has served on the college alumni council, which granted him a special Community Service Award for his work in recovery after the 1977 Johnstown Flood. He was the alumni representative on Juniata’s Board of Trustees from 1974 to 1977. At various times Fattman served as president of the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra; the Johnstown Area Arts Council; the Johnstown Lions Club; the Conemaugh Valley Council on Drugs and Alcoholism; the Greater Johnstown Council of Churches, the First Lutheran Church Council and the Ecumenical Economic Advocacy Team. Dr. John Bulger earned his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995 and completed an internship and residency at PCOM’s consortium of hospitals. In 1998, he joined Donald Robinson ’51 has Geisinger Health Systems’ spent a long career as a general internal medicine Brethren minister and family department. He currently counselor in Reading, Pa. serves as Geisinger’s assistant chief quality
Dr. John Bulger ’91 has established an impressive teaching and administrative career at Geisinger Health System.
officer and associate chief medical officer for osteopathic medical education. He is regional assistant dean and assistant clinical professor of medicine at PCOM and at the Temple University School of Medicine. He has published articles in Group Practice Journal and Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. Bulger is a Fellow in the American College of Osteopathic Internists, the American College of Physicians, the American Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators, as well as a Fellow in Hospital Medicine. Avidly interested in health policy, Bulger serves on the boards of trustees for PCOM, the Pennsylvania Medical Society and the American College of Osteopathic Internists (who honored him as Teacher of the Year in 2005). Bulger received the 2003 Emerging Leader Award from the American Osteopathic Foundation and the 2001 Emerging Leader Award from the American Medical Association.
Photos (left): Grace Canfield ’10; (bottom and right) J.D. Cavrich
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Know Thyself: College Peter Marzio ’65, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, asked the 2009 graduating class at Juniata to use the qualities within themselves and the values they were taught at Juniata and apply those principles and values to the larger world at the college’s 131st commencement ceremony. “Juniata College has a better sense of itself than any other college or university I have encountered since my days here,” Marzio said in the opening of his commencement address. “Indeed its curriculum continually morphs into different courses and combinations of disciplines, but its objective is the same as when I attended: to help us get a strong sense of who we are. ‘Know thyself ’ sounds so simple, but it is a demanding, complex command that requires all of our energy.” Marzio, who has helped build the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, into one of the finest art museums in the country, enumerated a handful of essential principles he learned at Juniata. He told his audience that: humility is an essential value; teamwork helps you learn about yourself; a belief in
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