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Making art. teaching art.

Picturing the world.

Rioult Dance Views of the Fleeting WorldPhoto: Basil Childers

www.naz.edu/artscenter/ BOX OFFICE: 585-389-2170

Rioult Dance Views of the Fleeting WorldPhoto: Basil Childers

Rioult Dance Oct. 1, 2011

National Acrobats of China Oct. 28, 2011

Compania Flamenca Jose Porcel Nov. 11, 2011 “Gypsy (roma) Fire”

Leahy (cross-genre, string-based Nov. 19, 2011 musical collective)

Garth Fagan Dance Nov. 29–Dec. 4, 2011

The Capitol Steps Dec. 31, 2011

42Five (a cappella) Jan. 21, 2012 Opening act: Nazareth’s own Call4Backup

Rochester City Ballet: The Blood Countess Feb. 3, 4, 5, 2012

Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet March 24, 2012

Tao: The Art of the Drum March 31, 2012

Parsons Dance May 5, 2012

Rochester City Ballet May 18, 19, 20, 2012

2011-2012 SubScription SerieS SeaSonNazareth College Arts Center

ChiLDReN’S/FAMiLy PeRFORMANCeS

Dallas Children’s Theatre Nov. 3, 4, 5, 2011 Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale

Rochester Children’s Theatre Dec.10 , 11; 17, 18, 2011 Annie (co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)

John Tartaglia’s imaginOcean Jan. 7, 2012 (black-light puppet show)

Rochester Children’s Theatre Feb. 11, 12; 18, 19, 2012 The hobbit (co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)

Rochester Children’s Theatre Mar. 10, 11; 17, 18, 2012 A year with Frog and Toad (co-production with Nazareth College Arts Center)

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ABOUT OUR COVERPhotograph by Alex Shukoff

Nazareth art professors Kathleen Calderwood and Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick picture their worlds in very different ways. This issue of Connections explores the intersection of making and teaching art.

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Nazareth College ConnectionsVolume 23, Number 3

Summer/Fall 2011

Editorrobyn A. rime

Assistant Director, Publications and Creative Services

Regular ContributorsDonna BorgusKerry Gotham

Julie longAlicia Nestle

Joe SeilSofia Tokar

Kerry Van malderghem ’08G

Additional Contributorsrobin l. Flanigan

Alan Gelbmatthew Temple

The ClassesKerry Van malderghem ’08G

Photographer Alex Shukoff

Contributing PhotographersKurt Brownell

Brady DillsworthGreg Francis

Jamie Germanow

Design Boehm marketing Communications

PrintingCohber Press

Director of Alumni RelationsKerry Gotham ’98

Vice President, Institutional AdvancementKelly E. Gagan

Nazareth College PresidentDaan Braveman, J.D.

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should be directed to one of the offices below, and sent to:

Nazareth College4245 East Ave.

rochester, NY 14618-3790

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Please note that Connections is produced approximately four months in advance of when it is received by readers. letters and class notes

received after production has begun will be included in the next issue of the magazine.

All accepted text is subject to editing.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

5 News and Views The latest news from the Nazareth campus.

19 Sports News Equestrian team; national volleyball champs; athletic round-up.

24 Nazareth in the World Professor Brian Bailey ’01G brings film studies to India…

and vice versa.

26 Interfaith Ideas Nazareth’s peace and justice studies major draws

students from many backgrounds.

28 Life of the Mind Professor Matthew Temple’s use of the new 3-D microscope.

30 Beyond Self More and more students do a year of service after graduation.

32 Nazareth Heritage The long tradition of trees on the Nazareth campus.

34 Cover Story: Making Art, Teaching Art Nazareth art professors Kathleen Calderwood

and Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick are both respected painters and beloved teachers. Connections profiles these two very different personalities.

40 Alumni News Alumni profile of Renée Scialdo Shevat ’77; Reunion

photo album; Outstanding Alumni Award winners Jessica Shackelton Maclay ’03 and Mary Catherine Driscoll ’66.

49 Class Notes54 The Archive

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NAzArETh COllEGE mISSION AND VISION STATEmENTSThe mission of Nazareth College is to provide a learning community that educates students in the liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional fields, fostering commitment to a life informed by intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic values; to develop skills necessary for the pursuit of meaningful careers; and to inspire dedication to the ideal of service to their communities. Nazareth seeks students who want to make a difference in their own world and the world around them, and encourages them to develop the understanding, commitment, and confidence to lead fully informed and actively engaged lives.

The vision of Nazareth College is to be nationally and internationally recognized as a comprehensive educational institution which provides its students with transformational experi-ences and integrates liberal arts, sciences, visual and performing arts, and professional education at the undergraduate and graduate levels and which places special value on student success, diversity, inclusion, civic engagement, and making a difference in local and global communities.

STATEmENT ON rESPECT AND DIVErSITYWe, the Nazareth community, embrace both respect for the person and freedom of speech. The College promotes civility and denounces acts of hatred or intolerance. The free exchange of ideas is possible only when concepts, values, and viewpoints can be expressed and challenged in a manner that is neither threatening nor demeaning. It is the policy of Nazareth College, in keeping with its efforts to foster a community in which the diversity of all members is respected, not to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, marital or veteran status, disability, carrier status, genetic predisposition, or any other protected status. respect for the dignity of all peoples is an essential part of the College’s tradition and mission, and its vision for the future.

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Dear Nazareth Friends,

Nazareth College celebrated its eighty-fourth annual Commencement last spring with a joint graduate and undergraduate ceremony for more than a thousand students. This issue of Connections shares photographs of the eventful day, and readers can browse through additional galleries online.

As the graduation ceremony approached, I was reminded that the word “commencement” is an interesting and fitting word to describe the event. Commencement actually has two

meanings—it is a ceremony at the end of an academic year. But it also refers to a beginning, and in this regard it is a most appropriate word to describe the graduation event.

Students are ending their academic programs and beginning the next phase of their lives—whether it is work, or more school, or travel, or some other experience. They, however, leave Nazareth with links that enable them to connect the experience that is ending to the new experiences that are now beginning.

The College’s mission statement is a forward-looking declaration that connects the educational experience here with the future. The statement declares that it is our goal to provide a learning environment that fosters commitment to a life informed by intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and aesthetic values. These are not simply words

but our very purpose, and our students end their academic careers with the understandings and abilities to foster that kind of commitment in the future.

The mission statement also provides that it is our goal to inspire in our students a dedication to the ideal of service to their communities and to making a difference in their own world and the world around them. Many of the graduates have been engaged with the community while at Nazareth. Last year alone our students devoted 553,000 hours of service to the community, and the Beyond Self article “Lives of Intention” highlights students who continue to serve after graduation. I am confident that our graduates will remain committed to the ideal of service.

I want to mention another link between the phase of life that is ending and the excitement for the future, and that link includes their fellow graduates. Many of the students at this time of year experience mixed emotions—happy to have reached this significant milestone but at the same time concerned about the future of close friendships made over the past years.

Let me offer a personal observation about those friends. I recently spoke on the phone to a friend in New York City. We met during our college orientation more years ago than I want to say, and we roomed together our junior and senior years. We went to different law schools and he has lived in NYC since his graduation from law school while I have lived upstate. Nevertheless, we have stayed close, attending each other’s weddings, watching our respective families grow, and generally sharing our career and life experiences. We speak regularly on the phone and see each other often.

I mention this story to illustrate that as the graduates begin new phases in their lives, they too will maintain the close friendships developed over the years at Nazareth. In this respect the past and future remain connected. Commencement may be an ending and a beginning, but the experience that is ending and the future that is beginning are permanently linked together.

Sincerely,

Daan Braveman

Read more from the perspective of President Braveman on his blog at http://naz.typepad.com/braveman

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Tricia Asklar (English) published two poems, “My Uncle Smokes His Pipe” and “For Irene, Whose Obituary Was Too Brief,” in the June issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics. The poems were selected as part of the I-90 Manifesto issue.

Brian Bailey ’01G (Adolescent Education) published “Real Lit-eracies in the Classroom: Healing Wounds with Digital Video” in the June issue of Journal of Digital Culture and Education. His book chapter “Addressing Everyday Problems and Constructing Situ-ated Identities: Youth Filmmaking in Schools” will appear in the forthcoming peer-reviewed book Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain: The Use of Film in Education (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).

Bill Capossere (English) published “Fog” in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2011, and “The Price of Passage” in Cream City Review, Fall/Win-ter 2010/2011. His essay “Black Holes” was recently listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2010.

Carlnita Greene (Com-munication and Rhetoric/English) co-edited the book Food as Commu-nication/Communication as Food (Peter Lang, 2011). In addition to the editors’ introduction, the volume features her essay “Competing Identities at the Table: Slow Food, Consumption, and the Performance of Social Style.”

Faculty Publications

America,” Annals of Carnegie Museum, 79:79–90, and “New Species of the Cricetid Rodents (Mammalia) from the Late Mio-cene (Hemphillian) Previously Referred to Peromyscus plioceni-cus Wilson,” Annals of Carnegie Museum, 79:137–147.

David Sommerville (Music) has a book review of Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts, by Michiel Shuijer, in the forthcoming issue of GAMUT.

Renee van der Vennet (Cre-ative Arts Therapy) co-authored “The Impact of Anxious and Calm Emotional States on Color Usage in Pre-Drawn Mandalas” in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 27(4), 184-189.

Mary Ellen Vore (Physical Therapy) will publish “The Impact of a Ten Week Individualized Exer-cise Program on Physical Function and Fatigue of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study” in a forthcoming issue of the Inter-national Journal of MS Care.

Maria Hopkins (Language, Literacy, and Technology) co- authored two book chapters in Sociocultural Positioning in Liter-acy: Exploring Culture, Discourse, Narrative, and Power in Diverse Educational Contexts, edited by M. McVee, C. Brock, and J. Glazier (Hampton Press, 2011).

Nicole Juersivich (Mathemat-ics) co-wrote the chapter “The TPACK of Dynamic Representa-tions” in Educational Technology, Teacher Knowledge, and Class-room Impact: A Research Hand-book on Frameworks and Ap-proaches, edited by R. Ronau, C. Rakes, and M. Niess (Information Science Publishing, 2011).

Matt Koetz (Mathematics) had the poem “The Seniors” accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Math Horizons.

William Korth (Chemistry) published “Review of the Spe-cies of Eumys Leidy (Rodentia, Cricetidae) from the Oligocene (Orellan to Arikareean) of North

Monica Weis ’65 (English) pub-lished The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton (University Press of Kentucky, 2011).

Ed Wiltse (English) co-edited Hope Against Hope: Philosophies, Cultures and Politics of Possibility and Doubt (Rodopi, 2010). In addition to the editors’ intro-duction, the volume contains his essay “Hope Across the Razor Wire: Student-Inmate Reading Groups at Monroe Correctional Facility.”


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Five Students receive PrestigiousFulbright Grants

Nazareth College is proud to announce that the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has selected Jeri Beckens ’11 of Sodus, N.Y., Alyssa Pantano ’11 of Amherst, N.Y., Amanda Poppe ’11 of Jordan, N.Y., Amber Powers ’11G of Webster, N.Y., and Daniel Simmons ’11 of Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., to receive 2011–2012 U.S. Junior Fulbright awards. This year’s recipients make a record breaking number in one year

for the College. In the last five years, there have been 12 Fulbrights awarded to Nazareth College students.

Beckens, a German and international studies double major and Spanish minor, will teach English in Germany. When she returns, she is interested in pursuing a master’s in international relations, or TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages).

Pantano, a Spanish and inclusive childhood/middle childhood education double major, will teach English in Argentina. Upon her return, she plans to attend graduate school at the University of Buffalo to study English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) with an extension in bilingual education. She plans to work with


Two Graduates receive Assistantships

TWO NAzArETh COLLEgE graduating seniors were selected to receive French Government English Teach-ing Assistant-ships for the upcoming academic year. Emily Alexander ’11 of Montgom-ery, N.Y. and Abraham Gerson ’11 of Charlotte, Vt., will be in various parts of France teaching English to high school and middle school students. These competitive assistantships give students a chance to gain experience in their field and improve their language skills as well as foster cross-cultural understanding.

Gerson will be teaching in the vicinity of Rennes, France. He is a French major and communication and rhetoric minor. After his assistantship in France, Gerson will be attend-ing Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications where he will pursue a master’s degree in broadcast journalism.

Alexander, a French major and English literature minor, will be teaching in the vicinity of Strasbourg, France.

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immigrant and refugee populations in the U.S. and possibly pursue a doctorate related to the social foundations of education.

Poppe, a Spanish and adolescence education double major, will teach English in Spain. She plans on attending graduate school for TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) when she returns.

Powers, a TESOL (teaching English to speakers of other languages) graduate student, will teach English in Nepal.

Simmons, a German and Spanish double major, will teach English in Germany. There, he is hoping to get involved with an NGO that works on environmental sustainability initiatives. Upon returning, he plans to apply to graduate schools. His dream is to work in international relations.

Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. Wil-liam Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program’s objective is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. Sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the Fulbright Program is America’s flagship international education exchange. Approximately 279,500 “Fulbrights,” 105,400 from the United States and 174,100 from other countries, have participated in the Program since its inception over fifty years ago.

Award-Winning Author Visits Campusby Carly Maldonado ’12

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For the second year in a row, Nazareth welcomed a renowned author to campus as part of Writers & Books’

annual program If All of Rochester Read the Same Book …. This spring, Hannah Tinti, author of the Dicken-sian-inspired novel The Good Thief, spoke to an audience that filled the Shults Center Forum, despite the four inches of snow that had fallen that day. (Typical Rochester!) Tinti shared her wisdom with all the event attendees; however, the

theme of her presentation was especially applicable to the Nazareth students in the audience.

Tinti spoke at length about her background and the extent to which her childhood and her hometown of Salem, Massachu-

setts, have influenced not only the plot of her novel but her writ-ing career as a whole. She told a story about seriously injuring her left hand while playing in a graveyard as a child. She then contin-ued on to say that, although she did not consciously think of this experience when she decided that the protagonist of The Good Thief would be missing a left hand, this occurrence undoubtedly had a subconscious effect on her and her writing.

As college students, we are in a stage of life where we are mov-ing out of our childhood homes and away from our parents and families, trying to find our own way in life. The reminder that the experiences that we had growing up and that the way we were raised will have influences on what major we choose, what career we pursue, and how we respond to life’s challenges, is one that is always worth hearing again. And for our most recent reminder of that fact, we can thank Hannah Tinti.

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NAzArETh COLLEgE host-ed the interdisciplinary event Globalization and Culture: An Undergraduate and Gradu-ate Student Conference last spring. The first of its kind for the College, the conference featured three concurrent sessions and 173 student-presenters sharing their re-search and civic engagement projects, as well as artistic performances in the form of scholarly papers, round-table discussions, and poster presentations. Celebrating

their curricular and co-curricular achievements, students learned about presenting at and attending an academic conference.

The conference was designed by its organizers—Clare Counihan, Ph.D. (English); Otieno Kisiara, Ph.D. (Anthropology); and Yamuna Sangarasivam, Ph.D. (Anthropology) —to reflect the mission and strategic initiatives of the College. They identified globalization and

culture as a theme to showcase student research that contributes to the goal of preparing students to make a difference as members of plural societies while making connections between local and global communities.

The conference featured keynote speaker Jeremy Scahill, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, who spoke to a packed audience in the Shults Center Forum. Students and community mem-bers also joined a roundtable discussion that included Scahill, Sangara-sivam, Nazareth College President Daan Braveman, Harry Murray, Ph.D. (Sociology and Anthropology), Dr. Karen Hall (Syracuse Univer-sity), and Jon Sheldon ’13 (Marine combat veteran). Other highlights were a plenary lecture and performances by a spoken-word artist and a playwright/actress.

“The success of this conference was due to it being truly a campus-wide collaboration,” says Sangarasivam. Contributors included Naza-reth College’s centers; all four schools; the Offices of Student Develop-ment, Academic Affairs, and Multicultural Affairs; Honors Program, First Year Center; Undergraduate Association Diversity Council; and Lorette Wilmot Library.

To learn more about the conference please visit go.naz.edu/global

Globalization and Culture Conference Features Student Work

Keynote speaker Jeremy Scahill during the roundtable discussion.

Hannah Tinti

Since 2008, with the es-tablishment of the Naza-reth Veterans

Scholarship and the forging of partnerships with Rochester Regional Veterans Business Coun-cil (RRVBC) and Veterans Outreach Center, Inc. (VOC), Nazareth Col-lege’s commitment to veteran students has continued to grow and strengthen, making it an ideal institution for veterans and their de-pendents to pursue an education.

The combination of the Nazareth Veterans Scholarship, the GI Bill, and Yellow Ribbon program (which supplements tuition fees that exceed the Post-9/11 GI Bill tuition benefit) means a veteran or his/her dependent could attend Nazareth College tuition free. But free tuition alone does not prepare veterans to apply for and successfully complete their education. That is why Project VET CONNECT-ED was launched.

Project VET CONNECT-ED is a collaborative endeavor led by VOC in partnership with Nazareth College and RRVBC. Funded by a $50,000 College Access Challenge Grant by the New York State Higher Educa-tion Services Corporation, Project VET CONNECT-ED is designed to provide supportive services and information in order to increase the rate of veteran students in the Rochester area who are prepared to succeed in college. Each Project VET CONNECT-ED outreach event includes informational workshops and an expo where representatives from area colleges, VOC, and other community support services are on hand to answer veterans’ questions. The goal is to provide a one-stop opportunity for veterans to get information on choosing a college, application processes, financial aid, the Post-9/11 GI Bill, and other veterans’ benefits.

Another important component is to provide training for faculty and staff at some of the Rochester area colleges to increase awareness about the unique needs of student veterans. The first of such profes-sional development training sessions was held at Nazareth College in March and attracted more than 100 faculty and staff. The one-day conference included a veteran student panel and workshops such as Veterans 101; The G.I. Bill; Readjustment Issues Confronting Returning

Veteran Students; How Do We Respectfully Tell the Veteran Story, and more.

“Many vets are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and institutions of higher education have an obligation to help them make the transition back to their civilian lives,” says Nazareth College President Daan Brave-man. “Colleges and universities must be prepared to respond to their needs, which may differ from those of traditional students.”

According to Col. James McDonough, U.S. Army (Ret.), Veter-ans Outreach Center’s

president and CEO, a recently released national survey of student engagement shows that veterans are usually older than other students, tend to be the first in their family to attend college, and are twice as likely to be diagnosed with at least one disability.

“The report suggested that colleges and universities should make special efforts to identify and address the needs of student veterans,” says McDonough. “Project VET CONNECT-ED will not only provide Rochester area colleges with the means to do so, but will also em- power student veterans with more information and better access to resources in order to enable them to succeed.”

Assistant Professor of Music and Music Therapy Betsey King, Ph.D., was one of more than 100 Nazareth College faculty and staff that attended the professional development training session held on campus in the spring. King says one of the most valuable sessions for her as a faculty member was the student panel. “It was both infor-mative and enlightening because we heard from men and women who had served at different levels in the service and had diverse points of view. It was valuable to see each veteran as an individual.”

VOC is organizing a number of Project VET CONNECT-ED outreach information sessions for military veterans and their families throughout the spring and fall of 2011. To find out more, check regularly for VOC programs at go.naz.edu/veterans.

Alicia Nestle is the assistant director for new media in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.

Nazareth Connects with Veteransby Alicia Nestle

Representatives from colleges, business, and support services shared information with veterans at an expo last February.



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SOE Forms Advisory BoardThE SChOOL OF EduCATiON is pleased to announce the

establishment of an advisory board, which seeks to bring together a small and select group of educational leaders from around the Rochester region to advise the school on how best to respond to opportunities and challenges in the rapidly changing educational environment.

“The school sees this as an important avenue to gain multiple perspectives on the forces impacting teacher education and schools districts in our area,” says Timothy Glander, Ph.D., dean of the School of Education. “For each board member, it will be an oppor-tunity to connect with a diverse group of educational leaders and to share their wisdom and insight as the School of Education continues to improve upon its work in teacher education.”

Since 1924, the School of Education has been seen as a leader in New York state in preparing teachers for the classroom. With four distinct academic departments, the school currently enrolls more than 500 students in initial and professional certification programs at the graduate level, and nearly 400 students in under-graduate programs in inclusive childhood and adolescence education. More than 39% of all current Nazareth College students (graduate and undergraduate) are enrolled in one program or another leading to teacher certification.

Members of the 2011–2012 School of Education Advisory Board include:

Gerald Bucklin, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, Fairport Central School District

Richard Costanza, Chair, Department of Education, Monroe Community College

Khieta Davis, Nationally Board Certified Teacher, Flower City School #54, Rochester City School District

Colin Garwood, Executive Director, Learning Disabilities Association of Genesee Valley

Delores Geter, Retired Teacher, Rochester City School DistrictMark Lavner, Assistant Superintendent for Personnel and Support

Services, Canandaigua City School DistrictDr. Kay Marshman, Emeritus Professor of Education, Nazareth

CollegeDr. Dawn Santiago Marullo ’80, Superintendent of Schools, Victor

Central School DistrictElizabeth Mascitti-Miller, Deputy Superintendent for Teaching and

Learning, Rochester City School DistrictJoanne Hume Nigro, Retired Teacher, Greece Central School DistrictDr. Paul H. Sartori, Corporate Vice President for Chief Human

Resources Officer, Retired, Bausch and LombMargaret Sergent ’87G, 2nd Vice President, Rochester Teachers

AssociationAnibal Soler ’04G, Principal, East High School, Rochester City

School DistrictDr. Paul G. Theobald, Interim Dean, School of Education, Buffalo

State College

New Chair of Nursing

The School of Health and Human Services is proud to announce that Jeanine Seguin Santelli of Keuka Park, N.Y. has been hired as chair of the nursing department.

Santelli was previously a professor of nursing at Keuka College and the executive director of Genetic Nurses Credentialing Commission. At Keuka, she also held the position of assistant vice president for academic programs. Prior to her positions at Keuka College, she worked as a nursing coordinator at Camp Whitman on Seneca Lake in Dresden, N.Y. from 2007 to 2009, and as an acute care eve-ning supervisor at Thompson Health System in Canandaigua, N.Y. from 1989 to 1994. Santelli has held several faculty appointments at institutions such as Keuka College; Univer-sity of Rochester; St. John Fisher College; Nazareth College; Kaplan Educational Centers; Syracuse University; and Finger Lakes Community College.

Santelli graduated with a bachelor’s in nursing from Keuka College. She then received a master’s in adult primary care, medical/surgical nursing and teaching from Syracuse University. Santelli earned a doctorate in nursing from Widener University. She is certified as an adult and gerontologic nurse practitioner.

Jeanine Seguin Santelli, new chair of nursing

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Nazareth College President Daan Braveman was joined by Board of Trustees Chair Judy Wilmot Linehan ’76, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and many federal, state, and local lawmakers to ceremoniously break ground for Nazareth’s Integrated Center for Math and Science.

The $31 million center, which received a major boost with new gifts totaling more than $2.5 million dollars, will play an instrumental role in leading the way for Nazareth students to receive the very best in math and science education, while also fueling the Rochester region’s economy with health and human services professionals and teachers who remain in the area to work after graduation.

“This facility will have a long-term impact on the College and the community. It will allow us to expand the number of students inter-ested in pursuing careers in science, technology, and math as well as

health and human services and K-12 teaching of these subjects,” said Braveman. “And it will have an economic effect on the region as close to three-quarters of students in the health and human services field and an equally large number of our students in education programs remain in the area to work after graduation.”

Nazareth College has raised nearly half of the total $31 million cost of the building to date, including the more than $2.5 million in new gifts from Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, John “Dutch” Summers, Louise Woerner and Don Kollmorgen, and RG&E. The remainder of funding for the Integrated Center for Math and Science will come from a partnership of private donors, business, and government funds.

“Excellus is investing in the regional healthcare workforce of the future,” says Zeke Duda, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield and member of Nazareth’s board of trustees. “We are a major employer in upstate New York, and as the state’s largest non-profit health insurer, we must work with col-leges like Nazareth to ensure that the health care needs for Rochester and beyond are being met with a new generation of highly capable graduates in math and science.”

“RG&E and NYSEG are committed to upstate New York, now and far into the future,” says Mark Lynch, president of NYSEG and RG&E. “We are investing in Nazareth’s Integrated Center for Math and Science to create jobs and train the next generation of New Yorkers to fill those jobs—that’s why our economic development programs exist.”

When the Nazareth College Integrated Center for Math and Science opens in fall 2012, the new building will provide training opportunities for Rochester’s future teachers, health care workers, and scientists.

Check out the live Webcam showing construction of the Integrated Center for Math and Science at go.naz.edu/webcam

Alicia Nestle is the assistant director for new media in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.President Daan Braveman and U.S. Senator Chuck Shumer (D-NY) reveal a

rendering of the Integrated Center for Math and Science.

Groundbreaking Boosted by New Donationsby Alicia Nestle


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Social media Wizardsby Alan Gelb

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Thomas cautions, however, that there’s not just one social media answer. “When clients say that they want a Facebook page, we ask them what their marketing objective is,” Thomas says. “Social media requires an investment, and we want to make sure it’s used well.”

Currently, Deichmiller and Thomas connect around social media with more than half of Butler/Till’s clients, and that figure is grow-ing. “Social media is not going away,” says Thomas. “It’s here to stay.”

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Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in East Chatham, New York.

it is no exaggeration to say that this has been the year of social media, from the highly publicized feature film The Social Network to the pivotal role that Facebook

and Twitter played in the recent revolution in Egypt. Since graduating from Nazareth College, Mike Deichmiller ’06 and Gavin Thomas ’06 have immersed themselves in this wide-open new arena, ushering their employer, Butler/Till, a media planning and buying agency, down social media avenues that are laden with opportunity.

Deichmiller and Thomas, who joined Butler/Till soon out of college, started out in the areas of print, radio, and digital—the more traditional sectors of the business. Nonethe-less, they felt that something important was missing from the Butler/Till profile. “From the time we were freshmen at Nazareth, we made use of social media on a personal level and always saw its potential,” says Deichmiller. “We wanted Butler/Till to see that potential as well.” Deichmiller and Thomas presented the idea of a social media initiative to Sue Butler and Tracy Till, the firm’s co-CEOs. “They went for it and gave us the support and leeway to do the necessary research,” Thomas recalls.

Deichmiller and Thomas are true believers in the power of social media. “From our stand-point, social media really expands the realm of what we do and ups the benefits of the traditional media channels we use. It opens up dialogues that never existed before,” says Deichmiller. Thomas points out, however, that social media shouldn’t live alone. “Just as we wouldn’t recommend using stand-alone print, we wouldn’t recommend using stand-alone social media,” Thomas says.

Deichmiller and Thomas both received bachelor’s degrees in business administration at Nazareth, which they credit with teaching them the fundamentals for their job. “My Nazareth education allowed me to understand the business landscape in today’s ever-chang-ing world,” says Deichmiller. Adds Thomas, “Attending a community oriented and socially connected college like Nazareth helped us

in translating the knowledge we gained from the Naz business coursework to the ad agency and the social media world.” The two particularly appreciate the dynamic nature of social media. They stay ahead of the curve by reading social media newsblogs, participating in countless webinars, and attending confer-ences across the country. In March, they made their yearly pilgrimage to South by Southwest (SXSW), the annual conference held in Austin, Texas, that brings together all that is new and exciting in original music, independent films, and emerging technologies.

“We’re bringing new ideas to our clients and working with people throughout our agency,” says Deichmiller. “We’re teaching account executives how to Twitter and correcting the misconception that you can’t really measure social media. In fact, it’s very quantifiable.”

Mike Deichmiller ’06 and Gavin Thomas ’06, social media wizards at the media agency Butler/Till.

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read Great Books, Think Big Thoughtsby Robyn Rime

The email signature of Dr. Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., concludes with a quote from Socrates: “Educa-tion is not the filling of a vessel,

but the kindling of a flame.” Weis is clearly a flame-kindler herself. As director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program in the College of Arts and Sciences, she is passionate about the transformative experience a liberal arts education can be.

“Ideas colliding can be exciting and a little bit scary,” she says. “Some students find it challenging to push beyond their disciplinary lines and become comfort-able in a world of different cultures. But when they reflect back, they realize how much they’ve changed.”

Graduates of the program agree. “The MALS program has empowered me to have the courage to ask and respond to the questions: Who are you? Where does your heart lie? What do you stand for?” says Kathleen Hansen ’09G. Adds Grady S. Bailey III ’10G, “I do not feel so much as if I have completed a process, as I have opened many avenues for intellectual and personal growth.”

Opening those avenues is what the MALS program excels at, believes Alec Sutherland, Ph.D. Sutherland, who retired from the Naza-reth English department after 26 years and has since taught MALS courses, calls the pro-gram “a time to take a measure of ourselves against the world, a last opportunity to take a long view of the horizon.”

The luxury of that leisurely viewpoint may be compelling in a strong economy, but what value do liberal studies offer to a struggling job market? Weis contends the interdisci-plinary nature of the MALS program makes it both unique and uniquely valuable in its outcomes. “Students gain transferrable skills,” she says, explaining that in a world where “people change jobs multiple times during their lives, you cannot train them for a job

and expect it to be there.” MALS educates students in what she calls “constant skills—creative problem solving, critical thinking, and clear writing, all of which are goals of the program.”

The MALS program has three required courses and a rotating schedule of electives, culminating in a capstone project of the stu-dent’s creation. Each project, like the program itself, must be interdisciplinary, scholarly, and combine the student’s academic study, profes-sional skills, and personal interests. As one might expect, capstone projects vary widely. Margaret Zanghi ’10G recently produced a thesis on women activists in the civil rights movement, pulling together both her feminist and human rights leanings. Other recent

capstone projects have included “Air, Water and Sacred Earth: Constructing In-terdisciplinary Narratives in Clay,” “Sixteen and Stoned: Alternative Drug Therapies for Addicted Teens,” and “Thought Consump-tion: How the Evolution of Writing has Strong-armed Us into the Social Media Milieu of Today.”

The program has proved attractive to a variety of students: young high school teachers seeking professional certification and finding the humanities a better prepa-ration; those with technical and profes-sional degrees who recognize a gap in their knowledge; parents whose children are out of the home; and retirees with the leisure to “read great books and think big thoughts,” as Weis puts it. Zanghi, an adult learner, found the program a perfect match.

“I needed something I could really dig into, something that would require at-tention and work and that was official,” she says. Taking courses one at a time, she completed her studies in four years, graduating from Nazareth in May 2010 together with her granddaughter, Rachel Trunfio ’10.

The interdisciplinary nature of MALS appeals to the faculty, too, who also find themselves kindling flames. “We don’t ‘teach’ in the traditional sense of the word,” says Vir-ginia Skinner-Linnenberg, Ph.D., professor of English. “We facilitate discussion among colleagues. Many of our students are teachers themselves, or they are older and have had life experiences to draw from, thus making our discussions robust and meaningful.”

“The MALS program raises graduates to a higher pitch of literacy—they write better, speak better, and listen better,” concludes Sutherland. And surely those skills are valuable in any market.

Find the MALS program on Facebook and at www.naz.edu/MALS.

Dr. Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.


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did we ever imagine that we could become nostalgic for a punch on the playground?

Bullying has always existed, but in recent years technology has given rise to cyberbullying, an insidious new form that uses the internet, cell phones, or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or em-barrass another person. Jennie Schaff, Ph.D., associate professor in the department of language, literacy, and technology in the School of Education, has studied, written about, and lectured on cyberbullying, which she terms “epidemic” within our society.

Schaff, who was awarded tenure this year, examines the connections between education and technology and the issues that can arise at that nexus. Her interest in cyberbullying goes beyond the academic, however. “As someone with three young children, I know how early kids are introduced to technology and how fascinating and scary that can be,” Schaff says.

In February, Schaff gave a talk titled “Cyber-bullying: Preventing Online Bruises” as part of the School of Education Lecture Series, sponsored by the Education Technology Specialist Program and the Of-fice of Graduate Admissions. Her focus was on parental and educator awareness and intervention.

As Schaff points out, the social platform for today’s youth has radi-cally changed. Where the playground or community center used to be the main gathering place, today the primary social platform for children as young as second and third grade and throughout high school and college involves media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Formspring. “A site like Formspring allows a student to ask his or her friends all kinds of questions that they can respond to anonymously,” explains Schaff. “So you can put out a question like, ‘Is Joe cute?’ and suddenly you have 500 replies, many of them vicious.”

Particularly dire instances of cyberbullying, in some cases leading to teen suicides, have been much in the news lately, and the statistics around cyberbullying are increasingly alarming. According to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life project in 2008, 39 percent of teens with profiles on social networking sites report being cyberbullied.

“Bullying is an issue that’s always been with us,” says Bob Armstrong, physical education teacher and head tennis coach at the McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester. “Now, however, technology has made it so much easier to be a bully and to dam-age someone profoundly. My students and I discuss bullying and cyberbulllying in particular and how important it is to com-municate, face to face, person to person, without any layers of anonymity.”

So what are parents and edu-cators to do in the face of this juggernaut? “The most important thing is to listen to your kids, and not to minimize incidents of online bullying,” says Schaff.

To start out, parents should be sensitive to telltale signs that cyber-bullying is taking place. “The most salient sign is that the child wants to be secluded when he or she is at the computer,” says Schaff. “Other important signs are withdrawal and having issues with friends. This is very similar to what happens when a child is being physically bullied. And when cyberbullying is going on, a parent’s first and fore-most response should be to validate the pain and then to figure out appropriate action steps.”

Most sites that are used in connection with cyberbullying, like Facebook, Twitter, and Formspring, have built-in mechanisms for flagging abusers, and all parents should know how to use those flags to alert the admin-istrators of those instances when someone is bullying. At the same time, school districts around the nation are working out language by which they can include cyberbullying in their overall school bullying policies.

Above all, education is the best antidote for this toxic behavior. Schaff teaches about cyberbullying in her Issues in Educational Technol-ogy course and is actively gathering data from teens, parents, and teachers regarding their experiences with cyberbullying. “We all need to become informed about the technology with which our children are engaged,” she says. “Today’s school bully operates in a vast new world that we call the internet, and what is possible there goes way beyond what most of us are capable of imagining.”

Visit the School of Education at www.naz.edu/education

Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in East Chatham, New York.

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PT Clinics Get National Audienceby Robyn Rime

Nazareth’s School of Health and Human Services has always known its clinics were special, providing both valuable clinical experience to

its students and valuable health care to the greater Rochester community. Last January, two physical therapy students—one current, one former—got to share that news at the annual conference for the Society of Student-Run Free Clinics (SSRFC) in Houston, TX.

Terra Rice ’11G, then a student, and Rachel Quashnoc ’10G, P.T., D.P.T., a recent graduate, were selected to represent Naza-reth at the conference. The two worked with Jennifer Collins, P.T., M.P.A., Ed.D., professor and chair of the department of health science and physical therapy, to develop an abstract and presentation, focusing on Nazareth’s unusual model of embedding its on-campus clinics into its required PT coursework. Stu-dents serve widely varied populations in the College’s range of clinics, including the mus-culoskeletal (ortho) clinic, the neuromuscular (neuro) clinic, Kids Club, the Multiple Sclerosis Wellness Program, Paddlers with Disabilities, and various off-campus clinical opportunities.

“Most schools that are lucky enough to have clinics on campus are run on a student volunteer basis and aren’t supported finan-cially by the college,” says Quashnoc. “This severely limits both the size of the clinical population able to be served as well as the resources.”

“Most student-run clinics are run by medical schools, with students from other health professions kicking in as ancillary services,” adds Collins. “They’re not run by other health professions nor are they as strongly supported by the school as Nazareth’s are. All our students get this experience, working with people underserved by typical health care providers.”

Nazareth students receive side-by-side mentorship with the faculty, too—another differentiator that strengthens its program.

“We supervise closely what students do, and we have a one-to-three faculty student ratio,” Collins says. “They’re also mentored by more advanced students, our apprentice clinical instructors.” All in all, she says, “it’s a unique way of meeting our goals: experiential learn-ing, a triad of faculty-student-mentor, and the College serving the community.”

Both Quashnoc and Rice came away from the conference recognizing that Nazareth’s clinics are ahead of the curve. “Almost every-where else doesn’t have this opportunity, or it’s a much more scaled-down experience,” says Quashnoc, currently a pediatric physical therapist at Mary Cariola Children’s Center in Rochester. “I took for granted the unique opportunities we have in our curriculum for hands-on experience in a ‘safe’ setting.” Quashnoc has taken that opportunity to heart: she now also works as an adjunct pro-fessor at Nazareth leading a problem-based learning discussion group and serving as a clinical instructor for the Kids Club clinic.

Rice, who calls the conference experience “amazing,” hopes to advocate for student-

run free clinics with future employers. She and Quashnoc are already providing useful information to other conference attendees seeking advice on setting up their own physi-cal therapy clinics.

Collins credits much of Nazareth’s clinics’ success to strong administrative support, from the dean’s level on up, as well as to participa-tion of every PT member. “There is faculty time, dedication, and commitment required for this way of teaching,” she says. “It’s very time and labor intensive. There are didactic, lab, and clinic components.”

But the outcomes are worth it, Collins concludes. Not only are the program’s pass rates great, but “students gain a better ap-preciation for altruism and giving back to their communities. After studying at Nazareth, they take that away with them.”

Read more about Nazareth’s P.T. clinics at go. naz.edu/PT

Robyn Rime is the editor of Connections.

Terra Rice ’11G works with a physical therapy client.


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Graduation day

2011

Rachael Motsenbocker ‘11Brent Burkhardt ‘11

Board Chair Judy Wilmot Linehan ’76, speaker Essie Calhoun, and President Daan Braveman.

On May 8, 2011, Nazareth College held its eighty-fourth annual commencement at the Blue Cross Arena in a joint graduate and undergraduate ceremony where graduates and loved ones celebrated the end of one chapter, and the beginning of another.



Class treasurer and student ambassador Lindsey Spector ’11 at the Candlelight Farewell for seniors.

Graduating nurses at their pinning ceremony in the Linehan Chapel.

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Mallorie Gerwitz ‘11

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Nina Malatesta ’04 originally intended to bring her horse Royal to college with her.

“She was my first horse, the one I had ridden since I was seven, but she was aging,” Malatesta explains. “Then she started to go blind, and moving her was not an option.”

Malatesta decided to stay in Rochester with Royal and look for a school close to home. She enrolled at Nazareth, but the College did not have an equestrian program at the time. Not knowing what kind of response she would receive, Malatesta held an interest meeting to start a club on campus—and the response was overwhelming. Approxi-mately 35 students attended the meeting to learn more about starting a program at Nazareth.

Through hard work and the support of administrators and staff, the equestrian club transitioned to a varsity sport after just one year.

“We worked to formulate a solution so that the College would ben-efit from this program,” Malatesta says.

And it has. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the equestrian team has achieved both local and regional success under head coach Terese Bouchard, the owner of Huntington Meadow Stables in Webster.

“In the first year, we qualified riders for the regional championship, which is a good undertaking for a brand new team,” says Bouchard. “This has been our best year yet. The team finished with riders in every level [in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Region standings] and finished third overall.”

“It’s been a great addition,” says Athletic Director Pete Bothner. “It’s one of those programs where I think we could be the best team in our district and continue to send students through the process of qualifying for the nationals. Hopefully at some point we will be bringing home national accolades for the individual riders.”

“We are competing against colleges that have equine programs,” says Bouchard. “[At Nazareth], students can get a great education but don’t have to give up the sport they’ve been doing throughout middle and high school.”

But the College has also had to consider the expense and cost of fielding the team. As Malatesta explains, riding horses is not as easy as grabbing a soccer ball and walking across campus to the practice fields. “It’s not like you can pick up the horse and bring it to the lacrosse field,” Malatesta says. As a result, the team has held multiple fundrais-ers and utilized off-campus host schools in order to defray costs. Even with the off-campus training facility 20 minutes away at Huntington Meadows, the program has benefitted the College in numerous ways.

The equestrian team has created its own niche of student-athletes the school didn’t have before the program started 10 years ago.

“It’s a group of students who are looking for a place to ride when they go to school, and a lot of these students might not have considered attending Nazareth,” says Bothner. “If they did, they certainly wouldn’t be a part of the athletic department.”

Equestrian Team Turns Tenby Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G

Amber Streicher ’11, a biology major, is a perfect example. A three-year captain of the equestrian team, Streicher com-peted on the swim-ming and diving team in high school and took riding lessons. She decided to join Nazareth’s equestrian team because she felt it was important to participate in a club or organization and she wanted to try something different. But what she gained from the experience was much more than she expected.

“I’m a pre-vet student and I can always use more experience with horses, so being on the team definitely helped,” Streicher says. “We can’t get that experi-ence in dorms, and we aren’t an agricultural school, so we don’t have that much access to animals.”

Because riding is an individual sport, Streicher emphasizes that one of its greatest challenges is getting all the riders to come together as a team. She has also learned about time management, something crucial in Division III athletics and especially for a team that has to train off campus.

“That was a huge part of what I did from day to day,” Streicher says. “Trying to figure out lesson times and team activities…it’s kind of cliché, but time management is so important and I can’t imagine life without it.”

The equestrian team has become an essential part of the athletics department, embracing student-athletes who might never have come to Nazareth.

“If we didn’t offer it, they might just find a place to ride on their own,” Bothner says. “We’re able to give them a chance to do something that they wouldn’t be able to do at many colleges.”

Learn more about the team at go.naz.edu/equestrian.

Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G works for Nazareth’s Office of Alumni Relations and is a sports reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

Amber Streicher ’11 in a Novice Equitation Over Fences class.

older of a degree from the Culinary Institute of America, Cal Wickens knows a thing or two about assembling recipes.

As head coach of Nazareth’s precocious men’s volleyball team, Wickens in 2011 often called upon his gastronomic wisdom in leading the Golden Flyers to a national championship in just their seventh season of intercollegiate play.

What started as a dream became reality as Wickens used his vast array of volleyball contacts to pull together a team that might conform to his “just play” approach. Sprinkle in some hard work and dedica-tion, some appetite-whetting success and a little bit of luck, and Wickens was convinced that the ingredients were in place and ready to be blended.

“This is what we dreamed about when we started this thing seven years ago,” says Wickens, a self-proclaimed volleyball junkie who has

been active in the Rochester area club scene for more than 30 years. “This is really as good as it gets; it’s exciting for the whole Nazareth community.”

That excitement spiked April 15 –16 as more than 1,100 fans filled Nazareth’s Kidera Gymnasium in support of the Golden Flyers, who claimed the Molten Division III Men’s Volleyball Invitational champion-ship with victories over Carthage College (in five sets) and Springfield College (in four sets). It marked Nazareth’s first national title in men’s volleyball and Nazareth’s first in a team sport since men’s lacrosse captured its third title in 1997.

“We just kept attacking and hitting the ball hard,” says Hans Schroeder ’11, a first-team All-American and MVP of the Molten Tournament. “Once we had the lead [against Springfield], we knew that we couldn’t let it slip away. To become national champions in our home gym in front of our students and alumni is amazing. It’s the best possible ending to my career.”

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Flyer Volleyball Is Molten Hot by Joe Seil

Since Wickens started the pro-gram in 2005, the Golden Flyers have steadily improved, from 10-13 the first season to 20-9 in the second. They went 28-5 in 2009, but lost in the finals of the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association Tourna-ment and missed out on a berth in the Molten Tournament.

Then in 2010, the Golden Flyers were derailed by a series of injuries that re-sulted in a lackluster regular season and the 15th seed for the 16-team NECVA Tournament. Four upset wins later, Nazareth won the title and gained a berth in the Molten Tournament hosted by Carthage (they finished fourth).

“That kind of laid the groundwork for us,” says Wickens, who has a career record of 159-60 (.726). “We finally got our guys healthy, and we felt that we could play with anybody.”

So with high expectations, the Golden Flyers did just that in 2011, rolling to a 31-3 record and closing the season with a 22-match win-ning streak. None of those numbers should imply, though, that there were not some tense moments along the way. Of the 34 matches Nazareth played in 2011, eight were decided in five sets—and the Golden Flyers won all of them.

In the finals of the newly formed United Volleyball Conference Tour-nament in late March, Nazareth dropped the first two sets to upset-minded SUNY New Paltz before rallying to win the title with the fifth set ending 18-16.

A week later, Naza-reth was in a similarly bleak position in the finals of the NECVA Tournament against Baruch College before rallying to take the last two sets 30-28 and 15-12.

Fast forward to April 15 and the Mol-ten semifinals against Carthage. Trailing 23-20 in the fourth set, the Golden Flyers were on the brink of elimination before recovering to win the last two sets 28-26 and 15-11. The next night, Nazareth overcame a tradition-rich

Springfield team that has won six national titles, including two of the previous three.

In addition to an MVP performance by Schroeder, outside hitter Billy Gimello ’12 and setter EJ Wells-Spicer ’13 represented Nazareth on the all-tournament team. Surprisingly absent from that team was Robert Kraft ’13, who had 27 kills in 39 attempts in the two matches, including the championship-clinching spike against Springfield.

Schroeder and Ellis Walsh ’11 were honored as first-team All- Americans, while Gimello and Wells-Spicer were second-team choices.

Learn more about Nazareth Athletics at http://athletics.naz.edu and find them on Facebook at “Nazareth College Athletics.”

Joe Seil is the assistant athletic director and sports information direc-tor at Nazareth College.


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On Top of Their Games

As Division III men’s and women’s basketball student-athletes, co-captain Phil Scaffidi ’12 and co-captain Erica Shaw ’12 have to maintain a delicate balance between academics and athletics. This balance requires time management, a passion

for the game of basketball, and a commitment to both academics and athletics. Check out the following videos for a look inside a typical game day for each of them.

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Corletta, Scaffidi make Honorable MentionJason Corletta ’12 and Phil Scaffidi ’12,

who recently completed their junior seasons as members of the Nazareth College men’s basketball team, were chosen as honorable mention selections to the Empire 8 Confer-ence all-star team. The selections were made through voting by the league’s nine head coaches.

A native of Pittsford, N.Y. and a graduate of Pittsford Sutherland High School, Corletta was Nazareth’s leading scorer in 2010–11 with an average of 15.3 points per game. He also averaged 3.9 rebounds per game and was the Golden Flyers’ most accurate foul shooter, hitting on 81 of 91 free throws for a .890 percentage.

Scaffidi, of Buffalo, N.Y. and a graduate of St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, was second on the team in scoring (13.6 ppg.) and first in steals (37). He also averaged 5.3 rebounds per game and shot .448 from the field (126 for 281). Scaffidi also was Nazareth’s representative as E8 Sportsman of the Year.

Nazareth finished 15-10 overall in 2010–11 and 8-8 in conference play.

Wilson makes All-Region Team

Forward Brittany Wilson ’12 was selected in March to the East Region all-star team for women’s basketball by

d3hoops.com. She was named to the second team.

A native of Fairport, N.Y. and a graduate of Fairport High School, Wilson led the Golden Flyers in several statistical categories in 2010–11, including scoring (16.7 ppg.), rebounding (7.2 per game), and steals (1.7 per game). She also ranked second on the team in blocks (22) and assists (36) and finished the season with 911 career points.

Wilson also represented the Golden Flyers as a first-team Empire 8 Conference all-star. Brittany Wilson ’12

risucci repeats as Swimming All-AmericanCarissa Risucci ’13 saved her best swim of

the season for last on March 26 as she secured fourth place in the 200-yard breaststroke at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Cham-pionships at the University of Tennessee. Risucci earned All-American honors for the second year in a row after posting a time of 2:18.38.

Risucci entered the finals in eighth place but moved up four spots as she narrowly missed breaking her own school record of 2:18.32 set last season. Emory senior April Whitley won the race in convincing fashion with a winning time of 2:14.62.

“It was a beautiful swim,” says Martie Staser, head coach for women’s swimming and diving. “It was a tough field, but Carissa really swam well.”

Risucci reached the finals after swimming 2:20.08 in the prelims. Earlier in the week, she finished 42nd in the 200 IM and 21st in the 100 breaststroke.

Risucci won the Upper New York State and Empire 8 titles in the 200 breaststroke in February and was seeded 14th in that event heading into the national meet. She finished eighth in that event in 2010.

Carissa Risucci ’13

Jason Corletta ’12

Phil Scaffidi ’12


Former Nazareth la-crosse standout Ryan Hotaling ’07 was on the official roster for the United States Na-

tional Indoor Lacrosse Team that competed in the 2011 World In-door Championships in Prague, Czech Republic, in May.

Hotaling was one of five play-ers added to the 23-player roster after making the Reserve List following tryouts last November. He is currently playing for the Boston Blazers of the National Lacrosse League.

“There are some serious names on that team,” says Hotaling, who scored 139 goals in four seasons at Nazareth. “It’s pretty cool just to be included on the same list as them.”

A three-time All-American as an attackman for the Golden Flyers, Hotaling has successfully transitioned to the indoor game and has become a fixture in the Blazers lineup thanks in part to his face-off skills. He credits a stint in the U.S. Developmental Program in helping him improve his indoor proficiency. In a January game against the Knighthawks in Rochester, Hotaling won 20 of 28 face-offs as the Blazers won 16-7.

Joe Seil, longtime athletic department administra-tor at Nazareth College, has been recognized as the 2011 recipient of the Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award, presented by the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors of America (ECAC-SIDA). The award is presented annually to pro-fessionals who have made exceptional contributions to the field of collegiate sports information.

Seil is in his 25th year as sports information director of Nazareth College, where he also serves as assis-tant athletic director. A native of Rochester, he was a sports writer for four years before taking over as SID at Nazareth in 1986. As a daily promoter of the college’s 23-team athletic program, Seil has won more

than a dozen best-in-the-nation citations for publica-tion excellence from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). He has also served on local organizing committees for two ECAC-SIDA con-ventions (1999 and 2011) and one CoSIDA national workshop (2002) and has been invited to serve as a panelist at several national conventions.

“Joe gives us his best everyday,” says Nazareth College Athletic Director Pete Bothner. “He has the respect of not only our entire staff, but of the athletic personnel of all the colleges that we compete against.”

hotaling Picked for U.S. National Team

“I’m doing some things that I never had to do in college, but it’s a fun challenge,” says Hotaling, now in his second season.

“Ryan Hotaling can definitely hold his own and more,” says U.S. team coach Tom Ryan. “He’s such a versatile player. He can play defense, he can play transition, he can really fill in anywhere on the floor that you need him to. We just felt that overall he was somebody we needed to have on our team.”

In his real job, Hotaling works as an energy territory manager for Gyrus ACMI of Olympus. He lives in

Albany and commutes to Boston for practices and games. He credits great support from parents, Jay and Sondra, who never miss a game, for helping him stay focused. “My dad is retired and my mom works part time so they have nothing better to do,” he jokes.

The World Indoor Lacrosse Championships took place at Telsa Arena in Prague May 21-28. Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Finland, Ireland, and the Iroquois Nationals joined the U.S. in the one-week tournament.

Seil receives Award

Joe Seil, Nazareth sports information director

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NAzAReTh | in the world

by Sofia Tokar

n the School of Education at Nazareth College, the pro-fessors continually seek opportunities to develop person-ally and professionally. While in pursuit of this, some also manage to form global alliances.

Take Brian Bailey ’01G, Ph.D., assistant professor of adolescence education.

In fall 2010, Bailey’s wife Heather Layton, an artist and senior lecturer of art at the University of Rochester, was invited to hold a formal art exhibition in Nagaland, a state in the far northeast of India. She agreed to be the first American artist to exhibit there and began planning for the late November sojourn.

But Layton wasn’t the only one to accept an invitation. Bailey received a letter from Theja Meru inviting him “to participate in an exchange of ideas regarding our common interests in

developing public programs that foster and promote the creative potential of our youth through popular culture, music, filmmak-ing, and the entertainment industry.”

In Nagaland, Meru is the president of the Rattle and Hum Music Society, an organization that supports youth in developing artistic and personal growth. With Meru’s letter, Bailey recog-nized an opportunity to support Layton, discover a new part of the world, and collaborate with an international partner around transformative artistic experiences for adolescents in Nagaland and Rochester, N.Y.

The opportunity dovetailed with Bailey’s own research on the combination of adolescents, popular culture, literacy, and educa-tion. He primarily studies youth media arts as a valuable form of literacy. In fact, his research resulted in the growth of the annual

A Naga family having afternoon tea, Kohima, Nagaland.

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Rochester Teen Film Festival, which led to a partnership between Nazareth Col-lege and the 360|365 George Eastman House Film Festival. Each year the festi-val organizers collect student-produced films from youth in the greater Rochester area, judge the entries, and then screen the finalists’ entries.

Working with a number of organiza-tions in Nagaland, Bailey and Meru held the first-ever Youth Film Festival in Nagaland called GLOCAL (where global meets local) Film Festival. Some of the films screened included the finalists from the 2010 Rochester Teen Film Festival as well as those created by a group of young filmmakers who call themselves the Naga Headhunters Entertainment Group.

“I was blown away by the quality of the Headhunters’ productions,” recalls Bailey, “especially the stereoscopic 3D music video for an original song. As with the Rochester youth filmmakers, I was amazed at the talent level and sophisti-cated stories.”

In addition to the film festival and art exhibition, Bailey and Layton lectured at Nagaland University in Lumami about

the transformative power of art and education, followed by an hour of conversation with faculty and students about student life, politics, and culture in America. The conversation ended with one student saying, “Please tell them that we are not headhunters; we are hunters of knowledge.”

Rather than just report back about his experi-ences with the Naga people, though, Bailey decided to take it a step further: He was determined to bring some of the Naga youth filmmakers to Rochester. In collaboration with George Eisen, Ph.D., executive director for Nazareth’s Cen-ter for International Education, he has started the Nagaland Cultural Exchange Program, which will host a screening of Naga filmmakers’ latest productions.

“It was cool to experience the stories of youth in both locations and to learn about their shared passion for filmmaking,” says

Bailey. “By bringing the Naga youth here, I hope to foster that reciprocal experience of learning and cultural exchange.”

And Bailey realized the opportunity this summer: The Nagaland govern-ment agreed to fund the travel for several Naga filmmakers to journey stateside and participate in the 2011 Make Your Movie Summer Filmmaking Camp, co-sponsored by 360|365 and Nazareth College. The weeklong camp covered topics ranging from screenwriting and directing to post-production editing and distribution.

Bailey concludes that inevitably “a com-bination of globalizing forces will continue to bring all of us in contact with new people and new ideas. If this trip taught me anything, it’s the importance of listen-ing to the stories of youth in general—here and abroad—as well as of my own students at Nazareth.”

Read about Bailey’s trip to Nagaland at go.naz.edu/naga.

Sofia Tokar is assistant editor in Nazareth’s marketing and communications department.

Dr. Brian Bailey and Prof. Heather Layton making new friends at the Hornbill Festival, a celebration of traditional Naga art and culture.

Bailey lecturing at the University of Nagaland.


iNTeRFAiTh | ideas

he growing field of peace and justice studies is fairly new at Nazareth

and hasn’t yet been widely promoted. Nonetheless, students are increasingly finding their way to this interdisciplinary major—many unexpectedly—and arriving from surprisingly varied backgrounds. They are passionate, engaged, and articulate. They all rec-ognize the value of conflict resolution and responsible living in a global society. But they’re not all just anti-war, and they’re definitely not all hippies.

Tim Braley ’11 joined the U.S. Army at age 17, need-ing money for college and thinking “tanks looked cool.” He was deployed to Iraq in 2005 as part of the Third Infantry Division. The army taught him not only to kill people, but to want to kill people, he says. “And that wasn’t who I was. They break you down and build you up as a different person. I didn’t realize how much I had changed—or even that I had—until I got out of the military.”

One thing the army taught was something they call reflex firing, practicing a maneuver thousands of times to burn it into muscle memory. “Trying not to think but just to shoot was so scary,” Braley says, “especially considering the firepower a tank has.”

Also frightening were the combat situations Braley experi-enced while stationed in Iraq. One particularly overwhelm-ing incident, though technically legal and within the rules of engagement, Braley himself viewed as murder. “I consider myself an accomplice to those murders, not only because I did nothing to stop them, but also because I, along with everyone else in my unit, acted in ways that made murder possible,” he says. “There

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was a mental dissonance between who I really was and how I was in the military.”

Stateside again, Braley moved to Rochester and, seeking like-minded former soldiers, joined Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), an advocacy group of U.S. military personnel and veterans who have served since 9/11 and who are opposed to the U.S. occupation of Iraq. He discovered Nazareth offered both the veteran’s scholarship he needed and the music major he desired. “But I failed the audition for a music major because I didn’t know why I wanted to major in music,” he says wryly.

What he did want was to “help change the negative things I’ve willfully participated in, to help do more positive things than I’ve done in the past. I wanted to make up for the things I’ve done and live in a more socially responsible manner.”

For someone with those goals, peace and justice was a perfect fit. “I wanted to grow personally, and I knew this major would help me do that,” Braley says. “My concern isn’t about finding a well-paying job, or even financial security, but finding where I fit

Peace and justice studies majors Jarred Jones ’12, Ashley Ernst ’11, and Nick Croce ’13.

“I’m going to educate myself on things I really care about—I’m getting an

education, not a degree.” AShLey eRNST ’11


into a world that is both beautiful and repulsive, with the intent to conserve what is beautiful and reform what is not.”

Ashley Ernst ’11 didn’t originally intend to major in peace and justice either. The daughter of a retired military, die-hard Republican father, Ernst planned to study business at another institution.

After receiving a degree in liberal arts from Monroe Commu-nity College (M.C.C.) in Rochester, Ernst spent a semester vol-unteering at the local Food Not Bombs program and for projects in the religious community. She got into every school into which she hoped to transfer and wasn’t sure what to do. But living with Shana Bielemier ’10, a Nazareth peace and justice studies graduate, became a real eye-opener. “I found myself wanting to do her schoolwork, which was unlike any work I’d ever seen before,” she says.

Ernst has been told she has a unique approach to education. “I’m here to better myself and my life,” she says. “I’m not here to get work. I’ll be working my whole life. I’m going to educate myself on things I really care about—I’m getting an education, not a degree.”

Jarred Jones ’12 wasn’t interested in education or degrees in the beginning. Into drugs as a young teen, Jones dropped out of school in the tenth grade. He eventually received his G.E.D., and he was strongly encouraged by his mother to attend M.C.C. That’s where things began to change.

“The first book I ever really read was at M.C.C.,” he says. “I made a drastic amount of progress in that year and a half. I knew I needed to work on my skills, and I needed to alienate myself from my old friends. I looked at them and I thought, I don’t ever want to be that dumb.”

Studying social justice issues captivated Jones and kept him enrolled in school. “I grew up in a family that made it to the suburbs but were African American,” he says. “I saw discrimina-tion and racial issues first-hand. That fostered my interest, and I knew I wanted to do something of that nature.”

Jones, who recently received the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award offered by Nazareth’s Office of Multicultural Af-fairs, has planned a trip to Uganda this fall and eventually wants to attend law school.

“I hope to become a politician,” he explains. “I want to repre-sent people in my community on a national scale. Many of my

friends try to work outside the establishment, but I say why not work within it as well?”

Nick Croce ’13 graduated simultaneously from high school and M.C.C. in 2010, and without immediate college plans, joined AmeriCorps. He’s currently employed through the American Red Cross Disaster Preparedness Program, serving as an agency liaison for New York State Volunteer Organiza-tions Active in Disasters (VOAD). His responsibilities include networking with local, state, and federal organizations, which requires a high degree of skill with details, organization, and communication.

“I was very young, and I didn’t have the paper qualifications for the job,” he says. “They must have seen something in me.”

Croce, who enrolled at Nazareth in spring 2011, is enthusiastic about both his work and his peace and justice courses, despite a lack of understanding and financial support from home. “My dad is trained as a mechanic, and he doesn’t necessarily understand liberal arts,” he explains. “He wants to know I’ll have a job. He doesn’t believe very much in volunteerism.”

That lack of support made his first semester challenging for Croce, who used his life savings to pay his tuition bill. Seeking to emphasize the importance he placed on his Nazareth educa-tion, Croce paid the bill entirely with rolled coins—which took the student accounts office by surprise and required a solid half-hour of hand-counting. But once again, someone must have seen something in Croce, and by the time his bill was paid, the supervisor had passed him her card and told him she wanted to see him succeed.

Croce doesn’t know where his path will lead, and that’s not unusual for peace and justice students, says Harry Murray, Ph.D., professor and chair in sociology and anthropology and director of the peace and justice studies program. “This isn’t a major for those whose goal is to get filthy rich,” smiles Murray. Nor is it, as Jones explains, “just a hippy-dippy program where you have to wear dreadlocks and tie-dyed shirts and sing ‘Kumbayah.’”

Instead, Murray says, “the program is geared to help students form their life direction as a professional career.” The field has “lots of possibilities, ranging from the micro, such as interperson-al resolution, to the macro, such as international issues.” Peace and justice is for the student, he says, “who is more interested in making a positive contribution in the world than in having a career.”

After all, concludes Ernst, “It’s hard to sit in your chair when there’s so much going on.”

Learn more about peace and justice studies at go.naz.edu/peace.


Biology Student research reaches New dimension

by Matthew Temple


LiFe | of the mind

eeing is believing” has now taken on new levels of meaning in the biology depart-ment at Nazareth with a new microscope that “sees” in 3-D. I’ve been teaching Nazareth students how to look at cells

through a microscope since 1984. And since 1984, I’ve often had to apologize to them because we know that cells actually have three-dimensional shapes—as spheres or cubes or even blobs—but under the microscope, those cells are often flattened in order to be examined. It’s like the difference between looking at a fully inflated soccer ball and one that has been deflated into a flat and distorted caricature of its former self. But at Nazareth, this is now no longer the case.

Last summer, the biology department acquired a microscope that can “see” into a cell in three dimensions and that enables us to appreciate how cells package vital components within their spaces. Technically, this is called an optical-sectioning microscope, because it takes finely focused pictures of up to 50 slices of a cell from top to bottom. Those slices are then compiled by a computer into a three-dimen-sional rendering of that cell. Furthermore, dif-ferent components within a cell are literally lit up by fluorescent dyes, which can make DNA (the genetic material) glow a brilliant blue, fat droplets (cells have to deal with fat, too) a vivid green, and structural fibers a deep red.

Look at the picture produced by Kelly No-ble ’11, one of three senior biology research students to use the new microscope. The red strings are actin filaments—a kind of bungee

This image, taken by Noble with the new microscope, shows three-dimensional details inside cultured mouse cells. The red strings are actin filaments, and the spotted blue ovals are the nuclei within each cell.

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“…few students in other undergraduate biology departments have such free access to such a powerful instrument.”

cord—inside cultured mouse cells. The blue ovals with bright spots are the DNA-rich nuclei within each cell. Kelly’s work suggests that actin has a unique shape around and within the nucleus. Shaughna Szy-manski ’11 used this microscope to explore how mouse cells store ex-cess fat, while Jessica Reeves ’11 showed that cells develop unusual nuclear shapes in response to a potent chemical. Their work would not have been possible at Nazareth even a year ago. Better yet, their work provides a solid foundation for students and faculty at Nazareth to use this new microscope to its fullest capacity in laboratory classes and in collaborative research.

The idea for getting this kind of microscope at Nazareth started years ago, on a sabbatical. One of many great things about teaching at Nazareth is the opportunity for a sabbatical every seven years. So far, I’ve had three sabbaticals: each has involved at least a semester of research at the Jackson Laboratory, a world-class genetics research institute in Bar Harbor, Maine. For a geneticist who wants to learn the latest techniques and work with some of the greatest researchers, the Jackson Lab is the place to go. My last two sabbaticals gave me the opportunity to use those microscopes that can see inside cells in 3-D. This technology was literally an eye-opener for me: I could see inside the nuclei of cells (where genes are) in a radically different way. At “The JAX,” as it is called, I watched chromosomes in trouble in mutant mice and looked at a protein that seemed to hold certain genes close to the wall of the cell’s nucleus.

Using these sophisticated microscopes made me wonder how my students at Nazareth could see cells this way as well. Early in 2010, Deborah Dooley ’75, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, asked science faculty for suggestions for equipment for the new Integrated Center for Math and Science—then only on the horizon but now un-der construction. I suggested an optical-sectioning microscope much like the one I had used at the Jackson Lab. Dean Dooley found the funds for it, and Nazareth’s Information Technology Services provided the computer that runs the microscope and produces its 3-D images. By August of last year, the new microscope and its computer were ready for our cell biology and senior research students. And by April 2011, Kelly, Shaunghna, and Jessica had used it to describe the shapes of DNA, fats, and protein filaments inside cells in brilliant color and accurate detail.

As far as I can tell, few students in other undergraduate biology departments have such free access to such a powerful instrument.

Even better, for all of its complexity, it is a reasonably straightforward instrument to operate and maintain. After a little training, my students quickly mastered it and taught me a few new tricks for using it by the end of their research projects. Its power and the images it produces stimulate students and faculty to design innovative projects to explore the spaces inside cells. Using this kind of sophisticated instrument en-hances the resumes of our students as they apply for graduate school and research positions. In the short time we have had this exceptional microscope, it has promoted excellent student research with our biology faculty—and our students have the pictures to prove it.

Matthew Temple, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at Nazareth.

Biology students Shaughna Szymanski ’11 (left) and Kelly Noble ’11 watch as Dr. Matthew Temple reviews the details of setting illumination on the department’s new optical-sectioning microscope.

Danielle Sylvester ’08 worked at a nonprofit radio station in rural Alaska.


BeyOND SeLF | community service

lives of intention

“you’re so close to people here that you see all the raw stuff,” says Danielle Sylvester ’08, who moved

to a remote region of western Alaska to pursue full-time service work after graduat-ing from Nazareth College. Some of the villages have no plumbing. Addiction issues and child abuse are abundant.

During her first two years there, in addition to volunteering for several local organizations, Sylvester worked at a nonprofit radio station, producing inspirational public-service announcements and running her own morning show (listeners often called with thanks for her motivational programming). Still in Alaska, she now serves as a grant-funded K–12 tobacco prevention coordi-nator for the Nome Community Center.

“Instead of ‘How much money can I make,’ it will always be ‘What kind of difference can I make?’” the former philosophy and communications major says of the jobs she plans to pursue in the future, not just in these post-graduate years. “Service not only fills a great need, but it makes you feel like the work you’re doing is valuable at a higher level. It’s humbling. You realize that the world is not just about you.”

More and more, college students nationwide are postponing graduate school and employment to become, or remain, civi-cally engaged. The economy is partly accountable. Programs such as AmeriCorps and Peace Corps, for example, have become increasingly attractive in recent years as students look to gain further experience before entering a competitive job market—and network in the meantime.

At Nazareth, where service work is encouraged from the start of freshman year, hundreds of opportunities through course-based outreach, internships, and other sources nourish the need to cultivate a life of meaning long after graduation. The College is constantly building community coalitions to carry out one of

its basic tenets—to develop active and responsible students who make an impact in their own world and the world around them.

The new Center for Civic Engagement, which opened in May 2010, makes it easier than ever for students to take advantage of those opportunities.

“The economic crisis has definitely been a catalyst, but I don’t believe we would have seen the increase in student interest without the importance Nazareth places on partnering with our local and global communities,” says Nuala Boyle, the center’s executive director. “We are continually strengthening the culture of engagement here at Nazareth.”

Boyle defines the potential for civic engagement as boundless. The center works with on-campus resources—the Center for Spirituality, Career Services, and the Department of Community Service—to match students with a diverse array of secular and faith-based opportunities throughout the world, bolstering Nazareth’s reputation for service work. Nazareth is one of 190 colleges and universities in the country to be selected by the Carnegie Foundation for its community engagement classification.

Since joining AmeriCorps last year, Keira DeNoyer ’10 has played with cancer-stricken children at an Arkansas children’s hospital, prepared taxes for low-income families in northern Texas, and maintained walking trails in southeastern Oklahoma. “You get to interact with people from every walk of life,” says DeNoyer, who hopes the varied exposure will help her figure

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out how best to use her psychology degree. “Nazareth definitely prepared me for that.”

The financial perks were a big draw. She can defer her student loans, earn a monthly stipend, and receive health insurance, room, and board. After 10 months of service she’ll be eligible for an educational award of $5,300 to put toward student loans. But more than that, her constant involvement in community service projects at Nazareth “made me just fall in love with doing things for others.”

Jeri Beckens ’11, who has been involved for four years in Nazareth’s Partners for Learning program, expects that the skills she learned while tutoring second- and third-grade students in the Rochester City Schools will be a huge help when she starts teaching English to students in Germany later this year. She was recently awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, which will place her overseas for one academic year.

“Nazareth instills the importance of giving back from day one,” explains Beckens, a double major in German and interna-tional studies with a minor in Spanish. “It starts with orientation weekend and ends with a day of service during senior week.

Nazareth encourages us to ‘pay it forward’ and gives us ample opportunity to do so.”

Sarah Teetsel ’11 agrees. A music major with a minor in phi-losophy, she has become a human rights advocate after partici-pating in The March: Bearing Witness to Hope and attending several service trips raised her social consciousness: helping the rebuilding effort in New Orleans, serving food at a soup kitchen in Philadelphia, and finding residential housing for the homeless in Maryland. Teetsel, who just got paired with the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry for post-graduate service, keeps thinking about a class project that had her discussing books with inmates at the Monroe County Correctional Facility.

“You hear all these horror stories about people who are incar-cerated, and how they’ve thrown away their rights, but that’s not true,” she says. “When I work with them, there’s a realization that human dignity is innate in everyone. When I see that not being respected, I want to make changes. I want to speak up for those who are not going to speak up for themselves. That’s what keeps me going.”

For Boyle and the Center for Civic Engagement, these stu-dents represent another of Nazareth’s highest aims—to encour-age the understanding, commitment, and confidence necessary for leading fully informed and actively engaged lives.

Lives of intention.In Sylvester’s opinion, there is no down side to service.“It’s incredible to know you’re doing something positive for

yourself, for others, for the community, for the world,” she ex-plains. “And to know there’s so much good that can come from one thing. It’s not ‘Why should I serve?’ It’s “Why shouldn’t I?’ As long as I’m making a difference, I’m going to be happy.”

Check out the Center for Civic Engagement at go.naz.edu/CCE.

Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.

“Nazareth instills the importance of giving back from day one.”

–– JERI BECKENS ’11

Sarah Teetsel ‘11 participated in a week-long service retreat to Philadelphia sponsored by Nazareth’s Center for Spirituality last May. Sorting foodstuffs at the St. Francis Inn are, left to right, Sr. Mary Augustini, O.S.F., from the soup kitchen’s staff; Teetsel; and Erin Smith ‘12.

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Nazareth | heritage

Stately evergreens greet arrivals at the main entrance to Nazareth College. A colonnade of silver maples lines the drive up to Smyth Hall, where immense copper beeches adorn the lawn and a spreading oak tree has

sheltered generations of graduating seniors.Though Nazareth’s woodsy aspect is deeply familiar to many

of its alumni, the campus wasn’t always this scenic. Early photo-graphs of the Pittsford campus, to which the College relocated in 1942, reveal barren grounds with only a few tender young trees scattered about. Mother Rose Miriam Smyth, Nazareth’s sec-ond president and one of its five founders, determined to change that and bought saplings whenever she could find the money to do so. Planted in a somewhat random fashion and occasionally too close to buildings, the number and variety of trees neverthe-less grew and prospered. One visiting nun even collected acorns from the Sherwood Forest in England, resulting in at least three now-mature oak trees on the north campus.

“Trees are a hallmark of the campus,” says Robert Sanderson, grounds and landscape manager. “People perceive Nazareth as a scenic place.” Since arriving on campus in 1976, he has contin-ued Smyth’s planting tradition, though with more professional deliberation. Sanderson took advantage of the extended growing season provided by proximity to Lake Ontario and invested in

seedling stock, established a nursery, and introduced new variet-ies to campus. Kentucky coffee trees, river birches, and ginkgos joined the oaks, maples, and sycamores on an increasingly lush treescape. Today, more than 30 varieties grace Nazareth’s lawns and walkways. Original trees, though aging, still flourish in woodlots, and several ancient stands continue to harbor trees more than 200 years old.

“I don’t manage an arboretum, I manage a college campus. We’re in the business of education,” says Sanderson. “That being said, I think it’s wonderful that the College puts so much value on the campus experience.”

Mary Soons McCarty ’88 agrees. In the mid-’80s, McCarty conducted a census of the campus’s trees for a biology class, pub-lishing her findings in a book now held by the Lorette Wilmot Library. “The value of the trees cannot be overstated,” she says in the book’s introduction. “An attractive campus is a strong attraction for many would-be freshmen who are making a choice of a college and its campus. For those already in residence, the trees are subtly, or obviously, an added value to the quality of daily life on campus.”

Over the years, as trees have become integral to the cam-pus experience, they’ve also been incorporated into students’ coursework. Professor of Biology William Hallahan, Ph.D., has

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They Speak for the Trees

The oak tree outside Smyth Hall has sheltered generations of commencement exercises.

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developed a continuing classroom project where students index individual trees using handheld GPS devices. The trees’ plot points can then be mapped onto landscape drawings or satel-lite photos using state-of-the-art GIS software. Hallahan, who professes a fondness for trees “because they don’t run away when you approach them,” has found the project useful for maintain-ing an inventory that can be synchronized with a map. But it serves a simpler purpose as well.

“If you can take students out into the field, and they learn the names of the trees, they’re less likely to take them for granted,” he explains.

Beverly Brown, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, was inspired by the unusual diversity of trees on campus to de-velop a service-learning project for her course in Plant Biology (BIO216). Her students have produced a walking tree tour, including a website (go.naz.edu/treewalk) and a downloadable brochure identifying the location and species of Nazareth’s trees. “We see them as our lab,” she says.

Their value as a campus asset earns Nazareth’s trees care-ful and regular maintenance. Sanderson conducts an annual evaluation, and when a tree has to come down, he consults with Hallahan and Brown, explaining the situation and making rec-ommendations. “He shows respect for the trees’ importance on campus,” says Brown. Making an effort to keep the tree popula-tion consistent, Sanderson strives for a one-to-one replacement, planting a new tree for each one removed.

as the “Tree Lady,” commissioned an arborist to prune and feed the Council Oak and donated funds for the creation of an outdoor classroom beneath its branches. The classroom features an instructor’s seat and a semi-circle of benches fashioned of wood from surround-ing spruce trees.

Sanderson’s job ex-panded in 2003 when Nazareth purchased an additional 75 acres from the Sisters of St. Joseph, doubling the size of campus. It also presented the new challenge of how to visually merge the two land parcels into one coherent 150-acre campus. In response, a master plan was created with input from a landscape architect and in consulta-tion with Hallahan, Brown, and Sanderson. The plan includes creating a greener, more pedestrian-friendly quad at the center of campus, with trees and potential plantings considered integral to its vision.

“We talked a lot about the trees we want to put in,” says Brown. “In addition to displaying attractive gardens, those spaces around the new greenhouse are also programmatic spaces and will be used for class projects. The horticultural therapy program will need certain types of plants. Even the students in the Plants and People course (BIO114) were asked what kind of gardens they wanted to see around the new building.” The land-scape architects redesigned their plans based on all this input, to the general satisfaction of all.

Trees have now become part of what people think of when they envision Nazareth College. “I’m grateful that the College has placed such a value on the trees that it has allowed us to plant and culture the next couple of generations of trees on cam-pus,” says Sanderson. “It’s a beautiful little piece of earth here, and it’s been an honor to work with it.”

Check out the Nazareth College Tree Walks at go.naz.edu/treewalk.


Nazareth’s campus was comparatively bare of trees in the 1940s.

The oldest trees on campus are closely monitored, with an eye to preserving them when possible. Sanderson, Hallahan, and Brown all agree on several important woodlots: the north-west corner of campus near the stadium and the forested area between the Golisano Academic Center and the Admissions House. Another ancient lot south of the Music House contains what is known as the Council Oak, a nearly 300-year-old tree that legend says Native Americans used as a marker when plant-ing their crops. McCarty, who has come to be known on campus

The Loraxes of Nazareth underneath a Japanese maple. Left to right: Robert Sanderson, Dr. Beverly Brown, and Dr. William Hallahan.

Behind Closed Doors, by Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick

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MAKING ART, B Y R O B I N L . F L A N I G A N

Teaching Art

ne is an introspective conceptual artist who uses archetypes to examine the beauty and tragedy in life. The other is an offbeat open book who uses linear perspective to interpret realistic images. Both are Nazareth College art professors and esteemed painters whose work has earned national and

international reputations.And while Kathleen Calderwood and Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick may have

different approaches to their art—and different personalities—they have a unified vision when it comes to viewing the world and its occupants.

“Everything is connected to everything,” Calderwood says of the relationship between physical truth and the creative process.

“Everything affects everything else,” Brilla-Fitzpatrick summarizes in a separate interview.

Deborah Dooley ’75, Ph.D., dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, says Nazareth is honored to have such talent on campus. “It is an extraordinary gift to any institution when an artist is capable of being artist and teacher. These women remind us that we don’t only see the world through words, and that there is a deeply creative and affective dimension to learning.”

Deeply engaged with and equally beloved by their students, Calderwood and Brilla-Fitzpatrick eagerly demonstrate that the devil may be in the details—but that those details are open to interpretation.

OTwo Nazareth Professors

Picture the World

MAKING ART, Teaching Art

Sometimes Kathleen Calderwood stops in the middle of a sentence to collect her thoughts. She might continue on after a few seconds, or she may start over in an entirely new direction to get her point across.

“I see my thoughts in pictures and then have to put them into words,” she explains.

Many of those thoughts get painted, sometimes after years of rumination, in saturated colors and whimsical images that celebrate paradox. “The Bad Side of

the Good Girl,” for example, portrays an artistic, bipolar flirt who must deal with a repressed, temperamental shadow side. “We are perfect in our imperfection,” she writes in her 2009 book Archetypes: The Art of Kathy Calderwood (check out www.kathycalderwood.com).

Her paintings have been exhibited in 27 states, seven European countries, and Japan. They have been featured in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Memorial Art Gallery, and the Everson Museum of Art. And her work is in many notable collections, including some listed annually in Art in America’s Top 100 collectors. Calderwood recently found out she has been accepted

into the prestigious Florence Biennale, an international contemporary art exhibition held every two years in Florence, Italy.

Talking over avocado, cheese, and tomato sandwiches at her contemporary home in Victor, she stops abruptly when she spots a squirrel in a praying stance, looking at her through the glass window.

“Oh, there’s Alice Hallahan.”Named after one of her students, the

squirrel has come around for her daily snack, a mixture of seeds and nuts that Calderwood tosses onto the deck. Calde-rwood says she can tell Alice apart from the other squirrels by “the little bit of white between the ears and two distinct layers on the tail.”

Kathleen Calderwood at her temporary home studio, where she’s restoring a painting damaged in a recent fire at her house.


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kathleen Calderwood

The description makes her think of finding a kitten, which leads to her pointing to the black-and-white checker board painting hanging on her living room wall. The white squares are images of her cat’s fur. “It’s all about concept,” she says. “Sometimes students think they need to slavishly render the world, but I allow them to do anything they want. If they say, ‘I photographed this great fish head but I’m painting a street,’ I tell them to cut out the head and combine the two. You can put anything together.”

Calderwood often comes up with class assignments during everyday tasks. One time while driving, she began thinking of icons she particularly likes: lobster tails, diamonds, lemons, irises, bacon, and yes, squirrel tails. She then asked her students to come up with their own list, mixing the icons together into a pattern for a decorative box.

“What do they all have to do with each other?” she asks. “Probably noth-ing. But I want to see something I’ve never seen before. That’s what we’re all looking for.”

Beyond that, she advises her students to choose truth over the accepted definitions of beauty.

“Every painting should have some good and some bad, like the world,” she teaches. “That keeps you from getting stuck in predictable patterns. How come those horrific images of polar bears falling off the ice flows are on our minds but students don’t feel they’d be acceptable subject matter?”

Calderwood gets inspired watching ideas develop into images in the class-room. Some of those ideas find their way into her own vibrant pieces. The painting of a gummy worm on the dedi-cation page of her book, for instance, came after a discussion with one of the students about “the things you ‘couldn’t’ paint in the past but now you can, and still be considered a serious artist.”

Calderwood is proud of the relation-ships she has maintained with some of her former students, some of whom she taught decades ago. They exchange art catalogs and information about new artists and exhibitions, or get together for lunch.

“She has this wonderful eccentricity,” says one of those students, Mark Madd-alina ’87, a studio art major-turned-ar-chitect. “She always taught us to think a little differently, and when it serves me, that’s what sets me apart. Her class was very insightful.”

At times emotional when she talks about how thoughtful her students have been over the years, Calderwood finds symbolism in a story about a green or-chid one of them gave her just before a fire last November destroyed her studio and much of the rest of her house. After the fire, everything in her living room was covered in black—except for the orchid, which started to bloom soon after.

“My students have been so gener-ous to me in every way,” she says. “I wouldn’t know how I could find a way to repay them for all they have given me.”

As for her art, Calderwood feels there is so much more material to explore.

“I hope I live a long, long time,” she says. “I feel like I’m just starting.”

“She always taught us to think a little differently, and when it serves me, that’s what sets me apart.” — MARk MADDALINA ’87

It’s Perfectly Obvious, by Kathleen Calderwood

Kathy’s Painting, by Kathleen Calderwood



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id you ever mess around with rocks?”Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick poses the question to

the nine students watching her draw a can of Red Bull, the energy drink, from a still life—an incon-gruous collection that includes crayons, cupcake wrappers, and a Curious George jack-in-the-box.

“If you move them around enough, they all fit together somehow,” she continues. “But what’s fun

about a still life is you don’t have to set it up in a cer-tain way that looks pretty. The more you make adjust-ments, the less you’re going to find out about the truth. And the truth is that everything belongs together. Everything plays off each other.”

Later, when the students are working on their own drawings, she expands on the way her own work evolves, taking them back, as she often does, to her

past. She remembers being four or five when she became entranced by a book in the shape of a horse’s head. She drew the head over and over again, then began making up stories to fill in the picture. Where did the horse live? What did the farm look like? Did a girl ride him?

“That’s exactly how I paint now,” she explains. “I don’t have a specific intention when I start the work. The meaning of the piece develops as the work develops.”

Brilla-Fitzpatrick, whose paintings have been in gal-leries and exhibitions in four states and six countries, is represented by Rochester’s Oxford Gallery, where she is having a show of oil paintings, watercolors, pastels, and figure drawings in October. It will be the first time she has shown work in watercolors or pastels.

Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick teaching a drawing class for Nazareth students.

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Butterflies and Ballerinas, by Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick

“The medium an artist works in isn’t what they do. It’s just the vehicle that best accommodates their vision.”

— MAUREEN BRILLA-FITzPATRICk

Brilla-Fitzpatrick started experimenting with materials unfamiliar to her, such as charcoal, because she wanted to teach with them.

“You say you’re an artist and people say, ‘Oh, what do you work in?’ I like to say, ‘My bathrobe,’” she says with a big laugh. “The medium an artist works in isn’t what they do. It’s just the vehicle that best ac-commodates their vision.”

The classroom is also a place where she can scrutinize complica-tions that arise in her own paintings—she designs lessons around them. “It used to be that if I had to solve a problem, I would think back to what my professors told me. Now I hear my own voice. I can switch from being a painter to a teacher and look at my images more objectively.”

“She shows us that she can screw up, too—that she’s just as human as we are and that we shouldn’t be afraid to ask questions,” says art education major Elizabeth Bondor ’14. “It’s easier to learn in an environment like that.”

Students are quick to list the quirky qualities that make Brilla-Fitz-patrick as endearing as her teaching style. For instance, instead of a group photo at the end of each semester, she remembers each student by taping strands of their hair on a white sheet of paper displayed among other decorations on her office wall. Names are written beside the cuttings. With an artist’s eye, she draws a visitor’s attention to the various textures and colors, including light blue and orange.

Brilla-Fitzpatrick works out of a studio in her apartment in the village of Pittsford. Her style blends a personal study of linear perspec-tive—the idea that parallel lines meet at vanishing points and shapes get smaller with increasing distance from the eye—and the basics of abstract expressionism she was taught while growing up in the ’60s. Though her art pieces are compact, they take at least three months to create, and that’s only if she works on them nearly six hours a day.

“One of the reasons my paintings are so small,” she reveals, “is that I want to express the preciousness of art, how reverent I feel toward the making of art.”

Jessica Pike ’14, a photography student in one of Brilla-Fitzpat-rick’s drawing classes, appreciates her professor’s concern for creative integrity. “For our critiques, she’ll say, ‘What was going on in your head?’ You have to try to explain not necessarily the technique you used, but why you drew what you drew. It gives everything a much deeper meaning.”

“I don’t focus so much on how real you can make something look,” responds Brilla-Fitzpatrick. “It’s about what information is necessary to be able to talk about the essence of what a thing does, not what it is. You want to be able to recognize the integral truth.

“Ultimately, the process of making art becomes a metaphor for how one lives their life.”

Check out Nazareth’s art department at naz.edu/art.

Robin L. Flanigan is a freelance writer in Rochester, New York.


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iamonds are forever, goes the saying, but those precious gems entered the life of Reneé Scialdo Shevat ’77 in a significant, ongoing way only after she had distinguished herself in the realm of education. A Nazareth graduate who earned degrees in psychology and elementary education,

Shevat held a series of management posts in higher education until 1997, when she became the president of the Herkimer Diamond Mines, an outstanding tourist attraction and purveyor of gems to an international clientele.

“My father first started thinking about buying the mines in 1977, while I was still a student at Nazareth,” Shevat recalls. “I was hang-ing around the dorm and somebody called up to say that my dad was on the line. When I picked up, he said, ‘Reneé, I’m consider-ing buying a diamond mine. What do you think?’ And I said, ‘Dad, you’re in the commercial construction business. What do you know about diamonds?’”

A many-Faceted Lifeby Alan Gelb

Apparently, Rudy Scialdo knew a good thing when he saw it, for the Herkimer Diamond Mines, which he bought in 1978, proved to be something of a…goldmine? At the time of purchase, the business’s focus was those very special diamonds—beautiful, double-terminated quartz crystals found only at this one upstate New York location. The Herkimer gemstones are close to five hundred million years old and are naturally faceted, each having 18 facets and 2 points. They have become much prized in today’s global market. But under the auspices of Reneé Shevat, which began when her father drafted her out of higher education to take over the family business, the Herkimer Diamond Mines have developed a number of other concentrations as well.

Today, the mines are a popular tourist destination, where individuals and families can become prospectors, digging for diamonds. “We attract up to a thousand people a day,” says Shevat. “And we’ve also become a general outdoor destination, thanks to our KOA Kampground, which was recognized in 2010 as the best KOA campground facility on the conti-nent.” As befits Shevat’s background, there is also a strong educational

Reneé Scialdo Shevat ’77, president of the Herkimer Diamond Mines.

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The Travel Channel aired a special program on the Herkimer tourist attrac-tion throughout the year in 2008. Here Shevat is educating Kirsten Gum, Travel Channel Host.

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component to Herkimer Diamond Mines, with science camps operating onsite. It is also home to one of the largest Boy Scout jamboree in the Northeast.

Situated under this corporate umbrella are two more allied business-es. Unlocked Legends is an economic development entity that operates Gems Along the Mohawk, the premier visitor center of upstate New York, located on the Erie Canal. Gems Along the Mohawk features a fine restaurant, a retail outlet that promotes products manufactured in central New York, and tour boat cruises of the canal. The other subsid-iary, Out of India, imports colored stones from foreign nations that are sold domestically.

Building up this complex has been a great adventure for Shevat. “Situationally, my role changes from day to day,” she says. “One day, I’m a leader, developing vision. Another day, I’m a manager, developing mission. And always I remain an educator, seeking to instill purpose in young people. When we run science camps, you’re bound to find me there, teaching something.”

Shevat was born and raised in Herkimer, where her mother and father started a commercial construction company. She came to Nazareth looking for a small school that would feel comfortable but that would test her and make a difference in her life. “And it did,” says Shevat. “Nazareth allowed me to become an independent thinker and to understand how to use grass roots to get things done.” Her lifelong commitment to service and activism started in earnest at Nazareth, During a recent business trip to Tokyo, Shevat was greeted by Miyuki Hatoyama,

the first lady of Japan.

she’s been to Asia five times), but she always combines business with exploration. She also enjoys spending time with family and friends, and is even known to play a bit of golf. But what really “relaxes” her is community service, for she feels best when she is very busy. “It’s very important to use your mind and have a sense of strategic purpose,” she says. “I’ve been lucky enough to have real mentors, and the one common denominator among the people I’ve looked up to is the ethic of giving back.”

When Shevat left higher education, she made a commitment to stay involved; she has also focused her efforts on health care. Shevat currently serves on the Cobleskill Regional Hospital Board of Trustees, is the president elect for the Friends of Bassett in Cooperstown, New York, and, by gubernatorial appointment, has been a trustee of the State University of New York at Cobleskill. In 2010, she was one of 33 individuals honored at the CICU (Commission of Independent Colleges and Universities) Alumni Hall of Distinction Awards Ceremony for her contributions to New York State’s economy and the connections she has made between higher education and economic development.

Shevat keeps a quote from her hero, Abraham Lincoln, on her desk. “It goes, ‘It’s not the years in your life that matter, but the life in your years.’ That’s what I keep in mind as I look toward the future.”

Learn more about Herkimer Diamond Mines at alumni.naz.edu

Alan Gelb is a freelance writer in East Chatham, New York. Photos courtesy Herkimer Diamond Mines.

“Nazareth allowed me to become an independent thinker and to understand

how to use grass roots to get things done.”

where, in her senior year, she was both the president of the Nazareth College Student Government and vice president for the Independent Student Coalition, a statewide organization for all New York private colleges and universities.

After graduating from Nazareth, Shevat earned her masters in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and a doctorate from the University of Rochester that focused on organizational behavior, finance, policy, and human relations, with an emphasis on higher educational institutions. She held important positions at the State University of New York at Potsdam and at Cobleskill Agriculture and Technology College.

Shevat has also enjoyed a full and satisfying family life. Her hus-band, Sam Shevat, is retired as the superintendent of the Cobleskill-Richmondville Schools and remains active with his own consulting firm. Their two sons—Sam, 26, and Rudy John, 24—are both Cornell graduates who now work in the financial sector. The Shevats maintain homes in Cobleskill and Herkimer.

What does this exceptionally goal-oriented individual do for relax-ation? Traveling is key. She must travel often for business (this year


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Teacher in Action

ThE LEgENd OF WEBmAiL AT NAz will be remembered by the alumni and students of the first decade of the 2000s, but alas, it received its proper burial in July 2011. Nazareth College has partnered with Google to provide a new, co-branded email solution for Nazareth students and alumni. The new solution is up and running and available for any alum who wishes to open a Nazareth branded gmail account. If you graduated between 2000 and 2010 and have not updated your email address since Webmail was shut down, we encourage you to send us your preferred email.

To update your email address, visit alumni.naz.edu/update.For more information or questions about the Nazareth Google email account, contact Information

Technology Services at www.naz.edu/dept/its/ or call the IT Service Desk at 585-389-2111.

Dear Alumni,Time has been flying by!I have been having so much fun getting to

know you, and if we haven’t connected yet, I hope that we do so soon.

No matter what your interest, Alumni Relations has something to offer you to get involved. Please consider volunteering on any one of the following committees of the alumni board: Admissions, Advancement, Athletics, Awards, Career Services, Chapters, GOLD, Graduate, and Student Services.

Or you could be a mentor to a student. Our undergraduate students as well as our graduate students would be very grateful for your friendship, experience, and guidance. I’m looking forward to helping facilitate many new Naz-to-Naz connections. Look for the online mentor sign-up at alumni.naz.edu and choose the level of time commitment that you can give; anything from a phone call to an internship would be helpful and appreciated.

Reunion 2011 was a blast! Thank you to the honored classes of 1 and 6 for bringing your smiles and school spirit to campus. We are looking for reunion class volunteers for planning Reunion 2012. If your class year ends in 2 or 7, please consider getting involved now to make your reunion memorable, too.

I am always excited to hear from you directly and can be reached at [email protected] or 585-389-2471.

Let’s talk soon!

All my best,

Donna BorgusAssistant Director, Office of Alumni Relations

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record Gift by Seniors

The Class of 2011 set a new Nazareth record for participation in the Senior Class Gift, reaching the 50% mark for the first time in school history. More than 250 seniors showed their support by making a gift to student scholar-ships or designating it to the department, sport, or club of their choice.

Class officers Jeri Beckens ’11, Lisa DiMatteo ’11, Danielle Fiorentino ’11, Carly Hewitt ’11, Steven Matos ’11, and Lindsey Spector ’11 played a huge role in the success of the “Gimme 5” campaign, which sought to boost participation by encouraging gifts of five dollars.

As the campaign gained momentum, Spector challenged President Daan Braveman to a dance-off during Senior Week if the class reached the 50% mark. Braveman agreed, and the dance-off took place during graduation rehearsal before nearly 750 seniors, graduate students, faculty, and staff.

“This was a great introduction to philanthropy for the seniors and helped them to learn what it means to take care of their alma mater,” says Kerry Gotham ’98, director of alumni relations and senior class advisor. “It was also tons of fun and created a great atmosphere of enthusiasm and excitement as they finished up their undergraduate studies and entered into the ranks of Nazareth alumni.”

View the Class of 2011 “5 Dollar Revolution” video, the dance-off challenge exchange between Braveman and Spector, and the final dance-off at alumni.naz.edu/classof2011.

Three-time lacrosse All-American Eric Goodberlet ’01 and his son Grady returned to campus for the alumni lacrosse game last year.

Daan and the Daanettes take to the floor for the Senior Week dance-off competition. Left to right: Danielle Fiorentino ’11, Emelyn Santos ’11, President Daan Braveman, Bianca DeJesus ’11, and Mackenzie Gotshall ’11.

Golden Flyers Golf TournamentThe 9th annual Nazareth College Golden

Flyers Golf Tournament, held at Greystone Golf Club on Friday, September 23, will benefit Nazareth’s student athletes. For more details and to register for the tournament, visit alumni.naz.edu/golf2011.

Alumni GamesFans and hecklers alike are welcome as

athletes relive those glory days with team-mates and friends on Saturday, September 24. Games include men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s basketball, and more. Check alumni.naz.edu for more details.

17th Annual Sports Hall of FameNazareth will honor some of the best

ever to don the purple and gold at its 17th annual Sports Hall of Fame induction dinner on Saturday, September 24. More than 80 alumni, coaches, and administrators, along

with three national championship teams, have been inducted into the Hall of Fame over the years. For more details, including a list of this year’s inductees and to register for the ceremony, visit alumni.naz.edu.

Purple and Gold DayNazareth alums can show their pride by

wearing purple and gold on Saturday, Sep-tember 24, in honor of the day the College opened in 1924. Send photos of you and your friends showing off your Nazareth loy-alty at work, at play, or at home to [email protected] for use on the alumni website. Events are planned for alumni gatherings in certain areas; you can find details at alumni.naz.edu. And if you don’t see an event listed for your area, plan one on your own!

Annual Alumni Legacy LuncheonHonor your family’s continued commit-

ment to a Nazareth education. Alumni parents and grandparents along with their children or grandchildren who are current Nazareth students are invited to this special luncheon on Saturday, October 22. Advance registration is required. Please call the Office of Alumni Relations at 585-389-2472 or register online at alumni.naz.edu.

Autumn Alumni Events

Alumni Board Committee Activitiesby Donna Borgus


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The alumni board’s annual Golden Flyer Egg Hunt was enjoyed by children and parents alike, despite this spring’s uncooperative weather.

The Admissions Committee has created a new regional alumni admissions ambassa-dor program and has already started recruit-ing enthusiastic and energetic volunteers to promote Nazareth College. In addition, members of the alumni board have reached out to admitted students to share their positive memories of their time at Nazareth and encouraged these students to choose Nazareth, too.

The Advancement Committee has been busy thanking donors to the Nazareth Fund and reaching out to encourage new donors to continue and join as Consecutive Donors to the College.

The Athletics Alumni Committee, which includes alum representatives from each sport, is just getting started. The group promotes Naz athletics by fostering good-will with alumni and friends and cultivating a strong base of support and spirit for the Golden Flyers.

The Awards Committee has met the challenge of choosing the Sister Jamesetta Slattery Award, the Alumni Association Award, the Senior Service Award, and the Outstanding Alumni and GOLD Alumni award winners.

The Career Services Committee has been generous with their time and exper-tise in assisting current students in their job search process. They are assisting Career Services in developing website tools and services that will be helpful to students as well as alumni. They also volunteered at a networking event for students in March and again at the Career Services Open House at Reunion.

Watch for upcoming communication from the Chapter Committees where you live. Planning is underway to bring Nazareth College closer to you.

The GOLD Committee is working through a list of upcoming events to keep that Nazareth enthusiasm flowing. In addi-tion to these fun events, the committee has been thoughtful in reaching out to peers for support of Nazareth. The overall goal is to make a lasting impact by increasing GOLD engagement and participation, which also helps with College ranking and obtaining financial support for future projects.

The Graduate Committee has volun-teered to come back to campus to share their positive experiences and the benefit of a Nazareth graduate degree with prospec-tive graduate students. Did you know that graduate alums are 40 percent of our total alumni population? This committee under-stands that the experience of a Nazareth graduate alum is rewarding yet different from the undergraduate experience and is working to meet their diverse needs.

The Student Services Committee launched the pilot for our Alumni Mentor Program with great enthusiasm and success. Junior and senior class officers and Under-graduate Association leaders were matched with alumni with similar career and leader-ship interests. Their feedback and insight was used as we prepared this program for use by junior and senior students in the coming year.

If you would like to join in the momen-tum of any one of these committees, please contact Donna Borgus, assistant director of alumni relations, at [email protected] or 585-389-2471.

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The life of Mary Catherine Driscoll ’66 has been one of exceptional competence and compassion, hallmarks of a Nazareth liberal arts education. Whether at the College or in her workplace, community, or church, Driscoll continues

to lead and volunteer her time and expertise.Driscoll graduated with a double major in English and history.

Afterward, she went to work for the New York State Department Labor. Her 33-year DOL career culminated in her promotion in 1996 to regional director for the Finger Lakes and Western New York region, where she eventually oversaw work in 14 counties. Much of her work was in service to disadvantaged residents in these areas.

While her professional accomplishments are considerable, her ongoing service to the community is equally impressive. Since retiring, Driscoll has worked as a campaign assistant for the United Way of Rochester. She has also worked in coalition with the Empire Justice Center as a member of C.A.S.H. (Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope, an organization that helps low-income workers build stronger financial futures).

As a member of Saint Mary’s Church in Rochester, Driscoll has served as lector, Eucharistic minister, and volunteer and has served

on the Diocesan Women’s Commission. She is also a cherished daughter, sister, sister- in-law, and aunt.

Since graduating, Driscoll has not forgotten Nazareth College. She has been a faithful and tireless alumna, serving as Alumni Association President, 1966 class agent, capital campaign volunteer, and Reunion organizer. Her life, ac-complishments, and good works illustrate what it means to be an outstanding Nazareth alumna.

For more alumni profiles, visit alumni.naz.edu.

Jessica Shackelton maclay ’03 1980–2011GOLD (Graduate of the last Decade) Award Winner

in countless ways, Jessica Shackelton ’03 embodied the mission of Nazareth College. During her undergraduate years, Shackelton made an impact on the Nazareth campus as well as the Rochester community. She was recognized

throughout her collegiate career as an outstanding leader and team player. After graduating, she continued to serve the Nazareth community for several years as an Americorp*VISTA member. In this capacity, she developed two new programs: Partners for Serving and the Service Floor, which are both successful today thanks to her dedication and organization.

Shackelton moved to Oregon with her husband TJ Maclay ’04, ’05G, where she focused on serving the needs of the home-less population through her position at Clatsop Community Action. She spent the last year of her life initiating a network of social service agencies to support the local homeless population.

At the time of her death in February 2011, Shackelton was well known, respected, and beloved in the northwest region

of Oregon for her passionate dedication to serving the homeless. The fruits of her labor and education will continue to serve that community for years to come, and her commitment to service remains an example to all Nazareth alumni.

For more alumni profiles, visit alumni.naz.edu.

mary Catherine Driscoll ’66 Outstanding Alumna

TJ Maclay ‘04, ‘05G and Jessica Shackelton Maclay ‘03 with their daughter Kaiya.

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NazareTh College

Reunion Weekend 2011

Kathleen Stein Fagan ’71 and Kathleen Payne Duley ’71.

The Class of 1966 loving their dinner entertainment. Members of the Class of 1971 examine old yearbooks at their weekend residence in Portka Hall.

Reunion weekend’s tent city by moonlight.

June Smith Bidewell ’43, one of the oldest alumni to attend this year’s reunion, escorted around campus by Mackenzie Gotshall ’11.

Clockwise from top right: Rita Allen ’56, Margaret Frisch ’56, and Dr. Mary T. Bush ’51 at the Founders Society luncheon.

The Golden Anniversary Class of 1961.

Jane Wallace ‘61 cheers with her classmates as their graduation year is announced.

Left to right: Donyelle Losee ’06, Chris VanLowen ’06, Kevin Laley ’06, and Nikki Bell ’07 watching the slide show at Friday night’s dinner.

The Golden Anniversary class of 1961.

The Golden Flyer takes the stand.

Looking to the Future“My husband and i established our wills shortly before the birth of our first daughter. We wanted the assurance of knowing that everything we most cared about would be provided for. that’s why we included nazareth. it has been, and remains, an important part of our lives.”

— Jennifer Giessler ’95 and Michael Giessler,

with their daughters Meghan

and Molly

For more information on planned giving opportunities, please contact Melissa Head, associate director of major gifts and planned giving, at 585-389-2179 or at [email protected].

Learn how you can make a lasting difference through your will by visiting go.naz.edu/plannedgiving

What is planned giving?When you include the College in your future plans through

creating a life income gift such as a charitable gift annuity or charitable remainder unitrust, or by naming Nazareth as a

beneficiary of your will, retirement plan, or life insurance policy.

What is the Founders Society?A planned giving recognition society whose members are crucial to advancing the long-term goals of Nazareth.

The College honors members each year at a luncheon. Throughout the year, members receive special invitations to attend

Nazareth events as well as recognition in our annual report.


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Joan Ewing ’55, Chem., retired from Xerox in 1997. She has lived in Fairport for the past 26 years.

’60sCarol Papadopoli Basi ’62,

Chem., still hopes to write the Great American Novel. She and her husband of 48 years divide their time between Illinois and Florida, and they have six children and 13 grandchildren.

Ann O’Brien ’64, Eng., retired in July 2010 as an elementary school counselor after 20 years in the Fairfax County (Va.) Public Schools. She also announced her engagement to William J. Kahl of Auburn in August 2010.

Dr. Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., Eng., celebrated her 50-year jubilee as a Sister of St. Joseph on April 10.

Kathleen Lyons Kelly ’68, M.D., Chem., has worked many positions throughout her career, including immunology lab tech at NYU; NYU School of Medicine; surgical residency training at St. Vincent’s Hospital, NYC; surgical critical care fellowship at Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC; director of surgical ICU, general and trauma surgeon at Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, N.J.; director of ICU and associate director of trauma at Morristown Memorial Hospital, Morristown, N.J.; director and

’80sKim Schroeder Cox ’82, ’87G,

Music Ed., has recently been selected as superintendent of Le Roy Central Schools. Prior to this appointment she worked as a teacher, elementary principal, and assistant superintendent of instruction for five years at Wayne Central Schools.

John Drain ’83, Bus. and Acct., recently joined Hearst Television as senior vice president of finance.

medical leader in clinical research and development at Johnson and Johnson. She has been married 41 years and has one son and one grandchild.

Maureen McCarthy Nupp ’69, His., was honored in October 2010 as part of New York State’s School Board Recognition Week. She is in her 12th year serving on the school board in Fairport.

’70sCatherine Aiken Labombard

’70, Chem., earned her master’s degree in liberal studies from SUNY Plattsburgh. She retired in 2007 after teaching chemistry, math, and physical and environ-mental science for 32 years. From 1997 until her retirement, she and her students participated in the Hudson Basin River Watch Consortium. She now volunteers and serves on the board of direc-tors for the Lake George Association. She is the chair of the water committee and volunteers with their floating classroom pro-gram. She and her husband have three children.

Carol Klem ’72, ’76G, Eng., serves as the Village Crier for the Town of Webster. She has been collecting and reporting the news for the village for more than two decades, writing a column called “The Village Focus” every other week. She has also been involved with the Webster Arboretum, the Webster Museum, and other community groups.

Mary Beth Stone West ’84, Mgmt., is the executive vice president and chief category and marketing officer for Kraft Foods, as well as a member of the board of directors of JCPenney. She is also involved with a nonprofit organization called the Off the Street Club.

Winifred Lydford Bush ’85, Psy., has been an art teacher in the Rome area since 1985 and has been teaching art education for BOCES since 1999. She recently had a ceramics exhibition at the Rome Art and Community Center.

Weis receives Fulbright AwardNazareth College Professor of

English Dr. Monica Weis ’65, S.S.J., has been selected by the U.S. Department of State and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars to receive a 2012 Ful-bright Senior Specialist award. Weis plans to travel to Hungary and teach one semester at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém.

The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals. The goals of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program are to increase the participation of leading U.S. scholars and professionals in Fulbright academic exchang-es, encourage new activities that go beyond the traditional Fulbright activities of lecturing and research, and to promote increased connections between U.S. and non-U.S. post-sec-ondary academic institutions.


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Martial Bednar ’88, Eng. Writing, recently spoke at the Olean Public Library about his book Nine M’s and a Mother Like No Other: Our Journey from Messed to Blessed, which address-es the bonds of family, the power of perseverance and prayer, and the sustaining gifts of faith, hope, and love. He has also built a suc-cessful career in communications in Rochester.

Dolores Jablonski Johnson ’89, Bus. Dist. Edu., was awarded the NYSTAA Emeritus Award at the annual New York State Transfer Articulation Association conference in Syracuse in July 2010. She worked at Nazareth for 20 years as director of elderhostel and the Center for Lifelong Learning and more recently as senior assistant director of transfer admissions before retiring in 2010.

’90sMarisa Favro Geitner ’92,

’95G, Spc., is a 2011 finalist for the Athena Award, presented by Athena International in Rochester to exceptional leaders in the Rochester area.

Scott Bradley ’94, Music Ed., accompanied Miché Fambro in a New Year’s Eve performance at Black-Eyed Susan Acoustic Café in Angelica, N.Y. He is a jazz compos-er, teacher, and a regular perform-er with the Bill Tibero Band.

Christopher Murtha ’95, Bus. Adm. and Pol. Sci., is entering his third term on the board of direc-tors for the Financial Planning Association—Conn. Valley Chapter. He works as a financial advisor for Howard Financial Corp. in West Hartford, Conn.

Kimberly J. Bellavia ’96, Art, is the education director at Granger Homestead Museum and Carriage House. She also teaches art history at Genesee Community College.

Sherri Walker Baker ’97, Studio Art, is a designer at the Mirus Group in Rochester.

Nicholas Woyciesjes ’97, Studio Art, works at the Mirus Group and designs the illustrations on Wegmans Italian Classics sauce jars and pasta boxes.

Mary Ellen Brule Nixon ’98, Env. Sci., began working with the Humane Society at Rochester’s Lollypop Farm in 2009. Since then, she has worked to help the shelter find new funding.

’00sJeffrey Biesiada ’00, Bus.

Adm., has been hired as vice presi-dent of the M&T Insurance Agency at M&T Bank.

Chris Amesbury ’02, Chem., teaches chemistry at Gates Chili High School. He lives in Chili with his wife and three children.

Carl Huber ’02, Studio Art, is a designer at the Mirus Group in Rochester.

Mary Sarah Kinner ’04, Pol. Sci., has been appointed press secretary for Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada. She had previously served as Sandoval’s communications director during his election campaign.

Shevon Kuznezov ’04, Soc., a special education teacher at Fisher Elementary School in Walpole, MA, was recognized for Excellence in Education at the 20th annual Goldin Foundation Educators Forum hosted by the Dover-Sherborn Regional High School District. The award honors educa-tors for making outstanding contri-butions in their classrooms, their schools, and their communities. Kuznezov provides significantly challenged upper elementary stu-dents with curriculum taught in thematic units to help integrate concepts and skills.

Ockenden Wins SOM Alumni AwardJim Ockenden ’83 has received

the first School of Management Distinguished Alumni Award. He graduated from Nazareth with a bachelor’s in management and cur-rently serves as partner in the Visory Group in Syracuse, which specializes in network engineering, consulting, security, and technology solutions. According to the selection committee, Ockenden was chosen for the award based on his entrepreneurial and business success, service to others, commitment to ethics and social responsibility, and his long and unwavering support of Nazareth College.

Nicholas Woyciesjes ’97, a studio art major, is the co-founder and co-owner of Mirus Group Marketing Communications in Rochester and designs the illustrations on Wegmans Italian Classics sauce jars and pasta boxes. Says Woyciesjes, “Our first employee, Carl Huber, graduated from Nazareth in 2002. And our newest employee, Sherri Walker Baker, graduated with me in ’97. I’m trying to re-create the Naz art department in my office!”


From left to right:

Row 1

Carly Rose, daughter of Jill Hodgson Piacitelli ’97, born November 11, 2010.

Parker John, son of Kristin Dunleavy Davis ’99, born August 9, 2010. Luke Wyatt, son of Gina Curulla Jutzin ’00, ’02G and Carl Jutzin ’93, born August 25, 2010.

Row 2

Drew Alexander, son of Kelly Daniels ’03, born August 2, 2010.

Adrian Teele, daughter of Jackie Russell Lipsky ’03 and Justin Lipsky, born September 10, 2010.

Julianya Yamna, daughter of Kathryn Haldeman Smail ’03, born November 3, 2010.

Row 3

Ava Rose, daughter of Erin Kline Goodwin ’05 and CJ Goodwin, born on April 8, 2010.

Jadon Mark, son of Bethany Nickoloff Bajus ’06 and Daniel Bajus ’06, born August 26, 2010.

W e l c o m e !Nazareth welcomes the following newborns into the ever-growing ranks of future alumni!


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Mary O’Donnell Emineke ’05, Chem., successfully defended her dissertation, What Is a Chemical? Fourth-Grade Children’s Categorization of Everyday Objects and Substances. Her oral report was titled Learning in the Analytical Laboratory and Investigating Children’s Ideas about Chemicals. In September 2010, she began a post-doctoral position at Iowa State University working with the director of the ACS Exams Institute in Ames, Iowa. She mar-ried Bright Emineke in 2009.

Jessica Ann Best ’06, Music Perf., is a principal artist with Opera Tampa in Florida. She was also recently a soloist in the Rochester Chamber Orchestra’s performance of Handel’s Messiah.

Cameron Adams McCurty ’06, ’10G, CSD, was selected to partici-pate in the Minority Student Leadership Program at the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention in Philadelphia in November 2010.

’10sBrian Hauck ’10, Chem. and

Adol. Ed., spent the summer of 2009 teaching environmental chemistry and forensic science at Explo Summer Camp at Yale. He is currently enrolled in graduate school at Washington State University.

Jen Morton ’10, Art Hist., is living in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and is currently enrolled in the Masters of Art Conservation program, paintings treatment stream, at Queen’s University.

Alexandra Parrotta ’10, Bus. Adm., is a youth advocate with Hillside Work-Scholarship Conn-ection. The program provides aca-demic support, part-time employ-ment experience, and long-term mentoring. She also volunteers with the Young Women’s Group.

Adam Rall ’10, Chem., is working in the molecular biology group at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany.

Shannon Rene ’10, Bus. Adm., worked as a team leader for Cooper Vision and then in the financial world. She is now work-ing toward becoming a personal trainer. Currently, she is in her rookie season as a safety/wide receiver for the Chicago Bliss of the Lingerie Football League.

GRADUATE

Lynne Hallock Erdle ’82G was awarded the 2010 Athena Award from the Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce and the Professional Women of the Finger Lakes. The Athena Award recognizes leader-ship, advocacy, and collaboration with others.

Amy Avino Bryan ’90G is a kindergarten teacher in the Finger Lakes. She is currently working on her master’s degree in literacy.

Susan Ruckdeschel ’91G is hosting writing workshops for grade-school students at Literacy Solutions in Beacon, N.Y. She has also written a number of teaching aids and handbooks for young writers, peer coaches, and instructors or parents.

Albert Ambroselli Jr. ’98G has been teaching English with the Genesee Valley Educational Partnership at Leicester Academy since 2000. He is also actively involved with People Rebuilding and Living in Dignity, which advo-cates for and assists adults who have suffered traumatic brain inju-ries. In addition to this, he has been coaching and umpiring with the Rush-Henrietta Athletic Association for 20 years.

John Taylor ’06G worked in academic computing systems man-agement and then oversaw the administrative local area of net-work and security, hardware and software resources, and training and support at Finger Lakes Community College. While there,

Three generations Nazareth alumnae celebrate their degrees. Left to right: Mary Wilkes List ’09, ’11G, her mother Corinne Freer Wilkes ’45, ’61G, and her daughter Jessica Susan List ’10, ’11G.


he received the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service. After his time at FLCC, he directed all aspects of information technol-ogy at Wells College. Most recent-ly, he has been appointed as dean of information technology at Cayuga Community College.

Jamie L. Affronti ’07G has been teaching eighth grade social studies at Farnsworth Middle School for the last five years. She recently announced her engagement to John Martin Mullins II.

Allison Berical ’08G was accepted into the University of Rochester to obtain her doctorate in education in teaching and curriculum. She plans to graduate in 2013.

WEDDINGS & UNIONS

Jackie Fazio ’02 to John Scanlan on Nov. 27, 2004.

Amber Spink ’03 to Brian Tolnar on Aug. 28, 2010.

Karen L. Marchewka ’04 to Brent Steven Vance on July 17, 2010.

Amy Smith ’06 to Eric Korver on July 26, 2010.

Amanda Krohn ’07 to Adam Kellerson on Sept. 25, 2010.

Elizabeth Marie Ormsbee ’09G to Eric Neider on Oct. 9, 2010.

BIRTHS & ADOPTIONS

Kathryn Haldeman Smail ’03, a daughter, Julianya Yamna, Nov. 3, 2010.

IN MEMORIAM

Mary Bigham Farren ’38, in Jan. 2011. She worked at Monroe County Social Services as a home finder for foster children until she retired in 1985. She was also the co-founder of St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, former leader of St. Augustine’s Girl Scout Troop 886, and worked with Bethany House, all in the Rochester area.

Sister Teresa Clare Ehrmentraut ’42, on Jan. 25, 2011. She entered the congrega-tion of the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1924 and taught at St. Monica’s School in Rochester and at Elmira Catholic High School for more than 20 years. She joined the Nazareth College business faculty in 1955, became secretary to the president in 1960, and served as the College’s first archivist begin-ning in 1980. Upon her retirement from Nazareth in 1987, she served as the Sisters of St. Joseph congre-gational archivist and tutored sisters who were studying at Nazareth and residing at the SSJ Motherhouse.

Jean Antonietta Cappellino ’46, in late Dec. 2010. She was a teacher and director of foreign languages and the Major Achievement Program in the Rochester City School District. She earned the Distinguished Peace Service Award in 1994 and dedi-cated a great amount of time to Sister Cities International and Amnesty International.

Mary Lucia Stoltman ’55, in early Jan. 2011. She was a teacher before returning to help her par-ents with the family farm, which she continued to run after her parents’ passing. She was a mem-ber of St. Rose’s Church in Lima as well as the Catholic Daughters of America.

Bernadine Carroll Warren ’58, in late Oct. 2010. She worked at the Newark Development Center in Wayne County and later for 35 years at the Finger Lakes Developmental Disabilities Services Office. She eventually became a placement specialist at FLDDSO, where she found community residences for clients. Later in her life she operated a successful antique business.

Gail Campanella Dagon ’60, in Dec. 2010. After receiving a master’s degree in mathematics education from the University of Rochester, she was a mathematics teacher at Benjamin Franklin and Mercy High Schools in Rochester, as well as a substitute mathematics teacher at Brighton High School.

Lynne M. Serusa ’69, in Nov. 2010. She was an educator in the Buffalo City School District until her retirement and was also active in NEA and Buffalo Teachers organizations.

Margaret Cappione Fleming ’71, in Nov. 2010. She taught remedial reading at Kakiat Junior High in Spring Valley for 15 years before her retirement. She was a member of the NYS Retired Teachers Association.

Miriam Komesar ’74, in Jan. 2011. She taught at the high school and college levels. After teaching, she became an advertis-ing executive before retiring.

Janice Colvin Collins ’74G, in Nov. 2010. She was an elementary school teacher at Jefferson Avenue School in Fairport for more than 20 years.

Joann DelVecchio ’77G, in Nov. 2010. She worked with BOCES #1, Nazareth College, and Newark State School throughout her career. She also volunteered at the Red Cross, WXXI-TV, and George Eastman House in Rochester.

Timmielyn Gooshaw Scaggs ’91, in Nov. 2010. She was an art teacher at Sherman and Kennedy Elementary Schools for 18 years before her retirement.

Jessica Shackelton MacLay ’03, on Feb. 20, 2011. After a career as a student leader, she continued to serve the Nazareth community in her role as an Americorp*VISTA member, during which she developed the success-ful programs Partners for Serving and the Service Floor.

Gabrielle Acevedo ’11, on Feb. 4, 2011. She was a counselor and lifeguard at Port Chester Recreation Department, a peer leadership mentor for the Anthony Foust Mentoring Program, and a member of Partners for Learning.

Decorating the campus’s tunnel walls is a Nazareth student tradition! This painting may have been a freestyle experi-ment, or a class assignment from professors like those on pages 34–39. Whatever its origin, this particular image

went the way of most tunnel artwork and was painted over some time during the past 60 years.

If you have additional information about this photograph, please let us know! Send comments to Archives, Lorette Wilmot Library, Nazareth College, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618, or email [email protected].

This photo, which appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Connections, has now been identified! Taken at Nazareth’s 1949 Winter Carnival, it depicts these members of the Class of 1949 (left to right): Dawn Dillon Jewell, Mary Margaret Dutcher, Anna Frances Payne, Irene Kocak, Marian Fox Pfeiffer, Jean Monahan, Peggy Walsh Dryer, Marilyn Metz Curry, and Betty Quirk Hurley.

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band. “The music flows seamlessly from piece to piece, shifting the audience’s attention between different parts of the stage and various locations throughout the hall, keeping everyone engaged throughout the entire concert.” here Prof. Nancy strelau conducts the Nazareth College Symphony Orchestra in performing Achilles, by Josh Forgét ‘13.

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