2006 fall magazine - Seton Hall University

HALLMARKS
FAST FACTS
Did you know …?
➡ Thomas D. Anderson, Vermont’s new top
federal prosecutor, got his law degree at
Seton Hall.
➡ Kerry Keating, a top assistant coach for
men’s basketball at UCLA, was a former
walk-on for P.J. Carlesimo’s Pirates
➡ Seton Hall will use clearTXT to deliver
information to the cell phones of
students, instructors and staff.
VINTAGE TAPES STILL IN DEMAND
Nearly four decades after its
production at Seton Hall, a set
of Chinese language tapes is
still in demand.
In the 1960s, the tapes — with
more than 175 hours of material
— were created to accompany
a 12-volume Chinese language
book, written by then-Seton Hall
Professor John DeFrancis, Ph.D.
While Yale University Press continues
to publish the book,
anyone who wants the tapes is
directed to Seton Hall’s Language
Services Department.
SHU 500+ highlights
One thousand students, alumni and employees rolled up their
sleeves and spent an afternoon volunteering at SHU 500+, Seton Hall’s
annual day of community service on Saturday, Sept. 23.
At two dozen service projects in and around South Orange, mem-
bers of the Seton Hall family volunteered by painting, landscaping,
repairing buildings, cleaning up parks and assisting with a Carnival of
Fun for people with special needs.
“SHU 500+ highlights what Seton Hall University is all about — forming
students into conscientious, generous and thoughtful members of society,”
said Michelle Sheridan, M.A. ’04, director of the Division of Volunteer Efforts.
To learn more, visit shu500.shu.edu.
The tapes are in reel-to-reel
format. As Language Services
receives requests for copies, it
converts the original to a cassette.
Plans to transfer the series to CD
format are under consideration.
While demand for the tapes
began to decline in the early
1990s, Language Services still
receives two to three requests per
month for copies. Requests have
come from as far away as France
and Japan, and even from China.
“They have been successful
using these learning tools,” said
Francis Smith ’62/M.A. ’65, director
of Seton Hall’s Language Services.
| JILL MATTHEWS
| JILL MATTHEWS