Oswego - Spring 2001

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This issue of the Oswego AlumniMagazine features graduates whowork internationally and interna-tional alumni who chose to stay orreturn to this country to live and

work. As always a special and important featureare the personal updates, reports, and storiesby Oswego alumni. In these pages you will bedelighted to learn of former classmates whoseexperiences reach beyond the borders of theUnited States to every imaginable location inthe world. You will read about alumni who epitomize essential aspects of the institution’smission: To provide opportunities for our stu-dents to gain a global perspective and to bring

students from many nations and cultures around the globe tostudy and be nurtured within our campus community.

This issue also presents a special opportunity for me tohighlight Oswego’s traditions and growing innovations in thearea of international education. While many of our faculty, students and administrators are well aware of the numerous initiatives and programs, both abroad and here on campus, I am sure that many of you would be surprised at the range andbreadth of our activities. As an example, for decades Oswegostudents have studied abroad in programs such as those offeredin the United Kingdom and Ireland. We have also establishedstudy abroad programs for culture and language study in China,France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and in two locations in PuertoRico. Oswego and other university students are enjoying rapidlygrowing programs at our partner institutions in Australia. Did youknow that we presently have ties with seven Australian collegesand universities and that 17 Oswego students began work onthat continent and in New Zealand and Tasmania at the begin-ning of the fall 2000 semester? Additionally, five Australian

students are hard at work at Oswego, enjoying the dramaticchange in weather on our campus. In all, we presently have 35programs and send 350 to 400 students a year to other coun-tries. One third of those students are our own; one third attendother SUNY schools, and the remaining third are from collegesand universities throughout the United States. Annually, approxi-mately 100 international students study at Oswego.

Oswego faculty are visiting colleges in other nations, andstaff exchanges are available for professionals who replace theircounterparts in places like Pec, Hungary, and London, England.As consultants, visiting professors, and guest lecturers, our faculty often work for several months in places as far away asBenin, Africa, and as close to the States as Toronto, Canada.Last year we established a special Spring Break program in London for Oswego freshmen and sophomores. Twenty-threefaculty and staff traveled with and mentored 108 students.

Of course, we are determined to emphasize the educationalimportance of exploring the world as an exciting global village,both through firsthand experience and via content infused inacademic programs. Oswego’s General Education curriculumincludes a diversity component which requires at least onecourse in Global, International, and Geographical Awareness.We also offer a broad range of courses and unique residential-based programs, chief among them our hugely successful HartGlobal Living and Learning Center (formerly Hart Hall).

As we celebrate the diversity of our campus and studentbody, don't forget to join us this fall for Return to Oz II, the sec-ond alumni of color reunion. Over 200 alumni of color returnedto campus for our first reunion in 1996. I enjoyed meeting the participants and hearing about the special place Oswego played in their lives. So mark your calendars for Oct. 4 to 7 and join us in renewing old friendships and making new ones at your alma mater.

Oswego Alumni: Exploring the Global Village

Alumni OverseasOswego Alumni Think — and Act — Globally 2The World’s Their Classroom 8Mastering the ‘Fine Art’ of International Living 12Global Marketplace Lures Oswego Alumni 14

DepartmentsDevelopment News 14-16University News 17-22Club Network 23Class Notes 24-37G.O.L.D. Page 32Alumni Calendar 34Wedding Album 38-39

In this IssueIn this issue you will see how the influence of the “friendlylittle college on the lake” reaches around the globe. We hope you enjoy this glimpse of our global Oswego community.

Cover design by Julie Patterson ’90, M’00Cover photo by Kristin Mosher ’89

Oswego is published twice a year by The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc., King Alumni Hall, State Universityof New York at Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126. Printed May 2001

President Deborah F. Stanley

Oswego Alumni MagazineElizabeth Locke Oberst

Managing Editor

Linda Morley Loomis ’90 M’97Michele Reed

Editors

Colleen KieferGraphic Designer

Sharon FulmerProduction Specialist

Art Bartholomew ’77, Julie Harrison BlissertLyle Fulton, Linda Morley Loomis ’90, M ’97Patricia Rycraft O’Toole ’79, Adisa Pot ’01Michele Reed, Janna Viles, Anne Westcott

Contributing Writers

Julie Patterson ’90, M’00Design Assistant

Jim Russell ’84 Staff Photographer

Lisa Potter Memorials

Kim Hickman ’01Weddings

Melissa Malmud ’02Intern

The Oswego Alumni Association, Inc. Board of DirectorsLori Golden Kiewe ’84

President

Mark Tryniski ’85First Vice President

Jennifer Shropshire ’86Second Vice President

*Dr. David Cristantello ’74Past President

Elizabeth OberstExecutive Director

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President

Dr. John PresleyProvost

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2 O S W E G O Oswego Alumni Around the World

By Patricia Rycraft O’Toole ’79

Oswego alumni can be found all over the world,

doing a world of good.

Take the conservation efforts of Kristin Mosher

’89, who is using her photography to help protect the

delicate environment of a Tanzanian forest.

Jim Ford ’73 is providing technical expertise to

help bring electricity and a better standard of living

to Bangladesh.

Then there is international lawyer Chris Mensah

’84, whose negotiation skills have been put to work

for the United Nations in war-torn Somalia and at

international environmental summits.

Many Oswego alumni are living abroad and

making contributions in the fields of education, the

arts, business and government service in their chosen

countries. In this issue, we profile just some of those

alumni who have literally gone out into the world to

experience the richness and diversity of different

cultures.

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Childhood Dream Comes True

When Kristin Mosher was in high school,she dreamed of working as a wildlifephotographer in a national park. With a

camera as a birthday gift, she fell in love withphotography, taking photos of family, friends,pets and wildlife.

Today, she is living that dream as a free-lance photographer in the African country ofTanzania, where she takes photos for renownedconservationist and primate authority, JaneGoodall.

Mosher’s photos of chimpanzees have beenpublished in International Wildlife magazine,Tanzania Wildlife magazine, two books aboutGoodall and her work, and a Jane Goodall cal-endar. She and a videographer for Goodall arealso working on a film about the chimpanzeeswith a future airing planned on either PBS orthe Discovery Channel. She donates photos tothe Jane Goodall Institute for non-commericaluse, such as in newsletters.

How Mosher ended up living in Africa canonly be described as fate. In 1994, she wasstaying with a friend in Ridgefield, Conn. TheJane Goodall Institute was located just downthe street. Mosher decided to volunteer at thecenter. “Within a few days, they asked thedirector if I could be hired full time,” she said.

Her first job involved fundraising and writ-ing literature and brochures for the institute,which has since moved to Washington, D.C.From 1995 to 1997, Mosher managed JaneGoodall’s lecture tours, with responsibilitiesincluding traveling with Goodall, contract andfee negotiations, making airline and hotelreservations, merchandising and arrangingbook signings.

But the real turning point came in 1996,when Mosher vacationed for two weeks in

western Tanzania at theGombe Stream Re-search Center in GombeNational Park, whereGoodall has studiedchimpanzee behavior forfour decades. Mosherlearned that there was aneed for a still photogra-pher at the research cen-ter. Photographs of chimpanzees were neededfor record-keeping purposes. In 1997, shedecided to return to Gombe and work forGoodall as a free-lance photographer.

The park is a two-hour boat ride acrossLake Tanganyika from Kigoma. Mosher lives ina corrugated metal house because a woodenstructure wouldn’t stand up well to the abun-dant termite population. The weather is hot,but the combination of the breeze off the lakeand the shade provide comfort, she said.

Mosher is building up a stock of photographsof Tanzanian wildlife, people and environment,and is marketing those images with the assis-tance of an agent in Seattle. Several of her chim-panzee photographs have been published byInternational Wildlife magazine, which is pro-duced by the National Wildlife Federation.

Her work has also been published in Tan-zania Wildlife magazine. “I felt that was veryimportant because it was a magazine withinthe country and people need to know moreabout the natural heritage of their country andbe more inspired to protect it,” said Mosher,who majored in biology at SUNY Oswego aftergraduating from Oswego High School.

Major issues threatening theforests in Tanzania andelsewhere in Africa aredeforestation and thecommerical bush-meat trade. Thecommercial hunt-ing of wildlifecould well lead tothe loss of several

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Kristin Mosher ’89 focuses onlife in Africa. Right, “Titan atplay.”


species, including chimpanzees, elephants andgorillas, according to the institute.

Mosher’s photographs are included in thelatest edition of Jane Goodall’s book, My LifeWith the Chimpanzees, and in Jane Goodall:40 Years at Gombe.

“Chimpanzees are totally amazing,” saidMosher. “Every day you are with them, there is something incredible that happens. You seemore and more each day how similar they areto us. It’s so easy to relate to them — theintelligence, the thoughtfulness you see in theirexpressions.”

Her work is exhilarating and sometimesexhausting, she said, especially when it comesto following the chimpanzees through the thickforest during the rainy season with her tripodand camera bag.

Mosher said she was broken-hearted lastFebruary when an epidemic swept through achimpanzee community at the park and twochimpanzees died. The illness was likely intro-duced by humans. Mosher was among those at the park who pushed for stricter rules forhuman proximity to the chimps, limiting exposure.

She also did the sound recording for thefilm about the chimpanzees. Produced by a

company in the United Kingdom, the film’sworking title is ‘‘Year of the Chimpanzee.’’

One of Mosher’s goals is to publish a chil-dren’s book with both English and Swahili textthat talks about the need to protect the GombeNational Park and Tanzania’s other wild areas.She is looking for a grant to finance the project.

“I want to make an impact with my photog-raphy,” said Mosher. “By raising awarenessamong youth and changing the cycle of things,that’s one of the ways these places can be pre-served.”

Alumnus Finds Oswego’s Reach Extends Worldwide

Jim Ford ’73 has further proof that,yes, it is a small world.

Jim and his wife, Debbie BarkerFord ’73, live in Dhaka, the capital ofBangladesh. Jim serves as the team leader forthe International Programs Division of theNational Rural Electric Cooperative Associa-tion, which is based in Arlington, Va. The asso-ciation provides technical assistance to theBangladesh government and 15 internationaldonor agencies that are bringing electrical ser-vice to that country’s rural areas.

Debbie works at theAmerican InternationalSchool as a first-gradeteacher’s aide.

Jim has two storiesabout coincidences involv-ing other people with con-nections to SUNY Oswego.

“After having been onthe job in Bangladesh for ashort while, I later came toknow that one of the pre-vious institutional trainingadvisors on this projectwas named Paul Flack,”said Jim. “I thought I rec-ognized the name andthrough some investiga-tion, I later confirmed itwas indeed the samePaul Flack that I knew atOswego, also class of1973. Paul actually lived

next door to me on the seventh floor of SenecaHall during my freshman year.”

Then, last summer, when Jim was playingtennis at the American Club, a friend men-tioned there was an American visiting professorwho wanted to play tennis. And, oh by the way,the friend said, this fellow was from SUNYOswego.

“I yelled back that Oswego was where I gotmy undergraduate degree,” said Jim. He andOswego business professor Chuck Spectorbecame friends, playing tennis and catching upon Oswego news over frequent brunches aftertennis.

Jim finds the results of his work rewarding.“It is particularly satisfying to travel to the ruralareas and see the impact that electricity is hav-ing on the lives of the people there and realiz-ing that as a member of the NRECA consultingteam, I am making a contribution to that hap-pening,” he said. “Not only does it give the ruralpeople electric lights in their homes and someother basic electric conveniences, more impor-tantly, it also provides ways for significantsocio-economic development in the ruralareas,” said Jim.

“Studies have shown that electric servicehas provided improvements in education ofchildren due to lighting in the evenings forstudying,” said Jim. It has also provided moreemployment and educational opportunities forwomen.

This is his second tour of Bangladesh, hav-ing lived there from 1988 through 1992. Jimand Debbie, who were engaged in Oswego,have been married nearly 28 years. They havethree children, ages 24, 22 and 20, who are allliving in the U.S. When the whole family wasoverseas, they also lived in Pakistan and visitedover 20 countries, including Egypt, Switzer-land, Greece, England, Germany and Ireland.

Oswego Grad Returns to Native Africa as Legal Adviser

In just the past 11 years, his career ininternational law and diplomacy hastaken Chris Mensah ’84 from dodging

exploding shells in worn-torn Somalia to help-ing draft international environmental and avia-tion agreements.

Jim Ford ’73 brings power to the people of Bangladesh.

© STEPHEN SPINDER FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Mensah is nowlegal adviser to the International Civil AviationOrganization, a specialized agency of the Unit-ed Nations that develops the rules of interna-tional civil air travel.

Mensah, who is from Ghana, decided toattend SUNY Oswego after first visiting nearbyPulaski as a high school foreign exchange stu-dent. After graduating from Oswego with amajor in political science, he went on to earnhis law degree from Boston University Schoolof Law, where he was president of the BlackLaw Students Association. He then earned agraduate degree specializing in internationallaw and international environmental law fromColumbia University School of Law.

Chris Mensah ’84 is a legal adviser for the United Nations.

WhenStephenMatthew

Spinder ’79 gradu-ated from SUNYOswego he was, inhis own words,“another naiveAmerican.” While heenjoyed some world

travel in the mid-’80s, his life took a dramatic change in1991 when a visiting folk dance instructor from Budapestinvited him to visit Hungary. On a two-month side trip to Tran-syvlania, Spinder discovered what he called “the warmest,friendliest, most peaceful, inviting, generous people I evermet.”

Now he makes his home and livelihood in Budapest, tak-ing and selling black-and-white and sepia-toned photographsof the ancient city, and follows his passion: photographingthe people and folk ways of Transylvania.

An art and photography major at Oswego, Spinder alsostudied at Rochester Institute of Technology. He first movedto Boulder, Colo., where he lived with two friends from hisalma mater, Stephen ’78 and Bridget Gallagher Smith ’79.There he had a flourishing commercial photography business.In 1991 he traveled to Budapest on the dance instructor'sinvitation. Upon returning to the States, he moved to Balti-more and eventually ended up in Washington, D.C., workingon advertising campaigns for the U. S. Army. When that con-tract ended, he returned to Budapest in 1995 and has livedthere since.

At first he taught English to adults and dance to children,while he learned Hungarian folk dance and got to know some people. When he began to get involved in Budapest’s largeexpatriate community, he took some business portraits for acompany, which then wanted black-and-white photos ofBudapest to decorate the office’s walls. “They bought 19 ofthem, framed and matted, put them on the wall and gave mea shoebox full of money!” said Spinder. That was the begin-ning of his successful career as a cityscape photographer inHungary.

“Budapest was a boomtown in the early to mid-’90s,” hesaid. The government privatized much of the country andhuge businesses would rent or buy old buildings from the turnof the century and modernize the insides. “My photos adornmany of the newer offices in Budapest,” Spinder said.

The Budapest Office of Tourism bought 40 of his printsfor an exhibit which travels around Europe. His work is in several private collections, including that of former Secretaryof State Madeleine Albright, the former American Ambas-sador to Hungary Peter Tufo, and famous folk musician MartaSebestyan, who is the voice on the sound track of “The Eng-lish Patient.”

His Budapest photography allows Spinder to pursue hisreal passion: traveling to Transylvania and photographing thepeople and their ways before they become modernized. Thebiggest pleasure of living in Hungary, he said, is that he cango to Transylvania whenever he can get away. “The folk lifeand ritual is very strong,” he said. “Easter is an amazing timeto be there.”

After the fall of the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1989,Romania, of which Transylvania is a province, was opened to foreigners for the first time in 80 years. When he visited in1991, “It was like going back in time 100 years or more,”Spinder said. “I took some of my most sensitive, beautifulphotos ever.”

Spinder made it his mission to “photograph this regionof the world never seen before by foreigners.”

He is now showing his work in a retrospective show, “TenYears in Transylvania.” His photos were displayed at The Uni-versity of Indiana in Bloomington, which houses the biggestcenter for Hungarian studies in America, and at the Hungari-an House, a cultural center in New York City. Most recently,his work was on display in his hometown of Rochester, for athree-month exhibition on “Hungary Today” at the Bauschand Lomb Center. Spinder’s mother and three of his fourbrothers still live in Rochester, where he visits every chancehe gets.

He has a book of photos coming out this Christmas, andhe has post cards, Christmas cards and calendars — includ-ing a unique one featuring close-ups of the huge handlebarmoustaches of Hungarian folk dancers — for sale at book-stores and other shops in Europe.

His photos of Transylvania and Budapest are availablethrough his Web sites www.extra.hu/spindler or www.geoci-ties.com/thetropics/coast/1953.

Spinder's interest in Transylvania isn't that unusual forhim. “I always was interested in going to the far-off reaches ofthe world,” he explained. In the mid-1980s, he visited Nepal,India and the far reaches of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland,photographing the landscape. “I just returned from six weeksin Guatemala,” he said. “And I saw the most incredible coun-try on the face of the earth.” He took 43 rolls of photos of this“phenomenal country” and its people.

As the stamps on his passport and his photos on thewalls of worldwide corporate giants will attest, thisonce “naive American” has becomecomfortable, and well-known, inthe international community.

—by Michele Reed

Stephen Spinder ’79 makes photos like this one of thefamous “Chain Bridge” (“Lanchid” in Hungarian) in Budapestfor his international audiences.

Cityscapes, Country FolkLife Fascinate Spinder

© STEPHEN SPINDER FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY


Mensah’s career to date has included sever-al assignments with the General Assembly ofthe United Nations, including serving as a dele-gate of Mozambique from 1990 to 1992 and as adelegate of Vanuatu, a nation comprised ofmore than 80 islands in the South Pacific, from 1992 to 1993.

“I was the legal adviser to the PermanentMission of Mozambique to the United NationsGeneral Assembly, basically providing legaladvice to the Mission on discussions at the U.N.that may have legal implications, includingengaging in various negotiations,” said Mensah.

Because the permanent representative ofMozambique was chairman of the Sixth Com-mittee, or Legal Committee of the GeneralAssembly, Mensah also served as special adviserto the chairman. “International law is debated,made and codified by this committee,” he said.

He was next named delegate of the Repub-lic of Vanuatu, as legal adviser to that nation’sPermanent Mission to the United Nations Gen-eral Assembly. In that post, Mensah had anopportunity that was particularly rewarding forhim — participating in the gathering of worldleaders at the Earth Summit in 1992.

“The highlight for me was representing Vanuatu as a delegate to the United NationsConference on Environment and Development(held) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the worldadopted Agenda 21, which is the blueprint forsolving environmental problems,” said Mensah.

At the meeting, 179 countries agreed thatfuture development of the world would be eco-nomically, socially and environmentally sound.

While international law has its fair share ofearnest negotiations, Mensah has also experi-enced its dangerous side. Prior to his ICAOassignment, Mensah joined the United NationsSecretariat, serving as a legal officer to theUnited Nations operations in Somalia during

that country’s civil war. “I was there during theheavy fighting, including

during the time the 18American soldiers

were killed,” hesaid. “My jobthere with a team of four

lawyers was toadvise the SpecialRepresentative ofthe Secretary Gener-al on the implemen-tationof the United Nations SecurityCouncil Resolutionson Somalia.”

His role was totake care of variouslegal problems thatcame up, such asensuring proper crimi-nal procedure for theapprehension anddetention of certain warlords. “I did a lot ofdiplomatic negotiations on behalf of the U.N. onvarious issues of international law, includingensuring that the U.N. did not violate interna-tional law,” he said.

At times, he found himself in the thick ofthe action, “always hiding under the bed,bunkers and tables when being shelled.”

Now, as legal adviser for the ICAO in Nairo-bi, Mensah continues to also deal with ICAOactivities in Somalia, he said. Mensah has beenposted in Nairobi since 1995. He and his wife,Joyce, have two children.

“Kenya is the most beautiful country oneneeds to see,” he said. “It is naturally blessedwith nature’s best gifts. Unfortunately, just likeany country, it has its problems, which are man-made. This has resulted in extreme poverty tothe point that even $50 a year for school feesmeans getting an education or becoming a streetboy or girl, with the latter being more likely.”

While at Oswego, Mensah was president ofthe Foreign Student Association. He alsoworked at Oswego with the rank of visitingassistant professor, serving as foreign studentadviser and as administrative director of theIntensive English Program. He also was deputyto the late Dr. Jose Perez, director of interna-tional education, before attending law school.

Mensah still has a house in Oswego, and vis-its two or three times a year.

Foreign Service Takes Weiller Around the World

From his office window, Matt Weiller’84 has a commanding view of themajestic Tien Shan Mountains in south-

ern Kazakhstan. The mountains, “which areeven higher than the Rockies” provide a dra-matic backdrop to Weiller’s daily life in thisexotic former Soviet republic.

Weiller is a foreign service officer with theU.S. Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan. As thedeputy head of administration and operationsat the U.S. Embassy, he is directly responsiblefor human resources and budget and finance. A diplomat since 1991, he has been stationed inKazakhstan since 1999.

“My path to the Foreign Service startedwith a post-high school exchange year in Swe-den, followed by my study of German and Russ-ian at Oswego,” said Weiller. “George Koenigand Joe Wiecha from the German department,and Sue Fines and Ed Nordby from Russianprovided the excellent language instruction tomake me proficient in those languages,” hesaid. “Wiecha and Estellie Smith (anthropolo-gy) were the first to encourage me to take theForeign Service test and become a diplomat.”

Weiller, who majored in German and has aRussian minor from Oswego, went on to earnhis master’s degree at the Georgetown School

Matt Weiller ’84 is a career diplomat.


of Foreign Service, followed by a fellowshipyear in Bonn, Germany.

He also speaks Swedish, and is currentlytaking a Spanish course online, “in hopes that I might get an assignment to a Spanish-speaking country someday,” said Weiller.

“I find that I am too curious about life over-seas to avoid being here or elsewhere abroad,and enjoy the long-distance ‘big picture’ per-spective it gives me on life in the U.S.,” saidWeiller.

“I enjoy the public service aspect of servingmy country overseas,’’ he said. Representingthe U.S in an official capacity, it’s important toremember that “to the local people, you arealways on the job,” he said.

“People are wont to bandy about phraseslike ‘global village’ and ‘global markets,’ andpronounce the world a more homogeneousplace than it once was,” he said. “There may besome truth to this among developed countries,but in most of the world, a cell phone or a NikeT-shirt does not a Westerner make. Religious,cultural, political and economic differencesmean that most places in the world are still

exotic and not always easy to understand.”Weiller, who is from Hartsdale, said he will

likely stay overseas for at least one more tour ofduty through 2006-07.

Holzman Went from Oswego’s Classrooms to Rain Forest School

Within three months of graduating fromSUNY Oswego, Larry Holzman ’63found himself teaching 40 elementary

level students in a one-room mud and stickschool in Liberia’s rain forest. His textbookswere the Dick and Jane series, donated fromAmerican schools.

And while that first experience was loadedwith challenges, Holzman takes special pride inthe fact that one of his Liberian students fromthat school went on to earn a doctorate at Harvard, and is now teaching in Ohio.

After 32 years of international service —two years with the Peace Corps and 30 yearswith CARE — Holzman retired in 1996.

CARE, which is one of the world’s largestnon-governmental organizations with relief anddevelopment programs in over 60 countries,had Holzman working in Sri Lanka, India,Turkey, Bangladesh, South Korea, Haiti, theDominican Republic and Belize.

“My Peace Corps experience in Liberiamade me aware of the tremendous potential ofpeople in less-developed countries,” said Holz-man. His personal commitment was reinforcedyears ago when he asked an elderly man in theDominican Republic about his feelings towarddevelopment.

“I asked him what he thought was the mosteffective assistance program,” said Holzman.“He replied ‘education, because it doesn’t breakor wear out and no one can ever take it awayfrom you.’”

Holzman hasn’t completely retired. He continues to work as an international consul-tant, and in the past few years has traveled toEthiopia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Sudan, NorthKorea, Rwanda, Mozambique and Tajikistan.

For anyone contemplating a career in inter-national service, Holzman has a bit of advice.

“Development, unfortunately, is not a sci-ence,” he said. “There are no formulas that canbe replicated from country to country. Thereare many constraints including corrupt govern-ments, bureaucratic bungling, natural disas-ters, and programs and projects that are notbased on realistic expectation.

“Nevertheless, the transfer of resources and knowledge from the developed to the lessdeveloped countries of the world must contin-ue. Investing in change is a risky business, butwe cannot waste the untapped potential of themillions of people who benefit from internation-al assistance programs.”

Larry Holzman ’63, second from right, and his colleagues took CARE of the people in Tajikistan.


‘Swept Off her Feet,’ Alumna Makes a Life in France

Life for Carol Cali Novak ’74 wasgoing to happen this way:

After graduation from SUNYOswego with majors in French, German andsecondary education, the Fultonnative was going to spend one yearin France on an exchange program.Then, according to her plans, shewas to return to New York state toteach French.

All that changed, she said, when“a charming Frenchman swept me offmy feet.”

Today, she lives in the Frenchprovince of Brittany in the city of Rennes. Sheand that charming Frenchman will celebratetheir 25th wedding anniversary on July 10.

After serving as language assistant for twomiddle schools, Novak went on to earn hermaster’s degree in French in 1977 from Univer-sité de Haute-Bretagne. Since then, she has

taught English at the EcoleNationale Supérieure

Agronomique de Rennes(the National School

of Agronomy). The“Grand Ecole” is apost-graduateschool requiringat least a mas-ter’s degree andnumerous

exams to gain admission, Novak said. Studentsgo on to become “highly qualified engineers inagriculture and related fields — managers andthe like,” she said.

Most of her students are between 20 and 23years old.

“By the time I get them, they’ve prettymuch seen or heard about every topic imagin-able,” said Novak. “So it’s up to me to find outwhat might be a new area to explore. It’s hardwork, but it’s a challenge. At the same time,looking for new teaching material gives me anadded bonus, because I learn as well, and I’vealways loved learning.”

She enjoys the lifestyle of France, she said.“Even in Rennes, which is a big city (220,000population), there are canals and trees and

greenery right nearby, and littlepaths where you can go for abike ride or take a walk,” shesaid. “People do walk a greatdeal. In fact I’ve stopped driving.Either I walk or take the bus. In26 years, I can’t really say I’veever missed driving. Buses andtrains have achieved an incompa-rable level of what I would call‘user friendly’ transportation.

“The negative side of living inFrance is that almost everything isexpensive. For instance, a well-known brand of jeans goes for $60to $120 and gasoline $1 per litre,”said Novak.

Her 20-year-old son, Michel, is a sophomoreat the University of Sciences, majoring in biolo-gy. Her daughter, Anne-Cécile, 14, is a fresh-man in high school. Her husband, Gérard, is anelectronics teacher at a technical high school.

Griffin ‘Eternally Grateful’ for Study Abroad

It’s an understatement to say that Dr.Kim Griffin ’77 is an advocate ofstudy abroad.

Griffin, who has lived in Spain for more than20 years, has devoted her professional life tohelping American students experience andimmerse themselves in other cultures.

She is the director of Middlebury CollegeSchool of Spanish in Spain. The four-year

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Carol Cali Novak ’74, at left, and above, second from left, visited, and fell in love, in France.


liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vt., is well-known for its foreign language curriculum.

“During the summer, students attend aunique immersion program (in Vermont) andthen they have the option of studying abroad inone of five countries,” she said. “I direct theprogram in Spain, where both undergrad andgrad students study at one of four differentlocations.” Those locations are Instituto Inter-nacional in Madrid, Universidad Carlos III inGetafe, Universidad Internacional SEK inSegovia and Universidad de La Rioja inLogroño.

Griffin was introduced to Spanish life in1975, when she participated in Oswego’s sum-mer study abroad program. “After graduating Ireturned to Spain in order to escape snow andunemployment,” she said.

Griffin’s major at Oswego was secondaryeducation, with a concentration in Spanish. Shehas a master’s degree from Middlebury Collegeand a doctorate in foreign language educationfrom Ohio State University.

She worked as the assistant director of Mid-dlebury in Spain from 1981-89, then worked fora Spanish university from 1990-95 in charge ofInternational Programs and Foreign Languages.She has been in her current position for fiveyears. “Seeing students discover Spain, a differ-ent culture, a different language” is what shemost enjoys about her job. ‘‘Seeing them matureas they discover the world beyond their originalenvironment” also gives her satisfaction.

“Spain is a fascinating country. I have livedhere through the transition from a dictatorshipto one of the most freedom-loving democracies

Oswego Grad Goes to Australia — Via Russia

Dr. Kim Griffin ’77, second from left, has spent her career in Spain.

Kate Kane Mason ’91 took her undergraduate degree in Russian from Oswego to the former SovietUnion — and ended up in Australia. As part of her

studies in Oswego, she went on an exchange program to theMoscow Linguistics Institute. Former leader Mikhail Gor-bachev was in power and it was still the Soviet Union, in fall1990. The students landed on their own in a city plagued byshortages. “It was fantastic,” she said.“Thanks to the educa-tion I got at Oswego, they didn’t think I was American, theythought I was Polish or something." ”

She returned to Russia after graduation, in the summerof 1991. “The day I arrived in town was the first coup,” shesaid. “I literally missed it.” She went to work for an orphanagein a former closed city, which had held a prison camp duringthe Soviet days. “It was like walking into the pages ofSolzhenitzin,” she said. There was no fast food. In fact, thechildren at the orphanage grew their own food, with theyoungest ones pulling weeds and older kids driving tractors.

Later she taught English at a commercial school foradults hoping to emigrate to the U.S., and then got a job as abusiness reporter at a radio station, thanks to her ability tospeak Russian and English. “It was a city of 10 million peo-ple, so it was a pretty big buzz.”

During that time, she met her husband, Anthony, a nativeof Australia, who was backpacking around Europe. He was ajournalist, and she helped him get a job.

In the summer of 1993, just before the second coup,they left for Australia. They got married and had a daughter,Rose, who will be 5 years old in July.

At first Kate found it hard to get a job in Australia withher Russian specialty, since the logicalemployer, the government, couldn’thire a non-citizen. Her degree provedto be a great basis for post-graduatestudy, though. She got her master oflibrary science and information man-agement degree from the University ofCanberra and served as informationmanager and webmaster for the GrainsR & D Corp. Now holding dual citizen-ship, she has been working since Janu-ary for the Australian Bureau of Statis-tics, managing the database andonline resources library. Kate can bereached at [email protected].

She said the living is “a lot easier”in Australia. “There is a very high stan-dard of living and it’s a lot easier toachieve.” It is easier to have kids and a career, she added, because of a 12-month maternity leave with threemonths at full pay or six months at half pay.

don’t miss the snow,” she said, laughing at the thought. “Mybiggest memory of Oswego is winter, with the wind screamingacross the lake. Russia is just as cold and the wind screamsjust as loud.”

Australia is much milder, she said. “In the middle of win-ter it’s 50 degrees.” It has only snowed once since she’s livedthere, and the land is green and sporting flowers even duringwinter.

The down side is that taxes are higher, as much as 30 to40 percent of a worker's paycheck, according to Mason.

There’s another downside, too. “Because I am a nativespeaker of English, people assumed I would know how to dothings the Australian way,” she said. It got her into troublemore than once.

She admits to having trouble “getting the dress coderight,” like the time she went to a friend’s birthday party at theyacht club. Assuming it would be a more formal affair, shewore a strapless velvet gown, only to find the men dressed inchinos and open-collar shirts and the women equally casual.

Mason praised her Oswego language education and herprofessors, Dr. Edward Nordby and Dr. Sue Fines, both nowdeceased. “I can still speak Russian today, still read, and stilldream in Russian. If you can dream in a language, they say, itreally sunk in.”

Study abroad came in for her praise, too. “The semesterabroad program Oswego offers is terrific,” she said. She rec-ommends it even if a student is not a language major. “I’msure I wouldn't have gotten a job if I hadn’t done it,” sheadded.

—by Michele Reed

Kate Kane Mason ’91 and her family enjoythe mild weather in Australia.


in the Western world,” she said. “I discoveredpolitics, economics and social issues here in away that I never knew in the States.”

Her home is just outside of Madrid. ‘‘Ispend as much time as possible in a small townin the province of Avila where agriculture andraising sheep, cattle and goats are a primaryactivity,” she said.

“The best part of Spain is the daily socializ-ing over a cup of strong coffee in the morningor a glass of red wine and bit of food before themain meal at midday,” she said. “The famousidea of working to live rather than living towork is very true here, although people workvery hard and long hours.”

Griffin said she is “eternally grateful toOswego for offering the summer program in1975. I never imagined when I received theflyer about the SUNY programs that it wouldchange my life, but it did. My Spanish was verylimited when I came, but having the opportuni-ty to study in Spain through Oswego was themost eye-opening experience of my life, bothpersonally and academically.”

She believes study abroad is an invaluableexperience for students. “I have read occasion-ally that the foreign language programs and/orprograms abroad suffer from cutbacks or lackof attention,” she said. “Of course I am biased,but working in study abroad has only rein-forced for me the idea that study abroad is oneof the most important opportunities for learn-ing about one’s country, one’s language, andespecially oneself.

“In these days of globalization and interna-tional curriculum, an investment in studyabroad is one of the best investments a univer-sity can make,” she said.

Griffin, who is originally from Binghamton,visits home twice a year. She is married to aColombian-born novelist and professor of Latin

American literature, EduardoCamacho. She has three

stepsons.

Recent Grad Visited, Stayed ‘Down Under’

Marie Boisvert-Smithers ’99 studiedin Australia her senior year at SUNYOswego, and has lived there for the

past two years. A broadcasting major, Boisvert-Smithers works as a vocational training advisorfor the New South Wales Department of Educa-tion and Training New Apprenticeship Centre.

“I go out and visit employers and appren-tices in the Sutherland shire of Sydney,” shesaid. She provides information about federaland state regulations for apprenticeships andprogram enrollment.

“I would compare it to what a collegeadmissions officer does, but on a traveling one-to-one basis,” she said.

The Albany native said she likes life in Australia. “I love the environment. Cockatoosand other parrots fly by my window every dayand bats the size of Jack Russell terriers eatfruit out of the palm tree in my front yard everynight.”

Her future plans include getting her lawdegree and specializing in immigration law.

“I think that anyone who is a student atOswego should take advantage of the Interna-tional Education Office,” she said. “I was able totravel to Australia for a semester at the samecost as a normal semester with room and boardat Oswego. It is much easier to travel and live ina foreign country whilst one is still a student.”

Peace Corps Takes Henselto International Dateline

Anne Hensel ’98 is a teacher with thePeace Corps in the Republic of Kiribati,one of the smallest countries in the

world. Located in the Central Pacific nearwhere the international dateline intersects theequator, Kiribati (pronounced Kitty-bahs) iscomposed of 33 atolls scattered over more thantwo million square miles, yet has a total landarea of only 264 square miles.

Her job is to help native teachers with theirteaching methods and English language skills,since English is one of the official languages ofKiribati. Hensel has lived on Kiribati’s island ofAbemama, which translated means “Island ofMoonlight,” since October 1999.

“I am enjoying every day I get to spend inthis magical, peaceful place,” said the elemen-tary education major in a letter to a friend writ-ten in February 2000, three months after shegot there.

Abemama is only a mile-and-a-half wide, soHensel lives within a three-minute walk to theocean on one side and a lagoon on the other side.Hensel describes her home or hut as a “charmingstick house.” Her mother, Mary Hensel, who visit-ed her daughter for about two weeks last sum-mer, agrees. “It’s such a beautiful house, youcan’t imagine,” she said. “It is made out of the ribpart of palm leaves and tied together withcoconut string.” The floors are made of coral andcovered with coconut palm mats.

Hensel who is from Peru, N.Y., works at theTetongo Primary School compound on theisland.

“The Kiribati people are tremendouslyfriendly, wonderfully easy-going, amazinglyclever — the list goes on and on,” she wrote.“What I appreciate the most about the I-Kiribatiis their ability to find things worth celebratingand then honoring these accomplishments withfood, dancing and speeches of praise andthanks.”

The people of Abemama are very hospitable,said her mother. As she was leaving last sum-mer, one of the native teachers at the schoolcompound was busy helping students pick upseashells on the grounds. “They presented mewith a necklace they had made,” she said. Themen would climb coconut trees and return witha coconut they had opened. “They would handyou a beautiful coconut full of a cool, sweet,fresh drink.”

Anne Hensel ’98, back row, center, teaches in the island

nation of Kiribati.


Hensel’s life in Kiribati is a far cry from herfirst Peace Corps assignment in Uganda.

After graduating from Oswego, Henselreceived preliminary training in the U.S. andthen left for Uganda where she also trainedteachers in teaching methods and English. Shewas in Uganda from July 1998 to late May 1999.

Hensel was in the southwestern part ofUganda, in the mountains at the Ruband MixedSchool, a school compound in the town ofKabale.

In March 1999, just 15 miles from whereHensel was stationed, Rwandan rebels kid-napped and murdered eight foreign tourists,including two Americans.

She and other Peace Corps volunteers inthe area were evacuated to Jinga in the easternpart of Uganda. Two months later, in May, theUnited States government suspended PeaceCorps operations in Uganda, and evacuated 43volunteers, including Hensel.

“It was quite a trying time,” said MaryHensel. “They comforted and consoled eachother because she loved the people there. Shewas looking forward to working with them andhad promised to stay for two years. It was veryheartbreaking for her.”

Before graduating from Oswego, Hensel hadplans to join the Peace Corps. “She was inter-ested in pursuing some real life experiencebefore she studies for a master’s degree,” saidher mother. “She wanted to help some peoplein the world who don’t have the opportunity foreducation that we have here.”

Hensel plans to return home in Decemberand pursue her master’s degree.

Foreign ExchangeExperience Inspired Him

Klaus-Ingo Pissowtzki ’96 works inthe State University Library of Goettin-gen in Germany where he draws upon

his experience as a foreign exchange studentat SUNY Oswego.

“It is great to use my experiences as a foreign exchange student by helping foreignstudents to use our library and explain differ-ences,” he said.

Pissowtzki, who majored in theatre, alsoworks as a director at the student theatre atGoettingen.

He first came to Oswego asan exchange student dur-ing the 1993-94 schoolyear. “It was soinspiring that Ireturned in spring1996 and did all the neces-sary classes for graduation.”

Pissowtzki, who speaks English andFrench, said he visits the U.S. “almost everyyear.”

Psychologist Enjoys Aussie Beaches

Donna Walck ’83 M’89credits her counselingexperience at the

Farnham counseling servicescenter in Oswego for having “sparked mypassion and commitment to the counsel-ing profession.”

Today, she is a registered psycholo-gist at Griffith University in Brisbane,Australia, where she provides personaland career counseling for students andstaff. She works at the university’s Gold Coastcampus, which is 30 minutes from “some of thebest beaches in the world.”

Walck, who has a bachelor’s degree in psy-chology and a master’s degree in school psy-chology from SUNY Oswego, has lived in Aus-tralia since 1992 with her husband, James, whois a native of Australia. They met in London,where Donna worked after earning her mas-ter’s degree. They have three children, ages 7,4 and 2.

“I have a passion for counseling and enjoythe diversity of issues and ages within a univer-sity environment,” she said. Walck said she isalso involved in research work.

While completing her master’s degree atOswego, she worked as a research assistant inthe Classroom Interaction Research Laborato-ry. “It was here where I discovered how much Ienjoy doing research,” she said.

“Working at a university brings back fondmemories of my own college days,” she said.“At Oswego, I had some of my most fun andrewarding experiences. I was taught by andworked with terrific people who significantlyimpacted my career direction.”


Theatre Grad StartsHis Own London Troupe

When Rick Gordon’92, a theatremajor, moved to

London nine years ago,he started out assistingother directors and the-atre companies. “It wasinvaluable experience,but I wasn’t gettinghired for the jobs Iwanted, so I just set upmy own company andproduced the workmyself,” said Gordon.“It has paid off but Iwas very naïve tothink it would beeasy.”

Gordon, whochanged his profes-sional name to RickJacobs to avoidbeing confused witha well-known direc-tor in London

named Mick Gordon, started the New andAbused Theatre Company “to

produce musical theatre insmall-to-middle size

venues across theU.K.” He said it is

the “equivalent ofan off-Broadwaytype of theatrecompany.”

He reports that a recent production, “EatingRaoul,” was very successful, received ravereviews and “finally put the company on themap in London, and instigated a number ofother projects I was hoping to get off theground.” His company’s production of “EatingRaoul” will tour throughout England and Walesin autumn 2002.

His next musical is “Big City,” which pre-mieres this spring. “It is entirely new and hasgot a rags-to-riches story with a swing score.”

What he likes most about his career is “I dowhat I enjoy most and get paid for it. Thedownside is that I work crazy hours, sometimes18 hours a day, especially when a show is inrehearsal.”

Gordon’s decision to work in London wasinfluenced by fellow students at SUNY Oswego.

“I remember the people who went on theOswego study abroad program would alwayscome back from London and rave about howgreat it was,” he said.

“I thank Stan Gosek and Julie Pretzat atOswego for all the (music) theory they mademe study, as in my experience most directorsof musicals ironically don’t have a clue aboutmusic,” he said. “One of my majors at Oswegowas the acting/directing concentrate in the the-atre department, so I am really happy that I amable to work in the field where I got my train-ing.”

Gordon, who is originally from New City,and his partner, Eric, live in the East End ofLondon.

Culture Drew Macy to Europe

The rich art and cultural heritage ofEurope was irresistible for David S.Macy ’86, who now lives in London.

“My wife and I had been looking to moveto Europe for a while,” said Macy, who majoredin theatre. “Overall, we really like the Europeanmentality to arts and culture versus the U.S.”

His wife, Lynn Marie, is an actress and aplaywright. Together, they founded a theatrecompany in New York City called Distilled Spir-its Theatre before moving to London.

Macy is producing director of the companyusing the professional name David Scott. Thissummer, they plan to produce a play theyworkshopped in New York City two years agocalled “Temporarily Yours.” Macy is directorand his wife is acting in the production.

Macy is a member of the Society for StageDirectors and Choreographers. He also worksas an executive assistant to the vice-chairmanof Morgan Stanley International Ltd., an invest-ment bank. He has worked for Morgan Stanleysince 1987, and has been in his current positionsince September.

What he likes about living abroad is “thefirm belief in Europe that you have a right tothe arts,” he said. Many of the galleries, includ-ing the Tate, the Tate Modern, the BritishMuseum and the National Portrait Gallery, havefree admission, he noted.

Mastering the ‘fine art ’

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Rick Gordon ’82 founded a

touring theatre company in

London.


Sternlicht Teaches, Travels Emerald Isle

For eight summers, Sanford Sternlicht’53, a professor of English at SyracuseUniversity, has taught for S.U. at Trinity

College in Dublin, Ireland.Sternlicht retired from SUNY Oswego in

1986 after 27 years at the college. He was a pro-fessor of English and theatre.

Each summer, he travels to Dublin, wherehe teaches Mondays through Thursdays, andthen tours Ireland with students on the week-end.

He said he enjoys “working with young peo-ple and learning so much about Ireland and herpeople.” Sternlicht has two children.

Oswego’s internationalroots run deep, remindsDr. Anthony Marinaccio

’34, who was principal ofOswego’s campus school from1946 to 1949. Edward AustinSheldon founded the college in1861 on the then-radical theo-ries of the Swiss educatorPestalozzi. Marinaccio himselfhas carried on the founder's tra-dition, helping schools through-out the world educate studentsmore effectively. At 90, he willtravel this summer to China, tohelp a university there becomeaccredited.

Marinaccio describes him-self as a “young, hungry Depres-sion student” when he graduated

with a three-year diploma from Oswego Normal School in1934. After 15 years of serving as a teacher and schoolprincipal in Hartford, Conn., he was invited back by hismentor, Oswego President Ralph Swetman, to serve asthe first principal of the Campus School. His work thereled to a study of laboratory schools, which became thefoundation for his doctoral dissertation at Yale University.

The years after Oswego took Dr. Marinaccio to Mis-souri, Illinois and Iowa, where he worked with publicschools. Eventually he and his wife founded the HiramScott College in Scottsbluff, Neb., fulfilling a long-timedream of his. When Swetman came to Oswego as its firstpresident as a college instead of a normal school, Mari-naccio said, “He gave such a great speech, I wanted tobe like him.”

Later, Marinaccio went on to be a professor of highereducation administration at the George Washington Uni-versity in Washington, D.C. This led to his international

involvement.He worked with the U. S.

Defense Department, as part of ateam working to make schools bet-ter for the children of Americanservice people. He was doing just

that at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, when tensions flaredup in the 1970s, and he feared the U. S. airplanes flyingover Cuba were going to blow it up. “I was scared stiffthat I wasn't going to get off the island.” When he sawthe aircraft carrier Nimitz anchored in the bay, he feltmore secure, he said.

Marinaccio also advised a group of Americanschools around the world connected with the U. S.Department of State, serving the children of the diplo-matic corps. “I was on a team of professors from GeorgeWashington University, the University of Southern Califor-nia, University of Michigan and another school,” he said.“We split the world up. I went mostly to Europe.”

He and his teammates went to help improve schoolsin Madrid, Spain; Turin, Italy; Germany; France and Mexi-co. "We spent a lot of time trying to help those teacherslearn how to teach children."

Marinaccio’s forte was as a kind of academic trou-bleshooter, helping schools and colleges get back ontheir feet. As dean of Parson’s College in 1963, he gotthem back on the accredited list. “I got high schools outof hock in Peoria, Davenport, etc.,” he said. He spent fouryears helping Warenborough College in Oxford, England,and later traveled to the American University in Rome.

“I like to go around and turn things upside down,”he said.

In the 1970s and early ’80s, he traveled to Libya, tohelp one of his doctoral students at George Washingtonfound a university in the desert. “While Quadafi was tryingto blow our planes out of the air, we were trying to build auniversity,” he said.

This summer, he plans to be in China, on contractwith the University of Shanghai, helping them to becomeaccredited with the North Central Association, so thatAmerican students can study there.

At the start of his 10th decade, he is a vigorous edu-cator. Between rounds of tennis and golf, he is teachingItalian to a group of senior citizens, writing articles for thelocal newspaper and finishing a volume of memoirs, hissixth book. And, of course, he is following the Oswegotradition of taking educational excellence out into thewide world.

—by Michele Reed

Anthony Marinaccio ’34 was president and founderof Hiram Scott College.

Marinaccio Troubleshoots Education Around the World


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Lauer Has Worked on Four Continents

He has traveled toover 40 countriesand speaks six lan-

guages, so it’s easy to seehow Nico Lauer ’84 fitsthe description of “inter-national businessman.’’

Lauer is the managingdirector of the Internationales Transferzentrumfür Umwelttechnik GmbH (Center for the Inter-national Transfer of Environmental Technolo-

gies) or ITUT, in Germany. He andhis wife, Beth Fuller Lauer

’87, live in Leipzig, whichis located in the for-

mer East Germany.“This company

essentially is anexport-promot-ing agent forGerman envi-ronmental tech-

nologies, thushelping pre-dominantlyGerman com-panies findbusinessopportunities

in the environmen-tal sector over-

seas,” said Lauer.ITUT is working with

partners in China, Thai-land, Poland, India, South

Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, CzechRepublic, Hungary, Mexico, Brazil,

Chile, South Africa and the UnitedArab Emirates, said Lauer.

Prior to joining ITUT, Lauer was a share-holder and managing director of a company inPoland. His career has taken him to countries inNorth America, South America, Europe, theMiddle East and Asia. Born in Switzerland andraised in Italy, Lauer lived in England beforecoming to Oswego. In addition to German andEnglish, he also speaks Italian, Spanish, Frenchand Polish.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in psy-chology and Spanish at SUNY Oswego, Lauerwent on to earn a juris doctor degree in 1988from Syracuse University and a master’s degreein environmental science at SUNY College ofEnvironmental Science and Forestry.

“When I came to Germany in the fall of 1989 with my wife, just weeks before the IronCurtain fell, Germany was a country I had visit-ed a number of times but I had never lived in,”said Nico Lauer. Germany’s two greatest advan-tages, both he and Beth said, are the low crimerate and the high standard of living.

Beth Lauer works in marketing for U.S.-based Bell Flavors and Fragrances, which

produces fragrances for personal care products,household products and perfumes. The compa-ny also produces flavors for beverages, foodand medications. From its European produc-tion facilities in Leipzig, the company servescustomers in Europe, Russia, Africa and theMiddle East.

“I enjoy that my job has so many differentaspects to it,” said Beth, who majored in business administration/marketing at SUNYOswego. She is responsible for budgeting foradvertising materials, management of the company’s trade shows and designing pre-sentations.

“I really enjoy this combination of businessand art,” she said. “I work directly with theowner and we try new ideas. I’ve been to Spainand will be going to England and Egypt thisyear for trade shows. My employer is greatabout letting me work a flexible schedule thatfits into my family life.”

Before joining Bell Flavors and Fragrances,Beth spent eight years at home with theirdaughters, ages 7 and 10.

She also serves as president of a local groupof international women.

“We have about 80 members and our goal isto help women adjust to life in Germany andLeipzig, and also to help local charities,” shesaid. “This takes quite a bit of time, but is veryworthwhile. I know first hand that it’s particu-larly difficult for women who have been work-ing in the U.S. and give up their jobs to comehere with their husbands.”

Before moving to Germany in 1989, Bethand Nico Lauer lived in Argentina for a year.

“I very much enjoyed my years at Oswego,the numerous friends at the International Stu-dent Association and the lake,” said Nico. “Itwas a unique time of my life.”


Business Takes Them Around the World

For nearly three years, Georgine Ruch-meyer Scott ’81 and her family have lived in Kazakhstan, formerly part

of the Soviet Union. She and her husband, Jim, moved to this

remote country when he accepted the positionof president of Philip Morris Kazakhstan.

“Kazakhstan is a developing nation,” shesaid. “Life for most of the local people is diffi-cult. Health care is not up to western standardsand the economy is not strong. In certain partsof the city, security is an issue.”

It is a predominantly Muslim country,where Russian is the official language, but thenational language, Kazak, is beginning to beused again, she said.

They live in a compound that includes atennis court, swimming pools and 24-hoursecurity. She is an “at-home mom,” raising thecouple’s three children.

“When you live in a location like this with-out family, the other expatriates quickly be-come your family,” she said. “We enjoy manyorganized social events. It takes an adventur-ous sort of person to come to Kazakhstan andwe have met some very interesting people.”

She adds, “Living in Kazakhstan has been avery enlightening and positive experience. Weas a family have met so many interesting peo-ple from all over the world.”

She has lived abroad for the past 15 years,including Germany and Switzerland, beforemoving to Kazakhstan.

“Living in Munich, Germany, for nine yearsand Lausanne, Switzerland, for three years wasreally wonderful,” she said. “Munich has manyparks, beirgardens, where families enjoy social-izing outdoors. We enjoyed having childrenthere.”

Scott, who speaks German and has a degreein business administration, formerly worked ininternational compensation for Texaco.

Her family’s next international destinationis Tokyo. They are moving at the end of theschool year.

Wife’s Work Led Him to Paris

John J. Kelly ’75 said his story “mayoffer a little different perspective” of an American in Paris.

In 1999, his wife, Linda, was offered anassignment in the City of Light by her employ-er, AT&T Global Network. Since he did nothave working papers, John has been unable to work in France. Kelly and his family live

in Neuilly sur Seine, France, just outside of thecity limits of Paris.

“The adjustments for me as the non-work-ing spouse have been interesting, ranging frompractical matters like household responsibili-ties, sports involvement, school involvementand my own expectations,” said Kelly. “Histori-cally, at least here in France, the majority ofassignees from the U.S. and other countries aremale and the ‘trailing spouse’ is usuallyfemale.”

Kelly volunteers as a board member andvarsity soccer and basketball coach for hisson’s school, Marymount Interna-tional School. He is also thedirector for the school’srecreation programs.Their son, Matt, is13 years old.

“Our varsityschool teamswere very suc-cessful last yearwhile winning

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John J. Kelly ’75 volunteers in Paris.

Georgine Ruchmeyer Scott ’81 lives in Kazakhstan, and willsoon move to Tokyo.

the middle school championships in Paris forall international schools for both sports,” saidKelly.

Kelly certainly knows his basketball, havingplayed on the Oswego Lakers basketball teamfrom 1972 through 1975. He is playing for aFrench club team, with many of his teammatesstill in their 20s. Technically, he has one year ofeligibility left to play college basketball, andjokes that he is using it up playing for the Lev-allois club team.

Before moving to France, Kelly, whomajored in business administration, worked inthe managed health care business in TampaBay since 1983. He worked primarily in themarketing and operations areas. He wasinvolved in two different startup companies inthe early 1990’s. He served as president of thesecond startup before the company wasacquired by a larger organization based inNashville.

The Kellys have racked up a lot of interna-tional frequent flyer miles in the last few years,having traveled to Holland, Japan, Singaporeand Taiwan for short-term work assignments.

“Without question, I would certainly makethe same decision to come to Paris,” he said. “Irealize that this is a special time and those arethe times that pass much too quickly. It fallsinto the same category as the passing of ourcollege years and the years that our childrengrow.”

German Native Returns to Land of Her Birth

Cathrin Mueller ’82 works in Frank-furt, Germany, for the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. She is a money market

and foreign exchange trader, trading one cur-rency for another.

“It is my responsibility to quote prices andcover customer contracts for our Duesseldorf,Hamburg and Vienna offices,” said Mueller.“The phones never stop ringing. We do theclearing in Euro (dollars) for the entire Bank ofToyko-Mitsubishi group worldwide. For allthese hundreds of thousands of payments toelectronically pass through our system, fundsmust be moved back and forth.”

Mueller, who received her bachelor’sdegree in elementary education, has been atrader since 1985.

“During my stay at Oswego, I enlisted witha temporary service company to earn somemoney during summer and Christmas vaca-tions,” said Mueller. ”I was placed in the foreignexchange/money market processing depart-ment of a large German bank. When I finishedmy education in 1982 and returned to Frank-furt where my banker parents lived, I could notget a teaching job with my American degree, asit was not transferrable. That same Germanbank offered me a job.”

Mueller was born in Bremerhaven, Ger-many, and raised in New York City and LongIsland. After graduating from Oswego, shedecided to move to Frankfurt “simply becausemy family had moved here from Long Island in1976,” she said.

“Another huge consideration was the payscale. In 1982 I earned three times the pay afirst-year teacher did. That and six weeks paidvacation pretty much sealed the deal.”

Swanson Took Career Road to Germany

Her career in Germany has literally putGayle Lynn Swanson ’86 in the dri-ver’s seat. The Oswego native lives in

Stuttgart and has worked since 1991 for Daim-lerChrysler, manufacturer of Mercedes andChrysler automobiles. Swanson, who graduatedfrom Oswego with a bachelor’s degree inaccounting, is a senior accounting manager.

“I enjoy the automobile industry,” she said.“The products are incredibly interesting. Get-ting to drive them is great, too.”

Swanson moved to Germany after workingat KPMG accounting firm in New York, in theGerman practice area. It was in New Yorkwhere she met her husband, Martin, who isGerman. They have two children.

“I enjoy the European way of life,” saidSwanson. “Meals are an enjoyable eventinstead of fast food torture. Vacation time isgreat, too… six weeks in Germany. Biking iswonderful due to all the off-road bike paths.”


Gayle Lynn Swanson ’86 and her family live in Germany.

Alumnus Connects Kentucky to the World

Steve Schulte ’75 lives in Belgium,where for the past five years he hasworked as the director of the Kentucky

European Office in the city of Bruxelles.His job is “to encourage European invest-

ment in the state of Kentucky, generally byencouraging establishment of European sub-sidiary companies in Kentucky.” He also assistsKentucky-based companies in exporting goodsand services to Europe.

“This is a hands-on job covering some 20European countries,” said Schulte. His respon-sibilities include “market research, marketing,and promoting Kentucky to a wide range ofEuropean companies from automobile suppli-ers to glass bottle manufacturers to softwaredevelopers.”

He first moved to Europe in 1991, workingin Belgium for an English company in thepaper chemicals business.

Schulte, who has graduated in conjunctionwith the Universitaet Tuebingen in Germanywith a double major in chemistry and German,has over 20 years of experience in internationalbusiness. He is originally from Newark Valley.

He is married to a French citizen, ElizabethChambardon, who was a French languageassistant at SUNY Oswego from 1973 to 1975.They have two daughters.

The most challenging part of his job, hesaid, is communicating the differences betweenthe European and the U.S. way of doing busi-ness to the Americans.

“For example, a 20-minute meeting in theU.S.A. is considered fine. You cover the maintopics and that’s a positive, efficient meeting,”he said. “But in Europe, that would hardly betime to introduce yourself and have a coffee.Discussions are often very detailed, run forhours, through meals and late into the night.”

In Europe, it is much more than the prod-uct, delivery, quality and price, said Schulte.“Understanding the company and establishinglong-term personal relationships become anintegral part of doing business.”

What he most likes about living in Europe is“a richness of daily pleasures” such as espressocoffee and mountain biking in the Ardennes.

Top-flight Job Gives Alumnus Chance to Travel

Jim Osborne ’80 is a district managerfor Austrian Airlines. A German majorat Oswego, Osborne is responsible for

sales and marketing in 28 Central and WesternU.S. states.

“From our hub in Vienna, we fly to 120destinations on five continents,” said Osborne.“We operate daily service from Chicago, NewYork and Washington, D.C., to Vienna.”Osborne lives in Chicago.

“I started out in the airline industry as a flight attendant and worked my way upthrough the ranks with three other airlinesbefore coming to Austrian in 1992,” he said.

What he loves most about his job, he said, is “the challenge of selling a great product withlittle name recognition. And, of course, thetravel.”


by Art Bartholomew ’77

In England, it’s a “walk.” In America, it’s a“hike.” And hiking was a passion that tookJake — Tom Jacobsen ’77 — and me allover the world. From the soaring peaks ofSwitzerland, to the bottom of the Grand

Canyon, to the top of Mount Washington in NewHampshire, to the depths of an uncharted cavein New Guinea, we hiked. The summer of 2000, Ihiked all 110 miles of the Cleveland Way, inYorkshire, England, by myself, for Jake.

Jake and I met at Oswego in the fall of 1973.We graduated in May of 1977 and backpackedthrough Europe the fall of 1978. While hitchhik-ing through the spectacular countryside of Eng-land, we were invited to go “walking on themoors” in Yorkshire. It sounded interesting, butwe went to Scotland instead, promising toreturn someday.

Back in the U.S.A., we began our careers inpublishing in New York City. In 1985 I was trans-ferred to Los Angeles. Jake and I spoke fre-quently and hiked when we could. In the moun-tains we found peace and quiet and time forgenuine talk.

By the late ’90s, Jake was working at CAREand traveling to places like Kenya, Guatemala,Ecuador and Peru. I was doing much of my traveling to my kid’s basketball, baseball andsoccer games.

In May of 1999,we spent a few special dayshiking in the stunning Peak District in centralEngland. We planned to return when we hadmore time and finally walk on the moors. Ourplans were never realized.

On Jan. 20, 2000, Jake was hiking through arainforest by the Seven Sisters Falls in Grenada.With him were his girlfriend, Diane, and a guide.Somehow, he slipped into a stream and floun-dered. Frantic rescue efforts were unsuccessfuland Jake drowned.

I decided to go back to England and finallygo walking on the moors to honor Jake’s life andto raise money for a memorial bench and tree onthe Oswego campus.

The Cleveland Way was created in 1969 asBritain’s second long-distance footpath. It startsin the market town of Helmsley and windsthrough the stunningly beautiful countryside ofthe North York Moors National Park. The firstpart features rolling heather moors (which each

August erupt in a blaze of purple), proud ruins ofmonasteries, abbeys and mysterious standingstones. The Way reaches the sea at Saltburn andfor the next 55 miles follows the coast alongrugged cliffs and through colorful fishing villages.It ends in the Victorian seaside resort of Filey.

The walk is vigorous and yes, dangerous inspots. I developed some serious blisters and verysore knees. It is also quite lonely. However, atthe end of each day, a kindly woman was waitingfor me at the window of a B & B, usually with a“cup of tea.”

The walk took nine days. Jake was verymuch in my thoughts and perhaps closer thanthat. At one point, a grouse was circling aboveme for several miles, squawking and soaring anddiving, having an absolute ball! It was eerie and Istrongly felt Jake’s presence.

I returned to the U.S. and went straight toOswego for Reunion 2000. Most of Jake’s friendswere able to make it to campus. On July 23 weheld a moving memorial service and dedicated abench which now sits outside of Funnelle Hall,where we lived. It faces Lake Ontario and isshaded by a tree that was donated by MeganCree Sollecito ’77.

It has now been over a year since Jake’sdeath. He was absolutely the kindest person onecould ever hope to meet. He loved Oswego andconsidered his years there among the definingchapters of his life. Oswego should be proud toproduce such a man. I know that Jake was proudto be an alumnus of Oswego.

Jake’s friends have been generous and wehave collected substantially more than the costof the bench and tree. This will be the basis for aThomas Jacobsen Memorial Scholarship Fundfor a deserving student, possibly toward studyabroad opportunities.

For more information, or to donate tothe Thomas Jacobsen Memorial ScholarshipFund contact the Office of University Devel-opment at 315-312-3003.


The Cleveland Way, Yorkshire, EnglandA W A L K F O R J A K E

The author walked the Cleveland Way in his friend’s memory.Inset: Art Bartholomew ’77 and Tom “Jake” Jacobsen ’77 inNew Guinea in 1999.

By Linda Loomis ’90, M’97

D E S T I N A T I O N :Any place in theworld.

P O I N T O FD E P A R T U R ESUNY Oswego.

“We lovingly say we’re in theimport/export

business,” says SusanAnsara, describing theexchange of studentsbetween SUNY Oswego andcolleges all over the world.

Oswego’s InternationalEducation Office offers 35program choices. Add theSUNY-wide offerings, andthere are 10 times thatmany.

Ansara came toOswego from SUNY StonyBrook in 1990 to direct our Office of Internation-al Education.

“I inherited a strong program,” she says. “Mypredecessor, Jose Perez, had developedexchanges and opportunities in all the majorEuropean cities, as well as in China and Japan.Our Puerto Rico program was very strong.”

At the time, Eastern Europe was just open-ing up, and Ansara also sensed growing interestin Australia and New Zealand, where Oswegohas since established exchanges. She says thatbarring a few danger zones, there is almost noplace in the world that is not accessible toOswego students.

As the international program expands,Ansara says she envisions more faculty involve-ment in planning special interest trips —research in the rain forests, or anthropologicalexcursions, for example. She also sees a contin-uation of the growing trend for students toincorporate study abroad into their collegeexperiences.

“The rewards are great,” says Ansara, whogained first-hand experience in living in another

culture in the 1960s, as one of the first PeaceCorps volunteers. Graduating from WellesleyCollege with a bachelor’s degree in geography,Ansara spent two years as a teacher of Englishin Tunisia, where she lived on $120 a month, thestandard salary of a native teacher in the schoolwhere she taught. Returning to the UnitedStates, she earned a master’s degree in appliedlinguistics at New York University and took a jobat Stony Brook, where she set up the intensivesummer institute for English and worked in thestudy abroad office.

“When I came to Oswego, it was to spendmore time in what I had increasingly come toenjoy: providing opportunities for students toexperience other cultures and know other peo-ples,” she says.

As expected, students who do study in coun-tries outside the United States gain perspectiveon cultural differences and develop understand-ing of others.

Kelly Tremblay ’00, who plans to begingraduate studies in the fall, says, “My semesterabroad opened my mind and increased my under-

standing of anything that isnew and different.”

In addition to gainingawareness of others, stu-dents also come to a fullerunderstanding of them-selves.

“Living in another cul-ture, often speaking a dif-ferent language, gives stu-dents a stronger sense ofthemselves as individuals.It promotes maturity andindependence,” saysAnsara.

Malia Small ’01agrees. Back on campusafter studying in Australiain the fall of 2000, thecommunications majorsays, “The experiencehelped me to focus onwhat I want to do after col-lege. I saw myself in a posi-

tion that combines travel with admissions work,perhaps recruiting in other countries for anAmerican university.”

Ansara says many Oswego students oftencredit their international experiences with help-ing them land a great job after graduation or getinto the graduate school of their choice. “Theyfeel it just might be the thing that gets theirresume to float to the top of the pile,” sheexplains.

Students from other nations who enroll atOswego report similar benefits. “Like our stu-dents abroad, they are viewed as individualswho will confront their own limitations, broadentheir cultural understanding and explore a worldof possibilities,” says Ansara.

Once believed to be the privilege of the elite,international study is now accepted as a positiveand affordable option for most students. SUNYOswego’s program opens the doorway on theworld and invites students to step outside theirown communities to gain enrichment from inter-cultural experiences.


Visitors from one Oz to another got together at Hart Global Living and Learning Center. Australian exchange students, from left,front, Kristin Goble of Cairus, Marc Whitehead of Sydney, Melanie Flynn and Scott Browning of Bathhurst, and back, Marnie Gbog-bo of Bathhurst, visit with Oswego senior Malia Small, who recently returned from a semester in Australia.

From Oswego to the World:Opportunity and Understanding Begin in Office of International Education


Idon’t like Januaryand white winter car-pets. In every snow I

see the same traces.Traces of small feet,size six or who knows— leaving slowly,someplace.

A sudden burst oflight woke me up thatmorning. I could barelysee anything throughthe holes of my base-ment window. But Icould tell that the sunwas high in the sky, defi-antly hugging the snow onthe ground. I created a pic-ture in my mind — whitenesswas bathing in the gold. The skywas blue and clear, not a trace of acloud. Green pine trees were bathingin the sunlight, and even those crippled byshrapnel did not lose the beauty. They werestanding proudly, deformed, but defiantlybeautiful. The only thing that did not fit in mypicture was snow colored in red. How muchblood was spilled on the whiteness today?How many victims were there this time? Five,three, 10, or maybe none if we were lucky?

I felt strong pain in my right temple. Theorgies of the killers from the hill were becom-ing too much for me to bear. Strange, isn’t it?Instead of getting used to them, I was becom-ing even more irritated by them. But who inthis crazy world, who heard of a human beinggetting used to death? I never heard of suchperson. I have read many books. I have seenmany things. But I have never heard of a manor a woman who was used to death. But deathwas all around me. It was in the sun thathugged the snow.

It was in the air I breathed.In the darkness and heavy

cigarette-polluted base-ment air. For the pasteight months, death wasmy everyday compan-ion.

I needed some cof-fee, badly. It is strangehow a human beingcould not give up somevices, even in the war. Icould accept the fact

that I had only one meala day — one piece of

cornmeal bread with beanscooked in salty water. I could

accept the fact that if I wantedto drink water, I had to go and

get it from the closest spring, andby doing so, I risked being killed a

million times. But to go through the daywithout the strong, bitter taste of a cup of

coffee? No, that just could not be.I picked up the phone (a single proof that

we used to be part of civilized world) anddialed the number, that number so wellknown to me. I was relieved when I heard thefamiliar greeting on the other end of the line.

“Hello,” said the softest voice in the world.“Well hello, my dear friend,” I responded

with joy. “How are we doing this quiet Janu-ary morning? Are we in a mood for a tiny cupof coffee?”

“Hi, Adisa,” she said. “Is everything allright at your place? We are fine. None of themhit our building. I think they were aiming atthe center this time.”

“No. No one was injured here either,” Isaid. “But I need to get out of the basement. Ineed some fresh air, and a coffee — badly!Care to join me?”

WINTER IN BOSNIA

Adisa Pot ’01, a public justice

major, is a native of Bosnia. In this memoir,

written for her Nature of Nonfiction Writing

class, she describes an incident when she was

a teenager, longing for the normal pleasures,

relationships, and diversions that she and her

friends had enjoyed before the war.

Adisa, a full-time student at SUNY Oswego,

is also employed full time as an interpreter and

facilitator for the Syracuse Refugee Resettle-

ment program. She graduated May 12.


“What do you have on your mind?” sheasked.

“EKI,” I said. “They have electricity andwater today. l really need some caffeine in myblood to get it pumping. Besides, I haven’t beenout of the basement for three days now. I amgoing crazy here. I do not care even if I die; Ineed that cup of coffee.”

“OK,” she said cheerfully. “If the shells don’tkill you, I will. Meet me at the crossroad in 15minutes.”

The sun was strong that day. Perhaps it felteven stronger than it really was, since I hadspent the last three days in the safe darkness ofour basement. It was stinging my eyes, and for acouple of minutes I could barely see a thing. Itwas cold. The beast called winter was showingits teeth with all its strength. As I was walkingtowards the intersection, I caught myself think-ing about the not so far away time when Iwalked towards the same spot to meet with thecrowd. Zoran, Igor, Tanja, Jasmina, Lejla. Theywould all wait for me, and we would go to schooltogether. Every walk to school was a new adven-ture. Who is it going to be today that will pay forthe sins of being too serious? And what aboutgeography class? Is he going to give us a test orwill he do random questioning?

Zoran was in Serbia now. The last I heard, hewas supposed to graduate this summer fromhigh school. Well, at least one of us was inschool.

Igor was on Blizna hill. Those who lived inBlizna and were expelled from their homes saidhe was the best marksman on the trench mortarthe military unit had. I guess he is trying tomake sure he doesn’t “miss” his old friendsdown here.

The familiar voice woke me up from mythinking.

“Hey, you made it,” she said. “We betterhurry up if we want to get there alive. It is quiet

today, and you know what they say about thelull before the storm.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “They have to get tiredsometimes as well. Let’s hope they have a dayoff today.”

She laughed. I loved her laughter. Hearingand seeing her laughing, it was like the ointmentfor the wound. It was giving me strength, seeingus laughing in this time of terror, death and sor-row. That laughter was all we had left. It was ourweapon. It was our way of showing the destinythat we are still alive. Yes, we were laughing outof sadness. But we were laughing.

As we were approaching the bridge, shestarted conversation about “normal” life. Thatwas our favorite topic these days. Since nothingaround us was normal, we enjoyed imaginingwhat other kids our age did all around the world.It was 1 p.m. Normal kids in a normal countrywere in school now. Oh, how we missed theschool. And around 3 p.m. they will get out ofschool, hop into their car, or motorcycle per-haps, and go meet the crowd at the coffee barnearby. There they will plan stuff about tonight’sparty. How many people are there going to bethere? Was the person I like going to be there?And how shall we get the booze?

Sharp sound ripped the air around us. Firstone, loud and painful. The other two, almosttogether, followed. It felt like the wind from thestrongest tornado aimed at only one spot. Iheard someone yelling, telling us to run. I sawher and the expression of horror and fear on herface.

“Run,” she was screaming. “They are shoot-ing. Get off the bridge!”

But I could not move. I wanted so badly torun, but I just could not move. It felt like one ofthose dreams in which you are being chasedand you are running, but you are not moving atall. I closed my eyes and I moved my feet. Howfast — I do not know.

All I know was that I was thinking, “OK, thisis it. This is the end. Where will it hit me? In myhead, my shoulder? Will it hurt? God, don’t let ithurt.”

I opened my eyes. Bullets were still dancingtheir waltz of death. I could see them hitting theconcrete in front of me, dangerously spitting thesparkles, like a poisonous dragon with only onething on its mind — to kill. I did not want to die.I was scared. Yet, as it was this fear that wokeme from the deepest despair, I realized it. I wasnot going to die. Not today. I threw myselfbehind the barrack where people used to roastcoffee beans.

Coffee — it is all about the coffee today. If Ihadn’t gone out for the coffee, none of thiswould happen.

If I, if we…. Where was she? What hap-pened?

Where was my friend? I stopped breathingfor a moment. The blood in my veins froze.

I closed my eyes thinking this was just adream, one more nightmare and I shall nowwake up in that steamy, smelly basement andbegin to prepare to survive one more day. WhenI open my eyes, everything will be fine.

I opened my eyes. I saw reality. I saw herbody lying in the pond of blood. I wanted to dietoo.

But I was not dead. I lived to wonder — won-der where would we be if it weren’t for the war.

I do not like January and white wintercarpets. In every snow I see the same traces.Traces of small feet, size six or who knows —leaving slowly, someplace.

22 O S W E G O Development News

in memory of her husband,” saysHudson. “Receiving it affirms andjustifies my efforts so far and givesme an incentive to work even hard-er in my classes. The scholarshipgives me a sense of achievementand importance in the academicworld.”

Bevra Muirhead, whose mother,grandmother, daughter and severalother relatives also graduated fromSUNY Oswego, is retired following along career as a kindergartenteacher in Hamburg, N. Y. She livesin Venice, Fla., where she pursuesher avocation in genealogy andenjoys visits with her four childrenand her grandchildren.

She created the scholarship topay tribute to the memory of herlate husband, who left Scotland atage 14, came to America andworked his way through college. Hefought in World War II, and afterthe war he built the successful B. J.Muirhead Co. from the ground up.

Bevra recalls that Ben had“tremendous drive and a strongwork ethic.” It is to honor thesequalities that she endowed a schol-arship to encourage current andfuture students at her alma mater.

The first award from theBenjamin ’42 and BevraPease ’46 MuirheadPresidential Scholarship

was made to SUNY Oswego chem-istry major Holly Hudson, a junior.

A Presidential Scholar, Hudsonmet the criteria set by Bevra Muir-head, including high academic per-formance and campus leadership inher first two years at Oswego.

Hudson, who minors in math,spent the summer of 2000 in TerreHaute, Ind., performing research atRose-Hulman Institute of Technolo-gy, where she synthesized a poly-mer to be used as an electro-opticmodulator in an optical radar sys-tem that is being developed for theU. S. Navy. She is secretary of theChemistry Club, a member of DelSarte Dance Club, and an instructorof kick boxing and step aerobics.

“I’m so grateful to Mrs. Muir-head for providing this scholarship

Future Chemist is First Recipient of Benand Bevra Pease Muirhead Scholarship

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Gifts may be made to SUNY Oswegothrough the OswegoCollege Foundation,Inc., a not-for-profit corporation establishedfor the advancement ofSUNY Oswego. Unre-stricted and designatedgifts may be made bycredit card or check,made payable to theOswego College Foun-dation. Gifts may alsobe made through oursecure Web site—www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu. All giftsare tax deductible.Please call us for moreinformation about giftsto The Fund for Oswegoand planned givingopportunities.

Alumni and University DevelopmentKing Alumni HallSUNY OswegoOswego, N.Y. 13126

Phone: 315-312-3003Fax: 315-312-5570E-mail: [email protected]: www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu

Holly Hudson ’02

Ajudge who formerly headedthe Oswego College Coun-cil and a former facultymember who was president

of the Oswego Alumni Associationhave both remembered SUNYOswego in their wills by makinggifts of endowed scholarships. Thebequests are:

• George M. Penney Presi-dential Scholarship — Through abequest from the estate of Mary L.Penney, her late husband, JudgeGeorge M. Penney, will be memori-alized through a Presidential Schol-arship for students enrolled in theSchool of Business and/or majoringin public justice.

Judge Penney was named bythen-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller tochair the Oswego College Council in1962. He was managing director ofthe Savings Bank Association ofNew York State at that time andwas also a member of the law firmof Penney and Poland. He served onthe college board from 1949 untilhis death in 1975.

• Roland and Dorothy BrownClark ’36 Presidential Scholar-ship — The estate of Roland Clarkmade provision for a merit scholar-ship in memory of his wife, DorothyBrown Clark, who predeceased himin 1998. She had graduated in 1936from Oswego Normal School,

earned a bachelor’s degree in 1945and a master’s degree in 1950. Afterteaching in Elmira, she returned toher alma mater, where she taught inthe campus school for 30 years andwas an associate professor of edu-cation. As president of the OswegoAlumni Association for eight years,she was influential in helping theassociation grow into a comprehen-sive, national organization. She alsofounded the Sheldon Associates,Oswego’s first gift club program.

Estate gifts to the PresidentialScholars Program help provideopportunities for outstanding stu-dents to earn degrees at SUNYOswego.

Two Bequests Help Fund Presidential Scholars Program

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tant to Joanne and me, I want tobecome involved in the future ofthe college,” says Michael. “When Imet with President Deborah Stan-ley last year, I told her she cancount on our help in meetingOswego’s goals for the future. Wewant to be involved in the life ofthe college.”

President Stanley said that theenthusiastic response of alumnilike Michael and Joanne Durney isessential to Oswego’s future. “Aswe strengthen our programs as alearner-centered institution andmove to update facilities on cam-pus, we look to our loyal alumni fortheir ideas, their guidance, andtheir support. Mike and Joanneenjoyed special times here atOswego, and the degrees that theyearned have served as the basis forfulfillment in their careers, theirfamily lives, and their communityinvolvement. They have valuableinsights and experiences to shareas we shape the future of SUNYOswego.”

Michael says he and Joanne arefocusing on the future. “As I con-sider working less than that 16-hour-a-day grind that got me whereI am today, I think about the thingsthat matter most in our lives. SUNYOswego is right up there among themost important.”

Good memories are valued, too:Oswego Springfest, clambakes onthe shore of Lake Ontario, hockeygames and that all-important walkback to their lakeside dorms, withsnow sparkling in the light of streetlamps and settling on the boughs ofevergreens on a cold Decembernight in 1980.

By Linda Loomis ’90, M’97

An evening in town, the company of good friends,the music of JacksonBrowne and the Who,

and snow — as Michael ’83 andJoanne Snyder Durney ’84remember it, those were the ele-ments that contributed to theirromance.

Walking back to campus througha snowstorm one December night in1980, they acknowledged theirattraction for one another andbecame a “campus couple.” Theywere married five years later.

Michael, who is senior vice presi-dent of finance and chief financialofficer for Dice.com, the world’slargest Web site for recruiting peo-ple for technical positions, began hiscareer in public accounting. Rightout of college, he worked for ArthurYoung and Company, then took aposition as controller at Univision.After five and one half years there,he made a series of CFO careermoves that took him from HallmarkEntertainment Inc., to a start-up,Newport Media, then to USA Net-works Inc.

In May 2000, Michael took aposition as senior vice president,finance, and CFO of Earthweb,which included Dice.com.

“In December, we sold Earth-web, and retained Dice, a very prof-itable business,” he explains.

Joanne started her career at aManhattan publishing company,became a New York City publicschool teacher, then earned a mas-ter’s degree in education and a cer-tificate of advanced studies inschool administration. She isinvolved in the community, teachesnursery school and is president ofher daughter’s school’s board ofeducation. Today, with their atten-tion on successful careers and theirdevotion focused on their children— Ryan, 4, and Meghan, 10 — theDurneys are intent on identifyingthe things that matter in their lives.

And, when they tally those things,SUNY Oswego counts high amongtheir priorities.

That is one reason the Durneysmake a gift each year to The Fundfor Oswego that places them in thePresident’s Circle, among thosewho are Oswego’s most generousand dedicated supporters. Joannerecalls that she and Michael earnedthe money to put themselvesthrough school. “It was a wonderfultime for us. We made life-longfriends, people we still keep intouch with today. But it was diffi-cult sometimes, working a coupleof jobs and trying to keep up withcourse work.” Joanne says that sheand Michael want to do anythingthey can to make it a little easierfor today’s students to receive the

same good education they did.“Oswego is important to us,” saysMichael. “I want to help ensure thateducation at a public college likeOswego is as good as that in anyprivate institution. I interact withgraduates who hold MBAs fromHarvard School of Business, Stan-ford and Wharton. But, look atsomeone like Scott Sullivan ’83,my classmate, and you see thatOswego graduates have the poten-tial to rise to the top. Sullivan,CFO of WorldCom, is also a loyalalumnus. He is past chair of TheFund for Oswego and recipient ofthe Oswego Alumni Association’s1998 Anniversary Class Award.Michael was class chair for the fundthat year.

“Because Oswego is so impor-

Identifying the Things that Count, The Durneys Focus on Their Alma Mater

Michael ’83 and Joanne Snyder Durney ’84, pictured with their children Meghan and Ryan, count SUNYOswego among the things that matter most.

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Sithe Makes Lead Gift To School of Business

Sithe has donated $32,000toward the renovation ofRich Hall for SUNYOswego’s School of Busi-

ness. In recognition of this gift, aclassroom in the renovated buildingwill be named in honor of the com-pany.

Sithe is an international compa-ny providing power generation andenergy services throughout theworld. The company has a 16-yearhistory in New York State, includ-ing its flagship Independence Sta-tion in Scriba. Sithe is also a majorcontributor to Presidential Scholar-ships at Oswego through the annu-al Fall Classic. “We are proud tohave been able to be of assistancein the past and we look forward toa long continuation of this relation-ship,” Sithe Vice Chairman Barry F.Sullivan said on the occasion ofmaking the gift for Rich Hall.

Built in 1961 as the campuslibrary, Rich Hall will be completely

renovated to house the School ofBusiness and the Center for Busi-ness and Community Programs.The $8 million renovation is fundedthrough the SUNY ConstructionFund. Oswego is seeking additionalprivate funding for technology tomake Rich a state-of-the-art teach-ing facility.

This is the first time thatOswego has aggressively soughtprivate funds in support of a majorcapital project on campus, accord-ing to Kevin Mahaney, vice presi-dent for development and publicaffairs. “Sithe is the first major con-tributor to this effort and we aredeeply grateful for their leadershipand commitment to our students,”Mahaney said.

Work on Rich Hall is scheduledto begin in the fall of 2001, with thebuilding reopening during the2002-2003 academic year.

Scholarships Benefit Students

Tuition, room and board, and fees at Oswego can currently cost New York stateresidents more than $10,400 per year. While an Oswego education remains a

top value among colleges and universities, meeting these costs can be difficult forsome students and their families. In addition to the need-based financial aid availableto students, the Oswego College Foundation Inc. awards more than $380,000 inscholarship funds annually.

Establishing a scholarship endowment is one way that donors can have a directimpact on the lives of students. Endowing a scholarship requires a minimum of$10,000. Endowments can be established over several years. Income from theendowment provides annual scholarship support to Oswego students in perpetuity —creating a lasting legacy of generosity. Scholarships may take many forms, includingmerit-based Presidential Scholarships, and may be designated for students in particu-lar schools (Arts and Sciences, Education, Business) or majors.

For more information about establishing a scholarship fund, please contact theOffice of University Development, King Alumni Hall, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY13126. Phone: 315-312-3003; [email protected]

Scholarship Earmarked forTransfer Student from MVCC

Atransfer student fromMohawk Valley Communi-ty College to SUNYOswego, who is a campus

or community leader and whodemonstrates high academicachievement, will be eligible for anOlive B. Spargo Scholarship to beawarded in the spring of 2002.

Spargo, who graduated in 1931and pursued a successful career asan elementary school teacher, andwho is a leader in her church, com-munity and school board, has madea lifetime commitment to commu-

nity service. She is active on boardsand committees at MVCC as well asSUNY Oswego, where she hasserved as member, vice presidentand president of the Oswego Alum-ni Association as well as a memberof the Oswego College FoundationBoard and the College Council.

This is the second scholarshipprovided by Spargo. The other isthe Olive Brannan Spargo Leader-ship Scholarship in recognition andappreciation of SUNY Oswego andits dedicated and caring faculty.H

erbert ’40 and HazelMurray Siegel ’37, whoreceived their teachingdiplomas from Oswego

and retired after a combined 73years in public education, have pro-vided a full scholarship for sopho-more Angela Luke to earn a bac-calaureate degree in education atOswego. Luke is the third studentto receive the Siegel’s scholarship.A graduate of Lafayette Junior-Senior High School, she plans toteach in an elementary shcool.

“The Siegels are wonderful peo-ple,” says Luke. “I think of them asmembers of my family. They liveright down the street from me, butI didn’t know them before I wonthe scholarship. When I visit themnow, Mr. Siegel always reminds me

about my grades, but Mrs. Siegeltells me to have fun, too.” Lukesays the scholarship makes it possi-ble for her to attend Oswego andconcentrate on academics insteadof trying to work 20 or more hoursa week while studying. During highschool, she worked in a pizza shopand, summers, in a day-care centerto save for college. She now works10 hours a week in the Office ofAlumni and University Develop-ment.

The Herbert and Hazel SiegelScholarship provides all tuition,housing and related expenses for astudent who meets criteria basedon academic performance andfinancial need. The recipient mustbe in good academic standing andmay reapply annually.

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federal grants, to share informationas a consortium, best practices andsuch, and to enhance opportunitiesfor our students,” she said.

Founded in 1985 by the presi-dents of Brown, Georgetown andStanford universities and the Edu-cation Commission of the States,Campus Compact bonds membercampuses together as presidents,faculty, students and staff to pro-mote a vision for higher educationthat supports both the civic devel-opment of students and the cam-pus as an engaged member of itscommunity.

It aims to overcome many stu-dents’ disconnection from civic life,from government and from theresponsibility to address societalproblems. The national organiza-tion, which is based at Brown, pro-vides campuses with technicalassistance, training, benchmarks,leadership and advocacy for theirservice efforts.

“Everyone’s trying to overcome

the malaise of the college popula-tion,” Roodin said. “We’re trying toestablish the habits of engagementbecause that’s what furthers ademocratic society.”

State Campus Compacts serveas liaisons to state higher educationand community-based organiza-tions, school systems and govern-ment and provide campuses withhands-on assistance. Their work-shops help faculty explore newways to integrate service into theirclasses. They hold conferences forcampus community service direc-tors and for student leaders. Theyact as a conduit for funding oppor-tunities, research methodology andprogram models. Recognitionevents and awards promote out-standing work of faculty and stu-dents.

More than 50 public and privatecolleges in New York have expres-sed interest, and as many as 200are eligible to join the coalition,Stanley said.

Compact to Promote Campus Engagement, Civic Participationcellors from Syracuse University,Cornell University, Hobart andWilliam Smith College, SUNY Gene-seo, SUNY Cortland and NazarethCollege, who are among 10 mem-bers of the executive committee,and representatives from those col-leges who serve on the advisorycommittee.

Oswego’s strategic plan,“Engagement 2000,” calls forexpanding service learning in thecurriculum and developing oppor-tunities for volunteer projects byfaculty, staff and students in thecommunity. Stanley said she seesthe New York Campus Compact assupporting those campus goals.

“It’s a great opportunity: to get

Sophomore Andy Coker helps Philip Bolen choose sides for a game of kickball at “Kids Night Out” inSwetman Hall gym. Community service opportunities like this one, in which students from Hart Hall andCircle K raised money for Ronald McDonald House, are at the heart of the new Campus Compact.

SUNY Oswego will be one ofthe founding campuses ofthe New York CampusCompact. President Debo-

rah Stanley and Dr. Paul Roodin,director of experience-based educa-tion, attended an organizing meet-ing at Syracuse University last fall.

Campus Compact is a 15-year-old national coalition of college anduniversity presidents committed tohelping students develop the val-ues and skills of citizenshipthrough involvement in communityservice. New York will be the 23rdstate to form a Campus Compact atthe state level.

Also attending the meeting inSyracuse were presidents or chan-

Hart Puts Heart into Community Service Pledge

Hart Global Living and Learning Center residents and staff have taken a newapproach to community service this year, and it’s working.

“Doing community service in an organized program that works within our com-munity helps people get more involved,” said Kathy McDonald, a senior who tookpart in a food drive, one of many community service projects involving Hart Hallresidents.

As a part of the living agreement for Hart, students are required to completecommunity service each semester. Students were previously required to look forcommunity service projects on their own time and use their hours at their conve-nience throughout the semester. But this year, residents and staff decided to focusmore on project participation.

The students formed a community service advisory committee that woulddecide what service they wanted to provide and gather students with interests inthe project. They would initiate these service projects and draw students togetherto work beyond their basic commitment.

“So far the students have done a great job,” Hart Director Rina Hernandezsaid. "It is good to have student representation with the programs and having themdo what they want to do."

In the fall, they raised money and awareness for breast cancer and collectedclothing, food and school supply donations for the community.

Hart also added two independent study courses that involve community service.These courses are for upper class students or students who have lived in Hart Hall formore than two years. One course allows students to develop and implement a ser-vice project, while the other allows for the development and implementation of aneducation program.

Students developed programs such as “Kids Night Out,” after-school tutoring atRiley Elementary School and caroling at Pontiac Nursing Home.

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Dr. Alfred Frederick, pro-fessor of curriculum andinstruction, received histhird Fulbright Scholar

award to lecture and conductresearch in Benin.

He is continuing the work hebegan last year in the west Africancountry — teaching curriculumdevelopment and multiculturaleducation at the UniversitéNationale du Benin in Cotonou andconducting research designed toidentify the factors that can influ-ence whether a new curriculum isadopted successfully.

“I had never gone and taughtfor an extended period in Africabefore,” he said. “It was a delight.”

The students’ evaluations ofFrederick’s courses show theywere often thrilled to have anAmerican teacher, both to learn anew approach to curriculum devel-opment and teaching and to tryout their English, though Fredericktaught in both French and English.

He and a group of educators atthe Université Nationale du Benindesigned a series of seminars oneducational research and develop-ment to expand this cross-cultural

experience this year.Frederick invited 18 educators

from United States colleges anduniversities, several from Oswego,to come to Benin to conduct semi-nars at points throughout the year.The seminars are designed toestablish links of cooperation incross-cultural research and profes-sional development, Frederick said.

While in Benin this year, Fred-erick continued cross-culturalresearch he began with a pilotstudy last year there. In collabora-tion with others, he has developedsurvey instruments in both theFrench and Fon languages of Beninto study the effectiveness of class-room communication.

He said he plans to continue thestudy in Benin and eventually alsoin Brazil, where he went on his firstFulbright Scholar award, and in theUnited States.

Designing curricula that are rel-evant to a people’s socio-culturalreality has been the focus of Fred-erick’s career since his research inNigeria in the 1970s. He said hisexperience there showed him thateven the best designed curriculumand most up-to-date educational

practices can fail to gain a footholdin a school system if the peoplecharged with implementing it donot understand it or support it.

“We have to have faculty thataccept and feel comfortable withthe new curriculum, the content aswell as the strategies and tech-niques. They need to feel empow-ered in deciding what is to betaught and how it is to be taught,”he said.

In Benin, a primary level cur-riculum has been newly developedwith the support of the U.S. Agen-cy for International Development.“We would like to join forces tolook at those external factors thatcan serve as impediments to the

Frederick in Africa on Third Fulbright Scholar AwardDr. Alfred Frederick ofOswego’s School of Edu-cation, left, is studyingthe implementation of anew primary level cur-riculum in Benin as partof his Fulbright projectthere. Roman Babagbeto(right) of the UniversitéNationale du Benin coor-dinated the U.S. Agencyfor International Devel-opment project that sup-ported the curriculumdevelopment.

lion people. When the delegation arrived,

they found they had more candi-dates than they could handle. Theyformed two groups of 20 peopleeach. The first group had trainingin basic and advanced conflict res-olution and was trained as trainers.The second group only had thebasic instruction.

The people could apply theirtraining not only in their profes-sional life but also at home, Kitis-sou said. “To resolve conflictswithout violence was a big discov-ery for them,” he said. Churchmembers even planned to use itfor disagreements between thechurches.

The school of 350 studentsimpressed Kitissou because of its

Dr. Marcel Kitissou, direc-tor of the Peace Instituteon campus, took hisbeliefs on summer vaca-

tion with him. He spent threeweeks working in the Alternativesto Violence Program, teaching con-flict resolution skills to people inthe West African nation of Ghana.

Kitissou was part of a multi-national delegation, which wasformed by a woman from Balti-more, and included a volunteerfrom Nigeria and a woman fromthe Netherlands who most recentlyworked for the United Nations inthe Republic of Georgia.

They taught conflict mediationskills to parents, teachers and com-munity members at a MontessoriSchool in Kumasi, a city of 2 mil-

Kitissou’s Summer in Ghana

philosophy. “They want them to beGhanaians first,” he said, and thentrained in international skills.

“What has emerged from globalculture is an elite more eager tocontrol global technologies than torespond to the needs of their com-munities,” he said. “This schoolfocuses on rooting students in their

own culture first, then giving themskills for the international arena —practically the reverse of what’sgoing on in other places.”

Kitissou is from Togo, a countrythat has had conflicts with Ghana,but he said he was welcomed at theschool. Many of the teachers inGhana are Togolese, because theschools in Togo are not alwaysopen due to the conflicts.

He could not offer the conflictresolution training in Togo, becauseschools there were closed for sixweeks during the summer for fearof unrest surrounding the Confer-ence of the Organization of AfricanUnity being held at Lome.

He plans on returning to Ghanathis summer to continue trainingpeople in conflict resolution.

Dr. Marcel Kitissou of Oswego’s Peace Institute isshown with a tapestry he acquired during hissummer travels teaching conflict resolution at aschool in Ghana.

successful implementation of thenew primary school curriculum,”Frederick said.

Benin, formerly known asDahomey, gained its independencefrom France in 1960 and adopteddemocratic reforms in 1990. “It’squite diverse as far as language,religion and ethnicity,” Fredericksaid.

The Fulbright Program is theU.S. government’s flagship programin international educationalexchange. The competitive Ful-bright Scholars Program sendsnearly 800 scholars and profession-als each year to more than 130countries to lecture and conductresearch.


Dr. Shirley Jackson, associ-ate professor of history,returned to the continentof her ancestors last sum-

mer. She calls her tour of Ghanaand its historic sites associatedwith the slave trade “a personal pil-grimage” that will lend resonanceto her teaching.

“If you teach African-Americanhistory, at some point you need tomake the pilgrimage,” she says.

Jackson traces her family backthrough a great-grandfather whowas a slave on a Louisiana planta-tion, where her own father grewup. In the 17th and 18th centuries,many slaves were brought to Amer-ica from the Gold Coast of Africa,now Ghana, she says.

“It seems that this is where myfamily came from,” she says.

“Students always asked me,‘Have you been to Africa?’ and Ialways somehow felt guilty that Ihadn’t been,” Jackson says. “Now Ican talk about the conditions of

Jackson’s Pilgrimage EnrichesHer Teaching and Research

capture and holding with a muchgreater sense of reality and senseof kinship.”

She initiated contacts at theUniversity of Ghana and began toidentify archival sources to pursuein her research.

From Ghana, she went toBenin, where she delivered two lec-tures at the Université Nationale duBenin about her research onenslaved women who escaped tofreedom.

Scholars of slave resistancehave focused on male runaways,Jackson says, to the virtual exclu-sion of females. “It is true thatwomen did not flee as frequently asmen,” she says, “but it is very clearthe phenomenon of female slavesrunning way was more frequentand complex than historians haverecognized.”

Jackson’s ongoing researchaims to present an accurate pictureof runaway slave women and cor-rect the historical record.

that work full time, commute longdistances to campus or juniors orseniors with associate degrees whoare looking to complete their bach-elor’s,” she said.

She explained that it is moreconvenient for these students totake classes online than to com-mute to campus. “Students arenow able to complete their degreeson time by accessing these coursesat home if they cannot fit them intotheir schedules,” she said.

Online courses typically have anenrollment of about 30 students,both traditional and non-traditional,Petrella said.

Web courses are designed tobring the classroom setting to stu-dents’ computers. Dr. Robert Coleof the communication studiesdepartment said the classes typi-cally consist of readings, essayassignments and exams that areadministered through the Web.

He noted that some classes alsoconsist of interactive lectures fromthe professor that students view onCD-ROMs. There are also modulesthat allow students to interact withthe professor and other students inthe class and even receive techni-cal assistance, if needed, he said.Assignments are completed on theWeb through distance learningsoftware.

“These Web courses provide aninteractive learning experiencethat is of equal value to that of theclassroom,” Cole said.

SUNY Oswego and the SUNYLearning Network havedeveloped a curriculum con-sisting of a growing number

of online courses. These courses areaccessed through the Web andtaught by Oswego professors.

In the spring of 2000, Oswegooffered 13 online courses. In thespring of 2001, 25 online courseswere offered through SUNYOswego, Director of ContinuingEducation Yvonne Petrella said.Eleven more courses were in devel-opment during the spring, accord-ing to Michael Ameigh, assistantprovost for information resources.

Petrella said 30 online courseswill be offered next fall, including19 undergraduate courses, eightgraduate courses (two of which willsupport the proposed certificate ingerontology) and three non-creditcourses in the American Manage-ment Association certificate pro-gram for professional development.

Among next fall’s online coursesare “Seminar in Local History,”“Money and Banking,” “Introductionto Theatre,” “Death and Dying,”“Media Economics” and “Environ-mental Science.” The biggest pro-gram Oswego offers is broadcasting,where a student can earn a bache-lor’s degree online. Most ofOswego’s broadcasting classes areavailable through the Web.

Online courses allow Oswego to attract more non-traditional stu-dents, Petrella said. “The main tar-get for these courses are students

Oswego’s Online Offerings Grow

LONDON PROGRAMSA mini-reunion is in the planning stages for

all Oswego alumni who participated inany of the London programs. If you participatedin a study abroad program in London, pleasecontact the Alumni Office so we can make sureyou’re on the mailing list.

President Schedules Open Hours

President Deborah F. Stanley opened her office doors tomembers of the Oswego campus community in springsemester to hear their concerns and suggestions. She heldregular afternoon Open Hours most weeks.

Stanley said she was looking forward to hearing from students. A member of her office staff sits in on the sessions to take notes onthe issues raised and suggestions for dealing with them.

“Open Hour will give students an opportunity to personally sharetheir thoughts with me,” she said. “It will also give me a chance toget to know students better.”


Students entering the School ofEducation as freshmen thisyear have new programs avail-able to them as a result of a

recently approved re-registration. Theresulting changes will eventually bene-fit school children all over the state.

The re-registration is in responseto higher standards for State Educa-tion Department teacher certification.All colleges and universities with edu-cation programs are undergoing thisre-registration process.

When Oswego received word of itsprograms’ approval last summer, only249 programs of the nearly 1,300 sub-mitted statewide had been registered.A State Education Departmentspokeswoman said such quick turn-around indicated that “Oswego knewwhat the requirements meant andwas able to design a program of thequality that would meet the require-ments.”

Oswego applied and was approved for majors in childhood edu-cation, adolescent education, technol-ogy education, and business and mar-keting (vocational) education.

“We can take a great deal of pridein this accomplishment,” said Dr.Suzanne Weber, assistant dean foraccreditation and certification.

Key to the re-registration are thenew certification categories. “Basical-ly, it is a student-centered look ateducation, not adult-centered,” saidWeber.

What does it mean for Oswego students?

“It means the college will havestrong new programs that immersepreservice candidates in schools much sooner and much deeper thananything we have been able to dosince the closing of the campusschool,” Weber said.

“It will also put new emphasis onpreparing our preservice students towork effectively with kids most inneed of good teaching — children inhigh needs urban schools.”

In addition to the already ap-proved programs, the curriculum andinstruction department plans to addprograms for early childhood and mid-dle childhood education.

The vocational teacher prepara-

tion department will add a variety of occupational specialties as well.

The State Education Departmenthas now also called for re-registeringall graduate education programs in thestate, and Oswego’s School of Educa-tion has been working with FacultyAssembly to submit those programsthis year.

Calling it “an institutionwideendeavor,” Weber pointed out that faculty from the College of Artsand Sciences and School of Businesshave been active in the re-registra-tion process. “This touches most ofthe departments on campus,” shesaid.

The number of Oswego studentsaffected by the new programs is high— about 27 percent of all Oswegoundergraduates major in education,according to the Office of InstitutionalResearch and Assessment.

All the new programs have threedistinct features, Weber says.

First, they have added significantschool experiences to the professionalsequence. “It is a big commitment onthe part of the college to provide the

necessary supervision,” Weber said.“But it’s the right thing to do.”

Secondly, the new programs haveincreased emphasis on literacy. Allteachers, including high school andtechnology teachers, will be requiredto “help students learn to read, write,speak and listen in all content areas,”according to the new state regula-tions.

The final change is an increasedemphasis on diversity: teachingdiverse children and teaching indiverse settings, which will includeurban or high-need settings for allteacher candidates.

A team of School of Educationfaculty spearheaded the re-registra-tion effort. They were Dr. JoyceSmith and Dr. Pam Michel, chair, ofcurriculum and instruction; Dr. Vin-cent D’Ambrosio and Dr. Phil Gaines,chair, of technology; and Dr. SusanCamp, chair of vocational teacherpreparation.

Education Programs Updated, Re-registered

employment andincome generation,”Atri said.

Atri and Stanleyemphasized that thecampus’s economicimpact is not the onlyone it has on theregion. SUNY Oswegoadds to the quality oflife in the area byproviding education-al and culturalopportunities andenhances the areaby the research andvolunteer activitiesof its faculty, staffand students.

Campus Has Huge Impact on Region

SUNY Oswego has a bigimpact on the Central NewYork region, and now thereare the numbers to prove

it. A new brochure, titled “Pros-pering Together,” details the cam-pus’s impact, including economic,educational and cultural effects onthe region.

“There is no easy or shorthandway of assessing the impact of aninstitution of higher learning,”President Deborah F. Stanley said.“This document is extraordinarilyhelpful in displaying the institutionas an integral part of the communi-ty, inextricably linked to the bene-fit of all its citizens. We’re proud ofour role, and this will be helpful inplanning as we look to the future,”she said.

“Prospering Together” showsthat SUNY Oswego has an impactof $92 million on the Oswego

County economy and $165 millionon the seven-county Central NewYork region. In employment impact,the college adds 1,800 direct full-time equivalent jobs and 1,768 indi-rect, for a total of 3,569 jobs inOswego County. The total rises to4,879 when neighboring countiesare considered.

The brochure was distributed tostate legislators, the governor andSUNY system administration offi-cials. It was also shared withOswego County legislators, busi-ness people and others.

The current study is based onone done in 1994-95 by Dr. SaidAtri of the economics departmentand Dr. Jack Miller, who was on theeconomics faculty at the time. Newfigures were plugged into the mod-els they created. “Definitely in theregional economy, Oswego plays avery, very major role in terms of


first team All-SUNYAC honors.Oswego State qualified for the SUNYAC

Tournament in men’s soccer after finishingfourth in the regular season. The team fell inthe semifinals losing to top-seeded and even-tual champion Plattsburgh in a shootout.Sophomore Derek Popovich ’03 (Bald-winsville/Baker) led the team in scoring with12 goals and six assists for 30 points earninghim first team All-SUNYAC recognition.

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The men’s basketball team finished tied forthe eighth spot in the conference standings,but lost out on going to the SUNYAC Tourna-ment on a tiebreaker. The team finished withan overall record of 9-15.

Under first-year coach Michelle Collins,Janelle Hulbert ’01 (Dexter/General Brown)capped her career as a Laker becoming onlythe fifth player in school history to score over1,000 points. Hulbert is fourth on the school’sall-time scoring list with 1,162 points.

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The Laker field hockey team qualified for theNYSWCAA Tournament marking the team’s firstplayoff appearance in several years. The teamwas led by Patsi Campany ’03 (Verona/Ver-non-Verona-Sherrill) who was honored as asecond team All-State selection.

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On the golf course, the Lakers enjoyed a suc-cessful fall season winning their own OswegoInvitational for the second straight year.

The honors didn’t stop there for the Lak-ers as Mike Howard ’89 was named theEmpire Conference Coach of the Year. Heguided Oswego State to a second-place finishat the ECWC tournament and a top-20 nation-al ranking.

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The Oswego State cross country program con-tinued its steady rise as three individuals trav-eled to Spokane, Wash., for the NCAA DivisionIII Championships. Rich Friedrich ’02(Goshen) advanced to nationals after earningAll-SUNYAC first team honors, while beingnamed to the conference Hall of Fame. Duringthe fall campaign, the Laker junior placed firstat the Pat Peterson Invitational and at the Pan-ther Invitational held at Middlebury College.

Bridget Wiedl ’01 (Fort Edward/HudsonFalls) was also inducted into the SUNYAC Hallof Fame and qualified for the NCAA Champi-onships. She wasn’t the only runner from thewomen’s team to qualify for the big event inSpokane as freshman Susan McWilliams ’04(Central Square/Mexico) rounded out the tal-ented field of Laker runners.

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The Oswego State ice hockey team extendedits impressive streak of 24 straight seasons ofmaking a post-season appearance placingsecond in the SUNY Athletic Conference stand-ings. The team spent most of the seasonranked among the nation’s elite teams afterclimbing as high as seventh in the U.S. CollegeOnline Hockey Poll. Senior co-captain Derek

Kern ’01 (Kings Park) was a solid performer forthe Lakers as he reached the 100-pointplateau for his career.

A new player to the program stepped rightin and contributed as freshman Mike Lukajic’04 (Oakville, Ontario) was honored as SUNY-AC Rookie of the Year. The freshman led theteam with 20 goals in the regular season.

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It was a record-breaking season in the pool atLaker Hall as the men’s and women’s swimmingand diving teams combined to set 17 newschool records. Both teams finished with 8-2records and placed second at the SUNYACChampionships where each team had sevenfirst-place finishes. Coach Kami Mathews alsobecame only the second coach to win bothmen’s and women’s coach of the year honors inthe same season.

Beth Chmielowiec ’02 (Byron) and AnneSarkissian ’04 (Oswego) each won two eventsfor the women’s team. Chmielowiec placed firstin the 500 and 1,650-yard freestyle event, whileSarkissian won the 100 and 200-yard butterflyevents. Amanda Birchenough ’02 (Lowville) wasnamed most valuable diver for the women at theconference meet, winning the one-meter compe-tition. The Lakers won two more events at themeet, the 200 and 400 medley relays.

The men also had a pair of double winnersas Scott Williams ’01 (Cortland) won the 100and 200-yard backstroke and Tom Buttino ’03(Dryden) captured first in the 100 and 200 fly.Shaun Manning ’02 (Manlius) repeated as thewinner of the 1,650 freestyle and Alex Witowski’04 (Enon Valley, Pa.) won the 200-yard breast-stroke. Oswego added one more top finish, win-ning the 800-free relay.

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The women’s soccer team pushed its post-season play streak to 12 straight years as theLakers went to both the New York StateWomen’s Collegiate Athletic Association Tour-nament and the ECAC Tournament. The teamwas led by Kathryn Stead ’03 (CliftonPark/Shenendehowa) who earned 2000Northeast Regional All-American along with

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The Oswego State wrestling program qualifiedfour grapplers for the NCAA Division III Cham-pionships held in Waterloo, Iowa.

The Laker matmen put together an out-standing year that saw them ranked as high as13th in the NCAA Division III Brute-AdidasCoaches Poll. All-American Jason Turner ’01(Oswego/G. Ray Bodley) led the Lakers at theEmpire Collegiate Wrestling Conference Cham-pionships as he won the title at heavyweightscoring a pair of victories in his weight class toimprove to 22-5 on the season. He enteredthe tournament ranked sixth in the country forhis weight class. This was Turner’s secondstraight trip to nationals after placing fourth in2000 at heavyweight.

Noah Seitel ’02 (Dobbs Ferry/Ardsley)made his second appearance at the NCAAChampionships. Seitel took first place at theECWC Championships at 165 pounds bysweeping his way through all three of hisbouts. Headed into the nationals, Seitel hadan impressive record of 34-10.

Frank Petrucci ’04 (Suffern/Don BoscoPrep) made an immediate impact for the Lak-ers giving the team three champions at theECWC Championships, winning at 149pounds. In two of his three wins, Petruccidefeated seeded opponents and for his effortwas named Co-Most Outstanding Wrestler ofthe Tournament. This season Petrucci has col-lected 25 victories.

The final Laker to qualify for the nationalswas Jeff Holmes ’02 (Cicero/Cicero-NorthSyracuse). Holmes placed second at the con-ference tournament after knocking off a return-ing All-American to advance to the finals. TheLaker was voted one of five “wild cards”entries to move onto the tournament in Iowa.Holmes is fifth on the team with 21 wins.

L A K E R S P O R T S U P D A T E

Oswego Athletic Hall of Fame

T he Oswego Athletic Alumni Association rescheduled the firstAthletic Hall of Fame induction to Saturday, Oct. 27, 2001.Charter members will be inducted into the newly formed Hall

of Fame at the first annual Hall of Fame Dinner.For the most up-to-date information, please visit our Web site at

www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/halloffame

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People interested in workingwith the aging populationcan increase their knowl-edge and job readiness

with a new graduate certificateprogram offered by the SUNY Cen-tral New York Consortium for AgeStudies, of which SUNY Oswego isa part.

The graduate certificate ingerontology is a new 18-credit-hourprogram offered as a collaborationamong Oswego, SUNY Cortlandand Upstate Medical University.Oswego last summer received$30,000 in Mission Review grantmoney from the State University tohelp develop the new certificateprogram.

The program is designed for

adult students, such as profession-als in allied health fields, humanservices and social work, research,education and business, who seekacademic credentialing in agingstudies.

“As our population ages,” saidDr. Cheryl Kaus of the psychologydepartment, “There will be increas-ing job opportunities to take careof the needs of those older folks.”

The program is coordinatedthrough Oswego's Division of Con-tinuing Education and began itsfirst course offering in January atUpstate’s School of Nursing.

For more information or to reg-ister, call Oswego’s Division of Con-tinuing Education at 312-2270.

New Certificate Programto Focus on Needs of Aging

Exchangeexchanged

Anew telephone exchange came with a new telecommunications

system installed on campus recently. Campus phone numbers now begin with the prefix 312 — instead of341. The four-digit extension numbers have not changed.

SUNY Oswego graduatesfrom the Class of 1999found themselves in thebest job market in recent

memory. That played out in thereport of their job successes issuedin January by Oswego’s Career Ser-vices Office.

“Nationally, when the Class of’99 hit the job market, they hit it atits peak,” said Robert Casper,director of Oswego’s Career Ser-vices Office. “We saw a significantincrease in companies reportingthat they would be hiring, and largecompanies increased their hiring ata higher percentage than smallercompanies.”

The students who graduated inDecember 1998 and May andAugust 1999 reported back to theCareer Services Office survey thatthe vast majority of them wereemployed, working within NewYork state and making salarieshigher than their schoolmates of ayear before.

School of Education graduatesmade the biggest advances, withoverall average starting salaries ris-ing 13.5 percent, to $31,218. Aver-age salaries for elementary educa-tion majors rose 35 percent, to$34,110. Casper said this reflectsan increase in full-time teachingpositions. “Public schools havenever recruited like they are now,”he said.

In Oswego’s College of Arts andSciences, computer science majorsposted the highest average startingsalary of any members of the Classof 1999 at $44,690. Overall, arts

and sciences graduates recordedan average salary of $27,576. Indi-vidually, several reported startingsalaries in the $50,000 range, withone information science majorreporting a $70,000 income.

Graduates from Oswego’sSchool of Business also saw theirsalaries go up, especially account-ing majors. They posted an averagesalary of $31,845, with a high of$55,000.

From 1998 to 1999, SUNYOswego saw a 26 percent increasein companies recruiting on campusand a 21 percent rise in studentsinterviewing on campus. “Trends injob fair recruiting and on-campusinterviews remain at an all-timehigh in the 15 years I’ve beenhere,” Casper said.

1999 Graduates Post HigherOverall Salaries

Oswego a Pioneer in New SUNY Connect

The State University has bigplans for its libraries, andOswego is in on the groundfloor.

Last fall SUNY launched SUNYConnect, a groundbreaking initia-tive to link all the libraries in theuniversity, creating the largestlibrary collection of any public uni-versity in the world.

Oswego was one of the first sixcampuses to join the effort. It willimplement the Aleph 500 librarymanagement system, along withFredonia, Tompkins Cortland Com-munity College and the universitycenters at Stony Brook, Bingham-ton and Buffalo. At least 60 of the64 SUNY campuses are expected tojoin by 2004.

The new system had a targetdate of the Monday after graduationin May, librarian Natalie Sturr said.

Oswego was chosen “becausewe have the strength in our staff atthe computing and networking centers,” Sturr said. “There’s someprestige to it, the importance ofbeing a leader in technologicalapplication.”

The idea behind SUNY Connect is “the library is wherever you are,” Sturr said. A core set of databases and a catalog will allow students to search and borrowthroughout the university system.A student at Oswego can borrow abook from Stony Brook’s libraryand vice versa within two days.

NEW YORK CLUBS

BinghamtonMargaret Clancy Darling ’82, 607•748•5125 (H)

BuffaloLarry Coon ’83, 716•852•1321 (O), 716•873•2695 (H)

Capital District (Albany)Linda Woytowich ’92, 518•446•0479 (H),e-mail: museumshop@

albanyinstitute.org

Mohawk ValleyLiz Fowler ’68, 315•337•9895 (H), e-mail: efowler1@ twcny.rr.com

New York CityJennifer McGuire Higbee ’93212•289•5133 (H), e-mail:[email protected]

RochesterHenry Seymour ’87, 716•256•2927 (H), e-mail:[email protected]

SyracusePaul Susco ’70, 315-656-3180 (H)Kitty Sherlock Houghtaling ’87, 315•656•2457 (H),e-mail: [email protected]

OTHER AREAS

AtlantaJeffrey Travis ’89, 770•926•7580 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

BostonCheryl Webster ’98, 617•629•2547 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

ChicagoJenise Caiola ’96, 773•334•1938 (H), e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Northern New JerseyTom McCrohan ’85, 973•701•2990 (H), 212•635•1578 (O),e-mail: tommccrohan@

hotmail.comFran Lapinski ’72, MS ’74, 973•763•8788 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

North CarolinaMark Kuljian ’91, 704•583•9370 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

Phoenix, AZCharles Weigand ’50, 602•494•0277 (H), e-mail: [email protected] Sweet ’48, 602•997•8196 (H)

San DiegoEd ’91 & Nancy Nagle ’92

Gormley,619•225•9825 (H)Kent Malmberg ’89, 858•270•6297 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

San Francisco BayJay Rubin ’93, 650•961•1699 (H), 415•378•8739 (cell),e-mail: [email protected]

South CarolinaSonya Nordquist ’91, 843•881•9503 (H), e-mail: [email protected] Parker ’91, 843•873•1548 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

Washington, D.C.Rick Chandler ’94, 703•351•8017 (H), e-mail: [email protected]

Club NewsAtlantaThe Atlanta Club is planning to restart thirdThursdays with events on June 16 at Sidelines,July 21 at Park Tavern, Aug. 26 at ESPN andSept. 15 at Moe and Joe’s. Contact JeffreyTravis ’89 with event ideas or check out theclub’s website, www.geocities.com/oswe-goalumni, for event details.

BinghamtonThe Binghamton Club is planning a BinghamtonMets baseball game this summer and a BC Ice-men hockey game before the end of 2001. Formore details or if you have event ideas, contactMargaret Clancy Darling ’82.

BostonEvents planned for area alumni include seeingBlue Man Group at The Charles Playhouse July15, a social at the Joshua Tree in Davis SquareAug. 2, a Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers baseballgame Sept. 22, a social at The Bell in HandNov. 8 and attending The Nutcracker in Decem-ber. For details on upcoming events, or if youwould be willing to help plan activities, contactCheryl Webster ’98.

BuffaloThe Buffalo Club is looking forward to attendinga Buffalo Bisons vs. Syracuse SkyChiefs baseballgame Aug. 17 and the Bills vs. Steelers footballgame Sept. 30. If you have other event ideas orfor more information, contact Larry Coon ’83.

Long IslandSpecial thanks to Jim and Debbie Adams-Kaden’78 for their volunteer efforts in planning a get-together of alumni, prospective SUNY Oswegostudents and their families, parents of currentstudents, as well as the men's lacrosse teamand coaches. This reception took place immedi-ately after the Oswego lacrosse team took onFarmingdale April 21. The Kadens were alsoinstrumental in helping to plan a Solid Stateand StateSingers concert April 27 at Walt Whit-man High School in Huntington Station.

New York CityJennifer McGuire Higbee ’93 and a group ofarea volunteers have recently rejuvenated theclub. Area alumni attended the farewell concertof Johny Vegas in December, held bi-monthlynetworking socials in January, March and May,and attended a Frostbit Blue concert in April.School of Business alumni in the NYC area alsogathered for a reception and dinner April 23with President Stanley, Rosemary CardamoneCrane ’81 and School of Business faculty.Upcoming events include attending a Broadwayproduction, attending a taping of a late night

talk show, participating in a charity walk, NewYork Cares events as well as networking socialsJuly 25, Sept. 19 and Dec. 5. For more informa-tion on upcoming events or to vote on futurelocations for the networking socials, visit theclub Web site, http://members.tripod.com/nycoswegochapter. While on the site, check outthe Job Board for open positions in and aroundthe NYC area submitted by other alumni.

Northern New JerseyTom McCrohan ’85 and Fran Lapinski ’72, MS ’74held a club kick-off meeting May 3 with areaalumni volunteers to plan future events. Eventideas include a Somerset Patriots baseballgame and picnic this summer as well as a guid-ed viewing tour of the Raptor Trust, a rehabilita-tion facility for injured wild birds of prey inMillington, in September. Contact Tom or Fran tovolunteer or with event ideas.

Phoenix, Ariz.Alumni from the classes of 1948 through 1996celebrated the club’s first official get-togetherMarch 10 with dinner and dancing. Events beingplanned include a fall picnic and a luncheon. Agroup of alumni meet regularly to plan eventsand reminisce, so if you would like to volunteeryour time or event ideas, contact Bob Sweet ’48or Charles Weigand ’50.

RochesterArea alumni are encouraged to attend “Alive atthe MAG” June 1, a brunch at Mario’s viaAbbruzi June 3, a Rochester Red Wings baseballgame Aug. 18 and the Bills vs. Steelers footballgame Sept. 30. Rochester area alumni are need-ed to help coordinate event planning. Otherobligations will soon force Henry Seymour ’87 tostep down as club contact. He would like torecruit one or more interested alumni to jump inand help out and eventually take over the club.Please contact the alumni office or Henry Sey-mour ’87 to volunteer.

South CarolinaSonya Nordquist ’91 and Karen Parker ’91 havevolunteered to start up an alumni club in SouthCarolina. Their kick-off event on March 10 was aCharleston Stingrays hockey game and pregamereception. The club's next event will be aCharleston Harbor Cruise in June. If you live inthe area and have event ideas or would be will-ing to help, contact Sonya or Karen.

SyracuseThe Syracuse Club is planning a SkaneatelesLake Dinner Cruise this summer and is lookinginto attending “The Phantom of the Opera” inDecember. For more details or if you have eventideas, contact Kitty Sherlock Houghtaling ’87 orPaul Susco ’70.

Alumni Club Contacts

Washington, D.C.Area alumni met near the White House in Februaryto go ice skating and in May a get-together to cel-ebrate Cinco de Mayo took place in Arlington.Upcoming events include a Flag Day networkingsocial on June 14 at the Rock Bottom in Bethes-da, Md., a picnic July 28 at Fort Hunt Park inMount Vernon/Alexandria, the King Street Krawl

Sept. 22 (meet at Murphy’s in Old Town Alexan-dria), a gathering at Grevey’s restaurant in Fair-fax to watch a Buffalo Bills game in October anda holiday party on Dec. 13 at Buffalo Billiards inDupont Circle. For more information, contactRick Chandler ’94.

Alumni in South Carolina enjoyed their club’s kick-off event on March 10 by attending a CharlestonStingrays hockey game and pre-game reception. Pictured with the Stingray are, from left, SonyaNordquist ’92, Karen Parker ’91 and Mike Reino ’91.

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Nancy (Bambi) Hirschaut Bernhard ’51, left, andIrma Mioduser Green ’51 enjoyed a visit recentlyat Bambi’s home in Beverly Hils, Calif.

NTo protect personal privacy, we currentlydo not publish Alumni Class Notes onour website. If you are interested inreading this part of the magazine anddid not receive a copy, please contactus with your updated address and wewill send it on.

Oswego student journalists gotfirst-hand experience in crisisreporting back in 1940.The Jan. 20 issue of the Oswe-

gonian, typed in three columns onan 8 1/2” by 11” piece of paper,reveals that fire “ravaged” SheldonHall as a blizzard raged outside Sat-urday, Jan. 18, leaving the auditori-um in ruins and most other roomsdamaged by flame, smoke andwater.

Students of what was then theOswego Normal School joined fire-

fighters to douse flames and cleanup debris.

Beneath a subhead “Work AllNight,” the story reads: “Scores ofstudents worked all night and allday Sunday removing falling plaster,water, and other debris from hallsand rooms not directly affected bythe ravaging flames. Approachingexaminations assumed a secondaryrole as these people joined forces.Broken windows and doors wereboarded up to prevent the drivingsnow from increasing the damage.”

The subhead “Girls Supply Cof-fee,” is above this news: “As themale students labored under thesetrying conditions, girl students sup-plied them with coffee.”

At that time, final exams for thefall semester were scheduled latein January, after the Christmas andNew Year’s holiday. Notices ofchanges in examination sitesrevealed such helpful informationas: “All General Elementaryexams will be held in the I.A.building. You may secure mimeo-graph bulletins giving definitedirections at the entrance of theI.A. building.”

There was also a call from theadministration asking for “stu-dents completing exams to reportto Mr. Howland for cleanupwork.”

The new semester, spring1940, was set to begin on scheduleas reported in this notice: “Classeswill meet according to originalschedule, Tuesday morning, Jan.28. First assembly will be heldTuesday morning, at 9:00 o’clockin the gymnasium. (P.S. - Bringyour own seats.)”

Clarification

In the Fall/Winter issue of Oswego, we incorrectlyidentified the faculty members featured in “From the

Archives.” Seated at the computer is Dr. Robert Sloanof the math department. Looking on is Dr. Holman Lee ofthe education department. Dr. Sloan and Dr. Gus Silveiraof the chemistry department were instrumental in bring-ing the first computer to the Oswego campus, through aNational Science Foundation grant. In no way did wewish to minimize the considerable efforts of Dr. Sloanand Dr. Silveira and their initial role in the “computeriza-tion” of campus. Dr. VanDyke was the first full-time staffmember hired at Oswego to oversee computer opera-tions. We regret any misunderstanding.

-Editor

Fire and Snow Hit Campus in January of 1940

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To protect personalprivacy, we currentlydo not publishAlumni Class Noteson our website. Ifyou are interested inreading this part ofthe magazine anddid not receive acopy, please contactus with your updat-ed address and wewill send it on.

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Reunion Reminder75th - 1926

70th - 1931

65th - 1936

60th - 1941

55th - 1946

50th - 1951

40th - 1961

35th - 1965, 1966, 1967

25th - 1976

15th - 1985, 1986, 1987

10th - 1991

Join classmates and friends for

three days of celebration as you

relive your Oswego experience at

Reunion ’01. Every member of the

Oswego family is welcome home for

Reunion July 20, 21 and 22. Attention

classes of ’65, ’67, ’85 and ’87: This is

YOUR reunion. Because of the Cluster

Reunion system, the classes of ’65 and

’85 did not celebrate a reunion last

year, and the classes of ’67 and ’87 will

not officially celebrate a reunion in

2002. As always, all class years are

welcome to attend any reunion! For the

most up-to-date information on Reunion

2001, or to register online (in late May),

visit the Web site at www.oswegoalum-

ni.oswego.edu/reunion2001

Mini-reunionsMini-reunions are reunions of special interest groups such as Greek organiza-

tions, residence halls, or clubs or organizations. Mini-reunions planned dur-

ing Reunion 2001 include: former Fallbrook residents, Football Alumni, Sigma Chi,

Omega Delta Chi, Pi Delta Chi and Arethusa.

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Summer PicnicOswego grads from the mid-1950s gather each summer for a picnic and chance to catch up on thenews. The 2000 picnic was held at Shirley Dutcher Cooper’s summer home in Fair Haven. Pictured,from left, kneeling, are — Elaine Reap Bond ’55, Shirley Cooper Dutcher ’55 and Betsy GriswoldSweeting ’54; standing — Adele DeSantis ’53, Carolyn Long ’54, Joan Leonard ’54, Jeanne Mitchell’54, Elinore Schlegel DeVuyst ’53, Mary Wood Ocque ’56, Barb Hart Friends ’53, Marilyn LeRoy Kindl’52 and Eleanor Clarke Colvin ’55.


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Florida VisitPresident Deborah Stanley and Vice President Kevin Mahaney met with alumni in West PalmBeach, Fla., this winter. Pictured, from left, seated — Terry Orkand Carin ’51, President DeborahStanley and Marion Cohen Michaels ’50; standing — Mike Michaels, Art Carin ’51 and Vice Presi-dent Kevin Mahaney.


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This column celebrates the publishing suc-cess of Oswego alumni authors and illustrators.Congratulations to those whose books are men-tioned. Please keep us informed about newbooks by requesting that your publisher send acopy for the Oswego Alumni Association book-shelf at King Alumni Hall.

Sailor of the Stars,by Robert Lawrence’69, is a language arts-based text that simu-lates the life of an astro-naut for pupils in upperelementary level class-es. Lawrence is ateacher in the Guilder-land Central School Dis-trict. He has beentrained by NASA and

has received NASA Lunar Certification. Inclassrooms using Sailor of the Stars, pupilsorganize as NASA crews, participate inactivities in which they discover the historyof the U.S. Space Program and the dutiesof the crew members. Interaction Publish-ers, Inc. Carlsbad, Calif., 2001.

Lawrence has also published severaljournal articles, one on singer Judy Collinsfor Space Launch News 2000, in which hewrites, “I even was fortunate enough toattend a Judy Collins concert in 1968 atthe State University College at Oswego....”

The Haliimaile General Store Cook-book, by Beverly Gannon with BonnieFriedman ’71, is a beautifully illustratedbook about the Hawaiian restaurant run bythe Gannon family on the Island of Maui.Beverly Gannon’s recipes, with dessertrecipes by Teresa Gannon, spotlight region-

al cuisine and are arranged for spring,summer, fall, and winter, using fresh ingre-dients appropriate to each season. Fried-man is the owner of Grapevine Produc-tions, a Maui public relations firm that hasrepresented many of Hawaii’s best chefsand their restaurants since 1988. She isalso a writer and journalist. Ten SpeedPress, Berkeley, 2000.

Chaim Potok: ACritical Companion,by Sanford Stern-licht ’53, is adetailed biographyof Chaim Potok, whohas been regardedas one of the mostimportant Jewish-American writers of

our time. Sternlicht’s book examines the lit-erary and spiritual influences on Potok’swriting and provides full literary analysis ofPotok’s eight novels. Sternlicht teaches inSyracuse University’s English Departmentand Judaic Studies Program. GreenwoodPublishing Group, Westport, Conn., 2000.

The Visitors inMrs. Halloway’sBarn by ThomasJ. Prestopnik ’85.A fantasy-adven-ture novel for chil-dren ages 8 toearly teens. WhenChristopher and

Molly Jordan meet King Rupert and hismagician Artemas hiding out in an aban-doned barn near their home, the brotherand sister soon find themselves on theadventure of a lifetime. After steppingthrough a magical time door into the king-dom of Endora, the children embark on atrek across frozen and desolate plains tohelp rescue the king's kidnapped daughter,Princess Rosalind. They meet an assort-ment of characters throughout the story,including evil sorcerer Malaban; his power-hungry second-in-command, Belthasar;and a legion of troll and goblin soldiers.Sample chapter available on the web atwww.Xlibris.com (click on bookstore, thensearch). Xlibris, 2000.

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E-Mail AddressUpdatesRemember to send (or

update) your e-mail addressto the Alumni Office – wesometimes send announce-ments now of alumni events inyour area only via e-mail.

You can also add your e-mail address to the Alumni E-Mail Directory at www.oswe-goalumni.oswego.edu sofriends and classmates cancontact you.

On Saturday Feb. 10, the first annual "Sporting Careers" Alumni Program was held. The programincluded a Careers Roundtable featuring Alumni Athletes talking about life after sports andcareer choices, followed by a reception and several varsity athletic contests. The program wassponsored by the Oswego State Athletic Department, The Oswego Alumni Association Alumni-in-Residence program, the CHAMPS Lifeskills Program, Career Services and a grant from AuxiliaryServices Program Fund. Pictured, from left, seated — Chyrisse Conte ’87, Amy Barry ’90, JanePalmerini ’98 and Dan Bartlett ’96; standing — Dan Witmer ’82, Katie Smith ’00, Sharon Hen-derson ’87, Brandon King ’92 and Nick Meskos ’93.


Oswego MattersFrom the executive director’s desk

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The Oswego Alumni Association, like mostother alumni associations around thecountry, offers services for our alumni.In recent years some of these services

include an alumni affinity credit card, a groupdiscount on auto and homeowner’s insurance, aninteractive online alumni community, an AlumniLocator Service, an alumni directory, Career Ser-vices programs for graduates and a group buyingplan.

The MBNA affinity card allows Oswego alumni to use a credit cardwhich also helps support Oswego. Whenever the card is used, a royaltycomes to the Oswego Alumni Association which helps support alumniprograms and publications such as Oswego.

The Alumni Association has also partnered with Liberty Mutual, oneof the top-rated insurance companies in the country to offer group dis-counts for Oswego alumni and faculty.

Buyer’s Edge is a consumer buying service that guarantees the low-est prices on most major purchases for 2.5 million members in the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut). The Buyer's Edgehas negotiated with and maintains a network of selected vendors. Thesevendors have agreed to give substantial discounts and the ironclad low-est price guarantee because they do not have the normal advertisingsales costs or other expenses when dealing with our members. TheBuyer’s Edge offers Buy-By-Phone and Buy-In-Person programs.

Our Alumni Locator Service enables you to re-connect with formerclassmates. It is the general policy of the Oswego Alumni Association,Inc. not to release names and addresses of Oswego alumni. To locate aformer classmate, simply send a stamped envelope to the Alumni Officewith the name of the alumnus/a you are seeking and we will forward iton to them. You can call the office first to make sure we have a currentaddress for the person.

The Office of Career Services offers a listserv featuring job openingannouncements and career related news, a job vacancy mailing service,a credentials file service (for a nominal fee), mock interviews andresume critiquing.

We hope to be able to add additional services in the future for ourgraduates to continue to enjoy their affiliation with Oswego and withother graduates.

For information on these and other alumni services, contact theAlumni Office or visit our Web site at www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu

Alumni Directory ComingThe Oswego Alumni Association has contracted with Harris

Publishing to print the third Oswego Alumni Directory. Look for information soon from Harris about being included in

this new edition. It is a great way to re-connect with Oswegofriends and classmates, as well as to update your information withOswego.

The directory will be available for purchase this fall.


Oswego: When were you last in Oswego,Vicky?

Victoria: In 1999, for the Alumni-in-Resi-dence Program. I spoke with three mar-keting classes and met with various stu-dents and professors. I really enjoyedbeing back there, on the other side of theclassroom. It was neat talking to the stu-dents. …I tried to get the students tothink about looking at the outside worldand making a connection between whatwas going on in their classes and whatwas going on everywhere else. I think it’simportant for them to listen to the radio,pick up a newspaper, pay attention tothe world at large. The classes I remem-ber most are the classes where theteacher was able to make a connection— between what was going on in schooland what was going on in other places.

Oswego: While we’re speaking of under-graduate classes — when you were anundergraduate, what didn’t you learn?

Victoria: In school, you get constant rein-forcement. That doesn’t happen so muchin the real world ... Success isn’t alwaysa “good job” — maybe you got your pointacross in a meeting. That’s success. Youstill have your job, and you haven’t been

fired — some days, that’s success.

Oswego: What advice do you have forcurrent students — or perhaps for theparents, siblings and teachers who mayinfluence current students?

Victoria: I think studying abroad and trav-eling are incredibly important. Havingthat experience of seeing a differentworld ... I studied in Spain. Spanish wasmy minor. Travel is important. You get atotally different perspective on the world.

The other thing is, get involved. Takeyour four years and enjoy them. Meet asmany people as you can. If you lookthrough one pair of eyes, you only seeone thing. Experience some other people.

Oswego: Tell us a little bit more aboutyour background at Oswego, and what’shappened in the interim.

Victoria: I really tried to get involved in alot of programs across campus. I was afounding sister of Phi Sigma Sigma soror-ity and a student counselor at BASAC:The Business Administration StudentAdvisement Center. I had two internshipsin school — one was with HUD (Housingand Urban Development). The other waswith (Syracuse television station) WTVH.… I took classes over a summer and

classes in Spain. All of these experiencescontributed to my overall education andpersonal development.

My first job was with a major advertis-ing agency: Ogilvy & Mather, a dream com-pany to work for that I had known from mytextbooks. When I got the interview, I wasecstatic. I packed up the car in two hours,drove down the next morning, and theyoffered me the job on the spot.

Oswego: How did you get to the placeyou are now?

Victoria: I started on the agency side ofmarketing. Basically that means you cre-ate ads, buy media, etc.

Once I got my feet wet and understoodthe business, I knew where I wanted to belong-term. I managed to create a networkof people in the business and figure outhow to get to the client side of advertising.I had worked in three agencies, and then Ihad the opportunity to finally work on theclient side of an international company. InSeptember of 1997, I made the transition.On the client side, you work directly withthe agency.

It’s amazing. I’ve had tremendouslearning and career growth. At Master-Card, I’ve been promoted twice.

Oswego: What are you currently workingon?

Victoria: The “Priceless” advertising cam-paign and other marketing initiatives withMasterCard. I’ve been working on this

since the launch in October of ’97. The“Priceless” campaign has been anincredibly successful campaign to be apart of.

Oswego: Do you like what you do, Vicky?

Victoria: I love my job: marketing andadvertising. I’ve done body lotion to lin-gerie to credit cards to textiles. It’s a lotof fun. The people are very dynamic.

Team projects… One of my col-leagues told me I’m just a natural leader.She said people are always looking forleaders. I don’t know if that came fromOswego or not. The curriculum there, bythe way, was great; people should takeall different kinds of courses.

Oswego: Any regrets?

Victoria: When I studied abroad, I onlydid it for a summer. I wish I’d done it fora full semester. There's so much to belearned out there.

Oswego: What’s the most satisfying partof your current job?

Victoria: I’m not responsible for the “Price-less” campaign…. but I’m maintaining it.We did one spot called “Mother/Daugh-ter.” I get letters from consumers, and oneconsumer wrote in and said she had theexact same experience with her mother.This was a handwritten letter on thewoman’s stationery. She said her motherhad died… the commercial really movedher… it made her cry.

Contact Us: Address: Oswego Alumni Association Phone: 315-312-2258King Alumni Hall E-mail: [email protected], NY 13126 Fax: 315-312-5570

Web: www.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu

Will You Help?Ready to offer a helping hand to Oswego?The Office of Alumni Relations has two pro-grams that count on support from peoplejust like you: ● A.S.K.—Alumni Sharing Knowledge—

graduates who have gained practical jobmarket and career skills can help pavethe way for current students by servingas job mentors.

● Host “day on the job” visits● Critique resumes● Provide relocation information● Provide career information● Alumni in Admissions—help us reach out

to potential students in your geographi-cal area by sharing your Oswego experi-ence. Want details? Contact us in anyway listed below.

Do You Use E-mail?

If you do, check out the Oswego AlumniE-mail Directory atwww.oswegoalumni.oswego.edu/alumniAdd your information or search for yourclassmates’ addresses.

Credit Card Company HelpsOAA

If you’re planning to get a credit card,please consider using the one that gives apercentage of profits to the Oswego AlumniAssociation. Please take a minute to callus, and we’ll be happy to see that youreceive information.

Victoria Vitarelli, a 1992 SUNY Oswego graduate, is currently the Senior Director ofNorth American Advertising and Brand Building for MasterCard International. On arecent snowy March morning, Vicky and I spoke at some length about her current

job, her Oswego experience, and the things she’s learned along the way.

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SUNY Oswego Education? Reasonable. Rent in NYC? Expensive.Succeeding in a Competitive World? Priceless. —by Janna Viles

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Another thing is, and maybe this ismore important, there’s often an opportu-nity to share knowledge with others —within my department and with the agen-cies I work with. Advertising in generaltouches so many people.

It’s wonderful to educate and train…So in a sense, teaching is learning. I lovethat part of my job.

** For more information about VickyVitarelli or about marketing and advertis-ing, see Careers in Advertising, publishedby the Princeton Review; Vicky is featuredin the chapter entitled “CorporateAdvertising: The In-House Track.”

Alumni ServiceThe next issue of the Oswego

Alumni Magazine will celebrateOswego's strong tradition of ser-vice. If you are actively involved inservice to your community throughvolunteer activities or through yourprofession, we want to hear fromyou. Please contact the Office ofAlumni and Parent Relations nolater than July 15.


Alumni C A L E N D A RJune 9

■ Annual Business Meeting, Oswego Alumni Association

■ Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, 315-312-2258

July 20, 21, 22

■ Reunion 2001■ Mini-reunions in the planning stages include

Fallbrook Residents, Football Alumni, Pi DeltaChi, Arethusa, Omega Delta Phi, and Sigma Chi.Reunion Hotline 315-312-5559

July 21

■ Presentation of Distinguished Alumnus/Alum-na Award 2001 and the Anniversary ClassAwards of Merit

July 26-29

■ The City of Oswego's fantastic Harborfest!■ On-campus housing available to alumni, friends

and family Office of Alumni and Parent Rela-tions, 315-312-2258

August 6

■ Emeriti Luncheon■ Office of University Development, 315-312-3003

August 24

■ Welcoming Torchlight Ceremony■ Oswego Alumni Association, 315-312-2258

September 13-14

■ Oswego State Fall Classic■ Office of University Development, 315-312-3003

October 4-7

■ Alumni of Color Reunion II■ Office of Alumni and Parent Relations,

315-312-2258

October 19-21

■ Parents, Family and Friends Weekend■ Office of Campus Life, 315-312-2301

October 27

■ Inaugural Oswego Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner■ Office of Alumni and Parent Relations,

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October TBA

■ Oswego Alumni Association Board of DirectorsMeeting


January 1

■ Deadline for nominations for 2002 AlumniAwards


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ALANA speaker — Student Association President Saleem Cheeks (center) introduces the Rev. AlSharpton, the civil rights activist and president of the National Action Network, to junior AdzeleKitissou. Sharpton was invited by students to speak at the African, Latino, Asian and Native Ameri-can Student Leadership Conference on campus last Fall.


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Mae Saunders Krum ’26 of Auburndied Oct. 15, 2000 at the age of 97.

Lila Frio ’28 of Port Byron died Sept.10, 2000. She retired in 1967 after 20years as a kindergarten teacher at PortByron Elementary School.

Dawn Allen ’30 of Minetto passedaway Jan. 6. She taught at Minetto Ele-mentary School for many years, retiring in1964. Dawn is survived by a brother.

Mildred McBride ’32 of Oswego diedSept. 23, 2000. She taught in theOswego City School District until herretirement.

Alfred Wells ’32 of Dallas died Oct.15, 2000.

Julia Huntley Godfrey ’33 of LowerySouth Bay died Aug. 21, 2000. Sheowned and operated a vegetable farm.Julia is survived by four daughters, twosons, 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Alice Liddy Jones ’33 of Utica diedJan. 6, 2000.

Gladys Morley ’33 of Fulton diedOct. 22, 2000. She taught in Phoenixfor 23 years before retiring in 1970.

Dorothy Lyng Curtis ’34 of Clintonpassed away March 2. Dorothy began herteaching career in a one-room schoolhouse in Jefferson County in 1934. Shelater taught in Geneva and Ithaca. In1995, Dorothy was honored at Sea Worldin Orlando as the Outstanding Volunteerof the Year. She is survived by three sons,three daughters, eight grandchildren andone great-grandchildren.

Claude “Bill” Pond ’34 of Zephyrhills,Fla., died Aug. 8, 2000. He served withthe U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater dur-ing World War II. After retiring from teach-ing, Bill moved from New York toZephyrhills where he taught at Pasco Her-nando Community College and worked inthe Adult Education Program. He is sur-vived by two sons, three grandchildrenand one great-grandson.

John Kelsey ’35 of Naples, Fla., diedAug. 31, 2000. He is survived by his wife,Mary.

Grace VanAuken Tanner ’35 ofOswego died March 12. She had been ateacher in Palmyra and a bookkeeper forTanner Construction Co. Grace and herhusband were co-owners of TannerAntiques. She is survived by two daugh-ters, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Nixon LibraryLinda Murphy ’64, left, and Tony Gianetto ’60, right, are docents at the Richard Nixon Library in YorbaLinda, Calif., birthplace of the former President. They participate in a geography project which involvesmore than 2,500 seventh graders in the area. Dr. Gary Fuller ’64, center, was guest speaker at a recentAwards for Excellence ceremony at the library. Gary is also the recipient of a Distinguished AlumnusAward.

In Memoriam


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Florence Davies Pugh ’38 of Remsendied Jan. 29, 2000. Prior to retiring in1976, Florence taught at Remsen CentralSchool for 22 years. She is survived by adaughter.

Elsie Smith Elton ’39 of Sun City, Ariz.,died Oct. 12, 2000. She is survived by herhusband, Dick Elton ’40.

Ada Keller Riley ’46 of Williamstowndied on March 15. She was a teacher inPoolville, Mexico and Parish, retiring in1972. Ada is survived by four daughters, ason, 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Lois Lenhart Howe ’47 of Salamancadied Sept. 13, 2000. She retired in 1980after teaching for many years. Lois is sur-vived by her husband, William, a daughter,a son, and three grandchildren.

Nunzio Spiridigliozzi ’48 of Plant City,Fla., died in September.

Edward Otis ’51 of Liverpool died March23, 2000.

Phillip Falise ’52 of Baldwinsville diedSept. 22, 2000. He received his master’sdegree from Syracuse University. Philliptaught in the Baldwinsville School Districtbefore moving to Virginia where he taught inChesterfield County Schools until his retire-ment in 1985. He is survived by his wife,Cindy, three daughters, two sons and ninegrandchildren.

Lawrence Loucks ’52 of Kinderhookdied Oct. 19, 2000. He is survived by hiswife, Katherine.

Richard Whiteside ’53 of Syracuse diedSept. 29, 2000. He received his master’sdegree from St. Lawrence University.Richard taught for 27 years at FranklinCounty BOCES, retiring in 1984. He is sur-vived by his wife, Margaret, four daughters,two sons, and 10 grandchildren.

Lois Goodwin ’54 of Shortsville diedJan. 11.

Charles Diorio ’56 of Liverpool died Oct.6, 2000. He was the education supervisorat the Syracuse and Rome developmentalcenters for 35 years before retiring in 1991.Charles is survived by his wife, Nancy, andthree sons.

Robert Martin ’58 of Ogdensburg andZephyrhills, Fla., died May 4, 2000. He issurvived by his wife, Dolores; three daugh-ters; one son and 11 grandchildren.

Jack Boyce ’60 of Adams died Sept.10, 2000. He served in the Navy from1953 to 1957. Jack was employed withTravelers Insurance as a casualty claimsadjuster for 24 years, retiring in 1987. He issurvived by his wife, Beatrice, three sons,two daughters, five stepsons, three step-daughters, 26 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Patricia Benzing Finch ’60 ofMuskegon, Mich., died Feb. 2. She hadbeen an elementary teacher. Surviving areher husband, Robert; a daughter; a son;and a grandson.

Amelio Menickelli ’60 of HollandPatent died Aug. 20, 2000. He is survivedby his wife, Alberta, a son, a daughter and agranddaughter.

Marilyn Sweeney Stacy ’60 of Lowvilledied July 19. She taught at Lowville Acade-my and Central School and at BOCES, retir-ing in 1996. She is survived by her hus-band, Herbert Stacy ’60, a son and adaughter.

Stephen Harmon ’61 of Brooklyn diedDec. 26, 1999. He was an attorney, practic-ing in New York. Stephen is survived by hiswife, Lynn, and five children.

Dennis Smith ’61 of Rome died March6. He taught in the Rome school district,retiring in 1990. Dennis was a member ofthe 1991 Senior Olympics national champi-onship 3-on-3 basketball team. He is sur-vived by his wife, Rosemary “Reggie” Gior-dano ’63, a daughter, a son, and twograndchildren.

Albert Familo ’62 of Oswego diedJune 9, 2000. Prior to his retirement, hetaught English at Oswego High School. Al is survived by his wife, Virginia SavonaFamilo ’59.

Harold Gillings ’63 of Schroon Lakedied March 5, 2000. He is survived by hiswife, Gwendolyn.

Charlotte Reinhart VanHelden ’65 ofEast Setauket died Jan. 12. She was amember of Arethusa Eta sorority.

Stephen Coco ’66 of Rochester diedAug. 13, 2000. He was a U.S. Army AirCorps veteran of World War II, flying 35 mis-sions over Japan. He was awarded the Dis-tinguished Flying Cross. Stephen was aguidance counselor at Edison TechnicalHigh School, retiring in 1987.

Kary Johnson ’66 of Auburn died Dec.3, 2000. He retired in 2000 after 32 yearsas a professor of mathematics at CayugaCommunity College.

Otto Konigsberg ’69 of Lake Carmeldied Oct.18, 2000.

Terry Riddle ’69 of Trumansburg diedSept. 21, 2000. He is survived by his wife,Kathleen.

John Chase ’70 of Lock Haven, Pa.,died June 15, 2000.

Roger Clary ’70 of Ovid died Jan. 29,2000.

Jayne Milliken Kiely ’70 of HuntingtonStation died Feb. 21, 2000.

Charles Platt ’72 of Wilmington, Del.,died Dec. 30, 1999.

John Vanelli ’72 of Syracuse died Jan.5. He retired in 1999 from New ProcessGear. John and his wife owned J.P. VanelliGifts. John was a black belt in karate andwas previously an instructor. He is survivedby his wife, Kathleen, a daughter and a son.

David Rose ’73 of Niverville died Jan.19, 2000.

William Laird ’74 of Oswego died Jan.28, 2000. He is survived by his wife, Mar-garet.

Barbara Crisafulli Nettles ’83,MS/CAS ’91 of Oswego died Jan. 5. Shewas a school psychologist in the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown School District for thepast 17 years. Barbara is survived by threedaughters and two sons.

Susan Pinkel Hiteshew ’84 of Alpharet-ta, Ga., died Sept. 3. She was employed byCIGNA-Connecticut in Atlanta. Susan is sur-vived by her husband, John, a daughter anda son.

Ann Acquaviva-Nasca ’85 of Fultondied Aug. 14, 2000. She was a GED educa-tor in the Fulton School District. Ann is sur-vived by a son, Charles.

Gary Jacobs '86 of the Bronx died Nov.4, 2000. He is survived by his mother,Rose.

Karl Birznieks ’88 of Albany died April4, 1999. He is survived by his wife, DanielleMarton, and two children.

Earle Merritt ’91 of Liverpool died Feb.6. He was an alcohol and substance abusecounselor for the state Department of Cor-rections and for Tully Hill. Earle is survivedby a daughter and two grandsons.

Heather Miller Pilkington ’91 of Cone-sus died Dec. 7, 2000 following a long ill-ness. She taught for several years inCharleston, S.C. Heather is survived by herhusband, Paul; her mother; her father; threesisters, Tanya ’98, Emily and Laura, and twobrothers, Brett and Shane.

William McMurray ’92 of Elmira diedMarch 11, 2000. He is survived by his wife,Madeline.

Sandra Fike Downey ’94 of AlexandriaBay died Nov. 27, 2000. She was a hous-ing counselor with Community Action Plan-ning Council of Jefferson County. Survivingare two daughters, a son and six grandchil-dren.

Donald Batchelor, retired communica-tion studies staff member, died Feb. 28.Prior to his retirement in 1996, he was thecoordinator for Learning Resources. Heserved as the deputy town supervisor for thetown of Sterling. Don is survived by his wife,Patricia, three sons and six grandchildren.

Lewis Koenigsberg, formerly of SUNYOswego’s psychology department died Dec.27, 2000. He is survived by his wife,Frances Koenigsberg, associate professoremerita; a son; a daughter; and threegrandchildren.

Dorothy Mott, associate professor anddirector of admissions, of Oswego died Nov.24, 2000. She received her bachelor’sdegree from Antioch College and her mas-ter’s degree from Columbia University.Dorothy taught physical education at Anti-och, Wheaton and Goucher colleges. Sheserved as a major in the Marine Corps.Dorothy retired in 1971 as SUNY Oswego’sdirector of admissions.

Louise Ostberg, associate professoremeritus of health and physical education,died Aug. 23, 2000.

Dr. Jose Perez, professor emeritus ofSpanish, died Dec. 18, 2000. He receivedhis bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall, hismaster’s degree from Middlebury Collegeand his doctorate from the University ofMadrid. Dr. Perez joined the faculty ofOswego’s foreign language department in1964. In the early 1980s, he became direc-tor of international education, retiring in1993. Surviving are his wife, Marie, threesons and a daughter.

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Kristin McNeill Gublo ’96 and Edward Gublo ’95 were married Aug. 12 in Syracuse. The cou-ple met while they were residents of Riggs Hall in 1992. Kristin is employed by the Chem-istry Department at Oswego and Ed is a chemist at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Oswego Alumniand chemistry professors present are, from left, front row: Chris Andrews ’97, Kelly Halko’98, Tanya Rutter ’97, Jamie Caligure ’95, Andy Toulas ’95, Kristin Gublo ’96, Matt Crowley’95, and Mike DeJong ’95; second row: Sarah Williams ’95, Mark Mullin, Ben Throop ’97,Kristen Kurilovitch ’98, Joe La Velle ’96, Ed Gublo ’95, Melissa Chapman ’99 and MarcieBelisle ’96; third row: Dr. Schneider, Dr. LeFevre, Dr. Silveira, Dr. Hyde, Todd Maloney ’96,Todd Pagano ’96, Chris Kapusta ’96, Cassie McNeill ’98 and Matt Dellapenta ’97; back row:Chris Murphy ’96, Linda Saarie, Carolyn DeSantis, Larry Fuller ’72, Paul Lupa, Judy Schnei-der, and Kate Nolan ’97.

Gina Cosh Martindale ’95 and Derek H. Martindale ’95 were married May 27, 2000.Oswego alumni in attendance were Margaret Yi’95, Jason Bristol ’95, Sean Walsh’95, StacySmetanka ’95, Shane Martindale ’98 andChristian Krobisch ’99. Gina works for Deloitte& Touche as a recruiter and Derek is a financialanalyst for Banc of America Securities. Thecouple resides in Charlotte, N.C.

Mackenzie Muir Winkler ’98 and David Winkler’97 were married Oct. 21, 2000. David is aresearch scientist working for Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute. Mackenzie is a manager atNew York Products. They make their home inLatham. Oswego alumni attending included,from left, front row: Nick Longo ’98, DennisTreubig ’96, Mark Hemans ’95 and Jim Shiely’97; second row: Lynn Rau DeOrio ’71, NancyDunn Sutherland ’72, the groom and bride,Heather DiPalma Coughlin ’98, Jennifer Augusta’97 and Joanne Tiberio ’97; third row: Ariele

Castano ’98, Sarah Wiles Garguilo ’99, Dawn Elliott ’98, Eric Christensen ’97, Allison Thomas ’99,Jennifer Luhmann ’98, Steve Hertzog ’97, Christen Rigney ’97, Matt Masterson ’96, Ginny Grayczk’97, Stacie Ross ’98, Justin Contursi ’96 and Christine Contursi ’96.

Jodi Koenig Abbinanti ’94 and Andrew Abbinanti ’94 weremarried on Oct. 7, 2000. The couple met while attending aregional Alumni Club event. Pictured are Oswego alumni inattendance, from left, front row: Marlene Mancusi Uchman’94, Kerry Koenig Planow ’99, Hope Pelton (current student),Bridget Miller ’94, Colleen Kingston ’94, the bride and groom,Rich Selkowitz ’94, Jeff Miller ’94, and Thomas Leyendecker’93; back row: Tina Marie Snell Hintz ’94, Ina Schlenoff ’97,Kristina Ferguson ’95, Kristen Sauer Shultz ’94, Terrie Daino’00 and her husband, Paul, Craig Johnson ’94, Heather Sickler Johnson ’95 and John Hunter ’94. The couple residesin Rego Park.

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Robin McAleese Mac Donald ’93 and John MacDonald ’92 were recently married. Oswego Alumniand staff at the wedding included, from left, backrow: Jennifer Ayotte, John Familo ’74, Patty Familo’80, Katie Loiacono Maxwell ’97, Gail Akin ’79,Keisha Johnson ’99, April Stokes ’00, Sharon Hurd’00, Brian Hurd ’95, Stephanie Hanner ’01,Howard Rose ’74, Kevin Gilman, Andy Westfall ’00and Irene Goldman Gilman ’75; middle row: BobStewart, Dan Chanta ’99, Danielle West ’00, ScottWiley ’99, Kathy Smits Evans ’84, Jim Evans ’83,bride and groom; front row: Tom Oughterson ’82,Mary Boysman Oughterson ’84, Betsy McTiernan’69, Hal Sussman ’72, Vicky Ludington M’99, DaveLudington ’89, Jean Conway M’95, Kristen StantonM’99, Scott Steiger ’99, and Jean Buddle Wiggins’96.

Members of Sigma Delta Tau, Alpha Epsilon Pi and other SUNY Oswego Alumni werepresent for the marriage of Laurie James Katz ’97 and Brian Katz ’98, on July 16, 2000in Brooklyn. Brian is a technology teacher in Bablyon and Laurie is a speech-languagepathologist in Bayport. The couple resides in Patchogue.

Sheila Burns Tanzman ’97 was marriedto Mike Tanzman ’97 on Nov. 7,1999.Sheila works for Personnel PermanentEmployment Agency and Mike worksfor the New York State Tax Department.The couple makes their home inAlbany.

Melissa Mauro Hineman ’96 and MarcHineman ’97 were married on Oct. 7,2000 in Roslyn. Melissa works in publicrelations and Marc is working as a trad-er while completing his MBA. Jen Lang’97, Liz McCusker ’96 and Jen LiVecchi’96 were bridesmaids, while John Ros-setti ’97 was a groomsman. The cou-ple resides in Manhattan.

Alumni gathered in singing the Oswego Alma Mater to Sheila Burns Tanzman ’97 andMike Tanzman ’97 at their wedding. Oswego Alumni pictured are, from left: MichelleRacette Wattie ’98, Jason FitzGerald ’97, Tony Wattie ’98, Kelly Smith ’98, Kate Monroe’98, John Petro ’97, Keith Capano ’00, and Chris Schiavone ’98. Also in attendance were- Brian Cohn ’97, Brooke Tanzman ’02, Brian Rosen ’96, Jenny Mulford Rosen ’97, StacyAldred ’98, Don Taylor ’00, Dan Preston ’96, Danielle Thacke ’98, Michael Roe ’94,Sharon Ray Roe ’96, Erin Trondle Schiavone ’97, Matt Willis ’96, Janine Weber ’99, BrentSpinner ’98, Lisa Benzing ’98, Tara Erb ’95, Sylvia Sprague ’95, Linda Schomaker ’93,Julie James Kolotkin ’95 and Larry Kolotkin ’95.

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