtee 
as  a  sub-group  of  Friends  of  Old 
Annville,  a  local  preservation  group. 
The  commissioners  graciously  lent 
their  assistance  to  creating  the  park — 
particularly  Commissioner  Raymond 
Swingholm,  a  former  high  school 
biology  teacher.  Help  from  a  variety  of 
otganizations  was  enlisted  to  clear 
brush  and  spread  mulch  on  trails,  and 
Quittie  Creek  Park  became  a  reality. 
This  year,  the  Quittie  Creek  Nature 
Park  Committee,  which  is  composed  of 
about  20  dedicated  volunteers,  will 
celebrate  its  10th  anniversary. 

The  story  of  the  park  expanded  into 
a  further  dimension  in  1997,  when 
Dave  helped  form  the  Quittapahilla 
Watershed  Association. 

"I  kind  of  felt  like,  here  we  were 
with  one  piece  of  the  puzzle.  The 
Quittie  was  in  the  park,  and  if  we 
really  wanted  to  preserve  the  quality  of 
the  water,  we  needed  to  look  at  the 
whole  watetshed,"  Dave  stated. 

The  new  Watershed  Association 
defined  all  the  tributaries  of  the 
Quittie,  and  brought  together 
representatives  of  numerous 
conservation  and  wildlife  groups  to 
help  determine  how  they  could 
improve  the  stream.  Many  volunteers 
were  members  of  both  the  park 
committee  and  the  watershed,  since 
their  efforts  were  intertwined. 

With  erosion  occurring  at  an 
increasing  pace  along  the  Quittie  in 
the  Annville  park,  the  group  made 
stream  bank  stabilization  one  of  its 
first  projects. 

The  watershed  secured  a  $2,000 
grant,  renewable  annually,  from  the 
Pennsylvania  Fish  and  Boat 
Commission,  which  was  used  to 
stabilize  900  feet  of  stream  bank.  This 
year,  another  1,000  feet  of  stream 


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bank  is  planned  to  be  stabilized  with 
the  funds. 

But  making  perhaps  the  biggest 
impact  on  the  watershed  will  be  a 
S40.970  grant  that  has  been  approved 
for  the  group  by  the  state  Department 
of  Environmental  Protection  under  the 
Watershed  Restoration  Assistance 
Program. 

Dave  said  the  funds  have  been  used 
to  install  stream  bank  fencing  and 
riparian  buffers  along  1  2  farms 
bordering  the  Quittie  and  its 
tributaries,  which  include  the  Snitz  and 
Beck  creeks  and  Bachman  Run. 

The  fencing  serves  to  keep  cattle  out 
of  the  stream,  reducing  pollution  and 
bank  erosion.  The  buffer  includes 
planting  of  trees  and  vegetation  along 
the  stream  bank,  which  also  helps 
stabilize  it  and  filter  out  pollutants. 

Also,  the  U.S.  Fish  and  Wildlife 
Service  has  agreed  to  provide  materials 
and  labor  for  stream  bank  fencing  for  at 
least  two  farms,  which  Dave  estimates 
is  worth  at  least  SI 0,000. 

Last  year,  the  Laskys  won  the  1998 
Conservationist  of  the  Year  Award 
from  the  Lebanon  County  Conservation 
District  for  their  work  in  building  the 
park  and  the  improvements  made  to 
the  watershed.  But  Dave  is  quick  to 
say  that  they  haven't  made  all  the 
progress  alone. 

"The  really  neat  thing  is  the 
willingness  of  people  in  these  groups  to 
work,"  said  Dave.  "In  a  lot  of 
organizations  it  feels  like  one  person  is 
doing  everything.  Instead,  here  so 
many  people  are  helping  out,  with  such 
a  variety  of  experience." 

"Everyone  does  a  lot  of  work  and  we 
get  the  credit,"  added  Ann.  "A  lot  of 
people  have  helped." 

The  Quittie  Creek  Nature  Park 
Committee  as  a  whole  has  received  the 
volunteer  service  award  for  1992-93 
from  the  U.S.  Department  of  the 
Interior,  the  Take  Pride  in  America 
Award  in  1992,  and  the  National 
Environmental  Awards  Council 


"Everyone  does  a  lot  of 

work  and  we  get  the 

credit,"  added  Ann. 

"A  lot  of  people  have 

helped/' 


certificate  of  environmental 
achievement  in  1992-95. 

Ann  is  treasurer  of  the  Quittapahilla 
Watershed  and  serves  on  the  board  of 
directors  of  the  Swatara  Creek 
Watershed  Association.  Dave  is  chair  of 
the  Quittapahilla  Watershed  and  a 
member  of  the  Swatara  Creek 
Watershed  and  Quittie  Park 
Committee.  Ann  has  also  served  as  a 
volunteer  water  quality  tester  on  the 
Swatara  Creek  for  the  League  of 
Women  Voters  for  DEP. 

For  the  10th  anniversary  of  the  park, 
rhe  Laskys  report  that  the  committee  is 
considering  the  possibility  of  creating  a 
new  five-to-six-mile  walking  loop 
through  the  park  and  around  Annville. 

"We'd  also  like  to  have  an  owl  walk 
with  the  Quittapahilla  Audubon 
Society,    Ann  said.  "An  old  tree  in  the 


park  has  been  the  home  for  owl  families 
for  the  past  seven  years,  and  bluebirds 
have  also  now  moved  into  the  area." 

The  group  planted  about  1,000 
trees  along  the  watershed  last  year,  and 
another  6,000  rrees  and  shrubs  this 
year.  Ir  has  also  purchased  an  S800 
water  test  kit  for  Annville-Cleona  High 
School  students.  The  annual  Earth  Dav 
walk  in  the  park  is  another  tradition, 
and  Ann  promises  that  the  Halloween 
Pumpkin  Walk  in  the  park  will  again 
be  back  this  year. 

The  park  committee  is  continuing 
to  monitor  erosion  and  storm  water 
runoff  from  a  nearby  housing  project, 
and  Ann  would  like  to  see  information 
about  the  park,  including  a  detailed  list 
of  birds  and  plants,  catalogued  tor  the 
public  to  utilize,  perhaps  at  a  local 
library.  Unique  features  of  the  park. 
such  as  the  remains  of  limestone  kilns. 
mav  be  a  ripe  topic  tor  a  local  history 
buff  to  research,  Ann  believes. 

And  thanks  to  the  efforts  of  the 
Laskys  and  many  others,  when  the 
Lasky's  five  grandchildren  visit,  there  is 
a  new  generation  that  is  calling  the 
park  "theirs"  once  again. 

Barbara  Miller  is  a  staff  uriter for  the 
Patriot  News. 


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Thanks  to  computer 

technology,  an 

international  master 

weavers  group  has  access 

to  19th-century  textile 

patterns  from  a  rare  book 

in  the  colleges  archives. 

By  Barbara  Miller 

Photography  by  John  T.  Consoli 


As  you  read  this,  dozens  of  weavers 
from  around  the  world  could  be  busy 
translating  19th  century  textile  patterns 
supplied  via  Internet  from  the  Lebanon 


Valley  College  Bishop  Library  archives 
into  new  woven  creations,  courtesy  of 
Stan  Furmanak,  systems  and  reference 
librarian. 

Furmanak  was  on  the  lookout  for 
projects  to  make  interesting  use  of 
Lebanon  Valley's  computer  technology, 
when  he  got  a  request  last  year  from  a 
member  of  an  international  weaving 
organization  called  Complex  Weavers. 
The  weavers  were  interested  in  an  old 
book  of  textile  patterns  that  they  learned 
was  in  the  Bishop  Library  archives.  Called 
Cyrus  U bier's  Draught  and  Cording  Book, 
the  volume  was  dated  Aug.  19,  1830. 

Furmanak  knew  that  sending  them 
the  one-of-a-kind  book  was  out  of  the 
question  due  to  its  age  and  value. 
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manuscript  justice,  and  a  color  copier 
wasn't  a  good  solution  either. 

The  answer  was  using  a  flat-bed 
scanner  to  scan  the  book  into  the 
computet. 

"I  had  just  gotten  into  scanning 
projects  to  provide  access  to  materials 
virtually,  and  this  was  a  natural 
progression,"  Furmanak  said  recently. 

Scanning  the  Uhler  manuscripts — all 
110  pages — began  in  July  and  was 
finally  completed  in  December.  "We 
would  do  them  in  batches  with  the  help 
of  LVC  students,"  Furmanak  said,  and 
the  weavers  would  eagerly  await  each 
new  collection  of  patterns. 

"We  are  having  a  great  deal  of  fun 
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people  have  been  told  about  this  all  over 
the  weaving  world,"  said  Marjie 
Thompson  of  Maine,  who  heads 
Complex  Weavers'  early  weaving  books 
and  manuscripts  study  group. 

Using  scanned  patterns  via  the 
Internet  in  this  manner  was  a  first  lor 
her  group,  Thompson  said.  "It  was  a 
very  innovative  kind  ot  thing.  It  would 
be  wonderful  it  other  places  could  do 
this,"  she  said.  "It  is  just  fun  to  see  what 
is  out  there,  and  see  the  development  ot 
these  patterns,  and  see  what  someone  in 
1836  was  weaving." 

What  makes  the  Uhler  manuscripts 
so  interesting,  Thompson  said,  is  that 
his  original  working  notes  are  included, 
along  with  little  doodle-like  drawings 
on  many  of  the  pages.  "The  mad  dog  one 


is  everyone's  favorite,  and  the  woman 
with  the  pipe.  The  drawings  are  great," 
Thompson  said. 

Judith  Gordon,  also  a  member  ot  this 
weaving  study  group,  said  the  Uhler 
manuscript  is  "very  valuable  to  us.  It  is 
quite  long,  quite  detailed  and  very  well 
written.  Practically  nothing  is  crossed 
out  or  erased,  and  it  is  quite  legible  tor 
people  like  me  who  like  to  weave. 

"I'm  especially  interested  in  star 
designs,  and  Uhler  has  several  ot  these," 
Gordon  added.  She  wrote  a  book  about 
them  in  1995,  and  wishes  she  had 
known  about  Uhler's  back  then. 

The  weavers  have  a  compurer 
program  that  takes  Uhler's  patterns  and. 
through  computer  delineations, 
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woven.  The  group  tound  that  at  least 
one  ot  the  patterns  is  not  weavable  as 
Uhler  shows  it  because  it  was  never 
completed. 

Weavers  are  submitting  swatches  ot 
cloth  woven  trom  the  Uhler  patterns  to 
Furmanak,  and  have  promised 
something  larger  at  a  later  date. 

Thompson  said  Uhler  may  have 
invented  some  of  the  patterns  himselt, 
and  copied  other  traditional  patterns. 
"But  he's  got  some  that  are  unusual 
and  are  not  seen  in  any  others," 
Thompson  said. 

Weaving  patterns,  which  are  a 
universal  language  among  weavers,  go 
back  to  the  Middle  Ages.  "You  don't 
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anything  else  co  know  what's  going  on 
here,"  Thompson  said. 

Complex  Weavers,  which  has  700 
members  worldwide,  has  85  members  in 
this  early  weaving  manuscripts  study 
group,  and  48  weavers  are  doing 
swatches,  many  probably  from  the  Uhler 
book,  Thompson  said. 

The  complete  manuscript  can  be 
viewed  at  www.lvc.edu/www/ 
library/uhler/index.html. 

Furmanak  now  plans  to  scan  in 
another  even  older  book,  The  Suavely 
Patterns  by  Isabel  Abel,  which  dates 
from  1727.  It  was  donated  to  the  college 
in  1944,  having  been  purchased  for  S2 
at  a  Snavely  family  auction.  The  Uhler 
book  came  to  the  college  in  1945  from 
the  Lebanon  library,  probably  because  it 
was  being  discarded. 

The  leather  cover  on  the  Uhler  book 
has  begun  to  deteriorate,  "but  it's 
holding  up  pretty  well,  compared  to 
some  of  the  newer  books  donated  to  the 
archives,"  Furmanak  said. 


The  new  Bishop  Library,  which 
opened  in  1996,  has  a  controlled 
environment,  which  the  old  library  did 
not  have.  Both  weaving  books  are  in  the 
college's  Hiram  Herr  Shenk  Collection, 
named  for  a  former  LVC  professor. 

While  weavers  may  not  have  been 
accustomed  to  gathering  patterns  via  the 
Internet,  Lebanon  Valley's  students  and 
staff  are  used  to  doing  research  in  their 
virtual  library. 

"This  is  a  very  demonstrative  project 
that  shows  we  are  indeed  a  virtual 
library,"  Furmanak  said. 

The  college  offers  an  extensive 
collection  of  databases  on  its  campus 
network.  And  Furmanak  hopes  to  make 
more  information  from  the  archives 
available  in  the  future,  both  in-house 
and  to  the  public  at  large  via  the 
Internet,  as  work  continues  on  the 
Bishop  archives. 

Pages  from  The  Snavely  Patterns, 
created  in  1727. 


Stan  Furmanak  believes  the  project  has 
been  beneficial  both  to  the  college  and  to 
the  weavers  group. 

Alice  Diehl,  who  retired  after 
working  30  years  as  a  cataloguer  in  the 
library,  is  now  working  part-time  in  the 
library  bringing  better  order  in  the 
college's  archives  collections,  which 
include  more  than  2,000  pieces.  These 
items  range  from  books  and  old 
photographs  to  the  working  papers  of 
the  college. 

Furmanak  said  he's  asked  Diehl  to 
"flag"  particularly  interesting  items  that 
she  comes  across,  such  as  historical 
information  that  could  be  shared  with 
the  Annville  community. 

"I  hope  Alice  unearths  some  gems, 
and  I  can  scan  them  in,"  he  said.  "It's 
kind  of  fun  for  people  to  know  about  the 
history  of  the  college." 

He  also  knows  that  time  can  be 
history's  enemy.  "The  longer  things  sit, 
the  harder  it  is  to  do  anything 
meaningful  with  them." 

Thompson  said  she  hopes  more  of 
these  old  weaving  manuscripts  continue 
to  surface.  "Since  1992  I  think  we  have 
probably  doubled  the  number  of 
manuscripts,"  she  said. 

Some  prominent  museums  are  still 
loathe  to  allow  anyone  to  handle  these 
old  books,  and  others  are  in  private 
hands.  "We  get  varying  degrees  of 
cooperation.  Stan  is  one  of  most 
cooperative  we  have  run  into," 
Thompson  said. 

"It's  amazing  how  quickly  technology 
is  coming  along.  Twenty  years  ago  we 
probably  couldn't  even  have  photocopied 
these  things.  Now  we  are  scanning  them 
on  the  Internet,"  Thompson  said. 


The  Valley 


Tapestry  of  a  Life 


A  lot  of  momentous  lite  decisions  seem  to  come  about  prett\ 
much  by  chance.  Just  ask  Stan  Furmanak.  He  was  studying  for 
his  master's  degree  in  English  literature  at  Catholic  University 
in  Washington  when  his  fiance,  Jane — a  Ph.D.  candidate  at 
George  Washington  University  and  MLS  candidate  at 
Catholic — needed  to  find  out  the  words  that  were  spoken  on 
stage  at  the  moment  of  Abraham  Lincoln's  assassination. 

"The  professor  had  promised  an  A'  to  whoever  came  up 
with  the  right  answer,"  Furmanak  recalls,  and  that  reward — 
plus  the  challenge  of  unearthing  a  nugget  of 
information  from  the  dustv  past — was  enough  to 
get  his  juices  flowing.  He  did  some  scouting 
around  and  got  the  answer  from  the  folks  at 
Ford's  Theatre:  "I'll  turn  you  inside  out,  you 
socdologiasing  old  mantrap."  That's  a  line  that 
means  almost  nothing  in  the  1990s,  but  back  in 
1865,  it  brought  the  house  down,  giving  John 
Wilkes  Booth  the  cover  he  needed  to  blow  away 
the  sixteenth  president  of  the  United  States. 

Those  words  also  set  Furmanak  on  a  totally 
unexpected  career  path.  "Jane  was  impressed  by 
my  research  expertise  and  suggested  that  I 
consider  becoming  a  librarian,"  Furmanak  recalls. 
"It  was,  she  said,  only  half  kiddingly,  at  least 
something  I  could  actually  make  a  living  at." 

So  after  receiving  his  degree  at  Catholic, 
Furmanak  abandoned  Beowulf  and  enrolled  in  the 
master  of  library  science  program  at  Southern 
Connecticut  State  University.  After  graduating 
in  1984,  he  took  a  job  with  the  Welles  Turner 
Library  in  Glastonbury,  CT  where  he  worked 
until  1987,  when  he  was  offered  the  position  of 
assistant  director  at  the  Lebanon  Community 
Library.  He  came  on  board  just  in  time  to  help 
take  the  library  from  the  antiquated  card  catalog 
to  a  state-of-the-art  computer  system  that  links 
the  resources  of  the  six  public  libraries  in 
Lebanon  County. 

Furmanak  joined  the  Lebanon  Valley  College 
library  staff  in  early  1994  arriving — once 
again — just  as  big  changes  were  in  the  works. 

"We  were  in  the  middle  of  planning  a  new 
library  building,"  Furmanak  recalls,  "as  well  as 
orchestrating  the  move  to  temporary  quarters  and 


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extending  the  campus  network." 

Furmanak  was  a  key  player  in  bringing  the  new  library 
online,  and  his  expertise  has  been  recognized  nationally  as 
well  as  regionally.  Last  year,  he  presented  a  standing-room 
only  session  at  a  national  conference,  "Computers  in 
Libraries,"  in  Washington,  D.C.  on  how  the  virtual  library  has 
been  implemented  here  at  LVC.  He's  also  been  recognized  by 
OCLC  as  a  leading  implementor  of  their  WebZ  Site  Search 
software.  The  organization,  in  fact,  called  on  his  expertise  in 
configuring  their  software  for  distribution  to 
others,  for  which  the  college  received  about 
S20.000  in  software  at  no  charge. 

It  takes  the  heart  and  soul  of  a  detective  to 
make  a  good  librarian — that  thirst  to  get  to 
the  bottom  of  things — and  Stan  Furmanak 
has  brought  those  qualities  to  Lebanon 
Valley's  library. 

"Often,  all  that's  needed  for  me  to  start  my 
explorations  is  for  someone  to  say,  'I  wonder 
if  that's  possible' — and  oft  I  go  to  see  for 
myself,"  Furmanak  says.  "I  suppose  most 
things  are  possible  if  you're  persistent 
enough — and  I'm  just  stubborn  enough  not 
to  let  computers  and  technology  get  the  best 
of  me  most  days." 

Equally  at  home  in  the  high-tech  lingo  of 
computer  software  as  he  is  in  Old  English. 
"Scan  has  put  LVC  in  a  leadership  position 
within  the  library  community,"  says  Bob 
Riley,  vice  president  of  computing  and 
telecommunications.  "He  is  almost  solely 
responsible  tor  the  great  advance  in  the 
application  of  technology  in  our  library  and 
definitely  deserves  recognition  tor  his 
accomplishments." 

But  tor  Furmanak,  it  all  goes  back  to  a 
chance  assignment  that  sparked  his  curiosity, 
and  the  encouragement  of  his  wife,  Jane, 
who  passed  away  in  1988.  "I  truly  believe." 
Furmanak  says,  "she  opened  the  door  tor  me 
to  all  the  happiness  and  contentment  my 
career  daily  brings  me.  Perhaps  more  than 
chance.  Jane  and  my  career  have  been  gifts." 
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Summer  1999 


FORMULA 
-SUCCESS 


10  The  Valley 


State-of-the-art  equipment, 

caring  professors, 

and  a  tradition  of 

student  research 

all  add  up  to  one  great 

chemistry  program. 

By  Stephen  Trapnell  '90 


When  Dr.  Carl  Wigal,  Lebanon 
Valley  College's  chemistry  department 
chair,  meets  new  people  and  mentions 
his  job,  he  sometimes  hears  a  reaction 
like  this:  "Eww,  chemistry.  I  hated  that." 

Perhaps  Wigal  should  try  another 
approach.  He  could  simply  say  he  works 
in  a  lab  with  more  than  $1  million 
worth  of  equipment,  preparing  future 
leaders  for  careers  in  medicine, 
education,  and  corporate  research.  After 
all,  that's  exactly  what  LVCs  chemistry 
department  has  been  doing  for  more 
than  75  years. 

"Our  graduates  go  out  with  so  much 
savvy  and  bench  experience,"  said  Dr.  H. 
Anthony  "Tony"  Neidig,  the  chemistry 
department's  chairman  emeritus.  "So 
when  they  go  to  graduate  school,  they 
are  in  excellent  shape." 

While  some  small  schools  may  have 
only  a  few  chemistry  graduates  each 
year,  Wigal  said  Lebanon  Valley  averages 
almost  20.  Among  comparable  colleges, 
LVC  generally  ranks  in  the  top  4  percent 
in  the  percentage  of  its  chemistry 
graduates  who  go  on  to  get  Ph.D.s. 

"Lebanon  Valley  is  in  a  unique 
situation,"  said  Wigal,  who  joined  the 
chemistry  department  six  years  ago  after 
teaching  at  Idaho  State  University.  "We 
have  all  the  toys  that  a  large  university 
has... and  we're  small  enough  so  that  our 
students  can  get  hands-on  experience. 

"Chemistry  is  a  notoriously  expensive 
discipline  to  offer,"  Wigal  said,  adding 
that  in  some  cases,  only  universities  can 
afford  the  equipment  and  materials 
necessary.  The  drawback  for 
undergraduates  in  a  big-school  setting, 
he  said,  is  that  "it  doesn't  really  matter 


how  much  equipment  you  have,  you 
don't  have  access  to  it." 

Lebanon  Valley  has  been  able  to  fund 
a  well-equipped  department  despite  its 
small  liberal-arts  atmosphere,  added 
Wigal,  because  the  administration  is 
willing  to  support  science  and  the 
faculty  is  aggressive  in  researching  and 
applying  for  grants.  In  the  last  decade, 
the  department  has  received  more  than 
$930,000  in  grants  from  groups 
including  the  National  Science 
Foundation,  Petroleum  Research  Fund 
of  the  American  Chemical  Society,  and 
Exxon  Education  Foundation. 

"A  school's  reputation  goes  a  long 
way,"  Wigal  said,  adding  that 
organizations  that  fund  research  always 
ask,  "What  have  you  done  in  the  past?" 

For  Lebanon  Valley's  chemistry 
department,  the  past  goes  back  to  1921, 
when  Dr.  Andrew  Bender  launched  the 
discipline  at  the  Annville  campus.  For 
20  years,  Bender  taught  all  the  college's 
chemistry  classes  while  conducting 
research  for  companies  including 
Bethlehem  Steel  and  Lebanon  Steel 
Foundry,  Neidig  recalled. 

Neidig  was  one  of  Bender's  students, 
graduating  from  LVC  in  1943-  After 
graduate  studies  at  the  University  of 
Delaware,  he  returned  as  a  member  of 
Lebanon  Valley's  chemistry  faculty  in 
1948.  Neidig's  doctoral  advisor 
encouraged  him  to  pursue  research  at 
LVC,  in  a  time  when  undergraduate 


research  was  rare. 

"I  set  up  my  equipment  one  day  in 
the  lab,  and  the  next  thing  I  knew  there 
were  three  or  four  students  gathered 
around,"  Neidig  recalled.  He  said  rhat 
on  Saturday  mornings,  he  toted  orange 
juice  and  donuts  to  the  lab,  where  he 
met  students  for  work  sessions.  At  the 
time,  he  said,  "it  was  unheard  of  for 
students  to  work  on  their  own  in  the 
laboratory  on  Saturday.  These  guys  were 
hungry." 

In  1949,  after  Neidig's  first  year  as  a 
professor,  five  students  stayed  with  him 
over  the  summer  to  help  research  the 
oxidation  of  a  compound.  In  1950,  they 
published  a  paper  on  the  project,  a  first 
for  the  department.  The  summer 
program  became  a  tradition,  allowing 
students  to  earn  money  while  gaining 
hands-on  research  experience. 

"We've  had  one  every  summer  since 
then,"  Wigal  said.  "I  would  put  that 
record  up  against  any  college  in 
America." 

Neidig  also  set  up  a  program  for 
students  to  earn  money  doing  research 
for  companies  like  AMP  and  the  former 
Central  Chemical  Co.  in  Lebanon. 

"Of  course,  we  started  to  go  out  and 
give  papers,  and  tell  people  what  we 
were  doing,"  Neidig  recalled.  "And  a  lot 
of  what  we  were  doing,  nobody  else  was. 
To  publish  a  paper  used  to  be  the 
driving  force  only  for  people  working  tor 
a  Ph.D." 


Left:  Chemistry  chair  Carl  Wigal  (right)  works  with  students  on  the  nuclear  magnetic  resonance  spectrometer. 
Above:  Dr.  Owen  Moe  (left)  and  Bryan  Patson  '00  do  an  analysis  using  the  atomic  absorption  spectrophotometer. 


LEFT  PHOTO  BY  STEWART  COHEN.  RIGHT  PHOTO  BY  IOHN  T  CONSOLI 


Summer  1999 


I  1 


Dr.  Anthony  Neidig  '43:  A  major  influence 

In  1959,  the  American  Chemical 
Society  added  Lebanon  Valley  to  its  list 
of  approved  institutions,  a  watershed 
development  which  would  allow  the 
school's  graduates  to  begin  work  as 
chemists  rather  than  research  assistants. 
Neidig  recalls,  "We  had  a  great  party 
that  night." 

Neidig  retired  15  years  ago  and  is  now 
vice  president  and  publisher  of  Chemical 
Education  Resources,  which  sells 
chemistry  lab  materials  to  700  colleges. 
However,  the  tradition  of  undergraduate 
research  which  he  pioneered  continues, 
with  professors  and  students  working  and 
writing  papers  together.  "Research  is  the 
best  way  of  teaching  chemistry,"  Wigal 
said,  "giving  students  a  problem  that 
they  can't  go  look  up." 

In  recent  years, 
students  have  been 
exploring  ways 
to  make 
antioxidants 


They're  Tops 
in  Their  Field 

By  Stephen  Trapnell  '90 

Organ  transplant  teams. 
Corporate  research  departments. 
University  science  faculty. 

Look  at  the  rosters  of  any  of 
these  groups,  and  they  may  contain 
alumni  of  Lebanon  Valley  College's 
chemistry  department.  Here  is  a 
sampling  of  the  impressive  careers 
graduates  have  pursued. 

Dr.  Si  M.  Pham  79  is 
director  of  cardiopulmonary 
transplantation  in  the  division  of 
cardiothoracic  surgery  at  the 
University  of  Miami  School  of 
Medicine.  A  former  pharmacy 
student  in  his  native  Vietnam,  he 
said  LVC  impressed  him  with  the 
"level  of  dedication  that  the 
professors  gave  to  the  students  and 
the  opportunities  for  research. 

"I  don't  think  I  could  have 
done  as  well  if  I  had  gone  to  a  big 


and  antibiotics  from  quinones,  which  are 
like  "electron  shurtles"  at  work  in  all 
living  systems,  Wigal  said.  In  another 
program,  srudenrs  work  over  the 
summer  on  campus  and  at  nearby 
Hershey  Foods  Corp.  in  chemometrics,  a 
type  of  chemical  analysis. 

Dr.  Owen  Moe,  a  chemistry  professor 
since  1973,  has  worked  with  students  on 
research  into  how  enzymes  work  as 
caralysts  in  cells. 

"I  came  here  because  the  people  here 
convinced  me  it  was  possible  to  do  some 
meaningful  research  as  well  as  teach," 
Moe  said.  "It  isn't  like  we  go  off 
somewhere  to  research  by  ourselves,  and 
that  competes  with  teaching.  If  I  have 
four  or  five  students  working  with  me 
40  hours  per  week  over  the  summer,  I 
get  to  know  them  pretty  well." 

To  help  with  their  education,  LVC 
students  have  access  to  equipment 
including  an  atomic  absorprion 
spectrophotometer,  gas 
chromatograph-mass 
specrrometer,  and 


university, 
said  Pham,  who  was 
among  12  refugees 
Lebanon  Valley  plucked  from 
Indiantown  Gap  after  the  fall  of 
Saigon  in  1975.  He  spoke  little 
English  at  the  time,  and  worked 
on  language  along  with  pursuing 
his  chemistry  degree. 

Pham  went  on  to  medical 
school  at  the  University  of 
Pittsburgh,  where  he  became  an 
assistant  professor  of  surgery  and 
director  of  its  heart  transplant 
program.  While  there,  he  worked 
on  the  team  of  sutgeons  who 
performed  a  simultaneous  heart 
and  liver  transplant  for  former 
Pennsylvania  Gov.  Robert  Casey. 

Last  year,  Pham  moved  to  the 
University  of  Miami  to  oversee  its 
heart  and  lung  transplant 
programs.  He  said  working  with 
transplants  involves  not  only  the 
technical  precision  of  surgery,  but 
the  challenge  of  "how  to  fool  our 
immune  system  in  such  a  way  that 
it  will  not  reject  the  organ. ...It's 


more  challenging 
intellectually." 

Dr.  Roberta  Reed  '67  decided 
to  attend  LVC  based  on  its 
reputation  in  chemistry.  "I  really 
sought  a  small  department  where  I 
would  be  taught  by  faculty,  not 
graduate  students,"  she  said. 

She  is  now  a  research 
biochemist  at  Bassett  Healthcare 
in  Cooperstown,  N.Y.  Reed 
conducts  research  into  disease 
processes  and  risk  factors.  For 
example,  she  has  studied 
cholesterol  metabolism  and  the 
effects  diet  and  drug  therapy  have 
on  it.  In  addition  to  wotking  in 
the  lab,  she  said,  "I  also  sometimes 
end  up  out  in  church  basements 
finger-sticking  people  and 
measuring  their  cholesrerol." 

Reed  is  also  Bassett 
Healthcare's  direcror  of  clinical 
chemistry,  and  she  serves  on  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  10,000- 
member  American  Associarion  for 
Clinical  Chemistry. 

A  native  of  Hungary, 


Dr.  Tibor 
Sipos  '64 

found  LVC 

provided  the 

opportunity  "not  only  to  leatn  a 

lot  of  facts,  but  to  learn 

confidence.  I  got  a  tremendous 

amount  of  confidence  at  Lebanon 

Valley  College." 

After  working  at  Johnson  & 
Johnson  for  22  years,  Sipos 
founded  Digestive  Care  Inc.  in 
1991.  The  Bethlehem 
pharmaceutical  development  firm 
has  created  a  drug  called 
Pancrecarb  to  help  treat  cystic 
fibrosis.  The  medicine  is  a 
combination  of  a  pancreatic 
enzyme  and  bicarbonate. 

Sipos'  25-employee  firm  is  also 
working  on  products  for  liver 
illness,  periodontal  disease,  and 
severe  tooth  decay  caused  by  head 
and  neck  cancer.  Sipos,  who  is  also 
an  adjunct  professor  at  Lehigh 
University,  said  pharmaceutical 
scientists  have  a  powerful  reward 
when  they  see  their  drugs 


12 


The  Valley 


TOP  LEFT  PHOTO  BY  JOHN  T.  CONSOLI 


computer-based  molecular  modeling 
laboratory.  This  year,  the  college  plans  to 
spend  $150,000  on  a  new  nuclear 
magnetic  resonance  spectrometer  (NMR) 
to  replace  its  existing  one. 

Matt  Vera  '90  said  his  Lebanon 
Valley  lab  experience  paid  off  when  he 
began  graduate  studies  at  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  is  now  a 
doctoral  student.  "There  were  people 
who  had  never  used,  for  instance,  an 
NMR  spectrometer,"  Vera  said,  adding 
that  LVC  freshmen  have  access  to  such 
equipment  right  from  the  start. 

Along  with  the  high-tech  labs,  LVC 
students  have  small-school  access  to 
professors.  Rather  than  posting 
restrictive  office  hours,  Wigal  said,  the 
four-protessor  depart  ment  turn  i  ions 

with  a  simple  policy:  "If  you  can 
find  us,  you  got  us. 

"It  doesn't  matter 

how  smart  you  are.  It 

doesn't  matter 

how  many 

great 


combatting  illness:  "They  can 
enjoy  the  excitement  the 
patient  has,  the  family  has." 

Dr.  Ned  Heindel  '59  is  a 
chemistry  professor  at  Lehigh 
University  and  served  as  president 
of  the  160,000-member  American 
Chemical  Society  in  1994. 

While  in  high  school  in  1954, 
he  participated  in  a  Lancaster  show 
about  LVC's  chemistry 
department.  When  he  became  a 
student,  he  found  "an  enormously 
helpful  bonding  between  all  the 
faculty  in  chemistry,  especially 
Tony  Neidig,  and  the  students 
going  through  the  pipeline.  It  was 
a  nice  blend  of  intellectual 
challenge  and  social  networking." 

He  considets  LVC's  chemistry 
program  "among  the  very,  very 
best  in  the  nation,  ptimarily 
because  of  the  element  of  caring 
about  the  students."  In 
univetsities  with  graduate  studies, 
the  focus  often  is  on  Ph.D. 
students,  Heindel  said,  noting, 
"You  always  like  to  teach  at  the 


ideas  you  have.  If  you  scare  students 
away,  they're  not  going  to  want  to  work 
for  you,"  the  organic  chemistry  professor 
said.  He  added  that  at  LVC,  "Students 
get  to  know  the  faculty  members  as 
people  and  not  just  as  talking  heads  in 
front  of  a  classroom.  We  typically  have  a 
discussion  on  the  NBA  in  my  office 
every  morning." 

Vera,  who  was  a  Fulbright  Scholar, 
said  he  first  met  the  college's  chemistry 
professors  when  he  was  a  high  school 
student  participating  in  the  Youth 
Scholars  Program.  He  spent  a  week  at 
the  school  and  was  impressed  with  "the 
faculty  and  how  comfortable  and  eager 
they  seemed  to  be  to  work  one-on-one 
with  students — and  we  were  high  school 
students,"  Vera  said.  "We  really  learned 
something,  and  it  was  made  to  be 
fun.  You  could  see  these 
people  liked  to  teach." 

Aaron  Aponick  '98, 
now  a  graduate  student 
at  the  University  of 
Michigan,  said, 


"The  faculty  would  support  and  help 
you  develop  ideas  which  could  be 
molded  into  original  research  projects. 
In  my  opinion,  it  is  this  experience  that 
helps  separate  cooks  from  scientists,  and 
LVC  seemed  to  do  a  remarkable  job 
helping  me  mature  into  the  latter." 

Aponick  said  he  co-authored 
scientific  papers  and  presented  work  at 
local  and  national  American  Chemical 
Society  meetings.  Vera  said  Lebanon 
Valley's  liberal  arts  focus  ot 
incorporating  writing  and  speaking  into 
the  chemistry  work  was  another  plus  as 
he  continued  his  studies.  He  said, 
"There  were  not  a  lot  of  peers  in 
graduate  school  who  had  ever  given  a 
seminar  before." 

Department  chairman  Wigal  added. 
"Resources  don't  just  mean  money.  Any 
school  can  come  up  with  the  money  to 
send  students  to  a  national  meeting, 

but  you  have  to  have  something  to 

talk  about  once  you  get  there.  I  would 

like  to  think  that  we  have  a 

national  visibility." 


highest  level 
possible."  At 
LVC,  undergrad- 
uate chemistry  students 
are  the  highest  level. 

After  starting  as  a  research 
chemist  for  the  DuPont  Company, 
Dr.  Ross  Fasick  '55  went  on  to 
become  ptesident  and  general 
manager  ot  DuPont  in  Brazil  and 
then  regional  director  of  its 
operations  throughout  Mexico  and 
South  America. 

"Throughout  my  entire  career  I 
was  exposed  to  products  and 
business  issues  that  involved 
chemistry  in  one  way  or  anothet," 
said  Fasick,  who  retired  as  senior 
vice  president  of  polymers  and 
automotive  products.  "The  basic 
education  that  I  got  at  Lebanon 
Valley  was  invaluable  to  me." 

Remembering  his  years  in  the 
chemistry  department,  Fasick, 
who  is  chair  of  LVC's  board  ot 
trustees,  said  Dr.  H.  Anthony 
Neidig  was  one  of  the  people  who 
had  the  most  influence  on  his  life. 


Dr.  Elizabeth  K.  Weisburgcr 

'44  remembers  going  to  high 
school  in  Jonestown,  Lebanon 
County,  and  having  no  lab  space. 
Despite  this,  she  decided  to  study 
chemistry  at  LVC. 

"My  father  grumbled  and 
asked,  Why  don't  you  major  in 
English?'"  Weisburger  recalled, 
but  she  thought,  "In  chemistry, 
you  could  make  new  things  that 
somebody  else  had  nevet  made 
before."  She  went  to  wotk  at  the 
National  Cancer  Institute, 
studying  how  carcinogens 
metabolize  and  testing  substances 
to  determine  whethet  they  posed  a 
cancer  risk.  She  recalled 
discovering  that  a  material  which 
had  been  used  to  fireproof 
children's  sleepwear  was  a 
carcinogen. 

Weisburger  rented  in  1989  as 
assistant  directot  for  chemical 
carcinogenesis,  but  she  continues 
to  work  with  a  local  chapter  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  She 
also  recently  contributed  a  chapter 


for  a  book  on 
industrial 
hygiene  and 
toxicology. 

Dr.  John  Mover 
'39  pursued  a  career 
including  work  as  professor  of 
medicine  at  Penn  State 
University's  Hetshey  Medical 
Center  and  Temple  University 
School  of  Medicine.  He  is  emeritus 
director  of  professional  and 
educational  affairs  at  Conemaugh 
Valley  Memorial  Hospital. 

"My  expetiences  within  the 
Lebanon  Valley  College  chemistry 
and  biology  program  laid  the 
foundation  for  my  interest  in  the 
research  of  basic  pharmacology," 
said  Mover,  who  was  named  LVC 
alumnus  of  the  year  in  1968  and 
also  received  an  honorary  doctor  of 
medical  science  degtee. 

"Regardless  of  how  far  my 
travels  have  carried  me,"  Mover 
noted,  "I  have  always  considered 
LVC  my  home." 


Summer  1999 


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Fountains  jet  some  15 
feet  into  the  air. 


FIELDS 

OF  DREAMS 


"If  you  build  it, 

they  will  come," 

says  the  line  from 

everybody's  favorite 

baseball  movie. 

It's  curned  out  to  be  true 
at  the  Valley,  too.  Literally 
hundreds  of  alums,  community 
members  and  friends  of  the 
college  have  come  to  see  the 
magic  that  has  transformed  20 
acres  of  farmers'  fields  into  a 
first-class  baseball  stadium, 
beautiful  athletic  fields  (football, 
field  hockey,  baseball,  soccer 
and  intramural),  a  small  lake, 
fountains  and  a  wetland  area. 

LVC  athletic  teams  have 
already  used  some  of  the  fields 
and  facilities,  which  will  also  be 
open  to  community  teams.  The 
two-acre  wetland  area  will  be 
completed  in  time  for  school  in 
the  fall. 

The  lovely  new  areas 
significantly  expand  the  size  of 
the  campus  and  help  provide  an 
enviable  educational  setting — 
one  of  the  best  in  the  region. 


Abo\e:  The  new  baseball 
park  has  touches  oj 
Camden  Yards. 


Right:  Tin'  Softball  stadium 
boasts  a  bull  pen,  dugout 
and  grandstands. 


Left:  The  soccer  stadium  is 
first-class,  plus  there  arc 
two  additional  soccer 
practice  fields. 

PHOTOGRAPHY  BY  JOHN  T  CONSOL1 


NEWS  BRIEFS 


President  David  Pnllick  (right)  thanks  Bill  and 
Ellen  McGill  for  their  generous  gift  to  establish 
McGill  Baseball  Field 

McGill  Field  Dedication 

A  dedication  ceremony  was  held  for 
the  new  McGill  Baseball  Field  on  May 
21.  The  event,  which  honored  Dr. 
William  McGill,  retired  LVC  senior 
vide  president  and  dean  of  the  faculty, 
and  his  wife  Ellen,  Kreiderheim  co- 
director,  was  part  of  the  festivities 
•planned  for  Alumni  Weekend. 
Following  the  ceremony,  some  30 
Valley  grads  competed  in  an  alumni 
baseball  game.  The  teams  were 
outfitted  in  LVC  baseball  caps  and  t- 
shirts,  courtesy  of  the  Alumni 
Programs  Office. 

New  Residence  Hall 

The  college  is  expecting  its  largest 
enrollment  ever  for  the  1999-2000  aca- 
demic year,  and  has  begun  construction 
of  a  new  residence  hall  to  accommodate 
the  additional  students. 

According  to  Lebanon  Valley  Presi- 
dent G.  David  Pollick,  "The  college  has 
had  a  record  2,350  applications  for  the 
430  slots  available  on  campus,  and  we 


expect  to  open  the  fall  term  with  1,320 
students.  By  fall  of  the  year  2000,  we're 
projecting  we'll  have  1,345  full-time 
students." 

Admission  numbers  for  the  1998-99 
academic  year,  he  said,  reached  an  all- 
time  high  with  a  freshman  class  of  424 
students  and  overall  enrollment  figures 
of  1,250  full-time  students. 

Work  has  begun  on  a  new  16,500- 
square-foot  residence  hall  which  will 
house  56  students.  Scheduled  to  be 
completed  by  the  time  school  opens  in 
the  fall,  the  three-story  building  will 
feature  14  suites,  each  consisting  of  two 
single  rooms,  one  double  room,  a  study, 
and  a  bathroom.  The  first  and  second 
floors  will  also  contain  a  kitchen  area 
and  a  lounge/lobby,  and  there  will  be  a 
conference  room  on  the  main  level.  The 
partial  basement  will  house  laundry 
facilities  and  storage  areas. 

Tascam  Partnership 

A  "win-win"  situation  is  how  Doug 
Gould,  a  regional  sales  manager  for  Tas- 
cam, describes  the  recent  partnership 
between  his  company  and  the  college's 
music  recording  technology  depart- 
ment. Tascam  has  placed  $40,000 
worth  of  equipment  in  the  department 
and  arranged  internship  opportunities 
for  LVC  students. 

Tascam  is  a  25-year-old  intetnational 
company,  a  pro  audio  division  of  TEAC 
in  Japan  with  U.S.  headquarters  in  Los 
Angeles.  The  first  LVC  intern  will  work 
for  Tascam  this  summer,  followed  by- 
one  or  two  interns  per  semester. 


Increasing  Understanding 

"Race  Realities,"  the  1999  Spring 
Humanities  Colloquium,  focused  on 
issues  of  race  in  America.  The  colloqui- 
um began  with  a  showing  of  the  award- 
winning  documentary,  The  Color  of  Fear, 
followed  by  a  discussion  with  David  C. 
Lee,  one  of  the  men  featured  in  the 
film.  Other  events  for  the  semester 
included  an  art  exhibition  of  works  by 
Robert  Arneson,  a  film  series,  and  a 
variety  of  lectures  and  dramatic  presen- 
tations. The  colloquium  concluded  with 
a  guided  tour  of  Harlem. 

Founders  Day  Honoree 

Miles  J.  Gibbons,  chief  executive 
officer  and  president  of  The  Whitaker 
Foundation,  was  honored  as  the  recipi- 
ent of  the  1999  Founders  Day  Award. 


Architect's  rendering  of  the  new  1 6, 500 -foot -square  residence  hall  which  will  house  56  students. 
Construction  is  underway  and  expected  to  be  completed  when  the  pall  1 999  term  begins.  The  three-story 
building  will  feature  14  suites,  two  kitchens  and  lounge/lobbies,  and  a  conperence  room. 


President  David  Pollick  (left)  presents  the 
Founder's  Day  Award  to  Miles  Gibbons. 

During  the  April  ceremony,  the  Stu- 
dent Government  Educator  Award  was 
presented  to  Dr.  Barney  Raffield,  pro- 
fessor of  business  administration,  and 
the  President's  Award  was  given  to  the 
International  Student  Organization. 

Tuition  Announced 

The  college's  trustees  have 
announced  tees  for  the  1999-00  academ- 
ic year.  Full-time  resident  students  will 
pay  $17,260  for  tuition  and  fees,  and 
S5.490  for  and  room  and  board.  The 
new  fee  structure  represents  a  3.8  pet- 
cent  inctease  over  1998-99. 


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The  Valley 


Full-rime  commuter  students  at  the 
college  will  pay  S17.216  in  tuition  and 
fees  — a  3-9  percent  increase  over  lasr 
year. 

Hawkins  Visit 

Dr.  David  Hawkins,  Los  Alamos 
Projecr  historian  and  an  administrative 
assistant  to  Robert  Oppenheimer.  father 
of  the  atomic  bomb,  spent  four  days  on 


Dr.  Hawkins,  a  compelling  speaker,  mesmerized 
both  students  and  faculty. 

campus  in  April.  During  his  visit  to 
Lebanon  Valley,  Hawkins  met  with 
students,  held  a  lecture  tor  members  of 
the  college  and  community,  and 
conducted  a  question-and-answer 
session  focusing  on  the  atomic  bomb. 

Though  Hawkins  had  numerous 
duties  at  Los  Alamos,  his  most  noted 
project  was  to  write  what  he  calls  "the 
biography  of  the  bomb,"  the  official 
technical  history  of  rhe  Los  Alamos 
project.    His  writings  were  declassified 
in  1961  and  are  now  published  in  The 
History  of  Modern  Physics  1800-1950. 

Hawkins'  visit  to  Lebanon  Valley 
was  sponsored  by  the  Physics 
Department  and  was  funded  in  part  by 
a  gtant  from  the  American  Institute  of 

Flu  Ml  s 

Quiz  Bowl 

Students  from  69  high  schools  par- 
ticipated  in  the  19th  Annual  Quiz 
Bowl  in  March.  The  competition, 
which  is  the  largest  in  the  state,  is  a 
campus-wide  event  with  questions 
written  by  faculty,  administration  and 


staff.  College  members  also  volunteered 
as  |udges  and  moderarors.  The  winning 
team  was  from  Blue  Mountain  High 
School  in  Schuylkill  County. 

Hallmark  in  the  Top  50 

LVC's  Hallmark  staff  has  been 
included  in  Foodservice  Director  maga- 
zine's performance  report  tor  the  50  Top 
College  Contractors.  Other  Pennsylva- 
nia colleges  to  make  the  list  were  Grove 
City  College.  Lehigh  University,  and 
the  University  of  Pittsburgh. 

A  Silver  Anniversary 

The  Lebanese  J ournal  oj  Seedling  Science, 
an  in-house  journal  which  provides  stu- 
dents an  opportunity  to  publish  mini- 
research  papers  done  in  botany  courses, 
celebrated  the  publication  of  its  25th 
volume  in  May. 

The  journal  was  founded  by  Dr. 
Srephen  Williams,  professor  of  biology, 
and  is  edited  by  Dr.  Susan  Verhoek, 
professor  of  biology.  Over  the  years. 
nearly  4(10  students  have  written  for  the 
journal,  submitting  either  a  paper  or  an 
abstract  from  a  poster  session. 

Swans  in  Love 

Bob  and  Judy,  a  pair  of  black  swans, 
are  enjoying  their  new  home  on  the 
north  campus. 

The  birds,  which  came  from  Indi- 
anapolis, Indiana,  have  raken  up  resi- 
dence in  a  large  pond  locared  along 
Heisey  Road  (rhe  Route  934  entrance 
to  the  Arnold  Sporrs  Cenrer).  Their 


water)-  paradise  comes  complere  with  an 
island  and  a  swan  house  construcred  by- 
members  of  the  Facilities  Services 
Department. 

Swans  mate  tor  lite  and  Bob  and 
Judy  are  named  after  Bob  Hamilton, 
vice  president  for  administration,  and 
his  wife  Judy,  who  celebrated  35  years 
ot  marriage  last  year. 

Woodrow  Wilson  Fellow 

William  S.  Reese,  CEO  ot  the  Inter- 
national Youth  Foundation,  was  in  resi- 
dence tor  a  week  in  March  as  the  col- 
lege's first  Woodrow  Wilson  Visiring 
Fellow.  Reese,  a  Latin  American  special- 
ist, served  as  a  guest  speaker  in  classes 
where  he  spoke  about  Latin  American 
affairs  and  development  issues.  He  also 
held  a  presentation  on  the  Peace  Corps 
where  he  served  for  10  years,  and  gave  a 
public  lecture  to  discuss  Foreign  Aid 
and  Policy  in  the  Twentieth  Century. 


....     , 


Woodrou  Wilson  Fellou  William  Reesi   center. 
met  informally  with  small  groups  oj  student  and 

also  spoke  to  c ig  his  week  on  campus. 

It:    ■  rnial  pttblii  lecturi  attracted  many  pi  pit 
from  the  community. 


Phonathon  Surpasses  Goal 

Kudos  to  the  phonathon  staff  tor  set- 
ting a  college  record  by  securing  over 
$200,000  worth  ot  pledges  during  the 
1998-99  academic  year.  The  students, 
who  contacted  alums,  parents  (past  and 
ptesentl,  and  friends  ot  the  college .  fax 
exceeded  their  i;oal  of  $145,000 


Bob.  left,  and  Judy  have  attracted  mam  visitors. 


Summer  1999 


NEWSMAKERS 


New  Appointments 

Dr.  Barbara 
Vlaisavljevic,  who 

joined  the  faculty 
as  associate  profes- 
sor of  accounting 
in  1987,  has  been 
appointed  associate 
dean  of  faculty  for  a 
three-year  term  beginning  in  July.   In 
this  new  position,  she  will  direct  the 
study-abroad  program,  handle  issues 
involving  student  academic  progress  and 
develop  plans  for  the  reaccreditation  of 
the  college  in  anticipation  of  the  10-year 
review  by  the  Middle  States  Association 
in  2002. 

Andrea  Bromberg,  executive  assis- 
tant to  the  president,  has  been  named 
executive  director  of  continuing  educa- 
tion and  graduate 
studies.   Bromberg, 
who  joined  the  col- 
lege in  1992, 
served  as  interim 
director  of  continu- 
ing education  fol- 
lowing the  resigna- 
tion of  Elaine  Feather  in  January.  She 
will  maintain  her  responsibilities  in  the 
president's  office  and,  in  her  new  posi- 
tion, report  to  Dean  Stephen  MacDon- 
ald  and  oversee  the  directors  for  the 
master  of  science  in  education,  master  of 
business  administration  and  continuing 
education  programs. 

Joseph  Martellaro  has  joined  the 
Advancement  staff  as  director  of  annual 
giving  and  assistant  director  of  develop- 
ment. Martellaro 
comes  to  the  col- 
lege from  WITF, 
where  he  served  as 
director  of  mem- 
bership since 
1996.  He  was  also 
employed  at  the 
station  as  communications  manager, 
community  relations  coordinator,  and 
telemarketing  supervisor.  In  addition, 
he  has  served  as  community  director  for 
the  Central  Pennsylvania  March  of 


Dimes.  He  holds  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
telecommunications  from  Penn  State 
University. 

Ann  Hess  Myers  has  been  named 
director  of  alumni  programs.  She  joined 
the  college  in  April  of  1998  as  director 
of  annual  giving.  Myers  brings  to  the 
position  16  years  of  experience  as  assis- 
tant director  of  college  relations  at 
Dickinson  College,  where  she  handled 
alumni  programs,  parent  programs,  and 
annual  giving.  She  holds  a  B.A.  from 
Kenyon  College. 

Faculty  Promotions/Tenure 

Robert  Leonard,  chair  and  associate 
professor  of  business  administration,  and 
Dr.  Susan  Atkinson,  associate  profes- 
sor of  education,  have  been  promoted  to 
the  position  of  professor.   Barry  Hill, 
director  of  sound  recording  technology 
and  assistant  professor,  has  been  promot- 
ed to  associate  professor.   In  addition, 
Sharon  Arnold,  associate  professor  of 
sociology  and  social  work,  and  Dr. 
Louis  Manza,  assistant  professor  of  psy- 
chology, have  received  tenure. 

Teaching  Awards 

Dr.  Michael  Day, 

professor  and  chair 
of  physics,  and 
Leslie  Bowen, 
lecturer  in  art, 
were  honored  for 
excellence  in  teach- 
ing during  the 
130th  annual  Commencement  ceremony 
on  Saturday,  May  1 5 . 

Day  received  the  Thomas  Rhys  Vick- 
roy  Award  for  Teaching,  an  honor  which 
recognizes  full-time  faculty  members 
who  demonstrate  the  highest  standards 
of  service  to  the  college  through  class- 
room teaching,  advising  and  active  pro- 
motion of  good  teaching  as  a  communi- 
ty ideal.  Bowen  received  the  Nevelyn  J. 
Knisley  Award  for  Inspirational  Teach- 
ing, an  honor  which  recognizes  part- 
time  and  adjunct  members  of  the  faculty 
who  display  excellence  in  teaching. 
Day  joined  the  college  in  1987. 


According  to  Stephen  C.  MacDonald, 
vice  president  and  dean  of  faculty,  Day 
received  the  award  "in  recognition  of  his 
energetic  and  effective  teaching,  his 
exttaordinary  devotion  to  students,  his 
determination  in  his  teaching  and  schol- 
arship to  bridge  interdisciplinary  cate- 
gories, and  his  unmistakable  passion  for 
liberal  learning." 

Bowen  joined  the  college  in  1993.  In 
addition  to  her  excellence  in  teaching, 
she  was  recognized  for  her  work  with 
independent  study  students  and  new 
adjuncts,  assistance  in  departmental 
administration  and  special  projects,  and 
coordination  of  student  exhibitions. 

Neidig  Award  Winner 

Daniel  P.  Post  received  the  Howard 
Anthony  Neidig 
Award  during  the 
130th  annual 
Commencement 
ceremony  on  Sat- 
urday, May  15. 
The  award  was 
established  in 
1994  by  Professor  Emeritus  Neidig  to 
recognize  a  Lebanon  Valley  senior  who 
displays  academic  achievement,  makes  a 
significant  contribution  to  the  college, 
and  shows  a  concern  for  serving  others. 
Post,  a  resident  of  Ridgewood,  New 
Jersey,  graduated  Sutnma  Cum  Laude 
with  a  bachelor's  degree  in  actuarial  sci- 
ence, and  was  inducted  into  the  academ- 
ic honor  society,  Phi  Alpha  Epsilon. 

He  received  the  prestigious  Wooddy 
Scholatship,  a  national  award  for  actuar- 
ial science  that  is  given  to  only  lout  peo- 
ple in  the  country;  the  Spencer  Scholar- 
ship, a  national  award  for  risk 
management;  and  LVC's  Conrad  Siegal 
Award  for  twice  having  the  highest 
score  on  actuarial  exams.  He  was  recent- 
ly one  of  two  students  nationwide  to  be 
named  to  the  editorial  board  oiTbe 
Future  Actuary. 

Post  founded  Math  Olympics  Day,  a 
bi-annual  competition  which  combines 
physical  and  mathematical  challenges 
in  order  to  make  learning  math  fun  for 


IS 


The  Valley 


local  middle  school  students.  He  also 
served  as  vice  president  and  president 
of  the  Math  Club,  directed  the  LVC 
musical  Into  the  Woods  this  past  Febru- 
ary and  performed  in  numerous  shows 
on  campus. 

Post  has  been  hired  by  Prudential 
Insurance  in  Holndel,  New  Jersey, 
where  he  will  work  in  the  property  and 
casualty  unit. 

Grants  Awarded 

The  National  Science  Foundation  has 
awarded  a  $73,000  research  grant  to  Dr. 
Carl  Wigal.  associate  professor  of  chem- 
istry. The  project,  "Synthesis  of  Quinols 
and  Quinol  Derived  Products  Using 
Orhanocadmium  Reagents,"  will  inves- 
tigate new  methodology  aimed  at  the 
synthesis  of  quinone  derivatives. 

Dr.  Owen  Moe,  professor  of  chem- 
istry, was  awarded  a  $65,000  grant  from 
the  Scholar/Fellow  Program  for  Under- 
graduate Institutions  of  the  Camille  and 
Henry  Dreyfus  Foundation.  The  grant 
will  provide  funds  to  bring  a  Fellow  to 
the  college  for  a  two-year  period  (1999- 
2(101). 

Elected 

Philip  Morgan,  associate  professor 
of  music,  was  elected  president  of  the 
Allegheny  Mountain  Chapter  of  the 
National  Association  of  Teachers  of 
Singing. 

Dr.  Mark  Ness,  director  of  the  MSE 
program  and  assistant  professor  of  earth 
sciences,  was  elected  to  the  board  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Geographical  Society  and 
named  co-chair  of  the  Outreach  to  Pre- 
Service  Teachers  Committee. 

Karen  Best,  registrar,  was  appointed 
as  the  chair  of  the  Women's  Issues  com- 
mittee of  the  Middle  States  Association 
of  Collegiate  Registrars  and  Officers  of 
Admission  for  the  1999-2000  term. 

Dr.  Donald  Kline,  assistant  profes- 
sor of  education,  assumed  the  position  of 
president-elect  and  conference  chair  of 
the  Pennsylvania  Science  Teachers  Asso- 
ciation. He  was  also  appointed  to  a  one- 
year  term  on  the  Publications  Subcom- 


mittee on  NSTA  Periodicals  by  the 
incoming  president  of  the  National  Sci- 
ence Teachers  Association. 

Jeff  Snyder,  assistant  director  of 
music  recording  technology,  was  elected 
to  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Music  & 
Entertainment  Industry  Educators  Asso- 
ciation. 

NSF  Fellowship 

Raymond  Schaak,  a  1998  graduate  of 
the  chemistry  department  and  first-year 
student  at  Penn  State  University,  has 
received  a  National  Science  Foundation 
Graduate  Research  Fellowship  to  pursue 
his  research  in  inorganic  and  materials 
chemistry. 

Schaak  was  one  of  only  eight  stu- 
dents across  the  nation  to  receive  a  fel- 
lowship in  inorganic  chemistry.  The 
award  is  one  of  numerous  honors  Schaak 
has  received  during  his  year  at  Penn 
State.  He  was  also  awarded  Penn  State's 
University  Graduate  Fellowship,  a 
Roberts  Fellowship,  and  an  honorable- 
mention  in  the  Department  of  Defense 
Graduate  Fellowship  Program. 

Awards 

Dr.  Owen  Moe,  professor  of  chemistry, 
received  the  E.  Emmet  Reid  Award  in 
Chemistry.  The 
award  is  given  by 
the  Mid-Atlantic 
Region  of  the 
American  Chemical 
Society  for 
outstanding 
achievements  in 
teaching  and  research  at  primarily 
undergraduate  institutions  which  do  not 
offer  a  Ph.D.  in  chemical  science. 
During  his  25  years  of  teaching  and 
research  at  the  undergraduare  level,  Moe 
has  worked  with  over  60  different 
students  on  research,  2"  of  whom  have 
co-authoted  publications  in  peer- 
reviewed  journals  and  30  of  whom  have 
presented  papers  at  scientific  meetings. 
He  has  received  over  $360,000  from 
funding  agencies  such  as  the  National 
Science  Foundation,  Research 


Corporation,  American  Chemical 
Society  and  Dreyfus  Foundation. 

Judy  Pehrson,  executive  director  of 
college  relations,  received  two  silver 
Capital  Awards  from  the  International 
Association  of  Business  Communica- 
tors—  Harnsburg  Chapter — one  for  The 
Valley  magazine  and  the  other  for  the 
marketing  program  she  designed  to  pro- 
mote the  college's  1998  U.S.  News  & 
World  Report  ranking. 

Published 

Dr.  Eugene  Brown,  professor  of  politi- 
cal science,  has  finished  writing  his  fifth 
book,  International  Relations:  The  Chang- 
ing Contours  of  Power.  The  book  will  be 
published  by  Allyn  and  Bacon  Press.  It 
was  co-authored  with  Donald  M.  Snow 
of  the  University  of  Alabama.  Brown 
will  be  visiting  scholar  for  two  weeks 
this  summer  at  the  Chinese  Academy  of 
Social  Science  in  Beijing. 

Dr.  Ron  Scott,  director  of  the  phys- 
ical therapy  program,  has  written  a 
book.  Professional  Ethics:  A  Guidt  for 
Rehabilitation  Professionals.  The  231- 
page  book,  which  was  published  by 
Mosby  Year-book,  Inc.,  uncovers  the 
deep  connections  and  diftetences 
between  ethics  and  law. 

Dr.  Steven  Specht,  associate  profes- 
sor of  psychology,  had  a  paper  entitled 
Human  Taste  Contrast  and  Self- 
Reported  Measures  of  Anxiety'  accepted 
tor  publication  in  the  journal.  Perceptual 
and  Motor  Skills. 

Arlen  Greiner.  adjunct  instructor  of 
physics,  co-authored  a  paper  entitled 
"Special  Relativistic  Temperature  Trans- 
formation," which  appeared  in  the 
December  issue  of  Nuovo  Cimento. 

Dr.  Salvatore  Cullari,  chair  and 
professor  of  psychology,  published  the 
articles,  "Does  Every  Good  Behavionst 
Deserve  Favor?"  in  the  Journal  oj  Psy- 
chotherapy Integration,  and  "Body-Image 
Perceptions  Across  Sex  and  Age 
Groups,"  in  Perceptual  and  Motor  Skills. 

Dr.  Rebecca  McCoy,  assistant  pro- 
fessor of  history,  had  an  article,  "Alsatian 
Into  Frenchmen:  The  Construction  of 
National  Identities  at  Sainte-Mane-aux- 


SUMMER  1999 


19 


Mines,  1815-1851,"  in  the  December 
1998  issue  of  French  History. 

Dr.  Susan  Verhoek,  professor  of 
biology,  had  an  article  entitled  "Botani- 
cal Name-Calling"  published  in  the 
"Basics"  section  of  the  June  issue  of  Fine 
Gardening  Magazine. 

Presenters 

Dr.  Gary  Grieve-Carlson,  chair  and 
professor  ot  English,  presented  a  paper, 
"A  Poem  Containing  History:  Modern 
American  Poetry  and  the  Use  of  the 
Past,"  at  the  Central  New  York  Confer- 
ence on  Language  and  Literature  at 
SUNY  Cortland. 

Dr.  Cheryl  George,  assistant  profes- 
sor of  education,  gave  a  presentation, 
"Positive  Behavioral  Support  Overview 
and  Case  Study,"  at  the  Pennsylvania 
Federation  Council  for  Exceptional  Chil- 
dren's 39th  Annual  Convention. 

Dr.  Dale  Summers,  associate  profes- 
sor of  education,  and  Linda  Summers, 
instructor  of  education,  led  a  presenta- 
tion, "The  Challenge  of  Diverse  Learn- 
ing," at  the  Pennsylvania  State  Teachers 
Association  State  Conference. 

Dr.  Eric  Bain-Selbo,  assistant  pro- 
fessor ot  religion  and  philosophy,  pre- 
sented papers  at  the  national  meeting  of 
the  American  Academy  of  Religion  in 
Orlando,  Florida.  The  papers  were 
"Joachim  Wach's  Category  of  the  Classi- 
cal," "Negotiatating  Religious  Plural- 
ism and  the  Pursuit  of  Truth"  and 
"Understanding  the  Other:  The  Chal- 
lenge of  Postcolonial  Theory  to  the 
Comparative  Study  of  Religion." 

Dr.  Noel  Hubler,  assistant  professor 
of  religion  and  philosophy,  presented  a 
papet  entitled  "Moderatus  Neoplatonist 
Avant  la  Lettre?"  at  the  national  meet- 
ing of  the  American  Academy  of  Reli- 
gion in  Florida. 

Cynthia  Johnston,  adjunct  instruc- 
tor of  chemistry,  presented  a  workshop, 
"Exploring  Solubility  as  a  Function  of 
Bonding  in  a  Multisensory  Classroom," 
at  the  Pennsylvania  Science  Teacher 
Association's  Annual  Convention. 


Karen  Best,  registrar,  co-presented  a 
session  on  the  diversity  of  a  registrar's 
job  and  moderated  a  session  on  mentor- 
ing during  the  68th  Annual  Conference 
of  the  Middle  States  Association  of  Col- 
legiate Registrars  and  Officers  of 
Admission. 

Angel  Tuninetti,  assistant  professor 
of  Spanish,  presented  a  paper  entitled 
"Cuerpos  nomadas  de  la  nacion:  La  rep- 
resentacion  del  indigena  en  la  literatura 
de  viajes  del  Cono  Sur,"  at  the  Modern 
Languages  Association  Convention  in 
San  Francisco. 

Dr.  Richard  Cornelius,  professor  of 
chemistry,  gave  a  presentation,  "A  Web- 
Based  Resource  for  Molecular  Modeling 
Throughout  the  Chemistry  Curricu- 
lum," at  the  national  meeting  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  Dr  Carl 
Wigal,  chair  and  associate  professor  of 
chemistry,  was  a  co-author  for  the  paper. 

Student  Winners 

Todd  Sturniolo,  a  sophomore  music 
education  and  performance  major, 
received  third  place  in  the  International 
Trombone  Association's  1999  Classical 
Trombone  Scholarship  Competition.  He 
was  selected  from  among  250  perfor- 
mance majors  by  a  panel  of  leading 
trombonists  from  major  American  sym- 
phony orchestras. 

Christopher  Coles,  a  sophomore 
music  education  and  performance  major, 
was  one  of  six  musicians  chosen  from 
around  the  world  to  teceive  the  Yamaha 
Percussive  Arts  Society  International 
Convention  (PASIC)  '98  Scholarship. 
Winners  were  selected  after  a  rigorous 
application  process  which  required  the 
submission  of  audition  tapes,  grade 
transcripts  and  detailed  resumes. 

Erin  Paxson,  a  junior  double  major 
in  economics  and  French,  passed  with 
honors  the  two  units  of  the  French  exam 
DALF  (Diplome  Approfondi  de  Langue 
Francaise)  given  by  the  French  Ministry 
of  Education. 


Celebrating  Service 

The  following  full-time  employees  cele- 
brated a  service  anniversary  or  retire- 
ment in  1999: 

Five  Years:  Gilbert  Barker,  security 
officer;  Phyllis  Basehore,  assistant  to 
the  president;  Dr.  Deanna  Dodson, 
assistant  professor  of  psychology;  Chris 
Firestine,  facilities  services  personnel; 
Douglas  Hartman,  facilities  services 
personnel;  William  Hopple,  faciliries 
services  personnel;  Constance  Kershn- 
er,  student  receivables  assistant;  Debo- 
rah Lerchen,  administrative  support 
secretary;  Brad  McAlester,  head  men's 
basketball  coach;  James  Mentzer, 
director  of  the  MBA  program;  Ben 
Oreskovich,  assistant  controller;  Dr. 
Mary  Pettice,  assistant  professor  of 
English;  Janet  Marie  Reilly,  facilities 
services  personnel;  Gloria  Shutter, 
library  circulation  assistant;  Rose 
Weaber,  facilities  services  personnel 

10  Years:  Marie  Bongiovanni,  asso- 
ciate professor  of  English;  Mark  Brezit- 
ski,  assistant  director  of  admission;  C. 
Paul  Brubaker,  director  of  planned 
giving;  Jo  Lynn  Brummer,  annual  giv- 
ing secretary;  Susan  Greenawalt,  con- 
tinuing education  assistant;  Dr.  Jeanne 
Hey,  chair  and  associate  professor  of  eco- 
nomics; Pamela  Hillegas,  physical  edu- 
cation/athletics secretary;  Margaret 
Lahr,  director  of  housekeeping;  Cindy 
Plasterer,  student  services  secretary; 
Robert  Riley,  vice  president  of  comput- 
ing and  telecommunications;  Jay  Sor- 
rentino,  athletic  department  equipment 
managet;  Dr.  Steven  Specht,  associate 
professor  of  psychology;  Dr.  Joelle 
Stopkie,  professor  of  French 

15  Years:  Judith  Fox,  facilities  ser- 
vices personnel;  Phyllis  Kulikowski, 
facilities  services  personnel;  Bonnie 
Tenney,  facilities  services  secretary 

25  Years:  Marilyn  Boeshore,  alumni 
programs  secretary;  Elsie  Neefe,  facili- 
ties services  personnel;  Dr.  Susan  Ver- 
hoek, professor  of  biology 

30  Years:  Philip  Morgan,  associate 
professor  of  music 

Retirees:  Patricia  Schools,  student 
activities  and  career  services  secretary 


20 


The  Valley 


SPORTS 


By  Tom  Hanrahan 

Sports  Information  Director 

Men's  Tennis 

Head  coach  Cliff  Myers  continued 
his  legion  of  success  on  the  courts  by 
taking  the  team  to  their  third  Middle 
Atlantic  Conference  (MAC)  Playoffs  in 
the  past  four  seasons.  Led  by  seniors 
Josh  Shellenberger  and  Judd  Santry,  the 
Dutchmen  cruised  to  16  wins,  including 
seven  straight,  and  a  MAC  semifinal 
appearance  that  went  the  distance. 

Shellenberger  finished  his  career  by 
appearing  in  his  second  consecutive 
MAC  Singles  Championship  Final.  1  le 
holds  the  school  records  for  singles  wins 
in  a  season  and  in  a  career.  At  press 
time,  Shellenberger  was  awaiting  word 
on  whether  he  would  become  LVC's  first 
two-time  GTE  Academic  All-District 
Team  honoree.  Shellenberger  was  named 
to  the  MAC  Executive  Director's  All- 
Academic  Team  and  fellow  senior  Dave 
Ferrari  was  named  to  the  MAC  Academ- 
ic Honor  Roll. 

Softball 

Stacey  Hollinget,  the  program's  new- 
head  coach,  guided  the  Dutchwomen  to 
a  10-10  record  over  the  team's  last  20 
games.  Highlights  of  the  season  include 
a  2-1  win  over  eventual  MAC  Champi- 
onship runner-up  Lycoming  and  three 
wins  over  Centennial  League  powers 
LIrsinus  and  Dickinson. 

In  2000,  Hollinger  returns  the  core 
of  the  squad  including  pitchers  Amy 
Zellers,  Jaci  Brown  and  Sam  Rill. 
Zellers  (6.09  per  game)  and  Brown 
(4.74)  were  5th  and  8th  respectively  in 
the  conference  for  strikeouts  pet  game. 

Off  the  field,  five  members  of  the 
team  were  named  to  the  MAC  Academ- 
ic Honor  Roll.  Heather  Draper,  Serenity 
Roos,  Nikki  Soulliard,  Mary  Sowers  and 
Zellers  were  each  rewarded  tor  their  aca- 
demic exploits.  It  is  the  6th  total  acade- 
mic conference  nod  for  Roos  who  is  also 
a  starter  on  both  the  basketball  and  soc- 
cer teams. 


Baseball 

Because  of  weather  and  the  annual 
Florida  trip  over  spring  break,  the  boys 
of  summer  did  not  take  to  the  new 
McGill  Field  until  15  games  into  the 
1999  season.  On  the  second  day  back, 
the  team  pushed  eventual  MAC  Cham- 
pion Widener  into  extra  innings  before 
losing  in  the  bottom  of  the  eighth. 

Seniors  Scott  Gehres  and  Mike 
Kocher  each  reached  the  prestigious 
100-career  hit  club  with  Gehres  adding 
some  excitement  by  "waiting''  until  the 
last  day  of  the  season  to  reach  the  goal. 
Opposing  pitchers  were  wary  of  provid- 
ing the  foddet  for  the  feat  as  evidenced 
by  the  fact  that  they  walked  Gehres  a 
team-leading  17  times.  Gehres  was 
named  to  the  MAC  Commonwealth 
League  All-Star  Second  Team. 

Kocher  excelled  in  the  classroom  as 
well,  becoming  just  the  school's  -1th 
GTE  Academic  All-District  Team  hon- 
oree. Kocher  automatically  qualified  for 
the  national  ballot  and  was  later  named 
to  the  MAC  Executive  Ditector's  All- 
Academic  Team.  LInderclassmen  Shawn 
Berwager,  Jessen  Bishard,  Eric  Connelly, 
A.  J.  Granito  and  Joel  Staub  were  all 
named  to  the  MAC  Academic  Honor 
Roll. 

Track  and  Field 

The  men's  and  women's  track  and 
field  teams  continued  to  gain  on  the 
contetence's  elite.  A  relatively  youthful 
pair  of  teams  turned  in  identical  fourth- 
place  finishes  at  the  MAC  Champi- 
onships. The  women's  runners  shook  up 


MAC  gold  medalist  sprinter  Jana  Romlein 


the  conference,  winning  every  sprint 
event. 

Sophomore  Jana  Romlein  and  fresh- 
man Eileen  Golias  each  earned  three 
gold  medals,  and  perennial  All-Ameri- 
can  Ann  Musser,  a  junior,  added  two 
more  gold  medals  to  her  throwing 
events  cache.  Musser  followed  with  a 
fifth  All-American  honor  at  the  NCAAs 
when  she  finished  seventh  in  the  shot 
put  competition.  She  set  a  school  record 
in  the  process.  LVC  has  now  produced 
1  1  track  and  field  All-Americans  since 
1995. 

Seniors  Jeff  Rhone,  pole  vault,  and 
Jeremy  Zettlemoyer,  400-meter  hurdles, 
each  took  home  gold  for  the  Valley.  It 
was  Rhone's  second  straight  gold  in  the 
pole  vault.  Patrick  Loughncy,  javelin, 
Braden  Snyder,  1,500-meter  run  and 
Jeremy  Snyder,  long  jump,  earned  silver 
medals  in  their  respective  events  while 
James  Mentzer,  1  0, 000-meter  run.  and 
Jason  Suda,  pole  vault,  won  bronze 
medals.  Loughney,  an  All-American  in 
the  javelin  in  1998,  also  competed  at 
national  this  May  He  finished  tenth  in 
the  country  in  the  javelin. 

Maria  DeLiberato,  Maggie  McNitt, 
Braden  Snyder  and  Zettlemoyer  were 
each  named  to  the  MAC  Executive 
Director's  All-Academic  Team.  Jerry 
Reilly  was  named  to  the  MAC  Academ- 
ic Honor  Roll. 

Golf 

Senior  captain  and  four-year  letter- 
winner  Brett  Chottiner  led  the  Dutch- 
men to  one  of  the  program's  most  suc- 
cessful seasons  to  date.  Chottiner.  who 
was  twice  the  medalist  (low  scorer)  in 
1999,  combined  with  thtee  freshmen 
and  one  sophomore  to  defeat  the  likes  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 

Sophomore  John  Brennan  (Rover- 
ford,  PA/Spring-Ford),  a  one-time 
medalist  this  season,  finished  among  the 
top  20  ( 1  9th)  in  the  MAC  Champi- 
onships fot  the  second  consecutive  sea- 
son. Chottiner  finished  1  1th  at  the 
Championships,  missing  out  on  the  sec- 
ond MAC  medal  of  his  career  bv  just 
one  stroke. 


Summer  1999 


21 


CLASS  NEWS  &  NOTES 


PRE- 


NEWS 

Ralph  A.  Daubert  78,  one  of  LVC's 
oldest  alumni,  has  a  great  grandson, 
Jared  M.  Daubert  '01,  attending 
LVC 

DEATHS 

Kathryn  R.  Swalm  '18,  January  8, 
1998.  She  was  100  years  old. 

Ada  Heisey  Shalley  '22,  January  3, 
1998. 

Ira  M.Ruth  73 

Dorothy  Fencil  Smith  '23,  March 
5,  1999  in  Cornwall,  Pa. 

Rachel  Heindel  Fink  '24,  March  3, 
1999. 

Hannah  Fishburn  Williams  '24. 
October  30,  1998.  She  was  a  profes- 
sional vocalist  in  New  York  Ciry 
where  she  performed  with  the 
Southern  Civic  Opera  Company  and 
at  borh  the  Roxy  Theater  and  Radio 
City  Music  Hall.  After  performing 
with  the  Embassy  Trio  and  appear- 
ing with  sevetal  well-known  orches- 
tras on  the  radio  in  the  1930s,  she 
became  a  practical  nurse.  For  17 
years  she  worked  in  hospitals  in  New 
York  City  and  Long  Island. 

Olga  Smith  Wentzel  '25, 
November  7,  1996. 

Mary  MacDougall  Clepper  '26, 

November  5,  1998  in  Claremont, 
Calif. 

Fredricka  Baker  Yerter  '28,  May 
24,  1998. 


NEWS 

Luella  Heilman  Myers  '33  is  an 
active  volunteer  at  Concord  Hospital 
in  Concord,  N.  H.  and  is  in  charge 
of  the  gift  shop  at  Pleasant  View 
Retirement  Community  where  she 
resides. 

Robert  W.  Smith  '39  retired  after 
50  years  of  service  as  minister  of 
music,  organist  and  choir  director  at 
Hershey  First  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Hershey.  Pa. 

DEATHS 

George  J.  Becker  '31,  July  19, 
1998  in  Manchesrer,  N.J.  He  was  a 
retired  teacher  and  high  school  prin- 
cipal in  the  Weehawken,  N.J.  school 
system. 


The  Rev.  Dr.  James  O. 
Beamesderfer,  87,  chaplain 
emeritus,  died  Jan.  17.  He 
received  a  bachelor's  degree  in 
1936  from  Lebanon  Valley  and 
held  master's  degrees  from  the 
United  Theological  Seminary 
and  the  Lutheran  Theological 
Seminary,  as  well  as  a  doctorate 
from  Temple  University.  Beames- 
derfer returned  to  the  college  in 
1959  as  chaplain  and  assistant 
professor  of  religion  until  retir- 
ing in  1976.  He  also  served  as 
minister  of  the  Covenant  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Lebanon 
and  in  other  Pennsylvania 
churches  in  Pottstown,  Allen- 
town  and  Lebanon  County. 

"Dr.  Beamesderfer  was  a  very 
efficient  administrator  of  the 
Chaplain's  Office,"  recalls  Dr. 
Carl  Ehrhart,  dean  and  professor 
of  philosophy  emeritus.  "He  was  a 
fundamentally  serious  man  and 
dependable,  but  at  the  same  time 
he  participated  in  the  fun  side  of 
college  and  had  good  relation- 
ships with  his  students  and  col- 
leagues." 

Fred  J.  Erdman,  84,  noted 
Lebanon  area  musician  and  the 
father  of  music  department  facul- 
ty Jim  and  Tim  Erdman,  died 
Dec.  25.  A  coronetist  for  over  60 
years,  Erdman's  teaching  influ- 
enced numerous  students  who 
later  attended  LVC  and  went  on 
to  professional  playing  careers.  In 
recognirion  of  his  dedication  to 
students,  the  Fred  J.  Erdman 
Scholarship  was  established  in 
1994  by  H.  Lee  Moyer  '62,  with 
gifts  and  pledges  totalling  over 
$11,000.  Erdman  was  very  active 

Alma  Binner  Wise  '31,  August  3, 
1998  in  Lebanon,  Pa.  A  past  presi- 
dent of  rhe  LVC  Alumni 
Associarion,  she  was  a  former  teacher 
in  the  Annville  and  Cornwall- 
Lebanon  School  Districts  in 
Pennsylvania,  and  a  former  member 
and  secretary  of  the  Cornwall- 
Lebanon  School  Board. 

Ruth  Shroyer  Lark  '32,  October 
31,  1998  in  Shamokin,  Pa.  She  was 


In  Memoriam 

in  the  community  as  founder  of 
the  Lebanon  Community  Concert 
Band  and  was  former  Lebanon 
City  School  Board  president.  As 
a  result  of  his  impact  on  the 
community,  he  was  awarded  the 
Lebanon  Community  Service 
Award  in  1996. 

For  Lee  Moyer,  "respect, 
admiration  and  leadership"  are 
the  words  that  best  describe  Erd- 
man. "He  was  extremely  influen- 
tial as  a  teacher  and  a  very 
respected  concert  band  conductor 
in  Lebanon  County  for  50  years." 

Sally  Rivera,  55,  secretary  for 
psychology,  biology  and  sociolo- 
gy departments  for  18  years,  died 
Feb.  12  after  battling  cancer.  In 
honor  of  Sally's  memory,  the  col- 
lege community  held  a  memorial 
service  on  Secretary's  Day.  With 
funds  donated  by  members  of 
campus,  a  weeping  cherry  tree 
and  a  memorial  plaque  were 
placed  in  the  lawn  in  front  of  the 
Garber  Science  Center.  A  portion 
of  the  money  raised  also  went  to 
a  Native  American  community, 
which  Sally  supported,  and  to 
the  Good  Samaritan  Hospice  in 
her  name. 

"Sally  was  one  of  the  most 
generous  people  I  have  ever 
known.  She  was  generous  with 
her  time,  her  willingness  to  lis- 
ten, and  most  of  all  her  love," 
remembers  Dr.  Carolyn  Hanes, 
chair  and  professor  of  sociology 
and  social  work. 

Malin  Ph.  Saylor,  84,  assistant 
professor  emerita  of  French,  died 
Jan.  18.  Born  in  Uppsala,  Swe- 
den, Saylor  was  hired  in  1961  as 


an  English  teacher  at  Shamokin 
High  School  and  a  Sunday  school 
teacher  for  65  years  at  St.  John's 
United  Church  of  Christ. 

John  H.  Morris  '32,  December  31, 

1997,  and  his  wife.  Dorothy 

Haldeman  Morris  '32.  January  4, 

1998. 

Matthew  L.  Karinch  '33,  October 

8,  1998. 


a  pan-time  French  instructor  and 
library  assistant.  She  sponsored 
the  college's  French  Club  and 
after  retirement  was  a  member  of 
the  Friends  of  the  Gallery. 

"Malin  Saylor  was  a  gracious, 
elegant  woman,"  recalls  Dr. 
Diane  Iglesias,  chair  of  foreign 
languages  and  professor  of  Span- 
ish. "She  was  a  warm  and  dedi- 
cated professor  of  French  who 
immersed  her  students  in  lan- 
guage and  culture.  As  a  colleague 
and  friend,  she  was  witty,  charm- 
ing, and  talented  in  many  areas. 
She  will  be  sorely  missed." 

Charles  L.  Schott,  99,  retired 
LVC  science  stockroom  manager, 
died  April  20.  A  retired  Bethle- 
hem Steel  superintendent,  he  was 
hired  by  the  college  at  age  78. 

"Charlie  was  a  substitute 
grandfather  to  some  of  the  stu- 
dents and  a  friend  to  everyone," 
recalls  Dr.  Stephen  Williams, 
professor  of  biology.  "He  could 
and  did  fix  a  large  number  of 
pieces  of  scientific  equipment  and 
was  a  handy  person  to  have 
around."  Williams  also  remem- 
bers many  interesting  discussions 
with  Schott,  who  enjoyed  talking 
about  his  experiences  as  a  motor- 
man  on  the  streetcar  between 
Lebanon  and  Hershey,  as  an  engi- 
neer at  Bethlehem  Steel,  and  as 
mayor  of  North  Lebanon  when  it 
was  an  independent  city. 

Schott's  family  includes  three 
LVC  graduates:  a  son,  Richard 
Schott,  MD  '67  and  two  grand- 
sons, David  Schott  '98  and  Jeffrey 
Schott  JD  '95. 


Rudolph  B.  Miller  '34,  December 

31,  1998. 

James  H.  Scott  '34.  February  13, 

1999. 

Arthur  G.  Spickler  '35,  October 

13,  1988. 

Carl  W.  Dempsey  '39. 

Catherine  Whister  Wetterling  '39. 
September  21,  1997. 


22 


The  Valley 


40 


NEWS 

Jeanne  Schock  Agnellini  '40  has 
had  her  poetry  published  in  the 
National  Library  of  Poetry's 
Anthologies  of  1994  and  1995. 

Ellen  Ruppersberger  Silvers  '41 
will  have  her  "Opera  in  Miniature" 
and  "Romeo  and  Juliet''  on  exhibit 
in  the  American  Visionary  Art 
Museum  in  Baltimore,  Md.  until 
May  1999. 

Dr.  David  W.  Gockley  '42  cele- 
brated his  80th  birthday  on  October 
9,  1998. 

Rev.  Dale  R.  Beittel  '45  retired 
after  48  years  of  serving  the  United 
Methodist  Church.  He  now  serves  as 
an  interim  pastor  for  Congregational 
and  Disciples  of  Christ  churches. 

Jean  Thrush  Hawkins  '46  and  her 

husband,  Allan,  celebrated  their 
50th  wedding  anniversary  on 

November  28,  1998. 

Edith  Kreiser  Probus  '46  and  her 

husband,  James,  celebrated  their 
50th  wedding  anniversary  in  August 
1998.  She  is  a  volunteer  worker  with 
Virginia  Master  Gardeners. 

Wayne  L.  Mowrey  '47,  organist, 
presented  five  concerts  with  Will 
Pananes,  soloist,  and  raised  over 
$12,000  for  the  Capitol  Theater. 
They  also  raised  funds  tor  the 
Chambersburg  Area  Council  of  Arts 
and  the  Coyle  Free  Library. 

Rev.  Franklin  G.  Senger  '48,  full- 
time  pastor  of  the  Lutheran  Church 
of  the  Holy  Comforter  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  was  recently 
honored  as  the  "Outstanding  Citizen 
for  Community  Service"  by  the  D.C. 
Federation  of  Citizens  Associations. 
He  serves  as  president  of  three 
boards  and  is  a  member  of 
eight  others. 

Dr.  Arthur  L.  Terr  '48  is  a  psychol- 
ogist in  San  Diego,  Calif,  and  has 
two  children:  Michael  and  Alison. 

DEATHS 

Jeanne  L.  Bliven  '41,  April  L998 

Louise  Roger  Silliman  '42, 
February  13,  1999.  She  was  the  wife 
of  Warren  B.  Silliman  M.D.  '43. 

John  Francis  Swope  '42,  August  2, 
I  998  in  Myerstown,  Pa.  He  was  a 
retired  customer  service  representa- 
tive at  Universal  Friction 
Composites  in  Manheim,  Pa. 

Dr.  Martin  R.  Weber  '44,  January 
31,  1998. 

Thelma  Smith  Armstrong  '45, 
September  12,  1998.  She  was  a 
retired  teacher  for  Northern  High 
School  in  Dillsburg,  Pa.,  and  the 


church  organist  and  choir  director  at 
Riverside  United  Methodist  Church 
in  Harrisburg. 

Melvin  H.  Hughes  '45,  January  12, 
1997. 

Melvin  R.  Zeigler  '49,  August  1 1 , 
1998.  He  served  with  the  272nd 
field  artillery  battalion  in  the  U.S. 
Army  and  was  a  retired  business 
administrator  for  the  Schuylkill 
Valley  School  District  in 
Pennsylvania. 


NEWS 

William  R.  Merriman  '50  retired  as 
chief  hearing  examiner  at  the 
Department  of  Employment  and 
Economic  Development  for  the  state 
of  Maryland. 

George  Roman  '50  was  given  the 
1998  Golden  Hammer  Award  for 
Outstanding  Volunteer  of  the  Year 
from  Ossipee  Mountains  Habitat  for 
Humanity  in  Wolfeboro  Falls,  N.H. 

Robert  L.  Allen  '51  retired  this 
year  from  the  Llnited  States 
Environmental  Protection  Agency. 

Louis  L.  Fried  '51,  internationally 
known  information  technology  con- 
sultant and  author,  has  retired.  He 
and  his  wife  will  share  their  time 
between  homes  in  Palo  Alto,  Calif 
and  Jerusalem,  Israel. 

Richard  H.  Zimmerman  '51  is 
retired  from  AMP,  Inc.  He  and  his 
wife,  Mary  Ann,  have  two  children; 
Sandra  and  Cynthia. 

Joanne  Fox  Shover  '52  retired  after 
20  years  of  teaching  English  and 
Spanish  at  Michigan  City  High 
School  in  Indiana.  In  May  1998,  she 
was  honored  by  the  graduating  class 
as  one  of  their  outstanding  teachers. 
Last  year,  as  a  community  service, 
she  established  a  discipline  program 
in  the  local  public  schools.  She  is 
assistant  director  of  the  children's 
theater  at  the  Dunes  Art  Foundation 
and  house  manager  for  the  adult  and 
children's  theater. 

Thomas  H.  Israel  '53  recently 
toured  Egypt  and  spent  time  in 
Russia. 

James  G.  Quick  '53  is  a  member  of 
the  Mechanicsbutg  (Pa.)  Museum 
exhibit  committee. 

Joan  Spangler  Sachs  '53,  who  has 
taught  piano  tor  50  years,  is  the 
organist  at  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Falling  Spring  in  Pennsylvania  She 
is  also  a  board  member  tor  the  local 
animal  shelter. 

William  D.  Gorgone  '54  retired 
after  36  years  as  an  attorney. 

Nancy  Risdon  Smith  '54  retired 


after  20  years  as  director  of  creative 
services  at  WCAX-TV,  a  CBS  affili- 
ate in  Burlington,  Vt. 

Howard  V.  Landa  '55  was  inducted 
into  thejewish  Hall  of  Fame  in 
Philadelphia  on  March  28,  1  999  for 
his  outstanding  accomplishments 
while  playing  and  coaching  basket- 
ball. He  recently  spent  time  in 
Taiwan  training  professional 
ballplayers.  His  wife,  Darline 
Moyer  Landa  '54,  teaches  Spanish 
at  The  Meadows,  a  private  school  in 
Las  Vegas. 

Dr.  Man  Louise  Young  Wagner 
'55  retired  as  professor  of  sociology 
at  Brookdale  Community  College  in 
Lincroft,  N.J. 

Carol  Dannettell  Biederman    S" 
retired  and  is  now  studying  tai  <  hi 
and  martial  arts.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Oliver,  have  four  children: 
Deborah,  Judith.  Joseph  and  Eland. 

Rev.  Jere  R.  Martin  '57  retired  alter 
43  years  of  service  in  the  United 
Methodist  Church.  For  18  years  he 
was  pastor  of  the  Annville  (Pa.) 
United  Methodist  Church.  For  the 
past  five  years  he  served  the 
Swarthmore  (Pa.)  L'nited  Methodist 
Church.  He  now  serves  the 
Morgantown  (Pa.)  United  Methodist 
Church  in  a  part-time  capacity. 

Dr.  Jerald  Bachman  '58  received 
the  1998  Distinguished  Senior 
Research  Scientist  award  from  the 
LIniversity  of  Michigan. 

Marlene  Brill  Bell  '58,  organist  m 
Hamilton  Park  LInited  Church  of 
Christ  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  retired  after 
39-1/2  years  as  an  elementary-  music 
teachet. 

Dr.  George  G.  Cunningham  '58  is 
superintendent  of  schools  for  the 
Maine  School  Administration 
District  #72.  He  and  his  wife, 
Pnscilla,  have  two  children:  Alicia 
and  Reid 

Ronald  B.  Hartranft  '58  retired 
from  the  Board  of  Appeals  of  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania.  He 
and  his  wile,  Estelle  Berger 
Hartranft  '59,  were  "extras"  in  the 
filming  of  Gnl  Interrupted  in 
Harrisburg  during  January  1999 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Lightner  '58  is 
retiring  alter   I J  years  in  the  min- 
istry. His  wife,  Harriet  Mickey 
Lightner  '58,  is  retiring  after  33 
years  of  teaching  music 

Donna  Williamson  Shafcr  '58  has 
been  named  to  Who's  Who  in 
American  Teachers  for  the  second  con- 
secutive year, 

Ronald  B.  Weinel  '58  retired  from 
Ralston  Purina  Company  as  vice 
president  of  taxes. 

Bernerd  A.  Buzgon  '59  has  been 
accepted  for  membership  in  the 
Million  Dollar  Advocates  Forum, 


representing  the  most  prestigious 
group  of  trial  lawyers  in  the  United 
States. 

William  F.  Deliberry  '59  retired 
from  Milton  Hershey  School  in 
Hershey,  Pa.  in  August  1998. 

Walter  H.  Muller  '59  led  a  team 
that  succeeded  in  having  a  city  ordi- 
nance approved  that  recognizes 
Washington  Irving  as  the  basis  for 
the  naming  of  Irving,  Texas. 

DEATHS 

Col.  Donald  A.  Potter  '50. 
December  31.  1998.  He  was  a 
retired  plans,  operation  and  training 
officer  for  the  Pennsylvania  Army 
National  Guard. 

William  D.  Steely  Jr.  '50.  August 
1,  1998  in  Avalon,  N.J. 

Dawn  Hornbaker  Albert  '51. 
September  29,  19^8 

Donald  A.  Degler  '51.  July  26, 
1998 

James  H.  Daubert  '52.  June  1 1. 
1998,  He  was  the  husband  of 
Marquetta  Kapp  Daubert  '52. 

Dr.  Howard  R.  Ancell  '53. 
October  14,  1998. 

NealG.  Krall  '53,  March  16,  1998 

Dr.  Jack  R.  Celeste  '54,  September 
Id,  1997. 

Bernard  L.  Shaak  '54,  January  22, 
L999  m  Denver.  Colo.  In  addition  to 
teaching  at  the  University  of  Denver, 
Elon  College  and  the  L'mversitv  ot 
Southern  Illinois,  he  was  a  private 
piano  teacher  in  tandem  with  his 
wife,  with  whom  he  had  performed 
professionally  in  a  piano  duo.  He 
was  also  author  of  several  instruction 
books,  including  "Piano  Partners 

Jack  F.  Savior  '57,  November  1", 

1997. 

Susan  Artz  Richartz  '59,  before 

Christmas  1997. 

William  K.  Stegner  '59,  October  5, 
1998  in  Hershey,  Pa   He  was  a 
retired  quality  control  engineer  for 
AMP  Inc. 


NEWS 

Ronald  L.  Dietz  '60,  who  celebrat- 
ed 20  years  as  the  director  ot  the 
York  (Pa.)  Symphony  Orchestra, 
retired  from  Towson  University  in 
Maryland  after  28  years  as  an  assis- 
tant professor 

Stephen  R.  Waldman  '60  retired 
after  56  years  ot  teaching.  He  and 
his  wife.  Lenore,  have  two  children* 
Sandy  and  Craig. 

Shirley  Landis  Dietz  "61  celebrated 
M)  years  as  the  organist  at  Christ 


Summer  1999       23 


Episcopal  Church  in  Pottstown,  Pa. 
on  November  21,  1998. 

Larry  Q.  Hall  '61  is  a  chemistry 
teacher  at  Northern  Lebanon  High 
School  in  Fredericksburg,  Pa.,  where 

he  has  been  teaching  tor  38  years. 

Kenneth  C.  Hays  '61.  chairman  of 
the  Cumberland  Valley  School 
District  music  department,  will 
retire  in  June  1999- 
Fay  Weik  Horst  '61,  organist  and 
choir  director  at  St.  Paul's  United 
Church  of  Christ,  retired  trom 
Ephrata  (Pa.)  Area  School  District 
after  35  years  as  an  elementary  vocal 
[t\u  her 

Stanley  J.  Kaczorowski  '61  is 
retired.  He  and  his  wife,  Carole, 
have  three  children:  Stanley,  Lisa  and 
David. 

Hon.  Rowland  \\ .  Barnes  '62  was 
appointed  as  a  Superior  Court  Judge 

for  Fulton  County,  Atlanta  Judicial 
Circuit,  by  Georgia  Governor  Zell 
Miller  on  August  5,  1998. 

Dr.  Hirarn  E.  Fitzgerald  '62  is  a 
university  distinguished  protessor 

and  chair  ot  the  applied  develop- 
ment science  graduate  programs  at 
Michigan  State  University  in 
Lansing.  His  wife,  Dolores  Koncar 
Fitzgerald  "63,  is  a  teacher  in  the 
East  Lansing  Public  Schools.  She 
was  presented  the  Crystal  Apple 
Award  from  the  Michigan  State 
University,  College  of  Education, 
Richard  Lee  Feathersrone  Society, 
and  the  College  of  Education 
Alumni  Association.  The  award  is 
presented  to  "an  outstanding  educa- 
tor who  challenges  her  students  and 
colleagues  to  learn,  often  to  levels 
beyond  their  expectations." 

Dr.  Gary  L.  Zeller  '62  has  been 
elected  to  the  board  of  directors  of 

Hamburg,  Germany's  Youth  Music 
School  "Friends"  organization, 
where  he  is  involved  as  a  fund-rais- 
ing advisor. 

James  L.  Boyle  '63,  technical  editor 
tor  DPC  Technologies,  retired  after 
33  years  as  a  senior  computer  scien- 
tist with  the  Department  of  Defense. 

Rev.  Richard  G.  Felty  '63  is  the 

pastor  of  Mt.  Olivet  United  Metho- 
dist Church  in  Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 
He  and  his  wife,  Joy  Klinger  Fein 
'65,  an  elementary  music  teacher  for 
the  Red  Lion  School  District  in  Red 
Lion,  Pa.,  have  three  children: 
David,  Brian  and  Melissa. 


Ralph  L.  Lehman  III  '63  released 
his  first  CD,  Christmas  on  Juliette 
Avenue,  in  October  1998.  A  compila- 
tion of  electronically  created 
Christmas  music,  the  CD  was  pro- 
duced in  partnership  with  Lancaster 
Catholic  High  School,  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Vernon  C.  Lyter  '63  is  a  retired 
physics  teacher. 

Dennis  R.  Schnader  '63  retired 
after  29  years  as  director  of  bands  at 
Shikellamy  High  School  in  Sunbury, 
Pa. 

Marlin  Houck  '64  is  musical  direc- 
tor of  the  New  Holland  (Pa.)  Band 
Inc. 

Charles  H.  Martin  '64,  a  Bucks 
County,  Pa.  commissioner,  is  up  for 
re-election. 

Sydnae  Rouse  Steinhart  '64  is 
music  librarian  at  Bowdoin  College 
in  Maine.  She  and  her  husband, 
William,  have  one  child,  Siri. 

Kenneth  S.  Whisler  Jr.  '64  con- 
ducts quality  system  audits  tor 
Bureau  Veritas  Quality  International 
(BVQI)  and  is  owner  of  Jireh 
Quality  Services,  a  quality  consult- 
ing business,  in  Edinburgh,  Pa. 

James  A.  Althouse  '65  is  judging 
coordinator  tor  Cavalcade  of  Bands 

in  the  marching,  jazz,  and  indoor 
competitions. 

Patricia  Shretfler  Fredericks  '65 
retired  from  the  Naval  Education 
Training  and  Support  Center  after  a 
career  in  federal  civil  service. 

William  E.  Luce  '65  has  taught 
music  for  more  than  31  years,  27  in 
the  School  Disttict  of  Philadelphia. 
He  has  five  children  and  three 
grandchildren. 

Audrey  Wahler  Smith  '65,  a 
kindergarten  teacher  for  the 
Cranbury  Township  School  District 
in  Cranbury,  N.J.,  received  a  mas- 
ter's degree  in  August  1998. 

Leslie  Gardner  Smith  '65  is  a  per- 
sonal assistant  for  Kim 

Gilliland/Cascade,  Inc.,  realtors  in 
Siesta  Key,  Fla.  Her  husband, 
Walter  L.  Smith  '67,  is  the  owner 
of  Forest  Lakes  Golf  Club  and 
Restaurant  in  Sarasota,  Fla.  They 
have  two  children:  Jennifer  and 
Geoffrey. 

J.  Robert  Stone  '65  retired  from  the 
funeral  profession  in  July  1998  and 
moved  to  the  Texas  Gulf  Coast  to 

fish,  play  golf  and  be  a  "beach  bum." 


*♦*  K*  Any  time  is  a  good  time  to  consider  a  planned  gift  to  LVC. 
During  your  lifetime,  a  charitable  gift  annuity  is  a  win-win 
solution  for  you  and  LVC.  A  provision  in  your  will  is  a  way  to 
provide  future  funds  for  your  college. 

For  more  information,  contact  Paul  Brubaker,  Planned  Giving  Office 
Lebanon  Valley  College,  101  North  Callege  Avenue,  Annville,  Pa  17003, 
717-867-6324. 


He  and  his  wife,  Marylou,  have  four 
children:  Ginger,  J.  Robert  Jr., 
Shelbie  and  Brian. 

Inda  Hartz  Heisey  '66  is  a  case- 
worker with  the  Lebanon  County 

Assistance  Office  for  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania.  She 
and  her  husband,  John,  have  two 
children:  Buffy  and  John. 

Daniel  B.  Moran  '66  has  passed  the 
patent  bar  exam  given  by  the  U.S. 
Patent  Office.  He  is  writing  and 
ptosecuting  patent  applications  as  a 
member  of  the  patent  law  depart- 
ment of  American  Home  Producrs 
for  Wyeth-Ayerst  Discovery. 

Rev.  Charles  E.  Weigel  Jr.  '66  is 
celebrating  his  tenth  year  as  pastor 
of  Downingtown  LInited  Methodist 
Church,  Philadelphia.  He  and  his 
wife,  Patricia,  have  two  children: 
Melinda  and  Bethany. 

Robert  M.  Wenner  '66  tetired  as 
senior  resident/special  agent  of  the 
FBI. 

David  P.  Keehn  '68,  a  music 
teacher  for  Saugerties  Central 
Schools  in  New  York,  and  his  wife, 
Maureen,  welcomed  son  Alexander 
on  November  16,  1998. 

Rev.  Donald  B.  Kitchell  '67,  pas- 
tor of  Life  Tabernacle  in  Gilmer, 
Texas,  has  written  several  in-depth 
studies  on  the  Hebrew  roots  of  the 
Pentecostal  movement. 

Howard  L.  Lake  '67  is  owner  and 

CEO  of  Lake  Lithograph  Co.  in 
Manassas,  Va.  The  company,  founded 
in  1980,  has  won  many  local  and 
national  ptinting  awards.  He  and  his 
wife,  Millie,  have  five  children: 
Pamela,  Penni,  Patricia,  Eric  and 
Nicole. 

Dr.  Roberta  Gable  Reed  '67  is  a 
research  scientist  and  director  of 
clinical  chemistry7  at  Bassett 
Healthcare  in  Cooperstown,  N.Y., 
where  she  was  recently  honored  for 
25  years  of  service.  She  is  on  the  edi- 
torial board  of  the  journal  Clinical 
Chemistry  and  is  serving  a  three-year 
term  on  the  board  ot  directors  of  the 
American  Association  for  Clinical 
Chemistry. 

Anna  Schwartz  '68  has  been 
appointed  to  the  governing  commit- 
tee of  the  New  Jersey  Symphony- 
Orchestra  Master  Teacher 

Collaborative. 

C.  Scott  Sharnetzka  '68  received 
the  1998  Maryland  Music  Educators 
Association  Award  of  Excellence  for 
the  North  Central  Region  and  in 
Hartford  County,  at  the  MMEA 
Conference  held  in  Baltimore. 

P.  David  Walker  '68  introduces 
classical  music  on  WITF-FM  radio 
in  Harnsburg,  Pa.  He  is  the  choir 
director  at  the  Unitarian  Church  ot 
Harnsburg  and  the  director  of  the 
Hummelstown  Community  Singers, 


a  group  he  organized  in  1990.  He  is 
also  the  sound  engineer  tor  Open 
Stage  of  Harrisburg  and  the 
Harnsburg  Community  Theater. 

Richard  E.  Williams  '68  rented 

from  the  Central  Dauphin  School 
District  after  30  years  of  teaching. 
On  staff  at  the  Hershey  Gardens  and 
Butterfly  House  in  Hershey,  Pa.,  he 
and  his  wife,  Patricia,  have  compiled 
a  birding  checklist  for  the  grounds 
of  the  Hotel  Hershey. 

Rev.  Dennis  L.  Frantz  '69  is  senior 
pastor  at  May  fair Philadelphia  First 
Primitive  Methodist  Church  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Dr.  Gary  D.  Frederick  '69  is  the 
associate  dean  ot  the  Science  Math 
Division  at  Bngham  Young 
University-Hawaii. 

Cynthia  S.  Melman  '69  is  listed  in 
the  1999-2000  Who's  Who  of 
American  Women,  21st  edition. 

Patricia  A.  Pingel  '69  is  chief  of  the 
watershed  assistance  unit  for  the 
Bureau  of  Watershed  Conservation 
in  the  Pennsylvania  Department  of 
Environmental  Protection. 

Alan  E.  Shenk  '69  is  a  sales  repre- 
sentative for  Micro  Enterprises,  Inc. 
in  Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

DEATHS 

Charles  W.  Sharman  '61,  1989. 

Norman  E.  Butler  '64,  August  20, 
1998. 

Dennis  C.  Schrnid  '65,  July  20, 
1998.  He  was  a  retired  English  and 
journalism  teacher  at  McCaskey 
High  School  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  where 
he  had  been  the  adviser  for  the 
school  newspaper  for  32  years. 


NEWS 

John  W.  Bitner  '70  is  senior  vice 
president  at  Eastern  Bank  in 
Maiden,  Mass. 

Barry  W.  Burdick  '70  is  president 
ot  Advanta  Capital  Funding  Group 
in  Voorhees,  N.J.  He  and  his  wife, 
Shari,  have  two  children:  Laura  and 
Joshua. 

Elaine  Peters  Miyamoto  '70,  a 
resource  center  teachet  in  Waldwick, 

N.J.,  and  her  husband,  Lance,  trav- 
eled to  Fuzhou,  China  in  May  1996 
to  adopt  eight-month-old  Kristin 
Elizabeth.  They  have  two  other  chil- 
dren: Mark  and  Lisa.  Elaine  has  writ- 
ten a  book  about  her  adoption  expe- 
rience. 

Lawrence  F.  Riedman  '70  is  an 
attorney  for  the  U.S.  Comptroller  ot 
the  Currency,  a  regulator  of  national 
banks,  and  works  on  lending  dis- 


24 


The  Valley 


A  Gift  From  the  Heart 

By  Judy  Pchrson 

William  Adam  Grill  '26  was  a  quiet  man  who  loved  fly  fishing  and  nature.  He  also  loved  Lebanon 
Valley  College,  and  despite  the  fact  he  hadn't  visited  for  many  years,  left  the  college  a  surprise 
bequest  of  $400,000  when  he  died  last  June. 

In  his  senior  yearbook  photo.  Grill  is  an  earnest  young  math  major  with  a  starched  collar  and  his 
hair  parted  on  the  side,  as  was  the  fashion  of  the  day.  An  honor  student,  he  was  class  president,  as 
well  as  an  athlete  who  played  both  basketball  and  tennis.  Grill  also  apparently  had  a  literary  bene — 
he  served  as  editor  of  La  Vie  and  was  a  member  of  the  Writer's  Club  and  the  Philokosmian  Literary 
Society. 

Born  in  Hummelstown,  Grill  attended  Lebanon  Valley  on  a  scholarship,  according  to  Susan 
Olson,  whose  late  parents,  Norman  F.  Wheeler  '28  and  Louise  Fencil  Wheeler,  were  good  friends  who 
attended  LVC  at  the  same  time.  (Louise  eventually  transferred  to  Temple  and  graduated  from  there  in 
1929.) 

"After  Bill  and  my  dad  graduated  from  Lebanon  Valley,  they  went  to  work  for  Aetna  Surety  and 
Casualty  in  Hartford,"  says  Olson,  who  lives  in  Omaha,  Nebraska.  "There  was  a  little  group  of  LVC 
grads  who  all  worked  at  Aetna — in  Hartford  and  other  locations  as  well." 

The  Grills  never  had  children  and  "sort  of  adopted"  Susan  Olson  and  her  siblings,  she  says.  "They 
would  come  and  go  for  Sunday  drives  with  us  and  always  spent  Christmas  at  our  house.  They  were 
the  ones  who  suggested  the  name  Susan  for  me  when  I  was  born,  and  when  I  wenr  to  the  University 
of  Connecticut,  I  stayed  with  them." 

Grill  and  his  wife,  Eleanor,  both  liked  to  fly  fish,  Olson  says,  and  often  spent  vacations  in  Maine. 
He  tied  his  own  flies  and  was  rhe  founder  of  a  trout  fishing  organization.  The  couple  also  traveled  to 
Europe  and  the  Scandinavian  countries,  as  well  as  to  Alaska  and  Hawaii. 

Grill  did  well  working  in  accounting  at  Aetna,  and  he  was  made  a  vice  president  before  he  retired 
in  1966.  After  retirement,  he  and  Eleanor  moved  to  Clearwater,  Florida.  She  died  in  1988. 

Grill  lived  alone  after  that,  doing  his  own  cooking,  markering  and  laundry.  He  was  hale  and 
hearty  and  continued  to  drive  his  1973  Chevy  until  about  a  year  before  his  death,  says  Olson. 

"He  was  very  independent,"  she  states.  "He  was  always  concerned  about  health  and  fitness. 
He  used  to  say  that  his  father  killed  himself  with  a  knife  and  fork,  so  he  was  very  careful  about  what 
he  ate. 

"He  was  an  amazing  person,  really,"  she  adds.  "He  never  aged.  He  always  looked  the  same  as  he 
did  when  I  saw  a  little  girl.  I  got  older,  but  he  didn't." 

Even  though  he  hadn't  visited  the  college  tot  many  years,  Grill  continued  to  recall  fondly  his  days 
at  Lebanon  Valley.  Olson  says  he  enjoyed  The  Valley  magazine,  and  there  were  a  number  of  copies 
among  his  personal  effects. 

"Bill  was  very  appreciative  of  Lebanon  Valley  and  the  education  he  received  there,"  Olson  states. 
"I  suppose  he  wanted  to  give  something  back  to  the  college  which  gave  so  much  to  him." 


Judy  Pehrson  is  executive  director  of  college  relations  and  editor  oj  The  Valley. 


crimination  issues.  He  and  his  wife 
have  two  sons. 

Robert  B.  Brandt  '71,  vice  presi- 
dent of  technology  and  corporate 
services  for  Matrix  Information 
Consulting,  Inc.  in  Rochelle  Park, 
N.J.,  is  listed  in  the  L999  Who's  Who 
in  America  and  in  the  1999-2000 
Who's  Who  in  the  East.  He  is  current- 
ly serving  as  the  northeast  regional 
field  representative  for  International 


Walk  for  Emmaus,  an  interdenomi- 
national spiritual  formation  move- 
ment based  in  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Active  in  the  United  Methodist 
Church,  he  is  serving  as  secretary  of 
the  general  commission  on  general 
conference  which  plans  the  quadren- 
nial meeting  of  1000  delegates  from 
around  the  world. 

Eileen  Foltz  Casey  "71  is  middle 
school  librarian  for  the  Penns  Grove- 


Carneys  Point  Regional  Si  hool 
District  in  Penns  Grove,  N  J.  She 
and  her  husband,  Kenneth,  have  two 
children:  Jeremy  and  Jessica. 

Paul  S.  Fisher  7  1  is  tennis  direc- 
tor manager  at  Burke  Racquet  m^\ 
Swim  Club  in  Burke.  Va. 

Robert  E.Jones  '71  is  East  (oast 
manager  and  sales  engineer  of  the 
Middle  Atlantic  region  tor  TAFA 


Corporation  in  Hummelstown,  Pa. 
He  and  his  wife,  Dianne  Cottrell 
Jones  '71,  have  two  children:  Holly 
Rose  and  Brian 

Suzanne  Delong  Krause  '7]  is 
senior  loan  officer  at  Glendale 
Federal  Bank  in  San  Jose,  Calif. 

Rev.  John  H.  Lynch  '71  is  serving 
the  Zion  United  Methodist  Church 
in  Myerstown,  Pa. 

P.  Theodore  Lyter  '71  is  the  inor- 
ganic services  division  chief  in  the 
Bureau  of  Labs  division  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Department  of 
Environmental  Protection. 

Dr.  Gregory  V.  Arnold  '72  is  cur- 
rently serving  on  the  Pennsylvania 
State  Dental  Association  Professional 
Review  Board. 

Dr.  Ross  W.  Ellison  '72  performed 
for  a  faculty  organ  recital  at 
Millersville  University,  Pa.  in 
February.  He  also  performed  an 
organ  recital  at  the  historic  Bruton 
Parish  Church  in  Williamsburg,  Va. 
in  March. 

Allyson  Swalm  Hobbs  '72  has 
been  promoted  to  vice  president  at 
First  Lin  ion  National  Bank  in 
Charlotte,  N.C.  She  is  a  consultant 
and  lead  designer  for  corporate  train- 
ing programs  for  the  Consumer 
College  of  First  University. 

Lt.  Col.  William  M.Jones '72, 
USMC  (Ret.),  is  assistant  chief 
flight  instructor  for  the  Institute  of 
Aviation  at  the  University  of 
Illinois.  He  and  his  wife,  Elane.  have 
two  children:  Lori  and  Matthew. 

Joseph  A.  Dilorio  "73  and  his  wife, 
Darlene,  welcomed  daughter  Olivia 
on  October  21,  1998.  They  also  have 
three  other  children:  Julie.  Tittam 
and  Christina. 

Donald  B.  Frantz  "M  started  his 
own  company,  American  Maze, 
which  produced  six  cornfield  mazes 
in  1998,  ranging  from  two  to  six 
acres  in  size,  in  Iowa.  Pennsylvania, 
New  Jersey.  New  York  and  North 
Carolina.  He  produced  his  first  maze 
at  LVC  in  1993. 

Janice  A.  GaNun  '73  is  managing 
editor  of  two  magazines  tor  the  elec- 
tric power  industry  at  IEEE 
Magazines  in  Piscataway.  X  J 

Rebecca  Harrell  Hill  '73  is  a  music 
teacher  at  Northpoint  Elementary 
School  in  Granger,  Ind. 

Lillian  Lundin  Lyndrup  73  is 

director  of  development  and  public 
relations  at  Westchester  Academy  in 
High  Point.  N.C. 

Robert  W.  Ratti,  CFP  73  was  re- 
elected as  vice  president  tor  the 
Delaware  Valley  Societv  of  Certified 
Financial  Planners. 

Dr.  Bonnie  Seidel-Rogol  '""3  is  a 

research  associate  in  the  Rollins 


Summer  1Q9Q 


Research  Center,  department  of  bio- 
chemistry, at  Emory  University  in 
Atlanta,  Ga. 

Dr.  Diane  M.  Scholler  73  was 
issued  a  patent  in  November  1998 
entitled,  "Stain  Resistent, 
Pigmented  Nylon  Fibers." 

Rev.  Michael  I.  Alleman  74  is 
senior  pastot  at  Grandview  United 
Methodist  Church  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Cindy  Grubb  Condran  74  and  her 
husband,  Lee,  are  gospel  musicians 
and  songwriters.  Their  last  six  con- 
secutive songs  have  all  placed  on  the 
national  charts. 

Vicki  L.  Hackman  M.D.  74  is  a 
physician  at  the  Berea  Primary  Care 
Clinic  and  the  Berea  Hospital  in 
Berea,  Ky. 

Rebecca  Burtner  Hein  74  is  a 
third-grade  teacher  at  Sharpsburg 
Elementary  School  in  Hagerstown, 
Md. 

Thomas  J.  Heiry,  Ph.D.  74  is 
director  of  program  evaluations  lor 
the  Dallas  Public  Schools  in  Texas. 

Jill  Greenstein  McDaniel  74  was 
promoted  to  field  services  superin- 
tendent for  State  Farm  Insurance  Co. 
in  New  York. 

Dr.  Gary  K.  Smith  74  is  senior 
investigator  lor  the  department  of 
molecular  biochemistry  at  Glaxo 
Wellcome  in  Research  Triangle 
Park,  N.C.  He  and  his  wile  Jane 
have  one  child,  Abigail. 

Jenean  M.  Speck  74  retired  trom 
teaching  and  now  manages  an  apart- 
ment complex  in  Palmyra,  Pa. 

Kevin  J.  Hartnett  75  is  a  psycholo- 
gist with  South  Western  School 
District  in  Hanover,  Pa.  He  also 
maintains  a  private  practice  in  York, 
Pa. 

Timothy  A.  Knaub  75,  along  with 
his  daughter  and  son,  Hannah  and 
Andrew,  performed  in  the  produc- 
tion of  the  Wizard  of  Oz  at  the  Fulton 
Opera  House  in  Lancaster,  Pa.  in 
December  1998. 

Brenda  McClelland  Messera  75 
and  her  husband,  Ralph,  have  two 
children:  Heather  and  Kelly. 

Cathy  S.  Rex  75  is  the  branch  man- 
ager for  Apna  Healthcare  in 
Hagerstown,  Md. 

Laura  Wysolovski  75  is  executive 
director  of  the  Monroe  County  Arts 
Council  in  Stroudsburg,  Pa. 

J.  Gary  McDivitt  75  is  a  systems 
engineer  for  Electronic  Data  Systems 
in  Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

Howard  P.  Scott  75  recently  sang 
with  Placido  Domingo  in  Fedora 
with  the  Washington  Opera. 

David  A.  Debus  76  is  systems 
manager  for  ARAMARK  Education- 
al Resources  Inc.  at  their  corporate 
headquarters  in  Golden,  Colo. 


Called  to  Serve 

By  Nancy  Kettering  Frye  '80 

G.  Edgar  Hertzler  '30  belongs  to  a  new  breed  of  nifty  nonagenarians.  Poised  to  celebrate  the  66th 
anniversary  of  his  ordination  into  the  Christian  ministry,  he  confesses  that  during  his  first  year  at 
United  Theological  Seminary  in  Dayton,  Ohio,  he  "didn't  really  want  to  be  a  minister."  Always  an 
acrive  participant  in  sports,  a  Lebanon  Valley  cheerleader  for  four  years,  and  a  mainstay  of  the  LVC  ten- 
nis team,  this  fun-loving,  handsome,  and  very  personable  youth  felt  more  drawn  toward  YMCA  work. 

Hertzler  happily  recalls  his  pivotal,  life-changing  assignment  during  the  Great  Depression  in  the 
summer  of  1931.  "I  was  sent  to  a  church  where  the  preacher  had  left  because  they  couldn't  pay,"  he 
explains. "When  I  came,  average  attendance  at  the  first  service  was  five — at  the  second,  nine.  When  I 
left,  each  service  averaged  more  than  50." 

After  that,  Hertzler  felt  a  genuine  call  to  parish  ministry,  an  answer  to  the  prayers  of  his  devout 
United  Brethren  parents.  "Actually,  I  was  prayed  into  the  ministry,"  he  says,  recalling  his  Lancastet 
boyhood  home.  "My  two  older  brothers  and  I  slept  on  the  third  floor.  Almost  every  night,  I  would 
hear  my  parents  praying  aloud,  kneeling  at  their  bed  on  the  second  floor,  praying  that  one  of  their 
boys  would  be  a  minister." 

Since  his  older  brothers  had  chosen  business  careers,  Hertzler  found  himself  headed  for  LVC  aftet 
graduating  from  Lancaster  Boys'  High  School  in  1926.  "It  was  the  thing  to  do.  We  were  good 
United  Brethren  church  people  and  LVC  was  our  United  Brethren  college.  Besides,  I  was  to  be 
granted  a  scholatship/loan  of  $100  per  year,"  he  states. 

Hertzler  recalls  his  introduction  to  LVC  as  "an  exciting  time."  As  a  Bible  and  Greek  major,  his 
primary  professor  was  the  formidable  G.  Adolphus  Richie,  from  whom  he  absorbed  valuable  lessons 
ot  personal  discipline  as  well  as  academic  expertise. 

With  his  first  charge  at  Ebenezer-Kochenderfer  (1933-1937),  Hertzler  established  his  lifelong 
repuration  as  a  "people's  preacher,"  someone  who  truly  cared  for  and  ministered  to  the  needs  of  peo- 
ple, but  who  also  enjoyed  preaching.  "I  preached  from  my  heart,  not  from  a  manuscript,"  he 
explains.  "Even  today,  people  tell  me  they  remember  things  I  talked  about  long  ago." 

He  served  25  years  at  29th  Street  United  Methodist  Church,  Harrisburg,  and  also  ar  St.  Paul 
UMC,  Elizabethtown  and  at  Otterbein  UMC,  Harrisburg.  Honored  with  pastor  emerirus  status  by 
29th  Street  UMC,  he  "retired"  in  1973  only  to  serve  an  additional  25  years  as  chaplain/counselor  for 
Neill  Funeral  Home,  Paxtang.  "I  would  still  be  working  if  not  for  my  hearing  problems,  "  says 
Hertzler,  who  misses  the  "people  contact." 

He  describes  his  40  years  of  active  ministry  as  "exciting  and  rewarding."  Among  his  former 
parishioners,  he  numbers  two  women  who  became  foreign  missionaries  and  12  men  who  became 
preachers,  including  two  who  went  on  to  become  professors  at  the  Dayton  seminary. 

Honored  with  a  D.D.  from  Lebanon  Valley  in  1954,  Hertzlet  served  as  chaplain  for  the  Masonic 
Homes  in  Elizabethtown  and  also  introduced  the  concept  of  chaplain  ministry  at  Harrisburg 
General  Hospital.  From  1945  to  1970,  he  was  a  trustee  for  Lebanon  Valley.  Still  a  "cheetleader"  for 
both  his  college  and  his  church,  G.  Edgar  Hertzler  is  someone  who  clearly  knows  how  to  serve. 


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


Dale  H.  Everhart  '76  has  been 
named  executive  director  ot  the 
Public  School  Employes'  Retirement 
System  of  Pennsylvania  (PSERS). 

Russel  A.  Miller  '76  is  a  criminal 
justice  teacher  for  the  Lebanon 
County  Career  and  Technology 
Center  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 

Nelson  J.  Rudiak  '76  is  director  of 
media  and  promotions  tor  Herb 


Phillipsons  in  Rome,  N.Y. 

Luanne  Byers  Zabytko  '76  is 
director  of  new  products  planning 
for  Zeneca  Pharmaceuticals  in 
Wilmington,  Del. 

David  E.  Calkins  '77  is  director  of 
market  channel  development  for 
Northern  Telecom,  Inc.  in  Texas.  He 
and  his  wife,  Karen,  have  two  chil- 
dren: Christina  and  Julianna. 


Dr.  Paul  B.  Eaken  '77  is  the  super- 
intendent of  the  Bristol  Borough 
School  District  located  in  Bucks 
County,  Pa. 

Robert  S.  Frey  M.A.  77  is  the 
director  ot  knowledge  management 
and  proposal  development  for  RS 
Information  Systems,  Inc.  in  Mclean, 
Va.  The  revised  and  expanded  second 
edition  of  his  book.  Successful  Proposal 


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The  Valley 


Strategies  for  Small  Businesses,  will  be 
published  in  June.  He  has  also  con- 
tributed a  chapter,  "Is  Objectivity 
Morally  Defensible  in  Discussing  the 
Holocaust?",  in  Harry  James  Cargas' 
book.  Problems  Unique  to  the  Holocaust. 
He  also  had  an  article,  "Leveraging 
Business  Complexity  in  a  Knowledge 
Economy,"  published  in  the  Journal  of 
Business  in  May.  In  August,  he  will 
be  teaching  a  course  at  UCLA  enti- 
tled, "Technical  Proposal 
Management  and  Marketing  Strategy 
to  Win  New  Business." 

Thomas  L.  Hassinger  77  is  a 
chemistry  instructor  at  the 
University  of  Wisconsin  at  La 
Crosse. 

George  E.  Keyes  '77,  a  real  estate 
appraiser  for  Metro  Business  Services 
in  Ocean  View,  N.J.,  and  his  wile, 
Kim,  welcomed  son  Kevin  James  on 
April  23,  1998.  They  also  have  a 
son,  Jeffrey. 

Lyn  Applegate  Lewis  '77  is  direct- 
ing a  sing-and-nng  program  lor 
children  in  grades  three  through  six 
at  Pleasant  Valley  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Chantilly,  Va. 

Brian  W.  Moody  '77  and  Deborah 
K.  Seitz  were  married  on  June  6, 
1998.  They  have  six  children: 
Tiffany,  Derek,  Catherine,  Rachel, 
Andrew  and  Philip.  Brian  is  manag- 
er of  product  technologies  for  DSM 
Engineering  Plastics  in  Evansville, 
Ind.,  where  he  is  responsible  for  the 
development  of  thermoplastic 
polyamide  compounds  for  automo- 
tive, electrical/electronic  and  con- 
sumer durable  applications. 

Terre  J.  O'Kelly  77  and  Steven  P. 
Lewis  were  married  on  June  13, 
1998. 

Deborah  Starr  Tuxhorn  '77,  a 
fifth-grade  language  arts  teacher  at 
the  Hackettstown  Middle  School  in 
New  Jersey,  is  listed  in  Who's  Who  in 
American  Educators.  He  was  nominat- 
ed by  a  former  student. 

Selene  A.  Wilson  77  has  been  pro- 
moted to  manager  of  the  Freehold, 
N.J.  store  of  World  of  Science,  Inc. 

Ronald  R.  Afflebach  78  is  director 
of  human  resources  for  Zeus 
Industrial  Products,  Inc., 
Orangeburg,  S.C.  He  and  his  wife, 
Susan,  have  four  children:  Knsten, 
Kathryn,  Amanda  and  Elizabeth. 

Dr.  Charles  H.  Blevins  78  is  man- 
ager for  new  product  planning  at 
Lifescan  in  Milpitas,  Calif. 

Carol  Gieser  Cunningham  78  is  a 
teacher  tor  Westminster  Nursery 
School  in  Berkeley  Heights,  N.J.  She 
and  her  husband,  Lawrence,  have 
two  children:  Brian  and  Andrew, 

Curtis  R.  Long  78  is  the  prothono- 
tary  of  Cumberland  County. 
Pennsylvania.  He  began  his  four-year 
term  in  January  1998. 


Evan  T.  Shourds  Jr.  78  coached  his 
Conemaugh  Township  (Pa.)  junior 
high  boy's  soccer  ream  (17-2)  to  win 
the  championship  of  the  Somerset 
Fall  Classic. 

Richard  J.  Allen  79  and  his  wife, 
Loretta,  welcomed  daughter  Amy  in 
October  1998.  They  also  have  a 
daughter,  Rachel. 

Nancy  Down  79  is  a  cataloger 
and  reference  librarian  at  the 
Popular  Culture  Library,  Bowling 
Green  State  University  Libraries, 
in  Ohio. 

Peter  C.  Emmons  79  is  a  medical 
technologist  tor  Dartmouth 
Hitchcock  Medical  Center  in 
Lebanon,  N.H. 

Douglas  S.  Graham  79  is  vice 
president  in  corporate  lending  at  the 
Howard  Bank  in  Burlington,  Vt.  He 
and  his  wife,  Susan,  have  two  chil- 
dren. 

Deborah  Margolf  Jenks  79  is  the 
organist  tor  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  in  Northport,  N.Y. 

Alfred  E.  Maree  Jr.  79  is  a  sales 
associate  tor  Prudential  Securities  in 
Wyomissing,  Pa.  He  and  Ann  Mane 
Everson  were  married  on  May  18, 
1996. 

Si  M.  Pham  M.D.  79  is  chief  of  the 
cardiopulmonary  transplant  section, 
division  of  cardiothoracic  surgery,  at 
the  LJmversity  ot  Miami  School  of 
Medicine,  Jackson  Memorial 
Hospital  in  Miami,  Fla. 

Kenneth  C.  Reichmann  79  is  a 

principal  technical  staff  member  tor 
AT&T  Labs-Research  in  Red  Bank, 
N  J.  He  and  his  wife,  Carol,  have 
two  children:  Lisa  and  David 

Melinda  Manwiller  Rentz  79  is 
choral  director  at  Boyertown  (Pa.) 
Junior  High  School,  and  the  director 
of  music  at  Cavalry  Lutheran  Church 
in  Shillington. 

John  M.  Sultzbaugh  79  has  been 
promoted  to  engineering  manager  at 
Hauck  Manufacturing  Company  in 
Lebanon,  Pa. 

David  W.  Swartz  79  and  his  wife, 
Martha,  have  two  children: 
Samantha  and  Emma. 


NEWS 

Peter  R.  Gower  '80  is  director  ot 
international  business  development 
tor  Bennger  Wine  Estates  in  Napa, 
Calif.  He  and  his  wife,  Montse,  have 
three  children:  Christopher,  Ryan 
and  laki 

Elizabeth  Steele  Horbal  '80  is  an 
elementarv  guidance  counselor  for 
the  Eastern  Lancaster  County  School 
District  in  New  Holland.  Pa.  She 


has  three  children:  Andrew,  Meghan 
and  Kristoter. 

Dr.  Elaine  Katz  Meils  '80  is  the 
curriculum  coordinator  with  the 
magnet  program  of  Pinellas  County 
Schools  in  Florida.  She  writes  and 
develops  curriculum  in  the  area  of 
global  studies  tor  the  Melrose 
Elementary  and  John  Hopkins 
Middle  Schools'  communication 
magnet  programs.  In  December 
1998,  she  was  credited  by  Miss 
Florida,  Lissette  Gonzalez,  as  being 
a  role  model.  Elaine  was  Ms. 
Gonzalez's  fifth-grade  music  teacher. 

Thomas  A.  Nussbaum  '80  has 
been  promoted  to  vice  president  of 
trust  sales  for  Eastern  Bank  &  Trust 
Co.  in  Maiden,  NJ. 

Brenda  J.  Reigle  '80  is  eastern 
regional  curator  for  the  Pennsylvania 
Historical  and  Museum  Commission 
in  Fort  Washington,  Pa. 

Bonita  Bomgardner  Badger  '81  is 
a  legal  assistant  at  the  law  firm  ot 
Phillips,  Lytle,  Hitchcock,  Blaine  & 
Huber  LLP  in  Buffalo,  N.Y. 

Barbara  Cooper  Bair  '8 1  is  a  music 
teacher  at  John  Carroll  School  in  Bel 
Air,  Md 

Nancy  Cowan  Berlin  '81  is  confer- 
ence coordinator  for  Pasha 
Publications  in  Houston,  Texas. 

Caren  Callahan  '81,  an  attorney  in 
California,  received  a  master  ot  laws- 
taxation  degree  in  1998  from  the 
Washington  School  ot  Law  in  Sandy, 
Utah. 

Elizabeth  Scott  Confessore  '81  is  a 
music  teacher  and  band  and  choral 
director  tor  the  Harrison  Board  of 
Education  in  Harrison,  N.J. 

Janine  R.  Maletsky  '81  received  the 
Pompton  Lakes  1998  Teacher  of  the 
Year  award  for  Lakeside  School  in 
New  Jersey  and  the  1998 
Outstanding  Educator  Award  tor 
technology  teacher  training  from  the 
New  Jersey  Educational  Computing 
Cooperative. 

Susan  Gunn  McGuire  '81  earned  a 
private  pilot's  license.  She  enjoys  liv- 
ing around  the  country  visiting  fam- 
ily and  friends  with  her  husband 
Dave,  who  is  also  a  pilot. 

Dr.  Daniel  K.  Meyer  '81  is  a 
Fellow,  Infectious  Diseases,  at  the 
University  ot  Pennsylvania  School  ot 
Medicine,  where  he  is  also  an  assis- 
tant instructor. 

Steven  R.  Miller  Esq.  'SI  is  a  law 
librarian  at  Northwestern  University 
School  ot  Law  and  a  teacher  of  com- 
puter-assisted research  and  advanced 
legal  research.  He  is  pursuing  a  mas- 
ter's in  information  technology 
degree  at  Northwestern  University 
School  ot  Engineering  and  Applied 
Science  in  Evanston.  Ill 


Regina  A.  Parkison  '81  is  an 
elementary  music  teacher  for  the 
Palmyra  School  District  in 
Palmyra,  Pa. 

Dr.  Kathy  M.  Robinson  '81 
received  the  1998  Dr.  Rocco  Carzo 
Jr.  Award  for  Excellence  in 
Teaching.  She  is  an  assistant  profes- 
sor of  music  education  at  Temple 
University  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
where  she  teaches  elementary  music 
methods,  world  musics,  graduate 
music  education  courses  and  super- 
vises student  teachers.  Along  with 
the  Philadelphia  Boys  Choir  and 
Temple  University,  she  has  devel- 
oped and  co-directs  the  Kimberly 
Project,  a  music 

teaching  learning  cultural  exchange 
program  which  sends  Temple  gradu- 
ate music  students  to  teach  in 
schools  in  Kimberly.  South  Africa. 
She  has  studied  Ghanaian  drumming 
and  dance  at  the  institute  of  African 
Studies  at  the  University  ot  Ghana, 
Legon  and  has  conducted  research 
into  Ghanaian  and  South  African 
children's  game  songs.  She  has  led 
multicultural  music  education  work- 
shops in  the  U.S.  as  well  as  the 
Netherlands  and  the  Republic  of 
South  Africa.  As  a  mezzo-soprano, 
her  recent  performances,  among  oth- 
ers, include  Handel's  Messiah  with 
the  Harlem  Festival  Orchestra, 
Mendelssohn's  Ehjiah  with 
Philadelphia's  Mendelssohn  Club, 
and  a  leading  role  in  the 
Philadelphia  and  New  York  pre- 
mieres ot  Matthew  Greenbaum  s 
opera,  Ovidiana, 

Jill  Shaffer  Swanson  '81  has  begun 
her  own  business.  Special  Pro|ects 
Marketing,  backing  professional 
speakers  and  consulting  in  the  con- 
venience store  industry. 

Linda  Texter  Behler  '82  and  her 
husband,  Marlin,  welcomed  son 
Daniel  Lee  on  February  28,  1999 
Thev  also  have  a  daughter,  Andrea. 

Daryl  L.  Boltz  '82  is  assistant  vice 
president  tor  Hartford  International 
in  Hartford,  Conn.  He  and  his  wife, 
Brigitte  Hansen  Boltz  '81.  have 
two  children:  Nicholas  and  Joshua. 

Vicki  Lynn  Case  '82  is  a  middle 
school  music  teacher  u<r  the 
Gloucester  Township  Board  ot 
Education  in  Blackwood,  N.J.  She 
has  one  son,  Stephen. 

Charles  J.  Fischer  Jr.  '82  is  a  spe- 
cial education  teachet  at  Manchester 
Regional  High  School  in  Halc-d^n. 
N.J.  He  is  also  an  assistant  football 
coach  at  William  Peterson 
University  in  Wagner.  NJ. 

Rev.  Carolyn  Winfrey  Gillette  '82 

and  her  husband  are  co-pastors  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Pitman,  NJ.  She  writes  hymns, 
three  ot  which  have  been  published 
in  the  national  magazine.  The 


Summer  1999 


Presbyterian  Outlook,  another  one  was 
published  in  an  Episcopal  magazine. 
and  one  was  translated  into  Japanese 
for  a  Roman  Catholic  publication  in 
Japan.  Congregations  all  over  the 
United  States  have  sung  one  of  her 
hymns  as  part  ot  special  appeals  to 
help  the  victims  of  Hurricane  Mitch 
in  Honduras. 

Glenn  A.  Hoffman  '82  is  a  senior 
business  systems  analyst  tor 
Fireman's  Fund  Insurance  Co.  He 
and  his  wife,  Laura,  welcomed  son 
Jeremy  Scott  on  March  12,  1998. 

Rev.  Edward  C.  Malesic  '82  is  a 

canonical  consultant  tor  the  Roman 
Catholic  Diocese  of  Harnsburg,  Pa. 

Michael  O.  Prinsen  '82,  a  database 
administrator  tor  the  city  ot 
Colorado  Springs,  Colo.,  and  his 
wite,  Sherri  Becker  Prinsen  '84,  a 
programmer  analyst  for  the  city,  are 
both  pursuing  master  in  computer 
science  degrees  at  the  University  of 
Colorado.  They  welcomed  a  daugh- 
ter, Taylore  Marie,  on  December  5, 
1997. 

David  E.  Ramage  '82  and  his  wite, 
Diane  Detwiler  Ramage  '85,  wel- 
comed daughter  Emily  on  February 
24,  1999-  They  also  have  two  other 
children:  Matthew  and  Laura. 

Andrea  Crudo  Stark  '82  and  her 

husband,  Albert,  have  three  chil- 
dren: Benjamin,  Lauren  and  Adam. 

Steven  M.  Troy  82  is  a  director  of 
clinical  pharmacokinetics  tor  Wyeth- 
Ayerst  research  in  Radnor,  Pa. 

Timothy  J.  Wolf  '82  is  a  school 
administrator  tor  Calvary  Temple 
Christian  Academy  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Donna,  have 
two  children:  Nathan  and  Joshua. 

David  P.  Beppler  '83  is  a  customer 
service  representative  for 

Commonwealth  Bank  in  Sinking 
Springs,  Pa.  He  and  his  wite,  Jan 
Smith  Beppler  '84,  a  staff  nurse 
and  CPR  instructor  for  Fulton 
County  Medical  Center  in 
McConnellsburg,  have  two  children: 
Jenna  and  Wesley. 

Mary  DeHaven  Cahill  '83  is  a  sys- 
tems consultant-development  for 
Met  Life  in  Clarks  Summit,  Pa.  She 
has  two  children:  Megan  and 
Siobhan. 

Dr.  Debra  Sue  Egolf '83  is  chair  of 

the  department  ot  chemistry  at 
Marietta  College  in  Ohio. 

Michael  J.  Gallagher  '83,  M'93,  an 
assistant  protessor  of  accounting  at 
Defiance  College  in  northwest  Ohio, 
received  a  doctorate  of  philosophy, 
majoring  in  higher  education  with 
an  emphasis  in  accounting,  from  the 
University  of  Toledo  in  December 
1998.  He  and  his  wife,  Karen,  have 
three  children:  Katie,  Michael  and 
Emily. 


Andrea  I.  Goodman  '83  is  senior 
information  specialist  for 
Cornerstone  Research  in  Cambridge, 
Mass. 

Susan  Brewer  Macke  '83  was  pro- 
moted to  vice  president  ot  sales  tor 
Motorola  in  Boynton  Beach,  Fla.  She 
and  her  husband,  Bill,  have  one 

daughter,  Kristin. 

Bonnie  Davenport  Orlowski  '83  is 
a  partner  with  Conrad  M.  Siegel, 
Inc.  in  Harnsburg,  Pa.  She  and  her 
husband,  Michael,  have  three  chil- 
dren: Gregory,  Anne  and  Katherine. 

Christopher  L.  Palmer  '83  is  a 
senior  programmer/analyst  for 
Educators  Mutual  Lite  Insurance  Co. 
in  Lancaster,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife, 
Susan  Thompson  Palmer  '84,  have 
two  children:  Edward  and  Maxfield. 

Raymond  R.  Rose  '83  competed  in 
his  first  marathon,  the  Marine  Corps 
Marathon  in  Washington,  D.C.,  on 
October  25,  1998. 

Debra  Decker  Ward  '83  was  pro- 
moted to  director  of  the  retail  moni- 
tor program  at  PSI  Global  in  Tampa, 
Fla.  She  and  her  husband,  Evan,  have 
two  daughters:  Rheanna  and 
Jacquelynne. 

Rev.  Viking  E.  Dietrich  '84,  work- 
ing with  the  World  Lutheran 
Federation  missions  in  Senegal, 
West  Africa,  and  his  wife,  Marissa 
Neville  Dietrich  '84,  a  teacher  at 
the  American  Embassy  school,  wel- 
comed son  Isaac  on  March  29,  1998. 
They  have  two  other  children:  Eoin 
and  Bronwen. 

David  M.  Frye  '84  is  director  of 
communications  for  Martin  Luther 
Home  Society,  Inc.  in  Lincoln,  Neb. 
He  and  his  wife,  Anne,  have  two 
children:  Benjamin  and  Tara. 

Dr.  Ann  Buchman  Orth  '84  is 

group  leader  of  directed  basic 
research  for  American  Cyanamid  Co. 
in  Princeton,  NJ.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Charles,  have  three  children: 
James,  Joseph  and  Rosalie. 

Dr.  Lori  Wagner  '84  is  assistant 
protessor  of  German  and  English  at 
Ehzabethtown  College.  She  has  two 
children:  Melissa  and  Laura. 

Mark  F.  Wagner  '84  teaches  music 
at  Manheim  Township  High  School. 
He  and  his  wite.  Bethanie,  have  two 
children:  Austin  and  Paige. 

Leslie  Gilmore  Webster  '84  and 

her  husband,  Stuart,  have  three  chil- 
dren: Lauren,  Jenna  and  Rachel. 

Janet  Brown  Weisman  '84  is  mar- 
ket manager  tor  the  American  Red 
Cross,  Metro  Atlanta  Chapter, 
Decater,  Ga. 

Beth  Ann  Blauch  Border  '85  is  a 
homemaker.  She  and  her  husband, 
K.  Scott,  have  two  children: 
Nicholas  and  Luke.  The  family 
recently  relocated  to  Gilbert,  Ariz. 


Robert  A.  DiRico  '85  is  an  actuari- 
al consultant  for  Price  Waterhouse 
Coopets  in  Chesterbrook,  Pa.  He  and 
his  wite,  Wendy  Carter  DiRico  '85, 
have  three  children:  Erica,  Tori  and 
Meredith. 

Angela  Green  Gockley  '85  is  a 
high  school  science  teacher  for  the 
City  of  Btidgeport  Board  of 
Education  in  Connecticut.  Her  hus- 
band, Brian  D.  Gockley  '85,  is  pro- 
gram manager  for  Groundwork 
Bridgeport  where  he  is  currently 
launching  one  of  three  pilot  pro- 
grams in  the  United  States  on  behalf 
ot  the  National  Patk  Service,  assist- 
ing urban  community  groups  with 
improving  their  open  space  and 
recreational  facilities.  They  have  two 
children:  Alyssa  and  David. 

Charles  E.  Harbach  '85  and  his 

wife,  Cindy,  have  one  daughter,  Tory. 

G.  Carl  Muller  '85  is  the  economic 
development  specialist  for  the 
Pennsylvania  Department  of 

Agriculture. 

Elizabeth  Gross  Swartz  '85  is 
gallery  director  at  Montana  Trails 
Gallery  in  Bozeman,  Mo.  She  and 
her  husband,  Bentley,  have  one  son, 
Joseph. 

Rebecca  Rotz  Week  '85  and  her 
husband,  Robert  A.  Week  '86,  have 
twin  sons,  Matthew  and  Alexander. 

Maria  Montesano  Boyer  '86,  a  free- 
lance editor  and  writer  in  Hershey, 
Pa.,  and  her  husband,  David,  wel- 
comed son  Joseph  Saveno  on  January 
26,  1999- 

Jennifer  Deardortt  Atkinson  '86 
is  a  chemistry  teacher  at  Waynesboro 
Area  School  District  in  Waynesboro, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband,  Chad,  wel- 
comed son  Jake  Hanland  on  June  3, 
1998,  They  have  three  other  chil- 
dren: Kaitlin,  Mackenzie  and  John. 

Donna  Kubik  Evans  '86,  vice  pres- 
ident of  Evans  Associates 
International,  and  her  husband,  John 
have  five  children:  Martin,  John 
Robert,  Brandon,  Katelyn  and  Erin. 
They  have  relocated  to  New  York  to 
expand  their  international  market- 
ing business. 

Jane  A.  Hepler  '86  is  serving  as  the 
president  of  the  Lebanon  County 
Education  Council  and  chair  ot 
PSEA's  Intergrap  Relations 
Commission. 

Sharon  M.  Jackson  '86  was  pro- 
moted to  head  nurse  at  Wernersville 
State  Hospital  in  Wernersville.  Pa. 

Dianna  Carr  Joseph  '86  is  a  clinical 
specialist  and  occupational  therapist 
for  Voorhees  Pediatric  Health 
System  in  Marlton,  N.J.  She  is  the 
clinical  supervisor  and  student  field- 
work  coordinator  for  the  occupation- 
al therapy  department.  She  also  pro- 
vides occupational  therapy  services 


to  the  community  parochial  and 
public  schools  and  the  outpatient 
department  of  the  Voorhees 
Pediatric  Rehabilitation  Hospital. 

Kimberly  Pearl  Keene  '86  and  her 
husband,  Ned,  welcomed  son 
Garreth  Christian  on  July  4,  1998. 

D.  Scott  Pontz  '86  is  a  senior  con- 
sultant for  Heller,  Blosky  and 
Dabagian,  PC.  accountants  and 
management  consultants  in 
Nornstown,  Pa.  His  wife.  Dawn 
Shantz  Pontz  '90,  works  in  the 
afternoon  day  care  program  at  the 
Phoenixville  area  YMCA.  They  have 
two  children:  David  and  Erin 
Denise. 

Martha  S.  Sipe  '86  was  ordained  to 
the  ministry  in  the  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  ot  America.  She  is 
the  pastor  of  St.  Peter's  Lutheran 
Church  in  Easton,  Pa. 

Jeffrey  P.  Snyder  '86  is  district  sales 
manager  for  Hubbell  Premium 
Wiring  in  Stonington,  Conn.  He 
and  his  wife,  Para,  have  tour  chil- 
dren: Blake,  Paul,  Tristin  and 
Cameron. 

Susan  Stetfy  Stockwell  '86  works 

for  the  Pennsylvania  Department  ot 
Public  Welfare  Childline. 

Denise  Mastovich  Whitford  '86, 

assistant  vice  president  tor  Savings 
Bank  of  Manchester  in  Windsor, 
Conn.,  and  her  husband,  Leonard 

E.  Whitford  Jr.  '85,  welcomed 
daughter  Mattea  Marie  on  February 
19,  1998.  They  also  have  a  son, 
Sayre. 

James  F.  Arnold  '87  is  a  fellow  in 
plastic  and  reconstructive  surgery  at 
the  Medical  College  of  Wisconsin 
affiliated  hospitals  in  Milwaukee. 

Kathleen  Hogan  Bajor  '87  and  her 
husband,  Ron,  welcomed  son  Justin 
Patrick  on  December  10,  1997. 

Stephanie  Butter  Gundermann 
'87,  senior  clinical  quality  assurance 
auditor  tor  Merck  &  Co.,  Inc.  in 
Wesr  Point,  Pa.,  and  her  husband, 
Raimond,  welcomed  daughter  Tresa 
Renate  on  August  20,  1998. 

Elena  Sicignano  Hamm  '87  is  a 
private  contracting  occupational 
therapist.  Her  husband,  Douglas 
Hamm  '88,  is  a  senior  application 
expert  tor  Hyperion  Solutions  in 
Stamford,  Conn.  They  have  three 
children:  Emilie,  Scott  and  Raechel. 

Melissa  Mover  Hipps  '87  and  her 
husband,  John,  welcomed  son  Alton 
Lloyd  on  August  14,  1998. 

Dr.  Ross  C.  Hoffman  '87  is  a  senior 
scientist  for  Zymo  Genetics,  Inc.  in 
Seattle,  Wash. 

Dr.  Robert  J.  Lloyd  '87  is  a  general 
surgeon  in  eastern  Tennessee.  He  and 
his  wife,  Lisa,  have  two  children: 
Jamie  and  Stephanie. 


28 


The  Valley 


In  a  Field  of  Her  Own 

By  Robert  J.  Smith 

Dr.  Helen  Ross  Russell  '43  has  always  had  teaching  in  her  blood. 

"When  I  was  eight  years  old,"  Russell  recalls,  "I  was  writing  books  for  my  dolls  and  'teaching' 
them.  I'd  give  them  an  assignment  in  the  morning  and  come  home  at  noon  and  correct  it,  then  give 
them  a  new  assignment.  My  mother  always  said  I  was  a  strange  daughter  because  I  just  didn't  play 
with  dolls  the  way  she  had." 

However,  Russell,  a  nationally  respected  teacher  and  author,  knew  her  calling  in  lite. 

"I  always  wanted  to  teach,"  she  says.  "My  first  expressed  goal  in  lite  was  to  be  a  kindergarten 
teacher." 

Thac  early  desire  blossomed  and  eventually  brought  Russell  to  Lebanon  Valley  College  where  she 
graduated  with  a  bachelor's  degree  in  science.  (Earlier,  she  had  earned  a  teaching  certificate  from 
West  Chester  State  College  and  taught  at  Harding  Junior  High  in  Lebanon).  Under  the  guidance  of 
Drs.  Andrew  Bender  and  Samuel  Denckson  at  LVC,  Russell  was  prepared  well  to  pursue  a  Ph.D.  in 
environmental  science  at  Cornell  University,  which  she  earned  in  1949. 

Although  she  subsequently  taught  all  levels  ot  students — from  kindergarten  to  college  — 
throughout  her  career  Russell  has  hearkened  back  to  a  childhood  fascination  with  nature.  That 
fascination  led  her  to  develop  nature  field  trips,  particularly  for  children  in  the  inner  city  in  New- 
York. 

"I  taught  in  all  the  boroughs,  mostly  in  the  Bronx,"  Russell  says.  "Once,  when  I  was  in  Queens,  I 
told  another  teacher,  'You  can  take  the  students  to  watch  a  bird  build  a  nest.'  She  said  'We  don't  have 
any  birds  in  Queens.'  But  I  took  her  right  out  in  front  of  her  building  whete  there  was  a  robin's  nest. 
They're  fairly  common  in  the  city — they  tolerate  people." 

Russell  made  perhaps  her  greatest  impact  when  she  committed  her  field  trip  ideas  to  paper. 

"I  wrote  a  book  for  the  volunteers  I  trained  to  take  the  kids  out  on  field  trips,"  she  explains. 
"Several  years  later,  Doubleday  approached  me  to  write  a  book  on  teaching  the  environment  in  the 
city.  I  told  them  I  didn't  want  to  do  that,  but  I'd  had  an  idea  to  do  a  book  on  field  trips.  I  showed 
them  what  I'd  written  for  my  volunteers,  and  they  gave  me  the  go-ahead  to  expound  on  that." 

The  result  was  Ten-Minute  Field  Trips,  her  best-known  work.  The  book,  one  of  16  she  has  written, 
was  first  published  in  1973,  and  reprinted  in  1991,  and  is  still  cited  by  educators  and  naturalisrs 
alike  as  one  of  the  finest  texts  for  teachets  who  want  to  expose  kids  to  nature  without  leaving  the 
schoolyard.  The  book  was  recently  translated  into  Russian  at  the  behest  of  the  Institute  for  Soviet- 
American  Relations,  who  will  distribute  it  to  schools  in  Russia  to  start  environmental  programs.  In 
1983,  she  was  a  consultant  for  a  TV  series  in  England  and  Scandinavia  called  "Nature  in  the  City." 

Russell,  at  age  84,  shows  no  signs  of  slowing  down.  In  1997,  she  was  named  Nature  Educator  ot 
the  Year  by  the  Roger  Tory  Peterson  Institute  and  she  continues  to  be  on  call  to  lecture  at  the 
American  Museum  ot  Natural  History  in  New  York.  Last  month,  she  received  an  Alumni  Association 
Citation  from  Lebanon  Valley  (the  college  had  also  awarded  her  an  honorary  doctorate  in  1973).  She 
and  her  husband.  Bob,  divide  their  time  between  homes  in  Jersey  City,  NJ  and  Mverstown.  PA,  and 
regularly  give  programs  on  nature  and  on  Native  American  history,  cooking  and  culture. 

"I've  lived  an  exciting  life,"  she  says,  "but  there's  always  more  to  do.  There's  always  more  to 
come." 


Robert  J.  Smith  is  a  Palmyra-based  freelance  writer. 


David  C.  Miller  'S-7  is  a  consulting 
actuary  tor  Actuarial  Science 
Associates  in  Somerset,  NJ.  He  and 
his  wire,  Joanne,  have  three  children: 
Lindsev.  Brandon  and  Lisa. 


Laurie  Sava  Mueller  '87  is  the  chil- 
dren's choir  director  at  St.  Andrew's 
Lutheran  Church  in  Smithtown, 
N.Y,  and  teaches  Kindermusik  and 
piano.  She  and  her  husband. 
William,  welcomed  son  Jonathan  on 


May  -t,  1998.  They  also  have  a  son. 
Timothy. 

Sharon  DeBoer  Porter  '87  is  a 
clinical  data  management  project 
leader  tor  Bristol-Myers  Squibb  Co. 
working  on  infectious  disease  clini- 


cal crials.  She  received  a  master  of 
business  administration  degree  with 
a  concentration  in  information  sys- 
tems from  Quinnipiac  College, 
Hamden,  Conn,  in  January  1998. 

James  W.  Reilly  '87  teaches  seventh 
grade  social  studies  at  E.  T. 
Richardson  Middle  School  in 
Springfield,  Pa. 

Robert  C.  Rogers  '87  is  an  account 
executive  for  TVC  Inc.  in  Houston. 
Texas. 

Timothy  C.  Stoner  '87  is  a  senior 
research  scientist  with  the  New  York 
State  Center  tor  Advanced  Thin 
Film  Technology  at  the  University  of 
Albany 

Theodore  D.  Brosius  '88  is  a  part- 
ner at  Boles  Grove  &  Metzger,  CPA 
in  Harnsburg,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife. 
Deb.  have  two  children:  Rachel  and 
Daniel 

Micky  A.  Hohl  '88  is  a  school-based 
therapist  tor  the  Center  for  Mental 
Health  of  Boulder  County  in 
Boulder,  Colo. 

Mariann  Lamoreux  '88  is  a  sev- 
enth- and  eighth-grade  math  and 
computer  teacher  tor  the  Bangor 
Area  School  District  in  Bangor.  Pa. 

Rebecca  R.  Long.  M.D.  '88  com- 
pleted hef  residency  at  Chestnut 
Hill  Hospital  in  Philadelphia.  She  is 
a  family  medical  practitioner  tor  the 
Penn  State  Geisinger  Health  System 
in  Palmvra,  Pa  tocusing  on  women's 
health  issues,  including  obstetrics. 

Lissa  Jennings  Nelson  '88  is  an 
associate  chemist  for  Abbott 
Laboratories  in  Abbott  Park.  111. 

Man.'  Giannini  Plummer  '88  is  a 

second-grade  teacher  in  the  Wilson 
School  District.  Pa.  She  is  also  a 
board  member  ot  the  Delaware 
Valley  Golden  Retriever  Rescue.  Inc. 
Her  husband,  John  P.  Plummer 
'88.  is  selt-employed  as  a  franchise 
owner  operator 

David  J.  Sekula  '88  is  a  lab  manag- 
er in  the  pharmacology  and  toxicolo- 
gy department  at  Dartmouth 
Medical  School  in  New  Hampshire. 

Jeane  Weidner  Serrian  "88  is 
developing  an  after-school  tutoring 
program  at  her  church  in  Alabama. 
Future  plans  are  to  include  a  pre- 
school program 

Paul  J.  Walsh  '8S  is  regional  super- 
visor tor  customer  service  at 
Amersham  Pharmacia  Biotech.  Inc. 
in  Piscataway.  NJ. 

Roselvne  Trubilla  Watkins  '88  is  a 
psychology  intern  at  Friends 
Hospital  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Deana  M.  Crumbling  '89.  an  envi- 
ronmental scientist  with  the  U.S. 
Environmental  Protection  Agency, 
has  been  awarded  the  Bronze  Medal 
for  Commendable  Service  to  the 
nation. 


Summer  1999       29 


T^NN^S 


DEATHS 

Bruce  A.  Dissinger  '86,  January  3, 
1999.  A  navy  veteran  of  Vietnam,  he 
was  the  quality  assurance  manager 
for  Gimpel  Corp.,  Langhorne.  Pa. 


To  a 
who  generic 
the  98-99 


ou 

supporter 
al  Fund 


Elizabeth  A.  Ebersole  '89  is  a 
Spanish  teacher  for  the  Annville- 
Cleona  School  District,  Annville,  Pa. 
She  has  four  children:  Isaac,  Clare, 

Andrew  and  Amanda. 

Regina  Santus  Ferruzza  '89  and  J. 
Stephen  Ferruzza  '90  welcomed 
daughter  Lucy  Ann  on  July  1  3, 
1998. 

Linda  Foerster  Gardner  '89,  a 
Pennsylvania  Management  Intern 
Class  of  1998-99  for  the 
Commonwealth  ot  Pennsylvania, 
received  a  master  in  public  adminis- 
tration degree  from  the  University  of 
Oklahoma  in  May  1998,  while  she 
was  stationed  in  Seoul,  South  Korea. 
She  is  a  member  of  Pi  Alpha  Alpha, 
the  national  honor  society  for  public 
affairs  and  administration. 

Elizabeth  Shepler  Gingrich  '89, 
M'92  is  an  accountant  with  AMP, 
Inc.,  Harrisburg,  Pa.  She  and  her 
husband,  Douglas,  have  two  chil- 
dren: Katelyn  and  Madeline. 

Lori  A.  Stortz  Heverly  '89  was  pro- 
moted to  manager,  large  group  field 
support,  at  Guardian  Lile  Insurance 
Company  of  America  in  Bethlehem, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband,  Steve,  have 
two  daughters:  Megan  and  Taylor 

Doreen  Simmons  Kepple  '89  and 
her  husband.  Jason,  welcomed 
daughter  Julia  Felicity  on  July  12, 
1998. 

Melissa  Haunton  Kreps  '89  is  the 
corporate  trainer/customer  service 
manager  for  Kaye  Personnel,  Inc.  in 
Cherry  Hill,  N.J.  She  and  her  hus- 
band, Stephen,  welcomed  son  Jared 
Alexander  on  August  29,  1997  and 
son  Tyler  Jamison  on  November  22, 
1998. 

Renee  Schuchart  Lopez  '89  relo- 
cated to  Okinawa,  Japan  with  her 
husband  and  son. 

Marie  Ellen  Shott  McGee  '89  was 
promoted  to  divisional  direcror  vice 
president  of  Salomon  Smith  Barney 
in  Sherman  Oaks,  Calif.  She  travels 
throughout  the  United  States  speak- 
ing on  asser  management. 


Kenneth  W.  Miller  '89  is  a  social 
services  technician  with  Georgia 
Mountains  Community  Services  in 
Clarkesville,  Ga.  and  a  beekeeper. 
He  and  Bobbi  Jo  Imbrogno  were 
married  in  Miller  Chapel  on  July  11, 
1998. 

Carl  W.  Mohler  Jr.  '89  is  a  cost 
accountant  for  Norwood  Industries 
in  Pennsylvania.  He  is  pursuing  a 
master  ot  business  administration 
degree  at  Lasalle  University. 

Laurie  A.  Mutz  '89,  a  biologist  fot 
the  Army  Corps  of  Engineers, 
Philadelphia  Disttict,  and  John 
Brundage  were  married  on  July  10, 
1998. 

Dr.  David  P.  Myers  '89  and  his 

wife,  Nancy,  welcomed  daughter 
Natalie  on  December  19,  1998. 
Andrew  H.  Potter  '89  is  head  of 
sales  at  Rem  Tek,  a  chemical  dispos- 
al company,  in  Lewisberry,  Pa. 

Michael  J.  Pullman  '89.  an  SAP 
consultant  for  Elf  Atochem  North 
America,  Inc.  in  Philadelphia.  Pa., 
and  Carol  Lenio  were  married  May 
17,  1997. 

Tracy  S.  Shank  '89  is  assistant  prin- 
cipal for  Donegal  High  School  in 
Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

William  W.  Snelling  '89  is  a  music 
teacher  for  the  Antietam  School 
District  in  Pennsylvania.  He  and  his 
wife,  Deanne  Lynn  Kesak,  have  two 
children:  Brian  and  Emma. 

George  V.  Stockburger  V  '89  is 
president  of  Stockburger  Chrysler 
and  Stockburger  Chevrolet  in 
Newton,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Kim 
M.  Weisser  Stockburger  '89,  have 
two  children:  George  VI  and 
Matthew. 

Marjorie  Haak  Ulrich  '89  and  her 
husband,  David,  have  two  children: 
Tyler  and  Ryan. 

Janelle  Klunk  Walter  '89  is  a  Care 
Lab  Manager  tor  Hanover  Care  Plus. 
She  and  her  husband,  Christopher, 
have  rwo  children:  Caitlin  and  Jonas. 


NEWS 

Scott  A.  Barlup  '90  is  an  account 
executive  for  Capital  Blue  Cross 
where  he  markets  Blue  Cross/Blue 
Shield  health  care  plans  to  compa- 
nies. 

Paul  J.  Bruder  Esq.  '90  is  an  asso- 
ciate in  the  specialty  litigation 
department  for  the  law  firm  of 
Rhoads  &  Sinon  LLP  where  he  prac- 
tices environmental  litigation  and 
counseling.  Prior  to  joining  the 
Harrisburg,  Pa.  law  firm,  he  was  an 
attorney  with  the  Pennsylvania 
Department  of  Environmental 
Protection  for  three  years. 

James  M.  Carroll  '90  is  logistics 
manager  at  Airgas  Direct  Industtial 
in  Bristol.  Pa. 

Robert  M.  Crow  1  III  '90  is  a  fitness 
instructor  at  Btandyw'ine  Hospital  in 
Pennsylvania.  He  and  his  wife, 
Kecia,  have  one  son,  Zachary. 

Kevin  B.  Dempsey  '90  is  director 
of  children's  alcohol  programs  for 
the  Jefferson  Alcohol  and  Drug 
Abuse  Center  in  Louisville,  Ky.  He 
is  completing  his  final  year  of 
coursework  for  a  doctorate  in  psy- 
chology at  Spalding  University. 

Brian  L.  Engle  '90  is  a  charging 
specialist  at  Carpenter  Technology 
Corporation  in  Reading,  Pa.  He  and 
his  wife,  Doreen,  have  three  chil- 
dren: Keenan,  Lauren  and  Caleb. 

Laura  Judd  Gingrich  '90  and  her 
husband,  Shawn  M.  Gingrich  '90, 
welcomed  son  Peter  Michael  on 
March  16,  1999.  Laura  is  a  kinder- 
garren  and  reading  recovery  teacher 
in  rhe  Conewago  Valley  School 
District  in  New  Oxford,  Pa.  Shawn 
is  minister  of  music  at  Emmanuel 
United  Church  of  Christ  in  Hanover. 
Pa.,  where  he  also  teaches 
Kindermusik. 

Erica  A.  Habel  '90  is  a  compliance 
officer  for  Faulding/Purepac  in 
Elizabeth,  N.J. 

Linda  M.  Hepler  '90  is  a  district 
operations  specialist  for  the 
Pennsylvania  House  ot 
Representatives. 

Diane  Capece  Hertzog  '90  received 
a  master's  ot  education  degree  in 
teaching  and  curriculum  trom  Penn 
State  University  She  is  a  teacher  in 
the  South  Western  School  District  in 
Pennsylvania. 


Todd  A.  Hess  '90  opened  his  own 
CPA  firm  in  Richland,  Pa. 

Rachel  Snyder  Hills  '90  and  her 
husband,  Christopher  R.  Hills  '91, 

welcomed  son  Zachary  Aaron  on 
August  14,  1998. 

Lori  Dewald  Humbert  '90  and  hef 
husband,  Thomas,  have  two  chil- 
dren: Christopher  and  Danielle. 

Jennifer  Nauman  Johnson  '90  and 
her  husband,  William,  welcomed 
son  Samuel  Charles  on  August  1 1 , 
1998.  They  have  two  other  children: 
Katelyn  and  Shannon. 

Scott  A.  Richardson  '90  received 
the  Middle  States  Council  fot  the 
Social  Studies  Teacher  to  Teachet 
grant,  an  award  given  in  recognition 
of  work  with  students  and  imagina- 
tive classroom  projects. 

Bradley  A.  Rinehimer  '90  and  his 
wife,  Nancy  Lex  Rinehimer  '93, 
have  two  children:  Joshua  and  Tyler. 

Sheree  L.  Rybak  Ph.D.  '90  !S  a 

technical  consultant  for  the  intellec- 
tual property  law  firm  of  Klarquist 
Sparkman  Campbell  Leigh  & 
Whinston  in  Portland,  Ore. 

Kristen  Brandt  Scharf '90  and  her 
husband,  David,  welcomed  daughter 
Kallista  Elaine  on  January  26,  1999- 

Daryl  M.  Stump  '90  is  a  personnel/ 
warranr  officer  in  the  U.  S.  Army. 
He  and  his  wife,  Jennifer,  have  three 
children:  Ashley,  Danielle  and 
Megan. 

William  J.  Woland  Jr.  '90  is  an 
account  representative  for  RPS,  Inc. 
in  Williamsport,  Pa. 

Carla  Myers  Coomer  '91  is  an 
accountant  for  Bayer  Corporation  in 
Myerstown,  Pa. 

John  M.  Diller  '91  is  an  account 
representative  for  MerLife. 

Amy  E.  Earhart  '91  is  a  graduate 
assistant  in  the  English  department 
at  Texas  A&M  University. 

Mark  Evans  '91  is  the  classified 
advertising  manager  for  The 
Trentonian,  a  daily  newspaper  in 
Trenton,  N.J.  He  and  Annette  M. 
Weaver  were  married  in  Palmyra, 
Pa.  on  July  27,  1998. 

Angela  A.  Fracalossi  '91  is  a  self- 
employed  real  estate  agent  in 
Elysburg,  Pa. 

Andrew  C.  Hildebrand  CPA,  J.D. 
'91  is  an  associate  accountant  spe- 
cializing in  forensic  accounting  and 
business  valuations  at  Herbein  & 
Company  in  Reading,  Pa. 

Eric  Howson  M'91  and  his 

wife, Wendy  Durham  Howson  '91, 

welcomed  son  David  Andrew  on 
January  24,  1999-  They  have  rwo 
other  children:  Mark  and  Timothy. 
Eric  is  a  software  trainer  for  Shared 
Medical  Sysrems  in  Malvern,  Pa.  and 
Wendy  home-schools  their  children. 


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The  Valley 


Kevin  T.  Kalb  '91  is  senior  accoun- 
tant for  FMC  Corporation  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife, 
Erika,  welcomed  son  Kevin 
Theodore  Jr.  on  July  31,  1998.  They 
also  have  a  daughter,  Meredith. 

Jennifer  Devine  Marx  '91  is  a  reg- 
istered nurse  at  Reading  (Pa.) 
Hospital  and  Medical  Center.  Her 
husband,  Joseph  A.  Marx  '93,  is  co- 
owner  and  vice  president  of  2M 
Information  Systems,  Inc.,  a  com- 
puter software  company,  in 
Birdsboro,  Pa. 

Michael  J.  Slechta  '91  and  his  wife, 
Dina  Lintzenberger  Slechta  '91, 
have  two  children:  Theodore  and 

I  l.m\ 

Robert  M.  White  '91,  '97  is  a  sec- 
ond-grade teacher  in  the  Cornwall- 
Lebanon  School  District,  Lebanon, 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife,  Rebecca,  wel- 
comed a  son,  Benjamin  Michael,  on 
May  19,  1998. 

Dr.  Joseph  Alia  '92,  will  begin  pri- 
vate practice  in  Tempe  and 
Chandler,  Ariz.,  following  his  1999 
graduation  as  chief  resident  of  family 
practice  in  Tempe. 

Michelle  Brailsford  Ambrose  '92 
is  a  captain  in  the  LInited  States  Air 
Force  stationed  at  Wright-Patterson 
Air  Force  Base,  Dayton,  Ohio,  where 
she  is  a  psychology  resident. 

Dr.  Kristen  L.  Boeshore  '92 
received  a  Ph.D.  in  neuroscience 
from  Case  Western  Reserve 
University,  Cleveland,  Ohio.  Her 
dissertation  was  titled,  "Neuronal 
Heterogeneity  of  Trk  Receptor 
Function."  She  has  accepted  a  post- 
doctoral research  associateship  in  the 
Department  of  Neuroscience  at  Case 
Western,  where  she  will  study 
peripheral  nerve  regeneration. 

John  C.  Bowerman  '92  has  been 
promoted  to  policy  analyst  tor  mar- 
keting relations  in  the  Corporate 
Planning  and  Policy  Analysis  Unit  of 
Capital  Blue  Cross  in  Harnsburg,  Pa. 

Nicole  Grove  Brubaker  '92  and 
her  husband,  Timothy,  welcomed 
daughter  Kira  on  October  22,  1998. 

John  Consugar  '92  is  an  accountant 
for  United  Metal  Receptacle 
Corporation  in  Pottsville,  Pa.  He 
and  his  wife,  Robyn,  have  one 
daughter,  Rebecca. 

Amy  Hutton  Cousins  '92  and  her 
husband,  Al,  have  one  daughter. 
Bethany. 

Antoinette  "Toni"  Davis  '92  is  a 
network  administrator  for  the  West 
Texas  A&M  University  Plains 
Panhandle  Museum. 

Dr.  Sheryl  Drake  '92,  an  associate 
doctor  in  Harnsburg,  Pa.,  is  work- 
ing towards  a  master's  in  nutrition 
degree  at  the  University  of 
Bridgeport  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 


Dr.  Christopher  S.  Esh  '92  is  an 
optometrist  for  Lenscrafters  in  the 
Central  Pennsylvania  area. 

David  W.  Esh  '92  received  his 
Ph.D.  from  Penn  State  LIniversitv  in 
December  1998. 

Julie  L.  Frederick  '92,  an  account 
analyst  for  Efector,  Inc.  in  Exton, 
Pa.,  married  Robert  M.  Trabbold  on 
August  22,  1998. 

Gregory  A.  High  '92  is  director  of 
development  for  High  Hotels,  Ltd., 
an  affiliate  of  High  Industries,  Inc., 
located  in  Lancaster,  Pa.  He  is 
involved  in  the  identification  and 
acquisition  of  sites  for  new  hotels 
and  the  acquisition  of  existing  hotels 
in  the  Mid-Atlantic  states. 

David  E.  Holden  '92  received  a 
master  in  psychology  degree  from 
Kutztown  L'niversity  in  1997  and 
retired  from  the  Army  in  1998.  He 
is  an  adjunct  professor  for  Lebanon 
Valley  College-Lancaster  Center  and 
Penn  State  University  at  both  the 
Middletown  and  Schuylkill  campus- 
es. He  also  works  in  continuing  edu- 
cation at  the  Harnsburg  Campus  of 
Penn  State  University. 

Tara  J.  Hottenstein  '92  is  a  library 
assistant  at  the  University  of  Georgia 
in  Athens,  Ga. 

John  G.  Jewell  '92  received  a  Ph.D. 
in  experimental  psychology  from 
Kent  State  University.  He  is  a  post- 
doctoral research  fellow  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  School  of 
Medicine  in  Philadelphia.  He  and 
Margaret  Perry  were  married  on 
October  10,  1998. 

Erika  Allen  Jucewicz  '92,  a  teacher 
in  the  Upper  Moreland  School 
District  in  Souderton,  Pa.,  and  her 
husband,  Thomas,  welcomed  daugh- 
ter Mikayla  Maria  on  July  28.  1998. 

Brad  W.  Kintzer  '92  is  store  man- 
ager for  Tandy  Corporation  dt  the 
Radio  Shack  in  the  Fairgrounds 
Square  Mall  in  Reading,  Pa. 

Christopher  M.  Kline  '92  is  retail 
store  manager  for  Transworld 
Entertainment  Corporation  at  The 

Wall  in  Albany,  N.Y. 

Michelle  Smith  Moore  '92,  a  case 
manager  for  Chase  Brexton  Health 
Services  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  received 
her  master  in  social  work  degree 
from  the  University  of  Maryland  at 
Baltimore. 

Leon  J.  Motz  '92,  a  counselor  for 
Laureate  Psychiatric  Hospital  in 
Oklahoma,  and  Nicole  Vacula  were 
married  on  November  28,  1998  in 
Montego  Bay.  Jamacia. 

Diana  Cook  Musser  '92  received  a 
master's  in  elementary  education 
from  Kutztown  (Pa.)  LIniversity. 

Philip  J.  Nourie  '92  is  a  financial 
consultant  at  Ruder-Finn  in 
Manhattan,  N.Y.  He  also  acts  and 


Join  Our 
New  England  Literary  Tour 

September  13-16,  1999 

Join  your  fellow  alumni  on  an  exciting  New  England 
literary  tour  that  takes  you  to  the  homes  and  haunts  of  some 
of  America  s  most  famous  literati — including  Nathanial 
Hawthorne,  Herman  Melville,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson,  Mark 
Twain  and  the  Alcott  sisters. 

Tour  highlights  include  a  specially -arranged  one-woman 
performance  byJanTurnquist,  who  will  portray  Louisa  May 
Alcott,  and  a  special  tour  ofWalden  Pond.  Dr.  Arthur  Ford  '59, 
Lebanon  Valley  English  professor,  will  accompany  the  tour  and 
lecture  on  the  writers  and  their  works. 

Your  tour  package  includes  three  nights  lodging,  room  tax, 
luggage  handling,  some  meals  and  admissions  fees  to  historic 
homes  and  sites. 

Please  call  the  Alumni  Office  now  (1-800-  ALUM-LVC  or 
717-867-6320)  for  information  and  to  make  your  reservation. 
Final  payment  for  the  trip  is  due  August  5. 


will  appear  in  his  first  major  film. 
Whipped,  to  be  released  in  May  1999. 

Tracy  Brass  Oberdorf '92  and  her 
husband,  Jeff,  welcomed  daughter 
Jacquelyn  in  July  199S. 

Dr.  Tammy  O'Roark  92,  a  veteri- 
narian at  the  Lebanon  Valley  Animal 
Hospital  in  Lebanon,  Pa.,  and  Scott 
P.  Stone  '93  were  married  on 
October  24,  1998. 

Dr.  Kevin  J.  Sutovich  '92  and  his 
wife,  Lara,  welcomed  daughter 
Emma  Clare  on  January  2~\  1999. 

Stephen  A.  Teiteiman  '92  is  a  start 
nurse  tor  Our  Lady  ot  Lourdes 
Medical  Center  in  Camden,  N.J. 

Amy  G.  Batman  '93  and  Curtis  J. 
Fallon  Jr.  were  married  on  May  9, 
L998  in  St.  Andrews  Lutheran 
Church,  Perkasie.  Pa.  She  is  a  gradu- 
ate student  research  assistant  at  the 
University  ot  the  Sciences  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Lisa  S.  Burke  '93  is  a  senior  actuary 
tor  the  Pension  Benefit  Guaranty 
Corporation  in  Washington,  D.C.,  a 


federal  agency  insuring  pension 
plans. 

Jeffrey  R.  Burt  '93  and  Kathleen 
L.  Wolfe  '94  were  married  on  June 
20,  1998  K  r t  is  .1  senior  actuarial 
analyst  tor  Penn  Mutual  Lite 
Insurance  Co.  in  Horsham.  Pa  and 
Kathleen  is  an  actuarial  analyst  for 
GE  Financial  Assurance  in  Trevose. 
Pa. 

Susan  Hibbs  DeFalcis  '93  and  her 
husband,  Daniel,  welcomed  son 
Alexander  Daniel  on  July  Mi.  1998 
They  also  have  a  son,  Nicholas. 

Suzann  Rajkovak  Fodor  '93  is  a 
medical  technologist  ac  St  Vincent 
Health  Center  in  Erie.  Pa.  Her  hus- 
band, Peter  J.  Fodor  '92.  is  a  podi- 
atnc  resident  at  Millcreek 
Community  Hospital  in  Erie.  They 
have  one  son,  Jacob. 

Jamie  Snvder  Fox  '93  and  her  hus- 
band, Brian  P.  Fox  M'96,  welcomed 
daughter  Meredith  Claire  on 
October  29,  1998   They  also  have  a 
child.  Spencer 


Summer  1999       31 


Jeffrey  M.  Geisel  '93,  a  teacher  in 
the  West  Shote  School  District  in 
Lewisberry,  Pa.,  received  a  master  of 
education  degree  in  special  educa- 
tion from  Shippensburg  University 
in  1998.  He  and  his  wife,  Ellen, 
have  one  child.  Hunter. 

Frank  L.  Heilman  '93  is  in  the  doc- 
toral program  at  the  University  of 
Sciences  in  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Glenn  P.  Hoffman  '93  is  a  senior 
auditor  for  Highmark  Inc.  and  an 
adjunct  faculty  member  at 

Harnsburg  Area  Community 
College  in  Pennsylvania. 

Amy  Brashear  Kirkner  '93  is  a 
senior  physical  therapist  for  the 
Good  Shepherd  Home  and  Rehab 
Hospital  in  Allentown,  Pa.  She  and 
her  husband,  Erik,  have  one  child, 
Mackenzie. 

Beth  I.  Mover  '93  is  an  instrumen- 
tal and  vocal  music  teacher  at  King's 
Academy,  a  private  christian  school, 
in  Mohrsville,  Pa. 

Richard  D.  Plummet  M'93  is 
senior  project  engineer  at  Alcoa  Mill 
Products  in  Lancaster,  Pa.  He  and 
his  wife,  Nancy,  have  two  children; 
Dale  and  Alison. 

Kelly  McGinty  Quaile  '93  is  a 
physical  therapist  in  the  rehabilita- 
tion unit  at  the  Dupont  Hospital  for 
Children  in  Wilmington,  Del. 

Todd  C.  Rupp  '93  is  a  computer 
teacher  tor  the  Upper  Dauphin  Area 
School  District  in  Lykens,  Pa.  He 
and  his  wife,  Julie,  have  one  child, 

Btianna. 

Bohdan  F.  Setlock  '93  is  general 
manager  ot  Cabot  Ltd.  in  Hershey, 
Pa.  He  and  his  wife.  Amy  Jo 
Daugherty  Setlock  '92,  have  one 

child,  Caleb. 

R.  Thomas  Stone  '93  and  his  wife, 
Michelle,  have  one  son,  Adam. 

Ryan  H.  Tweedie  '93  is  CEO  and 
owner  of  HRSoft,  LLC  in 
Mornstown,  N.J, 

David  A.  Aulenbach  '94  received  a 

master's  degree  in  percussion  perfor- 
mance from  Montclair  State 
University.  He  is  the  band  director 
and  percussion  specialist  for  the 
Randolph  (N.J.)  School  District 
where  he  was  recently  granted 
tenure. 

Jonathan  J.  Black '94   is  a  software 

engineer  for  SONY  Electronics  in 
California.  His  wife,  Janice  Bayer 
Black  '96,  is  a  sixth-grade  teacher  in 
the  Newark  Unified  School  District 
in  California. 

CPT.  Jennifer  I.  Bower  '94  is  the 

logistics  officer  tor  the  Wartime 
Host  Nation  Support  Office,  United 
States  Forces  Korea  in  Seoul.  She  is 
responsible  for  the  planning  of  trans- 
portation,  ammunition,  fuel,  water, 


Last  is  Best  of  All  the  Game 

By  Tom  Epler 

Although  Woodrow  Dellinger  Jr.  '62  graduated  at  the  bottom  of  his  class  at  Lebanon  Valley,  the 
designation  of  being  last  wouldn't  stick  for  long.  His  career  quickly  took  off  to  include  a  number  of 
"firsts."  For  example,  he  was  one  of  the  first  researchers  in  the  Hershey  Medical  Center's  pathology 
department  when  it  opened  in  1967.  Later,  he  helped  set  up  the  first  nurse  midwifery  school  and  the 
first  master  of  health  science  program  at  the  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

Today,  as  director  of  the  Hopkins  master  of  health  sciences  program,  Dellinger  has  mentored 
hundreds  of  young  professionals  as  they  enter  the  demanding  field  of  health  care  and  become  some 
of  the  nation's  top  physicians  and  administrators. 

Numbered  among  his  mentees  is  a  dean  of  a  school  of  public  health  and  10  students  now  in 
medical  school.  "I  think  the  success  of  my  students  makes  me  proudest,"  he  states.  "They've  all  gone 
out  and  done  a  lot  more  than  their  teacher  ever  did." 

Dellinger  is  self-effacing,  but  he  shouldn't  be.  Born  with  cerebtal  palsy,  he  had  to  overcome  the 
physical  challenges  of  a  condition  that  has  made  communication  difficult. 

Interestingly,  it  was  a  professor  at  the  Valley  who  first  inspired  Dellinger  to  work  outside  of  his 
disability.  After  several  frustrating  semesters  of  difficult  course  work  ar  the  Valley,  Dr.  Paul  Hess, 
then  chair  of  the  biology  department,  administered  a  challenging  test  orally  to  Dellinger  instead  of 
requiring  him  to  do  a  written  exam.  The  test  results  showed  Dellinger's  ability  and  inspired  the 
young  man  to  succeed  in  other  areas  as  well. 

"I  taught  myself  to  overlook  my  handicap  when  I  had  to  stand  in  front  of  a  class  or  present  a 
paper,"  he  says.  "It  was  a  challenge,  but  I  decided  not  to  let  it  get  me  down  or  hold  me  back." 

After  finishing  at  Lebanon  Valley,  Dellinger  was  hired  by  Wilson  College  to  help  their  biology 
department  with  research  in  Puerto  Rico.  He  later  taught  embryology  and  histology  at  the  college. 

In  1967,  he  finished  his  first  master's  degree  at  Marshall  University  in  Huntington,  West 
Virginia,  and  was  hired  by  the  pathology  department  at  Hershey  Medical  Center.  Encouraged  by  his 
success,  in  1972,  he  decided  to  begin  study  for  a  Ph.D.  at  Johns  Hopkins.  However,  four  days  before 
the  orals  for  his  Ph.D.,  he  had  a  massive  heart  attack.  When  he  recovered,  Hopkins  hired  him  as  a 
faculty  member,  despite  the  fact  he  hadn't  completed  his  dissertation.  He  repaid  their  faith  in  him 
by  helping  establish  the  university's  first  nurse  midwifery  and  master  of  health  science  program. 

In  addition  to  his  current  job,  Dellinger  also  serves  on  several  boards,  including  Parents  and 
Children  Together,  a  health  care  organization  that  serves  disabled  children  whose  parents  are  on 
Medicare.  Recently,  he  was  elected  to  membership  in  the  Delta  Omega-Alpha  Chapter  of  the 
Honorary  Public  Health  Society. 

Over  the  past  few  years,  the  pressure  and  pace  of  life — combined  with  an  unforrunate  family  his- 
tory of  heart  disease  —  have  felled  Dellinger  three  times  with  heart  attacks.  As  he  nears  60,  he  finds 
himself  occasionally  mentioning  the  'R'  word,  partly  because  of  what  he  calls  the  "pressure  cooker" 
of  life  at  Hopkins. 

"Each  time  I  battle  back  and  keep  on  trucking,"  he  says.  "Sometimes  I'll  mention  I'm  thinking 
about  retiring  next  year,  but  the  students  tell  me  not  to  do  it." 

Today,  Dellinger  chuckles  about  graduating  last  in  his  class  at  LVC  and  the  fact  he  had  to  take 
almost  two  full  semesters  of  extra  courses  just  to  earn  enough  "quality  points"  to  graduate  with  a 
2.0  average,  a  year  after  the  class  he  matriculated  with.  But  he  also  recalls  with  appreciation  the 
help  he  received  at  the  Valley. 

"I  really  do  owe  a  great  deal  to  Lebanon  Valley,"  he  states.  "What  I  learned  there  was  the  basis 
for  a  lot  of  what  I've  accomplished  in  my  life." 


Tom  Epler  is  an  Annville-based  teacher,  reporter,  and  freelance  writer. 


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The  Valley 


food,  security,  maintenance,  sup- 
plies, medical  support,  and  commu- 
nications in  the  event  of  hostilities, 
crisis  or  war  in  Korea. 

Heather  Fennel]  Burker  "94,  a  real 
estate  agent  with  Re'Max  Advantage 
Realty  in  Owings  Mills,  Md.,  and 
her  husband.  Burr,  welcomed  son 
Quinn  on  November  9.  1998. 

Kristine  Kuhn  Butz  '94  is  a  math- 
ematics teacher  in  the  Cocalico 
School  District,  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.  She  and  her  husband,  Timothy 
P.  Butz  '93,  have  one  daughter, 
Allyson. 

Rev.  Daniel  O.  Donmoyer  '94 
graduated  from  Gettysburg  Lutheran 
Seminary  on  May  15,  1998  and  was 
ordained  on  June  12,  1998.  He  is 
the  pastor  ot  St.  Paul  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 

Denita  J.  Foreman  '94,  the  eastern 
region  controller  tor  Westra 
Construction  Inc.  in  Harnsburg,  Pa., 
and  Jonathan  Schreier  were  married 
on  February  28.  1998.  They  have 
one  child,  Allyn. 

David  V.  Gartner  '9-4  was  pictured 
in  the  Merck  &  Company  1998 
annual  report  tor  his  contributions 
toward  the  FDA's  fast-track  review 
of  Merck's  new  painkiller  Vioxx. 
Vioxx  is  expected  to  be  the  best 
thing  since  Tylenol. 

Kevin  E.  Kemler  '94  is  a  business 
analyst  tor  AMP,  Inc.  in 
Middletown,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife. 
Man,  have  one  child,  Kayla. 

April  E.  Lehman  '94  and  William 
Bishop  were  married  on  September 
12,  1998.  A  math  teacher  at 
Smithburg  (Md.)  High  School,  she  is 
pursuing  a  master  ot  education  in 
administration  and  supervision 
degree  from  Frostburg  Stare 
University  in  Maryland- 
Keith  \V.    Murray  '94  is  presi- 
dent. CEO  of  Help-U-Move,  Inc.  in 
Jupiter,  Fla. 

Julie  Brymesser  Miller  '94  is  a 
physical  therapist  at  Alexander 
Spring  Rehab  in  Carlisle,  Pa.  She 
and  her  husband,  David,  welcomed 
daughter  Emily  on  September  6, 
1998. 

Mark  R.  Morrett  '94  is  an  opera- 
tions supervisor  tor  Exel  Logistics  in 
Mechanicsburg,  Pa.  He  and  his  wife, 
Jodi,  have  one  child,  Joseph. 

Christine  J.  Seibert  '94  is  a  finan- 
cial porttolio  administrator  tor  FMA 
Advison-,  Inc.  in  Harnsburg,  Pa. 

Ritu  M.  Sharma  "94  received  a  mas- 
ter in  bioengineenng  degree  from 
Penn  State  University. 
Rebecca  Blessing  Smith  '94  teach- 
es German  and  English  in  the 
Mechanicsburg  Area  School  District, 
Mechanicsburg.  Pa. 


Christine  Walther  '94  is  a  member- 
ship assistant  at  the  Club  at  Winston 
Trails  in  Lake  Worth,  Fla. 

Mary  Anne  Yohe  '94   is  a  clinical 
research  scientist  tor  DuPont 
Pharmaceuticals  in  North  Billenca, 
Mass.  She  received  a  master  in  busi- 
ness administration  degree  from 
Mount  Vernon  College,  an  affiliate 
ot  the  George  Washington 
L'niversity  in  Washington,  DC. 

Michael  H.  Yordy  '94  and  his  wife, 
Lynda,  have  one  child,  Jeftrey. 

Elizabeth  V.  Aitken  '95  is  assistant 
group  sales  manager  tor  the  New 
York  Opera  at  Lincoln  Center. 

Kristina  A.  Brault  '95  is  a  senior 
analyst  at  Harris  Savings  Bank  in 
Harnsburg,  Pa. 

Donna  M.  Centofanti  '95  is  a 
teacher  at  S.R.P.  Bootcamp  tor  the 
N.J.  Department  ot  Corrections. 
She  and  Michael  Triantafillos  were 
married  on  October  10,  1998. 

Kent  E.  Heberlig  '95  and  Jasmine 
Reber  were  married  on  February  14, 
1998. 

George  Joseph  Hollich  III  '95  is  a 
full-time  graduate  student  studying 
language  development  towards  his 
Ph.D.  in  cognitive  psychology  at 
Temple  L'niversity  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Joan  Marsan  Johnsen  '95  is  execu- 
tive director  of  the  Lakeville  Area 
Chamber  ot  Commerce  in  Lakeville, 
Minn.  She  and  her  husband,  Eric, 
have  two  children:  Jennifer  and  Tre. 

Karen  L.  McConnell  '95,  a  CPA  for 
the  Lancaster  (Pa.)  School  District, 
and  her  husband,  Michael,  welcomed 
daughter  Kaitlyn  Elizabeth  on 
December  9,  1998. 

Duane  A.  Meyer  '95  is  senior  actu- 
arial assistant  at  Buck  Consultants  in 
Secaucus,  NJ. 

Scott  A.  Mongo  '95,  an  English 
teacher  at  Delran  Middle  School  in 
Delran,  N.J.,  is  working  on  getting 
his  first  novel.  When  Lightning  Strikes 
Twice,  published.  He  is  also  manag- 
er owner  of  the  Moorstown  Boxing 
Club. 

Adonna  M.  Moreno  '95  is  a  first- 
grade  teacher  at  Tabernacle  Baptist 
School  in  Virginia  Beach,  Va. 

Janine  Kroh  Quigley  '95  is  deputy 
warden  for  Support  Services  at  Berks 
County  Prison  in  Leesport,  Pa.  She 
and  her  husband,  Barry,  welcomed 
son  Bryce  Aaron  on  July  23,  1998. 

Kimberly  Shaubach  Rankin  '95 
received  Pennsylvania's  1998  Best 
Woman  in  Business  Award. 

Stephanie  Heagy  Rehrer  '95  and 
her  husband,  Edward,  have  two  chil- 
dren: Eddie  III  and  Anthony. 

Aaron  S.  Rush  '95  is  a  supervisor 
tor  Bovs  Club  and  Girls  Club  ot 


Lancaster,  Pa. 

Roni  J.  Russell  '95  is  the  supervisor 
of  special  education  for  Lebanon- 
Lancaster  IU13  in  Pa. 

Christopher  M.  Seiler  '95  is  a  pro- 
bation officer  tor  Dauphin  County 
Juvenile  Probation  in  Harnsburg, 
Pa. 

Angie  L.  Shuler  '95  is  marketing 
coordinator  for  Johnson  Mirmiran  & 
Thompson,  an  engineering  firm  in 
York,  Pa. 

Howie  L.  Spangler  Jr.  '95  is  an 
actuarial  consultant  with  Reliance 
Insurance  Company  in  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

Keith  A.  Stambaugh  '95  is  an 
intensive  juvenile  probation  officer 
tor  Adams  County,  Pa. 

Jennifer  Lightner  Tucci  '95,  a  spe- 
cial education  teacher  in  Frederick 
County,  Md.,  is  working  on  a  mas- 
ter's in  elementary  and  special  edu- 
cation degree  trom  Mt.  St   Mary's 
College.  Her  husband,  Danie!  Tucci 
'95,  is  a  tourth-grade  teacher  in 
Montgomery  County.  Md. 

Lori  A.  Weise  '95  is  the  case  man- 
agement coordinator  for  the  support- 
ed work  program  with  the  Lebanon 
(Pa.)  County  Housing  and 
Redevelopment  Authority. 

Michael  David  Wiggins  M'95  is  a 
trust  officer  with  Fulton  Bank  in 
Lancaster,  Pa. 

Linda  Wink  Graham  '95  is  an 
assistant  manager  tor  Good  Hope 
Familv  Physicians  m  Enola,  Pa. 

Christine  J.  Bahm  '96,  a  coun- 
selor case  manager  tor  the  Caron 
Foundation  in  Wernersville,  Pa.,  and 
James  Burrus  were  married  on 
Septembet  5,  1998. 

Matthew  R.  Bender  '96  is  a  social 
studies  teacher  and  assistant  tootbal! 
coach  at  Wilson  High  School  in 
West  Lawn,  Pa. 

Allison  G.  Brandt  '96  is  a  sales 
manager  tor  Doubletree  Hotel  and 

Golt  Resort  in  Palm  Springs.  Calif 

John  D.  Brewer  "96  is  a  sixth-grade 
teacher  in  the  Northern  Lebanon 
School  District  in  Fredericksburg, 
Pa 

Joy  Cheslock  '96  is  an  immigration 
inspector  with  the  U.S.  Immigration 
and  Naturalization  Service  in 
Newark,  NJ. 

Spencer  J.  Dech  '96  received  a 
master  ot  arts  degree  in  exercise  sci- 
ence from  Ohio  State  University  in 
December  1998.  He  is  a  research 
assistant  at  Ohio  State  L'niversity 
with  the  College  ot  Pharmacy. 

Eric  R.  Huyett  '96  and  his  wife, 
Juanita,  welcomed  son  Austin 
Daniel  on  October  24.  1998.  They 
also  have  a  son  Codv. 


Andrew  M.  Kepple  '96,  a  parish 
musician  at  Alpha  Lutheran  Church 
in  Turtle  Creek,  Pa.,  and  Tnsha  L. 
Wineman  were  married  on  July  25, 

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Donald  J.  Klunk  '96,  an  experi- 
enced assistant  for  Arthur  Anderson 
in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  Lynne  A. 
Morrell  '97  were  married  on  July 
25,  1998. 

Lawrence  W.  Moore  '96  received  a 
master  of  music  performance  degree 
trom  Pennsylvania  State  L'niversitv. 

Heather  M.  Nissley  '96  is  a 
research  teaching  assistant  in  the 
department  of  psychology  at 
Washington  State  University  where 
she  is  a  graduate  student. 

Melanie  Palokas  '96.  a  teacher  in 
the  Minersville  (Pa.)  Area  School 
District,  and  Keith  Haugh  were 
married  on  July  25.  1998. 

Charles  R.  Potter  Jr.  '96  is  a  super- 
visor in  dud  audio  mastering  tor 
Walt  Disney  Pictures  and  TV  m 
Burbank  Calit. 

Jerry  L.  Putt  '96  is  a  physics  teacher 
in  the  Winchester  (Va.)  Public 
Schools.  He  and  his  wife,  Jennifer, 
were  married  on  September  26, 
1998. 

Rebecca  M.  Ragno  '96  and  Ted 
Cituk  were  married  on  March  26, 

1999  in  Exeter,  Pa. 

Paul  E.  Richardson  '96  is  a  student 
at  the  l'niversity  of  Southern  Maine. 
He  will  receive  his  master  in  medical 
immunology  degree  in  May  1999. 

James  A.  Rightnour  '96  is  an  actu- 
arial analyst  tor  Wilham  M.  Mercer. 
Inc.  in  Glen  Allen,  Va. 

Christine  J.  Sabas  '96  is  attending 
Dickinson  School  ot  Law  in  Carlisle. 
Pa 

Brian  M.  Warner  '96  is  a  credit 

analyst  tor  the  Bank  of  Lancaster 
County  in  Pennsylvania. 

Brian  T.  Stover  '96  is  a  consultant 
tor  Information  Advantage  in 
Chicago,  111. 

Jill  C.  Schreiber  '96  is  a  third-grade 
teacher  at  Northwest  Elementary 
School  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 

Lori  Sheetz  '96  and  John  C.  Jones 
were  married  on  June  20,  1998.  She 
graduated  trom  Temple  University 
with  a  master  ot  social  work  degree 
and  is  a  case  manager  at  Nanticoke 
Memorial  Hospital. 

Trent  S.  Snider  '96  is  a  graduate 
assistant  in  the  depanment  of  chem- 
istry at  Penn  State  L'niversity  in 
State  College,  Pa. 

Michael  T.  Stamm  '96  will  pursue 
a  master  in  taxation  degree  at  the 
University  of  Denver  in  Colorado. 

Brian  M.  Warner  '96  is  a  credit 
analyst  for  the  Bank  or  Lancaster 
Countv  in  Pennsylvania. 


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Danielle  E.  Zimmerman  '96  is 
assistant  branch  sales  manager  with 
the  First  National  Bank  of  Maryland 
in  Baltimore. 

Jason  Zitter  '96  is  a  teacher  for  the 
Lebanon  (Pa.)  School  District. 

Angie  Lewis  Barbush  '97  is  a 
pharmaceutical  chemist  with 
Lancaster  (Pa.)  Laboratories. 

Steven  A.  Bubnis  '97  is  a  child 
counselor  for  Casita  de  San  Jose  in 
Orange,  Calif. 

Jennifer  Burkhart  Boley  '97  is 

marketing  manager  for  Red  Rose 
Transit  Authority  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Mary  T.  Bullock  '97  is  an  English 
teacher  at  Pennsville  Middle  School 
in  Pennsville.  N.J. 

Jennifer  Calabrese  '97  is  the  public 
relations  director  of  the 
Mechanicsburg  (Pa.)  Museum 
Association  and  a  customer  service 
representative  at  Book  of  the  Month 
Club  in  Mechanicsburg.  She  is  com- 
pleting an  assistantship  to  earn  a 
master  of  communication  studies 
degree  at  Shippensburg  University 

Annette  Sanders  Campbell  '97 

was  promoted  to  business  analyst  III 
at  AMP,  Inc.  with  their  Global 
Environmental,  Health  and  Safety 
Organization. 

Jennifer  L.  Echard  '97  and  her  hus- 
band, Alan,  have  one  child,  Abigail. 

Troy  M.  Elser  "97  is  a  financial 
advisor  with  Morgan  Stanley  Dean 
Witter  in  Lutherville,  Md. 

Denise  Falcone  '97,  a  substitute 
teacher  for  the  Carthage  Central 
School  District  in  Calcium,  N.Y., 
and  Brett  Mclntire  were  married  on 
September  12,  1998. 

Ana  Prewitt-Rodriguez  Farr  '97  is 
a  family  service  counselor  for  Family 
Intervention  Crisis  Services  in 
Bellefonte,  Pa. 

Jackie  Flanders  '97  is  a  Spanish 
teacher  and  junior  high  cheerleading 
coach  at  Eastern  York  High  School 
in  Wrightsville,  Pa. 

Tara  Lyn  Fickert  '97  is  a  research 
technician  for  Air  Products  and 
Chemicals,  Inc.  in  Allentown,  Pa. 
She  and  Christopher  S.  Everett  '95 
were  married  on  June  21,  1998  in 
Miller  Chapel. 

Dawn  Friday  '97  is  a  financial  ana- 
lyst for  Thomson  Consumer 
Electronics  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Jennifer  S.  Gorninger  '97  and 
Matthew  Afflerbach  were  married  on 
October  10,  1998. 

Carolyn  Hallman  '97  graduated 
from  Indiana  University  of 
Pennsylvania  with  a  master  in  indus- 
trial and  labor  relations  degree.  She 
is  a  compensation  specialist  at  NUF 
Company  in  Delaware. 


Bradley  S.  Harris  '97  is  a  lab  tech- 
nician at  Adhesires  Research,  Inc.  in 
Glen  Rock,  Pa. 

Daniel  P.  Henderson  '97  is  a  sound 
engineer  lor  Call  Audio  in  New 
York. 

Jason  Henery  '97  is  a  chemistry 
teacher  at  Cocalico  High  School  in 
Denver,  Pa. 

Brant  A.  Hershey  '97  graduated 
from  John  Hopkins  University  with 
a  master  of  science  degree.  He  is 
working  at  Industrial  Environmental 
Inc.,  an  environmental  engineering 
firm,  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Robert  W.  Hooley  '97  is  the  direc- 
tor of  project  development  tor  Berg 
Electronics  in  California.  He  and  his 
wife.  Holly,  have  three  children: 
Robert,  Jason  and  Stephen. 

Brian  C.  Hughes  '97  is  a  copy- 
writer and  academic  marketing 
development  director  for  Routledge 
Publishing  in  New  York,  N.Y, 
where  he  develops  marketing  plans 
to  increase  international  (English- 
speaking)  academic  adaptation  of 
texts. 

Lori  A.  Johnson  '97  is  an  associate 
microbiologist  at  Ostoetech,  Inc.  in 
New  Jersey.  She  is  pursuing  a  mas- 
ter's degree  at  Georgian  Court. 

Robyn  Welker  Keckler  "97  is  a 

first-grade  teacher  in  Ft.  Knox, 
Kentucky. 

Staci  L.  Kowalczyk  '97  is  a  fifth- 
grade  teacher  at  Annville 
Elementary  School  in  Annville,  Pa. 

Nicoletta  E.  Lagonis  '97  is  an  insti- 
tutional parole  officer  for  the 
Lebanon  County  Adult  Probation 
Department  in  Lebanon,  Pa. 

Nicole  L.  Lancieri  '97  runs  a  group 
home  for  five  autistic  boys  at 

Bancroft  Neurohealth  in 
HaddonfieId,NJ. 

Shelly  M.  Levan  '97  is  an  instruc- 
tional aide  at  Fleetwood  (Pa.)  Middle 
School. 

Kristi  S.  Lorah  '97  is  in  the  school 
psychology  Ph.D.  program  at  Lehigh 
University,  where  she  is  working  on 
an  early  prevention  project  for  stu- 
dents at  risk  for  ADHD. 

Michael  S.  McGreevy  '97  is  an 
auditor  lor  Anderson  Associates,  LLP 
in  Baltimore,  Md. 

Ryan  McKinley  '97  was  elected  to 
the  board  of  directors  for  the  Hotel 
Sales  and  Marketing  Association 
(HSMAI)  for  1999-  He  is  vice  presi- 
dent of  leasing  and  a  partner  with 
Electronic  Information  Directory  in 
Lititz,  Pa. 

Patrick  A.  Mitchell  '97  and  his 
wife,  Carolyn,  welcomed  son  Ryan 
on  February  2,  1998. 

Heather  Moran  '97  and  Shane  P. 
Campbell  were  married  on  April  18, 


1998.  She  teaches  general  music  and 
strings  in  the  Wilson  School  District 
in  West  Lawn,  Pa. 

Melissa  S.  Morgan  "97  is  a  graduate 
student  majoring  in  biochemistry 
and  molecular  biology  at  the 
Pennsylvania  State  University  in 
Hershey,  Pa. 

Robinn  Hess  Mover  '97  and  her 
husband,  David,  welcomed  daughter 
Carrington  Jeannette  on  February 
21,  1999-  They  also  have  a  daughter, 
Schyler. 

Bethany  D.  Mummert  '97  received 
a  master  in  history  degree  from 
Duquesne  University  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  and  is  working  at  the  Carnegie 
Museum  ol  Pittsburgh. 

Josiah  J.  Novak  '97,  a  sports  corre- 
spondent for  the  Lebanon  Daily  News, 
has  been  accepted  into  the  graduate 
professional  writing  program  at  the 
University  ot  Massachusetts 
Dartmouth. 

Denise  A.  Oraboni  '97  is  a  second- 
grade  teacher  in  Manalapan,  N.J. 

Timothy  M.  Ostrich  '97  is  attend- 
ing graduate  school  for  clinical  psy- 
chology at  Edinboro  University  in 
Erie,  Pa.,  where  he  is  a  teaching 
assistant. 

Aimee  Padula  '97  and  Christopher 
Mulch  were  married  on  June  6, 
1998.  She  is  a  research  assistant  for 
the  Department  of  Pathology  at  the 
Medical  College  of  Georgia  in 
Augusta. 

Pamela  Pedrick  '97  is  attending 
graduate  school  in  the  master  of  sci- 
ence program  for  counseling  at  Bob 
Jones  University  in  Greenville,  S.C. 

Jonathan  P.  Phillips  '97,  a  Navy 
Petty  Officer  3rd  Class,  recently 
completed  the  Navy's  Basic 
LTnderwater  Demolition/SEAL  train- 
ing at  Naval  Special  Warfare  Center 
in  San  Diego,  Calif. 

Christina  A.  Ranker  '97  is  a  sec- 
ond-grade teacher  in  the  Red  Lion 
School  District  in  York,  Pa. 

Jennifer  Taylor  Riner  '97  and  her 
husband.  Matt,  recently  started  their 
own  business,  A-Plus  Pressure 
Washing,  in  Harrisburg,  Pa.  They 
have  one  child,  Kyle. 

David  K.  Russell  '97  received  his 
commercial  pilot's  license  from 
Comain  Aviation  Academy  in 
Sanford,  Fla.  He  is  a  certified  flight 
instructor  for  the  academy  and 
teaches  students  from  the  mainland 
of  China. 

Elizabeth  L.  Salter  '97  is  a 
choral/general  music  teacher  at  the 
Bristol  Junior/Senior  High  School  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  She  also  sings  wirh 
the  Mendelssohn  Club  of 
Philadelphia. 

Ann  B.  Scott  '97  is  a  copywriter  for 
Hood,  Light  and  Geise,  Inc.  in 


Harrisburg,  Pa.  She  received  a  gold 
award  from  the  International 
Association  ot  Business 
Communicators  (IABC)  for  a  radio 
spot  she  wrote  for  the  Central 
Pennsylvania  Blood  Bank. 

Lynn  Thompson  '97  is  self- 
employed  by  Thompson  Child  Care 
Services. 

Melissa  Adam  '98  is  a  music 
teacher  in  the  Williams  Valley 
School  District  in  Tower  City,  Pa. 

Brooke  L.  Anderson  '98  is  a  writ- 
ing specialist  for  the  Harford  County 
Board  of  Education  in  Aberdeen, 
Md. 

Michael  J.  Barnes  '98  attends  grad- 
uate school  at  Sptingfield  College  in 
Connecticut.  He  also  works  with  the 

Llnited  States  Postal  Service. 

Keith  K.  Bender  '98  is  an  assistant 
system  engineer  for  Electronic  Data 

Systems  in  Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

Brian  C.  Berling  '98  is  a  lab  techni- 
cian for  EA  Labs  in  Sparks,  Md. 

Wendy  E.  Bieber  '98  is  a  music 
teacher  at  Little  People  Day  School 
in  Reading,  Pa. 

Melissa  L.  Bleyzgis  '98  is  group 
supervisor  at  Kiddie  Line  Express  in 
Linglestown,  Pa. 

Allison  J.  Bogart  '98  is  junket  pro- 
gram coordinator  at  Harrah's  Hotel 
&  Casino  in  Atlantic  City,  NJ. 

Elizabeth  Amy  Borders  '98  is  a 

Title  One  reading  program  teacher 
assistant  at  Glenolden  School  in 
Drexel  Hill,  Pa. 

Cheryl  L.  Brand  '98  is  employed  by 
Hamilton  County  Education 
Services  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Willy  M.  Carmona  '98  is  the  band 
director  at  Dover  Middle  School  in 
Dover,  N.J. 

Beth  A.  Carpenter  '98  is  a  teacher 
in  Nukus,  Uzbekistan  located  in 
Central  Asia. 

Stacey  Marie  Clever  '98  is  attend- 
ing The  Dickinson  School  of  Law  in 
Carlisle,  Pa. 

John  Michael  Coles  '98  is  attend- 
ing The  Dickinson  School  of  Law  in 
Carlisle,  Pa. 

Colette  Miller  Commodore  *98  is  a 
network  administrator  for  First 
Maryland  Bancorp  in  Harrisburg, 
Pa.  ' 

Angela  S.  Coval  '98  is  a  therapeutic 
support  specialist  for  United  Staffing 
Services  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Janell  M.  Cuddy  '98  is  in  therapeu- 
tic staff  support  for  Cornell- Abraxas 
in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Laura  L.  Davidson  '98  is  a  recep- 
tionist/animal technician  at  the 
Londonderry  Animal  Hospital  and 
Penn  State  College  of  Medicine  in 
Middletown,  Pa. 


34 


The  Valley 


Doing  the  Right  Thing 

By  Robert  J.  Smith 

Julie  Sealander  '86  views  public  service  as  a  responsibility, 
not  merely  an  option  in  one's  lite.  An  antitrust  prosecutor  with 
the  New  Jersey  Attorney  General's  office,  she  says  her  years  at 
Lebanon  Valley  nurtuted  her  commitment  to  service. 

"My  time  at  the  Valley  teaffitmed  my  desire  to  do  good,  to 
do  the  right  thing,  to  stand  up  for  what's  right  and  make  a 
positive  contribution,"  Sealander  recalls.  "That  belief  is  one 
reason  I've  gone  into  the  job  I  have  now — I  want  to  make  the 
world  a  better  place.  I'm  trying  to  wotk  on  the  side  of  justice 
and  make  things  better." 

An  English  and  psychology  major  at  LVC,  Sealander  worked 
as  a  journalist  for  six  years  before  attending  law  school. 

"I  received  good  ttaining  in  English  and  writing  at  Lebanon 
Valley.  They  trained  me  to  write  clearly  and  concisely,  which 
also  serves  me  well  as  a  lawyer." 

The  college's  low  faculty-student  ratio  was  also  a  big  help, 
she  notes. 

"I  really  liked  the  personal  attention  I  received,  and  the 
attention  paid  to  students,"  Sealander  says.  "In  the  English 
Department,  people  were  very  kind  and  intetested  in  my  work. 
And  I  did  a  lot  of  work,  cranking  out  papers  that  at  the  time 
didn't  seem  fun,  but  the  experience  really  helped  later  when  I 
was  required  to  put  out  a  product  on  a  deadline." 

The  Havertown,  Pa.,  native  also  noticed  a  difference  in  her 
fellow  students. 

"I  temember  I  was  surprised  that  the  students  at  the  college 
were  very  different  from  a  lot  of  other  people  I  knew,"  Sealander 
recalls.  "There  was  a  real  commitment  to  public  service,  which  I 
found  unusual  in  18-  or  19-year-olds.  It  was  a  real  change  for 
me,  one  that  I  found  inspiring." 

A  member  of  Gamma  Sigma  Sigma  sorority,  Sealander 
involved  herself  in  a  number  of  service  activities,  from  visits  to 
local  nursing  homes  to  tutoring  Cambodian  refugees.  "There 
was  a  sense  of  giving  back  to  the  community  through  public 
service,"  she  says. 

These  days,  when  not  evaluating  mergets  and  prosecuting 
monopoly-minded  corporations,  Sealander,  a  single  parent,  is 
committed  to  raising  her  seven-year-old  son,  Ethan,  and  to 
putsuing  othet  avenues  of  service. 

"I  want  to  be  active  in  children's  rights,"  she  states.  "I  have  a 
goal  of  starting  a  children's  rights  organization  at  some  point  in 
the  future.  I'd  like  to  do  something  internationally  to  make 
things  better  for  childten  around  the  wotld.  I'd  like  to  find  a 
way  to  make  needed  changes,  although  I'm  not  sure  what  form 
that  will  take  tight  now.  Luckily,  with  the  law,  thete  are  many 
different  avenues  you  can  pursue — it  gives  you  a  btoad 
petspective  on  things." 


Christopher  D.  Dean  '98  is  a  staff 
writer  tor  the  Pike  Count)  Dispatch  in 
Milford,  Pa. 

Michael  J.  Duck  '98  is  an  office 

assistant  for  AICUP  (Association  for 
Independent  College  and  University 
Presidents)  in  Harnsburg.  Pa. 

Matthew  C.  Eicher  '98  is  a  gradu- 
ate student  at  Bloomsburg 
University,  Bloomsburg,  Pa.,  major- 
ing in  exercise  science  and  adult  fit- 
ness. 

Lisa  M.  Epting  '98  is  the  children's 
librarian  assistant  at  the  Allentown 
Public  Library  in  Allentown,  Pa.  She 
is  a  graduate  student  at  Kutztown 
University. 

Lisa  L.  Evans  '98  is  a  social  worker 
in  the  dementia  unit  ot  Moravian 
Manor  in  Lititz.  Pa. 

Jon  R.  Fetterman  '98  is  an  agency 

field  specialist  tor  State  Farm 
Insurance  in  Chambersburg.  Pa. 

Matthew  A.  Flamisch  '98  is  a  stair 
accountant  tor  Nicholas  B   Bexter, 
CPA  in  Whitehouse,  X  J 

Juanita  Martin  Fox  "98  is  a  man- 
agement trainee  tor  Fulton  Bank  in 
Ephrata.  Pa. 

Timothy  A.  Frantz  '98  is  a  case 
manager  tor  Litestream  Behavioral 
Center  in  Leesburg,  Fla. 

Becky  M.  Geasey  '98  is  a  lab  tech- 
nician tor  Adhesives  Research  in 
Glen  Rock.  Pa 

Stephanie  A.  Gipe  '98  is  an  admin- 
istrative assistant  tor  Keystone 
Service  Svstems  in  Harnsburg,  Pa- 
Danielle  M.  Hall  '98  is  a  plan  coor- 
dination consultant  tor  Aetna  U.S. 
Healthcare  in  Blue  Bell.  Pa 

Douglas  G.  Haring  '98  is  attending 
graduate  school  at  the  Maryland 
Institute  College  ot  Art  in 
Baltimore,  majoring  in  painting. 

Brandy  L.  Harmon  '98  is  a  kinder- 
garten through  eighth-grade  music 
teacher  for  the  Stanley  County 
Schools  in  Norwood,  N.C. 

Jane  Kissinger  Hlavaty  '98  is  an 
assistant  volunteer  coordinator  tor 
the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital 
Homemaker  Home  Health  Agencj 

and  GSH  1  f  >spi.  .     n  Lebanon    Pa 

Barrett  M.  Irons  '98  is  a  genetal 
music  teacher  at  Spring  Ridge 
Elementary  School  in  Thurmont. 
Md 

Casey  M.  Iczzi  "98  is  an  ESL 
instructor  tor  the  Interactive  College 
oi  Technology  in  Atlanta.  Ga. 

Ann  Kane  '98  is  a  professional 

accountant  tor  Goldenberg 
Rosenthal.  IP  in  Jenkintown.  Pa. 

Michael  T.  Kiesinger  '98  is  a  sys- 
tems engineer  tor  Electronic  Data 
Systems  in  Camp  Hill.  Pa. 


Amanda  A.  Killian  '98  is  a 
physics  math  teacher  for  Tri-Valley 
High  School  in  Valley  View,  Pa. 

James  P.  Kelly  '98  is  night  audit 
manager  for  the  Ramada  Inn- 
Philadelphia  Airport  in  Essington, 
Pa. 

Daria  Kovarikova  '98  is  attending 
The  Dickinson  School  of  Law  in 
Carlisle,  Pa. 

Heather  M.  Krause  '98  is  a  thera- 
peutic recreation  assistant  at  the 
Lebanon  Valley  Brethren  Home  in 
Palmyra,  Pa. 

Michelle  L.  Krystot'olski  '98  is  a 
teacher  for  Tender  Heart  Dav  C  arc 
Center  in  Annville.  Pa. 

Susan  B.  LeBaron  '98  is  an 
employment  and  benerits  coordina- 
tor lor  Cornwall  Manor  in  Cornwall, 
Pa. 

Melissa  M.  Leedom  '98  is  a  statt 
accountant  tor  Pticewaterhouse 
Coopers  LLP  in  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Joel  A.  Lefferts  '98  is  a  bio-med- 
ical    pathology  student  at  rhe 

University  ot  Medicine  and 
Dentistry  ot  New  Jersey. 

Stefani  A.  Leiser  '98  is  an  adminis- 
trative  assistant  tor  Bailey  Banks  & 
Biddle  in  Scottsdale.  An/ 

Judith  J.  Luckenbill  '98  is  director 
of  bands  for  the  Millersville  Area 
School  District  in  Millersville,  Pa 

Michelle  V.  Luecker  '98  is  an 
employment  specialist  tor  Staufter's 
nt  Kissel  Hill  in  Lititz.  Pa 

Elizabeth  M.  Masessa  '98  is  the 
marketing  manager  tor  Protessional 
Edge,  a  placement  firm,  in  Florham 
Park.  N.J.,  and  a  weekend  deeiav  on 
WBYN  FM  107.5  m  Boyertown, 
Pa 

Kimberlv  A.  McCabe  '98  is 
employed  by  ChemSpec  Analytical 
Laboratories,  Inc.  in  Harnsburg,  Pa. 

Joanne  E.  Matusko  "98  is  director 
ot  lab  services  at  Community 
Hospital  ot  Lancaster  (Pa.) 

Svlvia  Mcssm.i  '98  is  d:n  .  tor  <■: 
operations  at  Manor  Care  Health 
Sen  ices  in  York,  Pa. 

Meiko  Mori  '98  is  an  office  secretary 
at  St  Joseph  International  School  in 
Yokohama  City,  Japan 

Miyuki  Motegi  '98  is  an  accountant 
tor  NSU  Corporation  in  Mernllville. 
Ind. 

Desiree  J.  Nguyen  '9S  is  a  psychi- 

atne  assistant  at  Philhaven  Hospital 
in  Mt.  Gretna.  Pa 

Cori  R.  Nolen  '98  is  student  pro- 
gram leader  at  Milton  Hershey 
School  in  Hershey,  Pa. 

\<  »i  el\  o  V  'i  ion   OS  :s  an  ,u  ro.iri.il 
analyst  tor  Northern  Trust 
Retirement  Consulting  Inc.  in 
Atlanta.  Ga. 


SUMMER  1993 


Hannah  Cantor  with  President 
David Pollick 


Hannah  Sachs 
Cantor: 
Keeper  of  Her 
Sister's  Legacy 

Harrisburg  philanthropist 
Hannah  Sachs  Cantor  is  well- 
known  for  her  own  good  works, 
but  she  is  best  known  for  her 
inspiring  devotion  to  her  late 
sister,  Mary  Sachs,  and  for  con- 
tinuing Mary's  commitment  to 
making  Central  Pennsylvania  a 
better  place. 

The  sisters'  story  is  one  of 
those  emerging  from  the  rich 
drama  of  American  immigration. 
It  is  the  story  of  a  family  from  Lithuania  who  created  a  better 
and  richer  life  for  themselves  in  America,  and  who  understood 
the  value  of,  in  turn,  providing  opportunities  for  others. 

Mary  Sachs  was  an  entrepreneur  who  founded  a  unique 
women's  clothing  store  in  Harrisburg  which  became  synony- 
mous with  quality.  As  she  prospered,  she  shared  that  prosperity 
with  others  and  established  a  reputation  as  a  philanthropist. 
Following  Mary's  death  in  I960,  Hannah  carried  on  her  sister's 
.  legacy. 

As  president  of  the  Mary  Sachs  Foundation,  Hannah  has 
generously  supported  projects  dedicated  to  the  welfare  of  chil- 
dren and  the  education  of  young  people — in  this  region  and  in 
Israel.  The  Foundation  has  supported  a  myriad  of  charitable 
programs  and  educational  institutions,  including  Lebanon 
Valley  College. 

Mary  Sachs  led  the  way,  and  Hannah  has  kept  her  dreams 
and  generosity  alive.  Together  they  have  had  a  tremendous  and 
lasting  impact  on  the  world. 


Melanie  L.  Osborn  '98  is  a  comput- 
er programmer  tor  Nova  Computer 
Services  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Aaron  M.  Palmer  '98  is  an  applica- 
tion development  consultant  for 
Intellimark  in  Mechanicsburg,  Pa. 

Audra  Palopoli  '98  and  Walter  R. 
Popejoy  96  were  married  on 
November  28,  1998  in  Miller 
Chapel. 

Daniel  P.  Palopoli  '98  is  a  teacher 
in  the  West  Shore  School  District  in 
Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

Amy  Parsons  '98  is  program  man- 
ager-colleges for  Best  Buddies 
International  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Joseph  V.  Pearson  III  '98  is  a  biol- 
ogy teacher  lor  Solanco  School 
District  in  Lancaster  County,  Pa. 

Melissa-Ann  Pero  '98  is  a  language 
arts  teacher  for  the  Toms  River 
(NJ.)  Regional  Schools. 

James  Philip  Pete  '98  is  a  2nd 
Lieutenant  fire  support  officer  in  the 
U.  S.  Army  Field  Artillary,  stationed 
in  Baumholder,  Germany. 


William  E.  Peters  Jr.  '98  is  a  data 

analyst/project  manager  for 
Educational  Testing  Service  in 
Princeton,  N.J. 

Jerry  W.  Pfarr  '98  is  a  graduate  stu- 
dent at  Towson  LIniversity  in 
Maryland  majoring  in  biology. 

Rachael  Rascoe  '98,  a  high  school 
math  teacher  for  the  Hilton  Central 
School  District  in  Hilton,  N.Y.,  and 
Daniel  P.  Henderson  '97,  were 
married  July  11,  1998  at  the 
Annville  United  Methodist  Church, 
Annville,  Pa. 

Deneice  Reider  '98  is  a  substitute 
teacher  in  the  Elizabethtown, 
Donegal,  and  Lower  Dauphin  School 
Districts  in  Pennsylvania. 

Jesse  L.  Reish  '98  is  a  project  super- 
visor trainee  for  Creative  Graphics, 
Inc.  and  a  research  assistant  at 
Rodale  Press  in  Emmaus,  Pa. 

Kimberly  R.  Rodgers  '98  is  a  cus- 
tomer service  represenrative  for 
United  Concordia  Companies  Inc.  in 
Camp  Hill,  Pa. 


Thea  R.  Roomer.  '98  is  a  customer 
service  representative  for  Environ 
Products,  Inc.  and  a  clinical  assistant 
with  Children's  Seashore  House  in 
Pennsylvania. 

Patricia  L.  Rudis  '98  is  in  the  mar- 
keting departmenr  at  Reprint 
Management  Services  in  Lancaster, 
Pa. 

Michele  L.  Ruczhak  '98  is  a  mental 
health  worker  tor  Horizons  in  Paoli, 
Pa. 

Robert  T.  Safko  '98  is  a  chemist 
with  the  Pennsylvania  Department 
of  Agriculture,  Bureau  of  Food 
Safety  in  Harrisburg. 

Raymond  E.  Schaak  '98  is  a  gradu- 
ate student  in  the  chemistry  Ph.D. 
program  at  Penn  State  University 
where  he  is  studying  inorganic  and 
materials  chemistry.  He  has  a 
University  Graduate  Fellowship  and 
a  Roberts  Fellowship.  Recently  he 
was  awarded  a  highly-competitive 
National  Science  Foundation 
Graduate  Research  Fellowship. 

Jeanine  M.  Schweitzer  '98  is  a  con- 
troller for  Walkin  Shoe  Company  in 
Schuylkill  Haven,  Pa. 

Deneen  A.  Seltzer  '98  is  president 
of  Zarlenga  &  Seltzer,  Inc.  in 
Palmyra,  Pa. 

Dyan  L.  Shannon  '98  is  a  third- 
grade  teacher  in  the  West  York  Area 
School  District  in  York,  Pa. 

Jeffrey  A.  Sherk  '98  is  a  floor  cov- 
ering specialist  tor  Sears  Roebuck 
and  Co.  in  Lancaster,  Pa. 

Anni  M.  Shockey  '98  and  Peter  B. 
Stotelmyer  were  married  on 
September  4,  1998.  She  is  an  admis- 
sions consultant  with  the  Brooke 
Grove  Foundation  in  Hagerstown, 
Md. 

Kierstin  L.  Shumate  '98  is  a  fifth- 
grade  teacher  in  the  Gaston  School 
District  in  Gastonia,  N.C. 

Jennifer  J.  Sinibaldi  '98  is  a  quality 
control  chemist  for  the  Cayman 
Chemical  Company  in  Ann  Arbor, 
Mich. 

Becky  S.  Slagle  '98  is  a  junior 
research  technician  for  the  Hershey 
Medical  Center  in  Hershey,  Pa. 

Jason  Z.  Slenker  '98  is  an  engineer 
for  Frederick  Lee  Lloyd  Digital 
Audio  Video  Productions  in 
Landisville,  Pa. 

Lisa  M.  Smarsh  '98  is  an  account- 
ing assistant  at  Chem-Nuclear 
Systems  in  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

David  R.  Smith  II  '98  is  a  coun- 
selor for  Berks  County  in 
Pennsylvania. 

Doug  A.  Speelman  '98  is  a  com- 
puter analysr  for  Delra  Denral  of  PA 
in  Mechanicsburg. 

Denise  Ann  Steiniger  '98  is  a  sys- 
tems engineet/computer  program- 


mer with  Electronic  Data  Systems  in 
Camp  Hill,  Pa. 

Robert  K.  Summers  '98  is  a  pur- 
chasing agent  for  G.E.  Richards 
Graphic  Supplies  in  Landisville,  Pa. 

Erica  L.  Unger  '98  is  a  research 

assistant  at  Penn  State  University, 
University  Park. 

Kimberly  C.  Weitzel  '98  attends 
the  Lutheran  Theological  Seminary 
in  Gettysburg,  Pa. 

Wendy  A.  Warner  '98  is  attending 
graduate  school  at  Thomas  Jefferson 
University  majoring  in  occupational 
therapy. 

Matthew  P.  Wary  '98  is  director  of 
music  at  the  Reformed  Church  of 
North  Brunswick  in  New  Jersey. 

Jodi  L.  Weindel  "98  and  Jeffrey 
Horst  were  married  on  July  1 1 , 
1998  in  Covenant  United  Methodist 
Church  in  Lebanon,  Pa.  She  is  a 
long-term  substitute  teacher  for  gift- 
ed children  in  grades  two,  three  and 
four  in  the  Springfield  School 
District  in  Delaware  County,  Pa. 

Pamela  M.  Wert  '98  is  a  graduate 
student  at  Westminster  Choir 
College  srudying  sacred  music. 

Barbara  E.  West  '98  is  secretary  of 
the  physics  and  chemistry  depart- 
ments at  LVC.  She  is  also  an  editor 
and  writer  with  Keeter/Cromer 
Communications,  a  firm  based  in 
Pennsylvania  and  Washington,  D.C. 
As  a  freelance  journalist,  her  articles 
have  appeared  nationally  and  inter- 
nationally in  several  Times  News 
Service  publications  and  locally  in 
the  Lebanon  Daily  News. 

Greg  M.  Wilson  '98  is  a  district 
executive  with  the  Cradle  of  Liberty, 
Boy  Scouts  of  America  in  Wayne, 
Pa. 

Jeremy  D.  Wilson  '98  is  a  commu- 
nity development  technician  for  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 
Rural  Development  in  Mill  Hall,  Pa. 

Rachel  A.  Wolgemuth  '98  is 

attending  graduate  school  majoring 
in  American  Studies  at  Penn  State 
University-Harrisburg. 

Deborah  Grier  Worley  '98  is  a 
senior  cost  and  budget  analyst  with 
Highmark,  Inc.  in  Camp  Hill,  Pa. 
She  and  her  husband,  Douglas,  have 
one  child,  Daniel. 

Davada  P.  Yarlett  '98  is  a  therapeu- 
tic staff  supporr  person  for  Human 
Services  Consultants  in  Harrisburg, 
Pa. 

Mary  Eve  Yoder  '98  is  a  sales  repre- 
sentative for  Pinnacle  Plastics  in 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 

Kathleen  A.  Ziga  '98  is  a  residence 
director/assistant  women's  basketball 
coach  at  Juniata  College  in 
Huntingdon,  Pa. 


36 


The  Valley 


ALUMNI  WEEKEND  99 


They  Came  Home  to  the  Valley. 


Alums  old,  young  and  in  between  attended  the  largest  and  most  exciting  Alumni  Weekend  ever  in  late  May.  Activities  included  a 
golf  outing,  alumni  baseball  game,  clam  bake,  picnic  barbecue,  children's  events,  class  photo  sessions  and  a  popular  Monte  Carlo 
Night.  The  Alumni  Awards  ceremony  was  a  separate  event  this  year.  Named  Alumni  of"  Distinction  were  Dr.  Kristen  R.  Angstadt  74, 
Bernerd  A.Buzgon  '59,  Dr.  Carl  Gacono  76,  Dr.  Thomas  R.  Reinhart  '58,  Helen  Ross  Russell  '43,  and  Hon.  John  Walter  '53. 

Photos  by  A.  Pierce  Bounds 


MARK YOUR 
CALENDARS 

Family  Weekend 

i 

HOMECOMING 

OCTOBER  15-16-17 

Alumni  and  parents  are 

invited  to  enjoy  the  festivities 

and  cheer  on  the  many 

athletic  teams  competing 

at  home  during  the  weekend. 

Upcoming  Alumni  Events 

August  22 

Senators  Baseball  Game 

Senators  vs.  New  Haven 
Ravens  (Seattle  Mariners) 

Picnic  at  1 1 :30 

Game  time  at  1 :05  p.m. 

September  8 

Dinner  and  Garden  Tour 
at  Felicita 

September  13-16 

New  England 
Literary  Tour 

September  24 

MBA  Tenth  Anniversary 
Dinner  Dance 

October  15-16 

Homecoming/Family 
Weekend 

November  13 

Lebanon  Valley 
Studio/Art  Gallery  Tour 

December  5 

Christmas  at  the  Valley 

Miller  Chapel 
3  and  7  p.m. 

Lebanon  Valley  College 

of  Pennsylvania 

Annville,  PA  17003 

Change  Service  Requested 


Non-Profit 

Organization 

U.S.  Postage  PAID 

Harrisburg,  PA 

Permit  No.  133