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The newest BMOC (Big Man On Campus) has arrived at the ’Ville.

Standing more than six feet tall, the life-size bronze statue memorializes the Marauder, Millersville’s mascot, and is

located at the SMC Promenade, outside of the Student Memorial Center. A large granite boulder serves as the statue’s pedestal. Artist Michael Hurrell ’95 created the sculpture.

The statue was funded through gifts from the Class of 1960 in recognition of their 50th anniversary, and the Classes of 2008 and 2009. In addition, the project has been supported by Student Services, Inc., the Millersville University Alumni Association and other interested alumni.

Marauder statue unveiled

18 Campaign Update 19 Campus News 20 Faculty Spotlight 21 Retirees 22 Sports 26 Alumni Interest 28 Class Notes 38 Why We Give

Cultural Events A four-page insert, highlighting events from January through May, is located in the center of this issue.

Editor’s note: In the fall 2011 issue of the Review, the last name of Matt Maze ’11 was incorrectly spelled as Maize. Our apologies for the error.

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PASSHE Board of GovernorsGuido M. Pichini (chairman), Marie Conley Lammando (vice chair), Aaron A. Walton (vice chair), Leonard B. Altieri III, Rep. Matthew E. Baker, Jennifer Branstetter, Governor Tom Corbett, Sarah C. Darling, Rep. Michael K. Hanna, Ronald G. Henry, Senator Vincent J. Hughes, Kenneth M. Jarin, Bonnie L. Keener, Jonathan B. Mack, Joseph F. McGinn, C.R. “Chuck” Pennoni, Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola, Harold C. Shields, Robert S. Taylor, Ronald J. Tomalis, Christine J. Toretti

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Answering the CallUniversity students and alumni are among the dedicated volunteers who help the Millersville community 24/7 by fighting fires, responding to rescues and coordinating emergency evacuations.

The SMC: A Happening Place

The new, improved Student Memorial Center (SMC) is once again bustling with students and is the center of campus activities.

Research experience elevates students’ ambitions

During July, Dr. Rich Clark led eight undergraduate meteorology students in a unique, high-profile research project for NASA.

Homecoming photosNot even a freak October snowstorm could stop the Homecoming 2011 events— although it definitely put a damper on Saturday’s outdoor activities.

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The SMC: A Happening Place

The Student Memorial Center (SMC) serves as the headquarters for social life on Millersville’s campus. The recently expanded/renovated facility has much to offer students and the entire University community.

The new SMC features 164,000 square feet of space—over 50,000 square feet more than the facility prior to the expansion.

On September 19, the clock tower and atrium were named in honor of Robert L. Slabinski ’78, retired CEO of Student Services, Inc.

The new SMC facility meets the needs of today’s students by offering a place to study, work out, play intramurals, print a research paper, do banking, watch TV, grab lunch and hook up with friends. It is also a great place to just hang out and enjoy being a college student, including:

n Club de ’Ville—equipped with billiard tables, an entertainment stage, a video projection system, TVs and computers with wireless Internet access

n The Galley, a spacious dining arean Fitness center and indoor trackn Four racquetball courts and an open

recreation arean Commuter loungen University Store—textbooks, Millersville

apparel, gift items and various sundries n Student Services, Inc., business office n Student banking area n Meeting rooms and the Reighard

Multipurpose Room n Ticket office n Information/reception desk

Many student organizations have offices in the SMC including:

n Student Senaten The Snapper n WIXQ n Touchstone n University Activities Boardn Black Student Unionn International Relations Clubn MU Allies

The Rat Race in Dutcher Hall in the 1950s.

In decades past, the hub of student activity was known as the Rat Race in Dutcher Hall. After Ganser Library opened in 1967, the gathering spot on campus became the Old Library building, now known as Biemesderfer Center. In 1971, the Student Memorial Center opened in its present location. Popularly known as the SMC (pronounced “Smack”), the facility underwent its first expansion in the mid-1980s.

The Old Library was converted to the student center in the late 1960s.

A bit of history of the Student Activity Center

A lot has changed since the Millersville Fire Company was founded 100 years ago—from technological advances in firefighting to better communication

practices. Very little remains the way it was when the all-volunteer company was established in May of 1911.

One aspect of the fire company that has stood the test of time—the volunteers. The spirit, bravery and dedication of those who sacrifice their time and effort to help protect the lives and property of others is something modern technology cannot change. It’s simply in their blood.

While the University’s support for the fire company runs deep, the community service provided by students, alumni and faculty is a true testament to the volunteer spirit that permeates this small community.

“There is a tradition of community service in my family,” says Mike Hite ’67, who has served with the Millersville Fire Company for 47 years. “I jokingly say I serve because my dad wouldn’t let me chase fire trucks on my bike. It’s like a jolt of adrenaline. I feel it’s something that needs to be done and I have the skills to do it.”

Hite and 14 other volunteer emergency responders, ranging from a junior at Millersville University to the 1967 alumnus, gathered in the basement of the firehouse on a rainy autumn evening to discuss why they serve and the changes they have witnessed over the years.

Student volunteers evolve into alumni volunteers

Three recent alumni and a current Millersville student sit side-by-side on a long couch in the basement of the fire-house. They are Nick Kramer ’09, Dan Hunsicker ’08, Dan Bezek ’10 and Paul McGonical, who is scheduled to gradu-ate in 2012. While most have a family history of emergency service, their reasons for volunteering vary.

“You get free food if you go out on a long call,” quipped Hunsicker. All jokes aside, it is obvious that Hunsicker takes his role very seriously. Having already served two tours in Iraq, he is due to be deployed to Afghanistan in early 2012 to fly Blackhawk helicopters. He also recently graduated at the

top of his class from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy and hopes to become a police officer with Lancaster City.

McGonical, a senior majoring in international studies, said it can be tough working as a firefighter while you are still living in the residence hall. He remarked about getting a call to respond “at 3 in the morning and my roommate was wondering why my alarm was going off.”

Kramer noted the long hours spent at the firehouse can be tough while taking classes. “It can be trying when you are in college and are at the firehouse 10-15 hours a week and have to find time to study.” Kramer said that as a child most of his friends wanted to be astronauts, but he always wanted to be a firefighter.

“That’s a good thing,” joked Hunsicker, “since they cut all the funding for the space program!”

ANSWERING by Kelly Smedley ’93

THE CALL

Training is essential to maintaining and learning new skills and techniques. Bi-monthly training sessions also provide an oppor-tunity to practice working together and to use the sophisticated equipment, which is part of firefighting in the 21st century.

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Blue Rock Fire and Rescue firefighters:The area firefighters are dedicated citizens who volunteer their time and often put themselves in harm’s way to protect others.

Over the past 20 years, the role of the firefighter has changed dramati-cally. So much so, that they are now referred to as emergency responders due to the variety of emergency situa-tions they are required to support.

“In the past, firefighters fought fires,” said Duane Hagelgans ’98, a retired Lancaster City firefighter who now serves as adjunct professor at Millersville University and fire com-missioner for the Blue Rock Regional Fire District. “Many of their current responsibilities were handled by police,

EMS or even some other volunteer organizations.”

But as training requirements increased, a majority of the work shifted to the fire department. Other factors have also led to increased demand.

“As more and more buildings are equipped with automatic fire-detection and alarm systems, we are called out on more alarms,” said Bezek, who said the alarms are often set off in non-emergency situations including faulty systems or user errors.

“Before automatic alarm systems, burnt food was an inconvenience for the resident, but nobody else really knew about it,” Bezek said. “Now as soon as smoke is detected, the fire company is automatically dispatched.”

Automatic alarms account for 20 percent of the total calls. Leading the list are vehicle accidents (25-40 per-cent), followed by miscellaneous calls (20-40 percent), which Hagelgans said could be anything from investigations to assisting other fire companies. Both fires and water-related emergencies account for only 5-10 percent of calls.

Formed in 2010, Blue Rock Regional Fire District now comprises Millers-ville, Highsville, West Lancaster and Washington Boro fire companies and 50 square miles of western Lancaster County. The consolidation of the fire companies coupled with the need for additional training has made it nearly impossible for responders to also participate in fundraising efforts. The majority of income for the fire com-pany comes from a variety of fundrais-ing activities including contributions, Christmas tree sales, pie sales, chicken and waffle dinners, and festivals. The support group is largely made up of the family members of the emergency responders, further demonstrating the commitment to service among these families.

Photos above: Firefighters always have their gear and equipment ready and waiting for the next emergency.

Photos next page (left to right): Alumni Nick Kramer and Dan Bezek train together. The Marauder icon graces Engine 5. The ex-perience of firefighting develops a strong bond among the community volunteers. The Millersville volunteer fire company has been in existence for 100 years.

Millersville alumni volunteer firefightersLeft to right: Mike Hite ’67, Nick Kramer ’09, Dan Bezek ’10 and Dan Hunsicker ’08 pose in front of the fire engine bearing the image of the Millersville Marauder.

Commitment to training

Today’s emergency responders must undergo extensive training before going out on calls, and their training goes well beyond fighting fires. Vol-unteers are certified in vehicle rescue, water rescue, forest training, confined space and trench collapse as well as annual CPR and first aid training.

“Gone are the days when they gave you a hat and a coat and told you to go ride on the back of the truck,” recalls Richard “Dick” Moriarty ’72, who has served with the Millersville Fire Com-pany since 1974. In addition to donning fire gear, Moriarty has also worn the mayor’s hat for Millersville Borough for the past nine years. “It used to be if you hung around the firehouse long enough, they gave you gear.”

A minimum of 166 hours of train-ing is now required for emergency responders, which equates to more than 20 eight-hour work days. While volunteers are provided with most equipment, many supplement the gear with their own purchases including special lights and stronger gloves.

“It is all about safety and liability,” said Hagelgans. “Firefighters lead the nation in death rates. We needed to increase the training. Most volunteers give between 8 and 40 hours of their time monthly. Some give a lot more.”

As part of search-and-rescue efforts, the Millersville Fire Company has a rescue dog. Liberty, an American Field Lab, is currently being trained by volunteer Amos Hess ’78, who recently retired his former rescue dog, Apollo.

“Apollo helped with the Empire TV building collapse in downtown Lancas-ter a few years ago,” said Hess. Apollo also served as a rescue dog with local tornadoes and even assisted at the

Fire company support from Millersville University

M illersville University recently donated $80,000 to the Blue Rock Fire Rescue Company in order to aid them in purchasing an advanced $640,000 fire engine. In addition, Student Ser-

vices, Inc., gave $50,000 towards the purchase. To show the fire company’s gratitude, the new engine bears the spirit mark of the Millersville Univer-sity Marauder.

“We are proud to support the efforts of Blue Rock Fire Rescue in spirit, as well as financially, when the need arises,” said Roger Bruszewski, vice president of finance and administration. “The relationship between the University and the fire company is beneficial to both organizations, but, most importantly, it helps keep the campus and students safe.”

Chief Keith Eshleman, of the Millersville branch of the Blue Rock Fire Rescue, believes that Millersville University and the fire company have a strong, lasting collaboration. “I think the University and the fire depart-ment are in a great partnership together. It is tremendous that they are able to give to us,” said Eshleman. “The Marauder logo on the side of the truck allows us to show our appreciation for everything they do for us.”

The new fire truck represents the top of the line in safety and efficiency. The engine possesses a specialized foam system in addition to its standard water cannon. To ensure the safety of the firefighters aboard, the passen-ger compartment is equipped with multiple airbags, and the truck is aided by a stability control system. “It has all of the safety features that people have enjoyed in automobiles for quite some time; we are only now just getting those in fire engines,” said Eshleman.

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federal level when Hurricane Earl struck Maine last year.The recent consolidation of the fire companies that now

make up Blue Rock also led to the need for additional train-ing. The 32,000-acre area, which falls under the jurisdiction of the regional fire company, includes rivers, lakes, wood-lands, roads, countless homes and businesses—not to men-tion Millersville University.

“We run about 1,000 calls a year out of four stations,” noted Hite. “Someone is always leaving family or work to answer a call. We are responsible for getting the job done.”

Ready to respondDespite the challenges, volunteers are completely dedicated

to both their training and responding to distress calls. This was unexpectedly revealed when the fire alarm suddenly went off and all four lept off the couch and bolted upstairs.

They were in gear, on a truck and out of the fire station in less than three minutes. Two vehicles had collided at South

Duke and Crossland Ave. Although the accident was minor, it was obvious the training these volunteers received pre-pared them for any emergency.

Alarms such as the one that evening are triggered when the regional dispatcher receives a 911 call from either the people involved in the emergency or a witness. The dispatcher then connects with the appropriate agency (fire, police, EMS) and contacts them using a tone frequency system.

“The tone sets off our pagers and the station’s sirens simul-taneously,” explained Bezek. “Our station is set that when the tones go off, the lights automatically go on as well.”

Missing from the call that evening was the lone female responder, Katia Pfister. The Millersville senior has been vol-unteering since she was in high school outside Philadelphia, so it seemed logical for her to volunteer with her college town’s firehouse.

“As a child, I watched the TV show ‘Emergency,’” said Pfister, who said she also lived a half mile from her local fire station. “I always watched the fire trucks go by.”

On October 31, a natural gas explosion severely damaged a building on Manor Avenue in Millersville, which housed The Framery and apartments. The explosion was the result of a gas leak that occurred when a construction crew struck

a main gas line. The members of the Blue Rock Fire Rescue (BRFR) quickly responded to one of the largest natural gas leaks ever experienced by UGI. Upon realizing how large the leak was, crews immediately raced in to all the adjoining properties and began to evacuate residents and business owners. Commissioner Hagelgans commented, “The members of BRFR evacuated more than 30 properties prior to the explosion and subsequent collapse of The Framery property, saving lives through their quick and unselfish efforts.”

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Depite being in the minority at the station, Pfister said she absolutely loves serving and “wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

“There is a great support system, and I learn something new every day,” Pfis-ter remarked. “It also helps me prove to myself how strong I can be.”

“I was planning to join the Coast Guard, but I fell in love with Millers-ville,” said Pfister, who is now hoping to work locally with disaster relief and help victims of catastrophic events. “I would like to work with FEMA or the Red Cross.”

A bond like no otherMost emergency responders do

not like to talk about their rescues. However, what they do like to focus on is the outcome, particularly when it is positive.

“I have completed a number of rescues where a person was trapped in a vehicle after an accident,” Bezek said. “It is very rewarding when you can remove the person from the wreckage quickly and without causing further pain.”

Bezek, whose passion for volunteer-ing is evident, said the reward he gets from helping people is what makes the long hours worth it to him.

“Anytime we get called into a rescue situation, it means someone is having a really bad day,” he explained. “Often we can improve their situation very quickly. Other times the circumstances are beyond our control, which can be difficult.”

Jimmy Knapp ’95, ’02M, an adjunct professor at Thaddeus Stevens College, currently serves as deputy fire chief. He has been in some close calls—one was when a building he was inside

collapsed shortly after he evacuated it. However, Knapp agrees those situa-tions are rarely discussed.

“There is a lot of bonding and cama-raderie,” said Knapp. “We like to joke around, but when we go into a burning building and risk our lives, all differ-ences are put aside. It is a very unique bond.”

Knapp, whose father served for 20 years with Washington Boro’s fire company, said it is often tough for emergency responders to describe why they choose to volunteer.

“It’s like any other job. You know someone needs your help and you are compelled intrinsically to help them. We are just average folks doing what we need to do.”

Left and middle: Most of the training takes place in the evening to accommodate the volunteers’ busy schedules. Right: The pump panel for the 2011 Pierce Arrow, Engine 907.

Millersville Fire Company’s Firehouse and apparatus in 1961. Photo used with permission of Millersville Area Historical Society.

A Brief History of the Millersville Fire Company

A ccording to the Millersville Fire Company history, co-authored by Hite and James Eshleman, Millersville University (then Millersville Normal School) helped the fire company purchase its first “chemical engine,”

used to extinguish fires, in 1911.

1912—Millersville Normal School also helped fund the first fire suits (listed as “proper outfits” in the history) so there would be enough gear for everyone who served. The original coats were made of rubber and were “extremely hot in the sum-mer, very cold in the winter and always wet on the inside.”

1919—The school purchased the first wheeled fire extinguisher.

The Fire Company sponsored two fundraising concerts featuring famous pianist and entertainer Liberace. The concerts were held at what was then the Millersville State Teacher’s College.

In the days when the steam boiler heated campus buildings, the men tending to the boiler were responsi-ble for answering the fire company phone and blowing the siren to summon help.

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Up, up and, well, tethered.

Satellites do more than take pictures of space, transmit communication signals, and provide global position-ing coordinates; they also measure air quality. With the help of Millersville University meteorology students,

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research to improve the accuracy of satellite assessments of the air we breathe. What’s more, this research is changing the way these Millersville students view their future.

Since 1999, satellites have been measuring levels of particu-late matter and carbon monoxide but only started measuring other gases, such as ozone, since 2004, explains Dr. Kenneth

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students’ambitionsby Jennifer B. Ericson

When the alert that the government airplane carrying scientific equipment was in

flight, the Millersville team jumped into action to maneuver the

balloon from its huge, tarp garage and prepare the instruments to go aloft.

Pickering, senior physical scientist at the NASA Goddard Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Although satellites can mea-sure the total amount of a gas within a column of air, their measurements do not clearly indicate a gas concentration at the earth’s surface. “Satellites measure, for example, how much nitrogen dioxide is in a column of the atmosphere. But, what we want to know is how much is in the layer of air we breathe,” Pickering says.

To answer that question for many air pollutants, NASA has launched a four-year research project called DISCOVER-AQ, which stands for Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality. This project involves satellites, specially equipped planes flying down to 1,000 feet, and ground-based instruments all collecting air-quality data from different elevations within a specific column of atmosphere at the same time, explains Pickering, DIS-COVER-AQ’s project scientist.

Ground-based crews fill the gap, taking measurements at elevations too low for planes. Millersville was one of a

handful of universities providing a ground-based crew for this project, which began last July in the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., area referred to as the I-95 corridor and known for high levels of air pollution. Dr. Richard Clark, chair of Millersville University’s Department of Earth Sciences and professor of meteorology, along with eight of his students spent July living in a rented house in Maryland and conducting air-quality tests in the Edgewood area of the Aberdeen Proving Ground.

July was an ideal time to measure air pollution, Clark says, because the temperatures were in excess of 90 degrees and the heat index was over 100 degrees. These conditions cause photochemical reactions that “cook the pollutants,” he says. In other words, at high temperatures, sunlight reacts with certain gases to produce ozone.

Clark and his students used many instruments, several of which were sent aloft by a tethered balloon, to measure ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, sunlight, temperature, wind direction and speed, as well as fluctuations in water vapor, sensible

Millersville students conduct scientific research for NASA

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heat and more. “We were measuring all these things to paint a picture of the boundary layer [layer of air closest to the earth’s surface] during that period,” Clark says.

Clark believes his crew had more instruments than any other ground-based crew. “We had about $1 million worth of equipment on this project dedi-cated to measuring features of the bound-ary layer and air chemistry,” he says.

Millersville’s tethered balloon is made of polyurethane, and when fully inflated with helium, measures 15 feet in diam-eter and 10 feet tall. It can ascend to over 2,500 feet carrying 53 lbs of equip-ment on calm days, and the lift increases with wind speed to near 500 lbs when the winds are 30 knots. In fact, Picker-ing says Millersville was placed in the Edgewood area because of the balloon and what Clark can do with it.

According to Pickering, the Edgewood area “records the highest ozone pollu-tion each year” in the state of Maryland and has “very interesting meteorology—the development of a ‘bay breeze’ in the afternoon.” The tethered balloon enabled Clark’s students to obtain measure-ments within a column of air continu-ously as the balloon ascended through a breeze and descended after it had passed. Clark says the data illustrated how the breeze affected air quality.

Students rise to the occasion

The tethered balloon wasn’t the only thing that set Millersville’s crew apart from other ground crews—it was the only one staffed solely by undergradu-ates. Moreover, almost all of these stu-dents had never used the instruments before working on DISCOVER-AQ.

“I had to learn all of the instruments while working on the project,” says Scott Kacelowicz, a junior meteorology major.

The balloon carried a suite of meteo-rological sensors called a tethersonde, which measured wind speed, wind direc-tion, humidity, pressure and altitude. In a specially designed box, the balloon also carried two trace gas monitors and a molybdenum converter, or moly converter, that continuously collected air samples, analyzed them and recorded measurements. There was a monitor for ozone and another for nitric oxide. The moly converter was used to obtain indi-rect measurements of nitrogen dioxide.

Unlike the two monitors that directly measured their target trace gas, the moly converter would take in a sample of air and convert any nitrogen dioxide to nitric oxide before passing that sample through the nitric oxide monitor. With a little math, they could calculate a mea-surement for nitrogen dioxide.

Most days, Clark and his students worked from sunrise to sunset. Each balloon flight from ascent to descent would last about 1.5 hours.

“We would prepare the instruments for flight, start them, heat up the moly converter and make sure everything was strapped in the box,” says Rebecca Pauly.

When the balloon descended, all eight students and Clark had to work together to retrieve it safely. According to Phillip Falgoust, a senior majoring in meteorol-ogy with minors in mathematics and computer science, this was quite a feat, especially on days “when the wind was moving at 8 to 10 meters per second.”

Once the balloon landed, Pauly and Chris Prebish, who are both juniors majoring in meteorology, stayed busy turning off instruments, downloading data, changing batteries as needed and getting everything ready to go back up.

Weather permitting, they launched the balloon up to eight times per day. Balloon launches were scheduled to coordinate with times when NASA planes were also flying overhead, spiral-ing down to 1,000 feet and collecting air-quality data.

In addition to the instruments carried by the balloon, Clark’s crew also oper-ated instruments on the ground and on a tower. Falgoust operated the tower’s instruments. These included a sonic anemometer to measure wind speed and direction, a net radiometer to measure short-wave radiation, gas analyzers to measure water and carbon dioxide, and

Top: At Maryland’s Aberdeen Proving Ground, Dr. Rich Clark offered his team of undergraduate meteorology students the experience of complex field research.Middle: Clark and senior Phil Falgoust carefully monitor the tether to guide the ascending balloon.Bottom: Erica Dolinar shows some of the high-tech gear, which recorded measurements for trace gases and the mixing of pollutants. Next page: Millersville’s tethered aerostat (balloon) carried up to 500 pounds of sensitive equipment to measure air quality at an altitude of 2,500 feet.

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sensors to measure heat and humidity. Falgoust was most impressed to see

how the data these instruments col-lected illustrated the atmospheric conditions he was experiencing. “When the bay breeze came through,” he says, “I could see the spikes in the data.”

Several of the ground-based instru-ments needed to be in a climate- controlled environment.

To keep these instruments cool, “We built a shed out of particle board and two-by-fours and put in an air condi-tioner,” says Gina Mazzuca, a junior meteorology major. She operated and calibrated the instruments in the shed, which included trace gas analyz-ers for ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide, and a nephelometer that indirectly measured particulate matter. The crew actually used several instruments to measure particulate matter.

One such instrument, the micro-pulse lidar, ran continuously day and night. Erica Dolinar, a senior meteorol-ogy major, operated this instrument, which she says “emits a laser beam straight up into the sky.” The beam generated backscatter when it hit particulate matter. From the amount of backscatter, Clark explains, they could determine concentrations of particu-late matter.

In addition to micropulse lidar, Mill-ersville’s crew also used two DustTrak

aerosol moni-tors, one on the ground and one hanging from the balloon. Aerosol is just another name for particles in the atmosphere,

Clark says. These aerosol monitors

measure the size of particles in an air

sample. Size definitely mat-

ters, because particles measuring 2.5 microns

and smaller, known as PM 2.5, can pass by mucous mem-

branes and through human nose hairs. “PM 2.5 are particularly delete-

rious because they make it into your lungs,” Clark says. Once in the lungs, “these particles can cause problems for people like me who have asthma,” says Lindsay Blank, a junior majoring in meteorology and computer science.

In addition to operating these monitors, Blank also wrote a computer program that could synchronize data collected from all of the crew’s instru-ments, making sure that times for each measurement correlated. For her, writing this computer program was the most challenging aspect of the project. She wrote it from scratch in Fortran, a computer language she had only just learned the previous fall. “This was my first real computer application project,” she says.

Experience influences students’ plans

Ultimately, this experience illus-trated for Blank that “there are some things you can’t be taught in the class-room; you just have to go out and expe-rience them for yourself.” Like Blank, Prebish enjoyed “being able to apply [classroom] knowledge to real-world experience.” “Now, I know what being a researcher would be like,” he says.

Pauly agrees, “Having it right in front of you is worth a million text-books...so much better than just read-ing about it.” The DISCOVER-AQ expe-rience made her realize how much she

loves working with instruments. Before this project, she was set on joining the Air Force but now plans to attend graduate school and hopes someday to work for a company developing or test-ing meteorological instruments.

She is not the only student whose plans have been changed by the project. Mazzuca now wants to pursue graduate studies in meteorological instrumenta-tion. Likewise, Dolinar, who operated the micropulse lidar, hopes to work with lidar technology in graduate school.

During their month in the field, the students encountered several thunder-storms. Mike Charnick, a senior meteo-rology major, is interested in studying them and is “looking at graduate school more now than I had.” Prebish now also plans to pursue graduate studies in meteorology.

Millersville does not have a gradu-ate program in meteorology. Conse-quently, Charnick says, “the profes-sors bring undergraduates into their research projects.” He says this gives Millersville’s meteorology students an advantage over students at other schools. Falgoust agrees, saying “[this undergraduate research experience] is definitely a stepping stone to get into a graduate school research position.”

Future of DISCOVER-AQOver the next three years, NASA

plans to conduct DISCOVER-AQ research in Houston, Sacramento and another site to be determined. Like the I-95 corridor, all these sites experience high levels of air pollution.

Pickering says that once completed, the data from DISCOVER-AQ will be used to improve not only the inter-pretation of satellite data, but also the accuracy of computer models that forecast air quality. “These forecast-ing models are used in the regulatory end of emissions,” he says. It helps lawmakers to decide how much air pol-lution emissions need to be reduced to improve air quality and meet Environ-mental Protection Agency standards.

According to Pickering, NASA has not yet decided which ground crews will work in Houston.

Clark has already applied and hopes his Millersville crew will be one of them.

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October 27- 30, 2011

HomecomingHomecomi4 The Millersville University Marching Unit was in full force during the parade.5 Faculty member Len Litowitz drove his 1923 International Harvester Fire Truck. 6 Members of the Blue Rock Fire Rescue Support Group carry a U.S. flag star balloon. 7 Zembo Shrine mini-car unit.

8 Uncle Sam (faculty member Ralph Anttonen) and Rosie the Riveter (Judy Anttonen ’76), aka Doc & Mama Rock. 9 A member of Millersville’s equestrian team. 10 U.S. Marines fold the commemorative honor flag.11-12 Kids are excited for the annual parade, especially the candy distribution. 13 Millersville University cheerleaders don special uniforms for the weather.

14 MU’s Black Student Union was well represented, with more than 40 students. 15 The parade’s Millersville 250th anniversary inflatable cake was laden with snow, turning the candles downward.

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weekend, which included the 15th annual Millersville Community Parade.

PARADE PHOTOS:1 U.S. Marines display a commemorative Honor and Remembrance flag dedicated to Marine Cpl. Eric Torbert Jr., Penn Manor alumnus, who was killed in Afghanistan in December 2010. 2 Parade Grand Marshals, Phil ’67, ’87 and Mary Ann Gerber ’67, ’70M, arrive via Victorian carriage.3 1926 Ford Model T Touring Car, owned by MU’s Al Unrath, was the honor car as a tribute to Cpl. Torbert.

FUN FOR ALL21 Members of The Insanity

Factor, entertainers at Fall Fling.22 Jeffrey Albo ’98, Ryan

Kidwell ’98, Chris Maag ’98 and Mark Druckenmiller

’98 participated in Friday’s golf outing.

23 Magician Erikk Hershey entertained.

24 Wreath making with the student PSEA organization.25 Caricaturist at Fall Fling.

AUTHOR, AUTHOR!20 A new event featured MU faculty, staff, alumni and retirees who have authored books. Darla Bair ’74 holds her book The Gingerbread Manor.

FOOTBALL GAME16 -17 Football in the snow…fans bundled up for the afternoon game. 18 Cheerleaders lead a special cheer at the game. The snow didn’t dampen their Marauder spirit.

26 MU Student Art Club27 Sky puppets welcomed alumni to events on campus. 28 The Mascot team, Skully and the Marauder, were on hand at the football game to greet alumni and friends at the Marauder’s Cove hospitality tent.

29 MU Alumni Association president Jerri Anne Johnson ’76, ’87M and her grand-daughter Zoe enjoy Homecoming.30 The Phillie Phanatic made a guest appearance at the Fall Fling.31 Dominick DiNunzio ’53 and his wife Helen attended a variety of Homecoming activities.32 A future MU alum rides a mechanical bull at one of the family-fun rides at the Fall Fling.

250th MILLERSVILLE POSTMARK19 Phil Gerber ’67, ’87, president of the Millersville Area Historical Society and member of the Millersville 250th Committee, proudly displays a special M250 pictorial postmark issued by the U.S. Postal Service on October 29.

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Arecent $1.2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been

a boost to student scholarships—one of the priorities of Millersville University’s capital campaign.

The NSF’s Noyce Scholars Program will help to fund 30 (24 undergraduate and 6 graduate) Millersville mathematics students over a period of five years.

Mathematics skills in the United States continue to fall. According to the National Center for Educa-tion Statistics’ 2009 data, high school mathematics in the U.S.

ranks in the lowest 25 percent among those countries that report mathematics standards. Millers-ville University has answered the call and is committed to making a positive change through the NSF’s Noyce Scholars Program, which allows students to be immersed in their math studies and offers special instruction geared toward teaching in struggling urban school districts.

“This program is unique,” said Dr. Janet White, a professor of mathematics at Millersville. “The approach is holistic because we

want people committed to making an impact, people with a passion for education.”

Starting in the fall semester of 2012, selected undergraduate students will be eligible to receive funding for two years of their bachelor’s degree including room and board, tuition and books. Graduate students will receive a tuition scholarship.

Following graduation, partici-pants in the program are required to teach in an urban school district for at least two years.

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Campus News

Ware Center namedOn September 12, 2011, the Univer-

sity’s facility located at 42 N. Prince Street in Lancaster City was named The Ware Center, in honor of Paul W. and Judy S. Ware.

At the dedication ceremony Dr. Francine G. McNairy, president of the

University, said, “This is a fitting tribute when you reflect upon Paul’s and Judy’s involvement and philanthropic commitments to Lancaster community organiza-tions and to higher education.” (For more about Paul and Judy Ware, see pages 38-39.)

In addition to naming the facility, Millersville’s Council of Trustees will recog-nize those significant donors whose gifts supported the construction of the build-ing by retaining the donor names associated with rooms and areas in the newly named Ware Center.

Charity “royalty” crownedService projects, charity work and

community and civic engagement are core values held by many students and universities. This is especially true at Millersville University. In October, as part of the University’s homecoming fes-tivities, Millersville named Richie Ryan Mauck, of Harrisburg, Pa., and Kaila Folk, of York, Pa., the 2011 Charity King and Queen.

The Charity King and Queen are student representatives nominated by their University organizations, which raise funds for a charity. The organization’s nominees who raise the most funds are named king and queen. This year, the six candidates for Charity King and Queen raised a total of $15,323 for their respec-tive charities.

Mauck, a senior technology education major, was named Charity King for raising $790 for the Teach for America charity on behalf of Phi Sigma Pi National Honor fraternity. Representing Alpha Xi Delta sorority, Charity Queen Folk, a senior psychology major, raised more than $8,500 for Autism Speaks.

The court included Charity Queen runner-up Madeline Reitz, representing the University Activities Board, who raised more than $2,800 for the Love 146 charity. Remaining members of the charity court contributed funds to benefit the Deborah Hospital Foundation, the Starkey Hearing Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

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“Green” SuccessContinuing on its “green” path, Millersville University is taking steps to maintain the success and progress already achieved. The University’s 2011 Go-Green Re-port marks the seventh year that Millersville has measured its car-bon footprint. Over the course of two years, the University reduced its emissions by 17 percent to the lowest it has been in six years.

In order to offset the electricity emissions, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education pur-chases renewable energy credits. The University is benefitting from these purchases and has seen a reduction of 12 percent in elec-tricity consumption since 2010.

Millersville is working with Sightlines, a program that helps colleges maintain their facilities’ investments and concentrates on implementing sustainability in higher education.

Thank you for your gifts to support

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News Bites

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FacultySpotlight

Embracing artistry and creating opportunity 

Dr. Micheál HoulahanProfessor of Music

“Music is a transformational process,” says Dr. Micheál Hou-lahan, who is chair of Millersville University’s Department of Music and professor of music.

Houlahan has played an integral role in establishing the depart-ment’s mission to train music stu-dents to be performers, educators and entrepreneurs with his music colleagues. It is not enough to be a talented musician, he explains. Graduates need to be prepared to embrace artistry and create new opportunities for themselves in the changing world.

“I believe that the arts—music, art, poetry—are interrelated,” says Houlahan, whose voice has a lilting quality, along with an Irish accent. “The arts are in the service of the imagination, and that is what a liberal arts education is all about.”

With boundless enthusiasm, Houlahan promotes the arts and gives students new perspectives on discovering their potential. Music students are being encouraged to go beyond training their minds to training their hearts to discover greater empathy and experience new reference points.

A talented musician and pianist, Houlahan attended St. Patrick’s College and Dublin Conservatory of Music. He was then awarded an Irish Arts Council Scholarship for graduate studies in Hungary, where he received his Kodály Diploma from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music/Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music.

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Scholarship for doctoral studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., that brought him to the United States. And he stayed.

Before coming to Millersville almost 20 years ago, he was a professorial lecturer at Georgetown University, where he taught music theory, and 20th-century and medieval music.

Working with Millersville col-league Dr. Philip Tacka, profes-sor of music, they co-authored Zoltán Kodály: A Guide to Research, which was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Houlahan and Tacka also collaborated on Kodály Today: A Cognitive Approach to Music Educa-tion and From Sound to Symbol, Fun-damentals of Music, published by the prestigious Oxford University Press. Their books are being translated into Chinese. In fact, Houlahan and Tacka will present their research at several Chinese universities in 2012.

“According to Kodály [music theory], a good musician has a well-trained ear, a well-trained hand, a well-trained heart and a well-trained intelligence,” says Houlahan. “And they have the ability to pay attention to details. Finding ways to connect left- and right-brain think-ing is critical for students’ success and an important aspect of develop-ing emotional intelligence.”

From his native Ireland to Italy,

Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Esto-nia, the Netherlands and England, Houlahan has lectured on music theory, Kodály studies and art education. Yet, it is in Lancaster County that he has focused much of his energy.

Millersville will hold the first Lan-caster International Piano Festival in summer 2012, and is inviting artists such as Hung-Kuan Chen, Nelita True and and Santiago Rodriguez for lectures and master classes that share their talents and transform students’ performance skills.

“The master class program is a fabulous opportunity for Millers-ville students to work with world-renowned artists,” says Houlahan.

On campus, the construction of the Visual and Performing Arts Center will upgrade and enhance Lyte Auditorium for educational activities, providing a concert hall, recital hall, theater, classrooms, music library, recording studio and faculty offices.

“The Ware Center is integral to the community, just as the com-munity is integral to the arts at Millersville,” says Houlahan. “What Millersville is doing for the arts and for music is exemplary.”

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Marjorie V. White Greenawalt ’98MAt Millersville 1996 to 2009 Assistant Professor of Librarianship Fondest Memories: Working with students and observing their joy in discovering information. Advising students and helping with problem solving. Serving as a long-term member on the Committee for Cultural Diversity.Highlights since retiring:Working on a book of childhood memoirs, church activity.

Dr. M. Khalil Hamid At Millersville 1968 to 2002 Professor of economics and chair of the department; dean of social sciences; acting director of inter-national affairsFondest Memories: Pushing the administration to start programs in business admin-istration, social work, urban stud-ies and computer science.Highlights since retiring:Consulting and travel.

Jean M. Herr At Millersville 1961 to 1993 Food Service Worker Fondest Memories: The students and their energy for life. Earlier years at Lyle at Christ-mas when students had waiter service and were in competition to decorate two tables each to earn rewards.Highlights since retiring:Traveling on bus trips; reading 16 books a month; auctions and antiquing; groups at church; AARP; union for retirees, etc. Spending as much time as possible with my two great-nieces and my one great-nephew.

Ronald. W. Kline At Millersville 1960 to 1990 Custodian Fondest Memories: Being in charge of the music de-partment facility, Lyle and show-ing movies.Highlights since retiring:Fishing and camping in Florida.

Evelyn L. Lyons At Millersville 1972 to 1993 Reference librarian, information specialist, automation coordinator Fondest Memories: Getting to know students and helping them with research; leading the installation of Ganser Library’s first automation systemHighlights since retiring:Traveling to Italy, France, Russia and Turkey; assisting Friends of Lancaster Public Library with fundraising efforts such as book sales and researching materials of value.

Beth Greenough At Millersville 1963 to 1989 Payroll supervisor, human resource manager Fondest Memories: Making so many friends with faculty and staff. I miss them all!Highlights since retiring:Travel escort for Silver Threads (traveled to Europe, Switzerland, Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.); bought a winter home in Naples, Fla.; planning Caribbean cruises for my church in the winter; looking forward to moving to a retirement community.

John Roscoe At Millersville 1976 to 2005Director of Food Service and Special Events; Director of Dining and Conference ServicesFondest Memories: Working with a fantastic team. We took the Food Service from only two standard student dining halls, to include a convenience store, snack bars, and coffee shops and developed student ID cards with flexible dollar accounts. The catering division was created, the Campus Grill restaurant opened, and the Bolger Conference Center was constructed. We also totally renovated both Gordinier and Lyle student dining operations twice, as well as renovated the Galley.Highlights since retiring: Continue to be actively involved in the antiques trade. Linda and I have been fortunate to travel both nationally and abroad.

Retirees What are they doing now?

FIELD HOCKEY

Back row: Deb Geno Atkins ’79, Paula Geno ’85, Dewey Atkins ’81, Dave Dickinson ’80, Jen Dickinson ’80, Sarah Dickinson, Shelly Behrens, Scott Youtz, John Cave, Nichole Cave, Kim Cave Front row: Brittany Anderson, Mary Atkins, Rachel Dickinson, Alicia Youtz, Glenda Youtz

The connections include sisters, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, coaches and even a former player being at a current player’s birth. With Millersville field hockey, it’s all about family.

“It says a lot about who we are as a program and how we are trying to build a family,” said head coach Shelly Behrens. “Having players come into our program who already have ties to Millersville really makes not just our program, but the University a special place.

“There is that sense of tradition at Millersville,” said Behrens, referring to the family ties. “I understood it and saw it even before I became the head coach here, and that was part of the reason why I wanted the job.” Behrens’ first experience with this tradition came long before her coaching career even started. Her high school team, the Lady Falcons at Lower Dauphin in Hummelstown, Pa., was coached by Linda Kreiser ’74, ’76M.

“Coach Kreiser is considered one of the most prolific female athletes to come through the Millersville pro-gram,” said Behrens. Kreiser still holds the Millersville field hockey career goals record with 51 and was inducted into the Millersville Athletic Hall of Fame in 1995.

“The sense of family that I experi-enced at Lower Dauphin and the play-ers that went on to play at Millersville, as well as the coaches that are alumni, is very special,” Behrens continued. “I started to see the familiar names, and then the names repeating as former teammates’ daughters come through the program and players’ sisters joined. To have past traditions and new tradi-tions building together as we take this program to a new level, striving for greatness, it gives me a great sense of pride.”

Kreiser also coached current Marauder Amy Hanshue at Lower Dau-phin, while coaching against current players Champayne Hess, Alicia Youtz and Lauren Sotzin.

As a friend of the family, Kreiser was present at freshman Mary Atkins’ birth 19 years ago. Atkins’ family ties run deep at Millersville, as her mother Deb (Geno) Atkins ’79, and Deb’s sisters (Mary’s aunts) Terry (Geno) Carr ’82, and Paula Geno ’85, all played lacrosse and field hockey during their time at Millersville. Her father, Dewey ’81, was a four-year wrestler at Millersville.

The field hockey program has had its fair share of sisters come through the program, including current members Sarah and Rachel Dickinson. Sopho-more Nicole Cave began her career last season as her sister Jessica ’11 finished out her four-year career.

“Having sisters come through our program is unique,” said Behrens. “You see the families traveling to games in all sorts of weather to support their daughters. I think that is great because they are not only there to support their own daughters, but the other players on the field.”

The Dickinson connection doesn’t end with Sarah and Rachel. Older sister Rebecca ’08 was a three-year soccer player. The three sisters from Millers-ville, Pa., may have been swayed in their school choice by their parents, as

both are Millersville graduates.Another sister tandem in connec-

tion to the field hockey program is the Anderson family. Junior Brittany Anderson is a third-year member of the team, and her older sister Elicia is one of Millersville’s most decorated current athletes on campus in cross country and track and field.

“It’s a great support with having your family so close to each other and on the same campus,” said Behrens. “[The Anderson sisters] are an example of how Millersville sports programs support one another, and that is another thing that makes this Univer-sity special.”

Freshman Alicia Youtz also has an interesting connection.

“On my dad’s side, Alicia’s father Scott and my dad are cousins,” Behrens explained. “From a personal level, it is great to have the Youtz family around our field hockey family. It is fun to have that because she comes from outstand-ing genes,” Behrens added with a laugh.

It is common that when a player joins a team sport, the team becomes much like a family. Millersville is rare, though. The team is not like a family; it is a family.

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Back row: Deb Geno Atkins ’79, Paula Geno ’85, Dewey Atkins ’81, Dave Dickinson ’80, Jen Dickinson ’80, Sarah Dickinson, Shelly Behrens, Scott Youtz, John Cave, Nichole Cave, Kim Cave Front row: Brittany Anderson, Mary Atkins, Rachel Dickinson, Alicia Youtz, Glenda Youtz

Soccer ChampionsIt took no time for Steve Wid-

dowson to turn the Millersville men’s soccer into a PSAC contender. And after five years, the Marauders can call themselves PSAC champions and national contenders. In the middle of October, the Marauders were 6-4-1 and had just endured a 1-4-1 stretch. Widdowson and its veterans rallied the team, however. Using a stout defense with redshirt freshman Brad Benzing in goal, the Marauders played its best soccer starting in November—when it mattered most. After finishing as the PSAC runner-up twice in four seasons, the Marauders defeated Bloomsburg 1-0 for the first conference title in school history. The win was the 60th for the senior class, making it the win-ningest class in school history.

But the PSAC Championship was only the start of a magical run. Millersville hosted the NCAA Atlantic Regional for the second time in four years and took full advantage of home field, winning 1-0 games against Mer-cyhurst and California. In the NCAA Quarterfinals, the Marauders and Rockhurst played to a 0-0 draw, send-ing the contest in penalty kicks. In the eighth round of kicks, Benzing made a save, giving Millersville a 7-6 edge and punching its ticket to the NCAA Semi-finals in Pensacola, Fla. It was the first trip to the NCAA Semifinals in school history. The Marauders’ season ended against eventual national champion Fort Lewis, but it remains a historic postseason run. The Marauders did not allow a goal in its first five postseason games. The Marauders finished the year ranked No. 4 in the NSCAA Top 25—its highest end-of-season ranking ever.

Wrestling reclassification

In order to provide a better student-athlete experience, Millersville an-nounced that it is reclassifying the wrestling program from Division I to Division II. Wrestling was the only sport of the 22 at Millersville that competed in Division I.

The NCAA Division I East Regional recently disbanded when several of the teams left the region. As a result, Millersville needed to find a league in which to compete. By reclassifying to Division II, Millersville becomes the

sixth institution sponsoring a Division II wrestling program in the PSAC, the critical sponsorship level needed to form a Division II-only league.

“When we heard about the changes in our league, we looked at our options and what would work best for our stu-dents and provide them with the best student-athlete experience,” said Dr. Aminta Hawkins Breaux, vice presi-dent of student affairs. “To provide a rich environment for our students and allow them to be more competitive, we determined that moving wrestling to Division II is the right decision.”

“This reclassification will align the wrestling program with our major objectives in athletics: athletic achieve-ment, the overall student-athlete experience and academic excellence,” explained Peg Kauffman, Millersville’s director of athletics.

The reclassification affects 29 wrestlers. Students currently receiving wrestling scholarships will continue to receive the money under the Division II program.

Wrestling will continue to compete at the Division I level for the 2011-12 school year.

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Senior Mike Perez, Corey Phelan ’11, senior Brooks Rothschild, redshirt freshman Kurt Seiders and Scott Stevens ’11.

Championship rings for baseball teamMillersville baseball’s 2011 season

resulted in a PSAC East title and a NCAA Atlantic Region Championship. At half-time of the Oct. 15 football game, the team received its championship rings

commemorating the banner season. The rings were created and built by Tradi-tions/Masters of Design, which designed the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies World Series championship rings. 

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2011Athletic Hall of FameInductees

Bill Bowers - track and field

Bill Bowers ’69 starred for the Marauders on the track and in cross country before becoming one of the most successful track coaches in Lancaster-Lebanon League history. Bowers won the 440-yard dash in 24 of 27 career dual meets. At the 1969 PSAC Track and Field Championships, Bowers was named Outstanding Track Performer of the Year after leading the Marauders to their first-ever PSAC track championship. Bowers joined the faculty at Hempfield High School and became the head coach of the boys’ cross country team and later established the girls’ program. Three times he was recognized as the Lancaster-Lebanon League’s coach of the year. Upon his retirement in 2004, he was awarded the Career Achievement Award by the Lancaster-Lebanon League Cross Country Coaches Association.

J. Rodney Bimson - trainer

J. Rodney Bimson was a pioneer in the field of athletic training at Millersville. Now, athletic training is synonymous with collegiate athletics, but when Bimson arrived on campus that wasn’t the case. The West Chester graduate started his career at Millersville in 1959, and from 1963 until his retirement in 1996, he served the athletic department as its head trainer. He was the first to recognize a need for athletic training for women’s athletics.

Five former student-athletes and an athletic trainer were inducted into the Millersville University Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, October 28, 2011, as part of Homecoming weekend.

The 17th annual class included: J. Rodney Bimson, trainer; William Bowers ’69, track and field; Kristy Garner ’06, women’s basketball; Coleen Sieg Mrakovich ’86, field hockey; John Petrus ’89, football; and Gema Robles ’03, women’s basketball.

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“Each inductee is an outstanding example of what Millersville athletics is all about,” said director of athletics Peg Kauffman. “The athletes achieved a high level of success in their years at Millersville and now serve the community as teachers and business owners and as military personnel. We are recogniz-ing student-athletes from three different decades and a span of more than 40 years. This reaffirms the strong athletic tradition of Millersville athletics.”

Coleen Sieg Mrakovich - field hockey

Coleen Sieg Mrakovich ’86 was the lynchpin, facilitator and leader of Millersville’s 1985 PSAC Championship and NCAA Division III runner-up field hockey team. According to her teammates, Millersville would have never reached the NCAA title game without her talents in the middle of the field. Mrakovich played the role of unsung hero to perfection. She led Millersville in assists in 1984. In 1985, she landed all-region first-team honors and NCAA Division III All-America honorable mention.

Kristy Garner - basketball

Kristy Garner ’06 holds the impressive distinction of being the only women’s player in school history with 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Garner was an All-PSAC East honoree twice. For all four seasons, she led the Marauders in rebounds and still holds the school’s career rebounding record with 1,005. In 2010, Garner was named to Millersville’s All-75th Season Team.

John Petrus - football

John Petrus ’89 was the rock of the PSAC’s best defense in the late 1980s. A three-time All-PSAC East First Team selection, he produced 445 tackles, which ranked him first in career tackles following his 1988 senior season. He led the Marauders in tackles three years in a row and led them to a 10-2 record and NCAA Division II semifinals appearance as a senior in 1988. Twice he was named All-America honorable mention, and most impressively, he was a candidate for the Harlon Hill Trophy, which is awarded to the best player in Division II each year—a rarity for a defensive player.

Gema Robles - basketball

A two-time All-PSAC East First Team pick and PSAC East Player of the Year, Gema Robles ’03 graduated as the PSAC women’s basketball career steals leader. She led Millersville in scoring and assists as a junior and senior. She led the PSAC in assists with 176 as a senior as well. Her 475 assists ranks second in Millersville history. While she starred on the hardwood, Robles served in the Millersville ROTC. In 2008 she was also the starting point guard for the All-Army National Team and the All-Armed Forces Team. She is now a Captain in the U.S. Army and a Black Hawk helicopter instructor pilot.

Alumni Interest

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Visiting Marauders around the country Upcoming Alumni Receptions in 2012

Millersville University will be visiting several cities throughout the spring to update alumni on the future of their alma mater.• Naples, Fla.: February 16• Venice, Fla.: February 17• The Villages, Fla.: February 18 • Philadelphia, Pa.: March 6• Charlotte, N.C.: March 21• Camden/Burlington Counties, New Jersey: March 31• Lancaster: April 19 • Harrisburg, Pa.: April 2012

2012 PASSHE Travel Plans Travel with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE)

Alumni and Friends Travel program. For additional details and reservations, contact Christie or Craig at Cruisin’ Inc./Main Line Vacations at 800-506-7447, or visit www.alumnivacations.com. Pricing shown is per person, based on double occupancy.

Legacy of the Incas—April 28-May 10: 13-day land trip with Globus. Included: Lima; fly over the Nazca Lines; cruise to the Ballestas Islands; visit the Sacred Valley, the Temple of Sacsayhuaman; Ollantaytambo, Pisac and Machu Picchu; Cusco; Lake Titicaca: Taquile and Uros Islands; Sillustani ruins. Price is $4,768 (includes airfare from Newark, N.J., tour transfers and 11 meals).

Baltic Treasures—July 2-12: 10-day cruise w/Oceania (onboard the new Marina ship). Ports of call include: Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Russia and Finland. Note: extremely limited inside and oceanview cabin availability. Prices start at $5,299, including air (from Philadelphia, but other cities are avail-able), cruise, one precruise hotel night in Copenhagen, taxes, transfers and tips.

Bonnie Scotland—August 1-9: An 8-day land trip with Globus. Included: Glasgow; Fort William; Isle of Skye; Iverness; Culloden; Elgin; Highlands; Pit-lochry; Dundee; St. Andrews; Edinburgh and New Lanark. Price is $1,727 (land package), plus air.

Rhine River Cruise—fall: Details to be determined.South Africa—November/December: Details to be determined.

Alumni Association Family Program Hershey Bears Hockey - March 3 at 7 p.m.

Price is $20.50.Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins - March 17

at 7 p.m. Price is $16 (includes game ticket, meal voucher for hot dog, popcorn, beverage).

Turkey Hill Experience - June 12. Adult price is $10; 62+ - $8; ages 5-7 - $7; 4 and under - free. Located in Columbia.

Jazz ’n Java - April 14 at 7:30 p.m. Gordinier Hall.

Homecoming 2012 - weekend of October 13.

Nominations soughtNominations are now being accepted by the alumni association for:

Board of DirectorsDistinguished Alumni Award Honorary Alumni Award (for non-alumni who have devoted service to the University)Outstanding Volunteer Service Awards

For descriptions of criteria and nomination forms, visit www.villealumni.com and then click on the awards/scholarship tab. You may also call the Alumni Office at 800-681-1855 for more information.

The deadline for all nominations is Friday, February 17, 2012.

For event information: Call Millersville University’s Alumni Services Office at 800-681-1855 or 717-872-3352, or emailmualumni@millersville.edu

To register for an event online:www.villealumni.comClick on Event Calendar; locate the event and click Register.

ALUMNI EVENT REGISTRATION

Wanted: Regional CoordinatorsWith more than 59,000 alumni worldwide, the alumni association has been

recruiting Regional Coordinators to act as hosts for events throughout the year. Responsibilities are minimal. Pick a date, pick a place, invite the alumni in your area, go have a good time, take pictures and send them to the alumni office. Our office will provide you with updated information about the University to share with your guests. Pretty easy, right?

We’ve already had some great alumni join us: Special thanks go out to Barbara Lashley ’70, New Jersey; Lorri Rishar Jandron ’88, Michigan and Illinois; Andrew Moyer ’08, Philadelphia; Erika Butts ’05, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

Interested in serving Millersville as a Regional Coordinator in your area? Please contact the alumni office at mualumni@millersville.edu and we’ll be in touch.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Above: The 1961 classmates and their guests gathered on Friday evening, October 28, in Gordinier Hall for a Mix & Mingle reception.

Class members from 1956 and 1961 (below) didn’t let snow stop them from attending their reunion dinners on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. This historic snowfall of nearly six inches was the first time since 1979 that Pennsylvania received measurable snow in October.

Front row (left to right): Linda (Hofmeister) Waller, Virginia (Goering) Hale - reunion co-chair, Linda (Irvin) Ranck, Janet Kreiner, Elaine (Warner) Erb, Barbara (Braught) Crawford, Julia (Frizzell) Baker, Arlene Brauning and Barbara (Bushong) Hazlett. Back row (l to r): Marijane (Smith) Scipioni, Barbara (Wilds) Lineaweaver, Joyce (Fenstermacher) Parrett, Joyce (Leftwich) Smigel, Millersville President Francine G. McNairy, John K. Stamboolian, Walter V. Price, James E. Harf and Linda (Smoker) Keffer.

Back row (left to right): Ruth Cunningham, Gil Lyons, Bill Hyman, Renée SchulerFront row (l to r): Paul Cunningham, Elaine Lyons, LaVerne Brown Hyman and Jere Schuler.

Above: James Harf, committee co-chair of the 1961 reunion, chats with guest John Baker.

Photo to right: Classmates Nancy (Klinefelter) King, Linda (Irvin) Ranck and Barbara

(Bushong) Hazlett reminisce while looking at the 1961 Touchstone yearbook.

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HomecomingReunions

Class of 1956

Class of 1961

Mix & Mingle 1961

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• 1940s• Lorna (Eshleman) King ’45, Millersville, celebrated 65 years of marriage to husband Dick in August. They are active in their church and community, includ-ing 22 years of service with the local Meals on Wheels charity.

• 1960s • Anthony DiPietro ’62, Jamesburg, N.J., received men-tor status to the New Jersey Administrators from the N.J. Department of Education. He served as a mentor to 35 school administrators seeking perma-nent certification as principals.

• Henry Roth Taylor ’62, Abington, pub-lished his sev-enth book, The Glenside Kid. The book is a poi-

gnant, humorous tale about growing up in the author’s beloved hometown, and there is a chapter devoted to Millersville State Teachers College. He is a

professor of business communi-cations at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia.• Thomas Finley ’64, Moorestown, N.J., a retired Philadelphia school teacher, received the highly esteemed Utrecht Award of Excellence at a juried watercolor exhibition of the Garden State Watercolor Society.• Richard Hall ’65, Bethel, Alaska, is a teacher at Bethel Regional High School and has been an educator for 43 years.• Carole (Bosch) Faulk ’66, Jamestown, N.Y., was appointed to the Jamestown Community College (JCC) board of trustees by city council. She served on JCC’s human services faculty from 1981 to 2003.• Robert A. Frick ’66, ’69M, Lancaster, retired as superin-tendent of Lampeter Strasburg School District, where he began his career in 1965. He is a mem-ber of Millersville University’s Council of Trustees and the University’s Foundation Board. • Thomas B. Cupples ’67,

Newark, Del., was appointed assistant vice president for institutional advancement at Wilmington University. His previ-ous positions at the university included chair of the criminal jus-tice department and dean of the division of behavioral sciences. Prior to his second career in higher education, he served for 25 years as a special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.• Diana M. (Mignogna) Amatucci ’68, Charlottesville, Va. completed 35 years as an elementary school teacher in June. She taught for five years in Bucks County, Pa., and Stony Point Elementary, Va., During her career, she was the recipient of two awards, Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Elementary Teacher and Community Service Award.• Elaine (Koch) Edelman ’69, ’76M, Charlotte, N.C., retired after 35 years of teaching German; the last 19 years were at Providence Day School in Charlotte.• James N. Fahringer ’69, York, retired in June 2010 after 41 years of teaching fourth grade in the Central York School District.• Cheryl (McLain) Youtz ’69, ’72M, Millersville, retired in June after 31 years of teaching

Spanish and Latin. She began her career with Conestoga Valley from 1969-1973 and returned to teaching in 1982 with Penn Manor School District. She remains active with the MU community as the alumni advisor to the Student Ambassadors of Millersville University.

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1950s Mini ReunionOn Saturday, September 17, 2011,

Millersville University alumni from the 1950s met at the home of Bob and Mary Lehr for their 12th annual picnic.Front row (left to right): Jean Aspril ’53, Ed Bearer ’58, Tom Heckard ’56, Curt Aspril ’54, Jack Ernst ’54 and Donna North ’57. Back row (l to r): Arthur Shoemaker ’57, Nelda Shoemaker ’57, Don Zook ’58, Shirley Stoner ’53, Ken Stoner ’53, Dominick DiNunzio ’53, Patty Eyster ’57, Shirley Heckard ’57, Cathy Love ’60, Perry Love ’58, Mary Lehr ’58, Bill Romans ’57 and Bob Lehr ’57. Not pictured: Joe Glass ’53.

Turtle book wins again By the time Dr. Carl H. Ernst ’60 was 8 years old, reptiles, turtles in

particular, were already paving his career path. What began as a fas-cination with turtles became a lifetime of research that has enabled Ernst quite literally to write the book on them.

In November, Ernst received—for the second time—the Wildlife Society’s Best Book Award for his 840-page reference book, Turtles of the United States and Canada, published in 2009 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Ernst co-authored the book with Dr. Jeffrey Lovich, one of Ernst’s former George Mason University graduate students.

Almost 40 years ago, Ernst won this same award for the first edition of Turtles of the United States and Canada, which he had co-authored with the late Dr. Roger W. Barbour. Winning the Best Book Award is quite an honor, but winning it twice “is quite rare,” says Dr. Michael Chamberlain, chair of the Wildlife Society’s publications committee.

The 2011 awards committee selected Ernst’s most recent turtle book as the Best Book because, “[it] was by far the most comprehen-sive evaluation and summary of existing knowledge on the topic,” Chamberlain says. In short, he calls Ernst and Lovich’s book “the go-to resource for professionals looking for information on turtles in North America.”

His love of reptiles was fostered by his father, who would take Ernst out looking for reptiles and let him bring turtles home. As a young boy, he says, “I had a backyard full of turtle friends.”

He also remembers his mother’s patience when he was a senior at Millersville and conducted a snake experiment in her kitchen. To see if a certain worm-eating snake could track a worm by scent, Ernst recalls, he dragged a worm all over the kitchen floor. Then, he released a northern brown snake to see if it would track the worm’s path. It did.

In addition to his parents, Ernst also credits the late Dr. Alex Henderson Jr., Millersville’s former director of science and allied health, for encouraging him to pursue a career in biology. “He was a very good biologist,” Ernst says. “He really pushed me to achieve.”

Throughout Ernst’s career, he’s followed his own advice: “Know your subject; read everything you can about the animal you want to

study.” That is advice he’s given to all his students, including 20 Ph.D. and 51 master’s degree students.

In 1972, he joined the faculty at George Mason University. During his 32 years there, he also worked as a researcher for the Smithsonian Institution. His research has taken him all over Europe and the United States. He’s studied countless species of reptiles, but his favorites are freshwater turtles, especially spotted and painted turtles, which reside in Pennsylvania.

Although retired from teaching, Ernst still conducts research for the Smithsonian. At age 73, “I’m the oldest ongoing researcher in the Natural History Building,” he says. Based on the number of neatly organized piles of paper on his home office floor, he estimates that he has eight more papers to write before truly retiring.

Ernst has written 11 books: four on turtles and seven on snakes. His latest book, Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico, which he co-authored with his wife, Dr. Evelyn Ernst, a retired parasitologist, will be published in the spring.

Ernst is also a member of the Millersville University Alumni Board of Directors. A Lancaster County native, Ernst and his wife moved to Leola in 2005 so they could be halfway between Virginia and New York, where their daughters and grandchildren live.

Ernst has a pet cat named Cindy but surprisingly no pet reptiles.

Dr. Carl Ernst ’60 and his wife, Dr. Evelyn Ernst.

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Parade grand marshalsThe grand marshals for the 2011

Millersville Community Parade were Millersville’s own J. Philip ’67, ’87 and Mary Ann Gerber ’67, ’70M.

Mary Ann Gerber, Esq., serves as the Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans’ Court for Lancaster County and is an at-torney. Her community service includes the Millersville 250th Anniversary Initiative (co-chair); Millersville Area Historical Society (charter member); Rotary International; YWCA Student Diversity Committee; Republican Com-mittee of Lancaster County; Lancaster

Public Library Board; and Lancaster County Records Improvement Commit-tee, to name a few. Additionally, she has served as the immediate past president of the Millersville Borough Council; treasurer of the Millersville University

Alumni Association and is a member of the Millersville Parade Committee.

Phil Gerber is currently a Millersville Borough Council representative (and past president); Millersville Community Parade Committee Logistics chairman; Millersville Area Historical Society president (and charter member); Mill-ersville 250th Executive Committee; the chairman of the Millersville Borough Historic Commission; life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; Millersville University Ganser Library Annual Book Sale volunteer and a Millersville Repub-lican committeeman. He is a U.S. Army veteran and served in the Vietnam War.

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• 1970s• Truman James Siple ’70, Langhorne, retired after 41 years of service from the Bensalem Township School District. • Stacey M. Fink , M.D. ’72, ’77M, Lititz, has been named to the board of directors of the Center for Research on Women and Newborn Health in Lancaster. He is a neonatologist at Lancaster General Health’s Women and Babies Hospital. • Dolores (Hufford) Hanna ’72, Camp Hill, retired in June after almost 29 years working for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s bureau of high-way safety and traffic engineering. • Donald T. Hudak ’73, Larksville, retired from the Wyoming Valley West School District, where he was an indus-trial arts/technology teacher for the past 34 years at the senior high school and the district department chairman for the last 15 years. He is now employed by the Borough of Edwardsville as a fire department engineer and

also volunteers as deputy direc-tor of emergency management for Forty Fort borough.• Marcia (Wenger) Kreider ’73, Ephrata, retired after 35 years as an educator. She was most recently employed at Cocalico School District as a first-grade teacher.• David A. Rackovan ’73, Doylestown, was named head football coach at Central Bucks South, where he also serves as athletic director.• Marian E. (Ressler) Yoder ’73, ’76M, Leola, received a Ph.D. from Indiana University of Pa. in administration and leader-ship studies. She is an associate professor at Harrisburg Area Community College.• Robert Jones ’74, Lees Summit, Miss., is a financial services instructor for ExamFX, a leading provider of insurance prelicensing courses. Previously, he was an agent with Farmers Insurance Group for 27 years.• James D. Kelly ’74, King of Prussia, retired in June after 35 years as a high school math

teacher and track coach for the Hatboro-Horsham School District.• Jill (Hagadorn) Kelly ’74, King of Prussia, retired in June after 35 years as an elementary school teacher for the Haverford Township School District.• Ruth Ann (Bissert) Woolsey ’74, Langhorne, retired in 2010 after teaching elementary and special education for 34 years in the Neshaminy School District.• Edward T. Love ’75, Glenside, received the 2011 Lindback Award for distinguished teach-ing at Philadelphia’s Lamberton High School, where he is dean of students and teaches African-American history.• Diana K. (Stout) Ludwig ’75, ’80M, Lancaster, retired in June after teaching 35 years in Manheim Township School District. She was an art teacher for 32 of those years.• Douglas A. Yingling ’75, Kempton, was appointed execu-tive director of the Center for Vision Loss in Allentown, a non-profit organization serving people who are blind or visually impaired.• Marcia (Miller) Dohner ’76, Myerstown, retired as an elemen-tary librarian with the Lebanon School District, where she was employed since 1979.• Debra A. (Bocian) Kerchner ’76, Reading, retired from teach-

ing in June. Her most recent position was with the Schuylkill Valley School District in Leesport, where she taught elementary vocal music.• Brian E. Worrell ’76, Lancaster, qualified as a financial profes-sional with Prudential as a 2011 member of its million dollar round table.• John J. Adiletto ’77, Collegeville, has served as princi-pal of Upper Merion Area Middle School for the past 16 years. He was named middle-level principal of the year by the Pennsylvania Association of Elementary and Secondary School Principals.• Kathleen (Griffith) McLain ’77M, Salisbury, Md., was ele-vated to president of the Rotary Club in Salisbury. She has served as general manager of WMDT-TV since 1996 and has served with the Rotary Club since 1997.

• 1980s• Mary Moyer ’81, Millville, N.J., was awarded 2010-2011 Delsea Regional High School teacher of the year. She was also a presenter at the International Reading Association Conference in May and published an article in Knowledge Quest.• Maureen C. Walls ’83, Trenton, N.J., graduated with honors in

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Two Appleton, Wisconsin, area Millersville alumnae, Marlene Angevine ’61 (left) and Barbara Bermel ’75, enjoyed lunch and swapping stories of the ’Ville during a summer outreach visit to the Midwest. As Millersville created a Midwest alumni email list-serv, the two realized that they lived in the same town.

Here’s to lifelong friendshipsThese alumni have been getting together and enjoying each other’s company since 1959. They live in three different states and met in May at Fenwick Island, Del. From (l to r): Leo Moore ’65, Joan (Koontz) Moore ’61, Debby (Large) Kauffman ’61, Larry Kauffman (Debby’s husband), Cary (McFeely) Clark ’61, SueCarol (Leiby) Paul ’60 and Lynn Paul ’59.

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May from Rutgers University with a master’s degree in public administration. She is a com-puter technician with the New Jersey Department of Labor.• Jean Marie DeVitto ’88, Asbury Park, N.J., was promoted to chief of addiction services and mental health licensing for New Jersey’s Dept. of Human Services.

• Lorri A. (Mikula) Jandron ’88, Lansing, Mich., was named 2011 PACE Maker of the Year for her

distinguished career in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America’s Central Michigan chapter. • Melvin Sensenig ’89, Reading, serves as pastor for the Christ Presbyterian Church in Reading.

• 1990s• Timothy Cunningham ’90, Orefield, was named The Express-Times newspaper’s track and field coach of the year for his accomplishments in lead-ing the team at Nazareth Area Middle School, where he also serves as an award-winning sci-ence teacher.• Rebecca A. Lyttle ’90, Lancaster, was elected to her second two-year term as vice president for the Lancaster League of Women Voters.• Stephen Rimby ’91, Mt. Penn, earned his building analyst certification from the Building Performance Institute. He has been an energy auditor for BCAP Inc. for more than 18 years.• Lori (Mitchell) Scifers ’91, Euharlee, Ga., was named assis-tant principal at Woodland High School in Cartersville, Ga.

• Cathy Busha ’93, Longmont, Colo., serves as a faculty member in the human services/social work department at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon.• Linda (Schmelder) Dwight ’93, ’00M, Leominster, Mass., is the principal of Hildreth Elementary School. She held similar positions at Pequea Valley and Penn Manor school districts in Pa.• Mara (Creswell) McGrann ’93, Lancaster, joined Power Packs Project as executive director. The nonprofit organization empow-ers families to better use their food dollars and assure their children are well-fed and ready to learn. • Lori E. Munroe ’93, Creedmoor, N.C., received her national board certification, an advanced teaching credential. She works as a media specialist in Wake County, Raleigh, N.C.• Arthur Williams ’93, Bowie, Md., was appointed principal of Forest Oak Middle School in Gaithersburg. He is a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Maryland.• Sherry (Sharpe) Kijowski ’94, Camden Wyoming, Del., the principal of McIlvaine Early Childhood Center, was recog-nized by Delaware’s Lt. Governor for her school’s parental involve-ment and outreach program.• Timothy White ’94, Lancaster, took a position with Key Dies, Inc., as a sales manager. • Tracey Witchko ’94, Memphis, Tenn., was named regional direc-tor of materials management for Horseshoe Casino in Ohio and for four other Caesars properties in the Midwest. • Kindra (Braucht) Brelsford ’95, Muncy, teaches biology and

human physiology at Loyalsock High School.• Jennifer L. Foust ’95, Abington, graduated with a doctoral degree in human sexu-ality education from Widener University in December 2010.• Laurie Miller ’95, Palmyra, completed the Harrisburg Area WOC nursing education program and now practices as a certified wound ostomy continence nurse with the Good Samaritan Health System in Lebanon. She received the Excellence in Clinical Practice Award for RNs in 2009.• Rosanne (Landis) Gehman ’96, Fayetteville, Ga., moved to Georgia with Africa Inland Mission, a nonprofit agency. She also operates a family business, specializing in wedding and por-trait photography.• Patrick Cronin ’97, Springfield, was named director of player recruitment for Shinny USA, Inc., an adult hockey pro-gram.

• Denise (Macaitis) McKnight ’97, Conshohocken, was promoted to principal at the Center City

accounting firm Shechtman Marks Devor PC (SMD). • Sabrina (Sabastianelli) Milles ’97, Harleysville, has been a teacher at Knapp Elementary school for the past 14 years.• Caroline Campbell ’98, Aldan, serves on the Maternity Care Coalition board in Philadelphia. She is the manager of the women’s wellness department at Congreso De Latinos Unidos and teaches social work practice courses at Temple University’s School of Social Administration.

• R. Matthew Kruvczuk ’98, King of Prussia, received his mas-ter’s degree in business adminis-tration from LaSalle University.• Marlene Lang ’98, Lancaster/Miami, earned a master’s degree in holistic spirituality in May from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. She is now in a doctoral program for practi-cal theology at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Fla.• Brian Malek ’98, Lancaster, was named assistant principal at Central Manor Elementary School in Penn Manor School District.• Patricia Neideigh-Young ’98, Gilbert, Ariz., serves as pro-gram director at the Epilepsy Foundation of Arizona in Phoenix.

• Latinia (McKinney) Shell ’98, ’00M, Lancaster, earned her doc-torate in educa-tion with a major

in counseling psychology from Argosy University in Sarasota in August. A recipient of the John Frederick Steinman Foundation fellowship in 2010, she has joined Messiah College as an assistant professor of counseling. • Sean Lichty ’99, Lancaster, was named senior director of corporate risk management for Domino Sugar.• Michael Trump ’99, Rexmont, serves as vice president of the Cornwall Iron Furnace board of directors. He also serves as treasurer and historian of the Historic Preservation Trust of Lebanon County and on the education and library commit-tees of the Lebanon County Historical Society.

• 2000s• Timothy Marcoe ’01, Bloomsburg, serves as priest of Bloomsburg University’s Catholic campus ministry.

• Megan (Baumgartner) Mercier ’01, Wilton, N.Y., received a master’s degree

in liberal studies with a concentration in organization and volunteer management in August. • Brian Connolly ’02, York, recently published his book, First Dance: Venturing Deeper into a Relationship with God.• Kristy (Fairchok) D’Angelo ’02, Cheverly, Md., graduated from the University of Maryland in May with a master’s degree in

education with a concentration in severe disabilities.• Lisa (Kniley) Fleming ’02, Harrisburg, was promoted to senior analyst with the Pennsylvania House Committee on Appropriations.• Gregg Heimer ’02, Pottstown, completed the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon, sporting a ’Ville logo on his bike during the entire race.

• Heather J. Moyer ’02, Lancaster, joined Gibbel Kraybill & Hess as an asso-ciate attorney.

• Steve Pankey ’02, Foley, Alaska, serves as associate rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Foley.

“Being on an international singing tour is not an easy life—but for some strange reason I adapted to it quite easily.” So says Jasmine Morrow ’08, who returned from touring with Lady Gaga as a backup singer with Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour —a two-year worldwide extravaganza.

“It’s not easy being away from family,” said Morrow, “but other than that it’s great—great hotels, great parties. But, at the end of the day, I’d rather be with my family.”

On the Monster Ball Tour, Morrow went by the name “Jazz” and also uses the stage name “GoGo Morrow.” She hails from Philadelphia, and along with three of her sisters was in the band BellaVi. She is classically trained and her

vocal experience includes various musical styles, including gospel, rhythm and blues (R&B), rock, classical and jazz. BellaVi has opened up for many artists such as Lil Wayne, Dem Franchise Boys and Bobby Brown.

“I’ve been singing since before I could talk,” said Morrow. “My father is a singer. He had a singing group with his brothers called the Golden Chandeliers. They were an R&B old-school group that performed in the tri-state area around Philadelphia in the ’70s and ’80s. He really encouraged my sisters and me to form a singing group, which we did when I was 16.”

“My time at Millersville was some of the best times of my life. I started as a soci-ology major. About halfway into my first semester, I asked myself, what are you doing? I decided I wanted to be a music business major.”

Morrow keeps in contact with many friends and former classmates from Millersville. “Christy and Rusty Banks are two of my favorite professors, and I stay in touch with them. They were both super encouraging. Dr. (Christy) Banks came to see me in New York.”

“She was certainly a student that we are proud of,” said Christy Banks. “I had her in class and was her internship advisor. She definitely ‘seized the opportunity’ during her internship experience in New York City working for Def Jam/Atlantic Records. The day I observed her on site, she had been networking with L.L. Cool J.”

In addition to her younger sister, Morgan ’11, who is a communication/theatre major, Morrow’s older sister, L‘Tanya ’02, is a master teacher today.

The arena part of the Monster Ball Tour is the first time Lady Gaga featured background vocalists in her live concerts. Morrow’s co-vocalists included Chevonne Ianuzzi, a self-described funk-nasty Jersey girl with the mile-high pink ’fro, and Posh! The Prince, a singer from New York City who has been described as a wild, devilish fox who shouts from the stage, screeching and rapping.

GoGo MorrowBack from touring with Lady Gaga

“I felt right at home with everyone,” said Morrow. “I’m one of those creative, crazy people. When we’re with normal people, we can’t express ourselves the way we could on the Monster Ball Tour. We had the liberty and freedom to be who we wanted to be. The people were just so creative.”

Paul McCartney was Morrow’s favorite “superstar” that she’s met. “I met him in New York at a show. He’s really, really nice. He’s a legend and it was exciting to meet him in the flesh.”

When she’s not singing, you may find Morrow at a photo shoot. “It’s something I do for fun and on the side. I like having a hairstylist, someone to do my makeup—any girl would. When I was at Millersville, I put on fashion shows. One year as part of homecoming, my younger sis-ter and I put on a fashion show at midnight. We had other schools participate. It was a lot of fun.”

When asked about her heroes, Morrow named two women in her life who she would consider her heroes: her mother and the vice president at A&R, Leesa Brunson, when she was an intern there. “My mother is a very determined person and is very encouraging. I’ve always been hardworking, and I get my work ethic from her. Leesa is one tough cookie. She definitely made me have a tough skin. I learned a lot from her and keep in close touch with her. We usually talk once or twice a month.”

As for the future, Morrow says she’d like to take up guitar, and her dream job is to have her own tour one day. “I want to sing my own music. It would be an R&B group with a little pop influence. After that, I’d like to get into entertainment law.”

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• Kymmberli Stowe ’02, Philadelphia, won her class in the Pa. Golden Gloves tourna-ment and took the gold at the Title National Championships of boxing. In 2010, she won the women’s national Golden Gloves championship and was the ring-side international champion.• Jordan Lindeke ’03, Macon, Ga., was awarded the Purple Heart and Air Force Combat Action medals for wounds received in combat in Afghanistan. He has recovered and returned as the medical logistics flight commander in Warner Robins, Ga. He has been promoted to the rank of major.• Tina Marie (Maureka) Kline ’04, Williamsport, joined Pennsylvania College of Technology as an assistant pro-fessor of nursing.• Mandy S. (Rineer) Stull ’04, Ephrata, was awarded her doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in June.• Jamie Marie Bolton ’05M, Hershey, earned her doctor-ate degree in clinical psychol-ogy at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in July.• Sean Laverty ’05, Swarthmore, defended his Ph.D. in mathematics at the University

of Utah. He is serving a two-year appointment as a visiting assis-tant professor in the department of mathematics and statistics at Swarthmore College, teaching mathematical biology.• Adam Worrell ’05, Reading, was promoted to information technology services site director for St. Joseph Regional Health Network.• Scott Muenz ’06, York, was promoted to assistant march-ing band director at Millersville University. He serves on the Millersville University Alumni Association board of directors.• Karen (Hozza) Worrell ’06, Reading, received a master’s degree in education from Kutztown University and became a certified reading specialist.• Brigette Kamsler ’07, Gettysburg, joined Columbia University as an archivist for the Missionary Research Library Collection and the William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library Archives.• Heather (Ziemba) Pfaff ’07, Arnold, Md., teaches fourth grade with Anne Arundel County public schools. She recently earned her master’s degree from Gratz College.• Daniel Talarico ’07, Reading, is developing a weather-related

website, BioStream.org, which combines information about weather and the environment.• Andrew Moyer ’08, Shillington, serves as program coordinator for student involve-ment at Delaware Valley College.• Donald Heminitz ’09, Plymouth, Mass., works as a historical interpreter at Plimoth Plantation, where he educates visitors about the life and hard-ships of the Pilgrims through a first-person point of view.• Grace (Smith) Jones ’09, Boulder, Colo., is a social worker with the Adams County Human Services Department in Denver, Colorado.• Sonia Jones ’09, Brooklyn, N.Y., earned her master’s degree in dance education/American Ballet Theatre pedagogy from New York University in May. She is teaching dance in the greater New York area.• McArthur “Mack” Jones Jr. ’10, Boulder, Colo., is pursuing a Ph.D. in aerospace engineer-ing sciences at the University of Colorado.• Anna Salvaggio ’10, San Diego, Calif., graduated from the Navy’s officer candidate school as a surface warfare officer-METOC. She will begin her first deployment onboard the USS

Makin Island. She is responsible for the ship’s aircraft intermedi-ate maintenance department. As a part of her watchstanding duties, she will drive the 41,000-ton warship to its operating area fleets.• Sarah Signore ’11, Waynesboro, was named a Pa. State Athletic Conference (PSAC) all-star for her accomplishments on the softball field during her senior season at Millersville University. She was selected by a vote of the coaches to the 2011 All-PSAC East second team as a designated utility player.

Marriages • Kimberly L. Sheaffer ’93, ’01M and Ronald L. Good, 9/24/11. • Jeffrey Ratcliffe ’01 and Elise Truppay, 9/10/11. • Amy Hauptly ’04 and Jason Baily ’05, 7/17/11. • Chris Maiorino ’04 and Lauren Akers ’05, ’10M, 7/30/11. • Christa L. Fanelli ’06 and Joel E. Raudenbush ’08, 7/8/11. • Lynna C. Kristula ’07 and Harold E. “Ted” Salmon IV, 7/24/10. • Tracy McMullin ’07 and Mike Ramos, 5/20/11.

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Aly Kruper ’01 and Chris Morris were married on 4/2/11, in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Suzy Lauzus ’09 and David Steininger ’08 were married on 11/6/10. The wedding party included several Millersville graduates: Carissa Irwin ’06, Laura Whetstone ’11, Anna Mary Henry ’10, Jacob Whetstone ’07 and Lucas Southerton ’08.

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• Jaclyn “Jackie” Stull ’07 and Tom Wesley, 8/6/11. • Andrew Lamarra ’08 and Kristin Gainor ’09, 10/2/10. • Stephen Bleiler ’09 and Lauren Hood ’09, 6/11/11. • Blaine Blontz ’10 and Courtney Robbins ’10, 10/1/10. • Michelle Hissick ’11 and Adam Miller ’11, 5/21/11.

Births • Doug Bullard ’93 and wife Bethany (Fromm) ’97, a son, Davis James, on 1/11/11.• Cindy (Rogowitz) DelGiorno ’94 and husband Gordon, a daughter, Liorah Jane, on 3/28/11.• Daniel Hollinger ’96 and wife Kelly (McGee) ’97, a daughter, Lydia Susan, on 7/11/11.• Melissa (Braun) Rubinich ’97 and husband Zachary, a son, Noah Edward, on 2/22/11.• Nicole (Grube) Wayde ’97 and husband Michael ’97, a son, Chase, on 1/6/11.

• Meri (Witter) Haunstein ’98 and Robert Holt, a son, Robert Jack (RJ), on 4/5/11.• Wade Leedy ’98 and wife Jodi, a son, Brett Samuel, on 1/20/11.• Brian Sobkowiak ’98 and wife Shannon (Burns) ’99, a daugh-ter, Sophia Rose, on 6/29/10.• Lea (Janowicz) Millhouse ’99 and husband Andrew, a son, Alexander Andrew, on 3/15/11.• Victoria (Hayes) Nichols ’99 and husband David ’99, a daughter, Maeve Audrey, on 7/15/11.• Jeannine (Pizzollo) Bowen ’00 and husband John ’00, a daugh-ter, Kaitlyn Rose, on 6/4/11.• Timothy Howell ’00 and wife Rebekah (Kling) ’01, a son, Peter Timothy, on 6/7/11.• Jennifer (Knuth) Bonin ’01 and husband Jordin, a son, Matthew James, on 9/16/11.• Jeffrey Burton ’02 and wife Amanda, a son, Jacob Reid, on 8/12/11.• Kristy (Fairchok) D’Angelo ’02 and husband Nick, a son, Alexander Nicholas Tiberius, on 8/21/11.

• Meghan (McCann) Leube ’02 and husband Christopher, a son, Austin Christopher, on 5/11/11.• Tim Bradley ’04 and wife Julie (Esek) ’05, a son, Jay Thaddeus, on 5/7/11.• Abby (Stampone) Karasek ’04 and husband Eric, a daughter, Chloe Elizabeth, on 8/13/11.• Hannah (Spreadbury) Williams ’05 and husband

Andrew ’05, a son, Luke Andrew, on 3/20/11. • Lori Schultz ’06 and wife Amber Brown-Schultz ’07, twin sons, Levi Joseph and Timothy William, on 6/22/11.• Tracy (Palmore) Scipioni ’06, a son, Ryan Steven, on 2/17/11.• Erin (Shannon) Crump ’08 and husband Richard, a son, Matthew Ryan, on 8/15/11.

Heather Ziemba ’07 married Christopher Pfaff on 10/16/10. Kelly Longenberger ’07 (far left) was a bridesmaid.

Grace Smith ’09 and McArthur (Mack) Jones Jr. ’10 were married on 5/21/11. The bride and groom are pictured here surrounded by their wedding party, which included best man Sean McLaughlin ’09 (standing to the left of the groom) and Beth Blau-Jones ’09 (bridesmaid at the far left).Other alumni attending the wedding were Ryan Kiley ’09, Stephanie Altschuler ’10, Terri Johnson ’09, Jenna Gillogly Enterline ’09, Nicole Kalaras Fisher ’09, Elizabeth Kulp VanPelt ’09, Alex Davies ’10, Chelsea Keckler Davies ’09, Nick Bargmenn ’10, Justin Gilcrest ’10, Steve Maitz ’09, Matt Procopio ’09, Todd Grimm ’11, Bryan Stovall ’10, Jennifer Jones ’07, and current students Jeff Berdel, Allison Synder and Keith Ogden Jr.

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Deaths • Beryl M. Keller ’27, Lititz, died on 7/17/11, at the age of 103. She was very active in her church, serving as teacher and superintendent of the junior department of the Sunday school, junior choir director, president of the missionary soci-ety council and circle member at St. John’s Lutheran Church.

• Lelia M. (Jackson) Stauffer ’29, Willow Street, died on 11/13/11, at the age of 101.

After graduating from Millersville, she taught in a rural elementary school in Bethel Twp. from 1930 to 1943, then at Aldan Elementary from 1943 to 1958. She taught at Rohrerstown Elementary School in Lancaster from 1958-1972. She was a long-time volunteer to the alumni association’s board of directors and was a member of the Millersville University Campus Club, Millersville Book Club, Millersville General Hospital Auxiliary, and Lancaster County and Pennsylvania State Retired Teachers Associations. Her husband of 63 years, the late Dr. George F. Stauffer ’32, was a professor emeritus of earth and space science and taught at Millersville from 1957-1972. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Dr. George F. Stauffer Physical Science Scholarship, P.O. Box 1062, Millersville, PA 17551.• Gertrude (Steudler) Landis ’31, Lancaster, died on 4/21/11, at the age of 100. She was an

assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Northern Illinois at DeKalb and Slippery Rock University, where she introduced the national Spanish honor soci-ety Delta Sigma Pi. • Helen (Martin) Reeser ’34, Narvon, died on 8/28/11, at the age of 97. She was a school teacher in Salisbury and Caernarvon Township schools for more than 30 years.• Dorothy (Eshleman) Gilfillan ’35, Tewksbury, Mass., died on 8/1/07, at the age of 94. • Thelma Rowland ’36, New Oxford, died on 5/18/11, at the age of 98. She was a teacher and school librarian for 34 years in the Greencastle-Antrim School District.• Laban W. Heisey ’42, Lancaster, died on 6/15/11, at the age of 93. He made his liv-ing as a farmer and was also employed at Sears Roebuck. He served as president of Millersville’s alumni association from 1967-68.• E. Jane (Dietrich) Neal ’42, Ephrata, died on 4/30/11, at the age of 90. She served in the U.S. Naval Reserve under the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) divi-sion as a communication watch officer/cryptologist. Following the war, she was employed by RCA in Lancaster as a quality

control inspector until her retire-ment in 1980.• Robert S. “Bob” Eshelman ’43, Manheim, died on 9/15/11, at the age of 90. He retired in 1983 from the Manheim Central School District. The H.C. Burgard Elementary School’s library is named in his honor.• Dalton R. Landis ’43, York, died on 12/8/10, at the age of 89. He retired from AMP, Inc., as man-ager of sales training and publica-tions after 22 years. Prior to that, he taught in the public schools of York County for 23 years.• Jeannette Lytle (Potter) Yost ’43, Modesto, Calif., died on 4/16/11, at the age of 90. She taught second grade and served as a helpmate to her husband, who was an ordained minister. Together, they served churches in six states for 50 years.• Marjorie Rambo ’45, Lancaster, died on 9/12/11, at the age of 87. She began her career as a civilian librarian in the armed services and transitioned into the U.S. Air Force, where she worked at posts around the world for the next 27 years.• Earl K. Eshleman ’47, Mesa, Ariz., died on 11/26/10. He was employed as an industrial arts teacher at the Georgetown School.• Wade J. Brightbill ’49, Tiburon, Calif., died on 5/14/11,

at the age of 85. He retired as a vice president in sales at RCA Electronics.• Warren R. Miller ’49, York, died on 6/29/11, at the age of 89. He retired in 1983 from Central York High School, where he was an industrial arts teacher for 28 years.• David C. Morgan ’50, West Chester, died on 5/14/11, at the age of 80. His career as an edu-cator spanned 35 years in the West Chester area. He retired in 1985 as principal at Fern Hill.• Carl F. Bernhardt ’51, Lancaster, died on 7/19/11, at the age of 83. He was self-employed, operating Berhnardt & Assoc., Inc., in Lancaster for 30 years.• John W. Pinkowicz ’51, York, died on 3/5/10, at the age of 81. He taught in the Philadelphia area, then was employed with the York Suburban School District from 1959 until his retire-ment in 1986 after 35 years in elementary education, 27 years as a principal.• Charles R. Hillegass ’52, Humble, Texas, died on 12/17/10, at the age of 80. He retired from a position in sales with Texas Arai, Inc. • Gerald H. Kolb ’52, Babylon, N.Y., died on 9/16/11, at the age of 80. He was a 30-year member of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,

As part of our continual effort to raise public awareness of Millersville Univer-sity and its reputation, this spring we will be undertaking a follow-up study of alumni attitudes and perceptions of the University. We have engaged Cognitive Research Services to conduct a random sample survey of alumni that will give us an accurate assessment of how our alumni

feel about their alma mater. The results of the survey, which we will share with you as they become available, will provide us with important data about the effectiveness of our ongoing work to support the reputa-tion of Millersville. So if you are contacted by Cognitive Research Services, we hope you will take the time to complete the study. Remember, your opinion counts!

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Tobacco and Firearms division and served as director of security for CBS in New York City for 10 years.• Gloria J. (Haldeman) Peters ’52, Harrisburg, died on 1/29/10, at the age of 79. She taught kindergarten for 30 years at Chambers Hill Elementary School in the Central Dauphin School District.• Lois A. Parker ’53, Lancaster, died on 8/14/11, at the age of 80. Early in her career, she taught history in Lampeter and physical education at Lancaster’s Wickersham Elementary School until her retirement.• William T. Sheckler ’55, Macungie, died on 7/31/11, at the age of 77. He taught wood shop for 38 years at Emmaus High School, where he also coached the boys’ tennis team.• Huhan (Gunnion) Finefrock ’56, Lancaster, died on 6/8/11, at the age of 76. She taught special education at the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13, and while there, taught at many other schools, including Millersville University and learn-ing centers in the area. She also loved the performing arts and was active in helping to rescue Lancaster’s famed Fulton Theatre from oblivion.

• V. Jane (Stockton) Latshaw ’56, ’70M, Lititz, died on 6/12/11, at the age of 89. She taught social studies, geography, reading and earth science in Lancaster County during her career.• Betty Jean (Derrick) Shollenberger ’57, Lancaster, died on 9/17/11, at the age of 75. She was retired from Franklin & Marshall College’s develop-ment office.• Yvonne B. Ireland ’58, Erdenheim, died on 5/19/11, at the age of 74. She retired as the office manager for Lockman & Lubell Pediatric Associates in Fort Washington.• Ann (Richardson) Craig ’58, Southampton, N.J., died on 3/22/11, at the age of 75. She was a teacher in Hainesport for 26 years before retiring in 1996.• Robert Swartley ’60, Highspire, died on 6/5/11, at the age of 76. He was retired from a career in bartending.• Diana M. (Rampulla) Swope ’60, York, died on 8/18/11, at the age of 74. She retired from the York City School District with more than 35 years of teaching experience.• Mary Ann Petters ’63, Lancaster, died on 5/20/11, at the age of 81. She retired from a career in education from the

Lancaster Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13. • Robert “Bobby” DeLong ’65, ’72M, Harrisburg, died on 5/8/11, at the age of 72. He taught mathematics in the Carlisle School District for 30 years before his retirement in 1993.• Anthony D. “Buddy” Farole ’65, Albrightsville, died on 5/27/11, at the age of 67. He most recently worked as an associate with the Paragon Real Estate Group in Allentown. He was previously employed as a banker and a teacher.• Judith J. Jackson ’66, ’73M, Willow Street, died on 4/22/11, at the age of 66. She was a teacher in the Lampeter-Strasburg School District at the Hans Herr Elementary School, retiring after 37 years. In 1997, she was named teacher of the year.• Mary Ann (Garrett) Summers ’66, Wilmington, Del., died on 6/1/11, at the age of 67. She taught in the Brandywine School District for 11 years.• James J. Phillips ’66, Ringwood, N.J., died on 5/11/11, at the age of 68. He worked for Aetna Insurance Company as a bonds claim adjuster for more than 25 years, retiring in 1994.• Patricia L. Dodd ’68, ’73M, Lancaster, died on 7/7/11, at the

age of 64. She was retired from Octorara Area School District, where she taught third grade for 28 years.• Dorothy J. (Soltis) Kulha ’68, Hummelstown, died on 5/13/11, at the age of 64. She retired after 30 years as a teacher for Middletown School District.• Betty L. (Cramer) Doan ’69, ’84M, Pequea, died on 6/13/11, at the age of 63. During her career as an educator, she taught art and fifth grade and then served as an elementary school principal in Penn Manor schools.• Pearl (Hirneisen) Doremos ’70, Ephrata, died on 9/13/11, at the age of 94. She was a private duty and hospital nurse for more than 30 years, as well as a school nurse and elementary teacher in several local districts.• Jane (Zook) Jury ’70, West Grove, died on 8/7/11, at the age of 63. She was a librarian at the Elkton High School for 29 years before retiring in 2010.• Carolyn Mae Wirth ’70, ’73M, Carlisle, died on 9/12/11, at the age of 63. She taught in the School District of Lancaster for 33 years. She also served as an officer and past president of the Lancaster Education Association.• Ross H. Coulson ’71M, Lancaster, died on 8/6/11, at

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the age of 92. During his career of 35 years in public education, he served as an elementary classroom teacher, principal and guidance counselor for the Ephrata Area School District.• Shelby (Sensenderfer) Hackman ’72, Lititz, died on 9/5/11, at the age of 72. She retired in 2001 as a school nurse and coordinator of all nursing services for the School District of Lancaster.• Margaret G. Derstine ’73, Lancaster, died on 6/21/11, at the age of 83. She served as an educator for 38 years, as a librar-ian and teacher at Locust Grove Mennonite School and taught Bible classes in Cuba.• Joanne C. (Reynolds) Kulman ’73, Marietta, died on 9/25/11, at the age of 71. She was employed as a school librarian for many years with the Northeastern

School District.• Ada N. “Nellie” Tucker ’73, Harrisburg, died on 4/15/11, at the age of 87. She taught in the Harrisburg School District for 18 years.• Ennis K. Manns ’74, Elkins Park, died on 7/1/11, at the age of 58. He served as principal of the Edwin H. Vare Middle School in South Philadelphia until his retirement in 2010.• Sara M. Lauffer ’75M, Barrington, R.I., died on 7/4/11, at the age of 84. Before retiring in her early 80s, she was direc-tor of Christian education at Hawthorne Gospel Church in New Jersey. She previously was dean of women at Barrington College and Lancaster College of Pennsylvania, as well as associate dean of students at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

• Bruce D. Metzger ’75, Valparaiso, Ind., died on 4/14/11, at the age of 57. He had been employed as a metallurgical engineer with Arcelor Mittal Steel for the past 23 years.• Linda D. (Oliver) Young ’77, Lancaster, died on 6/8/11, at the age of 54. She was a special edu-cation teacher with Hempfield School District. She also led the children’s choir at Christ United Methodist Church.• Elizabeth M. (Kearney) Hendrickson ’79, Hampstead, Md., died on 5/21/11, at the age of 53. She had a long career in the pharmaceutical field.• Brian S. Grumbling ’81, Lititz, died on 5/11/11, at the age of 54. He was a training specialist at QVC in Lancaster. He was a member of the Volkssporting Walking Club and had walked in all 50 states.

• Linda J. Haines ’82, West Chester, died on 9/3/11, at the age of 51. She was a corporate controller and accountant. A member of the national champ-sionship 1982 women’s lacrosse team, she was inducted into the Millersville University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.• David A. Richards ’93, Clementon, N.J., died on 1/30/11, at the age of 41.• Charles A. Klumpp ’96, Marietta, died on 7/20/11, at the age of 64. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during Vietnam and worked as an accountant.• Daniel J. Moyer ’05, York, died on 7/1/11, at the age of 29. He was a certified rehabilita-tion counselor with the York District Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and served on the board of the Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Foundation.

Remembrances• Hugo Fiora, Willow Street, died on 10/31/11, at the age of 95. He was an asso-ciate professor emeritus. From 1956 to his retirement in 1982, he taught courses in the industrial arts department (now known as the Department of Applied Engineering, Safety and Technology). A respected local artisan, he was well known for his pottery classes and the ceramics laboratory he devel-oped for the University. He served as a radar technician for the U.S. Army Air Corps in the South Pacific during World War II. • Victor J. “Vic” Ruth Jr., Lancaster, died on 10/11/11, at the age of 76. He was retired from Millersville University, where he worked as an electronic technician.• Ruth G. Shoemaker, Millersville, died on 11/3/11, at the age of 53. She worked in the accounting office at Millersville University for more than 19 years.

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Paul and Judy Ware walked in with big smiles for their interview at The Ware Center at 42 N. Prince Street in downtown Lancaster. They had reason to smile, as they were recently recognized for their contributions to the commu-nity by having Millersville University’s newest facility named after them, and they were sitting in Judy’s favorite room in the building, the Grand Salon.

“I love to see the city from this perspective,” said Judy Ware, looking through the expanse of windows onto Prince Street towards Lancaster’s Central Market. “There isn’t another view like it in the city.”

The Ware Center, which was originally built for the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, was acquired by the state on behalf of Millersville in July 2010. The naming ceremony took place on September 12, 2011.

“Since the naming of the building, we’ve had so many people come up and congratulate us,” said Paul. “People were excited for us and for themselves. They are so happy that the uncertainty with the building is over, that as Lancastrians, there is now something predictable here—a building for the community and for learning.

“We are interested in lifelong learning,” said Judy. “The night of the naming, when we moved from the hall to the atrium, we walked past the library and there were students having a lecture. That was so great—walking by an event that involved students and learning—it was very meaning-ful. We had good vibes the night of the naming, but we continue to get comments and emails from people.”

Paul Ware’s favorite room in The Ware Center is Stein-man Hall. “When we planned the building, the hall was the

most important room. But the Grand Salon is definitely my second favorite, and the atrium is my third favorite. Did you know the atrium was originally going to be an open patio? We got grant money to enclose it with the great dome.”

“This is architect Philip Johnson’s last performing hall before his death,” said Paul. “I got to meet him at his office in New York when he was 95—and still very sharp. He had this beautiful wooden carved desk with nothing on it. Younger people would bring in papers, he would look at them, make comments—and corrections—then they would take the papers away and he would have a clean desk again. We had this building designed so the lines of it would align with the Fulton Opera House. We wanted to keep the scale of build-ings on Prince Street correct—it couldn’t be too big or too small, or it would have stuck out like a sore thumb.”

The Wares first got involved with the building project at 42 N. Prince because of the late Caroline “Carrie” Steinman Nunan, for whom Steinman Hall is named. Her dream was to bring activity to downtown Lancaster. “We wanted to see this be an active center,” said Paul. “I was reared that giving is what you do—it’s important to give back. My parents were both involved in the community and were very active with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. My philosophy is, if you’re blessed with time, talent and treasure, you should share it. This was instilled in me at a very early age.”

Judy grew up in a family of volunteers. “The volunteer part was natural. I had more opportunities to give when I married Paul. That was new to me, but it is so worth it. We have children and grandchildren who live in Lancaster. We understand that a project like this elevates the quality of life

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for everyone, for our children, their children, for everyone.”

“We know other important donors are feeling good about this project,” said Paul. “The University made a good decision to recognize those donors, by keeping the names on rooms and areas, even though they were originally involved with a different institution. They are very pleased. It created a tre-mendous amount of goodwill. Every-one is thrilled the University was able to acquire this building.”

So where do they see The Ware Cen-ter in five years? “Harvey Owen [direc-tor of the Center] is already doing more than I had ever imagined,” said Judy. “We wanted to make sure the build-ing was used for educational purposes and for the community. Harvey has already ensured that and has taken it to another level.”

Both of the Wares credit their par-ents as role models. “There was a lot to watch and learn from at home,” said Paul. “My parents and my grandfather were self-made people. When you don’t have much and you work hard and achieve the American dream, it’s more than just keeping it, it’s sharing it.”

“I look up to my former in-laws, the Lyets,” said Judy. “I was the first female in my family to get a college degree. I met the Lyets when I was in college. They taught me about leadership, giving and philanthropy. The lobby at The Ware Center is named after the Lyets.”

“For me, giving to Millersville was not just about higher education,” said Paul. “I’m a firm believer that when people are educated, they will make better choices and society will be better for it. When you know some facts, you conduct your life differently, hopefully in a more tolerant way, it wraps around that, to be more embracing. This build-ing can embrace a lot. It’s not only for people who have a Millersville ID, but it also serves the community as well. There is a huge interaction between the University and the community.”

“Back in the ’70s, colleges and uni-versities would put their walls up. They realized that didn’t work, that they need to be part of the community. This [The Ware Center] is a great example of being part of the community, and it’s a way to support the arts in a difficult budget time.”

“Paul and I met through art,” said Judy. “We both have a love of the arts. It’s more than entertainment; it feeds the soul and just like a church or temple, the arts draw people together.”

The Wares also oversee the Ferree Foundation, which is named in honor of his ancestor, Marie Ferree, who fled France during the persecution of Protestants under Louis XIV. When England’s Queen Anne granted Marie citizenship, she came to America and settled in today’s Lancaster County in 1712. “It’s a legacy to my family, and we’re the third generation to have the foundation,” said Paul.

“The message I would give to alumni is that they don’t have to give just in Lancaster; they can help out wherever they live, in their hometowns,” said Paul. “Like the ad says, just do it.”

And with big smiles, the Wares left the interview—off to another meeting in their Smart Car.

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