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Nazareth College
ConneCtionS
Volume 23, Number 1 I WINTER 2010/2011
Editor
Robyn A. Rime
Assistant Director, Publications and
Creative Services
ConneCtionS
Nazareth College
Volume 23, Number 1 I WINTER 2010/2011
Regular Contributors
Jill Ambroz
Julie Long
Alicia Nestle
Joe Seil
Sofia Tokar
Michelle Wright ’05
Additional Contributors
Robin L. Flanigan
Alan Gelb
Timothy Glander
Lauren Recchia ’10
The Classes
Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G
Photographer
Alex Shukoff
Contributing Photographers
Kurt Brownell
Kindra Clineff
Jamie Germanow
Gregory Lefcourt
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
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ABOUT OUR COVER
Photograph by Alex Shukoff
Nazareth’s career services
offerings are keeping pace
with the way people seek jobs
nowadays. Connections
examines the College’s expanded
efforts to reach alumni with
career assistance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 News and Views
The latest news from the Nazareth campus.
16 Sports News
Michelle Van Slyke ’11 profile; athletic round-up.
20 Nazareth in the World
Nazareth expands its connections to a fast-growing China.
22 Life of the Mind
Dean of Education Timothy Glander addresses
troubling trends in teacher training.
24 Interfaith Ideas
Faculty, staff, and community members go Walking
in the Footsteps of the Prophets.
26 Beyond Self
The boutique owned by Kevin Natapow ’97 builds business the
fair-trade way.
28 Cover Story: The Changing Face of Career Services
Nazareth College has begun supplementing its tradtional
career services with additional campus-wide offerings.
34 Statement of Activities
Operating revenues and expenses for the College during
the past year.
38 Alumni News
Alumni profiles of Susan Hartnett ’77 and
Dr. Margaret Frisch ’56; alumni award winners
Andrea Rivoli Costanza ’85 and Andrew Opett ’00, ’01G.
46 Class Notes
Name/address corrections:
Office of Development
e-mail: pwagner6@naz.edu
585-389-2415
Class notes or comments:
Office of Alumni Relations
e-mail: kvanmal4@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.
Copyright © 2010 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
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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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College Introduces New Majors and Master’s
Nazareth College added three new majors and two new master’s programs last fall.
B.S. in Graphics and Illustration
The graphics and illustration major combines
studies in studio art with courses in graphic
design, illustration, advertising, and web design.
It will interface with the communications and
rhetoric program and collaborate with the School
of Management’s marketing program.
“We encourage our students to be more
adventurous and original by making their own
images, then designing the page layout and
typography,” says Kathleen Calderwood,
associate professor of art, who co-directs the
program with Catherine Kirby, also an associate
professor of art. Calderwood, who founded the
program 25 years ago as a studio art major with
a concentration in graphics and illustration, adds
that Nazareth “meshed various realms of graphic
design, advertising, editorial design, fine art, illustration,
and web design to prepare our graduates
for every facet of this field.”
B.A. in Women and Gender Studies
The women and gender studies major is an
interdisciplinary program studying issues related
to gender and sexuality in connection with class,
religion, race, ethnicity, nation, and age. This
new program builds on the previous minor and
accommodates students seeking double majors
and professional program certification. Graduates
will be prepared to work in a range of professions,
including those with a focus on social and
economic justice, human rights, and advocacy.
“The approval of this major is a historic moment
for Nazareth College and has generated lots
of excitement from faculty and students as well
as other women and gender studies programs in
the region,” said Sekile Nzinga-Johnson, Ph.D.,
associate professor and director of the women’s
studies program. “Nazareth’s initial mission to
provide a college education for women has now
evolved to include an interdisciplinary academic
major that considers gender, sexuality, diversity,
and equity as central in its teaching, scholarship,
and its commitment to social justice.”
“Corkey’s Diner,” a scratchboard illustration
prepared for a class project by Kristen Palladino
’11, a graphics and illustration major.
B.S. in Marketing
The marketing degree provides excellent
preparation for entry-level positions in marketing
communications, market research, public
relations, and fields such as sales and customer
service. The program focuses on an entrepreneurial
perspective and a thorough understanding of
the functional areas of business. Students develop
the skills needed by marketing professionals: oral
and written communication, social, technological,
analytical and critical thinking, and cultural
competency.
“Nazareth’s marketing degree helps students
acquire knowledge of and sensitivity to the global
environment and the economic, demographic, social,
political, and psychological forces that shape
the marketplace,” says Gerard Zappia, dean of
the School of Management.
M.A. in American Studies
The master’s degree in American studies is offered
in partnership with the Institute for English
and American Studies at the University of Pannonia
in Veszprém, Hungary. The new program
explores the literature, music, history, politics, and
culture of America and combines study in Central
Europe with study in the United States. Program
director Scott Campbell, Ph.D., associate professor
and chair of the philosophy department,
says, “The field of American studies is popular in
Hungary and Central Europe. Students will get a
unique perspective on American culture, history,
and literature from this experience.”
The degree advances academic and professional
development of individuals who have studied
some aspect of American history, language, literature,
or culture and who are interested in deepening
their understanding. It provides interdisciplinary
study and preparation for those interested in
education, government, or international service.
M.S. in Accounting
The master’s in accounting is open to individuals
holding a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Students in the program learn the financial side
of business and gain the social and analytical skills
to identify and solve problems in a professional
and ethical manner.
“Our graduates have a high job placement
rate, and successful completion of the master’s
program qualifies them to sit for the New York
State C.P.A. exam,” says Phyllis Bloom, program
director and associate professor of accounting.
“The graduate dimension of the accounting
program provides more than additional technical
skills,” adds Gerard Zappia, dean of the School
of Management. “It helps students to develop
the managerial and leadership skills for long-term
success in any field.”
Explore all Nazareth’s degree programs at
www.naz.edu.
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Braveman and Boucher Attend White House Conference
Last August, Nazareth College President
Daan Braveman and Lynne Staropoli
Boucher, director of the Center for Spirituality,
were invited to attend a White House
conference titled Advancing Interfaith and Community
Service on College and University Campuses.
“I believe we were included in this one day
event because of the Center for Interfaith Studies
and Dialogue at Nazareth College and the national
conference Nazareth hosted in April to promote
interfaith understanding,” says Braveman.
About a hundred representatives from schools
and other organizations around the country
attended the White House program, including
keynote speaker Eboo Patel, executive director of
the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago. The group
developed ideas for advancing President Obama’s
focus on interfaith service on campuses around
the country. Says Braveman, “The underlying
goals were to bring together people from different
religious and humanistic beliefs to work on
community service projects and to have those who
participate not only provide assistance to local
communities but also develop deeper understand-
ings about each other. As Patel noted, interfaith
service assists in building bridges among people
of all beliefs.”
At the conference, the group examined other
past social movements on campuses to learn lessons
about how to create a movement directed to
interfaith service. Follow-up meetings will address
the specific components necessary to create such
Nazareth College President Daan Braveman and Lynne
Staropoli Boucher, director of Nazareth’s Center for
Spirituality, pose by the White House.
a movement at colleges and universities.
After the conference, Paul Knitter, professor of
theology at the Union Theological Seminary in New
York City, wrote, “The most promising and the
most urgent kind of inter-religious dialogue doesn’t
begin with inter-religious conversations about what
we believe; it begins with inter-religious collaboration
about issues that concern us all. If we start
there, if we can become friends in such solidarity
of action, we will create the spaces of trust and
respect in which we can, and will want to, talk
about the beliefs that ground us and animate us in
our efforts to serve.”
“The Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue
at Nazareth College is taking a lead role in
all aspects of promoting understanding among
those from different religious and humanist
backgrounds,” concludes Braveman. “President
Obama’s interfaith service initiative can become an
important part of the center’s work.”
Alumni Bring Home Emmys
Two of Nazareth’s talented alumni received Daytime Emmy Awards this summer from the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Michael Park ’90 earned the Best Actor Emmy for his work as character Detective Jack Snyder
on CBS’s daytime drama As the World Turns, which aired its last episode in September. Accepting
the award, Park said, “I can’t think of a better way to say good-bye to a 13-year run on a 53-year-old
show.” Before joining the cast of As the World Turns in 1997, Park starred in a national tour of Phantom
of the Opera, as well as on Broadway (Smokey Joe’s Cafe) and off-Broadway.
Jack Allocco ’72 received two more Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Original Song for “An Angel’s
Lullaby” on CBS’s The Young and the Restless and Outstanding Composition for The Bold and the Beautiful,
making for a career total of five Emmys. Allocco also received an ASCAP Film and Television Award
this year for Most Performed Underscore on Television. He is a composer, conductor, music producer, and
director whose career spans television, film, and theater. This year, Allocco was nominated for four Emmy
Awards for his work on The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.
To learn more about Allocco’s career and listen to his award-winning song, visit go.naz.edu/allocco.
Michael Park ’90 with his Best Actor Emmy. Photo by REUTERS/Steve Marcus.
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Bradley Honored by Golisano Foundation
Nazareth College is proud to announce
that Mary Kay Bradley,
assistant professor and speech-language
pathologist in the department
of communication sciences and disorders, has
received the Golisano Foundation Leadership
Award for Exemplary Health Care Services to
Individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
The award was established to recognize and
honor individuals who have demonstrated
extraordinary work to expand access and
improve health care services for people with
Mary Kay Bradley
developmental disabilities, and to change attitudes
and raise awareness as to the gifts and
talents of people with developmental disabilities.
“Bradley is an ideal recipient because of her devotion to the field. She
typifies Nazareth’s long-standing commitment to promoting community
engagement and preparing future clinicians to work with individuals with
developmental disabilities,” says Tom Golisano, founder and chair of the
Golisano Foundation.
Bradley was honored for her roles as supervisor of speech-language
therapy services at the College’s speech-language-hearing clinic and supervisor
for the speech-language pathology graduate students at Kids Club,
an after-school program at Nazareth College for children with physical or
communication disorders. Bradley, who collaborates on the program with
other professors and students in physical therapy, music therapy, and art
therapy, hopes to grow Kids Club to include adults with special needs and
even expand it into the summer months.
Bradley earned her master’s in speech-language pathology from Bowling
Green State University in Ohio, and her bachelor’s in speech-language
pathology and audiology from SUNY Fredonia. She has spent 10 years as
a speech-language pathologist at the Mary Cariola Children’s Center in
Rochester and during the last 16 years at Nazareth College, where she
teaches courses that focus on assisting people with disabilities.
The award was presented during the 25 th anniversary celebration of the
Golisano Foundation last October at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Meeting the Challenge — Thanks to You
Thanks to the generosity of Nazareth
College’s alumni and friends, the
College surpassed the Ewing Challenge’s
goal of 5,500 donors to Nazareth.
In fact, 6,071 alumni and friends
contributed to the $100,000 challenge,
sponsored by Joan Ewing ’55.
“I am thrilled at the wonderful response
from my classmates, friends,
and the many people who care about
and support Nazareth College,” says
Ewing. Many of the contributions to
the Ewing Challenge will help support
Donors to the Ewing Challenge received the Nazareth Fund. A common theme
recognition on Nazareth’s tunnel walls. from Nazareth alumni is that they hope
others can have access to the same
Nazareth experience they had. With your help, many can. Giving to Nazareth
means that you help fund scholarships, recruit and retain highly qualified faculty,
improve library services, enhance technology, and upgrade buildings.
Your generous gift shows that Nazareth matters to you—and your help makes
Nazareth matter to others.
For more information about how to support the College, visit www.naz.edu/
support-nazareth.
An Interview with
Actor Jean Reno
Last summer, international
film star Jean Reno spoke
to students and the Rochester
community about his film career
and the craft of making movies.
Working in both French and
English, he has appeared in
numerous successful Hollywood
productions such as The Pink
Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci
Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin, and The Professional.
He also has acted in European productions such as the
French films Les Visiteurs and Léon (the French version
of The Professional) along with the 2005 Italian film
The Tiger and the Snow. Reno is life-long friends with
Nazareth’s Candide Carrasco, Ph.D., professor and chair
of the foreign languages and literatures department and
himself an accomplished playwright. Reno caught the
acting bug in one of Carrasco’s first plays in high school
in Morocco.
Listen to an interview with Reno at go.naz.edu/reno.
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Moment in Chime
by Lauryn Recchia ’10
Nazareth College has always
marking the time and, to the chagrin of
prided itself on honoring tradition. For 35
years, the musical notes of the carillon have
chimed from atop the tower of Smyth Hall,
some students, the start of class.
“They are one of the many things that make Naz,
Naz,” says student Jessica Geraci ’11. “While I
hardly ever hear them because they have become like
background noise for me, when I do notice them,
it’s comforting. It’s a reminder that I’m here at
Nazareth—home.”
Donated by Kilian and Caroline Schmitt in 1975
in honor of Nazareth’s 51st birthday, the carillon is a
mechanical chronobell. It produces 25 notes by way of
tiny clappers that strike against metal tone generators.
These tones are then carried and amplified by a solid
state amplifier to a speaker system in the Smyth Hall tower.
The sound produced is equal to the chiming of 56 tons of bronze bells.
“The chimes ring 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,”
explains Cathy Stevens, administrative assistant to Nazareth College President
Daan Braveman. “Neighbors like to hear them. When they are shut off for
maintenance, we get calls asking why they are off.”
In 1982, the carillon was updated to play the Westminster chimes every half hour
and hour. When the carillon was still new, music students played melodies at the
noon hour on weekdays and for special occasions such as commencement.
The Smyth Hall carillon has its counterpart at the Golisano Academic Center. In
1930, before the College moved from the Augustine Street campus in the city of
Rochester to its current home on East Avenue in Pittsford, the Sisters of St. Joseph
had already installed a set of bells in the 125-foot belfry tower of the new motherhouse.
These bells were rung from 1930 until 2003, when the building was sold to
Nazareth College to become what is now the Golisano Academic Center. “Sisternovices
living at the former motherhouse took turns ringing the Angelus (a prayer
in honor of Our Lady) each day in a series of single-tone rings at 6 a.m., noon, and
6 p.m.,” details Dr. Marion Hoctor ‘54, S.S.J., professor emerita of English.
The bells in GAC consist of three bells ranging in weight from 400 pounds to
1,200 pounds. The bells are inscribed with individual names in honor of Mary
(mother of Jesus). The largest bell bears the inscription Mater Generis Humani—
Laudate Dominum Omnes Populi honoring Mary as “Mother of Mankind.” The
middle bell is inscribed with Sedes Sapientiae to acknowledge Mary as the “Seat
of Wisdom,” and the smallest bell is named Regina Pacis, or “Queen of Peace.”
The ringing of the College bells and chimes is, and forever will be, a cherished part
of the Nazareth tradition. As the inscription on the Smyth carillon keyboard says,
these wonderful sounds will continue to serve “the pleasure and enrichment of all
who visit this campus.”
To learn more about Nazareth campus life, visit http://admissions.naz.edu/
campus-life/.
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Nazareth Wins National Nursing Award
Nazareth College is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a
recipient of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Innovations
in Professional Nursing Education Award. The awards program recognized
the outstanding work of AACN member schools to re-envision
traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change. Innovation
awards, including a monetary prize of $1,000, are given annually in four institutional
categories: Small Schools; Academic Health Center (AHC); Private Schools
without an AHC; and Public Schools without an AHC. Nazareth College received
the 2010 award in the Small School category.
“The selection process was very competitive,” says Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D.,
dean of the School of Health and Human Services. “The College’s nursing faculty,
under the leadership of Dr. Marie O’Toole, are to be highly commended.”
The award was presented at the AACN semiannual meeting in November in
Washington, D.C.
To learn more about the nursing program, visit go.naz.edu/nursing.
J. Christine Wilson Wins Woerner Kollmorgen Award
Nazareth College is proud to
honor J. Christine Wilson, philanthropist,
community activist, and volunteer, as this
year’s Woerner Kollmorgen Award recipient.
This annual ceremony and luncheon, which
took place in November, recognizes individuals
who have made outstanding contributions
to the community, thereby improving the
quality of life in the greater Rochester area.
While Wilson served as chair of the Board
of Managers for the Marie C. & Joseph C.
Wilson Foundation, the board spearheaded
the establishment of Wilson Commencement
Park (WCP) in 1992. WCP is a housing
program with the mission of offering holistic
support for low-income, single-parent
families to become and remain economically
and socially self-sufficient. That same year,
Wilson initiated a small grassroots group to
start a full-service grocery store in the
Northeast sector of Rochester that is now
known as Partners Through Food and is part
of the Community Development Corporation.
Wilson is a co-founder and a former board
member of the Women’s Foundation of
Genesee Valley.
Wilson currently serves on the boards of
the Marie C. & Joseph C. Wilson Foundation,
Greater Rochester Enterprise, and Monroe
Community College Foundation. She is a past
vice president of the board of trustees of the
Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Mass.
Wilson has received numerous awards, such
as the Rochester Women’s Network “W”
Award, Women of Valor Award from the
American Diabetes Association of Rochester,
and the YWCA Women First Award, just to
name a few. She attended the University of
Rochester where she studied psychology and
sociology. Prior to that, Wilson earned her
associate’s degree from Pine Manor College,
a liberal arts institution in Chestnut Hill,
Mass.
The Nazareth College Woerner Kollmorgen
award is made possible by a donation from
Don H. Kollmorgen and Louise Woerner.
J. Christine Wilson, Woerner Kollmorgen Award
recipient
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College Appoints New Trustees
Nazareth
College is
pleased to
announce that
Dr. Cynthia
Reddick-
LiDestri and
Bridgette
Hobart ’84
are the newest
members of the
College’s board
of trustees.
Reddick-LiDestri is the director of wellness
programs at LiDestri Foods, Inc. (formerly
Cantisano Foods). Headquartered
in Fairport, the company is a multi-million
dollar spaghetti sauce and salsa business
whose wellness program is critically
acclaimed for its approaches to promote
healthy lifestyles of employees. Prior to
joining LiDestri Foods, Reddick-LiDestri
was a clinical cardiologist and partner
with a special interest in echocardiography
and congestive heart failure with the
Rochester Cardiopulmonary Group, P.C.
She has also served as the associate director
of cardiology at Highland Hospital
in Rochester. Reddick-LiDestri holds a
B.S. degree in microbiology from Cornell
University and is a graduate of the State
University of New York Upstate Medical
Center. She has served on numerous
community boards, including the Medical
Board of Rochester General Hospital and
Via Health Women’s Initiative Cardiovascular
Health Subcommittee. She currently
is an active volunteer with the Simmons
Youth Enrichment Center in Rochester
and serves on the Board of the Worksite
Health Alliance of Greater Rochester
(WHAGR). Reddick-LiDestri and her husband
John (Giovanni) reside in Rochester.
Hobart, who will serve as the alumni
representative to the board, earned a B.S.
in accounting from Nazareth and an M.S.
in accounting from the State University of
New York at Binghamton. She has more
than 20 years of professional experience
in accounting, tax, and technology and is
well versed in business processes and applications
as well as knowledgeable about
database structures.
Hobart
founded Paradigm
Technology
Consulting, LLC
(PTC) in 1999;
her primary role
there is project
implementation
planning,
integration
design, and
project management.
Hobart also continues to hold the
Nazareth College swimming record in the
1650 Freestyle with a time of 18:49.15,
set in 1983. She and her husband, Robert
Janeczko, reside in Lake Hopatcong,
N.J., where Janeczko is the vice president
for operations of Paradigm Technology
Consulting.
Emeritus status was also approved and
bestowed upon Eileen Pinto ’66 and
Patricia Schoelles, S.S.J., at the June
meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Board of Trustees.
Reddick-LiDestri Hobart ’84
Nazareth Professors Bring History
to Life for Rochester Teachers
The Nazareth College Department of History and Political
Science will be working on history lessons with teachers in
Rochester City School District (RCSD) thanks to a $1 million
grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Congresswoman
Louise Slaughter (NY-28) announced the grant last August,
which will support an enhanced history curriculum for students
in kindergarten through second grade with the RCSD’s project
“Growing Up in America: A Historical Journey.”
Nazareth will work with other Rochester-based partners, including
the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, to
construct the program’s core that will train more than 300 teachers
to think like historians over the next five years. The program
will increase primary grade-level teachers’ understanding of key
events, issues, and people in American history. The seminars aim
to educate teachers to reach students by focusing on historical
concepts familiar to children.
“A thorough understanding of what it means to be an American,
and what that journey entails, is so important to prepare our
children for their future success,” says Slaughter. “They must understand
where they’ve come from to know where they are going.
I am so pleased that this investment will arm Rochester teachers
with the knowledge and skills to prepare our next generation of
leaders.”
In addition, teachers will receive training in the integration of
historical artifacts into education by the Rochester Museum and
Science Center, Strong National Museum of Play, Memorial Art
Gallery, Genesee Country Village and Museum, and the Central
Library of Rochester and Monroe County.
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Dance Fest Enthralls Thousands
By almost every measure, the Nazareth College Arts
Center Dance Festival last July 10-17 was a roaring
success.
Nearly 6,000 people, from newborns to grandparents,
saw 13 companies deliver eight performances at six
different venues across the city. Media coverage ranged
from front page spreads in the Democrat and Chronicle
and City newspapers to the national live Fox News
program The Strategy Room. Open rehearsals, youth
and adult master classes, and lectures and panel discussions
introduced new audiences to the College’s arts programming. And
with many of the performances both free and outdoors, the festival
became the inclusive event its organizers had envisioned.
“We set out to create a world-class festival that would serve
Nazareth College, the greater Rochester community, and the
region,” says President Daan Braveman.
World-class it was! Pieces ranged from the poetic choreography of
Inlet Dance Theatre to the electrifying performances of STREB
Extreme Action Company, from regional dance companies to local
dance schools, during a week of what Arts Center Director Lindsay
Reading Korth calls “an artistically cutting edge, intellectually
challenging, and physically explosive celebration of dance.” It
became apparent, she adds, “how rich, sophisticated, and varied
our local dance community is and how vibrant our dance audience
has become and is becoming.” Many patrons called the performances
“awesome,” and more than one left fantasizing about becoming
a dancer.
Recent renovations to the Arts Center, which included the
additions of a proscenium stage and a sprung floor, created a
theater beautifully suited to showcasing dance on campus as never
before. “There really is no other dance space [in the region] that
compares with the Nazareth College Arts Center,” says trustee
Nancy Sands, also chair of the Rochester
City Ballet.
Next year’s Dance Festival is
scheduled for July 8-16, 2011.
This year’s event was sponsored by
the City of Rochester, the County of
Monroe, Dixon Schwabl, NYSCA, and
Electronic Field Productions.
To view more Dance Festival photos, visit Nazareth’s
Flickr galleries at www.flickr.com/photos/nazareth_
college/sets/
STREB Extreme Action Company electrified the
audience with the strength and skill exhibited
during the STREB: Forces performance.

Inlet Dance Theatre
performed in the
Callahan Theatre.
A performer from Borinquen
Dance Theatre impressed
the crowd at Dancing on
the Grass.
STREB Extreme Action
Company members socialized
with the audience following
their evening performances.
Young dancers from the
Rochester Chinese Dance
School enchanted the
audience during an
Opening Ceremony
performance.
Korth Returns to Theatre Arts
Lindsay Reading
Korth, director of the
Arts Center, is rightfully
proud of the recent
Dance Festival’s success,
both as an artistic endeavor
and a community
outreach tool.
“We were a center for
creation, and STREB used
elements it had never
employed before—costumes,
video, and lights,”
Korth says. Thrilling, too,
was continuing the Arts
Center programming tradition of finding and showcasing emerging
companies before they become nationally known. “That was Inlet,”
she says. “Their dance pieces were amazing—as good as anything
we’re seeing anywhere.” And performances on the ARTWalk and
other outdoor venues, made possible by a partnership with the City of
Rochester, prompted many people to reach out to Korth in gratitude.
As exciting as she has found her job, however, Korth says the time
has come for her to step down as the Arts Center director and return
full-time to her position as professor and chair of the Department
of Theatre Arts. “The job grew too big,” she laughs. “I’ll miss those
interactions with artists and with the audience. But I have dreams of
where the theatre arts department will go—I have huge dreams I want
to work toward. All my training, all my real joy, happens in theatre.”
Korth, who has been with Nazareth for 22 years, served as the Arts
Center director since 2007, piloting it through its recent renovation
and transition into the premier mid-sized theatre of the region. “I
think I was the right person for the job at the time,” she explains. “I
understand the faculty really well, I knew the board and the administration.
The next step for the Arts Center should be taken by someone
who has tremendous vision for the center itself and what is possible
with a new venue and an exciting history to build on.”
“Lindsay steered the Arts Center through a remarkable physical
transformation,” says Kelly Gagan, vice president of institutional
advancement. “That as well as her programmatic direction has led to
increased awareness of and appreciation for the arts at Nazareth and
in the Rochester community. We are all very grateful for her leadership.”
Korth will remain in the position until the new director is in place,
but her own vision influenced Assistant Director Terrence Meyer’s
programming of the the 2010–11 Arts Center series, which presents
several non-traditional performances aimed at garnering younger
audiences. For example, hip-hop artist Rennie Harris performs January
28, and Popovich Comedy Pet Theater presents a family-friendly
show on March 5. Korth says both shows are ideally suited to the Arts
Center’s joint mission of creating new audiences and presenting great
entertainment. “Overall,” she concludes, “this will be a very strong
season.”
For tickets or information about the Arts Center season, visit
http://artscenter.naz.edu/.
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n College of Arts and Sciences
The Science Behind Storytelling
human beings have a fiction addiction.
When you think about all the
different forms that fiction takes
in our lives—not just books, but
television, songs, pretend play, dreams, and
fantasies—you realize that storytelling occupies
huge amounts of our time and thought.
Just why this is so has become a source of
fascination to Jonathan Gottschall ’95, an
English graduate from Nazareth who is now
an adjunct professor of English at Washington
& Jefferson College.
“There are big, almost entirely unaddressed
questions about why humans are addicted
to stories in the first place,” Gottschall says.
He believes our affinity for fiction—or as he
puts it, “how we make up lies about fake
people”—is one of the most distinctive things
about us as humans.
“This should be an important question for
those who study literature, but instead it has
attracted zero attention,” says Gottschall,
who has written extensively about applying
the concepts of evolutionary biology to the
interpretation of literary texts and whose
work has recently drawn notice from the New
York Times and The Common Review. “Art
behavior in humans, and storytelling is an example,
is an immensely unusual thing among
critters,” he explains. “Self-respecting animals
shouldn’t be wasting time on these endeavors
when they could be out chasing mates and
so on. It’s a big mystery why these apparently
frivolous biological activities were not stripped
away by natural selection.”
Gottschall’s most recent book in progress,
tentatively titled Mapping Wonderland,
suggests that art is not just cultural. It’s in
our genes, and as such should be subject to
scientific inquiry. “All this making and consuming
of art is just as interesting a biological
question as it is a humanities question,” he
says. “There’s good reason to be optimistic we
can answer questions like this, can develop
hypotheses and come up with rigorous methods
to test them.”
Appying scientific theories to the study of
literature has raised more than eyebrows—it’s
raising hackles in academic circles. Gottschall,
Jonathan Gottschall ’95 explores literature’s links with science. Ross Mantle/The New York Times/Redux.
however, contends that this shaking up is
just what his field needs. Falling enrollments,
anemic funding, massive unemployment, and
a general malaise indicate a major crisis in
academic literary studies. The rigor of scientific
methods could help ease that crisis and widen
the ways we explore literature. Gottschall asserts
that new tools, such as research methods
and statistics, should be a regular part of
graduate education in literary studies.
An example of applying these tools to
literature can be found in one of Gottschall’s
seminars, where his students analyzed 90
collections of world folktales, using computers
to process more than eight million words
to determine the frequency and context of
58 chosen keywords. Their results provided
hard evidence about the depiction of physical
attractiveness in literature that couldn’t be
found through individual interpretations.
Such methods do indeed shake up literary
studies, and some critics protest that this cannot
even be considered literary scholarship. It
can, says Gottschall, though it’s a far cry from
the line-by-line explications with which most
English scholars are familiar. But it’s also a new
way of looking at literature—as information,
as data to be mined. To those who would
instinctively reject applying statistical analysis
to an ode by Keats—and there are many—
Gottschall rightly points out that “none of the
beauty of a literary work is destroyed, none of
it is crunched. It’s all still there.”
Nevertheless, literary scholars find this a difficult
leap to make. Science may now recognize
literature and other art forms as “pristine
funds of data” and “sources of vital and
compelling questions about humans,” but
Gottschall figures his work is a few decades
away from being comfortably mainstream.
“I’m not sure if any of the Nazareth English
faculty would agree with the work I’m doing
now,” he admits, “but I went into this field
because I was so impressed with the work
they did. I wanted to be like them.”
Mainstream or not, Gottschall finds his
current work alluring. “It’s exciting to be in
a place where intellectual combat is happening,”
he concludes. “It’s nice to be loved, but
it’s also nice to mix it up over big ideas.”
Learn more about Gottschall’s work at
www.washjeff.edu/users/jgottschall/.
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n School of education
Alum Earns Presidential Honor
by Alan Gelb
Jeanne Kaidy ’99G, winner of a 2010
Presidential Award for Excellence in
Mathematics and Science Teaching,
teaches science at McQuaid Jesuit High
School in Rochester.
Mucking through
ponds in search
of bio-organisms.
Visiting power
plants and water
treatment facilities. Creating
self-contained ecosystems inside
two-liter soda bottles.
These kinds of hands-on
activities, which make science
come alive for students, are the
hallmark of the teaching technique
of Jeanne Kaidy ’99G. In
June, President Obama named
Kaidy as one of only 103 teachers
from around the country chosen
to receive the Presidential Award
for Excellence in Mathematics and
Science Teaching. This prestigious
honor includes a $10,000 award
from the National Science Foundation
to be used at the discretion
of recipients. Kaidy will also
enjoy an expenses-paid trip to the
award ceremony in Washington,
D.C., at which time she will meet
with members of Congress and
science agency leaders.
Kaidy, who earned her master’s degree in
education from Nazareth in 1999, has been
a member of the science faculty at McQuaid
Jesuit High School in Rochester for the last
12 years. She currently serves as chair of the
science department and teaches A.P. Environmental
Science, among other courses.
Kaidy’s approach to teaching science is to
make it as authentic as possible. “The equipment
I purchase for my courses, like water
kits, is the same as those that professionals in
the field use,” she says. Recognizing that connecting
students to science can be a challenge
today, she looks for innovative ways to stir
their interest. “With all the electronic stimulation
in their lives, they seem to have lost a
connection to nature,” Kaidy observes. “So
one of the first things I do at the start of the
year is to take my class to Letchworth State
Park for white water rafting.”
Kaidy is vigilant about keeping her course
content fresh. “Environmental science
changes very quickly, so you have to keep
up,” she says. “I’m always taking workshops
and researching new books and activities. One
way I’m changing my course this coming year
is to start with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
as a case study.”
Kaidy’s teaching skill and love for nature has
inspired a number of her students to pursue
careers that touch on the environment. “I’ve
had students who are now teaching this subject
themselves,” she says, “and I have others
who are environmental engineers or work in
HazMat control or on an organic farm.”
Kaidy also lives the lessons she teaches.
At McQuaid, she started an organic garden
whose produce goes to a local food bank,
and the home she shares with her husband
and son is a model of environmental responsibility,
with green flooring, water catchment
system, greenhouse, and, looming ahead,
the solar panels she will buy with her prize
money. Every year she invites her class to her
home to view her green initiatives—one more
hands-on activity in an exciting year. “If you
are passionate and believe in what you teach,
it will make you an authentic teacher,” she
says. “And you should never stop trying new
things. Teachers evolve over time because
they are open to growth and reflect on their
teaching.”
A complete list of Presidential Award
winners can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidentialmath-and-science-teachers-award-release.
Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in Albany,
New York.
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n school of health and human services
Occupational Therapy Program to Begin in Fall 2011
The School of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce
the addition of an occupational therapy program to its roster
of health-related academic programs. The new program, which
was granted Developing Program Status by the Accreditation
Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE), will begin admitting
students into its five-year B.S./M.S. program in the fall of 2011.
ing a productive life.” The American Occupational Therapy Association
(AOTA) describes this by saying that occupational therapy helps people
to live life to its fullest.
Shriber, who taught most recently at SUNY Buffalo, brings 35 years
of experience as an OT and 20 years in academia to her position, and
she’s enthusiastic about what the OT program means for the College.
“Students at Nazareth will be able to learn in classes and in on-site
clinics that have an interdisciplinary focus, allowing them to learn with
and from students in physical therapy, speech-language pathology,
nursing, creative arts therapy, social work, and other health-related
professions,” she explains. “This feature makes Nazareth’s OT program
unique, and it is a philosophy that the College promotes and lives.”
Nazareth OT graduates will have the real life experiences with the
people and future professionals that prepare them to be successful occupational
therapists.
Shirley Szekeres, Ph.D., dean of the School of Health and Human
Services, agrees. “In rehabilitation, these therapies often work together
on an interprofessional team,” she says. “Their mutual understanding
of the practice of each and strategies for working together are very
important.”
This feature makes Nazareth’s OT
program u n i q u e , and it is a philosophy
that the College promotes and lives.
Dr. Linda A. Shriber, director of Nazareth’s occupational therapy program
The OT program will provide students with professional knowledge
and skills, an understanding of human development, a solid neurological,
physiological, and psychological background, and beginning
research experiences. Graduates will be able to work with individuals
who may require assistance in achieving the daily living tasks, or
“occupations,” that enable them to make their lives meaningful.
Linda Shriber, Ed.D., the new program director, is very motivated
by the interest in and support for the program and sees part of her job
as assisting the Nazareth College community in better understanding
the profession.
Occupational therapists believe that people are shaped by what
they do, and what they accomplish in their daily lives. Shriber says,
“When children are born with disabilities, they may have to learn to
engage in their occupations, such as moving, playing, and learning. If
adults acquire disabilities, they may have to re-learn what is needed to
accomplish the tasks that are important to them for living and regain-
-— Dr. Linda A. Shriber
Although the first OT students won’t arrive on campus for another
year, Shriber has her plate full in launching the new program. During
the next year, she will respond to ACOTE’s recommendations, recruit
students and promote the program, meet with other departments and
community members, establish student policies and procedures, and, in
general, make the OT program known throughout the College.
Nazareth’s OT program is being welcomed not only on campus but
also in the greater Rochester community. In fact, says Szekeres, “This is
the first program that I have been urged by the community to start.”
All the main rehabilitation centers, hospitals, developmental disability
centers, and schools have demonstrated interest in taking students for
practicums, and the job prospects remain bright. Adds Szekeres, “As of
now, there are more positions open than there are OTs to fill them.”
To learn more about Nazareth’s Health and Human Services programs,
visit www.naz.edu/hhs.
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n School of Management
Interns Earn Experience
Acollege degree opens many doors
when trying to score a job in the
real world, but how does one
obtain the experience so many
employers are looking for? Internships provide
many Nazareth students with on-the-job training,
both in the Rochester area and around
the country.
“I needed some adventure,” says Will
Vandelinder ’11, a history major who spent
the summer in Washington, D.C., interning at
the National Congress of American Indians.
He was there with the Washington Internship
Institute (WII), a partner organization with
Nazareth that allows students to live and
work in the nation’s capital while taking
college classes.
Vandelinder’s
first stop in
arranging his
internship was
with Albert
Cabral, associate
professor of
management
and director
of Nazareth’s
internship program.
Cabral,
who will move
on to other
responsibilities
at the end of
the 2010–2011
Albert Cabral
school year, has
helped students
like Vandelinder establish internships since he
arrived on campus in 1984. Back then, the
program was limited to business administration
majors and accommodated only about
50 students at a time. Since that time, the
program has grown to a college-wide professional
internship program serving more than
150 students annually.
The program is unique, says Cabral, in that
ownership is shared. While Cabral coordinates
all campus-wide requirements, individual departments
manage job development, conduct
site visits, and grant course credits. “That
puts the internship right where
it belongs—in the curriculum,”
Cabral says. “No other college
in town that we know of does
site visits by faculty. That’s how
we’ve been able to grow the
program—it’s very collaborative,
and it’s become an academic
program that the faculty sees as
viable and important.”
In addition to WII, Nazareth
partners with Walt Disney World
in Florida on a combination of
education and work experience,
and the College offers overseas
study abroad semesters with
built-in internship opportunities.
Most internships, however,
are local, part-time, and one
semester, and School of Management
Dean Gerard Zappia feels
the program’s area connections
reflect its real strength. “Al has
built tremendous relationships
with local organizations,” he adds.
Amy Floeser ’10, a business administration
major, benefited from those connections during
her senior year, when she held two internships
in human resources at the Fortune 500
firm Paychex. They first placed her on the recruitment
team. “It was neat to see the work
you do to bring people into the company,”
she says, “but I realized that I prefer working
with people who are already employees.”
Floeser’s second internship gave her just that
kind of opportunity, as she joined the leaveof-absence
team. Floeser performed so well
in these internships that Paychex offered her
a part-time job in human resources in August
2009 and another part-time position after her
May 2010 graduation in the travel, event, and
meeting services department.
With Nazareth’s help, students can design
the internship that works best for them, and
many students are increasingly networking,
exploring options online, and driving the process
themselves. Most internships, however,
are still arranged through the College, and
Amy Floeser ’10 during her internship at Paychex last spring.
schools, local businesses, government offices,
and social and human service agencies,
among many others, work with Nazareth on
a regular basis to provide on-the-job experiences.
Cabral generates student interest in
internships through e-mail blasts, departmental
meetings, and classroom participation,
but community interest in the program is so
broad that he has more positions to fill than
students ready to take them.
Cabral remains a persuasive advocate of the
experiential learning—and the adventure, as
Vandelinder would surely add—that a good
internship can provide. And although the program
that makes those experiences possible
for Nazareth students is very much his baby,
Cabral looks forward to turning it over to a
new person with a fresh perspective. “I like
doing this, and I like moving on,” he concludes.
“Let’s see what someone else can do.”
For information on Nazareth internships at
Walt Disney World, visit go.naz.edu/disney.
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Three Join All-Region Team
for Women’s Lacrosse
Nazareth’s women’s lacrosse
team had three representatives
on the Empire Region
all-star team that was
selected by the Intercollegiate Women’s
Lacrosse Coaches Association. Attack
Michelle Cook ’11, defender Sarah
McCaskill ’11, and goalie Ann Sessler
’10 each were second-team selections for
the Golden Flyers, who finished with a
10-6 overall record in 2010. In addition,
Sessler represented the Golden Flyers in
the IWLCA/Under Armour North-South
All-Star game.
Michelle Cook ’11
Cook, of Waterloo, N.Y. and a graduate
of Waterloo High School, finished the 2010 season as Nazareth’s
leading scorer with 52 points on 33 goals and 19 assists.
She also earned first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star honors.
McCaskill, of Cyress, Texas and a graduate of Cy-Fair High
School, also earned first-team Empire 8 all-star honors as the
Golden Flyers’ top defender. She led the team with 19 caused
turnovers and scooped up 25 ground balls.
Sessler started all 16 games in goal for the Golden Flyers and
had 155 saves for a .529 save percentage and 9.51 goalsagainst
average.
Ann Sessler ’10
Sarah McCaskill ’11
Men’s Lacrosse Earns
Four All-Americans
Four members of the Nazareth men’s lacrosse
team were selected as Division III All-Americans
by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association
upon completion of the Golden Flyers’
2010 season last May. Attackman Mark DeCirce
’10 was a third-team selection, while honorable mention
accolades went to long-stick midfielder Kyle Brown ’10,
midfielder Scott
Castle ’11, and
attackman Joe
Jacobs-Ferderbar
’11.
DeCirce, of
Binghamton,
N.Y. and a
graduate of
Binghamton
High School,
completed his
Nazareth career
with 98 goals,
including a
team-best 38 in
2010. He was
second overall
in points scored
with 63. He was
Mark DeCirce ’10
named Empire 8
Co-Player of the
Year and represented the Golden Flyers in the North-South
Senior all-star game.
Brown, of Baltimore, Md. and a graduate of Catonsville
High School, joined DeCirce in the North-South game after
contributing six goals and two assists with a team-best 28
caused turnovers for the Golden Flyers in 2010.
Castle, of Skaneateles, N.Y. and a graduate of Skaneateles
High School, was selected for the second year in a row after
leading all Nazareth midfielders with 36 points on 25 goals
and 11 assists. He also was a first-team Empire 8 Conference
all-star.
Jacobs-Ferderbar, of Orchard Park, N.Y. and a graduate of
Orchard Park High School, was the Golden Flyers’ leading
scorer in 2010 with 65 points on 35 goals and 30 assists. He,
too, was a first-team E8 Conference all-star.
The Golden Flyers finished 12-5 overall in 2010, their 25th
season of lacrosse.
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Six Inducted into Sports Hall of Fame
Former men’s basketball coach Mike Daley, who won more than 300
games in 23 seasons at Nazareth, was one of six inductees into the
Nazareth Sports Hall of Fame at the 16 th annual induction dinner September
25 at the Nazareth College Forum.
Daley was joined by former women’s soccer standout Heidi Brown Woodcock
’03; former men’s soccer and men’s tennis ace Jefferson Dargout ’04;
former men’s lacrosse star Eric Goodberlet ’01; former women’s basketball
standout Erin Michaels Miller ’02; and former women’s volleyball star Ashley
Mokan Abrams ’04.
Woodcock, of Liverpool, N.Y., was a four-year defensive standout for the
Golden Flyers. Her career culminated in 2002 with a second-team All-American
honor as well as Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year honors. She helped the
Golden Flyers to four straight NCAA Tournament berths.
Daley retired following the 2008–09 season after compiling a 23-year record
of 318-284. He guided the Golden Flyers to five NCAA Tournament berths, two
JPMorgan Chase Tournament titles, and one ECAC Upstate championship.
Dargout, of Rochester, N.Y., was a two-year standout in both soccer and tennis
for the Golden Flyers after transferring to Nazareth from Monroe Community
College. Dargout earned second-team All-American honors in soccer in 2002
and was chosen Empire 8 Conference Player of the Year in 2003. He also was a
two-time E8 all-star in tennis after posting a 46-15 overall record.
Goodberlet, of Henrietta, N.Y., was a three-time All-American in lacrosse at
Nazareth and amassed 153 career points, including 129 goals. Goodberlet was a
Daley
Goodberlet ’01
Woodcock ’03
Miller ’02
Dargout ’04
Abrams ’04
first-team All-American selection in 2001 and was named Division III Player of the Year after compiling 43 goals and 11 assists.
Miller, of Pittsfield, Mass., scored 1,477 points in four seasons of basketball to rank fourth all-time in scoring for Nazareth.
She ranks among the Golden Flyers’ all-time leader in several other categories and was a three-time Empire 8 Conference all-star.
Abrams, of Corning, N.Y., holds all of Nazareth’s assist records as a four-year starting setter in volleyball. She totaled 5,939 assists to
rank in the top 10 in NCAA Division III history. She helped Nazareth to a four-year record of 137-25 and four straight NCAA Tournament berths.
Learn more about Nazareth Athletics at http://athletics.naz.edu and on Facebook at “Nazareth College Athletics”.
First-Team Honors for McCormick
Ryan McCormick ’13, first singles player on the Nazareth men’s tennis team,
was honored as a first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star for 2010. The teams were
selected through voting conducted by the conference’s head coaches.
A native of Rochester and a graduate of Irondequoit High School, McCormick
enjoyed a solid first season for the Golden Flyers as he finished with an overall singles
record of 13-10, including 6-2 in Empire 8 Conference matches.
Bret Beaver ’13 and Josh Mulligan ’13 earned honorable mention all-conference
honors. Beaver, of Hudson, Ohio, had a 10-2 overall record at sixth singles, including
a 5-1 mark in conference play. Mulligan, of East Syracuse, N.Y., finished 9-9 overall at
fourth singles and was 6-2 in E8 matches.
Ryan McCormick ‘13
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Nazareth Golfer Gets
Her Head in the Game
by Joe Seil
Sometimes it happens when she’s eyeballing a treacherous
putt or before she blasts her way out of a green-side bunker.
As a senior on the Nazareth College golf team, Michelle
Van Slyke ’11 still needs to remind herself about the short
memory that is required for golfing success. It is her mental
makeup, she says, that simultaneously serves as her supreme ally and
most vexing nemesis.
“Putting the bad shots behind me and moving on,” she says.
“That has always been something I’ve struggled with and continue
to work on.”
That’s why one of Van Slyke’s proudest
golfing moments came at a tournament last
spring in less-than-ideal weather conditions
at the Gettysburg Invitational in Abbottstown,
Pa. Van Slyke overcame the cold and rainy
elements—not to mention a six-shot
deficit—to shoot a career-low round of 78
to win the tournament by three strokes.
Afterward, though, it was a comment
made by Van Slyke’s father, Jack, that
made the final result feel even better.
“He told me that my routine never
wavered from the first tee to the last
putt,” she recalls. “He didn’t know it
at the time, but that was the biggest
compliment he could have given me.”
Van Slyke says that Nazareth
Coach Marty Coddington
‘06G has been a big help
in improving her mental
approach while also fueling
her competitive fire. Her
focus has veered away
from the numbers on her
scorecard and centered on
clever course management.
“He’s helped me realize that sometimes
making par and bogey is okay,” Van Slyke
says. “Being on the course for five hours on
Saturday and five more on Sunday is a grueling
task and if your head is not in it, you
will not survive no matter what shape your
physical game is in.”
“She’s become a more c o n f i d e n t
player who is able to focus on her game
and no t w o r r y about what the
people she’s playing with are doing.”
marty coddington
“She’s come a long way with that,” Coddington says. “She doesn’t
let one mistake lead to another one. She’s become a more confident
player who is able to focus on her game and not worry about what the
people she’s playing with are doing.”
Van Slyke hopes to post more rounds with similarly low numbers
for the Golden Flyers in 2010–11, building on the foundation she laid
last season. In addition to winning at Gettysburg, she finished in a tie
for first at the William Smith Invitational, finished first at the Nazareth
Invitational at Irondequoit (thanks to a second-round 79), and won the
inaugural Empire 8 Conference Tournament at Cortland.
Van Slyke spent the summer playing regularly at her home course of
Cedar Lake near her hometown of New Hartford and hopes to have
her game fine-tuned enough to complete each round this season in
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fewer than 85 strokes. Last year, she had a scoring average of
83.8 for 17 rounds, good for 29 th in the NCAA’s Atlantic Region.
An ardent admirer of Hall of Famer Annika Sorenstam (“She
plays not only with power and precision, but with grace and
class”), Van Slyke came to Nazareth in 2007 after excelling in
golf at New Hartford High School, where she won the Tri-Valley
League title and placed 13th in the state tournament. She
began playing golf at an early age as she would accompany her
grandmother, who worked at a local course. She recalls spending
hours on the putting green and later tagging along with her
father and playing at par-three courses. “Now I can’t picture
what my life would be like without golf,” Van Slyke says. Her
family also includes her mother Darleen, brothers Mick and
Matt, and sisters Mandy and Melissa.
Van Slyke, by her own account, is not a long hitter off the
tee, but she uses her irons to hit accurate approach shots and
an ever-improving putting stroke to keep her scores low. “She
plays everything from the middle of the fairway,” Coddington
says, “and she’s getting better at making putts inside 10 feet.”
Coddington also is impressed with Van Slyke’s competitiveness
and her willingness to put in the practice time.
“She’s like the basketball player who goes to the gym and
shoots free throws outside of the scheduled practice time,” he
says. “And she competes. She’ll pull that baseball cap down low
so you can just barely see her eyes. She really comes to compete
and wants to get to that next level.”
Van Slyke also will become certified in adolescent education
and would like to teach and coach after she graduates. In the
meantime, she’ll keep working toward the perfect round in a
game that she concedes “can never be won.”
Learn more about Nazareth Athletics at http://athletics.naz.
edu and find them on Facebook at “Nazareth College Athletics”.
Joe Seil is the assistant athletic director and sports information
director at Nazareth College.
Bedy Makes All-Region Team
Dylan Bedy ’12, a Nazareth men’s golfer, was named to the Division III
PING Mid-Atlantic All-Region team for 2009–10 by the Golf Coaches Association
of America. A native of Syracuse, N.Y. and a graduate of Christian
Brothers Academy, Bedy was the Golden Flyers’ top player in 2009–10 with
a scoring average of 78.00 for 16 rounds. His season was highlighted by
a second-place finish at the Mid-Atlantic Region Invitational at Hershey
Country Club in early April. He also finished fourth overall at the Empire 8
Conference championships and earned first-team E8 all-star honors.
Kocher Named
E8 Pitcher of the Year
Kelly Kocher ’12, starting pitcher on the Nazareth
softball team, added Empire 8 Pitcher of the
Year to her growing list of accomplishments for
2010. Kocher also was selected as a first-team allconference
pitcher through voting conducted by the
league’s head coaches. First baseman Ann Schoff
’10 was named to the second team.
Kocher, of Victor, N.Y. and a graduate of Victor
High School, was dominant on the pitcher’s mound
in 2010 as she posted a 13-7 record overall with 277
strikeouts in 137.1 innings for a Division III-best of
14.1 strikeouts per game. In conference games, she
finished 5-3 with a 1.04 earned run average, five
shutouts, and 101 strikeouts in 53.2 innings.
Schoff, of Little Falls, N.Y. and a graduate of Little
Falls High School, had a .438 batting average in conference
games and a slugging percentage of .781.
Seven of her 14 hits went for extra bases with two
home runs and seven runs batted in. Overall, she led
the Golden Flyers with a .310 batting average a .536
slugging percentage with four homers and 14 RBIs.
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Nazareth | in the world
Nazareth’s Chinese Connection
by Robin L. Flanigan
hina is the world’s leading energy consumer, the world’s
biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the world’s largest car
market, and has had the world’s fastest-growing economy
since the mid-’90s.
And Nazareth College is keeping a close watch on it all.
Committed to a diversified campus and an education that keeps step
with global trends, the College is positioning itself to fully embrace the
realities of China’s rising dominance in the 21st century.
“We have to expose our students to an increasingly complex world,
with the understanding that the U.S. is no longer the unilateral powerhouse
out there,” says Nevan Fisher, Ph.D., assistant professor of
history and Asian studies. “There are going to be multiple points of
power, and China will be one of the superpowers.
We need to demonstrate how to
appreciate China on its own terms—not
to see it as an enemy or competitor, but
as a partner.”
To do that, Nazareth has been deepening
its connections with China through
admissions recruitment trips, faculty
exchanges, and study-abroad
experiences.
Students from Nazareth line
up in a rice field near Dali in
the Yunnan Province.
Professor Yuanting Zhao and Dr. Nevan Fisher at the Stone Forest in
Kunming, Yunnan Province, known since the 14 th century as the First Wonder
of the World.
Instrumental to these efforts from the beginning has been Yuanting
Zhao, professor of theatre arts. She grew up in Jinan, the capital of
Shandong Province, and has maintained many personal and professional
relationships since her days as a student and instructor at the
Shandong College of Arts. In recent years—employing these relationships
and those of her colleagues to find hosts—Zhao, Fisher, and
other faculty members have made annual visits to China to start collaborations
with universities considered a good match for Nazareth.
So far, the College has signed memoranda of understanding with
four institutions. One of them is the China Academy of Art in Beijing,
known for being the country’s most influential, innovative school of
fine arts and whose international partnership with Nazareth is a first
for the university.
Chinese students recruited to campus would boost the Asian
population, now at roughly two percent among both undergraduates
and graduates. Deborah Dooley ’75, Ph.D., dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences, points out that they would also be introduced to a
broad-based liberal arts education—a concept only beginning to make
its way into that part of the world. “A liberal arts focus is transformative
in that it enables us to be intellectually flexible, to think from many
different perspectives,” she explains, adding that this is a particularly
important skill for the increasing number of Chinese students applying
to graduate programs in the U.S.
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ight, top to bottom: The Badaling section of the Great Wall.
The scenic Chinese town Zhouzhuang, often referred to as China’s Venice.
Pudong, a new development zone of Shanghai, at night.
One student from China has made it to the Nazareth campus so far. A trumpet
player, he is participating in a five-year program that has students start out by
studying intensive English at the College’s American Language Institute.
The hope is to have about 10 students arrive each year, so that there are roughly
40 on campus at all times. Though recruitment up to now has focused mostly on
visual and performing arts, efforts expanded into math and science this fall and are
expected to reach into every major someday.
Last spring, 21 students from various majors at Nazareth took an 18-day trip to
China to see for themselves what Fisher calls “this incredible country of contradictions,”
a reference to its mixture of deep-rooted traditions, progressive accomplishments,
sprawling farmlands, and futuristic skylines.
Fisher adds that “there is really no substitute” for firsthand experience, which on
this journey included hikes on sacred mountains, a tour of the Terra Cotta Warriors
exhibition, a walk on the Great Wall of China, boat rides in Zhouzhuang (considered
“the Venice of China”), and two free days in ultra-modern Shanghai, among
other highlights. “In my classes, I can give them a window on a particular time and
place, but I can’t open their eyes the way the country does.”
For some, the people more than the places made a lasting impression.
Ryan Rall ’10, who majored in history with minors in philosophy and Asian studies,
learned more than he’d expected by his second day abroad.
“It was life-changing,” he says. “You’re in a country you’ve studied so much
about in books—mostly about Communism and how strict and controlled it is over
there—and then you get to see that the people aren’t really that different at all.
They have the same core values, they prize intelligence, they try to live peacefully. It
broke a lot of the stereotypes we have. There was just this sense of understanding
among humans.
“No matter what I do with my career, I’m going to be working with China,”
continues Rall, who is leaning toward international law with a focus on preventing
genocide or piracy. “I can see that we need to cooperate with them in the future.”
An exchange of ideas is one of the hallmarks of Nazareth’s strategic initiative to
strengthen ties with China. Already, some faculty members have lectured there to
students and faculty from high schools and universities, and several Chinese educators
have visited Nazareth in recent months.
Mitchell Messina, professor of art, gave a lecture on American contemporary
ceramics in March at the Shandong College of Arts. “The Chinese develop things
very slowly and methodically, so there’s an integrity to the work that comes out,”
he says. “They’re moving very strongly into the contemporary art world by embracing
traditions and then moving forward. That’s the kind of thing we like to instill in
our students.”
Zhao says such visits are key to spreading the word about the College back
home: “Then people will know we exist and that we do high-quality work. Nazareth
is a great place to be, and this program has a very bright future.”
Explore a gallery of photos from Nazareth’s recent China trips at www.flickr.
com/photos/nazareth_college/sets.
Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.
Photos courtesy of Nevan Fisher and Yuanting Zhao.
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LIFE | of the mind
Teachers Who Question
by Timothy Glander
Iassume that you are like me, and that from time to time you
find yourself thinking about your years in school and the
many teachers you encountered there. Like me, you might
also find yourself asking why some teachers were able to
have such significant and enduring influence on you, what
attributes they possessed and what core values motivated them
in their work. While I am certain that the differences among your
teachers span the entire human panoply, I am willing to wager
that one constant trait among them remains: The teachers whose
impact has been most profound and lasting are those teachers
who question.
teachers refuse to see knowledge as inert, or to treat learning as
something to be “delivered” to students. Rather they demand that
the student be an active participant in the learning enterprise,
and that a student’s achievement in any particular domain of
knowledge is never complete or finished. They know, too, that
while real learning is always an arduous task, it seems effortless
once this questioning ethos has been adopted and internalized.
And the best of these teachers know, as well, that all students
are capable of, and deserving of, this kind of learning even as it
proceeds at a pace and in form unique to each individual learner’s
needs.
We all know them, and each of us is fortunate to have had
many such teachers in our educational lives. They are the teachers
who know their discipline so thoroughly that they know, too,
how much they do not know. They are constantly on the quest
to learn more, to pose further questions to advance their understanding.
Their ability to see the world through the eyes of their
students—who are able to empathetically recall what it was like
to be five years old, 13 years old, 19 years old—enables them to
pose questions that connect curricula to the developmental needs
and experiential levels of their charges in ways that are meaningful
and personally relevant. They are the teachers who encourage
and legitimate each individual student’s own questions by treating
them seriously, compelling the student to continue to ask authentic
questions, and to seek out answers, long after the formal
instruction has ended.
Yes, we know these teachers and we know that this disposition
for questioning cuts across all disciplines and grade levels. These
If we are able to identify many such teachers in our past it is
because this kind of teacher is not altogether rare. Indeed, in my
own experience in working with several thousand undergraduate
and graduate students preparing to be teachers at Nazareth
College, I have found it to be perhaps the most widely shared
value among them and perhaps the most important value in
shaping their decisions to become classroom teachers. Teachers,
as a group, are firmly anchored around this educational value,
and this critical, questioning spirit is at the very heart of how they
imagine the best models for their work to be. I am proud to be
part of a tradition of teacher education at Nazareth College that
celebrates, honors, and fosters this kind of teaching.
But if this disposition to question and to encourage others to
question is essential for good teaching, it is also true that this
disposition is often at odds with many of the prevailing institutional
values and practices found in today’s schools. There should
be no mistaking the fact that we have inherited schools for which
docility, conformity, and efficiency have been dominant values.
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And while no one today publicly admits to supporting schools
for these purposes, the institutional practices spawned by these
values remain with us and continue to be advanced by unthinking
politicians and educational policy makers.
Consider, for instance, the increasing calls for more high stakes
standardized testing, now utilized so ubiquitously and with so
much punitive power. With pre-determined questions and “only
one best answer,” the multiple-choice format of these tests is in
fundamental opposition to the orientation toward questioning
of all good teaching. Premised naively on a narrow and largely
repudiated behaviorist theory of learning, these standardized,
multiple-choice tests were first used in the early 20th century
to “measure intelligence” and crudely sort students into various
educational and occupational tracks. Teachers were quick to understand
the negative pedagogical implications of these tests and
joined others throughout the 20th century in raising questions
about their validity as well as the cultural, economic, and gender
bias inherent in their use.
Teachers recognized that, with the possible exception of assessing
the simple recall of information, these tests were of very little
value. When utilized excessively, these tests tended to deaden the
learning experience by sending a damaging message to students
that learning was nothing more than the process of regurgitating
pre-packaged information about a seemingly already known
world. To make matters worse, the tests were silent on why a
student chose one particular response over another, enabling
students to choose the “best” answer for very wrong reasons or to
choose the “wrong” answer for some very insightful and creative
reasons. In this way, many thoughtful teachers shared Banesh
Hoffman’s perspective in his 1962 critique The Tyranny of Testing,
in which he argued that standardized, multiple-choice testing actually
rewarded students who tended toward conformist thinking
and penalized students who tended toward creative and critical
questions and problem-solving.
Although teachers have been well aware of the shortcomings of
standardized testing, many politicians and policy makers increasingly
view the results on standardized tests to provide the very
definition of academic achievement, if not the primary purpose
for schooling itself. In their view, the role of the teacher is to prepare
students to do well on these tests. Teacher “effectiveness,”
then, increasingly becomes equated with how well students do
on these tests, with merit-pay and teacher evaluations efforts tied
to test results. It follows from this way of thinking that teacher
education becomes the acquisition of a set of simple classroom
management techniques and test preparation drills, reflected now
in the emerging alternative, on-the-job training routes to teacher
certification or the five-week summer crash course provided to
Teach For America candidates. Under this regimen, people preparing
to be teachers are not encouraged to question the meaning
of academic achievement, the social context and purpose for
schools, or to see value in engaging their students around such
questioning.
In my nearly 30 years in education, I can recall no time when
the gap between the interests of politicians and policy makers and
the real needs of students and classroom teachers has been quite
this wide. In their demand for quantifiable and comparative data
to satisfy various accountability schemes, these policy makers
are increasingly at risk of destroying what is left of the potential
for authentic and transformative teaching in our schools. Here,
again, the children growing up in our poorest neighborhoods, and
attending schools where these accountability schemes are most
stringently enforced, are most at risk.
Currently, our educational policy is moving us in exactly the
wrong direction even while the popular media continue to
scapegoat teachers for the larger, intractable problems of our
society. Fortunately, however, a solution is at hand if we are willing
to listen to teachers talk about their craft and empower them
to construct environments where real learning can take place.
Rather than treating academic achievement as an abstract goal
to be measured, educational policy should begin at the classroom
level and focus on how best to enable teachers who question
to engender this disposition in their students. And more than
anything else, as a society we need to ask what purposes we would
like our public schools to serve today. Teachers should play a key
role in posing this question and informing the debate with their
understanding of the optimal classroom circumstances for further
questioning.
Timothy Glander, Ph.D., is Nazareth’s dean of the School of Education.
The School of Education can be found on Facebook and at www.naz.
edu/education. Visit Dr. Glander’s blog at http://blogs.naz.edu/
glander/.
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INTERFAITH | ideas
Footsteps to the Future
Many of us recognize the expression “walking a mile
in another man’s shoes”—the notion that understanding
stems from sympathy and empathy toward
others. Recently, a delegation from Nazareth College
decided to fill some big shoes and walk a great deal more
than a mile. The group—comprising Nazareth staff and faculty,
and Rochester community professionals, historians, and religious
leaders—participated in a venture called Walking in the Footsteps
of the Prophets.
The program—in its inaugural year and
currently open to members of the Nazareth
and greater Rochester communities—
involves an annual interfaith journey to the
Holy Land and Turkey to explore, study, and
build connections among Judaism, Islam,
and Christianity, the three Abrahamic faiths.
The 13-member delegation began the twoweek
trip to Israel, Palestine, and Turkey in
late May. Three of Nazareth College’s senior
faculty members organized and led the
trip: Muhammad Shafiq, Ph.D., executive
director of the Center for Interfaith Studies
and Dialogue (CISD); Susan
Nowak ’77, Ph.D., S.S.J., chair
Modern Muslim woman. of the department of religious
studies; and George Eisen,
Ph.D., executive director of
the Center for International Education (CIE).
Each day the delegation traveled to sacred and
historically important sites such as the Sea of
Galilee, where the Sermon on the Mount is thought
to have taken place; the Dead Sea, near which the
eponymous scrolls were found; as well as the Hagia
Sofia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. Shafiq,
Nowak, or Eisen provided context beforehand
about the sites—their historical significance
and reasons why the group was visiting.
Combining the resources of three Nazareth departments
helped to develop a unique program that
focused not only on visiting sites, but on strategic
alliances with different people and institutions. For
by Sofia Tokar
example, the group met the mayor of Nazareth and heard lectures
by scholars from Galilee College (in Israel’s northern pastoral
region) and Al-Quds University (an Arab university on the
outskirts of East Jerusalem). Topics were inspired by and specific
to the various locations. While in Caesarea, the group delved
into the role of Herod in the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim
faiths; later in Istanbul, the members discussed Sufism in Islam.
Shafiq underscores the program’s uniqueness, explaining,
“There are many trips through Israel and Palestine—usually
either academic or spiritual. Ours incorporates a scholarly approach
with spiritual strength to have a deeper knowledge of
the Abrahamic faiths and to understand the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict in the region.”
The variety of people and perspectives is also what impressed
Barbara Warner, a member of the delegation and coordinator for
Christian formation at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Rochester,
N.Y. “Dr. Eisen, Dr. Shafiq, and Dr. Nowak should be commended
for their vision,” she shares. “As a result of this trip, I feel my
mind, spirit, and heart opening increasingly to the Abrahamic
peoples. Hopefully we can come to celebrate both our differences
and our similarities. An experience like this reinforces my faith in
the wonder of humanity.”
The Sea of Galilee.
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The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.
Since returning, Warner has continued to build community connections by
reaching out to organizations such as the Turkish Cultural Center of Rochester,
N.Y., and the American Friends of Neve Shalom.
Another participant bringing back her knowledge and experience from the
program is Nazareth alumna Lynn O’Brien ’88G. As a Rochester City School
District teacher and as someone without any specific religious affiliation,
O’Brien’s approach to the trip was more from an educational perspective. “The
visits to historic sites were interspersed with interactions with everyday people,
chance meetings in shops or markets. It was great to see both the Israeli and
Palestinian perspectives, which will help me develop curriculum and better
teach the theme of oppression to my students.”
Despite a myriad of experiences, almost all the participants believe the program
would benefit from more student involvement. In response, the trip next
year will be open to Nazareth students, with the eventual goal of having both
community members and students together on one trip, in order, as Shafiq explains,
“to have the next and present generations, here and abroad, in dialogue
with one another.”
“The solution to conflict and violence,” Shafiq explains, “is education about
the multiplicity of the world. The CISD teaches that interfaith dialogue and
relationship-building can lead to conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence.”
And toward that end, the Walking in the Footsteps of the Prophets program
is a step in the right direction.
To view a gallery of additional images from the trip, visit www.flickr.com/
photos/nazareth_college/sets.
Sofia Tokar is assistant editor in Nazareth’s marketing department.
Photos courtesy of Carlnita Greene, Sara Varhus, and Barbara Warner.
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eyond self | community service
Better Business, Better World
by Robin L. Flanigan
Kevin Natapow ’97 and his wife Jenny outside their Boulder, Colo., boutique.
In the middle of a bitter cold night, while on a three-week
trekking trip through Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range,
Kevin Natapow ’97 and his girlfriend laid side by side in
their sleeping bags, questioning aloud whether they were
doing fulfilling work.
Though both of them had jobs focused on bettering the lives
of people living in Nepal, the answer was no. They wanted to
do more, to effect change not only in an area of the world that
desperately needed it, but on a global level.
The couple sat up as plans began to take shape for a fair-trade
business, one that would sell only handmade products whose
crafters are given livable wages and working conditions—and in
the process, create a cultural shift in the way American consumers
live on a daily basis.
“Then we said, ‘Let’s get married.’ It was one of those very
organic moments,” Kevin recalls.
Last summer Kevin and Jenny Natapow’s store, Momentum,
celebrated its third anniversary. Located in a trendy section
of progressive Boulder, Colo., Momentum offers, among other
things, blankets made from recycled saris and quilted by women
who escaped Calcutta’s sex trade, aprons embroidered by mothers
of disabled children in Zimbabwe, and sustainable-crop
bamboo bowls from Vietnam. Most products are imported from
other countries—some of the latest acquisitions have come from
recent trips to Peru and Bolivia—but some are made in the U.S,
including greeting cards painted by homeless and low-income
women in nearby Denver.
Through the store’s Momentum Fund, 10 percent of profits
each year are donated to local and international nonprofit organizations
that support social change and environmental causes.
“We believe we can change the world through our business
practices,” explains Kevin, a former United Nations translator
for Tibetan refugees. “That’s part of the reason we’re a socially
responsible business instead of a nonprofit. Businesses can
be vehicles for social change—they don’t have to be equated
with evil.”
Artists receive 30 to 40 percent of the money made on products
sold at Momentum. According to the Fair Trade Federation,
that figure drops to less than one percent when artists sell
through conventional retailers.
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Originally a business major at Nazareth, Kevin had expected
to become involved with his father’s real estate development
company after graduation. But he switched his major to religious
studies after taking a class from Joe Kelly, now retired. Kelly
encouraged Kevin to explore various faiths and different ways of
thinking, to take religious courses at other area colleges, and to
study abroad in Nepal as a junior.
“He really changed my worldview,” says Kevin, who grew up
without a deep understanding of any one faith and became intrigued
by Eastern philosophies. “He was just amazing in that he
went through so much to make sure I had every opportunity to
expose myself to the things that would create my desire to walk
the path I’m on.”
After Nazareth, hoping to pursue further schooling in Tibetan
Studies, Kevin moved to Seattle to do some pre-graduate work
with a scholar there. He met Jenny while out one night at
the restaurant where she was working as a hostess, and they
Joe Kelly “really changed my
w o r l d v i e w .” kevin Natapow ’97
discovered that they’d both been in Nepal at the same time.
They talked about their passion for that part of the world, its
people and culture, and became pen pals over the next two
years while Kevin went to graduate school in Indiana and Jenny
moved to Boulder for a job.
They eventually began dating, and after their engagement decided
to move from Nepal, where Kevin worked for the United
Nations and Jenny worked with the peacekeeping nonprofit The
Asia Foundation, to Seattle, where Jenny’s family lives. Their
plan: get married, work, and save enough money to open a store
in Boulder.
It would take seven years to launch Momentum.
“We needed a bit more training in how to properly run a
business,” Kevin says. “We felt like if we were going to do it, we
wanted to do it right.”
So the pair attended graduate school together in Vermont.
Kevin studied ways that businesses can create sustainable
Momentum is a fair-trade business carrying handmade goods from around
the globe.
development programs on an international level. Jenny focused
on socially responsible business management.
Momentum was built using green products whenever possible,
is powered by renewable wind energy, and uses recycled packaging
materials (community members are welcome to stop by and
use these materials for their own shipping or moving needs, free
of charge).
Kevin now proudly stands by the ideology that “the way you
live your everyday life is your faith.
“And the life I’m living right now, it’s unbelievable,” he says.
“I love who I’m living it with, I love what we’re doing, and I love
what we’re accomplishing, that we’re having an impact locally
and globally. I feel very fortunate that Jenny and I have been
able to create something that supports us, but is also something
we believe in—and is making the world a better place.”
Learn more about Momentum at http://www.ourmomentum.
com/
Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.
Photos by Gregory J. Lefcourt.
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COVER|story
The Changing Face
of Career Services
Nazareth supplements its traditional
career services with campus-wide offerings
by Alan Gelb | Photographs by Alex Shukoff
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he global financial crisis, which began in 2007 and shows
no immediate signs of abatement, has taken its toll on a great many
American workers. Last July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported
that the national unemployment rate registered 9.5 percent. By August,
11 states showed double digit unemployment rates, with Nevada at a
whopping 14.3 percent, as reported by Business Insider. These numbers
reflect a lot of misery and a lot of need. In an effort to be as responsive
as possible, Nazareth College is ramping up its career services to assist
current students and alumni who are struggling in this troubled economy.
Barbara Weeks-Wilkins ’79G is an alumna who has
called upon her alma mater for help. She received her master’s
degree in education from Nazareth College in 1979
and completed her certification in special education soon
thereafter. Weeks-Wilkins and her husband and children
lived in Connecticut for almost a decade, where she held
a tenured teaching position in a public elementary school.
“I was highly thought of in my profession,” says Weeks-
Wilkins. “But our whole extended family is here in the
Rochester area, and we wanted to move back to be near
them. My husband was able to get a good job here and
so I resigned my position, not thinking twice about what
relocation might mean.”
In fact, relocation presented the first major career hurdle
in Weeks-Wilkins’s hitherto seamless professional life.
“When I got back here, I realized I was in competition
with graduates who were a lot younger than I am,” says
Weeks-Wilkins, now 56. “The whole certification program
had changed and a lot of things were different. I realized I
would have to start all over again to make myself known.”
She immediately thought of connecting to her alma
mater and just walked in one day to the Career Services
office on campus. “It was amazing,” she says, “because
Mike Kahl, the director of Career Services, was there and
had no prior commitments, so we just started talking.”
That kind of accessibility is a hallmark of Career Services,
which benefits a great many current students and Nazareth
alumni every year. Of course, these last few challenging
years are like few others in recent memory, and Career
Services is rising to the challenge. “We’re doing the same
things we always have,” says Kahl. “The strategies for finding
employment haven’t changed, although certainly some
of the technology has. The biggest problem I’m running
into is that some job seekers are losing their confidence
and don’t do what they need to do. Of course, we’re here
to address that problem as well.”
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COVER|story
At Your Service
Kahl and his team offer a constellation
of services to which students are
introduced right at the beginning of
their Nazareth experience. These include
help with résumés and cover letters and
guidelines for networking and other
job-sourcing strategies.
Approximately three years ago, the
College introduced NazLink, a complete
online source that features job postings
with automatic updates customized to
interests and needs, an on-campus recruitment
calendar, and information on
career events such as workshops and job
fairs. Career Services offers a range of
assessment resources, such as DISCOV-
ER, the ACT career planning program,
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the
Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, which
are of use to individuals in search of
the right outlets for their talents, skills,
and interests.
“Throughout my entire time at Nazareth,
I made use of Career Services,”
says Brendan Shea ’08, an arts education/graphic
arts major. “I’d go to all
the different workshops they’d have.”
As an alumnus, Shea continues to make
use of the office. “I’ve probably been in
there eight or ten times this year, using
Mike Kahl as a resource for updating my
résumé,” he says. “I go in with a rough
draft and he edits and formats it.”
Some Nazareth professors also welcome
Career Services into their classrooms
for presentations that will provide
career direction or job search tips. “I
invite them into my sophomore Methods
Barbara Weeks-Wilner ’79G discusses career
options with Mike Kahl, director of Nazareth’s
Career Services office.
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course,” says Paul Morris, chair of the
history and political science department.
“We want to get to them early to teach
about the possibilities of their major and
how it can be applied to a variety of
careers, like law, government, teaching,
international business, and research.”
Roy Stein, professor of management,
similarly invites Career Services into his
senior seminar to instruct students on
career skills. “We also participated in a
Career Services program that was centered
on alumni networking,” says Stein.
“Five alumni from the School of Management
came back to campus to meet and
network with our graduating seniors.”
Focus on Alumni
As comprehensive as these career
services are for current students, the realities
of our nation’s economic downturn
has stimulated new initiatives directed
toward Nazareth alumni who are seeking
employment. Such attention paid at the
alumni level is reflective of a national
trend that has been noted by the Council
for Advancement and Support of Education
(CASE). “While many universities
have traditionally focused career services
on recent graduates and students, more
are now adding established alumni to
their model,” writes James Steinberg in
a recent article in Currents, the CASE
magazine.
The help that Weeks-Wilkins found
when she walked in, unannounced, to
the Career Services office is representative
of just how effective that office can
be. At a crossroads in her career, Weeks-
Wilkins decided to try the DISCOVER
and Myers-Briggs assessment resources
offered through Career Services. “What
came back was that I’m a really strong
people person and a strong educator,”
says Weeks-Wilkins. “It made no sense
for me to try to change careers.”
With the help of Career Services,
Weeks-Wilkins found a job teaching in a
self-contained high school classroom in
the Lyons Central School District. “The
qualities I had identified about myself
through the tests—my ability to hit the
ground running, my leadership skills, my
organizational abilities—were exactly the
qualities needed in this work I’m now
doing,” she says. “And I still feel I could
go into Career Services anytime and
people would know me. The message
there is very much ‘We’re here and we’ll
help you.’”
Beyond Career Services
Help for Nazareth alumni is by no
means restricted to Career Services,
however. Many alumni network through
Nazareth groups found on social media
➤ Explore information for both students and
alumni on Nazareth College’s Career Services
website at www.naz.edu/career-services
➤ Find job postings, an on-campus recruitment
calendar, and information about career events on
NazLink at www.myinterfase.com/naz/student/
➤ Join the Nazareth College Alumni Association
group on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com
➤ Join the Alumni Association group on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/nazalumni
➤ Join the Career Athlete Network at
www.careerathletes.com
➤ UPDATE your contact information at
alumni.naz.edu/update
Online Resources
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COVER|story
sites like LinkedIn and Facebook. And this
year the School of Management, Alumni
Relations, and Career Services are collaborating
on a series of workshops aimed at
providing support to alumni in search of
employment.
The first workshops, held in September,
addressed the needs of the un- and underemployed
and focused on networking and
how to recognize and better deal with
change. “We incorporated an alumni
panel into these workshops,” says Gerard
Zappia, dean of the School of Management.
“These were alumni who have
successfully navigated layoffs, as well as
career changers.”
The Nazareth Alumni Board is also
making changes to better serve the
needs of those alumni who are dealing
with employment issues. “One of our
new standing committees of the alumni
board is dedicated to working with Career
Services,” explains Kerry Gotham ’98,
Nazareth’s director of alumni relations. One
of the alums at the helm of this committee
is Leigh Ann Schon ’93, who received a
bachelor’s degree in business administration
from Nazareth. When she was laid
off from her job in North Carolina, Schon
reached out to her former Nazareth professors
as well as Career Services. Now working
as a benefits and compensation analyst
for Ultralife Corporation in Newark, N.Y.,
Schon is eager for this new alumni assignment.
“Being in a position where I needed
help and with the Nazareth people so kind
to me, I want to turn around and try to do
the same for others,” says Schon.
There are many useful and tangible ways
that Nazareth can help its students and
alumni as they confront challenges in the
workplace, and then there are the many
intangible and invaluable ways. Marty
Cranmer ’02G was an IT professional who
saw his advancement stalled by the lack
of an advanced degree. He decided to go
back to school, very much an adult learner,
and in 2002 earned his master’s degree in
management from Nazareth.
In February 2010, Cranmer was laid off
from his job with a consulting firm. With
a family to support and the nation in the
grip of its worst recession in decades, it
could have been panic time. But Cranmer,
who lives just five miles from campus,
decided that the best way to approach his
new challenge was by using Nazareth from
what he calls “a facilities perspective.” By
his own admission, he’s not self-disciplined
enough to stay at home and do the very
considerable work necessary for a job
search. “I was struggling to get the job
done but I found myself watching Oprah—
and I don’t even like Oprah,” he says.
Cranmer took up residence at Nazareth—in
the library, in empty classrooms—
and within two months had found a new
job, as a project manager with Excellus
Blue Cross/Blue Shield. “I networked with
other Nazareth students and former professors
like Jerry Zappia,” he says. “But the
best thing is that there was a real community
feeling here. To see the smiling faces
and have people say, ‘Don’t worry, Marty,
we’ll get you through this,’ made all the
difference. The Nazareth family really is a
great family.”
Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in Albany,
New York.
Networking Opportunities
Find out more about any of the following by contacting the alumni office at alumni@naz.edu or 585-389-2472.
➤ Attend upcoming alumni and campus events;
check naz.edu for recent additions.
➤ Volunteer to serve on alumni advisory groups or
the alumni board.
➤ Offer to guest lecture or give a presentation in class.
➤ Become a mentor for a student or young alum.
➤ Host an internship for a student.
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Top Tips
for Maintaining Confidence
in the Job Search
Mike Kahl, Nazareth College’s
director of Career Services,
offers his practiced view of
how to stay “up” in a down
economy.
★ Surround yourself with positive
people. The job search can really get you
down. For every job that is filled there is
one successful person and perhaps as many
as 100 unsuccessful people. In the face of
such negativity you need to surround yourself
with people who build you up, who
remind you of all you have to offer, and
who encourage you to keep going.
★ Stop keeping score by counting
the number of jobs to which you
have applied and start keeping score
by the number of meetings you’ve set up.
While there are no “bad” ways to look for
a job, networking is the one that is most
frequently cited when successful applicants
are asked, “How did you find your job?”
If done correctly, networking is the most
positive and reaffirming of all job search
methods.
★ Do your homework. Nothing builds
confidence more than knowing what you
are talking about. So read everything you
can get your hands on about the career
area you’ve chosen, and then be sure to
conduct informational interviews with
people who work in the field.
Mike Kahl, director of Nazareth’s Career Services office, discussing career options with Barbara Weeks-Wilner ’79G.
★ Volunteer. By helping others, you’ll
help yourself. Volunteering will help extend
and deepen your network of contacts. It
will also help you build skills and confidence
by reminding yourself that you have much
to offer.
★ Join groups. Even if you don’t see
yourself as a “joiner,” you can consciously
try to move outside your comfort zone and
join more groups. Nazareth has a very active
alumni association and LinkedIn alumni
group. Much like volunteering, joining
groups will help you build confidence, make
contacts, and learn new skills.
★ Connect with Career Services.
The office has resources and contacts that
may be helpful. We also know what it is
like to go through a job search and can be
counted upon to be among those “positive
people” mentioned above.
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Report | to donors 2009-2010
Dear Nazareth Friends,
At Nazareth, we are fortunate to have people who dream large and back up their aspirations
with talents, skills, and dedication. This year’s stewardship report features some of these
people—teachers who inspire, students who soar, trustees and other individuals who help
realize a vision, and women and men who collaborate to help us reach those dreams.
These are the people who enabled us to renovate the Arts Center to become the premier
arts venue in the greater Rochester area. This multi-million dollar project was finished on time and on budget,
paid for entirely by dedicated funds so that the College would not incur debt. Over the last year, audiences
have flocked to the center for performances by world-class artists and companies and have rejoiced in seeing
the cultural life of our city so enriched. This past summer we hosted the first annual Summer Dance Festival
that attracted 6,000 people to the weeklong events.
We also hosted our first Interfaith Understanding Conference, which brought to campus 400 participants
from throughout the U.S. and Canada to discuss ways to improve communication among people from different faith
groups as well as those with no religious affiliation. It was the only such national conference to include people from
across generations, focusing on the next generations of leaders.
During the year we established the Center for Civic Engagement, with the mission to provide strategic direction,
advocacy, resource development, and integration to the rich and varied programs that connect the College to its surrounding
communities.
I am also pleased to report that we are seeing substantial progress on our integrated math and science center. This
board-approved initiative is an important part of our plan to train the nation’s future teachers and allied health professionals,
and it is a confirmation of Nazareth’s renowned commitment to education and health and human services.
Our commitment can be seen as well in many other developments this year. The faculty has done impressive work on
the core curriculum. We have introduced new state-approved programs such as majors in graphics/illustration, women
and gender studies, and marketing, a master’s degree in accounting, and a master’s degree in American studies with
the University of Pannonia in Veszprém, Hungary.
Dreaming big is demanding business and requires a collective effort. You have been an important part of that effort.
Your support has been critical in enabling us to accomplish these and other achievements. Nazareth College could not
be what it is today without your assistance, and for that I thank you.
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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Alumni Giving
This chart reflects the participation rate of each graduating class from Nazareth College. The financial support of our alumni has allowed our
College to grow and flourish.
Year of Class rate Total
Year of Class rate Total
graduation participation Donated
graduation participation Donated
1934 20% $ 1,000.00 1973 22% $ 9,728.00
1935 17% $ 25.00 1974 16% $ 6,215.00
1936 9% $ 50.00 1975 18% $ 46,588.12
1937 31% $ 2,637.44 1976 18% $ 27,809.00
1938 13% $ 100.00 1977 16% $ 6,620.00
1939 17% $ 250.00 1978 17% $ 7,890.00
1940 36% $ 140.00 1979 16% $ 4,057.18
1941 25% $ 675.00 1980 15% $ 6,202.50
1942 42% $ 1,475.00 1981 15% $ 2,847.00
1943 28% $ 3,895.00 1982 14% $ 3,347.00
1944 25% $ 205.00 1983 13% $ 6,885.02
1945 35% $ 975.00 1984 13% $ 10,795.89
1946 54% $ 2,400.00 1985 10% $ 2,527.50
1947 23% $ 26,932.65 1986 12% $ 6,025.00
1948 46% $ 4,235.00 1987 12% $ 4,760.00
1949 27% $ 2,830.00 1988 13% $ 4,620.00
1950 48% $ 17,965.00 1989 12% $ 5,548.00
1951 45% $ 12,155.00 1990 8% $ 13,399.15
1952 51% $ 3,560.00 1991 10% $ 20,111.20
1953 42% $ 7,210.00 1992 9% $ 3,750.00
1954 49% $ 4,934.33 1993 10% $ 20,392.50
1955 62% $ 46,990.00 1994 9% $ 2,037.59
1956 43% $ 10,605.00 1995 8% $ 2,590.00
1957 48% $ 18,844.63 1996 8% $ 2,956.00
1958 53% $ 11,668.00 1997 8% $ 1,377.80
1959 49% $ 15,354.00 1998 9% $ 3,304.88
1960 49% $ 11,090.00 1999 6% $ 2,040.00
1961 42% $ 7,200.00 2000 6% $ 1,839.50
1962 41% $ 15,290.00 2001 5% $ 865.00
1963 37% $ 14,850.00 2002 7% $ 1,680.01
1964 41% $ 7,825.00 2003 6% $ 1,039.50
1965 36% $ 14,765.00 2004 5% $ 1,082.50
1966 41% $ 15,305.00 2005 7% $ 1,220.55
1967 35% $ 13,960.00 2006 10% $ 4,980.12
1968 32% $ 14,641.62 2007 7% $ 1,477.07
1969 23% $ 14,222.94 2008 6% $ 975.08
1970 24% $ 24,294.28 2009 3% $ 531.09
1971 23% $ 18,576.00 2010 40% $ 4,764.95
1972 20% $ 10,585.00
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Report | to donors 2009-2010
Nazareth College Statement of Activities June 30, 2010
2010 2009
Operating Revenue
Educational and general
Tuition and fees 70,038,630 64,883,332
less scholarships and grants 19,520,660 17,431,941
Net tuition and fees 50,517,970 47,451,391
Federal grants and contracts 1,755,683 1,440,500
State grants and contracts 580,011 4,822,386
Private gifts, grants, and contracts 2,525,245 1,685,724
Arts Center programs 530,880 216,910
Investment income and losses 236,563 (410,875)
Other revenues 729,420 320,177
Long-term investment return allocated for operations 2,534,271 2,982,817
Total educational & general 59,410,043 58,509,030
Auxiliary enterprises 13,211,904 12,269,274
Total operating revenue 72,621,947 70,778,304
Operating Expenses
Educational and general
Instruction 28,620,047 26,947,946
Arts Center programs 1,869,423 1,428,820
Academic support 6,207,538 5,729,066
Student services 9,230,632 9,000,933
Institutional support 10,556,763 10,020,345
Total educational & general 56,484,403 53,127,110
Auxiliary enterprises 11,973,454 11,394,599
Total operating expenses 68,457,857 64,521,709
Change in net assets from operating activities 4,164,090 6,256,595
Non-Operating Activities
Long-term investment activities
Investment income 700,758 866,829
Net realized & unrealized (losses) gains 4,784,059 (13,491,879)
Total long-term investment activities 5,484,817 (12,625,050)
Long-term investment return allocated for operations (2,534,271) (2,982,817)
Capital gifts 2,820,129 1,472,509
Other loss (494,014) (261,123)
Postretirement-related changes other than
net periodic benefit cost (2,510,180) (548,404)
Change in net assets from nonoperating activities 2,766,481 (14,944,885)
Change in net assets 6,930,571 (8,688,290)
Net assets at beginning of year 123,668,484 132,356,774
Net assets at end of year 130,599,055 123,668,484
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The graphs below depict the operating revenues and expenses for the
2009–2010 fiscal year as a percent of total operating revenue and expenses.
Main Sources of Operating Revenue
Operating Expenses
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 2009–2010. Auxiliary enterprise revenue, which includes
room and board fees collected, comprised 18 percent of totaloperating
revenue. Private gifts and grants, and public grants and contracts
continue to be important sources of revenue as well.
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 2009–2010 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 41.81%
Arts Center programs 2.73%
Academic support 9.07%
Student services 13.48%
Institutional support 15.42%
Auxiliary enterprises 17.49%
100.00%
Sources of Operating Revenue
Tuition & fees (net) 69.56%
Public grants and contracts 3.22%
Private gifts, grants,
and contracts 3.48%
Arts Center programs 0.73%
Investment income and losses 0.33%
Other revenues 1.00%
Long-term investment
return allocation 3.49%
Auxiliary enterprises 18.19%
100.00%
2009–2010 Donors
A complete list of 2009–2010 donors can be viewed online at
www.naz.edu/support-nazareth/donor-list. The donor list reflects
annual fund gifts given from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010.
If you have questions or comments about the stewardship report,
please contact Director of Development Peggy Martin at
mmartin0@naz.edu or at 585-389-2401.
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ALUMNI | profiles
The Arts Mean
Business in Boston
by Sofia Tokar
Susan Hartnett ’77, executive director of the Cambridge
Center for Adult Education.
Bringing together the arts, education, and business is no small
feat—especially during a recession. But one Nazareth alumna
is applying what she learned at the College to help adults in
the greater Boston, Mass., area thrive despite a recent economic
downturn.
Susan Hartnett ’77 has always held the arts and education in high
regard. As a result, she has been involved in Boston’s cultural scene in a
variety of roles for the last three decades. Hartnett worked 12 years for
the Massachusetts state arts council, then 10 years as the director of
the Boston Center for the Arts, and afterward for five years in Boston
City Hall, including a stint as director of the Boston mayor’s office of
arts, tourism, and special events and director of economic development
for the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
Hartnett’s experience in economic and cultural development is
impressive. In 2009, she brought that experience to bear in her current
position as the executive director of the Cambridge Center for Adult
Education, based in Cambridge’s historic Harvard Square. Founded
nearly 140 years ago, the CCAE is one of the most innovative centers
for adult education in the country. The non-profit serves more than
17,000 people per year with courses, poetry readings lectures, performances,
and visual art exhibitions.
“More than 450 people teach here each year,” says Hartnett, “and
each one of them is passionate about his or her work.”
With the current economic climate, the CCAE fulfills an important
role: providing classes and events to adults from a variety of backgrounds
as well as those facing personal or economic hardships. “For
someone who, perhaps, has lost a job, he or she can brush up on computer
skills or take an art class to feed the soul,” says Hartnett. “The
CCAE provides financial support as well as moral and psychological
support for its participants. And it’s very exciting when people support
you.”
Harnett herself knows about the power of support. As the third of
four daughters—all of whom attended and graduated from Nazareth—
Hartnett received a scholarship to the College and graduated with a
degree in art history and a minor in studio art.
“The arts are central to and permeate our lives,” she shares, “but
we need special spaces where we can integrate the arts with our
lives.” Hartnett identifies Nazareth as one of those special places. “The
College opened my eyes and introduced me to a variety of art forms—
fabric, pottery, theatre arts, and music—and the Arts Center exposed
me to work from around the world.”
Hartnett also credits several Nazareth professors with letting her
explore her own interests and talents. But it was more than just the
financial and academic support that shaped Hartnett into the arts and
cultural leader that she is today. “Sr. Magdalen LaRow took a generous
interest in me. She took me to New York City, introduced me to the
city and its universities, and encouraged me to attend the Institute of
Fine Arts for a Ph.D. in art history.”
Hartnett chose not to pursue a doctorate after all, though LaRow
would certainly still be proud of her former student. For Hartnett, an
internship in Boston turned into a job (she was hired three weeks into
said internship), which in turn launched her career in arts administration
and her life in the unofficial cultural and economic capital of New
England.
“I’m lucky to be living and working at a time when the arts and
public policy have a sustained, if contentious, relationship,” Hartnett
concludes. “It was at Nazareth that I learned just how hard it is to be
an artist. The College taught me enormous respect for artists, and
helped me discover my own role in the arts world.”
For more information about the Cambridge Center for Adult Education,
visit www.ccae.org
To read about other Nazareth alumni, check out “Nazareth College
Alumni and Friends” on Facebook.
Sofia Tokar is the assistant editor in Nazareth’s marketing department.
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www.naz.edu

Dr. Frisch and the Golden Era of IBM
by Mimi M. Wright ’05
In a small science lab tucked in Smyth Hall more than half a
century ago, seven young female chemists toiled away under
the nurturing gaze of Sr. Marie Augustine, chairman of
the chemistry department. One of those seven women was
Margaret Frisch ’56, now seventy-six and retired from a long
career at IBM.
Frisch, known to her friends as Peggy, began her studies at Nazareth
College in 1952 and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s
degree in chemistry and a minor in math. Her freshman class
had 100 women enrolled, with several biology students, a handful
of medical tech students, and a sizeable nursing contingent. “I liked
the hard sciences, and we had quite a bit of science-like people at
Nazareth at that time,” Frisch says. “[The College] was on the leading
edge of training women in science way back in that period.”
After graduation, Frisch and fellow chemistry classmate Mary
McGowan Donermeyer ’56 moved on to the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
where they both enrolled in a physical chemistry
doctoral program that boasted a total of five women. Frisch contends
that the school “took a chance on us, coming from a small liberal
arts college,” but their risk clearly paid off: she received nearly all A’s
in her classes. Frisch credits their “outstanding training at Nazareth”
for the fact that she and Donermeyer had no problems, and
Sr. Augustine claims the two paved the way for other Nazareth
women with their impressive scholastic efforts and work ethic.
While in Madison, Frisch tracked satellites for the Smithsonian Institution’s
Operation Moonwatch program, which led to a post-graduation
job at Rocket Power, a research company in Pasadena, California.
A cancelled government contract in 1968 was soon followed by an
interview with IBM, and several weeks later, Frisch began working for
the technology giant. “I was the first female research staff member to
work in the physics department,” she laughs.
Frisch was interested in lab automation and having computers control
long-term experiments, so “they gave me a large sum of money
to build an experiment that I wanted to do,” she says. Work at the
research center was always challenging. In 1984, she was handed the
task of measuring the mass of a neutrino. “Of course I was naïve,” she
says. “and I agreed to take the challenge. I had much to learn in order
to execute this difficult experiment, but it was fun. We called it playing
in the sandbox back then.”
The neutrino experiment was abandoned after 10 years. “At the very
end, the number was too small to be measured by our technique,” she
explains. “We basically had to stop because IBM was losing money.”
Half the physics department had to find other work, but Frisch embraced
the field of web development and became an expert in Java and
other web languages. “One of my big hobbies was computer programming,”
she says. “I loved to have computers do things. So it was a nice
marriage of my interest in computers and chemistry.” The server that
runs the IBM forums? “I wrote all that stuff,” Frisch adds blithely.
In spite of being significantly outnumbered by males, Frisch fit right
in at IBM, remaining there for 34 years until her retirement in June
2002. “My years at IBM were like the golden years,” she says. “It was
awesome to work there. We had so many brilliant people to be around.
They were all at the top of their field.”
Frisch, too, was a scientist at the top of her field—a field she began
exploring back in Smyth Hall more than 50 years ago. “Things just
come to you,” she concludes, “and it’s up to you to take advantage
of them.”
Find “Nazareth College Alumni and Friends” on Facebook, or visit
alumni.naz.edu for more information.
Mimi M. Wright ’05 is Nazareth’s assistant director of alumni relations.
Margaret Frisch ’56 visited campus last summer
and led a 30-mile bicycle ride through Rochester
with Nazareth friends.
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ALUMNI | news
Dear Fellow Alumni,
As the cover
story in
this issue of
Connections
indicates, it is critical
for alumni to take an
active role in the career
services arena. Whether
that means providing
internship or job shadowing
opportunities for
students, assisting fellow
alumni in a relocation or
career change, or looking
for ways to facilitate
alum-to-alum business
connections, we can
each play a different role in supporting Nazareth alumni.
My husband and I are small business owners, and we know
the realities of the tumultuous job market as well as the need
for great employees. We invite Nazareth students to intern with
us and always look favorably at applicants that are Nazareth
grads when trying to fill vacancies. Not that you always need
to hire Naz people, but it is comforting to know that nine times
out of ten you are going to work with a student or an alum who
possesses a high level of professional knowledge, the ability
to think critically, and that pervasive value that still exists at
Nazareth—the intrinsic drive to make a difference, no matter
what the job entails.
I was fortunate to be a member of the alumni board and assist
in the development of a new structure throughout the past year.
During that process, we had many lengthy discussions about
where it was important to involve alumni volunteers in assisting
the College. One of those areas included alumni career
services. Now, as one of the co-chairs of the career services
committee, I am excited to tackle these issues and work hard
to identify ways in which alumni and the College can work
together to provide the appropriate services and resources for
our alumni base.
Each of us can play an important part in assisting others with
career help, but how do you go about doing that? For starters,
update your career information. Knowing your current job title
and employer helps Nazareth make the best connections for
networking opportunities. It also helps with the recruitment
of incoming students—they feel confident that they will find a
job after graduation when they see our successful alums. Post
job opportunities and internships through the Career Services
office, volunteer to speak to a class, or even become a member
of the alumni board career services committee. Together, we
can all create a better environment to support the career paths
of the Nazareth family.
Thanks for doing your part!
Carrie Adamson Morabito ’97
Co-Chair, Alumni Board Career Services Committee
P.S. If you are interested in serving on the career services
standing committee, or any other of the alumni board standing
committees, please contact the alumni office at 585-389-2472
or e-mail alumni@naz.edu. For more information on the
alumni board, visit alumni.naz.edu.
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Andrew Opett ’00, ’01G
GOLD (Graduate of the Last Decade)
Award Winner
Andrew Opett ’00, ’01G, a graduate of the first
physical therapy class at Nazareth College, has
distinguished himself in a number of ways since
graduation. After several years of clinical practice, he began
teaching at Nazareth. Since 2003, his role has steadily increased,
from teaching as a laboratory assistant to coordinating
the Human Gross Anatomy course between Nazareth and
Monroe Community College (MCC) and finally to teaching
full time (including
supervising students
in Nazareth’s campus
clinic) and practicing
half time. He is
currently a clinical
instructor for student
interns and a faculty
member in the physical
therapy and health
sciences department
at Nazareth and the
biology department at
MCC.
At his current employer,
STAR Physical
Therapy, Opett has recently
been promoted
to director of operations
for several PTs and PT assistants. He is currenlty enrolled
in the doctor of physical therapy program at Upstate Medical
Center, and he has obtained the American Board of Physical
Therapist Specialist Certification in Orthopedics (OCS), a
highly respected credential in physical therapy practice. He is
also certified as a kinesiotaping practitioner by the kinesiotaping
association of America. For the past two years, Opett
has been a delegate representing the Finger Lakes region to
the New York Physical Therapy Association (NYPTA) Delegate
Assembly.
Opett has been a leader in planning several community service
events, including the American Cancer Society Relay for
Life in 2006, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society “Light the
Night” walks (2005–2008), the Breast Cancer Walk (2007–
2009), and the American Heart Association Heart Walk in
2010. He received a B.S. in biology from SUNY Geneseo
in 1996, a B.S. in health sciences from Nazareth College in
2000, and an M.S. from Nazareth College in 2001.
Andrea Rivoli Costanza ’85
Outstanding Alumna
Andrea Rivoli
Costanza ’85
takes serving
her community very
seriously; in fact, it is
one of her passions
in life. Over the years,
her service to community
and the field of
education has played
a major role in helping
to shape not only
the Nazareth College
community but the
Rochester community.
Costanza earned
her bachelor’s degree
from Nazareth College
in management
science and French in
1985. She began her leadership at the College 10 years later as
a member of the alumni board from 1995 to 2001. This led to
her position as the board’s vice president from 1998 to 1999 and
eventually president from 1999 to 2001. She was then nominated
by the board of trustees to serve as the alumni trustee
from 2001 to 2004. Her tenure on the board was highlighted by
a historic milestone when Nazareth College acquired the Sisters
of St. Joseph property and doubled its physical size as part of the
successful $25 million campaign.
Outside of Nazareth, Costanza has taken on many volunteer
roles in the Brighton community, including her most recent as a
member of the Board of Education for Brighton Central Schools
as well as past president of the Brighton Parent Teacher Student
Association, a group dedicated to enriching the school experience
for children and youth and creating opportunities for
parents to be part of their children’s school experience.
Costanza and her husband James co-chair the Nucleus Fund
Committee (NFC) for the Campaign for College and Community
at Nazareth College. This ambitious campaign has a working
goal of $60 million to fund renovations and additions to the Arts
Center, fund construction of a new math and science center,
increase the Nazareth Fund, and increase the endowment to
secure the future of the College and support student and faculty
development. The NFC is responsible for assisting President Daan
Braveman in developing strategies, engaging key prospective
donors, and soliciting many of the major gifts needed during the
nucleus fund phase of the campaign.
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Save the Date June 3-5, 2011
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 alma mater in all its glory. Everyone
is invited to join in the summer fun with good food, great friends, and class parties.
Honored class years are those ending in a 1 or 6 but, as always, the more the merrier!
Interested in volunteering for your reunion class committee or looking for more details?
Visit Reunion Weekend Headquarters online at alumni.naz.edu/reunion.
And don’t forget about our Fourth 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 www.flightoftheflyers.com. Hurry
though—all flyers must make it back to the alumni relations office
by May 20, 2011.
Maureen Bell Field ’65
(right) won Most Creative
Photo in this year’s Golden
Flyer Challenge for her
picture of Francesca posing
with the sculpture of
the Fist of Joe Louis in
Detroit, MI (left). Her photo
was in memory of another
“Joe Louis” (Sr. Josephine
Louise) whom the class of
1965 all knew and loved.
From Naz to Numb
Nazareth alumnus and Fairport native Sean Ferrell ’94 has broken
into the writing world with his first novel Numb. The novel, published
by HarperCollins, was released in early August. It has already received
critical praise from Publishers Weekly: “There are captivating moments and
passages.... [Numb] has a lot of heart,” and from Kirkus Reviews: “Ferrell’s
eye-catching debut is a mordant take on contemporary culture.... Artfully
barbed entertainment.” Ferrell spoke at an author event during Nazareth
Parents’ Weekend last September where alumni and friends learned about
his journey from aspiring writer to published author and heard an excerpt
from Numb. You can visit Sean Ferrell online at www.byseanferrell.com
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Shedding Light: Author and Publisher Peter Conners
by Robin L. Flanigan
Peter Conners ‘98G,
author and new publisher
at BOA Editions
In high school, Peter
Conners ‘98G earned
praise from friends for
the poetry he penned
about angst, alienation,
and the plight of the typical
American teenager.
But the musings he kept
while following the Grateful
Dead for six years—he’d been
to 14 of an eventual 100-plus
concerts by his freshman year
in college—are what ultimately
led to last year’s release of his
breakthrough book, Growing Up Dead: The Hallucinated
Confessions of a Teenage Deadhead (Da Capo Press, 2009).
The clasped blue leather journal he carted from show to
show (until it was stolen during a San Francisco camping
trip) in many ways cultivated what was to become a
successful career in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
“I had a vague idea of poetry and lyrics and music, but
this gave me a chance to put it all together on my own
terms, to figure out how it all made sense,” says Conners,
recently named publisher of BOA Editions, an independent,
nonprofit poetry publishing house based in Rochester.
“Everything else developed from there.”
There have been a lot of developments recently.
Conners’s new book, White Hand Society: The Psychedelic
Partnership of Timothy Leary & Allen Ginsberg, was published
in November by City Lights Publishers, and his next
poetry collection, The Crows Were Laughing in Their Trees,
is scheduled for release in the spring. With his screenplay
for Growing Up Dead finished and in the hands of a producer,
he is back at work on a music-based novel he started
eight years ago, titled The Death of Electric.
Now, after seven years of marketing and editing responsibilities
at BOA, including the fiction series he instituted four
years ago, Conners is looking to broaden its reputation as
a cultural institution while continuing to represent 10 new
titles a year.
His graduate years at Nazareth College, more than any
school before, he says, validated his intellectual curiosity and
the impact he could have on others through his writing.
“It was the most successful and fulfilling educational
experience I’ve had,” he recalls, admitting that until then,
his nontraditional learning style had made him less than
an ideal student. The supportive program, which included
analyzing educational theories and experience teaching at
traditional and alternative schools, helped him gain “an appreciation
for my own thinking” and earned him a Student
Teacher of the Year Award. After graduation, wanting to
stay connected to the classroom, he led writing workshops
in local schools.
In some ways, Conners, who lives
in Pittsford with his wife and three
children (the oldest, Whitman, is
named after the American poet),
has had to defend his on-the-road
literary awakening to readers who
confuse experimentation with mindless
fun.
“It’s interesting how freely people
comment on that, as if it’s not really
your life,” he says. “You open
yourself up to it, of course, because
you put it in black and white. But
people think of Deadheads as brainless
and high all the time, and the
people I met while traveling were
really intelligent. The things I do
now are very much an extension
of the core values I learned at that
time.”
And further, an extension of what he learned at Nazareth.
Conners references a lyric from Grateful Dead’s
“Terrapin Station” to illustrate the tightly woven relationship
between a meaningful education and his current
work: “His job is to shed light, not to master.”
“I always thought that fit what a writer and publisher
should do,” he explains. “You’re not giving people
directions—you shine light on things. You help them open
up their minds and then they educate themselves.”
Learn more about BOA Editions at www.boaeditions.org.
Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New
York.
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Board of Trustees Committee on Honorary Degrees
Seeks Nominees
The honorary degree is a traditional means to recognize distinguished individuals who have made significant
contributions to the College over an extended period of time or whose outstanding personal or professional
endeavors complement the College’s role and mission. Candidates must be viewed by the college community
as unique, recognizable figures whose public recognition brings honor to Nazareth College.
The Nazareth College Board of Trustees invites you to nominate distinguished individuals to be considered
for an honorary degree, the highest award that Nazareth College confers. Any trustee, faculty, staff, or alumni
member may nominate a potential candidate. All suggestions must be submitted to the Office of the President. All
nominations will then be forwarded to the Committee on Honorary Degrees.
Candidate Selection Criteria
Nazareth College seeks to recognize men and women who exemplify the values and commitments set forth in the
College’s mission statement, who have some appeal to the student body, and who exemplify the ideals to be emulated
by Nazareth students and graduates. More specifically, the College seeks to recognize individuals who meet one
or more of the following criteria:
• are distinguished by their scholarly achievements
• have helped the College to achieve its mission in an outstanding way
• have made, or are in the process of making, a significant contribution to the welfare of the community,
whether on a local, state, national, or international level
Please return the nomination form (below) to: Office of the President, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue,
Rochester, NY 14618.
For more information, please contact Patricia Genthner at pgenthn5@naz.edu or at 585-389-2002.
Please return the following form, along with supporting biographical materials, to the Office of the President.
Nomination for Honorary Degree/Commencement Speaker
Name of nominee__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Reasons for nomination_________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Submitted by ___________________ _____________________ ________________________Date________________________________________
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Honoring
my Mother
It was my mother’s dream to send
me to college regardless of the sacrifices she would
have to make. I believe higher education was then,
and is now, a key element in the pursuit of a successful
and fulfilled life.
Throughout my 35-year career in student financial aid administration,
most of which I spent at Nazareth College, my goal was
to extend opportunities to students to learn, achieve, blossom,
and move on to share all that they had become.
Upon my mother’s death, I established the Vivian Chapman
Memorial Scholarship at Nazareth College to honor this loving
and talented woman. I’ve rewritten my will to include a significant
bequest to expand this scholarship and the heritage of meaningful
opportunity it provides to students at Nazareth College.
—Dr. Bruce Woolley, Founders Society member and
retired director of financial aid at Nazareth College
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 unitrust, 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.
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CLASS|notes
’30s
Ingeborg Giese Lorensen ‘36,
German, was featured in The Explorer
newspaper in Tucson, Ariz.,
for her life story as a translator
during the Nuremberg Trials at the
end of World War II.
’70s
Kathy Ruocco Schaefer ’71,
Eng., writing as Kathryn Shay,
published The Perfect Family in
September with Bold Strokes
Books. The novel is the story of an
average small-town family whose
lives are turned upside down when
their youngest son discloses he
is gay.
Jack Allocco ’72, Music,
received two more daytime Emmy
Awards for his work on CBS’s The
Young and the Restless and The
Bold and the Beautiful. See article
in News & Views on page 5.
Kathleen Tully Houser ’73,
’79G, Art, the president of the Victor
Historical Society, was featured
in Canandaigua’s Daily Messenger
newspaper last spring for her living
history tours of the Ichabod Town
Homestead in Victor. She was a
primary school principal in Victor
for 13 years and retired from Newark
Central School after working
in the elementary school for five
years.
Charlotte Heberling Waterson
’74, Eng., was presented the
Hospitality and Tourism Award at
the Alexandria Bay Chamber of
Commerce’s annual banquet last
June. She has been involved in the
tourism business in the Thousand
Islands since 1979 and is currently
the general manager of the Holiday
Inn Express in Watertown.
JoAnne Lipari Antonacci ’76,
’79G, Sp. Path., was named the
Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES new
district superintendent in April.
Antonacci, who joined BOCES as
a speech and language teacher 32
Nazareth wants to welcome your newborn
into the ranks of future alumni!
Drop a note announcing your new
arrival to alumni.naz.edu, and the
Alumni Office will send your son
or daughter a genuine Nazareth bib.
Snap a photo of your bibbed darling
and send a high resolution image back
to alumni@naz.edu to have it appear in
Connections and on the alumni website.
Walker David Juda, son of Emily
Murphy Juda ’01 and David Juda ’00,
born August 14, 2009.
years ago, will serve as the sixth superintendent
in the organization’s
history and its first ever female
superintendent. She was previously
a department supervisor, building
administrator, instructional specialist,
Exceptional Children executive
director, assistant superintendent
for instructional programs, chief
operating officer, and deputy
superintendent.
Beryl Schaubroeck Tracey
’76, ’79G, Eng., an 11th and 12th
grade English teacher at DeSales
High School in Geneva, was
named the Martin Luther King Jr.
Committee Educator of the Year.
Tracey has required her students
to write poems meditating on the
message of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream”
speech.
Christine Grassi Sargent ’78,
Music, a vocal music teacher at the
Rush-Henrietta High School, was
featured in the Educator Q&A of
the Henrietta Post in April.
’80s
Antoinette Indriolo Stronz
’82, Social Wk., a middle school
guidance counselor in the Randolph
Central School District,
was nominated by school district
administrators and recognized by
Jamestown Community College as
someone who has distinguished
themselves in the field of education.
Mike Dianetti ’83, ’86G, Business
Ed., was inducted into the
Section V Basketball Hall of Fame
in November in Rochester. Dianetti,
a graduate of Greece Arcadia, was
the 1979 Monroe County League
Player of the Year. He played
collegiately at Nazareth and
coached at the Aquinas Institute
following graduation. Dianetti
passed away in 2007.
Lori Marra ’83, Mgt. Science,
is co-producing one of her fulllength
plays for the International
Midtown Festival in Manhattan.
Her play Mystic Castle, a dramatic
work about the serial killer Arthur
Shawcross, was chosen from
Geva’s Regional Playwright Festival
to move into full production in
November.
James Quinlisk ’85, Eng. Writing,
an English teacher at Brighton
High School, was featured in the
Brighton-Pittsford Post in June for
his rewarding career in education.
Prior to teaching English, Quinlisk
worked as a newspaper reporter.
Mark Maddalina ’87, Art, has
been promoted to the position
of sustainable design manager
at SWBR Architects in Rochester,
specializing in higher education
projects and sustainable design
practices. He received his master’s
degree in architecture from SUNY
Buffalo.
Dolores Jablonski Johnson
’89, Bus. Distributive Ed., received
the New York State Transfer
Articulation Association (NYSTAA)
Emeritus Award for her commitment
to transfer students. She
retired from Nazareth in January
2010 after 20 years of service.
Laurie Schon Leo ’89, Bus.
Act., was named vice president
for strategic initiatives at Klein
Steel in Rochester.
’90s
Michael Park ’90, Art, earned
a daytime Emmy for his work
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on CBS’s As the World Turns. See
article in News & Views on page 5.
Matthew Orioli ’91, Bus.
Adm., was promoted to district
general manager for Stanley Security
Solutions, Inc. in Columbus,
Ohio.
Joe Yacano ’92, Bus. Adm., is
a founding partner of ViewSPORT,
a Pittsford-based company that
designs and manufactures sweatactivated
apparel.
Jon Gottschall ’95, Eng. Lit.,
was mentioned in an article in the
New York Times for his writing
about using evolutionary theory to
explain fiction. See article in News
& Views on page 12.
’00s
Kristin Ward ’00, Theatre and
French, is the director of Moquette
Volante, a Pittsburgh-based
Middle Eastern dance company
that blends dance, music, and
spoken word. Moquette Volante
performed at the Bread and Water
Theatre in Rochester at the end of
June.
James Fitzmaurice ’01, Bus.
Adm., was hired as director of user
development for Omnilert®, LLC,
maker of RainedOut, the first text
message service for sports leagues
and clubs. He earned his master’s
in sport administration from Canisius
College in Buffalo.
Paul Rogers ’01, Math, the
dean of students at the Batavia
campus of the Genesee Valley
Educational Partnership (BOCES),
was profiled in the Batavia Daily
News in May. He previously taught
math at Le Roy Junior/Senior high
school for seven years, where he
was the math department chair
and coordinator of Academic
Intervention Services.
Melissa Reed ’02, ’06G,
Music Ed., won a 2010 Rochester
Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO)
Musicians’ Award for Outstanding
Music Educators in the category
Molly Harrington ’06
married Stephen Berkstresser
on June 19 in the Adirondacks,
and the nuptials were attended
by lots of (slightly sunburned)
Nazareth friends.
Left to right: Mary Tiballi
’06, Ruth Wardwell ’06,
the bride, Scott Scaffidi ’06,
Shaun Tyszka ’07, and
Brynn Lucas ’08.
of Classroom Music Specialist.
The awards commend educational
and musical excellence and
recognize the positive influence
that music educators have on the
musicians and audiences of the
future. Reed is a music educator
and music therapist for the Hilton
Central School District and a music
education lecturer at Nazareth.
Eric Hansen ’03, Bus. Adm.,
was presented the Paul Zimmerman
Outstanding Young Farmer
Award at the Ontario County
Agriculture Appreciation Banquet
last spring. The award recognizes
a young farmer who has shown
the same dedication and commitment
as Paul Zimmerman, a young
farmer who was on the leading
edge of innovative practices and
good stewardship.
James Henderson ’05, Religious
Stu., an office manager at
Pet Pride, a cats-only shelter in
Victor, was featured in the Daily
Messenger newspaper for his
work at the shelter.
Nazareth alumni gathered at
the wedding of Becky Farrell
’02 to Brian Ferringo in Rochester
on July 3.
Left to right: Stacy Keith
Handy ’02, Kristen Wahl
’02, ’05G, the bride, Ginger
Johnson Thayer ’02.
Barbara Elliott Jones ’05,
Eng. Lit., graduated from Medaille
College’s Accelerated Learning
Program in 2009 with her master’s
degree in business administration.
Jones works as coordinator of
admissions for the GRC MSW Program,
the collaborative program
between Nazareth and Brockport.
Amanda Bowers Lundberg
’05, Psy., received her Ed.S. in
school psychology from Rider
University in May 2009 and in
September 2009 began working
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Anna Czerniawski
’06 married Daniel
Cartwright ’07 on
July 17 at Holy Trinity
Church in Webster.
A travel-themed reception
followed at the
Webster Golf Club, at
which the couple featured
photos and music
collected during their
time abroad in France
and Spain through
Nazareth’s Study
Abroad programs.
Back l to r:
Dr. Candide Carrasco,
Becky Herber ’07,
Shelly Haefele
Stuart ’05, Alison
Sloan McCarthy ’06.
Middle l to r: Jetty Levy,
Ruben Gomez, Alyse Sarti ’07, Kristen Stern ’06, Kelly Chapman ’04, Amity Widener ’06, ’09G, Prof. Octave
Naulleau, Laura Lashure Abouharia ’06, Said Abouharia. Front l to r: The bride and groom.
When Becki Wegener
’06 (right) visited a fellow
grad Maggie McLaughlin
Dalton ’06 in London, they
were taking in the sights of
the city when they stumbled
upon a place called
“Cafe Naz.”
as a school psychologist in the
Robbinsville Public School District
in Robbinsville, N.J.
Brian Graham ’09, Hist., a
varsity boys’ lacrosse coach at
Wallkill Senior High School, was
9-4-1 in his first season, earning
Varsity 845’s Coach of the Year
honors. Graham was manager
of the men’s lacrosse team at
Nazareth from 2007–09.
’10s
Briana Watson ’10, Social Wk.
and Soc., was one of four women
to share their stories of success
after overcoming challenges at
the Voices of Experience event
sponsored by the Women’s Foundation
of Genesee Valley at the
University of Rochester’s Memorial
Art Gallery in May.
Graduate Class Notes
Barbara Siebert Packard ’80G,
a teacher at North Rose-Wolcott,
was named the 2010 Master-
Minds Coach of the Year. Master-
Minds is an academic competition
for high school students that
uses a form of the NAQT Quiz
Bowl format for match play.
Packard is the lead math teacher
for grades 9-12 and is an advisor
for the National Honor Society.
Nancy Jean Smith Osborn
’89G was named the principal
at the Bailey Avenue Elementary
School in Plattsburgh. She was
formerly the principal at the Byron-
Bergen Elementary School in Bergen
for eight years and has also
taught first and second grades.
Kimberly Connell Black
’97G, a math co-teacher, resource
teacher, and department
leader for special education at
Pittsford Sutherland High School,
was featured in Rochester’s
Brighton-Pittsford Post in the
Educator Q&A.
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Brian J. Lissner ’09
A proud new member
of the GOLD Council
Oak Society
Lissner, a lacrosse player during his four years at Nazareth, chose to
designate his recent gift to the lacrosse team. “From the first day, I realized
how close a group it is—the players, the coaches, and the alums—and I knew
that donations played a large part in helping us accomplish what we could as a team,”
he says. “Now that I’m an alum, I want to make that possible for other players.”
Lissner is now a financial analyst at US Energy Development Corporation in Buffalo, and
he intends to continue to support Nazareth as the years go on. “Nazareth has played a
large role in where I am today as an individual and in my career,” he says. “I’ve learned that
hard work and teamwork apply to both your life and the business world.”
Class Gift Amount
(Received by June 30, 2011)
2010 $100
2009 $200
2008 $300
2007 $400
2006 $500
2005 $600
2004 $700
2003 $800
2002 $900
2001 $1000
Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD)
GOLD classes now have a special opportunity to become Council Oak members.
Instead of the $1,000 donation usually required, GOLD can join the Council Oak
Society by giving $100 for each year after their graduation date. Membership is
now more attainable, says Lynn Mulvey, assistant director of development, and
the new program provides a simple way of remembering what it takes to be a
GOLD Council Oak member.
To learn more about the Council Oak Society and how you
can support Nazareth, visit www.naz.edu/support-nazareth/
giving-options/council-oak-society

Jayne Mead Rossman ’98G
received the 2010 Adjunct Faculty
of the Year Award from Pima
Community College in Tucson,
Ariz., in May. She instructs teachers
in educational psychology and
structured English immersion.
Jeanne Witte Kaidy ’99G, a
science teacher at McQuaid Jesuit
High School in Rochester, is one of
103 recipients of the Presidential
Award for Excellence in Mathematics
and Science Teaching.
Kaidy, who teaches biology and AP
environmental science, has been at
McQuaid for 12 years. See article
in News & Views on page 13.
Kristen Jo Kinney ’00G earned
her doctorate of education in
curriculum and instruction from
George Washington University
in Washington, D.C. in May. She
works for K12 Inc. in Herndon,
Va., where she is currently a senior
content specialist for reading and
primary language arts.
Jeffrey Alger ’02G was named
the Waterloo School District’s
athletic director and director of
health, physical education, and
recreation. He started a three-year
term in July.
Jane Morale ’02G was chosen
to receive a 2010 Philharmonic
Orchestra Musician’s Award for
Outstanding Music Educators.
Morale is the orchestra director
and string instrument instructor
at Webster Spry Middle School.
She is a member of the American
String Teachers’ Association and
the Music Educators’ National
Conference. She currently serves
on the Monroe County School
Music Association Executive Board
as elementary all-county orchestra
coordinator. In 2009, she received
the Nazareth College Music Educator’s
Service Award.
Ryan Clair ’03G was named
the assistant principal at Fairport
High School. Clair was previously
an assistant principal at Midlakes
High School in the Phelps-Clifton
Springs District.
Dan O’Brien ’03G, a math
teacher at the Harley School, was
profiled in the Greece Post in
February. O’Brien, formerly an attorney,
is in his sixth year at Harley,
where he teaches pre-algebra,
algebra, and geometry to seventh
and eighth graders.
Lauren Brandt ’05G has joined
the Finger Lakes Council of the
Boy Scouts of America as a district
executive.
Nicole Whitwood Carey ’08G
was inducted into the Wellsville
Central School Athletic Hall of
Fame in June. A 2002 graduate
of Wellsville, she played soccer,
basketball, and softball.
Rachel Pasternak ’08G started
her own company, Events Made
Easy, which has a permanent location
in Pittsford and books events
nearly every weekend of the year.
She was featured in Rochester’s
Democrat and Chronicle in May.
She received her master’s degree
in liberal studies.
Kate Shaw Klatt ’10G has
been hired to teach in the Four
PLUS program at the Pittsford
Cooperative Nursery School. She
is currently working in a pediatric
palliative-care program as a certified
child life specialist and case
manager.
Weddings
Jill Dembeck ’03,‘06G to
Thomas Lochner, Oct. 11, 2009.
Sarah Donahue ’04 to Vincent
Enea, Sept. 18, 2009.
Elizabeth Ireland ’04 to Brian
Pearsall, June 5, 2009.
Katherine Parks to Jacob Steck
’04, April 10, 2010.
Kara Andrae ’05G to Robert
Sawyer, Jan. 2, 2010.
Barbara Elliot ’05 to Damien R.
Jones Sr., Jan. 31, 2010.
Molly Harrington ’06 to Stephen
Berkstresser, June 19, 2010.
Amber Coder to Scott Mc-
Craith ’06, March 31, 2010.
Randi Hughes ’06 to Nicholas
Proukou ’07, Jan. 2, 2010.
Alida Murphy ’07 to Paul
Osetek, July 26, 2009.
Anna Klosek ’09 to Alex Majewski,
Aug. 8, 2009.
Kathryn Koehler ’09G to Joey
Labelle, July 3, 2010.
Daniela Lanza ’09G to Adam
Ball, Sept. 5, 2009.
Kelly Ann Bates ’10 to Adam
Mott, May 8, 2010.
New Arrivals
Christina George Brown ’91,
twins, Ross Aaron and Tabitha
Mary, Sept. 24, 2009.
Jessica Egan Woodruff ’96,
a daughter, Lucy Elaine, Feb. 7,
2010.
Julia Antinora ’98, a son, Tanner
Whipple, Feb. 3, 2010.
Deborah Lloyd McGarvey ’99,
a son, Patrick Colin, March 16,
2010.
Mary Beth Manino Harrod
’01, a daughter, Maryna Clare,
Feb. 4, 2010.
Bridget Preston Miller ’04,
‘07G, a son, Ian Michael, Sept.
23, 2009.
Barbara Elliott ’05, a son,
Doniven Marquis Elliott Jones,
Sept. 6, 2009.
In Memoriam
Ruth Lintz Starkweather ’37,
April 29, 2010.
Bernice Decker Toohey ’37,
June 29, 2010.
Margaret Beahon Winegarden
’38, March 9, 2010.
Mary Jane LaIuppa Mayka
’39, March 28, 2010.
Rosemary Burgio ’43, ’55G,
March 1, 2010.
Rosemary Tierney Heffernan
’43, March 27, 2010.
Marie Fox ’45, April 2, 2010.
Frances Bryan Clark ’47,
June 17, 2010.
Louise Trautlein Cronin
’47, July 9, 2010.
Margaret Maloy Spillane
’47, March 28, 2010.
Dorothy Louis ’49, June 16,
2010.
Marjorie Sullivan ’49,
July 12, 2010.
Virginia Davis Mahns ’50,
May 29, 2010.
Yvonne Clasgens ’51,
April 2, 2010.
Joanne Hoffmaster ’51,
March 16, 2010.
Suzanne Plunkett Cook
’54, April 9, 2010.
Rosemarie DeFranco Brinklow
’56, ’76G, June 4, 2010.
Mary Heveron Williams
’56, May 24, 2010.
Mary Joan Costigan Brien
’60, April 8, 2010.
Doretta Rhodes ’60, ’71U,
June 13, 2010.
Noreen McCarthy Stillhard
’60, June 7, 2010.
Eleanor M. Kawka ’61,
Feb. 22, 2010.
Barbara Dilulio ’65, July 7,
2010.
Yolanda Sauciunac
Dragone ’65G, May 23, 2010.
Sandra Comins Sabacek
’72, ’76G, May 22, 2010.
Gail Connors Stevenson
’72, ‘76G, May 27, 2010.
Kathleen Pineau Joerger
’76, June 2, 2010.
Constance Harris O’Dell
’76, April 18, 2010.
Harriet Goodman Stell ’79,
’82G, June 14, 2010.
Linda Vecchi ’79, March 23,
2010.
Margaret Fennessy
Guzman ’82, April 5, 2010.
Rita Hogan Kress ’89,
May 21, 2010.
James Prettyman ’90G,
April 27, 2010.
Amy Outcalt Iman ’95,
April 23, 2010.
David Martin ’03, June 9,
2010.
50 CONNECTIONS | WINTER 2010/2011 www.naz.edu

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Outstanding
Alumni
azareth 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, director
of alumni relations, at kgotham7@naz.edu or 585-389-2404.
For a list of previous alumni award winners, visit go.naz.edu/alumni-awards.★

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Soaring
Success
The Nazareth College
Arts Center Dance Festival,
held last July 10–17,
entertained thousands
of visitors across the
Rochester community.
Read about it and
see more photos on
pages 10–11 and at
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