LETTERS
Inspiring article
I want to congratulate the staff of The Valley for the wonderful article, "Songs of Grief and Friendship" (Winter 1995). This is one of the most interesting articles that you have ever published.
It was inspiring to read of Gary Miller' s (Class of '68) achievements as founder and musical director of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus. Above all, I was astonished that a graduate of Lebanon Valley performs annually with the great- est voices in the music world and in Carnegie Hall!
Thank you for making us all aware of Gary Miller's important contributions to the arts. He should be applauded not only for his musical achievements, but for being a prominent ambassador for Leba- non Valley College.
Interesting articles like this are an example of the continuing high caliber of The Valley.
Stephen Scanniello '78 Brooklyn, N.Y.
Can't support tliose "ideals"
This is not a "hate" letter or a conser- vative "backlash," but it is a personal preference. When I attended LVC, it was with the understanding that it was a Christian-based school. The values ex-
pressed in the article "Songs of Grief and Friendship" are ANTI-Scriptural, and I cannot support them.
Please remove me from your mailing list, and send me no more Valley issues or other mailings. I am not interested in supporting these "ideals."
Susan E. (Heister) Harwell '74 Deltona, Fla.
Beautiful people
I am writing to comment upon the beauti- fully written portrait of Gary Miller in "Songs of Grief and Friendship." As an LVC alumnus, I always appreciate learn- ing about a fellow student's road to suc- cess and joy. I'm hoping that readers were able to value Gary as a human being who clearly has attained professional and humanitarian achievement rather than to get caught up in the fact that he is gay.
Furthermore, I applaud Lebanon Valley for daring to produce this article in the first place. I'm sure you must have presumed that some criticism may come your way.
Sylvia D. Mayer '76 Camp Hill, Pa.
He's offended
Perhaps I am in the minority, but I found the article "Songs of Grief and Friend- ship" offensive. I was not aware that Leba- non Valley has become a proponent of the gay and lesbian tradition. I must tell you that this activity has no place in my heart, mind and soul! I notice that 60 members [of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus] have succumbed to
AIDS — and I predict that the rest of them are well on their way, as this activity is NOT the will of God!
I was in the class of '44 and my college days were cut short because I "volunteered" in the U.S. Air Force, not "protested" as the gays did. I am shocked and ashamed!
Edward E. Stansfield '44 Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Promoting peace
Regarding "War is Hell — Is It Moral?" by Laura Chandler Ritter (Winter 1995), if we want to find peaceful solutions to problems that our nation faces, one an- swer is to initiate peace education courses as part of the college curriculum. I am sure Rev. Darrell Woomer [college chap- lain] would welcome an opportunity to help.
The factors often missing in miUtaris- tic solutions are knowledge and truth. To ask the military to find the path to peace can be compared to asking the jack-ham- mer operator to use his tool as a dental drill.
David B. Kruger '63 Lebanon, Pa.
A great job
You are doing a great job with The Valley — every issue gets better.
Jud Stauffer '82 Red Lion, Pa.
Vol. 13, Number 1
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Lebanon Valley College Magazine Spring/Summer 1995 J
Departments
Features
17 NEWS BRIEFS
20 NEWSMAKERS
23 SPORTS
24 ALUMNI NEWS 29 CLASS NOTES
Editor: Judy Pehrson
Writers;
John B. Deamer, Jr.
Nancy Fitzgerald
Nancy Kettering-Frye '80
Sandy Marrone
Jody Rathgeb
Stephen Trapnell '90
Diane Wenger '94
Glenn Woods '51, Class Notes
Photographer: Dennis Crews
Send comments or address changes to: Office of College Relations Laughlin Hall Lebanon Valley College 101 North College Avenue Annville, PA 17003-0501
The Valley is published by Lebanon Valley College and distributed without charge to alumni and friends. It is produced in coopera- tion with the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Magazine Consortium. Editor: Donna Shoemaker; Designer: Royce Faddis; Produc- tion: Jes Porro.
On the Cover:
An artist infused with the Taoist beUef that clouds symbolize the vital breath of nature, Sung Wen-chih in his work, "Clouds over the Yellow Mountains" (1979) also recollects the landscape artists of the 17th-century Ch'ing Dynasty. His painting was part of the Chu-Griffis Art Collec- tion on display in the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gal- lery during the "China 2000" symposium. Lesher Mack Sales and Service sponsored the exhibit.
Window on the Middle Kingdom
A colorful portrait of Chinese art, politics, music, martial arts and daily life — and predictions for its future — emerged during the "China 2000" symposium this spring.
By Judy Pehrson
Sorting out the Chinese Conundmm
In the People 's Republic, the economy may be booming,
but there are major weaknesses ahead, warns Dr. Andrew Nathan
of Columbia University.
By Judy Pehrson
Lessons from Confucius 2,500 Years Later
Wherever she went in China, Temple University's Janet Roberts became known as the "teacher who had visited the home of Confucious.
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By Nancy Fitzgerald
A Slice of Life in Annville
From munching pizza to cheering on the Dutchmen, Nanjing' s Wu Yingen relishes his yearlong stay as a visiting professor.
By Nancy Fitzgerald
He Puts a Spin on Teaching History
The classroom of John Boag '80 is an unheated wheelwright's shop in Colonial Williamsburg.
By Jody Rathgeb
A Man of Many Hats
At the Rocky Mountain Hat Company, John Morris '59 and his son craft cowboy hats and other custom chapeaus.
By Seth J. Wenger '94
"We were very much impressed by the foresight, teaching
philosophy and management of your college.. . .1 call
Lebanon Valley College a beautiful bridge between
China and the United States."
— Xia Zhaolong, director of Xinhua News Agency in New York
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Window on the Middle Kingdom
At "China 2000," a semester-long
colloquium, the college and
the community took a close look at the
intricacies of Chinese politics,
the discipline of Tai Chi and
a legendary culture.
By Judy Pehrson
China had always been sort of an abstract concept to Kelli Sorg '95. She recog- nized its importance but had never had much of an opportunity to learn about it. "I knew where it was on the map, and that it was a poor country with huge numbers of people, but that was about it," she says. Her view deepened considerably after the recent semester-long spring humanities colloquium, titled "China 2000: The Next Century." The colloquium delved into Chinese politics, economics, education, art, music, film, martial arts — and even its cuisine.
" 'China 2000' really opened my eyes, and now I almost feel as though I've been there," Sorg says. "It was a powerful experience. We were immersed in Chi- nese culture. There were documentaries on China on the campus cable channel, displays in the college center, a Chinese film series and art exhibit, outstanding lectures, a martial arts demonstration, a concert by a traditional Chinese ensemble, a 10-course Chinese banquet in Philadel- phia— it just went on and on."
All of the events, Sorg says, "provided a colorful portrait of China's people and history and helped me to understand China's growing importance in the world. I especially enjoyed the films on China because they allowed me to look into the faces of a culture very different from ours. You could actually see real people in- stead of just looking in a book and seeing numbers and facts."
Sophomore Nate Hillegas and freshman Beth Paul explore the map of China displayed in the Mund College Center. (Below) The logo for the colloquium incorporates the character for the word China.
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As a result of the colloquium and also a class this spring on "Contemporary China," Sorg is thinking of changing career direc- tions. "I'm considering going on for my graduate degree in foreign relations, and China is an area I would like to concentrate on. This semester was a great introduction."
Junior Jonathan Smith's horizons were also broadened by the colloquium. "I was one of two students who did a series of six Chinese language lessons on video for the campus cable channel," he explains. "Dr. Wu Yingen (see story page 10) taught us simple, everyday phrases, and it was a lot of fun. I knew nothing about Chinese before, but now I think I would like to learn the language, and I would definitely like to visit China. The colloquium made me look at things in a whole new way."
Sorg's and Smith's reactions are not unique. The colloquium was enthusiasti- cally received by faculty, students and the community, according to Dr. John Kearney, professor of English who attended many of the events. The sympo- sium "was invaluable on campus for all the variety of things it brought in," he states. "I used it in two different courses, and students were able to bring together politics, economics, film, art, etc. in their study. I just read a paper from one of the courses, and it was a model of interdisci- plinary learning — possible only because of the colloquium.
" 'China 2000' obviously had a strong impact on the community as well —
Around 1918, artist Li K'n-ch 'an eked out a living pulling a rickshaw while studying Chinese traditional painting. "Mynah Bird on a Palm Tree, " painted the year before his death in 1983, shows his bold, precise brushstrokes and sense of humor. The work was part of the Chu-Grijfis Art Collection, displayed in connection with "China 2000. "
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During their two-day stay, the eminent Chinese visitors toured the campus.
attracting many people from outside the college to all the events I went to," Kearney adds.
Chinese officialdom was also intrigued by the colloquium. Two diplomats from the Chinese Consulate in New York, Wang Renliang and Chen Jianguo, both cultural section consuls, spent two days on campus meeting with students, faculty and key administrators. Joining them were
"We were surprised that such
a small college could mount
such a large and excellent
series of events on China. . .
Vve never heard of such
a comprehensive program
being undertaken b^ any
other school."
— Xia Zhaolong
Xia Zhaolong, director of Xinhua News Agency in New York, and Han Bowen, his wife and colleague. The Chinese del- egation was on hand for the keynote speech by Dr. Andrew Nathan, director of Columbia University's East Asian Institute, (see page 7) and for a panel discussion the following evening in which Wang participated. The two consular officers also visited the Brossman Busi- ness Center in Ephrata to view video- conferencing technology, a preliminary step to setting up a videoconferencing link between Lebanon Valley and Nanjing University.
The Chinese came away with praise for both the colloquium and the college. "We were very much impressed by the foresight, teaching philosophy and man- agement of your college. We were sur- prised that such a small college could mount such a large and excellent series of events on China," Xia stated. "I've never heard of such a comprehensive program being undertaken by any other school. My interviews and conversations with Leba- non Valley students indicated that they had learned a lot about our country. I call Lebanon Valley College a beautiful bridge between China and the United States."
The colloquium was a massive under- taking, says Dr. James Scott, director of general education, who played a key role in putting "China 2000" together. "I think it's the biggest thing we've ever done at the college," he states. "It's interesting.
A panel discussion examined China 's role in the 21st century.
"China 2000" attracted many people from the area.
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Nathan Spivey, director of the Oriental Health Serx'ice, demonstrated Tai Chi, a series of moves to harmonize exercise, meditation and self-discipline.
because we started out with fairly modest intentions, and enthusiasm was so great that the whole thing developed a momen- tum of its own. We just kept adding events that portrayed different aspects of China." A world-class art exhibit was also part of "China 2000." The Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery featured 21 works from the respected Chu-Griffis Art Collection. Included were the renowned paintings "Shrimp" and "Lotus," by Chia Pai-shi
(Above) An exchange of gifts and (center) a 10-course banquet added to the spirit of international good will.
"How many times does an
American — especially in
this county — get to sit down
with Chinese musicians
and talk with them?
The dinner conversation
was fascinating, and
I thoroughly enjoyed
their concert."
— ^James Erdman, associate professor of music
(1863-1957), known as the "Picasso of China" for his innovative and powerful brush work, and "Buffalo Shepherd" by Li Ke-jan, one of China's leading con- temporary artists.
Dinners and luncheons before many of the events gave students and faculty access to a variety of China experts. "It was really something to sit down with Andy Nathan, for example," says Dr. Eugene Brown, professor of political sci- ence. "Nathan is one of America's fore- most experts on China, and I, along with a number of other people, had the oppor- tunity to talk with him in an informal setting. That's a wonderful experience, particularly for students."
James Erdman, associate professor of music, got his first opportunity to hear Chinese music and to meet Chinese musi- cians. "It was a real learning experience," he says. "How many times does an Ameri- can— especially in this county — get to sit down with Chinese musicians and talk with them? The dinner conversation was fascinating, and I thoroughly enjoyed their concert. It proved to me that music is a universal language."
The symposium also represented the college's increasing emphasis on interna- tionalism. Five years ago, 17 American Fulbright Scholars had come to Lebanon Valley to reflect on the student demon- strations in the spring of 1989, when gov- ernment troops fired on the two million people gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Kelli Sorg hopes the college will do more far-reaching colloquiums like "China 2000." "They provide a good chance to expand learning beyond the classroom, which is beneficial to students, faculty and the community," she says. "Also, with a small college Hke Lebanon Valley, there is a community atmosphere and everybody can learn together."
Judy Pehrson, executive director of col- lege relations and editor of The Valley, was part of the committee that planned and implemented "China 2000. "
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In the next century's
world order, the place of the
People's Republic is far from
assured. While its economy
is booming, the country also
faces daunting problems,
says one of the nation's
foremost "China hands."
By Judy Pehrson
Understanding China is like peeling an onion. There are many layers and the out- side is not a completely accurate indicator of what is hidden within, says Dr. Andrew Nathan.
"On the surface, China appears to be extremely prosperous right now," explains the professor of political science and director of Columbia University's East Asian Institute. Nathan spent two days at the college during the "China 2000" sym- posium. "The poverty-stricken peasant China that we were familiar with from different novels, movies and media im- ages has given way to a huge middle- class society in the coastal cities. If you visit, you'll see people wearing nice cloth- ing, eating at McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken and buying CD players and other consumer goods."
Indeed, says Nathan, China's economy is growing at the rate of 1 2 percent a year. That gives rise to predictions in some quarters that in the first decade of the 21st century China will overtake Japan and become the number two economic power in the world in terms of gross GNP.
But when you peel down to the next layer of the Chinese onion, he adds, you find that the impressive surface economic growth disguises some important weak- nesses. For example, corruption is wide- spread and urban inflation is running at 21 percent. And while part of the economy is thriving, the public sector is languishing.
"One-third of state-owned enterprises are in the red — and there are some 80,000 factories and other businesses owned by
Sorting out the Chinese Conundmm
Columbia University's Dr. Andrew Nathan outlined five possible scenarios for the world's most populous nation.
government," Nathan notes. "Plus many of those in the black are not efficient — equip- ment is old and broken down, there's a lot of inventory in warehouses because the products are outdated and no longer mar- ketable, people are sitting around doing very little and the firms are paying pen- sions to large numbers of retired workers, etc. Even those enterprises making money are doing so because the government is loaning them money and protecting them."
There is also a hidden layer of politi- cal instability and the possibility of a pro- tracted power struggle when Premier Deng Xiaoping, who is very ill, dies.
"If you go to Beijing and talk to people privately— whether to intellectuals or ordinary people — they are all paying avid
attention to the dying emperor and what will happen when he goes. The death of the emperor always produces a power struggle in any imperial court," Nathan observes.
While Deng has anointed Jiang Zeming, currently head of the Commu- nist Party, to be his successor, there are potential rivals, says Nathan, who visits China at least once a year. One is Li Peng, current prime minister and a stal- wart of the conservative faction. These senior leaders are suspicious of China's increasing interaction with the outside world and are firm supporters of the poli- cies of former Chinese leader Mao
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Zedong. Li is the hardliner who called in the troops to quell the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
A third possible candidate to assume the mantle when Deng dies, states Nathan, is Qiaoshi, head of the National People's Congress (NCP) and a proponent of reform to free up the Chinese economy even more.
While the Beijing elite debate who the new emperor will be, what socialism is and should be, how much of the economy the state should own and other such issues, out in the vast countryside, people are keeping their heads down and making money. "The folks in the provinces could care less about the political debates," Nathan says. "They only care about get- ting that local GNP up, or the local GNP of their unit up — no matter how. Manag- ers have been empowered, and factories and assets that used to be controlled by the state have been given over with the proviso, 'You take it, you make it work.' And they're getting into joint ventures with people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries."
In a country with so many conflicting and competing forces, almost anything can happen, warns Nathan. He offered five scenarios for China in the year 2000:
■ China will fly apart, much as the former Soviet Union has done, with areas like Tibet breaking away, offshore Taiwan declaring independence and Guangdong and Fujian — whose citizens have always felt different from the people in Beijing — going it on their own.
"This is unlikely," Nathan posited. "Keeping the country together is so impor- tant for its security that the military and central government would never allow a break-up to happen."
■ The civilian government will collapse and the military will step in.
Also unlikely, according to Nathan, because there are so many military groups that it would be difficult for them to get together and mount a coup.
"The poverty-stricken
peasant China that we
were familiar with from
different novels, movies
and media images has
given way to a huge
middle-class society
in the coastal cities."
— Dr. Andrew Nathan
■ Succession will work and Jiang Zeming will replace Deng Xiaoping without incident.
Nathan is skeptical of this scenario, too. "There's a power struggle going on, people don't agree on the direction of the country and don't agree that Jiang Zeming is competent to hold power. I believe someone will come along and replace Jiang Zeming."
■ A long process of democratic reform will take place with the NPC taking power, making changes and calling elections.
This could happen, says Nathan, but it would be difficult because NPC delegates are members of the Communist Party, and the party controls their election. Also, NPC meetings are tightly controlled with very short agendas. "The only way this scenario could become a reality is if the man running the government decides to use the NPC to carry out reform."
■ The whole system will fall apart and there will be popular uprisings, strikes and disorder in the streets.
The main factor mitigating against this scenario, says Nathan, is that no one wants it. "They're been through all that with the Cultural Revolution, and now they would really like to have the peace to go about their business and make a living. I hope that this wisdom at the individual level will cumulate into wisdom at the collec- tive level, although we know that often that doesn't take place even in our own country."
There are powerful forces nudging China toward "peaceful evolu- tion"— particularly the economic development that is bringing about mod- ernization, prosperity, social pluralism and the assertion of individual interest, Nathan points out.
Whatever happens in China — and no matter who comes to power — the country faces a very threatening outside world, and that could complicate its future. China is ringed by a number of hostile nations, and the United States has a military pres- ence around its borders as well.
"China has 22 entities to worry about and many have major armies — the top 1 1 or 12 armies in the world surround China. It also has unresolved territorial disputes with eight of those countries, and since 1949 it has had military conflicts with the United States, South Korea, Russia, India and Vietnam," Nathan points out. "There are no buffer states, and China is hard to defend — all of which adds up to a diffi- cult security problem."
In order to keep itself safe, he adds, China must hold the country together, make sure no one dominates the region around it and preserve an environment that will fuel economic growth.
So how will it all end up? Will China be a friend or foe to the United States — and to world order — in the next century?
"It depends on how China integrates itself into a world that is becoming more and more interdependent," says Nathan. "We in the United States cannot control that outcome, but through trade and cul- tural contacts we can have some influ- ence over China's domestic evolution. We can also influence the way China relates to the world through the wisdom of our own government's policy, since we are still the most powerful single government in the world.
"And since America's foreign policy is heavily influenced by public opinion," he adds, "it is significant when citizens inform themselves about another country like China — and your humanities sympo- sium is a wonderful example of that — and be positioned to support a wise foreign policy."
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Lessons from Confucius 2,500 Years Later
A
By Nancy Fitzgerald
professor of English at Temple University, Janet Roberts travels far and wide lecturing for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. She has worked with the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, co-authored text- books, published her own poetry and sponsored a child in Thailand.
Yet to her colleagues in China, where she spent 1986-87 on a cultural exchange program at Fudan University, all of those accomplishments paled in the light of one pilgrimage. Wherever she went, she was introduced as "the teacher who had vis- ited the home of Confucius."
At the university in Shanghai, Roberts instructed the Chinese faculty in Ameri- can poetry and methods of teaching English. When she first arrived, she had a week to spare, and the first thing she wanted to do was to visit Qufu, the ancient home of the great Chinese teacher, and to climb the sacred mountain associ- ated with Taoism and Confucianism.
It was very difficult to get there, she found out. A series of trains, buses and untold pairs of helping hands finally brought her to her destination, where she strolled in the gardens and visited his tomb and the paviUon where he taught. That night she and other guests dined together in the Kong family home and slept in their guest rooms. It was a fitting intro- duction both to a nation that publicly dis- avows Confucianism (it was banned in the People's Republic) and to a people who in private still weave his teachings into the fabric of family life.
Confucianism, whose central principle is human kindness, is a philosophy and a guide to moral conduct rather than a reli- gion. During the Cultural Revolution, many of the tablets containing his teach- ings were destroyed. But, says Roberts, his wisdom was passed down informally, from generation to generation.
At the "China 2000" colloquium, Rob- erts narrated her slides on education in contemporary China. "It is very clear that Confucianism is not dead in China," she affirmed. "Young students spoke to me about things they had learned from their
Janet Roberts offered her observations on Chinese education.
parents and grandparents, and the temples still stand." The Chinese emphasized serv- ing the community rather than the indi- vidual, she observed. Confucian piety was evident in the honoring of family mem- bers and ancestors, and the principles of order and harmony could be found in the elementary school classroom, where chaos was very unlikely to break out. She found that even a policy that Americans might view as repressive — the central government's one-child-per-couple law — was accepted calmly, for the most part, as contributing to the greater good of the country. "The Chinese people are too
aware of the difficulties in their lives because of overpopulation," she noted.
There were times, though, when she found that Confucian ideals and Commu- nist realities didn't seem to meet in peace- ful co-existence — the typical Chinese undergraduate was a case in point. "American students for the most part are more ambitious," Roberts says. "But the Chinese student feels that much of his hfe is regulated and plans are already made for him. So there's less sense of self- determination, which causes less atten- tion to performance. And that definitely does not augment the Confucian ideal of education as a means of realizing your merit."
In her slides, among the flashes of craggy mountains, the smiling faces of peasants and the architectural wonders, was a recurring motif in poetry and paint- ings: images of the plum blossom, the bamboo shoot and the pine tree. Known as the "three friends of winter," these plants symbolize purity, resihence in the face of adversity and incorruptibility. "They are planted together," she observes, "friends in association, each supplying what the other lacks and living in order and harmony."
In China, students of all ages expect order and harmony to rule in the classroom.
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A Slice of Life in Annville
It was August of 1994, and Dr. Eugene Brown was at the Amtrak station in Lancaster, Pa., to meet a visiting professor from abroad. The visitor's arrival here was a big event, and Brown wanted to mark the occasion with a suitable welcome, but his overloaded schedule put the nix on a big shindig. So on the way back from the station, the Lebanon Valley political sci- ence professor picked up a pizza to bring back home.
"There was this distinguished scholar, on his first day in the United States, sit- ting on the floor of my family room eat- ing pizza with me and my wife," recalls Brown. "I knew right then and there that this was a fellow who would have no trouble at all fitting into campus life."
Brown, it turns out, was right on tar- get. Professor Wu Yingen, fresh from Nanjing University in the People's Repub- lic of China, has become an admired teacher, a popular campus figure and the most enthusiastic basketball fan in the history of Lebanon Valley College, all in the space of his eight months in Annville. Wu's visit comes as an outgrowth of Dr. Arthur Ford's year in China as a Fulbright lecturer at Nanjing in 1988-89. Ford, professor of English and dean of international studies at Lebanon Valley, helped to set up a teaching exchange pro- gram between the college and Nanjing University, considered the second most prestigious university in China. Under the agreement, during alternate years, each school will send a professor to teach at the other school. Wu is the first in a series of Chinese professors who will make a short-term home here in Annville; next year, Brown will spend the academic year teaching in Nanjing. "For a small institu- tion like Lebanon Valley," says the po- litical science professor, "this exchange is quite a coup."
Unique Perspective
Professor Wu's duties include team-teach- ing two courses — "Contemporary China" with Brown, and an English course, "Con- temporary Chinese Literature," with Ford.
By Nancy Fitzgerald
Nanjing's Professor Wu
Yingen quickly adapted to
American customs while
using a wok and a quick wit
to win over his new friends.
For Wu, teaching in an American college has been, in many ways, a very different experience.
"The students in China may work a little harder than the ones here and be a bit more focused about their studies," he explains. "But here, teaching is more chal- lenging for the professor. The students are not afraid to ask questions in class, something Chinese students would never do. They would not want to embarrass a teacher or put him in an awkward posi- tion— if the question were a difficult one and the teacher couldn't answer it, he would lose face."
Chinese students, Wu explained, tend to wait until after class to pursue ques- tions and problems with their teachers — the one-to-one situation takes the pressure off the professor. Wu says he welcomes this change in the educational climate. "It's good that American students ask questions. It challenges me, makes me work harder. You have to be ready for anything. Here, I think, 'I'm going to give a lecture tonight; I hope the students will ask a lot of questions.' That's very different than the way it is in China — it's a totally different culture."
Will his American experience affect his approach to teaching when he returns home to Nanjing? "Definitely," he replies. "The students there want to ask ques- tions, and if the professor encourages them, I think they will."
For students in Wu's classes, learning the Chinese perspective presents a rare learning opportunity — and, sometimes, prompts a lively classroom discussion. Junior Ben Ruby, a political science major who took the "Contemporary China"
course, has found the lively exchanges enlightening. "The two instructors often seem to have very different points of view," he says. "We talk a lot about po- litical repression, such as Tiananmen Square. Professor Wu is from a different culture and sometimes what we consider wrong he may not. Sometimes he seems very defensive of China. But our classes are always interesting, and he's a great guy. He learned ournames really quickly, and he keeps in touch with us in and out of the classroom. I just passed him on the sidewalk and we stopped for a nice long chat."
Wu's team-teaching with Ford sails on the somewhat smoother waters of lit- erature, avoiding the political questions that are bound to be more controversial. Together, Ford and Wu devised the sylla- bus of their English course; it consists of eight novels or works of collected fiction written after 1949, the year the People's Republic was established. They chose the works thematically to deal with such issues as life in the countryside, urban development and the role of women.
"I think that Chinese culture is a misty thing for most students," says Ford. "They come to this course with only the vaguest notions of what China is like. Here they get a good, realistic dose of what life in China is really about these days."
Though Ford and Wu are from oppo- site sides of the globe, they're exactly the same age and have lived through the events that figure so prominently in the literature they teach. Yet each teacher, of course, has a unique perspective. "We were both 12 years old in 1949," says Ford, "and so we've both lived in the same world from then until now. But this is a rare opportunity for students to see these events through Professor Wu's eyes. When we read about the Cultural Revolu- tion, for instance, or the opening of China to the West in the late '70s, he's been able to tell us what it was like to be there. He's been an incredible, firsthand resource for our discussions."
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From Nanjing to Annville...
Wu Yingen was bom in Suzo, a city famous for its beautiful gar- dens, about 100 kilometers west of Shanghai. He attended sec- ondary schools in Shanghai, and in 1963 graduated from Nanjing University and, later, taught in the English department there. His teaching career was interrupted in 1 966, when the Cultural Revo- lution shut down all Chinese universities and kept them closed until 1972. Along with fellow teachers and students, Wu was sent to live on a farm. There, he worked in the fields, cooked and even learned to give haircuts. "We just went," Wu explains, "because we had to. There was nothing you could do about it. But it was a waste of our time. A week or two in the countryside to get to know some peas- ants would have been a good experience, but a whole year — it kept us from doing so many other things."
Wu returned to Nanjing University in 1972, teaching English and serving as the director of the school's foreign affairs office. In 1982 he traveled to the United States to help set up the Johns Hopkins- Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies; he returned to Nanjing in 1985 to serve as the center's co-director. The center enrolls about 100 students, half of them Chinese and the other half American. "There is a lot of interest in studying English in China," Wu explains. "It's considered the most important foreign language, and many pri- mary school students begin to learn it in the 3rd grade — so by the time they get to the university, they've already been study- ing English for 10 years."
As China becomes more deeply in- volved in the global marketplace, the study of English has taken on increasing impor- tance at Nanjing University as a way to prepare students to serve their country after graduation. "The central government attaches great importance to students preparing to serve what we call the four modernizations — industry, agriculture.
Wu Yingen lias become a devoted fan of the Dutchmen as he shares his insights into Chinese culture.
national defense and science and tech- nology. We hope that students will go on to serve the interests of all the people. So learning English is very important," affirms Wu.
As a university professor in China, Wu says he enjoys complete academic freedom, and as a citizen, more political freedom than ever. "We can criticize our leaders," he explains. "People are enjoy- ing more freedoms, but political reform is slow. We believe that economic reform should come first — China is a big coun- try, with a lot of people in poor living conditions. We want to help people in various areas to become better off and to help others, helping to bring up the whole community. It's different than the Ameri- can system, which is very individualistic. You have the very rich and the very poor. We educate our young people that they should serve all the people."
...and Back Home Again
Life may be a very different sort of busi- ness in Annville than it is in Nanjing, but for Wu, the transition — just as Brown predicted early on — has been seamless. Wu has collected a large and varied assortment of friendships from among stu- dents, faculty and community members, and he's become famous for his home- cooked Chinese dinners. Cooking was one
of those skills he acquired during the Cultural Revolution. "Every other week or so he invites stu- dents over and cooks great meals," says Angela Hamish, a junior English and psychology major. "He makes vegetable fried rice and really good dumplings." Of course, Professor Wu is probably best known on campus for being a loyal and devoted fol- lower of the Dutchmen. "He's a great basketball fan who's gone to every game and knows every player," explains Brown. "He knows more about the game than I do, and I used to play it in college."
One surprise awaiting Wu here was the American approach to communica- tion. "Americans are very straightfor- ward," he explains. "If they want something they say 'yes'; if they don't, they just say 'no'. Chinese people won't usually say that immediately. But I had no difficulty adapting myself."
As Wu's year here draws to a close — he heads back to Nanjing at the end of June — his association with Lebanon Val- ley will continue. The college is hoping to be involved in a videoconferencing project that will link Nanjing University with Lebanon Valley College to share lectures and conferences. "I've seen a demonstra- tion of the technology," Wu explains, "and it will be a wonderful, useful thing for us." It will be with mixed feelings that Wu Yingen returns to his homeland. What will he miss the most when he's back in Nanjing? 'The people," he responds, with- out missing a beat. "Being here at Leba- non Valley has been a much different experience than being in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins — I didn't have these feel- ings there. I didn't have the chance to meet a lot of different kinds of people. But here the people are very friendly and helpful — they take good care of me. When I go back home, I'll miss them the most."
Nancy Fitzgerald is a Lebanon-based freelance writer who contributes regu- larly to national education and consumer publications.
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He Puts a Spin on Teaching History
In an unheated wheelwright's shop in Colonial Williamsburg, John Boag '80 rounds out his college-days fascination with craftsmanship.
By Jody Rathgeb Photos by Tom Rathgeb
Simply put, John Boag '80 teaches history. His classroom, however, has no books or maps — or even desks and chairs. He never gives tests or grades papers. And his students can num- ber in the thousands during a single day.
That's because Boag has put his Lebanon Valley major in history to use as a journeyman wheelwright at Colonial Williamsburg, Va. He teaches visitors about 18th-century life and craftsmanship as he works with hand tools to transform blocks of wood into spoked wheels for carriages and carts.
While at Lebanon Valley, the history major hoped eventually to get a position with the National Park Service. During summer vacations, he volunteered as an interpreter at Colvin Run Union Mills, a restored gristmill in Maryland, where another interest — craftsmanship — was aroused and where he began to see a different way to teach about the past.
"This is kind of an alternative field for people who are history majors," Boag says, making a gesture that includes the wheelwright's shop and all of Colonial Williamsburg. "The approach here is a total approach," he adds, explaining that the details of his workplace, from tools to lighting to his clothing, are as faithful as possible to the experience of the 18th-century craftsman.
Boag's summer work at the gristmill led him to a job managing it after gradua- tion. He says he was happy there, but contacts he had made through conferences and networking made him cast an eye
John Boag '80 takes pride in making well-crafted wheels. Hefty wheels like this one gave colonial wagons greater stability on rugged terrain. In fact, Palatine German settlers in Lancaster County, Pa., in the 1750s were the first to build the large-wheeled Conestoga wagons to haul their produce.
toward Williamsburg. When he gained a chance to make a move to what he calls "the best place in the country" for total history, he became an apprentice in the wheelwright's shop.
At the time, he relates, the type of craft itself didn't matter to him. "I could easily have gone into the cooper's shop," he says by way of example. "But as it turns out, I have a capacity for the work here. Not everyone does." After he served a six-year apprenticeship, he became a journeyman in the shop.
Even though Boag was only in his 20s when he began working at the privately
run restored village, he was old by 18th-century standards. In colonial times, boys began apprenticeships at age 14; they developed a physical capacity for the work as their bodies grew. Today, says Boag, Williamsburg wheelwrights find their work grueling as they try to mold already developed bodies to the daily physical demands. Throughout the craft shops of the village, he says, "you have an increasing number of people going to chiropractors and sitting in whirl- pools just to recover from their day."
Boag knows this firsthand, because four years ago he developed a shoulder problem from his work. Luckily, though.
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"We have the best kind of classroom here. 1 had always been interested in some sort of outdoor /history -related job. "
his own historical research brought him out of it. Studying how wheelwrights worked in the 1700s led him to realize that the way he and his fellow workers were driving spokes into the wheel hub was not only causing the problem, but was inaccurate as well. A change in pro- cedure added to historicity and improved Boag's health.
While Boag did not need a tremen- dous amount of time to make his discov- ery, he notes that research sabbaticals are available to Williamsburg workers to help ensure the authenticity of their teaching. And despite the fact that the costumed workers make wheels, serve meals, print broadsides and give directions to the restrooms, their main job is education.
"We have the best kind of classroom here," he says, recalling that back in his college days, few understood or supported his ambitions. "I had always been inter- ested in some sort of outdoor/history- related job," he says. Dr. Elizabeth Geffen (now professor emerita of history) at first couldn't understand what he wanted to do with his major, he recalls. "But when we were having a discussion on technology, I brought in some information from the gristmill. Then she started realizing a his- tory situation can be a teaching tool."
He adds, "I wasn't that good a student, but I made the best spin of my college education."
The Valley's influence on Boag goes far beyond the standard four years of
Leading the life of a 1700s craftsman requires using hand tools . . .
learning authentic techniques.
, and always wearing one 's waistcoat.
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In Boag 's wheelwright shop in Colonial Williamsburg are period tools and parts of wheels in progress, including hubs (on the right).
memories, he says. Boag and his sister, Jean Boag Reese '76, and her husband, Tim Reese '76, are the third generation in their family to graduate from Lebanon Valley (their grandfather is S.F.W. Morrison '18 and their parents are Mar- garet Bower ' 5 1 and Jack Boag '51).
Boag grew up hearing stories about Lebanon Valley and looking at their year- books. The assumption that he would attend the school was strong, and Boag didn't disappoint his family.
Unlike other family members, how- ever, he did not meet his spouse at the college. Boag's wife, Jennifer, graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where she now works in development. They have two children, Robert, 5 and Catherine, 3.
"It's been really difficult with a Wil- liam and Mary grad," he mock-sighs, describing an ongoing college rivalry at home. The Valley's 1994 national cham- pion men's basketball team, he comments,
really boosted his leverage in the "battle." Would he consider making the Boag family fourth-generation Flying Dutch- men? "LVC's a great school. I'd love to send my kids there," he says.
Living and working in Williamsburg places people like John Boag in the odd position of straddling the 18th and 20th centuries. How else to explain a man who wakes up in a modem home, puts on a waistcoat ("To be seen in town without your waistcoat is like walking down the street in your underwear," says Boag), uses historic hand tools at work, then gets in his car to go home?
Although he wears period clothing, works in an unheated shop illuminated only by natural light and follows 18th-century methods in his work, Boag stops short of saying that he and his fel- low craftsmen think like folks did more than 200 years ago. "An 1 8th-century per- son wouldn't have considered this all that bad," he says, gesturing around the shop on a frigid day. "We are the ones bur- dened with all that stuff [of the 20th cen- tury]." And, he admits, "You can only get it so close. You can't change us from being in the 20th century, and without visitors we wouldn't be here."
The very purpose of his job — teaching — somewhat taints the authenticity of the craft shop, he says. No 18th-century wheelwright would have tolerated crowds of curious onlookers. Boag likens it to the reception a kibitzer would receive in an auto body shop today. But Colonial Williamsburg encourages visitors' ques- tions and emphasizes to employees the importance of hospitality.
"By and large, our average visitor is into it and wants to be here," Boag says of his unusual classroom, noting that it took him some time to get the hang of talking to the crowds while working. Even the exchanges among the four workers become part of the educational experi- ence, he says. "We think visitors like the interaction among us just as much as talk- ing to them."
His co-workers agree with him that working at Colonial Williamsburg is "a neat job," says Boag. "I can't see anyone who works here sitting in an office."
And occasionally, he admits to a bit of awe about where he is. "The thing that amazes me — I'm surrounded by some of the finest craftsmen in the country. And I'm considered one of their peers," he says, looking stunned.
"I couldn't think of anything else I'd want to do."
Jody Rathgeb is a freelance writer based in Virginia.
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A Man of Many Hats
How a physics teacher, GE researcher and headhunter turned his talents to making the best dam cowboy hats in Bozeman, Montana.
By Seth ]. Wenger '94
When John Morris '59 couldn't find the right hunting bow, he thought he'd try his hand at building one. That effort led to the highly successful and nationally known Rocky Mountain Recurve custom bow company.
Then when John Morris couldn't find the right hat, he figured he could build one of those, too.
Now Morris and his son, John, Jr., make custom hats full-time in their shop in Bozeman, Montana. They make all types of headgear, but their biggest sell- ers are cowboy hats, which Morris field- tests while riding on his friends' cattle ranches. With a backlog of four and a half months, business is booming at the Rocky Mountain Hat Company.
But what is a former physics professor and General Electric researcher doing rop- ing cattle and molding felt in Montana?
The story begins in Central Pennsyl- vania. Raised on a farm near his hometown of Harrisburg, Morris followed in the footsteps of his father (Jack Morris '37) by attending Lebanon Valley Col- lege. He majored in chemistry but dis- covered physics his senior year.
After earning a master's degree at the University of New Hampshire, Morris re- ceived an invitation to return to Lebanon Valley to teach. "I got a call from Jake Rhodes asking if I was interested in com- ing back as an assistant professor of phys- ics. He offered me $7,000," Morris recalls. Dr. Jacob Rhodes '43, then chairman of the physics department, is now a profes-
At his Rocky Mountain Hat Company, John Morris '59 steams the brim of a cowboy hat and gives it a "pencil curl. " This type of hat, with a "Montana crease" in the crown, was popular in the 1880s and 1890s.
sor emeritus. Since Morris was finding it difficult to raise his two children on a graduate stipend, he decided to postpone his Ph.D. and take the offer.
Morris taught at Lebanon Valley from 1963 to 1966, then accepted a position with General Electric. After several years of developing large screen televisions in Syracuse, N.Y., he transferred to the cen- tral GE laboratory in Schenectady. He remained there for nine years, when he abruptly decided to make a change.
"In 1978," he says, "my daughter was finishing her sophomore year at the Uni- versity of Colorado, and my son was entering Fort Lewis College, in Durango. I drove him out, and when I got there I looked around and said, 'I'm staying.' "
Morris returned to Schenectady, quit his job, sold his house, and within a few weeks was searching for a position in Boulder.
The recruiting agency he contacted offered him a job as a headhunter, but after a few months Morris realized he could do
better on his own. He established a headhunting agency for oil and gas exploration professionals. His scientific background gave him a good rapport with his clients, and Morris notes, he "ended up having a very successful business." He even managed to help launch several new oil and gas exploration companies.
Eventually, however, oil prices started to fall, and Morris saw that the future lay elsewhere. That was when he built his first hunting bow. Though a departure from his previous work, it seemed like a natural thing to do.
"I've always been a bow hunter, and I've always been a craftsman," he says. "I've always worked with my hands."
Having divorced several years before, Morris remarried in 1983 and moved his fledgling business to Bozeman. There he and his wife, Chandra, were joined by Morris' son, who became a partner in Rocky Mountain Recurve. For several years the father-and-son team built high- quality bows for clients around the globe. Then, four years ago, Morris saw another business opportunity in his futile search
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for a well-made custom cowboy hat.
"I couldn't find one that fit right. I'm sort of between sizes," he says, explain- ing that conventional hats only come in increments of one-half inch. Quality was also a problem in most of the hats that Morris tried. So, recalling a hatter he had once seen, he set about making a custom- ized model. He was pleased with the result: "Actually," he says, "I still wear that hat."
Before long, Morris and his son were in the custom hat business. They started from scratch, designing all of the equipment and tools they needed to prepare the raw mate- rial, shape the hat, and most importantly, size the customer's head.
"I invented a device that allows me to measure not only the circumference of the head, but the shape of the head. It feels just like a hat when you put it on," Morris says. The device is a lined-copper band with adjusting screws that can mea- sure down to the nearest sixteenth of an inch. The band is then used as a model to form a wooden block, over which the actual hat is shaped.
Morris and his son haven't patented any of their equipment. "In fact," Morris says, "I've made the equipment for other custom hatters. We're not competitive; there's enough business out there for all of us."
For the raw material, Morris and his son use three grades of felt: 100 percent beaver, 50 percent beaver/50 percent rab- bit, and 100 percent rabbit. The high- quality materials are only available from one supplier, Morris says.
Customers at the Rocky Mountain Hat Company's retail shop in Bozeman range from local ranchers to tourists go- ing to and from nearby Yellowstone Park. Though most of them order cowboy hats, Morris says that he and his son can make virtually any hat a customer requests, in- cluding antique styles such as bowlers and 19-century ladies' chapeaus. "Wejust build all kinds of hat styles and sizes," he
(Top) John Morris, Jr. (left) models a rodeo favorite with a "cattleman's crease, " while his dad dons an old-timey favorite — especially beloved by Hopalong Cassidy. When Westerns became popular in the 1930s, "each cowboy hero had to have a separate kind of hat, " says Morris, who rims the business with his son.
(Above) The father-and-son team gladly share their trade secrets for making cus- tomized chapeaus. Here, John Morris, Jr. irons a brim.
says. "In my shop here I must have 35 or 40 different hats."
Cowboy hats alone come in numerous styles. "There are still regional differences in cowboy hats," Morris explains. "The Great Basin cowboys, called Buckaroos, wear a different style than the Montana cowboys, for example." As far as his own big sellers, he says, "there are two fairly common styles. One's called a cattleman's; it's sort of the standard one that rodeo cowboys wear. The other one we call the Montana Crease." That style dips in the front, and is sometimes called a "Gus Style" hat, he says.
Morris and his wife are frequently on the road, displaying their hats at regional rodeos, gear shows and cowboy poetry gatherings. When not traveling or mak- ing hats, Morris likes to hunt, fish and ride the range.
"I've got rancher friends who have 1,000 or 2,000 head of cattle. I help them out sometimes," he says. "Around here they still do things the way they did 100 years ago."
Seth Wenger '94 is an editor/analyst at Biosis in Philadelphia.
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NEWS BRIEFS
Whitaker grant funds science education project
The college has received a $316,817 grant from the Whitaker Foundation for contin- ued support of the Science Education Part- nership. This program seeks to strengthen science teaching in grades K-8 in 22 area school districts (see "Turning Kids on to Science" in the Fall 1994 issue).
The grant, payable over three years, is the third grant that the Foundation has awarded to the college. In 1993, Lebanon Valley received $28,000, and in 1992, $80,000. The latest grant completes Whitaker funding of the Partnership.
The program will involve an estimated 50,000 students and 1,000 teachers. Directed by Maria Jones, it offers a "hands-on" approach to science, with opportunities for teachers and students to work directly with scientific instruments and with experiments and projects pro- vided through the Partnership's resources center, located at the college.
Campus quizzers
Over 500 of the brightest students from 65 high schools throughout southcentral and southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as a team from Colonia, N.J., arrived on campus in March to participate in the 15th Annual Quiz Bowl.
The competition, the largest of its kind in the state, challenged students to test their knowledge by answering questions from a variety of academic fields as well as popular culture. College faculty, admin- istrators and staff spent months preparing the questions and were on-hand to serve as judges and moderators.
An eight-member team from Manheim Township High School captured the title and will retain possession of the Clay Memorial Cup, the competition's "travel- ing" trophy.
Members of the victorious Manheim Township High School Quiz Bowl team ponder a difficult question in the final round of the competition.
Honoring our founders
Earl H. Hess, president of Lancaster Labo- ratories, was the keynote speaker for the 16th Annual Founders Day Convocation on February 2 1 . The college honored Hess with the 1995 Founders Day Award.
In his keynote address, Hess decried the breakdown in "the moral fabric of our society." Older Americans have derived their values from the family, religion, edu- cation and the workplace, but too few of them now assume the responsibility for keeping those institutions healthy, he said. He commended the national initiative on character education in the schools, citing programs that "add a fourth and fifth R (respect and responsibility) to the cur- ricula in creative ways."
Hess founded Lancaster Laboratories in 1961; since then, the company has grown from a one-room lab into an orga- nization with more than 500 employees
providing analytical, R&D and consult- ing services in the environmental, food and pharmaceutical sciences.
Throughout his career, Hess has served as a scientist, entrepreneur and community leader. He chairs the board of directors of Mountain States Analytical, Inc., in Salt Lake City. He is a founding member and treasurer of the board of directors of the Commonwealth Foundation. And he is a member of the Environment, Economic Policy and Food and Agriculture Commit- tees of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was a former president of the American Council of Independent Laboratories ( ACIL) and chair of the Pennsylvania Del- egation to the 1986 White House Confer- ence on Small Business, as well as the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and In- dustry. In 1994, he completed a seven-year term as a director of the U.S. Chamber of
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Lebanon Valley President John A. Synodinos and Founders Day honoree Earl H. Hess admire the pewter award plate.
Commerce, serving additionally as East- em region vice chairman and Environ- ment Committee cliairman. For 14 years, he was a director of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.
Hess and his firm have received numer- ous awards, including the 1992 Harvard George S. Dively Award for Corporate Social Initiative for achievements in com- bining the best aspects of a free-market economy with a deep sense of social responsibility.
Among his numerous public service honors are recognition as an ACIL Fel- low in 1992 and as the 1988 Business Leader of the Year by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.
Task Force on Diversity
To increase diversity on campus. Vice Presi- dent and Dean William J. McGill has con- vened a 14-member Diversity Task Force Committee. The committee is charged with "establishing goals in terms of diversity and developing strategies for creating an environment on campus in which diversity is regarded as a positive value and in which there is both a celebration of, and respect for, differences," according to McGill. "It will also make suggestions as to how we might measure our success in reaching these goals" he added.
The college's previous five-year stra- tegic plan set forth a goal of increasing diversity, but did not outline specific strat- egies, McGill noted. "The new draft strategic plan reiterates the diversity goal in a much more direct and specific way.
and argues for it in terms of its educa- tional value for all of our students."
The committee plans to draw a variety of people — from both on and off cam- pus— into its deliberations, which include general forums for discussion, according to McGill. "We're trying to gather a vari- ety of perspectives on this issue."
Serving on the committee are William J. Brown, Jr. '79, dean of Admission and Financial Aid; Dave Newell, assistant dean of Student Services; Greg Stanson, vice president of Enrollment and Student Ser- vices; Cornell Wilson, student; Albertine Washington, an elementary school teacher in the Lebanon School District and win- ner of Pennsylvania's Teacher of the Year Award; William Lehr, vice president and secretary of Hershey Foods Corporation; Sharon Raffield, associate professor of sociology and social work; Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson, associate professor of English; Dr. Arthur Ford, associate dean of international programs; Deanne Dodson, assistant professor of psychol- ogy; Dr. George Curfman '53, professor of music; Linda Summers, instructor in education; Dr. Michael Fry, associate pro- fessor of mathematical sciences; and Joan Ortiz '95, student.
International programs scrutinized
The college's international programs — including recruitment and study abroad — are being examined by a com- mittee convened by Vice President and
Dean William J. McGill. Objectives of the International Programs Committee include:
■ serving as a supervisory group for the international programs of the college,
■ stimulating interest among students in study-abroad programs,
■ assisting in the recruitment of interna- tional students,
■ encouraging faculty to pursue interna- tional opportunities and inviting faculty with international perspectives onto campus,
■ assessing and providing advice on international issues and
■ acting as a liaison with the faculty concerning international programs.
Judy Pehrson, executive director of College Relations, is chairing the com- mittee, and Dr. Barney Raffield, associate professor of management, is secretary.
Other members are Dr. Michael Day, physics chair; Dr. Phylis Dryden, associ- ate professor of English; Dr. Arthur Ford, associate dean of international programs (ex-officio); Vicki Gingrich, international student advisor; Angela Hamish '96, stu- dent; Rostislav Kopylkov '95, student; Beth Paul '98, student; Meiko Mori, stu- dent; Gail Sanderson, assistant professor of accounting; Dr. Joelle Stopkie, associ- ate professor of French.
Minimal increase
Lebanon Valley's fees will rise just 2.8 percent for the 1995-96 academic year — the smallest increase in 12 years. Tuition will be $14,390, room and board $4,755 and required fees $395.
"We are pleased that the fee increase is significantly lower than that of many other private colleges," President John Synodinos stated. He noted that a recent USA Today article reported that many pri- vate colleges were raising fees 5 to 6 percent. "We're committed to holding our fee increases at, or near, the projected consumer price index," he affirmed.
The college is increasing its overall financial aid budget by 14 percent for the coming year.
Generous bequest
Enos A. Detweiler '29, a Palmyra, Pa., native who died in 1992, has made a bequest to Lebanon Valley in the amount of $350,000 to establish the Enos A. and Helen A. Detweiler Fund. Five students have already benefited from the fund.
The scholarships will be awarded to graduates of the Palmyra School Dis- trict who demonstrate good character and
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financial need. The awards are renew- able annually if the recipient maintains a minimum 2.5 grade point average.
Enos Detweiler majored in history at Lebanon Valley. After graduation, he moved to Evanston, III., where he rose to the position of chief of marketing for the G. H. Tennant Company. He retired in 1 964 and lived the remainder of his years in Boynton Beach, Fla.
Music Students to benefit
Mildred Demmy, age 76, was a quiet woman who lived simply and frugally in a cottage at the United Christian Church Home in North Annville. Until she died last January, one of her greatest plea- sures, according to friends, was attend- ing the free Sunday concerts at Lebanon Valley.
"She just loved music and she loved those concerts," says Glenna Stamm, of Bethel, executrix for Mrs. Demmy 's es- tate, which left $309,460 to Lebanon Val- ley to establish the Clarence and Mildred Demmy Endowed Scholarship Fund for handicapped music students. "She was not a musician herself, but she used to talk often about how much she enjoyed the concerts. As far as I know, she had no other connection to the college."
Mrs. Demmy, who maiden name was Mildred Wagner, was bom and raised in Cleona, Pa., and graduated from Leba- non High School in 1934. She married Clarence J. Demmy in 1942. The two had no children. She worked in the Hershey chocolate factory, and he was a plumber for Hershey Estates. Clarence Demmy died in 1982.
"She lived a very frugal life," says Mrs. Stamm. "She was also a very pri- vate person, but a very nice person. This was the first Christmas that we didn't have her for dinner, and she was missed."
Lebanon Valley was delighted by the Demmy bequest, which only recently be- came final. "It was a pleasant surprise," said Dr. Mark L. Mecham, chair of the music department. "I only wish I had had a chance to meet Mrs. Demmy. She must have been a wonderful person. Her generosity will help many, many music students."
International Culture Day
"Languages are the Bridges to Cultures" was the theme of the 13th Annual Inter- national Culture Day, held on campus on March 24. Over 600 students from for-
eign language clubs at 20 area high schools participated in the daylong event, which was sponsored by the foreign languages department; the International Student Organization; and the Spanish, French and German clubs.
The day's activities featured work- shops led by Lebanon Valley students. Peter Stasko, a Slovakian student, dis- cussed world travel; Jeff Allchurch, an exchange student from Anglia Polytech- nic University in England, compared the educational systems of England and the United States; and Huang Wei Kai, a Tai- wanese student, held a Chinese language session and performed traditional Chinese songs. Art Gallery Director David Brigham gave a tour of Chinese paintings in the Chu-Griffis Art Collection, which was on display in the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery.
Treating schizophrenia
In a combined effort with the Harrisburg State Hospital, the Institute for Psycho- therapy and the Veteran's Administration Medical Center in Lebanon, the college co- sponsored a seminar on "Treating the Per- son with Schizophrenia."
The seminar was designed for profes- sionals who work with those suffering from schizophrenia and family members who are also affected by the disease. It was organized by Dr. Salvatore Cullari, chair and associate professor of psychology.
The seminar featured presentations by Dr. Joseph DiGiacomo, professor of psy- chiatry at the University of Pennsylva- nia; Dr. Fred Frese, director of psychology at the Western Reserve Psychiatric Hospi- tal; Dr. Diane March, professor of psy- chology at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg; and Dr. Patrick McKee, director of Spring Lake Ranch in Cuttingsville, Vt.
Bishop gift aids library and chemistry
Lebanon business leader Vernon Bishop, board chairman and CEO of Lebanon Chemical Corp., has pledged a major gift in support of the college's Toward 2000 campaign. Half of the gift will be used for the new high-tech library, which will be called the Vernon and Doris Bishop Library, and the other half will establish the Vernon and Doris Bishop Distin- guished Chair in Chemistry, the college's
first fully funded faculty chair.
The Bishop gift to the library will as- sist the college in qualifying for an addi- tional $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation. The gift also advanced the campaign to within $2 mil- lion of its $21 million goal.
Seniors raise largest class gift ever
The Class of 1995 raised $20,000 to meet its Senior Gift Drive — the largest amount ever raised by a graduating class and the first time any class has ever met its goal.
The drive began in mid-November, with senior Roni Russell as director and 33 members of the class involved in the effort. When December arrived and the goal had not been reached, the steering committee decided to continue contacting seniors during the spring semester. "We were happy with what had been raised at that point, because we had already done more than the classes before us," Russell said. "But we really wanted to hit $20,000."
The steering committee conducted sev- eral mini-phonathons, as well as some in-person solicitations to reach classmates who had not been contacted. As a result, 121 students contributed to the drive, and the class reached the $20,000 m^rk.
The Senior Gift Drive Committee has decided to use the funds to help construct the Arch Bridge in the Peace Garden, which will be located behind Vickroy and Center halls.
Students rally to save federal financial aid
During the spring semester, students launched a three-day postcard campaign to fight a Congressional proposal to cut $20 billion in federal student aid. Over 500 students signed the pre-printed cards, which described the important role that student financial aid plays in America's future. The cards were then mailed to each student's respecfive senator or member of Congress.
Over the next five years, the proposal would increase student indebtedness by 50 percent. The $20 billion in cuts pro- posed include removing the in-school interest subsidy on Stafford Loans and eliminating campus-based aid programs (Perkins Loans, College Work-Study and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants.)
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NEWSMAKERS
Tenure/promotions granted
The following faculty members have re- ceived tenure effective for the 1995-96 academic year: Dr. Paul Heise, assistant professor of economics; Dr. Jeanne Hey, assistant professor of economics; and Dr. Steve M. Specht, assistant professor of psychology.
And the following faculty have been promoted, effective for 1995-96: Pro- moted to the position of associate profes- sor are Donald Boone, hotel management, and Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson, English. Promoted to the position of professor are Dr. Sharon Clark, management; Dr. Salvatore Cullari, psychology; Dr. Michael Day, physics; and Dr. Mark Mecham, music.
Scholarship to honor musician
The Fred Erdman Endowed Scholarship Fund, established by friends of the Leba- non, Pa., musician, will offer an annual award to a music major at Lebanon Valley.
The fund has grown to over $1 1,000, thanks to a scholarship concert held in October, a special dinner and other events.
Erdman has a strong connection to Lebanon Valley through his two sons — James and Timothy — who are adjunct instructors in the music department.
Studies in Washington
Kelly Fisher, a junior English communi- cations major from Dover, Pa., spent the fall 1994 semester studying at the Ameri- can University in Washington, D.C.
Fisher attended seminars led by Helen Thomas, Sam Donaldson of ABC and other Washington journalists. She also interned at the Democratic Leadership Council, where she helped organize press conferences and proofread policy papers. Through her work with the Council, Fisher got to shake hands with Vice President Al Gore and President Bill Clinton (who was a founding member of the Council and a former chair).
Horace Tousley
Carl Steiner
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Dr. Gary Grieve-Carlson
Dr. Klement Hambourg
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Anna Piper
Earns degree
Diane Wenger '92, director of alumni affairs, in January graduated with a master' s degree in American studies from the Pennsylvania State University Harris- burg campus. During the spring semester, she taught "Introduction to American Studies" at Lebanon Valley.
Receives certification
Richard Charles, vice president for Advancement, has been designated a Cer- tified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) by the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, an organization based in Al- exandria, Va., with more than 15,000 members.
Charles received the three-year certi- fication after taking an exam and submit- ting a professional portfolio. CFRE status indicates that an individual has achieved a standard of tenure, performance, educa- tion, knowledge and service to the fund- raising profession.
Retirees
From the faculty :
Dr. Klement Hambourg, associate pro- fessor of music, retired this spring after 13 years with the college. He was named a professor emeritus of music. Hambourg directed the college orchestra and taught string methods and introduction to music, as well as private violin and viola lessons. Each year, he presented a recital on campus. He plans to spend his time performing, particularly chamber music on campus and within the area; continu- ing as a vioUnist with the Reading Sym- phony (since 1984); and writing a family history.
Dr. David Lasky, professor of psy- chology, retired this spring after 21 years with the college. He has taught a variety of courses, including "Career Counseling," "Research Design," "Introduction to Psy- chology," "History and Theory of Psychol- ogy" and "General Psychology." He chaired the department from 1986 to 1994 and most recently has been a member of the Institutional Research Committee and the Syllabus Development Committee. Lasky plans to continue working part- time in a non-teaching capacity and to spend time traveling.
Horace Tousley, associate professor of mathematical sciences, retired this spring after 14 years with the college. The mathematician taught a variety of classes, including calculus for science majors, linear algebra, operations research
and intermediate statistics for math majors, and finite math and elementary statistics for non-majors. Tousley chaired the department from 1982 to 1994 and has served on numerous committees, including the Central Committee, the Financial Aid Committee and the Fac- ulty Policies Committee. He has also been involved with the college's Open House program and for 12 years has helped with the annual Quiz Bowl competition.
From the Housekeeping staff:
Carl Steiner has retired after 29 years of service. Steiner was responsible for the upkeep of Keister and Funkhouser dor- mitories and spent his last year on cam- pus working in Miller Chapel. Before retiring, he was honored by the Chaplain's Office for the caring attitude and positive influence he displayed toward students.
James Werner retired in December 1994, after serving the college for over 20 years. Werner joined the college's Food Service in 1971, and worked for Hall- mark Management Services for one year ( 1 989-90) before joining the Housekeep- ing staff.
Anna Piper retired in June 1994. Piper began working for Food Service in 1978, and spent 1989-90 working for Hallmark Management Services before accepting a position with Housekeeping.
Honored by peers
Paul Brubaker, director of Planned Giv- ing, in January was honored for his work with the Susquehanna Planned Giving Council. Brubaker was awarded a plaque recognizing him for founding the council in 1992 and for serving a two-year term as its first president. He will remain active in the organization as a director.
Dr. Barney Raffield, associate pro- fessor of management, served on the review board for the Journal of Mana- gerial Issues, which focuses on issues in management, marketing, distribuUon, accounting and finance. He was also named to the 1994 Academic Council of the national chapter of the American Marketing Association. The council develops and monitors academic stan- dards for the association.
Winning writer
Marie Riegel-Kinch, adjunct instructor of art, won second place in a writing con- test sponsored by the Institute of Children's Literature in Danbury, Conn. She was one
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of 4,000 entrants who submitted their 750- word adventure stories for children ages 7-10. The March issue of Children 's Writer named the top three winners and discussed why they were chosen.
Attends inauguration
Dr. Susan Verhoek, professor of biol- ogy, represented the college during the inauguration in January of President Thomas B. Courtice at her alma mater, Ohio Wesleyan University.
Art featured
Dan Massad, artist-in-residence, exhib- ited "Pastels" at the University of Toledo in Ohio from January 8, 1995, through February 5. He also held workshops and lectures for students there for a week.
Meetings, meetings, meetings
Dr. Mark Mecham, chair and professor of music, in November attended the annual meeting of the National Association of Schools of Music in Boston.
Karen Best, registrar, attended the 64th annual regional conference of the Middle States Association of Collegiate Regis- trars and Officers of Admissions in Atlan- tic City, N.J., last fall. Best serves on the Nominations and Elections Committee.
Donald Boone, assistant professor of hotel management, attended the Central Chapter President's Night and Installa- tion of Officers for the Pennsylvania Res- taurant Association. At that January 15 event, Boone was installed for his fifth year on the board of directors.
Faculty publications
The Journal of Chemical Education has accepted for publication an article titled "Making Sparklers as an Introductory Laboratory," written by Dr. Richard Cornelius, professor of chemistry, and sophomores Allen Keeney and Chris- tina Walters. Keeney is a double major in chemistry and physics, and Walters is a biochemistry major; both students worked in the Garber Science Center labs last summer. Their efforts were supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation for the development of the new chemistry curriculum, "Chemistry Domesticated."
Dr. Salvatore Cullari, chair and asso- ciate professor of psychology, has recently
published two articles. "Use of Individual Differences Questionnaire with Psychiat- ric Inpatients" appeared in Perceptual and Motor Skills (1995, Vol. 80) and "Levels of Anger in Psychiatric Inpatients and Normal Subjects" was in Psychological Reports. (\994,Wo\. 15).
Publishes book
Dr. David Brigham, assistant professor of art and director of the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, has written a book. Public Culture in the Early Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience. The volume, published by the University Press Division of the Smithsonian Insti- tution Press, focuses on Charles Wilson Peale, patriarch of a prominent artistic family in Philadelphia. Peale redesigned his personal painting gallery in 1786 to create one of America's first museums of art and science.
Brigham traces the development of Peale's Philadelphia Museum as an educational institution, as a business and as a form of entertainment. He demon- strates how this "world in miniature" helped define the terms of participation in early national cultural institutions.
The college publicized the work at a book launch in May. In July, the Smith- sonian will sponsor a book launch.
Offers tax seminar
Daniel Cesta, assistant professor of man- agement, sponsored a seminar in upstate New York dealing with tax planning tips and investment strategies for high-income taxpayers. Cesta and the Albany office of Merrill Lynch conducted the seminar, held in the Schnectady Public Library.
Honored for service
The following employees were honored at the annual employee recognition ban- quet on April 27 at the Quality Inn in Lebanon:
For 35 years: Dr. Perry Troutman, professor emeritus of religion.
For 30 years: Dr. Arthur L. Ford, associate dean of international programs and professor of English.
For 25 years: Dr. Philip Billings, chair and professor of English, and Dr. Joerg Mayer, professor of mathematical sciences.
For 20 years: Lewis Cooke, equip- ment manager of the Athletic Department, and Julie Wolfe, director of the health center and head nurse.
For 15 years: William J. Brown, Jr. '79, dean of Admission and Financial Aid; Dr. Donald Dahlberg, professor of chem- istry; Dr. Michael Grella, chair and pro- fessor of education; William Rothermel, Buildings and Grounds; and Patricia Schools, secretary of Student Activifies and Career Planning and Placement.
For 10 years: Dr. Richard Cornelius, chair and professor of chemistry; Dr. Salvatore Cullari, chair and associate professor of psychology; Robert Dillane, director of Administrative Computing; George Heckard, security officer; Shirley May Kelley, Buildings and Grounds; Gwendolyn Pierce, adminis- trative support assistant to the controller/ treasurer and to the vice president for Administration; Mervin Yingst, Build- ings and Grounds.
For five years: Karen Best, registrar; Susan Borelli-Wentzel, assistant direc- tor of Admission; Dr. Gary Grieve- Carlson, associate professor of English; Sharon Hirneisen, Buildings and Grounds; Dr. Thomas Liu, assistant pro- fessor of mathematical sciences; Dr. Mark Mecham, chair and professor of music; Judy Pehrson, executive director of College Relations; Dr. Barney Raffield, associate professor of manage- ment; Sharon Raffield, associate profes- sor of sociology and social work and director of the Honors Program; Denise Smith, assistant to the president; Ella Stott, catalog assistant and library secre- tary; Mary Beth Strehl, director of Media Relations; Dr. Dale Summers, assistant professor of education; and Mike Zeigler, director of user services and com- puter workshops.
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SPORTS
By John B. Deamer, Jr. Director of Sports Information
Men's Basketball (MAC Champions)
The men captured their second straight Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championship with a 61-56 win over Wilkes before an SRO crowd in Lynch Gymnasium.
Senior guard Mike Rhoades was named a First Team All-America by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. During the season, Rhoades became Lebanon Valley's all-time scor- ing king (2,050 points).
Rhoades also became Lebanon Valley's all-time career (668) and single- season (192) assists leader. He was named the ECAC Southern Division and MAC Commonwealth League MVP.
Senior center Mark Hofsass and senior forward Jason Say were also named MAC Commonwealth League All-Stars. Hofsass surpassed the 1,000-point mark during the season.
This season, Lebanon Valley received its third straight invitation to compete in the NCAA Division III Championship tournament. But its hopes for a repeat of last year's crowning achievement came to an end in Lynch in the first round when Goucher defeated the Dutchmen 102-91.
The Dutchmen began their MAC play- off run with a 125-80 win over Upsala. In that game, Lebanon Valley set seven school records. The three team records were for most points scored in a game (125), most treys scored as a team (15) and most field goals made by a team in a game (48).
Four individual records were also set during the Upsala game. Hofsass sur- passed the 1 ,000-point mark and Rhoades became the all-time scoring king (the old record was 1 ,976 points), the first to reach 2,000 and the scorer of the most treys in a single game (7).
In the semi-final game of the MAC tournament, Lebanon Valley defeated Scranton 65-48.
The Dutchmen finished the season 22- 6, their second straight season with 20- plus wins. First-year Head Coach Brad McAlester was named the MAC Com- monwealth League Coach of the Year.
Lebanon Valley's seniors — Rhoades, Hofsass, Say and guard Keith Adams — graduate knowing that they won 75 per- cent of the games they played during their college careers.
Women's Basketball (11-13)
Even before the season started, Lebanon Valley lost star forward Amy Jo Rushanan to a season-ending knee injury. But the Dutchwomen remained competitive and recorded their second straight season with 10 or more wins under second-year Coach Peg Kauffman.
Sophomore forward Susan DuBosq was named an MAC Commonwealth League All-Star. DuBosq led her team this season with 10.7 points and 8.6 rebounds per game. She scored a team-high 106 field goals and led the Dutchwomen with 17 blocks. Among MAC leaders, DuBosq fin- ished the season ranked among the top 10 rebounders.
Two highlights of the season included wins over Moravian (79-65) and Franklin & Marshall (59-58), both in Lynch and both ending losing streaks of 17 games. Leba- non Valley had not defeated the Moravian Greyhounds since 1978. The win over the F&M Diplomats was the first since 1985.
Lebanon Valley also defeated Susque- hanna, 75-65. The Crusaders had come to Annville ranked 1 1th in the country.
Sophomore forward Jen Emerich and senior guard Joda Glossner were named to the MAC All-Academic team.
Guard Mike Rhoades '95 was named All-America and became the college's all-time scoring king with 2,050 points.
Men's and Women's Swimming
Senior Howie Spangler placed first in the 100 yard and 200 yard freestyle and the 100 yard backstroke at the MAC Cham- pionships. The accomplishment earned him the David B. Eavenson Award for the Outstanding Swimmer. This is the sec- ond MAC gold metal Spangler has won in the 200 yard freestyle.
Junior Bob Twining placed second in the 100 yard and 200 yard breaststroke and sixth in the 200 yard individual medley.
Gina Fontana, a junior, came in fourth in the 200 yard and 400 yard individual med- leys and fifth in the 200 yard breaststroke.
Wrestling
Though struggling as a team, Lebanon Valley produced two wrestlers who com- peted well in the MAC and NCAA East- em Regional Championship tournaments.
Sophomore Joe Howe finished second in the MAC and NCAA tournaments in the 190-pound weight class. Howe also finished third at 190 pounds in Lebanon Valley's 25th Annual Petrofes Invita- tional. He was 23-7 during the season.
Senior Chad Lutz finished third at the MAC Championships and fifth in the NCAA tournament at 167 pounds. Lutz was 21-6 in dual matches.
Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Reld
Sophomores Nathan Hillegas and Jen Nauss were named the MVPs of this year's MAC Men's and Women's Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Hillegas finished fourth in the 55 meter hurdles (8.49), first in the 400 meter (53.04), first in the 200 meter (23.92), and was part of the 3,200 meter relay race (third - 9:18.89) and the 1,600 meter relay (first - 3:38.26).
Nauss finished first in the long jump and set a new conference record in the process (18*3.75"). Her performance qualified her for the NCAA Division in Championships, where she eventually fin- ished 10th in this event. Her other first- place finishes in the MAC Championships came in the 55 meter dash (7.59) and the 200 meter (27.32).
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ALUMNI NEWS
Progress Is in His Blood
By Nancy Kettering-Frye '80
Dr. John C. "Jack" Hoak '51 has spent his professional life actively working for medical progress. So it's not surprising that the M.D. was bom and raised in Progress, a suburb of Har- risburg. Even now, in his retirement, the idea of progress seems bound inextrica- bly with who he is and what he does.
During his career in cardiovascular medicine, Hoak received recognition for his basic and clinical research contribu- tions, his clinical skills and his innovative training and research programs. He's been especially interested in blood coagulation, platelets, vascular endothelium and thrombosis. The physician has published 125 scientific papers, including a chapter in a major reference work, Kelley's Text- book of Internal Medicine.
After a 30-year career in academic medi- cine, in 1989 Hoek went to work for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He retired in January 1994 as director of the Division of Blood Diseases and Resources of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. As a faculty member at the Uni- formed Services University of the Health Sciences and a consultant for the Walter Reed Army Hospital, Hoak continues his tradition of contributing to scientific progress, writing for and speaking to the medical community.
Hoak is married to Dorothy Elizabeth Witmer '52, who at Lebanon Valley was a Homecoming and May Queen. For 30 years, the Hoaks called Iowa "home." Here they raised their family — two daughters and a son. Their three decades in Iowa were a very active time. In addition to being a mother, Dorothy served as church organist, pianist, accompanist, piano teacher and active community volunteer. "Professionally," Jack Hoak recalls, "my 'typical day' included patient care, teach- ing medical students and directing a research program."
Dr. John C. "Jack" Hoak '51 has had a distinguished medical career.
Hard work, for Hoak, has always been a way of life. "I was an 'only child' and we didn't have a lot of money," he reminisces. "I was interested in medicine even then, but my father suggested the more afford- able schooling to become a funeral direc- tor." So after graduation from Susquehanna Township High School, the young Hoak enrolled at a school of mortuary science in Philadelphia.
"Every day, on the way to classes, I walked through the courtyard at Hahnemann Medical College," he recounts. "A cousin of mine was already studying medicine, which stimulated my thinking and encouraged me to decide that's what I had to do — money or no money! It was then that I applied to Lebanon Valley Col- lege for my pre-medical education." Not only was he accepted, but he received a scholarship, a job in the dining hall and a place on the basketball team.
While the Valley during those "happy days" was admittedly enjoyable, Hoak re- calls, "there was pressure. Acceptance into medical school was extremely competitive.
so excellent grades were essential." That prompted the chemistry major to hand in his basketball uniform after his sophomore year and concentrate on his academic work.
Although Hoak remembers the entire faculty as "outstanding, very supportive," he especially lauds Dr. H. Anthony Neidig '43 (now professor emeritus) and the late Dr. Andrew Bender (then head of the chem- istry department). "They were both simply outstanding teachers, very stimulating, very straightforward in their teaching — and very interested in students. I always felt I could go in and talk about my work."
After Hahnemann, the young M.D. interned at Harrisburg Polyclinic Hospi- tal, did a tour in the Navy as a medical officer and was a resident in internal medicine at the University of Iowa (UI), where he had a research fellowship in blood coagulation. In 1961, he became an instructor in medicine at Iowa. The next year he spent in England, where he was a visiting researcher at the Sir Will- iam Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford; his supervisor was Lord Howard Florey, a Nobel laureate.
Returning to UI to teach, the hard- working Hoak became a full professor in 1970 and was named director of the UI Division of Hematology-Oncology.
In 1984, the Hoaks moved to Vermont for three years while he chaired the Department of Internal Medicine at the Uni- versity of Vermont and served as chief of medical service at the Medical Center Hos- pital of Vermont in Burlington. In 1987, he returned to the Iowa faculty, and two years later, accepted the NIH position.
In 1992, Hoak received the Scientific Council's Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Heart Associa- tion. A year later, the American Society of Hematology presented him with the ASH Award for Outstanding Contributions and Services. Most recently, he was honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Department of Internal Medicine at the UI College of Medicine and also as Alumnus of the Year by the Hahnemann University School of Medicine.
What in this long and distinguished career has been most satisfying? Hoak
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quickly responds, "Training young physi- cians and research investigators! A num- ber have gone on to very important positions. And, of course, the research con- tributions of my lab group."
The Hoaks live in Vienna, Va., "eight minutes from Wolf Trap and close to Dulles Airport so that we can easily travel to visit our four grandchildren." Then there's golf and gardening, and ushering at the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where Dorothy plays in the bell choir. An idyllic retirement? Idyllic, yes; retirement, no. Motivated by the love of learning and of teaching, sus- tained by the quiet satisfaction of contrib- uting to the advancements in medical/ scientific knowledge, this illustrious alum- nus continues to push on toward new fron- tiers of human understanding.
Nancy Kettering- F rye is a Lebanon-based freelance writer.
Innovator in Art and Engineering
By Sandy Marrone
A sense of calm pervades the Har- risburg office of Tom Whittle '70 as he sits surrounded by remind- ers of what's important to him. Pictures of family and friends dot the surface of an antique wooden table. The head of a 10- point buck Whittle shot near Rausch Gap dominates one wall, and Whittle's lacrosse sticks from his Lebanon Valley days are propped in a comer.
No three-piece suit for the CEO and founder of an engineering firm. He spends his days in casual slacks, a sport shirt and a tie.
"I'd like to leave the world a little better off than it would have been had I not been here," says the Highspire, Pa., native who majored in physics. After some work experience in water pollution con- trol and graduate courses in engineering. Whittle started Commonwealth Engineer- ing & Technology, Inc. (CET) in 1979, and two friends soon joined him in the business.
CET works with municipalities and businesses to design and install water sys- tems and waste water systems. Its clients have included Hershey Foods, Hanover Foods and the country of Egypt.
"Most people think of a business as something to generate profit," Whittle says, "but we opened this one to have the
Engineer Tom Whittle is a Renaissance man.
freedom to try new things and to make a name for ourselves as a good and innova- tive company." Second comes profit. "We must make some to stay in business, but principles of honesty and integrity are central here."
Innovation, honesty and integrity have served CET well, for today the company has four divisions housed in a new build- ing in Lower Paxton Township and an office in Huntington County. Though Whittle and his partners had planned on employing about 20 people, the company now has 50 employees. "We had to keep growing to provide younger people with opportunities," says Whittle. This sum- mer another young person. Whittle's son, Alton, will join the firm's Huntingdon office.
With opportunity and innovation come responsibility, and each division of CET is devoted to some aspect of carefully managing earth and water. The company was one of the first in Pennsylvania to use wetlands to treat waste water. "Wet- lands can be used where other on-lot sys- tems cannot," says Whittle, "and they are aesthetically attractive." You simply cre- ate a wetland area in some comer of a lot and plant cattails and other things that grow well there. As the plants grow, bac- teria surround the plant roots, where they can receive the oxygen they need to natu- rally treat waste water. "We recently built wetlands for Penn State at the Stone Val- ley Recreation Area near State College, and we just finished one for the Valley
Grange in York County," Whittle says.
"This is a good profession for trying to make the world better. Many people don't think of engineers as environmentalists but as people who move the earth around any way they want," he says. "But we use the best technology available — high-tech, like anaerobics or low-tech, like wetlands — to make the environment better."
In fact, one of CET's divisions. Earth Information Services (EIS), is teaching people how to work with nature. By inte- grating computer graphics and data bases, EIS is helping representatives of Egypt to accurately predict rain and flooding along the Nile River. The goal is to manage crops according to nature's actions and thus maximize yields.
Surely it's taken much time and effort for Whittle and his partners to build a strong, successful business that's known for cre- ative answers to complex problems, but that doesn't mean Whittle is all work and no fun or all engineer and nothing else.
Whittle's paintings are an attracfive addifion to CET's offices. "I took a stu- dio painting class at Lebanon Valley," he says, "and I still paint. My work is demanding, so to take time off and paint is good for me."
Painting isn't the only hobby that Whittle learned at Lebanon Valley and has stuck with. "I played on a lacrosse team there, and I continue to play with a team in Harrisburg," he says. "In a bigger school, it would have been difficult to be on the team without being real good at it, but everyone was active in intramural sports at Lebanon Valley."
As Whittle reminisces, it's clear that his college days were happy ones — so much so that he has appointed himself as a committee of one to reach as many of his classmates as possible to urge them to come for their 25th reunion this summer.
"We had lots of good wholesome fun at college," says Whittle with an impish smile as he recalls being the object of a tradition of his Knights of the Valley Fratemity.
If one of the Knights got engaged, his fratemity brothers took all his clothes, put him in a laundry cart and wheeled him around campus. "They'd be yelling and screaming to get everyone's atten- tion," Whittle says. "Then they dropped me off at a girl's dorm with only a towel. The only good thing about it was that it was dark."
But there were serious and downright scary times too, says Whittle. In his senior year, Vietnam War protestors were shot at Kent State University. "Even though Leba- non Valley seemed divorced from that
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issue, we realized we were living in strange times. The world was messed up and scary, and it was sobering."
As for the education he received, Whittle particularly enjoyed the special attention available from professors who sometimes had only three students in a class. He is definitely a proponent of the liberal arts curriculum. "I never realized until later what an advantage the liberal arts can be in making you a well-rounded person," Whittle says. "Lebanon Valley helped me by not teaching me to be one thing, but by making me a better person. I think if you take this liberal education and tie it together with a master's pro- gram that is specific, you will do well in the world."
You might even build a company from scratch, paint pictures, play lacrosse and even learn to read the moods of the Nile.
Sandy Marrone is a Palmyra-based freelance writer who is a correspondent for the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
Hawaiian Hospitality
Three alumni in Honolulu enjoyed break- fast with a Lebanon Valley touch over the Christmas holidays. Registrar Karen Best and her husband, Ray, while on vacafion in the 50th state, met with Barbara Lenker Tredick '66, Tom Cestare '71 and Gary Frederick '69 and Gary's wife, Sandy.
Over a leisurely morning meal, the alumni shared memories of their days at the college (Gary was the dorm counselor
in Tom's residence hall) and current news about careers, while the Bests shared pho- tographs and the latest news from the college. Before the meeting was over, the group had made plans to meet again.
Be Part of College History in the Making!
In their book. Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, the sis- ters tell wonderful stories of family life, college years and life in Harlem. As 105- year-old Sadie puts it, "When you live a long time, you have stories to tell. If only people ask."
Well, we are asking you! All alumni have stories of their LVC days, whether humorous, dramatic, serious, sad, tragic, witty or seemingly unimportant. These stories will be lost forever if they are not preserved in some manner.
Glenn H. Woods '51, professor emeri- tus of English and a volunteer in the Alumni Programs and College Relations offices, is interested in collecting these anecdotes from the past. The stories might be about the faculty and administration, fellow students, buildings, organizations, townspeople or sports events. You could put these stories on audiotape or video- tape or simply jot them on paper.
Send them to him at the Alumni Pro- grams Office, Lebanon Valley College, P.O. Box R, Annville, PA 17003. Who knows? They might appear in the next unexpurgated history of the college! If you have any questions, call toll-free at 1-800-ALUM-LVC.
Chemist Honored for Service
Dr. May Fauth '33 was recognized for her more than 39 years of outstanding accomplishments in the area of energetic chemistry and environmental science ear- lier this year when she received the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the third-highest honorary award under the Navy Incentive Awards program.
Dr. Fauth, who is a research chemist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Md., in July will celebrate 40 years in government service. She received the 1994 LVC Distinguished Alumna Award.
Group to Assist Continuing Ed Students
Adults who attend college part-time on evenings and weekends have different ex- periences and concerns than students who go the traditional route. Earlier this year, a new Alumni Association committee, the Continuing Education Committee, was formed to address the needs of this group. Comprised of a dozen Continuing Educa- tion alumni, the committee is staffed by the Alumni Programs and Continuing Education offices.
At its initial meeting, the group chose several projects that will benefit present and future non-traditional students. In one of these projects. Continuing Ed Con- tacts, graduates will be invited to volun- teer as informal advisors for students and prospective students in the evening and weekend program. The assistance might be just answering a few questions by phone for students, but could also expand into a fuller, mentor-like role — it's up to each volunteer.
Other projects under consideration are holding receptions at commencement for Continuing Education graduates and their families and establishing a scholarship to benefit non-traditional students.
For more information or to get involved in the committee, call (717) 867-6320 or toll-free at 1-800-ALUM-LVC.
Sharing LVC stories in Honolulu are (from left) Barbara Tredick '66, Sandy and Gary Frederick '66, Karen Best and Tom Cestare '71.
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The High Note of Their Week
Alumni who still love to lift their voices together each Monday gather with Pierce Getz to be energized and inspired.
By Stephen Trapnell '90
Behind the stage in Blair Music Center, a dozen voices rise in the familiar cacophony of scattered conversations. In this rehearsal room are a price analyst from Selinsgrove, a music teacher from Lancaster, a day-care center director from Womelsdorf. In a few min- utes, their separate voices will join together as one: as the Alumni Chorale of Lebanon Valley College.
Each Monday evening during the aca- demic year, the Chorale draws together Valley graduates and other singers from around Central Pennsylvania for a two- and-a-half-hour practice.
In the center of the room stands the man who forges one sound from these separate voices: Dr. Pierce Getz '51, pro- fessor emeritus of music who retired in 1990 after teaching for 31 years. More than six feet tall, with gray-white hair, he looks the part of the conductor.
He plays a quick tune on a piano, and the voices quiet down. The Chorale stands for its warm-up, each singer stretching toward the ceiling in slow-motion aerobics.
"Right face!" Getz calls, and the mem- bers turn and begin to pound and massage their neighbors' shoulders and backs.
"Four-three-two-one and about face," Getz calls, and the process starts again. The evening has just begun.
It was nearly 17 years ago that the Chorale itself began. At the time, Getz was teaching organ and directing the Con- cert Choir. Choir alumni used to come up to him after campus concerts to ask him to form a group, "an extension more or less of the Concert Choir," Getz recalled. "They wanted to continue to sing that type of music, and they wanted to sing in an organization with high standards.
"For almost eight years, I kept saying, 'No, I don't have time.' In 1978, 1 decided that I would like to carve out some time to work with adult voices at that level," said Getz, now 65.
The original Chorale of 42 singers included 33 Lebanon Valley graduates.
Today, over 50 percent of its 40 members are alumni. They present several concerts each Christmas and spring, sampling music from all the major styles of choral litera- ture. They sing a cappella, or with key- board accompaniment by Lou Ann Potter and sometimes with a chamber orchestra.
Many of their selections are of a sacred nature. The spiritual quality "needs to be an integral part of the work itself," Getz said. He doesn't like to consider music as mere entertainment. "If it is entertaining," he observed, "it needs to be entertaining in a deeper, more substan- tial manner than mere casual listening." In recent years, the group has offered complete performances of Bach's Mass in B Minor and Handel's Messiah.
The Chorale has sung in area churches.
patrons, as well as some fees from perfor- mances. Although they hire musicians for accompaniment, the singers and Getz are volunteers.
After a concert, when audience mem- bers come up to talk with the singers, said tenor Mike Zettlemoyer '91, "It's a feel- ing of accomplishment when you can learn the intricacies of a piece of music and present it to people and see and hear how truly inspired they were."
One of the reasons the Alumni Cho- rale originally formed, Getz said, was that there weren't a lot of local groups where graduates could sing. But around 1978, "there was a mild explosion in this area of choral groups," Getz said, adding that there are now about 15 such organiza- tions in the Harrisburg area. "We have in
Some Alumni Clioiale nuinben iia\tl giecit distaiu.es to attend the weekly lehearsals
with the Harrisburg Symphony at the Forum, at the National Cathedral in Wash- ington, D.C., and in New York City's Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Their performance with the Air Force Band of the East at Founders Hall in Hershey was recorded on compact disc.
In February, the singers joined the Susquehanna Chorale and Chamber Sing- ers of Harrisburg for the Central Pennsyl- vania Choral Festival at Harrisburg' s Market Square Presbyterian Church. In April, the Chorale participated in Jazz at Engle Hall, the 45th anniversary of the introduction of jazz to Lebanon Valley's music department.
For its spring concert series this year, the Chorale took on a new challenge: an entire program of African-American music. To help transform the Chorale into a gospel choir, the group brought in guest artist Anthony Leach '73, a Pennsylvania State University faculty member.
The Alumni Chorale's expenses are paid largely through donations from
one sense created our own competition." He pointed out Eric Dundore '79, a former Alumni Chorale member, went on to direct the Harrisburg Chamber Singers.
"To me, it's extremely moving that former students feel a desire to continue to sing, whether in the Chorale or in some other organization," Getz said, "and that they choose to sing in the Alumni Cho- rale is particularly moving and very much appreciated."
At the rehearsal, Getz is leading sing- ers in "Why Do We Deal Treacherously?" by Judith Lang Zaimont. His voice is not loud, yet it carries above the music. He tells the Chorale members that they should not rely only on him and the piano for the beat, but that it must come from inside them. For many of the singers, the music and the Chorale are indeed a part of them.
"Mostly I do it because I love it, because I love to sing," said Sally Allebach '78. A choral music teacher in the Pottstown School
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District, she drives two hours to Annville for rehearsals. The soprano appreciates the chance to be a singer. She also likes learn- ing about conducting style, vocal techniques and stylistic approaches to different litera- ture. "I get a lot of information that I use in my school groups," she explains.
Luanne Clay '69, who had sung in the Concert Choir, thinks of her time with the Chorale as a gift to herself — and she's been a member since its founding. "It doesn't seem like a Monday night if I'm not there," said Clay, an alto. "The rehearsals are really worthwhile. If you miss a rehearsal, you've missed a lot." Her major was elementary education, and she now works at Crayon Comer in Womelsdorf.
Baritone Ivan Wittel '79, a music teacher in Lancaster County's Solanco School District, and his wife, Kim, joined the Chorale when they were married 12 years ago.
"I've worked with lots of different groups. It's difficult to find a really top- quality choral experience," Wittel said, adding that the Alumni Chorale offers that challenge. "I like the fact that I can still have some attachment and associa- tion to the college," said Wittel.
Soprano Victoria Rose of Harrisburg, a Chorale member for about seven years, for the past three has been adjunct in- structor of voice at the college. When the Peabody Conservatory graduate moved to this area, she recalled, "I had given up ever being in contact with the level of musicians that I had worked with in Bal- timore." And then she met Dr. Pierce Getz, heard the Alumni Chorale, and de- cided she wanted to be a part of it.
Chorale members echo Rose's belief that Getz helps to drive that desire for quality. A veteran of the Concert Choir, he observed that "there was almost a void, not being able to participate in a group of the caliber that Dr. Getz's group had typi- cally been," said Zettlemoyer. He joined the Chorale about a year after he gradu- ated in 1991, even though he lives in Selinsgrove, almost 90 minutes away. He's a buyer and price analyst for Sunbury-based Weis Markets.
"I'm sure that there are very good choirs in this area, but when you've been part of the Concert Choir, there's kind of a loyalty to Dr. Getz," Zettlemoyer said. "He knows in his mind the way he wanted the music to sound, and when we at least get close to what he expects to hear, his face just starts beaming with this big smile, and you know that you've per- formed at least to your level of ability."
"He's such a natural teacher," said Rose, adding that the Chorale "is like a master class in choral conducting. For him, it's the right way or no way. It's always the music first. He serves the music and what has come before him, and God, of course." Even rehearsals, she added, are "a worshipful experience."
A native of Denver in Lancaster County, Getz grew up on a chicken farm. His family was a musical one. His father directed local church choirs. Getz's brother, Russ '49, who died in 1986, served on the faculty at Gettysburg Col- lege and directed its college choir.
It was while a student at the Valley that Pierce Getz experienced a defining
Dr. Pierce Getz '51, the Chorale's beloved conductor, started the group 17 years ago to give Lebanon Valley graduates an oppor- tunity to continue singing.
moment in his musical life. He was a member of the first Intercollegiate Cho- rus, conducted by Lara Hoggard, who was also working with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians at the time. During a concert at the Forum in Harrisburg, Waring himself stepped in as a guest conductor.
"From that experience on, I knew I had to be a choral conductor," Getz recalled.
In the eight years after earning his bachelor's degree in music education at Lebanon Valley in 195 1 , Pierce Getz went on for a master's degree in sacred music at Union Theological Seminary, married Gene, and spent five years teaching in Japan. There, the Getzes spent five years as educational missionaries. He taught at Doshisha University in Kyoto and Miyagi College in Sendai, where he organized a glee club whose members still meet regu- larly to rehearse and perform. Getz vis- ited Japan for their reunion concerts in 1991 and 1994.
In 1959, when the Getzes came back to the States, the alumnus returned to the Val- ley for good. He taught organ and directed the Concert Choir, Chapel Choir and Col- lege Chorus. During his 29 years conduct- ing the Concert Choir, Getz led the group on many tours, to New England, Florida and one in Europe with many performances behind the Iron Curtain.
Getz, who earned his doctor of musical arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, has been active in church music. For 21 years, he served as organist and director of music at Annville United Meth- odist Church. Since 1987, he has held the same position at Market Square Presbyte- rian Church in Harrisburg.
He also leads church music workshops and is a consultant to churches planning organ installations. His wife. Gene, a reg- istered nurse, has been in the Chorale since its founding. The Getzes, who live in Annville, have two grown children — Anita Chapman '76 of Lebanon County and Joseph Getz '79 of Harrisburg.
Getz smiled as he recalled the surprise he received when he retired in 1990. Former Concert Choir members had been invited to return to campus, and after a concert, they thronged to the stage to sing together. "It was just a sea of memories in seeing all these faces, a very, very mov- ing experience," Getz remembered.
The conductor doesn't take his respon- sibilities lightly. Working with his former students in the Chorale, Getz said, has given him a chance to see "what they are doing in their own professional fields, how they've matured through the years into responsible teachers and musicians or whatever area they're involved in."
The Chorale encourages people to audi- tion, Getz and the singers agree. They would also like to forge closer ties to the college. The Concert Choir has always had packed audiences at its concerts, Zettlemoyer remarked, adding that "I would hope that our group develops, even more over the years, that following."
The Chorale has enjoyed presenting at off-campus concerts its high level of musical excellence, Getz emphasized. "It is an experience that very few conductors have in their entire lifetime, to work with young people and develop musical and technical characteristics that can be car- ried on for years and years following their graduation. It's an experience that per- mits constant growth."
Stephen Trapnell '90 is a staff writer for the Lancaster New Era.
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CLASS NOTES
Pre-1930s
News
Dr. Oliver S. Heckman '22 writes that he has recently traveled to the South Pacific and the Upper Mississippi areas.
Deaths
Ellen S. Keller '25, September 6, 1994. She had retired from the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania as assistant comptroller, Department of Property and Supplies and General Services Department.
Rev. Clyde Wilton Tinsman '25, December 10, 1994. He began his preaching ministry in the former Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1917. During his 50 years as a pastor, he served churches in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.
Rev. Dr. Mervie H. Welty '26, November 12, 1994. He was a retired United Methodist pastor and had formerly served on various United Methodist boards. From 1946 until 1966, he was an LVC trustee. He also served on the board of trustees of the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
1930s
News
Edna M. Early '31 is living in Grace Retire- ment Community in Myerstown, Pa.
Mary J. Eppley '32 served in the "ministry of God's service" in 15 states and in Canada.
Esther Smelser Duke '35 still volunteers her service to the needy, mostly young mothers getting off drugs. She also teaches a small class in the Japanese language.
Bruce M. Metzger '35 was awarded the 1 994 Burkitt Medal in Biblical Studies by the British Academy for his "contributions to New Testa- ment and related studies of unusual extent and value." In 70 years, he is only the third American scholar to receive this medal.
Leia Eshelman Fretz '36 of Hagerstown, Md., and her husband, Clarence, have been liv- ing at a Mennonite Fellowship House for the past two years.
Paul T. Ulrich '38 of Houston, Texas, received a Governor's appointment as a delegate to the National White House Conference on Aging, held in Washington, D.C., in May 1995.
Deaths
Dorothy Hiester Behney '30, December 1 5, 1994. A retired school teacher, she was the widow of Dr. J. Bruce Behney '28.
Rev. Robert W. Etter '35, March 28, 1994. He was a minister and research chemist. He served as a research chemist with General Motors in Dayton, Ohio, from 1942 to 1944 and with RCA
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in Lancaster, Pa., from 1953 to 1975. He retired as a minister from Coleman Memorial Chapel, United Presbyterian Church, in Brickerville, Pa., where he had served as pastor since 1956.
Dr. John K. Kitzmiller '39, June 30, 1994. He was a physician in general practice in Harris- burg. Both of his daughters are LVC graduates: Janet K. Stahe '75 and Joan Kitzmiller '77.
Hilbert V. Lochner '39, May 16, 1994. He served as assistant professor in economics at LVC from 1947 to 1952. From 1952 to 1962, he was personnel director for the Army Air Force Exchange Services in Indiantown Gap, Pa. He was assistant professor in economics at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., from 1962 to 1968. While at LVC, he reactivated the Pennsylvania Pi Gamma Mu Chapter. Pi Gamma Mu is a scholastic organization of the National Social Science Honor Society.
Frank A. Rozman '39, January 6, 1995. He was a retired social studies teacher for the Susquehanna Township (Pa.) School District, with 27 years of service. He is survived by his wife, Tillie A. Smisi Rozman, and a son. Dr. Frank E. Rozman.
1940s
News
Dorothy Landis Gray '44 is writing her dissertation, the final requirement for her Ph. D. at the Catholic University of America in Wash- ington, DC.
Jeanne Waller Hoerner '45 gave the fifth annual piano-organ recital with organist Marilyn Kiefer for the Scottsdale (N.Y.) organ club in Scottsdale Presbyterian Church. She is a retired teacher, pianist and organist from Pittsford, N.Y.
Dr. J. Ross Albert '47 is teaching music appreciation part-time at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg.
Rev. Franklin G. Senger III '48 was hon- ored by his bishop and congregation on his 35th anniversary as pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Holy Comforter in Washington, D.C. Two city councilmen presented him with a resolution from the council, citing his extensive community work.
Dr. John E. Marshall '49 retired from his medical practice and lives with his wife, Elaine Heilman Marshall '48, in Pawleys Island, S.C.
Deaths
Martha Ross Swope '48, January 5, 1995. She was retired from the Cornwall-Lebanon (Pa.) School District, where she taught special educa- tion students. She and her husband, John F. Swope '42, served on LVC's Toward 2001 Ixba- non Campaign Committee. A scholarship has been established in their honor. She instructed adults and children in swimming at the Lebanon YMCA, where for many years she was the social director. She was an active member at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Lebanon, serv- ing as a teacher and as an ordained deacon.
1950s
News
Dr. Loy C. Awkerman '50 retired on December 31, 1994, after 42 years of practicing veterinary medicine. He and his wife. Rose Marie Root Awkerman '49, have moved to Lebanon, Pa. Loy, a Harrisburg native, in 1952 opened a mixed practice in Manheim — he treated farm animals and household pets. Dairy farmers were frequent clients, and he responded to many emer- gencies during the birth of calves. Because farm- ers were up early to milk, it was common for the vet to get a call long before sunrise. He was basically on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The pace became more hectic, more stress- ful, and, in 1976, he limited his practice to small animals.
Dr. David Wallace '50 retired from the National Park Service in June 1994 after 33 years as a museum curator specializing in historic fur- nishing planning.
Harold G. Engle, Jr. '51 retired from the Hershey Foods Corp. Technical Center on Octo- ber 1, 1994, with 38 years of service.
Sara Etzweiler Linkous '51 opened an antique shop in her father's funeral home and furniture store in Columbia, Pa.
Rev. Robert P. Longenecker '51 retired on June 30, 1994, after 40 years as an Evangelical United Brethren/United Methodist pastor.
William F. Miller '51 and his wife, Eliza- beth Gaskill Miller '54, divide their time among Florida, Maine and Pennsylvania. They have realized their goal: "Palms in winter; pines in the summer."
Lee R. Thierwechter '51 retired from the Aid Association for Lutherans on August 31, 1994. He and his wife are still involved in their own partnership, which they named Unique Associates. Lee writes, "In addition to volunteer work, I am reaching the finish line of writing my early autobiography in Pennsylvania German.
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That work centers around Zour Lutheran Church and the 22-acre farm where we lived, and the former residence of Dr. Ezra Grumbine, where we lived in my late high school and college years (all in Mount Zion, Lebanon County. Pa.)." He is a contributor in Pennsylvania German to Scare- crow, a monthly magazine published by Dillman Publications and Productions in Lewistown.
Joe T. Oxley '52 is owner/director of the Monmouth Day Camp in Middleton, N.J.
Joan Spangler Sachs '53 is the organist at Presbyterian Church of Falling Springs in Chambersburg, Pa., He is also a private piano teacher at Cumberland Valley School of Music and a member of the board of directors of the Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter.
Robert J. Tarantolo '53 retired on May 1. 1994. as school business administrator after 33 years with the West Long Branch (N.J.) Board of Education.
Edward H. Walton '53 was named to a committee to select members of a new hall of fame for Boston Red Sox players. The hall of fame is in conjunction with the New England Sports Museum. Also serving on the committee are museum and Red Sox officials and veteran sports writers and broadcasters. He has published two books on the Red Sox and has contributed numerous articles on baseball to a variety of publications.
Rev. Canon Stanley F. Imboden '55 cel- ebrated 42 years in the pastoral ministry as he retired July 1994 after 17 years as rector of the 250-year-old St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster. Pa. In 1988, he received an honorary doctor of divinity degree from LVC. He and his wife. Diane, live in their new home near Mt. Gretna.
Joyce Hill Madden '55 is a member of the Pasadena (Calif.) Community United Methodist Church Choir, whose concert was shown on Christmas Eve 1994. on CBS.
Shirley Warfel Knade '56 has completed 19 years in hospital management in ambulatory care services in the family planning department of Williamsport (Pa.) Hospital. She taught music privately and in the public schools for nine years before she started her work at the hospital.
June Lykens Lantz '57 retired after 3 1 years of teaching music and English in Warwick School District in Lititz. Pa. She began a new position in October 1994 a.s the minister of music at Otterbein United Methodist Church in Lancaster. June's husband. Wilbur Franklin Lantz '57, completed an interim pastorate at Jerusalem United Church of Christ in Penryn in January 1994. He was beginning another interim pastorate at St. Luke's UCC in Lititz when he suffered two heart attacks. Open heart surgery followed. The Lantzes live in Blossom Hill in Lancaster.
Robert J. Nelson '57 is a senior vice presi- dent and board member of Ranger Insurance Co. in Houston.
Deaths
R. Barry Boehler '57, October 2 1 . 1 994. He was a real estate broker in Lebanon. Pa. While at LVC. Barry was a basketball player. He is sur- vived by his wife, Mildred E. Smith Boehler, and a daughter, Cynthia L. Boehler '76.
Dr. JoAnne Pieringer '57. July 22, 1994. Since 1976, she had been a professor of bio- chemistry at the Philadelphia College of Osteo- pathic Medicine, where she also was vice chairperson of her department. She was voted Teacher of the Year in 1992 and 1993, received the SNMA Mentor Award in 1993 and was hon- ored with the Lindback Award for excellence in teaching in 1982. Surviving are her husband. Dr. Ronald A. Pieringer; a daughter, Laura L. Pieringer; and a son, David A. Pieringer.
Charles L. Brent '59. June 26, 1994. He was controller for Telephone Progress, Inc. in York, Pa.
1960s
News
Joseph B. Dietz '60 was ordained on October 8, 1994, to the Sacred Order of Deacons in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Allen L. Bartett Jr., at the Christ Church in Pottslown. Pa.. Joseph serves as a deacon at St. Peter's Church in Phoenixville.
Ronald L. Dietz '60 is the director of the York Chamber Singers in York. Pa. The group recently sponsored a workshop and concert by The Western Wind, an acclaimed professional vocal ensemble. The Chamber Singers appeared with the "Wind" in two numbers especially arranged for the occasion. The Chamber Singers also appeared for the sixth Christmas season at Longwood Gardens.
Brenda Funk Hughes '60 married Robert R. Berry in April 1994. She graduated from Oglethorpe University in May 1994 with a master's degree in education. She was selected for Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 1994.
Marilyn RinkerTennerjohn '62 was included in Who's Who Amont; America's Teachers in 1994. She had an article published in "RoundTable" of the English Journal. March 1994.
Shirley Brown Michel '63 of North Wales. Pa. and her hu.sband. Joseph W. Michel, were saddened by the death of their only child. An- drew, on December 17. 1993. two days after his 18th birthday.
Sallie Gerhart-Light '64 teaches computer to children in grades 1 -6 and to adult classes. She also presents workshops in "HyperCard Presen- talions/Multi-Media."
Patricia McDyer Pece '64 was sworn in as an AineriCorps-VISTA member in December 1994. She is working in Chambersburg (Pa.) with the Single Point of Contact Program, which helps single mothers leave welfare.
Dale Hains '65 umpires at more than 200 baseball games a year in Florida high schools and colleges. He also helps with the USA Olym- pic trials.
A. Barry Yocom '65 is enjoying a one-year sabbatical from Tredyffrin-Easttown School Dis- trict in Phoenixville. Pa. He will retire this year after 30 years in the school district. He began his career with the district as a social studies teacher at the Valley Forge Junior High School the year it opened. Three years later, he became the assis- tant principal and subsequently accepted the principalship, a position he held for nine years. In 1980, Barry joined the central administrative team, serving as supervisor of secondary educa- tion and later as director of curriculum and instruction. In 1990, he became acting superin- tendent for 12 months. He was honored as the "Citizen of the Year" by the Paoli Business and Professional Association. Barry and his wife, Carol Lisa Clay Yocom '67, have four daugh- ters; their youngest, Jennifer, is a member of the class of 1998 at LVC.
Robert E. Horn '66 is a tax accountant with Dorwart, Andrew & Co., a CPA firm in Lancaster, Pa.
Bonita J. Young Connolly '67 is the sup- port service coordinator for the Association for Retarded Citizens in Frederick, Md.
Walter D. Otto '67 accepted a position with PP&L to head a project that started in February 1995 in Italy. He and his wife, Pat, are living in Milano.
Ellen Jackson Patterson '67 is curator at the 1767 Murray Farmhouse at the Poricy Park in Middletown, N.J.
Janice Koehler Richardson '68 is a school librarian with the Leander Independent School District in Texas.
James Van Camp '68 is product manager at Nalco Chemical Co., Naperville, 11. He also serves as choir director at the Hanmee Presbyterian Church in Glen Ellyn, where his wife, Grayson, is an associate pastor.
Nancy Robinson Learning '69 is executive vice president and COO of Tufts Health Plans in Waltham, Mass.
Lars J. Lovegren '69 is an income mainte- nance caseworker for Pennsylvania's Department of Public Welfare York County Assistance Of- fice in York. He and his wife, Marcella L. Hilgefort Lovegren, have two children: Sarah Elizabeth, born on August 26, 1992, and Jacob Michael, born on June 4, 1994.
Carl L. Marshall '69 was honored by the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Association with the Charles Eby Award for innovative planning and administration of programs leading to the employment of people with disabilities. He is responsible for the statewide activities of the Americans with Disabilities Act for the Pennsyl- vania Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Patricia A. Pingel '69 is an environmental planner for the Pennsylvania Department of Environment Resources, developing the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Program to improve the qual- ity of Lake Erie and the Delaware River estuary.
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Deaths
Susanne Marie Leonard Huey '64, Decem- ber 6, 1994. She was the wife of James D. Huey '64. She was a music teacher in the Diocese of Harrisburg and a partner in Family Businesses Concessionaries, Ltd. She had done graduate work at Yale University and Temple University.
1970s
News
Karen Kirby Adair '70 is a doctor of chiropractic medicine at the A. Adair & Lord Chiropractic Clinic in Allen, Texas.
Barry W. Burdick '70 married Shari Halperin in October 1994 and moved to Newtown, Pa. Barry is vice president of diversi- fied operations for New Jersey State Medical Underwriters, Inc. in Lawrenceville.
James M. Rife '70 works in the sales/mar- keting department of Olympic Packaging Corp. in Winston-Salem, N.C.
John (Buzz) Jones '72 received a doctor of musical arts degree from Temple University and was awarded tenure at Gettysburg College, where he teaches music. He directs The Buzz Jones Big Band, which will perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, July 7- 1 0, 1 995 Priscilla C. Baylan '79, David L. Godshall '81 and Wil- liam G. Perbetsliy '81 perform with the band. Nancy McCullough Longnecker '72 is princi- pal of Dublin Elementary School in Harford County, Md.
Tlieresa Ann Crook Ziegler '72 is regula- tory compliance advisor for SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals in King of Prussia, Pa.
Donald B. Frantz '73 is producer for the National (U.S.) and Canadian touring companies of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." He was profiled in the Fall 1993 Valley.
Bonnie Pliillips Guggenheim '73 has been selected by Metropolitan State College (MSC) to serve on its committee to develop a Middle School Teacher Certification Program for the State of Colorado. For the Denver Public Schools, she co-chairs the Professional Development School Committee at Skinner Middle School, a lab school for MSC. She retired from the Army Reserve after 21 years.
Anthony T. Leach '73 was the guest artist with LVC's Alumni Chorale for the second half of its 1994-95 season, which featured music of African-American composers. Tony is a faculty member at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is a candidate for the Ph.D. in music education. He has conducted the Penn State University Glee Club, Concert Choir and the University Choir. In addition, he is the founding director of Essence of Joy, a small ensemble specializing in traditional and contemporary gos- pel music.
Photographs taken by Robert B. Lee '73 of Duane Eddy at Hershey Park in 1959-60 were included in a biography of the rock star pub- lished in Europe in December 1994.
Scott T. Sener '73 is varsity Softball coach at Manheim (Pa.) Central High School.
Dr. Marsha Edwards Zehner '73 is super- intendent of the Annville-Cleona School District in Annville. She is a 21 -year veteran of the district.
John M. Pumphrey '74 is chairman of the Maryland State Special Education Advisory Committee.
John F. Halbleib '75 is a partner in the Chicago office of Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholtz, a law firm with over 160 attorneys in Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Rockford. II. John represents commercial banks and institutional and corporate clients in unsecured and asset based financings, with par- ticular emphasis on structured finance and asset securitization.
James Kowalchuk '76 ia a teacher with the Glynmn County Board of Education in Brunswick, Ga.
Nancy Lois Miller '76 married the Rev. Dr. David G. Heberling, pastor of First United Meth- odist Church in Media, Pa., on November 19, 1994. Nancy is pastor at Radnor United Method- ist Church in Rosemont.
Sylvia Frey Moyer '76 is a sales counselor with Gibraltar Corp. -Rolling Green Cemetery in Camp Hill, Pa. She was profiled in the winter 1992 issue.
Joanne L. Toby '76 is in her seventh year as associate dean of student development at Averett College in Danville, Va.
John J. Cooper '77 is a caseworker for the Department of Public Welfare in Reading, Pa.
Ronald R. Afflebach '78 is the employee relations manager for Hershey Chocolate North, a new manufacturing facility in Hershey, Pa. He received an M.B.A. in management from St. Joseph's University in 1988. He plans to start working on a Ph.D. in business administration at Temple University this fall.
Brian S. Allebach '78 and his wife, Jennifer, welcomed twin daughters, Katherine Lee and Elizabeth Janet, on November 9, 1994.
Dr. Walter Kobasa, Jr. '78 is an obstetri- cian/gynecologist in Wilmington, Del.
Michael F. Faherty '79 is an attorney with the law firm of Marshall, Dennehy, Warner, Coleman and Goggin in Harrisburg.
Jan Eric Smith '79 is a senior chemist with the Jamestown Paint Co. in Western Pennsylva- nia. In a previous research position with a paper company, Jan was awarded a patent for work on paper coating and application. Jan's wife, Tina Ogden Smith '79, a pre-school teacher, received her M.Ed, from Ohio University in 1980. Jan and Tina have two sons, Eric, 9, and Forrest, 4.
1980s
News
Dr. JoAnn Jeffers Clem '80 is an optom- etrist at Cherry Grove Eye Center in North Myrtle Beach, S.C. Her hus;band, David, is an optician at the center.
Denise A. Foor Foy '80 is a school nurse with the Chestnut Ridge School District in New Paris, Pa.
Kevin Thomas Leddy '80 is an adult learner counselor at the Pennsylvania State University Altoona Campus.
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Lori A. Morgan '80 and Paul R. Celluzzi were married on October 22, 1994. Lori is a paralegal with the law firm of Sherman & Shalloway in Alexandria, Va., and is pursuing a graduate degree in legal administration. Lori and Paul have four children: Olivia, 16; Sarah, ID; Christopher, 8; and Rachel, 4.
Lisa Togno Burrowes '81 and her husband, Paul, announce the birth of their first child, Paul Burrowes, on October 4, 1994. Lisa was vice president/studio operations at Group IV Studios in Hollywood, Calif.
Andrea Davino '81 and Robert Danch were married in April 1994. She is a principal actuary of A. Foster Higgins and Co. in Princeton, N.J.
Caria Powell Desilets '81 writes, "Home is where the Army sends you." She is serving in beautiful northern Italy. A second son, Henry David, was born on November 4, 1993.
Leo C. Hearn, Jr. '81 is corporate director. Health and Safety, for EMCON in Jacksonville, Fla. He is responsible for the management of health and safety programs for 1,200 employees in 40 offices nationwide for this environmental consulting company, which specializes in air qual- ity, solid waste and hazardous waste. He recently signed an agreement to publish his second book, A Guide to the Management of Lead-Based Paint in the Industrial Workplace. He serves on the editoral board for the Pb Bulletin, a national publication of the Steel Structures Painting Coun- cil. He chaired a session on lead paint abatement for the council's international conference and exhibition and also .serves as national vice chair- man of the American Industrial Hygiene Asso- ciation Laboratory Accreditation Program. He and his wife have two children: Sarah Marie and Leo C. Hearn III.
Ray O. Herndon '81 is editor of association/ business publishing at Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. in Falls Church, Va.
Sharon P. Love Luyben '81 chairs the music department at the Wyomissing (Pa.) Area School District, where she also serves as choral director. Her concert choir performed in the Magic King- dom of Walt Disney World, Fla., on Palm Sun- day 1995. Sharon resides in Wyomissing Hills with her husband. Bill, and sons Nathaniel and Trevor.
Janine Maletsky '81 and her husband, John Hayes, welcomed their first child, Jonathan Maletsky Hayes, on January 13, 1994.
Craig C. dinger '81 and his wife, Chris- tine Lowther dinger '81 welcomed the birth of their second child, Mark Nelson Olinger, on May 31, 1994.
Debra Poley Schmidt '81 and her husband, the Rev. Gary Schmidt, welcomed a daughter, Jessica Christine, on October 10, 1994. They have three other children: Jennifer, Julie and Jonathan.
John P. Shott '81 is president of the Leba- non School Board, on which he has served since 1989. He is employed by the Pennsylvania Senate.
Scott K. Berger '82 is senior programmer analyst for INTEL Corp. in Chandler, Ariz. He is completing his M.B.A. at Keller Graduate School of Management. Sally Anne Foose Berger '83 is a 3rd grade teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Mesa, Ariz.
Glenn Steinmuller '82 is a police officer for the Nassau County Police Department in Mineola, N.Y.
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Rev. Timothy J. Wolf '82 is northeast regional director for the Association for Chris- tians in Student Development.
Colleen Cassidy Schleicher '83 reports that she has three sons: John Cassidy, Benjamin James and Timothy William, and a daughter, Amanda Jane, bom December 31, 1994.
Ralph Ackerman '84 and his wife, Sharon, welcomed their second child, Garrett John, on January 3, 1995. They have a daughter, Jordan.
Holly Hanawalt Gainor '84 and her hus- band, Ray, welcomed a daughter, Emma Jean, on June 6, 1994.
Herbert Hutchinson '84 is a search consult- ant for Gordon Wahls Co. in Media, Pa.
Kay Bennighof Kufera '84 and her hus- band, Joseph, welcomed a second son, Joshua, in July 1994. He joins Gregory, 2 1/2.
Wayne Martin '84 is materials manager for Sandvik Steel, Inc. in Scranton, Pa. He and his wife, Elizabeth Justin Martin '87, have one daughter, Kimberly Elizabeth, born May 16, 1994.
Sheila McElwee '84 married Marc Witmer on October 29, 1994. The couple, who are both research technicians, reside in King of Prussia, Pa.
Michele Gawel Verratti '84 and Nicholas Verratti '85 welcomed a son, Justin Nicholas, on May 13, 1994.
Leslie Gilmore Webster '84 and her hus- band, Stuart, have a daughter, Lauren Grace, bom July 1, 1994.
Joanne Stimpson Nickerson '85 and her husband, Stephen J. Nickerson '83, have a daughter, Lauren Kaye, born on October 1 , 1994.
Elizabeth Gross Swartz '85 is gallery direc- tor at Montana Trails Gallery in Bozeman, Mont. She married Ben Swartz in October 1990.
Kent D. Henry '86 works for Hewlett- Packard, Bay Analytical Operation in Palo Alto, Calif.
Geoffrey Howson '86 is a critical care nurse at Milford (Del.) Memorial Hospital. He gradu- ated cum laude from the University of Delaware in June 1994 with a B.S.in nursing.
Barbara J. deMoreland Kirner '86 is a self-employed skin care and image consultant in Fort Worth, Texas.
Rebecca Wise Marks '86 is a buyer for Belk Co.'s weekend and swim division. In January, she retumed to New York City from her second trip to the Orient, where she spent a week in India and a week in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Taiwan, developing a sportswear line for 1995.
Theresa Rachuba '86 married Jay Leatherbury on September 20, 1994.
Scott A. Wien '86 is employed by IBM and trained as a CNE to service a networking envi- ronment in New Jersey.
Denise Heckler Carey '87 is a substitute teacher and head field hockey coach in the North Penn School District in Lansdale, Pa. Her hus- band, Dave, is associate pastor at Lansdale First United Methodist Church.
John Hintenach '87 is a business develop- ment manager for Martin Marietta Specialty Com- ponents in Largo, Fla. He was married to Kimberly L. McCardle in May 1994.
Dorothy Singer Hoglund '87 is caseworker/ coordinator for the Lebanon County satellite office of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. She is responsible for managing the office; providing case management for core services;
and transporting, escorting and teaching skills to clients who are blind or visually impaired.
Ursula Hoey Howson '87 is a graduate stu- dent/research assistant working toward a Ph. D. in marine biology-biochemistry at the College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware in Lewes. She and her husband, Geoffrey Howson '86, have a daughter, Amanda, born on January 22, 1991.
Eve R. Lindemuth '87 is a recruiter for International Language Engineering Corp., an inter- national translation firm located in Boulder, Colo.
Ingrid Peterson '87 is teaching educable mentally handicapped children at Gibsonton Elementary School near Tampa, Fla.
Eric J. Shafer '87 graduated from Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta in June 1 994. He is a pastor of three rural churches in the Central Pennsylvania Confer- ence of the United Methodist Church.
Bonnie J. Shermer '87 married Lt. Lonnie L. Crawford on May 14, 1994, at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Kristi Cheney '87 was the soloist for the wedding ceremony. In January 1995, the couple moved to Okinawa, where Lonnie will serve a three-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps.
Margaret Springer Timmons '87 and her husband, Dan, welcomed their first child, Caleb Andrew, on October 12, 1994.
Karen K. Albert '88 is a 5th grade teacher in the Central Dauphin School District in Harris- burg. She received a master's degree in teaching and curriculum from the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity in May 1994.
Samuel Howard Brandt '88 teaches sci- ence and health in the Lebanon l.U. 13 Alterna- tive Education Program in Lebanon, Pa. He and his wife welcomed their first child, Kenneth Samuel, on September 27, 1994.
Desmond J. Coffey HI '88 is a dairy micro- biologist for Lehigh Valley Dairies in Fort Wash- ington, Pa. He married Kathy M. Hess on August 13, 1994.
Marjorie A. Schubauer-Hartman '88 and her husband, Michael, welcomed a daughter, Alexandra Electra, on March 23, 1994.
Lydia Helene Neff '88 moved back to her hometown, Ridgewood, N.J., and is an elemen- tary BSI/suppIemental instructor in the Ridgewood Public Schools.
Desanie D. Vlaisavljevic '88 married Rob- ert D. Miller '91 on May 7, 1 994. Desanie works for the Childline (Child Abuse Hotline). Robert is a carpenter with Shaeffer & Sons Contractors in Hershey, Pa.
Kristin K. Weible '88 and Ralph D. Heister HI '90 were married in LVC's Miller Chapel on November 5, 1994. Kristin is employed by Lutheran Social Services-Child Care Programs in Lebanon, Pa. Ralph is vice president, director of environmental services, for All County and Associates, Inc. in Oley, Pa.
Kristine Kropp Betz '89 is teacher/director of Winnie-the-Pooh Pre-school in Summit Hill, Pa.
Sonja R. Compton '89 is working in Morristown, N.J., as an administrative assistant in quality assurance.
Maria C. Fazzolari '89 is an industrial engi- neer for B. Braun Medical Inc. in Allentown, Pa. She is pursuing an M.B.A. at Lehigh University.
R. Jason Herr '89 received a Ph.D. in organic chemisU-y from the Pennsylvania State University in August 1994. He is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Delaware in Newark.
Andrew Hower '89 is a systems analyst with Ford in New Holland, Pa., and head junior high football coach at Conestoga Valley School Dis- trict in Lancaster County, Pa.
Christine Richmond Hower '89 is a claim representative with the Donegal Mutual Insur- ance Co. and earned a Paralegal Certificate from the Pennsylvania State University. She and her husband, Andrew, welcomed their first child, Brett Andrew, on June 24, 1994.
David P. Myers '89 has earned a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Indiana University in Bloomington. His Ph.D. dissertation included construction and evaluation of a plasma time-of- flight mass spectrometer. He is employed with LECO Corp. in St. Joseph, Mich.
Beth A. Trout '89 married Brian Coder on December 31, 1994. She received an M.Ed, degree in guidance and counseling from Millersville University in May 1994.
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Annette Boyles '90 married David B. Stork on November 4, 1994. She received a master's degree from St. Francis College in July 1993.
D. Scott Carey '90 is a licensed psychiatric social worker at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J. He received a master's degree in social work from New York University in May 1994 and is now pursuing a post-graduate degree in health care policy and management at NYU.
Camille Declementi '90 graduated fifth in a class of 94 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine with a V.M.D. She has a practice in Monaca, Pa.
Sharon K. Faust '90 is senior research lab technician for Connaught Laboratories, Inc. in Swiftwater, Pa.
Matthew S. Guenther '90 is chairperson of the Exeter (Pa.) Junior High English Depart- ment. He teaches German and creative writing in the Challenge Program. He is advisor to both the school newspaper and the yearbook, which took second place in National Scholastic Press Asso- ciation and Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Association. He is working on a master's degree at Millersville University.
Harry (Buddy) S. Oliver HI '90 is a sys- tems analyst for Fiberplex in Columbia, Md. His wife, Kathy Supplee Oliver '90, is a social worker for the Harford County Department of Social Services in Bel Air, Md. The couple reside in Glenelg.
Elizabeth Rosser '90 married Brian Smith '90 on May 28, 1994. They reside in Bensalem, Pa.
Pamela B. Schaadt '90 received a master's degree in organ performance from the Catholic University of America in 1994. On September 3, 1994, Pamela married Christopher Mathews in Market Square Presbyterian Church in Harris- burg; they reside in Frederick, Md. She is music director/organist of Middletown United Method- ist Church, and is also teaching private music lessons and Kindermusik classes.
Katherine B. Scheidegger '90 is a finance and contract administrator for Physician Com- puter Network in Morris Plains, N.J.
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Susan M. Spadjinski '90 and Vincent J. Sasone were married on July 9, 1994, at St. Thomas Church in Southington, Conn. The couple resides in Vernon.
Amy M. Castle '91 married Douglas Hosier on October 22, 1 994. They live in St. Paul, Minn., where Amy, who has an M.B.A. from American University, is product requisition analyst for Ceridan Employees' Services.
Sean Patrick Hunter '91 is a social studies teacher for the Millersburg Area (Pa.) School District.
Kevin T. Kalb '91 received an M.B.A. in financial analysis from Drexel University. He is an accountant for the Eastern Region of Safe- guard Business Systems, Inc. in Fort Washington, Pa.
Angela M. Krause '91 is a music teacher at the Marshall Elementary School in Harrisburg.
James McMenamin '91 married Regina C. Wynee of Limerick, Pa., on August 6, 1994. James is a millwork sales specialist for The Home Depot in King of Prussia, Pa.
Todd A. Mentzer '91 and his wife, Joyce Attlx Mentzer '91, welcomed a daughter, Lauren Elizabeth, on August 21, 1994. Joyce graduated in August 1994 from the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music with a master's degree in organ performance.
Maryann Lucykanish Pula '91 is a 5th grade teacher at Central School in the Great Meadows (N.J.) Regional School District.
Beth Scbalkoff '91 is an administrative assistant at Black Petrella Weisbord, Inc. in Plainfield, N.J. She is married to Thomas Miskewitz '91.
Rebecca L. Snyder '91 is advertising coor- dinator for Associated Wholesalers, Inc. in Robesonia, Pa.
Diana L. Cook '92 married Todd Musser on June 18, 1994. She is an elementary vocal/ general music teacher at Conrad Weiser East Elementary School in Wemersville, Pa.
Brian Amandus Henry '92 is a sales repre- sentative for Hechinger's and a graphic designer for David Cooper Printing in Lancaster County, Pa.
Gregory High '92 is the manager of sales and marketing for High Hotels, Ltd. Prior to joining High Hotels in 1992, Gregory served as marketing representative for High Associates, Ltd. He is chairman of the marketing committee for the Tri-State Association of Hampton Inns, Inc. and is chairman of the High Foundation Scholarship Selection Committee.
Jan Haneberg Monteverde '92 is an accoun- tant for Conestoga Ceramic Tile in Harrisburg. She and her husband, Terrence M. Monteverde '92, have a son, Arthur.
Alyson J. Neiswender '92 married William R. Adams '89 in September 1994 in Clearfield, Pa. Alyson is a substitute teacher in the Brookfield/Danbury schools in Brookfield, Conn., where they reside. Bill is a research sci- entist II for Boehringer Ingelhelm Pharmaceuti- cal Co. in Ridgefield.
Douglas M. Zook '92 is a science teacher and football coach at Perryville High School in Elkton, Md.
Amy G. Batman '93 is a student at the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy and Science.
Kimberly Bolden '93 is a program manager in a group home for the mentally/physically
handicapped for New Directions in Progress in Harrisburg.
Laura Etzweiler '93 is a transportation/rate analyst for Warner-Lambert Co. in Lititz, Pa.
Lori Folk '93 is in the second year of a master's degree program at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She is also a teach- ing assistant.
Harold E. Fultz '93 received an M.S. degree in computer science from Shippensburg Univer- sity in December 1994.
Jennifer Hanshaw Hackett '93 is an editor for Chemical Education Resources in Palmyra, Pa. Her husband Sean Hackett '93, is a vocal music teacher for Conrad Weiser High School in Robesonia, Pa.
Justine Hamilton '93 is a VISTA worker for the Mayor's Commission on Literacy in Phila- delphia.
Theodore A. Jones '93 and his wife, Lynn Schwalm Jones '93, welcomed a son, Tyler Patrick, on June 7, 1994.
Helen M. Major '93 is a caseworker II in the Mental Health/Mental Retardation Association's early intervention program in Chester County, Pa.
Jan M. Ogurcak '93 is a 1st grade teacher at the Jackson Elementary School in the Eastern Lebanon County School District in Myerstown, Pa. She also coaches the junior high school girls' basketball team for the district.
Zoanna Lyn Payne '93 is a management trainee for Pepperidge Farm, Inc. in Denver, Pa.
David M. Sullivan '93 is a tax accountant for Fishbein and Co., a CPA firm in Elkins Park, Pa.
Matthew D. Barr '94 is a chemist for Ster- ling-Winthrop Drug Co. in Myerstown, Pa.
Lt. Jennifer I. Bower '94 graduated with honors from the officer basic course in Fort Eustis, Va. Serving in the Army, she leads the 546th Transportation Company (Airborne), Fort Bragg, N.C.
Craig C. Connelly '94 is a sales person for Furniture Liquidators in Lebanon, Pa. He is mar- ried to Dawn R. Hickman Connelly '92.
David Fromholt '94 is a salesman for Shyda's Gun Shop in Lebanon, Pa.
Cathi Gable '94 is a printer for Express Temporary Services in Lancaster, Pa.
David V. Gartner '94 is a quality control analyst for Sterling Winthrop in Myerstown, Pa.
Kevin E. Kemler '94 is in the sales/market- ing department at The Kern Group in Lancaster, Pa. He and his wife welcomed a daughter on December 19, 1994.
Christine J. Seibert '94 is a financial plan- ning assistant for Richard Gabriel Van Buren Kohlhepp, Ltd. in Horsham, Pa.
Matthew J. St. Georges '94 is a manager for Tailfeathers, Inc. in Agawam, Mass.
Samuel Robert Willox '94 is a systems ana- lyst for Thomson Consumer Electronics in Lancaster, Pa.
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