Fall 14 Alumni Herald

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

Alumni Herald

Fall 2014

Volume 25, No. 2

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OPENING REMARKS

Dear Warriors, Campus is thriving with more than 6,700 students who have come home to ESU this fall for the 2014-2015 academic year. Despite the challenging times for higher education nationwide, I’m proud to inform our graduates that your alma mater has seen a modest 1 percent increase in enrollment this semester, a measurable feat that indicates we’re doing plenty of things right, and our students agree.

Another point of pride I’d like to share with you is that our campus community — students, faculty, staff and administrators — are launching the university’s new strategic plan this semester. The plan, titled “Students First: Innovate ESU,” details a university-wide commitment to putting our students first in all we do while also developing an “institution without walls” capable of developing and enhancing rich partnerships with our community.

The plan is intended to stimulate conversation and action that will inspire innovation in the way we teach and expand opportunities for our students to learn through new internship and entrepreneurial opportunities. I invite all of you to download your copy of the strategic plan at esu.edu/strategicplan.

With that in mind, please enjoy the feature story in this issue about the exciting art + design program at ESU and the opening last semester of our 3-D Design Lab that allows our students to fully embrace the field of three-dimensional printing and additive manufacturing. Programs such as this offer our students a competitive edge in the ever-changing global job market, and we should be proud of faculty like Professor Oye-Benintende and Professor FarrisLaBar who have dedicated their time and talents to advancing new technologies that ultimately benefit our graduates.

Beyond these developments at ESU, the pages that follow are full of other good news about your alma mater.

From our award-winning Business Accelerator that has churned out innovative alumni like Brian Pedone ’05 to new articulation agreements with community colleges and the continued support of area businesses (see page 10 and inside the back cover to read about partnerships with our Theatre Department), Warriors on the home front remain strong and resilient.

As we continue to push ourselves to excel at the services we provide to our students and graduates, know that both your personal interest and financial support are important for persistent success and change.

My hope is that I will see many of you at Homecoming in October. It’s a great time to visit with faculty, staff and old friends while enjoying the splendor of fall.

If you’re unable to come home to be with us, stay in touch via our Offices of Alumni Engagement and University Advancement. Visit esualumni.org to get involved in your alumni association and consider a gift, when possible, to support your ESU. Your gift can and will make a difference to our students while continuing to grow a proud and strong Warrior Nation.

Thankful for your support,

Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D. President Follow Dr. Welsh on twitter.com

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n What are the odds?

Cover Story STUDENTS BY DESIGN ESU’s new Design Lab gives students training in the revolutionary manufacturing technology called 3-D printing.

University President

Design and Production Office of University Relations BGA Studios

Photography Darlene Farris-LaBar Susie Forrester David Kidwell Bob Weidner

Contributors Abigail Behrends BGA Studios Brooke F. Donovan Caryn S. Fogel ’12 Brenda E. Friday, Ph.D. Mandy Housenick Frank Johnson ’74 Greg Knowlden M’04 Margie Peterson Caryn Wilkie Notice of Nondiscrimination East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran’s status in its programs and activities in accordance with applicable federal and state laws and regulations.

The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding this policy: Director of Diversity/Ombudsperson 200 Prospect Street 115 Reibman Building East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 570-422-3656

PORTABLE PUNCHING Brian Pedone ’05 invents and markets a traveling training bag for boxers.

NOVEL APPROACH Salena Fehnel ’08 publishes her first work of fiction, with two more on the way.

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Features New student recruiter........................9 Student band returning to ESU........13 Homecoming.............................14-15 Athletic Hall of Fame inductions......15 Alumni Association Awards.............16 James Franklin ’95 returns..............23 Departments

Alumni Association.................................... 2-3, 16 ESU Foundation...................................................4 Campus News..................................... 9-13, 17-18 Alumni News................................................ 19-21 Warrior Spirit............................................... 22-25 Class Notes.................................................. 26-27 Births................................................................ 27 In Memoriam.................................................... 28

ON THE COVER: Will Merring, a senior biology major from Easton, and Nadya Gutierrez, a senior art + design major from Bronx, N.Y., display a 3-D printed model of ESU’s Hoeffner Science and Technology Center.

Photo by Philip Stein

When Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Michael Sachs attended a party in California this summer, he never would have guessed he would have bumped into a friend whose grandmother attended ESU! Sachs’ friend, DJ Byrne, shared stories from his grandmother, Loretta “Laura” Larson Rooney ’21. Her stories of attending East Stroudsburg State Normal School are cataloged by his mother as a tribute to her mother. The stories from her time at East Stroudsburg can be found at www.mbyrne. com/Books/Laura.htm.

n Seeking Phi Sigma Sigmas Were you a member of the Phi Sigma Sigma Gamma Omega Chapter at ESU? Is your contact information current and registered with the national office? The organization is looking to make contact with some of its “lost” sisters. Contact the national office at 410-799-1224 or via email at phisighq@phisigmasigma.org.

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Letters may be edited for clarity or space.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CORNER

Third-Floor Shawnee memories last a lifetime Editor’s note: Frank Johnson is a member of the ESU Alumni Association Communications Committee and a retired educator who lived in Shawnee Hall.

By Frank Johnson ’74 In 1970, between the time our beloved college was known as East Stroudsburg State Teachers College and when it became East Stroudsburg University, our little section of the Poconos was known as East Stroudsburg State College or ESSC. In September of that year, more than 3,000 students reported to campus, many for the first time. Several received letters over the summer instructing them to report to their first dorm rooms on the third floor of Shawnee Hall, and I was one of those freshmen. Little did we know that the bonds and friendships formed there would last up to the present day.

Before diversity became a buzzword, the third floor of Shawnee exemplified all aspects of it — ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, philosophical, academic, behavioral — you name it. We came from Philadelphia and its suburbs, all the way up to Bucks County. We came from Scranton and the coal regions, the Lehigh Valley, north and south New Jersey, Amish country on out to Gettysburg, New York and even from Connecticut.

But this bunch of kids had some things in common: none of us had a car, much money or had ever been away from home for extended periods of time. And we were surviving in a dorm with our first R.A., Mike Glowatz ’71 M’84, known as as our “den mother.”

And we were all involved in something.

There were freshman teams back then for those who couldn’t make the varsity. So we were athletes of all kinds. We also were involved with campus life, from student government to clubs to organizations and to in-

tramurals. We really thought we were something special.

All of these activities expanded our connections with the college, but we always remained loyal to the third floor of Shawnee. Many of us didn’t go home on weekends, so those of us not lucky enough to have a girlfriend relied on each other to stay busy.

Sometimes that was a positive thing and sometimes not. We supported each other through good and tough times. We laughed, cried, argued and fought. We solved many of the world’s problems and, in our free time, created a whole bunch of other problems — which will go unmentioned! A large group stayed together for a few years on that dorm floor, and we grew up together.

After getting our degrees, we started our careers and families and continued to figure things out into adulthood. But the Shawnee connection always remained strong. We were in each other’s weddings, at the christenings and graduations and, also, sadly, the funerals.

Our own families became an extension of the third-floor family. We still vacation together and find a myriad of reasons (including Homecoming) to gather, because we love what we have.

So what is our legacy besides friendships that have lasted more than 40 years?

Our November 2, 2013, tree dedication was made to our parents and the parents of all students past, present and future, at Shawnee Hall.The tree was dedicated to the mothers and fathers who supported us, advised us, nurtured us, and sometimes badgered us to be responsible and to grow up. They say “it takes a village to raise a child” and, to be honest, our group has always been pretty challenged.

And, we are very proud of our ESSC Third Floor Shawnee Scholarship — a modest stipend based on staying academically eligible, being involved in extracur-

Kevin E. Brown ’78

Maury J. Molin ’76

Board Emeriti

Jack P. Childs, III ‘67

Anthony F. Pasqua ’00

Eugenia S. Eden ’72 M’76 Bryan L. Hill ’71 Phyllis M. Kirschner ’63 Dr. Frank Michael Pullo ’73 M’76 Dr. Faye Soderberg ’58 Virginia Sten ’71 John E. Woodling ’68 M’76

Edward J. Curvey ’63

Dr. Ronald W. Prann ’84

Kelly E. Dries ’08

Ashley L. Puderbach ’09 M’10

Dan H. Gale, Jr. ’06

Ritchey J. Ricci ’65 M’72

Ernest R. Gromlich ’60

Thomas L. Sabetta, Jr. ’09

Kristin M. Hanahan ’05

Paul A. Scheuch, Jr. ’71 M’77

Dr. William J. Horvath ’70 M’79

Kristin M. Schnell ’09 M’11

Collette L. Ryder ’96 President

Earl W. Hulihan, Jr. ’71 M’81

Paul E. Shemansky ’96 M’01 M’04

Christopher S. Yeager ’74 M’81 Vice President

Frank E. Johnson ’74

Candice S. Sierzega ’10

Dawn Ketterman-Benner ’70

Ronald D. Steckel ’71

Deborah A. Kulick ’80

David A. Super ’80

Johanna Mazlo ’91

Richard D. Vroman ’67

Board of Directors

Joseph B. Fite, III ’76 Secretary

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Hemlock Hall housed college girls, women studying in good health, parents nearby in homes with wheels a-whirl, paying tuition with their wealth.

What an adventure to embark upon, having a waitress job saying what soup is on the menu.

What will a student do with his or her learning?

With some futures holding a wanderlust yearning.

Dean Houser stressed making friends.

A psychiatrist listened for adjustment on the mend.

Christmas caroling was held on the quad.

Candles lit the night.

Spirits were bright.

Peace was lauded.

ricular activities, experiencing the joys of dorm life and being financially inconvenienced with loans — just like us!

You can support the fund by going back in time: Whether you lived in Shawnee, Minsi, Hemlock, Lenape, Monroe or Hawthorn, you probably wore an ESSC T-shirt at some time. Now you can buy sweatshirts, long- and short sleeved T-shirts and hats bearing the ESSC logos and colors. These can be purchased during Homecoming at the ESSC tailgate.

We were lucky to have lived on the third floor of Shawnee Hall back then.

Help us give new students a chance to have the same experience.

A college campus may be only building shells if a student isn’t well.

A planned parenting clinic dispensed birth control pills for women with free will.

Four decades ago leather craft sales from the Student Union brought a whale of a good time.

By Karla Kiefer Karla Kiefer, who attended ESSC with her sister, Kathy Kiefer Forgeng ’77 and her brother-in-law Jeffrey Forgeng ’75, was motivated to preserve her good memories at the school, sharing this poem.

Pocono Mountains set the backdrop for skiing climbs.

Sisters visited dormitories overnight.

What a welcome sight.

Love never fails bring snow, rain or hail.

on leave from the Coast Guard broke this sweet heart doing his part for freedom and country.

Residents planted a tree.

Golf course greens formed great hiking turf west of the ocean surf.

Two friends hiked railroad tracks.

A Mount Gretna friend in a double-room bed let a roommate sleep rested and fed.

A friend from Montana liked Secret Santa gifts.

Another friend, a roommate, played guitar riffs to a recorder woodwind.

A lifetime pleasure finds recorder once only leisure earning an honorarium in future years.

God bless the patch that brought me here.

A geography class map locates E. Stroudsburg around the 41st parallel.

All will be well keeping perspective, as long as one has sources to be selective.

Thanks for the safety to cherish.

May higher education never perish. 

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD NEEDS YOU Are you looking to become more involved with your alma mater?

Do you want to help connect ESU alumni across the country? Do you bleed red and black?

If so, the Alumni Association seeks new members like you!

The 29-member board represents a wide range of classes and meets at least four times a year.

Moira Porteous Hair ’77

Rod Stewart sang Maggie May across the college lawn on a color guard practice day.

A young woman held a dummy gun.

Attending football games was fun.

A receptionist job spawned a lifetime of greetings.

A fumbling young man to meet

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At the Third Floor Shawnee tree dedication last Homecoming, from left: Frank Johnson ’74, John Helgesen ’74, Jim Shearhouse ’74, George Vance ’74, Frank Newby ’75, Dennis Mohn ’74 and David Hair ’76 M’84.

The board supports the university by engaging, connecting, supporting and celebrating ESU’s alumni and friends.

The board also promotes programs and events through the Office of Alumni Engagement as well as alumni chapters throughout the country.

Apply at www.esualumni.org/ boardnomination.

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Willever leads board in new fundraising collaboration Robert Willever ’75 is the new chairman of the ESU Foundation Board of Directors. The president of Willever Wealth Management in Bethlehem, he returns to the board, having served in 2006-2008 and 2012-2013. He also served on the ESU Council of Trustees from 1996 to 2014.

His appointment on May 22 followed the transfer of fundraising responsibilities to the Office of University Advancement. The foundation and advancement teams are now working together on fundraising initiatives and programs based on priorities in ESU’s strategic plan.

The Alumni Herald spoke with Willever about some of the changes.

AH: Tell us about the transition and the reasoning behind it.

RW: On February 4, ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., and ESU Foundation Board Chair Christian Steber ’91 announced that select fundraising operations and alumni engagement would be transferred from the ESU Foundation to the university as part of an overall endeavor to reduce fundraising costs and consolidate philanthropic activities.

Effective March 1, the university assumed primary responsibility for philanthropic and alumni functions including the Annual Fund, alumni engagement, major gifts, communications, and corporate and foundation relations, while the ESU Foundation continues to handle accounting, scholarship and database activities.

This transition consolidated philanthropic activities and ensured that the fundraising activities were coordinated with ESU’s strategic plan.

AH: With that transition, what is now the foundation’s role?

RW: The ESU Foundation con-

ESU Foundation Board of Directors Robert Willever ’75, Bethlehem Chairman John J. Sickler, Jr. ’93, Atlantic City, N.J. Vice Chairman Christopher Yeager ’74 M’81, Bangor Secretary Pro Tem Alumni Association Liaison Robert A. Shebelsky, East Stroudsburg Treasurer William B. Cramer, East Stroudsburg Roger L. DeLarco ’80, East Stroudsburg James Evans ’07, Staten Island, N.Y. Marilouise McNally, Long Pond Harry F. Lee, Stroudsburg ESU Council of Trustees Liaison

tinues to facilitate prospect research, accounting, scholarships and database management for the fundraising activities. The foundation also manages the investment portfolio for university philanthropic activity.

AH: What functions and staffing remain with the ESU Foundation?

RW: The foundation has five employees: the staff accountant and scholarship coordinator, administrative assistant, director of information system, prospect research analyst, and the finance and accounting manager/ interim executive director. The foundation staff continues to provide technical support and assists in joint fundraising efforts of the university.

AH: The board membership has changed dramatically as well. Share with us the breadth of experience that comes with each member and how that shapes the board moving forward.

RW: The 10-member Foundation Board of Directors includes two standing members, six newly appointed members, and two liaisons.

The standing members are Roger DeLarco ’80, retired director of the University Store, and John Sickler, Jr. ’93, a chief financial officer.

The six new members are me,

William B. Cramer of Cramer, Swetz, McManus & Jordan, P.C., a founding member of the board who served on from 1987-2001; Marilouise McNally, president of Mountain Concessions, Inc. at Pocono Raceway, who served on the foundation board from 2011-2012; Robert Shebelsky, C.P.A.; James Evans ’07, wealth management adviser; and Frank Pullo’73 M’76, Ed.D., emeritus professor of sport management.

Christopher Yeager ’74 M’81, retired principal Wantage (N.J.) Elementary School, is the liaison for the Alumni Association, and Harry F. Lee, serves as the liaison to the ESU Council of Trustees.

This board brings a diverse and strategic background of professional, community and campus leadership that supports the joint fundraising efforts of the foundation and university and is committed to raising funds aligned with the university’s strategic plan: “Students First: Innovate ESU.” We are focusing our efforts on raising funds for the benefit of ESU students.

AH: Now that it is working in a joint fundraising environment with the university, what can alumni and friends of the university expect from the ESU Foundation in the coming fiscal year?

RW: This transition creates a strategic joint fundraising model between the foundation and the university that will present both challenges and opportunities. Our mission is to work with the university to identify fundraising goals that align with the strategic plan and to expand the philanthropic culture of the campus and region. By working together, the foundation will continue to accomplish its mission to provide support to the university and its students, “students first.”

AH: Anything you would like to add?

RW: The board is excited about the new changes that are occurring and the synergy of working together with the university to provide more opportunities for our students. 

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Cover Story

By Margie Peterson

The largest 3-D printer in ESU’s new Design Lab

looks like a cross between a mini-fridge and a microwave oven. So it’s hard to imagine that such technology is revolutionizing the world of manufacturing. Yet the growing number of converts to three-dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing, can rattle off example after example of industries and products that can benefit greatly from the process Aerospace.

Defense.

Artificial limbs.

Medical devices.

Jewelry.

Toys.

Clothes.

Appliances.

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STUDENTS BY DESIGN: Standing, from left, XueJun Zhe, a visiting art and design scholar from Shanghai Normal University, China; Randy Orak, a recent graduate from East Stroudsburg with a degree in digital media technologies; Gabrielle Coleman, a junior art + design major from Bethlehem; Jonathan Outridge, a junior art + design major from Brodheadsville.

Seated: Eric Harris, a former ESU student; Lauren Aliberto, a sophomore art + design major from Philadelphia, and Ernest Fogle, a freshman physics major from Stroudsburg.

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junior Evelyn Barone, who learned 3-D printing in classes at the G3 Design Lab in the Fine and Performing Arts Center, sees infinite possibilities for additive manufacturing technology.

“It can be applied to any field. We just don’t know how far we can take it yet,” Barone said. “It’s like the Internet — you don’t know what you can do with it until you take it out and play with it for a few years.”

“Students who are involved in 3-D printing will be at the forefront of the manufacturing industry,” said Mary Frances Postupack, vice president for economic development and research support. “We’re seeing it now in commercial, medical and military applications. The technology is going to explode in the next two or three years.”

ESU is one of only three of the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to have a 3-D printing lab, according to Carol Adukaitis, Ph.D., director of workforce initiatives for PASSHE. “East Stroudsburg University is ahead of the curve,” said Adukaitis, who also serves on the advisory board for America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute. “It’s just phenomenal technology.

A person is only limited by his or her imagination.”

PRINTING WITH PLASTIC The word “printer” sounds like a misnomer when referring to products such as jewelry, chocolate ornaments for wedding cakes and prostheses. Printing is what you do with paper, right?

Turns out, that’s sooooo last century.

Joni Oye-Benintende, associate professor and chair of the ESU art + design department, explains 3-D printing this way: “Imagine your ink jet printer, with the ink coming through a nozzle going back and forth on the page, printing the words that come through your digital file. So 3-D printing is similar, but it’s plastic coming through the nozzles, which are heated to soften the plastic. It prints not just on a two-dimensional surface; it layers up and up, so there’s a 3-D object at the end of the printing process.”

ESU’s current 3-D printers use plastic but by the end of this year, the lab will also host printers that will print resin, clay, metal and much more. Designers use special software to enter specifications for the desired product.

Over the summer, Darlene Farris-LaBar, associate professor of art + design, was working on a sculpture that required flowers for lily pads. She used one of the lab’s 29 computers to input the design she created with Rhino Software to the 3-D Printer. The printer then transformed the flower design data into 3-D plastic form.

When each was finished forming, Farris-LaBar used a special machine to wash away the support material. The final result was striking — the perfect lily pad flower.

Farris-LaBar showed off small toys, jewelry and cell phone cases students made last spring.

A GROWING TECHNOLOGY Three-dimensional printers have been around since the 1980s but for years were prohibitively expensive. As the technology advanced and prices dropped, more companies and organizations discovered the advantages.

In 2013, total revenue in the United States and abroad from additive manufacturing products and services reached $3.07 billion, according to the Wohlers Report, the bible of 3-D printing. Wohlers Associates, an independent consultant to the industry, expects such revenue to increase to more than $6 billion by 2017.

Christian M. Joest, president of Imperial Machine & Tool Company of Columbia, N.J., was one of the region’s early champions of the Philip Stein

Some of the items students produced using additive manufacturing — also known as 3-D printing — in ESU’s Design Lab, including smartphone covers, wrench, toys and pet tags.

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At right: Maria Lanza, left, a senior art + design major from Toms River, N.J., shows Associate Professor Darlene FarrisLaBar an image she developed for ESU’s new 3-D printer.

technology. His company uses a 3-D printer to build metal components for industrial systems and the defense industry.

One of the advantages is that the products are lighter than those made by traditional manufacturing, but just as strong, he said.

“We sell Chinook helicopter gun mounts, which, as you can imagine, need to be as light as possible,” Joest said. “From a manufacturing standpoint, automobiles, some time 20 years down the road, will be a third as heavy as they are now so you won’t need as much fuel to transport them. Same thing with airplanes.”

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Below: Realistic sculptures of native plants from the Poconos, created by Farris-LaBar using the 3-D printer, were featured in an exhibit called “At Last Which Thrives” at ESU’s Madelon Powers Gallery.

Joest’s start-up company, Imperial 3-D Solutions, moved into ESU’s Innovation Center over the summer, and he believes interactions with faculty and students will be a great benefit. His son, Christian G. Joest, is in charge of business development for Imperial Machine and is a part-time business student at ESU. “Talented individuals with 3-D experience behind them will likely find industry that’s just burgeoning,” Joest said. “This is the Internet of their age.”

For Crayola, 3-D printing has revolutionized the way the Easton company designs its art supplies and other products. Instead of taking six to eight weeks to create a prototype for, say, a tower to hold 150 crayons, Crayola staff can make the prototype in hours, according to Doug Brand, manager of product engineering.

“Every time you print a part from a 3-D printer, you can evaluate it, make changes and print it again,” he said. “It’s allowed us to make more products with fewer people and at less cost.”

That same technology is transforming the field of joint replacements and artificial limbs. Traditionally, when someone lost a leg or needed a new knee joint, he or she would be fitted for a replacement that was close to the size and shape of the original. With 3-D printing, technicians can make an exact replica.

The groundwork for ESU’s Design Lab started in 2012, when Oye-Benintende and Farris-LaBar got a university grant for the department’s first 3-D printer. By spring 2013, they were incorporating it in design classes.

“There was tons of interest from our students,” Farris-LaBar said. “They are thrilled to be part of this world.”

No one had to sell President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., on the importance of teaching additive manufacturing. When she was provost and vice president of academic affairs at Towson University, Welsh appropriated money for its design department to buy 3-D equipment. Now Towson is a Continued on Page 8

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3-D STARTUP IN INNOVATION CENTER

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Business Accelerator wins Business Plan contest awards ESU’s Business Accelerator won four awards in the 12th TecBridge Northeast Pennsylvania Business Plan Competition 2.0 in April.

The regional competition encourages business ideas that stimulate the economy and retain the region’s talent. Students from 14 colleges and universities along with non-collegiate teams from Luzerne, Lackawanna and Monroe counties were eligible to compete for $100,000 in cash and in-kind business services to launch tech-based companies.

“The awards acknowledge the research and innovation taking place in the Business From left: ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., Mendim Bardhi, a sophomore computer Accelerator by ESU students and early-stage science major from Dingmans Ferry; Carter McClure, former manager of the ESU Business high-tech companies,” said Mary Frances Postupack M’93, ESU vice president for eco- Accelerator Program; Jon Weber, a senior computer security major from Stroudsburg; Mary Frances Postupack M’93, ESU vice president for economic development and research supnomic development and research support. port; and Edward Connors, co-founder of Heudia Health, LLC. n TickChek, LLC, won first place in the collegiate division. The company was foundn Carter McClure, former manager of the ESU Busied by Jonathan Weber, a senior computer security major ness Accelerator Program, won the faculty adviser award from Stroudsburg; Thomas Rounsville M’12, from for his work with the winning company.

Birdsboro, seeking a graduate degree in biology; and McClure, who joined ESU in 2012, worked with 14 Mendim Bardhi, a sophomore computer science major early-stage technology companies participating in the from Dingmans Ferry. program. He also provided professional networking TickChek provides an online system for having ticks opportunities for business development and growth, laboratory-tested for Lyme disease. The company was including commercialization, finance and management awarded cash plus business accelerator space, business team development. memberships, marketing, accounting, legal, web-design n The ESU Business Accelerator Program won the and other services.

Smit-Webster Award, given to “Best in Class” program n Heudia Health, LLC, founded by Edward Connors supporting the collegiate winner. The award is named and Dr. Michael Dulin, placed second in the non-collefor Jaco Smit, from Sanofi Pasture, and Don Webster, giate division. The company, a joint endeavor with Carfrom Marathon Strategies, founders of the regional busiolina Heath System, works to increase access to health ness plan competition. care and eliminate avoidable expenses.

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“In today’s world, to leave college with a design degree and not have a comprehensive exposure to 3-D design and 3-D printing, students would not be adequately prepared for the world in which they will be working,” Welsh said.

ESU obtained its largest 3-D printer last fall and had a grand opening in April for the Design Lab, which has more than $200,000 worth of equipment, including printers, computers, a vinyl cutter and engraver.

A grant from the R. Dale and Frances M. Hughes Foundation will purchase addition-

al 3-D equipment including two MakerBot printers.

Lauren Carhart ’14, who earned her bachelor’s in art + design, saw the possibilities when Farris-LaBar took students to an expo on additive manufacturing in Manhattan.

“What they created was unbelievable,” she said. “They made an entire car shell, a guitar, and drums that actually work.”

Carhart is now a graphic designer in Phillipsburg, N.J., and believes the 3-D skills she learned at ESU will give her a leg up.

“It’s cool to be able to teach others about it,” she said. “ Once it becomes bigger, I’ll be able to say I can do it.” 

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Campus News

New student recruiter David Bousquet gets to work at ESU

By Mandy Housenick

juniors and seniors. Paying just as much attention to their parents is David Bousquet wasn’t scheda must. uled to begin as ESU’s new vice Bousquet envisions expandpresident of enrollment manageing campus visitation options. ment until July 1. Leading up to “In Arizona, we knew prohis start date, he had the option spective students were busy and of enjoying a little extra time off their schedules often didn’t allow to relax, house hunt, travel, etc. them to come on the two, three But Bousquet wanted no or four dates we had scheduled,” part of the additional spare time, Bousquet said. “So we added and appeared on campus to start dates, and that allowed us to see working earlier than expected. far more people and to see them “It’s very exciting,” Bousquet in smaller groups.” said of his arrival. “It might be “At ESU we can draw many a bit of an exaggeration to call people from New York and New ESU a sleeping giant, but there is Jersey,” he noted. “Pennsylvania certainly tremendous potential residents will see ESU as attracgiven our size, location, quality tive to out-of-state students and of faculty and the beauty of this they’ll wonder, ‘What is going campus. A lot can be done if we on at ESU that students would are all working toward a common cross the border and pay more to goal.” enroll?’ ” The goals on Bousquet’s list Before working at NAU, are lengthy, and he knows it will Bousquet was the assistant vice take some time to tackle them president for enrollment at Iowa all. Increasing enrollment is one State University of Science and of the main areas he wants to Technology, director of underattack first, and if anyone can graduate admissions at Virginia do it, Bousquet can. During his Polytechnic Institute and associ11-year stint at Northern Arizona ate director of freshman admisUniversity (NAU), he served as sions at the University of Massavice president and then senior chusetts. vice president for enrollment DAVID BOUSQUET During his career, he has management and student affairs.

Vice president of enrollment management presented at a number of nationUnder his leadership, enrollment al conferences about student increased by 58 percent, from recruitment and retention, and has authored articles on 11,278 to 17,808. subjects ranging from the marketing of higher education Surely, a dramatic increase like that will not happen to student recruitment and admissions requests. in just a year or two, but Bousquet’s plan is taking shape.

ESU’s Student Enrollment Center and Office of Much like he did at NAU, Bousquet, who earned his Admissions now report to Bousquet, who brings with master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of him nearly 30 years of expertise in student recruitment, Massachusetts, will have his team recruiting prospective enrollment and program development. He reports to students when they are just sophomores in high school President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., and serves as a memand continuing to follow up with them when they are ber of the university’s leadership team. 

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Robert P. Fleischman, Ed.D., J.D., is the new dean of the College of Business and Management. A member of the campus community for more than 20 years, he had served as interim dean since July 1, 2013.

As a professor of sport management, Fleischman taught graduate and undergraduate courses in sport law, sport marketing, sport business and finance, organization and administration of sport organizations and contemporary sport. Last year he was named “Faculty Member of the Year,” by ESU’s Student Senate.

Alberto Jose Frick Cardelle, Ph.D., is the new dean of the College of Health Sciences. He had served as interim dean since July 2013, and has been at ESU for 15 years.

As a professor of health studies, Cardelle taught international health science, health economics and finance, health policy and law, public health administration, health policy ethics and law and global public health. From 2006 to 2008, he served ESU as the interim vice provost and dean of the graduate school.

Jeffrey Weber, Ph.D., was appointed permanent associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences after a national search.

He replaced psychology professor Bonnie Green, Ph.D., who held the position of interim associate dean for two years.

Weber has been a member of the ESU faculty since 2005. As an associate professor of political science, he served as department chair for the last five years, and taught American government, state and local government, public administration, budgeting and finance, and public personnel administration. He also served as coordinator of the master’s program in management and leadership – public administration program. 

NURSING ENRICHMENT LECTURE SERIES KICKS OFF ESU launched the Yvonne Troiani Sweeney ’78 Endowed Lecture Series for Nursing Enrichment in March with inaugural speaker Dr. H. Branch Coslett, professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a research neurologist with the Moss Rehabilitation Hospital.

Sweeney, a nurse from Mountaintop, was diagnosed three years ago with a form of early onset dementia called posterior cortical atrophy. Coslett, an expert on the disease, was the physician who diagnosed her.

The Sweeney Lecture Series, which aims to educate and inspire current and future health professionals, is sponsored by the Niedbala Family Foundation, which is run by Sweeney’s sister, Linda Troiani Niedbala ’83 of Emmaus, and her husband, Sam Niedbala ’82. 

THEATRE BUSINESS Three businesses on Crystal Street in East Stroudsburg — Liztech, Dansbury Diner and Trackside Station Grill & Bar — raised $1,832 for the spring production of “The Wizard of Oz.” Liztech has partnered with ESU again for the fall production of “Suessical.”

In photo from left: Mike Tepedino, owner of Trackside Station Grill & Bar; the late Scott MacLaren, co-owner of Liztech; Linda Ruocco of Dansbury Diner; Deanna Jones, former manager of The Gallery at Liztech; Jill Elizabeth, co-owner of Liztech; Rebecca Regina, a senior theatre major from Rutherford, N.J.; Michael Lloret, a senior theatre major from Shawnee on Delaware; and “Oz” director Margaret Ball, D.M.A., associate professor and chair of theatre.

STUDENT LIFE APPOINTMENTS Joseph Akob is the new executive director of the Student Activity Association. He was director of the Mattioli Recreation Center at ESU for 11 years.

Akob works with the SAA board, corporate managers and the campus community to developing and implementing strategic directions.

He oversees operations of the university bookstore, recreation center, campus card services, student activities programming, university center operations, Stony Acres field campus and the business services of SAA. Jillian Harper was promoted to director of the Mattioli Recreation Center, responsible for league sports, group fitness, personal training, club sports and special events.

She directs the operation and use of the Mattioli Center as well as the RecB Fitness Center in Hawthorn Suites. 

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ESU News Thanks to the efforts of the Moses Society, ESU’s honorary organization for resident advisers, the university was the nation’s second-highest earning school in the Recycling Advantage Program last academic year.

The program, offered by Advantage Cartridge Recycling, provides cash rewards for recycled printer cartridges and small electronics.

The Moses Society earned a reward certificate for $787.50.

TRUSTEES HONOR WESS WESS 90.3 FM was honored by the Council of Trustees with a glass-engraved award for winning the College Radio Woodie Award, sponsored by mtvU. WESS beat out more than 100 other college radio stations.

Taking on Chillin’ for Charity Challenge in July are, from left, field hockey coach Sandy Miller M’88, football coach Denny Douds, President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., and men’s basketball coach Jeff Wilson ’86 M’92.

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ESU NO. 2 IN RECYCLING

PRESIDENT, COACHES TAKE ON CHILLIN’ CHALLENGE ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., and coaches Denny Douds (football), Sandy Miller M’88 (field hockey) and Jeff Wilson ’86 M’92 (men’s basketball) accepted the Chillin’ for Charity challenge in July.

The ice-water fundraiser hit college campuses all across the country this summer, in memory of North Carolina State coach Kay Yow, a breast cancer victim.

Those who accept the challenge must have ice cold water dumped on their heads within 48 hours of being challenged. Once the challenge is met, the nominator must make a donation to the Kay Yow Foundation. If nominees refuse, they are asked to make the donation. And then the challenge gets passed on to someone else.

Northampton Community College President Mark Erickson challenged Welsh in a YouTube message, and Wilson, Douds and Miller voluntarily joined her in front of Stroud Hall. 

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ALUMNI, GRADS SPEAK AT SPRING COMMENCEMENT Scholar and entrepreneur Sam Niedbala ’82, Ph.D., delivered the spring commencement address in May to 189 graduate students, while Larry Laubach ’12 M’14, who earned a master’s in biological sciences that evening, served as ESU’s first graduate student speaker.

James Franklin ’95, head football coach at Penn State, was the keynote speaker at two undergraduate commencement ceremonies the next day. The student commencement speaker was Aralee Williams ’14, a speech-language pathology major from Bangor. University Service Awards were presented to Kevin Skilton ’14 of Norristown, and Kwaku Adjei-Bohyen ’14 of Edison, N.J. ESU awarded 1,079 degrees at the three ceremonies in Koehler Fieldhouse that weekend. Two students were awarded doctorates through a collaborative program with Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and 187 students earned their master’s degrees. The total number of bachelor’s degrees awarded at the two undergraduate ceremonies was 890.  From left, speaker James Franklin ’95, grand marshal S. Elaine Rogers M’04, D.Ed., President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., and student speaker Aralee Williams ’14 at spring commencement in May.

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ESU signs new articulation agreements ESU has signed new articulation agreements with Lackawanna College and Northampton Community College.

Articulation agreements facilitate the transfer of college credits students earn at a twoyear college toward a four-year degree at ESU. n ESU signed agreements with Lackawanna College in Scranton for the Bachelor of Science in Sport Management and Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice programs. n Five new articulation agreements were signed with Northampton Community College, which is based in Bethlehem but has a new campus in Monroe County.

Three of those were with the Business Management, Sport Management, and Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management degree programs, while the other two were with the Social Work and Criminal Justice degree programs.

ESU is the top transfer destination for NCC students, with about 125 students transferring each year to ESU. Including the state-wide agreements approved for NCC students, the total number of articulation agreements between ESU and NCC now stands at 22. ďƒŽ

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WITH LACKAWANNA COLLEGE: Seated, from left: Dr. Jill Murray, Lackawanna College executive vice president and chief academic officer; Mark Volk, Lackawanna College president; Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D, ESU president; and Van A. Reidhead, Ph.D., ESU provost and vice president of academic affairs.

Standing, from left: Dr. Sharon Nazarchuk, Lackawanna social science chair; Theresa Scopelliti, Lackawanna registrar; Bettyann Karr, Lackawanna business chair; Barbara Nowogorski, Lackawanna director of advising/transfer services; Dr. Suzanne Cercone, Lackawanna professor of business; Robert Fleischman, Ed.D., J.D., ESU dean of the College of Business and Management; Peter Hawkes, ESU dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; John Kraybill-Greggo, Ph.D., ESU associate professor and chair of sociology, social work and criminal justice; Jeffrey Weber, Ph.D, ESU associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Candice Pellegrino, ESU assistant registrar, transfer and articulation; David Bousquet, ESU vice president of enrollment management.

WITH NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Seated from left: Van A. Reidhead, Ph.D., ESU provost and vice president of academic affairs; Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., ESU president; Dr. Mark Erickson, NCC president; Dr. Jeffrey Focht, NCC vice president for academic affairs.

Standing from left: Robert Fleischman, Ed.D., J.D., ESU dean of the college of business and management; Adrian Yaguez, NCC assistant director of athletics; Peter Hawkes, Ph.D., ESU dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; John Kraybill-Greggo, Ph.D., ESU associate professor and chair of sociology, social work and criminal justice; Hope Horowitz, NCC associate professor of social work/sociology; Dr. Jack Spirk, NCC associate professor of criminal justice; David Schweiger, NCC director of hospitality programs; Dr. Denise Francois-Seeney, NCC dean of business and technology; Mark Henry, NCC director of advising, transfer and accommodation services; Dr. Christine Pense, NCC dean of humanities and social sciences; Candice Pellegrino, ESU assistant registrar, transfer and articulation.

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Student band circa 1983 to headline Holiday on Circle

By Brooke F. Donovan

Taylor at the 1984 Spring Fling on the campus quad.

When Paul Kranz ’87 The trio also penned their sent a Christmas CD from first Christmas song, his band to ESU President “The Days Draw Close to Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., Christmas,” in the basehe never imagined that he ment of Shawnee Hall. and his bandmates would Although Lefko and be heading back to camDeBlasi left ESU for other pus for a performance. responsibilities, Kranz and Kranz, a teacher at DeBlasi stayed connected Woodstown (N.J.) High and continued to collaboSchool, was touched by rate on a number of songs, the holiday greetings in including Christmas the December alumni music. They introduced e-newsletter, and thought a new member to their it was great to see what group, David Keller, a the new president and the The Holiday on the Circle in 1958, with the lighting of the Christmas tree and former student of Kranz’s campus were up to. In a caroling near Stroud Hall. The event has been an annual tradition at ESU for and formed a new trio, burst of seasonal cheer, more than 50 years.

The Chain.

Kranz popped a disc in the In 2011, after many years apart, the group reconmail to Welsh. nected with Lefko and in 2012 added a drummer, Scott “A few weeks after I sent the CD, I was shocked to Johnston, a former high school classmate of Kranz’s. get a letter from ESU’s president,” said Kranz. Once he The members of Along the Road hail from four states shared the story of the band, which got its start at ESU in the 1980s, it was an immediate reconnection, and before and work in different fields, but stay connected through their passion for music and family. The songs found he knew it, they were invited to perform at ESU’s annual on the group’s first CD, “The Days that Draw Close to Holiday in the Circle event.

Christmas,” are a mixture of those thoughts about the “I asked the guys what they thought about playing holidays that have inspired the group over the years. at ESU and there was one response,” shared Kranz. “Ab“The songs are about holiday movies, stories, shopsolutely.” ping, separations and longings, and ultimately, the first The band now named “Along the Road” began Christmas story itself,” says Kranz. in late fall 1983 in Shawnee Hall, when Kranz, then a freshman, met Pete DeBlasi and Andy Lefko and the trio 2014 Holiday on the Circle began performing together at coffeehouses as “Peter, Monday, December 1, Abeloff Center for Performing Arts.

Paul and Andy.”

Details will be posted online at www.esu.edu.

The group won a contest to open for Livingston

PETER, PAUL AND ANDY: From left, Pete DeBlasi, Paul Kranz ’87 and Andy Lefko on campus in the 1980s.

Although two of the trio did not graduate from ESU, they stay connected with their ESU family.

From left: Andy Lefko, friend Michael Cressman ’85, Paul Kranz ’87 and Pete DeBlasi.

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CLASS OF 1954 60th REUNION Reunion headquarters/lodging: Pocono Inne Town in Stroudsburg

The Alumni Tailgate Zone

has moved to the basketball courts next to Zimbar Field and Eiler-Martin Stadium for Homecoming Weekend, providing easy access to the stadium, family fun activities and a hospitality tent across the street.

Tailgaters will have more space to spread out and reconnect with old friends as they compete for the Best Tailgate Award.

NOTE: TAILGATE SPOTS HAVE BEEN SOLD OUT! “We listened to what our alumni had to say and this location will be great for the traditional tailgate gatherings as well as for those looking to make the most of their time back on campus,” said Abby Behrends, assistant director of Alumni Engagement and Homecoming co-chair.

Alumni groups and student organizations will gather at the tailgate to connect bewteen 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

(Alcohol consumption restricted to those 21 years of age or older.)

Family fun activities and a hospitality tent with free food and non-alcoholic beverages will be located in the gated lot across from Zimbar-Liljenstein Hall.

Gourmet buffet dinner: October 25 Goal: Push the Class of ’54 Scholarship Fund to $110,000!

CONTACT: John Lambert ’54 570-421-4364 for details CLASS OF 1964 50th REUNION “Golden Grad” anniversary at the Alumni Awards & Reunion Banquet at the Stroudsmoor Country Inn in Stroudsburg on October 25.

Class meeting and photo, a celebratory toast with ESU president, reunion class booklets and more.

REUNION COMMITTEE: Anita Kubisiak Usmiani ’64 Martha “Murph” Meade Styer ’64 Frances Giovanniello Sovak ’64 and Linda Neddoff-Weckter ’64

Homecoming info and registration | esualumni.org/homecoming

HOMECOMING WEEKEND October 24-26 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23

Movie: ‘Hook‘

7-9 p.m. | Pocono Community Theater Free showing of the 1991 retelling of the Peter Pan story, starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts. Free refreshments for those who bring a food item for Salvation Army Food Pantry.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

Remembrance Day Program

1-2 p.m. | Keystone Room Remembering those from the ESU community we have lost during the past academic year.

Alumni Awards / Reunion Banquet* 5-9 p.m. | Stroudsmoor Country Inn Recognize the 2014 Alumni Award winners and celebrate reunion classes of 1954 and 1964.

Schisler Museum of Wildlife and Natural History Open House*

6-9 p.m. | Warren E. ’55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center See the collection of taxidermied game animals collected from throughout North America and donated by Arthur ’62 and Fannie Schisler ’62.

Tours every half-hour.

Planetarium Show: Autumn Skies*

7:30 and 8:15 p.m. | McMunn Planetarium, Warren E. ’55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center Full-dome video and sound presentation on a stateof-the-art projection system.

Warrior Spirit Night & Bonfire

7:30-9:30 p.m. | Rugby Field Tarot card readings, airbrushed T-shirts and s’mores around a bonfire as ESU gets ready to face the Kutztown Bears. Homecoming king and queen will be crowned.

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Seven to join ESU Athletic Hall of Fame ESU will induct seven people and its 1975 and 1976 PSAC championship football teams as the 37th class to enter the Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, October 25 as part of Homecoming Weekend. n Gail Davis ’63 competed in archery, field hockey, gymnastics, lacrosse and swimming and played club field hockey and lacrosse after graduating. She was athletics administrator at Rhode Island College from 1976 to 2001, and was a coach and judge in gymnastics at the national and international levels. n Don Coyer ’73 M’82, a two-time All-PSAC football defensive end in 1972 and 1973, was a three-year starter for the Warriors and part of an ESU defense that allowed just 50 points in eight games during a 6-1-1 season in 1973. He signed with the New York Giants following his senior season and attended training camp. n Keith Fisher ’91 was a starter on the 1990 PSAC men’s basketball championship team and was PSAC East Athlete of the Year in 1991. He averaged 12.2 points on the 1990 championship team and made the game-winning jumper with three seconds left in a 103-102 (OT) win at #2-ranked Slippery Rock in the PSAC semifinals. n Dan Murray ’96 is one of two NFL Draft choices in school history, having been selected by the Buffalo Bills in the sixth round of the 1988 draft. He played for the Buffalo Bills in 1988, Indianapolis Colts in 1989, the New York Jets in 1990 and the Montreal Machine in the World Football League. n Stacie Fritz Norman ’98 is ESU’s only three-time first team All-America selection in field hockey, earning recognition in 1995, 1996 and 1997. She was also a first team All-PSAC selection all three seasons for the Warriors and ranks third in school history with 27 career assists, along with scoring nine goals.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25

Athletic Hall of Fame Breakfast & Induction Ceremony* 8 a.m. – Noon | Keystone Room

Alumni Tailgate & Hospitality Tent

10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Gated parking lot behind Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts. Register and provide proof of age to enter. Food and beverage vouchers sold at the hospitality tent.

n Sean Crawford ’99 was an NSCAA first team soccer All-America selection and the PSAC Athlete of the Year in 1997, scoring a PSAC-record 26 goals and adding 11 assists to tie the conference record with 63 points. He led the Warriors to the PSAC championship, the first of seven straight from 1997-2003, and the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. n Quanette Jester Ford ’01 was an All-American and PSAC champion in the triple jump. She earned outdoor All-America honors in the triple jump as a senior in 2001, and won the PSAC title as a freshman in 1998. She left ESU with records in the indoor and outdoor triple jump, indoor long jump, outdoor 4x100m relay and outdoor shuttle hurdles — her triple jump and shuttle hurdle records still stand more than a decade later. n 1975 and 1976 football teams posted a two-year record of 19-0-1. They won the 1975 State Game with a 24-20 victory over Edinboro, and tied for the 1976 state championship at Shippensburg, 14-14.

Eleven ESU Athletic Hall of Fame inductees lettered on these teams: Bill Bergen ’80, Jeff Detzi ‘79, Joe Detzi ’79, John Detzi ’79, Pat Flaherty ’78 M’84, Jeff Johnson ’79, Pete Radocha ’77, Mike Stambaugh ’76, Willard Stem ’76, Harold Strunk ’78 and Mike Terwilliger ’78. 

HALL OF FAME BREAKFAST AND CEREMONY

Saturday, October 25, 8 a.m., Keystone Room, Center for Hospitality Management Inductees will also be recognized during the football game vs. Kutztown which kicks off at 3:05 p.m.

Tickets for the breakfast, induction ceremony and game are $30 for adults and $15 for children.

Register at www.esualumni.org/hof2014 or contact Gwen Hughes, Office of University Advancement, 570-422-7000 • ghughes@esu.edu.

Schisler Museum of Wildlife and Natural History Open House*

11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Warren E. ’55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center Tours every half hour.

Homecoming Procession into Eiler-Martin Stadium 2 p.m. | From College Circle

*Pre-registration required. Register online or by calling (570) 422-7000.

Schedule subject to change • More information: esualumni.org/homecoming.

Planetarium Show: ‘Passport to the Universe’*

12, 1 and 2 p.m. | McMunn Planetarium, Warren E. ’55 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center Full-dome video and sound presentation on a state-ofthe-art projection system.

‘Battle of the Bears’ White Out Game

Warrior Football, ESU vs. Kutztown 3:05-6 p.m. | Eiler-Martin Stadium Everyone wear white!

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DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS n Merrily Dean Baker ’64, a pioneer in the passage, implementation and enforcement of Title IX and longtime athletic director, was the first woman to serve as director of athletics for both men and women in the Big Ten Conference when she was hired at Michigan State University.

JIM BARNIAK AWARD

A W A R D S The Alumni Association will recognize 11 alumni for outstanding professional and service achievements at the annual Alumni Awards and Reunion Banquet during Homecoming.

n George Kazakos ’73, a longtime soccer player and coach, has led many Lehigh Valley teams and players to multiple championships, including a state title in 1983.

Dr. GEORGE THOMPSON Jr. AWARD n Leslie Wilson ’74, a longtime consultant, trainer, job developer and advocate for individuals with disabilities, has received many accolades for her work through her company, Wilson Resources, Inc.

YOUNG ALUMNI n John Quain ’76, All ESU alumni are invited ACHIEVEMENT AWARD a former chairto attend the banquet, man of the Pennn Matthew McShea ’04, a ticket sales which will be held on Friday, sylvania Public director who is on the move within October 24 Utility Commisthe Philadelphia 76ers basketball from 5 to 9 p.m. sion, helped organization in the National Basat Stroudsmoor Country Inn. develop and ketball Association. draft consensus For more information about n Melissa Shaw M’11, a researcher legislation in the the 2014 award winners and innovator who collaborated electric and natwith faculty to develop tick-testing or the banquet, visit ural gas industries, leading to the kit called Lyme-Aid, which is sold esualumni.org/homecoming introduction of customer choice across the country and helps with and utility competition in Pennsylthe detection of Lyme disease. vania (the Electricity Generation Customer Choice and Competition Act).

CONRAD ‘SKIP’ IDUKAS GREAT TEACHER AWARD

SERVICE AWARD

n Frank M. Pullo ’73 M’76 Ed.D., an ESU faculty member for 40 years in various positions of leadership. In addition to serving as interim dean of the College of Health Sciences, he served as the chair of the former department of movement studies and exercise science for five years and served as the first chair of the department of sport management in 2004 until his retirement in May 2014.

n Dick ’57 and Joan Stanley ’67 Merring, both highly involved students while at ESU, poured undying Warrior spirit into coaching, officiating and teaching before retiring to Florida where they have been hosting an annual alumni golf outing and luncheon for more than 20 years.

HELEN G. BROWN HONOR AWARD

n Jose Martinez ’14, an international student from Guatemala who graduated in May 2014 after four years of extreme involvement with the Economics Club, Investment Club, International Students Organization and the Warrior Elite Student Ambassadors, where he frequently was seen volunteering and assisting alumni at events. 

n Madeline Constantine ’79 M’92, the program director for Stony Acres, ESU’s 119-acre wildlife sanctuary and recreation facility. She instructs ESU groups on challenge courses, created and oversees the Quest Program for incoming freshmen and provides a variety of outdoor programs for ESU students.

GEORGE OCKERSHAUSEN STUDENT SERVICE AWARD

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Shirley Chisholm Award: Graduates honored for social activism Two spring graduates were honored with the Shirley Chisholm Award, an honor established in 1991 after the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from ESU. The Chisholm award honors graduating female students who, like Shirley Chisholm, are dedicated to academic excellence, are sensitive to issues of social justice and are committed to activism.

Regina Sayles Koilparampil M’14 received her master’s degree in instructional technology with a a grade point average of 3.9.

A singer and songwriter, she has composed and performed songs benefiting many causes, including Melon’s Gift, a local nonprofit organization raising money for the fight against cancer; the Red Cross; the fight against AIDS, and an event sponsored

by ESU Women’s Center and Women’s Resources of

Monroe County. She advocates for social justice, and has participated in rallies to support women.

Molly Carson ’14 of East Stroudsburg earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a GPA of 3.18.

She has worked at ESU’s Women’s Center, participated in ESU’s Feminist Alliance, worked with the ESU VOICE (Victims’ Options in the Campus Environment) Center and taken part in annual Take Back the Night marches.

Carson also has helped organize the annual performance of The Vagina Monologues at ESU. She received sexual assault counselor training at Monroe County Women’s Resources, where she volunteers.

The Shirley Chisholm Award is sponsored by ESU’s Commission for Women, the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, Graduate School, the Women’s Studies minor and the Women’s Center.

One Book, One Campus Come read with ESU

President Welsh invites alumni and friends to join in the university’s One Book, One Campus initiative that is promoting deep reading, critical thinking and campus unity among students, faculty and staff.

ESU IS READING The Postmortal by Drew Magary Pick up or order a copy of this out-of-print book at the University Store and become part of the conversation!

SAVE THE DATE

November 4 at ESU AN EVENING WITH DREW MAGARY Details at esu.edu/onebook

ABOUT THE BOOK: The novel centers on a future where a cure for aging is discovered, and after much political and moral debate, is made available to people worldwide. Immortality, however, comes with its own unique problems, including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, a disturbing new religious cult and other horrors.

“A thriller that envisions a pre-apocalyptic world so real that it is completely terrifying.”

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Scholarship recipients gathered for the annual “Thank You” photo following the Sixth Annual Scholarship Luncheon on April 27.

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6th Annual Scholarship Luncheon celebration connects students with donors

ESU hosted its Sixth Annual Scholarship Luncheon in April at the Stroudsmoor Country Inn, providing an opportunity for student scholarship recipients to meet and thank their scholarship donors.

Thanks to a generous sponsorship by the Pennsylvania State Employees Credit Union, the university also welcomed nearly 100 parents and guests to the celebration.

Four speakers shared their experiences of giving and receiving, and the impact a scholarship has on a student, donor and family: Robert M. Moses, director of residence life and housing at ESU; Katie McClure, a senior secondary

education major from East Stroudsburg; Michael Harris of Hamilton, N.J., and father of freshman student scholarship recipient Stephen Harris; and Frank M. Pullo, ’73 M’76, Ed.D., professor and chair of the sport management department.

Opening remarks were offered

by President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., who thanked donors for their support and encouraged students to always remember this example of generosity.

“We work very hard to ensure that every student we enroll at East Stroudsburg University has the opportunity to succeed, to graduate and to become involved in our community,” said Welsh.

“Thanks to our scholarship donors, students come to ESU with great expectations for their futures.

Coming together for the annual scholarship luncheon allows students and donors to meet and share their experiences.”

Guiding the program was master of ceremonies La Shondra R. Cherry, a senior Spanish and communication studies major from Tobyhanna.

Entertainment included performances from “The Wizard of Oz” by Michael Lloret, a junior from Shawnee-on-Delaware majoring in theater, and Katherine Reardon, a sophomore from Rockaway, N.J., majoring in English. 

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ESU hosts Economic Outlook Summit

David Kolzow, Ph.D., an economic development consultant, delivers one of two keynote speeches at ESU’s Economic Outlook Summit in September.

ESU presented an Economic Outlook Summit for the business community on September 5.

Featured at the day-long program were two keynote speakers: urban policy consultant David Rusk, a leading proponent of regional land-use planning and revenue sharing, and consultant David R. Kolzow, who works in real estate development planning and community economic development.

The program also included the presentation of the area’s first regional economic scorecard, prepared by ESU’s Business and Economic Research Group and presented by Todd Behr, associate professor of economics.

A panel discussion entitled “Monroe County: Vision for the Future” featured ESU President Marcia G. Wesh, Ph.D., Jeff Snyder, president and CEO of Pocono Health Systems; Richard Mutchler, president of Biospectra, Inc.; Steve Somers, president of Vigon International; Carl Wilgus, president and CEO of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, and Chuck Leonard, executive director of the Pocono Mountains Economic Development Corporation.

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Punch it out ... anywhere

By Mandy Housenick As boxing enthusiast and trainer Brian Pedone ’05 sat in his New York City apartment one day about a year ago, he glanced over at the pull-up bar mounted in a doorway, which conjured up an image. He ran to find a duffle bag and hung it from the pull-up bar and started punching it.

“It was a crude prototype, but I thought, this could work,” said Pedone. “It hit me as something that could be produced and sold.”

After about a year of development, which included going back and forth with the prototyping and manufacturing companies and applying for a patent, he developed “Quiet Punch,” a training device that consists of two lightweight bars and one extremely light punching bag that fits temporarily into any standard doorway. The tension bars are cushioned on the ends and fit snugly in a doorframe after they are extended into place.

The system, which weighs less than 10 pounds and sets up in less than a minute, isn’t in stores yet, but can be pre-ordered at quietpunch.com while Pedone works on a campaign for an infomercial.

Pedone began boxing at age 13, later started the ESU boxing club and then trained and ran a boxing club in Stroudsburg for 10 years.

The creation of Quiet Punch was borne out of his love of the sport and his hunger to be an entrepreneur, which was nurtured at ESU. In 2006, Pedone and classmate Michael Moynihan ’06 M ’08 competed in the Great Valley Technology Alliance Business Plan Competition, designed to stimulate innovative thinking and leverage a technology-driven economy while retaining the area’s talent. Pedone and Moynihan took first place, got incubator space free for a year and a $20,000 in-kind gift. Just two years later, Businessweek named Pedone one of America’s Top 25 Entrepreneurs ages 25 and younger.

“That was my first introduction to entrepreneurship, and it was a good start for me,” Pedone said of his experience in the competition. “It was a huge push,” he said, and he came back to ESU to work for Vice President for Economic Development and Research Support Mary Frances Postupack M’93 for a while.

The experience helped guide Pedone during the intricate product development process.

“I didn’t know the next step so I Googled ‘prototyping companies’ and then made a video of a crude proto-

type,” Pedone recalled. “Four months later, the prototype company made a mock version of Quiet Punch for me to send to the manufacturer.”

Pedone then exchanged pictures and videos with the manufacturing company in China and received his first sample three months later.

“It was amazing to see it with the logo in the middle

of the bag,” Pedone said. “It looked like a real product, not something I thought up.”

Chris Santos, a chef and long-running judge on the popular Food Network series Chopped, is a boxing fan and Pedone’s business partner.

The two met a couple of years ago at a gym where Pedone was Santos’ trainer. The two became friends and threw around the idea of either opening a gym together or creating a product to replace the punching bags that are $125 and weigh 40 pounds or more.

“I have purchased all kinds of things for the house and they’ve never worked out,” Santos said. “They’re not compatible with the home; they’re too heavy for a ceiling to support or too bottom-heavy and scrape against the floor. And you can’t travel with them. Once I had this in my hands and started working with it, I saw the potential for a great, convenient workout.”

Pedone hopes initially to sell Quiet Punch on the Home Shopping Network or QVC. Getting it accepted to be sold at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Modell’s and Wal-Mart would be the next leg of the entrepreneurial journey. 

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First novel, second and third

By Abigail Behrends Salena Fehnel ’08 released her first novel, has another finished that is coming out next year, and has a third underway.

Fehnel, an English professor at Berkely College in New Jersey, describes Nesting Dolls, published this spring, as being about “connection, redemption, and family.”

Released on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook in April, Nesting Dolls is the multigenerational story of three women, how their lives connect and diverge, and how they support or betray each other.

“It definitely has a lot of heavy elements, like alcoholism, domestic abuse and suicide, but at the core of it is the idea of changing your stars despite where you come from, while understanding that you can never truly escape the connection of family,” Fehnel says.

The three main characters span different times, but ultimately converge in a single theme: Mothers and daughters are bound together forever, no matter what they may imagine, dream or regret.

“I'm very interested in breaking cycles and patterns of dysfunction,” Fehnel said. “ I think it's important for people to understand that they have the power to be different than the people who

came before them.”

“They have the choice to make a different life for themselves and their future kids, for instance. You know, first-generation college-goers are battling a lot; they're heading down a different path than their parents, they're making choices much different than their grandparents, and their futures have the potential to be very different.

“I was interested in exploring this idea of mothers and daughters and granddaughters, of relationships and patterns, and it just became Nesting Dolls.”

A launch party for the book was held on July 13, and proceeds went to Turning Point of Lehigh Valley, a shelter that provides a place to stay to women and children who need to escape an abusive situation at home.

Fehnel has also published short stories and poetry.

Salena Fehnel ’08 Her work has been featured in the anthology My Parents Were Awesome, and in literary magazines and journals as well.

“My second novel, The Payment Plan, is a much lighter novel about a group of 20-something roommates who decide to try to hack into the student loan system to erase their loans but they end up inadvertently becoming national terrorists,” said Fehnel.

The book is completed and will be coming out next year.

Her third novel, Fortunemaker, is in the works. It is historical fiction, and based on some very creepy 1908 murders by a farm widow.

Fehnel teaches writing, fiction, and literature at Berkley College and chairs the liberal arts and sciences department there.

She is also a tutor, an adjunct professor at Northampton Community College’s Monroe campus in Tannersville, and teaches yoga to pre-schoolers at the Eastern Monroe Public Library in Stroudsburg.

Fehnel plans to keep teaching while continuing to write and bring literacy and knowledge of publishing to Monroe County and Lehigh Valley residents.

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OFFICE OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

Upcoming Events Check www.esualumni.org and www.esu.edu frequently as events are added throughout the year.

Friday, OCTOBER 10

ESU night at IronPigs

Football Golf Tournament

ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., threw out the first pitch of the April 12, 2014, Lehigh Valley IronPigs doubleheader, which was “ESU Night at the IronPigs.” In this photo, Welsh is shown in the social media center at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown. Tables at the main gates offered information from several university departments, including admissions, the graduate college and the extended learning program.

Saturday, OCTOBER 11

9:30 a.m., Wolf Hollow at Water Gap Country Club Information/registration: www.esu.edu/warriorgolfoutings or contact Denny Douds at 570-422-3322.

Football Scholarship Donor Recognition day Pre-game presentation before 6:05 p.m. kickoff vs. Cheyney

ALUMNI EVENTS

Friday-Sunday, OCTOBER 24-26

Homecoming Weekend See pages 14-16 for details.

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 4

An Evening with Drew Magary See page 13 for details.

Brooke Donovan

Monday, DECEMBER 1

Pocono Raceway welcomes ESU alumni and friends

Holiday on the Circle

Featuring Paul Kranz ’87 and his band Along the Road.

Go to www.esu.edu for details.

PASSHE Alumni & Friends 2015 Travel Destinations:

Nearly 30 East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania alumni, family members and friends gathered August 3 for the annual ESU Alumni Day at Pocono Raceway to experience the thrills of NASCAR during the GoBowling.com 400 race.

April 18-26, 2015

The event, sponsored by Sunoco and coordinated by Robert Marro ’81 and the ESU Office of Alumni Engagement, included skybox seating to the race, a pre-race garage tour, pre-race pit/paddock pass, and a visit from Pocono Raceway mascot “Tricky.”

June 26-July 11, 2015

NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer also made a special pre-race guest appearance to the skybox, sharing his experiences as a driver with alumni and signing autographs.

Chateaux, Rivers and Wine

Alumni in attendance included Deborah Donnangelo Albors ’88, Kelly Munn Bly ’81, Kimberly Braido Drennan ’95, Richard Miller ’70, Jim Nesbitt ’74, Emily Ott ’99, Frank Snyder ’73, Jeff Frantz ’63, Thomas Organtini ’91, Richard Priolo ’77, Todd Scott ’13, Kathy Stripto ’03, Caitlin Stripto ’13, Bob Willever ’75, Gretchen Angle Frantz ’66 and Michael DeFinis ’05.

Natural Wonders of Costa Rica Iceland and Fjords August 14-22, 2015

October 28-November 7, 2015

Oahu Explorer and Hawaii

www.alumnivacations.com/schools/east-stroudsburg or call 610-341-1979 | Christie (Ext 107) or Craig (Ext 103)

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‘Warrior Huddle’ connects players, boosts scholarships The Office of University Advancement welcomed more than 60 former Warrior football players and supporters to its first “Warrior Huddle” in April. The event was hosted by Joe Detzi ’79, Jeff Detzi ’79 and John Detzi ’79, owners of Detzi’s Tavern in Wind Gap. ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., Athletic Director Tom Gioglio, Ed.D., and head football coach Denny Douds attended.

While alumni reconnected with old friends, the event also celebrated the gift of scholarship to benefit the Warriors Football Club, one of the many membership opportunities through the Warriors Athletic Club, which has become the the university’s largest annual fundraising program for intercollegiate sports.

Contact Tom Gioglio for more information at 570-422-3642 Football Coach Denny Douds, right, reconnects with Ken Bratchie ’80 or tgioglio@esu.edu.  at the first “Warrior Huddle” football player gathering in April.

Gregory-Douds names added to turf AT LEFT: Gregory-Douds Field was dedicated in 2010 at Eiler-Martin Stadium, and this September the two coaches’ names were added to the turf before the season’s opening game. Jack Gregory ’52, coach from 1959-65, center left, and current head coach Denny Douds, center right, received signed footballs before the game from captains (from left) Steven Jones, Cody Simcox, Brandon Gattelli and Sam Benson.

ABOVE: ESU President Marcia G. Welsh with scoreboard sponsor representatives.

From left, Dr. Maurizio Cibischino of Mountain Valley Orthopedics; President Welsh; Thomas Grayuski, vice president and human resources manager for ESSA Bank & Trust, and Dr. Jonathan Goldner, chief medical executive at Pocono Medical Center.

Stadium gets new digital scoreboard A new 122-square foot digital scoreboard has been installed at Eiler-Martin Stadium. The new display is 27 feet wide by 19 feet high and includes a video monitor that can access to Blue Ridge TV-13 telecast of Warriors football games, along with LED score display, time-tracking components, and a camera platform on top.

Four advertising panels are located on both the front and rear elevation of the scoreboard. The new structure is topped off by a large Warriors logo and the name “Eiler-Martin Stadium.”

Limited scoreboard sponsorship opportunities are available.

Contact the Office of University Advancement at 570-422-7000. 

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Franklin ’95 brings Penn State ‘Coaches Caravan‘ to campus PSAC record with 244 career victories James Franklin ’95, entering his entering 2014. first season as head football coach “Denny has been a father figure at Penn State, returned to ESU in to me for a very long time,” Franklin May with the “Coaches Caravan,” a said. regional good-will tour taken by PSU “The thing that makes James specoaches to promote the university’s cial is his passion for what he does,” athletic department.

Douds said.

During the lunchtime event More than 100 Penn State and at the Mattioli Recreation Center, East Stroudsburg alums filled Mattioli Franklin talked about his core values Center to hear from Franklin and the and vision for Penn State football and other Penn State coaches on the tour. preparations for the 2014 season.

“To think 20 years ago that I “It’s awesome to be home. Since would be sitting here in this position we got the job, it’s been great to be right now, I would have had no idea,” able to get back here on a couple Franklin said. “I think what we did of occasions,” Franklin said. “I just felt like this made a lot of sense for WNEP-TV sports anchor Jim Coles, left, interviews do is wake up every single morning the Coaches Caravan to visit. And I James Franklin ’95 when the Penn State “Coach- and try to be the best we could possibly be, learn and ask a lot of questhought it would be great for one of es Caravan” came to ESU. tions. I’ve always been a passionate, our state institutions and a place I am driven, motivated guy.” really proud of. I’m glad that we were able to be here.”

ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., presented Franklin, a two-time All-PSAC quarterback and a reFranklin with a resolution of recognition for his career gional candidate for the Harlon Hill Award in 1994, was accomplishments from the board of governors of the named Penn State’s head coach in January, following Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. three years as head coach at Vanderbilt University.

The Coaches Caravan paid a visit to Rudy’s Tavern When at ESU, Franklin played under head coach in East Stroudsburg before the group left town. Franklin Denny Douds, who spent some time with him during treated the group to the pork roll and cheese sandwiches the Caravan stop. Douds is entering his 49th season at ESU, including his 41st as the head coach, and holds the at Rudy’s, one of his college favorites. 

Wilson and Potts honored for season’s success

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ESU President Marcia G. Welsh, Ph.D., hosted a “Celebration of Warriors Men’s Basketball” in April at her home.

The event, sponsored by the Office of University Advancement, welcomed alumni, friends and family members to honor head coach Jeff Wilson ’86 M’92 and associate head coach Justin Potts M’07 following the team’s win as 2013-2014 PSAC champions and their showing in the NCAA Atlantic Regional Championships.

The celebration included a silent auction of basketball related items that raised more than $3,200 for scholarships. From left: Mike DelGrosso ’92, William Shields ’69, Head Coach Jeff Wilson ’86 M’92, Jonathan Roberts ’91, and Associate Head Coach Justin Potts M’07.

Shields and Roberts were inducted as individuals into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992 and 2002, respectively. DelGrosso, Roberts and Wilson were inducted in 2007 as members of the 1989-1990 men’s basketball team.

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WARRIORS CLAIM 8 ALL-AMERICANS ESU had eight student-athletes named to All-America teams during the 2013-14 academic year, including two repeat All-America selections in junior guard Whis Grant (men’s basketball) and junior high jumper Christina O’Connor (women’s track and field).

Also recognized were senior outfielder Chris Knott and senior designated hitter Nico Delerme (baseball), junior thrower Travis Toth and sophomore high jumper Seth Bailey (men’s track and field), senior fullback Thomas Tippett (football) and sophomore forward Ally Roth (field hockey).

Their selections give ESU a total of 277 All-America athletes in school history.

5 STUDENT-ATHLETES NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA ESU’s student-athletes had another strong year in the classroom, with five Warriors earning Capital One Academic AllAmerica status from College Sports Information Directors of America.

Earning recognition were three graduate students — Nemanja Nikolic and Khriswayne Wallace (men’s soccer) and Brendan McKeown (wrestling)— along with senior wide receiver Robert Bleiler (football) and junior Christina O’Connor (women’s track and field).

ESU has had 34 student-athletes claim a total of 48 Academic AllAmerica honors. The Warriors had a school-record eight selections in 2012-13.

SENIOR ATHLETES HONORED AT AWARDS BANQUET ESU honored six studentathletes with major senior athlete and scholar-athlete awards, and also recognized team MVP and coaches award recipients, at its annual Athletic Awards Banquet in May. Chris Knott (baseball),

WRAPUP Brendan McKeown (wrestling), Michelle Gogolen (soccer) and Kim Wernerspach (cross country/track and field) were selected as ESU’s Senior Athletes of the Year, with ties in the voting for both the men’s and women’s awards.

Khriswayne Wallace (soccer) and Rebecca Smith (softball/field hockey) were named the Men’s and Women’s Senior Scholar-Athletes of the Year.

ESU CLAIMS FOUR MAJOR PSAC AWARD WINNERS Led by senior outfielder Chris Knott, ESU’s first PSAC East Baseball Athlete of the Year, the Warriors had four student-athletes earn PSAC postseason hardware during the 2013-14 academic year.

Knott led the PSAC in five offensive categories during the regular season and set seven ESU career records in 2014.

Also recognized were three freshmen of the year: tailback Robert Healy (football), forward Rasheed Moore (men’s basketball) and hurdler Steven Morgan (men’s outdoor track and field).

Healy set an ESU freshman record for rushing yardage, Moore was a key component on the Warriors’ PSAC champion and NCAA DII Atlantic Region runnerup basketball team, and Morgan won a PSAC championship in the men’s 110m hurdles.

KNOTT SELECTED IN MLB DRAFT Senior outfielder Chris Knott was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 34th round of the Major League Baseball Draft in June, giving ESU an MLB Draft pick in four of the last six years.

Knott was the Daktronics and ABCA Atlantic Region Player of the Year, among several other postseason honors.

Second baseman Joe Bennie, who was drafted by the Oakland A’s in the 28th round in 2013, earned a spot on the New York-Penn League All-Star Team this summer for the Vermont Lake Monsters.

Designated hitter Nico Delerme, who joined Knott on every major All-America team this spring, claimed an NCAA DII statistical championship with a divisionleading .557 on-base percentage.

Brian Ernst, who pitched ESU to the 2013 PSAC baseball championship, is in his second professional season with the FargoMoorhead RedHawks. One of Baseball America’s top independent league prospects in 2013, Ernst was 6-0 in a stretch of eight starts for the RedHawks this summer in July and early August.

KING, JOHNSON STAND OUT OVERSEAS IN BASKETBALL Terrance King ’13 and Duane Johnson, who led ESU to four straight PSAC Final Fours, three NCAA DII Tournaments and the 2012 PSAC men’s basketball championship, both had outstanding starts to their professional careers.

King returned from Ireland in April, where he played for UCDMarian in Ireland’s Superleague. He was seventh in the league in scoring (18.5 ppg), sixth in rebounding (10.4 rpg) and blocked shots (1.7 bpg) and led the league in field goal percentage (68.1 percent). He posted double figures in points and rebounds in 10 of his 17 games.

Johnson, playing in Australia’s State League for the Corio Bay Stingrays, helped his team to a 22-2 record in the regular season and a spot in the championship series.

Johnson was averaging 20.9 points and 9.0 rebounds as of August 18. 

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ALUMNI IN ATHLETICS Laura Canfield ’81 (at right in photo) was recognized with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Middle States section’s prestigious Mangan Award in May. Presenting the award is USTA Middle States President Gina Pileggi.

The award, established by the family of Thomas J. Mangan, recognizes significant contributions to tennis in the Middle States section, plus “unselfish devotion and a spirit of cooperation that serves to inspire all.”

Canfield is a longtime Bucks County Tennis Association board member who has made a career and lifetime passion out of tennis with more than 25 years of employment to the USTA, including a 13-year stint as executive director of the Middle States section. Canfield earned a silver medal for the Warriors in 1979 as part of the team’s PSAC championship team.

Barry Krammes ’04 placed sixth in the javelin at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in July in Sacramento, Calif.

Justin Scott ’07 M’08 was named the head men’s basketball coach of St. Vincent and the Grenadines national team. The team is part of the Caribbean Basketball Confederation which competes for placement in the Basketball Tournaments of America. Scott is also entering into his third year as head men’s basketball coach at Arcadia University in Glenside.

Jordan Berrian ’09 is the assistant football coach and video coordinator for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.

Rich Baker ’12 is the head boys’ basketball coach at Stroudsburg High School.

Katie O’Neill ’13 is interning with the University of Texas’ Athletic Department in the event operations for women’s athletics program. She expects to complete her master’s degree in sport management in December. 

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1960s Bruce Frassinelli ’61 M’69 earned top honors in column writing for the fourth year in a row in the Professional Journalists and Communicators of Oswego County, N.Y, contest.

Frassinelli was publisher and editor of The Palladium-Times, Oswego County’s daily newspaper, from 1992 until his retirement at the end of 1998. Previously, he had a 25-year career with The Express-Times in Easton. Frassinelli teaches political science courses for Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, and online courses in communication studies for State University of New York (SUNY) Oswego in Oswego, N.Y.

1980s John Gesiskie ’81 M’98 has been a health and physical education teacher at Pleasant Valley Elementary School for 22 years. He started the first Monroe County high school girls’ volleyball program at Pleasant Valley High School in Brodheadsville. Gesiskie’s volleyball teams have won nine championships and accumulated many accolades over the years. He has three daughters, Nikki, Jamie and Jacki, and a grandson, Cole.

John “Jack” Morana ’81 earned a doctorate in health administration from the University of Phoenix in March. Morana, who holds master’s degrees from Radford University and the Virginia Commonwealth University, is the administrator for Bone and Joint Specialists of Winchester in Winchester, Va., where he lives with his wife, Patricia.

CLASS NOTES Scott Bruce ’83 completed his Ed.D. in learning and leadership from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in May and started as an assistant professor and the director of research in the athletic training education program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, in August.

Dr. William Lewis ’86 was promoted to associate professor of literacy education at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., and recently returned from a semester of teaching abroad in Budapest, Hungary.

Laurie Taddonio ’87, a former Food and Drug Administration investigator, is president and owner of LMT Consulting, LLC, in Aliso Viejo, Calif., which works with pharmaceutical and medical device companies with clinical quality assurance and compliance.

Taddonio also serves on the board of directors for Trish’s Angels, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting individuals with ALS.

Tracey Garrett ’94 published her first book, Effective Classroom Management - The Essentials, in August.

The book aims to help K-12 teachers become more effective classroom managers. She is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Rider University in New Jersey.

Marcus Lingenfelter ’95 was elected president of the Pennsylvania Association of Councils of Trustees in April, which comprises the trustees from the 14 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities. He is the executive director of state relations at the National Math + Science Initiative, a nonprofit organization working to improve math and science eduation.

Sherry Petrilak Acevedo ’96 was named executive director of the Stroud Region Open Space and Recreation Commission in May. She previously served the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor for 17 years.

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Scott Serbin ’91 was named president of the New Jersey chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Serbin has been part of the organization since 2009 and was recognized in 2012 with the organization’s Early Career Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award. Serbin is director of provider marketing at Emergency Medical Associates in Parsippany, N.J.

Amy Albritton Overbey ’00 and teammates won the Maryland State BBQ Bash championship, held in Bel Air, Md., in August. “Team Meat Coma” placed first overall out of 54 teams, including well-known teams from TV’s “BBQ Pitmasters.” They also placed first in pork, second in chicken and 10th for both brisket and ribs. Overbey is a pediatric emergency nurse at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore.

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Angelo Lafratta ’01 was named a Physical Education Teacher of the Year in November by the Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He is a physical education teacher at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham.

John Luzzi ’02 is an associate producer for the Fox Sports 1 Network, formerly the Speed Channel, which covers every NASCAR race.

Rachel Travers ’03 is sales manager of the Kalahari Resort & Convention Center going up in Pocono Manor.

Amanda Piechta Haber ’04 M’07 was named a 2013 Teacher of the Year by the Jersey City, N.J. Board of Education in January. Haber is a thirdgrade teacher at the Nicolaus Copernicus School in Jersey City.

Travis Martin ’04 was named a 2013 Coach of the Year by the Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Martin, a physical education and health teacher in the Conewawgo Valley School District, is head coach of the New Oxford High School tennis teams.

Kevin Avery ’05 was honored with the first Emerging Leader Service Award by the Pennsylvania

State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (PSAHPERD) in November. He is a health and physical education teacher and baseball coach at the Tulpehocken Junior High School in Bethel.

Indranil Mitra ’07 was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. in July to conduct research at the University of Freiburg in Germany for two years. Mitra has a Ph.D. in chemistry from Indiana University and is married to Melissa Tesoroni Mitra ’06.

2010s Arrielle Millstein ’10 is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars and is a 2013 graduate from Widener University School of Law. She is an intellectual property attorney in Hackensack, N.J. Her article “Slaves to Copyright: Branding Human Flesh as a Tangible Medium of Expression” was published in the winter 2014 issue of the Pace Law Review.

Jessica Ras ’13 was awarded the Outstanding Future Professionals Award by the Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (PSAHPERD) in November.

BIRTHS Jon-Erick Miller ’00 and Heather Hill Miller ’95 of Bethlehem welcomed daughter Kendall Elizabeth on October 21, 2013. Kendall joins big sister Madison. Jon is an agent with Miers Insurance in Allentown and Heather is a fifth-grade teacher for the Bethlehem Area School District.

Michael Saia M’04 and his wife Danielle welcomed their daughter Graziella Genoeffa on April 18. Their family lives in Charleston, S.C. Rick Blouch ’06 and Kristen Brandon Blouch ’07 welcomed their daughter Alison on August 23, 2013. The family lives in Mechanicsburg.

Lisa Balascak Carl ’09 and Jeff Carl ’09 welcomed their daughter Rowan Lee on April 14.

The family lives in Baltimore, Md. Melissa Mattson ’09 and her wife, Amy Kuipers, of Chambersburg welcomed son Benton Edward Emerson Mattson on March 11.

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In Memoriam

IN MEMORIAM Frank J. Young August 11, 2014

Austin B. Davis August 8, 2014

Frank J. Young, former member of ESU’s Council of Trustees, passed away in August at the age of 96.

Austin B. Davis of Stroud Township was a senior at ESU majoring in environmental studies. A lifetime resident of Monroe County, she was a graduate of Stroudsburg High School, a swim instructor at the Stroudsburg YMCA, an artist and an animal lover.

He was the husband of the late Norma E. (Miller) Young to whom he was married for 68 years.

A lifetime resident of Monroe County, Young was a developer who built many homes and businesses in the area and was once named “Builder of the Year.”

In 1974, he was appointed to ESU’s Board of Trustees

by Milton Shapp.

Young was also a World War II veteran, serving as a member of the U.S. Army Air Corps, and his passion for flying was the impetus for him to earn a private pilot license.

He was a lifetime member of Christ Hamilton United Lutheran Church and a former Stroud Township firefighter. He was a member of Barger Lodge 325 F&AM, Stroudsburg, for more than 50 years.

Young was the son of Howard J. and Myrtle (Slutter) Fetherman Young and was preceded in death by two brothers, Wilson A. and Walter G. Young. He is survived by seven nieces and nephews; seven great-nieces and great-nephews; and several great-great nieces and greatgreat nephews.

ALUMNI Francis J. Adamavage ’49 John C. Broo ’85 Cari J. Brown ’89 Justin R. Christian ’10 Gloria I. Cousins ’91 Sally J. Blickens Cropper ’68 Eileen Ludwig Daley ’78 Ramona E. Severance Domovich ’48 Raymond J. Eckenroth ’52 Philip J. Falcone ’58 Richard V. Gassmann ’58 Ruth A. Mooney Goepfert ’47 Sherry E. Gloss Heard ’61 Elizabeth Polivka Heffelfinger ’63 Bertram J. Hilbert ’58 Willard E. Hoffman ’67 Florence M. Byerly Hoover ’54 Robert L. Izer ’42 Betty A. Jurasits ’76 Judith A. Kessler ’77

She is survived by her parents, Dr. Bruce C. Davis of Stroud Township and Laurie (MacMinn) Davis of Shallotte, N.C.; two sisters, Audrey Davis of N. Myrtle Beach, S.C. and Aurora Davis of Stroudsburg; and her grandmother, Ann Devitt of Blue Bell.

Memorial remembrances may be made to Animal Welfare Society of Monroe (A.W.S.O.M.), P.O. Box 13, Stroudsburg, PA 18360.

MEMORIAL GIFTS ESU Foundation, 200 Prospect St. East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 Or give online: esufoundation.org/givenow

John M. Keyser ’69 Robert T. Kiefer ’51 Arlene I. Kirkwood ’94 James H. Koch ’75 Paul Kokolus ’52 Peggy Ann Lintner Konrad ’54 Kenneth P. Luyet ’79 David MacLaughlin ’57 LaRue Fenstermaker Madouse ’56 Alice Sampson Moore ’42 Nina P. Kitchel Olinger ’49 Susan Meell Padfield ’69 Edward S. Parsons ’52 William J. Paulik ’56 Vincent J. Peperno ’58 Marie A. Vrabbel Pregmon ’42 Philip G. Rader ’63 Nicholas Radvon ’57 John W. Reed ’62 Norma Henning Ritchie ’42 Otis F. Robbins ’37

Stanley C. Schoenberger ’51 James L. Schweitzer ’50 Gary L. Steier ’67 Margaret C. Sexton Stiff ’81 Arthur M. Stockin M’73 Gerald P. Strahlendorf ’75 Pauline Talarski ’34 Edward J. Vogelsong ’48 Richard H. Wehr M’68 Hazel S. Widaman ’76 Robert L. Williams ’50 Andrew R. Young M’91

STAFF Donna C. London

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Join us for

EAST STROUDSBURG UNIVERSITY

Phil Woods Saxophone Celebration

A relaxed afternoon of music, mirth, and remembrance to benefit jazz education and preservation at ESU.

Featuring the Celebration Saxophone Quartet

SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014 Noon – 6 p.m.

VIP Reception with Grammy Award Winner Phil Woods

$50 per person or $25 per student with valid student I.D. (includes program and lunch buffet)

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Innovation Center 562 Independence Road East Stroudsburg, PA 18301

$100 per person (Limited Seating – Includes Concert) President’s Residence, One College Circle World Premiere Concert

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. $25 per person (concert only) Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall, Fine and Performing Arts Center

REGISTER FOR THESE EVENTS TODAY! Visit: esu.edu/jazzatesu A portion of all proceeds will benefit the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection at ESU. For more information contact Matt Vashlishan at the Al Cohn Collection at ESU, at acohn@esu.edu or at 570-422-3828. Support the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection online at www.esufoundation.org/supportalcohn.