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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 />

KEUKA MAGAZINE 14 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />

<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 />

KEUKA MAGAZINE 15 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />

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 />

KEUKA MAGAZINE 16 WINTER <strong>2005</strong><br />

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.


C LASS N OTES<br />

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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