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The  Valle 


Getting 
Down  to 
Business 


The  Right  Course 
for  Managers 


May  17-18 


May  17, 24,  25, 
31,  June  1 


May  24-27 

June  7-9 

June  10-13, 
17-20 

June  24-28 

July  1-5 
July  8-12 

July  15-19 


July  22-26 


July  29-August  2 


Central  Pennsylvania 
Methodist  Churches, 
Board  of  Diaconal  Ministry 

Music  in  the  Parks, 

music  adjudication  for  junior 

and  senior  high  school  students 

Society  of  Friends  Conference 
on  Religion  and  Philosophy 

Alumni  Weekend 

Swimming  Residence  Camp 


Basketball  Residence  Camp 
Youth  Scholars  Institute 
American  Music  Abroad 
Swimming  Day  Camp 

Christian  Endeavor  Assembly 

Chemistry  Professors  Workshop 
Youth  Fellowship  in  Music  and  Art 
Pennsylvania  Department  of 
Education  Teacher  Workshops 

Summer  Music  Camp 
Youth  Scholars  Institute 
Girl's  Basketball  Camp 
Chemistry  Professors  Workshop 
Pennsylvania  Student  Council 
Advanced  Leadership  Workshop 

Chemistry  Professors  Workshop 
Pennsylvania  Student  Council 
Junior  High  Leadership  Workshop 
Piano  Camp 
Football  Camp 

Football  Camp 

Pennsylvania  Student  Council 

Senior  High  Leadership  Workshop 

Central  Pennsylvania 

Suzuki  Workshop 


August  3-11 


International  String  Conference 


Vol.  9,  Number  1 


Departments 


Features 


9  NEWS  BRIEFS 

20  NEWSMAKERS 

22  SPORTS 

23  ALUMNI  NEWS 
25  CLASS  NOTES 


Editor:  Judy  Pehrson 

Writers: 
Jim  Albert 
Sue  De  Pasquale 
John  B.  Deamer  Jr. 
Lois  Fegan 
Dr.  Art  Ford 
Dennis  Larison 
Doug  S.  Thomas 
Diane  Wenger 


The  Valley  is  published  by  Lebanon 
Valley  College  and  distributed  without 
charge  to  alumni  and  friends.  It  is 
produced  in  cooperation  with  the  Johns 
Hopkins  University  Alumni  Magazine 
Consortium.  Editor:  Donna  Shoemaker; 
Contributing  Editor:  Sue  De  Pasquale; 
Designer:  Royce  Faddis. 


Send  comments  or  address  changes  to: 
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On  the  Cover: 

Senior  management  major  Brendalyn 
Krysiak  in  the  dining  room  of  The  Hotel 
Hershey.  Internships  are  an  important 
part  of  the  college's  management  pro- 
gram. Photograph  by  Charles  Freeman. 


2  Gained  in  Translation 

Bruce  Metzger  ('35)  guided  30  scholars  in  rewriting  the  Holy  Writ 
to  make  the  language  more  contemporary. 

By  Sue  De  Pasquale 

4  Song  of  the  Phoenix 

Two  couples  seek  a  luay  across  cultural  barriers. 
By  Dr.  Art  Ford 

6  Jump  Start  on  Science  and  Math 

Girls  need  encouragement  to  tackle  the  tough  subjects 
— before  peer  pressure  sets  in. 

By  Judy  Pehrson 

11  Steering  Business  Back  on  Track 

These  management  and  actuarial  science  programs  are 
just  the  ticket  for  future  managers. 

By  Doug  S.  Thomas 

19  Art  in  Iron 

Where  engineering,  art  and  ethics  intersect. 
By  Dennis  Larison 

29  Out  of  Chaos  Came  Creativity 

Collages  trace  "Fourteen  Stations  of  the  Cross." 
By  Jim  Albert 


Gained  in 
Translation 


Revising  the  Bible  took  17 
years.  Alumnus  Bruce 
Metzger  guided  30  eminent 
scholars  in  this  mammoth 
project  to  update  the  lan- 
guage yet  be  faithful  to  the 
original  texts. 

By  Sue  De  Pasquale 


Dr.  Bruce  Metzger  ('35)  still 
remembers  with  a  smile  the 
night  he  and  nine  other  New 
Testament  scholars  became 
locked  inside  the  Speer  Li- 
brary at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 
Hard  at  work  translating  and  compiling  the 
New  Revised  Standard  Version  (NRSV) 
of  the  Bible,  the  theologians  lost  track  of 
the  time.  "Fortunately,  our  meeting  was 
on  the  ground  floor,"  he  later  wrote,  and 
they  could  climb  out  a  window  to  freedom. 
That  marathon  session  was  just  one  of 
many  that  Metzger  spent  as  chair  of  the 
Standard  Bible  Committee  given  the  re- 
sponsibility of  revising  the  Bible  widely 
used  for  the  past  four  decades  in  churches 
throughout  the  country— the  1952  Revised 
Standard  Version  (RSV).  The  committee 
of  30  scriptural  scholars  met  for  a  week 
twice  yearly  for  17  years  in  order  to 
complete  the  mammoth  project.  Their 
labors  finally  were  rewarded  last  spring 
when  the  first  copies  of  the  NRSV  became 
available  in  bookshops  and  churches  across 


Dr.  Bruce  Metzger  in  his  office  at  the  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 


the  United  States  and  Great  Britain. 

"I  would  regard  that  work  as  a  climax 
to  my  life,"  the  77-year-old  Metzger  says 
today,  from  his  home  in  Princeton,  New 
Jersey.  "It  was  a  great  privilege  to  work 
beside  those  biblical  scholars  of  all  differ- 
ent faiths."  A  Presbyterian,  his  colleagues 
included  members  of  10  Protestant  denomi- 
nations, as  well  as  six  Roman  Catholics 
and  one  representative  each  from  the 
Eastern  Orthodox  and  Jewish  faiths. 

A  man  of  gentle  demeanor,  Metzger  is 
one  of  the  world's  preeminent  New  Testa- 
ment scholars.  He  has  written  or  edited 
more  than  30  books,  including  the  Reader's 
Digest  Condensed  Bible  and  the  New 
Oxford  Annotated  Bible  with  the  Apocry- 
pha. His  works  have  been  translated  into 
German,  Japanese,  Korean,  Chinese  and 
Malagasy,  and  he  has  lectured  at  more  than 
100  universities  and  seminaries  in  South 
America,  Australia,  Korea,  South  Africa, 
Japan  and  other  parts  of  the  world. 

Metzger  followed  in  his  father's  foot- 
steps in  attending  Lebanon  Valley:  Maurice 


R.  Metzger  ('07)  became  an  attorney  in 
Harrisburg  after  his  graduation.  But  his 
son,  Bruce,  even  as  a  teenager,  found 
languages— especially  the  classical  ones— 
to  be  his  chosen  path.  Building  on  his  major 
in  Greek  and  his  minors  in  Latin  and 
German  at  Lebanon  Valley  College, 
Metzger  went  on  to  earn  his  master's 
degree,  divinity  degree  and  Ph.D.  from 
Princeton  University.  He  taught  at  Prince- 
ton Theological  Seminary  for  46  years 
before  retiring  in  1984  as  the  George  L. 
Collord  Professor  of  New  Testament  Lan- 
guage and  Literature,  Emeritus.  During  his 
distinguished  career,  he  was  a  Visiting 
Fellow  at  both  Oxford  and  Cambridge  and 
twice  was  a  member  of  the  prestigious 
Institute  for  Advanced  Study  in  Princeton. 
The  need  for  updating  the  RSV  Bible 
became  apparent  back  in  the  early  '70s, 
Metzger  explains.  "Since  English  is  a 
living  language,  it  changes,  with  words  and 
idioms  taking  on  new  meanings,"  he  says. 
The  new  version  "offers  greater  accuracy, 
clarity  and  naturalness  of  expression,"  he 


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adds.  Consider  Psalms  50:9?  for  example. 
The  1952  RSV  reads,  "I  will  accept  no 
bull  from  your  house."  The  committee's 
revised  rendering?  "I  will  not  accept  a  bull 
from  your  house."  Or,  take  II  Corinthians 
11:25.  To  any  child  of  the  '60s,  "Once  I 
was  stoned"  calls  to  mind  something  more 
than  rocks  being  hurled.  Hence  the  new 
version,  "Once  I  received  a  stoning." 

The  challenge,  Metzger  says,  lay  in 
updating  archaisms  without  resorting  to 
language  so  "faddish"  that  it  would  quickly 
become  out  of  date.  Moreover,  since  the 
NRSV  would  be  used  in  Great  Britain,  the 
committee  tried  to  avoid  introducing  "pure 
Americanisms"  into  the  text,  he  says.  A 
British  scholar  carefully  combed  the  final 
drafts  of  the  NRSV  with  an  eye  for  weeding 
out  Yankee  transgressions. 

In  many  cases,  especially  those  relating 
to  gender,  recent  scholarly  research  has 
shed  new  light  on  the  original  Hebrew  and 
Greek  texts  of  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments, Metzger  says.  Theologians  discov- 
ered in  some  instances  that  the  RSV 
erroneously  supplied  "man"  and  "men"  in 
places  where  the  Greek  texts  lack  both 
words.  Thus,  the  words  of  Jesus  in  John 
12:32  come  closer  to  the  original  texts  in 
the  new  version:  "And  I,  when  I  am  lifted 
up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all  people  to 
myself,"  rather  than  "all  men."  Explains 
Metzger,  "The  sense  of  the  original  Greek 
includes  both  men  and  women.  It  isn't 
limited  to  half  the  human  race." 

But  with  language  pertaining  to  the 
Deity,  where  the  ancient  texts  are  clear  in 
their  use  of  the  masculine  pronoun,  says 
Metzger,  the  committee  of  men  and  women 
made  no  changes.  God  in  the  NRSV  is  still 
"our  Father  who  is  in  heaven."  Metzger 
has  written,  "It  is  the  task  of  the  Christian 
educator,  not  of  the  Bible  translator,  to 
explain  that  God  transcends  masculinity." 

The  committee's  work  was  further  aided 
by  the  discovery  of  Greek  and  Hebrew 
manuscripts  that  are  older  than  those 
previously  known.  "Generally  speaking, 
the  older  the  manuscript,  the  fewer  number 
of  times  it  had  been  copied  by  scribes,  and 
the  more  accurate  it  is,"  he  explains. 

Thanks  to  the  Dead  Sea  Scrolls,  un- 
earthed during  the  1950s,  the  committee 
had  access  to  a  copy  of  I  Samuel  that  is 
900  years  older  than  the  oldest  known 
manuscript,  he  says.  Thus,  10  lines  at  the 
close  of  I  Samuel  10,  which  never  before 


New  and  Improved 


What  kinds  of  biblical  revisions  did  Bruce  changes,  comparing  the  1952  Revised 

Metzger's  committee  make?  Here  are  some  Standard  Version  (RSV)  and  the   1990 

examples    from    several    categories    of  New  Revised  Standard  Version  (NRSV). 

RSV  NRSV 


For  greater  accuracy: 


.  .  .   like   David   invent   for 
themselves  instruments  of  music. 


.  .   .  like  David  improvise  on  instruments 
of  music.  —Amos  6:5 


For  improved  clarity: 


gouge  out  all  your  right  eyes. 


.  .  gouge  out  everyone's  right  eye. 

-I  Samuel  11:2 


For  more  intelligible  English: 


Unite  my  heart  to  fear  thy  name.  .  .  .   Give  me  an  undivided  heart  to 

revere  your  name.  —Psalms  86:1 1 


For  more  natural  English: 


.  .  .  Your  sandals  have  not  worn 
off  your  feet. 


.  .  .  Your  sandals  have  not  worn  out  on 
your  feet .  —  Deuteronomy  29 : 5 


To  avoid  misunderstandings: 


I  am  dumb. 


I  am  silent. 


-Psalms  39:9 


To  avoid  ambiguity  in  oral  readings: 


.  .  .  "Did  you  lack  anything?" 
They  said,  "Nothing." 


.  .  .   "Did  you  lack  anything?"  They 
said,  "No,  not  a  thing."       —Luke  22:35 


To  correct  unnecessary  masculine  renderings: 


.  .  .  Man  does  not  live  by  bread  alone.        .  .  .  One  does  not  live  by  bread  alone. 

—Matthew  4:4 


appeared  in  a  printed  Bible,  have  found 
their  rightful  way  into  the  NRSV. 

Metzger  and  his  committee  members 
met  each  year  at  Princeton  Theological 
Seminary  for  one  week  in  January,  and 
then  again  in  June,  sequestering  themselves 
from  9  a.m.  until  9  p.m.  for  six  days 
straight.  "At  the  end  of  the  week  of  highly 
concentrated  work,  we  were  very  tired," 
the  chair  recalls.  Because  their  time  to- 
gether was  limited,  they  completed  much 
of  the  translating  and  other  study  independ- 
ently throughout  the  rest  of  the  year— truly 
a  labor  of  love,  says  Metzger,  since  none 
of  the  scholars  were  paid  for  their  efforts. 

With  theologians  of  such  disparate  relig- 
ious faiths,  reaching  a  consensus  was  not 
always  easy,  he  admits.  Majority  ruled,  in 
all  cases.  "We  would  never  be  finished  if 
we  had  to  reach  absolute  agreement,"  he 
says,  chuckling. 

Now  that  the  NRSV  is  behind  him, 
Metzger  can  concentrate  on  his  latest 
project,  editing  the  first-ever  Oxford  Com- 


panion to  the  Bible.  He's  already  devoted 
five  years  to  the  collection  of  articles  and 
guesses  it  will  be  another  two  before  it's 
ready  for  publication.  Meanwhile,  the 
septagenarian  continues  to  teach  in  foreign 
locales.  This  summer  he'll  spend  three 
months  in  Argentina. 

How  soon  will  biblical  scholars  need  to 
begin  work  on  a  new  New  Revised  Stan- 
dard Version?  "That  depends  on  whether 
dramatic  changes  take  place  in  the  English 
language,  and  whether  still  older  Greek  and 
Hebrew  manuscripts  turn  up  that  are  more 
significant  than  the  ones  we  have  now," 
Metzger  says.  If  nothing  changes  signifi- 
cantly, he  says,  the  NRSV  should  hold  up 
for  a  generation  (roughly  40  years),  just 
as  the  last  version  did. 


Sue  De  Pasquale,  a  Baltimore  writer,  is  a 
contributing  editor  of  the  Alumni  Magazine 
Consortium.  Jim  Albert,  a  Lebanon 
freelance  writer,  contributed  to  this  article. 


Spring/Summer  1991 


Song  of  the 
Phoenix 


As  she  plays,  delicate  notes 
fill  the  small  room  in 
Nanjing.  But  there  are 
barriers  that  even  music 
cannot  take  her  across. 

By  Dr.  Art  Ford 


The  shen,  an  ancient  reed  instrument,  has  a  haunting  sound. 


Associate  dean  of  the  college  and 
professor  of  English,  Dr.  Art  Ford 
spent  1989  in  China  as  a  Fulbright 
Scholar.  The  following  vignette 
comes  from  a  book  he  is  writing 
based  on  those  experiences. 

He  watched  his  hand  closely 
as  it  swung  slowly  across 
his  body.  In  his  white, 
loose-fitting,  cotton  pants 
and  top  with  the  small 
orange  Yin-Yang  insignia,  he  was  the 
consummate  Tai  Chi  Chuan  teacher.  His 
flexibility  seemed  limitless,  his  coordi- 
nation perfect,  his  control  complete.  And 
he  knew  it. 

He  demonstrated  once  more  the  "retreat 
to  ride  tiger"  move,  lifting  his  left  leg 
slightly  and  holding  it  there  before  settling 
down  with  a  windmill  motion  of  both  arms. 
I  tried  and  stumbled. 

He  is  at  least  50  years  old,  but  his  body 
is  hard.  His  concentration  is  total.  He 
moves  without  effort  as  the  sweat  begins 
to  form  on  his  face.  I  freeze  in  the  early 
morning  darkness,  my  knees  refusing  to 
bend,  my  mind  refusing  to  focus.  Teacher 
Tang  moves  without  walls,  free  and  com- 


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plete  in  himself.  He  becomes  the  moves 
he  performs  and  so  escapes  the  boundaries 
imposed  on  the  rest  of  us. 

That  is  Teacher  Tang,  who  bicycles  40 
minutes  every  Monday,  Wednesday  and 
Friday  to  his  6  a.m.  Tai  Chi  class  with  a 
dozen  or  so  foreign  students  at  Nanjing 
University. 

This  is  another  Teacher  Tang,  an  apron 
around  his  waist,  rolling  dough  with  a 
small,  wooden  stick,  smiling  and  chatter- 
ing happily  in  Chinese  to  two  non- 
comprehending  guests. 

During  the  first  term  when  we  had  been 
taking  Tai  Chi  lessons  from  Tang  and  his 
wife,  they  had  invited  my  wife,  Mary 
Ellen,  and  me  to  dinner  at  their  house. 
Each  time  we  were  to  go,  however, 
something  happened  to  postpone  the  meal. 
Finally,  now,  we  are  here.  It  is  good  to  see 
both  of  them  again.  In  a  moment,  Mary 
Ellen  and  I  will  be  folding  jiaozi  dumplings 
for  the  first  time  under  their  guidance. 

Their  flat  is  comfortably  furnished, 
spacious  by  Chinese  standards.  It  has  one 
bedroom,  a  tiny  kitchen  with  a  cold  water 
sink  and  two  gas  burners  on  metal  legs, 
an  entrance  way  that  can  double  as  an 
eating  area,  a  bathroom  with  an  automatic 
washer  and  dryer  and  a  living  room.  One 
wall  has  a  window  and  door  opening  onto 
a  small  balcony  overlooking  Nanjing  from 
six  stories  up. 

The  apartment  is  not  heated,  even  though 
the  day  is  cool  and  the  night  will  be  cold; 
and  it  will  not  be  heated  even  when  the 
snow  blows  up  in  the  bitter  wind  of 
December  and  January.  I  stand  and  fold 
jiaozi  with  hands  growing  numb,  slippered 
feet  freezing.  The  door  to  the  balcony  is 
open,  allowing  in  a  wind  that  whips 
through  me  and  out  the  open  kitchen 
window. 

Teacher  Tang  and  his  wife  ignore  the 
cold.  They  seem  to  rise  above  it.  They 
work  quickly  and  efficiently,  a  team  roll- 
ing, folding  and  pinching  the  dough  on  the 
table,  and,  finally,  dropping  the  dumplings 
into  the  hot  water.  For  them  the  quarters 
are  not  cramped.  They  move  with  grace. 

Even  the  entrance  way,  crowded  with 
the  four  of  us,  our  wooden  chairs  and  the 
table— now  filled  with  bowls  of  hot  jiaozi— 
seems  perfect  for  the  place  and  the  occa- 
sion. Even  our  few  words  of  Chinese  and 
their  few  words  of  English  seem  more  than 
sufficient. 

We  knew  our  teachers  had  a  daughter, 
the  only  accomplished  female  shen  player 
in  China.  They  tell  us  she  had  been 
performing  that  afternoon  at  a  hotel  in 


Nanjing, 
arrives , 

ant,  pretty  ^EQ, 
in    her 
and  joins  us 
We    also 


She 
^3    1  a  pleas- 
woman 
mid-20s, 
for  dinner, 
knew  that  our 


teachers  prize  this  daughter  more  than 
anything  else  in  their  lives.  Earlier  they  had 
shown  us  certificates  of  her  achievements, 
photographs  of  her  performing  in  Italy, 
letters  of  recommendation  from  her  teach- 
ers at  the  Shanghai  Conservatory  of  Music, 
even  her  grades  at  school.  "Very  good," 
her  mother  says,  pointing  to  a  photograph 
of  her  daughter  in  a  long  red  gown, 
performing  on  the  shen.  "Hen  hao,"  I  smile 
in  return. 

Now  she  is  here,  and  all  they  had  said 
seems  true.  She  sits  on  a  small  bench,  her 
knees  pulled  up  beneath  her  while  her 
parents  praise  her.  She  is  modest  but 
confident,  a  bit  embarrassed  by  the  praise, 
even  though  she  understands  no  English. 
She  is  at  ease  with  her  parents'  adulation. 

"This  is  a  shen,"  her  mother  says,  and 
raises  a  large  metal  instrument  in  both 
hands.  It  is  several  feet  long,  with  a  dozen 
or  more  pipes  of  various  lengths,  almost, 
in  fact,  a  portable  pipe  organ.  Easily  the 
most  awkward-looking  musical  instrument 
I  have  ever  seen,  it  must  be  held  so  the 
pipes  are  upright,  and  it  takes  an  enormous 
amount  of  breath  to  play. 

The  mother  hands  it  to  her  daughter, 
who  holds  it  high  and  presses  it  to  her  lips. 
It  seems  like  a  feather  floating  in  her  hands. 
She  blows  a  few  practice  notes  of  screech- 
ing clamor,  but  when  she  plays,  delicate 
music  fills  the  room.  The  piece  is  called 
"The  Phoenix";  we  hear  it  unfold  its  wings, 
fly  and  return. 

When  she  finishes,  she  smiles  shyly  and 
sits  again  on  the  low  stool.  "My  daughter 
very  good,"  her  mother  says.  We  agree. 

She  controls  the  instrument  like  they 
controlled  their  bodies  in  Tai  Chi.  We  now 
feel  part  of  that  comfort,  that  sureness. 

Earlier  her  mother  had  told  us  that  her 
daughter  has  had  many  invitations  to  come 
to  America  to  study  and  perform.  We  could 
believe  that.  Now  the  mother  brings  out  the 
envelopes  with  the  invitations.  They  are 
applications  for  admission  sent  by  U.S. 
graduate  schools.  We  do  not  explain  the 
difference. 

The  mother  unfolds  a  map  of  the  United 
States.  "These  are  the  schools  that  want 
my  daughter,"  she  says.  She  had  drawn 
circles  around  each  location  from  which  a 
letter  of  application  had  been  sent. 

She  turns  to  us.  Her  daughter  drops  her 


eyes.  "You  help  her?"  she  asks,  pointing 
to  her  daughter. 

We  are  confused.  Suddenly  our  roles  are 
reversed.  How  can  we  help  her?  She  is  an 
expert  performer,  clearly  superior  in  a 
culture  that  prizes  music.  These  people  had 
demonstrated  their  self-sufficiency,  their 
confidence.  And  now  I  see  in  the  eyes  of 
this  woman  a  pleading  awkwardness,  a 
desperation. 

"I  don't  know  what  you  mean,"  I  say, 
realizing  that  the  language  barrier  would 
render  my  comment  meaningless.  I  try  to 
put  it  another  way,  but  realize  they  know 
what  I  said  even  though  they  do  not 
understand  all  my  words. 

"It  is  hard,"  she  says,  projecting  some- 
thing between  frustration  and  despair. 
Looking  into  her  husband's  eyes,  she  says 
"We  need  more  English." 

Her  husband  returns  that  look  with  his 
own  bewilderment. 

Suddenly,  the  mother  reaches  for  a 
dictionary  on  the  side  table  and  thumbs 
frantically  through  the  worn  pages.  Verg- 
ing on  panic,  she  repeats  certain  words. 
Her  husband  echoes  her,  softly.  She  finds 
the  word  in  Chinese  and  holds  it  and  its 
English  counterpart  up  to  me. 

"To  repay,"  it  says.  "We  repay;  we 
repay,"  she  says.  "No  cost,"  pointing  to 
me. 

Again,  I  feel  the  weight  of  the  language 
barrier,  but  now  it  turns  into  something 
else.  I  could  pretend  that  I  do  not  under- 
stand what  she  wants,  but  I  know  they 
deserve  better  than  that.  I  look  at  Mary 
Ellen;  she  knows  too. 

"No  money,"  the  mother  goes  on,  panic 
in  her  eyes.  Again  she  thumbs  through  the 
dictionary.  The  word  this  time  is  "spon- 
sor." "You  sponsor,"  she  says,  touching 
my  arm  for  the  first  time.  She  wants  to 
explain,  to  convince,  but  does  not  know 
the  words.  She  can  only  repeat,  "You 
sponsor,"  in  tones  ranging  from  insistence 
to  pleading  to,  finally,  begging. 

Ashamed  for  them  and  ashamed  of  us, 
we  continue  pleading  ignorance.  We  know 
that  their  daughter  could  never  get  an 
American  visa  because  she  speaks  no 
English.  We  know  their  dream,  at  least  for 
now,  is  hopeless.  And  yet,  even  if  we  had 
spoken  their  language,  we  know  we  could 
never  tell  them  this. 

They  must  sense  it  because  they  lean 
back,  smile  at  each  other,  and  take  control 
again.  Teacher  Tang  turns  to  his  daughter 
and  says  something  to  her  excitedly.  She 
begins  to  play  a  spirited  rendition  of  "Jingle 
Bells." 


Spring/Summer  1991 


Jump  Start 
on  Science 
and  Math 


Real  women  do  take  chem 
lab  and  solve  quadratics. 
But  it  pays  to  encourage 
girls  early  on  to  achieve. 

By  Judy  Pehrson 


The  roomful  of  junior  high  girls 
watched  intently  as  Adjunct 
Chemistry  Professor  Joanne 
Rosen  deftly  wielded  glass 
beakers,  changing  a  liquid  so- 
lution into  a  solid  and  transforming  it  back 
again.  Then  it  was  the  girls'  turn  to  perform 
the  experiment,  and  they  happily  broke  into 
small  groups  to  give  it  a  go.  "This  is 
great,"  sighed  a  freckled  seventh  grader. 
"There  are  no  boys  around  and  we  get  to 
do  everything!" 

The  "everything"  included  hands-on 
experiments  in  Lebanon  Valley  College's 
chemistry,  physics,  biology,  psychology 
and  computer  laboratories  and  an  afternoon 
of  career  panels  and  math  and  science  logic 
games.  Over  100  girls  from  throughout 
Lebanon  County  attended  the  daylong  math 
and  science  seminar,  which  was  sponsored 
by  the  college  and  by  Potential  Reentry 
Opportunities  in  Business  and  Education 
(PROBE),  a  nonprofit  agency  that  assists 
women  in  upgrading  skills  or  reentering  the 


In  a  hands-on  session  in  the  botany  lab,  a  workshop  attendee  studies  photosynthesis 


The  Valley 


job  market.  Other  sponsors  were  the  Ameri- 
can Association  of  University  Women,  the 
Mid-Atlantic  Equity  Center  and  the  Mu- 
seum of  Scientific  Discovery  in  Harris- 
burg. 

The  seminar,  says  Rosen,  was  designed 
to  encourage  girls  to  take  more  math  and 
science  classes  and  to  think  seriously  about 
college  and  careers. 

"You  need  to  get  to  them  when  they're 
young,"  she  states.  "It's  important  that 
they  realize  early  on  that  if  they  don't  take 
enough  math  and  science,  they  will  se- 
verely limit  their  career  choices.  You  also 
need  to  plant  the  idea  in  their  heads  that 
they  can  be  good  at  science  and  math 
before  peer  pressure  sets  in." 

That  message  was  conveyed  to  the  girls' 
parents  as  well  during  the  day.  Some  50 
mothers  and  fathers  attended  special  ses- 
sions- on  how  to  motivate  their  daughters 
in  math  and  science  and  how  to  finance  a 
college  education. 

The  seminar  at  Lebanon  Valley  is  just 
one  of  a  number  of  steps  being  taken 
around  the  nation  to  encourage  more  girls 
to  tackle  the  tough  subjects,  says  PROBE's 
director,  Dr.  Kathryn  Towns.  Such  encour- 
agement is  sorely  needed,  she  notes, 
because  girls  lag  far  behind  in  these 
disciplines. 

"Despite  the  progress  made  by  women 
in  other  areas,  math-  and  science-related 
professions  are  still  dominated  by  men,  and 
girls  are  still  scoring  lower  in  math  and 
science  on  standardized  achievement  tests," 
she  states.  (For  decades  now,  boys  have 
outscored  girls  by  roughly  50  points  on  the 
math  portion  of  the  SAT) 

Indeed,  the  situation  seems  to  be  grow- 
ing worse  by  the  year,  says  Dr.  Janice 
McElroy,  director  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Commission  for  Women.  "The  latest  fig- 
ures I've  seen  from  the  American  Associa- 
tion for  the  Advancement  of  Science 
indicate  that  the  number  of  women  enrolled 
in  engineering,  math,  chemistry,  physics 
—the  hard  sciences—  is  actually  dropping. 
There  was  an  increase  during  the  1970s  and 
'80s,  but  that  is  turning  around.  At  the 
height,  for  example,  not  more  than  15 
percent  of  those  graduating  in  engineering 
were  women,  and  that  has  now  dropped  to 
10  percent." 

In  the  field  of  math,  while  46  percent 
of  bachelor's  degrees  go  to  women,  only 
17  percent  of  the  doctorates  do,  according 


to  a  1989  report  by  the  National  Research 
Council. 

Finding  the  reasons  for  the  dismal 
statistics  has  been  a  source  of  concern  and 
study  for  some  time.  Why  is  there  a  gap 
between  girls'  and  boys'  math/science 
achievement?  Why  don't  more  young 
women  go  into  science-  and  math-related 
professions?  Are  there  innate,  genetic  dif- 
ferences between  the  sexes  that  affect 
mathematical  and  scientific  ability,  as 
some  have  claimed,  or  are  there  forces  at 
work  in  society  that  inhibit  women's 
interest  and  achievement  in  math  and  the 
sciences? 

"The  evidence  seems  to  come  down  hard 
on  the  side  of  societal  forces,"  says  Towns, 
who  was  a  math  major  in  college.  "Girls 
and  boys  are  treated  differently  practically 
from  birth.  While  it  has  become  almost  a 
cliche  to  mention  it,  little  girls  typically 
get  doll  houses  and  cuddly  toys  to  play 
with,  and  little  boys  get  building  blocks 
and  construction  sets.  Boys  get  a  head  start 
on  the  skills  necessary  to  succeed  in  math 
and  science." 

Later  on  in  the  classroom,  girls  are  also 
treated  very  differently  from  boys,  says 
McElroy,  who  has  taught  math  at  both  the 
college  and  high  school  level. 

"Countless   studies   have   demonstrated 


(Above)A  session  on  computer  spreadsheets 
proved  to  be  a  workshop  favorite.  (Top 
right)  Marie  Landis  probes  physics  and 
(bottom)  the  girb  examine  Venus's  flytraps. 

that  girls  receive  less  attention  and  less 
effective  feedback  from  teachers,  and  are 
more  likely  to  be  tracked  into  low-ability 
math  and  science  groups,"  she  states. 
"Further,  teachers  typically  have  lower 
expectations  of  girls  and  too  often  allow 
boys  to  dominate  both  class  and  small- 
group  discussions  and  activities." 

American  University  researchers  Myra 
and   David   Sadker   have   spent   the   last 


decade  examining  the  differential  treatment 
that  girls  and  boys  experience  in  the 
classroom.  Through  observing  and  video- 
taping classroom  situations,  they  have 
discovered  that  teachers: 

■  communicate  more  frequently  with  boys 

■  ask  boys  more  complex,  abstract  and 
open-ended  questions,  which  provide  bet- 
ter opportunities  for  active  learning 

■  are  more  likely  to  give  detailed  instruc- 
tions to  boys  for  class  projects  and  assign- 
ments, and  are  more  likely  to  take  over  and 
finish  the  task  for  girls,  again  depriving 
them  of  active  learning 

■  spend  more  time  with  girls  in  reading 
classes  and  more  time  with  boys  in  math 
classes. 

"The  Sadker  research  is  illuminating.  It 
becomes  clear  that  much  of  the  differential 
treatment  is  unconscious,"  says  Towns. 
"In  one  videotape,  for  example,  two 
children— a  boy  and  a  girl— were  watching 
an  experiment.  The  little  girl  was  prancing 
up  and  down,  eager  to  try  it.  The  woman 
teacher  let  the  boy  go  first  and  said,  'Billie 
gets  his  turn  next  because  boys  need  to 
know  this.'  When  she  was  shown  the 
videotape  of  the  session,  the  teacher  burst 
into  tears  and  said,  T  had  no  idea  I  said 
that.'  " 

Girls  get  other  hidden  messages  from 
their  parents  and  society  in  general,  says 
Rosen.  "They  get  the  message  that  girls 
can't— and  aren't  supposed  to  be— good 
at  math  and  science,  and  that  it  is  OK  if 
they  are  not." 

In  adolescence,  another  pressure  is  added. 
Studies  have  found  that  girls  generally 
believe  that  boys  do  not  like  smart  girls, 


Spring/Summer  1991 


Liquids  become  solids  in  a  chem  experiment. 


The  gender  gap 
stops  here 


While  nationally  the  percentages  of  women 
studying  science  and  math  are  low,  Leba- 
non Valley  College  boasts  very  favorable 
enrollments  in  these  areas. 

Some  38  percent  of  the  college's  mathe- 
matics students  are  female,  as  are  44 
percent  of  chemistry  students,  48.5  percent 
of  biology  students  and  67.5  percent  of 
psychology  students.  Physics  is  closer  to 
the  national  average,  with  8.5  percent. 

Joanne  Rosen,  adjunct  professor  of  chem- 
istry, believes  the  numbers  of  women 
students  in  the  hard  sciences  are  so  high 
because  Lebanon  Valley  is  a  small,  private 
undergraduate  institution. 

"Lebanon  Valley  is  also  a  very  special 
place  because  it  is  a  much  more  nurturing 
atmosphere  than  many  undergraduate 
schools  —  particularly  for  women.  I  have 
been  affiliated  with  several  colleges  and 
universities,  and  I  have  never  seen  such  a 
nurturing  atmosphere.  Girls  need  that  a  lot 
more  than  boys  because  of  the  socialization 
process  that  discourages  them  from  pursu- 
ing science  and  math." 

The  college  also  has  a  more  than 
respectable  number  of  female  faculty  teach- 
ing math  and  science. 

Seven  of  Lebanon  Valley's  women  fac- 
ulty and  administrators  were  instructors 
and  role  models  for  the  recent  math  and 
science  seminar  for  junior  high  girls. 
Participating  were  Dr.  Jan  Pedersen,  assis- 
tant professor  of  psychology;  Dr.  Barbara 
Denison,  director  of  academic  support 
services  for  Continuing  Education;  Debo- 
rah Fullam,  treasurer  and  controller;  Dr. 
Carolyn  Hanes,  assistant  professor  of  soci- 
ology; Dr.  Jeanne  Hey,  assistant  professor 
of  economics;  Joanne  Rosen,  adjunct  assis- 
tant professor  of  chemistry;  and  Dr.  Susan 
Verhoek,  professor  of  biology.  Marie  Lan- 
dis,  a  sophomore  mathematics  major,  as- 
sisted with  the  physics  demonstration. 


especially  those  who  excel  in  math.  Even 
among  girls  who  are  gifted  in  math,  the 
fear  of  peer  rejection  seems  to  be  a  major 
factor  in  their  decision  not  to  enroll  in 
math.  In  short,  girls  see  math  as  unfemi- 
nine.  Real  women,  they  believe,  do  not 
solve  equations. 

"Girls  are  afraid  to  achieve  at  the 
expense  of  having  friends,  especially  boy- 
friends, whereas  boys  don't  have  that  same 
kind  of  fear,"  says  Dr.  Jan  Pedersen, 
assistant  professor  of  psychology  at  Leba- 
non Valley.  "They  are  also  becoming  more 
aware  of  the  issue  of  career  vs.  family  and 
the  choices  women  have  to  make.  They 
begin  to  recognize  that  the  cost  of  success, 
particularly  in  a  non-traditional  career,  will 
be  higher  for  them,  which  further  reduces 
the  incentive  to  try." 

It  is  probably  not  coincidental,  then, 
that  the  gender  gap  in  math  scores  begins 
to  appear  around  age  14,  and  becomes  a 
yawning  chasm  by  the  time  students  are 
ready  to  go  to  college. 

Girls  also  experience  a  dramatic  drop  in 
self-esteem  during  adolescence.  Dr.  Carol 
Gilligan,  a  professor  of  education  at  Har- 
vard and  a  pioneer  in  studying  the  develop- 
ment of  girls,  described  this  phenomenon 
in  her  book,  In  a  Different  Voice.  She 
found  that  girls  at  age  1 1  have  a  clear  sense 
of  themselves  and  are  supremely  confident 
in  their  abilities,  but  lose  that  confidence 
by  age  15  or  16. 

Gilligan's  research  was  borne  out  by 
another  recent  study,  commissioned  by  the 
American  Association  of  University  Women 
(AAUW).  It  indicated  that  girls  emerge 
from  adolescence  with  a  poor  self-image, 
relatively  low  expectations  from  life  and 
much  less  confidence  in  themselves  and 
their  abilities.  The  study,  released  in 
January,  surveyed  3,000  children  in  36 
schools  in  12  different  communities.  At 
age  9,  some  60  percent  of  the  girls  were 
confident,  assertive  and  felt  positive  about 
themselves.  But  only  37  percent  felt  that 
way  by  the  time  they  reached  middle 
school;  and  by  high  school,  it  had  dropped 
further,  to  29  percent.  While  boys'  self- 
esteem  also  lost  ground  during  the  same 
time  period,  the  fall-off  was  much  less 
dramatic  —  from  67  percent  in  elementary 
school,  to  56  percent  in  middle  school  and 
46  percent  in  high  school. 

Significantly,  the  AAUW  study  also 
uncovered  a  link  between  girls'  loss  of 


self-esteem  and  their  declining  interest  in 
math  and  science.  The  proportion  of  boys 
who  said  they  liked  science  dropped  by 
only  7  percentage  points  from  elementary 
school  to  high  school,  while  there  was  a 
12  percent  drop  for  girls.  The  number  of 
boys  who  said  they  liked  math  fell  by  12 
percentage  points,  compared  to  20  percent- 
age points  among  girls. 

Cultural  background  appears  to  be  an- 
other factor  in  whether  girls  like  or  do  well 
in  math  and  science.  In  some  cultures, 
particularly  Asian,  there  is  no  drop  in 
math/science  skills  or  interest  for  girls  at 
adolescence.  A  1987  study  in  Hawaii 
revealed  that  girls  actually  scored  higher 
than  boys  in  math  achievement  tests.  The 
results  were  more  pronounced  for  Japanese- 
American,  Filipino-American  and  native 
Hawaiian  students,  suggesting  that  math 
achievement  is  not  considered  unfeminine 
in  those  cultures.  Other  studies  have  found 
that  Asian-American  girls  receive  more 
encouragement  from  their  parents  and  less 
negative  pressure  from  male  peers  about 
preparing  for  math  and  science  careers. 

"There  seems  to  be  an  attitude  among 
Asian  parents  that  both  girls  and  boys  can 
be  good  at  math  and  science,"  says 
McElroy.  "Their  assumption  appears  to 
be  that  doing  well  in  math  and  science  is 
more  a  function  of  working  hard  than  of 
being  male  or  female." 

The  question  of  achievement  in  math  and 
science  is  not  simply  an  academic  or 
feminist  one,  says  McElroy.  With  the  U.S. 
expected  to  experience  a  shortfall  of  750,000 
scientists  and  engineers  by  the  year  2000, 
it  is  becoming  increasingly  important  that 
the  country  make  use  of  all  available  talent. 

"We  simply  can't  afford  to  neglect  an 
important  pool  of  mathematical  and  scien- 
tific talent  —  women,"  she  states. 

Seminars  like  the  one  at  Lebanon  Valley 
College  can  help  increase  that  pool,  says 
Rosen,  but  other  measures  must  be  carried 
out  on  a  national  scale.  "We  need  to  rethink 
our  prejudices  and  look  at  revamping  our 
educational  system  so  that  girls  and  women 
don't  fall  through  the  cracks  in  math  and 
science  study.  Major  changes  are  needed 
and  we  need  to  make  them  in  a  hurry." 


Judy  Pehrson,  director  of  college  relations 
for  Lebanon  Valley  College,  is  editor  of 
The  Valley. 


The  Valley 


NEWS 


R    I    E    F    S 


The  F&M  connection 

Lebanon  Valley  will  offer  an  expanded 
evening  division  program  on  the  campus 
of  Franklin  &  Marshall  College  in  Lancas- 
ter, beginning  this  fall.  Among  its  offerings 
will  be  certificate  programs,  associate  and 
bachelor  degrees,  teacher  certification  and 
a  master's  degree  in  business  administra- 
tion. 

The  presidents  of  the  two  colleges- 
Lebanon  Valley's  John  A.  Synodinos  and 
F&M's  Richard  Kneedler— made  the  an- 
nouncement at  a  press  conference  in  Lan- 
caster on  March  4. 

"We  are  looking  forward  to  offering  an 
expanded  continuing  education  and  M .  B .  A . 
program  at  F&M,"  Synodinos  told  the 
press.  "A  third  of  our  M.B.A.  students  are 
from  Lancaster  County,  as  are  13  percent 
of  our  continuing  ed  students.  We  can  now 
provide  classes  and  services  closer  to  home 
for  them  and  a  comprehensive  continuing 
education  program  leading  to  a  bachelor's 
degree  for  F&M's  current  continuing,  ed 
students  and  other  area  residents  who 
would  like  to  take  advantage  of  this 
opportunity." 

The  new  program  replaces  F&M's  non- 
credit  continuing  education  program,  which 
did  not  enable  evening  students  to  earn  a 
bachelor's  degree. 

Birth  of  the  blitz 

Some  50  faculty  members  and  administra- 
tors teamed  up  during  the  week  of  April 
14-18  to  make  calls  on  200  businesses  in 
Lebanon,  Dauphin  and  Lancaster  counties. 

This  "business  blitz"  was  aimed  at 
"taking  the  college  out  to  the  local  business 
community,"  according  to  its  coordinator, 
Matthew  Hugg.  "We  wanted  to  bring  them 
up-to-date  on  the  college,  its  facilities, 
programs  and  students.  We  wanted  to  find 
out  what  they  might  want  from  the  college 
and  to  let  them  know  what  we  have  to 
offer."  Hugg  is  the  Advancement  Office's 
director  of  corporate  and  foundation  giv- 
ing. 

Fund  raising  was  only  a  small  part  of  the 
blitz,  but  the  teams  managed  to  chalk  up 


At  a  press  conference,  Lebanon  Valley  President  John  Synodinos  (left)  and  F&M 
President  Richard  Kneedler  announced  a  cooperative  continuing  education  program. 


up  over  $2,000  in  contributions  to  the 
college. 

Lebanon  Valley  will  follow  up  on  the 
blitz  by  sending  to  the  business  community 
regular  mailings,  featuring  notices  of  ath- 
letic contests,  concerts,  lectures  and  cul- 
tural events. 

Self-study  under  way 

Lebanon  Valley  College  is  taking  a  long, 
detailed  look  at  itself  as  part  of  the  process 
of  reaccreditation  by  the  Commission  on 
Higher  Education/Middle  States  Associa- 
tion of  Colleges  and  Schools  (CHE/MSA). 
All  colleges  must  undertake  the  self-study 
process  every  10  years. 

Last  fall,  a  steering  committee,  chaired 
by  Dr.  Dale  Erskine,  associate  professor 
of  biology,  met  to  pursue  the  comprehen- 
sive study.  The  committee  is  composed  of 
five  faculty  members,  four  administrators, 
one  student  and  one  member  of  the  board 
of  trustees. 

The  steering  committee  selected  faculty 
members  to  chair  various  task  forces. 
Virtually  the  entire  full-time  faculty,  sev- 
eral administrators  and  about  two  dozen 


students  are  assigned  to  the  committees. 

They  will  study  budgeting  and  resource 
allocation,  student  services,  faculty,  ad- 
ministration, the  governing  board,  pro- 
grams and  curricula,  library  and  learning 
resources,  physical  plant,  admissions,  pub- 
lications and  strategies  for  assessment. 

Each  task  force  must  address  such  issues 
as  equity  and  diversity,  information  liter- 
acy, ongoing  evaluation  and  the  teaching 
and  learning  environment. 

The  steering  committee  has  designed  a 
21 -page  outline  for  the  proposed  self- 
study,  and  the  outline  was  approved  by 
Middle  States  in  late  February.  The  accred- 
iting organization  will  visit  the  campus 
October  4-8,  1992. 

As  part  of  the  process,  the  Junior  Class, 
faculty,  administration  and  trustees  are 
being  asked  to  help  the  college  take  an 
inventory  of  what  a  small  college's  goals 
should  be.  In  addition,  student  focus 
groups  were  instrumental  in  developing  a 
survey  to  be  completed  by  all  current 
students. 

The  steering  committee  is  also  serving 
as  a  clearinghouse  to  develop  a  survey  that 
will  be  administered  to  two  alumni  groups: 


Spring/Summer  1991 


members  of  the  class  of  1981  (who  had 
been  seniors  during  the  last  self-study)  and 
members  of  the  class  of  1986  (who  had 
been  seniors  during  the  five-year  periodic 
review). 

Stay  tuned  for  progress  reports  on  the 
self-study.  The  Valley  will  publish  the 
report's  executive  summary  and  a  list  of 
major  recommendations. 

Encore  in  Japan 

Dr.  Pierce  Getz,  professor  emeritus  of 
music,  returned  to  Sendai,  Japan,  in  May 
to  reunite  with  a  women's  choir  he  began 
at  Miyagi  College  34  years  ago. 

Getz,  who  served  as  an  educational 
missionary  in  Japan  from  1953  to  1958 
(along  with  his  wife,  Jene),  organized  the 
50-voice  student  choir  while  teaching  in 
Miyagi's  music  department.  The  group 
began  competing  nationally  only  eight 
months  later,  and  placed  third  in  the 
country  in  one  competition. 

For  the  past  10  years,  former  members 
have  continued  to  rehearse  in  Japan.  They 
will  present  a  concert  directed  by  Getz, 
who  in  addition  will  give  an  organ  recital. 
Getz  will  also  give  recitals  in  Sendai, 
Fukushima  City  and  Tokyo. 


Chaplaincy  review 

A  committee  of  students,  faculty,  adminis- 
trators and  trustees,  chaired  by  Dean 
William  McGill,  has  been  hard  at  work 
reviewing  the  chaplaincy  at  the  college. 

They  have  interviewed  over  a  hundred 
members  of  the  campus  community,  re- 
viewed the  structure  of  chaplaincies  at 
other  institutions  and  discussed  at  length 
the  role  of  a  chaplain. 

From  that  process  has  come  a  profile  of 
the  chaplaincy  and  a  position  description. 
A  search  committee,  also  chaired  by  Dean 
McGill,  will  use  these  documents  as  the 
basis  for  recruiting  a  new  chaplain. 

The  formal  search  will  begin  this  sum- 
mer. The  committee  will  review  appli- 
cants' credentials  in  September  and  Octo- 
ber and  will  conduct  interviews  in  Novem- 
ber. They  hope  the  new  chaplain  will  be 
on  board  by  the  second  semester. 

Grants  for  musicians 

The  United  Methodist  Foundation  for  Chris- 
tian Higher  Education  has  given  the  college 
a  $3,800  grant  to  provide  scholarships  for 
minority  and  low-income  church  musicians 
enrolled  in  the  Church  Music  Institute 
Certificate  program. 


Dr.  Pierce  Getz  and  his  wife,  Jene,  (center)  with  former  students  from  Sendai,  Japan. 


The  grant  is  aimed  at  preparing  musi- 
cians to  exercise  more  creative  leadership 
in  their  churches.  In  1989,  the  college 
established  the  two-year  institute  program 
to  provide  additional  training  for  church 
musicians  in  Central  Pennsylvania. 

Tuition  increase 

The  college's  comprehensive  fees  (tuition, 
fees,  room  and  board)  will  increase  7.9 
percent  for  the  1991-92  academic  year. 

Tuition  and  fees  will  be  $11,750  and 
room  and  board  will  be  $4,325— the  small- 
est percentage  increase  since  1986-87. 

The  college  is  also  increasing  financial 
aid  by  9  percent. ' 

Eastern  Europe  analyzed 

Frank  A.  Orban  III,  international  counsel 
for  Armstrong  World  Industries,  Inc., 
lectured  on  "Eastern  Europe:  Beyond  Eupho- 
ria," during  this  year's  annual  Springer 
Lecture  in  International  Business  Manage- 
ment, held  on  campus  March  5. 

Orban,  who  has  worked  extensively  with 
Eastern  Europe  and  the  Soviet  Union,  dealt 
with  realistic  business  prospects  in  Central 
Europe— specifically  in  the  Soviet  Union, 
Hungary,  Poland  and  Czechoslovakia. 

Salute  to  a  teacher 

Diane  Iglesias,  chair  of  foreign  languages, 
will  be  featured  in  a  commercial  to  salute 
Pennsylvania's  teachers.  In  the  30-second 
spot,  she  will  be  shown  accepting  the 
award,  teaching  a  Spanish  class  and  receiv- 
ing thanks  from  her  students. 

The  ad  is  a  follow-up  to  the  Salute  to 
Teachers  Award  given  to  her  by  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  for  the  Profession 
of  Teaching.  Iglesias  was  one  of  six 
educators,  from  early  childhood  to  the 
college  level,  who  were  chosen  as  state- 
wide representatives. 

Indiana  University  of  Pennsylvania's 
Office  of  Video  Services  filmed  the  ad  on 
campus.  It  will  be  aired  by  TV  stations 
around  the  state  in  June. 


10 


The  Valley 


Robert  Leonard  confers  with  senior  Brendalyn  Krysiak  on  a  hotel  management  project. 


nk  bonds  and  the  S&L  fiasco.  Insider 
ading  and  stock  manipulation.  Defense 
ontract  fraud.  Greedy  golden  parachutes, 
he  decade  of  the  '80s  took  its  toll  on  the 
eputation  of  America's  business  elite— its 
;orporate  managers.  Not  only  did  many  of 
iem  stub  their  toes  while  pursuing  short- 
ghted  policies,  but  they  fell  further  behind 
leir  counterparts  in  Japan  and  Germany— 
o  name  just  two  countries  that  continued 
make  great  competitive  gains. 
If  the  United  States  is  to  regain  prosper- 
ous times,  it  will  have  to  pay  more  attention 
to  educating  managers.  That's  the  focus 
of  the  management  program  at  Lebanon 
Valley  College,  where  an  exceptional  fac- 
ulty and  coursework  are  especially  well- 
suited  to  train  the  new  breed  of  manager 
needed  for  the  21st  century. 

Deeply  rooted  in  the  school's  liberal  arts 
tradition,  the  management  curriculum  is 
geared  to  turning  out  well-rounded  gradu- 
ates with  a  firm  grasp  not  only  of  account- 
ing and  management,  but  of  leadership, 
ethics  and  communications  skills  as  well. 

Long  known  as  Business  Administra- 
tion, the  program  got  by  for  years  with  less 


Steering 
Business 
Back 
on  Track 


S0f 

ion  Valley  shapes 
managers  not  just  adept 
at  number-crunching  but 
geared  to  leadership,  com- 
munications and  ethics. 


Articles  By  Doug  S.  Thomas 
Photos  By  Charles  Freeman 


than  luxurious  quarters,  adequate  but  not 
generous  resources  and  a  faculty  that 
tended  to  fluctuate  in  number.  But  Lebanon 
Valley's  management  program  shows  all 
the  signs  of  having  finally  arrived.  Man- 
agement majors  now  make  up  about  18  to 
20  percent  of  the  student  body. 

Of  course,  many  grads  from  years  back 
did  quite  well,  often  crediting  their  college 
education  for  their  success.  For  example, 
Donald  Stanton  ('66),  a  vice  president  at 
Goldman  Sachs  in  Boston  who  manages 
money  for  corporate  and  individual  clients, 
says  the  instruction  he  received  has  proved 
invaluable  during  his  career. 

He  cites  in  particular  Professor  C.F. 
Joseph  Tom:  "He  made  it  so  easy  to 
understand  economics,"  Stanton  said.  'That 
grounding  has  always  stood  me  in  good 
stead,  no  matter  what  the  situation  calls 
for,  and  I've  got  the  kind  of  job  where  I'm 
called  upon  to  make  a  lot  of  spontaneous 
decisions." 

The  management  department's  place- 
ment record  has  been  outstanding.  Of  the 
1989-90  graduating  class,  86  percent  were 
placed  in  their  field  of  study  or  in  a 


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11 


graduate  program  within  six  months  of 
commencement.  Some  of  them  now  work 
for  Fulton  Bank,  Hanover  Trust,  PP&L, 
AMP  and  the  state  Auditor  General's 
Office. 

Helping  to  assure  a  promising  future  for 
the  management  program  are  spacious  new 
offices  in  Lynch  Memorial  Hall,  upgraded 
computer  facilities,  a  stable  roster  of 
talented  young  professors  and  the  leader- 
ship and  vision  of  Dr.  Sharon  F.  Clark, 
who  arrived  in  the  summer  of  1986  and 
became  the  department's  chair  a  year  later. 

Her  department's  six  faculty  members, 
with  a  wealth  of  practical  experience,  have 
been  responding  to  what  they  perceive  as 
the  wants  and  needs  of  corporate  America. 

"We're  not  purely  academic,  teaching 
mainly  theory,"  says  Clark,  who  is  also 
an  associate  professor.  "We  haven't  come 
right  out  of  a  graduate  program  some- 
place." In  fact,  she  is  a  practicing  lawyer 
who  has  spent  time  as  both  a  corporate  and 
tax  attorney. 

"So  when  I  teach  a  course  in  labor 
relations,"  she  says,  "I  have  handled  labor 
negotiations.  I've  handled  grievances. 

"When  I  teach  human  resource  manage- 
ment, I  have  hired  and  fired  and  disciplined 
individuals. 

"When  I  teach  business  law,  I've  han- 
dled cases  similar  to  just  about  everything 
we  study,  so  I  can  give  students  practical 
examples,  not  just  the  textbook  examples. 
That  seems  to  pique  the  interest  of  students. 
It  also  generates  a  lot  of  questions  and  a 
lot  of  learning  experience. 

"I  usually  tell  my  students  that  the 
business  law  course  is  the  cheapest  legal 
advice  they'll  ever  get  in  their  life." 

Other  management  faculty  also  bring 
workplace  experiences  to  their  classrooms. 
If  diversity  of  experience  is  a  sign  of 
strength,  the  department  is  rock  solid. 

Donald  Boone,  assistant  professor  and 
coordinator  of  the  college's  hotel  manage- 
ment program,  has  spent  18  years  in  the 
hotel  industry.  He  began  as  an  assistant 
restaurant  manager  and  wound  up  as 
controller  of  a  chain  of  hotels. 

Dr.  Barney  T,  Raffield  III,  an  associate 
professor  of  management,  actively  consults 
in  marketing  and  advertising.  Robert 
Leonard,  also  an  assistant  management 
professor,  conducts  workshops  on  supervi- 
sory management  and  nonprofits  and  special- 
izes in  organizational  behavior.  Gail  San- 


Dr.  Sharon  Clark  guides  Andrew  Hildebrand  in  the  fine  points  of  accounting. 


derson,  assistant  professor  of  accounting 
and  the  veteran  of  the  department  (with 
seven  years  at  the  college),  is  a  CPA  who 
has  worked  as  a  systems  analyst  at  a  bank 
and  at  an  oil  company.  And  Barbara  Wirth, 
an  assistant  professor  of  accounting,  runs 
her  own  CPA  firm. 

Wirth  says  she  doesn't  know  how  any- 
one can  teach  accounting  without  doing  it. 
For  one  thing,  the  tax  laws  change  every 
year.  "I  teach  tax  in  the  fall  and  that  gets 
me  up  on  all  the  new  changes,  and  then  I 
do  taxes  all  spring,  and  that  cements 
everything  that  I  picked  up  during  the  fall. 
Then  it's  time  to  teach  again,  so  it  really 
fits  well,"  she  says.  Compared  with  the 
examples  and  mini-problems  found  in 
textbooks,  real-life  case  studies  are  a 
"totally  different  ball  game,"  Wirth  says. 

The  resurgence  of  the  college's  manage- 
ment department  is  also  the  result  of  other 
important  factors:  close  relations  between 
the  faculty  and  students;  the  flexibility  to 
modify  the  curriculum  by  adding  "special 
topic"  courses  as  current  events  dictate; 
and  carving  out  such  specialized  niches  as 
hotel  management,  international  business, 
accounting  and  especially  the  up-and- 
coming  master's  degree  in  business  ad- 
ministration (M.B.A.)  program.  Manage- 
ment faculty  teach  the  bulk  of  its  courses. 


What  managers  study 

Management  majors  are  required  to  take 
courses  ranging  from  quantitative  methods, 
to  production  and  operations  management, 
to  business  policy.  Today's  management 
major  at  Lebanon  Valley  studies  much  of 
the  same  coursework  as  do  students  in 
marketing  or  finance  at  other  schools, 
according  to  Raffield. 

But  unlike  other  schools,  the  Valley 
emphasizes  interpersonal  skills,  motiva- 
tion, organizational  culture  and  decision- 
making. These  areas  are  rooted  in  psychol- 
ogy and  sociology,  and  often  are  over- 
looked in  the  curricula  of  other  schools, 
says  Leonard. 

Currently,  there  seems  to  be  a  push 
toward  more  emphasis  of  communications 
and  leadership  skills,  Leonard  notes,  and 
a  push  away  from  finance  and  production— 
once  thought  to  be  more  important  to  the 
bottom  line  than  teaching  people  to  be 
motivated  or  helping  them  learn  leadership 
skills.  "But  now  we're  finding  that  things 
like  organizational  culture  and  other  words 
that  many  people  don't  even  understand 
have  a  real  impact  on  the  bottom  line," 
Leonard  adds. 

"The  feeling  you  have  when  you  go  to 


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The  Valley 


AnM.B.A.  with  a  Plus 


When  Lebanon  Valley  College 
announced  two  years  ago  that 
it  would  take  over  the  reins  of 
the  master's  in  business  administration 
program  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Textiles  and  Science,  some  people  on 
campus  were  skeptical.  In  the  '80s,  an 
M.B.A.  was  the  hot  business  ticket.  How 
would  a  liberal  arts  college— better  known 
for  chemistry  and  math— devise  the  right 
M.B.A.  curriculum? 

But  two  years  later,  the  program  is  a 
smashing  success.  Enrollment  has  nearly 
tripled,  with  students  coming  from  through- 
out the  tri-county  area  and  as  far  away  as 
Reading  and  the  suburbs  of  Philadelphia. 

The  college  was  determined  to  offer  the 
relevant  skills  and  training  that  managers 
of  the  future  would  require,  according  to 
Elaine  Feather.  She  directs  the  continuing 
education  program,  under  whose  auspices 
the  M.B.A.  program  operates. 

"We  were  well  aware  that  M.B.A. 
programs  around  the  country  are  increas- 
ingly coming  under  fire  for  not  training 
managers  for  the  real  world,  especially  the 
future  world,"  says  Feather.  "Although 
most  schools  turn  out  people  with  good 
technical  skills,  many  are  being  criticized 
for  not  producing  M.B.A.s  who  can  go  out 
and  work  within  an  organization— they 
don't  have  the  interpersonal  skills  to  be 
able  to  manage.  We  decided  to  include  a 
strong  communications  component— par- 
ticularly interpersonal  communications— 
and  training  in  ethics." 

The  resulting  master's  program  takes  the 
unusual  approach  of  combining  liberal  arts 
coursework  with  career  preparation  in  the 
field  of  business  administration.  It  offers  a 
strong  theoretical  foundation  as  well  as 
practical  information  about  finance,  man- 
agement  in   general,    marketing,   human 


resources  management,  and  production  and 
service.  Rounding  out  the  program  are 
classes  in  corporate  and  executive  commu- 
nications, executive  leadership  and  organ- 
izational ethics. 

The  ethics  class,  in  fact,  "is  a  core 
course  in  the  M.B.A.  program,"  empha- 
sizes Warren  Thompson,  associate  profes- 
sor of  philosophy.  He  teaches  his  M.B.A. 
students  using  case  studies  from  a  variety 
of  organizations  and  corporations.  Students 
examine  theories  and  views  of  manage- 
ment, and  how  businesses  deal  with  ethical 
issues. 

"In  many  M.B.A.  programs,  such  an 
ethics  course  is  still  optional  or  an  elective. 
We  felt  it  was  essential  for  it  to  be  a 
requirement,"  Thompson  emphasizes. 

The  college  went  out  of  its  way  to  make 
sure  that  the  M.B.A.  program  would  be 
interdisciplinary  and  not  purely  quantita- 
tive. That  gives  it  a  certain  "relaxed" 
feeling,  say  students  and  faculty.  The 
typical  class  size  is  20-25  students.  In  their 
classes,  professors  and  adjunct  faculty 
make  use  of  the  diversity  of  their  work 
experiences  to  organize  small  teams  for 
group  projects. 

Most  of  the  college's  M.B.A.  students 
are  generally  a  tad  older  than  undergradu- 
ates, and  already  have  good  jobs.  They 
have  returned  to  school  not  because  they 


M.B.A.  student  Paul  Ringenbach,  branch 
manager  of  a  finance  company  in  Lebanon, 
likes  the  individual  attention  he  receives  at 
Lebanon  Valley. 


are  planning  to  change  employers,  but 
because  they  want  to  advance,  says  Dr. 
Sharon  F.  Clark,  chair  of  the  management 
department. 

"I've  found  that  the  men  and  women  in 
our  M.B.A.  program  are  top-quality  stu- 
dents. It's  challenging  to  deal  with  them. 
They  have  been  out  in  the  workforce  for 
years,  and  they  bring  into  the  classroom  a 
different  level  of  learning  and  expertise. 
It's  refreshing  to  teach  them,"  says  Clark. 

Students  return  the  compliment.  "The 
M.B.A.  faculty  are  not  only  excellent 
teachers,  but  they  are  cognizent  that  we  are 
working  adults.  They  try  to  be  as  practical 
as  possible,"  observes  James  Windham,  a 
validation  specialist  for  Warner  Lambert 
in  Harrisburg.  He  will  complete  his  M.B.A. 
in  December. 

Windham  observes  about  his  fellow 
students,  "They  come  from  all  over,  and 
many  are  really  interesting  people  who  do 
a  variety  of  things.  Our  classes  are  de- 
signed so  there  is  a  lot  of  interaction,  and 
I've  really  enjoyed  working  in  a  group  to 
prepare  projects  and  presentations.  I  think 
that's  a  very  good  way  to  learn— much 
better  than  simply  listening  to  lectures." 

The  "real-world"  aspect  of  the  program 
appeals  to  John  Reist,  a  senior  computer 
systems  analyst  for  Hershey  Chocolate 
U.S.A.  He  has  taken  eight  M.B.A.  courses. 
"I  especially  enjoyed  the  case  studies,"  he 
states.  "In  marketing,  we  did  a  study  on  a 
local  computer  company.  The  owners  came 
in  and  gave  us  a  real-life  scenario.  In 
business  policy,  we're  doing  a  case  on 
Lebanon  Valley  College.  It's  all  so  prag- 
matic." 

Paul  Ringenbach,  branch  manager  at 
Household  Finance  in  Lebanon,  is  enthusi- 
astic about  the  individual  attention  he  has 
received  at  Lebanon  Valley.  "The  profes- 
sors are  incredibly  conscientious  and  inter- 
ested in  their  students,"  he  notes.  "People 
are  so  easy  to  work  with  at  the  college  in 
general— from  the  bookstore  staff  on  up. 
It's  really  been  a  pleasant  experience." 

It's  an  experience  that  more  should  try, 
says  Windham.  His  message  to  other 
potential  students  is,  "You  can  do  it. 
Sometimes  a  graduate  program  seems 
formidable  to  people,  particularly  if  it 
must  be  done  part-time.  But  I,  and  all  of 
the  other  folks  who  are  in  Lebanon  Valley's 
M.B.A.  program,  are  testimony  to  the  fact 
that  it  can  be  done." 


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13 


work,"  he  said,  "relates  to  commitment 
and  motivation  and  satisfaction." 

But  the  program  also  helps  students  with 
the  nuts-and-bolts  of  modern  business  as 
well.  The  evolution  of  the  computer  and 
the  proliferation  of  off-the-shelf  software 
for  business  and  industrial  uses  have 
spurred  the  department  to  require  all  man- 
agement majors  to  take  a  course  in  personal 
computer  applications.  (The  college  al- 
ready requires  all  students  to  take  a  course 
in  basic  programming.) 

"Every  employer  I  have  asked  has  told 
me  they  don't  care  if  their  accounting 
employees  know  how  to  program,"  says 
Sanderson.  "What  they  want  them  to  do 
is  know  how  to  operate  the  computer  and 
apply  the  program  already  in  place  to  do 
accounting.  It's  a  tool.  You  don't  need  to 
know  how  to  program  it." 

Here  are  three  up-and-coming  areas  in 
which  undergraduates  in  management  can 
specialize. 


Accounting 


When  asked  what's  the  best  route  to  take 
into  the  business  world,  it's  not  surprising 
that  Wirth  strongly  suggests  going  "hardcore 
into  accounting."  After  all,  in  addition  to 
being  an  accounting  professor  at  Lebanon 
Valley,  Wirth  also  runs  her  own  CPA  firm 
off-campus. 

Students  who  earn  a  degree  in  account- 


ing, Wirth  says,  "actually  have  something 
to  show  for  their  efforts  when  they're  done. 
When  they  graduate,  they  can  do  financial 
statements,  run  the  computer  and  do  finan- 
cial analysis.  And  that  makes  them  ex- 
tremely marketable.  So  to  me  accounting 
is  a  wonderful  place  to  start. 

"If  you're  a  real  people  person,  though, 
what  you're  going  to  want  to  do  is  parlay 
that  into  a  management  position,"  Wirth 
adds.  "I  think  that  accounting  people  have 
plain  management  people  beat  because  they 
have  that  number-crunching  ability.  An 
accountant  can  pick  up  a  financial  state- 
ment and  decide,  T  don't  want  to  work  for 
this  company'  or  'This  company's  not 
going  to  get  the  loan.'  " 

Andrew  Hildebrand,  a  senior,  has  cho- 
sen to  complement  his  accounting  degree 
with  a  degree  in  management,  mainly 
because  he  felt  the  management  curriculum 
would  leave  him  better  prepared  to  make 
the  most  of  his  accounting  abilities.  Among 
the  skills  Hildebrand  expects  will  help  him 
transform  his  accounting  knowledge  into 
managerial  decision-making  are  building  a 
consensus,  communicating  effectively  and 
plotting  strategy  and  business  policy. 

He  comments  about  the  coursework  in 
accounting:  "It's  a  lot  of  theory.  Sure,  you 
have  to  be  able  to  do  the  number- 
crunching,  but  now  with  computers,  that's 
not  always  necessary.  But  if  you  don't 
know  what's  behind  the  calculations  and 
why  you're  doing  what  you're  doing,  it's 


Senior  management  major  Kim  Shaffer  and  Amy  Waterfield,  a  senior  international 
business  major,  examine  the  department's  collection  of  annual  reports. 


going  to  mean  nothing  to  you." 

As  in  every  other  course  of  study  within 
the  management  department,  there  is  no 
getting  away  from  a  consideration  of 
ethics.  "I  bring  in  Wall  Street  Journal 
articles  all  the  time  to  discuss  how  things 
relate  to  what  we're  doing,"  says  Sander- 
son, who  teaches  accounting.  Studying  the 
stories  of  ethical  abuses  and  mismanage- 
ment helps  students  to  understand  "how 
somebody  can  get  a  good  opinion  from 
their  auditors  and  then,  six  months  later, 
be  bankrupt,"  she  notes. 

International  studies 


Has  there  ever  been  a  time  when  the 
opportunity  seemed  so  unlimited  for  Ameri- 
can companies  to  succeed  overseas?  Glo- 
balization has  become  one  of  the  hottest 
topics  in  any  management  program.  The 
Economist  recently  described  globalization 
as  a  catch-all  phrase  for  "the  growing  need 
for  companies,  if  they  are  to  prosper,  to 
treat  the  world  as  their  stage." 

Lebanon  Valley  is  helping  prepare  man- 
agers for  their  roles  on  this  world  stage 
with  its  international  business  major,  a  joint 
undertaking  of  the  management  and  foreign 
languages  departments. 

Raffield,  who  teaches  international  busi- 
ness management,  says  the  major  is  in- 
tended to  prepare  students  to  do  everything 
from  heading  a  corporate  international 
department  (for  a  large  multinational  com- 
pany) to  running  their  own  export/import 
firm. 

Not  unlike  the  college's  other  manage- 
ment training,  the  international  program 
gives  students  a  comprehensive  dose  of 
economics,  finance  and  quantitative  meth- 
ods, including  an  understanding  of  the 
balance  of  trade  and  international  pay- 
ments. But  what  makes  Lebanon  Valley's 
program  different  is  its  liberal  arts  empha- 
sis on  culture  and  language.  "This  is  what's 
missing  from  so  many  other  programs," 
Raffield  says. 

He  finds  the  ethnocentrism  of  American 
business  discouraging— and  works  hard  to 
dispel  it.  "The  worst  thing  for  international 
business  is  provincialism,"  he  says.  "You 
have  to  rid  yourself  of  provincialism  and 
if  you  can't  do  it,  you're  going  to  have 
problems  in  business,  period— not  just  in 
international  business.  The  problems  spill 


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The  Valley 


over  into  other  areas  as  well,  he  adds. 
"When  we  went  over  to  fight  the  Gulf 
War,  we  knew  so  little  about  Middle 
Eastern  cultures  and  values,"  Raffield 
says.  "We  tried  to  judge  them  based  on 
Western  mentality,  on  how  we  think." 

To  further  the  cultural  understanding  of 
students,  the  program  also  attempts  to 
involve  foreign  students  attending  Lebanon 
Valley.  They  can  offer  a  good  deal  of 
firsthand  insight  into  their  respective  cul- 
tures, faculty  members  emphasize. 


Hotel  management 

With  such  favorite  tourist  attractions  as 
Hershey,  Gettysburg  and  Lancaster  County 
located  within  an  hour's  drive  of  campus, 
and  with  the  Poconos  and  the  Jersey  Shore 
within  easy  reach,  hotel  management  is  a 
practical  choice  for  a  major. 

As  America  ages  and  more  retired 
people  have  both  the  time  and  money  to 
travel,  the  hospitality  field  is  expected  to 
be  one  of  the  nation's  fastest-growing 
industries.  After  all,  as  program  coordina- 
tor Boone  is  fond  of  saying,  'Teople 
always  have  to  sleep  someplace  and  they 
always  have  to  eat."  The  hospitality  indus- 
try includes  everything  from  motels  and 
hotels  to  restaurants,  theme  parks  and  even 
nursing  homes. 

"The  biggest  plus  of  our  program,"  says 
senior  student  Brendalyn  Krysiak,  "is  that 
we're  required  to  do  three  internships— one 
at  the  front  desk,  one  in  marketing  and  one 
in  accounting." 

Three  internships— that's  a  lot  of  experi- 
ence. And  with  18  years  in  the  business, 
Boone  has  made  some  outstanding  contacts 
to  help  students  become  exposed  to  all 


(Top)  Dr.  Barnie  Raffield  helps  business  management  major  Don  Lappin  choose  courses 
for  next  year.  (Below)  Mike  Zettlemoyer  (left),  a  senior  management  and  accounting  major, 
goes  over  export  figures  with  John  W.  Whitehead  III,  manager  of  export  sales  for  Hershey 
International,  where  Zettlemoyer  served  an  internship. 


facets  of  the  industry.  Some  of  them  intem 
in  Hershey  and  Lebanon.  Krysiak  spent 
one  summer  at  a  property  in  Alaska.  She 
notes,  "Everything  that  I  read  in  the 
textbooks  connected,  it  made  sense,  it  put 
it  into  perspective  and  it  really  gives  you 
an  idea  of  what  you're  comfortable  with." 
Without  internships,  she  adds,  a  student 
may  read  something  in  the  text,  "and  it 
sounds  great,  but  you  get  out  there  and  you 
hate  it." 

Managing  a  hotel  requires  knowing 
everything  from  housekeeping  and  laundry 
to  banking  and  reservations.  Not  everyone 
enjoys  the  food  and  beverage  side,  or 
helping  plan  itineraries.  With  a  wide  range 
of  career  choices  available  within  the  hotel 
and  hospitality  fields,  students  learn  they 
can  focus  on  what  they  like  best. 

'Part  of  the  work  experience,  the  career 
development  aspect,  is  finding  a  niche  and 
finding  what  you  like  to  do,"  says  Boone. 
"I  don't  care  what  you  do,  there  is  no  100 
percent  perfect  job  or  perfect  company. 
You  have  to  leam  to  work  around  that." 

What's  ahead? 

While  the  management  department  has 
made  great  strides  in  the  past  few  years, 
Clark  continues  to  add  to  her  wish  list  for 
her  department.  While  acknowledging  all 
that  the  college's  administration  has  done 
and  its  commitment  to  improving  the 
program,  she  notes  it  would  be  helpful  to 
have  one  additional  faculty  member. 

She  is  also  hopeful  that  one  or  more  of 
the  large  companies  in  the  area  will  fund 
an  endowed  chair  in  the  management 
department.  This  would  be  the  college's 
first  corporate  chair. 

All  in  all,  Clark  is  pleased  that  her 
program  is  on  the  right  track.  She  notes, 
"It's  one  of  the  up-and-coming  manage- 
ment departments  in  the  area,  and  I  think 
it  will  be  one  of  the  state-of-the-art  depart- 
ments in  the  coming  decade.  We've  come 
a  long  way.  I  would  like  to  be  the  envy  of 
management  departments  in  eastern  Penn- 
sylvania. We're  starting  to  compete  with 
some  of  them." 


Doug  Thomas  is  a  freelance  business 
journalist  who  was  formerly  with  the 
Lancaster  Sunday  News. 


Spring/Summer  1991 


15 


A  Playful  Business 


Who  says  college  can't  be 
fun  and  games?  Certainly  not 
Douglas  Mancini,  senior  man- 
agement major  at  Lebanon  Valley  College 
and  maybe— just  maybe— the  next  Al 
Boscov.  Or  would  you  believe  Sam  Wal- 
ton? 

While  most  college  students  find  jug- 
gling the  rigors  of  classwork,  athletics, 
dating  and  perhaps  a  part-time  job  all 
sufficiently  challenging,  it  takes  more  than 
that  to  keep  Mancini  amused. 

You  see,  the  21 -year-old  from  suburban 
Philadelphia  is  also  the  proud  proprietor 
of  Chestnut  Hill  Hobbies,  a  flourishing 
retail  establishment  along  bustling  Ger- 
mantown  Avenue  in  one  of  the  swankiest 
parts  of  town. 

His  shop,  which  offers  everything  from 
traditional  plastic  model  kits  and  radio- 
controlled  cars  to  model  rockets  and  build- 
ing materials,  has  been  open  for  nearly 
nine  months.  And  for  those  nine  months, 
Mancini  has  been  commuting  from  Annville 
to  Philadelphia  several  times  each  week— 
wearing  the  hats  of  both  full-time  college 
student  and  budding  entrepreneur. 

His  calling  to  the  retail  trade— the  toy 
and  hobby  shop  business  in  particular- 
stemmed  not  from  any  feeling  of  boredom, 
or  even  restlesness,  mind  you.  He  did 
what  every  good  management  student  knows 
is  critical:  He  seized  the  initiative.  The 
perfect  opportunity  presented  itself  to  him, 
and  Mancini  wasted  little  time  in  taking 
advantage. 

Ever  since  he  was  a  boy,  he  had  been 
an  avid  hobbyist.  But  it  wasn't  until 
Mancini  took  a  part-time  job  in  a  mall 
hobby  store  near  Chestnut  Hill  that  the  idea 
for  his  own  shop  began  to  form. 

"I  had  always  thought  in  the  back  of 
my  mind  that  Chestnut  Hill  would  be  a 


In  his  junior  year,  Doug 
Mancini  toyed  with  the  idea 
of  starting  a  hobby  shop.  A 
year  later,  he  has  a  bustling 
store  and  even  a  fleet  of 
miniature  racing  cars. 


Doug  Mancini  revved  up  his  business  plan 
during  a  small  business  management  class. 
Then  he  made  it  soar  in  Chestnut  Hill. 


good  place  for  a  hobby  store.  But  how 
much  money  would  there  really  be  in  it? 
Then  when  I  got  the  job,  I  realized  there's 
a  lot  of  money  in  it.  But  how  would  I  go 
about  doing  it?"  Mancini  asked  himself. 

The  next  logical  step  was  a  class  at 
Lebanon  Valley  in  small  business  manage- 
ment, which  required  Mancini  to  draw  up 
a  business  plan.  "I'd  been  toying  with  this 
hobby  idea  and  so  I  did  a  business  plan  for 
that,"  he  says.  "And  the  more  I  did  it,  the 
better  it  looked.  1  showed  it  to  my  father, 
and  he  said,  'Yeah,  it  looks  pretty  good— 
let's  see  it  when  it's  finished.'  " 


When  his  plan  was  done,  Mancini  and 
his  father  went  down  to  the  local  bank, 
plan  in  hand.  "The  president  of  the  bank 
said  it  was  the  most  thorough  business  plan 
he  had  ever  seen.  Probably  that's  because 
I  was  writing  it  right  out  of  textbooks,  and 
most  of  the  other  ones  he'd  seen  had  not 
been.  He  liked  it.  1  set  up  a  line  of  credit 
and  we  went  from  there,"  Mancini  relates. 
His  loan  was  for  a  low  six  figures. 

That  was  last  June. 

If  that  had  been  it,  Mancini  would 
probably  have  waited  until  after  graduation 
to  pursue  the  idea  any  further.  After  all, 
he  had  a  full  load  of  classes  to  consider. 
But  along  came  an  opportunity— a  fairly 
good-sized  store  in  pretty  bad  shape.  "We 
knew  we  had  to  take  it,"  Mancini  says, 
"or  we  would  have  lost  it." 

Here's  where  the  thoroughness  of  his 
planning  paid  off  yet  again.  Mancini  had 
visited  hobby  shops  in  Pennsylvania,  New 
Jersey  and  Maryland— as  many  as  he  could 
get  to— to  study  their  layouts  and  merchan- 
dise and  to  ask  the  managers,  What  works 
well?  What  would  you  do  differently  if  you 
had  the  chance  to  start  over?  He  received 
some  invaluable  tips. 

For  example,  Mancini  heard  over  and 
over  again  that  most  store  shelving  is 
inadequate  and  that  the  products  are  too 
small  to  fit  properly  on  the  shelves.  So 
Mancini  set  to  work  building  his  own 
shelving.  In  fact,  he  designed  all  of  the 
interior  of  his  store,  with  an  eye  on  making 
it  warm,  homey  and  clean.  There's  even 
carpeting  on  the  floor,  unlike  in  most 
hobby  shops. 

His  suppliers  had  first  told  him  that  he 
would  have  to  pay  cash  up  front  (C.O.D.) 
for  all  merchandise  for  the  first  year  at 
least.  He  thought  that  was  "ridiculous." 
So  he  sent  each  prospective  supplier  a  copy 
of  his  business  plan.  After  they  looked  it 
over,  "they  immediately  set  up  credit  for 
me,  which  is  pretty  unheard  of  in  the 
industry,"  Mancini  says. 

"I  think  one  thing  that  separates  us  is 
that  we're  in  business— this  is  not  a  hobby. 
In  most  of  the  hobby  stores,  the  guy's  a 
real  hobbyist  and  he  says,  'Hey  let's  open 
a  store.'  My  first  thing  was  that  it's  a 
business.  I  happen  to  be  interested  in  it  and 
know  a  lot  about  it.  That's  important  in 
my  business." 

And  when  you  plan  something  so  well, 
typically  some  lucky  breaks  come  along, 


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The  Valley 


too.  In  Mancini's  case,  even  all  of  his 
market  research  failed  to  reveal  that  there 
was  an  architectural  school  nearby.  And, 
as  it  happened,  the  college  store  from 
which  many  of  the  students  purchased  their 
supplies  closed  just  before  Chestnut  Hill 
Hobbies  opened  up  in  August. 

Mancini,  who  graduated  cum  laude  in 
May,  credits  his  real-life  experience  with 
making  him  a  successful  college  student. 
"My  grades  got  better  and  better  through 
college  as  I  was  in  more  practical  courses," 
he  says.  He's  pulled  something  from 
almost  every  one  of  his  classes,  from 
accounting  to  advertising  and  marketing. 
"To  tell  you  the  truth,"  he  says,  "I've 
learned  more  from  just  the  comments  and 
stories  that  professors  have  told  than  I  have 
from  the  actual  textbook  curriculum— 
stories  about  dealing  with  people,  dealing 
with  customers." 

He  also  thinks  the  liberal  arts  courses  at 
Lebanon  Valley  will  be  a  big  help.  "Chest- 
nut Hill  is  a  very  upscale  area  and  if  I 
didn't  have  the  background  in  literature, 
fine  arts  and  music,  I  wouldn't  be  able  to 
converse  with  these  people,"  he  says. 

As  for  how  the  business  is  doing, 
Mancini  doesn't  want  to  be  too  specific, 
but  he  will  say  that  since  October  the  cash 
flow  has  been  positive. 

He's  been  able  to  devote  much  more  of 
his  time  to  the  store  this  semester  than  last, 
since  the  college  granted  him  a  six-credit 
internship  for  his  work  off-campus.  The 
trip,  which  takes  Mancini  about  70  minutes 
each  way,  has  also  made  him  much  more 
disciplined:  "I  don't  waste  any  time." 

Mancini  says  he  might  like  to  expand 
into  another  retail  business,  but  will  prob- 
ably take  the  next  year  or  two  to  strengthen 
his  balance  sheets  and  concentrate  on  toys 
and  hobbies.  Most  of  his  Saturday  morn- 
ings, at  least  for  the  forseeable  future,  will 
be  spent  in  the  parking  lot  behind  the  shop, 
leading  the  neighborhood  kids  in  hour  after 
hour  of  radio-controlled  car  racing. 

He's  obviously  excited  by  the  prospects 
of  a  career  in  retailing,  and  credits  the 
college's  faculty  and  their  encouragement 
for  helping  him  get  started. 

"I  don't  mean  to  brag,"  he  says,  "but  I 
think  it's  an  achievement  for  a  student  to 
open  his  own  store.  It  says  something  about 
the  school.  After  all,  a  lot  of  the  hard  work 
and  knowledge  I  had  to  put  into  it  came 
from  here." 


Dr.  Bryan  Hearsey  reviews  equations  with  Stephanie  Schumaker  and  Brian  Fernandez. 


30  Years  and 
Still  Counting 

Forget  the  stereotype  of  the 
green  eyeshade.  Lebanon 
Valley's  actuarial  science 
grads  focus  on  the  future. 


What  does  an  actuary  ac- 
tually do?  There  are 
more  of  them  now  than 
ever,  and  they're  pro- 
moting themselves  as 
never  before.  And  yet,  most  of  us  are  fuzzy 
about  their  tasks,  beyond  knowing  they 
have  something  to  do  with  insurance  rates. 
Here,  from  the  Society  of  Actuaries,  are  a 
few  of  the  projects  they  may  undertake: 

■  placing  a  price  on  a  company  about  to 
merge  with  another 

■  estimating  the  impact  of  air-bags  in 
automobile  losses  and  determining  appro- 
priate rate  discounts 

■  projecting  Social  Security  benefits 

■  determining  why  malpractice  insurance 
costs  for  doctors  are  skyrocketing 

■  projecting  what  the  AIDS  epidemic  will 
mean  for  most  life  and  health  insurance 
companies  in  five,  10  and  20  years 

■  estimating  the  benefit  costs  for  a  labor 
union  contract. 


By  their  very  nature,  actuaries  are 
super-conservative  when  it  comes  to  fiscal 
matters.  They  don't  like  taking  chances 
where  other  people's  money  is  concerned. 

So  it's  no  surprise  that  actuaries  have 
had  a  rough  go  of  it  during  the  past  few 
years  as  life,  health  and  property  casualty 
insurers  have  all  taken  it  on  the  chin— and 
not  just  because  of  the  insurance  compa- 
nies' terrible  experiences  with  junk  bonds 
and  speculative  real  estate. 

Actuaries  had  to  deal  with  projections 
concerning  asbestos,  tobacco,  product  li- 
ability and  AIDS,  to  say  nothing  of  soaring 
medical  costs.  Of  course  insurers  have 
always  had  to  deal  with  their  share  of 
tornados  and  other  natural  disasters.  But 
in  the  past  two  years,  "there  were  more 
catastrophes  than  in  the  previous  10  years 
put  together,"  says  Bryan  Hearsey,  the 
college's  actuarial  science  program  coordi- 
nator. Among  the  disasters  were  huge  oil 
spills  in  Alaska  and  the  Persian  Gulf,  an 
earthquake  in  San  Francisco,  Hurricane 
Hugo  and  abnormal  droughts  and  floods 
across  the  United  States  and  Europe. 

No  other  group  of  professionals  is 
trained  to  keep  its  eyes  and  ears  focused 
so  far  down  the  road.  In  an  age  when  much 
of  the  nation's  business  community  is 
transfixed  by  short-term— often  quarter-to- 
quarter— performance,  actuaries  take  the 
long  view,  even  decades  away. 

Hearsey,  who  has  been  at  the  college  for 
more  than  20  years,  has  run  the  actuarial 
science  program  since  1989.  Lebanon 
Valley  offers  a  major  in  actuarial  science 
within  the  Department  of  Mathematical 
Sciences.  This  year,  the  actuarial  science 


Spring/Summer  1991 


17 


A  Prudent  Choice 


program  celebrates  its  30th  anniversary. 
There  is  probably  no  greater  testament  to 
its  success  than  its  100  or  so  graduates, 
many  of  whom  have  gone  on  to  prestigious 
positions  with  highly  regarded  firms  or  the 
government.  Since  its  beginnings  in  1961, 
the  program  has  boasted  an  almost  100 
percent  placement  rate. 

The  program  began  with  conversations 
between  Dr.  Barnard  Bissinger,  former 
chair  of  the  math  department,  and  Conrad 
M.  Siegel,  a  Harrisburg  consulting  actuary. 
Over  the  years,  Siegel 's  firm  has  snapped 
up  eight  of  Lebanon  Valley's  actuarial 
science  grads. 

Bob  Mrazik  ('79)  is  one  of  them.  A 
consulting  actuary  and  one  of  Siegel's 
partners,  Mrazik  works  on  retirement  plans 
for  about  90  corporate  clients.  He  remains 
particularly  pleased  about  the  strong  math 
background  he  received  at  Lebanon  Valley 
and  the  fact  that  he  was  able  to  graduate 
with  four  of  the  required  10  professional 
exams  under  his  belt.  That  allowed  him, 
he  says,  "a  super  start  right  out  of  school." 

Richard  London  ('65)  is  another  success- 
ful actuarial  science  graduate.  He  went  on 
to  found  Actex,  the  nation's  leading  actuar- 
ial publishing  firm.  The  Connecticut-based 
company  designs  and  publishes  textbooks 
and  study  guides. 

"Compared  with  all  other  liberal  arts 
colleges  of  our  size,"  London  says,  "there's 
no  question  about  it— it's  one  of  the 
excellent  programs  in  the  country.  And 
that's  not  my  alumnus  pride  coming 
through.  Without  hesitation  I  can  say  I 
don't  know  of  any  that  are  better." 

Leslie  Mario  ('89)  received  a  Fulbright 
Scholarship  and  spent  three  months  in 
Scotland  after  her  graduation,  studying  the 
impact  of  AIDS  on  insurance.  Now  she's 
working  at  Reliance  Insurance  in  Philadel- 
phia, helping  to  make  sure  the  company 
maintains  adequate  capital  reserves  to  meet 
future  claims. 

Mario  loves  what  she  does  and  credits 
LVC's  insistence  on  a  liberal  arts  back- 
ground, especially  courses  in  communica- 
tion, for  preparing  her  for  the  real  world. 

"Half  of  my  job,"  she  says,  "is  explain- 
ing the  mathematics  behind  my  work  to 
people  who  don't  have  a  math  back- 
ground." 

Another  actuarial  science  graduate  went 
on  to  become  chief  actuary  for  the  state  of 
Delaware.  One  became  head  of  automobile 


When  Kiyofumi  Sakaguchi  ('67) 
first  arrived  at  Lebanon  Valley 
in  the  fall  of  1962,  he  felt  he 
needed  all  the  help  he  could  get.  "My 
English  was  very  poor  and  I  was  very 
confused  by  the  new  lifestyle  in  America," 
recalls  the  native  of  Kumamoto,  Japan. 

He  chose  to  pursue  a  career  in  the 
international  language  — mathematics— 
and  elected  to  major  in  actuarial  science. 
Now,  as  president  and  chief  executive 
officer  of  the  Prudential  Life  Insurance 
Company  in  Japan,  Sakaguchi  looks  back 
fondly  on  the  support  he  received  while  a 
student  at  Lebanon  Valley. 

"Professors  and 
students  were  very 
kind  to  me,"  he 
says.  "They  always 
extended  help  when- 
ever I  needed  them. 
Lebanon  Valley  pre- 
pared me  in  devel- 
oping my  career  as 
an  international 
businessman." 


pricing  for  Prudential's  U.S.  business, 
another  the  president  of  Prudential's  Japa- 
nese affiliate  (see  above).  Others  have 
gone  on  to  DuPont,  Penn  Mutual,  USF&G 
and  other  major  firms. 

The  outlook  for  the  35  current  students 
is  just  as  bright,  especially  with  the 
financial  services  industry  becoming  less 
and  less  segmented,  according  to  Hearsey. 

Actuarial  science  "is  a  fast  track  into 
upper-level  management,"  he  notes.  "A 
very  high  percentage  of  actuaries  become 
officer-level  people  in  companies.  They're 
a  very  select  group  of  employees." 

In  the  home  office  of  any  insurance 
company,  the  actuaries  enjoy  a  most 
exalted  status.  "Actuaries  are  being  trained 
to  manage,"  he  says.  Upon  joining  a  firm 
after  college,  many  go  through  a  rotation 
process.  In  their  first  10  years,  they  might 
spend  a  one-and-a-half-year  stint  in  each 
department— marketing,  accounting,  un- 
derwriting and  others— to  get  to  know  the 
whole  company. 

About  80  percent  of  the  students  who 
become  actuarial  science  majors  at  Leba- 
non Valley  know  when  they  arrive  as 
freshmen  that  that's  what  they  want  to  do, 
Hearsey  says. 


Sakaguchi  went  on  to  earn  his  master's 
degree  in  actuarial  science  from  Northeast- 
ern University.  But  it  wasn't  until  1975 
that  he  finished  his  last  actuarial  exam  and 
became  a  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Actuar- 
ies (FSA),  the  first  native  of  Japan  to  do 
so.  "The  long  road  to  the  Fellowship  was 
no  easy  one  for  me  because  I  felt  a  great 
handicap  in  preparing  for  and  writing  the 
actuarial  examination  in  a  foreign  lan- 
guage," he  recalls. 

In  Japan,  Sakaguchi  has  the  overall 
responsibility  for  the  Prudential's  life  in- 
surance operation,  as  well  as  for  coordinat- 
ing its  subsidiaries'  activities  with  institu- 
tional clients  and  the  Japanese  government, 
especially  the  Ministry  of  Finance. 

He  has  plenty  of  warm  recollections  of 
his  times  at  Lebanon  Valley,  adding,  "My 
most  precious  and  important  memories  are 
the  times  I  spent  together  with  my  wife, 
Joanne"  (Joanne  M.  Cochrane,  who  ma- 
jored in  Spanish  and  who  also  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1967).  Now  living  in 
Tokyo,  they  have  three  sons— Haruhiko, 
Tetsuya  and  Kengo. 


Any  suggestions  for  interested  students? 
There's  no  sense  even  considering  an 
actuarial  career  if  you  don't  excel  in  math, 
says  Hearsey.  "That's  really  what  sepa- 
rates actuaries  from  a  lot  of  other  busi- 
nesspeople,"  he  explains.  "Actuaries  have 
to  complete  a  series  of  professional  exams. 
The  first  half  of  those  exams  is  very 
mathematical,  and  so  if  you're  not  good 
in  math,  you're  just  not  going  to  make  it 
in  this  profession.  And  you've  got  to  have 
the  kind  of  personality  and  the  desire  to 
work  in  the  business  environment." 

Whatever  an  actuarial  science  major 
winds  up  doing,  it's  likely  to  be  a  lot  more 
people  oriented  and  a  lot  more  manageri- 
ally  focused  than  the  stereotype  would  lead 
one  to  believe. 

"The  old  guy  with  green  eyeshades  who 
sits  up  in  the  corner  and  does  the  calcula- 
tions—that's not  the  actuary  of  the  1990s," 
says  Hearsey.  "That  might  have  been  the 
actuary  of  the  1940s  and  1950s,  but  the 
computer  has  come  in  and  taken  that  part 
of  the  job  away.  There  are  still  some 
backroom  actuaries  who  aren't  any  good 
at  communicating  with  people,  but  that's 
not  the  typical  actuary.  It's  challenging. 
It's  exciting." 


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The  Valley 


Art  in  Iron 


David  Billington  builds 
links  between  engineering 
and  the  liberal  arts. 

By  Dennis  Larison 


In  19th-century  France,  Gus- 
tave  Eiffel  brought  artistry 
to  his  iron-truss  bridges, 
yet  also  managed  to  sub- 
mit the  lowest  bids. 
Within  the  discipline  of  engineering,  Eiffel 
was  seeking  elegance  and  economy.  His 
best-known  work,  the  Eiffel  Tower,  built 
for  the  anniversary  of  the  French  Revolu- 
tion, almost  immediately  to  French  artists 
symbolized  the  modern  world. 

David  P.  Billington  uses  such  examples 
to  show  how  engineering  marvels  can  be 
works  of  art— and  more.  Visiting  the 
Lebanon  Valley  campus  in  April  for  the 
college's  symposium  on  "Ethics  and  Tech- 
nology," the  Princeton  University  profes- 
sor spoke  on  technology's  ethics,  aesthetics 
and  politics. 

Politics,  art  and  science  are  the  great 
liberal  arts,  he  noted.  "So  the  connection 
between  modern  engineering  and  the  liberal 
arts  is  a  completely  natural  one,"  he 
declared. 

Billington  has  spent  the  last  20  years 
trying  to  help  colleges  reintegrate  engineer- 
ing with  the  liberal  arts.  His  classes  on 
"Structures  of  the  Urban  Environment" 
and  "Machines  in  Urban  Society"  are  very 
popular  at  Princeton.  His  books,  Robert 
Maillart's  Bridges:  The  Art  of  Engineering 
and  The  Tower  and  the  Bridge:  The  New 
Art  of  Engineering,  have  given  his  ideas  a 
wide  currency. 

Over  the  past  200  years,  technological 
advances  were  essential  to  the  development 


Princeton's  Dr.  David  Billington 

of  American  politics  and  culture,  he  em- 
phasized. In  the  19th  century,  the  industrial 
revolution  set  in  motion  four  great  ideas: 
the  use  of  iron  for  entire  structures  or 
machines,  the  use  of  steam  power  for 
engines,  the  development  of  the  dynamo 
and  its  network  of  electrical  circuitry  and 
the  discovery  of  oil. 

These  new  technologies  enabled  Amer- 
ica to  expand  geographically  and  govern- 
mentally.  The  westward  movement  to 
develop  the  frontier  is  "entirely  a  product 
of  engineering";  its  machines  and  struc- 
tures were  designed  for  that  purpose, 
Billington  emphasized. 

For  example,  Robert  Fulton's  steamboat 
and  its  successors  opened  up  to  develop- 
ment the  vast  Mississippi  waterways.  (The 
railroad  and  telegraph  brought  the  second 
westward  expansion.)  But  the  steamboat 
presented  an  ethical  dilemma  because  its 
boilers  often  exploded,  killing  hundreds  of 
people  each  year. 

Controlling  private  enterprise  was  never 
in  the  Founding  Fathers'  minds.  But  after 
years  of  debate,  Congress  finally  opted  for 
the  public's  welfare,  and  in  1852,  estab- 
lished the  first  regulatory  agency.  It  dealt 
with   steam   pressure   and  boiler  design. 


Thomas  Edison's  invention  of  electrical 
power  and  Henry  Ford's  mass  production 
of  the  automobile  brought  even  more 
radical  changes.  Government  had  to  be 
transformed  to  deal  with  these  immense, 
emerging  industries. 

The  early  days  of  the  railroad  deeply 
influenced  American  artists.  "They  saw  a 
new  world  emerging  in  front  of  them,  and 
as  the  most  sensitive  people  in  our  society, 
they  began  to  try  to  grapple  with  what  this 
meant,"  he  pointed  out.  Engineers  like 
Eiffel  also  became  in- 
spired to  seek  new 
forms  that  would  re- 
flect beauty  as  well  as 
utility. 

In  the  United  States, 
the  Brooklyn  Bridge, 
designed  by  the  great 
structural  engineer  John 
Roebling,  has  had  a 
similar  cultural  signifi- 
cance. It  was  "a  great  work  of  art  and  also 
a  great  stimulus  to  works  of  art,"  Billington 
said. 

Using  photographs  and  paintings  of  the 
bridge,  Billington  encouraged  his  audience 
to  "look  through  the  tower,  through  the 
bridge  to  see  the  city."  In  that  sense 
"you're  going  through  the  technology  to 
see  the  culture,"  he  noted. 

Can  this  aesthetic  approach  to  engineer- 
ing be  taught?  Billington  believes  it  can 
be,  citing  the  example  of  Wilhelm  Ritter, 
who  taught  the  two  men  whom  Billington 
called  the  20th  century's  greatest  bridge 
designers.  One  of  them,  Othmar  Ammann, 
worked  in  steel  to  create  the  George 
Washington,  Bayonne  and  Verrazano  Nar- 
rows bridges.  The  other,  Robert  Maillart, 
developed  an  entirely  new  aesthetic  by 
using  prestressed  concrete. 

Ritter,  an  artist,  instructed  the  two  men 
not  just  in  the  scientific  base  of  engineering 
but  in  how  bridges  come  into  being  through 
the  political  process.  He  insisted  they  look 
at  how  their  works  would  appear  in  the 
environment.  "These  two  great  engineers 
carried  that  with  them  all  their  lives," 
Billington  said. 


Dennis  Larison  is  a  staff  writer  for  the 
Lebanon  Daily  News 


Spring/Summer  1991 


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New  library  director 

Robert  Paustian  on  July  1  will  join  the 
college  as  director  of  Gossard  Memorial 
Library. 

Paustian  was  director  of  libraries  at  the 
University  of  South  Dakota.  He  has  also 
been  director  of  the  library  at  Wilkes 
College,  assistant  director  for  collections 
at  the  University  of  Missouri  Libraries  and 
public  services  librarian  for  the  Kansas 
City  Public  Library. 

He  earned  a  B.A.  degree  in  foreign 
languages  and  literatures  at  the  University 
of  Missouri,  an  M.A.  degree  in  linguistics 
at  the  University  of  Kansas  and  an  M.A. 
in  library  and  information  science  at  the 
University  of  Missouri. 

He  and  his  wife,  Elisabeth,  have  three 
children. 

Continuing  Ed  appointment 

Joel  Ervin  has  been  appointed  associate 
director  of  continuing  education. 

Ervin,  who  had  been  associate  director 
of  special  programs  at  Franklin  &  Marshall 
College,  will  be  responsible  for  Lebanon 
Valley's  continuing  education  program, 
which  will  be  offered  on  the  F&M  campus 
beginning  this  fall. 

She  has  worked  at  F&M  since  1962.  She 
began  as  a  secretary  in  the  Department  of 
Government,  became  administrative  assis- 
tant in  the  Office  of  Deans  and  from 
1978-89  was  coordinator  of  non-credit 
continuing  education.  She  was  named 
associate  director  of  special  programs  in 
early  1989. 

A  Lancaster  resident,  Ervin  holds  a 
bachelor's  degree  from  Westminster  Col- 
lege and  a  master's  degree  from  Temple 
University. 

Teaching  award 

Dr.  Jim  Scott,  professor  of  German,  has 
received  the  Sears-Roebuck  Teaching  Ex- 
cellence and  Campus  Leadership  Award. 

The  award,  administered  by  the  Founda- 
tion for  Independent  Higher  Education, 
honors  faculty  members  who  have  made  a 


Dr.  Owen  Moe 


Gerald  J.  Petrofes 


Dr.  Richard  Cornelius 


distinct  difference  in  the  teaching  climate 
of  the  college. 

Scott  was  chosen  by  Dean  William 
McGill  on  the  basis  of  nominations  made 
by  a  committee  composed  of  the  associate 
dean,  three  faculty  members  selected  by 
the  Central  Committee  and  three  students 
selected  by  Student  Council. 

Coming  up  roses 

Steve  Scaniello  ('78)  was  chosen  to  design 
a  rose  garden  for  Amera-Flora,  a  flower 


show  to  take  place  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
from  April  to  October  1992. 

The  show  will  celebrate  the  500th  anni- 
versary of  Columbus'  coming  to  America. 
It  will  include  various  floral  displays  and 
exhibits.  Scaniello  will  design  and  plant  a 
one-half  acre  rose  garden  containing  some 
2,500  rose  bushes. 

At  Brooklyn  Botanical  Gardens  in  New 
York,  Scaniello  is  in  charge  of  the  rose 
garden.  He  recently  published  a  book, 
Roses  of  America,  which  will  be  sold  in  the 
college  bookstore. 


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The  Valley 


Summer  stipend 


Dr.  James  Broussard,  chair  of  the  history 
department,  was  awarded  a  summer  sti- 
pend from  the  National  Endowment  for  the 
Humanities. 

For  his  project,  titled  "The  Era  of  Good 
Feelings  After  the  War  of  1812,"  he  will 
research  the  movement  from  one  political 
party  system  in  1815  to  another  in  1830. 

Broussard  will  be  conducting  his  re- 
search in  New  York,  Philadelphia  and 
Washington,  D.C. 

Feminist  seminar 

Dr.  Phylis  Dryden,  assistant  professor  of 
English,  will  participate  in  a  summer 
seminar  funded  by  the  National  Endow- 
ment for  the  Humanities. 

The  seven-week  seminar  at  Boston  Col- 
lege will  focus  on  feminist  criticism  of 
selected  English  novels.  Dryden  will  study 
novels  by  George  Eliot,  Jane  Austen  and 
Virginia  Woolf. 

Baseball  memoir 

The  Minneapolis  Review  of  Baseball  has 
accepted  an  essay  by  Dean  William  McGill 
for  publication  in  its  January  1992  issue. 

His  article,  "Shadow  Memories,"  is 
based  on  his  experience  of  returning  to  see 
a  game  at  Chicago's  Wrigley  Field  after 
an  18-year  absence,  and  remembering 
other  fields  and  other  games. 

He  recalls  sitting  in  his  favorite  spot  in 
left  field  (before  they  put  in  the  basket  by 
the  ivied  brick  wall  to  deter  overeager 
fans):  "Out  there  I  caught  home  run  balls 
off  the  bats  of  Gene  Baker  and  Ernie  Banks 
and  just  missed  one  by  Billy  Williams. 
Actually  'caught'  is  not  quite  the  word. 
My  technique  was  to  wait  for  the  rebound: 
the  first  guy  almost  always  muffs  it." 

Chemistry  grant 

Two  chemistry  majors  and  a  faculty  mem- 
ber have  received  a  grant  of  $7,300  to 
develop  a  modular,  instrument-based  chem- 
istry course.  They  are  Dr.  Owen  Moe, 
professor  of  chemistry,  junior  Sarah  O'Sul- 
livan  and  sophomore  Amy  Bonsor. 

The  award  was  one  of  21  made  by  the 
Special  Grant  Program  in  the  Chemical 
Sciences  of  the  Camille  and  Henry  Dreyfus 
Foundation. 


Teacher  of  the  year 

Carolyn  Soderman  ('66),  a  first-grade 
teacher  at  Wandell  School  in  Saddle  River, 
NJ,  was  named  teacher  of  the  year  for  her 
local  area. 

Her  selection  is  part  of  the  New  Jersey 
Governor's  Teacher  Recognition  Program. 
She  won  a  stipend  of  $500,  provided  by 
the  State  Department  of  Education. 

Religion  secretary 

Susan  L.  Donmoyer  has  been  hired  as 
secretary  for  the  Office  of  the  Chaplain  and 
the  philosophy  and  religion  department. 

A  Lebanon  native,  Donmoyer  was  for- 
merly employed  as  a  secretary  at  the 
Cornwall  Manor  retirement  community. 

Named  to  Hall  of  Fame 

Gerald  J.  Petrofes,  who  was  head  wres- 
tling coach  for  over  25  years,  has  been 
inducted  into  the  NCAA  Division  HI 
Wrestling  Hall  of  Fame  in  Rock  Island,  IL. 
Petrofes,  who  retired  in  1987,  compiled 
a  record  of  212-165-5,  making  him  the 
coach  with  the  most  wins  in  any  sport  in 
the  college's  history.  He  also  had  five 
Division  III  All-Americas,  five  conference 
championships  and  45  conference  place 


NSF  panel  chair 

Dr.  Richard  Cornelius,  chair  of  the 
chemistry  department,  recently  traveled  to 
Washington,  D.C,  to  chair  a  National 
Science  Foundation  seven-member  panel 
considering  proposals  for  equipment  to 
improve  chemistry  laboratory  programs. 

Compositions  performed 

Nevelyn  Knisley,  adjunct  associate  profes- 
sor of  music,  recently  performed  nine  of 
her  compositions  in  Washington,  D.C.  She 
was  part  of  a  concert  featuring  the  music 
of  American  women  composers,  sponsored 
by  the  D.C.  Federation  of  Music  Clubs. 

Coaching  football,  too 

Tim  Ebersole,  head  baseball  coach,  ad- 
mission counselor  and  assistant  football 
coach  since  1986,  was  promoted  to  assis- 
tant head  football  coach. 


Ebersole  is  a  1983  graduate  of  Ship- 
pensburg  University,  where  he  was  a 
quarterback  who  set  records  for  the  passing 
yardage  in  a  single  season,  for  touchdown 
passes  in  a  single  season  and  for  career 
passing  yardage. 

Outstanding  adult  student 

Billie  Babe,  a  junior  psychology  major, 
has  been  named  a  1991  Outstanding  Adult 
Student  in  Higher  Education  by  the  Penn- 
sylvania Association  for  Adult  Continuing 
Education. 

Babe,  the  mother  of  two  boys,  is 
employed  by  the  J.R.  Ramos  Dental  Lab 
in  Lebanon.  She  is  the  first  student  from 
the  college  to  receive  this  honor. 

New  trustees  elected 

The  college  Board  of  Trustees  recently 
elected  new  members  and  honored  retiring 
members  at  its  semi-annual  meeting  in 
April.  Donald  M.  Cooper  and  Allan  F. 
Wolfe  were  elected  to  three-year  terms, 
and  John  C.  Bowerman  '92  was  elected 
to  a  one-year  term. 

Cooper,  president,  chairman  and  CEO 
of  Hamilton  Bank,  attended  the  Wharton 
School  of  Finance  as  well  as  the  University 
of  Virginia,  Harvard,  Rutgers  and  Colum- 
bia. He  is  active  in  Boy  Scouts  and  the 
American  Institute  of  Banking. 

Wolfe,  a  professor  of  biology  at  Leba- 
non Valley,  received  his  Ph.D.  in  zoology 
from  the  University  of  Vermont.  He  held 
a  NASA  Traineeship  for  Doctoral  Study 
from  1965  to  1968,  and  won  the  Darbarker 
Prize  for  Microscopical  Study  from  the 
Pennsylvania  Academy  of  Science  in  1986 
and  1989. 

Bowerman,  a  junior  English  major,  is  a 
Presidential  Leadership  Scholar  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  honors  program. 

The  board  re-elected  to  three-year  terms 
Katherine  Bishop,  Wesley  Dellinger, 
Elaine  Hackman,  Gerald  Kauffman, 
John  Shumaker,  Kathryn  Taylor,  J. 
Dennis  Williams  and  Harry  Yost. 

Elizabeth  Weisburger  became  a  trustee 
emeritus.  Felton  May  and  Susan  Morri- 
son became  honorary  trustees.  The  board 
also  recognized  for  their  service  those  who 
are  retiring  as  members:  Raymond  Carr, 
Susan  Hassinger,  Bryan  Hearsey,  Ridgley 
Salter,  Donald  Shover  and  Joan  Sowers. 


Spring/Summer  1991 


21 


SPORTS 


By  John  B.  Deamer,  Jr. 
Sports  Information  Director 


Men's  Basketball  (14-11) 

Under  head  coach  Pat  Flannery,  Lebanon 
Valley  recorded  its  first  back-to-back  win- 
ning seasons  since  the  Don  Johnson  era  of 
the  early  1970s.  The  Dutchmen's  record 
this  year  was  15-12,  and  last  year,  17-9. 

The  Dutchmen  finished  the  year  by 
hosting  the  Eastern  Collegiate  Athletic 
Conference  Tournament,  and  were  the 
top-seeded  team  going  into  the  competi- 
tion. The  second  through  fourth  seeds  were 


This  exciting  moment  in  the  game  with 
Dickinson  helped  make  it  a  winning  season. 

Allentown  College  and  two  teams  from 
New  York— Mount  St.  Vincent  College 
and  Yeshiva  University.  But  in  the  champi- 
onship game,  the  Dutchmen  fell  to  Allen- 
town,  70-67. 

The  season's  highlight  occurred  on  Jan. 
22,  when  Lebanon  Valley  knocked  off 
Franklin  &  Marshall  in  Lynch,  72-67. 
Even  with  a  freshman-dominated  line-up, 
the  Dutchmen  continued  their  tradition  of 
defeating  their  arch  rivals.  F&M's  Diplo- 
mats had  come  to  Annville  ranked  number 


one  in  the  country,  with  a  mark  of  15-0. 
With  a  win,  F&M  would  have  tied  its 
longest  winning  streak  to  start  a  season 
(16).  (In  the  1980-81  season,  the  Diplo- 
mats were  16-0,  but  lost  to  the  Dutchmen 
in  Lynch,  53-46.)  Last  season,  F&M  was 
No.  1  in  Division  III  in  the  final  week  of 
the  season,  but  lost  to  Lebanon  Valley, 
57-55. 

Senior  forward  Troy  Krall  led  the  Dutch- 
men this  season  in  scoring  (12.6  ppg)  and 
rebounding  (6.3  rpg).  Also  graduating  this 
year  will  be  co-captain  and  center  Dave 
Bentz  (8.6  ppg),  guard  Ray  Kargo  (5.2 
ppg)  and  two  of  the  three  co-captains— 
forwards  Joe  Rilatt  and  Kevin  Arnold. 

Next  season,  the  Dutchmen  return  with 
13  freshmen  and  four  sophomores.  The 
future  looks  bright. 

Women's  Basketball  (5-18) 

Senior  center  Carla  Myers  enjoyed  a 
banner  year  for  Lebanon  Valley,  scoring 
her  1,000th  career  point  with  her  final 
two-point  shot  in  the  last  game  of  the 
season.  Myers  met  this  plateau  in  only 
three  seasons,  since  she  was  not  eligible 
during  her  sophomore  year. 

Myers  was  named  to  the  All-Middle 
Atlantic  Conference  (MAC)  First  Team  in 
the  Southwest  Division.  During  the  1990- 
1991  season,  the  senior  stand-out  amassed 
385  points  and  gathered  280  rebounds, 
leading  Lebanon  Valley  in  both  categories. 

She  led  the  MAC  Southern  Division  in 
free-throw  percentage  (79.8  percent).  In 
addition,  in  the  division  she  was  third  in 
rebounding  (11.5  rpg),  sixth  in  scoring 
(17.3  ppg)  and  sixth  in  field  goal  percent- 
age (50  percent). 

First-year  coach  Kathy  Nelson  looks  to 
build  next  year's  squad  around  junior  guard 
Pam  Grove  (11.5  ppg)  and  sophomore 
forward  Jan  Ogurcak  (9.5  ppg,  8.7  rpg). 

Wrestling  (11-9-1) 

Lebanon  Valley's  32-21  win  at  Albright 
secured  the  Dutchmen's  first  winning  sea- 
son under  third-year  head  coach  Larry 
Larthey.  They  had  a  strong  finish,  winning 
their  last  four  meets,  including  a  24-23 


upset  over  highly  regarded  Gettysburg,  on 
its  own  turf. 

Sophomore  Todd  Rupp,  a  134-pounder, 
led  the  team  with  a  25-7-1  overall  record, 
including  a  third-place  in  the  Middle 
Atlantic  Conference  Tournament  in  Febru- 
ary. Rupp  will  co-captain  the  team  next 
season,  along  with  junior  stand-out  Kevin 
Stein. 

Men's  and  Women's  Swimming 

Five  Lebanon  Valley  swimmers  competed 
in  the  Middle  Atlantic  Conference  Swim 
Championships  at  Swarthmore  in  Febru- 
ary. 

Senior  Kim  Manning  swam  a  2:01.8  in 
the  200-yard  freestyle  to  finish  fifth  in  the 
championship  heat;  teammate  senior  Becky 
Dugan  was  sixth  in  the  championship  heat 
of  the  50-yard  freestyle,  with  a  26:2. 
Freshman  Moira  Williams  took  home  a 
16th  place  finish  in  the  consolation  heat  of 
the  100-yard  butterfly  (1:18),  and  sopho- 
more Stacey  Hollenshead  was  16th  in  the 
100-yard  backstroke  consolation  heat 
(1:10.2). 

For  the  men,  freshman  Mike  Hain  was 
13th  in  the  consolation  heat  of  the  50-yard 
freestyle  (23:2). 

This  one's  for  "Rinso" 

An  inaugural  holiday  basketball  tourna- 
ment in  honor  of  Dr.  George  R.  "Rinso" 
Marquette  '48,  retired  dean  of  students  at 
the  college,  is  being  planned  for  Jan.  4-5 
of  next  year. 

The  Lebanon  Valley  College/Dr.  George 
"Rinso"  Marquette  Invitational  Tourna- 
ment, to  be  held  in  Lynch  Memorial  Hall, 
will  include  teams  from  Scranton,  Trenton 
State  and  Widener  universities.  The  first 
round  will  pit  Widener  against  Scranton 
on  Jan.  4,  at  6  p.m.  Lebanon  Valley  will 
host  Trenton  State  that  evening  at  8  p.m. 
The  consolation  game  will  begin  at  1  p.m. 
on  Jan.  5.  The  championship  game  will 
follow  at  3  p.m. 

During  his  long  and  varied  administra- 
tive and  teaching  career  at  the  college,  Dr. 
Marquette  coached  the  men's  basketball 
team  from  1952  to  1960. 


22 


The  Valley 


ALUMNI 


A  rapid  rise 
to  a  top  spot 

By  Diane  Wenger 

A  young  alumna  who  worked  her  way  up 
from  waitressing  to  earning  an  M.B.A.  and 
being  adept  with  computers  now  manages 
Lebanon  Valley's  $16-million  budget. 

As  controller  and  treasurer,  Deborah 
Fullam  ('81)  helps  to  make  the  decisions 
on  "everything  related  to  money"  at 
Lebanon  Valley,  she  notes.  She  handles 
federal  funds  and  monies  for  special 
projects,  and  is  in  charge  of  the  college 
business  office's  staff  of  five. 

The  kind  of  dedication  the  30-year-old 
brings  to  this  job  is  shown  by  the  goal 
she  has  set  for  her  office:  She  hopes  to 
make  it  the  best  of  its  kind,  "one  that  the 
auditors  will  hold  up  as  an  example  for 
other  colleges." 

After  graduating  from  Lebanon  Valley 
a  decade  ago  with  a  dual  degree  in 
education  and  psychology,  Fullam  worked 
as  a  waitress  and  substitute  teacher  when 
she  could  not  find  a  full-time  teaching 
position.  Frustrated  with  her  job  search, 
she  returned  to  college  in  1982  and  took 
18  credits  in  computer  science. 

That  led  to  a  job  in  the  college's 
computer  services  area  as  an  administrative 
assistant.  She  thought  she  would  be  at  the 
college  for  one  year,  she  says,  never 
suspecting  it  would  stretch  into  10— and 
lead  to  her  becoming  the  college's  highest- 
ranking  woman  administrator.  Fullam  is 
one  of  six  "general  officers,"  who,  along 
with  the  president,  are  responsible  for  the 
operation  of  the  institution. 

She  describes  that  first  academic  assis- 
tant position  as  a  "basic  support  job,"  in 
which  she  did  a  variety  of  work,  including 
"fishing  wire  through  conduits"  while 
Garber  Science  Center  was  under  construc- 
tion. She  later  assisted  in  converting  the 
development  office  from  "paper  and  pen- 
cil" to  a  computer  system.  And  she  helped 
write  several  grant  proposals,  including 
one  from  the  Whitaker  Foundation  to 
purchase  the  VAX  computer  system,  and 


Hard  work  and  determination  propelled  Deborah  Fullam  into  a  high-level  job  at  the  college. 


several  that  resulted  in  grants  from  the  Ben 
Franklin  Partnership.  Always  conscious  of 
finances,  she  continued  to  work  as  a 
waitress  for  several  years  to  supplement 
her  income. 

On  her  way  to  the  controller's  office, 
Fullam  taught  computer  workshops,  was 
an  adjunct  instructor  in  math  and  held  the 
position  of  assistant  director  of  computer 
services  and  coordinator  of  academic  com- 
puting. In  her  various  roles  with  the 
computer  department,  she  learned  how  all 
other  college  departments  functioned.  That 
knowledge,  she  points  out,  works  in  her 
favor  now  that  she  deals  with  their  financial 
needs. 

When  John  Synodinos  assumed  the  presi- 
dency of  the  college  in  1988,  he  named 
Fullam  as  his  assistant  for  institutional 
research,  budget  and  planning.  In  March 
1989  she  became  controller  of  the  college; 
at  the  May  1990  board  of  trustees'  meeting, 
she  was  named  treasurer.  Fullam  claims 
that  "a  whole  lot  of  luck"  was  also  involved 
in  her  rapid  rise  at  Lebanon  Valley. 

But  this  "luck"  was  supplemented  by  a 
lot  of  hard  work  and  determination.  In 
1987,  Fullam  earned  an  M.B.A.  from  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Textiles  and  Sci- 
ence. She  had  begun  taking  the  classes 
when  her  son  was  6  months  old;  by  the 
time  she  finished  that  degree,  she  had  a 
second  son  who  was  4  months  old.  She  and 


her  husband,  Walt,  are  expecting  a  third 
child  in  September. 

Fullam  is  more  conscious  of  being  the 
youngest  top  administrator  than  of  being 
the  only  woman  in  the  general  officers 
group.  This  is  especially  apparent  when 
they  discuss  their  children:  Hers  are  pre- 
schoolers, and  her  fellow  officers'  children 
are  in  college  or  married.  She  points  out 
that  none  of  them  have  to  deal  with 
babysitting  problems  when  they  go  to  a 
college  function. 

Fullam  does  not,  however,  think  of 
herself  as  a  role  model,  even  though  many 
women,  especially  those  new  to  the  college 
community,  are  pleasantly  surprised  to  find 
a  young  woman  in  such  a  powerful  posi- 
tion. Teaching,  she  observes,  in  fact  gave 
her  a  better  opportunity  to  serve  as  a 
model.  She  would  try  to  impress  on  her 
students  that  women  can  be  very  successful 
in  the  technical  and  quantitative  fields 
traditionally  dominated  by  men. 

Based  on  her  own  experiences,  Fullam 
suggests  that  both  young  men  and  women 
coming  out  of  college  must  be  flexible. 
"You  can't  have  rigid  goals;  you  can't  be 
unwilling  to  take  a  risk,"  she  advises.  "I 
originally  wanted  to  be  an  elementary 
guidance  counselor."  If  she  had  not  been 
open  to  other  possibilities,  she  notes,  she 
would  not  have  agreed  to  accept  a  non- 
teaching  position  and  would  not  be  where 


Spring/Summer  1991 


23 


she  is  now  in  her  career. 

Fullam  keeps  up  with  her  demanding 
workload  by  taking  work  home  in  the 
evenings  and  on  weekends.  A  recently 
purchased  home  computer  makes  it  easier 
for  her  to  leave  work  after  an  eight-hour 
day;  spend  time  with  her  sons,  Brendan, 
5,  and  Christopher,  2;  and  then  resume 
working  after  they're  in  bed. 

She  juggles  the  demands  of  job  and 
home  with  the  help  of  "a  very  supportive 
husband,"  who  is  director  of  continuing 
education  at  Penn  State's  Berks  Campus. 
The  Fullams  share  parenting  chores  equally; 
Walt  takes  morning  duties  and  Deborah 
takes  the  evening  ones.  When  one  of  the 
boys  is  sick,  Walt  is  just  as  likely  as  she 
is  to  stay  home. 

Working  full-time  and  being  a  parent 
leave  little  time  for  other  interests  at  this 
point  in  their  life,  however.  "Our  kids  are 
our  hobby,"  Fullam  says. 

Despite  her  rapid  climb  to  the  top  of  the 
administrative  hierarchy,  Fullam  has  re- 
tained her  love  of  the  academic.  "I  always 
wanted  to  teach,"  she  says.  "I  really  like 
people;  I  am  user-oriented,  and  I  miss  the 
students."  At  some  point,  she  hopes  to 
complete  the  circle,  combining  her  formal 
education  and  work  experience  by  teaching 
management  classes  with  a  computer  orien- 
tation. 

Diane  Wenger  is  a  senior  English  major 
and  administrative  assistant  to  President 
John  Synodinos. 


He  took  education 
seriously— and  slowly 

By  Lois  Fegan 

If  Lebanon  Valley  College  were  to  offer  a 
blue  ribbon  to  the  graduate  who  farms  the 
most  acreage,  Norman  F  Miller  ('82) 
would  win  hands  down. 

As  manager  of  the  Milton  S.  Hershey 
School  Farm,  he  oversees  9,300  rich  acres 
in  seven  townships  of  three  counties— 
Lebanon,  Lancaster  and  Dauphin— and 
co-manages  an  experimental  program  to 
boot. 

Miller,  a  farm  lad  from  Indiana,  returned 
to  the  land  he  loved  when  he  and  his  wife 
were  offered  the  post  of  houseparents  at 
one  of  the  Hershey  School  homes.  He  had 
just  finished  serving  in  Viet  Nam  with  the 
Air  Force,  and  the  couple  jumped  at  the 
chance.  Only  after  they  had  settled  in  did 


Vicki  and  Norman  Miller  display  the  fruits 
of  their  labor  from  Hershey  School  Farm. 

they  learn  that  Miller's  ancestors— the 
Hoeppner  clan— were  Lancaster  County 
settlers.  As  he  puts  it,  "Unknowingly  I  had 
come  home." 

Before  long,  he  had  become  dairy 
manager,  and  moved  rapidly  to  his  present 
position.  "It's  not  a  job  for  a  clock 
watcher,"  he  says.  Accounting  for  the 
resources  on  that  vast  acreage  is  just  one 
part  of  his  diverse  responsibilities.  He  has 
a  hand  in  everything  that  goes  on  in  his 
manor. 

Take  the  successful  Hershey /Agway  part- 
nership to  develop  new  produce  through 
plant  genetics,  crossbreeding  and  other 
techniques.  It  was  Miller  who  six  years  ago 
realized  that  the  Hershey  land  was  being 
underutilized,  just  when  the  agribusiness 
giant  was  seeking  a  place  for  an  experimen- 
tal farm. 

Their  marriage— a  natural— has  been  a 
success,  as  witnessed  by  half  a  dozen  new 
varieties  of  corn,  watermelons,  zucchini 
and  other  produce  in  this  year's  Agway 
catalog. 

Or  take  the  challenge  of  educating  city 
kids  in  the  mysterious  wonders  of  farm  life. 
A  few  summers  ago,  Norm  invited  the 
Derry  Township  Parks  and  Recreation 
Department  to  send  out  a  vanload  of  boys 
and  girls  for  a  "day  on  the  farm."  Now  the 
requests  from  afar  pile  up  long  before  the 
veggies  are  ready  to  harvest. 

But  these  are  just  extras.  At  6:30  a.m., 


Miller  usually  can  be  found  at  his  desk, 
coping  with  a  bumper  crop  of  paperwork. 
Later  in  the  day,  he  makes  his  rounds  of 
the  distant  fields,  advising  here,  helping 
there,  as  his  farmers  work  to  improve  their 
output.  At  the  little  farm  stand  along  Route 
322,  where  the  Hershey  staff  sells  excess 
produce  to  the  public,  he'll  occasionally 
arrive  unannounced  to  ask,  "How's  busi- 
ness?" Customers  love  to  try  out  the 
Hershey/ Agway  trial  crops. 

Then  there  are  the  inevitable  meetings 
with  other  Hershey  executives.  They  seek 
Miller's  input  on  everything  from  rerouting 
traffic  during  the  annual  antique  auto  show 
to  planning  next  year's  budget. 

The  busy  man  makes  sure  to  set  aside 
"family  time"  with  his  wife,  Vicki,  and 
their  youngsters— Ben,  16,  John,  13,  and 
Kim,  1 1 .  They  take  part  in  social  activities, 
birthday  parties  and  reunions;  weekend 
travels  to  museums  and  historic  sites;  and 
church  programs. 

When,  then,  exactly,  did  he  have  time 
for  classes  at  Lebanon  Valley?  Norm 
Miller  took  his  education  seriously— but 
slowly.  When  he  finally  was  awarded  his 
degree  in  psychology,  it  was  after  13  years 
at  seven  different  schools. 

Though  he  began  early  in  his  military 
career  to  take  advantage  of  night  school 
courses,  his  frequent  transfers  took  him  to 
classrooms  from  the  University  of  Hawaii 
to  Princeton,  with  four  schools  in  between. 
And  when  he  mustered  out  after  his  second 
four-year  hitch  with  the  Air  Force,  he  still 
had  not  stayed  in  any  one  place  long 
enough;  a  year  and  a  half's  study  remained. 

Once  embarked  on  his  new  career,  there 
didn't  seem  time  to  hit  the  books.  But 
Vicki,  a  school  teacher,  put  her  foot  down: 
"You're  going  to  get  that  degree,"  she 
insisted. 

With  his  first  visit  to  Annville,  he  was 
hooked,  impressed  both  by  the  college's 
curriculum  and  by  the  care  and  patience  the 
Lebanon  Valley  registration  staff  and  fac- 
ulty showed  this  oddly  qualified  latecomer. 

"They  worked  out  my  credits  from  all 
those  places  in  all  those  subjects,  and 
decided  psychology  would  be  the  best 
major  for  me,  with  a  minor  in  business. 
They  were  right.  In  1982  I  graduated  from 
one  of  the  best  colleges  in  the  nation,"  he 
declared  proudly. 

"And  there's  not  a  day  passes  that  I 
don't  use  what  I  learned  in  those  psychol- 
ogy classes,  either  at  work  or  at  home." 

Lois  Fagan  is  a  freelance  writer  who  lives 
in  Hershey. 


24        The  Valley 


CLASS 


O    T    E    S 


Pre-1940s 


News 

Helena  Maulfair  Bouder  *20  moved  into  Oakland 
Village  Retirement  Center  in  Toledo,  OH,  in  June 
1990. 

Dorothy  Hiester  Behney  '30  is  happy  in  her 
independent  living  apartment  at  the  Villas  of 
Brookhaven,  only  two  miles  from  her  daughter  and 
family  and  also  close  to  other  family  members.  Her 
address  is:  1  Country  Lane,  Apt.  D104,  Brookville, 
OH  45309. 

Claude  R.  Donmoyer  '33  is  still  playing  tennis, 
mostly  social,  as  his  80th  birthday  approaches.  Claude 
remains  one  of  the  best  tennis  players  Lebanon  County 
ever  produced.  His' opponents  testify  that  he's  still  got 
all  his  shots  and  knows  how  to  place  them.  Claude 
both  taught  and  coached  the  game,  serving  as  Lebanon 
Valley's  coach  in  the  late  1940s.  He  volunteered  his 
time  to  call  lines  at  tournaments. 

Bruce  M.  Metzger  '35  reports  that  after  17  years 
of  work,  the  Standard  Bible  Committee  (National 
Council  of  Churches),  which  he  chaired,  published  the 
New  Revised  Standard  Version  of  the  Bible.  This  is 
an  ecumenical  Bible,  containing  the  books  accepted 
by  Protestants,  Roman  Catholics  and  Eastern  Orthodox 
denominations.  (See  story  on  page  2.) 

Deaths 

Ammon  L.  Boltz  '17,  Jan.  23,  1991. 

Mary  Garver  Mathewson  '17,  Jan.  8,  1991 . 

Norman  M.  Bouder  '19,  Oct.  6,  1989.  Norman 
worked  at  Edgewood  Arsenal,  MD,  for  33  years  and 
was  assistant  chief  at  the  Technical  Services  Division 
when  he  retired  in  1953. 

Marion  Heffelman  Fishburn  '22,  Dec,  30,  1990. 
Marion  was  a  retired  school  teacher. 

John  W.  Beattie  '29,  Dec.  26,  1990.  John  was  a 
well-known  estate  planner. 

Warren  E.  Burtner  '30,  Feb.  20,  1990.  Warren 
served  in  World  War  II  and  returned  to  continue 
teaching  at  Steelton  High  School. 

Warren  F.  Mentzer  (Dr.)  '35,  Jan.  29,  1991. 
Warren  was  a  retired  United  Methodist  minister. 

D.  Homer  Kendall  (Rev.)  '36,  Jan.  31,  1991. 

Richard  C.  Rader  '36,  Jan.  9,  1991.  Richard  was 
the  Lititz,  PA,  postmaster  from  1959  until  1972,  when 
he  retired. 

Cynthia  M.  Lamke  '39,  Oct.  24,  1990. 

Coda  W.  Sponaugle  '39,  Feb.  11,  1991. 


1940s 


News 

David  W.  Gockley  (Dr.)  '42  was  selected  for 
Who's  Who  in  America,  1991  and  Who's  Who  in 
Religion,  1991.  David  was  also  elected  to  serve  on  the 
United  Theological  Seminary  Board  of  Advisors. 

Miriam  Carper  Frey  *44  retired  recently,  after 
serving  for  42  years  as  minister  of  music  and  organist 
at  the  Palmyra  Church  of  the  Brethren.  Miriam  directed 
four  choirs,  three  handbell  choirs  and  a  brass  quartet. 
She  also  retired  from  teaching  private  lessons  in  piano 
and  organ. 

Alfred  L.  Blessing  '45  in  1990  made  three  trips  to 
West  Palm  Beach,  FL,  and  one  to  Colchester,  VT,  to 
learn  sculling— rowing  alone  in  a  long  slender  boat. 
In  between,  he  spent  part  of  June  and  July  working 


with  the  Israeli  Defense  Forces  near  Tel  Aviv.  He 
helped  pack  duffel  bags  with  equipment  for  reservists 
called  up  for  duty,  then  loaded  the  bags  on  army  trucks. 

Gordon  B.  Kemp  (M.D.)  '46  has  been  named  chief 
of  the  ophthalmology  department  of  the  Senior  Friend- 
ship Center  of  Naples,  FL.  The  center,  staffed  by 
retired  physicians  who  volunteer  their  time,  provides 
general  and  specialized  medical  services  to  low- 
income  senior  citizens.  Gordon  is  also  a  consultant  in 
ophthalmology  at  the  Veterans  Administration  Outpa- 
tient Center  in  Fort  Myers,  and  has  recently  been 
appointed  a  lay  reader  at  St.  John's  Episcopal  Church 
in  Naples. 

Florence  E.  Barnhart  '47  retired  in  June  1990  after 
31  years  of  teaching  in  Deny  Township  Public 
Schools,  Hershey,  PA.  Florence  had  a  43-year  career 
in  education. 

Deaths 

Avra  G.  Esch  '41,  Aug.  20,  1990. 
Walter  Jacoby,  husband  of  Pauline  Smee  Jacoby 
'42,  died  Jan.  23,  1990. 
Walter  K.  Ebersole  '43,  Sept,  28,  1990. 
Virginia  Dromgold  Libhart  '46.  Dec.  12,  1990. 

1950s 

News 

Charles  R.  Eigenbrode  '50  will  retire  from  the 
University  of  Pittsburgh  School  of  Dental  Medicine, 
Department  of  Behavioral  Science,  on  July  1 .  He  plans 
to  maintain  a  part-time  private  practice  in  clinical 
psychology. 

Ethel  Beam  Mark  '50  retired  in  June  1983  from  the 
Lower  Dauphin  (PA)  School  District  as  an  elementary 
teacher  in  East  Hanover  Township. 

William  Wertz  '50  retired  and  is  enjoying  every 
minute  of  it! 

Elliott  V.  Nagle  '50  opted  for  early  retirement  in 
September  1990  to  devote  more  time  to  his  practice 
as  a  registered  patent  agent.  This  concluded  his  34 
years  as  a  research  chemist  for  Aristech  Chemical 
(recently  acquired  by  Mitsubishi)  and  its  predecessor, 
USS  Chemicals  Division  of  U.S.  Steel.  Elliott  initially 
was  employed  as  a  development  chemist  by  E.I. 
DuPont  at  its  Louisville,  KY,  Neoprene  Works.  He 
then  served  with  the  U.S.  Army  Chemical  Corps  at 
Dugway  Proving  Ground,  Utah.  Elliott  obtained  an 
MS  in  organic  chemistry  at  the  University  of  Delaware. 

James  W.  Parsons  '50  and  Mary  Jane  Kern  '55 
were  married  Nov.  9,  1990. 

Floyd  M.  Baturin  *51  spoke  about  "Legal  Ethics" 
on  a  panel  sponsored  by  the  Pennsylvania  Bar  Institute. 
Floyd  is  a  partner  in  the  Harrisburg  law  firm  of  Baturin 
&  Baturin. 

Joseph  P.  Bering  '52  (Dr.)  was  presented  with  the 
John  B.  Sollenberger  Award  for  meritorious  commu- 
nity service.  He  was  honored  for  his  more  than  28 
years  of  professional  service  to  the  Lebanon  High  and 
Lebanon  Catholic  athletic  programs.  Joseph  also  tells 
us  that  last  July  he  became  an  assistant  professor  of  the 
Hershey  Medical  Center  residence  program:  GSH 
family  medicine. 

John  E.  Giachero  '52  retired  after  teaching  music 
for  38  years  in  the  public  schools,  but  a  local  school 
has  discovered  that  he's  a  terrific  substitute  music 
teacher.  John  still  plays  in  the  Raritan  Valley  Sym- 
phonic Band  and  sings  in  two  choirs. 

David  D.  Neiswender  *53  (Dr.)  retired  Nov.  1, 
1990  from  Mobil  Research  and  Development.  David 


worked  for  the  corporation  for  33  1/2  years,  most 
recently  as  administrative  manager  of  the  Products 
Research  and  Technical  Service  Division  in  Paulsboro, 
NJ. 

Edward  H.  Walton  '53  wrote  several  hundred 
biographies  for  a  baseball  reference  book.  The  Ball 
Players,  published  last  summer  by  Arbor  House/ 
William  Morrow. 

Donald  J.  Gingrich  '54  retired  July  1.  1990,  after 
36  years  of  teaching  music  in  public  schools.  Donald 
was  also  the  director  of  music  for  32  years  at 
Stewartstown  United  Methodist  Church.  His  daughter, 
Amy,  was  Miss  York  County  for  1990. 

John  B.  Allwein  '56  is  chief  of  oral  and  maxillofa- 
cial surgery  at  Bay  Pines  Veterans  Administration 
Medical  Center,  St.  Petersburg,  FL. 

Nancy  Kirby  Fisher  '56  retired  in  June  1989  after 
33  years  of  teaching  third  grade  in  the  Susquehanna 
Township  (PA)  School  District. 

Luke  K.  Grubb  '57  presented  an  organ  concert  at 
St.  Paul  Evangelical  Lutheran  Church,  Lititz,  PA.  on 
Jan.  27,  1991. 

Ned  D.  Heindel  '59  (Dr.)  was  re-elected  to  a 
three-year  term  as  director  from  Region  III  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  Ned  has  been  on  the 
Lehigh  faculty  since  1966,  and  has  been  an  adjunct 
professor  of  diagnostic  radiology  at  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College  since  1973.  He  directed  Hahnemann's 
Center  for  Health  Sciences  from  1980  to  1987. 


1960s 


News 

Roland  W.  Barnes  '62  last  July  was  appointed  as 
a  Superior  Court  judge  for  criminal  bond  hearings  and 
other  matters  assigned  by  the  chief  judge  of  the 
Superior  Court  in  Fulton  County,  GA,  (Atlanta  Judicial 
Circuit). 

Marilyn  Tinker  Jennerjohn  '62  will  have  her 
biography  included  in  the  premier  edition  of  Who's 
Who  Among  America's  Teachers.  1990.  Marilyn 
teaches  10th  and  I  lth  grade  English  at  Spring  Grove 
(PA)  Area  High  School.  Six  of  her  World  Literature 
Honors  students  have  had  clues  published  in  a  nation- 
ally distributed  game,  "Clever  Endeavor."  They  had 
written  the  clues  as  a  class  project  in  1988-89. 

Edgar  W.  Conrad  '64  (Dr.)  was  promoted  to 
reader  in  the  Department  of  Studies  in  Religion  at  The 
University  of  Queensland  (Brisbane,  Australia),  where 
he  is  director  of  graduate  studies  (M.A.  and  Ph.D. 
degrees).  His  book,  Reading  Isaiah,  with  a  foreword 
by  Walter  Brueggemann,  was  published  by  Fortress 
Press  in  its  Overtures  to  Biblical  Theology  Series  in 
April. 

Linda  Slonaker  Conrad  '64  (Dr.)  moved  from  her 
position  as  equal  employment  opportunity  coordinator 
for  Griffith  University  (Brisbane,  Australia)  to  take 
up  an  academic  post  in  Griffith's  Center  for  the 
Advancement  of  Learning  and  Teaching.  In  addition 
to  conducting  workshops  for  academic  staff,  she  is 
involved  in  research  on  dissertation  supervision. 

John  W.  Davis  '64  received  the  1990  award  from 
the  Lebanon  County  Council  of  Human  Service 
Agencies  for  being  a  "zealous  and  dedicated"  United 
Way  volunteer  since  1972.  He  is  head  coach  of  both 
the  boys*  and  girls'  varsity  swim  teams  at  Cedar  Crest 
High  School. 

Joan  Krall  Shertzer  *64  is  director  of  the  Achieve- 
ment Center  in  Lancaster,  PA.  The  center  offers 
programs  in  weight  control,  smoking  cessation,  stress 


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management,  memory  enhancement  and  anxiety  reduc- 
tion through  hypnosis. 

Correction:  The  winter  Class  Notes  incorrectly 
listed  the  bride  of  Richard  A.  Lento  '66.  He  married 
Karen  L.  Saltzer  Lutz  '83  on  Oct.  8.  1990.  in  Kauai. 
Hawaii.  The  Valley  regrets  the  error. 

Carolyn  Miller  Soderman  '66  is  working  on  a 
master's  in  special  education  and  taking  flying  lessons. 

Paula  Snyder  Aboyoun  '68  lives  in  Olney.  MD. 
with  husband  Charles  and  children  Cathy,  Deena  and 
Chuck.  She  took  a  trip  with  nurse  colleagues  to  study 
the  longevity  of  Caucasian  mountain  people  of  Georgia 
in  the  Soviet  Union.  During  the  trip,  she  visited  the 
Hermitage  in  Leningrad  and  the  Kremlin  and  Moscow. 

Brooks  N.  Trefsgar  *68  was  recognized  for  achiev- 
ing Mutual  of  New  York's  prestigious  Top  50  ranking 
for  1989-90.  Brooks  is  in  the  top  1  percent  of  the  firm's 
4,300-member  sales  force. 

Dennis  L.  Frantz  '69  (Rev.)  is  pastor  of  the 
Lebanon  Gospel  Center  and  employed  at  the  Good 
Samaritan  Hospital  in  Lebanon. 

Paula  K.  Hess  '69  (Dr.)  last  October  was  named 
director  of  legislative  research  for  the  52-member 
House  Legislature  Research  Staff  (R)  in  Harrisburg. 

Douglas  R.  Winemiller  '69  plays  trumpet  with  the 
Keystone  Brass  Quintet.  They  presented  a  concert  of 
classical  and  sacred  selections  for  the  Fine  Arts  Series 
at  Lancaster  Bible  College  on  Feb.  15,  1991. 

Deaths 

Frances  Swank  Weitz  '60,  Jan.  2,  1991. 
Kathryn  King  Royer  '62.  May  20,  1988. 


1970s 


News 

Marilyn  Graves  Kimple  '72  is  in  her  second  year 
of  teaching  German  at  the  Spartanburg  Day  School. 
Marilyn  and  her  husband  spent  June  1990  touring 
southern  Germany,  Austria  and  Switzerland  (and 
Budapest)  with  a  high  school  orchestra. 

Carolyn  Drescher  Lincoln  '72  (Dr.),  who  received 
her  Ph.D.  in  microbiology  from  the  School  of  Medi- 
cine at  the  University  of  Pittsburgh  in  1979,  was 
recently  promoted  to  director  of  technical  services  at 
Bionique  Testing  Laboratories,  Inc.  She  reports  she  is 
the  mother  of  an  adorable  4-year-old,  David  W. 
Lincoln  III. 

Janet  E.  Smith  '72  was  appointed  executive 
director  of  the  Philadelphia  office  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Nurses  Association. 

Cynthia  L.  Evans  '73  was  the  exhibits  chairperson 
for  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  for 
Medical  Technology,  in  April  in  Harrisburg.  She  was 
also  the  1990  Pennsylvania  nominee  for  "Member  of 
the  Year"  of  the  American  Society  for  Medical 
Technology. 

Ralph  J.  Fetrow  '73  and  Sara  Harding  Fetrow 
'73  welcomed  a  son,  John  Harding  Fetrow,  Dec.  11, 
1990. 

Bonnie  Phillips  Guggenheim  '73  (major,  U.S. 
Army  Reserve)  is  teaching  seventh  grade  geography 
at  Skinner  Middle  School,  Denver  Public  Schools. 
Bonnie  was  on  alert  status  for  Operation  Desert  Storm. 
She  lives  in  Aurora  with  sons  Jimmy  and  David. 


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Debra  A.  Kirchof-Glazier  '73  (Dr.)  is  associate 
professor  of  biology  and  chair  of  the  Health  and  Allied 
Health  Professions  Committee  at  Juniata  College. 

Steven  B.  Korpon  '73  is  in  his  ninth  year  as 
department  chairperson  of  science  at  Severna  Park 
High  School  in  Anne  Arundel  County,  MD.  In  the 
summers,  he  is  a  consultant/youth  education  coordina- 
tor with  the  National  Space  Club  and  NASA  Goddard 
Space  Flight  Center,  Greenbelt,  MD. 

Philip  D.  Rowland  '73  is  finishing  10  years  at 
Central  Presbyterian  in  St.  Louis.  In  the  past  two  years, 
Phil  has  gained  a  new  concert  series,  a  new  pipe  organ 
and  an  ever-expanding  music  ministry.  His  family 
participates  in  church  choirs,  tours  and  musicals. 

Mary  E.  Weigel  '73  married  James  J.  Whalen  in 
November  1990  at  Harris  Street  United  Methodist 
Church,  Harrisburg,  PA. 

Wendy  Kline  Fiala  '74  was  in  the  International 
Quarter  Horse  Show  in  Alabama  with  her  horse  "Jags 
Showdown."  This  is  the  top  show  for  quarter  horses 
in  the  world,  with  over  $500,000  in  prize  money. 
Wendy  has  been  riding  and  jumping  her  horses  for 
many  years.  She  and  her  husband,  Steve,  and  their 
son.  Mark,  live  in  Neshanic  Station.  NJ. 

William  R.  Kauffman  '74  was  appointed  vice 
president  of  Sutliff  Chevrolet/GEO  of  Harrisburg.  For 
10  years.  Bill  had  directed  the  high  school  band  in  the 
Camp  Hill  School  District. 

Jeanne  S.  Lukens  "74  married  Christopher  L. 
Worley  Aug.  8,  1988  in  Maui,  Hawaii.  Their  son, 
Keegan  Kristopher,  was  bom  March  8,  1990. 

Susan  Wood  Nasuti  '74  is  working  for  a  home 
health  care  agency,  PRN  Healthcare  Services,  Inc.  in 
Ardmore,  PA.  Susan  also  volunteers  at  her  children's 
school,  including  helping  to  produce  the  first  school 
yearbook  and  writing  a  grant  proposal  for  and  imple- 
menting an  Artists  in  Education  Grant  from  the 
Pennsylvania  Council  on  the  Arts. 

Edward  E.  Quick  '74  (Dr.)  is  employed  as 
manager  of  safety,  health  and  environment  by  the 
Engineering  Plastics  Division  of  Hoechst  Cleanese 
Corporation  in  Bishop,  Texas.  Elizabeth  Markowitz 
Quick  '74  is  a  registered  nurse.  Their  children  are 
Jason,  18,  a  student  at  Texas  A  &  M  University; 
Andrew,  7;  and  Alissa,  4. 

Thomas  D.  Shanaman  '74  has  joined  Eugene 
Davids  Co.,  Inc.  as  sales  manager  in  the  Office 
Equipment  Group,  a  regional  office  equipment  and 
office  interiors  dealership  in  Reading,  PA. 

George  B.  Williams,  Jr.  '75  and  Michele  are  the 
parents  of  twins— Alexandra  Marie  and  George  B. 
Williams,  Ill-born  Aug.  3,  1990. 

Theresa  V.  Brown  '76  was  recently  named  the 
chief  for  research  and  evaluation  for  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical  Assistance  Contract  for  the  elderly  in 
the  Department  of  Aging. 

Nanette  LaCorte  '76  participated  in  the  Greater 
Yellowstone  Recovery  Project  in  the  summer  of  1990. 
She  helped  rebuild  a  bridge.  The  project  was  featured 
in  Exxon  Corporation's  magazine.  The  Lamp.  Nan  is 
a  member  of  the  Atlantic  Brass  Band,  which  performed 
along  with  the  U.S.  Army's  Ceremonial  Brass  Band, 
on  March  17.  1991.  in  Millville,  NJ. 

Kathy  Davidson  Ireland  '77  has  relumed  to  the  law 
firm  of  Gibson,  Dunn  &  Crutcher  in  an  "of  counsel" 
position,  specializing  in  employee  benefits  law. 

Deborah  Margolf  Jenks  '77  and  Timothy  A.  Jenks 
'79  are  the  proud  parents  of  their  first  daughter, 
Katharine  Margaret  Jenks,  bom  Sept.  14,  1990. 

Kay  Futty  Kelsey  '77  is  assistant  director  of  a 
Phoenix,  AZ.  day  care  and  pre-school. 


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Raymond  C.  Kelsey  '77  owns  a  manufacturing 
business,  RJS  Precision  Extrusions  Inc.,  in  Phoenix. 

Gary  R.  Kutay  '77  has  been  named  branch  manager 
of  General  Rehabilitation  Services  Inc.,  a  newly 
opened  office  in  Harrisburg. 

Lyn  Applegate  Lewis  '77  and  her  husband,  Al,  and 
daughter.  Amy,  have  moved  to  Fairhaven,  NJ.  Lyn 
teaches  private  clarinet  lessons  and  volunteers  as 
director  of  a  youth  choir  at  Colts  Neck  Reformed 
Church.  She  also  teaches  Sunday  School,  directs  a 
church  jazz  band,  sings  in  the  senior  choir  and  plays 
in  church  for  special  occasions.  She  is  an  active 
member  of  Alpha  Delta  Kappa  and  Mothers  of 
Pre-Schoolers.  Lyn  is  in  her  10th  year  of  playing 
clarinet  with  the  Monmouth  Symphony  Orchestra  and 
is  a  freelance  musician  of  Local  399.  But  what  she 
enjoys  most  is  being  at  home  and  bringing  up  her 
daughter,  Amy. 

Carol  Martin  Moorefield  '77  is  an  elementary 
general  music  instructor  with  the  Warren  County  (PA) 
School  District. 

Karen  Fitch  Parker  '77  is  an  administrative 
assistant  to  the  director  of  Alumni  Affairs  at  Dartmouth 
College.  Karen  had  worked  in  the  alumni  office  since 
July  1984.  Before  that  she  taught  grades  2  through  12 
at  Claremont  Christian  Academy— essentially  teaching 
all  subjects  except  phys  ed.  Karen  has  also  been  active 
in  church  work  and  in  community  musical  groups. 

Sheila  M.  Roche  '77  is  teaching  second  grade  at 
Benjamin  Barineku  Elementary  School,  Milford,  DE. 

Robert  C.  Shoemaker  '77  was  promoted  to  assis- 
tant vice  president  of  community  development  for  the 
Bank  of  Lancaster  County. 

Richard  D.  Wong  '77  in  December  1990  became 
deputy  director  of  development  for  the  Christian 
Children's  Fund  in  Richmond,  VA.  He  is  responsible 
for  all  fund-raising  campaigns  in  the  United  States  and 
around  the  world.  He  reports  that  he  is  finally  doing 
some  good  with  his  LVC  education. 

Louise  Bechtel  Barton  '78  and  her  husband  have 
an  addition  to  their  family:  Bethany  Louise  Barton  was 
born  April  10,  1990.  Their  other  daughter,  Leslie,  is 
now  3. 

Joseph  E.  Graff  '78  and  Cynthia  Shaw  Graff  '79 
had  a  son,  Evan  Joshua  Graff,  on  Nov.  3,  1990.  They 
also  have  a  daughter,  Jessica  Leigh,  who  is  3.  Cindy 
recently  completed  her  master's  degree  in  education 
at  Oregon  State  University  and  won  the  1990  "Teach- 
ers as  Writers"  competition  sponsored  by  the  Oregon 
Council  of  Teachers  of  English.  She  currently  teaches 
English  and  Spanish  at  Philomath  High  School  in 
Philomath,  OR. 

Cynthia  Wiley  Henderson  '78  and  her  husband 
welcomed  a  son,  Reid  Andrew  Henderson,  on  Dec. 
9,  1990.  They  also  have  a  daughter,  Brittney  Ray, 
bom  May  6,  1987.  Cynthia  is  an  emergency  lab 
supervisor  for  Franklin  Square  Hospital  Center  in 
Baltimore. 

Charles  D.  Kline,  Jr.  *78  was  named  associate 
actuary  for  GEICO  Corp.  His  responsibilities  are  in 
automobile  pricing. 

Joan  Belas  Warner  '78  and  her  husband,  Charles, 
welcomed  a  son,  Charles  William  Warner  IV,  on  July 
25,  1990.  Joan  is  district  sales  manager  for  Whitehall 
Labs/ American  Home  Products. 

Abby  Spece  Donnelly  '79  is  nurse  manager  of  the 
neuroscience  unit  of  Abington  Memorial  Hospital. 
Abby  is  also  the  proud  mother  of  Ian  (6  1/2)  and  Jamie 
(3  1/2). 

Christopher  J.  Neville  *79  is  a  research  scientist 
in  analytical  biochemistry  with  the  Sterling  Research 


Group  in  Malvem,  PA.  Chris  recently  presented  a 
paper  on  Capillary  Electrophoresis  of  Proteinaceous 
Mixtures  at  the  Eastern  Analytical  Symposium  of  the 
American  Chemical  Society.  He  and  his  wife.  Diana, 
have  a  daughter,  Sara,  age  2. 

Donald  B.  Newcomer  '79  and  Dorothy  Miller 
Newcomer  '80  welcomed  a  son.  Drew  Addison 
Newcomer,  bom  Nov.  1 1 ,  1990.  Donald  was  promoted 
in  March  1990  to  assistant  director  of  computer 
services  at  Dickinson  College. 

Carrie  Wardell  Stine  (Rev.)  '79  is  pastor  of  the 
Rehoboth  Beach  at  Midway  Presbyterian  Church,  DE. 
Carrie  and  Herb  have  two  children.  Christian  and 
Esther. 


1980s 

News 

Jennie  Giachero  Begeja  '80  and  Lee  welcomed  a 
daughter,  Kathryn  Elizabeth  Begeja,  bom  June  20, 
1990.  She  joins  Christopher  (2  1/2).  Jennie  is  currently 
staying  home  to  raise  her  children. 

Heidi  Hornicek  Fegley  '80  received  her  B.S.  in 
Nursing  in  May  1989  from  Rutgers  University.  She  is 
a  member  of  Sigma  Theta  Tau  (Nursing  Honor  Society) 
and  is  working  toward  her  master's  in  trauma  and 
emergency  nursing.  Heidi  is  a  registered  nurse  in  the 
medical  intensive  care  unit  at  The  University  of 
Pennsylvania  Hospital  in  Philadelphia.  She  also  volun- 
teers as  a  veterinary  technician  at  the  Morris  Animal 
Refuge  in  Philadelphia. 

Michael   R.    Kohler   '80  directs   vocal   music   at 


Elizabethtown  (PA)  High  School. 

Raymond  J.  Boccuti  '81  has  been  named  assistant 
principal  of  the  Pearl  S.  Buck  Elementary  School  in 
Langhome,  PA.  He  had  been  an  instrumental  music 
teacher.  Raymond  also  teaches  woodwind  and  jazz 
improvisation  in  his  studio,  and  performs  with  his  own 
band  in  the  Philadelphia/Trenton  area.  His  wife,  Lisa 
A.  Naples  Boccuti  '82,  teaches  flute  lessons  in  her 
studio  and  performs  music  engagements  in  that  area 
as  well.  They  live  in  Langhome  with  their  two 
children,  Gregory  and  Amanda. 

I.  Lee  Brown  '81  married  Sheml  K.  (Sherri)  Allison 
on  Oct.  1990. 

Blake  R.  Davis  '81  and  Nancy  Wocher  Davis  '81 
welcomed  a  son,  Jeremy  Dakota  Davis,  bom  Feb.  7, 
1990.  Blake  was  awarded  the  General  Electric  Aero- 
space Business  Group  Military  &  Data  Systems 
Operations  Engineering  General  Manager's  Award  in 
November  1990. 

Brent  R.  Dohner  (Dr.)  '81  moved  from  Conroe, 
Texas,  to  Ohio  in  November.  He  works  for  Lubrizoll. 

James  G.  Glasgow,  Jr.  '81  joined  Travelers  Realty 
Investment  Company  in  August  1990  as  a  vice 
president. 

David  L.  Godshall  '81  married  JoAnn  C.  Bellerose 
on  Sept.  22,  1990  in  Good  Shepherd  Catholic  Church, 
Camp  Hill,  PA.  David  is  a  processing  supervisor  for 
the  Navy  Recruiting  District  in  Harrisburg. 

Brian  E.  McSweeney  '81  and  Kimberly  Haunton 
McSweeney  '82  announced  the  birth  of  a  daughter. 
Colleen  Patricia,  on  June  9.  1990.  Brian  works  as  a 
programmer  at  Fort  Meade,  MD.  Kim  is  on  maternity 
leave  from  teaching  elementary  general  music  in 
Prince  George's  County. 


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Help  Insure 
Our  Future 


Would  you  like  to  help  guarantee  that  Lebanon  Valley  College  will 
celebrate  its  second  125  years  in  2116?  Several  of  our  alumni  and 
friends  have  already  given  the  college  insurance  policies  or  named  the 
college  as  beneficiary  in  amounts  from  $10,000  to  $1,000,000.  If  you 
would  like  to  help,  write  to: 

Paul  Brubaker 
Director  of  Planned  Giving 

Lebanon  Valley  College 

101  North  College  Avenue 

Annville,  PA  17003 

Or  call  (717)  867-6324. 


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Jill  A.  Shaffer  '81  married  Paul  Swanson  in 
September  1990.  In  November,  she  was  named  as 
"1990  Team  Builder  of  the  Year"  by  the  National 
Association  of  Convenience  Stores.  Jill  is  vice  presi- 
dent of  development  and  human  resources  for  Uni- 
Marts  Inc.,  based  in  State  College,  PA.;  it  has  342 
stores  nationwide. 

Kirsten  I.  Benson  '82  is  employed  by  Computer 
Sciences  Corp.  as  an  instructional  designer  for  NASA. 
She  attends  the  University  of  Houston  part-time,  taking 
graduate  courses  in  psychology. 

Eva  Greenawalt  Bering  '82  was  appointed  presi- 
dent of  the  South  Central  (PA)  Chapter  of  Nurse 
Executives.  She  is  vice  president  for  nursing  services 
at  the  Good  Samaritan  Hospital  and  the  Hyman  S. 
Caplan  Pavilion  in  Lebanon. 

Donna  Kreamer  Grumbine  '82  and  her  husband. 
John,  welcomed  a  daughter,  Elaine  Claretta  Grumbine, 
on  Dec.  12,  1990. 

Robert  P.  Hogan  (Dr.)  '82  is  a  Fallow  in  He- 
matology-Oncology  at  Robert  Wood  Johnson  Univer- 
sity Hospital  in  New  Brunswick,  NJ. 

Robert  J.  McGrorty  '82  is  employed  by  Pioneer 
Financial  Group  as  a  financial  services  representative. 

Mary  Knight  Raab  '82  and  her  husband,  Mark, 
welcomed  their  first  child,  James  John  Raab.  in  July 
1990. 

Barbara  Edzenga  Robb  '82  and  Ronald  W.  Robb 
'83  welcomed  a  son,  Matthew  William  Robb.  May  18, 
1989.  Barbara  is  a  first  grade  teacher  and  Ron  is 
employed  by  Foster  Medical  Supply  Inc.  as  mid- 
Atlantic  sales  manager. 

Andrea  Crudo  '82  married  Albert  Stark  on  Aug. 
27,  1988.  Andrea  is  a  systems  engineer  with  Electronic 
Data  Systems  in  Bedminster,  NJ.  She  is  a  member  of 
Toastmasters  International.  She  also  participates  in  an 
educational  outreach  program,  mentoring  students  at 
a  school  in  Plainfield,  NJ. 

Evelyn  Pickering  Stein  (Dr.)  '82  received  her  PhD 
in  statistics  from  Rutgers  University  in  May  1990. 
Evelyn  is  an  assistant  professor  in  the  math  department 
at  Wright  State  University  in  Dayton,  OH. 

Jesse  E.  O'Neill  '83  is  the  assistant  principal  at 
John  Paul  Regional  Catholic  School  in  Baltimore. 

Sue  Butler  Angelo  '84  is  the  full-time  mom  of  two 
boys,  Joe  (3)  and  Vincent,  bom  Nov.  1 1 ,  1990.  Sue, 
Joe  and  the  boys  live  in  Olanta,  PA. 

Diane  McVaugh  Beckstead  '84  teaches  middle 
school  music  in  the  Waunakee  (WI)  School  District. 
Their  music  department's  excellent  program  was 
recognized  in  the  Wisconsin  Music  Educators  Journal 
(February).  Her  husband,  Jeff,  just  completed  a  Ph.D. 
in  plasma  physics  at  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

Viking  E.  Dietrich  '84  and  Marissa  Neville 
Dietrich  '84  reside  in  Lenore,  Idaho.  Viking  is 
engaged  in  a  one-year  pastoral  internship  for  the 
Evangelical  Lutheran  Church  in  America.  He  will 
return  to  Gettysburg  Seminary  in  September  for  the 
last  year  of  theological  studies,  leading  to  his  ordina- 
tion in  June  1992.  They  are  the  parents  of  9-year-old 
Eoin  and  4-year-old  Bronwen. 

Stacy  M.  Gundrum  '84  is  an  investigative  case 
information  analyst  for  the  FBI.  Stacy  works  out  of 
Washington.  D.C.,  but  her  job  takes  her  to  FBI  field 
offices  nationwide,  where  she'll  work  two  months  at 
a  time  on  major  FBI  investigations.  She  has  been  to 
Seattle,  and  her  next  assignment  is  New  York  City. 

Kay  Bennighof  Kufera  '84  achieved  the  distinction 
of  being  named  a  Fellow  of  the  Casualty  Actuarial 
Society. 

Kurt  D.  Musselman  '84  received  his  M.B.A.  in 


finance  in  December  1989  from  Saint  Joseph's  Univer- 
sity, Philadelphia.  Kurt  is  director  of  investment 
accounting  for  Reliance  Standard  Life  Insurance  Co., 
Philadelphia. 

Lorrinda  O'Brien  Musselman  '84  is  a  teacher's 
aide  for  Woodlynde  School,  Wayne,  PA.  She  is  also 
party  manager  of  Festivities  Catering  Co.  in  Berwyn. 

Ann  Buchman  Orth  (Dr.)  '84  received  her  Ph.D. 
in  biochemistry/plant  pathology  in  May  1989  from  the 
University  of  Maryland.  Ann  is  an  NIH  Postdoctoral 
Fellow  in  Penn  State's  Molecular  and  Cell  Biology 
Department.  Ann  married  Charles  Orth  on  June  3, 
1989. 

Brenda  Norcross  Woods  '84  and  John  M.  Woods 
'86  welcomed  a  son.  Andrew  John  Woods,  on  Nov. 
30,  1990. 

Michele  Gawel  Verratti  '84  graduated  from  West 
Chester  University  with  a  master's  in  secondary 
education  on  Dec.  15,  1990. 

Carol  A.  Benedick  '85  married  William  C.  Cope 
on  Oct.  6,  1990,  in  St.  Paul's  United  Methodist 
Church,  Manchester,  PA.  Carol  is  a  toxicologist  with 
Mobil  Environmental  Health  and  Safety  Laboratory, 
Pennington,  NJ.  Her  husband  is  a  quality  control 
manager  at  Enzon  Pharmaceutical  Co.,  South  Plain- 
field,  NJ.  They  live  in  Lawrenceville. 

Veronica  Devitz  '85  married  Stuart  W.  Juppenlatz 
on  Nov.  4,  1989. 

Paul  M.  Gouza  '85  and  Laurie  A.  Kamann  '87 
were  married  on  Nov.  18,  1990,  in  Monisville,  PA. 
Paul  is  the  office  manager  at  Pickering,  Corts  & 
Summerson,  Inc.,  a  consulting  engineers  and  land 
surveyors  firm  in  Newtown,  PA.  Laurie  is  director  of 
social  services  at  the  Attleboro  Nursing  and  Rehabilita- 
tion Center  in  Langhome,  PA. 

Audrey  E.  Huey  '85  married  her  high  school 
boyfriend.  Barry  J.  Frick,  on  June  2,  1990.  Audrey  is 
sales  and  marketing  director  for  Hummingbird  Photo 
Systems,  Inc.,  a  family  owned  business.  Barry  is  a 
secondary  education  social  studies  teacher  in  the 
Lehigh  Valley. 

Rachel  Y.  Clarke  '86  married  Shawn  P.  Besancon 
on  Oct.  6,  1990.  Rachel  is  self-employed  as  a  private 
duty  nurse.  She  is  also  enrolled  in  an  RN  nursing 
program. 

Lisa  D.  Mercado  '86  married  a  wonderful  guy  on 
Sept.  29,  1990.  Her  married  name  is  Silvia.  Lisa  is  a 
pre-kindergarten  teacher  at  Montessori  Academy  of 
New  Jersey. 

Ruth  E.  Anderson  '86  is  assistant  dean  of  admis- 
sions at  Lebanon  Valley.  She  will  be  receiving  her 
M.B.A.  from  Philadelphia  College  of  Textiles  and 
Science  in  May. 

Jeanne  A.  Hagstrom  '87  married  David  P.  Sha- 
nahan  on  Nov.  24,  1990.  Jean  has  a  new  job  as  office 
manager  for  the  Illinois  General  Assembly's  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  office. 

Glen  M.  Bootay  '87  completed  his  second  Harris- 
burg  Marathon  last  November,  finishing  in  4:24:29. 

Darla  M.  Dixon  '87  works  at  Carnegie  Hall  in  New 
York  as  a  press  assistant. 

Ronald  A.  Hartzell  '87  is  a  research  analyst  in  the 
market  research  department  at  Meridian  Bank  in 
Reading,  PA. 

Sandra  L.  Mohler  '87  is  an  auto  claims  specialist 
for  Aetna  Life  &  Casualty  Company  in  Philadelphia. 

Janice  L.  Roach  '87  married  Martin  A.  Rexroth 
on  Sept.  29,  1990.  Janice  is  an  assistant  actuary  for 
National  Liberty  Corporation  in  Frazer,  PA. 

Karen  K.  Albert  '88  and  Mark  D.  Visneski  '88 
were  married  on  Nov.  24,  1990,  in  Frieden's  Lutheran 


Church,  Myerstown,  PA.  Karen  substitute  teaches 
with  the  Eastern  Lebanon  County  School  District. 
Mark  works  in  the  Hershey  Medical  Center's  cardiol- 
ogy research  department.  Both  are  students  at  Penn 
State's  Middletown  Campus. 

Janice  D.  Bechtel  '88  and  David  J.  Schell  '90  were 
married  on  Nov.  10.  1990,  at  First  United  Methodist 
Church,  Ephrata,  PA.  Janice  is  employed  by  Lancaster 
General  Hospital.  David  works  at  Wright  Lab  Serv- 
ices, Middletown,  PA. 

Amy  Holland  '88  married  Robert  Czajkowski  on 
July  14,  1990.  Amy  teaches  in  the  Delaware  Valley 
School  District,  Milford,  PA. 

M.  Brent  Trostle  '88  in  early  August  started  a  new 
job  as  an  actuarial  analyst  for  United  Pacific  Life 
Insurance  Co.  in  Philadelphia. 

Richard  W.  Umla  '88  is  in  his  second  year  of 
conducting  a  youth  choir  at  Reisterstown  (MD)  United 
Methodist  Church.  Richard  is  also  employed  as  an 
elementary  vocal  music  teacher  in  the  Baltimore 
County  Public  Schools. 

Jeane  L.  Weidner  '88  teaches  at  Wilson  Central 
Junior  High  School  in  West  Lawn,  PA. 

R.  Jason  Herr  '89  is  a  graduate  student  in  chemistry 
at  Penn  State. 

Carl  C.  Miller  '89  and  Laura  A.  Wagner  '90  were 
married  Nov.  3,  1990. 

George  Stockburger  '89  attended  the  National 
Automobile  Dealers  Association's  Dealer  Candidate 
Academy,  graduating  in  April  1990.  He  has  been 
working  since  1957  at  Stockburger  Chevrolet-GEO, 
the  family  dealership. 

Ann  M.  Thumma  '89  married  John  Cafarchio  on 
Nov.  10,  1990  in  Boiling  Springs  (PA)  United 
Methodist  Church. 

Kim  M.  Weisser  '89  was  promoted  to  assistant 
bank  manager  of  a  new  branch  of  First  National  Bank 
of  Newtown,  with  the  responsibility  of  getting  the  new 
location  up  and  running. 

1990s 


News 

Kerrie  A.  Brennan  '90  is  a  quality  control  techni- 
cian for  JRH  Biosciences  in  Denver.  PA. 
James  F.  Dillman  '90  and  Melissa  C.  Linkous  '90 

were  married  Jan.  5,  1991. 

Tamara  Groff  '90  is  teaching  eighth  grade  German 
and  remedial  reading  at  Pequea  Valley  (PA)  Intermedi- 
ate School.  Tamara  is  also  helping  to  teach  three 
Ukrainians  who  just  moved  to  the  United  States. 

Matthew  S.  Guenther  '90  was  appointed  as  a 
German  teacher  for  grades  7-9  and  as  an  English 
teacher  for  ninth  grade  in  the  Exeter  Township  Junior 
High  School,  Reading,  PA.  Matt  was  recently  named 
as  "Teacher  of  the  Month." 

Teresa  M.  Kruger  '90  is  working  on  her  master's 
degree  in  industrial/organizational  psychology  at  Bowl- 
ing Green  State  University. 

Dawn  Shantz  Pontz  '90  is  employed  as  a  first  grade 
teacher  at  Sanders  Memorial  Elementary  School  in 
Pasco  County,  FL. 

Rachel  Snyder  '90  is  teaching  fourth  grade  in 
Carney  Elementary  School  in  Baltimore. 

Daniel  B.  Tredinnick  '90  was  promoted  from 
sports  writer  to  editor  of  The  Duncannon  Record,  one 
of  six  weekly  newspapers  published  by  Swank-Fowler 
Publications. 

Earl  W.  Weaver  '90  is  working  as  a  programmer/ 
analyst  for  J  &  J  Business  systems  in  Landisville,  PA. 


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The  Valley 


By  Jim  Albert 


Out  of  Chaos 
Came  Creativity 

Carol  Galligan  s  collages 
trace  the  passion  of  Jesus  — 
and  the  turmoil  of  an  artist. 


Art  drew  from  life  when  Carol  Galligan  painted  "Fourteen  Stations  of  the  Cross,"  which  now  hang  in  the  Lynch  Memorial  Hall  foyer. 


Carol  Galligan  recalls  being 
in  a  state  of  "virtual  chaos" 
when  she  painted  the  "Four- 
teen Stations  of  the  Cross," 
the  vivid  collages  that  now 
hang  in  the  new  foyer  of  Lynch  Memorial 
Hall. 

But  from  that  virtual  chaos  she  drew 
forth  visual  creativity.  It  was  a  time  for  her 
when  she  was  trying  to  come  to  terms  with 
several  life  experiences.  "During  the  proc- 
ess of  producing  this  piece,  I  thought  of 
my  own  stations  in  life,  and  I  came  to 
understand  one  of  the  many  meanings  the 
crucifix  has  for  me,"  the  Lancaster  artist 
states.  "In  spite  of  one's  stations  in  life, 
the  road  to  calvary— life's  journey— not 
only  is  a  time  of  struggle,  but  also,  as  it 
was  for  Jesus  Christ,  a  time  of  passion,  joy 
and  renewal." 
The   Stations   of  the   Cross   represent 


events  in  the  final  days  of  Jesus;  meditating 
before  a  representation  of  each  of  the 
stations  is  a  devotion  in  the  Catholic 
Church.  In  some  ways,  Galligan  adds, 
painting  these  scenes  helped  her  to  compre- 
hend her  childhood  involvement  with  the 
Catholic  Church— the  Gregorian  chants, 
the  colorful  robes,  the  candles  and  incense, 
the  statues  of  the  Virgin  Mary  and  the 
Christ  child  and,  most  important  to  Galli- 
gan, the  symbol  of  the  crucifix. 

"The  world  is  a  lot  like  the  process  of 
the  stations.  It's  very  chaotic  doing  the 
stations.  But  when  we  look  back,  we  better 
understand  it,"  says  Galligan.  The  artist, 
active  in  Central  Pennsylvania,  holds  a 
master's  degree  from  the  School  of  Art  and 
Design  at  the  Rochester  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology in  New  York,  and  won  a  scholar- 
ship from  its  Continuing  Education  pro- 
gram. In  198-9,  she  received  a  grant  from 


the  Pennsylvania  Council  on  the  Arts. 
Galligan  has  had  solo  shows  in  New  York 
City  and  Rochester,  NY,  and  in  Pennsylva- 
nia in  Lancaster,  Harrisburg,  Hershey  and 
Millersville. 

Her  14  dramatic  abstract  oil  paintings 
with  their  bright  hues  have  captured  the 
attention  and  imagination  of  all  who  see 
them.  Galligan  decided  that  they  had  to  be 
abstract  to  be  clear  to  others.  She  intended 
the  viewer  to  react  to  the  paintings,  but  not 
necessarily  to  interpret  them. 

"The  paintings  are  a  study  of  subtleness, 
a  look  at  and  sharing  of  feelings  that  most 
often  lie  below  the  skin's  surface,"  she 
notes. 

"Fourteen  Stations"  are  the  latest  addi- 
tion to  Lebanon  Valley's  art  collection. 


Jim  Albert  is  a  Lebanon  freelance  writer. 


Spring/Summer  1991 


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