Connections - Winter 2011-2012 - Nazareth College

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Nazareth College
Winter 2011-12
Raising the Bar
Nazareth’s Veteran-Friendly Campus

Nazareth College Arts Center
2011–2012 Subscription Series Season
Evening Performances
The Capitol Steps dec. 31, 2011
42Five (a cappella) Jan. 21, 2012
Opening act: Nazareth’s own Call4Backup
Rochester City Ballet: The Blood Countess Feb. 3, 4, 5, 2012
Stars of the Russian Ballet march 24, 2012
Tao: The Way of the Drum march 31, 2012
Parsons Dance may 5, 2012
Rochester City Ballet: Dance Mix may 18, 19, 20, 2012
Children’s/Family Performances
Rochester Children’s Theatre dec.10 , 11; 17, 18, 2011
Annie (co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)
John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean Jan. 7, 2012
(black-light puppet show)
Rochester Children’s Theatre Feb. 11, 12; 18, 19, 2012
The Hobbit (co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)
Rochester Children’s Theatre mar. 10, 11; 17, 18, 2012
A Year with Frog and Toad
(co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)
Parsons Dance
Photo: Paula Lobo
Attention: Special Discounts!
Nazareth College faculty and staff receive a 50% discount.
Nazareth College alumni receive a 20% discount.
Nazareth College full-time students (grad and undergrad) with valid ID
receive one free ticket per performance. Part-time students (grad and
undergrad) are eligible for one ticket per semester.
Box Office: 585-389-2170.
Regular box office hours are Monday- Friday,
11 a.m.-5 p.m., and 11 a.m. until curtain time on
performance days. Download the complete
season brochure at artscenter.naz.edu
Special thanks to our series sponsors:

Editor
Robyn A. Rime
Assistant Director,
Publications and Creative Services
Regular Contributors
Donna Borgus
Kerry Gotham
Julie Long
Alicia Nestle
Joe Seil
Sofia Tokar
Additional Contributors
Robin L. Flanigan
Alan Gelb
Carlnita Greene
Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G
The Classes
Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G
Photographer
Alex Shukoff
Contributing Photographers
Kurt Brownell
Brady Dillsworth
Greg Francis
Jamie Germanow
James Schnepf
Design
Boehm Marketing Communications
Printing
Cohber Press
Director of Alumni Relations
Kerry Gotham ’98
Vice President, Institutional Advancement
Kelly E. Gagan
Nazareth College President
Daan Braveman, J.D.
We welcome comments from our readers,
articles and essays, and class notes. All mail
should be directed to one of the offices below,
and sent to:
Nazareth College
4245 East Ave.
Rochester, NY 14618-3790
Comments/story suggestions:
Marketing and Communications—Publications
e-mail: rrime7@naz.edu
585-389-5098
Name/address corrections:
Office of Development
e-mail: pwagner6@naz.edu
585-389-2415
Class notes or comments:
Office of Alumni Relations
email: alumni.naz.edu
585-389-2472
Please note that Connections is produced
approximately four months in advance of when
it is received by readers. Letters and class notes
received after production has begun will be
included in the next issue of the magazine.
All accepted text is subject to editing.
Main College switchboard:
585-389-2525
www.naz.edu
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Volume 24, Number 1 I winter 2011-12
ABOUT OUR COVER
Photograph by Alex Shukoff
Veterans James Leach and
Candice Kundle ’12 raise
the flag on Nazareth’s campus.
Read about the College’s
programs for veterans on
pages 34-41.
FPO
FPO
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 News and Views
The latest news from the Nazareth campus.
18 Athletics
New hockey team; Hall of Fame; swimmer Carissa Risucci ’13.
24 Nazareth in the World
American Language Institute immerses students in
language and culture.
26 Life of the Mind
Professor Carlnita Greene studies communication and food.
28 Beyond Self
Horizons program benefits young city schoolchildren.
30 Nazareth Heritage
The long tradition of Nazareth’s literary magazine.
32 Interfaith Ideas
Nazareth’s U.S. Institute on Pluralism draws African student leaders.
34 Cover Story: A Vet-Friendly Campus
Nazareth is building a reputation as a veteran-friendly campus.
Connections outlines the programs and services the College
offers for vets.
42 Report to Donors 2010–11
Operating revenues and expenses for the College during the
past year.
46 Alumni News
Michael Park ’90 on Broadway; profile of artist Marina Pang ’58;
alumni mentor program.
54 Class Notes
58 The Archive
Copyright © 2011 by Nazareth College. Photographs and artwork copyright by their respective creators or by Nazareth College. All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be
reused or republished in any form without express written permission.
Nazareth College Mission and Vision Statements
The mission of Nazareth College is to provide a learning community that educates students in the liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional fields, fostering commitment
to a life informed by intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic values; to develop skills necessary for the pursuit of meaningful careers; and to inspire dedication to the ideal of
service to their communities. Nazareth seeks students who want to make a difference in their own world and the world around them, and encourages them to develop the understanding,
commitment, and confidence to lead fully informed and actively engaged lives.
The vision of Nazareth College is to be nationally and internationally recognized as a comprehensive educational institution which provides its students with transformational experiences
and integrates liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional education at the undergraduate and graduate levels and which places special value on student
success, diversity, inclusion, civic engagement, and making a difference in local and global communities.
Statement on Respect and Diversity
We, the Nazareth community, embrace both respect for the person and freedom of speech. The College promotes civility and denounces acts of hatred or intolerance. The free exchange
of ideas is possible only when concepts, values, and viewpoints can be expressed and challenged in a manner that is neither threatening nor demeaning. It is the policy of Nazareth College,
in keeping with its efforts to foster a community in which the diversity of all members is respected, not to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, marital or veteran status, disability, carrier status, genetic predisposition, or any other protected status. Respect for the dignity of
all peoples is an essential part of the College’s tradition and mission, and its vision for the future.
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New Early Childhood Education Major
Nazareth’s department of inclusive
childhood education is offering a new
undergraduate inclusive early childhood/
inclusive childhood education major.
“This major enables the graduate to teach in
the inclusive classrooms from birth through grade
six,” says Timothy Glander, Ph.D., dean of the
School of Education. “It will be especially attractive
to prospective undergraduates because it
will enable candidates to teach in kindergarten
classrooms, a grade not covered by the previous
program.”
Nazareth is one of only two schools in New
York State that offers four teaching certifications
in four years. The program also leads to two full
academic majors, one in education and one in an
area of the liberal arts and sciences.
“Four certifications lead to better preparation
for the classroom and more employment options,”
says Kate DaBoll-Lavoie, Ph.D., professor
and chair of the department of inclusive childhood
education. “We work to empower our students
to construct and implement meaningful and
research-based professional practices that transform
them, their learners, their communities, and
their profession.”
For more information, visit go.naz.edu/ICE.
College Appoints New Trustee
Nazareth College is pleased to announce
that Jeffrey Burke is the newest
member of the board of trustees.
Burke is president of SalesCongo, Inc. and
president/owner of Sterling Sage Solutions.
SalesCongo is a cloud-based software firm
focused on the sales readiness management
market. It is a Salesforce.com ISV Partner and
continues to bring innovative applications to
the market that improve sales productivity
and success. Sterling Sage Solutions is a provider
of advanced IT solutions that improves customer productivity. Its
solutions focus on enterprise-class customers ranging from improving
data center energy efficiency to advanced communications solutions
and services.
Previously, Burke served as executive vice president, managed
services and IT of PAETEC Communications from 2003 through 2008.
Prior to PAETEC, he was the CEO and co-founder of NetSetGo, Inc., a
regional internet professional services firm with offices in eight states
across the eastern U.S. Burke also served in executive roles at Xerox
and Digital Equipment Corporation, where he successfully developed
new technology-based service businesses. He served as the chairperson
of the board of directors of the American Heart Association in 2007
and 2008. He has also served as a board member for the Rochester &
Syracuse Epilepsy Foundation and on the advisory boards of Relevant
Technologies, Emenete Business Services, Document Dynamics, 2Logical,
NC School of Management, and Genesee Valley Trust.
Burke holds a B.A. in accountancy from Bentley College. He and his
wife reside in Pittsford with their daughter and son.
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New Faculty
Nazareth College welcomes the newest members of its faculty
for the fall 2011 semester.
College of Arts and Sciences
Corrine Dempsey,
associate professor
of religious studies
Dempsey has a Ph.D. in
religion and an M.Phil., both
from Syracuse University, as
well as an M.A. in systematic
theology from Graduate Theological Union at
U.C. Berkeley. She was previously an associate
professor of religious studies at the University of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point and a visiting assistant
professor of religion at Syracuse University.
Stephen Tajc, assistant
professor of chemistry
Tajc has a Ph.D. and an M.S.
in biochemistry, both from the
University of Rochester Medical
Center. He was previously
a postdoctoral fellow
in biology at Johns Hopkins University.
Yu Zhansui, visiting
assistant professor in
foreign languages
Yu has a Ph.D. in Asian studies
from the University of
British Columbia and an M.A.
in Chinese literature and language
from Shandong University. He was previously
a visiting assistant professor of Chinese at
Lehigh University and a postdoctoral fellow at
the Institute for Asian Research at the University
of British Columbia.
School of Health
and Human Services
Elizabeth Clark, lecturer in
physical therapy
Clark has a master’s and
doctorate in physical therapy,
both from SUNY Upstate
Medical University. She is
a clinical specialist in neurology and an APTA
credentialed clinical instructor. Clark was
previously the residency co-director at Unity
Health System: Acute Rehabilitation and Brain
Injury Program and Comprehensive Rehabilitation
Center.
Michelle Donahue ’02, ‘03G,
lecturer in physical therapy
Donahue has a doctorate
in physical therapy from
Shenandoah University and
a master’s in physical therapy
from Nazareth College.
She has been a clinical instructor at Nazareth
since 2005 and served as a LEND fellow at the
University of Rochester in 2003.
School of Management
Emily Carpenter,
lecturer in management
Carpenter has an M.S.Ed.
in counselor education from
SUNY Brockport and was
formerly the director of
business and finance
programs in the University of Rochester Career
Center. She has experience leading collegewide
internship efforts and has spent more
than a decade both teaching and counseling
college students.
Mark Weber,
assistant professor
of management
Weber has a master’s in
business administration,
marketing, and strategy
from the University of
Dayton. He has more than 25 years of executive-level
experience managing business
performance at Eastman Kodak Company,
where he was most recently the vice president
of marketing.
Dr. Monica Weis receiving the Louie
Award from Bob Grip, president of the
International Thomas Merton Society.
Recent Faculty Honors
Daan Braveman, president, received
the Veteran Education Champion Award
from the Rochester Regional Veterans
Business Council during its second annual
Business Expo last summer.
Stephen Demanchick, Ph.D., LMHC,
RPT, NCC, director of the play therapy
center for children and families, received
a service award from the Association
for Play Therapy (APT) during the 2011
conference last October in Sacramento,
Calif. He was honored for his outstanding
voluntary service at the play therapy
center.
Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., Ph.D., an
English professor and director of the
MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies)
program, recently received the International
Thomas Merton Society’s highest
award, the “Louie.” The award is given
to one whose distinguished service has
contributed to the aims of the society
and to furthering its goals.
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Clockwise, from top left:
FuturPointe Dance members’
infectious enthusiasm got
people dancing.
Dancing in the
Streets
The second annual Nazareth College Arts
Center Dance Festival last July 8–16
presented a vibrant array of dance
exploring the range of expression of the
human body. More than 6,000 people
participated in this year’s Dance Festival,
an increase of 8% compared to last year.
This nine-day festival featured lectures, conversations,
and post-show talk-backs with the featured choreographers,
master classes, community dances, parades, free
outdoor performances, main stage performances, an
archival exhibition showcasing materials from more than
40 years of dance at the Arts Center, and a photography
exhibition by Ken Riemer, featuring FuturPointe dancers.
“By all accounts, the 2011 Nazareth College Arts
Center’s Dance Festival was a tremendous success, for
the College and for the Greater Rochester community,”
says President Daan Braveman. “We offered high
quality, diverse programming, showcased our local and
regional talent, and provided area residents with the
unique opportunity to see two distinct performances
by our visiting guest artist, the nationally renowned
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.”
Check out more photo galleries and video clips
at go.naz.edu/dance.
Mark your calendar for next year’s Dance Festival,
July 14-21, 2012!
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company performed
Serenade/The Proposition
for a spectacular ending
to the festival.
Lehrer Dance Company
achieved a delicate balance
of artistry and athleticism.
Helga Schulz Morgan was
honored with a reception in
recognition of her generous
donation of her dance book
collection and Dancing in
the Archives exhibition to
the Lorette Wilmot Library.
FuturPointe Dance and
attendees of the Strolling
on the Canal event danced
through the Village of
Pittsford.
Garth Fagan accepted the
first Joe Baranowski Vision
Award from President
Daan Braveman.
PUSH Physical Theatre
performed at the Dancing
on the Grass event in front
of Elizabeth George Hall.
The Rochester City Ballet,
with FuturPointe Dance,
performed in the Callahan
Theater.
(center) Dancers from the
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance
Company took to the
streets of Rochester as part
of the 2011 Dance on
ARTWalk event.

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Bikes@Naz Gives Campus
a New Ride
Bikes@Naz, a new collaboration between the Student Activities
Office and the Greenprint@Naz sustainability initiative, is
giving Nazareth students, staff, and faculty a new ride around
campus.
Bike rentals are now available free of charge on a daily basis at a fully
staffed bike shop located next to the racquetball courts in the Shults
Center. Bike selections are on a first come, first served basis. Renters
receive a bike, bike helmet, and bike lock, and they must sign a rental
waiver and agree to abide by New York State traffic laws.
“The bikes can be taken anywhere you’d like,” says Brian McGahan,
assistant director of the Shults Center and coordinator of Bikes@
Naz. “Maps are available to print out at the bike shop based on your
destination. The canal and Town of Pittsford are minutes away, and all
Bikes@Naz coordinator Brian McGahan outside the bike shop.
RTS buses come equipped with bike racks.”
All bikes are either donated by members of the Nazareth community
or purchased from R Community Bikes, a nonprofit organization. All donated bikes are refurbished before being made available in the bike shop.
“Bikes@Naz is designed to reduce our carbon footprint by reducing the dependency on automobiles,” says McGahan. “It also provides a healthy
means of transportation for the Nazareth community. Through Bikes@Naz, we’re committed to the environment and health and wellness.”
Anyone wishing to donate a bicycle to Bikes@Naz can contact McGahan at bmcgaha1@naz.edu.
Learn more about Nazareth’s sustainability efforts at go.naz.edu/sustainability.
Faculty and Staff Double Donations
Not only do the employees of Nazareth College
give through their time and talent, but they really
understand the importance of philanthropy. Faculty
and staff giving has doubled since 2006 to a recordbreaking
239 donors for a participation rate of 31 percent.
Giving in 2011 exceeded $140,000, a number that shattered
previous records. The number of employee donors
joining the Council Oak Society—the $1,000+ giving society—also
increased by more than 30 percent.
Faculty and staff support is important in many ways, explains
Lynn Mulvey, assistant director in development. Foundations
and corporations look at the percentage of giving as a
way to measure the health of an institution. Alumni, parents,
and students are inspired by their example. Prospective
students and their families see that Nazareth is a community
that truly believes in giving. “We want to thank the Nazareth
community for its outstanding support,” Mulvey concludes.
For information on giving, visit www.naz.edu/supportnazareth.
Annual Scholarship Donations
Each year the following corporations and
foundations support Nazareth College students with
gifts of scholarship. Their generous contributions help
us prepare students to have meaningful careers and lead
active, informed, engaged lives as contributing members
of our society.
The Chatlos Foundation, Inc.
Donald & Maxine Davison Foundation
Genesee County Antique Dealers Association
The Hearst Foundation
KeyBank
The Presser Foundation
Rochester Labor Management Cooperative Trust
Rotary Club of Pittsford
Kilian J. and Caroline F. Schmitt Foundation
Small Business Council
Thiem Charitable Foundation
For more information on scholarships and other financial
aid, visit www.naz.edu/financial-aid.
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Alumni Bring Home Emmys
Two of Nazareth’s talented alumni received Daytime
Emmy Awards last summer from the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences.
Michael Park ’90 earned his second Best Actor Emmy in
a row for his work as character Detective Jack Snyder on
CBS’s now-cancelled daytime drama As the World Turns.
Park, who joined the cast of the soap in 1997, is currently
starring with Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying (see
page 50).
Jack Allocco ’72 received another Daytime Emmy Award
for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and
Composition for a Drama Series (The Bold and the Beautiful),
making for a career total of six Emmys. Allocco is a composer,
conductor, music producer, and director whose career
spans television, film, and theater.
Check out a 2009 interview with Allocco at go.naz.edu/
allocco.
Jack Allocco ’72 (center), shown here with David Kurtz (right) and
Bradley P. Bell, holds the Daytime Emmy received this year for their
musical work on The Bold and the Beautiful.
Council Oak Society Reception
Each year at the Council Oak Society reception,
Nazareth College honors leadership donors who have supported
the College with annual gifts of $1,000 or greater. Held last
September at the home of Lorraine and Daan Braveman,
Nazareth’s president, the event allowed more than a hundred
guests the opportunity to mingle, dine, and enjoy live music provided
by Nazareth groups.
For more information on giving options, visit go.naz.edu/give.
Above, left to right:
Vice President of Institutional Advancement Kelly Gagan
(center) welcomed Louise Woerner and her husband,
Nazareth College Trustee Don Kollmorgen.
President Daan Braveman greets Elliott and Debby Landsman.
Bryan Sweet ’07 (left), a GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade)
Council Oak Society member and his partner, Jason Longo,
raise a glass to Nazareth College.
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“My liberal arts education at
Nazareth College has been a
treasure in my life. Attending
the College at age thirty in
1960, I worked in the admissions
office, eventually helping
to recruit students. Nazareth
showed great faith in me,
and I am pleased to reciprocate
by giving to its future.”
—Joan Hacker ’63 is giving to
Nazareth’s future through a bequest
Commitment to the future
Learn how you can
make a lasting difference
through your will by visiting
go.naz.edu/plannedgiving
What is planned giving?
When you include the College in your
future plans through creating a life income
gift such as a charitable gift annuity or
charitable remainder trust, or by naming
Nazareth as a beneficiary of your will,
retirement plan, or life insurance policy.
What is the Founders Society?
A planned giving recognition society
whose members are crucial to advancing the
long-term goals of Nazareth. The College
honors members each year at a luncheon.
Throughout the year, members receive special
invitations to attend Nazareth events as well
as recognition in our annual report.
For more information on planned giving opportunities, please contact Melissa Head,
associate director of major gifts and planned giving, at 585-389-2179 or at mhead9@naz.edu.

Nazareth’s Quidditch team readies itself for a nighttime practice. The team is affiliated with the
Ministry of Magic, a new campus club devoted to exploring the magical world of Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the
Nazareth Campus Clubs
Nazareth College and Hogwarts
School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
have more in common
than the average Muggle—or
non-magical person—might
think. Both have beautiful
grounds, four distinct academic divisions,
and a nearby village watering hole. And both
institutions offer students the opportunity to
pursue their special interests with other likeminded
students on campus.
Although Nazareth doesn’t yet have its
own chapter of S.P.E.W. (Society for the Promotion
of Elfish Welfare), the College’s student
government Undergraduate Association
(UA) offers the choice of more than 50 other
groups, which provide many of the campus
community’s social, educational, recreational,
cultural, and spiritual activities.
But what do students do when their specific
area of interest isn’t represented by an
existing club? Often these students will take
the initiative and form a new club.
by Sofia Tokar
Such was the case with the UA’s most
recent addition: the Ministry of Magic, a club
devoted to the fictionalized world of Harry
Potter, created by J.K. Rowling. The club was
founded by three freshmen: Francis Grunfeld
’15, president; Dylan Loucks ’15, vice president;
and Sandra Simmons ’15, treasurer
(or, respectively, the Minister of Magic, Junior
Assistant to the Minister, and Head Goblin).
“We tried screening A Very Potter Musical,
a Harry Potter-inspired stage play that became
a video sensation on YouTube,” says Simmons.
“Unfortunately, the residential life area
director explained that we couldn’t host the
showing because we weren’t an official club.”
The trio promptly applied for club status, and
although final paperwork was pending, the
UA allowed the Ministry of Magic to host its
first event, a screening of Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows, Part One.
The Ministry’s initial meetings, which featured
a Sorting Hat-inspired quiz and ceremo-
ny, revealed widespread student interest in
the world of Harry Potter. “Nazareth is a small
campus, and yet we found more than enough
students who were interested in participating,”
says Simmons.
The Ministry wisely allied itself with the
College’s Quidditch team. In Rowling’s series,
Quidditch is the wizarding world’s most popular
sport, sort of like soccer played on flying
broomsticks.
Nazareth’s team was founded in summer
2011 by Lauren Berger ’12, the president
of Nazareth’s Lambda Association and the
opinions editor for the student newspaper
The Gleaner. “I started the team by creating
a Facebook fan page in mid-July,” explains
Berger. “The page got approximately 80
‘likes’ the first day, so I began searching
online for other college Quidditch teams and
ways to modify the sport for those of us unable
to ride on flying brooms.”
Berger’s research revealed that the sport
is popular with college students across the
region (RIT and MCC have teams) as well as
the nation. In fact, the fifth annual Quidditch
World Cup was held in November 2011 on
Randall’s Island in New York City. This annual
intercollegiate sporting event features 100
teams vying for the coveted position of best
Quidditch team.
Nazareth’s team practices twice a week,
with the goal of competing in next year’s
Quidditch World Cup. Berger is optimistic,
saying, “The team is mostly composed of
freshmen, which is exciting because they will
continue the sport after I graduate.”
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Magic plans to
expand its campus-wide offerings to include
other Harry Potter-inspired events, such as a
Yule Ball and a Horcrux scavenger hunt. “I
feel lucky to go to a school that allows and
encourages freshmen to explore, express, and
share their passion with other Naz students,”
says Simmons. “Finding and celebrating common
interests with others—be it a cause, a
religion, a sport, or a book—is part of what
college is all about.”
Learn about Nazareth’s other clubs at
go.naz.edu/clubs.
Sofia Tokar is assistant editor in Nazareth’s
marketing department.
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Giving for Thanksgiving
Students sort and load Thanksgiving
baskets last year for delivery to
Dimitri House.
In the spirit of giving, the
Center for Spirituality, the nursing department,
and the campus safety department
at Nazareth College once again sponsored
basket collections for the Thanksgiving
holiday. The baskets each contained
the makings of a holiday dinner,
from turkey to pie filling, and benefited
Rochester families in need through the
Dimitri House and Easter Seals.
The annual program, which began
more than a decade ago, collected food
for 40 baskets this year, says Alison
Schmied, Protestant chaplain and staff
advisor for the basket project, which
is coordinated this year by Stephanie
Preece ‘12. “Some donors created a food
basket for a specific family or made a monetary donation. People also helped in other ways, such as helping to
organize and deliver food baskets.”
The campus safety department’s Food for Fines program offered an unusual way to donate by waiving most
parking tickets in exchange for a donation of four non-perishable food items. “Last year’s program collected
almost 2,000 items,” says Jody Cascino, parking and transportation coordinator. “Any Nazareth faculty, staff
member, or student may participate, and we do see participation across the board. This is a very giving community
as evidenced by the donation of food items from individuals who don’t even have parking tickets—
they just want to support the cause.”
Nazareth Earns National Accolades
Nazareth College has been selected by The New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) to join the organization as its newest
member. The NAC&U is a national consortium of 20 selective, small to mid-size independent colleges and universities dedicated to the
purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement.
Nazareth is also one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The College is featured
in The Best 373 Colleges: 2012 Edition.
Finally, U.S. News & World Report just released is 2012 Best Colleges
guide book, and it ranks Nazareth in the top tier of colleges and universities
in the category of Best Regional Universities—North. Nazareth also
made the guide’s lists of Great Schools, Great Prices and A+ Schools
for B Students, which recognizes top quality colleges that look at more
than just grades on applications. “It is good to get external recognition
for our outstanding efforts on behalf of all our students,” says President
Daan Braveman. “It confirms that we are providing our students the
highest quality experience.”
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Artist Joseph Accorso ’81 had his first
one-man exhibition at the Rochester gallery
ARTISANworks last summer. The display
featured 50 large portraits of international
and local master artists, from the Renaissance
to contemporary art. The large format portraits
used creative compositions to show each artist
with a representation of his or her artwork,
such as this image of Nazareth College
professor Ron Netsky with one of his works.
Accorso received a degree in studio art and
taught for 20 years at Wheatland-Chili High
School. He lives in Rochester with his wife
and three daughters.
As part of its senior class gift to
Nazareth, the Class of 2010 commissioned
a painting from Luke Dangler ’09. Now
hanging in the Golisano Academic Center
near the Office of Alumni Relations, the
artwork captures the spirit of Nazareth.
You can check out more of Dangler’s work
at go.naz.edu/dangler.
E x h i b i t i o n s
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n School of education
Innovative Program Attracts Graduate Education Majors
by Robyn Rime
Education is a competitive
field, and for recent
graduates, landing that
dream job has grown
increasingly challenging. Recognizing
this, Nazareth’s School of
Education has instituted a new
program specially designed to
grant graduate students more
than their degree and teaching
certifications.
The innovative teaching fellows
pilot program, offered this
fall through the School of Education’s
Department of Inclusive
Childhood Education, is a new
initiative leading to professional
certification in inclusive childhood
education and situating
graduate school learning in
public schools. Students complete
a one-year intensive study
while spending two days a week
in a school collaborating with
teachers and leaders on action
research projects and schoolbased
initiatives that address needs of young learners.
“We don’t know anyone else who’s doing this,” says Kerry Dunn,
Ed.D., assistant professor and director of graduate inclusive childhood
education. “Fellows get a year of study in graduate work, plus they
add the value of professional experience to their Nazareth degree.”
The program is highly selective, requiring students to demonstrate
unusual excellence and initiative during both their academic studies
and student teaching assignments. That selectivity has made the program
very competitive. Only ten students, all undergraduate leaders,
were admitted for the fall semester, and the program maintains a waiting
list. “Students are taking pride in being part of the program,” says
Timothy Glander, Ph.D., dean of the school of education.
Participation by school districts in the pilot program has been
competitive as well. The five school districts collaborating with Nazareth—Rochester
City, Canandaigua, Penfield, Webster, and Rush-
Left to right: Marc Nelson, principal of Harris Hill Elementary School
in the Penfield School District, a teaching fellow program collaborator;
Dr. Timothy Glander, dean of the School of Education; and teaching
fellow Allie Lunt ’11, ’12G.
Henrietta—are all clamoring for
more fellows than are available,
and more districts have asked to
be included, says Dunn. “This is
a chance for us to give back to
our community partners,” she
adds. “Not a district said no to
the program.”
In addition to providing strong
collaborative opportunities with
local school districts, the teaching
fellows program has met
one of its goals by increasing the
number of students in its graduate
program.
Fellow Melissa Gambino ’11,
’12G says the hands-on nature
of the program first attracted
her. “Working directly in the
classroom will help me put my
learning from Nazareth College
into practice, and essentially
surpass the borders of a typical
four-walled classroom.” Jennifer
Bloom ’11, ’12G appreciates
how the program allows her to
work with students from various grade levels while providing the support
of other education professionals. And Kiri Trotto ’11, ’12G sums
up the appeal: “I want to be able to share the zeal I have for teaching,
the passion I have for students, and the confidence I have in my ability
to make a difference with the community where I have grown up, here
in Rochester.”
Word of the teaching fellows program has spread region-wide, and
Dunn intends to grow the program in the future. “I hope it becomes a
sustainable part of an ongoing program while maintaining the highly
selective standards that we have in place,” she says. “This offers education
graduates the next step. They’re getting a unique experience that
will make their resumes glow.”
For more on inclusive childhood education, visit go.naz.edu/ICE.
Robyn Rime is the editor of Connections.
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n school of health and human services
Nazareth College and RIT Join Forces
by Alan Gelb
Creativity is contagious,” said Albert Einstein. “Pass it on.”
That feeling of creative contagion and the benefits that can
incur from passing it on have been very much in evidence in
the partnership formed between Nazareth College’s department
of physical therapy and students and faculty from Rochester
Institute of Technology (RIT). During the last five years, a variety of
projects have emerged from this collaboration that are helping with the
rehabilitation of Nazareth’s physical therapy clients.
In 2006, RIT received a grant from the National Science Foundation
to aid people with disabilities. Elizabeth DeBartolo, associate professor
of mechanical engineering at RIT, approached J.J. Mowder-Tinney,
P.T., Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy at Nazareth, to see if
Nazareth had any needs with which DeBartolo’s engineering students
could help.
“We started with an upper extremities exerciser,” says Mowder-
Tinney. “Something that clients could use when they weren’t at the
clinic. I had made my own version with duct tape and a pole and it
worked pretty well. But I thought we might be able to construct one
that would be even better.”
The engineering students went to work, and their version, which
boasted a great design, unfortunately broke on its second day of use.
Not to be deterred, the students went back to work on it—and on a
variety of other projects as well.
The RIT team, composed of electrical, mechanical, industrial, and
computer engineering students, have worked on a balance tower with
interactive features that renders balance improvement exercise more
stimulating, a balance training bicycle that will help patients relearn
cycling, a tool for raising and lowering parallel bars that are used in
physical therapy, and a portable obstacle course. “These projects are
great for our students because they see the end use,” said DeBartolo.
“What they create goes directly to an individual and that makes it easy
to point to it and say, ‘I’ve made a difference here.’”
Sara Gombatto, P.T., Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy
at Nazareth, has also seen excellent results emerge from this collaboration.
“The RIT students worked with us to create a mechanical
spine that would validate the biomedical model we’ve been using in
our work,” says Gombatto. “We’ve been developing the mechanical
spine for a little over a year and it’s already enabled me to significantly
expand on our research.”
This collaboration has even brought physical therapy clients into
the mix at points. David Sprout, an engineer who is now quadriplegic
as a result of spinal disease and who receives treatment at Nazareth’s
physical therapy clinic, was invited to sit in on design reviews. “It was
not always easy for J.J. to articulate what she wanted, as she’s not an
Left to right: RIT’s Dr. Elizabeth DeBartolo and engineering
student Oyetunde Jolaoye demonstrate their balance tower to
Dr. J.J. Mowder-Tinney and Dr. Sara Gombatto, both assistant
professors of physical therapy.
engineer,” says Sprout, “so I kind of acted as the translator.” Mowder-
Tinney was grateful for the help. “David knows engineer-speak,” she
says, “and that’s what we needed.”
The RIT students have even helped the physical therapy department
assess their space, analyzing traffic usage and other criteria, and have
made suggestions that have already been implemented. This kind of
collaboration spells opportunities for all who are involved and for the
community at large. In short, it is a really good design.
For information on the PT program, visit go.naz.edu/PT.
Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in East Chatham, New York.
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NEWS|views
n School of Management
Management
Videos Speak to
Future Students
by Robyn Rime
The School of Management has hit the
web with the creation of a YouTube
channel filled with testimonial videos
of current students, recent graduates,
and alumni.
“Fewer students each year find out about
us through traditional media,” explains
Gerard Zappia ’89G, dean of the School of
Management. “We’re trying to find more
effective ways to recruit students, and these
days they’re often discovering us on the
internet.”
The brief videos, found at www.youtube.
com/use/NazarethSOM, feature “students
and faculty who represent what we do here
in the School of Management,” says Zappia.
For example, Joe DaBoll-Lavoie, Ph.D., chair
of SOM undergraduate programs, provides an
overview of the school’s triple focus on global,
ethical, and entrepreneurial issues. Sara
Weigel ’11, a business administration major,
explains how the flexibility within the program
allows her to “blaze her own trail.”
Videos about the undergraduate programs
provide brief introductions to the seven undergraduate
majors such as accounting, information
technology, and international business
and highlight students passionate about their
Nazareth experience. Mackenzie Gotshall
’11, a business administration major, speaks
of the confidence she gained through Nazareth’s
extensive internship program, and Greg
Best ’11 describes how the music business
program maintains a good balance between
performance and production.
Graduate programs are represented by
alumni who speak to the outcomes of their
degrees. For instance, Portia James ’99G,
the senior director of workforce and leadership
development at Unity Health Systems,
testifies that a master’s in management from
Nazareth provided her with a greater level of
credibility in her work environment, changed
the perception of her by her co-workers, and
became the turning point in her career. “Ten
years later, my degree from Nazareth continues
to be useful and relevant to the work I do
every day,” she says.
“We’re trying to create an emotional
connection with prospective students,” says
Zappia. “We want them to get to know us.
The videos communicate the strengths of our
programs and add dimension to what we
do.”
The admissions team and SOM faculty are
currently using the videos during information
sessions and open houses for prospective
students. Links to the videos appear in venues
such as print ads; accepted students will
receive links matched to their specific interests;
and print and electronic communications with
alumni direct them to the videos in an effort
to mine referrals and make more personal connections.
Zappia will use the videos when talking
to benefactors such as potential donors,
advisory councils, and outside business groups,
seeing them as a valuable way to reinforce the
school’s goals and activities.
Future plans include “supplementing our
alumni videos with additional testimonials
from the business advisory board members
who help us shape our programs,” says
Lorraine Henderson ‘97G, Ph.D., assistant
professor and director of the M.S. programs
in management and human resource management.
“Getting jobs is a key question in
student interviews, and the network that the
advisory board provides is of interest to our
prospective students.”
The videos help to demonstrate what people
can get from their Nazareth management
education, Zappia concludes. He plans to add
more videos to the channel each year.
View the School of Management’s videos at
www.youtube.com/user/NazarethSOM.
Robyn Rime is the editor of Connections.
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n college of arts and sciences
Living and Preserving History
by Sofia Tokar
In his 1862 message to Congress,
Abraham Lincoln said,
“Fellow citizens, we cannot
escape history.” Because we
cannot escape it, we have a duty
to embrace and engage it, according
to Timothy Kneeland, Ph.D.,
professor of history and political
science at Nazareth College. It
was in that spirit that the College
of Arts and Sciences inaugurated
Nazareth’s Center for Public History
last year.
According to Kneeland, though,
the center’s inception actually
began years before. In September
2007, Nazareth participated in the
Frederick Douglass International
Underground Railroad Conference,
which featured the union of academics,
civic engagement, service
learning, and national scholarship.
The Nazareth delegation
(comprising faculty, students, and
community experts) unveiled the
Underground Railroad North Star
Project, a portable exhibition of
10 eight-by-three-foot museumquality
panels describing the work
of abolitionists such as Frederick
Douglass, Harriett Tubman, and
others.
“At that time, there was an appetite
for public history,” explains
Kneeland, “and by 2010 we
focused our efforts and created
the center.”
Part of being an informed
citizen is understanding the past,
especially its multiple and often
conflicting interpretations. The
College’s Center for Public History
aims to forge a link between historical
scholarship and the broader
community in order to promote
history’s relevance and impor-
tance today. The center fosters
relationships among colleges and
universities, museums and cultural
centers, kindergarten through
grade 12 educators, libraries, and
governmental institutions at the
local, state, and national levels.
These relationships provide
Nazareth students with access to
historical sites, documents, and
artifacts as well as opportunities to
use their skills and knowledge as
academic historians. The students
work to recover, preserve, and
promote the shared history of, for
example, the African-American
community in Rochester, N.Y.
“The history of the African-
American community in Rochester
has often been neglected in the
school curriculum and neighborhood
memory,” says Kneeland.
“With the help of Dr. David
Anderson, Nazareth’s community
scholar-in-residence, we partnered
with Schools Without Walls Foundation
Academy for junior high
and high school students. The
students there wrote scripts based
on the North Star Project museum
panels and then performed the
stories in costume.” Such activities
help engage young people with
history on a level beyond simply
names and dates in a textbook.
The connection between
academic, experiential, and
community knowledge has long
been a tradition at Nazareth. The
center continues that tradition by
partnering with a variety of groups
and organizations. In addition to
Schools Without Walls, the center
collaborates with Ganondagan (a
New York state Native American
historic site), the Freedom Trail
David Anderson, visiting community scholar in the College of Arts
and Sciences, tells the story of slave Austin Stewart as part of a Center
for Public History workshop for students from Rochester’s School
Without Walls.
Commission and the United States
Colored Troops Institute (of which
Anderson is a chair and senior
fellow, respectively), the Rochester-Monroe
County Vietnam-Era
Veterans Oral History Project, and
various Italian-American area businesses.
Beyond the existing partnerships,
Kneeland hopes that the
center will be recognized and
used as a resource by the broader
community. “We hope for this to
be a real center in the sense that
we both push out knowledge and
information as well as have people
know they can come to us for
support and expertise.” To that
end, the center’s upcoming events
include film screenings, roundtable
discussions, speaker presentations,
and historical reenactments.
Furthermore, the center is
embracing public history education
by way of social media. It
recently launched a Facebook
page, which can be found by
searching for Center for Public History
at Nazareth College. The page
features updated content, links,
photos, and videos. History may
not be escapable, but the Center
for Public History is nonetheless
helping to strengthen the connection
between history and memory,
cultures and peoples, Nazareth
College and the community.
For more information about upcoming
Center for Public History
events, visit go.naz.edu/CPH.
Sofia Tokar is the assistant editor
in Nazareth’s marketing department.
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sports|news
Nazareth Inducts Five into Sports Hall of Fame
Four former standout athletes and one standout coach were
the inductees at Nazareth’s annual Sports Hall of Fame dinner
last September.
Former women’s volleyball standout Tricia Jones ’05;
former women’s lacrosse standout Sue Hollister ’01; and former
men’s lacrosse standouts Dan Garrett ’97 and Brandon Piccarreto
’98 were the athletes honored. Former women’s lacrosse coach Sue
Behme was inducted in the distinguished service category.
Jones, of Corning, N.Y., was twice named Empire 8 Conference
Player of the Year after amassing 2,052 kills, 256 service aces, and
682 blocks. She also was a two-time first-team selection as an
Academic All-American.
Hollister, of Syracuse, N.Y., ranks third all-time on Nazareth’s career scoring list for
women’s lacrosse with 220 points, including 177 goals. She scored 58 goals in 2001 and
earned first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star honors as well as first-team all-region.
Garrett, of Cortland, N.Y., and Piccarreto, of Rochester, each were starting defensemen
on Nazareth’s lacrosse championship teams of 1996 and 1997. Garrett was a two-time
All-American and was the 1997 recipient of the William Stiles Award as the Outstanding
Defenseman in Division III. Piccarreto also earned All-American honors in 1996 and 1997.
Behme, of Syracuse, was Nazareth’s women’s lacrosse coach for nine seasons and
compiled a record of 115-39 (.747 winning percentage) with six NCAA Tournament berths
and four Empire 8 Conference titles. She was selected E8 Coach of the Year five times.
Sue Behme Dan Garrett ’97 Sue Hollister ’01
Tricia Jones ’05
Brandon
Piccarreto ’98
Goss Named to Coach Cross Country, Track and Field
James Goss, associate track and field
coach at Lynchburg College for six seasons,
was named head coach for track and field
and cross country in June. Goss replaced
Scott Love, who resigned to become head
cross country coach at LeMoyne College
in Syracuse.
A native of Skaneateles, N.Y., Goss was
at the forefront of Lynchburg’s most recent
track and field successes. In 2011, the
Hornets sent three athletes to the NCAA
Division III Track and Field Championships. In
addition, both the men’s and women’s teams captured their respective
team titles at the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Championships.
During Goss’s six seasons at Lynchburg, 15 school records were
broken and 73 all-time top five performances were established. In
addition, 21 Lynchburg athletes captured conference titles. Lynchburg’s
women’s team was particularly strong in winning seven indoor
ODAC titles and eight outdoor titles in the last 12 years.
Before joining the Lynchburg coaching staff, Goss spent five
seasons as an assistant coach at Emory University in Atlanta,
specializing in sprints, hurdles, and jumps. At Emory, he was part of
a staff that was recognized five times as University Athletic Association
Coaching Staff of the Year. He coached 20 national qualifiers,
including 11 All-Americans.
Goss graduated from Lynchburg in 2001 with a degree in sports
management. He went on to earn a master’s degree in sports
administration from Georgia State.
Goss was a standout in track and field at Lynchburg, winning the
NCAA Division III title in the long jump in 2001 and being named
NCAA National Athlete of the Year. He earned All-American honors
10 times, Southeast Region Athlete of the Year five times, and ODAC
Athlete of the Year six times.
Goss and his wife Mackenzie are the parents of one daughter,
Brenna, age two.
Joe Seil is the assistant athletic director and sports information
director at Nazareth College.
by Joe Seil
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Wickens, Salisbury Honored by AVCA
Honors kept rolling in for
the Nazareth men’s volleyball
team after the Golden
Flyers claimed the national
championship in April. The Golden
Flyers made it a clean sweep in the
post-season coaching awards category
as head coach Cal Wickens
was selected as 2011 Division III
Coach of the Year by the American
Volleyball Coaches Association and
assistant coach Kyle Salisbury was
honored as Division III Assistant
Coach of the Year.
The Golden Flyers enjoyed their
best season ever in 2011, which
culminated in their first-ever national.
The Golden Flyers finished
31-3 overall and were a unanimous
selection as the No. 1 team in the
final AVCA Coaches Poll.
Wickens started the Nazareth
men’s volleyball program seven
years ago and quickly established
the Golden Flyers as one of the
top teams in Division III. His overall
record is 159-60. In 2011, Nazareth
won the inaugural championship
of the United Volleyball Conference,
and then won the North East
Collegiate Volleyball Association
Tournament for the second year in
a row before taking the national
title. Wickens also was named UVC
Coach of the Year.
Salisbury also has been a
Nazareth assistant coach since the
program’s inception and has seen
the program grow from a 10-win
team in 2005 to the national title
in 2011. His coaching experience
includes various levels of the Rochester
Volleyball Club and 16 seasons
as boys coach at Midlakes High
School. At Midlakes, he has been
chosen Section Five Coach of the
Year four times and has guided the
team to three sectional titles.
For more on athletics, visit http://
athletics.naz.edu/
Head coach Cal Wickens
Assistant coach Kyle Salisbury
McCormick Makes First Team
in E8
Ryan McCormick ’13, sophomore on the Nazareth
men’s tennis team, was honored in May as a first-team
Empire 8 Conference all-star for the second year in a
row. The teams were announced after voting conducted
by the league’s nine head coaches.
In addition to McCormick, who was honored for his
singles play, Jeremy Mancus ’13 was a second-team
singles selection and Adam Landry ’11 was named
honorable mention. Nazareth’s doubles tandem of
McCormick and Bret Beaver ’13 made second team
and the doubles group of Landry and Mancus made
honorable mention.
McCormick, of Rochester and a graduate of
Irondequoit High School, played first singles for the
Golden Flyers all season and finished with an overall
record of 11-11, including a 6-2 mark in Empire 8
Conference matches.
Mancus, of Irvington, N.Y. and a graduate of
Irvington High School, compiled an overall singles
record of 13-8, playing mostly third singles. He was
6-2 in conference matches. Landry, of Palmyra, N.Y.
and a graduate of Palmyra-Macedon High School,
had an overall record of 10-7 with a 7-1 mark in
conference play.
In doubles, the teams of Beaver and McCormick
and Landry and Mancus each finished 5-3 in
conference matches.
Ryan McCormick ’13
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Three on Women’s Lacrosse
All-Region Team
Three women’s LACrosse players were selected
to the Empire Region all-star team in May by the
Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association.
Attack Michelle
Cook ’11, defender
Alyssa Mulheron
’11, and midfielder
Alyssa Johnston
’13 each were
named to the
second team.
All three players
were honored earlier
in the spring
as first-team Empire
8 Conference allstars
after lifting
the Golden Flyers
to an overall record
of 11-5.
Cook, of
Waterloo, N.Y.
and a graduate
of Waterloo High
School, finished
second on the
team with 55
Michelle Cook ’11
points on 25 goals
and a team-best
30 assists. She
also led the team with 45 draw controls and completed
her career ranked fifth all-time in career scoring with
201 points (126 goals, 75 assists).
Johnston, of Canandaigua, N.Y. and a graduate of
Canandaigua Academy, was Nazareth’s leading scorer
in 2011 with 59 points on 42 goals, 17 assists. She
also ranked second on the team in ground balls (33),
draw controls (31), and caused turnovers (23). She has
98 points in two seasons (69 goals, 29 assists).
Mulheron, also of Canandaigua, N.Y. and a graduate
of Canandaigua Academy, started all 16 games in 2011
and had one assist with 23 ground balls. She started
62 of 63 games played in her four-year career and had
13 goals and four assists.
Overall, 224 athletes in seven regions were honored.
Four All-Americans in Men’s Lacrosse
Four Nazareth men’s lacrosse players—all seniors—were honorable mention
selections on the Division III All-American team that was released
by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association in May.
Attackman Joe Jacobs-Ferderbar ’11, midfielder Scott Castle ’11, and
defensemen Mitchel Frey ’11 and Brian Orr ’11 each were selected for
the Golden Flyers.
In addition, Castle,
Jacobs-Ferderbar,
and Orr were
chosen to play in
the USILA/Lax World
North-South Senior
all-star game.
Jacobs-Ferderbar
and Orr, each with
cumulative gradepoint
averages
higher than 3.0,
were selected to
the USILA Scholar
All-American team.
Castle, of
Skaneateles, N.Y.
and a graduate of
Skaneateles High
School, was chosen
to the All-American
team for the third
year in a row after
finishing third on the
team in scoring in
2011 with 41 points
on 27 goals and
14 assists.
Brian Orr ’11
Joe Jacobs-
Ferderbar ’11
Mitchel Frey ’11 Scott Castle ’11
Frey, of Terrace Park, Ohio and a graduate of Moeller High School,
started all 18 games for the Golden Flyers in 2011 and was the team leader
in ground balls (60) and caused turnovers (33).
Jacobs-Ferderbar, of Orchard Park, N.Y. and a graduate of Orchard Park
High School, was honored for the second year in a row after leading the
Golden Flyers in scoring with 55 points on 35 goals and 20 assists. He
ranks fifth all-time at Nazareth in career scoring with 192 points, including
117 goals.
Orr, of Medford, Mass. and a graduate of Malden Catholic, was
honored for the first time. He started all 18 games in 2011 and picked
up his first career goal. He also scooped up 37 ground balls and had
18 caused turnovers.
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sports|news
Left to right: Joe Seil, assistant athletic director
and sports information director; Pete Bothner,
athletic director; Craig Dahl and Steve Sauer,
hockey consultants; Daan Braveman, president.
Men’s Hockey
Joins Sports Roster
Nazareth College will add men’s ice hockey to its intercollegiate
athletic offerings with competition at the NCAA Division
III level slated to begin with the 2012–13 season.
George Roll, head coach at Clarkson University for the
past eight seasons, has been named head coach. Roll was selected following
a nationwide search and brings to Nazareth 15 seasons of head
coaching experience. He posted a 130-142-33 record during the last
eight seasons at Division I Clarkson and guided the Golden Knights to
the ECAC regular-season title in 2008 and the ECAC tournament title
in 2007. The Knights won more than 20 games and reached the NCAA
tournament in each of those seasons.
Before that, Roll compiled a 119-74-16 record in seven seasons at
Division III Oswego. His best season there was in 2002–03 when the
Lakers finished 25-7-1, won the SUNYAC championship, and were national
runners-up in the NCAA tournament. Roll was named Division III
Coach of the Year. He holds a master’s degree in athletic administration
from Bowling Green University.
“We’re absolutely thrilled that we were able to attract a coach of
George’s caliber,” says Nazareth Athletic Director Pete Bothner. “We
had a tremendous pool of applicants, but we think that George stood
out above the rest.”
We’re absolutely thrilled that we were able
to attract a coach of George’s caliber.
— PETE BOTHNER
George Roll, head coach for Nazareth’s
new men’s ice hockey team
Nazareth will be practicing
and playing all home
games at the Sports Centre
at Monroe Community
College. The College has
been accepted into the
ECAC West Division.
Elmira, Hobart, Manhattanville,
Neumann, and
Utica are current conference
members.
“We think this will be
a great new program for
Nazareth College and for
the larger Rochester community,”
says Nazareth
President Daan Braveman.
“Hockey is a popular sport at the collegiate level, and we think
this will be received as a good addition to our athletic landscape.”
In deciding to add ice hockey, Nazareth has used the assistance of
local resident Craig Dahl, who has nearly three decades of hockey
coaching experience, including 19 as a Division I head coach at St.
Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Men’s ice hockey will be Nazareth’s 24th intercollegiate team. The
Golden Flyers are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
and recently won the Division III national championship in men’s
volleyball.
For more on Nazareth athletics, visit go.naz.edu/hockey.
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Diving into the College Experience
by Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G
Most competitive women swimmers are tall, ranging upwards of six feet. So
for Carissa Risucci ’13, who reaches a mere 5’2”, to achieve her remarkable
feats in swimming speaks volumes about her drive to succeed.
In each of her first two years at Nazareth, Risucci has competed at the
NCAA Division III Championships. As a freshman she finished eighth in the 200 yard
breaststroke (her best event), upping that to a fourth place finish in her sophomore
year. Both years at nationals, she also competed in the 100 yard breaststroke and the
200 yard individual medley.
After her freshman successes, Risucci was extremely apprehensive entering her
sophomore year.
“What I didn’t want was to be the sophomore who couldn’t swim as fast as freshman
year,” Risucci says. “I want to be at a place where I can improve each year. I make
it my personal goal to say at the end of the season that I did everything I could to get to
where I want to be.”
That determination is part of what helps Risucci accomplish so much, believes
Martie Staser, head coach of Nazareth’s women’s swimming and diving team. She
describes the All-American swimmer as “dedicated, intense, strong minded, strong
bodied, and impressive in every regard.”
Risucci is happy to return the compliments. “I’m always communicating with her and
she always knows what’s going on with me both physically and mentally,” she says. “It’s
nice to have a good relationship with her. She’s a big contributor in helping me get to
where I want to go.”
Carissa Risucci ’13
And this is a young woman who’s going places. Originally recruited by Division I
schools, Risucci, from Deerfield, NY,
has made the most of being a Golden Flyer. “One of the things I like the most is that I feel like I’m
in a small community,” she says. She’s taken advantage of that atmosphere to become involved in
the Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) and the residence hall council; she’s also served as a
freshman orientation leader and as the vice president and now president of the Class of 2013.
“I think if all I did was swim it wouldn’t be a true college experience for me,” Risucci says.
“That’s just my character. It’s who I am and all I’ve known. It’s second nature to me to find clubs
I’m interested in. I knew immediately I wanted to be involved in student government.”
In addition to her extracurricular activities, the communication and rhetoric major completed an
internship last summer as a junior designer at an advertising agency in New Hartford, NY. To get a
jump start on graduate school, plus save some time and money, Risucci has challenged herself to
graduate early.
“I have enough credits to graduate a full year early, and that was my original plan,” Risucci explains.
“However, it became more and more important to me to utilize my fourth year of athletic
eligibility on the swim team.” Her plans now are to remain enrolled as a full-time student in fall
2012, graduate a semester early in December, and finish out the swim season in the spring.
“My goal for this year is to remain positive,” she says. “My sophomore year was a big growing
period for me. I was always a really big planner and I keep long-term goals, but going to college
has helped me understand that there are a lot of variables in your college experience that you
can’t plan for.” But if any student could plan for the unexpected, it might just be Risucci.
For more on Nazareth athletics, visit http://athletics.naz.edu.
Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G works in the athletics department at Lake Forest College and
freelances as a sports writer.
Risucci finished fourth in the 200 meter
breaststroke at last year’s NCAA Division III
Championships.
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Nazareth | in the world
America 101
On campus as a student for the summer, 15-year-old
sophomore Tianze Chen saw notable differences
between the classrooms at Nazareth and his home
back in Beijing, China.Teachers at Nazareth, he
observed, take time to interact with students and
listen to any concerns they might have. A normal class in China,
he describes, can easily have 36 students and teachers who
lecture non-stop to fastidious note-takers. “We do some English
conversations in primary school, but after that it’s mostly writing
and grammar,” he says. “Being here gives me the opportunity to
practice my speaking and listening.”
Chen was enrolled in the American Language Institute, an
intensive summer program that brings students—typically college
students—from around the world to Nazareth College for a
language and cultural immersion. For the first time this summer,
the institute opened enrollment to high school students, in the
hope that they appreciate the campus, classes, and surrounding
area so much that they decide to pursue an undergraduate degree
here. The expansion is responsible for the program’s largest
group to date and could have several long-term benefits for the
College, including a rise in the number of international under-
American Language Institute expands cultural immersion
program to high schools
by Robin L. Flanigan
The students’ cultural
immersion included a
Rochester Red Wings
minor league baseball
game, enjoyed here
by Rachel Avara from
Israel.
American Language
Institute students
used Nazareth’s
language labs for
intensive study.
graduates, which would aid Nazareth’s mission to promote global
awareness, knowledge, and understanding.
Welcoming high-schoolers into the program is “an extremely
important addition,” says George Eisen, Ph.D., associate vice
president for academic affairs and executive director of the Center
for International Education, which sponsors the American
Language Institute. “No one else in the region is doing this.
“American degrees are still the most coveted in the world, and
we have close relationships with institutions around the globe
who believe in us. The Nazareth ethos—our welcoming ambiance
and atmosphere—is very important to our success.”
Students in the program are taught reading, writing, listening,
and speaking skills and are placed in beginning, intermediate,
and advanced levels based on ability. Recent high-schoolers
hailed from China, Turkey, and Latin America.
With a heady dose of American culture to enhance the
language acquisition part of the program, Chen also discovered
a work-play balance generally lacking back home, where his
mother works seven days a week. “People here are really enjoying
their lives and the sunshine,” he observes.
Some parents saw that for themselves—two students from
China were accompanied by their mothers, who stayed in
dormitories alongside the students. Eisen was grateful for their
presence. “They go everywhere the students go, and they see the
excellence. In China, parents make the decision” about which
institute of higher education their children attend.
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Acquainting participants with the numerous historical
and cultural offerings in and around Rochester is an integral
piece of the program. Field trips recently included
the George Eastman House and other local museums,
the Corn Hill Arts Festival, Niagara Falls, a stroll along
the Erie Canal, and a stop at the colossal Wegmans
grocery store in Pittsford (the students tend to get lost,
so they’re given a map to navigate the place).
“The economic impact of the summer program is
dramatic,” says Eisen. “Students who come shop extensively
in the area, although their favorite store is Best
Buy. They almost invariably return with extra luggage.
There’s an impact on apartment rentals in the area as
well.”
The American Language Institute began with two
Hungarian students in 2002, and this summer enrolled
130 students from 21 countries. The cultural mix of
students the program attracts is astounding, remarks
Linda Grossman, one of the instructors. “It’s exciting for
our students, but it’s also exciting for us.”
That excitement stems not just from sharing Nazareth’s
gifts with the global community, but also from
helping expose Rochester to students from such a
diverse group of countries, says Katherine Western,
academic director of the American Language Institute. The
program accepts students from Cambodia, Laos, Burma, and
other countries not typically represented at U.S. colleges and
universities. “We feel we’re benefitting the Rochester community
by bringing in talented people from so many unique cultures,
because they have a great amount to contribute.”
For his part, Oscar Ortega, a 34-year-old facilities manager
from Lima, Peru, couldn’t believe the size of the roads—“They
are huge, no?”—and the cleanliness and organization of downtown
Rochester. He anticipated that the program would help
him communicate better with business colleagues from the U.S.,
which could lead to a better position in his company. (In any
case, inspired by the proliferation of the area’s green spaces, he
pledged to create a small garden outside his office to cope with
midday stress.)
As the program seizes new opportunities for growth, plans
are to attract more high school students from Turkey, as well as
introduce specialty courses that would mix intensive English
training with lectures and experiences in several subjects—a
lecture in nursing might be followed by a visit to a hospital, for
example.
It’s all about creative planning, says Eisen. Aside from broadening
its offerings last fall to include a year-round program, the
American Language Institute, begun as a four-week session,
An evening of cultural exchange offered both artistic performances and exotic food samples.
recently developed a flexible schedule that also includes sessions
from two to seven weeks. Grossman, who worked with five
Chinese students during one two-week session this summer (one
student remarked that the U.S. was just like she’d imagined from
watching Friends), was charged with exposing them to enough
conversational English and cultural icons to prepare them for a
whirlwind summer tour around the country.
With little advertising, the program is able to draw an increasing
number of students from an increasing number of countries
simply through its reputation. Former students return with their
friends, and Nazareth continues to build relationships with state
governments around the globe.
As Ortega put it, “If people really want to know the world,
they have to take this opportunity and come to Nazareth College.”
Time will tell if Chen returns to campus as an undergraduate.
But he made one thing clear—that Rochester in general, and
Nazareth in particular, left a lasting impression.
“I learned many useful things here,” he says. “This was a really
good opportunity, and an amazing summer vacation.”
Learn more about the American Language Institute and the
Center for International Education at go.naz.edu/CIE.
Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.
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LIFE | of the mind
Food, Glorious Food
Communicating about ourselves
and our society through what we eat
by Carlnita P. Greene
Food is everywhere. Over the
course of the last ten years, there
has been a virtual explosion of
food-related popular culture.
Everything from the rise in
popularity of food TV to a publishing
landslide of cookbooks,
biographies, and cultural histories—even
the emergence of culinary tourism as a new
way of traveling—all point to a rediscovery
of food as more than something we need
merely to survive, but also as something
that acts as a crucial element in our shared
understanding of the world.
As a communication professor, generally
I focus on the ways that we create meanings
about the world in which we live and how
we share those meanings with other people
within media and popular culture. A key
way that we communicate with others today
is through our interactions with food. It
is often at the epicenter of human relationships,
ranging from our most intimate to
our most public encounters. It operates as
a means of creating and expressing our
identities to others. And it intersects with
a whole host of social, cultural, economic,
and political issues. For these very reasons,
I have been drawn to the study of food
because it is a form of communication that
pervades almost every aspect of our lives.
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Dr. Carlnita Greene recently co-edited the book Food as Communication/Communication
as Food (Peter Lang, 2011).
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In my exploration of food, I often look at it in three interconnected
ways. First, I delve into food’s relationship to identity,
or how we sometimes use foods to communicate who we are to
others. My essay “The Domestic Goddess: Postfeminist Representation
in the Televisual Kitchen: A Media Ecological Analysis
of Nigella Bites” considers the example of British celebrity TV
chef Nigella Lawson and her creation of identity through the use
of the persona of a “domestic goddess.” Labeled by her fans as the
“anti-Martha Stewart” because she stresses the reality of trying to
balance the pressures of working in modern society with the pleasures
of the kitchen, Lawson’s identity is rooted in her multiple
roles as television personality, mother, journalist, and wife. In this
sense, she demonstrates how food and the celebration of eating
are central to many people’s definitions of self.
Second, I examine the role that food plays within popular
media and how we tend to discuss it within our wider cultural
discourses. For example, in one of my essays, “Shopping for What
Never Was: The Rhetoric of Food, Social Style, and Nostalgia,” I
considered the ways that celebrity home and garden guru Martha
Stewart encourages her audiences to create performances rooted
in perfection by connecting their preparations of food and dining
experiences to an idealized past.
A key way that we communicate
with others today is through
our interactions with food.
Finally, I focus on food’s relationship to our personal identities
and its place within media, but also suggest how food may influence
our relationships to others. In “Competing Identities at the
Table: Slow Food, Consumption, and the Performance of Social
Style,” I looked at how the slow food movement attempts to
build a shared sense of community among its members by bringing
taste and pleasure back to the forefront of our dining experiences.
I also examined the impact that the organization and its
rhetoric have on the public since many people are “going slow”
by choosing to cook their meals at home.
Each of these projects recently led me to collaborate on a new
edited volume, Food as Communication/Communication as Food
(Peter Lang, 2011), which is the first work of its kind within the
discipline. Drawing upon academics from a variety of specializations
within communication, ranging from interpersonal to organizational
to media and cultural studies, the book suggests that
food is vital to the study of communication and offers numerous
examples of the ways in which food operates as a communicative
practice today. The book also highlights this emerging area of
focus and hopefully will inspire others to delve into this compellingly
rich subject.
Currently, I am working on a book-length manuscript that investigates
the intersection between food and social class. Because
our class often determines our abilities to purchase certain food
items versus others and the foods that we eat not only impact our
health and well-being but also can be used as a means of labeling
us socially and culturally, it is essential that we focus on this
relationship. Class is an area related to food that usually has been
mentioned in passing or overlooked as a mainstay in our discussions.
Further, with the recent backlash against some of the elitist
ideas that circulate within wider “foodie” culture, the influence
of class on the ways that we share meanings about food also must
be considered.
The more I study food as communication in our culture, the
more I find myself fascinated by its myriad possibilities and the
more I am drawn into its further exploration. In some ways, I
view my inquiry into food as an ongoing series of study in which
one project logically flows from and builds upon the other. Yet
there is always the chance for me to discover something completely
new or to look at food from an entirely fresh perspective.
From health issues to the environment to popular media,
food matters. It has both figurative and material consequences.
Because food intersects with our lives in numerous ways, it is
essential that we further analyze the deeper, underlying meanings
connected to food, and our relationships to it, for as 19th-century
food writer and gourmand Brillat-Savarin’s famous phrase
suggests, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”
Carlnita P. Greene, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and director of
the communication and rhetoric program at Nazareth.
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eyond self | community service
New Horizons
City schoolchildren enjoy
national student enrichment
program on campus
by Robin L. Flanigan
Students explore color and texture in
an art project during last summer’s
Horizons program.
On a sunny day outside the Golisano Academic
Center, teacher Kelly Damick and a group of
five- and six-year-olds sit cross-legged and sift
through a plastic container of sand, rocks, and
shells. After a few minutes, Damick scoops
handfuls from the container onto paper plates
for each child to inspect more closely.
“I’m sharing,” she says gently. “I like to share, so I’m giving this
to you.”
They talk about what’s hard and what’s soft, how the mixture
would feel if it got wet, and what would happen if they put an
ant in the middle of the pile—it would quickly escape, as it turns
out. And when an astute girl quizzically observes that the mixture
smells like coffee, Damick says it probably does because she
brought it back from a North Carolina beach in an empty coffee
can. Everyone laughs.
The children, all students at the new Discovery Charter
School in Rochester, are participating in Horizons, a pilot program
at Nazareth that aims to prevent the loss of academic skills
over the summer in youngsters from low-income families. While
all students experience so-called “summer loss,” those from lowincome
households tend to lose the most—around three months
of grade-level equivalency. That adds up to nearly two years by
the end of elementary school.
The College plans to grow the program to follow this initial
bunch of 12 students, adding a new group every summer,
through the eighth grade.
“Stopping eight years of summer loss can be significantly
powerful,” says Deana Darling ’96G, director/coordinator of the
Horizons program and visiting instructor in inclusive childhood
education. “We want this to be infused with academics, but we
don’t want the kids to think they’re in school. This is a nice balance
between playing, inquiry, and experimentation.”
Horizons, a national student enrichment program founded in
1964 in New Canaan, Connecticut, offers six weeks of daylong
activities in a nurturing, supportive environment. With an
emphasis on nature, the arts, and wellness, the program also
provides swimming lessons, field trips, and the chance to participate
in community service, which this summer included reading
and giving plants they had cared for to a group of Sisters of St.
Joseph of Rochester.
The Horizons program launch took a campus-wide commitment.
An English professor told the children stories. Physical
therapy graduate students led exercises on the athletic fields.
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The biology department donated a section of its greenhouse for a
children’s garden. Other departments also contributed resources.
In addition to the inquiry and hands-on activities that were
the curricular base for the program, explains Darling, each child
engaged in direct literacy-building activities tailored to their own
instructional level. “After assessing each student, the teachers
developed activities that focused on phonics and phonemic
awareness, and the children strengthened these foundational
skills through interactive games and small group instruction.”
With additional support from the Greater Rochester Summer
Learning Association, Horizons has been able to give these
students opportunities not often found in a traditional learning
environment.
“We have a unique community disposition,” says Darling. “We
really do believe in partnerships, and this is just one more.”
And with Nazareth’s focus as a teacher-education institution,
where nearly 40 percent of students are working toward some
type of certification, Horizons provides an on-site laboratory for
authentic and inspiring field work. Two teachers, two graduate
assistants, and one undergraduate teaching assistant helped with
the inaugural group.
The children were noticeably engaged and enthusiastic, particularly
during swimming classes. Several who were too scared to
even get wet upon arrival were, after a few weeks, dunking their
heads under water with proud smiles and repeatedly shouting,
“Look at me!” Obvious, too, was the affection the children developed
for their teachers—running up to give impromptu hugs,
for example,
and choosing
them over their
peers as partners
in some cases
during a creative
workshop led by
PUSH Physical
Theatre cofounder
Darren
Stevenson.
Several of the
children’s parents,
who helped
celebrate their
accomplishments
with a
ceremony when
the program
ended in August,
Many children learned to swim and were paddling
around independently after six weeks.
offered deep
gratitude for
the opportunities
Horizons
provided.
“This program
gave her
the encouragement
to get up
in the morning
and get out of
bed,” Marvian
Davis says of
her daughter,
Anjanae
Wilson, who
struggles to
wake up during
the school
year. The six-year-old has started picking up books on her own
Dr. Kate DaBoll-Lavoie, chair of the inclusive childhood education
department, with several devoted lunchmates.
at home (even asking about words she does not recognize) and is
proud that she started learning to swim.
Alicia Blackburn is grateful her daughter, Adreem, was able to
stay stimulated over the summer. “She’s a very intelligent young
lady, and the most important thing for me was that she had this
opportunity to continue learning and being productive—all
while having fun,” she explains. “This program is really, really
awesome.”
Horizons not only exposes youngsters to a college campus—it
allows them to become part of one. That, in turn, boosts confidence,
encourages children to realize their full potential, and
allows them the chance to help close the achievement gap that
exists between low-income children and their more advantaged
classmates.
“Giving them a chance to be in an environment where academic
success is kind of taken for granted is important,” says
Timothy Glander, Ph.D., dean of the School of Education.
But in our accountability-driven culture, numbers are not the
only measure of achievement. While the children are given assessment
exams before and after the program to evaluate academic
skills, both Glander and Darling maintain that scores that
simply hold steady are fine by them.
Explains Glander, “We may not be able to say that this will lead
to higher test scores next year, but we’re making life better for
these kids this year. It is morally and ethically the right thing to
do.”
Learn more about Inclusive Childhood Education programs at
go.naz.edu/ICE.
Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.
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Nazareth | heritage
Elbowroom
to Grow
A tradition of literary
magazines flourishes at Nazareth
by Sofia Tokar
Nazareth has a long tradition of literary magazine
writing. Since the 1930s, the College has
encouraged its students to create and compile
original prose, poetry, essays, criticisms, photography,
and artwork. The magazine, which has
undergone many redesigns and updates throughout
the years, serves as a mirror—reflecting the contributors’
perspectives, ideals, and values. The reader is afforded a fascinating
glimpse of the Nazareth College student body evolving
through the decades.
The magazine’s current iteration is Elbowroom, an annual publication
that launched in 2000. Elbowroom is a revived version
of the College’s long-time literary magazine, known alternatively
as Verity Fair, Verity Faire, or simply Verity. The Lorette Wilmot
Library stocks issues from 1932 through the 1990s. The content
traverses a range of topics, styles, and themes—from short
stories to reflections on American politics, to sketches and avant
garde photography, to poems in foreign languages and even
macabre pieces such as one titled “…written for the child found
in a dumpster in Rochester on October 30, 1993.”
Early issues were published quarterly, and the influence of the
College’s then-Catholic traditions and identity is palpable. The
editors of the 1932 issue outline their vision, stating, “Within the
pages of Verity Fair we hope to be religious, intellectual, literary
and amiable … the resultant is modernity as we see it.” Features
included original hymns and poems (one in honor of Saint Augustine)
alongside op-ed style articles about secular topics, such
as the music scene in 1930s Rochester.
The issues from the 1960s and 1970s display a notable increase
in photography and artwork, primarily reproduced in black and
white. For example, the 1967 issue of Verity presents “A Photographic
Journal Through the Inner City.” The photos and
captions remain as poignant today as when they were originally
printed.
During the 1970s, Nazareth became co-educational and independent
of the Sisters of St. Joseph. As a result, the 1973–74
issue is the first to include a significant number of contributions—poetry
and prose—from male students (until then, male
contributors were primarily priests or professors).
During this time and throughout the 1980s, the magazine’s
staff occasionally experimented with alternative designs and layouts,
primarily for the cover art. For example, one issue has a red
circle flap on the cover, lifted to reveal the publication’s name
and year. Another issue features a drawing of a nude woman on
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“Where verity means truth, elbowroom
is a synonym for freedom. One can’t
express truth without having freedom.”
Heather Congdon Lamphere ’00
the cover. Yet another’s cover opens like two doors and welcomes
the reader to explore its contents. Each of these treatments
makes for an exciting reading experience, if not always
the most practical in terms of durability (the red flap has not
withstood the test of time—it has been repaired multiple times
and requires care when handling).
Experimentation gave way to relative soberness (design-wise)
in the 1990s, when most of the magazine’s issues were published
in traditional Octavo format, the most common size for a book.
These issues were also the first to boast of being printed on
recycled paper products.
But if the design was restrained, the content itself became
noticeably more controversial. In her introduction to the 1992
issue, Tricia Powers ’94 wrote, “The staff of Verity is fully
anticipating differences of opinion at the inclusion of [certain]
pieces… The bluntness of the language and diction of both are
sure to cause mixed feelings within the Nazareth College community.”
Not only the style, but also the topics became increasingly
contentious throughout the 1990s. Gretchen Lynne Martuscelli-Kriesen
’95, editor for the 1995 issue, explained in her
editor’s note, “Invariably, each issue of Verity Faire presents one
or two pieces with disturbing and/or controversial content. This
year is no exception with poetic commentaries on sexism in Roman
Catholicism (‘In the Beginning’), AIDS (‘An Installment of
the End’), and incest (‘Incite =/= Insight) to name but a few.”
Controversy itself surrounded the rebirth of Verity as Elbowroom
in 2000. Professor of English Ed Wiltse, Ph.D., explains
that editors Heather Congdon Lamphere ’00 and Joshua
Baker ’00 “caused quite an advertising flap with their call for
submissions: a wonderful image of a dominatrix with a whip,
boots, bustier, fiendish grin, and the single word ‘Submit!’”
In her editor’s note for the first volume in 2000, Lamphere addressed
the controversy by writing, “Where verity means truth,
elbowroom is a synonym for freedom. One can’t express truth
without having freedom … Through this magazine we’ve tried
to offer a place for non-judgmental, uncensored expression …
To those of you who may have wanted to submit material but
were scared away because of the backlash from our advertising
techniques, don’t let any hierarchy stifle your voice.”
With each issue, the magazine continues to grow and evolve,
often by incorporating new ideas from its current staff. For
example, the 1930s quarterly version of Verity Fair often featured
an annual liturgical volume. Meanwhile, the 2005 issue
of Elbowroom’s content was influenced, in part, by the servicelearning
component of English 234: Crime and Punishment in
the U.S.A. The volume includes student works interspersed with
entries by inmates at the Monroe County Correctional Facility.
Melissa Kotas Hartford ’07, the 2007 editor of Elbowroom,
underscores the importance of the magazine at Nazareth, writing
that it “is especially important for a liberal arts college because
not only does Elbowroom serve as a creative outlet for students
… but it also celebrates community and connections among
people.”
According to its 2010–11 coeditors, Emily Alexander ’11
and Sarah Lesser ’14, Elbowroom also affords today’s students
a chance to showcase the creative arts talents of the College’s
current generation of students in addition to experiencing the
publication process from inception to completion.
Today, the magazine is designed in-house by the coeditors and
their staff, and then printed locally. The entire process—requesting
submissions; evaluating, editing, and designing the content;
delivering the final product—is a valuable learning experience
for the magazine’s staff, which changes each year. Because of
the annual flux of incoming freshmen and graduating seniors,
Alexander mentored Lesser to become the next lead editor of
Elbowroom.
“While I am a newcomer,” explains Lesser,
“I look forward to continuing work on
the literary magazine for the remainder
of my time at Nazareth. I also hope to
leave my mark on the magazine and
its legacy.” It’s safe to say the past
80 years of the magazine’s history
and evolution bodes well for the
magazine’s future.
The 2011 issue of Elbowroom
was published in April. For this
and other back issues, visit the
Lorette Wilmot Library.
Sofia Tokar is the assistant
editor in Nazareth’s marketing
department.
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INTERFAITH | ideas
Dialogue and
Diversity
Student leaders from Africa learn
about religious pluralism at Nazareth
by Robin L. Flanigan
Mahitab Mustafa Mahgoub, a 21-year-old economics
and politics major from Sudan, had an epiphany
while studying at Nazareth College this summer—
her first time in the United States.
“In Sudan,” she says, “you learn, study, go to the exam and
write. But here it’s not about right and wrong. It’s more about
ideas and theories, about expanding the mind. That was a selfdiscovery
for me, to look at myself in a different way and say,
‘Okay then, it’s not about the hours I sit at the desk. It’s how I
look at things.’”
Mahgoub was one of 20 student leaders from five African
countries—all with different languages and cultures—who
participated in the 2011 Study of the U.S. Institute for Pluralism,
a program that allows international students to immerse themselves
in the political, economic, religious, and cultural aspects
of American society. In addition to Sudan, the countries represented
were Angola, Liberia, Mozambique, and Sierra Leone.
Nazareth is one of only seven colleges and universities in the
country hosting summer institutes sponsored by the Academy for
Education Development in Washington, D.C. Funded by a grant
from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and
Cultural Affairs, the program uses classroom lectures on topics
like race relations as well as field trips to historical sites to help
the students develop their own insights about this country.
“…here, it’s not about right and wrong.
It’s more about ideas and theories,
about expanding the mind.”
Majitab Mustafa Mahgoub
“This group was handpicked for being intellectually advanced,”
says George Eisen, Ph.D., executive director and
associate vice president for academic affairs in the Center for
International Education. “The American model provides an
important means of understanding how our principles for coexisting
in extremely diverse societies can be transferred to their
native countries. These are the new leaders who will be bringing
back important ideas.”
In its sixth year, the Institute for Pluralism has also worked
with students from Turkey and Afghanistan. (One Turkish
student who arrived opposed to non-governmental organizations
has gone on to work in a program partly funded by the United
Nations.)
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Letting go of stereotypes and raising consciousness can be
challenging.
“We’ve gone through academic gymnastics,” says Tommy
Kain, a 24-year-old history major from Sierra Leone. He came
to campus with the notion that he would, as in his country, be
listening to presentations every day. Instead he has gone through
an intensive multidisciplinary review of American society.
Focusing on how the United States has created a pluralistic,
religiously diverse and accepting society is a natural extension of
past movements to embrace cultural differences, says Muhammad
Shafiq, Ph.D., professor of religious studies and executive
director of the Brian and Jean Hickey Center for Interfaith
Studies and Dialogue, which co-sponsors the institute. The civil
rights movements led to the teaching of African American and
African studies in academia, for example, the same way colleges
and universities responded to the women’s rights movement
with classes in women’s studies and gender relations.
“We’re all different, but we’re all human beings and we need
to respect one another,” notes Shafiq, adding that an interfaith
understanding is particularly important for this recent group of
African students, who come from regions where there is significant
religious conflict. In Niger and Chad earlier this year
to conduct workshops on the etiquette of interfaith dialogue,
he tried to help bridge the gap between the natives—already at
religious odds with a mix of Islam, Christianity, and indigenous
faiths—and the missionaries who typically hail from Western
countries and create conflict with their inexperience with
African culture and norms.
Educating the next generation of African leaders at
Nazareth—which teaches that interfaith dialogue is essential for
African students meet with President Daan Braveman.
peaceful coexistence—will have a significant impact on,
as Shafiq puts it, “healing the current situation and making
it right.”
Observing the cordial relationship that exists between various
faiths in the U.S., students during the five-week program visited
a Christian church, an Islamic center, a Hindu temple, a Reform
Jewish synagogue, and a Zen Buddhism center, and witnessed
religious leaders coming together to talk at the same table—
a rare occurrence in their part of the world.
“They were fascinated and appreciative of our open conversation,”
recalls the Rev. Gordon Webster, senior pastor at Lake
Avenue Baptist Church, chairperson of the Interfaith Forum of
Greater Rochester, and a founding board member of the Hickey
Center.
“These students are the hope of the future,” he adds, “and
when they come to a place like Nazareth, where this dialogue
is alive and well—and at the cutting edge—then we have a
real possibility of one of those students becoming a very significant
leader, and several of those students becoming opinion
makers. That’s the kind of thing that makes this outreach
extremely valuable.”
The immersion aspect, particularly exposure to the hard work
that went into shaping our nation’s identity, magnifies the work
these student leaders have ahead of them on several fronts.
Mahgoub is heartbroken by her country’s inability to find
peace, stability, and economic growth. “I would like to see
a future without discrimination whatsoever, without tribal
disputes and without corrupted governments. I just simply
wish the people good living.”
Amazed to learn from visits to the Susan B. Anthony House
and the Women’s Rights National Historical Park museum that
American women had to struggle so much for equality, Mahgoub
found inspiration.
“We’re so far behind in Africa, but maybe we can do it also,”
she says.
The epiphanies aren’t always a one-way street.
Because Americans also have stereotypes, “anything that
engages them with international students breaks down barriers
and really enhances the culture of the campus,” says Timothy
Kneeland, Ph.D., professor of history and academic director of
the U.S. Institute for Pluralism. “It makes our own students and
host families connected to the globe in a way that they weren’t
at the beginning of the summer. When it’s time to say goodbye,
people are crying.”
For more information on the Center for International Education,
visit go.naz.edu/CIE.
Visit the Hickey Center at www.naz.edu/hickey-center.
Robin Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.
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COVER|story
From recruitment TO a new financial
grant, the College is ramping up efforts
TO attract MILITAry veteran students
Nazareth
by Jillian S. Ambroz
Photographs by Kurt Brownell and Alex Shukoff
Advances
Vet-Friendly Rep

No matter where Candice Kundle ’12 needs to be on campus,
she makes it a point to pass by the American flag each day. She
does the same thing as she leaves campus for the day, even if that
means trekking on a meandering path on cold, snowy days.
“To a veteran, when you see a flag, it fills you with such life—it overwhelms you,”
the nursing major says. “That’s what it means to a veteran.”
That’s just one way a military veteran student deals with the inner challenge of
assimilating into a college setting. It’s easy to imagine how difficult that journey
would be. Yet each year, the College sees more and more vets filling its classrooms.
A decade ago, only 12 veterans attended Nazareth. For the spring semester of 2011,
there were 32 vet students, from twenty-something soldiers right out of one tour of
service to a special-operations lieutenant officer who had served 30 years in the armed
forces. The College hopes to attract more vets and is doing several things to earn
the reputation of a vet-friendly school as more vets take advantage of the generous
post-9/11 GI Bill to get a college education.

COVER|story
Nazareth is just one of many colleges across
the nation that has seen its veteran
student population rise
In fact, Nazareth is just one of many
colleges across the nation that has seen
its veteran student population rise. Since
the inception of the post-9/11 GI Bill just
two years ago, more than 537,000 veterans
have received more than $11.5 billion
in benefits to help them get a college
education, according to the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA). And those
numbers are expected to continue to
grow, as more veterans learn about their
benefits and as another beneficiary group,
family members of veterans, start taking
advantage of a free education.
The post-9/11 GI Bill provides the
most comprehensive educational benefits
package since the original bill, known as
the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of
1944. The GI Bill allows veterans and
family members 36 months or up to four
years of education benefits from the VA.
Not only does the bill pay for tuition
and fees, it also provides money toward
a book allowance, a housing allowance,
and a living stipend.
In August, there was a change to the
GI Bill, which capped the monies for tuition
at $17,500. At the program’s outset,
the college with the highest tuition in a
state would set the benchmark for all the
other colleges in the state. In New York,
the Agriculture School at Cornell, which
had tuition of $25,000 in 2009, set the
high-water mark for all other schools in
the state.
The change to the GI Bill means that
Nazareth will have to start contributing
money to the Yellow Ribbon Program
(a provision of the Post-9/11 Veterans’
Educational Assistance Act of 2008),
which allows degree-granting institutions
in the U.S. to voluntarily enter into an
agreement with the VA to fund tuition
expenses that exceed the highest public
in-state undergraduate tuition rate. More
than 2,600 colleges across the nation
participate in the Yellow Ribbon Program.
Schools can contribute up to 50 percent
and the VA will match it. Nazareth has
been part of the Yellow Ribbon Program
since its inception in 2008 but has not
had to actually contribute any money
into the program—until now. Nazareth
has also created a special grant for vet
students, offering $7,500 to help with
tuition and fees.
Partnership with the VOC
During the last few years, Nazareth has
been working among its many departments
and as a college to provide more
services and offerings to its vet students.
Through a special relationship with the
Veterans Outreach Center (VOC) in
Rochester, the College has been providing
several programs and offerings,
from making Robert Mitchell, outreach
coordinator at the VOC, available on
campus to bringing the popular lecture
series “Coming Home from War” to
Nazareth, where prominent speakers
discuss challenges faced by veterans and
their families when transitioning from
the service to civilian life. In fact, it is
this partnership with the VOC that has
helped Nazareth broaden its offerings to
veteran students and put the College on
a path to make it more vet-friendly.
The VOC has been around for nearly
40 years, serving veterans of all eras. Its
offerings include education counseling
services, residential programs, peer-topeer
services, legal services, veterans’
benefits counselors, and wellness and
supportive services. With the advent of
the post-9/11 GI Bill, and a new generation
of vets with new benefits—especially
the opportunity to get a college education—the
local organization reached out
to Nazareth for guidance. “We took from
that a belief that to work with students,
the best place to start was with Nazareth,”
Mitchell says. “The main thing
is to give education and information to
vets and families, and it’s not just what’s
on campus, but what’s in the community,
too. We want to address as many
aspects of vets’ lives as possible with the
idea to make it easier for them to go to
school. We want to take away some of
that outside stress.” It’s worth mentioning
that several of Nazareth’s vet students
have taken the trip across town to visit
the VOC on their own, seeking help and
information on a variety of issues.
“As a campus, we do many things very,
very well, but the depth and breadth of
services that a veteran student and his or
her family may need could be beyond the
scope of what the College can provide,”
says Patricia Genthner, associate to
the president. “Therefore, we feel the
partnership Nazareth has with the VOC
is critical to veteran students’ success. We
can link them to the VOC, which can get
the veteran or their family member to the
most helpful services in the community.”
It is a true partnership: Nazareth has
helped the VOC with its mission of veteran
community service in numerous ways.
The College counseled the VOC when it
began offering creative arts therapy and
provided therapists as needed. In fact, the
staff therapist for this new VOC program
is a Nazareth alum. And when the VOC
had to lay off three mid-management
employees due to financial pressures last
year, it turned to Nazareth to provide
oversight of its on-site clinical staff.
Veterans are always welcome to be
treated in Nazareth’s wellness clinics on
campus, too.
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The Go-To List of
Resources for Nazareth’s
Veteran Students
Here’s a compilation
of critical resources
for veteran students—
from the VA to the
financial aid office—
and various ways to
contact them.
On-Campus Resources
Coordinator of Veteran Student
Enrollment and Support Services
phone: 585-389-5017
email: jbagley8@naz.edu
Admissions
phone: 585-389-2860
fax: 585-389-2826
email: admissions@naz.edu
Web page: http://admissions.
naz.edu
Web page for veterans:
http://admissions.naz.edu/
application-process/veterans
Transfer
Student Admissions
phone: 585-389-2053
email: tradmissions@naz.edu
Web page: http://admissions/naz.
edu/transfer-students
GraduATE Admissions
phone: 585-389-2050
toll free: 800-860-6942
fax: 585-389-2817
email: gradadmissions@naz.edu
Web page: http://grad.naz.edu
GraduATE Student Services
phone: 585-389-2815
fax: 585-389-2612
email: gradservices@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/
graduate-student-services
Registrar’s Office
phone: 585-389-2800
fax: 585-389-2612
email: registra@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/
registrar
Financial Aid Office
phone: 585-389-2310
fax: 585-389-2317
email: finaid@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/
financial-aid
Counseling Services
phone: 585-389-2887
email: mkapadi1@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/
counseling-services
Office for Students
with Disabilities
phone: 585-389-2498
email: ssmyth6@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/
student-disabilities
Internships Program
phone: 585-389-2571
email: acabral8@naz.edu
Web page: www.naz.edu/careerservices/students-alumni/jobsearch-internships/internships
Off-Campus Resources
Veterans Outreach Center
459 South Ave., Rochester, NY
14620
phone: 585-546-1081 or
toll-free: 1-866-906-VETS (8387)
fax: 585-546-5234
website: www.veteransoutreachcenter.org
U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs
General phone number
for VA benefits: 1-800-827-1000
website: www.va.gov
Post-9/11 GI Bill Information
phone: 1-888-GIBill1
(1-888-442-4551)
website: www.gibill.va.gov
Rochester Regional
Veterans Business Council
(a Nazareth College affiliate)
phone: 585-295-7854
email: secretary@
veteransbusinesscouncil.org
website: www.veteransbusinesscouncil.org

COVER|story
”Our veterans have more than earned their
benefits; our goal here is TO make sure
we’re serving them in all phases of the
veteran-student experience“ — Jeremy Bagley
Nazareth eases the transition from
military to classroom with financial
aid assistance, counseling centers
and wellness clinics, night classes,
and flexible day-care options.
This past spring, Nazareth and the
VOC developed a very well-received
in-service program for Nazareth’s faculty
and staff to learn more about veteran students
and how to best serve their needs.
That one-day program prompted some
departments to do more to learn about
what veterans face when they return to
school and to seek additional ways to
support them through new vet-friendly
services and offerings. For example, the
counseling services department at Nazareth
brought some of the counselors from
the VOC and the Vet Center in Rochester
back to campus to discuss the matter
more fully.
Nazareth has also recently hired
Jeremy Bagley as coordinator of veteran
student enrollment and support services.
Bagley, an army veteran himself, will help
recruit and enroll new vet students, then
assist them to better handle the transition
from military service to academia
and to navigate the complex financial aid
package from the GI Bill.
“Our veterans have more than earned
their benefits; our goal here is to make
sure we’re serving them in all phases of
the veteran-student experience,” says
Bagley. “First, we need to make them
aware of their benefits and that they
can use them here in a veteran-friendly
environment. Second, once they’re here,
we need to support them both academically
and culturally. Third, we need to
help facilitate the networking process so
that these young men and women who’ve
served so bravely and honorably on the
battlefield can now do so in our community,
by taking what they’ve learned
here, adding it to their already large skill
set, and becoming the next generation of
community leaders.”
A sizable number of Nazareth’s veteran
students are transfer students, and
Bagley will work to develop and improve
relationships among local community
colleges to facilitate those transfers. He’ll
also serve as liaison between the College
and regional military bases and communities,
as well as the liaison between Nazareth’s
vet students and military agencies,
such as the VA. “We see this new staff
position at the College as a resource for
prospective and current vet students to
either answer questions or link the vet
immediately to the right organization to
provide answers and/or services,” Genthner
says.
“Developing plans and initiating implementation
for enhancing support and
integration of veteran students into the
Nazareth community is an institutional
goal for Nazareth this academic school
year,” says Nazareth President Daan
Braveman.
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Veteran-student Phil Rouin ’12G
is getting his master’s in social
work through the Greater Rochester
Collaborationve Social Work
program. Above, Rouin during mine
countermeasures predeployment
training at Camp Bullis, Texas,
in 1997.
Nazareth is already doing a lot of
things right. In fact, Col. (retired) James
McDonough, president and CEO of the
VOC, considers Nazareth a vet-friendly
school, saying the College could be a
model for other similar schools in the
area. “Nazareth is pushing the envelope
so far ahead of everyone else,” he says.
“It has a role to play in teaching other
colleges what to do. There’s a real opportunity
here.”
Even some of the veteran students
notice the unique position Nazareth is
in. “Nazareth is definitely taking the
initiative to be a leader among other
colleges in the area to be ‘veteranfriendly’,”
says Kelly Kemp ’13, a veteran
student who is working toward a
bachelor’s in social work. “As a veteran
student, this is greatly appreciated and
means a lot.”
In many ways, what makes Nazareth
a great college in general makes
it attractive to vet students. The small
class sizes and the student-to-teacher
ratio are a big consideration for veterans
assimilating into the classroom. In
fact, vet students have commented that
Nazareth has the feel of a military base.
“I want other veterans to know that
Nazareth should be considered like a
base,” Kundle says. “It’s like a military
unit—that camaraderie, that support.
It’s just like a base. Nazareth puts so
much effort into building that.” And
Kundle hopes that vets can see that
from the outside.
Phil Rouin ’12G, who is getting
his master’s in social work through
the Greater Rochester Collaborative
Social Work program (a collaboration
with SUNY Brockport), agrees. “The
program here had the smallest classes
and more of a cohesive, group-oriented,
strength-based program,” says the
retired lieutenant officer. “It focuses
on the interdisciplinary, whether it’s a
medical model, OCC therapist, music
therapist, nurse, or doctor.”
Potentially, vet students may be
looking for services and offerings that
go beyond the classroom, like a good
counseling-services team and accommodations
for disabilities—areas of
strength for Nazareth, with its wellness
clinics and counseling services department.
“Nazareth seems to have a great
program for disabilities and accommodations,”
Rouin says. “I can’t say enough
about their counseling service. It was
a huge transition to go from a 30-year
military career into graduate school.
With a good counseling department,
you can bend their ear. It’s an important
consideration.” An accessible, knowledgeable,
and competent counseling
office on campus is critical for veterans
stepping into a new situation so utterly
different from what they’ve known
throughout their military service. And
this generation of military veterans,
who have done tours in Afghanistan
and Iraq, are dealing with complicated
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COVER|story
”Nazareth wants to put out the best students
it can; it makes the extra sacrifice…
i don’t think i’d get that anywhere else.“
— Candice Kundle ’12
Candice Kundle ’12 is getting her nursing
degree at Nazareth. Kundle, shown at
left at the Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, served
eight years in the air force as a loader/air
cargo inspector.
mental health issues, specifically post
traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
traumatic brain injury (TBI).
The counseling services department at
Nazareth is taking steps to better serve
vet students. After attending the special
in-service program last spring on that
very subject, the department brought
in Pete Ziarnowski, Ph.D., from the Vet
Center and Jennifer DeLucia, LCAT,
from the VOC to speak more about the
therapeutic needs of veteran students and
learn more about how creative therapies
have proven successful with today’s vets,
says Malika Kapadia, Psy.D., the director
of counseling services at Nazareth.
Donna Willome, NP, director of student
health services, and Kevin Worthen,
vice president of student development,
also attended a workshop in August at
the University of Buffalo that detailed
the intricacies of serving veteran students
today, from both an administrative and
mental/physical health perspective.
Other areas and services beyond the
classroom help make the transition easier
for veterans. Most veteran students are
older and many have families. They are
typically transfer students and many
have full-time jobs. Nazareth offers
many evening classes and daycare with a
flexible schedule—two key components
for a veteran juggling school, work, and
family. The College is continually looking
to identify other areas where it could
improve its offerings for this particular
group of students, as well as its overall
student body.
Going Forward
One of the reasons Nazareth is looking
to attract more vets is to further diversify
its student population, which, incidentally,
is another attraction to the vets
themselves. “When I am on the campus
and in my classes at Nazareth, I see a
lot of diversity,” Rouin says. Nazareth is
ramping up its efforts to actively recruit
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veteran students, something it hasn’t
really done until now, says Judith Baker
’91, director of transfer and graduate
admissions. Nazareth is creating a new
admissions website just for vets that
will be both internally and externally
focused, and also a comprehensive
media campaign touting its strengths as
a vet-friendly school.
As for some of the new programs
geared toward vets that Nazareth is
exploring, one will kick off in the spring
2012 semester. The College, again
partnering with the VOC, created
an internship program exclusively for
veterans, says Albert Cabral, director
of the professional internship program
at Nazareth, who is overseeing this
new program in collaboration with the
VOC’s Mitchell. Four vet students will
be placed in vet-friendly local businesses
and organizations that are members
of the Veterans Business Council: the
VOC, Klein Steel, law firm Underberg
& Kessler, LLP, and Harris-RF. The
new program follows many of the same
general parameters of Nazareth’s other
internships, with two additional features—the
internships are only offered
to veterans, and the intern would have
an on-site mentor, who would also be
a veteran, Cabral says. Outside of this
program, Nazareth offers other veteranrelated
internships, like the internship
Rouin is doing with the VA.
Like so many Nazareth students,
many military veterans hope to give
back to the community upon graduation,
through a service-oriented career
and/or through different types of community
service. Rouin hopes to turn his
internship with the VA and his degree
in social work into a full-time job at the
VA working with veterans. “I’m very
excited about going back and helping
veterans,” he says. “I’m looking forward
to that, to building more relationships
and making new friends.”
Meanwhile, Kundle is taking her
military experience, Nazareth education,
and community service and putting
it all together to become the best
nurse she can be. “I am so close to so
many professors. We get together as a
Nazareth nursing group and do things
together, like the March of Dimes, and
different outside activities,” she says.
“Nazareth wants to put out the best
students it can; it makes the extra sacrifice.
That’s just like the military.
I have that here with my professors
and my nursing mentors. What’s better
than that? I don’t think I would get that
anywhere else.”
Jillian S. Ambroz is a freelance writer in
Rochester, New York.
About the Cover
Nazareth’s recent focus on veterans has increased campus
awareness of the American flag, always a potent symbol for
vets. It became clear to the college community that the flag
located at the south end of the Arts Center had become less
visible over the years due to encroaching foliage and shifting campus
traffic patterns. This issue’s cover features the flag in its prominent
new location by the Wegman Family Sculpture Garden outside the Arts
Center, raised jointly by veteran James Leach, associate director in
campus safety, and Candice Kundle ’12, a veteran-student who makes
a practice of walking by the flag whenever she’s on campus. The new
flagpole was installed by veteran Greg Cohick from TUG Excavation,
a construction worker on the Integrated Center for Math and Science
who donated his time and labor for the task.
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eport | to donors
Dear Nazareth friends,
The hallmark of a Nazareth College education has always been outstanding preparation, in both
its liberal arts and professional programs. We are known for providing many of the area’s education
and health care professionals, who connect the College to the community and beyond. With this
year’s groundbreaking on campus for the new Integrated Center for Math and Science, Nazareth
enters a new era of influence and innovation. This most recent addition to campus features extensive
resources that will enhance programs and offer students and faculty more opportunities for research and hands-on
training. Throughout this year’s annual report, you’ll find stories of innovation, and we invite you to share in
the excitement that this new era brings.
As I watch the math and science center become a reality, I have taken note of the ingenuity, collaboration,
and determination that have gone into realizing such an ambitious project. Our administrators, faculty, students, support staff, alumni,
and many valued friends were able to identify a need, form a consensus, and work together to solve problems. When the new building
opens in fall 2012, we will be in the position to shape the future of generations of Nazareth graduates. We will have what we need
to bring our programs in health and human services to an even higher level of excellence. We will have a cutting-edge training
ground in which to prepare the math and science teachers who will serve the public for years to come. And we will benefit all our
students, as all are required to take math and science courses to ensure that they graduate with the kind of broad-based education
that our 21st-century world demands.
As you can tell, I take great pride and pleasure in ushering in Nazareth College’s new era. Together we have achieved so much.
And together we can achieve so much more in the future.
Annual Report 2010-2011
The 2010-2011 Annual Report can be
viewed online at www.naz.edu/supportnazareth.
The donor list reflects annual
fund gifts given from July 1, 2010 through
June 30, 2011.
If you have questions or comments about
the annual report, please contact Director of
Development Peggy Martin at mmartin0@
naz.edu or at 585-389-2401.
Sincerely,
Daan Braveman
Interested in reading more from the perspective of President Braveman?
Visit his official blog at http://naz.typepad.com/braveman.
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Nazareth College Statement of Activities June 30, 2011
2011 2010
Operating Revenue
Educational and general
Tuition and fees 71,694,323 70,038,630
less scholarships and grants 20,354,984 19,520,660
Net tuition and fees 51,339,339 50,517,970
Federal grants and contracts 1,691,590 1,755,683
State grants and contracts 741,213 580,011
Private gifts, grants, and contracts 1,157,446 2,525,245
Arts Center programs 585,962 530,880
Investment income and losses 28,597 236,563
Other revenues 733,314 729,420
Long-term investment return
allocated to operations 2,883,949 2,534,271
Total educational and general 59,161,410 59,410,043
Auxiliary enterprises 13,963,926 13,211,904
Total operating revenue 73,125,336 72,621,947
Operating Expenses
Educational and general
Instruction 29,820,516 28,620,047
Arts Center programs 2,072,216 1,869,423
Academic support 6,468,561 6,207,538
Student services 9,430,124 9,230,632
Institutional support 11,069,043 10,556,763
Total educational and general 58,860,460 56,484,403
Auxiliary enterprises 12,559,133 11,973,454
Total operating expenses 71,419,593 68,457,857
Change in net assets from operating activities 1,705,743 4,164,090
Non-Operating Activities
Long-term investment activities
Investment income 804,546 700,758
Net realized and unrealized (losses) gains 9,472,528 4,784,059
Total long-term investment activities 10,277,074 5,484,817
Long-term investment return allocated
for operations (2,883,949) (2,534,271)
Capital gifts 4,041,356 2,820,129
Other loss (88,942) (494,014)
Postretirement-related changes other than
net periodic benefit cost 430,414 (2,510,180)
Change in net assets from
nonoperating activities 11,775,953 2,766,481
Change in net assets 13,481,696 6,930,571
The graphs below depict the operating revenues and
expenses for the 2010–2011 fiscal year as a percent of total
operating revenue and expenses.
Main Sources of Operating Revenue
Revenues from student tuition and fees (student monies
collected, less the amount of financial aid provided directly
by the College) continued to be Nazareth’s primary source of
operating revenue, comprising 70 percent of the College’s
operating revenue in 2010–2011. Auxiliary enterprise
revenue, which includes room and board fees collected,
comprised 19 percent of total operating revenue. Private
gifts and grants, and public grants and contracts continue
to be important sources of revenue as well.
Operating Expenses
Sources of Operating Revenue
Tuition & fees (net) 70.21%
Public grants and contracts 3.33%
Private gifts, grants,
and contracts 1.58%
Arts Center programs 0.80%
Investment income and losses 0.04%
Other revenues 1.00%
Long-term investment
return allocation 3.94%
Auxiliary enterprises 19.10%
100.00%
In order to allocate the maximum amount of resources to
carry out the academic mission, Nazareth continues to closely
monitor and review institutional costs. For fiscal year 2010–2011
the College allocated 42 percent of its expense budget for
instructional purposes. An additional 9 percent was expended on
academic support costs such as the Lorette Wilmot Library and
Media Center. The College devoted 13 percent of the total
operating budget directly to student programs and services.
Operating Expenses
Instruction 41.75%
Arts Center programs 2.90%
Academic support 9.06%
Student services 13.20%
Institutional support 15.50%
Auxiliary enterprises 17.58%
100.00%
Net assets at beginning of year 130,599,055 123,668,484
Net assets at end of year 144,080,751 130,599,055
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eport | to donors
Council Oak Society Individual Members
O’Connor Circle
$25,000 and above
Anonymous (2)
Joyce Marie Aab ’75G
Joan & Burton S. August Sr.
* Daan and Lorraine Braveman
Louis A. Corbelli
* James A. & Andrea J. Rivoli
Costanza ’85
Emil D. & Jane Duda
* Sergio & Mary Ann Esteban
Garth Fagan
* Brian E. & Jean Hickey
Don H. Kollmorgen & Louise
Woerner
* Kathleen M. & James J. Leo
¥ Judy Wilmot Linehan ’76 &
Paul J. Linehan
* Dawn & Dr. Jacques M. Lipson
roselinde Mandery
* Mary Soons McCarty ’88
* Lois Howe McClure ’75
* Stephen D. & Lynn A. Natapow
Dr. Cynthia Reddeck-Lidestri &
John Lidestri
Jennifer & Richard E. Sands
Marilyn Sands
* Nancy & Robert Sands
* James P. & Constance Sessler
John M. & § Jayne C. Summers
Smyth Circle
$10,000–$24,999
* Susan E. Acker
Jack A. ’72 & Stacie M. Allocco
¥ Marie C. Baglio ’57
Amy & Stephen S. Brown
Gary A. Dake
Lauren Dixon & Michael
Schwabl
* Dr. Deborah A. Dooley ’75 &
Paul Mittermeyer
* Steve M. & Claire M. Dubnik
* Timothy D. & Susan Lechase
Fournier
* Dr. Margaret A. Frisch ’56
¥ Dolores Luccio Humbert ’54
Thomas Ioele
Beverly & R. Wayne LeChase
Frances M. & James J. Maguire
* Mary Ellen ’53 & Thomas G.
Maguire
* Winifred A. McCarthy ’70
Kim J. & Stephen McCluski
¥ Marion Morgan Mongan ’50
* Maureen Schutz O’Connor ’59
& William R. O’Connor
* Richard F. ’91 & Sherri Bell
Pierpont ’93
Deborah Ronnen & Sherman F.
Levey
¥ Lucia Vetter Unger ’35
* David L. & Carol Vigren
¥ Thomas C. Wilmot Sr. & Colleen
L. Wilmot ’71
Carroll Circle
$5,000–$9,999
Anonymous
¥ Barbara J. Aldrich ’67
¥ Dr. Mary T. Bush ’51
¥ Catherine E. Clark ’48
* Dr. Walter Cooper
¥ Carol Costa DiMarzo ’69 &
Anthony M. DiMarzo
* Mary Frances Firsching ’86
Ann Marie Durawa Gulian ’90
* Linda Henehan Hanna ’83 &
Joseph R. Hanna
* Bridgette A. Hobart ’84 &
Robert Janeczko
* Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz & Gene V.
Marino
Ann & Marc L. Iacona
* Richard A. & Marcia Kaplan
Anne E. Konar
Dr. Michael J. Lawrence
* Diane Barnard Paganelli ’56 &
John A. Paganelli
¥ Dr. Paul F. Pagerey
Jean Bresnowtiz Papsun ’68 &
Kent Papsun
Margaret R. ’79G & Frank
Perticone
¥ Anne Sevier-Buckingham ’63
& William A. Buckingham
Dr. Renee Scialdo Shevat ’77
& Samuel A. Shevat
Juliann B. & Gerald P.
Vanderstyne Jr.
Drs. Sara B. Varhus & David W.
Hill
Drs. Janet Trzcinski Vasak ’67
& John M. Vasak
Steven H. & Christine
Whitman
* Rosanne M. Young ’89
Anthony J. Zollo
Lyons Circle
$2,500–$4,999
* Jane Flynn Burke ’65 & Daniel
J. Burke
¥ Joan Mascaro Caruso ’67
* Dr. Maria M. Cheng ’77
* Thomas K. & LouAnne DaRin
Catherine Byrnes DeBritz ’58
& Francis M. DeBritz
Debbie & John L. DiMarco
* Mary Anne Doane ’68
* Dena Burdick Drain ’84 &
John Joseph Drain ’83
* Georgianna Bush Dunn ’61
Beverly & Dr. H. Pierson French
* Kelly E. & Dennis Gagan
§ Angelo P. Gallina
* Karen M. & Andrew R. Gallina
¥ Joan Stein Hacker ’63
* Claire Heffernan ’68 &
Timothy C. Fabrizio
¥ Jean Gramkee Hubsch ’68
Patti M. & Robert Hudak
Drs. Kathleen Lyons Kelly ’68
& Edward M. Kelly
† Dale Fradkin Klein ’06
¥ Barbara Olmstead Long ’66
Patricia Lyons ’63, M.D.
* Mary Jo & Kevin T. Maguire
¥ Jennifer McCall-Lasalle &
Stephen C. Lasalle
* Mary J. McInerney ’37
* Mary McCann Nicolis ’70 &
Anthony P. Nicolis
* Elizabeth A. Osta ’67 & Dave
Van Arsdale
* Nancy & Larry Peckham
Josephine M. Perini
Jeremy Raco
Mary Ann Browne Sanborn
’62
* Msgr. William H. Shannon
* Suzanne Grosodonia Siefring
’71 & Dr. Gerald E. Siefring
Jr.
Dr. Elaine G. & Malcolm
Spaull
Glenna B. & Norman M.
Spindelman
* Marion Fischer Tucker ’43
¥ Jeanne S. Walewski ’71
Breen Circle
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous (2)
† Cassie Janis Adams ’06 &
Bryan D. Adams ’04, ’10G
Mr. & Mrs. Syed A. Ahmad
¥ Rita Zlotnik Allen ’56 & Mark
Allen
* Maureen T. Alston ’70
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Altier
Colleen Morton Anderson
’75 & John W. Anderson
helen M. & James R. Barbato
¥ Drs. Rose Marie & John B.
Beston
Mary Kay Bishop ’89
* Margaret L. & Donald J.
Bolger
* Catherine M. Bookey ’73
Josephine & Simon Braitman
¥ Bonnie-Anne Briggs ’69
¥ Theresa Lombardo Bronte
’51, ’75G
Carolyn A. ’88G & Paul
Buntich
rosemarie Scherer Burke ’58
& William P. Burke
Jennifer S. Burr ’81
* Sarah D. Cali ’50
¥ Carolyn Civiletti Canzano ’55
John R. Carpenter
Karen Nientimp Caton ’86 &
Matthew A. Caton
James Cerone
* Dr. Paula Satterly Childs ’70
Marina Pang Choa ’58
Natalie & Dr. J. Richard Ciccone
Margaret R. Colacino ’51
Donald T. Collea
Dr. Susan S. Collier
¥ Ann Marie Stokes Crilly ’57
* Joseph Crotty Jr.
¥ Mary Goldman Crowe ’78
Drs. Kathleen M. & Joseph T.
DaBoll-Lavoie
John E. Dailor
* Rachel Y. & Jimmy S.
DeGuzman
¥ Rosalyn Dellapietra ’58, ’66G
* Alberta & Richard J. DiMarco
* Allison Urlaub DiMarco ’99G &
Richard J. DiMarco II
Katherine Munding DiMarco
’98G & Joel R. DiMarco
Drs. Kathryn & James R.
Douthit
* Maria Echaniz ’56
* Susan & Dr. Steven Eisinger
¥ Cindy Ruppel Engle ’72
¥ Dr. Joan R. Ewing ’55
Joan L. & Harold S. Feinbloom
* Margaret Cass Ferber
¥ Anne Carpenter Ferris ’74,
’79G & David R. Ferris
* Maureen Bell Field ’65
Jerid Fisher
* Sheila Jackson Foster ’99 &
Bruce H. Foster
* Jacqueline Zick Fox ’70, ’74G &
Patrick Fox
Jane C. Fox ’68
* Amy E. Fujimura ’82
¥ Helen Suits Gates ’57
* Dr. Timothy R. Glander &
Suzanne M. Kolodziej
* Donald P. Goodman
Burton Gordon
Ellen Hahn Grabb ’65 &
Raymond D. Grabb
Eileen B. & Michael B.
Grossman
¥ Dr. Mary Rappazzo Hall ’63
Evelyn A. Hartwell ’86
Melissa & William Head
* Robin M. & James Duffy Hickey
Estate of Harriet M. Hoock ’34
Norman Horton
Joanne A. Hume-Nigro
* Betty A. & Louis P. Iacona
Johnson & Johnson
† Sandra A. ’05, ’10G & Matthew
J. Killeen
* Lindsay Reading Korth & Dr.
William W. Korth
Barbara P. & John F. Kraushaar
* Carol Hickey Krebs ’61
¥ Helen Schoenherr Kress ’50
Karla M. Krogstad
* Jeanette Martino Land ’58 &
John R. Land
† Sean F. Lander ’05, ’08G
Debby & Elliott Landsman
¥ Karen Moore Larimer ’66 &
Hon. David Larimer
¥ Lori H. ’83, ’87G & Stephen C.
LaSalle II ’83
* Rachel T. LeChase
¥ Dr. Richard M. Loomis
* Cynthia Estruch Lowenguth
’73, ’76G & Gar Lowenguth
* John Williams & Charles M.
Lundeen Jr.
† Susan Chekow Lusignan ’10G
& Charles P. Lusignan
* Judith M. Kurzawa Lynch ’62
* Bernadette Daukintas Mack
’61
Trina M. Marquez
* Peggy E. Martin
Marcia Stark Mathews ’54
¥ Katherine E. Mayer ’43
* Anne Ulrich McCaffrey ’89 &
Christopher McCaffrey ’87
* Kimberly Sharp McDermott ’00
& Ryan T. McDermott ’98
* Kathe P. ’94, ’00G & Michael S.
McGwin ’93, ’00G
* Karen Storm McNutt ’92 &
Todd L. McNutt ’93
¥ Eleanor Tyndall Meier ’57
¥ Marion L. & Richard S. Merrill
¥ Sandy & David J. Metz
¥ Mary Jean Meyering ’51
Cara & Ben Meyers
Susan Sutkus Meyers ’67
* Dawn M. Powell Minemier ’92
& Robert S. Minemier III
helga B. & Paul F. Morgan
† Tia M. Morgia ’07, ’10G
* Mary Ann Nailos ’80
Mary Anne Zeugner Nathenson
’69
Barbara Nino ’85
¥ Therese I. O’Brien ’50
* Mary Fran Rodzai O’Herron ’65
& Dennis M. O’Herron
Karna E. & Michael S. Palermo
¥ Dr. Vivian A. Palladoro ’56
Janet Hodes Palmisano ’80 &
John F. Palmisano
Mary Kay & Edward G. Parrone
¥ Anna Frances Payne ’49
Stephanie & Michael Pedrotti
* Marjorie & David Perlman
* Kirk E. Pero ’96
¥ Eileen McGee Pestorius ’61 &
Dr. F. Michael Pestorius
* Marian Fox Pfeiffer ’49
* Kitty Lou McCulley Phillips
’69
* Eileen Smyntek Pinto ’66
* Dr. Sally Masterson Pryor ’72,
’75G
robert A. ’88 & Barbara
Randall
* Dr. Christine M. Redman ’68
Dr. Linda M. Rice & George
Scharr
† Cindy Rumble ’10
* Joan Kinsky Ryan ’54 &
James D. Ryan Sr.
Drs. Nancy G. Shedd &
Alexander Kurchin
* Dr. Dennis A. Silva
Dr. Virginia M. Skinner-
Linnenberg
¥ Sheila A. Smyth ’64 &
Michael Heberger
¥ Phyllis Conheady Stehm ’74,
’78G
robert C. Stevens
* Nancy P. Strelau
*† Bryan S. Sweet ’07
* Dr. Shirley F. Szekeres
* Patricia A. Thiem ’69
* Carolyn Krebs Thomson ’55
& Robert H. Thomson
Dr. Alvin Ureles
* Margaret Begley Vachher ’63
* Ellen Rutledge Valenti ’74
Jeffrey W. ’85 & Kimberly A.
Van Gundy
¥ Marie J. Van Ness ’62
¥ Mary Ellen Dwyer Vasile ’68
& Dr. Gennaro J. Vasile
Gina M. Viggiani ’84
* Dr. Judit S. & John R. Wagner
Jr.
* Mary E. Walsh ’60
* Maureen Leddy Welch ’62
* Wendy J. White ’73
* Patricia Galindo Wilkey ’87
* Beth Vendryes Williams ’74
* Eileen R. Wilmot
*† Loretta C. Wilmot ’05G
Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk
Foundation
¥ Dr. Bruce C. Woolley
Kevin D. & Liese Schoener
Worthen
¥ Susan Zaleski Yovanoff ’77,
’82G & Lawrence Yovanoff
’78
* Grace Florin Zanche ’58
Louis Zollo
§ Deceased
* 5+ years consecutive giving
¥ 25+ years consecutive giving
† Graduate of Last Decade
(GOLD) Leadership Level
Donors
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Bryan Sweet ’07
A proud new member of the
GOLD Council Oak Society
“Nazareth instilled in me the value of giving back
to the College and the community. My role in student government
as vice president of campus programming inspired
me to get involved. As an alumnus, I’ve continued that
commitment by co-chairing the committee of the alumni
board for Graduates of the Last Decade. Nazareth gave me
and my fellow young alumni so much—opportunities to
get involved, real life and work experiences, as well as
lasting connections and friendships. Now it’s our turn to
give back to the College that gave us so much.”
—Bryan Sweet ’07
Class Gift Amount
(Received by June 30, 2012)
2011 $100
2010 $200
2009 $300
2008 $400
2007 $500
2006 $600
2005 $700
2004 $800
2003 $900
2002 $1000
Council Oak Society members annually receive the following benefits:
• Invitation to the annual Council Oak Society reception with Daan and Lorraine Braveman
• Access to the Arts Center’s Lipson Patrons’ Lounge prior to showtime and during intermission of
subscription series evening performances
• Invitation to the annual spring pops concert
• Recognition as a Council Oak Society member on the annual fund plaque and in the annual report
• Special bi-annual newsletter with updates from the president
• Complimentary subscription to Connections
Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Instead of the $1,000 donation usually required, GOLD classes can join the Council Oak Society by
giving $100 for each year after their graduation date.
To learn more about the Council Oak Society and how you can support Nazareth,
visit go.naz.edu/council-oak or call the development office at 585-389-2415.

ALUMNI | profile
The Blossoming Artwork of
Marina Pang
T
by Robyn RIme
he paintings look unmistakably Chinese, even to the
casual viewer. Serene mountain tops, drifting clouds,
cascading rivers, the occasional solitary dwelling—crisp
with finely inked details, washes of color, and glimpses
of calligraphy.
These are the works of Hong Kong native Marina
Pang ’58, an accomplished artist who began painting
later in life and, in fact, never thought she’d be painting at all.
“I loved to paint, even as a young girl,” she says. “But my parents
thought that taking fine arts in college would not guarantee a good
job later in life.” Pang agreed with them, majoring instead in biology
and securing for herself several satisfying jobs over the years. But
later, when her two boys were grown and gone, “the house got very
quiet,” and she thought, why not take up painting?
Pang studied on and off for years with renowned masters in
Chinese landscape and floral painting and calligraphy. Eventually
she invented her own style, though it is still firmly based in Chinese
traditions.
“All Chinese painting begins with Chinese ink,” she explains.
“Some people like to have just black and white, but I like to have
a bit of color.” Pang enjoys using different media to create new
effects and has worked in watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and most
recently oil.
“Watercolor is very free—it creates its own painting,” she says.
“You follow where the water leads. The most beautiful painting
flows into its own shapes, and you go from there. It’s a pleasant
surprise.”
The somber tones in Pang’s watercolors serve her work well, according
to Yeung Chun-tong, director of the University Museum and
Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong. “Marina prefers using
thick ink, blue, dark brown, and green to paint the hills and vegetations.
… This sharp contrast in the use of colors has brought out a
clear delineation of the waters, clouds, and hills and also succeeded
in unfolding the shaded corners and sunlit places in the scenes.”
Marina Pang. September Colours. 1995.
46 CONNECTIONS | Winter 2011-12 www.naz.edu

Artist and Hong Kong native Marina Pang ’58
Pang’s work has appeared in exhibitions in across China, from
Shanghai to Beijing, as well as in the Republic of Singapore; she
has also mounted several solo exhibitions in Hong Kong over
the years, including the 1999 display Revérie: The Art of Marina
Pang at the University of Hong Kong. Her work appears in the
collections of the National Museum Art Gallery in Singapore, the
University of Hong Kong’s University Museum and Art Gallery,
and the Main Library at the University of Hong Kong.
Pang is still in touch with her Nazareth classmates, who
helped make the lone Chinese student on campus feel at home.
She doesn’t visit Rochester very frequently now, however, finding
the voyage a long one. Her sons live in Hong Kong, as do
her five grandchildren, who are “passionate to have grandma
teach them to paint.” One feels that Pang is likely to oblige
them.
“My parents introduced me to the fine arts and over the
years encouraged me to pursue my artistic inclinations,” she
says. “I am fortunate to have spent the last 30 years doing what
I love most.”
For more stories about alumni, visit alumni.naz.edu.
above: Marina Pang.
Purple and Gold. No date.
left: Marina Pang.
Inkscape. 1999.
below: Marina Pang.
Shades of Violet. No date.
Robyn Rime is the editor of Connections.
www.naz.edu CONNECTIONS | Winter 2011-12 47

ALUMNI | news
Dear Nazareth Family,
I
am thrilled to serve as your alumni board president for
the upcoming year. I have been actively involved on the
alumni board for six years now, most recently serving as
the vice president. Working with last year’s president,
Nancy Griffin Shadd ’64, was a complete honor and joy. Her
leadership has so positively promoted the expansion of our
alumni board structure and continued to raise the profile of
alumni who remain involved with Nazareth College.
We all love the College. For that reason, I choose to stay
informed and involved. Since graduation, my pride in the
College has only grown. I am excited about the new facilities,
the additional programs, and the continued support for
students from so many caring faculty and staff. The College
definitely gets better with age.
Working as a member of the alumni board keeps me close
to the College’s cutting-edge work in our community, such as
students’ pre-service placements in classrooms and therapy
rooms throughout the region, or the continued outreach in
the community through our professional programs…to name
a few. I enjoy making connections with alumni from other
generations and sharing stories about what we value from our
Nazareth College experiences.
Each of us on the alumni board is energized about another
great year and all the opportunities it presents. We look
forward to continuing to collaborate with other departments,
such as admissions, career services, and others to continue to
look for ways for alumni to support
the mission of the College
and tap into their experiences
and connections as well. We
will also continue to create relationships
with future alumni
who will soon join our ranks.
We would love to hear your
feedback or have you as a
member of our board! Please
contact the alumni office if
you have an interest in being
involved in the alumni life on
campus.
Sincerely,
Lucas Hiley ’03
Nominate Outstanding Alumni
Nazareth College has two awards to recognize the
significant achievements of Nazareth alumni: the
Outstanding Alumni Award and the Alumni GOLD
Award. The influence of these alumni has been
felt not only within the Nazareth community, but within the
communities in which they live and work.
oUTSTANDing Alumni AWARD
For more than 30 years, the College has recognized
the achievements of its graduates with the Outstanding
Alumni Award. Outstanding Alumni serve as role models for
Nazareth students, encourage others to consider a Nazareth
education, and further inspire, in their fellow graduates, a
sense of pride in their alma mater.
Alumni GOLD AWARD
This award is designed to recognize the achievements
of an alumni who, having graduated within the past
10 years, has distinguished him or herself in the community
or workplace while adhering to the values fostered by
Nazareth College.
Interested in nominating a classmate or friend? Please
contact Kerry Gotham ‘98, director of alumni relations, at
kgotham7@naz.edu or 585-389-2404. You can also
nominate someone online and view a list of previous award
winners at alumni.naz.edu/awards.
48 CONNECTIONS | Winter 2011-12 www.naz.edu

Save the Date for
Reunion Weekend
June 1–3, 2012
The next Nazareth College Reunion Weekend
is fast approaching! We look forward
to welcoming you, your families, and
classmates back to campus, so make plans
now with your former roommates to visit
your favorite alma mater in all its glory.
Everyone is invited to join in the summer
fun with good food, great friends, and a full slate of
activities to make the weekend special. Honored class
years are those ending in a 2 or 7 but, as always, the
more the merrier!
Interested in
volunteering to help
with your reunion
class committee
or looking for
more details? Visit
Reunion Weekend
Headquarters online
at alumni.naz.
edu/reunion. You
can also look for
your class Facebook
group by searching
www.facebookcom/groups/Naz
Left to right: Scott Paeplow
‘08, Meg Flaherty ’07, Mary
ClassofXXXX and
Kate Walsh ‘09, Rese Vaccaro
joining in the conversation
to see who is
’07, and Shannon Kline ‘05.
making plans to come back.
Of course you can’t forget about our Fifth Annual
Golden Flyer Challenge. If a furry flyer mascot arrives at
your doorstep, be sure to snap a photo and send the flyer
on to another classmate. The race is on for most miles
logged, most classmate visits, most creative photo, and
most unique destination.
To see where all the flyers have flown or to request a
visit from your class golden flyer, go to alumni.naz.edu/
reunion. Hurry though—all flyers must make it back to
the alumni relations office by May 25, 2012.
Ann Martini ’66 offered a wine
tasting with selections from her
Penn Yan winery, Anthony Road.
Professor of Art Mitch Messina
conducting an alumni workshop.
www.naz.edu CONNECTIONS | Winter 2011-12 49

ALUMNI | news
How to Suceed in Show Business
Actor Michael Park ’90 Hits Broadway—Again
by Robyn Rime
Nazareth alumni Michael Park ’90 has hit it big on
Broadway—again!—this time starring as businessman
Bert Bratt in the award-winning musical comedy How to
Succeed in Business without Really Trying.
“It’s a humbling experience,” says Park. The show,
which follows the antics of a young window cleaner and his meteoric
rise from the mail room to a corporate vice presidency, features
“cheer-inducing” choreography (The Associated Press) and dancing
that’s “lively and ingenious” (New York Post). Park half-jokingly calls
the choreography “brutal.”
“It’s an experience most likely meant for someone in their late
20s,” he laughs. “Every morning I wake up and my knees are yelling,
my back is screaming, and it’s a 45-minute stretch before I can get
going.” Park says friends have watched the show and imagined the
C2 workers compensation forms being written out. “These young,
incredibly talented actors and dancers are standing on their heads for
the audience every night.”
The high-profile How to Succeed… also features Daniel Radcliffe,
of Harry Potter film fame, and John Larroquette, best known for
Night Court. “I can now consider them colleagues—it’s the most
amazing deal,” Park says. Radcliffe, in particular, has earned his
admiration. “For a 22-year-old to work harder than anyone and be
completely egoless is remarkable.”
A Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama in 1962, this 50th anniversary
revival opened March 27 to much acclaim, being hailed as “exhilarating,
bright, and irresistible” by Variety and “stylish and exuberant” by
USA Today. It eventually garnered eight Tony Award nominations and
one nod for Larroquette.
Left to right: Michael Park, Christopher J. Hanke, Rose Hemingway, Daniel Radcliffe, John
Larroquette, and Tammy Blanchard during the opening night performance curtain call for How to
Succeed in Business without Really Trying in New York City’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 27, 2011.
50 Photo CONNECTIONS by Walter | McBride/Retna Winter 2011-12 Ltd.
www.naz.edu

Michael Park ’90, Laurie Nowak
Park ’91, and their children
Christopher (14), Kathleen
(11), and Annabelle (7), at the
Broadway opening night after
party. Photo by Joe Corrigan/
Getty Images Entertainment.
Working with the likes of Radcliffe
and Larroquette and co-star
Tammy Blanchard is “something I
never would have envisioned myself
doing two or three years ago,” Park
explains. “I never wanted to believe
soap operas would die. In this day
and age, I’m elated to be a working
actor.”
Park recently won his second Best
Actor Daytime Emmy Award for his
role as detective Jack Snyder on CBS’s
As the World Turns, which was cancelled
in September 2010.
“We were thrilled about [his nomination],
because the show went off
the air last year and we thought that was the end of it,” Michael’s mother, Rosemary Cutri
Park ‘72, told the Messenger Post newspapers in June. Park missed this year’s awards ceremony
in Las Vegas, staying home instead to attend his daughter’s graduation from fifth grade. He
had two additional Emmy nominations during his 13 years on the daytime drama.
Kudos go to his agents for skillfully managing his career, Park says, and to his wife Laurie
Nowak Park ’91 for continuing to say, “You know what you haven’t done in a while?” “I
could do these two-week gigs while working on the soap, and it kept my name out there and
gave me the opportunity to meet new people,” he says. “My name continued to stay in the
back of people’s minds.”
Since leaving his hometown of Canandaigua for New York City 20 years ago, Park has
appeared on Broadway in Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Me, and Carousel; off-Broadway credits
include the original casts of Middletown, The Burnt Part Boys, Violet, and Hello Again.
Asked whether he performed in any Nazareth productions, Park laughs. “Lindsay [Reading
Korth, chair of the theater arts program] will kill me for telling this story again. My wife
Laurie—then my girlfriend—made me audition for Guys and Dolls. I had only done one show,
back in high school. But I was cast, and Laurie was not. And she was a music major! But you
know, she was at every single rehearsal. She sat in the back row and did her homework. She’s
been my ultimate support through the years—she and the kids are what drive me.”
Back on Broadway now after a hiatus of 12 years, Park is enjoying the perks that accompany
a hit show. “I forgot that all these other accoutrements go with it,” he says. “We got to perform
at the Tonys and on David Letterman, and we’ll appear in the first hour of the Thanksgiving
Day parade.”
Overall, Park calls How to Succeed … a fantastic experience. “Lots of people leave the theater
with smiles on their faces,” he says, “and that’s what it’s all about.”
Check out the cast’s performance at the 2011 Tony Awards at www.youtube.com/
watch?v=69WpCBLrdSQ.
Broadway Debut
for Jennette
Nazareth alum Tyson Jennette ’99 is hitting
the boards on Broadway right now, singing
and dancing his way through the Tony
Award-winning The Book of Mormon. In
his Broadway debut, Jennette understudies lead actor
Michael Potts as well as several other chorus members
and dancers in a widely lauded ensemble cast.
He also performs on the cast album, which has been
breaking records since its release last May. After the
Tony Awards in June, the album rose to No. 3 on the
Billboard charts and sold 61,000 copies in one week,
breaking a record previously held by The Phantom
of the Opera and making it the highest charting cast
album since 1969’s Hair.
Jennette graduated from Nazareth with a B.S. in
speech-language pathology and went on to receive
his master’s degree in education from Harvard. He’s
also a New York State certified teacher of the speech
and hearing handicapped, is fluent in American Sign
Language and Spanish, and freelances as a tri-lingual
sign interpreter.
Robyn Rime is the editor of Connections.
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ALUMNI | news
Experience is the
Best Teacher
New alumni mentor program
inspires both students and alums
by Julie Long
Brett Gunio ’12 is already a seasonal
entertainment cast member at Walt Disney World.
Keith Smith ’89, a human
resources manager for Walt
Disney Parks and Resorts, has
mentored Brett Gunio ’12
as he seeks his own career
at Disney.
Life after college—where do I go next? It’s a
question that faces all college alumni after
four years filled with learning both academic
and life lessons. Whether recent graduates
have their career path paved out in their minds or
they are pondering their next move, Nazareth can
help. The College’s Alumni Relations Office has
joined with Student Services to create a new alumni
mentoring program.
The mentoring pilot program took flight this past
spring, when the Alumni Relations Office contacted
several student leaders at Nazareth and paired them
with an engaged Nazareth alum to show other alumni
how easy and fulfilling it can be.
Enter Brett Gunio ’12 and Patrick Glaser ’12,
both student leaders on campus, both seniors, both
with a dream of what they want to achieve.
Disney Dreams
Gunio, a quad inclusive education and mathematics
major, says while he’s getting a teaching degree at
Nazareth next May, it’s performing that is his passion.
“I did the Disney College Program at Walt Disney
World in Orlando in fall 2009 and knew that I wanted
to move back to Florida after graduation and try for
full time within the parks.” He is already a seasonal
entertainment cast member, allowing him to go down
over breaks and pick up shifts. It seems like Gunio
has a good foot in the door with Mickey & Co., but
Alumni Relations Assistant Director Donna Borgus
knew she could help him do even better, pairing him
with Keith Smith ’89, a human resources manager
for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
Smith, who majored in theatre arts with a minor in
business management, sees a lot of his own story in
Gunio’s. He spent four years in character entertainment
at Disney before entering human resources.
“It’s been a very rewarding journey,” he says, “but not
without a few uncertainties, detours, and paths that I
never imagined I would take.”
Those detours can be easier for Gunio to navigate
with the help of a seasoned mentor. “Career roadblocks,
unexpected changes, and challenges often help
to clarify our goals and shape who we are,” says Smith.
Gunio knows his mentor’s success and advice can
only help him while they brainstorm career options
and skills needed for future employment within
Disney. “I’m interested to hear Keith’s story about the
path he took to move up within the company,” says
Gunio, who hopes to perform and travel with Disney
before returning to teaching in a classroom. “Similar
to Keith, I too have contemplated the possibility of
working my way through different departments within
Disney.”
While Disney veteran Smith can help teach Gunio
so much, the Nazareth senior also hopes to give a bit
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ack to his mentor. “I am hoping that I can
help reconnect Keith with the Nazareth
community.”
Big Apple Bound
“Once I have my degree in my hand,
I will finally be on my way to New York
City…hopefully with a job!” says Patrick
Glaser, who is anticipating graduating this
spring with degrees in business administration
and communication/rhetoric. He is
setting his sights on getting started as a
publicist in the fashion industry.
His mentor Kristen Pandick ’06, who
lives and works in NYC and is ready and
willing to help Glaser meet some of the
right people. “I know individuals who
work in the fashion and the PR industry
who are always interested in outgoing
new grads who are looking to use their
creativity towards a new career,” she
says. Pandick, who studied sociology and
pre-law at Nazareth, works for a Brazilian
investment bank where she is responsible
for the bank’s corporate events.
Glaser welcomes his mentor’s help
navigating the dos and don’ts of the big
city corporate world, and he has already
done his homework by watching some
elite fashion companies in hope of some
day working with designers to find the
best solution for their branding needs.
He’s even scored a contact with a designer
at Ralph Lauren, a company he really
respects. While he is enthusiastic, Pandick
says he must bide his time. “There are
hundreds of thousands flocking to Manhattan
to pursue the same dream and job
he’s looking to do,” she says. “He will find
his place, but it takes time.”
Time to find his place in the workforce,
and in the world of NYC living. “We
have discussed the idea of taking a weekend
for me to come down for a visit, so I
can develop a potential plan for life after
Nazareth,” says Glaser. “First I’ll have the
joyous adventure of apartment hunting
in Manhattan, but considering rent is
going to attack my wallet, I’m definitely
going to need help from someone who
knows the ropes.”
Both Glaser and
Pandick have great
things to say about
being part of the
alumni mentoring
pilot program. “With
networking being
such a crucial part
of starting a career
and building relationships,
I recommend
the alumni mentoring
program to all
Nazareth students,”
Glaser concludes.
“Get out there, start
meeting people and
connecting. You
never know what you
Kristen Pandick
’06 works for a
Brazilian investment
bank and mentors
Patrick Glaser ’12
on fashion and PR
contacts in New
York City.
can accomplish if you don’t get out there
and discover the things in life meant to be
discovered.”
Julie Long is the assistant director for media
relations in Nazareth’s marketing department.
Be a Mentor!
Registration is as easy as visiting alumni.
naz.edu and clicking on the Get Involved tab.
The registration form requests information
about what you want to do and how much
time you want to commit to the program.
Once a student and alum have been paired,
they’re allowed to manage their mentoring
relationship on their own, at their own pace.
“Our goal is for students to find and make
connections, and for alumni to feel good
about giving back,” Borgus concludes.
Learn more about the alumni mentoring
program at alumni.naz.edu.
Patrick Glaser ’12, shown here in Times Square, ready to expand his contacts in NYC.
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CLASS|notes
’50s
Teresa Bronte ’51, ’75G, Soc.,
shared her story of surviving breast
cancer in Moments of Truth, Gifts
of Love: Women of Community
and Spirit Journey through Breast
Cancer (Productivity Publications,
2011). The book, authored by Eve
Strella-Ribson, has been endorsed
by Good Morning America coanchor
Robin Roberts.
’60s
Marianne Scroffano Maines
’65, Eng., was named to the first
Buffalo Business “Heads of the
Class” list in March. Maines is principal
at the Saints Peter and Paul
School where she has worked
since 1979.
Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., Eng.,
was awarded the International
Thomas Merton Society’s most
distinguished award, the “Louie.”
Use Facebook for your Class Notes—
submitting your news is
easier than ever!
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2. Update us with the latest happenings in your life,
upload a picture, or share a story.
3. While you’re there, check out our Facebook page and
connect with other Nazareth alumni.
The award is given to a member
of the group whose distinguished
service has contributed to the aims
of the society and to furthering
its goals.
Bea Heberger ’67, Soc., is
tutoring Latino ladies in English,
while they tutor her in Spanish.
Kathryn Hillger ’67, Eng.,
is the proud grandmother of
Samantha Rose Gjodesen, born
Nov. 16, 2010, to her son David
and his wife Christina, and
Benjamin William Gjodesen,
born Nov. 28, 2010, to her son
Daniel and his wife Molly. Dan
and Dave are identical twins
and their babies were born and
adopted 12 days apart.
’70s
Carol Bucher LeSher ’79,
Music Ed., received her master’s
degree in leadership from Grand
Canyon University in June. She
works as a team coordinator for
Placer County Probation in
Roseville, CA.
’80s
H. Lansing Speer ’81, Studio
Art, was awarded Outstanding
Book of the Year—Most Original
Concept from the Independent
Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
More than 2,000 authors and publishers
competed with nearly 4,000
entries this year. His work
American Icarus: A Life in Snapshots
(Circa Photographics, Ltd.,
2011) is a 149-page fictional
graphic novel in the form of a
large handmade family photograph
album of snapshots that
tells an alternative history or
aviation throughout the
20th century.
John Drain ’83, Bus. Acct.,
was named senior vice president
of finance at Hearst Television in
fall 2010.
Bridgette Hobart ’84, Bus.
Acct., participated in the 24-Mile
Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in
April. Hobart completed the race
in 11 hours, 51 minutes.
Karen Lauterbach Nelson ’89,
Art, is the owner and designer for
TRN Designs, a monogrammed
gift company, which launched its
new website in June.
U. Monique Robinson-Wright
’89, Art Ed., is the assistant dean
of Peabody Student Affairs at
Vanderbilt University. She was previously
director of student life and
diversity initiatives at Volunteer
State Community College for
nearly 17 years. Robinson-Wright
has an M.Ed. and Ed.D. from
Vanderbilt University.
’90s
Robert Prong ’92, Bus. Adm.,
completed his M.B.A. at SUNY
New Paltz in 2002 and is currently
a professional guitarist based in
Tampa, FL.
Kevin Cox ’94, Bus. Adm.,
works for Oracle Corporation.
Jennifer McLaughlin ’95,
Soc., was recently appointed
school library system director at
Monroe 1 BOCES School Library
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System. She has been a teacher
and librarian at Martha Brown
Middle School at Fairport Central
Schools for 13 years.
Christopher Murtha ’95, Bus.
Adm., is entering his third term on
the board of directors for the
Financial Planning Association—
C.T. Valley Chapter. Chris works as
a financial advisor for Howard
Financial Corp. in West Hartford, CT.
’00s
Ryan McDermott ’00, Bus.
Adm., was promoted to relationship
manager, commercial banking,
for the Central New York
district of KeyBank. He joined
KeyBank in 2006 as a commercial
portfolio analyst.
Melissa Reed ’02, ’06G, Music
and Music Ed., recently received
the Outstanding Music Educators,
Choral Music Award from the
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Reed is a music educator and
music therapist in the Hilton
Central School District and a
music education lecturer at
Nazareth College.
Katherine Decker ’03, Hist.,
recently returned to western New
York from Tampa, FL, where she
had been working at the University
of South Florida. She is now
working at Alfred University in
the Kazuo Inamori School of
Engineering.
Hilory McMahon Liccini ’04,
CSD, recently moved to North
Dakota, where she lives with her
husband and infant daughter,
Stella Rose. Her residence in North
Dakota makes it official—a
Nazareth alumnus now lives in
every state in the U.S.! Liccini
works at Minot State University
as the project director for an
Autism Research Grant and
Diagnostic Clinic.
Cindy Springman Legwaila
’06, Music, provided flute accompaniment
for a performance by
The wedding of Chelsea Carhart ’09
to Jay Lehmann brought out lots of
Nazareth alums.
Front row, l to r: Lisa Porter ’09 and
Laura Bradrick ’09.
Second row, l to r: Riley Carhart ’11,
Tricia Coleman ’09, ’11G, Allyson
Smith ’09, ’12G, the groom, the
bride, Adele Flanagan ’09, Jenna
D’Onza ’09.
Third row, l to r: Katelyn Marasco
’09, Mike Roddy ’08, Deanna
Spiotta ’09, Karen Bartlett ’09,
’11G, Gina Totaro ’09, Sally Wilcox
’09, ’11G, Lisa Salvaggio ’08,
Lindsey Talma ’08, ’11, Rachel
Pirozzolo ’10, Adrian Womack ’08.
the Oneida Area Civic Chorale,
“Americana Patchwork: Songs and
Stories Celebrating Our Heritage.”
Legwaila is a board certified music
therapist, teaches flute, guitar,
piano, and African drums, and
runs the flute ensemble at the
Oneida YMCA.
Erin McLaughlin Bienvenue
’07, Bus. Adm., opened A La
Mode Salon with her mother in
Geneva. The salon offers haircuts,
pedicures, manicures, and facials
to both men and women.
Kaitlin Roney Sigler ’07, ’11G,
Art Edu., was awarded the Arena
Group Artist Award at the 63rd
Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition
at the Memorial Art Gallery in
Rochester.
Jessica Funk-Garvin ’08, Rel.
Stu., graduated in May from the
Catholic Theological Union in
Chicago with a master’s degree
in inter-religious dialogue.
Timothy Garvin ’08, Pol. Sci.,
graduated last May from the John
Marshall Law School in Chicago.
Cassandra Thompson ’08,
’11G, Bus. Adm., is Nazareth’s
new resident dining manager
with Chartwells Dining Services.
Thompson worked previously as
Nazareth’s assistant director of
student activities.
Chanel Wright ’08, Psy., is
executive assistant to the president
of Alfred State College. Wright
joined Alfred State College in 2008
as a residence hall director in the
Division of Campus Life.
Krystal Gonzalez ’09, Hist.,
is currently a special education
teacher at Upstate Cerebral Palsy
in Utica.
Nazareth friends gathered in Denver, Colorado. Left to right:
Beth Rey Carpenter ’81, Mary Jo Newtown ’79, Janet
Hodes Palmisano ’80, Anne Taravella McKenna ’81,
Judy Ahlfeld Seil ’81, Sarah Vanderschmidt Parsons ’79,
Macreena Doyle ’80, Alice Kapfer Kaiser ’80.
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Loads of Nazareth friends attended the wedding of Emily
Cannon ’08, ’11G to Glen Labenski ’05.
Front row, l to r: Meredith Coon ’08, Andrew Knapp ’05,
Richard Orlicz ’06, Christopher Goodman ’05, Kiel Sick ’06,
’09G, Christopher Patterson ’07, Bradley Winn ’07, ’10G.
Back row, l to r: Jennifer Buttaccio ’08, Stephanie
Ostrander ’08, the groom, the bride, Emily Crerand ’08,
Jenna Tirohn ’09, Amanda McIntosh ’08, Ann Bovenzi ’08,
’11G, Adrienne Dehm ’07, Kaytie Krapf ’08, ’10G.
Michelle Miles Fries ’95,
’02G surprised her husband
Rob Fries ’94 on their 15th
wedding anniversary with a
party for two in the kitchen
of O’Connor 2, where they
first met.
Caitlin Jones ’09, Mus. Th.,
and Anthony Carter ’08, Th., are
collaborating on a webseries for
SMAO Entertainment, the film/
new media production company
Jones founded in January.
’10s
Dan Munier ’10, Eco., was
accepted at Columbia University
for a master’s in international
education.
Kari Kohanski ’11, Mus. Ed.,
was offered a full-time position in
the Fairport School District teaching
6th and 8th grade general
music, K/1st general music, and
team teaching 6th grade choir.
Graduate
Dana Boshnack ’00G was
named principal of Brockport High
School. For the past 16 years she
has worked as assistant principal
and art instructor in the Hilton
Central School District.
Jane Morale ’02G recently
received the Outstanding Music
Educators, Instrumental Music—
Strings Award from the Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra. Morale is
the orchestra director and string
instrument instructor at Webster
Spry Middle School and currently
serves as the elementary all-county
orchestra coordinator for Monroe
County.
Megan Flanegan ’04G is a high
school English teacher in Boulder,
CO. In September, she represented
the Team USA in the World Triathlon
Championships in Beijing,
China.
Diane Cossaboon Sturmer
’08G received a community inclusion
award from the Rochester
Advocacy Center last June and was
nominated for the 2011 Carol
Ritter Award for Outstanding
Volunteer Services from the
Rochester Area Administrators of
Volunteer Services. Sturmer is a
spiritual life coordinator for
Heritage Christian Services in
Rochester, where she has worked
since 1987.
WEDDINGS & UNIONS
Jackie Fazio ’02 to John
Scanlan, Nov. 27, 2004.
Kimberly French ’02 to Carl
Schwarting, May 7, 2011.
Amanda Krohn ’07 to Adam
Kellerson, Sept. 25, 2010.
Emily Cannon ’08 to Glen
Labenski ’05 on May 21, 2011.
Chelsea Carhart ’09 to Jay
Lehmann, Aug. 5, 2011.
Alanna Klosek ’09 to Alex
Majewski, Aug. 8, 2009.
Megan Linehan ’09 to James
Simmons, Oct. 16, 2010.
Michelle Miller ’10G to Joseph
Sidari ’10G, Aug. 21, 2010.
BIRTHS & ADOPTIONS
Michelle Miles Fries ’95, ’11G
and Jon (Rob) Fries ’94, a son,
Nicholas Patrick, March 19, 2010.
Christopher Murtha ’95, a son,
Gavin Charles, Jan. 1, 2011.
Margot Penfold Schoenborn
’97, a son, Henry, Feb. 22, 2011.
Brian Slaninka ’97, a daughter,
Anna Concetta, March 9, 2011.
Vivian Mae Burke ’98, a
daughter, Heather Nowicki, Aug.
6, 2011.
Kelly Cragg Witter ’99, ’05G
and Michael Witter ’99, ’06G, a
daughter, Genevieve Arica Joy, Feb.
9, 2010.
Adrienne Frank Cavallaro ’00,
a son, Leo Benjamin, March 31,
2011.
Jessica Gilson Basta ’01, ’05G
and Jacob Basta ’98, two daughters,
Ava Marie on July 10, 2008,
and Giana Marie on Aug. 24,
2010.
Tracey Taylor Melville ’01, a
son, Jacob Scott, Feb. 14, 2011.
Deborah Dunadee Wood ’01,
a son, Bryce Edward, July 3, 2010.
Jennifer Myers Dunshie ’02, a
son, Andrew William, Aug. 27,
2010.
Lacey Kianka English ’02, a
son, Elijah Brendon, May 12, 2010.
Michelle Gilardi Mallalieu ’02,
’03G, a daughter, Emily Jade, April
28, 2011.
Jackie Fazio Scanlan ’02, a
daughter, Coraline Michele, Jan.
21, 2010.
Katie Antonucci Austin ’03, a
daughter, Lilliana, Feb. 4, 2010.
Hilory McMahon Liccini ’04, a
daughter, Stella Rose, Dec. 21,
2010.
Karen Schranz Mersich ’05,
’06G, a son, Ayden Edward, April
4, 2010.
April Barber Seeley ’05 and
Brian Seeley ’05, a daughter,
Isabella April, Dec. 7, 2009.
Anna Czerniawski Cartwright
’06 and Daniel Cartwright ’07, a
son, John Francis, March 21, 2011.
Jena Heierman Murphy ’08, a
daughter, Camryn Jane, June 27,
2010.
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Friends from the Class of 1997 got together in Rochester for
a reunion weekend that included a tour of the campus. Left
to right: Katie Waters O’Leary, Marlene Rae Giacobbi,
Margot Penfold Schoenborn, Erin Waugh Brewster, and
Jennifer Axtell Lester.
WELCOME!
Nazareth welcomes
the following
newborns into the
ever-growing ranks
of future alumni!
Mary Severine Dolanski,
F.S.S.J., on Jan. 22, 2011. Sr.
Severine ministered in the field of
education for 63 years at St.
Theresa School in Rochester, St.
Vincent de Paul in North Evans,
and Most Precious Blood in
Angola. She also served as assistant
principal, office assistant, and
attendance secretary at Most
Precious Blood. In June 2008, she
joined the sisters in the Colette
Hilbert Care Community.
Dorothy Craig Teall ’40, on
April 24, 2011. Teal worked as an
editor at Eastman Kodak Company
and raised four children. She was
an active member of the St.
Thomas More Parish and chaired
the Catholic Women’s Club of
Rochester.
Ruth Lorenz Favasuli ’44, on
July 10, 2011. She is survived by
her daughter, son, sisters, and
numerous cousins, nieces, nephews,
and dear friends.
Mary Joan Costigen Brien ’60,
on April 8, 2010, after a 15-year
IN MEMORIAM
battle with cancer. She is survived
by her husband, Tom, of 50 years.
Kathleen McMinn Lavery ’65,
on Nov. 1, 2005.
Janet Brusso ’73, on Jan. 31,
2011. Brusso was a Spanish teacher
with East Palmyra Christian
School in Palmyra. She is survived
by her husband, father, and several
aunts, uncles, and cousins.
MaryBeth Hurkens Campagna
’89, on April 7, 2011. She was
diagnosed with non-smokers lung
cancer in January 2009. Campagna
leaves behind her husband, Marc,
and three daughters, Laura,
Melanie, and Lindsey. Her parents,
two sisters, and one brother live in
Syracuse.
Michael Collins ’89, on April
30, 2011, at the age of 45.
Judy VanLare ’96, in July 2011.
Rachael Toombs Lassiter ’97,
’02G, on Sept. 15, 2010, at the
age of 35 following a brief illness.
She had worked as a youth/afterschool
director/camp director at
the YMCA in Burlington, NC.
From top to bottom:
Andrew William, son of Jennifer Myers
Dunshie ’02, born August 27, 2010.
Ava Marie and Giana Marie, daughters
of Jessica Gilson Basta ’01, ’05G and
Jacob Basta ’98, born July 10, 2008
and August 24, 2010, respectively.
Genevieve Arica Joy, daughter of Kelly
Cragg Witter ’99, ’05G, and Michael
Witter ’99, ’06G, born February 9, 2010.
Henry, son of Margot Penfold
Schoenborn ’97, born February 22, 2011.
Lilliana, daughter of Katie Antonucci
Austin ’03, born February 4, 2010.
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THE | archive
Dormitory Life
Hundreds of new freshmen moved into the
dorms last August—although none of the
rooms looked quite like this! These young
women, photographed in the mid-1960s,
illustrate the community spirit of residence
hall living that still remains today.
If you have additional information about this
photograph, please let us know! Send comments to
Archives, Lorette Wilmot Library, Nazareth College,
4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618, or email
driley@naz.edu.
This photo, which appeared in the Summer/Fall
2011 issue of Connections, has now been identified!
Painting the tunnel were art majors Mary Ellen
(Mickey) Trescott Urzetta ’48 (left) and Mary Betty
Keegan Murphy ’48. From 1948 to 1951, art faculty
guided students in creating scenes from local history;
this mural was titled Totiakton and depicted Native
Americans with the first Jesuit missionaries to New York State.
Thanks to all those who contacted us with more information, particularly
Mary Betty’s husband Frank Murphy and Mary Ellen’s daughter Helen Urzetta
Tortorici ’75, ’80G, who said she used to visit campus with her brothers to see
her mother’s tunnel painting
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RETHINK GraduATE Degrees
Whether you want to
complete your studies, receive your
certification, or switch careers,
consider a graduate degree
from Nazareth College.
Nazareth offers graduate
programs in:
Arts and Sciences
Education
Health and Human Services
Management
Graduate Program
Information Sessions
January 5 and March 1
• Meet with faculty from your
specific program of interest.
• Optional campus tours available.
Discover more or register for
a session at grad.naz.edu.
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