FAMILY TIES
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Amy Dunn, who is studying early childhood and special education, takes a walk across the Quad with her mom, Terri Naus Dunn ‘80.
The Dunns Teri Naus Dunn ’80 revels in her memories — silly and serious — of California State College. “I remember we used to plant flowers in the urinals in Clyde Hall,” she says of the former campus building that had become a women’s dormitory. The fun times included taking weekend trips to a camp in Jumonville, Fayette County, and meeting lifelong friends Nancy Schnatterly Clements ’79 and Joy Vlanich Dunmire ’78 through the Christian Fellowship group. “They were each my roommate at one point,” Dunn says. “Nancy’s mother introduced my husband, Dennis, and me, and I was in both of their weddings. Now all three of our children are students at Cal U.” But most of all, the Chambersburg, Pa., native who now lives in Bridgeville, Pa., received “a wonderful education.” “I got a great foundation in communications, but also in business,” she says, crediting speech professors Marcella Blout, Patrick
Miller, Corine Flemmings and Robert Cowles. Dunn currently provides leadership and sales training to various clients, and she is retired from her position as vice president of marketing for Global Imaging Systems after a career as a business owner. At Cal State, Dunn was a member of the forensics team, which was coached by Blout and Miller. “They set high standards and goals of being the best you could possibly be.” To show her appreciation, Dunn established a scholarship in their honor. It is given each semester to a junior communications major. Over the years, Dunn kept in touch with Cal U. She occasionally returned to campus to speak in Miller’s classes, and she received the Professional Excellence Award, given to outstanding alumni, in 2002. Now that their daughter, Amy, attends Cal U, both Dunn and her husband have joined the Parent Leadership Council. “I can talk to parents about being a student many years ago, and also
now about having a child at Cal U,” she says. Amy spent the summer on campus, taking classes, working in the Welcome Center and giving tours to prospective students. And she is very excited to be leading a Cal U for Life session at new-student orientation. “My mom always talked about the school,” she says. “She’d bring me here for the scholarship award dinners, and we would sit with students.” Amy has a dual major, in early childhood education and special ed. She also is busy with a variety of activities at Cal U: Habitat for Humanity, Ski Club, Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Lambda Delta, Peer Mentoring, the Council for Exceptional Children and Best Buddies. “She didn’t even apply anywhere else,” Dunn says. “We could have sent her anywhere, but this was her choice. She wanted to go to Cal U, and she loves it.”
As a Cal U Ambassador, Amy Dunn (left) takes a prospective student on a campus tour. 6 CAL U REVIEW SUMMER 2011 ■