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Moschner to Deliver Commencement Address A lbin Moschner, executive vice president/chief marketing officer for Leaf Wireless, will deliver the address at Keuka’s 97th commencement May 29. Moschner was the keynote speaker at the 2004 Leadership Awards and Moving Up Ceremony. Leaf Wireless is a wireless phone service provider in San Diego, Calif. Formerly, he was president of Verizon Card Services and, before it was acquired by Verizon, president and chief executive officer of OnePoint Services Inc., a telecommunications company located in Lake Forest, Ill. Moschner had a distinguished career with Zenith Electronics, starting in 1991 as vice president of operations. He was elected to the board of directors in 1992, promoted to president in 1994, In terms of enrollment—total, freshman and transfer— things are looking up at Keuka College. A total of 1,206 students (1,051 fulltime, 155 part-time) enrolled for the 2004 semester, up from 1,148 a year ago and an increase of 5 percent. New student enrollment stands at 323, a hike of 9 percent. Freshman enrollment is up slightly to 248 while transfer enrollment stands at 68, a 27 percent hike. The College also re-admitted 7 students this fall. “The increase in enrollment can be attributed, in large part, to the work of our enrollment management team, in particularly, our hard-working counselors,” said Executive Vice President Carolanne Marquis. “Our faculty also played an important role. They are talented teachers who take a sincere interest in seeing their students succeed, from freshman orientation to graduation.” Ninety-three percent of entering C AMPUS C URRENTS and added the CEO title in 1995. Moschner resigned from Zenith in 1996 after successfully completing the sale of the company to LG Electronics, a subsidiary of Lucky Goldstar Group. He is a director of Pella Windows Corp., Wintrust Financial Moschner Corp., and Apex Insurance Managers. He is also a trustee of WTTW, Chicago’s PBS television and radio station. A graduate of Syracuse University (M.S.) and The City College of New York (B.E.), he and wife Mary Ann, a 1974 Keuka graduate and member of the College’s governing board, have four children. Enrollment on the Up, and Up, and Up freshmen hail from New York state, although eight other states are represented—New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Vermont, and New Hampshire—and one foreign country—Jamaica. Keuka continues to attract a number of students from area high schools, with Penn Yan leading the way with eight. Haverling (Bath) and Manchester- Shortsville each sent four students to Keuka. The top feeder school for transfers was Finger Lakes Community College, followed by Corning Community College. Women make up 70 percent of the freshman class. In terms of majors, the most popular choice among freshmen and transfers was unified childhood/special education, followed by management, biology, occupational science, criminology and criminal justice, and psychology. KEUKA MAGAZINE 2 WINTER 2005 Mae Day Weekend Medical doctor, astronaut, linguist, former medical missionary in West Africa, television broadcaster, and leading female entrepreneur. All describe Dr. Mae C. Jemison, who will deliver the 17th Carl and Fanny Fribolin Lecture Friday, April 29. One of the highlights of May Day Weekend, the lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Norton Chapel. It is free and open to the public. On Sept. 12, 1992, Jemison blasted into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, becoming the first woman of color to go into space. Her international company, The Jemison Group Inc., is dedicated to the research, development and Dr. Mae Jemison implementation of advanced technologies to alleviate the massive burdens of developing nations in areas of healthcare, food production, and the environment. Her new corporation, BioSentient, is a medical technology company that develops and markets mobile equipment worn to monitor the body's vital signs and train people to respond favorably in stressful situations. The lecture series carries the names of Carl Fribolin, an emeritus member of the College Board of Trustees, and his late wife. Jemison is the latest addition to an impressive list of Fribolin speakers that includes Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Robert Novak, Marv Levy, Hamilton Jordan, and Marlin Fitzwater.
C AMPUS C URRENTS Faculty F cus A ssociate Professor of Communication Studies Anita Chirco chaired a panel on American Regionalist Writing at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature at SUNY Cortland. She is a reviewer for Interactions, a scholarly journal published by Ege University’s (Izmir, Turkey) English language and literature and American culture and literature departments. > Associate Professor of American Sign Language Dorothy Wilkins teamed up with representatives from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)/Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, and the Deaf Rochester community to organize the first Deaf Rochester Film Festival, scheduled March 18-20. > Associate Professor of Art Dexter Benedict sculpted a statue depicting Frederick Ferris and Mary Clark Thompson to commemorate the 100th anniversary of F.F. Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua. > Professor of Political Science and Economics Jeff Krans is director of vocational service for Rotary District 7120, which includes 68 clubs. He also helped establish a Rotaract Club (an international, Rotary-sponsored service organization for young men and women ages 18-30) on the Keuka campus. > Professor of History Sander Diamond and Assistant Professor of Management Ann Tuttle published opinion pieces in regional daily newspapers. Among Diamond’s pieces: “The Tsunami: A Historical Perspective” and “If You See My Monument, Look Around” (about the death of Yasir Arafat). Tuttle wrote a piece titled “Women of The Apprentice Not Representing Us Well” (a look at NBC- TV’s reality show). We Mean What We Say We support our troops. It is a message declared on the College’s website. And it’s one that students, faculty, staff, and alumni have demonstrated and continue to demonstrate. One student and one alumna served in the war effort: David Kinnard ’05 and Peggy Linthicum ’04. Kinnard worked security in Europe during the initial assault on Baghdad and Linthicum ’04 supplied parts to C-130 cargo planes in Saudi Arabia. Linthicum, a registered nurse, also assisted medical personnel. Last semester, the Keuka College Republicans organized the Keuka 900, a project aimed at sending 900 postcards to local troops serving overseas. The Republicans teamed up with the College Democrats and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) to form a nonpolitical coalition that sponsored the Holiday Drive for the Troops. Members of the College family responded in a big way, with 23 boxes of goodies sent to U.S. soldiers. Freshmen Erika Noll and Shannon Furlong, co-leaders of a local Junior Girl Scout Troop that meets on campus, donated boxes of Girl Scout cookies to troops in Iraq, along with notes written by the scouts. Admissions Counselor/Transfer Coordinator Maryanne Cameron adopted a soldier through Operation AC Inc. (www.operationac.com). She sends him care packages every couple weeks and recently sent a pair of combat boots. KEUKA MAGAZINE 3 WINTER 2005 Links to The Past “H istory is not a closeted thing; it should be part of our lives.” That’s the reason behind The Keuka College History and Archives Project, headed by Assistant Professor of History Joe Torre. The project began with Torre’s New York State History class. Torre asked his students “to look at the Keuka experience over the years through primary sources such as old yearbooks, diaries, and scrapbooks.” Most of these sources came from the archives, located in Lightner Library. It has evolved to include six work-study positions. The student workers are responsible for “utilizing, restructuring, organizing, and inventorying” the College archives so that they “make more sense,” said Torre. To date, manuscripts, various physical objects such as wall panels, original African clothing, missionary items from India, and several 16 mm films have been among the many articles uncovered in the archives, according to Torre. “We want to create a provenance for these items,” said Torre. One way they’ve gone about creating a sense of origin for the items is by interviewing Keuka alumni such as Elsie “Peg” Pond ’25. Morgan Berry ’04 first interviewed Pond to fulfill the New York State History assignment. According to Torre, some students chose to film oral history sessions with alumni and College faculty for the assignment. Other projects included essays on the Field Period concept, narratives of Keuka athletic teams through the years, and analyses of specific years at the College, such as 1955. Torre worked with Associate Professor of Education Jim Schwartz to convert some of the 16 mm films to DVDs. He and Schwartz produced a DVD of Berry’s interview with Pond.
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