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Summer 2011
Dr. James J. Elting, Chair of the Hartwick College Board of Trustees, with his wife, Karen.
Hartwick Board20 years | College donor35 years Community leader and friend Orthopaedic surgeon, Bassett Healthcare Network Yale University, A.B. | Columbia Medical College, M.D.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF David Conway MANAGING EDITOR James Jolly FEATURE EDITOR AND WRITER Elizabeth Steele ART DIRECTOR Jennifer Nichols-Stewart COPY EDITOR Jennifer Moritz CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Christopher Lott, Kira DeLanoy, Alyssa Militello 12, Chris Gondek WICK ONLINE Stephanie Brunetta CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Gerry Raymonda, Elizabeth Steele, Ben Wronkoski 11 James Jolly, Kira DeLanoy, Duncan Macdonald 78, Alyssa Militello 12, Jamey Novick EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich, President Jim Broschart, VP for College Advancement David Conway, VP for Enrollment Management and Marketing Duncan Macdonald 78, Director of Alumni Engagement Dr. Meg Nowak, VP for Student Life Dr. Michael G. Tannenbaum, Provost
In this issue:
Features
3 | Alumni Power
George Bruno 64 and Gil Smith 59 are civic and scientic leaders.
24 | Breakthrough
Professor Gregory W. Smith shares his personal and professional perspectives on autism.
Hartwicks newest alumni bring honor to their alma mater. Nursing is No. 1in terms of graduating seniors. Professor Steve Kolenda on Hartwicks relationship with Asia.
26 | Portrait in Philanthropy
Stephanie Isgur Long 84 and David Long 83 see the future in Hartwick.
28 | Pine Lake at 40
A setting for scholarship.
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Campus News
Alumni Power
With Commencement come opportunities to recognize alumni as well as seniors, to illustrate where Hartwick graduates go from here, and to demonstrate that student success on The Hill is only the beginning.
Dr. Smith, you are an exemplar of the critical impact original scholarly research can have on each of our lives. Your unwavering belief in the power of knowledge and understanding to better the human condition has reached across the globe, touching untold numbers of lives. President Drugovich, I am pleased to present Gilbert Smith as candidate for the Hartwick College Honorary Degree.
It is with a great deal of pride and a lions share of humility that I stand before you today to share the end of your baccalaureate studies at Hartwick College. I am stunned and also lled with admiration at the progress that has taken place here on Oyaron Hill Dr. Gilbert H. Smith 59, H11
George C. Bruno 64 Receives the Presidents Award for Liberal Arts in Practice
Established in 2009, the award is presented by President Margaret L. Drugovich to a Hartwick graduate who extends the values of a Hartwick education into his or her life and work for the benet of others. President Drugovichs remarks (excerpts) your commitment to spreading peace across the globe; and your unwavering commitment to extending the values of a Hartwick education into your life and work for the benet of so many the world over. Ambassador Bruno, through your work in diplomacy and human rights, you embody the ideals of global engagement and service to humanity that are inherent in a Hartwick education, ideals so prized that they are recognized by this award.
George C. Bruno 64, H96: J.D., George Washington University Law School; Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Law School; volunteer aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy on poverty and civil rights cases; civil rights lawyer in Jackson, Miss.; one of the youngest lawyers (age 29) to argue successfully a landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court (for the protection of Social Security benets); Assistant Director of the Executive Ofce of U.S. Attorneys in the Department of Justice; United States Ambassador to Belize under President Bill Clinton, worked to increase trade and strengthen Belizes democratic traditions; Senior Advisor for International Issues, U.S. Army, Pentagon; Advisor, War Crimes Tribunal, Sarajevo; Co-director, Partners in Peace, Pentagon and University of New Hampshire; Attorney at Law, LAWSERVE, NH, immigration law.
Ambassador George C. Bruno, Class of 1964, it is my honor to present to you the Hartwick College Presidents Award for Liberal Arts in Practice, with our deep and abiding gratitude for all that you have done.
The Hartwick community honors you for: your lifelong dedication to the values of equal access, human rights, and global democracy;
Gil Smith 59 being awarded his Honorary Doctor of Science degree from President Margaret L. Drugovich, assisted by Professor Mary Allen, chair of the Biology department. Ambassador George Bruno 64 displays his Presidents Award for Liberal Arts in Practice.
Heather Quarles 11 received many accolades for her achievements and contributions, including the Presidents Leadership Award. President Drugovich recognized her success through transformational leadership that educates and engages others. An English major and Music minor from California, Quarles is a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar.
Allie Godfrey, the rst Nursing graduate in Hartwicks Three-Year Degree Program, was pinned by her mother, Kimberly Godfrey, RN.
Rebecca Martt, a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar, celebrates with her parents and Professor Jeanne-Marie Havener.
Sandra Rosario is a two-time Hartwick graduate. In 2005, she earned a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Spanish.
Applied Science
Nursing graduates must demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and competency in applying theory to practice. The Senior Independent Practicum serves a vital role in each seniors transition into professional practice.
The Nursing Class of 2011 performed independent practicums in a variety of settings: General Medical-Surgical Units; Specialty Units such as Neurology, Oncology, and Orthopedics; Advanced Medical-Surgical Units, including Cardiac Surgery, Step Down, Emergency Services, Adult and Neonatal Intensive Care, Operative Services, and Post-anesthesia Care (PACU); Womens Health, including Labor and Delivery, Maternity, and Obstetrics and Gynecology; and a variety of Pediatric care settings. The Nursing Class of 2011 practiced in: Albany Medical Center, NY Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY Bay State Medical Center, Springeld, MA Boston Medical Center/Boston Hospital, Boston, MA Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, NY AO Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta, NY Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, Long Island, NY Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC Morgan Stanley Childrens Hospital, New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center, Denver, CO St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford CT Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, CA Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
Graduates
Presidents Senior Farewell Dinner
Commencement
Continuing Scholarship
Whos Next?
Hartwicks Class of 2015 is shaping up to be another record-breaker in terms of applications, selectivity and size. An increasing number of President Margaret L. Drugovich greets Karissa Harrison 15 students from around the at the Matriculation Ceremony during orientation in June. country and world are nding that the College is a best t for them, says Vice President of Enrollment Management and Marketing David Conway. He provided the following data on the incoming class: Applications for fall 2011 grew once again, this time by more than 50 percent over last year, to more than 6,300 rst-year and transfer applicants for fall 2011. The acceptance rate for the Class of 2015 is just 62 percent, the lowest in College history, meaning that Hartwicks selectivity has risen signicantly. The Class of 2015 will be among the most academically talented in Hartwick history. The average SAT score among rst-year students is up 50 points from the record-breaking Class of 2014, and the average high school grade point average is the highest in more than a decade. For the second straight year, Hartwick will welcome one of the largest rstyear classes in the history of the College. Current projections put the Class of 2015 close to 500 students strong. Thirty percent of the Class of 2015 is from outside New York State, compared to 22 percent for the Class of 2014; 17 of these are international students. The Class of 2015 is among the most diverse in recent memory, as 18 percent of its members are students of color. At least 40 rst-year students in the fall 2011 entering class are enrolling in Hartwicks Three-Year Bachelors Degree Program.
Members of the Class of 2011 departed Oyaron Hill well prepared for the next step of their lives. For many, that step is continuing their scholarship in preparation for a career. Below is a sampling of graduate schools and areas of study being pursued by the Class of 2011. The top programs are education, geology, engineering, and law.
Barry UniversityHistotechnology Baruch CollegeLaw, Business Administration Binghamton UniversityBiomedical Anthropology Buffalo State UniversityAccounting City College of NYBiomedical Technology Clarkson UniversityAeronautical Engineering Clemson UniversityEnvironmental Engineering Columbia UniversityChemical Engineering Fordham UniversitySocial Work Hunter CollegeEducation John Jay CollegeCriminal Justice Marist CollegeEducation Mary Baldwin CollegeShakespeare and Renaissance Literature Mississippi State UniversityGeosciences New England CollegeHigher Education Administration San Jose State University Library and Information Science Syracuse UniversityLaw Union Graduate CollegeHealthcare Administration University at AlbanyLiteracy University of Illinois-UrbanBiochemistry University of MaineEarth Science University of Nevada-Las VegasGeology University of North CarolinaPeace and Conict Studies University of QueenslandMedicine University of Rhode IslandSpanish University of South FloridaChemical Oceanography University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeGeology Vermont College of Fine ArtStudio Art
These are very encouraging statistics, of which the Hartwick College community can be rightly proud, Conway says. High school students are recognizing the value of the uniquely Hartwick brand of experiential learning, allowing us to build another remarkable class.
Faculty News
presenting the award to the visibly moved professor during Commencement. Former students acknowledge the inuence he has had on generations of Hartwick art students. That inuence continues as he faces daily challenges from multiple sclerosis and uses those challenges to enhance his artwork, and to inspire his students and his colleagues. The Margaret Brigham Bunn Award honors a loyal friend and Trustee of the College who understood the centrality of the interaction between teachers and students. The award was established by her colleagues on the Board of Trustees upon her death in 1978.
Dr. Marc E. Shaw, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts, was honored with the 2011 Cyrus Mehri Global
Pluralism Fellowship & Mentoring Faculty Award with student recipient, Mark de Roziere 13. The award
recognizes work that promotes a diverse community of honest interchange in which people can learn from one another through an open sharing of perspectives and life experiences. Assistant Professor of Art Stephanie Rozene and Professor of Anthropology Michael D. Woost were each recognized with the Winifred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence Award. The award will support their scholarly projects in 2011-12. Associate Professor of English Lisa Darien was chosen by the Class of 2011 as this years Baccalaureate speaker. She addressed graduates and their families, offering two tiny little pieces of advice: Dont worry too much about the future, and remember that your parents love you.
Faculty Emeriti Gathering: President Margaret L. Drugovich and her partner, Beth Steele, recently welcomed Faculty Emeriti for lunch at Thornwood. The group shared stories, laughed over fond memories, and asked questions about Hartwick now and in the future. Pictured: (front) Perrie Saxton 53, Nursing; Sharon Dettenrieder 65, Nursing; Nancy Chiang, Library; (back) John Lindell, Political Science; Len Pudelka, History; Tom Beattie, English; Walt Nagle, Chemistry; Dave Hutchison, Geology; Dave Diener, Mathematics; Provost Michael Tannenbaum; Sugwon Kang, Political Science; Bob Mansbach, Religious Studies; and President Drugovich. Diener, Hutchison, Lindell, Mansbach, and Nagle are all past recipients of the Margaret Brigham Bunn Award.
Commentary
Doing Business in Asia J Term 2011 students and faculty divided their time among Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao, China. The group posed before the massive May Wind sculpture of May 4th Square, in downtown Qingdao along Fushan Bay.
Rory Read 83, President and COO of Lenovo Group Ltd., ensured that Hartwick students had opportunities to talk international business with Lenovo executives in China.
One thing is certain: The world of Hartwick graduates will be diverse, interdependent, and global. The faculty actively integrates Asian study into a Hartwick education. This is not a new phenomenonin the 1980s, off-campus study included travel with professors John Lindell to Japan and Sugwon Kang to China. For a long time, students have beneted from Asianfocused on-campus and off-campus courses with current faculty such as professors David Anthony in Anthropology, Betsey Ayer in Art History, Sandy Huntington in Religious Studies, and Mary Vanderlaan in Political Science, and many other professors have contributed in integrative and comparative ways. Hartwick faculty who have themselves studied in Asia include professors KinHo Chan
and wanted to experience early changes rsthand. Jack returned to Hartwick with tales of an exhilarating, intellectually challenging experience, tales that inspired his students and colleagues for the rest of his Hartwick career. Intrigued and convinced, my wife Diane 85 and our then three-year-old daughter Kathlyn 10 joined me for my rst Sabbatical Leave in China, teaching international accounting for one semester at GIFT and then traveling extensively and independently throughout China. Hartwick supports important faculty development experiences such as this in many ways, including sabbatical leaves and trustee grants. These experiences energize our teaching and facilitate our research efforts so that our long-term tenure at the College is enhanced by staying current in our elds.
Steve Kolenda has been on the Hartwick faculty since 1983. His areas of expertise include corporate nancial reporting and international business in Asia. A Certied Public Accountant, he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut.
Scott Hardy 91. It was the right preparation for taking about half of those students to China for the January Term 2011 course, Doing Business in Asia. With the help of Christina Zhang 94 of Ocean University of Chinas International Chinese Business Program, Hartwick students studied business with Chinese faculty and students in Qingdao. In addition to factory tours in Qingdao, Lenovo President and COO Rory Read 83 arranged for our students to shadow practicing businesspersons in Beijing and Shanghai. We met with Kim Carbonelli Tingler 00 in Beijing where she has founded a nonprot organization helping thousands of orphaned Chinese girls, including those stranded by the recent Sichuan Province earthquakes. With the continued support of alumni like Dick Clapp 62 and retired librarian Nancy Chiang, the J Term 2012 course to China is fully enrolled. It will continue our faculty development objective when we are joined by another faculty member, Professor of Economics Larry Malone, who regularly teaches international economics.
On a quick return trip to China in 1992, students joined me to do marketing research for New York State companies in Guangdong Province. About that time, Trustee Emeritus Roy Rowan H95, author of Chasing the Dragon and a world-renowned Asian expert through his career with Time, Life and Fortune magazines and other experiences, convinced his Thai colleague Sondhi Limthoghkul H93 to donate funds to start underwriting the J Term experiences of Hartwick rst-year students. Roys son Marcus Rowan 84 had done an internship in Hong Kong under my supervisionmy rst taste of the benets a HartwickAsia experiential education could produce.
When Seth Canetto 11, Michael del Rosario 11, and Stephen Leisenfelder 11 had lunch at a Cloisonn factory, they were treated to an impromptu English lesson with happy and proud Chinese schoolchildren (shown with one of their teachers).
China expert and Trustee Emeritus Roy Rowan H95 recently returned to campus to discuss his latest book, Never Too Late: A 90-Year-Olds Pursuit of a Whirlwind Life. Rowan and wife, Helen, were welcomed by President Margaret L. Drugovich and professors Steve Kolenda (l) and John Clemens.
Limthoghkul began by inviting Hartwick students to Thailand, and I took the inaugural group in 1994, a visit that also began my research on developmental economics in the Golden Quadrangle region of Southeast Asia and southwestern China. Hartwick students have visited Thailand many times sincemost consistently to do longitudinal research on medicinal plants and childhood malnutrition under the supervision of Professor of Biology Linda Swift. I have continued to visit Southeast Asia regularly (most recently to Laos), including teaching international nance and international marketing for two Thai universities. Professor of Business Administration John Clemens and I initiated a new on-campus course, Doing Business with Asia, last fall that featured appearances by Asia business veterans like Fran Borrego 92 and
As the world evolves, Hartwick responds. Drawing on facultys personal and professional experiences, developing new expertise among faculty, and garnering the involvement and support of our active alumni body, Hartwick students will continue to study and visit Asia. Their future begins in Oneonta, where they are being educated to initiate change throughout the world.
Theory In Practice
It begins with an ideaall great work doesand continues with discussion, consideration, and practice. It nds direction with a mentor, and starts to take shape. It grows into inspiration, and slowly, carefully, develops into original work. Experimentation meets eeting failure along the way, and so it reshapes and becomes stronger. It is unrecognizable compared to the beginning, yet fully ones own. It is new knowledgedeep understanding, full expressionand it is taking place every day in the minds, the hearts, the conscious and subconscious of Hartwick students.
Scholars
Scholar to Doctor
Looking at the fresh faces of John Christopher Hartwick Scholars, it is tempting to imagine what lies ahead. Five years, 10 years, even 25 or 35 years ago, the same questions arose in the minds of those John Christopher Hartwick Scholars, their faculty and families.
This, the rst in a series illustrating how far and in what directions John Christopher Hartwick Scholars take their academic abilities, focuses on those JCH alumni who have earned terminal degrees in the sciences.
Jon E. Paczkowski 08 > Biology, JCH 07 > Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University > Fromme Lab, Weill Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology. Justine C. Beck 06 > Chemistry, Biology minor, JCH 05 > PharmD candidate, University of Maryland > Senior Lab Technician II, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, MD. Christopher P. Belnap 03 > Biology and Geology double, JCH 02 > Ph.D. Microbiology, University of California Berkeley, College of Natural Resources > Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Sciences, University of San Francisco, CA. Aleesha M. Zysik 03 > Biology, JCH 02 > MD, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine > Pediatrician, Kids Korner Pediatric Center, Messena Memorial Hospital, NY. Meghan F. Zysik 01 > Biology, JCH 00 > MD, University of Toledo College of Medicine > Medical Resident, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ. Devin A. Zysling 01 > Biology, JCH 00 > Ph.D. Indiana University, Department of Biology, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior Postdoctoral Researcher > Place Lab, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, NY. Jessica E. Downing 00 > Biology, JCH 99 > DVM Cornell University New York State Veterinary College > Emergency Veterinarian and General Practitioner, Valley Cottage Animal Hospital, NY. Marisa Stumpf Kearney 96 > Biology, JCH 95 > MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Emergency Physician, Winchester Hospital, MA. Stephanie Codden Weatherly 96 > Biochemistry, JCH 95 > Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > Senior Research Associate, Cropsolution Inc., NC. Ellyn P. Sellers Selin 95 > Psychology, JCH 94 > MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Family Practitioner, Cayuga Family Medicine, Ithaca, NY.
The newest John Christopher Hartwick Scholars, pictured with President Margaret L. Drugovich at Honors Convocation, are: (f) Rebecka Flynn, German; Brittany Morrisey, Spanish and Sociology; Casey Mullaney, English, French, and Religious Studies; (r) Jaimie deJager, Nursing; Jordan Liz, Economics and Philosophy; and Tasha Bradt, Sociology.
Lori A. Del Negro 93 > Chemistry, JCH 92 > Ph.D., Analytical Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder > Associate Professor of Chemistry, Lake Forest College, IL.
Patricia Cawley Cucolo 92 > Biology, JCH 91 > MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Pediatrician, Madison Pediatrics, NJ. Peter A. Daempe 92 > Biology, JCH 91 > Ph.D. Biology/Education, SUNY Albany > Associate Professor of Biology, SUNY Delhi. Justin T. Fermann 92 > Physics, JCH 91 > Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry, University of Georgia > Director of Chemistry Resource Center and Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Leanna Bruen Willey 90 > Biology, JCH 89 > MD University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry > Pediatrician, North Carolina Kids Pediatrics Debra Bausback 89 > Biology, JCH 88 > DMD University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine > Dentist / Business Partner, Wilson Hart & Bausback Dental, NY. Frederick W. Baum III 87 > Biology, JCH 86 > DVM Cornell University, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine > Veterinarian; Director, Arlington Animal Hospital; > President, Vermont Veterinary Medical Association. Susan E. Yorks 87 > Chemistry, JCH 86 > OD, New England College of Optometry > Optometrist, Robbins Eye Associates, NY. Timothy S. French 86 > Chemistry, JCH 85 > MD, Albany Medical College > Internist, Hospitalist Program, Catholic Medical Center, NH. Susan Fueshko Perry 86 > Biology, JCH 85 > Ph.D. Biological Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University > Professor of Practice in Chemical Engineering and Bio-Engineering, Lehigh University, PA. Jeffrey L. Crosby 85 > Biology, JCH 84 > Ph.D. University of Maine Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine > Head of Science Department / Teacher, St. Pauls School, NH. Janet Frawley Morrison 83 > Chemistry, JCH 82 > Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, The American University > Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Trinity College, CT.
Jennifer A. Irwin 82 > Biology, JCH 81 > MD, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine > Psychiatrist and Neurologist, WA. Tara A. Lindsley 81 > Independent Student Program, JCH 80 > Ph.D. Albany Medical College > Developmental Neurobiologist and Professor of Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College. Tammi L. Shlotzhauer 81 > Biology, JCH 80 > MD University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry > Internist and Rheumatologist, Rheumatology Associates of Rochester, NY. Lynn M. Manfred 79 > Chemistry, JCH 78 > MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry > Associate Dean for Curriculum and Evaluation, Medical University of South Carolina. Joyce E. Mauk 78 > Biology, JCH 77 > MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry > Neurodevelopmental Pediatrician > President/CEO/Medical Director, Child Study Center, TX. Raymond B. Scott 77 > Chemistry, JCH 76 > Ph.D. University of Cincinnati > Professor of Chemistry, Mary Washington University College of Arts and Sciences, VA. Charles E. Thompson 77 > Biology, JCH 76 > MD, Thomas Jefferson University > Anesthesiologist, Saint Vincents Medical Center, CT. JoAnne Gutliph 76 > Biology, JCH 75 > MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Obstetrics and Gynecology, Prince William OB/GYN, VA. Richard K. Rabeler 75 > Independent Student Program, Botany, JCH 74 > Ph.D., Plant Systematics, Michigan State University > Senior Research Museum Collection Manager and Assistant Researcher, University of Michigan Herbarium. Linda Reckhow Thomson 72, APRN, CPNP > Nursing, JCH 71 > Ph.D. Clinical Hypnosis, American Pacic University > Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Rockingham Medical Group, VT. Robert K. Nielsen 71 > Biology, JCH 70 > MD, Albany Medical College > Family Practitioner and President, Annville Family Practice, PA.
If you are a JCH Scholar who has earned or is pursuing an MD or doctorate in the sciences, and your credentials are not recognized here, please let us know so we can print a correction in the next issue. We encourage all JCH Scholars to make sure that we have your latest information as we prepare to recognize other disciplines in future issues of The Wick. Please contact Alicia Fish 91, Senior Director of Donor and Alumni Relations, sha@hartwick.edu or 607-431-4021.
Green 59 is founder and Chairman of the Board of SL Green Realty Corp., a publicly traded real estate investment trust and the largest commercial landlord in New York City.
These student-faculty collaborations realize Hartwicks vision: to be the best at melding a liberal arts education with experiential learning. It happens again and again; one ambitious student at a time, working with one highly invested professor, reaching further for new ideas and experiences toward unimaginable outcomes.
Upon completion of his mezmerizing and prize-winning performance of Hairy Man, Mark DeRoziere 12 publicly thanked the Freedmans for their support. Glass and Sculpture student Crystal Postighone 11 created individual glass globes hanging from an impressive metal tree-like sculpture. Brianna OConnor 11 created a threegeneration portrait of her mother, herself, and her grandmother (pictured) for Showcase and the Senior Art Show.
Many of the Freedman Prize winners, mentors, and President Margaret L. Drugovich gathered around the Freedmans after the awards ceremony.
The Freedmans fully understand the importance of inquiry and its product, with product being new knowledge that catalyzes deeper learning and further inquiry, says President Margaret L. Drugovich. They have a profound understanding of the power of the nexus of theory and practice. They are unusual in this way.
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For her Senior Thesis project, Physics and Math major Eileen Haffner 11 built a pulse jet engine. She used metal tubes (that she welded herself), a shop vac, a propane tank, and a spark plug. The engine runs when the spark plug ignites the right mixture of air and fuel (propane), creating 100 small explosions per second, Haffner explains. Haffners jet engine is based on a 1928 German design that powered the V-1 buzz bombs used on London during World War II. It is also very loud. The homemade engine is four times more powerful than Haffner or her advisor, Professor of Physics Larry Nienart, rst hypothesized. She concedes, however, that its poor fuel consumptionabout 1 pound of propane every 15 minutesmakes it impractical. Thats the kind of problem Haffner might solve in the future; shes on her way to Clarkson University to earn a masters degree in aeronautical engineering.
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> Geology major Andrew Parisi 11 made two Showcase presentations: Water Quality of the Upper Susquehanna River and the Pine Lake Area with
or social functioningwas presented by Nursing students Lauren Weed 11 and Lizzie Scholl 12, who worked with mentor Professor Cynthia Ploutz.
> Mutt Medicine: Animal Assisted Therapy with the Elderlyresearch into trained animals contributions to patients physical, emotional, cognitive, and/
Doug Zullo worked with Freedman Prize winner Stephen Diehl 14 as he studied correlations between Harold Pinter and Francis Bacon. > The Collaborative Teeny Tile Mosaic is a show-stopper. In this ongoing Digital Fundamentals class project, students create images using the Sumo Paint program, choose each others best to be printed on mosaic tiles, then combine them into one continually growing mosaic. The collaborative was presented by Danielle Shaw 11 with with mentor, digital artist, Art Professor Joe Von Stengel and class members on hand. Noteworthy: An event of this magnitude, and magnicence, takes careful planning and great insight. The College community thanks Scholar Showcase Cochairs David Grifng (Geology) and Stephanie Rozene (Art) for their leadership and the entire Scholar Showcase Committee for their many contributions.
mentors Professors Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad and David Grifng, and Petrology of Andrews Point, Massachusetts with mentor Professor Eric Johnson.
> Freedman Prize winner Kelly Fayton 13 presented Designing Projections for Theatre: Lee Blessings Two Rooms and The Lebanese Hostage Crisis. She worked with Theatre Technical Director Gary Burlew and is shown sharing her process with Trustee Rory Read 83. > Mentor and Art History Professor
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Dr. Justin Wellman, advisor to: Pema Sherpa 12 and Colleen Lyons 11 Self-esteem feedback protects mood from proximate sources of social ostracism Dr. KinHo Chan, faculty advisor to: Heather Daly 11 The effects of hippocampal lesions and partial-reinforcement on subsequent secondorder conditioning Megan Shipman 11 Effects of hippocampal lesions depend on length of inter-trial and trace intervals
New York African Studies Association Conference, Oneonta, NY
Dr. Carlena Ficano, advisor to: Jordan Liz 12 The Effect of Technology on Development Also presented at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, NY Jamal Coverdale 11 Effect of State on Bar Examination Outcome
International Academic Conference sponsored by The Clute Institute, New Orleans, LA
Dr. Gregory Smith, advisor to: Katie Yorks 12 and Michelle Conklin 11 Teaching and Working with Students with Disabilities in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Study
NYS Foundations of Education Association Meeting, Rochester, NY
Dr. Peter Wallace, advisor to: Suzy Rigdon 11 Historians vs. History: Gendering Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Lydia Dennett 11 A Womans Inuence: Ann Boleyns Role in the English Reformation Greg Kopstein 11 The Incomplete Conquest: A Reassessment of Roman Britain Sarah Bliss 14 Voices of Italian Humanists Robin Booty 11 Conceding Weakness to Lift the Burden of Original Sin: A Womans Attempt to Free Women from Eves Downfall John Burns 14 Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Model
Dr. Connie Anderson, advisor to: Kristen Lawrence 11 The Relationship between Traditional and Modern Medicine in Uganda
Dr. Elizabeth Bloom, advisor to: Anne Louise Wagner 13, Eryn Niblick 13, and Kate Villios 14 Hartwick Students Work and Learning with Emerging Communities
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Phi Alpha Theta is a national history honors society that is nearly a century old. Professor Emeritus Leonard Pudelka established Hartwicks Nu Theta chapter in 1968. The society sponsors regional conferences, where undergraduate and graduate students present their research to panels of faculty judges. Any student may present at the regional history conference, but only members of Phi Alpha Theta are eligible for prizes. Of our six students presenting this year, the three who were eligible won prizes and I received high praise for the others work. I couldnt have been prouder of our students, who in two cases outperformed graduate students from CUNY.
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Dr. Parker Troischt, advisor to: Catherine Weigel 12 and Michelle Brault 11 Group Membership and HI Sources in the WBL 368 Galaxy Group Also presented by Catherine Weigel at the Undergraduate ALFALFA Workshop, Arecibo, PR.
American Astronomical Society National Meeting, Boston, MA
Dr. Parker Troischt, advisor to: Isaac Hughes 12 HI Deciency in Galaxy Group WBL 368 Catherine Weigel 12 and Michelle Brault 11 Dynamic Mass Estimates of Galacy Group WBL 368 Galaxy Group
Dr. John Dudek, advisor to: Casey Konz 13 Quantication of Flavonoids in Local Beers by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, Dr. John Dudek, advisors to: Kathleen Watson 11 Effect of Vegetation on Soil-Water Chemistry at Pine Lake, NY Dr. Mark Erickson, advisor to: Cheryl Sturm 11 2-Furfuryl Alcohol as a Diene for Green Diels-Alder Reactions Dr. Susan Young, advisor to: Robyn Smith 12 Ferrouids: Expanding and Improving an Inorganic Laboratory Experiment
Dr. Penny Boyer, advisor to: Anna Arnold 11 Improving the Health of Impoverished Children
2011 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Dr. Andy Piefer, advisor to: Carson Pryde 11 Interaction of Epulopiscium Methyl Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins with E. Coli CheW and CheA Brittanie Kemp 11 The Origin of Cardiomyocyte Stem Cells in Heart Regeneration of Notophthalmus viridescens Sarah Holmes 11 Characterization of two iron-alcohol dehydrogenases from Epulopiscium sp. Type B Kelly Meiser 11 Interaction Between Putative Epulopiscium sp. Type B Chemotaxis Proteins
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By Peter Wallace, Professor of History
Peter Wallace has been on the Hartwick faculty since 1984. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Oregon and in 2009-10 was named a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
Prof. Malissa Kano-White, advisor to: Lita Benson 12 and Mark de Roziere 13 Angel Street by Patrick Hamilton (acting performance) Ashley Rombough 10 (academic intern) Two Rooms (production poster)
SUNY-Brockport Philosophy Conference, NY
> a short story by Suzy Rigdon 11, published in The Albion Review Spring 2011 Brent DeLanoy, faculty advisor, English
The people who sit in a holding cell at 5:30 on a Sunday morning are a strange bunch. Theres the old homeless lady lying under the bench wearing a Dora the Explorer tee shirt and sneakers that are duct-taped together. The transient hooker stands in the corner, red shnets slightly torn near her almost crotch-less pants. The drunken housewife sits on the middle of the bench, blond-highlighted head rmly planted in her freshly-manicured nails. She shakes it slowly and groans. Then theres the mismatched girl bouncing in the corner, neon green ngernail forever twirling one of her blond pig-tails. If she had a piece of gum shed be popping it. Her rainbow knee-high socks meet with the same colored shnets as the hooker, and her shorts are almost as short. Her tank exposes her pierced navel, which is home to a ashing disco ball ring. Each inch of her arms are covered with those cheap beads you can buy for twenty dollars a bucket or by bulk through the mail. Her eyes are centered in a long blue rectangle painted across the bridge of her nose, almost reaching her ears. Theres a thin layer of glitter over her whole body.
Dr. Jeremy Wisnewski, advisor to: Jordan Liz 12 Right, Wrong or Neither? The Aristotelian Response to Glaucons Challenge
16th Annual SUNY-Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, NY
Dr. Stefanie Rocknak, faculty advisor to: Jordan Liz 12 Humes Double Relation of Ideas and Impressions Also presented at the Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY Alan Barton 12 Hermeneutic Dialogue: Hadot, Gadamer, and the Figure of Socrates
This years Duffy and Emerson Scholarship recipients call their experiences life-changing,amazing, powerful, an immersion, inspiring, engaging, and so much more.
For Kim Negrich 11, walking across the Baltic Sea was just one of many previously unimaginable experiences she had during her Emerson Scholarship studies.
Negrich to the NanoGeoScience Center at > KimUniversity11 Copenhagen. She conducted research the of with Hartwick Geology and Chemistry professor, Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, who is in Denmark on a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Negrich studied the interactions of microbes and various minerals in rhizospheric biolms. She worked independently, was treated as a professional, and shared an ofce with a Ph.D. candidate and a post-doc. Donovan 11 to Ireland as an for the > ChelseaGael Festival, where she learnedintern non-prot Oideas about and event management. A Music Education major and accomplished violinist and ddler, Donovans experience built on her J Term course in Ireland with Professor of Sociology Reid Golden. Clinic > Elizabeth Barr 11 to Thailand and the Akha Medical the to study the nutritional and developmental health needs of children in Thapo and Paji. The experience developed into her Scholar Showcase presentation, The Effects of Iron Deciency and Growth Stunting on Cognitive and Motor Development.
> Jayson Sherman 11 to the Machu PicchuatSpanish School in Cuzco, Peru. He worked with the children the Adolfo Guevara
Velazco hospital as a teacher, tutor, and mentor. Sherman says, I will never forget my friends and the lessons of life learned by experiencing a world full of new cultures. Erika Gates 12 to > the Cultural Canvas Chaing Mai to work with children in plans Thailand program. She designed lesson and traveled to different orphanages, schools, and homes. I worked with Boomrat, a 7 year old orphan with cerebral palsy, she says. Throughout the month with him I realized that this is exactly what I want to be doing with my life.
I never thought that I could understand something that I dont agree with.
Dart of > John Bruce 11, a rising forensic anthropologist, to the Raymond A.studiedCollectionof Human Skeletons, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He indicators interpersonal violence among the specimens. When presenting during Scholar Showcase, Bruce said,Some of what I saw was shocking, some was sad. I worked on a skull, then put it back in a box. It was a human once, and I wanted to give it more time, but I had a job to do. Joe Marchwinski 11 to London, The National and the Imperial War > Museum to work with primary research materials inArchives,of Britains role in the fall of his study France in World War II. One highlight: touching papers that great men of history had handled, including a Latin manuscript from 12th century that had been handled by Henry II of Englandone of the greatest kings of all time, he says, and, holding a document signed by Winston Churchillthat was a powerful moment. Marchwinski is a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar. 12 to Colombia to study the of his ancestor, Jorge > David OsokowAyala, whose assassination was alife and deathin sparking the 1940s La Eliecer Gaitan leading cause Violencia in Colombia. In January 2012, Osokow plans to return to Colombia, continue to Ecuador and Peru, and perhaps travel down the Amazon. Krista people of Lupando, Zambia, where > studiedCharner 11 to live with thethat culture.Mumanacame to describe it to me andshethe the suppression of women in A man in context of their culture it made sense, Charner says. I never thought that I could understand something that I dont agree with. Charner was hosted by Nicole Barren 08, a former Emerson Scholar who is working in the Peace Corps there.
Krista Charner 11
Breakthrough
A Lifes Work,
Prologue Your son has autism. Her words hung in the air just long enough for me to comprehend. Then they fell. It was four years ago that the educational psychologist presented my wife and me with her diagnosis: our son has autism. Suddenly, it was silent and everything moved in slow motion. Then, on impact, my gut dropped and reality set in. Yet at that moment, I also truly understood the word surreal.
Greg Smith earned his Ph.D. from Clemson University and joined the Hartwick faculty in 2010. His research interests include learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, and autism.
Close to Home
Context
Two physicians working independently, Leo Kanner (1943) and Hans Asperger (1944), published the seminal work in the eld of autism. Both described a unique group of children who displayed unusual behaviors that made them qualitatively different from other children. Kanner and Asperger began to identify similar and very specic characteristics (a delay in the acquisition of speech and language, social awkwardness, a difculty in understanding nonverbal social cues, a restricted range of interests, and an obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness), as occurring in a certain group of individuals. Each used the term autistic to describe such individuals. Autism (from the Greek word autos, meaning self), is a complex neurobiological disorder that is part of a group of ve disorders together known as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Hallahan, Kauffman, and Pullen (2009) cite the differentiating characteristics among the ve ASD categories: (1) Autism-decits in social interaction, communication, cognition, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior; some have abnormal sensory perceptions. Usually manifests before three years of age. (2) Asperger syndrome-decits similar to those who have autism, but to a milder degree, and without signicant impairments in cognition and language. Social interaction (often due to difculties in communication and reading social cues) is often the biggest challenge of those with Asperger syndrome. (3) Rett syndrome-normal development for ve months to four years, followed by a severe regression of cognitive abilities, resulting in mental retardation; much more prevalent in females. (4) Childhood disintegrative disorder-normal development for at least two and up to 10 years, followed by signicant loss of cognitive skills; much more prevalent in males. (5) Pervasive developmental disorder/not otherwise specied-persons who display behaviors typical of autism but to a lesser degree and/or with an onset later than three years of age.
I have been working with individuals with disabilities since I was 12 and volunteered at a camp for individuals with cerebral palsy. Throughout college, I worked at an Easter Seals camp. After college, I taught special education for 10 years in the public school system of New Jersey. I have earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in special education.
But the game changes signicantly when one of the players is your own child.
Prevalence
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011), Autism Spectrum Disorders affect approximately one out of every 110 children in the U.S. In 1980, one in 10,000 children living in the U.S. was diagnosed with ASD. Alarmingly, more than 35,000 of the children born in the U.S. in 2010 alone will eventually be diagnosed with ASD. Why such a dramatic rise over the course of just 30 years? The consensus among professionals in medicine, psychology, and education attribute the increase to three main occurrences: (1) broader diagnostic criteria, (2) greater awareness among parents and professionals, and (3) improved case-nding methods. Regardless of the reason for the increase in prevalence, and given the chronic and pervasive nature of ASD, there is an imperative need for effective treatments.
Professor Greg Smith and his son, Drew, see the world together, including Dublin and Kilkenny, Ireland, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Epilogue
As I sat down to write this piece on autism, I was ooded with emotions. Should I make it personal, or just informative? Should I address personal questions, such as those my wife and I are just now beginning to contemplate: When do I tell my son that he has autism? When do we tell our daughter that her brother has autism? Whats the best way to go about doing this? I have had the unique and wonderful opportunity to view the world of special education through the lens of a teacher, a scholar, and a parent. As a scholar, I have been trained to focus on statistical signicance, but as a parent, I am more concerned with personal signicance. I just want to know what will work with my son. We live in Oneonta, not in an Ivory Tower.
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Generosity
PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPY:
It takes more than a yardstick, a calendar, or a stock return to measure a life. Consider Stephanie Isgur Long 84 and David Long 83. The common gauges of professional achievement and personal resources prove their success. Yet there is so much more to this power couple than numbers can express. The qualities that defy appraisalgenerosity, insight, and attention, to name a feware the very features that dene who they are.
Every fall, no matter where I am, I think of Hartwick and the beauty of the campus, says Stephanie Long, who will enjoy the real thing when she and David return for Homecoming & Reunion Weekend 2011.
spectrum disorders to develop social skills. Their intention, Stephanie says, is to grow such programming through the life cycle, so that high-functioning people with autism can go to college, can have a life.
Extended Reach
Prepared to meet the challenges of autism head-on, and eager to help others well beyond their own family, the Longs turned to their alma mater and President Margaret L. Drugovich. Margaret suggested that we could bring our priorities together and do something important at Hartwick, David explains. We want to serve high-functioning kids and help to prepare special education teachers. We want to support that interest of ours and Hartwick at same time. This determination sparked the couples most recent, and to date largest, gift to Hartwick. We made this commitment because Margarets idea excited us, Stephanie says.
We know what we do here will matter. The Longs are dogged problem solvers who expect strong collaborators. David likes President Drugovichs clear vision, denite plans, and follow through. Stephanie appreciates that shes open and a good communicator. Together, the three make a powerful team working for Hartwick and, now, for its special education program and for college-ready students of all sorts. Hartwick gave me opportunities that I ordinarily wouldnt have had, David recalls, noting that he attended on a scholarship and citing his work with the Colleges terric Math professors. At Hartwick, the focus is on having condence in your abilities, not comparing yourself to others. I enjoyed a complete education, a combination of academics, competition, and condence building.
network of friends and family. Hartwick was a really positive experience for us when we were kids, Stephanie recalls. Their extended family includes his brother Stephen Long 79, a member of the 1977 Mens Soccer Championship Team that will be inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame; Davids godson, William Heydari 14; and so many friends, including retired mens soccer Head Coach Jim Lennox. Stephanie and Davids Hartwick life spans the years and crosses the generations. Their fondness for and gratitude to their college inspires their philanthropy. As they invest, they look forward. We have seen a lot of positive change at Hartwick in recent years, says David, who just completed his third term on the Board of Trustees. The leadership at the College gives us a lot of comfort that we can make a difference. I am unequivocally positive about Hartwick College in the future.
Personal Satisfaction
Their Hartwick experience brought the Longs countless gifts, including an extended
Field Notes
Pine Lake
By Christopher Lott | Chris Lott is the Colleges Associate Writer
Above: Archeology students use a water sifter to search for artifacts at Pine Lake. Left: Philip Gross 12 discusses his work on the archaeological dig at Hartwicks Pine Lake Campus with President Margaret L. Drugovich.
Pine Lake Environmental Campus has been a cornerstone of a Hartwick education for 40 years. From scientic eld work to courses such as The Architecture of the Sacred, students have ocked to the unique site a few miles from Oyaron Hill to complete classes and theses that will help to dene their time as Hartwick students.
For many, Harwticks Pine Lake Environmental Campus is a place to catch their breath, to realize a deep connection with the natural world, to dissolve lifes daily stresses. For many others, it is a place where critical scholarly work takes place every day. One of the beauties of Pine Lake is that it offers a unique interdisciplinary experiential framework for a Hartwick education, explains Brian Hagenbuch, Director of the Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies. The essence of Pine Lake for scholarship is the place, and its uniqueness. That distinctive place now includes 22 buildings, with residential living options for 35 Hartwick students, plus classrooms, the Robert R. Smith Environmental Field Station, the Vaudevillian theatre, picnic pavilion, and a ropes course on the 125-acre lower tract. Hartwicks Pine Lake Environmental Campus abuts a 217-acre New York State Forest Preserve and the 2,000-acre Robert V. Riddell State Park (820 acres was the Upper Tract of Pine Lake, which Hartwick sold to the state in 2009; the sale included 20 acres donated to Hartwick by alumni grandparents Pauline 40 and Herbert Hebbard). In total, Hartwick
students and faculty access more than 2,000 acres of protected wilderness to study. And study they do. Pine Lake is home to many courses in biology, chemistry, geology and environmental studies. But the site is much more than a thriving, living laboratory for the sciences. Faculty in English, history, art, religious studies, archaeology, and nursing regularly utilize Pine Lakes natural setting as an indispensable element of their courses. Lecturer in English Alice Lichtenstein, a published novelist, has taught ction and memoir-writing classes at Pine Lake for years. Her students are captivated and inspired by the opportunity to work in such surroundings. Pine Lakes meditative atmosphere is perfect for a writing course, she explains. We sometimes take silent hikes to the bog, and we use that silence for honing our powers of observation. We take the time to do some basic yoga and breathing meditationthings you wouldnt ordinarily do in an academic environment. Often my students describe the intensive course as a retreat, Lichtenstein continues. For some of them this is the rst time in their
Its unusual for a school of our size to have a facility like this. For my students to do actual eld research, Pine Lake is invaluable.
Associate Professor of Biology Mark Kuhlmann
In Retrospect: Forty years of work, play, and peace at Hartwicks Pine Lake Campus.
lives theyve been allowed to quiet their minds and focus on an exploration of themselves, and their writing. Associate Professor of Biology Mark Kuhlmann and his students use the space in a very different way. They have been investigating an invasive species known as the rusty craysh for several years, examining its effects on native craysh species, as well as on the macroinvertebrates (typically insect larvae) on which it feeds. Its unusual for a school of our size to have a facility like this, Kuhlmann says. For my students to do actual eld research, Pine Lake is invaluable. They can get that kind of experience here because Pine Lake is not just a research center, it is a multi-purpose facility. For Tiernan Sykes Close 96, the lessons she took from Pine Lake had a direct impact on her life and career. Until recently, she taught religion at The Pennington School in New Jerseywork that was buttressed by her experiences at Pine Lake. Close worked with the Challenge Education staff at Pine Lake when she was a Hartwick student. Leading her peers on ropes course excursions helped remove her timid shell, she says, and made the transition to her career and motherhood much smoother. As a member of the 2009-10 Presidents Pine Lake Taskforcechartered to examine the current and future uses of Pine LakeClose focused her attention on ways to strengthen scholarship at Pine Lake, and to ensure it is an integral part of every Hartwick students experience. Scholarship at Pine Lake is so important, says this Religious Studies graduate. Its all about
helping the students understand how important it is to work out there in a hands-on kind of way. My goal [as a taskforce member] was to make sure every student gets to experience Pine Lake at least once in his or her lifetime. Just as Close feels experiential learning at Pine Lake is critical for todays Hartwick students, a cadre of forward-thinking faculty members proposed a course titled Man and the Environment in 1969. This small project developed into what has become a distinctive feature of the Hartwick College experience. We were talking about the upcoming December term, and agreed we wanted to take the students out on some sort of wilderness experience, recalls Professor Emeritus of Geology David Hutch Hutchison. Somebody had a map of the greater Oneonta area, and said, Theres this area about eight miles east of Oneonta with no roads. Somebody else said, Thats part of the private summer resort called Pine Lake, and a third person said, I heard its for sale. So three or so of us grabbed President Adolph Anderson and Kurt Neunzig whose father had bought Pine Lake in 1926 took us around in his Jeep. We went all over the 800-plus acres, and when we got out of the Jeep President Anderson said, We should buy this. With the assent of the Board of Trustees, Anderson struck a favorable deal to purchase the property. Neunzig was anxious for Pine Lake to be preserved, and was happy to transfer the distinctive site to the College, Hutchison recalls. Some 40 years later, Pine Lake is used for relaxation, recreation, meditation, and scholarship in ways that make Hartwick unique among small liberal arts colleges.
Provost Michael Tannenbaum and I have researched other schools and we cant nd anything similar at another liberal arts college, says Hagenbuch. Some other schools have a separate eld station that is owned by the sciences. Pine Lake is owned by every Hartwick discipline; all of our faculty and students have the capacity to use it. Andrew Parisi 11, for instance, studied Water Quality of the Upper Susquehanna River and the Pine Lake Area with mentors Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Sciences David Grifng and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad. Pine Lake is isolated, meaning it does not have to deal with as many people or so much pollution, so it makes the lake good to compare to the river, Parisi explains. Every two weeks during the summer I went along the Susquehanna River between Cooperstown and Unadilla and sampled water with clean bottles, and then came back to Pine Lake to get the last few samples. We ltered the water and tested it for pollution, such as heavy metals and fertilizer. In the end, we found that the river is really clean, almost all of the pollution can be traced to the bedrock that Otsego Lake rests on. For Katie Watson 11, Pine Lake campus was central to her Senior Thesis and, ultimately, to acceptance at her top-choice graduate school. Under the guidance of mentors BaloghBrunstad and Assistant Professor of Chemistry John Dudek, she studied the Effect of Vegetation on Soil-water Chemistry at Pine Lake, taking samples from both conifers and deciduous trees at nearby locations to determine ion concentrations and test for nutrients like calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium, nitrate, sulfate, and chloride.
The essence of Pine Lake for scholarship is the place, and its uniqueness.
Brian Hagenbuch, Director of the Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
We found that there were lower concentrations of every ion that we looked at under the deciduous trees, she explains. That suggests that deciduous trees have higher nutrient demands, because of their life cycle of losing leaves every year. This impacts things like forest management. If you were cutting a road through a forest, the kinds of trees you cut would impact your decision. We found that the soil water under the deciduous trees was more acidic, so if you were replanting a forest you would want to take that into account. Since acid rain is making the soil more acidic, you might not want trees that are also making the soil even more so.
I dont know what my thesis would have been if not for Pine Lake, Watson says. Its been a really big project for me, and such an important part of my learning and my academic career at Hartwick. People at grad schools have been so impressed with my research. Although Watsons research is exceptional, it is not the exception. What we offer at Pine Lake is a chance for our students to work locally and then take that knowledge, that learning, and that experience with them wherever they go, Hagenbuch says. Theyre going to answer big questions. Where am I going to live? What am I going to do?
The history of respect for Pine Lakes natural elements means that solitude is not just allowed, but honored. Pine Lake is a place where natural beauty has always been respected, Lichtenstein reects. Theres a history going back before its Vaudeville days of people retreating to this place, where they left stress behind and felt very safe. Pine Lake has an atmosphere of both peacefulness and a sacred quality, but it is also infused with a spirit of fun. That sense of peaceful fun is apparent to even the youngest Pine Lake enthusiasts. Last summer we brought our three kids to Pine Lake for the rst time, recalls Close. Our seven-year old son, Maxwell, said, This is the greatest place Ive ever been! I could hear him pretending he was going on a bear hunt all the way around the lake. Beyond its capacity to house students and provide a cool swimming hole on hot summer days, Pine Lake offers an opportunity for Hartwick students to dig deeper into their work, and themselves. You can live here and play here, says Hagenbuch, but you can also probe the bigger questions, whether its water chemistrys impact on different species of trees or existential questions, like those posed by Thoreau. Pine Lake plays host to all those disciplines; it plays host very well.
I dont know what my thesis would have been if not for Pine Lake. Its been a really big project for me, and such an important part of my learning and my academic career at Hartwick. People at grad schools have been so impressed with my research.
Katie Watson 11
Watson and Parisi were part of the Environmental Science & Policy Pine Lake Scholar program (ES&P), a grant-funded effort coordinated by the Pine Lake Institute that provides opportunities for ES&P students to support their research. Through the programs funding, Watson and Parisi were able to live at Pine Lake during the summer of 2010 and conduct their intensive research close to home. Watson took those ndings to the Geological Society of America meeting in Anaheim, CA, this spring, presenting her work to nearly 20,000 scientists. This fall she will enroll at the University of South Florida to study chemical oceanography. There she will sample the sand on the oor of the Gulf Coast to study the impact of the disastrous oil spill of 2010.
How am I going to relate to the human and natural world? This is what we do at Pine Lake. Fred Stoss 72, Biology and Environmental Sciences Librarian at the University of Buffalo, has long been a champion of the transformative effect of Pine Lake. The Pine Lake Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Studies has evolved from a cluster of buildings in a eld to an educational incubator for a cross-disciplinary dialog about life and living, he says. Pine Lake is a facility for teaching, entertaining, and housing. Pine Lake is a classroom, laboratory, and eld station for learning. Pine Lake provides a setting for explorations from the riches of its natural resources, to the contemplative richness found in its solitude.
Athletics
Charlotte Mensink 12
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Mens Lacrosse: The Hawks won three of their nal four regular-season games to nish 8-8 and earn entry into the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Tournament. In its rst visit since 2005, the team fell in the tournaments championship game after downing Morrisville State and Marywood University. Dave Aitchison 11 and Alex Skvarch 11 were named to the Empire 8 Conference Second Team.
Mens Tennis:
The men faced a spring of cancellations and postponements thanks to uncooperative weather, closing the season with a 2-8 record. The Hawks secured wins over Cobleskill and Utica College. Marcelo Navarro 12 and Jeff Boyd 12 were recognized by the Empire 8 Conference for the third straight season. Together, theyve tallied 49 singles wins.
capped the season with two wins to nish 7-8 overall. They started the season with a 5-1 record for just the fourth time since the programs inception in 1967. Brittany LaVaute 12, Brittany McCabe 14, and Morgan Galipeau 14 received honorable mentions from Empire 8.
Alumni News
Calvin W. Chase 71
Cal Chases years of dedication to the Mens DI Soccer program, the College and the Oneonta community were recognized this year when he was honored as the 2011 Citizen of the Year at the Hartwick College Citizens Board Gala in June. Years with the Team: Chase arrived at Hartwick in 1967, the same year coach Al Miller took the Mens Soccer program national. That year, his rookie season as Chief Cheerleader, the team went undefeated. They went on to only greater success during his time on Oyaron Hill. His sophomore and junior years they earned berths in the NCAA tournament and his senior year (1970/71), the team made their rst appearance in the NCAA Final Four. In his 44 years with the team, Chase has been an integral part of one of the most storied soccer programs in the country. Matches Attended: Until being diagnosed with cancer last year, Chase had not missed a Mens Soccer home game in 35 years. Between 2002 and 2009, Chase attended 137 out of 138 matches played. His record would have been perfect had he opted to attend a game rather than take his daughter to her college move-in day!
Cal Chase (center) with his wife, Kathy, and family members at the 2011 Citizens Board Gala this year.
Being a Mentor: Chases commitment to Mens DI Soccer runs deep. He is more than a fan: he is part of what makes Hartwick Soccer unique. His years of dedication to the team have given him the unique ability to mentor players about what it truly means to play for Hartwick and the caliber of men that have come before them. In fact, the day before he went in for cancer surgery, he made a special trip to campus to join the players for training camp. He wanted to be sure that each of them understood that he wouldnt be around as much as usual, but that it wasnt because he had lost faith in them or interest in the program.
2011
HOMECOMING & REUNION
SATURDAY
8-9:30 a.m. 50 Year Club Breakfast Shineman Chapel House
September 30October 2
Class years ending in 1 and 6 will celebrate ve-year reunions this year.
12-5:30 p.m. 20th Annual WAA Hartwick Golf Classic Leatherstocking Golf Course, Cooperstown
12:30-1:30 p.m. Conversation with President Margaret L. Drugovich Room 103, Golisano Hall 2 p.m. Football vs. Ithaca Wright Stadium 5:30-9:30 p.m. Athletics Hall of Fame Inductions 5:30-10 p.m. | NEW Taste of Oneonta Frisbee Field ~ PLUS Alumni College Classes and Donor Appreciation Receptions ~
4:30-7:30 p.m. 50 Year Reunion and 50 Year Club Induction Celebration. Class of 1961 and earlier. Stack Lounge, Dewar Hall 5-8 p.m. | NEW Reunion Class Banquet Five year reunion classes ending in 1 & 6 Grand Ballroom, Holiday Inn 5-10 p.m. Homecoming & Reunion Weekend Welcome Reception Hospitality Tent, Elmore Field 7 p.m. Mens Soccer vs. Florida Atlantic Elmore Field
9:30-11 a.m. | NEW Recognition & Awards Champagne Breakfast Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts Forrest Frosty M. Landon 55, Distinguished Alumnus Award Catherine A. Paolucci 02, Outstanding Young Alumna Award Anthony B. Santo 74, Outstanding Volunteer Award Karyl Clemens, Meritorious Service Award John Adler 51, Don & Diane Brown Award 10:30-11:15 a.m. | NEW Career Networking Meet and Greet Reception Wandersee Room, 3rd Floor Golisano Hall 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Brooks BBQ Lunch Frisbee Field
SUNDAY
9-10 a.m. Memorial Gathering Shineman Chapel House Throughout H&R Weekend: Stories from the Hart in The Yager Museum of Art & Culture.
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Alumni EVENTS
Events and activities sponsored by the Ofce of Alumni Relations, the Alumni Association, and your regional alumni network help you stay connected to Hartwick. To get involved with regional networks, contact Duncan Macdonald 78 at macdonaldd@hartwick.edu or 607-431-4032. To RSVP to the following events, visit The Wall at www.hartwickalumni.org, e-mail guarriac@hartwick.edu, or call 607-431-4064.
Hartwick College is seeking nominations for the Presidents Award for Liberal Arts in Practice (see page 3). The award recognizes outstanding alumni who extend the values that are inherent in a Hartwick education into their life work, to the benet of others.
To learn about requirements and make a nomination, visit hartwickalumni.org/LiberalArtsinPractice
Or to nominate an alum for this award in 2011, contact Director of Alumni Engagement Duncan Macdonald 78 at 607-431-4032 or macdonaldd@hartwick.edu.
Class Notes
Bill 49 and Dolores 46 Deitz celebrated their 65th anniversary alongside two other generations of Hartwick graduatestheir children and grandson.
On Campus Event: Nick Lambros 59 showed his good friend Steve Green 59 around town before the two joined students and faculty on campus in May (see p.15).
Informal Connection: President Margaret L. Drugovich and her partner, Beth Steele, joined Carol and Dick Clapp 62 for breakfast at their home in Naples, FL. As then vice chair of the Board of Trustees, Dick chaired the Presidential Search Committee that recommended Drugovich to lead Hartwick.
be on my own soon. Daughter, Jeanne, here for several weeks. No plans to travel at this time. I went sky diving in Decemberwhat a thrill. I recommend it for all ages.
1950
George Grice, geog@3rivers.net Charlotte Wessell Craft writes: My husband, Edward, passed away in 2010. Its been a great adjustment moving from San Diego to Yucca Valley. I enjoy reading The Wick and keeping up on the activities at the College. Meg Peger Scheller writes: In August, I was part of a tour of Bavaria, which included Munich, Innsbruck, Nuremberg, and especially the Oberammergau region, where I was privileged to see the Passion Play, a once-in-a-decade event dating from 1634.
1958
Charles and Carole (Niddrie 59) Kalinowski have been seasonal workers at Walt Disney World in Florida for the past four years. They work in sports for ESPN Wide World of Sports and at Epcot. They have 19 grandchildren.
1959
Dalene Davis Cross, poppabob@verizon.net
Members of The Abraham L. Kellogg Society, Hartwicks legacy society, and leadership donors celebrated their commitment to the future of the College at a gathering at Thornwood in June. For more information about including Hartwick in your will, please contact Director of Planned Giving Patricia Dopazo at 607-431-4020 or dopazop@hartwick.edu.
Luella Abbott Oakes looks forward to seeing everyone at the 50th reunion.
1962
Sharon Dorff Conway, asadsac@aol.com Dinah McClure, Dinamo32@aol.com
1964
Jim Beman recently nished hunting the Big 5 in Africa: lion, leopard, cape buffalo, elephant, rhinogreen hunt. It all started with hanging a deer in a tree outside of Leitzell Hall in 1960. Edward Evans continues to work uncovering a POW/CCC camp at Hamlin Beach State Park. Just got my hands on 140 letters written to a CCC enlistee while he was in camp and his two diaries, along with 66 photos he took! What a nd! Preparing a personality development of this 17-year-old young man resulting from his CCC experience. Joan Dunbar Sutton writes: Widowed, retired, three weddings, and four grandchildrena very busy 10 years.
continue to do short mission trips in the future. Mary Ella Bacon Fuquay and her husband, Harold, have moved to an active adult community in Fredericksburg, VA, to be closer to their son, daughter-in-law, and baby granddaughter. Life here is wonderful! Dick Riccio writes: Mandy and I were recently in Ohio to celebrate a festschrift for my brother Dave, who was honored as a professor at Kent State University, where he has been teaching for 46 years. While there, we visited the professional football hall of fame in Canton, OH, and stayed overnight at Niagara Falls, which was awesome and hypnotizing.
1967
Bruce Cameron, bpsychia@stny.rr.com Bruce Cameron bought a 28-foot Pearson sailboat this spring as a preretirement gift to himself. He is mooring it in Olde Lyme, CT, and will be sailing this summer with classmates Ginny Sunden Lagana and Judi Lau Molloy, as well as Hartwick friends Bruce Dodson, Neal Allen 68, Ron Klattenberg, and Don Hanssen 69. Carolyn Reeck Meyer has retired from nursing after 43 years of active employment. Miss it, but also enjoy my free time. Kathy Buxton Vernay continues in part-time practice as a physician assistant at Jamesville Family Medicine. She continues to run the Tully Community Garden, plus owns and manages the Tully Curves. Her suggestion to all is that you get off your butts and eat your vegetables!
1965
Bill and Carol (Lederhouse) Gaillard live in Hoosick Falls, NY. Carol is director of Cheney Library. Bill still drives for Yankee Trails and does community band, rescue squad, and NYS Lions Youth Band. They report that life is good. Carolyn Cramblet Ossont is enjoying retirement in Virginia. She writes: Now have three grandkids, with twins due in June to make ve! Travel includes Cabo, San Francisco, Hilton Head, and upstate New York. Loved the Gold Cup Races last year in the Hartwick tent! I was married to Al Lane in November 2010.
1969
Mary Ann Gajzik Bolten writes: This year, we made our third cross-country trip, this time to visit our son Jason in Denver, CO. Jason is a professor of psychology. We also had the opportunity to re-visit Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, and Sedona, AZ, our favorite home away from home.
1970
James Groccia, director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Auburn University, has been awarded
Presidential Event: April and Wayne Adler 85 welcomed current parents as well as alumni, President Margaret L. Drugovich, and Beth Steele to their home in Parkland FL.
Presidential Event: Bill Hawthorne 65 took President Margaret L. Drugovich and Beth Steele on a stroll along the water before joining his wife, Carol, to host alumni at their home in Naples, FL.
a Fulbright Scholar grant to study in Estonia, where he will serve as a visiting scholar at the University of Tartu, beginning this fall. He will consult with faculty and administration on programs to enhance university teaching and learning, conduct workshops and seminars on teaching and learning at the University of Tartu and other universities throughout Estonia, and participate in European Union-funded research on the evaluation of teaching. To read more, go to wireeagle.auburn.edu/ news/3525. Lorraine Duprey Kelley writes: Jim continues to enjoy retirement. I sell real estate for Guide Boat Realty in Saranac Lakelove it. My daughter Amy received her masters in accounting from Belmont University in Nashville, TN. Daughter Erin is the director of the color and trim studio at GM in Warren, MI. She and her family live in Bloomeld Hills.
Roxanne Smyth Stern and her partner, Stanley Graham, have published their book, A Lifetime Worth Remembering: New York City 1920 to 1960. It is available on Amazon.
1977
Kathy Fitzgerald writes: Ive started my own companyHowling Pufn Designs, howlingpufn.com. Check it out!
1972
Scott Griswold, urfree@bellsouth.net
1973
Ronald Stair, ronalds@att.net Stephen Kummernuss writes: Son Matthew married in July 2010. A 2002 NYU grad, daughter Erika was married in June. A 2006 grad of Penn State University. Completing masters degree in statistics at George Mason. Eleni Karas Norton celebrated her 30th year of employment with Exxon Mobil. My roommate from Hartwick, Gritli Fecht Sette, attended my celebration, as did my son George and his new bride, Elizabeth, who were married October 24, 2010.
1978
Jeff Tipping writes: I left the National Soccer Coaches Association after 13 years to begin Tipping Travels, which is a soccer, golf, and heritage tour company for Americans wishing to go to the U.K. Also caring for elderly parents in England.
1979
Karl Gustafson recently was named director of the New York State Main Street Program.
1980
Matt Bardach and his wife celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary by remarrying in their local church. My son is in high school, and plays basketball, and is on the varsity golf team. Wants to go to Hartwick.
1974
Mike Brown, mike.g.brown@comcast.net
Presidential Event: Cyrus Mehri 83, founding partner of the law rm Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, hosted the President, alumni, and parents for a social gathering at his ofces in Washington, DC. The Colleges 2009 Commencement speaker, he established Hartwicks Cyrus Mehri Global Pluralism Fellowship & Mentorship Award.
Presidential Event: Professor Emeritus of Political Science John Lindell hosted a lively gathering at the Meadows Country Club in Sarasota, FL.
Still good friends with Dan Frumkin and Dave Salkin. Went to 30th reunion and was so disappointed only 10 of us showed! Eileen Dragone Scheffer still works at Schalmont Central Schools as their music coordinator and vocal music teacher in Schenectady, NY, and is happily married to her husband of 26 years, Bill. We have three beautiful children ... Life continues to be just great! Kathy Brisbane Wesley is in her 30th year teaching music in Prince Georges County Schools in Maryland. She also works with new music teachers in the D.C. area and Baltimore. Kathy has written a training curriculum for alternative certication in music. She, her husband, and their three children live in southern Maryland.
New England as a region execution manager for RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. Stephen Sexeny writes: Life is good! My wife, Beth, is a fung shui consultant. Daughter Bri is a Tulane grad, 2010, and a stunt woman (watch for her in The Currier), and son Nick, 12, graduated from sixth grade. His hockey and baseball are taking us all over the place! Cant believe its been 27 years since graduating from the Wick.
1985
Rhonda Foote, rhondasfooteworks@yahoo.com Cooper Woodard writes: I received my Ph.D. in 2002 and have been clinical director for The Groden Center for the past nine years. We serve 90 children with autism and other developmental disabilities in Providence, RI. I also am a visiting professor at Wheaton College and the University of Rhode Island, and have had a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals. My most recent publication is in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and is titled Object Identication and Imagination: An Alternative to the Meta-Representational Explanation of Autism. I also had a book come out from the American Psychological Association press, based on earlier research on the concept of courage: The Psychology of Courage; Modern Research on an Ancient Virtue. I live in Providence with John, my partner of 15 years.
1982
Patty ONeill Tedesco writes: I continue to feel very grateful for the fantastic nursing education I received at Hartwick.
1983
Kevin Ghiloni has retired after 23 years as a probation/parole ofcer in Florida. Splitting my time as a snowbird: summer at my house in Main Point, NL, Canada, and winters on Merritt Island, FL. Brian Hopkins writes: All is well; two out of three now in college. One at Penn State, the other at Ithaca. Hope everyone is doing well! See you at Table Rock in 2013!
1984
Holly Hopkins Bruno recently moved to New Hampshire, where my new neighbor is my former Hartwick roommate! Laurel McGhee Bleckett 83 and Holly are back together again! I work throughout
Stephen Baldacci 83
Some people just have that entrepreneurial DNA
iBiquity Digital Corporation, Senior Vice President of Marketing Team O-Positive, a benevolent business to support charity When Stephen Baldacci 83 met with a group of Hartwicks soon-to-be-graduates on campus in May, he left them with words of advice and guidance that could only be shared after years of experience as an entrepreneur of diverse enterprises. Baldacci discussed with the class the balancing of classic business management with entrepreneurialism, as well as stories of his own numerous and varied business ventures. Students were impressed by his words of advice, including: Never miss an opportunity or an experience, whether it is personal, family or job related. You cant fake ethics; you cant ick them on and off with a switch. The only way to go is with the highest level of ethics and standards as you can. Work a lot of jobs early in your career to learn more. If you work like heck, youll learn, make more money, and then you can go do something else.
Patrick, 6. I still work at The College at Brockport (SUNY) and my wife works at the University of Rochester and Nazareth, giving us a corner on the local colleges. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 25th reunion.
1987
Robin Hackett writes: You know the world is small, but state government is big, when Jay Perrotte and I discovered we work in the same building!
1988
Kathy Fallon, kfallon@pcgus.com Mary Beth Dufn-Hickey and her husband, Michael Hickey 87, are still living in Readington, NJ, with their four children: Mackenzie, 17; Keegan, 16; Quinn, 13; and Myles, 9! Mackenzie graduated from Hunterdon Central this June and will attend Faireld University in Faireld, CT. Mary Beth is an academic intervention specialist at Bradley Gardens School in Bridgewater, NJ. Michael still runs his medical executive recruiting company, MackenzieMyles and Associates, in Flemington, NJ. Time is ying by ... a kid in college. Didnt we just graduate? We can be reached at thehickm@aol.com. Liz Howland Mallozzi and Jillian Payne recently had dinner in New York City. Lizs son is attending the University of Vermont (class of 2015). Eric Caballeo writes: I am enjoying the summer and have taken up residency in the Syracuse Technology Garden entrepreneurial incubator working on a startup project involving geo-location, social media, and local search. This collaboration also involves Rick Lutz. Shawn Dargie is a resident at Countryside Care Center in Delhi, NY. Eric writes that he tries to see him about once a month. Shawn welcomes everyone to make contact through Facebook or, even better, come out and see him. He would love the company. Kathy Fallon has been promoted to practice area director at Public Consulting Group. To an outsider, this means Kathy is running the
national business in the human services space. Public Consulting Group is a rm that specializes in consulting to the 50 states. The job comes with a lot of U.S. travel, but it is always interesting! Keith Clisby, Stan Beames, and Brian Neumann are still close and getting together with the families for their fth annual July 4 camping weekend. Robin Pressman and Michael Matthews are pleased to announce the birth of their son, Jacob Marshall Matthews, on April 2, 2010. Congratulations! Liz Richter Fleming and her husband, Mike, relocated to Myrtle Beach, SC, and are enjoying a slower-paced life. If anybody is vacationing in the area this summer, please let Liz know and a visit can be arranged! Lizs e-mail is lrichter3@yahoo.com.
1989
Dorothy Holt, holtcrew@maine.rr.com
1990
Leisyl Ryan Kleinberg, leisyl@kleinbergs.com
1992
Rory Shaffer, rorysw@gmail.com
1993
Jennifer Ranciato Celentano, a lawyer with a practice in North Haven, CT, is a recipient of Connecticut magazines 40 under 40 award. In its March 2011 edition, Connecticut magazine presented its rst class of recipientsa new generation of leaders full of energy, ideas and the determination to steer an unswerving course into the future. Jennifer also is co-chair of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association Womens Caucus Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project.
THANK YOU. GRACIAS MERCI . GRAZIE . DANKE. SPACIBO. OBRIGADO. ARIGATO. TAK. DIOLCH. WE APPRECIATE IT.
This spring, 1,115 donors received a personal thank you call from WickWires dedicated student phonathon callers. Another 1,721 were left voice messages thanking them for their gifts to Hartwick! It was just one more small way Hartwick could say thank you for the inspiring generosity of our alumni, parents, and friends.
Donors to the College made this years WickWire calling program the most successful in Hartwicks history, raising over $275,000 in support of Hartwick.
1994
Missy Foristall, foristallm@yahoo.com Ann Byrne and her husband, Wes, are the parents of a son, Lucas Wolfgang, born May 24. He joins siblings Lorelei and Henry. Kurt Knotts writes: In November 2010, we held the inaugural Jamies Run, The JK 5K, in Old Wetherseld, CT, to honor our daughter Jamie, who we lost to cancer last year. The 5K run, 3K walk, and Kids Fun Run were a resounding success and we raised $36,000 for Connecticut Childrens Medical Center. We are planning the second annual event for November 6. Find info at www.jamiesrun.org and follow us on Facebook. We also were blessed with a daughter, Dana Kelly, born March 2, 2011. With 4-year-old big brother Braeden, we are a happy family. Julie Haff Rejman lives in Castle Rock, CO, with her husband and three kids. She is a therapist in private practice. Missy Foristall Williams just switched jobs; she is now head of digital at Martha Stewart. She lives in Pelham, NY, with her husband and two daughters.
com). His adventures are often posted on Facebook for the world to see, including an attempt to turn the backyard into a small, personal vineyard with more than 20 cold hardy vines. Janice Vacchiano was married to Michael Abel on May 7, 2011. Celebrating with the happy couple was Wendy Wyatt Frankonis. Janice and Michael live in Bay Shore, NY. Janice teaches music and her husband is a contractor.
1997
Amy Maletzke Moore, maletzke@hotmail.com
1998
Jamie Sommerville ORiordan, jamieoriordan@yahoo.com I hope everyone is doing well. As I write this, its mid-June and Eoin and I are eagerly expecting the arrival of a baby boy. Im looking forward to enjoying the summer months with the wee one. If you have updates, please send them along to me at jamieoriordan@yahoo.com or log on to The Wall to post notes and pictures. Thanks! Anna Beeber writes: I was so honored to be awarded the Hartwick College Department of Nursing Alumnus of the Year 2011. I was thrilled to return to the Hartwick campus for graduation weekend to receive the award and to be the keynote speaker at the Nursing Pinning Ceremony. I hadnt been back to campus since I graduated in 1998, and I was amazed at how things looked different, while somehow staying the same. Bill Boyle writes: I am an assistant coach at Colgate University. After being a head D3 coach in Michigan at Olivet College for four years, I wanted to get back into the Division 1 level. I was an assistant at Michigan State University last fall, where we went to the Sweet 16. This job opened up back in upstate NY, and I jumped on it, and we have a great team here. Really disciplined student-athletes. I did get to go back to the Wick one weekend out of the two-plus months I have been on the job, as I have been traveling all over the country recruiting, but I was able to see Matt Verni, Hartwick womens soccer coach, and his wife, Amy Verni 99. I will be playing Hartwick here our rst game this fall!
1995
Louis Crocco, lbcrocco@aol.com Chris Porreca writes: I have been hired by the Brooks Sports Group out of Pittsburgh, PA, to be the executive vice president of the Adirondack Phantoms; the Phantoms play in the American Hockey League. The team is based in Glens Falls, NY. The team is the afliate for the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL. I am responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Phantoms. I was hired to run the team in February 2011 after spending the rst one and one-half years with the organization selling corporate sponsorship.
Simon Baker 93
The American Dream is still intact.
Baker Avenue Asset Management, President/ CEO Simon Baker 93 traveled to Hartwick recently to talk with Professor John Clemens seniorlevel business classes. Their discussions covered everything from Hartwick experiences, to the effects of social media, how to stand out in the job market, and Sales 101. The conversation turned international when they began sharing opinions on doing business in China and Bakers years in England. Of course, Baker didnt leave without giving the seniors some good advice: If there is a little thing that sticks with you today, let that be that 99% of people are clueless when they get out of school. With that, any job that you take will lay groundwork and teach you something. You will meet two or three people in your life that can really change it, as long as you are open and listening. Before an interview, do your homework. Connect on a level that others have not.
Kris McMahon writes: I was recently promoted to road manager at Canadian Pacic Railway and I love it. Ive been working there for almost 12 years. My wife, Melissa, and I will be celebrating our 10-year wedding anniversary August 11; we are expecting our third baby girl this October. Emily is 4 and Grace is 2.
1999
Kristen Falk, hartwick99@yahoo.com It occurred to me today that I have been writing this column for 12 years already. Time ies, but I am so glad to constantly read the news and doings of our classmates. Weve turned into interesting, productive people! Rebecca Knickerbocker Armstrong writes: My husband is on sabbatical this summer, which means we will be traveling to New York to see family and friends in the Adirondack and Oneonta areas. We will spend a week on Lake Erie and plan to hit the NFL Hall of Fame in Ohio. Hoping for great weather to make this the best summer vacation ever! Talked to Stephany Truex Godfrey, and celebrated the birth of her little boy, Spencer. In case anyone wanted to travel to Australia, Kanchan Banga is back in Canberra, working as a senior advisor at KPMG. Nicole Barnhardt and her husband are nally taking a honeymoon in August and are traveling to Iceland for two weeks. Many people think its an odd place to travel, but we are very excited to do some whale watching, see volcanoes (hopefully not erupting) and icebergs, and tour the natural hot springs. Of course, we plan to do more camping throughout the summer and do a bit of hiking, as well. I am doing some gardening this summer, but nothing too extravagant. Work is good too, always busy. Alicia Beardsley recently vacationed in Hawaii. It was beautiful, of course! Perfect weather, but it all went by too fast. I went scuba diving, mopeding, and whale watching. I am moving to Saratoga, NY. I accepted a cardiology position with a private practice. Mike Bruny had the opportunity to travel to Portland for the rst time in June. The weather was beautiful; not a rain cloud in sight. I almost got
to see my 50-50 buddy, Kristen Falk, while I was there. Im looking at opportunities in learning and development for my career. Im currently focused on my speaking opportunities and ambassadorbruny.com. My giving for this issue: If you are an entrepreneur or aspiring to be one, you need to visit www.youngentrepreneurcouncil.com Geno Carr is incredibly involved! Life is very, very busy, but good! Nancy and I had a wonderful time traveling the world, serving as faculty with Semester at Sea last fall, and we were invited to sail again for the fall 2012 voyage! It is a different itinerary, so we couldnt pass up the opportunity to travel to many more amazing places. This spring, I served as associate faculty at MiraCosta College teaching Acting I and Voice and Diction, and spent three months starring in miXtape, a long-running 80s musical revue at the Horton Grand Theatre in the Gaslamp Quarter. Nancy and I can be seen on stage together in The Music Man with Lambs Players Theatre in Coronado. In July, I will star in a show I did while at Hartwick, Little Shop of Horrors, with the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town. Last time I played nerdy botanist Seymour, but this time I get to let my inner jerk out to play the motorcycle-riding sadomasochist, Orin Scrivello, DDS. This fall, I will teach Intermediate Acting at Grossmont College and make my debut at The Old Globe Theatre starring as Papa Who in their annual holiday musical, Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas! So, its a busy year here in San Diego, but Im feeling truly blessed and duly grateful! Shiloh Vanderhoof Chickerell is literally running a zoo! We have acquired MORE animals! We had three goats born to us this spring, which was very exciting. We acquired a new mini pony and a gorgeous quarter horse. We had an exciting time shearing the alpacas and learning how to trim goat hooves. Were selling the eece and the baby goats. We are saving time and money to put up our barn and change the layout of the property to allow for parking and turn-around space if/when we do nally open a petting zoo; hopefully next year if this summer goes well. The twins turned 2 on June 3! Eowyn is signed up to start school in September. Jennifer (Victor) and Peter Conway write: Matthew Peter Conway
Alumni Event: New York City-area alumni and their guests boarded the luxury vessel Atlantis at Chelsea Piers to cruise the Hudson River in June.
Sarah Peterson Meunier 00 and Stephen Meunier 99 were married in August 2009 in Cooperstown, NY. Joining the couple are Christa Meunier Robinson 91, Marc Meunier 96, Danielle DeCoste Meunier 96, Carrie Newton 01, Kristen Boschetto McMahon 01, Nieves Garcia 01, Julia Guckenberg Tiedge 01, Bill Knightly 01, Mike Jones 00, Carrie Liddell Jones 01, Shanti Czaja 00, Pete Bertolini 99, Brian Tiedge 01, Michael Vissa 01, Elizabeth White Hucker 01, Noreen Verbeck Pieper 01, Joe Felipe 00, Matt Huckabee 00, and Tim McHugh 99.
was born March 24, 2011, and is the perfect addition to our family! Big sisters Makayla (4) and Madison (2) just love and adore him! Pete is already counting the days until he can take him to his rst Yankees game! We are adjusting to life with three kiddos. I am working at Baylor University Medical Center in labor and delivery, and Pete continues to work for a commercial real estate investment rm here in Dallas. Gareld Drummond reports that his son, Theodore (Theo) Axel Drummond, was born April 11, 2011, and everyone is doing well. Kristen Falk is taking part in tree-climbing school in Dorena, OR. Its scary but pretty awesome, to say the least. Today, climbing spurs; tomorrow, single-line climbing! The following week, shell be in Idaho, contra dancing near Lake Coeur DAlene. Future summer plans include a visit to CT, two more contra dance weekends, and culminating in another full dance week in eastern MA at the end of August. Who says life is all work? The garden is planted and the plants are happy. Bring on that sun! Danielle Quilligan Fochs is very active with the Arizona Rose circuit! She chaired the photography section of the Tucson Rose Society, ARS Rose Show in April, won the trophy for best fully open hybrid tea rose and won numerous awards for photography entries at the Tucson Rose Show and Glendale Rose Show. Seems I have a knack for this rose thing. Im enjoying exhibiting since its about the only thing I have time for these days! Amy Yager Gardner writes: We took a vacation with our friends Jim 92 and Cathy Ogden and their family to Tennessee. We had a great time relaxing and spending time together. I am done with the FNP program and just waiting for the authorization to take my national FNP certication. Jeff will be spending more time ofciating high school and college eld hockey in the fall and due to this will be unable to be on the Hartwick eld hockey sideline, but we are hoping to make many games as fans in the stands. The kids are busy, too. The twins have just nished kindergarten. Amethyst (our oldest) is really into theatre and will be
participating in the Orpheus kids summer workshop for two weeks, and will spend a week at sleep-away camp later in the summer. Alicia Koscielniak Hackney and her husband welcomed a second daughter, Charlotte (Charley), in April 2010. In March they moved to the Cape, as her husband is the new executive chef at Wequassett in Chatham. Alicia is enjoying being a part-time stay-at-home mom and a part-time stylist with Stella & Dot. Meghan Katcher Shivel, her husband, Kevin, and daughter, Claire, visited in late June, and Christine Zurawik Serino 00 and her husband, John, visited for Memorial Day weekend. For a little fun this summer, Gayle Huntress plans to train for her new hobby, roller derby! She plays for the Quabbin Missile Crisis team. Its a wild and fun sport, and Im having a blast! Forrest Lewandowski went to Nashville, TN, for Country Music Fest. Later this year, he hopes to visit Danielle Quilligan Fochs in Arizona and see a NASCAR race. Summer plans include working, kayaking, and generally enjoying summer. Michael Lomasney has been silent for a few years while he was sailing and working on some projects. Now (along with his partner, Colin Keillor Fordham 98), he will be opening Spring Close Restaurant in East Hampton, NY. AmySue Hermus Long has some good news. Owen is ofcially done with preschool. So, all of the boys are in elementary school. Colin will be in third grade, Aidan in second, and Owen in kindergarten. Oh, what to do with our time? Scott and I are traveling to Amsterdam, Tilburg, Berkelenschot, and Eefde, Holland, this summer. We have a family wedding to attend and some major sightseeing to do! We will try to take a day trip to either Antwerp, Germany, or Brussels, Belgium. My sister-inlaw, Kelley Long Sheraw 89, will be watching the kids for us while we are away! Its going to be a great summer! We hope to make a trip upstate for the New Years holiday. Kristen Mastromarchi is enjoying married life in Italy. She has some
Scott Desmarais 00 and Carin Plante were married May 7, 2011. The newlyweds were joined by Bill 98 and Carolyn (Cantin) 97, Desmarais Victor 00 and Bethel (Huller) 00 Willingham, Kristin Hall 00, Melissa Smith Sweet 00, Melissa Williams 00, and Brigitte Fielder 00.
Presidential Event: A crowd of alumni, parents and friends gathered for a great time in the historic Union League Club at 37th and Park Avenue, Manhattan, where they connected with one another and with President Margaret L. Drugovich.
concerts lined up for the summer (nothing big, mind you; a play in a ukulele band!); well see what the autumn brings! Stephen Meunier and Sarah Peterson Meunier 00, married in Cooperstown, NY, in August 2009, welcomed their son, Owen Essex Meunier, in February. A boy, Christian James, was born to Dan and Jamie Irwin Morency on May 14. Everyone is doing great and John is being a great big brother. No big plans for the summer, except for camping in the Adirondacks for a few weeks. Mike Muscarella and his wife, Mel, are still in Rochester, NY. The little ones are now 10 and 7 and getting squirrelier by the day (in the best ways possible). Our band, Violet Mary, released its second record on Belly of The Whale Music in November to critical praise in the region. Were looking to play Hartwick this fall, more news to come. Im also going back to school (again; fourth times the charm!) for secondary education in history. So, always an adventure here on Calm Lake. Leila Poole is still practicing as a physician assistant in Henderson, NV, now in the intensive care unit and emergency department. Her plan is to nish off the summer hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in September. Chris Rochelle is working with the Corning Museum of Glass and traveling the world doing glass shows on Celebrity Cruise Lines. He is circling the Mediterranean and visited the glass furnace in Istanbul. Its a pretty amazing glass campus out in the countryside. Life is good! Leda Hoffman So Bento reports that her son, Bruce, is now a big brother! Marisa Ann So Bento was born May 4, 2011. Were so happy to have a little girl in the house; its fun to add a bit of pink to our lives. Everything else is going great. Im still working for Schwadesign as a project manager, loving RI, and plan on visiting the beach quite a bit this summer. I hope Carolyn Maguire can make it here to the Ocean State to visit and meet our new addition.
Don Sawyer successfully defended his dissertation proposal in May and has been advanced to doctoral candidate (ABD). In a perfect world, he will be done in 2012. LaToya (Cauley) 98 nished her rst year of full-time doctoral study. Their daughter, Nyelah, who was born while they were students at Hartwick, will start high school in the fall. The family will be traveling to St. Kitts in the summer for vacation and to search for Dons grandmothers family. Meg Katcher Shivel is off for the summer and looking forward to spending more time with Claire; lots of play dates and pool days lined up! We are bringing Claire on a plane for the rst time in a few weeks as we head to NY to see my family and then up to Cape Cod to see Alicia Koscielniak Hackney and her beautiful family. We are so thrilled to nally get our little ones together and hope that Claire and Charley will be lifelong friends, just like their mommies. Other than that trip, well probably spend a few Saturdays at a local lake here in NC and just try to stay cool. Its hot as heck here! Eric Shoen is living in Chicago for the time being and traveling the central USA for work as a charity fundraising consultant. Hes been attempting to connect with Eric Fredericks 97, and has been fortunate to connect with Bradley Baker 00. The movie Eric helped with came out nally: ssm-movie.com. Its been very popular in the lm festival circuit, but isnt really a mainstream-type movie. Hes been keeping up with running, and volunteering for his church in Rochester and Hartwick when he can. Hes really looking forward to going to Prague with the Hartwick Choir this summer. Jennifer Smith ran the Big Sur Marathon this past May. It was her rst and shes hoping to run the New York Marathon next year. I also saw Wendy Lee and her beautiful baby girl recently; theyre doing very well and it was great to get up to Boston and see them. Brooke (Bennett) and Andy Thomas 00 celebrated the rst birthday of their sons, William and Finnegan, in April. They are looking forward
Alumni Event: Hartwick fans cheered the Boston Celtics through a tough home court loss to the LA Clippers in March.
Alumni Event: Fred Schaeffer 65 led fellow alumni in Walkway over the HudsonPast Present and Future, after lunch together at Aloys Italian Restaurant in Poughkeepsie, NY.
to attending some Hartwick weddings this summer. Chris Villa, head swim coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, earned conference coach of the year honors for the 2010-11 season. He is the fourth IUP coach to be honored. Chris led the Crimson Hawks from 10th place at the 2010 PSAC meet to fourth this year and only one point out of third. He oversaw the development of a host of sophomores who dramatically improved IUPs fortunes this season. In all, a total of 14 school and seven freshmen womens records have been broken since Chris became head coach prior to the 2006-07 season. Nissa Westerberg just passed the four-year mark working for the Patent and Trademark Ofce. Time has really own by! Seeing your name on the front of an issued patent is pretty cool, and Im getting to allow more applications as time goes on. No big plans so far for the summer, but I hope to take a trip with Alicia Beardsley and Yee Lam Wong. Jonathan Wood writes: Dan and I became engaged over Memorial Day weekend. He proposed during a hike along the banks of the Charles River, after which we jumped in a canoe with our dog and a picnic lunch for a paddle upstream. Later that evening, he took me to dinner at a great farmto-table restaurant for a chefs tasting menu. It was a fantastic day and we cant wait to gather all our friends to help us celebrate our marriage. The following weekend, my family gathered together to celebrate the 65th wedding anniversary of my grandparents, Bill 49 and Dolores Chestney 46 Deitz. There were three generations of Hartwick grads there: my grandparents; their daughter, Carla Deitz Wood 70, and her husband, David Wood 72; their son, Allan Deitz 75, and his wife, Carol Deitz; and me.
2000
Kristen Hall, hartwick2000@hotmail.com Kristin Hall writes: I hope summer is treating all of you well. My life has been kept busy with work and house hunting. I am (as of early June) in the process of closing on a house; hopefully, the process will go smoothly. I also joined a softball team this summerall hospital employees, but since we all have bizarre schedules, we never know who will show up. Its fun!
Shanti Czaja writes: In 2011, Meg and I decided enough was enough! Too many girls wearing tights ... pants. We now patrol the streets of Boston on the weekends with a bag of real pants to hand out. Jarlyn Romero Mathews writes: Hi everyone, I recently bought a house in Boca Raton with my husband and two daughters. I have been teaching in a high school in Boca and just nished my rst season as the head lacrosse coach and had a winning season. Life has been busy for me, but I am enjoying every minute of it. Miss you all. Charles Catania and his wife, Kimberly, are expecting their second child in June, one day shy of son Jacks second birthday. Charles writes: I am thankfully busy with my private family medicine practice in Thorofare, NJ, and life is good. Looking forward to getting in touch with other classmates. Anyone in the Philly area, look me up! Brooke Sandler Coleman is still living in the Philadelphia area and is working as a licensed clinical social worker. She and her husband, Jason, are expecting the arrival of their second child, a son, in October. They are busy enjoying their energetic daughter, almost 3, and making the most of life as often as they can, as life is denitely too short! Meg Thomson writes: Had a great time running my rst Boston Marathon in April, where I was lucky enough to have Sarah Pettit meet me to run the last few miles! We are now both in training for the Portland, ME, marathon in October, where Taryn Chase will join us for the half. Amy Witherell and I placed 15th in the Great Urban Race in Boston as team WICKed and Im still laughing thinking about that day! Looking forward to lots of summer fun with my favorite ladies. Scott Desmarais married the love of his life, Carin Plante, on May 7, 2011, in Concord, NH. It was a beautiful ceremony, and a great time was had by all. Alumni in attendance included Bill and Carolyn (Cantin) Desmarais, Victor and Bethel (Huller) Willingham, Kristin Hall, Melissa Smith Sweet, Melissa Williams, and Brigitte Fielder. Edith Newberry Fogarty writes: My husband, John, and I welcomed our rst child, John Higgins Fogarty, into the world on April 28. I am on maternity leave, but will be returning to work in August at State Street Middle School in Windsor, VT, where I teach social studies.
Presidential Event: Diane and Gary Bush Ph.D. 77 opened their Atlanta, GA, home for President Margaret L. Drugovich and alumni.
Janice Vacchiano 96 and Michael Abel were married May 7, 2011. Wendy Wyatt Frankonis 96 joined the celebration.
Amy Bateman 04 and Joseph Frazier were married August 28, 2010.
Alice Timmons Haroldson writes: Were very excited to be heading to Danvers, MA, at the end of June for a much-needed visit with the girls, and whats sure to be a very joyous celebration Jennifer Wilson writes: Some things are old and some are new with me. Im still at the hospital and playing softball on Thursdays in the summer. My girlfriend of almost three years and I are going to start a family this month. We found a wonderful donor and Im crossing my ngers for a little girl! I am excited to see Mara Areman and her little Olivia this summer. I spoke with her last night and she had her say Willy, it was so cute! Working on my rst book and I am hoping by this time next year, I will be done. See, there is hope yet for me to be famous! Emily Moore writes: Im still living in Fonda with my cat, Meche. I just nished my second year as a 7-9 math teacher at Oppenheim-Ephratah CSD and am looking forward to summer vacation. In April, I bought my late grandmothers house and will surely keep busy updating and renovating! Find me on Facebook or e-mail me at emilyjmoore@live.com Craig Laughlin moved to Syracuse, NY, in June 2010. Since then, he has become an integral part of the Dam Dirt Heroes kickball team, started working for a little company known as Apple Inc., and is nalizing plans to start his own business, Kinani Blue Marketing, LLC. After running her seventh marathon, Lindsay Silverman has decided to focus on shorter races, like 18-milers and half marathons. Shes looking forward to a summer spent volunteering, running, drawing, and traveling.
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Bry Anderson, bryanna.anderson@uconn.edu Lindsay Coons is nishing up her fourth year as an elementary music teacher at Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School and she has the best job in the world! She teaches K-8 general music, plus two choruses and fthgrade band. She is coaching volleyball at school and playing in several adult volleyball leagues. Lindsay is engaged to the man of her dreams; their wedding date is set for August 17, 2012. They bought a house in Schenectady and live there with their bulldog, Tali, and cats Smokey and Bandit. Stacie Levy married Cesar Gracia on June 11, 2011, in Miami, FL. Amy Bateman is still working in the plant pathology lab for the USDA in Aberdeen, ID. She married Joseph Frazier, software engineer, on August 28, 2011. They are expecting their rst child together at the end of November. Dvera Saxton is living in Watsonville, CA, where she is conducting her doctoral dissertation research in anthropology on farm worker health on different sizes and scales of organic and conventional farms. In support of her work, she received a Wenner Gren Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Social and Behavioral Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. Working with farm workers is simultaneously beautiful and depressing work. Im really enjoying the relationships Im building with folks and the community organizing endeavors Ive become a part of through my research. There is nowhere else Id rather be at present. Im hoping to stay in Watsonville in the long term and make some sort of career and life for myself that will enable me to continue researching, writing, educating, and organizing around food, agriculture, health, labor, and environmental issues as they pertain to farm workers. Courtney Hennessy is still living in Australia. She got engaged at midnight on New Years Eve to her boyfriend of three years. They are getting married next year on July 28 and are very excited. They are working on trying to nd a place to live and arrange the big day.
2003
Erin Rowe, drowe214@hotmail.com Charlie Hitch won another Pinnacle Award at Lockheed Martin.
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Edwin Siegfried, edwin.siegfried@gmail.com
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Sara Caldwell, caldwells@hartwick.edu
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Olivia Burlew and husband Gary proudly announce the April 14, 2011, birth of their rst child, Mason Donald Burlew. Christian Janowski is an analyst at Galson Laboratories in Syracuse, NY.
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Wyatt Uhlein, wuhlein@cpexre.com Nikki English is a marketing associate with Reed Exhibitions. Christina Herbst is doing an internship at Reformed Church of America Archives in New Brunswick, NJ.
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In Memoriam
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1933 | Evelyn Coutant Pangburn, 99, of Nazareth, PA, died April 27, 2011. Following her time at Hartwick, she received graduate degrees from Middlebury College and Columbia University and taught Latin and French in Davenport, Cherry Valley, and Bath, NY, high schools. Survivors include her sons, four grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren. Her husband of 61 years, Robert, and a son preceded her in death. 1933
| Stuart Wessing, 101, of Rome, NY, died peacefully May 18,
where he became a brother in the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Pi fraternity. At Hartwick, he met and married Ruth Graunke 47. Charles and Ruth ran Root Hardware in Cooperstown until 1956. He then worked at the Carrier plant in Schenectady until he joined the Cooperstown Post Ofce, where he remained until his retirement in 1987. Charles is survived by three daughters and ve grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Ruth, who died in December 2009.
2011. He received his masters degree and continued studies at Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse universities. His wife, Grace, died in December 1993. Stuart was supervisor of adult education at Sauquoit Valley and a teacher in Minaville and Canajoharie schools. He was World War II veteran, former U.S. Air Force manpower analyst, and former rehabilitation and training ofcer with the U.S. Veterans Administration. From 1954 to 1996 he served as a special agent of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. He is survived by a sister and numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his companion, Christine Fritsch, in June 2002.
1950 | Russell Feltus Jr., 90, of Liverpool, NY, died May 25, 2011. Russ served in the Marine Corps from 1941 to 1945. He was a founding member and president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity at Hartwick. Russ was employed by Employers Mutual of Wausau as a malpractice claims reviewer until 1959. He later became executive director of the Medical Societies of Oneida, Herkimer, Madison, and Chenango counties. Russ was a loving husband and father to his four children and a devoted grandfather to his 11 grandchildren and ve great-grandchildren. He and his wife, Jane, recently celebrated 60 years of marriage. 1950
| Eileen Lendt Schaller, of Venice, FL, died February 11,
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2011. A devout Christian, Eileen was a devoted and caring wife and mother. She was employed at Kodak as a registered nurse. Survivors include her son. Her husband, George, predeceased her.
14, 2011. She and her husband owned Polar Bear Ice Cream Stand in Matamoras for 15 years. She worked as a teacher of history and English for Delaware Valley School District and as a librarian in Port Jervis. Survivors include two sons, one daughter, eight grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren; she was predeceased by her husband of 47 years, George.
1951 | Harvey Loucks, 82, of North Tonawanda, NY, died unexpectedly May 7, 2011. He earned degrees in chemistry and mathematics. Harvey worked the majority of his life at Bell Aerospace as an engineer, helping to develop both Teon and Corian. Survivors include his wife, Esther; two daughters; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren. 1957
| John Hooks, of Towson, MD, died May 19, 2011.
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postgraduate studies were done at the Maxwell School of Government at Syracuse University and Columbia University in New York City. She married Oneonta ophthalmologist Nicholas Holowach in 1944. She taught English and social studies at Gilbertsville Central School, Arlington High School, and Sloatsburg High School until 1951, when her husband was called to active duty with the U.S. Navy in Heidelberg, Germany. They returned to the U.S. the following year and lived in Portsmouth, VA. She was a member of the Hartwick College Citizens Board and its rst woman president. She was predeceased by her husband of 59 years in February 2004. Survivors include a daughter; a son, Nicholas Holowach II 81, Esq.; and two grandchildren.
1947 | Wanda Slusarczyk Richter, of Remsen, NY, died February 4, 2011. She was predeceased by her husband of 25 years, Bill, in 1977. She worked as an ofce nurse, then was employed by St. Lukes Hospital in Utica. She stayed at home to raise her children to school age and worked as a private duty RN until her employment with Masonic Home as assistant director of nurses. She then worked at St. Lukes Memorial Hospital until her retirement. Wanda was recognized for serving during World War II as a nurse in training. Survivors include children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. 1947 | Charles Root, 87, of Cooperstown, NY, died May 16, 2011. He attended Syracuse University until he left school to join the armed services. When he returned from the service, he attended Hartwick,
1958 | Richard Hatzenbuhler, 78, of Verona, NJ, died May 20, 2011. He retired in 1990 as a senior vice president with First Fidelity Bank, N.A. New Jersey (Wells Fargo), where he managed and directed the Financial Institutions Division. He was active within the New Jersey political arena, serving as an Essex County Republican committee member and consulting with various congressional banking committees on forging a new Holding Company Act for the New Jersey banking industry. He was a founding member of the national coalition of check payment systems. He attended Syracuse University and, on his return from serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he received a bachelor of science degree from Hartwick. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Marilyn Smith Hatzenbuhler; daughter and son-in-law; and granddaughter. 1958 | Barbara McCluskey Warner, 74, of Sun Lakes, AZ, died January 8, 2011. She and her husband, Jimmie 59, retired to Arizona in 1992 after having spent most of her life on Long Island. Barb was committed to community service and served on the boards of several nonprots. She is survived by two daughters and two grandchildren. 1959
| Russell Schott, 76, of Ballston Spa, NY, died May 27, 2011.
He worked for more than 30 years as a clerk in the Railroad Assessment Department for the State of New York. He was a member of the Saratoga Springs Senior Citizens and the Racing City Chorus, and enjoyed the
Flashback
What we do know: Miss Edith Lacey gures prominently in Hartwicks history. With 20 years nursing experience, she was recruited to start Hartwicks Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II. She served as the rst director of the School of Nursing (19431953), Associate Professor of Nursing (1943-1957), Dean of the School of Nursing (1953-1961), Professor of Nursing (1957-1961), and Professor Emeritus of Nursing. Her legacy continues with the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship, awarded annually to a junior nursing student. In this years graduating class, Gabrielle Evans earned both the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship and a Hartwick College Faculty Scholar Award (see page 5).
Please share your stories about this photo or any aspect of Nursing at Hartwick. Send identications and memories of this or similar events to the_wick@hartwick.edu or Editor, The Wick, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820
of the Upper New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Upon his retirement in 1986, St. Pauls honored him as pastor emeritus. Walter and Inge later became active members of St. Michaels Lutheran Church in Camillus until they moved to Wilmington to be near family in 2008. Walter was predeceased by his beloved wife, Inge. Survivors include his four children and their families.
split his rewood, and make jams and maple syrup. Kurt is survived by his children, Ken Neunzig and Kathi Chipman; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his loving and beautiful wife of 57 years, Elizabeth, and his son Kurt Jr. Memorial gifts may be made in Kurts memory to Pine Lake Campus, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY; designate Friends of Pine Lake at hartwickalumni.org/hartwickfund.
Honorary Degree | Lee Miller H96, of East Syracuse, NY, died January 31, 2011. He served as bishop of the Upstate NY Synod, ELCA, from 1992 to 2002. He graduated from The Peddie School, Princeton University, The Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, and Columbia University, earning an Ed.D.; he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Hartwick College. He was named Distinguished Alumnus of Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia in 2008. He also served pastoral calls at First Lutheran Church, Jamestown, and First English Lutheran Church, Lockport; assistant to the bishop of the Upstate NY Synod; interim bishop, Northeast Ohio Synod, ELCA. He was a volunteer with Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois, organizationally and as an interpreter, portraying a 17th century Jesuit priest. He served as a school board member in Jamestown and Lockport, on many boards of trustees including Lutheran Social Services, Upstate NY; LTS Philadelphia; and Augsburg Fortress Publishing House, Minneapolis. He was convener for the Collegium of the NYS Council of Churches. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Joan; their children; and grandchildren. Friend
| David Arnold, 73, of Huntly, VA, died December 9, 2010,
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of kidney cancer. Earlier in his career, he was a photo editor for the books division of Time-Life in New York City and a newspaper photographer. In 1994, he was honored by the University of Missouri journalism school for his work on the National Geographic magazine report titled Viruses. Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Lesley; two daughters from his rst marriage; and four grandchildren. David was the grandson of Hartwick President Henry Arnold, and spoke on the familys behalf at the dedication of Arnold Rain Garden in 2009.
| Martha Marti Stayton, 61, of Oneonta, NY, died June 11, 2011, after a year-long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Marti grew up in Portland, OR, where she met her future husband, Professor of Biology Stanley K. Sessions. She earned her bachelors degree in psychology and masters in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon. In 1979, Marti and Stan moved to Berkeley, CA, where she worked as a family counselor for six years. After Berkeley, the couple moved to England, where she gave birth to their son, Alex. After a year in England, they returned to California, and in 1989, they settled in Oneonta. Marti loved Oneonta and surrounding areas, and enjoyed walks in the parks and canoeing in the rivers and lakes, camping in the Adirondacks, visiting with friends, playing mandolin, listening to music, and going to the theatre. She was a professional counselor for her entire career, working with children and adults, groups and individuals, to seek solutions to the daily frustrations of being human. She divided her work between clinical practice and public service. For more than 10 years, Marti was the employee assistance coordinator for Bassett Healthcare. Prior to that, she was the director of counseling at Catholic Charities of Delaware and Otsego Counties. She served three terms as an elected member of the Oneonta School Board, serving as president during a challenging time in the history of the school district. Most recently, Marti was elected to and served on the Otsego County Board of Representatives. She also was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oneonta. Marti is survived by her husband, Stan, to whom she was married for 41 years; and her son, Alex Sessions 07.
Friend
| Kurt Neunzig, 96, of Sanibel Island, FL, died December 27, 2010. He rst came to the Davenport Center area around 1926, where his father purchased the land they renamed Pine Lake. After serving as a swim instructor in the Navy to new recruits during World War II, Kurt and his wife, Liz, while raising their three children, spent their summers building up and operating Pine Lake as a summer housekeeping cabin resort for the next 25 years. He not only did much of the plumbing, electrical, carpentry, etc., but was revered by generations of young kids who among other things he taught to swim, took on hikes, played softball with, and rode around the lake on his jeep. His love of the land led him to encourage the purchase of the lake and around 400 acres of woodland by Hartwick College in 1971, that it might be preserved in its natural state for future generations. Winters during those years were spent working in Miami Beach at hotels and in water shows. An avid vegetable gardener, Kurt at various times also raised pigeons, beagles, horses, and Scottish Highlander cattle. A lifelong hunter, Kurt traveled to Colorado, Idaho, Alaska, and Newfoundland on big-game hunts and with Liz ran a hunting camp at Pine Lake in the 1950s to 1960. Kurt also served as a Town of Davenport assessor; in later years as a swim ofcial for Hartwick, SUCO, and Oneonta High School; and as a golf starter on Sanibel, continuing working past the age of 90. He also continued to golf, garden, cut and
Flashback
What we do know: Miss Edith Lacey gures prominently in Hartwicks history. With 20 years nursing experience, she was recruited to start Hartwicks Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II. She served as the rst director of the School of Nursing (19431953), Associate Professor of Nursing (1943-1957), Dean of the School of Nursing (1953-1961), Professor of Nursing (1957-1961), and Professor Emeritus of Nursing. Her legacy continues with the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship, awarded annually to a junior nursing student. In this years graduating class, Gabrielle Evans earned both the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship and a Hartwick College Faculty Scholar Award (see page 5).
Please share your stories about this photo or any aspect of Nursing at Hartwick. Send identications and memories of this or similar events to the_wick@hartwick.edu or Editor, The Wick, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820
Hartwick Giving
Investing in Hartwick,
Endowed Scholarships provide the gift of opportunity, said President Margaret L. Drugovich at the Partners in Scholarship luncheon in May. Noting that 98 percent of Hartwick students receive nancial support, she explained, A $10,000 annual distribution from a large endowment can allow a student to dream of choosing Hartwick. A $1,000 annual distribution from a smaller endowment can allow a student to remain, to stay with her dream. Simply put, endowed scholarships make dreams come true for generations of Hartwick students to come. Endowed scholarships offer a personal way to have a direct impact on the quality of students earning the degree. For more information about endowed scholarships and other forms of student support, please contact Jim Broschart, Vice President for College Advancement, at 607-431-4026 or broschartj@hartwick.edu.
Nick Clair 12 presents Trustee Bruce Anderson 63 with a Partners in Scholarship pin during the luncheon held to bring together endowed fund donors and the students who are benetting from their generosity. Clair is the recipient of The Andrew and Betty Anderson Scholarship, which Anderson established in 2007 and continues to build as a tribute to his parents. Clair, from Walden, NY, is a Mathematics and Education major and a wide receiver on the football team.
I am the proud recipient of two named scholarshipsthe Dr. Robert E. and Maryalice Mansbach Scholarship [for community service] and the Carol A. Bocher and Earl E. Deubler Jr. H91 Scholarship [for a Biology student showing outstanding potential]. I feel honored to be recognized as someone with outstanding potential. I feel an extra sense of pride, but also of responsibility. It is through donors generosity that we, as students, know that someone believes in us, and that cannot be measured in dollars and cents.
Mark Blazek 12 | Biology major/Pre-Allied Health Program | Hawks Basketball guard and record holder; ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I First Team (2010) | Student Athlete Advisory Board, Fellowship of Christian Athletes. (Pictured with Professor Emeritus Bob Mansbach)
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