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welcomed them
need a history
to tell us
1970 was
a big year for change.
the
discrimination.
idealistic "608
about the
War
season on harassment and
flirting.
The Reasons
The decision
recently established by other male-only
colleges.
La
to
Salle University for the
time allowed
women
As
The
today's freshman class (more
hard to imagine a day
it's
coeds were blazing
trails
have been
when women
And
yet, a generation ago,
current students
"I don't think of us as pioneers
who was
to
initial
new female
very well
—
-just
people
try to
certificate
La
honor
first class,
field
Salle
From then
colleges in the coun-
on, the rules were bent a
nuns and other
adjustment was difficult for most of the
Many came from
first
supported husbands.
were hailed for having
In the late '50s
of mathematics.
students in the 1970s.
was one of the
women who
As
the certifi-
"... loyally
and
collegiate helpfulness...."
but also majored in the
female Catholic schools and had lived sheltered
well
lovingly accepted the conditions essential to conjugal and
who
be here." said Marianne (Salmon) Gauss. '74,
not only in the
predominantly male
The
may
(Ph.T )
exercises.
may
when the first Putting Him Through
was awarded as part of Commencement
1935,
in
cate stated, they
take for granted.
happened
societal
University's earliest recognition
of the female contribution to higher education
at
students weren't talking with friends in the food court,
or sharing opinions in class.
admit female students
and economic reasons.
than half female) begins the Spring 2001 semester
Salle,
to
day classes was a gradual one, and
was based on a combination of
to attend
classes as full-time day students.
La
students
sentiment was steadily growing.
The women's movement was gaining
momentum. And. following the path
first
And some male
took the opportunity to declare open
nioonwalk. Anti-Vietnam
first
ini-
exhibited clear signs of bias and
tially
America was saying goodbye to
and was still buzzing
into the classroom,
they admitted several lay instructors
all-
lives in
and early
women was
classes. Eventually,
La
little at
a time.
'60s, a small contingent of
permitted to attend certain
Salle signed a joint agreement with
all-female Chestnut Hill College that allowed students at
By
the close-knit neighborhoods of Philadelphia. Frequently,
both schools to take selected classes
they were the
female students could enroll in La Salle's evening program.
They were
first in their
still
in
an age
families to attend college.
when many
parents didn't see
applying was a major hurdle,
let
alone sitting
down
in
And
to
do
their share
Although coeds interviewed for
La Salle Magazine
for the
way
969,
an
While
Male students and professors had
had nothing but praise
1
La
Salle
of
this article
the Christian Brothers
one.
1967,
and Germantown Hospital Nursing
that
brought female nursing
students into day classrooms.
overwhelmingly male classroom.
adjusting, too.
in
School signed an agreement
the need for their daughters to attend college. So, just
at either
the late '60s and early '70s
awakening, especially
La
in
Salle administrators
the change.
were years of social
terms of female equality.
had additional reasons
to
make
A
committee charged with study-
ing coeducation released
the
fall
its
report in
of 1969. finding that circum-
stances were right for coeducation
La
Salle,
beginning the next
The committee
in a
report
was quoted
"If
La
Salle
is
to
10 to 15 years while remaining
all-
male, present evidence suggests that
the
academic quality of the student
body
The
article
went on
to say that the
stu-
Ones
First
Brother
in
Emery Mollenhauer,
1969, was quoted: "To seek to
college
would be
anachronism." In
to perpetuate
fact,
other
the
an
tional institutions
admit women.
1969, was quoted as saying, "The self-
confidence and poise of the
women who were
La
Salle
made
the
first
chosen to come
first
to
year of coedu-
no overstate-
is
ments a
first-year student
(leaving
home, taking
stay afloat
academic
would have
must make
to
standards, and to keep up with the
er reason for changing the colleae's
who was
ment. Consider the typical adjust-
changing social times, these educa-
dent support for coeducation as anoth-
Bartley,
cation a success." This
coming
same conclusion: To
Andrew
all-
male colleges and universities
across the country were
Brother
Associate Director of Admissions in
Vice President for Academic Affairs
financially, to maintain
will gradually decline."
committee cited overwhelming
polled to be in favor of coeducation.
continue our identity as an all-male
increase enrollment over the next
The
A questionnaire
revealed 82 percent of the students
at
fall.
September 1969 edition of
The Collegian:
status after 106 years.
responsibility
for one's self, trying to
fit
in,
and
handling the workload), and then add
to the
mix
the pressures of breaking a
longstanding barrier.
to
And
woiTies.
there
were other smaller
The Collegian reported
the
Fall 2000
.
La Salle Female Firsts
Prior to 1936
1945
1945
Earliest record of
Mrs, Edward
Ann Dugan
1946
1955
Margaret Keily
First Ph.T.
Six
Lennon,
certificate (Putting
three of
Him Through)
are nuns,
j
m
*"a
female employ-
ee on campus
(later,
O'Neill), first
Award
Fidel
(paraprofessional
in
female
first
staff
member
female profes-
winner
Bursar's Office)
James
Mrs.
Morrell, first
female Signum
with
1963
1958-60
I
I
women,
Contingent of nuns
whom
who
enrolled
Sisters'
sponsored
given. La Salle
admitted to
Institute,
administrative
was one
attend selected
jointly
(Presidential
status (Assistant
first
courses
the Philadelphia
Secretary)
Registrar)
the nation to
sional
on campus
of the
colleges
honor
who
in
by La
ered the
P
first
new
they arrived. All three
Edwards Domiitory were
women. One of the three floors
pulled from the
cate the
1
97 1 yearbook
initial ratio
stu-
floors of St.
dents to every one female ). there was a
for
"sufficient
needed
many
to
be painted, the wiring for
remained unconnected,
lights
mix" of people on campus.
Along with
coeds
Wj of
in
were many older
who were Vietnam
and the windows were co\'ered with
students
unlined. see-through drapes.
taking advantage of the
Still,
most of the female students
managed
tive.
on the posi-
to concentrate
"Tve had business dealings
that
were ten times worse than anything
negative
I
experienced on
as a student."
Gauss
said.
campus
"And 1 do
this
"Often.
the class."
was
1
G.L
what
I
at
wanted.
I
going to college
think the Brothers tried
was just
thrilled to
slights, but
chemistry major in
1970. She
was
ladies'
Tuesdays and Thursdays. Picture
ond
floor of the
the largest
at that, there
at least
one
(even the floor) to rest weary bones,"
Bobbie Costa,
with her family in the
accidentally referred to
Explorer yearbook.
nearby Olney neighbor-
Gauss
hood. "I picked
of miss. Another
Salle because
I
could
trip to
and from
was
it
classes.
Gauss and her classmates had more
Many
parents
still
did not see
the need for their daughters to earn
in his class unless they
were
women
at the lab
sinks washing glassware.
Dr. Janice (Statuti) Beitz,
attended from
Germantown
1
who
972-75 as part of the
Hospital agreement for
nursing students, said her
come up with her own means of funding. La Salle, always in the business
Peggy, used her sense of humor to
of assisting students
students. Peggy,
in financial
need,
provided her with enough aid to make
her education feasible.
was
atypical
smdents La Salle
attracted over the years,"
She
recalls
weren't a
lot
Gauss
said.
even though there
of
women
La Salle Magazine
(statistics
There were some definite advantages
to
being a coed
sister,
awful
the
who
attended with
wave of nursing students in
was told, "We don't want your
first
"Knowing
tlirtina
with the coeds, while oth-
said.
was going
I
on every day made
really
do
my
"I often
women
knew
students spent a lot of
of tutoring help because they
And
she and
memories
spective" during class discussions.
the
time
saw
of being called on for the "female per-
whom she answered.
We won't bite."
"Don't worry.
lot
other female students have
kind here," by a male classmate, to
Some male
at the time. "I
were female," Gauss
fend off nasty comments from male
'69,
by gender, but very
typical in terms of the
The Benefits
female classmates of mine get an
college degrees. Gauss said she had to
"I
wrote in the 1971
as mister instead
announced he didn't want any
than transportation to worry about in
1970.
'72,
science professor
get here." she explained, noting
an easy bus
the sec-
Union Building holds
occasion, a professor
La
if
number of coeds and even
was no space available
small portion of the
On
The lounge on
close the door.
only from a
male students and lay
faculty.
living
to 10.
1
gard signs of relief upon them as they
said she
They've always been
as a
scale of
you can. hundreds of faces with hag-
Gauss
that."
them on a
lounge during the free periods on
be
at all."
experienced a few
Gauss entered
of the
during the
any
I
was doing
hard to change.
good about
w indows
first weeks of school:
room and Dean Phyllis
Montgomery's office. You would be
amazed at the scene in any ladies'
ies
I
school and
Many
days remember
"The coeds did have two sanctuar-
Bill.
been nervous going anywhere, but
was good
for
Student Union, only to see male stu-
signs rating
would have
said. "I
them.
to tease
in the early
walking by the
veterans
the only female in
Gauss
women
the
little
noted back
to
be called
me work
hard and
homework." Gauss
said.
found myself speaking for
of the world on subjects
I
or nothing about." Costa
in
1
97
1
Beitz agreed. "I
tant for us to
do
felt
first
La Salle program
dents on the other side holding up
the typical coUege-age
students, there also
found ways
ers
indi-
was 16 male
recog-
nized grouping
,
designed
when
and
System, are consid-
support
attending college
students
Salle
Archdiocesan School
women
husbands
college wasn't quite read} for the
the
in
Science
was imporshow we
it
well, to
women
,
1967
Women are
1965
1965
I
I
The Graduate
Religion
Shiriey
Program
Ann
Eriksson
is
the
first
fuli-time faculty
first full-time
Evening Division
members
include priests.
evening division
as a result of a
Day
nuns, and semi-
faculty
Vatican
hired:
narians
(instructor
Sister
in
II
ruling.
Kathenne
is
the
first
the
in
Division are
in
On
the
Hospital Nursing
approve
Program attend
coeducation at
La
Division
classes
Salle,
ning
of
freshmen and
100 female
full
transfer students
begin-
the
in
50 female
1
college trustees
Minna Weinstein
woman
Oct, 14,
Germantown
Day
Diane
Blumenthal and
Fitzgerald, A.C.J.
English)
Nurses
female
admitted into the
1970
I
I
The
expands to
member
1969
1969
1967
I
are admitted.
The
fall
1970
ratio of
women
to
men
is
16to1
(Weinstein goes
on to become the
admitted
female
first
Lindback Award
winner
S/Li
could handle the work aitd meet the
challenge.
We
stood up
to the bar
possibilities to the
Bones wrote
the rest of them."
The experience of
side
male students prepared
women
for
what they would
later face
had gone from
I
an all-females' school into the
male world of banking,
Gauss
failed."
first
La
would have
said, referring to her
made many male
Salle
and
friendships,
ed
I
all-
career path after graduation.
"I
I
friends here at
wouldn't trade those
some of which ha\ e
to this day, for anything."
Diane Bones,
leaming
in a
'75, in 1995.
wrote
"And
predominantly all-male
tion for the "real world'.
if
I
there,
For example,
walk into a business meeting
that is all-male.
done
I
"I learned
how
to
tion, but wasn't.
really hazing
tion.
I
Sometimes, what was
was seen
as discrimina-
was leaming how males
ed people into
their groups.
initiat-
gender-based.
way men
It
was merely
socialized.
I
a
good
thing.
"I think the
Leaming
1
teach
now
are
self-aware,"
Gauss
a lot of
said.
"They
more
logues enabled students
laws that protect them,
like
myself
to
become
such as Title 9 for ath-
much more open-mind-
letics.
ed, critical thinkers than
have a row
we had been
though they might not
La
"How
before
or time
mothers had (they were right about
first
and
that the
wodd
truly
look
at
when
they weren't welcome,"
she added.
Beitz also returned to
as a
La
Salle,
Bachelor of Science
in
1980. She
in
campus climate had completely changed. "By
the time I came back to campus.
there were more women than men. It
was very well accepted that women
said in just 10 years, the
to appreciate
our lives in a different way.
She was teaching us how
articulate
daughters
can't imagine a place
Nursing was founded
changing for
women." Bones added.
Beitz also has grown
even
Nursing stadent when the School of
1970s
in
still
to hoe.
it."
"My
we
were to have women
teachers who gendy informed us that
we weren't in Kansas anymore, that
we probably wouldn't live life as our
that)
But they
realize
Salle."
lucky
to think
and
could do
our ideas."
it,
and they were here
to
stay," she said.
A
at
Different World
Today. Beitz directs La Salle's
Graduate Nursing Program and
the
to deal
women
more
The type
of hazing was very benign, and not
all
cational college, and she thinks that's
Musil's wisdom. "She wanted us to
handle what looked like discrimina-
She
take for
certainly ha\e
America was
don't flinch (been
that!)."
Gauss observed,
made
\'ears.
sense to me. Their dia-
entering
last-
environment also was great prepara-
today
"offered opinions and theories that
but that
30
women
granted their right to attend a coedu-
Women's
had never heard before,
education because
"I got a different
this experience. If
(a
past
suspects young
1970s,
that, in the
Caryn McTighe Musil
inme
occurrea
young coeds.
Studies professor) and her colleagues
the
working world.
in the
of
learning along-
1969)
opened doors of endless
instructors
\\ ith
in
After spending her early career in
teaches Nursing students. She, too,
came back to La Salle
management professor in the
banking. Gauss
pleased that her current female stu-
many headaches later in life."
The college experience was a big
awakening for many young women
as a
dents
who were
recipient of the Christian R.
with
it.
and recognize
it.
saved
me
sheltered by their families
and all-female parochial schools.
Bones,
family,
attend
who was the first female in her
and among her girlfriends, to
colleee, said La Salle's female
seem
to
view higher education
School of Business Administration.
as an expected step, not a rare
A
ficult
F.
popular professor, she
is
a past
and Mary
Lindback Award for excellence
teaching. She
dents, both
very
little
knows her
in
current stu-
male and female, have
idea
how much change
and
dif-
achievement.
"I think
have
is
it's
to think
college degree.
deserve
it
good. They don't even
whether they deserve a
It's
just as
accepted.
much
as
They
men
do."
has
Fall 2000
L
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'iZ
Conventional
0)
CD
LL
By Mark Holmes,
'02
Wisdom
A
La Salle student reveals
GOP
while covering the
life
lessons learned
Convention
Sometimes a special opportunity
sits in
detached from the journalistic world
pathway of life,
the
because
was
ready to be tackled. That
opportunity can change a person
I
I
show
had
amazing opportunity
my hometown
of
my
cians such as fomier
was
and watching vice
looked back and saw that
famous
and
I
had
sion of the convention
life,
want
lost
Being a part of something so large
I
influential
mornings
was amazing
New
would read the
the
at first.
York Times in
the workspace, then
at
look around and see those people
had written the
article
I
was
had given some of them
who
reading.
a ride
back
I
to
their respective hotels the night
to feel a part
process, and
was
been involved
front
page
I
had
aspect of the
to look twice to see if
I
wanted
era in
6
I
to
my
jump
field
in front
I
of vision.
La Salle Magazine
I
felt
impul-
1
saw them,
was
I
Each
less interested in
to
At
such things.
my
I
I
interview from
simply went
business, and that
is
when
tion.
my
glamour of the
I
think
I
became mentally
to the aura
the age of 20,
1
became a
their eyes trained
on
for a
exited the Convention
my
Yet
it
skills
was
I
As
loss
situa-
no longer
I
more confident
and place
the
had
week, and
end of
in life.
my awe
of
camera and
the writers behind the pen (or
processor).
part
that the entire nation
to
word
a result, the world no
longer feels so overwhelming, and
But there was something deeper
there:
that they carried with
became numbed
the heralded television
had become part of this con-
in the
1
of something
about
TV
believe the long hours and drudg-
of interest
glamour
the lifestyles of the famous.
who saw
ery probably had an effect on
of every cam-
had done
of importance that sometimes surrounds
I
I
Tom Brokaw
interviews inside our pavilion.
was unaware that this network show was conducting nightly
night.
glomerate called the mass media.
arrived at the convention,
who
Sam
the
realized
But slowly, the changes began.
"stars"
them, as
workspace, and pro-
When
level as
with two of the editors or writers each
about
Philadelphia for the outsiders.
same
"Nightline" from the Times workspace
picked up the food for
at the
the
Network
time
telephone
vided inside information on
present.
held an interview broadcasted on
the Times workspace,
everyone
were
Donaldson and
answered and transferred incoming
calls,
on
someone important was being interviewed. For instance, Ted Koppel
During the next
I
did not
was given
wealthy and famous individuals
of the entire
was reading.
I
didn't
them on TV told me about it. But
this was toward the end of the week,
and by that point I had become used
satisfied that
some
in
that
me
it
a press release
George W. Bush's possible
also felt
1
news crew
was working,
I
me when
to us about
talk not far
entrance into our pavilion for interviews.
interviews until a friend
the day's events.
began
did not even
TV camera.
sight of a
even tempt
I
from where
faze
them about
before, and chatted with
I
to see a
The
innocence.
and so
to fight the urge to either
a fool of myself or gather the
attention of crowds. Yet at the conclu-
my own
had changed dramatically.
my
make
of politicians and
life
individuals,
and had
sive,
nomi-
presidential
nee Dick Cheney give a
at
outlook on the mass media, the
glamorous
House
Newt Gingrich and
Philadelphia Mayor John Street,
my
returned to
Salle, I
me.
politi-
speaker
communication classes
La
end of the week,
politicians failed to interest
my experience
I
the
After seeing influential
Philadelphia.
After
all
even famous individuals and
National Convention, in
over and
was
for the sake of pleasing
By
York Times
Republican
at the
that
the public eye.
to intern as a journalist
New
show
these companies to cover this
Last summer,
for the
sick of the
being put on, and the need for
important way.
the
behind the scenes.
became
ways, or even one
in countless
was overwhelmed with what
I
really
feel that
anything in
1
life is
unconquerable. I've been behind those
closed doors where they
ries
make
the sto-
and the magic, and things are
much
clearer now.
L
"
Ambassador
By Jon Caroulis
at the Gate
The security
office dedicates a plaque to a colleague
who
greeted La Salle's visitors with stockpiles of candy and smiles.
during bad
Even
Brother Joe
weather.
"She loved her job,"
Grabenstein. '73
would make an
the "long"
way back
to
effort to take
who was
campus towards
supervisor. "If there
20th Street. He'd drive by the
was
first
entrance gate in order to enter the sec-
ond (lower)
down
gate,
said Capt. Fred Lytle,
near McCarthy
Stadium, so that he could see Ernestine
"I
in the afternoons.
did
Brother Joe said. "That's the No.
memory
have of
I
body
to
honor
security office had a plaque
her picture on
it
to
hang
last
made with
in their build-
The plaque was dedicated in a
ceremony in August with her family,
and co-workers.
"When
I
job, she just
charmed me."
Security. "I thought, this
I
Ernestine.'
I
said
Bob
is
usual smiling self,"
said Levins.
said that
Her family
Salle stu-
at
Albert Einstein
or sent cards.
was an ambassasaid Dave Fleming,
At her post at the McCarthy Stadium entrance, Ernestine
who added
"Joycey" Lancaster had a knack for making everyone feel good.
mother made an
effort to help
the community. "She
her
her
job," said her daughter.
that her
1996 and almost
like
LOVED
Stacey Polk,
immediately made an impression on
dor for La Salle,"
La
she was a patient
job, she
figured I'd better offer her
May
"You never
would have known she
was ill. she was her
"She didn't
said, 'That's
someone else does."
Lancaster started working at
Salle in
to attend the
Hospital. Others called
too good to
the job before
La
party.
called her previous
employers and they
1999, but
in July
dents visited her while
interviewed her for the
Levins. Director of Safety and
be true, so
ill-
department's Christmas
May.
ing.
friends,
good."
came back
colleagues in the
her.
feel
Because of her
job
1
her. that smile."
Lancaster died of cancer
and
it
around and made every-
ness she resigned her
just to see her smile."
it
a potential prob-
lem, she just turned
"Joycey" Lancaster, the security guard
on duty
her shift
them adjust
to
at
ease and helped
being away from home.
At the suggestion of Officer
work. "Everybody
George Bundy, the department
decided to honor her with a plaque,
and the notion grew into a dedica-
that gate, she
tion
Vice President for Business Affairs,
who saw
her every day as he
left
who came through
made them feel at
ceremony with Lancaster's fam-
home." Lancaster would even pass
ily,
out candy to students. "She'd pass out
Morgan and Cheryl Ruffin organized
those round striped mints, or root beer
the event.
barrels
and butterscotch candies." said
Officer Barbara Morgan.
didn't
if
know when
mint," she'd say.
and co-workers. Officers
"She was one of a kind, she just
played an important part
to
always being
you'll
said
in
my
life,
there, offering advice,"
Morgan. "Her
always
years ago while she
at a
grocery store and Lancaster walked
"I
was having a bad
Morgan, "and when she asked
I
was,
I
said
I
in.
day." said
was having
me how
a bad day,
and she came back with a cup of coffee.
On my
break
we
talked
—
I
was
a
complete stranger with a problem, but
that's the
person she was."
Lancaster was always willing to
you
want them, she'd give them
you. 'You never
need
"Even
friends,
Morgan met Lancaster several
was working
younger
more
students feel
intact."
integrity
was
help out planning with parties and
events for the security
staff".
"She was
a sweet person, she kept you going
when you
got tired or burned out,"
Ruffin said.
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Fall 2000
I
7
'M.mJM
U
—
m
N
I
V
R
E
AW <^N G
of Shakespeare
come
in
A
all
woman
blessed with
life
the hands
of her senses
sit
side-
of a unique
theater group
enjoy the same performance.
Despite their range of physical differences, they are
able to imder-
all
stand and appreciate the
performed
This
is
in front
show being
never before seen.
Amaryllis Theater Company.
Among
a very elite class of theater groups,
By Kimberly Dugan
"Every twitch of a face muscle or
of an eyebrow means something.
The movement creates pictures out of
shift
Shakespeare's language," Smith said.
"The emphasis on the physical nature
ensemble makes plays accessible
possibilities
at
La
Salle
Smith, and former La Salle professor Linda Merians
—
created this
their
Because there are multiple interpretations,
Mimi Kenney
had
them when choos-
ing to perform a Shakespearean play.
tasks
along with his wife,
his colleagues
cut out for
tionally labeled disabled.
Dr. Stephen Smith, Associate
of interpretation."
Smith and
work
to all audiences, including those tradi-
Professor of English
new
of Shakespeare has opened up
of them.
possible because they are
one of the most
difficult
was the translation process. It
took 16 months for the translation of
Shakespeare's text to
ASL
to
be
completed. Then the translation had
to
be taped
to
provide "text" for the
actors to learn their lines.
The deaf
work
unique group two years ago. Their
and hearing actors had
recent groundbreaking debut of
together to synchronize the signing
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was
and speaking of
performed
fluent unification of the signed
at
Philadelphia's Prince
Music Theater with
a professional
to
text to illustrate a
and
spoken word. Once perfected, the
ensemble of both deaf and hearing
result is a one-of-a-kind theater-
The play was simultaneously
spoken and signed using American
Sign Language (ASL) for audience
members with and without physical
going experience.
actors.
Smith explains
Though he has dabbled
himself. Smith
in acting
—a professor of
all
genres within the English discipline
from Romantic British Literature
challenges.
that Shakespeare's
Technical Writing
—
plays are a very physical genre
scenes as Literary Director of the
because the language
is
Amaryllis Theater Company.
with metaphor. Since
ASL
peppered
involves
nature of Shakespeare has opened up
It
was
throueh his wife, Mimi. that he
I
La Salle Magazine
new possibilities of interpretation."
to
stays behind-the-
"The movement creates pictures out of Shakespeare's language.... The emplmsis on the physical
8
it
way
brings Shakespeare alive in a
experiencing a production by the
this
E
W
every muscle in the entire body,
by-side in the same theater and
to
L
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blind man, a deaf child,
and a
A
A
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The great words
S
"These are incredibly gifted actors who happen to be deaf—and because of
their deafiiess, they
do not always get the opportunities they deserve."
%. ^N^
became interested in a theater that
would be open to individuals from
walks of
been touched
Mimi
also had a friend
was paralyzed
From
for the
make
of cultural, physical, or even
held in locations equipped with the
al
foster a mission of
when
it
came
to cultur-
and physical boundaries.
The purpose of
summed up
the
its
is
mission
statement: to provide universal
A
sure that their productions are
accessibility.
Programs also are
printed in both regular text and
and designated showings
of the production include a special
individuals regardless
lin-
"We
are not doing this as an act
of charity." Smith said. "These are
incredibly gifted actors
to
who happen
— and because of
be deaf
their
deafness, they do not always get the
opportunities they deserve."
L
audio description of the action
taking place onstage.
Clear Sign - Dennis Websicr. Peter Cook, and Alek Friednum re-enact a scene from Shakespeare's "Twelfth
recently
all
guistic differences or limitations.
proper resources for the physically
challenged, such as wheelchair
Braille,
Company
succinctly in
the theatrical expe-
who
in a tragic accident.
would
inclusiveness
Company opens
rience to
then on. she had a vision of a
theater that
the validity of this
efforts of its
founders, the Amaryllis Theater
mission. Smith and his colleagues
by a performance of "Theater
Deaf."
understanding.
To uphold
life.
In addition to having
Because of the
access and to promote universal
all
Niy;ht."
The production was
performed hy the Amaryllis Theater Company, which was co-founded by Steve Smith. Ph.D.. .Associate Professor of English
at
La
Salle.
Fall 2000
I
9
Gracefully
Crossing
the
Finish Line
By Michael
If
I
Mishak, '02
J.
can stop one Heart from breaking
I
shall not live in vain
You
Crossing the Finish Line was a
don't have to go far to
tlnd people
who do
excep-
was sparked during
tional things.
If
I
can ease one
Life
the Aching
In fact,
Or cool one Pain
you don't even have
an exotic island
travel to
full
Or help one fainting Robin
need only
find a
Unto
his
Nest again
to travel to
Marci
to
Pa., to
most remarkable person.
a survivor. Not in the sense of
I
his brief period
held a beef-and-beer in our honor,"
Horsham,
Enough money was
said.
is
CBS's
raised
send the couple on a three-week
vacation to the Caribbean.
Marcella (Kuttler) Bossow, '90,
idea
of remission. "Our family and friends
of survival. You
feats
The
a vacation Marci
and Pete took during
to
of greedy
competition-crazed lunatics to find
some harrowing
joint venture of outreach.
It
was just
from rigorous treatment they
the break
needed. "That vacation was the only
shall not live in Vain.
-Emily Dickinson
reality-based program, but in the sense
certainty in a completely uncertain
of overcoming true
future.
obstacles in
life
Marci suffered the loss of her
of a retreat and a chance for spousal
husband, Pete, '90, when his battle
re-connection and intimacy. Pete and
with cancer ended
Marci shared many conversations
last year.
the untimely tragedy (Pete
30 years
old).
Marci
is
Pete
still
may
Despite
was
just
embracing
and devoting herself
life
to others.
be gone, but his
spirit
remains as an instrument Marci
uses to ease the lives of young
cancer patients. She
Pete's legacy
is
La
S.iiLLE
Magazine
ples and families struggling with
cancer the unique opportunity they
had been afforded.
Thanks
to
Marci's tireless effort
and dedication. Crossing the Finish
the Finish Line (CFL), a non-profit
Line evolved from an idea into a
organization dedicated to enhancing
ty.
cancer patients.
I
about Crossing the Finish Line.
They spoke of developing an organization that could provide young cou-
maintaining
by founding Crossing
the quality of life for
10
helped sustain us."
It
Realizing the tremendous benefits
the face of adversity.
young
adult
it
Since
its
reali-
founding over a year ago,
has sent eight families on dream
L
After losing her husband. Pete
Its
purpose
vacations.
A
enjoyed a
trip to
Bossow
dream vacation
to give a
is
'90.
to
w cancer at age 30.
Marcella
family with five children
Disney World, while
others have spent their retreats relax-
numerous summers),
coast,
CFL
young
targets
ages
Marci
said.
"The
nity for Pete
and
an opportunity
process."
to
we
(Pennsylvania.
be away, and
some days
upon
We
life's
is
just part of our
to
embark
are called to
journey to death and
beyond, simply by our
meant
and
are better than others,"
she said, "but death
journey.
easier
and optimism.
a struggle,
be
this
birth. It's
the Finish Line
exemplifies Pete's attitude and reflection
on
his life's journey.
"The name
captures Pete's emotions upon
com-
pletion of his initial treatment and the
resulting vacation,"
Marci
said.
and
are eligible to partici-
pate in a unique and harmonious
away from
scriptions,"
While
all
"a chance to get
the doctors
Marci
modem
and pre-
ical ailment,
CFL
soul and mind.
modem
treat: the
is
concerned with
"We
focus on an area
medicine
trauma
is
that
unable to
accompanies
Marci and Pete's vision
is
being
realized through the use of donated
homes. Her long-term plans
include four custom-built
homes
located in Nevis (the Caribbean island
Crossing the Finish Line also
that hosted the
addressed the spiritual line often
Sea
Isle
1
to continue
home
its
plans for custom
constmction.
Marci's
a literal whirlwind
life is
writing proposals, finding corporate
a cancer diagnosis," Marci said.
retreat
received a $ 0.000 grant and hopes
medical science
emotional, psychological,
spiritual
September 2000, the foundation
of paper shuffling: she's busy with
another aspect of healing: that of the
which
a pace
said.
focuses on treating the source of phys-
and
way."
The name Crossing
New Jersey,
who
retreat experience,
think that
is
Delaware)
region
are
now we're working
we can accommodate." In
was an opportuto
tri-state
in
tailored to the individual's needs,"
at
attitude of acceptance
is
works with
said Marci, "but
done but Marci exhibits an
"Every day
also
healthcare professionals to identify
embracing the dying process
said than
8 to 50, and their caregivers.
Pocono Mountains. "Ideally,
we'd like to have properties that
the
couples within the
the
embrace the dying
One would
1
adult patients,
Florida's west
and on lakefront property
could ever take,"
trip
me
most
founded a non-profit organization.
to eternal life.
The foundation
in Scranton, Pa.
'90.
the disease.
from death
ing at the shores of Sea Isle City, N.J..
"The dying process was
Bossow.
ignored by many: the line of crossing
and Lake Carey
beautiful journey
IKtittter)
young couples and fitmilies struggling with
Bossows
sponsors, and organizing fundraising
activities.
unique
"This organization
in its
is
really
mission and target
group," Marci said.
Pete's presence can
still
be
felt in
Marci's tireless devotion in reaching
out to young cancer patients and their
families.
She has survived personal
tragedy, using
as a motivation for
it
public outreach, keeping her and her
husband's message alive
of many: Cancer
love
is
is
sustaining.
in the hearts
devastating yet
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last year).
City (where the couple spent
Fall 2000
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La Saiie's school
of business
Do\yVjj
forms an
educational partnership bet\A/een
students and companies
A
To bridge these gaps,
school can't exist in a
vacuum. What
is
happening
outside the classroom
is
as important for college students to
wisdom
learn as the
in
By jon carouiis
hooks and on
number
of partnerships with area corporations in
which both
talks
companies, financial firms, accounting
firms
—
with
many
the school has built bridges
corporations in
beyond having
about partnerships
many
fields.
But these connections go well
parties learn
important lessons.
Bruce
blackboards.
the busi-
ness school has cultivated a
a network of gradu-
ates in top posts
who
will hire
almost like he would talk about his
La
children (he's the father of three).
does happen). Businesses also gain
Successful partnerships require a
access to faculty members,
with companies in order for us to learn
sense of nurturing similar to that of
vide research and consulting servic-
the newest technologies
personal relationships. High-tech
es,
"The business world
and how
rapidly,
ever-changing.
so that
work
we
we do
We
is
changing
business
need
is
to partner
and
strategies
in that
And, yes, businesses
"In this
dynamic world, the only
thing that's constant
have
need to be aware of what's hapit
to
in practice,
know
and they also need
the needs of business."
"Additionally, the world has
in
to be a
is
change. You
change agent tQJ«t-'
today's business climate
business school learns thing
day that they can teach
gone
us, $
an ideal situation for us."
]
global." he added. "Business schools
and businesses have had
themselves
to re-orient
in this direction.
That's an
example of how and where we learn
from each other."
12
I
La Salle Magazine
pro-
trends and innovations.
environment," says
of Business Administration. "The fac-
pening
who
while the faculty stay on top of
can prepare our sUidents to
Gregory O. Bruce. Dean of the School
ulty
Salle graduates (although that
Robert
Truitt
(speaking to
a La Salle class)
President,
]
<
Beverage Can Divisk
Crown Cork & Seal
'--f
(Opposite page) Pfizer Pluinitineiiticcits
recognizes
La
and continues
ing schools
its
with the School of Business.
Im
partnership
Linda Johnson (fourth from
arid
left)
Amy
With them are (from
(right).
will
segments of the course.
sulting
team of
of kids
consists of
who. they
become top employees.
we
helps with the quality
hire, but it's also
development
La
Salle," says
at
Dave Carberry, Vice
at
&
Johnson
interesting
is
100, a course required for
students.
The course
Business
all
first-year
will focus
on an
who
efforts: the new Global
Management of Technology master's
program: the move into executive
have worked with
& Seal, the world's leadfaculty are involved
&
will "partner" with the school
Commerce
Electronic
in-house effort for mid-level managers.
Certificate program,
Smither and
his colleagues design
topics such as
and
communicafion
La
Salle's
initiating
partnerships.
cul-
and goals of the company and can
its
areas
Crown
colleagues to
work on
at
'If
me
as a
member
initiatives
— new programs
at
have
in diverse
the graduate
curriculum changes
the undergraduate level such as the
Integrated Science, Business, and
the
Technology (ISBT) program; and the
design task force, to put this together,
and they think of
These
advancement
level; innovative
& Seal employees.
& Seal has allowed
me and my
and cultivating corporate
resulted in
instruction for
to
School of Business
continues to place high priorities on
team has become familiar with the
and problems unique
and
Salle into the forefront of electronic
dealing with negative feedback,
design and tailor
Insfitute
which moves La
commerce.
and decision-making. This consulting
ture
of the
start
Science and Technology; and the
"Crown Cork
human
resources, etc. This spring. Johnson
Seltzer,
company's management and
Cork
phases:
marketing, operations, finance,
Business have seen the direct results
of these
leadership development program, an
technology, and students will learn
Johnson
faculty, stu-
Executive M.B.A. Program for
issues
all
The
dents, and alumni of the School of
Salle's
education with the
industry, such as pharmaceuticals or
about the industry from
Administration in a leading position
sumer goods. The
skills,
outcome of the J&J
and La Salle partnership
have put
ing manufacturer of packaging for con-
ment
Johnson
(J&J) Healthcare Systems.
An
La
provide training programs on manage-
President for Finance and Health
and Fitness
faculty in
Jim Smither, Steve Meisel,
Crown Cork
in the
an
opportunity for us to help contribute
to the curriculum
initiatives that
School of Business
within the region.
levels is the con-
Management Department. The team
and Joe
it
Salle's
Reilly.
Nick Parella of Pfizer.
"Sure,
said. "That's
be a partnership."
starts to
number of
La
One example of corporate partnering
of Pfizer: Dean Gregory O. Bruce:
hope, will
a
left)
marketing Professor Sharon Javie: and
get access to top students
it's
This partnering strategy has led to
be lecturing during different
working on multiple
Jim Thurston of Pfizer: Julie Bruce
'92
left).
I
when
J&J executives
sites in the region.
Smither
their team,"
study
J&J"s operations, even visiting compa-
ny
Shown here are
Salle business students Faith Piatt
Shumaker
in the course; students will
Salle as one ofils lop recruit-
renovation of nearly ten College Hall
of
classrooms.
we just went to a company and
I
did a consulting
service, then we're just another vendor for them. For a
partnership to work,
where both
Gregory
it
has to work on multiple
levels,
parties benefit."
0.
Bruce (on the
left,
with
Terry Connors of Arthur Andersen!
Dean, School of Business Administration
La Salle Unlversitv
"Ifs right
on the
students to get more practical, hands-on
experience, and
develop
It's
a quality
an opportunity for us to
workforce.
It's
a real step
forward for La Salle."
Dave Carberiy (on the
right,
speaking
with guests at a stuiJent event)
V.P.,
Proof positive of
La
Finance and Health and Fitness
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems
Salle
's
business
partnership can be seen
in the
plaques posted
on classroom doors
ill
College Hall.
Fall 2000
13
m
.
When
}'^!tiM^.-
Clinton Bullock.
"00 gave a speech
at
an award ceremony
"It
was
and do
i
difficult to
try-
to stay clean
right for myself and
my
La
was
"I
the son of a 16-year-old,
drug-addicted prostitute."
He
son. You slip. You slide."
talked about himself.
"The doctors
—Jillian Bullock, '91
at
he talked about his mother.
Salle,
told
wasn't expected to
I
my
live.
mother
and.
if
I
I
did.
would probably be ph\sically
and/or mentally deficient."
And
When
he talked about dreaming.
always dreamed of attending
"I
Bullock could scarcely have
had the odds stacked more unfavorably against him. but. as he noted in
his speech,
"dreams do,
only did he graduate in four \'ears
from La
J^
Salle, he
was chosen
part of a
him
in
come true."
And so. not
fact,
in
program
to
be
that will place
Japan for the next year
to
teach English.
And
for a
little
child."
Dreams
n
was a
college, ever since I
his
mother?
Jillian
now
Bullock,
"91, at age
39
raising her
two other children.
is
a
filmmaker
Clinton Bullock had hoped to
give his speech at
Mother and Son
By Ralph Vigoda
La
Salle "s gradua-
on Ma\ 2
tion
1
Another student, however,
was
selected. So,
when Bullock
learned
he was to recei\e an award from the
school's multiculturalism organization a
week before Commencement,
he took
that opportunity to
wanted
"I
to stress the
speak out.
impor-
tance of having goals," he said, "[to
talk]
tant
about how dreaming
— because
if
is
dream, you have nothing to
iva5 the son nfa ] 6-year-old,
— and how
for
achiev e
drug-addicted prostitute. ...I always
dreamed of attending
\
isions,
\
college."
Bullock, '00
if
you have the most
At
15. Jillian
Bullock fled from
what she called "an indecent enviup
in
in
Philadelphia and ended
Orlando,
to the streets.
La Salle Magazine
strive
possible to
our goals and dreams and
even
ronment"
I
it's
messed-up of backgrounds."
—Clinton
14
impor-
you don't ha\e a
Fla.,
where she took
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Success Times Two:
Her
Now
filmnuikei; Jilliun Btillock, '^l
ci
son. Clinton Bitlloek '00.
Iiii.'i
She supported herself
drug habit
— through
— and her
in
to Philadelphia to
was thinking of putting him up
me he would
my way of
"But something told
my way
out.
thinking, stayed
I
changed
on him constantly,
kept him in the house,
away from
the
neighborhood.
"I
pull
It
off;
was
was
still
was able
I
to
a child myself.
difficult to try to stay clean
and do
You
I
right for
myself and
You
But
slip.
wanted
slide.
to give
a better life.
in
he was
had
doomed
to
prove
them wrong."
I
my
knew
him a chance
to
a townhoiise
in
Upper Darbx.
Pa.
When
Clinton returned from
South America, he dove headlong
into college work, majoring in
Spanish and minoring
in Italian, as
community
Now
and, a few years later applied for a
well as into
position at the Philadelphia office of
he has been accepted to do his grad-
the Wall Street Journal,
which has
she began an
1
1
same
time,
-year journey
through college, graduating from
La
By
then, Clinton had
won an
spent a year at a high school in
Venezuela, where he graduated.
His mother,
in the
uate
work
meantime, got a
service.
American University
at
in
Washington, though he has not
decided whether he will go when he
from Japan.
returns
No
Salle in 1991.
exchange-student fellowship, and he
do not know how
it
felt
since been closed. At the
for adoption." she said of Clinton.
be
Iwr nilur rno cluUlren
following Ins graduation.
She got her high school degree
have her baby.
"I
Eiigli\l}
"Everybody
became pregnant by
him. and returned
is nil\iiti;
to failure." she said. "I
prostitution.
She was offered a haven by a man
his early 20s,
.
hetuied to Japan to teach
matter what he does, he
knows he has come
expected
"My mother
said, "that
another
further than
—and he knows why.
I
always told me," he
was not going
statistic."
to
be just
L
company. Jaguar Productions,
son.
film
I
off the ground. (She recently
have
pleted
"When Dreams
com-
Begin," a com-
edy about two female filmmakers.)
Ralph Vigocia
/.v
a staff writer for the
Philadelphia Inquirer, from which this
article is excerpted
and priiued
with
pennisslon.
Fall 2000
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Id
Commencement 2000
(D
theme of
a Salle University pre-
l^sented
degrees to the
Class of 2000.
its
137th
May
work and ad\ocacy
speech was
2000."
tally
It
emphasized the
and the
21. In addi-
stories
we
since 1978.
A
provide jobs to formerly
H.O.M.E.. among other
each other.
graduate, undergraduate.
the Christian Brothers as
helped provide support-
and associate degrees.
"the guiding light, the star
ive housing,
La
that has
of
she has
initiatives,
guided us along
•
homeless individuals.
William
J.
Avery.
CEO
&
Seal,
Crown Cork
of
tion to the conferring of the
Salle presented honorary'
four businesses that
co-founder of Project
tell
He spoke
ill
housing and
units of
for
and men-
the homeless
importance of storytelling
graduating class, on
Sunday.
his
"the story of the class of
has worked in partner-
employ-
ship with Sister Mary^
ment, education, and
and Project H.O.M.E.
degrees to three celebrated
the path of enlighten-
healthcare for the
to prevent homeless-
and distinguished guests.
ment." Augenstein gradu-
homeless. Project
ness in a low-income
and bestowed an award
ated with a degree in
H.O.M.E. has grown
neighborhood
teaching excellence on a
theology and philosophy
from an emergency
Philadelphia. Avery
La
Salle professor.
and plans
winter shelter to 246
very active in numerous
Following the proces-
priesthood.
in
to enter the
graduating senior Eric
conferred on three distin-
Maxwell Augenstein
guished individuals:
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tional
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Maxwell Augenstein
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I
La Salle Magazine
in 1998.
Dr. Joseph F. Flubacher,
a former economics professor, has
had a
signifi-
cant impact on students
in
and out of class
throughout his career
at
the Uni\ersity. Friends.
students,
and colleagues
ha\e created a scholarship in his honor .After
retiring
from teaching
1984. Flubacher
as secretan' for
in
sened
La
Salle's
Board of Trustees. In
1992. he was
affiliated
made an
(honorarj)
member of the
Christian
Brothers, the Order that
opening speech at Commencement.
(Above) The La Salle faculty procession queues up for the ceremonies.
16
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1
,w,l
•
founded the Uni\ ersity
'
Dr. Francis
Ryun
(left)
receives the Liiulhuck
Anurd for
DisIingiiisheJ Teachinii from Brother Michael
La
Salle
's
J.
McGinniss
President.
in 1863. In 1998.
ment of children,
he
Signum
received the
Fidei
Medal. La Salle"s highest
alumni award.
Following the conferral
of honorary degrees
came
Mary
The
Lindback Award
F.
(
Dr Joseph
is
presented with an honorary
is
degree b\ Brother Michael, while
given annually for
Brother Gerry Molyneaitx.
chosen by
commu-
nication professor, looks on. Sister
teaching excellence; the
is
Top right)
Fhihacher professor emeritus,
cation.
winner
the presentation of the
Christian R. and
and character edu-
Mary
stu-
William
dents and facultv.
J.
Scullion (above, center)
Avery
(circle)
and
say a few words to
the graduates after receiving their honorary degrees.
Lindback Award for
Distinugished Teaching,
which
is
made
possible by
a generous grant from the
Lindback Foundation.
This year's award went to
Dr. Francis Ryan, associate professor of Education,
Jt'^f^
who, as Provost Dr.
Richard Nigro said
citation, has
in his
been praised
by both students and
ulty for his
fac-
knowledge
and enthusiasm for his
subject and his dedication
to students.
a
member
Ryan has been
of La Salle's
faculty since 1987.
He
teaches courses in educational history, the social
and emotional develop-
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Dial F for Fundraising
La
Salle grads, the future
ni, that is.
is
calling you! Future alum-
The University Advancement
Office
average
over
is
gift
was $73, which represented a $15 increase
last year.
This could be
attrib-
running a series of phonathons for the Annual Fund, and
uted to the Challenge Grant issued
current students are doing the calling.
by the Board of Trustees. The
And
when compared with
used
Trustees agreed to match up to
the students have had fantastic success, especially
in the past.
This year, the
pledged by alumni
of $3 1 ,000 over
the outside telemarketing
is
$3 1
1
total
company
$123,000
amount of dollars
,000. This represents an increase
last year's total raised
Asa
pledges.
Challenge
Grant, 66 percent of con-
by professionals.
tributing
The students
received pledges from 44 percent of those contacted. The
La
in
result of the
Salle alumni should be congratulated.
alumni increased
their gifts this year.
La
Salle students again in Fall
the phones, attempting a few
2000 manned
more fundraising
records.
The University appreciates your continued support.
The Annual Fund not only helps La Salle meet its operating budget, but also bridges the gap
the real cost of educating a
fees only cover
La
between
tuition
and
Salle student. Tuition
80 percent of what
it
and
costs to operate a
quality university.
Unrestricted gifts to the Annual
Fund provide La
Salle
with the resources to enhance student financial aid and
schohu-ships, create
campus
facilities,
and keep top
new academic programs, upgrade
purchase new technology, and recruit
Every
faculty.
gift to
La
Salle matters
because alumni and parent participation are very impor-
when ranking
tant factors
Clockwise from bottom
Supervisor Trey
left:
Lynch. Kyle Jacob,
and Molly
Phonathon student
callers.
Ulriclt.
with
Ann
a university. Corporations and
foundations also measure participation
Keeniin. the three most dedicated
when making
decisions on grant applications.
Vision for the Future
£^ new award honor^^ing individuals
who have shown
sight
La
Salle,
on a La Salle alumnus
his
TV
and broadcasting pioneer.
with Comcast
The first E- Vision
Award was presented
Cable
'69.
P.
to
Gallagher,
who was
credited
for helping to usher in
an era of cable
home
TV
and
shopping. The
ceremony, sponsored by
La
Salle's
Institute,
E-Commerce
was held
January 25, 2000
S
who majored
I
at the
La Salle Magazine
^^K^-r
began
field
was
^^'''IB
in the Philadelphia
when
the
^m
became Vice
the corporation.
Gallagher joined
the technology
developed and
grew, the
company
then launched
W
QVC,
the
home
shopping network, in
the 1980s. This
first
tronic
He
President and Treasurer of
When
As
J^l
the
of cable television
just getting started.
eventually
^'
^ *^
^^B
career
area in 1979,
1.
in
metropolitan areas.
^^Bir^ ^ gjp
in history at
commerce was bestowed
Bernard
^m^ ^^^^
^B=.*=^.>C^^
Gallagher,
in
were operating
.^^PH fej^
Theatre.
fore-
and innovation
the field of electronic
1
Dan Rodden
now
was one of
forays into elec-
commerce, which
accounts for 3 percent
of the nation's Gross
Domestic Product.
Gallagher served as
President, Chief Operating
Comcast, the company had
Officer,
44,000 subscribers, and
Century Communications
only a few cable systems
Corporation prior to
and a Director of
its
Adelphia
sale to
Communications
1999.
He
is
in
a trustee
of the Walter Kaitz
Foundation and of
Cable Positive. He
is
also a Director for
the Cable Television
Advertising Bureau and
the Cable
Telecommu-
nications Association.
In addition, he
is
a
Trustee for the Child
Health Institute of
Jersey.
He
lives in
New
New
Canaan, Conn., with his
wife, Mary, and their
three children.
La Salle's Graduate Religion Program: Fifty and Fabulous
La
Graduate
Salle's
Religion program
Brothers to teach religion
celebrated... and studied...
all
of educating Christian
in
high schools, the pro-
week long
gram was opened up
For
people
its
50th anniversary,
to lay
in the early '70s.
the Graduate Religion
Today, La Salle's Graduate
Program celebrated
Religion students are high
students, past
and
all
its
and present,
of the changes and
school teachers, like the
Christian Brothers
who
advances the program has
pioneered the program;
made by holding
pastoral assistants
a
week-
long workshop this past
summer.
adult education in parish-
Priests
and Brothers
aren't the only people to
es;
Religion Program with
their presence.
that wasn't the case
years ago
its
when La
program,
50
isn't
so anymore.
"Now, most of the
workshop
as the
main
celebrant and homilist.
Other featured presenters
Salle
it
reli-
Bishop Cullen attended
the
Although
and directors of
gious education.
have graced the Graduate
began
who
lead youth groups and
stu-
(From
left)
Father Frank
"Lay Ministry
in the
Bema
Mar\ Ann O'Donnell.
Sister
Amy
Donohoo, Gary Daigle,
theologian and executive
and Rory Cooney,
director of the Association
known contemporary
sound academics. "We
of Catholic Colleges and
church musicians.
don't just think great
(ACCU),
all
applying the Christian
well-
Universities
lay people." says Father
and William O'Malley,
Bema
Frank Bema, the program's
a Jesuit priest, teacher at
program has grown, noting
director. "TTie students are
Fordham
that its
we
Prep, and author
of 28 books.
Workshop
have some Protestant and
Created with the intent
cert featuring
Upon
its
reflected
Brothers' philosophy of
Bema
"We want to con-
thoughts," Father
anniversary,
on how the
laughs.
nect great thoughts with
what people do."
mission has
changed from teaching
to
participants
enjoyed an evening con-
Jewish students, too."
Hoex. and Leotmrd DiPaul.
were Monika Hellwig,
dents in the program are
primarily Catholic, but
enjoys a panel presentation on
Church Today." given by Rosemarie McGinty,
Theresa
Ne\A/ Chaircouple
Teri and Charlie
McClafferty, the
newest Chairpersons of the
Parents" Association, are the
parents of two daughters,
Erin, a recent college graduate,
La
and Sara, a member of
Salle's Class of
2003 and
an elementary special education major. Teri works in
Key Account Retention
Aetna
US
Charlie
is
for
Healthcare and
an attomey. The
McClaffertys reside in suburban Philadelphia. Teri and
Charlie believe that parental involvement in university
Joseph Cicala. Dean of Students (right). ci)iif;ruliiUiles the
Most Reverend Edward Cullen. Bishop of Allentown (left), on his
moving homily
at the 50th
Anniversaiy Mass. offered as part of the
life
through the Parents' Association complements the
college experience of students.
become involved
in Parents"
They
invite
everyone to
Association activities.
Graduate Religion Program celebration.
Fall 2000
I
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Diplomats Discuss International Security
Laconducted
The conference con-
Salle University
sisted of four
seventh
its
main
ses-
each session
Diplomacy." "Neighbors
Intervention." Speakers
and Peace,"
in Conflict
included ambassadors,
"The Present Danger:
government
annual Diplomat-in-
sions, with
Residence Program,
focusing on a different
Terrorist
"World Diplomacy:
topic in international rela-
Criminal Cartels," and
tatives
Threats to International
tions.
"U.S. Foreign Policy and
Cyprus.
Humanitarian
Greece. Pakistan, the
Security,"
Sessions included:
"Women
on April 10-13,
in Politics
and
Groups and
and
from Swaziland,
Israel.
Panama,
2000. This program, which
Republic of Ireland, Great
was
Britain. Turkey. India.
free
and open
to the
one of
public, constituted
the largest
Indonesia, Albania,
and most
Yugoslavia, China. Chile,
and the U.S.
diverse assemblies of
diplomatic representatives
to take place in the
Delaware Valley
The
2000.
in
representatives of the
program gathered
to dis-
cuss the most pressing and
controversial issues
in international relations
and
security.
Tee Time
lue skies
'
held April 24,
Hosts again
"58,
who
at
participated in the sec-
this
Blue Bell Countr>' Club.
year were
and Bud Hansen.
An
III.
Bud Hansen.
Jr..
meet new and old
most importantly,
friends,
to help raise
have fun, and
money
raised
more than $175,000 from
participants.
is
grate-
ful for their
support
The winning
some was
by John
T
Williams.
•92.
I
La Salle Magazine
'68.
Grand
belonged
He's off
to
to
Bob
Hawaii
Prize).
All are invited to this year's
President's
at
Cup
Blue
to
be held on April 23,
Bell. If
this year's
you have any
tournament, please
215/951-1539.
The
University
.
ticket
questions, or to reserve your entry into
student financial aid and scholarships.
The event
The
winning
2001.
for
Cup
ended the
evening.
(the
impressive 208 friends and alumni
President's
Raffle drawing
Moran,
"90.
of La Salle University came out that day to
golf,
The
and fresh green fairways greet-
cd everyone
ond annual President's Cup Golf Tournament,
20
officials,
other diplomatic represen-
four-
led
call
Allen Honored for Making a
Difference in Students' Lives
NA/iley
Named
Distinguished Professor
Samuel Wiley, an
Dr.associate
professor
of mathematics and com-
Arts and Sciences for
five years.
Wiley, standing before
puter science, received the
the freshman class, took
Provost's Distinguished
Award
Faculty
at this year's
advantage of
Aug.
his
Provost
com-
mended Wiley
for the
grounds situated
he has given to
Salle
Wiley
and
its
is
erally
that
not only a teacher,
"He
went back
lit-
to school
Annu
Dean of Students.
Allen. Assistant
When Anna Dean
Allen.
Assistant
Students,
was given
of
the
the University and
University Life. Her
work
dents,"
A
with multicultural and
to serve
its
La
Salle professor
for the last 37 years,
diversity education,
stu-
Nigro added.
Wiley
Avenue." he
Three of Wiley's
from La
Salle.
from
own
his
a
moment
to reach out to the
has been chair of the
parents of the Class of 20O4.
"1
ming, and student celebra-
Science department for a
parents, that
began
to rethink
means
For the
to
what
it
be an "educator."
first
administrator
who
to an
lives the
Lasallian message through
her work.
"The
honor an
effort to
administrator speaks to
what
is
very important
about any Lasallian
tion,"
"If
institu-
are involved in the
of students
way, and
we
if
in
any
take seri-
of every student
at
my
now
Dean of
my
best days have been
will continue to
days when
1
know
William Woeger's "The
Icon" during the Opening
Faculty Meeting
image of
now
Allen
serves the entire stu-
dent body as the head of
cational opportunities."
Allen was presented
de La Salle
Salle's
your
daughter or son great edu-
with a print of Brother
we
staff,
do
difference for stu-
cational experience, then
La
will
to provide
dents." she says.
on Aug. 24. The inspiring
Admissions
end of University work
we
be the
Weekend
serving on
in the administra-
what we can
I've
positively affect their edu-
After 20 years of
also
as
ously our responsibility to
are, indeed, educators."
dabbled
He
to assure you, the
Students,
and
made a
of 12 years.
want
years in
Admissions, and
Assistant
total
tive
Salle.
"In
Allen commented.
we
lives
lives
La
time, the
award was presented
tions deeply enriches the
Drawing
experience as
a concerned parent, he took
Mathematics and Computer
community
five
children have graduated
international education,
Salle
work
one of those people."
campus-wide program-
La
"It is
and sOidy here. You are now
Educator award
the
said.
instead the people that
Lasallian Distinguished
this year,
in
near 20th Street and Olney
to retrain in the skills his
department needed
is
somewhere
Philadelphia
students."
but also a student.
the credo of
Salle
and personal commitment
Nigro pointed out
become
"La
their first year.
not the buildings and
La
Enricliing the lives of iinJeiiiiiuhuiies luis
beginning
to those students
"exemplary professional
that
sit-
some of
knowledge of La Salle
uation to pass on
24.
unique
this
Freshman Convocation,
Dr. Richard Nigro
Dean of
as the Associate
St.
John Baptist
is
now proudly
displayed on Allen's wall,
serving as a reminder of
how
La
every person
at
Salle has an impact
the learning
on
community.
Dr. Saniiicl Wiley (left) recei\es the Provost's Distinguished Faculty
Award from Provost Dr Richard Nigro.
Fall 2000
I
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Created
La
in the fall.
Salle's
new Explorer Ambassador Program
as University representatives at various social events.
A team
is
di-Mi;inil ic pmntcite the school's interests, goals,
the program. At the top of the stairs are: Grant Lodes. Bill Mullen. Pete Mosteller.
Kane. Maureen Keys.
Ale.xis
and
of 23 Student Ambassadors has been selected to pariicipate
and Dan Kem.
In the
mo
traditions by acting
in this first
year of
rows are: Jessica Crawford.
Meg
Karras. Tracy Rogers. Maureen Freney. Michelle Brigoli. Christa Gardner Kale McCauley. Alison McGrath.
Karen Gaedke. Sara McClafferty. Gabe Randall. Heather Rakes, and Gina Marandola. Not pictured: Megan Burnett. Ania Kemytsky. Meredith
Mollitt.
and Matthew
York.
Courtney Scholarship Established
La
Salle University hon-
ored one of
its
most
revered professors on
bestowing Robert
12.
nal facult\
members of the
Evening Division
— now
May
called the School of
J.
Continuing Studies.
Courtney. Ph.D.. "41. with
Former Chair of the
posthumous Professor
Philadelphia Archdiocesan
Emeritus
status,
a scholarhip
and naming
in his honor.
Courtney died on Dec.
6. 1996.
His numerous
Board of Appeals, which
mediates disputes between
teachers and Archdiocesan
school officials, he was an
contributions to the
arbitrator for the
University include 45
Pennsylvania Bureau of
years teaching politics and
Mediation.
government, 27 years as
department chair.
as the Athletic
1
2 years
Committee
Chair, and three years as
Courtney's family
Riley Courtney. Esq.. "83;
two sons, Robert
Faculty Senate President.
and Donald
He was one
daughter. Joan
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of four origi-
La Salle Magazine
Dawn
includes his wife.
J.
J., Jr.,
"69
"72;
and a
M.
Leicht.
Political science
major .Maureen
.4.
Carroll (right! receives the
Courtney Scholarship from Joan M. Leicht. daughter of the late
Dr Robert J.
Courtney, for
whom
the scholarship
is
named.
Courtney taught politics and government at La Salle for 45 years.
A
Nursing Center
Receives A\A/ard
Real Bargain
Everyone
pay
likes a bar-
No
gain.
one
likes to
would you
so.
How
make
like to
a
donation to La Salle without paying
There
is
full
way
a
In today's
do
this.
environment
of constantly appreciating
CS.
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(right).
^^
^i'
-SSis.
Director of La Salle's Neighborhood Nursing
Center, provides health care information to a family from the Center's
Germantown-Logan-Olney-Wister neighborhood service area.
Salle's
Neighborhood Nursing Center, along with
three other collegiate nursing providers,
ly
honored by the federal government for
efforts in providing
its
was
recent-
continued
primary care for underserved com-
munities and for training nurses to work in those areas.
Along with La
Salle, nursing centers operated
by the
University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and the
Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann
University School of Nursing, received the
dip),
many
Excellence Award.
"These four
opportunities for nearly
1
,000 future nurses, they provide
badly needed primary care to more than 23,000 needy
city residents," said Dr.
Claud Fox, Director of the Health
income
in
double
tax savings, which,
grow beyond
reduces the
Example:
of us
who
is in
A
taxpayer,
the 28 percent
income tax bracket, owns
stock with a current value
Unfortunately, the Internal
of $5,000 and a cost basis
Revenue Service has seen
of $2,000.
the potential for capital
stock to
By donating
La
Salle, she
save $2,000 in capital
beyond
gains and income taxes;
By
its
wildest dreams.
donating appreciated
(which you must
thus her net cost
$3,000—a
have owned for longer
the
can
gains tax collections grow
would be
real bargain!
Note: Never donate
than 12 months), rather
securities in
than selling them and
showing a
which you
are
loss. Instead,
and
donating the proceeds, you
sell the securities
avoid recognizing capital
donate the cash. This
gains. (There are special
allows you to benefit from
rules for stock involved in
the capital loss.
you should
consult with your tax advisor about this.)
clinics not only offer real-life learning
ed securities to La Salle
can result
our wildest dreams.
a merger, and
Community
cost basis.
in reality,
securities
La
— not your
So, donating appreciat-
actual cost of the gift.
portfolios
Kay Kinsey
price on the date of the
gift
(despite the occasional
have seen our investment
is
value
investment securities
market
Dr.
mean
between the high and low
price?
to
The
the deduction
equal to the
"full price," if they
can avoid doing
ated securities.
amount of
capital gains tax, a charita-
ble deduction
may be
gift
For information on how
make of gift of appreci-
ated securities, contact
In addition to saving
taken for a
to
Gregory
J.
D'Angelo,
Director of Planned
Giving, at 215/951-1881.
of appreci-
Resources and
Services
istration,
Adminan agency of
the federal Depart-
ment of Health and
Human
Ser\ ices.
clinics truly
fill
"The
the
"health care gap" in
Philadelphia."
Accepting the
award was Kay
Kinsey, professor of
La
Salle Nursing students .spend
hours
in the field, learning
physicians and nurses.
from
man\
Nursing and Director
of the Neighborhood
Nursing Center.
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"Fraternal Character"
By Jon Caroulis
Longtime La Salle
named
lay professor
Affiliated Brother
how he had helped them
MacLeod was
ast spring. Sid
^^editing a video hed been making
about the Christian Brothers
when
MacLeod
graduated from
Brother Gerr\ Molyneaux asked him
Mary's College
how
is
was going.
it
Later. Brother
Gen}' added, "'You'd better make
good, because you're going to be
He
in
of the birth of
way East
theater in
to
St.
Minnesota.
also run by the Order.
his
it
with vari-
ous film and other projects.
work
Mar\ land
in
nm
\\
hich
La
Salle;
of
De La
saint,
is
it
St.
John Baptist de
the 100th anniversary
Salle being canonized as a
and
De La
it
is
the 50th anniversary
named the
To commemorate these e\ ents. MacLeod is
making a documentary. He visited
He found
a summer
of
Salle being
by the
MacLeod
would be named an affiliated member
drama department of
University of America, where he
every Christian Brothers school in
of the Christian Brothers.
received a scholarship and earned
the Baltimore Pro\ince (which
one."
explained that
was overw helmed w ith emo-
"i
tion." recalled
teaching
La
at
"To be asked
teachers
MacLeod, who's been
Salle for
to join a
whom
I
42 years.
group of
speech and drama.
in
drama
director at
MacLeod
hitch in the
aged him
He now
to join
La
MacLeod was
Award
honor
en
gi\
to
persons w ho suppon
the Brothers and their
in
terms of
work not only
gifts or ser\ ice. hut also
by a relationship
to the Brothers that
has a "fraternal character." There
for the
ceremony were MacLeod's
88-year-old mother and his
sister.
who
to attend.
traveled
In
from Chicago
becoming
joins several
affiliated.
La
MacLeod
Salle faculty and
administrators, including Joseph
Sprissler (I964|.
(1969). Joseph
Roland Holro\d
F.
Flubacher
(
1992),
and John McCloskey (1992).
Brother Gerry, w ho nominated
MacLeod
for the honor, said, "Sid
has always been there for the students, and goes out of his
way
to
help them, or anybody w ho asks for
it.
His devotion to La Salle has been
extraordinary. He's a
builds community."
when he
team player, he
He added
that
contacted various Brother
schools and institutions to begin the
process of having
MacLeod
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way
can
the
for distinguished teaching.
feel
it."
Now
67.
Center,
it's
tell
the
I'm
same
the city or in
^
It's
still
the
the
You
teaching and
Communication
MacLeod
has no intention
of slowing down.
"No way I'm retiring, he says.
way too much fun!"
sary obser\ances for the Christian
It is
it's in
can
the students are treated.
managing
Lindback
This year marks several anni\er-
Brothers:
w hether
—
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many people at those schools
remembered MacLeod and recalled
ed,
1994 he
In
School
a rural area. There's an aura of the
teaches video production
Christian R. and .Mar>
an
feeling
Salle's faculty
Province of the Christian Brothers,
formally recognized as
in a Brothers'
Salle.
in its theater.
and speech.
affiliated Brother. .Affiliation is
La
'
from Washington. D.C.,
to Jersey City, N.J.). "I
ser\ed a two-year
and lay colleagues of the Baltimore
an
stretches
Army, Rodden encour-
and v\ork with him
Salle of the Brothers
the Catholic
There he met Dan Rodden, a profesAfter
love and respect
At Convocation 2000. a special
La
M.F.A.
sor and
just floored me."
gathering at
his
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patron saint of teachers.
Honoree Sid MacLeod (ceiuen nilh
Brother Michael
J.
his motlier.
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Mary
McGiimiss. La Salle s Presiclent.
Elizabeth MacLeod,
and
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Saturday, March 24, 2001
The Union League of Philadelphia
III
of \u>
lidiiiir
and
till'
contributions to
()iii,-.taii(ling
Held of higher education. Michael
and Chief E.xecinive Offiier of SCT,
lni\ersity Leadership
tiharter Dinner
BANNER
III
Award
on March
wiirld
iiiin
iii'-iitutions.
I
he
Chairman
Kinnii.
will receive liie
La
Salle
at the Lniversitvs ninth aiunial
The driving
2Ht.
administrative
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J.
((luuiumiiy
llic
software
colleges
more
and
effiiiriu
force behind
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series.
around ihe
universities
cost-effective
run.
1\
SCTs
As head of the Pennsylvania chapter of
National
Board of the American Electronic
Association (.\EA).
lie
was
also
behind the
first
.VEA
Mentoring Program.
In
its
ninth vear. the Charter Dinner celebrates the
Inmiding of La Salle College on March 20. 186.3. and
pays tribute to ihe generations of Christian Broiliers.
Ia\
and clergv whose dedicaiion
persons,
made La
has
institmion
the
La
it is
event
Salle
s
Salli'
pinmineiil
ihc
toda\. Proceeds from
are
used
Scholarship
other financial aid.
to
I
enhance
imd and
lliiis
lor
iieiicliliiig
uiure generations of Lasallians.
For additional information and
an
invitation, please contact
the
Advancement
Office at
215/951-1540. or
e-mail [email protected]
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Measuring Courage by Degrees
<
Nobody plans to get hit by a
Ask Steve
just happens.
Kammennan, M.B.A.,
and something
who was
'00,
not expected to survive his accident
with one. and
he did. the odds were
if
Four years ago he was
sitting in his
car waiting for the light to change
much
he lay immobile with
body, wondering
neur
when
larger vehicle slanimed into
him, breaking his neck. For
A
again.
if
steel
1
8 months
rods in his
he'd ever walk
successful business entrepre-
—he owned herb and
—Kammerman slowly began
vegetable
a
business
which gave him plenty of
to recover,
time to think about his
wanted
to
do with
life
if
doing things
differently.
he got
it.
He
he'd
better,
start
He'd do things
because he wanted to do them, not
felt
he had
to
do them.
would do more enjoyable things
"I
at this
my
stage in
Having plenty of
life,"
free time
at
La
thought I'd see
how
He
me
Bucks
occupied.
Three
has earned
Newtown campus.
took
initially
some graduate
Dean of the Business
School and Director of the M.B.A.
of external
suggested
I
affairs for the school]
take the
GMATs
toward a degree," said
"He seemed
tion," said
Don
His teacher,
IBM, suggested she stay
make two trips.
"Most colleges would have charged her
an audit fee," says Kammenniui. "It
was so nice of him to do that." Today
After a serious accident. Sieve
Kammerman
M.B.A.,
can drive himself, but
he's not completely recovered. His
hand
is still
numb and he had
his papers with only his right
left
was
his
mental outlook was also different.
Most of the
in a
who
taught
course in managerial
his classmates',
were
students, he says,
his studies
witli
a program in physical therapy, but
26
La Salle Magazine
is
.somebody who's experienced the
things you're talking about."
Kammerman
doesn't think he'U
return to his business, but with his
consulting for friends.
He was
market.
there for the experi-
my
1
miss the opportunity to
them saw
the
M.B.A.
He was
could imp;irt one
classmates,
it's tliis:
learn.
as a
advance themselves, but
it
Don't
Many
of
graduation
unable to attend La Salle's
—
his daughter, Courtney,
was graduating
that
same day from
way
to
Baccalaureate, however, along with
was
also a
other graduates
new things."
Kammennan, a successful
who spoke foreign lanKammerman was asked to
guages,
So what did
offer the class a wish in
said.
to
But something
be so compartmentalized, he
So many people focus
in
in a
look
as a whole, he says.
And
it
to
while he was learning, he was
in
perspective. In addition to graduating
from college with honors, Courtney has
in
Russia (one of the
be invited
a lot of interesting
Hebrew.
daughter said
also performed with the Bolshoi Ballet
also helping his teachers.
"He had
his
might have put his whole experience
their
company, but you have
one area
at
on
the
University of Pennsylvania. At
great opportunity to learn
Not
to
's.
degree in hand he might do some
life
to
first
Americans
to
dance with the troupe),
been named a junior ambassador
experience, a lot to contribute," says
to China,
Walt Schubert, Chair of La Salle's
Schweitzer Awards (previous honorees
Finance Department,
Kammerman
leader With
Kammennan combined
graduation
to miss his
seeking an M.B.A. to further their
al
a job promotion."
Kammerman,
be the best
careers or retool for a changing job
accounting. "He's a very bright guy,
concern was learning, not
He had
to
'value-added' to the class. Here
sta-
njs
from
medicine.
found learning
hand
While Kammennan's physical
different
'00,
attend his daughter Courtney
to type
operating the keyboard.
and
I
to the
for the class rather than
and work
Kammerman.
interested in educa-
Ugras,
Kammerman
his only
and
car,
him
President with
program] and Brian Niles [then director
to ferry
businessman, learn from his studies?
business classes, but "Joe Ugras
[Associate
had
his wife. Gayle,
thing to
his
M.B.A.
his
forward to each
to look
he couldn't drive a
on
I'd do."
Kammerman
years later
first
ence of learning. "If
Salle's
County Center "to keep
I
At
said.
he
hands, he enrolled in a graduate
business course
day.
and what he
the rest of
decided that
because he
His
other.
Nucera, an adjunct professor and Vice
he'd be crippled.
a
two balanced each
the
coursework, he says, provided structure
truck.
It
By Jon Caroulis
in a
who
taught
have been Hillary
course in internation-
finance. "He's certainly a class
somebody Uke
that,
and was honored
they
Albert
Rodham Clinton and
Kammennan
Barbara Bush). Yet as
was
finishing his degree, his daughter
said
something children usually hear
usually dominate the class discussion,
from
but that wasn't the case with Steve. His
rarely say to them:
presence was what you would
she told him.
call
at the
their parents at graduation, but
"I'm proud of you,"
Joining the ivy League
By Amanda Ward, '02
Two
La Salle alums major in
public service at Harvard University
John
F.
Kennedy
"Tina
Street in
Cambridge, Mass..
is
from West Olney Avenue
a far cry
in
I
one of the top students,
is
not the most impressive student,
if
have ever had," said Dr. Mary Ellen
Philadelphia. In spite of this dis-
Balchunis-Harris of La Salle's
tance, the path after graduation has
Political Science department. In
two of La Salle University's top
led
one
of her courses. Wahl was selected to
students there, where they have
be the spokesperson for the class
made new homes
sponsorship of the "Baby
for themselves at
Harvard's prestigious Kennedy
which advocated
School of Government (KSG).
tal
Mike Boyle and Tina Wahl, both
1998 graduates, are pursuing
Master's degrees
seeks students
They look
at
who
is
at least
48
very well spoken,"
her fomier professor recalled. "I see
her one day becoming a cabinet
set the tone.
member
their classrooms.
Both Wahl and Boyle
fit
the
bill.
The youngest member of La
Salle's
or filling any other high-
level political position."
Wahl
committed, persistent, and talented
fill
maternity stay of
hours. "She
Bill,"
mandatory hospi-
KSG, which
for passionate, principled,
students to
a
is
obtaining her Master's
centration in
human
La
social policy. Attending
Salle as
an undergraduate heavily influenced
basketball player throughout her four
this choice.
Scholar Pennsylvania
class spokesperson
finalist,
"Living
in the city
on numerous
La
to
at
La
Salle. "I
the fundamentals
constantly drilled into us," he said.
life to
York Covenant House, where
"In
teer.
New
York,
ning a career
had
all.
have been
I
stressed so
much
warm
to eat
and
are important,"
she said.
from
in international relations
Cambridge University
is
in
currently working
England.
on a second
graduate degree in international security,
civil
Currently, Boyle
La
is
the editor-in-
Kennedy School's news-
Salle's paper fueled Boyle's
interest in journalism,
which he says
to the circulation of
is critical
thoughts, ideas, and critical debate
in society.
He's a staunch proponent
Amendment
of the First
free press,
Boyle obtained a Master's degree
He
plan-
paper. The Citizen. His experience at
Having food
clothes to keep
is
diplomatic service.
learned to
I
over are really not so important,
after
in
chief of the
blessed with. All of those midterms
I
to pursue a Ph.D. in
Corps volun-
appreciate the things
and exams
was very advantageous."
Salle
international relations and
she worked with homeless youth as
a Vincentian Service
La
He hopes
Salle,
New
address.
remember having
ing
After graduating from
was
Commencement
teaching during his
"The perspective gained from attend-
Wahl dedicated a year of her
The Collegian, and was chosen
in
undergraduate career
said Wahl.
science and English double major,
editor of the student newspaper.
my
of excellence
eyes to the importance of diversity,"
occasions. Boyle, a fomier political
deliver the
and
not being secluded really opened
and
'98
services and
Board of Trustees, Wahl was a varsity
undergraduate years, a Rhodes
Mike Boyle.
degree in public policy with a con-
damental
right to a
which he believes
is
fun-
to people's interaction
and
participation in a democracy.
Wahl and Boyle
are grateful for
the opportunities they have been
given.
They
are both looking for-
specializing in internal affairs,
ward, but have never forgotten the
wars, and internal conflicts.
Lasallian experiences that have
Boyle vividly
recalls the degree
made them who
they are today.
Tina Wahl. '9H
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a
La Salle Women Explorers
Cover the Courts of Europe
On
August
10.
University
2000, the La Salle
women's
contains the famous
"Mona
basketball
European tour
that led the Explorers
Amsterdam. La Salle began
traveled to Bruges,
Belgium,
and
Petit.
France.
On
of the
Holy
Blood, one of the most
beautiful cathedrals in
the
all
of Europe. The team
Rohan, the Ponts Couverts
Palais de
and
Dame,
home
Basilica of the
the tour
with two days in Strasbourg, touring
the Cathedral of Notre
Lisa."
The Explorers then
team began a nine-day. three-game
to Strasbourg, Paris, Bruges,
played against the Eureka
the third day,
the Explorers journeyed to Reims,
Bruges Basketball Team
France and visited another beautiful
on the
cathedral before ending the day in
Dames
Paris.
Head Coach John
the Explorers
Miller and
saw many of
night and the
first
Basketball team on
La
the second.
ished
Paris"
its
Salle fin-
European tour by
(
intriguing and history-filled sites,
traveling to the Netherlands
including the Arc de Triumph, the
for a
Rue de
Rivoli. the
Champs
game
against
From
left)
The
Keilty in Bruge. Belgium.
Dr
Explorers concluded the
some of the
Laura Newhard. Marjorie Rhoads. Beth Hudak.
and Suzanne
points in the Explorers' third-quarter
Foots Top Basketball Team. The
Elysees
and, of course, the Eiffel Tower.
By Keith D'Oria
trip
by see-
Amsterdam,
push. Zenszer finished with 15 points,
six assists,
and three rebounds.
three days spent in Paris also
ing
allowed the team to venture to
Anne Frank House.
They returned home on August 19
while Marjorie Rhoads had 12 points
with a 2- 1 record and a lifetime of
and four rebounds. Beth Hudak con-
memories from
tributed 14 points
Versailles to see the gardens
travel
,
sites in
including the
and
along the Seine River, as
well as to visit the Louvre, which
their excursion.
Suzanne Keilty added 16 points
and nine boards
while Melissa Hindenlang tallied
Game
St.
1
eight points and grabbed a team-high
Andries
Gymnasium
13 rebounds. Chrissy Walker regis-
De Varens, Belgium
In the
tered four rebounds and six assists.
game of its European
first
on August
17. the
La
Salle
tour
The Explorers jumped out
to
Salle then outscored
in the third
Stedelijke Sportzaal
Eureka
quarter
Despite using a men's ball
and playing by European
rules.
La
ally well
28
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Chrissy Walker. Bonnie RunJa.
lake in the sights of Paris.
La Salle Magazine
iiiij
Dames
The score was
tied at
25
at the half.
Both La Salle and Dames played
strong defense and limited each other's
points, six rebounds,
left)
lost to
Basketball Team. 55-47 in Waregem.
offensive options.
attack.
Forward Shannon McDade led
Mays
The Explorers
Salle shot exception-
the offensive onslaught with 17
IFiom
Waregem, Belgium
from the floor and
had a well-balanced
Beth
Game 2
into
a 48- 1 9 lead at halftime.
25-6
two
first quarter,
which eventually stemmed
La
eight points and
points, respectively.
defeated Eureka Bruges 92-38.
a 23-8 lead after the
Guards Bonnie Randa and Beth
Mays added
team
Dames
held the lead
going into the third quarter 39-37 and
held
oft'
the Explorers
them 16-10
Despite the
and three
by outscoring
in the fourth period.
loss.
La
Salle received
blocked shots. She teamed with
a solid all-around effort from the play-
guard Jen Zenszer to combine for 12
ers.
McDade
again led the Explorers
—
'Tni¥
iFrom
left I
Bonnie Rimda. Marjorie Rhoads. Jen Zenszer. Colleen Randa (Bonnie's
sister).
Laura Newhurd. Shannon McDade. and Melissa Hindenlang. with Beth Mays leaning over
in scoring
seven
La
Hudak
with 15 points, including
in the third quarter to
La
keep
game. Hudak turned
Salle in the
in
another good pert'omiance. registering
1
1
points and six rebounds.
led
effort for
in
scored
1
Rhoads netted
rebounds.
played
Randa and Walker
1
1
1
in
seven rebounds per game. Hindenlang
Rhoads
provided solid rebounding, leading the
McDade
team
2 points while
assists
Game 3
third straight
Randa added
game
five
in the
games and averaging
in all three
boards per contest.
also looked promising
team
Zenszer contributed
was second on
10.3 points and
in assists, averaging
five
netting 9.7 points per
Keilty dropped in
game.
test.
Lieshout Sporthal Papenhoef
1
Recap
1.7 points
Rebounding from
Besides enjoying themselves and
their loss the
many
seeing the
Basketball Team, 77-44, in the final
throughout France, Belgium, and the
game of their European tour
The Explorers won the first
Netherlands, the La Salle
beautiful sights
women's
per con-
Randa. Walker, and Mays also
Randa provided scoring
Explorers defeated Dr. Foot's Top
well,
game, while
showed promise throughout
Lieshout, Holland (the Netherlands)
the
two per
game. Rhoads also pertbrmed
five points.
and Mays grabbed four
rebounds
1
The guards
Europe with 10 and added
points.
1
for the Explorers.
in
Walker dished out a team-high
stellar defense.
also proved that she can score
3 points in the
Salle.
points while grabbing four
rebounds for the
also
in
La
Hindenlang led the team
four points and four
three assists.
from the
and rebound, averaging 13.7 points and
dropped
and a team-high
again established herself
as the primary scoring threat
Hudak
of the European tour. Keilty and
points, four boards,
Keilty.
pointers, finishing with 14 points.
ond double-digit rebounding
rebounds. Zenszer tallied three
Suzanne
well from the field and hit four three-
Zenszer chipped
each and
in hat),
post, averaging 14.3 points per contest.
winning
five points
I
Reims. France.
in
McDade once
scorers for
all
nas taken
pulling in six rebounds. Keilty shot
Hindenlang. a center, led the
Mays added
in front. This
Salle, netting 16 points while
E.xplorers with 10 boards, her seceffort
Beth Htidak. Chrissy Walker
the tour.
off the bench,
adding 4.3 points per game and was
another three-point shooting threat.
Walker played a
versatile role, averag-
ing 3.7 assists per
game
to lead the
Mays
team also gained valuable experi-
Explorers in that category.
15-12, but Dr. Foots stayed in the
ence that will only help
played solid defense and distributed
game
2000-2001 season.
quarter
going into the
until halftime.
intermission with the Explorers leading, 34-28.
25 points
Dames
ter.
La
Salle then exploded for
in the third
to just
period and held
two points
in the quar-
The Explorers outscored
Dames
18-14 in the
the
final period.
Coach Miller and
in the
the ball well, averaging 2.3 assists
his staff
saw
improvements from everyone on
team and gained
insight
the
on the team's
strengths and weaknesses.
The forwards and
how
centers illustrated
per game.
Not only was
the
European tour a
fantastic cultural experience, but
also one for
La
Salle to build
it
was
on
both on and off the court.
they can contribute to the squad.
Fall 2000
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A lAlin-lAfin Situation
La Salle athletes and coaches score big points through
What
is
La Salle University's
TeamW'ork? Exactly
Project
what
sounds
it
like:
a project relying
on teamwork among the Uni\ersity's
State
of Youth Da\' themes
ing e\ents ha\e
As
all
La
Team Work,
an Adopt-a-School program.
who
Currently, student-athletes
assistance.
Shortly after his arri\al
in 1997. Director
at
La
Salle
of .Athletics Dr.
Thomas Brennan introduced Project
TeamWork as the Depanment of
to those in their
NCAS
work
communities. The
acknowledges and appreciates
you do."
The success of Project Team Work
has also been made pxjssible h\ the
aU
the
department also established
generosity of sponsors and partners
pro\ ide financial and serv ice
ceed, and to gi\ e hope and inspiration
Salle sport-
been successful.
part of Project
athletics
at
service
enables your student-athletes to suc-
in
Fairmount Park, and the coordination
athletics department, smdent-athletes.
coaches, the community, and the
Aquarium, a Clean-Up Day
community
that
generosity of local foundations and
as
Most
mentors and mtors with several local
corporate partners.
schools. In addition, students at partic-
Patricia
Kind Family Foundation
recently
aw arded
ipating schools are
in clinics
attend
im ited
to take part
and workshops, and
La SaUe
notably, the
the athletics depart-
ment a three-year grant of S75.0OO
to
other activities as part of an Explorer
Team Work. Former
Incentive Program.
ball star Ste\e Black. '85.
Team Work's goals
and achie\ ements were best summed
the Director of Project
and the Christian Brothers' well-
up
gram
recognized history of e.xemplarj' service
Consortium
Athletics' \ outh outreach
and com-
munity serv ice program.
"Project
TeamWork
is
highly con-
with the Lasallian tradition
sistent
to youth
and the community," Brennan
said. "It
occupies a \er\ high priority
within our athletics department."
He
cited three achievements as
examples of the contribu-
positive
tion of
They
La
community.
Salle in the
are: the induction
basketball
Coach
Bill
of men's
"Speedy"
Morris into the Catholic Youth
Organization
of
Fame
(CYO)
Perhaps Project
in
D'Orazio.
a citation from the National
and outreach
"We thank you
and dedication displayed b\
department for the
\
w ell-being
La
has overall pro-
noted. "1 ha\e been
and foundations
Salle athletics as
our
to partner with
we endeavor
enhance the quality of
our
\
as
ingness of local businesses, industries,
work
of
was hired
Teamw ork.
extremely impressed with the will-
activities:
for all the hard
who
Explorer basket-
responsibility for Project
Team Work,
for Academics and Sports
(NCAS), which named La Salle to its
Honor Roll for e.xcellence in community ser\ ice
to
help sustain and enhance Project
sporting e\ ents and
life
to
for youth
our ser\ ice area. Special kudos to
in
Kind Family Foundation.
smdent-athletes and your community."
the Patricia
WTote N'CAS Executi\e Director
We
Richard Lapchick. "Your leadership
encouragement."
are grateful for their support and
Hall
for his \olun-
teer serv ice throughout
the Philadelphia
Archdiocese: the work
of Assistant Athletics
Director Peter D'Orazio
\\
ith the
Inner City
Games; and
the
work
of the .Athletic Relations
Council (.ARC), a
student-athlete leader-
ship group.
Foremost among the
activities initiated this past
year by Project
Team Work
has been the Explorers'
relationship uith Big
Brothers/Big Sisters.
which
pilot
is
part of a national
program with the
NCAA "Campus Pals."
Trips to the Franklin
Institute, the
30
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La
New Jersey
S.alle NtAGAZiNE
^
Salle student-athletes
..
.;:/i
community youth from i.,
i.,
:
l
rs/Big Sisters, whon. ...
...ored all year
lAfilus
Adds
to Her Laurels
ami Wilus,
-^
%#gave
'02, a three-sport athlete as a freshman,
up one of them
—
basketball.
When
La
But, as a sophomore, her career continued to
flourish in field
last spring.
hockey
in the fall,
and
in lacrosse
Wilus averaged 5.27 points per
f?
country, finish-
"
ing less than a point
*^
i^
"^
the All-
',>
Philadelphia
''
jMk
X
Big 5 basket-
^i^^^^^
behind Maryland's Jen
Adams. She
Salle's
Donnie Carr, '00
was voted to
During lacrosse season,
game, the second highest
in the
n
Carr "Big'
the Big 5
^^^H^^^V
also finished second in
^^H^^^
the Atlantic 10 Conference with
79 points while playing three
ball First
Team
this
he became only
the fourth player to
fewer games than the leader, Kelly
earn such an honor for four years.
Ruch of Temple, who had 81 points.
Her four-goals-per-game average
Two
placed her third nationally. Besides
(1977-80) and Lionel Simmons,
making
'90(1987-90).
the Atlantic 10 All-Conference
team, Wilus was also voted to the MidAtlantic Regional
of the other three are former
Explorers: Michael Brooks, '80
In addition to that achievement.
Carr led the Big 5
AU-American Second
Team.
in scoring the
three previous seasons.
Coach and Player Team up Together
It
usually happens every day in
field with
Wilus said
someone
this
about
Harpel 's National
Team
who loves the games
as much as I do,"
experience: "Jenn
cute certain moves. Not often do
Harpel
drives
coaches and players play on the
"We
same team
well on the field, and
Having played with
we had
1
practice, that a
field
coach roams a
showing players how
That
all
in
meaningful situations.
changed
for Jenn Harpel
Harpel, the
to exe-
this
summer
and Jami Wilus.
Head Coach
for field
hockey and lacrosse, and Wilus,
who
said.
fun.
Jami
is
Team
\s
here
me
improve
her,
that she is
to a level
Team. Her
knowledge of having
Harpel, teamed together as part
Harpel 's intensity on
of the Upper Atlantic Regional
the field as a coach,
licfore will help
Lacrosse Team. Harpel returned to
Wilus saw another
Lontinue to improve."
team after two years
away from competition. Wilus was
playing
selected to the squad for the second
was so focused and
hope
intense on the field,"
kicrosse
used by the LInited States National
Wilus
levels.
team as a selection venue, allowing
her intensity as a
the regional
straight year.
the
two
NCAA
The tournament
to play together
is
under
side of her
Applying
seen
when we
me
their
to
team-
work. Harpel and Wilus
"Jenn
said. "I've
coach, but
played on that level
on the
field.
in
can compete on
1
the National
Player."
While she knew
plays both sports under
to
now know
driving
capable of being a
National
me
practice every day.
read each other
Coach Jenn Harpel and Jami
Willis.
'02.
played on the Upper
to lead the
team
to
new
Wilus. already a
two-time
First
Team
All-
Atlantic 10 Conference
Atlantic Regional Lacrosse Team.
"Jami and
petitive.
It
performer, will try to
stepped onto the play-
rules.
1
was
are both very
com-
great to share the
ing field, she
was more driven than
have ever seen."
I
use this experience to help her gain a
berth on the National
Team.
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HI
Kudos
for Senior
Record-Setting
Track Explorers
Scholar-Athletes
The
May
also recognized. This
eighth annual Senior Student-
Athlete
Room. The
2 in the Dunleavy
award recog-
the best blend of
academic achieve-
luncheon, one of La Salle University's
ment and
commemorations of National Student-
This year, the female recipient was
Athlete Day,
was begun by
of Academic Support
athletic
volleyball's
the director
Services. Dr. Joe
in
accomplishment.
MeUssa Hodge
(3.97
GPA
management/marketing). Co- win-
Gillespie, to thank seniors for their
ners of the male award were baseball's
years of academic and athletic service
Kevin Ibach (3.77
La
to
Salle. In addition,
each senior
member of the La Salle
community who had been most inspiracould invite the
tional during his or her
At
academic
GPA in communi-
P.J.
Gallagher for their perform-
ances in the Bell Atlantic/ Atlantic 10
Conference Outdoor Track
Championships
at Virginia
record of
meters.
2;
1 1
.30 in the
The mark of
—United
Women's Team—Women's
States Cross
Association All- Academic
tennis team,
Dooley covered
Jill
also
honored for having the high-
GPA among
all
senior athletes (4.0
9: 14.87,
set
the 3,000 meters in
breaking the mark of
Country Coaches Association
Intercollegiate Cross
Coimtry Coaches
—Kevin Wittmeyer (Second Team)
Week honors
—Winter Eastmond
(April 9, 20(X))
NA/omen's Lacrosse
— Wilus
Team)
American— ami Wilus (Second Team Mid-
All-Conference
All-
Player of the
^Jami
(First
J
Week honors—Jami Wilus
Atlantic Region)
(April 9, 2000)
Men's/Women's Outdoor Track
All-Conference
Player of the
—
P.J.
Gallagher. Colin Dooley, and Ndidi Obichere
Week honors
—Ayes Ehikjoya (Rookie) (March
2000), Andre Swanston (Rookie) (April 9, 2000),
(April 17, 2000)
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9:
17.95
by Massachusetts' Ryan Carrara
in
1998. Gallagher, a senior, nabbed a
in finance).
Honor RoU
Softball
Player of the
.38 she
Terry Carroll, '98. Grad student
psychology).
All-Academic Honor Roll
Ail-Conference
1
La
Salle with
33:14.45 in the men's 10,000 meters.
Men's Team
Baseball
women's 800
1
Evanko, a
in
Cross Country
•
2:
GPA
first-place finish for
•
Tech.
Obichere, a freshman, set a meet
broke belonged to a former Explorer,
est
are
and
Myles (3.30
was
the luncheon, the outstanding
to track standouts
Colin Dooley, Ndidi Obichere,
cation) and track's Kevin
member of the women's
career.
male and female scholar-athletes
Congratulations
nizes the senior male and female with
Luncheon was held on
Tim McAteer
26,
(Rookie)
Men's Basketball Schedule
January 2001
TEMPLE
4
Thu.
*
8 p.m.
*
7
at
Xavier
Sat.
13
at
George Washington
Wed.
17
DUQUESNE
Sun.
2 p.m.
Dayton
2 p.m.
7 p.m.
*
4 p.m.
Sun.
21
at
Thu.
25
MASSACHUSETTS
Sat.
27
at
Wed.
31
FORDHAM
Rhode
*
*
AlOTV
AlOTV
*
7 p.m.
Island *
2 p.m.
*
CN8
AlOTV
7 p.m.
Februa ry
Sat.
3
Tue.
6
BONAVENTURE
RHODE ISLAND *
4 p.m.
ST.
*
2 p.m.
Bonaventure *
7 p.m.
Fordham
Sat.
10
at
Wed.
14
at St.
Tue.
20
at
Sun.
25
XAVIER
Wed.
28
at
Duquesne
Temple
AlOTV
7 p.m.
*
AlOTV
7 p.m.
*
4 p.m.
ESPN2
* t
7 p.m.
CN8
8 p.m.
AlOTV
March
Sat.
W.-S.
ST.
3
7-10
JOSEPH'S
Atlantic 10
at First
* Indicates Atlantic 10
listed in
Champions!
Union Spectrum
Game
Game
Conference
t Indicates Philadelphia Big 5
Games
* t
BOLD CAPS
are played in the
Tom Gola Arena.
All times subject to change and are Eastern Standard Time.
Fall 2000
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Women's
Basketball Schedule
January 2001
Fri.
Sun.
5
DAYTON*
7
at
7 p.m.
AlOTV
Noon
Duquesne*
Mon.
15
BONAVENTURE*
GEORGE WASHINGTON*
Sat.
20
at
Rhode
Mon.
22
at
Massachusetts*
7 p.m.
Fri.
26
ST.
JOSEPH'S*!
7 p.m.
Tue.
30
at
12
Fri.
ST.
Lsland*
7 p.m.
1
p.m.
2 p.m.
George Washington*
7 p.m.
Februa ry
->
Fri.
Sun.
RHODE ISLAND*
4
TEMPLE*t
7 p.m.
1
p.m.
8
at
Xavier*
Sat.
10
at
Dayton*
2 p.m.
Wed.
14
FORDHAM*
7 p.m.
Thu.
7 p.m.
Noon
Bonaventure*
Sun.
18
at St.
Wed.
21
at
Sat.
24
DUQUESNE*
Temple*
7 p.m.
1
p.m.
March
Fri. -Mon.
2-5
Atlantic
at
Championships
1
Temple University's Liacouras Center
* Indicates Atlantic 10
Games
listed in
Game
Game
Conference
t Indicates Philadelphia Big 5
BOLD CAPS
are played in the
Tom Gola Arena.
All times are subject to change and are Eastern Standard Time.
Men's and Women's
Swimming Schedule
January 2001
Fri. -Sat.
12-13
at
Rhode
All
Island Invitational
Sat.
20
DREXEL
Sat.
27
at
Fordham
Day
1
p.m.
1
p.m.
February
Fri.
2
Sat.
3
Thu.-Sat. 15-17
at Atlantic
Thu.-Sat. 22-24
at
Events Usted
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SETON HALL
PENNSYLVANIA/DUQUESNE
in
5 p.m.
1
10 Championships (Buifalo, N.Y.)
ECAC Champs
(Sewell, N.J.)
BOLD CAPS are held in the Hayman Center's
p.m.
All
Day
All
Day
Kirk Pool.
A\A/ards Honor Two Exemplary Alumni
and the Christian Brothers
The La
held
Salle
its
Alumni Association
annual awards dinner
on November
17.
This year,
promoting the Lasallian values of
peace and social
justice.
was shared with
the
Nicholas A. Giordano, "65, former
Honor
president of the Philadelphia Stock
membership on
Exchange and 1998-99 interim
.senior class.
ident of
La
Salle;
Carabello, '62,
pres-
Alpha Epsilon
which conferred
J.
Finley
Award
is
who
Association's Board and president
exhibited outstanding service to
of the Explorer Club, were given the
Salle or the
John
J.
Finley Memorial
Award
for
his contemporaries, Finley
known
La
devotion to the University.
The Signum
La
Salle's
as "Mr.
La
The Signum
Fidei Medal,
most prestigious alumni
awarded annually
to the person
who have made
noteworthy contributions
the
Faith"
was
in
Alpha
ship in the pursuit of a Christian and
liberal
— "Sign of
harmony with
Instituted in 1936. the
Epsilon Alumni Honor Society was
designed to recognize "high scholar-
— recognizes personal
achievements
princi-
de La Salle.
La
from the motto of the Brothers of
Brothers of the Christian Schools for
most
to the
have
Fidei Medal, derived
the Christian Schools
and
It is
ples in the spirit of St. John Baptist
Salle" for his
honor, was bestowed upon the
their lifetime of living, teaching,
Salle and the
given
Alumni Association. To
their extraordinary contributions to
Salle.
La
objectives of the Christian Brothers.
or persons
the top scholars of the
annually to valued alumni
of the
established aims of
advancement of humanitarian
The John
and Dr. John
member
Society,
The dinner
education together with the
exceptional but unrewarded participation in the extracurricular life of the
University."
Members
are selected
each year from the upper
the
fifth
of the
senior class.
Fall 2000
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—
—
Alumnae Association Celebrates
University Alumnae
La
The
30th
Association
Salle
celebrated the
anniversary of
women
University with an
attending the
these exceptional
Christine Dieckhaus. '96
dedication to the Lasallian virtues of
Outstanding Graduate, 1990s.
integrity, service,
faculty
this
for their
and commitment,
Alumnae Association were
announced. The officers for the
June 2000-May 2002 term
13.
members, and
were honored
women
the newly elected officers of the
In addition to honoring
Outstanding female gradu
ates, staff
Women
—Outstanding Graduate, 1980s; and
Awards Brunch on
campus held on May
History of La Salle
Stephanie
are: President,
at
ceremony, held every
Belzer, '87; Vice President,
Colleen Gain, '98; Secretary,
five years.
The following
Edie Belzer. '90;
indi-
viduals received awards:
Recruitment.
New
Mary DeMasi,
Marianne (Salmon)
'98; Scholarship/ Awards
Gauss, "74
Luncheon, Marianne Dooley,
—
Oustanding
Faculty Award; Elaine
'75; Calendar,
Mientus Mattem. '90
Heffron, '77; and Publicity,
—
Renee Cooper,
Outstanding Staff
Member Award; Suzanne
Kathy
'98.
Please contact the
Pope Brooks, '75
Alumni Relations Office
Honotril at ihc
Outstanding Graduate,
1970s; Stephanie Belzer, '87
Iviiiuli
were (from
left)
Suzanne Pope limnk
Stephanie Belzer, '87: Elaine Mientus Mattem, '90: Marianne
(Salmon) Gauss,
'74:
and Christine Dieckhaus,
'96,
more information about
Alumnae
the
Association.
5 Great Trips
for the
Year 2001
dl^—dinarv Wonders of
Sponsored by "Explorations'
Th
La Salle University
China and the Yangtze River
Alumni Association's
21 -day fully escorted land and river cruise tour; possible
Travel
Committee
post-extension to Japan
America's National Parks
1
5-day deluxe motor coach tour of seven magnificent
National Parks
Impressions of France
1
5-day tour of the Alps and a cruise through Provence
and Paris
NA/aterways of Holland and Belgium
To receive a travel packet,
call the
Alumni
Office at
215/951-1535 or
12-day tour and river cruise
Shades of
Ireland
10-day tour of Ireland's coasts, including an overnight
888/4-ALUM-LU.
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stay in an Irish castle
for
..
Make
Doctors \A/ho
John T. Potts.
M.D.. "53
Jr.,
Alumni Calendar
JANUARY 2001
Pennsylvania Medical School and
Award
received the 2000 Holroyd
a
member
of the Hematology/
to the health profession at
of Medicine of the Hospital of the
La
University of Pennsylvania. She
Salle's 21st annual
The
Lecture.
"
Holroyd
California at San Francisco's
Opportunities and
was
cum
ed maxima
ulty at Penn. Dr.
John
medicine
Polls. Jr.
T.
laude from
become an
La
Salle
at the
He
left
intern in
the Massachusetts
at
General Hospital
in
Boston, an
insti-
tution he has been affiliated with for
most of the past 40 years. Dr. Potts
is
M.D.. -53
is
University of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia to
currently the distinguished
School, where he has taught since
the staff at
Massachusetts General that same
and has served as Chief of
Endrocrinology, Chairman of
grant to train clinical fellows in
management
at the
University of
20
Second Annual Alumnae
Seminar
25 UMass
Doctor." taught
at
La
Salle
Good
first
An
31 Fordham
from
Nursing,
emeritus professor
Anglican vestryman, he
became one of
the first
member
non-Roman
named
On
3
20
St.
Bonaventure
was
La
Salle at
25
Xavier
left)
died in 1985.
Joan A. Lin. M.D..
who inlroduccd
Dr. Janet L.
the
La
Salle
at
La
Salle
Young Alumni
at
—postgame
Tom Cola Arena
W.
Holroyd Lecturer;
Abrahm: Geri
Duquesne
Cla.ssesof 1971 and 1976
reception
(From
at
Pittsburgh area alumni
dedicated as the Roland Holroyd
He
Salle
Society
Hall of Athletes Induction
the day of that honor in
Salle's science building
Science Center.
La
at
Law
of the Institute
of the Brothers of the Christian
La
Salle
FEBRUARY
Catholics in the world to be
an affiliated
La
1991 and 1996
until his retirement as the
in 1973.
at
Reception for Classes of
Roland Holroyd, beloved by
Dr.
1970,
of Medicine
Alumni Association Board,
Alumni on Campus
care.
legions of students as "the
Schools.
Associate Professor
Salle
Association Investment
pain
for the hospital.
is
La
at
Reunion Committees,
Abrahm
NIH
Medicine, and Director of Research
Dr Abralim
7 Duquesne
and has just been awarded a tive-year
1920
year,
1
Hospice of the Penn Health System
University's
Harvard Medical
He joined
George Washington
Salle at
D.C. area alumni
and Research for Wissahickon
Medicine
1968.
La
Reception for Washington,
currently the Medical
Director and Director of Education
Jackson Professor of Clinical
at
3
980, she joined the fac-
1953 and studied medicine
in
1
med-
Massachusetts General. In
.
Salle
her internship and residency at
delivered by Janet
Abrahm. M.D.
,-,
n ..
J
Dr. Potts graduat-
La
at
Reception for Classes of
school in 1973, and completed
ical
Obligations in End-of
Temple
1981 and 1986
graduated from the University of
lecture,
'Go Gentle":
Life Care,"
4
Oncology Division of the Department
alumni service
for distinguished
a Difference
TBD
Seilchlk.
Warren E. Smith African
American Award Dinner
Ph.D., associate professor of biology at
La
Salle
and chair of the 2000 Holroyd
and Barbara
Dean of the School of
and Sciences at La Salle.
Selection Committee:
MARCH
Millard. Ph.D.,
Arts
3
Health Professions alumni
MAY
19
(From
left)
Brother Michael
McGinniss,
F.S.C..
La
President, poses with
J.
Holroyd Award
ily
John
lo the
of the posthumous
ent,
F
fam-
JUNE
2 Alumnae Association
recipi-
Daly M.D..
Mrs. Marie Daly and
William
'72:
Pittsburgh area alumni
Salle's
Kent. Esq., '72, as he presents
the
Reunion 2001
Golf Outing
J.
their .wn. Austin.
Fall 2000
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Do you
love La Salle?
Are you interested in staying connected to your alma mater?
Would you like to directly contribute to the future of La Salle?
Do you like to have FUN?
If
you answered yes to
all
of the questions above, then
we
have the program
for you.
L.E.A.R.N.
La Salle Explorers Alumni Recruiting Network
Join the Admission Office in recruiting new La Salle Explorers
Dedicated La Salle alumni can help the Admission staff better serve the prospective
LEARN members enhance the admission efforts in the following ways:
student.
*
Attending college fairs that the Admission staff cannot attend due to geographical
limitations or schedule conflicts
*
Providing a local resource for inquiring students, applicants, and their families
*
Sharing stories of their
own
LaSallian experience
and where
it
has lead them
in
their lives
A member
of LEARN can volunteer to attend a college night or an open house, visit local
high schools, and/or call prospective students. Volunteering a small amount of time makes
a
BIG difference.
If
you are interested
in
LEARN member, please contact Admission Counselor
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La Salle Magazine
The Brothers of the Pennsylvania Omega
Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsiion
announce the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the
founding of Sigma Phi Epsiion at La Salle University.
are pleased to
Planning for the event, which will take place on April
If
you are interested
in
7.
2001.
is
already under way.
finding out more details about the anniversary celebration please e-mail;
Matthew Chiappa
(Alumni Relations Chairperson)
[email protected]
Jerry Kulig
(Alumni Liaison)
[email protected]
Peter Lafferty
(Alumni Liaison)
[email protected]
Jim Plunkett
(Alumni Liaison)
[email protected]
Come back and reunite
with fellow alumni brothers of Penn
Omega,
as well as meet the active brothers of the chapter.
Homecoming
2000: A mix of old and young alumni gathered for Homecoming on September 22-24.
They celebrated the beautiful fall day with a Fun Run; the crowning of Homecoming king and queen; and, of course, football.
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1971
School of Business
Administration
1
956
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Anthony DiPrimio
was appointed dean. School of
Business Administration
in
Philadelphia.
E.
Rodney Smyrk
retired
after a 28-year business career
commercial
in
New York
Vero Beach,
1
real estate in
City and
moved
to
^
1
I
1
in the
Rome
department of Blank
&
Comisky
McCauley LLP,
was elected president of
974
finance and
management from
He
Rutgers University.
1988
currently a senior treasury
Births:
Ann
to
is
analyst for Independence
Blue Cross.
husband, Don, their second
Section of the
1990
child, a son, Jeffrey Charles;
Florida Bar.
to
to battalion
John
Lisa Donnelly Denton and
Jeffrey
Denton (BS
!
to Jeffrey
Birth:
Denton and Lisa Donnelly
Denton (BS
'90),
"88), their third
their third child, a daughter,
child, a daughter,
Nora Donnelly.
Donnelly.
Nora
the
^hen Kathy
degree from La
many
He was
^VA
1981
I
John D.
nesswoman. Two years
Rossi, III
dream by opening the doors of
Pineapple Hill, a bed and breakfast
the National Association of
to earn the designation
of
Rear Admiral
1
983
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Joseph
for giving her the extra
F.
retired
Conners. a senior vice
at
located
in
New
Hope, Pa.
capstone course,
particularly the Business Policy
presi-
from the U.S.
dent
fulfilled a lifelong
However, Triolo credits the M.B.A. program,
Certified Valuation Analyst.
Navy
earlier,
and her husband.
Cookie, had
featured in the August issue
William E. Herron
1994, she
the certification process with
Certified Valuation Analysts
'
in
has successfully completed
for 25 years, handling
GQ Magazine.
she was
already an experienced busi-
a criminal defense attorney
high-profile cases.
Salle,
Chester
County, Pa.
has been
Triolo, '96,
received her M.B.A.
in
2000/2001 year.
w:
Federal
Savings Bank
Management Association
Education Put into Action
Malvern
the National Contract
M. Voluck
J. Foff. Jr.
dent of
Philadelphia Chapter of
1967
"93). a son,
of the Tax
has assumed the role of presi-
business and corporate
of
Timothy Kolb
Robert G.
Fryling. partner
Jeffrey
!
Lichtey Avallone and her
Alfred "John" Fry
was promoted
BA
'98,
989
Stephen Paul.
ed chair-elect
-
973
LLP
was appoint-
r
„
Holland*
Knight
1
received an M.B.A. degree in
Fire Department.
966
for the
Maslij
S.
(MA
of
"TPBB*'
chief with the Philadelphia
Fl.
Roman
Birth: to
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Holy Family College
Conti.
and Alison Rush Maslij
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at
M.
Louis T.
I
a partner in the Orlando office
background she needed to
expand her already booming business.
In fact,
her
Business 699 class gave her the idea for an addi-
Beneficial Savings
after
Bank, was
tion to Pineapple
Hill.
completing
named
chief
nearly 35
team she was
thetical plan for a
Beneficial and
sented this plan to local business professionals
will oversee
who were
his military
man
all
and completed
accounting
his career as a
and investment activiues.
Michael E. McLoone recent-
1
ly retired as vice president-
McCloskey was
controller of General
Accident Insurance and
currently a
member
of the
Joseph's University.
Connecticut and
retail
manager
Inc.,
I
La Salle Magazine
and
Hill
addition and pre-
invited by the school to review them.
Although the plan was only an idea when Triolo
room
it
in class, Triolo
addition to Pineapple
addition, the
New York
in
1996
Hill.
For
Bed
in
call
&
quickly
built a five-
Since building the
income generated by the extra rooms
allowed the Triolos to hire a housekeeping
for
headquartered
Richmond, Va.
40
elected sen-
LandAmerica Financial
Group,
Pineapple
put the plan into action, and
Michael C.
ior vice president
is
accounting department faculty
at St.
I
working with put together a hypo-
and her group presented
two-star Admiral.
986
and the
officer at
He began
career as an E-1 enlisted
part of a project for this class, Triolo
financial
years of service.
As
more information on
the Pineapple
staff.
Hill
Breakfast, visit www.pineapplehill.com or
888/866-8404.
1
995
Science from Villano\a
Marriage: Staci
M. Wilhelm
to
Loranca (BS
Derek
2000 was made
'9b).
Birth: to William Duff and
Yanke Duff,
Kylie
a daughter.
Grace Taylor.
I
May
in
in recognition
of Dr. McKenna's "contribu-
improvement of
tions to the
the
American criminal
justice
system." particularly in the
996
Marriages: Derek
to Staci
M.
first
Wilhelm (BS
Kevin
95):
He
of corrections.
field
Loranca
P.
The award
University.
P.
member
faculty
the
is
in the
S.
Thomeczek BA
(
association's top awards.
Chicago as treasurer of the
was named Warden of
Order and vice chancellor of
Year
the Archdiocese of Chicago.
President's
Vincent
J.
Pancari has been
to be
1971
Marriage: Erica
I
1
New
Madden, Ph.D.
i
Kapusta
awarded an honorary
and
anthropic arm of the
New
phil-
Jersey State Bar Association.
criminal
956
trial
attorney,
is
Technological
ior partner with the
Vineland
is
first
a buyer for Alfred
Teaching Award. This award
Inc. in
Horsham.
Pa.
Tedesco
will be given annually for
who
Jeremy
P.
Kapusta.
938
the
named
Chair Emeritus of the Justice
Musmanno Award
Committee.
has published his World
War
Corporal
Once.
950
James
I
P.
at a
divorce cases
at
consulting part
Avallone,
Sr.,
D.O. was
He was
Publications Board for the
Family
Law
Section.
Jack C. McDevitt's
Joseph Pizzo was
McHugh
a
is
tive for the Philadelphia
1
who
968
I
Edgar J. Langdon
Philadelphia and
tive director
is
the execu-
of Advanced
Behavioral Care, a psychology
Chestnut Hill
Hospital in Philadelphia after
group providing services to
38 years of service.
residents in nursing facilities
1
first
two
science fiction novels. The
Talent for
(
1986) and
A
War (1989) have
been reprinted
in
one volume.
969
in three states.
I
Norman H.
Rappaport, D.D.S., M.D.
president of the
the
Plastic
Driscoll over-
Surgeons and The
sees
Mark
J.
re-
He
on
is
its
offices
Ratkus was
Doctor of Osteopathic
Ph.D.
the honorary
degree of Doctor of Social
all
depositor-
La
Thomas H.
Salle Chapter of the
at
Schurtz. a teacher
Absegami High School
board of direc-
Absecon.
University Professors
Who's Who of American
N.J..
attorney's youth aid panel
Teachers for the year
1970
Guarini was awarded the
1
Crime Commission
Pennsylvania Prison Wardens
senior scientist for
Association's "Lifetime
Haas Company
Achievement Award"
Philadelphia,
for the
YAP program.
Father Emmett
Gavin moved back
999-
2000.
Delaware Valley Citizens
I
1
to
citi-
zen's service award from the
1964
in
was named
American Association of
active with the dis-
Medicine degree.
Jr.,
and
related activities.
(AAUP).
ization for ph>sicians holding
34
Townwalch
and recently received a
Association, a statewide organ-
all
Beneficial
Plastic Surgery Educational
recently elected President of
sits
Savings Bank.
American Society of
a volunteer with
(Pa.)
community
Beneficial
Rappaport
on the board of directors of
Dr.
is
Dr
Foundation.
Edward
Paczkowski
president of the
sion of
McDevitt's most recent novel.
I
Paul R. Driscoll
of the Houston (Texas)
is
1960
I
banking divi-
Merlin Publications.
February by HarperCollins.
972
was named executive vice
Surgeons and president-elect
Surgical Society.
Beach, was released
1
is
American
Society of Maxillofacial
Hello Out There, by Meisha
and
Osteopathic Medical
was awarded
I
ical lab) at
trict
McKenna.
967
the
F.
of the Pennsyh ania
J.
in
Latrobe. Pa. Dr.
representative to the
elected to the board of trustees
James
Prep
appointed as the academic
tors.
the
College and
retired as senior lab tech (clin-
Rhawnhurst
Michael
dis-
Federation of Teachers.
Boston
College Law School.
in
time in the U.S.A. and U.K.
1955
Games of
chologist
conference on inherited assets
Infinity
now
tinction at the Saint Vincent
elected to the
marine instrument business
is
book published. The 100
1
Connor
recently retired from the
and
Ph.D.
w as named an alumnus of
appointed to staff representa-
Hercules Text
Leo C. Inglesby
titled .4
McHugh,
J.
American Bar Association
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers
memoirs,
Patrick
recently had his third baseball
Probate and Family Inn of
of the
received the Distinguished
!
Dittmar
J.
maintains a private practice in
American lawyers and judges.
948
Joseph
board of directors of the
in
Michael A.
:
the 20th Century Ranked.
Court and recently spoke
as a
Justinian Society of Italian-
Association and was
965
clinical psy-
Rainone was recognized
Award from
Mich.
in Southtield.
1
University's
Pancari.
Charles?.
I
Kindregan was
Michael C.
member
&
!
'I
College of Arts and Sciences
Greatest Baseball
1957
School of Arts
& Sciences
e,\cel in teach-
i/
of Kavesh. Pancari.
finTi
Francis H. Sterling
Cory (Christian)
ing at the Veterans Hospital.
1
in
sen-
The University of
1
Jr.
physicians
II
Natural
;j
Pancari. a certified civil and
Marriage: Cory Christian to
1
has been
Jersey State Bar Founda-
tion, the educational
law
2000
Service
William G.
I
re-appointed a trustee of the
Pennsylvania presented the
He
in 1997.
Lawrence
1998
senior
Award
Department
L. Giehl to James Conlon.
1
He
the
1989 and received the
in
"97).
doctorate.
Angelo
three of the
all
Sciences
Jennifer
to
have receiv ed
named chairman of the
158-year history of Villanova
Gerry
formation director of the
Carmelites after eight years in
work
I
Vincent A.
in corrections.
for his
Guarini
is
974
I
William Hann.
Rohm
a
and
in
won
the 1999
Otto Haas .-Xward for
to
only the second warden to
Technical Excellence. The
Washington, D.C. to serve as
Fall 2000
I
41
award recognizes continuous,
pionship
unique, and broad technical
first
contributions of only the high-
onship
est caliber that
have been
sig-
14 years and the
in
JROTC
city
champi-
of Fox Rothschild O'Brien
Medicine degree.
Frankel, LLP, has been elect-
in its history.
1975
1983
Paul"Quincy"
ed Special
Michael
I
J.
Counsel
McShane
is
the director of
nificant in the overall success
Juska and
firm,
his wife, Leigh,
St.
wedding anniversary.
Pottstown, Pa.
Regional School, has been
Buckley, Ph.D. has been
Family
is
Group
X
Pius
at
Michael R.
Law
the
at
Fox
Rothschild, he
and teaches a fifth-grade
Who 's Who of
American Teachers
at
in
McShane
yearbook advisor
1977
to
High School
a
teacher at Assumption
named
Pius
to the
A mem-
ber of the
X
recently celebrated their 25th
and Haas.
MaryEllen Roken Schurtz.
advancement
institutional
of the technical programs of
Rohm
&
Doctor of Osteopathic
named
to the
CCD
McCartland
regularly handles
complex
class at his parish
cases involving divorce,
church. Saint Aloysius, in
Foundation Chair of American
for the
property division, alimony,
Pottstown,
year 1999-2000.
Lt. Col.
(Ret.)
John
Free Enteiprise
S.
Wargo
at the
Michael
support, custody, and protec-
1985
E. Price College of Business
was named teacher of
at the
University of Oklahoma.
I
J.
Mark
Coulson,
Esq. was elected a principal
the year by the administration
George
and National Honor Society
recently elected to serve on
Stockbridge
Chapter of Gurdon
the board of trustees of the
where he focuses on
S.
Pennsylvania Osteopathic
in
Army JROTC
its first
city drill
1
Medical Association, a
in
986
Gregory Braun and
their first child, a son, Robert,
Baltimore,
David
from abuse.
Judith Gallagher Braun,
trial
work.
987
Leigh McDonald
I
Tobin has been promoted
J.
Dragonosky, an attorney
senior instructor, he led the
unit to
&
the law firm of Miles
tion
Birth: to
1
Hubbard High School
Chicago. As the
L. Weber, D.O. was
in
in
to
manager, media relations and
statewide organization for
the litigation department
cham-
publications for the Phillies,
physicians holding the
Tobin
is
now
the primary
contact for the media and
baseball-related inquiries.
Heeding the
Call
Births: to Lisa
Hoback and
Sometimes,
a
worked as
good edu-
cation can teach you
important things about
And sometimes,
influence of one good
returning to La Salle
to
1991,
in
He took
the
Continuing Studies Program
er
your
Anthony Bozeman,
Roman
In
the
in
1993 with
a degree In history.
'93,
When
was
recently ordained as a priest
of the
night classes
and graduated
calling. Rev,
La Salle,
asked about his
Fr,
nothing but positive responses. He
his vocation with the help of a La Salle
said,
helped
Christian Brother.
Although Father Bozeman contemplated attending law school
in
mind. He names the
Keenan,
F,S,C,,
one of La
Brother Joseph
Salle's
most
popular religion teachers, as a "great
influence" on this decision,
Fr,
tual
spiri-
journey took a long and winding
path.
in
Bozeman's educational and
He
1977,
first
He
started studying at La Salle
left in
1980 to serve
in
to
The new
the back of his
late
me
the
priest also
"I
me
developed more
Parish, located In the
Grace
I
La Salle Magazine
in
priest, at
Penndel,
I
Sr.
Michelle
Francis School in
Cleveland, received a
from
Ursuline College.
Birth: to Elaine
Mudry-
their first child, a son.
1
990
I
John
Grabusky
J.
earned his M.B.A. from the
Ervin K.
Haub School of
Business
at St.
Joseph's
University in Philadelphia,
of
Grabusky has been employed
Logan
by the Police Athletic League
Bozeman
preparing for the transition to his
and-a-half years. After completing his
Bozeman
skills in
Our Lady of Hope,"
He is currently finishing up his
diaconate assignment at Our Lady
Fr,
988
Nicholas.
to deal with a multicultural parish
section of Philadelphia,
1
Tom.
had a good
like
Hope
child, a son. Tanner.
Harkins and her husband,
really believe that La Salle's liberal
assignment as a
Fr,
well
multicultural experience at La Salle,
arts learning
his
Master's degree in educa-
La Salle really
grow academically as
United States Air Force for about two-
service to his country,
at
Jim Valentine and
tional administration
as on the maturity level,"
upon
graduation, thoughts of being a priest
had always been
experience
second
wife. Shannon, their third
at St.
Bozeman has
Church, He says he decided to pursue
"My
their
Andrew Martin:
Kelly, S.N.D.. the principal
feelings about his years at
Catholic
Randy Hoback.
child, a son,
yourself.
teacher can help you discov-
42
a civilian techni-
cian for nine years before
Adamovage-
her husband.
is
first
Our Lady
of
of Philadelphia for the past
10 yeius.
Ellen Kolodziej
currently a
is
television reporter at
TV
in
Minneapolis.
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1991
working as
Marriage: Christina E.
Trommer-Fisher
is
an assistant coachi with his
a child advocate
and promot-
alma mater's,
ing educational programs for
Stanley (BA
children of pre-school age.
Birth:
Marriage: Thomas
Stanley
and William Duff (BS
Christina E. Hazelwood
daughter, Grace Taylor.
varsity ice
Ryan
Patrick
J.
I
is
Fairtleld Prep,
hockey team.
Ryan's full-time job
as a
is
manager with
senior account
to
Oxford Health Plans in
(BA
Trumbull. Conn.
Birth:
Robert Dougherty
Birth: to
"93). their
1
first child,
'95).
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to
a son, Robert
'94).
Daniel
III
juvenile delinquents and pros-
Kylie Yanke Duff
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Valentino
J.
spent time in Brazil mentoring
'95), a
who were
their lives
trying to get
back on
track.
Additionally, Valentino
Hoover
J.
titutes
is
a
certified skydiving instructor
be appearing
will
in air
has been appointed director of
his wife Christine, a son,
995
to
Dominic
Thomas
to
and
Joseph E. Koch
shows
technology
at
Philadelphia
in the
Ecity
region with a skydiving group
Robert Philip.
and Jennifer DiGati
Douglierty (BA
and
Hazelwood
Interactive, a full service
called the Flying Scotomas.
i
Carol Anne Dillon
was awarded
the
Doctor of
Bennett.
Osteopathic Medicine degree
interactive
agency located
in
Center City Philadelphia.
1
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Daniel A. Lewis. Michael
is
a special education coordi-
John Matsinger.
Ruth Gelgot Filon
;
from
Magro,
Gabryelski Konold and her
Philadelphia
and Dolores A.
husband. Timothy, a daughter.
College of
were awarded the Doctor of
Charter High School.
Osteopathic
Osteopathic Medicine degree
Thomas H.
Medicine.
from Philadelphia College of
teacher at Upper Merion (Pa.)
Dr
Osteopathic Medicine.
High School, has been named
1992
Birth: to
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Ariana Nicole;
Higgins and
Kimberly
Michael
to
his wife. Patti,
their first child, a daughter,
begun an uitemship
Molly Catherine.
1993
Bi>//i: to
Jennifer
DiGati Dougherty and
Robert Dougherty (BA
their first child, a son.
994
was awarded
Medicine.
the
Dr
Lewis has begun an
1999-2000.
College of
Marriage: Jennifer
Osteopathic
Thomeczek
Medicine/
Gerry (BBA
Drexel
Hospital
in
McGlynn
P.
Hill, Pa.
graduated
from the Philadelphia College
Delaware
of Osteopathic Medicine and
County
Osteopathic
cy in orthopaedic surgery. Dr.
Hill, Pa.
Medicine
McGlynn,
Dr.
degree from
ing instructor, has been
is
interning
Philadelphia
recruited to perform with the
at
Mercy
College of
Flying Scotomas, a skydiving
Suburban
Osteopathic
group
Joseph's Hospital
at St.
a certified skydiv-
thrill
that
performs
at air
shows throughout
and
the
in
earned
gram
completing her pediatrics
Digital,
Magro
pleted the Financial
Leadership Development
Philadelphia
is
College of
Dr Roman
Washington, D.C.
employee
awarded the Doctor of
Excellence
Charlotte O'Brien
Osteopathic Medicine degree
Emergency
from Philadelphia College of
Medicine
Osteopathic Medicine. Dr.
Award. This
Wood
is
the educa-
is
tion coordinator for the Police
has begun an
the Society for
Athletic
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teaching
District of Philadelphia.
Terez K.
Whitman's advance represen-
Children in Langhome. Pa.
is
second grade for the School
awarded by
the director of Just
now employed by
in
Ruppersberger
Fisher
is
consumer products division
received the 2000
Gov. Christine Todd
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its
&
Dorado, Puerto
in Stillman, N.J.
Andrew Ruppersberger was
M. Trommer-
in
Rico, and
recognized for
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Johnson
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Kristina
Inc.,
Pa.
is at
in
is
Downingtown,
Dr. Matsinger's internship
Networks, was
New
Communicadon
Schubert
Norristown.
Medicine.
special events within
a public
is
Hospital in
Osteopathic
Jersey and out of state.
freelancing at
relations consultant at
National Medical Center
preparing the Governor's
is
Union Complex with
Megan Maguire
residency at Children's
dudes include
and
Arena Vision.
Television
tative. Inverse's
in televi-
Drexel
forA&E
C. Inverso was appointed
Kevin R. Burkitt
working full-time
sion production with Stewart
from
Penn State University and
Maribeth
S.
'96).
Barbara Mieczkowski com-
McHugh
Debbie Fazio, manager, pro-
President's Award.
Kevin
to
Pa.
East Coast.
a medical doctorate
achievement with a
999
in
Philadelphia.
publicity,
1
the First
Jennifer L.
in
Teachers for the year
is
Memorial Hospital
Jr., a
Who of American
's
Philadelphia
has begun a five-year residen-
begun an internship
Who
to
Schurtz,
Delaware County Memorial
Scott
Towne
teacher at the Franklin
Osteopathic Medicine/
Doctor of
Clear has
nator/life skills support
internship at
'91).
Carolyn E. Clear
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Dr.
Roman Hoey
Philadelphia College of
Robert
Bennett.
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Dillon has
at
Jr.,
internship at
Academic
Frankford
Emergency Medicine
Hospital in
ior
Langhome,
demonstrated excellence
Pa.
the specialty of
medical student
to a sen-
who
1
emergency
in Philadelphia.
School of Nursing
has
in
League
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Carol Fetterman
Blauth was awarded
a certifi-
cate for excellence in nursing
medicine.
as a nurse educator by the
New
Jersey Department of
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