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KEUKA<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> Magazine <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2005</strong><br />
World Class
hrough alumni and student<br />
profiles and other articles, <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
magazine has done an excellent job<br />
of backing up the <strong>College</strong>’s claim<br />
that it is the national leader in experiential,<br />
hands-on learning.<br />
In this issue, we discover that<br />
our role as the national leader has a<br />
growing international dimension.<br />
This is primarily due to an expanding<br />
program in China (no American<br />
college or university has more<br />
enrolled students in China than we<br />
do), annual Field Periods around the<br />
globe, study abroad opportunities,<br />
and a number of alumni living and<br />
working in foreign countries.<br />
Our increased presence abroad<br />
fits right into our mission. As you<br />
know, experiential education is the<br />
core educational philosophy of our<br />
college.<br />
Therefore,<br />
in<br />
keeping<br />
with this<br />
belief, we<br />
know that<br />
in order<br />
to really<br />
learn<br />
about<br />
other cultures,languages<br />
and<br />
nations,<br />
you must<br />
experience<br />
them<br />
first-<br />
hand. Our new and expanded international<br />
programs ensure that a larger<br />
portion of our student body have<br />
the opportunity to do this.<br />
P RESIDENT’ S M ESSAGE<br />
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE FITS WITH MISSION<br />
T<br />
Edith Estey ’33 was<br />
committed to placing<br />
students in Field<br />
Periods across Europe.<br />
By Joseph G. Burke<br />
Today’s college graduates must<br />
have an understanding of economic<br />
and cultural systems that exist in<br />
today’s world. American society is<br />
becoming increasingly diverse in<br />
terms of ethnicity, race, language,<br />
nationality, religion, and sexual orientation.<br />
Therefore, to be<br />
successful in any business<br />
or occupation, the <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
graduate must have an<br />
understanding of these<br />
diverse groups, as well as<br />
the relational skills to work<br />
and live in our highly<br />
diverse society.<br />
Our recent expansion in<br />
international programs is a<br />
return to the days of the late Edith<br />
Estey ’33, the affable <strong>Keuka</strong> administrator<br />
who created the Field Period<br />
program in 1942. She was committed<br />
to placing students in Field<br />
Periods across Europe via the <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
World Emphasis Sequence (KWES)<br />
program. KWES was implemented<br />
“to provide students with the opportunity<br />
for… first-hand experience<br />
with the international scene and…<br />
direct acquaintance with people of<br />
diverse social and cultural background.”<br />
As you will read in this issue,<br />
our international education program<br />
has broadened to include other parts<br />
of the world besides Europe. This is<br />
in keeping with the expansion of the<br />
U.S. economy to other parts of the<br />
globe. For instance, our annual foreign<br />
trade statistics demonstrate the<br />
growing importance of Asia and the<br />
Pacific Rim. This is one of the key<br />
reasons we are putting such an<br />
emphasis on China.<br />
Most Chinese students do not<br />
work or complete internships during<br />
their college careers. Consequently,<br />
they are not as competitive for<br />
employment opportunities at international<br />
companies that operate in<br />
China and across Asia. That is an<br />
important reason why China is so<br />
interested in <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> and the<br />
emphasis we place on experiential<br />
education. In fact, you will learn in<br />
this issue that Chinese students pursuing<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> degrees are now conducting<br />
Field Periods.<br />
Fifty-one <strong>Keuka</strong> Park students<br />
conducted Field Periods<br />
in eight foreign countries in<br />
January. Reflecting the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s commitment to<br />
international study, some<br />
received financial assistance<br />
to help defray travel costs.<br />
Senior Amanda Auriemma<br />
and junior Kate Thomas-<br />
Moody received Judith Oliver<br />
Brown Memorial Awards to help<br />
fund their culturally oriented Field<br />
Periods. Auriemma was part of the<br />
Group Field Period to Italy led by<br />
Professor of History Sander<br />
Diamond. It was the 29th such trip<br />
directed by Diamond, and many<br />
have been to foreign countries.<br />
Thomas-Moody worked with the<br />
Southhampton Saints Football Club<br />
in England.<br />
Three students received Spiritual<br />
Exploration Field Period scholarships:<br />
juniors Gina DeLeo and<br />
Jessica Flood served as teacher’s<br />
assistants at the International<br />
Christian School in San Jose, Costa<br />
Rica, while freshman Steven<br />
Mitchell worked at the Hope for<br />
India orphanage in Chillakallu,<br />
India.<br />
These students will inspire other<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> matriculates to study abroad<br />
in much the same fashion that Anne<br />
Janovsky Devitt ’52 (the first <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
student to travel overseas with support<br />
from the Norton Memorial<br />
Fund) did in 1951.<br />
These multiple international educational<br />
activities only serve to<br />
enhance our role as the national<br />
leader in experiential, hands-on<br />
learning.
4<br />
Continental Drift<br />
When we decided to focus this issue of <strong>Keuka</strong> magazine on the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s international presence,<br />
we had three major<br />
concerns:<br />
1. Could we come up<br />
with enough feature stories?<br />
We were aware of the popularity<br />
of international Field<br />
Periods but what about alumni?<br />
No problem. There were<br />
far more alumni living overseas<br />
than we imagined.<br />
2. Would we be able to<br />
interview these alumni? The<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> magazine budget isn’t<br />
large enough for us to travel<br />
the globe in search of stories<br />
but our budget does permit<br />
limited overseas calls and of course there’s e-mail.<br />
Students and faculty from the University of<br />
Carmen in Mexico, along with their <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
counterparts, toured the National Women’s Hall of<br />
Fame in Seneca Falls last summer.<br />
3. While we agreed that the easiest way—in terms of reporting and<br />
design—to explore this international theme was to use the seven continents,<br />
the question was could we find students and/or alumni with ties to<br />
all seven? Well, we couldn’t. Try as we might, we couldn’t find a <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
connection on Antarctica. However, we did come up with stories from the<br />
other six continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa,<br />
and Australia.<br />
Close enough? We think so; especially when you consider that<br />
Antarctica’s terrain is 98 percent thick continental ice sheet and 2 percent<br />
barren rock, and that there are no indigenous inhabitants, just 1,000-4,000<br />
part and full-time researchers, depending on the season.<br />
But who knows? Given the depth and breadth of <strong>Keuka</strong>’s Field Period<br />
program and the talents of its alumni, we may go 7-for-7 some day.<br />
Also Inside<br />
2 Students and Speakers<br />
Freshman and transfer enrollment on the rise; the <strong>College</strong> selects its commencement and<br />
Fribolin speakers.<br />
17 No, Not that Sandra Bullock<br />
Life can be interesting when you share the same name with one of Hollywood’s leading<br />
lights.<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 1 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
KEUKA<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> Magazine<br />
<strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2005</strong> Vol. 5, No. 3<br />
PUBLISHER<br />
Carolanne Marquis<br />
Executive Vice President<br />
EDITOR<br />
Doug Lippincott<br />
dlippinc@mail.keuka.edu<br />
DESIGNER<br />
Christen Smith<br />
ASSISTANT EDITOR<br />
Tanya Cornell-Kestler ’01<br />
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT<br />
Gretchen Parsells<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
Fran Crovetti<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> magazine welcomes your<br />
comments and ideas. Opinions expressed<br />
in this magazine do not necessarily<br />
reflect the official policies of <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> magazine is published<br />
three times a year by the<br />
Office of Communications.<br />
Telephone: (315) 279-5231<br />
FAX: (315) 279-5281<br />
www.keuka.edu<br />
On the Cover<br />
It’s not what you’d see from<br />
space, but you can spot the seven<br />
continents in this “view” of our<br />
planet.<br />
Campus Currents 2-3<br />
Crovetti’s Corner 14<br />
Alumni Update 16<br />
Class Notes 17-21
Moschner to Deliver<br />
Commencement Address<br />
A<br />
lbin Moschner, executive vice<br />
president/chief marketing officer<br />
for Leaf Wireless, will deliver the<br />
address at <strong>Keuka</strong>’s 97th commencement<br />
May 29.<br />
Moschner was the keynote speaker<br />
at the 2004 Leadership Awards and<br />
Moving Up Ceremony.<br />
Leaf Wireless is a wireless phone<br />
service provider in San Diego, Calif.<br />
Formerly, he was president of<br />
Verizon Card Services and, before it<br />
was acquired by Verizon, president and<br />
chief executive officer of OnePoint<br />
Services Inc., a telecommunications<br />
company located in Lake Forest, Ill.<br />
Moschner had a distinguished career<br />
with Zenith Electronics, starting in 1991<br />
as vice president of operations. He was<br />
elected to the board of directors in<br />
1992, promoted to president in 1994,<br />
In terms of enrollment—total, freshman<br />
and transfer— things are looking up<br />
at <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
A total of 1,206 students (1,051 fulltime,<br />
155 part-time) enrolled for the<br />
2004 semester, up from 1,148 a year ago<br />
and an increase of 5 percent.<br />
New student enrollment stands at<br />
323, a hike of 9 percent. Freshman<br />
enrollment is up slightly to 248 while<br />
transfer enrollment stands at 68, a 27<br />
percent hike. The <strong>College</strong> also re-admitted<br />
7 students this fall.<br />
“The increase in enrollment can be<br />
attributed, in large part, to the work of<br />
our enrollment management team, in particularly,<br />
our hard-working counselors,”<br />
said Executive Vice President Carolanne<br />
Marquis. “Our faculty also played an<br />
important role. They are talented teachers<br />
who take a sincere interest in seeing<br />
their students succeed, from freshman<br />
orientation to graduation.”<br />
Ninety-three percent of entering<br />
C AMPUS C URRENTS<br />
and added the CEO title in 1995.<br />
Moschner resigned from Zenith in<br />
1996 after successfully<br />
completing the sale of<br />
the company to LG<br />
Electronics, a subsidiary<br />
of Lucky<br />
Goldstar Group.<br />
He is a director of<br />
Pella Windows Corp.,<br />
Wintrust Financial<br />
Moschner<br />
Corp., and Apex Insurance Managers.<br />
He is also a trustee of WTTW,<br />
Chicago’s PBS television and radio<br />
station.<br />
A graduate of Syracuse University<br />
(M.S.) and The City <strong>College</strong> of New<br />
York (B.E.), he and wife Mary Ann, a<br />
1974 <strong>Keuka</strong> graduate and member of<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s governing board, have<br />
four children.<br />
Enrollment on the Up, and Up, and Up<br />
freshmen hail from New York state,<br />
although eight other states are represented—New<br />
Jersey, Pennsylvania,<br />
Virginia, North Carolina,<br />
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont,<br />
and New Hampshire—and one foreign<br />
country—Jamaica.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> continues to attract a number<br />
of students from area high schools, with<br />
Penn Yan leading the way with eight.<br />
Haverling (Bath) and Manchester-<br />
Shortsville each sent four students to<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>.<br />
The top feeder school for transfers<br />
was Finger Lakes Community <strong>College</strong>,<br />
followed by Corning Community<br />
<strong>College</strong>. Women make up 70 percent of<br />
the freshman class.<br />
In terms of majors, the most popular<br />
choice among freshmen and transfers<br />
was unified childhood/special education,<br />
followed by management, biology,<br />
occupational science, criminology and<br />
criminal justice, and psychology.<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 2 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
Mae Day<br />
Weekend<br />
Medical doctor, astronaut, linguist,<br />
former medical missionary in West<br />
Africa, television broadcaster, and<br />
leading female entrepreneur.<br />
All describe Dr. Mae C. Jemison,<br />
who will deliver the 17th Carl and<br />
Fanny Fribolin Lecture Friday, April<br />
29. One of the highlights of May Day<br />
Weekend, the lecture will begin at 6:30<br />
p.m. in Norton Chapel. It is free and<br />
open to the public.<br />
On Sept. 12, 1992, Jemison blasted<br />
into orbit aboard the space shuttle<br />
Endeavour, becoming the first woman<br />
of color to<br />
go into<br />
space. Her<br />
international<br />
company,<br />
The<br />
Jemison<br />
Group<br />
Inc., is<br />
dedicated<br />
to the<br />
research,<br />
development<br />
and<br />
Dr. Mae Jemison<br />
implementation of advanced technologies<br />
to alleviate the massive burdens of<br />
developing nations in areas of healthcare,<br />
food production, and the environment.<br />
Her new corporation, BioSentient,<br />
is a medical technology company that<br />
develops and markets mobile equipment<br />
worn to monitor the body's vital<br />
signs and train people to respond<br />
favorably in stressful situations.<br />
The lecture series carries the names<br />
of Carl Fribolin, an emeritus member<br />
of the <strong>College</strong> Board of Trustees, and<br />
his late wife. Jemison is the<br />
latest addition to an impressive list of<br />
Fribolin speakers that includes<br />
Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Robert Novak,<br />
Marv Levy, Hamilton Jordan, and<br />
Marlin Fitzwater.
C AMPUS C URRENTS<br />
Faculty F cus<br />
A<br />
ssociate Professor of<br />
Communication Studies Anita<br />
Chirco chaired a panel on American<br />
Regionalist Writing at the Central New<br />
York Conference on Language and<br />
Literature at SUNY Cortland. She is a<br />
reviewer for Interactions, a scholarly<br />
journal published by Ege University’s<br />
(Izmir, Turkey) English language and<br />
literature and American culture and literature<br />
departments.<br />
> Associate Professor of American<br />
Sign Language Dorothy Wilkins<br />
teamed up with representatives from the<br />
National Technical Institute for the Deaf<br />
(NTID)/Rochester Institute of<br />
Technology, University of Rochester,<br />
and the Deaf Rochester community to<br />
organize the first Deaf Rochester Film<br />
Festival, scheduled March 18-20.<br />
> Associate Professor of Art Dexter<br />
Benedict sculpted a statue depicting<br />
Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark<br />
Thompson to commemorate the 100th<br />
anniversary of F.F. Thompson Hospital<br />
in Canandaigua.<br />
> Professor of Political Science and<br />
Economics Jeff Krans is director of<br />
vocational service for Rotary District<br />
7120, which includes 68 clubs. He also<br />
helped establish a Rotaract Club (an<br />
international, Rotary-sponsored service<br />
organization for young men and women<br />
ages 18-30) on the <strong>Keuka</strong> campus.<br />
> Professor of History Sander<br />
Diamond and Assistant Professor of<br />
Management Ann Tuttle published<br />
opinion pieces in regional daily newspapers.<br />
Among Diamond’s pieces: “The<br />
Tsunami: A Historical Perspective” and<br />
“If You See My Monument, Look<br />
Around” (about the death of Yasir<br />
Arafat). Tuttle wrote a piece titled<br />
“Women of The Apprentice Not<br />
Representing Us Well” (a look at NBC-<br />
TV’s reality show).<br />
We Mean What We Say<br />
We support our troops.<br />
It is a message declared on the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s website.<br />
And it’s one that students, faculty,<br />
staff, and alumni have demonstrated<br />
and continue to demonstrate.<br />
One student and one alumna served<br />
in the war effort: David Kinnard ’05<br />
and Peggy Linthicum ’04. Kinnard<br />
worked security in Europe during the<br />
initial assault on Baghdad and<br />
Linthicum ’04 supplied parts to C-130<br />
cargo planes in Saudi Arabia.<br />
Linthicum, a registered nurse, also<br />
assisted medical personnel.<br />
Last semester, the <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Republicans organized the <strong>Keuka</strong> 900,<br />
a project aimed at sending 900 postcards<br />
to local troops serving overseas.<br />
The Republicans teamed up with<br />
the <strong>College</strong> Democrats and Students in<br />
Free Enterprise (SIFE) to form a nonpolitical<br />
coalition that sponsored the<br />
Holiday Drive for the Troops.<br />
Members of the <strong>College</strong> family<br />
responded in a big way, with 23 boxes<br />
of goodies sent to U.S. soldiers.<br />
Freshmen Erika Noll and Shannon<br />
Furlong, co-leaders of a local Junior<br />
Girl Scout Troop that meets on campus,<br />
donated boxes of Girl Scout cookies<br />
to troops in Iraq, along with notes<br />
written by the scouts.<br />
Admissions Counselor/Transfer<br />
Coordinator Maryanne Cameron adopted<br />
a soldier through Operation AC Inc.<br />
(www.operationac.com). She sends<br />
him care packages every couple weeks<br />
and recently sent a pair of combat<br />
boots.<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 3 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
Links to<br />
The Past<br />
“H<br />
istory is not a closeted thing;<br />
it should be part of our lives.”<br />
That’s the reason behind The<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> History and Archives<br />
Project, headed by Assistant Professor<br />
of History Joe Torre.<br />
The project began with Torre’s<br />
New York State History class. Torre<br />
asked his students “to look at the<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> experience over the years<br />
through primary sources such as old<br />
yearbooks, diaries, and scrapbooks.”<br />
Most of these sources came from the<br />
archives, located in Lightner Library.<br />
It has evolved to include six<br />
work-study positions. The student<br />
workers are responsible for “utilizing,<br />
restructuring, organizing, and inventorying”<br />
the <strong>College</strong> archives so that<br />
they “make more sense,” said Torre.<br />
To date, manuscripts, various<br />
physical objects such as wall panels,<br />
original African clothing, missionary<br />
items from India, and several 16 mm<br />
films have been among the many articles<br />
uncovered in the archives,<br />
according to Torre.<br />
“We want to create a provenance<br />
for these items,” said Torre.<br />
One way they’ve gone about creating<br />
a sense of origin for the items is<br />
by interviewing <strong>Keuka</strong> alumni such as<br />
Elsie “Peg” Pond ’25. Morgan Berry<br />
’04 first interviewed Pond to fulfill<br />
the New York State History assignment.<br />
According to Torre, some students<br />
chose to film oral history sessions<br />
with alumni and <strong>College</strong> faculty for<br />
the assignment. Other projects included<br />
essays on the Field Period concept,<br />
narratives of <strong>Keuka</strong> athletic teams<br />
through the years, and analyses of<br />
specific years at the <strong>College</strong>, such as<br />
1955.<br />
Torre worked with Associate<br />
Professor of Education Jim Schwartz<br />
to convert some of the 16 mm films to<br />
DVDs. He and Schwartz produced a<br />
DVD of Berry’s interview with Pond.
Period works.<br />
Even Down Under.<br />
Carly Ervin Ludbrook ’03 conducted a Field Period in<br />
2002 at the Wollongong City Art Gallery in New South<br />
Wales, Australia. She now works in the study abroad office<br />
at the University of Wollongong.<br />
“I got this job mostly because of my semesters<br />
abroad,” she explained. “My Field Period experience<br />
taught me what it was like to work in Australia and it<br />
allowed me to feel confident in being an American in<br />
Australia.”<br />
A standout on Coach Nancy Wightman’s nationally<br />
ranked synchronized swimming team, she “became interested<br />
in Australia” after watching the synchronized swimming<br />
competition and other sports during television coverage<br />
of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.<br />
“Plus, I always wanted to learn how to surf,” she said.<br />
She spent the second half of 2001 studying at the<br />
University of Wollongong through a program offered by<br />
Keene (N.H.) State <strong>College</strong>.<br />
“I couldn’t have done it without the help of [Assistant<br />
Professor of English] Amanda Harris and [former<br />
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs] Norm<br />
Muir,” said Ludbrook, who, among other things, learned<br />
how to use a pottery wheel at the Australian university.<br />
Her experience motivated her to write a study abroad<br />
manual for <strong>Keuka</strong> students and paved the way for her<br />
2002 Field Period.<br />
“I contacted the Wollongong City Art Gallery and<br />
asked if they took interns,” she recalled. “They were very<br />
receptive. I arranged it on my own but it wouldn’t have<br />
been possible unless I had been there before.”<br />
At the gallery, Ludbrook “performed customer service<br />
functions, such as welcoming guests; put up and took<br />
down exhibits; worked a few openings; and met some<br />
wonderful people involved in the art world. It was eyeopening<br />
and I really enjoyed it.”<br />
She traveled extensively during her two Australian<br />
tours, visiting the Northern Territory, Queensland, and<br />
Aus<br />
No Matter What Hemisphere, Field Period Works<br />
Field<br />
Victoria. She traveled to the east coast by car and camper<br />
van, and spent some time in the south, near Melbourne, the<br />
capital.<br />
During her first tenure in Australia, she met the man<br />
who would become her husband.<br />
“Sean and I lived in the same dorm and were in a class<br />
together,” she said.<br />
The couple returned to Australia last fall so Sean could<br />
complete his undergraduate degree.<br />
“For us to be together, one of us had to make sacrifices,”<br />
explained Ludbrook. “He delayed his graduation so<br />
I could finish [my last semester] at <strong>Keuka</strong>.”<br />
So now it’s her turn, and besides, “I love Australia and<br />
we live three blocks from the beach.”<br />
Ludbrook thinks more <strong>Keuka</strong> students should study<br />
abroad.<br />
“We are in such a protected community—which is<br />
great—but seeing other parts of the world is important,”<br />
she explained. “Americans need to understand that we are<br />
not the only country out there. It may help our international<br />
relations.” —Gretchen Parsells
tralia<br />
On Top of Things Down Under<br />
Field<br />
Period inadvertently resulted in<br />
Beth Brown Bridger’s ’71 move to<br />
Down Under.<br />
In the summer of 1970, she conducted a Field Period in<br />
the United Kingdom, working with the Inner London<br />
Education Authority at a<br />
summer school in<br />
Haslemere. There, she met<br />
fellow teacher Dave<br />
Many<br />
teachers<br />
at <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
influenced<br />
my life<br />
“<br />
”<br />
Bridger. The couple married<br />
in 1972, after she completed<br />
a master’s degree at the<br />
University of Virginia, and<br />
moved to the United<br />
Kingdom “to teach for a<br />
term.”<br />
In January 1973, the<br />
couple moved to Australia<br />
to teach.<br />
“My husband had a<br />
close friend who was<br />
Australian, and the government<br />
was offering assisted<br />
passage for 20 pounds<br />
(English currency), $1,000<br />
and two years tax-free for<br />
me,” said Bridger. “It was too good an adventure not to<br />
take.”<br />
Bridger taught first grade in “the western suburbs of<br />
Sydney” for one year.<br />
“We loved Australia and decided to move to the island<br />
state of Tasmania in 1974,” said Bridger. “Thirty years and<br />
four children later, we are still here.”<br />
Today, Bridger teaches second and third grade students<br />
at a small school, where she is also special education coordinator<br />
and responsible for the school’s literary program.<br />
According to Bridger, Australian education systems are<br />
“similar” to American education systems, “but children<br />
start kindergarten at age four and full-time schooling at<br />
five.”<br />
Additionally, “[grades] 11 and 12 are at secondary colleges,<br />
separate from high school,” which includes grades 7<br />
through 10.<br />
“The Tasmanian Education Department is currently<br />
focusing on the Essential<br />
Learnings Curriculum, which<br />
takes a holistic approach to education,”<br />
added Bridger, who cred-<br />
its <strong>Keuka</strong> for preparing her well<br />
for the job.<br />
“<strong>Keuka</strong> gave me a fabulous<br />
background for my career,” she<br />
said. “I have taught pre-school<br />
children to adults.<br />
“Many teachers at <strong>Keuka</strong> influenced<br />
my life,” she added. “Dr.<br />
Snow, Dr. Diamond, and Mr.<br />
Fitzgibbons are just a few.”<br />
Field Period also made a positive<br />
impact.<br />
Said Bridger: “The Field<br />
Periods enabled me to travel,<br />
explore, and grow with new experience<br />
in life and teaching.”<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler
Poland<br />
Polish Pedagogy<br />
A<br />
number of Polish adolescents have a more accurate<br />
picture of what America is like, thanks to six <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
students who conducted Field Periods in the country in<br />
July.<br />
The students participated in the Teaching English in<br />
Poland program administered by the Kosciuszko<br />
Foundation in New York City, and were led by Assistant<br />
Professor of Social Work Stephanie Craig.<br />
The Teaching English in Poland program provides<br />
summer teaching opportunities for American teachers and<br />
college students in the European country. Polish students<br />
who participate in the program are between the ages of 10-<br />
19 and have intermediate English language skills.<br />
Sarah Rusek, a sophomore unified childhood/special<br />
education major with an emphasis in American Sign<br />
Language, worked as a teacher’s assistant in Tczew.<br />
Her students, who were between the ages of 16-19,<br />
“were very curious, and I believe I was able to give them a<br />
better idea of what America is really like by answering<br />
questions they had about America and correcting any false<br />
impressions they had.”<br />
Rusek said common misconceptions among her students<br />
were that all Americans are overweight, drive big<br />
cars, and have lots of money.<br />
“I explained to them that our schools face many of the<br />
same hardships theirs do,” said Rusek. “I told them that<br />
school budgets get cut all of the time and programs often<br />
are eliminated. I think it relieved them to hear that.”<br />
Junior Apryl Poch, an adolescent English/special<br />
education major, served as a teaching assistant in a<br />
Krakow classroom.<br />
“I had the opportunity to teach lessons in conjunction<br />
with my cooperating teacher,” said Poch. “I told the students<br />
about my hometown, and I led lessons on homophones<br />
and homonyms, as well as literature. Throughout<br />
all of this was a basis of American current events.”<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> students also learned many lessons from<br />
their Polish hosts.<br />
Poch, who did not know the Polish language before<br />
the trip, was able to pick up “survivor” Polish while in<br />
Eur<br />
the country, which included basic directions and greetings.<br />
Poch also learned “the Polish are very similar to<br />
Americans. Other than a distinct financial difference, I felt<br />
at home. For example, in Poland, if a family has at least<br />
two cars or more, they are considered rich, while in the<br />
U.S., it is common for families to have multiple vehicles.”<br />
Rusek learned “how fortunate and unappreciative we<br />
actually are in America.”<br />
The Polish students told her “that they work hard on<br />
everything they do. They also told us that, even though<br />
they work extremely hard and receive a university degree,<br />
they know that they might not see the benefits. We all<br />
know plenty of people who do not go to college and lead<br />
very successful lives, but that could never happen in<br />
Poland. They have to work extremely hard and earn everything<br />
they have.”<br />
The four other students who participated in the Field<br />
Period were sophomores Whitney Benton, Danielle<br />
Colaprete, Jessica Sutryk, and junior Delicia Fullington.<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> students spent the last of their four weeks<br />
in Poland touring the country, courtesy of the Polish government.<br />
They traveled to Zakopane, Szcawnica, Lancut,<br />
Sandomierz, Kazimierz Dolny, Pulawy, Torun, Warsaw,<br />
and Wadowecie, the town in which Pope John Paul II was<br />
raised. —Tanya Cornell-Kestler<br />
(Gretchen Parsells contributed to this story)<br />
Sarah Rusek<br />
(in cirlce)<br />
and others<br />
gather at the<br />
monument of<br />
Polish<br />
astronomer<br />
Nicolaus<br />
Copernicus in<br />
Torun’s old<br />
town square.
ope Ireland<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> Lessons Make Emerald Isle Adjustments Easier<br />
Heed your professor’s advice.<br />
That’s what Jennifer Wilson O’Raghallaigh (“O’Reilly”)<br />
did when, at the suggestion of Professor of Political Science<br />
and Economics Jeff Krans, she applied for a Rotary<br />
Ambassadorial Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in<br />
Ireland.<br />
And, that’s how the 1994 <strong>Keuka</strong> graduate met her husband,<br />
Eoghan (“Owen”)—the reason she moved to the country<br />
in 1997—while taking a class in the Irish language, Irish<br />
Gaelic.<br />
“Eoghan works in a field that really requires him to stay<br />
here,” said O’Raghallaigh, who dual majored in English and<br />
psychology at <strong>Keuka</strong>. “Luckily, I also enjoy being here.”<br />
After receiving a master of philosophy degree in<br />
women’s studies from Trinity <strong>College</strong> in Dublin,<br />
O’Raghallaigh went on to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology<br />
from Trinity, where she is completing a master of<br />
science degree in psychoanalysis.<br />
She is employed as a senior clinical psychologist in liaison<br />
psychiatry at a major Dublin hospital.<br />
“My work involves a range of research, assessment, and<br />
intervention skills,” said O’Raghallaigh. “I work closely<br />
with medical teams across the hospital environment and<br />
constantly meet with new and exciting challenges.”<br />
Europe wasn’t all that foreign to O’Raghallaigh when<br />
she arrived there in 1994.<br />
“Because my dad was in the Air Force, my family<br />
moved around quite a bit when I was growing up,” said<br />
O’Raghallaigh, who was born in Merced, Calif. “We spent<br />
the majority of our time in Fairfax, Virginia, just south of<br />
Washington, D.C., but we also lived in England and in<br />
northern and southern Belgium.”<br />
And adapting to another culture was made easier<br />
because of Field Period.<br />
“Every year at Field Period, [<strong>Keuka</strong> students] are<br />
dropped into a new culture and required to adapt to new surroundings<br />
and new demands in a professional and competent<br />
manner,” said O’Raghallaigh. “I think that I probably<br />
brought some of those skills with me to <strong>Keuka</strong>, but having<br />
the experiences that I did in those four years extended my<br />
repertoire of coping strategies under pressure and let me<br />
believe in my ability to survive the uncertainties and start<br />
something new.”<br />
Another <strong>Keuka</strong> plus, according to O’Raghallaigh, is the<br />
direct contact students have with the faculty.<br />
“Being able to engage in discourse with professors when<br />
I was at an undergraduate level allowed me to develop a<br />
sense of confidence that may not have emerged if I only had<br />
contact with graduate student instructors, as happens so<br />
often in other colleges and universities,” she explained.<br />
O’Raghallaigh has found similarities and “subtle differences”<br />
comparing the U.S. and Ireland.<br />
“A grocery store not far from me just announced it<br />
would be open 24 hours, and that is a first,” she explained.<br />
“I also heard a rumor that Starbucks is coming to Dublin.”<br />
After giving birth to her daughter, Meabh (“Maeve”),<br />
she was “entitled to 18 weeks of leave with full pay. I’ve<br />
been able to work half-time and Eoghan has been able to<br />
change his hours around so that he can be with her when<br />
I’m at work. I’m not saying we couldn’t have worked something<br />
out like this if we lived in the States, but it is a lot<br />
more common here.<br />
“Ireland is certainly not the best in Europe for this,”<br />
added O’Raghallaigh. “I understand that in Sweden parents<br />
get a year off at full pay. Now that the European Union is<br />
developing social policies, I expect things here will get even<br />
better for parents.” —Tanya Cornell-Kestler
Tanzania<br />
A Life-Changing Field Period<br />
Having<br />
traveled with a hospice group to<br />
Zimbabwe and conducted a six-month mission in Panama,<br />
Eva Moberg-Sarver was cognizant of the plight of Third<br />
World Country denizens.<br />
But what the junior organizational communication major<br />
experienced on Field Period in Tanzania last spring truly<br />
opened her eyes.<br />
“A trip like this will change you more than you could<br />
ever imagine,” she explained. “Most of the families we went<br />
to see had only one parent left, the other having died of<br />
AIDS. The houses were made of clay, and were small and<br />
dark, with only one natural light source being a hole in the<br />
ceiling. They cook in the same room they sleep in, and the<br />
hole allowed the smoke to escape. The families are giving,<br />
and loving, and it amazes me that no one is angry about their<br />
life situation. They have so much they want to give, even<br />
though they do not have anything.”<br />
She recalled meeting a 12-year-old girl whose mother<br />
and brother were both HIV positive.<br />
“That hit me especially hard,” she said.<br />
There was a 40-yearold<br />
man with HIV/AIDS<br />
and a tumor in his stomach.<br />
His wife died the previous<br />
year and he had no<br />
way to feed his four children.<br />
Recalled Moberg-<br />
Sarver: “He said, ‘In the<br />
name of Jesus, I believe in<br />
a miracle.’”<br />
According to Moberg-<br />
Sarver, she met a 35-yearold<br />
woman with AIDS<br />
Moberg-Sarver (right)<br />
sampled a bit of Tanzanian<br />
fashion during her Field<br />
Period.<br />
Afr<br />
who was being cared for by her mother and other family<br />
members. When asked what she would do if she got better,<br />
she replied by saying, ‘I would do the work of God.’<br />
“The faith of these people amazes me,” said Moberg-<br />
Sarver. “I was so touched by the love they have for one<br />
another and how welcoming and giving they are, even when<br />
they have nothing to give.”<br />
Moberg-Sarver was part of a group, including her father<br />
and stepmother, that traveled to Tanzania to work for<br />
Hospice for Sub-Saharan Africa through Hospice of Central<br />
New York. She received a Spiritual Exploration Field Period<br />
scholarship to help fund her trip. The inspiration came from<br />
her father.<br />
“My dad has been to Africa 14 times—averaging 1 to 2<br />
trips a year—to bring supplies and make more contacts,” said<br />
Moberg-Sarver. “He goes to different countries, but has more<br />
contacts in South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Kenya.”<br />
In addition to her father and stepmother, doctors, nurses<br />
and a pastor made the trip.<br />
“We brought medical supplies to the country,” said<br />
Moberg-Sarver. “Each person in our group brought first-aid<br />
kit type of things, including aspirin, Band-Aids, and gauze<br />
pads.”<br />
Moberg-Sarver also brought pencils, stickers, games, and<br />
candy for the children, and a suitcase full of things families<br />
could use around the house, such as lotion and hand towels.<br />
“We went to many different hospitals and hospices while<br />
in Tanzania,” said Moberg-Sarver. “Each place had different<br />
numbers of patients, though in one place there were two children<br />
to a bed. We also visited a cancer institute.”<br />
Since there were a large number of people in her group,<br />
Moberg-Sarver says there was not a lot of one-on-one contact<br />
with individual patients. However, she did have time to<br />
play games with the children in addition to visiting family<br />
members of AIDS patients.<br />
“It was an amazing and intense time,” said Moberg-<br />
Sarver. “I would encourage anyone who has the chance to try<br />
and experience something like this at least once in their<br />
lifetime.” —Gretchen Parsells
ica<br />
Contented in Cape Town<br />
You can take the alumna out of <strong>Keuka</strong> but you<br />
can’t take <strong>Keuka</strong> out of the alumna.<br />
Case in point: Ellen du Toit ’79, who resides in a suburb<br />
of Cape Town, South Africa.<br />
du Toit, who teaches and is in charge of a gifted program<br />
at an elementary school, said that much of what she<br />
has accomplished can be credited to the experiences and<br />
friends she made during her four years at <strong>Keuka</strong>.<br />
She also credits several faculty members for making a<br />
huge impact on her career,<br />
including [former faculty mem-<br />
ber] Denis Pahl, [Associate<br />
Professor of Education] Sally<br />
Wedge, [Professor of History]<br />
Sander Diamond, [Professor of<br />
Psychology] Michael Rogoff,<br />
and several others.<br />
“After all these years, I still<br />
remember them because of their<br />
total dedication to their topics,<br />
the students, and the aura that<br />
made <strong>Keuka</strong> special,” said du<br />
Toit.<br />
One of the similarities<br />
between teaching in the U.S. and teaching in South Africa,<br />
according to du Toit, is the dedication of the teachers.<br />
“The differences are more cultural; everyone wants the<br />
best for his or her child and will do what they can to provide<br />
it,” she said.<br />
du Toit, who majored in elementary education and<br />
minored in pre-primary education at <strong>Keuka</strong>, also serves as<br />
a freelance textbook editor and was recently approached to<br />
write several sections of a 10th grade consumer studies<br />
textbook. She has also worked outside the teaching profession.<br />
“South African schools are quite strict and prescriptive,<br />
so over the years I have sold photocopiers, gym memberships,<br />
and was a customer service manager for a mail order<br />
“ I don’t<br />
think people<br />
appreciate<br />
their freedoms<br />
until they are<br />
not available.<br />
”<br />
South Africa<br />
company,” she explained.<br />
Her vitae also includes teaching English as a Second<br />
Language, serving as a tutor, and “assisting with setting up<br />
and running the American International School of Cape<br />
Town.”<br />
While she and husband Paul have traveled throughout<br />
Europe—“including six weeks in a tent that was our honeymoon”—<br />
and Russia, the United States is her favorite<br />
“foreign” country.<br />
“I don’t think people appreciate their freedoms until<br />
they are not available,” said du Toit, who added that it is<br />
“hard to connect with the U.S. since the news about<br />
‘home’ is limited and very<br />
biased.”<br />
One gets the feeling that du Toit<br />
would be happy living in Cape<br />
Town or Cape Cod.<br />
“I decided that we really make<br />
our own happiness no matter<br />
where we are or what we do,”<br />
said the mother of two children.<br />
“Living here is amazing, but like<br />
anywhere, full of unexpected<br />
challenges. It is more how we<br />
choose to deal with them that<br />
counts.”<br />
—Gretchen Parsells
Brazil<br />
Blame it on Rio<br />
After<br />
Guyana<br />
teaching in upstate New York for<br />
five years, Monique Felio Castilho ’83 decided she wanted “a<br />
little more excitement in my life.<br />
“I was single and ready for adventure. My salary did not<br />
make it possible to travel extensively, so I decided that maybe<br />
there was a way to work overseas. By chance, I found information<br />
about teaching overseas in a professional magazine to<br />
which I subscribed. I sent in the attached postcard and began<br />
the process toward working in an international school.”<br />
Castilho, a native of Webster, N.Y., admits that she “didn’t<br />
really know much” about Brazil when she accepted a position<br />
as a fourth grade teacher at the American School of Rio in<br />
1989.<br />
She also “didn’t speak any Portuguese, but my high school<br />
Spanish helped me out at first.<br />
“I took private classes three times a week, and with time,<br />
my Portuguese improved,” said Castilho. “I don’t need to speak<br />
Portuguese at work because all classes, except Portuguese, are<br />
taught in English.”<br />
She does speak Portuguese at home, however, with her husband,<br />
a native Brazilian, and their two children, who are all<br />
bilingual.<br />
Castilho, who taught fourth grade at the American School<br />
of Rio for 12 years before moving to fifth grade in 2001, said<br />
teaching methods at her school compare favorably with those in<br />
U.S. schools.<br />
The culture, on the other hand, “takes some getting used to.<br />
“I enjoy the way the Brazilians are able to enjoy their free<br />
time,” said Castilho. “Brazilians in Rio are often late for<br />
appointments, my husband included. However, they are the<br />
friendliest people you will ever meet. They have great music<br />
and art, and are very creative people in every respect. They can<br />
South<br />
America<br />
solve any problem you throw at them.”<br />
Castilho chose <strong>Keuka</strong> for its small size and because she<br />
“was interested in early education as a minor with elementary<br />
[education] as a major.<br />
“I had been shy in high school, and I felt this women’s college<br />
would give me more confidence—I was right,” said<br />
Castilho. “I met many friends who are still very important to<br />
me today. The education I received was great. It gave me a<br />
strong foundation for being the teacher and person I have<br />
become.”<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler<br />
Her Helping Hands<br />
During<br />
her annual excursion to Guyana in<br />
the summer of 2003, junior Delicia Fullington visited the<br />
David Rose School for Handicapped Children in Georgetown<br />
and “fell in love with the environment, especially the students.”<br />
So, the American Sign Language (ASL) major and communications<br />
minor made arrangements to conduct a Field<br />
Period at the school the following January.<br />
As a teacher’s assistant, Fullington taught ASL to deaf students<br />
and “helped the other students with disabilities, such as<br />
Down syndrome, learn how to read and do math.”<br />
So far, Fullington has utilized all of her Field Periods to<br />
travel to foreign lands. She followed up her trip to Guyana by<br />
taking part in a Group Field Period to Poland in July (see story<br />
on page 6). And, she has already made a contact regarding hospice<br />
work in sub-Saharan Africa this summer.<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler
China<br />
Like Capitalism, Field Period Emerging in China<br />
Things<br />
can change quickly in brand mar-<br />
keting.<br />
Take <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> for instance. Last year, the <strong>College</strong><br />
announced that it was the<br />
national leader in experiential,<br />
hand-on learning.<br />
No one disputes that<br />
claim, but it may not go far<br />
enough. The <strong>College</strong> may<br />
well be on its way to becoming<br />
the international leader in<br />
experiential, hands-on learning.<br />
Here’s why, and the<br />
explanation may cause Mao-<br />
Tse Tung, who led the<br />
Chinese communist government<br />
from 1949-1976, to<br />
turn over in his grave: Field<br />
Period, the centerpiece of<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>’s commitment to experiential<br />
education, has come to China.<br />
Gary Bonvillian and Anne<br />
Marie Guthrie brought Field<br />
Period principles to China.<br />
Chinese students enrolled in <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s organizational<br />
management program are now conducting Field<br />
Periods as part of their bachelor of science degree requirements.<br />
Some 2,100 Chinese are enrolled in <strong>Keuka</strong>’s program;<br />
half of them are currently taking <strong>Keuka</strong> courses.<br />
“Field Period is a revolutionary idea in China,” said<br />
Gary Bonvillian, provost and vice president for academic<br />
affairs. “However, the Chinese are trying to adapt to how<br />
students are taught in our country.”<br />
Although China is a communist country, it is embracing<br />
new ideas such as free enterprise and individual opportunity,<br />
according to Bonvillian.<br />
And Field Period is all about individual opportunity.<br />
“The Chinese are enamored with this concept of taking<br />
what you’ve learned in the college classroom and applying it<br />
to real-life situations,” said Bonvillian, who added that the<br />
Chinese are aware of <strong>Keuka</strong>’s impressive placement record.<br />
Ninety-eight percent of <strong>Keuka</strong> graduates start their<br />
careers or go on to graduate school within 6-9 months of<br />
graduation while 54 percent report that they received job<br />
offers from previous Field Period sites.<br />
Asia<br />
“China’s economy is growing rapidly and Field Period<br />
is one way for students to become more competitive in the<br />
job market,” said Bonvillian. “Chinese businesses seem<br />
receptive to Field Period and American companies in China<br />
should also find it appealing.”<br />
Assistant Dean of Experiential Education Anne Marie<br />
Guthrie traveled to China in July to provide Chinese students<br />
with a “basic foundation of experiential learning and<br />
an overview of Field Period.”<br />
According to Bonvillian, Chinese students pursuing<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> degrees, like those matriculating in <strong>Keuka</strong> Park, will<br />
have an edge when it comes time to enter the job market.<br />
“I talked to them about ‘intellectual capitalism,’” said<br />
Bonvillian. “The fact that they speak Chinese and English is<br />
a form of intellectual capitalism.”<br />
Nursing Next in China<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>’s presence in China will increase later this year<br />
when the <strong>College</strong> offers its nursing program at Hebei<br />
Medical University in Shijianzhuang. The nursing program<br />
at Heibei becomes the fourth <strong>Keuka</strong> program recognized by<br />
the Ministry of Education in Beijing.<br />
“No college or university from any country ever received<br />
more than three of these recognitions,” said Bonvillian.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>’s organizational management programs at Tianjin<br />
University of Science and Technology, Jimei University in<br />
Xiamen, and Yunnan University in Kunming have also been<br />
recognized by the Ministry of Education. The <strong>College</strong> also<br />
offers its program at Qiqihar University, Chongqing<br />
University, and Wenzhou Normal University.<br />
—Doug Lippincott
Canada<br />
Northern Exposure<br />
Population<br />
of Milton,<br />
Ontario: about 60,000.<br />
Population of <strong>Keuka</strong> Park, N.Y.: about 1,300.<br />
And their differences don’t end there.<br />
“Milton is a short distance away from the sprawl of<br />
Toronto, but the sprawl will shortly envelop it, too,” said<br />
Rachel McPhie Fraser ’01, who moved to the country three<br />
years ago after marrying a native Canadian. An occupational<br />
therapist, she relocated to Milton in February 2004 from<br />
Brampton, Ontario.<br />
“Brampton is a suburb of<br />
Toronto, and with about<br />
350,000 people, is very large<br />
and very busy,” Fraser added.<br />
“Metro-politan Toronto is<br />
about 5 million people and its<br />
surrounding area is very dense;<br />
as soon as you leave one city,<br />
you’re right into another.”<br />
According to Fraser, people<br />
come to the Toronto area from<br />
many different countries, which<br />
contributes to Ontario’s rich<br />
culture.<br />
“There are so many people<br />
from all over the world that<br />
bring their culture with them,” said Fraser.<br />
There are so<br />
many people<br />
from all over<br />
the world that<br />
bring their<br />
culture with<br />
them.<br />
“<br />
”<br />
Because of the diversity of cultures, “the number of different<br />
languages spoken here is amazing,” said Fraser.<br />
“There are many people who speak Punjabi, Urdu, Russian,<br />
Ukrainian, Chinese, Spanish, French, and [more].”<br />
According to Fraser, English is the primary language,<br />
which sounds much like that spoken in America, save for<br />
“a few ‘ehs’ or slight accents.”<br />
Fraser was raised in Green River, Wyo., and first<br />
looked to colleges in the west that offered occupational<br />
therapy when she sought to transfer from Rick <strong>College</strong> in<br />
Idaho after two years of study. However, after missing<br />
some application deadlines for those colleges, she sought<br />
North<br />
Ame<br />
out her brother, who was living in New York, for guidance.<br />
“My brother looked up some of the schools [in New<br />
York] that offered occupational therapy,” said Fraser, who<br />
chose <strong>Keuka</strong> because its program is accredited.<br />
Today, Fraser works for Community Occupational<br />
Therapists and Associates (COTA), “a non-profit organization<br />
that has contracts with the Community Care Access<br />
Center, a branch of the Canadian government that is<br />
responsible for contracting out community services.<br />
“COTA has a large staff of occupational therapists as<br />
well as speech therapists, physiotherapists,<br />
and social workers in var-<br />
ious community settings,” explained<br />
Fraser, who works with students of<br />
all ages, from kindergarten through<br />
high school.<br />
One of the places she is “contracted<br />
out” to is the Peel Region School<br />
Board for about 10 hours per week.<br />
She is a member of the school’s<br />
Autism Spectrum Disorders<br />
Resource team.<br />
“It is a team of itinerant teachers,<br />
teaching assistants, two speech therapist,<br />
one psychologist, and one<br />
occupational therapist,” explained<br />
Fraser. “We work specifically with<br />
children who have been diagnosed with autism. We consult<br />
with the teachers about their specific concerns, as well as<br />
give suggestions to improve the children’s school experience<br />
and daily functioning in a school setting.”<br />
When she moved to Canada, Fraser worked for a company<br />
that does rehabilitation and assessments for the insurance<br />
industry for about three months. She was hired by<br />
COTA in March 2002.<br />
“Since then, I have been working with children as I had<br />
hoped to when I started my education to become an occupational<br />
therapist,” said Fraser.<br />
So, the move was a good one, eh?<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler
ica<br />
South of the Border<br />
“Learning about another<br />
country is not just learning the language.”<br />
—Professor of Spanish Michaela Cosgrove<br />
That’s a lesson learned by <strong>Keuka</strong> students who conducted<br />
Field Periods hosted, in part, by la Universidad del<br />
Carmen (the University of Carmen) in Campeche, Mexico,<br />
in January 2003.<br />
And, it’s the reason why Professor of Spanish Michaela<br />
Cosgrove arranged for five students and two faculty members<br />
from the University to perform community service<br />
and see local historical sites when they visited <strong>Keuka</strong> for<br />
the second time in August 2004.<br />
“The idea is that both countries have social needs, and<br />
we want to work with each other culturally,” said<br />
Cosgrove, who laid the groundwork for the <strong>Keuka</strong>-Carmen<br />
exchange program when she visited Mexico in 2002.<br />
Cosgrove led the January 2003 Field Period, and<br />
helped arrange for environmental science major Justine<br />
Gricius ’04 to conduct a research-based summer Field<br />
Period with the University of Carmen’s Tortuguero (Sea<br />
Turtle) Program in July 2003. That August, seven students<br />
and six faculty members from the University of Carmen<br />
visited <strong>Keuka</strong> for the first time. In January 2004, eight<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> students participated in another Cosgrove-led group<br />
Field Period to Mexico/University of Carmen.<br />
This semester, Cosgrove is teaching at the Mexican<br />
university. Her responsibilities are focused “principally on<br />
English-language acquisition for students studying to<br />
become teachers of English in the school system in<br />
Mexico, or to be Spanish-English interpreters,” she said.<br />
Mexican culture was the topic of a presentation delivered<br />
by the group from the University of Carmen to<br />
Rainbow Junction Day Care Center and Clinton Crest<br />
Manor (an adult care facility) in Penn Yan during their<br />
August 2004 visit. They also helped clean up the Outlet<br />
Trail.<br />
“Mexican students routinely fulfill a community service<br />
requirement for graduation, so this was nothing star-<br />
tling,” said Cosgrove, who noted that, last January, she and<br />
the <strong>Keuka</strong> students visiting Carmen “created a ‘<strong>Keuka</strong><br />
path’ at the botanical garden of new mangrove plants.”<br />
In October 2004, José Nicolás Novelo Nobles, el rector<br />
(president) of the<br />
University of Carmen<br />
visited the <strong>College</strong><br />
and signed an agreement<br />
with <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
President Joseph G.<br />
Burke to continue<br />
exchanges between<br />
the two institutions.<br />
“There are many<br />
opportunities—in sciences,<br />
social sciences,<br />
humanities, and lots of<br />
other fields—at both<br />
institutions,” said<br />
Cosgrove, who looks<br />
forward to faculty<br />
from the University of<br />
Carmen spending a<br />
Mexico<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> students and faculty<br />
reciprocated the hospitality shown<br />
them in Mexico when they hosted<br />
Mexican students and teachers last<br />
August.<br />
semester at <strong>Keuka</strong> in the near future.<br />
“They could help me team-teach Spanish courses<br />
and/or run specialized workshops,” said Cosgrove. “I also<br />
hope to get them into a nearby public school system.”<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler<br />
(Gretchen Parsells contributed to this story)
C ROVETTI’ S C ORNER<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> Hall of Fame<br />
“A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will<br />
himself be refreshed.” —Proverbs 11:25<br />
W e have an unofficial “Hall of<br />
Fame” for <strong>Keuka</strong> donors, a<br />
place where we honor those outstanding<br />
individuals who look<br />
beyond the here and now to envision<br />
what could be. These exceptional<br />
Keukonians are heroes<br />
because they understand that they<br />
can begin meeting tomorrow’s<br />
needs today through an estate gift to<br />
the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
We refer to these heroes as<br />
members of the Ruth Johnson-<br />
Anderson Heritage Society, and<br />
they give to the <strong>College</strong> in a number<br />
of ways.<br />
Some have named <strong>Keuka</strong> in<br />
their wills, designating a portion of<br />
their estate to be used either for a<br />
specific purpose or at the discretion<br />
of <strong>Keuka</strong>’s Board of Trustees,<br />
wherever it might be most needed.<br />
Honorees also include those<br />
who have established a charitable<br />
gift annuity with the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Through such an annuity, a donor<br />
releases an amount to the <strong>College</strong>,<br />
which is then invested. The donor<br />
receives the investment income for<br />
however long he or she is alive, and<br />
whatever remains at the time of<br />
death is donated to the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Members also include donors<br />
who have placed major assets in a<br />
charitable remainder trust. This is a<br />
more flexible arrangement that<br />
allows a donor to determine how<br />
much income he or she will receive<br />
from the trust each year. The donor<br />
can invade the principal, so long as<br />
a certain percentage of the original<br />
trust remains at the time of his or<br />
her death.<br />
Finally, the Heritage Society<br />
also includes those who have named<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> a beneficiary of all or a portion<br />
of their retirement plan. These<br />
donors have determined that while<br />
it’s necessary and important to set<br />
aside enough funds to retire<br />
comfortably, no one can<br />
accurately predict exactly<br />
what that amount might be.<br />
Through this option, <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
may receive the entire<br />
amount remaining in the<br />
plan at the time of the<br />
donor’s death tax-free.<br />
Through their estate<br />
Fran Crovetti<br />
gifts, members of the Ruth<br />
Johnson Anderson Heritage Society<br />
make it possible for <strong>Keuka</strong> to continue<br />
providing safe, clean and<br />
accessible dormitories and classrooms;<br />
adequate practice spaces for<br />
Leaving a<br />
Lasting Legacy<br />
Following is a partial listing of<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> Hall of Famers<br />
who died in the last several<br />
years, leaving an estate gift to<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>.<br />
Mary C. Arnold ’39<br />
Elizabeth Carpenter<br />
Batchelder ’48<br />
Jane Bennett Brown ’41<br />
Helen Buckley ’32<br />
Barbara L. Lewis ’53<br />
Evelyn-Jane Davis Burgay ’60<br />
Edith Calvin ’34<br />
Eleanor Roth Hathaway ’34<br />
Cornelia Patteson Karch ’43<br />
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<strong>Keuka</strong> athletes; high-quality learning<br />
resources in classrooms and the<br />
library; and sufficient scholarship<br />
aid for the neediest students, who<br />
otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford<br />
a <strong>Keuka</strong> education.<br />
As someone who cares<br />
about the future of <strong>Keuka</strong> and<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> students, we’d like<br />
you to consider your options<br />
for leaving a <strong>Keuka</strong> legacy.<br />
Please call me at (315) 279-<br />
5235 or e-mail me at<br />
fcrovett@mail.keuka.edu with<br />
any questions you might<br />
have. I’d be happy to discuss<br />
your options and welcome you as<br />
one of <strong>Keuka</strong>’s Hall of Fame<br />
donors.<br />
Laura Brainard LaBelle ’33<br />
Florence Lerrigo ’34<br />
Betty Goodfellow Loomis ’41<br />
Patricia Ernst Lyon ’46<br />
Marion Boynton McFarland<br />
’30<br />
Virginia Nye ’32<br />
Theresa Avallone Petit ’47<br />
Edith O’Connell Rector ’51<br />
Kathryn Leaf Rockwell ’48<br />
Dorothy Snow ’30<br />
Ruth Haggar Strasser ’34<br />
Alida Tait Thomas ’49
S PORTS<br />
Fall Teams Win 3 Conference Championships<br />
Men’s Soccer:<br />
Four in a Row<br />
euka continued its North<br />
Eastern Athletic Conference<br />
(NEAC) dominance, winning the<br />
regular season and tournament titles<br />
for the fourth consecutive year.<br />
Bob Friske’s booters captured<br />
the tournament tile in dramatic fashion.<br />
Trailing Keystone <strong>College</strong> 3-1<br />
with 18 minutes to play, the Storm<br />
roared back and won it 4-3 on a goal<br />
by junior Cody Buck, who was<br />
named tourney MVP.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> placed several players on<br />
the All-NEAC team including firstteamers<br />
Buck, who lead the Storm in<br />
goals (15) and assists (12); sophomore<br />
Dean Smith, who added 12<br />
goals and 7 assists; senior Kevin<br />
Masterson; and junior Mike Eckert.<br />
Senior Phil Blatner was a second<br />
team All-NEAC selection while senior<br />
Kwaku Boasiako and junior<br />
goalkeeper Greg Lewin<br />
made the honorable mention<br />
list.<br />
The Storm finished the<br />
campaign at 9-7.<br />
K<br />
Women’s Soccer:<br />
7 Gain All-NEAC<br />
Honors<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> captured second<br />
place in the NEAC regular<br />
season and tournament,<br />
falling to Villa Julie, 2-1 in<br />
the second overtime of the<br />
championship contest.<br />
Head Coach Tim Moody,<br />
who guided the Storm to an<br />
11-4-1 mark, was named<br />
NEAC Coach of the Year.<br />
Freshman Nicole Bondellio<br />
was named Player of the<br />
Year and fellow rookie Kristi<br />
Chamberlain earned Goalie<br />
of the Year honors.<br />
Seven players garnered first-team<br />
all-NEAC honors: senior Donna<br />
Maltagliati, who scored a team-high<br />
9 goals and chipped in 11 assists;<br />
Bondellio, who scored 7 goals and<br />
led the team with 17 assists; freshman<br />
Jacquie Huntz; junior Katie<br />
Melech; sophomore Krista Philips;<br />
freshman Kerry Callahan; and<br />
Chamberlain.<br />
Volleyball: Set Record on<br />
Way to Title<br />
Dave Sweet’s crew set a new<br />
school record for wins en route to a<br />
21-8 mark and the NEAC tournament<br />
championship.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> dominated the tournament,<br />
defeating Penn State<br />
University-Berks, 3-0 in the semifinals<br />
and sweeping D’Youville in the<br />
title tilt.<br />
Junior Jeanne Vincent, who fin-<br />
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ished the season with 999 assists,<br />
was named conference MVP.<br />
Sophomores Adrienne Hollenbeck<br />
and Nicole Zahtilla earned spots on<br />
the all-conference/tournament team.<br />
Cross Country:<br />
Rookies Lead the Way<br />
The women finished third and<br />
the men placed fifth at the NEAC<br />
meet.<br />
The women were led by freshmen<br />
Kristi DiDonna and Lynn<br />
Jenner, who each posted three<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>-best finishes. Jenner was the<br />
Storm’s leading light at the NEAC<br />
meet, finishing 14th.<br />
The men were also led by a<br />
rookie, freshman Matt Wormuth,<br />
who led <strong>Keuka</strong> runners in four of<br />
their six meets. He also posted the<br />
best <strong>Keuka</strong> finish at the NEAC meet,<br />
finishing 18th.<br />
The <strong>Keuka</strong> women’s basketball team played an exhibition game at St. Bonaventure University<br />
in November. In addition to preparing both teams for the 2004-05 season, the game provided<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> Coach Dave Sweet (center) an opportunity to visit with two of his former players:<br />
Bonnies Head Coach Jim Crowley ’93 (right) and Assistant Coach Scott Young ’93. Crowley and<br />
Young were co-captains in 1992-93.
A LUMNI U PDATE<br />
Upcoming Campus/Regional Events<br />
Saturday, Feb. 12: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Men’s & Women’s Alumni Basketball<br />
Recognition/Parents Day.<br />
Synchronized Swimming Alumni<br />
Recognition Day.<br />
Saturday, Feb. 26: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Synchronized Swimming Parents Day.<br />
Tuesday, March 8, 6 p.m.: Utica<br />
Dinner, Hotel Utica (Seneca Room), 102<br />
Lafayette St., Utica, N.Y (315) 724-7829<br />
Friday, March 18, 12:30-2:30 p.m.: <strong>Keuka</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong><br />
Spring <strong>College</strong> Major Fair, lower level of<br />
Lightner Library.<br />
Saturday, April 2, 9 a.m.: Canandaigua<br />
Ontario County Annual Breakfast, The Inn<br />
at Canandaigua, 770 S. Main St.,<br />
Canandaigua, N.Y. (585) 394-7800.<br />
Thursday, April 14, 6 p.m.: Rochester<br />
Dinner, Mario’s Via Abruzzi, 2740 Monroe<br />
Ave., Rochester, N.Y. (585) 271-1111.<br />
Saturday, April 16: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Men’s Tennis Parents Day.<br />
Sunday, April 17: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Softball Parents Day.<br />
Wednesday, April 20: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Women’s Tennis Parents Day.<br />
Saturday, April 23: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Baseball Parents Day.<br />
April 29-May 1: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
May Day Weekend<br />
Friday, April 29<br />
6:30 p.m., Norton Chapel—The 17th<br />
Annual Carl and Fanny Fribolin Lecture.<br />
Saturday, April 30<br />
8:30 a.m., Gannett Room—Alumni<br />
Association Executive Council meeting.<br />
9 a.m., Gannett Room—Alumni<br />
Association meeting.<br />
10 a.m., Ostrander Field—Alumni<br />
Lacrosse Game, Senior Recognition Day,<br />
Men’s Lacrosse Parents Day.<br />
10:15 a.m., Corning Room—Family<br />
Association meeting.<br />
1 p.m., Norton Chapel—Honors<br />
Convocation.<br />
7:30 p.m., Norton Chapel—Leadership<br />
Awards and Moving Up Ceremony.<br />
Wednesday, May 4: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Women’s Lacrosse Parents Day.<br />
Binghamton <strong>Keuka</strong> Club Annual Breakfast<br />
Date and location TBA.<br />
Wednesday, May 11, 6 p.m.: Buffalo<br />
Dinner, The Dakota Grill, 4224 Maple<br />
Road, Amherst, N.Y. (716) 834-6600.<br />
Alumni Baseball Game: <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Kuhl Field, date and time TBA.<br />
Friday, June 10, 6 p.m.: <strong>Keuka</strong> Park<br />
The Penn Yan <strong>Keuka</strong> Club Annual Pot<br />
Luck Picnic Supper at the home of Peg<br />
Hughes Pond ’25, 367 West Lake Road,<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> Park, N.Y.<br />
June 27-July 7: Western Tour<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> heads west with Professor Sander<br />
Diamond. $1,850 plus airfare; price<br />
includes 17 meals, 10 breakfasts, six dinners,<br />
and one specialty restaurant in<br />
Jackson. Visits to: Las Vegas, Zion<br />
National Park, Bryce Canyon, Salt Lake<br />
City, Jackson, Grand Teton, Yellowstone<br />
National Park, Cody, Billings, Rapid City,<br />
and Denver. The trip begins in Las Vegas<br />
and ends in Denver. If interested, contact<br />
the Office of Alumni and Family Relations<br />
at (315) 279-5238 or spevents@mail.<br />
keuka.edu, no later than March 15.<br />
Monday, July 18: Penn Yan<br />
The Sixth Annual <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> Golf<br />
Classic, Lakeside Country Club, 200 East<br />
Lake Road, Penn Yan, N.Y.<br />
July 22-24: <strong>Keuka</strong> Park<br />
Reunion Weekend (details TBA). Whether<br />
or not you have a class reunion this year, all<br />
alumni are welcome to attend.<br />
Events and dates subject to change. For questions or<br />
further information, contact the Office of Alumni and Family<br />
Relations at (315) 279-5238 or spevents@mail.keuka.edu<br />
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Field Period<br />
Invaluable<br />
By Karen Colizzi Noonan<br />
Chair, <strong>Keuka</strong> Family Association<br />
A<br />
s I tear the page off the calendar to<br />
reveal the dawn of <strong>2005</strong>, I find it<br />
impossible to believe that Katie will<br />
graduate from college this year.<br />
I still have a clear memory of her<br />
bounding off the kindergarten bus,<br />
braids flying behind her, jabbering<br />
excitedly about her<br />
first day of school.<br />
Her graduation ceremony<br />
that spring<br />
included a paper<br />
“mortar board” and a<br />
xeroxed diploma tied<br />
with curling ribbon.<br />
This year, it will be Noonan<br />
the real thing, but with<br />
the same tears of joy from a proud parent.<br />
Kate has wanted to be a police officer<br />
as long as I can remember, but her<br />
dad and I knew that the reality of such<br />
demanding work is often at odds with<br />
the idealism presented in movies and on<br />
TV. We are grateful for <strong>Keuka</strong>’s four<br />
years of Field Period study. It provided<br />
a perfect opportunity to explore the dayto-day<br />
life of a police officer before she<br />
committed to her choice. These Field<br />
Periods were the deciding factor when<br />
we chose <strong>Keuka</strong> over another school. It<br />
was the right decision.<br />
Why every college does not insist on<br />
four years of field study is a mystery.<br />
The growth and experience gained by<br />
the students is absolutely invaluable.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> students walk out into the world<br />
with four solid references on their<br />
resumes, giving them an edge over hundreds<br />
of thousands of graduating seniors<br />
all across America.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> students are so very fortunate<br />
to have a terrific faculty and dedicated<br />
staff helping them prepare for their<br />
careers. They definitely graduate ahead<br />
of others in their fields of study by<br />
virtue of the focused training that Field<br />
Period study gives them.
1939<br />
Edith Hawkins Shepherd, Shelter Island,<br />
N.Y., was featured in the Sept. 9, 2004<br />
issue of the Shelter Island Reporter. In the<br />
article, Edith talks about her 1850s home,<br />
which originally belonged to her grandfather;<br />
her daily swim in the Atlantic Ocean,<br />
which she has been known to take all the<br />
way up until November; her first job after<br />
college as an editorial assistant at Prentice-<br />
Hall on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan; her war<br />
defense job at the New York port of<br />
embarkation at age 23, where she helped<br />
load ships with supplies; her one-year term<br />
with the American Red Cross, during which<br />
she was stationed in Iceland; her secretarial<br />
position at a real estate and insurance<br />
agency in Shelter Island; the large historical<br />
map of Shelter Island that she drew and<br />
copyrighted in 1950; the seven years she<br />
lived in Springfield, Mo.; the 34 years she<br />
worked at the Shelter Island Town Hall; and<br />
her position (contributing editor) with the<br />
Long Island Forum, a monthly magazine.<br />
The article also mentions her four children<br />
(three sons and one daughter), five grandchildren,<br />
and six great-grandchildren.<br />
1941<br />
Nydia Ananenko Kuck, Cos Cob, Calif.,<br />
was “pleased and honored” to represent<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> at the investiture of Rev.<br />
J.P. von Arx, S.J. as president of Fairfield<br />
University.<br />
1945 Reunion Year<br />
1948<br />
June Murray Kiefer, Old Forge, N.Y., and<br />
husband Charlie celebrated their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary at a community party hosted<br />
by their children on Sept. 22 at Maloy’s<br />
Main Street Grill in Old Forge. The couple<br />
has three children and eight grandchildren.<br />
1950 Reunion Year<br />
1953<br />
Doris Wells White, Columbia, Tenn.,<br />
worked for 23 years in the nursing program<br />
at Columbia State community program.<br />
When she retired, the doctors and nurses<br />
with whom she worked gave a scholarship<br />
to the program, to which she now contributes.<br />
She has a grandson who is attending<br />
Lambeth <strong>College</strong>; he is a music major<br />
and directs a boys choir in a Lambeth<br />
church.<br />
Sandra Bullock ’73 once came<br />
home to a message on her answering<br />
machine left by some foreign men,<br />
“probably calling from a bar,” telling<br />
her how much they admired her work.<br />
The second grade teacher at Split Rock<br />
Elementary (Camillus, N.Y.), part of<br />
the West Genesee School District,<br />
thought the message—intended for the<br />
movie star who shares her name—was<br />
“cute.”<br />
Bullock said “it’s fun” having a<br />
famous name.<br />
“I get it from everyone—bank<br />
tellers, store clerks,” said Bullock. “I’ll<br />
be writing out a check in a store and the<br />
cashier will say, ‘Gee, I liked your<br />
movie,’ or, ‘Make any new movies,<br />
lately?’ I just smile, say that I wish I<br />
had her money and looks, or tell them<br />
I’m incognito.”<br />
Bullock wasn’t born with her<br />
famous name. She acquired it when she<br />
married Barry Bullock June 16, 1973.<br />
Her maiden name is Ceckowski.<br />
In fact,<br />
1973 was the<br />
year of several<br />
“big breaks”<br />
for Bullock.<br />
She graduated<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> in May,<br />
married a<br />
month later,<br />
and began her<br />
first teaching<br />
job at Split<br />
Rock<br />
Elementary<br />
that fall. She<br />
has taught—<br />
first, second,<br />
C LASS N OTES<br />
Sandra Bullock: A <strong>Keuka</strong> Grad?<br />
and third grades—at the school since.<br />
The actress didn’t really achieve<br />
stardom until the 1994 flick, Speed. So,<br />
Bullock has also been known to tell<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 17 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
people who make a point of her name<br />
that she was “first.”<br />
Bullock pointed out that she and the<br />
star do have some things in common.<br />
Both of them are Leos (with respective<br />
birthdates of July 24 and July 26) and<br />
both of their middle initials are A (for<br />
Ann and Annette, respectively).<br />
Bullock also identifies with her<br />
namesake’s “goofiness.”<br />
“She isn’t concerned about making<br />
a fool of herself,” said Bullock, which<br />
is something she admitted to be true of<br />
her. “I’m always goofing around with<br />
my students, making up songs, using<br />
strange voices… that’s how children<br />
learn.”<br />
As for her opinion of the star,<br />
Bullock said, “She’s seems like a nice,<br />
down-to-earth person. I like her<br />
humor.”<br />
Her favorite Sandra Bullock movie:<br />
Miss Congeniality (2000).<br />
However, she chose to recognize<br />
her for the earlier film when she decided<br />
on using<br />
speedstar for<br />
her e-mail<br />
address.<br />
Sandy and<br />
Barry Bullock<br />
have two<br />
daughters,<br />
Valerie, 25,<br />
and Lyndsey,<br />
20. The couple<br />
resides in<br />
Marcellus.<br />
Do you, or<br />
do you know<br />
a fellow<br />
Keukonian,<br />
who shares a name with someone<br />
famous? If so, e-mail Assistant Editor<br />
Tanya Cornell-Kestler at<br />
tkestler@mail.keuka.edu(.)<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong>’s Sandra Bullock (left) and Hollywood’s<br />
version.
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1955 Reunion Year 1960 Reunion Year<br />
Martha Jimerson Bezner, Henderson<br />
Harbor, Fla., and husband Dr. Gerald A.<br />
Bezner celebrated their 50th wedding<br />
anniversary Dec. 26, 2003. They observed<br />
the occasion with family and friends Aug.<br />
21, 2004 at their home and hosted a brunch<br />
Aug. 22 for family and out-of-town guests.<br />
Martha and Gerald met in first grade and<br />
were high school sweethearts. Gerald<br />
owned Boulevard Animal Hospital in<br />
Syracuse from 1967-2000. He opened the<br />
Intracoastal Animal Hospital in Tequesta,<br />
Fla., where he currently practices, in 1999.<br />
Martha has worked as an administrator for<br />
her husband since 1967. The couple has<br />
five children and seven granddaughters.<br />
Marilyn Porter Shampine, Syracuse,<br />
N.Y., lost her friend, Angie Castorina ’51,<br />
to cancer on July 1, 2004. She attended the<br />
memorial mass for Angie at St. Matthew’s<br />
Church in East Syracuse on Oct. 9. Also<br />
attending the mass were Nancy Weninger<br />
Greenleaf ’54, Elizabeth “Bib” Mosher<br />
Dyre ’54, Ann Nevin Chu ’51, Pat Law<br />
DeSain ’57, and Linda Willauer ’64. “All<br />
of us miss our friend,” said Marilyn.<br />
What do John Kerry, John F.<br />
Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert<br />
Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and Neil<br />
Armstrong have in common?<br />
Aside from the fact that they all<br />
have a place in U.S. history, they were<br />
all treated by Barbara Ellen Miller ’56<br />
during her 20-year career in the Navy<br />
Nurse Corps.<br />
Now, more than two decades after<br />
retiring from the Navy, Miller is being<br />
recognized for her military service in<br />
an exhibit at the Mystic (Conn.)<br />
Seaport Museum titled Women and the<br />
Sea.<br />
The exhibit highlights the role that<br />
American women have played in maritime<br />
history, from the colonial period<br />
to the present. Miller’s uniform, dog<br />
tags, passport, Navy Commission, and<br />
photographs from service abroad are<br />
on display through April.<br />
“I am very honored to have been<br />
chosen for [the exhibit],” said Miller.<br />
She joined the Navy in 1961, after<br />
1961<br />
Mary Ellen Lee, Penn Yan, N.Y., recently<br />
released the fourth book in her Danny and<br />
Life on Bluff Point series of<br />
historical novels for children:<br />
The Man on the Train. The<br />
series is based on journal’s<br />
written by her grandfather. In<br />
the most recent book, set in<br />
March 1895, the Lee family<br />
takes an iceboating trip—the last one for the<br />
winter—across <strong>Keuka</strong> Lake. Danny has sister<br />
Mary with him and must carefully control<br />
the iceboat in a very strong wind. Great<br />
Grandma Baker tells the children about her<br />
family's trip from Rensselaer County to<br />
Orleans County on the Erie Canal in 1858.<br />
Grandma and Grandpa Scott leave Bluff<br />
Point and move to Gorham by way of train<br />
with the help of the Lee family. A man<br />
traps Mary in the livestock car and Danny<br />
helps rescue her.<br />
Miller’s Military Time Memorable<br />
earning a master’s<br />
degree from the<br />
University of<br />
Maryland, to “make<br />
some money” and<br />
“see the world.”<br />
After the Navy,<br />
Miller went on to<br />
join the education<br />
department at<br />
Lawrence and<br />
Memorial Hospitals<br />
in New London,<br />
Miller in an<br />
early Navy photo<br />
Conn., where she worked for 18 years.<br />
While her list of famous patients might<br />
be considered a bragging right to some,<br />
Miller is humble about the whole thing.<br />
“I don’t really talk about it much,”<br />
said Miller, who received the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
Professional Achievement Award in<br />
1972 and is an emeritus member of the<br />
Board of Trustees. “They were my<br />
patients and I was there to take care of<br />
them.”<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 18 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
1965 Reunion Year<br />
Diane Beardslee Davis, Prattsburgh, N.Y.,<br />
says she is enjoying retirement after teaching<br />
for 30 years, 25 of which she taught<br />
English in Bath. These days, she’s active in<br />
church as treasurer and is on many<br />
Presbytery committees. Her husband of 39<br />
years, Clark, died in November 2004, and<br />
she’s slowly adapting to her new lifestyle.<br />
She travels some and is enjoying her nine<br />
grandchildren.<br />
1970 Reunion Year<br />
Barbara Piscitelli, Brisbane, Australia, a<br />
native of Bradford, Pa., gave a lecture at the<br />
University of Pittsburg at Bradford in<br />
October on how the arts have changed the<br />
lives of young people in Australia. The lecture<br />
was titled “Art Changed My Life:<br />
Young Indigenous Artists in Australia.” She<br />
holds a master’s degree in early childhood<br />
education from Antioch Graduate School of<br />
Education and a doctorate in creative arts<br />
from James Cook University.<br />
1974<br />
Karla Linn Merrifield, Kent, N.Y., recently<br />
had a chapbook of nature-inspired poetry,<br />
Midst, published by the Foothills Publishing<br />
Company. An adjunct professor of English<br />
at the State University of New York<br />
(SUNY) at Brockport, Karla holds a master<br />
of arts in creative writing from the college<br />
for which she works. Since writing and<br />
publishing her first poem at age 11, she has<br />
had her works published in national publications<br />
as well as anthologies. She read<br />
from her latest chapbook at her alma mater<br />
as part of the <strong>College</strong>’s Spotlight Series<br />
Nov. 8.<br />
1975 Reunion Year<br />
1977<br />
Sally Razionale Umbro, West Harrison,<br />
N.Y., was selected as an Italian American<br />
role model by the Columbus Alliance and<br />
was honored at the annual Role Models<br />
Awards Night held at Gino’s Restaurant<br />
Oct. 27, 2004. She is the director of nursing<br />
at Calvary Hospital.
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1980 Reunion Year<br />
Barbara Larsen, Allentown, Pa., was featured<br />
in the National Association of<br />
Orthopaedic Nurses’s March/April 2004<br />
publication. She is a staff nurse on the<br />
orthopaedic unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital,<br />
where she has worked for 24 years, all on<br />
the same floor.<br />
1985 Reunion Year<br />
1986<br />
Maria Bucci, Canandaigua, N.Y., was<br />
named vice chairwoman of the Ontario<br />
County Democratic Committee in 2004.<br />
She is a former member of the Yates<br />
County Democratic Committee and its representative<br />
on the state Democratic<br />
Committee. She also was the coordinator of<br />
volunteer campaign workers for<br />
Canandaigua Mayor Ellen Polimeni, who<br />
ran for the 129th Assembly District seat in<br />
November and lost against incumbent Brian<br />
Kolb, R-Canandaigua.<br />
1990 Reunion Year<br />
1991<br />
Kelly Gibson Bateman, Canandaigua,<br />
N.Y., joined <strong>Keuka</strong>’s Division of Education<br />
and Social Work as an adjunct professor in<br />
fall 2004. She is also president and CEO of<br />
Building Blocks Comprehensive Services,<br />
Inc., a small home-based private therapy<br />
practice. A two-time <strong>Keuka</strong> graduate, she<br />
earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary<br />
education in 1991 and in occupational therapy<br />
in 1994. She was nominated for the<br />
2004 Athena Award, an annual award that<br />
promotes women’s leadership and honors<br />
outstanding leaders. It is presented by host<br />
organizations in local communities throughout<br />
the U.S., Canada, Russia, China, and the<br />
United Arab Emirates. Criteria for the<br />
award includes actively assisting women in<br />
realizing their full leadership potential;<br />
demonstrating excellence, creativity, and<br />
initiative in one’s business or profession;<br />
and providing valuable service by contributing<br />
time and energy to improve the quality<br />
of life for others.<br />
1992<br />
John Gobrick, Brooklyn, N.Y., is a captain<br />
in the military. He says he is up for promotion<br />
come March-July.<br />
1994<br />
Dawn Roberts Gobrick, Brooklyn, N.Y.,<br />
is a secondary teacher at Dyker Heights<br />
Intermediate School.<br />
1995 Reunion Year<br />
Kristie Swartwood O’Dell, Horseheads,<br />
N.Y., was recently employed by Cerebral<br />
Palsy of Chemung County. She is a special<br />
education teacher in the head start room at<br />
Center Street Elementary in Horseheads.<br />
She says she loves her job and the children<br />
with whom she works.<br />
1996<br />
Deanna Small Pace, Homer, N.Y., was<br />
recently named executive director of the<br />
1890 House Museum in Cortland. As director,<br />
she oversees day-to-day operations and<br />
supervises a staff of two. She is also<br />
responsible for expanding and developing<br />
public services and programs, promoting<br />
the museum, handling publicity, overseeing<br />
the operating budget, applying for grants,<br />
fund-raising activities, and preserving the<br />
building and its collections. She was previously<br />
employed by the Lorenzo State<br />
Historic Site in Cazenovia.<br />
1997<br />
Keri Jimerson Hinchion, Danvers, Mass.,<br />
is employed as a marketing coordinator at<br />
McDermott Will and Emery law firm in<br />
Boston.<br />
1998<br />
Donna Campbell Hojnoski,<br />
Hammondsport, N.Y., is an elementary<br />
teacher in the Dundee Central School<br />
District.<br />
Kevin Perrigo, Liverpool, N.Y., was hired<br />
as head coach of the men’s soccer team at<br />
The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in<br />
August 2004. He was the girls’ varsity head<br />
coach at Oswego High School from 2002-<br />
03, the assistant women’s coach at<br />
Binghamton University from 2001-02, and<br />
the assistant women’s coach at Niagara<br />
University from 1999-2001. He recently<br />
earned a master of science in education<br />
from Walden University.<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 19 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
1999<br />
Patricia Oram, Syracuse, N.Y., was<br />
recently promoted to senior accountant with<br />
Grimaldi & Associates, CPAs, PLLC.<br />
Mary Vosburgh, Pine City, N.Y., was<br />
recently awarded an Advanced<br />
Management Certificate from JET, Inc. She<br />
is unit director of the D3 nursing unit at St.<br />
Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, where she<br />
was named Employee of the Month for<br />
August 2004.<br />
2001<br />
Scott Baldwin, Manassas, Va., is a second<br />
grade teacher at Manassas Park City<br />
School, where he was appointed grade-level<br />
chair for the 2004-05 school year and created<br />
a Guys’ Read After School Program to<br />
promote literacy in second and third grade<br />
male students. He serves as head women’s<br />
tennis coach at Osbourn Park High School.<br />
Additionally, he coaches high school cross<br />
country coach, and is a tennis instructor for<br />
First Serve Tennis Academy.<br />
Sarah Mitchell, Seneca Falls, N.Y., received<br />
a master’s degree in social work from<br />
Syracuse University in December. She is a<br />
social worker at Cayuga Home for Children,<br />
working in the foster care program.<br />
Susan Sloniger Reed, Penn Yan, N.Y., and<br />
husband Joe moved into a home they built<br />
themselves, with the help of family and<br />
friends, after marrying in Norton Chapel in<br />
May 2004.<br />
For the Record<br />
Information provided to us about<br />
Helen Place Powell ’42 and<br />
published in the Honor Roll of<br />
Donors was wrong. Helen was<br />
listed as deceased, however, we<br />
are plesed to report that she is<br />
alive and well. In that same<br />
issue, we published a story on<br />
alumni award winners, including<br />
Virginia LaFaro ’96, recipent<br />
of the Recent Graduate Award.<br />
It should be noted that Virginia<br />
is a nurse practicioner with a<br />
master’s in nursing at Digestive<br />
Disease Consultants in Clifton<br />
Springs.
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2002<br />
Hannah Hastings Marlow, Saranac Lake,<br />
N.Y., and husband Joshua held a renewal<br />
ceremony with a luncheon at the Malone<br />
Golf Club on Aug. 14, 2004 to celebrate<br />
their elopement on Aug. 15, 2003. She is<br />
employed as the administrative and marketing<br />
assistant at Saranac Village at Will<br />
Rogers.<br />
2003<br />
Kathie Kent, Bath, N.Y., was appointed<br />
vocational services director for Steuben<br />
Arc. Kathie, who graduated from the<br />
Accelerated Studies for Adults Program<br />
(ASAP) with a degree in organizational<br />
management, has been with the agency for<br />
16 years.<br />
Jessica O’Brien, Burdett, N.Y., is<br />
employed as a special education teacher<br />
working with fifth and sixth graders with<br />
the Trumansburg District. She is currently<br />
pursing a master’s degree in reading and literacy<br />
through Walden University.<br />
Michael Sweet, Corning, N.Y., manager of<br />
corporate food services for Corning Inc.,<br />
received the Spirit Award from the Society<br />
for Foodservice Management at the organization’s<br />
annual conference in Baltimore<br />
Oct. 6-9, 2004. Awarded for qualities of<br />
loyalty, dedication and enthusiasm for the<br />
society, the Spirit Award was presented to<br />
him at the President’s Luncheon Oct. 8.<br />
“Thanks to all my friends, family, and colleagues<br />
who have helped build my character<br />
to what it is today,” said Michael. “Without<br />
your support and feedback, this award<br />
would have not been possible.”<br />
2004<br />
Seth Fikes, Jordan, N.Y., was<br />
selected by <strong>Keuka</strong> <strong>College</strong> to<br />
be its new sports information<br />
director in September. He is<br />
responsible for managing a<br />
comprehensive sports information<br />
program that is designed to<br />
promote <strong>Keuka</strong> teams and students athletes.<br />
Stephanie Sauro, Auburn, N.Y., was<br />
named executive director of Heritage Farm,<br />
Inc. (Bouckville, N.Y.) in October. Heritage<br />
Farm serves individuals from Madison<br />
County and surrounding areas with developmental<br />
disabilities such as autism, cerebral<br />
palsy, mental retardation, epilepsy, and<br />
other neurological disorders. She previously<br />
worked as day habilitation manager at<br />
Seneca Cayuga ARC.<br />
Lucas Hopkins, Watertown, N.Y., has<br />
joined the staff of Hopkins Homes GMAC<br />
Real Estate as a licensed salesman. He is<br />
the third generation of real estate professionals<br />
in the Hopkins family.<br />
Lisa Youngs, Penn Yan, N.Y., has been<br />
appointed nurse manager of the Inpatient<br />
Mental Health Unit at Soldiers & Sailors<br />
Memorial Hospital. She has been a member<br />
of the Inpatient Mental Health Team for<br />
several years and has served as clinical<br />
coordinator on the unit for the past two<br />
years.<br />
In Memoriam<br />
Dr. Alma Hart Fewster, former trustee,<br />
Nov. 3, 2004<br />
Frances Shively, daughter-in-law of the late<br />
Audrey Shively (former faculty member),<br />
May 28, 2004<br />
Margaret Rodger Ibach, Aug. 4, 2004<br />
Esther J. Langworthy ’32, 2004<br />
Virginia Nye ’32, Dec. 31, 2003<br />
Laura Brainard LaBelle ’33, June 25, 2004<br />
Christine Moore Powell ’33, Aug. 6, 2004<br />
Mary C. Arnold ’39, Oct. 13, 2004<br />
Barbara Whitcomb Brown ’39, Oct. 3,<br />
2004<br />
Not many people can say that<br />
they know a Nobel Prize winner, let<br />
alone have been inspired by one.<br />
But Christian Gutierrez ’04 can.<br />
Gutierrez’s mom is one of two<br />
secretaries (since 1983) for Richard<br />
Axel, the recipient (along with<br />
Linda B. Buck) of the 2004 Nobel<br />
Prize in Physiology or Medicine for<br />
his discovery of odorant receptors<br />
and the organization of the olfactory<br />
system.<br />
Axel is a professor of biochemistry<br />
and molecular biophysics and<br />
of pathology at Columbia<br />
University’s <strong>College</strong> of Physicians<br />
and Surgeons in New York City. His<br />
lab is located in the Howard Hughes<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 20 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
Mary Colmey Hutchinson ’39, Sept. 3,<br />
2004<br />
Jean Anderson McGrath ’39, Aug. 11,<br />
2004<br />
Jane Bennett Brown ’41, July 7, 2004<br />
Elnora G. Jackson ’42, March 27, 2004<br />
Helen May Green ’43, Oct. 23, 2004<br />
Cornelia Patteson Karch ’43, Oct. 31, 2004<br />
Wilma Sculley ’45, Jan. 4, 2004<br />
Jean Vieweg Youmans ’45, May 31, 2004<br />
Patricia Ernst Lyon ’46, Sept. 5, 2003<br />
Jean Stevens Gray ’47, Dec. 30, 2003<br />
Kathryn Leaf Rockwell ’48, Nov. 12, 2004<br />
Joan Strauss Shwartz ’49, Aug. 15, 2004<br />
Alida Tait Thomas ’49, Sept. 20, 2004<br />
Olive Tucker McKenzie ’50, Nov. 2, 2004<br />
Angela Castorina ’51, July 1, 2004<br />
Doris Cooke Coward ’51, July 31, 2004<br />
Virginia Hull Dustan ’51, Sept. 25, 2003<br />
Betsy Isphording ’54, Oct. 21, 2004<br />
Norman Van Gorder, husband of Barbara<br />
Rees Van Gorder ’56, Nov. 15, 2003<br />
Ellen Barnard Culver ’58, Aug. 19, 2004<br />
Jonathan Way, husband of Priscilla Johnson<br />
Way ’60, Sept. 13, 2004<br />
Nobel Beginnings<br />
Medical Institute on campus.<br />
“When I was little and did not<br />
have class, mom would bring me to<br />
work, and there I would sometimes<br />
help some of the scientists in their<br />
labs by doing little tasks here and<br />
there,” said Gutierrez, who majored<br />
in biology with a concentration in<br />
organismal biology.<br />
“Since a young age, I have been<br />
immersed in the [science] field and<br />
I liked it,” explained Gutierrez, who<br />
is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in<br />
zoology (regeneration biology) at<br />
Miami University. “[Exposure to<br />
Richard Axel’s lab] strengthened<br />
my resolve to work in science.”<br />
—Tanya Cornell-Kestler
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John Ellsworth, husband of Catherine Segar<br />
Ellsworth ’61, July 4, 2003<br />
Carol Blank Waters ’63, June 20, 2004<br />
Charen Steeves El-Sherif ’65, Sept. 21,<br />
2004<br />
Births<br />
To Stacy Pierce Menna ’89 and<br />
Michael Menna, Emily Michelle, July<br />
1, 2004<br />
To Kelly Gibson Bateman ’91, a<br />
daughter, Alison Elizabeth, on March<br />
15, 2003.<br />
To Trudy Kepner<br />
Cain ’92 and Jody<br />
Cain, a daughter,<br />
Charley Jo, on<br />
Aug. 17, 2004.<br />
To Andrew<br />
Moore ’93 and<br />
Thea Ryan ’94<br />
Moore, a son,<br />
Joshua Ryan, Sept.<br />
11, 2004.<br />
To Dawn Roberts<br />
Gobrick ’94 and<br />
John Gobrick ’92,<br />
a son, Mark, Jan.<br />
31, 2004<br />
To William Middlebrook ’95, Reece<br />
Patrick, Sept. 8, 2004<br />
To Kristie Swartwood O’Dell ’95<br />
and Dale O’Dell, a son, Devin Lee, on<br />
April 14, 2004.<br />
To Aimee Weldon Smart ’99 and<br />
Matt Smart, a son, Tyler Douglas, on<br />
Aug. 8, 2004<br />
To Carrie May Button ’01 and<br />
Collin Button ’02, a daughter,<br />
Camryn Ann, May 13, 2004<br />
Marriages<br />
Charley Jo Cain,<br />
daughter of Trudy<br />
Kepner Cain ’92<br />
and husband Jody<br />
Gundega Zemzars ’59 to Lamont<br />
Benedict, Dec. 6, 2003<br />
BettyLou Koffel ’74 to John<br />
Mazmanian, Sept. 6, 2004<br />
Ruth Ann Miller-Garcia ’72, Dec. 11, 2003<br />
Clark Davis, husband of Diane Beardslee<br />
Davis ’65, November 2004<br />
Kim Bartolomeo ’92 to Patrick<br />
Mangano, Aug. 27, 2004<br />
David Robertson ’93 to Suzanne<br />
Nicholl, May 28, 2004<br />
Danny Kempney ’94 to Rebecca<br />
Marsh, May 21, 2004<br />
Karen Niedermeier ’95 to Chris<br />
Tabor, Aug. 9, 2003<br />
Keri Jimerson ’97 to James<br />
Hinchion, May 30, 2004<br />
Dianna McCord ’97 to Todd<br />
Fleming, Oct. 9, 2004<br />
Donna Campbell ’98 to Robert<br />
Hojnoski, Oct. 9, 2004<br />
Christina DeFazio ’98 to Timothy<br />
Carvel, May 15, 2004<br />
MacKenzie Ward ’98 to Matthew<br />
Brown, Oct. 16, 2004<br />
Susan Fitzgerald ’00 to Patrick<br />
Little, June 19, 2004<br />
Rene Szalkai ’00 to Wesley Jones,<br />
June 12, 2004<br />
Jenny Vitticore ’00 to Michael<br />
Crespo, June 28, 2003<br />
Eric Klym ’01 to Nicole<br />
Rupar, Oct. 2, 2004<br />
Susan Sloniger ’01 to<br />
Joseph Reed, May 22,<br />
2004<br />
Shannon Eagley ’02 to<br />
Benjamin Dunton, May<br />
15, 2004<br />
Natasha Bennett ’03 to<br />
Scott Phelps ’03, Aug.<br />
21, 2004<br />
KEUKA MAGAZINE 21 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />
Mary Loomis Rickman ’81, March 30,<br />
2004<br />
Ann Rutledge Dodge ’83, Oct. 28, 2004<br />
Carrie May Button ’01 and Collin<br />
Button ’02 welcomed daughter,<br />
Camryn Ann on May 13.<br />
Natasha Bennett ’03 married Scott<br />
Phelps ’03 on Aug. 21, 2004.<br />
<strong>Keuka</strong> grads Jennifer Robbins Pomager ’98, Erin<br />
Thompkins Wheeler ’98, Patty Kavanaugh ’98, and<br />
Maria Bucci ’86 joined bride Mackenzie Ward ’98<br />
(center) Oct. 16, when she married Matthew Brown.
Courting History<br />
Retro uniforms are all the rage these days, and while it would have been<br />
fun to have members of the 2004-05 <strong>Keuka</strong> basketball team dress up in uniforms<br />
from the 1904-05 season, the fact is we didn't have any uniforms from that campaign. What we did have, thanks to Associate Professor<br />
and Chair of Education Diane Burke, was a marvelous photo of the 1904-05 team. Burke came across the photo in the <strong>College</strong> archives.<br />
We then arranged a photo session for Coach George Wunder, Assistant Coach Tom Flood, and six of his players. We showed them the<br />
photo of the 1904-05 team and then asked them to strike similar poses. Members of the 2004-05 team taking part were, front row, left<br />
to right: Anthony Mattie, Corey Edwards; second row: Steve Willson, Todd Lincoln, Josh Whyte; top row: Flood, Kyle Reagan, Wunder.<br />
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