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The
Summer 2011
The Magazine of Hartwick College
Dynamic Student Scholarship
Impact of Philanthropy
JCH Alumni in Research and Medicine
Faculty Perspectives on Asia and on Autism
Pine Lake at 40: An Academic Resource

“Giving is about inspiration.”
“ There is a new momentum at
Hartwick, and it’s easy to talk about.
A great transformation is underway here.
Karen and I are excited to be a part of it.”
Hartwick College
Board of Trustees
2011-2012
James J. Elting, MD | Chair
Diane Hettinger ’77 | Vice Chair
Betsy Tanner Wright ’79 | Secretary
John K. Milne ’76 | Treasurer
Margaret L. Drugovich, DM
President | ex officio
Dr. James J. Elting, Chair of the Hartwick College
Board of Trustees, with his wife, Karen.
Hartwick Board—20 years | College donor—35 years
Community leader and friend
Orthopaedic surgeon, Bassett Healthcare Network
Yale University, A.B. | Columbia Medical College, M.D.
A. Bruce Anderson ’63
John Bertuzzi
Carol Ann Hamilton Coughlin ’86
Jeanette S. Cureton
Elaine A. DiBrita ’61
Edward B. Droesch ’82
Arnold M. Drogen
Virginia Elwell ’77
Debra Fischer French ’80
Thomas N. Gerhardt ’84
Robert Hanft ’69
Sarah Griffiths Herbert ’88
Kathi Hochberg ’73
Halford Johnson
Paul R. Johnson ’67
William J. Kitson ’86
Francis D. Landrey
Ronald P. Lynch ’87
Margaret Mansperger ’07
Erna McReynolds
Nancy M. Morris ’74, H’06
John W. Nachbur ’85
Rory Reed ’83
Lisa Schulmeister ’78
Robert Spadaccia ’70
To talk about how you can get more involved at Hartwick, please
contact Jim Broschart, Vice President for College Advancement,
at 607-431-4026 or broschartj@hartwick.edu.

The
Summer 2011 | Volume LIV: No. 1
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David Conway
MANAGING EDITOR
James Jolly
FEATURE EDITOR AND WRITER
Elizabeth Steele
ART DIRECTOR
Jennifer Nichols-Stewart
COPY EDITOR
Jennifer Moritz
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Christopher Lott, Kira DeLanoy, Alyssa Militello ’12,
Chris Gondek
WICK ONLINE
Stephanie Brunetta
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Gerry Raymonda, Elizabeth Steele, Ben Wronkoski ’11
James Jolly, Kira DeLanoy, Duncan Macdonald ’78,
Alyssa Militello ’12, Jamey Novick
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Dr. Margaret L. Drugovich, President
Jim Broschart, VP for College Advancement
David Conway, VP for Enrollment Management and Marketing
Duncan Macdonald ’78, Director of Alumni Engagement
Dr. Meg Nowak, VP for Student Life
Dr. Michael G. Tannenbaum, Provost
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In this issue:
Features
3 | Alumni Power
George Bruno ’64 and Gil Smith ’59
are civic and scientific leaders.
4 | The Class of 2011
Hartwick’s newest alumni bring
honor to their alma mater.
5 | All About Nursing
Nursing is No. 1—in terms of
graduating seniors.
10 | Commentary
Professor Steve Kolenda on
Hartwick’s relationship with Asia.
12 | Cover Story
Theory in Practice
Student advances occur, and are
recognized, on campus, in professional
circles, and around the world.
24 | Breakthrough
Professor Gregory W. Smith shares his
personal and professional perspectives
on autism.
26 | Portrait in Philanthropy
Stephanie Isgur Long ’84 and David
Long ’83 see the future in Hartwick.
28 | Pine Lake at 40
A setting for scholarship.
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Sunrise at the Moeraki
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From the President
The Power
of Impact.
Impact. Noun or verb, the essence of this word is
the same—it is the powerful or dramatic force
or effect that something or somebody has on
something or someone else.
It is a word I often hear when colleagues describe why the quality of
the experience—what happens in the classroom, in the fi eld, or on the
field—matters. There is nothing passive about impact. You might have
“little effect,” but you can never have “little impact.” It is all about power
and action, outcomes and results.
Impact: precisely the right word to describe the effect that Hartwick
teaching has on student learning; exactly the right word to describe the
effect that philanthropy has on learning and learners; just the right word to
describe the effect Hartwick learning has on a lifetime of accomplishment.
The circle of contemporary education stakeholders—educators,
students, families, accrediting bodies, the legislative and executive
branches of government—continues to grow and to increase their
demand for accountability. This demand has, predictably, led to efforts
to measure the outcomes associated with student learning, and to the
development of methods designed to prove that a student has learned
and, more specifically, has learned what was intended.
We can measure these types of outcomes, and we do. However, after
participating in various efforts to assess learning outcomes, I have drawn
this conclusion: You can only measure the true impact of a great liberal
arts education years after that milestone moment of Commencement.
A great liberal arts education—a Hartwick education—prepares you
to navigate a lifetime of unexpected professional challenges, years after
the last paper or performance has been graded. This truth is evidenced
by the remarkable careers of Ambassador George Bruno ’64 and Dr.
Gilbert Smith ’59. Early impact can be seen in the accomplishments of
the Freedman Prize winners, the Duffy Family Ambassador Scholarship
winners, and the Emerson International Internship Scholarship
awardees. Friends Judy and Allen H ’00 Freedman, alumni parents
Anne and John H ’00 Duffy, alumni Stephanie ’84 and David
’83 Long, forward-thinking Kellogg Society members, and generous
endowed scholarship donors make these experiences, and others,
possible. These supporters and others have a real and far-reaching impact
on Hartwick and our students, now and well into the future.
Want proof that great learning happens at Hartwick? That lasting
benefits come from this beginning? Measure for yourself the outcomes
in this edition of The Wick against a short and potent index: impact.
Best,
Webextra | Go to www.youtube.com/hartwickcollege to hear what President Drugovich told the Class of 2015 during Orientation 2011.
Of note, videos two and three, in which she explains her job as President and their job as Hartwick students.
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Campus News
Alumni Power
With Commencement come opportunities to recognize alumni as well
as seniors, to illustrate where Hartwick graduates go from here, and to
demonstrate that student success on The Hill is only the beginning.
Dr. Gilbert Smith ’59 Receives Honorary Degree
From the citation read by Professor of Biology Mary Allen (excerpts)
“Dr. Gilbert Howlett Smith, today the
Hartwick College community honors you
for your unwavering commitment to the
value of scholarship, and your steadfast
dedication to the power of scientific inquiry
to better the global human condition.
“For more than 50 years, you have applied
your considerable talents and knowledge
to understanding and preventing this era’s
scourge—cancer. In particular, you have
focused your substantial efforts on the
eradication of breast cancer, and few can
claim to have had as critical an impact on
this crucial field.
“Following your graduation from Hartwick
College, you began your career at Sloan-
Kettering Institute for Cancer Research,
[then] joined the National Cancer Institute
five years later. Through the intervening
years, you have held scores of important
positions, including research biologist,
head of ultrastructural research, senior
investigator in the laboratory of biology,
senior investigator in molecular genetics,
senior investigator in oncogenetics, and
chief senior investigator in mammary
stem cell biology. These titles are a
testament to your dedication to your work
and an indication of the legacy of your
commitment to saving lives.
“Fittingly, you have been honored for your
efforts, receiving the National Institutes of
Health Merit Award, the National Cancer
Institute Mentor of Merit Award, and the
Glenn Foundation Award ... In 2010, you
were named a Distinguished Alumnus of
Hartwick College.
George C. Bruno ’64 and Dr. Gilbert H. Smith ’59, H’11
“Dr. Smith, you are an exemplar of the critical impact
original scholarly research can have on each of our lives.
Your unwavering belief in the power of knowledge
and understanding to better the human condition has
reached across the globe, touching untold numbers of
lives.
“President Drugovich, I am pleased to present Gilbert
Smith as candidate for the Hartwick College Honorary
Degree.”
“It is with a great deal of pride and a lion’s share of humility that I stand before
you today to share the end of your baccalaureate studies at Hartwick College.
I am stunned and also filled with admiration at the progress that has taken place
here on Oyaron Hill…” — Dr. Gilbert H. Smith ’59, H’11
George C. Bruno ’64 Receives the President’s Award for Liberal Arts in Practice
Established in 2009, the award is presented by President Margaret L. Drugovich to a Hartwick
graduate who extends the values of a Hartwick education into his or her life and work for the
benefit of others.
President Drugovich’s remarks (excerpts)
“Ambassador George C. Bruno,
Class of 1964, it is my honor to
present to you the Hartwick College
President’s Award for Liberal Arts in
Practice, with our deep and abiding
gratitude for all that you have done.
“The Hartwick community honors you for:
• your lifelong dedication to the values
of equal access, human rights, and global
democracy;
• your commitment to spreading peace across
the globe; and
• your unwavering commitment to extending
the values of a Hartwick education into your
life and work for the benefit of so many the
world over.
“Ambassador Bruno, through your work in
diplomacy and human rights, you embody
the ideals of global engagement and service
to humanity that are inherent in a Hartwick
education, ideals so prized that they are
recognized by this award.”
George C. Bruno ’64, ’H96: J.D., George
Washington University Law School; Fellow,
University of Pennsylvania Law School;
volunteer aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy
on poverty and civil rights cases; civil rights
lawyer in Jackson, Miss.; one of the youngest
lawyers (age 29) to argue successfully a
landmark case before the U.S. Supreme Court
(for the protection of Social Security benefits);
Assistant Director of the Executive Office of
U.S. Attorneys in the Department of Justice;
United States Ambassador to Belize under
President Bill Clinton, worked to increase
trade and strengthen Belize’s democratic
traditions; Senior Advisor for International
Issues, U.S. Army, Pentagon; Advisor, War
Crimes Tribunal, Sarajevo; Co-director,
Partners in Peace, Pentagon and University of
New Hampshire; Attorney at Law, LAWSERVE,
NH, immigration law.
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Hartwick
Celebrates the
Class of 2011
Commencement 2011 officially conveyed
321 graduates into the ranks of Hartwick
alumni.
“Now you leave Hartwick an educated
woman, an educated man,” President
Margaret L. Drugovich told the Class of
2011. “You may have traveled across the
world. You may have done a remarkable thing
or two. You have probably learned more than
you expected, and perhaps even more than
you thought possible. It is my hope that what
you have learned best is how to learn from
others.”
Dr. Gilbert Smith ’59, the head senior
investigator of mammary stem cell biology
at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda,
MD, delivered the Commencement address.
He told the class of 2011 to question
everything.
“It is important never to completely accept
or reject what you may hear, see or feel,” he
said. “Listen carefully to those who hold
you in high esteem and also to those who
disparage you, because in this way you will
come to know both your strengths and your
shortcomings.”
Commencement 2011 featured the first
graduates of the College’s acclaimed Three-
Year Bachelor’s Degree Program: Shane
K. Abrams (English), Kristel A. Chu
Yan Fui (Accounting), Allison Godfrey
(Nursing), Daniel C. Meier (Biology)
and Rebecca A. Patick (English).
Several events celebrating the
accomplishment of the Class of 2011
were held prior to Commencement: the
Nurse Pinning Ceremony, the President’s
Senior Farewell Dinner at Thornwood,
Baccalaureate at Foothills Performing Arts
Center in downton Oneonta, and the “1 To
Go” reception in Stack Lounge.
Heather Quarles ’11 received many
accolades for her achievements
and contributions, including the
President’s Leadership Award.
President Drugovich recognized her
“success through transformational
leadership that educates and
engages others.” An English major
and Music minor from California,
Quarles is a John Christopher
Hartwick Scholar.
Gil Smith ’59 being awarded
his Honorary Doctor of Science
degree from President Margaret L.
Drugovich, assisted by Professor
Mary Allen, chair of the Biology
department.
Ambassador George Bruno ’64
displays his President’s Award for
Liberal Arts in Practice.
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Allie Godfrey, the first Nursing graduate in
Hartwick’s Three-Year Degree Program, was
pinned by her mother, Kimberly Godfrey, RN.
Rebecca Martt, a John Christopher Hartwick
Scholar, celebrates with her parents and
Professor Jeanne-Marie Havener.
Sandra Rosario is a two-time Hartwick
graduate. In 2005, she earned a B.A. in
Political Science with a minor in Spanish.
Nurses Advance Knowledge
Demand for Hartwick’s Nursing program is high, students say, because
of opportunities to work closely with experienced faculty, to do field work
early and often, and to consider and conduct advanced research. Nursing is
Hartwick’s No.1 major in terms of graduating seniors, and the Class of 2011
is ready to join the Nursing alumni practicing in 45 states and five countries.
The Senior Thesis is considered the culmination of a Hartwick education. It is an
intellectual process that brings each student opportunities to evaluate issues, pose a
challenging question, pursue a line of inquiry, examine assumptions, conduct further
research, analyze results, write a comprehensive paper, and present findings. The Nursing
Class of 2011’s thesis topics reflect the role the liberal arts plays in their broad-based
education. For example:
• “Improving the Health of Impoverished Children” (Anna Joy Arnold, RN presented
her poster abstract to the Eastern Nursing Research Society, Philadelphia.)
• “Assessment of and Intervention in Cases of Child Abuse in the Emergency Setting”
(Harpreet Kaur presented at the Research Evening at Bassett Healthcare.)
• “Treating Depression in the Elderly: Reminiscence Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral
Therapy” (Paris Maney)
• “Teaching So They Hear: Effective Strategies to Motivate Self-Management in Adults
with Type 2 Diabetes” (Rebecca Martt, minor in Biology)
• “Effective Nursing Interventions for Patients Experiencing Pregnancy Following a
Perinatal Loss” (Christie Traynor)
• “Female Intimate Partner Violence Screening and Care in the Emergency Department”
(Elysse Russo)
• “Impact of Nursing Interventions on Fatigue and Pain in Pediatric Oncology Patients”
(Meghan Bryan)
• “The Importance of Ethics Education in Nursing Professional Practice” (Kate Orban,
minor in Philosophy)
• “Suicide in the Military: The Nurse’s Role in Prevention” (Nadine Gurley)
• “Pediatric Palliative Care: The barriers to providing an optimal level of care to a
vulnerable population” (Liz Haddock)
Applied Science
Nursing graduates must demonstrate mastery of
theoretical knowledge and competency in applying
theory to practice. The Senior Independent Practicum
serves a vital role in each senior’s transition into
professional practice.
The Nursing Class of 2011 performed independent
practicums in a variety of settings:
General Medical-Surgical Units; Specialty Units such
as Neurology, Oncology, and Orthopedics; Advanced
Medical-Surgical Units, including Cardiac Surgery, Step
Down, Emergency Services, Adult and Neonatal Intensive
Care, Operative Services, and Post-anesthesia Care
(PACU); Women’s Health, including Labor and Delivery,
Maternity, and Obstetrics and Gynecology; and a variety
of Pediatric care settings.
The Nursing Class of 2011 practiced in:
Albany Medical Center, NY
Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, NY
Bay State Medical Center, Springfield, MA
Boston Medical Center/Boston Hospital, Boston, MA
Crouse Hospital, Syracuse, NY
AO Fox Memorial Hospital, Oneonta, NY
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, Long Island, NY
Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton, NY
Mission Hospital, Asheville, NC
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital,
New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical
Center, New York, NY
Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center, Denver, CO
St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford CT
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Schenectady, NY
University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, CA
Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY
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Graduates
President’s
Senior Farewell
Dinner
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Face the Future, Boldly.
Baccalaureate
Commencement
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Who’s
Next?
Hartwick’s Class of 2015
is shaping up to be another
record-breaker in terms of
applications, selectivity and
size. “An increasing number of
President Margaret L. Drugovich greets Karissa Harrison ‘15
students from around the
at the Matriculation Ceremony during orientation in June.
country and world are finding
that the College is a best fit for them,” says Vice President of Enrollment Management and
Marketing David Conway. He provided the following data on the incoming class:
• Applications for fall 2011 grew once again, this time by more than
50 percent over last year, to more than 6,300 first-year and transfer
applicants for fall 2011.
• The acceptance rate for the Class of 2015 is just 62 percent, the lowest in
College history, meaning that Hartwick’s selectivity has risen significantly.
• The Class of 2015 will be among the most academically talented in
Hartwick history. The average SAT score among first-year students is up
50 points from the record-breaking Class of 2014, and the average high
school grade point average is the highest in more than a decade.
• For the second straight year, Hartwick will welcome one of the largest firstyear
classes in the history of the College. Current projections put the Class
of 2015 close to 500 students strong.
• Thirty percent of the Class of 2015 is from outside New York State, compared
to 22 percent for the Class of 2014; 17 of these are international students.
• The Class of 2015 is among the most diverse in recent memory, as
18 percent of its members are students of color.
• At least 40 first-year students in the fall 2011 entering class are enrolling
in Hartwick’s Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree Program.
“These are very encouraging statistics, of which the Hartwick
College community can be rightly proud,” Conway says. “High
school students are recognizing the value of the uniquely
Hartwick brand of experiential learning, allowing us to build
another remarkable class.”
Continuing
Scholarship
Members of the Class of 2011
departed Oyaron Hill well prepared for
the next step of their lives. For many,
that step is continuing their scholarship
in preparation for a career. Below is a
sampling of graduate schools and areas
of study being pursued by the Class of
2011. The top programs are education,
geology, engineering, and law.
Barry University—Histotechnology
Baruch College—Law, Business Administration
Binghamton University—Biomedical Anthropology
Buffalo State University—Accounting
City College of NY—Biomedical Technology
Clarkson University—Aeronautical Engineering
Clemson University—Environmental Engineering
Columbia University—Chemical Engineering
Fordham University—Social Work
Hunter College—Education
John Jay College—Criminal Justice
Marist College—Education
Mary Baldwin College—Shakespeare and
Renaissance Literature
Mississippi State University—Geosciences
New England College—Higher Education
Administration
San Jose State University— Library and Information
Science
Syracuse University—Law
Union Graduate College—Healthcare
Administration
University at Albany—Literacy
University of Illinois-Urban—Biochemistry
University of Maine—Earth Science
University of Nevada-Las Vegas—Geology
University of North Carolina—Peace and
Conflict Studies
University of Queensland—Medicine
University of Rhode Island—Spanish
University of South Florida—Chemical
Oceanography
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee—Geology
Vermont College of Fine Art—Studio Art
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Faculty News
And The Faculty Awards Go To . . .
Young Honored for Excellence in Teaching
Joining a distinguished list of Hartwick faculty members, Professor of Art
Phil Young was chosen by the Class of 2006 as this year’s recipient of the
Margaret Brigham Bunn Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Each year, alumni who graduated five years
earlier honor the faculty member they found
most outstanding during their time at Hartwick.
“I was shocked and overwhelmed to have
received this award,” Young says. “I have a
great sense of thankfulness. This is really about
students—that’s who we do this for. Teaching is
collaborative, and this is also honoring all of the
students I’ve taught. It’s just an overwhelming,
great feeling.”
Young came to Hartwick in 1978. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from Tyler School of Art at
Temple University, a master’s of divinity from
Wesley Theological Seminary, and an MFA
from American University. His courses focus on
drawing, two-dimensional design, papermaking,
and painting, and are influenced by his own
research, writing, and art.
“Even after over 30 years of teaching, Phil
retains his enthusiasm for working with
students, helping them, in the words of
his department chair, to ‘reach deep inside
themselves in order to produce works of
personal and global insight and beauty,’”
Provost and Vice President for Academic
Affairs Michael G. Tannenbaum said in
presenting the award to the visibly moved
professor during Commencement. “Former
students acknowledge the influence he has had
on generations of Hartwick art students. That
influence continues as he faces daily challenges
from multiple sclerosis and uses those challenges
to enhance his artwork, and to inspire his
students and his colleagues.”
The Margaret Brigham Bunn Award honors
a loyal friend and Trustee of the College who
understood the centrality of the interaction
between teachers and students. The award was
established by her colleagues on the Board of
Trustees upon her death in 1978.
Faculty Emeriti Gathering: President Margaret
L. Drugovich and her partner, Beth Steele,
recently welcomed Faculty Emeriti for lunch
at Thornwood. The group shared stories,
laughed over fond memories, and asked
questions about Hartwick now and in the
future. Pictured: (front) Perrie Saxton ’53,
Nursing; Sharon Dettenrieder ’65, Nursing;
Nancy Chiang, Library; (back) John Lindell,
Political Science; Len Pudelka, History; Tom
Beattie, English; Walt Nagle, Chemistry;
Dave Hutchison, Geology; Dave Diener,
Mathematics; Provost Michael Tannenbaum;
Sugwon Kang, Political Science; Bob
Mansbach, Religious Studies; and President
Drugovich. Diener, Hutchison, Lindell,
Mansbach, and Nagle are all past recipients of
the Margaret Brigham Bunn Award.
Katherine O’Donnell, Professor
of Sociology, received the prestigious
Teacher-Scholar Award at Honors
Convocation. The annual award honors a
teacher-scholar who enhances teaching
through scholarship, research, or creative
work while demonstrating to students
and colleagues the value and excitement
of scholarly inquiry. O’Donnell joined
the Hartwick faculty in 1980; is cofounder
and president of OCAY-Oneonta
Community Alliance for Youth; founder
of the Hartwick College Women’s Center
and the Teaching Learning Community;
and co-founder of the Women’s Studies
Program and Delaware-Otsego counties
NOW.
Dr. Marc E. Shaw, Assistant
Professor of Theatre Arts, was honored
with the 2011 Cyrus Mehri Global
Pluralism Fellowship & Mentoring
Faculty Award with student recipient,
Mark de Roziere ’13. The award
recognizes work that promotes “a diverse
community of honest interchange in
which people can learn from one another
through an open sharing of perspectives
and life experiences.”
Assistant Professor of Art Stephanie
Rozene and Professor of Anthropology
Michael D. Woost were each
recognized with the Winifred D.
Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence
Award. The award will support their
scholarly projects in 2011-12.
Associate Professor of English Lisa
Darien was chosen by the Class of
2011 as this year’s Baccalaureate
speaker. She addressed graduates and
their families, offering two “tiny little
pieces” of advice: “Don’t worry too much
about the future, and remember that your
parents love you.”
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Commentary
Hartwick and Asia:
A Tradition of Innovation
Hartwick College is future-directed, focusing on educating people
in ways that will make them effective throughout their lifetimes. Its
strength comes from helping our students develop an understanding of
our contemporary world based on knowledge of the past, examination
of the present, and preparation for what’s ahead. To accomplish this
Hartwick builds upon a traditional liberal arts education by offering its
students the opportunity to learn about current technologies, explore
science, critically examine current social structures, and experiment
with new art, music, and theater. In all we do, there is an appreciation of
the past, an interest in the present, and a deliberate focus on the future.
(Psychology) in Hong Kong, David Cody (English) and Mieko
Nishida (History) in Japan, and Min Chung (Mathematics) in the
Republic of Korea.
My own Asia experience began in 1990, following the trailblazing
Sabbatical Leave of the late professor John Stuligross. Soon after
China opened its doors to the West with market-driven policies, Jack
taught economics for a full year as one of its first “foreign experts”
at the Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade (GIFT). He had the
foresight to see the role Asia would play in the lives of our students
“Doing Business in Asia” J Term 2011 students and faculty divided their time among Beijing,
Shanghai, and Qingdao, China. The group posed before the massive May Wind sculpture of May
4th Square, in downtown Qingdao along Fushan Bay.
Rory Read ’83, President and COO of Lenovo
Group Ltd., ensured that Hartwick students had
opportunities to talk international business with
Lenovo executives in China.
One thing is certain: The world of Hartwick graduates will be diverse,
interdependent, and global.
The faculty actively integrates Asian study into a Hartwick education.
This is not a new phenomenon—in the 1980s, off-campus study
included travel with professors John Lindell to Japan and Sugwon
Kang to China. For a long time, students have benefited from Asianfocused
on-campus and off-campus courses with current faculty such
as professors David Anthony in Anthropology, Betsey Ayer in
Art History, Sandy Huntington in Religious Studies, and Mary
Vanderlaan in Political Science, and many other professors have
contributed in integrative and comparative ways. Hartwick faculty
who have themselves studied in Asia include professors KinHo Chan
and wanted to experience early changes firsthand. Jack returned to
Hartwick with tales of an exhilarating, intellectually challenging
experience, tales that inspired his students and colleagues for the rest
of his Hartwick career. Intrigued and convinced, my wife Diane ’85
and our then three-year-old daughter Kathlyn ’10 joined me for my
first Sabbatical Leave in China, teaching international accounting for
one semester at GIFT and then traveling extensively and independently
throughout China. Hartwick supports important faculty development
experiences such as this in many ways, including sabbatical leaves and
trustee grants. These experiences energize our teaching and facilitate
our research efforts so that our long-term tenure at the College is
enhanced by staying current in our fields.
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By Stephen Kolenda, Professor of Business
Administration and Accounting
Steve Kolenda has been on the Hartwick faculty since 1983.
His areas of expertise include corporate financial reporting and
international business in Asia. A Certified Public Accountant,
he holds an M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut.
On a quick return trip to China in 1992, students joined me to do
marketing research for New York State companies in Guangdong
Province. About that time, Trustee Emeritus Roy Rowan H’95, author
of Chasing the Dragon and a world-renowned Asian expert through his
career with Time, Life and Fortune magazines and other experiences,
convinced his Thai colleague Sondhi Limthoghkul H’93 to donate
funds to start underwriting the J Term experiences of Hartwick first-year
students. Roy’s son Marcus Rowan ’84 had done an internship in Hong
Kong under my supervision—my first taste of the benefits a Hartwick-
Asia experiential education could produce.
Scott Hardy ’91. It was the right preparation for taking about half
of those students to China for the January Term 2011 course, Doing
Business in Asia.
With the help of Christina Zhang ’94 of Ocean University of China’s
International Chinese Business Program, Hartwick students studied
business with Chinese faculty and students in Qingdao. In addition
to factory tours in Qingdao, Lenovo President and COO Rory Read
’83 arranged for our students to shadow practicing businesspersons
in Beijing and Shanghai. We met with Kim Carbonelli Tingler ’00
in Beijing where she has founded a nonprofit organization helping
thousands of orphaned Chinese girls, including those stranded by the
recent Sichuan Province earthquakes. With the continued support
of alumni like Dick Clapp ’62 and retired librarian Nancy Chiang,
the J Term 2012 course to China is fully enrolled. It will continue our
faculty development objective when we are joined by another faculty
member, Professor of Economics Larry Malone, who regularly teaches
international economics.
When Seth Canetto ’11, Michael del Rosario ’11, and Stephen
Leisenfelder ’11 had lunch at a Cloisonné factory, they were treated to an
impromptu English lesson with happy and proud Chinese schoolchildren
(shown with one of their teachers).
China expert and Trustee Emeritus Roy Rowan H’95 recently returned to
campus to discuss his latest book, Never Too Late: A 90-Year-Old’s Pursuit
of a Whirlwind Life. Rowan and wife, Helen, were welcomed by President
Margaret L. Drugovich and professors Steve Kolenda (l) and John Clemens.
Limthoghkul began by inviting Hartwick students to Thailand, and I
took the inaugural group in 1994, a visit that also began my research on
developmental economics in the Golden Quadrangle region of Southeast
Asia and southwestern China. Hartwick students have visited Thailand
many times since—most consistently to do longitudinal research on
medicinal plants and childhood malnutrition under the supervision of
Professor of Biology Linda Swift. I have continued to visit Southeast
Asia regularly (most recently to Laos), including teaching international
finance and international marketing for two Thai universities.
Professor of Business Administration John Clemens and I initiated a
new on-campus course, Doing Business with Asia, last fall that featured
appearances by Asia business veterans like Fran Borrego ’92 and
As the world evolves, Hartwick responds. Drawing on faculty’s personal
and professional experiences, developing new expertise among faculty,
and garnering the involvement and support of our active alumni body,
Hartwick students will continue to study and visit Asia. Their future
begins in Oneonta, where they are being educated to initiate change
throughout the world. •
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Theory In Practice
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It begins with an idea—all great work does—and continues with
discussion, consideration, and practice. It finds direction with a
mentor, and starts to take shape. It grows into inspiration, and
slowly, carefully, develops into original work. Experimentation
meets fleeting failure along the way, and so it reshapes and
becomes stronger. It is unrecognizable compared to the
beginning, yet fully one’s own.
It is new knowledge—deep understanding, full expression—and
it is taking place every day in the minds, the hearts, the conscious
and subconscious of Hartwick students.
Scholars
On Campus
and On the Road
On campus, across country, around the world—in laboratories, in
the field, among new-found colleagues—on stage, in the studio,
amidst nature—in libraries, surrounded by prized works, in other
languages—deep in thought and engrossed in pushing harder, doing
more, taking it further.
Having the confidence to take one’s work to an open forum—
sharing through recitation, presentation, performance, and
demonstration—earning recognition on campus and among
professionals—beginning to realize one’s intellectual capacity and
creative promise—this is scholarship at Hartwick.
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Performance Proclaims
Promise
John Christopher Hartwick Scholar—a formal title conveying the
gravitas of the designation. A coveted prize, a timeless honor, an
unparalleled designation, it is the highest academic recognition
that the College bestows.
For 44 years, only a few members of each junior class have earned the
tribute. Being nominated is in itself an honor; candidates are chosen by the
faculty in their major field of study. Designated as Faculty Scholars, this
year’s 34 nominees joined the Scholarship Award Committee, the Provost,
and the President at her home in early spring for dinner and accolades.
By the time the announcement came at Honors Convocation, the
anticipation was palpable. Who will be named a John Christopher Hartwick
Scholar? How could the committee choose among so many accomplished
nominees? Who will be so honored for her or his academic achievement,
leadership, and character?
Feeling (or perhaps feeding) the tension in the room, Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs Michael G. Tannenbaum began the
2011 announcement by saying, “And the envelope please…” Resounding
applause, cheers, and a few tears greeted these outstanding young scholars,
all of them Class of 2012. These few bring the ranks of JCH Scholars to
297 since the designation was established by President Frederick M. Binder
and the Board of Trustees in 1967.
Each winner receives a JCH medallion, the gift of Bill Kitson ’86 and
Diane Smith Kitson ’87, herself a John Christopher Hartwick Scholar. In
addition, each John Christopher Hartwick Scholar is awarded a substantial
tuition grant for his or her senior year of study.
The newest John Christopher Hartwick Scholars, pictured with President
Margaret L. Drugovich at Honors Convocation, are: (f) Rebecka Flynn,
German; Brittany Morrisey, Spanish and Sociology; Casey Mullaney, English,
French, and Religious Studies; (r) Jaimie deJager, Nursing; Jordan Liz,
Economics and Philosophy; and Tasha Bradt, Sociology.
Scholar to Doctor
Looking at the fresh faces of John Christopher
Hartwick Scholars, it is tempting to imagine what
lies ahead. Five years, 10 years, even 25 or 35 years
ago, the same questions arose in the minds of those
John Christopher Hartwick Scholars, their faculty
and families.
This, the first in a series illustrating how far and in what
directions John Christopher Hartwick Scholars take their
academic abilities, focuses on those JCH alumni who have
earned terminal degrees in the sciences.
Jon E. Paczkowski ’08 > Biology, JCH ’07 > Ph.D. candidate,
Cornell University > Fromme Lab, Weill Institute of Cell and
Molecular Biology.
Justine C. Beck ’06 > Chemistry, Biology minor, JCH ’05 > PharmD
candidate, University of Maryland > Senior Lab Technician II, Johns
Hopkins Medical Institutions, MD.
Christopher P. Belnap ’03 > Biology and Geology double, JCH ’02
> Ph.D. Microbiology, University of California Berkeley, College of Natural
Resources > Postdoctoral Fellow, Biomedical Sciences, University of San
Francisco, CA.
Aleesha M. Zysik ’03 > Biology, JCH ’02 > MD, American University of
the Caribbean School of Medicine > Pediatrician, Kids Korner Pediatric
Center, Messena Memorial Hospital, NY.
Meghan F. Zysik ’01 > Biology, JCH ’00 > MD, University of Toledo
College of Medicine > Medical Resident, Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School, NJ.
Devin A. Zysling ’01 > Biology, JCH ’00 > Ph.D. Indiana University,
Department of Biology, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal
Behavior Postdoctoral Researcher > Place Lab, Cornell University College
of Veterinary Medicine, NY.
Jessica E. Downing ’00 > Biology, JCH ’99 > DVM Cornell University
New York State Veterinary College > Emergency Veterinarian and General
Practitioner, Valley Cottage Animal Hospital, NY.
Marisa Stumpf Kearney ’96 > Biology, JCH ’95 > MD, University
at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Emergency
Physician, Winchester Hospital, MA.
Stephanie Codden Weatherly ’96 > Biochemistry, JCH ’95 > Ph.D.
Inorganic Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > Senior
Research Associate, Cropsolution Inc., NC.
Ellyn P. Sellers Selin ’95 > Psychology, JCH ’94 > MD, University at
Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences > Family
Practitioner, Cayuga Family Medicine, Ithaca, NY.
Lori A. Del Negro ’93 > Chemistry, JCH ’92 > Ph.D., Analytical
Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder > Associate
Professor of Chemistry, Lake Forest College, IL.
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Patricia Cawley Cucolo ’92 > Biology, JCH ’91
> MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences > Pediatrician,
Madison Pediatrics, NJ.
Peter A. Daempfle ’92 > Biology, JCH ’91 >
Ph.D. Biology/Education, SUNY Albany
> Associate Professor of Biology, SUNY Delhi.
Justin T. Fermann ’92 > Physics, JCH ’91
> Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry, University of
Georgia > Director of Chemistry Resource
Center and Lecturer in Chemistry, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
Leanna Bruen Willey ’90 > Biology, JCH ’89
> MD University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry > Pediatrician, North
Carolina Kids Pediatrics
Debra Bausback ’89 > Biology, JCH ’88 > DMD
University of Connecticut School of Dental
Medicine > Dentist / Business Partner, Wilson
Hart & Bausback Dental, NY.
Frederick W. Baum III ’87 > Biology, JCH ’86 >
DVM Cornell University, New York State College
of Veterinary Medicine > Veterinarian; Director,
Arlington Animal Hospital; > President,
Vermont Veterinary Medical Association.
Susan E. Yorks ’87 > Chemistry, JCH ’86 >
OD, New England College of Optometry >
Optometrist, Robbins Eye Associates, NY.
Timothy S. French ’86 > Chemistry, JCH ’85
> MD, Albany Medical College > Internist,
Hospitalist Program, Catholic Medical Center,
NH.
Susan Fueshko Perry ’86 > Biology, JCH ’85 >
Ph.D. Biological Chemistry, Pennsylvania State
University > Professor of Practice in Chemical
Engineering and Bio-Engineering, Lehigh
University, PA.
Jeffrey L. Crosby ’85 > Biology, JCH ’84 >
Ph.D. University of Maine Postdoctoral Fellow,
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
> Head of Science Department / Teacher, St.
Paul’s School, NH.
Janet Frawley Morrison ’83 > Chemistry,
JCH ’82 > Ph.D. Analytical Chemistry, The
American University > Senior Lecturer in
Chemistry, Trinity College, CT.
Jennifer A. Irwin ’82 > Biology, JCH ’81 > MD,
Michigan State University, College of Human
Medicine > Psychiatrist and Neurologist, WA.
Tara A. Lindsley ’81 > Independent Student
Program, JCH ’80 > Ph.D. Albany Medical
College > Developmental Neurobiologist
and Professor of Neuropharmacology and
Neuroscience, Albany Medical College.
Tammi L. Shlotzhauer ’81 > Biology, JCH ’80
> MD University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry > Internist and
Rheumatologist, Rheumatology Associates of
Rochester, NY.
Lynn M. Manfred ’79 > Chemistry, JCH ’78
> MD, University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry > Associate Dean for
Curriculum and Evaluation, Medical University
of South Carolina.
Joyce E. Mauk ’78 > Biology, JCH ’77 >
MD, University of Rochester School of
Medicine and Dentistry > Neurodevelopmental
Pediatrician > President/CEO/Medical Director,
Child Study Center, TX.
Raymond B. Scott ’77 > Chemistry, JCH ’76
> Ph.D. University of Cincinnati > Professor of
Chemistry, Mary Washington University College
of Arts and Sciences, VA.
Charles E. Thompson ’77 > Biology, JCH
’76 > MD, Thomas Jefferson University >
Anesthesiologist, Saint Vincent’s Medical
Center, CT.
JoAnne Gutliph ’76 > Biology, JCH ’75 >
MD, University at Buffalo School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences > Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Prince William OB/GYN, VA.
Richard K. Rabeler ’75 > Independent Student
Program, Botany, JCH ’74 > Ph.D., Plant
Systematics, Michigan State University >
Senior Research Museum Collection Manager
and Assistant Researcher, University of
Michigan Herbarium.
Linda Reckhow Thomson ’72, APRN, CPNP
> Nursing, JCH ’71 > Ph.D. Clinical Hypnosis,
American Pacific University > Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner, Rockingham Medical Group, VT.
Robert K. Nielsen ’71 > Biology, JCH ’70
> MD, Albany Medical College > Family
Practitioner and President, Annville Family
Practice, PA.
Alumnus Rewards
Critical Thinking
Manhattan real estate mogul Steve Green
’59 flew to campus in May to bestow
honors and cash prizes on the winners
of the inaugural Stephen L. Green ’59
American Governance Paper Competition.
He worked with President Margaret L.
Drugovich and Political Science Chair
Laurel Elder to develop this challenge for
Hartwick students. (See the fall 2010 issue of
The Wick. www.hartwick.edu/wickarchive)
Some of Hartwick’s best took advantage of this
opportunity for intellectual inquiry without course
credit. Rachel Rhodes ’13 (r), a double major in
Political Science and History, earned first prize for
her paper, “The American Identity Crisis.” Eric
Schultz ’12, a double major in Political Science
and German, placed second for his paper, “Hoping
for Democracy.” John Christopher Hartwick
Scholar Rebecka Flynn ’12, Faculty Scholar
in Political Science Lauren Mausert ’12, and
John Christopher Hartwick Scholar Brittany M.
Morrissey ’12 also earned recognition.
Rhodes arrived for the awards ceremony fresh from
Belgium, where she spent the spring semester
studying French and international affairs at
Vesalius College in Brussels. Her semester abroad
included opportunities to travel extensively in
Belgium and Europe.
If you are a JCH Scholar who has earned or is pursuing an MD or doctorate in the
sciences, and your credentials are not recognized here, please let us know so we
can print a correction in the next issue. We encourage all JCH Scholars to make
sure that we have your latest information as we prepare to recognize other
disciplines in future issues of The Wick. Please contact Alicia Fish ’91, Senior
Director of Donor and Alumni Relations, fisha@hartwick.edu or 607-431-4021.
Green ’59 is founder and Chairman of the
Board of SL Green Realty Corp., a publicly
traded real estate investment trust and the
largest commercial landlord in New York City.
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The Nexus of Theory and Practice
May 13, 2011—Hartwick’s fourth annual Scholar Showcase. The spotlight is on the students, their
intellectual advances and creative endeavors.
Plan your day around Hartwick—185 presentations; 74 mentors; 249 students. It’s impossible to
see them all, so schedule carefully, and be flexible as a table talk catches your attention, a performance
causes you to linger, a work of art gives you pause, a demonstration raises new questions.
It is exhilarating to observe the students’ intellectual and creative progress; to be there as inspiration
is shared, processes unfold, knowledge is questioned and rebuilt, conclusions are defended,
breakthroughs are celebrated, and aspirations are revealed.
These student-faculty collaborations realize Hartwick’s vision: to be the best
at melding a liberal arts education with experiential learning. It happens again
and again; one ambitious student at a time, working with one highly invested
professor, reaching further for new ideas and experiences toward unimaginable
outcomes.
And it all started with a gift.
Scholarly advances have characterized Hartwick since its beginnings in 1797. But it was the foresight
and generosity of Allen Freedman H’00 and Judy Brick Freedman that galvanized discrete efforts
and led to the celebration of discovery now known as Scholar Showcase.
These friends of the College established the Freedman Prize for Student-Faculty Collaborative
Research in 2002. Their initial gift to support geochemistry honored his father, noted chemist Emiel
Freedman. In 2006 the couple extended their reach into other disciplines, including the arts (their
passion) and business (his career).
Two-time Freedman Prize winner Megan
Shipman ’11 presented her research on rats
and the effects high fat diets have on cognitive
performance. Dr. KinHo Chan says, “Megan
brings original ideas to experimental designs.
She challenges my thinking and functions very
much like a graduate student in my lab.”
Gilbert “Lucky” Pearto ’11 accepts his
Freedman Prize for Theatre Arts from
President Margaret L. Drugovich as Allen and
Judy Freedman look on with pleasure.
Carmen Lookshire ’12 shared reflections on
and mementos from her Art History J Term in
London and Paris as her Scholar Showcase
presentation.
Upon completion of his mezmerizing and
prize-winning performance of “Hairy Man,”
Mark DeRoziere ’12 publicly thanked the
Freedmans for their support.
Glass and Sculpture student Crystal
Postighone ’11 created individual glass globes
hanging from an impressive metal tree-like
sculpture.
Brianna O’Connor ’11 created a threegeneration
portrait of her mother, herself, and
her grandmother (pictured) for Showcase and
the Senior Art Show.
“We are investing in strategic advantage,” says Allen. “That’s how I start everything. You need to
know your core competencies—what you do better than anyone else—and to have the confidence to
know what you can’t.”
“The faculty here is phenomenal,” Judy says, noting that Eric Johnson is “the best” in Geochemistry
and Ken Golden in Theatre is a longtime partner. “Our gifts highlight the faculty,” she explains, and
Allen adds, “The impact of disciplined research and senior faculty—that’s our payback. We like to
plant a seed.”
“It is so powerful to realize how important it is to give someone young a chance,” Judy says. “We are
supporting people at a pivotal point in their lives. It all fell together at Hartwick.”
Many of the Freedman Prize winners, mentors,
and President Margaret L. Drugovich gathered
around the Freedmans after the awards
ceremony.
“The Freedmans fully understand the importance of inquiry and its product,
with product being new knowledge that catalyzes deeper learning and further
inquiry,” says President Margaret L. Drugovich. “They have a profound
understanding of the power of the nexus of theory and practice. They are
unusual in this way.”
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Far-reaching Scholarship (a few examples)
Drew Angus ’11, ISP Music Industry
>
Individual Scholar Showcase presentations:
• “New Models in the Music Industry: The Indie Artist Takeover”
Mentors: Prof. John Clemens (business), Dr. Diane Paige (music),
Dr. Betsy Ayer (art)
• “The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music: The Musical
Heritage of Hill Tribes in Northern Thailand” (built on his J Term
course in Thailand)
Mentors: Dr. Linda Swift (anthropology) and Dr. Diane Paige
(music)
Co-presenter / contributor:
• “Gender Differences in Leadership Characteristics, and Styles
between Females and Males in Higher Education”
Laura Gray ’11, ISP in Organizational Behavior and Management
Mentor: Dr. Ted Peters (business)
• “Independent Filmmaking: Showing the Story of ‘A View
of Burning Empires’”
Jared Jones ’11, ISP in Creativity and Production in the Arts
Mentors: Dr. Susan Navarette (English), Prof. Joe Von Stengel
(art)
• “Popular Music in the Schools”
Sean Degan ’11, Music Education
Mentor: Dr. Joe Abramo (music)
• “Digital Stop-Motion Animation Showcase”
Student cooperative project
Mentor: Prof. Joe Von Stengel (art)
Rebecca Hodder ’11, English
>
Honors Program, Honors Society
Individual Scholar Showcase presentations:
• “Another Teen Tragedy? Alternative Approaches to Teaching
Romeo and Juliet as Encountered at the Bard College Institute for
Writing and Thinking”
Mentors: Dr. Christine Potter (education), Dr. Kim Noling
(English)
• “Reading from Synthesis” a work of science fiction
Mentor: Prof. Brent DeLanoy (Part of “Off the Page: A Reading of
Student Creative Works”)
Prizes: 2011 Anna Sonder Prize of the Academy of American Poets
for Persephone’s Rebellion; 2011 Richard K. Meeker Award in English
(outstanding senior in the major, co-recipient); 2010 Freedman Prize
for “Bringing Shakespeare to Life: A Documentary”
Opening lines of Hodder’s prize-winning work:
Persephone’s Rebellion
Before I went walking in the meadow,
we fought over boys, clothes, the way
I wore my hair. I said I hated you
and kicked my way through the tall grasses,
scattering cicadas on both sides.
Webextra | Read her full poem: www.hartwick.edu/hodder
For her Senior Thesis project, Physics and
Math major Eileen Haffner ’11 built a pulse
jet engine. She used metal tubes (that she
welded herself), a shop vac, a propane tank,
and a spark plug. The engine runs when the
spark plug ignites the right mixture of air and
fuel (propane), “creating 100 small explosions
per second,” Haffner explains.
Haffner’s jet engine is based on a 1928
German design that powered the V-1 “buzz
bombs” used on London during World War II.
It is also very loud. The homemade engine is
four times more powerful than Haffner or her
advisor, Professor of Physics Larry Nienart,
first hypothesized. She concedes, however,
that its poor fuel consumption—about 1
pound of propane every 15 minutes—makes
it impractical. That’s the kind of problem
Haffner might solve in the future; she’s on her
way to Clarkson University to earn a master’s
degree in aeronautical engineering.
Webextra | Visit www.youtube.com/hartwickcollege for more Showcase Scholars.
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Geology major Andrew Parisi ’11 made two Showcase presentations: “Water Quality of the Upper Susquehanna River and the Pine Lake Area” with
mentors Professors Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad and David Griffing, and “Petrology of Andrew’s Point, Massachusetts” with mentor Professor Eric Johnson.
> “Mutt Medicine: Animal Assisted Therapy with the Elderly”—research into trained animals’ contributions to patients’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and/
or social functioning—was presented by Nursing students Lauren Weed ’11 and Lizzie Scholl ’12, who worked with mentor Professor Cynthia Ploutz.
> Freedman Prize winner Kelly Fayton ’13 presented “Designing Projections for Theatre: Lee Blessing’s ‘Two Rooms’ and The Lebanese Hostage Crisis.”
She worked with Theatre Technical Director Gary Burlew and is shown sharing her process with Trustee Rory Read ’83. > Mentor and Art History Professor
Doug Zullo worked with Freedman Prize winner Stephen Diehl ’14 as he studied correlations between Harold Pinter and Francis Bacon.
> The “Collaborative Teeny Tile Mosaic” is a show-stopper. In this ongoing Digital Fundamentals class project, students create images using the Sumo Paint
program, choose each other’s best to be printed on mosaic tiles, then combine them into one continually growing mosaic. The collaborative was presented
by Danielle Shaw ’11 with with mentor, digital artist, Art Professor Joe Von Stengel and class members on hand.
Noteworthy: An event of this magnitude, and magnificence, takes careful planning and great insight. The College community thanks Scholar Showcase Cochairs
David Griffing (Geology) and Stephanie Rozene (Art) for their leadership and the entire Scholar Showcase Committee for their many contributions.
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Worthy Scholarship, Widely Recognized
Opportunities for advanced inquiry abound at Hartwick. Students in all class years work with dedicated faculty advisors
who often also act more like professional mentors and intellectual partners. In just this spring semester and J Term 2011,
the following students were invited to present their work at academic and professional conferences.
>
Social and
Behavioral Science
2011 Eastern Psychological Association
Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
Dr. Justin Wellman, advisor to:
• Pema Sherpa ’12 and Colleen Lyons ’11
“Self-esteem feedback protects mood from
proximate sources of social ostracism”
Dr. KinHo Chan, faculty advisor to:
• Heather Daly ’11
“The effects of hippocampal lesions and
partial-reinforcement on subsequent secondorder
conditioning”
• Megan Shipman ’11
“Effects of hippocampal lesions depend on
length of inter-trial and trace intervals”
New York African Studies Association
Conference, Oneonta, NY
Dr. Connie Anderson, advisor to:
• Kristen Lawrence ’11
“The Relationship between Traditional and
Modern Medicine in Uganda”
>
Phi Alpha Theta is a national history honors
society that is nearly a century old. Professor
Emeritus Leonard Pudelka established
Hartwick’s Nu Theta chapter in 1968. The
society sponsors regional conferences, where
undergraduate and graduate students present
their research to panels of faculty judges.
National Conference on Undergraduate
Research, Ithaca, NY
Dr. Carlena Ficano, advisor to:
• Jordan Liz ’12
“The Effect of Technology on Development”
Also presented at the Eastern Economic
Association Annual Conference, NY
• Jamal Coverdale ’11
“Effect of State on Bar Examination
Outcome”
International Academic Conference
sponsored by The Clute Institute,
New Orleans, LA
Dr. Gregory Smith, advisor to:
• Katie Yorks ’12 and Michelle Conklin ’11
“Teaching and Working with Students with
Disabilities in Higher Education: A
Phenomenological Study”
NYS Foundations of Education
Association Meeting, Rochester, NY
Dr. Elizabeth Bloom, advisor to:
• Anne Louise Wagner ’13,
Eryn Niblick ’13, and Kate Villios ’14
“Hartwick Students’ Work and Learning
with Emerging Communities”
Pi Alpha Theta Regional History
Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY
Dr. Peter Wallace, advisor to:
• Suzy Rigdon ’11
“Historians vs. History: Gendering
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe”
• Lydia Dennett ’11
“A Woman’s Influence: Ann Boleyn’s Role
in the English Reformation”
• Greg Kopstein ’11
“The Incomplete Conquest: A Reassessment
of Roman Britain”
• Sarah Bliss ’14
“Voices of Italian Humanists”
• Robin Booty ’11
“Conceding Weakness to Lift the Burden of
Original Sin: A Woman’s Attempt to Free
Women from Eve’s Downfall”
• John Burns ’14
“Cesare Borgia: The Machiavellian Model”
A Mentor’s Perspective on Professional Review
Any student may present at the regional
history conference, but only members of Phi
Alpha Theta are eligible for prizes. Of our six
students presenting this year, the three who
were eligible won prizes and I received high
praise for the others’ work. I couldn’t have been
prouder of our students, who in two cases outperformed
graduate students from CUNY.
We require oral presentations from all of our
students, and what struck the judges about
our students was their poise as presenters
and in the question and answer segments.
Other students had fine papers but seemed
uncomfortable with the audience and
unfamiliar with handling questions. The papers
are submitted in advance, so the judges also had
time to assess the scholarship. Here again, our
department is committed to primary source
research—research based on contemporary
sources.
The host professors were particularly intrigued
with the sophisticated understanding of gender
constructs and the transgression of those
constructs in the papers presented by our
female students. It speaks to my colleagues’
commitment to exploring those issues
historically—mine, too.
I have worked at Hartwick for more than a
quarter century. Our model for teaching and
curricular expectations empowers our students
to make the most of their own education.
All they need from us is encouragement,
critical guidance, and just enough challenge—
personally pegged to each student—to help
them realize the most from their education and
to make them lifelong learners.
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Physical and
Life Sciences
217th American Astronomical Society
Meeting, Seattle, WA
Dr. Parker Troischt, advisor to:
• Catherine Weigel ’12 and
Michelle Brault ’11
“Group Membership and HI Sources in the
WBL 368 Galaxy Group”
Also presented by Catherine Weigel at the
Undergraduate ALFALFA Workshop,
Arecibo, PR.
American Astronomical Society National
Meeting, Boston, MA
Dr. Parker Troischt, advisor to:
• Isaac Hughes ’12
“HI Deficiency in Galaxy Group WBL
368”
• Catherine Weigel ’12 and
Michelle Brault ’11
“Dynamic Mass Estimates of Galacy Group
WBL 368 Galaxy Group”
241st American Chemical Society National
Meeting, Anaheim, CA
Dr. John Dudek, advisor to:
• Casey Konz ’13
“Quantification of Flavonoids in Local Beers
by High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC)”
Dr. Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, Dr. John
Dudek, advisors to:
• Kathleen Watson ’11
“Effect of Vegetation on Soil-Water
Chemistry at Pine Lake, NY”
Dr. Mark Erickson, advisor to:
• Cheryl Sturm ’11
“2-Furfuryl Alcohol as a Diene for Green
Diels-Alder Reactions”
Dr. Susan Young, advisor to:
• Robyn Smith ’12
“Ferrofluids: Expanding and Improving an
Inorganic Laboratory Experiment”
Eastern Nursing Research Conference,
Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Penny Boyer, advisor to:
• Anna Arnold ’11
“Improving the Health of Impoverished
Children”
2011 American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC
Dr. Andy Piefer, advisor to:
• Carson Pryde ’11
“Interaction of Epulopiscium Methyl
Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins with E. Coli
CheW and CheA”
• Brittanie Kemp ’11
“The Origin of Cardiomyocyte Stem Cells
in Heart Regeneration of Notophthalmus
viridescens”
• Sarah Holmes ’11
“Characterization of two iron-alcohol
dehydrogenases from Epulopiscium sp.
Type B”
• Kelly Meiser ’11
“Interaction Between Putative Epulopiscium
sp. Type B Chemotaxis Proteins”
By Peter Wallace,
Professor of History
Peter Wallace has been on
the Hartwick faculty since
1984. He earned his Ph.D.
in History from the University
of Oregon and in 2009-10
was named a Fellow of the
National Endowment for the
Humanities (NEH).
>
Arts and Humanities
The Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival 43, MA
Prof. Malissa Kano-White, advisor to:
• Lita Benson ’12 and Mark de Roziere ’13
“Angel Street” by Patrick Hamilton (acting
performance)
• Ashley Rombough ’10 (academic intern)
“Two Rooms” (production poster)
SUNY-Brockport Philosophy Conference, NY
Dr. Jeremy Wisnewski, advisor to:
• Jordan Liz ’12
“Right, Wrong or Neither? The Aristotelian
Response to Glaucon’s Challenge”
16th Annual SUNY-Oneonta Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference, NY
Dr. Stefanie Rocknak, faculty advisor to:
• Jordan Liz ’12
“Hume’s Double Relation of Ideas and Impressions”
Also presented at the Second Annual
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference,
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
• Alan Barton ’12
“Hermeneutic Dialogue: Hadot, Gadamer,
and the Figure of Socrates”
The People Who Dance at Night
(opening paragraph)
> a short story by Suzy Rigdon ’11, published in
The Albion Review Spring 2011
Brent DeLanoy, faculty advisor, English
The people who sit in a holding cell at 5:30 on a
Sunday morning are a strange bunch. There’s the old
homeless lady lying under the bench wearing a Dora
the Explorer tee shirt and sneakers that are duct-taped
together. The transient hooker stands in the corner,
red fishnets slightly torn near her almost crotch-less
pants. The drunken housewife sits on the middle of
the bench, blond-highlighted head firmly planted in
her freshly-manicured nails. She shakes it slowly and
groans. Then there’s the mismatched girl bouncing in
the corner, neon green fingernail forever twirling one
of her blond pig-tails. If she had a piece of gum she’d
be popping it. Her rainbow knee-high socks meet with
the same colored fishnets as the hooker, and her shorts
are almost as short. Her tank exposes her pierced navel,
which is home to a flashing disco ball ring. Each inch
of her arms are covered with those cheap beads you
can buy for twenty dollars a bucket or by bulk through
the mail. Her eyes are centered in a long blue rectangle
painted across the bridge of her nose, almost reaching
her ears. There’s a thin layer of glitter over her whole
body.
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Support Sends Scholars
Around the World
Fabulous experiences take funding.
International study is experiential
learning at its best, and a hallmark of a
Hartwick education. Yet study abroad,
and Hartwick’s signature J Term program,
is out of reach for too many students.
Thanks to the generosity of a few prescient
donors, some international experiences are
funded with endowed scholarships. The
Duffy Family Ambassador Scholarships,
established in 1999 by former Trustee
John H’00 and Anne Duffy P’91,
P’95, support educational travel abroad
for in-depth, one-on-one experiences.
The Emerson Foundation International
Internship recipients appreciate the
opportunities they have to build their
expertise and understanding while
increasing their post-graduate options.
This year’s Duffy and Emerson Scholarship recipients call their experiences “life-changing,”“amazing,”
“powerful,” “an immersion,” “inspiring,” “engaging,” and so much more.
For Kim Negrich ’11, walking across
the Baltic Sea was just one of many
previously unimaginable experiences
she had during her Emerson
Scholarship studies.
This year, Emerson Scholarships sent:
Kim Negrich ’11 to the NanoGeoScience Center at
>
the University of Copenhagen. She conducted research
with Hartwick Geology and Chemistry professor,
Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, who is in Denmark on a
Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship. Negrich studied the
interactions of microbes and various minerals in rhizospheric
biofilms. She worked independently, was treated as a professional,
and shared an office with a Ph.D. candidate and a post-doc.
Chelsea Donovan ’11 to Ireland as an intern for the
>
Oideas Gael Festival, where she learned about non-profit
and event management. A Music Education major and
accomplished violinist and fiddler, Donovan’s experience built
on her J Term course in Ireland with Professor of Sociology Reid
Golden.
Elizabeth Barr ’11 to Thailand and the Akha Medical Clinic
>
to study the nutritional and developmental health needs of the
children in Thapo and Paji. The experience developed into her
Scholar Showcase presentation, “The Effects of Iron Deficiency
and Growth Stunting on Cognitive and Motor Development.”
Jayson Sherman ’11 to the Machu Picchu Spanish School in
>
Cuzco, Peru. He worked with the children at the Adolfo Guevara
Velazco hospital as a teacher, tutor, and mentor. Sherman
says, “I will never forget my friends and the lessons of life learned
by experiencing a world full of new cultures.”
Erika Gates ’12 to Chaing Mai to work with children in
>
the Cultural Canvas Thailand program. She designed lesson plans
and traveled to different orphanages, schools, and homes. “I
worked with Boomrat, a 7 year old orphan with cerebral palsy,” she
says. “Throughout the month with him I realized that this is
exactly what I want to be doing with my life.”
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“I never thought that
I could understand
something that I don’t
agree with.”
—Krista Charner ’11
This year, Duffy Family Ambassador Scholarships sent:
John Bruce ’11, a rising forensic anthropologist, to the Raymond A. Dart Collection of
>
Human Skeletons, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He studied indicators of
interpersonal violence among the specimens. When presenting during Scholar Showcase,
Bruce said,“Some of what I saw was shocking, some was sad. I worked on a skull, then put it
back in a box. It was a human once, and I wanted to give it more time, but I had a job to do.”
>
Joe Marchwinski ’11 to London, The National Archives, and the Imperial War
Museum to work with primary research materials in his study of Britain’s role in the fall of
France in World War II. One highlight: touching papers that great men of history had handled,
including “a Latin manuscript from 12th century that had been handled by Henry II of
England—one of the greatest kings of all time,” he says, and, “holding a document signed by
Winston Churchill—that was a powerful moment.” Marchwinski is a John Christopher
Hartwick Scholar.
David Osokow ’12 to Colombia to study the life and death of his ancestor, Jorge
>
Eliecer Gaitan Ayala, whose assassination was a leading cause in sparking the 1940’s La
Violencia in Colombia. In January 2012, Osokow plans to return to Colombia, continue to
Ecuador and Peru, and perhaps travel down the Amazon.
Krista Charner ’11 to live with the people of Mumana Lupando, Zambia, where she
>
studied the suppression of women in that culture. “A man came to describe it to me and in the
context of their culture it made sense,” Charner says. “I never thought that I could understand
something that I don’t agree with.” Charner was hosted by Nicole Barren ’08, a former
Emerson Scholar who is working in the Peace Corps there. •
For more in-depth student
personal accounts, visit
www.hartwickexperience.com
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Breakthrough
By Gregory W. Smith,
Assistant Professor of Education
A Life’s Work,
Greg Smith earned his Ph.D. from Clemson
University and joined the Hartwick faculty in
2010. His research interests include learning
disabilities, behavioral disorders, and autism.
Close to Home
Prologue
“Your son has autism.” Her words hung in the air just long enough
for me to comprehend. Then they fell.
It was four years ago that the educational psychologist presented my
wife and me with her diagnosis: our son has autism. Suddenly, it was
silent and everything moved in slow motion. Then, on impact, my gut
dropped and reality set in. Yet at that moment, I also truly understood
the word “surreal.”
I have been working with individuals with disabilities since I was
12 and volunteered at a camp for individuals with cerebral palsy.
Throughout college, I worked at an Easter Seals camp. After college,
I taught special education for 10 years in the public school system of
New Jersey. I have earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in special education.
But the game changes significantly when one of the players is your
own child.
Context
Two physicians working independently, Leo Kanner (1943) and Hans
Asperger (1944), published the seminal work in the field of autism. Both
described a unique group of children who displayed unusual behaviors
that made them qualitatively different from other children. Kanner and
Asperger began to identify similar and very specific characteristics (a
delay in the acquisition of speech and language, social awkwardness, a
difficulty in understanding nonverbal social cues, a restricted range of
interests, and an obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness), as
occurring in a certain group of individuals. Each used the term autistic
to describe such individuals. Autism (from the Greek word autos,
meaning self), is a complex neurobiological disorder that is part of a
group of five disorders together known as Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD). Hallahan, Kauffman, and Pullen (2009) cite the differentiating
characteristics among the five ASD categories:
(1) Autism-deficits in social interaction, communication, cognition,
repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior; some have abnormal
sensory perceptions. Usually manifests before three years of age.
(2) Asperger syndrome-deficits similar to those who have autism,
but to a milder degree, and without significant impairments in
cognition and language. Social interaction (often due to difficulties in
communication and reading social cues) is often the biggest challenge
of those with Asperger syndrome.
(3) Rett syndrome-normal development for five months to four years,
followed by a severe regression of cognitive abilities, resulting in
mental retardation; much more prevalent in females.
(4) Childhood disintegrative disorder-normal development for at least
two and up to 10 years, followed by significant loss of cognitive skills;
much more prevalent in males.
(5) Pervasive developmental disorder/not otherwise specifi ed-persons who
display behaviors typical of autism but to a lesser degree and/or with
an onset later than three years of age.
Prevalence
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(2011), Autism Spectrum Disorders affect approximately one out of
every 110 children in the U.S. In 1980, one in 10,000 children living in
the U.S. was diagnosed with ASD. Alarmingly, more than 35,000 of the
children born in the U.S. in 2010 alone will eventually be diagnosed with
ASD.
Why such a dramatic rise over the course of just 30 years? The consensus
among professionals in medicine, psychology, and education attribute
the increase to three main occurrences: (1) broader diagnostic criteria,
(2) greater awareness among parents and professionals, and (3) improved
case-finding methods. Regardless of the reason for the increase in
prevalence, and given the chronic and pervasive nature of ASD, there is
an imperative need for effective treatments.
The Law and Special Education
In 1975, the United States Congress enacted Public Law 94-142, the
Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Since then, the act has
gone through several “reauthorizations,” and today is most commonly
referred to as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA.
Autism Spectrum Disorders is one of the 13 disability categories
specified in the IDEA that enables students, birth through the age of
18 or 21, to receive special education services (e.g. early intervention,
accommodations, modifications, speech language therapy, occupational
therapy, physical therapy, etc.) in and out of school. In addition, the
U.S. Federal Government has passed Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990,
guaranteeing inalienable rights and freedoms to individuals with
disabilities by prohibiting discrimination based on disability. Section
504 and the ADA also enable individuals with disabilities to secure
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Professor Greg Smith and his son, Drew, see the world together, including Dublin and Kilkenny, Ireland, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
accommodations and modifications in postsecondary educational
settings.
Transition to Postsecondary Education
Families and professionals in secondary and postsecondary school
settings need to address the most pressing questions together. When
contemplating entrance into college, individuals with ASD (and their
families) are faced with numerous questions of uncertainty: (1) What are
the specific barriers, (2) What are the best ways to prepare for college,
and (3) How do you decide if and when an individual is ready? Due to the
inherent differences in academic and social abilities of individuals with
ASD, no one answer will apply to every individual.
Regardless of the degree of difference in academic and social ability,
postsecondary settings should offer individuals with ASD services in
scheduling, time management, academic coursework, choice making, and
social interaction. For individuals with ASD (and their families), the main
challenge becomes locating postsecondary settings that offer the services
required for academic and social success.
What becomes difficult for many individuals with ASD, and for their
parents, is the issue of advocacy. Throughout elementary, middle, and
high school, the school serves as the student’s advocate (as mandated
by the IDEA) in securing special education services. In postsecondary
educational settings, when the IDEA is no longer legally binding, it
is up to the individual to act as his or her own advocate to receive the
accommodations and modifications guaranteed by law. Additionally,
the transition to postsecondary school for individuals with ASD is
particularly challenging because of their unique characteristics, the
lack of services that address the special needs of such individuals in
adulthood, and the expectations of society for a typical path to academic
success in the face of atypical development. Individuals with ASD are
often academically qualified to attend higher-education institutions, but
lack the necessary social skills to ensure academic and personal success.
Understanding ASD, and the particular challenges faced by students with
the disorder, is necessary for colleges to meet the unique needs of this
academically qualified population.
Special Education Certifi cation
Hartwick students in the special education certification program are
being prepared to help address the most pressing challenges faced by
individuals with ASD and their families. They pursue coursework,
classroom teaching opportunities with individuals with special needs, and
volunteer opportunities in school-wide and community programs.
Hartwick’s Education Program offers extensive service learning and
student teaching components. Every Education student logs more than
120 hours of service learning and 420-450 practicum hours of student
teaching, including a required international or urban placement.
As of 2010, students in our teacher education program can work toward
New York State Teacher Certification in Special Education. Students
major in an academic area while working to complete all of the necessary
courses for the special education certification. Additionally, students have
the option to pursue dual certification in several areas.
Epilogue
As I sat down to write this piece on autism, I was flooded with emotions.
Should I make it personal, or just informative? Should I address personal
questions, such as those my wife and I are just now beginning to
contemplate: When do I tell my son that he has autism? When do we
tell our daughter that her brother has autism? What’s the best way to go
about doing this?
I have had the unique and wonderful opportunity to view the world of
special education through the lens of a teacher, a scholar, and a parent.
As a scholar, I have been trained to focus on statistical significance, but
as a parent, I am more concerned with personal significance. I just want
to know what will work with my son. We live in Oneonta, not in an Ivory
Tower.
To the parents of children with disabilities: I understand your
frustrations, I know your pain, and I share your pride. •
Webextra | For annotations and further resources,
please refer to Professor Smith’s paper online at www.hartwick.edu.
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Generosity
PORTRAIT IN PHILANTHROPY:
David Long ’83 and
Stephanie Isgur Long ’84
By Elizabeth Steele | Elizabeth Steele is a professional writer and partner of President Margaret L. Drugovich.
Lives Well Lived
It takes more than a yardstick, a calendar, or a stock return to measure a life. Consider Stephanie Isgur Long ’84 and
David Long ’83. The common gauges of professional achievement and personal resources prove their success. Yet there
is so much more to this power couple than numbers can express. The qualities that defy appraisal—generosity, insight,
and attention, to name a few—are the very features that define who they are.
Professional Assessment
Their worth could certainly be weighed by
promotions. David was recently elected Chief
Executive Officer of Liberty Mutual Group,
one of the world’s largest insurance enterprises
and a Fortune 100 firm with $33.2 billion
in revenues and $1.7 billion in net income
(2010). This recognition follows quickly on his
appointment as president and member of the
board of directors of Liberty Mutual Group
in 2010, president of Liberty International in
2009, executive vice president and president
of Liberty Mutual’s Commercial Markets in
2005.
The fast pace suits him. “New challenges keep
me engaged,” David explains. “Finding the
right environment can prepare you well to
compete with anyone, in any field. This was
true for me at Hartwick and remains so today.
Our company is very complex so I have been
challenged yet I have also always felt valued.”
David joined Liberty Mutual in 1985 as
a financial analyst soon after earning his
Hartwick degree magna cum laude with a
major in Mathematics. His status as a John
Christopher Hartwick Scholar proved to
be a harbinger of achievements to come. He
continued his studies at Boston College,
graduating first in his class with a master’s in
finance.
Stephanie specialized in interpersonal relations
as a Psychology major at Hartwick. A minor in
Women’s Studies brought her together with
the woman who became her favorite professor
—Winifred “Win” Wandersee, now
deceased, was Professor of History, Chair of
the Faculty, and a nationally-recognized expert
on the history of women in the workforce.
Stephanie says those studies “gave me an edge”
when she built the archives collection of the
Dana Hall School, outside of Boston. After 18
years on the job, she left the position a few years
ago to concentrate on family needs, and this
year started an innovative upholstery fabric and
wallpaper business with a designer friend.
Value Beyond Measure
Their intellectual energy springs from
David and Stephanie’s keen, well-educated
minds. Their full lives grow from a profound
partnership rooted in a strong marriage. Their
joy flows from parenting two beautiful children.
And their tenacity has stemmed from necessity
as they raise a child with a disability.
Daughter Hayley is now in college, son Oliver
in high school. He is a high-functioning young
man with autism.
“There isn’t anything I don’t know about
autism,” Stephanie says. “Like many parents,
I have had to become an expert in my child’s
health.” Researching the disorder, studying
related issues, and evaluating progress in the
field have essentially become her life’s work.
For more than 10 years, Stephanie and
David have been involved in YouthCare
at Massachusetts General Hospital, a
therapeutically-based initiative that helps
children and young adults with autism
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“Every fall, no matter where I am, I think of Hartwick and the beauty of
the campus,” says Stephanie Long, who will enjoy the real thing when
she and David return for Homecoming & Reunion Weekend 2011.
spectrum disorders to develop social skills.
Their intention, Stephanie says, is to “grow
such programming through the life cycle, so
that high-functioning people with autism can
go to college, can have a life.”
Extended Reach
Prepared to meet the challenges of autism
head-on, and eager to help others well beyond
their own family, the Longs turned to their
alma mater and President Margaret L.
Drugovich.
“Margaret suggested that we could bring
our priorities together and do something
important at Hartwick,” David explains.
“We want to serve high-functioning kids and
help to prepare special education teachers.
We want to support that interest of ours and
Hartwick at same time.”
This determination sparked the couple’s most
recent, and to date largest, gift to Hartwick.
“We made this commitment because
Margaret’s idea excited us,” Stephanie says.
“We know what we do here will matter.”
The Longs are dogged problem solvers who
expect strong collaborators. David likes
President Drugovich’s “clear vision, definite
plans, and follow through.” Stephanie
appreciates that “she’s open and a good
communicator.” Together, the three make a
powerful team working for Hartwick and,
now, for its special education program and for
college-ready students of all sorts.
“Hartwick gave me opportunities that I
ordinarily wouldn’t have had,” David recalls,
noting that he attended on a scholarship and
citing his work with the College’s “terrific”
Math professors. “At Hartwick, the focus
is on having confidence in your abilities,
not comparing yourself to others. I enjoyed
a complete education, a combination of
academics, competition, and confidence
building.”
Personal Satisfaction
Their Hartwick experience brought the
Longs countless gifts, including an extended
network of friends and family. “Hartwick was
a really positive experience for us when we
were kids,” Stephanie recalls. Their extended
family includes his brother Stephen Long
’79, a member of the 1977 Men’s Soccer
Championship Team that will be inducted into
the Athletic Hall of Fame; David’s godson,
William Heydari ’14; and so many friends,
including retired men’s soccer Head Coach
Jim Lennox.
Stephanie and David’s Hartwick life spans
the years and crosses the generations. Their
fondness for and gratitude to their college
inspires their philanthropy. As they invest,
they look forward.
“We have seen a lot of positive change at
Hartwick in recent years,” says David, who
just completed his third term on the Board
of Trustees. “The leadership at the College
gives us a lot of comfort that we can make a
difference. I am unequivocally positive about
Hartwick College in the future.” •
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Field Notes
Work, Play, Peace:
The Place that is
Pine Lake
By Christopher Lott | Chris Lott is the College’s Associate Writer
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Above: Archeology students use a water sifter to search for artifacts at Pine Lake.
Left: Philip Gross ’12 discusses his work on the archaeological dig at Hartwick’s
Pine Lake Campus with President Margaret L. Drugovich.
Pine Lake Environmental
Campus has been a
cornerstone of a Hartwick
education for 40 years.
From scientific field
work to courses such as
The Architecture of the
Sacred, students have
flocked to the unique site
a few miles from Oyaron
Hill to complete classes
and theses that will help
to define their time as
Hartwick students.
For many, Harwtick’s Pine Lake
Environmental Campus is a place to catch their
breath, to realize a deep connection with the
natural world, to dissolve life’s daily stresses.
For many others, it is a place where critical
scholarly work takes place every day.
“One of the beauties of Pine Lake is that it
offers a unique interdisciplinary experiential
framework for a Hartwick education,” explains
Brian Hagenbuch, Director of the Pine Lake
Institute for Environmental and Sustainability
Studies. “The essence of Pine Lake for
scholarship is the place, and its uniqueness.”
That distinctive place now includes 22
buildings, with residential living options for
35 Hartwick students, plus classrooms, the
Robert R. Smith Environmental Field Station,
the Vaudevillian theatre, picnic pavilion, and a
ropes course on the 125-acre lower tract.
Hartwick’s Pine Lake Environmental Campus
abuts a 217-acre New York State Forest
Preserve and the 2,000-acre Robert V. Riddell
State Park (820 acres was the Upper Tract of
Pine Lake, which Hartwick sold to the state in
2009; the sale included 20 acres donated to
Hartwick by alumni grandparents Pauline ’40
and Herbert Hebbard). In total, Hartwick
students and faculty access more than 2,000
acres of protected wilderness to study.
And study they do. Pine Lake is home to many
courses in biology, chemistry, geology and
environmental studies. But the site is much
more than a thriving, living laboratory for
the sciences. Faculty in English, history, art,
religious studies, archaeology, and nursing
regularly utilize Pine Lake’s natural setting as
an indispensable element of their courses.
Lecturer in English Alice Lichtenstein,
a published novelist, has taught fiction and
memoir-writing classes at Pine Lake for years.
Her students are captivated and inspired by the
opportunity to work in such surroundings.
“Pine Lake’s meditative atmosphere is perfect
for a writing course,” she explains. “We
sometimes take silent hikes to the bog, and
we use that silence for honing our powers of
observation. We take the time to do some
basic yoga and breathing meditation—things
you wouldn’t ordinarily do in an academic
environment.
“Often my students describe the intensive
course as a retreat,” Lichtenstein continues.
“For some of them this is the first time in their
“It’s unusual for a school of our size to have a facility like this. For my students to do
actual field research, Pine Lake is invaluable.”
—Associate Professor of Biology Mark Kuhlmann
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In Retrospect: Forty years of work, play, and peace at Hartwick’s Pine Lake Campus.
lives they’ve been allowed to quiet their minds
and focus on an exploration of themselves, and
their writing.”
Associate Professor of Biology Mark
Kuhlmann and his students use the space in a
very different way. They have been investigating
an invasive species known as the rusty crayfish
for several years, examining its effects on
native crayfish species, as well as on the
macroinvertebrates (typically insect larvae) on
which it feeds.
“It’s unusual for a school of our size to have
a facility like this,” Kuhlmann says. “For my
students to do actual field research, Pine Lake is
invaluable. They can get that kind of experience
here because Pine Lake is not just a research
center, it is a multi-purpose facility.”
For Tiernan Sykes Close ’96, the lessons
she took from Pine Lake had a direct impact
on her life and career. Until recently, she
taught religion at The Pennington School in
New Jersey—work that was buttressed by her
experiences at Pine Lake.
Close worked with the Challenge Education
staff at Pine Lake when she was a Hartwick
student. Leading her peers on ropes course
excursions helped remove her timid shell, she
says, and made the transition to her career and
motherhood much smoother.
As a member of the 2009-10 President’s Pine
Lake Taskforce—chartered to examine the
current and future uses of Pine Lake—Close
focused her attention on ways to strengthen
scholarship at Pine Lake, and to ensure it is
an integral part of every Hartwick student’s
experience.
“Scholarship at Pine Lake is so important,” says
this Religious Studies graduate. “It’s all about
helping the students understand how important
it is to work out there in a hands-on kind of way.
My goal [as a taskforce member] was to make
sure every student gets to experience Pine Lake
at least once in his or her lifetime.”
Just as Close feels experiential learning at
Pine Lake is critical for today’s Hartwick
students, a cadre of forward-thinking faculty
members proposed a course titled Man and
the Environment in 1969. This small project
developed into what has become a distinctive
feature of the Hartwick College experience.
“We were talking about the upcoming
December term, and agreed we wanted to take
the students out on some sort of wilderness
experience,” recalls Professor Emeritus of
Geology David “Hutch” Hutchison.
“Somebody had a map of the greater Oneonta
area, and said, ‘There’s this area about
eight miles east of Oneonta with no roads.’
Somebody else said, ‘That’s part of the private
summer resort called Pine Lake,’ and a third
person said, ‘I heard it’s for sale.’
“So three or so of us grabbed President
Adolph Anderson and Kurt Neunzig—
whose father had bought Pine Lake in 1926—
took us around in his Jeep. We went all over the
800-plus acres, and when we got out of the Jeep
President Anderson said, ‘We should buy this.’”
With the assent of the Board of Trustees,
Anderson struck a favorable deal to purchase
the property. Neunzig was anxious for Pine
Lake to be preserved, and was happy to transfer
the distinctive site to the College, Hutchison
recalls.
Some 40 years later, Pine Lake is used
for relaxation, recreation, meditation, and
scholarship in ways that make Hartwick unique
among small liberal arts colleges.
“Provost Michael Tannenbaum and I have
researched other schools and we can’t find
anything similar at another liberal arts college,”
says Hagenbuch. “Some other schools have
a separate field station that is owned by the
sciences. Pine Lake is owned by every Hartwick
discipline; all of our faculty and students have
the capacity to use it.”
Andrew Parisi ’11, for instance, studied
“Water Quality of the Upper Susquehanna
River and the Pine Lake Area” with mentors
Associate Professor of Geology and
Environmental Sciences David Griffing and
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Zsuzsanna
Balogh-Brunstad.
“Pine Lake is isolated, meaning it does not
have to deal with as many people or so much
pollution, so it makes the lake good to compare
to the river,” Parisi explains. “Every two
weeks during the summer I went along the
Susquehanna River between Cooperstown
and Unadilla and sampled water with clean
bottles, and then came back to Pine Lake to get
the last few samples. We filtered the water and
tested it for pollution, such as heavy metals and
fertilizer. In the end, we found that the river is
really clean, almost all of the pollution can be
traced to the bedrock that Otsego Lake rests
on.”
For Katie Watson ’11, Pine Lake campus was
central to her Senior Thesis and, ultimately, to
acceptance at her top-choice graduate school.
Under the guidance of mentors Balogh-
Brunstad and Assistant Professor of Chemistry
John Dudek, she studied the “Effect of
Vegetation on Soil-water Chemistry at Pine
Lake,” taking samples from both conifers
and deciduous trees at nearby locations to
determine ion concentrations and test for
nutrients like calcium, magnesium, sodium and
potassium, nitrate, sulfate, and chloride.
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“The essence
of Pine Lake for
scholarship is the place,
and its uniqueness.”
—Brian Hagenbuch,
Director of the Pine Lake Institute
for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
“We found that there were lower
concentrations of every ion that we looked at
under the deciduous trees,” she explains. “That
suggests that deciduous trees have higher
nutrient demands, because of their life cycle of
losing leaves every year. This impacts things
like forest management. If you were cutting a
road through a forest, the kinds of trees you cut
would impact your decision. We found that the
soil water under the deciduous trees was more
acidic, so if you were replanting a forest you
would want to take that into account. Since acid
rain is making the soil more acidic, you might
not want trees that are also making the soil even
more so.”
Watson and Parisi were part of the
Environmental Science & Policy Pine Lake
Scholar program (ES&P), a grant-funded effort
coordinated by the Pine Lake Institute that
provides opportunities for ES&P students to
support their research. Through the program’s
funding, Watson and Parisi were able to live
at Pine Lake during the summer of 2010 and
conduct their intensive research close to home.
Watson took those findings to the Geological
Society of America meeting in Anaheim, CA,
this spring, presenting her work to nearly
20,000 scientists. This fall she will enroll
at the University of South Florida to study
chemical oceanography. There she will sample
the sand on the floor of the Gulf Coast to study
the impact of the disastrous oil spill of 2010.
“I don’t know what my thesis would have been
if not for Pine Lake,” Watson says. “It’s been a
really big project for me, and such an important
part of my learning and my academic career at
Hartwick. People at grad schools have been so
impressed with my research.”
Although Watson’s research is exceptional, it is
not the exception.
“What we offer at Pine Lake is a chance for
our students to work locally and then take that
knowledge, that learning, and that experience
with them wherever they go,” Hagenbuch says.
“They’re going to answer big questions. Where
am I going to live? What am I going to do?
“I don’t know what my thesis would have been if not for Pine Lake.
It’s been a really big project for me, and such an important part of
my learning and my academic career at Hartwick. People at grad
schools have been so impressed with my research.”
—Katie Watson ’11
How am I going to relate to the human and
natural world? This is what we do at Pine Lake.”
Fred Stoss ’72, Biology and Environmental
Sciences Librarian at the University of Buffalo,
has long been a champion of the transformative
effect of Pine Lake.
“The Pine Lake Institute for Environmental
and Sustainability Studies has evolved from a
cluster of buildings in a field to an educational
incubator for a cross-disciplinary dialog about
life and living,” he says. “Pine Lake is a facility
for teaching, entertaining, and housing. Pine
Lake is a classroom, laboratory, and field station
for learning. Pine Lake provides a setting for
explorations from the riches of its natural
resources, to the contemplative richness found
in its solitude.”
The history of respect for Pine Lake’s natural
elements means that solitude is not just
allowed, but honored.
“Pine Lake is a place where natural beauty
has always been respected,” Lichtenstein
reflects. “There’s a history going back before
its Vaudeville days of people retreating to this
place, where they left stress behind and felt
very safe. Pine Lake has an atmosphere of both
peacefulness and a sacred quality, but it is also
infused with a spirit of fun.”
That sense of peaceful fun is apparent to even
the youngest Pine Lake enthusiasts.
“Last summer we brought our three kids to
Pine Lake for the first time,” recalls Close. “Our
seven-year old son, Maxwell, said, ‘This is the
greatest place I’ve ever been!’ I could hear him
pretending he was going on a bear hunt all the
way around the lake.”
Beyond its capacity to house students and
provide a cool swimming hole on hot summer
days, Pine Lake offers an opportunity for
Hartwick students to dig deeper into their
work, and themselves.
“You can live here and play here,” says
Hagenbuch, “but you can also probe the bigger
questions, whether it’s water chemistry’s impact
on different species of trees or existential
questions, like those posed by Thoreau. Pine
Lake plays host to all those disciplines; it plays
host very well.” •
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Athletics
Charlotte Mensink ’12
298 Wins for ’Wick in 10th Season
Water Polo registered its 10th straight season with at least 25 wins on its
way to the 2011 Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Eastern
Championships. Over the course of the season, the Hawks registered a
16-game win streak, the second highest string in program history. ’Wick
now has amassed 298 victories since the NCAA began sanctioning a
championship tournament in 2001— second in all of Division I women’s
water polo.
’Wick earned the No. 2 seed in Eastern Championships held at Indiana
University. After disposing of Bucknell in the opening round 16-7,
the Hawks fell a goal short in the semifinals to the host Hoosiers, and
wrapped-up the season with a 26-11 mark.
After garnering CWPA Western Division Player of the Year honors,
Charlotte Mensink ’12, was named the Eastern Championship Rookie
of the Tournament and was a First Team all-star. She ended the year as
Hartwick’s top scorer with 65 goals and 114 points and paced the team
in steals with 93. Jess Dorman ’11 garnered CWPA Western Division
First Team honors and was named to the Eastern Championship Second
Team. She was a four-time all-conference selection and finished her career
as the Hawks’ all-time leader in saves with 1,429. Shannon Leonard ’12
and Lisa Bass ’12 also were honored this season. Leonard was named to
the Western Division and Eastern Championship Second Teams. She led
Hartwick in assists (70) and was second in points (107) and steals (73).
Bass joined Leonard on the Western Division second unit after notching
59 goals and 43 assists for 102 points.
Five Hartwick graduates and one current player are competing in water
polo’s 2011 Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) World
Championships in Shanghai, China, this summer. Sophie Smith ’05
and Bronwen Knox ’08 are on the Australian National Team, Barbara
Amaro ’09 and Marina Zablith ’10 are suiting up for Brazil, and
Kirsten Hudson ’10 is playing for her native New Zealand. Jemma
Dendy Young ’14 is competing for South Africa. First-year assistant
coach Ryan Castle is coaching the Kazakhstan national women’s team at
the World Championships.
Webextra | For more athletics news, visit www.hartwickhawks.com
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Men’s Lacrosse: The Hawks won
three of their final four regular-season
games to finish 8-8 and earn entry into
the Eastern College Athletic Conference
Division III Tournament. In its first
visit since 2005, the team fell in the
tournament’s championship game after
downing Morrisville State and Marywood
University. Dave Aitchison ’11 and Alex
Skvarch ’11 were named to the Empire 8
Conference Second Team.
Men’s Tennis: The men
faced a spring of cancellations and
postponements thanks to uncooperative
weather, closing the season with a 2-8
record. The Hawks secured wins over
Cobleskill and Utica College. Marcelo
Navarro ’12 and Jeff Boyd ’12 were
recognized by the Empire 8 Conference
for the third straight season. Together,
they’ve tallied 49 singles wins.
Women’s Lacrosse: The women
capped the season with two wins to finish
7-8 overall. They started the season with
a 5-1 record for just the fourth time since
the program’s inception in 1967. Brittany
LaVaute ’12, Brittany McCabe ’14, and
Morgan Galipeau ’14 received honorable
mentions from Empire 8.
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Alumni News
What It Takes to Be a Super Fan
Calvin W. Chase ’71
Team: Hartwick Men’s DI Soccer
Position: Chief Cheerleader
Cal Chase’s years of dedication to the Men’s DI Soccer program, the
College and the Oneonta community were recognized this year when he was
honored as the 2011 Citizen of the Year at the Hartwick College Citizens
Board Gala in June.
Years with the Team: Chase arrived at Hartwick in 1967, the same year
coach Al Miller took the Men’s Soccer program national. That year, his
rookie season as Chief Cheerleader, the team went undefeated. They went
on to only greater success during his time on Oyaron Hill. His sophomore
and junior years they earned berths in the NCAA tournament and his senior
year (1970/71), the team made their first appearance in the NCAA Final
Four. In his 44 years with the team, Chase has been an integral part of one of
the most storied soccer programs in the country.
Matches Attended: Until being diagnosed with cancer last year, Chase
had not missed a Men’s Soccer home game in 35 years. Between 2002
and 2009, Chase attended 137 out of 138 matches played. His record
would have been perfect had he opted to attend a game rather than take his
daughter to her college move-in day!
Cal Chase (center) with his wife, Kathy, and family members at the
2011 Citizens Board Gala this year.
Being a Mentor: Chase’s commitment to Men’s DI Soccer runs deep. He
is more than a fan: he is part of what makes Hartwick Soccer unique. His
years of dedication to the team have given him the unique ability to mentor
players about what it truly means to play for Hartwick and the caliber of
men that have come before them. In fact, the day before he went in for cancer
surgery, he made a special trip to campus to join the players for training
camp. He wanted to be sure that each of them understood that he wouldn’t
be around as much as usual, but that it wasn’t because he had lost faith in
them or interest in the program.
Going Above and Beyond
• He has driven non-stop from Oneonta to Milwaukee, WI, Bloomington,
IN, and Winston-Salem, NC, to attend matches
• The first time Cal flew was because he couldn’t drive from Oneonta to
Seattle, WA, and make the match on time.
• When attending away games, Cal makes it a point to sit in the opposing
team’s section to educate their fans about Hartwick College and the Men’s
Soccer Program.
• He used to use his vacation time to attend training camp.
Why?: “I’ve always seen this program as a little school competing against
giants. Bigger doesn’t always mean better,” he says.
Cal Chase with Craig Potter ’06 holding the Mayor’s Cup.
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Spotlight on Soccer: Hall of Fame Inductions at Homecoming
The Athletic Hall of Fame will induct the entire 1977 National Champion Men’s Soccer
team, stand-out player Duncan Macdonald ’78, super fan Cal Chase ’71, and sports
photographer Ed Clough ’60 in a special ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, October
1 during Homecoming & Reunion Weekend. Be there as we honor one of the greatest
squads in Hartwick athletics.
Celebrate the Glory Days!
The 1977 Men’s Soccer team is the most storied squad
in the long history of Hartwick Athletics. They overcame
San Francisco 2-1 to claim the national title, putting an
exclamation mark on an undefeated 16-0-2 season, and
electrifying fans all over world.
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2011
HOMECOMING
& REUNION
September 30-
October 2
Class years ending in 1 and 6 will
celebrate five-year reunions this year.
SCHEDULED HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY
12-5:30 p.m.
20th Annual WAA Hartwick Golf Classic
Leatherstocking Golf Course, Cooperstown
4:30-7:30 p.m.
50 Year Reunion and 50 Year Club Induction
Celebration. Class of 1961 and earlier.
Stack Lounge, Dewar Hall
5-8 p.m. | NEW
Reunion Class Banquet
Five year reunion classes ending in 1 & 6
Grand Ballroom, Holiday Inn
5-10 p.m.
Homecoming & Reunion Weekend
Welcome Reception
Hospitality Tent, Elmore Field
7 p.m.
Men’s Soccer vs. Florida Atlantic
Elmore Field
SATURDAY
8-9:30 a.m.
50 Year Club Breakfast
Shineman Chapel House
9:30-11 a.m. | NEW
Recognition & Awards Champagne Breakfast
Foreman Gallery, Anderson Center for the Arts
• Forrest “Frosty” M. Landon ’55,
Distinguished Alumnus Award
• Catherine A. Paolucci ’02,
Outstanding Young Alumna Award
• Anthony B. Santo ’74,
Outstanding Volunteer Award
• Karyl Clemens, Meritorious Service Award
• John Adler ’51, Don & Diane Brown Award
10:30-11:15 a.m. | NEW
Career Networking Meet and Greet Reception
Wandersee Room, 3rd Floor
Golisano Hall
11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Brooks’ BBQ Lunch
Frisbee Field
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Conversation with President Margaret L.
Drugovich
Room 103, Golisano Hall
2 p.m.
Football vs. Ithaca
Wright Stadium
5:30-9:30 p.m.
Athletics Hall of Fame Inductions
5:30-10 p.m. | NEW
Taste of Oneonta
Frisbee Field
~ PLUS Alumni College Classes and Donor
Appreciation Receptions ~
SUNDAY
9-10 a.m.
Memorial Gathering
Shineman Chapel House
Throughout H&R Weekend: Stories from the
Hart in The Yager Museum of Art & Culture.
Webextra | For a full list of Homecoming events, visit www.hartwickalumni.org/hr2011
Alumni EVENTS
Events and activities sponsored
by the Office of Alumni Relations,
the Alumni Association, and your
regional alumni network help you
stay connected to Hartwick. To get
involved with regional networks,
contact Duncan Macdonald ’78 at
macdonaldd@hartwick.edu or
607-431-4032. To RSVP to the
following events, visit The Wall at
www.hartwickalumni.org, e-mail
guarriac@hartwick.edu, or call
607-431-4064.
Alumni Events
Hartwick Seminary, NY
September TBA
Seminary reunion at
Evangelical Lutheran
Church, Route 28
Boston, MA | September 20
Red Sox vs. Orioles
President Calls for Nominees
The President’s Award for Liberal Arts in Practice
Hartwick College is seeking nominations for the President’s
Award for Liberal Arts in Practice (see page 3). The award
recognizes outstanding alumni who extend the values that
are inherent in a Hartwick education into their life work, to
the benefit of others.
To learn about requirements and make a nomination,
visit hartwickalumni.org/LiberalArtsinPractice
Or to nominate an alum for this award in 2011, contact Director of
Alumni Engagement Duncan Macdonald ’78 at 607-431-4032 or
macdonaldd@hartwick.edu.
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Class Notes
Bill ’49 and Dolores ’46 Deitz
celebrated their 65th anniversary
alongside two other generations of
Hartwick graduates—their children
and grandson.
On Campus Event: Nick Lambros
’59 showed his good friend Steve
Green ’59 around town before the
two joined students and faculty on
campus in May (see p.15).
Informal Connection: President Margaret L. Drugovich and her partner,
Beth Steele, joined Carol and Dick Clapp ’62 for breakfast at their home
in Naples, FL. As then vice chair of the Board of Trustees, Dick chaired
the Presidential Search Committee that recommended Drugovich to lead
Hartwick.
1936 | 75th Reunion
1937
Milton Nichols writes: “I celebrated my 96th birthday in January and
am doing well as I recuperate from falling and breaking a hip in fall
2010. I live in Carmichael, CA, near my daughter Joan and her family.
My other children, Norma and Alan, live in South Carolina with their
spouses. My wife passed away last summer one month short of our 75th
wedding anniversary. I like to spend my time reading, playing gin rummy,
and doing Sudoku puzzles. I have five grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.”
1941 | 70th Reunion
1944
David Trachtenberg, davsel@att.net
Rowland Conklin is retired and lives in Schenectady, NY. He holds
a divinity degree from Drew University, served as minister of United
Methodist churches in the Capital District, and served for five years as a
district superintendent, overseeing 80 churches in the Albany area. He
has five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
David Trachtenberg lives in Palm Beach County, FL. He holds an M.A.
from SUNY Albany, an Ed.D. from NYU, and a J.D. from University of
Florida. A wounded combat veteran of World War II, he spent 33 years
in education and 10 years as a lawyer before retiring. He has two sons,
two grandsons, and two granddaughters. David and his wife, Selma,
an Oneonta STC alumna whom he met while at Hartwick, have been
married for 66 years.
1946 | 65th Reunion
1947
Kay Batty Boland writes: “Broke my hip in February; doing fine. Will
be on my own soon. Daughter, Jeanne, here for several weeks. No plans
to travel at this time. I went sky diving in December—what a thrill. I
recommend it for all ages.”
1950
George Grice, geog@3rivers.net
Charlotte Wessell Craft writes: “My husband, Edward, passed away
in 2010. It’s been a great adjustment moving from San Diego to Yucca
Valley. I enjoy reading The Wick and keeping up on the activities at the
College.”
Meg Pfleger Scheller writes: “In August, I was part of a tour of Bavaria,
which included Munich, Innsbruck, Nuremberg, and especially the
Oberammergau region, where I was privileged to see the Passion Play, a
once-in-a-decade event dating from 1634.”
1951 | 60th Reunion
1956 | 55th Reunion
Chang Ning Wu was honored by a resolution from the Massachusetts
Senate on November 7, 2010, following his presentation of “Trails of a
Falling Leaf” at UMass Dartmouth for his outstanding contributions to
higher education in the Commonwealth.
1958
Charles and Carole (Niddrie ’59) Kalinowski have been seasonal
workers at Walt Disney World in Florida for the past four years. They
work in sports for ESPN Wide World of Sports and at Epcot. They have
19 grandchildren.
1959
Dalene Davis Cross, poppabob@verizon.net
1961 | 50th Reunion
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Members of The Abraham L. Kellogg
Society, Hartwick’s legacy society,
and leadership donors celebrated
their commitment to the future of the
College at a gathering at Thornwood
in June. For more information about
including Hartwick in your will, please
contact Director of Planned Giving
Patricia Dopazo at 607-431-4020 or
dopazop@hartwick.edu.
Luella Abbott Oakes looks forward to seeing everyone at the 50th
reunion.
1962
Sharon Dorff Conway, asadsac@aol.com
Dinah McClure, Dinamo32@aol.com
1964
Jim Beman “recently finished hunting the ‘Big 5’ in Africa: lion, leopard,
cape buffalo, elephant, rhino—green hunt. It all started with hanging a
deer in a tree outside of Leitzell Hall in 1960.”
Edward Evans continues to work uncovering a POW/CCC camp at
Hamlin Beach State Park. “Just got my hands on 140 letters written to
a CCC enlistee while he was in camp and his two diaries, along with 66
photos he took! What a find! Preparing a personality development of this
17-year-old young man resulting from his CCC experience.”
Joan Dunbar Sutton writes: “Widowed, retired, three weddings, and
four grandchildren—a very busy 10 years.”
1965
Bill and Carol (Lederhouse) Gaillard live in Hoosick Falls, NY. Carol
is director of Cheney Library. Bill still drives for Yankee Trails and does
community band, rescue squad, and NYS Lions Youth Band. They report
that life is good.
Carolyn Cramblet Ossont is enjoying retirement in Virginia. She
writes: “Now have three grandkids, with twins due in June to make five!
Travel includes Cabo, San Francisco, Hilton Head, and upstate New
York. Loved the Gold Cup Races last year in the Hartwick tent! I was
married to Al Lane in November 2010.”
1966 | 45th Reunion
Priscilla Craw has retired after 42 years as a CWM. “Traveled back to
Nigeria, where I worked in the late ’60s-’70s, for a visit. Spent two weeks
in Haiti teaching at a mission north of Port Au Prince and will probably
continue to do short mission trips in the future.”
Mary Ella Bacon Fuquay and her husband, Harold, have moved to an
active adult community in Fredericksburg, VA, to be closer to their son,
daughter-in-law, and baby granddaughter. “Life here is wonderful!”
Dick Riccio writes: “Mandy and I were recently in Ohio to celebrate a
festschrift for my brother Dave, who was honored as a professor at Kent
State University, where he has been teaching for 46 years. While there, we
visited the professional football hall of fame in Canton, OH, and stayed
overnight at Niagara Falls, which was awesome and hypnotizing.”
1967
Bruce Cameron, bpsychia@stny.rr.com
Bruce Cameron bought a 28-foot Pearson sailboat this spring as a preretirement
gift to himself. He is mooring it in Olde Lyme, CT, and will
be sailing this summer with classmates Ginny Sunden Lagana and Judi
Lau Molloy, as well as Hartwick friends Bruce Dodson, Neal Allen
’68, Ron Klattenberg, and Don Hanssen ’69.
Carolyn Reeck Meyer has retired from nursing after 43 years of active
employment. “Miss it, but also enjoy my free time.”
Kathy Buxton Vernay continues in part-time practice as a physician
assistant at Jamesville Family Medicine. She continues to run the Tully
Community Garden, plus owns and manages the Tully Curves. Her
“suggestion to all is that you get off your butts and eat your vegetables!”
1969
Mary Ann Gajzik Bolten writes: “This year, we made our third
cross-country trip, this time to visit our son Jason in Denver, CO. Jason
is a professor of psychology. We also had the opportunity to re-visit
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM, and Sedona, AZ, our favorite home
away from home.”
1970
James Groccia, director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement
of Teaching and Learning at Auburn University, has been awarded
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Presidential Event: April and Wayne Adler ’85 welcomed current parents
as well as alumni, President Margaret L. Drugovich, and Beth Steele to
their home in Parkland FL.
Presidential Event: Bill Hawthorne ’65 took President Margaret L.
Drugovich and Beth Steele on a stroll along the water before joining his
wife, Carol, to host alumni at their home in Naples, FL.
a Fulbright Scholar grant to study in Estonia, where he will serve as
a visiting scholar at the University of Tartu, beginning this fall. He
will consult with faculty and administration on programs to enhance
university teaching and learning, conduct workshops and seminars on
teaching and learning at the University of Tartu and other universities
throughout Estonia, and participate in European Union-funded research
on the evaluation of teaching. To read more, go to wireeagle.auburn.edu/
news/3525.
Lorraine Duprey Kelley writes: “Jim continues to enjoy retirement. I sell
real estate for Guide Boat Realty in Saranac Lake—love it. My daughter
Amy received her master’s in accounting from Belmont University in
Nashville, TN. Daughter Erin is the director of the color and trim studio
at GM in Warren, MI. She and her family live in Bloomfield Hills.”
1971 | 40th Reunion
Barbara Klapp Vartanian, birhbev@omh.state.ny.us
George Jones and his wife, June, have moved to Santa Fe, NM.
1972
Scott Griswold, urfree@bellsouth.net
1973
Ronald Stair, ronalds@att.net
Stephen Kummernuss writes: “Son Matthew married in July 2010. A
2002 NYU grad, daughter Erika was married in June. A 2006 grad of
Penn State University. Completing master’s degree in statistics at George
Mason.”
Eleni Karas Norton celebrated her 30th year of employment with Exxon
Mobil. “My roommate from Hartwick, Gritli Fecht Sette, attended my
celebration, as did my son George and his new bride, Elizabeth, who were
married October 24, 2010.”
1974
Mike Brown, mike.g.brown@comcast.net
Roxanne Smyth Stern and her partner, Stanley Graham, have published
their book, A Lifetime Worth Remembering: New York City 1920 to 1960.
It is available on Amazon.
1976 | 35th reunion
Barbara Bailey Blaisdell is a wound-care RN and enterostomal
therapist, caring for ostomy patients in an outpatient rehab department.
Rick Hopkins met David Munschauer “for some important highelevation
business, including an extensive search for max vertical in Vail,
CO, during a three-day meeting in March. The meeting and search would
not have been possible without the generous assistance provided by host
Robert Barker ’77 and his wife, Karin.” Rick, David, and Robert were
joined and aided in the search by Paul Reinhardt ’77, “who provided
invaluable insight into the recent economic downturn and its linkage to
global climate change.” The group hopes to meet again next year.
1977
Kathy Fitzgerald writes: “I’ve started my own company—Howling
Puffin Designs, howlingpuffin.com. Check it out!”
1978
Jeff Tipping writes: “I left the National Soccer Coaches Association after
13 years to begin ‘Tipping Travels,’ which is a soccer, golf, and heritage
tour company for Americans wishing to go to the U.K. Also caring for
elderly parents in England.”
1979
Karl Gustafson recently was named director of the New York State
Main Street Program.
1980
Matt Bardach and his wife celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary
by remarrying in their local church. “My son is in high school, and plays
basketball, and is on the varsity golf team. Wants to go to Hartwick.
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Presidential Event: Cyrus Mehri ’83, founding partner of the law firm
Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, hosted the President, alumni, and parents for a
social gathering at his offices in Washington, DC. The College’s 2009
Commencement speaker, he established Hartwick’s Cyrus Mehri Global
Pluralism Fellowship & Mentorship Award.
Still good friends with Dan Frumkin and Dave Salkin. Went to 30th
reunion and was so disappointed only 10 of us showed!”
Eileen Dragone Scheffer still works at Schalmont Central Schools
as their music coordinator and vocal music teacher in Schenectady, NY,
and is happily married to her husband of 26 years, Bill. “We have three
beautiful children ... Life continues to be just great!”
Kathy Brisbane Wesley is in her 30th year teaching music in Prince
George’s County Schools in Maryland. She also works with new music
teachers in the D.C. area and Baltimore. Kathy has written a training
curriculum for alternative certification in music. She, her husband, and
their three children live in southern Maryland.
1981 | 30th Reunion
Larry Tetro, ldtet2004@yahoo.com
Mary Beth Weaver Frewin recently accepted a position at Schenectady
County Community College. She and her husband, Eric, have two sons;
Christopher is a student at Clarkson and Adam is in high school.
1982
Patty O’Neill Tedesco writes: “I continue to feel very grateful for the
fantastic nursing education I received at Hartwick.”
1983
Kevin Ghiloni has retired after 23 years as a probation/parole officer in
Florida. “Splitting my time as a snowbird: summer at my house in Main
Point, NL, Canada, and winters on Merritt Island, FL.”
Brian Hopkins writes: “All is well; two out of three now in college. One
at Penn State, the other at Ithaca. Hope everyone is doing well! See you at
Table Rock in 2013!”
1984
Holly Hopkins Bruno recently moved to New Hampshire, “where
my new neighbor is my former Hartwick roommate! Laurel McGhee
Bleckett ’83 and Holly are back together again! I work throughout
Presidential Event: Professor Emeritus of Political Science John Lindell
hosted a lively gathering at the Meadows Country Club in Sarasota, FL.
New England as a region execution manager for RJ Reynolds Tobacco
Company.”
Stephen Sexeny writes: “Life is good! My wife, Beth, is a fung shui
consultant. Daughter Bri is a Tulane grad, 2010, and a stunt woman
(watch for her in The Currier), and son Nick, 12, graduated from sixth
grade. His hockey and baseball are taking us all over the place! Can’t
believe it’s been 27 years since graduating from the Wick.”
1985
Rhonda Foote, rhondasfooteworks@yahoo.com
Cooper Woodard writes: “I received my Ph.D. in 2002 and have been
clinical director for The Groden Center for the past nine years. We
serve 90 children with autism and other developmental disabilities in
Providence, RI. I also am a visiting professor at Wheaton College and
the University of Rhode Island, and have had a number of publications
in peer-reviewed journals. My most recent publication is in the Journal of
Autism and Developmental Disorders, and is titled ‘Object Identification and
Imagination: An Alternative to the Meta-Representational Explanation
of Autism.’ I also had a book come out from the American Psychological
Association press, based on earlier research on the concept of courage:
The Psychology of Courage; Modern Research on an Ancient Virtue. I live in
Providence with John, my partner of 15 years.”
1986 | 25th Reunion
Rob DiCarlo, rdicarlo@brockport.edu
Greg Howard writes: “Ryan, 18, graduated from high school and will
be attending Johnson & Wales in Providence, RI. Sarah, 21, begins her
senior year at SUNY Plattsburgh in social work with an English minor.”
Dan Smith writes: “My wife, Hannah Sayre Smith, and I, along with
two of our three daughters, have moved to Hong Kong, where I am
working for BNY Mellon as the chief operating officer for Asia Pacific.
All is well and we expect to be here for three years.”
Rob DiCarlo writes: “My wife, Janine, and I live in West Irondequoit,
north of Rochester, NY, with our children, Sophie, 14; Nicholas, 11;
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Stephen Baldacci ’83
“Some people just have that entrepreneurial DNA”
iBiquity Digital Corporation, Senior Vice President of Marketing
Team O-Positive, a benevolent business to support charity
When Stephen Baldacci ’83 met with a group of Hartwick’s soon-to-be-graduates on campus
in May, he left them with words of advice and guidance that could only be shared after years
of experience as an entrepreneur of diverse enterprises. Baldacci discussed with the class the
balancing of classic business management with entrepreneurialism, as well as stories of his
own numerous and varied business ventures. Students were impressed by his words of advice,
including:
• “Never miss an opportunity or an experience, whether it is personal, family or job related.”
• “You can’t fake ethics; you can’t flick them on and off with a switch. The only way to go is
with the highest level of ethics and standards as you can.”
• “Work a lot of jobs early in your career to learn more. If you work like heck, you’ll learn,
make more money, and then you can go do something else.”
Patrick, 6. I still work at The College at Brockport (SUNY) and my wife
works at the University of Rochester and Nazareth, giving us a corner
on the local colleges. Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 25th
reunion.”
1987
Robin Hackett writes: “You know the world is small, but state
government is big, when Jay Perrotte and I discovered we work in the
same building!”
1988
Kathy Fallon, kfallon@pcgus.com
Mary Beth Duffin-Hickey and her husband, Michael Hickey ’87,
are still living in Readington, NJ, with their four children: Mackenzie,
17; Keegan, 16; Quinn, 13; and Myles, 9! Mackenzie graduated from
Hunterdon Central this June and will attend Fairfield University in
Fairfield, CT. Mary Beth is an academic intervention specialist at Bradley
Gardens School in Bridgewater, NJ. Michael still runs his medical
executive recruiting company, MackenzieMyles and Associates, in
Flemington, NJ. “Time is flying by ... a kid in college. Didn’t we just
graduate? We can be reached at thehickm@aol.com.”
Liz Howland Mallozzi and Jillian Payne recently had dinner in New
York City. Liz’s son is attending the University of Vermont (class of
2015).
Eric Caballeo writes: “I am enjoying the summer and have taken up
residency in the Syracuse Technology Garden entrepreneurial incubator
working on a startup project involving geo-location, social media, and
local search.” This collaboration also involves Rick Lutz. Shawn Dargie
is a resident at Countryside Care Center in Delhi, NY. Eric writes that he
tries to see him about once a month. Shawn welcomes everyone to make
contact through Facebook or, even better, come out and see him. He
would love the company.
Kathy Fallon has been promoted to practice area director at Public
Consulting Group. To an outsider, this means Kathy is running the
national business in the human services space. Public Consulting Group
is a firm that specializes in consulting to the 50 states. The job comes
with a lot of U.S. travel, but it is always interesting!
Keith Clisby, Stan Beames, and Brian Neumann are still close and
getting together with the families for their fifth annual July 4 camping
weekend.
Robin Pressman and Michael Matthews are pleased to announce
the birth of their son, Jacob Marshall Matthews, on April 2, 2010.
Congratulations!
Liz Richter Fleming and her husband, Mike, relocated to Myrtle Beach,
SC, and are enjoying a slower-paced life. If anybody is vacationing in the
area this summer, please let Liz know and a visit can be arranged! Liz’s
e-mail is lrichter3@yahoo.com.
1989
Dorothy Holt, holtcrew@maine.rr.com
1990
Leisyl Ryan Kleinberg, leisyl@kleinbergs.com
1991 | 20th Reunion
Rena Switzer Diem, rnmommy@yahoo.com
1992
Rory Shaffer, rorysw@gmail.com
1993
Jennifer Ranciato Celentano, a lawyer with a practice in North Haven,
CT, is a recipient of Connecticut magazine’s “40 under 40” award. In
its March 2011 edition, Connecticut magazine presented its first class
of recipients—a new generation of leaders full of energy, ideas and the
determination to steer an unswerving course into the future. Jennifer
also is co-chair of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers’ Association Women’s
Caucus Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project.
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THANK YOU. GRACIAS
MERCI . GRAZIE . DANKE.
SPACIBO. OBRIGADO.
ARIGATO. TAK. DIOLCH.
WE APPRECIATE IT.
“Thank you”—
WickWire style!
This spring, 1,115 donors received a personal thank you call from WickWire’s
dedicated student phonathon callers. Another 1,721 were left voice messages
thanking them for their gifts to Hartwick! It was just one more small way Hartwick
could say thank you for the inspiring generosity of our alumni, parents, and
friends.
Donors to the College made this year’s WickWire calling
program the most successful in Hartwick’s history,
raising over $275,000 in support of Hartwick.
1994
Missy Foristall, foristallm@yahoo.com
Ann Byrne and her husband, Wes, are the parents of a son, Lucas
Wolfgang, born May 24. He joins siblings Lorelei and Henry.
Kurt Knotts writes: “In November 2010, we held the inaugural Jamie’s
Run, The JK 5K, in Old Wethersfield, CT, to honor our daughter Jamie,
who we lost to cancer last year. The 5K run, 3K walk, and Kid’s Fun
Run were a resounding success and we raised $36,000 for Connecticut
Children’s Medical Center. We are planning the second annual event for
November 6. Find info at www.jamiesrun.org and follow us on Facebook.
We also were blessed with a daughter, Dana Kelly, born March 2, 2011.
With 4-year-old big brother Braeden, we are a happy family.”
Julie Haff Rejman lives in Castle Rock, CO, with her husband and three
kids. She is a therapist in private practice.
Missy Foristall Williams just switched jobs; she is now head of digital
at Martha Stewart. She lives in Pelham, NY, with her husband and two
daughters.
1995
Louis Crocco, lbcrocco@aol.com
Chris Porreca writes: “I have been hired by the Brooks Sports Group out
of Pittsburgh, PA, to be the executive vice president of the Adirondack
Phantoms; the Phantoms play in the American Hockey League. The team
is based in Glens Falls, NY. The team is the affiliate for the Philadelphia
Flyers of the NHL. I am responsible for the day-to-day operations of the
Phantoms. I was hired to run the team in February 2011 after spending
the first one and one-half years with the organization selling corporate
sponsorship.”
1996 | 15th Reunion
Amy Krasker Cottle, amycottle@comcast.net
Rich Collins recently moved to Greenland, NH, with Sharon Morrison
and his newly adopted dog, Scout, and is manager of talent acquisition
and recruiting at Portsmouth-based talentQuest (www.talentquestcorp.
com). His adventures are often posted on Facebook for the world to see,
including an attempt to turn the backyard into a small, personal vineyard
with more than 20 cold hardy vines.
Janice Vacchiano was married to Michael Abel on May 7,
2011. Celebrating with the happy couple was Wendy Wyatt
Frankonis. Janice and Michael live in Bay Shore, NY. Janice teaches
music and her husband is a contractor.
1997
Amy Maletzke Moore, maletzke@hotmail.com
1998
Jamie Sommerville O’Riordan, jamieoriordan@yahoo.com
I hope everyone is doing well. As I write this, it’s mid-June and Eoin and
I are eagerly expecting the arrival of a baby boy. I’m looking forward to
enjoying the summer months with the wee one. If you have updates, please
send them along to me at jamieoriordan@yahoo.com or log on to The
Wall to post notes and pictures. Thanks!
Anna Beeber writes: “I was so honored to be awarded the Hartwick
College Department of Nursing Alumnus of the Year 2011. I was thrilled
to return to the Hartwick campus for graduation weekend to receive the
award and to be the keynote speaker at the Nursing Pinning Ceremony. I
hadn’t been back to campus since I graduated in 1998, and I was amazed
at how things looked different, while somehow staying the same.
Bill Boyle writes: “I am an assistant coach at Colgate University. After
being a head D3 coach in Michigan at Olivet College for four years, I
wanted to get back into the Division 1 level. I was an assistant at Michigan
State University last fall, where we went to the Sweet 16. This job opened
up back in upstate NY, and I jumped on it, and we have a great team here.
Really disciplined student-athletes. I did get to go back to the Wick one
weekend out of the two-plus months I have been on the job, as I have been
traveling all over the country recruiting, but I was able to see Matt Verni,
Hartwick women’s soccer coach, and his wife, Amy Verni ’99. I will be
playing Hartwick here our first game this fall!”
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Simon Baker ’93
“The American Dream is still intact.”
Baker Avenue Asset Management, President/ CEO
Simon Baker ’93 traveled to Hartwick recently to talk with Professor John Clemens’ seniorlevel
business classes. Their discussions covered everything from Hartwick experiences, to the
effects of social media, how to stand out in the job market, and “Sales 101.” The conversation
turned international when they began sharing opinions on doing business in China and Baker’s
years in England. Of course, Baker didn’t leave without giving the seniors some good advice:
• “If there is a little thing that sticks with you today, let that be that 99% of people are clueless
when they get out of school. With that, any job that you take will lay groundwork and teach
you something.”
• “You will meet two or three people in your life that can really change it, as long as you are
open and listening.”
• “Before an interview, do your homework. Connect on a level that others have not.”
Kris McMahon writes: “I was recently promoted to road manager at
Canadian Pacific Railway and I love it. I’ve been working there for almost
12 years. My wife, Melissa, and I will be celebrating our 10-year wedding
anniversary August 11; we are expecting our third baby girl this October.
Emily is 4 and Grace is 2.”
1999
Kristen Falk, hartwick99@yahoo.com
It occurred to me today that I have been writing this column for 12
years already. Time flies, but I am so glad to constantly read the news
and doings of our classmates. We’ve turned into interesting, productive
people!
Rebecca Knickerbocker Armstrong writes: “My husband is on
sabbatical this summer, which means we will be traveling to New York
to see family and friends in the Adirondack and Oneonta areas. We will
spend a week on Lake Erie and plan to hit the NFL Hall of Fame in
Ohio. Hoping for great weather to make this the best summer vacation
ever! Talked to Stephany Truex Godfrey, and celebrated the birth of her
little boy, Spencer.”
In case anyone wanted to travel to Australia, Kanchan Banga is back in
Canberra, working as a senior advisor at KPMG.
Nicole Barnhardt and her husband are finally taking a honeymoon in
August and are traveling to Iceland for two weeks. “Many people think it’s
an odd place to travel, but we are very excited to do some whale watching,
see volcanoes (hopefully not erupting) and icebergs, and tour the natural
hot springs. Of course, we plan to do more camping throughout the
summer and do a bit of hiking, as well. I am doing some gardening this
summer, but nothing too extravagant. Work is good too, always busy.”
Alicia Beardsley recently vacationed in Hawaii. “It was beautiful, of
course! Perfect weather, but it all went by too fast. I went scuba diving,
mopeding, and whale watching. I am moving to Saratoga, NY. I accepted
a cardiology position with a private practice.”
Mike Bruny had the opportunity to travel to Portland for the first time
in June. “The weather was beautiful; not a rain cloud in sight. I almost got
to see my 50-50 buddy, Kristen Falk, while I was there. I’m looking at
opportunities in learning and development for my career. I’m currently
focused on my speaking opportunities and ambassadorbruny.com. My
giving for this issue: If you are an entrepreneur or aspiring to be one, you
need to visit www.youngentrepreneurcouncil.com”
Geno Carr is incredibly involved! “Life is very, very busy, but good!
Nancy and I had a wonderful time traveling the world, serving as faculty
with Semester at Sea last fall, and we were invited to sail again for the
fall 2012 voyage! It is a different itinerary, so we couldn’t pass up the
opportunity to travel to many more amazing places. This spring, I served
as associate faculty at MiraCosta College teaching Acting I and Voice
and Diction, and spent three months starring in miXtape, a long-running
’80s musical revue at the Horton Grand Theatre in the Gaslamp Quarter.
Nancy and I can be seen on stage together in The Music Man with Lamb’s
Players Theatre in Coronado. In July, I will star in a show I did while at
Hartwick, Little Shop of Horrors, with the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town.
Last time I played nerdy botanist Seymour, but this time I get to let
my inner jerk out to play the motorcycle-riding sadomasochist, Orin
Scrivello, DDS. This fall, I will teach Intermediate Acting at Grossmont
College and make my debut at The Old Globe Theatre starring as Papa
Who in their annual holiday musical, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole
Christmas! So, it’s a busy year here in San Diego, but I’m feeling truly
blessed and duly grateful!”
Shiloh Vanderhoof Chickerell is literally running a zoo! “We have
acquired MORE animals! We had three goats born to us this spring,
which was very exciting. We acquired a new mini pony and a gorgeous
quarter horse. We had an exciting time shearing the alpacas and learning
how to trim goat hooves. We’re selling the fleece and the baby goats. We
are saving time and money to put up our barn and change the layout of
the property to allow for parking and turn-around space if/when we do
finally open a petting zoo; hopefully next year if this summer goes well.
The twins turned 2 on June 3! Eowyn is signed up to start school in
September.”
Jennifer (Victor) and Peter Conway write: “Matthew Peter Conway
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Alumni Event: New York City-area alumni and their guests boarded the
luxury vessel Atlantis at Chelsea Piers to cruise the Hudson River in
June.
was born March 24, 2011, and is the perfect addition to our family!
Big sisters Makayla (4) and Madison (2) just love and adore him! Pete
is already counting the days until he can take him to his first Yankees
game! We are adjusting to life with three kiddos. I am working at Baylor
University Medical Center in labor and delivery, and Pete continues to
work for a commercial real estate investment firm here in Dallas.”
Garfield Drummond reports that his son, Theodore (Theo) Axel
Drummond, was born April 11, 2011, and “everyone is doing well.”
Kristen Falk is taking part in tree-climbing school in Dorena, OR.
It’s scary but pretty awesome, to say the least. Today, climbing spurs;
tomorrow, single-line climbing! The following week, she’ll be in Idaho,
contra dancing near Lake Coeur D’Alene. Future summer plans include a
visit to CT, two more contra dance weekends, and culminating in another
full dance week in eastern MA at the end of August. Who says life is all
work? The garden is planted and the plants are happy. Bring on that sun!
Danielle Quilligan Fochs is very active with the Arizona Rose circuit!
She chaired the photography section of the Tucson Rose Society, ARS
Rose Show in April, won the trophy for best fully open hybrid tea rose
and won numerous awards for photography entries at the Tucson Rose
Show and Glendale Rose Show. “Seems I have a knack for this rose thing.
I’m enjoying exhibiting since it’s about the only thing I have time for
these days!”
Amy Yager Gardner writes: “We took a vacation with our friends Jim
’92 and Cathy Ogden and their family to Tennessee. We had a great
time relaxing and spending time together. I am done with the FNP
program and just waiting for the authorization to take my national FNP
certification. Jeff will be spending more time officiating high school and
college field hockey in the fall and due to this will be unable to be on the
Hartwick field hockey sideline, but we are hoping to make many games
as fans in the stands. The kids are busy, too. The twins have just finished
kindergarten. Amethyst (our oldest) is really into theatre and will be
Sarah Peterson Meunier ’00 and Stephen Meunier ’99 were married in
August 2009 in Cooperstown, NY. Joining the couple are Christa Meunier
Robinson ’91, Marc Meunier ’96, Danielle DeCoste Meunier ’96, Carrie
Newton ’01, Kristen Boschetto McMahon ’01, Nieves Garcia ’01, Julia
Guckenberg Tiedge ’01, Bill Knightly ’01, Mike Jones ’00, Carrie Liddell
Jones ’01, Shanti Czaja ’00, Pete Bertolini ’99, Brian Tiedge ’01,
Michael Vissa ’01, Elizabeth White Hucker ’01, Noreen Verbeck Pieper
’01, Joe Felipe ’00, Matt Huckabee ’00, and Tim McHugh ’99.
participating in the Orpheus kids summer workshop for two weeks, and
will spend a week at sleep-away camp later in the summer.”
Alicia Koscielniak Hackney and her husband welcomed a second
daughter, Charlotte (Charley), in April 2010. In March they moved to the
Cape, as her husband is the new executive chef at Wequassett in Chatham.
Alicia is enjoying being a part-time stay-at-home mom and a part-time
stylist with Stella & Dot. Meghan Katcher Shivel, her husband, Kevin,
and daughter, Claire, visited in late June, and Christine Zurawik Serino
’00 and her husband, John, visited for Memorial Day weekend.
For a little fun this summer, Gayle Huntress plans to train for her new
hobby, roller derby! She plays for the Quabbin Missile Crisis team. “It’s a
wild and fun sport, and I’m having a blast!”
Forrest Lewandowski went to Nashville, TN, for Country Music Fest.
Later this year, he hopes to visit Danielle Quilligan Fochs in Arizona
and see a NASCAR race. Summer plans include working, kayaking, and
generally enjoying summer.
Michael Lomasney has been silent for a few years while he was sailing
and working on some projects. Now (along with his partner, Colin
Keillor Fordham ’98), he will be opening Spring Close Restaurant in
East Hampton, NY.
AmySue Hermus Long has some good news. “Owen is officially done
with preschool. So, all of the boys are in elementary school. Colin will
be in third grade, Aidan in second, and Owen in kindergarten. Oh, what
to do with our time? Scott and I are traveling to Amsterdam, Tilburg,
Berkelenschot, and Eefde, Holland, this summer. We have a family
wedding to attend and some major sightseeing to do! We will try to take a
day trip to either Antwerp, Germany, or Brussels, Belgium. My sister-inlaw,
Kelley Long Sheraw ’89, will be watching the kids for us while we
are away! It’s going to be a great summer! We hope to make a trip upstate
for the New Year’s holiday.”
Kristen Mastromarchi is enjoying married life in Italy. She has some
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Scott Desmarais ’00 and Carin Plante were married May 7, 2011. The
newlyweds were joined by Bill ’98 and Carolyn (Cantin) ’97, Desmarais
Victor ’00 and Bethel (Huller) ’00 Willingham, Kristin Hall ’00, Melissa
Smith Sweet ’00, Melissa Williams ’00, and Brigitte Fielder ’00.
Presidential Event: A crowd of alumni, parents and friends gathered for
a great time in the historic Union League Club at 37th and Park Avenue,
Manhattan, where they connected with one another and with President
Margaret L. Drugovich.
concerts lined up for the summer (nothing big, mind you; a play in a
ukulele band!); we’ll see what the autumn brings!
Stephen Meunier and Sarah Peterson Meunier ’00, married in
Cooperstown, NY, in August 2009, welcomed their son, Owen Essex
Meunier, in February.
A boy, Christian James, was born to Dan and Jamie Irwin Morency
on May 14. “Everyone is doing great and John is being a great big
brother. No big plans for the summer, except for camping in the
Adirondacks for a few weeks.”
Mike Muscarella and his wife, Mel, are still in Rochester, NY. “The little
ones are now 10 and 7 and getting squirrelier by the day (in the best ways
possible). Our band, Violet Mary, released its second record on Belly of
The Whale Music in November to critical praise in the region. We’re
looking to play Hartwick this fall, more news to come. I’m also going back
to school (again; fourth time’s the charm!) for secondary education in
history. So, always an adventure here on Calm Lake.”
Leila Poole is still practicing as a physician assistant in Henderson,
NV, now in the intensive care unit and emergency department. Her plan
is to finish off the summer hiking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in
September.
Chris Rochelle is working with the Corning Museum of Glass and
traveling the world doing glass shows on Celebrity Cruise Lines. He is
circling the Mediterranean and visited the glass furnace in Istanbul. “It’s a
pretty amazing glass campus out in the countryside. Life is good!”
Leda Hoffman São Bento reports that her son, Bruce, is now a big
brother! “Marisa Ann São Bento was born May 4, 2011. We’re so happy
to have a little girl in the house; it’s fun to add a bit of pink to our lives.
Everything else is going great. I’m still working for Schwadesign as a
project manager, loving RI, and plan on visiting the beach quite a bit this
summer. I hope Carolyn Maguire can make it here to the Ocean State to
visit and meet our new addition.”
Don Sawyer successfully defended his dissertation proposal in May and
has been advanced to doctoral candidate (ABD). In a perfect world, he will
be done in 2012. LaToya (Cauley) ’98 finished her first year of full-time
doctoral study. Their daughter, Nyelah, who was born while they were
students at Hartwick, will start high school in the fall. The family will be
traveling to St. Kitts in the summer for vacation and to search for Don’s
grandmother’s family.
Meg Katcher Shivel is off for the summer and looking forward to
spending more time with Claire; lots of play dates and pool days lined
up! “We are bringing Claire on a plane for the first time in a few weeks as
we head to NY to see my family and then up to Cape Cod to see Alicia
Koscielniak Hackney and her beautiful family. We are so thrilled to
finally get our little ones together and hope that Claire and Charley will
be lifelong friends, just like their mommies. Other than that trip, we’ll
probably spend a few Saturdays at a local lake here in NC and just try to
stay cool. It’s hot as heck here!”
Eric Shoen is living in Chicago for the time being and traveling the
central USA for work as a charity fundraising consultant. He’s been
attempting to connect with Eric Fredericks ’97, and has been fortunate
to connect with Bradley Baker ’00. The movie Eric helped with came out
finally: ssm-movie.com. It’s been very popular in the film festival circuit,
but isn’t really a mainstream-type movie. He’s been keeping up with
running, and volunteering for his church in Rochester and Hartwick when
he can. He’s really looking forward to going to Prague with the Hartwick
Choir this summer.
Jennifer Smith ran the Big Sur Marathon this past May. It was her first
and she’s hoping to run the New York Marathon next year. “I also saw
Wendy Lee and her beautiful baby girl recently; they’re doing very well
and it was great to get up to Boston and see them.”
Brooke (Bennett) and Andy Thomas ’00 celebrated the first birthday
of their sons, William and Finnegan, in April. They are looking forward
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Alumni Event: Hartwick fans cheered the Boston Celtics through a tough
home court loss to the LA Clippers in March.
Alumni Event: Fred Schaeffer ’65 led fellow alumni in “Walkway over the
Hudson—Past Present and Future,” after lunch together at Aloy’s Italian
Restaurant in Poughkeepsie, NY.
to attending some Hartwick weddings this summer.
Chris Villa, head swim coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
earned conference coach of the year honors for the 2010-11 season. He
is the fourth IUP coach to be honored. Chris led the Crimson Hawks
from 10th place at the 2010 PSAC meet to fourth this year and only one
point out of third. He oversaw the development of a host of sophomores
who dramatically improved IUP’s fortunes this season. In all, a total of 14
school and seven freshmen women’s records have been broken since Chris
became head coach prior to the 2006-07 season.
Nissa Westerberg just passed the four-year mark working for the Patent
and Trademark Office. “Time has really flown by! Seeing your name on
the front of an issued patent is pretty cool, and I’m getting to allow more
applications as time goes on. No big plans so far for the summer, but I
hope to take a trip with Alicia Beardsley and Yee Lam Wong.”
Jonathan Wood writes: “Dan and I became engaged over Memorial Day
weekend. He proposed during a hike along the banks of the Charles River,
after which we jumped in a canoe with our dog and a picnic lunch for a
paddle upstream. Later that evening, he took me to dinner at a great farmto-table
restaurant for a chef’s tasting menu. It was a fantastic day and
we can’t wait to gather all our friends to help us celebrate our marriage.
The following weekend, my family gathered together to celebrate the
65th wedding anniversary of my grandparents, Bill ’49 and Dolores
Chestney ’46 Deitz. There were three generations of Hartwick grads
there: my grandparents; their daughter, Carla Deitz Wood ’70, and her
husband, David Wood ’72; their son, Allan Deitz ’75, and his wife,
Carol Deitz; and me.”
2000
Kristen Hall, hartwick2000@hotmail.com
Kristin Hall writes: “I hope summer is treating all of you well. My life has
been kept busy with work and house hunting. I am (as of early June) in the
process of closing on a house; hopefully, the process will go smoothly. I
also joined a softball team this summer—all hospital employees, but since
we all have bizarre schedules, we never know who will show up. It’s fun!”
Shanti Czaja writes: “In 2011, Meg and I decided enough was enough!
Too many girls wearing tights ... pants. We now patrol the streets of
Boston on the weekends with a bag of real pants to hand out.”
Jarlyn Romero Mathews writes: “Hi everyone, I recently bought a house
in Boca Raton with my husband and two daughters. I have been teaching
in a high school in Boca and just finished my first season as the head
lacrosse coach and had a winning season. Life has been busy for me, but I
am enjoying every minute of it. Miss you all.”
Charles Catania and his wife, Kimberly, are expecting their second child
in June, one day shy of son Jack’s second birthday. Charles writes: “I am
thankfully busy with my private family medicine practice in Thorofare,
NJ, and life is good. Looking forward to getting in touch with other
classmates. Anyone in the Philly area, look me up!”
Brooke Sandler Coleman is still living in the Philadelphia area and is
working as a licensed clinical social worker. She and her husband, Jason,
are expecting the arrival of their second child, a son, in October. They are
busy enjoying their energetic daughter, almost 3, and making the most of
life as often as they can, as life is definitely too short!
Meg Thomson writes: “Had a great time running my first Boston
Marathon in April, where I was lucky enough to have Sarah Pettit meet
me to run the last few miles! We are now both in training for the Portland,
ME, marathon in October, where Taryn Chase will join us for the half.
Amy Witherell and I placed 15th in the Great Urban Race in Boston as
team WICK’ed and I’m still laughing thinking about that day! Looking
forward to lots of summer fun with my favorite ladies.”
Scott Desmarais married the love of his life, Carin Plante, on May 7,
2011, in Concord, NH. It was a beautiful ceremony, and a great time was
had by all. Alumni in attendance included Bill and Carolyn (Cantin)
Desmarais, Victor and Bethel (Huller) Willingham, Kristin Hall,
Melissa Smith Sweet, Melissa Williams, and Brigitte Fielder.
Edith Newberry Fogarty writes: “My husband, John, and I welcomed
our first child, John Higgins Fogarty, into the world on April 28. I am on
maternity leave, but will be returning to work in August at State Street
Middle School in Windsor, VT, where I teach social studies.”
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Presidential Event: Diane and Gary Bush Ph.D. ’77 opened their
Atlanta, GA, home for President Margaret L. Drugovich and alumni.
Janice Vacchiano ’96 and Michael
Abel were married May 7, 2011.
Wendy Wyatt Frankonis ’96 joined
the celebration.
Amy Bateman ’04 and Joseph
Frazier were married August 28,
2010.
Alice Timmons Haroldson writes: “We’re very excited to be heading
to Danvers, MA, at the end of June for a much-needed visit with the girls,
and what’s sure to be a very joyous celebration”
Jennifer Wilson writes: “Some things are old and some are new with me.
I’m still at the hospital and playing softball on Thursdays in the summer.
My girlfriend of almost three years and I are going to start a family this
month. We found a wonderful donor and I’m crossing my fingers for
a little girl! I am excited to see Mara Areman and her little Olivia this
summer. I spoke with her last night and she had her say Willy, it was so
cute! Working on my first book and I am hoping by this time next year, I
will be done. See, there is hope yet for me to be famous!”
Emily Moore writes: “I’m still living in Fonda with my cat, Meche. I just
finished my second year as a 7-9 math teacher at Oppenheim-Ephratah
CSD and am looking forward to summer vacation. In April, I bought
my late grandmother’s house and will surely keep busy updating and
renovating! Find me on Facebook or e-mail me at emilyjmoore@live.com”
Craig Laughlin moved to Syracuse, NY, in June 2010. Since then, he
has become an integral part of the Dam Dirt Heroes kickball team, started
working for a little company known as Apple Inc., and is finalizing plans
to start his own business, Kinani Blue Marketing, LLC.
After running her seventh marathon, Lindsay Silverman has decided to
focus on shorter races, like 18-milers and half marathons. She’s looking
forward to a summer spent volunteering, running, drawing, and traveling.
2001 | 10th Reunion
2002
Meredith Robbins, meredithrbbns@yahoo.com
2003
Erin Rowe, drowe214@hotmail.com
Charlie Hitch won another Pinnacle Award at Lockheed Martin.
2004
Bry Anderson, bryanna.anderson@uconn.edu
Lindsay Coons is finishing up her fourth year as an elementary music
teacher at Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School and she has the best job
in the world! She teaches K-8 general music, plus two choruses and fifthgrade
band. She is coaching volleyball at school and playing in several
adult volleyball leagues. Lindsay is engaged to the man of her dreams;
their wedding date is set for August 17, 2012. They bought a house in
Schenectady and live there with their bulldog, Tali, and cats Smokey and
Bandit.
Stacie Levy married Cesar Gracia on June 11, 2011, in Miami, FL.
Amy Bateman is still working in the plant pathology lab for the USDA
in Aberdeen, ID. She married Joseph Frazier, software engineer, on
August 28, 2011. They are expecting their first child together at the end
of November.
Dvera Saxton is living in Watsonville, CA, where she is conducting her
doctoral dissertation research in anthropology on farm worker health on
different sizes and scales of organic and conventional farms. In support of
her work, she received a Wenner Gren Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
and a National Science Foundation Social and Behavioral Sciences
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant. “Working with farm workers
is simultaneously beautiful and depressing work. I’m really enjoying the
relationships I’m building with folks and the community organizing
endeavors I’ve become a part of through my research. There is nowhere
else I’d rather be at present. I’m hoping to stay in Watsonville in the long
term and make some sort of career and life for myself that will enable me
to continue researching, writing, educating, and organizing around food,
agriculture, health, labor, and environmental issues as they pertain to farm
workers.”
Courtney Hennessy is still living in Australia. She got engaged at
midnight on New Year’s Eve to her boyfriend of three years. They are
getting married next year on July 28 and are very excited. They are
working on trying to find a place to live and arrange the big day.
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The night before Commencement,
former Hawks QB Jason Boltus ’09
proposed to field hockey standout
Amanda Barton ’11. Boltus popped
the question on the turf at Wright
Stadium, where they both excelled
as student-athletes.
Alumni Event: Young alumni gathered at Tia’s on the Waterfront in
Boston and celebrated the Bruin’s win of The Stanley Cup alongside
Bruins players.
CLASS NOTES
DEADLINE
Submit your Class Notes for
the next Wick by September
19, 2011. Send your news to
alumniclassnotes@hartwick.
edu or the class correspondent
listed under your class year.
Please understand that we may
have to edit your Class Notes for
length.
2005
Edwin Siegfried, edwin.siegfried@gmail.com
2006 | 5th Reunion
Brian Knox, brian.j.knox@gmail.com
Florence Alila, fakoth@hotmail.com
Patrick Hanley reports that in March he successfully defended his
Ph.D. thesis, titled “Elicitation and epitope usage of therapeutic human
T cell targeting cytomegalovirus.” He graduated from the department
of immunology and center for cell and gene therapy at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston, TX. He will continue there as a post-doctoral
fellow.
2007
Sara Caldwell, caldwells@hartwick.edu
2009
Olivia Burlew and husband Gary proudly announce the April 14, 2011,
birth of their first child, Mason Donald Burlew.
Christian Janowski is an analyst at Galson Laboratories in Syracuse,
NY.
2010
Wyatt Uhlein, wuhlein@cpexre.com
Nikki English is a marketing associate with Reed Exhibitions.
Christina Herbst is doing an internship at Reformed Church of America
Archives in New Brunswick, NJ.
Show
Off!
The Wick Holiday
Gift Guide
We’re compiling a holiday gift guide
of products made by Hartwick alumni,
faculty, and staff. Whether you have a
store or a website, we’d like to share
your work.
To be considered, e-mail a quality, high-resolution photo (300
dpi) of your product, along with your name, class year, contact
information, and web address to moritzj@hartwick.edu or mail a
sample to Jen Moritz, The Wick, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820.
College Calendar
Submit your Hartwick-themed
photos—campus, J Term, study
abroad, people, athletics,
performances, unique
experiences—for the 2012
calendar. Deadline: Oct. 3.
Photos should be approximately 8x10 inches, 300
dpi. Upload your photo to www.fl ickr.com/groups/
hartwickcollege (be sure to tag them “2012calendar”).
You also can e-mail your photo(s) to moritzj@hartwick.
edu with “2012 calendar contest” in the subject line.
Winning photos will appear in the 2012 calendar!
48 | The Wick | Summer 2011

In Memoriam
1932 | Helen Sprowls Short, of Sun City, AZ, died March 8, 2011.
1933 | Evelyn Coutant Pangburn, 99, of Nazareth, PA, died
April 27, 2011. Following her time at Hartwick, she received graduate
degrees from Middlebury College and Columbia University and taught
Latin and French in Davenport, Cherry Valley, and Bath, NY, high
schools. Survivors include her sons, four grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren.
Her husband of 61 years, Robert, and a son preceded her
in death.
1933 | Stuart Wessing, 101, of Rome, NY, died peacefully May 18,
2011. He received his master’s degree and continued studies at Albany,
Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse universities. His wife, Grace, died in
December 1993. Stuart was supervisor of adult education at Sauquoit
Valley and a teacher in Minaville and Canajoharie schools. He was World
War II veteran, former U.S. Air Force manpower analyst, and former
rehabilitation and training officer with the U.S. Veterans Administration.
From 1954 to 1996 he served as a special agent of Northwestern Mutual
Life Insurance Co. He is survived by a sister and numerous nieces and
nephews. He was predeceased by his companion, Christine Fritsch, in
June 2002.
1938 | Kathryn Morley Allen, 95, of Matamoras, PA, died April
14, 2011. She and her husband owned Polar Bear Ice Cream Stand in
Matamoras for 15 years. She worked as a teacher of history and English
for Delaware Valley School District and as a librarian in Port Jervis.
Survivors include two sons, one daughter, eight grandchildren, and seven
great-grandchildren; she was predeceased by her husband of 47 years,
George.
1942 | Lorraine Pierce Holowach, 91, died March 30, 2011. Her
postgraduate studies were done at the Maxwell School of Government
at Syracuse University and Columbia University in New York City.
She married Oneonta ophthalmologist Nicholas Holowach in 1944.
She taught English and social studies at Gilbertsville Central School,
Arlington High School, and Sloatsburg High School until 1951, when
her husband was called to active duty with the U.S. Navy in Heidelberg,
Germany. They returned to the U.S. the following year and lived in
Portsmouth, VA. She was a member of the Hartwick College Citizens
Board and its first woman president. She was predeceased by her husband
of 59 years in February 2004. Survivors include a daughter; a son,
Nicholas Holowach II ’81, Esq.; and two grandchildren.
1947 | Wanda Slusarczyk Richter, of Remsen, NY, died February
4, 2011. She was predeceased by her husband of 25 years, Bill, in 1977.
She worked as an office nurse, then was employed by St. Luke’s Hospital
in Utica. She stayed at home to raise her children to school age and
worked as a private duty RN until her employment with Masonic Home
as assistant director of nurses. She then worked at St. Luke’s Memorial
Hospital until her retirement. Wanda was recognized for serving
during World War II as a nurse in training. Survivors include children,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
1947 | Charles Root, 87, of Cooperstown, NY, died May 16, 2011.
He attended Syracuse University until he left school to join the armed
services. When he returned from the service, he attended Hartwick,
where he became a brother in the Alpha Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Pi fraternity. At Hartwick, he met and married Ruth Graunke ’47.
Charles and Ruth ran Root Hardware in Cooperstown until 1956.
He then worked at the Carrier plant in Schenectady until he joined the
Cooperstown Post Office, where he remained until his retirement in
1987. Charles is survived by three daughters and five grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 64 years, Ruth, who died in
December 2009.
1950 | Russell Feltus Jr., 90, of Liverpool, NY, died May 25, 2011.
Russ served in the Marine Corps from 1941 to 1945. He was a founding
member and president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity at Hartwick. Russ
was employed by Employers Mutual of Wausau as a malpractice claims
reviewer until 1959. He later became executive director of the Medical
Societies of Oneida, Herkimer, Madison, and Chenango counties.
Russ was a loving husband and father to his four children and a devoted
grandfather to his 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. He and
his wife, Jane, recently celebrated 60 years of marriage.
1950 | Eileen Lendt Schaller, of Venice, FL, died February 11,
2011. A devout Christian, Eileen was a devoted and caring wife and
mother. She was employed at Kodak as a registered nurse. Survivors
include her son. Her husband, George, predeceased her.
1951 | Harvey Loucks, 82, of North Tonawanda, NY, died
unexpectedly May 7, 2011. He earned degrees in chemistry and
mathematics. Harvey worked the majority of his life at Bell Aerospace as
an engineer, helping to develop both Teflon and Corian. Survivors include
his wife, Esther; two daughters; grandchildren; and great-grandchildren.
1957 | John Hooks, of Towson, MD, died May 19, 2011.
1958 | Richard Hatzenbuhler, 78, of Verona, NJ, died May 20,
2011. He retired in 1990 as a senior vice president with First Fidelity
Bank, N.A. New Jersey (Wells Fargo), where he managed and directed
the Financial Institutions Division. He was active within the New Jersey
political arena, serving as an Essex County Republican committee
member and consulting with various congressional banking committees
on forging a new Holding Company Act for the New Jersey banking
industry. He was a founding member of the national coalition of check
payment systems. He attended Syracuse University and, on his return
from serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, he received a
bachelor of science degree from Hartwick. Survivors include his wife of
53 years, Marilyn Smith Hatzenbuhler; daughter and son-in-law; and
granddaughter.
1958 | Barbara McCluskey Warner, 74, of Sun Lakes, AZ, died
January 8, 2011. She and her husband, Jimmie ’59, retired to Arizona
in 1992 after having spent most of her life on Long Island. Barb was
committed to community service and served on the boards of several nonprofits.
She is survived by two daughters and two grandchildren.
1959 | Russell Schott, 76, of Ballston Spa, NY, died May 27, 2011.
He worked for more than 30 years as a clerk in the Railroad Assessment
Department for the State of New York. He was a member of the Saratoga
Springs Senior Citizens and the Racing City Chorus, and enjoyed the
Summer 2011 | The Wick | 49

Flashback
What’s
the story?
Were you one of “Miss Lacey’s Girls”?
Do you see yourself with her here?
Was this a Pinning Ceremony?
How did it fit into Commencement exercises?
Do the candles symbolize Florence Nightingale?
What we do know: Miss Edith Lacey figures prominently in
Hartwick’s history. With 20 years’ nursing experience, she was
recruited to start Hartwick‘s Cadet Nurse Corps during World War
II. She served as the first director of the School of Nursing (1943-
1953), Associate Professor of Nursing (1943-1957), Dean of the
School of Nursing (1953-1961), Professor of Nursing (1957-1961),
and Professor Emeritus of Nursing. Her legacy continues with the
Edith M. Lacey Scholarship, awarded annually to a junior nursing
student. In this year’s graduating class, Gabrielle Evans earned both
the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship and a Hartwick College Faculty
Scholar Award (see page 5).
Please share your stories about this photo or any aspect of Nursing at Hartwick.
Send identifications and memories of this or similar events to the_wick@hartwick.edu or
Editor, The Wick, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820
52 | The Wick | Summer 2011

of the Upper New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America. Upon his retirement in 1986, St. Paul’s honored him as pastor
emeritus. Walter and Inge later became active members of St. Michael’s
Lutheran Church in Camillus until they moved to Wilmington to be
near family in 2008. Walter was predeceased by his beloved wife, Inge.
Survivors include his four children and their families.
Honorary Degree | Lee Miller H’96, of East Syracuse, NY, died
January 31, 2011. He served as bishop of the Upstate NY Synod, ELCA,
from 1992 to 2002. He graduated from The Peddie School, Princeton
University, The Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia, and
Columbia University, earning an Ed.D.; he received an honorary Doctor
of Divinity from Hartwick College. He was named Distinguished
Alumnus of Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia in 2008.
He also served pastoral calls at First Lutheran Church, Jamestown, and
First English Lutheran Church, Lockport; assistant to the bishop of the
Upstate NY Synod; interim bishop, Northeast Ohio Synod, ELCA. He
was a volunteer with Ste. Marie Among the Iroquois, organizationally
and as an interpreter, portraying a 17th century Jesuit priest. He served
as a school board member in Jamestown and Lockport, on many boards
of trustees including Lutheran Social Services, Upstate NY; LTS
Philadelphia; and Augsburg Fortress Publishing House, Minneapolis. He
was convener for the Collegium of the NYS Council of Churches. He is
survived by his wife of 45 years, Joan; their children; and grandchildren.
Friend | David Arnold, 73, of Huntly, VA, died December 9, 2010,
of kidney cancer. Earlier in his career, he was a photo editor for the books
division of Time-Life in New York City and a newspaper photographer.
In 1994, he was honored by the University of Missouri journalism school
for his work on the National Geographic magazine report titled “Viruses.”
Survivors include his wife of 29 years, Lesley; two daughters from
his first marriage; and four grandchildren. David was the grandson of
Hartwick President Henry Arnold, and spoke on the family’s behalf at the
dedication of Arnold Rain Garden in 2009.
split his firewood, and make jams and maple syrup. Kurt is survived by his
children, Ken Neunzig and Kathi Chipman; four grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his loving and beautiful wife
of 57 years, Elizabeth, and his son Kurt Jr. Memorial gifts may be made in
Kurt’s memory to Pine Lake Campus, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY;
designate “Friends of Pine Lake” at hartwickalumni.org/hartwickfund.
Friend | Martha “Marti” Stayton, 61, of Oneonta, NY, died June
11, 2011, after a year-long struggle with pancreatic cancer. Marti grew up
in Portland, OR, where she met her future husband, Professor of Biology
Stanley K. Sessions. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology
and master’s in counseling psychology from the University of Oregon.
In 1979, Marti and Stan moved to Berkeley, CA, where she worked
as a family counselor for six years. After Berkeley, the couple moved to
England, where she gave birth to their son, Alex. After a year in England,
they returned to California, and in 1989, they settled in Oneonta. Marti
loved Oneonta and surrounding areas, and enjoyed walks in the parks
and canoeing in the rivers and lakes, camping in the Adirondacks, visiting
with friends, playing mandolin, listening to music, and going to the
theatre. She was a professional counselor for her entire career, working
with children and adults, groups and individuals, to seek solutions to
the daily frustrations of being human. She divided her work between
clinical practice and public service. For more than 10 years, Marti was
the employee assistance coordinator for Bassett Healthcare. Prior to that,
she was the director of counseling at Catholic Charities of Delaware and
Otsego Counties. She served three terms as an elected member of the
Oneonta School Board, serving as president during a challenging time
in the history of the school district. Most recently, Marti was elected to
and served on the Otsego County Board of Representatives. She also
was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oneonta. Marti is
survived by her husband, Stan, to whom she was married for 41 years; and
her son, Alex Sessions ’07.
Friend | Kurt Neunzig, 96, of Sanibel Island, FL, died December
27, 2010. He first came to the Davenport Center area around 1926,
where his father purchased the land they renamed Pine Lake. After serving
as a swim instructor in the Navy to new recruits during World War II,
Kurt and his wife, Liz, while raising their three children, spent their
summers building up and operating Pine Lake as a summer housekeeping
cabin resort for the next 25 years. He not only did much of the plumbing,
electrical, carpentry, etc., but was revered by generations of young kids
who among other things he taught to swim, took on hikes, played softball
with, and rode around the lake on his jeep. His love of the land led him to
encourage the purchase of the lake and around 400 acres of woodland by
Hartwick College in 1971, that it might be preserved in its natural state
for future generations. Winters during those years were spent working in
Miami Beach at hotels and in water shows. An avid vegetable gardener,
Kurt at various times also raised pigeons, beagles, horses, and Scottish
Highlander cattle. A lifelong hunter, Kurt traveled to Colorado, Idaho,
Alaska, and Newfoundland on big-game hunts and with Liz ran a hunting
camp at Pine Lake in the 1950s to 1960. Kurt also served as a Town of
Davenport assessor; in later years as a swim official for Hartwick, SUCO,
and Oneonta High School; and as a golf starter on Sanibel, continuing
working past the age of 90. He also continued to golf, garden, cut and
Summer 2011 | The Wick | 51

Flashback
What’s
the story.
Were you one of “Miss Lacey’s Girls”?
Do you see yourself with her here?
Was this a Pinning Ceremony?
How did it fit into Commencement exercises?
Do the candles symbolize Florence Nightingale?
What we do know: Miss Edith Lacey figures prominently in
Hartwick’s history. With 20 years’ nursing experience, she was
recruited to start Hartwick‘s Cadet Nurse Corps during World War
II. She served as the first director of the School of Nursing (1943-
1953), Associate Professor of Nursing (1943-1957), Dean of the
School of Nursing (1953-1961), Professor of Nursing (1957-1961),
and Professor Emeritus of Nursing. Her legacy continues with the
Edith M. Lacey Scholarship, awarded annually to a junior nursing
student. In this year’s graduating class, Gabrielle Evans earned both
the Edith M. Lacey Scholarship and a Hartwick College Faculty
Scholar Award (see page 5).
Please share your stories about this photo or any aspect of Nursing at Hartwick.
Send identifications and memories of this or similar events to the_wick@hartwick.edu or
Editor, The Wick, Hartwick College, PO Box 4020, Oneonta, NY 13820
52 | The Wick | Summer 2011

Hartwick Giving
Investing in Hartwick,
One Student at a Time
“Endowed Scholarships provide the gift of
opportunity,” said President Margaret L.
Drugovich at the Partners in Scholarship luncheon
in May.
Noting that 98 percent of Hartwick students
receive financial support, she explained, “A
$10,000 annual distribution from a large
endowment can allow a student to dream of
choosing Hartwick. A $1,000 annual distribution
from a smaller endowment can allow a student
to remain, to stay with her dream. Simply put,
endowed scholarships make dreams come true for
generations of Hartwick students to come.”
“I have decided to endow a new scholarship as part of Hartwick’s
[upcoming] campaign. I’ve made this gift in memory of my
father, John Hamilton, who guided and encouraged me to attend
Hartwick … all those years ago. My father was very proud of my
accomplishments and I’m sure he would agree this is a very worthy
investment.”
Carol Ann Coughlin ’86 | Economics major | M.B.A., New York University | College Trustee |
Scholarship recipient as a student
Endowed scholarships offer a personal way to have
a direct impact on the quality of students earning
the degree. For more information about endowed
scholarships and other forms of student support,
please contact Jim Broschart, Vice President
for College Advancement, at 607-431-4026 or
broschartj@hartwick.edu.
Nick Clair ’12 presents Trustee Bruce Anderson
’63 with a Partners in Scholarship pin during the
luncheon held to bring together endowed fund
donors and the students who are benefitting from
their generosity. Clair is the recipient of The Andrew
and Betty Anderson Scholarship, which Anderson
established in 2007 and continues to build as a
tribute to his parents. Clair, from Walden, NY, is
a Mathematics and Education major and a wide
receiver on the football team.
“I am the proud recipient of two named scholarships—the Dr.
Robert E. and Maryalice Mansbach Scholarship [for community
service] and the Carol A. Bocher and Earl E. Deubler Jr. H’91
Scholarship [for a Biology student showing outstanding potential].
I feel honored to be recognized as someone with outstanding
potential. I feel an extra sense of pride, but also of responsibility. It is
through donors’ generosity that we, as students, know that someone
believes in us, and that cannot be measured in dollars and cents.”
Mark Blazek ’12 | Biology major/Pre-Allied Health Program | Hawks Basketball guard and record
holder; ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District I First Team (2010) | Student Athlete Advisory
Board, Fellowship of Christian Athletes. (Pictured with Professor Emeritus Bob Mansbach)

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Celebrating Hartwick’s 80th Commencement on The Hill.