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Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends:
Sometimes evidence of an institution’s growth
can be found in new facilities. The Robert L.
Shangraw Athletic Complex and the southward
expansion of the Lycoming campus are testaments
to that fact. Lycoming College’s growth this past
year, however, has not been the kind you can see
from the street. Upon a foundation set long ago,
the College’s growth in academic stature and
reputation was recognized in several quarters
during the 2000-2001 academic year.
This past June, the Middle States Commission
on Higher Education reaffirmed the accreditation
of Lycoming College, as it must do every ten years.
Responding to our own internal self-study, the
Commission acted on the recommendation of its
visiting team from several colleges. The goals and
objectives set by the College were accepted, and
the Commission found no deficiencies worthy of
additional comment. In other words, Lycoming
received an A+.
The quality of the College was recognized in other
quarters as well. As you may know, the Carnegie
Foundation has the responsibility of assigning all
colleges and universities to specific institutional
categories based on nationally established criteria.
Earlier this year, the Foundation re-classified
Lycoming College, recognizing our strength as a
liberal arts college. The College was moved from the
larger category of Liberal Arts II colleges to the more
prestigious Liberal Arts I group. U.S. News and World
Report, which takes many cues from Carnegie in
setting its own categories, immediately reclassified the
College from its “regional liberal arts” group to the
National Liberal Arts category. Lycoming is now
listed among the major liberal arts colleges in the
United States.
When we opened the College in late August, our
Convocation speaker, Dr. Brenda Alston-Mills, Class
of 1966 and a professor of Animal Science at North
Carolina State University, joined us in greeting both
the 410 members of the Class of 2005 and our new
transfer students. As in the past, this year we will
celebrate athletic contests, choral and theatrical events,
visiting lecturers, artistic displays and the activities of
numerous clubs and organizations. The College’s
hallmark—its small classes taught by highly credentialed faculty—will continue to prepare all our students
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extremely well for their lives
and careers.
While the College’s
reputation continues to grow
and more students want to
attend, we are faced with the
awesome task of balancing
costs while retaining the
quality of the instruction and
programs that have propelled
Lycoming thus far. Keeping
Lycoming’s doors open to all
qualified students is perhaps
our most difficult challenge.
Barron’s assessment of our
quality and costs affirmed
Lycoming as a “Best Buy in
Higher Education.” Even so,
the fact remains that only 3% of
all families of high school
seniors can afford Lycoming’s
tuition and fees. To give our
current and future students the
opportunities to succeed,
Lycoming College must
increase both its Annual Fund
and its Endowment. The
College has now attained the
status of a National Liberal
Arts College, but we lag behind
the vast majority of our new
contemporaries in such
resources.
I know you share with our
trustees, staff and faculty the
goal of providing an excellent
education for our students.
Thank you for your generosity
this year. We can continue to
create these wonderful educational opportunities only
through your support.
Sincerely,
James E. Douthat
President
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August 2000
October
December
Lycoming College
“moves up” when the
Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching
reclassifies Lycoming
College from a Baccalaureate-II College to a Baccalaureate-Liberal Arts college.
With this re-classification,
Lycoming College shares
company with 218 other
nationally recognized
colleges in the United States,
including Williams,
Lafayette and Swarthmore.
“This is great news,” is
the comment of James D.
Spencer, dean of admissions
and financial aid. “If this
were sports, it would be like
going “Division I,” he adds.
Homecoming 2000 brings
back hundreds of alumni,
including a special group of
Theta Chi brothers. Jim
Hebe ’71, Bill Sherwood
’58, and Tom Vanaskie ’75
receive awards.
Lycoming’s candlelight
service becomes a wonderful
Lycoming memory for many
students.
November
International students
serve dinner to faculty, staff
and invited guests.
Hirschberger work on display.
January
Lycoming College Art Faculty
exhibit their own work in the
Gallery. The mixed media
exhibition included drawings
and sculpture by Roger
Shipley; sculpture by Jon
Bogle; photography, installations and computer graphics
by Lynn Estomin, and photography by Danielle Goodyear.
February
Dr. Michael Musheno ’69
speaks as part of the Larry
Strauser Lectureship in
Criminal Justice. Musheno is a
professor in the School of
Justice Studies at Arizona
State University. The late
Larry Strauser served as
director of the Lycoming
College Criminal Justice
Program from 1973 to 1999.
September
Works by internationally
known artist Fritz
Hirschberger are displayed in
the Art Gallery from September 21 through Monday,
October 23. Hirschberger is a
Holocaust survivor and,
through his art, depicted the
struggles of his family and
friends during World War II.
March
Richard Erickson ’65 at Homecoming 2000.
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A month long symposium
called “East/West: Points of
Contact” addresses intercul-
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tural communication between
eastern and western societies.
The symposium includes a
gallery exhibition by Patrick
Nagatani, the children’s
theatre production of 1000
Cranes, a Kabuki performance and an international
film festival, culminating in a
two-day conference, March
16-17, that includes 15
different sessions on a wide
range of topics.
April
Lycoming dedicates the
site for its own Habitat for
Humanity House.
Lycoming College presents
an evening of JAZZ AND
POETRY on April 10 in the
Mary L. Welch Theatre. The
evening celebrates both jazz
and jazz poetry. The poets
include Rick Madigan and
Jan Selving from East
Stroudsburg as well as Steve
Cramer ’95, Peggy Cronin
’84, and Vanessa Stauffer
’01. The poetry is interspersed with music by a jazz
trio and sax solos by Prof.
Sascha Feinstein.
International students show off native dishes.
Lycoming’s traditional candlelight service.
May
A Conference on Teaching Excellence on May 3-4
brings Peter Seldin, distinguished professor of management at Pace University to
campus as well as faculty
from all over the Northeast.
The two-day event offers 21
different workshops and
presentations.
Faculty art show includes work by Danielle Goodyear, Roger Shipley, Lynn
Estomin and Jon Bogle.
Michael Musheno ’69 with Profs. Roskin (left)
and Carter (right).
East meets West in Spring Symposium.
Dr. John Piper (left) and Peter Seldin
June
The Mary L. Welch Theatre
hosts “June in Bloom”: a series
of two plays and a musical
revue during the month of
June.
July
Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week brings nearly 1400
high school students to the
Lycoming College campus
over a four-week period.
The program, which draws
students from 58 different
counties, introduces students to
the American free enterprise
system through an intensive
one-week education that has
students running their own
“companies” while living in
Lycoming College residence
halls. The program is good for
the College with many of these
PFEW students later applying
to Lycoming.
August
The Class of 2005 enters
Lycoming through the David B
Sykes. This is the largest
freshman class in recent
history. Brenda Alston-Mills
’66 is the Convocation speaker.
Lycoming starts to build its own Habitat house.
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by
Robb Dietrich
Frank Girardi enters his
30th year at the helm of the
Lycoming College football
program. He has become a
legend in his field by
building one of the most
respected and consistently
successful NCAA Division
III football programs in the
nation.
In his 29 seasons at
Lycoming, Girardi has built a
career record of 218-68-5 - a
winning percentage of .758.
He is one of only three active
coaches at the NCAA
Division III level to record
200 victories and one of only
11 active coaches at all levels
of the NCAA to reach the
milestone. His .758 winning
percentage is seventh among
active Division III coaches.
Warrior teams coached by
Girardi have won 12 Middle
Atlantic Conference championships and made 10
appearances in the NCAA
playoffs, including trips to
the Stagg Bowl, the Division
III national championship
game, in 1990 and 1997.
Lycoming is currently riding
a streak of 26 consecutive
winning seasons under the
direction of Girardi—the
sixth longest current streak in
Division III and the eighth
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longest active streak among
all colleges.
His accomplishments and
consistency have not gone
unnoticed by others. The
Middle Atlantic Conference
has honored Girardi as their
Coach of the Year on 12
occasions, and in 1999 he
became the Robert W.
Maxwell Football Club’s first
recipient of their Tri-State
Coach of the Year Award.
The award is presented to an
outstanding college or high
school coach from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or
Delaware.
Girardi began his love
affair with football in high
school when he carried the
ball as a running back for the
Williamsport Millionaires.
He continued to play at the
collegiate level at West
Chester University.
Girardi entered the
coaching ranks in 1961 when
he became an assistant at
Jersey Shore High School.
He became head coach of the
team in 1963 and remained in
that position for six years.
In 1969, Girardi became an
assistant at Lycoming under
Budd Whitehill. Three years
later, he took the reigns as
head coach of a Warrior
program that had gone 14-34
since their last winning season
in 1965. Lycoming’s woes
continued during Girardi’s
first three seasons with marks
of 2-6, 2-6 and 3-6. But in his
fourth season, the Warriors
went 6-2 and have not
recorded a losing campaign
since.
In 1984, Girardi accepted
an expanded role in the
College’s athletic department
as the Director of Athletics.
He continues to serve in that
capacity today, overseeing
Lycoming’s 19 intercollegiate
athletic programs that compete in the MAC.
Girardi’s wife, Lynne,
teaches in the Williamsport
Area school system. Their
daughter, Justine, graduated
from Lycoming in 1996.
Three other Girardi children Cathy, Jerry and Frank, Jr. have also graduated from the
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D r. B r e n d a A l s t o n - M i l l s
Excerpts from Convocation Address:
When I was first asked to
speak with you on this
occasion of the opening
Convocation, of course my
response was “Oh wow,
absolutely”. As I thought
about it, I was reminded of
my first job interview after
the Ph.D. in an Animal
Science department. Animal
Science deals with large
animals such as horses,
cows, sheep, goats, and pigs.
My degree was in
Zoology/Physiology with a
concentration in hormonal
regulation of mammary
gland cancers. The largest
animal that I worked with
was a rabbit. During that
interview I was asked, “Well
Brenda, cows don’t get
breast cancer so what are you
going to do here if you get
the position?” My reply was
“A Ph.D. provides the tools
to do scholarly research, it’s
a means to an end etc.” and I
went on and on.
After I accepted the
position I said, “Oh my
goodness, cows don’t get
breast cancer, what am I
going to do?”
So, after I accepted this
responsibility, I thought the
same, “Oh my goodness, I
am presenting the Convocation address. What am I
going to talk about?”
Last month, the text
dropped out of the sky. I was
in an airplane, on my way
home from attending the 14th
International Conference on
the First Year Experience. I
had served as a facilitator in
a Philosophy course entitled
The Moral Community. The
rationale of the course was
conceived to introduce
students to diversity during
their first year in college.
After listening to many
speakers, I had to ask myself
the question: What did
Lycoming College do for
me? My conclusion was that
even during the tumultuous
and turbulent 60s, which was
my time here, Lycoming
College did it correctly.
This college provided a
positive atmosphere and a
progressive learning environment for everyone. In
addition to the basic information on study tips and time
management in our orientation course, I was introduced
to the concept of true
education. Education is not
just the classroom lectures,
the textbooks and being able
to pass exams, although I am
certainly not underestimating
the importance of those very
necessary aspects of the
college experience. More
importantly, I learned how to
receive and to process
information and how to
formulate ideas.
In addition to the classroom, which included time
for study in France, input
came from observations and
experiences in campus clubs
such as the Biology Club and
the French Club, interactions
with faculty outside the
classroom, and the individual
attention given to each
student by everyone from the
administration to the staff.
Further, there were positive
interactions with my peers as
well as with the Williamsport
community.
Upon further reflection,
inputs of a lot of different
kinds of information gave
rise and continue to give rise
to new ideas. I then determined and continue to
believe that new ideas often
take us outside of our
comfort zone or
outside of those
things that we know
and that make us feel
at ease.
When entering
into a new situation,
all of us come in
from different
Dr. Alston-Mills with Prof. Owen Herring.
backgrounds and
very often with a preset plan of action.
New ideas challenge
our values and
challenge our
paradigms of how we
think that the world
should be and how
those in it should
behave.
College’s largest freshman class in a
It’s scary and
generation.
sometimes, as new college
However, we must take
students, you will feel as I
responsibility for each
felt: I wondered if I was the
decision that we make, and
only person on the planet
continue to re-evaluate and
experiencing these new
assess along the way. There
thoughts. But the wonderful
are times when help is
thing is, as I discovered,
needed. It is important to ask
outside of that zone, there are
for it from whatever are your
marvelous opportunities and
sources of comfort and
experiences.
support. More importantly,
If all of us, as participants
we must learn from each
involved in higher education
decision, the good ones and
and as citizens of the world,
the bad ones (both of which
can avail ourselves of these
are relative terms). To
opportunities, there is a
continue forward is the
phenomenal result that
operative.
occurs called self-actualizaMy message to you is
tion.
simple and maybe a bit trite.
The more we know about
Live and learn. Embrace the
the world around us and the
old and welcome the new.
many different groups of
Education is a journey and
people that are in it, the
not a destination. Above all,
better we know ourselves.
never take yourself too
Self-actualization allows for
seriously and when all else
critical analyses and the
fails, a hearty laugh is good
ability to make informed
for the psyche and for those
decisions.
around you.
Even with the best of
Thank you, good luck and
reasoning and rationale, there
God speed.
are outside influences that
are beyond our control.
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Note: Class notes are
compiled from information
submitted by alumni class
scribes, newspaper clippings
received through our press
clipping service, and press
releases and letters sent
directly to the alumni office.
Information received after
August 1, 2001, will be in a
future issue of the Lycoming
College Magazine.
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Charles F. Flock (general
academic) has his account of
his days as a WWII pilot
recounted in Ghost Wings
magazine, a publication
produced by Lycoming
College student Adam
Makos ’03. Flock earned
his Marine aviator wings in
August 1943. He had
already graduated from
Dickinson Junior College
and had a year in at Penn
State when he was deployed
to the Marine dive bombing
unit in the South Pacific.
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Congratulations to Ruth
and Oscar P. Harris on their
65th Wedding Anniversary,
April 12, 2001.
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Congratulations to Betty
(Fisher) and Luther Stroup
Sr. on their 50th Wedding
Anniversary, June 9, 2001.
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Dr. William E. Alberts’
(social studies) research
report titled Taking the ism
Out of “Race” in the 21st
Century: A Study of the Print
Media’s Coverage of President
Clinton’s National “Dialogue
on Race is being published by
the William Monroe Trotter
Institute in September, 2001.
Dr. Alberts is Hospital
Chaplain at Boston Medical
Center’s Newton Pavilion. He
taught social science for six
years in the Veterans Upward
Bound Program at the
University of Massachusetts
Boston. Both a Unitarian
Universalist minister and a
United Methodist minister, he
received his Ph.D. from
Boston University in the field
of psychology and pastoral
counseling. He has written
numerous essays and articles
on religion, racism and politics
in Boston which have
appeared in newspapers,
magazines and journals. His
two previous research reports
are entitled The Role of
Mainstream Media in
Discrediting Black Candidates: The Boston Mayoral
Campaigns of 1983 and 1993
and Mainstream Media as
Guardian of Racial Hierarchy:
A Study of the Threat Posed
by Minister Louis Farrakhan
and the Million Man March,
published in 1995 and 1997
respectively by the William
Trotter Institute.
Congratulations to Lillian
and LeRoy E. Simpson
(mathematics) on their 50th
Wedding Anniversary, July 7,
2001.
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Jean and James M.
Luppert (business administration) celebrated their 50th
Wedding Anniversay on June
15, 2001.
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John Greenfieldt ’53
The Karafin School
for special people
When John Greenfieldt
came to Lycoming College,
he had career aspirations to
be in the diplomatic corps.
Today, several careers
away from that initial plan,
John works with young
people from all over the
world as the owner and
director of a unique school
for students with special
learning and emotional needs.
The Karafin School in Mt. Kisco, New York, is not quite
like any other private secondary school. The classes are
small: six students to a class taught by one teacher and one
teacher’s assistant. All teachers are dual certified in a subject
and in special needs. The students are typically underachievers, Greenfieldt explains, very good to superior in intelligence, but with problems ranging from dyslexia to emotional
overlay, many due to frequent moving.
This kind of specialized attention pays off in 100%
placement of Karafin’s graduates in either two or four-year
colleges. Plus the school meets all the requirements of the
New York State Board of Regents
After being graduated from Lycoming College at the
height of the Korean Conflict, Greenfieldt joined the service.
While he never saw combat duty, he became secretary to the
commanding general at Fort Benning, Georgia.. After the
service, he married the sister of classmate Carl Buterbaugh
and embarked on a teaching career in Waynesboro, Pa., at
Western Maryland College, and the Fox Lane School in
Bedford, N.Y.
Thirty-five years ago, upon earning his doctorate, he was
contacted by Mrs. Karafin to become part of a very special
school she had started in Mt. Kisco, New York. Greenfieldt
joined Mrs. Karafin and he and his wife eventually bought the
school.
The Greenfieldts are gradually turning the daily operation
of the school over to their daughter, Renee, and son-in-law,
Dr. Bart Donow. They also have a son, John, who is an
essay and short story editor at Wilson Publishing Company in
New York City.
The school roster has resounded with names of newsworthy families from around the world. Greenfieldt releases no
names. The school’s reputation is quietly circulated among
school counselors.
“Oh, no, we never advertise,” says Greenfieldt. “Our work
advertises itself.”
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Congratulations to Eileen
and H. George Hinston ’58
(mathematics) on their 50th
Wedding Anniversary, June
3, 2001.
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Congratulations to Betty
and Edward M. Allison ’59
(sociology) on their 30th
Wedding Anniversary, May
22, 2001.
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Class Scribe:
Bill Lawry
6 Tolland Circle
Simsbury, CT 06070
(860) 658-7217 h
[email protected]
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Jo-Anne Kirby
Kauffman Abernethy
(English) has been found.
Jo-Anne received her
Masters in Public Administration in 1976 from the
University of Arizona. She
worked in health planning,
county government social
services planning, non-profit
agency administration and
university long-range
planning before she retired in
1994. She is presently living
with her husband, Robert, a
hospital CFO, in Odessa,
Texas.
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Thomas E. Crater
(business administration) has been named
manager and assistant
vice president at Omega
Bank’s second branch
location in Bellefonte,
Pa.
Betty Stark, an
employee in the
Lycoming County
sheriff’s office, was
recently honored by the
Lycoming County
Commissioners for 30
years of service to the
county.
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Brenda Alston-Mills
(biology) returned to campus
to be the featured speaker at
New Student Convocation.
One of the professors she
recalled was Owen Herring
who was there in the faculty.
Brenda caught the
freshmen’s attention with
passages she cited from Dr.
Seuss.
Ismael Gaspar Martins
(economics) is Angola’s new
permanent representative to
the United Nations. Prior to
his appointment, he served as
a founding member and copresident of the AngolaSouth Africa Chamber of
Commerce and Industry. He
also was managing director
of Gaspar Martins and
Associates International
Business Consultants.
Among other positions,
Gaspar Martin has served as
the Executive Director of the
African Development Bank
in Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire,
Minister of both External
Trade and Finance for
Angola, and as an economic
affairs officer for the United
Nations Conference on Trade
and Development.
In addition to his degree
from Lycoming, Gaspar
Martins completed postgraduate studies in economics from the University of
Mannheim (Germany) and
received a diploma in
economic development from
Oxford University.
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Arthur L. Fry (sociology) was named Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 3 employee of
the month for March. Arthur
supervises a team of personnel specialists involved in
managing the district’s safety
and training program, quality
program, labor relations
program and employment
and services programs. He is
recognized as having one of
the best personnel programs
in the state.
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The Psychology of Change
Most of us change gradually, in small steps over time. We
lose or gain a pound at a time, become a little more or less
forgiving.
Yet sometimes people are changed dramatically and
permanently, in a matter of hours or days. Such transformation is captured in the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in the
Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, but it also happens in
real life. It may, in fact, be much more common than most of
us realize.
Dr. William R. Miller (’69) became fascinated with such
sudden and dramatic Change during a 1990 sabbatical leave
in Australia. When returning to the University of New
Mexico, where he is Distinguished Professor of Psychology
and Psychiatry, he began a ten-year program of research to
understand just how such change happens. “There is not even
a name for it in my own discipline of psychology,” he said.
Although epiphanies are familiar in religion and have
been written about by theologians, psychologists have
focused mainly on step-by-step change.
One of the only psychologists to study such changes, in
fact, was William James, sometimes called the father of
American psychology. In his 1902 Varieties of Religious
Experience, James described such rapid transformations,
distinguishing them from what he called the “educational
variety”of inch-by-inch change. Such sudden and sweeping
changes are also familiar in the writings and stories of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
Yet modern psychology has remained silent on the subject.
“I became curious about this omission, and set out to see if
we could at least describe the phenomenon.” Miller and his
student, Dr. Janet C’de Baca, were interviewed for a feature
story in a local Albuquerque newspaper, and asked for people
to call who may have had such an experience. To their
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surprise, the phone rang for weeks, with dozens of people
coming forward. Volunteers were required to spend three
hours with Miller’s team, telling their stories and completing
questionnaires. In the end, the research team documented
fifty-five narratives.
The result is Quantum Change: When Sudden Insights and
Epiphanies Transform Ordinary Lives, recently published by
Guilford Press. It describes commonalities in quantum
changes across people who were in all other respects quite
diverse. Often, as with Scrooge, the experience was a
surprise: unexpected and uninvited. About half were of the
“insight type” in which a profound truth or realization
suddenly burst upon the person’s awareness. “It’s not like
coming to a conclusion,” Miller said. “These people have the
sense of knowledge being given to them, and they recognize
it for truth the moment they see it.”
The other half were of the epiphany variety, and included many of the classic elements of
mystical experience. “These people usually felt themselves in the presence of something much
greater than themselves.” The language they used to describe their experience varied greatly,
but the stories have many common features, and nature of the Other was always the same:
unspeakably loving and accepting.
Miller and C’de Baca thought that the final chapter of their book would be a psychological
discussion of the nature of quantum change, but another surprise lay in store for them. The
experiences of these widely diverse people were not only similar in form, but also contained
common themes and content. Many, for example, suddenly experienced a profound
interconnectedness with all other people, or with all of the universe. There was also a deep sense
of peace and trust that endured over time. On average, it had been eleven years since the
quantum change occurred, and the storytellers were uniformly confident that they had passed
through a one-way door. “It’s like having a ten-year follow-up interview with Ebenezer
Scrooge,” Miller said. The final chapter of their book describes these common “messages for
humankind.”
The education that Miller received at Lycoming prepared him well for this work. “I had
extraordinary professors in psychology, writing, and religion, and my years at Lycoming gave
me a lifelong curiosity about human nature.” Currently he is chairing a panel of senior psychologists to explore “The Nature of the Human Person” from a Judeo-Christian perspective,
with funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the University of Notre Dame. He received his
Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon in 1976, and has authored 26 books
and hundreds of scientific articles and chapters. For fifteen years he has been supported by a
senior career Research Scientist Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, to focus full-time effort on psychological research and the mentoring of new
scientists.
Rev. Joseph M. Amico
(religion) is hosting a weekly
radio show on Phoenix’s
KFNX 1100AM. The show
airs on Tuesdays between
10 a.m. and 11 a.m. and
features an expert in the
addictions or mental health
field describing a condition
with a practical solution on
ways to cope with life
stressing issues. Rev.
Amico is a nationally
recognized speaker on the
topics of addictive disorders
and sexual orientation issues.
He is an ordained minister
and counselor in private
practice in Phoenix and
Mesa, Arizona.
Anyone missing a mug?
The mug in question is a
heavy pearl white porcelain
container, standing 6 inches
tall. On one side is
“Lycoming College 1969.”
On the Other side is the name
HAMMY. In the middle of
the mug is a crest with the
following Latin words: 18
Causa: Latet: Vis: Est:
Notissima 45. Barry
Hamilton ’70 ended up with
the mug after his 30th
reunion when a colleague
thought it might be his. For
more information, write
Barry at
[email protected].
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E. Eugene Yaw (business
administration) received the
Alvin C. Bush Republican
Service Award at a ceremony
held at the Lycoming
Genetti. The award honors
Yaw’s more than 20 years of
service to his political party.
He is currently a partner in
the law firm of McNerney,
Page, Vanderlin and Hall and
also serves as Lycoming
County’s solicitor.
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Angela Vaira Kyte
8 Penny Lane
Boonton Township NJ 07005
(201) 335-4966 h
[email protected]
Congratulations to Linda
and Terry G. Schreiber
(biology) on their 25th
wedding anniversary,
February 19, 2001.
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Sherry L. MacPherson
P.O. Box 167
Shiloh, NJ 08353
(856) 451-4976
[email protected]
Nancy Rabuck Wilson
(French) has a weekly
column, “Muse-ings” which
is published on Tuesdays in
the Huntsville Item (Texas)
newspaper. Friends with
access to the Internet can
read her column on-line at
itemoline.com.
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Charles E. Whitehurst,
Jr. (political science) is
seeking re-election to the
Caesar Rodney School
Board. Charles resides in
Camden Wyoming, Del.,
with his wife Karen. He is a
practicing attorney with the
firm, Whitehurst & Curley
in Dover and remains
active in numerous legal
organizations.
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Peter D. Weaver,
resident Bishop of the
Philadelphia Episcopal Area
of the United Methodist
Church, recently announced
the creation of the New Life
Outreach Charge, which
consists of Salem United
Methodist Church,
Aquashicola; Ebenezer
United Methodist, Leighton
and Parryville United
Methodist, Parryville.
The Rev. James D.
Anderman (business
administration) was appointed
senior pastor effective March
1, 2001. Anderman received
a Master of Divinity degree
from Moravian Seminary in
1996. He served six years as
pastor of the Belfast and
Wind Gap Charge.
Dr. Carol Chambers
Mills (sociology) has joined
the practice of Behavioral
Healthcare Consultants,
located in Lancaster and
Lemoyne, Pa. Dr. Mills
provides psychological and
neuropsychological services
for adults and for seniors.
Dr. Mills received her Doctor
of Psychology degree in
clinical psychology, with
specialization in health
psychology and behavioral
medicine, from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania.
She completed her internship, with specialization in
clinical neuropsychology, at
Allegheny General Hospital
in Pittsburgh. She completed
her postdoctoral fellowship
in clinical neuropsychology
at Bancroft Rehabilitation
Services in Haddonfield,
New Jersey. Dr. Mills resides
in Mechanicsburg with her
husband H. Brian Mills.
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John Piazza
416 Pine Street
Williamsport, PA 17701
(570) 321-1818
Mini reunion for 1982
James A. Leavens
(business administration) has
been appointed Director of
Marketing for the Professional Tool Division of the
Danaher Corporation.
Leavens began his career
with Danaher in 1997 in the
Lancaster area as a Marketing Manager for Danaher
PTD. He has held several
positions with Danaher and
most recently that of Senior
Brand Manager with strategic responsibility for several
key professional markets,
including hardware and
automotive. In his new role,
Jim will be responsible for
driving all marketing
initiatives involving
Danaher’s Hand and Service
tool business with the
National Auto Part Association (NAPA). Jim will be
relocating to the Atlanta area
to assume this position.
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Roy Crowe
305 North Rd
Garden City NY 11530
[email protected]
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Gayle Allison (mathematics) has been named by
Susquehanna Health System,
Williamsport, Pa., as one of
the C.A.R.E. Employees of
the Year for 2000.
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A mini reunion of several
close friends from the class
of 1982 was held in Great
Falls, Virginia, at the home of
Catherine (Milarczik) ’82
(political science) and Greg
Haymans in August of 2000.
Attending from left to right
were: Mary Kay (Steffich)
’82 (accounting), who came
with her husband Jeff Duus
’80 (biology). The Duuses
reside in Brookfield, Conn.,
with their two children,
Emily, 13, and James, 9.
Kim (Gammell) ’82 Loudis
(biology) came with her
husband, Matt, from their
home in Birdsboro, Pa. The
Loudises have two sons,
Kyle,12, and Bradley, 10.
Catherine (Milarczik) ’82
Haymans (political science)
and her husband, Greg, the
hosts for the reunion, live in
Great Falls with their
children, Caroline, 8, and
Andrew, 4. Valerie
(LaDuca) O’Connor ’78-79
attended with her husband,
Jeff. The O’Connors live in
Airmont, N.Y., with daughters, Lindsay, 12, and Lara, 8.
Kathleen (Cody) Brady ’82
(business administration) and
husband, Frank, arrived from
the farthest destination
coming from Thousand
Oaks, Calif., where they live
with their two sons, James, 9,
and Michael, 4. Sandra
(Sam) Milich ’82 (political
science) joined the group
with a short trip from
Alexandria, Va. Isabel (Van
Deusen) Landzert ’82
(communications) and
husband, Bart, traveled from
Green Bay, Wisc., where
they live with their two
children, Thomas, 10, and
Belle, 8. The weekend for
this group was a rousing time
for all, complete with a
limousine ride to Washington, D.C., to visit the U.S.
Capitol and Lincoln
Memorial.
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Theo Gude Truch
897 A Merritt Drive
Hillsborough NJ 08876
[email protected]
(908) 431-9073 (h)
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Kari L. Hebble (political
science) has joined investment manager Neuberger
Berman as a Regional Vice
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Management. Kari will
serve south and central New
Jersey as well as New York
City, marketing the firm’s
services to high net worth
individuals, trusts, foundations and family offices. Ms.
Hebble joins Neuberger
Berman with over 14 years
of financial consulting
experience. Previously, she
worked for PNC Advisors
and First Union Trust and
Private Banking Division.
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Tina Muheim
32 Summit Ave
Paoli PA 19301
(610) 695-9379 (h)
(215) 928-8436 (w)
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Albert W. Burba
(business administration) has
been promoted to the
Director of Marketing for
Airborne Express. Albert,
his wife, Colleen
(Gallagher) ’89, daughter,
Kathryn, 4, and son Matthew,
2, reside in Mill Creek,
Wash.
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Wendy Park Myers
10 Yorktown Drive
Shamong NJ 08088
(609) 268-5458 (h)
[email protected]
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Courtenay Wells Arendt
633 Oak Farm Court
Lutherville MD 21093
(410) 561-0909
Cheryl E. Good (business-management) is seeking
re-election for borough tax
collector. She was first
elected in 1997 and will be
completing her first 4-year
term this year. She resides in
Montoursville, Pa., with her
husband, Clifford, and five
children.
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Cindy Smith Snyderman
3 Edwin Miller Drive
Glen Mills, PA 19342
610-558-0998 (h)
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Delaware Valley’s High
School boys track team under
the able direction of Nicholas R. Barbieri (psychology)
second year coach, is
experiencing new found
success in its current day
four-year history. Barbieri, a
former long and triple jumper
in high school and college,
has been a guiding influence,
in this newly regenerated
track program.
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Julie Makatche
Alpharetta, GA 30005
(335 Mulberry Manor Court
770) 753- 1474
[email protected]
The Institute of Real
Estate Management (IREM)
recently awarded Kerri
(Bloom) Frick (business
management) the Accredited
Residential Manager (ARM)
certification. The ARM
certification is awarded to
managers of residential
property who meet IREM’s
strict requirements in the
areas of experience, education and ethical conduct.
IREM is a professional
association affiliated with the
National Association of
Realtors and has been
devoted to the development
and recognition of professionalism in real estate
management for over 60
years. Approximately 3,800
individuals nationwide have
achieved the ARM certification. They manage about
635,000 residential units.
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Class Scribe:
Karin Plummer Botto ’93
1022 Cardinal Rd
Audubon, PA 19403
work 610-660-1995
[email protected]
Shaun A. Chalk (accounting) has been promoted
to Vice President of Finance
at Lowe Lintas & Partners NY. Lowe Lintas & Partners
has agencies in over 80
countries and is considered
one of the world’s largest
advertising firms. Shaun was
formerly the Assistant
Director of Worldwide
Finance.
Cleveland Brothers has
announced the addition of
Randy Zangara (business
management) as a general
construction territory
manager at the White Deer,
Pa., location. As a territory
manager, Randy will be a
sales representative for
Caterpillar, NPK, Trail King
and Mauldin products
servicing the Lycoming,
Snyder and Union counties.
Jayme (Yerger)
Cashman (theatre/elementary ed) has been named
Outstanding Teacher of the
Year for the 2000-2001
school year at the Ronald H.
Brown Charter School in
Harrisburg, Pa. She was
selected for the honor by her
fellow staff members,
administration and school
board. Jayme is in her eighth
year of teaching but this is her
first year with the charter
school. Jayme and her
husband Bart reside is
Dillsburg, Pa.
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Class Scribe:
Michele L. Wawroski
445 Central Avenue
Needham, MA 02494
(781)444-2254 (h)
e-mail:
[email protected]
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Class Scribe:
Bob Martin ’95
2467 Route 10 East
Building 6 Unit 1-B
Morris Plains, NJ 07950
Home Phone :
(973) 401- 1983
[email protected]
Shannon (Stoner)
Marshall (history) recently
accepted a position with SC
Johnson (makers of Windex,
Glade, Pledge, Ziploc and
other brands) as a Major
Account Business Manager.
Shannon graduated with a
MA in American Studies
from Penn State in August
2000. She is currently
enrolled in a MBA program
at Medaille College in
Buffalo, N.Y. Shannon
resides in Akron, N.Y., with
her husband, Brian.
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Class Scribe:
Amy J. Ambrose
599 Orchard Drive
Wilmington, DE 19803
(302) 479-9159
e-mail: [email protected]
Awards were presented in
March for the 2000-2001
Theatre Season in Northeast
Pennsylvania. Cynthia
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nications/theatre) was
nominated and won “Best
Actress in a Drama” for the
Actors Circle production of
the “Beauty Queen of
Leenane”, which was the
1998 winner of four Tony
Awards. The event was held
at the Scranton Cultural
Center hosted by the Pennsylvania Film Festival. The
Co-Chairman for the event
was the late Jason Miller.
Deanna Barthlow
(psychology) has been a
graduate student at Kent
State University in Kent,
Ohio, since 1996. She
earned her M.A. in clinical
psychology in May, 1998.
Deanna defended her
doctoral dissertation in April,
2001. She will be completing an APA-accredited
psychology internship at the
Health and Counseling
Center of the University of
Oregon in Eugene, Oregon,
starting in September 2001.
Upon completion of her
internship, Deanna will
receive her Ph.D., in clinical
psychology in August 2002.
Michael L. Wodrig
(biology) graduated from
Cornell Veterinary University
on May 27, 2001, receiving
his New York certificate to
practice Veterinary Medicine.
He is currently working at
the Veterinary Hospital of
Greece, a suburb of Rochester, N.Y.
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Class Scribes:
Lauren Kolaya
1081 Oakland Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060-3411
[email protected]
908-755-5710 or 908-9620816
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Kirsten Schwalm Miller
122 Bressler St
Sayre PA 18840
(570)888-6486
[email protected]
Susquehanna Health
Systems of Williamsport, Pa.,
recently honored it nursing
professionals and presented
annual nursing awards for
outstanding contributions to
the field of nursing. Susan
Duchman, (nursing) a
registered nurse, received the
Pat Stopper Award for
Nursing Management.
Carrie L. Smith (communications) has recently
accepted the position of
Public Relations and Marketing Assistant for The
Settlement Music School in
Philadelphia, Pa.. The
Settlement Music School is
the largest community arts
school in the nation. Carrie
will be assisting with
marketing, public relations
and management of the
school’s website,
smsmusic.org.
Susanna Smucker (art)
graduated from Ohio
University with her master’s
in Fine Arts. She is currently
working with the Los
Angeles Opera.
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One of the questions Jessica
posed to Brenda was, “If
Timothy McVeigh’s execution is broadcast to survivors,
will it establish a dangerous
precedent?” Brenda feels no
precedent would be set
“simply because McVeigh’s
case is so unique. ‘There
have been very few, if any,
death penalty cases in U.S.
history with so many victims.
Thousands of people were
directly affected by the
Oklahoma bombing.... The
sheer breadth of McVeigh’s
terrorism makes this crime
and its punishment different
from anything else we’ve
ever seen.’ Brenda is
currently employed as
communications director at
the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington,
D.C.
Heather Duda (English)
graduated in May with an
MA in Literature from the
University of Maryland.
Heather is now a full-time
Academic Advisor at the
College Park campus of the
University of Maryland.
Michael Gaydon
(business-management) has
been named to the Muncy
High School Athletic Hall of
Fame. Mike lettered all four
years on the Muncy High
School basketball team from
1990-1993 and was selected
as the Mid-Penn Most
Valuable Player during his
sophomore and senior
seasons. Mike scored a
record-setting 1,672 points
during his high school career.
He also led Lycoming
County in scoring his senior
year with 585 points, which
set a Muncy record. Gaydon
played two seasons of
basketball for Lycoming and
lettered both years.
Kelly Marie Norton
(philosophy) received a
Doctor of Jurisprudence
degree from The Dickinson
School of Law of The
Pennsylvania State University during commencement
ceremonies held in Carlisle,
Pa., on May 25, 2001. While
at Dickinson, Kelly was a
senior staff member of the
Dickinson Law Review.
Kelly will be an associate in
the law firm of Barley,
Snyder, Senft & Cohen, in
Lancaster, Pa.
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Brenda Bowser
8750 Georgia Avenue Apt.
1231A
Georgian Towers
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(301) 563-6956
[email protected]
Brenda Bowser (political
science) was recently
interviewed by Jessica
Reaves for TIME.com
website on the subject
“Closed-Circuit-TV Executions: A Step Too Far?”.
Theatre and music alumni and friends paid a special musical tribute to
Jimmy Denton, former member of the theatre faculty, who died earlier this
summer. From left Darren Hengst ’99 (on knee), Bernadette Ulrich ’99,
and Glenn Klein ’93.
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A Tale of Two Ministers
On May 20, 2001, Daven
Oskvig ’99 was introduced to
the congregation of the First
United Methodist Church of
Westborough, Massachusetts, as
the student pastor for the
summer, part of the field
experience in which Oskvig
must participate as a seminary
student at Boston University.
Daven was introduced by Rev.
George Bieber ’41 who told the
Rev. Bieber and Daven Oskvig
congregation something that
neither Daven nor they yet
knew: Bieber and Oskvig were alumni of the same institution in Pennsylvania.
Bieber and Oskvig share an appreciation for the excellent preparation in the study of the
Bible that both Dickinson Junior College and Lycoming provided them. Both also found
themselves in the ministry because they were called.
Rev. Bieber was called at the age of 12 and with a local preacher’s license found himself as
pastor of a church in Trout Run at the age of 16. By the time he had started at Dickinson Junior
College, he also had a small church in Nisbet. Bieber finished his bachelor’s degree at Juniata
and went on to the Boston University School of Theology where Daven is studying. He also
received a doctorate in clinical psychology in 1952. Bieber’s career has been a series of small
churches and his business card reads “spiritual healer.” He has a book coming out this fall on
spiritual healing Miracles in the Making, published by Sealoss Valley Books.
Since retiring in 1988, Bieber has had three more churches and now preaches at special
services of the Westborough church. Bieber calls himself a Methodist maverick given to
sermons with such titles as “For God’s Sake, Shut Up,” “Christians Must be Selfish,” and
“Hurrah for Sin.”
Like Bieber, Oskvig received a call to the ministry at the age of 17. His brother is a minister
as well. While studying at Lycoming, he spent his summers in park ministry as student pastor in
Pennsylvania state parks, a program run by the Pennsylvania Council of Churches. While he is
reeling with considerable student debt, Oskvig is also thinking about continuing on in graduate
school and completing his doctorate.
Ostvig feels that he is getting “the wisdom of a lifetime in the ministry” from Dr. Bieber. “It
is probably his sense of humor that I also cherish and hope to emulate in my own life. However, I also take the seriousness that he approaches doing the work of ministry and preaching the
Gospel.”
Bieber’s advice to Daven is to “find a way to make the necessary themes [of Christianity]
understandable to the modern generation.”
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Cowell Falls
Lions Gate Apt. 424
Waupelani Drive J31
State College, PA 16801
[email protected]
(814) 235-0486
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Greg Bell is employed by
PRIMUS Technologies
Corporation in Williamsport
Jennifer Nohai (mathematics) recently received
her M.S. degree in Education
at Binghamton University.
Alexander R. Seaman
(music) graduated on May
20, 2001 from Binghamton
of the Binghamton University Chamber Ensemble. He
will be taking a year off
before pursuing his
doctorate.
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Amanda Peterman
115 Carpenter St.
Muncy, PA 17756
(570) 546-9440
[email protected]
Katie (Wuestner) Bell 00
is employed by the Industrial
Modernization Center in
Williamsport.
What’s
in store!
Baby Bibs
Sweatshirts
Chairs
Lamps
and even Old Main
on-line at the
Lycoming College
Store
http://
www.lycoming.edu/
dept/bookstore
University with a Master of
Music in Composition. He
also received the Foundation
Award for Creative Work in
Fine Arts. During his time at
Binghamton University, his
works were performed by the
Binghamton University
Chorus, Women’s Chorus,
Hapur Chorale and members
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Theresa McGee and Michael
C. Flaherty ’88 were
married on October 27, 2000,
at St. Joseph’s Church in
Boothwyn, Pa.
Tammi R. Strauser ’94 and
Keith W. Cremer were
married on April 28, 2001, in
South Williamsport, Pa.
Kristen McDonald and
Michael J. Samson ’94
exchanged vows on May 26,
2001, at the Watsontown
United Methodist Church in
Watsontown, Pa.
Amy Marie Gownley and
Joel J. Digris ’95 were
united in marriage on July 8,
2001, at St. Joseph’s Church
in Girardville, Pa.
Linley A. Stover ’96 and
Sean Timothy Mannello ’93
were married March 12,
2000, in Maui, Hawaii.
Kristi Margevich ’96 and
Peter J. Ressler, Jr. ’94
were married on May 27,
2001, in Radnor Township.
Picture with list of alumni
attending.
Bridget Fitzpatrick and
Adam Drake ’96 were
married on June 30, 2001, in
Center Valley, Pa.
Cynthia A. Teets and
Michael M. McAndrew were
married on July 14, 2001, at
the First Presbyterian Church
of Clarks Summit, Pa. Tricia
Clarke Willett ’96 did a
reading in the ceremony and
Dawn Creasy ’96 was in
attendance.
Christianne Vaughn ’97 and
Alan J. Harpster ’00 were
married on May 19, 2001, in
Williamsport, Pa. Bonnie
Penman ’96 was maid of
honor, Bill Gehron ’99 was
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Babbony ’99 was a
bridesmaid.
Holly A. Sickert ’97
and R. Christopher
Barros were married on
July 14, 2001, in
Dedham, Mass. Jenny
Glick ’97 was a
bridesmaid.
Geoffery A. Boblick ’98
and Jill Gearhart ’98
exchanged vows on April 21,
2001, in Mountainhome, Pa.
Members of the bridal party
were Terry McLaughlin
’98, Coley Crouse ’98,
Matthew Wolfe ’98,
Jennifer Morral ’99 and
Jamie Newhard ’99.
Lisa K. Moore ’98 and
Jared F. Rivera were married
on March 10, 2001, in
Easton, Pa.
Tracy Leader ’98 and Shane
Stoneroad were married on
May 26, 2001 in Halifax, Pa.
Lauren Mugione ’98 was
maid of honor, Kathleen
Kallen ’99 was a bridesmaid,
Tracy’s brother, Todd
Leader ’02 was an usher and
April Sparks ’98 was in
attendance.
Elizabeth Miller ’99 and
Benjamin G. Naylor ’98 on
July 14, 2001 in York, Pa.
Cowell Falls ’99 and
Christopher M. Gemberling
were married on May 25,
2001, at Trinity Lutheran
Church in State College, Pa.
Amber L. Irion ’99 and
Gregory A. Barto were
married on May 7, 2001 in
Muncy, Pa.
Kara M. Koziol ’99 and
Jerome J. Moran ’99 were
married at Shiloh United
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Stephanie M. Smith
’00 and Lenny Romano
were married at St.
Mary’s Church in
Lancaster, Pa., on June
23, 2001.
Mary Catherine
“Katie” Wuestner ’00
and Greg Bell, ’99 were
married on June 16,
2001, in Clarke Chapel.
Top Row- left to right : Lisa Phillips
The Reverend J. Marco
’99, Laurie Scherer ’02, Holly
Hunsberger
officiated. The
Hiergeist ’98, Stephanie Smithwedding party included
Romano ’00, Jennifer Walter Wetzel
’99, Alison Smith ’97, Britton Ruff
Alison Shaffer ’00 and Jay
’99, Elena Porchia ’97, Nicole
Wingard
’99.
Ferlisi-Firth ’97; Bottom Row- left
Also in attendance were:
to right: Pamela Featenby ’98,
Jennifer Hirko ’01, Kristin
Joe Albeck ’00, Lesley
McParlan ’97, Stacey Mitchell ’99,
Ammon ’00, Brian Artim
Cindy Amorim ’99
’99, Kevin Boles ’00, Melissa
Borgerson ’00, Ryan
Church of Christ in Danville
Broughton ’00, Keith Davis
in September 2000.
’00, Wayne Dieffenderfer,
Kimberly R. Myers ’99 and
’99, Amber Douglass ’02,
Corey R. Hunter were
Jess Flory ’98, Bill Gehron
married at Faith United
IV ’99, Minta George ’00,
Methodist Church in
Dr. Mehrdad Madresehee, Tia
Montoursville, Pa., on June
Magargle ’00, Mark
23, 2001.
McCleland ’99, Anne
McMunn, Jennie
Jennifer L.
Missigman ’00,
Walter ’99 and
Erin Mumma
Eric M. Wetzel,
’01, Jonathan
October 21,
Merckens, ’99,
2000, in
Jennifer Nohai
Sunbury, Pa.,
’99, Azure
Britton Ruff
Reaser ’00, Alex
’99 was maid of
Seaman ’99, Dr.
honor (correcPhilip Sprunger,
tion).
Kerri Stauffer
’02, Maria
Jeanine (Evans)
Taylor ’00,
’00 and Donald
Wuestner-Bell Wedding
Marc ’99 and
F. Page, Jr. were
Amanda (Pfaff)
married on May
’98 Tipton, Dr. Mark Toncar,
23, 2001.
Adrienne Wydra ’02, and
Phil Zimmerman ’02.
Amanda Eisner ’00 and
.
Michael Holmes ’98 were
Jennifer N. Brooks ’01 and
married on May 19, 2001, at
Robert E. Carter, Jr., were
All Saints Episcopal Church,
married at Lampeter United
Williamsport, Pa.
Methodist Church in
Lancaster on May 26, 2001.
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A daughter, Isabella
Alexandra, to Celeste and
Robert F. Johnson ’75. June
28,2001.
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A daughter, Emma Page, to
Amy (Archer) ’86 and
Randall T. Caccia, September 11, 2000.
A daughter, Amanda Rose, to
Ann (Culhane) ’87 and
Steven Hopper, June 12,
2001.
A son, Benjamin Andrew to
Carol (Helstrom) ’88 and
Herbold Wagner III ’87,
July 5, 2001. He joins a
brother, Herbold IV, 2.
A daughter, Elizabeth Anne,
to Julie (Hottle) ’88 and
Edward Day, July 17, 2001.
She joins brother,
Alexander, 3.
A daughter, Nicole Ames to
Wendy and John DelBono
’89, June 29, 2001. She joins
a brother, John, 2 1/2.
A daughter, Erica, to Allyson
and Douglas G. Fealtman
’89. June 21, 2000. She joins
a brother, Dylan,4.
A son, Riley Cadden, to
Celeste and Shawn Langen
’89, April 11, 2001. He joins
a sister, Grace, 1 1/2.
A son, Preston Tyler, to
Jennifer (Piper) ’89 and
David McNamara, December
12, 2000.
A daughter, Tessa Leray, to
Michelle and Joseph A.
(Jody) Bitner ’90, May 15,
2001. She joins a brother,
Bryce, 3 1/2.
A daughter, Isabel Roberts,
to Heather (Franklin) ’90
and V. Peter Traphagen ’90,
May 25, 2001. She joins a
brother, Will, 3 1/2 and a
sister, Olivia, 21 months.
CLASS NOTES
Douglas and Allyson Fealtman with Erica and Dylan
A son, Christopher Nicholas,
to Nicole and Danny C.
Onorato ’91, December 30,
2000.
A daughter, Abigail Marie, to
Christine (Carabini) ’92
and George Lokitis, June 20,
2001. She joins a brother,
Nicholas, 3 1/2.
A daughter, Brooke Elizabeth, to AnnMarie
(Reppert) ’92 and Mark
Cieless, March 26, 2001.
A daughter, Bayli Margaret,
to Elaine (O’Connell) ’92
and Jason A. Lake ’95, July
5, 2001. She joins a sister,
Misty, 5.
A son, Ryan Scott, to Angie
and David E. Becker ’93,
August 1, 2000.
A daughter, Emily Paiten, to
Aimee (Tellep) ’93 and
Joseph J. Dolejs, Jr., February 28, 2001.
A son, Maxwell David, to
Joanne and David L.
Troutman ’93, May 4, 2000.
A daughter, Abigail Rose, to
Maureen (Hall) ’93 and
Kenneth R. O’Connor ’94,
March 25, 2001. She joins a
sister Emma Marie, 2 1/2 .
A daughter, Lauren Rae, to
Amanda (Weaver) ’94 and
Michael Watkins, December
29, 2000.
A daughter, Emily, to Dianne
(Buck) ’95 and Russell S.
Ritner, February 20, 2001.
She joins a sister, Rachel, 2.
A son, Aiden Peter to Kara
(LaCoe) ’95 and Jason
Curry, March 2, 2001.
A daughter, Myah Marie, to
Karen (Maurer) ’95 and
Brian E. Smeltz, October 9,
2000.
A son, Ryan, to Andrea
(Girio) ’95 and Kevin E.
Weinhoffer, March 16, 2001.
A daughter, Audrey Brynn,
to Amy (Dils) ’96 and Brian
K. Shomper, April 9, 2001.
A son, Niko Bay, to Karen
(Flook) ’96 and Kuljeet
Singh, April 5, 2001.
A son, Timothy Patrick, to
Annette (Weller) ’96 and
Timothy M. Kinney ’94,
January 25, 2001.
A son, Matthew Rodger, to
Tracey (Hawkins) ’97 and
Daniel Rebuck, January 9,
2001.
A daughter, Kayann
Michelle, to Patricia
(Booth) ’99 and Christopher
F. Coote, February 15, 2001.
As the holiday season
approaches, the spirit of
giving becomes more
meaningful to everyone,
and we show esteem for
friends and family with
thoughtful gifts. In the
same spirit, you can
choose from a variety of
gifts that will sustain
Lycoming College while
allowing you great tax
benefits in the coming
year.
Cash Gifts
Simply write a check to
Lycoming College, and
you may be able to
deduct all or part of your
gift, depending on your
adjusted gross income.
Appreciated Securities
Avoid the capital gains
tax, and take advantage
of a charitable income tax
deduction.
Life Income Gifts
Place assets in a charitable remainder trust to:
eliminate capital gains
taxes on appreciated
assets
receive income for
life
save current income
taxes
One Last Reminder
Any gift to Lycoming
College by December
31st supports our
commitment to excellence in community
service and helps you
maximize your tax
deductions.
For further
information, contact
Lauri K. Fink
at 570-321-4036
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LYCOMING COLLEGE MAGAZINE • FALL ’01
CLASS NOTES
I N
1927
Gladys Long McKay
Fraser died June 6, 2001 at
Burke Health Care Center in
Burke, VA. She is survived
by two daughters.
1931
M E M O R I A M
Services were held on May
12, 2001 at St. David’s
Church in Florida, for Carl
H. Thaler. He is survived
by three sons.
1944
Helen E. Clevenger died
June 18, 2001. She is
survived by a sister, Sara
(Clevenger) Charles.
Barbara W. Stewart of
Towanda died May 8, 2001,
at Robert Packer Hospital,
Sayre, PA. There were no
immediate survivors.
1933
1948
Robert A. Elder died
peacefully in the
Williamsport Hospital on
April 29, 2001. He is
survived by his wife of 61
years, Mary, a son and a
daughter.
Henry F. Frey, Sr. passed
away on May 19, 2001, at his
farm in Muncy Township,
PA. He is survived by his
wife, Linda, a daughter and
two sons.
Helen Mallalieu Golder
died May 18, 2001, at
Venice, Florida. She is
survived by her husband of
65 years, Robert.
Paul G. Kackenmeister died
June 20, 2001, at the
Williamsport Home. He is
survived by his wife,
Genevieve, a son and two
daughters.
Charles J. Stockwell of
Williamsport, died on July
28, 2001. He is survived by
his wife Mary Elizabeth, and
three daughters.
1942
Elizabeth Fulmer
Castlebury Moltz of
Fullerton, CA died on July
19, 2001. She is survived by
a daughter and a son.
1951
Claire E. Kaufman of
Pennsdale, PA, died on July
21, 2001, at his residence
following an extended
illness. He is survived by his
wife, Betty, two sons and a
step-son.
1953
Robert L. Blaser died May
13, 2001 in Newark, NY. He
is survived by his wife, Jean
(Hoover) ’54 and a son.
Word has been received of
the passing of Walter C.
DeGenring, Jr. on August 8,
2000. There are no known
survivors.
1965
1956
Kathleen Brett Wheeler lost
her battler with pancreatic
cancer on June 18, 2001. She
is survived by her husband,
Mike, and three daughters.
Word has been received of
the passing of Thomas M.
Donahue on January 31,
1995.
1957
Thomas D. Stutzman died
January 29, 2001, in
Lancaster, Pa. He is survived
by his wife, Laretta.
1973
1974
William H. Bird died on
June 7, 2001, in the emergency room of the Muncy
Valley Hospital. He is
survived by his wife,
Madeline (Thomke) ’57, a
son and three daughters.
Katharine Rose Sudekum
lost her battle with breast
cancer on May 27, 2001, in
Athens, GA. She is survived
by her parents and a sister.
For further information,
contact Eric Schoneberger at
[email protected].
1958
1977
Dr. Nicholas Delgalvis died
on July 11, 2001, at the
Williamsport Home. He is
survived by his wife, Daina,
three sons and two daughters.
Arda Marie Dage lost her
battle with cancer on May 23,
2001, in Severn, MD. She is
survived by her parents, a
sister and two brothers.
1962
Rev. William F.
Zimmerman died on July 7,
2001, at his son’s home
where he resided in Front
Royal, Virgina. He is
survived by his wife, Shirley,
two sons and a daughter.
Jimmy Denton, former
member of theatre faculty
and director of numerous
Lycoming productions,
died of a heart attack, June
28, 2001. See page 44.
Tired of 4% (or less) returns? Does 7% or 8% strike your fancy?
Today, a gift annuity might pay you eight percent (8%) or more, depending upon
It’s not too
your age. Here’s even better news—it’s guaranteed—and the payments to you are
partially tax free.
good to be true!
Charitable Gift Annuity Rates
AGES RATE AGE RATE
60/55 5.8%
60
6.4%
65/60 6.2%
65
6.7%
70/65 6.4%
70
7.2%
72/67 6.5%
72
7.4%
76/71 6.8%
76
8.0%
80/75 7.3%
80
8.9%
90/85 9.2%
90 12.0%
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Q: How does it work?
A: A gift annuity is a contract between a donor and a charity, backed by all of the assets
of the charity. It provides a fixed monthly payment for life for one or more donors.
Q: How much can I earn?
A: If you are 65, you will receive 6.7%; if you are 72, the payment will be 7.4%. Please
see the table to find the payments for your age.
For further
There is a “two-life table” for couples.
Best of all: your gift will help Lycoming College continue to offer
the very finest education available to the residents of our community.
information,
contact
Lauri K. Fink at
570-321-4036.