Commencement Speakers Discuss Power and Truth

Page 4 The Scranton Record, June 2002
Catherine Ann (Cathy Manley) Coffey ’86
Catherine Ann (Cathy Manley)
Coffey ’86, President-elect of
the Alumni Society of The
University of Scranton, died
7 June from injuries sustained
in an automobile
accident in New Jersey.
A native of Scranton and
a resident of Madison, N.J.,
she was the wife of Edward J.
Coffey and the loving mother
of two daughters, Michaela Anne
and Claire Megan Coffey.
She was the daughter of Charles A. and
Rita A. (Novack) Manley, Scranton, and
the daughter-in-law of Edward P. and
Anne (Finneran) Coffey, Pearl River, N.Y.
Also surviving are her brothers Charles
J., Scranton, Patrick M., Archbald,
William J., Dunmore, and Michael, P.,
Scranton, as well as brothers-in-law,
sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Coffey graduated with honors
from Bishop Hannan High School in
1982. She earned a Bachelor of Science
degree with honors from the University
in 1986.
Leahy Awards Presented to
CPS Faculty Members
T h ree faculty members from the
Un i ve r s i t y’s Panuska College of Pro f e s s i o n a l
Studies (CPS) have been selected to re c e i ve
Leahy Center Re s e a rch Aw a rds for 2002 –
2003. The awards are presented annually to
CPS faculty members with funds from the
Ed w a rd R. Leahy, Jr., Center.
A fourth CPS faculty member has been
named the 2002 recipient of the Leahy
Faculty Award. This award is presented
annually for a two-year term, also supported
by the Leahy Center.
Timothy J. Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant
Professor of Special Education, has
received an award for research entitled
“International Clinical-Demonstration
Classroom for Children with Disabilities.”
Dr. Ho b b s’ project aims to establish a
model classroom re p resenting “best pract
i c e s” for children with disabilities in
Georgia, a new independent state of the
former Soviet Union. Dr. Hobbs will use a
public school near Tiblisi State Pe d a g o g i c a l
Un i versity in Georgia to demonstrate
re s e a rch-based practices that promote educational
and social inclusion of childre n
with disabilities. No such class or comparable
clinical site currently exists in Ge o r g i a .
Ma rybeth Grant Be u t t l e r, Assistant
Professor of Physical T h e r a p y, re c e i ved an
a w a rd for re s e a rch on “Muscle Ex t e n s i b i l i t y
and its Relationship to the De ve l o p m e n t
of Kicking in Low-risk Preterm In f a n t s . ”
Ms. Grant Beuttler will use a computeri
zed motion analysis system to eva l u a t e
kicking patterns of infants. She will com-
After graduating from the
University, she joined Coopers
& Lybrand, New York, as a
certified public accountant.
In 1992, she joined Lehman
Brothers, New York, as a
Vice President and was
recently promoted to Senior
Vice President.
In Ja n u a ry 2003, she would
h a ve become the 21st Pre s i d e n t
of the Un i ve r s i t y’s Alumni So c i e t y,
the first woman to hold this post. Sh e
was an active member of the New Yo rk
Me t ropolitan Chapter and Chair of the
Nominating Committee of the Alumni
So c i e t y, which has 38,000 members
w o r l d w i d e .
A funeral Mass was held 14 June at
Holy Cross Church, Scranton.
A memorial Mass will be held Saturday,
22 June, at 10:30 a.m., in St. Vincent
Martyr Church, Madison, N.J.
Memorial contributions may be made
to the Catherine A. Coffey Memorial
Trust Fund, P.O. Box 34, Summit, N.J.,
07902-0034.
p a re kicking patterns of infants born at fullterm
with babies born pre m a t u re l y. T h i s
study will identify ways in which physical
therapists can improve care for pre t e r m
infants. It will also serve as the foundation
for further re s e a rch in the treatment and
i n t e rvention of abmormalities in motion
such as walking or moving one’s limbs.
Carol Reinson, Assistant Professor of
Occupational Therapy, has received an
award for “The Pathways Project: A
Longitudinal Study of Developmental
Vulnerability.”
This project continues a multi-year
study that also received funding from the
Leahy Center. Her current research will
provide follow-up data on children and
families who are developmentally at-risk.
Follow-up visits will be conducted with
33 families to evaluate long-term outcomes
of case studies begun in earlier
research. The results of the study will be
reported in peer-reviewed journals and
presented at national conferences.
Ol i ver J. Morgan, Ph.D., Associate
Professor and Chair of Counseling and
Human Se rvices, has been named the 2002
– 2004 recipient of the Leahy Fa c u l t y
Aw a rd. The award re c o g n i zes excellence in
teaching, re s e a rch and service in the
Panuska College of Professional Studies at
the Un i ve r s i t y. Dr. Morgan was named by
James J. Pallante, Ed.D., Dean of the
Panuska College, to re c e i ve the award, a
p o rtion of which provides funding for professional
deve l o p m e n t .
U of S Pr o fessor Invited to
be NEH Visiting Sch o l a r
Mary F. Engel, Ph.D., Director of
Medical School Placement and the Office
of Fellowship Programs at the University,
is one of only 25 scholars and teachers in
the nation invited to participate in the
National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) Institute, “Medicine, Literature
and Culture.” The Institute will be held
at the Penn State College of Medicine
campus in Hershey, Pa., from 8 July
through 2 August.
“ Medical schools have indicated a growing
interest in attracting broadly educated
students, and they emphasize that admissions
committees value strong pre p a r a t i o n
in humanities courses,” said Dr. En g e l ,
who is also an Associate Professor of
English and has taught English courses at
the Un i versity for 16 years.
“When pre-med students ask why medical
schools re q u i re at least two courses in
English, I often share with them the advice
a local oncologist gave our students a few
years ago: ‘You need to learn to listen to
your patient’s story. If you cannot understand
her story, you may cure the symptoms
but you will not heal the patient.’”
The Institute provides participating faculty
with practical experience and theore t ical
instruction in the fields of literature and
medicine. Pa rticipants are introduced to a
range of literary, cultural and theore t i c a l
re s o u rces for understanding medicine.
To this end, Dr. Engel recently taught
an Honors Program tutorial, entitled,
“Women & Medicine: A Literary
Nursing Student Receives “Hearts of Heroes” Aw a r d
In recognition of National Nurses Day on
8 Ma y, the Un i versity presented its first
annual “He a rts of He ro e s” Aw a rd to Je a n
Ha yes, a nurse at Me rcy Hospital, Scranton,
and a student at the Un i ve r s i t y. The award
seeks to re c o g n i ze and encourage nurses to
“tell their story.” Mrs. Ha yes, a resident of
C l a rks Summit, was selected based on exc e llence
in clinical skills, as well as in writing.
Mrs. Ha yes wrote a poem, entitled,
Me l a n o m a, reflecting on the disease that
Retrospective.” She is also currently
teaching an independent study course in
“Medicine and Culture.”
Pa rticipants at the Institute will explore
such issues as the culture of medicine and
the ways in which medical and ethics cases
shape both knowledge and practice. Clinical
activities will be coupled with pre s e n t a t i o n s
and discussions of re l e vant literary works.
Students in the pre-medical program at
The Un i versity of Scranton are continually
accepted to medical schools at rates we l l
b e yond the national average. The acceptance
rate for 2002 is already 95.3 perc e n t
of all applicants and climbing. For seniors
in the graduating class of 2002, the acceptance
rate is an unprecedented 100 percent.
According to Dr. Engel, the reason that
Scranton students achieve such a high
rate of acceptance to doctoral-level health
professions schools is “…because they
eagerly seek to learn as much as possible
about the complex field of medicine, to
serve others on campus and in the community,
and to share their understanding
with their fellow students.”
As an example, Dr. Engel notes that
“many of the recent graduates remain
actively involved in mentoring their colleagues
in the graduating class of 2003.
Recent graduates often stop by the office
to ask how they might assist current
applicants. They also participate in an
online discussion board where the rising
seniors ask questions about the process of
application to medical school.”
took the life of her mother. Un i versity faculty
(from left) Deborah Zielinski, Nu r s i n g
Lab Di re c t o r, Ma ry Muscari, Ph . D . ,
Associate Professor of Nursing, and Do n a
C a r p e n t e , rEd.D.
Professor of Nursing, pre sent
the award to Mrs. Ha yes. Re p re s e n t i n g
Me rcy Hospital, Scranton, fifth from left:
Nancy O’Ma l l e y, R.N., Exe c u t i ve Di re c t o r
of Nursing; Gail Mo e l l e r, R.N., Di rector of
Nursing Systems; and Ma ry Beth Mo s s ,
R.N., Nurse Ma n a g e r.