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Dickinson Published by the Division of Enrollment, Marketing & Communications Publisher and Vice President Stefanie D. Niles

18 Owning It: From technology to the arts, from steel

Executive Director of Marketing & Communications Connie McNamara

manufacturing to food and fashion, Dickinsonians

Editor Michelle Simmons Associate Editor Lauren Davidson College Photographer Carl Socolow ’77 Design Landesberg Design Printer Intelligencer

always have embodied the entrepreneurial spirit. Hear what alumni have to say about inspiration, success and persistence. 30 Entrepreneurs Don’t Just Grow On Trees:

Contributing Writers Matt Getty MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson Tony Moore Grace McCrocklin ’16 Nick Bailey ’16

There’s no question that Dickinson is experiencing an

Magazine Advisory Group Jim Gerencser ’93 David Richeson Adrienne Su Robert Pound Patricia van Leeuwaarde Moonsammy Donna Hughes Nicole Minardi Website www.dickinson.edu/magazine

entrepreneurial boom. Read about some of the college’s latest initiatives and the people behind them. 36 Gift of Refuge: When Austra Treicis and her family fled Latvia in 1944, she had no idea that Dickinson would become

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by Carl Socolow ’77

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Innovation: then and now NANCY A. ROSEMAN, PRESIDENT

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very time I make my way into Old West, I cannot help but take note of our founder’s statue overlooking the Academic Quad and wonder what he would say about Dickinson today. While initially he might be dumbfounded by the growth and complexity of his college after more than 230 years, I think he would quickly sense how deeply his philosophy is embedded in all that we do. Despite some of the obvious differences, the heart of who we are, our mission, remains unchanged and central to our identity: to prepare young people, by means of a useful education in the liberal arts and sciences, for engaged lives of citizenship and leadership in the service of society.

Being “useful” often requires being innovative, and I am sure that Benjamin Rush would recognize the spirit of change and transformation that energizes our campus as part of his legacy. The momentum and excitement that comes from constant innovation is expressed on our campus in myriad ways, and it comes from all quarters of our community due to the entrepreneurial efforts of students, faculty and staff.

New course offerings and pedagogical approaches can be found around every corner and simply are not possible without the intellectual courage and boldness of our community. This too can find its roots in the intellectual

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fearlessness exemplified by Rush and his revolutionary contemporaries. The new certificate program in social innovation and entrepreneurship; the College Farm’s new pop-up restaurant, GATHER; the Innovation Competition; and the development of Mosaics in response to migration across the Mediterranean or environmental disasters in the U.S. and Japan are just a few examples of the ways our students and faculty (often working together) seek broad academic connections across the institution and across disciplines.

Our work together, both as a community and across the curriculum, fosters an environment of collaboration and intellectual risk-taking that allows our students to make those all-important formative strides from inquiry and discovery to action — something we consider part and parcel of our educational paradigm here at Dickinson.

What we have at Dickinson is special. The institution we are today stands as a testament to the intentionality, courage and innovative thinking of those who came before us.

Our inspired culture of collaboration, interdisciplinarity and the application of deep learning in useful and engaging ways is unlike anything you will find at other institutions.

By continuing to reach across curricular and programmatic boundaries and by encouraging all members of our community to be intellectually fearless, we are at the frontier of scholarship, teaching and learning — poised to step up and confront the challenges of our changing world.

As many of you know, I recently announced my resignation as president, effective June 30. As we develop our strategic plan, which will help inform our upcoming fundraising campaign, I realize that this time provides a natural moment of transition.

The Board of Trustees has named Provost and Dean Neil Weissman as our interim president, effective July 1. Until then, I look forward to speaking with many of you and to working with Dean Weissman and the leadership team as we prepare for a smooth transition.

I will leave Dickinson knowing we are a leader among our peers. We are enjoying record applications for enrollment, we employ an expert faculty and staff passionate about our mission, and we have built a strong financial foundation for our future.

Would Benjamin Rush recognize Dickinson today?

Yes … and he would be so proud.

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troll into the Kline Center around lunch on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, and you’ll hear a Dickinson tradition stretching back more than three decades.

Amid the thump of the ball against hardwood, there will echo cross-disciplinary discussions on theatre, biology, economics, archaeology, music — and perhaps even the infinite complexities of a moving pick.

Such are the sounds of the faculty basketball game, a spirited half-court battle among colleagues in which the knee braces seem to outnumber the knees, ages can range from 18 to 75, and — though the shooting percentages run high — the action stays well below the rim.

“I try to never miss it,” says Professor Emeritus of Economics Gordon Bergsten, the longest-tenured player.

“It’s a great bunch of guys, and a great game. I don’t know what I enjoy more, the pregame chats or the exercise.”

Bergsten joined the game in 1984, the same year he joined Dickinson’s political science department.

“I wanted to find ways to see my students outside of class,” says Bergsten, who at 75 relies heavily on a long-range set-shot from the hip that — if given enough room — is so automatic it’s effectively a 22-foot layup. “So I gave them a few options. I told them we could have lunch, you could come to my office for a half-hour chat, or if you like basketball, you could come and play basketball — and a lot of them took me up on that.”

From left: Brian Whalen eyes the rim after his layup banks off the glass; Michael Monahan drives along the baseline as John Henson defends; David Swenson ’19 and Christofilis Maggidis battle for a rebound; Blake Wilson comes to a jump-stop moments before hitting his shot.

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One of those students was Keith Fischer ’02, who has since rejoined the game on the other side after returning to Dickinson as associate director of admissions.

“It’s a great way to have some interaction among faculty, staff and students,” says Associate Professor of Archaeology Christofilis Maggidis, who makes the game a family affair, bringing in his son and daughter, Paschalis ’19 and Chrysanthe ’16. “To be able to stuff your son’s shot in front of your colleagues — it’s a great feeling.”

Dozens of players have come and gone since the ’80s. The only undefeated competitor has been knee trouble, which in recent years took Professor of Mathematics Barry Tesman and Professor of Political Science Harry Pohlman off the court.

But the game survives, with three to 10 players on any given afternoon. Their comfort with fuzzy math allows the athletic academics to play with uneven teams, but no matter how many show up, full court is always out of the question.

“Too much chance of injury,” says Brian Whalen, president of The Forum on Education Abroad, who joined the game as Dickinson’s executive director of the Office of Global Education and stayed with it since leaving the college in 2010.

Today, the game continues to grow. In addition to the Maggidis clan, Shawn Stein, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Mark C. Aldrich, associate professor of Spanish, joined in recent years. And though the game does boast NBA ties (John Ramsay, son of former Portland Trailblazer coach Jack Ramsay, was a regular when he was

Dickinson’s director of teacher education), it’s more than the level of competition that keeps players coming back.

“It’s been a good run,” says Professor of Music Blake Wilson, who recently stirred up that debate on moving picks — a discussion that extended over a half dozen emails complete with links to several instructional videos. “We won’t always admit it, but I think we’d go out of our way to re-arrange our teaching schedules just to make sure we can play.”— Matt Getty

Numerous faculty, staff and students play from time to time, but during the last two decades the game has settled on a solid core who seem to merge their academic discipline with their game.

In addition to Professor Emeritus of Economics Gordon Bergsten, there’s:

Bill Bellinger, professor of economics, and Sinan Koont, professor emeritus of economics, who bring the precision of their craft to the hardwood, needing a few steps — and in Koont’s case special dispensation to allow those steps to proceed sans dribble — to get off a mid-range “jumper” with a percentage that rivals the ideal front-end debt ratio.

Michael Monahan, former associate provost and executive director of the Center for Global Study & Engagement, whose sophisticated low-post footwork fittingly looks to be inspired by the international game.

Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology John Henson, whose style is as kinetic as the cellular movements he studies, relying heavily on a running jumper from the right elbow.

Professor of Theatre Todd Wronski, who has a director’s touch on the court, often shouting at his line-drive jump-shot — “Gotta be!” — to get it to perform as he wishes.

And Professor of Music Blake Wilson, whose game itself is almost musical, featuring flowing up-and-under pumpfakes punctuated by the swish of the ball through the net.

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housands of images clamor for your attention. You have to move quickly, so you dive in, hunting for that one artwork that will render you starstruck, hoping that no one else will snap it up first. It’s all just a day at the office for international art dealers, and six students got a peek into that world when they scouted works for the college through a new acquisition program at The Trout Gallery.

Funded by the Friends of the Trout Gallery and launched in 2015, the program adds new works to the gallery’s permanent collection while introducing students to the collecting process. Under the guidance of Phil Earenfight, director of The Trout Gallery and associate professor of art & art history, a cohort of students attend two of New York City’s largest print fairs — The Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair (spring) and the International Fine Print Dealers Association fair (fall), held in the Park Avenue Armory — and identify artistically superior works that address significant political and social issues, taking care to stay within a $10,000 budget. They snap photos of the contenders as they go.

Left: Kitano Ken, 25 Participants at 2014 Hong Kong Protests “Umbrella Revolution,” occupied area (Admiralty, Causeway Bay, Mong Kok), Hong Kong, 2014, silver print.

Above, top: Yamamoto Masao, Egg-Shaped Nude from Small Things in Silence, 2007, platinum print.

Middle: Lu Yao, Viewing the City’s Places of Interest in Springtime, 2007.

The art historian in me was in dreamland. I got to see current art trends in person, and I learned about the politics of the art buying world, how deals are chartered and sealed, what changed the quality and price of a work and how prints were packaged for the ride home.”

“The art historian in me was in dreamland,” said Clara “Maddie” Fritz ’16, an art history major and intern at The Trout Gallery. “I got to see current art trends in person, and I learned about the politics of the art buying world, how deals are chartered and sealed, what changed the quality and price of a work and how prints were packaged for the ride home.”

Back on campus, the students whittle down their picks with Earenfight’s help and submit a wish list to the gallery board. All recommended pieces have been purchased thus far.

The program’s first cohort — class of ’15 members Anna Ersenkal, Lindsay Kearney and Sasha Reagan — zeroed in on photographs focusing on environmental and political issues in modern Asia. That area of study saw increased interest on campus when Wei Ren, recipient of the 2015 Tamar and Emil ’53 Weiss Chair in Asian Art, joined the faculty in 2015.

The prints (shown at left) were featured in the recent show Ink Silver Platinum.

This past November, Fritz and Lucas Kang ’16 (studio art) and Elon Gordon ’17 (physics) advocated for several prints by Käthe Kollwitz, a German expressionist who depicted the brutal realities of poverty, social injustice and war. “It was a no-brainer for me — her works are so visually engaging,” said Kang.

“The question was, which ones do we pick?”

They knew the college already owned a Kollwitz print — a part of the artist’s peasant war series — and that foreign-language, cultural studies and history professors had incorporated it into lessons on the world wars. In the end, they selected two works from the same series, knowing that they would be widely used.

“That’s the really satisfying part,” said Gordon, who testifies to the prints’ crossdisciplinary appeal and emotional punch.

“It’s great to know that as a student, you can have a lasting impact in this way.”— MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson

Maddie Fritz ’16

Bottom: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Inuta Kobungo Yasuyori Overwealms a Boar from the Handsome Heroes of the Water Margin (Biyu Suikoden), 1866, ukiyo-e woodcut on paper.

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[ college & west high ] OUTING CLUB GEARS UP WITH THE GEAR BOX

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ickinsonians with a love for outdoor adventure but not enough room in their cars for equipment — or anyone on campus who wants to learn new skills — can now stop by the Gear Box, the college’s new outdoor recreation and education room. Opened in February and housed in Allison Hall’s lower level, the room is a cornucopia of skiing, camping, boating and climbing paraphernalia.

The space is just one of the many ways Dickinson takes advantage of its location amidst a host of outdoor opportunities.

The surrounding Cumberland Valley region is home to worldclass trout streams, spectacular mountain views, state parks and abundant walking and hiking venues. This includes a 13-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail, and other sites like Pine Grove Furnace and Waggoner’s Gap are also nearby.

A recent addition to the Gear Box was a large collection of cross-country skis, courtesy of a ski shop in New Hampshire.

Anna McGinn ’14, the Office of Student Life’s coordinator for campus recreational programs, grew up nearby and knew that the shop sold off its like-new rental gear at the end of each season, so she swooped in.

“President [Nancy] Roseman is a big supporter of outdoor education, so when we approached her about purchasing this fleet of cross-country skis, she was all in, making it all possible,” McGinn says. The rest was funded by the Outing Club and Office of Student Life.

The Outing Club, with more than 150 members, gets a lot of use out of the equipment, and McGinn notes that members of that club worked diligently to secure both the stockpile of gear and the new space. “The Outing Club is the most vital piece of the outdoor education puzzle,” she says, “as they keep trips running every week and build a community of students who are passionate about the outdoors.”

McGinn and Outing Club members also have introduced students who have never been on skis, or even outdoors very often, to the joys of cross-country skiing and other activities.

From workshops at the Emerging Leaders Retreat (see Page 10) and with a first-year outdoor leadership group, to an intensive leadership training week in the White Mountains during spring break, the skis have hit the trails about 200 times since the Gear Box opened.

Students, faculty and staff also have checked out sleeping bags for service trips and research expeditions around the world.

Alumni in the Carlisle area or visiting the campus are welcome at the Gear Box, as well. “The hope is that this can be a resource for all kinds of programming run by the college, as well as adventures that students plan for themselves,” says McGinn. “Just hearing people come in and say, ‘This is so cool!’ and ‘I’m gonna come in here all the time’— that just makes me so excited.” — Tony Moore

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Photos courtesy of Anna McGinn ’14, Office of Campus Recreational Programs

W Events forums art music lectures Calendar of Arts: dickinson.edu/coa The Clarke Forum: clarke.dickinson.edu (includes event podcasts)

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Farewell Concert: Mary and Barry Hannigan

Rubendall Recital Hall APRIL 29-30

Freshworks 2016

Mathers Theatre MAY 3

Annual Studio Student Show Opening Reception

Goodyear Gallery MAY 22

Commencement JUNE 10-12

Alumni Weekend JULY 9

Bluegrass on the Grass

hat do you get when you combine 70 first-year students, Toy Story and root beer kegs? Ask Josh Eisenberg, director of student leadership & campus engagement (SLCE), and his answer is simple: a better campus.

All of these things came together in the days before spring semester began as part of Dickinson’s Emerging Leaders Retreat (ELR). The program, started in 1990, targets potential leaders from the first-year class and focuses on the principles of leadership, collaboration, creativity and connections. For a time, coordinators switched from the ELR program to LeaderShape, a well-respected national program. It could not accommodate the number of students nominated, however, and Eisenberg wanted a more flexible, Dickinson-tailored program. “Sometimes we forget that we’re a small college and we have these opportunities,” says Eisenberg, who prefers large cohorts so the maximum number of students can participate.

The program encompasses three days, and first-years participate in group activities that encourage relationship building among an otherwise diverse group of students. Students do a selected reading as a basis of discussion; this year, they learned about Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar, and then examined leadership in the Pixar-produced animated film Toy Story. The retreat also features a programming competition, and the winning team receives funding from Student Senate to implement its idea. This year’s winning program includes mechanical bulls, root beer kegs and chicken wings for a night of fun in the Allison Hall Community Room.

Students also take time to self-reflect. Group exercises like “Iceberg” and “Step into the Circle” force students to think about who they are to the world and how they connect with others. Vice President and Dean of Student Life Joyce Bylander also used her “I Am Becoming” poetry exercise to encourage students to think about who they will become during their four years at Dickinson.

Mentorship, on several levels, is the final key to a successful three days. Student mentors help lead the program, and Eisenberg and his team make sure that at least half are not graduates of previous ELRs. “We want to show people that you can be a leader and you can do awesome things on this campus, even if you have never been in this program,” he explains. Every student mentor also chooses his or her own campus mentor, from coaches to faculty to admissions staff, and has a meal with a group of ELR students and that mentor.

The recognition of mentorship and leadership potential is the end goal of the program. Campus mentors are able to see how important their role is, while student mentors hone their skills. First-year participants also discover that leadership is a skill to be learned and that they can have an immediate impact on campus.

As Eisenberg notes, “If you have people who are better at programming, better at leading, better at collaboration, we’re going to be a better college.”

—Grace McCrocklin ’16

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Service for six

What do you give the woman who already has everything — including a commemorative bench, a Wheel and Chain cap and insider knowledge of Dickinson’s inner workings — for her retirement celebration?

A teenager when she came to Dickinson 61 years ago to join the college’s typing pool, Marie Baker served as secretary, and then executive secretary to the alumni office, dean of women, admissions, dean of students and dean of the college, before moving into her current position as office manager for Provost and Dean of the College Neil B. Weissman. Even after an 18-month absence because her husband was “in the service,” Baker returned to Dickinson simply because she enjoyed her work and has not left since.

Baker has seen the college evolve for six decades and adapted to changing policies, fashions and technology.

Regarding the transition from manual typewriters to computers, she noted, “You have to learn how to un-jam equipment. You become a technician along with the technology.”

In 2005, Dickinson commemorated Baker’s then-five decades of service with a plaque and bench in her honor — it will soon be updated to reflect her additional

11 years at the college — and the Wheel and Chain women’s leadership society inducted her as an honorary member the following year. Her retirement was announced to the greater campus community during the winter break.

On Baker’s last day of employment, the Benjamin Rush statue, which she passed each day on her way to and from Old West, was outfitted with a headscarf, her trademark accessory. All campus community members were invited to share memories of her time on campus during an afternoon reception, where President Nancy A. Roseman as well as several faculty members and administrators, thanked Baker for her tireless commitment to the college.

George Allan, professor emeritus of philosophy, as well as former dean and acting president of the college who supervised Baker for nearly 20 years, was first in line. “You give her a task, and you know it will get done, and done well,” he said, noting that Baker’s winning combination of flexibility, adaptability, interpersonal facility and efficiency were the keys to her success.

Weissman agreed. “Marie said in a 2008 interview, ‘I’m not a legend,’ but hoped to be remembered ‘as someone who made a difference.’ She has achieved both,” he said, and then presented Baker with a “tenure box” of cards and letters from well-wishers and a watch engraved with the inscription “61 — unbeatable.”

“Her service here is the stuff of legend, and she has certainly made a difference,” Weissman continued.

“Dickinson is much the better for her presence.”

Asked to address the audience, Baker was characteristically to the point.

“I’ve said before that I don’t like pomp and circumstance, but I certainly appreciate all of you coming out today,” she told the crowd. “And I take a lot of pleasure in knowing that you’ve affected my life and I’ve affected yours.”

— MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson

Read the 50th anniversary interview with Baker at dickinson.edu/magazine.

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Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story

By Susan Marquardt Tiberghien ’55 Red Lotus Studio Press “What went right?” That’s the beginning question for Susan Tiberghien ’55 in her new book, Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story. Organized in seven parts, the book is as much Tiberghien’s memoir as it is a guide for the reader’s own journal writing. In writing about the good moments of her long marriage, she encourages readers to do the same. Each chapter deals with a different component of lasting love, from courtship to celebration. The components overlap, start anew and never end. Interspersed are pages for readers to record their own memories with writing prompts.

The “side by side” becomes the author and the reader as well as the reader and partner.

Reading’s Big League Exhibition Games

By Brian Engelhardt ’73 Arcadia Publishing While Reading, Pa., may be known today for the Fightin’ Phils, it also has been the site of 72 games played by 17 major-league franchises and barnstorming teams since 1874. Among the teams that have played in these exhibition games are the Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, along with appearances

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by baseball greats Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mike Schmidt, Ernie Banks and Rogers Hornsby. Reading fans have looked on as both the 1906 Phillies and A’s tried to catch a bunny on the field mid-game, cheered for Christy Mathewson’s shutouts, sang “Happy Birthday” to Pete Rose and watched Shoeless Joe Jackson hit a home run.

Brian Engelhardt ’73 is a Reading-area historical and regular contributor to the Historical Review of Berks County.

Discovering the Scientist Within: Research Methods in Psychology

By David Strohmetz ’86, Gary Lewandowski and Natalie Ciarocco Worth Publishers In this breakthrough first edition, authors David Strohmetz ’86, Gary Lewandowski and Natalie Ciarocco draw on their extensive classroom experiences to introduce research methodology in a highly effective, thoroughly engaging new way, maximizing students’ familiarity with every step of the process. For the first time in a methods text, each design chapter follows a single study from ideation to writing for publication, with students researching an intriguing question emerging from a chapter-long case study. Also for the first time in a methods text, each design chapter models the entire research process, so students get multiple opportunities to experience that process start to finish.

America’s First Daughter

By Laura Croghan Kamoie ’92 and Stephanie Dray William Morrow Drawing from thousands of letters and original sources, Stephanie Dray and Laura Croghan Kamoie ’92 tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph£—£a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic Founding Father and shaped an American legacy.

She became her father’s helpmate in the wake of her mother’s death, traveling with him after he became American minister to France. And it is in Paris, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution that she learns of her father’s liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Patsy too has fallen in love£—£with her father’s protégé, William Short, a staunch abolitionist intent on a career in Europe.

Heartbroken at having to decide between being William’s wife or a devoted daughter, she returns to Virginia with her father and marries a man of his choosing, raising 11 children of her own. Yet as family secrets come to light during her father’s presidency, Patsy must again decide how much she will sacrifice to protect his reputation, in the process defining not just Jefferson’s political legacy, but that of the nation he founded.

Hidden Carlisle: where Marianne Moore walked

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n a Sunday morning in June 1905, Mary Warner Moore and her two adult children walked to church in downtown Carlisle, Pa. Older brother Warner Moore was home from Yale University. Marianne, who would go on to become one of Modernism’s most acclaimed poets, was 17 and a new graduate of Metzger College (founded as a women’s school through the estate of George Metzger, Dickinson class of 1798). She was preparing to enter Bryn Mawr in the fall.

When the family walked out their house at 343 N. Hanover Street, Metzger College loomed in all its huge gabled and awning’d glory across the street. Mary Warner Moore taught there. The family turned left, headed south.

Carlisle, a small central Pennsylvania county seat in 1905, a compact grid of an old frontier town in an agricultural valley, received and held the world for the Moore family. They crossed North Street, down which in five years Bryn Mawr and Carlisle Commercial College graduate Marianne would ride her bike to teach at the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle Barracks.

They entered the main business district of the town. In the six blocks between home and church, the Moores would pass nine grocers, in addition to two fruit sellers and one butcher.

Photo of Marianne Moore (far left) courtesy of Archives & Special Collections.

They passed one saloon, a whole liquors shop and two hotels.

They walked by three harness shops, a bakery, a candy store, an ice cream parlor, four dry goods stores, one general store, three furniture stores and one wallpaper store. On their way to spiritual edification they passed four barbers, three doctors, three drug stores and two tobacconists. Two banks and two jewelers represented the apex of the thriving market town. Marianne in later life would be caricatured in her fame for her love of hats, from a dashing Cordobes flat hat to a colonial tricorne with cape ensemble. Much serious academic and psychological speculation would be written on her assertion of sartorial style in relation to her Modernist poetry. On this typical stroll to church, Marianne passed six millinery shops.

When they crossed Locust Alley they could have looked east, to see a few dozen yards away the most notable brothel in town, a post-Civil War business that would be passed through three generations of African-American women. At the center square, they were in a great public space of two churches (Episcopal and Presbyterian), a courthouse and an immense Market House. They may have looked west down High Street as they crossed the square, glimpsing the town’s book store, more hotels, the new public library and Dickinson College in its distant verdant coolness.

They passed them all by. They walked a block farther south to the Second Presbyterian Church on the southeast corner of S. Hanover and Pomfret streets. There they entered in the largest Protestant congregation of the town, helmed for decades by the Rev. George Norcross. Norcross, scholar, historian and possessor of the largest private library in the Cumberland Valley, not only was a pillar of the progressive community in town, but he and his wife had four daughters.

He had the family — lively, vivacious, well-read, fearless — that the Moores dreamed of in their brokenness, their mannered reserve that took in a few close friends but kept many more at a distance. The Norcross family home at 243 S. Hanover Street served as counterweight to the quiet of the Moores’ home at the other end of the street. It was Marianne’s intellectual salon and a gateway to the world that would later celebrate her sophisticated and allusive poetry and essays.

“An unfanatical innate love of books, music, and ‘art,’ made Blake, Rembrandt, Giotto, Holbein, D.G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti, Turner, Browning, Ruskin, Anthony Trollope, George Meredith, household companions of the family and friends,” Marianne wrote in 1963, long after she had left Carlisle in 1916.

“We were constantly discussing authors. When I entered Bryn Mawr, the college seemed to me in disappointing contrast — almost benighted.”

But as rich as the world of Carlisle was, as significant in shaping Marianne from age 8 upon her arrival to 28 upon her departure, the larger world beckoned, a larger and longer and more heralded walk to be taken. — Jeff Wood ’85 Jeff Wood ’85 is the owner of Whistlestop Bookshop in downtown Carlisle.

He recently followed up his Dickinson American studies degree with a master’s in American studies from Penn State University.

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[ college & west high ] Publications Neil Weissman, provost, dean of the college

and professor history, and Brian Whalen, president of The Forum on Education Abroad, recently co-authored “Lessons Learned From a Higher Education Partnership” in University Business. They write, “In the ongoing debate over the rising cost of higher education, collaboration frequently emerges as a proposed path forward. Despite the allure of savings and efficiencies, efforts to follow the strategy often fall victim to both conceptual and implementation flaws. Two institutions, a higher education association and a private liberal-arts college, have managed to navigate the tricky waters of collaboration to create a rewarding partnership. Our eight-year experience has taught us some key lessons that should be helpful to others.” Read more at dson.co/ UBweissman.

Body Politics, a peer-reviewed journal on the history of the body from the 18th to the 21st century, recently published “ ‘When I Was Growing Up My Mother Cooked Dinner Every Single Day’: Fat Stigma and the Significance of Motherblame in Contemporary United States,” by Amy Farrell, professor of American studies and women’s & gender studies; John J. Curley ’60 and Ann Conser Curley ’63 Faculty Chair in the Liberal Arts; and executive director of The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. The article appears in No. 5, vol. 3 (2015). Read more at dson.co/farrellbodypolitics.

Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence Susan Perabo’s latest collection of short stories, Why They Run the Way They Do, has been released by Simon & Schuster to critical acclaim. Kirkus Reviews writes, “Stealth wisdom is the hallmark of this collection, hiding in each piece like the prize in a Cracker Jack box. As a former bike racer tells his catastrophizing friend in the title story, ‘Everybody gets to be a little pathetic. But you can’t have more than your share, or there’s not enough to go around. You can’t be a hog about it.’ These ingenious and lovable stories crack open the world.” Learn more at dson.co/perabobook.

Browse more faculty publications at scholar.dickinson.edu/faculty_pubs.

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Lars English, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Jiahao Han ’17 published

“Multi-frequency and edge breathers in the discrete sine-Gordon system via subharmonic driving: Theory, computation and experiment” in Physics Letters A 380, 402 (2015).

Dickinson’s Director of Library Services Eleanor Mitchell and Swarthmore’s College

Librarian Peggy Seiden co-edited Reviewing the Academic Library: A Guide to Self-Study and External Review. The Library Journal review notes that the editors “assembled a veritable all-star lineup of contributors for this volume that examines self-study and external reviews in academic libraries.”

Grants and Awards Mark Aldrich, associate professor of Spanish, received a 2,000 euro grant from Acción Cultural Española’s Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture for a writer’s workshop residency featuring Ana Merino, associate professor at the University of Iowa, and poet Manuel Vilas. Merino and Vilas were in residence March 28-April 15.

UK National Health Service NIHR-HTA awarded $66,785 to Suman Ambwani,

associate professor of psychology. In collaboration with her colleagues at Kings College London, Ambwani will conduct “A multicentre, investigator blind, randomised 6/12 parallel group study to examine the feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of supplementing inpatient care with guided self-management tools for patients with or without adjunct career guidance.” The current study employs a recovery-based, collaborative approach to the selfmanagement of eating disorders.

Ted Merwin, associate professor of religion and director of the Milton B. Asbell Center for Jewish Life, won the Education & Jewish Identity category of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards for his recent book, Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli.

Bestowed by the Jewish Book Council, the annual awards recognize outstanding literature in the field and aim to encourage authors to continue to write on themes of Jewish interest.

Chelsea Skalak, assistant professor of English, received the William T. Buice III Scholarship, awarded by the Rare Book School to support research on the history of written, printed and digital materials. Through it, she will launch a digital project next summer that focuses on accounts of the lives of 12th- through 15th-century married saints as part of a larger project investigating how medieval marriage law shaped and was shaped by innovations in medieval literature. Read more at dson.co/digitalmarginalia.

The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds awarded $25,000 to Julie Vastine ’03, director of ALLARM, and Heather Bedi, assistant professor of environmental studies, for their project “Taking the pulse of Pennsylvania’s watershed movement.” Vastine and Bedi are partnering with the Pennsylvania State University to assess the current status of community-based watershed organizations in Pennsylvania.

The Greater Carlisle Project, of which Dickinson College is a founding member,

received a one-year $50,000 civic-engagement grant from the Pennsylvania Humanities

Susan Perabo, professor of English and writer-inresidence, has received critical acclaim for her latest collection of short stories.

Commencement Accolades Council and a $10,000 mini-grant from the South Mountain Partnership to implement the Greater Carlisle Heart & Soul Project, a resident-driven approach to community planning and development. The Cumberland County Historical Society will serve as the fiscal sponsor for the project. Learn more at greatercarlisleproject.dickinson.edu.

Elaine Livas ’83

In the News

The Institute of International Education (IIE) ranked Dickinson College No. 5 for yearlong study abroad and No. 11 for semester-long study abroad in the baccalaureate category of its most recent Open Doors report (for the 2013-14 academic year). Based on the number of students in the study-abroad programs, the rankings highlight the college’s commitment to immersive global education, with 325 students studying abroad last year (275 in semesterlong programs and 50 in yearlong programs) and just over 68 percent of Dickinson students studying abroad before they graduate.

Professor of History David Commins’ latest book, Islam in Saudi Arabia, was named a Best Book of 2015 by Foreign Affairs magazine. The book chronicles Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi movement as well as the diversity and dynamism of religion in the country’s society, politics, culture and everyday life. In its review, Foreign Affairs wrote, “[Commins] has produced a succinct and insightful survey of puritanical Wahhabi Islam in Saudi Arabia” and calls Commins’ writing “scrupulously nonjudgmental.”

Kamaal Haque, assistant professor of

German, recently appeared in an Austrian public-television documentary on Luis Trenker (1892-1990), an actor, director and TV personality who is the focus of Haque’s research.

Tom Wolf

David Satcher

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will deliver Dickinson’s Commencement address on Sunday, May 22. After a successful 30-year career leading his family’s York, Pa.-based business, The Wolf Organization, a distributor of lumber and other building products, Wolf was sworn in as Pennsylvania’s 47th governor in 2015. Wolf, who earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree from the University of London and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive a Doctor of Public Service honorary degree.

Wolf will be joined by former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher and Project SHARE founder Elaine Livas ’83. Satcher is a physicianscientist and public health administrator with an extensive track record of leadership and community engagement. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Morehouse College with an M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western University, he will receive a Doctor of Public Health honorary degree.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Livas has dedicated her life’s work to improving her community and the lives of thousands of low-income families in the Carlisle region.

Livas graduated cum laude with a degree in anthropology and in 1985 founded Project SHARE. She will receive a Doctor of Public Service honorary degree.

Also to be announced at Commencement is the 2016 recipient of the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism: Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and staff writer at The New Yorker. Kolbert writes extensively on climate change and is the author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe. She will be in residence at Dickinson in the fall 2016 semester.

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Her team on a string

Carl Socolow ’77

oira Mahoney ’16, co-captain and four-year starter for women’s lacrosse, likes to think of her team “on a string,” she says. “If I have the ball, the midfielders should be moving to the right positions.” She goes on to describe her vision for how the team stays steps ahead of its opponents. Mahoney, or “Mo” if you know her well, is a defender and helps lead her team from arguably the most important position on the field.

“I love playing defense,” she says.

“There’s nothing better than stopping someone from scoring, just completely stuffing them.

I love it.” Mahoney adds that the program’s strategy focuses on a team-centered defense — it doesn’t work unless everyone involved is doing her part.

As for Mahoney, she’s done hers. She boasts numerous team records, landing in the program’s top 10 for game, career and season draw controls, as well as most caused turnovers in a game. Last season, she started all 15 games and led the Centennial Conference (CC) in 28 caused turnovers. Mahoney has made two appearances as a first-team All-CC defender, and she was named to the 2015 Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association All-Metro Region First Team.

“She’s the hardest working player every practice,” says Kim Lowry, head coach.

“On the field, she is just a total workhorse.

She’s relentless.”

All of which may be the reason she’s been co-captain since her sophomore season.

The team elects three captains each season through an aggregated voting system, and Mahoney, along with Caroline Clancy ’16, has been chosen for the last three seasons.

“She has just set a precedent for what true leadership looks like,” says Lowry.

Mahoney’s leadership extends off the field, as well. When she isn’t wearing cleats, she is president of the D-Tones, one of Dickinson’s three co-ed a cappella groups. “I do the planning and the organization, but I’m definitely not that musical. I just like to sing,” she says, laughing. Add in research the English major is conducting for her capstone thesis on the role of sexism in the television series American Horror Story, and this senior has a full plate. And that’s just how she likes it: “It’s really nice having separate things to do. It keeps my life balanced.” — Grace McCrocklin ’16

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Women’s basketball In just her second season, Head Coach Katherine Bixby led the women’s basketball team to the CC playoffs.

The Red Devils won seven straight and finished the season 16-10 after winning 12 of their final 16 games, advancing to the CC semifinals. Helen Roberts ’17 and Mary Martin ’17 were named to the All-CC team. Roberts led the team in scoring and was deadly from long range, hitting 57 three-pointers on the year and ranking second in program history.

A southpaw, Roberts currently ranks sixth in career three-pointers made at Dickinson with 91 and second in career three-point percentage at .379. Martin also had another outstanding season: The 2014 CC Rookie of

Women’s swimming The women’s swim team placed fourth at the CC championships, setting new school records in 10 events. Olivia Lyman ’19 set five records and captured the title in the 500 yard freestyle. She added school marks in the 200, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle events, and joined the 400 free relay for another. Caitlin Klockner ’16 broke the record in the 200 freestyle, before Lyman reset the mark in both the prelims and the final. Klockner broke the 200 IM record in both the prelims and finals and joined Lyman, Sammy Boswell ’19 and Katie Schmidt ’19 for another mark in the 400 free relay. Jacqulyn Teller ’17 broke the 200 breaststroke record in the prelims and finals and joined Amanda Meinschein ’19, Brenna Nimkoff ’18 and Klockner for the 800 free relay record.

Men’s swimming Men’s swimming saw five school records fall at the CC championships. Mitch Reynolds ’18 was part of four records, joining the 800 free relay and setting individual marks in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 yard freestyle events. Kiernan Jordan ’19 placed second at championships and broke the 200 yard butterfly record, while Alex Bennett ’17, Alan Karickhoff ’16 and Sam Eaton ’17 joined the relay. The Red Devils captured fifth in the team standings. Nick Beard ’18 earned All-CC honors with a second place finish in the 200 breaststroke.

Women’s track and field The women’s indoor track and field team placed third at the CC championships. Aphnie Germain ’17 clocked a time of 8.10 to set a school record in the 60 meter dash, breaking her own record.

Amanda Jimcosky ’17 won her third straight title in the high jump, while Rebecca Race ’16 claimed silver in the 800. The distance medley relay ran to second, with Sophie Moore ’17 adding bronze in the heptathlon and Sofia

Chris Knight

the Year has continued to develop as one of the top players in the conference. She was second on the team in scoring, has grabbed over 500 rebounds in her career and eclipsed the century mark with 118 assists and 128 steals.

Canning ’18 placing third in the 5,000 meters.

The Red Devils set the school record in the 4x1600 relay, clocking a time of 21:47.13. Rikka Olson ’17 broke her own mark in the pole vault this winter, clearing 12 feet, 2 inches.

Men’s track and field The men’s team finished eighth at the CC championships.

Mason Hepner ’17 ran to a bronze medal in the mile and won the second annual Rob Jansen Memorial 800 meter run at the Du Charme Invitational. He joined Will Chandler ’19, Eric Herrmann ’19 and Matt Sansevere ’16 to place fifth in the 4x800 relay. Hart Rainey ’16 and Devin Glasson ’18 added top 10 showings in the long jump and shot put. Mark Manganaro ’16 added a pair of top 10 finishes as well.

James Rasp

John Whitehead

Men’s basketball Men’s basketball battled its way to the Centennial Conference (CC) semifinals for the fourth consecutive year and produced the CC Player of the Year for the third straight season. Preseason AllAmerican Ted Hinnenkamp ’16 was a unanimous first-team All-CC selection and garnered Player of the Year honors to follow Gerry Wixted ’15 and Adam Honig ’14, who is currently playing professionally in Israel.

Brandon Angradi ’16 earned second-team All-CC honors, setting the school record with a career 273 three-pointers. He ranks second all-time in the CC, holding both the CC and school mark with 10 three-pointers in a game.

Hinnenkamp and Angradi scored over 1,000 points in their careers, each reaching the milestone in a span of just six days. The Devils rallied to finish 13-13 overall and claimed third in the CC with a 12-6 record.

Squash The men’s and women’s squash teams showed much improvement in its second season of competition. The Red Devil men finished with a 14-9 mark and placed second in the D-Division of the team national championships to rank 26th in the final poll.

A number of first-years saw significant action this winter as Head Coach Chris Sachvie looks to build a competitive program. The women’s team won the E-Division last season and ranked 25th nationally to move up to the D-Division, placing second in the battle for the Epps Cup. The Red Devils posted an overall record of 11-8 and also had a strong contingent of first-year players in the line-up.£ £—££Charlie McGuire, sports information director

Need more Red Devil sports? Check out all the stats, scores, schedules and highlights at www.dickinsonathletics.com.

Information about live streaming and radio broadcasts is available on a game-by-game basis, so check the website regularly or follow @DsonRedDevils on Twitter for the latest updates.

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t all started with an idea. A need. An obsession. Some might shake it off or shrug it away. Because it would be hard and scary and stressful and expensive. But others — Dickinsonians — pick it up. Run with it. Make it real. With hundreds of alumni in our database listed with titles like founder, owner or entrepreneur, it’s clear our reach in the start-up scene is substantial. So Dickinson Magazine asked alumni entrepreneurs in technology and manufacturing, education, the arts, food and fashion to share their experiences, in their own words. Our goal was to illustrate the breadth and depth of their stories, sure, but we also want to understand what it means to be an entrepreneur and to inspire the next generation of Dickinsonians. The ones sitting in the Idea Fund office wondering if they have what it takes. The ones with a nagging sense that something is missing. The ones with the next big idea. — Lauren Davidson

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Nick Bailey ’16

Eller Mallchok ’15

Make something better

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reshman year, I came in not knowing what the hell I was going to do.

First I thought art history, and then I thought international business & management,” says Eller Mallchok ’15. She eventually decided to major in biology. “I love the scientific process and the research process, but I never really saw myself as a researcher in a lab.”

This same love of the scientific method, coupled with her experience with the Idea Fund and with co-founding The Dog House (see Page 34) drew her back to her home state of Tennessee to work for Jumpstart Foundry, an innovative investment platform that challenges the traditional model of venture capital and builds successful health care companies.

“There’s such an art to [traditional] venture capital, someone nodding their head saying, ‘Yeah, that’s a good deal,’ ” she explains. “That’s not sustainable, it’s not repeatable. What Jumpstart Foundry has done is brought more of a science to it. As a biology major, I love that.”

For Mallchok, the common denominator for biology and venture capital can be found in Jumpstart Foundry’s slogan, “Make something better.”

It’s the same sentiment that sparked her interest in the Idea Fund and ignited her Dickinson experience. “For me it was the sense of responsibility to my community,” she says, “I didn’t want to be a passive participant of the community that I lived in.”— Nick Bailey ’16

WHAT WAS YOUR “AHA” MOMENT? “When people would challenge my idea or say it would not work.

Rather than feeling deflated, this would invigorate me to try harder.”

Christine Wilson ’93

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FOUNDER, ANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

“There wasn’t a good quality tie between those preppy brands and the well-established European luxurious ties, so I found that niche in the market to create something better.”

Miriam Zelinsky ’06

FRENCH, HISTORY CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, LAZYJACK PRESS

“I think of new business ideas daily. The idea that keeps your passion/attention the best is likely the smartest one to pursue.”

Dave Wechsler ’93

POLICY MANAGEMENT STUDIES CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, HEY GORGEOUS!

“The true moment when I knew we were onto something great was when we opened for business on March 1, 2007. We had a line of clients wrapped halfway around the block waiting to get into our facility for the first time.”

Robert Berna ’94

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CO-FOUNDER, APPLE SEEDS LLC

No regrets: “Entrepreneurs should not have regrets—they tried. People who want to try but haven’t should have the regrets.”

Dave Wechsler ’93

POLICY MANAGEMENT STUDIES CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, HEY GORGEOUS!

“I spent many years pushing quickly from one big project into the next, without giving myself adequate time to rest and reflect. Learning to take the long view and being kinder to myself has allowed me to refocus my energies in a more powerful way.”

Christine Bonney Hyatt ’91

ENGLISH FINE CHEESE PHOTOGRAPHY & MARKETING

“It’s important to know what you don’t know and then try to fill in the gaps by asking questions of the people who know the things that you don’t.

And then you grow.”

Joshua Sherman ’96

DRAMATIC ARTS, ENGLISH PRESIDENT, INNOVATION TOURING GROUP

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WHAT INSPIRES YOU? “I’m inspired by people who have the chutzpah to make their ideas a reality, no matter how big or small their idea may be. Their energy gives me energy.”

Alfredo Axtmayer ’04

SPANISH CO-FOUNDER OF LOVE.FÚTBOL AND REMISSION BALL

“Live performance remains one of the few things where a large group of strangers can experience something completely ephemeral at the exact same moment. That one moment of a show when you can hear a pin drop in the theater, and you had something to do with why the performance happened.”

Wyatt Lonergan ’11

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or Wyatt Lonergan ’11, co-founder and owner of Tribe Bicycle Co., the entrepreneurial path began on a run and led him into a Chinese restaurant. After graduating from Dickinson with a degree in international business & management and a concentration in Chinese, Lonergan moved to China to manage manufacturing for toy company Melissa & Doug.

“I was sourcing factories, finding factories, negotiating costs and then actively seeking new projects,” says Lonergan. As much as he was enjoying his time at Melissa & Doug, he also was searching for something more fulfilling.

“So the wheels started turning, and I wound up seeing someone on a run one day on a super colorful bike, and I was like, ‘Wow, where do I get one of those?’ ” he recalls. “I followed the guy into a restaurant.

It turns out he was the chef, and I asked him where he got the bike. He gave me the contact info for the factory, and I ended up calling the factory and ordering my own bike and a bike for my roommate.”

When the bikes showed up at Lonergan’s apartment, they turned out to be pretty crummy, but it didn’t matter. In April 2014, Lonergan and his roommate returned to the U.S. and incorporated.

By September of that year they sold their first bicycle, a much-improved version of that first bike.

“We’ve been operating for almost a year and a half,” Lonergan says. “We grew our collection from eight bicycles, and at the end of March we had four different product series, four different types of bicycles, about 30 different bikes.”

Tribe produces personalized bikes that cater to urban cyclists, people who use their bike for more than just recreation. The company also hosts an annual 200-300 person bike ride through Brooklyn.

“It’s not your typical bike ride,” he says. “You’re getting exercise out of it, but it’s this big adventure, and you’re sharing this incredible experience with a group of people. In many ways it’s reflective of our name.”

To him, Tribe is building community around biking, and that’s the added value, the entrepreneurial spirit.

—Nick Bailey ’16

Joshua Sherman ’96

DRAMATIC ARTS, ENGLISH PRESIDENT, INNOVATION TOURING GROUP

“To create as perfect an environment as humanly possible. In the case of my businesses, it means making the kind of retail experience that people enjoy. As an employer, it means creating the kind of workplace that I would want to be in. For my family, it means ensuring them a stable base while allowing for the infinite possibilities the world presents.

Everything revolves around respect and integrity.”

Richard “Rick” Anderson ’92

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“PEOPLE WHO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO INTRODUCE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE INTRODUCED.” Hannah Huber ’02

AMERICAN STUDIES FOUNDER, AMSTERDAM ACADEMY

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“GO WITH YOUR GUT AND NEVER BE AFRAID TO REINVENT YOURSELF.” Angelica Menefee ’90

SPANISH PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, TRAMPOLINE INC.

“NO MATTER HOW WELL YOU PLAN, THERE WILL BE MANY SURPRISES. EXPECT THEM.”

HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR: 1. It’s a hard way to make a living. Don’t do it unless you are ready for long hours, low pay and extremely low likelihood of success. There is no glamour.

2. There is no playbook. In fact, there usually is no right or wrong. Find mentors to help you talk through the ideas that have no right answers.

3. Make mistakes and learn from them—don’t have so much ego you can’t admit when something was stupid. But then learn from that mistake.

4. Have fun. If you aren’t excited, there is a problem.

You can’t have success if you don’t love it.

Dave Wechsler ’93

POLICY MANAGEMENT STUDIES CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, HEY GORGEOUS!

Richard “Rick” Anderson ’92

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES OWNER, FRANCE 44

“You do not want to be the smartest person in the room. Focus on hiring extraordinary people and nurture them, because they will take you to the next level.”

Drew Greenblatt ’88

HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE OWNER AND PRESIDENT, MARLIN STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS LLC

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Catherine Friend White ’78

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or Catherine Friend White ’78, what first appears to be a setback, is also an opportunity. Take Black Monday in 1987, for example. She had completed her MBA in finance at Babson College, was working as a portfolio manager for a successful mutual fund company and recently had been made partner. But when the market crashed and the company was sold, she found herself casting about for something new. “The acquiring company took all our assets and not the people,” she recalls. “There wasn’t a lot of hiring going on.”

She interviewed with some of the top firms in Boston, including with one potential employer who conducted the entire meeting in French (he had noticed on her resume that French was one of her majors and wanted to brush up on his own language skills).

Nothing seemed to fit, however. “I had had such a good experience there, I couldn’t find anything that measured up,” she says.

Meanwhile, she was volunteering at the local hospital, and it was during a conversation with one of the nurses that the seed was planted for her investment management firm, FinArc LLC. “One of the nurses was looking at her 401K statement and asked, ‘How can anyone expect a nurse to know which fund to pick?’ ” “One of the nurses asked whether I could help with that.” So White offered her services.

“That client is still with my firm,” she says.

Founded as Financial Architects in 1990, FinArc serves individual investors and smaller institutions, including corporate pension plans.

FinArc also specializes in socially responsible investing, which helps clients match investment opportunities with their personal values.

“My first job was with Pioneer Group, and they screened out alcohol, tobacco and gambling stocks,” White says, “I started thinking about apartheid, polluters. Once I fast-forwarded to my own company, I helped clients decide where to invest based on whatever issues were most important to them. I try to give people both sides of the situation.”

White’s comfort with both sides of situations most likely was fed by her studies as a philosophy and French double major. From ethics to metaphysics to logic and rhetoric, White was smitten. “Philosophy covered so many facets of life,” she says. “I absolutely fell in love with it.”

She also fell in love with fellow philosophy major Richard White ’75, who recently retired from his position as director of software quality assurance at Fidelity Investments. The two met in the middle of High Street in front of thenSpahr Library and soon discovered a mutual interest in games and puzzles. Together for 42 years now, they form one half of a bridge quartet that meets monthly, and they host the annual New England Checkers Championship, a highly competitive tournament sanctioned by the American Checker Federation.

Since 2013, White has been a managing director at Golden Seeds, an early-stage investment firm, and she focuses on those who can make a real difference in the world, which may be why she helped seed the Innovation Competition at Dickinson (see Page 33). With more than three decades’ experience in finance, White seeks out and supports budding entrepreneurs of all ages, from 20-somethings to retirees pursuing new passions. “The most important thing we look for is the founder,” she says. “Is the founder going to be really dynamic, really capable? At Golden Seeds, 70 percent of the companies we work with are first-time entrepreneurs. We like to see a company where we can help make connections.”

White points to one of her latest projects, the inventor of DayOne Response, a personal water treatment backpack that can be quickly deployed by relief organizations and NGOs after a natural disaster hits. The patented bag, which can filter any source of water into potable water, has garnered multiple technology awards and has helped thousands of disaster victims from the Philippines to Nepal. “This is someone who can make a good living and have a social impact,” White notes. “That’s inspiring, to see people transform their lives.”—Michelle Simmons

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Carl Socolow ’77

Rob Frohwein ’90

Some serious kabbage

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ntrepreneurs take that first step by looking for an unmet need in the world and then founding a business (or two) to address it. Rob Frohwein ’90 has lived for that mission for a long time — although he probably got a jump on it earlier than most.

“I’ve always been or dreamed of being an entrepreneur,” Frohwein says. “As crazy as it sounds, I carried around an idea book when I was 9 or 10. Whenever I saw a challenge, my mind would focus on a solution to the issue.”

Now his mind is focused on Kabbage.com, a growing online enterprise that provides loans to small businesses. (A Kabbage subsidiary, Karrot.com is another of Frohwein’s businesses, providing personal loans with the same easeof-use functionality as Kabbage.)

Frohwein co-founded Atlanta-based Kabbage in 2009, in the heart of the financial crisis that ushered in the Great Recession (Forbes has since named Kabbage to its list “20 Amazing Companies Founded During the

Financial Crisis”). The idea was to use all the data flying around online to underwrite loans to help other entrepreneurs get their dreams off the ground — within just minutes.

“In terms of wanting to start the business,” he says, “the entrepreneurial spirit has always been a core part of my being. That’s just what I like to do — implement my ideas, see where they go.” And Kabbage has really gone places: By 2014, the company was funding more than $1 million in loans every day, and by 2015 that had jumped to $3 million daily. Now, with its more than 65,000 small business customers and partnerships with many of the largest banks in the world, Kabbage has provided more than $1.5 billion in total funding and as many as 16,000 loans in a single month, making it the largest online provider of small business loans.

Just looking at those numbers, at Kabbage’s incredible growth rates and success, one might think it’s easy to step out into the world with a new idea and hit it big. Of course, real success never comes easily.

“Entrepreneurship is vital to our economy — it drives growth of employment, improvement in quality of life and spurs innovation in others,” Frohwein says. “But it’s not for the weak of heart.

Kabbage is, by far, the most dizzying experience I have had.” The stress of it all doesn’t keep Frohwein from seeing beyond his business, and the company gives back, big, to the community through Kabbage Kares, its charitable arm.

“Kabbage Kares is an important part of our culture,” he says. “We have several key values within the company, but the most important one is that each member of our company must ‘Care Deeply’ — about one another, the product, the company, the investors and partners and, very importantly, the community.”

So how has success changed Frohwein, who in his previous life was an intellectual property lawyer and led and advised a number of successful businesses? Well, maybe it hasn’t.

“I don’t believe in celebrating the touchdowns during the game,” says the former economics major, who met his wife, Dana Weiner ’89, while at Dickinson.

Dana received her master’s degree in early elementary education from the University of Pennsylvania and taught for many years. She now sits on the board of the school their children attended for years and is heavily involved in the Atlanta community.

“Success is rather binary to me: We either create a compelling, profitable, large and everlasting company, or we don’t. We still have a while to go, and there’s no finish line.” — Tony Moore

HOW DID DICKINSON PREPARE YOU FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP? “I knew that what I was learning in my Vampire Fiction and Film course was just as important as what I was learning in Judaism in the Time of Jesus or in Social Analysis. Today, I make sure that various disciplines are offered, because we can always learn from one another and should never limit ourselves to subjects with which we’re most comfortable.”

“LIVING ABROAD MY JUNIOR YEAR WAS A PIVOTAL TIME FOR ME. KNOWING THAT I COULD THRIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY FROM EVERYTHING THAT WAS COMFORTABLE WAS TRANSFORMATIVE.” Angelica Menefee ’90

SPANISH PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER, TRAMPOLINE INC.

Hannah Huber ’02

AMERICAN STUDIES FOUNDER, AMSTERDAM ACADEMY

“Entrepreneurship is all about ambiguity and uncertainty — you have to be able to deal with that every day. It really is a mindset — a different way of thinking and acting. It’s not a grouping of skills like writing a business plan or marketing. The open-minded perspective and the diverse skills you get via the liberal arts is good preparation for this kind of thinking.”

Erik Pages ’83

POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, ENTREWORKS CONSULTING

“It’s amazing how the simple task of thoughtful opinion sharing has been lost in a sea of technology. That’s been a great working life skill for me — especially in a family business!”

Heather Willis ’98

POLITICAL SCIENCE OWNER, BULLY BOY DISTILLERS

“THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, WHERE YOU LEARN ABOUT ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND CULTURE, TAUGHT ME TO FIND SOLUTIONS IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND COMMON GROUND WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER BACKGROUNDS.” Christine Wilson ’93

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FOUNDER, ANTIGUA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

“Reading challenging books (no Google or Internet then) from varied sources helped me interpret divergent views and allowed me the platform to create a coherent thoughtful approach when I talked with my professors then or with presidents and senators now.”

“The need to be nimble, the need to be immediate, the need to respond to whatever the client throws in your direction and the ability to respond. A liberal-arts education prepares you in such a different way than a narrowly-focused degree does, and trains you for that flexibility. Participating as a senior class officer, a Mermaid Player, a Drew Greenblatt ’88 HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE columnist for The Dickinsonian and a tour OWNER AND PRESIDENT, MARLIN STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS LLC guide for admissions all shaped my persuasive approaches, my public speaking, “Starting the first business felt very much staying organized and focused — all of the like a continuation of my interdisciplinary traits that go into building a successful major. I found myself using the very same sales model.” resources I used during our Senior Seminar.

Joshua Sherman ’96 To me, nothing is more valuable than a DRAMATIC ARTS, ENGLISH liberal-arts education for an aspiring PRESIDENT, INNOVATION TOURING GROUP entrepreneur. I am now in my fifth startup.”

Dave Wechsler ’93 “My passion for cheese spans a number of POLICY MANAGEMENT STUDIES disciplines. Being comfortable, curious and CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, HEY GORGEOUS! conversant — from the science and history, to the politics and nutrition, the craft and “My best work came out when others culture of cheese — has helped me connect challenged me and my assumptions. with many people of diverse backgrounds.”

No matter how right I thought I was, I learned that the arguments of others improved my own understanding.”

Christine Bonney Hyatt ’91

ENGLISH FINE CHEESE PHOTOGRAPHY & MARKETING

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“I learned the true value of friendship, from the sisterhood of my sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma to the discipline of being on the tennis team, the independence and exhilaration derived from studying abroad, and just those relaxing moments when I’d sit with my roommate in the red Adirondack chairs by Old West chatting about our day.”

Miriam Zelinsky ’06

FRENCH, HISTORY CO-FOUNDER AND CEO, LAZYJACK PRESS

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ystery meat. Fruit in light syrup. Mac & cheese with hot dogs.

School lunch staples, right? Not anymore. As society becomes more health conscious, as “organic” and “gluten free” move from buzzwords to imperatives, as new USDA guidelines are implemented in cafeterias across the county, more nutritious fare, and greater variety, is in demand. When his children’s school put out a call for help selecting a new school-lunch vendor in 2014, Bryan MacPhail ’04 offered his expertise.

After earning his history degree from Dickinson, MacPhail graduated from the French Culinary Institute in New York City and launched several restaurants in Martha’s Vineyard (more on that later). But in the off season, the family lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., and MacPhail had some time to spare.

“It was great to have time off, but with the kids spending more time in school each year and then discovering that even with increased tee times a career on the PGA Tour was unlikely, I decided I needed to work,” he says, and he dove into researching options for Cold Spring Elementary School.

“When I realized there wasn’t a better vendor out there for school lunches, I decided to start something myself.”

So Locally Grown Kids was born and now serves hot, healthy and locally sourced lunches to up to 800 kids a day at six schools in the Santa Barbara area.

“It started as just me and one other person,” he recalls. “Then I got a call from another school and another and another! Now we have a commercial kitchen and a couple delivery trucks, so what started out as more of a community-service project turned into a business.”

While his path to Dickinson followed an extensive family legacy (including father Allen ’69 and uncles Andrew ’76 and Bruce ’73), other things in MacPhail’s life took unexpected turns, like his original endeavors to follow the family path into the sports industry.

After exploring job options in Major League Baseball, “it became apparent that I loved to play baseball more than I loved to watch it every day,” he explains. He worked for CNN covering breaking news in New York, and while he loved the city and the excitement, he didn’t feel fulfilled.

“My mom tells the story of how I would make the family eat at my imaginary restaurant when I was a kid,” he recalls. “I loved being able to create something, to complete a task from start to finish.”

So out of the office and into the kitchen he went, enrolling in an intensive yearlong culinary training course. He and wife Allison “Allie” Butler MacPhail ’05, who runs a successful photography business, set their sights on opening a restaurant and agreed on a quaint corner location in Martha’s Vineyard, where Allie’s family had established retail roots. Nine years later, MacPhail’s Corner Café is thriving, serving traditional Martha’s Vineyard fare like clam chowder and lobster rolls.

But they didn’t stop there. The MacPhails added a pizza shop, Slice of Edgartown, and an ice cream shop, The Scoop Shack.

“It’s 20-hour work days, three crazy months of the year, but I love the creative aspect of it,” MacPhail says. “And every single year, we’re growing, doing something different. The ice cream shop has been ranked No. 1 on the island since we opened, and every year we offer a flavor that goes 100 percent to charity, like St. Jude Children’s Hospital last year.”

Because for MacPhail, it’s also about giving back and supporting his community and his family.

“Unless you’re doing something you love, every day you’re waking up wishing you were doing other things,” he says. “Dickinson gave me the freedom to become the person I am today. I’ve done different things and lived different places and I love it. And when our four kids are ready to help out, there will be plenty of opportunities for them.”ª— Lauren Davidson

“I stumbled upon my most recent idea by making a silver lining out of a difficult situation. Five years ago I was diagnosed with cancer. It was during my treatments that I reflected not only on the support of my family and friends, but also on the confidence, teamwork and dedication I learned while playing soccer at Dickinson and my whole life. Family, friends and sport helped me heal, so I decided to help others fighting cancer heal through sport too. Remission Ball promotes cancer healing through sport by sending cancer patients unique, sport- and mantra-inspired gifts.”

Alfredo Axtmayer ’04

SPANISH CO-FOUNDER OF LOVE.FÚTBOL AND REMISSION BALL

PARTING ADVICE “Always share your ideasª—ªdon’t be afraid of someone stealing them.”

Hannah Huber ’02

AMERICAN STUDIES FOUNDER, AMSTERDAM ACADEMY

“Just wanting to be [an entrepreneur] is not enough.

You have to be passionate about something and really know your industry or market.”

Erik Pages ’83

POLITICAL SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY FOUNDER/PRESIDENT, ENTREWORKS CONSULTING

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Entrepreneurs don’t just grow on trees Have a great idea? You must be a Dickinsonian. By Nick Bailey

“There were just orange [trees]; there was nothing going on,” says Anat Beck, visiting assistant professor of international business & management (IB&M), of Silicon Valley 100 years ago. “So what happened there? That’s the process I’m trying to get my students to understand.” Innovation doesn’t just happen. Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re grown. “We talk about ecosystems. How can we achieve an entrepreneurial ecosystem? Can we design something, can we do something to develop an entrepreneurial ecosystem?”

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Beck and her students wrestle with these questions every day in class, whether they’re students in her First-Year Seminar, The Next Silicon Valley, or a group of scrappy, hungry seniors in her 300-level Israel the Startup Nation.

“We’re talking about how the culture of Israel stimulates entrepreneurship,” says Nikki Dutta ’16, a student in Israel the Startup Nation and an IB&M major with a Spanish minor and pursuing a health studies certificate. “It’s a really open, small class. Every class we have multiple readings, and Professor Beck provides a prompt that stimulates discussion. It’s a process of continuous interaction and feedback.”

For Thom Wallace ’99, former principal and co-founder of Ecofusion, the public relations firm and media company he started in 2005 to serve environmental and social innovation clients, these small class discussions have been the key to his entrepreneurial endeavors. “The idea of small classroom settings, let’s say 10 people, where you’re bouncing ideas off of people on a regular basis, that’s what you want in a good team environment if you’re starting or running a business,” he says.

Small classes replicate what scholars of management theory and organizational behavior call “hot groups,” or mini think tanks that problem solve and collaborate. “You’re all throwing out new ideas, and you have a teacher who has experience and guides the conversation, but it’s all kind of an iterative and idea building process,” says Wallace. “ ‘Here’s what I thought, what do you think?’ That environment is great for entrepreneurs.

That’s where you start to take that model from the classroom to an organization.”

For Wallace, the entrepreneurial path began in the classroom and extended to student-run organizations. “Leadership was something that was very accessible,” he recalls. “There was a lot of opportunity to grow and work on projects.” While at Dickinson, Wallace helped co-manage the Center for Sustainable Living (The Treehouse) and revived WDCV-FM into a sustainable organization. Today, he continues his entrepreneurial work in strategic communications consulting on clean energy, agriculture and media initiatives across sub-Saharan Africa.

Grass roots run deep

The culture of entrepreneurship at Dickinson has a rich, grass roots history, but if you mention entrepreneurship to anyone on campus today, they’ll point you to the Idea Fund. Founded in 2011, the Idea Fund is a student-run project incubator and revolving loan fund. With a mission “to empower students to identify and solve problems in our community,” the Idea Fund isn’t a club or student organization — it’s a collective that has the potential to shift culture, says co-founder and former executive director Anthony Silverman ’12. “Each one of us could do one thing during our time at Dickinson, but collectively we could share resources and share why and how. We could have a synergy and do a lot more to impact the campus during our time.”

The first iteration of the Idea Fund grew from conversations in 2011 around responsible investing and green revolving loan funds, says Silverman. Informal meetings and coffee with former President William G. Durden ’71 led to formal proposals and a $15,000 seed grant. Soon after, the Handlebar, a bike co-op developed by the Center for Sustainability Education, was funded, and the now iconic sustainable coffee cart, the Peddler, began brewing coffee at the foot of Old West (See Page 35 for a full list of Idea Fund projects).

The Idea Fund’s website boasts, “We help students build cool stuff.” But at its core, the Idea Fund is about empowering students to problem solve, to practice building ideas — trying, failing and trying again. “Everyone that is a part of the Idea Fund is self-motivated. They are open-minded and like change. They are always questioning the system,” says Eller Mallchok ’15, former Idea Fund executive director (See Page 20 for more about Mallchok). “These are the people who energize me and make me want to act and get stuff done.”

Our students are outwardly focused.

We hope that they feel responsible for creating a positive path in the world.

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The idea of small classroom settings, let’s say 10 people, where you’re bouncing ideas off of people on a regular basis, that’s what you want in a good team environment if you’re starting or running a business.

Thom Wallace ’99

How can I use my skill set, as an econ major, as an Idea Funder, as someone who is politically literate? How do I take what I have and have [an] impact in my community? Brady Hummel ’17 Certifying excellence

“The students of the current generation are much more attuned to social networking than my generation or the generation between,” notes Michael Fratantuono, associate professor of international studies, business and management, of the growing interest in starting on the path to entrepreneurship early. “The revolution in information technology and the capacity for social networking, the ease of gathering information and being aware in a global sense or a deep local sense, I think that contributes to the entrepreneurial mindset.”

This same motivation to make immediate, positive change is the momentum behind the new certificate program in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), launched in the spring of 2015 and helmed by Associate Professor of International Business & Management Helen Takacs. The certificate is composed of six courses: a foundations course, a senior seminar and four elective courses from a vast array of academic programs, from IB&M and earth sciences to theatre & dance and environmental studies.

Students also are required to complete an experiential learning project (an internship, service learning course or independent project) and assemble a portfolio of their work.

The SINE certificate was developed in large part by a group of seven students and three faculty members during an Eco-E

Path Global Mosaic in spring 2014. “The certificate was created based on the recommendation that our students take us at our word when we ask them to be engaged with the world and be engaged leaders,” Takacs says. The Idea Fund and a smattering of entrepreneurship electives, taught by Beck since 2012, developed the foundation and built the demand. “[We wanted] to provide an academic foundation for students to pursue their own paths,” Takacs adds. “Our students are outwardly focused. We hope that they feel responsible for creating a positive path in the world. At the same time, we as faculty feel responsible for giving the students the tools to create that positive impact.”

Competitive drive

One of the campus’ newest entrepreneurial opportunities is the Innovation Competition at Dickinson or IC@D, now in its second year. IC@D challenges students to spend a semester developing a product or service from an idea to a final pitch in interdisciplinary teams. The competition is the brainchild and project of Edward Finocchiaro ’15, who came up with the idea after completing a summer internship at a money management firm that focused on long-term investment growth in innovation.

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The revolution in information technology and the capacity for social networking, the ease of gathering information and being aware in a global sense or a deep local sense, I think that contributes to the entrepreneurial mindset.

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to bring together a unique team that brought investment ideas that otherwise would not be been possible,” Finocchiaro recalls.

Teams participate in three rounds of competition over the course of the spring semester, submitting their ideas, value propositions and business plans. The three teams remaining after the third round of elimination pitch their project to a panel of judges, and this year’s winners will take home a $4,000 cash prize. “While many schools have an innovation competition, this one is very Dickinsonian in that the teams have to be interdisciplinary,” Takacs says.

Six of the 18 entries in the 2016 competition have advanced to the second round, with four of the teams proposing products and two proposing mobile apps. In the second round of competition, teams will respond to the judges’ comments on their initial business plans and develop the economic logic of their innovation. The teams also are working one-on-one with alumni mentors to perfect their submissions. The final round will culminate with pitches from three teams.

It’s a really open, small class. Every class we have multiple readings, and Professor Beck provides a prompt that stimulates discussion. It’s a process of continuous interaction and feedback.

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Taking on the wider world

Today’s cohort of Dickinsonians, straddling the generational divide, are deeply concerned about the world around them.

Idea Funders, contestants in IC@D and the inaugural group completing the SINE certificate are all self-organizers. They have an awareness of the challenges confronting their generation, and they want to contribute to the solution.

“I see things around me that are difficult and that I believe are fundamentally wrong,” says Brady Hummel ’17. “To be an effective person, I need to understand what I can have a voice in, and go and have that voice. How can I use my skill set, as an econ major, as an Idea Funder, as someone who is politically literate? How do I take what I have and have [an] impact in my community?”

For Hummel, the entrepreneurial path has been drawn with a sense of urgency, but his is just one path, and there are infinite possibilities. “Dickinson taught me to be nimble and do many different things, to not be afraid of change,” says Mallchok. And therein lies the key: A community that fosters entrepreneurship is one that encourages innovation, critical thinking and risk taking. The spirit of entrepreneurship that surges through a Silicon Valley startup is alive at Dickinson. And Beck sees it every day. “I have students calling me every day,” she says. “[They say] ‘Hey, I have this idea, can I come talk to you?’ ”

IDEA FUND PROJECTS 2012 Biodiesel Expansion

2012 Mather Theatre Lights

Expanded the biodiesel shop with an additional biodiesel reactor.

Installed highefficiency LED lights in Mathers Theatre.

2012 New Leaf Swap Shop A student swap shop for gently used clothing.

2011 The Peddler

2011 The Handlebar

Student-built, student-run sustainable coffee cart.

Bike co-op and repair shop developed by the Center for Sustainability Education.

2012 Carlisle Sustainability Lessons Taught sustainability lessons at Sunday schools in Carlisle.

2012 Greywater at the College Farm Greywater recycling system in the farm greenhouses.

2012 Student Handiwork for Organized Projects (SHOP) Student carpentry workshop to learn woodworking skills.

2013 Shared Artwork A public art installation in the Goodyear Gallery.

2013 Dickinson College Dog House

2014 Solar Outdoor Laboratory

Special Interest House where students raise service dogs.

A solar charging station on Britton Plaza.

2014 Composed

2014 Project Storytime

2015 Aquaponics

2015 Idea Fund Tech

2016 Jam Space

Afterschool music program at LeTort Elementary School.

Annual holiday season book drive with Project SHARE.

A model aquaponics greenhouse for student research (in progress).

A specialized technology incubator for student projects.

Communal practice and jam space for student musicians.

Austra Treicis (left) and Mara Treicis Beliveau ’63. Photo courtesy of Beliveau.

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By Michelle Simmons

The black-and-white image feels so familiar: the family of four standing behind their car, the passenger door hanging open, as if they had been on a Sunday drive and decided to stop just then for a photo opportunity. The mother, father and son look directly at the camera, while the daughter seems to have been caught in a reflective moment, her gaze directed elsewhere.

The image is dated April 1949, and it marks the Treicis family’s arrival in York Springs, Pa., after fleeing Latvia in advance of the Soviet army during World War II and spending five years trekking from one refugee camp to another.

“There were people being rounded up and sent to Siberia,” Mara Treicis Beliveau ’63 begins. “Word was they were separating children from their parents and raising them in the Soviet system. So we hitched horses to a wagon and set off to the port of Liepāja. There we boarded a ship for Germany.

“I’m not sure where we landed,” she continues. “We wandered around. My father was getting odd jobs, and when the war ended in May 1945, we found ourselves in the American sector, in displaced persons camps.”

Then in 1949, the family gained passage to Boston — for a price. “My father was obligated to work for a farmer in Pennsylvania for two years,” she says. “We arrived in April; he died in November.”

Her mother, Austra, took a sewing job at the Tressler Lutheran Home for Children, in Loysville, Pa., eventually becoming a house mother there. In 1960, when Beliveau, then a sophomore at Dickinson, moved into Drayer Hall, Austra joined her — as house director. “I think it was the happiest she had been since leaving the homeland,” says Beliveau. “She loved being there, she loved the girls.”

And the “girls” loved her right back. “Mrs. T., as she was addressed by all the coeds, was a nurturing person who was genuinely interested in the lives and personalities of the students,” says Karen Davis Thompson ’65, adding that she was especially drawn to Treicis because her own father had been killed while serving in the South Pacific during World War II. “While our experiences were not the same, I believe we gravitated toward each other because there was some common thread of ‘sympathique.’ ” Treicis often hosted afternoon tea in her apartment, sharing stories of life in Latvia before the war and counseling her young charges. Carol Anne Raskopf Ances ’65, who was a resident advisor in Drayer during her junior and senior year, lived next door. “I used to go in and just talk with her,” Ances recalls. “She felt things very deeply; she was the kind of person who embraced warmth and affection. She wasn’t really a mother figure, but close to it.”

She also enjoyed the opportunity to indulge her horticultural interests. “She had African violets in all the windows in the hall,” notes Beliveau, and another photo in her collection shows her mother tending a campus rose garden. “We shared a love of birds, of waiting for the spring,” adds Ances, noting that one of her most treasured gifts from Treicis was a doily meticulously stitched with spring flowers: irises, violets, primroses and many others.

Treicis continued working at Dickinson — remaining at Drayer Hall the entire time — until her retirement in 1976.

By then, Beliveau, a political science major, had taken a position at the CIA as an analyst, married, moved to Massachusetts and started a family. Her brother, John Treicis ’65, also had moved out of state for a career in the IT industry.

In 1988, she relocated to Massachusetts to spend her final years with Beliveau.

Ances, whose daughter was attending Emerson College in Boston, often stopped by on her way to see her daughter.

When Treicis died in 2003, at age 91, Beliveau established a scholarship fund at Dickinson in her memory. She also returned to Latvia and located her mother’s family farm, scattering her ashes there.

Last year, during their 50th reunion, Thompson, Ances and other Drayer alumnae recalled Treicis’ impact on their lives, and now they hope to help build that scholarship fund for future Dickinsonians.

“Mrs. Treicis was not a faculty member, but she was a professor of life — how to cope and how to survive,” says Thompson.

“Before there were academic programs of women’s studies, she was a living role model right in front of us, representing the untold stories of women and their children who keep creating new lives out of the ashes of the old.”

View a photo gallery of Treicis and Drayer Hall residents at dickinson.edu/magazine.

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Increasing our impact

Carl Socolow ’77

M I C H A E L D O N N E L LY ’ 0 2 , A L U M N I C O U N C I L P R E S I D E N T

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hat is your Dickinson story? Have you shared with others your connection to the college, your experience and what Dickinson means to you?

I challenge you to not only reminisce with roommates, floormates and best friends from your time at Dickinson, but also to share your story with current students and, possibly even of more importance, with prospective students.

To sustain our academic excellence, it is essential that we continue to search for and secure the very best students who will enroll as future Dickinsonians. Representing Dickinson at local college fairs, participating in prospective student interviews or attending regional events with prospective students and parents are all great ways to (re)engage with your alma mater while, at the same time, engaging future alumni.

Why do I remind you of the many different ways you can support Dickinson? Well, I write this column having recently participated in a weekend on campus with the Board of

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Trustees, followed by a weekend with dedicated Dickinsonians who serve on the Alumni Council. Both entities, along with other responsibilities, are charged with outreach and finding ways to engage the more than 22,000 alumni that our highly selective liberal-arts college has sent off into the world. All 22,000 of us can have a positive impact on our alma mater.

During the trustees’ meeting, we had the opportunity to participate in a work session with students, faculty, staff and administrators as part of the college’s latest strategic planning process. It was during that conversation that I overheard a comment about “lifelong attachment.” I ask you to consider your own lifelong attachment to Dickinson.

What makes Dickinson such an integral part of your life?

What is it that you think about when you reflect upon your time at Dickinson? Why and how is it that you are where you are today, and what role did your Dickinson experience play in that trajectory? Consider, too, that your experience and attachment to Dickinson is a narrative not yet written for future alumni.

And as you consider your story, you can pen a new chapter. By that, I mean that your Dickinson story is still being written. You can have such an amazing impact on current students (future alumni) by making yourself available to them: No matter how geographically far you are from Carlisle, you still can be present for current students. One example is the Dickinson online directory, which is accessible to alumni and current seniors. When you update your information, you not only are allowing former classmates and friends to find you, but you also are availing yourself to the future alumni joining us officially in May. The Dickinson network is only as strong as each of its individual members. I welcome the opportunity to hear your story. If you would like to learn about ways you can expand (y)our network, feel free to email me at profe207@gmail.com.

Until next time, be well!

One College One Community To celebrate the launch of Dickinson’s new food studies certificate program, the fall One College One Community theme will be food: Where does food come from? Why do people eat what they eat?

Are current food systems sustainable?

What factors will shape the future of food systems, foodways and food culture?

You can learn more about the new program at dickinson.edu/foodstudies.

Meanwhile, check out our current calendar of events.

UPCOMING

EVENTS May 1

May 23

Who Will Be Next to Occupy the Oval Office?

Did the End of the Civil War Mean the End of Slavery?

Boston

Washington, D.C.

May 18

June 10-12

Media Bias and the Coverage of Presidential Elections

Alumni Weekend

New York City

May 22

Carlisle

Commencement

Carlisle

June 14

Wilkes Barre, Pa.

Media Bias and the Coverage of Presidential Elections June 25

Washington, D.C.

Sunset Sail Learn more at dickinson.edu/alumni.

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Mary Jeanne Reynolds de Groot 1547 Mission Road Lancaster, PA 17601 jmjdeg@aol.com

Alice Eastlake Chew 4400 Stone Way N., Apt. 210 Seattle, WA 98103 Achoo92@q.com

I, Alice Eastlake Chew, am now 98 and have just published a poetry book, Portal to Paradise. I will soon finish the memoir that I am writing for my family. I am active in the League of Women Voters and continue to work for the environment.

George Thomas writes, “We did graduate from Dickinson in the same class, but with much different social, fraternity and career goals. I went on to three years at Drew, capping my senior year there, not only with a B.D. degree, but also with the love of my life (Carmel Desantis, a masterful violinist who two years later birthed our twin sons, who in turn have gone on to greater heights.) Our son, George Thomas ’66, with his wife, has written many books about Philadelphia’s architects and now teaches at Harvard while his brother, John Thomas ’66, at age 72, is still running and winning races as well as assisting as pastor wherever they have lived and is active in political and social activities.”

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Dan Winters Apt. C-219 1290 Boyce Road Upper St. Clair, PA 15241 dbwinters1949@yahoo.com

Have you found that Dickinson adventures, except for the big ones, are forgotten? Almost all of our fraternity brothers and classmates have passed away. Even at our age, returning to college presents problems. Many ’49ers are in retirement villages. Many don’t drive any more, but some of us are short trippers. In other words, this is a tough time to return to Carlisle.

Tom Betts put together a memorial booklet celebrating his dad’s life. The book is 40 pages of collected notes from many people. One such note was published in Dickinson Magazine (fall 2015). Bill Betts and his wife Jane Jackson Betts were and are devoted Dickinsonians.

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REUNION YEAR Robert and Margaret Valentine Berry 5437 Village Run Roanoke, VA 24018 Valber1@verizon.net

The end of the year holidays are past and another new year is upon us. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’”

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Walt Harasty refurbishes children’s bikes.

Lynn Andersen Doyles writes, “My sister Patricia Andersen High ’57, her late husband Kenneth High ’55, my son Michael Landis ’78, his wife Jennifer Blake Landis ’80 and I are all Dickinson

graduates. My husband died two years ago, and Ken died over a year ago. Pat and I were busy being caregivers for a long time but are now going on cruises together. Last year, we did the Danube cruise and this year, the Mississippi paddleboat cruise. The latter cruise went from New Orleans to Memphis, with stops at Natchez, Vicksburg and Memphis. We saw several plantations, which were lovely, and Elvis’ home was lovely. We made new friends, gained five pounds eating marvelous meals and enjoyed seeing a part of the U.S. we had not seen before. Other than lots of travel, we have not done much. I think I will spend the rest of my life here in Bermuda. It’s beautiful, and I have joint citizenship here and in the U.S. I now have 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. I visit them occasionally, but they all love to come here, as you can imagine.”

Walt Harasty wrote that he and wife Jayne “are

at that wonderful stage of life that can best be described as ‘pleasant and tranquil’; much, much better than I could have imagined as a kid growing up in a factory town in the Depression.”

He refurbishes sidewalk-type bikes for kids and gives them away, requiring that the recipient sends a thank you note. He also tutors one of his greatgrandsons on financial matters, long distance since he lives in Texas, and Walt is in California. Later this year, he will mentor high school students who are part of a sponsored entrepreneurial program.

Walt concluded his activities with this thought: “Just a note, it is raining (!), something we haven’t seen much of in southern California for years. In this area, that is a newsworthy item.”

The year was a big one for our Berry family as two grandsons, Zack and Rab, were married. We were not able to attend, but to celebrate, we sent them this poem written last September: Latter Life Now as the latter life unfolds, We wonder if we met our goals.

Did we make the most of life, Or did we engender negative strife?

Were we concerned with our life alone, And love for others just bemoan?

Or did we have concern for others Even though we had our druthers?

How will our family’s life progress?

Will they high values and thoughts possess?

Will fund collection be their drive With no concern of how to survive?

Now many days have come and gone, And life has passed them by, We ponder if our life is done As we search for some reply.

We then recall a thought we’ve had Recurrent through the days, Today is not a day that’s bad, We awoke; that’s good in many ways.

The year is one to remember, From January to December, Two grandsons on the spot.

Decided to tie the knot.

First Rab began to live his dream, With Alice who was in the scheme, Far on the West Coast they settled down, With only smiles and nary a frown.

Then Zack settled down to nest, Kristina was to provide the rest, With joy and happiness to abound, Encircle them around and round!

So as we settle into dust, Of this we can be sure, One thought of all we can trust, The family name will long endure.

1952 Eileen Fair Durgin 2126 Holly Lane Cinnaminson, NJ 08077 eileenfd@msn.com

There must be a way in which to refer to our years in college without saying, “once upon a time” or “in olden days.” Perhaps we can settle on a vague “back then.” Today’s students have many varied areas in which to gather and have a good time, such as the Union Station snack bar and grill, nicknamed the SNAR. Back then, we had to crowd into Kohr’s for a semblance of fun and togetherness. Today, after many years, we still gather in this column to keep in touch, as exemplified by the following classmates who wrote without a single reminder.

In spite of having studied four years of Chaucer and Shakespeare, you have seen references here to an alternate great author, Dr. Seuss. It is time to quote another special linguist, Yogi Berra, who said, “We have a good time together … even when we’re not together!” Yes, Yogi, we do.

Quite a while ago, classmate John Laudermilch changed his name to John Lauer. In his very full accounts, we learn that at the outbreak of the Korean War, he joined the Navy and went to the Naval School of Music, hoping for shore duty, as he remembered earlier days of getting seasick when his father took him fishing. Actually, he was assigned to the USS Kearsarge and spent three of his four years in the 17-piece band aboard that ship. The band was there because it was the ship of the admiral of the 7th Fleet, and they were to play colors every morning at 8 a.m. The fact that the admiral was impressed with the band, asking them to take over his radio station, led to John’s ultimate study of radio and TV for 63 years. He ran two radio stations, sold radio and TV stations as a broker and was later inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame. In earlier years, from Dickinson onward, John also had a love of baseball and softball, and recounts a favorite story in which his Naval School of Music softball team played teams of burly, hulking damage controllers, boatswain mates and masters-at-arms, all of whom had a dim view of musicians and constantly taunted them. Justice did prevail as John’s team swept 27 games in a row. Active participation in baseball and softball extended for 65 years with coaching of his grandsons until his age of 80. Not being one to be idle, John is now writing a book. Although he deeply laments the loss of his daughter, age 54, to cancer just a year and a half ago, he finds many funny things in his life to include. The first seven chapters have been completed; the remainder is a work in progress.

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The annual New Year 2016 letter to family and friends arrived from Geo Kaplan. We regularly include the essence of it without names that would not be recognized. We learn that he had a short stay in White Plains Hospital in January with bronchitis and pneumonia; he recovered quickly and soon traveled to California. In July, he was given an 85th birthday party at Ben’s on Central Park Avenue in Scarsdale, N.Y., an event with family and friends. In late October, rumors indicated that his residence, The Esplanade, was to be renovated. At Thanksgiving, they were given a six-month notice to vacate the building. Indeed, it would be renovated for $270 million, turning it into luxury apartments as a condominium. His new location is: Kittay House, 2550 Webb Ave., Apt 5L, Bronx, N.Y. 10468.

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Betts Middleton Slim bslim12@verizon.net Jim and Jean Thompson ’54 Pritchard received the

Perkasie Historical Society’s Living History Award for their decades of service to their community.

Jim’s service included heading up the society’s museum for more than 15 years, conducting walking tours of Perkasie and giving countless talks to school groups and organizations about the history, development and traditions of the town.

Jean served as secretary, meal attendance recorder and carousel volunteer. The society will plant a memorial tree in honor of their dedicated service.

1955 In April 2015, Susan Marquardt Tiberghien released two new books through Red Lotus Studio Press.

Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman is a collection of stories about falling in love with a Frenchman, moving to his country, raising six children while changing homes a dozen times and still being in love at 50. Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story is as much Tiberghien’s memoir as it is a guide for the reader’s own journal writing. Read more in Fine Print, Page 12.

1957 Ira Glick iraglick@stanford.edu

1958 Anne Biddle Tantum 413 Barrington Court Palmyra, PA 17078 anne.tantum@verizon.net Lillian Buirkle and husband Joe Palinsky headed to

Florida in January to spend a few months in the sun (lucky New Jerseyites escaping winter). Lil was re-elected trustee of the Lavallette Volunteer First Aid Squad, which was just voted the best in N.J. She says, “We do not charge or bill insurance companies for emergency calls (an increasingly rare event).”

Nancy Brown Lewis writes that “our lives are full of

the mundane” and happily, no health catastrophes occurred in ’15. The Virginians planned a trip to Florida in April to help an old friend celebrate his 90th birthday.

In the fall, Dick Van Deusen and wife Carol traveled to London and Torquay to visit Agatha Christie’s home, then sailed back on the RMS Queen Mary II. They followed that with a 16-day cross-country railroad trip to spend Thanksgiving with relatives in Portland, Ore., followed by family visits in Colorado and Chicago on the way home. Dick writes, “In between, I directed another play reading at the Society for Ethical Culture, where I am also in my second year as vice president of the board of trustees.”

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Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. She says, “I am fulfilling my lifelong ambition of ‘living alone in the bush.’ It’s not really that extreme. I do have some livestock, so I’m not alone, but I do live some distance from the small town of Athabasca and am surrounded by boreal forest. It’s a long trip to visit family and friends, or for them to visit me, but it happens and I’m very happy here. As I write this, it’s get-ready-for-winter time with snow predicted for next week, and once it comes it stays until late April. I’m ready to hunker down and have the second and third novels of my classmate, Alan Fleishman, on the shelf, waiting to be read.”

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In December, David Tiffany retired from The State University of New York at Fredonia. He has served as Fredonia’s vice president of university advancement and the executive director of the Fredonia College Foundation since joining the university in 2005. Fundraising during his tenure has brought in over $23 million to fund student scholarships and strengthen academic programs.

Karen Andrews Gahr wegahr@aol.com

1965 Carol Nuetzman Weber 496 Windsor Place Oceanside, NY 11572-1146 weber496@aol.com Larry Rand 2544 W. Mesquite St. Chandler, AZ 85224-1631 larryrand@cox.net

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Rumsey Young rumsey@gmail.com Nick Brown brownnicholas3@gmail.com Lorraine Howe Fenton fentonlh@gmail.com

“I’m thrilled to be able to give to Dickinson in this way.”

When Congress passed a law in late 2015 that made permanent a provision allowing charitable giving through one’s qualified individual retirement account (IRA), Ted Lamson ’66 took immediate action. “I was able to instruct my plan administrator to make my gift to Dickinson directly from my IRA,” says Lamson, a recently retired investment advisor. “The distribution counted toward my required minimum distribution, and I did not have to claim it as income. That made it beneficial both to Dickinson and to me. I’m thrilled to be able to give to Dickinson in this way, especially in time for my 50th reunion.”

For more information:

Jerry Bookin-Weiner writes, “In July, I retired

after a career of nearly 40 years in international education, the last eight as director of education abroad for AMIDEAST, a U.S.-based nonprofit doing education and training in the Arab world.

One of the real pleasures of my last position was the opportunity to reconnect with Dickinson professionally as our program in Jordan became a Dickinson Partner Program in 2009. As a result, I got to know Dickinson’s wonderful faculty in Middle East studies and Arabic—David Commins, Ed Webb and Magda Siekert—and worked with them and the staff in the Center for Global Study & Engagement over a period of several years.

Plans for retirement include travel and much greater involvement in masters’ track and field.

In December, a group I am heading was awarded the 2018 USA Track and Field Masters Indoor Championships to be held in Landover, Md.; I will chair the local organizing committee and serve as meet director, as I did when Landover hosted the meet in 2013. At the same USATF Annual Meeting in Houston, it was announced that I am to be honored with the David Pain Award for outstanding service as an administrator in masters’ track and field. That award will be formally presented at the outdoor national masters championships at Grand Valley State University in Michigan in July.”

It’s known as an IRA charitable rollover. To qualify: • The donor must be age 70 ½ or older when the gift is made.

• The gift must come from a traditional IRA or Roth IRA account: 401(k), 403(b), SEP IRA accounts and other retirement accounts do not qualify.

• The gift must come directly from your IRA administrator.

• The total gift in any one year cannot exceed $100,000.

• The gift can count toward your required minimum distribution (RMD) if you have not already taken your RMD for the year you make your gift.

• The gift will not be available for an income tax charitable deduction; however, it will be excluded from your adjusted gross income.

For more information on giving through an IRA, please contact the Office of College Advancement at 800-543-3809 or visit dickinson.edu/retirementaccountgifts. Please check with your financial advisor to determine if this gift is right for you.

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After serving for 30 years on the bench in Cumberland County Court in Carlisle, Pa., Kevin Hess retired as president judge. His last day was Dec. 30, but he is not turning in his robe and gavel anytime soon. Hess will serve as a senior judge, filling in as needed. He writes, “I used to plan my vacations around my work, but this year, I’m going to plan my work around my vacations.”

Members of Beta Theta Pi met for their 10th annual reunion at Dickinson last June. Standing, from left: Joe Grubb ’71, Andy Kushner ’73, Bob Moore ’74, John Nikoloff ’72, Chris Sunday ’73, Paul Kovach ’71, John Daugherty ’70, Peter Schweitzer ’68, Walt Semke ’73, George Lee ’71, Jim Nolan ’70, Dan McGarry ’72, Al Spoler ’70, Doug Riley ’72, Al Witkowski ’70, Doug Hartzell ’69 and Peter Schnur ’71.

Kneeling, from left: Jeff Wheeler ’69, Rob White ’69, Vance Booher ’69, Jon Kiefner ’70 and Steve Livingston ’69.

On Dec. 31, Jeffrey Manning was appointed chairman of Pennsylvania’s Criminal Procedural Rules Committee, which reviews and sets the rules by which criminal courts are run. He has been a member of the Allegheny County bench for more than 25 years. He lives in Mt. Lebanon, Pa., with his wife, Olga.

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Thanks to all who shared their news this time, and please keep it coming! Hope the upcoming 45th reunion will be well attended, and that everyone is looking forward to seeing classmates in person.

Condolences to Jeff Austin, whose wife Jeri Anne Lightman Austin ’72 passed away in August.

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Kathryn Engle, who retired from Verizon Corp. in 2004, spends seven months of the year in Florida, where she is a soloist with the Sanibel Island chorus and ensemble, as well as with a local rock band. Her Sanibel chorus will perform in Cuba this year. She also has performed the national anthem at spring training games for both the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins. She sings with the Masterworks during the summer in Ocean City, N.J. Joe Grubb reports that he has been painting for

several years, and his work has met with some critical success, as he has received prizes at numerous juried shows. He won a major award at the 2015 Pennsylvania Watercolor Society Annual Show held at the Carlisle Arts Learning Center. His work has appeared at numerous outdoor shows in Media, Swarthmore, Bethlehem and the Chester County Studio Tour in Pa., and in Havre de Grace, Md. He proudly reports that five of his fellow Betas own his work. Visit JoeGrubbFineArt.com to view his work. He also reports that Beta Theta Pi is promoting its 11th annual reunion during the class reunion in June, being held at their old building, which is now Longsdorff Hall. They focus on the era of ’68-74 and are gratified that nearly 70 percent of the brothers from those years have attended. Sadly, he reports the death of brothers Jack Devenney and Rich Sher ’70.

Richard Koenig traveled to Ghana during its worst

cholera outbreak in decades to report on the dire need for sanitation facilities in the developing world. His account, “No Place to Go,” has been published as an Amazon Kindle Single. When searching for it, it’s best to add “Koenig” after “No Place to Go.” In the last year, he and his wife, Linda Petersen Koenig ’73, welcomed two new grandchildren, a girl and a boy, and he has vowed to stay alive long enough to see them graduate from high school.

Randy Miller sends news of last year’s cruise with his wife, Susan, to Barcelona, Madeira, the Canary Islands and Málaga in November.

In February, Michael Ross was named CEO and chairman of Euclid Systems, a commercial medical device company. Euclid received the 2015 Commonwealth of Virginia Governor’s Award for Excellence in International Trade in November. He lives in McLean, Va., with his wife Susan T. Elliott.

They have two grandchildren.

’71 The Walter E. Beach Distinguished Alumni Award for Service John Heath ’71 was an officer in Alpha Chi Rho and a member of Student Senate, Skull and Key, the Big/Little program, and the lacrosse team. As an alumnus, he helped organize the first men’s lacrosse alumni game and Dickinson’s 60th anniversary of lacrosse celebration. He serves as a member of the Dickinson Admissions Volunteer Society, was a class chairman and a member of the (now defunct) Board of Advisors (1994-2001), and represented Dickinson at a presidential inauguration in the Chicagoland area.

He is the current president of the Phi Beta graduate chapter of Alpha Chi Rho and helped organize the chapter’s 100th anniversary celebration in 2005. He serves as the director of the Skull and Key alumni club, helping to organize the Skull and Key Scholarship. In 2015, the Interfraternity Council marked its 100th anniversary at Dickinson, an important milestone and a rich opportunity to reengage alumni. John took on the organization and marketing of the celebration during Alumni Weekend. The event welcomed back more than 100 attendees and has begun a much-needed healing process between Dickinson Greeks and the college. Though well attended by alumni from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, it lacked attendance from younger alumni. To ensure that the younger Greek alumni joined in the anniversary celebration, John continued it at Homecoming, where many young Greeks were welcomed back!

Celebrate with John at the 2016 Alumni Weekend, June 10-12. Register at www.dickinson.edu/alumniweekend.

John has been with the Karastan Fashion Division of Mohawk Industries in management and sales positions for 44 years, and he is a member of the Karastan Hall of Fame for Career Excellence.

Donna Shaunesey retired last February after 30 years with JAUNT, a regional public transportation system based in Charlottesville, her last 18 as executive director. She too is making the most of her retirement, happily camping, paddling and hiking to her heart’s content. She explored Greece with her “awesome daughter,” kayaked and camped on the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior and hiked from inn to inn in Catalonia with another Dickinsonian. She still finds time to play in string quartets and has expanded her environmental volunteering. When she’s really old, she hopes to finally clean her house! She wishes a happy retirement to us all!

1972 In November, Rick Smolan was artist-in-residence at the fifth-annual Olympus InVision Photo Festival at the ArtsQuest Center and Banana Factory in Bethlehem, Pa. The festival kicked off with a screening of Tracks, the feature film based on Smolan’s National Geographic assignment documenting Robyn Davidson’s 1,700-mile trek across the Australian Outback in 1977. During his residency, Smolan also led a group of 50 local photographers in a Day in the Life of Bethlehem workshop.

On Columbus Day weekend, eight class of ’78 alumnae reunited at Jane Gerula’s house near the South Jersey Shore. Many activities were enjoyed by all, including an outing to the annual Cape May Wine Festival and a stroll through the historic and picturesque town of Cape May. The “sisters” are pictured sporting pink bandannas in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Front row, from left: Diane Breger Kearney, B.J. Jacques Hamilton, Jane Gerula and Pam Broberg. Back row, from left: Michele Calandriello Goldstein, Judi Doll Worrall, Ivy Cohen Marcus and Erika Walters-Engemann.

1973 Sherry Coiner sc1128@hotmail.com Brian Engelhardt’s new book was published by

Arcadia Publishing in August. Reading’s Big League Exhibition Games covers 72 exhibition games played by 17 big league franchises in Reading, Pa., since 1874. Engelhardt and his wife, Suzanne Daly Engelhardt ’75, live in Reading and are parents of three daughters, Elizabeth, Emily and Christine Engelhardt ’10. He is employed by the Branch Banking and Trust Co. legal department. Read more in Fine Print, Page 12.

In November, Rev. Christopher Weidner was guest chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. A pastor at St. Luke Lutheran Church in Gilbertsville, Pa., he represented the 6th District. Recommended

by U.S. Rep. Ryan Costello, he was the first guest chaplain to be welcomed to the House by newly elected Speaker Paul Ryan.

Edward Weiss met up with Gary Wilson, Nechama Silberman and Karen Tovey ’75 for dinner and

reminiscing in Jerusalem in late October.

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’78 Distinguished Alumni Award for Professional Achievement John Michael Paz ’78 is the quintessential entrepreneur, with over 30 years of experience as mentor, motivator, owner and manager of Godwin Pumps—a worldwide equipment sales, manufacturing and rental business.

1974 Enid Erikson Albat 189 CR 3010 Altus, AR 72821 enidalbat@gmail.com

After obtaining an M.S. in fisheries biology at the University of Massachusetts, Steve Quinn worked for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources as a fishery biologist, conducting research and management activities on the river, pond and reservoir fish communities of south Georgia. In 1988, he moved to Brainerd, Minn., to take an editorial position with In-Fisherman magazine, and he has been there ever since, in various capacities.

Currently senior editor, he writes articles, edits material and works with field editors, freelance writers and photographers to bring the issues to fruition. He also is a seminar speaker and hosts television and radio programs. He and wife Edie live in Brainerd, where they raised two children: Meagan, at the University of Minnesota, and Dan, the proud papa of their two wonderful grandchildren. This year, Steve will be inducted into the Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame in Hayward, Wis. Through a somewhat circuitous route, his English degree at Dickinson paid off.

1975 After 36 years as a solo, Deborah Hughes merged her practice with Serratelli, Schiffman & Brown PC in Harrisburg, Pa., in June 2015. She is the senior counsel and managing partner of the bankruptcy group and is enjoying working with young associates. She also launched a new website, ssbbankruptcygroup.com.

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REUNION YEAR John and Nanci Fox Taylor taylorjo@dickinson.edu

Your reunion committee has been hard at work reaching out to classmates and getting ready for our 40th reunion on June 10-12 in Carlisle.

Thanks to Anne Chesnut, Wendy Losey Basehoar, Dan Basehoar, Dick Coates, John Farrell, Nanci Fox Taylor, John Taylor, Miriam Storb Kimball, Peter Kimball, Nina Ciampa, Pat Torres Cronenburger and Pixie Angelo.

Carolyn “Pixie” Angelo and husband Jim Yingst

have enjoyed visiting Carlisle and Dickinson the last four years to watch their youngest son, Pete Yingst ’15, and the Red Devils’ victorious basketball team. Jim practices law in Hanover, Pa., and Pixie serves as legal counsel for the Professional Standards and Practices Commission in Harrisburg. They are looking forward to their 40th reunion and reconnecting with old friends from the class of ’76.

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After graduating from Dickinson, John started Godwin Pumps of America from a single location in South Jersey as the company’s sole salesperson. An innovative sales and marketing strategist, he expanded the business, growing a network of company-owned branches and independent distributors offering pump rental, sales and service down the East Coast to the Midwest and eventually across the entire country. The growth of Godwin Pumps of America and its distribution network was enabled by John’s creation and development of the pump rental industry in the U.S., where he laid the foundation that turned a market that was niche in 1978 into a multibillion-dollar industry by 2000.

At its 25-year anniversary in 2001, Godwin Pumps of America purchased its namesake manufacturer, Godwin Pumps Ltd. U.K. With this acquisition, John’s enterprise became vertically integrated and launched onto the worldwide platform as a manufacturer with integrated sales and rental. By 2010, the global company had grown from a rental fleet of 18 pumps to a fleet of over 7,000 pumps worldwide. It had $300 million in revenue, with 26 company-owned branches in the U.S., a U.K. manufacturing facility and more than 800 employees worldwide. Godwin Pumps was sold to ITT Corporation in late 2010, but John retained ownership of many of the branches via Prime Legacy Management, his real estate company through which he manages portfolios on two continents.

In early 2011, John gained control of another equipment rental business, Trico Lift, Inc.—an aerial lift rental company with locations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Over a four-year period, John grew the 150-person entity with negative equity to an enterprising multi-location, $65 million business, which he sold in 2015. With the sale of Trico Lift complete, John now focuses on Prime Legacy Management, through which he provides business consulting and investing, in addition to property management.

In addition to the businesses he’s grown and the professionals he’s mentored, John has taken a passionate interest in philanthropy. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Gloucester County Boys and Girls Club and on the advisory committee of the Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA) in Philadelphia. He has been awarded many industry and business accolades and is most proud of being the recipient of the 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year award by Ernst & Young. In the same year, he was selected as Executive of the Year by business journal NJBIZ. John and his family live in Philadelphia.

Celebrate with John at the 2016 Alumni Weekend, June 10-12. Register at www.dickinson.edu/alumniweekend.

Dick Coates has been retired for two years. He

spends winters in Fountain Hills, Ariz., where he has a home, and his wife teaches paralegal training at a local law school. He spends the summer months in Wisconsin (where his parents still live, and he has a condo). He has no hobbies but plays golf (poorly) a couple times each week. He’s really looking forward to getting back to Carlisle this summer, where he’ll see many old friends (mostly Phi Kaps and Sig Chis) who will play in an annual golf fundraiser for a Dickinson scholarship program started in the name of Gary Knechtel ’80, an old friend and Phi Kap brother who passed away a few years ago.

Jeff Di Iuglio continues to love living and working in Boston. He has been in Boston since 1978, when he finished his graduate degree in TESOL from Boston University. He has taught at Northeastern and Boston universities and Curry College for more than 30 years total. He continues to volunteer as a Dickinson alumnus interviewer and enjoys meeting prospective new Dickinson students. He reports being very impressed with today’s young people.

Rick Fisher is still based in London and working as a theatre lighting designer. Projects for 2016 include plays in London, Toronto and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, opera in Los Angeles, a U.K. tour of Billy Elliot the Musical, The King and I for Chicago Lyric Opera and a new full-length ballet for Birmingham Royal Ballet. He recently purchased a holiday home in Florianopolis, Brazil, with his partner.

Beth Perryman and her husband, Jim Sommer,

continue to reside in Reno, Nev., and recently celebrated their 11th anniversary. Since retirement, Jim has worked as a ski race coach for junior racers at Northstar Ski Resort, and Beth has returned to her roots as a medical technologist, working for the past three years in the transfusion services department at the largest trauma center in northern Nevada. They look forward to a monthlong trip to New Zealand and experiencing many outdoor adventures.

Peter and Miriam Storb Kimball are living in

Sherborn, Mass., 25 miles west of Boston. Their older daughter is a professor at the University of Connecticut and is the mother of their two grandchildren. Their younger daughter is living nearby and is an occupational therapist. Miriam is development and public relations director at the MetroWest YMCA, and Peter continues his charitable gift planning work at Harvard. They continue to enjoy the peace and quiet of rural living and their menagerie.

Your class scribes, John and Nanci Fox Taylor, are doing fine at Wintergreen Resort in Virginia and look forward to seeing everyone at the 40th reunion.

David Viehman retired as a partner from Deloitte

in 2008 and enrolled at Biblical Theological Seminary in preparation for a career change from CPA to pastoral ministry. He now is assistant pastor of Cresheim Valley Church in Philadelphia, as well as chief planning and finance officer at the seminary, drawing on both his MBA and M.Div. degrees, and finally getting a chance to use the classical languages he studied at Dickinson. His wife, Elsie Buyers Viehman, wrapped up her career in nonprofit work by becoming a volunteer for the Alzheimers Association after her father passed away from the disease in 2006. She continues as an advocate on both the federal and state level, and facilitated a caregiver support group for three years.

They live in Blue Bell, a Philadelphia suburb. They have three grown children and four grandchildren, thus they spend a lot of time on the Pennsylvania turnpike between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and enjoy vacations upstate and in Maine. David and Elsie were last on campus for Dr. Lockhart’s

funeral and keep in touch with classmates at Christmas. Elsie enjoys meeting her Dickinson roommate Debbie Kerr Davis for breakfasts as their schedules allow. They also have seen Susan Stone ’76, John Light ’75 and family, as well as Leslie Lax Lee ’77.

1977 Rebecca Anstine Smith 1796 Reading St. Crofton, MD 21114-2606 rasmith55@gmail.com

In his spare time, Bob Payne is a volunteer sous chef at Miriam’s Kitchen, a social services organization that serves 300 meals during breakfast and dinner Monday through Friday in Washington, D.C. In his full-time job, he remains a financial applications project manager for the Federal Aviation Administration.

1978 Nancy Quadri Bennett 236 Elverson Place Cary, NC 27519 bennettn@dickinson.edu

1979 Jeff Cohen 2132 SW Racquet Club Drive Palm City, FL 34990 jeff.s.cohen@wellsfargoadvisors.com

In October, Cindy Shearer released her new book, Green Flashes and Goombay Smashes: Life, Death and Sunsets. The story revolves around the life of one remarkable mother, Adele, spanning 90 years and six continents. It is also the story of a daughter who, over the course of 30 days, witnessed firsthand the end of that wonderful life, including the time traveling and “tying up loose ends” that someone can go through as they transition from life to death. Told anecdotally through photos, diary entries, travel itineraries, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia, this book captures a mother’s essence and enthusiasm for life.

Three instructors at The Brearley School, a private girls’ school in Manhattan, have more in common than just teaching. They are all Dickinsonians. From left: Tom Wright ’90, Cait Bradley ’08 and Jim McDonald ’87. Read more on Page 49.

In September, Laura Petrovich-Cheney ’89 (left) organized a panel discussion on climate change at the Noyes Museum of Stockton University, at which Dickinson’s Jeff Niemitz (right), professor emeritus in earth sciences, participated.

The catalyst for the discussion was Frozen Earth: Images From the Arctic Circle, where Petrovich-Cheney exhibited her work.

Robert Sherry joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as a partner and the head of its government

contracts practice. Morgan, Lewis is a fullservice international law firm with 29 offices and approximately 2,000 lawyers throughout the world. He is resident in the Dallas and San Francisco offices. He invites his fellow Dickinsonians to contact him when in Dallas or San Francisco for a chilly beverage or to catch an evening of live music.

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The Dickinson Club of Pittsburgh hosted a day of service at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank’s largescale produce distribution program in December. They served more than 400 families in three hours. From left: Tim Schneider P’15, P’19, Juliana Schneider ’15, Judith Schneider ’83, P’15, P’19, Lindsey Williams ’05, Rebecca Muia ’96, Ken Maben P’18, Bridget Maben P’18, Andy Lee, Tania Conte ’93, Noah Conte, Andrea Domian ’01 and Tim Leonard ’07. Photo by Andy Conte ’93.

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In November, Elliot Dinkin, president/CEO of Cowden Associates Inc., a Pittsburgh-based consulting and actuarial firm, was honored with the Smart 50 award at a special celebration at the Fairmont Pittsburgh. Presented by Smart Business magazine, the honor recognizes top executives of the smartest companies in the Pittsburgh region for their ability to effectively build and lead savvy organizations.

Stephen Spengler was elected to the board of

directors at Intelsat, a leading provider of satellite services. He is the chief executive officer of the company with over 30 years of experience in the media, broadband, government and Internet sectors. He has been a key force behind the development of Intelsat’s next generation of satellite solutions, particularly the company’s high throughput satellite platform, Intelsat EpicNG.

1982 Stefan Grossman 3100 Connecticut Ave., NW, #143 Washington, DC 20008 stefan_grossman@hotmail.com Mark Twyman is the new vice president of marketing for Novavax Inc., a clinical-stage vaccine company. With more than 20 years of experience commercializing healthcare products, he will focus his efforts on the commercial launch of the company’s RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) F vaccine. He was formerly the vice president of global marketing for Merck in its vaccine division.

1983 Christy Sutherland Edwards 3797 Plum spring lane Ellicott City, MD 21042 christy@aurorafitness.net Eric Wittenberg’s book “The Devil’s to Pay”: John

Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour won the 2014 Gettysburg Civil War Roundtable Book Award. The book was selected for being well researched, well written and bringing new knowledge and understanding to its subject. It is the first book-length study devoted entirely to the critical delaying actions waged by Buford, his dismounted troopers and his horse artillerists on the morning of July 1, 1863.

1984 Steve Introcaso 17 English Lane Lincroft, NJ 07738 sintrocaso@gmail.com Amy Amundsen is a certified family law specialist at Rice, Amundsen & Caperton PLLC in Memphis,

Tenn. The firm was selected as one of the 2015 Top 10 Firms in Tennessee by the American Institute of Family Law Attorneys (AIOFLA). Firms who are selected to the list must pass AIOFLA’s rigorous selection process, which is based on client and/ or peer nominations, thorough research and AIOFLA’s independent evaluation. Amy also authored the articles “Removing the Parachute: Recent Trends in Alimony Modification Part I and II,” published in American Journal of Family Law, Vol. 29, No. 3, summer and fall of 2015, and “Balancing the Court’s Parens Patriae Obligations and the Psychologist-Patient Privilege in Custody Disputes,” published in Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Vol.28, No. 1.

1985 Heidi Hormel 441 Deerfield Dr. Hanover, PA 17331 hormelh@dickinson.edu

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REUNION YEAR Stephanie Bupp Becker Daniel P. Becker 218 Sanibel Lane Wyomissing, PA 19610 steph.dan.becker@gmail.com Laurie Fink Friedlander lives in Narberth, Pa.,

with her husband of 20 years, Mark Friedlander; three children, Benjamin and Claire (15) and Daniel (12); and their cockapoo puppy, Chloe.

She is a psychologist in private practice and at the counseling center for St. Joseph’s University. She sees college friends often and would love to hear from other classmates.

Mary Ellen Kaelin Lederer (“Mel”) continues to

teach French and Spanish to middle schoolers at the Chapin School, near Princeton, N.J. Her oldest daughter attends Lynchburg College in Virginia, and her youngest daughter is a freshman at Vassar College in New York. Mel and her husband will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in June.

Andrew Schwartz reports, “A small but creative

and fun group of Atlanta alumni gathered in December to celebrate the holidays, socialize and paint ‘Happy Santa.’ In attendance were Elizabeth Jeffress Thorsteinson ’09 and husband Ryan, Dawne Hines ’00 and friend Kate Nagy and Jennifer Portillo Nyquist ’05. Everyone had a wonderful time and is looking forward to future events in Atlanta.”

David Strohmetz co-authored a textbook with colleagues at Monmouth University, Discovering the Scientist Within: Research Methods in Psychology, published by Worth Publishers. Read more in Fine Print, Page 12.

1987 Ellen Poris Robin 17813 Cricket Hill Dr. Germantown, MD 20874 ellen@elnel.com Robert Thieler and colleague Erika Lentz’s article

“Sea level to rise about three feet by 2100” was published in Cape Cod Times. Thieler and Lentz are research geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Mass. Their article outlines the possible effects of climate change on coastal areas.

1988 John Palitto 103 Van Buren Road Voorhees, NJ 08043 jpalittojr@yahoo.com

After more than 12 years at the University of British Columbia, Kristin Loheyde has relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is now the director of development for the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences at California State University–East Bay and living in Belmont, Calif.

1989 Evelyn Short evelynshort@yahoo.com Seth Zuckerman joined the global law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP as shareholder in their New Jersey office. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and financial services, covering a broad number of industries including aviation, insurance and manufacturing. He formerly worked for Saiber LLC.

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REUNION YEAR Keri Casey Lewis 530 Colonial Drive Greencastle, PA 17225 rlewisjr1@comcast.net

Mindy Borisoff writes, “At long last in March 2013, I married Steven Balet, a managing director at FTI in NYC. On Nov. 20, we welcomed our miracle child Samuel (Sam) Higgins Balet! I have been at Aetna for 12 years as a senior account executive in NYC. Looking forward to the reunion!”

Eric Litvin, wife Jen and daughter Maia (12) live in the coastal Northern California town of Sebastopol near Healdsburg. Eric is founder and president of Luma Optics and Luma Systems. He encourages fellow Dickinsonians to look him up on their next trip out to wine country.

1992 Kirsten Nixa Sabia ksabia@pgatourhq.com

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In January, Michelle Owczarzak was appointed senior vice president of sales for Inteliquent Inc., a carrier for communication service providers. She leads the company’s initiatives to strengthen its core business and expand into new markets and serves as part of Inteliquent’s senior leadership team. Prior to joining Inteliquent, she was vice president of wholesale sales for FairPoint Communications.

Tom Wright reports that he is one of three

Dickinsonians working at The Brearley School, a private school in Manhattan. He writes, “I chair the classics department and am the assistant coach for the cross country team. The head coach, Cait Bradley ’08, is a former Dickinson runner who also teaches math, and Jim McDonald ’87 teaches fifthgrade history and English.” See photo on Page 47.

Dray released their first historical fiction novel in March. Drawing from thousands of letters and original sources, they tell the fascinating, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic Founding Father and shaped an American legacy. Read more in Fine Print, Page 12.

Stephen Smith was named the new chief executive of L.L.Bean, making this the first time that someone from outside the company was chosen to run the 103-year-old retailer. He joins L.L.Bean from the Chinese online grocer Yihaodian, where he served as chief merchandising and marketing officer.

1993 Nancy H. Richardson 4208 Fordham Road Baltimore, MD 21229 nancyhr93@verizon.net Andrew Conte andrew.c.conte@gmail.com

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1994 Lindsey Dickinson Baynard lindsey_dickinson.edu@yahoo.com

Terra Zvara tzvara@hotmail.com Jennifer Wieclaw is a partner at Duane Morris LLP. She is in the firm’s Philadelphia office, where

J.T. Sandone jt.sandone@gmail.com Leigh Ann Berry Chow’s course, College Prep:

Writing a Strong Essay, was published by Lynda.com in October. The course covers how to plan, draft, edit and polish an unforgettable college essay. She writes, “These lessons will not only help improve your chances of getting into a topchoice school, but also make you a better writer once you get there.” To preview her course, go to dson.co/chowcollegeprep.

Alfred Howell received the 2015 Judge James

Rutherford Community Award. The award is presented to citizens or organizations in honor of their outstanding service to Wayne County, Pa. Howell has been a coach in youth sports and is a member of the Honesdale Area Jaycees and the Wayne Memorial Health Foundation board.

He is an attorney with Howell, Howell & Krause and is currently a Wayne County assistant district attorney.

1995 Adrienne Corrado Allison adrienneallison73@gmail.com

she practices real estate law. She counsels clients on commercial acquisitions and dispositions, financings and workouts, leasing and joint ventures. She represents clients in a variety of asset classes, including office, health care, hospitality, industrial and multifamily. She serves on the Duane Morris recruitment and retention committee and on the board of trustees for Northern Children’s Services, a behavioral health and child welfare agency based in Philadelphia.

1999 Kim Dulaney Mooney 330 Orleans Blvd.

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REUNION YEAR Kimberly S. Renner yogakimber@gmail.com

Kelly Tebbe Miller 20 Pine St. Wakefield, MA 01880 katebbe@hotmail.com

Rebecca Marks Campbell is an executive consultant

Tina Sanders Pragoff writes, “I can’t tell you how

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with Rodan + Fields, the fourth largest premium skincare company in the United States. Rodan + Fields is launching in Australia in 2016. To learn more about these coveted products or the business that Harvard Business School called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” contact Rebecca at rfskinrocks@gmail.com.

Samantha Eburne Morgan writes that she, her

husband and their son Jack (5) moved to Atlanta.

She is a licensed social worker and counselor for women suffering from addiction and mental health problems. She writes, “I can’t believe it’s been almost 20 years since we graduated! I have wonderful memories of my time at Dickinson.”

1997 Marisa Cole Facciolo 607 Kilburn Road Wilmington, DE 19803 marisafacciolo@yahoo.com

excited and awesome it feels to not only work at J.P. Morgan Chase with a fellow alumna, but also to collaborate every day with her. Meredith Bryan Racape ’95 and I work side-by-side each day supporting the Chase Slate brand. She’s on the credit card business team, and I support their branding and advertising efforts. We’ve had a busy year helping relaunch the brand. We’ve problem-solved through challenges and uncovered opportunities together. I’m pretty sure our shared humanities-oriented approach has been our guide through it all. We’ve had a great year, but our accomplishments are that much sweeter being co-Red Devils. Meredith was an international studies major, and I was an international business & management major. We’ve both traveled the world, but we’re making big things happen—right here at home.”

2001

REUNION YEAR Devon Nykaza Stuart 62 Tice Ave. Hershey, PA 17033 devonmedicalart@gmail.com > Dickinsonians celebrated the marriage of Ryan Boop to Ashley Ross at the Matthew Ryan Office

Building of the Pennsylvania State Capitol.

Attendees included: Samuel Kieffer ’01, Kelly Hill Willard ’03, Ryan Willard ’01, Lindsey Becker Peters ’01, Thomas Boop ’71, Carrie Chesters Bierlein ’03, Jeffrey Bierlein ’03 and Dana Alwine ’81.

Wesley Hall is the new CEO of the Omaha Sports Commission in Omaha, Neb. He was formerly the executive director of the Sioux Falls Sports Authority in Sioux Falls, S.D. Dedicated to making Omaha one of the premier sports communities in the U.S., the commission works closely with area businesses and community leaders to help recruit and promote amateur sporting events.

2002 Michael W. Donnelly 62 Wagon Wheel Road Quakertown, PA 18951 prof207@gmail.com Angela Wallis amwallis@gmail.com Sam Connor Polis and husband Bob welcomed their daughter, Julia Grace, on Aug. 29.

2003 Jennifer Elbert Betz 64 Parkway Road, Apt. 1A Bronxville, NY 10708 mrs.jenniferbetz@gmail.com

Taking a jump across the Atlantic for the holidays, Greg Sheridan visited fellow classmate Lauren McLane Gross in December. He writes, “Having bought a house on the west coast of Scotland in 2015, after 10 years in Britain, I’ll be applying for U.K. citizenship in 2016 to have the coveted dual citizenship. I continue to work at the University of Glasgow as a project manager, recently assisting in the completion of a 10 million pounds extension to university sports facilities.”

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’09 Outstanding Young Alumni Award Shortly after arriving at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Brittany Sunshine ’09 was hand selected to serve as the Liberia country officer as part of the International Task Force for the CDC’s Ebola Response. This selection came after she provided exemplary service to the State Coordination Task Force, analyzing state response plans to potential Ebola virus disease cases and subsequently the Deployment Risk Mitigation Unit, where she served as the stigma officer, providing support to returning Ebola responders.

As the Liberia country officer, Brittany provides guidance and assistance to CDC teams in Liberia working to combat Ebola transmission and to establish an enduring public health system to prevent future disease outbreaks. She served as the corresponding author for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, detailing the elimination of Ebola virus transmission in Liberia, a day that marked a major milestone in the fight against Ebola in West Africa.

This past October, Brittany embarked on her first of many deployments to Liberia to apply her experience and expertise in-country on issues ranging from management and operations to working to improve services for survivors of Ebola. Brittany serves as an exceptional example of an engaged Dickinsonian who has used hard work, knowledge and empathy to provide vital services at home and abroad.

Celebrate with Brittany at the 2016 Alumni Weekend, June 10-12. Register at www.dickinson.edu/ alumniweekend.

2004 Todd Derkacz 67 Bushville Road Westtown, NY 10998 derkaczt@dickinson.edu Jeff Bukowski is the inaugural assistant dean for

the School of Arts, Science & Business at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, where he also is assistant professor of policy studies.

2005 Kymberly Lewis-Young is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she will continue her research on neuromodulation therapies for mood disorders.

David Rodbart and wife Melanie, along with big

brother Benjamin, welcomed Theodore George Rodbart on Oct. 3, 2015. He weighed 7 lbs., 11 oz.

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REUNION YEAR Susan Pierson San Francisco Theological Seminary San Anselmo, CA 94960 susanmpierson@gmail.com

In August, Nathan Fry traveled to Kyrgyzstan to conduct a site survey for his Eco-Leadership Project (ELP). The ELP is the focus of Nathan’s graduate work at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and will create an innovative curriculum that combines ecology study, leadership instruction and outdoor hard skills into a two-week program for the American University of Central Asia. As the first program of its kind in Central Asia, the ELP’s goal is to introduce a new conservation education model to the region. See Nathan’s promotional video for the Ala Archa Eco-Leadership Project at vimeo.com/141578430.

Gretchen Mielke is assistant dean in the Office of Civic Engagement at Widener University in Chester, Pa. She was previously manager of general education and academic learning community assessment at American University in Washington, D.C.

2007 Michael Pennington michaeljohnpennington@gmail.com

Dickinsonians around the country stand to gain a great deal from One College One Community events being hosted in major cities throughout the year. I had the pleasure of attending one such event near Villanova, Pa. Dozens of alumni turned out to hear an informative lecture about the state of U.S. and global relations in the Middle East, presented by a former member of the CIA. All of the Dickinsonians I met at the lecture were actively engaged with the program. This experience caused me to reflect upon and appreciate my deeply ingrained passion for learning fostered during my years at Dickinson. While Dickinson is making great strides in having alumni participate in alumni-specific events, it is also fostering a sense of community between alumni and students. Students are connecting with alumni at sponsored events across the country. The recent Washington, D.C., and New York City career connection venues offered invaluable resources for current students. Dickinsonians staying engaged, and helping the next generation of graduates, ensures that our alma mater will continue to provide a powerful and useful education by connecting students to the real world.

Samantha Beth Bellinger married Carl Cocuzza on June 20, 2015, in Vermont. Ashley Hoover was a bridesmaid.

Kate Fiedler moved to Kauai, Hawaii, to start

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Yesterday, I began a new journey with the Walmart Foundation, where I will be a senior manager on the Career Opportunity team, co-developing and executing the grant-making strategy for a new $100 million commitment to help increase the economic mobility of entry-level workers in retail and adjacent sectors. Also, I’ve moved to Bentonville, Ark.! Big change from NYC and D.C.! If there are any Dickinsonians living in the area, I’d love to catch up.”

Maggie Pearlstein Mizelle and husband Chase

welcomed daughter Willa Gray Mizelle on Sept. 13.

Willa was born simply and safely at the home she shares with her parents and big brother Michael, 3.

2008 Marissa Faith Folk marissafolk@gmail.com

> Kate Sanford married her high school and college sweetheart, Michael Procelli, on May 23,

2015, in Washington, D.C. Kate and Mike were surrounded by many of their Dickinson friends on their wedding day. Classmates Kelsey Oldendorp, Allison Goodhart DuShuttle, Sarah Benton, Jackie Press, Caitlin Blair and Molly Osborn Dean served as bridesmaids. Classmates Harry Kline, Nick Marshall and Ross Koenig ’06 served as groomsmen. Kate, who is a senior manager at WeddingWire, and Mike, who is a senior manager at LivingSocial, honeymooned in Greece and currently live in Cleveland Park in Washington, D.C. Ben Wegemer was appointed dean of academics at Saint Thomas More Academy in Magnolia, Del. Formerly, he was a student-athlete academic advisor and life-skills counselor at the University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, University of Nebraska and University of Texas at San Antonio.

2009 Abigail Conger abbyconger@gmail.com > Mike Dembert and Sarah Benton ’08 were married

From left: Ruby Sung ’10, Sloane Fowkes ’13, Kaitlin Irvine ’10, Meghan Blickman ’10 and Lauren Deitz ’10 celebrate after Blickman and Fowkes completed the 2015 Philadelphia Marathon and Half Marathon.

There was an impromptu gathering of Dickinsonians in San Francisco at the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in January. From left: Daniel Plekhov ’14, Laura Takakjy ’11, Diane Evitts ’09, Professor of Classical Studies Marc Mastrangelo, Elizabeth Parker ’09, Professor of Classical Studies Chris Francese, Ashley Francese and Erik DeMarche ’11. Not pictured: Dan Fallu ’09, Elizabeth Madaus ’02 and Jason Morris ’00.

Dickinsonians from the class of 2013, all of whom spent part of their junior year abroad in Norwich, England, reunited in New York City this past December for a day of sightseeing. From left: Becky Thompson, Cassi Stanco, Emma Sanborn, Julia Eager, Sarah Ganong, Mary Dickinson and Sara Raab.

Molly Osborn Dean mollylangosborn@gmail.com

in Annapolis, Md., on Nov. 7 with many Dickinson friends in attendance.

In December, Christian Meade and artist Nathaniel Wyrick exhibited “Halfway Through the Dark,” a sculptural installation made of found and collected objects, at the West End Museum in Boston. The exhibit is part of 8 Nights, 8 Windows, a new public art project of Combined Jewish Philanthropies and New Center NOW. Artists were invited to create pop-up public art to brighten the dark, cold Boston holiday season with the essence of the Festival of Light: miracle, illumination and innovation. Artists share stories, old and new, creating experiences that bring a fresh understanding and a deeper look into the origins of Hanukkah.

In August, Rebecca Driesen started working at the Parsons School of Design as an academic advisor.

She works with students pursuing their bachelor’s of fine arts in fashion design.

In September, Davalyn Powell attended a Cancer Research Institute conference in New York City. She is an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow, researching brain tumors at the University of Wisconsin. As such, she was invited to attend the 29th Annual Cancer Research Awards Dinner at the Metropolitan Club, where Bill Clinton and Andrew Cuomo spoke. Also, she and associate Anna Huttenlocher had their article “Neutrophils in the Tumor Microenvironment” published in CellPress.

> Laura Dunn married Matt Gabso on Oct. 17 in Conn. Celebrating with them were Jesse Birnbaum, Elena Brandano Birnbaum ’11, Heather Lawrie, Amanda McBride and Kate Miller.

Meghan Erdman has been working at Capital One for the last five years and was recently awarded Coach of the Year. She was also accepted to be a volunteer for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Nick Iorio became the research director for VetImpact, a nonprofit organization assisting veterans who are business owners scale into postconflict and emerging markets. He also launched an Android application, Gustr, for event organizers to crowdsource images from event attendees.

Megan Nussle is an executive assistant to the artistic

director/literary associate at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass.

Ernie Ricci joined the Boatman Law Firm in Naples,

Fla., as an associate attorney focusing his practice on the area of commercial litigation.

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> Benjamin Rosenbluth and Jessica Marchesi were married on Oct. 24. Attendees included Lee Rosenbluth ’76 and Megan Rosenbluth Ahlgrim ’07.

In November, Zachary Rosenberg ’09 and Karen Lansden (University of Alabama ’09) were married at Antoine’s Restaurant in New Orleans.

Several dozen Dickinson classmates from the years 2007 through 2013 were present, including five Dickinsonians who served as groomsmen.

Everyone survived New Orleans (barely).

In October, Yazmin Monet Watkins was one of four poets chosen to perform at the poetry slam “Dear Straight People” hosted by the LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University for National Coming Out Month. The goal was to help build a safe space for LGBTQ individuals on campus and motivate straight individuals to act as allies. Watkins is a full-time actor and poet and volunteers weekly to teach poetry to incarcerated youth. > Clayelle Wolf married Cory Sacks on Nov. 28

in Manhattan with many Dickinson friends in attendance.

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Jordan McCord 404 S. 5th Ave. Tucson, AZ 85701 jordanemccord@gmail.com Gwen Dunnington gedunnington@gmail.com

Meghan Blickman and Sloane Fowkes ’13 met up with Ruby Sung, Kaitlin Irvine and Lauren Deitz to

celebrate after Blickman and Fowkes completed the 2015 Philadelphia Marathon and Half Marathon.

See photo on Page 52.

Tiffany Kintigh holds a concierge position at Hilton

Worldwide in Phoenix, Ariz. She still maintains her work at Paint Nite Phoenix, Tempe Center for the Arts, as a house manager and at Chase Field selling Arizona Diamondback tickets. She recently got engaged and is planning an Oct. 1 wedding. She welcomed daughter Samantha Teresa in February.

Carlos Rivera writes, “I received my J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law–Newark in May of last year. Since then, I have successfully passed the New Jersey bar exam and have been admitted to the New Jersey State Bar, as well as the United States District Court–District of New Jersey. I have also been hired as an associate at Seeger Weiss LLP, where I had been working as a paralegal since August 2010.”

Sarah Salisbury started a new role as marketing lead for Socratic, an education startup based in New York City. Socratic’s mission is to create a free, online learning resource that makes information and education more accessible to high school and college students around the world.

Allison Schell is manager of programs and

development at the Chadds Ford Historical Society in Chadds Ford, Pa. Matthew Schmiemann moved from New York City to Denver, Colo. He is a manager at KPMG, LLP and

is enjoying the Denver area’s outdoor mountain recreation. > Dickinsonians attended the wedding of Kelsey Watkinson and Matthew Whitley, including Sarah Woodward (maid of honor), Olivia Lewis ’10, Erin Carroll, Jessica Dybfest ’13, Mariel Fredericksen, Deborah DeGroot Masland ’80, Al Masland ’79 (who married the couple), Wayne Watkinson ’77 (father of the bride), Justin Sterritt and Jerald Goldfine ’76.

Elvira Yanez married Jonathan Swedborg on

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2012 Mary Kate Skehan mkskehan@gmail.com Abigail Tufts abigail.tufts@gmail.com

2013 Emma Tesman tesmane@dickinson.edu

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Louisa McIver is helping the Frederick County

REUNION YEAR John Jones Johnjones4@gmail.com

Allyson Glazier began a new position in August

as an adjunct faculty reference and instruction librarian at the University of New Hampshire, Manchester.

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Office of Sustainability and Environmental Resources with its stormwater quality improvement efforts. She works with businesses, farmers and homeowners to reduce potentially toxic discharges into stormwater and improve the health of water bodies such as the Monocacy River. She volunteers through the Chesapeake Conservation Corps program, run by the Chesapeake Bay Trust.

In October, Leah Shafer started a new job writing for Usable Knowledge, an online resource at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

She writes, “My job is to reach out to HGSE faculty and make their research accessible to educators, policymakers, nonprofit leaders and parents.”

Check out their website at gse.harvard.edu/uk.

2015 Aaron Hock hock.aarons@gmail.com

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our Dickinson Obituaries 1938 Caroline Goodyear Adams died Nov. 30. She earned a Ph.B. in history and was a member of Pi Beta Phi, College Choir and French Club. She was preceded in death by husband Harold Adams ’38, sister Elizabeth Goodyear Clarke ’36, brother-in-law William Clarke Jr. ’35 and sister-in-law Louise Adams Michler ’39. Survivors include sister Anne Goodyear McKellar ’43, nephew William Clarke III ’62, niece Katherine Clarke ’90 and five children.

1939 Virginia Heisey died Sept. 20. She earned a B.A. in sociology and was a member of Pi Beta Phi, College Choir and the track and field, tennis, basketball and swim teams. She also earned a master’s in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. She retired as chief adult hospital social worker from the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. She was preceded in death by sisters Jane Heisey ’32 and Lucretia Heisey Shroat ’33, brother Howard Heisey ’36 and brother-in-law Richard Shroat ’34. Survivors include two nephews.

1941 Sanford Marateck died Nov. 14. He earned

a B.A. and was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi, Microcosm and Alpha Psi Omega. He also earned a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He retired as partner at Lark, Makowski & Marateck.

Survivors include wife Mildred, daughter Karen and sons David and Arthur Marateck ’70.

1944 Ralph Mitchell died Dec. 16. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and was a member of Kappa Sigma, Microcosm, Mohler Scientific Club, The Dickinsonian and the basketball and baseball teams. He retired from J.T. Baker Inc., a chemical company in Phillipsburg, N.J. He was preceded in death by wife Betty Hummer Mitchell ’45. Survivors include three children.

1945 Pauline Shumaker Walters died Dec. 31. She earned a B.A. in English and was a member of Phi Mu, Wheel and Chain and the basketball team. She was a former teacher. Survivors include daughter Gema Walters Weigel ’75 and sons Von, Murrel Walters ’72 and Justin Walters ’85.

1946 Ann Carol Boylhart Emele died Oct. 15. She earned a B.A. in Spanish and was a member of The Dickinsonian, Chi Omega and the track and field and basketball teams. She was preceded in death by husband Russell Emele ’49. Survivors include son R. James.

1947 George Gracey died Oct. 16. He earned a B.A. and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He retired from AMP Inc. in Harrisburg, Pa. He was preceded in death by mother Roberta Reiff Gracey, class of 1915. Survivors include wife Wanda and two children.

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1950 Frank Hofer died Oct. 29. He earned a B.A. in economics and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Student Senate, Union Philosophical Society and Spanish Club. He also earned an LL.B. from the Dickinson School of Law. A veteran of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars, he retired as commander from the U.S. Navy.

Survivors include two daughters.

1950 Leonard Homa died Oct. 27. He earned a B.A. and was a member of Phi Delta Theta. He also earned an LL.B. from George Washington University. He was a lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area. Survivors include wife Mary and three children.

1950 James Pooley died Dec. 14. He was a member of Phi Kappa Psi and the basketball and football teams. He earned a B.S. in physical education from Wheaton College. He was a former realtor.

Survivors include wife Bonnie, four children and three stepchildren.

1951 Edwin Bowe died Nov. 27. He earned a B.S. and was a member of Sigma Chi. He also earned an M.D. from New York Medical College. A retired anesthesiologist, he worked with his son at ResourceOne Medical Billing LLC. Survivors include wife Mary and three sons.

1951 Patricia Chase Klein died May 24, 2015. She was a member of Chi Omega.

1954 A. Richard Blair died Dec. 14. He was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He graduated from Wake Forest University. He was the former president of Freimark Blair & Co., Inc. In his father’s name, he founded the Andrew Blair College of Health at Queen’s University of Charlotte, N.C. Survivors include wife Delores and four daughters.

1955 Glenn Welliver died Nov. 8. He earned a B.A. in German and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma and the College Choir. He also earned an M.A. in German and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University. He was a professor emeritus in German at DePauw University. He was preceded in death by parents Lester Welliver, class of 1918, and Eleanor Yeaworth Welliver, class of 1920, and by brother L. Allyn Welliver ’48. Survivors include wife Edith Bean Welliver ’55 and son Ralph.

1956 Jeanne Carlson died Oct. 11. She earned a B.A. in history and was a member of The Dickinsonian, Follies, French Club, Chi Omega, the College Choir and the cheerleading team. She also earned an M.A. in counseling from Columbia University and a doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern University. She was a former guidance counselor and professor for Richard Stockton College of New

Jersey and Temple University. Survivors include daughters Cristen and Carleen Spangler Starry ’79 and son-in-law H. Michael Starry ’77.

1959 F. Douglas Wert died Dec. 9. He earned a B.A. in economics and was a member of Alpha Psi Omega, Beta Theta Pi, Mermaid Players, ROTC, Belles Lettres Society, Follies and the tennis team.

He also earned a J.D. from the University of Akron and an MBA from Cornell University. He was a former health administrator and later worked within the insurance industry. Survivors include wife Virginia, five children and four stepchildren.

1960 Bruce Eddy died Nov. 11. He was a member of Theta Chi, Follies, ROTC, Psychology Club and the lacrosse team. He retired from Boeing. Survivors include wife Kathi and two daughters.

1960 Ira Goldman died Nov. 13. An American Irish activist, he worked on Irish issues while a senior staff member of the New York State legislature.

He also served Gov. Mario Cuomo on the New York State Industrial Cooperation Council’s Commission on Competitiveness. Survivors include wife Mary.

1961 Robert Myers died April 9, 2015. He was a member of Theta Chi. He earned a B.S. in agriculture from Montana State University, a D.V.M. from Washington State University and an M.S. in pathology from Colorado State University.

A veterinarian by trade, he raised cattle in Absarokee, Mont. Survivors include three children.

1962 Jeffrey Fine died Oct. 25. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and was a member of Kappa Sigma, Microcosm and the track and field and wrestling teams. He also earned an M.D. from Hahnemann Medical College. He was a retired otolaryngologist having worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and chief of surgery at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester, Mass. He was preceded in death by father Jack Fine ’36. Survivors include wife Patti, brother Kenneth ’65 and two children.

1962 Robert Malone died Nov. 14. He earned a B.A. in English and was a member of the College Choir, Mermaid Players, Men’s Glee Club, Alpha Psi Omega and The Dickinsonian. He also earned an M.A. in dramatic arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He retired from R.A. Malone & Co. and was an adjunct faculty member at Carteret Community College in Morehead, N.C. Survivors include wife Sandra and three children.

1969 Jane Gardner Connor died Dec. 25. She earned a B.A. in history and religion and was a member of Student Senate, Microcosm, The Dickinsonian, Phi Delta Epsilon and Phi Mu. She also earned an M.S. in library science from the University of Washington, Tacoma, and a master’s in early childhood education from the University of South Carolina. She was a former consultant of children’s library service for the South Carolina State Library. Survivors include husband Kenneth and two children.

1969 Linda Schultz Lancaster died Oct. 26. She earned a B.A. in Latin and was a member of the College Choir, Eta Sigma Phi and Zeta Tau Alpha. She also earned an M.A. in classics from the University of Vermont. She was a real estate paralegal for Frank J. Martone P.C. Survivors include daughters Amanda and Elizabeth.

1970 Sharon Vandergrift Herbst died Dec. 7. She earned a B.A. in social science and was a member of Pi Beta Phi and the Microcosm. Survivors include husband Jonathan and two children.

1972 Howard Greber died Oct. 10. He earned a B.S. in physics and was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi. He was president of Greber Appraisal of Florida LLC. Survivors include wife Carolyn Feltham Greber ’70 and two children.

1974 John Borger died Dec. 12. He earned a B.A. in German and history and was a member of Phi Delta Theta, German Club and Rugby Club. He also earned a J.D. from Fordham University. He was a former corporate attorney for PHH Corp.

Survivors include children Jeffrey and Sara.

1974 Robert Conway died Jan. 9, 2014. He earned a B.A. in political science and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He also earned a J.D. from Catholic University of America. He was the former CEO of GSMA, a telecommunications association, and the former head of international affairs for telecommunication services provider VimpelCom. Survivors include wife Magdalena and three children.

1975 Joan Heim Bird died Dec. 16. She earned a B.A. in economics and Spanish and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Delta Epsilon and the field hockey team. She also earned an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. She was regional director for private banking at Bank of New York Mellon in Pittsburgh. Survivors include husband David and two daughters.

1990 Kenneth McHugh died Dec. 19. He earned a B.A. in Russian and was a member of the Russian Club and Theta Chi. Survivors include wife Tammy, daughters Samantha, Julia and Kathryn and son Dylan. Members of the community are invited to contribute to an account established to help raise money for the children’s college educations: gofundme.com/kenmchugh.

1993 Pollyanna Greathouse Coffy died Nov. 13.

She earned a B.A. in religion and was a member of Delta Delta Delta. Survivors include husband Jeffrey and six children.

1996 Ross Pineo died Dec. 21. He earned a B.S. in biology and was a member of the brass and jazz ensembles. He also earned a D.D.S. from the University of Maryland Dental School. He was a dentist at Pineo Family Dentistry LLC in Edinboro, Pa. Survivors include brother Thomas Pineo ’92, sister-in-law Tania Adams Pineo ’92, former wife Sara Hauck Pineo ’95 and three children.

2001 Lara Wong died Nov. 8. She earned a B.A. in international studies and religion and was a member of Hillel. She was a producer for ABC News in New York City. For her work, she was the recipient of a Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Sandy and the 2014 and 2015 Edward R. Murrow Awards for ABC News for Overall Excellence. Survivors include parents Richard and Marsha and sister Alana and brother Jared.

2004 Bradley Fitzgerald died Nov. 27. He earned a B.A. in East Asian studies and was a member of The Dickinsonian, WDCV-FM, Dickinson Christian Fellowship and the track and field and cross country teams. He was a business and marketing analyst in Boca Raton, Fla. Survivors include parents Bradley and Ruth and sister Erin.

Faculty Kathleen “Katie” Barber, physical educator emerita,

died Nov. 30. Joining Dickinson in July 1960, she assumed the responsibilities for both teaching and coaching. She was a founding member of the Penn-Mar Conference, a precursor to women’s participation in the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Conference. She retired in 1987 and was inducted into the Central Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame and the Dickinson College Sports Hall of Fame. Survivors include children L. Curtis, Craig and Gretchen.

Michael Poulton, senior lecturer practitioner in international business & management, died Dec. 9. Joining the Dickinson community in 2000, he was known for his innovation and ability to imbue his curriculum with real-world situations gleaned from personal experiences.

In 2010, members of the senior class honored him with the Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching. In addition to his faculty responsibilities, he was an advisor to the Sigma Beta Delta business honor society and the Fencing Club and served on the board of the Dickinson Club, the Judicial Board and as parliamentarian of the college.

Survivors include wife Yulia Poulton ’08 and sons Luka and Andrew. To honor his legacy and extraordinary contributions in the classroom and to the college, the department hosted its first International Business & Management Ethics Symposium in memory of Michael Poulton on April 16.

Henry Wade Seaford, associate professor emeritus of anthropology, died in July 2015. Wade’s career at Dickinson spanned 28 years, and at the time of his retirement from the faculty in 1989, he had served as chair of the Department of Anthropology since 1982. He was instrumental in the formation of his academic department and aided in the development of the Latin American studies program, now known as Latin American, Latino & Caribbean studies.

Hired by the college as an instructor of sociology in 1961, Wade was promoted to both assistant professor of sociology and anthropology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 1963.

Upon the completion of his doctorate from Harvard University in 1971, he was promoted to associate professor. He is survived by his wife Phyllis and three sons, Terry, Jack and Steven. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Sandra Suzanne.

Honor their memory Gifts to the Dickinson Fund to memorialize members of the Dickinson community may be made at any time.

Should you wish to honor a deceased member of our Dickinson family in this way, please send your gift to: College Advancement Dickinson College P.O. Box 1773 Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 Please note for whom your gift is in memory.

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Embracing risk B Y K AT H Y R YA N ’ 8 4

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Keith Negley

ome people seem to be born with the burning desire to start their own business, I wasn’t one of them. For me, the decision to become an entrepreneur was the result of a mid-career professional reinvention of sorts. Faced with the sudden elimination of my human resources manager position in June 2008, I seized the opportunity to strike out on my own and launch a coaching and consulting practice. I met my first significant challenge four months later when our economy plummeted into a severe recession. As the saying goes, timing is everything.

Looking back on those early days, I see how unlikely my success must have seemed to some. Thankfully, I had several things going for me that helped me weather the storm — an unwavering faith in my ability to do what needed to be done, a network of loyal friends and colleagues who believed in me and a blissful ignorance of the harsh reality of how hard it was going to be to succeed.

Like many new business owners, I naively thought that most of my time would be spent doing what I loved. After all, that’s why I started my own business. But reality didn’t take long to set in. The truth was I spent very little time doing what I loved, leadership development, and a lot of time tending to the other tasks required to grow my business. It turns out in addition to being a leadership coach, I was also the IT manager, webmaster, head of accounting, marketing and social media expert and the entire sales force. Significant skill gaps in many of these areas inflicted upon me a learning curve that was steep and often painful.

But I persevered.

I think many entrepreneurs get caught in the same trap that I did, trying to play roles in their business for which they are not well suited.

I see this often in my work with small business leaders who’ve successfully grown their organization from a one-person shop to a company that employs dozens of people.

Now they need to worry about things like employee morale, goal setting and performance reviews. Not all entrepreneurs are wired to be leaders of large teams.

I see the same phenomenon play out in the corporate world. Promising individual contributors are rewarded with promotion to a leadership position only to then realize the skills that brought them success in the past aren’t the ones they need to be successful as team leader. Fortunately, in most large companies you find human resources professionals like me who provide feedback and coaching to help the leader improve.

New leaders also have other, more experienced leaders they can look to as role models and mentors.

The dynamics in small businesses are often different. Relationships can be close and family-like, where the line between personal and professional is blurred, if one exists at all.

The entrepreneur has no one to look to as a mentor in the business, and honest feedback can be difficult to receive. No one wants to tell the emperor that he’s naked. It’s so unfortunate when a business’ growth outpaces the owner’s ability to lead it. I believe it’s truer in a small business than anywhere else: The business will never grow beyond the skill level of the leader. That’s why small business leaders need to build mentor networks outside of their companies and seek quality coaching and training programs to elevate their leadership skills.

Being an entrepreneur isn’t for everyone. I’ve learned to live with a higher level of risk and the frequent lack of security. For me, the sense of pride I feel when I look back at all I’ve accomplished far outweighs any downsides. I’m proud to say I’m an entrepreneur.

Kathy Ryan ’84, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is co-founder of Pinnacle Leadership Institute, which offers innovative training programs for mid-to-senior level high potential leaders.

She’s also the author of the award winning book You Have to Say the Words: An Integrity-Based Approach for Tackling Tough Conversations and Maximizing Performance.

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What I am trying to say is that it gets better. And you always have at least one person in your corner, fighting for you, even if it’s a gesture as small as sending you a picture of your cat or wishing you luck on a test.

A DE L A I DE “A DDI E ” D OW N S ’ 19 , in “Facing Down Debilitating Anxiety — A College Freshman’s Story” in The Washington Post. Read more at dson.co/downs19.

When critics of Saudi Arabia urge Washington to just “get tough”… they do not take stock of possible ramifications that would lead to even more instability, violence and terrorism in and from the Middle East.

Sudden political change in Saudi Arabia would almost certainly not result in a liberal, tolerant regime.

Rather, a belligerent, anti-Western regime is more likely.

D AV I D C OM M I N S , professor of history, Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, in “Is Saudi Arabia a Threat to the United States?” Read more at dson.co/comminshistorynews.

IF YOU DON’T QUESTION THE WORLD, NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE. K AT E LY N K I NG ’ 1 8 , in “Question Everything, Fear Nothing.”

Read more at dson.co/katelynking18.

Our dominant American values of productivity, individual achievement and self-reliance can — I think — make chronic illness and disability almost “un-American” forms of weakness that deviate from our narrative of self-mastery.

As a result, we stigmatize those who deviate from the “able-bodied” norm.

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professor of English and American studies; James Hope Caldwell Professor of American Cultures, in “Vantage Points: Disabilities in America — Why Should We Take Note?” Read more at dson.co/disabilitiesvantage.