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EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
ALUMNI HERALD
Spring 2006
Volume 18, Number 1
A member of the
Pennsylvania State System
of Higher Education
Warren Hoeffner ’55:
Successful businessman
and philanthropist is an
educator at heart.
Page 12.
Dr. Arindam Basu M’97
battles deadly arsenic
epidemic in India. Page 7.
Meet the ‘heart and
soul’ of ESU women’s
basketball. Page 20.
Alumni Weekend Is June 2-3 ... Details on Page 24
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Opening Remarks
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Send “Who’s Doing What” news as well
as wedding, engagement and birth
announcements to:
Henry A. Ahnert, Jr.,
Alumni Center
East Stroudsburg University
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East Stroudsburg, PA 18301
FAX: (570) 422-3301
or E-mail: [email protected]
Be sure to include:
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otherwise.
The “Who’s Doing What,” Weddings,
Engagements, and Births sections in the Alumni
Herald are a report on the happenings in the
lives of East Stroudsburg University alumni. The
information we collect comes from alumni and
from various media sources and we believe it is
accurate. The Alumni Herald does not discriminate
against anyone for any reason nor does it reflect the
views or attitudes of ESU or its Alumni Association.
Any editing that takes place is done solely for the
purpose of clarity and /or length.
Dear Alumni and Friends of ESU,
As you read this issue of the Alumni Herald, the university is preparing to begin construction of a stateof-the-art, Science and Technology Center. You may recall a cold day in January 2002 when Governor Mark
Schweiker visited campus to announce that the state would provide matching dollar support in the amount of $14.6
million toward the project. Now, it is with a tremendous sense of pride and excitement that I am announcing the
groundbreaking for the center — the first significant academic building project authorized on campus in about
two decades. This historic event will be held on Friday, April 28, at 2 p.m. at the construction site located on
Ransberry and Normal streets, across from the Reibman Administration Building.
The groundbreaking will also announce the public phase of our Comprehensive Campaign, “Today’s Dream,
Tomorrow’s Reality.” The university’s $15 million comprehensive campaign has been in a very active “Quiet
Phase” since 2003. A campaign of this scope must reach 50 percent or more of its goal before entering its “Public
Phase.” I am pleased to report that, thanks to the diligent work of our Office of University Advancement and
the generosity of our donors during the quiet phase, more than 50 percent of our $15 million goal has now been
achieved through cash and pledges to the campaign. Funds raised during the Comprehensive Campaign support
the Science and Technology Center, Annual Fund, Endowment, Athletic Facilities and Fine and Performing Arts
Endowment.
One of our most generous supporters is Warren Hoeffner ’55, a very successful businessman, philanthropist,
and family man whose love for education inspired him to set up a scholarship fund at ESU many years ago. Most
recently, his belief in education coupled with his innate business sensibility led him to provide significant support
toward the new Science and Technology Center because he understands it will help his alma mater to graduate
students with the kind of scientific and technological background required of tomorrow’s leaders. Our cover and
feature article is dedicated to this engaging alumnus… who almost became a teacher and sometimes still wishes
he had. Turn to Page 12 to read about him.
Another intriguing alumnus featured in this issue is Dr. Arindam Basu M’97, an epidemiologist and expert on
environmental issues who has risen to prominence in his native India. There he is working to allay an epidemic of
environmental arsenic poisoning that so far has stricken more than 150 million people in the states of West Bengal
and Bangladesh. His fascinating story begins on Page 7.
The university is continuing to grow, with nearly 6,800 students enrolled in the spring semester. To
help welcome and accommodate ever-increasing numbers of interested prospective students, the Reibman
Administration Building will soon be home to an attractive new Admissions Welcoming Center. The 20,000square-foot addition to the building was completed this winter, and the Admission Office personnel are preparing
to move into their new home.
Please accept my sincere gratitude for your continued generosity and assistance. I look forward to seeing you
on campus during Alumni Weekend, June 2-3.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Dillman
President
Robert J. Dillman, Ph.D.
University President
Isaac W. Sanders, Ph.D.
Vice President for University Advancement
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official publication for
East Stroudsburg University’s Alumni and
is published three times a year.
Please address all correspondence to:
Alumni Relations
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570-422-3533
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Opening Remarks
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John J. Ross
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Michelle Dramé
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Contributors
Amanda Bruck, Kenneth Clark,
Vincent Dent, Regina Deverio,
Michelle Dramé, Christina Fenton ’00
Perry Hebard, Bob Kelley ’71,
Pete Nevins M’84,
Tania Ramirez, Michelle Rupp,
John J. Ross, Douglas F. Smith,
Sheree B. Watson, Ryan Yanoshak M’05
Alumni Board of Directors
Roger L. DeLarco ’80
President
Lisa Rinaldi Lewis ’80
Vice President
Virginia H. Sten ’71
Secretary
Laura P. Baatz ’00
DeWitt “Chip” A. Blunden ’82
Suzanne A. Chludzinski ’90
Nicholas L. DiGregory ’76
Dr. Anthony L. Drago ’76
Eugenia S. Eden ’72
Robert C. Edwards ’55
Dr. Betty Collins Henrie ’44
Patricia Alberts Hibschman ’62
Robert A. Kearn ’58
Gerald D. Keyser ’59
Susan B. Koomar ’88
Deborah A. Kulick ’80
John T. Lambert ’54
Ted E. Martz ’47
Mark J. Mecca ’96
Maurice J. Molin ’76
Charles J. Morton ’64
Gina Rodriguez Morton ‘98
James B. Nesbitt, Jr. ’74
Sandra “Pinky” O’Neil-Seiler ’57
Mike J. Romano, Jr. ’74
Dr. Faye Dallmeyer Soderberg ’58
Irving “Itch” Sommer ’50
Holli A. VanHook ’93
Timothy M. Weisse ’74
Emeriti
James “Pat” Hyde ’63
Phyllis M. Kirschner ’63
Dr. Frank Michael Pullo ’73
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East Stroudsburg
University of
Pennsylvania does
not discriminate on the
basis of race, color,
religion, national origin,
sex, veteran status,
disability or age in its
programs and activities
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The following person
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regarding this policy:
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Stroudsburg, PA 18301,
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The heart of a teacher
beats inside this
savvy businessman,
philanthropist and
ESU alumnus,
Warren Hoeffner ’55.
Page 10.
Dr. Isaac Sanders
Vice President for University
Advancement and Executive
Director, ESU Foundation
Laurie Schaller
Executive Staff Assistant
John J. Ross
Director of Alumni Engagement
Michelle Dramé
Coordinator of Alumni Services
Tania Ramirez
Alumni Relations Secretary
Ella Kaiser
Development Secretary
Robert Kelley
Major Gifts/Planned Giving Officer
Christina Fenton
Coordinator of Annual Funds
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Features
Ahnert Alumni Center
800-775-8975
Vincent Dent
Interim Director of Development
Contents
Remember any of these folks
from the Varsity S Club?
You might see a few of them if
you come to Alumni Weekend,
June 2-3. Details on Page 24
Athletic trainer in
training Jasmine Gittens
is the “heart and soul”
of the winning Warriors
women’s basketball team.
Page 20
John Shewchuk
Database Manager
Mona Uathavikul
Accountant
Roberta Russell
Secretary/Receptionist
Cynthia Lavin
Development / Major Gifts /
Annual Fund Secretary
Sandra Arden
Prospect Researcher
Teresa Werkheiser
Coordinator of Donor Relations &
Stewardship
Departments
Back in the Day ...........................24
Births ...........................................18
Campus News ...............................3
Engagements ................................9
Events............................................6
Gatherings .........................4, 11, 15
Giving Opportunities ..................4, 5
Groundbreaking Scheduled
for Science and Technology Center
Groundbreaking for the new, state-of-the-art, Science and
Technology Center will take place on Friday, April 28, at 2 p.m. at the
construction site located on Ransberry and Normal streets, across from
the Reibman Administration Building.
The groundbreaking will also signal the kick-off of the “Public
Phase” of ESU’s Comprehensive Campaign, “Today’s Dream,
Tomorrow’s Reality,” the focal point of which is the new building.
Other areas that will benefit from the $15 million Comprehensive
Campaign are the Annual Fund, Endowment, Athletic Facilities and
Fine and Performing Arts Endowment.
The comprehensive campaign has been in a very active “Quiet
Phase” since 2003. A campaign of this scope must reach 50 percent or
more of its goal before entering its “Public Phase.” Thanks to the diligent
work of our Office of University Advancement and the generosity of our
donors during the quiet phase, that point has been reached.
For further information on ESU’s Comprehensive Campaign,
“Today’s Dream, Tomorrow’s Reality,” call 570-422-3530 or
800-775-8975.
Heritage Society ............................4
In Memoriam................................19
Opening Remarks..........................2
Warrior Spirit .......................... 20-23
Weddings............................... 16-17
“Who’s Doing What” ................ 8-10
Epidemiologist
Dr. Arindam Basu M’97
toils in India to halt a
massive arsenic poisoning
epidemic.
Page 7
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Phi Sigma Sigma Reunion
The Phi Sigma Sigma sorority reunited at the
Dansbury Depot on Saturday, January 28th.
After touring the Alumni Center, and visiting
the ESU Bookstore, eleven “sisters” gathered
to reminisce. They look forward to planning
future get-togethers and welcome other Phi
Sigma Sigmas to join them. They meet in
Philadelphia, Allentown, and now at East
Stroudsburg University. If interested, please
contact Lori Pogharian Smith at lori_
[email protected] or Shelley Speirs
Aston at [email protected].
Pictured are, back row, L to R: Jill Charney O’Connor ’95;
Deena Kearn Boback ’93; Kathleen Huber McHugh ’92;
Jennifer Barteck ’92; Nancy Krupczak Evans (attended
until ’93); Meghan Dunn Kemler ’92 with baby Jack Richard
Kemler. born Nov. 16, 2005. Front row, L to R: Lori
MacNamee Gilbert ‘93; Lori Pogharian Smith ‘93; Doreen
Condro Pappas ‘92; Diane Ambrosiano Martinetti ‘95; and
Shelley Speirs Aston ‘92.
Career Day: February 28, 2006
ESU alumni represented their employers with pride
as they participated in Career Day on February 28.
Approximately 40 hotel and tourism businesses
as well as other local establishments came out to
encourage ESU students to apply for employment
within their organizations. There was a show of
great enthusiasm and support from ESU alumni
which ended the day with a complimentary lunch
at PJ’s Café on campus.
Jennifer Simpson ’05
Photos courtesy Margaret Persia
Nick Rue ’05 and Neil Griffith ’05
Christine Andrew ’01
Class of ’56 to Memorialize Don Toth
This year as the Class of ’56 prepares to celebrate its
50 anniversary since graduating, members also pause to
reflect on one individual who is not part of the revelry.
Don Toth was a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army who
lost his life on January 11, 1963, in Viet Nam, the first
Pennsylvanian fatality of that conflict. He had flown 26
successful missions and shortly would have had 20 years
of service in the Army.
Originally from Pen Argyl, Toth joined his class at the
age of 32 (after being a paratrooper of the 101st Airborne
in World War II) to become a physical education teacher.
As a student he participated on the football, swimming
and tennis teams. He was instrumental in many rescue
missions, as a member of the National Guard, when East
Stroudsburg had the famous Flood of 1955.
Don’s dream of being a teacher was never realized,
but through this initiative by his class, his memory and
dream will live on through current ESU students.
Individuals wishing to contribute to this project
should contact the ESU Advancement Office at 800-7758975 or 570-422-3530.
th
The Heritage Society was established by the East Stroudsburg
University Foundation to recognize alumni and friends who are ensuring
that ESU will have the financial resources to continue its rich tradition of
educational excellence for generations to come. Members of the Heritage
Society have made a commitment to the long-term future of ESU.
Providing for the future well-being of your family and, at the same
time, supporting ESU’s mission can be accomplished through a variety
of “planned gifts.” These contributions include bequests and incomeproducing gifts, and can benefit your family now and in the future. They
are gifts that will live on, supporting ESU for many generations to come.
The Heritage Society is open to individuals who make a provision
for ESU through a bequest in their wills or through a variety of other
planned gift options, such as Charitable Remainder Trust, Pooled
Income Fund, and Charitable Gift Annuity.
For more information, call the University Advancement office at
570-422-3333 or toll-free, 800-775-8975. All inquiries will be kept
confidential.
Spring 2006
Alumni Herald
Sample Annuity Rates
Single Life
Age
60
65
70
75
80
Annuity Rate
5.7%
6.0%
6.5%
7.1%
8.0%
Double Life
Age
70/70
75/70
81/80
Annuity Rate
5.9%
6.1%
5.9%
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Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
April 2 Metro DC Event
Treat yourself to an elegant brunch
at the Army Navy Country Club in
Arlington, Va.
June 2-3 Alumni Weekend
Make plans now to attend this annual
event for all alumni.
Spring 2006
ESU Alumni Events
Reservation Form
Depending on where you live, we may not mail an invitation for each event
to your residence. Therefore, if you want to attend an event or would like
more information, please complete and return this form.
Name(s) ____________________________________________________
Class ______________________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________________
Phone (________) ____________________________________________
April 8 Alpha Chi Rho Golf
It’s a day on the green! Tee time is
8:30 a.m. at the Shawnee Inn and
Golf Resort. $75 fee includes a round
of golf with cart, lunch and prizes.
Spaces are filling up fast. Please
contact Mike Fenning ’87 at 732607-6311 or [email protected].
July 2-15
Explore Greek Isles
Travel to Greece and cruise aboard
the Grand Princess, fares starting at
$3,416 per person.
An exciting day will be had by all
at the ABC TV studios in N.Y. to
watch the taping of the highly rated
television show, “The View,” with
Barbara Walters. Afterward, it’s
off to lunch at the famous ABC
Commissary where you can dine
alongside famous TV stars.
May 6 ESU Rugby Club
Let the games begin! The women’s
match vs. Drexel will start at 11 a.m.
The men’s alumni vs. the current
men’s players will start at 1 p.m.
May 11
May 24 - June 6
‘DaVinci Code’ Tour
Travel to Italy and France for this
13 day, fully escorted tour for only
$3,895 per person based on double
occupancy. For more information
please contact Professor Brian
Sickels at (570) 422-3699.
___________________________________________________________
Please send me more information on the following event(s):___________
___________________________________________________________
Stay tuned for more information …
Wolf Trap at the Filene Center
Washington National Baseball Game
If applicable:
Total enclosed $ _____________________________________________
Checks should be made payable to: ESU Foundation
Please bill my credit card:___ Visa___ Mastercard ___ American Express
July 17
Golf Outing
It’s a day of golfing on the beautiful
Tunkhannock golf course. Be there
or be square!
July 24-29
Travel to Canada
Card Number ________________________________ Exp Date_________
Signature ___________________________________________________
Mail your reservation/request to:
200 Prospect Street
Or call in your guaranteed reservation to Tania at 800-775-8975 or visit
www.esualumni.org.
See the “Great White North” via a
cruise on the Carnival Victory from
New York for only $751 per person!
Delco Event
This year we’ll see you at Kildare’s
Pub in Media for a fun-filled evening
with fellow ESU alumni.
I would like to attend the following event(s): ________________________
___________________________________________________________
Summer Metro DC Events
April 18 NYC: ‘The View’
E-mail _____________________________________________________
August 5
Beach Bash
It’s the lazy hazy crazy days of
summer at the New Jersey Shore!
Eat, drink and bask in the the sun.
August 12
Scranton/Wilkes Barre
Alumni Gathering
Once again we will return to see a
great day of baseball, but this time
around we’ll start the festivities with
a pre-game tailgate. Tickets for the
game are only $8 per person and
we’ll coordinate the tailgate.
August 11-19
Irish Heritage Tour
Travel in Ireland aboard luxury
motorcoach, fares start as low as
$2,494.
October 21 Homecoming
Everyone’s favorite event! Mark your
calendars now!!!
Fall Metro DC Events
Stay tuned for more information…
♦ Sept/Oct “Shear Madness” at the
Kennedy Center.
♦ Nov “Capitol Steps” (Musical
Political Satire) at the Ronald
Regan Building.
For a complete, up-to-date
listing of alumni events visit
the online community at
www.esualumni.org.
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From ESU to Environmental War Front
Dr. Arindam Basu M’97 Toils in India to Halt Massive Arsenic Poisoning Epidemic
By Kenneth Clark
Dr. Arindam Basu M’97, an epidemiologist
and expert on environmental issues, recently
returned to ESU, meeting with professors and
administrators and speaking to several classes.
Dr. Basu has risen to prominence in his native
India where he is working to allay what he calls
“one of the worst environmental calamities in this
century.” The calamity is an epidemic of arsenic
poisoning that so far has stricken more than 150
million people in the states of West Bengal and
Bangladesh. Dealing with it is just what he was
trained to do — by the faculty at ESU.
In addition to the arsenic crisis, Basu has
investigated and exposed a greedy corporate polluter
that left a mound of death at an abandoned asphalt
mine in India’s Roro region. He works on prevention
of cancer, which is rampant in his homeland. He is a
certified ear, nose and throat specialist with expertise
in microsurgery, and in his spare time, he worries
about the rising menace of what may become the next
worldwide pandemic — bird flu.
Not all his work has been in the front lines of
public health. Scholastically, he has attended seven
universities, including the University of California
at Berkeley, where he recently spent six months
as a visiting scholar and lecturer. So what is a
scientist of such repute, accepted at several major
medical schools when he decided to study in the
United States, doing, getting his master’s degree at
a small school he didn’t know existed until he got
there? He fairly glows at the question.
“ESU was one of the first schools that
attracted my attention because it offered a
master’s in public health,” he said. “That was very
meaningful to me. I applied and they immediately
sent a response. That was very fast. Then there was
the fee structure. It was very low, something very
affordable to a person who was coming from a
third-world nation.”
But in the long run, it was the ESU curricula
that carried the day for Basu. He credits such
ESU faculty members as Dr. Carolyn Woodhouse,
professor of health, and Jim Emert, associate
professor of computer science, who taught him to
use the Linux system to develop and maintain his
expertise and programming skills, for changing
his scientific worldview and steering him into his
present discipline.
“I come from a very medical background,
but what medicine prepares us to do is take one
person at a time, to take a look at a person’s health
and diseases,” Basu said in an interview during a
brief visit back to the ESU campus. “But here, at
ESU, we were talking about a completely different
thing. We were not talking about one person; we
were talking about whole communities of people
— whole populations at large. That takes a
different kind of orientation. Gradually, I realized
that this was changing my vision. What this school
did was to add to that feeling of one person at
Dr. Arindam Basu M’97 recently paid a homecoming visit to his alma mater, visiting professors and classes.
Photo by Perry Hebard
a time, looking at people very mechanistically.
They took it up a level and showed me that I now
could look at the entire body of people, beyond the
individual.”
“This is not theoretical stuff,” he said. “It’s not
stuff that you can go and read and get a degree and
become a professor and spend the rest of your life
in academic circles. This was stuff that you could
learn and then immediately go into a community
and start putting it into action.”
Basu, who was a medical doctor when he
arrived at ESU, has been in action ever since.
Following his graduation from ESU, he went on
to study toward his Ph.D. at St. Louis University,
but family issues drew him back to India where,
as a newly minted epidemiologist, he found
himself plunged into his country’s arsenic
catastrophe. This crisis, he said, was not manmade like the murderous mountain of asbestos
tailings abandoned in the Roro hills by Hyderabad
Industries. Basu exposed that act in a medical
article titled “The Blighted Hills of Roro, India
— A Tale of Corporate Greed and Abandonment,”
but there appears to be little he or anyone else in
the public health sector can do to check what is
happening in the massive arsenic crisis.
Arsenic, Basu said, is present in nature, and
for centuries, mighty rivers flowing from the
Himalayan range carried massive quantities of it
down into the Bengali and Bangladeshi flood plain
where it was deeply imbedded in the soil and rock
structure. Since arsenic is quickly neutralized
by sunlight, there was no surface contamination
problem, but, entombed deep in the earth, it
retained its toxicity. Its poisonous potential was
made manifest with “the green revolution” of the
1960s, when vast expansion of farm land created
a need of water for irrigation. Wells were drilled
and up came the water, laced with arsenic. With
surface water badly polluted, people started
drinking the well water, and slowly, but lethally,
the mass poisoning began.
“At that time, nobody tested to see if the
water carried high concentrations of arsenic,”
Basu said. “Skin lesions — the first symptom
of arsenic poisoning — take from six months
to 16 years to appear. Now, chronic arsenic
poisoning is a problem that affects more than 150
million people in the states of West Bengal and
neighboring Bangladesh, and that’s just the tip of
the iceberg. It’s been described as one of the worst
environmental calamities in this century.”
Basu said the problem long has been known to
afflict small regions in Taiwan, Chile, Argentina,
and even in some areas of Nevada and California
in the United States, but that nothing ever has
equaled the scope of the Indian catastrophe.
Symptoms of arsenic poisoning progress from skin
lesions to cancers of the urinary tract, bladder,
liver and lungs.
“In fact, arsenic taken through drinking water
is the second most common cause for lung cancer,
beyond smoking (in India),” Basu said.
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‘Who’s Doing What’
1930s
Helen Dennis ’36 has been a volunteer for Meals
on Wheels for many years, and at 90 years old,
she’s still delivering meals twice a month at Shirley
Futch Plaza apartments in East Stroudsburg. She
also volunteers at the Bell School on a rotating
basis Sunday afternoons in the summer.
1940s
Michael W. Tichy ’48 and Anna Mae Tichy have
been volunteering for the last five years at Margaret
Scott Elementary School in Portland, Ore., tutoring
children in reading and teaching art projects.
Michael also invented several educational games for
the children. From the 1950s to the 1990s, Michael
taught pre-medical and heath studies classes at
Portland State University. On April 20, 2005, he
was honored with the Outstanding Retired Faculty
Award during the President’s Annual Luncheon.
1950s
Mary Anne Catino ’55 retired in 1986 as the
librarian at Bangor Area Senior High School after
serving many elementary schools in the Bangor
area. As a result of her many accomplishments and
influence in developing the school libraries, the
Washington School library offered her a special
tribute by hanging her picture with a plaque which
in part says: “Her dedication and vision enabled
the district to assemble the book collections and
create the nurturing environments that shaped the
district’s first elementary school libraries.”
1960s
Bruce Frassinelli ’61 has
been elected chair of the
board of directors of the
Oswego (N.Y.) Charitable
Foundation, which supports
youth-development programs
and community organizations
that contribute to the quality
of life in Central New York
State. He retired after seven
years as publisher and editor of The PalladiumTimes, Oswego’s daily newspaper, in 1998.
Robert Bogdanki ’62 retired from the Board of
Cooperative Services in 1984 and driven by his
passion for audio and visual equipment, has returned
to being a part-time projectionist for the Finger
Lakes Drive-In in Aurelius, N.Y, a job he started to
do in 1953 at the Mid Valley Drive-In in Scranton.
William McNulty ’62 has retired after 39 years
working at Abington Heights School District. He
started as the district psychologist and as more
special needs students entered the district, his job
gradually shifted to director of special education.
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Arthur D. Wilson ’63 was inducted into the Second
Northeastern Pennsylvania Luzerne County Chapter,
Endless Mountains Region, Sports Hall of Fame on
August 27, 2005. He won five gold medals in track
at ESU and went on to become an outstanding track
and field coach at Abington Heights.
James P. “Pat” Hyde ’63 and his wife, Barbara,
spend their summers at Point Pleasant, N.J., aboard
their 36-foot island Packet Sailboat, cruising to ports
of call along the Mid-Atlantic and New England
coasts. Pat works part-time at the marina, helping
to prepare boats for delivery to new owners. During
the winter months, both Pat and Barbara are ski
instructors at Mt. Snow, near their Vermont home.
Pat serves as supervisor of ski professionals.
Michele Moniot Govette ’69 has retired after
teaching first grade in the Owen J. Roberts School
district for 33 years. She has moved to North Cape
May, N.J., where she plans to garden, read, bird
watch, enjoy her new pool and continue to breed
and show her beloved Weimaraners.
1970s
Fred M. Richter ’71 is retiring after teaching
social studies for 34 years, the last 32 from
Quakertown SHS. He finished his 15th year
of coaching women’s basketball at DeSales
University, where he has begun a full-time
coaching and athletic administrative position. Last
season was his sixth 20+ win season in a row.
Jeffrey L. Spagna ’72 is now one of only 1,500
in the world to be certified by the Club Managers
Association. Jeff is the general manager of The
Country Club of Scranton where he began working
at the golf course in grade school as a caddy. In
high school he was a lifeguard and after graduating
from ESU, he returned to the club as bartender
and quickly was promoted to maitre’d. In 1988 he
became the general manager. He took his CCM
examination in November 2003 and by December
had received his certification.
Daniel K. Snyder ’73 has resigned his coaching
position after 22 years with the North Warren
Regional boys’ soccer team because he plans to
watch his son, Dan Jr., and daughter, Erin, play
athletics in high school. He will continue to be a
physical education teacher at North Warren.
Daniel J. Mulhern ’74 has been named assistant
principal of Quantico Middle High School,
Quantico Marine Base, Va. He was serving as
acting assistant principal at the middle-high
school. Daniel served in the Marine Corps until
his retirement in 1994. His wife, Lynn Cristiano
Mulhern ’75, has been a teacher in Stafford County
for 20 years.
Thomas Kearney ’75 is proud to announce that his
19-year-old daughter, Hannah, won a spot on the
U.S. Olympic team and went to Torino, Italy, for
the 2006 Winter Olympics. She has won the moguls
World Cup events for three consecutive years.
Father and daughter are pictured above.
Maj. Craig S. Childs, USA (Ret) ’77 is
Commandant of Cadets at New York Military
Academy. Previously, he served as the NYMA
Assistant Headmaster and Deputy Commandant
and as a Tactical Officer at Valley Forge Military
Academy. He retired from the active Army, in 1994,
where he served as an Air Defense Officer.
William Lowenburg ’79 published his first
book, “Crash Burn Love: Demolition Derby.” It
is the first photo documentary on the sport and
subculture of automobile demolition derby. PBS
Television has published excerpts from the book on
their Point of View Web site.
1980s
James R. Lynch ’80 was recently honored as one
of the top trial lawyers in the New York area and
was featured in the August 2005 issue of New York
Magazine. Jim obtained his law degree in 1983 from
the University of Notre Dame and specializes in
product liability litigation. He resides in Garden City,
N.Y., with his wife, Kathleen, and three children.
Todd Kaufman ’82, who served as Richmond’s
(Va.) deputy director for the Office of the Assessor
of Real Estate since 1996, became the new assessor
for Loudoun County, Va., on October 6, 2005. He
will be responsible for placing value on commercial
and residential properties within the county.
Previously, he managed an appraisal/consulting
firm in Vermont for six years.
Gina Sisbarro-Blassneck ’83 retired after 18 years
of working municipal recreation in New Jersey and
relocated to Marco Island, Fla. She volunteered
at the Marco Island Family YMCA for the girls’
volleyball program, and then she got hired as the
youth and teen director and currently serves as
the senior program director. She also writes for
the local newspaper, the Marco Sun Times, as
a columnist and movie reviewer. She has been
married to her high school sweetheart, Bob, for 23
years. They have two daughters, Wesley, 14 years
old and Brianna, 12.
Anthony Rohach ’83 graduated in May 2005 with
juris doctor degree from Widener University School
of Law. A faculty member of Delaware Valley
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ESU Alumna
Inducted into the
National Field Hockey
Coaches Association
Hall of Fame
Mary Jane Deutsch ’85 was promoted to
principal of the Phillipsburg (N.J.) High School.
She had been the assistant principal at the
school since 1996.
Teri Karpe Miles ’85 is back at ESU seeking
her teaching certificate and master’s in
elementary education. She had spent many
years pursuing different careers: lawyer,
insurance broker/agent and stay-at-home mom.
She was coaching YMCA soccer with her
younger kids and being a fourth-year Girl Scout
leader when she realized she wanted to impact
the lives of young people in a positive way
when they need it the most.
April B. Urbine ’86 was appointed vice
president of National Sales for Cendant Hotel
Group. April, who will lead the hotel chain’s
group sales efforts, has been employed by
Wyndham International since 1987 and has
served in different sales capacities, most
recently as regional director of national sales
based in Irving, Texas.
Todd P. Laury ’88 was promoted to senior
manager for a consulting firm doing IT
contracting work in the D.C. area where he
lives with Ginger, his wife of 15 years, and their
two children. In 2003 he completed his MBA at
the University of Phoenix.
Scott Schappell ’89 is senior vice president of
IAG Research, the TV ad effectiveness ratings
company. Scott joined IAG from Catalina
Health Resource where he was a general
manager of sales for the Philadelphia Regional
Sales Office.
1990s
Janine M. Donate ’90 was appointed acting
warden at Lackawanna County Prison where
she was the jail’s assistant warden of security
since June 2004, making her the first woman
to head the county jail and one of only three
female wardens in Pennsylvania. Previously
she worked at the Monroe County Correctional
Facility for 13 years, where she started as a
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At left, Jan Hutchinson coaches her players during a
game against her alma mater. Hutchinson coaches
field hockey and softball at Bloomsburg University.
College for 13 years in both full- and part-time
capacity, he has been promoted to assistant
to the director of the MBA program. He was
presented with the Continuing Education Award
for Excellence in Teaching from Delaware
Valley College in 1999.
Samuel M. Chazanow ’85 was recently
awarded the Certified Mortgage Bankers
designation by the Mortgage Bankers
Association, the highest professional
designation in the real estate finance industry.
Sam is the manager of the Residential Lending
Division at Sussex Bank, Augusta, N.J.
By Michelle Dramé
Jan Mitten Hutchinson ’71, M’79 was recently
inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches
Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame. “This is an
incredible honor and one that I am very proud
of,” said Hutchinson, Bloomsburg University’s
field hockey coach, of the NFHCA induction. “It
would not have been possible without all the help
I’ve had from my assistants over the years and, of
course, the players themselves. They have all been
wonderful to coach, and this award is as much for
them as it is for me.”
Hutchinson did not participate in athletics
during her time at ESU but was the recipient of
the ESU Alumni Association’s Jim Barniak Award,
in 1990 (the first year it was awarded), for outstanding contribution to athletics after graduation.
“Outstanding contribution” is quite an understatement when you consider in her 28 years of coaching at Bloomsburg University, Hutchinson coached
the Huskies to 12 national championships and 13
conference titles. Under her tutelage, the Huskies
have won 16 or more games on 22 occasions. Her
teams won national championships in the years
spanning from 1981 to 2004 earning Hutchinson the national “Coach of the Year” award. The
Huskies have also gone on to win 14 of the last 24
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC)
crowns. As a testimony to her dedication and commitment, Hutchinson has successfully coached 47
players to 85 All-American awards in which nine
Bloomsburg players have been named national
“Player of the Year.”
In addition, as a direct result of Hutchinson’s
efforts, Bloomsburg’s field hockey record is 501-6920, the most wins of a National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA) field hockey coach in any
division. The hockey team has played in the national
championship game 21 out of the last 25 years,
winning 12 titles and finishing second nine times.
Hutchinson’s drive to achieve more extended
past the realm of field hockey when she stepped into
the world of softball. She uses her fast-thinking,
quick-on-your-feet style of coaching that resulted in
31 of her players earning a total of 52 All-American
awards. Hutchinson is one of only eight NCAA
coaches in any division to achieve 1,000 wins,
nine wins shy of being
Division II’s coach
with the most wins.
Bloomsburg University
bestowed the ultimate
act of appreciation for
Hutchinson’s arduous
task in naming the
softball field in her
honor.
Bloomsburg
University Athletic
Director Mary Gardner
praises Hutchinson for her accomplishments.
Gardner said, “Jan’s coaching success is
phenomenal. She has been the anchor for
Bloomsburg University’s high profile of athletic
success throughout the years. Jan’s success at the
university is measured beyond her win/loss record
as a coach. More importantly, she has been a role
model and mentor to hundreds of student athletics,
both male and female. She works tirelessly
recruiting for two sports and her effectiveness is
evident year after year. Her latest induction into the
NFHCA Hall of Fame is most deserving.”
The accolades continued for Hutchinson as
it was recently announced that the United States
Sports Academy has named her the winner of the
2006 C. Vivian String Coaching Award. Hutchinson
will personally accept the award on July 22 at the
USSA graduation ceremonies in Daphne, Ala. The
C. Vivian Stringer Coaching award, named after
the Rutgers head women’s basketball coach, has
been presented annually by USSA to outstanding
coaches in women’s sports since 2002 as part of
the Academy Awards of Sport Medallion Series,
honoring the artist and the athlete.
Hutchinson hails from Newton, N.J., and has
earned bachelor of science and master of education
degrees from East Stroudsburg University.
She served as a member of the faculty at Blair
Academy where she cultivated physical education
and interscholastic sports programs for women.
Hutchinson is an inductee into the Newton High
School and Sussex County, N.J., Halls of Fame.
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corrections officer and became the staff training
and development lieutenant.
Thomas LoBasso ’90 recently
earned his doctorate in
educational leadership from
the University of Central
Florida. As the dean of
enrollment development at
Daytona Beach Community
College (DBCC), Tom has
dedicated his professional life
to helping others obtain an
education, as well as continuing his quest to further
his own. Prior to moving to Florida and accepting
a position with DBCC, Tom was the assistant vice
president for new student enrollment at The Sage
Colleges, N.Y. He serves in the Florida National
Guard and resides in DeBary, Fla., with his wife,
Karen, and children, Alexa and Tom.
Robert L. Patton ’90 has been chosen to receive
the ECHL (East Coast Hockey League) Award of
Excellence for Ticket Sales. Rob is the director of
ticket operations for the Gwinnett Gladiators where
he increased its regular season attendance by more
than 20 percent from 2003-04 and ranked second in
the league with 6,045 per game.
Jeff Jablon ’92 was promoted to director of the
township police force in Blairstown, N.J. He served
for 20 years with the New Jersey State Police
and retired as a detective lieutenant. He earned a
master’s degree in educational administration and
supervision from Seton Hall University. He wanted
his two children to follow his example with their
education.
Catherine Odom ’95 works as a clinical cardiac
exercise specialist at Lehigh Valley HospitalMuhlenberg, caring for 150 to 200 open-heart
surgical patients annually. In May, highlighting
National Nurses Week, she was honored with a
2005 Friends of Nursing award because of her
dedication and devotion to her patients.
Alan Dente ’95 was recently named as one
of the “Top 20 under 40 (years old) Business
Professionals for 2005” by the Northeast
Pennsylvania Business Journal. “Al Dente” (as
he was commonly known throughout his ESU
days) was given a plaque for this honor. Al is the
chef/owner of Dente’s Catering & Dente’s Tent
and Rental Company in Pittston, Pa. He is a very
active member and volunteer in many community
organizations, where he holds several officer
positions.
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Susan Hollar Fata ’95 was offered the position of
director of summer conference housing at Towson
University in Towson, MD.
James Franklin ’95 has accepted the position of
offensive coordinator for the Kansas State Wildcats.
He will also be serving as the team’s quarterbacks
coach. He was coaching the wide receivers with
the Green Bay Packers when he received this offer
from Kansas State coach Ron Prince.
organizations and played in seven games in the
major leagues.
Devin S. Crosby ’99 has been named associate
athletic director at St. Louis University which will
join the Atlantic 10 Conference next season. Devin
and wife, Cynthia Dillon Crosby ’00, celebrated the
birth of their first daughter, Reese in August 2004.
2000s
Kristi A. Chartrand ’95 was hired by Oread
Media as a senior writer for Phog.net and Jayhawk
Illustrated magazine. She will write feature stories
and provide game and strategy analysis during the
basketball season. Kristi has worked for the Web
site collegehoops.net and ESPN in Bristol, Conn.,
as an associate producer of College Hoops Tonight
for six years. Currently she works for Golf Central
on the Golf Channel as an associate producer.
Mark G. Evans ’96 earned a doctor of osteopathic
medicine degree from Philadelphia College of
Osteopathic Medicine.
Robert Mancuso ’97 and Dennis Carrig ’80
purchased the Deerhead Inn in Delaware Water
Gap together with Dennis’s sister Mary Carrig
and Robert’s son Jason Wilson in October 2005.
The inn is a four-story hotel with a restaurant, bar
and jazz club, constructed in 1853. The music and
ambiance have made this inn as legendary as the
jazz greats who have performed there. The new
owner’s vision is to restore the inn to its former
beautiful state. The music focus will remain jazz.
Christopher J. Cerski ’98 won the race for
Cheltenham district judge defeating the incumbent
judge of 19 years. Chris is an attorney and has lived
in Glenside for six years. He is a member of the
Elkins Park Rotary, a member of the Pennsylvania
Trial Lawyers Association, the American Trial Law
Association, The Pennsylvania Bar Association and
the American Bar Association.
Mark B. Miller ’98 was the superintendent of the
Knowlton School District until November 2005,
when he became the new superintendent for the
Newton School District, where he was the vice
principal 10 years ago. He resides in Bangor with
his wife and two children.
Joel T. Bennett ’99 was named Pitcher of the
Week for the week of July 18-24 by Sports Ticker,
the official statistician of the Canadian American
League. He signed with the New Jersey Jackals
in 2001 and prior to that he spent six years with
the Baltimore Orioles, Phillies and Red Sox
Former ESU President Jim Gilbert and
wife, Betty, are enjoying retirement in the
Charleston, S.C. area. Jim serves as special
assistant to the Provost at Medical University
of South Carolina, dealing with planning,
accreditation and grants issues.
Spring 2006
Patrick J. McDevitt ’00
earned the degree of Doctor
of Osteopathic Medicine
from Philadelphia College
of Osteopathic Medicine
at the College’s 115th
commencement. The ceremony
was held at the Kimmel Center
for the Performing Arts on
June 5, 2005.
Nicole Pelleschi ’00 is a teacher for emotional
support students at Upper Merion Middle School
in King of Prussia. She is coaching seventh-grade
softball during spring season and tutors seventhand eighth-graders in math and reading.
Kenneth J. Chlodnicki ’03 coaches the girl’s
softball team at Wallkill Valley Regional High
School in Hamburg, N.J. With his experience and
leadership, he guided the Rangers to their first nonlosing season since 1994. He was chosen as “The
New Jersey Herald’s 2005 Softball Coach of the
Year.” Coach Chlodnicki credits his wife, Christine
and assistant coach, Jim Marrash, for helping 2005
to be such a success.
Jim L. Sodano ’03 a former Warrior, was named
to the All-af2 American Conference first team by
Arena Football League 2. He was one of the three
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers to earn All-af2
honors but the only one to make the first team.
Melinda Malavasi ’03 was promoted to marketing
coordinator for the East Coast Hockey League
(ECHL), where she will continue as the executive
assistant to ECHL Commissioner Brian McKenna.
Previous to joining the ECHL in December 2003,
she had fulfilled an internship with the marketing
department of the New York Rangers, coordinating
staff and promotional activities for game days and
special events.
Joseph Lalli ’04 is a teacher at Pocono Mountain
West High School and was honored as Teacher of the
Year by the Mount Pocono Wal-Mart Store.
Hawaiian Adventure
This gorgeous setting served as an ideal spot
for an impromptu alumni reunion. Ann Rau
Horvath ’66 and Pamela Hoot Hoy ’67 were
vacationing on Hanapepe, Kauai. While there
they visited a local art gallery. They were
chatting with the owners and other patrons,
and the topic of where one was from came
up. Wouldn’t you know it, one of the patrons,
Bob McLauglin ’68, was from ESU and on
vacation!
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Holy Mackerel - Lots
of alumni caught in
Englewood!
Dick Merring ’57 and his wife,
Joan Stanley Merring ’67, hosted
a gathering of alumni that was
the largest in recent memory.
They have hosted this for a
number of years and while there
is an expanding and contracting
of attendees, this year was one
of the best as evidenced by the
overwhelming turnout of alumni,
retired professors, and spouses!
Recognize any classmates? Pictured are:
Stairs down - (L-R) Everett Lane, Jack Gregory ’52 (retired faculty), Peg Gregory, Bill
Morello ’58, Craig M. Leatherman ’58, Isaac Sanders (vice president for University
Advancement at ESU), Patrick B. Ryan ’87, Lee L. Hill ’56, and June Pewterbaugh.
Back row - (L-R) Bob Kreidler (green shirt), Bruno Klaus (retired faculty), and Mike Hill
’56.
Front row - (L-R) Ted Laurenson ’62 (blue blazer), Gwen Ashner Kreidler ’50, Bette
Helt Laurenson ’62, John S. Watson ’51, Nancy Clausen Lane ’52, John Schaffer
’60, Barbara Schaffer, Dr. Paul Morton ’50 (Retired Faculty), Charles Mitke ’56, Jerry
Walker ’63, Marysue Harvey Mitke ’57, Chuck Wieder (Retired Faculty), Carol Shaffer
Walker ’64, Russ Myers ’58, Pat Van Alstine Hofmann ’57, Harry Steever ’54, Dick
Merring ’57, Joan Stanley Merring ’67, Howard Pewterbaugh ’54, and Joe Chase ’58.
Class was back in
session with former
professors (L-R)
Bruno Klaus, Jack
Gregory ’52, Paul
Morton ’50, and
Chuck Wieder.
Missing from picture: Russ and Nancy Evans Treible ’55 and Tom Kizis.
No Mickey, no problem
in Orlando
At right, sipping on umbrella drinks
and nibbling on hors d’oeuvres was the
order of the evening.
Pictured are (L-R) Rob Hahn ’93,
Staci Hahn, Tommy Hahn,
Mary Kenny Sanders ’64, and Mary Bullargion.
Feasting in J-ville
Pass the suntan lotion
Above, some of those from the
ESU family who enjoyed the
seafood in Jacksonville were (L-R)
Charlie Reese (former faculty),
Ruth Mendez Sheneman ’51
and James Sheneman.
At left, on a gorgeous day alumni in the
Tampa/St. Pete Beach area shared a
great lunch, reminisced with one another
and planned a great affair for next year.
Pictured are: (L-R) Trudy Dopfel James ’64,
Lisa Haynes Leidigh ’87, Mike Arhangelsky ’03,
Harriet Davis Hall ’56, George Hall ’58,
and Mike MacIntire ’94.
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Warren in the 1955 Stroud yearbook.
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Philanthropist
Warren Hoeffner ’55
Beats the Heart of a Teacher
By Regina Diverio
In 1959 LeRoy Koehler, president
of what was then East Stroudsburg State
Teacher’s College, called Warren Hoeffner
’55 hoping to hire him as assistant coach for
the football team. Had he placed that call just
one week earlier, he would have had himself
a fine coach — and the future university
would have lost its largest individual donor.
You see, Warren would have leaped
at the opportunity to coach at his beloved
alma mater. Instead, he accepted a desk
job at Rex-Hide Inc., a Pennsylvania-based
manufacturer of truck tire flaps. Over
the years, the dynamic East Stroudsburg
graduate transformed that one-product
company into a diversified conglomerate,
becoming its president and eventually the
chairman of the board and chief executive
officer. Ever generous in sharing his good
fortune, he began funding scholarships for
incoming East Stroudsburg University (ESU)
freshmen and recently took his giving to
the next level, pledging $2 million for a new
science and technology building.
From that perspective, it’s a good thing
President Koehler was delayed a week.
But truth be told, Warren would have been
content either way. “If you love what you’re
doing, that’s what makes you happy,” says the
father of five. “And nobody was happier than
I was when I was a teacher and coach.”
Indeed, while growing up in Old Forge
Warren envisioned a future centered on
football. Making it to the championships in
his senior year on the Old Forge High team,
he thought for sure he’d be coaching players
like himself one day. But once graduation
rolled around and Warren decided college
wasn’t for him, that future looked uncertain.
“I knew all I needed to know,” he says,
adding with a laugh, “At least that’s what I
thought back then.” After all, his father, who
was fluent in German, Polish, and Russian,
had turned out just fine without a college
degree, as did his two older brothers, both of
whom had served in World War II.
His mother, a staunch advocate of higher
education, wisely let her youngest learn
for himself. It didn’t take long. One year in
a dead-end job, counting the minutes that
passed, spurred Warren to head for East
Stroudsburg. There, he paired up with his Old
Forge High teammate James Revello ’55, who
had also taken a year off. The two ended up
rooming together for all four years.
Golfilng is a favorite pastime of Hoeffner’s.
“Jimmy was a huge influence in my life,”
Warren says. “I always admired his character,
integrity, and honesty. He went on to become
a very successful teacher and coach and the
superintendent of the Williamsport high
school.”
That had once been Warren’s dream,
too, but no longer. During those long days on
the factory line, he had decided to become
an attorney. With that in mind, he opted for
a double major in history and geography
rather than physical education, which was the
more common choice for athletes and future
coaches.
Still, sports remained at the forefront of
his college years. Rooming with James and
two other athletes, Warren swam and played
football as a freshman but turned solely to
football as a sophomore and never looked
back. He quarterbacked the team in his last
two years, earning induction into ESU’s
Athletic Hall of Fame both as an individual
in 2003 and as part of the 1954 championship
team in 2004. The crowning glory, Warren
says, came in a 14-13 win over arch rival
West Chester State Teacher’s College (now
West Chester University).
“That was my biggest thrill senior year,”
Warren recalls. “My roommate Charlie Shaw
’55 did an 80-yard run for a touchdown and I
did an 80-yard punt return for a touchdown.
Puffer [Eugene Martin, dean of men and
head football coach] was in seventh heaven
because he graduated from West Chester.”
That elation lasted for much of senior
year, at least until Warren’s post-graduation
plans were thrown off kilter with the
elimination of the GI Bill. “That derailed
me,” he says. “My game plan was to serve
two years in the Army and then use the GI
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Warren Hoeffner ’55 and
his wife, Sandra, in their
Naples, Fla., home. Mrs.
Hoeffner, nee Stockey, met
her future husband after
she began teaching music
in his employer’s daughter’s
high school.
Photo by Carl Thome
Bill to go to law school. So there I was a month
before graduation with no job and no plan.”
Puffer came to his star quarterback’s rescue,
producing two possible jobs: one as assistant
football coach at Montclair High in New Jersey
and one as head coach at East Brady High in
Western Pennsylvania. He offered to put in a good
word at the school of Warren’s choice.
“Being an egomaniac, I figured I may as well
go for the head coaching job,” Warren recalls,
laughing. “And Puffer must have written some
letter because the superintendent at East Brady
thought I was Knute Rockne.”
He stayed for three years, before leaving to
coach and teach at Abington Heights High School
in Clarks Summit. There he found his niche,
teaching 11th-graders American history.
Meanwhile, the young bachelor coached a
once floundering football team to a 7-2 season. “I
was the fair-haired boy, even though my assistant
Roland Schmidt should have gotten all the credit,”
he says. “He was a great line coach; the kids loved
him.” That satisfying debut year included an
unforgettable Thanksgiving Day game. Warren
found himself on the gridiron again with his old
ESU roommate and teammate Charlie Shaw—this
time on opposing sides. Shaw was now head
football coach at his alma mater Tunkhannock
High, which happened to be Abington’s arch rival.
The nail-biter ended in a 13-13 tie but it taught
Warren a thing or two about sportsmanship that he
hasn’t forgotten.
“My mother said, ‘Isn’t it nice that you and
your roommate tied the game?’ Was she kidding?!
We were the heavy favorite to win. I was young
and single; everything I did was wrapped up in
coaching. ‘No,’ I told her, ‘it isn’t nice.’ I was so
angry I decided I wasn’t attending the dance that
night even though I was the chaperone. Mom
wouldn’t hear of it. Let’s just say I learned a
valuable lesson.”
Eager for his second year with a full roster
of returning players, Warren was unprepared
for a call from out of his East Brady past.
Kenneth Broderick, the president of the East
Brady school board and the president of RexHide, had a proposition. Familiar with Warren’s
capabilities from his coaching days at East Brady
High, Kenneth offered him a job at Rex-Hide as
a purchasing agent. “He said, ‘If you have the
ability we think you have, you could one day run
this company.’ The salary was double what I was
making. Now my mother didn’t raise any dummies;
I figured we should meet and talk about it.”
The offer proved too good to pass up and,
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“If all’s going smoothly, I take the
credit,” Warren jokes. “If it’s not going
well, I blame Bradley.” In truth, just as
he did when he was a winning football
coach, Warren downplays his role in RexHide’s success, saying, “I’ve always had
brilliant people working for me.”
Warren, a grandfather
of 12, counts his family
among his blessings.
Above are, standing from
left: Brad, Heather, Todd,
and Holly. Seated in front
are Noelle, Sandra and
Warren.
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with the blessing of the Abington school
board, Warren set out once more for
rural western Pennsylvania. Settled in
a week later, he got the call from East
Stroudsburg’s President Koehler. “If
I hadn’t already accepted that job, it
wouldn’t have mattered how much RexHide offered,” he says. “I would have
come to East Stroudsburg.”
But things happen for a reason. As
Warren says, “It’s amazing the way the
good Lord works His wonders and we
benefit.”
The following year, at a dinner party
at his boss’s house, his life would forever
change. That year, Sandra Stockey,
a newly minted teacher, had her own
postgraduate plans disrupted and found
herself without a job in August. An
employment agency found one opening—
a music teacher position at East Brady
High. She would be teaching Stevie
Broderick, the daughter of Warren’s
boss. Stevie went home and mentioned
she had a “gorgeous” new music teacher.
Mrs. Broderick, feeling a bit like Cupid,
invited Sandra over to meet the bachelor
Hoeffner. “At the time,” Warren recalled,
“I was chasing single women and I told
them, ‘I have enough girls on the line;
don’t bother me about another one.’ ”
Two months later they were engaged.
Two years later they welcomed their
first child, Holly Jo, with Warren Todd,
Bradley John, Noelle, and Heather Lynn
following close behind.
As Warren’s family flourished so
did his career. He progressed in rapid
succession from purchasing agent to
secretary/treasurer to vice president to
president by 1973. At that time RexHide was producing about 600,000 tire
flaps per month. The flaps were inserted
inside truck tires to protect the tube from
chafing and guard against blow outs. But
a harsh reality was looming: the days
when tube-tired trucks ruled the road
were coming to an end and with them
so was Rex-Hide unless the company
made some changes. “Essentially, we
were making the buggy whip,” Warren
says. “We knew we had to divert to other
products.”
Divert they did. Rex-Hide expanded to
offer extruded rubber products, which are
used in markets ranging from automotive
and marine to industrial and oil. It then
branched into adhesives and epoxies,
custom mixing of rubber compounds, and
more. Today, with $95 million in sales,
the company is stronger than ever, with
corporate headquarters in Tyler, Texas, and
plants in West Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi,
Georgia, and Colorado.
Warren’s son, Bradley John, who
is Rex-Hide’s president and chief
operating officer, handles the day-to-day
operations, while future acquisitions and
planning remain his father’s bailiwick.
To be sure, the grandfather of 12
is proud of his achievements. But he
still toys with the idea of what life
would have been like had he remained
a teacher. He has never forgotten what
the superintendent of the Abington
school district told him when he left for
Rex-Hide: “He said to me, ‘You’ll make
a lot more money, but there’s a certain
satisfaction you get teaching young
people that you won’t get in the business
world.’ To this day, I think he’s right.”
That soft spot for teachers and
education inspired Warren to set up the
Warren Hoeffner Scholarship at ESU
early on. More recently, it was that belief
in the value of education and his innate
business sensibility that led him to
support the new science and technology
center.
“The future of the country is in
science and technology,” he says. “We
won’t be able to compete with the Asian
market in what we call the rust-belt jobs
because they pay so little for labor. But
students who come out of college with a
solid education in science and technology
will be the leaders in the future. I’m
really excited about this building. It’ll
add a new dimension to the university.”
As he divides his time between three
residences—the Hoeffners have homes
in Texas and Colorado near Rex-Hide
operations as well as a winter retreat in
Naples, Fla.—Warren keeps very busy
by skiing, golfing, and traveling. Two
memorable trips last year included a trip
to South Africa and a tour of the Balkans
with excursions to Russia and Sweden.
In reflecting on his life, Warren
counts his many blessings; chief among
them are his wife of 44 years, his ever
growing family, and his ability to help the
school that got him started. He notes that,
while his father understood his pragmatic
switch to the business world, his mother
wanted him to remain a teacher.
“She said, ‘You’ll have influence on
young people.’ My father said, ‘You can
have influence at a different level.’ They
were both right.”
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Pictured at the New York
breakfast series are: From
left, Amanda Wilkins ’05,
Mark Martiak ’81, Maggie
Omwenga ’05, Lauren
Green of Fox News, ESU’s
Coordinator of Alumni
Services Michelle Dramé
and Ahmad Chaudhry ’96.
ESU Crime Tour
On Saturday, December 10, 2005,
ESU alumni boarded their bus
for a full day excursion of an
in depth mystery crime tour of
New York City. Gotti, Gambino,
Costellano, were some of the
crime names associated with
the various sites visited that day.
One of the main highlights of the
tour included a tour of the police
museum. Afterwards, alumni
enjoyed dinner at the infamous
South Street Seaport. The tour was
conducted by alumnus Jimmy
Rogers ’85 (above) and retired
NYPD officer Gary Gorman.
N.Y. Breakfast Series with Lauren Green, Fox News Correspondent
In mid-December 2005, ESU alumni attended an up close and personal discussion with Lauren Green, Fox News
correspondent at the UBS headquarters in Manhattan. Ms. Green presented a spell-binding year-in-review and a
captivating outlook on the year ahead. The New York Breakfast Series is co-sponsored by UBS Financial and represented
by alumnus Mark Martiak ’81.
ESU Couples’ Night
The Padfields: Susan ’69 and James ’67.
On Saturday, March 4, 2006, it was a walk down
memory lane in celebration of the first annual
ESU Couples’ Night at the Ahnert Alumni
Center. ESU alumni couples shared a champagne
dinner and watched a presentation, on a giant
screen, of their wedding day as well as other life
experiences together, while listening to their
wedding songs. After dinner, the couples enjoyed
a musical revue of famous Broadway tunes at the
Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts.
Photos by Perry Hebard The Blancks: Nicole ’99 and Bryan ’99
ESU Alumnus Battling Arsenic Poisoning Epidemic in India
Continued from Page 7
As an epidemiologist, Basu faces
an epic battle. There are solutions,
he said — education to persuade
people to abandon their well water
for bottled water, or for filters or
water treatment plants to cleanse it.
But, he said, “they’re going to have to
pay for it” — a concept hard to sell
in rural India.
There is, of course, another
epidemic rising, and though as an
infectious disease it is not in Basu’s
environmental department, he views
the possible bird flu pandemic with
growing alarm. It is not, he said, a
media-driven hyperbole as asserted
by some skeptics.
“The bird flu pandemic is a real,
and frankly, present danger,” he said.
“The media are probably giving you
the best picture that they can. There
is reason for concern because the
virus is changing its strains, and
when a virus changes, it changes
its infectability from one species to
another. The next target could be a
transmutation of the strain to infect
human beings by human vector.”
Basu said the ability of a virus to
mutate in defense against inoculation
or drug treatment is almost eerie.“It’s
as if the microbes kind of sense that,
‘they’re going to kill us, so we’d
better be prepared,’ ” he said. “It’s as
if there is a native intelligence that
prepares them for a defense.”
Do viruses, then, have
consciousness and even sentience?
“Of course,” Basu said. “That’s a
great way of looking at it. A virus
has consciousness and personality!”
Think “the Borg,” that sinister
collective hive-minded entity from
“Star Trek: The Next Generation,”
out to “assimilate” everything in its
path. That used to be science fiction.
To epidemiologists like Basu, it’s
now just science.
As Basu prepared to return
to India, with his wife, Mou, who
accompanied him not only to
Berkeley, but to his homecoming in
East Stroudsburg, he expressed only
one criticism of his alma mater. “I
think it’s time for ESU to expand
its campus activities and look for its
presence beyond just the Americas,”
he said. “It’s time to join the big
leagues.”
In fact, just such a program
is under way. University Provost
Dr. Basu M’97 answers questions during a recent class at ESU. Dr. Basu is a renowned epidemiologist and environmental specialist.
Ken Borland recently returned
from China where he discussed
the potential of student exchange
programs, and other outreach
programs — especially to India
— are in the pipeline. The expansion
already is having an effect. This
semester, ESU already boasts
approximately 50 students from
Europe, Asia and Africa.
Basu, already a major leaguer
in the medical field, will be glad to
know that his old alma mater also
soon may be “going to the show,” as
baseball players say when they’re
called up from the farm team.
Meanwhile, he says he still loves East
Stroudsburg just the way it is. He
admits that he approached the ESU
campus, of which he never before
had heard, with some trepidation,
but aided by “the friendly people in
a small American town,” he quickly
fell in love with the Pocono region.
“My first encounter with
America was very gentle,” he said.
“I’ve been to bigger places, but this
was the best.”
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Weddings
James A. DeMichele ’80 and Melanie Brown were
married May 21, 2005, at St. Nicholas Church,
Wilkes-Barre. James is employed by Yellow Book
USA. Melanie is an optometrist at Northeastern
Eye Institute. They live in Wilkes Barre.
Debbie
Kacelowicz
’87 and
Edward
Horner
married on
June 3, 2005,
on the beach
at the Golden
Inn, Avalon,
N.J. Matron of Honor was alumna Barbara
Bowers McMurray ’87. Debbie is a special
education teacher for the Shamong Township
School District. Ed is employed at JDSUniphase
in Ewing, N.J. The couple make their home is
Westampton, N.J.
Robert F. Tremblay ’89 and Jane Daun were
married on July 23, 2005, at Shaker Hills Country
Club, Harvard, Mass. The best man in the
ceremony was William B. Farquhar ’90. Other
ESU alumni in attendance were: Mark J. Gerber
’87, Robert C. Kenter ’88, Keith A. Crispin ’89,
Kelly J. Davis Farquhar ’90, David L. Shelly
’90, Steve E. Sousa ’90 and Frank R. Pucher ’92.
Bob and Jane reside in Dracut, Mass.
Mark Rogers ’90 and Susan Beideman ’98
were united in marriage on October 16, 2004, at
Meadowbrook Inn, Tannersville. Mark is employed
as quality assurance manager for Johnson Diversey
in East Stroudsburg. Susan is employed as a special
education teacher for Pocono Mountain School
District. The couple reside in East Stroudsburg.
Mary Napoli ’91 and Jody
Putt exchanged vows on June
7, 2005. Mary is an assistant
professor of Children’s
Literature and Reading at
Penn State Harrisburg. Jody is
a senior program analyst for
Penn National Insurance. The
couple live in Camp Hill.
Sheryl L. Fehr ’92 and Dennis Robert Cook were
united in marriage on July 12, 2005, at Bonnie
Castle Resort in Thousand Islands; Alexandria
Bay, N.Y. Sheryl is employed in the surgical
intensive care unit at Easton Hospital and SCCI
Hospital, both in Easton. The groom is employed as
foreman for Gus Kallinteris Plumbing & Heating,
Stroudsburg. The couple live in Stroudsburg.
Thomas M. Sossong Jr. ’92 and Christina M.
Neyman ’94 exchanged vows on June 27, 2004,
in a beach ceremony in Brigantine, N.J. Thomas
earned a juris doctorate from Temple University
School of Law and is an associate in the patent law
group at Drinker, Biddle and Reath, Philadelphia.
Christina is a teacher in the Reading School
District. They live in Royersford.
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WEDDINGS
Douglas L. Cachia ’93 and Demitria Kerrie
Weaver were united in marriage on June 12,
2005, at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in
Bethlehem. Douglas is employed as a taxation
auditing specialist for the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Demitria works at Lehigh Valley
Hospital, Allentown, as a nuclear medicine
technologist. They live in Whitehall.
Ann K. Ortenzi ’94 and Michael D. DiPietro
exchanged wedding vows August 6, 2004, at
the Church of St. Luke, Stroudsburg. Both are
employed by Great Valley School District, where
Ann is an elementary school teacher and Michael is
a school psychologist. They live in West Chester.
Renee Alice Majeski ’98 and Michael S. Miller
were married June 25, 2005, at the Church of Christ
Uniting, Kingston. Renee is a first grade teacher
with the Wyoming Valley West School District.
Michael is employed with Wells Fargo as a loan
officer. The couple reside in West Pittston.
Spring 2006
Maria T. Cimini ’99 and
Matt Bello were married
on August 28, 2004, at St.
Gregory’s Church in Clarks
Green. Maria is a social
worker at Lehigh County
Children and Youth. Matt is
employed by ADP in Fort
Washington. They live in
Quakertown.
Melissa Marie Davis ’99 and Stephen C. Banks
were joined in marriage June 11, 2005, at the
Tunkhannock United Methodist Church. Melissa
is a physical therapist at Roxborough Hospital,
Roxborough. Stephen is a physical therapist by the
Capital Health System, Trenton, N.J. The couple
reside in Horsham.
Jill M. Demming ’99 and Thomas J. Yoniski III
joined in marriage October 7, 2005, at Montdale
United Methodist Church. Jill works for the
Tunkhannock Area School District as a reading
specialist and teaches at College Misericordia.
Thomas is a social studies teacher in the LakeLehman School District. The couple live in Dallas.
Dana Rae Fortune ’99 and Gregg M. Draina were
married on September 18, 2004, at St. Nicholas
Church, Wilkes-Barre. Dana is a registered nurse at
The Nesbitt Women and Children’s Center of The
Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Gregg works for
The Kroger Co. of Cincinnati. After a honeymoon
in St. Lucia, the couple returned to their home in
Mountain Top.
James S. Besten ’99, M’00 and Jennifer M.
Evans ’99 were married on May 29, 2005 in
Wilmington, Del. ESU alumni in the wedding party
were: Rachel Gillies ’99, Spencer Parcells ’01
and best man Dan LaMagna ’00. Other alumni
in attendance were: Jeff Barrett ’94, Mark
Gladfelter ’98, Tricia Nick ’98, Norm Stone
’98, Sean O’Hara ’98, Tara Pollock ’98, Neal
Bellucci ’99, Pete Seymour ’99, Brian Baxter
’99, Amanda Dorneman ’00, Tyuh Lubenetski
’00, Josh McGuckin ’00, Mike Fettermen
’01, and Stephanie Weikel ’02. James is a sales
representative for Medpointe Pharmaceuticals.
They live in Wilmington, Del.
Renee M. Castellano
’99 and Mark N.
Mentonis were married
August 27, 2005, at
Holy Cross Greek
Othodox Church,
Stroudsburg. Renee
is a general manager
for Ann Taylor Stores,
Tannersville. Mark is the
owner of DeMar Food
Service, Newark N.J. They live in Cresco.
Jason L. Mills ’99 and Kendyle C. Crawford
’00 exchanged wedding vows on May 7, 2005, at
Meadowbrook Inn, Tannersville. Jason is employed
by Sanofi Pasteur in Swiftwater. Kendyle is a
teacher in East Stroudsburg Area School District.
The couple live in Cresco.
Jennifer K. Puhalla ’99
and Ronald Williams were
married on June 30, 2005,
at The top of Camelback
Mountain. They both
work and reside in Lehigh
Valley.
Kevin M. Toman ’99 and Diane Ehrgood ’00
married on June 25, 2005 in Wyomissing. Kevin is
an eighth-grade teacher and Diane is a kindergarten
teacher’s assistant; both work for the Brunswick
County schools. The couple reside in Shallotte, N.C.
Robert M. Urban ’99 and Jenna R. Macciocco
’02 married on December 31, 2004, at St.
Anthony’s Church, Dunmore. The groom is a cadet
in the 119th class at the Pennsylvania State Police
Academy, Hershey. The bride is an English and
business teacher. The couple reside in Dunmore.
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Karen Hammerer
’00 and Tim Devine
exchanged wedding vows
on August 7, 2004, at
Central United Methodist
Church, Linwood, N.J.
ESU alumni in bridal
party included: Michele
Rossi Mogavero ’98, Beth Sobodacha Comeau
’99, Amy Gomes ’99, Janet Brauer Mylan ’99,
Sandra O’Malley Yates ’00. Other alumni in
attendance were: Richard Mogavero ’98, Heather
Distler Cerrone ’99, Devon Remsnyder ’00,
Amanda Richartz ’00, Casey Yates ’00, Jay
Robbins ’02, Michael Rossi ’03 and Don Smith,
currently a student. Karen is a special education
kindergarten teacher for Galloway Township, N.J.
Tim is a police officer in Linwood, N.J. The couple
live in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.
Danielle M. McIntyre ’00 and Daniel A. Witt
were married on August 5, 2005, at Church of
St. Ann in Tobyhanna. The bride is employed
by Roxbury School District in New Jersey. The
groom works for the Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association, Port of New York. They live in
Pocono Pines.
Natalie B. Miller ’01 and Jamie C. Kish were
united in marriage July 23, 2005, at a private home
in Shawnee-on-Delaware. Natalie is employed
in the office of Dr. Gregory Pence, a dentist in
Mt. Pocono. Jamie is a landscaper for Strauser
Nature’s Helpers in Marshalls Creek. They live in
Bartonsville.
First Lt. Harold Joseph Everhart ’02 and
Kimberly Erin Larkin ’99 were married
September 9, 2004. The ceremony took place
overlooking the ocean at the Clipper Golf Course
on Kaneohe Marine Corps Base, Hawaii. Kimberly
is a seventh- and eighth-grade science teacher
at Holy Family Catholic Academy in Honolulu.
The groom is an active duty Marine serving as
a logistics officer with Second Battalion, Third
Marines, in support of Operation Enduring
Freedom, Afghanistan. They reside in Kailua,
Hawaii.
Brad L. Kleckner
’02 and Allison M.
Murphy ’02 were
united in marriage on
November 5, 2004, at
Holy Trinity Roman
Catholic Church in
Whitehall. ESU alumni
in the wedding party were: Louie DeLauro ’01,
Carla Semon ’02, Amanda Sugarman ’02, Keith
Kleckner ’05, and Jon Carr, who will graduate
’06. Brad is a health and physical education teacher
for the Bethlehem Area School District, Bethlehem.
Allison is a high school special education teacher
for the Allentown School District.The couple live in
Allentown.
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Bradley P. Konawalik ’02 and Kelly McCarthy
married April 30, 2005, at St. Matthews Church
in East Stroudsburg. They are both employed by
American Express Financial Advisors. Bradley is a
district manager and Kelly is a recruiting coordinator.
ESU alumnus, Connor B. Fry ’01, was in the
wedding party. The couple reside in Allentown.
Adam R. Lang ’02 and Melissa A. Fulton ’02
married on June 4, 2005, at Reeders United
Methodist Church in Reeders. Adam and Melissa
are both teachers at Ocean Breeze Elementary
School in Indian Harbour Beach, Fla. They live in
Melbourne, Fla.
Sara Bernardine Nero ’02 and Jeffrey S.
Hartshorn were married on June 24, 2005, at
Hideaway Hills Golf Club in Kresgeville. Sara
is a kindergarten teacher for Arlington Heights
Elementary School in Stroudsburg Area School
District. The groom is a dock worker for Roadway
Express in Tannersville. They live in Tannersville.
Scott Buchman ’03 and
Angela Carlson ’05 were
united in marriage on June
25, 2005, at Christ Lutheran
Church in Allentown. ESU
alumni in the wedding party
were: Lydia Agosto ’05 and
Melissa Wasil, currently
attending. Scott is a supervisor at Best Buy in
Whitehall. Angela took the summer off to plan the
wedding and get the house ready to live in. The
couple reside in Allentown.
Marc E. Cholewczynski ’03 and Kathleen L.
Hummel ’04 exchanged wedding vows September
24, 2005, at Promised Land State Park. Marc is
self-employed as a sound engineer. Kathleen is
employed as a zookeeper at Claws and Paws,
Hamlin. The couple live in Bushkill.
Meghan A. Furnia ’03
and James Brown married
on October 4, 2005, at the
Wayne County Courthouse
in Honesdale. Meghan is
employed by Wallenpaupack
Area Middle School, Hawley,
as a health and physical
education teacher. Jim is employed by Tom Butler
Provisions, Beach Lake. They live in Hawley and
are expecting their first child in June of 2006.
Jeremy M. Jackson ’03
and Dawn M. Costello
’02, M’04 were married
on August 7, 2004, at St.
Matthew’s Catholic Church
in East Stroudsburg. ESU
alumni in the wedding party
included: Taylor Garner
’02, Erin Hamilton ’03, and
Jeff Suwak ’03. Jeremy is an instructor of Digital
Arts at Bradley Academy of Art in York. Dawn
is a first-grade teacher in the Cumberland Valley
School District. They live in Harrisburg.
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Shana Kenschaft ’03 and Devin Robinson were
united in marriage on November 6, 2004, at Our
Lady of Victory Church in Tannersville. The
bride is employed by Youth Advocate Program
in Kresgeville. The groom works for UPS in
Stroudsburg. They live in Saylorsburg.
Charissa R. West ’03
and Jason Grandin were
united in marriage on May
14, 2005, at the Grandin
farm in Blairstown, N.J.
The bride is employed in
the accounting department
of LTS Builders, East
Stroudsburg. The groom
is employed for C & C
Builders in Fairfield, N.J., as a heavy equipment
operator. They live in East Stroudsburg.
Stephen A. Berg
’04 and Amber
L. Halloway
’03 exchanged
wedding vows on
August 6, 2005.
Stephen is a health
and physical
education teacher and Amber is a child care
counselor at KidsPeace. They reside in Whitehall.
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Births
Timothy Radomski ’90 and Christine Radomski,
Massapequa Park, N.Y., welcomed their second
child, Patrick William on March 2, 2005.
John Ebner ’91 and Janet Yeakel Ebner ’91,
Kutztown, twin boys, Grayson and Rylan, born July
7, 2005.
Amy Eisenhauer Craig ’92 and John Craig,
Billings, Mont., a daughter, Kathryn Sarah. Born on
December 10, 2003.
Kelly Hegarty Cockshaw
’93 and Eric Cockshaw,
Malvern, adopted a son,
Peter Justin (“PJ”), born on
July 31, 2005, and joined
the family on September 22,
2005
Mervin D’Souza ’93 and Adriana Calderoni
D’Souza ’95, Howell, N.J., a daughter, Savannah
Magdalena, born August 27, 2005. She joins
brothers Elijah and Isaiah.
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BIRTHS
Mary Ellen
Dugan Pardo
’93 and Jay
Pardo, Rochelle
Park, N.J., a son,
Ryan Michael,
born on August
10, 2005. Ryan joins big sister Eleana.
Henry Sands ’93 and
Lynn Kauffman Sands
’93, Maplewood, N.J., a
son, Zachary Louis, born
April 11, 2005. He joins
big sister Victoria.
MaryAnn Slatky
Schiattarella ’93 and Kenny
Schiattarella, Cedar Run, N.J.,
a son, Christian Robert, born
on May 12, 2005. He joins
big brother Michael and big
sister Gianna.
Patrick Senft ’93 and
Danyne Deirocini
Senft ’94, Voorhees,
N.J., a son, Ryan
Michael, born August
17, 2005. Ryan was
welcomed by brothers,
Luke and Noah.
Julie Casper Painter ’94
and Eric Painter, Gastonia,
N.C., a daughter, Avery
Kathleen, born on August
21, 2005
Sandra Johnson
Haney ’95 and
Patrick Haney,
Hatboro, a daughter,
Madison Elizabeth,
born March 8, 2005.
She is welcomed by
big brother Patrick.
Anne Margaret Morton
’96 and Dave Morton,
Saylorsburg, a girl, Anna
Elizabeth, born January
10, 2006. Shown here
with proud granddad
Charlie Morton ’64.
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Dominick Picca ’97 and
Melissa Lepre Picca
’98, Barnegat, N.J., a
daughter, Emily Lynn,
born on May 3, 2005.
Brian Cromer
’98 (right)
and Shannon
Cromer, Hanover,
a daughter,
Madalyn, born
July 5, 2004;
Damian Poalucci
’98 (left) and Amy Poalucci, Hanover, a son,
Dylan, born April 4, 2005; and Daniel D. Rounds
’99 (middle) and Jennifer Tompkins Rounds ’97,
Sanston, Va., a son, Grady, born February 9, 2004.
Kimberley Pipp Hudson
’98 and Jerry Hudson,
Carlisle, a daughter,
RaeAnne Nicole, born
February 1, 2005. She joins
big brother, Daniel and big
sister, Ashley.
Kelly Ruane Kulsicavage ’98 and James
Kulsicavage, Tunkhannock, twins, Hunter James
and Elaina Elizabeth, born August 27, 2004.
Kimberly Hollock Schuler ’98 and William
Schuler, Mountain Top, a son, Levi Charles, born
December 31, 2004.
Kevin Ketchum
’99 and Holly
Andruchowitz
Ketchum ’03,
Durham, N.C., a
daughter, Reagan
Andrea, born June
25, 2005.
Laureen Urbealis Millevoi ’99 and Scott Millevoi,
Red Bank, N.J., a son, Dylan Scott, born January 1,
2006. Dylan was the first born of the year in Ocean
County, N.J.
Joseph R. Wysokinski ’99 and Heather Searfoss
Wysokinski ’00, Lusby, Md., a daughter, Taylor
Grace, born July 12, 2005.
Christine Beaulieu Nowel ’02
and Edward Nowel, Knowlton,
N.J., a son, Andrew Edward,
born July 14, 2005.
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Kimberly Moskal ’97 is engaged to John
Andruszkow. Kimberly is a clinical counselor for
Beth Israel Medical Center. John is a concierge
for a Manhattan residential property. A wedding is
scheduled for December 9, 2006.
Brian Fitzgerald ’98 and Deborah Schecter ’03
announced their engagement. Brian is formulations
specialist for OraSure Technologies in Allentown.
Deborah is a case manager for Carbon-MonroePike Drug and Alcohol in Stroudsburg. A wedding
is planned for May 7, 2006.
Shannon Hajdinyak ’98 and Abe Chehouri
announce their engagement. Shannon is a special
education teacher with Renton School District
in Washington. Abe is employed by T-Mobile
Corporate Headquarters in Bellevue, Wash..
Wedding is planned for August 4, 2006.
Richard Grady ’99 and Pauline Heller ’00
announced their engagement. Richard is a customer
service representative at Hartford Insurance
Company in Allentown. Pauline is a supervisor for
Easter Seals in Washington, N.J., and is pursuing a
master’s degree in counseling at Centenary College.
A wedding is planned for October 28, 2006.
Peter Prell ’00 and Laura Warfel are engaged to
be married. Peter is a store manager at Carlton
Pools in West Chester. Laura is a certified massage
therapist at Chiropractic Spine Center in Paoli. A
wedding is planned for October 14, 2006.
Susanne Sherk ’00 and Justin Steen have
announced their engagement. Sue is a first/second
grade teacher at Clearview Elementary School
in Stroudsburg Area School District. Justin is a
medicinal chemist for Merck in West Point. A
wedding is planned for July 15, 2006.
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ENGAGEMENTS
Christine Smith ’01 and Karl Mayrhauser are
engaged to be married. Christine is employed by
Prime Vest in Stroudsburg. Her fiancé is employed
by Frank Smith Surveying in Marshalls Creek and
Steak & Rib in Bushkill. A wedding has been set
for June 3, 2006.
Lisa Ernst ’02 and Chad Moynihan plan to marry.
Lisa is an intensive case manager for Human
Services in Stroudsburg. Her fiance is a graduate of
Chubb Institute, where he received certification in
computer technical support. A wedding is planned
for August 5, 2006.
Tara Fishcher ’02 and
Brandon S. Gittelman
announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is a special
education teacher and
certified reading specialist
in the Council Rock School
District. The prospective
groom is a financial analyst
and business valuation consultant in Philadelphia.
An autumn 2006 wedding is planned.
Dayna Kuzniar ’02 and
Ronald Welsh, Jr. were
engaged to be married on
July 23, 2005. Dayna works
as an ophthalmic technician
at a private practice in
Marlton, N.J. Ron is a
systems administrator
for Commerce Bank. A
wedding is planned for June 3, 2006.
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David Bender ’03 and Nicolle Hartman ’03
announce their engagement. David is employed
by Barrett Transport in Mountainhome and Liz
Claiborne Distribution Center in Mount Pocono.
Nicolle is employed by Pocono Medical Center in
East Stroudsburg.
Renee L. Maxwell ’03 and Stanley E. Budzilek
II announced their engagement and approaching
marriage. Renee is employed by Blue Cross
of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Her fiance is a
supervisor at Pride Mobility, Duryea. The couple
will exchange vows April 29, 2006.
Tia Michele Carey ’04 and William A. Schwab are
engaged to be married. Tia is a first-grade teacher
at EMC Elementary School in Souderton. Bill is a
certified public accountant and works as a senior
financial analyst for Amtrak in Philadelphia.
Kimberly A. Ferlick ’04 and Bryn D. Kioske
announced their engagement. Kimberly is a biology
teacher in the Montgomery County Public School
District, Potomac, Md. She is also the assistant
athletic director and varsity softball coach at the
high school. The groom-to-be is employed by the
U.S. Postal Service, Hagerstown, Md. A Las Vegas
wedding will take place on April 8.
Sara Gorman ’04 and Nolan Peterson are engaged
to be married. Sara works for the Lancaster
Barnstomers baseball team in Lancaster. Nolan is
an assistant golf pro in Glen Rock. A wedding is
planned for May 6, 2006.
Send your news to [email protected]
or fax to (570) 422-3301.
IN MEMORIAM
Edna McDowell Meglathery ’20
Alice Leidenguth Reber ’24
Vera R. Semenza ’24
Melva Kuntz Reid ’25
Dorothy Welsh Vernon ’25
Evelyn Reinhart Curley ’27
Margaret C. Reilly ’27
Mildred Goldsmith Bohner ’28
Alys Kering Morrison ’28
Margaret M. Colleran ’29
Isobel Gilpin Pierson ’30
Margaret M. Walsh ’31
Ione R. Ball ’31
Mary Flyte Fritz ’31
Margaretta Wildenstein Kennedy ’31
Peter J. Kerutis ’32
Helen Wass Fitzgerald ’33
Stanley A. Jezuit ’33
Helen Brzyski Costello ’34
Thecla Brewinski Killian ’34
Irene Reimer Weiss ’34
Blanche Markisz Fedock ’35
Flora Belle Grine ’35
Jean Rhoads VanDevender ’35
Chester J. Krisiewicz ’36
Jennie Nearing Carlson ’37
Betty Hontz Eustice ’37
Franklin I. Snyder ’39
Pauline Smith Funke ’40
Joseph F. Harps ’40
Wilbur J. Haines ’40
Marian Carpenter Staiger ’40
Joan Brimer Cramer ’41
Rose Naegle Morgan ’41
William Johns ’41
Jean Graves Johnston ’41
Richard F. Jennings Sr. ’41
Florence L. Case ’42
Martin Lewenstein ’42
Lucy Lucinski McCoy ’44
Lena Halteman Wilson ’44
Katherine Kane Neff ’45
Harold W. Klahr ’47
Dr. Paul Roby ’47
Michael W. McNamara ’47
Bernard N. Rockovich ’48
Marian Richelderfer Johnson ’49
Clem J. Roski ’49
Wilfred Buddell ’50
Helene Howard Hospodar ’50
Robert J. Schwab ’50
Henry C. Buckwald ’52
Edward B. Strobel ’52
Charles R. Wilson ’52
Patricia Usilton Bundy ’53
John C. Westervelt, Jr.’53
Edith German Fogel ’54
Mary Farrell Hasselberger ’55
Kenneth J. Hess ’55
Marjorie Besecker Woodling ’56
Harriet Miller Markulics ’59
Sharon Slutter Crane ’60
Charles Daniels ’60
Barbara Bochinski Onufrak ’60
Salvatore C. Patti ’60
Maryanne Unger Turner ’61
John P. Fallan ’64
John Arcangelo ’65
Joanne Guida Menecola ’66
Judith Kromer Parris ’66
Gertrude W. Hellman ’68
Gerald Pascucci ’68
D. Carl Peet ’68
Ronald A. Valletta ’68
Patricia Schiebel Baker ’69
Ruth C. Hoffman ’69
Philip D. Capobianco ’70
Joan Ploski Shelley ’70
Gerald A. Speicher ’70
Janice Sovorsky Horst ’71
Joan Bingaman DeFranco ’72
Alexandra M. “Sandy” Smith ’73
Dr. K. Monica McIlvaine Kruger ’74
Joan C. Lewis ’74
Anthony J. Candelmo ’76
Cathie L. Kopenhaver Edwards ’77
Steven C. Shermetta ’78
Terrie Cox Chiovarou ’85
Shawn Timothy Davis ’85
Robert Cardoni ’89
Marjory J. Hazen M’92
Terry Lee Stevens ’92
Jason L. Frey ’02
Douglas C. Schaefer M’02
Michael J. Wilding, Jr. ’03
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Heart ...
Story by Pete Nevins M’84
Photos by Perry Hebard
Alumni Herald
Spring 2006
This is a story of how far determination can take a young
person.
This is a story of a then young girl who was told to give up
any dreams she had of attending college or competing in
collegiate athletes.
This is a story of a now young woman at ESU who refused
to accept other people’s pre-conceived notions about her
abilities or her future.
This is a story about Jasmine Gittens, an ESU senior who has
become a Dean’s List student and was a co-captain and the
heart and soul of the 2005-06 championship ESU women’s
basketball team.
This is a success story.
Eight years ago, Jasmine Gittens was a
struggling student in the Stroudsburg Area School
District. She was in a learning disability program
because of her dyslexia and was getting poor
grades.
Any thoughts of her reaching her goals of
entering college and doing well were completely
fanciful to everyone except for Gittens.
“There is an incredible stigma on the words
‘learning disability.’ For some reasons, it triggers
in other people’s minds that these people can’t
do it,” said Gittens, who has dyslexia. “For a lot
of people if you are told you are not as smart as
other kids for so many years, you’re not going to
be as smart. I just refused to accept that then and I
refuse to accept that now,” she emphasized.
Gittens worked herself out of the high
school disability program and started taking
college-bound courses. With help from guidance
counselor Charlene Frable and reading specialist
Janet Smith ’73, her grades started to improve.
“I actually won an award in high school for
the biggest turnaround,” Gittens said. “If you see
my grades from my freshman years to my senior
year, it’s like a completely different person. It’s all
because I refused to accept the fact that I couldn’t
go to college, do well and then graduate.”
In athletics, Gittens was a four-year basketball
player for Stroudsburg High School and started as
a senior on a team which reached the second round
of the PIAA District 11 playoffs.
Now with the grades to be admitted, she had
her choice of colleges and narrowed her selection
to three schools, ESU, Bloomsburg University and
College Misericordia.
“I came to ESU because I felt the most
comfortable here,” she explained. “They had
everything I needed. They have one of the
strongest programs for the learning disabilities and
their technology to help me correlated with what I
used in high school.”
Gittens says that getting a chance to play
Jasmine, an athletic trainer in training, is well-known for smiling all the time.
basketball for ESU coach Juliene Simpson also was
a “big deciding factor” in her choosing to become
a Warrior.
The then 18-year-old entered the university in
September 2002 and her development as a studentathlete was admittedly slow, but steady.
She had support along the way, particularly
from the Office of Disabilities Services and its
director, Dr. Edith Miller. She received help with
handling reading assignments and with extra time
or different methods to take examinations.
“Jasmine is a very dynamic individual and
I realized that from the first time I interacted
with her,” said Miller. “She was always a very
conscientious student, very positive and dedicated
to pursuing her goals.”
Last year, Gittens was inducted as a charter
member of Delta Alpha Pi, an honorary society
which recognizes accomplishments by students
who have learning disabilities. “She has been
fabulous for us,” said Dr. Miller. “She meets and
talks to prospective students with disabilities
and explains what our office does and how it can
help them. She’s been a tremendous asset to our
program and to the university.”
Gittens also has been a tremendous asset to
both the ESU basketball team and the Athletic
Training program in which she is now enrolled.
Before the season, the Warriors were picked in
the coaches’ poll to finish seventh and last in the
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Eastern
Division standings. At the end of the season, they
had turned the standings upside down by becoming
the first team in PSAC history ever picked for last to
finish first and win a division championship. They
finished 9-3 in the conference.
One prime reason was that Gittens again applied
the “refuse” word as she and the rest of the players
refused to accept the mediocrity which had gripped
the ESU women’s basketball program for the last 10
years. During the second half of the league season
when they went 6-0, they refused to lose.
As the team’s lone senior, Gittens, who is
called Jazz by her teammates, was the catalyst for
the team’s title-winning drive. She prodded and
pushed her teammates to play harder and to leave
it all on the court. She did it with both a smile and
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a scowl; letting “her girls,” as she calls them, know
that she always “had their backs” in games, but that
sometimes they had to play harder.
“Jazz was the heart and soul of the team,”
said point guard Maryanne Onofre, a first team
All-PSAC player. “She always fired us up even in
drills. She really pushed the team to get excited
and succeed.”
That’s a role that Gittens saw herself fulfilling
for the squad.“I wasn’t there so much to put up big
numbers and scoring and stuff like that,” she says.
“I was there more as an emotional leader and to
keep the girls very focused. I’ve always been like
that even when I was in high school. I just have
a passion for the game and I’m naturally loud so
I guess you put 2 and 2 together and that’s what
happens.”
Gittens also led the team off the court - before
the games in the locker room and on away trips.
With her ever-present wide smile, except sometimes
in games, and her bubbly out-going personality, she
projects a glow which envelops everyone around
her with her love for life and for the particular
activity involved.
“In the locker room, we crack jokes on each
other, turn on music and dance around. We have
our songs of the season. We are definitely a lively
bunch of girls. As soon as we step out of the locker
room, however, we’re all business.”
And all business to Jasmine meant playing
hard every minute of every game. She did
contribute to the team statistically, putting up big
and important numbers in some contests. She
scored a career-high 23 points, making 8-of-14
shots from the floor, including four three-pointers,
in a win over Bloomsburg. She scored 15 points in
three other games, two against PSAC opponents.
For the season, Gittens scored 194 points for
an average of 6.9 points per game, grabbed 134
rebounds or 4.8 per contest and made 60 assists,
second best on the team to Onofre’s 71.
But admittedly the points, rebounds and assists
were often incidental to Gittens’ real value to the
squad. “Some of Jazz’s main contributions you
won’t find in the statistics or the record book,”
said Coach Simpson. “She led us with her passion
and fury. She literally worked hard until she had
nothing left and fell to the court. Then she got up
and kept working.”
Gittens’s unending work ethic also has been
a reason that she has succeeded as a student in
her chosen curriculum.Listen to Dr. John Hauth
’83, chairperson of the Athletic Training program.
“Jasmine’s a highly engaged and enthusiastic
student. She’s always well-prepared and her
clinical evaluations are excellent. Her enthusiasm is
infectious. She gets other people in the class excited
about what we are doing.”
Gittens worked as a student trainer with the
ESU field hockey program last fall and was so well
liked and so highly respected that the coach (Sandy
Miller) asked that she be assigned to the team again
next season. “That’s extremely rare; we haven’t
had many coaches do that,” said Colleen Shotwell,
one of the school’s athletic trainers. “Part of that is
that Jasmine can anticipate what needs to be done
because she is a student athlete.”
Last spring semester, Gittens earned all As
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... and
Soul
Jasmine Gittens, No. 20, shows her form on the court. As the Warriors’ lone senior, Gittens, who is called Jazz by her teammates,
was the catalyst for the team’s title-winning drive.
– marks which were rewarding to her for a special
reason. “Vice President (Val) Hodge befriended
me when I arrived here and always had an open
office for me to talk or study,” said Gittens. “She
was concerned that I kept my head in the books.
She wanted me to pull a 4.0 before I left and I
accomplished that for her before she passed away
last summer. I know she knows that I definitely
accomplished that for her.”
Although her basketball eligibility is
completed, Gittens has another year of school
remaining before her expected graduation in May,
2007. She plans to move to the San Diego, Calif.,
area where her brother and his family and other
relatives live and pursue a career in athletic training
and perhaps also coach youth basketball.
Gittens is proud of the leadership she gave and
the example she set for the Warriors’ title-winning
team. “I didn’t want to be the one to just rile people
up and be the ‘rah rah person’. I wanted to show
them that ‘this is what it takes’ and I think I did a
pretty good job at that,” she said.
And from a young age, Gittens has done not
just a pretty good, but a truly awe-inspiring job at
exceeding other people’s expectations and proving
how far determination can take someone. Now
that’s success.
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Women’s Basketball
The ESU women’s
basketball
team won the
Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference
Eastern Division
title, finishing the
regular season 93. Three players
were honored by
the PSAC with
postseason awards.
Freshman Jackie
Yandrisevits was
named the Eastern
Division Rookie
of the Year while
Maryellen Onofre
coach Juliene Simpson was named the Eastern
Division Coach of the Year.
Junior guard Maryellen Onofre was named
a first-team all-star in the Eastern Division.
Yandrisevits was named the PSAC Eastern
Division Rookie of the Week three times during
the regular season. She averaged a team-best
13.5 points per game and was the first player
from ESU to be named Rookie of the Year in
11 years. Yandrisevits made 12 three-pointers,
averaged six rebounds per game and had
45 assists and 37 steals. Simpson, who just
completed her fifth year, was honored as the
Coach of the Year for the first time. Onofre
earned All-PSAC recognition for the first time
in her career. She was second on the team with
12.5 points per game and led the team with 63
three-pointers and had a team-high 71 assists.
Jasmine Gittens was the lone senior on the
team and averaged 7 points per game and 4.8
rebounds per contest.
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Danny Hargrove, one of two seniors on the
team, was named to the All-PSAC first team.
Hargrove led the team with 16.2 points per game
and made 45 three-pointers, second on the team.
Hargrove had 42 steals and 57 assists and was
named all-conference for the first time. Naveen
Mohiuddin, the other senior, led the team with 50
three-pointers and averaged 10 points per contest.
Track & Field
The ESU men finished fifth and the women
seventh as the indoor track and field season
culminated with the PSAC Championships at
Koehler Fieldhouse.
The team of junior Drew Nesbitt, senior
Steve Denninger, sophomore Rob Innis and
sophomore Iuri Pinto won the distance medley
relay for the second straight year. Leslie Martin
had ESU’s top individual finish with a second
place in the pentathlon. She scored 3,216 points
to finish 180 points behind the winner, Renee
Marchand of Kutztown. The Warriors had four
other individual top-eight finishers, two in the
long jump. Jayme Ferraro leaped 17-3 for a
fourth in the women’s event while Andy Richard
went 23-0 for fifth in the men’s field.
Dan Benner placed fourth in the pentathlon
with 3,162 points while Martin was eighth in
the long jump at 16-8½. The ESU women’s
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distance relay team of Kelly Brennan, Lyndsay
Dynow, Vanessa Andes and Sam LaPergola
placed third in 9:45.56. The Warriors’ women’s
4 x 800 relay team of Andes, Brennan, Kara
Parillo and Chrissy Greer finished fifth in
13:58.37.
Hurdler Jayme Ferraro placed second in
the 55-meter hurdles, and distance runner Iuri
Pinto was third in the mile. Ferraro ran a time
of 8.48 to finish as the runner up in the event
for the second straight year. Pinto was timed in
4:17.86 and just missed placing second. Both of
the Warriors’ 4 x 400-meter relay teams finished
third. The men’s quartet of Tony Prudente
(50.7), Jon Reid (50.1), Rob Innis (51.3) and
Steve Denninger (50.2) set a school record of
3:22.34. The women’s foursome of Ferraro
(59.8), Sam LaPergola (60.8), Ashley Janosko
(60.2) and Katherine Doyle (59.8) bettered
its seed time by seven seconds with a 4:01.11
clocking.
Swimming
The swim team concluded its season with
an 11th place finish at the PSAC championships
at Clarion University and its regular season 5-2.
At the PSAC championships, ESU had 10 placewinners, led by freshman Sally Kaminski who
placed in three individual events
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Senior Naveen Mohiuddin, above, helped the Warriors tie
for second in the PSAC Eastern Division.
Men’s Basketball
The ESU men’s basketball team earned a berth
in the postseason for the first time since 1998,
finishing tied for second in the PSAC Eastern
Division. The Warriors completed the regular
season 7-5 in league play and 16-12 overall.
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Senior Mark Smith concluded his career at ESU
with 99 wins.
Wrestling
The ESU wrestling team completed its
regular season 10-9, the fourth consecutive
winning season. Three seniors, Mark
Smith, Keith Smith and Adam Karasevicz
earned third-place at the PSAC wrestling
championships. Mark Smith concluded his
career with 99 wins while Keith Smith had
72 wins. Karasevicz, in his first year as a
full-time starter, had 26 wins in his career.
Nester ’03 Is Lacrosse Coach
Lynne Nester ’03 has been named
women’s lacrosse coach at her alma
mater. Nester was a four-year player on
the lacrosse team and earned her degree
in communications with an English minor
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and joins ESU from Alvernia College.
Nester led Alvernia to six wins in her first
season as head coach and to a 5-5 mark
in the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference.
She was also an assistant for one season.
“We are excited to have
Lynne on our staff,”
said Athletic Director
Dr. Tom Gioglio. “She
has a background here
and knows what it takes
to succeed as a studentathlete and as a coach.
Her enthusiasm and understanding of the
game make her a great addition to our
athletics staff.”
At Alvernia, Nester was also the
CHAMPS/Life Skills Coordinator and
worked with student-athletes on a number
of projects while also arranging speakers.
“It really is an honor to come back to
ESU,” Nester said. “We have a dedicated
group of student-athletes who will work
hard to fulfill this year’s goals.”
ESU finished 7-9 last year, losing
to West Chester in the first round of the
playoffs. The 2006 season will get under
way at Mercyhurst on March 19.
$66,000 in Pledges Raised During Athletics Phonathon
During the Friends of ESU Athletics (FESUA) Phonathon, ESU students and
volunteer, Mary Lou Smith, from ESU’s Math Department, raised more than $66,000
in pledges. Approximately 7,700 friends, former athletes, parents and alumni were
contacted which resulted in more than 1,400 pledges. The funds raised will be used
to support student-athlete scholarships, provide additional funds to athletic program
budgets and other needs associated with athletics, such as equipment and uniforms.
“I would like to extend a sincere thanks to all of our alumni, community
members, parents and fans who helped make it a success. Their support directly
benefits our student-athletes and helps us to compete in 18 Division II sports as well
as Division I wrestling” said Tom Gioglio, ESU’s Director of Athletics.
If you are interested in contributing to the FESUA Phonathon, please feel free to
contact Ms. Christina Fenton, Annual Funds Coordinator, ESU Advancement Office
at (570) 422-3156 or by e-mail at [email protected].
ESU Honors Jack Cuvo by Retiring Singlet
East Stroudsburg University retired the singlet of wrestler Jack Cuvo ’91 and
also raised a banner in Koehler Fieldhouse, detailing some of Cuvo’s accomplishments.
The banner was unveiled prior to a December wrestling match against the
United States Military Academy. Cuvo was presented with the banner, as well as
the singlet from his wrestling days, by ESU Athletic Director Dr. Tom Gioglio and
ESU wrestling coach Angelo Borzio ’95.
Cuvo won the 118-pound title at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships in 1988 and 1989. He finished fifth in the nation to earn All-America honors
as a sophomore in 1987. The Easton, Pa., native posted a career record of 164-7 with
marks of 45-0 as a senior and 43-0 as a junior. He chalked up 89 straight wins, tied
for the third most in NCAA history. He never lost a dual match in his collegiate
career with a 73-0 record. Cuvo also starred in distance running both in high school
and college. At ESU, he was a two-time NCAA Division II cross country AllAmerica, finishing 16th in 1985 and 15th in 1986.
From left are Athletic Director Tom Gioglio, Jack Cuvo ’91 and former Coach Angelo Borzio ’95
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Celebrating a Sensational Season
From left: ESU Football Captains Anthony Carfagno, Dan Crozier and Tyree
Townes, along with head coach Denny Douds, quarterback Jimmy Terwilliger and East Stroudsburg Mayor Armond Martinelli ’80. Martinelli and State
Representative Mario Scavello presented the Warriors with citations during the
Making History Football Celebration in Koehler Fieldhouse.
750
More than 750 people crowded into Koehler Fieldhouse to
honor the football team. The players were presented with their
awards from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for
capturing the NCAA Division II Northeast Regional title.
The football team finished the season 11-3 and advanced to
the semifinals for the first time ever. A banner was hung depicting the accomplishments during the ceremony.
President Dr. Robert Dillman, Interim Vice President of Student Affairs Julie Del Giorno, Athletic Director Dr. Tom Gioglio
and Douds also spoke before the team’s season recap video was
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Event
Luau Welcome
Luncheon $10 (Class of ’56 free)
Wine Tasting and Farewell Reception
Mail your reservation by May 26!
200 Prospect Street
Or phone Tania at 800-775-8975.
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5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hawaiian Luau and Best Hula Contest
Multipurpose Room, Alumni Center
Come to an alumni Tiki Room in your Hawaiian shirt, lei and hula skirt, sip a mai tai and say aloha
to your ESU friends. You will enjoy a delectable feast of pineapple chicken, roast pig and more while
you listen to Hawaiian themed tunes from a slack key guitar. Reservations required.
Saturday, June 3, 2006
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Registration
Lower Lounge, Dansbury Commons
Start the day by picking up your name tag,
souvenir, and a quick bite, compliments of the
Alumni Association.
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
A Living History of ESU
Lower Lounge, Dansbury Commons
Think you know all there is about ESU? Hear from
fellow alumni as they take a trip down memory
lane and share student experiences from across
the decades.
11:00 a.m. – Noon
50th Anniversary Reception
President’s Residence
This Golden Anniversary happens only once in
a lifetime and personally congratulating you will
be ESU President Dr. Robert J. Dillman.
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Tours of Campus
Departs from Lower Lounge,
Dansbury Commons
The campus continues to expand to
meet the needs of students, faculty
and alumni. See how much the
campus has changed but also to see
how much it has remained the same!
11:00 – 3:00 p.m.
ESU Bookstore Open
Don’t miss this chance to purchase your ESU
paraphernalia. Discount coupon available at
registration.
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Reunion and Awards Luncheon
Keystone Room
Salute fellow alumni as they are recognized for
anniversary milestones and career achievements.
$10 per person, reservations required.
2:00 p.m.
Class Photographs
for Anniversary Years
Keystone Room
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Wine Tasting
Multipurpose Room, Alumni Center
Become a wine connoisseur! Or at least sample
red and white wines and learn terms, regions
and characteristics!
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Farewell Reception
Multipurpose Room - Alumni Center
Time to bid one another farewell but not
before exchanging contact information and
making plans to see each other next year.
Complimentary but reservations required.
Prom, from 1956 yearbook
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