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Lebanon Valley College Magazine
Summer 2005

The Inauguration of

Dr. Stephen C .
MacDonald

,' LVC's 17th President

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Features

LVC's 17th President —
Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald

In October 2004, the Lebanon Valley College Board of
Trustees unanimously named Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald
as the College's 1 7th president. Dr. MacDonald recently sat
down with us to discuss his plans for the College.

12 Celebrations

Lebanon Valley College celebrated three historic events
during the weekend of April 29 and 30, 2005. Photographs
from the inauguration of Dr. Stephen C MacDonald,
the dedication of the Kiyofumi Sakaguchi
Mathematics Library, and the rededication of
Lynch Memorial Hall appear here and many
more can be viewed by visiting www. Ivc. edu.

16 Engagement, Infrastructure,
and Integration

Garber Science Center opened its doors in 1983,
yet plans are well underway to revitalize the center so
that LVC can continue its long-standing dominance
in traditional and emerging fields of science.

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Departments

28 Class News & Notes
45 Valley News

Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald became LVC's 17th president
on October 8, 2004. Dr. MacDonald is pictured on the
cover delivering his inaugural address on April 29, 2005.

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Oil October 8, 2004. the Lebanon Vallev

College Board of Trustees named Dr. Stephen

MacDonald as the Colleges 17th president.

MacDonald recently sat down to talk about tiJs
life and his goals for the College.

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"Since childhood, I had wanted to
become a history professor or a

teacher.

TH: Like many college presidents, you
have traveled a very interesting road since
your birth in Maiden, Mass., outside of
Boston. Did you ever dream that you
would one day become a college president?

SM: I never dreamed of being a college
president. After graduating from high
school in Lexington in 1962, I enrolled at
Boston College and lasted only five weeks.
I was only 1 7 and I wasn't mature enough
for college. I joined the Army —
clearly not a typical path to academic
administration.

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Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald, LVC's 17th president, and
his wife of 30 years, Mary Warner, recently sat for a
Valley interview at Kreiderheim.

"Creativity* and
curiosity were
abt^Jdant in our
household ..

TH: This was at the beginning of the
Vietnam War. Where were you assigned?

SM: I spent three years in the Army,
including a year in Vietnam [1963-64],
before being assigned to Okinawa
[1964—65]. Entering the Army was one
of the best things that I ever did; it gave
me a chance to mature and grow up
emotionally.

I teturned to the States in the fall of
1 965 and enrolled at Tufts University,
close to home. I was only 20 years old
then and didn't feel that I had lost much
time at all. I was always interested in history
and in the German language, so a history
major made sense.

TH: How did someone of Scots-Irish
descent from Massachusetts develop an
interest in German history and language?

SM: I have been interested in history
since I was about 7 or 8 years old and
watched the television show Victory at
Sea. It was a fascinating documentary
about World War II. It was so interesting
that history, particularly European history,
became a personal focus of mine. The

European war attracted me, and I wanted
to figure out who the Germans were.
They looked so evil and villainous
photographically that I began studying
the language and culture intimately.

Learning the language was an obvious
necessity, and when I graduated from
Tufts in 1969, I studied at the University
of Munich for a year. I took numerous
courses in language, literature, and history
to strengthen my German language skills
and returned to the States to attend graduate
school at the University of Virginia [UVA]
in the fall of 1970.

TH: Why did you choose to attend Tufts
and UVA?

SM: Tufts, aside from having an excellent
academic reputation, was close enough
that I could live at home. Having lived
in Army barracks for three years, I was
no longer interested in dorm life. UVA
offered a strong program with excellent
scholars in the field of European history.
For graduate school, the culture and
academic ideals drew me away from New
England, and it was time for a change.

TH: Did this love of learning develop
from a family tradition of higher education?

SM: My older sister, Ann, was the first of
my immediate family to complete college,
and my three other sisters, Brenda,
Mary, and Patty, went to college or
nursing school. My mother, Peg
MacDonald, attended a two-year art
school and was a draftsman for the U.S.
Air Force for 25 years. Creativity and
curiosity were abundant in our household
and the pursuit of knowledge was always
supported and encouraged. Two of my
sisters are teachers.

TH: When did you realize that you wanted
to attend graduate school?

SM: Since childhood, I had wanted to
become a history professor or a teacher.
As time went on, my desire to be a college
teacher deepened and I realized the
necessity of obtaining a doctorate in
order to achieve this dream.

After finishing my Ph.D. at Virginia, I
taught at Lynchburg College [in Virginia]
before moving into a tenure-track position
at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.
I had come full circle, retutning to New
England.

TH: I understand that you also performed
some administrative duties while at the
University of Maine. What caused this
transition?

SM: It was the proverbial case of doing
something well — administrative tasks —
and being "rewarded" with additional
administrative tasks. The fact that I
gradually moved from the classroom to
the president's office was not the result of
some preordained, or preconceived,
career trajectory.

I didn't plot it out, but as I took on
administrative tasks and seemed to be
able to do them, people began to give me
more of them. So far, I've continued to
do them well, and found that I receive a
great sense of accomplishment from this.

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I found it fulfilling as I moved from the
University of Maine to my 1 5 years at
Dickinson College.

TH: What drew you away from New
England to your first position at
Dickinson?

SM: I went to Dickinson as director of
the Central Pennsylvania Consortium
[CPC], which allowed me to oversee a
collaborative educational effort among
three national, liberal arts colleges —
Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, and
Gettysburg.

After five years of this rewarding and
successful work, I accepted an appointment
as an associate dean on the academic side

at Dickinson, which also allowed me the
opportunity to teach part time as an
associate professor of history.

As associate dean, I was able to com-
bine my administrative duties, overseeing
a variety of programs, and teach for the
next decade. I liked the program very
much and found the teaching tremendously
rewarding.

TH: What programs are you most proud
of from your time at both the CPC and
Dickinson?

SM: At the CPC, I am most proud of my
work in the development of women's
studies programs. When I arrived, there
were no women's studies programs at any

of those schools, and I was able to serve
as a catalyst to bring together the three
faculties.

Although they were also new to me, I
believe that I was a good spokesman for
the purposes of these programs. We were
able to create some critical masses in
groups of interest that in the end resulted
in the creation of women's studies programs
at all three schools. I saw the CPC as the
curricular laboratory that provided a safe
place outside the walls of the colleges
where faculty were able to test ideas and
speak candidly to each other about what
a women's studies program might look
like at a liberal arts college.

As Dickinson's associate dean, my greatest
pleasure was in helping to enhance the

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freshman seminar program at the college.
I think I strengthened it by being able to
draw more and more faculty into it and
by being able to talk persuasively about
its purposes.

The satisfaction with the program at
Dickinson was so great that I helped
begin a similar program, known as the
First- Year Seminar, (for more information
on the offerings, visit www.lvc.edu) when
I became dean at LVC. I find an excitement
among teachers in the program that
reinvigorates them; it addresses some of
the most fundamental purposes of liberal
education. I will take some modest credit
for it, although, in the end, the LVC
faculty are really doing it; they have taken
the program on as their own.

TH: After 1 5 years at Dickinson and the
CPC, what drew you to the opening for
a vice president for academic affairs and
dean of the faculty at Lebanon Valley
College?

SM: I had heard very favorable things
about LVC and was impressed by what I
saw when I visited the campus. The faculty,
students, staff, and other vice presidents
whom I met during the interview process
were all extremely friendly and inspiring.
David Pollick was president at the time
and impressed me with his ambitions for
the school.

Six years after I arrived at LVC, David
left in the spring of 2004 to take an
academic position at another school. The

"Good teaching is
not inherent in a
specific department
or major, it crosses
all programs."

Board of Trustees asked me to serve as
acting president. By the summer of that
year, after discussing the possibility
thoroughly with Mary [Mary Warner, his
wife of 30 years, is profiled on page 10—1 1],
I concluded that I was really interested in
remaining president and expressed that
interest to the Board of Trustees. The
Board conducted an evaluation process
that included alumni, students, faculty
members, and others, and asked me to
become the College's 1 7th president in
October 2004.

TH: Tell us about some of the challenges
you faced as vice president for academic
affairs and dean of the faculty at LVC.

SM: Though there were many, as can be
expected in any American institution of
higher learning, four in particular stand
out in my memory: physical therapy
candidacy and accreditation, student
advising, faculty evaluations, and curriculum
standardization and evaluation.

First, bringing the new physical thera-
py program to candidacy and moving it
toward accreditation [scheduled for
spring 2006] has been a difficult and
challenging task for the College. The
candidacy process was my first professional
experience with the program, so I have
come to understand the importance it
occupies both academically and as an
admissions tool. It forced me to become
well informed about the field and led
to the development of skills that enable
me to serve as an outside evaluator to
other physical therapy programs in the
United States. I was able to help our
physical therapy faculty put together the
documentation and reports to garner
candidacy, which will ultimately prepare
us to achieve accreditation. We have
established a strong and credible program.

Second, improving methods of student
advising was at the forefront of my goals
as dean at LVC. Working closely
with the faculty, we have been able to
improve this crucial retention process
by standardizing the system so that new

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understand — that LVC is a
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students encounter a regularized program,
one that is much stronger than it was
when I first arrived. Our students now
have a much clearer structure to follow
that helps them to succeed and to
achieve their educational goals.

Third, my work in faculty evaluations
parallels this standardization in some
ways. I was able to introduce a level of
professionalism in the area of faculty
evaluations that did not exist in 1998. By
working across disciplines and departmental
lines, I was able to clarify expectations for
how evaluations should be conducted.
Regular classroom visits by the dean have
also helped to strengthen the evaluation
process.

Finally, creating a standard course
evaluation instrument that spans all
programs has been a source of satisfaction
during my six-year term as dean at LVC.
Prior to 1998, each department had
individual course evaluation instruments.
It was a problem that was solved during
my first year. All courses are now evaluated

according to a common questionnaire.
Good teaching is not inherent in a specific
department or major, it crosses all programs.

TH: What aspects of the interim presidency
led to your interest in the possibility of
assuming the role on a permanent basis?

SM: After six years in the office, I needed
to really take a measure of myself as
dean. While serving as acting president,
I wasn't sure if I would relish stepping
relatively far away from exclusive
concentration on the academic side.

However, after visiting several prospective
donors in the president's fund-raising
capacity, I found that work to be engaging
and fulfilling. My visits were successful,
which led me to conclude that I could
tell the story of the College effectively.
Another major decision point occurred
during Alumni Weekend in 2004. Mary
and I met so many alumni and friends who
reminisced with us and shared their
fondest memories; they spoke about

events and people that affect their lives
to this day. That was overwhelming in
the most positive sense.

I realized that I understood the
College well and was able to speak about
LVC with credibility and without hyperbole.
The story of the College is an interesting
one; it doesn't need exaggeration or garnish.
It was something that I had already come
to understand — that LVC is a special place.

TH: In your opinion, what are your
major strengths as a leader?

SM: I listen well and I am genuinely
interested in the ideas of others. I have
confidence in my personal capacity to
synthesize ideas without being arrogant
about the conclusions reached. I have the
ability to give voice to people's aspirations
by using my position effectively to
express what people believe and support.
I am able to do this in a way that people
find credible and moving. Finally, I have
a strong work ethic.

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TH; Now, after sitting in the president's
chair for one year, what are your impressions
of the College?

SM: LVC has developed a clear sense of
purpose as a strong, regional liberal arts
college. It has been fortunate to have had
two strong leaders with great vision guiding
the institution since 1988, and I'm sure
before that time as well.

Working with John Synodinos who
stayed on after his presidency to serve as
a College trustee, and with David
Pollick, I was able to help articulate the
College's strategic planning goals. We
know that we want to be a College with
about 1,600 to 1,800 students and
remain primarily a residential institution.
We also want to retain the strong student-
faculty relationships that are so much a
part of our heritage.

While campus aesthetics and construc-
tion are crucial elements in the market-
ing process, we are above all a teaching
institution with faculty who strive to
be scholars in their respective fields. We
want to continue to serve the mission

that we have cherished in the past, which
is to educate people for useful and pro-
ductive careers.

TH: Following two presidents who were
interested in enrollment growth should
be both challenging and enjoyable. Do
you think that this is a good time to take
over the reins?

SM: Yes, I am stepping into the presidency
at a moment when the College's sense of
identity is coming together clearly. I feel
that this was one of the strengths of my
candidacy for becoming president. My
predecessors have laid strong foundations
and one of my strengths will be the ability
to bring continuity to the institution.

It is not a time for dramatic departures
from where we are going or from who
we are. We are not suffering any anxiety
about these things; rather, we want to
bring conclusion to the work that we
have been doing very successfully over
the terms of the last two presidencies.
But, we will by no means remain content
and complacent. We will move forward

and challenge ourselves so that we continue
to be an outstanding institution.

It is also a time for us to expand on
their efforts. New initiatives will occur as
we enrich the curriculum and develop new
programs — academic, social, and cultural.
There is also much work to be done in
order to bring the Great Expectations
Campaign to a successful conclusion. We
need to determine where we are going
next, to ask, "What is the next mosaic of
needs that ought to be addressed?"

So, in one sense — steady the course.
On the other hand — full speed ahead.
This is not a moment to relax; there is
much to be done.

TH: You mentioned the Great Expectations
Campaign; will your experience on the
academic side of the development of the
Heilman Center and Lynch Memorial
Hall be an asset as the College prepares to
renovate the Neidig-Garber Science Center?

SM: Most certainly. Before Heilman and
Lynch, I was involved with two major
construction projects at Dickinson, serving
as a co-chair for both the college's new
library and its science center. It was a
good training ground for working with
architects, faculty, and builders.

I found myself similarly involved with
the just-completed revitalization of
Lynch Memorial Hall and with the
extensive planning that has been undertaken
for Neidig-Garber. I take pleasure in that
and am comfortable working with architects
and talking about materials and design. I
like the problems that architects deal
with, and I'm able to talk as an intelligent
layman about those things.

TH: What is the status of the Neidig-
Garber Science Center revitalization?

SM: We began working with the faculty
on the plans in 2000 and have worked
with them through a number of iterations.
The original project has been transformed
with fresh ideas and the groundbreaking
is expected in May 2006. It has been

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"... everything I do is driven by a determination
to strengthen the College and to make it
better, and to preserve it so that we can fulfill
our educational goals."

carefully thought out with student-faculty
relationships, teaching, and research in
mind at all times. [Editor's Note: Please
see page 16 for a story on the Neidig-
Garber project \

Regardless, the undertaking will be a
huge challenge because of its complexity.
Science centers are always the most difficult
buildings to construct. Their infrastructures
require the solution of unique problems
such as dealing with air handling, waste
removal, water movement, gas, electricity,
and chemical storage and disposal.

This, in turn, leads to greater costs than
necessitated by a non-science academic
building. It makes elements of design all
the more critical; that would be true
under any circumstances. Because we are
dividing Neidig-Garber so that half the
building will still be used while construction
occurs on the other hall, the task becomes
even more difficult. There is a financial
advantage to this scenario derived from
not having to destroy the whole building

and being able to retain some equipment.
Conversely, this same advantage turns
into a negative in terms of not being able
to start from scratch.

TH! Aside from completing Neidig-Garber
and the Great Expectations Campaign,
what are your plans for LVC?

SM: Working with the Board of Trustees,
the College's general officers, and the
entire campus community, we have
developed a strategic plan that maps out,
in considerable and realistic detail, what
the College is going to be working on
from now until the year 2010.

This sttategic plan stemmed from the
work of an outside evaluator who came
to campus in spring 2004, when the
board, knowing that David Pollick
was leaving the College, thought it an
appropriate time to take a snapshot of
the school and see where we were and
where we expected to be going.

I have drawn on these conversations in
putting together a strategic plan that has
been tested with the faculty, administrators,
and members of the Board of Trustees.
The Board of Trustees adopted the plan
at its May 2005 meeting.

Though it has many parts that affect
all areas of the institution, a critical
element lies in the necessity to conduct
a comprehensive outcome assessment at
the College. We need to do this for the
good of the academic program. It is
going to be one of the major tasks of the
academic side. [Editor's Note: The complete
strategic plan may be viewed at:
www. Ivc. edu/alumni]

THi How do you see the strategic plan
affecting the faculty and students?

SM: Part of the plan includes developing
ways to determine what knowledge and
skills our students actually derive from
theit studies hete. I am asking all faculty to

ary Warner, wife of LVC president Stephen C.
MacDonald, knows a good story when she reads
. one — or writes one. She is an award-winning

journalist with three decades experience in her held.

Warner began her career in 1973, as a reporter for the
Associated Press in Richmond, Va., and served for two years as
AP's traveling Virginia correspondent. In that role, she covered a
lengthy coal miners' strike, the emerging empires of evangelists
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, a couple of lurid court cases,
even football games.

In 1978, when MacDonald joined the faculty of the
University of Maine at Fort Kent, the couple moved north and
Warner went to work for the Aroostook County bureau of the
Bangor Daily News. She became an expert on potatoes, basis of
the economy there. Priests blessed the harvesting machines in
the fall, she recalls, and children were out of school for a month
to help bring in the crop.

Since 1983, she has worked for The Patriot-News in
Harrisburg, where she has won several awards — including two
first-place feature beat reporting awards — in competition with

porters from the state's largest papers. Her beats have included
county courts, business, workplace issues, and now religion.

She covered the 1986 murder trial of Jay C. Smith — a case
that became the basis for the book Echoes in the Darkness by
Joseph Wambaugh and a TV miniseries. The paper sent her to
Mexico in 1993, to explore factories run by Hershey Foods and
AMP Inc., and to Rome in 2000 to cover the canonization of
Katharine Drexel, whose work among black and Indian children
included a school in Carlisle.

Warner has met some famous people in her career: Jimmy
Carter, Jerry Ford, and Nelson Rockefeller, for example. "The
stories I've found most memorable, though, involve people with
names you'd never recognize but who have fascinating things to
say," she said. "I think about the cloistered nuns I visited in

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question their current and former students
about what they need to know and what
they will be required to do when they
graduate. Once we have articulated these
things, we will be able to work back and
examine our curriculum and pedagogy.
This will provide us with a firm analytical
point of departure to better understand
our academic program and to identify
and address any shortcomings.

TH: What are your plans for the alumni
program?

SM: Judging by the overwhelmingly positive
responses from those who return for
Oktoberfest Weekend, Alumni Weekend,
and other events held on campus for our
graduates throughout the year, there are
already terrific plans in place. I don't feel
that new programs are needed, but I will be
very active in meeting friends of the
College and making new friends for the
College.

Seven "meet the president" events were
held in the mid-Atlantic region this past
year and attendance was impressive. I
enjoyed catching up with old friends and
meeting many new ones. I was able to
hear feedback, both positive and negative,
that will be helpful as I move forward
with plans for the College.

It is enjoyable to talk about what we
are doing at the College and to reassure
people that the College is in good hands. I
continue to be impressed by the love and
respect our graduates and friends have
for LVC. It is a special connection that will
continue during my tenure. There is a
sense of genuine ownership that will be
maintained and nourished. I want our
alumni to know that I have the best
interests of the Valley at heart; that
everything I do is driven by a determination
to strengthen the College and to make it
better, and to preserve it so that we can
fulfill our educational goals.

TH: This is a small liberal arts college. Is
the financial stability of LVC a concern?

SM: We need, over time, to make sure
that we have the financial resources to
continue what we are already doing well,
and to continue to improve and add to
these strengths. We can only secure these
resources by keeping faith with our
alumni, friends, and students. We are not
an institution of great financial wealth
and therefore we have to be responsible
in terms of what we ask prospective and
current students to contribute in terms
of tuition and fees.

Our real challenge is to find ways to
accomplish a great deal with relatively
modest assets. That is easily said, yet the
actual task requires an enormous amount
of attention to detail, creativity, and
resourcefulness. I am excited about the
challenge of reaching the goal I've set for
LVC: to become the best regional liberal arts
and pre-professional college in Pennsylvania.

Dr. MacDonald's inauguration address can be
read at http://www.lvc.edu/president/
inauguration/address. aspx. It will also be
reprinted in the fall issue of The Valley.

Lancaster, or the Muslim
)men who talked to me
about gender roles in
Islam, or the Mormon mis-

naries I just inter-
viewed."

Warner said she values
: entree her work affords
her, to places and people
also really revel in the hard
work of writing, making a complex story readable and real," she
said. "And I like the edgy, boisterous culture of a newsroom."

Warner said she relishes her new role at the Valley. "It's a
place I've come to know and love in the past seven years," she
said.

It reminds her of her own happy experience as a student, at
"another small liberal arts college with a pretty campus in a

pretty little town," she said. Her bachelor's degree in English is
from Hanover College in Indiana.

Warner also has a master's degree in English from the
University of Virginia, where she and MacDonald met. They
were married in the chapel on the UVA grounds in 1974.

Warner enjoys movies and music and is an avid reader. On
her nightstand now are Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon
Johnson and Dennis Covington's Salvation on Sand Mountain,
about snake-handling in the southern Appalachians. She is a
native of the Virginia mountains.

Warner and MacDonald have a son, John, who graduated
from Oberlin College in 2003. He works as development
coordinator for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program; plays
guitar for the rock band, Thinking Machines; and writes music
reviews for prefixmag.com.

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1 llC v^OlleSe hosted several historic events on April 29
and 30, 2005- Celebratory photographs from the Inauguration
of Dr. Stephen C. MacDonald, the Dedication of the Kiyofumi
Sakaguchi Math Library, and the rededication of Lynch
Memorial Hall are featured on these four pages.
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during the dedication

Site (www.lvc.edu). ceremony.

LVC honored the late Kiyofumi Sakaguchi '67
on Friday, April 29, 2005. Many members
of his family as well as former professors and
business colleagues attended the dedication.
(L to r.) Tetsu Sakaguchi and Yoshio
Sakaguchi, Kiyofumi's son and father
respectively, were joined by Dr. Stephen C.
MacDonald, LVC president, and Arthur
Ryan, chair and chief executive officer of
Prudential Financial, Inc., for the unveiling
of a memorial plaque that will be installed
in the Kiyofumi Sakaguchi Math Library
in Lynch Memorial Hall

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IVC faculty, trustees, and friends assisted President MacDonald
with the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon to kick off the
rededication ceremony for Lynch Memorial Hall.

Stephen MacDonald (far right), LVC president,

acknowledged the friendship of Dr. Suzanne H.

Arnold H'96, honorary trustee and College

benefactor (second from right), and Glenda

Synodinos (center), wife of the late Dr. John

Synodinos, LVC's 15th president, during the

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Quittapahilla Highlanders led the presidential procession after the inauguration.

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marched with Trustee Chair William Lehrjr., Trustee Vice Chair Kathy Bishop,
President MacDonald, and Elizabethtoum College President Ted Long.

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LVC students decorated President MacDonald's vehicle while he was being inaugurated

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emeritus of philosophy and retired dean of the college. MacDonald and Allan are
long-time friends.

President MacDonald and his wife,
Mary Warner, head home to
Kreiderheim after the inauguration.

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In 1899, the first biology
course was taught on the Lebanon
Valley College campus. There
was no laboratory, and students
purchased the equipment, even the
first compound microscopes used
for classwork.

Infrastructure, and Integration

Since that time, the sciences at Lebanon
Valley have made impressive strides, earning
national recognition for programs and
research, and marking each decade with
the achievements of faculty and students
alike. In the spring of 2006, another
advancement will occur as a major
reconstruction effort begins, transforming
the existing Garber Science Center into a
new state-of-the-art science center.

Dr. Owen Moe, Vernon and Doris
Bishop Distinguished Professor of
Chemistry, who joined the College in
1973, clearly remembers his department's
move to the Garber Science Center when

its doors first opened in late 1982. The
Chemistry Department had been located
in the Bender- Derickson Science Hall, a
refurbished factory located along Route
934. Although the building had a certain
nostalgic charm, Moe recalls that its many
structural inefficiencies led to a host of
challenges. Chunks of fiberglass insulation
would fall from the ceiling. It was so cold
in the labs that professors and students
needed to bundle up in boots and gloves
during the winter months.

In contrast, Moe describes the move to
Garber as a dream; "It was bright and
clean with beautiful bench tops and

Summer 2005 17

casework in oak." And, for more than 20
years, Garber has served the sciences
well. Moe seems to share the sentiment
of his colleagues when he explains that
while he's still happy with the building,
the technological infrastructure needs
work. No one, including those who
designed the 1980s Garber, could antici-
pate how much the world of technology
would change in just over two decades.

...the architects

undertaking the

renovation project,

credit some of their

design inspiration

to a program

supported by the

National Science

Foundation...

Thomas Celli of Celli-Flynn,
Brennan of Pittsburgh, the architects
undertaking the renovation project, credit
some of their design inspiration to
Project Kaleidoscope, a program supported

by the National Science Foundation that
focuses on building learning environments
that attract and sustain undergraduate
students in the study of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics.

One maxim of the program, "You learn
science by doing science," goes along
with the architects' focus on increasing
research space in the building in order to
encourage something that has long been
a hallmark of LVC sciences — faculty
conducting research side-by-side with
students.

The new plans include research laboratories
attached to all the main laboratories,
more than doubling the research space
that is currently available in Garber. The
new design also will eliminate complications
with the current floor plan, namely, the
maze of double corridors that make
offices and labs hard to find. It also will
improve the windowless design by

introducing daylight with a four-story
center atrium and two towers, as well as
with interior windows in classrooms,
offices, and laboratories.

Changes to the existing laboratory space
include new seminar rooms; additional
introductory laboratories in biology,
chemistry, and physics; and new faculty-
student research spaces. To enhance science
students' quality of life, the revitalized
building will include "zones" on each
floor where students can work on laptops,
collaborate on projects, eat, and rest. In
addition, technologically "smart" classrooms
will enable faculty to augment their
teaching by relaying information to students
from a computer/DVD/VCR by using
an overhead document camera to project
images or to show demonstrations
performed in front of the classroom.

...you learn science
by doing science."

The layout of the new building will provide
specific benefits for each department in
Garber. Dr. Scott Walck, associate
professor of physics, explains, "Our
physical resources are much more modest
than most scientists' because the nature
of what we do is theoretical and mathe-
matical." A main advantage of the new
design for him will be a computational
physics lab, a space that does not currendy
exist. "Many physical problems that really
can't be solved by hand can be solved with
the aid of computers," explains Walck.

The computational physics course, which
he teaches, currently meets in a classroom
in Lynch because the computers there
have the necessary Linux operating system.

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Because of scheduling difficulties with
the venue, the class is taught twice a
week at the unconventional time of 4 to
5:30 p.m. The new lab, as well as the
addition of a second introductory physics
laboratory, will allow for greater scheduling
flexibility.

Also, according to Department Chair

Dr. Barry Hurst, the physics'

student zone, positioned across the hall
from the faculty offices, "is a nice touch
for promoting student-faculty interaction.
If they have questions, we're right here."
Hurst considers student-faculty interaction
a current strength of the department.
"I'm impressed with the interaction
we do have with our students," he says.
"Physics is a tough subject to learn; a lot
of one-on-one discussion is needed to get
students over a roadblock or hurdle."

"There will be
some challenges,

but we're
planning ahead..."

After classes end in May 2006 and the
Garber construction effort begins, the
building will be sliced in half vertically.
The south side will be demolished and
rebuilt while the north side remains in
use. In turn, the south side will then be
opened while the north side is renovated.
Physics, the only department to vacate the
building during the construction, will
move temporarily to the lower level of
Lynch. The Biology and Chemistry

departments initially will work from the
north side of the building, then switch to
the south side until the facility is completed.

The construction plan requires at least
two full summers when the building is not
used heavily for classes. The expectation is
that the new science center will be ready
for the spring semester 2008. "There will
be some challenges," says Dr. Walter
Patton, assistant professor of chemistry
and faculty liaison for the project, "but
we're planning ahead and will be able to
meet the needs for all of our teaching
spaces during construction."

There is one department formerly
housed in Garber that has found a new
home altogether. In January 2005, the
Psychology Department relocated to the
second floor of Lynch. The move falls in
line with another point of Project
Kaleidoscope — putting science on display.

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"We're now more open, literally," says
Department Chair Dr. Lou Manza.

His office now offers a view of the entire
second floor of Lynch and overlooks the
new campus coffee bar located in the
new Synodinos Commons on the main
floor. Although the original plan was for
psychology to remain in Garber, Manza
is pleased with the move. His department
is now a cohesive unit with a library,
several research labs, classrooms, faculty
offices, and even a wireless hot spot where
students can bring their laptops.

The classrooms are equipped with smart
technology, and the wireless laptop
computer lab has doubled from 12 to 24
computers, with Manza's own computer
now hooked into the overhead system so
he can work right along with his students.
As with the other sciences still remaining in
Garber, the psychology faculty's focus on
research remains strong, and the department
will continue to work with colleagues in

...the wireless

laptop computer

lab has doubled

from 12 to 24

computers...

Neidig-Garber on psychobiology and
other projects. "Students have been
taught early on that psychology is a
research-oriented discipline," says Manza.
"We offer many research and internship
opportunities to illustrate both the scientific
and practical side of psychology, and
emphasize the importance of data-based
analyses when drawing conclusions about
behavior."

During the most recent spring semester,
Manza had eight students assisting him
with research projects. "Students truly
learn how to measure and understand
behavior; they crunch the numbers and
obtain a rational appreciation of why
events occur as they do. This, in turn,
makes them more informed consumers
of information," he explains. "Students

Summer 2005 21

may forget some of the facts over time,
but they will, hopefully, leave LVC with
an idea of how to look at behavior from
a scientific angle."

In addition to the technological upgrades
in the new science facility, measures will
be taken to improve the air quality. The
plans for the new building will place the
Chemistry Department (except for bio-
chemistry) on the top floor, where its
laboratories, equipped with multiple
fume hoods, can be vented most efficiendy.
"The general quality of life with the new
hood systems and air-handling systems will
be a tremendous improvement," says Moe.

Laboratory space also will increase, including
a new inorganic chemistry teaching
laboratory and five smaller labs dedicated
to student-faculty research. The inorganic
lab, which also will be used for teaching
freshman chemistry, will strengthen the
inorganic program and provide what the
American Chemical Society would like the
College to have for future certification in
this specialized area.

All chemistry professors soon will have
their own individual research labs, an idea
that, Moe explains, "goes hand in hand with
the research emphasis in our department."
He is optimistic about the construction
phase of the renovation process and the
effect it will have on his department.

"The general quality
of life with the new
hood systems and
air-handling systems
will be a tremendous
improvement."

"We won't miss a beat," he says. "During
the first phase of construction, we will
remain in our current teaching laboratories
on the north side of the building, and
then, when the south side is finished,
we'll move across the hall into our new
labs."

A key addition to the building will be a
biotechnology suite on the third floor
where the teaching and research areas for
biochemistry, developmental biology,
genetics, microbiology, and molecular
biology will be located. "Physically bringing
together and integrating the resources we
need in order to teach and perform research
in the life science disciplines will have
benefits we will realize immediately in the
new building. The addition of a new tissue
culture laboratory in the biotechnology
suite is but one example of how we will
be introducing new resources into the
building, resources that will direcdy impact
what we introduce students to in our
teaching and research," explains Patton.

Other space improvements include separate
laboratories for animal behavior and animal
physiology and technology-rich classrooms.
In several biology laboratories, professors
will be able to project the images they
view under their microscope onto a
screen for the entire class to view. Two
chemistry laboratories will also be of
nontraditional design, what Patton
describes as a "coffee bar" approach. In
these spaces, fume hoods are located
around the periphery of the laboratory,
while separate bench space (in the middle
of the room) is oriented toward a teaching
wall. Students will use this counter space
during pre-lab lectures, but will also have
a separate space to work on data away from
the hoods while performing experiments.

Dr. Allan Wolfe, professor of biology,
has seen many students work on research
since he arrived on campus in 1968, and
understands the importance of adequate
space for such endeavors. "You learn in
proportion to how much you work.
These students will work long and hard;
sometimes we'll have to chase them out
of the labs," he says. "A significant number
go on to medical and graduate school
because, once they get excited about this,
it's easy to convince them to go on for
more education."

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Dr. Anthony isetaig 13, co-cnair oj
chemistry, is surrounded by students who are spending the summer on campus performing scientific
research with faculty in the Garber Science Center. The students (L to r.) are Donald D. Dangle '07,
James Gasbrenner '06, Gabriel P. Johnson '05, Rayne Keeney '07, Kay Ian A. Greenwald '07, Daniel'
DeLellis '07, Alison E. Hartman '08, andAuBrei I. Weieand '08.

Faculty-student reseatch is something
that's close to the heatt of the man
who is lending his name to the new

bulding. Dr. Howard A. Neidig

43, ptofessot emeritus of chemistry,
pioneered the tradition of research at
LVC, winning the first grant of $3,000
from Research Corporation in 1948. At a
time when students simply did not carry
out research at undergraduate institutions,
Neidig would awake early on Saturday
mornings and bring orange juice and
donuts to the three or four students who
would meet him in the lab to work.
There was also a common assumption
that undergraduates could not produce
research worthy of publication. Again,
Neidig challenged this assumption and
proved it wrong when he and his
students had their research published in
the Journal of the American Chemistry
Society in 1950. This student-faculty
interaction and its corresponding success
has won significant grant dollars for decades.

Honoring Neidig by renaming the science
center the Neidig-Garber Science Center
was suggested by a study of LVC science
alumni. Time and again, successful

"Research provides students with the
opportunity to see science as it's practiced
today in the real world," says Neidig.
"Students get an opportunity to plan
experiments, carry them through, evaluate
data, and decide which experiment to
run next. This process is a way of developing
the creativity that students possess and
gives them an added dimension in future
careers no matter what their area of
specialization. A department not involved
in faculty-student research is missing an
excellent opportunity to enhance the
education of its students." Neidig is
honored to share the name of the building

with Dr. Dale Garber '18, a

in the sciences by serving for an additional
16 years as vice president and publisher
for Chemical Education Resources,
which published chemistry lab materials
for use in colleges and universities. He has
also maintained his close connection
with the College by participating in the
selection process for new science faculty,
maintaining extensive correspondence
with alumni, and serving with his wife,
Helen, as honorary co-chair of the Great
Expectations Campaign. Dr. Neidig also

serves with Dr. Ross W. Fasick '55

as co-chair of the Science Initiative.
Fasick is the immediate past chair of the
LVC Board of Trustees.

"Students get an opportunity to

plan experiments, carry them

through, evaluate data, and decide

which experiment to run next."

graduates spoke of Neidig's dedication
and life-altering mentoring. The connection
between teaching, mentoring, and
involving students is not lost on the new
building's namesake.

Philadelphia medical doctor whom he
describes as "an outstanding family
physician who was deeply concerned
about the education of all students."

Although Neidig retired from teaching at
the College in 1985, he remained active

While the new science facility will
undoubtedly be an attraction for
prospective students and their parents,
Neidig acknowledges that physical
changes are only one aspect of what is
needed to continue to make the sciences
at Lebanon Valley great. "A successful
science program needs a modern-day
building and facilities, an energetic and
inspiring faculty, and students who are
eager to learn." With the completion of
the Neidig-Garber Science Center,
strength in the sciences will be synonymous
with Lebanon Valley College for a long

time to come.

Mary Beth Hower is a freelance writer from
Lebanon. She is the former director of media
relations for LVC and currently serves as
advisor to the Quittapahilla yearbook staff.

24 The Valley

The Great Expectations Campaign

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS

ore than 300 alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of Lebanon
Valley College joined together for the dedication of the revi-
Ltalized Lynch Memorial Hall on Friday, April 29, 2005. The
ceremony marked the completion of the third building project of the
Great Expectations Campaign. In addition to new technology-enabled
classrooms, a lecture hall, and numerous faculty offices and research
rooms, the revitalized Lynch boasts the 3,200-square-foot Synodinos
Commons, an open gathering area where students and faculty now min-
gle. The two-and-a-half-story central atrium, named by Dr. Suzanne H.
Arnold H'96 in memory of the late LVC President John A. Synodinos,
floods the central core of Lynch with natural light.

At the center of The Synodinos Commons is the new LVC coffee bar,
which was made possible through the "Give a Little, Get a Latte" initia-
tive. More than 500 recent graduates, alumni from the last ten years, came
together to support the creation of the coffee bar as a gift to the current stu-
dents of LVC. Those who gave through this project are recognized on
tiles that line the entry way to The Synodinos Commons. For more
information about the "Give a Little, Get a Latte" initiative, or to see
who is saying, "Thanks a Latte!," please visit www.lvc.edu/latte.

With the Lynch Initiative completed, campus construction now switches
focus to the Garber Science Center. The upcoming creation of the new
Neidig-Garber Science Center will transform the current building into a
state-of-the-art undergraduate science facility. An innovative design will
support greater opportunities for faculty and students to collaboratively
pursue a research agenda that is becoming the hallmark of leading
undergraduate science programs in the United States. Construction is
scheduled to begin in spring 2006.

For information about the Great Expectations Campaign, please visit
www. lvc.edu/campaign.

Great Expectations as of May 31, 2005

Gifts to Date

Capital Construction $18,704,276

Endowment $15,350,053

Current Operations $10,282,124

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By Ed Novak

When Adrienne Nye D'07 gives admission tours to prospective students,
she often entertains as many questions about her background as about the
campus. Hailing from Gallup, New Mexico, a town of 20,000 bordering
Arizona, she is enrolled in LVC's physical therapy six-year doctoral program.

People ask her if she speaks Spanish (no), about the reservation (82 percent
of the students in my high school are Native American), the tourism {about
20,000 visitors on the weekends come to see things like Tuesday rain dances
during the summer), and how she came to Lebanon Valley (it is one of the
top five programs in physical therapy, my dad's boss recommended it, and I
wanted a change of scenery).

She can also tell them about studying history, politics, literature, language,
and jazz for a semester at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy, with about a
dozen other Lebanon Valley students — even though she had never before
spoken or studied
Italian. "The first day I
cried," she says, "but I
was with students from
all over the world who
also did not know
Italian. We figured it out.
Now I know that I can go
anywhere."

Nye can also discuss
her experience of
working in an orphanage
in Africa this past winter.
Through research on the
Internet, she met a

church group from Houston, Texas, that
was going to work at Into Abba's Arms, an
orphanage outside of Nairobi, Kenya, for
children whose parents had died from
AIDS-related illnesses. "There were ten
children in the orphanage," Adrienne recalls. "I taught them music, played
games with them, and drove them to school. They were amazingly loving."

She seems perfectly suited for her course of study. "My father is vice
president of a hospital," she says, "and I volunteered as a candy striper
when I was in high school. I always knew I would end up working in a hospital
setting." Her foreign experiences, however, have broadened her perspective
on the future. Her work in Kenya has given her a desire to work with children
while her study in Italy has her considering working in another country whei
she finishes her degree.

Adrienne Nye D'07 (center, holding
child) volunteered for Into Abba's
Arms in Nairobi, Kenya, during the
most recent winter break.

Ed Novak is a writer and consultant living In Harrisburg. He wrote six
the profiles that appear in this issue.

NOTE: All locations are in Pennsylvania
unless otherwise noted.

Lenny the Leopard

Dave Neiswender '53 responded to Gino
Trosa's '06 request for stories about Lenny
the Leopard.

Dave wrote: I really enjoyed the little article
on Lenny in The Valley and wish you well
on your quest for more information. I was
at the Valley from 1949 to 1953 and
remember Lenny well. At that time we
knew him as Tyrone Tabby. He resided in
the Tyrone Laboratory (or Museum) on the
third floor of the Ad Building. I recall he
did a good bit of traveling considering that
he was stuffed! We suspected that he may
have covered more territory after he was
dead than he did before. He regularly visited
the girls' dorms where he would wait for the
first coed to come out the front door for
classes in the morning.

My favorite story about him supposedly took
place a few years before I was on campus.
With assistance from some of his friends
from campus, he managed to make his way
to the Lebanon Post Office late one night
and hid behind a column at the main door.
The first customer the next morning was a
little old lady who walked up the steps, saw
Lenny, and began to scream. A Lebanon
policeman was at the nearby intersection
and, hearing the screams, ran over to the post
office and emptied his service revolver at
Lenny. Not a bullet hit him.

I hope you can track down our old friend
and restore him to his rightful position of
dignity. Good luck.

LVC Alumni Pass
Actuarial Exams

The following LVC alumni successfully
completed the indicated professional actuarial
examinations in November 2003.

Interest Theory, Economics, and Finance:
Laura Erdman '06, Andrew Greenawalt
'06, and Mitchell Waddell '06

Actuarial Models: Bill Bainbridge '03,
Amanda Ensinger '03, and Laura Lagler '06

Actuarial Modeling. Jason Clay '04 and
Amy Shoemaker '02

Application of Basic Actuarial Principles:
Jacob Tshudy '98

Health, Group Life, and Managed Care:
Michael Ridler '00 and Poo Foo See '97

Advanced Ratemaking, Individual Risk
Rating Plans: Ryan Diehl '95

28 The Valley

On June 7, 2004, Irma Keiffer Shearer '38
and Dr. Daniel L. Shearer '38 celebrated
their 65th wedding anniversary.

Amy Melnhardt Melson '39 is enjoying her
retirement by playing piano for activities,
programs, and services in the chapel of
Indian River Estates in Vero Beach, Fla.

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Dorothy Landis Gray '44 is prologue chair
for the Sarasota, Fla., Opera Guild.

On July 25, 2004, Harlan A. Daubert '49

and his wife, Jeanne, celebrated 50 years of
marriage with a party at the Lebanon
Country Club. Their children, Suzanne
Daubert Fox 77, Alison Daubert '84, and
Aaron Daubert '93 were in attendance.

In June 2004, Joseph D. Rojahn '50

received an honorary diploma from
Dallastown Area School District. The
school board recognized him for his success
in life and for his service to children and to
the community. He is also an accomplished
vocalist who has written more than 70
choral works.

Pierce A. Getz '5 1 was honored by the
American Choral Directors Association of
Pennsylvania with the Elaine Brown Award.
This prestigious award is granted annually
to a conductor for outstanding contributions
to the choral art and influence throughout
Pennsylvania. Pierce was nominated by
Anthony T. Leach '73, who was unable to
present the award due to prior responsibilities
as guest conductor of a world youth choir
in South Korea. Richard W. Fowler '72
presented the award to Pierce.

Ruth Anne Brown Zimmerman '51 traveled
back to Southeast Asia to rekindle ties at the
Trinity Theological Seminary in Singapore,
where she served several tours of duty as
choral director and voice teacher.

John Sant'Ambrogio '54 started a seminar/
retreat, Arts for the Soul, in Steamboat
Springs, Colo., for adults who love the arts
and nature. John is also in his 37th year of
playing first cello in the St. Louis
Symphony.

Stanley F. Imboden '55, H'88 was elected
rector emeritus of historic St. James
Episcopal Church in Lancaster.

Master

Shop

B Y E D N OVA K JL

History and heritage are what drew John Boag Jr. '80 to
Lebanon Valley College. His grandfather, both parents, a sister,
and his brother-in-law all attended. He entered college as a
history major because of his interest in old things. So it
would seem only natural that, three days after graduating
from college, Boag began work in a museum.

For the past 20 years, he has served as an educator and craftsman at
Colonial Williamsburg (CW) in Virginia, where he is master of the wheel-
wright's shop. "It is the only place where I could seriously study 18th century
pre-industrial technology and practice a trade using those methods," he
says of CW, which employs over 3,000 people and hosts about 800,000
visitors each year.

In this post-industrial, information age, Boag likes the individuality of
hand-made things. Each day, Boag dresses in attire of the 18th century and
works in what he calls a "living museum." He does not go into character for
his work, but "visitors are looking in on the 18th century."

Modern ways and technology have interesting ways of injecting themselves
into his work. The two apprentices in his shop are not 14-year-old waifs
who work for nothing and live with the master — as they did in olden days.
Rather, they are adults with resumes who must interview after responding
to job postings (Boag apprenticed in the wheelwright's shop for six years).

Modern science is used throughout the town, which is home to about
500 buildings (88 of which are restored originals). "When we replant gardens,
we use high-power microscopes to analyze soil to get an idea of what
pollen is in the ground so that we can replicate plantings from hundreds of
years ago," he says.

Boag is the father of two teenagers, who are both active in the CW education
program. "In the summer, my son makes bricks and my daughter works in a
house," he explains.

"I like the challenges of the craft and educating visitors and school
groups," he says. "I also learn something new every day and I may be the
only person in the country who does what I do at this level. And my wife
thinks it's cool."

Summer 2005 29

class news & notes

By Ed Novak

/<>«pA "Dr. B"Brechbill '57

In the past decade, mention of the
Milton Hershey School in the media
usually focused on controversy as
the school's board of managers
attempted to make changes at the
school that have been opposed by a
powerful group of alumni. "People
did not object to the efforts to
update programs," says the school's
longtime curator, Joseph "Dr. B"
Brechbill '57, "but they objected to
what they viewed as attempts to
make the school into something the
founders of the school never intended."
In order to help everyone understand
the forces behind the founding of the
school and its historical mission, Dr.
B set out to write a book about the
school he has served for more than

40 years as teacher, counselor, and administrator. "The Hershey family and

my own family came to this country about the

same time for reasons of religious freedom,"

he says. "I felt I had an understanding of

the forces in religion and philosophy that

formed the attitudes and values of the

Hersheys."
After six years of research and writing, Dr.

B finally published the history, his first book,

titled It Was Kitty's Ideal. "The acceptance

of the book and appreciation expressed for

putting the real story together has been, without exception, positive," he says.
This is a very different course than Dr. B had intended after leaving a

farm across the Yellow Breeches Creek in York County more than a half

century ago. He served in the U.S. Air Force for three years in Japan during

the Korean War, married Lois Hilsher (to whom he has been married for

53 years), and entered LVC with the intention of ultimately going to law

school.
"Lebanon Valley gave me an understanding of life and that understanding

helped me find a starting point for a life of service to others," he says.

"However, I still have a desire to become a lawyer, just to say I met the goal."

"Lebanon Valley
gave me an
understanding
of life..."

Joan Conway '57 is artistic director of the
Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck and
Herrick District Library Concert Series in
Holland, Mich. She also teaches private
piano lessons.

Bernerd A. Buzgon '59 was named to
Philadelphia Magazine's "Pennsylvania Super
Lawyers 2004: The Ultimate Guide to the
Best Attorneys in Pennsylvania."

Semi-retired, Douglas A. Ross '60 teaches
online business courses for the University of
Phoenix and also runs Ross Associates, a
consulting business in Sarasota, Fla.

Peter H. Riddle '61 has published his fourth
novel, Running Away, a study of an aging
university professor afflicted with Alzheimer's
disease, which has been nominated for a
Governor General s Literary Award and the
Thomas Raddall Prize for Fiction in Canada.

On May 31, 2004, Gary Myers '63 retired
from the Forest Products Laboratory of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest
Service in Madison, Wis. Gary was a
research scientist in the field of wood fiber
utilization for more than 38 years.

Bonnie Weirick Carl '65 is a tutor for
Sylvan Learning Center in Florida.

Malcolm L. Lazin '65 is executive director
for Equality Forum, Philadelphia, and is a
member of the LVC Board of Trustees.

Retiring after 3 1 years of teaching, David
W. Leigh '65 now manages the family's tree
farm in Belgrade, Maine, and teaches classes
at Kennebec Valley Community College.

Richard L. "Dick" London '65 is director
of actuarial science for the University of
Connecticut.

Gail Muritz Oberta '65 is chief executive
officer for Universal Health Services in
Liberty Hill, Texas.

After 38 years of service, George J. Hollich
Jr. '65 retired from Milton Hershey School.
He was inducted into the inaugural 2004
Spartan Hall of Fame, and was honored for
founding and serving as a faculty advisor to
the Spartan Players for 25 years.

Karen M. Poorman '65 is a broker/
salesperson for Pru Fox and Roach Real
Estate in Mercer County, N.J.

Harrison D. Woodruff '65 is busy in his
retirement as commander of Warrington
Auxilary Police and as chairman of
Community Service Memorial, Doylestown.

30 The Valley

In May 2004, Donald B. Kitchell '67

celebrated 14 years as pastor of Lite
Tabernacle Oneness Messianic Pentecostal
Church in Gladewater, Texas.

Congratulations to Larry J. Painter '67 for

being selected as the Colorado Springs
Gazettes Education Teacher of the Year for
2003-2004.

In 2004, Richard W. Wentzel '67 retired as

administrator of Lebanon Catholic School.
He is currently a full-time pastoral assistant
at Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary
Parish in Lebanon.

Darryl Brixius '68 is an instructor for
Columbus State Community College in Ohio.

Jay Mengel '68 has been appointed to the
Mississippi Governor's Nature-Based
Tourism Task Force.

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Gregory Myers '70 is a superintendent in
the Wyoming Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church for the Wilkes-Barre
district.

In June 2004, Jo Ann Yeagley '70 retired
from the Lebanon School District after
teaching for 34 years at Henry Houck
Elementary School and at the Lebanon
Middle School.

John "Buzz" Jones '72 brought The Buzz
Jones Sextet to Music Gettysburg, a year-round
free concert series featuring international
and local musical artists, presenting a free
concert in the chapel of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary. Buzz is music
department chair and director of the Jazz
Ensemble at Gettysburg College. He is a
published composer who has earned seven
ASCAP Standard Awards for contributions
to the field of educational music.

Lawrence M. Larthey '72 is principal of
the Penn-Kidder Campus in the Jim Thorpe
Area School District in Albrightsville.

Gail Pepe '72 is an administrative assistant
for Eugene J. Alphonse, CPA, in
Middleburg, Fla.

Kathleen A. Bangert '73 is the assistant
regional director for external affairs with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services for the
Northeast Region in Hadley, Mass.

Ruth Nickerson Rittmann '73 has

established Rittzy Productions, LLC, a
costume and rental business in New Jersey.

John S. Kinsella '73 is eastern regional
director for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Investigative and Enforcement
Services in Raleigh, N.C.

With a Little Help
from Her Friends

By Ed Novak

When Deborah Strickler Freer '71 arrived on campus in the late 1960s, her
world must have seemed perfectly ordered. She remembers that women could
not wear slacks to class and had to dress for dinner. There were set hours in
the dorms. She and the other members of the women's basketball team wore
skirts.

Then she met a group of women that included
the late Martha Schreiber Morgan '71,
Catherine Johnson Auten '71, Nancy Hummel
Park '71, Theresa Featherstone DePiper '71,
Jane Snider, Carol Grove Miller '71, and
Nancy Hendrickson Weiman '69. They often
talked late into the night about the universe and
life, learning about each other and themselves,
and about changing their world.

"Those sessions with an extraordinary group
of people were truly an education," she recalls.
"It was the '60s, a very exciting time to be a
student. We began to see a lot of questions
being asked about the Vietnam War and about
social institutions." By her junior year, she
recalls, "students were wearing combat boots
and camouflage, and had keys to the dorms."

Change in her life only accelerated after
college: she traveled to France to study at the
Sorbonne and to New York to study urban
planning at Columbia University. She moved to
Denver, Colo., for a few years, got married, and
then returned to Lebanon with her husband,
Peter, to raise a family.

At the age of 31, however, with three children not yet old enough for
kindergarten, Freer was diagnosed with breast cancer. "My prognosis was not
good," she remembers. She traveled to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston, Texas, to receive a new type of aggressive chemotherapy. The treatment,
which is now common, saved her life.

"I felt a tremendous pressure to stay well while my kids were young," she
says. "Now that they are grown, everything is a joy."

These days Freer volunteers a lot, serving on the boards of Good Samaritan
Hospital and WITF, the Central Pennsylvania public broadcasting station. She
also is involved with PA Breast Cancer Coalition. "I want to encourage women
to be aggressive about their health," she says. "If they are diagnosed, they
need to take charge of their disease through knowledge. Something
powerful can come out of a difficult struggle that adds richness and a sense of
purpose to life."

Her friends from college are one aspect of her life that has not changed.
"We remain friends to this day, sharing joys and concerns," Freer says. "When
I was down with my illness, they lifted me up."

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Jill Greenstein '74 owns a Merle Norman
Cosmetics studio in Lancaster.

Patricia Hamilton Tison '74 is fulfilling a
lifelong dream by serving as teaching director
at New Country School, a private alternative
school in West Baldwin, Maine.

Melanie A. Wilson '74 opened The Center
for Weil-Being in Bryn Mawr.

Wendie Gingrich Zearfoss '74 has published
her first novel, Tempered in the Fire.

Kathie Diehl Bittenbender '76 has retired
after 27 years of teaching music. She is
director of the hand bell choir at First
United Methodist Church in Mechanicsburg.

Stephen Sachs '76 is a professor of piano
and music choir at Belhaven College in
Jackson, Miss.

Diane Schlicher Bernard '77 is senior project
executive at IDX Systems Corporation in
Florida.

Leanne Kline '77 is director of regulatory
services for[AU: something missing here?
Where is Leanne employed?]. Leanne
monitors regulatory compliance, prepares
for inspections, and responds to regulatory
inquiries and investigation and support.

Brian E. Rabena '78 is territorial sales
manager for Glatfelter Insurance Group
in York.

Alfred E. Maree Jr. '79, sales manager for
Lucas Lane Inc. in Reading, along with his
wife, Ann, raised over $8,000 for the Lance
Armstrong Foundation's Peloton Project.
They also traveled to Austin, Texas, in
October, where they joined 6,500 other
bike riders in the Ride for the Roses, an
annual fundraising event sponsored by the
Lance Armstrong Foundation and the John
Wayne Cancer Foundation.

Karl E. Moyer '80 has published a new
setting of the English carol "This the Truth
Sent From Above."

Rick Nath '80, manager of environmental
programs for CSX Transportation, was honored
in October 2004 for receiving the 2003
American Association of Railroads
Environmental Excellence Award for
Professionals. Each year, one environmental
professional from North American railroads
is recognized for outstanding professional
achievements within the field of environmental
management. Rick was recognized in a
ceremony held at the University of Illinois
in Urbana.

Raymond J. Boccuti '81 is superintendent
for Jenkintown School District in Bucks
County.

Jill Shaffer Swanson '81 is director of
information for JR Rodgers & Associates
Inc., a Dale Carnegie franchise for
Western/Central/Northeastern
Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley of New
York, Wisconsin, and Nevada.

Eva Greenawalt Bering '82 is vice president
of resident services for Landis Homes in
Lancaster.

Philip W. Holzman '82 was recently elected
dean of the newly formed Prairie Lakes
Chapter of the American Guild of
Organists.

Timothy J. Wolf '82 is a pastor for New
Horizon Christian Fellowship in Cherry
Hill, N.J.

Michael W. Laporta Jr. '83 is assistant
principal at Nitschmann Middle School in
the Bethlehem Area School District.

Carolyn Dickerson Bradford '85 is a program
analyst for L3 Communications in
Williamstown, N.J.

Jane Rupert Dutton '85 is director of
ministries at Living Waters United
Methodist Church in Lancaster. Jane was
named the 2004 Administrator of the Year
for her work in community mental health
by the Mental Health Association of
Lancaster County.

Cindy Mathieson Geib '85 was appointed
chair of the Keystone Alliance of Paralegal
Associations for the second year in a row.

Elizabeth Gross Swartz '85 is president of
Betsy Swartz Fine Art Consulting Inc. in
Bozeman, Mont.

Kathleen Yorty Thach '85 is a K-8 guidance
counselor in a private school in Winston
Salem, N.C. She is also a private-practice
mental health counselor licensed by the
state of North Carolina.

Julie A. Kissinger '86 is vice president of
finance for Cloister Wash & Lube Car
Wash in Lancaster.

Ronald A. Hartzell '87 is vice president for
National Penn Bank in Pottstown. Ronald is
responsible for marketing research, database
marketing, deposit product development,
and retail target marketing.

Joanne M. Janeski '87 married Robert P.
Adams on Oct. 18, 2003, in Wicomico
Church, Va.

Ingrid Peterson '87 is a special education
teacher at Decker Elementary in Las Vegas,
Nev.

James Reilly '87 is an eighth-grade social
studies teacher at the Milton Hershey
School in Hershey.

On June 18, 2004, Catherine Waltermyer
Boyanowski '88 and her husband, Mark,
welcomed the birth of their third child,
Abigail Elizabeth.

Vincent Bulik '88 is the director of
corporate partnerships for the Lancaster
Barnstormers, a professional, minor league
baseball team, and will be responsible for
corporate sales and new business development.

Rebecca Chamberlain Kreischer '88, a

life-sharing coordinator for Keystone
Residence in Harrisburg, and her husband,
Cody, welcomed a son, Foster John, into
their family on March 18, 2004.

Janet Gehrig Russo '88 is customer service
manager for Duofold in Tamaqua.

Lori Stortz Heverly '89 is a medical
committee member of the Group
Underwriter's Association of America. Lori
was also a speaker at the November 2004
GUAA Conference in Las Vegas, Nev.

Barbara Lowie Hicks '89 has been promoted
to director of facilities in the athletic
department at the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore.

Renee Lopez '89 is a controller at
Ausherman Development Corporation in
Frederick, Md.

Jennifer Lord '89 has earned a Master of
Arts degree at Teachers College, Columbia
University.

Theresa Leach Montgomery '89 is a

kindergarten teacher for the Bedford Area
School District.

Douglas L. Nyce '89, '91 has been named
assistant director of the Pennsylvania
Governor's School of Excellence in
Teaching.

Edwina R. Travers '89 is the learning
resource center manager for Delaware
Technical and Community College in
Dover, Del.

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Paul J. Bruder '90 is a partner in the
Harrisburg law firm of Rhoads & Sinon
LLP. Paul practices environmental law,
construction law, and commercial litigation.

D. Scott Carey '90, administrative director
of LiberryHealth's Jersey City Family Health
Center, recently completed the oversight of
a year-long project to implement a new
drug pricing program and pharmacy. New

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Jersey's acting governor, Richard Cody, and
Commissioner of Health Dr. Fred Jacobs,
attended the announcement. Scott later
presented the program at the New Jersey
Statehouse.

Todd A. Hess '90 is a partner with Amerman,
Hess and Ginder, P.C., in Lebanon.

On June 2, 2004, Stefanie Wilds Keyte '90

and her husband, Steven, welcomed a third
daughter, Lauren Debra, into their family.

On July 21, 2004, Edward F. Wirth '90 and
Anne Wolf Wirth '90 welcomed a second
child, Joshua Sarvas, into their family.
Edward is working for the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as
a research biologist. Anne is pursuing a
nursing degree in Charleston, S.C.

On Nov. 21, 2004, Karl D. Liedtka '91
and his wife, Jennifer Peters Liedtka '92,

M'OO welcomed a son, Jack Christopher,
into their family.

Nicole Grove Brubaker '92 is a physical
therapy aide for the Physical Therapy
Association of Manheim.

Susan Leonard McClain '92 is a clinic
manager for Rehabilitation Consultants Inc.
in Wilmington, Del. Susan is a member of
the Delaware County Athletic Hall of Fame
for field hockey.

Michelle Smith Moore '92 is a senior case
manager for Chase Brexton Health Services
in Maryland.

Gary V. Nolan '92 is director of agronomy
for Championship Golf Management in
West Cornwall Township. He is responsible
for establishing company-wide maintenance
standards.

On March 29, 2004, Douglas E. Prowant

'92 and his wife, Janice, welcomed a son,
Dexter Gabriel, into their family. Douglas is
elementary technology coordinator for
Mount Union Area School District.

On Aug. 5, 2004, William James Rossnock

'92 and his wife, Sandra, welcomed a
daughter, Molly Elyse, into their family.

Lori K. Rothermel, M.D., '92 is a member
of the medical staff of Evangelical
Community Hospital and has successfully
fulfilled the certification requirements of the
American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Cherie Lingle Van Zant '92 and her husband,
John, welcomed Jordan Elizabeth into their
family on July 9, 2004.

On July 31, 2004, Christa Wachinski '92

married Robert Snyder at Saucon Valley
Acres in Bethlehem. Christa's sister,
Melinda Wachinski KJeppinger '93, was
matron of honor.

Citst

Thomas E.
Whittle '70

By Ann Hess Myers

In 1970, when Thomas E. Whittle graduated from Lebanon Valley College,
job opportunities for physics majors were somewhat limited. Little did he know
that his first job as a lab technician at Lebanon Waste Water Treatment plant
would lead to a career as a wastewater treatment engineer, first as an employee,
and later as an entrepreneur, consulting with wastewater treatment facilities
across the country. But his interest in water quality didn't stop with wastewater
treatment systems. Clean water is also essential for his favorite sport, fly fishing.

"My father gave me my first bamboo fly-fishing rod when I was 10. I have
been an avid fisherman since that day." Several years ago, Whittle took the
entrepreneurial skills he learned from founding CET Engineering Services in
Harrisburg and applied them to his childhood love
of fly fishing. Today, with his second and much
smaller business, Stony Creek Rods, he makes
about 10 custom bamboo fly-fishing rods a year.
While CET, founded in 1979, is a full-service engineering
company with 65 employees and three offices,
Stony Creek Rods is decidedly more laid back.

Whittle collects, restores, and makes the bamboo
fishing rods by hand. "Each rod takes about 80
hours to complete. I begin with a 12-foot long piece
of bamboo that is split into smaller sections and
beveled into triangles. The beveled triangles are
glued together to form the rod blank," he explains.
He finishes the rod-making process with nickel silver
ferrules and wood reel seats turned on this lathe.

Whittle also had a hand in establishing the
Pennsylvania Fly-Fishing Museum Association
(PFFMA), which sponsors exhibits at the Allenberry
Resort Inn & Playhouse on the Yellow Breeches
Creek in Boiling Springs and at the Brown Library in

Williamsport. The association is dedicated to promoting and preserving the rich
heritage of fly-fishing in Pennsylvania, and to educating the public about its rivers,
stream, lakes, and the importance of conservation of the aquatic life within them.

Improving water quality is what Whittle has been doing for years with his
engineering firm. Whittle believes in "making bugs happy" by using aerobic
and anaerobic bacteria for the biological treatment of wastewater. He was the
chief operator of the Swatara Waste Water Treatment Plant when Gannett Fleming
recruited him to start up a new group overseeing operations to support their
engineering staff. With years of experience under his belt, Whittle founded CET
26 years ago. The company began its operations by helping wastewater treatment
plants to operate more efficiently. Clients include municipal areas within a two-
to-three hour drive from Harrisburg as well as industrial clients all over the
country. Hershey Food and Hanover Foods are some of his company's oldest clients.

When he can get some time off, Whittle particularly enjoys fly fishing on the
shallow flats of Mexico, and always practices catch-and-release conservation.
For more information on the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association,
visit www.paflyfishing.org.

The PFFMA is a federally recognized nonprofit and an all-volunteer organization.

Ann Hess Myers has been LVC's director of alumni programs since 1998.
She has been a visiting instructor in sociology at Dickinson College.

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Tom Corbett '71

By Ann Hess Myers

With an awesome View of the city, the Capitol complex, and the
Susquehanna River, the attorney general's office on the 16th floor of Strawberry
Square in Harrisburg suits Tom Corbett '71. Corbett has had an interest in
politics and a fascination with government ever since his days at the Valley.
Corbett's introduction to Lebanon Valley College started when his father,
Thomas, served as deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Corbett's father became acquainted with former College

President Frederic K. Miller, who, after leaving the College,
took the job of commissioner of higher education for the
Commonwealth. "President Miller suggested that I take a look
at LVC," said the younger Corbett.

"At LVC, Dr. Alex J. Fehr '50, my political science professor,
encouraged me to pursue my political aspirations and guided me
along the way," Corbett recalls. "I remember being challenged
by great professors. Nobody taught history like Dr. Elizabeth
Geffen. I appreciated the opportunity to be an athlete, to
develop my own character, and to bond with people who have
become lifetime friends."

After graduating from LVC and receiving his juris doctor
degree from St. Mary's University Law School, Corbett served
in the Allegheny County district attorney's office. In 1980, he
became an assistant U.S. attorney and served in that position
until 1983, when he decided to go into private practice. He was elected to the
Republican Committee and, by way of a grassroots campaign, won a seat with
the Shaler Township commissioners by only 120 votes, quite an accomplishment
for a Republican in a heavily Democratic county.

In 1981, as assistant U.S. attorney, Corbett tried a major drug case in Erie.
During his time in Erie, Corbett met a young assistant district attorney named
Tom Ridge. Their friendship continues to this day.

Corbett was recruited in 1988 to help run George Herbert Walker Bush's
presidential campaign in southwestern Pennsylvania. Following the election,
Corbett was appointed by President Bush to serve as a U.S. attorney, a position
he held until 1992. He returned to private practice and in 1995, he was
appointed by then-Governor Tom Ridge to complete an unfinished term as
Pennsylvania attorney general. Now, eight years later, Corbett has returned to
that office. "It feels at times as if I had never left," said Corbett. "Many of the
same people are still here with several having worked their way up the ladder."

One of the things Corbett learned at LVC is that in politics you can agree to
disagree politely. "The number one responsibility for state government is public
safety for the citizens of the Commonwealth," stated Corbett.

Corbett and his wife, Susan Manbeck Corbett '72, live in the Pittsburgh
area in a pre-Civil War farmhouse owned by the Corbett family since Tom was
seven years old. Although he and Susan love their historic home, they are
looking for a second home in the Harrisburg area, perhaps one close to
Annville and LVC.

Ann Hess Myers has been LVC's director of alumni programs since 1998.
She has been a visiting instructor in sociology at Dickinson College.

Douglas Zook Jr. '92 is a physics teacher
for the Avon Grove School District in
Chester County.

Jeffrey R. Burt '93 is vice president of
marketing for Hanover Life Reassurance in
Orlando, Fla.

Theodore Jones '93 is a math teacher for
Franklin Township Board of Education in
Somerset, N.J.

Malissa Noll Weikel '93 and her husband,
Ken, welcomed a daughter, Genevieve May,
into their family on Sept. 20, 2004.

Jennifer Bower '94 is an instructor in
behavioral sciences and leadership at the
U.S. Military Academy. Jennifer received a
master's degree in industrial and systems
engineering from Ohio State University.

On Jan. 8, 2003, Jennifer Willet Coye '94,

service coordinator for the South Carolina
Department of Social Services in Rock Hill,
and her husband, Wesley, welcomed a
daughter, Kaitlyn Marie, into their family.

Kristofer Kohler '94 is a high school
guidance counselor for Belleville Township
Schools in N.J.

Michael H. Yordy '94 is the head varsity
basketball coach for Cardinal Brennan High
School in Hazelton.

Stephanie L. Allen '95 and Neil D. Via

'96 were matried on July 16, 2004, in New
Cumberland.

Jeffrey E. Kostura '95 is project manager
for Wharton-Smith Inc. in Tequesta, Fla.

Lisa Hollowbush Litzenberger '95 is a

kindergarten teacher for Conrad Weiser
East Elementary School in Wernersville.

Craig A. Wolfe '95 is operations manager
for Hauck Manufacturing in Cleona.

Jamie Bollinger '96 is a business development
managet for Aerotek Companies in Texas.

Amy Zehner Clemson '96 and her husband,
Robert, welcomed a daughter, Cassandra
Rose, into their family on Sept. 28, 2004.

Rebecca Cituk Ragno '96 is a fourth-grade
teacher in the Portsmouth School District
in Rhode Island.

Reba Dieffenbach Donley '96 and her

husband, Robert, welcomed their fourth
son, Ray Jacob, on May 26, 2004.

Sharon Murray Lockwood '96 and her

husband, Mark, welcomed their second son,
Matthew Thomas, on Oct. 12, 2004.

Heather Nissley '96 received a doctoral
degree in clinical psychology with specialized
training in clinical neuropsychology from

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By Tim Flynn '05

J.D. Byers '05 is standing outside a study room at the
Vernon and Doris Bishop Library, talking with fellow LVC
basketball player Steve Buzinski '05. They're not talking
about the team's trip to the NCAA tournament or what
happened in the NBA the night before — they're
helping each other with a class assignment.

"Don't worry, I'll be here all night," Byers says as
Buzinski walks out of the room. Byers, after all, is the
epitome of what NCAA Division III athletics is all about.
Without huge crowds, TV appearances, and cross-country
travel schedules, student-athletes in Division III are expected
to excel in the classroom more so than on the court.
And the business administration and accounting double
major, who earned virtually every major national award
for excellence in academics and basketball following his
senior year, is a shining example of that system at its best.

"As athletes, we don't have a lot of time. Once practice
is over, it's work time," Byers says, explaining the delicate
balancing act between maintaining his 3.85 grade point
average and keeping up with his workouts and practices.

The seeds for basketball success were planted early
in life, as Byers began as a ball boy for his father's high
school team before learning the game.

"I've been around basketball all my life. As soon as I
could dribble, I dribbled," he laughs. His father David, a
high school coach near Baltimore, encouraged him, he
says, to constantly improve, and he did so, playing alone
in the yard up to seven hours a day during the summer.
"It was his drive as much as it was mine," Byers says.
"He saw my potential and pushed me as far as I could go."

Although he was recruited by nearly 30 schools, Byers
says that out of high school, he wasn't expected to be
the player he turned into at the Dill level. He chose to
play at LVC because Head Coach Brad MacAlester
worked the hardest to bring him into the program.

"I don't think when coach recruited me, he expected
to get out of me what he got out of me," he says. He
was promised at least some minutes off the bench and
starts in all the junior varsity games.

His hard work and relentless practicing paid off big.
One hundred varsity starts and zero junior varsity games
later, Byers has closed out his collegiate career with
some jaw-dropping numbers. He owns every school
record for three-point shooting, including most made in
a career (301), season (100), and game (8); is fifth all-time
on the LVC scoring list with 1,898 career points; and is
second all-time with 468 assists.

The stack of honors from his senior year is taller than
his 5'10" frame. Byers earned the Jostens Award, given
to the most outstanding student-athlete in Division III
basketball, was named the ESPN The Magazine College
Division Academic All-American of the Year, and was an

NABC First Team All-American. Byers and fellow LVC
hoopster Jennifer Northcott '05 were named NCAA
Postgraduate Scholarship finalists. He also repeated as
the Commonwealth Player of the Year and is a three-time
first team all-conference selection.

Oh, and he's a pretty good golfer, too — Byers placed
third at last year's MAC Championships and was named
an Academic All-American in that sport as well.

After a career like that, Byers isn't ready to tear himself
away from basketball — he wants to coach college ball.
"My teammates say I'm crazy," he says. "But I just can't
see my life without basketball."

Editor's Note: On June 1, 2005, Northcott became
LVC's third NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient.

Tim Flynn '05 graduated in May with a degree in
English communications. As a student, he was
general manager of WLVC Radio and play-by-play
announcer for men's and women's basketball. He
also was the sports editor of La Vie Collegienne
and redesigned the campus literary journal
Greenblotter in addition to compiling an ultimate
history of LVC football. Flynn was hired as a sports
information assistant at the University of
Pennsylvania after graduation.

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Washington State University. She began
a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in
neuropsychology and rehabilitation at Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Department of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, in Baltimore, Md.

Jennifer S. Stites '96 married Stephen P.
Zdaniewicz on April 24, 2004. Jennifer is a
certified school psychologist for the
Tunkhannock Area School District.

Cornell Wilson '96 is a case manager for
Cornell Companies in Harrisburg.

Anthony Burke, M.D., '97 is a cardiovascular
disease fellow at the Tulsa Regional Medical
Center in Oklahoma.

Kri.sti Lorah Cleary^ is a school psychologist
for the Syracuse City School District in
New York.

Ana Prewitt-Rodriguez Farr '97 was

promoted to early intervention coordinator/
mental retardation supervisor for Centre
County in Bellefonte.

Robyn Welker Keckler '97 is a first-grade
teacher for the Anne Arundel County
Schools in Maryland.

On April 24, 2004, Danielle S. Kraft '97

married Neil C. Penza at St. Mark's United
Church of Christ in Reading.

On October 23, 2004, Kimberly Leister
'97 married Justin Bainum at Trinity
Lutheran Church in Bechtelsville. Joining
in their special day were Jennifer Taylor
Riner '97, Mary Blakenmeyer Rice '97,
Megan Toppin Beidle '98, Nicholas
Beidle '99, and Shannan Bennett '99.

Kenneth R. Mengel '97 retired from
Verizon Communications in 2003. In addition
to enjoying retirement, playing golf, and
cycling, Kenneth is a part-time coordinator
for the mission program at Colonial Park
United Methodist Church in Harrisburg.

Karen M. Neal '97 is manufacturing
supervisor for Amgen Incorporated in West
Greenwich, R.I.

Lisa Ellenberger '97 is a disability claim
adjudicator for the Pennsylvania
Department of Labor and Industry in Enola.

Debra Meyer Gamble '97 is a consultant/
research assistant for Maximus Inc. in
Harrisburg.

Gregory J. Glembocki '97 and his wife,
Melissa, welcomed a daughter, Gianna
Marie, into their family on Aug. 30, 2004.

Daniel P. Henderson '97 is a trainee and
political researcher for Energy Wise
Lighting Incorporated in Eugene, Ore.

Nicole Lancieri '97 is a behavior specialist
for Virtua Hospital in Mt. Holly, N.J.

Robert H. Reiss III '97 and Joyce Hodacz
Reiss '97 welcomed a son, Jacob, into their
family on Sept. 21, 2003.

On July 31, 2004, Rachel L. Shaak '97

married Patrick Sebastian at Myerstown
United Church of Christ. Rachel is a
fourth-grade teacher for the Governor
Mifflin School District in Shillington.

Jessica Smith Teska '97 and her husband,
Kevin, welcomed a daughter, Madeleine
Grace, into their family on Dec. 15, 2003.

Melissa Vargo '97 received a doctoral
degree in biochemistry from the University
of Delaware. She is conducting postdoctoral
research at Yale University School of
Medicine.

Tamara Demmy Weaver '97, a part-time
office assistant for Invisible Fence of
Susquehanna Valley in Lancaster, and her
husband, Bob, are also busy caring for their
new addition, daughter Rachel Anne.

Lori Sando Williams '97 is database officer
for Fulton Financial Corporation in
Lancaster.

Dyan Shannon Branstetter '98 is a third-
grade teacher at Brecht Elementary School
in the Manheim Township School District.

Laura Davidson'98 graduated from the
Royal Veterinary College in London,
England, with a bachelor's degree in
veterinary medicine.

On May 1, 2004, Matthew C. Eicher '98

married Suzanne Loper at Christ Lutheran
Church in New Bloomfield.

On May 9, 2004, Angela Coval Godfrey

'98 and her husband, Daniel, welcomed a
daughter, Ashlynn Noelle, into their family.

On Jan. 26, 2004, Todd A. Henry '98,

chief operating officer for The Pension
Alliance, Inc. in Harrisburg, and his wife,
Tina, welcomed a daughter, Sienna, into
their family.

Lisa Kostura '98 is a special projects associate
for the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fla.

Dawn Downs Moslander '98 is director of
human resources for The Jay Group of East
Lampeter Township.

On July 31, 2004, Aaron Matthew Palmer

'98 married Emily Valjean Fisher at
Otterbein United Methodist Church in
Carlisle. Aaron is a senior application
development specialist for Ajilon in
Mechanicsburg.

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On June 12, 2004, Beth Paul '98 married
Mael B. Saunier at the Eglise Lutherienne
de Lyon in Lyon, France. Yvonne D'UVA
Howard '97 and Josh Howard '97 were
in attendance. Beth is working at the
American Embassy in Paris.

Jerry W. Pfarr '98 and his wife, Melissa,
welcomed a son, Elliott William Pfarr, into
their family on Sept. 17, 2004.

David R. Smith IV '98 is resident director
of the Berks County Youth Center in
Leesport.

Aaron F. Strenkoski '98 received his
M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix.

On June 26, 2004, Kimberly C. Weitzel

'98 married Joseph Nunberg in
Burkittsville, Md.

Kathleen Ziga '98 is an area coordinator
for Allegheny College.

Shannan Bennett '99 is a student program
leader for the Milton Hershey School.

On September 4, 2004, Carrie A Champ '99

married David Morera at LVC's Miller
Chapel

On September 25, 2004, Lisa M. Davis '99

married Scott Wenrich at Paradise Point in
San Diego, Calif.

Sophia Goclan Dripps '99 is director of
development for Trinity International
University in Deerfield, 111.

Cynthia Ensminger Goshorn '99 and her

husband, James, welcomed their second
child, Connor James, into their family on
July 23, 2004.

Jody Jacobetz Huber '99 received a jurist
doctorate degree from Widener University
School of Law in Wilmington, Del. Jody
received the Zelda K. Hermann Memorial
Cup Award for scholarship, leadership, and
contribution pro bono publico; the Moe
Levine Trial Advocacy Honor Society
Outstanding Executive Board Member
Award; the Wapner, Newman Wigrizer, and
Brecher Award for academic excellence; and
the Hon. Joseph W. DeFuria Scholarship.
She is serving a one-year appointment as a
judicial law clerk for the Hon. Mark
Buckworth, Family Court of Delaware.

Laura Graybeal Kelly '99 is human
resources benefits specialist for Morgan,
Lewis and Bockius, LLP, in Philadelphia.

On April 17, 2004, Todd Naaman Martin

'99 married Christine Michelle Stone in
Bon Air Christian Church, Richmond, Va.

On May 15, 2004, Christinia A. Mellick

'99 married Keith Wagner in Hanover, Va.

FULBRIGHT BIOCHEMIST

Mary Olanich '05

BY BILL RICE '06

If you were to ask Mary Olanich '05 how she was able to achieve so
much in her life, she would tell you that it is generally luck. But don't let
that fool you. The recent recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to France,
Olanich is described as a perfectionist who has earned her way in life
through hard work and persistence.

"She is her own toughest critic," noted Dr. Walter Patton, LVC assistant
professor of chemistry. He worked with Olanich for two-and-a-half years
performing biochemistry research. "If she misses points on an exam, she
needs to figure out what mistake she made. Not unusual,
right? Unless you consider that she does this even when
her exam grade is 95 or 97. Regardless of whether she
winds up at the research bench or at the patient bedside,
she is someone you will want to spend your federal
research dollars on or have as your doctor."

On Friday, April 8, Olanich was rewarded for her hard
work when she received a letter from the J. William
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She will perform one
year of post-baccalaureate research in France, investigating
the molecular machinery that underlies exocytic events
[Exocytosis is a process that allows for the release of
hormones and neurotransmitters from endocrine cells
and neurons.]. Another LVC student, Jordan Newell '05,
a biology major from Carlisle, was a finalist in the Fulbright
competition, advancing as far as the European stage.
Olanich is the 14th LVC student to win the award.

"It feels fantastic to be awarded this fellowship," Olanich, a native of
Bloomsburg, said. "I kind of view it as the reward for countless hours of work,
and an amazing reward it is! I feel incredibly lucky."

While in France, she will be working with Dr. Nicolas Vitale of the Institute of
Neurotransmission and Neuroendocrine Secretion in Strasbourg.

Olanich met Vitale in 2004 when she and Patton attended the Annual
Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in
Boston. Patton and Vitale were post-doctoral fellows in the Pulmonary-Critical
Care Medicine Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Md. Olanich developed research plans with Vitale that
eventually developed into her Fulbright application. Olanich's work in France will
focus on the nervous system. Her work has relevance to neurodegenerative
diseases such as Parkinson's disease.

Olanich plans to begin her research with Vitale in June. She wants to enter
graduate school when she returns in the summer of 2006; she is leaning
toward a doctorate in biochemistry in the area of cell signaling.

The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's premier international educational
program, and is administered by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs. The program was established in 1946 to
increase mutual understanding between citizens of the United States and
other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

Bill Rice of Philadelphia is majoring in both historical communications
and political science. He is a features writer for La Vie Collegienne,
coordinator at the writing center, and a member of Students Acting for
Global Awareness (SAGA), the College Democrats, and the History and
Political Science Club.

Editor's Note: An extended version of this article appeared in La Vie Collegienr

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English Ivy (Hedera helix)

It could be said that ivy is the mascot for all colleges. There are "Ivy
League" schools in the East and the "Little Ivy League" of selective liberal arts
colleges in the Midwest, and ivy does grow there. The ivy growing here at the
Lebanon Valley College Arboretum spreads along several groundcover areas on
the main campus; it is under the cedars of Lebanon at the Sheridan gateway, at
the ramp of Blair, west of Carnegie, and east of Lynch. And there is much more
dark green vine climbing up trees in the woods at Kreiderheim.

LVC does not, however, have "halls of ivy." Now, before someone alerts the
academic accreditation bodies, it is well to know that the intellectual content

inside the buildings has nothing to do with the
lushness of ivy growth on the walls. Rather, ivy
climbing on academic buildings is often discouraged
because, in order to grow upwards, ivy stems must
extend anchoring structures onto the walls. Clinging
ivy is thought to be dangerous to the bricks and
especially the mortar of buildings because ivy can
pull small bits of mortar away when it falls or is

removed. On the other hand, for some people the

4iW^^ "^Pk ^Lt£ choice is to tolerate that problem in exchange for
■* *" -^ ' the plants' beauty, winter greenness, and the ivy

mascot's collegiate image.
There are actually two types of ivy on college
campuses. One is Boston ivy, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, which is the kind of
ivy that covers parts of Cornell University, in the Ivy League. The leaves look like
shiny grape leaves and the stems use special small adhesive disks to cling to
the brick. Lebanon Valley College's ivy is the other kind, English ivy (Hedera
helix). It has the three-to-five pointed leaf shape that we associate generally
with "ivy;" it is the same shape that is portrayed on greeting cards and china
patterns.

English ivy is an evergreen woody plant that can climb up to 50 feet in the
juvenile stage. Since the ivy does not twine, its climbing stems depend upon
tufts of rootlets that adhere to walls or tree bark. Because it can also root
along the ground, English ivy has become an invasive pest in the woods. This
ivy grows best where the soil is rich and moist, and where there is enough afternoon
shade to keep the plants from drying out. The ramp at Blair is an ideal place for
ivy to flourish. There, the ivy has been given a sort of trellis, rather than being
allowed to grow directly on the walls.

English ivy also has an adult stage. When the ivy is mature, the leaves are
heart-shaped and the plants produce clusters of black berries. At Kreiderheim,
mature ivy on the trees produces special horizontal branches from the climbing
ones. Old enough, the ivy can also form free-standing shrubs. To have an ivy
mascot of such age indicates a venerable academic institution. Go ivy!

Dr. Susan Verhoek is a professor of biology at Lebanon Valley College.

Melissa Adam Crotty '98, Brian Crotty '00,
and Brooke Anderson Jones '98 attended
the ceremony.

April J. Mitchell '99 is a recruiter for the
Schuylkill Institute of Business Technology
in Ringtown.

Johnathon A Pentecost '99 is an information
technology systems technician for Arab
World Ministries in Upper Darby.

Lisa J. Perkins '99 received a master's
degree in teaching and curriculum from
Penn State University.

Ryan S. Redner '99 has been promoted to
the board of Redner's Markets Incorporated.
Ryan also serves as director of direct-store
deliveries and assistant to the president.

Keith D. Richardson '99 is director of
bands for Central Dauphin School District
in Harrisburg.

Wendy D. Umbarger '99 is a program
supervisor for Pressley Ridge in Tazewell, Va.

Glenn P. Vaughan '99 is a math teacher for
Sullivan County School District in Dushore.

Rev. Michelle J. Zearing '99 is the pastor
of Shade Valley Parish United Methodist
Church in Shade Gap.

Bradley M. Barger '00 is a broker consultant
for Emerson, Reid & Co., Harrisburg.

Jessica Schneider Bender '00 and her

husband, Stephen, announced the birth of
their son, Kyle Benjamin Bender, on
November 28, 2004. Jessica is currently
teaching at Sandy Plains Elementary School
in Baltimore County, Md.

Terry L. Buda '00 is marketing officer for
the Mount Joy-based Union National
Financial Corporation and its subsidiary,
Union National Community Bank.

On June 26, 2004, Lisa A. Crnkovich '00

married Matthew C. Minney at Sacred
Heart Church in Lancaster.

Dennis Dalessandro '00 is senior logistics
manager for Velocity Express in Enola.

Laura A DeGraff '00 is project manager
for UnREAL Marketing in Narberth.

Heather Erb '00 is a program officer for
the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services in Chicago, 111.

Joseph Horst '00 is director of accounting
amenities for WCI Communities, Inc., in
Naples, Fla.

Allan W. Mund

Former Acting President of LVC and
College Center Namesake Dies at 99

Allan W. MundofTowson,Md.,

whose deep commitment to Lebanon Valley
College was reflected in his 23 years of service on
the Board of Trustees, in his role as acting president
of the College from 1967 to 1968, and in his
generosity as a benefactor and friend, died on
March 6. Although he passed away at 99, he
enjoyed relatively good health until the last two
weeks of his life. Mund, the namesake for LVC's
Allan W. Mund College Center, also established
one of the College's most prestigious scholarships,
named in honor of his eldest son, Allan W. Mund
Jr., a Maryland high school teacher and coach,
who died in 1987 at the age of 50.

Mund was a leader in business and industry,
higher education, and church and civic affairs. He
began his service with the LVC Board of Trustees
in 1958 and led the board as president from 1962
to 1971. He received several awards from the
College, an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1966
and an Alumni Association Citation in 1986. The
Class of 1969 dedicated their yearbook to him,
writing, "He has given freely of his time and abilities
for the well-being of the school, and yet he does
not consider this a sacrifice, but a privilege."
Mund's wife, Irma (Kaufman) Mund, was also
cited for being "a gracious first lady of the College."
She died in 1996. The couple is survived by two
sons, Richard G. and Brian R., the latter a former LVC
trustee who continues to serve on the Investment
Committee.

Mund was the retired board chairman of the
Ellicott Machine Corporation, an internationally
known dredge designing and manufacturing firm.
A native of Baltimore, Md., he began working for
the company's engineering department in 1923,
immediately after completing four years of engineering
studies at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, which
later honored him with an alumni citation. As his
responsibilities with the company expanded, Mund
studied engineering, production, labor relations,
financing, and business management in night courses
at Johns Hopkins University. His growing expertise
enabled him to assume greater responsibility at
Ellicott, including as general manager and as president.

He became chairman of the board in 1965 and
retired two years later after 43 years of service.

Mund also served for two decades on the board
of trustees of Western Maryland College, now
called McDaniel College. Two years after serving as
interim president of LVC, Mund repeated the role at
Western Maryland, and earned an honorary doctorate
from that college as well. He also served on the
boards of numerous other church and business
groups, including the Asbury Methodist Village in
Gaithersburg, Md., where a building was named in
his honor. A long-time member of the Fulton-
Siemers Memorial United Methodist Church,
Mund served in almost every official capacity
there and also served as a trustee of the United
Methodist Foundation in Nashville, Tenn.

He and his wife enjoyed traveling, and made
numerous trips to Europe and the Far East, circling
the globe twice. Surviving in addition to two of
his sons are eight grandchildren and six great-
grandchildren. He is predeceased by seven siblings.

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Triple Threat

By Ed Novak

One of the things that Laura Brown '05 wants to correct is the
perception that there is no diversity or opportunity for intercultural
experience in central Pennsylvania. The senior from Upper Darby
has co-chaired Lebanon Valley's annual International Day for the
past two years and is a leader with Students Acting for Global Awareness
(SAGA).

Brown decided to major in both German and Spanish because two language
majors would give her the opportunity to study abroad twice. She also decided
to add a third major, political science. "Most people are surprised when they
hear I have three majors and plan to graduate in four years," she says. She
notes, however, that study abroad helped complete her language requirements
(no wasted time) and that she planned ahead for the two semesters abroad
so that she could handle the workload (It is easier than it seems.).

In the fall of 2002 she and three other Lebanon Valley students traveled
to Cologne, Germany, as part of a cooperative program with Allegheny
College and Gettysburg College. "I was 19 years old and nervous about
going," she recalls. "I became independent, gained a lot of confidence, and

improved my German. Being in a
foreign country forces you to see
how much you really know, which
is more than you think you
know."

A year later, she and six other
LVC students traveled to the
Colegio de Espaha, a foreign
language institute in
Salamanca, Spain. Her study in
Germany had included some
classes taught in English, but
this experience was a total
immersion in Spanish. "After my
trip to Germany, I felt as if I was
a pro in everything except for
language. I ended up falling in
love with Spanish."
She describes her work on
campus with International Day as
"intense." Each year more than 600 people visit LVC for this admission-sponsored
day of celebration, learning, and activity. "For six hours, I have to look after
the needs of prospective students, the admission staff, the academic
departments, LVC students, and the volunteers."

After graduation, her plan is to take some time off from study and work in
the international arena before going to graduate school at Middlebury College.
She wants to become a college professor teaching foreign languages. "I
think that I am more marketable as a trilingual person with experience
abroad," she says. "I am more confident about reaching goals that I once
thought were not possible."

Laura Brown '05 (far right) studied abroad in
both Spain and Germany while at LVC.

Michael B. Howard '00 graduated from
the University of Maryland with a doctoral
degree in molecular microbiology. Michael
is an associate with the Environ Health
Sciences Institute in Arlington, Va.

Michael T. Morehead '00 is a probation
and parole officer for the Commonwealth
of Virginia.

Michael Robinson '00 is band director for
Central Bucks South High School in
Warrington.

Pamela Arminavage '01 is a resident advisor
for Community Services Group in Cleona.

Melissa A. Black '01 married Eric M.
Gervase '01 on Aug. 21, 2004, in LVC's
Miller Chapel. Jana Romlein '01, Rachelle
Antonacci '01, Michael Thomas '01,
George Zimmerman '01, and Leanne
Hennion '02 participated in the ceremony.

Dorene Heckman Byler '01 is band director
for the Kutztown Area School District.

Nathan D. Byler '01 is a third-grade
teacher for Reidenbaugh Elementary School
in the Manheim Township School District.

Melinda Sue Etschman '01 married
Michael A. Down on Aug. 21, 2004, in
Sicklerville, N.J. Sonya Carey '02, Kris
Haines '00, Amy Lyons '01, Angi Tanczos
'02, and Anmarie Vollberg '00 participated
in the ceremony. Melinda is an actuarial
analyst for Arbella Insurance in Quincy, Md.

Derek Fisher '01 is pursuing a doctoral
degree at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine.

Lisa Godlewski '01 married Jeremy
Lancelloti on Sept. 19, 2003. Lisa is a
healthcare representative for Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals in New Jersey.

Angela M. Harter '01 is a second-grade
teacher for Saint Theresa's School in New
Cumberland.

Steven R. Horst '01 is an attorney for Klett
Rooney Lieber & Schorling in Philadelphia.

Kimberly Huch '01 is a special education
teacher for the Peabody Public Schools in
Essex, Mass.

Tina Sutherly Mongkon '01 is a first-grade
teacher in the Lebanon School District.

Kate A. Sekula '01 and Bradley S. Moser

'01 were married on Nov. 6, 2004, in
Barto. Trent Hollinger '01, Brock
Kerchner '01, Mike Brimmer '01, and
Dorene Byler '01 participated in the
ceremony.

In May 2004, Desiree M. Nemec '01

graduated from the Penn State University

Tup Va t t pv

Dickinson School of Law. Desiree moved to
Charleston, S.C., and will take the bar exam
there.

The Rev. Christopher M. Rankin '01

graduated from Lancaster Theological
Seminary with a master of divinity degree.
Chris is pastor of St. John's United Church
of Christ in Fredericksburg.

On Aug. 12, 2004, Tiffany Kunkle
Robinson '01, an income maintenance
caseworker for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, and her husband, Nolan,
welcomed a son, Parker Louis, into their
family.

Dana Romenesko '01 is an agent for
Aspen Square Management in Andover,
Conn.

Jason Schreffler '01 is a special education
teacher in the Lancaster/Lebanon
Intermediate Unit 13.

Eric S. Shrader '01 is a special education
teacher for Central Dauphin East High
School in Harrisburg.

Michelle Walmsley '01 is senior assistant
director of the Clark Fund at Clark
University in Worcester, Mass.

Lauren D. Baptista '02 and Michael J.
Smith '02 were married on Sept. 18, 2004,
in Delran, N.J. Faye Baptista '02, Michael
Pedrick '02, Allison Roney '03, Karen
Hendricks '02, Amy Shoemaker '02,
Ellen Shughart '02, and Danielle
McMaster '02 attended.

Raissa Kalishevich Barnett '02 is a seventh-
grade teacher for the Reading Area School
District.

Heather Batz '02 is processing manager for
Homesafe Security Systems Inc. in Hunt
Valley, Md.

Christine E. Bennethum '02 is a research
associate for Environmental Defense in
New York, N.Y.

Rebecca Brown Breault '02 is a paralegal
for Conestoga Title Insurance Company in
Lancaster.

Jennifer L. Davis '02 is working for the
Princeton Child Development Institute in
New Jersey.

Mark Eby '02 is matketing coordinator for
the Growth Partnership in Hummelstown.

Erica Gosart Moser '02 is a middle school
teacher for Pennsylvania Virtual Charter
School in Harleysville.

Nathan J. Greenawalt '98, M'02 is a

UniServ representative for the Pennsylvania
State Education Association in New Castle.

tiftlft

At the Intersection d

Science, Music,

Vhen he was growing up in New Jersey, Dr. George Plitnik's '63 world was so
rcumscribed that, upon his arrival in Annville to attend college, "I thought I
ad arrived at the end of the world." Years later, Plitnik is a long-time professor
i the department of physics and engineering at Frostburg State University in
Maryland, and his studies and teaching have taken him around the world to
ilaces like Germany, Japan, France, Israel, Italy, and Ecuador.
His area of specialty is acoustics, but he has been featured in reporting
round the world and on CBS News for the course he teaches that explains
le magic of Harry Potter in scientific terms. "I believe it is the only college
aurse like it in the country," he says. Remembering the dramatic teaching
yle of legendary LVC math professor Barney Bissinger, Plitnik often dresses
for class to imitate the subject: Galileo, Aristotle... or in full wizard robes as
Harry Potter.

He became interested in Harry Potter five years ago when his mother gave
him one of the novels as a present. He read more of the novels, became a
fan, and ran across a book, titled Science of Harry Potter, by Roger Highfield.
Plitnik developed an honors course for 15 students based on the book; its
popularity encouraged him to develop the course he currently teaches to 90
students. "It is a very tough course," he says. "About 17 students flunked it
last year."

He has also been recognized for his long-time achievements in teaching.
In 2000, he and a colleague received a Templeton Foundation Award for
Innovative Courses in Science and Religion for developing a course on modern
physics and Asian metaphysics. In 2002, he received the prestigious Regent
acuity Award for Excellence in Research Scholarship, presented by the
University of Maryland system. It was the first time a professor at Frostburg
had received the award. "It was a real honor for Frostburg," he says, "becai
ve are not a large research university."
He is looking forward to taking his last sabbatical leave in Sweden, ther
tiring to pursue his other love: playing and restoring pipe organs.

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J. Christopher Havran '02 received his master's
degree in biology from the University of
Louisiana in Monroe. He is pursuing a
doctorate at Ohio University in Athens.

Stephanie Lezotte '02, grant manager for
INCLEN in Philadelphia, married Kris
Koelsch '02 on July 3. 2004.

Melissa Schneider Light '02 and her husband,
David A. Light '00, welcomed a son, Jacob
Andrew, into their family on Aug. 3, 2004.

Stephanie Hartman MacBain '02 is a first-
grade teachet for Evergreen Elementary
School in the Perkiomen Valley School District.

Amanda Neely '02 is an 11 th-grade teacher
for the West Petry School District in
Elliottsburg.

Hung Nguyen '02 is a senior financial
advisor for Tyco Electronics in Carlisle.

Jeffrey M. Intoccia '02 was promoted to
head custodian at Btecknock Elementary
School in Denver.

Tina Peffley '02 is a customer service
representative for Lebanon Valley Farmer's
Bank in Lebanon.

Sean B. Reilly '02 is a kitchen manager for
Cafe Athena in San Diego, Calif.

Otis Richardson '02 is a scuba diving
instructot for South Seas Aquatics in
Honolulu, Hawaii.

On Sept. 11, 2004, Jennifer Smolensk! '02
and Darryl J. Slicks '02 were married on
Long Beach Island, N. J.

Jennifer L. Stover '02 is a quality control
analyst for Pfizer in Lititz.

Kristen Wardrop '02 is pursuing a master's
degree in business at the University of
Charlotte in North Carolina.

On Oct. 30, 2004, Jennifer C. Wetzel '02

matried Brent Neidig at St. Thomas United
Chutch of Christ in Linglestown. Jennifer is
assistant managing editor at Idea Group
Inc. in Hershey.

On May 22, 2004, Jamie Lynn Wike '02
and Kevin D. Ream Jr. '02 were married
in LVCs Miller Chapel.

Gregory Bair '03 received a master's degree
in liberal arts with a concentration in political
philosophy from St. John's College in
Annapolis, Md.

Darran D. Brandt '03 is a juniot accountant
at Ellis Lee Hostetler and Company, P.C., in
Lebanon.

Jason M. Dugan '03 is staffing services
supervisor for Manpower in Williamsport.

Sarah Durako '03, a technical/proposal
editot for International Logistics Systems,
Inc., York, married David A. Onufer on
Oct. 30, 2004.

Lori A. Evaristo '03 married Jason B.
Widney on Aug. 6, 2004, in Seaford, Del.
The bridal party included Sara Mintonye
'02, Rachel Shafer '03, Charlton Albright
'02, Brian Walker '02, Colby Hilker '03,
and Joseph Eveler '03. Lori is a music teacher
for Mars Estates Elementary School, Essex, Md.

Joseph Eveler '03 and Molly Spangenberg

'03 were married on Nov. 26, 2004.

Jenni L. Fulmer '03 married Tyrel
William Yealy '03 on Feb. 7, 2004, at
LVCs Miller Chapel. Jenni is a claims
representative at Armstrong World
Industries, Inc., Lancaster. Tyrel is an
accountant at Boles, Grove, Metzger in
Harrisburg.

On July 24, 2004, Dustee-lea Graeff '03

married William Doering in LVCs Miller
Chapel.

On June 20, 2004, Amanda B. Heberling

'03 married Damon H. Wenrich at St.
Paul's United Church of Christ in
Schaeffetstown. Amanda is a learning
support teachet for Ebenezer Elementary
School in Lebanon.

Diana Hu '03 is a senior commodity
engineer for Metrologic Instruments Inc.
in Bellmawr, N.J.

Rebecca L. Jacquette '03 is a French teacher
for South Western High School in Hanover.

On June 12, 2004, Amanda Kelly '03

married Bryan Keith Smith at St. Cecilia's
Catholic Church in Lebanon. Amanda is a
learning support teacher in the Palmyra
School District.

Eric Joseph Laychock '03 is a pharmaceutical
sales teptesentative for Aventis
Pharmaceuticals in Somerset, N.J.

April Long '03 is a residential counselor for
Philhaven Hospital in Ephrata.

Moriah L. Miller '03 received a master's
degree in library science from Clarion
University of Pennsylvania.

Thomas R. Newton '03 is a manager
trainee for 84 Lumber in Lancaster.

Kristi N. Riley '03 is a manager in training
for Wells Fargo in York.

Richard D. Sargo '03 and his wife, Claire,
welcomed a daughter, Bellina Marie, into
their family on June 19, 2004.

Molly E. Schnetzka '03 and Ryan T.
Currie '96 were married at Stewartstown

United Methodist Church. Molly is an
alternative education teacher for Manito
Inc., York.

Abigail R. Stoltzfus '03 and Nathan S.
Acker '02 were married on Aug. 28, 2004,
in Mount Joy.

Jessica Yoder '03 is a Spanish teacher in the
Nazareth School District.

Daniel M. Zelesko '03 is pursuing a master's
degree in philosophy at the University of
Memphis.

Jason Clay '04 is an actuarial analyst for
The Hartford Company in Hartford, Conn.

Caitlin A. Gibbs '04 is an early intervention
teachet for Berks County Intermediate Unit
in Reading.

David A. Ingalls '04 is a music teacher for
Sterling Middle School in Virginia.

On August 16, 2003, Tammi Karafa '04

married Jeffrey Bivans at St. Benedict's
Church in Johnstown.

Mollie Kedney '04

MoUie Kedney '04, a biology and chemistry
major while at LVC, is serving in the U.S.
Army Chemical Corp in Iraq.

Amanda Kutney '04 is a graduate student
at the Ohio State University.

Nicole Chabitnoy Loser '04 is a case
manager at BISY Insurance Services in
Harrisburg.

Dawn M. Matterness '04 is director of
disaster services for the Alexandria (Va.)
chapter of the American Red Cross.

Laura A. Poff '04 married Ronald C.
Lenker '03 on July 3, 2004, in York.
Julia Howell '04, Erin McGeorge '03,
Jonathan Pitt '03, and John C. Banks IV '02

were in the wedding party.

Jason P. Spessard '04 is an associate with
Langan Associates P.C., Arlington, Va.

42 The Valley

Katie M. Staley '04 is a sixth-grade teacher
for the Cornwall-Lebanon School District.

In Memoriam

Elizabeth G. "Betsy" Bollinger, friend of
the College, died July 23, 2004, at the age
of 95. She was the wife of Oran Pass (O.P.)
Bollinger '28, namesake of Bollinger Plaza
on campus, who died in 1983. She was an
active member of the LVC Dames.
Bollinger Plaza was dedicated in honor of
Betsy and her husband.

John Leroy Cousler, friend and benefactor
of the College, died in Lancaster on July 13,
2004, at the age of 96. He joined R.R.
Donnelley and Sons as a partner and
became president before retiring in 1962.

Geraldine E. Lent/, friend of the College,
died in Palmyra on July 25, 2004, at the age
of 92. She had worked in LVC's library. She
was a Sunday school teacher for over 60 years.

Henrietta Wagner Barnhart '32 died in La
Plata, Md., on Sept. 7, 2004, at the age of
94. She started the Washington County
kindergarten program in public schools, was
founder of Lagos Nigeria International
School, started the Literacy Council for
Adults of Charles County, Meals-on- Wheels
of Charles County, and was named one of
Charles County's "Beautiful People."

Ruth M. Agen '33 died Juno Beach, Fla.,
on Jan. 22, 2004, at the age of 93.

Sophia Morris '33 died in Exeter on June
29, 2004, at the age of 92. She worked as a
librarian at Dallas Senior High School.

Luther A. Savior '33 died in Delaware
County on Nov. 29, 2004, at the age of 92.
A veteran of World War II, he was employed
as a systems engineer with RCA and UNF/AC
(Unisys) until his retirement in 1976.

Charlotte Weirick McFaul '34 died in
Annapolis, Md., on Nov. 19, 2004, at the
age of 90. The wife of H. Algire "Mac"
McFaul '34, she received a commendation
for her work in the development of a
computer program to simulate the free
piston air compressor.

Catherine Wagner Conrad '35 died in
Williamsport, Md., on July 29, 2004, at the
age of 90. She was a retired schoolteacher
from the Washington County School
System and tutored English as a second
language.

Louise E. Bishop '36 died in Oberlin on
Aug. 27, 2004, at the age of 89. The "unofficial
mayor" of Oberlin, she was a retired school-
teacher from Swatara Township High
School and Central Dauphin School District.

John T. Davis '36 died in Lebanon on
April 15, 2004, at the age of 90. He was a
staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps during
World War II, stationed in India. He
worked as an engineer for IBM and Martin
Marierta.

Jean Harnish '37 died in Baltimore, Md.,
on March 30, 2004, her 89th birthday. She
is survived by a sister, Ruth Zentmeyer '49,

of Hershey.

William T. Allen '38 died in Masonic
Village, Elizabethtown, on Aug. 14, 2004,
at the age of 88. He was a veteran of World
War II, having served in the U.S. Army Air
Corps. He was retired from the
Pennsylvania National Insurance Company
where he was vice president of claims.

Lucille Hawthorne Eby '38 died in St.
Augustine, Fla., on Nov. 24, 2004, at the
age of 87. She was an elementary substitute
teacher in rhe Bethlehem Area School
District.

John William "Jack" Kreamer '38 died in
Annville on Oct. 3, 2004, at the age of 89.
He was an Army veteran of World War II.
The father of Keith G. Kreamer '68, he

was vice president of Kreamer Brothers
Furniture Store in Annville.

Beatrice Zamoyski Gaydos '38 died in
Nutley, N.J., on Aug. 13, 2004, at the age
of 86. During World War II, she was the
chief medical technologist at St. Michaels
Medical Center in Newark, N.J. The
supervisor of the Newark Blood Bank, she
contributed to groundbreaking research on
the Rh factor, which had hindered blood

transfusions between mothers with negative
blood types and children with positive types.

Dr. John H. Moyer III '39 died in Palmyra
on Oct. 5, 2004, at the age of 87. He was
the father of John H. Moyer IV '73 and
Michael Moyer '75. He was involved in the
development of Diuril, one of the first effective
blood-pressure medications, and in the
development of the first portable dialysis
machine. He served as a scientific diplomat
for the U.S. State Department.

Kathryn Zwally Haverstick '40 died in
Myerstown on July 2 1 , 2004, at the age of

86. For many years she was involved with
the Fresh Air Fund.

Charles Miller Belmer '40 died in
Bethlehem on July 9, 2004, at the age of

87. He was an Army Air Corps veteran,
serving as a radio operator and as a belly
operator in a B-52 bomber during World
War II. He was a prisoner of war from 1943
to 1945.

Lucille Bamberger Long '41 died on Nov.
16, 2004, at the age of 85. She was the wife
of the late Dr. Luther K. Long '38.

Dr. Robert W Uhrich '43 died on July 4,
2004, at the age of 81. He was a retired
physician who had an office in Lebanon for
many years. He was a captain in the Air
Force and served during World War II. He
was the father of Jed T. Uhrich '76.

Hans W. Uberseder '43 died in Litiz on
June 13, 2004, at the age of 82. He was the
husband of Elizabeth Ann Hess Uberseder

'44. Surviving, in addition to his wife, are

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Here is yet another amusing photo from our archives. If you can identify when and
where this photograph was taken, and/or any names of the people shown, please e-mail .
Tom Hanrahan at hanrahan@lvc.edu. Stories about the group are also welcome and may
be included in future issues of The Valley.

children Marjorie Uberseder Seiner '72
and Eric J. Uberseder 71. He was a veteran
of World War II, serving from 1943 to
1946 in the European theater of operations
as an infantryman, a counterintelligence
agent, and German interpreter. He also
participated in the Battle of the Bulge.

Elizabeth "Betty" Gooden Rhodes '45

died in Springfield on Oct. 17, 2004, at the
age of 80. She was a music lover who taught
piano, played the organ, and accompanied
various club bands.

Viola Shettel Crites '46 died Sept. 27, 2004,
at the age of 80.

William Melvin Albrecht '48 died in
Endwell, N.Y., on May 16, 2004, at the age of
78. A veteran of World War II, he was awarded
a Bronze Battle Star and a Purple Heart.

Marshall L. Gemberling Jr. '49 died in
Lebanon on Sept. 10, 2004, at the age of
80. He was an Army veteran of World War
II. He was very involved with sports and
was inducted into LVC's Athletic Hall of
Fame in 1990.

Edwin Wallace Beaver '50 died in
Lancaster on Oct. 26, 2004, at the age of 79.
He was a veteran of World War II who served
in the 94th Army Infantry Division, where he
earned four batde stars and a Bronze Star.

Herbert A. Rowe '50 died in Middletown
on Feb. 22, 2003, at the age of 85. He was

an army veteran of World War II and the
Korean conflict and was retired from the
Pennsylvania State Department of Revenue.

Jean Kostenbauder Stolte '50 died in
Hanover on Nov. 21, 2004, at the age of
76. She was an accomplished pianist and
enjoyed playing for church activities. She had
been employed by Lutheran Social Services.

Dr. James Long Fisher '51 died in
Thurmont, Md., on Dec. 4, 2003, at the
age of 73. He served with the U.S. Army in
Korea. He taught music and was the author
of Learning Packages for Handbells. He was
an international consultant for Schulermeriek
Handbells and Carillions, Inc.

Ralph Stanton Shay '51, benefactor of the
College, died in Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2004,
at the age of 82. He was an Army veteran of
the Korean War and was in the Battle of the
Bulge in World War II. He was professor
emeritus of history and assistant dean
emeritus at LVC. Editor's Note: A full
remembrance of Dr. Shay appears on page 49.

Charles L. Zimmerman '51 died in
Hershey on Dec. 11, 2004, at the age of 77.
He was a retired schoolteacher who taught
math and guidance at Cedar Crest High
School for more than thirty years. He was a
World War II army veteran and past president
and member of the Central Chapter
Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

Robert Chadwick Howarth '52 died in
Gainesville, Ga., on Jan. 30, 2004, at the
age of 74. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, he
was retired as a biologist from the
Department of Natural Resources.

Richard W. Hornberger '53 died in
Shillington on Jan. 31, 2004, at the age of
72. He was a retired service technician for
Cumru Township.

Dr. F. Paul Alepa '54 died in Tucson, Ariz.,
on June 21, 2004, at the age of 72. He retired
as a professor from the University of Arizona.

Hazel Kindt Beish '55 died in Camp Hill
on Nov. 17, 2004, at the age of 72. She was
retired as a registered nurse from the former
Polyclinic Hospital.

Dr. Gary L. Zeller '62 died in Hamburg,
Germany, on May 22, 2004, at the age of
64. He was an administrator and fundraiser
at The Stage School of Music, Dance and
Drama in Hamburg. He worked with
musicians and composers, including Aaron
Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

Richard W. Brubaker '64 died in Olde
Meadow on Nov. 12, 2004, at the age of
64. He retired from teaching ninth-grade
history at Elco High School. He was the
husband of Lois E Ensminger Brubaker '64.

Robert D. Atkinson '69 died in
Hummelstown on Oct. 9, 2004, at the age
of 57. He was the husband of Barbara J.
Macaw Atkinson '67. He was a PIAA
basketball official for 25 years and was a
member of the Airplane Owner's Pilots
Association.

Robert B. Brandt '71 died July 3, 2004, at
the age of 55- He was the husband of Ruth
Ann Peterson Brandt '70.

Paul Mitchell Gulli' 71 died in
Westampton, N.J., on Sept. 6, 2004, at the
age of 55. He had been active with the
Corpus Christi Catholic Youth
Organization, where he coached baseball,
Softball, basketball, and soccer.

Shirley Neuman Bo.indl '81 died in
Hopkinton, Mass., on July 13, 2004, at the
age of 77. She was a retired nurse and
supervisor at the former Allentown Hospital.

Deborah Hyduk Vasko '94 died in Akron
on Aug. 31, 2004, at the age of 49. She was
a registered nurse and senior risk manager at
Lancaster General Hospital.

Jennifer Mellott Carpenter '95 died in
Millcreek on Nov. 28, 2004, at the age of
32. She was a stay-at-home mom who
enjoyed scrapbooking, cooking, and baking.
Most of all, she enjoyed being a mom.

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VISUAL ARTS

This past fall, the Suzanne H. Arnold Art

Gallery featured nearly 20 exquisite works

including large religious scenes and small

devotional paintings. Viceregal Visions:

Spanish Colonial Paintings was presented in

conjunction with the College-wide colloquium,

God in the 21st Century. In March, Michael

Pittari: Continuous Flow 1995-2005 provided

a leap into the 20th century. Pittari, a member

of the art and art history faculty at the

College since 2002, presented mostly

abstract diptychs in acrylic and graphite on

canvas, which intermingled with large-scale

digital images. The 34th Annual Juried Art

Exhibition in April and May continued the

longest-running visual arts event at the

College. The exhibition again presented

works by the finest local and regional

artists working in all media. Finally,

in May and June the gallery presented

Intimate Portraits: 18th- and

19th-century Miniatures,

featuring portraits from

Europe and America. These

tiny works,
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Miniatures

size, were

delicately painted on a variety of media

including ivory, enamel, and vellum. For

more information, visit

http://www.lvc.edu/gallery/gallery.aspx.

Breaking Away
(below) by
Michael Pittari
(right), assistant
professor of art,
was one of several
works in his exhibit
Michael Pittari:
Continuous Flow

As part of the annual Women Artists Lecture
Series at LVC, twin sisters Cynthia Bringle,
one of America's preeminent potters, and
Edwina Bringle, a renowned fiber artist,
presented a lecture in April. The free public

Viceregal Visions:
Spanish Colonial Paintings

A. Angel with Wheat

B. Virgin ofPomata

C. Christ as Physician

D. Virgin of the Mercedarians

lecture was sponsored by Dr. Howard and
Shelby '98 Applegate. He is a professor
emeritus of history and American studies,
and she is a well-known local artist.

A traveling photo exhibit, 67 Women, 67
Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in
Pennsylvania, opened in February. The
exhibit featured one woman from each of
Pennsylvania's 67 counties, along with a
message about how breast cancer has
touched her life. Vicki Gingrich, formerly
LVC advisor to international students, and
her longtime friend, Becky Baldwin of
Annville, represented Lebanon County.

HONORED

In February, State Sen. David J. "Chip"
Brightbill was honored for his leadership as
majority leader of the Senate at the College's
26th annual Founders Day Convocation.
The LVC Founders Day award recognizes
individuals whose character and leadership,

in the spirit of the founders of Lebanon
Valley College, contribute to the enhancement
of life in Central Pennsylvania. Also at the
ceremony, the President's Award went to
Circle K Club. The award has been given
for the past 1 1 years to a student group for
community service. LVC's chapter of Circle
K, founded three years ago, has organized a
book drive for Lebanon County schools, a
"trick or treat" collection for the United
National Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF), and helped with the Quittie
Park cleanup in Annville.

LVC was the only small, private liberal arts
college in the country to win a "Grand
Award" from The Professional Grounds
Management Society (PGMS). The awards
program brings national recognition to
grounds maintained with a high degree of
excellence. Kevin Yeiser, LVC's director of
grounds and athletic facilities, accepted the
awards plaque in November in Charlotte,

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'alley news

Kevin ieiser, right, LYC director of grounds
and athletic facilities, accepts the "Grand
Aicanffrom PGMS president Todd Cbocbran
in Charlotte, S.C

N.C. Other winners included The
University of Texas at Austin and Wake
Forest University. For more information,
visit wwwivc.edu/news-events.

Candice Falger,
adjunct science
instructor and
former coordinator
of the Master of
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include Chesapeake Bay restoration projects

as well as local wedand projects. Her students

participate in warer quality research for the

Quitrapahila Watershed with E>r. David

Lasky, professor emeritus of psychology,

who was instrumental in founding

the Quittie Creek Narure Park and the

Candice Falser

Dr. Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, assistant professor
of Spanish, was invited to become a member
of the American Association of Unfversity
Women and was profiled in Who's Who in
the World (2005).

Walter Labonte, director of the Writing
Center and instructor of English, became a
charter member of the Pennsylvania
Conference on English Education. Labonte
will be working with a group of Fnglish
educators to research why so many new
teachers leave the profession within the first
five vears.

ZIMMERMAN RECITAL SERIES

The Zimmerman Recital Series, established
in honor of the 1 Oth anniversary of a gift of
Dr. Richard FF96 and Nancy Zimmerman
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Suzanne H. Arnold Gallerv, w-as highlighted
by five musical performances- Violinist
Dr. Johannes Dietrich, fresh from his
eight-concert, five-state tour, gave the first
performance. Dietrichs sabbatical project
culminated with his first solo CD recording.
Dietrich, associate professor of music at LVC,
teaches strings and directs the orchestra.
Dietrichs solo violin concert featured a
composition by LYC composer Dr. Scon
Eggert, professor of music Next. James
Erdman, adjunct instructor of music and
assistant director of the music camp, gave his
final solo concert at the College before his
retirement to a stariding-room-only crowd.
For 20 years, he was the fearured brass soloist
and principal trombonist with "The President s
Own" L .S. Marine Band. He performed for
presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson,
Nixon, and Ford. In April, a Grammy-
winning pianist from South Africa took
the stage. Petronel Malan premiered a
composition by Eggert. Reviewers have
described her playing as breathtaking and
brilliant. The Zimmerman Series closed in
May with a concert by the LYC Chamber
Choir that featured songs based on texts by
poet William Blake, some Renaissance
madrigals and motets, and several folk songs,
including a Samoan lullabv and a Tahirian
song of welcome as well as more recent
works. For more information, visit
http://www.lvc.edu/new5-events-

LVC TEACHES*

College students and professors invited the
public to join them ar a campus teach-in
that focused on the fall presidential election
and the war in Iraq. Dr. John Hinshaw,

associate professor of history, was a prime
organizer of the event and stressed, "We
made sure that both sides of the issues were
represented." Numerous LVC student
organizations sponsored the daylong event.
For more information, visit
http://www.lvc.edu/new3-events.

CONCERTO-ARH WINNERS

Three students earned the right to perform
in May with the LYC Symphony after
winning the concerto-aria competition earlier

Tombonist James Erdman (top) and pianist
Petronel Malan (above) were featured
pe rform ers in the Zimmerman Recital Hall

in the semester: Michael Gamon '05.
Middletown, played Concerto far \ r iola and
Orchestra by Sir William Wakon: Daniel
Melius '05. River \ ale. N.J.. sang "Come
Paride" from The Elixir of Love by
Donizetti; and Matthew Schrack '06,
Rehrersburg, played Concerto da Camera on
the saxophone by Jacques Ibert.

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STUDY ABROAD RECORD
A record number of LYC students. 85,
studied abroad during the 2004-2005
academic year- Sixty students studied
otf-campus in the fall in England. Spain.
France. Australia. Irak", and Germanv.
Twenty-five students studied abroad in the
spring in Italv and New Zealand.

PRESENTERS

Dr. Dolores Buttry, assistant protessor of
French and German, presented a paper,
VCace and the Exotic Other, at the first
international conference devoted to the
works of the 1 2th-century Norman writer
Maine Wace. The by-invitation-only
September conference was on the Isle of
Jersey in the English Channel. Wace's
birthplace.

Dr. C.F. Joseph Tom i .- . ■-: - :--.-_. -_ :
economics, died Sept. 22 at his home in
Cornwall Manor, Cornwall. He was 82.
Tom arrived at the College in 1954 as an
assistant professor and stayed for 35
years. "I like a college that is small, is
liberal-arts oriented, and is dose to large
dries,' he said in a 2001 article in The
Valley. 'It's one good, happy family.''
Tom leaves his wife, Grace M Moy
Tom, and two sons.

The lessons in economics lorn taught
resonated for a lifetime with many of his
<mfUnr^ ~He was much more interested in
your learning the concept than in simpry
memorizing the facts,* said George King
68. "Dr. Tom's great skill was to take a
very complex rhino and go reduce it to
something that was way dear. He would
not make a statement unless he could back
it up with empirical evidence. At the end
of the day, what he taught you to do was
to think."

Tom's positive outlook was a quality
that Dr. Pail Heise, professor of emeritus
of economics, remembered about his
friend. "He was a delightful person, and
he stayed vital and interested in the world
He was full of fun. He had a little smile
that reflected a jovous auimde toward Hfe.

Tom was born May 30, 1922, in
Conton (now Canton). China, and grew
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United States in 1939 to get an education,
he was not at all fluent in English, but a
few vears later, in 1942, he panwH an
associates degree at San Francisco Junior
College, where he was named to Alpha
Gamma Sigma Honor Society. In 1944, he
gpAnml with a bachelor's degree in
economics from Hastings College in
Nebraska, where he was h-it-tH to Who's
Who Amo ng Students in economics. Tom
won a China Institute in America
Scholarship to the University of Chicago
to study economics, where he earned his
master's degree in 194". He taught at
Beloit College in Wisconsin for six years,
from 1948 to 1954. and was a visiting
lecturer in economics at Rocktbrd College
in Illinois during that same period. In
1963. he completed his doctorate at the
University of Chicago, specializing in
economic theory, monetary theory, and
international economics. A year Later, he
became chair of his department at LYC
a post he held for 10 years. In 1%"". he
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writer for the Lebanon Datfy Seta from
1974 to 1976. Tom was a member of
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1971, 1972, and 1977; and the Ford
RMmdarion Faculty Grant from the
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took a s_hhariral leave in 1979 to navel
around the wodd, indndtng Europe,
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the faculty on the LVC Board of Trustees
from 1969 to 19~1. At AnnviDe United
Medxxhst Q_jrch, he was a choir member
for many years and former chair of the
Christian Qrbynship (_orn mission. He
was a former chairperson of Annvile
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death by a sister. QueenieChan.

Dr. Ralph Staatoa Shay '« of Lebanon.
who served Lebanon Yalky Colkge for

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home at Spang Crest Manor. He was 82.

Shay, who won six faculty teaching
awards in the 1950s and '60s, was the
first LVC professor to be named a Senior
Fulbright Fellow. He used the award to
study Chinese civilization in Taiwan during

Dr. Ralph Stanton Shay '42

the summer of 1963, and to travel with
his wife, Ellen H. Griffiths Shay, throughout
Asia. The couple returned for a three-
month tour of the Orient in 1967. She
died 19 years ago.

Dr. Howard A. "Tony" Neidig '43, said
Shay and professor emeritus of chemistry,
was known in his college years as "a fabulous
football player," and later as an "excellent
professor" who was very meticulous about
grading papers. "He encouraged students
to do their best, but he was very strict; he
had rules and regulations that he expected
students to follow . . . He was a storehouse
of information on anything to do with
American history, and extremely knowl-
edgeable about the Far East." Shay, a
professor emeritus of history, served as
president of the American Association
of Teachers of Chinese Language and
Culture, one of the first westerners to
hold that office.

Shay was the author of nearly a dozen
books and articles, many of them dealing
with local and regional history, including
The History of the Lebanon Valley Railroad
and Reflections on the Battle of Gettysburg.
He also edited The Civil War Diaries of
Daniel Fegan Jr., all publications of the
Lebanon County Historical Society. In
1967, Shay, who was then chair of the
department of history and political science,
became the assistant dean and registrar
and director of auxiliary schools. In the
days before computers, Shay, who was
legendary for his organizational skills and
scrupulous attention to detail, oversaw a

student registration system using cards lined
up in boxes. But before worrying about
whether all the courses were balanced with
the appropriate number of students, his
first priority was to make sure that every
student got the courses necessary for
graduation. Shay also tracked down errant
faculty who failed to turn in their grades
on time with a series of memos in an
escalading color pattern: from yellow, to
green, and finally, to an alarming red.

Gregory G. Stanson '63, vice president
for enrollment and student services, was
halfway through his sophomore year
when his father died, and he never forgot
that Shay did everything he could to get
him financial aid. Although some found
Shay's formality to be intimidating,
Stanson recalls Shay warmly as a great
storyteller and a man who was personally
generous to a fault. "I loved the guy dearly,"
Stanson said. Dr. George R. "Rinso"
Marquette '48, vice president emeritus for
student affairs, remembers that because
Shay was so meticulous about details,
anything he organized ran like clockwork.
Shay was a prodigious committee member
on campus, serving on more than 1 1
committees. In 1970, he was
recognized with an Alumni Citation.

An Annvilie native, Shay excelled as a
scholar/athlete, both at Lebanon High
School and at Lebanon Valley College. In
high school, Shay won fifth place in the
national American Legion Essay Contest,
traveled to Holland in 1937 for the Boy
Scout Jamboree, and received an honorable
mention for All-State football. At LVC,
where he was captain of the football team
and president of his class, he was named
to the All-State, All-East, and Little
All-America football teams. After graduating
fourth in his class, Shay spent three years
in the European theater in World War II,
where he took part in the Battle of the
Bulge and earned several medals. Shay
was recalled to service for the Korean
War, serving eight months in Japan and
Korea, where he was chief editor of the
historical section of the Eighth U.S. Army
in Korea. During this time, he became
fascinated with Asian culture, which led to
his future academic interest in the Far East.

In 1 947, Shay graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania with a master's
degree in history and a year later began
teaching at LVC. In 1962, he finished his
Ph.D. in history at the University of
Pennsylvania. He was a member of nearly
30 professional organizations and was listed
in many professional directories. In

addition to serving as president of
Lebanon County Historical Society, Shay
was also an officer of the Pennsylvania
Historical Association. He was listed in
the Dictionary of International Biography,
Who's Who in American Education, Who's
Who in American College and University
Administration, Biographical Encyclopedia
of the United States Directory of American
Scholars, and American Men of Science:
The Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Shay was a member of the Jonestown
Lions Club and a former member of
Bunker Hill Fire Co. He was a member
of the Lebanon Moravian Church, assistant
director of its trombone choir, former
secretary of its boards of elders and
trustees, trustee for its cemetery, and
assistant Sunday school superintendent.
He enjoyed gardening, photography,
music, tennis, and squash. Surviving is a
daughter, Patricia Ruth Polley of Kirkland,
Wash.

Vernon Bishop, a long-time friend and
benefactor of the College, died Nov. 27,
at the age of 93. Bishop was a Lebanon
philanthropist, industrialist, and
entrepreneur. At the College, the Vernon
and Doris Bishop Library is a tribute to
his generosity, and he established the
Vernon and Doris Bishop Distinguished
Chair of Chemistry, currently held by Dr.
Owen Moe, chair of the Chemistry
Department.

President Stephen C. MacDonald
wrote, "Our community mourns the passing
of this accomplished, formidable man . . .
We extend our condolences to Mr.
Bishop's widow, Trudie Bishop, and to his
daughter, Kathy Bishop (vice chair of the
College's Board of Trustees), and his son,
Tom Bishop."

Bishop came to Lebanon in 1947 when
he founded Lebanon Chemical Corporation,
now Lebanon Seaboard Corporation. He
worked in his fertilizer business for more
than 55 years, providing jobs to hundreds
of employees over the years. In 1999, he
was honored for his long and productive
career when he was named "Entrepreneur
of the Year for Central Pennsylvania."

In addition to being a successful
businessman, Bishop was very involved
as a philanthropist through the Bishop
Foundation, which he founded in 1950.
He gave generously throughout his life,
not only to LVC, but also to Good
Samaritan Hospital, the Boy Scouts,
the United Way, and to many other
organizations. Active in the community,

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Vernon Bishop

Bishop served for many years on the
boards of the Boy Scouts and the United
Way, and was president of each. He was a
Rotary member for more than 50 years,
also serving a term as its president. Bishop
was a long-time member of the North
Cornwall Township Zoning Hearing
Board, where he also served a term as
president, and was a member of the board
of directors of the Lebanon County Trust
Company.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Bishop was
raised in Summit, N.J., and graduated
from the University of Michigan, where
he earned a bachelor of science degree in
chemical engineering. He married Doris
Hoyt in 1939 and then served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II. After returning
to Lebanon, the couple bought a 50-acre
farm, where Bishop, an avid gardener,
enjoyed taking care of his beautiful property.
He also developed his farm into a residential
neighborhood. The Bishops traveled
extensively, including two trips around
the world. They celebrated 55 years of
marriage before Doris died in 1994.

Bishop married Trudie Hewitt in 1995.
A native of Lebanon, she returned to the
area from Colorado, where she had been
in the real estate business. His daughter,
Kathy, has succeeded Bishop as president
of Lebanon Seaboard, and is married to
Bruce Kreider. Bishop's son Tom lives in
Connecticut with his wife, Gretchen, and
their two sons. Also an entrepreneur, the
younger Bishop has been publishing an
investment newsletter for the past 24
years.

Rodney S. Miller '77 of Mt. Gretna,

the staff arranger for Lebanon Valley
College's "Pride of the Valley" marching
band, and a prolific composer/arranger
who most recently wrote Triumphant
Spirit for the LVC Symphony Orchestra,
died unexpectedly on Feb. 7 of a heart
attack after playing racquetball at the
Arnold Sports Center. He was 49. Miller
was also the highly regarded elementary-
band director for the Lebanon School
District. He leaves his wife, Kim, and a
son, Andrew, who is a junior at Towson
University in Maryland.

In June 2003, Miller received LVC's
Creative Achievement Award, but Miller's
reputation extended far beyond the
Lebanon School District and the College.
More than 40 of his instrumental and
choral works have been issued by major
publishing houses such as Warner

Rodney S. Miller '77

Brothers, Shawnee, and Alfred Music. He
won six American Society of Composers,
Authors, and Publishers Standard awards
in composition and wrote numerous
pieces and arrangements for band, orchestra,
jazz ensemble, and choir.

Dr. Johannes Dietrich, associate
professor of music at LVC, commissioned
Miller to write Triumphant Spirit, which
premiered last spring at the College. "For
years he has been one of the staunchest
friends of the College and one of most
respected music educators in the area,"
Dietrich said in a Lebanon Daily News
interview. In a letter to the editor in
Lancaster's Intelligencer Journal, Richard
L. Kline, a retired music educator from
Lititz, noted Miller's accomplishments
and added, "He will be greatly missed by

the students, faculty and patrons of music
education."

The superintendent of the Lebanon
School District, Marianne Bartley, said
Miller was a gifted educator who will be
deeply missed. Not only was Miller a
talented musician, he also was widely
regarded as patient and kind by his
colleagues and students.

A former member of the trumpet
sections of the Lancaster and Harrisburg
symphony orchestras, for the last five years
Miller was the staff composer, assistant
director, and keyboard player of the Dave
Stahl Sacred Orchestra and served as
producer on several group recordings He
also played in a trio, and every summer
for the last 22 years, he was co-musical
director/arranger for the Timbers Dinner
Theater in Mt. Gretna.

Miller was formerly president of
District 7 of the Pennsylvania Music
Education Association, Lancaster-Lebanon
Music Educators Association, and the
Lebanon Community Concert Association,
and he was a frequent clinician at various
festivals.

Born July 23, 1955, in Philadelphia, he
was the son of Dorothy I. Gettle Miller of
Lebanon and the late Rodney A. Miller.
He graduated from Cedar Crest High
School. Miller was a member of Grace
United Church of Christ, Lebanon, Mount
Gretna Men's Club, Cleona Tennis
Association, and the Antique Automobile
Club of America.

Surviving in addition to his wife,
mother, and son are four sisters: LuAnn
Miller of Rochester, Minn.; Judy, wife of
Jerry Schweingruber of Mt. Gretna;
Wendy, wife of Bob Nelson of Arrowsic,
Maine; and Kyle, wife of Ron Witman
of Palmyra; and several nieces and
nephews.

Alyssa Joy Neidermyer, 18, of Lititz, a
home-schooled high school senior
who was attending LVC part time on a
scholarship, died after being injured in a
Lancaster County automobile accident on
Feb. 10. Born in Lancaster, she was the
daughter of Donald L. and Linda Hershey
Neidermyer. She was also attending
Lancaster Bible College and was
employed as a secretary at the Country
Table Restaurant, Mount Joy. She leaves
two sisters, a brother, and her maternal
grandparents and paternal grandfather.

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valley news

Joel Kline, assistant professor of business
administration and director of the Digital
Communications Program, gave a presentation
in October, tided Think Like a Business, Act
Like a Nonprofit: Websites for Your Agency,
for the Community Action Association of
Pennsylvania's annual conference in
Harrisburg. The seminar focused on web-site
methods used by not-for-profits to
communicate with their stakeholders.

In November, Dr. Cheryl L. George, associate
professor of education, along with six of her
students, presented a session on Classroom
Management: Tips for Whole Groups and
Individual Students at the 45th Annual
Convention of the Pennsylvania Council for
Exceptional Children. Student presenters
included Kelly Bastek '05, Sarah Walls '05,
Jennifer Coveleskie '06, Jana Rapposelli '06,
Kristen Spider '06, and Rebecca Thorne '06.

In July, Dr. Michael Day, professor of
physics, will present a paper, titled
Oppenheimer and Rabi — Cold War Physicists
as Public Intellectuals, at the conference on
The Atomic Bomb and American Society in
Oak Ridge, Tenn. The conference will be
sponsored by the University of Tennessee
and the U.S. Navy.

Drs. Marc Harris and Walter Patton of

the Chemistry Department and 10 of their
students attended the Seventh Annual
Undergraduate Research Symposium in the
Chemical and Biological Sciences in
October at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County. Over 500 attendees were
on hand for the 1 98 poster presentations by
undergraduates from 41 schools in 10
states. The meeting was cosponsored by
Proctor & Gamble and the National
Institutes of Health. All 10 D7C students
were presenters or co-presenters in poster
sessions throughout the day. Jessica L.
Abbott '06 (biology) was awarded first
place in her division for her work with
Patton. This work was coauthored with
Melanie A. Weller '06 (biology), Mary E.
Olanich '05 (biology), and Dr. Sidney
Pollack, professor of biology. Jeremy
Umbenhauer '06 (chemistry) and Brandon
Arndt '07 (physics) presented their work
with Harris. Johanna M. Scarino '06
(chemistry) was awarded second place in
her division for her work with the late
Dr. Carl T. Wigal, professor of chemistry.
Jordan M. Newell '05 (biology) was awarded
first place in his division for his work with
Patton; the work was coauthored with
Danielle T. Loughlin '06 (biochemistry).

Amanda Goulden '05 (biochemistry)
presented her work with Harris and Patton.
Yun K. Kwon '05 (chemistry) was awarded
second place in her division for her work with
Dr. Owen A. Moe, professor of chemistry.

Dr. Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, assistant professor
of Spanish, presented a number of papers
and read her poetry at conferences and
institutions around the world, including in
Peru and France. She read her poetry at
Dickinson College; discussed Hispanic
American Testimonial Writing at Penn State
University, Harrisburg; and presented at
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Tezanos-
Pinto was also invited to participate in an
Art and Culture Festival in Cuernavaca,
Mexico; she gave a talk, "Nacion y Narracion
en la escritura femenina del Post-boom," and
presented the anthology Como Angeles en
llamas.

Walter Labonte, director of the Wtiting
Center and instructor of English, spent a
week in July at the Summer Institute for
Writing Center Directors and Professionals
at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. The
institute brought together 40 writing center
directors from the secondary and college
levels to discuss common concerns and
goals. The participants came from 26 states,
two countries, one territory, and three
islands. Labonte is a member of the
International Writing Center Association,
which sponsored the institute.

PUBLISHED

Dr. Philip A. Billings, professor of English,
published a book, titled When We Talk
about War. The book is a collection of liter-
ary portraits of people who have firsthand
experience with combat. Billings taped
interviews with 1 1 men and one woman
who live in or near Lebanon County, and
who saw action in three major 20th-century
wars: eight in World War II, two in the
Korean War, and two in the Vietnam War.
He also interviewed a young woman via
e-mail who is now serving as part of a
National Guard unit in Baghdad, Iraq.
Billings created each poem with a form and
content designed to convey accurately each
soldier's personality and combat experiences.
With the soldier in Iraq, he did only minimal
editing of her e-mail messages, but her
personality and experience come through
very powerfully. His book excited a lot of
interest in the local media, and he was the
subject of several articles and television
interviews.

Dr. Arthur Ford, professor emeritus of
English, has recently had a number of his
works published: "Teaching and Learning
in China," an essay in Cultural Meetings,
American Writers, Scholars, and Artists in
China; a one-act play, "The Far Green
Field: A Meditation on Death and
Baseball," in Spitball: The Literary Baseball
Magazine; and an introduction to Joel
Barlow's book-length poem, The Columbiad.

Dr. Barbara Anderman, chair of the
Department of Art and Art History, had an
essay accepted for publication, tided "La notion
de peinture de genre a l'epoque de Watteau."
It appeared in the exhibition catalogue
Watteau et la fete galante, published by the
Reunion des Musees Nationaux in Paris and
by the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes
for the exhibition Watteau et la fete galante
at the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes.

Marie Riegle, adjunct assistant professor of
art, had a mixed media drawing, Crucifixion
I, accepted into last summer's 37th annual
Art of the State juried exhibition in
Harrisburg. Riegle's biographical profile was
also included in the 2004 edition of Who's
Who of American Women.

Dr. Michael Day, professor of physics, had
a 49-page research article, "I.I. Rabi: The
Two Cultures and The Universal Culture of
Science," published in Physics in Perspective
in December 2004. The article represents
three years of research, including significant
work on the Rabi Papers at the Library of
Congress.

Thomas Strohman '75, associate professor
of music, and for over 30 years a member of
Third Stream, just released the group's CD,
We Free Kings II. It is a remake of the
group's first recording that sold out in 1986.
The new CD has all the songs from the
original cassette, plus three new tunes and
"Christmas City," an original Third Stream
work.

The third edition of Clinical
Electrophysiology by Dr. Roger Nelson,
professor of physical therapy, was translated
into Portuguese last year for use in Brazil.

Dr. Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, assistant professor
of Spanish, has had several of her interviews
with Hispanic writers and scholars published
in The Spanish Herald (Sydney, Australia)
and Opinion Hispana (Melbourne,
Austtalia). She also had several of her poems
published last spring by Palavreiros (Brazil)
and in Dickinson College's literary review,
Sirena 2. Other poets included in this issue

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of Sirena were Prince de Asturias Prize-winner
Pablo Garcia Baena of Spain and Italian
poet Maria Luisa Spaziani, a candidate for
the Nobel Prize in 1990, 1992, and 1997.

In the past few months, Tezanos-Pinto
also has had published "Elena Herrera;
discurso del cuerpo y del espiritu" and
"Retorica postmodernista en Gracias por el
fuego de Mario Benedetti. Actas XXI, "
which was reprinted in Baquiana Miami.
She wrote the prologue to the anthology
Como Angeles en llamas. Algunas Voces
latinoamericanas del Siglo Veinte, and her
interview with a Peruvian poet, Blequer
Alarcon Silvera, was published in Opinion
Hispana (Melbourne, Australia).

She also published an article, "La escritura
testimonial femenina del Post-Boom," in
Escritura femenina y reivindicacion de genero
en America Latina, edited by Roland
Forgues and Jean-Marie Flores (Paris:
Editions Theles). Her book review,
"Cuentos de Alas: labulas de reencuentro
con la armom'a y la equidad," was published
in Opinion Hispana (Melbourne, Australia).

Photographers Dr. Angel and Adriana
Tuninetti had 1 1 of their photos included
in an exhibition in February, tided Travels
with a Camera, the first of a series of exhibitions
at Harrisburg Area Community College's
Lebanon campus. The show in the HACC
Mezzanine was sponsored by that college
and the Lebanon Valley Council on the
Arts. The series features the works of local
residents. The Tuninettis' photos were
culled from a group taken two years ago
when the couple and their children were on
a year's sabbatical from Angel's post as a
professor of Spanish at LVC. The family
lived in Spain and New Zealand, where
LVC has a study-abroad program, and visited
relatives in the couple's native Argentina.

Dr. Susan Atkinson, professor of education,
had her students take pan in a unique literary
experience during the fall 2004 semester. In
the geography class, the students were
required to create a nonfiction children's
book based on the five geographic themes
developed by the National Geographic
Society. The children's literature class developed
children's fiction by utilizing the five elements
of effective narrative/ storybook writing. The
student-generated books were published by
Nationwide Learning Inc. in Topeka, Kan.,
which conducts an authors contest each
year to select the best children's book that
the company has published in its product
catalogs. Six Lebanon Valley College

elementary education students were selected
as finalists in the national challenge: Alisha
Arnold '06. Lindsay Cnim '08. Megan
Gross '07. Ashley Johnson '07. Sarah
Lennard '07. and Lauren Scott '07.

ARTS

To raise awareness and funds for local
antiviolence groups, Lebanon Valley College
presented a benefit performance of Eve
Ensler's witty and irreverent play, The
Vagina Monologues. Based on interviews
with over 200 women about their experiences
of sexuality, The Vagina Monologues, at times
poignant and wrenching, has inspired a
grassroots movement — V-Day — to stop
violence against women. In spite of a
snowstorm, the performance attracted an
audience of over 300. The Vagina Monologues
was directed and produced by Kate Ruhl
'05. a religion and political science major
from Quentin; Amy Ricedorf, a resident
director; and Gene Kelly '01. assistant
director of student activities and student
development.

Audiences were challenged to solve The
Mystery of Edwin Drood when the Wig &

Buckle Society presented Rupert Holmes'
award-winning play-within-a-play in
February. Based on the unfinished Charles
Dickens' book of the same name, the whodunit
involves a madcap Victorian theater troupe
mounting a flamboyant musical production
of the mystery. It was directed by James
Glasbrenner '06. assisted by stage manager
Meghan Kiirta '06. The cast included:
Zachary LTwood Brandt '08, as the chairman;
Charlie Hopta '08, as the stage manager,
Mark McGuire '05. as John Jasper: Katie
Meo '08, as Edwin Drood: Sarah Pugh
'08, as Rosa Bud; Katie McCarty '07, as
Helena Landless: Robb Stech '05. as
Neville Landless; Todd Snovel '05. as the
Rev. Crisparkle; Jess Moyer '05. as Princess
Puffer: Billy Silar '05. as Durdles; Myles
Kitchen '06, as the deputy- and Scon
Payonk '05, as Bazzard. The chorus included
Brent Fisher '07. Dan Royer '07.
Brandon Yenser '05. Jessi Bagley '06, Jess
Barber '07. Kate Bright '05. Carrie Krug '05
Amy Lazaxski '05. and Mary Beth
Penjuke '06.

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Gay Pioneers, a documentary set nearly 40
years ago when the first annual homosexual
civil rights demonstrations took hold, was
previewed at LVC in November. Co-executive
producer Malcolm Lazin '65, a member of
the LVC Board of Trustees, was on hand to
give a talk about the film. The film focuses
on the years 1965-69, a time of pervasive
homophobia, when few homosexuals would
publicly identify themselves as gay. It traces
the beginning of the gay civil rights movement
that culminated in the New York Pride
Parade. Gay Pioneers was directed by PBS
award-winning documentary filmmaker
Glenn Holsten.

Dr. Anthony Leach '73, who has performed
throughout the eastern United States with
Essence of Joy, the Penn State University
choir, brought the group to his alma mater,
Lebanon Valley College, for a performance
in February. The concert was part of the
College's yearlong colloquium on God in the
21st Century. The choir's nearly 50 members
sing sacred and secular music from the
African-American traditions. Leach, an
associate professor of music and music
education at Penn State University (PSU),
has degrees in music and music education
from LVC and PSU.

Dr. Anthony Leach '73

A gold-medal pianist instructed a master
class here in February. Naoko Takao offered
her expertise to LVC students Tristan
Bostock '08, who performed Rachmaninov's
C# Minor Prelude, op. 3, #2; Elizabeth
Davis '06, who performed Mozart's Piano
Concerto in B Flat Major; and Gregory
Strohman '07, who played the last movement
of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6. Darnell
Epps '08 also played. Takao, a native of
Japan, is a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and

chamber musician in this country as well as
in France, Taiwan, and Japan.

LVC STUDENTS THANKED

LVC's Servants of Christ has been annually
sending its members to volunteer with
Appalachia Service Project (ASP) and 34 more
volunteered this May. Kyth Banks, facility
manager for APS, recendy sent this appreciative
note to The Rev. Darrell Woomer, College
chaplain, and Paula Gahres, secretary of the
chaplain's office.

Dear Ms. Paula,

I am so happy that your volunteers are coming
back to help at the Guyan Valley Center. The
college should be very proud of these students.
They are just wonderful. They also help with
a very valuable service to the people of
Appalachia. By helping us prepare our center,
they make the summer go by so smoothly.

I am impressed with their thoughtfulness,
manners and the way they show themselves to
be young adults. They really represetit the college
well. I know that you are as proud of them as
we are proud to have such a caring group of
young people. I know that God will bless them.
I look forward to seeing them in May. Please
tell them thank you and thank you and the
college for letting them come. If you have any
questions feel free to e-mail me at anytime.
Once again thank you and God bless.

Kyth

MARATHON JOURNEY
Alan Paynter, LVC admission counselor,
ran in the June 5, 2005, San Diego
Marathon as part of the American Stroke
Association's program, "Train to End
Stroke." Paynter's mother suffered her first
stroke in 2001 and he is "running the
marathon in her honor and on behalf of
other stroke victims. "It is a small way that
I can make a tangible difference for her
and for someone that you may know who
has suffered the same fate," explained
Paynter. If you want to find out how he
fared, visit http://www.rnrmarathon.com/.

EMPLOYEE MILESTONES

The following LVC employees celebrated
milestone anniversaries this year: Dr. Phillip
Billings (professor of English, 35 years);
Juliana Wolfe (director of the Shroyer
Health Center, head College nurse, 30
years); William J. Brown '79 (dean of
admission and financial aid, 25 years);
Robert Dillane '77 (director of information
management services, 20 years); George
Heckard (public safety officer, 20 years);

The Rev. Darrell Woomer

Alan Paynter

and Gwendolyn Pierce (assistant for
administration and finance, 20 years).

STUDENT VOLUNTEERING

In fall 2005, LVC students volunteered for
almost 4,000 (3,936) service hours in the
community. LVEP (625 hours) led the way
followed by Alpha Phi Omega (561),
Gamma Sigma Sigma (349), and Tau Kappa
Epsilon (324). Members of 33 different
religious groups, fraternities or sororities,
athletic teams, and other clubs committed
free time during this period.

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Finding his voice . .

Craig Layne, a senior German and English
communications major, secured a dream intern-
ship this past summer, working in the news
department of the local public radio station,
WITF-FM. During that time, he wrote news
stories, covered breaking news, and produced a
feature piece about green-space development in
blighted areas of Harrisburg. Craig's voice was
heard when an executive with the Keep PA
Beautiful program tuned in to his story and, as a
result, pledged additional funds for the project.

"My professors at LVC not only taught me the
basics of journalism, but how to make a difference

through my work. And, I'm proud that my involve-
ment with the project has made an impact on the
greater Harrisburg community."

After graduation, Craig will continue to find his
voice at the prestigious Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern
California — where he was awarded a full-tuition
merit scholarship.

Your Valley Fund gift provides students like
Craig the opportunity to make a difference in
their community, and in themselves. Help others
find their voice. Make your gift today.

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